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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,
00:02:28a series of stunts,
00:02:43piano plays in Man on the Mountaintop,
00:02:47an apostle John Lennon and the American
00:02:48piano plays in Man on the Mountaintop,
00:03:11This is Gerda, uh, this is Gerda, uh, this is Gerda, uh, this is Gerda, it's always
00:03:17not singing. Well, I don't sing very well. Everybody from Iowa sings, don't they? I thought it was
00:03:23a Midwestern institution to be a community singer. You come from a community, you gotta
00:03:27sing. I'm an actor. I know, Charlie told me. Well, are you not singing? Come on, let's
00:03:33sing. I'll teach you how to project. I'm very good at projecting. Lily, you're gonna scare
00:03:38her. Like, uh, not a chance. Like, I'm gonna show her how to become like Beaton, one easy
00:03:43lesson. Yeah, well, meantime, we're out of beer, so would you mind going down to the Dollar
00:03:46podcasting and getting us some beer? All right, sure, you come with me. This is your chance,
00:03:50your big chance to see the village after midnight. You can write home in the morning to the folks
00:03:54in Iowa that you did the whole thing. Uh, uh, wait a minute, have you got any money? Oh, no,
00:04:00I haven't, but I'll go back and get my first... Never mind, I'll get it from your brother.
00:04:12Horace. Horace, I know you're in there. Go away. Horace, I've got to talk to you. I
00:04:20don't want to talk. It's about that position Dr. Wilson offered. Horace, you must listen
00:04:25to me, do you understand? Now, look, Horace, I, I'm trying to be reasonable, but I'm not
00:04:30going to try to tell you anything if you, if you won't even see me or, or answer my
00:04:34letters. Go away. Horace, haven't you had enough of this? Isn't it about time you came
00:04:39to your senses? There comes a point... Go away. When I feel that you are being completely
00:04:44foolish about this whole thing. Now, look, Horace, I'm telling you. Don't tell me anything.
00:04:52Go away or I'll kill you, do you hear me? I'll kill you. They had to take up a collection,
00:05:09that impoverished mom. Willie, who's that? Who lives in there? Oh, in there? Oh, that's
00:05:15the genius, you know. The genius? Oh, yeah, the prodigy. Horace Mann Borden, the great
00:05:21prodigy. Some prodigy, that creep. Come on, let's get the beer.
00:05:37The trouble with your brother, Charlie, is a member of the What is the School of Painting.
00:05:41The kind you look at, you say, what is it? Willie, we've been gone almost an hour. He's a painter
00:05:47and you don't know what the inner man looks like. I've got to go to the doctor. I've got an
00:05:49x-ray.
00:05:50Cows. You ought to paint cows, trees, an occasional flowerpot, and you ought to agree with me
00:05:55because you're from Iowa. Well, wouldn't you rather see a cow hang on a wall than a What is it?
00:06:00You know, you think too much. You never say anything.
00:06:02I think we ought to go back. The beer's getting warmer. Don't you know it's dangerous to think too much?
00:06:07Look at that genius there, the prodigy. You see what happens when you think?
00:06:10Shh, Willie, he'll hear you. No, he doesn't mind. No, you mind, prodigy? See, he doesn't say anything.
00:06:15He lives in a world of his own, a dark, creepy world full of dark thoughts.
00:06:19Willie, please, let's go. Look, if we went right back, your sister-in-law would faint.
00:06:23When you beat, you've got to do things inconsistently. That's what makes character.
00:06:27Prodigy, clean up the coffee cups, will you? That's a good prodigy.
00:06:33If you ever wanted to know what a prodigy looked like, that's a prodigy. That's a real prodigy.
00:06:38See what happens when you have brains and you think too much? You work in a crummy cafeteria.
00:06:42Why don't you say hello to your neighbor?
00:06:43Well, they don't.
00:06:44Wait, I'll show you. I'll get an idea.
00:06:47Prodigy, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
00:06:4950 cents if you give me the answer to the following question within three seconds.
00:06:53Gerta, listen to this. This 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?
00:07:00Give 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. 28 and carry the two.
00:07:11Right. Absolutely right.
00:07:14Fabulous. Isn't it fabulous, Gerta? That's what you can do when you think.
00:07:17Let's take the beer back.
00:07:19Good night, genius. Come on, Gerta.
00:07:21No, please, don't touch me.
00:07:24Gerta, baby, what did I do?
00:07:26You're a monster. A vicious, horrible little monster.
00:07:30Hmm? I'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, you see, I'm going to live with Charlie and Betty,
00:07:47I think I ought to introduce myself.
00:07:50My name is Goethe.
00:07:52Goethe 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, Gerta? Let's get some air in here.
00:08:37Yeah, the party's over all right. What happened to you?
00:08:39Willie 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.
00:08:50Charlie, I met the strangest man.
00:08:52The saddest man I've ever met.
00:08:54Oh, brother who?
00:08:55He lives next door. His name is Borden.
00:08:57Horace Mann Borden.
00:08:59What, that flip?
00:09:00Charlie.
00:09:01That's what he is. He's a real flip.
00:09:03Oh, I know all about him.
00:09:05What do you know?
00:09:05Oh, 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.
00:09:30Hey, 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, you know what I mean?
00:09:39What a waste. What 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.
00:09:53Uh, hi.
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's he got to be scared of?
00:10:06Look, people have called me a genius too, you know.
00:10:08Charlie, you're as bad as Willie.
00:10:20Oh, here.
00:10:22Do you want these?
00:10:24My, how many are there?
00:10:27Oh, 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, not as a general rule.
00:11:24Just every once in a while to be sociable.
00:11:28Well, there are your pictures.
00:11:31Good night.
00:11:32Good night.
00:11:33You Jack.
00:11:34Right here, still?
00:11:36No.
00:11:38Yeah.
00:11:57You could do the Grindelwald's nuns and hope for you!
00:11:59tour of Europe, where all we did was get on and off buses. And when I was in Europe, I
00:12:05decided that maybe I'd study in New York for a while, take a couple of teacher's courses
00:12:11at Columbia, you know. Maybe even teach in New York for a while. And then Charlie said
00:12:17that I could stay with him and Betty until I found a place of my own. I have two other
00:12:23brothers and two sisters, but I'm the youngest. Are you an only child, Horace?
00:12:31Please don't call me that. Well, what should I call you? I've got to call you
00:12:38something if we're going to talk, if we're going to be friends. Borden. Borden.
00:12:45Well, are you an only child?
00:12:51Don't you know about me? No. If you want to know about me, you can read about me in books.
00:12:59Go to the library. Look under the card. Borden, Horace Mann, cross-reference, child prodigy.
00:13:07You're laughing. Oh, no. I was just thinking I never knew anyone before who was a subject
00:13:12of books. That must mean that you're very important. And now you're laughing at me.
00:13:18I find it inconceivable that anyone 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. I stand here talking to you and listening to you talk, and I ask myself
00:13:33why. I ask myself that question because I have learned I must do without people.
00:13:38That's a terrible decision. It's the least painful. Take my word for that.
00:13:43But why? Knowing people, being friendly with people, liking people? How can that be painful?
00:13:53Nineteen years ago, when I was twelve, 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 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, a freak and a monster.
00:14:29A freak and a monster cannot live in this world of normal people.
00:14:35A freak and a monster cannot live in this world.
00:15:01Oh hi Charlie. Oh hi Goethe. Am I late? Dinner's almost ready. Willie's inside. Willie?
00:15:14All right I'll be right in. Thank you for the coffee. It's all right I didn't have to pay for
00:15:23it.
00:15:24Oh I didn't mean that. Will we talk again some other time? Why? Does there have to be a reason?
00:15:37There's another book you should read. It's not about me but I think you should read it.
00:15:43Philip Wiley wrote it and it's about a doctor who has a serum. A superman serum.
00:15:50And he injected it into his newborn child his son as an experiment and sure enough the son grew up
00:15:54to be a superman.
00:15:57The serum was good but there was one problem. The world, this world we live in is too small and
00:16:05too narrow for a superman.
00:16:09People 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 ended up on a mountaintop shouting his defiance at God until lightning came from the sky and
00:16:38destroyed 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 like to come in and look at them?
00:17:46This is the United States Steel Hour and now, George Hicks.
00:17:57We wish away you.
00:18:15And it's the United States Steel Hour.
00:18:16He's the hunter of the world?
00:18:16He's the hunter that always has no control over the world of hunger.
00:18:18He has no control over.
00:18:18Do you remember that he needs the Alejandro.
00:18:18You'll see what he should be in the life of the world.
00:18:18He's the hunter of the world.
00:18:20So he's the hunter who's the hunter of the world.
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