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The Clampetts are missing their Beverly Hills mansion, still living in their old cabin to help Pearl get Mr. Brewster. But Pearl is having no luck.
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00:00Come and listen to my story about a man named Jed, a poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed.
00:05And then one day he was shooting at some food, and up through the ground come a bubble and crude.
00:11Oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea.
00:16Well, the first thing you know, old Jed's a millionaire.
00:19The kinfolk said, Jed, move away from there.
00:22Said, California is the place you ought to be.
00:24So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Beverly.
00:26Beverly Hills, that is, swimming poos, movie stars.
00:32The Beverly Hillbillies.
00:54Instead of California where the sun so warmly shines,
00:57Tonight we find the Clampets in their cabin in the pines.
01:01The weather is so cold, hot coffee freezes in the cup.
01:04And when the chickens lay their eggs, they lay them standing up.
01:12Eee, doggy, it's gonna be a cold one tonight.
01:15Somebody better get ready to pry that sun up in the morning when it's started.
01:19Yeah, sure will be glad to get back to that nice warm mansion in Beverly Hills.
01:24It ain't no fun sleeping on this cold, hard floor.
01:27That's a fact.
01:28You think that's bad?
01:29You ought to try sharing a room with that wild daughter of your own.
01:33At least, please, you got a bed.
01:34That ain't a bed.
01:35That's a nest, a roost, and a den and a hutch all in one.
01:40Is them animal friends of Ellie still coming in at night, Granny?
01:43Everything that can get through the window.
01:45Why don't you shut the window?
01:46Because I can't sleep without fresh air.
01:48Especially with that third party in bed with us.
01:51What third party?
01:53Ellie, can you come out here and bring your friend with you?
01:57Yeah, Granny.
02:00Don't you worry about it, Granny.
02:01Granny, I'll chuck it out, whatever it is.
02:03You've got to get your sleep.
02:09Your pa wants that polecat.
02:11Give it to him.
02:12Now, wait a minute.
02:13Don't point that thing at me.
02:14You don't want to get drove outdoors on a night like this.
02:16Well, don't you want him, Pa?
02:18I just want to say that Granny would appreciate it if he'd have this little fellow sleep with his own
02:22family.
02:23All right.
02:24I'll go get the others in.
02:25No, no, no.
02:27Outdoors with his family.
02:28Otherwise, when we go to California, they might not take him back in.
02:32And if a skunk ain't welcome with his own family, he just about ain't got nobody to turn to.
02:37All right.
02:38I'll put him out to window.
02:43Uncle Jed, why can't we go back to Beverly Hills right away?
02:48Reckon we can tell him the truth, Granny?
02:49I reckon he's big enough.
02:50Well, you see, we promised your ma we'd stay here and help her till she gets herself married to Mr.
02:55Brewster.
02:56Well, how long will that take?
02:57Well, I know it'll take long.
02:58She's got a boarding in your room now where she can get at him.
03:01Pearl told me tonight's the night.
03:03She's going to feed him into a stupor, then set him in the parlor and sing to him until he
03:07proposes.
03:09That's a powerful combination.
03:10Pearl's cooking and singing.
03:12Yeah.
03:12If he can get got, Pearl will get him.
03:17Let's try this, Jeffrey.
03:25Oh, promise me that someday you and I
03:33We'll take our love together
03:37To some sky
03:40Where we can be alone
03:45And faith renewed
03:59Uncle Jed.
04:01Uncle Jed.
04:03What's got them wolves so stirred up tonight?
04:06Oh, but something sure is setting them off.
04:11Hey, Blank, can't sleep a wink.
04:14Go to the right, Granny.
04:15Go to the left, Granny.
04:18Move!
04:20Them wolves keeping you awake, too, Granny?
04:22Hey, sure is.
04:24Yeah, well, it goes right through you.
04:26Ain't their hollering that's eating me.
04:28They're snoring.
04:31Look for yourself.
04:33Ellie's got two of them under the bed.
04:35Granny, we gotta get that girl back to Beverly Hills.
04:38She's going right back to being a wild cougar.
04:42What y'all all doing out here?
04:44Try to keep warm.
04:46Sure is cold in there without you, Granny.
04:48Mind if I join you?
04:49I reckon so, if you don't mind a little human company for a change.
04:53Uncle Jed, we just got to get ourselves back to Beverly Hills.
04:56We will, Jethro, as soon as your maw gets proper hitched to Mr. Brewster.
05:01Bless you.
05:02Oh, Pearl, give it all you got tonight.
05:06Oh, we's all gonna be down with P. New Moly.
05:11Home joys divine, home joys so few, love ever faithful, and love ever sure.
05:34Oh, that was a wonderful concert.
05:37You both are unusually talented.
05:41Yes, indeed.
05:42That means a lot coming from you.
05:45Naturally, folks around here brag on us.
05:47In fact, they think we ought to go on a concert tour.
05:50Oh, really?
05:51Oh, yes.
05:53My neighbors is always after me to sing out of town.
05:57Well, I can understand that.
06:01Mr. Brewster, do you really like music and singing?
06:04Well, I used to.
06:06I mean, I used to sing a lot myself in college musicals, amateur theatricals.
06:10Was you on the stage, Mr. Brewster?
06:12Oh, yes, yes.
06:13After college, I did quite a bit of little theater work, summer stock.
06:16Matter of fact, there was a time when I seriously considered the stage as my career.
06:21Mo, Mr. Brewster's an actor.
06:23Well, not any longer.
06:25My father had other ideas.
06:27He insisted I get into the oil business.
06:29Mr. Brewster, did you ever do anything from the Bard of Avon?
06:33That Shakespeare.
06:34Oh, I just love him.
06:35Well, as a matter of fact, I once played the lead in Romeo and Juliet.
06:38Which one was you?
06:40I was Romeo.
06:43In my youth, I was considered quite a leading man type.
06:46And there were those who thought I had rather a handsome profile.
06:49Well, you still got it.
06:51And I'll bet you can activate the band.
06:54Oh, come on.
06:55Take off a part for something from Shakespeare.
06:57Sit down, Gethry.
06:58Well, I doubt if I can remember anything.
07:00Oh, please, Mr. Brewster.
07:02Well, perhaps I can recall something from the balcony scene.
07:05Let's see now.
07:06How does it go?
07:07Well, uh, but soft, what light through yonder winter breaks?
07:12It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
07:16Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
07:20who is already sick and pale with grief,
07:24that thou, her maid, are far more fair than she.
07:29Not a bad, Jethreen.
07:30Oh, I think I'll turn in.
07:32Oh, well, uh, please, do some more of them love speeches from Shakespeare.
07:35Well, my throat is a little sore.
07:37I think I'd better gargle a little warm salt water and go to bed.
07:40Well, I can take care of you.
07:42That's another one of my specialties, nursing the sick.
07:45Well, it might be the flu bug, and you wouldn't want to catch it.
07:49Good night.
07:51If his flu bug is as hard to catch as he is,
07:55I got nothing to worry about.
08:01Jed, have you ever noted to be so cold?
08:04Never have, Jethro.
08:05Ah, this ain't cold.
08:06Your blood is thinned out from living in California.
08:09You say this ain't cold, Granny?
08:11Look who else is huddled up to the fire.
08:14Ellie and her wolves.
08:33When's the waiting for all of the man in charge?
08:36Yeah, let us see your ring, Pearl.
08:37You want me to carry Mr. Brewster over the threshold for you, Ma?
08:42You don't look too happy.
08:46You don't sound too happy, neither.
08:47Oh, all women folk cry when they're about to get married.
08:52I didn't get him.
08:54Oh.
08:56Did you try your best, Pearl?
08:58Oh, Granny, I throwed the book at him.
09:02Cooking, sewing, singing.
09:05Ivan nursed him through the flu.
09:07Got him well in five minutes.
09:09But he didn't propose.
09:14Jed, you go out there and do your duty to your female?
09:18Ask that city fella what he'd rather get, married or buried.
09:23Now, Granny, I don't hold with getting folks married unless it's willing.
09:26Pearl's got enough willing for both of them.
09:28Are you going to make a liar out of my bones?
09:31Yeah, and I'll have a talk with Mr. Brewster.
09:33Where'd he go, Pearl?
09:34He said he was going to park the car on the warm side of the cabin.
09:38But he must have run off.
09:40After him, everybody, we'll head him off at the pass
09:42and shoot him down like a dog.
09:44Now, you old dog, you ain't shooting nobody down.
09:47Just simmer down.
09:49Why, he didn't run off at all.
09:52Except we'll need you, Ellie, to get him back in here.
09:54How come?
09:56Well, looks like a couple of your friends are sizing him up for breakfast.
10:07Well, in all sincerity, Mr. Pampett,
10:10your cousin Pearl is a very remarkable woman.
10:13It's just that, well, I don't want to get married.
10:16Well, I understand that, Mr. Brewster,
10:17and I thank you for speaking the truth like a man.
10:19But my cousin Pearl, he got himself a problem.
10:22Oh, what's that?
10:23Well, uh, ain't no secrets in the hills.
10:26Everybody's dog knows that you've been boarding with her over at her place,
10:29and they all know she's had her cap set for you.
10:32Oh, I ain't blaming you, Mr. Brewster.
10:35Jed?
10:37Did he say yes?
10:38Can we come out now?
10:40Not yet a while, Granny.
10:41Well, if you're too chicken to shoot him,
10:44Ellie's got her wolves standing by.
10:50Mr. Brewster,
10:51in order to save my cousin Pearl from shame,
10:53I'm going to ask you to do me a big favor.
10:55Anything I can do.
10:57I want you to propose to her in front of somebody.
11:01But?
11:02And let her turn you down, of course.
11:04Oh.
11:05Oh, I see.
11:06Of course, that'll save face.
11:09Well, uh,
11:10Pearl will know that she's supposed to turn me down.
11:12Oh, sure.
11:13We'll have an understanding with Pearl.
11:16Now, the one I think you ought to propose in front of
11:19is Elverna Bradshaw.
11:21You know, Mr. Clampett,
11:22this idea of yours is quite inspired.
11:24Oh, just a notion.
11:25You see, Elverna is the biggest gossip in the hill.
11:28No, really, it's brilliant.
11:30It combines drama,
11:31pathos, suspense.
11:33It has a happy ending.
11:34Great third act curtain.
11:36It's real theater.
11:38Of course, you'll have to be convincing,
11:40so Elverna will...
11:41Convincing?
11:42Why, I'll give a performance
11:43that the people of these hills
11:44will remember as long as they live.
11:47Well, just so that, uh...
11:48When Pearl Bodine turns down
11:50my impassioned proposal of marriage,
11:52there won't be a dry eye in the house.
11:54Elverna, don't cry easy.
11:56Oh, well, now, surely you're not going to waste
11:58this dramatic scene before just one person.
12:01Well, I reckon Elverna's daughter...
12:02I've got it.
12:03I've got it.
12:03The movie house where Pearl plays the piano.
12:05You want to propose there?
12:06Well, it's perfect.
12:07Everybody in town will see it.
12:09Well, what kind of shame you
12:10that'll be turned down
12:11in front of all them people?
12:12Well, it's just a performance.
12:16I've learned one thing in the theater.
12:17An actor always gives a better performance
12:20in front of a full house.
12:22Well, doggies.
12:24That sure is nice, are you?
12:25It's my pleasure, Mr. Bannon.
12:28Mrs. Bodine?
12:29Banny?
12:30Come on in.
12:31Come on in, everybody.
12:32Come on in, everybody.
12:34Come on out, everybody.
12:35I reckon we'd better let Mr. Brewster
12:36tell you what's going to happen.
12:38Well, tonight, at the movie house, Mrs. Bodine,
12:41while the whole town looks on,
12:42I'm going to ask you to marry me.
12:44Banny!
12:52I got this, Daddy!
12:54I got this, Daddy!
12:55Hey!
12:56Did this call for a whopping big snort?
12:59Now, we're all quieting down, everybody,
13:00until you hear the rest of the story.
13:02Now, Pearl, when Mr. Brewster asks you to marry him,
13:04you're going to say no.
13:08Not unless I'm as drunk as you are.
13:18Howdy, Pearl.
13:19Good evening.
13:19Evening, Pearl.
13:20Evening, Granny.
13:21Jess Rowan, I want to head down to the theater
13:23to get a fire going in the stool.
13:25Where's Jess' roommate, Pearl?
13:26Well, she's in her room getting dressed.
13:28Go on in and see her.
13:31Granny, what happened to your mink coat?
13:34Well, this is it.
13:36Tonight's kind of special,
13:37so I'm wearing the pretty side out.
13:43You sure got your pretty side out tonight, Pearl?
13:46Oh, I tell you, Jed,
13:48I'm as nervous as if I was going to get
13:50a real honest-to-goodness proposal.
13:52And it would be real
13:54if your cousin Jed would do his duty
13:55and hold a shotgun on that fellow Brewster.
13:58Now, ladies, let's settle for what we got.
13:59This way, Pearl can come to California
14:01without nobody saying she left town in disgrace.
14:05Good evening.
14:06Good evening.
14:08You two got it figured out what you want to say?
14:11Oh, yeah, we rehearsed 12 times.
14:14Mr. Brewster will be sitting on the front row,
14:17and when the picture's over,
14:18he'll jump up and he's...
14:20Excuse me.
14:21I've been thinking about that.
14:23I believe it would be more effective
14:24if I made an entrance.
14:28Entrance?
14:29Yes, I'll come down the aisle.
14:30Oh, oh, all right.
14:32And then Mr. Brewster's gonna say,
14:35Mrs. Bodine,
14:36don't go to California with your cousin Jed.
14:38Stay here and be my wife.
14:41Uh, excuse me.
14:42I've been thinking about that, too.
14:44Uh, after a big entrance down the aisle,
14:47that's going to seem like
14:48a pretty flat opening speech.
14:50Well, you just say what you want to say.
14:53All I've got to say is,
14:55no, I won't marry you.
14:59If that's Homer Winch,
15:01I'm going to hit him right in the head.
15:08Evening, Pearl.
15:09Bernard Bradshaw,
15:10what are you doing here?
15:12Well, you and me being such close friends,
15:15I just thought I'd offer to play
15:17Pa'Annie for you at the theater tonight.
15:19What?
15:21Surely you're not going to show up
15:23and have folks whispering behind your back
15:25all during the picture.
15:26What in the world would they be whispering about?
15:29Pearl, I'm your best friend.
15:34You don't have to pretend with me.
15:37The whole town knows how you've been
15:39flinging yourself with that border of yours.
15:42For your information,
15:43O'Berner Bradshaw,
15:44Mr. Brewster proposed to me 12 times today
15:47and 12 times I turned him down.
15:51Is that why he'd give you this here mink coat?
15:55Cause you turned him down.
15:57This here mink coat was given to me
15:59by my niece, Ella Mae Clampett.
16:02Oh, Pearl,
16:03I keep telling you,
16:05you don't have to pretend with me.
16:07I'm your best friend.
16:10Well, Elverna Bradshaw is your best friend.
16:13You're up to your eyeballs and enemies.
16:16Mr. Brewster,
16:17if you was to go in there now
16:19and propose in front of Elverna,
16:21you could save yourself a trip to the theater
16:23and the news would get around a heap quicker.
16:25You don't understand, Mr. Clampett.
16:27An actor needs an audience.
16:30Now, Elverna,
16:31if you don't mind,
16:32I'd like you to get out of my coat
16:34and out of my house.
16:36I'm gonna be late for the theater.
16:39Pearl,
16:40take your best friend's advice
16:42and sneak out of town quietly.
16:45You can depend on me
16:47to smooth everything over.
16:50Thanks for nothing.
17:02Farewell, performance is right.
17:04I reckon she'll sneak out of town in a hurry
17:06if she ain't already snuck.
17:08Mind you,
17:09Pearl's my best friend
17:10and I ain't one to talk,
17:12but...
17:19Good evening, lady.
17:23You too, Elverna.
17:52You too, Elverna.
18:31Stop the picture!
18:34Stop the picture!
18:37Stop the picture!
18:41All right, Charlie!
18:46Mrs. Bodine,
18:47I just saw that poster out front.
18:50Farewell, performance.
18:52Does that mean you are leaving?
18:54Oh, yes, Mr. Brewster.
18:56I'm going to California
18:58with my cousin Jed and his family.
19:00Oh, no, no, no, please.
19:01Please, I beg you.
19:02I implore you.
19:03I beseech you.
19:03Don't go.
19:05Stay here
19:06and be my wife.
19:10No, thank you, Mr. Brewster.
19:17I cannot.
19:19I will not accept that answer.
19:21Oh, I love you, Pearl, Bodine.
19:24I love you with all my heart.
19:27With all my soul.
19:29Oh, I love you
19:30as no man
19:31has ever loved woman before.
19:34He's better than Francis X. Bushman.
19:36Be mine.
19:38Pearl, be mine.
19:40Come back here, Mr. Brewster.
19:43No, Mr. Brewster.
19:44My answer is no.
19:46Then life has come to an end.
19:48For what is life without love?
19:50If I was him,
19:51I'd let it go with that.
19:53Without Pearl, Bodine,
19:55there is no love.
19:56Oh, me darling.
19:58Oh, me precious.
19:59Say those words
20:01that will make me
20:02the happiest of men.
20:04I'm behind you.
20:07My answer is still no.
20:09Wait a quick while you're ahead,
20:10Mr. Brewster.
20:11Oh, how those words
20:14stab into my heart
20:16like cold steel.
20:18And only you, Pearl, Bodine,
20:21can heal the mortal wound.
20:23Oh, me darling.
20:27Moon of me desire,
20:30marry me, Pearl.
20:32No.
20:33I promise you
20:34a life of happiness.
20:36No.
20:37A life of luxury.
20:39No.
20:40Oh, me darling.
20:42Look into me,
20:44dear stained eyes.
20:45Look into the tortured base
20:48of your love slave.
20:49Free me with that
20:50one divine word.
20:53Say yes.
20:55Say yes.
20:56And together
20:57we will enter a paradise
20:59of love everlasting.
21:01Yes, yes, yes,
21:03I marry you.
21:11Thank you very much.
21:17Did you say yes?
21:19Yes!
21:21If I haven't said yes,
21:23I was ready myself.
21:44Now it's time to say goodbye
21:46to Jed and all his kin.
21:48They would like to thank you folks
21:50for kindly dropping in.
21:52You're all invited back
21:53next week to this locality
21:55to have a heaping helping
21:57of their hospitality.
21:59Hillbilly, that is.
22:01Set a spell.
22:02Take your shoes off.
22:04You all come back now.
22:05Hear?
22:07This has been a Filmways presentation.
22:09This has been a Filmways presentation.
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