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00:01:37The United States Steel Hour from New York
00:01:45Now, Cliff Robertson stars in Man on the Mountaintop,
00:01:49a drama of explosive emotions,
00:01:51co-starring Paul McGrath and Salome Jens.
00:01:54piano plays in Man on the Mountaintop,
00:02:25a troupe got a 모아,
00:02:32I like the spoon.
00:02:39I like you with you underneath the silvery moon.
00:02:45I like the silvery moon.
00:02:50I like the silvery moon.
00:02:51I love you too.
00:02:52I love you too.
00:02:53I love you too.
00:02:57Happy Housemarmy!
00:02:59Thank you very much.
00:03:03And there's lots of wine and beer.
00:03:06Gerda, honey.
00:03:08Here, baby, let me help.
00:03:12This is Gerda, uh, this is Gerda, Charlie Simpson.
00:03:15You know, you're cute, but you're not singing.
00:03:18Well, I don't sing very well.
00:03:20Everybody from Iowa sings, don't they?
00:03:22I thought it was a Midwestern institution to be a community singer.
00:03:25You come from a community, you gotta sing.
00:03:28I'm an actor.
00:03:29I know, Charlie told me.
00:03:31Well, are you not singing?
00:03:32Come on, let's sing.
00:03:34I'll teach you how to project.
00:03:35I'm very good at projecting.
00:03:37Lily, you're gonna scare her.
00:03:39Like, uh, not a chance.
00:03:40Like, I'm gonna show her how to become like Beaton.
00:03:42One easy lesson.
00:03:43Yeah, well, meantime, we're out of beer,
00:03:45so would you mind going down to the Dollar Potence
00:03:46and getting us some beer?
00:03:47All right, sure.
00:03:48You come with me.
00:03:49This is your chance.
00:03:50Your big chance to see the village after midnight.
00:03:52You can write home in the morning to the folks in Iowa
00:03:55that you did the whole thing.
00:03:57Uh, uh, wait a minute, have you got any money?
00:03:59Oh, no, I haven't, but I'll go back and get my...
00:04:01Never mind.
00:04:02I'll get it from your brother.
00:04:12Horace.
00:04:15Horace, I know you're in there.
00:04:16Go away.
00:04:17Horace, I've got to talk to you.
00:04:20I don't want to talk.
00:04:21It's about that position Dr. Wilson offered.
00:04:24Horace, you must listen to me, do you understand?
00:04:27Now, look, Horace, I'm trying to be reasonable,
00:04:29but I'm not going to try to tell you anything.
00:04:31If you won't even see me or answer my letters...
00:04:34Go away!
00:04:35Horace, haven't you had enough of this?
00:04:37Isn't it about time you came to your senses?
00:04:39There comes a point...
00:04:41Go away!
00:04:42When I feel that you are being completely foolish
00:04:44about this whole thing.
00:04:46Now, look, Horace, I'm telling you.
00:04:50Don't tell me anything.
00:04:52Go away or I'll kill you, do you hear me?
00:04:53I'll kill you!
00:05:01I'll kill you.
00:05:02I'll kill you.
00:05:07They had to take up a collection, that impoverished mom.
00:05:10Willie, who's that?
00:05:12Who lives in there?
00:05:13Oh, in there?
00:05:14Oh, that's the genius, you know.
00:05:16The genius?
00:05:17Oh, yeah, the prodigy.
00:05:18Horace Mann Borden, the great prodigy.
00:05:22Some prodigy, that creep.
00:05:23Come on, let's get the beer.
00:05:37The trouble with your brother Charlie,
00:05:39he's a member of the What Is As Cool A Painting.
00:05:41The kind you look at, you say, what is it?
00:05:42Willie, we've been gone almost an hour.
00:05:44He's a painter who thinks, you know.
00:05:45He paints the inner man.
00:05:46If I want to know what the inner man looks like,
00:05:48I got to go to the doctor, I get an x-ray.
00:05:50Cows.
00:05:51He ought to paint cows...
00:05:52Willie, we should go back.
00:05:53Trees, an occasional flowerpot, and you ought to agree with me,
00:05:55because you're from my own.
00:05:57Well, wouldn't you rather see a cow hanging on a wall than a What Is It?
00:06:00You know, you think too much, you never say anything.
00:06:03I think we ought to go back.
00:06:04The beer's getting warmer.
00:06:05Don't you know it's dangerous to think too much?
00:06:07Look at that genius there, the prodigy.
00:06:09You see what happens when you think?
00:06:10Shh, Willie, he'll hear you.
00:06:11No, he doesn't mind.
00:06:12No, you mind, prodigy?
00:06:14See, he doesn't say anything.
00:06:15He lives in a world of his own, a dark, creepy world,
00:06:18full of dark thoughts.
00:06:19Willie, please, let's go.
00:06:20Look, if we went right back, your sister-in-law would faint.
00:06:23When you beat, you gotta do things inconsistently.
00:06:26That's what makes character.
00:06:27Prodigy, clean up the coffee cups, will you?
00:06:31That's a good prodigy.
00:06:33If you ever wanted to know what a prodigy looked like,
00:06:35that's a prodigy.
00:06:36That's a real prodigy.
00:06:38See what happens when you have brains and you think too much?
00:06:40You work in a crummy cafeteria.
00:06:42Prodigy, say hello to your neighbor.
00:06:43Well, they don't.
00:06:44Wait, I'll show you.
00:06:45I'll get an idea.
00:06:46Prodigy, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
00:06:4950 cents if you give me the answer to the following question,
00:06:51within three seconds.
00:06:53Gerda, listen to this.
00:06:54This is the way he makes his movie money
00:06:55because this prodigy goes to two or three movies a day.
00:06:58All right, you ready, Horace Mann?
00:06:59Give me the answer in three seconds.
00:07:02What is 578 times 309?
00:07:07178,602.
00:07:08Just a minute, I'll check it.
00:07:1028 and carry the two.
00:07:11Right.
00:07:12Absolutely right.
00:07:14Fabulous.
00:07:14Isn't it fabulous, Gerda?
00:07:16That's what you can do when you think.
00:07:17Let's take the beer back.
00:07:19Good night, genius.
00:07:21Come on, Gerda.
00:07:21No, please, don't touch me.
00:07:24Gerda, baby, what did I do?
00:07:26You're a monster.
00:07:27A vicious, horrible, little monster.
00:07:31I'll take the beer back.
00:07:32I told you, you think too much.
00:07:37I want to apologize.
00:07:39Please don't think that...
00:07:41I mean, that was a terrible thing he just did.
00:07:44And since we're going to be neighbors,
00:07:45you see, I'm going to live with Charlie and Betty,
00:07:47I think I ought to introduce myself.
00:07:50My name is Gerda.
00:07:52Gerda Blake.
00:07:55Don't cry.
00:07:57Please don't cry.
00:08:04You must let me alone.
00:08:07You must let me alone.
00:08:32Oh, hi, Charlie.
00:08:33Is the party over already?
00:08:35Oh, leave the door open, huh, Gerda?
00:08:36Let's get some air in here.
00:08:37Yeah, the party's over, all right.
00:08:38What happened to you?
00:08:39Well, he came back over an hour ago.
00:08:41I figured maybe first day in New York you got lost.
00:08:44I was sitting in Washington Square.
00:08:46I didn't feel like coming right back.
00:08:49Charlie.
00:08:50What?
00:08:50I met the strangest man.
00:08:52The saddest man I've ever met.
00:08:54Oh, brother who?
00:08:55He lives next door.
00:08:56His name is Borden.
00:08:57Horace Mann Borden.
00:08:59What?
00:08:59That flip.
00:09:00Charlie.
00:09:01That's what he is.
00:09:02He's a real flip.
00:09:03Oh, I know all about him.
00:09:05What do you know?
00:09:06Oh, he was famous.
00:09:08Yeah, I guess you wouldn't remember.
00:09:10His father had some kind of theory about kids being able to learn.
00:09:14And like by the age of three months, this kid was building with blocks.
00:09:17And by three years he could read, he could translate Greek.
00:09:21He memorized the complete works of Shakespeare.
00:09:23Oh, you know, he graduated from college when he was 12.
00:09:27No wonder he's so lonely.
00:09:29Charlie.
00:09:30Hey, are you?
00:09:32Now, listen, Goethe.
00:09:33Don't start feeling sorry for this character.
00:09:36He's...
00:09:37Well, he's gone.
00:09:38You know what I mean?
00:09:39What a waste.
00:09:40What a terrible waste.
00:09:41Oh, look, Betty, will you talk to this girl?
00:09:42This is the girl who brought home the stray cats.
00:09:44This is the compassionate member of the family.
00:09:46So?
00:09:47I thought that's why she was your favorite sister.
00:09:53Hi.
00:09:55Charlie, leave him alone.
00:09:56I'm going to ask him for a coffee.
00:09:58Hey, how would you like to join us for a coffee?
00:10:01Charlie, don't you see he's scared?
00:10:03Scared?
00:10:04What has he got to be scared of?
00:10:06People have called me a genius too, you know.
00:10:09Charlie, you're as bad as Willie.
00:10:20Oh, here.
00:10:22Do you want these?
00:10:24My, how many are there?
00:10:28Oh, Sunset Boulevard.
00:10:30Isn't this from Sunset Boulevard?
00:10:33Well, sure it is.
00:10:35There's William Holden in that scene with Gloria Swanson in her bedroom.
00:10:38You know, I think he's one of my favorite actors.
00:10:43Uh, do you collect them?
00:10:45Yes.
00:10:46May I have them, please?
00:10:47Well, where do you get them?
00:10:49Some of these are from very old pictures.
00:10:54Secondhand stores and, uh, movie houses.
00:10:59Why are you afraid of people?
00:11:01Are you afraid of me?
00:11:03Shouldn't you get to know someone before you decide whether to be afraid of them or not?
00:11:09People make fun of you, don't they?
00:11:10Like that terrible Willie, and they get angry with you like my brother Charlie.
00:11:16Do you have a cigarette?
00:11:18No.
00:11:20Oh.
00:11:21Well, I don't smoke anyway.
00:11:22Not as a general rule.
00:11:24Just every once in a while to be sociable.
00:11:29Well, there are your pictures.
00:11:31Good night.
00:11:32Good night.
00:11:32Good night.
00:11:53Good night.
00:11:57Good night.
00:12:04and when i was in europe i decided that maybe i'd study in new york for a while take a
00:12:10couple of
00:12:10teachers courses at columbia you know maybe even teach in new york for a while and then charlie
00:12:17said that i could stay with him and betty until i found a place of my own i have two
00:12:23other brothers
00:12:24and two sisters but i'm the youngest are you an only child horace please don't call me that
00:12:34well what should i call you i've got to call you something if we're going to talk if we're going
00:12:39to be friends borden borden well are you an only child
00:12:51don't you know about me no if you want to know about me
00:12:57you can read about me in books go to the library look under the card
00:13:00borden horace mann cross-reference child prodigy
00:13:07you're laughing oh no i was just thinking i never knew anyone before who was the subject of books
00:13:12that must mean that you're very important and now you're laughing at me i find it inconceivable that
00:13:20anyone could be so naive
00:13:24important i'm not important i don't want to be important
00:13:27i will tell you something
00:13:30i stand here talking to you and listening to you talk and i ask myself why i ask myself that
00:13:34question
00:13:35because i have learned i must do without people
00:13:38that's a terrible decision
00:13:40it's the least painful take my word for that
00:13:43but why knowing people being friendly with people
00:13:46liking people how can that be painful
00:13:5319 years ago when i was 12 i graduated from the university summa cum laude
00:13:59and i was asked to deliver my honor thesis before the combined physics staffs of harvard and mit
00:14:04the subject of my papers
00:14:06it was einstein's theory of the expanding universe its meaning and application
00:14:14do you understand what i've just said
00:14:18do you understand the implication of what i've just told you
00:14:24it means that i am a freak
00:14:27a freak and a monster
00:14:29a freak and a monster cannot live
00:14:31in this world of normal people
00:15:01oh hi charlie
00:15:03oh hi getter
00:15:05am i late
00:15:07uh dinner's almost ready
00:15:10uh willie's inside
00:15:13willie
00:15:14all right i'll be right in
00:15:16fine
00:15:19thank you for the coffee
00:15:21it's all right i didn't have to pay for it
00:15:24oh i didn't mean that
00:15:26will we talk again some other time
00:15:30why
00:15:32does there have to be a reason
00:15:37there's another book you should read
00:15:40it's not about me but i think you should read it
00:15:43philip wiley wrote it
00:15:45and it's about a doctor who has a serum
00:15:47a superman serum
00:15:50and he injected it into his newborn child
00:15:52his son as an experiment
00:15:53and sure enough the son grew up to be a superman
00:15:57the serum was good but there was one problem
00:15:59the world
00:16:01this world
00:16:03we live in is too small and too narrow for a superman
00:16:08people are afraid of supermen just as they are afraid of monsters
00:16:12being a superman is a beautiful fantasy for the tormented and tortured little people
00:16:16but those same little people can't stand it when the superman comes along
00:16:21in this world that superman is crucified
00:16:24is that what happened to the superman in wiley's book
00:16:30that poor creature
00:16:32ended up on a mountaintop
00:16:35shouting his defiance at god until lightning came from the sky and destroyed him
00:16:41reduced him to nothing absolutely nothing
00:16:44must be a very sad story
00:16:47it's a true story
00:16:50but what was there for people to fear
00:16:53why must everyone be afraid
00:16:57don't you see
00:16:58no
00:17:20last night i was looking through the collection of my photographs and i came across some pictures of william holden
00:17:27you said that you liked him
00:17:32would you
00:17:35like to come in and look at them
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