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00:00:00THE END
00:01:59Well, you'll have to take the local.
00:02:00All right, Phil.
00:02:01All right, Phil.
00:02:06Good morning, Miss Lanier.
00:02:07Good morning, Miss Lanier.
00:02:08Good morning, Martha.
00:02:13I couldn't find a cab anywhere.
00:02:14Such a lovely day, though.
00:02:15Such a lovely day, though.
00:02:1640th floor executive, Ramsay and Company.
00:02:17Miss Stevens.
00:02:18I'm sorry, sir.
00:02:19Our switchboard doesn't open till 9.
00:02:20You should be able to reach him shortly thereafter.
00:02:21Ann.
00:02:22That's correct, sir.
00:02:23Ann.
00:02:24That's correct, sir.
00:02:25Mr. Staples begins with the company today.
00:02:26I'll leave you a message on his desk.
00:02:27Ann, would you put this on Mr. Staples's desk, please?
00:02:29Yes, ma'am.
00:02:30Mr. Staples will be in Mr. Quinn's old office, executive corridor.
00:02:32Yes, I know.
00:02:33I said deliver it, not read it.
00:02:34Yes, ma'am.
00:02:35I'll leave you a message on his desk.
00:02:36Ann, would you put this on Mr. Staples's desk, please?
00:02:37Yes, ma'am.
00:02:38Mr. Staples will be in Mr. Quinn's old office, executive corridor.
00:02:39Yes, I know.
00:02:40I said deliver it, not read it.
00:02:41Yes, ma'am.
00:02:42I said deliver it, not read it.
00:02:43Yes, ma'am.
00:02:44Executive audio floor, Ms. Stevens.
00:02:45I'll bring this money.
00:02:46He's got a diamond and a stone.
00:02:47I think it needs.
00:02:49Thank you, ma'am.
00:02:53Thank you, ma'am.
00:02:54Mr. Staples, Mr. Staples begins with the company today.
00:02:56I'll leave you a message on his desk.
00:02:57Ann, would you put this on Mr. Staples's desk, please?
00:02:58Yes, ma'am.
00:02:59Mr. Staples will be in Mr. Quinn's old office, executive corridor.
00:03:01Yes, I know.
00:03:02I said deliver it, not read it.
00:03:04Yes, ma'am.
00:03:06Executive audio floor, Ms. Stevens.
00:03:09I think it needs.
00:03:13Morning.
00:03:14Hi.
00:03:15Oh, hi.
00:03:16Good morning, madam.
00:03:17I wonder if Marge is going to go to work next door.
00:03:19Oh, no.
00:03:20Well, I'm glad I don't.
00:03:21Not there.
00:03:22Maybe.
00:03:23Well.
00:03:24We really fixed up a new exec's office for him, didn't we?
00:03:27Very nice.
00:03:28A new man.
00:03:30Right next door to your boss.
00:03:32An awfully close to Mr. Ramsey.
00:03:35So happens it's a new man.
00:03:37What's his name?
00:03:39Staples?
00:03:40Mm-hmm.
00:03:41We'll be working with Mr. Briggs.
00:03:43That's why they have adjoining offices.
00:03:45Marjorie, baby.
00:03:46You're awfully defensive.
00:03:49I guess that's cause you're worried about your Mr. Briggs.
00:03:53Run along, will you?
00:03:57May I have some more cream, please?
00:04:00next car, please?
00:04:01Next car.
00:04:02Next car, please?
00:04:06Okay.
00:04:07Next car, please.
00:04:08Next car, please.
00:04:09Okay.
00:04:10Next car.
00:04:11Larry?
00:04:14need this.
00:04:16Next car?
00:04:17Larry?
00:04:18Charlie?
00:04:19Next car, please. Next car. Next car, please. Okay.
00:04:23Next car.
00:04:28Harry, Charlie, Joe. Express down. No stops for Jen.
00:04:40Next car. Next car. Next car, please. Next car. Next car.
00:04:45Morning, Mr. Ramsey. Next car, please. All right.
00:04:49Next car, please.
00:04:57Thank you, Lanny. Yes, sir.
00:05:01Miss Lally, Miss Stevens. He's here.
00:05:03Thank you, Martha.
00:05:09Chief Operator, please.
00:05:11Miss Phillips, you can put this morning's three long-distance calls through to Mr. Ramsey.
00:05:15Portland, Dallas, St. Louis officers.
00:05:19Good morning, Mr. Ramsey. Good morning, Miss Lanier.
00:05:29Any messages?
00:05:30You have calls placed for our Portland, Dallas, and St. Louis officers. Nothing else important, sir.
00:05:34Martin Toole and Dye, you said you'd wire him.
00:05:36Yes, you'll find a copy in my briefcase.
00:05:38You're right, as usual. Nothing important.
00:05:40I have the Portland report in my briefcase.
00:05:44I want it teletyped this morning to Seattle.
00:05:46Have someone there drive over to Portland and get it to Johnson before lunch.
00:05:50Then run off twenty copies confidential mimeographing and have them ready in time for the board meeting.
00:05:56I want it on the agenda.
00:05:58Has Mr. Staples arrived yet?
00:06:00Not yet, sir.
00:06:01Delay that meeting until ten this morning to give you time to get the report mimeoed and distributed.
00:06:07I want it read and carefully.
00:06:09Get word underground to their secretaries that no one is to count on making any early luncheon appointments.
00:06:14And make a note.
00:06:16Staples is to sit one down from Van de Venter on my left.
00:06:19Yes, sir.
00:06:20Let me know as soon as Mr. Staples arrives.
00:06:23Yes, Mr. Ramsey.
00:06:44Well, Fred, here we are.
00:07:00Ah, here we are.
00:07:02A little different than Mansfield, isn't it?
00:07:04Now I know what a mother feels like when a child goes to school for the first time.
00:07:08Oh, good-bye, mother.
00:07:10Looks big, doesn't it?
00:07:12Oh, give me a chance, honey.
00:07:14Maybe I can cut it down to my size.
00:07:16Well, I'm a little late.
00:07:18Shall I call you when I...
00:07:19No, no, no.
00:07:20You, uh, go on home after you've finished shopping.
00:07:23And find a garage somewhere around midtown.
00:07:25Part of the car.
00:07:26Uh, I'll phone you on what train I'll be on.
00:07:28Bye-bye.
00:07:33Goodbye, darling!
00:07:42Uh, Ramsey and Company, the board said...
00:07:57Yes, sir. Executive or Administrative?
00:07:59Oh, the Executive, Mr. Ramsey.
00:08:01Fortieth floor, sir.
00:08:03Morning.
00:08:04Morning.
00:08:05Oh, uh, you went the tower, sir.
00:08:08The tower elevator, sir.
00:08:11We'll be down in a minute.
00:08:13Oh.
00:08:14I'm sorry, thank you.
00:08:15My pleasure, sir.
00:08:16Good morning.
00:08:17Good morning, Ed.
00:08:18Good morning.
00:08:19Good morning.
00:08:20Good morning.
00:08:21Good morning.
00:08:22Good morning.
00:08:23Morning, Jamie.
00:08:24Good morning, Bill.
00:08:27Morning, Marge.
00:08:28How was the weekend?
00:08:29Fine.
00:08:30Your letters are on your desk and the coffee card will be here in a minute.
00:08:32I can use some coffee.
00:08:33Didn't you get any rest at all?
00:08:34Couldn't even take my kid to the doubleheader.
00:08:36Oh, what a shame.
00:08:37That planning report's going to be a real job, Marge.
00:08:40This'll be a big week for you, too, with that thing.
00:08:43I believe we'll try a rough first draft.
00:08:45Long?
00:08:46No longer than the telephone directory.
00:08:48Phew.
00:08:50Marge.
00:08:53Has Mr. Staples come in yet, Marge?
00:08:56No, sir.
00:08:58Mr. Staples?
00:08:59Yes.
00:09:00I'm Margaret Lanier, Mr. Ramsey's secretary.
00:09:02Oh, how do you do?
00:09:03Mr. Ramsey would, of course, be here to welcome you himself,
00:09:05but you caught him on a long-distance call.
00:09:07May I take you back to your office?
00:09:09Well, thank you very much.
00:09:11And on our way, I might show you some of our other departments.
00:09:15Have you met Miss Stevens?
00:09:16I introduce myself, Miss Lanier.
00:09:18Fine.
00:09:19And may I bid you my own personal welcome.
00:09:21We're very glad to see you.
00:09:23Well, that's very nice of you. Thank you.
00:09:25Now, if you'll just come with me, Mr. Staples.
00:09:31Miss Stevens.
00:09:32Marketing and sales up below here.
00:09:34We have our own research department on the 40th floor.
00:09:36Perhaps you'd like to see that later.
00:09:38This is the executive corridor.
00:09:42Mr. Ramsey's office is that one down at the end.
00:09:44Then Mr. Jamieson, Head of Purchasing.
00:09:46Mr. Briggs.
00:09:47You'll be working closely with Mr. Briggs.
00:09:49Mr. Brandenbender, Chief Engineer.
00:09:51And this is your office.
00:10:00Mr. Briggs.
00:10:04Isn't it nice?
00:10:06I hope you like it.
00:10:08Mr. Ramsey was told by someone in your old office
00:10:10that you were especially fond of this period.
00:10:13Wasn't your office in Mansfield furnished in early American?
00:10:17My furniture consisted of two filing cabinets
00:10:20and a surplus metal desk off of a destroyer escort.
00:10:23No, it's really very attractive.
00:10:29Very.
00:10:30I appreciate it very much indeed.
00:10:33Excuse me, Miss Lanier.
00:10:35Ann said you wanted to see me.
00:10:36Oh, yes, Marge.
00:10:37Mr. Staples, this is Miss Fleming.
00:10:39How do you do?
00:10:40How do you do?
00:10:41Marge, will you see that Mr. Staples
00:10:42has everything he needs in the way of office equipment?
00:10:44It was arranged for this morning at Mr. Briggs' suggestion.
00:10:47Oh, fine.
00:10:48I must rush now, Mr. Staples.
00:10:50Again, a most cordial welcome.
00:10:51Thank you very much.
00:10:52And, uh, Marge, will you step by at my desk
00:10:55when you finish here, please?
00:10:56Yes, Miss Lanier.
00:11:02I think I'd better explain the phone system, Mrs. Staples.
00:11:05There are four lines.
00:11:07One is your private line, direct to outside.
00:11:10Two is for conference calls.
00:11:12Three is for inter-office.
00:11:13And four, this button is for your secretary.
00:11:16Oh, I'm sorry. May I?
00:11:18Oh, yes, thank you.
00:11:20Yes, I think I have that, uh, let's see.
00:11:25Outside, inter-office, uh, conference, uh...
00:11:30Yes, that's... that's fine.
00:11:37Thank heavens, this isn't early American.
00:11:39Busy?
00:11:44No.
00:11:45No, not at all.
00:11:46Well, you must be, uh...
00:11:47Bill Briggs, your next-door neighbor.
00:11:49Yes, of course.
00:11:50Well, I'm certainly glad to meet you, sir.
00:11:52I-I think, uh...
00:11:53Mr. Ramsey told me you'd been sick, didn't he?
00:11:55Oh, did he?
00:11:56Actually, it's just a...
00:11:58just a pesky stomach that's been acting up on me.
00:12:00You just in from Mansfield?
00:12:02Yes, they took a house for...
00:12:04Oh, uh, sit down, Mr. Briggs.
00:12:06Settled already?
00:12:07Good.
00:12:08I'm not trying to set myself up as a real New Yorker.
00:12:11Altoona, Pennsylvania, that's where I came from.
00:12:14My first trip home, I was wearing spats.
00:12:17I remember my father not being able to get over it.
00:12:19He says, Bill...
00:12:20Bill, he says, you went to New York to see the sights,
00:12:24and instead you become one of them.
00:12:29Well, we just got here Friday afternoon,
00:12:31so this morning Nancy insisted...
00:12:33uh, my wife.
00:12:34She insisted on driving me to work the first morning.
00:12:37Well, you know, the way women are.
00:12:39You know, you...
00:12:40you come out of a...
00:12:42small-town plant, you...
00:12:44you feel a little lost in a place like this.
00:12:47Well, as I was saying, you know,
00:12:49we, uh, walked into our house Friday afternoon.
00:12:51We'd never laid eyes on the place before, you know?
00:12:53And there it was, furnished like a magazine.
00:12:56Milk in the icebox, bourbon on the shelf, and...
00:12:59I don't know, you gotta hand it to them
00:13:01the way they do things around here.
00:13:02Yes, Miss Lanier handles all that.
00:13:04Does a fine job.
00:13:06That feeling that I got driving into town this morning.
00:13:11Well, I've got to admit, it's just, uh...
00:13:14it's just a little overwhelming.
00:13:17Yes, and it's a pretty wonderful thing
00:13:19to be as young as you are
00:13:21and see it all spread out in front of you
00:13:24like a...
00:13:26like a Christmas tree.
00:13:28You know, you think of, uh...
00:13:31you think of big business,
00:13:33you always think of it as being...
00:13:35very impersonal, you know?
00:13:38But, uh...
00:13:40it's certainly not true with your Mr. Ramsey.
00:13:43I know what you mean.
00:13:48How much time did you put in in Mansfield?
00:13:50Almost six years.
00:13:52You must have blown a bugle in Ramsey's ear out in Ohio.
00:13:54He brought you here in a hurry.
00:13:56Well, actually, I wasn't at all sure I wanted to come to New York,
00:14:00but, uh...
00:14:02this Ramsey is a pretty dynamic man.
00:14:05Yes, I know.
00:14:08You see, you've been with a firm some time now, haven't you?
00:14:11Oh, maybe 40 years or so.
00:14:15I seem to recall Mr. Ramsey's talking about you as a production man.
00:14:19You're an engineer, aren't you?
00:14:21Yes, but, uh...
00:14:23from what he told me,
00:14:24I guess I'll be a little of everything around here.
00:14:26mostly in industrial relations.
00:14:31Industrial relations?
00:14:34Matter of fact, it's been one of my specialties.
00:14:38We...
00:14:39we ought to get along pretty well together.
00:14:42I'm sure we will.
00:14:45Excuse me.
00:14:47Mr. Ramsey's called a meeting in the conference room, Mr. Briggs.
00:14:50Oh?
00:14:51Well, Fred, it's been a real pleasure meeting you.
00:14:55Mr. Ramsey's expecting Mr. Staples too.
00:14:59Oh.
00:15:01Well then, I'll, uh...
00:15:02I'll go in with you if you don't mind.
00:15:04Not at all.
00:15:08I just hope Mr. Ramsey remembers hiring me.
00:15:12Mr. Ramsey rarely forgets anything.
00:15:15After you.
00:15:17Mr. Staples?
00:15:18Yes. Hello.
00:15:19Fred, uh...
00:15:20this is Harvey Jameson, Head of Purchase.
00:15:21Oh, how are you?
00:15:22So they finally finished it.
00:15:24What?
00:15:25What?
00:15:26Fred, your office on Friday, the painters and all, it was a madhouse.
00:15:28Say, Bill, are you taking along Ramsey's breakdown?
00:15:30Oh, no.
00:15:31I forgot that.
00:15:32A couple of other things I forgot too.
00:15:34Jamie, would you and Fred go along together?
00:15:36I'll be in in a few minutes.
00:15:37Fine.
00:15:38I suppose Lanier's giving you the cook's tour.
00:15:39What?
00:15:40Oh, yes.
00:15:41Did she show you the conference room?
00:15:42Oh, yes.
00:15:43On the other side.
00:15:44Yes.
00:15:45Mr. Briggs?
00:15:46What is it, Marge?
00:15:48I don't know.
00:15:51Mr. Briggs, I think I ought to resign.
00:15:56Resign?
00:15:57What are you talking about?
00:15:58What happened?
00:15:59What is it, Marge?
00:16:00Mr. Briggs, I've just been ordered to go over to Mr. Staples as his new secretary.
00:16:04Temporarily?
00:16:05No, I don't think so.
00:16:06Who gave this order?
00:16:07Mr. Lanier.
00:16:08When?
00:16:09About five minutes ago.
00:16:11I'm supposed to break in your new secretary.
00:16:14They've picked a new secretary for me?
00:16:17Yes, I think so.
00:16:19It's out of the question for you to resign, Marge, to even think of resigning.
00:16:24You're a fine, wonderful woman and a great secretary.
00:16:27That's the reason they want you over with Staples.
00:16:29He'll need someone like you because he's new here and they want him to get in to harness fast.
00:16:33Who can tell, Marge, one of these days?
00:16:37That stomach of mine's pretty perverse organ.
00:16:40And I'm tired.
00:16:43Do you know as it must to all men?
00:16:46Mr. Briggs.
00:16:48Have you any idea who your successor is?
00:16:51Yes, they've chosen Sylvia Trammell.
00:16:54Miss Trammell?
00:16:56It is so ordained, so be it.
00:16:58She's new, but she's supposed to be very good at dictation.
00:17:02Well, we'll give her a chance to prove it.
00:17:05Mr. Briggs, if I could only tell you what this job has meant to me,
00:17:11what working with you has meant to me.
00:17:14All right, kid.
00:17:16Wash up, get your money and get out of here.
00:17:19And give Mr. Staples all the best you've got in you.
00:17:24I know you will.
00:17:25That's the only way you operate.
00:17:27I like the guy.
00:17:29I have a feeling he's going to carve out a career around here.
00:17:32Yes, sir.
00:17:34Everybody seems to think so.
00:17:36I'm sorry to keep you waiting, gentlemen.
00:17:40Mr. Ramsey will be with us in a moment.
00:18:06You've been away, have you?
00:18:09Good to see you.
00:18:10Oh, sorry, Fred.
00:18:11I was held up for a few minutes.
00:18:12All right.
00:18:13See you later, Fred.
00:18:14Now, where are we going to sit you?
00:18:15Oh, here's an empty chair.
00:18:16I guess you can sit right here.
00:18:17Oh, Mr. Staples, will you sit over there, please?
00:18:19Right next to Mr. Van de Venter.
00:18:21One down for Mr. Ramsey, please.
00:18:27Welcome back, Bill.
00:18:28Feeling better?
00:18:29Much, thank you.
00:18:30A little stomach.
00:18:31Good.
00:18:32I'm glad it's cleared up.
00:18:35John, don't forget that contract.
00:18:37Can you get it through tomorrow?
00:18:38I think so.
00:18:39I have to remember.
00:18:40Let me stand over your arms.
00:18:41First, gentlemen, I'd like you to look over the mimeode sheet on top.
00:18:45Haverford Mutual had some doctors look into the matter of executive diets.
00:18:50Their findings showed incredible deficiencies.
00:18:53They've gotten up some food tables.
00:18:56I've had them mimeode.
00:18:57I'd like you to look them over.
00:18:59As you know, it's been my feeling that a healthy executive is an efficient one.
00:19:06I think it not amiss now to introduce the newest member of our team, Mr. Fred Staples.
00:19:11He's from Mansfield, Ohio.
00:19:13As you all know, he was general manager of Queen City Tool and Dye until we took it over.
00:19:18His record there was a brilliant one.
00:19:20He's a production engineer by training, an industrial relations man by instinct.
00:19:24I expect good things from him.
00:19:26Oh, you've probably met everyone, but just for the record, reading from left to right, Mr. Jameson, Head of Purchasing.
00:19:39Yes, ma'am.
00:19:40Mr. Grannigan, Controller.
00:19:41Mr. Gordon, Head of Sales.
00:19:43Mr. Latham, Head of Service.
00:19:45Mr. Portier, Chief of Operations.
00:19:47Yes.
00:19:48Nice knowing him.
00:19:49And Mr. Van Deventer, Chief Engineer.
00:19:52How are you?
00:19:53Nice to see you.
00:19:54Plea.
00:19:55Oh, and of course you've met Mr. Briggs.
00:19:57Oh, yes.
00:19:58Who is our Vice President, Assistant General Manager, in charge of everything that everybody else forgets to be in charge.
00:20:04Now, gentlemen, you all have before you a copy of the Williamston Plant Purchase Prospectus.
00:20:11Mr. Jameson, did you attach your supplements?
00:20:14It's right there, Mr. Ramsey.
00:20:15Page 17-R, under Process Equipment.
00:20:18And, uh, Mr. Grannigan, the stock purchase plan I outlined, I have your comments here?
00:20:22Uh, you do, Mr. Ramsey.
00:20:23Good.
00:20:24Feasible, is it?
00:20:25Very much so, in my opinion.
00:20:27Good.
00:20:28Well, that about winds it up, unless there are any further points to be made.
00:20:34I do think, Mr. Ramsey, if we could keep the transaction under wraps for a bit, at least during the preliminaries, you know, what'll happen to the stock quotations if it leaks out that we've agreed to purchase.
00:20:43I've arranged it this way.
00:20:45The stock quotation as of yesterday morning...
00:20:48You seem to be straining at the leash, Mr. Briggs.
00:20:54Or am I mistaken?
00:20:56You mention here that probable time of purchase would be sometime in June. Are the plants to be in receivership until then?
00:21:01That seems to be what it says.
00:21:03That means six months with improper maintenance of equipment.
00:21:06Oh, I doubt it, Bill.
00:21:07I've had two of my best men out there for the last six weeks.
00:21:10Oh, we had a varying voltage problem, but that was taken care of.
00:21:13You know, maintenance-wise, I doubt if there'll be $1,000 worth of deterioration.
00:21:17How about goodwill?
00:21:19What about it?
00:21:20The plant employs 900 men. That's half the working force of the village.
00:21:23So?
00:21:24So what do we do with these men? Cover them with cosmoline and put them away in a drawer until we get ready to resume production?
00:21:29I thought your concern was for the plant.
00:21:31And what good is the plant without the men?
00:21:33You chop a village payroll in half for six months and you might not have a plant, because you might not have a village.
00:21:38Mr. Briggs, if we may be permitted to disregard for the moment the considerations that you have brought up, what about the rest of the plan?
00:21:45I'd say it was adequate.
00:21:47Adequate?
00:21:49That gentleman is the kiss of death, believe me.
00:21:53I've known Mr. Briggs for a long time.
00:21:56When he says something is adequate, what he means is that it is entirely inadequate.
00:22:00I must admit to feeling a concern over some 900 men suddenly deprived of a livelihood.
00:22:04Mr. Briggs, if you would do me the goodness to look at what I consider to be a fairly elementary business principle.
00:22:10By putting 900 men out of work temporarily, we may ultimately employ twice that number in the same town.
00:22:16By cutting production costs as a result, we will then be able to compete more favorably in the market.
00:22:21Thus, we'll be able to sell more goods.
00:22:23We're not going to ruin that town, we're going to make it.
00:22:26I should think, Mr. Briggs, that after 30 years, you'd be able to think beyond the tongue-clucking stage
00:22:31and come up with something resembling an analytical point of view.
00:22:34I was under the impression I'd given you a point of view.
00:22:36I saw none.
00:22:37I perceived what amounts to a rather emotional little tidbit that was decidedly more charitable than cooperative,
00:22:43and by no means thought through.
00:22:44I asked, I believe, for an objective view of a business venture.
00:22:47From you I got, and I seem constantly to be getting, a very negative response of any at all.
00:22:52Adequate, I believe you said.
00:22:54Well, Mr. Briggs, this little move will save us conservatively half a million dollars,
00:22:58which we'll be able to put back into the business.
00:23:00I must say you take the liberal view of adequacy.
00:23:03I didn't intend to make a central issue out of this, but I did feel it important enough to air in this meeting.
00:23:12Well, you have aired it in this meeting.
00:23:14I think it's a good thing you did.
00:23:16But I think, Bill, we're pretty much of one mind about it now.
00:23:19Well, then we may assume the matter is closed now.
00:23:23Mr. Briggs.
00:23:34How about you, Mr. Staples?
00:23:36Do you have an opinion?
00:23:38No.
00:23:39No, I think not, Mr. Emsey.
00:23:41Why not?
00:23:42Well, frankly, it's a little out of my grasp at the moment.
00:23:46I don't know anything about the firm, its corporative setup, reasons for bankruptcy,
00:23:51or for that matter, its product.
00:23:53I'm afraid I'll have to pass.
00:23:57Good answer.
00:23:58I respect thoughtful judgment, Mr. Staples.
00:24:03Congratulations.
00:24:08We'll adjourn now until two o'clock.
00:24:11I'm sorry we got started so late this morning, but I wanted this analysis mimeode for your inspection.
00:24:17After lunch, we'll take up the Portland report, which you have before you.
00:24:20Mr. Grannigan attended the stockholders' meeting there on Tuesday, and we'll begin our discussion with his report.
00:24:27That's all.
00:24:29All right, sir.
00:24:31Oh, Bill.
00:24:33All right, come and have some lunch, eh?
00:24:35Oh, thank you.
00:24:39Oh, Bill, wasn't there something you wanted to speak to me about before?
00:24:43Nothing important.
00:24:45Fine.
00:24:46Tummy's all right, eh?
00:24:47Cast iron.
00:24:48Couldn't be better.
00:24:49Good.
00:24:50Keep it up.
00:24:52Oh, uh, Staples.
00:24:54See you, Bill.
00:24:55You bet.
00:24:57Good to have you with us, Staples.
00:24:59The arrangement satisfactory?
00:25:00Oh, yes, just perfect.
00:25:02I'm sure you'll be hearing from my wife very soon about that.
00:25:04That's a beautiful house.
00:25:06Beautiful country up there.
00:25:07I'm sure you'll love it.
00:25:09Oh, uh, see you later, Bill.
00:25:13Oh, Fred.
00:25:15Briggs is working on a project now.
00:25:17A comprehensive planning report.
00:25:19The point is that it's very important.
00:25:21Most important, indeed, for our future program.
00:25:24And it's far too big a job for Briggs.
00:25:26Or for any one man to handle.
00:25:28Now, what I want you to do is get your finger in here.
00:25:30Certainly.
00:25:32What I mean is more than just your finger.
00:25:34Do you understand?
00:25:35Yes, Mr. Ramsey.
00:25:36You make that quite clear.
00:25:43Oh, could I see you a minute, Miss Fleming?
00:25:52Oh, could I see you a minute, Miss Fleming?
00:26:13Yes, sir.
00:26:15Oh, I wonder if you could check for me, please, as to who's to be my secretary.
00:26:19I need some notes typed up.
00:26:22I'm to be your secretary, Mr. Staples.
00:26:27But I thought Mr. Briggs.
00:26:29It was arranged for, just before the meeting, Mr. Staples.
00:26:32I take it you'd rather remain with Mr. Briggs.
00:26:38I was Mr. Briggs' secretary for seven years, Mr. Staples.
00:26:41Well, in that case, I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to get someone else.
00:26:47It was Mr. Ramsey's idea.
00:26:49Do you want to give me those notes now?
00:26:55No.
00:26:56Why don't you have your lunch first, Miss Fleming?
00:26:59We'll take care of these when you come back.
00:27:01Mr. Briggs.
00:27:20There are some notes here that...
00:27:23Later, Marge.
00:27:25I'll do it later.
00:27:31…
00:27:34I'll do it later.
00:27:35...
00:27:36I'll do it later.
00:27:37I'll be kind.
00:27:39…
00:27:40…
00:27:41Give me a link.
00:27:42I'll do it later, Mr. Briggs.
00:27:44I'll do it later.
00:27:46Yeah.
00:27:47…
00:27:48…
00:27:49…
00:27:50…
00:27:51…
00:27:52…
00:27:53…
00:27:54…
00:27:55…
00:27:56…
00:27:57You didn't say anything about my new hairdo. Do you like it?
00:28:11Yeah, it's lovely.
00:28:17Wish you could see the new dresses I bought. They're just beautiful.
00:28:20Why are they?
00:28:21Oh, they're still at the store, having little things done to them.
00:28:25Come on, the kitchen. I'll fix you a drink.
00:28:26Not the kitchen. The library.
00:28:32Oh, fine.
00:28:41I hoped they'd have the dresses ready and have them sent over to your office this afternoon.
00:28:45I spoke to your secretary about it when I called.
00:28:48It's funny she didn't mention it.
00:28:50They didn't get the job done in time.
00:28:53She had a nice voice. What'd she like?
00:28:55Who?
00:28:57Your secretary.
00:29:00Oh, that's what you might expect.
00:29:03You know.
00:29:06What's her name?
00:29:09Now, to tell you the truth, I didn't get her name.
00:29:11Only your dimensions.
00:29:13All right.
00:29:14No, her name is Fleming.
00:29:19It so happens you don't have a thing in the world to worry about.
00:29:22She doesn't like me worth a bit.
00:29:25Why?
00:29:27Well, I guess she prefers working for her former boss.
00:29:32Well, then why doesn't she?
00:29:33I don't know, some kind of strategy at the top, I guess.
00:29:41That sounds funny.
00:29:43Yeah.
00:29:46Her ex-boss happens to be only one of the vice presidents.
00:29:51My superior and a very nice guy to boot.
00:29:54Could that perhaps be a good sign?
00:29:59Well, you figured out.
00:30:00Left me a little up in the air.
00:30:03You know, Nancy, running a plant in Ohio is beginning to take on all the...
00:30:10aspects of a nice, simple, uncomplicated gravy train.
00:30:15What happened today?
00:30:20Oh, nothing, really.
00:30:21Just...
00:30:23an impression, I guess.
00:30:27Sort of...
00:30:29queer undercurrents and tensions and...
00:30:35Good luck.
00:30:45Mr. Ramsey.
00:31:09Good morning, Mr. Ramsey.
00:31:10Mr. Stevens.
00:31:15Fine, thanks, Jerry.
00:31:17Let me see that breakdown again.
00:31:19Oh, sure.
00:31:20Miss Fleming, would you step in for a minute, please?
00:31:22Yes, Mr. Stevens.
00:31:27No, that's the other one.
00:31:28Oh, sorry.
00:31:28Let me see this.
00:31:30That's yours.
00:31:31Yeah.
00:31:32Now, this is the only one that I have cross-indexed for division, so don't let him keep it.
00:31:36I want Billy to take my letter from Henry Jacobson with him.
00:31:39Oh, yes.
00:31:40Now, look, Billy.
00:31:41Hey, Henry is a nice, sincere guy, you know, made out of Bessemer steel.
00:31:47He hasn't been off of his duff since he learned how to walk.
00:31:49He started out stoking coke furnaces when he was 14, was mill foreman when he was 20,
00:31:54and then he ended up buying the whole plant for his own 40th birthday present.
00:31:57So, you know what I mean.
00:31:59Watch out.
00:31:59I sure will.
00:32:00Now, give him that report, and then remember what he says.
00:32:02Make stenographic notes when you can, and when you can't, put it all down on paper as soon
00:32:06as you get out of the office.
00:32:07No approximations.
00:32:08Make it as...
00:32:09Yes, I know you have notes.
00:32:10I want to know what they're thinking.
00:32:11I want to know how they feel about every paragraph of that thing.
00:32:13I just hope they'll open up more to you than they did to me.
00:32:16I'll be down there sometime next week for their decision.
00:32:18Okay.
00:32:19Uh, mention that to them, will you?
00:32:20Yes, I will.
00:32:22Hello?
00:32:23Uh, hold it, please, just a second.
00:32:25Have a nice trip, Billy, and be sure and call me Sunday night.
00:32:28Yeah, I will.
00:32:29Thank you very much.
00:32:29Thank you, Mark.
00:32:30Yes, put him on.
00:32:31Uh, don't go away, Miss Fleming, please.
00:32:33Hello?
00:32:33Hello?
00:32:35Judd.
00:32:36Look, I'm sorry.
00:32:36I meant to call you right back.
00:32:37Uh, it's about that Atlantic States Nitrate meeting set up for October the 3rd.
00:32:41I'd like a delay on that.
00:32:46Well, I want to walk in there sure of my ground,
00:32:48and October's not going to give me any ground at all.
00:32:54Yeah, could you do that?
00:32:56Well, that'll be a help.
00:32:58November 7th?
00:33:02Fine.
00:33:02Look, I'll see you in the dining room.
00:33:05Okay, good.
00:33:07Put that on my calendar, please.
00:33:09Now then, uh, would you get those wires off?
00:33:13Yes, sir.
00:33:13Good.
00:33:14Right after lunch, I want you to set up a conference call with Ramsey, Jameson, myself, with Frank
00:33:18Daring in Denver.
00:33:19You've got a minute, Fred.
00:33:20Sorry, Mark.
00:33:21This is urgent.
00:33:21It's about that NLRB vote in Portland.
00:33:23What about it?
00:33:24Ramsey's grumbling about it.
00:33:25He thinks it's premature.
00:33:27Premature?
00:33:27What's he talking about?
00:33:29He's had that plant running on wishful thinking for 19 months now.
00:33:33We've got a labor problem out there all primed to explode in our face.
00:33:37Now look, Bill, you better walk in his office with a great big neon sign.
00:33:40Strike, you know?
00:33:42Then tell him I've got a little estimate worked out that it'll cost us conservatively $4,000
00:33:46a day if that plant goes out.
00:33:47Oof, you know how that'll hit him.
00:33:48Yeah, well, you go in there and dig up the ground, and I'll follow you with a bulldozer,
00:33:52and we'll plow him under.
00:33:53No, we've got 800 big lumberjacks out there, and if they go, that'll do it big, you know.
00:33:57This won't be any one-week picket.
00:33:59This thing could go on for a year with no strain at all.
00:34:01You walk in there, set the charge, and I'll be in to light diffuse, huh?
00:34:05Fine.
00:34:06I'll have to call you back.
00:34:13Is 2.30 convenient for your call to Denver, Mr. Staples?
00:34:17Do I have everything else on?
00:34:18I've got another problem out here, if you can spare a minute.
00:34:20Well, Paul, how are you, partner?
00:34:23Mr. Staples, that gun.
00:34:25Oh, you got it.
00:34:25Now, you like it?
00:34:26Did you try it out yet?
00:34:27Try it yet.
00:34:2730 seconds from the time he read Winchester Double Barrel on the box, he was sighting it.
00:34:31Well, how about going out for a little skeet shooting on Sunday?
00:34:33Give it a try, huh?
00:34:34Wonderful.
00:34:35Can I, Dad?
00:34:36He's all yours, Fred.
00:34:37He's a little too strenuous for me.
00:34:39Mr. Staples doesn't get tired like you do, Dad.
00:34:41I don't get tired.
00:34:43He was an All-American.
00:34:44Well, it was just terrific, so I had to stop by and thank you.
00:34:46You forget it.
00:34:48Well, so long.
00:34:48I'll see you outside.
00:34:49All right.
00:34:49All right.
00:34:53Were you thoughtful of your friend?
00:34:55This is my pleasure, Bill.
00:34:56Hello, Mr. Ramsey.
00:34:58How are you, Paul?
00:34:58Still taking your vitamins, are you?
00:35:00I guess so, sir.
00:35:02Fine, fine.
00:35:03Keep it up.
00:35:04Excuse me, Mr. Fulham.
00:35:08Oh, man, I'm tired.
00:35:10I've made arrangements for your call to Denver, Mr. Staples.
00:35:12If I could go over one paragraph...
00:35:14No, I think I'll knock that off after lunch, if you don't mind, Miss Fleming.
00:35:17All right, Mr. Staples.
00:35:18I'll drink it here.
00:35:21Relax a minute.
00:35:26I will?
00:35:46Would you like some of mine?
00:35:47Yes, thank you.
00:35:49As a matter of fact, I would.
00:35:54No, that is fine.
00:36:01Where'd you play your football, Mr. Staples?
00:36:05Oh, Ohio State.
00:36:06But don't ask me the years.
00:36:07I won't tell you.
00:36:09I won't ask you.
00:36:10Anyway, I feel about three times older than when I first came here.
00:36:15They've kept you busy.
00:36:15Yes, I sure have.
00:36:19You've done very well.
00:36:21You fit it in quickly.
00:36:30You know, I think that's the first out-and-out friendly thing you've said to me.
00:36:33I think you resent me a little, don't you, Miss Fleming?
00:36:37I don't know why you should...
00:36:38Well, it's just a feeling that I've gotten from time to time.
00:36:42You work with a man for a long time, a fine man.
00:36:47You become part of him.
00:36:48You identify yourself with him.
00:36:50Then along comes the new man.
00:36:53I like Bill Briggs.
00:36:54I like him a lot.
00:36:56I have from the first.
00:36:57If I have done or said anything that could...
00:37:00No, no, no.
00:37:00Of course not.
00:37:03Because I must say you've been very fair.
00:37:08But seven years isn't a day.
00:37:11I owe a lot to Mr. Briggs.
00:37:15Mr. Briggs is the last of the original bunch around here.
00:37:18The people who really started this business.
00:37:20That's not easy to be the last of the original bunch.
00:37:22I know.
00:37:25He's not well.
00:37:27He has a bad heart.
00:37:28And an ulcer.
00:37:32I guess that's just about par for the executive course, isn't it?
00:37:35Well, I guess I've always been a field man.
00:37:38I haven't been an executive long enough to find that out for myself.
00:37:41But you're a good one.
00:37:43I think you're a very good executive.
00:37:46You admit mistakes.
00:37:48You don't pass the buck.
00:37:49You're a lot like Mr. Briggs that way.
00:37:54I take that as a very nice compliment.
00:37:57I mean it.
00:37:59Mr. Briggs' only trouble is that he could never be a yes man.
00:38:02Not even to Mr. Ramsey himself.
00:38:06He always has to speak his mind.
00:38:09And Mr. Ramsey doesn't like his judgment questioned.
00:38:13You either go along or you get off.
00:38:18Bill Briggs never got off.
00:38:19No, he never did.
00:38:23But maybe he's about to be pushed.
00:38:33He blew up at the next round and then Howard went right by him at the 65.
00:38:37A 65, I ask you.
00:38:39Seven birdies and he sank an 82 foot putter on the last green for an eagle.
00:38:43Oh, hello, my dear.
00:38:43Well, you know, that's some gop.
00:38:44Yes, indeed it's worth it.
00:38:49Yes, thank you.
00:38:51The coffee will be ready in just a little while.
00:39:07Fine.
00:39:09You know, my, uh, my father's recipe for coffee was to mix salt and chocolate with the grounds.
00:39:16Cook them all up together.
00:39:19He'd never drink anything else.
00:39:21Sounds wonderful.
00:39:22They, uh, they serve it at a small downtown restaurant I eat at occasionally.
00:39:29I must remember to mention it to Fred.
00:39:32You said he was a confirmed coffee drinker?
00:39:36Dedicated.
00:39:37Fine.
00:39:37He's quite a young man, this husband of yours.
00:39:42Have you had a chance to read much of the report?
00:39:45Of course, it isn't finished yet.
00:39:46Well, thank you for letting me see this much.
00:39:49Not according to Miss Post, I suppose, at the dinner party, but...
00:39:53it makes me extremely proud of my gentleman.
00:39:57So happy.
00:39:58He's been worried about it and...
00:40:00Nancy!
00:40:02Will you excuse me?
00:40:03Yes.
00:40:07Wonderful party, you two.
00:40:13Makes me think I should get married.
00:40:14Oh, don't do anything as drastic as that.
00:40:17Wonderful having you, Ed.
00:40:18Come again soon.
00:40:19Will you try keeping me away?
00:40:20I'll see you at the office tomorrow, Fred.
00:40:22Yes, right and early.
00:40:22Good night.
00:40:23Bye.
00:40:24Ah, Jamie, you don't have to go yet.
00:40:25Stick around a while.
00:40:26It's early.
00:40:26Of course, I'd love to stay all night, however.
00:40:28We're going home.
00:40:30Can't get him out of here, Nancy.
00:40:31Usually he leaves office parties as soon as the canapes are fast.
00:40:34I thought everybody behaved very well.
00:40:36I thought so.
00:40:37You've got to get some credit for that.
00:40:38Not again.
00:40:39I was beginning to like all of that.
00:40:42Will you come over and see us?
00:40:43Certainly.
00:40:43Come over during the day.
00:40:44You know, nowadays, Jamie never gets home at all.
00:40:47I think we wives ought to form a union.
00:40:49You're right.
00:40:50Good night, dear.
00:40:51Bye-bye.
00:40:51Good night.
00:40:52I wonder what happened to Bill Briggs tonight.
00:41:01Oh, darling, I forgot to tell you.
00:41:03He phoned earlier.
00:41:05He said he wanted to come, but he just didn't feel up to it.
00:41:07Oh, Nancy, I wish you'd have called me to the phone.
00:41:09I wanted to talk to him anyway.
00:41:11But, darling, you were busy.
00:41:11Well, I know, but I...
00:41:15What about Ramsey?
00:41:16Is he planning to spend the night?
00:41:18No.
00:41:19He just gravitated towards the library and made himself cozy.
00:41:23That sounds a little like artificial gravitation to me.
00:41:26You didn't have anything to do with it, of course.
00:41:28Well, he's really an amazing person.
00:41:32You know, I expected a real tycoon, but he's so simple, almost childlike.
00:41:38Baby, I just hope by mistake you never wander into a jungle.
00:41:44Good night.
00:41:45Good night.
00:41:45Good night, dear.
00:41:46A wonderful party.
00:41:52An interesting reading matter here, Fred.
00:41:55Very interesting reading.
00:41:57I took the liberty of accepting your wife's kind invitation to look over your report.
00:42:02Oh, really?
00:42:04Good, heady stuff.
00:42:06Good, solid thinking.
00:42:07And some of it is better than good.
00:42:11Of course, I can't say that I agree with all your conclusions, but I listen to arguments.
00:42:16It'll be good to hear arguments for a change.
00:42:19Good arguments.
00:42:21Well, I can't tell you what a relief that is.
00:42:23We really sweat that one out.
00:42:25Fred, I like a man to show initiative.
00:42:27I like a man who's not afraid to think a new thought,
00:42:30to take a different kind of step on his own.
00:42:33With your permission, I'll borrow this extra copy of your report just overnight.
00:42:39But for now, I can say I'm very impressed.
00:42:44Well, of course, we haven't finished this thing yet,
00:42:46but Bill and I feel that another week...
00:42:47Bill?
00:42:47You mean Briggs?
00:42:52Yes, sir.
00:42:53Well, we work together on this.
00:42:56Oh, come now, Staples.
00:42:58I pride myself on my sense for style.
00:43:01I can link what I see with what I know to be peculiar to a certain individual.
00:43:04And I know Bill Briggs' work.
00:43:07I've been exposed to it since I was a voting age.
00:43:10This...
00:43:11This isn't his style.
00:43:13It isn't his brand of thinking.
00:43:15Well, I don't know what Nancy could have told you,
00:43:17but Bill and I worked together...
00:43:18Fred, learn to accept success.
00:43:21It's tougher sometimes than learning to accept failure.
00:43:23Don't take half of your accomplishment
00:43:26and hand it out gratuitously to the man on your left
00:43:29who hasn't the stuff to do it on his own.
00:43:32That's charitable, humane, and it makes you feel good.
00:43:35But it's not business.
00:43:36Mr. Ramsey, I'd like to clear up one point.
00:43:38There'll be a meeting on Tuesday, Fred.
00:43:40We can discuss the report then.
00:43:43I assure you I don't want any undue credit.
00:43:45I never extend undue credit.
00:43:47Ask anybody.
00:43:49Ask your friend Briggs.
00:43:51You think I'm tough on him, don't you?
00:43:53I am tough on him.
00:44:00Well, I think Bill is...
00:44:02I think he's a good man.
00:44:05He was.
00:44:07And grandfather clocks were good clocks,
00:44:09and Stanley steamers were good automobiles,
00:44:12but you can't run them in competition today.
00:44:15I must say that I like some of his ideas very much.
00:44:19Very much indeed.
00:44:20So do I.
00:44:22Some of them.
00:44:24Not many.
00:44:27Still, a man with...
00:44:28Bill's experience and...
00:44:31I don't know.
00:44:32I think he'd be very hard to replace.
00:44:34I'll see if that coffee's ready.
00:44:36Are you serious, Fred?
00:44:37Briggs would be hard to replace?
00:44:40Do you honestly think that?
00:44:41And why do you think I brought you on here from Mansfield on such short notice?
00:44:45Do you think that was a whim?
00:44:47Is that what you think?
00:44:48Fred, you're Briggs' replacement.
00:44:51I thought you understood that.
00:44:55I'm expecting his resignation.
00:44:59I don't like to prolong these things.
00:45:01They're unpleasant and personal, no matter what tack you use.
00:45:05And under no circumstances could I or would I undertake to fire him.
00:45:11I don't like to go in there.
00:45:19Coffee's in the living room.
00:45:20I thought perhaps you'd like to go in there.
00:45:21It's quiet.
00:45:22Look at the time.
00:45:23I really must go.
00:45:25It's been a wonderful evening.
00:45:26I'm sorry you have to leave so soon.
00:45:29I really must.
00:45:31My coat, I think, is in the bedroom.
00:45:35Oh, yes, of course.
00:45:36I'll get it for you.
00:45:47May I make a suggestion?
00:45:50Mr. Ramsey, I don't want to seem ungrateful.
00:45:53I'm not looking for gratitude.
00:45:54You can't run a business on thank you notes.
00:45:58That's Briggs' trouble.
00:46:00And, God forgive me, that was my father's trouble, too.
00:46:04This...
00:46:05This incredible conception of a huge industry being run like a soup kitchen,
00:46:10like a...
00:46:10like a welfare comfort station.
00:46:14I know what the old timers think of me.
00:46:17I've grown up getting stared at by a lot of tongue-clucking old fogies
00:46:21who find me ruthless.
00:46:22The kind of people who represent everything that might have kept our business
00:46:27from growing to anything like its present size.
00:46:31This...
00:46:31This stupid black-and-white idea
00:46:33that honesty and fair profit are incompatible.
00:46:36I just happen to feel that the atmosphere of a large corporation
00:46:42cannot be constantly cathedral-like.
00:46:45Thank you, Mrs. Staples.
00:46:57And, again, thanks for a wonderful evening.
00:47:08I'll see you in the morning, friend.
00:47:12You didn't steal that promotion.
00:47:15You won it.
00:47:18Remember that.
00:47:18Good night.
00:47:25Good night, Mr. Ansel.
00:47:26I hope you'll come see him again.
00:47:28Thank you, Nancy.
00:47:28I hope I'll be able to.
00:47:29Good night.
00:47:30Good night.
00:47:30Good night.
00:47:30What was that all about?
00:47:48I'm Bill Briggs' replacement.
00:47:50A vice-presidency.
00:47:54He must have really spread it on.
00:47:57Listen.
00:47:59A little rare roast beef and wifely pride
00:48:01don't get you that kind of a promotion.
00:48:04Yeah, it takes something a little more.
00:48:06A little misrepresentation, for one thing.
00:48:09A little switch in authorship for another.
00:48:12You told him I'd written that report.
00:48:14I did not.
00:48:15I told him Bill had helped you.
00:48:16But, Nancy, this is Bill's basic idea.
00:48:19Oh, the same set of ideas that he's had for years.
00:48:21I gathered that much.
00:48:22You gave it life.
00:48:23You made it work.
00:48:24You made it practical.
00:48:25Even so, Nancy, I don't want any part of it.
00:48:27Oh, Fred, I happen to know what you contributed to this.
00:48:30I also know that you can't stand winning
00:48:32if you have even a nodding acquaintance with a loser.
00:48:34I don't like stepping on another human being
00:48:36to get into a capital gains bracket.
00:48:38Ramsey's stalking that poor guy like an animal.
00:48:40He'd whip him to death if he has to
00:48:41to make him resign.
00:48:42I didn't hear you tell Mr. Ramsey that he was mistaken.
00:48:44I didn't hear any clear-cut defense of Mr. Briggs.
00:48:47If you don't want to be successful,
00:48:49go and tell that to Mr. Ramsey.
00:48:50He'll give you a room.
00:48:51Will you please?
00:48:52And you can check in this.
00:48:53It's at the park every night, but don't tell me.
00:48:54Now, look, I don't want to argue about this.
00:48:55Neither do I.
00:48:56I just want you to answer me.
00:48:58Did you tell him that your wife was mistaken?
00:49:01Did you tell him that you were taking vows
00:49:03for something you did not do?
00:49:11No.
00:49:14No, I didn't.
00:49:18Why not, Fred?
00:49:21Why not?
00:49:24Because I want the job.
00:49:28Thank you for a straight and honest answer.
00:49:34Now, I think we can both sleep tonight.
00:49:35I think we can both sleep tonight.
00:50:05Good morning, Paul.
00:50:12Where's Cora?
00:50:13She's late, I guess.
00:50:19Aren't you going to be late for school?
00:50:22It's only 8.10.
00:50:23I've still got six minutes.
00:50:25You've got to figure out to a science, haven't you?
00:50:29I've just got to figure to how far I have to go
00:50:32and how long it's going to take me.
00:50:34Well, if you found that out, you've found out a lot.
00:50:39Thanks for breakfast.
00:50:42You worked late again last night.
00:50:45Yeah, no rest for the weary.
00:50:48You haven't got it down to a science yet, have you, Dad?
00:50:51What?
00:50:51How far you have to go and how long it'll take you.
00:50:58What's the matter, Paul?
00:51:04Here.
00:51:05Here's last night's doubleheader.
00:51:06The one we were going to see.
00:51:08Oh, I forgot all about it, Paul.
00:51:10I'm sorry.
00:51:13We didn't miss much.
00:51:14I watched it on television.
00:51:16Crummy doubleheader.
00:51:17The Braves took both of them.
00:51:18You're lucky.
00:51:20The Yanks are playing tonight, aren't they?
00:51:22Yeah, they play the Red Sox.
00:51:23Let's start all over again.
00:51:25You meet me at the office, we'll have dinner,
00:51:27and then we'll go to the game together.
00:51:28Sounds good.
00:51:29It's a date.
00:51:32You're on.
00:51:33So long, Dad.
00:51:34Have a good day, and...
00:51:36Uh...
00:51:37If you can't make it tonight,
00:51:39would you give me a call at school?
00:51:41I've raised the world's worst pessimist.
00:51:43At 8 o'clock in the morning, you're figuring out
00:51:45the worst possible thing that could happen
00:51:46at 6 o'clock tonight.
00:51:49Upstairs in my room, I've...
00:51:50I've got a drawer full of tickets to ballgames
00:51:52we've never seen.
00:51:54Because of that stuff.
00:51:56But, um...
00:51:57Call me if you can't, Dad.
00:51:59It's important.
00:52:00I'll make it this time, son.
00:52:03Can't you have another glass of milk
00:52:04and maybe tell me about
00:52:06last night's doubleheader?
00:52:07I'd be late.
00:52:09Wish I could.
00:52:10So long, Dad.
00:52:11Take it easy.
00:52:13Sure.
00:52:27Good evening, Mr. Staple.
00:52:34Good evening, Sally.
00:52:51Paul?
00:52:51Paul?
00:52:51Hi, Bill.
00:53:03Hi, Fred.
00:53:05I thought it was my son.
00:53:08He's going to pick me up.
00:53:11Got time for cigarettes?
00:53:14Sure.
00:53:14What are you doing here?
00:53:19I thought you were going to the ball game.
00:53:22I've had a miserable headache since dinner.
00:53:25So I sent Paul on to see the game alone.
00:53:28He's going to pick me up.
00:53:30How long have you been here?
00:53:32A couple of hours, I guess.
00:53:36Can I get you an aspirin or something?
00:53:38Oh, no.
00:53:39No.
00:53:40It's much better now.
00:53:41Anyway, it gave me a chance to look over
00:53:45the supplements you did for the report.
00:53:49I think Ramsey's right, Fred.
00:53:52You may be an engineer by diploma,
00:53:54but you're a crackerjack industrial planner
00:53:57by instinct or something.
00:53:59Coming from you, Bill, that sounds real good.
00:54:02No question about it.
00:54:04Some of your suggestions were great, Fred.
00:54:07Really great.
00:54:08I've incorporated them verbatim.
00:54:10I like your approach, Fred.
00:54:15You think of people in terms of the human factor,
00:54:18not just logistically.
00:54:21Something I've never been able to make Ramsey understand.
00:54:25Anyway, now he can't complain.
00:54:28I turn in the same report every year.
00:54:31He won't be able to say that this year.
00:54:36Join me, Fred?
00:54:37No, thanks, Bill.
00:54:40I've got to pick Nancy up for supper
00:54:42and that long drive home, you know.
00:54:49I don't know.
00:54:51Maybe I'm just getting old.
00:54:53I used to be pretty tough.
00:54:56Still tough, I guess.
00:54:58But every now and then I get tired.
00:55:06Tired of arguments, tired of battling,
00:55:09tired of the whole bloody mess
00:55:11with all this fancy organization and super finagling.
00:55:15Oh, I know it's legal and modern and all that.
00:55:18It's what they call the trend, isn't it?
00:55:20In the old days, things were a lot simpler.
00:55:22Businesses grow, Bill.
00:55:25This business didn't grow.
00:55:27Not since old man Ramsey passed on.
00:55:29It's been added to.
00:55:31That's not growth.
00:55:33It's just plain acquisition
00:55:34of business of stock transfers and bank loans
00:55:37manipulated by hired shysters
00:55:40and their sharpshooting accountants
00:55:41and organized and controlled
00:55:43by a barracuda like Walter Ramsey.
00:55:48You sure you won't have a snifter, Fred?
00:55:51I wish you would.
00:55:53No.
00:55:56Well, times change, Bill.
00:55:59You know that.
00:55:59But do they always change for the better?
00:56:02Old man Ramsey could walk down a production line
00:56:04and call every man by his first name
00:56:06and get called by his first name in return.
00:56:09I know that feeling, believe me.
00:56:11He didn't need public relations experts.
00:56:14Honor was enough.
00:56:15Character.
00:56:17And he never sold a share of stock in his company either.
00:56:19Not till the Depression came along
00:56:21and he had to raise cash or go under.
00:56:24And do you know why?
00:56:25Because he would not lay off one single man.
00:56:28That's the kind of man Jim Ramsey was.
00:56:32Now I sit in that fancy conference room
00:56:35with Jim Ramsey's son.
00:56:36I sit there and I see all the old man's principles,
00:56:42all his beliefs,
00:56:44every single thing holy to him,
00:56:46jobbed off by this spindly little financial wizard,
00:56:49this wall-eyed, ice-coated little rooster
00:56:53who knows more about debentures
00:56:54than he does about the human heart.
00:56:55Bill!
00:56:56I'm all right.
00:56:57Take it easy.
00:56:58I'm all right.
00:57:00Begin to work yourself up.
00:57:01I'm all right.
00:57:05Sit down, friend.
00:57:08Sit down quietly
00:57:09and be a nice, sympathetic friend and associate.
00:57:12I'm wondering if you're as good a human being
00:57:17as you are an industrial relations man.
00:57:23He doesn't like you, does he?
00:57:25No.
00:57:28Bill, has it ever occurred to you to resign?
00:57:33Of course it has.
00:57:34A thousand times.
00:57:37Why don't you?
00:57:40What?
00:57:40Resign.
00:57:45You can't take the chance
00:57:46of letting this man fire you.
00:57:49On our level, you don't get fired.
00:57:51You know that.
00:57:52After 30 years of productive work,
00:57:54they can't say to a man like me,
00:57:56all right, now get out.
00:57:58They just can't do that.
00:58:00So what do they do?
00:58:02They create a situation.
00:58:05A situation you can't work in
00:58:07and finally that you can't live in.
00:58:09where there's tension, abuse,
00:58:13small humiliations.
00:58:15It all starts out on a scale
00:58:17so subtle, so microscopic
00:58:19that at first you can't really believe
00:58:23it's happening at all.
00:58:25But gradually the thing begins to take shape.
00:58:28The pieces fit together,
00:58:30all the little bits,
00:58:32and it becomes unmistakable.
00:58:34They chip away at your pride,
00:58:36your security,
00:58:38till you begin to have doubts.
00:58:42Then fears.
00:58:47Ramsey.
00:58:47He wants me to resign.
00:58:50He wants me to get my cross so full
00:58:52that I'll be miserable enough
00:58:53to do just that.
00:58:54But you take it.
00:58:55Yes, I take it.
00:58:56Why?
00:58:57The bigger the job,
00:58:58the more desperately you try to hang out with.
00:58:59Why?
00:59:01Why?
00:59:02Why do you take it?
00:59:03Why don't you quit?
00:59:05Quit?
00:59:06Yes, quit.
00:59:06Get out of it.
00:59:07Chuck it.
00:59:08You'd have your pension,
00:59:09your peace of mind.
00:59:11No.
00:59:12You know Ramsey's gonna go on
00:59:14hounding you until he makes you quit.
00:59:16Never.
00:59:18He'll never make me quit.
00:59:25Bill, I...
00:59:25I wish I could understand
00:59:28why you go on taking it.
00:59:31Because I'm weak, I guess.
00:59:33Because I'm 62 years old
00:59:34and I don't think I could get another job.
00:59:36How's that strike you?
00:59:38How do you think?
00:59:40Once in a while,
00:59:43I have a dream.
00:59:45I dream I'm sitting in that conference room
00:59:48and he starts working me over.
00:59:50I'm just smiling, see?
00:59:53Perfectly calm
00:59:54and I'm taking it.
00:59:55I don't show the slightest resentment.
00:59:58And then...
01:00:00Then without any change of expression,
01:00:03I get up out of my chair
01:00:04and I walk over to him.
01:00:06And I say,
01:00:07Ramsey...
01:00:07Bill.
01:00:09Ramsey!
01:00:09Bill!
01:00:09Ramsey, I stay
01:00:11and then I smash him
01:00:12and then I smash him again.
01:00:14Get a hold of yourself.
01:00:15Then I hit him again.
01:00:16What's wrong with you?
01:00:17And I hold him up.
01:00:18Bill!
01:00:18Head up, Ramsey.
01:00:19I say I'm not through you.
01:00:21Wait.
01:00:26It's the kid.
01:00:28He's coming to pick me up.
01:00:29Fred.
01:00:30Fred, I don't want him to see me.
01:00:32Not like this.
01:00:32You're all right, Bill.
01:00:33Just sit down now.
01:00:34No, he can't see me like this.
01:00:36Fred, help me.
01:00:37Help me.
01:00:38All right.
01:00:38All right.
01:00:38I'll take care of him.
01:00:40You just lay low for a minute.
01:00:41I'll see him get home.
01:00:42Tell him I left early to get some reason.
01:00:43Bill, please be quiet.
01:00:44Please, Fred, hurry.
01:00:45Be quiet.
01:00:45Oh, it's me, Paul.
01:00:55Oh, hi, Mr. Staples.
01:00:58Man, what a place by night.
01:01:00Where do they keep the caskets?
01:01:02How you doing, partner?
01:01:03Dad said I should drop in and pick him up.
01:01:05Oh, well, he went on home.
01:01:07He needed a little rest.
01:01:09Oh, good.
01:01:10He's under orders not to work late.
01:01:13But he can't seem to keep away lately.
01:01:14Always work, always worrying.
01:01:18No wonder he's number two man.
01:01:20Suppose I'd drop you off at Grand Central, hmm?
01:01:22Swell.
01:01:23Thanks, Mr. Staples.
01:01:24Ever since I can remember, he's been married to this place.
01:01:27Mom used to say the same thing.
01:01:29They were great together, Mr. Staples.
01:01:31Mom and Dad.
01:01:32They used to yell and argue and carry on.
01:01:35He was a fighter.
01:01:37He was great growing up.
01:01:38I remember.
01:01:44I remember when I was walking down, he encouraged her.
01:01:46He won't bother him.
01:01:47Don't want him.
01:01:48That was my favourite.
01:01:51Oh, I'm the key.
01:02:01Don't want him.
01:02:02More?
01:02:02More?
01:02:10There's another bundle on the truck.
01:02:26Mr. Staples, you left your hat in Mr. Briggs' office.
01:02:29Oh, Fred, I have a Stanley complex made up.
01:02:31If you'd like to take a look at it, please.
01:02:32Good night.
01:02:42Yes, Mr. Staples?
01:02:43Now, this is the proposal's report.
01:02:46Give that to Miss Lanier for confidential memoing.
01:02:48Tell her that Mr. Briggs has the only carbon.
01:02:51Is he in yet?
01:02:52No, sir.
01:02:53Mr. Staples?
01:02:54Yes.
01:02:55If not signed, how would you like the names?
01:02:58In what order?
01:03:00First yours or first Mr. Briggs?
01:03:02No, I don't care.
01:03:02It makes no difference to me.
01:03:04But in joint projects, Mr. Staples...
01:03:05I really don't think it's too important.
01:03:07Put Mr. Briggs' name first, if you like.
01:03:09Just give it to Miss Lanier right away.
01:03:12I'd like this thing printed by afternoon, if possible.
01:03:15That's all, Marge.
01:03:18Yes, Mr. Staples.
01:03:20Yes, Marge dear, what is it?
01:03:21The proposal's report.
01:03:38Would you sign it so it can be printed?
01:03:39Oh, would you...
01:03:40Just a moment, please.
01:03:43Marge, will you please take it into Mr. Ramsey?
01:03:45He has to see it first.
01:03:46Hello?
01:03:48Oh, yes, good morning.
01:03:51Is that the report?
01:03:52Yes, sir.
01:03:52Miss Lanier, I said you wanted to see it.
01:03:54Yes, I do.
01:03:55Who signed this?
01:03:57I wrote the title page.
01:03:58Mr. Staples suggested I sign it.
01:04:04Print it.
01:04:05I'm sure that if Mr. Staples...
01:04:06Print it, Miss Fleming.
01:04:16I can sign that report now, Marge.
01:04:25Now, we'll meet with Ramsey in 20 minutes.
01:04:27Under the conditions, and in the time we've got left,
01:04:29it's the best plan I can devise, and it's the only one ready,
01:04:31so you fellas have got to go along.
01:04:33There's nothing wrong with it.
01:04:34Marge, I can sign that report now.
01:04:36Hold us up for a while.
01:04:37You've got to, all to Section B, and review the...
01:04:40Thank you, Marge.
01:04:46The major projects during the period of aforementioned being
01:04:58the Huber Petroleum Refinery,
01:05:00the Stirling Caster's Refinery,
01:05:02the Chatham Nickel Smelter Company,
01:05:04the Henderson Valley Dam,
01:05:05the Swing Carbon Steam Plant,
01:05:07and the New England Canadian Natural Gas Pipeline.
01:05:09Good report, Van.
01:05:12I've got a real feeling of activity during your reading.
01:05:17The next item of business is the project's proposal report.
01:05:22Clearly of the greatest single importance on our docket this morning.
01:05:25I must say, and I'm sure you'll all agree,
01:05:27that I am not given to enthusiasms at the drop of a submission.
01:05:31But of this, I feel impelled to say
01:05:32that it is unique in effort, ingenious in thought.
01:05:36To Mr. Fred Staples of our organization
01:05:38goes my heartfelt thanks and congratulations.
01:05:41Besides being our newest member,
01:05:42he seems to be shaping up as among our most astute.
01:05:45This set of proposals is ingenious,
01:05:48comprehensive, and fresh.
01:05:50Congratulations.
01:05:51Your success is a reaffirmation of my own judgment.
01:05:54Mr. Ransey.
01:05:54Of my own good judgment, I may add.
01:05:56Mr. Ransey.
01:05:56I prefer not to be drenched with modesty, Mr. Staples.
01:05:58This is not modesty,
01:06:00just the extension of credit where it's due.
01:06:03Bill here is as responsible as...
01:06:04Mr. Banks, is your name about to be used in vain?
01:06:07I don't think Fred would use my name in vain.
01:06:09And it's refreshing to find someone
01:06:11not suffering from over-modesty.
01:06:13What I was trying to say is
01:06:14that we worked on this project together.
01:06:16It's a combined effort.
01:06:18I'm sure it was.
01:06:20Well, as long as that's understood.
01:06:21Oh, it is, it is.
01:06:23It's just that I feel reasonably competent
01:06:25to assess individual performances
01:06:26and to single out those that I feel should be singled out,
01:06:30with all due regard for Mr. Staples' concern for his fellow man.
01:06:37Now then, if Mr. Briggs' ego has been sufficiently nourished...
01:06:40I don't think Fred brought this out to feed my ego.
01:06:42Oh?
01:06:43Well, then whatever it was
01:06:44that prompted his precipitate dash to your defense...
01:06:46There was no dash to my defense.
01:06:48Why don't we drop the thing, Mr. Briggs?
01:06:50I hate becoming entangled
01:06:51in absurd little personality conflicts.
01:06:53I'll put a star by your name on the front cover
01:06:55if that'll make you happy.
01:06:56My name is no longer on the front cover.
01:06:58Mr. Briggs...
01:06:59You're twisting the entire thing
01:07:00to make it appear as if I were grubbing
01:07:01for some sort of recognition.
01:07:02Mr. Briggs...
01:07:03I find it unfair, Mr. Ramsey.
01:07:05We have a full agenda.
01:07:07If you feel so bruised
01:07:08that you must persist in prolonging this discussion...
01:07:10Mr. Ramsey...
01:07:11Let me finish, Mr. Staples, if I may.
01:07:14We have only one purpose here...
01:07:16To work.
01:07:17We cannot hope to accomplish this
01:07:19if we must be continually subjected
01:07:21to these singularly unbecoming strains and tensions,
01:07:24these childish claims and counterclaims.
01:07:26Mr. Briggs, I ask you a simple question.
01:07:30Is it or is it not within my province
01:07:32to credit a man with a job well done?
01:07:34Of course it is.
01:07:35Then may we drop it now?
01:07:36Only if it's clearly understood
01:07:38that I don't submit to any of these calculated discolorations
01:07:40of a man's worth.
01:07:41As to a man's worth, Mr. Briggs,
01:07:43I think I've proven myself a competent judge.
01:07:46I ask you to recall that I built this business
01:07:48from a scratch pile of used lumber
01:07:50and a few machines into a giant.
01:07:51And I made few mistakes in doing it.
01:07:54Few mistakes in business
01:07:55and few mistakes in judging men.
01:07:56Well, you've made one this time.
01:07:58This report...
01:07:58I refuse to engage in a running fight
01:08:00because a supposedly responsible official
01:08:02of this company
01:08:02persists in wasting time
01:08:04haggling over credit.
01:08:05That is not fair.
01:08:06I was not haggling over credit.
01:08:08This is a joint report that we worked on.
01:08:10Tell me what's true and what is not true.
01:08:12What am I, some kind of idiot
01:08:13that I can't recognize another man's thinking?
01:08:16Whatever your abilities in the past, Mr. Briggs,
01:08:18your work hasn't shown this stamp
01:08:20of originality and talent in 10 years.
01:08:22A man slips, clutches, he loses his grip,
01:08:26he tries to hang on by someone else's.
01:08:28You have no right to say that.
01:08:30Bill, will you please speak up?
01:08:33Do, by all means, Mr. Briggs.
01:08:36You think I'm mistaken, do you?
01:08:39Shall I go through 150 pages
01:08:41and point out to you line by line
01:08:43where another man has taken over for you?
01:08:45Has had to take over for you?
01:08:46And I can point out sections of this report
01:08:48that I never had to touch?
01:08:49Had to, Mr. Staples, of course you can.
01:08:51Let me show them to you.
01:08:53I've seen them submitted year after year.
01:08:55Principles and precepts for better business.
01:08:58Mr. Briggs, yearly platitudes.
01:09:01But you translated his unworkable,
01:09:03well-intentioned philosophy
01:09:04into tough business procedure.
01:09:07You make it work.
01:09:08Ramsey!
01:09:09Mr. Briggs, I will not tolerate insubordination
01:09:11on any level.
01:09:13And if anyone here finds that intolerable,
01:09:15he has the God-given right
01:09:16to offer his resignation.
01:09:30Bill.
01:09:32Please.
01:09:34Mr. Ramsey.
01:09:37I had no intention
01:09:41of seeming insubordinate.
01:09:42I...
01:09:43Meeting is adjourned.
01:10:01Mr. Briggs.
01:10:15Mr. Briggs.
01:10:19Mr. Briggs.
01:10:23Bill.
01:10:24Bill, can you hear me?
01:10:28Little, little bottle of pills.
01:10:33Cold feet.
01:10:34Office.
01:10:35Get some water.
01:10:36Yeah.
01:10:37Rannigan, get an ambulance.
01:10:39I've called Dr. Blake.
01:10:40Don't move him.
01:10:42Fred, he's still,
01:10:44still giving orders.
01:10:48Do me a favor, Fred.
01:10:50What bill?
01:10:51Tell him.
01:10:53Tell him.
01:10:55Go to him.
01:10:56Hello?
01:11:22Thank you, Mr. Staples.
01:11:26Five minutes ago.
01:11:46Just had word from the hospital.
01:11:49He died five minutes ago.
01:11:52Thank you, Mr. Brannigan.
01:12:23I jumped and shot him.
01:12:25Come back.
01:12:26Whoa...
01:12:28I saw you, Mr. Brannigan.
01:12:34I had you at once in the hospital.
01:12:38Ready?
01:12:41This family was legit.
01:12:45I did this one.
01:12:46Unfortunately, have hands durability.
01:12:48And I'll stop fighting now.
01:12:49I wonder how strong it is.
01:12:51Come back.
01:12:51Are you in support of me?
01:13:53Nancy, what are you doing here?
01:13:59I called your office.
01:14:01And there wasn't any train, so I drove here.
01:14:06How did you know where to find me?
01:14:09They told me at the hospital.
01:14:13Does Paul know?
01:14:15Yes, he's with Bill's sister.
01:14:21He's all right.
01:14:22Did you have something, miss?
01:14:27Have you had anything to eat?
01:14:28Have you eaten anything?
01:14:39Fred, what happened?
01:14:42What happened?
01:14:45Nothing.
01:14:47Not a thing.
01:14:50Except a murder.
01:14:53There were witnesses, too.
01:14:54Plenty of us.
01:14:55And no one lifted a finger to stop it.
01:14:59Oh, Fred.
01:15:00Nancy, I know I didn't lift a finger.
01:15:02You don't know.
01:15:04I'm not going to have you going around in sackcloth and ashes
01:15:07for something that you did everything in your power to stop.
01:15:10You begged him to resign.
01:15:11You know that.
01:15:13What more could you have done?
01:15:14What more could anyone have done?
01:15:16Nancy, I think you'd better go home.
01:15:19Would you take this, please?
01:15:20Are you coming?
01:15:22No.
01:15:23Then I won't go.
01:15:25I want you to go home and start packing.
01:15:29Where are we going?
01:15:31I don't know.
01:15:32Somewhere, anywhere.
01:15:34Just away.
01:15:36There's an awful stink in this town,
01:15:38and we're going to get away from it.
01:15:42Come on, I'll put you in the car.
01:15:44No, I'm not going to leave you alone.
01:15:45Nancy, I want you to go home, please.
01:15:47No, I'm not going tonight.
01:15:49Tomorrow, I'll do anything you ask.
01:15:50I'll pack.
01:15:51I'll go anywhere you ask, but not tonight.
01:15:53Not in the state you're in.
01:15:54Now, look, there's something I've got to do.
01:15:56Fine.
01:15:57Then we'll do it together.
01:16:19Bill was supposed to go to bed.
01:16:24What?
01:16:24Bill was supposed to go to Lansing tomorrow morning for a meeting with Phillips.
01:16:51You'll have to take his place.
01:16:54I believe I've already mentioned that.
01:16:56Yeah, you mentioned it.
01:17:03You'll leave on flight number 116, 832 from LaGuardia.
01:17:08Miss Lanier will meet you at the airport with your reservation and all the memoranda and correspondence pertaining to the negotiation.
01:17:15You'll have three uninterrupted hours in the air to familiarize yourself with all the details.
01:17:20I have no interest whatever in the Phillips matter.
01:17:24What was that?
01:17:25I'm telling you that I don't want the job. I'm through. I'm quitting. I resign as of now.
01:17:31Why?
01:17:32Because I hate your guts.
01:17:34You used Bill Briggs for a whipping boy.
01:17:37You made him knuckle under and then you beat him to death.
01:17:39You wouldn't try anything like that with me because I'd kill you first.
01:17:43I'm not a nice human being. What else?
01:17:45You're nothing but a freak.
01:17:47You'd drive your people into peak efficiency if they can make it or a grave if they can't.
01:17:52Because Bill Briggs lacked the strength and the capacity.
01:17:55He was second in command.
01:17:57He had a lot of responsibility to hold and he cracked under it.
01:17:59It was his business too.
01:18:00It's no one's business.
01:18:02It belongs only to the best.
01:18:04To those who can control it, sustain it, nurture it, keep it growing.
01:18:08Right now it belongs to us because we're producing.
01:18:10But in the future it belongs to whoever has the brains, the nerve and the skill to take it away from us.
01:18:15Well, they can have my share of it right now because I don't want any part of it.
01:18:18What do you want from me? Apologies?
01:18:21I don't apologize.
01:18:23What else?
01:18:26A nice unsullied conscience?
01:18:29You walk out of here with a halo because you spoke your mind?
01:18:33What do you do then?
01:18:34Go to work for some nickel and dime outfit run by nice people
01:18:38who won't challenge you and prod you and goad you
01:18:40and drive you to a height you never even dreamed of?
01:18:43A company where there's nothing to fight for because you're the best
01:18:46and there's no competition?
01:18:48Where everything is handed to you and nothing is worth fighting for?
01:18:53I want you to stay.
01:18:56I don't think you understand, Ramsey.
01:18:59I don't like you.
01:19:01I don't like anything about you.
01:19:02I didn't hire you to like me.
01:19:04All right, I'm not a nice person in your eyes.
01:19:07But whatever I am, you learn more, grow more, and do more here with me
01:19:11than anywhere else on earth.
01:19:13I want you to stay because I need help on my level.
01:19:16And you're the only one who's able to function there.
01:19:19Be your conscience for me if you want.
01:19:21Be anything you like.
01:19:23And if it's something I don't like, you'll know about it soon enough.
01:19:26I think you're strong enough to take it.
01:19:28And if not, I think you're strong enough to get out.
01:19:32Name your terms.
01:19:33All terms are negotiable.
01:19:34I don't think so.
01:19:38Not mine.
01:19:39All right.
01:19:41I just assume not waste any time doing trading.
01:19:44As of now, your salary is doubled.
01:19:47Your stock option is doubled right down the line.
01:19:49Your expense account is whatever you make it.
01:19:53Add to that a new title, vice president.
01:19:55I want a lot more than that.
01:20:01You're not going to take me on as just another vice president you can push around.
01:20:06You'll take me as someone who hates you down to the bare nerve.
01:20:10Nothing in the world will ever change that.
01:20:12I'll argue with you, contradict you, fight you in every way I know how.
01:20:17I'll do everything in my power to push you out and take your place myself.
01:20:21Go ahead and try.
01:20:24Mr. Staples, you have yourself a deal.
01:20:28Have it drawn up.
01:20:30No reservations now?
01:20:35Yes, one.
01:20:37Bill had one pitiful little dream that someday he'd walk in here and break.
01:20:42Your jaw.
01:20:44I reserve the right to have that wish for myself.
01:20:48I'll have it drawn into the contract.
01:20:50With a little rider giving me the same privilege.
01:21:01Oh, uh, Staples.
01:21:05You'll be pleased to know that Bill Briggs' boy is being taken care of.
01:21:12Will that let you sleep better tonight?
01:21:16It begins, huh?
01:21:19It begins.
01:21:20Fair enough?
01:21:22Fair enough.
01:21:23All right.
01:21:36Do we pack?
01:22:06No. We stay.
01:22:10On whose terms?
01:22:12Mine.
01:22:14And his.
01:22:16Are you satisfied?
01:22:18Yes.
01:22:20Oh, Fred.
01:22:22You know, it's easy enough to chuck some things you think is wrong, but...
01:22:26I don't know, this way maybe there's a chance.
01:22:28I'm so happy.
01:22:30Well, we'll see.
01:22:32I've got to go to Lansing.
01:22:34Morning 20.
01:22:36When will you be back?
01:22:38Tomorrow night.
01:22:40I'll be late.
01:22:42Aren't you always?
01:23:02He knows.
01:23:04He knows.
01:23:06He knows.
01:23:08He's back and forth.
01:23:10Come on, he is back and forth.
01:23:12Now, he knows.
01:23:14He knows.
01:23:16He knows.
01:23:18He knows.
01:23:20He knows.
01:23:22Now.
01:23:24Now, he knows.
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