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The Cheaters (1945) Full Movie ｜ Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette [Full Movie] [Watch Free Online]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.
00:28:52I'll be right back.
00:28:53Hello?
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 is,
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.
00:36:24Good morning, sir.
00:36:26Good morning, sir.
00:36:28Good morning, sir.
00:36:56This is such a lovely house.
00:36:58Oh, I'm glad you like it.
00:36:59I just had it done over.
00:37:01I hope you like the chinois' influence,
00:37:03the Chinese Chippendale, you know.
00:37:04Oh?
00:37:05I hope you slept well, my dear.
00:37:07On a bed like that,
00:37:08not even a guilty conscience could keep me awake.
00:37:10What an amusing way of phrasing it.
00:37:12Oh, I hope you slept well, my dear.
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,
00:37:22and 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?
00:37:37What? Get 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 look like something out 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, thank you, McFarlane.
00:37:58Purely medicinal, sir.
00:38:01And how are you this morning, sir?
00:38:03Ah.
00:38:12What'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.
00:38:21What do you want to do?
00:38:24Not at your age.
00:38:32Good morning, paper.
00:38:34I'm sitting on it.
00:38:36Get it when I stand upright.
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?
00:38:55What is it? What's happened?
00:38:56Mr. Marchand, will you come with me to the library?
00:38:59Glad to. Excuse me, lady.
00:39:01He's concealing something.
00:39:05Thank heavens we got out of that.
00:39:07Keep the Watson girl occupied and send Mrs. Pidgeon to me in the library.
00:39:10Glad to.
00:39:22Mother, what is it? What's happened?
00:39:24Oh, shh, darling. Father's talking to the lawyer in Denver.
00:39:27I see.
00:39:29Well, can't be helped now, I guess.
00:39:31We'll just have to hope for the best.
00:39:34What's that?
00:39:35The same to you.
00:39:37What did he say?
00:39:38Merry Christmas.
00:39:40You 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?
00:40:04How?
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...
00:40:31Oh, never mind that.
00:40:33Six master bedrooms.
00:40:35Can you get possession of the place?
00:40:37Well, certainly.
00:40:37All I have to do is go to the office and get the keys.
00:40:39Well, where are the owners?
00:40:41Oh, let's see.
00:40:41Yeah.
00:40:42Houses remain, 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.
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 here for Christmas.
00:41:08There's 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.
00:41:36And now I can't spend it with my boyfriend.
00:41:37And it's cruel.
00:41:39Cruel!
00:41:48Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:41:50I'm sorry.
00:41:51All right.
00:41:52Yeah.
00:42:01I beg your pardon, sir.
00:42:25Oh, 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.
00:42:55Oh, 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?
00:43:17Unless, 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.
00:43:28I understand your dear mother is an advocate of the same idea.
00:43:32Yes, she is.
00:43:34Oh.
00:43:35Well, uh, there's no use my showing you two a room.
00:43:39We are going to start very shortly.
00:43:41So, 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. This 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, she'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?
00:44:25In there, stripping me of my wardrobe.
00:44:28Oh, mother, if you have any love for me, talk her out of that evening gown.
00:44:31Well, 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 gonna think anyway.
00:44:38Mother, this family is absolutely insane.
00:44:40I know, dear.
00:44:43I know.
00:44:44I know.
00:44:45Oh, dear.
00:44:47Oh, dear.
00:44:51Stephen.
00:44:56Oh, Stephen.
00:44:58I'm so sorry.
00:45:00All the lovely things we planned.
00:45:02The theater, the dancing, and just being with you.
00:45:07Oh, dear.
00:45:08Oh, dear.
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.
00:45:55Well, I've got to stay, I think, for a moment.
00:46:02Hello.
00:46:03I've got to see, my boy.
00:46:05I'm sorry.
00:46:05What's wrong with me?
00:46:05everybody braced brave and smiling they've quit what dear sir it is my painful duty to inform you
00:46:14that the entire staff has struck and since my accomplishments do not include cooking and
00:46:20building of fires i am also regretfully tendering my resignation respectfully mcfarlane his
00:46:29accomplishments well there's a postscript please tell mr marchand i am sorry i shan't be here to
00:46:36look after him so i'm including the recipe for his morning drink your recipes uh thank you
00:46:43what do we do i haven't the faintest idea oh
00:46:50what was this a torture chamber oh a loom for making rugs
00:46:55of your father's great-great-grandmother made that very rug you're standing on really
00:47:04i 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 we passed
00:47:24surely we 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
00:47:35how do you think i'd feel if the cook turned out to be some girl i went to school 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
00:47:54you used to be able to cook why don't you try it again
00:47:58on that thing oh i've cooked on everything from a gas jet to an electric grill smuggled in past the
00:48:04landlady let's take a crack at it mrs pigeon if some of these able-bodied guys will scare up some
00:48:09wood that's the spit i'll get some oh me too where's it stored oh in the shed out back
00:48:15well there's no fuel like at all fuel do forgive me for bringing this up mr m
00:48:22marchand we know you've worked at being a night watchman i just wondered if you've had any experience
00:48:28with furnaces well no 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
00:49:32take it upstairs since everybody is cold and slightly depressed i've also been informed that no supply at
00:49:37all 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
00:50:07caretaker's room in it you may find some glasses
00:50:33what do you think i seem to detect a slightly exaggerated flavor of age we shouldn't have drunk it so
00:50:38fast let's go
00:50:39slow on the next you know we're we're supposed to be building a fire oh yes and 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 file
00:51:03uh that fire you were in you know how it started
00:51:09they never found out sabotage oh no oh no that isn't likely 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
00:51:54you 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
00:52:16willy willy willy willy is there something i can do to help you i'll say here's a flock of
00:52:22potatoes you can peel oh oh you peel the potatoes kid your mother and teresa can be doing something
00:52:27else kid did you say yeah everybody else around here is trying to act like a good sport i thought
00:52:32you might like to join the procession how utterly mother's little helper and all that sort of thing
00:52:36i'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 father
00:52:48and i were first married i had to learn how to cook he wasn't wealthy then in fact we had
00:52:54some hard
00:52:55times at first how touching why didn't you move in here with his aunt she was always so fond of
00:53:01him
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 is
00:53:26just
00:53:26because 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
00:53:40breaks start coming so you gang up on them give them a silent treatment for a while or good going
00:53:46over
00:53:58you know why mrs pigeon oh that's the trouble with me i talk too much i forgot for a minute
00:54:08that she
00:54:08was your kid and how you must love her that's not why i'm crying well then what was it was
00:54:18it
00:54:18something else i did no oh no it's just oh you're just tired that's what and all upset
00:54:26you worked like a dog to have a nice christmas in town and that was spoiled and then you came
00:54:31up here
00:54:31and everything went wrong i think you've been swell about it and we still have tomorrow we can whip
00:54:38this joint into shape we can get another tree even if we have to cut it down and we can
00:54:42trim it in the
00:54:42old-fashioned way with cranberries and popcorn i had one like that once my mother fixed it up for
00:54:48me in some crummy old hotel room when we were on the road with uncle tom's cabin and it looked
00:54:53just as
00:54:54elegant to me as that one you have at home in the library
00:55:03is there anything wrong she's tired and i'd blab my mouth off
00:55:11mrs pigeon may i suggest that you go and lie down for a while
00:55:19what is angela doing endeavouring to make a rock make a rock holy mackerel
00:55:46my 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 all right if you hear from her she shows don't waste any time calling
00:56:35this
00:56:35you know what she's in here for her
00:56:58soul so warm and true and she's gone to the lake of the dismal swamp where all night long by
00:57:12a
00:57:12firefly lamp she paddled a white cologne
00:57:25with sacrifice before the rising morn vows have i made by fruitless hope inspired celestial pity
00:57:37i again implore restore him to my sight refill on the flannels flannel she calls them my word not that
00:57:49it was the best hot cakes i ever tasted swell they're made strictly by the i wonder what else
00:57:54goes in method maybe i ought to patent it huh you do and i'll fight at you
00:58:06well how are you doing watch oh wherever did you learn to do that oh a man in the show
00:58:13window of a
00:58:14grill taught me you mean you went in and practiced with him certainly he said i was a good draw
00:58:19crowd
00:58:19collected in no time she must be a throwback are we going to get the tree if mr pigeon doesn't
00:58:27object
00:58:27i want to do my imitation of george washington use my little hatchet nobody's going to cut down
00:58:32any tree on this property don't tell me aunt carolyn planted them with her own hands yes
00:58:39she was very fond of trees and now that she's gone i we're going to have a tree every year
00:58:46we have the
00:58:46same old thing covered with fancy ornaments and i'm sick and tired of it i've never seen one done
00:58:51with cranberries and popcorn like miss watson had and i want to and i found a perfectly slick thing to
00:58:55make the popcorn and i'm afraid that's a bed warmer dear well i don't care if it's a 16th century
00:59:01flyswatter i'm going to use it and don't misunderstand me i wouldn't think of doing anything so childish
00:59:06as popping corn merely to eat it but 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 and so we're going to have a tree
00:59:16brother what i started and what you started i can finish cousin flory
00:59:24i tell you i don't know he merely said he was going to show a client a house in the
00:59:29country
00:59:29don't you keep your keys labeled certainly then we can check the keys still in the office against
00:59:35your list of properties you could but you aren't going to and if you don't leave i'm going to call
00:59:39the police i 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 i haven't the time i look miss
00:59:51tate
00:59:51it may be christmas eve to you but to us it's just tuesday take your time we've got all day
01:00:14you're very quiet mr marchand
01:00:20i'm watching a scene from the past it is so indelibly stamped upon the memory of this house
01:00:25that a reenactment was inevitable i don't get it observe
01:00:35take it easy goon i'm out on a limb i'm doing it on purpose it's my time to trim
01:00:41i see a young girl stripped of all artifice working in chiding harmony with her older brother
01:00:46who's cut down a christmas tree surely 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 fingers busy with a needle the man who loves her sitting beside her
01:01:18you're giving me the creeps and where does willie fit in willie my friend willie
01:01:30in the older picture he was a country bumpkin the not too bright but quite amiable uncle destined
01:01:38to never quite find his way and died as happily as he had lived and mrs pigeon
01:01:46mrs oh
01:01:50i don't know what came over me but i made some cookies i do believe they're not going to drop
01:01:55what's well hand me up sir what's that cookies give me some i'm starved
01:02:01my puppets are working with 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
01:02:31who is it visitors with flat feet detectives do they see you afraid so
01:02:38who is it visitors with flat feet detectives do they see you afraid so
01:02:39play some music do 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 are you mr pigeon pigeon pigeon what isn't this the allensby place
01:03:02well it belongs uh uh to my aunt mrs uh uh carpet terria carpet terria yes carpenteria you see uh
01:03:11she is uh a descendant of gene carpenteria one of our earliest settlers wonderful old house isn't it
01:03:18he built it in 1671 of course the additions and improvements have uh adhered strictly to the period
01:03:26and enhanced rather than detracted from its authenticity it's really a remarkable example
01:03:32we aren't interested in houses oh no no we have reason to believe there's a miss watson here with a
01:03:39mr
01:03:39pigeon james oh he really must come in oh i didn't know who are these gentlemen oh they're looking for
01:03:48a
01:03:48mr pigeon and a miss uh uh what was the name watson florence watson do we know them no these
01:03:56i don't
01:03:56think so uh unless they might have been friends of that caroline's but she's been dead for a long time
01:04:02oh yes yes i i'm so sorry we can't be more helpful hey kid
01:04:15oh
01:04:18oh wonderful thanks old boy yeah were you speaking to me yeah what's your name it ain't kid
01:04:26hey the guy with the limp did i understand you correctly yeah i guess you did didn't you and a
01:04:33miss watson helped deliver a drunk to a mr pigeon's house in new york the other night
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
01:04:49the service of humanity should be referred to as the guy with a limp good day gentlemen oh i'm so
01:04:56sorry but
01:04:57the professor is always upset when his affliction is mentioned it reminds him of
01:05:03tibet tibet you know tigers yeah well uh i guess we got a bum steer someplace i'm sorry to bother
01:05:12oh it's
01:05:13perfectly all right
01:05:19oh
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 going to do next?
01:05:35We can't go busting in there again without a search warrant.
01:05:37We're going to 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. Thanks.
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.
01:06:34Oh, 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.
01:06:58You told me something today.
01:07:00Maybe it was in confidence.
01:07:15Mrs. Pigeon had that much humor in her makeup.
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 so much as you need to 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 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, that do not share your opinion.
01:07:58So without doing anything about it, you join the multitude.
01:08:02That's right.
01:08:03Say, 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 dame.
01:08:12Probably more sincere when I'm way off on the wrong foot.
01:08:16But I've been watching you, and 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, but 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, I think you'd get an awful wallop out of it.
01:09:03Wouldn't you?
01:09:07Wouldn'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.
01:09:33In the barn.
01:09:36The barn on this place?
01:09:38Sure.
01:09:39Mr. Pigeon thought so much of his aunt, he'd want to hang on to it for sentimental reasons.
01:09:43But he might let you use the barn.
01:09:45All right.
01:09:47Ha, ha, ha, ha!
01:09:54Is it already?
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.
01:11:21What 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... I'm terribly sorry about your present, Miss Watson.
01:11:36Why, that's all right, Mrs. Pidgeon. I 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 Therese 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. They're going to sing.
01:12:36Silent night, holy night
01:12:44All is calm, all is bright
01:12:56Round yon virgin
01:13:01Mother and child
01:13:08Holy infant
01:13:10So tender and mild
01:13:15Sleep in heavenly peace
01:13:28Sleep in heavenly peace
01:13:34Sleep in heavenly peace
01:13:36Sleep in heavenly peace
01:13:39Silent night, holy night
01:13:46All is calm, all is calm
01:13:54All is calm, all is bright
01:13:56All is calm, all is calm, all is bright
01:13:58Round yon virgin
01:14:22All is calm, all is calm, all is calm, all is calm, sodال
01:14:37well don't we give them something or some money i'll take care of it want to go ready yeah
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
01:15:13i haven't the effrontery to speak of god so i would instead remind you of a moving tale of simple
01:15:20people the christmas carol of mr dickens you remember of course how 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 tin and of course you remember the three spirits the spirit of christmas past of christmas
01:15:48present and of the christmas to come and when scrooge beheld the last of these the spirit of christmas to
01:15:57come he pled with the spirit to tell him if it were too late to alter it you uh remember
01:16:05all that vaguely oh
01:16:11vaguely well
01:16:15in that case you may have forgotten that a ghost preceded the three spirits well most of us forget that
01:16:25because it pleases us to forget what we don't like but there was a ghost named molly and he had
01:16:34once
01:16:34been a man a partner of scrooge do you recall no but i think good let us think of the
01:16:46ghost of molly
01:16:47mr marchand is enacting the christmas carol for us oh that's quite appropriate carry on mr m
01:16:53i want to hear more about the ghost of molly
01:17:06sledges deeds and other heavy material things that have dominated him in life and
01:17:12that he was forced to drag along with him in
01:17:29i have to clunk you mean clank don't you i do mean clank my dear thank you for reminding me
01:17:38uh shall we go for a walk yes let's bully idea go for a walk all of you i will
01:17:46stay here
01:17:47and while you're gone i will keep on talking i 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 like you
01:17:59and
01:17:59go on i will ask again what scrooge asked of molly why are you fed and 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 i 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 and molly will say again it is required of every man that the spirit
01:18:37within him walk among his fellow men and if that spirit goes not forth in life it is condemned to
01:18:44do
01:18:45so after death
01:18:49it is doomed to wander through the world and witness what it can no longer share but might have shared
01:18:56in
01:18:56life and turn to happiness go then go now miss watson here has told you of a christmas in the
01:19:05past
01:19:06this is the present there'll be others but you you you all of you will remember this one and sometime
01:19:14like
01:19:15scrooge confronted with the spirit of christmas to come will sweat and tremble as the spirit points
01:19:21down to the grave which bears your name you like scrooge will cry spirit hear me i'm no longer the
01:19:31man i
01:19:31was i will honor christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year i will live in
01:19:37the past the
01:19:38present and the future i will not shut out the lessons that they teach oh tell me i may sponge
01:19:46away
01:19:46the writings on this stone james has always been a good man in his agony scrooge caught the spectral
01:19:55handed tried to free itself but scrooge was strong in his entreaty and detained it look here mr marshall
01:20:02holding up his hand the last prayer to have his fate reversed he suddenly saw a change in the phantom's
01:20:10hood
01:20:10and dress it shrunk collapsed and dwindled down into a bedpost
01:20:21you know i could use one myself what a bedpost oh dear oh dear how perfectly dreadful it's all right
01:20:34mommy he's just passed out oh reggie you haven't called me mom for years just slipped out i guess
01:20:40oh i'm terribly sorry mrs pigeon why should you be you didn't i know oh no i don't know and
01:20:48i'm not
01:20:48as good as mr marshall when it comes to explaining things but i have a funny feeling i belong to
01:20:53him
01:20:53to his world his way of living i mean well what i'm getting at is you people have been kind
01:21:00to us
01:21:00you've done your best to be decent and show us a good time and for thanks you've had to suffer
01:21:05an
01:21:05embarrassing scene you don't know what he was trying to do oh no i know what he did to me
01:21:09he
01:21:10made me want to get something off my conscience i'm here under false pretenses and i know it i'm not
01:21:15related to you and i know it i knew it when i accepted the invitation but i was flat mrs
01:21:20pigeon really
01:21:21flat you mean broke you people don't understand what it is to be like that but when willie showed
01:21:28up saying you thought we were cousins i said hooray let him think and then i met you and you
01:21:35were so
01:21:36nice to me that i got to feeling ashamed oh i meant to check out right after the holidays but
01:21:41until this
01:21:42happened i was having an awfully nice time it's been fun cooking with you trimming the tree and just being
01:21:48with you and i didn't feel as if i were cheating you out of too much listen i'm a brat
01:21:57i've even
01:21:57worked at being one because i thought it was smart but if i'm a real brat i want to say
01:22:02that i think
01:22:03it's because i was born in this family are you going to keep on doing what you've been doing and
01:22:07not
01:22:07tell her after the way she's acted and and the things she's just told you because if you are i
01:22:12don't
01:22:12want to be a part of you anymore and i'm going to wait a minute baby and don't call me
01:22:16baby mr m was
01:22:17right when he said nothing would ever be quite the same after tonight i know i won't and angela's
01:22:22shown she's learned something you can count me in too sis i was getting kind of tired of college
01:22:28anyway what about a dad mother james miss watson has made a pathetically innocent confession when you
01:22:35consider what we have on our conscience well whether or not we tell her i have to tell stephen and
01:22:41that
01:22:41means more to me than the loss of money therese what's this all about listen here mister i mean
01:22:47captain this is something i'd like to know myself go ahead therese tell her i don't know whether i'm
01:22:57telling this to stephen or to you but we've been cheating you at least trying to cheat you out of
01:23:01an
01:23:01awful lot of money five million bucks i thought you people were really getting worked up about something
01:23:08for a minute but it's okay if this is the kind of games you play on christmas eve i can
01:23:13take it
01:23:14charade you call it don't you it's true we did it i'm telling you five million bucks
01:23:21sorry miss watson i'm not i'm glad and i hope we can do this again next year
01:23:29it's all right darling it's all right would anybody mind if i love you and your family would anybody mind
01:23:35telling me if you have any nutmeg in this silly house i am making tom and jerry's
01:23:45thank you hold her hand someone she's pinching herself black and blue don't it feels good oh i'm so
01:23:55glad we did it may i make a toast you're the guest of honor thanks to that famous gentleman and
01:24:03sterling
01:24:04actor who took the count instead of waiting for the bows mr m mr m mr pigeon sir and his
01:24:15dear lady
01:24:16i realized that my behavior last night was inexorable she uses dollar words taste and i wish to apologize
01:24:23i also beg your forgiveness for this seemingly ungracious departure but my gratitude for the
01:24:28helping hand you extended to me in my hour of need bids me remain loyal to you even though my
01:24:33sympathies are with the admirable miss watson unfortunately i have formed a deep attachment
01:24:39for her well anyway he wishes you a merry christmas and he's gone well doesn't he say where oh how
01:24:46did
01:24:46he leave oh dear james you must find him how far is the nearest town five miles is there a
01:24:53bar there
01:24:54yes somebody drive me
01:25:06i read your note
01:25:10did you mean what you said about 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 i'm glad will you join me oh you were great last night but you missed the climax they
01:25:31told me
01:25:32about the money
01:25:35well
01:25:37is that all you have to say what else is there to say for me except that i'm money
01:25:42i'm cutting them in after all i don't even remember the old guy that left it to me
01:25:47well bless him forever i like the pigeons
01:26:17my
01:26:17is
01:26:18and i'm going after him
01:26:32well I don't know how to practice it
01:26:32you
01:26:32but i'll shut up
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