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Furious with one another after arguing, best friends Riley and Gillis compete to meet other people and make new friends.
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00:00William Bendix in The Life of Riley, with Marjorie Reynolds as Pegg, Tom D'Andrea as Gillis,
00:15Loujean Sanders as Vance, and Wesley Morgan as Junior.
00:19Produced by Tom McKnight, and directed by Abby Berlin.
00:49William Bendix in The Life of Riley, with Marjorie Reynolds as Junior.
01:05Boy, what a dream.
01:08How am I hungry?
01:13Peg?
01:17I'm starving.
01:24I'll never go back to sleep.
01:27I gotta risk it.
01:40Let's see.
01:42Sardines, cold pork, codfish cakes, potato salad, strawberries.
01:49I'd better take just a little of each, so she'll never know I've been here.
01:59Nothing like a little snack at night.
02:06Now for some dessert, and I'll sleep like a bear.
02:12Pegg always counts as strawberries.
02:14I'd better just take one from the bottom.
02:19Pegg, Pegg, come quick.
02:20I'm dying.
02:21Oh.
02:22Oh.
02:23Oh, my chest.
02:26Oh, the agony.
02:27Oh, I'm dying.
02:29Pegg, Pegg, come quick.
02:32I'm dying.
02:33Oh.
02:34Oh.
02:35Oh.
02:36Oh.
02:37Oh, my chest.
02:38Oh, the agony.
02:39Oh, I'm dying.
02:40Pegg, Pegg, come quick.
02:41I'm dying.
02:42Oh.
02:43What is it, Riley?
02:44Pegg, what's the night?
02:45Pegg, come quick.
02:46Pegg, come quick.
02:47I'm dying.
02:48Oh.
02:49What is it, Riley?
02:51What's the night?
02:52Oh, the pain.
02:53Oh, it's like a night sticking through me.
02:57I'm sick in fast, Pegg.
02:59Well, where does it hurt you?
03:01Call the doctor.
03:02Call the undertaker.
03:03Call the children.
03:04I want to say goodbye.
03:06Mother, what's the matter?
03:08What's wrong with Pop?
03:10Goodbye, kids.
03:11Be good to your mother.
03:14Junior, get the bicarbonate of soda.
03:16Too late for bicarbonate.
03:18Call Doc Manson.
03:20Should I call Doc Manson, Mom?
03:23Maybe you better.
03:29Never mind you over as a doctor.
03:32If it's a rare tropical disease, tell me.
03:34Now, Riley, let's not anticipate things.
03:37What did you have to eat last night?
03:39Strawberry.
03:40In the bottom of the box.
03:42Well, you've got chipped on those strawberries, Peg.
03:46Don't you worry about anything. Just go to sleep.
03:48You'll feel better when you wake up.
03:50Mrs. Riley, could I speak to you for a minute privately?
03:52Certainly, Doctor.
03:55Now that the pain's gone, dear, you just try and get some rest.
03:57How can I rest?
03:59Why don't he talk in front of me?
04:00What's all the secrets?
04:02Well, there's no secret.
04:03He probably just wants to give me some instructions.
04:06If it's about the funeral, just something simple.
04:09Oh, Riley, stop it.
04:20I gave him a sedative.
04:21He'll probably drop off to sleep.
04:23Have this filled.
04:25And when he wakes up, don't let him have anything but a cup of hot tea.
04:29There's nothing seriously wrong.
04:30No, no, no, no.
04:31Just overeating.
04:33Make him stay in bed today.
04:34He'll feel better tomorrow.
04:35I'm sorry to have brought you over, Doctor.
04:38I know how busy you are.
04:39Well, it's quite all right.
04:40I had to stop at the vet's anyway to see Tom Lee.
04:43Tom Lee?
04:44My wife's Siamese cat.
04:46What's wrong with him?
04:47Well, I'm afraid he's pretty sick, poor fellow.
04:51You mean it's serious?
04:52He has bronchoblastomycosis.
04:54Oh, she's like, I figured.
04:56It's terrible.
04:58He'll recover, won't he?
04:59Yeah.
05:00I'll recover, won't I?
05:01At his age, the heart can't take very much.
05:05No, I suppose not.
05:06Even if he does pull through, he probably won't be able to do much.
05:09Just loaf around the house.
05:12And any exertion or shock, and he'd go like that.
05:16Just like that?
05:18Well, goodbye, Doctor.
05:19Thanks for coming over.
05:20Oh, not at all.
05:29Hi, Peg.
05:30Riley, put down that comic book and try and get some sleep.
05:34No use wasting time sleeping.
05:37What did the doc say?
05:38He said you had indigestion.
05:40Now close your eyes and give the sedative a chance.
05:43Okay, Peg.
05:44If you want to call it indigestion, let it be indigestion.
05:48You've probably been tossing half the night.
05:51Now get to sleep.
05:51You must be dead.
05:53Not yet.
05:55But it's sneaking up on me.
05:56I'll never do that, Gillis.
06:07The slightest shock could finish me.
06:09Oh, come on.
06:11What are you doing in a sack?
06:12Ain't you going to work?
06:13My working days are over, Gillis.
06:15Quit kidding.
06:16You're strong as a buffalo.
06:18You're almost extinct, too.
06:20Peg says you were sleeping off indigestion.
06:23She didn't want me to know the truth.
06:25I heard the doc tell her.
06:27I got Blanco Belagosi.
06:30That sounds like a horse disease.
06:32I figured I got maybe three months to live.
06:40Gee, that's tough.
06:42And you just took a year's subscription to the evening paper.
06:46Any slight exertion.
06:48And I could go like...
06:52Snap your fingers, Gillis.
06:55Like that.
06:56Oh, that's awful.
06:58I feel terrible.
06:59You can have my ribbon gloves
07:01and my Weldon helmet to remember me by.
07:05Gee, thanks, pal.
07:07I'll wear them in good health.
07:09And you'll have the biggest funeral in Blueview Terrace.
07:13Funeral?
07:15Every large member and friend of yours will be there.
07:18Even if I have to drag them.
07:20Oh, if I could only live to see it.
07:23I better get my dark suit pressed.
07:25The heart patient should live in an air of calm and serenity.
07:41Any excitement or sudden noises can be fatal.
07:44Oh, thanks!
07:47What are you trying to do, honeybee?
07:48Kill me?
07:49Oh, it's you.
07:50What are you doing loafing on the couch on Friday?
07:52I'm resting my Belagosi.
07:54Well, if you'd get off it and do some work around here,
07:57maybe Peg could get things done.
07:59Peg!
08:13What are you tickling me for, Bev?
08:15I'm not tickling you.
08:17I, um, think I left my knitting needle on the couch.
08:20Oh, there it is.
08:28Now, you go right back to sleep, Daddy.
08:33Man in my condition, sleeping on needles.
08:35What are you doing in the house?
09:03I told you to play outside.
09:04No bother's resting.
09:06Yeah, I'm resting in a boiler factory.
09:08Okay, Mom.
09:09You'll go.
09:10Come on, Tony.
09:11Okay.
09:11Let's go shoot at Edbert's house.
09:13Yeah, that's a good idea.
09:14Yeah.
09:15Are you feeling better, dear?
09:17How can I feel better with people yelling,
09:19sticking needles in me, and shooting guns off?
09:21Well, here's a cup of hot tea.
09:23It'll settle your stomach.
09:24It ain't my stomach I'm worrying about.
09:25It's sudden noises that'll get me.
09:27All right, dear.
09:28There won't be any more sudden noise.
09:30All right.
09:33All right.
09:35I've got a question, too.
09:37All right, honey.
09:41This is Chester A. Riley.
09:43End show.
09:43Oh, thank you very much.
09:49I've got a new dress I want you to see.
09:51It'll cheer you up.
09:53We've got to watch expenses, Peg.
09:55Remember, you'll have two kids to bring up.
09:57$14.85 isn't going to put us in the poorhouse.
10:00But you already bought a paint dress a couple of days ago.
10:03I exchanged it for this one.
10:05I thought I'd get more use out of it.
10:09It's black.
10:11All black.
10:13I should hope so.
10:14I'm getting tired of this nonsense.
10:16If he can eat four fried eggs,
10:18he can stagger into his clothes.
10:20Well, he didn't look like getting up
10:22when I gave him his tray.
10:25What's a belagose?
10:27That's the slightest idea.
10:29He said something about starving out of cold
10:32and filling up a belagose.
10:35Well, if that's what it sounds like,
10:36he's following the rules.
10:39Oh, see who that is at the back door.
10:40Oh, here.
10:43Here's just when I had my hands in hot water.
10:45The men are here to measure for your new dressing table, Mom.
10:49Long for you, Mom.
10:50Oh, well, take care of them and show them what I wanted.
10:58Hello?
10:59Yes?
11:00Oh, hello, Mr. Curtis.
11:02I'm fine, thank you.
11:04Oh, they're fine, too.
11:06Oh, Riley had an attack of indigestion,
11:07but he's up and around again.
11:09I'm glad to hear it.
11:10In looking over his life policy,
11:12I find the death benefits too small these days
11:15for adequate family protection.
11:17He has a golden opportunity now
11:19to double it under our special half rate.
11:21Well, I'm all in favor of the increase.
11:3135 inches.
11:33You never get it through here.
11:38How about the one?
11:3941.
11:4541.
11:48We can squeeze it through here
11:49if we put it on in.
11:57Sorry to bother you, mister.
11:58She ain't losing any time.
12:13Well, Junior.
12:15What's your father doing?
12:17Oh, he's still in bed.
12:18He's going on a trip.
12:20A trip?
12:21Yeah, some guy called Kismet.
12:24So long, Mom.
12:25Bye, dear.
12:26Bye, dear.
12:26Bye, dear.
12:26Bye, dear.
12:26Bye, dear.
12:28One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
12:39Wiley, are you still in bed?
12:40With my pulse fluttering like a moth,
12:42where would you expect me to be?
12:44Outside doing some work.
12:46You must feel all right.
12:47You rested all day yesterday.
12:49Peg, how can you say that
12:51when you know they've got to tip me on end
12:52to get me out of here?
12:53What are you talking about?
12:56What's all this about going on a trip?
12:59It's the big adventure.
13:01Only I didn't think I'd have to start out
13:02through the window.
13:05Riley, stop this nonsense
13:06just because you had an attack of indigestion.
13:09Peg, how can you talk about indigestion
13:11when you know perfectly well my...
13:13I haven't time to argue, Riley.
13:15I'm late for an appointment
13:16and there are things to be done around here.
13:17The fence is broken,
13:19the lawn hasn't been cut,
13:20and you promised to wax the kitchen floor.
13:23Any one of those things
13:24could carry me off like...
13:26Snap your fingers.
13:29I'll do more than that
13:30if I come back from the beauty parlor
13:31and you're still in bed.
13:37My own wife.
13:38And she ain't worrying
13:39whether I live out the day.
13:44Where was I?
13:44Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.
13:51Where is it?
13:54Could you spare part of that, Gillis?
13:56I ain't had a crib since breakfast.
13:58With your pump, Riley?
13:59I wouldn't take a chance
14:00on Ali B's meatloaf.
14:03What I can understand
14:04is her wanting me to work.
14:06That ain't like Peg, Gillis.
14:08Maybe she figures
14:09she can't get another man
14:10to replace her right away.
14:12My Peg wouldn't look at another man.
14:14Well, maybe she's got
14:15a special rate on a plot.
14:18If it was my wife,
14:20I could understand it.
14:21Not the way you're happily married.
14:24It's just that she don't like me.
14:28Hello, gentlemen.
14:30Good afternoon, Chester.
14:31Taking it easy, I see.
14:33That's the way to prolong
14:34life, health, and happiness.
14:35Hello, Curtis.
14:38You know Gillis.
14:40Yes, indeed.
14:41I've been trying to sell him
14:41a policy for three years
14:43and I'll get him yet.
14:45How are you, Mr. Gillis?
14:47Never felt better.
14:48Well, when the weather's clear,
14:49that's the time to protect
14:51against lightning.
14:52I got lightning rods.
14:55That's very good.
14:58Say, I had a little talk
15:00with Peg this morning, Chester.
15:01She suggested that I try
15:03and induce you
15:03to double your present
15:04life insurance.
15:05There's your answer,
15:07Ralph, right on her nose.
15:08Don't.
15:09I don't believe it.
15:11I have a little rod here
15:12that Peg approves.
15:13This doubles your death benefits
15:15and pays your beneficiary
15:16in monthly installments
15:17or a lump sum.
15:19Most things like it
15:20in lumps, Ralph.
15:21I'm dying that she's
15:22worrying about lumps.
15:24I beg your pardon?
15:25She didn't mention
15:26that he's got maybe
15:27six months to live,
15:28did she?
15:29Six months?
15:30She's having a prefabricated
15:32coffin made.
15:34You didn't know that,
15:36did you?
15:37She didn't mention
15:38a little detail
15:39about his ticker.
15:40No, no, she didn't.
15:42I could go anytime, Curtis.
15:44Like...
15:45Like that.
15:48Thanks.
15:49Of course,
15:50if you couldn't pass
15:51the medical,
15:52then further benefits
15:53would be out of the question.
15:54He couldn't even
15:55pass a 4F.
15:56No use wasting your time
15:58on the expendable, Curtis.
15:59No.
16:00Of course not.
16:02Well, I'll be running along.
16:03I'm sorry,
16:04but this gave you...
16:06to work.
16:09You can't, Ryle.
16:10It'll kill you.
16:11So what?
16:12If Peg don't care,
16:13I got nothing to live for.
16:14I might as well
16:15get it over with quick.
16:16You got a point there.
16:17There's no use
16:18dragging it out.
16:19I'll start waxing
16:20the kitchen floor.
16:21That'll do it.
16:22And when she comes home,
16:24she'll find you there
16:25laid out on it.
16:26Oh, it was a pickle.
16:28Wait a minute, Ryle.
16:31I'll go with you.
16:32You won't do no work
16:33without a foreman.
16:41Stroke.
16:42Stroke.
16:44Stroke.
16:46At one spot, Ryle,
16:48and you got it.
16:48Here it is.
16:55I'm finished.
16:56I'm still on my feet.
16:58I don't understand.
17:00Let's go fix the fence.
17:02That ought to do it.
17:03Yeah.
17:03Come on.
17:08Well,
17:09that's it.
17:11I'm still alive.
17:12Yeah,
17:13you're getting pretty
17:14disappointing, Ryle.
17:15It ain't beating.
17:21This is it, Pellis.
17:23This is the beginning.
17:24I'm going fast.
17:26I must be going.
17:27They call him sweating.
17:28Great.
17:29Now I'm more of a lot
17:29and you're in.
17:33Any minute now,
17:35I can feel it.
17:36The pain is shooting
17:37down my legs.
17:39Hello, Ryle.
17:41Is that you, Peg?
17:43Everything is a little hazy.
17:44Well, I don't wonder.
17:46Working under this sun
17:46without a hat on.
17:48Are you trying
17:48to kill yourself?
17:49Let's not be hypocrites, Peg.
17:50You don't care
17:51what's going on.
17:53Oh, Ryle,
17:54I think it's wonderful.
17:55You waxed the kitchen
17:56floor beautifully.
17:58That new black dress.
17:59You can't wait
18:00to start wearing it,
18:01can you?
18:02I expect to wear
18:03a day after tomorrow.
18:04You might at least
18:05wait till I curl up
18:06and cool off.
18:08What are you
18:08waving about?
18:09With the little time
18:10I've got left,
18:11you might have
18:11pretended you loved me.
18:13But no,
18:13you were money mad.
18:15Well, now you're
18:16talking like a lunatic.
18:18Stop playing dumb, Peg.
18:19That's one game
18:20I'm better at than you.
18:23Prove it, Ryle.
18:24Are you denying
18:25you sent Curtis
18:26out to double
18:27my insurance?
18:28Of course not.
18:29For the children's future.
18:31I think it's
18:31a very sensible idea.
18:33Aha!
18:35At last,
18:35it's out in the open.
18:37I knew you'd crack.
18:39Well, if anyone's
18:40cracked, you are.
18:41Now come on over here
18:42and sit down
18:42and tell me
18:42what this is all about.
18:44Sit down.
18:47You needn't act
18:48anymore, Peg.
18:49This is the end.
18:50I'll go quietly.
18:52And with my expiring
18:53breath,
18:54I'll love you
18:54and forgive you.
18:56Forgive me?
18:57What for?
18:58I sneaked out
18:59in my nightshirt.
19:00And I heard you
19:01and Doc Benson
19:01talking over my case
19:03in the living room.
19:03Oh, then you heard him
19:05say that you had
19:05a case of indigestion.
19:07He said I had
19:08Bronco Belagosi
19:09and I could go like...
19:11I might as well
19:13chance it.
19:14Like that.
19:18Go ahead.
19:19Laugh.
19:20Laugh your head off.
19:21It's only me
19:21that's dying.
19:22He was talking
19:23about a case
19:24of feline bronchitis.
19:26Well, I might not
19:27have pronounced it right,
19:28but he said
19:28I was all through.
19:29He wasn't talking
19:30about you.
19:31He was telling me
19:32about his wife's cat.
19:34They've got
19:34eight lives to spare.
19:36I've only got...
19:37a cat.
19:41Are you telling me
19:42the truth, Peg?
19:43Oh, Riley,
19:44do you think
19:45if there was anything
19:45seriously wrong with you
19:47that I'd leave you
19:48for a single second?
19:49Wouldn't you, Peg?
19:52Riley,
19:53you and the children
19:53are my whole world.
19:55If anything happened
19:56to any one of you,
19:57it wouldn't be
19:58a very nice world
19:59to live in.
20:00Gosh,
20:01that's the way
20:01I feel too, Peg.
20:03I wouldn't want
20:04to be around
20:04if you didn't love me.
20:06Oh, I always will, Riley.
20:08You can depend on that.
20:09And you can depend
20:10on me, too.
20:12I don't care
20:12if I did wax the floor,
20:14fix the fence,
20:15and mow the lawn
20:16off or nothing.
20:17I've got you back.
20:19And I'm gonna live.
20:20Yes, dear.
20:21I think we're going
20:22to have you around
20:23for a lot of years.
20:25Yeah.
20:27No, Peg, darling.
20:28You're a lucky woman.
20:32Oh, you're hungry.
20:37Oh, you're hungry.
20:37It's all bad.
21:07Well, that work made me hungry.
21:09I gotta get back some of the weight I lost.
21:19At it again, Riley.
21:22You never learn, do you?
21:24Who put that fire engine in there?
21:26I had an electrician rig up.
21:29I'm not going through another heart attack.
21:32I...
21:33I'm surprised at you.
21:37After all these years, you don't trust me.
22:07This made me look the most aggressive way of making everything up.
22:12I'm scared.
22:13I'm scared.
22:15I'm scared.
22:17I'm scared.
22:18I'm scared.
22:19I'm scared.
22:20That's scary.
22:21I'm scared.
22:23I'm scared.
22:24I'm scared.
22:25I'm scared.
22:27I'm scared.
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