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Riley learns that a cart horse he's fond of is to be "retired"so he purchases it. After he brings it home Peg insists Chester find a different place to keep it
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00:00Produced in association with the NBC Television Network.
00:07Yes, it's William Bendix in The Life of Riley.
00:15With Marjorie Reynolds as Peg, Tom DeAndre as Gillis, and Wes Morgan as Junior.
00:23Produced by Tom McKnight and directed by Abby Berlin.
00:29Wasting our time, Ryle.
00:33You can't buy parts for a washing machine in a junkyard.
00:36Why not? That's where I bought the washing machine.
00:38Come on! Let's go! Chiquitos, tenemos que trabajar!
00:42Come on!
00:44Come on.
00:45Stop! He already stopped!
00:48What I want him is to walk.
00:50Don't you know this is Be Kind to Animals Week?
00:53Every four blocks he do this.
00:55You know, mister? I think his mother, she got scared by stop sign.
00:59You get more flies on sugar than fly paper.
01:02And I always carry some with me on Be Kind to Animals Week.
01:06What's his name?
01:07Well, I call him Leo. After my uncle.
01:11Leo. Here, Leo. That's a good boy. Here.
01:14Put it in your palm, Ryle, or you'll be riveting with your wrist.
01:18Tomorrow, it's going to be dog meat.
01:22Dog meat?
01:23A wise guy, he sell me the horse for 30 bucks yesterday.
01:27Today, he's not pulled the wagon.
01:29For tomorrow, he's going to the dog food factory.
01:32You can't do that. That ain't being kind to animals.
01:36It's got two sides, Ryle. It's being kind to dogs.
01:41You like Leo, mister?
01:44I sell him chip.
01:46Well, I don't want to buy him. I just want to save him from...
01:51Look at them eyes, Gillis. He's pleading with me.
01:55Look the other way.
01:57Look, Gillis. He's got tears in him.
01:59It's a cinder. Come on, Ryle.
02:01There he stands, Gillis.
02:03Today, a noble animal.
02:06Tomorrow, a pile of hamburger.
02:13You touch my heart, mister.
02:16For you, 20 dollars.
02:23I should have seen it coming.
02:31I ran out of sugar at Fifth and L.
02:40We've been two hours coming from that junkyard.
02:44I got a kid I'd like to see before he's holding up the shave.
02:47You know what's wrong with Leo Gillis?
02:49Yeah. We got him.
02:52We gotta figure out some kindly way to make a move.
02:56We could light a fire under him.
02:59There, you see? He wouldn't like it.
03:01Now, we'll take him to your house and put him in your garage.
03:04He don't set a hoop in my garage.
03:06Honey, if he'd murder me.
03:08You got an interest in Leo Gillis.
03:10Look, just because you nicked me for ten bucks
03:12don't mean I have to be interested in him.
03:14All right, then I'll take him to my house and he can be a guest in my house
03:17until I find a good home for him.
03:19Peg ain't got a guest room for a horse.
03:22What's she gonna eat?
03:23I'm the boss in my house when I say goes.
03:26And I'll lay a tree to one. It's Leo that goes.
03:29Oh, yeah?
03:30Yeah.
03:37What do you guys think you're doing?
03:39We got a horse.
03:40No.
03:41We did so.
03:43I thought I was gonna have to sweat that out of you.
03:46We're trying to get him home.
03:48Oh, I see.
03:50And just for a lock, you glued him to the sidewalk.
03:53No, he's got a complex about moving.
03:55So have I.
03:56So get him out of here!
03:58Yes, sir.
04:06And hurry up!
04:10He understood, Gillis.
04:11He's ready to go.
04:12Climb on.
04:13Not me.
04:14It's your turn to get the calluses.
04:16Okay, here.
04:17Hold it.
04:18Give me your booster.
04:26What's up, Ryle?
04:28Let's go.
04:32Hey, Ryle!
04:33What are you doing down there?
04:42Good grief, Mom.
04:43It's 6.30 and I've got a date at 7.
04:46We'll give your father five more minutes.
04:49Hey, Mom.
04:50Do you have any old bones around the house?
04:53Only mine.
04:54Why?
04:55Well, you see, it's Be Kind to Animals Week.
04:58And, well, I thought...
04:59Junior, we go through this every year.
05:02You can't feed all the stray dogs in the neighborhood.
05:05Oh, this isn't a stray dog.
05:07She belongs to Pinky Sweetser.
05:09Well, then let Pinky feed her.
05:10He can't.
05:11He's going away with his folks over the weekend.
05:14You didn't bring that dog of Pinky's over here, did you?
05:17Sure.
05:18She's on the service porch.
05:19What?
05:20She's a swell dog, Mom.
05:21Does all kinds of tricks around the house.
05:24I bet.
05:25Just where do you see her?
05:26You'll fall in love with her.
05:29Junior, last year it took us a month to get rid of those kittens Dad brought home.
05:36There she is, Mom.
05:37Her name is Speedy.
05:43Come on, Speedy.
05:44Sit up.
05:50Come on, girl.
05:51Big.
05:54She'd make a great sign for mortuary.
05:57She's plenty lively.
05:58You ought to see her chasing rabbits.
06:00Well, we haven't any rabbits around the house as yet.
06:03So take her back where she belongs.
06:05But, Mom, I promised Pinky I'd take care of her over the weekend.
06:09I'm sorry, Junior.
06:10But you should ask me before you make promises.
06:13Mom's bridge club's meeting here Saturday and she doesn't want a mangy old dog wandering around.
06:17She's bitter looking and most of those women in the bridge club.
06:22That'll do, Junior.
06:23Now tie her outside and wash up for dinner.
06:25You can feed her and take her back afterwards.
06:26Right here.
06:27Come, Speedy.
06:28I don't understand why Leo wouldn't go in a garage.
06:32There's a car in there.
06:33They're natural enemies.
06:34If I leave him out here, Peg will see him.
06:35She's got to see him sooner or later.
06:36This is no gopher you're trying to hide.
06:37I'll climb up out here and go in and break it to her gently.
06:38I'd better go home to Honey Bee or she'll break something over my head and it won't be gentle.
06:42I'll see you in Citation in the morning.
06:45I don't understand why Leo wouldn't go in a garage.
06:48There's a car in there.
06:49They're natural enemies.
06:52If I leave him out here, Peg will see him.
06:55She's got to see him sooner or later.
06:57This is no gopher you're trying to hide.
07:00I'll climb up out here and go in and break it to her gently.
07:03I'd better go home to Honey Bee or she'll break something over my head and it won't be gently.
07:08I'll see you in Citation in the morning.
07:12I'm worried about your father. Something must have happened to keep him.
07:25I'm worried about Speedy. Where's he going to stay over the weekend?
07:28I'm worried about making the early movie. Curtis will be here any minute.
07:32Well, that's all. Stop worrying and have our dinner.
07:36Hi, everybody.
07:38Oh, how are you doing, Riley?
07:39Oh, I see you started dinner without me, huh?
07:44That's a fine way to treat the guy who buys the groceries.
07:48Uh, what's my dumpling been doing?
07:50Oh, worrying about you.
07:52Where on earth have you been?
07:53Oh, I was out with Gillis horsing around. I mean, uh...
07:58How's my little babsy?
07:59Uh, all dressed up, I see. Going someplace?
08:02Yeah, if we ever finish dinner. I'll get your plate.
08:09Uh, what about you, Junior? Did you do a good deed today for some defenseless animal?
08:13Yeah, I brought home Speedy. Mom would let me keep her in the house.
08:17You brought home an animal?
08:19He brought home Pinky Sweetser's dog, and I'm not going to have her lying all around the furniture.
08:23Oh, yeah, your mother's right, Junior. Never bring home nothing small enough to lie on the furniture.
08:28Here you are, Daddy. It's nice and hot.
08:32Oh, boy, my favorite dinner. You kids are lucky to have a mother who can cook like this.
08:36Oh, what is it?
08:39Oh, nothing to get that worked up about.
08:42Just yesterday's pot roast warmed over.
08:45Yeah, but the way your mother warms it.
08:47There ain't another woman I know Dumplin' can warm up like you can warm up.
08:50Say, a strong wind must have come up, Mother.
08:53I noticed the laundry's whipping round and round.
08:56I better get it in.
08:58No, no, don't get up, Peggy.
09:00I'll bring it in after supper.
09:02I feel like doing a little outside work.
09:06My, you are in a good humor tonight.
09:09Yeah, I feel good, Peg.
09:11Today I saved a noble animal from being ate up by dogs.
09:14Gee, Pop, were they attacking him?
09:17Well, not exactly, Junior. He hadn't been processed yet.
09:21Huh?
09:23Peg, I was walking along today when suddenly there was Leo.
09:28There was who?
09:29Well, you see, Peg, there was this pitiful specimen of man's inhumanity.
09:35This four-footed flotsam alone and friendless.
09:38No family to come home to.
09:40No wife to soothe his aching head.
09:43No son to take off his shoes.
09:45No warmed-over pot roast waiting for him in the stove.
09:48Nothing to look forward to but being a pot roast himself.
09:52I tell you, Peg, it was heart-rendering.
09:54Riley, you haven't brought home any dogs or cats or crippled ducks again.
10:00Peg, I give you my word, I did not bring home a dog, a cat or a duck.
10:05What did you bring home?
10:07Well, you see, Bebsy, there was this pitiful specimen.
10:11We've all heard about the pitiful specimen.
10:15What became of him?
10:28Riley, what was that?
10:30That was me, Peg.
10:31I just thought of a funny joke.
10:32You see, there was these two Irishmen.
10:34It sounded like a horse.
10:36You've been going to too many of those western-moving pictures, Jimmy.
10:48Jeepers!
10:50It is a horse!
10:52Riley, who does that horse belong to?
10:57Ghost Rider in the sky?
10:58Let's be kind to animals, weak Peg, so you can at least speak to me.
11:10I'll speak to you when you get rid of that horse.
11:13You can't just throw Leo out like he was a relative.
11:16Twenty dollars that we could use thrown away on a broken-down horse.
11:21Junior could learn to ride him.
11:23Maybe become a jockey.
11:24We could stunt his growth.
11:25Have you seen what Leo did to the fence last night?
11:29He kicked out a couple of planks.
11:31Don't make mountains out of moleskins.
11:32I'll nail him back again.
11:34We're not going to keep him.
11:36We most certainly are not.
11:38Your father's going to get rid of him this morning.
11:40But, Peg, it'll break his heart.
11:42Well, he's broken my clothes pole, trampled the flower beds, and knocked down the fence, so we're even.
11:47I know.
11:49My brother-in-law, Marty Dipsal, he spends all his time at the racetrack.
11:52He should know what to do with a horse.
11:54Well, Riley, I don't care what you do, but do something.
11:57I'll call Marty right now.
12:03I left a message for Marty. He should be here soon.
12:06Just because you gotta get a horse, I gotta get a mouse.
12:09That honeybee is awful headstrong.
12:12Peg hadn't held her, she'd have killed me.
12:14Serge, you're right.
12:16Leo butted down the fence and ate up $5 worth of her petunias.
12:19Next year, Ryle, just be kind to your neighbors.
12:24It's awful quiet around here. Where is honeybee?
12:27The last time I saw her, she was chasing a horse.
12:30If she catches him, your troubles are over.
12:32Hi, boys.
12:35Hiya, Thipsal. Hi, Marty.
12:37Sissy piloted your message from Grogan's Cocktail Palace to Feeney's Byron Grill, so I come right over.
12:42You boys want a horse?
12:45We got a horse.
12:47Well, there's a little filly running a tropical park that'll get you seven to one.
12:51There's some fillets running around this backyard that'll get you in the city hospital.
12:54What with clowning, boys? This is my busy time.
12:58If you want to lay a bed, I'll take care of it.
13:00Just tell Honest Marty, the guy horses talk to.
13:11I'm going on the wagon, boys.
13:15It's all over. I'm seeing horses.
13:18No, he's real. He belongs to me and Gillis.
13:21I'm disowning him. You can have both ends.
13:25That's a real horse?
13:27Well, he ain't on no merry-go-round.
13:29You gotta help me, Marty. I gotta get rid of him.
13:31Where'd you get him?
13:33Riley picked him up from a junk dealer.
13:35Oh, they'll stick you every time.
13:37Peg ain't talking to me. Honeybee's on the warpath.
13:40I gotta find him a good home.
13:42Wait a minute, boys. Maybe you got something here.
13:46Just look at those Fetlocks on him.
13:47Yeah, well, he can brush them off with his tail.
13:50Just like Seabiscuits. And look at them Withers.
13:53Men of War.
13:55Them Spavanese. Citation.
13:59You got a double sawbuck, Riley?
14:01I ain't betting on no horses, Marty.
14:04Who said anything about betting on them?
14:06For 20 clams, I can get you Manly H. Fishblow.
14:09That sounds like a bargain.
14:12Who is Manly H. Fishblow?
14:14Best horse trainer in the state.
14:16Got a big training farm out in Encino.
14:18In three weeks, he can have that pluck...
14:20that thoroughbred and shape for the derby.
14:23You mean race him?
14:25Oh, Manny's a pal of mine.
14:26He'll take him out to the farm, bring out his points,
14:29and you enter him as a sleeper.
14:31Nah, he don't sleep.
14:33Nights is when he does his best work.
14:35Just leave it to me.
14:37Have the 20 up and I'll be back with Manny.
14:38Ha, ha.
14:40You boys are in the money.
14:44Gillis!
14:45I own a race horse.
14:47Just the front.
14:48I'm picking my half back.
14:49Stop kissing that.
14:57You sure you got it down pat now, Doc?
14:59Dr. Emmanuel H. Fishblow is as reliable as Gibraltar.
15:03Perhaps another libation would embed it deeper in my memory.
15:08Ah, you can get fried when we get the 20.
15:11Come on.
15:14Just remember you're a horse trainer.
15:20Well, what do you think, Doc?
15:21Is he another Seabiscuit?
15:22The horse on the right has possibilities, but the one on the left is hopeless.
15:31What do you say?
15:33It's all right, Riley.
15:34He's been looking at them three-dimensional pictures.
15:37You can have him ready for the gold cup, can't you, Doc?
15:39Well, of course, massage, bone manipulation, hydrotherapy,
15:44and I guarantee another Dan Patch.
15:47Dan Patch was a chopping horse.
15:48I'm not responsible for how he wins as long as he wins.
15:52Yeah, that's all we want.
15:53You'll be kind to Leo, won't you, Doc?
15:56I will lavish all the affection of a mother on him.
16:00Come on, boy.
16:01Get up.
16:02Wait a minute.
16:03Wait a minute.
16:05Him.
16:07Come on.
16:13Ollie's pickles, mayonnaise.
16:14Can you think of anything I've missed?
16:16No.
16:17I have everything.
16:18Well, this is the last bridge party of the season.
16:20I want it to be perfect.
16:22I got the car out of the garage for you, Peg.
16:24Oh, thanks, dear.
16:26Riley, did you get the horse off our property?
16:28Yeah, Marty took care of it.
16:29And have I got a surprise for you?
16:31Surprise?
16:32We're gonna be eating strawberries and cream in January.
16:35Riley, don't tell me you traded the horse for a cow.
16:38For your information, Mrs. Riley, they ain't running cows in the Derby.
16:42Horse feed, 12 bucks.
16:43What's he feeding them?
16:44Squab under glass?
16:45Well, them racing horses have to have special delectables.
16:46Bandages, 3 bucks.
16:47Liniment, 18 bucks.
16:48Maybe he's spraying it on them.
16:49Come on.
16:50Come on.
16:51Come on.
16:52Come on.
16:53them squab under glass well their racing horses have to have special delectables bandages three
16:58bucks liniment 18 bucks maybe he's spraying it on exercising four bucks blood transfusion six bucks
17:09blood transfusion we ain't got a horse we got a vampire come on
17:23big train and farm marty said what do they train here termites
17:31maybe they got a special place for horses let's look in the window
17:45no wonder that horse liniment cost so much it's a hundred proof
17:48that's leo i'd know his voice anywhere come on
17:58here he is gillis don't he look in the pink with six bucks with a transfused blood he should look
18:04pink yeah you look good leo come on let's case the joint no you go ahead i'll stay here and talk to
18:10leo when i get back let me know what he said i will
18:14leo someday you're gonna be famous they'll build a statue of you out at the track
18:27i can see it all now the crowds yelling the bands playing everybody up on their feet as
18:34as your jockey starts climbing up on your back
18:47so
18:56uh
19:00THE END
19:30Don't cry from joy, Peg. You're wetting my face.
19:44I told you Leo could do it.
19:54Ryle, this is for the horses.
19:56If you want to get a drink of water, get it over at the pump.
19:59Help me out.
20:00What happened?
20:06Junior won the derby.
20:08And you swum the channel.
20:13Come on, you're all wet.
20:14Is everything all ready, Marie?
20:26Yes, ma'am. I had to squeeze on the chicken salad a little bit, but I stretched it out with pickles and olives.
20:31Fine. Now, this is the last rubber. So when I call you, you bring in the first prize.
20:35Yes.
20:38Is this the gym crack here?
20:40Mm-hmm. Now, be very careful not to drop this.
20:42Oh, I ain't to drop and type.
20:43And then you can serve the refreshments.
20:45You know, I had to give Junior a big dish of ice cream just to get him out of here.
20:50Hi, Junior.
20:51Hi, Fox.
20:52Jeepers. What happened to you?
20:55It came a foggy out in the valley. I gotta change my clothes.
20:59Hey, wait a minute. You can't go in that way.
21:02Why not? I live here, don't I?
21:03The living room's jammed with women. Mom would throw a fit.
21:06I can't catch pneumonia because she's giving a hen party.
21:09My window's open. You can climb in. So long, Pop.
21:16Winner of the derby's got to climb in his own window.
21:26Take it easy. Quiet. Shh. Quiet. Quietly.
21:33Ouch! She bit me!
21:36Quiet, girls. Please, quiet.
21:39The winner of the first prize of this meeting of the Blue View Bridge Club
21:43with seven rubbers and an aggregate of 2,000 points is
21:47our secretary and treasurer, Honeybee Gillis.
21:54I hope she finds it useful and decorative in her home.
22:00All right, Marie.
22:01Who are you?
22:25What are you doing in the park?
22:27Guess who got her?
22:34Oh, Riley.
22:37Are you alone?
22:39Well, sure I'm alone. Who were you expecting? Gregory Peck?
22:42Of course not.
22:43Where's Leo?
22:44I sold Leo to the Blue View Riding Club.
22:47I got my money back and Leo's living in luxury.
22:51There's the 10 I borrowed from Gillis.
22:53Oh, and 20 to pay for the damages that Leo did.
22:57Nothing for cigars?
22:58Well, you can't expect two luxuries in one week.
23:01You had Leo.
23:02Well, he was just a poor little mixed-up horse.
23:06Yeah, they certainly mixed up things around here, all right.
23:09Well, it's all over now.
23:10Oh, and when Junior's friend gets back, we can get rid of Speedy.
23:13Yeah, where is Speedy?
23:14Curled up on the foot of Junior's bed.
23:18That's kind of cute, you know.
23:19Boy and a dog, they sort of go together.
23:22Yes, I suppose in a way they do.
23:24You know, someday I'm going to buy Junior a dog all his own.
23:27Well, I'll tell you when and I'll pick him out.
23:31You're not going to wake up Junior and ball him out, are you?
23:33No.
23:34I've got a crazy husband and a crazy son.
23:37I guess I'll just have to live with him.
23:40Ah, Peg, you're wonderful the way you understand us.
23:46Peg, I think I want to kiss you like I used to back in the old days.
23:49Oh, Riley, stop it.
23:52This is no place to make love.
23:54The Gillis's will see it.
23:55I don't care about the Gillis's.
23:57I'm going to get...
23:58Leo!
24:01Riley, you lied to me.
24:02You told me you sold that horse.
24:04Well, I did sell him, Peg.
24:05I swear I did.
24:06Well, then why did he come back?
24:08Well, I guess it's just one explanation, Peg.
24:11You fell in love with me.
24:13And what's good enough for you is good enough for a horse.
24:19Uh-huh!
24:20Come on!
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