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Hotshot navy pilot Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery) has been known to tell a lot of tales about his war exploits, but no stories are greater exaggerations than those about his son, because Trumpet is childless. When he meets Jess Weaver (Tom Drake) at a ranch, Trumpet believes he could pass off the young man could as his son to his navy buddies. Even better, Jess is interested in flying. And when Jess decides to join the service, he heroically follows in his ace father figure's footsteps.
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02:00The End
02:29Right over your pretty little head
02:31Is the field clear?
02:33The field's clear
02:34Ground crew's standing by at North End
02:38Tell old gas bag to bring her in
02:41Trixie down there
02:42She says tell old gas bag to bring her in
02:44She better not let him hear that
02:45So he comes in from the tiger hunt
02:49And the little maharajah's papa gives me the elephant
02:53He says,
02:55Trumpet, you're a man after my own heart
02:58So the elephant is yours
02:59Of course, I ain't a man to talk about things
03:02And I don't generally speak about bunny
03:05Bunny, that's my elephant
03:07What do you want?
03:08Oh, uh, uh, Lakehurst report
03:10Ceiling zero, visibility zero
03:12Field clear
03:12Ground crew standing by at North End
03:14All right
03:15Give me full ridge
03:16Engines, full ridge
03:18Squire away on the beam
03:19I ain't one to brag
03:27You've heard of guys in this band, Stavey
03:29That own...
03:29Here we go again
03:30Always when I got things to do
03:34Alt gas bag keeps me waiting
03:36Does he know that that snapper engine needs work?
03:39He does
03:40And does he know that I am waiting?
03:43He does
03:43Does he care if I wait?
03:46He don't
03:46Deliberately, keep the ship aloft
03:49Till he finishes some story
03:51About a lot of things that never happened
03:52Oh, you ain't met the kid
03:54This is Tim
03:54Timothy Joseph, where she's Shannon
03:57Or the Brooklyn Shanners
03:58Meet Whisper and Joe Holdham
04:00Best chief rigger and lighter than the air
04:02Just drop by to say hello to Dad
04:04And if Tommy don't bring that ship in
04:06Tim will say hello and goodbye right here in the field
04:08This isn't exactly perfect flying weather, Dad
04:11King, 2-7 approaching field on runway 1
04:16King, 2-7 approaching field on runway 1
04:20All right, hold it down
04:24What's the delay?
04:30Advance party, take your mind
04:32All hands, meet the ship
04:41Republicans
04:42Watch through the lines
04:46Watch through the lines
04:48Stop looking when they're about
04:57Hold on
04:59Look alive
04:59Hey, on the starboard line
05:00Look alive
05:00Look alive
05:02Woo
05:06Now
05:08The
05:11Park Party in position.
05:14Hold her down.
05:17Stand by to put the ship on the van.
05:40Hey, Jimmy, you!
05:43Take a look at that starboard engine. Needs a little tuning. It's slow on the uptake.
05:47Of course, I wouldn't know nothing about that.
05:49I spent the best years of my life tuning them babies up till they purr like kittens,
05:52and you take them upstairs and beat the barons out of them.
05:54Yes, but I'm talking about this engine.
05:57Look, gasbag, I don't care what you're talking about. I didn't want to hear it.
06:00If anybody else in this man's Navy was to call me that, I'd suck a...
06:03You distract me, Trumpet. I got work to do.
06:06I get nervous when I get distracted, and I got work to do.
06:10Hey, you ain't met the kid. This is Tim. Notice the resemblance?
06:16The eyes, the nose, the hair.
06:18Yeah, yeah, I noticed it. Well, I'm glad to know you.
06:22You must have been born just about the time I left the West Coast
06:24and went out to the China Station. Guys, I can remember telling your dad...
06:29Oh, boy, come here. I want you to meet the kid.
06:31Timothy Joseph Aloysius Shannon.
06:33I'm the Brooklyn Shannons.
06:34Bert Bland.
06:35How are you, Bert?
06:36The kid here plays hockey.
06:37Yeah, well, my kid plays baseball.
06:39Oh, yeah?
06:40Yeah.
06:43Swell.
06:44Nice-looking kid.
06:45Which only goes to prove that nature never makes the same mistake twice.
06:49I'll be back in a minute.
06:50My kid's got one of them tin cans down in the South Pacific.
06:53Destroyers, huh?
06:54Yeah.
06:55I figured I might take a crack out of myself once.
06:57No, no.
06:58You don't want to have anything to do with them there tin cans.
07:00Why, you're a natural for LTA.
07:03Like I was telling my boy.
07:06I said to him, I said, either you are a natural born flyer or you ain't.
07:10That's what I told him.
07:11Is he in lighter than air now?
07:13Well, not exactly yet, but I spotted him for a flyer before he was able to walk.
07:18You just follow your old man and I in a LTA.
07:23That stop an engine will have to go to the shop.
07:25Right.
07:26Come on, Tim.
07:27Let's get out of here.
07:28Nice to know you, Chief.
07:29Hope I get to know that son of yours sometime.
07:30Yeah, yeah.
07:31You'll get to know.
07:32What?
07:33What did you say?
07:34Chief was telling me about his boy.
07:35How he's a natural at flying.
07:47When have you got a boy?
07:49Since when?
07:50Since always.
07:51Oh, you got a boy since always, huh?
07:53How come you don't have a wife?
07:55Jimmy, I'm surprised at you.
07:57I got a wife as long as I got a boy.
07:59Even longer.
08:00It's one of the things I don't like to talk about.
08:03It's one of the great sorrows of my life.
08:05Is she dead?
08:06Well, I guess you could say that.
08:08Could say it?
08:09Look, Trumpet.
08:10There's a subject about which a man has got to be specific.
08:13Either your wife is dead or she ain't.
08:15Jimmy, I don't like to talk about personal things like that.
08:20You do it.
08:21I don't know.
08:22You're not.
08:23You're not.
08:24I don't know.
08:25You're right.
08:26You're right.
08:27I have to listen to him bragging.
08:28Maharas, elephants.
08:29The Shenandoah.
08:30An outside loop and a blimp.
08:31No matter what you got, Trumpet has got something bigger and better.
08:32Always he gets away with it.
08:33But now I got him.
08:35something bigger and better. Always he gets away with it. But now I got him. So you got a kid, huh?
08:48All right, boys. Today you're going to learn about the wind and air currents. Each of you are going
08:53to fly a balloon and land it. The pickup car will return you to the base. Now you've got no elevator
08:59or rudder or engines to push you around. All you've got is a balloon. That I'm sure of.
09:06Your knowledge of aerology I ain't so sure about. Let's go. Shove off.
09:29Now, Rachek, you're traveling along with the wind, so you don't feel no wind. It's
09:59just like being on a little star, and even us old-timers are liable to get a little careless.
10:06You especially, Rachek, you get careless at times. Me? Yes, you. I was watching you yesterday
10:14during the boxing period, and you was careless. You let that there fellow Colin slip three
10:19lifts right on you because you was dreaming. Now, here, let me show you something about
10:24this. Put up your right hand like that. Tighten up on that fist. That's right. Now, watch. Now,
10:33I lead with the left, see, and cross with the right, and then you come quamble with that
10:39of yours. See what I mean? Now, get it up there. Like that. Now, here I go.
10:44Bring that bank down! Bring it down! Help! She's blowing up like a rocket!
11:02Now's the question.
11:14Which comes first, old gas bag or Rayshack?
11:16Rayshack's going to need help when he sets her down.
11:19We'll catch up with him first and get gas bag later.
11:20Okay.
11:27He's going to land in the pasture, Mom.
11:32That certainly was a beautiful jump.
12:00Must have been about 2,000 feet.
12:01Oh, that wasn't nothing.
12:04Them there little bitty jumps, I don't even count them.
12:09You do that often?
12:10Well, once I hit the silk at about 300 feet.
12:14That was back in 1933 when Captain Settle and me,
12:19we were on one of them there stratosphere flights.
12:22That was really a jump to talk about.
12:25From the stratosphere?
12:25Yep, yep.
12:28It was either me or the captain.
12:30He wanted to go first, but I said, Captain,
12:33according to the traditions of this man's Navy,
12:36the captain's got to be the last to leave the ship.
12:40See, I had him on a technicality.
12:42How high up were you?
12:44Well, after I left, he went on to 61,000 feet.
12:4812 miles high.
12:50He set a record for the Navy.
12:5112 miles?
12:53Yeah.
12:53You ever been up?
12:54No, but I've always wanted to.
12:56Well, maybe we can fix that.
12:58Of course, we're kind of busy right now with this war going on,
13:01you know, with patrol work and escorting convoys and the like,
13:05but maybe I could slip you in for a quick little flight
13:08from one of my K-ships.
13:09You see them going over here to Lakehurst, ain't you?
13:12Oh, sure, I've seen them all.
13:13I've seen the big ones, too.
13:15I've seen the Mekon, the Akron, the Shenandoah.
13:17The Shenandoah?
13:18That's my old ship.
13:20Really?
13:21Yes.
13:22Oh, she was a beauty.
13:23Ah, that was a real ship.
13:26Gosh, it won't be long before the sky
13:28will be filled with them big ridges.
13:30How would you like to leave Lakehurst in the morning,
13:32follow the sun to California,
13:34then right straight out across the Pacific
13:36to the other side of the world
13:38without touching the ground once?
13:40Yeah, but I guess that's only for flyers.
13:43Well, you can fly the same as I do.
13:46I wasn't always a flyer.
13:47I was born on a farm out in Kansas.
13:50You were born on a farm, too?
13:51Sure.
13:52I used to ride horses when I was a kid,
13:54just like a wild Indian.
13:56Well, that's what I do.
13:57Rag away there.
13:59I used to ride them in all the fox hunts.
14:01Well, he's rated one of the top hunters in the state.
14:03Hunting foxes must be fun,
14:05but hunting subs is much better.
14:07Wait until you fly your first patrol.
14:10I'm afraid that's a long way off.
14:12No, I'll guarantee you
14:14I'll have you flying one of them Navy ships
14:16within six months.
14:17Of course, you ain't got much time to play
14:19because I'll have to toughen you up so you can...
14:22So I can fall out of a balloon?
14:24Oh, madam, you got it all wrong.
14:26I didn't fall out.
14:27I jumped.
14:28That's not the way I saw it.
14:30No, ma'am, you don't understand.
14:32It has to do with the theory of aerodynamics and such.
14:36I jumped.
14:39Come on up to the house and I'll fix you a cup of coffee.
14:41Cup of coffee?
14:42Well, there's nothing I would like better
14:44than a good homemade cup of coffee.
14:47As I always told Jimmy, I said,
14:49Jimmy, if I had it to do over again,
14:52I'm going to have a nice, lovely home
14:54and a lovely little wife who can cook.
14:56Mr. Weaver had the same idea 20-odd years ago.
14:59And I'll gamble he's been a happy man ever since.
15:01Very happy for a while, but it didn't last.
15:05He's been dead since Jess was two.
15:07Oh, I'm sorry to know that.
15:10Come on, son.
15:12You and me got a lot of things to talk over.
15:14Um, Jess will be along in a little while.
15:17Yeah, yeah, I've got a few things to do first.
15:20Well, what?
15:24I guess I'll have to take a rain check
15:27on that there cup of coffee.
15:29Thank you ever so much.
15:30The name is Weaver, Hort Weaver.
15:32Drop in again sometime.
15:34Thank you, I will.
15:37Oh, uh, I jumped.
15:47I jumped.
15:49He jumped.
15:54So long, son.
15:57Happy New Year.
16:01Come on, man.
16:02Time for supper.
16:03Should I have told him, Mom?
16:17Not if you didn't want to.
16:19No.
16:20No, I didn't want to.
16:21Come on.
16:22Come on.
16:25So here comes Jess.
16:27Right over that there high fence on Ragaway, his horse.
16:31He was following them hounds right straight across the field.
16:35Jess who?
16:36Jess, my boy.
16:38That's who.
16:39I was just telling him how he could ride.
16:41Oh, so now he wins the Kentucky Derby.
16:43Come on, we've got to finish that night check on number 27.
16:45Oh, they ain't no hurry.
16:47I'm just telling him how my boy can ride.
16:50Of course, you wouldn't know, but those guys get on those horses and they chase them wild
16:56foxes right through Pennsylvania and Maryland and sometimes right dab square into Virginia.
17:03All right, all right, have it your own way.
17:09Of course, when we talk about my boy, why, we're late, see?
17:14But if we was talking about young Aloysius Shannon in place of young Jess Weaver,
17:19why, the ship could wait all night.
17:24Hey, how come he got a son?
17:25His name is Weaver.
17:27That's a good name.
17:28What's wrong with that?
17:29Nothing wrong with it, but it ain't your name.
17:31Well, you see, Jimmy, Jess's ma was awfully independent.
17:37Why, even after we were married, she wanted to keep her own name.
17:40Of course, I don't like that sort of thing, and between you and me, that's kind of one
17:46of the reasons that we separated.
17:48And then there was money troubles, too, you know.
17:52Her folks are awfully, awfully rich, and they could buy Jess them horses to go chasing them
17:58foxes.
17:59And inasmuch as Jess was with Lord, and I was in the Navy, why, I thought it would be
18:05best that way.
18:07Almost like the men in the Navy.
18:12Might be gong.
18:23Mort Wheeler.
18:24Mort Wheeler.
18:25Mort Wheeler.
18:26Mort Wheeler.
18:28Hey, Trumpet!
18:28Hey, Trumpet.
18:32Yeah.
18:33I've been with you over 20 years.
18:35I don't remember no Maud with her.
18:38Was you with me in 21?
18:40In 21, I was on destroyers.
18:42Sure you were.
18:43That's when me and Maud got married.
18:47Oh, then she's a Hindu.
18:49No, she's no Hindu.
18:51Why should you say that she's a Hindu?
18:53On account of in 21, you was in the Asiatic squadron.
18:56You wrote me from Calcutta.
18:58All about them Hindu gals.
19:00Yeah.
19:00You think all the people in India are Hindus, huh?
19:04Well, you're crazy.
19:06I've even seen people there from Kansas.
19:11Maud was a missionary.
19:13She used to teach all the little Hindus.
19:17Oh, then that's where you met her, huh?
19:19Sure, that's when I met her.
19:22I can see her now, guys.
19:24She's sitting in that there little red schoolhouse knitting.
19:29And the warm breezes of the Ganges blowing through her hair.
19:34And them temple bells are ringing in the distance.
19:38It seemed like they wanted to say,
19:41Come you back, you pretty soldier.
19:44Come you back.
19:45Come you back.
19:46That ain't a nice thing to do, Jimmy.
19:50You know, when you do things like that,
19:52why, I feel that you don't believe what I'm telling you.
19:56So you got a son.
19:58And his name is Jess Weaver.
20:00This I have got to see.
20:02This way, this way.
20:03This way.
20:03Let's go.
20:33Whoop!
20:47Hi, Chief. What brings you all the way out here?
20:50Didn't I tell you I'd be coming back?
20:52Remember, you know, he was telling me about hunting them, their foxes.
20:55Well, I thought you could chase them better if you had a pair of spurs.
20:59Gosh, they're just about the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
21:07But why should you want to give them to me?
21:10Oh, that's nothing.
21:12They've been kicking around my ditty box for years.
21:15A friend of mine down in India gave them to me.
21:18He was hunting pigs on horses.
21:21Well, thanks. I certainly do appreciate it.
21:25You say you were an Indian, Chief?
21:28Oh, sure. I've been in India and Africa and Egypt.
21:32Oh, you get around in this man's navy.
21:35Of course, you miss a lot, too.
21:37You know, things like a home like this and a wife and a kid.
21:42Well, weren't you ever married?
21:44No, no. I never did get around to that.
21:47A lot of the other fellas did.
21:49I kind of missed out. But there was a gal.
21:52Only one?
21:53Well, yeah, well, you know, one that would marry me.
21:58She was a nice girl.
22:00I met her right after I got back in the last war down in Norfolk.
22:03And I guess if we'd been married, I might have a boy just about now, just about your age.
22:11Well, maybe you're lucky. Might have turned out like me.
22:14Oh, that would have been fine, fine.
22:17I'll let you in on a little secret.
22:19Why, just about long now, I'd be rooting for him to start his cadet training in LTA,
22:26because in a few months they won't be taking any more recruits.
22:29They'll be full up.
22:31Well, suppose... suppose he didn't want to join the LTA.
22:35I mean, if for some reason he couldn't fly.
22:38Well, if he was like you he could, that's the only kind of a kid I'd have.
22:42Well, I didn't join the LTA.
22:44No, of course not.
22:46That's because you didn't have no paw to tell you what it was all about.
22:50Well, gosh, ain't that funny?
22:52Now here's you and me, and we both got exactly the same ideas,
22:56and you ain't got no paw, and I ain't got no son.
23:02I got an idea maybe.
23:04Maybe you and me could make a deal.
23:06You know, I've been in this man's Navy a long, long time,
23:09and I know some very important people.
23:11I'll bet you right now I could go up to your house
23:14and call that Admiral right on the phone and say,
23:18Admiral, this is Trumpet.
23:20I got a nice young fella down here.
23:22Oh, gosh, he's nice.
23:24He wants to join the LTA.
23:27I could say he's just like my own son.
23:31That is, if you didn't mind.
23:32Oh, it's not that I'd mind, Chief.
23:35It's that...
23:36I bet you think that I don't know the Admiral well enough
23:39and he'd say no and I'd be embarrassed.
23:41Oh, no, no, I didn't say that, Chief.
23:42Do you think that it's just practically the same thing?
23:45Come on, I'll show you.
23:46No, I do believe you, Chief.
23:47Oh, no, you don't.
23:48So I'm going to prove it.
23:50Come on, let's go.
23:52Come on, let's get to go in here.
23:55Come on, come on, get up, let's go.
23:58Oh, gee whiz, Jess, I didn't know.
24:07Well, I didn't want you to know.
24:08Well, you don't think that would have made any difference to me or to us.
24:21Well, you wanted someone who could fly.
24:23Well, I was only fooling.
24:24I was kidding.
24:25I was just saying, though.
24:26Maybe you can still fly.
24:27Have you had that long?
24:28Three years.
24:29I was riding rag away.
24:30He picked a fence, fell and rolled on.
24:31Well, maybe that can be fixed.
24:32Have you seen a doctor?
24:33No, there's nothing they can do.
24:34Well, have you talked to one lately?
24:35What's the sense in kidding myself?
24:38I tried four doctors.
24:39They all gave me the same answer.
24:40I know what I'm like.
24:41Oh, you're never licked, son.
24:42I can remember when I was down there in Singapore.
24:43Why I couldn't remember when I was down there in Singapore.
24:46I couldn't remember how you'd have been out there.
24:47Maybe you can still fly.
24:48Maybe you can still fly.
24:49Have you had that long?
24:50Three years.
24:51What's the sense in kidding myself?
24:54I tried four doctors, they all gave me the same answer.
24:57I know when I'm licked.
24:58Oh, you're never licked, son.
25:00I can remember when I was down there in Singapore.
25:03Why I couldn't even heist a drink cup.
25:05I had that there malignant Asiatic fever, you know, gets in all your bones.
25:10Everybody said I was finished, but I stayed right in there and kept on pitching.
25:15You're never licked, you know.
25:16And maybe things are different now.
25:19I mean, about the leg, you know.
25:20These doctors have learned a lot of new things again since the war.
25:24Well, I wish I could believe that.
25:27You've got to believe it.
25:28That's the way that you make things come true.
25:31First you believe it, then you make it happen.
25:36You see?
25:38Just think.
25:40I'll get them to make a short snorter out of you.
25:46Was that the belt you won in the Leacroft hunt?
25:49Yeah, they gave it to me the last year I rode with them.
25:51Gee, it sure is pretty.
25:52I always wanted one of them things, but I certainly don't want to have to chase foxes to get one.
25:57It's yours.
25:58No.
26:00No, you can't give that away.
26:01You always keep them things unless you want to give it to some nice girl that you know.
26:05I knew a pretty girl in Shanghai.
26:08I think there's one more piece in the kitchen.
26:10Oh, thanks.
26:12Maybe it was in Barcelona.
26:15Anyway, she was a brunette.
26:17I gave her my belt, see, and I was up to her house, so I was going back to the ship, walking down the street.
26:24Along comes the skipper and I toss off a snappy salute and my pants start to slip, see.
26:28So he says,
26:29Trumpet, this ain't no time for formalities.
26:33Say, listen, do you like brunettes?
26:35Redhead.
26:36Redhead?
26:36That's her just to a T.
26:40Who?
26:42The girl in town.
26:43I've been telling her all about you.
26:46She is a real redhead.
26:48She's a regular carrot top and she weighs, oh, in the neighborhood of, I would say, 130.
26:55130?
26:57Well, maybe not.
26:58Maybe not 130.
27:00I would say, in her bathing suit, I would say about 110.
27:05She's kind of a tall, long, slathery.
27:10Slathery?
27:11Well, not exactly slathery.
27:15She's just a big girl for her size, you know.
27:19If she was standing alongside of you, I imagine she'd be just about that much shorter.
27:26About that much shorter.
27:29You see her, you'll black out.
27:30That's not on the 60-cent lunch.
27:52I was just looking for a friend of mine, that's all.
27:57Take my word for it, Saylor.
27:58He's not here.
27:59I don't think that you understand.
28:01This is a girl.
28:03I'm looking for a particular kind of a girl.
28:06You found one.
28:07That'll be 60 cents, please.
28:0960 cents?
28:10Is that 20 the smallest you've got?
28:17No, I've got some singles.
28:23Get your 20.
28:25Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
28:29Probably when I was pitching for the St. Louis Browns.
28:31No, I guess I got you mixed up with the other girl.
28:36She was a nice girl, too, and she was always doing kind things for people.
28:41I guess that's why I got you mixed up.
28:43Well, now that you're all untangled, Kathy, don't forget your 20.
28:46Yeah, as I was saying before, why...
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