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The Cheaters (1945) Full Movie ｜ Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette [Full Movie] [Trending Drama]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.
00:28:52Miss Watson's maid.
00:28:54Hello?
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, what'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,
00:29:13I discovered
00:29:14that we're cousins.
00:29:15What?
00:29:16Say, what kind
00:29:17of a gag is this?
00:29:18No, no, it's quite true,
00:29:20Miss Watson.
00:29:20You see,
00:29:21the family had a phrenologist,
00:29:22I mean to say a genealogist,
00:29:23looking up our family tree.
00:29:26Silly and all that,
00:29:26you know,
00:29:27but they did,
00:29:27and they've unearthed you.
00:29:29I mean, say,
00:29:30the fact that there was
00:29:30a Watson, well,
00:29:32and the family wants you
00:29:33to visit them
00:29:33over the holidays.
00:29:34Of course,
00:29:35you have other plans.
00:29:36So, we thought
00:29:36you might see them,
00:29:38or, well,
00:29:38perhaps me.
00:29:40Well, I'd like
00:29:41to see you.
00:29:43But if you come in here
00:29:44with a writ, brother,
00:29:44there's going to be
00:29:45plenty of trouble.
00:29:46Oh, I assure you.
00:29:47Well, just come,
00:29:48bring it if you've got it,
00:29:49and let's get it over with.
00:29:50But if you're
00:29:51a right kind of a guy,
00:29:52you'll stop at the
00:29:52delicadecen 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.
00:30:10How 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
00:30:21that you remember the name.
00:30:23Why, anybody who knows
00:30:24show business
00:30:25remembers that name.
00:30:27You're as kind
00:30:28as you're mistaken.
00:30:32Oh, here,
00:30:33let me help you.
00:30:45Now, what's this
00:30:46cousin business?
00:30:47Isn't it wonderful?
00:30:47I telephoned the family
00:30:48that I'd located you
00:30:49and they're delighted.
00:30:50I have to bring you
00:30:51home with me bag and baggies.
00:30:52Are you kidding?
00:30:54On my word,
00:30:54ask Mr. M.
00:30:55I mean, Mr. Marchand.
00:30:56No, no.
00:30:57Mr. M. is both
00:30:57sufficient and correct.
00:30:59And lest Miss Watson
00:31:00labor under any
00:31:01misconceptions,
00:31:01I should like to explain
00:31:03my connection
00:31:03with this happy affair.
00:31:04You see, Miss Watson,
00:31:05I'm a charity case.
00:31:06Oh, I say,
00:31:06do we need to?
00:31:07I'm a charity case
00:31:08who's had the very great
00:31:09fortune to be invited
00:31:10into the Pigeon household
00:31:11for the holidays.
00:31:12The Pigeon household?
00:31:13My brother-in-law's
00:31:15J.C. Pigeon.
00:31:17And they want me
00:31:18to 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
00:31:27to reach Miss Watson,
00:31:27we forgot to buy
00:31:28the necessary liquids
00:31:29with which to wash this down.
00:31:30Why, of course.
00:31:31I noticed the place
00:31:33right next door
00:31:33as we hand out.
00:31:34Oh, yeah.
00:31:35Do you like champagne,
00:31:36Miss Watson?
00:31:37Oh, with food,
00:31:38I like anything.
00:31:39You do?
00:31:40Well, 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
00:31:54for the grave yourself.
00:31:56But seriously,
00:31:57we'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?
00:32:05I'm no more related to them
00:32:07than 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,
00:32:12I'm moving in
00:32:13because this is a kiss
00:32:14from Cinderella.
00:32:16I owe two months' rent
00:32:17and I haven't got a bean.
00:32:19I've got clothes
00:32:20because they're my stock in trade.
00:32:21I've got three bottles
00:32:22of nail polish
00:32:23and a bottle of bleach.
00:32:24And as long as they hold out,
00:32:25so 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
00:32:31the bleaching business
00:32:32when I was a kid
00:32:32because for some reason
00:32:34people always seem
00:32:35to go for blonde kids.
00:32:36I used to play in stock.
00:32:37Really?
00:32:38Well,
00:32:39fine training for any actor.
00:32:41East Lynn,
00:32:43Great Divide,
00:32:44Two Orphans,
00:32:45Uncle Tom's Cabin.
00:32:47Uncle Tom's Cabin.
00:32:48Fine training for what?
00:32:50When I was five,
00:32:51I played Little Eva
00:32:52until I was as black
00:32:53in the face
00:32:53as Uncle Tom.
00:32:55This is what I mean.
00:32:56They must have
00:32:57an awful lot of dough.
00:32:58Maybe it isn't honest
00:32:59when I know
00:32:59they've made a mistake.
00:33:00And I wouldn't want you
00:33:01to think I'm planning
00:33:02to really chisel them
00:33:03out of anything.
00:33:04I won't.
00:33:04But I'd just like
00:33:05to sleep for a while
00:33:06in a bed that doesn't
00:33:07pull out of the wall
00:33:09and watch some servants
00:33:10pussyfooting around
00:33:11with trays of something
00:33:13for me
00:33:13and not jump out of my skin
00:33:15and try to remember
00:33:15my prayers every time
00:33:16the 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
00:33:26off a chap in the street.
00:33:27He was tired
00:33:28and wanted to go home anyway.
00:33:30Merry Christmas, everybody.
00:33:46Whee!
00:33:48Should old acquaintance
00:33:51be forgotten
00:33:52and never brought to mind
00:33:56just drink a cup
00:33:59and find a ship
00:34:01for the days of all acts.
00:34:05William!
00:34:06Miss Watson!
00:34:08Our new cousin!
00:34:09Oh, Miss Watson
00:34:10was so surprised
00:34:11at finding that
00:34:12she's related to you
00:34:13that we had great trouble
00:34:14in persuading her
00:34:15to accept your invitation.
00:34:18My dear, how nice!
00:34:20I feel far too little
00:34:21stress is put on family
00:34:22in these careless days.
00:34:24Happy to meet you, Miss Watson.
00:34:25Any of my wife's relatives
00:34:27are welcome.
00:34:28I beg your pardon?
00:34:30It was swell of you
00:34:31to look me up.
00:34:32Oh, this is Therese
00:34:34and this is Reggie
00:34:36and our little daughter
00:34:37is in bed.
00:34:38Your little daughter
00:34:39is neither little
00:34:40nor in bed.
00:34:41Then you should be.
00:34:42Reggie, I expect you'd like
00:34:44to go directly to your room.
00:34:45I'll show you up.
00:34:46James, pay the cabman.
00:34:52What in the world
00:34:52are you doing?
00:34:53I won my bill!
00:34:55Reggie, get Willie to bed.
00:34:57I'm afraid you're not
00:34:58getting a very good impression
00:34:59of us, Miss Watson.
00:35:00Willie's always
00:35:01such a gentleman.
00:35:02He isn't the first gentleman
00:35:03I'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
00:35:28some of Mr. Crawford's
00:35:29sleeping garments, sir.
00:35:37I've played Hamlet.
00:35:39I saw you, sir,
00:35:41in London.
00:35:41Oh, did you?
00:35:43I played Richard III,
00:35:45Macbeth,
00:35:46Henry IV,
00:35:48Patricchio
00:35:49and a great production
00:35:50of The Taming of the Shrew.
00:35:51And no one has
00:35:52equalled my death
00:35:52seen as Romeo.
00:35:54Yes, I even played
00:35:55The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
00:35:58But there's one part
00:36:00that 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.
00:36:55This is such a lovely house.
00:36:58Oh, well, I'm glad you like it.
00:36:59I just had it done over.
00:37:01I hope you like
00:37:01the chinois' influence,
00:37:03the Chinese Chippendale,
00:37:04you know.
00:37:04Oh, I hope you slept well,
00:37:06my dear.
00:37:07On a bed like that,
00:37:08not even a guilty conscience
00:37:09could keep me awake.
00:37:10What an amusing way
00:37:11of phrasing it.
00:37:12What on earth
00:37:13is the matter with you, James?
00:37:15You look as if you were posing
00:37:17or had a pain.
00:37:19I'm not posing
00:37:20and I have no pain.
00:37:21I'm thinking
00:37:22and it does not cause me
00:37:24pain to think.
00:37:25Oh, dear,
00:37:25he's cross this morning.
00:37:26You might say good morning
00:37:27to Miss Watson.
00:37:28I might,
00:37:29if 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 on.
00:37:37Get your breakfast.
00:37:38There are kidneys this morning.
00:37:40I haven't finished my juice.
00:37:43Oh,
00:37:44those scrambled eggs
00:37:45look like something
00:37:46out of this world.
00:37:47Good morning, ladies.
00:37:48Mr. Pitchin, sir.
00:37:50Good morning.
00:37:51Good morning, Mr. Marchand.
00:37:52I hope you had a good night.
00:37:54Thank you, madam.
00:37:54Better than usual.
00:37:55Ah,
00:37:56thank you, McFarlane.
00:37:58Purely medicinal, sir.
00:38:01And how are you
00:38:02this morning, sir?
00:38:03Ah.
00:38:11What's the matter?
00:38:14My leg's asleep.
00:38:15Well,
00:38:16why don't you stand up
00:38:17and stomp your foot?
00:38:18I don't want to stand up
00:38:19and 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.
00:38:48Sit here, dear.
00:38:50You'll have to excuse me.
00:38:52I've received some bad news.
00:38:54James, what is it?
00:38:55What's happened?
00:38:56Mr. Marchand,
00:38:57will you come with me
00:38:58to the library?
00:38:59Glad to.
00:38:59Excuse me, lady.
00:39:01He's concealing something.
00:39:05Thank heavens
00:39:06we got out of that.
00:39:07Keep the Watson girl occupied
00:39:08and send Mrs. Pitchin
00:39:09to 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
00:39:26to the lawyer in Denver.
00:39:27I see.
00:39:29Well,
00:39:29can't be helped now, I guess.
00:39:31We'll just have to hope
00:39:32for the best.
00:39:33What's that?
00:39:35The same to you.
00:39:37What did he say?
00:39:38Merry Christmas.
00:39:40You think he's
00:39:40double-crossed you, Dad?
00:39:41No, he had to file
00:39:42a will for probate.
00:39:44He did it quietly,
00:39:44but some smart reporter
00:39:45got wind of it.
00:39:46He was upset about it.
00:39:48He even held out hope
00:39:50that maybe the Watson girl
00:39:51was dead.
00:39:52Well, you didn't tell him.
00:39:53That she couldn't be dead
00:39:55and eating kidneys
00:39:55and 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
00:40:01out of town,
00:40:02away from the newspapers
00:40:03and the radio.
00:40:04Where?
00:40:05How?
00:40:05If you'd only bought
00:40:07that place in Connecticut
00:40:08that I wanted last summer.
00:40:10Wait a minute.
00:40:11Wait a minute.
00:40:13There's a house
00:40:14that we haven't been able
00:40:15to even give away.
00:40:16It's about 60 miles north.
00:40:19The nearest village
00:40:20is five miles from it.
00:40:21No telephone.
00:40:22Here it is.
00:40:24Built in 1771.
00:40:27Additions and improvements
00:40:28are strictly adhered
00:40:30to the period of six...
00:40:31Oh, never mind that.
00:40:33Six master bedrooms.
00:40:35Can you get possession
00:40:36of the place?
00:40:37Well, certainly.
00:40:37All I have to do
00:40:38is go to the office
00:40:38and get the keys.
00:40:39Well, where are the owners?
00:40:40Oh, let's see.
00:40:42Here.
00:40:42House has remained
00:40:43possession of the same family.
00:40:46The only surviving heir
00:40:48is Lady Allensby,
00:40:50now residing in England.
00:40:52Well, that sounds like the place.
00:40:54But how will we explain
00:40:55the sudden move
00:40:55to Miss Watson?
00:40:56And Stephen,
00:40:57what am I going to tell him?
00:41:00Oh, I wish I were dead.
00:41:03What will we tell him?
00:41:05We've made such elaborate plans
00:41:07here for Christmas.
00:41:08There's sure to think
00:41:09such 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
00:41:16one of those tall things
00:41:18that Mr. M has for breakfast.
00:41:28Would you put them
00:41:29on a chair yourself, please,
00:41:30sir?
00:41:30My hands are all grubby.
00:41:32And only yesterday,
00:41:33I had myself all done up
00:41:35for Christmas
00:41:35and now I can't spend it
00:41:37with my boyfriend
00:41:37and it's cruel.
00:41:40Cruel!
00:41:48Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:41:50I'm sorry.
00:41:51It's all right.
00:41:52Yeah.
00:42:01I beg your pardon, too.
00:42:25Oh, hello.
00:42:27I guess you're the boyfriend
00:42:28from Boston.
00:42:29Well, Therese and Mrs. Pigeon
00:42:30will be down in a minute.
00:42:31In the meantime,
00:42:32make yourself at home.
00:42:36Oh, my dear boy,
00:42:38such a dreadful reception.
00:42:40But have you heard?
00:42:41A dear aunt of Mr. Pigeon's
00:42:43has just passed away
00:42:44and he insists on spending
00:42:46Christmas in her old house
00:42:47in the country.
00:42:49It's been in the family
00:42:51for 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
00:42:59for me to be intruding.
00:43:00Oh, no, no.
00:43:01It isn't as if she were here
00:43:02and we had to go to a funeral.
00:43:05She passed away in South America.
00:43:07It's just, well,
00:43:09shall we call it
00:43:10a 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
00:43:26in the house at Christmas.
00:43:28I understand your dear mother
00:43:30is an advocate of the same idea.
00:43:32Yes, she is.
00:43:34Oh.
00:43:35Well.
00:43:37There's no use
00:43:38my showing you two a room.
00:43:39We are going to start
00:43:41very shortly.
00:43:42So, will you just
00:43:42make yourself comfortable
00:43:43and I'll send Therese along.
00:43:45I'm afraid she's taking
00:43:46longer than usual to chase.
00:43:55Oh, you little fiend.
00:43:56This is blackmail.
00:43:57Well, it's no worse
00:43:58than what you're doing
00:43:59to the Watson woman.
00:43:59You're so clever.
00:44:01I'm not as stupid
00:44:01as she is, apparently.
00:44:03And I'd like that
00:44:04black velvet evening gown
00:44:05you 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
00:44:11and his mother,
00:44:12ooh, 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
00:44:21Miss Watson.
00:44:22Well, it amounts to the same thing
00:44:23unless you can make a promise
00:44:24to keep quiet.
00:44:25Where is Angela now?
00:44:26In there, stripping me
00:44:27of my wardrobe.
00:44:28Mother, if you have any love for me,
00:44:30talk her out of that evening gown.
00:44:31But she's apt to show up
00:44:33in it at dinner
00:44:33and heaven knows
00:44:34what Stephen will think.
00:44:36Heaven only knows
00:44:37what he's going to think anyway.
00:44:38Mother, this family
00:44:39is absolutely insane.
00:44:41I know, dear.
00:44:42I know.
00:44:44Oh, dear.
00:44:51Oh, dear.
00:44:55Darling.
00:44:57Oh, Stephen.
00:44:58I'm so sorry.
00:45:00All the lovely things we planned,
00:45:02the theater,
00:45:03the dancing,
00:45:04and just being with you.
00:45:08Oh.
00:45:13We'll be together
00:45:14if you want me to stay.
00:45:17And there'll be years ahead of us
00:45:18in which to do the other thing.
00:45:22Yes, Stephen.
00:45:23If you say so.
00:45:49McFarlane!
00:45:52McFarlane!
00:45:55Why haven't they built the fires?
00:45:58It's as cold as a refrigerator in here.
00:46:02Uh-oh.
00:46:03A Christmas present from the servants.
00:46:05What is it?
00:46:06Everybody braced brave and smiling?
00:46:08They've quit.
00:46:10What?
00:46:10Dear sir,
00:46:12it is my painful duty
00:46:13to inform you
00:46:14that the entire staff
00:46:16has struck.
00:46:17And since my accomplishments
00:46:18do not include
00:46:20cooking and building of fires,
00:46:22I am also regretfully
00:46:24tendering my resignation.
00:46:26Respectfully,
00:46:28McFarlane!
00:46:28His accomplishments.
00:46:31Well, there's a post-grip.
00:46:33Please tell Mr. Marchand
00:46:34I am sorry
00:46:35I shan't be here
00:46:36to look after him.
00:46:37So I'm including
00:46:38the recipe
00:46:38for his morning drink.
00:46:40Your recipe, sir.
00:46:43What do we do?
00:46:44I haven't the faintest idea.
00:46:46Oh.
00:46:50What was this?
00:46:51A torture chamber?
00:46:52Oh, a loom
00:46:54for making rugs.
00:46:56Oh, um,
00:46:57your father's
00:46:58great-great-grandmother
00:46:59made that very rug
00:47:01you're standing on.
00:47:03Really?
00:47:04I wish the old girl
00:47:06had made it a bit thicker
00:47:07and feel the cold
00:47:08coming up to the soles
00:47:09of my shoes.
00:47:10It's easy to see
00:47:11why the cook left.
00:47:13Look!
00:47:14Look at my things!
00:47:16After all my work!
00:47:18Call an agency.
00:47:19There is no telephone.
00:47:21Then let Stephen or Reggie
00:47:22drive you into the village
00:47:23we passed.
00:47:24Surely we can get
00:47:25local help of some kind.
00:47:27I will not have
00:47:28any local help
00:47:29in this house.
00:47:30Oh, no.
00:47:32You seem to forget
00:47:33that I was reared here.
00:47:34Oh, Pidgey!
00:47:36How do you think
00:47:36I'd feel if the cook
00:47:37turned out to be
00:47:38some girl I went
00:47:39to school with?
00:47:40Or the butler,
00:47:41the president
00:47:42of my debating team?
00:47:45If you were on
00:47:46a debating team,
00:47:47I'm sure you
00:47:48were the president.
00:47:51Still, I get your point.
00:47:53What do you suggest?
00:47:55You used to be able
00:47:56to cook.
00:47:56Why don't you try it again?
00:47:58On that thing?
00:47:59Oh.
00:47:59Well, I've cooked
00:48:00on everything
00:48:01from a gas jet
00:48:02to an electric grill
00:48:03smuggled in past
00:48:03the landlady.
00:48:04Let's take a crack
00:48:05at it, Mrs. Pidgeon.
00:48:06If some of these
00:48:07able-bodied guys
00:48:08will scare up
00:48:09some wood.
00:48:10That's the spirit.
00:48:11I'll get some.
00:48:12Oh, me too.
00:48:13Where's it stored?
00:48:14Oh, in the shed.
00:48:15Out back.
00:48:15Well, there's no fuel
00:48:17like an old fuel.
00:48:19Do forgive me
00:48:20for bringing this up,
00:48:21Mr. M.
00:48:22Marchand.
00:48:23We know you've worked
00:48:24at being a night watchman.
00:48:26I just wondered
00:48:26if you've had
00:48:27any experience
00:48:28with furnaces.
00:48:30Well, no.
00:48:31Not in a professional capacity,
00:48:32but I'd be delighted
00:48:34to try my hand at it.
00:48:44How's this?
00:48:45That's swell.
00:48:47Oh, dear.
00:48:48What's the matter
00:48:49besides everything?
00:48:50I just remembered
00:48:51that factory
00:48:52that burned to the ground.
00:48:53What factory?
00:48:54The last place
00:48:55Mr. M. worked.
00:48:56I suppose he had
00:48:58nothing to do
00:48:58with the fire,
00:48:59poor soul.
00:49:00But I just asked him
00:49:01to try and start
00:49:02a fire in the furnace.
00:49:03You'd better go down
00:49:04and stay with him, will he?
00:49:06Well, where is it?
00:49:07In the basement.
00:49:23Come over here, my friend.
00:49:27Brandy.
00:49:28Bottled when we were mere children.
00:49:30My first impulse, of course,
00:49:32was to take it upstairs
00:49:33since everybody's cold
00:49:34and slightly depressed.
00:49:35I've also been informed
00:49:36that no supply at all
00:49:38has been brought.
00:49:38What?
00:49:39Christmas notwithstanding.
00:49:40That's terrible.
00:49:41It seems Captain Bates
00:49:42does not approve.
00:49:43And I had him sized up
00:49:44as a regular fellow.
00:49:45Let's take it up anyway.
00:49:46The rest of them
00:49:47could use it.
00:49:50On the other hand,
00:49:52wouldn't it be cruelly unkind
00:49:54to raise their hopes
00:49:54and then find upon
00:49:55opening the bottle
00:49:56that it had been ruined
00:49:57by age?
00:49:57Oh, but age improved.
00:49:59We should sample it first.
00:50:00Well, perhaps it would be,
00:50:02as you say,
00:50:02kinder.
00:50:03Infinitely.
00:50:04Now, over there
00:50:05is what was undoubtedly
00:50:07the caretaker's room.
00:50:08In it you may find
00:50:09some glasses.
00:50:11Yes.
00:50:33What do you think?
00:50:34I seem to detect
00:50:35a slightly exaggerated
00:50:36flavor of age.
00:50:37We shouldn't have
00:50:38drunk it so fast.
00:50:39Let's go slow on the next one.
00:50:40You know, we're supposed
00:50:41to be building a fire.
00:50:43Oh, yes.
00:50:43And so we shall.
00:50:48Oh, look.
00:50:50McFarlane, the benign soul,
00:50:52has already laid it.
00:50:53Now, all we need
00:50:54is kerosene to start it.
00:50:56Do you think it's safe?
00:50:57Certainly.
00:50:59Only way to start a fire.
00:51:03Uh, that fire you were in,
00:51:06you know how it started?
00:51:09They never found out.
00:51:12Sabotage?
00:51:13Oh, no.
00:51:14Oh, no.
00:51:14That isn't likely.
00:51:15It was a mattress factory.
00:51:20If you are ever homeless,
00:51:22which I sincerely hope
00:51:23you never will be
00:51:24and have no place to sleep,
00:51:25I cannot recommend
00:51:27too highly the job
00:51:28of night watchman
00:51:29in a mattress factory.
00:51:31I'd be all right.
00:51:33their slogan was
00:51:35sink down
00:51:35on a downy mattress.
00:51:37I did it.
00:51:40Now, I'm morally certain
00:51:42I extinguished that cigarette
00:51:45before dropping off.
00:51:47But when I woke up,
00:51:49I was surrounded
00:51:51by a wall of fire.
00:51:53So I understand.
00:52:06You shouldn't have
00:52:07closed the door.
00:52:08But there's a fire,
00:52:10my dear sir.
00:52:11Don't call me sir anymore.
00:52:13Just call me Willie.
00:52:16Willie.
00:52:19Is there something
00:52:20I can do to help you?
00:52:21I'll say.
00:52:22Here's a flock of potatoes
00:52:22you can peel.
00:52:23Oh, you peel the potatoes, kid.
00:52:25Your mother and Therese
00:52:26can be doing something else.
00:52:27Kid, did you say?
00:52:29Yeah.
00:52:29Everybody else around here
00:52:30is trying to act
00:52:31like a good sport.
00:52:32I thought you might like
00:52:33to join the procession.
00:52:34How utterly mother's
00:52:34little helper
00:52:35and all that sort of thing.
00:52:36I'm afraid processions bore me.
00:52:38And I've never peeled
00:52:39a potato in my life.
00:52:41And I've seen days
00:52:42when I didn't have one to peel.
00:52:44Let's both peel them, darling.
00:52:46And I'll show you how.
00:52:47You know,
00:52:47when your father and I
00:52:48were first married,
00:52:49I had to learn how to cook.
00:52:51He wasn't wealthy then.
00:52:53In fact, we
00:52:54had some hard times at first.
00:52:56How touching.
00:52:57Why didn't you move in here
00:52:58with his aunt?
00:52:59She was always so fond of him.
00:53:11It's none of my business
00:53:12but give me five minutes a day
00:53:13with that kid in a locked room
00:53:14and I'd show you something.
00:53:16What do you mean?
00:53:17Tide whale
00:53:17and living daylights out of her.
00:53:19Oh, I've seen plenty of them
00:53:21like that in show business.
00:53:22They come in acting
00:53:23like they own the earth.
00:53:25Nine times out of ten
00:53:26it's just because they're young
00:53:27and scared to death
00:53:28they aren't going to make good.
00:53:29And most of them
00:53:30don't make good.
00:53:31And if you're an old hand
00:53:32at the business,
00:53:32you know they won't.
00:53:33And there are plenty
00:53:34of tough times ahead.
00:53:36But if they've learned
00:53:37to be regular
00:53:37they'll be able to take it better
00:53:39when the bad breaks start coming.
00:53:41So you gang up on them
00:53:43give them a silent treatment
00:53:44for a while
00:53:45or a good going over
00:53:57and...
00:53:58Why, Mrs. Pigeon.
00:54:02Oh, that's the trouble with me.
00:54:05I talk too much.
00:54:07I forgot for a minute
00:54:08that she was your kid
00:54:09and how you must love her.
00:54:11That's not why I'm crying.
00:54:15Well, then what was it?
00:54:17Was it something else I did?
00:54:19No.
00:54:20Oh, no.
00:54:21It just...
00:54:22Oh, you're just tired,
00:54:24that's what,
00:54:24and all upset.
00:54:26You worked like a dog
00:54:27to have a nice Christmas in town
00:54:29and that was spoiled.
00:54:30And then you came up here
00:54:31and everything went wrong.
00:54:33I think you've been swell about it.
00:54:35And we still have tomorrow.
00:54:37We can whip this joint into shape.
00:54:39We can get another tree
00:54:40even if we have to cut it down.
00:54:42And we can trim it
00:54:42in the old-fashioned way
00:54:43with cranberries and popcorn.
00:54:45I had one like that once.
00:54:47My mother fixed it up for me
00:54:48in some crummy old hotel room
00:54:50when we were on the road
00:54:51with Uncle Tom's cabin.
00:54:53And it looked just as elegant to me
00:54:55as that one you have at home
00:54:57in the library.
00:55:03Is there anything wrong?
00:55:07She's tired
00:55:08and I'd blab my mouth off.
00:55:11Mrs. Pidgeon,
00:55:13may I suggest
00:55:14that you go and lie down
00:55:15for a while?
00:55:20What is Angela doing?
00:55:22Endeavoring to make a rock.
00:55:24Make a rock?
00:55:28Oh, dear.
00:55:33Holy mackerel.
00:55:45Ah.
00:55:46My admiration for you
00:55:48grows with every passing moment.
00:55:50Well, wait until you've tasted it.
00:55:52I haven't the faintest idea
00:55:53what the results will be.
00:55:57will you lift one of those lids for me?
00:56:18You won't find her.
00:56:19She ain't been here for two days,
00:56:20I tell you.
00:56:28Is this a picture of her?
00:56:31All right.
00:56:33If you hear from her,
00:56:34if she shows,
00:56:34don't waste any time
00:56:35calling this number.
00:56:37Here.
00:56:50Oh, they made her a grave
00:56:55Too cold and damp
00:56:57For a soul
00:56:59So warm and true
00:57:02And she's gone
00:57:05To the lake
00:57:06Of the dismal swamp
00:57:09Where all night long
00:57:11By a firefly lamp
00:57:15She paddled
00:57:17A white canoe
00:57:25With sacrifice
00:57:28Before the rising morn
00:57:30Vows have I made
00:57:32By fruitless hope
00:57:34Inspired
00:57:35Celestial pity
00:57:37I again implore
00:57:40Restore him
00:57:42To 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
00:57:50I ever tasted
00:57:51Swell
00:57:51They're made strictly by the
00:57:53I wonder what else goes in method
00:57:54Maybe 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
00:58:11To do that?
00:58:12Oh, a man in the show
00:58:13Window of a grill
00:58:14Taught me
00:58:14You mean you went in
00:58:16And practiced with him?
00:58:17Certainly
00:58:17He 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
00:58:28Of George Washington
00:58:29Use my little hatchet
00:58:31Nobody's going to cut down
00:58:32Any tree on this property
00:58:34Don't tell me
00:58:35Aunt Carolyn planted them
00:58:36With her own hands
00:58:38Yes
00:58:39She was very fond of trees
00:58:41And now that she's gone
00:58:43I
00:58:43We're going to have a tree
00:58:45Every year we have
00:58:46The same old thing
00:58:47Covered with fancy ornaments
00:58:48And I'm sick and tired of it
00:58:49I've never seen one done
00:58:51With cranberries and popcorn
00:58:52Like Miss Watson had
00:58:52And I want to
00:58:53And I found a perfectly slick thing
00:58:54To make the popcorn in
00:58:56I would trade that
00:58:57To bed more, my dear
00:58:59Well, I don't care
00:59:00If it's a 16th century
00:59:01Flyswatter
00:59:02I'm going to use it
00:59:02And don't misunderstand me
00:59:04I wouldn't think of doing
00:59:05Anything so childish
00:59:06As popping corn
00:59:07Merely to eat it
00:59:08But if it's going to be put
00:59:09To some use
00:59:09That's different
00:59:10Miss Watson's going to show me
00:59:11How to string this stuff
00:59:12And so we're going
00:59:13To have a tree
00:59:16Brother, what I started
00:59:17And what you started
00:59:18I can finish
00:59:19Cousin Flory
00:59:24I tell you
00:59:25I don't know
00:59:26He merely said
00:59:27He was going to show
00:59:28A client a house
00:59:29In the country
00:59:29Don't you keep
00:59:30Your keys labeled
00:59:31Certainly
00:59:33Then we can check
00:59:33The keys still in the office
00:59:34Against your list of properties
00:59:35You could
00:59:36But you aren't going to
00:59:37And if you don't leave
00:59:39I'm going to call the police
00:59:40I wouldn't
00:59:41Unless you want to
00:59:42Get your employer
00:59:42In a worse jam
00:59:43Than he's in already
00:59:46Well
00:59:46Even if you had the right
00:59:48To pry into our files
00:59:49I haven't the time
00:59:50Look Miss Tate
00:59:51It may be Christmas Eve
00:59:52To you
00:59:53But to us
00:59:54It's just Tuesday
00:59:54Take your time
00:59:56We've got all day
01:00:14Feel very quiet
01:00:15Mr. Marchand
01:00:20I'm watching a scene
01:00:21From the past
01:00:22It is so indelibly
01:00:23Stamped upon the memory
01:00:25Of this house
01:00:25That a reenactment
01:00:26Was inevitable
01:00:28I don't get it
01:00:30Observe
01:00:35Take it easy
01:00:36Goon, I'm out on a limb
01:00:38I'm doing it on purpose
01:00:39It's my time to trim
01:00:40I see a young girl
01:00:42Stripped of all artifice
01:00:44Working in chiding harmony
01:00:45With her older brother
01:00:46Who's cut down a Christmas tree
01:00:48Surely that is not new
01:00:49To this room
01:00:51There's the father
01:00:52Closing by the fire
01:00:58We'll awaken soon
01:01:00Refreshed
01:01:02Peaceful it is to be hoped
01:01:03And undoubtedly hungry
01:01:06There's a girl
01:01:08Her fingers busy with a needle
01:01:10The man who loves her
01:01:12Sitting beside her
01:01:19You're giving me the creeps
01:01:21And where does Willie fit in?
01:01:24Willie
01:01:24My friend Willie
01:01:30In the older picture
01:01:31He was a country bumpkin
01:01:33The not too bright
01:01:34But quite amiable uncle
01:01:37Destined
01:01:38To never quite find his way
01:01:41And died
01:01:42As happily as he had lived
01:01:44And Mrs. Pigeon?
01:01:46Mrs.
01:01:47Oh
01:01:50I don't know what came over me
01:01:51But I made some cookies
01:01:53I do believe
01:01:54They're not going to drop
01:01:55What's well
01:01:55Hand me up some
01:01:56What's that?
01:01:56Cookies?
01:01:57Give me some
01:01:58I'm starved
01:02:01My puppets are working
01:02:03With such perfection
01:02:03They should be rewarded
01:02:05I shall now go down
01:02:06To the furnace
01:02:07And see to it
01:02:08That they be kept warm
01:02:31Who is it?
01:02:33Visitors
01:02:33With flat feet
01:02:34Detectives
01:02:35Do they see you?
01:02:37Afraid so
01:02:39Play some music
01:02:40Do something
01:02:41Make all the noise you can
01:02:42And keep Miss Watson
01:02:43Out 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
01:03:03To my aunt
01:03:05Mrs. Carpet
01:03:07Carpet Torea
01:03:08Carpet Torea?
01:03:09Yes Carpenteria
01:03:10You see
01:03:11She is
01:03:12A descendant
01:03:13Of Gene Carpenteria
01:03:15One of our
01:03:15Earliest settlers
01:03:16Wonderful old house
01:03:18Isn't it?
01:03:19He built it
01:03:20In 1671
01:03:21Of course
01:03:23The additions
01:03:23And improvements
01:03:24Have adhered
01:03:25Strictly to the period
01:03:26And enhanced
01:03:28Rather than
01:03:28Detracted from
01:03:29Its authenticity
01:03:29It's really
01:03:31A remarkable example
01:03:32We aren't interested
01:03:33In houses
01:03:34Oh
01:03:35No?
01:03:36No
01:03:36We have reason
01:03:37To believe
01:03:37There's a Miss Watson
01:03:38Here with a Mr. Pigeon
01:03:40James?
01:03:41Oh he really
01:03:42Must come in
01:03:43Oh I didn't know
01:03:45Who are these gentlemen?
01:03:47Oh they're looking
01:03:47For a Mr. Pigeon
01:03:49And a Miss
01:03:49What was her name?
01:03:51Watson
01:03:52Florence Watson
01:03:53Do we know them?
01:03:55No
01:03:55I don't think so
01:03:58Unless they might have
01:03:59Been friends
01:03:59Of that Caroline's
01:04:00But she's been
01:04:01Dead for a long time
01:04:02Oh
01:04:03Oh yes
01:04:04Yes
01:04:06I'm so sorry
01:04:07We can't be more
01:04:08Helpful
01:04:08Hey kid
01:04:15Oh
01:04:18Oh wonderful
01:04:19Thanks old boy
01:04:20Yeah
01:04:21Were you speaking
01:04:22To me?
01:04:23Yeah
01:04:23What's your name?
01:04:25It ain't kid
01:04:26Hey
01:04:27The guy with the limp
01:04:29Did I understand
01:04:30You correctly?
01:04:31Yeah
01:04:31I guess you did
01:04:32Didn't you
01:04:33And a Miss Watson
01:04:34Help deliver a drunk
01:04:35To a Mr. Pigeon's
01:04:36House in New York
01:04:37The other night?
01:04:38I am not
01:04:39Acquainted
01:04:39With the people
01:04:40You have mentioned
01:04:41Nor do I
01:04:42Approve of drunks
01:04:44And I find it
01:04:45Bitter indeed
01:04:45That a man
01:04:46Who has been crippled
01:04:47In the opening up
01:04:48Of new frontiers
01:04:49In the service
01:04:49Of humanity
01:04:50Should be referred to
01:04:52As the guy
01:04:53With the limp
01:04:53Good day gentlemen
01:04:55Oh I'm so sorry
01:04:57But the professor
01:04:58Is always upset
01:04:59When his affliction
01:05:00Is mentioned
01:05:00It reminds him of
01:05:03Tibet
01:05:03Tibet you know
01:05:05Tigers
01:05:07Yeah
01:05:08Well I guess
01:05:09We got a bum steer
01:05:10Some place
01:05:11I'm sorry to bother you
01:05:12Oh it's perfectly
01:05:13All right
01:05:26Think we were taken
01:05:28Yeah for a sleigh ride
01:05:29That fat guy was scared
01:05:31Now lay you ten to one
01:05:32He was lying
01:05:33What are we gonna do next
01:05:34We can't go busting in there again
01:05:36Without 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
01:06:00I'll use the bottle
01:06:01No thanks
01:06:03No
01:06:05Thanks
01:06:09It's none of my business
01:06:11Mr. Marchand
01:06:12But why don't you cut this out
01:06:15When you speak of spirits
01:06:17My dear
01:06:17Speak reverently
01:06:22All right
01:06:23That's the way it is
01:06:25But I wanted to talk to you
01:06:26About something
01:06:27Something serious
01:06:29And why not
01:06:30A serious mood
01:06:32Seems to have invaded
01:06:33This house today
01:06:34Or no
01:06:36We are the invaders
01:06:38The mood belongs
01:06:39The house
01:06:41You say things in a way
01:06:43That
01:06:46That proves I'm right
01:06:48In what I was thinking
01:06:50What were you thinking
01:06:54About you
01:06:55About you
01:06:58You told me something today
01:06:59Maybe it was in confidence
01:07:01But
01:07:07Some money on you
01:07:10And
01:07:14I didn't think
01:07:16Mrs. Pigeon had that much
01:07:17Humor in her makeup
01:07:18She didn't say the part
01:07:19About the drinking
01:07:20I did
01:07:23From you
01:07:24It has less humor
01:07:26Yes it has
01:07:29Oh I'm probably
01:07:30Doing this all wrong
01:07:30The way I do everything
01:07:32But here it is
01:07:33For what it's worth
01:07:36I don't think you need money
01:07:38So much as you need
01:07:39To get back where you belong
01:07:40Not the theater my dear
01:07:42Well why not
01:07:43It's all you've ever known
01:07:46And you're
01:07:46Every bit as good today
01:07:48As you were
01:07:48When you were on top
01:07:49Thank you
01:07:50But there's a vast multitude
01:07:52Made up of producers
01:07:53Spectators
01:07:54Actors
01:07:56That do not share
01:07:57Your opinion
01:07:58So without doing
01:07:59Anything about it
01:08:00You join the multitude
01:08:01That's right
01:08:03See
01:08:04You sound as if
01:08:05You are actually
01:08:06Sincere about all this
01:08:07I'm sincere in everything
01:08:08I do
01:08:09Right or wrong
01:08:10Just a dumb dame
01:08:12Probably more sincere
01:08:13When I'm way off
01:08:14On the wrong foot
01:08:16But I've been watching you
01:08:18And I know one thing
01:08:20You're acting
01:08:21All the time anyway
01:08:23So why not put it
01:08:24To some good advantage
01:08:26Maybe not as an actor
01:08:28But with Mr. Pidgeon's
01:08:29Money behind you
01:08:30You could produce
01:08:31Or direct
01:08:37I got mixed up
01:08:38In the summer theater once
01:08:40The kids that try out
01:08:42For that
01:08:43Really try
01:08:45They're so young
01:08:46And so anxious
01:08:47It hurts
01:08:49But gee
01:08:51If you directed them
01:08:53Gave them the benefit
01:08:54Of your experience
01:08:55And ability
01:08:57And one or two
01:08:58Of them should hit
01:08:59I think you'd get
01:09:01An awful wallop out of it
01:09:03Wouldn't you?
01:09:07Wouldn't you?
01:09:12I've never heard
01:09:13So many cliches spoken
01:09:15With such unconscious sweetness
01:09:17I don't know
01:09:18What the devil
01:09:18You're talking about
01:09:19I'm sorry
01:09:20I don't know
01:09:20What you're talking about
01:09:21I have a vague idea
01:09:22You want me to stop drinking
01:09:24And open a theater
01:09:25With Mr. Pidgeon's money
01:09:27It's not a theater
01:09:28A summer theater
01:09:29Here in the barn
01:09:32Here
01:09:32In the barn
01:09:36The barn on this place
01:09:37Sure
01:09:39Mr. Pidgeon thought
01:09:40So much of his aunt
01:09:41He'd want to hang on to it
01:09:42For sentimental reasons
01:09:43But he might let you
01:09:44Use the barn
01:10:12All right
01:10:43When do the services start?
01:10:45As soon as they bring in the body, I guess.
01:10:49What's the matter with the...
01:11:00Oh, Mother, stop 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.
01:11:20Oh, Mother.
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. Pidgeon.
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 five dollars she doesn't even know what she's giving me.
01:12:07Angela, so help me out.
01:12:24They're coming here, a whole sleigh full.
01:12:31Oh, 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.
01:13:38Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is calm, all is calm.
01:13:45Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright.
01:13:56Round yon virgin, mother and child.
01:14:08Holy infant, holy night, all is calm, all is calm, all is calm.
01:14:18Sleep in heavenly peace
01:14:29Sleep in heavenly peace
01:14:37Well, don't we give them something or some money or...
01:14:41I'll take care of it. Want to go ready?
01:14:42Yeah.
01:14:53I've heard them in the city, but it isn't quite the same, is it?
01:14:59Nothing will ever be quite the same for any of us after tonight.
01:15:06Those voices tell us that there's still left in some the belief in God.
01:15:11Well, I haven't the effrontery to speak of God, so I would instead remind you of a moving tale of
01:15:20simple people.
01:15:22The Christmas Carol of Mr. Dickens. You remember?
01:15:27Of course.
01:15:29How much do you remember?
01:15:32That there was a little boy who was crippled.
01:15:35And the sophisticated, 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, he pled with the spirit to
01:16:00tell 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, hmm, there was a ghost named Molly.
01:16:33And 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.
01:17:00The Gum.
01:17:03the tragic death "' handle to herến Grail".
01:17:06Żebn.
01:17:06His delegial deeds and other heavy material things that have dominated him in life,
01:17:11and, that he was forced to drag along with him in life.
01:17:17Leezek.
01:17:17What?
01:17:17Every moonlightxo.
01:17:23That's what the ghost's fate had taken away from now.
01:17:27Where do you rather?
01:17:27Mr. Marchand will start by motive now by Pure princes.
01:17:28Which is the Lord who Wants the parole women who stood for to die.
01:17:29I have to clunk.
01:17:31You mean clank, don't you?
01:17:34I do mean clank, my dear. Thank you for reminding me.
01:17:38Uh, shall we go for a walk?
01:17:40Yes, let's. Bully, my dear.
01:17:41Go for a walk.
01:17:43All of you, I will stay here.
01:17:47And while you're gone, I will keep on talking.
01:17:50I will speak of Molly's ghost.
01:17:54And the words will be held here within these walls
01:17:56for others who may come, refuse to listen like 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.
01:18:09I 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,
01:18:34it 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,
01:18:43it 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.
01:19:01Miss Watson here has told you of a Christmas in the past.
01:19:06This is the present.
01:19:08There'll 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.
01:19:25You, 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 take.
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, but 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, and dwindled down into a bedpost.
01:20:30Oh, 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? You didn't.
01:20:45I know. Oh, no, I don't know.
01:20:48And I'm not as good as Mr. Marshall when it comes to explaining things,
01:20:51but I have a funny feeling I belong to him, to his world, his way of living, I mean.
01:20:57What I'm getting at is you 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. I 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, but 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,
01:21:30I said, hooray, let him think.
01:21:34And then I met you, and 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, trimming the tree, and just being with you.
01:21:50And I didn't feel as if I were cheating you out of too much.
01:21:56Listen, I'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, I want to say that I think it's because I was born in this
01:22:04family.
01:22:05Are you going to keep on doing what you've been doing and not tell her
01:22:08after the way she's acted and 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?
01:22:31Mother, 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?
01:23:04Oh, I 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, I can take it.
01:23:14Charades you call it, don't you?
01:23:15It'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 love 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.
01:23:52It 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, taste,
01:24:22and 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.
01:24:41Anyway, 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?
01:24:52Five miles.
01:24:52Is there a bar there?
01:24:54Yes.
01:24:55Somebody drive me.
01:25:06I 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.
01:25:23I'm glad.
01:25:25Will you join me?
01:25:26Oh.
01:25:27You were great last night.
01:25:29But 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.
01:26:06I like the eliesss.
01:26:08You're there.
01:26:11I like the idea that I were taking the people down there.
01:26:11I like the idea that I grew up a cane.
01:26:11Does not know what it is I'm getting to the kick about the house?
01:26:11Oh, you're a carrot?
01:26:19I love you.
01:26:20And I love it that I like that.
01:26:22I love it.
01:26:24Okay, that's through eye on side like me.
01:26:30You
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