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A factory worker's family is thrown into an uproar when his teenage daughter starts to date his boss' son.
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00:00Produced in association with the NBC television network.
00:07William Bandit in The Life of Riley.
00:14With Marjorie Reynolds as Peg, Tom DeAndre as Gillis, Wes Morgan as Junior, and Gloria Blondell as Honey Bee.
00:23Produced by Tom McKnight.
00:28Big Business is the keynote of our fabulous country.
00:32Wall Street with its daily transactions.
00:35The Chicago grain market where fortunes are made and lost.
00:38Broadway's electric signs that spell out Big Business in varied products.
00:43Television center, baseball, football, boxing, all under the head of Big Business.
00:51And so today, it is only natural to find our own Chester A. Riley
00:56Soberly contemplating a gigantic deal.
00:59Eighty-five bucks and that's my final bid.
01:05Eighty-five clams for a growing concern?
01:08It's a shame you even mentioned it, pal.
01:10I ain't seen a customer since I've been here.
01:13See that bus over there?
01:14Yeah.
01:15Every time a bus stops, they stampede the joint.
01:19Keeps the cash register ringing, huh?
01:21You'll be playing it like a typewriter.
01:27Pushed the wrong key.
01:29Well, that's what I'm looking for.
01:30A business of my own that'll keep my family in luck.
01:33This is it, Mac.
01:34And for a hundred and fifty clams, it's all yours.
01:39Well, he got a little over a hundred.
01:41Stole!
01:42To the man with a little over a hundred.
01:44Oh, that was a good dinner, Peg.
01:59I'm stuffed up to here.
02:00Oh, I'm glad you liked it, dear.
02:02Babs and I worked hard all afternoon.
02:04Uh, more coffee, dear?
02:06Yes, you can pour me another demi, Tessie.
02:09Would you like another piece of pie, Daddy?
02:12No, thanks.
02:13I'm cutting down to three slices.
02:17Holy smoke!
02:18Why don't you start smoking stinkers?
02:21Junior, this happens to be a genuine
02:23ten-cent Green Goblin Havana Perfecto.
02:30Fell out the hamburger.
02:31I mean, the plant gave it to me.
02:34Speaking of the plant, dear,
02:35haven't you forgotten something?
02:37Nothing I can think of.
02:39It's Friday, Daddy.
02:41So what?
02:42Kick in.
02:46You got paid today, didn't you, dear?
02:49All that.
02:56Peg?
03:01How would you like to have another car in the garage
03:03just for taking trips on Sunday?
03:05I'll try to bear up with only one.
03:07Where are your wages, dear?
03:09A two-story home in Beverly Hills
03:11with a swimming pool.
03:12Riley!
03:13Servants to wait on your hands and feet.
03:15Mink bedspreads.
03:16Two slippers of champagne every night.
03:18Something drop on your head at the plant, Pop?
03:20No, my head's as clear as a pumpkin
03:22and clicking finances.
03:24You did something with your pay
03:25and you might as well tell me.
03:29All right, I will.
03:31I've done something that'll put us all on Easy Street.
03:34I bought a business.
03:35Riley!
03:36No!
03:37Here we go.
03:38I bought a flourishing hamburger stand.
03:41Riley, you didn't!
03:42Oh, Daddy, no!
03:44Oh, boy!
03:45I'll run at nights, Saturdays and Sundays,
03:48and when the dough really starts rolling in,
03:50I'll quit at the plant.
03:51Riley, do you mean you threw your wages
03:53into the gutter again
03:54just when we need every penny of it?
03:56Now, just a minute, Peg.
03:58I'd done a lot of thinking
03:59before I threw it in the gutter.
04:01I mean, I, uh...
04:02I didn't rush into this without my brain.
04:05Oh, Riley, how could you?
04:07For 20 years, I've been slaving over hot rivets.
04:10And what have I got to show for it?
04:11You've got Junior and me.
04:13You ain't assets.
04:15Why ain't I rich?
04:16I'm asking you, Peg.
04:17Why ain't you wearing diamonds and furs?
04:20Is it because I'm lazy?
04:22Is it because I ain't got push?
04:24Is it because I'm lacking in brains?
04:29You go into the other room, children.
04:32I want to answer your father.
04:43All right, go ahead. Ignore me.
04:56You'll be pampering at me
04:57when the money starts rolling in.
04:59Oh, but, Daddy, a hamburger stand.
05:02And what's wrong with a hamburger stand?
05:05All my life I've been plugging along.
05:07Work hard, they say.
05:09Keep your nose to the gridiron, they say.
05:11And you'll find the rainbow with a pot of gold.
05:14Have I got a rainbow?
05:16You got the pot?
05:19Don't infuriate me, Junior.
05:22Just where is this gold mine?
05:24On the empty lot at Third and Maple.
05:26Gee, Pop, there's another hamburger stand
05:28right across the street.
05:30There was another one.
05:31The one I bought ran him right out of business.
05:34Peg, I got the fixtures and the whole works
05:36for a little over a hundred bucks.
05:39You certainly got the works.
05:42You didn't have a little over a hundred dollars.
05:44Where did you get the extra money?
05:47Oh, I... I got an executive head.
05:50I know.
05:51I asked you where you got the money.
05:53I done what any other businessman will do.
05:55I borrowed it from a bank.
05:57A bank lent you money without any security?
06:00Well, not exactly.
06:02It was a...
06:04It's a kind of a...
06:05Well, it's a sort of a...
06:06It's a partnership.
06:09The First National Bank went into partnership
06:10with you on a hamburger stand?
06:13Who said anything about the First National Bank?
06:15There are other banks, you know.
06:18Holy smoke!
06:20I had 25 bucks on my piggy bank.
06:23Shake, partner.
06:24We'll fill up a hundred piggy banks.
06:28Broke again.
06:37Hey, uh, Junior.
06:38How does that look?
06:41Pretty snazzy, huh?
06:42I don't think incorporated is spelled right.
06:45Never mind the spelling.
06:46It's the sentiment that counts.
06:47Chester A. Riley and son.
06:53Look out, Pop!
06:54You're in a pain.
06:55You're in a pain.
07:04For two cents, I'd climb back up that ladder
07:06and incorporate you right out of the business.
07:09Would you give me back my 25 bucks?
07:11Get your equipment and go on down the street.
07:15Okay, Pop.
07:16You're in danger of life and life.
07:17Huh?
07:18Put that down.
07:19You got everything?
07:20Ten pounds of popcorn, fifteen pounds of hot dogs, and forty-five pounds of hamburger.
07:23They don't sell this much at the World Series.
07:24I know what I'm doing.
07:25I don't think you put that much popcorn in all at once, Ryle.
07:26I'm getting ready for the moving picture trade when the theater opens.
07:27I don't think you put that much popcorn in all at once, Ryle.
07:28I'm getting ready for the moving picture trade when the theater opens.
07:29Hey, Ron.
07:30You got everything?
07:31Ten pounds of popcorn, fifteen pounds of hot dogs, and forty-five pounds of hamburger.
07:37They don't sell this much at the World Series.
07:40I know what I'm doing.
07:47I don't think you put that much popcorn in all at once, Ryle.
07:51I'm getting ready for the moving picture trade when the theater opens.
07:54Hey, Ryle.
07:55What?
07:56You got one yellow shoe and one black.
08:01That ain't gonna look very appetizing to the customers.
08:04I'm selling hamburgers, not shoes.
08:07Wait till this cash register starts ringing.
08:11That's got more firepower than a bazooka.
08:17Two loaches, please.
08:23Oh, Babs.
08:28I must have left my money in my other purse.
08:30Oh, I haven't any money either.
08:32Well, we'll get some from your father.
08:33Sorry.
08:37Mom, look!
08:38Get them while they're red hot.
08:40Ryle's Burgers from Happy Council.
08:45Oh, Junior, how could you?
08:47It's our advertising campaign.
08:49Well, you advertise yourself right back to that stand.
08:51But what?
08:52March!
08:58Well, let's take care of that.
09:02Get your hamburgers from a reliable firm.
09:04Treat your stomach right at Riley's.
09:06Step.
09:08Oh, hello, Peg.
09:09Chester Riley, what do you mean sending your son out as a sandwich man?
09:12Take that thing off at once.
09:14But, Peg, advertising is the life of trade.
09:16I suppose you'd like Babs and me to go to the movies with signs on our back.
09:20Gee, would you, Peg?
09:22Daddy, don't be silly.
09:24When we got to the movies, I found I didn't have a cent in my purse.
09:27Well, that's the trouble with you women.
09:28You've got no head for finances.
09:30Well, I like that.
09:32Well, as long as we're here, Mom, we might as well have lunch.
09:36Two hamburgers coming up.
09:39Now, just a minute, Peg.
09:40I don't like to bring this up, but I hope you've got the money to pay for the hamburgers.
09:44Well, I just told you, I don't have a cent.
09:46Oh, well, then I'm very sorry.
09:48You see, me and Junior, we got a model.
09:52Oh, don't be ridiculous.
09:53We're your wife and daughter.
09:55Yeah, I know. That's the reason I want to stay friends.
09:57This is a cash business.
09:59Very well. Lend me 50 cents.
10:01Come on!
10:05Junior, not out of the cash register.
10:06Now, pick it up and put it back.
10:08I'll give it you out of my own pocket.
10:11I only got five dollars.
10:12Oh, thanks.
10:13Two hamburgers, please.
10:15Here you are, Mom.
10:16Thanks. Here's your money.
10:21And there's your change.
10:23Oh, here's the 50 cents I borrowed.
10:24Oh, yeah. Thanks.
10:25Now we're even.
10:26Come on, Bab.
10:27That'll leave us plenty for the picture show.
10:29Bye, dear.
10:32Thanks, Peg.
10:33Much obliged for the trade.
10:35Hey, you see, son?
10:36Now that's the way to do business.
10:37You got the business all right.
10:39What do you mean?
10:40That was your five bucks.
10:42What are you talking about?
10:43I got the five out of my...
10:46Yeah.
10:47Peg!
10:48Peg, come back!
10:49Let's stay friends!
10:54What?
10:55Well, don't just stand there.
10:56Gather it up and begs.
10:58C.
10:59One, two, three, four, five dollars and 25, 50, 60, 75 cents.
11:13With three bucks out for expenses, that leaves us a clear profit of, um...
11:172.75.
11:18That's right.
11:19Not bad, huh, Peg?
11:20You'd have made five times that much at the plant.
11:23Where do we really get rolling?
11:24I may quit the plant and give the stand all my time.
11:27Riley, don't you dare.
11:30Come in.
11:33Oh, good evening, Miss Riley.
11:34I just thought I'd stop on the way home and see how Riley was.
11:37I'm all choked up.
11:38My chest is killing me.
11:39Well, why aren't you in bed?
11:40Well, you can't sell hamburgers in bed.
11:41You...
11:42Huh?
11:43Well, I might as well tell you the truth, Hawkins.
11:44I'm in a thriving business for myself now.
11:46Oh, so that's it.
11:47I thought there was something fishy about your being sick.
11:48Riley, you told me you had the day off.
11:49He phoned me and told me he was coming down with double pneumonia.
11:50Oh, Riley.
11:51I got other business interests now, Hawkins.
11:52You can dock me for today.
11:53I already know.
11:54I know.
11:55I know.
11:56I know.
11:57I know.
11:58I know.
11:59I know.
12:00I know.
12:01I know.
12:02I know.
12:03I know.
12:04I know.
12:05I know.
12:06I know.
12:07I know.
12:08I know.
12:09I know.
12:10I know.
12:11I know.
12:12I know.
12:13I know.
12:14I know.
12:15I know.
12:16I already have.
12:17And you be at work tomorrow or you don't need to come back at all.
12:20Now, just a minute.
12:21You can't talk to a prosperous business executive like that.
12:24Riley.
12:25Daddy.
12:26Attaboy, partner.
12:27I don't care what kind of an executive you are.
12:30You punch in tomorrow morning or you're through.
12:32Okay.
12:33If that's gonna be your attitude, you can accept my resignation.
12:37Resignation refused.
12:39You're fired.
12:40Well, I guess that's telling him, huh, Peg?
12:41Now, see what you've done.
12:42You've lost your job.
12:43So what?
12:44Now, don't you worry, Peg.
12:45Now, I can give all my time to the stand and really build up the business.
12:46What'll happen to us in the meantime?
12:47There's food, clothes, payments on the house.
12:49Gee, Peg, ain't you got no faith in me at all?
12:50It isn't a question of faith.
12:51It's necessity.
12:52Go after Mr. Hawkins.
12:53Apologize to him.
12:54Get your job back.
12:55Be sensible right now.
12:56Be sensible right now.
12:57No.
12:58No.
12:59No.
13:00No.
13:01All right.
13:02No.
13:03No.
13:04No.
13:05No.
13:06No.
13:07No.
13:08No.
13:09No.
13:10No.
13:11No.
13:12No.
13:13No.
13:14No.
13:15No.
13:16No.
13:17No.
13:18No.
13:19No.
13:20Riley?
13:21Nothing doing.
13:22He needs me.
13:23He'll come crawling back.
13:25I don't know, Pop.
13:26He didn't sound much like crawling to me.
13:28Well, I ain't crawling to him.
13:29I got my pride, you know.
13:31But how can we live?
13:32We can't eat pride.
13:34We don't have to.
13:35We'll eat hamburgers.
13:45Oh, hey, son.
13:47How's business?
13:48It ain't bouncing.
13:49What's all that junk?
13:50New ideas, Junior.
13:51That's the way to get ahead in business.
13:53I got an idea for a new hamburger that'll stagger the industry.
13:56Well, a hamburger's just a hamburger, Pop.
13:58I wouldn't mess around with it.
14:00Look, Junior.
14:01I'll do the thinking around here.
14:02Now, you get a bun.
14:04We'll start rehearsing until we get it right.
14:05We'll start rehearsing until we get it right.
14:09Here we go in a gale of horseradish.
14:11Well, since you put it that way, Mrs. Riley, I might take him back.
14:25Thank you, Mr. Hawkins.
14:26Thank you, Mr. Hawkins.
14:27On probation.
14:28He'll be all right.
14:30Tell him to check in Monday morning on just for once to be on time.
14:35I'll see to it.
14:36Uh, I'd appreciate it if you didn't mention my coming here.
14:41Mr. Riley's a very proud man.
14:44I wonder what about.
14:47Now, Junior, are you sure you know how to make that new hamburger I invented?
14:53Just in case I ain't here.
14:54Sure.
14:55Just slap everything in the joint on it.
14:58Ah!
14:59Here comes Gillis.
15:00Put on a toothpick.
15:04That's right.
15:05He'll be the first to try a Riley burger.
15:07Maybe the last.
15:11Hello, Riley.
15:12Hiya, Junior.
15:13How's business?
15:15Terrible.
15:17Junior, your mouth is all full of mustard.
15:20Business is booming.
15:21Gillis, what'll it be?
15:22Give me a hamburger.
15:23Just plain.
15:24No trimmings.
15:25Gillis, you got a treat coming.
15:27You're gonna sink your fangs into a Riley burger.
15:31Bun.
15:32Bun.
15:33Nothing fancy, Riley.
15:34Just plain.
15:37Lettuce.
15:38Lettuce.
15:43I like just meat.
15:45Ketchup.
15:46Ketchup.
15:55Mustard.
15:56Mustard.
15:57I just want a plain hunk of meat, Riley.
16:06Onion.
16:07Onion.
16:08Onion gives me heartburn.
16:09I don't want it.
16:13Mayonnaise.
16:14I just want a hamburger.
16:28Please.
16:29Piccadilly.
16:30It's Piccadilly.
16:31Cheese.
16:32Cheese.
16:33Cheese.
16:34I don't like cheese.
16:35Give me a hot dog.
16:36Peanut butter.
16:37Cheese.
16:38Cheese.
16:39Cheese.
16:40Cheese.
16:41I don't like cheese.
16:42Give me a hot dog.
16:43Peanut butter.
16:44I'm not trying for an ulcer, Riley.
16:45I just want a hamburger.
16:46Hamburger.
16:47Hamburger.
16:48Hamburger.
16:50Hamburger.
16:51Peanut butter.
17:02I'm not trying for an ulcer, Ryle.
17:04I just want a hamburger.
17:08Hamburger.
17:13Pick it off the top and give it to me.
17:17Nuts.
17:19Nuts.
17:21That's it.
17:33Nuts.
17:35So long, Ryle.
17:39See, I told you.
17:41Now we lost a customer.
17:43Who cares about Gillis?
17:46I'll eat it myself.
17:47I'll eat it myself.
17:58Wonderful.
18:01You first, dear.
18:03Well, I confess I'm almost at the end of my rope.
18:06I just can't argue anymore.
18:08Well, we've got to do something, Mother.
18:10When your father gets an idea, he's as stubborn as an army mule.
18:15But you said Mr. Hawkins would take him back at the plant.
18:18The trick is to get him to go back to the plant.
18:21It's okay, Mom.
18:22He's snoring.
18:24Poor Daddy.
18:25He wears himself out and nothing to show for him.
18:28Now, if only something would happen to make him see that he's just wasting his time.
18:32If he keeps losing customers with that gooey he mixes up, he's going broke.
18:40Junior, that's it.
18:41What's it?
18:42If we could make him fail, then he'd have to go back to the plant.
18:45Ain't that kind of a dirty trick?
18:47Perhaps it is, but if it's the only way we can save your father from himself, then it's justified.
18:53But how could we make him fail?
18:55Well, suppose that stand across the street were to open up again with better food and better service.
19:02You mean run him out of business?
19:04I mean put him back in the business he belongs in.
19:07Oh, Mom, do you think we could?
19:09Well, if it's for his sake as well as ours, we could certainly try.
19:14I could run the stand.
19:16I could help.
19:17Go get some paper, Junior.
19:18We've got to plan this out.
19:19Okay, Mom.
19:20Well, I can use what money I've saved to rent the stand.
19:32Step right up and get your super dog's hamburgers.
19:37Two bits a piece.
19:38Hiya, Pop!
19:39How's business?
19:42If I was you, I wouldn't even answer them.
19:45My own son competing with me.
19:47It's like serpent's teeth.
19:48Yeah, and all Aiken.
19:51Where did they get the dough?
19:52Junior's got piggy banks stashed all over the place.
19:56If my Aikert did that to me, I'd bat his ears off.
19:59What am I going to do to teach him a lesson, Gillis?
20:03Bankrupt him.
20:04Start a price war.
20:06Price war?
20:07Sure, give me that chalk.
20:16That'll fix him.
20:17Yeah, now watch them kids come runnin' over here.
20:29Gillis!
20:30He's undercuttin' me.
20:32Oh, so he wants to fight, huh?
20:35We'll slaughter him.
20:36Watch this.
20:43Slaughter him?
20:43We'll fracture him.
20:52Better, you old Gaff.
20:53Stick with him.
20:55He's going down to seven.
20:58We'll go to five.
21:00But they cost more than that.
21:09War is war, Ryle.
21:11He's going to two.
21:14We'll go to one.
21:16He can't scare me.
21:17Let him top death.
21:25Hook, Gillis.
21:26The kids are comin' over here.
21:28What'd I tell you, Ryle?
21:29Stick with me.
21:33Your hamburger's one cent apiece, mister?
21:36Well, uh, don't weaken, Ryle.
21:39That's right, kid.
21:40Give me a dozen.
21:41A dozen?
21:42You heard him.
21:43Here's the 12 cents.
21:46Nothing doing.
21:47I'm sold out.
21:48There's a law against false advertising, mister.
21:51He's right, Ryle.
21:52You better give him to him.
21:54Well, just to save trouble,
21:57how do you want him?
21:58Well done?
21:59We'll take him raw.
22:00Yeah, and we each want a dozen.
22:03Here comes a policeman, Ryle.
22:04I'll see you later.
22:05Now, wait a minute, Gillis.
22:06Wait, wait.
22:08Well, do we get him?
22:10Or don't we?
22:13Well, well, well, what do you kids want
22:14with all them raw hamburgers?
22:16They're for Junior.
22:18We're workin' for him.
22:24What a revoltin' development this is.
22:31After all the years I spent bringin' him up
22:33to do this to me.
22:36I wouldn't feel too badly, dear.
22:38You'll still have your job at the plant.
22:40My own kid's goin' against me.
22:44Hello, Daddy.
22:45Hiya, Pop.
22:46I ain't speakin' to either one of you.
22:49Oh, Daddy.
22:50Gosh, Pop.
22:51That's my ultimatum.
22:53Now, wait a minute, dear.
22:54It wasn't their fault.
22:56The whole idea was mine.
23:00Yours?
23:00Yeah.
23:01I wanted to show you
23:02what could really happen.
23:04You mean
23:05you put them up to it?
23:08I backed them.
23:10My own wife?
23:12It was all for your own good, Daddy.
23:14For my own good?
23:16My own family runs me
23:18out of a prosperin' business.
23:20It wasn't prospering.
23:22All we've been eating
23:22are the hamburgers you couldn't sell.
23:25We're declaring you, Pop.
23:27As a partner.
23:29You mean it?
23:30Sure, Daddy.
23:31A silent partner.
23:33Junior can run it after school
23:34while you're at the plant
23:35until we can sell it
23:36and get your money back.
23:37Sell it?
23:39Why, that business
23:39is worth a million dollars
23:41with my brains in back of it.
23:42I got ideas that'll...
23:45See who that is, Junior.
23:47Okay, Pop.
23:48We'll serve hot soup, Dumplin'.
23:49You can cook it at home.
23:51Riley, don't start that again.
23:52Babs can be one of them
23:53carhops for the auto-trip.
23:55I will not.
23:57Man to see you, Pop.
23:59Are you the fellow
24:00that owns that hamburger stand
24:01at the corner of 3rd and Maple?
24:02I did own it.
24:03I closed it up today permanent.
24:05Me and my son, Junior...
24:06You just closed in time
24:07to save yourself a fine.
24:08What for?
24:09Operating without a license.
24:11If you'd open tomorrow,
24:12it would've cost you
24:12a thousand dollars.
24:14Thousand dollars?
24:17You're a lucky guy.
24:21Good day.
24:23Did you think of that, too, Peg?
24:26Don't be too angry with me.
24:29Angry with you?
24:30You saved me a thousand dollars.
24:33I ain't got to.
24:34What about the new hamburger stand?
24:36I bought a license.
24:40I never thought of that, either.
24:42You're a mechanic, dear.
24:44You help build planes.
24:46That's important to the world.
24:48Anybody can run a hamburger stand.
24:51You're right, Peg.
24:52Why should I slave over a hot stove?
24:56Cooking hamburgers,
24:57boiling hot dogs,
24:58frying onions.
25:00I...
25:00You know something, Peg?
25:02What, dear?
25:04I'm a lousy cook.
25:07Come here, Junior.
25:08I want you and Babs
25:09to remember one thing.
25:11All the brains in this family
25:12ain't stuffed in my head.
25:13I want you and Babs!
25:19The Moodoo pajas...
25:19One, two, three...
25:19I want you, Ben.
25:20...
25:29One, two, three...
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