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Riley's travel to Brooklyn to visit Chester's parents.
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00:00This is William Bendix in The Life of Riley, with Marjorie Reynolds as Peg, Tom DeAndre as Gillis,
00:10Loujean Sanders as Babs, Wes Morgan as Junior, and Gloria Blondel as Honeybee.
00:18Produced by Tom McKnight, and directed by Abby Berlin.
01:00I can't understand why no one met us at the station.
01:08Riley, are you sure you sent that telegram?
01:10Well, you know, Papa, the telegram probably scared him.
01:13Why should a telegram scare you?
01:15I sent it collect.
01:21We don't want no brushes.
01:25Well, you can lay one sample.
01:27Papa, it's me, Chester.
01:28Chester.
01:31Margaret, where do you say what's here?
01:33Ask him to leave a sample.
01:35We don't need any brushes.
01:39Chester.
01:40Mama.
01:41Mother, you're one sample.
01:44Can we come in, Papa?
01:4545.
01:46Well, you are in.
01:48What else can I say?
01:50The whole place hasn't changed a bit.
01:51Hi, Grandpa.
01:54Hello, Jack.
01:54Oh, you see, Peg, I told you Papa would be glad to see me.
01:59Chester, it's so good to have you home again, you and Peg and the children.
02:03Oh, it's wonderful to be here.
02:05How did you come?
02:06By streamliners, all the way from California.
02:08Have you a round-trip ticket?
02:10Yep.
02:10Round-trip for the whole family.
02:12It's good for six months.
02:15Yeah.
02:15Of course, we can only stay a few days.
02:19Well, by that time, we'll be out of money.
02:22Yeah.
02:23But I got a good job to go back to, and that's what counts.
02:26Well, we wish you could stay longer, Chester, but we know how it is.
02:30We must all be tired and hungry.
02:32I'll fix something to eat.
02:33Oh, we'll help you, Mother.
02:35Be bad.
02:36Would you like ham or cheese or what?
02:38Anything, Grandpa.
02:40They promised to keep your job for you, and the minute your back is turned, they give
02:44it to someone else twice as stupid as you are.
02:47Oh, not a chance, Papa.
02:48I'm one in a million.
02:51Well, has the old neighborhood changed much?
02:55Not much.
02:55First thing I've got to do is take Babson Jr. out and show them off to my old friends.
03:03Don't push your luck.
03:05What do you mean?
03:06Nobody around here thought you'd ever amount to anything as a kid.
03:09Well, that's the reason I've got to look them up, so as I can prove it to them.
03:15There's some sandwiches in the kitchen, Junior.
03:17Oh, thanks, Grandma.
03:18We'll have ours when they're finished.
03:20Now, let me see.
03:23What about swooping arrangements?
03:25Oh, I hope we're not crowding you.
03:26Oh, nonsense.
03:28Mike, do we still have that old army cot?
03:32It's in the cellar behind the furnace.
03:34Bring it up.
03:36Bring it up?
03:37What's the matter when I'm sleeping on it down there?
03:40Chester isn't going to sleep on it.
03:42You are.
03:45What a report and development this is.
03:48But, Dad, couldn't we visit your old neighborhood after we see the Empire State Building?
03:56In Times Square and the George Washington Bridge?
03:58What kind of talk is that?
04:01I'm taking you kids to places that tourists never see.
04:04All right, Dad.
04:06What's first?
04:07Schwartz's delicatessen.
04:09Lucky tourists.
04:10Will he be surprised to see me?
04:13Come on.
04:13Come on.
04:24Look.
04:25The same old egg crates that were here when I was a kid.
04:28I used to trip over them.
04:30Was that Mr. Schwartz over there?
04:33Yeah.
04:34He hasn't changed a bit.
04:36Do you think you'll remember your pop?
04:37No, not anymore.
04:38I was only a kid then.
04:40I'm growing up now.
04:41Look.
04:42You kids stay here.
04:43I'll go around and surprise them.
04:48Huh.
04:49Candy bananas.
04:51I haven't seen those in years.
04:52Penny apiece.
04:54Oh, I was just looking.
04:56We're here with our father.
04:58Pop's an old friend of yours.
04:59Oh, that's nice.
05:00What is your father's name?
05:05Mr. Schwartz, how did you recognize me?
05:18For 20 years, nobody has tripped over my egg crates.
05:22Well, I guess we all make mistakes we'd like to make over again.
05:26This is your father?
05:28That's right.
05:29Pop's showing us the neighborhood where he got his start.
05:31The first day was $42.
05:33You paid Dad that much?
05:37The garage.
05:38For fixing my truck, he ran into a three this second week.
05:41Mr. Schwartz, forget about it.
05:42I ain't working here no more.
05:44Thank goodness.
05:46Remember, my family was one of your best customers.
05:48That's right.
05:49Your father used to come into the store every day to buy groceries for his mama.
05:54Every day?
05:55He used to bring a note.
05:56I started shopping for my mama when I was five years old.
06:00So you did, Riley.
06:01And you continued to come in here until you were 17.
06:05I never forget the last day he was here.
06:08He walked out without the groceries.
06:10How come, Pop?
06:12He forgot the note.
06:14Yeah, well, it's been nice coming in here talking over old times with you, Mr. Schwartz.
06:19We gotta be going now.
06:20Wait, wait, wait, wait.
06:21I have got something for you.
06:23For me?
06:24Here you are.
06:28Well, what's this?
06:29An I-O-U.
06:3172 candy bananas, 72 cents.
06:35Signed, Chester A. Riley.
06:39What a disappointing homecoming this turned out to be.
06:46I heard a lot about Cooney Island, Pop.
06:48Why don't we go there?
06:49Chinatown would be interesting.
06:50Oh, so you don't like meeting your father's old friends, huh?
06:53Friends?
06:54You mean like Mr. Schwartz?
06:55Oh, forget about that, saw-haired junior.
06:57We're gonna meet some of my true friends, like...
07:01Well, what do you know?
07:02Mr. Callahan, the truant officer.
07:05Mr. Callahan, remember me?
07:07Riley, why aren't you in school?
07:10Ah!
07:10Ah!
07:11What a hell of a humor.
07:13Which stalling I warned you about playing hooky?
07:16But, Mr. Callahan, I'm grown up now.
07:19You don't look any different to me.
07:20Yeah, but I'm married.
07:21I got kids.
07:23Well, good boy, Riley.
07:24Ah, this is my son, Junior, my daughter, Ben.
07:27Hello.
07:27Hi.
07:28What a nice-looking pair of kids.
07:30Now about school?
07:31Oh, they already go to school.
07:32My babs, he's in college.
07:34We have some very fine night classes.
07:36Maybe you could come in after you finish your paper route.
07:39I ain't got that paper route anymore.
07:41Oh, lost that too well.
07:43But don't give up, Riley.
07:44Just keep plugging.
07:46Maybe someday you'll get a job and make good.
07:48Would that you?
07:53Should have poked him in the eye.
07:55I think you better go, Dad.
07:57Nothing doing.
07:58We're going to see my old football coach at Flatbush High.
08:01He'll remember some of the brilliant plays I was in.
08:04What position did you play, Pop?
08:06Right guard, and was I good?
08:07I remember one day we were playing that team from up in the Bronx.
08:10I was calling the signals.
08:12But, Pop, you said you played right guard.
08:14They don't call the signals.
08:17I was calling them to myself so I wouldn't forget them.
08:20Come on.
08:24Let's wait here till the team is through practicing.
08:26Oh, boy, they look pretty good.
08:33I'll see.
08:34Some teams.
08:35Yeah, they don't look too bad.
08:37Hey, isn't that the coach coming this way?
08:39Yeah, that's Mr. Donovan.
08:41Of all the idiotic, stupid plays.
08:45And you call yourself a football player.
08:49Good old Donovan.
08:50Always knows what he's talking about.
08:51I can't ever remember of a player making such a stupid play.
08:56I'll take it back.
08:58I can remember one fellow running 90 yards the wrong way
09:02to score a touchdown against his own team.
09:05A fellow by the name of, uh, Chester Riley.
09:10I wonder whatever became of him.
09:15Come on.
09:21Oh, but, Ronnie, we just got here practically.
09:24We're getting out of here today.
09:25Hey, I've been disgraced in front of my own kids.
09:28Every place I take them, somebody calls me stupid.
09:31Oh, Riley, you're not stupid.
09:33Just ask my old friends.
09:35They know me better than you do.
09:37Oh, we're having a wonderful visit.
09:39Let's not spoil it.
09:40It's a terrible visit.
09:42Do you realize that not one of my old friends has dropped by to see me?
09:46Well, maybe they don't know you're in town.
09:48Why don't you look them up?
09:49I can't.
09:49They tore down a pool hall.
09:52Riley, your folks have made plans.
09:54No, Peg.
09:55The sooner I get back among my real friends, the better.
09:58Like Gillis.
10:00Now, there's a guy that knows me and appreciates me.
10:03I can just hear him every morning calling.
10:06Hey, stupid, hurry up, you Mr. Buck.
10:09Oh, sweet guy.
10:11No, Peg, it's better this way.
10:13I'm going to get out of this enemy territory and back among my allies.
10:17Hey, Mom.
10:18Grandpa wants to take Junior and me to the zoo.
10:21Nothing doing.
10:21You're not going to no zoo.
10:23Why can't we, Pop?
10:24Well, it looks like we're going home today.
10:27Today?
10:28But I'll help.
10:28Oh, come on, kids, out in the hall.
10:30What?
10:30Don't worry about it, Junior.
10:32Come on.
10:32Come on.
10:35Your father came home from his little tour of the neighborhood all upset.
10:38Well, you really can't blame him, Mom.
10:41I could tell he was hurt.
10:42Well, let me handle it.
10:43I'll see what I can do.
10:44You go on in the living.
10:45Go ahead.
10:49Well, come on, children.
10:50I've been waiting.
10:51We can't go.
10:52What?
10:52We can't go to the zoo with you, Grandpa.
10:54We're going home today.
10:56Now, who's crackpot idea is that as though I didn't know?
10:59Don't tell me.
11:00I can guess.
11:01Please don't talk me into him, Grandpa.
11:03What?
11:04That's why he wants to go home.
11:06Because everybody's been treating him so badly.
11:08Mr. Donovan said he was dumb.
11:10Well, he is.
11:11But who said he was dumb?
11:12Mr. Donovan and a lot of other people.
11:15Oh.
11:17Come here, children.
11:18Come here and sit down a minute.
11:21Now, look.
11:22I want to tell you something.
11:24Your father may not have been the smartest kid in the neighborhood, but he was the kindest,
11:29gentlest, and sweetest to his mother.
11:31And in my book, them things count the most.
11:34Your father was the finest lad in Brooklyn.
11:38I'd sloughed anybody in the head that says different.
11:40Grandpa, you always say that...
11:42I know, I know, I know.
11:44I'm always picking on him.
11:46Well, now, I'll tell you something.
11:48A man has got to choose somebody once in a while to fuss at.
11:54At my age, it's safer to choose someone close to you than it is a stranger.
11:59Dad thinks he doesn't have a friend left in this town.
12:02Oh, he does, does he?
12:04Well, let me tell you, he was the most popular boy in school.
12:09He had more friends than Patty has pigs.
12:13Only they don't know he's here.
12:15That's the real reason he wants to go home.
12:18Oh, it is it.
12:19Well, I'll straighten out that dumb kid.
12:22I mean, your father.
12:24Your children went here now.
12:26I've got a scheme.
12:35Papa, what are you doing?
12:37I'm packing to go home.
12:38How can you go home when Mom and I are throwing a party for you?
12:42A party?
12:43We are.
12:43We're asking all of your best friends over.
12:45For me?
12:46All my best friends?
12:49Nobody will come.
12:52They will.
12:52They won't.
12:53They will.
12:54They won't.
12:54They will.
12:59I get me wish.
13:00I got the biggest pack.
13:07Yeah, yeah, that's right, Freddy.
13:10You're here at the house, 4 o'clock.
13:12Right.
13:14Now, we missed anyone.
13:15How about Jerry the barber?
13:17Jerry the barber.
13:18Good idea.
13:20Jerry the barber.
13:22He always was very fond of Chester, you know.
13:26Yeah.
13:29Hello, Jerry?
13:31Mike Riley.
13:33Hey, look, Jerry, the missus and I had thrown a party at 4 o'clock up here at the house for
13:38our boy Chester.
13:40How about Cullen?
13:40He's got a shop full of customers.
13:44Well, bring him along.
13:47Sure, all of them.
13:48All right.
13:50Bye.
13:52I'd show that boy of ours he's got friends in this town.
13:56Wait a minute.
13:57Schultz the butcher.
13:58Schultz the butcher.
14:00Here we are.
14:03Oh, don't you have fruit punch balls beautiful?
14:05Aren't these lovely saddens?
14:06I'll get it.
14:06I'll start dishing out the ice cream.
14:10Well, if it isn't my old classmate, Harry, come on in, kid.
14:13Hi, Gaston.
14:14All he's here.
14:15Hello, Harry.
14:16Oh, you're looking wonderful.
14:17Oh, thank you.
14:18This is my wife, Peg.
14:18Harry.
14:19I think these reunions are great.
14:20Yeah, nothing like getting together with your own friends.
14:22Well, if you'll excuse me, I'll go out in the kitchen and help Mother.
14:24Yeah, Harry and I will do some reminiscing.
14:26Harry, I'll get...
14:27Excuse me.
14:28I'll get it.
14:30Well, if it isn't old Myron.
14:32How are you, Myron?
14:33I haven't seen you in years.
14:34Hey, Bob, what are you doing these days?
14:35I'm still to butlin'.
14:36I make airplanes in California.
14:38Hey, Pete's still working with you?
14:39Yeah, old Pete's still there.
14:41Gillis is working with me.
14:43Hey, did Pete have to get married?
14:44Yeah, he's got two kids now.
14:45Hey, Gillis has got one egg bird.
14:47Cute little fella.
14:48Boy, I'd sure like to see old Pete again.
14:50Yeah, I think that.
14:51Excuse me.
14:51I'll get it.
14:52Well, Pete, we were just talking to Pete about talking about it.
15:00Remember me, fellas?
15:01I'm Riley.
15:01Who's he?
15:02I don't know.
15:02He says his name's Riley.
15:03Whose house are we at?
15:05You got me.
15:05I was getting to see.
15:06The barber says you want to go to a party, and here I am.
15:08Same with me.
15:09I was pitching horseshoes.
15:10Red come along and said, let's go.
15:12I live in California.
15:15I used to go to school with you fellas.
15:17This is my party.
15:19And if you don't like it, you can go somewhere else.
15:21And I wish you would.
15:22Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
15:26The same old Riley.
15:28Don't blow a gasket, Chester.
15:29Why, we sure had you a wig in there, Ryle.
15:32Some jag, huh?
15:35Yeah?
15:37You don't really think we didn't know you, do you?
15:39Nah, we thought we'd give you a little working over.
15:41Yeah, in case you got any stuck-up ideas.
15:45Well, gee, fella.
15:47Come on, Riley, tell us all about California.
15:49Yeah, hey, you ever see Squarehead Malloy out there?
15:51I suppose you know them dames like Marilyn Monroe.
15:54How about that, huh?
15:59Excuse me, fellas.
16:21Gee, Mom, Frank, this is the happiest day of my life.
16:25Now, aren't you glad we didn't go home today?
16:27Can't say.
16:27I never knew I had so many friends.
16:29And they're still coming.
16:30I'm afraid we're going to run out of ice cream.
16:32Well, don't you worry, Peg.
16:33I'll run out and get some more.
16:34No, never mind.
16:35I'll have popcorn.
16:36Now, you just relax, Mom.
16:37I'll go get it.
16:39How much do you need?
16:40A gallon will be plenty.
16:42One gallon!
16:45Two gallons of ice cream coming up.
16:47Go, go, go, go, go.
17:00Go, go, go, go.
17:02Oh, my God.
17:32They think they can keep me out of my own party.
17:34They got another thing coming.
17:53And where do you think you're going?
17:55Oh, hello, officer.
17:57Most second-story crooks wait to last the doc.
18:00Well, I'm not a crook, officer.
18:01I'm just trying to get into my own party.
18:04Oh, brother, I've had some guilt in my day, but this stops them all.
18:08But the truth, officer, I'm down from there.
18:12Yes, sir.
18:14What are you?
18:15We'll see whether this is your party or not.
18:29Open up in the name of the law.
18:30Oh, come on, open up in the law.
18:37An officer.
18:39Whose party is this?
18:40Papa, tell him it's my party.
18:42You stay out of this.
18:43It's my boy's party.
18:44Well, sure, these are all my friends.
18:47Looks like a brawl to me.
18:48We're just having cake and ice cream.
18:51Oh, yeah?
18:52You wouldn't arrest the son of a fellow high-born in, would you?
18:54What division?
18:5767 Mike Riley.
18:5949 Frank Dooley.
19:03Officer Dooley.
19:05You used to drive a patrol car over on 50th Street.
19:08That's right, I did.
19:09Then you remember me.
19:11Remember that Halloween 20 years ago?
19:1320 years ago?
19:15Yeah, you came out of Callahan's Bar, remember?
19:18Oh, I was probably in there to get an address out of the phone book.
19:22All your tires were flat, remember?
19:25Oh, sure.
19:26Now I remember.
19:28I was the guy who did that.
19:30You did that?
19:31Yes, Mr. Ray Roddy, remember me?
19:34A massive mouth.
19:36That was really something, wasn't it?
19:40Exactly what.
19:42Because of what you did, the chief took away my patrol car,
19:44and I've been walking a beat ever since.
19:46Come along.
19:47But off is there.
19:48That's what it is.
19:49That's what a square did, Pete.
19:54Have a good time at my party, fellas.
19:59Where is the eye on?
20:13No place like home.
20:14Back among my old friends.
20:15I thought you had some pretty nice friends in Brooklyn, too.
20:18Yeah, they were sure nice, too.
20:19I'll see.
20:20They all chipped in a buck to bail you out of jail.
20:22Well, it was a wonderful visit.
20:24See any old folks at all?
20:25Dad, look.
20:27Dad, look.
20:33I told you to call the milk company and the newspaper before we left.
20:36I didn't have time, Peg, so he asked Gillis to do it, and the rat crossed me up.
20:41I should have stayed in Brooklyn among my real friends instead of coming back to this crummy neighborhood.
20:45I ought to pay Ryle.
20:47Hi, Peg.
20:48Hey, Ryle.
20:49Hey, Ryle.
20:51Hey.
20:51Welcome home.
20:54Hi, Peg.
20:55Hi, honey.
20:56Hello, Gillis.
20:57Hello, Gillis.
20:57Hi, Gillis.
20:58All the milk bottles, you Benedict Arnold.
21:00Some gag I pulled on you, huh, Ryle?
21:03Gag?
21:04Well, sure.
21:05You didn't think I'd forget, did you?
21:07Everybody's pulling gags on me.
21:09Why?
21:10Don't you see, Riley?
21:11It's because they love you.
21:12Huh?
21:13Well, of course.
21:14People don't take the trouble to pull gags on people they don't love.
21:19Yeah.
21:21Gillis, you old goat.
21:23I missed you.
21:24Get your things off.
21:25I got a welcome home dinner all ready for you over at our house.
21:28You see, Peg, I told you there's no place like home.
21:31Let's go and get washed up, huh?
21:33Don't you go over there.
21:34Captain, help.
21:58Oh, good.
22:06I'll see you now.
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