00:00Abraham Lincoln once said,
00:27You may fool all the people some of the time.
00:30You can even fool some of the people all the time,
00:33but you can't fool all the people all the time.
00:36Of course, there have always been those who thought that they should try.
00:41When I was a kid, back in the days when movie screens commanded more attention
00:45than any other form of entertainment,
00:47there were some fearless perpetrators of hokum and hype
00:50who traveled the highways and the byways,
00:53hoping to fool everyone into seeing their picture show.
00:57They promised a lot.
01:00Uncut, uncensored, unashamed.
01:03They papered the town with handbills selling sin, sex, and salvation,
01:08not necessarily in that order.
01:11They were called road showmen, celluloid salesmen, and the 40 thieves.
01:17And for the most part, their product was called awful, degrading, and deplorable.
01:23Watch what happens between the pillow throwing and the phone ringing in the two versions.
01:29Note the additional dialogue in the daring version.
01:38You know, sometimes they even try to...
01:42Well, anyway, there we were.
01:47So finally I said to him, look, what do you want for $10?
01:50And before I could do a thing about it, he laid a 20 right in my lap.
01:53With his hand still on it, no doubt.
01:55Now look, honey, live and let live is my motto.
01:58Besides, he wasn't such a bad guy.
02:00But you got to know him.
02:01But if he wasn't a gentleman, when did you say no?
02:07Who said no?
02:09The world I was with last night was certainly no Galahad.
02:12Oh, no.
02:14How would you know?
02:15I was there.
02:16I was there.
02:19Of course, today even the daring version would probably be rated G.
02:25Stop that racket! Stop it!
02:27So I'm sad and melancholy
02:32For I would rather be
02:38A bum on Broadway
02:41Than an angel
02:44In the sky
02:51I wish that fellow wouldn't be forever singing those corny songs.
03:00I wish that fellow wouldn't be forever singing those corny songs.
