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00:00THE END
00:08Come on, train's coming.
00:09Yeah, I heard it.
00:11Swimming in the water tower again, weren't you?
00:14Yes.
00:15Someday, that train's gonna sneak in,
00:17drain out all the water before you can get out,
00:20and leave you high, dry, and bare.
00:23Gee, Mom, it's hot.
00:24Where else can we swim?
00:26Don't worry about that, girls.
00:27I got plans for a big swimming pool.
00:30We're gonna put it right out here in front.
00:32A swimming pool?
00:34Olympic-sized, Kate.
00:35And in the wintertime, we'll turn it into a skating rink.
00:38It'll give the hotel class.
00:40Uncle Joe, with business as slow as it is,
00:43we're losing money now.
00:44I know we are.
00:45But with a swimming pool and a skating rink,
00:47we can raise the rates.
00:52Going to Hooterville, Kate?
00:54Give you a free ride.
00:55Oh, yeah, Charlie, be right there.
00:57What's the matter?
00:58You hear something?
00:59The cannonballs are wheezing this morning.
01:02Everything all right, Charlie?
01:03Yeah.
01:04She's just getting a little old like the rest of us.
01:07I wonder what kind of engines they're running on the main line now.
01:10I wouldn't know, Floyd.
01:12It must be 20 years since we've seen the main line.
01:14Yeah, you reckon they'll ever put that trestle back up so we can get there?
01:18No.
01:18Floyd, if you ask me, the folks have forgotten all about us back at the CNFW.
01:27Gentlemen, this supercharged diesel locomotive is now standard equipment on the entire CNFW system.
01:34Five short years ago, you brought me out here from the East to do a job for you.
01:40Well, gentlemen, I think you'll agree that today we have the most modern, the most progressive, the most...
01:53What is that?
01:56Looks like a branch line.
01:57Branch line to where?
01:59For what?
02:00That doesn't even connect to the main line.
02:02I'll check into it.
02:03Well, fast.
02:04You charter a plane to this town of Hooterville and ride that branch to the end of the line.
02:08I want a complete report.
02:09Right away.
02:10Well, gentlemen, Mr. Bedlow here is flying out to Hooterville to look into a branch line.
02:16Morning, boys.
02:17Hi, Charlie.
02:18Hi, Charlie.
02:19Sorry to keep you waiting.
02:20Well, it's all right.
02:21We're in no hurry.
02:22Uh-huh.
02:23Kate, should I put on my conductor suit, or is it just home folks getting on?
02:27Just home folks, Floyd.
02:29Well, in that case...
02:36Drop us off at Drucker's tour, will you, Charlie?
02:38All right.
02:39Come on.
02:40Hey, Charlie.
02:42I'd go along, too, but I'm afraid with one more passenger, the old Hooterville meatball
02:46couldn't make the grade.
02:48That's cannonball.
02:49Come on, Charlie.
02:51Kate's in a hurry to get to Hooterville.
02:53She is?
02:54Well, in that case, I better go tell her to get off of this thing and start walking.
02:58Don't pay any attention to him, Charlie.
03:11Come on.
03:12Bye, Kate.
03:15Bye, girls.
03:20Bye, Kate.
03:21Have a good time in Hooterville.
03:34Hey!
03:35They didn't stop.
03:37They overshot the station.
03:39Oh, they didn't.
03:40They'll stop down at the general store.
03:43General store?
03:44But the station's up here.
03:46Yeah, but they're letting Kate and her girls off to do their shopping.
03:50Oh, in the blue blazes is Kate.
03:52Runs the hotel between her and Pixley.
03:55Well, you must be from a long ways off.
03:57You ain't never heard of Kate Bradley and her girls.
04:03Hi, Mrs. Bradley.
04:04Hello, Herbie.
04:04Hi, Herbie.
04:05Hi, Herbie.
04:07Hi, Herbie.
04:08Hi, Billy.
04:11Herbie, we don't want to keep the train waiting too long.
04:13Yes, Mrs. Bradley.
04:15I've already got some of your regular order ready in the back.
04:17We figured you'd begin today.
04:18Come on, girls.
04:19Let's get busy.
04:21Are they just gonna park there and wait while that woman does her shopping?
04:25They usually do.
04:26The boys are real fond of Kate.
04:28But what do the boys think they're operating?
04:30A train or a taxi?
04:32Well, a little of both, I reckon.
04:37When I get through, it won't be either one.
04:40I'll melt that thing down for paperweights.
04:49Oh, Floyd and Charlie must be tired of waiting.
04:51Let's get the rest of the supplies out to the platform.
04:53I'll go see if Billy needs any help.
04:55Mom!
04:55Can we get some new swimming suits?
04:57No, we cannot.
04:59Summer's over and put them back.
05:00Okay.
05:01I'll help you, Billy.
05:03I'll help you, Billy.
05:03Come on, girls.
05:09Get a move on, girls.
05:10Train's waiting.
05:20Sorry, Kate, but them traveling salesmen we picked up are anxious to get to Pixley.
05:26Yeah.
05:27Sure, sorry to rush you, Kate.
05:29Worked out fine, Charlie.
05:30Got all our stuff and done.
05:31Good.
05:35All right, let's get the baggage aboard.
05:37Don't bother about it, ladies.
05:38Old Floyd and I will put her on there for you.
05:40Oh, they can help a little.
05:41Here.
05:46When they get their supplies loaded, are they gonna back up that train for me?
05:51Wouldn't count on it.
05:52They don't even know you're here.
05:54Well, then, by Sunday, you're gonna hightail it down that track and tell them.
05:57I wouldn't count on that, either.
06:01What's your name?
06:02Sam Drucker.
06:03What's yours?
06:04Homer Bedlow.
06:05And you're fired.
06:07There's another thing I wouldn't count on.
06:10Mr. Drucker, I happen to run this railroad and you're no longer working for it.
06:14Never did.
06:16I happen to run the general store.
06:18What the devil are you doing here?
06:20Why aren't you down at your store?
06:21Well, I tell you.
06:22You see, Kate ain't got the money to pay for all them supplies she just bought.
06:26And it's a heap less embarrassing for her if I ain't there.
06:30Well, if this isn't a nothingist.
06:34Looks like that'll do it, Floyd.
06:38Well, best we get rolling now.
06:41Benny Jo, would you like to take the throttle?
06:43Can I, Mom?
06:44You always do going home.
06:48Get me up a good head of steam, Charlie.
06:50I'll have to high bother to make the hotel in time for supper.
06:53Right.
06:54Take it easy on dead man's curb.
06:57Come on, Billy Jo.
06:58In a minute, Mom.
06:59Bobby Jo?
07:00I'm in here, Mom.
07:02Oh.
07:06Hey!
07:08He yelled all aboard!
07:10Yeah.
07:10If you want to catch your train, you'd better start shanking it down your track.
07:14I'll melt the whole works down for paperweights.
07:20Wait a minute!
07:21Stop the train!
07:22Hey, wait!
07:27Hey, come here!
07:32Come on, train!
07:35Wait a minute!
07:47You've got a lot to learn about trains, mister.
07:51The Hooterville Cannonball waits for nobody.
07:53That's what I'm building down for.
07:55Cannonball!
08:09Where's your sister?
08:11You mean Billy?
08:12Well, who else would I mean?
08:15Well, I think she's back there, Mom.
08:19She's back there, all right.
08:24Excuse me.
08:25Excuse me.
08:27I want to talk to my daughter about the menu for my hotel.
08:31Train gets there just about supper time.
08:33She and her sisters wait table in the dining room.
08:35Sisters?
08:36You got more like her?
08:39Three in the hall.
08:40Uh, Billy Joe, I think this evening we'll have fried chicken, mashed potatoes with cream gravy, corn on the cob
08:48with fresh churned butter, hot biscuits and jam, fresh apple pie with homemade ice cream, and, um, let's see, what
08:57else?
08:58Does the train stop long enough for us to eat at your hotel?
09:01Oh, well, I think it can be arranged.
09:04But, uh, but the safe thing to do is plan to spend the night.
09:08You'll never get up to a better breakfast than at the shady rest.
09:11Come on, Billy Joe.
09:19Come on, Billy Joe.
09:23What kind of a railroad signal is that?
09:26Dead man's curved.
09:27You better grab hold of something and...
09:28eggs?
09:29Ohhhhhhhhh!
09:35Wheres highpaw in that locomotive up there is either drunk or crazy.
09:39Now, thank you not to talk like that about my little girl.
09:43Your little girl's running this locomotive?
09:46She always does on the way back from town.
09:48She and Charlie just like this.
09:50Who's Charlie?
09:52The engineer.
09:53Look, scoot over. It's hard to talk across the aisle.
10:05You one of those reporters?
10:07In a way, yes.
10:08Well, Charlie Pratt's the best engineer that ever popped ahead of Steve.
10:13And he's letting your child drive this locomotive?
10:16Been driving it since he was knee-high to a cowcatcher.
10:27How come she's spouting so much black smoke?
10:30Boy, it's been burning railroad tires again.
10:34Charlie, take a look. All the pressure I can get's 135.
10:38Well, that'll hold you. Don't push her too hard.
10:41You know what I think? The cannonball needs a boiler wash.
10:45Yeah, I reckon she's got some mud in her belly all right.
10:49Let's wash her out when we get to the hotel.
10:51And I can clean the greats and ash pad at the same time.
10:54Betty Jo, you're getting to an age where the boys have got their eye on you.
10:59And it just ain't the most romantic thing in the world
11:01for the love of your life to come crawling out of a locomotive boiler.
11:07As far as I'm concerned, Billy Jo can have the boys.
11:11I'm in love with the Hooterville Cannonball.
11:14Well, that's fine for now, hon.
11:16But one of these days, you're gonna wanna be hugging something that can hug you back.
11:21I'm just leaving the boys.
11:27I'm ready for a while.
11:32Thank you, darling.
11:42Thank you, darling.
11:48Billy Jo, you change places with your sister.
11:51Mom, I like riding backwards.
11:53I know what you like.
11:54Now, do as I say.
11:56Bobby Jo, take Billy's seat.
12:02Only one thing on her mind.
12:04Boys.
12:06Oh, Bobby, don't you ever get tired of just reading about love?
12:09Don't you ever want to do something about it?
12:12Sure.
12:14If I could meet a man like Robert Browning,
12:17well, where we live, we don't get much chance.
12:21Unless he's a traveling salesman.
12:24Gee, I wish we lived in the city.
12:27Love can happen anyplace, Billy.
12:29Who knows, a Prince Charming could come walking right through that door.
12:35That's quite a load of supplies you put on, Kate.
12:38Yeah, Floyd, how much are you going to charge me
12:40for freighting all that up to my hotel?
12:42I reckon that's going to cost you two chicken dinners.
12:45Oh, that's robbery.
12:48But I guess he'll have to pay it.
12:51Isn't Floyd a car?
12:52He sure is.
12:53What's his last name?
12:54It's Smoot, Floyd Smoot.
12:57He and Charlie have been on this line for years.
13:00They say they'll never stop running this old train.
13:02Well, I wouldn't bet on that.
13:04All right, folks, get your fares ready.
13:06Oh, um, how much for me and my three daughters, Mr. Conductor?
13:10Well, let's see.
13:12All over 12?
13:14Mm, yeah.
13:15Including me.
13:18I reckon that's going to cost you two fresh baked apple pies.
13:23What prices?
13:24The railroad's got to make a profit.
13:30Say, if you want fresh apple pie,
13:32you better get up to the locomotive
13:33and tell Betty Jo to stop the train at Ben Miller's Orchard.
13:37Right you are, Kate.
13:38Did I hear right you're going to stop this train to pick apples?
13:41Well, I kind of think we have to.
13:44The tree's set a quarter mile from the track.
13:47This isn't a train.
13:48It's a rolling booby hatch.
14:08Hi, there.
14:09Mind if I have an apple?
14:10Help yourself.
14:14Excuse me.
14:19This what you're after?
14:20Oh, yes, ma'am.
14:22I was just looking out the window there.
14:24Oh, I sure love this country.
14:25Everything's so green.
14:27Oh, not as green as you think.
14:33Well, I...
14:34Thanks for the apple.
14:38Put your feet down.
14:39Sit up like a lady.
14:41Oh!
14:46Well, we're almost there.
14:47Almost where?
14:49My hotel, the Shady Rest.
14:51I don't see any hotel.
14:52Sets up above the tracks on a little rise.
15:04Folks, there'll be a two to three hour layover here
15:06whilst we go up to Kate's hotel for supper.
15:08What do you mean, two or three hour layover?
15:10According to this timetable,
15:11this train's not supposed to stop here at all.
15:14Is that a fact?
15:16Hey, Charlie, come on in and take a look.
15:18Feller in here has got a timetable.
15:21We ain't seen one of these in 20 years.
15:24Anybody want to help me and my daughter's tote the supplies?
15:27Why, just come right this way.
15:28Oh, hold it, hold it.
15:30This train's supposed to go to the end of the line,
15:32pixely.
15:33As a matter of fact, we're due there already.
15:35So am I.
15:35So let's get rolling.
15:37What seems to be the trouble here, Floyd?
15:39Feller here wants to go on to the end of the line right away.
15:42Says it's a schedule.
15:43Is that a fact?
15:45What do you think we ought to do?
15:46Well, I reckon the fair thing to do is to put it to a vote.
15:49A vote?
15:51Good idea.
15:52All those in favor of going up to Kate's cool,
15:55comfortable, shady rest hotel
15:57for some delicious fried chicken and apple pie
16:01served by her three beautiful daughters,
16:03hold up your right hand.
16:05Come in.
16:06Sure.
16:06Here's to me you're out voting.
16:21Right through the end of the kitchen.
16:23Johnny Floyd's shown the way.
16:24I appreciate this very much.
16:25Just set it down in the kitchen, ain't it?
16:31Oh, man.
16:32Uncle Joe found his Indian.
16:34Hide it again, girls.
16:38Hey, this is quite a place.
16:40Even got an elevator, huh?
16:41Oh, it doesn't run.
16:42Uncle Joe bought it.
16:43He said it gives the hotel class.
16:45Oh, yeah?
16:48Honey, I'm going to tell you what gives this hotel some class.
16:51Step back.
16:54Going up.
16:55Going up.
16:56It's Uncle Joe's minor bird.
16:58We use this for a cage.
17:00Well, now that.
17:03Going up.
17:04I can floor it.
17:04On the way,
17:06my daughter gets off in the kitchen.
17:09Charlie Floyd,
17:10show the gentleman where to wash up for supper.
17:12Sure, I'll show you, fella.
17:24Hey.
17:25Huh?
17:26This place got a telephone.
17:29Hey, you bet you it is.
17:30It's the only telephone between Hooterville and Pixley.
17:33I was the one that got it and put it in.
17:34Have an eye in there.
17:35Where is it?
17:36Oh, hey, mister,
17:38I'd like to tell you a story about that telephone.
17:41I was out on the...
17:41Just tell me where it is.
17:45Hey, go through that door here.
17:47It's on your wall to the right.
18:01Hello, operator.
18:04Operator, operator.
18:07What you trying to do, mister?
18:09What's it look like I'm trying to do?
18:10I'm trying to get the operator.
18:13You ain't going to get her on that phone.
18:15Why not?
18:16It ain't connected.
18:17What do you mean?
18:18You know, telephone wire's connected, too.
18:20What's it doing here, then?
18:22It's a hotel class.
18:23That's the only telephone between Hooterville and Pixley.
18:26Why didn't you tell me that outside?
18:28Well, I did start and you cut me off.
18:30So am I now.
18:32Where can I wash my hands?
18:33Oh, second floor.
18:38Going up.
18:39All aboard.
18:40Oh, good.
18:43Step back.
18:44Step back in the car.
18:47Step back.
18:49Step back.
18:49Step back.
18:50What you doing in there, mister?
18:52I'm going up to the second floor.
18:54Oh, that elevator ain't.
18:56What do you mean?
18:56Ain't connected.
18:58Oh, my aching ulcer.
19:00Going up.
19:01Going up.
19:01She's a minor bird.
19:03The only minor bird between Hooterville and Pixley.
19:05Answer me a question.
19:07What have you got an elevator for that doesn't run?
19:09Oh, gives a hotel class.
19:12That's the only elevator to...
19:13Oh, shut up!
19:17Don't worry about the washroom.
19:18It's connected.
19:23Hey.
19:26Somebody hit my Indian again.
19:34Woo-hoo!
19:36Kate, that was the best meal that ever stoked a man's boiler.
19:39Really delicious.
19:40I always did say if this hotel was in town,
19:43Kate, it'd be turning the people away.
19:45Who built it way out here in the middle of nowhere?
19:47Her muley grandpa, that's who.
19:50Stubbornest man that ever lived, wasn't he, Kate?
19:52Well, the way it happened,
19:54he was planning to build down the track at Pixley,
19:57but the flat cars that were hauling his lumber
20:00tipped over when they hit the curb out in front.
20:02So Grandpa just went ahead and built the hotel right here.
20:05Well, let's all go ahead and do some singing.
20:08Sing it!
20:09We're four hours late for Pixley now.
20:11We always sing after supper, Mr. Bedlow.
20:14Nothing better for settling your food.
20:16I'm gonna go to Pixley, and you're gonna take me now.
20:48I don't think these folks want to leave yet.
20:49I'm gonna go to the office, and I've got news for you.
20:51The train from Pixley to Hooderville is no longer in operation.
20:55It's scrapped, junked,
20:57and everybody connected with it is discharged, fired.
21:01Now go and sing on that.
21:03If you scrap the train, it'll ruin this hotel.
21:06That's your problem.
21:08Why, you no good...
21:09Now, Uncle Joe, angry words never settled any problem.
21:12Let's just...
21:14Let's just all go in and decide what we're gonna do.
21:39Those in favor, raise your hands.
21:43Well, have you decided what you're gonna do?
21:46Yes, we have, Mr. Bedlow.
21:48We put it to a vote.
21:49Again with that vote?
21:51That's a democratic way, ain't it?
21:54Well, what'd you vote?
21:56Everybody voted to spend the night here
21:58and settle the problem of the train tomorrow.
22:02Can't you get it through your heads
22:04that that train hasn't got any tomorrow?
22:06It's through, finished.
22:08Now I'm going to Pixley.
22:09How? You fired Floyd and Charlie.
22:11Listen, if your little daughter can run that train,
22:15I can run it.
22:24What's the matter?
22:26Why won't you run?
22:31Maybe you haven't got enough pressure.
22:33Try the whistle.
22:40Mr. Bedlow,
22:41you've been working now for three hours.
22:44Why don't you come on up,
22:46take a nice hot bath and go to bed?
22:48No, this is my train,
22:50and I say it'll run.
22:55My hands full of sprinters from that stupid wood,
22:58and I smashed my finger on that stupid firebox door,
23:01and now I've busted my stupid foot.
23:04You know what I think?
23:05What?
23:06I think I ought to go back to the hotel,
23:08have a hot bath, and go to bed.
23:10And we'll settle the problem of the train tomorrow.
23:12That's a good idea, tomorrow.
23:15Help him down, boys.
23:17Oh, how do you two fellas run this crazy thing?
23:21I've been railroadin' for 32 years,
23:24but I couldn't get a pound of pressure.
23:33Don't you worry, old girl.
23:36We've been through a lot together,
23:37and we'll get through this, too.
24:01We'll get through.
24:01And we'll get you.