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Riley is temporarily made the foreman at an aircraft plant to see if he is qualified for the job.
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00:00Produced in association with the NBC television network.
00:30America, the land of opportunity, where the man with purpose, perseverance, and drive
00:48can reach the goal he sets for himself.
00:51And such a man is Chester A. Ryland, in whose breast burns the unclenchable fire of ambition.
01:00Though his body is relaxed, his ever-active mind is reviewing past trials.
01:06Let us go back with him to the war days.
01:09Although it was Riley's dream to personally lead the Allied troops to victory,
01:14only one thing stood in his way.
01:17His brain and effort were required elsewhere.
01:21Always mechanically minded, and the war years over, the lure of speed drew him like a magnet.
01:29The roar of motors driving to the finish line, the yells of the crowd were a symphony to his ears,
01:35as he stepped victoriously from behind the wheel.
01:38Riley might have won this event year after year.
01:41Only one thing stood in his way.
01:44His brain and mechanical genius were required elsewhere.
01:49Never daunting.
01:50Never discouraged.
01:52We find Riley today still burning with that ambition.
01:56Well, good morning.
01:57How's my little family?
01:58You all up and kicking, I hope?
02:00Hey, Pop, today isn't Sunday.
02:02It's Thursday.
02:03Yes, I know what day it is, Junior.
02:05Well then, why are you all dressed up?
02:07This is a pretty special day in my life, Babsy.
02:10Well, what's the special day all about?
02:12This is the day they pick a foreman to replace Hank Hawkins while he's away supervising the new plant in San Diego.
02:18You mean you're going to get the promotion with more pay?
02:21It ain't just the promotion, it's the confidence they've gotten me that counts, Babsy.
02:25Hi, everybody.
02:29Hello.
02:30Still eating breakfast, huh?
02:32My honeybee, you have a new coat.
02:35Oh, you noticed it.
02:37Yeah, you can stop doing the dying swan now.
02:40What's a leotter?
02:41Genuine unborn civet cat.
02:43That one in the middle was born.
02:45I seen it run around the alley last week.
02:50Very excruciating, Riley.
02:52You change your tune when Jimsy gets his promotion.
02:56What promotion?
02:57The temporary foreman.
02:59I've made up Jimsy's mind to get it.
03:01Don't make me laugh, he ain't even on the ticket.
03:04Pop says he's going to be foreman.
03:06Oh, now that is really amusing.
03:10Well, why shouldn't he be made foreman?
03:13Because Jimsy has the get up and go.
03:16And what do you think I've got?
03:18The sit down and spread.
03:22Well, I have to go.
03:24Bye.
03:28You see, Riley, I told you not to get all worked up about it.
03:31Oh.
03:33So you don't believe in me either.
03:35Go ahead, say it out loud.
03:37Say what?
03:38That I'm not fit for the job.
03:40That I'm lazy and shiftless with no ambition.
03:42You're nothing of the kind.
03:44Oh, yes I am.
03:46You're not shiftless, Pop.
03:48You have plenty of ambition.
03:50That's right.
03:51Take sides with you, Mother.
03:53But I'll show all of you.
03:54I'll get that job and you'll have fur coming out of your ears.
03:58Hey, Pop!
03:59You forgot your lunch!
04:00Right, you're a nutswine.
04:01You're a good suit to work.
04:02Why?
04:03When the superintendent makes me fool me, I want to look like Hank Hawkins.
04:04That's a pretty gruesome idea.
04:05In the first place, they don't want you.
04:06In the second place, you ain't got a chance in the first place.
04:08Oh, yeah?
04:09I've been sitting up nights till after 9 o'clock exhausting myself reading this book.
04:14Six Easy Lessons to Success.
04:15Six Easy Lessons to Success.
04:16Who Gets Killed.
04:29It's not a mystery, it's the key to succeeding.
04:31Why, just yesterday I threw a suggestion in the suggestion box on how to increase profits.
04:37I told them in just three simple little words.
04:40profits. I told him in just three simple little words. What are these three brilliant words to
04:46increase profit? Cut the expenses. Simple, no? Hey, Ryle, you're going deep. That was the lunch
04:59whistle. Yeah, so? Well, come on, as long as you forgot your lunch bucket, I'll split mine with
05:03you. No, no thanks. I'm just going to finish up this corner, Gillis. Are you sick? Let me feel
05:08the pulse. No, no, I'm okay. Come over here. Then after that, I'm going to clean up this whole
05:12workbench. Oh, come on. I got to take you up to Doc Fisher. You're a mental case. There's nothing
05:18mental about me. I just got ambition. What's wrong with that? You ain't the right type, Ryle. An
05:25ambitious guy's got to use his head. He's got to have angles. You show me one man in this plant
05:31that's got more angles in his head than I got. There, I'll ride along with you. Go ahead. Scoff
05:37if you want to. But a foreman is like this riveting machine, Gillis. You see that little
05:42nut? That holds everything together. Well, I'm going to be that nut. That figures. There
05:53we are. Everything neat is a newborn pig. So what? It'll all get fouled up again. Not
06:00while I'm the foreman. Look, you got a minute and a half before that whistle blows. Ain't you
06:06going to eat? Yeah, well, I'll just jump over to the commissary and grab a cup of coffee.
06:10Uh, don't touch nothing on that bench. I'm going to mix more with other people.
06:17Oh, hello, Mr. Cox. Hello, Gillis. I see you're quite a student. Me? Oh, that. I was just
06:38glancing through it at lunch. Let me clean the meatloaf. Oh, that's all right. Six easy
06:45lessons to success. Yep. You know, I like that, Memangulus. It shows a desire to succeed
06:52and step up. That's, uh, that's how I became superintendent. Well, everything's nice and neat
07:02and clean. Everything in its place. You know, that saves time. And time is the essence of
07:08production. Well, somebody had to clean it, so rather... Well, uh, it wasn't in the shape
07:12this morning. No, sir, that's what I'm trying to explain. You see, Ryle... Well, where is
07:17this Riley that works with you? Well, Ryle's over having a cup of coffee. Oh. And he left
07:23you to do all the dirty work, eh? Oh, no, I wouldn't say that. You see, he forgot his
07:27lunch bucket and he had to hit the commissary. A forgetful type, eh? Well, that can be quite
07:32a menace. Oh, no, Ryle ain't no menace. He's a, you know, a sort of schmo. You know, Gillis,
07:40I like your attitude. Sticking up for a friend. It shows a very fine spirit. Oh, well, me and
07:48Ryle has been buddies since the old Brooklyn days. Hmm. You know, Gillis, I've come to a decision.
07:59You ain't gonna fire Riley. No. I'm going to leave him up to you. I'm going to make you foreman
08:05while Hawkins is away. Foreman? Me? Yes. I want to see you put that book into practice.
08:11Well, wait a minute, Mr. Cox. You're making a mistake. I didn't...
08:15Well, there's the whistle and Ryle isn't back yet. Well...
08:21I want you to jack him up. Put him on his toes. Show him who's the head man around here.
08:29Be another Hawkins.
08:35Well, I made it. I ran all the way. I... Oh, hello, Mr. Cox. I didn't see you standing there.
08:39You're late, Rylee. Eh?
08:4230 seconds to be exacted. We can't have that around here anymore, so leave it not happen again.
08:48Now, just a doggone minute, Gillis. The super can pull me out, but where do you get off?
08:54I have just moved Gillis up to temporary foreman.
08:58Oh, well, that's different. If I'm going to be made to foreman, I... I...
09:01Gillis.
09:04Gillis! Did you say Gillis?
09:06I did. Pullman, Gillis over me.
09:11Hard work and incentive pay off, Rylee.
09:13That means you, Rylee.
09:15So get off the dime. Action's what we want around here, so leave us have action.
09:21Because that's what we want around here is plenty of action.
09:27Action!
09:27Well, it sure smells good, Mom.
09:35It should, at the price they charge for a roast.
09:38Do you suppose Dad got the job?
09:40Sure he got it. He was positive about it.
09:43I hope so. I'm cooking him a special celebration dinner.
09:46Hi, Peg. I'm home.
09:48Hello, darling.
09:49Hi, Dad. Hiya, foreman.
09:51What's for supper, Peg?
09:52Oh, never mind. What's for supper? What happened at the plant?
09:55Plenty. We got a new foreman. And guess who it is?
09:59Oh, Dad, you made it.
10:02I went two minutes from Ingrid Gillis.
10:05Congratulations, dear. I'm very proud of you.
10:08No, no, no. Wait a minute, Peg. You ain't got it exactly right.
10:11You see, I did some extra work this morning, figuring that the surfer would notice it and make me foreman.
10:17Well, did he notice it?
10:18Yeah. Only at the time, I was out getting a cup of coffee.
10:23And when I got back, he was standing there.
10:25And he gave it to you right on the spot.
10:28Yeah, he gave it to me, all right.
10:31Oh, and you deserve everything you got, so don't be so modest.
10:36Now, just a minute, Peg. I didn't exactly deserve it.
10:38All right. You didn't deserve it. You didn't work for it.
10:41But the main thing is you got it.
10:42Now, just a minute, Peg. You see, I figured...
10:45Hello, everybody.
10:48Hello, honeybee.
10:50I can only stay a minute.
10:51Good.
10:52Riley, don't let your position make you rude.
10:55Once a sore head, always a sore head.
10:59Did he tell you the news?
11:00Oh, yes. Isn't it nice?
11:02Peg, start cooking supper, huh?
11:05Well, I guess congratulations ought to be coming.
11:08Yes, I guess they should.
11:09Isn't every woman that has such a clever husband?
11:12He's ambitious, too.
11:14And good looking.
11:15Well, leave us not go overboard.
11:17My Jimsy never won no glamour contest.
11:19Well, we're not talking about Gillis.
11:21We're talking about Riley.
11:23What's he got to do with it?
11:26I'm talking about the new foreman who happens to be my Jimsy.
11:31Your Jimsy?
11:33A foreman?
11:35I lose two bits.
11:37What do you see, Peg?
11:38What happened was this.
11:40Oh, so he's been lying about it, huh?
11:43Riley is not a liar, honeybee.
11:45Oh, no?
11:46No.
11:47Now, just a minute, Peg.
11:49She's entitled to her own opinion.
11:52Seems I busted in at the wrong moment.
11:54See you some other time.
12:01Riley, how could you?
12:03Well, don't be mad at me, Peg.
12:05I'll still be foreman one of these days.
12:07I don't care about that.
12:09You let me stand here and make a fool of myself in front of honeybee.
12:13Yeah, I'm sorry, Peg.
12:15I tried.
12:18Honest, I did.
12:19I guess things ain't never going to break right for me.
12:23I'm just a dud, and you might as well face it.
12:26You should never have married me.
12:30Chester Riley.
12:32Don't you ever say a thing like that again, as long as you live.
12:35I can't help it, Peg.
12:37Sometimes I hate myself just for being me.
12:41Dad, don't.
12:42Oh, gee, prom.
12:43I didn't want to be foreman just to boss things.
12:48I wanted to make you and the kids proud of me instead of always being a bust.
12:52Well, if being a wonderful father and a marvelous husband,
12:55and the thing I love most is being a bust,
12:57then you just keep right on being one.
13:02You mean that?
13:03You're not saying it just to ease up the bump.
13:06Well, that's what I'm here for, dear,
13:08to ease your bumps and bruises.
13:10It doesn't matter if you're foreman or super or boss of the plant,
13:13just as long as you keep on being Riley.
13:16I don't care what you are,
13:18just as long as you're my dad.
13:21Me, too.
13:22I don't even grape about the two bits.
13:26Gee, I don't know what to say,
13:28except I guess I got the grandest family in the whole world.
13:32Hi, Muley.
13:41You taking Gillis' spot?
13:42Yeah, you better get going.
13:44You're late.
13:44Ah, don't worry.
13:45Gillis will cover for me.
13:48Oh, I forgot.
13:49Has our new dear sweet foreman been around?
13:52Good afternoon, Riley.
13:54You're late.
13:55Five minutes to be exact, then.
13:57Where is he?
13:58Up on the catwalk.
13:59He's hooked the mic into the PA system.
14:02You mean he's watching everybody?
14:03Like a cat.
14:04Anything he don't like,
14:05he starts yelling in the mic.
14:09Let's snap it up, Riley.
14:11Less conversation and more perspiration is desire.
14:16I'm split up.
14:25He's got talk with laryngitis in his vocal strings.
14:29I think the horn broke down, Riley.
14:31Good.
14:32Now maybe we'll have a little quiet around here.
14:46Hey!
14:48You say something around here?
14:49Yeah.
14:49I still can't figure out how the super pick Gillis for foreman
14:53when there's an ambitious and executive ability
14:56leaning right on this wing.
14:59I got it over the grapevine
15:00that the super seen how he cleaned up the joint
15:02on his lunchtime.
15:03Oh, so that's it.
15:05Her toading to the super.
15:07Boot licking, huh?
15:08I knew there was a fishy egg.
15:10I cleaned up the joint.
15:16I'm the toad that licked the boot.
15:19Oh, that sneak.
15:22Oh, that no good hungry.
15:25Where is he?
15:25Still bumping your gums, eh, Riley?
15:33Now get these rivets going.
15:35This ain't no restroom.
15:36Gillis, you and me are going to have a few words.
15:39And mine are that you are a four-flushing chiseler.
15:43Them words will get you three black marks in my little book.
15:46You can add liar, cheat, and skunk.
15:50Which precludes any chance of your getting a gold star this week.
15:54Now come on, get off the time and fix that public address horn.
15:58I ain't no Thomas Edison.
16:00I'm ignoring your orders.
16:03Suit yourself, Riley.
16:06Only I'm going in my office for a nap and a quiet smoke.
16:10And when I get back here,
16:12I want to see that PA horn in A1 shape.
16:15And if I was in your shoes, I'd make it snappy.
16:27Get a load of them fancy cigars he's smoking now.
16:31Yeah, I've got a lung full of them.
16:33Flora del Toro's perfectos.
16:36While I slave like a slave, he's smoking dime cigars.
16:40I'm telling you, Muley,
16:41if I didn't have a wife and kids to support,
16:43I'd quit like that.
16:44If you don't fix that PA, you won't have time to quit.
16:48Yeah, well, if I peg you me, kids, I'll fix it.
16:51Come on.
17:00Looks like the back of a TV set.
17:03Which one do you think she's hooked up to?
17:05I don't know.
17:06I guess we'll have to try them all.
17:07You ready?
17:10Let it go.
17:32Here's the idiot that turned in the alarm.
17:34What made you send out the alarm, mister?
17:36Well, you see, chief, it was like this.
17:39I thought I smelled smoke.
17:40Let's not go through that routine again.
17:42It doesn't matter how he did it, as long as he did it.
17:45You mean, you mean there was a fire?
17:48There could have been a bad one if this man hadn't smelled smoke.
17:52I smelled smoke?
17:53Somebody threw a cigar butt in the rubbish pile up there on the catwalk.
17:58That's the kind of carousens that cause fires.
18:00Thanks to this man, we got it out before it got started.
18:04You mean, you mean, Raleigh?
18:06Well, good work, Raleigh.
18:08Good work.
18:09Oh, there's nothing that any red-blooded...
18:13How we smelled it all the way down here, I'll never know.
18:17To my smeller, distance is no object.
18:20I'd like to find the man that started it.
18:23Who smokes Flora del Torris around here?
18:26Do you know anyone who smokes this brand?
18:28Well, yeah.
18:29Gilli...
18:29I mean, uh...
18:33The boss, Mr. Cunningham, smokes him.
18:35Ridiculous.
18:36What would Mr. Cunningham be doing up on the catwalk?
18:40Checking up on...
18:42Cats?
18:52What's all this I hear about a fire?
18:54Where were you, Gillis?
18:55I was in on the couch.
18:56I mean, I was right on the job, super.
18:59Aha!
19:00Raleigh's smoking on a job.
19:04And my brand, too.
19:06Oh, you're sniping butses, are you?
19:10Ixnay, Gillis.
19:11So, that's your brand, is it, Gillis?
19:14Sure.
19:15Specially imported for me from San Diego.
19:18Here, try one.
19:19There's one for you, too, Chief.
19:22Tell me, Gillis.
19:23What do you think should be done with a man
19:26who endangers the plant and its workers
19:28by smoking on the job?
19:32Well, um...
19:33Careful, Gillis!
19:35I'm sorry, Rale.
19:37I'd like to protect you,
19:38but the plant comes before friendship.
19:40You mean, you'd fire him on the spot?
19:46Well, uh...
19:47I see it like this.
19:49If it was the first time,
19:50I'd give him a stiff warning,
19:52ball him out,
19:53and make the dumb clock work his arm off.
19:55Boy, would I make that jump work.
19:58I like your decision.
20:00Raleigh,
20:02put Gillis to work.
20:03Me?
20:06I'm appointing foreman
20:07during Hawkins' absence.
20:10But I thought I was the foreman, Mr. Cox.
20:12You were.
20:13Until we found your cigar butt
20:15up on the catwalk.
20:19We're overlooking your fragrance delictus
20:21this time, Gillis,
20:22but don't let it happen again.
20:25You mean I gotta take orders from him?
20:27You heard him.
20:28Off that dime, Gillis.
20:30Get the lead out.
20:32Action is what we want around here.
20:34Plenty of action.
20:35A-C-A-A-C-O-N.
20:41Next, I'll be supervisor.
20:43Then manager.
20:44I'll skip assistant manager.
20:45Then junior partner.
20:47Just be satisfied with foreman
20:49for a while, dear.
20:50Do you think they'll give you a medal
20:51for saving the plant?
20:53They oughta.
20:54He had the whole fire department out.
20:59Come in.
21:02Hi.
21:02Hi, Gillis.
21:07Might as well get it over with, Peg.
21:09Go on, say it.
21:11Say what?
21:12Lord it over me like I did to you.
21:15There's nothing to lord over, honey bean.
21:17Well, we're all too good a friend
21:18to let a thing like this split us up.
21:22Have a cigar, Gillis.
21:24Oh, no, I quit smoking.
21:26After all, it isn't a permanent promotion.
21:28Well, no, it's just till Hawkins gets back.
21:30Maybe six months, maybe a year.
21:32Of course it could be a year and a half, you know.
21:34Riley.
21:34I've seen his job.
21:35Riley.
21:36I got news for you.
21:38Hawkins will be back tomorrow.
21:39Well, that's what I said.
21:40Hawkins won't be back till...
21:43Tomorrow?
21:44They decided not to open a new plant
21:46till next year.
21:51Queen for a day.
21:53Bye.
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