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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,
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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.
00:04:52Horace, you must listen to me.
00:04:53I'll kill you.
00:04:54I'll kill you.
00:05:08They had to take up a collection, that impoverished mom.
00:05:10Willie, come on.
00:05:11Willie, who's that?
00:05:11Who 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.
00:05:17The prodigy.
00:05:18Horace Mann Borden.
00:05:20The great prodigy.
00:05:21Some prodigy, that creep.
00:05:23Come on.
00:05:24Let's get the beer.
00:05:37The trouble with your brother, Charlie, is a member of the What Is It School of 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, I've got to go to the doctor.
00:05:49I get an x-ray.
00:05:50Cows.
00:05:51He ought to paint cows, trees, an occasional flower pot, and you ought to agree with me
00:05:55because you're from Iowa.
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.
00:06:01You never say anything.
00:06:02I 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?
00:06:10Willie, 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 full 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've got to 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, Gerda, that'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.
00:06:43Willie, 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 going to do.
00:06:4950 cents if you give me the answer to the following question within three seconds.
00:06:53Gerda, listen to this.
00:06:54This is the way he makes his movie money because 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.
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.
00:07:37I 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, 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.
00:09:04What 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.
00:09:24You 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.
00:09:38You know what I mean?
00:09:39What a waste.
00:09:40What a terrible waste.
00:09:41Oh, 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.
00:10:21Here.
00:10:22Do you want these?
00:10:24My, how many are there?
00:10:27Oh.
00:10:29Sunset 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? Like that terrible Willie.
00:11:11And 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.
00:11:49Good night!
00:11:50And so after I got of college this spring, mum and dad wanted me to stay in Iowa and start
00:11:54dalla
00:11:54day prep right away, but
00:11:54I didn't think I wanted that so a couple girlfriends and I decided to take a
00:11:59crazy tour of Europe where all we did was get on and off buses and when I was
00:12:05in Europe I decided that maybe I'd study in New York for a while take a couple of
00:12:10teachers courses at Columbia you know maybe even teach in New York for a while
00:12:16and then Charlie said that I could stay with him and Betty until I found a place
00:12:20of my own I have two other brothers and two sisters but I'm the youngest are you
00:12:28an only child Horace please don't call me that but what should I call you I've got
00:12:37to call you something if we're going to talk if we're going to be friends 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
00:12:58books go to the library look under the card Borden Horace Mann cross-reference
00:13:02child prodigy
00:13:07you're laughing oh no I was just thinking I never knew anyone before who
00:13:11is a subject of books that must mean that you're very important and now you're
00:13:17laughing at me I find it inconceivable that anyone could be so naive important I'm
00:13:24not important I don't want to be important I will tell you something I stand here
00:13:31talking to you and listening to you talk and I asked myself why I asked myself
00:13:34that question because I have learned I must do without people that's a terrible
00:13:39decision it's the least painful take my word for that but why knowing people
00:13:45being friendly with people liking people how can that be painful
00:13:5319 years ago when I was 12 I graduated from the University summa cum laude and I
00:13:59was asked to deliver my honor thesis before the combined physics staffs of
00:14:03Harvard and MIT the subject of my papers was Einstein's theory of the expanding
00:14:09universe its meaning and application do you understand what I've just said do you
00:14:18understand the implication of what I've just told you it means that I am a freak a
00:14:27freak and a monster a freak and a monster cannot live in this world of normal
00:15:01people
00:15:02oh hi Charlie oh hi got a
00:15:05am I late dinner is almost ready
00:15:10uh Willie's inside
00:15:13Willie all right I'll be right in
00:15:18thank 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 and it's about a doctor who has a serum
00:15:47a superman serum
00:15:50and he injected it into his newborn child his son as an experiment and sure enough the
00:15:54son grew up to be a superman
00:15:57the serum was good but there was one problem the world this world we live in is too small
00:16:05and too narrow for a superman people 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 but those same
00:16:17little people can't stand it when the superman comes along in 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
00:16:44it must 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
00:17:20I 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
00:17:46this is the United States Steel Hour
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