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Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Donald MacBride, Frank Albertson, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Cliff Dunstan, Charles Halton
Director: William A. Seiter
Synopsis: Gordon Miller, a small-time theater producer, wants to premiere a play by a young new playwright, but he needs to find a financial backer before he can begin preparations for the show. In the meantime, he has taken up residence with the 22 members of his company in the hotel run by his brother-in-law. When it is discovered that he owes the hotel a considerable sum, they threaten to evict him, but Miller, with the complicity of his faithful Harry Binelli and Faker Englund, will manage to avoid it and, in addition, he will finally manage to premiere the play.
Director: William A. Seiter
Synopsis: Gordon Miller, a small-time theater producer, wants to premiere a play by a young new playwright, but he needs to find a financial backer before he can begin preparations for the show. In the meantime, he has taken up residence with the 22 members of his company in the hotel run by his brother-in-law. When it is discovered that he owes the hotel a considerable sum, they threaten to evict him, but Miller, with the complicity of his faithful Harry Binelli and Faker Englund, will manage to avoid it and, in addition, he will finally manage to premiere the play.
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00:00:03The End
00:00:32The End
00:01:21Well, what do you want? Can't a man have a little privacy around here?
00:01:24The check, Mr. Miller.
00:01:26Oh, the check. Is this check any good?
00:01:29Why, yes, sir.
00:01:31Well, we'll soon find out. There you are.
00:01:34Don't give me any of that thank you stuff.
00:01:35Mr. Miller, many times I have seen your company rehearsing on the 19th floor.
00:01:41Please, I would like to play the part of that Polish miner.
00:01:46My advice to you is to stay where you are.
00:01:49Most actors will be tickled to death to get as close to a lamb chop as you, and I do
00:01:52mean you.
00:01:54You're on the phone, Mr. Miller. Right over here.
00:01:56Give him a dime.
00:01:58Hello?
00:02:00Oh, Christine. Oh, hello, babe. How are you?
00:02:03I'm going to be a little late.
00:02:05But I can't leave until Mr. Fremont goes to lunch.
00:02:08Is that all right?
00:02:09Well, get over the rehearsal as soon as you can.
00:02:11Don't forget I'm making a star out of you, and you only invested $250 in the show.
00:02:15All right. Bye.
00:02:19Please, impresario, I read you what the Russian critic Yakubovich say about my interpretation of Uncle Vanya.
00:02:32That's very interesting. Just when did he say that?
00:02:34Just before he was shot.
00:02:37It is just like in America, three and a half stars, and then in the second act, with 300 peasants
00:02:44doing the kazatsky...
00:02:45...Rum-tum, de-rum-tum, de-rum-tum, de-rum-tum, de-rum-tum, de-rum-tum...
00:02:50...de-rum-tum, de-rum-tum, de-rum-tum, de-rum-tum, de-rum-tum...
00:02:54Hey, hold. Hey, excuse me, Mac.
00:02:56Hey, hey. Hey. Hey.
00:03:00Gordon, I want to talk to you.
00:03:02Now, look, Joe, I never like to talk to a hotel manager on a full stomach.
00:03:05Gordon, this whole thing is a mess.
00:03:07You're referring to that meal I just had. You're dead right.
00:03:09I knew this would happen. I should never have allowed you into this hotel.
00:03:12Now, Joe, you mustn't be impatient.
00:03:13I'll pay this bill just as soon as I find some backers for my show.
00:03:16After all, you can't shake suckers out of your sleeve.
00:03:20Anyhow, I can't.
00:03:31Gordon, I'm in a terrible spot.
00:03:33Mr. Wagner, the supervising director, is downstairs now inspecting the books.
00:03:37Wagner? I thought he wasn't coming for another two months.
00:03:40He walked in on me unexpectedly.
00:03:42He'll discover your bill any minute.
00:03:44$1,200 worth of credit to a shoestring producer.
00:03:47How will I explain it?
00:03:48If he finds out you're my brother-in-law, it'll cost me my job.
00:03:52It was a business proposition.
00:03:54In return, for a little credit to me and 22 of my actors,
00:03:57I gave you a 10% interest in the show.
00:03:59Don't forget, you begged to get in on the ground floor.
00:04:02You mean I was railroaded into it by you and Flossie.
00:04:06You do me a favor and kindly keep your wife's name out of this.
00:04:09Do you realize you're talking about the woman you love?
00:04:11And besides, she happens to be my sister.
00:04:13On my mother's side.
00:04:16Hello, boss.
00:04:17Ha ha, the rehearsal, she's a wonder.
00:04:20Hello, Benelli.
00:04:21Yes, sirree, it's a wonderful.
00:04:22I still think it's a terrible play,
00:04:24but it makes a wonderful rehearsal.
00:04:27Hello? Room service.
00:04:28Just a minute, Benelli.
00:04:29You can't eat here anymore.
00:04:31Well, there's only one thing to do, Joe.
00:04:33I'll have to scram.
00:04:33But, Gordon, I can't let you skip.
00:04:35You'll have to leave your luggage.
00:04:36All right, I'll leave my luggage.
00:04:38But we can wear a lot of clothes.
00:04:39Hey, Benelli, put on three of my suits.
00:04:42Now, Gordon, you can say you extended credit in good faith.
00:04:44Take it.
00:04:45Here we go again.
00:04:46Come on down, give us a hand.
00:04:48Well, you don't want 22 people skipping all in one day, do you, Joe?
00:04:51Of course not, but I...
00:04:53You see, Joe, their bills are charged to me,
00:04:55so they can't be held responsible.
00:04:56Now, the minute I'm out,
00:04:57we'll have the whole cash we register under their own names.
00:05:00And starting from today,
00:05:01instead of one big bid, you'll have 22 little ones.
00:05:03Hello?
00:05:04Joe, it's for you.
00:05:08Hello.
00:05:09Oh.
00:05:11Oh, yes, Mr. Wagner, I'll be right down.
00:05:13I'll be out of here in 15 minutes.
00:05:1517 years of a hotel business
00:05:17and I have to pull a stunt like this.
00:05:34Well, this only goes to prove what I always said.
00:05:36The hotelers are no good.
00:05:37I'm afraid you're right, Benelli.
00:05:39Say, can you put me up for the night?
00:05:41Yes, but you'll have to sleep on the shelf.
00:05:44What's the matter with the floor?
00:05:45I'm on the floor.
00:05:46What happened to the bed?
00:05:48Can't get it out of the wall.
00:05:52Come on, Faker, give us a hand.
00:05:56I see you came prepared.
00:05:58No, he just don't believe in shirts.
00:06:00Oh, an atheist day.
00:06:05Say, maybe he can put me up for the night.
00:06:07At the Metropole?
00:06:08You wouldn't want to stop there, boss.
00:06:10That's the worst lock house on 8th Avenue.
00:06:13Well, looks like I'll have to curl up in the shelf with you.
00:06:16Sure, you're much better off.
00:06:18Besides, you'd have to sleep sideways at his place.
00:06:23I thought he had a large bed over there.
00:06:25He has, but he's got four other guys living with him.
00:06:28They're packed in like a bunch of sardines.
00:06:42What, running out again?
00:06:43Hello, beautiful.
00:06:44You can't leave.
00:06:44You must stay here.
00:06:45I found a backer for you.
00:06:46He's coming up here.
00:06:47Who is he?
00:06:48Where'd you get him?
00:06:48He's an investing agent, a man named Jenkins.
00:06:50He just walked into the office and won an interview with Fremont.
00:06:52And he has money to invest in a play.
00:06:54What kind of a straitjacket did he wear?
00:06:56I talked him out of doing business with Fremont.
00:06:57I told him all about you, Gordon, and I gave him a copy of Hail and Farewell,
00:07:01which he's reading this very minute.
00:07:03Too bad you made the appointment up here.
00:07:05I don't know what to do.
00:07:07If I stay, I may lose the cast.
00:07:08If you don't, you'll lose your backer.
00:07:10But you must be here when he comes.
00:07:13That may be Mr. Jenkins now.
00:07:14Man the pumps, boys.
00:07:17Here.
00:07:21Just a minute.
00:07:28Mr. Gordon Miller?
00:07:29In the flesh.
00:07:30My name is Davis.
00:07:32Davis?
00:07:33Yes, the author of Hail and Farewell.
00:07:35Oh, well, this is a surprise.
00:07:38I guess I should have telegraphed you I was coming.
00:07:40Not at all.
00:07:41Don't mind the appearance of the room.
00:07:43We were just cleaning up a bit.
00:07:44I hope I'm not intruding.
00:07:46Certainly not.
00:07:47This is Miss Marlowe, who is going to star in your play.
00:07:50This is Mr. Benelli, my assistant.
00:07:52And this is Mr. England, the brains of the organization.
00:07:55That'll give you an idea of the organization.
00:07:58Uh, well, I guess I'll go down and register.
00:08:02You intend to check in here?
00:08:05Well, before I do that, there's something I'd like to talk to you about.
00:08:09You see, I haven't any money to speak of.
00:08:12Oh.
00:08:13I was, uh, depending on the advance.
00:08:16Davis, of course, I could give you the money.
00:08:18It's really of no importance.
00:08:19But, uh, my advice to you is to go back home.
00:08:22Let me send for you, let's say, a week before we open.
00:08:24Oh, but you see, I've left home for good.
00:08:27I've burned my bridges behind me.
00:08:29I see, but you could go back if you wanted to.
00:08:31My mother seemed very happy when I left.
00:08:34Only a mother's mask.
00:08:35At this moment, she may be sitting at the fireside, wringing her hands.
00:08:39But we have no fireside.
00:08:41You have no fireside?
00:08:43How do you listen to the president's speeches?
00:08:47What time's the next bus leave for Oswego?
00:08:50Excuse me, Miss Marlowe.
00:08:51In a little while, you'll be thanking me for this.
00:08:53Well, I appreciate all your advice.
00:08:55The next bus leaves at 9-2.
00:08:56If you hurry, you can make it.
00:08:57It's an air-cooled bus.
00:08:58Come on, I'll help you down with your bag.
00:09:00This is an awesome port of the decision of your life.
00:09:02Now, wait a minute.
00:09:03I don't want to appear stubborn, but I'm afraid I couldn't go back now.
00:09:08Now, listen, Davis.
00:09:09If you people have lost interest in my play, I wish you'd say so.
00:09:12It isn't that.
00:09:13I'm sure Morton Fremont would buy it.
00:09:15I've got a letter of introduction to him.
00:09:17Fremont?
00:09:18I guess you've heard of him.
00:09:20Davis, I'm beginning to see your point.
00:09:21You just don't want to go home.
00:09:23Well, that's it.
00:09:24No, you're forcing our opinion on him.
00:09:26It might make him neurotic.
00:09:27Now, about this advance.
00:09:29All you actually need it for is board and lodging?
00:09:32Yes.
00:09:32Davis, your problem is solved.
00:09:34You move right in here with us.
00:09:35Oh, no.
00:09:36No, no, not another word.
00:09:37You're my guest.
00:09:38This is Liberty Hall.
00:09:40You mean live with you?
00:09:42Precisely.
00:09:43Oh, thanks.
00:09:44Thanks a lot.
00:09:48Oh, by the way, Davis, if you happen to have any money on you,
00:09:51it might be a good idea to let me put it in my vault downstairs.
00:09:54I have 67 cents.
00:09:56You got a 67 cents and you're asking us for an advance?
00:09:59He's always clowning.
00:10:01Well, if you fellas don't mind, I think I'll wash up.
00:10:04Yeah, go ahead.
00:10:05The rest of us are already washed up.
00:10:07Well, there's only one thing to do.
00:10:08I'll have to ask Mr. Fremont for an advance on my salary.
00:10:12Thanks.
00:10:13I still have some cinders left in my ears from that train ride.
00:10:16Save them for fuel, Davis.
00:10:18It looks like a hard winter.
00:10:23Baker, I'm surprised at you.
00:10:25Yeah, you ought to be ashamed of yourself robbing a stranger.
00:10:32You know, I think he's reforming.
00:10:34He didn't steal to the picture.
00:10:35Yes, that's the first encouraging sign I've seen.
00:10:37Now I know how Gypsy Rose Lee feels.
00:10:42Hail and farewell.
00:10:44Arthur, Arthur, Arthur.
00:10:49Who wants Pennelli?
00:10:51Hold on.
00:10:52Do you know any policemen?
00:10:53Policemen.
00:10:54What's his number?
00:10:55Hello?
00:10:57What's that?
00:10:58But, officer, this is the first I hear about this.
00:11:06Okey-doke.
00:11:06I'll be right over.
00:11:10Well, what do you know about that?
00:11:12I've just been dispossessed.
00:11:14Dispossessed?
00:11:15I know what I'll do.
00:11:16I'll hock at the typewriter.
00:11:17Oh, no, you don't.
00:11:18You explain it to Davis.
00:11:19Never mind Davis.
00:11:20I'm going to hock at myself.
00:11:22But I need it more than you do.
00:11:23The cop says he wants to give me a ticket.
00:11:24My moose head is blocking the fire pump.
00:11:26Now, wait a minute.
00:11:27I can't wait.
00:11:28I tell you, I've got to have it.
00:11:29If I don't hurry up,
00:11:30the cop is going to dispossess me from the sidewalk.
00:11:33Say, this certainly is a nice bathroom.
00:11:36Well, I never lived in a hotel before.
00:11:40Oh, I had a valet come up and lay out your things.
00:11:43Oh, thanks.
00:11:44Well, I'll get down and register for you.
00:11:45If anyone calls, I'll be right back.
00:11:52Hello?
00:11:54Is this the We Never Sleep collection agency?
00:11:58Well, this is Leo Davis of Oswego.
00:12:01Oh, no, I'm living here at the Hotel Whiteway, room 920.
00:12:07Yeah, that's right.
00:12:09Well, I got behind in my payments on the typewriter,
00:12:13and they turned it over to you for collection.
00:12:16Well, now, if you'll send a man over here,
00:12:18I'd be only too glad to pay off the balance.
00:12:21Come in.
00:12:23Oh, that's quite all right.
00:12:25Goodbye.
00:12:28Oh.
00:12:30Oh, I'm sorry.
00:12:31I thought that this was Mr. Miller's room.
00:12:33It is.
00:12:34He'll be right back.
00:12:36Are you an actress?
00:12:37No.
00:12:38No, I'm the manager's secretary, Miss Manny.
00:12:41Well, what'll I tell Mr. Miller?
00:12:43Why, nothing.
00:12:45I mean, uh, no, no, it's not important.
00:12:48Excuse me.
00:12:50What did you say your name was?
00:12:52Manny.
00:12:53Hilda Manny.
00:12:53I used to know somebody called Manny up in Oswego.
00:12:57Oscar Manny?
00:12:58Yeah.
00:12:59He used to give me piano lessons.
00:13:01Why, he's my uncle.
00:13:02You don't tell me well.
00:13:04What do you know?
00:13:07Well, won't you sit down?
00:13:13Uh, uh-oh, would you care for a chocolate?
00:13:16I got him on the train.
00:13:18Thanks.
00:13:19Twelve hundred dollars.
00:13:22Gribble, I can't understand what's going on here.
00:13:24You say Miller skipped?
00:13:25So I was given to understand, Mr. Wagner.
00:13:27What did he skip?
00:13:28Well, I'm not sure.
00:13:34I just want to know one thing, Gribble.
00:13:37What in blazes goes on inside that head of yours?
00:13:40But, Mr. Wagner, I explained.
00:13:41The credit limit of this unit is five hundred dollars.
00:13:43Well, Miller kept stringing me along from day to day,
00:13:46showing me backers, telegrams.
00:13:48I never expected him to skip.
00:13:50Why, he's a crook, a deadbeat.
00:13:52If I catch him, I'll have him arrested.
00:13:53I'm sorry, Gribble.
00:13:55I'll have to charge you with the difference between the limit and the loss.
00:13:58That'll be exactly seven hundred dollars.
00:14:00Mr. Wagner, I protest.
00:14:01No.
00:14:02I was sent here to put this unit on its feet.
00:14:06If I succeed, there's a vice presidency waiting for me.
00:14:10And I'm not going to let anybody stand in my way.
00:14:13I'm going up to room 920 and find out for myself.
00:14:18You know, I almost forgot what I came in for.
00:14:20But maybe since you wrote the show, I could ask you instead of Mr. Miller.
00:14:24You see, it's, uh, well, it's about an actor.
00:14:28Someone you like?
00:14:29Oh, I think he's wonderful.
00:14:31Oh, I see.
00:14:34Well, he's a waiter in the hotel.
00:14:36He was a big star in Russia in the Moscow Art Theater.
00:14:39The Moscow Art Theater?
00:14:41You know, he could play the father in Hail and Farewell.
00:14:44He's quite a middle-aged man, and, well, he's getting so discouraged.
00:14:48Anything you can do for him would...
00:14:49Gee, I just can't picture you with a middle-aged man.
00:14:53But I don't see...
00:14:55Oh, no, no, it's nothing like that.
00:14:58It's just a favor I'm doing him.
00:15:00Oh, I see.
00:15:02Well, well, sure, I'd be glad to hear him act any time.
00:15:06Any time.
00:15:07Say, who knows?
00:15:08I may be discovering a great actor.
00:15:10Oh, you've made me so happy.
00:15:13Oh, well, I guess I'd really better be going now.
00:15:17Thanks for everything, and for the chocolates, too.
00:15:20Uh, maybe I could hear that Russian actor act now.
00:15:23That is, I'd like to meet him if you could be there, too.
00:15:26Oh, that's wonderful.
00:15:27Come on down.
00:15:28Well, Keene.
00:15:32I'll get him, and he can act for us on the mezzanine.
00:15:34That's swell.
00:15:50I can't understand this, Gribble.
00:15:52You say they checked in this Davis without cleaning the room?
00:15:54That's what the clerk said.
00:15:56Gribble, the more I get into this thing, the less I seem to know.
00:15:59But there's one thing I'm sure of.
00:16:02There's a screw loose in this hotel somewhere!
00:16:04And I'm going to find her!
00:16:05Mr. Wagon, if you'd only give me a chance to investigate...
00:16:08Investigate?
00:16:09You allow this chiseler to move in!
00:16:11Move in 22 other people!
00:16:1322 people I can't even find!
00:16:15And now you...
00:16:21You're Mr. Davis?
00:16:23Huh?
00:16:24Mr. Miller, perhaps?
00:16:26No, wrong again.
00:16:28Jumping butterballs, Gribble!
00:16:29I've checked in another man!
00:16:30And that makes 23!
00:16:31There must be some mistake.
00:16:32I'll say there is who's living here, anyway!
00:16:35I'll take that.
00:16:36I'll find out what's going on here.
00:16:40Oh, boy, I had a tough time getting him through the revolving door.
00:16:43Don't talk to me!
00:16:44What's that?
00:16:46In the dining room!
00:16:47I'll be right down.
00:16:49Don't leave this room, Gribble.
00:16:51I have work to do.
00:16:52Mr. Wagner...
00:16:52There are 22 people having dinner down there and charging it all to Miller!
00:16:59Jumping butterballs!
00:17:01He's mad.
00:17:03I thought Gordon was going to skip.
00:17:05Well, he's not the skipper he used to be.
00:17:07You see, we're expecting a backer, so we had to change our plans.
00:17:10Yes, and Wagner's charging me with $700 of Miller's bill.
00:17:13Me, personally!
00:17:14Kiss me, Joe!
00:17:14Christie just brought me a backer.
00:17:16Backer!
00:17:16Backer!
00:17:17I'm sick of hearing that word!
00:17:19Then you went and registered.
00:17:20This is Davis!
00:17:21Anybody want me?
00:17:23Are you Davis?
00:17:23Leave it to me, Joe.
00:17:24Have you any money?
00:17:25Oh, no, I haven't.
00:17:27Oh, are you from the We Never Sleep collection agency?
00:17:29I'm the hotel manager.
00:17:31Let me tell you something, Mr. Davis.
00:17:33There's $1,200 charged against this room,
00:17:35and if you move in here with Miller, I'm going to bill you for half of it.
00:17:37Say, what sort of a hotel is this?
00:17:40You move in and you owe $600 right away.
00:17:43Pay no attention to him.
00:17:45He's excited.
00:17:45I'm not excited.
00:17:47Gordon, you haven't got a dime and you never will have.
00:17:49All you've done is ruin me.
00:17:50Oh, come on, Joe.
00:17:51Now, you've got to give him a chance.
00:17:52I'm going to pick up a backer.
00:17:53Yes, I'm sick of hearing about your backer.
00:17:55Yes?
00:17:55Speaking.
00:17:56Oh, old Mr. Jenkins.
00:17:58Yes, come right up.
00:18:00Joe, we're out of the woods.
00:18:01My backer's on his way up now.
00:18:04Now, you go down and tell Waggon if he doesn't behave himself,
00:18:05I'll buy this hotel and make him a bell-off.
00:18:08No, that's too good for him.
00:18:09I'll make him a guest.
00:18:10This isn't a trick.
00:18:10Your backer's really coming?
00:18:12He's on his way up now.
00:18:13Now, if you just leave us alone for the next 15 minutes.
00:18:15Well, Waggon told me not to leave this room,
00:18:16but I guess this is important.
00:18:17You bet it is.
00:18:20Well, what's the matter with you, Oswego?
00:18:22I'm just a little disappointed, that's all.
00:18:25You wrote and told me you were a great manager.
00:18:27I am a great manager.
00:18:28A great manager never puts his own money into a play.
00:18:31You were all so nice and so kind.
00:18:34I thought I was moving into some sort of a club.
00:18:37Look, everybody does it this way.
00:18:39Every honest producer has a backer.
00:18:41A manager puts his own money into a play,
00:18:43hmm, right away you know he's a crook.
00:18:46Shh, money.
00:18:52Mr. Jenkins, I believe.
00:18:53Yes, Mr. Miller.
00:18:54Come right in.
00:18:56This is Mr. Benelli, my treasurer.
00:18:58How do you do, Mr. Jenkins?
00:18:59Mr. Davis, my author.
00:19:00How do you do, gentlemen?
00:19:01Mr. Jenkins, I'm glad to meet you.
00:19:03I've never met a backer before.
00:19:05Won't you be seated, Mr. Jenkins?
00:19:11I presume Miss Marlowe has told you all about our meeting.
00:19:13Quite.
00:19:14I see you have a copy of my play with you.
00:19:16It's a great idea, isn't it?
00:19:17Quite.
00:19:18I enjoyed the play very much.
00:19:20I'm the investing agent for a very wealthy man.
00:19:22I'm sure you'd recognize the name if I mentioned it.
00:19:25Who is he?
00:19:26Do I know him?
00:19:26You see, there's a young lady involved.
00:19:28Oh, and she would like to play a small part?
00:19:32How did you know?
00:19:33It came to me in a dream, Mr. Jenkins.
00:19:36Well, my employer's ready to put up, oh, $15,000.
00:19:41$15,000?
00:19:42Well, I think we could just about manage on that.
00:19:47Yeah, it's a little skimpy.
00:19:48Yes, it is.
00:19:49But I think by cutting an edge here and there, we could probably slip through.
00:19:52I'm sure Davis won't mind writing in a part for the young lady.
00:19:55I won't change a line in the play.
00:19:58Shakespeare didn't change any lines.
00:20:00Shakespeare didn't owe $1,200.
00:20:02You won't have to change the line of the play.
00:20:03The young lady can play one of the miners.
00:20:05But the miners are all men.
00:20:08Do me a favor, Davis, and keep sex out of this conversation.
00:20:10I've never produced anything but clean plays.
00:20:13If you'll have the papers ready, I'll sign them and give you the check at, shall we say, 10.30
00:20:17tomorrow morning.
00:20:18Shall we say it to your office at 10.30 tomorrow?
00:20:21Why not here?
00:20:22You mean up here?
00:20:25I'd rather not meet at my office.
00:20:27There's always the danger of publicity.
00:20:29You can easily understand my client's position.
00:20:38Well, tomorrow morning, 10.30 then.
00:20:42You couldn't make that tonight, huh?
00:20:43No, I'm afraid not.
00:20:45Tomorrow morning at 10.30.
00:20:46It's a pleasure to see so much enthusiasm and youth.
00:20:49See you all tomorrow.
00:20:50Goodbye, Mr. Kent.
00:20:51Goodbye.
00:20:52What's the traffic light?
00:20:53We got a backer.
00:20:55We got a backer.
00:20:57We got a backer.
00:20:59Hey, what do you do, Joe?
00:21:00I've got the money for the play.
00:21:01Yeah, we got a backer, Joe.
00:21:02$15,000.
00:21:04Glory be.
00:21:04I'll have the check tomorrow morning at 10.30.
00:21:07Didn't you get a couple of hundred dollars on the count?
00:21:08I couldn't, Joe.
00:21:09I might have spoiled everything.
00:21:10When do we have to have money today?
00:21:11Wagner's furious.
00:21:12Well, Mr. Miller, your entire cast is in the lobby.
00:21:14They've been locked out of their rooms.
00:21:15He can't do this to me.
00:21:16If I lose my cast, I'll sue him.
00:21:18If I lose my backer, I'll kill him.
00:21:19Gordon.
00:21:20Now, Gordon, don't start anything else.
00:21:22The actor's got to sleep someplace.
00:21:23Can't you put them in the ballroom?
00:21:24It's just for overnight.
00:21:25Suppose Wagner goes into the ballroom and sees them.
00:21:27If Wagner comes in, they'll start dancing.
00:21:30All right, all right.
00:21:31Here are the keys.
00:21:33I'll take care of it.
00:21:33But please tell them to keep quiet.
00:21:35I will.
00:21:35Time to do soft shoe dancing.
00:21:38I'm going to get out of here.
00:21:39You can't do that.
00:21:40I don't want to lose my clothes.
00:21:42They're all I've got.
00:21:50What's this?
00:21:52They checked somebody else in?
00:21:53Why, no.
00:21:54This is Mr. Miller.
00:21:56Oh, so you didn't skip after all.
00:22:00Mr. Wagner, I demand that you reopen all those rooms in the 19th floor.
00:22:03The occupants are my guests, and I'm responsible for their bill.
00:22:05Then who's responsible for yours, Davis?
00:22:08I'm responsible for Davis.
00:22:13And who are you?
00:22:14I'm Davis.
00:22:16Gribble, he's skipping right under your very nose.
00:22:19I am not skipping.
00:22:21No, we're just bringing some things in.
00:22:26Miller, I want a substantial payment.
00:22:27Are you prepared to make it?
00:22:28I'll give you the entire $12 million tomorrow.
00:22:30Tomorrow will do.
00:22:31We must have something today.
00:22:33Wagner, you have an empty theater downstairs.
00:22:35You haven't been able to rent it for three years.
00:22:37This is your chance.
00:22:37Give me Lamaro and...
00:22:38I am not interested.
00:22:40Miller, I'll give you just 20 minutes to clean up this bill.
00:22:43Otherwise, I'll be like that.
00:22:45I see you're familiar with hotel procedure.
00:22:48Very well.
00:22:50Now, don't try the old gag of staying in the room.
00:22:53I'll force you out.
00:22:54I'll send in painters.
00:22:56Fumigators.
00:22:57You should have sent in fumigators weeks ago.
00:22:59Go on, Gribble.
00:23:03I'll pull this hotel out of the red
00:23:05if I have to check into every room myself.
00:23:09Godfrey!
00:23:20Now I am going to lose my clothes.
00:23:36What's the matter?
00:23:41No.
00:23:42Well, what's the matter now?
00:23:43How do you like that?
00:23:45Just because he owes six months rent,
00:23:46they threw him out of his place.
00:23:48Well, $6 is $6.
00:23:52I take it he intends to stay here with us?
00:23:55I guess so.
00:23:56You mean four of us in one room?
00:23:58Ah, that's without the painters and fumigators.
00:24:00But let's fight it out, men.
00:24:01We've got to keep this room until 10.30 tomorrow morning
00:24:04or we're doomed.
00:24:05We'll have to sleep in shift.
00:24:06I'll take the night shift.
00:24:08All right, you take the night shift
00:24:09and I'll take the day shift
00:24:10and I'll be in Scotland to follow you.
00:24:12Is there a tourist camp in the neighborhood?
00:24:21Wait a minute.
00:24:23Suppose one of us got sick.
00:24:25That's the idea.
00:24:26They can't pull a sick man out.
00:24:27It's against the law.
00:24:28Remember, I had kidney trouble at the Aster
00:24:30and gallstones at the Plaza.
00:24:31Oh, those were the happy days.
00:24:32Why didn't I think of that before?
00:24:34Benelli, into that bin.
00:24:35No, it's no good.
00:24:36I'm not registered.
00:24:37Faker!
00:24:39Get into that bin.
00:24:40No, he's no good too.
00:24:41He's not registered.
00:24:57He's not registered.
00:25:00Well, I feel fine.
00:25:01No, you don't.
00:25:02Hey, wait a minute.
00:25:02What are you fellas trying to do to me?
00:25:04You've got to play sick.
00:25:05No, no.
00:25:06You can't let me down.
00:25:07But I'm in good health.
00:25:08You've got a contagious disease.
00:25:10Yeah, the measles.
00:25:11I've had the measles.
00:25:12It's a relapse.
00:25:13Faker, get the iodine
00:25:13and give him a good case of measles.
00:25:14Wait a minute.
00:25:15Give me a chance to think.
00:25:16Oh, it's no time to think.
00:25:18This will keep us in the hotel.
00:25:27Couldn't I have a disease with my clothes on?
00:25:29Hey, leave me alone, will you?
00:25:31What are you going to do to me?
00:25:33Hey, make it bigger.
00:25:34That don't look like a measles.
00:25:35That looks like a freckle.
00:25:39Come on, will you?
00:25:41All right, all right.
00:25:42No, take it.
00:25:54Oh, that's so beautiful.
00:25:56You're a second Michelangelo.
00:26:01Slip this to him while I step outside
00:26:02and see if the coast is clear.
00:26:07It's room 920.
00:26:08I don't want to get around right away.
00:26:10Don't worry, boss.
00:26:11We'll have him right out.
00:26:12I'll show them they can't fool around with me.
00:26:14Here comes trouble.
00:26:21Not me, boss.
00:26:22Not me.
00:26:22That's what I said.
00:26:23Well, what the?
00:26:30Jumping butterballs!
00:26:47I'm weak.
00:26:49If I don't get something to eat pretty soon,
00:26:50I'm going to collapse.
00:26:52Say, we're just as hungry as you are.
00:26:54Yeah, but you fellas are used to it.
00:26:56I've never gone without food for 18 hours before.
00:27:00It's all a matter of willpower.
00:27:02If you just make up your mind.
00:27:03I can make up my mind, all right,
00:27:05but I can't do anything with my stomach.
00:27:08How about a two-handed game of pinoch
00:27:09if I were fasting?
00:27:10No, I'm just going to concentrate on the food.
00:27:24If there was only something left, we could hock.
00:27:36How about that moose head?
00:27:38Oh, no, you don't.
00:27:39I shot him with my own hands.
00:27:41I ate him up to the neck,
00:27:42but I refused to part with the rest of him.
00:27:48If I could get my watch out of hock,
00:27:50I'd hock it again.
00:27:54I'm so hungry, I see spots before my eyes.
00:27:58Me too.
00:28:00Mine are beginning to look like hamburgers.
00:28:04If you see one with onions, save her for me.
00:28:07Gee, my mother's the best cook in Oswego.
00:28:12All right, all right.
00:28:13You're breaking my heart.
00:28:18Room service.
00:28:19Better use a different dialect,
00:28:21this night.
00:28:22Hello?
00:28:24This is Dr. Glass.
00:28:26Uh, Glass, the health physician.
00:28:29The patient in room 920 is very ill.
00:28:32He must have food immediately.
00:28:35He's just developed a tapeworm.
00:28:38Tapeworm?
00:28:40I see.
00:28:43He said the tapeworm will have to register.
00:28:49Two hours ago, you told me Faker was coming up here with a turkey,
00:28:52that he won in a raffle.
00:28:54Maybe he's getting it stuffed.
00:28:55I didn't say he won it exactly.
00:28:57I said he was going to win it.
00:28:58After all, he's running the raffle.
00:29:00He has as good a chance as anyone else.
00:29:02All you've done is take advantage of me.
00:29:04You pawned the silver frame off my mother's picture.
00:29:07You stole my roller skates.
00:29:09And you even took 67 cents out of my pocket while I was asleep.
00:29:13Well, I had to feed a cast of 22 people, didn't I?
00:29:16I wasn't here 10 minutes when you'd pawned my typewriter.
00:29:19Well, that isn't even my property.
00:29:21I still owe money on it.
00:29:23Well, I may even be arrested.
00:29:27Gee.
00:29:28What's the matter?
00:29:29My head's going around.
00:29:33Must have been something you ate.
00:29:36Get into that bed.
00:29:37Come on, come on.
00:29:38Hurry up, get in.
00:29:44Oh.
00:29:44Oh, how do you do, impresario?
00:29:48Oh, hello, Mr. Smirnoff.
00:29:50Oh, I am sorry.
00:29:53You don't feel good, Mr. Davis.
00:29:55I promised Mr. Smirnoff we'd hear him read the part of the father.
00:29:59Thank you, Mr. Davis.
00:30:03Pennelly, we might have a part for Sasha.
00:30:06Well, maybe.
00:30:09Stand over there, Sasha.
00:30:14Turn around.
00:30:18What do you think, Pennelly?
00:30:19He looks just right to me.
00:30:21I could eat him raw.
00:30:25Sasha, could you get us a meal out of the hotel?
00:30:27Well, but they shut you off room service.
00:30:30I know, but if you could make a little mistake like delivering the right meal or the wrong room.
00:30:34Deliver a meal to the wrong room?
00:30:36We got a terrific part for you.
00:30:38A terrific part?
00:30:40Yes, but it's so terrific that unless Davis gets some food in the system, he'd be too weak to tackle
00:30:44it.
00:30:44I don't care about food for myself, Sasha.
00:30:47But if you let a great American author starve to death, his blood will be on your hands.
00:30:51You know what the penalty is for murder in this country?
00:30:55Well, I just left a big order on service elevator.
00:30:58I got to deliver him upstairs, but I don't know.
00:31:02You see, I take big chance.
00:31:05Might lead to a Hollywood contract.
00:31:07Hollywood?
00:31:09Oh, Spudy, gentlemen, you are singing music in my ears, I...
00:31:14But if Mr. Wagner find out...
00:31:17Think of the other Russians who made good in the same way.
00:31:20Gregory Ratov.
00:31:21Nazimov.
00:31:23Ginger Radovich.
00:31:25Three years I slept in the kitchen.
00:31:27I now got courage.
00:31:28But now I got courage.
00:31:31I do it.
00:31:38Gee, he has a lot of talent.
00:31:40Sure, I've seen him carry 12 dishes at one time.
00:31:48How do you do?
00:31:49I'm looking for Mr. Leo Davis.
00:31:52Who are you?
00:31:53My name is Timothy Hogarth.
00:31:55I represent the We Never Sleep collection agency.
00:32:00Come in, Mr. Hogarth, come in.
00:32:01It's a pleasure to meet a man who never sleeps.
00:32:03Yeah, you must come up and take a nap sometime.
00:32:05Yes, do.
00:32:06Say, maybe we can go in vaudeville together.
00:32:07You never sleep and we never eat.
00:32:09Well, uh, is Mr. Davis about?
00:32:12No, Mr. Davis is not here.
00:32:15Oh.
00:32:16How soon will he be back?
00:32:18Mr. Hogarth, I have bad news for you.
00:32:19I'm afraid he's never coming back.
00:32:21Oh.
00:32:23They've gone away?
00:32:25They took him away.
00:32:27Oh.
00:32:28Is he ill?
00:32:29Worse than that, he went crazy.
00:32:31Glory be.
00:32:33Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
00:32:36Hmm.
00:32:37But I understand that he got in from Oswego yesterday.
00:32:41No, he escaped from Oswego.
00:32:43Poor man.
00:32:45Hmm.
00:32:48Well, there's a matter of $42 due on his typewriter, which I've been delegated to collect.
00:32:54I'm afraid you'll never get it.
00:32:56He tore up all his money.
00:32:58Too...
00:32:59He must be out of his mind.
00:33:02Hmm.
00:33:05Hmm.
00:33:05Well, in that case, I'll have to take back the typewriter.
00:33:09Oh, he took it with him.
00:33:11To the madhouse?
00:33:12He likes to hear the little bell ring.
00:33:18Well, I've never made any collections in a madhouse.
00:33:21Uh, I have my orders.
00:33:25Hmm.
00:33:25Right.
00:33:28Where did they take him?
00:33:29The maternity hospital.
00:33:34Maternity hospital?
00:33:35But I thought you said he was crazy.
00:33:38Well, if he wasn't crazy, he wouldn't go to the maternity hospital, would he?
00:33:42You can't miss him.
00:33:44Second straight jacket to the left.
00:33:45Oh.
00:33:47Oh, by the way, uh, don't mention it to the hotel people.
00:33:51Oh, no.
00:33:53I understand.
00:33:55Good day, gentlemen.
00:33:56Good day.
00:33:57Good day.
00:34:00You shouldn't have told him a thing like that.
00:34:02Why not?
00:34:03You can't sue a lunatic.
00:34:04Well, they may send a letter to my mother.
00:34:06So what?
00:34:07Your mother knows you're not crazy.
00:34:09Gee, I don't know where I'm at.
00:34:11Mr. Gribble says I owe $600.
00:34:14Downstairs, they think I've got a tapeworm.
00:34:16And this man thinks I'm a lunatic.
00:34:20Did you get the tyke?
00:34:30Around the food!
00:34:32Don't close it off!
00:34:35Around the tyke!
00:34:51Well, we had no cranberries anyhow.
00:34:54Gentlemen, I bring you banquet.
00:34:57Food!
00:35:02Oh!
00:35:12I'll come back for the dish.
00:35:18Snap the lock, Sash.
00:35:19We'll be fine.
00:35:30Here we go.
00:35:32Let's do it.
00:35:33Take a look.
00:35:44I'll come back.
00:35:46It's a publish.
00:35:48Yes, sir.
00:36:54Well, I hate to double-cross that Russian waiter, but we can't fire the actor we've got.
00:36:58He's been rehearsing seven weeks now without pay.
00:37:01You mean you promised him the part just to get a meal out of him?
00:37:05No, that's not quite true.
00:37:07When I made that offer, I was prepared to go through with it.
00:37:10But now that I've eaten, I see things in a little different light.
00:37:18Hello?
00:37:19For you, Davis.
00:37:21Hello?
00:37:23Oh, hello, Hilda.
00:37:26Oh, no, I'm not really sick.
00:37:29I can explain everything.
00:37:33All right, I'll meet you down the lobby right away.
00:37:37Oh, yeah, I'd love to.
00:37:39Goodbye.
00:37:41Where are you going?
00:37:43I'm going to meet the woman I love.
00:37:46But you're supposed to be sick and bad.
00:37:48That's the only thing that's keeping this play alive, the fact that we've got a sick man here.
00:37:52Don't you want the play to go on?
00:37:53Now, listen, fellas.
00:37:55You've starved me and robbed me, and I've gone along with you because I thought I owed it to the
00:37:59play.
00:38:00Well, there's one thing more important than any play, and that's love.
00:38:04It only comes once in a lifetime.
00:38:06Well, once is enough for me.
00:38:09I'm going now, and I'll bring any man that tries to stop me.
00:38:14Yeah, that's a fine thing.
00:38:15Yesterday we wanted you to go home.
00:38:17You didn't want to go.
00:38:17Now we want you to stay.
00:38:18You want to go.
00:38:19Make up your mind.
00:38:20My mind is made up.
00:38:24Love.
00:38:25He talks just like one of the characters in his play.
00:38:28I don't know.
00:38:29I like a love.
00:38:30I like it too, but there's a time and place for everything.
00:38:32I like it any time.
00:38:35Hey, Faker.
00:38:36How about you?
00:38:37Was you ever in love?
00:38:45Of course, I like them a little bigger.
00:38:48I'll get it.
00:38:52Hello, Christine.
00:38:53Hello.
00:38:55Well, where did this banquet come from?
00:38:58One of the waiters wants to be an actor.
00:39:00And I borrowed two dollars from the porter, dashed out of the office, and expected to find you all gnawing
00:39:04at the carpet.
00:39:06Cut the contract?
00:39:07Copy that right from Fremont's Best.
00:39:08It's in the bag next to the corned beef sandwich.
00:39:10Is this it with the mustard on it?
00:39:12Yeah.
00:39:13You know, I think I'm going to like this.
00:39:14I never had a contract with mustard on before.
00:39:33Wagner, Faker, get into that bed.
00:39:35You got to play sick.
00:39:36Come on.
00:39:36Now, Christine, sit over there and play nice.
00:39:39Faker, get in there and start groaning.
00:39:42Just a minute.
00:39:43Get that banana out of your mouth.
00:39:44Where's the iodine, supposed to have for the measles?
00:39:46Never mind the measles. He's got a tapeworm now.
00:39:50Just a minute, Mr. Wagler.
00:39:52Seems to be something wrong with this lock.
00:40:05Miller, how did that meal get here?
00:40:07Dr. Glass ordered him for the patient.
00:40:09Dr. Glass did nothing of the kind.
00:40:11I refuse to argue with a house dick.
00:40:13I'm not a dick. I'm a doctor.
00:40:14Dr. Glass.
00:40:18I want to know how this meal got up here.
00:40:21Can't I get to the bottom of anything?
00:40:23They check in. They check out.
00:40:25They skip. They don't skip.
00:40:27They get sick. And now this meal.
00:40:29I'll fire that waiter.
00:40:30I'll fire the whole dark kitchen.
00:40:33Shh. Quiet, please.
00:40:34There's a patient in the room.
00:40:37Mr. Davis has a tapeworm.
00:40:39Last night it was the measles.
00:40:40I'm not responsible for complications.
00:40:41He's got laryngitis, too.
00:40:43We had to get a nurse.
00:40:46That groan doesn't sound authentic to me.
00:40:48Wait a minute.
00:40:49That's not Davis.
00:40:51I met Davis yesterday and he didn't look anything like that.
00:40:53Certainly not.
00:40:53The man's aged ten years on account of the service in this hotel.
00:40:56Well, his hair wasn't red yesterday.
00:40:58It's a very rare case.
00:40:59He's got a red tape on him.
00:41:03Well, there's certainly something screwy going on around here.
00:41:07Miller, will you consent to have this...
00:41:08this Davis removed to a hospital at the expense of the hotel?
00:41:11It's up to Dr. Benelli.
00:41:13What do you think, doctor?
00:41:14The patient is too sick to be moved.
00:41:19How do you feel, young man?
00:41:21He's hungry all the time.
00:41:22Please let the patient speak for himself.
00:41:24How can he speak for himself when he's got laryngitis?
00:41:26I insist the patient speak for himself.
00:41:31There you are.
00:41:31You heard what he said.
00:41:32I wish you'd hurry, doctor.
00:41:34It's time for the patient's nap.
00:41:35He won't sleep till I find out what's going on here.
00:41:38Miller, you've committed fraud.
00:41:39The only thing that keeps me from putting him out this instant...
00:41:41is the remote possibility that this man might have some disease.
00:41:45His pulse is normal.
00:41:46That's what you think, you little quack.
00:41:48Quack, I refuse to be insulted.
00:41:50Doctor, I question your ethics.
00:41:51I'll have you investigate it.
00:41:53Say ah.
00:41:54No, no, ah.
00:41:56No, no, ah.
00:41:58Ah.
00:42:00Ah.
00:42:02Ah.
00:42:03Ah.
00:42:05Ah.
00:42:06Ah.
00:42:07Ah.
00:42:08Ah.
00:42:10Ah.
00:42:10Ah.
00:42:10Ah.
00:42:12You'll never be able to see the tape when I'm that way.
00:42:14Gribble, I thought you knew better.
00:42:15Ah, Mr. Wagner.
00:42:16Allowing yourself to be put with this way by a bunch of...
00:42:19This is all so unnecessary.
00:42:20I handle my guests in a different way.
00:42:21And I don't like your way.
00:42:23It's not the right way.
00:42:24I'm the manager here and I refuse to allow you to insult my guests.
00:42:27What guests?
00:42:27The whole darn mad piece floor is a few.
00:42:29Ah.
00:42:30Yes, and I'll lock out this dead one, too.
00:42:32I'll show you.
00:42:32You and who else?
00:42:33Now, you can go down to your office and argue.
00:42:35There's a sick man here.
00:42:36Hurry up, doctor.
00:42:37Do something.
00:42:38Get him healthy.
00:42:39Get him out of here.
00:42:40Now, calm down, Wagner.
00:42:41My back will be here any minute.
00:42:42I'm not interested in your backer.
00:42:44All I'm interested in is getting this man out of here.
00:42:51Where are you taking him?
00:42:52I always consider the modesty of my patience.
00:43:03I'll step out of the case.
00:43:06I have terrible news.
00:43:08He has disappeared.
00:43:10He's not in the maternity hospital.
00:43:12He's gone.
00:43:13They transferred him.
00:43:14Oh.
00:43:15To the county hospital.
00:43:16Go, my friend.
00:43:17Before they transfer him again.
00:43:18The county hospital?
00:43:20But I...
00:43:20There's no time to lose.
00:43:21Scram.
00:43:22Hail and farewell.
00:43:23Hail and farewell.
00:43:24Hail and farewell.
00:43:25Hail and farewell.
00:43:29Wonderful.
00:43:30Terrific.
00:43:31Sensational.
00:43:31I didn't think he could do it.
00:43:33I didn't think he could do it.
00:43:33How do you like it, Wagner?
00:43:34That was the same for my second act.
00:43:37Miller, I've been a hotel man for 30 years.
00:43:39I've met all sorts of...
00:43:40Hello.
00:43:41Huh?
00:43:42Yes, this is Mr. Wagner.
00:43:44What's that?
00:43:47Nineteen people jumping butter balls.
00:43:50Nineteen people were discovered living in the ballroom.
00:43:53Throw them out.
00:43:53Come on, Gribble.
00:43:54We'll find out about this.
00:43:58Now, Wagner.
00:44:00Hail and farewell.
00:44:06Gonna throw my entire cast out of the hotel.
00:44:09Christine.
00:44:10Get down and tell them all the way in the lobby.
00:44:11All right.
00:44:15That matters perfectly well.
00:44:16Mr. Wagner will be glad to find it out.
00:44:18Listen to me for one minute, will you?
00:44:19Tell them tonight, tomorrow, but not now.
00:44:21I'll tell him right now.
00:44:22I'll give you a piece of the show.
00:44:23I don't want the piece of the show.
00:44:24I'll put your name in the program.
00:44:26I don't want my name on the program.
00:44:27Put that fake doctor's name on the program, whoever he is.
00:44:30I'm going down and tell Mrs.
00:44:33Where's my bag?
00:44:35What have you done with my bag?
00:44:36You must have left it in the bathroom, Doc.
00:44:44Quiet, you little second.
00:44:45Just a pretty cool.
00:44:46We have nothing against you.
00:44:48I'll be here.
00:44:49But that's just a good one.
00:45:07You shouldn't have kissed me.
00:45:09I just couldn't help it.
00:45:11I've never done anything like that before.
00:45:14But I'll forgive you because you were so nice to Sasha.
00:45:30Well, I guess that'll hold that fake doctor for a while.
00:45:33Well, I guess that'll hold that fake doctor for a while.
00:45:38Yes?
00:45:38Speaking.
00:45:40Oh, come right up, Mr. Jenkins.
00:45:42Vanilli.
00:45:43He's here.
00:45:43The backer.
00:45:44He's here.
00:45:44Sandy Claws.
00:45:45Neck ties.
00:45:46Fanker.
00:45:47Hey, Fanker, where are you?
00:45:51He's walked out on us.
00:45:52How do you like that?
00:45:53That's two sick men running around.
00:45:55You know, Vanilli, we may start an epidemic in this town.
00:45:58You go downstairs and see if you can find him.
00:46:00If Wagner catches sight of him, we're sunk.
00:46:04Oh, Mr. Jenkins.
00:46:05How are you?
00:46:06Glad to see you.
00:46:06Come right in.
00:46:07That's fine, thanks.
00:46:07Well, I see we're all alone today.
00:46:10Yes, I thought it would be much better that way.
00:46:14Yes, much better.
00:46:15I have the contract right here.
00:46:17Fifty shares of Hail and Farewell made out in the name of Simon Jenkins.
00:46:20Just a few paragraphs.
00:46:22Simon Jenkins.
00:46:23Fifty shares.
00:46:24Transferable, of course.
00:46:25Of course.
00:46:26I see.
00:46:27That's fine.
00:46:29Fine.
00:46:29Well, you're going to see the signature on this check anyway, so you might as well know
00:46:33who your backer is.
00:46:36Did you ever hear of...
00:46:37Zachary Fisk?
00:46:39Zachary Fisk himself.
00:46:40That's the man I represent.
00:46:42Now you realize why I don't want any publicity.
00:46:44Mr. Jenkins, you don't have to go any further.
00:46:46Now, this check's made out to me naturally, but of course I'll just endorse it over to you.
00:46:51Calvary City, California?
00:46:53That means about five days before I'll get the money.
00:46:56I thought I could get started today.
00:46:58Young energy.
00:47:00Well, I could have our bank wire a certification to your bank if that'll help.
00:47:04If it isn't too much trouble.
00:47:05Why, it's no trouble at all.
00:47:06I'll make a note of it.
00:47:08Now, Mr. Jenkins, if you'll be good enough to sign the contract...
00:47:11Oh, Mr. Miller, I must remind you once again, the name of Zachary Fisk must remain in the
00:47:16background at any cost.
00:47:17Mr. Jenkins, you have my word, and you know what that's worth.
00:47:22Where's Davis?
00:47:24Will you go away?
00:47:25This is the deal I told you about.
00:47:27Now, you'll leave us alone for five minutes.
00:47:28Mr. Miller, you can't put me off any longer.
00:47:30Now, even your phony sick man is gone.
00:47:32And that gives me every legal right to demand this room immediately.
00:47:34Who is this man?
00:47:36Never mind who I am.
00:47:37Who are you?
00:47:38Will you go away?
00:47:38You can't take those pictures now.
00:47:40Pictures?
00:47:40Mr. Wagner's my press agent.
00:47:42He has an idea.
00:47:43I have only one idea.
00:47:44A publicity man, Mr. Miller.
00:47:46Oh, it concerns the cash.
00:47:47I'm here for money.
00:47:48I have the check.
00:47:49What check?
00:47:50Whose check?
00:47:51Whose check?
00:47:52Mr. Jenkins happens to represent one of our greatest financiers...
00:47:55Mr. Miller, I don't give a hoot who he represents.
00:47:57For Pete St. Wagner, will you get out of here before I fire you?
00:48:00Fire me?
00:48:01Who do you think you're talking to?
00:48:03I don't like this.
00:48:04Sorry, wrong room.
00:48:06Isn't that your assistant?
00:48:07Mr. Greville, take Wagner out of here.
00:48:09Greville, take Miller out of here.
00:48:10Shut up.
00:48:11Joe, take Wagner away.
00:48:12I practically got the check in my pocket.
00:48:13Oh, Mr. Wagner, please.
00:48:15I'm not leaving this room till Miller's out.
00:48:16Are you trying to blackmail me?
00:48:18Mr. Jenkins.
00:48:20See what you've done?
00:48:22Miller's my brother-in-law.
00:48:23I'll vouch for him.
00:48:24Brother-in-law.
00:48:26Well, that explains everything.
00:48:29Greville, you've committed fraud.
00:48:30I'm going to call the police.
00:48:31Police?
00:48:32Here, you mustn't do that.
00:48:33Mr. Jenkins, please.
00:48:34Let me go.
00:48:34I'm not interested in shysters.
00:48:36I'm going for a real few.
00:48:37Look, Mr. Jenkins, please.
00:48:38Fire me.
00:48:39I have a contract.
00:48:39Yes.
00:48:41Good heavens.
00:48:44How do you get out of here?
00:48:45Dr. Glass.
00:48:46They've kidnapped him.
00:48:48Look, Mr. Jenkins.
00:48:49First place we didn't do it.
00:48:50Second place we don't know who he is.
00:48:51He may be left over from the last convention.
00:49:00How do you like it?
00:49:00It's the scene from our second act.
00:49:02I don't like it.
00:49:03If you don't like it, we'll put in another scene.
00:49:04You can have any scene you want.
00:49:17Well, what are you going to do now?
00:49:18Don't ask me.
00:49:19You're supposed to be the doctor.
00:49:20Here, don't worry.
00:49:21They won't get away with this.
00:49:23I'll put them all behind bars, including Gribble.
00:49:25Shall I get you a drink?
00:49:26Are you all right?
00:49:27I haven't been all right since you came to this hotel.
00:49:30You see what your brother-in-law did?
00:49:32His mind's wandering.
00:49:33My mind's not wandering.
00:49:34I don't blame Miller for tying me up yet.
00:49:36A perfectly good reason.
00:49:37He was transacting a legitimate deal.
00:49:39I hold you responsible for what he did to me.
00:49:41You drove him to it.
00:49:42Say, you're not Miller's brother-in-law, too.
00:49:46All I know is that Zachary Fisk is backing his play, and that's a good enough recommendation for anybody.
00:49:50Zachary Fisk?
00:49:51I heard every word in the bathroom.
00:49:53That man you insulted was an agent for Mr. Fisk.
00:49:55He has a check for Miller signed by Fisk himself.
00:49:58Fisk?
00:49:58Why didn't Miller tell me?
00:50:00Because he's afraid of publicity.
00:50:02Because he's afraid of you.
00:50:03Yes, everybody's afraid of you.
00:50:04You've steamed into this hotel like a tugboat.
00:50:06You took charge without faith in anybody's judgment.
00:50:08Nobody can talk to you.
00:50:10Jumping fireballs!
00:50:11I'm through with this hotel, Mr. Wagner!
00:50:15I'll thank you to remove my shingle from the elevator.
00:50:21Please, gentlemen, I'm exhausted.
00:50:22But you must listen.
00:50:23There couldn't be helped.
00:50:24I'm not accustomed to this sort of thing.
00:50:26Will you please let me out of here?
00:50:27Excuse me, Mr. Jenkins.
00:50:29I want to apologize.
00:50:30There's another Miller in the hotel.
00:50:32That's none of my business.
00:50:33He had the bells confused.
00:50:34Oh, these gentlemen have plenty of credit here.
00:50:36Mr. Miller can have anything he likes.
00:50:38All right, all right.
00:50:39I have no idea if Zachary Fisk had anything to do with it.
00:50:41Zachary Fisk, how did you?
00:50:43Where did he...
00:50:43Dr. Glass heard everything in the bathroom.
00:50:45Dr. Glass?
00:50:45Who told him?
00:50:46Now it's perfectly all right.
00:50:47We'll keep it quiet.
00:50:48Now, if you'll just endorse the check, Mr. Jenkins...
00:50:50But I don't feel well.
00:50:51It'll only take a minute.
00:50:52All you have to do is sign your name.
00:50:53I have a weak heart.
00:50:55And you better hurry.
00:50:56Here's the pen.
00:50:56I'll vouch for these gentlemen.
00:50:58All right, all right.
00:51:00Mr. Jenkins, it would be our pleasure to have you as a guest.
00:51:03Entirely without charge, of course.
00:51:04Yes, yes.
00:51:05Thanks, just the same.
00:51:05I'm going to direct it to my doctor.
00:51:11Good day, gentlemen.
00:51:18Will you please show me the right way out of here?
00:51:21This way, Mr. Jenkins.
00:51:23Right over here.
00:51:24Goodbye, Mr. Jenkins.
00:51:25Goodbye, Mr. Jenkins.
00:51:26Goodbye, Mr. Jenkins.
00:51:35Well, Miller, I'll take that check.
00:51:37Oh, no, you don't.
00:51:38I'll take it.
00:51:39I'm the treasurer.
00:51:40I'll make a deposit.
00:51:41And as soon as the check clears, which will be in about five days.
00:51:44Well, I'd feel a whole lot happier if you'd let me deposit it in our bank.
00:51:46What am I going to do for money?
00:51:48Well, you can draw against the check.
00:51:49We'll bank for you.
00:51:50And when the check clears, we'll turn over the balance.
00:51:52That's only fair, Gordon.
00:51:54No, I can't take any chances.
00:51:55This is a shaky hotel.
00:51:57How do I know you won't go into bankruptcy?
00:51:59Well, I'll make out a paper guaranteeing the whole amount to you personally.
00:52:01Yeah, how do we know your credit is good?
00:52:03Well, I want this bill wiped off my first report.
00:52:05And I can't do that unless I have a check deposited against it.
00:52:08Now, Gordon, for once in your life, pay a bill.
00:52:10Oh, you might as well.
00:52:12All right, I'll do it for you, Joe.
00:52:22Oh, thanks, Miller.
00:52:23And, by the way, I want to move out of this frowsy little dungeon immediately.
00:52:27I want the best suite in the hotel.
00:52:28I'll give you the bridal suite.
00:52:30All right, and about three brides.
00:52:32I'm awfully sorry I misjudged you.
00:52:34Well, good luck.
00:52:34I hope you have a hit.
00:52:35I'll draw up the lease in the theater.
00:52:37Got the check?
00:52:38Here it is.
00:52:40Zachary Fisk.
00:52:41Well?
00:52:50Well, hail and farewell.
00:52:53Goodbye, Mr. Davis.
00:53:02Christine, I'm paying a bill.
00:53:04Darling.
00:53:05Oh, boy, that's great.
00:53:06But how about the cash, boss?
00:53:07Yes, they can't live in the lobby.
00:53:09Everybody move in again.
00:53:10The hotel is wide open.
00:53:12Davis!
00:53:13We're rich!
00:53:14Fifteen grand.
00:53:15I just saw Mr. Jenkins in the lobby.
00:53:17I suppose he told you.
00:53:18He told me.
00:53:19He's going to stop payment on the check.
00:53:21He said the only reason he endorsed it was just to get out of here.
00:53:24But he can't do that.
00:53:25He signed a contract.
00:53:27Or did he?
00:53:34Gee, I feel sick.
00:53:36Four months to get it and one minute to lose it.
00:53:39They can't do this to me.
00:53:41I'm going to sue the hotel for $100,000.
00:53:43You haven't got a leg to stand on.
00:53:44Then I'll sue Zachary Fisk.
00:53:45I'll sue Jenkins.
00:53:46But he didn't sign the contract.
00:53:48There must be somebody I can sue.
00:54:12Gee, I'm sorry.
00:54:13But I guess I'll have to take my play to Mr. Fremont.
00:54:16But you can't do that.
00:54:17It's all we have.
00:54:18Well, I know that, but I...
00:54:20But it isn't fair.
00:54:21We've worked on it for five months.
00:54:22I've missed my lunches for rehearsals.
00:54:24Well, I realize all that.
00:54:26But I can't wait another five months.
00:54:28I've got to make some money.
00:54:30You're thinking of Hilda, aren't you?
00:54:32Not only that, but...
00:54:33Well, if it's the waiter you're worried about,
00:54:34he'll get the part, won't he?
00:54:37Gee, I don't know what to say.
00:54:39If we only had another backer.
00:54:42Davis, we have a backer.
00:54:44Wagner's putting that check through his bank, isn't he?
00:54:46Yeah.
00:54:46Well, for five days, we have $15,000 worth of credit.
00:54:49Gordon, you're not...
00:54:50Why not?
00:54:50We're all rehearsed.
00:54:51We can open in five days.
00:54:52Sure.
00:54:53All we need is scenery and costumes.
00:54:54And we can charge that to the hotel.
00:54:56But it's illegal.
00:54:57It's...
00:54:58Relax, Davis.
00:54:59Wagner is backing the play.
00:55:01Jumping butter balls!
00:55:17Well, Joe, in a little while, our fortune will be made.
00:55:20Your 10% of the show will make you a rich man.
00:55:23You and Flossie can have a bridal suite, too.
00:55:27I certainly hope so.
00:55:29Say, that waiter looks great in that part.
00:55:30How'd you happen to think of him?
00:55:32Sasha?
00:55:33The minute I set eyes on him, I said to myself, there's a great actor.
00:55:36I can spot him a mile away.
00:55:38Especially if I'm hungry.
00:55:40Come in.
00:55:42Oh, there you are, Mr. Wagner.
00:55:44They told me you was up here.
00:55:47Mr. Wagner!
00:55:48Oh, it's nothing.
00:55:49Would you mind signing this receipt again?
00:55:51Well, uh...
00:55:51What receipt?
00:55:52Come back later.
00:55:53I'm busy.
00:55:54But the bank clerk rejected your signature.
00:55:55The bank?
00:55:56I just signed something.
00:55:57It's nothing, Joe.
00:55:58Come back in the morning.
00:55:59I must have it tonight, Mr. Wagner.
00:56:00This is not Mr. Wagner.
00:56:01Hey, let me see that receipt.
00:56:02I'm the hotel manager.
00:56:03Not Mr. Wagner.
00:56:04No wonder that signature ain't good.
00:56:07Good heavens!
00:56:08It was just as big a blow to me.
00:56:09The check!
00:56:10It bounced!
00:56:11I walks into your office this afternoon.
00:56:12This gentleman says he's Mr. Wagner and signs a receipt.
00:56:15The bank won't accept the signature.
00:56:16Look, buddy, you go back to the bank and tell him Mr. Wagner can't be reached.
00:56:19But this is strict order.
00:56:20Well, come back in the morning.
00:56:24$15,000.
00:56:25Now, don't get panicky, Joe.
00:56:26Pull yourself together.
00:56:27And for Pete's sake, don't tell Wagner.
00:56:38I was saving my little surprise till now.
00:56:43Well.
00:56:46How do you like it, Joe?
00:56:47What?
00:56:48Oh, I... I like it.
00:56:49Well, then let's have a drink on it.
00:56:50Right off the ice.
00:56:52Finest stuff there is.
00:56:53I'm overwhelmed.
00:56:55Well, after all, you're a guest in good standing now, you know.
00:57:02Of course, you still owe us a little bill.
00:57:05Don't you?
00:57:11Well.
00:57:12As soon as I finish dressing.
00:57:14Yes!
00:57:18Oh, dear.
00:57:19You know, regardless of how I feel about that fellow, personally, I still think it was a good idea to
00:57:27make this gesture.
00:57:29Yes, sir.
00:57:31After all, I say, you look pale.
00:57:34Something wrong?
00:57:35No.
00:57:36I don't feel so good.
00:57:38Hmm.
00:57:39Must have been that fish we had for dinner.
00:57:41The food in this hotel is certainly crummy.
00:57:46Imagine, imagine a shrewd manipulator like Fisk, putting his money in a piece of cheese.
00:57:52Ha, ha, ha, ha, not me.
00:57:57Oh, come now.
00:57:58Snap out of it.
00:57:59Take it easy.
00:58:03La-da, la-da-da-da.
00:58:05La-da-da, la-da-da.
00:58:08Hello?
00:58:10Oh, what's this on?
00:58:12Well, put him on.
00:58:14La-da-da-da.
00:58:16It's a clerk at the bank.
00:58:20Hello?
00:58:21Yes, this is Mr. Wagner.
00:58:25Verify what signature.
00:58:27What receipt?
00:58:29Oh, just a moment.
00:58:31Did you sign my name to a receipt today?
00:58:34Why, uh, no.
00:58:36What's it for?
00:58:39Ha, ha, ha.
00:58:40Some check came back.
00:58:42Probably some tragedy.
00:58:44I have to get a headache powder.
00:58:47So why don't you take this up with my bookkeeper?
00:58:50I can't be bothered with this!
00:58:54What's that?
00:58:56Zachary Fisk?
00:58:57You investigated?
00:58:59He stopped it!
00:59:01Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:59:04In the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning, in the morning.
00:59:11I'm heading for the last round-up.
00:59:16Get along, get along, get along, get along, get along, get along, get along, get along, get along, get along,
00:59:24get along.
00:59:26I'm heading for the last round-up.
00:59:34Wagner, you don't know how lucky you are.
00:59:38You're in the hotel business.
00:59:39No headaches or no worries.
00:59:41Well, Brother Wagner, let's start the champagne flowing.
00:59:44Oh, you don't mind if Benelli joins our little party?
00:59:46Oh, no, no.
00:59:48In fact, I insist.
00:59:50But I hope to make it a real party.
00:59:53I have another surprise for you boys.
00:59:56Ha, ha.
00:59:58A big surprise.
01:00:02Now, don't go away.
01:00:06I'd like to get a license to hunt Wagner.
01:00:09He'd look great alongside of my moose.
01:00:13Hey, what's the big surprise?
01:00:16I just ran into Mr. Wagner and he insisted I come in here and have a drink.
01:00:20He's gone backstage to get Baker, too.
01:00:22He said he had a great big surprise just for the four of us.
01:00:25Gee, I always thought they celebrated after an opening, not before.
01:00:28That depends. With a show like this, you celebrate before.
01:00:31It's awfully hard to celebrate while you're running from an audience that wants its money back.
01:00:38Hello?
01:00:40Gribble.
01:00:43Yes, Joe?
01:00:45What's the matter?
01:00:46Who told him?
01:00:48Joe!
01:00:49Joe!
01:00:53Wagner found out?
01:00:55They called him from the bank.
01:00:56Well, what's he going to do?
01:00:58Joe couldn't talk.
01:01:00I don't see what you fellas are so frightened about.
01:01:03Mr. Wagner was bound to discover it anyway.
01:01:06There's nothing he can do now.
01:01:08I'm going down and face him.
01:01:11Maybe the kid's right.
01:01:12Come on, let's go down.
01:01:16Hey, where do you think you're going?
01:01:18Get back in there.
01:01:19Well, you can't keep me here.
01:01:21Oh, can't we?
01:01:22The house sticks.
01:01:23Get in there, Corn Pet, and be quick about it.
01:01:24Hey, you can't do this to me.
01:01:26I'm the author.
01:01:27Here's your hat.
01:01:30Oh, what's the use?
01:01:31I give up.
01:01:32I've got actors in the dressing room, scenery on the stage, and an audience in the theater.
01:01:37And I've got to sit in the hotel room on opening night waiting to be arrested.
01:01:41Gee, I never thought I'd be arrested for writing a play.
01:01:46Clayton goes up in 20 minutes.
01:01:5319 minutes.
01:01:55Phil and I were going to be married right after the opening.
01:01:59Congratulations.
01:02:01Gee, I guess they'll take our fingerprints.
01:02:04They got mine.
01:02:05You been in jail?
01:02:06Sure, it's not bad.
01:02:08You behave yourself, they make you a trustee.
01:02:14If they only had some money, we could bribe those hotel dicks.
01:02:17Maybe the hotel would advance us some.
01:02:23And stay in there.
01:02:27Well, the quartet is complete.
01:02:28What'll we do now?
01:02:29Do you have a sink, sweet Adeline?
01:02:34I got an idea.
01:02:35Let's turn in the fire alarm.
01:02:36We start a riot and we can...
01:02:38You can't have a fire alarm without a fire.
01:02:40All right, then.
01:02:40Let's have a fire.
01:02:58Well, even with the fire, we still got 15 more minutes.
01:03:01Any more brilliant ideas, Benelli?
01:03:04How about the window?
01:03:10How high up are we?
01:03:14No, that's too high.
01:03:17You know, there must be an easier way of killing yourself.
01:03:21I once killed myself.
01:03:22I once killed myself.
01:03:25I mean, that was my initiation into the fraternity.
01:03:28They made me do a phony suicide act.
01:03:31I scared the chemistry professor stiff.
01:03:35Say, this chemistry professor,
01:03:37did he really believe you committed suicide?
01:03:40Oh, yes.
01:03:41He was going to send for an ambulance.
01:03:50That's just what I was thinking.
01:03:52You mean we carry him out?
01:03:53Of course.
01:03:53He drinks a bottle of poison.
01:03:54We have to rush him to the hospital.
01:03:56The house takes half to let us through.
01:03:57Oh, that sounds great.
01:03:58Yeah, but don't forget,
01:03:59you haven't got three chemistry professors standing out there.
01:04:01We'll make it look authentic.
01:04:03Davis, you go into the bathroom.
01:04:04We go out in the hall screaming.
01:04:05They rush in, and there you are.
01:04:07This is a herring.
01:04:08No, not dead.
01:04:09Just dying.
01:04:09You're still living.
01:04:10That's why we're rushing you to the hospital.
01:04:12You're in great danger.
01:04:13Then, after you carry me out,
01:04:14we sneak in the theater and see the show.
01:04:16Exactly.
01:04:17You wouldn't think I came from Oswego five days ago.
01:04:21Hey, Faker.
01:04:22Come here.
01:04:23You help Davis.
01:04:24Now, you go into the bathroom,
01:04:25and remember, count up to 50
01:04:26before you start dying.
01:04:28I know what to do.
01:04:32Well, how did you like my little surprise?
01:04:37In about 15 minutes,
01:04:38when the show is in full swing,
01:04:40the sheriff will come along
01:04:41and take everybody who's seen me off the stage.
01:04:43Wagner.
01:04:43Right in view of the audience.
01:04:44But Wagner.
01:04:45And now, if you're the pleasure
01:04:45of hearing me call my lawyer,
01:04:46who'll get the sheriff.
01:04:47Mr. Wagner, please.
01:04:50What's that?
01:04:54Who's in there?
01:05:03Oh, you drove me to it.
01:05:06No, you've done.
01:05:07Give me that bottle.
01:05:12Get him some water.
01:05:15This is terrible.
01:05:16He'll drag a whole bottle of poison.
01:05:22No, that's the poison you're giving him.
01:05:24Why didn't you stop him?
01:05:25I didn't take him seriously
01:05:26when he said you were driving him to suicide.
01:05:28I suppose I'll have to testify to that at the inquest.
01:05:33Well, don't stand there, Gribble.
01:05:35Do something, you idiot.
01:05:36Get the house doctor.
01:05:37Get his eyes, like all animals.
01:05:38No, you're blackhead.
01:05:39That means publicity.
01:05:40He's going fast.
01:05:43Oh, no, wait, no, wait, no, wait, no, wait.
01:05:44Wait.
01:05:46An antidote.
01:05:46That'll do it.
01:05:47Gribble, you run down to the drugstore
01:05:48and send those house sticks away.
01:05:50We must keep this quiet.
01:05:52He's turning blue.
01:05:53Oh, we must do something.
01:05:55We've got to save him.
01:05:57Miller, you worked on him.
01:05:58Don't let him die.
01:06:01Jumping butterballs.
01:06:06This is our chance to see the show.
01:06:08Yeah, the minute he finds out you're not dying,
01:06:10send for those sheriffs and stop the show.
01:06:12Davis, there's only one thing for you to do.
01:06:13You'll have to stay up here and keep on dying
01:06:15for two and a half hours.
01:06:16What?
01:06:17Till the show's over.
01:06:18Well, why?
01:06:18I want to see the show.
01:06:20Well, if you don't keep on dying,
01:06:21there'll be no show.
01:06:22Gee, I don't know whether I can keep it up
01:06:24for two and a half hours.
01:06:25It's all right.
01:06:25We'll help you.
01:06:27Neil!
01:06:28Leo!
01:06:29Mr. Gribble said you were dying.
01:06:31It's only a plot, darling.
01:06:33I'm all right.
01:06:34Hilda, we're in a jam.
01:06:35We've got to pretend that Leo is dying
01:06:36or Wagner will close the show.
01:06:37Oh, I'm beginning to understand.
01:06:39Good.
01:06:39You get downstairs and keep an eye on the show.
01:06:41And if anything goes wrong,
01:06:42come up and tell us.
01:06:43Gee, it's just like a play, isn't it?
01:06:44All right, darling.
01:06:45I'll do my best.
01:06:46And if I don't come back,
01:06:48then you'll know it's good news.
01:06:49And if you do come back,
01:06:50bring four bottles of poison.
01:06:54Hurry up before they come back.
01:06:55And groan, grunt, stagger about.
01:06:57Don't die too soon.
01:06:58You must take your time.
01:06:59And you mustn't die before 11 o'clock.
01:07:01Don't you worry.
01:07:02I'll give you the best performance
01:07:04you ever saw in a hotel bedroom.
01:07:06That's the spirit.
01:07:08Come on.
01:07:09Good luck, Davis.
01:07:10Drop dead.
01:07:12Are you sure we've got enough?
01:07:13Yes, but this doesn't do it
01:07:14either on what we're going to do.
01:07:15Nobody ever committed suicide
01:07:17in this hotel before.
01:07:18Here, Miller, here's some epic act.
01:07:19Give them a dose of it.
01:07:20Give them plenty.
01:07:21Come on, dribble your old thumbs.
01:07:23As fast as I can.
01:07:26Come on, Davis.
01:07:27A little epic act wouldn't hurt you.
01:07:28Come on, Davis.
01:07:30Here, here.
01:07:31Somebody take this and give it to them.
01:07:33Oh, come on, come on.
01:07:35All right.
01:07:36I've been as fast as I can.
01:07:37Listen, man, guys,
01:07:38we're living in all this space.
01:07:39Take it right down there.
01:07:40I'll go.
01:07:41Oh, what the papers will do with this?
01:07:43This will bring you about more.
01:07:44Oh, I'm so ashamed.
01:07:45Oh, you're fine.
01:07:46Come on.
01:07:47Oh, yeah.
01:07:48Hurry, Rebel.
01:07:49Hurry, you don't have me doing anything.
01:07:52Come on, Davis.
01:07:53Come on, Davis.
01:07:54What do you know?
01:07:54We always use these.
01:07:56We'll come.
01:07:57Hurry, Rebel.
01:07:57Yes.
01:07:58Oh, yeah.
01:07:59Come on, put some more eggs in there.
01:08:02All right.
01:08:03Give me the eggs.
01:08:19Can't you groan anymore?
01:08:21If I groan once more,
01:08:23that Ippycat you gave me
01:08:24will come up and spoil the whole show.
01:08:26Well, in that case,
01:08:27consider yourself dead.
01:08:29Oh.
01:08:31He's dying.
01:08:32It's all over.
01:08:34It's hard to cease beating.
01:08:35What a horrible end.
01:08:38Such a young man.
01:08:40All he said was mother.
01:08:43Oh, ho.
01:08:45On the stage downstairs,
01:08:46they have barely begun
01:08:48your immortal second act.
01:08:50While up here,
01:08:51you have already finished
01:08:53your last act.
01:08:54Too soon.
01:08:56Too soon.
01:08:58He died too soon.
01:09:02An hour too soon.
01:09:06I'll never forgive myself for this.
01:09:08Oh, now, don't take it too hard.
01:09:10We should have sent
01:09:11for an outside doctor.
01:09:12But he kept recovering
01:09:14and dying
01:09:16and recovering again.
01:09:18It all happened so suddenly.
01:09:21Yes, too darn suddenly.
01:09:23Every time we gave him the Ipecac,
01:09:25he seemed to get better.
01:09:28Maybe we should have
01:09:28given him more Ipecac.
01:09:30As a matter of fact,
01:09:31I think we gave him too much.
01:09:33If we could only bring him back.
01:09:36An hour ago,
01:09:37we were at each other's throats.
01:09:41And now...
01:09:44a thing like this
01:09:46makes you realize.
01:09:49It certainly does.
01:09:51You struggle for money!
01:09:54What good is it?
01:09:57You never know who's next.
01:09:59Yes, here today,
01:10:01gone tomorrow.
01:10:05Goodbye, Leo.
01:10:08Good night, sweet prince.
01:10:15Well, I guess we've all
01:10:17got to go sometime.
01:10:21It's too bad
01:10:21he didn't die at the Aster.
01:10:24You mean, uh,
01:10:25it's bad for the hotel?
01:10:26Well, it isn't good.
01:10:28There's bound to be a scandal.
01:10:31Oh, well,
01:10:32I guess I may as well
01:10:33notify the police.
01:10:34Wait, is that necessary?
01:10:36It's the law.
01:10:37But if we could arrange...
01:10:38Arrange what?
01:10:39Well, uh,
01:10:40if his body wasn't found
01:10:41in the hotel proper.
01:10:43Well, naturally,
01:10:43it would help us.
01:10:45We could dump him
01:10:46in the alley.
01:10:47Oh, no, no!
01:10:49How can you be
01:10:50so sacrilegious?
01:10:51The body not cold yet.
01:10:53What are you thinking of?
01:10:54I'm not going to violate
01:10:55the law.
01:10:56I'll have to call the police.
01:10:57Listen, Wagner,
01:10:58there's no hotel law
01:10:59that prevents a couple of guests
01:11:00from carrying out
01:11:00a drunken friend, is there?
01:11:01We could lug him
01:11:02out the back way.
01:11:03And into the theater.
01:11:04He'd be found in a seat.
01:11:05The author saw his own play
01:11:06on the stage
01:11:07and took poison.
01:11:07Instead of a suicide,
01:11:08you'd have a mystery.
01:11:09And it wouldn't happen
01:11:10in the hotel.
01:11:11Uh, no, no, I'm sorry.
01:11:13I've got to call the police.
01:11:14Just a minute, Mr. Wagner.
01:11:15Don't phone yet.
01:11:17Why not?
01:11:18Well, before they take him
01:11:19from us,
01:11:20couldn't we say
01:11:20a few words over him?
01:11:22That's the least
01:11:23we could do.
01:11:24Well, yes, of course.
01:11:29I, uh,
01:11:31my friends,
01:11:33my heart is too full
01:11:34to say what I really think.
01:11:35Davis is no longer
01:11:37with us.
01:11:39It doesn't seem possible.
01:11:41He was a great playwright
01:11:43who died too soon.
01:11:46Yes.
01:11:47Well, love.
01:11:58E pluribus unum.
01:12:01Amen.
01:12:04Yes.
01:12:06Swing low,
01:12:08sweet chariots,
01:12:12Come and fall to carry me home.
01:12:20Swing low,
01:12:23sweet chariots,
01:12:28Come and fall to carry me home.
01:12:36If you get there
01:12:41Before I do
01:12:45Come and fall to carry me home.
01:12:53He's not in the county hospital.
01:12:55Tell, oh, my friends,
01:13:00Tell, oh, my friends,
01:13:01I'm coming true.
01:13:07Come and fall to carry me home.
01:13:28Shall I phone for the police now, Wagner?
01:13:31I'll do it.
01:13:32This whole thing
01:13:33was my responsibility.
01:13:35You go downstairs.
01:13:36I'll phone the police.
01:13:37All right, Wagner.
01:13:41Give me the...
01:13:42Please, that's the same phone
01:13:44he used when he spoke
01:13:45to his mother up in Oswego.
01:13:47Only an hour ago.
01:13:50All right.
01:13:59Now, remember,
01:14:00I don't feel responsible
01:14:01for his death.
01:14:03I never knowingly hurt
01:14:04anybody in my life.
01:14:06Ah!
01:14:14Wagner drove me to my death
01:14:15just as he drove Leo Davis.
01:14:19Wagner,
01:14:20you and I
01:14:20have got to dispose
01:14:21of this dead body.
01:14:22Maybe we could sell it
01:14:22to some medical students.
01:14:23Oh!
01:14:24Not with conditions
01:14:25the way they are.
01:14:26Come on,
01:14:26we'll dump him in the alley.
01:14:27Me carry him?
01:14:28I couldn't do that.
01:14:30Come on,
01:14:30we'll just pretend he's drunk.
01:14:31Give me a hand.
01:14:32I can't!
01:14:33That dagger,
01:14:34that paper!
01:14:35I'll dispose of the dagger.
01:14:37Come on, Wagner.
01:14:38We have no time to lose.
01:14:42He's not cold yet!
01:14:44I'll fix that.
01:14:45I'll phone for some ice.
01:14:49Hello?
01:14:49Room service.
01:14:50Send up enough ice
01:14:51to cool a warm body.
01:14:53Let's take him
01:14:54down the service elevator.
01:14:55I won't have him insulted.
01:14:56He'll go with a regular passenger.
01:14:58Well, someone might see us!
01:14:59Oh!
01:15:05Come on!
01:15:16I can't stand this much longer.
01:15:18Take it easy.
01:15:19We're dumping right here.
01:15:28We're doomed.
01:15:30Take it easy.
01:15:31Well, Mr. Miller,
01:15:31your show is certainly going great.
01:15:33Well, that's fine.
01:15:34Oh, what do you got there?
01:15:36Where?
01:15:36Oh, there!
01:15:38It's one of my actors.
01:15:39He's passed out
01:15:39in the excitement.
01:15:40I need him
01:15:41for the third act
01:15:42and look at him.
01:15:42You'd think he was dead.
01:15:44Yes, wouldn't you?
01:15:46Your friend looked
01:15:46as though he had
01:15:47a smooth flow, too.
01:15:48Yes, but he'll get over it.
01:15:49Come on, Wagner.
01:15:57How do you do, Mr. Miller?
01:15:58How's it going?
01:15:59It's a terrific hit, Mr. Miller.
01:16:01For a little life.
01:16:03For this!
01:16:04Washington and Lincoln live!
01:16:08And although I speak
01:16:10to you
01:16:10with a foreign accent,
01:16:13still I speak
01:16:15for renewal
01:16:17and free America.
01:16:20You win!
01:16:21Right.
01:16:22Yeah!
01:16:27They're crazy about it.
01:16:28But what about
01:16:29the other dead man?
01:16:30With a hit like this,
01:16:31we'll give him
01:16:31the biggest funeral
01:16:32this town has ever had.
01:16:37Arthur, Arthur, Arthur, Arthur.
01:16:40He's never here.
01:16:41He has won.
01:16:42He could not have won
01:16:43except for the sacrifice
01:16:46of our late comrade
01:16:47who gave his life
01:16:49that we might win.
01:16:52Bring the body
01:16:54and let us pay
01:16:56the less moment
01:16:57of reverence.
01:17:02Swing low
01:17:04sweet terrier
01:17:07Run for the carry
01:17:11me home
01:17:15Swing low
01:17:17sweet terrier
01:17:20He's calling great guns,
01:17:21isn't it, Mr. Wank?
01:17:26If you get there
01:17:30before I do
01:17:33Coming for
01:17:36to carry me home
01:17:39Yeah, ma'am.
01:17:40Tell all my friends
01:17:43I'm coming too
01:17:46Showing up!
01:17:47Calling for
01:17:49to carry me home
01:17:52Home
01:17:56Fire
01:17:57Camp
01:17:58Him
01:17:58He's calling for
01:17:59He's calling for
01:17:59And
01:18:01He's calling for
01:18:07to carry me home
01:18:07He's calling for
01:18:19you
01:18:19to carry me home
01:18:22into
01:18:22The End
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