- 10 minutes ago
show
Category
đ„
Short filmTranscript
00:10We're being invaded by Martians!
00:27Hi, fellas.
00:28Mickey, will you cool it? It's the Four Martians.
00:32All right, what's that, babe? What's happening?
00:33We need a guitar string.
00:35Oh, okay. I think I got it.
00:38Yeah, which one do you need?
00:40You got a B?
00:41Yeah, yeah, B.
00:43Okay?
00:44What, are you guys playing a gig or something?
00:46Better. We're auditioning for Hubbell Benson.
00:48Hubbell Benson, the TV producer?
00:50Yeah, he's looking for a singing group to star in his new TV show.
00:53Didn't you guys get an invitation?
00:55Oh, sure we did. Yeah, sure.
00:56Oh, well, okay. We'll see you at the audition.
00:59Thanks for the string.
01:00Yeah. Later.
01:01Thanks, sir.
01:02Good luck.
01:04Hey, let's check the mail.
01:08Bill? Bill?
01:09Hey, there's nothing but Bill's here.
01:12How come the Martians got an invitation and we didn't?
01:14Well, you know, there are probably very few invitations.
01:16Two or three.
01:17Sure.
01:19Hey, it's the foreign agents.
01:21Hi, man. Did you get your invitation?
01:23Uh, no. You see, our mail doesn't come till late Monday.
01:26Oh, like Thursday.
01:28Well, gotta split for rehearsal. This is our big chance.
01:32Big chance.
01:41Yo-ho-ho.
01:45Oh, hey, it's the Jolly Green Giant.
01:46Yo-ho-ho.
01:48Hey, uh, what's the new Jolly Green Giant? Ho-ho-ho.
01:50Hiya, monkeys.
01:52You wanna know what we got in the mail?
01:53Yes.
01:54An autographed photo of Annette Funicello.
01:56Oh.
01:57We thought you meant you got an invitation to Benson's audition.
02:00Oh, yeah. We got that, too.
02:09Here we come.
02:11Walking down the street.
02:14We get the funniest looks from
02:17Everyone we meet.
02:20Hey, hey, we're the monkeys.
02:22And people say we monkey around.
02:25But we're too busy singing
02:28To put anybody down.
02:32We're just trying to be friendly
02:33I'll come and watch you sing and play
02:37We're the young generation
02:39And we got something to say
02:43Hey, hey, we're monkeys
02:46You never know where we'll be found
02:48So you better get ready
02:51We're maybe coming to your town
03:09Boy, it's not fair.
03:10We're as bad as any other group in town.
03:12Right, man.
03:13But all those other groups got invitations, they don't audition.
03:15Yeah, except us.
03:17Oh, what are we gonna do?
03:19Well, we can't take this lying down.
03:21Ew.
03:21Peter.
03:22Boy, I hope we starve.
03:24We are starving.
03:25They'll be sorry when they find us dead on the floor.
03:28Oh, Peter.
03:29I can see the headlines now.
03:31Skinny group found in California.
03:33Oh, boy.
03:33Hey, wait a minute.
03:35Why don't we just send the tape to Mr. Benson?
03:37What tape? What tape?
03:37The tape we did on that tape recorder we hired.
03:41Oh, man.
03:42I think I left the tape in the recorder when I returned it.
03:50Yeah.
03:51We'll have those contracts right in the mail early in the morning.
03:53Happy gals to the wife.
03:55Bye.
03:57You see any old trapeze muscles there, Tony, baby?
03:59Yes, sir, Mr. Benson.
04:02Watch your foot, Tony.
04:07Miss Chomsky?
04:08Yes, Mr. Benson?
04:10Where's the dictaphone?
04:11It's broken.
04:12It's broken?
04:20Olé?
04:22Olé?
04:23I've got a TV show to produce. Contracts to dictate.
04:26Your dictaphone is being repaired.
04:28I rented you a tape recorder.
04:31A tape recorder?
04:32Okay.
04:33Bring it in.
04:36Are you sure it's all right to come here without an invitation?
04:39Man, how else are we gonna get an audition with Benson?
04:41Come on.
04:46You know what you're doing, Miss Chomsky?
04:48I think so, Mr. Benson.
04:52Hey.
04:53Who are they?
04:54What's going on?
04:55I'm sorry, Mr. Benson.
04:57I can't understand.
05:00Sensational.
05:01Sensational.
05:02That's great.
05:02That's the group I'm looking for.
05:04They're gonna star on my new TV show.
05:05Who are they?
05:06And get them over here.
05:07I can't, Mr. Benson.
05:09Can't?
05:10You say can't?
05:11I find the stars on my show and you keep saying can't.
05:14That tape was on the machine when I rented it.
05:16I can't imagine who they are.
05:18Miss Chomsky, if you say can't one more time, you're fired.
05:22But I can't, Mr. Benson.
05:25Miss Chomsky, you're fired.
05:27Thank you, Mr. Benson.
05:31Miss Chomsky, Gaspers, Benson Hubbell Productions, 302.
05:34Shall we?
05:35Yes.
05:39Oh, Peter, please tell me it isn't the hiccups.
05:47It isn't the hiccups.
05:48How are we gonna perform as a group if you've got the...
05:50The hiccups?
05:51Yes.
05:51I'm sorry about this, but I always get the hiccups when I perform for a big producer.
05:56What are you talking about?
05:57It's the first time you ever performed for a big producer.
05:59Well, it's 100% so far.
06:01Well, we've gotta find that group.
06:05I've called the booking agents, every disc jockey in Hollywood and the recording company.
06:09The hospital?
06:11You don't think we'd find them in a hospital.
06:13No.
06:14That's for you.
06:15If you don't find them.
06:19Good.
06:19I need the rest.
06:22Listen, I'll get rid of your hiccups.
06:24Now, just imagine you're in some far off place and you're on the rolling high seas and you're heading for
06:29Madagascar.
06:32Hey, he's turning green.
06:34Hey, Peter, what's the matter?
06:35Seasick.
06:37Seasick?
06:38Is this happening, Chomsky?
06:40I checked with the talent scouts, the movie and TV studios, all the discotheques, and still no luck.
06:46Cut.
06:47I'll find that group myself.
06:49When I want an idiot to do a job, I'll do it myself.
06:53Idiot.
06:59Now, forget it, Pete. Now, listen.
07:01You're a thousand miles away, it's springtime, and it's a field of new-mown hay.
07:06Oh, he's changing color.
07:08Achoo!
07:09Oh.
07:09Hay fever.
07:10Hay fever!
07:13One more chance.
07:14Six.
07:15Eight.
07:16Ten.
07:17Twelve.
07:17When he hits twenty-eight, kid, you better sell fast.
07:23Twenty.
07:28Twenty.
07:29Did Hubble Benson, a big man with polka dots, come past here?
07:32Polka dots? Yeah, he just went out that way.
07:34Twenty-eight.
07:35Better sell fast, kid.
07:38Hey, that guy must have been Hubble Benson.
07:41Hubble...
07:41Hey, my hiccups are gone.
07:43Yeah, if those are our chance for an audition, maybe we can still catch him.
07:46Come on, let's go.
07:49Sure you're all right?
07:50Why, it's, uh, it's nothing.
07:52Some kids tried to stop me getting into my car, but I shook them off.
07:56Sure did.
07:56Probably a bunch of autograph hounds.
08:00Now, the important thing is, you've got to find me that singing group.
08:03You've come to the right place, Mr. Benson.
08:05We'll find your group for you.
08:07Finding things is our business.
08:09I'll take down all the details.
08:11And, uh, just as I can find what I'm looking.
08:16P.
08:16P?
08:17No, maybe it's in D, huh?
08:19Uh-uh.
08:20Not there.
08:21What are you looking for?
08:23Huh?
08:23I said, what are you looking for?
08:24Oh, uh, a pencil.
08:26I had it here just a second ago.
08:28It just couldn't disappear, could it?
08:36You're almost at your nighttime, fellas.
08:38He does wear out-of-sight clothes.
08:40You know, I still say the only way we're gonna get in there for an audition is to just go
08:44right up and just, just see him.
08:46You say you know, Mr. Benson?
08:48Know him?
08:49Why, he cured my hiccups.
08:50Your hiccups?
08:51Sure, see?
08:52Hick.
08:52Like that.
08:58Thirty-five.
08:59Thirty-seven.
09:09And there's only one way to get rid of hiccups.
09:12What's that?
09:13Scare it out of him.
09:14No!
09:26It didn't help much.
09:30He's worse than before.
09:48You're all right with the hangnails there, Tilda?
09:51Still nothing, Mr. Benson.
09:54Easy on the half-moons, Tilda.
09:56More newsmen outside.
09:58They wanna know if there's any truth to the rumor that you can't find a certain rock and roll group.
10:03Hold it!
10:04Okay.
10:04What's wrong with me?
10:06Well, you're rude, irritable, impatient.
10:08I've got the greatest little publicity gimmick to promote my new show, and I don't use it!
10:12They're not very nice.
10:13Easy on the half-moons, Tilda.
10:15Easy.
10:25Wait a minute, wait a minute.
10:27If we can get in to see Benson, uh, in person, we'll phone it in.
10:32Right!
10:32Well, all right.
10:33That's the story, boys.
10:34I wanna star them, but I can't find them.
10:37That's quite a story.
10:39The mystery group and the half-a-million-dollar contract.
10:42You better make that a million dollars.
10:43It's gonna be an hour show.
10:46Easy on the half-moons, Tilda.
10:47Um, hello, can I speak to Mr. Benson, please?
10:51Hello, Mr. Benson?
11:02I know that something very strange has happened to my brain
11:07I'm either feeling very good or else I am insane
11:11The seeds of doubts you planted have started to grow wild
11:16Now that I feel that I must yield for the wisdom of a child
11:21And it's like...
11:23Hello?
11:23Mr. Pabson's office?
11:24Uh, Mr. Benson?
11:25Mr. Pabson's office?
11:26No, I wanted Hubble Benson.
11:28Oh.
11:30Hey, um, I'm sorry.
11:33Long number, but...
11:34Hey, I'll let me stop.
11:40Hey, Pastor.
11:47Hey, Pastor.
11:49Hey, Pastor.
11:49Mr. Benson, there's a Mr. Jones on the phone.
11:51He says it's urgent.
11:53Ah, yes.
11:53Excuse me, fellas.
11:54That's probably Byron Jones in the New York office.
11:56He's always got something urgent.
11:58All right, Jonesy.
11:59Start talking.
12:03Easy on the half-moons there.
12:05Shh.
12:07Shh.
12:08Shh.
12:16I know that something very strange has happened to my brain
12:20I'm either feeling very good or else I am insane
12:25The seeds of doubts you planted have started to grow wild
12:29And I feel that I must yield for the wisdom for the child
12:34And it's love you bring
12:37Know that I can't deny
12:39With your wings
12:41I can't love the flies
12:44Say, come things
12:45Come things
12:47That will be ten cents, please, for the next three minutes
12:50What?
12:51Sorry, what?
12:53Got any money?
12:54No.
12:54Is it Mickey?
12:55Got any money?
12:57Nothing.
13:06Well, hello?
13:08Mr. Benson?
13:08How do you like that?
13:10Mr. Benson?
13:11Hello?
13:12Operator?
13:13Hello?
13:13May I help you, sir?
13:14Oh, yeah.
13:15We're musicians and we're rehearsing
13:16I mean, we're auditioning here in the phone booth
13:19And we got cut off
13:20What are we gonna do now?
13:21Do you know Melancholy Baby?
13:23Oh, that's very funny.
13:24Yeah.
13:27Okay, mate.
13:27The phone booth is yours
13:29Wonderful, aleve
13:45Come on, Rhine!
14:06Get me.
14:1121.
14:12You lose.
14:18What's happening in the morning papers, Peter?
14:20Lil' Abner, Peanuts.
14:23Oh, say, this is funny.
14:26This little guy hits the big guy over the head with a club,
14:28and the big guy hits the little guy in the jaw.
14:31What comic strip is that?
14:33What? Comic strip. This is the editorial page.
14:38You're insane.
14:39You're out of your mind.
14:42Hey, look at that.
14:44Hey, fellas, did you see this?
14:51TV executive hunts mystery group.
14:53What does it say about it?
14:53It says, Hubble Benson.
14:55Uh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
14:57And they don't know who they are.
15:00And he's out trying to find them.
15:01Man, that's justice for you.
15:03Here we are trying to get in to see him,
15:04and he's out trying to find another group that isn't even trying.
15:07And to tough it off, he doesn't even know who they are.
15:10Well, if he doesn't know who they are, why don't we be them?
15:12Oh, come on, Peter.
15:13We don't even know what they sound like.
15:14Well, how many different kinds of groups are there?
15:22No heartaches felt, no longer lonely
15:24Nights of waiting finally won
15:26The happiness that's all rolled up in you
15:30And now with you as inspiration
15:33I look toward a destination
15:35Sunny bright that once before was blue
15:39I have no more than I did before
15:43But now I've got all that I need
15:47For I love you
15:49And I know you love me
15:56So take my hand, I'll start my journey
15:58Free from all the helpless worry
16:00That besets a man when he's alone
16:04More strength is mine when we're together
16:07And with you I know I'll never
16:09Have to pass the high road for the law
16:11I have no more than I did before
16:17But now I've got all that I need
16:20For I love you
16:23And I know you love me
16:27Play magic fingers
16:46I have no more than I did before
16:51But now I've got all that I need
16:54For I love you
16:57For I love you
16:58And I know you love me
17:00Yes, I love you
17:03And I know you love me
17:18Something wrong, Mr. Benson?
17:22I give up.
17:23I'm tired of looking for that mystery group.
17:26What do you say we audition a crowd we sent out the invitations to?
17:30Maybe there's something.
17:32Maybe.
17:33Right away, sir.
17:42The first three groups are here, Mr. Benson.
17:45Well, bring in the first one.
17:46Yes, sir.
17:48Okay, fellas.
17:49Jolly green giants first.
17:56Yo-ho-ho.
17:58All right, boys.
18:00Let's hear what you can do.
18:02Chomsky, let's record this.
18:04Yes, sir.
18:05Here we go.
18:09Not again, Chomsky.
18:11That's the monkeys.
18:12You know that group?
18:13Sure, the monkeys.
18:15No style group.
18:16They live at the beach.
18:17The beach.
18:18That's the group I want.
18:21Chomsky, get ready.
18:23Catch the phone book.
18:24We're off to the beach to find the monkeys.
18:26But, Mr. Benson, we're as good as they are.
18:28Ho-ho-ho.
18:30Ho-ho.
18:30Ho-ho.
18:32Ho-ho.
18:34Ho-ho.
18:42Hey, what's that terrible racket?
18:43Terrible racket, man?
18:44It's your plane.
18:45Oh, come on.
18:46It sounds like the foreign agents.
18:47No, no.
18:47It sounds like the four Martians.
18:48You know what it sounds like?
18:49Yo-ho-ho.
18:50It's like the jolly green giants.
18:53Hey, it's Mr. Binks.
18:57Say you're the monkeys.
18:59What?
18:59I said, say you're the monkeys.
19:01Oh, we're the monkeys.
19:02Oh, Eureka.
19:03No, we're Americans.
19:04We've been looking everywhere for you.
19:05What do you say?
19:05What do you say?
19:05I said, we've been looking everywhere for you.
19:07Oh, I thought that's what he said.
19:08Quiet.
19:09Quiet.
19:09Play, boys.
19:10Play.
19:11Okay.
19:11Okay.
19:12Okay.
19:23I know that something very strange has happened to my brain.
19:28I'm either feeling very good or else I am insane.
19:33The seeds of doubts you planted have started to grow on.
19:37And I feel that I must yield for the wisdom or the child.
19:42And it's love you.
19:44Hold it.
19:44Hold it.
19:45That's the sound.
19:46That's the sound, boys.
19:48You're going to be the stars of my new TV show.
19:50Why, within one month, you won't be able to turn on a television or radio set without hearing you play
19:54my theme song.
19:56How does it go, Miss Chomsky?
19:58La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
20:02La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
20:07That's it.
20:08That's the sound.
20:10Irene Chomsky.
20:12I never knew.
20:13Right under my own nose.
20:15What?
20:16What's wrong with me?
20:17Well, you're rude, impolite, empty, cheap.
20:22Miss Chomsky?
20:23Grass.
20:23You're the star of my new show.
20:25Absolutely unparalleled.
20:26Terribly rude.
20:26You've got a recording.
20:27Me, I'm the king.
20:29And the panelist.
20:30This show is very cheap.
20:32This show is very cheap.
20:39You know, I really feel bad about blowing that big chance, man.
20:42Don't worry about it, Peter.
20:43We all felt bad.
20:45Yeah, but I felt so blue, I wanted to do something silly, like forget show business and go to the
20:49South Seas or something.
20:50No kidding.
20:51Then after all, I thought to myself, so what?
20:53So we lost a hundred dollar job.
20:55It took a dollar a week.
20:56Peter, stars make more than a hundred dollars a week.
20:59They do?
21:00Sure they do.
21:00How much do they make?
21:02Oh, I don't know.
21:03Some of them make as high as five thousand dollars a week.
21:05Five thousand?
21:06Five thousand dollars?
21:08Don't you worry, Peter.
21:09One of these days, we'll get our break.
21:12Peter?
21:13Hey, Peter?
21:17He's gone.
21:21He's gone.
21:23Well, he's about five-tenths.
21:25He has light brown hair.
21:26Yeah, he cries a lot.
21:27He has hiccups.
21:28Yeah, hay fever.
21:28And he gets very seasick.
21:29But he still may be heading for the South Seas.
21:32Okay.
21:33I've got a pencil hair somewhere.
21:35Oh, a pencil.
21:46Hey, fellas.
21:47We do a lot of pictures that have fights in it and gangsters and everything.
21:50Do you ever get into fights yourselves?
21:51We had an incident in Hawaii where somebody remarked about my hair.
21:55After what?
21:56My hair being long, you know?
21:57Yeah.
21:58And there was like ten big guys and little old me.
22:01Are you sensitive about that?
22:02Um, I'm not sensitive, you know, if it's like, you know, in jest, somebody laughs and says,
22:07you know, just one thing.
22:09But if they carry on about it, it makes me mad.
22:11If you went into a restaurant, they, you know, refuse to wait on you because of your hair or
22:15something like that.
22:15You know, are you quick to strike back?
22:17I invoke my constitutional rights.
22:19And what do you do?
22:20You leave?
22:20No, I go, I invoke the Civil Rights Act.
22:22There's been a lot of talk about the riots that have been going on on Sunset Strip.
22:25There was a riot.
22:26You know, there was a lot of vandalism.
22:27There haven't really been riots.
22:29They've been, in actuality, since I was there, they've been demonstrations.
22:34And, uh, but I guess a lot of people in, uh, journalists don't know how to spell demonstration.
22:39So they use the word riot because it only has four letters.
22:42First, tell me a little bit, what, quickly, what are the demonstrations and who's taking place in them?
22:45Well, it's mostly the kids, um, that are, uh, from the ages of around 15 to, I'd say, 20 or
22:5221.
22:53Uh, under 18, it's a California law that, uh, you're not able to go into a teenage nightclub,
22:59uh, that sells, uh, alcoholic beverage.
23:02There's a 10 o'clock curfew imposed on these young people that, uh, uh, regardless of whether
23:09it's, uh, a good thing or a bad thing, uh, they still don't like it.
23:12And I think it probably has a lot to do with the fact that, uh, uh, of somebody telling
23:17them they have to be in by 10 o'clock.
23:20Um, that's sort of the same thing as saying that they have to cut their hair.
23:23You know, I mean, it's, it's against the law to tell somebody they can do that.
23:28Would you like to see all the kids in the country wearing hair like yours?
23:31I would like to see all the kids in the country wearing the hair like they'd like to wear it.
23:35How do you feel?
23:35How do you feel about that?
23:36Exactly.
23:38I'm with you.
23:38I'm with you.
23:39When it first happened, there was a few comments made.
23:41One by the, the sheriff of Los Angeles.
23:43He said that the curfew should be abolished.
23:45He says, take the babysitting job out of the hands of the police, put it in the hands of the
23:48parents.
23:49If the parents think their kids can be out after 10, they should be out.
23:51Most everybody that was there says that the vandalism was caused by kids in their very late,
23:56like 18, 19, 20, and 21, like that age kid.
23:59The only people representing the kids are the kids themselves.
24:01Nobody listens to kids talking for kids because kids are only kids, you know, and they go
24:05through this vicious cycle.
24:06Authority does.
24:07I'm being very general because I don't want to like call names or anything.
24:09The reason I haven't spoken all this time is because it doesn't matter what I say, nobody
24:15will listen to me because I'm under 21.
24:17So I'm just keeping my mouth shut.
24:22Here we come, walking down the street, we get the funniest looks from everyone we meet.
24:34Hey, hey, we're the monkeys, and people say we monkey around, but we're too busy singing
24:50We're the young generation, and we've got something to say.
24:57Hey, we're the monkeys, you never know where we'll be found, so you better get ready, we're
25:06maybe coming to your town.
25:12Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
25:21You