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The Cheaters (1945) Full Movie ｜ Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette [Full Movie] [Trending]Full EP - Full
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00:01:30J.C., why don't you see that man?
00:01:34What man?
00:01:35The latest process server.
00:01:37Surely you're familiar with process servers?
00:01:40Now, Maddie, don't you start.
00:01:42I'm not starting. I'm just frightened of my reputation.
00:01:45I'm spending so much time with this one.
00:01:48Well, these bring your bank account down to a nice flat zero.
00:01:53Your wife's doing a lot of Christmas shopping, Mr. Pigeon.
00:01:56Why don't you pay any attention when I tell you how close to bankruptcy you are?
00:02:00It's going to be all right, Maddie. I tell you, it's going to be all right.
00:02:03It's going to be all right until the stores come to take back the gifts.
00:02:08Would they do that?
00:02:09Well, if you don't pay your bills.
00:02:11Oh, what's the use?
00:02:13From your son. Collect.
00:02:15Hasn't he left Stanford yet?
00:02:17I didn't read it. I just paid for it.
00:02:19Two seventy-eight.
00:02:19And your brother-in-law is waiting to see you.
00:02:22No doubt also collect.
00:02:23Well, get rid of them.
00:02:25When you haven't been able to for twenty years.
00:02:28I'm busy with a client.
00:02:30That's the one lie I couldn't tell without bursting into tears.
00:02:34Willie!
00:02:36Willie!
00:02:37Hello, boy.
00:02:38Oh, good news, eh?
00:02:39As a matter of fact, it's very sad.
00:02:42Wire from Reggie from Denver.
00:02:44Oh, it's too bad.
00:02:44Doctors give no hope for Uncle Henry.
00:02:47Only a matter of hours now.
00:02:49For Pete's sake, why can't I come home?
00:02:50He doesn't even know I'm here.
00:02:52This is one student.
00:02:53The rest of it doesn't matter.
00:02:55No, no. It's Uncle Henry we have to think about.
00:02:57Yeah, the poor old fellow.
00:02:58It's too bad. Still, he is getting on.
00:03:00I mean, it's been failing for years.
00:03:02Exactly, yes.
00:03:03He isn't nearly fast enough at the rate you've been going.
00:03:05She's right.
00:03:06No need of being hypocritical about it, Willie.
00:03:09Of course not, no.
00:03:09Uncle Henry would have been the last one to expect it.
00:03:12He was...
00:03:13Is?
00:03:14He is a tough old burg.
00:03:15Of course he is, yeah.
00:03:16I don't think I'm being too callous when I think of what Clara and the girls and Reggie could do
00:03:21with that money.
00:03:22I shouldn't think so, no.
00:03:22Well, they're young enough to enjoy it.
00:03:24Oh, exactly, yeah.
00:03:25I could use some of it, too, of course.
00:03:27Build up the firm.
00:03:28Build it up, yes.
00:03:28Yeah, money makes money.
00:03:30Wow, money makes...
00:03:31Yes.
00:03:31Come over to Frost with me.
00:03:32I'd be delighted.
00:03:33There's a bracelet over there that Clara admired.
00:03:35Well, as a matter of fact, I want to do a little shopping on my own, and I thought that
00:03:38perhaps you might...
00:03:39Well, I mean, say you...
00:03:40Why, sure, sure, Willie, how much?
00:03:42Oh, well, I...
00:03:43Mr. Pigeon.
00:03:45Huh?
00:03:46It would seem that Willie left the barn door open.
00:03:49I'm afraid I've been kind of a nuisance, but I've got to touch you.
00:03:54Oh, that's all right.
00:03:56Sorry to have kept you waiting.
00:03:57Pressure of business, you know.
00:03:59Come, Willie.
00:04:01Oh, uh, send a wire to that little whippersnapper in Denver and tell him to stay there until the end
00:04:06and impress on him that he's a representative of the family in this hour of, uh...
00:04:10Uh, need?
00:04:11Yes, sir.
00:04:11Yes, that's right.
00:04:12You know what I mean.
00:04:12Uh, good day, sir.
00:04:14Good day.
00:04:16You know, I've been here so long, I kind of hate to leave.
00:04:20There'll be others.
00:04:41Good evening, sir.
00:04:42Good evening, McFarlane.
00:04:46Good evening.
00:04:55Now, what's that?
00:04:56A silver vase from Tiffany's for the Carters.
00:04:59I have the most awful feeling I sent them the same thing last year.
00:05:02Or did they send us one?
00:05:05Well, this begins to look like the real thing.
00:05:07How are you, my dear?
00:05:09Frantic!
00:05:10Well, you should tell you it a little easy.
00:05:12You have these young ladies here to help you.
00:05:15You'll be born to a frazzle before Christmas Eve.
00:05:18They couldn't do a thing without me.
00:05:28Ah, the tree is a beauty.
00:05:30Is it here?
00:05:32They're there not to put it in the front window of the drawing room.
00:05:34You tell them, Miss Hemstead.
00:05:36Why not the front window?
00:05:37We've always had it in the front window.
00:05:39It looks pretty from the street.
00:05:41People who have such a nice tree...
00:05:43That's just it.
00:05:44Therese says it's all wrong.
00:05:45She's come back from Boston with a lot of new ideas.
00:05:48I hadn't time to listen to them.
00:05:50But it's about charity and not flaunting your wealth.
00:05:53Hmm.
00:05:53She wants the tree in the library where less fortunate people can't see it.
00:05:58The tree has always been in the drawing room.
00:06:01And it's not going to be put in the library.
00:06:04That's the only room in this house I've been able to train your brother Willie to stay out of.
00:06:09Now, you know you're really fond of Willie, dear.
00:06:12And he's just brought you a lovely gift.
00:06:15Oh.
00:06:16The library.
00:06:20Dad!
00:06:22Well, well, well.
00:06:24How do I know?
00:06:25Oh, she's wonderful, Dan.
00:06:27And you?
00:06:27Fine, fine.
00:06:29So what's this I've been hearing about some soldier named Bates?
00:06:32Some soldier named Bates.
00:06:34Captain Bates.
00:06:35You love him?
00:06:36Madly, wildly, and fearsomely.
00:06:38How unutterably mucky.
00:06:40Oh, isn't she devastating?
00:06:42When I left, she was doing Lana Turner.
00:06:44You know, I haven't been able to figure this new one out yet.
00:06:49Here are mine, Miss Lodge.
00:06:50They're all labeled, and here's the list.
00:06:52Now, I want them done in pale green with the wide white satin ribbon and the darker green velvet sprays
00:06:58attached to the bowl.
00:06:59And I don't want anyone else to use that combination.
00:07:02We've already used that combination.
00:07:04But I told you that...
00:07:06Can't you just mix them, darling?
00:07:08Mother, don't be tiresome.
00:07:11No one uses mixed colors anymore.
00:07:13You wrap your gifts the same each year until it becomes distinctive of you, like your perfume.
00:07:18The other is absolutely...
00:07:20The trois.
00:07:21All right, darling.
00:07:22We'll find something distinctive for you.
00:07:24Oh, and I am glad to see you're using your French whenever you can.
00:07:29Oh, my God.
00:07:38Now, darling, tell me about this young man of yours.
00:07:41Oh, you'll meet him.
00:07:42He's spending Christmas with us.
00:07:44What's his first name?
00:07:45Stephen, and don't call him Steve.
00:07:47Don't worry about me.
00:07:48But I...
00:07:49In fact, I worry about the whole blessed family.
00:07:51What's the matter?
00:07:52Not good enough for him?
00:07:53No, darling, it isn't that at all.
00:07:55It's just...
00:07:56Well, we're so wacky, and...
00:08:06No, it's Beresford Bates, but no hyphen.
00:08:08I expect she'd consider the other un-American.
00:08:10She sounds grim.
00:08:12Now, Mrs. Bates is one of the wealthiest, most socially prominent women in the East.
00:08:15So?
00:08:16She still sounds grim.
00:08:17Grim or not, will you please stop interrupting?
00:08:20Now, this is serious.
00:08:21I must have Dad's approval of something I want to do.
00:08:23Something I simply have to do.
00:08:25Well, what's that, honey?
00:08:26Bring a charity case into the house for the holidays.
00:08:29Someone who otherwise wouldn't have any Christmas.
00:08:32Well, why do you stare like that?
00:08:34What's so monstrous in the idea?
00:08:36Mrs. Bates does it every Christmas, only she doesn't stop at one.
00:08:39Last year, she had six children.
00:08:41Mrs. Bates?
00:08:43I thought you said that Stephen was an only child.
00:08:46Whoops.
00:08:47Count on mother to pick up the wrong thread of a conversation.
00:08:49We were speaking of bringing a needy person into the house at Christmas.
00:08:53Oh?
00:08:53And I want...
00:08:54Well, to tell you the truth, I have to have one.
00:08:56I told Mrs. Bates we've always done it.
00:08:58With Stephen coming...
00:08:59Of all the foul ideas, you promised me a party with the entire upper floor and only my friends.
00:09:03How can I have them with some smelly charity case in the house?
00:09:07They don't necessarily have to smell.
00:09:10I think it's rather a sweet idea.
00:09:12You say Mrs. Bates does this every year?
00:09:14Yes, Mother.
00:09:15Then I don't see why I can't do it.
00:09:17It might start a movement.
00:09:18We aren't doing this to make a splash.
00:09:20Are we doing it?
00:09:21That's what I want to know.
00:09:22Why, couldn't we just show him Willie and say that he's a charity case?
00:09:27James!
00:09:28Really, J.C.?
00:09:29Why, I offered to leave years ago.
00:09:31Sure, sure.
00:09:32Sorry, Willie.
00:09:33I was only kidding.
00:09:36Well, I think you're all being terrible to laugh or bicker about helping the needy.
00:09:41All right.
00:09:42All right.
00:09:42You can have your charity case.
00:09:44Where do you get them?
00:09:46I don't know.
00:09:47Perhaps one of the servants know of someone.
00:09:49Wait.
00:09:50Wait, I have it.
00:09:51Every year, the Globe publishes a list of needy cases.
00:09:53Now then, we'll find a copy, close our eyes, and pick a letter.
00:09:56What do you mean, pick a letter?
00:09:58The cases are listed one, two, three, and so on.
00:10:00And the people are referred to simply as Miss A, Miss B, and Mr. C.
00:10:04You know, I thought it was rather decent of them not to give the full name.
00:10:07Oh, yes.
00:10:08You know, I think that I...
00:10:10Oh, thank you.
00:10:12Here, case one.
00:10:14Miss L, age 41, renounced the chances of a brilliant career as a concert pianist to nurse
00:10:20her aged and infirm mother.
00:10:22Only a month ago, the mother died.
00:10:24Well, I don't want to seem mean, but someone with such a recent death in the family...
00:10:27She'd either tell us all of her mother's symptoms or try to play the piano.
00:10:30It isn't that.
00:10:31Try another, dear.
00:10:32Case seven.
00:10:33Mr. H has toiled at back-breaking labor to support his seven motherless children.
00:10:38Out!
00:10:39For heaven's sake, why don't you do as Willie suggested?
00:10:42Close your eyes and pick one.
00:10:44Then let's have a little Christmas cheer of our own.
00:10:46Shall I?
00:10:47Of course, darling.
00:10:48All right.
00:10:49What did you get?
00:10:52Since he was hit by a speeding car ten years ago, Anthony M has seen fame and fortune desert him.
00:10:58Once a matinee idol, beloved of all theatergoers...
00:11:00An actor!
00:11:01He was struck down at the height of his career, leaving him permanently lame.
00:11:04Oh, what a pity.
00:11:05Yet Mr. M has accepted his lot with philosophic fortitude and has shown an admirable willingness to take the most
00:11:11menial of jobs.
00:11:12Well, he's it, as far as I'm concerned.
00:11:14Sounds like a gentleman, almost.
00:11:16The sort who could wear a dress suit, if necessary.
00:11:18Mother, listen to the rest of it.
00:11:20Still, misfortune seems to pursue him.
00:11:22Only a month ago, while working as night watchman in a New Jersey factory, a mysterious fire broke out and
00:11:27the plant was burned to the ground.
00:11:29Thus does the world forget easily, and this once famous man needs your help.
00:11:32Give if you can.
00:11:33Well, we certainly shall.
00:11:35He'll want a muffler.
00:11:37A muffler?
00:11:38Well, of course.
00:11:39All night watchmen wear mufflers, and I have three left over.
00:11:43But one can hardly put Merry Christmas to Mr. M, can one?
00:11:48I'd better know his name before I wrap.
00:11:49Mother, I don't think you have quite the right idea about this.
00:11:52Well, of course I have.
00:11:53Naturally, we'll give him more than mufflers.
00:11:56Have McFarlane call the paper, or let Willie call.
00:11:58Oh, he's terribly sweet with people.
00:12:01Oh, Dad, doesn't it make you feel all warm and happy inside to be doing this?
00:12:05But we must remember to treat him as a guest.
00:12:08You know, make him feel at home.
00:12:10At least for a week.
00:12:18You know, this organization was just about to drop you from its roles.
00:12:22I think you're very, very fortunate, Mr. Marchand.
00:12:25And I hope that this time you will behave with a proper amount of gratitude.
00:12:32Gratitude in most men is usually a secret desire to receive greater benefits.
00:12:38The chauffeur is here for Mr. Marchand.
00:12:47I'll take it, sir.
00:13:43Come in.
00:13:46Well, where in the world have you been?
00:13:48I've been ringing for the last 30 minutes.
00:13:51I'm very sorry, madam.
00:13:52I was attending Mr. Marchand.
00:13:54Oh.
00:13:54It's the internal injuries.
00:13:56The poor gentleman suffers something dreadful during the night.
00:13:59A bit of egg and milk and a dash of spirits early in the morning and he goes right back
00:14:05to sleep again.
00:14:07Needs it, I say.
00:14:08And think of the mornings that he hasn't had it.
00:14:11Poor soul.
00:14:12That was very good of you, McFarland.
00:14:14You give him everything he wants.
00:14:16Very good, madam.
00:14:18Mother.
00:14:20Mother.
00:14:20Oh, Mother.
00:14:21He's perfectly delightful.
00:14:22So humble and grateful and yet, I don't know, he wears poverty with all the charm of an Inverness cape.
00:14:29Oh, what a pretty idea.
00:14:30I must get dressed and meet him.
00:14:33Oh, oh, McFarland, I was going to say, oh, well, never mind.
00:14:36I'll ring for you later.
00:14:38I'm going to have to leave you for a little while.
00:14:41I haven't had my hair or my face done in days.
00:14:44I was thinking, Mrs. Pigeon, the velvet robe you got for Mr. Perry.
00:14:47Could we switch that to Mr. M?
00:14:49The very thing.
00:14:50He couldn't possibly be offended at a robe.
00:14:52But we must be careful to call him Mr. Marchand and not Mr. M.
00:15:00I see, J.C., do you think Mr. M would resent it if I offered him my second best dinner
00:15:04jacket?
00:15:05Do you mean the one you've gotten too fat to wear, Willie?
00:15:09Sure, give him all that stuff.
00:15:11Make the old boy feel better.
00:15:12Splendid, splendid.
00:15:14So the man said, jump, I've got a blanket.
00:15:16And he jumped and the man didn't have any blanket at all.
00:15:18It was very amusing.
00:15:21Willie.
00:15:26Oh, you're a connoisseur, my dear sir.
00:15:29I'm afraid I can't take credit for the wine.
00:15:32I leave all the buying to McFarlane.
00:15:37You're very fortunate to have him.
00:15:48Good morning, sir.
00:15:49Good morning.
00:15:50You sent for me?
00:15:51Yes.
00:15:52I wanted you to know that the car is at your disposal.
00:15:55Can't make you feel that you're a prisoner here.
00:15:58And in case you go out, you need a little cash.
00:16:01Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
00:16:02You're very kind, but I couldn't possibly accept it unless you would permit me to buy a few small gifts
00:16:07for your charming wife and lovely daughters.
00:16:09Fine, fine.
00:16:10They'd get a kick out of it.
00:16:12If I am on my way to the office now, would you care to drive down with me?
00:16:17I'd be delighted to.
00:16:19Fine.
00:16:20Come right along.
00:16:38Any of the family inside?
00:16:39No.
00:16:40I'll take care of him.
00:16:41Hello.
00:16:42How do you do, sir?
00:16:45Pain.
00:16:46Very bad pain again.
00:16:48I stopped in a bar for a shot.
00:16:52Purely medicinal, of course.
00:16:54Oh, yes, of course, sir.
00:16:55Purely medicinal.
00:16:57Now, you come into the library with me, sir.
00:17:00And then later, later on, I'll help you upstairs.
00:17:04That'll be very nice.
00:17:41Why, Reggie, what a pretty overcoat.
00:17:45What happened?
00:17:46Uncle Henry died yesterday, and he's left every cent to some showgirl.
00:17:50What?
00:17:50Showgirl?
00:17:51He was insane.
00:17:53Do you mean at his age, Uncle Henry?
00:17:55No, no, Mother.
00:17:56He hasn't even seen her since she was a child.
00:17:58That proves he was crazy.
00:18:01No one is going to believe he hasn't been seen her.
00:18:03And if it gets in the papers, and Mrs. Bates reads it, oh.
00:18:08What are the terms of the will?
00:18:10Do you know?
00:18:10The lawyer was really a decent sort of guy, and he let me copy down the most important part.
00:18:15Without all the whereas and let it be known, here it is.
00:18:18To the girl who played little Eva in the Versailles production of Uncle Tom's Cabin at the Bijou Theater, Pueblo,
00:18:24Colorado, in 1915,
00:18:26I leave my entire estate, with the exception of the following bequests.
00:18:31One dollar to my nephew, James Pidgeon, who was married to an empty-headed, extravagant woman,
00:18:36and if I left him any more of my hard-earned money, she'd only throw it away.
00:18:40I don't think that's very nice of Uncle Henry.
00:18:42Silly, too.
00:18:43If he left us his money, I wouldn't throw it away.
00:18:45I'd keep it.
00:18:49Well, there's some more here, his foreman and his servants and that sort of thing.
00:18:53When we get back to the girl, I lost touch with her years ago,
00:18:57and although she was billed as Sunshine Maryvale, I have reason to believe her real name is Watson.
00:19:03Watson?
00:19:04No worse than Sunshine Maryvale.
00:19:06To this end, I have entrusted my attorney, H.M. Traynor of Denver, to find this girl.
00:19:11If she is not found during a search to be conducted over a reasonable length of time,
00:19:15then my residuary estate shall pass without further legal steps or delay to my nephew, J.C. Pidgeon of New
00:19:21York.
00:19:22Mr. Traynor shall be the sole executor and trustee of my estate.
00:19:28There it is, Dad.
00:19:29Five million bucks.
00:19:31Lovable character, Uncle Henry.
00:19:33Oh, yes. Charmy little man, yes.
00:19:36Get me Denver, the lawyer.
00:19:45I want to place a call to Mr. H.M. Traynor, Denver, Colorado, the lawyer.
00:19:49He's in the book.
00:19:51J.C. Pidgeon, Parkway 6-4718.
00:19:55Turn on the Christmas tree light.
00:19:57What for?
00:19:58I don't know. I thought it would be more cheerful.
00:20:00I'll do it.
00:20:08Yeah. Hello.
00:20:10Yeah.
00:20:11All right.
00:20:13Mr. Traynor?
00:20:14James Pidgeon speaking.
00:20:16I've just heard the terms of my uncle's will.
00:20:20Oh, yes.
00:20:22He was a fine old man.
00:20:25I admit that this whole thing is somewhat of a surprise,
00:20:28but I want to talk to you about one of the conditions.
00:20:32It says that unless the girl is found during a search
00:20:35to be conducted over a reasonable length of time...
00:20:42Quiet.
00:20:43Well, is a period of time specified in the will?
00:20:49Oh, he left that to you.
00:20:52Well, what do you consider a reasonable length of time?
00:20:57Well, Mr. Traynor, here it is.
00:20:59I'm not quite as wealthy as my uncle thought.
00:21:02Successful, yes.
00:21:03But anyone who doesn't want five million dollars is a fool.
00:21:06I don't know how you're fixed financially,
00:21:09but for a consideration, a handsome consideration,
00:21:13couldn't you limit your search to a week?
00:21:20Right.
00:21:21Yes?
00:21:22Good.
00:21:22I'll keep in touch with you.
00:21:25Who was it said every man has his price?
00:21:28Never mind who said that.
00:21:30What did Traynor say?
00:21:31He's going to play ball.
00:21:32He has to advertise,
00:21:34but he's not going to make the will public.
00:21:36Simply insert notices in the papers
00:21:38without saying why the Watson girl is wanted.
00:21:41And he's agreed to limit the search to one week.
00:21:45If she's not discovered in that time, we get the money.
00:21:48Also, he slipped me a tip.
00:21:50What?
00:21:50Uncle Henry corresponded with the girl
00:21:53after the show moved on.
00:21:54She was so young, she could hardly write.
00:21:57Just sent him silly little kid drawings
00:21:59of funny mans and stuff.
00:22:01I remember when you used to do that, dear.
00:22:04It was so sweet.
00:22:05Oh, mother.
00:22:06Yes, mother.
00:22:08What's the tip?
00:22:09I'm getting to that.
00:22:11The parents always added postscripts to the letters,
00:22:14having certain references made in New York.
00:22:16The lawyer feels that if the girl is found,
00:22:19it'll be here instead of out there.
00:22:22Well, what good does that do?
00:22:23I propose to find her first.
00:22:26Dad, we don't want her found.
00:22:28We don't want her to find out about Uncle Henry,
00:22:31which is something quite different.
00:22:35I'm thinking of Poe.
00:22:37Poe?
00:22:38Edgar Allen.
00:22:40The purloin letter.
00:22:43The last pace that anyone would look for her
00:22:46is right here in this house.
00:22:47And we should keep the papers away from her.
00:22:50Good heavens.
00:22:51Don't swear, Therese.
00:22:53Well, who wouldn't swear?
00:22:54We have a charity case in the house
00:22:55and now a child actress.
00:22:57And Stephen is coming.
00:22:58The charity case is your idea.
00:23:00If Stephen thinks it's odd,
00:23:01we can whisper quietly to him
00:23:03that she's another one.
00:23:04Provided you can find her, of course.
00:23:06And Angela doesn't get wind of it.
00:23:08See that she doesn't.
00:23:09You know, I might be of some use
00:23:11in locating Miss Watson.
00:23:12That is to say,
00:23:13I've hung about the theater quite a bit.
00:23:15Stage doors, you mean.
00:23:17I think Willie's absolutely right.
00:23:19Once those people start in the theater,
00:23:21they stay with it.
00:23:22How would you go about looking for her?
00:23:24I would suggest that you contact
00:23:26the Actors' Equity Association.
00:23:32If she acted as a child,
00:23:34it'll be recorded someplace,
00:23:36since all children of the theater
00:23:37must have court permission.
00:23:40Oh, thank you.
00:23:42In that way, you can learn her first name
00:23:43and eliminate all other Watsons,
00:23:45of which undoubtedly
00:23:46there'll be quite a number.
00:23:49May I?
00:23:50Sure.
00:23:58Having learned her first name,
00:23:59you need only consult the files
00:24:01of Actors' Equity
00:24:01and if she's still connected
00:24:03to the theater,
00:24:04they will have her address.
00:24:06I would be very happy
00:24:07to undertake this little mission
00:24:08for you, if you wish.
00:24:10Who is this guy?
00:24:12A guest.
00:24:13You said something
00:24:14about a charity case.
00:24:16I am the charity case,
00:24:18young man.
00:24:18And until this moment,
00:24:20I've been treated
00:24:20with a courtesy and kindness
00:24:21that springs from the heart.
00:24:24The pure in heart.
00:24:26Uh, this, uh, plan we were discussing,
00:24:30did you hear all of it?
00:24:32Enough to understand your motives,
00:24:34and I apologize for what must seem
00:24:36like an act of eavesdropping,
00:24:38but I was on that borderline
00:24:39between sleep and waking,
00:24:41trying to recover from a painful seizure
00:24:44which overcame me this afternoon
00:24:45while out shopping.
00:24:46For a moment or two,
00:24:47it was impossible for me to move.
00:24:49Why don't you face it, Dad?
00:24:50If we find this girl
00:24:52and keep her from collecting,
00:24:54this charity case can live off of you
00:24:56for the rest of his life.
00:24:57Young man.
00:24:58You said every man has his price.
00:25:00Find out his.
00:25:01Make a deal with him
00:25:02the way you did with a lawyer.
00:25:04I have no misfortune,
00:25:06poverty,
00:25:08humiliation.
00:25:10I've even known the shame
00:25:11of having to beg.
00:25:13But I have never received
00:25:14such an insult
00:25:16as you have just delivered.
00:25:19I have no price, young man,
00:25:22unless the value a man places
00:25:24upon his honor
00:25:24may be called a price.
00:25:25And if that be so, yes,
00:25:27my price comes high,
00:25:29for I have honor.
00:25:31Honor in the face of adversity.
00:25:33Honor in the face of death.
00:25:35And though I starve,
00:25:39I cannot
00:25:42but I cannot
00:25:52this lovely girl.
00:25:55This equal.
00:26:11And you,
00:26:12you,
00:26:15and you,
00:26:16sir,
00:26:16held out a helping hand,
00:26:18gave me
00:26:19the warmth,
00:26:23and warmth.
00:26:28Thank you, pal.
00:26:45Boy,
00:26:46what an exit.
00:26:47You're absolutely heartless.
00:26:48Is that Western education?
00:26:50I don't think
00:26:51you should go on
00:26:51with it, Reggie.
00:26:52It's hard and due.
00:26:54Hogwash.
00:26:54Silence.
00:26:55You will apologize
00:26:56to Mr. Marshall and Reggie
00:26:58and see to it
00:26:59that he stays here.
00:27:00And I think
00:27:01we should accept
00:27:01his offer
00:27:02to help look
00:27:02for the Watson girl.
00:27:04Willie can go
00:27:04with him tomorrow.
00:27:06Hello.
00:27:13Goodbye, my child.
00:27:16Remember me.
00:27:17You kill me.
00:27:19You kill me.
00:27:39And what do you want
00:27:40for Christmas?
00:27:41Oh, brother.
00:27:42If you're a lady,
00:27:44perhaps you're hoping
00:27:44that certain somebody
00:27:46will give you furs.
00:27:47You don't have to be
00:27:48a lady to wish
00:27:49for furs,
00:27:50you dope.
00:28:13Hobson's wet wash.
00:28:14You bring it,
00:28:15we bring it.
00:28:16I beg your pardon
00:28:17I've dialed
00:28:17the wrong number.
00:28:19Hey, wait a minute.
00:28:21Oh, come on.
00:28:23Try it again, fella.
00:28:24You sounded all right.
00:28:26One, two, three, four, five.
00:28:31Oh, let it be lunch
00:28:32instead of cocktails.
00:28:34Please, lunch
00:28:35instead of cocktails.
00:28:37If I eat any more peanuts,
00:28:38I'll be hanging by my...
00:28:41Miss Watson's apartment.
00:28:43Miss Watson's maid speaking.
00:28:46One moment, please.
00:28:47I will see.
00:28:52Hello.
00:28:54Who is this?
00:28:57Yes, but I don't seem
00:28:58to remember a Mr. Crawford.
00:29:01No, you wouldn't.
00:29:02The fact of the matter
00:29:02is...
00:29:03What'll I tell her?
00:29:04Didn't the family
00:29:05instruct you?
00:29:06No, I suppose
00:29:06they had no idea
00:29:07that we'd find her so easily.
00:29:08My word,
00:29:09I never gave it a thought.
00:29:10The fact of what matter
00:29:11is what?
00:29:12Well, you see, I discovered that we're cousins.
00:29:15What?
00:29:16Say, what kind of a gag is this?
00:29:19No, that was quite true, Miss Watson.
00:29:20You see, the family had a phrenologist,
00:29:22I mean to say a genealogist, looking up our family tree.
00:29:26Silly and all that, you know, but they did,
00:29:27and they've unearthed you.
00:29:29I mean, say, the fact that there was a Watson, well,
00:29:32and the family wants you to visit them over the holidays.
00:29:34Of course, you have other plans.
00:29:36Still, we thought you might see them, or, well, perhaps me.
00:29:40Well, I'd like to see you.
00:29:43But if you come in here with a writ, brother,
00:29:44there's going to be plenty of trouble.
00:29:46Oh, I assure you.
00:29:47Well, just come, bring it if you've got it,
00:29:49and let's get it over with.
00:29:50But if you're a right kind of a guy,
00:29:52you'll stop at the delicadecen on the corner
00:29:53and bring some lunch.
00:29:54I'm hungry.
00:30:03Oh, I say.
00:30:04Why, you're charming.
00:30:06And you're Santa Claus.
00:30:07Come on in.
00:30:11How do you do?
00:30:11Oh, this is Mr. Marchand.
00:30:14How do you do?
00:30:16Not Anthony Marchand.
00:30:21I'm flattered that you remember the name.
00:30:23Why, anybody who knows show business remembers that name.
00:30:27You're as kind as you're mistaken.
00:30:32Oh, here, let me help you.
00:30:45Now, what's this cousin business?
00:30:47Isn't it wonderful?
00:30:48I telephoned the family that I'd located you,
00:30:49and they're delighted.
00:30:50I have to bring you home with me bagging baggage.
00:30:52Are you kidding?
00:30:53On my word, ask Mr. M.
00:30:55I mean Mr. Marchand.
00:30:56No, no.
00:30:57Mr. M. is both sufficient and correct.
00:30:59And lest Miss Watson labor under any misconceptions,
00:31:01I should like to explain my connection with this happy affair.
00:31:04You see, Miss Watson, I'm a charity case.
00:31:06Oh, I say, do we need to...
00:31:07I'm a charity case who's had the very great fortune
00:31:10to be invited into the Pigeon household for the holidays.
00:31:12The Pigeon household?
00:31:14My brother-in-law is J.C. Pigeon.
00:31:17And they want me to visit them too?
00:31:19Oh, definitely.
00:31:21They sound like nice people.
00:31:24Oh, what fools be I.
00:31:26In our eagerness to reach Miss Watson,
00:31:28we forgot to buy the necessary liquids with which to wash this down.
00:31:30Why, of course.
00:31:31I noticed the place right next door as we hand out.
00:31:34Oh, yeah.
00:31:35Do you like champagne, Miss Watson?
00:31:37Oh, with food, I like anything.
00:31:39You do?
00:31:40Why, that's wonderful.
00:31:42I'll be right back.
00:31:47I should say...
00:31:49Look, Mr. Marchand.
00:31:51I find it exceedingly pleasant.
00:31:53Well, you're not ready for the grave yourself.
00:31:56But seriously, we're troopers, see.
00:31:58We speak the same language.
00:32:00And strictly between you and me,
00:32:02this Pigeon family is nuts.
00:32:05Nuts?
00:32:06I'm no more related to them than I am to you.
00:32:08You think not.
00:32:09Well, I know darn well I'm not.
00:32:11But if they think I am, I'm moving in,
00:32:13because this is a kiss from Cinderella.
00:32:15I owe two months' rent, and I haven't got a bean.
00:32:19I've got clothes because they're my stock in trade.
00:32:21I've got three bottles of nail polish and a bottle of bleach.
00:32:24And as long as they hold out, so can I.
00:32:26But after that...
00:32:27Aren't you a natural blonde?
00:32:28On the mousy side.
00:32:30My mother started the bleaching business when I was a kid,
00:32:33because for some reason, people always seem to go for blonde kids.
00:32:36I used to play in stock.
00:32:37Really?
00:32:38Well, fine training for any actor.
00:32:41East Lynn, Great Divide, Two Orphans, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
00:32:47Uncle Tom's Cabin.
00:32:48Fine training for what?
00:32:50When I was five, I played little Eva until I was as black in the face as Uncle Tom.
00:32:55This is what I mean.
00:32:56They must have an awful lot of dough.
00:32:58Maybe it isn't honest when I know they've made a mistake.
00:33:00And I wouldn't want you to think I'm planning to really chisel them out of anything.
00:33:04I won't.
00:33:04But I'd just like to sleep for a while in a bed that doesn't pull out of the wall.
00:33:09And watch some servants pussyfooting around with trays of something for me.
00:33:13And not jump out of my skin and try to remember my prayers every time the phone or doorbell rings.
00:33:19See what I mean?
00:33:23How do I look?
00:33:24Really like Santa Claus.
00:33:26I bought him off a chap in the street.
00:33:27He was tired and wanted to go home anyway.
00:33:30Merry Christmas, everybody.
00:33:46Whee!
00:33:48Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?
00:33:56Just drink a cup of kindness for the days of all acts.
00:34:06William!
00:34:06Miss Watson, our new cousin!
00:34:08Oh, Miss Watson was so surprised at finding that she's related to you that we had great trouble in persuading
00:34:15her to accept your invitation.
00:34:18My dear, how nice!
00:34:20I feel far too little stress is put on family in these careless days.
00:34:24Happy to meet you, Miss Watson.
00:34:25Any of my wife's relatives are welcome.
00:34:28I beg your pardon?
00:34:30It was swell of you to look me up.
00:34:32Oh, this is Therese and this is Reggie.
00:34:36And our little daughter is in bed.
00:34:38Your little daughter is neither little nor in bed.
00:34:41Then you should be.
00:34:43I expect you'd like to go directly to your room.
00:34:45I'll show you up.
00:34:46James, pay the cabman.
00:34:51What in the world are you doing?
00:34:53I won my bill!
00:34:55Reggie, get Willie to bed.
00:34:57I'm afraid you're not getting a very good impression of him, Miss Watson.
00:35:00Well, he's always such a gentleman.
00:35:02He isn't the first gentleman I've seen with a snootful.
00:35:05A snootful?
00:35:08Oh, Stephen.
00:35:11What's that?
00:35:12I said Merry Christmas.
00:35:23Thank you, McFarlane.
00:35:24This will help me sleep.
00:35:26Oh, I hope so, sir.
00:35:27I brought you some of Mr. Crawford's sleeping garments, sir.
00:35:37I played Hamlet.
00:35:39I saw you, sir, in London.
00:35:41Oh, did you?
00:35:43I played Richard III, Macbeth, Henry IV,
00:35:48Patricchio and a great production of The Taming of the Shrew.
00:35:51And no one has equaled my death seen as Romeo.
00:35:53Yes, I, I even played The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
00:35:58But there's one part I've never played.
00:36:01What was that, sir?
00:36:05God.
00:36:07God, sir?
00:36:12God.
00:36:21Good morning, McFarlane.
00:36:23Good morning, sir.
00:36:24God.
00:36:26Good morning, sir.
00:36:28Fuck.
00:36:28Come on.
00:36:34Take me.
00:36:42God.
00:36:49Good morning, sir.
00:36:53Come on.
00:36:54Good enough today. This is such a lovely house.
00:36:58Oh, well, I'm glad you like it. I just had it done over.
00:37:01I hope you like the chinois' influence, the Chinese Chippendale, you know.
00:37:04Oh, I hope you slept well, my dear.
00:37:07On a bed like that, not even a guilty conscience could keep me awake.
00:37:10What an amusing way of phrasing it.
00:37:12What on earth is the matter with you, James?
00:37:15You look as if you were posing or had a pain.
00:37:19I'm not posing and I have no pain.
00:37:21I'm thinking and it does not cause me pain to think.
00:37:25Oh, dear, he's cross this morning.
00:37:26You might say good morning to Miss Watson.
00:37:28I might if I were given the opportunity.
00:37:31Good morning, Miss Watson.
00:37:32Good morning.
00:37:34Husbands.
00:37:36James?
00:37:37Oh, go up.
00:37:37Get your breakfast. There are kidneys this morning.
00:37:40I haven't finished my juice.
00:37:43Oh, those scrambled eggs look like something out of this world.
00:37:47Good morning, ladies. It's the pigeon, sir.
00:37:49Good morning.
00:37:51Good morning, Mr. Marchand. I hope you had a good night.
00:37:54Thank you, madam. Better than usual.
00:37:55Ah, thank you, McFarlane.
00:37:58Purely medicinal, sir.
00:38:01And how are you this morning, sir?
00:38:03Ah.
00:38:11What's the matter?
00:38:14My leg's asleep.
00:38:15Well, why don't you stand up and stomp your foot?
00:38:18I don't want to stand up and stomp my foot.
00:38:23Not at your age.
00:38:33Morning paper.
00:38:34I'm sitting on it.
00:38:36Get it when I stand up.
00:38:38I'm sorry.
00:38:47Sit here, dear.
00:38:49Uh, you'll have to excuse me.
00:38:52I've received some bad news.
00:38:54James, what is it?
00:38:55What's happened?
00:38:56What, uh, uh, Mr. Marchand, will you come with me to the library?
00:38:59Glad to.
00:38:59Excuse me, lady.
00:39:02He's concealing something.
00:39:05Thank heavens we got out of that.
00:39:07Keep the Watson girl occupied and send Mrs. Pigeon to me in the library.
00:39:10Glad to.
00:39:22Mother, what is it?
00:39:24What's happened?
00:39:24Shh, darling.
00:39:25Father's talking to the lawyer in Denver.
00:39:27I see.
00:39:28Well, can't be helped now, I guess.
00:39:31We'll just have to hope for the best.
00:39:33What's that?
00:39:35The same to you.
00:39:37What did he say?
00:39:38Merry Christmas.
00:39:39Do you think he's double-crossed you, Dad?
00:39:41No, he had to file a will for probate.
00:39:44He did it quietly, but some smart reporter got wind of it.
00:39:46He was upset about it.
00:39:48He even held out hope that maybe the Watson girl was dead.
00:39:52Well, you didn't tell him.
00:39:53That she couldn't be dead and eating kidneys and bacon in my dining room?
00:39:57No.
00:39:58Well, what do we do?
00:39:59I don't know.
00:40:01We've got to get her out of town.
00:40:02Away from the newspapers and the radio.
00:40:04Where?
00:40:05How?
00:40:05If you'd only bought that place in Connecticut that I wanted last summer.
00:40:10Wait a minute.
00:40:11Wait a minute.
00:40:13There's a house that we haven't been able to even give away.
00:40:16It's about 60 miles north.
00:40:19The nearest village is five miles from it.
00:40:21No telephone.
00:40:22Here it is.
00:40:24Built in 1771.
00:40:27Additions and improvements are strictly adhered to the period of six...
00:40:34Six master bedrooms.
00:40:35Can you get possession of the place?
00:40:37Certainly all I have to do is go to the office and get the keys.
00:40:39Well, where are the owners?
00:40:41I see.
00:40:42House has remained possession, same family.
00:40:46The only surviving heir is Lady Allensby, now residing in England.
00:40:52Well, that sounds like the place.
00:40:54But how will we explain the sudden move to Miss Watson?
00:40:56And Stephen, what am I going to tell him?
00:41:00Oh, I wish I were dead.
00:41:03What will we tell them?
00:41:05We've made such elaborate plans here for Christmas.
00:41:08They're sure to think such a sudden change.
00:41:10Odd, at least.
00:41:12Well, give me time.
00:41:14I'll think of something.
00:41:15Oh, yes, and order me one of those tall things that Mr. M has for breakfast.
00:41:28Would you put them on a chair yourself, please, sir?
00:41:30My hands are all grubby.
00:41:32And only yesterday I had myself all done up for Christmas.
00:41:35And now I can't spend it with my boyfriend.
00:41:37And it's cruel.
00:41:39Cruel!
00:41:49Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:41:50I'm sorry.
00:41:51It's all right.
00:42:01I beg your pardon, too.
00:42:26Oh, hello.
00:42:27I guess you're the boyfriend from Boston.
00:42:29Well, Therese and Mrs. Pigeon will be down in a minute.
00:42:31In the meantime, make yourself at home.
00:42:36Oh, my dear boy, such a dreadful reception.
00:42:40But have you heard?
00:42:41A dear aunt of Mr. Pigeon's has just passed away.
00:42:44And he insists on spending Christmas in her old house in the country.
00:42:49It's been in the family for generations.
00:42:52Holds memories, you know.
00:42:54But it's so tiresome for you.
00:42:56Oh, not at all.
00:42:57And I am sorry to hear it.
00:42:58But I'm afraid this is no time for me to be intruding.
00:43:00Oh, no, no.
00:43:01It isn't as if she were here and we had to go to a funeral.
00:43:05She passed away in South America.
00:43:07It's just, well, shall we call it, a sentimental pilgrimage.
00:43:12Have you met Mr. Pigeon?
00:43:13Or is he here?
00:43:18Unless, um...
00:43:18Oh, dear, no.
00:43:20That's Mr. M.
00:43:21I mean, Mr. Marchand.
00:43:23He's a charity case.
00:43:25We always have charity in the house at Christmas.
00:43:27I understand your dear mother is an advocate of the same idea.
00:43:32Yes, she is.
00:43:34Oh.
00:43:35Well.
00:43:37There's no use my showing you to a room.
00:43:39We are going to start very shortly.
00:43:42So, will you just make yourself comfortable and I'll send today's along.
00:43:45I'm afraid she's taking longer than usual to chase.
00:43:55Oh, you little fiend.
00:43:56This is blackmail.
00:43:57Well, it's no worse than what you're doing to the Watson woman.
00:43:59You're so clever.
00:44:01I'm not as stupid as she is, apparently.
00:44:03And I'd like that black velvet evening gown you just bought.
00:44:05It makes your skin look sallow.
00:44:07Oh.
00:44:07Don't swear, sister darling.
00:44:09You know mother doesn't approve.
00:44:10And the elegant Mr. Bates and his mother.
00:44:12Oh, they'd be shattered.
00:44:16Oh, she knows.
00:44:17Who?
00:44:18Angela.
00:44:18She's known all along.
00:44:19Overheard the whole thing.
00:44:20I thought you meant Miss Watson.
00:44:22Well, it amounts to the same thing unless you can make her promise to keep quiet.
00:44:25Where is Angela now?
00:44:26In there, stripping me of my wardrobe.
00:44:28Mother, if you have any love for me, talk her out of that evening gown.
00:44:31But she's apt to show up in it at dinner and heaven knows what Stephen will think.
00:44:36Heaven only knows what he's going to think anyway.
00:44:38Mother, this family is absolutely insane.
00:44:41I know, dear.
00:44:42I know.
00:44:43Oh, dear.
00:44:47Oh, dear.
00:44:49Oh, dear.
00:44:51Stephen!
00:44:55Darling.
00:44:56Oh, Stephen.
00:44:58I'm so sorry.
00:45:00All the lovely things we planned.
00:45:02The theater and dancing and just being with you.
00:45:13We'll be together if you want me to stay.
00:45:17And there'll be years ahead of us in which to do the other thing.
00:45:22Yes, Stephen.
00:45:23If you say so.
00:45:24If you say so.
00:45:49If you say so.
00:45:53I don't know.
00:45:57I don't know.
00:46:02I don't know.
00:46:11I don't know.
00:46:20cooking and building of fires i am also regretfully tendering my resignation respectfully mcfarlane
00:46:28his accomplishments well there's a post script please tell mr marchand i am sorry i shan't be
00:46:36here to look after him so i'm including the recipe for his morning drink your recipe sir
00:46:42thank you well what do we do i haven't the faintest idea oh
00:46:50what was this a torture chamber oh a loom for making rugs
00:46:56um your father's great great grandmother made that very rug you're standing on really
00:47:05i wish the old girl had made it a bit thicker and feel the cold coming up to the soles
00:47:09of my shoes
00:47:10it's easy to see why the cook left look look at my things after all my work call an agency
00:47:19there is no telephone then let steven or reggie drive you into the village to be passed surely
00:47:24we can get local help of some kind i will not have any local help in this house
00:47:31you seem to forget that i was reared here
00:47:34oh pidgey how do you think i'd feel if the cook turned out to be some girl i went to
00:47:39school with
00:47:40or the butler the president of my debating team
00:47:45if you were on a debating team i'm sure you were the president
00:47:51still i i get your point what do you suggest you used to be able to cook why don't you
00:47:56try it again
00:47:58on that thing oh i've cooked on everything from a gas jet to an electric grill smuggled in past
00:48:03the landlady let's take a crack at it mrs pigeon if some of these able-bodied guys will scare up
00:48:09some
00:48:09wood that's the spirit i'll get some oh me too where's it stored oh in the shed out back well
00:48:16there's no fuel like at all fuel do forgive me for bringing this up mr m marchand we know you've
00:48:24worked at being a night watchman i just wondered if you've had any experience with furnaces well
00:48:30no not in a professional capacity but i'd be delighted to try my hand at it
00:48:44how's this that's swell oh dear what's the matter besides everything i just remembered that factory
00:48:52that burned to the ground what factory the last place mr m worked i suppose he had nothing to do
00:48:58with the fire poor soul but i just asked him to try and start a fire in the furnace you
00:49:04better go down
00:49:04and stay with him willie well where is it in the basement oh
00:49:23come over here my friend brandy bottled when we were mere children my first impulse of course was to take
00:49:32it upstairs since everybody is cold and slightly depressed i've also been informed that no supply
00:49:37at all has been brought what christmas notwithstanding it's terrible it seems captain bates does not
00:49:42approve and i had him sized up as a regular fellow let's take it up anyway uh the rest of
00:49:47them could
00:49:47use it and on the other hand wouldn't it be cruelly unkind to raise their hopes and then find upon
00:49:55opening the bottom that it had been ruined by age oh but age improved we should sample it first
00:50:00well perhaps it would be as you say kinder infinitely now uh over there is what was undoubtedly the care
00:50:07taker's room in it you may find some glasses
00:50:33what do you think i seem to detect a slightly exaggerated flavor of a we shouldn't have drunk
00:50:38it so fast let's go slow on the next you know we're we're supposed to be building a fire oh
00:50:43yes
00:50:43and so we shall
00:50:48oh look macfarlane the benign soul has already laid it now all we need is
00:50:55kerosene to start it you think it's safe certainly only way to start a fire
00:51:03uh that fire you were in you know how it started they never found out sabotage oh no oh no
00:51:14that isn't
00:51:14likely it was a mattress fighting
00:51:17if you are ever homeless which i sincerely hope you never will be i'd have no place to sleep i
00:51:26cannot
00:51:26recommend too highly the job of night watchman in a mattress factory i'd be all right
00:51:33their slogan was sink down on a downy mattress i did
00:51:40now i'm morally certain i extinguished that cigarette before dropping off but when i woke up
00:51:48i was surrounded by a wall of fire so i understand
00:52:06you shouldn't have closed the door but there's a fire my dear sir don't call me sir anymore just call
00:52:14me willy willy willy is there something i can do to help you i'll say here's a flock of potatoes
00:52:22you
00:52:23can peel oh are you peel the potatoes kid your mother and therese can be doing something else
00:52:27kid did you say yeah everybody else around here is trying to act like a good sport i thought you
00:52:32might like to join the procession how utterly mother's little helper and all that sort of thing
00:52:37i'm afraid processions bore me and i've never peeled a potato in my life and i've seen days when i
00:52:42didn't have one to peel let's both feel them darling and i'll show you how you know when your
00:52:48father and i were first married i had to learn how to cook he wasn't wealthy then in fact we
00:52:54had some hard times at first how touching why didn't you move in here with his aunt
00:52:59she was always so fond of him
00:53:11it's none of my business but give me five minutes a day with that kid in a locked room and
00:53:14i'd show you
00:53:15something what do you mean i'd wail the living daylights out of her oh i've seen plenty of them
00:53:21like that in show business they come in acting like they own the earth nine times out of ten it's
00:53:26just because they're young and scared to death they aren't going to make good and most of them don't
00:53:30make good if you're an old hand at the business you know they won't and there are plenty of tough
00:53:34times ahead but if they've learned to be regular they'll be able to take it better when the bad breaks
00:53:40start coming so you gang up on them give them a silent treatment for a while or good going over
00:53:46and
00:53:58why mrs pigeon
00:54:03oh that's the trouble with me i talk too much i forgot for a minute that she was your kid
00:54:09and how
00:54:09you must love her that's not why i'm crying then what was it was it something else i did no
00:54:19oh no it's just
00:54:22oh you're just tired that's what and all upset you worked like a dog to have a nice christmas in
00:54:29town and that was spoiled and then you came up here and everything went wrong i think you've been
00:54:34swell about it and we still have tomorrow we can whip this joint into shape we can get another tree
00:54:40even
00:54:40if we have to cut it down and we can trim it in the old-fashioned way with cranberries and
00:54:44popcorn
00:54:45i had one like that once my mother fixed it up for me in some crummy old hotel room when
00:54:50we were on the
00:54:51road with uncle tom's cabin and it looked just as elegant to me as that one you have at home
00:54:57in the library
00:55:03is there anything wrong she's tired and i'd blab my mouth off
00:55:11i'd blab my mouth off
00:55:12mrs pigeon may i suggest that you go and lie down for a while
00:55:20what is angela doing endeavoring to make a rock
00:55:33holy mackerel
00:55:46oh my admiration for you grows with every passing moment
00:55:50well wait until you've tasted it i haven't the faintest idea what the results will be
00:55:56will you lift one of those lids for me
00:56:18you won't find her she ain't been here for two days i tell you
00:56:28is this a picture of her
00:56:31all right all right if you hear from her she shows don't waste any time calling this number
00:56:36yeah
00:56:50oh they made her a grave too cold and damp for a soul so warm and true
00:57:02and she's gone to the lake of the dismal swamp where all night long by a firefly lamp
00:57:15she felt her white cologne
00:57:26with sacrifice before the rising morn vows have i made by fruitless hope inspired celestial pity i gain implore
00:57:41Well, restore him to my sight.
00:57:45Refill on the flannels.
00:57:46Flannels, she calls them.
00:57:47My word, not that.
00:57:49Those are the best hotcakes I ever tasted.
00:57:51Swell.
00:57:52They're made strictly by the I wonder what else goes in method.
00:57:55Maybe I ought to patent it, huh?
00:57:56You do and I'll fight at you.
00:58:06Well, how are you doing?
00:58:08Watch.
00:58:10Oh, wherever did you learn to do that?
00:58:12Oh, a man in the show window of a grill taught me.
00:58:15You mean you went in and practiced with him?
00:58:17Certainly.
00:58:18He said I was a good draw.
00:58:19Crowd collected in no time.
00:58:22She must be a throwback.
00:58:24Are we going to get the tree?
00:58:26If Mr. Pigeon doesn't object,
00:58:27I want to do my imitation of George Washington.
00:58:29Use my little hatchet.
00:58:31Nobody's going to cut down any tree on this property.
00:58:34Don't tell me Aunt Carolyn planted them with her own hands.
00:58:38Yes.
00:58:39She was very fond of trees.
00:58:41And now that she's gone, I...
00:58:43We're going to have a tree.
00:58:45Every year we have the same old thing covered with fancy ornaments and I'm sick and tired of it.
00:58:50I've never seen one done with cranberries and popcorn like Miss Watson had and I want to.
00:58:53And I found a perfectly slick thing to make the popcorn in.
00:58:56I will trade that to bed warmer, dear.
00:58:59Well, I don't care if it's a 16th century flyswatter.
00:59:02I'm going to use it.
00:59:03And don't misunderstand me.
00:59:04I wouldn't think of doing anything so childish as popping corn merely to eat it.
00:59:08But if it's going to be put to some use, that's different.
00:59:10Miss Watson's going to show me how to string this stuff.
00:59:12And so we're going to have a tree.
00:59:16Brother, what I started...
00:59:17And what you started, I can finish, cousin Flory.
00:59:24I tell you, I don't know.
00:59:26He merely said he was going to show a client a house in the country.
00:59:30Don't you keep your keys labelled?
00:59:32Certainly.
00:59:33Then we can check the keys still in the office against your list of properties.
00:59:36You could, but you aren't going to.
00:59:38And if you don't leave, I'm going to call the police.
00:59:40I wouldn't, unless you want to get your employer in a worse jam than he's in already.
00:59:46Well, even if you had the right to pry into our files, I haven't the time.
00:59:50Look, Miss Tate, it may be Christmas Eve to you, but to us it's just Tuesday.
00:59:55Take your time.
00:59:56We've got all day.
01:00:14You're very quiet, Mr. Marchand.
01:00:20I'm watching a scene from the past.
01:00:22It is so indelibly stamped upon the memory of this house that a reenactment was inevitable.
01:00:28I don't get it.
01:00:30Observe.
01:00:35Take it easy.
01:00:37Goon, I'm out on a limb.
01:00:38I'm doing it on purpose.
01:00:39It's my time to trim.
01:00:41I see a young girl stripped of all artifice,
01:00:43working in chiding harmony with her older brother who's cut down a Christmas tree.
01:00:48Surely that is not new to this room.
01:00:51There's the father, dozing by the fire.
01:00:58We'll awaken soon, refreshed, peaceful it is to be hoped, and undoubtedly hungry.
01:01:06There's a girl, her finger's busy with a needle, and the man who loves her sitting beside her.
01:01:18I'm giving you the creeps.
01:01:21And where does Willie fit in?
01:01:24Willie.
01:01:25My friend Willie.
01:01:27Little boy, do you know what?
01:01:27Say hi.
01:01:30In the older picture, he was a country bumpkin.
01:01:33The not too bright, but quite amiable uncle.
01:01:37He is destined to never quite find his way and die as happily as he had lived.
01:01:44And Mrs. Pigeon?
01:01:46Mrs. Pigeon.
01:01:50I don't know what came over me, but I made some cookies.
01:01:53I do believe they're not going to drop.
01:01:55What's well, hand me up some.
01:01:56What's that, cookies? Give me some, I'm starved.
01:02:01My puppets are working at such perfection they should be rewarded.
01:02:05I shall now go down to the furnace and see to it that they be kept warm.
01:02:14Let's go.
01:02:31Who is it?
01:02:32Visitors, with flat feet.
01:02:35Detectives.
01:02:35Did they see you?
01:02:37Afraid so.
01:02:38Play some music.
01:02:40Do something, make all the noise you can, and keep Miss Watson out of sight.
01:02:46I'll try and get rid of them.
01:02:56Come in, gentlemen.
01:02:57Are you Mr. Pigeon?
01:02:58Pigeon?
01:02:59Pigeon?
01:03:00What?
01:03:00Isn't this the Allensby place?
01:03:02Well, it belongs to my aunt, Mrs. Carpenteria.
01:03:09Carpenteria.
01:03:09Yes, Carpenteria.
01:03:11You see, she is a descendant of Gene Carpenteria, one of our earliest settlers.
01:03:17Wonderful old house, isn't it?
01:03:19He built it in 1671.
01:03:22Of course, the additions and improvements have adhered strictly to the period and enhanced rather than detracted from its authenticity.
01:03:30It's really a remarkable example of...
01:03:32We aren't interested in houses.
01:03:34Oh.
01:03:35No?
01:03:36No.
01:03:36We have reason to believe there's a Miss Watson here with a Mr. Pigeon.
01:03:39James?
01:03:41Oh, you really must come in.
01:03:43Oh, I didn't know.
01:03:45Who are these gentlemen?
01:03:47They're looking for a Mr. Pigeon and a Miss...
01:03:49What was her name?
01:03:51Watson.
01:03:52Florence Watson.
01:03:54Do we know them?
01:03:55No, I don't think so.
01:03:58Unless they might have been friends of Aunt Caroline's, but she's been dead for a long time.
01:04:02Oh, yes, yes.
01:04:06I'm so sorry we can't be more helpful.
01:04:08Hey, kid.
01:04:18Oh, wonderful.
01:04:19Thanks, old boy.
01:04:21Were you speaking to me?
01:04:23Yeah.
01:04:23What's your name?
01:04:24It ain't kid.
01:04:26Hey, the guy with the limp.
01:04:29Did I understand you correctly?
01:04:31Yeah, I guess you did.
01:04:33Didn't you and a Miss Watson help deliver a drunk to a Mr. Pigeon's house in New York the other
01:04:37night?
01:04:38I am not acquainted with the people you have mentioned, nor do I approve of drunks.
01:04:44And I find it bitter indeed that a man who has been crippled in the opening up of new frontiers
01:04:49in the service of humanity should be referred to as the guy with the limp.
01:04:53Good day, gentlemen.
01:04:55Oh, I'm so sorry, but the professor is always upset when his affliction is mentioned.
01:05:01It reminds him of...
01:05:02Tibet.
01:05:03Tibet, you know.
01:05:05Tigers.
01:05:07Yeah.
01:05:08Well, uh, I guess we got a bum steer someplace.
01:05:12I'm sorry to bother you.
01:05:12Oh, it's perfectly all right.
01:05:21Oh.
01:05:22Oh.
01:05:26Think we were taken?
01:05:28Yeah, for a sleigh ride.
01:05:30That fat guy was scared.
01:05:31Now, lay you ten to one, he was lying.
01:05:33What are we gonna do next?
01:05:34We can't go busting in there again without a search warrant.
01:05:37We're gonna try and get one.
01:05:49Where did you find it?
01:05:58You may have the goblet, my dear. I'll use the bottle.
01:06:01No, thanks.
01:06:03No?
01:06:05Thanks.
01:06:09It's none of my business, Mr. Marchand.
01:06:12But why don't you cut this out?
01:06:15When you speak of spirits, my dear, speak reverently.
01:06:22All right, if that's the way it is.
01:06:25But I wanted to talk to you about something.
01:06:28Something serious.
01:06:29And why not?
01:06:31A serious mood seems to have invaded this house today, or no.
01:06:36We are the invaders.
01:06:38The mood belongs to the house.
01:06:41You say things in a way that...
01:06:46That proves I'm right in what I was thinking.
01:06:50What were you thinking?
01:06:54About you.
01:06:55What the hell is going for?
01:06:55If you haven't told me something today.
01:07:00Maybe it was in confidence.
01:07:01But you...
01:07:07Some money on you.
01:07:15I didn't think Mrs. Pigeon had that much humor in her makeup.
01:07:18Oh, she didn't say the part about the drinking. I did.
01:07:23From you, it has less humor.
01:07:26Yes, it has.
01:07:29Oh, I'm probably doing this all wrong, the way I do everything.
01:07:32But here it is for what it's worth.
01:07:36I don't think you need money.
01:07:38So much as you need to get back where you belong.
01:07:40Not the theater, my dear.
01:07:42Well, why not? It's all you've ever known.
01:07:46And you're every bit as good today as you were when you were on top.
01:07:50But there's a vast multitude made up of producers, spectators, actors,
01:07:56that do not share your opinion.
01:07:59So without doing anything about it, you join the multitude.
01:08:02That's right.
01:08:04See, you sound as if you are actually sincere about all this.
01:08:07I'm sincere in everything I do, right or wrong.
01:08:10Just a dumb name.
01:08:12Probably more sincere when I'm way off on the wrong foot.
01:08:16But I've been watching you.
01:08:18And I know one thing.
01:08:20You're acting all the time anyway.
01:08:23So why not put it to some good advantage?
01:08:26Maybe not as an actor.
01:08:28But with Mr. Pigeon's money behind you, you could produce or direct.
01:08:37I got mixed up in the summer theater once.
01:08:40The kids that try out for that really try.
01:08:45They're so young and so anxious it hurts.
01:08:49But gee, if you directed them, gave them the benefit of your experience and ability,
01:08:56and one or two of them should hit,
01:08:59I think you'd get an awful wallop out of it.
01:09:03Wouldn't you?
01:09:07Wouldn't you?
01:09:11Wouldn't you?
01:09:12I've never heard so many clichés spoken with such unconscious sweetness.
01:09:17I don't know what the devil you're talking about.
01:09:19I'm sorry.
01:09:20I don't know what you're talking about.
01:09:21I have a vague idea you want me to stop drinking and open a theater with Mr. Pigeon's money.
01:09:27It's not a theater.
01:09:28A summer theater.
01:09:30Here, in the barn.
01:09:32Here?
01:09:33Mm-hmm.
01:09:34In the barn?
01:09:36The barn on this place?
01:09:38Sure.
01:09:39Mr. Pigeon thought so much of his aunt,
01:09:41he'd want to hang on to it for sentimental reasons.
01:09:43But he might let you use the barn.
01:09:48Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
01:09:54ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:11:01Stop trying. This is ghastly and you know it.
01:11:04How about opening our presents?
01:11:06If we did, we'd have nothing to do tomorrow.
01:11:08Oh, we'll have plenty to do tomorrow.
01:11:10We have a turkey and a suckling pig to cook.
01:11:12And all I know about either of them is that the turkey's supposed to be stuffed
01:11:15and the pig arrives with an apple in its mouth.
01:11:18Oh, dear.
01:11:21What are you doing?
01:11:23Nothing, dear, nothing.
01:11:24You are, too. You're spoiling the effect.
01:11:26I stack every one of those presents and I want them left as they are.
01:11:29Angela, please.
01:11:31Oh, I...
01:11:32I'm terribly sorry about your present, Miss Watson.
01:11:36Why, that's all right, Mrs. Pigeon.
01:11:37I didn't expect one.
01:11:39I have nothing for you either.
01:11:41I wish I had.
01:11:55I have six presents for Grace and she only has five for me.
01:11:58I'll give you the six, Miss Watson.
01:12:00It'll serve her right because I really shopped for her.
01:12:02All she did was leave it up to Mother to get me what I wanted.
01:12:05I bet you $5 she doesn't even know what she's giving me.
01:12:07Angela, so help me out.
01:12:24They're coming here.
01:12:25A whole sleigh full.
01:12:30Oh, heavens.
01:12:32They're going to sing.
01:12:36Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright.
01:12:56Round yon virgin, mother and child.
01:13:08Holy youth that's so tender and mild.
01:13:17Sleep in heavenly peace.
01:13:28Sleep in heavenly peace.
01:13:38Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright.
01:13:55Round yon virgin, mother and child.
01:14:04Round yon virgin, mother and child.
01:14:07Holy infant, so tender and mild.
01:14:17Sleep in heavenly peace.
01:14:27Sleep in heavenly peace.
01:14:36Sleep in heavenly peace.
01:14:53I've heard them in the city, but it isn't quite the same, is it?
01:15:00Nothing will ever be quite the same for any of us after tonight.
01:15:05Those voices tell us that there's still left in some the belief in God.
01:15:13I haven't the effrontery to speak of God, so I would instead remind you of a moving tale of simple
01:15:20people.
01:15:22The Christmas carol of Mr. Dickens.
01:15:26Do you remember?
01:15:27Of course.
01:15:29How much do you remember?
01:15:32That there was a little boy who was crippled, and the sophisticate, no doubt, gags over his name.
01:15:40Tiny Tim.
01:15:41And, of course, you remember the three spirits.
01:15:44The spirit of Christmas past, of Christmas present, and of the Christmas to come.
01:15:52And when Scrooge beheld the last of these, the spirit of Christmas to come,
01:15:57he pled with the spirit to tell him if it were too late to alter it.
01:16:03You remember all that?
01:16:06Vaguely.
01:16:07Oh.
01:16:10Vaguely.
01:16:14Well, in that case, you may have forgotten that a ghost preceded the three spirits.
01:16:23Well, most of us forget that because it pleases us to forget what we don't like.
01:16:28But, there was a ghost named Molly, and he had once been a man, a partner of Scrooge.
01:16:39Do you recall?
01:16:41No.
01:16:42But I think...
01:16:43Good.
01:16:44Let us think of the ghost of Molly.
01:16:47Mr. Marchand is enacting the Christmas carol for us.
01:16:50Oh, that's quite appropriate.
01:16:52Carry on, Mr. M.
01:16:53I want to hear more about the ghost of Molly.
01:17:12I want to hear more about the ghost of Molly.
01:17:23The chains.
01:17:29I have to clunk.
01:17:31You mean clank, don't you?
01:17:34I do mean clank, my dear.
01:17:36Thank you for reminding me.
01:17:38Uh, shall we go for a walk?
01:17:40Yes, let's.
01:17:41Bully, I dear.
01:17:41Go for a walk.
01:17:43All of you.
01:17:45I will stay here.
01:17:47And while you're gone, I will keep on talking.
01:17:50I will speak of Molly's ghost.
01:17:53And the words will be held here within these walls for others who may come, refuse to listen
01:17:58like you, and go on.
01:18:01I will ask again what Scrooge asked of Molly.
01:18:03Why are you fed up?
01:18:06And Molly will answer.
01:18:08I wear the chain I forged in life.
01:18:13I made it link by link and yard by yard.
01:18:17I girded it on of my own free will.
01:18:22And of my own free will, I wore it.
01:18:27Is its pattern strange to you?
01:18:31And Molly will say again,
01:18:33It is required of every man that the spirit within him walk among his fellow men.
01:18:39And if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
01:18:49It is doomed to wander through the world and witness what it can no longer share,
01:18:54but might have shared in life and turned to happiness.
01:18:59Go then.
01:19:00Go now.
01:19:02Miss Watson here has told you of a Christmas in the past.
01:19:06This is the present.
01:19:08There will be others, but you, you, you, all of you will remember this one.
01:19:13And sometime, like Scrooge, confronted with the spirit of Christmas to come,
01:19:18will sweat and tremble as the spirit points down to the grave which bears your name.
01:19:26You, like Scrooge, will cry,
01:19:28Spirit, hear me.
01:19:29I am no longer the man I was.
01:19:32I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.
01:19:36I will live in the past, the present, and the future.
01:19:40I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
01:19:44So tell me I may sponge away the writings on this stone.
01:19:49James has always been a good man.
01:19:52In his agony, Scrooge caught the spectral hand.
01:19:56It tried to free itself,
01:19:57but Scrooge was strong in his entreaty and detained it.
01:20:01Look here, Mr. Marshall.
01:20:02Holding up his hand in a last prayer to have his fate reversed,
01:20:06he suddenly saw a change in the phantom's hood and dress.
01:20:11It shrunk, collapsed,
01:20:15and dwindled down into a bedpost.
01:20:21You know, I could use one myself.
01:20:26What?
01:20:27A bedpost.
01:20:29Oh, dear, oh, dear, how perfectly dreadful.
01:20:33Oh, it's all right, Mommy, he's just passed out.
01:20:35Oh, Reggie, you haven't called me Mom for years.
01:20:39Just slipped out, I guess.
01:20:40Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Mrs. Pidgeon.
01:20:43Why should you be?
01:20:44You didn't.
01:20:45I know.
01:20:46Oh, no, I don't know.
01:20:48And I'm not as good as Mr. Marshawn when it comes to explaining things,
01:20:51but I have a funny feeling I belong to him.
01:20:54To his world, his way of living, I mean.
01:20:56Well, what I'm getting at is,
01:20:59you people have been kind to us.
01:21:01You've done your best to be decent and show us a good time,
01:21:03and for thanks, you've had to suffer an embarrassing scene.
01:21:06You don't know what he was trying to do.
01:21:07Oh, no.
01:21:08I know what he did to me.
01:21:10He made me want to get something off my conscience.
01:21:12I'm here under false pretenses, and I know it.
01:21:15I'm not related to you, and I know it.
01:21:17I knew it when I accepted the invitation,
01:21:19but I was flat, Mrs. Pidgeon, really flat.
01:21:22You mean broke?
01:21:24You people don't understand what it is to be like that.
01:21:27But when Willie showed up saying you thought we were cousins,
01:21:31I said, hooray, let him think.
01:21:34And then I met you,
01:21:35and you were so nice to me that I got to feeling ashamed.
01:21:38Oh, I meant to check out right after the holidays,
01:21:41but until this happened, I was having an awfully nice time.
01:21:44It's been fun cooking with you,
01:21:46trimming the tree, and just being with you.
01:21:50And I didn't feel as if I were cheating you out of too much.
01:21:54Listen.
01:21:56I'm a brat.
01:21:57I've even worked at being one because I thought it was smart.
01:22:00But if I'm a real brat,
01:22:01I want to say that I think it's because I was born in this family.
01:22:05Are you going to keep on doing what you've been doing
01:22:07and not tell her after the way she's acted
01:22:09and the things she's just told you?
01:22:11Because if you are, I don't want to be a part of you anymore.
01:22:14And I'm going to...
01:22:14Wait a minute, baby.
01:22:15And don't call me baby.
01:22:16Mr. M was right when he said nothing would ever be quite the same after tonight.
01:22:20I know I won't.
01:22:21And Angela's shown she's learned something.
01:22:24You can count me in, too, sis.
01:22:26I was getting kind of tired of college anyway.
01:22:29What about it, Dad?
01:22:32Mother, James...
01:22:32Miss Watson has made a pathetically innocent confession
01:22:35when you consider what we have on our conscience.
01:22:38Well, whether or not we tell her, I have to tell Stephen.
01:22:41And that means more to me than the loss of money.
01:22:44Therese, what's this all about?
01:22:46Listen here, mister.
01:22:47I mean, Captain.
01:22:48This is something I'd like to know myself.
01:22:50Go ahead, Therese.
01:22:53Tell her.
01:22:56I don't know whether I'm telling this to Stephen or to you,
01:22:58but we've been cheating you,
01:23:00at least trying to cheat you out of an awful lot of money.
01:23:02Five million bucks?
01:23:05I thought you people were really getting worked up about something for a minute.
01:23:09But it's okay.
01:23:10If this is the kind of games you play on Christmas Eve,
01:23:13I can take it.
01:23:14Charades, you call it, don't you?
01:23:15But it's true.
01:23:16We did it.
01:23:17I'm telling you, five million bucks.
01:23:21Sorry, Miss Watson.
01:23:22I'm not.
01:23:23I'm glad.
01:23:24And I hope we can do this again next year.
01:23:29It's all right, darling.
01:23:30It's all right.
01:23:31Would anybody mind if I loved you and your family?
01:23:34Would anybody mind telling me if we have any nutmeg in this silly house?
01:23:37I am making Tom and Jerry's.
01:23:47Hold her hand, someone.
01:23:49She's pinching herself black and blue.
01:23:52Don't.
01:23:53It feels good.
01:23:54Oh, I'm so glad we did it.
01:23:56May I make a toast?
01:23:58You're the guest of honor.
01:23:59Thanks.
01:24:01To that famous gentleman and sterling actor
01:24:04who took the count instead of waiting for the bows.
01:24:07Mr. M.
01:24:08Mr. M.
01:24:09Mr. M.
01:24:14Mr. Pigeon, sir, and his dear lady,
01:24:16I realize that my behavior last night was inexorable...
01:24:19Gosh, he uses dollar words.
01:24:21Taste, and I wish to apologize.
01:24:23I also beg your forgiveness for this seemingly ungracious departure,
01:24:27but my gratitude for the helping hand you extended to me
01:24:30in my hour of need bids me remain loyal to you
01:24:33even though my sympathies are with the admirable Miss Watson.
01:24:37Unfortunately, I have formed a deep attachment for her.
01:24:41Well, anyway, he wishes you a Merry Christmas, and he's gone.
01:24:44Well, doesn't he say where?
01:24:45Oh, how did he leave?
01:24:47Oh, dear.
01:24:48James, you must find him.
01:24:50How far is the nearest town?
01:24:51Five miles.
01:24:53Is there a bar there?
01:24:54Yes.
01:24:55Somebody drive me.
01:25:07I read your note.
01:25:09Oh.
01:25:11Did you mean what you said?
01:25:13About liking me?
01:25:16Is it possible that such a thing could be of interest to you?
01:25:20I'm here.
01:25:23You are.
01:25:24I'm glad.
01:25:25Will you join me?
01:25:26Oh.
01:25:27You were great last night, but you missed the climax.
01:25:31They told me about the money.
01:25:35Well.
01:25:37Well, is that all you have to say?
01:25:39What else is there to say for me except that I'm money?
01:25:42I'm cutting them in.
01:25:44After all, I don't even remember the old guy that left it to me.
01:25:47Bless him forever.
01:25:49I like the pigeons.
01:25:56What else is there to say for me except for me except for me except for me except for me
01:26:03except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for
01:26:04me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except
01:26:04for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me
01:26:04except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for
01:26:05me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except
01:26:05for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me
01:26:06except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for
01:26:08me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except
01:26:08for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me
01:26:08except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for me except for
01:26:26me
01:26:30You
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