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00:00you're looking at a tableau of reality things of substance of physical material
00:10a desk a window a light these things exist and have dimension
00:14now this is Arthur Curtis age 36 who also is real he has flesh and blood muscle and mind
00:25but in just a moment we will see how thin a line separates that which we assume to be real
00:30with that manufactured inside of a mind good morning Mr. Curtis oh good morning Sally I thought
00:39I'd better get an early start I gotta leave about three my wife and I haven't gotten a thing for
00:43Tina's birthday party yet oh that's right it's Saturday afternoon isn't it if my dear daughter
00:47can hold out that long why is she excited that's all she can talk about that's about normal have
00:52the uh Matson contracts ready yet sure I finished them last night before I left good here they are
01:00thanks well to the grindstone oh uh I almost forgot uh could you call and see if you can change the
01:07plane reservations to Saturday night oh of course starting at the bed huh well it's the first real
01:12vacation Mary and I have had in years so we figured why lose the whole weekend before starting out I
01:17don't blame you mr. Curtis so uh Saturday night at San Francisco here we come
01:21uh huh
01:44Oh, for heaven's sake.
02:01Cut.
02:14Come on, Jerry.
02:44Is it so hard to make a phone call?
02:59Hey.
03:01Hey.
03:04Remember me, Jerry?
03:06Marty Fisher.
03:09Your friendly neighborhood movie director.
03:14Sorry, what?
03:18What's the matter, Mr. Reagan?
03:26Where are you going?
03:30I'm warning you, Jerry.
03:31They won't take it anymore.
03:32Why is a boy?
03:33You're on the edge.
03:35Jerry?
03:35Oh, it's okay, Marty.
03:37It's okay.
03:37Just a little gag.
03:39All right, we'll try it again, shall we, Jerry?
03:41We'll pick it up from the phone call.
03:42Well, you're phoning your wife to tell her to meet you downtown at 3.15, right?
03:48What are you talking about?
03:51Where am I?
03:55What is this?
03:56Some kind of a joke or something?
03:57I don't know you.
04:16I don't know any of you.
04:23Don't let him get away.
04:24Marty, I swear to you, the agency had no idea the ring was in there.
04:28Just keep him here, Sam.
04:29Sure, sure.
04:29I'll phone...
04:30I'll phone Brinkley.
04:41Is there a telephone in here?
04:42Why don't you sit down, Jerry?
04:43I asked you if there's a phone in...
04:45Jerry, if I have to call Brinkley on this, you're dead.
04:48Jerry, why don't you listen to me for one minute, will you?
04:51I don't know what's the matter with you.
04:52Yeah.
04:54Call an ambulance.
04:57Make it fast.
04:58Shall I use the stage phone?
04:59No, of course not.
05:00If he finds out, there's no telling what he's doing.
05:01Go on, go on, go on.
05:03Jerry, let's go to your dressing room.
05:05Where's the nearest phone?
05:05Jerry.
05:06My name is Arthur Curtis.
05:12Arthur Curtis?
05:12Lunch, one hour.
05:40May I have information, please?
05:42Would you give me the telephone number of Arthur Curtis, 22437 Ventner Road, in Woodland Hills, please?
05:54Ventner.
05:55V-E-N-T-N-E-R.
06:00What?
06:02Oh, no, no, you're mistaken.
06:03Of course there's a phone there.
06:05No, listen, it's my own home.
06:06I'm Arthur Curtis.
06:07I...
06:08Well, I...
06:09I can't seem to remember it at the moment, will you?
06:12No, no, it's not an unlisted number.
06:14I...
06:14I don't think...
06:17No, will you please try again, operator?
06:19I know there's a phone there.
06:21Jerry.
06:21You're wrong, operator.
06:26Please connect me with your supervisor.
06:28What are you doing?
06:29Jerry, I want to talk to you in your dressing room.
06:31You're not well.
06:33I'm getting out of here.
06:34I'm going home.
06:36Jerry!
06:36Jerry!
06:37Jerry!
06:37Jerry!
06:37Jerry!
06:39Are you out of your mind?
07:05Jerry, if you're drunk again, so...
07:07Keep your hands off me.
07:08Look, I don't care if they balance you.
07:11I don't care if you never work again the rest of your miserable life.
07:16But you're going to pay me what the judge tells you to pay me,
07:18or so help me out, put you so far behind bars,
07:20I'll never find you again.
07:22Mrs. Reagan.
07:25Not Mrs. Reagan anymore.
07:29I'm sorry.
07:30Can I talk to you in private?
07:32I haven't the time.
07:33He's coming with me.
07:34He'll be back for the afternoon shooting.
07:35That's not exactly what I had in mind.
07:38I've called an ambulance.
07:39Jerry's having a nervous breakdown.
07:42Ambulance?
07:45I'm not joking, Mrs. Reagan.
07:46I'm not joking, Mrs. Reagan.
07:46I'll drive, Jerry.
08:10I said I'll drive.
08:11You think you're going to kill us?
08:12Jerry, I'm going to bleed you.
08:14I'm going to bleed you dry.
08:15Now listen to me, whoever you are.
08:17I don't know who you think I am, but you're wrong.
08:20You're wrong.
08:21My name is Curtis.
08:23Arthur Curtis.
08:24And I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about.
08:26Now I'm going to drive to my home in Woodland Hills.
08:28And when we get there, you can have your car back.
08:30Do you understand?
08:30You think you can chisel your way out of paying me with a cheap trip like...
08:33My name is Arthur Curtis.
08:35My wife's name is Marion.
08:36I have a little daughter named Tina.
08:37We live at 22437 Ventnor Road in Woodland Hills.
08:41I'm warning you, Jerry.
08:43My name is Arthur Curtis.
08:54No, he isn't drunk, Mr. Brinkley.
08:57I can tell you he's cracked.
08:59His mind is gone.
09:01He swears he's Arthur Curtis.
09:03Swears it.
09:04That's right.
09:07Arthur Curtis.
09:08The character he's playing in the picture.
09:11You'll let me know when the grand tour is over, won't you?
09:29I can't understand it.
09:31I don't know where I am, and yet I must have.
09:35I live here.
09:36What do you want, Jerry?
09:37An Academy Award?
09:39I told you, my name is...
09:40Cut it out.
09:42You never had a less receptive audience.
09:46You don't understand.
09:48You go ahead.
09:50You play it out.
09:51Do what you please.
09:52I couldn't care less.
09:53That's right.
10:00You ask where Ventnor Road is.
10:08Tina.
10:19Tina.
10:19Get in.
10:35Would you rather go to jail for attempted assault?
10:43Get in.
10:44That's the one, Mommy.
11:07That's the one, Mommy.
11:08He's the one that grabbed me.
11:10He scared me.
11:12Oh, I'm a brinkly one.
11:24Your blood, probably.
11:28Well, he'll have to wait his turn.
11:31Well?
11:33Come on, I said I'd have you back to this afternoon shooting.
11:36Get out, Jerry.
11:37Jerry.
11:37Where are we?
11:42Come on.
11:43Come on.
11:45I've got to get home.
11:46You are home.
11:49Now, let's go.
11:50Jerry, where have you been?
12:18Sam phoned me over an hour ago.
12:20Said you left the studio.
12:21Come on.
12:22Can't this wait, Nora?
12:23No, it can't.
12:24It's waited long enough.
12:26I want my money before he goes off in his next binge.
12:28And I'm going to get it.
12:30Now.
12:32Now, look.
12:34I tried to explain to that woman
12:36that I'm not who you all seem to think I am.
12:39My name is Curtis.
12:40I live in...
12:40Jerry, stop it.
12:42You don't seem to realize the position you're in.
12:43Where do you hide the checkbook?
12:53I'll find it if I have to tear this house apart.
13:00Jerry, I'll have to lay right on the line.
13:02If you lose this assignment, we'll have to drop you.
13:05We can't cover up for you anymore.
13:06It's beyond that.
13:07Way beyond.
13:08I'm sorry, but you're a snake.
13:12All right.
13:14They can shoot around you today.
13:16I'll tell them you're sick.
13:20They won't buy it, but I'll make it stick somehow.
13:23But you've got to be there tomorrow, Jerry.
13:25Bright and early.
13:26You've got to convince...
13:27I don't know what's going on.
13:28I don't know what's going on.
13:30Jerry.
13:31All right, get over here.
13:32Nora, don't.
13:33Look.
13:34You stay out of this.
13:35Nora, please, can't you see that he's upset?
13:37Leave me alone.
13:38You're going to sign this check, Jerry.
13:39You're going to sign it right now.
13:41Gerald Reagan.
13:43G-E-R-A-L-D.
13:47That's not my name.
13:47R-A-I-G-A-N.
13:49That's not my name.
13:51Now, listen.
13:51This has gone far enough.
13:54I'm not Gerald Reagan.
13:55I don't know any of you.
13:58My name is Arthur Curtis.
14:00Do you hear me?
14:00Arthur Curtis, and I work for...
14:02I'd like to have a telephone number of the Davis Morton Company, 189 Brand Street, Los Angeles.
14:20Of course there is.
14:26I've worked there.
14:28I've worked there for the last seven years.
14:33Hello?
14:34Hello?
14:34I've worked there for the Davis Morton Company, 189 Brand Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los
15:04Feeling better?
15:31You don't believe me, do you?
15:34I believe you've been overworked, under a terrible strain.
15:40You need help, Jerry.
15:43Help?
15:46It's not in my province, but I've known you a long time.
15:51Can't you see what's happened?
15:52I'm not in my place.
15:56I'm not in my place.
15:59I want you to see what's happened.
16:03Caste of characters.
16:31Arthur Curtis, 36, a young business executive, happily married.
16:38Curtis lives in Woodland Hills with his wife and child.
16:42Marion Curtis, 33, a charming young woman,
16:46typical of that efficient breed which can manage a house and family and still have apples...
16:51Stop it!
17:01The only information you have about Arthur Curtis is written in this script.
17:10No.
17:11Oh, Jerry, sometimes I'd like to escape myself,
17:17away from this turmoil to some simpler existence.
17:24You're telling me that this is a delusion,
17:27that I'm really Gerald Reagan, a drunken...
17:30Gerald Reagan, a sweet, unhappy man,
17:32burdened with that harpy, Jerry Reagan,
17:38trying to find a little happiness, that's all.
17:42No.
17:44It's real.
17:46It's real.
17:48I wish it were.
17:50For your sake, I wish it were.
17:52I've got to go, Jerry.
18:00Try and get some rest.
18:03Forget about the picture.
18:04You don't have to finish it.
18:06I just spoke to the studio a few minutes ago.
18:09They're canceling production.
18:14Arthur Curtis is dead.
18:16I've got to get back.
18:20It's too late, Jerry.
18:21It's finished.
18:22I've got to get back to my office.
18:24Your office?
18:25If you mean the set,
18:26they're probably tearing it down right now.
18:29They can't.
18:31They can't!
18:46Amy!
18:55Amy!
18:55THE END
19:25THE END
19:55Mr. Reagan
19:56You can't do this
19:58We're just
19:58Just following orders
19:59Mr. Reagan
20:00Don't leave me here
20:25Don't leave me here
20:28Honey?
20:52I don't know
20:53Marion
20:57Well, my goodness
21:05I've been phoning you all day long
21:07Where have you been?
21:08Ben?
21:11Well, Sally kept saying you were out
21:13She said she didn't actually see you go out
21:14Let's get out of here
21:14Artie!
21:16Are you all right?
21:17Sure
21:18Well, where were you?
21:20Mr. Curtis?
21:21Are you leaving now?
21:25Yes
21:25Well, I have your tickets for Saturday night
21:28Here you are
21:29Fine, thanks
21:31All right
21:32Let's get those lamps and tables out of here
21:34Honey, what's the matter?
21:38Please
21:39Honey, let's not wait
21:44Let's go on our vacation right away
21:46Hey
21:46What's wrong?
21:49Nothing, darling
21:49I just don't want to lose you
21:52Has Reagan been here?
22:03Yeah, he was here a minute ago
22:04You didn't see him leave?
22:06No, I didn't
22:08Hey, any of you guys see Reagan leave?
22:10No, we didn't
22:11Would you take a look in his dressing room?
22:13Yeah, sure
22:14He's not in his dressing room
22:32Wonder where he is
22:44The modus operandi for the departure from life
22:47Is usually a pine box of such and such dimensions
22:50And this is the ultimate in reality
22:53But there are other ways for a man to exit from life
22:57Take the case of Arthur Curtis, age 36
23:01His departure was along a highway
23:04With an exit sign that reads
23:06This way to escape
23:08Arthur Curtis
23:10En route to the twilight zone
23:13This way to escape
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