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The Cheaters (1945) Full Movie ｜ Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette [Full Movie] [New Drama]Full EP - Full
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00:01:30J.C., why don't you see that man?
00:01:34What man?
00:01:35The latest process server.
00:01:37Surely you're familiar with process servers?
00:01:40Now, Maddie, don't you start.
00:01:42I'm not starting. I'm just frightened of my reputation.
00:01:45I'm spending so much time with this one.
00:01:48Well, these bring your bank account down to a nice flat zero.
00:01:53Your wife's doing a lot of Christmas shopping, Mr. Pigeon.
00:01:56Why don't you pay any attention when I tell you how close to bankruptcy you are?
00:02:00It's going to be all right, Maddie. I tell you, it's going to be all right.
00:02:03Hmm. It's going to be all right until the stores come to take back the gifts.
00:02:08Would they do that?
00:02:09Well, if you don't pay your bills.
00:02:11Oh, what's the use?
00:02:13From your son, collect.
00:02:15Hasn't he left Stanford yet?
00:02:17I didn't read it. I just paid for it, $2.78.
00:02:20And your brother-in-law's waiting to see you.
00:02:22No doubt also collect.
00:02:23Well, get rid of them.
00:02:25When you haven't been able to for 20 years?
00:02:28I'm busy with a client.
00:02:30That's the one lie I couldn't tell without bursting into tears.
00:02:34Willie!
00:02:36Willie!
00:02:37Hello, boy. Oh, good news, eh?
00:02:39As a matter of fact, it's very sad.
00:02:42Wire from Reggie from Denver.
00:02:44Oh, it's too bad.
00:02:45Doctors give no hope for Uncle Henry.
00:02:47Only a matter of hours now.
00:02:49For Pete's sake, why can't I come home?
00:02:50He doesn't even know I'm here.
00:02:52This is one street.
00:02:53The rest of it doesn't matter.
00:02:55No, no. It's Uncle Henry we have to think about.
00:02:57Yeah, the poor old fellow.
00:02:58It's too bad. Still, he is getting on.
00:03:00I mean, say...
00:03:01Been failing for years.
00:03:03Exactly, yes.
00:03:03He isn't nearly fast enough at the rate you've been going.
00:03:05She's right.
00:03:06No need of being hypocritical about it, would he?
00:03:08Of course not, no.
00:03:09Uncle Henry would have been the last one to expect it.
00:03:12He was...
00:03:13Is?
00:03:14He is a tough old burglar.
00:03:16Of course he is, yeah.
00:03:16I don't think I'm being too callous when I think of what Clara and the girls and Reggie could do
00:03:21with that money.
00:03:22I shouldn't think so, no.
00:03:23Well, they're young enough to enjoy it.
00:03:24Exactly, yeah.
00:03:25I could use some of it, too, of course.
00:03:27Build up the firm.
00:03:28Build it up, yes.
00:03:28Yeah, money makes money.
00:03:30Wow, money makes...
00:03:31Yes.
00:03:31Come over to Frost with me.
00:03:32I'd be delighted.
00:03:33There's a bracelet over there that Clara admired.
00:03:35Well, as a matter of fact, I want to do a little shopping on my own, and I thought that
00:03:38perhaps you might...
00:03:39Well, I mean, say you...
00:03:40Why, sure, sure, Willie, how much?
00:03:42Oh, well, I...
00:03:43Mr. Pidgeon.
00:03:45Huh?
00:03:46It would seem that Willie left the barn door open.
00:03:49Afraid I've been kind of a nuisance, but I gotta touch you.
00:03:54Oh, that's all right.
00:03:56Sorry to have kept you waiting.
00:03:57Pressure of business, you know.
00:03:59Come with it.
00:04:01Oh, send a wire to that little whippersnapper in Denver and tell him to stay there until the end.
00:04:06And impress on him that he's a representative of the family in this hour of...
00:04:10Need?
00:04:11Yes, sir.
00:04:11Yes, that's right.
00:04:12You know what I mean.
00:04:12Good day, sir.
00:04:14Good day.
00:04:16You know, I've been here so long, I kind of hate to leave.
00:04:20There'll be others.
00:04:41Good evening, sir.
00:04:42Good evening, McFarlane.
00:04:46Good evening, McFarlane.
00:04:55Now, what's that?
00:04:56A silver vase from Tiffany's for the Carters.
00:04:59I have the most awful feeling I sent them the same thing last year.
00:05:02Or did they send us one?
00:05:04Well, this begins to look like the real thing.
00:05:07How are you, my dear?
00:05:09Frantic!
00:05:10Well, you should take it a little easy.
00:05:12You have these young ladies here to help you.
00:05:15You'll be born to a frazzle before Christmas Eve.
00:05:18They couldn't do a thing without me.
00:05:28Ah, the tree is a beauty.
00:05:30Is it here?
00:05:32They're not to put it in the front window of the drawing room.
00:05:35You tell them, Miss Hemstead.
00:05:36Why not the front window?
00:05:37We've always had it in the front window.
00:05:39It looks pretty from the street.
00:05:41People who have such a nice tree...
00:05:43That's just it.
00:05:44Therese says it's all wrong.
00:05:45She's come back from Boston with a lot of new ideas.
00:05:48I hadn't time to listen to them.
00:05:50But it's about charity and not flaunting your wealth.
00:05:53Hmm.
00:05:53She wants the tree in the library where less fortunate people can't see it.
00:05:58The tree has always been in the drawing room.
00:06:01And it's not going to be put in the library.
00:06:04That's the only room in this house I've been able to train your brother Willie to stay out of.
00:06:09Now, you know you're really fond of Willie, dear.
00:06:12And he's just brought you a lovely gift.
00:06:15Oh.
00:06:17The library.
00:06:20Dad!
00:06:22Well, well, well, how do I do?
00:06:25Oh, wonderful, Dad, and you?
00:06:27Fine, fine.
00:06:28So what's this I've been hearing about some soldier named Bates?
00:06:32Some soldier named Bates.
00:06:34Captain Bates.
00:06:35You love him?
00:06:36Madly, wildly, and fearsomely.
00:06:38How unutterably mucky.
00:06:40Oh, isn't she devastating?
00:06:42When I left, she was doing Lana Turner.
00:06:44You know, I haven't been able to figure this new one out yet.
00:06:49Here are mine, Miss Lodge.
00:06:50They're all labeled, and here's the list.
00:06:52Now, I want them done in pale green with the wide white satin ribbon
00:06:57and the darker green velvet sprays attached to the bold.
00:06:59And I don't want anyone else to use that combination.
00:07:02We've already used that combination.
00:07:05But I told you that...
00:07:06Can't you just mix them, darling?
00:07:08Mother, don't be tiresome.
00:07:11No one uses mixed colors anymore.
00:07:13You wrap your gifts the same each year until it becomes distinctive of you.
00:07:16Like your perfume.
00:07:18The other is absolutely...
00:07:20de trop.
00:07:21All right, darling.
00:07:22We'll find something distinctive for you.
00:07:24Oh, and I am glad to see you're using your French whenever you can.
00:07:38Now, darling, tell me about this young man of yours.
00:07:41Oh, you'll meet him.
00:07:42He's spending Christmas with us.
00:07:44What's his first name?
00:07:45Stephen, and don't call him Steve.
00:07:47Don't worry about me.
00:07:48But...
00:07:49In fact, I worry about the whole blessed family.
00:07:51What's the matter?
00:07:52Not good enough for him?
00:07:53No, darling, it isn't that at all.
00:07:55It's just...
00:07:56Well, we're so wacky, and...
00:07:58I don't know.
00:07:59I don't know.
00:08:02I don't know.
00:08:06I don't know.
00:08:06No, it's Beresford Bates, but no hyphen.
00:08:08I expect she'd consider the other un-American.
00:08:10She sounds grim.
00:08:12Now, Mrs. Bates is one of the wealthiest, most socially prominent women in the East.
00:08:15So?
00:08:16She still sounds grim.
00:08:17Grim or not, will you please stop interrupting?
00:08:20Now, this is serious.
00:08:21I must have Dad's approval of something I want to do.
00:08:23Something I simply have to do.
00:08:25Well, what's that, honey?
00:08:26Bring a charity case into the house for the holidays.
00:08:29Someone who otherwise wouldn't have any Christmas.
00:08:32Well, why do you stare like that?
00:08:34What's so monstrous in the idea?
00:08:36Mrs. Bates does it every Christmas, only she doesn't stop at one.
00:08:39Last year, she had six children.
00:08:42Mrs. Bates?
00:08:43I thought you said that Stephen was an only child.
00:08:46Whoops!
00:08:47Count on Mother to pick up the wrong thread of a conversation.
00:08:49We were speaking of bringing a needy person into the house at Christmas.
00:08:53Oh?
00:08:53And I want...
00:08:54Well, to tell you the truth, I have to have one.
00:08:56I told Mrs. Bates we've always done it.
00:08:58And with Stephen coming...
00:08:59Of all the foul ideas, you promised me a party with the entire upper floor and only my friends.
00:09:04How can I have them with some smelly charity case in the house?
00:09:06They don't necessarily have to smell.
00:09:10I think it's rather a sweet idea.
00:09:12You say Mrs. Bates does this every year?
00:09:14Yes, Mother.
00:09:15Then I don't see why I can't do it.
00:09:17It might start a movement.
00:09:18We aren't doing this to make a splash.
00:09:21Are we doing it?
00:09:21That's what I want to know.
00:09:22Why couldn't we just show him Willie and say that he's a charity case?
00:09:27James!
00:09:28Really, J.C.?
00:09:29Well, I offered to leave years ago.
00:09:31Sure, sure.
00:09:32Sorry, Willie.
00:09:33I was only kidding.
00:09:36Well, I think you're all being terrible to laugh or bicker about helping the needy.
00:09:41All right.
00:09:42All right.
00:09:42You can have your charity case.
00:09:44Where do you get them?
00:09:46I don't know.
00:09:47Perhaps one of the servants know of someone.
00:09:49Wait.
00:09:50Wait, I have it.
00:09:51Every year the Globe publishes a list of needy cases.
00:09:53Now then, we'll find a copy, close our eyes and pick a letter.
00:09:56What do you mean, pick a letter?
00:09:58The cases are listed one, two, three, and so on.
00:10:00And the people are referred to simply as Miss A, Miss B, and Mr. C.
00:10:04You know, I thought it was rather decent of them not to give the full name.
00:10:07Oh, yes.
00:10:07You know, I think that I...
00:10:11Oh, thank you.
00:10:12Thank you, H.
00:10:12Here.
00:10:13Case one.
00:10:14Miss L, age 41, renounced the chances of a brilliant career as a concert pianist to nurse her age and
00:10:21infirm mother.
00:10:22Only a month ago, the mother died.
00:10:24Well, I don't want to seem mean, but someone with such a recent death in the family...
00:10:27She'd either tell us all of her mother's symptoms or try to play the piano.
00:10:30It isn't that.
00:10:31Try another, dear.
00:10:32Case seven.
00:10:34Mr. H has toiled at back-breaking labor to support his seven motherless children...
00:10:38Out!
00:10:39For heaven's sake, why don't you do as Willie suggested?
00:10:42Close your eyes and pick one.
00:10:44Then let's have a little Christmas cheer of our own.
00:10:46Shall I?
00:10:47Of course, darling.
00:10:49What did you get?
00:10:52Since he was hit by a speeding car ten years ago, Anthony M has seen fame and fortune desert him.
00:10:58Once a matinee idol, beloved of all theatre-goers...
00:11:00An actor!
00:11:01He was struck down at the height of his career, leaving him permanently lame.
00:11:05Oh, what a pity.
00:11:06Yet Mr. M has accepted his lot with philosophic fortitude and has shown an admirable willingness to take the most
00:11:11menial of jobs.
00:11:12Well, he's it, as far as I'm concerned.
00:11:14Sounds like a gentleman, almost.
00:11:15The sort who could wear a dress suit, if necessary.
00:11:18Mother, listen to the rest of it.
00:11:21Still, Miss Fortune seems to pursue him.
00:11:22Only a month ago, while working as night watchman in a New Jersey factory, a mysterious fire broke out and
00:11:27the plant was burned to the ground.
00:11:29Thus does the world forget easily, and this once famous man needs your help.
00:11:32Give if you can.
00:11:34We certainly shall.
00:11:36He'll want a muffler.
00:11:37A muffler?
00:11:38Well, of course.
00:11:39All night watchmen wear mufflers, and I've three left over.
00:11:43But one can hardly put Merry Christmas to Mr. M, can one?
00:11:48I'd better know his name before I rap.
00:11:50Mother, I don't think you have quite the right idea about this.
00:11:52Well, of course I have.
00:11:54Naturally, we'll give him more than mufflers.
00:11:56Have McFarlane call the paper, or let Willie call.
00:11:59He's terribly sweet with people.
00:12:01Oh, Dad, doesn't it make you feel all warm and happy inside to be doing this?
00:12:06But we must remember to treat him as a guest.
00:12:08You know, make him feel at home.
00:12:10At least for a week.
00:12:18You know, this organization was just about to drop you from its roles.
00:12:22I think you're very, very fortunate, Mr. Marchand.
00:12:25And I hope that this time you will behave with a proper amount of gratitude.
00:12:32Gratitude in most men is usually a secret desire to receive greater benefits.
00:12:39The chauffeur is here for Mr. Marchand.
00:12:47I'll take it, sir.
00:13:43Come in.
00:13:46Well, where in the world have you been?
00:13:48I've been ringing for the last 30 minutes.
00:13:51I'm very sorry, madam.
00:13:52I was attending Mr. Marchand.
00:13:54Oh.
00:13:54It's the internal injuries.
00:13:56The poor gentleman suffers something dreadful during the night.
00:13:59A bit of egg and milk and a dash of spirits early in the morning,
00:14:04and he goes right back to sleep again.
00:14:07Needs it, I say.
00:14:08And think of the mornings that he hasn't had it.
00:14:10Poor soul.
00:14:12That was very good of you, McFarland.
00:14:14You give him everything he wants.
00:14:16Very good, madam.
00:14:18Mother.
00:14:19Oh, mother.
00:14:21He's perfectly delightful.
00:14:22Oh.
00:14:22So humble and grateful, and yet, I don't know, he wears...
00:14:26He wears poverty with all the charm of an Inverness cape.
00:14:28Oh, what a pretty idea.
00:14:31I must get dressed and meet him.
00:14:33Oh.
00:14:34Oh, McFarland, I was going to say...
00:14:35Well, never mind.
00:14:36I'll ring for you later.
00:14:38I'm going to have to leave you for a little while.
00:14:41I haven't had my hair or my face done in days.
00:14:44I was thinking, Mrs. Pidgeon, the velvet robe you got for Mr. Perry.
00:14:47Could we switch that to Mr. M?
00:14:49The very thing.
00:14:50He couldn't possibly be offended at a robe.
00:14:52But we must be careful to call him Mr. Marchand and not Mr. M.
00:15:00Now, CJC, do you think Mr. M would resent it if I offered him my second best dinner jacket?
00:15:05You mean the one you've gotten too fat to wear, Willie?
00:15:09Sure, give him all that stuff.
00:15:11Make the old boy feel better.
00:15:12Splendid, splendid.
00:15:14So the man said, jump, I've got a blanket.
00:15:16And he jumped and the man didn't have any blanket at all.
00:15:18It was very amusing.
00:15:21Willie.
00:15:26Oh, you're a connoisseur, my dear sir.
00:15:29I'm afraid I can't take credit for the wine.
00:15:32I leave all the buying to McFarlane.
00:15:36You're very fortunate to have him.
00:15:48Good morning, sir.
00:15:49Good morning.
00:15:50Have you sent for me?
00:15:51Yes.
00:15:52I wanted you to know if the car is at your disposal.
00:15:55Can't make you feel that you're a prisoner here.
00:15:58And in case you go out, you need a little cash.
00:16:01No, no, no, no, no.
00:16:02You're very kind, but I couldn't possibly accept it unless you would permit me to buy a few small gifts
00:16:07for your charming wife and lovely daughters.
00:16:09Fine, fine.
00:16:10They'd get a kick out of it.
00:16:12If I am on my way to the office now, would you care to drive down with me?
00:16:18I'd be delighted to.
00:16:19Fine.
00:16:20Come right along.
00:16:38Any of the family inside?
00:16:39No.
00:16:40I'll take care of him.
00:16:41Hello.
00:16:42How do you do, sir?
00:16:45Pain.
00:16:46Very bad pain again.
00:16:48I stopped in a bar for a shot.
00:16:52Purely medicinal, of course.
00:16:54Oh, yes.
00:16:54Of course, sir.
00:16:56Purely medicinal.
00:16:57Now, you come into the library with me, sir.
00:17:00And then later, later on, I'll help you upstairs.
00:17:04That'll be very nice.
00:17:43We'll be here till now.
00:17:44Overcoat.
00:17:45Watch your help.
00:17:46I'll help you.
00:17:47The last show.
00:17:50Yes, you fix Toilet.
00:17:50Wool-ky, watch some cool thing!
00:17:50Oh my gosh.
00:17:50he was insane do you mean at his age uncle henry no no mother he hasn't even seen her since
00:17:57she was
00:17:57a child that proves he was crazy no one is going to believe he hasn't been seeing her and if
00:18:03it
00:18:04gets in the papers and mrs bates reads it oh what are the terms of the will do you know
00:18:10the lawyer
00:18:11was really a decent sort of guy and he let me copy down the most important part without all the
00:18:16whereas let it be known sir it is to the girl who played little eva in the preside production of
00:18:21uncle tom's cabin at the bijou theater pueblo colorado in 1915 i leave my entire estate with
00:18:28the exception of the following bequests one dollar to my nephew james pigeon who was married to an
00:18:34empty-headed extravagant woman and if i left him any more of my hard-earned money she'd only throw
00:18:39it away i don't think that's very nice of uncle henry silly too if he left us his money i
00:18:44wouldn't
00:18:45throw it away i'd keep it well there's some more here his foreman and his servants and that sort of
00:18:53thing when we get back to the girl i lost touch with her years ago and although she was billed
00:18:58as
00:18:58sunshine maryvale i have reason to believe her real name is watson watson no worse than sunshine maryvale
00:19:06to this end i have entrusted my attorney h.m trainer of denver to find this girl if she is
00:19:12not
00:19:12found during a search to be conducted over a reasonable length of time then my residuary
00:19:16estate shall pass without further legal steps or delay to my nephew jc pigeon of new york mr
00:19:23trainer shall be the sole executor and trustee of my estate there it is dad five million bucks
00:19:31lovable character uncle henry oh yes charming little man
00:19:36get me denver the lawyer
00:19:44i want to place a call to mr h.m trainer denver colorado the lawyer he's in the book
00:19:52jc pigeon parkway six four seven one eight turn on the christmas tree light what for
00:19:57i don't know i thought it would be more cheerful i'll do it
00:20:08yeah hello yeah all right mr trainer james pigeon speaking i've just heard the terms of my uncle's
00:20:19will yes he was a fine old man uh i admit that this whole thing is somewhat of a surprise
00:20:28uh but i want to talk to you about one of the conditions
00:20:31it says that unless the girl is found during a search
00:20:35to be conducted over a reasonable length of time
00:20:42quiet
00:20:43well is a period of time specified in the will
00:20:49oh he left that to you
00:20:52well what do you consider a reasonable length of time
00:20:57well mr trainer here it is
00:20:58i'm not quite as wealthy as my uncle thought
00:21:02successful yes
00:21:03but anyone who doesn't want five million dollars is a fool
00:21:06i don't know how you're fixed financially
00:21:09but for a consideration
00:21:10a handsome consideration
00:21:12couldn't you limit your search to a week
00:21:20right
00:21:21yes good i'll keep in touch with you
00:21:25who was it said every man has his price
00:21:28never mind who said that
00:21:29what did trainer say
00:21:31he's going to play ball
00:21:32he has to advertise but he's not going to make the will public
00:21:36simply insert notices in the papers
00:21:38without saying why the watson girl is wanted
00:21:41and he's agreed to limit the search to one week
00:21:45if she's not discovered in that time we get the money
00:21:48also he slipped me a tip
00:21:50what
00:21:50uncle henry corresponded with the girl after the show moved on
00:21:54she was so young she could hardly write
00:21:56just sent him silly little kid drawings of funny mans and stuff
00:22:01i remember when you used to do that dear
00:22:04it was so sweet
00:22:05oh mother
00:22:08what's the tip i'm getting to that the parents always added postscripts to the letters
00:22:14and from certain references made in new york the lawyer feels that if the girl is found
00:22:19it'll be here instead of out there
00:22:22well what good does that do
00:22:23i propose to find her first
00:22:25dad
00:22:26we don't want her found
00:22:28we don't want her to find out about uncle henry
00:22:30which is something quite different
00:22:35i'm thinking of poe
00:22:37poe
00:22:38edgar allen
00:22:39the purloin letter
00:22:43the last pace that anyone would look for her is right here in this house
00:22:47and we should keep the papers away from her
00:22:50good heavens
00:22:51don't swear therese
00:22:53well who wouldn't swear
00:22:54we have a charity case in the house and now a child actress
00:22:56and stephen is coming
00:22:58the charity case is your idea
00:22:59if stephen thinks it's odd
00:23:01we can whisper quietly to him that she's another one
00:23:04provided you can find her of course
00:23:06and angela doesn't get wind of it
00:23:08see that she doesn't
00:23:09you know i might be of some use in locating miss watson
00:23:12that is to say i've hung about the theater quite a bit
00:23:15stage doors you mean
00:23:17i think willie's absolutely right
00:23:19once those people start in the theater they stay with it
00:23:22how would you go about looking for her
00:23:24i would suggest that you contact the actors equity association
00:23:32if she acted as a child it'll be recorded someplace
00:23:36since all children of the theater must have court permission
00:23:40oh thank you
00:23:41in that way you can learn her first name
00:23:43and eliminate all other watsons of which undoubtedly there'll be quite a number
00:23:49may i do
00:23:50sure
00:23:50thank you
00:23:58having learned her first name you need only consult the files of actors equity and
00:24:02if she's still connected to the theater
00:24:04they will have her address
00:24:06i would be very happy to undertake this little mission for you
00:24:09if you wish
00:24:10who is this guy
00:24:12a guest
00:24:13you said something about a charity case
00:24:16i am the charity case young man
00:24:18and until this moment i've been treated with a courtesy and kindness that springs from the heart
00:24:24the pure in heart
00:24:27uh this uh plan we were discussing
00:24:30did you hear all of it
00:24:32enough to understand your motives
00:24:35and i apologize for what must seem like an act of eavesdropping
00:24:38but i was on that borderline between sleep and waking
00:24:41trying to recover from a painful seizure which overcame me this afternoon while out shopping
00:24:46for a moment or two it was impossible for me to move
00:24:49why don't you face it dad
00:24:50if we find this girl and keep her from collecting
00:24:54this charity case can live off of you for the rest of his life
00:24:57young man
00:24:58you said every man has his price
00:25:00find out his
00:25:01make a deal with him the way you did with a lawyer
00:25:04i have no misfortune
00:25:06poverty
00:25:08humiliation
00:25:10i've even known the shame of having to beg
00:25:13but i have never received such an insult
00:25:16as you have just delivered
00:25:19i have no price young man
00:25:22unless the value a man places upon his honor may be called a price and if that be so
00:25:26yes
00:25:27my price comes high for i have honor
00:25:31honor in the face of adversity
00:25:33honor in the face of death
00:25:35and though i starve
00:25:39i cannot
00:25:52this lovely girl
00:25:53this equal
00:26:11and you
00:26:12you
00:26:15and you sir
00:26:16held out a helping hand
00:26:18keep me
00:26:21holds
00:26:23warmth
00:26:28thank you pop
00:26:45boy what an exit
00:26:46you're absolutely heartless
00:26:48is that western education
00:26:50i don't think you should go on with it reggie
00:26:52it's hard and due
00:26:53hard why
00:26:54silence
00:26:55you will apologize to mr marshall and reggie
00:26:58and see to it that he stays here
00:27:00and i think we should accept his offer to help look for the watson girl
00:27:03will they can go with him tomorrow
00:27:06hello
00:27:11some rally
00:27:14farewell my child
00:27:16remember me
00:27:17you kill me
00:27:39and what do you want for christmas
00:27:41oh brother
00:27:42if you're a lady
00:27:43perhaps you're hoping that certain somebody will give you first
00:27:47you don't have to be a lady to wish for furs you dope
00:28:13hobson's wet wash
00:28:14you bring it we bring it
00:28:16i bet your partner i've dialed the wrong number
00:28:19oh hey wait a minute
00:28:21oh
00:28:22come on try it again fella
00:28:24you sounded all right
00:28:26one
00:28:27two
00:28:28two
00:28:28three
00:28:28four
00:28:29five
00:28:30oh let it be lunch instead of cocktails
00:28:33please lunch instead of cocktails
00:28:36if i eat any more peanuts i'll be hanging by my
00:28:41miss watson's apartment
00:28:43miss watson's maid speaking
00:28:45one moment please i will see
00:28:52hello
00:28:54who is this
00:28:57yes but i don't seem to remember a mr crawford
00:29:00no you wouldn't
00:29:01the fact of the matter is
00:29:03what'll i tell her
00:29:04didn't the family instruct you
00:29:06no i i suppose i had no idea that we'd find her so easily
00:29:08my word i never gave it a thought
00:29:10the fact of what matter is what
00:29:12well you see i i i discovered that we're cousins
00:29:15what
00:29:16say what kind of a gag is this
00:29:18no that was quite true miss watson
00:29:20you see the family had a phrenologist
00:29:22i mean to say a genealogist looking up our family tree
00:29:26silly and all that you know but they did yet
00:29:27and they've unearthed you
00:29:29i mean say the fact that there was a watson
00:29:31well
00:29:32and the family wants you to visit them over the holidays
00:29:34of course you have other plans
00:29:36still we thought you might see them or
00:29:38well perhaps
00:29:40well i'd like to see you
00:29:43but if you come in here with a writ brother
00:29:44there's going to be plenty of trouble
00:29:46oh i assure you
00:29:47well just come bring it if you've got it
00:29:49and let's get it over with
00:29:50but if you're a right kind of a guy
00:29:52you'll stop at the delicadecen on the corner
00:29:53and bring some lunch
00:29:54i'm hungry
00:30:03oh i say
00:30:04why you're charming
00:30:05and you're santa claus
00:30:07come on in
00:30:08thank you
00:30:11how do you do
00:30:11oh this is uh mr marchand
00:30:13how do you do
00:30:17not anthony marchand
00:30:21i'm flattered that you remember the name
00:30:22why anybody who knows show business remembers that name
00:30:27you're as kind as you're mistaken
00:30:32oh here let me help you
00:30:45now what's this cousin business
00:30:46isn't it wonderful
00:30:47i telephoned the family that i'd located you and they're delighted
00:30:50i have to bring you home with me bagging baggage
00:30:52are you kidding
00:30:53on my word ask mr m i mean mr marchand
00:30:56no no mr m is both sufficient and correct
00:30:58and lest miss watson labor under any misconceptions
00:31:01i should like to explain my connection with this happy affair
00:31:04you see miss watson i'm a charity
00:31:06oh i say do we need to i'm a charity case who's had the very great fortune to be invited
00:31:10into the pigeon household for the holidays
00:31:12the pigeon household my brother-in-law's jc pigeon
00:31:17and they want me to visit them too
00:31:18oh definitely
00:31:21they sound like nice people
00:31:24oh what fools be i in our eagerness to reach miss watson
00:31:27we forgot to buy the necessary liquids with which to wash this down
00:31:30why of course
00:31:31i uh noticed the place right next door as we hand out
00:31:34oh yeah
00:31:35do you like champagne miss watson
00:31:37oh with food i like anything
00:31:38you do
00:31:40well that's wonderful
00:31:42i'll be right back
00:31:47i should say
00:31:49look mr marchand
00:31:51i find it exceedingly pleasant
00:31:53well you're not ready for the grave yourself
00:31:55thank you
00:31:55but seriously
00:31:57we're troopers see
00:31:58we speak the same language
00:32:00and strictly between you and me
00:32:02this pigeon family is nuts
00:32:04nuts
00:32:05i know more related to them than i am to you
00:32:08you think not
00:32:09well i know darn well i'm not
00:32:11but if they think i am i'm moving in because this is a kiss from cinderella
00:32:15i own two months rent and i haven't got a bean
00:32:19i've got clothes because they're my stock in trade
00:32:21i've got three bottles of nail polish and a bottle of bleach
00:32:24and as long as they hold out so can i
00:32:26but after that
00:32:27aren't you a natural blonde
00:32:28on the mousy side
00:32:30my mother started the bleaching business when i was a kid
00:32:33because for some reason people always seem to go for blonde kids
00:32:36i used to play in stock
00:32:38really
00:32:38well
00:32:39fine training for any actor
00:32:41east lynn
00:32:42great divide
00:32:44two orphans
00:32:45uncle tom's cabin
00:32:47uncle tom's cabin
00:32:48fine training for what
00:32:50when i was five i played little eva until i was as black in the face as uncle tom
00:32:55this is what i mean
00:32:56they must have an awful lot of dough
00:32:58maybe it isn't honest when i know they've made a mistake
00:33:00and i wouldn't want you to think i'm planning to really chisel them out of anything
00:33:04i won't
00:33:05but i'd just like to sleep for a while in a bed that doesn't pull out of the wall
00:33:09and watch some servants pussyfooting around with trays of something for me
00:33:13and not jump out of my skin and try to remember my prayers every time the phone or doorbell rings
00:33:19see what i mean
00:33:23how do i look
00:33:24really like santa claus
00:33:26i bought him off a chap in the street
00:33:27he was tired and wanted to go home anyway
00:33:30merry christmas everybody
00:33:45oh
00:33:46weeeeee
00:33:47weeeeee
00:33:48should all the queensins be forgot
00:33:52and never brought too much
00:33:56just drink a cup
00:33:59But find a ship for the days of all that.
00:34:05William.
00:34:07Miss Watson, our new cousin.
00:34:09Oh, Miss Watson was so surprised at finding that she's related to you,
00:34:13that we had great trouble in persuading her to accept your invitation.
00:34:18My dear, how nice.
00:34:20I feel far too little stress is put on family in these careless days.
00:34:24Happy to meet you, Miss Watson.
00:34:25Any of my wife's relatives are welcome.
00:34:28I beg your pardon?
00:34:30It was swell of you to look me up.
00:34:32Oh, this is Therese and this is Reggie.
00:34:36And our little daughter is in bed.
00:34:38Your little daughter is neither little nor in bed.
00:34:41Then you should be.
00:34:43I expect you would like to go directly to your room.
00:34:45I'll show you up.
00:34:46James, pay the cabman.
00:34:52What in the world are you doing?
00:34:53I want my bell.
00:34:55Reggie, get Willie to bed.
00:34:57I'm afraid you're not getting a very good impression of him, Miss Watson.
00:35:00Well, he's always such a gentleman.
00:35:02He isn't the first gentleman I've seen with a snootful.
00:35:05A snootful?
00:35:08Oh, Stephen.
00:35:11What's that?
00:35:12I said, Merry Christmas.
00:35:23Thank you, McFarlane.
00:35:25This will help me sleep.
00:35:26Oh, I hope so, sir.
00:35:27I brought you some of Mr. Crawford's sleeping garments, sir.
00:35:37I've played Hamlet.
00:35:39I saw you, sir.
00:35:41In London.
00:35:42Oh, did you?
00:35:43I played Richard III.
00:35:45Macbeth.
00:35:46Henry IV.
00:35:48It took you in a great production of The Taming of the Shrew.
00:35:51And no one has equaled my death seen as Romeo.
00:35:54Yes, I even played The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
00:35:58But there's one part I've never played.
00:36:01What was that, sir?
00:36:05God.
00:36:07God, sir?
00:36:12God.
00:36:21Good morning, McFarlane.
00:36:24Good morning, sir.
00:36:27Good morning, sir.
00:36:28Come on.
00:36:55Have a lovely day.
00:36:56This is such a lovely house.
00:36:58Oh, oh, I'm glad you like it.
00:36:59I just had it done over.
00:37:01I hope you like the chinoise influence.
00:37:03The Chinese Chippendale, you know.
00:37:04Oh.
00:37:05I hope you slept well, my dear.
00:37:07On a bed like that, not even a guilty conscience could keep me awake.
00:37:10What an amusing way of phrasing it.
00:37:12What on earth is the matter with you, James?
00:37:15Oh, you look as if you were posing.
00:37:17Or had a pain.
00:37:18I'm not posing, and I have no pain. I'm thinking, and it does not cause me pain to think.
00:37:25Oh, dear, he's cross this morning. You might say good morning to Miss Watson.
00:37:28I might, if I were given the opportunity. Good morning, Miss Watson.
00:37:32Good morning.
00:37:36Husbands. James?
00:37:37What?
00:37:38Get your breakfast. There are kidneys this morning.
00:37:40I haven't finished my juice.
00:37:43Oh, those scrambled eggs look like something out of this world.
00:37:47Good morning, ladies. Mr. Pitchin, sir.
00:37:50Good morning.
00:37:51Good morning, Mr. Marchand. I hope you had a good night.
00:37:54Thank you, madam. Better than usual.
00:37:55Ah, thank you, McFarlane.
00:37:58Purely medicinal, sir.
00:38:01And how are you this morning, sir?
00:38:03Ah.
00:38:11What's the matter?
00:38:14My leg's asleep.
00:38:15Well, why don't you stand up and stomp your foot?
00:38:18I don't want to stand up and stomp my foot.
00:38:24Not at your age.
00:38:33Morning paper. I'm sitting on it. Get it when I stand up.
00:38:38All right.
00:38:38I'm sorry.
00:38:48Sit here, dear.
00:38:50Ah, you'll have to excuse me. I've received some bad news.
00:38:54James, what is it? What's happened?
00:38:56Mr. Marchand, will you come with me to the library?
00:38:59Glad to.
00:38:59Excuse me, lady.
00:39:01He's concealing something.
00:39:05Thank heavens we got out of that.
00:39:07Keep the Watson girl occupied and send Mrs. Pigeon to me in the library.
00:39:11Glad to.
00:39:22Mother, what is it? What's happened?
00:39:24Shh, darling. Father's talking to the lawyer in Denver.
00:39:27I see.
00:39:29Well, can't be helped now, I guess.
00:39:31We'll just have to hope for the best.
00:39:33What's that?
00:39:35The same to you.
00:39:37What did he say?
00:39:38Merry Christmas.
00:39:40You think he's double-crossed you, Dad?
00:39:41No, he had to file a will for probate.
00:39:44He did it quietly, but some smart reporter got wind of it.
00:39:46He was upset about it.
00:39:48He even held out hope that maybe the Watson girl was dead.
00:39:52Well, you didn't tell him.
00:39:53That she couldn't be dead and eating kidneys and bacon in my dining room?
00:39:57No.
00:39:58Well, what do we do?
00:40:00I don't know.
00:40:00We've got to get her out of town.
00:40:02Away from the newspapers and the radio.
00:40:04Where?
00:40:05How?
00:40:05If you'd only bought that place in Connecticut that I wanted last summer.
00:40:10Wait a minute.
00:40:11Wait a minute.
00:40:13There's a house that we haven't been able to even give away.
00:40:16It's about 60 miles north.
00:40:19The nearest village is five miles from it.
00:40:21No telephone.
00:40:22Here it is.
00:40:24Built in 1771.
00:40:27Additions and improvements have strictly adhered to the period...
00:40:31Oh, I don't mind that.
00:40:33Six master bedrooms.
00:40:35Can you get possession of the place?
00:40:37Well, certainly.
00:40:37All I have to do is go to the office and get the keys.
00:40:39Well, where are the owners?
00:40:41I see.
00:40:42Yeah.
00:40:42House has remained possession of the same family.
00:40:46The only surviving heir is Lady Allensby, now residing in England.
00:40:52Well, that sounds like the place.
00:40:54But how will we explain the sudden move to Miss Watson?
00:40:56And Stephen.
00:40:58What am I going to tell him?
00:41:00Oh, I wish I were dead.
00:41:03What will we tell them?
00:41:05We've made such elaborate plans here for Christmas.
00:41:08There's sure to think such a sudden change.
00:41:10Odd, at least.
00:41:12Well, give me time.
00:41:14I'll think of something.
00:41:15Oh, yes, and order me one of those tall things that Mr. M has for breakfast.
00:41:28Would you put him on a chair yourself, please, sir?
00:41:30My hands are all grubby.
00:41:32And only yesterday I had myself all done up for Christmas.
00:41:35And now I can't spend it with my boyfriend.
00:41:37And it's cruel.
00:41:39Cruel!
00:41:49Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:41:50I'm sorry.
00:41:51It's all right.
00:41:53Yeah.
00:42:01I beg your pardon, sir.
00:42:26Oh, hello.
00:42:27I guess you're the boyfriend from Boston.
00:42:29Oh, Therese and Mrs. Pidgeon will be down in a minute.
00:42:31In the meantime...
00:42:32Make yourself at home.
00:42:36Oh, my dear boy.
00:42:38Such a dreadful reception.
00:42:40But have you heard?
00:42:41A dear aunt of Mr. Pidgeon's has just passed away.
00:42:44And he insists on spending Christmas in her old house in the country.
00:42:49It's been in the family for generations.
00:42:52Holds memories, you know.
00:42:54But it's so tiresome for you.
00:42:56Oh, not at all.
00:42:57And I am sorry to hear it.
00:42:58But I'm afraid this is no time for me to be intruding.
00:43:00Oh, no, no.
00:43:01It isn't as if she were here and we had to go to a funeral.
00:43:05She passed away in South America.
00:43:07It's just, well, shall we call it a sentimental pilgrimage.
00:43:12Have you met Mr. Pidgeon?
00:43:14Or is he here?
00:43:17Unless...
00:43:19Oh, dear, no.
00:43:20That's Mr. M.
00:43:21I mean Mr. Marchand.
00:43:23He's a charity case.
00:43:25We always have charity in the house at Christmas.
00:43:28I understand your dear mother is an advocate of the same idea.
00:43:32Yes, she is.
00:43:34Oh.
00:43:35Well.
00:43:37There's no use my showing you two a room.
00:43:39We are going to start very shortly.
00:43:42So, will you just make yourself comfortable and I'll send today's along.
00:43:45I'm afraid she's taking longer than usual to dress.
00:43:55Oh, you little fiend.
00:43:56This is blackmail.
00:43:57Well, it's no worse than what you're doing to the Watson woman.
00:44:00You're so clever.
00:44:01I'm not as stupid as she is, apparently.
00:44:03And I'd like that black velvet evening gown you just bought.
00:44:05It makes your skin look sallow.
00:44:07Oh.
00:44:07Don't swear, sister darling.
00:44:09You know mother doesn't approve.
00:44:10And the elegant Mr. Bates and his mother.
00:44:12Oh, they'd be shattered.
00:44:16Oh, she knows.
00:44:17Who?
00:44:18Angela.
00:44:18She's known all along.
00:44:19Overheard the whole thing.
00:44:20I thought you meant Miss Watson.
00:44:22Well, it amounts to the same thing, unless you can make her promise to keep quiet.
00:44:25Where is Angela now?
00:44:26In there, stripping me of my wardrobe.
00:44:28Oh, mother, if you have any love for me, talk her out of that evening gown.
00:44:31Well, she's apt to show up in it at dinner and heaven knows what Steven will think.
00:44:36Heaven only knows what he's going to think anyway.
00:44:38Mother, this family is absolutely insane.
00:44:40I know, dear.
00:44:42I know.
00:44:44Oh, dear.
00:44:47Oh, dear.
00:44:48Oh, dear.
00:44:49Oh, dear.
00:44:51Oh, dear.
00:44:55Darling.
00:44:57Oh, Steven.
00:44:59I'm so sorry.
00:45:00All the lovely things we planned.
00:45:02The theater and the dancing and...
00:45:05Well, just being with you.
00:45:07Oh, dear.
00:45:08Oh, dear.
00:45:13We'll be together, if you want me to stay.
00:45:17And there'll be years ahead of us in which to do the other things.
00:45:22Yes, Steven.
00:45:23If you say so.
00:45:49The
00:45:50MFARLAND.
00:45:53McFarlane!
00:45:55Why haven't they built the fires?
00:45:58It's as cold as a refrigerator in here.
00:46:02Uh-oh. A Christmas present from the servants.
00:46:05What is it?
00:46:06Everybody braced brave and smiling?
00:46:08They've quit.
00:46:09What? Dear sir,
00:46:12it is my painful duty to inform you
00:46:14that the entire staff has struck.
00:46:17And since my accomplishments
00:46:18do not include cooking
00:46:20and building of fires,
00:46:22I am also regretfully
00:46:24tendering my resignation.
00:46:27Respectfully, McFarlane.
00:46:29His accomplishments.
00:46:31Well, there's a postscript.
00:46:33Please tell Mr. Marchand
00:46:35I am sorry I shan't be here
00:46:36to look after him. So I'm including
00:46:38the recipe for his morning drink.
00:46:40Your recipe, sir.
00:46:42Thank you. What'll we do?
00:46:44I haven't the faintest idea.
00:46:45Oh.
00:46:50What was this? The torture chamber?
00:46:52Oh, a loom for making rugs.
00:46:57Your father's great-great-grandmother
00:46:59made that very rug you're standing on.
00:47:03Really?
00:47:04I wish the old girl had made it a bit thicker.
00:47:07I'd feel the cold coming up to the soles of my shoes.
00:47:10It's easy to see why the cook left.
00:47:13Look. Look at my things.
00:47:16After all my work.
00:47:18Call an agency.
00:47:19There is no telephone.
00:47:21Then let Stephen or Reggie drive you into the village we passed.
00:47:24Surely we can get local help of some kind.
00:47:27I will not have any local help in this house.
00:47:31No.
00:47:32You seem to forget that I was reared here.
00:47:34Oh, Pidgey.
00:47:36How do you think I'd feel if the cook turned out to be some girl I went to school with?
00:47:40Or the butler, the president of my debating team?
00:47:45If you were on a debating team, I'm sure you were the president.
00:47:51Still, I get your point.
00:47:53What do you suggest?
00:47:55You used to be able to cook.
00:47:56Why don't you try it again?
00:47:58On that thing?
00:48:00I've cooked on everything from a gas jet to an electric grill smuggled in past the landlady.
00:48:04Let's take a crack at it, Mrs. Pidgeon.
00:48:06If some of these able-bodied guys will scare up some wood.
00:48:10That's the spirit.
00:48:11I'll get some.
00:48:12Oh, me too.
00:48:13Where's it stored?
00:48:14In the shed out back.
00:48:16Well, there's no fuel like an old fuel.
00:48:18Do forgive me for bringing this up, Mr. M. Marchand.
00:48:23We know you've worked at being a night watchman.
00:48:26I just wondered if you've had any experience with furnaces.
00:48:30Well, no.
00:48:31Not in a professional capacity.
00:48:33But I'd be delighted to try my hand at it.
00:48:44How's this?
00:48:45That's swell.
00:48:47Oh, dear.
00:48:48What's the matter besides everything?
00:48:50I just remembered that factory that burned to the ground.
00:48:53What factory?
00:48:54The last place Mr. M worked.
00:48:57I suppose he had nothing to do with the fire, poor soul.
00:49:00But I just asked him to try and start a fire in the furnace.
00:49:04You better go down and stay with him, will he?
00:49:06Well, where is it?
00:49:07In the basement.
00:49:23Come over here, my friend.
00:49:26Brandy.
00:49:28Bottled when we were mere children.
00:49:30My first impulse, of course, was to take it upstairs since everybody is cold and slightly depressed.
00:49:35I have also been informed that no supply at all has been brought.
00:49:38What?
00:49:39Christmas notwithstanding.
00:49:40That's terrible.
00:49:41It seems Captain Bates does not approve.
00:49:43And I had him sized up as a regular fellow.
00:49:45Let's take it up anyway.
00:49:46The rest of them could use it.
00:49:50On the other hand, wouldn't it be cruelly unkind to raise their hopes and then find upon opening the bottom
00:49:56that it had been ruined by age?
00:49:57Oh, but age improved.
00:49:59We should sample it first.
00:50:00Well, perhaps it would be, as you say, kinder infinitely.
00:50:03Now, over there is what was undoubtedly the caretaker's room.
00:50:08In it you may find some glasses.
00:50:33What do you think?
00:50:34I seem to detect a slightly exaggerated flavour of age.
00:50:37We shouldn't have drunk it so fast.
00:50:39Let's go slow on the next one.
00:50:40You know, we're supposed to be building a fire.
00:50:43Oh, yes.
00:50:43And so we shall.
00:50:48Oh, look.
00:50:50McFarlane, the benign soul, has already laid it.
00:50:53Now, all we need is kerosene to start it.
00:50:56Do you think it's safe?
00:50:57Certainly.
00:50:59Only way to start a fire.
00:51:03Uh, that fire you were in, you know how it started?
00:51:10They never found out.
00:51:12Sabotage?
00:51:13Oh, no.
00:51:14Oh, no.
00:51:14That isn't likely.
00:51:15It was a mattress factory.
00:51:20If you are ever homeless, which I sincerely hope you never will be and have no place to sleep,
00:51:25I cannot recommend too highly the job of night watchman in a mattress factory.
00:51:31I'll be all right.
00:51:33Their slogan was, sink down on a downy mattress.
00:51:37I did it.
00:51:40Now, I'm morally certain I extinguished that cigarette before dropping off.
00:51:47But when I woke up, I was surrounded by a wall of fire.
00:51:53So I understand.
00:52:06You shouldn't have closed the door.
00:52:08But there's a fire, my dear sir.
00:52:11Don't call me sir anymore.
00:52:13Just call me Willie.
00:52:16Willie.
00:52:18Is there something I can do to help you?
00:52:21I'll say.
00:52:22Here's a flock of potatoes you can peel.
00:52:23Oh, you peel the potatoes, kid.
00:52:25Your mother and Therese can be doing something else.
00:52:27Kid, did you say?
00:52:29Yeah.
00:52:29Everybody else around here is trying to act like a good sport.
00:52:32I thought you might like to join the procession.
00:52:34How utterly mother's little helper and all that sort of thing.
00:52:37I'm afraid processions bore me.
00:52:38And I've never peeled a potato in my life.
00:52:41And I've seen days when I didn't have one to peel.
00:52:44Let's both peel them, darling, and I'll show you how.
00:52:47You know, when your father and I were first married, I had to learn how to cook.
00:52:51He wasn't wealthy then.
00:52:53In fact, we had some hard times at first.
00:52:56How touching.
00:52:57Why didn't you move in here with his aunt?
00:52:59She was always so fond of him.
00:53:11It's none of my business, but give me five minutes a day with that kid in a locked room and
00:53:14I'd show you something.
00:53:16What do you mean?
00:53:16I'd wail the living daylights out of her.
00:53:19Oh, I've seen plenty of them like that in show business.
00:53:22They come in acting like they own the earth.
00:53:25Nine times out of ten is just because they're young and scared to death they aren't going to make good.
00:53:29And most of them don't make good.
00:53:31And if you're an old hand at the business, you know they won't.
00:53:33And there are plenty of tough times ahead.
00:53:36But if they've learned to be regular, they'll be able to take it better when the bad breaks start coming.
00:53:40So, you gang up on them, give them a silent treatment for a while or a good going over and...
00:53:58Why, Mrs. Pigeon.
00:54:02Oh, that's the trouble with me. I talk too much.
00:54:07And I forgot for a minute that she was your kid and how you must love her.
00:54:11That's not why I'm crying.
00:54:15Well, then what was it?
00:54:17Was it something else I did?
00:54:19No. Oh, no. It just...
00:54:22Oh, you're just tired, that's what, and all upset.
00:54:26You worked like a dog to have a nice Christmas in town and that was spoiled.
00:54:30And then you came up here and everything went wrong.
00:54:33I think you've been swell about it.
00:54:35And we still have tomorrow.
00:54:37We can whip this joint into shape.
00:54:39We can get another tree even if we have to cut it down.
00:54:42And we can trim it in the old-fashioned way with cranberries and popcorn.
00:54:45I had one like that once.
00:54:47My mother fixed it up for me in some crummy old hotel room
00:54:50when we were on the road with Uncle Tom's cabin.
00:54:53And it looked just as elegant to me as that one you have at home in the library.
00:55:03Is there anything wrong?
00:55:07She's tired and I'd blab my mouth off.
00:55:11Mrs. Pidgeon, may I suggest that you go and lie down for a while?
00:55:19what else, yes, man?
00:55:20What is Angela doing?
00:55:22Endeavoring to make a rock.
00:55:25Make a rock?
00:55:33Holy mackerel!
00:55:46ah my admiration for you grows with every passing moment well wait until you've tasted it i haven't
00:55:52the faintest idea what the results will be will you lift one of those lids for me
00:56:18you won't find her she ain't been here for two days i tell you
00:56:28is this a picture of her all right if you hear from her she shows don't waste any time calling
00:56:35this number
00:56:37here
00:56:50oh they made her a grave too cold and damp for a soul
00:56:59so warm and true and she's gone to the lake of the dismal swamp where all night long by a
00:57:13firefly lamp
00:57:25with sacrifice before the rising morn vows have i made by fruitless hope inspired celestial pity
00:57:37i again implore restore him to my sight refill on the flannels flannels she calls them my word not
00:57:48that those are the best hot cakes i ever tasted swell they're made strictly by the i wonder what else
00:57:54goes in method maybe i ought to patent it huh you do and i'll fight at you
00:58:06well how are you doing watch oh wherever did you learn to do that oh a man in the show
00:58:13window of a grill
00:58:14taught me you mean you went in and practiced with him certainly he said i was a good draw crowd
00:58:19for lucky to know time she must be a throwback are we going to get the tree if mr pigeon
00:58:27doesn't
00:58:27object i want to do my invitation of george washington use my little hatchet nobody's going
00:58:32to cut down any tree on this property don't tell me aunt carolyn planted them with her own hands
00:58:38yes she was very fond of trees and now that she's gone i we're going to have a tree
00:58:45every year we have the same old thing covered with fancy ornaments and i'm sick and tired of it
00:58:50i've never seen one done with cranberries and popcorn like miss watson had and i want to
00:58:53and i found a perfectly slick thing to make the popcorn and i'm afraid that's a bed warmer dear
00:58:59well i don't care if it's a 16th century flyswatter i'm going to use it and don't misunderstand me
00:59:04i wouldn't think of doing anything so childish as popping corn merely to eat it but if it's going
00:59:08to be put to some use that's different miss watson's going to show me how to string this stuff
00:59:12and so we're going to have a tree brother what i started and what you started i can finish cousin
00:59:19florida
00:59:25i tell you i don't know he merely said he was going to show a client a house in the
00:59:29country
00:59:29don't you keep your keys labeled certainly then we can check the keys still in the office against
00:59:35your list of properties you could but you aren't going to and if you don't leave i'm going to call
00:59:39the police i wouldn't unless you want to get your employer in a worse jam that he's in already
00:59:46well even if you had the right to pry into our files i i haven't the time i look miss
00:59:51tate
00:59:51it may be christmas eve to you but to us it's just tuesday take your time we've got all day
01:00:13you're very quiet mr marshall
01:00:20i'm watching a scene from the past it is so indelibly stamped upon the memory of this house
01:00:25that a reenactment was inevitable i don't get it observe
01:00:36take it easy goon i'm out on a limb i'm doing it on purpose it's my time to trim
01:00:41i see a young girl stripped of all artifice working in chiding harmony with a older brother
01:00:46who's cut down a christmas tree surely that is not new to this room
01:00:51there's the father dozing by the fire
01:00:58we'll awaken soon refreshed peaceful it is to be hoped and undoubtedly hungry
01:01:06there's a girl her fingers busy with a needle the man who loves her sitting beside her
01:01:19the man who loves her sitting beside her sitting beside her sitting beside her sitting beside her
01:01:22and where does willie fit in willie my friend willie
01:01:30in the older picture he was a country bumpkin the not too bright but quite amiable uncle destined
01:01:38to never quite find his way and died as happily as he had lived and mrs pigeon
01:01:46mrs oh
01:01:50i don't know what came over me but i made some cookies i do believe they're not going to drop
01:01:55what's well hand me up sir what's that cookies give me some i'm starved
01:02:01my puppets are working at such perfection they should be rewarded
01:02:05i shall now go down to the furnace and see to it the baby kept warm
01:02:32who is it
01:02:32visitors with flat feet detectives do they see you afraid so
01:02:39play some music do something make all the noise you can and keep miss watson out of sight
01:02:46i'll try and get rid of them
01:02:56come in gentlemen are you mr pigeon pigeon pigeon what isn't this the allensby place
01:03:02well it belongs uh uh to my aunt mrs uh uh carpet toria carpet toria yes carpenteria you see uh
01:03:12she is uh a descendant of gene carpenteria one of our earliest settlers wonderful old house isn't it he built
01:03:19it in 1671 of course the additions and improvements have adhered strictly to the period and enhanced rather than detracted
01:03:29from its authenticity it's really a remarkable
01:03:31example we aren't interested in houses we aren't interested in houses oh no no we have reason to believe there's
01:03:38a miss watson here with a mr pigeon
01:03:39james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james
01:03:49james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james
01:04:05james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james
01:04:06james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james
01:04:07james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james james
01:04:07james james james james james james james james james james j
01:04:18oh wonderful thanks old boy yeah were you speaking to me yeah what's your name it ain't kid
01:04:26hey the guy with the limp did i understand you correctly yeah i guess you did didn't you and a
01:04:34miss watson helped deliver a drunk to a mr pigeon's house in new york the other night
01:04:38i am not acquainted with the people you have mentioned nor do i approve of drunks and i find
01:04:45it bitter indeed that a man who has been crippled in the opening up of new frontiers in the service
01:04:49of humanity should be referred to as the guy with a limp good day gentlemen oh i'm so sorry but
01:04:57the
01:04:57professor is always upset when his affliction is mentioned it reminds him of tibet tibet you know
01:05:04tigers yeah well uh i guess we got a bum steer someplace i'm sorry to bother you it's perfectly all
01:05:13right
01:05:26think we were taken yeah for a sleigh ride that fat guy was scared now lay you ten to one
01:05:32he was
01:05:32lying what are we gonna do next we can't go busting in there again without a search warrant
01:05:37we're gonna try and get one
01:05:49where did you find it
01:05:58you may have the goblet my dear i'll use the bottle
01:06:01no thanks no thanks
01:06:09it's none of my business mr marchand but why don't you cut this out when you speak of spirits my
01:06:17dear
01:06:17speak reverently
01:06:22all right that's the way it is but i wanted to talk to you about something something serious and
01:06:29why not a serious mood seems to have invaded this house today or no we are the invaders
01:06:38the mood belongs to the house you say things in a way that
01:06:46that proves i'm right in what i was thinking
01:06:51what were you thinking
01:06:54about you
01:06:55you told me something today maybe it was in confidence
01:07:07some money on you
01:07:15i didn't think mrs pigeon had that much humor in her makeup
01:07:18oh she didn't say the part about the drinking i did
01:07:23from you it has less humor
01:07:26yes it has
01:07:29oh i'm probably doing this all wrong the way i do everything
01:07:32but here it is for what it's worth
01:07:36i don't think you need money
01:07:38so much as you need to get back where you belong
01:07:40not the theater my dear
01:07:42well why not it's all you've ever known
01:07:46and you're every bit as good today as you were when you were on top
01:07:49thank you
01:07:50but there's a vast multitude made up of producers spectators actors
01:07:56that do not share your opinion
01:07:59so without doing anything about it you join the multitude
01:08:01that's right
01:08:04gee you sound as if you are actually sincere about all this
01:08:07i'm sincere in everything i do right or wrong
01:08:10just a dumb dame
01:08:12probably more sincere when i'm way off on the wrong foot
01:08:16but i've been watching you
01:08:18and i know one thing
01:08:20you're acting all the time anyway
01:08:23so why not put it to some good advantage
01:08:26maybe not as an actor
01:08:28but with mr pigeon's money behind you
01:08:30you could produce or direct
01:08:37i got mixed up in the summer theater once
01:08:40the kids that try out for that really try
01:08:45they're so young and so anxious it hurts
01:08:49but gee
01:08:51if you directed them
01:08:53gave them the benefit of your experience and ability
01:08:57and one or two of them should hit
01:09:00i think you'd get an awful wallop out of it
01:09:03wouldn't you
01:09:07wouldn't you
01:09:12i've never heard so many cliches spoken with such unconscious sweetness
01:09:17i don't know what the devil you're talking about
01:09:19i'm sorry i don't know what you're talking about
01:09:21i have a vague idea you want me to stop drinking
01:09:24and open a theater with mr pigeon's money
01:09:27it's not a theater a summer theater
01:09:29here in the barn
01:09:32here
01:09:33in the barn
01:09:36the barn on this place
01:09:38sure
01:09:39mr pigeon thought so much of his aunt
01:09:41he'd want to hang on to it for sentimental reasons
01:09:43but he might let you use the barn
01:10:19i did
01:10:22i
01:10:22i
01:10:26i
01:10:28don't know
01:10:29i
01:10:31i
01:10:32i
01:10:33i
01:10:34i
01:10:38ou
01:10:43when do the services start as soon as they bring in the body i guess what's the matter with
01:11:00oh mother stop trying this is ghastly and you know it how about opening our presents
01:11:05we did we'd have nothing to do tomorrow oh we'll have plenty to do tomorrow we have a turkey and
01:11:11a
01:11:11suckling pig to cook and all i know about either of them is that the turkey's supposed to be stuffed
01:11:15and the pig arrives with an apple in its mouth oh dear oh what are you doing nothing dear nothing
01:11:24you are too you're spoiling the effect i stack every one of those presents and i want them left
01:11:28as they are angela please oh i i'm terribly sorry about your present miss watson
01:11:36why that's all right mrs pigeon i didn't expect one i have nothing for you either i wish i had
01:11:54i have six presents for terace and she only has five for me i'll give you the six miss watson
01:12:00it'll serve her right because i really shopped for her all she did was leave it up to mother to
01:12:03get
01:12:04me what i wanted i bet you five dollars doesn't even know what she's giving me angela so help me
01:12:08out
01:12:24they're coming here a whole sleigh full
01:12:31oh heavens they're going to sing
01:12:36island night
01:12:40holy night
01:12:45all is calm
01:12:50all is bright
01:12:56round yon virgin
01:13:01mother and child
01:13:08holy infant so tender and mild
01:13:25he's
01:13:27he's
01:13:28he knew
01:13:35she's
01:13:37you
01:13:42Oh
01:14:27Oh
01:14:37Well don't we give them some
01:14:39Nothing or some money
01:14:40I'll take care of it
01:14:42Want to go ready?
01:14:42Yeah
01:14:54I've heard them in the city but
01:14:56It isn't quite the same is it?
01:15:00Nothing will ever be quite the same for any of us
01:15:03After tonight
01:15:06Those voices tell us that there's still left in some the belief in God
01:15:13I haven't the effrontery to speak of God
01:15:16So I would instead remind you of a moving tale of simple people
01:15:22The Christmas Carol of Mr. Dickens
01:15:26You remember?
01:15:27Of course
01:15:29How much do you remember?
01:15:32That there was a little boy who was crippled
01:15:35And the sophisticated no doubt gags over his name
01:15:40Tiny Tim
01:15:41And of course you remember the three spirits
01:15:44The spirit of Christmas past
01:15:47Of Christmas present
01:15:49And of the Christmas to come
01:15:51And when Scrooge beheld the last of these
01:15:55The spirit of Christmas to come
01:15:57He pled with the spirit
01:15:59To tell him if it were too late to alter it
01:16:03You remember all that?
01:16:06Vaguely
01:16:07Oh
01:16:10Vaguely
01:16:12Well
01:16:15In that case
01:16:16You may have forgotten that a ghost preceded the three spirits
01:16:22Well
01:16:24Most of us forget that because it pleases us to forget what we don't like
01:16:28But
01:16:30There was a ghost named Molly
01:16:33And he had once been a man
01:16:36A partner of Scrooge
01:16:39Do you recall?
01:16:41No
01:16:42But I think
01:16:43Good
01:16:44Let us think of the ghost of Molly
01:16:47Mr. Marchand is enacting the Christmas Carol for us
01:16:50Oh, that's quite appropriate
01:16:52Carry on Mr. M.
01:16:54I want to hear more about the ghost of Molly
01:17:00The chains
01:17:09That he was forced to drag along with him in
01:17:15I have to clunk
01:17:30I have to clunk
01:17:31I have to clunk
01:17:31You mean clunk, don't you?
01:17:34I do mean clunk, my dear
01:17:36Thank you for reminding me
01:17:38Uh, shall we go for a walk?
01:17:40Yes, let's
01:17:41Bully idea
01:17:41Go for a walk
01:17:43All of you
01:17:45I will stay here
01:17:47And while you're gone I will keep on talking
01:17:50I will speak of Molly's ghost
01:17:54And the words will be held here within these walls for others who may come refuse to listen like you
01:17:59and go on
01:18:01I will ask again what Scrooge asked of Molly
01:18:03Why are you fed up?
01:18:06And Molly will answer
01:18:08I wear the chain I forged in life
01:18:13I made it link by link and yard by yard
01:18:17I girded it on of my own free will
01:18:22And of my own free will I wore it
01:18:28Is it's pattern strange to you?
01:18:31And Molly will say again
01:18:33It is required of every man that the spirit within him walk among his fellow men
01:18:39And if that spirit goes not forth in life
01:18:43It is condemned to do so after death
01:18:49It is doomed to wander through the world and witness what it can no longer share
01:18:54But might have shared in life and turned to happiness
01:18:58Go then
01:19:00Go now
01:19:01Miss Watson here has told you of a Christmas in the past
01:19:06This is the present
01:19:07There'll be others but you, you, you, all of you will remember this one
01:19:13And sometime like Scrooge confronted with the spirit of Christmas to come
01:19:18Will sweat and tremble as the spirit points down to the grave which bears your name
01:19:26You, like Scrooge, will cry, Spirit, hear me
01:19:29I am no longer the man I was
01:19:32I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year
01:19:36I will live in the past, the present, and the future
01:19:40I will not shut out the lessons that they teach
01:19:44So tell me I may sponge away the writings on this stone
01:19:49James has always been a good man
01:19:52In his agony Scrooge caught the spectral hand
01:19:56It tried to free itself
01:19:57But Scrooge was strong in his entreaty and detained it
01:20:01Look here, Mr. Marshall
01:20:02Holding up his hand in a last prayer to have his fate reversed
01:20:06He suddenly saw a change in the phantom's hood and dress
01:20:11It shrunk, collapsed, and dwindled down into a bedpost
01:20:21You know, I could use one myself
01:20:25What?
01:20:27A bedpost
01:20:29Oh dear, oh dear, how perfectly dreadful
01:20:32Oh, it's all right, Mommy, he's just passed out
01:20:35Oh, Reggie, you haven't called me Mom for years
01:20:39Just slipped out, I guess
01:20:40Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Mrs. Pidgeon
01:20:43Why should you be? You didn't
01:20:45I know, oh no, I don't know
01:20:48And I'm not as good as Mr. Marshall when it comes to explaining things
01:20:51But I have a funny feeling I belong to him
01:20:53To his world, his way of living, I mean
01:20:57What I'm getting at is, you people have been kind to us
01:21:00You've done your best to be decent and show us a good time
01:21:03And for thanks, you've had to suffer an embarrassing scene
01:21:06You don't know what he was trying to do
01:21:07Oh, no, I know what he did to me
01:21:09He made me want to get something off my conscience
01:21:12I'm here under false pretenses and I know it
01:21:15I'm not related to you and I know it
01:21:17I knew it when I accepted the invitation
01:21:19But I was flat, Mrs. Pidgeon, really flat
01:21:22You mean broke?
01:21:24You people don't understand what it is to be like that
01:21:27But when Willie showed up saying you thought we were cousins
01:21:31I said, hooray, let him think
01:21:34And then I met you
01:21:35And you were so nice to me that I got to feeling ashamed
01:21:39Oh, I meant to check out right after the holidays
01:21:41But until this happened, I was having an awfully nice time
01:21:44It's been fun cooking with you, trimming the tree and just being with you
01:21:50And I didn't feel as if I were cheating you out of too much
01:21:56Listen, I'm a brat
01:21:57I've even worked at being one because I thought it was smart
01:22:00But if I'm a real brat, I want to say that I think it's because I was born in this
01:22:04family
01:22:05Are you going to keep on doing what you've been doing and not tell her?
01:22:08After the way she's acted and the things she's just told you?
01:22:11Because if you are, I don't want to be a part of you anymore
01:22:13And I'm going to- Wait a minute, baby
01:22:15And don't call me baby
01:22:16Mr. M was right when he said nothing would ever be quite the same after tonight
01:22:20I know I won't
01:22:21And Angela's shown she's learned something
01:22:24You can count me in too, sis
01:22:26I was getting kind of tired of college anyway
01:22:29What about a dad?
01:22:31Mother, James
01:22:32Miss Watson has made a pathetically innocent confession
01:22:35When you consider what we have in our conscience
01:22:38Well, whether or not we tell her, I have to tell Steven
01:22:41And that means more to me than the loss of money
01:22:44Therese, what's this all about?
01:22:46Listen here, mister, I mean Captain
01:22:48This is something I'd like to know myself
01:22:50Go ahead, Therese
01:22:53Tell her
01:22:56I don't know whether I'm telling this to Steven or to you
01:22:58But we've been cheating you, at least trying to cheat you out of an awful lot of money
01:23:03Five million bucks
01:23:05I thought you people were really getting worked up about something for a minute
01:23:08But it's okay, if this is the kind of games you play on Christmas Eve
01:23:12I can take it, charades you call it, don't you?
01:23:15It's true, we did it
01:23:17I'm telling you, five million bucks
01:23:21Sorry, Miss Watson
01:23:22I'm not, I'm glad
01:23:24And I hope we can do this again next year
01:23:29It's all right, darling, it's all right
01:23:31Would anybody mind if I loved you and your family?
01:23:34Would anybody mind telling me if we have any nutmeg in this silly house?
01:23:37I am making Tom and Jerry's
01:23:45Thank you
01:23:48Hold her hand, someone
01:23:49She's pinching herself black and blue
01:23:52Don't, it feels good
01:23:54Oh, I'm so glad we did it
01:23:56May I make a toast?
01:23:58You're the guest of honor
01:23:59Thanks
01:24:01To that famous gentleman and sterling actor
01:24:04Who took the count instead of waiting for the bows
01:24:07Mr. M
01:24:08Mr. M
01:24:14Mr. Pigeon, sir, and his dear lady
01:24:16I realize that my behavior last night was inexorable
01:24:19How she uses dollar words?
01:24:21Taste, and I wish to apologize
01:24:23I also beg your forgiveness for this seemingly ungracious departure
01:24:27But my gratitude for the helping hand you extended to me in my hour of need
01:24:31Bids me remain loyal to you, even though my sympathies are with the admirable Miss Watson
01:24:37Unfortunately, I have formed a deep attachment for her
01:24:41Well, anyway, he wishes you a Merry Christmas and he's gone
01:24:44Well, doesn't he say where?
01:24:45Oh, how did he leave?
01:24:47Oh, dear, James, you must find him
01:24:50How far is the nearest town?
01:24:52Five miles
01:24:52Is there a bar there?
01:24:54Yes
01:24:55Somebody drive me
01:25:07I read your note
01:25:09Oh
01:25:10Did you mean what you said?
01:25:13About liking me?
01:25:16Is it possible that such a thing could be of interest to you?
01:25:20I'm here
01:25:23You are? I'm glad
01:25:25Will you join me?
01:25:26Oh, you were great last night
01:25:29But you missed the climax
01:25:31They told me about the money
01:25:36Well...
01:25:37Well, is that all you have to say?
01:25:39What else is there to say for me except that I'm money?
01:25:42I'm cutting them in
01:25:44After all, I don't even remember the old guy that left it to me
01:25:47Bless him forever
01:25:49I like the pigeons
01:26:09I'm not knowing him
01:26:09And I'm just going to stop
01:26:09You know what?
01:26:09I loved it
01:26:10I remember
01:26:10I love it
01:26:12I'm shaking
01:26:12And I just like this
01:26:13You know what?
01:26:13I like this
01:26:13You know what?
01:26:29You
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