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The Inside Story 1948  Marsha Hunt, William Lundigan & Charles Winninger

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00:02:06Hi, Uncle Ed.

00:02:07That a new truck?

00:02:08Yep.

00:02:09You farmers must be doing all right.

00:02:10Not so good for a good year, but not so bad for a bad year.

00:02:12Hello, Ed.

00:02:14I saw you bringing in a load of pigs the other day. How much did you get for them?

00:02:17Not so much as I figured I might, but I never thought I would.

00:02:23Good morning, Uncle Ed.

00:02:25Hello, Jim.

00:02:26Think it looks like rain?

00:02:28Not until it starts falling.

00:02:30You're sharp as a tack this morning.

00:02:33Which end?

00:02:35What do you think of the political situation?

00:02:37Well, whatever it is, I'm a ginnit.

00:02:41There you are.

00:02:42Thanks, Jim.

00:02:44Good morning, Mr. Mason.

00:02:46Good morning, Jim.

00:02:52Hello, Uncle Ed.

00:02:53Hello, Mason.

00:02:55You too, eh?

00:02:57Me too what?

00:02:58Putting your cash on ice.

00:03:00Is that what you're doing?

00:03:02That's what everybody's doing.

00:03:03Look.

00:03:0520,000 smackaroos.

00:03:08Black market?

00:03:09Oh, it all came over the top of the table.

00:03:11What are you putting it in there for?

00:03:13Well, that's what you're doing, innit?

00:03:14Oh, no.

00:03:15Minor government bonds.

00:03:17My dollars are out helping run the country.

00:03:20Looks like they expect our dollars to run the world.

00:03:23Not me.

00:03:24I'm going to be ready this time.

00:03:26Ready for what this time?

00:03:28Remember 1933?

00:03:31What's your 20,000 smackaroos got to do with 1933?

00:03:35We're heading that way again and fast.

00:03:37Yeah?

00:03:38What gives you that impression?

00:03:40Well, the writing's on the wall.

00:03:41Higher prices, higher wages, money getting tighter, trouble abroad, business recession, a shrinking dollar.

00:03:48A dollar won't do much for a person these days.

00:03:50That's because a person won't do much for a dollar these days.

00:03:53You take a tip from me, old-timer.

00:03:56Turn those bonds into cash and be ready.

00:03:58Oh, you give me a pain in the ankle.

00:04:01You with your writing on the wall.

00:04:02Why don't you come out and say what's biting you?

00:04:04What's that?

00:04:06Fear.

00:04:07You're afraid of your own shadow, Mason.

00:04:09You're scared of a lot of little boogeymen.

00:04:11So you're hiding your cash in a strong box.

00:04:14Where I can put my hands on it when I need it.

00:04:16You mentioned 1933.

00:04:18These boxes were loaded with gold then.

00:04:22Thousands of dollars hoarded away by panicky people.

00:04:25And every vault from the country was the same.

00:04:28Billions of dollars of gold cash put out of circulation.

00:04:31Locked up where it could do nobody no good.

00:04:33Why?

00:04:34Nobody knew the answer.

00:04:36Greed and ignorance from the top down.

00:04:40Mammon making monkeys out of men.

00:04:41Well, anyway, we had a heck of a panic and the worst depression in our history.

00:04:47And we've had some beauties.

00:04:49You're telling me.

00:04:50Now, wait a minute.

00:04:51Don't try to brush me off.

00:04:53I ain't going to preach your moral.

00:04:55And I ain't going to try to tell you how the country ought to be run.

00:04:58But when you mentioned 1933, that kind of put me in mind of a thousand dollars.

00:05:05And what a lot of good it did to a lot of fine folks I knew right here in Silver

00:05:10Creek.

00:05:11We were in the fourth year of the Depression.

00:05:15And this town was deader than a mackerel.

00:05:18The mills were shut down, workers gone, banks closed, everybody broke.

00:05:23Farming, like everything else, was bankrupt in 1933.

00:05:27So I was helping Horace Taylor run the Silver Creek Inn.

00:05:37Horace Taylor was a nice fellow, kind and honest, that the crash of 29 had about wiped him out.

00:05:43All he had left was the inn.

00:05:45And business was so bad, even the cockroaches went out to eat.

00:05:51Johnson will give you any more credit?

00:05:53Not after tomorrow.

00:05:56How are we going to eat?

00:05:58We won't with the prices JJ is charging.

00:06:00Eggs, 20 cents a dozen.

00:06:02Sirloin steak, 35 cents a pound.

00:06:05Chicken, 21 cents.

00:06:06And milk, 10 cents a quart.

00:06:08It's like eating gold.

00:06:09Oh, doggone this dad-blasted depression.

00:06:13Who started it anyway?

00:06:16Nobody knows.

00:06:17It's all a mystery.

00:06:19Some say financing the war by borrowing from the people caused it.

00:06:22Some say lack of confidence.

00:06:23Others say buying on credit did it.

00:06:25Still others blame it on our generosity to Europe.

00:06:27The Republicans blame the Democrats.

00:06:29The Democrats blame the Republicans.

00:06:31Management blames Labor, and Labor blames management.

00:06:33There's only one thing we're sure of.

00:06:35We're all broke.

00:06:37And I hear tell that we made the world safer democracy.

00:06:43You haven't a thousand dollars I could borrow, have you?

00:06:45I got a thousand dollar life insurance policy, Horace,

00:06:48but I got to be dead if you want to collect it.

00:06:50Don't tempt me.

00:06:52Horace!

00:06:53Horace!

00:06:54Take it easy, Eve.

00:06:54Take it easy.

00:06:55You'll bust a gasket.

00:06:56You should have seen it, Horace.

00:06:57Seen what?

00:06:57That daughter of yours, Francine.

00:06:59What's she been up to now?

00:07:00She's just the greatest girl in the world, that's all.

00:07:01We know all that.

00:07:02What did she do?

00:07:03Well, it seems the widow Allen owed the bank $60 interest on a chattel mortgage,

00:07:06which she couldn't meet.

00:07:07So they sent the sheriff and the auctioneer over to sell her out.

00:07:09Wait a second.

00:07:10Wait a second.

00:07:11I thought the new president declared a bank holiday.

00:07:14He did.

00:07:14You can't take any money out of the bank, but you still have to put it in if you owe

00:07:17it.

00:07:17Go on, go on.

00:07:18What did Francine do?

00:07:19Well, when Francine got wind of this auction,

00:07:20she did a regular Paul Revere and a roadster and gathered up all the neighbors.

00:07:23Then some of the fellers put the auctioneer in the fruit seller,

00:07:26and Francine took over the gavel.

00:07:27But that's illegal.

00:07:28Not when the sheriff's on your side.

00:07:30Bank bought it an auction and by glory, Francine sure give them one.

00:07:33But what did she do?

00:07:34She had neighbors buy up the cows at a penny on the dollar,

00:07:36and then they all give them back to the witty Allen.

00:07:38The auctioneer.

00:07:39But she took up a collection, raised the 60 bucks that the witty old and paid off the auctioneer.

00:07:43What a girl.

00:07:44I tell you, Horace, it's the greatest thing that's happened since the Depression.

00:07:48I've got to go write it up for the bugle.

00:07:50We sure didn't spell her name right this time.

00:07:53Oh, what a girl.

00:07:54What a girl.

00:07:55Francine comes in.

00:07:56Tell her I want to see her.

00:08:02Francine was a fine girl, the apple of her father's eye.

00:08:05But there was a worm in the apple.

00:08:08A young artist named Waldo Williams.

00:08:13What's that for?

00:08:14A check from the Steiner Art Galleries.

00:08:16Oh, I do hope they sold your painting.

00:08:18Well, if they did, I'll buy you any presents you want.

00:08:21How's about a wedding ring?

00:08:23Is that a proposal?

00:08:24Certainly.

00:08:25Will you marry me?

00:08:26You know I've said yes every time you've asked me.

00:08:28Well, what am I supposed to do?

00:08:30Set the date, too?

00:08:31Well, I'm still not so sure that you can support me in the manner to which I have no right

00:08:35to become accustomed.

00:08:38When, as, and if your paintings are recognized, we'll live in luxury.

00:08:42Oh, and in the meantime?

00:08:44Oh, we're living, aren't we?

00:08:45We are?

00:08:46I mean, we are.

00:08:47On your father, I already owe him over 900 bucks.

00:08:51Hello?

00:08:52Who?

00:08:53Ab Farnsby.

00:08:54No, he ain't here.

00:08:56What?

00:08:57Oh, you're Ab Farnsby.

00:08:59Say, Ab, someone has been trying to get you on the phone for the last few seconds.

00:09:03Huh?

00:09:03Oh, it was you.

00:09:04How you been?

00:09:07Who's going to be a father?

00:09:08You are?

00:09:10Well, take it easy.

00:09:11Don't let it get you.

00:09:13Fellas like you have been becoming fathers for quite a while now.

00:09:17Okay, I'm listening.

00:09:19Man from New York?

00:09:22Money for you?

00:09:24All right, I'll tell him as soon as he gets here.

00:09:26Bye, Ab.

00:09:30Welcome to Silver Creek Inn.

00:09:33What can I do for you folks?

00:09:35Oh, hello, Francine.

00:09:36Hello, hello.

00:09:37Hello, Waldo.

00:09:38Hello.

00:09:39Hi, Uncle Ed.

00:09:40Waldo, there's a letter for you.

00:09:41From where?

00:09:42New York?

00:09:42Some art gallery.

00:09:44Look, give it to him.

00:09:44Give it to him.

00:09:45Oh, now, let me see.

00:09:46You're in, uh...

00:09:47Sixteen.

00:09:48You're in, uh...

00:09:52Steiner Art Galleries.

00:09:53Cross those fingers again.

00:09:57Is it, darling?

00:09:57Is it a check?

00:10:04You know the guy who was gonna buy that picture?

00:10:06He backed out.

00:10:08He sure did, out of a 50-story window.

00:10:10Another Wall Street sucker.

00:10:12Guess you're gonna have to wait a little while for that ring.

00:10:15I'll take the gear upstairs.

00:10:25I could have sworn there was a letter here for Waldo, Francine.

00:10:29Now, you just be patient and...

00:10:34Hello, Dad.

00:10:35Hello, Paul Revere.

00:10:37Oh, you heard about the auction?

00:10:39I've heard.

00:10:40And Eve's printing it in the bugle.

00:10:42I had to do it, Dad.

00:10:44Just because the financial world has got itself all fouled up...

00:10:47...is no reason why people like Mrs. Allen should suffer.

00:10:49She didn't cause a depression.

00:10:52You're not angry.

00:10:53Angry?

00:10:54Of course not.

00:10:55It's great training for you.

00:10:56Tomorrow or the next day, you'll be doing the same thing for me.

00:11:00I will.

00:11:01J.J. Johnson will be sending the sheriff and the auctioneer over here.

00:11:05You're not serious.

00:11:06If there's one thing I am, my dear, it's serious.

00:11:09And I want to have a serious talk with you about Waldo.

00:11:12Oh, Dad, please don't be hard on Bill today.

00:11:15Bill?

00:11:16Who's Bill?

00:11:17Well, he doesn't like me to call him Waldo.

00:11:19So you won't pick on him, will you?

00:11:21Pick on him?

00:11:22How can a man who's owed the money Waldo owes me possibly pick on him?

00:11:27We've just had a very tough break.

00:11:30What happened?

00:11:31The picture he thought he had sold in New York.

00:11:33The deal fell through.

00:11:35Well, since that was to be my money, it seems that I'm the one who's had the tough break.

00:11:39I didn't take you out of Vassar to start supporting him.

00:11:41Give him a chance, Dad.

00:11:43I'm owed money and I owe money.

00:11:45And my Yankee ancestors are spinning in their graves.

00:11:48Ah, the time-old battle.

00:11:51Father against daughter.

00:11:53Money against love.

00:11:55I was betting on Francine to win.

00:11:57That's a lot of money.

00:11:58Daddy, give Bill just a little bit more time.

00:12:02Well, but you know how I feel about it.

00:12:04Oh, thanks, Dad.

00:12:06Here.

00:12:09Oh, we shouldn't have let Aggie go.

00:12:13Oh, nonsense.

00:12:14She was always getting her thumb in the soup bowl when she served.

00:12:17Besides, we couldn't afford her anymore.

00:12:19I know.

00:12:20I appreciate you doing it.

00:12:21But must you wear this thing?

00:12:23I not only must, but I must.

00:12:25Come on, dear.

00:12:26Get your lunch.

00:12:29I heard the argument.

00:12:31What's all the fuss about?

00:12:32Money.

00:12:33Who's got money?

00:12:34Waldo hasn't.

00:12:35That's what all the fuss is about.

00:12:36Well, if Waldo hasn't got any money, why fuss about it?

00:12:38The country can't run without money.

00:12:40This hotel has been running without it.

00:12:42Not much longer, Ed.

00:12:43Where is all the money, anyhow?

00:12:45I don't know.

00:12:45Bank vaults, maybe.

00:12:46Well, why in thunder close the banks?

00:12:49Money in the vaults won't do nobody no good, not even laws.

00:12:52They had to close the banks to stop a panic.

00:12:54I don't get it.

00:12:55Here.

00:12:57Here's a quarter.

00:12:58I put it in the bank so it'll be safe and draw interest.

00:13:02Now I want to buy a good cigar.

00:13:03The new president declares a bank holiday.

00:13:06I can't get my money out.

00:13:07What do I do?

00:13:07You borrow on your credit.

00:13:09You got a cigar?

00:13:10Sure.

00:13:11My credit good?

00:13:16Thanks.

00:13:17Well, maybe the government ain't so dumb after all.

00:13:19Just a minute, Ed.

00:13:21The bank you deposited your quarter in is unsound.

00:13:23The bank examiners won't let it reopen.

00:13:25Your credit is all tied up.

00:13:28The bank had to foreclose.

00:13:30Hey.

00:13:33Yes, sir.

00:13:34Money is a funny thing.

00:13:36You worry when you got it and you worry when you ain't.

00:13:39What was it Ab Follinsby said about a man coming up from New York with money?

00:13:48This'll do.

00:13:49Are you sure the truck will go by here, Eddie?

00:13:51Sure, I'm sure.

00:13:52This is the main road from the border, isn't it?

00:13:54If you say so, Eddie.

00:13:55Sure.

00:13:56We'll wait in this flop joint and let the truck barrel through.

00:13:58Pick it up on the hill south of town and escort it to New York.

00:14:01If you say so, Eddie.

00:14:02I say so.

00:14:14Welcome to Silver Creek Inn.

00:14:17What can I do for you, ladies?

00:14:21Hello, Pop.

00:14:22Do you mind if we use your lobby to hang around?

00:14:24We're waiting on a business deal.

00:14:26Oh, sure.

00:14:26Help yourself.

00:14:28Are you the fellow with the money?

00:14:29Huh?

00:14:30Is Ab Follinsby expecting you?

00:14:32Who's Follinsby?

00:14:34No.

00:14:34I guess you're not the fellow.

00:14:36I'm hungry, Eddie.

00:14:38Where do we put on a feed bag, Pop?

00:14:40Oh, dining room's right in there.

00:14:4150 cents apiece, please.

00:14:44Will you keep your eyes pale for us, Pop?

00:14:46We're watching for a truck.

00:14:48Cagliari Express Company.

00:14:49If they come by, buzz us, huh?

00:14:50I'll watch like a hawk.

00:14:52Thanks, Pop.

00:14:54Have a cigar?

00:14:55Don't mind if I do.

00:14:57Over here, Hawk.

00:14:59Oh.

00:15:10You getting out here, Audrey?

00:15:11Oh, no, Mrs. Appetton.

00:15:12George will take me right over to the house.

00:15:14Remember what I told you, child.

00:15:15I've seen three generations of O'Connor men,

00:15:17and they're all alike.

00:15:19Irish, high-spirited,

00:15:20and sensitive every one of them.

00:15:22You're right about that.

00:15:24I guess that's why I married Tom in the first place.

00:15:26I'm glad we had our little talk on the train.

00:15:28Keep your chin up, dear.

00:15:31Oh, you won't tell Tom about it, will you?

00:15:33Do I look like the kind of a woman with a mouth

00:15:35big enough to put my foot in?

00:15:37Don't answer that.

00:15:38Hello, Geraldine.

00:15:39Hi, Ed. How are you?

00:15:40Not as bad as I look, not as good as I feel.

00:15:42Hello, Audrey. It's nice to see you.

00:15:44Hello, Uncle Ed.

00:15:45Tom will be glad you're back.

00:15:46Oh, thank you, Uncle Ed. That goes both ways.

00:15:47I'll take you back.

00:15:48Nonsense, Ed. I'm stronger than you are.

00:15:50Goodbye, Audrey. Give my love to Tom.

00:15:51I will. Goodbye.

00:15:52Over the river.

00:15:53Over the river.

00:15:58You still believe the earth goes around the sun?

00:16:00It certainly does.

00:16:01Oh, poppycock.

00:16:02Don't I see it coming up every morning and going down at night?

00:16:05With your brain, you ought to be a very happy man.

00:16:07You got a room for me?

00:16:07Got a room for a convention.

00:16:09A place full of echoes, huh?

00:16:10Yeah.

00:16:11The only guest we've got is Walter Williams, and he's on the house.

00:16:14I suppose you want your usual room, eh?

00:16:15Fine.

00:16:16Say, who owns that big black job out in front with the New York license plates?

00:16:20Looks to me like a couple of gangsters.

00:16:22Bootleggers?

00:16:23Nice fellas.

00:16:24They give me a cigar.

00:16:26We won't be seeing those boys around much longer.

00:16:28Beer's coming back, and they'll repeal prohibition pretty quick.

00:16:30Well, it suits me.

00:16:32Body can't sleep with those heavy booze trucks running down here from Canada.

00:16:37Want to go right up?

00:16:38No, I'll have about a lunch first.

00:16:39Dining room open?

00:16:40Yeah, temporarily.

00:16:43Knock, knock.

00:16:43Who's there?

00:16:44Nona.

00:16:45Nona who?

00:16:46None of your business.

00:16:48Not bad, huh?

00:16:50Pretty good, young fella.

00:16:51Listen.

00:16:52Knock, knock.

00:16:53Who's there?

00:16:53Greta.

00:16:54Greta who?

00:16:54Greta long, little doggie.

00:16:56Greta long.

00:16:58That's a little old timer.

00:16:59I've got to remember that one.

00:17:00But catch this.

00:17:02What is it?

00:17:04Indian riding in a V8.

00:17:06Oh.

00:17:07Don't take it so hard.

00:17:09That got its hash marks in the Civil War.

00:17:12Welcome to Silver Creek Inn.

00:17:13No, no, no.

00:17:14I'm not staying.

00:17:14My name's Peabody.

00:17:15Eustace Peabody.

00:17:16Acme Collection Agency.

00:17:18There's nothing to collect around here.

00:17:19Not even garbage.

00:17:20And the boss has gone away.

00:17:21He's been away for a long while.

00:17:22Well, I'm not collecting.

00:17:23I'm delivering.

00:17:24Garbage?

00:17:24Oh, no, of course not.

00:17:25I'm supposed to meet a man named Ab, uh, Follensby.

00:17:27Have you seen him?

00:17:28Oh, no.

00:17:29He hasn't been in town for quite a while.

00:17:31Well, he ought to be here.

00:17:32He's late now.

00:17:32I've got to get the afternoon train back to New York.

00:17:35Follensby.

00:17:35I knew I had something to remember.

00:17:37Are you the fellow with the money?

00:17:39Don't shout it.

00:17:40Yes.

00:17:41Well, Ab told me to tell you that he'd be late.

00:17:43He's having a baby.

00:17:44His wife is.

00:17:45A baby?

00:17:46He's got a gall bringing me up here to this hole in the ground.

00:17:49He wouldn't take a check by mail.

00:17:50Well, Ab's no fool.

00:17:51You can't cash a check with the bank's closed.

00:17:53Well, what am I supposed to do while his yokel's paging the storks?

00:17:55Now, don't get yourself in a sweat.

00:17:57Go in there and get yourself something to eat.

00:17:59Ab will probably be here by the time you get back here.

00:18:02Fifty cents, please.

00:18:03And baby storks.

00:18:05What a bird.

00:18:24Hey.

00:18:25Welcome to Silver Creek Inn.

00:18:27No, no, no.

00:18:27It's me again.

00:18:27Look, I want to put this door in the safe till Follensby gets here.

00:18:30Oh, yeah, sure.

00:18:30Well, Conlon, give me a receipt.

00:18:31One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

00:18:35Ten dollars.

00:18:35Ten dollars?

00:18:36Those are hundreds.

00:18:37Huh?

00:18:37Hundreds?

00:18:38What?

00:18:40A thousand dollars.

00:18:42A thousand dollars.

00:18:43What do you know?

00:18:44Just give me a receipt.

00:18:45Give me a receipt.

00:18:46Don't look now, Eddie, but your heat is showing.

00:18:49Thanks, Rocky.

00:18:55Hey, Eddie.

00:18:56What's on your chest?

00:18:58A tattooed horse.

00:18:59Which way is he going?

00:19:01Oh, quit your kidding.

00:19:03This is serious.

00:19:04If they repeal Prohibition, it's going to be tough on us guys.

00:19:07Yeah, this could be our last escort job.

00:19:09Hey, I got an idea.

00:19:11I know, a grand idea.

00:19:13With that grand, we could buy a racehorse.

00:19:15Nothing doing.

00:19:16You have to feed racehorses.

00:19:17I'm putting my dough in a legitimate business.

00:19:19Like what, for instance?

00:19:21Like slot machines, for instance.

00:19:22The suckers feed them.

00:19:24Not me.

00:19:25I'm not putting my half in no slot machine.

00:19:28All right.

00:19:28Buy yourself half a horse.

00:19:36There you are.

00:19:57Save as a bug in the rug.

00:20:00Knock, knock.

00:20:00Who's there?

00:20:01Felix.

00:20:01Felix who?

00:20:02Feel excited?

00:20:03Feel excited?

00:20:12Well, that's how the thousand dollars came to Silver Creek.

00:20:15And I was sitting there thinking how much good it could have done for Horace, Taylor, and Francine.

00:20:21And a lot of other people.

00:20:23Bewildered men and women marching through the streets with empty market baskets and empty hearts.

00:20:30Banding together in feudal protest against the fate which had befallen them.

00:20:34Twelve million willing workers made idle by the economic disaster, standing around in stunned silence, wondering what it was all

00:20:45about.

00:20:46Bread lines growing longer and longer.

00:20:48One-third of the people threatened with starvation.

00:20:52Even those who had prospered yesterday were victims of the Depression today.

00:20:58Businessmen made cynical and desperate by their common plight.

00:21:02The Salvation Army doing all in its power to help with the few pennies dropped into its tambourines.

00:21:10Homeless, unfortunate, seeking a night's rest where they could find it.

00:21:15Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

00:21:18Depression camps springing up all over the country.

00:21:21Brothers in adversity sharing potluck.

00:21:25Families scattered to the four winds to lead the lives of aimless wanderers.

00:21:30It is a comfort to the unhappy to have companions in misery.

00:21:36Yes, once upon a time that thousand dollars was a fortune.

00:21:41And then I thought of Audrey O'Connor and her husband Tom.

00:21:45Hmm, they sure could have used it.

00:21:48Where's my husband?

00:21:50Audrey!

00:22:01Oh, I missed you, Audrey.

00:22:03I thought I'd go crazy.

00:22:05Tom.

00:22:08Let me take a look at you.

00:22:11Hmm.

00:22:12Four new gray hairs.

00:22:14You've been taking life much too seriously, my love.

00:22:20Well, let me see what kind of a housekeeper you are.

00:22:29Well, you deserve a gold medal.

00:22:33Ashtrays all empty.

00:22:35No new cigarette burns on the furniture.

00:22:38Dirty dishes in the kitchen instead of on the mantel.

00:22:40Not bad for a lawyer.

00:22:41Yeah, a lawyer without a client.

00:22:44I think you were cut out to be a bachelor.

00:22:46Audrey.

00:22:47Oh, I was only teasing.

00:22:48Oh, I know, I know.

00:22:50I'm sorry.

00:22:53I haven't got the right to blow up.

00:22:54You're earning a living.

00:22:55Maybe I was cut out to be a bachelor.

00:22:58You were meant to be the cut of my jib, and that's just what you are.

00:23:01So stop frowning.

00:23:03This isn't your private depression.

00:23:04The whole world's sick, so don't take it personal.

00:23:07That's easy to say.

00:23:09But this is my world.

00:23:10This tomb that used to be our house.

00:23:12Do you know what it's like alone here in the dark,

00:23:14only seeing you every two weeks and thinking about you

00:23:17and missing you so much I could...

00:23:18It's the same in town.

00:23:20But it's a job and a good job.

00:23:22I'm not the girl I used to be.

00:23:24Let's be grateful they took me back.

00:23:26How can I be grateful?

00:23:27Tom.

00:23:28Do you think it's pleasant to sit here

00:23:29and think of you parading around before a lot of men?

00:23:32Please, Mr. O'Connor.

00:23:33I model only for women.

00:23:36Don't make me a bubble dancer.

00:23:37I know it's lonely, but I'm working on a little plan to cure that.

00:23:41So am I.

00:23:42Bet mine's better.

00:23:43Couldn't help but be.

00:23:44But mine will last longer.

00:23:45I'm not so sure.

00:23:47How can you stand it, Audrey?

00:23:48How can you take a husband who's a failure,

00:23:50who can't support you?

00:23:51Oh, support you?

00:23:53That's a laugh.

00:23:54I couldn't even buy myself a glass of water.

00:23:56How can you tolerate me?

00:23:57Because I'm tolerant.

00:23:58Why do you ever come back here?

00:24:00Because I love you.

00:24:01Hang on, darling.

00:24:03Remember what the new president said.

00:24:04We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

00:24:06And I heard what the old president said.

00:24:08We've reached the end of our string.

00:24:09There's nothing more we can do.

00:24:10I don't believe that.

00:24:11Somehow the world keeps going on.

00:24:13We have a little money.

00:24:14You have a little.

00:24:15We have.

00:24:15Enough to keep going.

00:24:17Enough to pay a few bills.

00:24:18Yes, bills.

00:24:19Bills piling up, stacking up,

00:24:21while I sit here helpless,

00:24:22not able to do anything about them.

00:24:23Well, if it annoys you so much, darling,

00:24:25let's pay them.

00:24:25I have two weeks' salary here.

00:24:27That'll take away a few headaches, huh?

00:24:29Let's see.

00:24:30We'll pay the most urgent ones

00:24:31and let the others wait.

00:24:32J.J. Johnson,

00:24:33let's pay that old skin plant.

00:24:34We have to eat.

00:24:44Tom!

00:24:52That $1,000 kept looking bigger and bigger to me.

00:24:56Tomorrow, our credit with J.J. Johnson

00:24:58would be cut off

00:24:59and there'd be no more meals served in the dining room.

00:25:09Horace, you ought to be ashamed of yourself

00:25:10letting Francie wait on the tables like this.

00:25:12Don't talk to me about it, Geraldine.

00:25:14I wanted no part of it.

00:25:15It was my idea.

00:25:16But, good heavens, child.

00:25:17What's the matter?

00:25:18Isn't the service all right?

00:25:19Perfect, but why doesn't Waldo pitch in and help?

00:25:21Waldo, that worthless...

00:25:22Dad?

00:25:23Isn't he still staying here?

00:25:25He's staying, not paying.

00:25:26Yes, but why don't you make him wait on the tables?

00:25:28He would if I'd let him,

00:25:29but I want him to paint and paint and keep on painting

00:25:32because that's his work and that's what he's living for.

00:25:34The boy does have a lot of talent.

00:25:36For heaven's sake, Geraldine, don't encourage her.

00:25:38That useless young man ought to stop daubing paint

00:25:41and start earning money doing something practical.

00:25:43And I'm going to tell him so, too.

00:25:44No, Horace.

00:25:45Remember, never take from any man his song.

00:25:49He's got something to talk to you about.

00:25:50Very important.

00:25:51See you in a minute.

00:25:56Knock, knock.

00:25:58Who's there?

00:25:59Hobart.

00:26:00Hobart who?

00:26:01Hobart a little kiss, baby.

00:26:03Oh, you heard that one before, huh?

00:26:05It's a small town.

00:26:06Things get around pretty fast.

00:26:07Would you care to order your dessert now, sir?

00:26:09I sure would.

00:26:10What's sweet besides you?

00:26:11The arsenic pudding is very nice.

00:26:14Fine, fine.

00:26:14And the coffee, is it fresh?

00:26:15If it were any fresher, it would be insulting.

00:26:19Babe, you're better than the Orpheum.

00:26:21Looks like I might be hung up here for the afternoon.

00:26:23It's a kind of lonesome burg.

00:26:24I mean, what does a guy do for conversation?

00:26:26Well, you might try Marble Canyon.

00:26:28It's got the nicest echo.

00:26:33Arsenic pudding.

00:26:36What I wanted to say, Mrs. Atherton,

00:26:38you're the leading citizen of Silver Creek.

00:26:40I am?

00:26:40Yes, when you're here.

00:26:42And as the leading citizen,

00:26:43you ought to do something for the town.

00:26:44For instance, what?

00:26:46You ought to have your portrait painted.

00:26:48Is she kidding?

00:26:50Why, not at all.

00:26:51As a matter of fact, it's an excellent idea.

00:26:54Can't you see me well, or is it too dark in here?

00:26:57Well, you are the leading citizen.

00:26:59You own the mills, most of the town,

00:27:01and your grandfather founded Silver Creek.

00:27:04My grandfather fell down a hole

00:27:05that happened to be full of high-grade marble,

00:27:07if you call that founding a town.

00:27:09We're all here today on account of him.

00:27:12We're all here today on account of corn liquor.

00:27:15What about the portrait?

00:27:17No, Francie.

00:27:18No dice.

00:27:19But Waldo could...

00:27:20Waldo could immortalize this face of mine

00:27:23better than anybody.

00:27:25That's what I'm afraid of.

00:27:26Oh, but Mrs. Atherton...

00:27:27I avoid mirrors as it is.

00:27:29You'll have to get yourself another pigeon, dear.

00:27:31I've got some important business I'm going to tend to.

00:27:34Geraldine, there's a funny look in your eye.

00:27:35Good.

00:27:36I'll go over and show it to J.J. Johnson.

00:27:38After what you told me, I'm going to turn the heat on him.

00:27:40No, Geraldine.

00:27:41No, please, please, Geraldine.

00:27:42No, please, please, Geraldine.

00:27:42I bet you know what I'm able to hear.

00:27:44The Bunton Market was owned by J.J. Johnson,

00:27:48a crafty, close-fisted merchant

00:27:50with a store full of groceries

00:27:52and a heart full of larceny.

00:27:55You heard me, J.J.

00:27:56Speak up.

00:27:57What's this nonsense about

00:27:58your putting poor Horace Taylor over a barrel?

00:28:00It's none of your business.

00:28:02I'm making it my business.

00:28:03Now, look here, Geraldine.

00:28:05You're not the only one that's got a barrel.

00:28:06I got a butte, a nice big one,

00:28:08and I'd like you to try it for size.

00:28:10Well, let's talk this over.

00:28:11Money is going to do the talking.

00:28:13You owe me three months' rent.

00:28:15Six hundred dollars, and I don't mean wampum.

00:28:18You know I can't pay.

00:28:19You can't, but you're going to.

00:28:20I may look philanthropic,

00:28:22but underneath this angel face,

00:28:24I'm a Uriah Heap.

00:28:26Kick in, J.J.

00:28:28Geraldine, be sensible.

00:28:29There's not six hundred available dollars

00:28:31in the whole town.

00:28:32Maybe the whole state.

00:28:33Everybody owes me money.

00:28:35Horace Taylor alone owes me twelve hundred,

00:28:37and I can't collect.

00:28:38And I bet you overcharged him beautifully

00:28:40in exchange for that credit.

00:28:42Oh, I'm a friendly man.

00:28:43And I'm a friendly woman.

00:28:45Pay up or get out.

00:28:45Oh, what did I ever do to you?

00:28:48Besides pay you more than this place is worth.

00:28:50J.J., it's pirates like you

00:28:52that created this depression.

00:28:53You soaked my mill hands.

00:28:55I had to raise their pay.

00:28:56You boosted prices every time I boosted wages,

00:28:59and every time I boosted wages,

00:29:00you boosted prices.

00:29:01A vicious circle.

00:29:03Prices, wages, prices, wages,

00:29:04till the top blew off.

00:29:06Did I control prices?

00:29:08When people were buying, yes.

00:29:10When they stopped buying,

00:29:11neither you nor anybody else

00:29:12could avert a depression.

00:29:13It's like a snowball going downhill,

00:29:15getting bigger and bigger

00:29:16until it's smashed at the bottom.

00:29:18I had to close the mills.

00:29:20Your customers were out of work and broke.

00:29:22You were charging sixty cents

00:29:24for a dozen eggs,

00:29:25and now you're begging for twenty.

00:29:26Well, don't you suppose I took a beating, too?

00:29:29I hope so,

00:29:30and I hope you learned a lesson.

00:29:32Next time when we come around

00:29:33to a normal way of living,

00:29:35don't start raising prices.

00:29:36Oh, what do you think I am?

00:29:38Well, you can't grow a cherry tree

00:29:40out of a squash seed.

00:29:42Oh, Geraldine, have a heart.

00:29:44Sure, I'll have a heart.

00:29:45Yours.

00:29:45And that means I'm going to Tom O'Connor's office

00:29:47and have him draw up a writ of eviction.

00:29:49Don't go away, J.J.

00:29:50I'll be back with the sheriff

00:29:51and the auctioneer.

00:30:22I'll be back with the sheriff.

00:30:33I'll be back with the sheriff.

00:30:56I'll be back with the sheriff.

00:30:57Tom?

00:30:58Why did you run out on me?

00:31:00I remembered something I had to do.

00:31:03Will you be long?

00:31:06Yes.

00:31:07Quite a while.

00:31:09Then I'll have time to run over to the inn

00:31:10and see Francine?

00:31:11Go right ahead.

00:31:13See you later, darling.

00:31:15See you later, darling.

00:31:35Hello, Tom.

00:31:37Oh, Mrs. Atherton.

00:31:38Say, what's the matter with this joint?

00:31:40It's falling apart.

00:31:41I had to let myself in.

00:31:42There was nobody in the other office.

00:31:44Sorry.

00:31:45There's a little thing called the depression.

00:31:46Yes, I sort of got that message from Audrey.

00:31:49Oh, you've seen her?

00:31:51It's on the train from New York.

00:31:55Tom, what kind of a young fool are you?

00:31:58The usual kind, I guess.

00:32:01Don't you know you've got that wife of yours worried stiff?

00:32:04Did she say so?

00:32:05Of course not.

00:32:06It's what she didn't say.

00:32:08I can read between the eyes.

00:32:10Look here, sonny boy.

00:32:13When you plucked Audrey from the bright lights of New York

00:32:15and brought her here to live, she was the happiest girl in the world.

00:32:19Don't ask me why a pretty thing like that would let you put her away

00:32:21in that old mausoleum you call a house, but she did.

00:32:25And she loved it because it was your way of life, not because you were rich.

00:32:28And now she's working so you can still have a life together.

00:32:32The trouble with you is you keep living in the past.

00:32:35Only because there's no future.

00:32:37Are you kidding?

00:32:39Listen, Tom, this isn't the first time our country has scraped the bottom of the barrel.

00:32:43We had a Black Friday in 69.

00:32:46We had a fine little depression in 73 and another one in 84.

00:32:50We had a Butte in 1908.

00:32:52And the bottom fell clear out in 29.

00:32:55But Uncle Sam always manages to patch up the barrel and refill it.

00:33:00Now, don't tell me prosperity is just around the corner.

00:33:03Maybe it is.

00:33:04Maybe I'll reopen the mill sooner.

00:33:05When I do, maybe the company will retain you again.

00:33:09Don't worry about me.

00:33:10My wife pays the bills.

00:33:12That's a stuffed shirt remark, and I'll make something of it when I've got more time.

00:33:16You gave her every luxury when you could.

00:33:18Fine clothes, furs, and you were proud.

00:33:21Well, maybe she's proud now to be doing her share.

00:33:25But I didn't come here for a social call.

00:33:27I'm here on business.

00:33:28Business?

00:33:30You mean there's something I can do?

00:33:31That's right.

00:33:32Now, get your chin up on the curb.

00:33:34I want you to draw up a writ of eviction.

00:33:36Oh.

00:33:37On whom?

00:33:39J.J. Johnson.

00:33:40Johnson?

00:33:41Now, don't try to talk me out of it.

00:33:43Well, Judge Crockett won't sign it.

00:33:44Oh, yes, he will.

00:33:46Who made him a judge?

00:33:48Very well.

00:33:49You insist.

00:33:50Insist is putting it mildly.

00:33:55What's the joke?

00:33:56Francine Taylor wants me to let Waldo Williams paint my portrait.

00:34:00And will you?

00:34:00Well, if Judge Crockett refuses to sign that writ,

00:34:04I'll get the portrait and hang it in his courtroom right over his bench.

00:34:22Come back out of that dream world, Rembrandt.

00:34:25Aye.

00:34:30Rembrandt is right.

00:34:31This one ought to make me immortal.

00:34:33You better eat while you're still mortal.

00:34:35All right, just a second left.

00:34:36Finish.

00:34:37You can't paint unless you eat, you know.

00:34:39I can't eat unless I paint, either.

00:34:41True.

00:34:43This one's for the barter system.

00:34:45Barter system?

00:34:46Yeah.

00:34:46A painter needs paint to paint with, and for that I get more paint.

00:34:50How do you like my model?

00:34:52Isn't she a cutie?

00:34:53But lines.

00:34:55I wish all your models would like her.

00:34:57Why?

00:34:58They'd give you the brush off.

00:35:01Mm-hmm.

00:35:03That's quite a whisper room, Bill.

00:35:05Good likeness.

00:35:06You like anything I do.

00:35:07You're just prejudiced.

00:35:09Remember the first painting of yours I ever saw?

00:35:11Yeah.

00:35:12It was in the Beerus Cowers in Paris, wasn't it?

00:35:13Should have been in the Louvre.

00:35:15Should have been in a pawn shop.

00:35:16It was a lovely painting.

00:35:19Stood entranced, gazing at it for hours.

00:35:22And up stepped a tall, handsome stranger.

00:35:25Well, he was tall.

00:35:27And he asked you what you thought of it.

00:35:30And I said that it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

00:35:33And a handsome, fascinating stranger said that he thought you were far more beautiful than the painting.

00:35:40It wasn't a bit fascinating, just a fresh smoothie with an American accent.

00:35:44Yes, but you did accept his invitation to lunch.

00:35:47Well, I was a venturesome hussy in those days.

00:35:49Besides, I was hungry.

00:35:51It's a good thing for you his credit was good at that little cafe.

00:35:54And what was his credit good for?

00:35:56Well, a luscious dish of snails.

00:36:00And that was the beginning of a beautiful romance.

00:36:03Oh, my darling.

00:36:05It was a brilliant pace.

00:36:09They even wrote songs about us.

00:36:11Our rendezvous, our chestnut trees, the small cafe.

00:36:14And in spite of your pug nose, the guy fell madly and loved it.

00:36:17And I with him, in spite of everything.

00:36:21What's wrong with my nose?

00:36:23Nothing.

00:36:24I love it.

00:36:30I love it.

00:36:30Some down.

00:36:31If you say so, Eddie.

00:36:32I say so.

00:36:33Me, I like horses.

00:36:34If I wasn't tied up with this escort job, I'd stick around and do a little pitching.

00:36:38Horseshoes, welcome to Silver Creek Inn.

00:36:40Hello, Uncle Ed. Is Franzine in?

00:36:41Oh, hello, Audrey. I just saw her take Waldo's lunch upstairs.

00:36:44Oh, thank you.

00:36:47Oh, um, pardon me.

00:36:49Well?

00:36:50Didn't I see you on the New York train?

00:36:52Yes, I was the caboose.

00:37:08Hello, Waldo.

00:37:09Hello, who?

00:37:10Bill.

00:37:11Okay.

00:37:11That's better.

00:37:12Come on in.

00:37:13Hello, Audrey.

00:37:14How are you, Francie?

00:37:15I'm glad you're here.

00:37:17He goes out of his mind waiting for your next sitting.

00:37:19Well, it's just that I'm afraid I may not be able to finish it.

00:37:22Not finish it?

00:37:23It's just his pride.

00:37:24He owes Dad money.

00:37:26Oh.

00:37:27Oh, money.

00:37:28Sure.

00:37:29Who cares about money?

00:37:30Forget it.

00:37:30Oh, yes.

00:37:31What's money?

00:37:33When I first commissioned you to do this painting, I didn't know Tom's business was going to collapse.

00:37:38Audrey, the pleasure of painting your portrait is payment enough for me.

00:37:42But that's not fair.

00:37:43Now, just a minute.

00:37:45If you two have heard about the artist who is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, you're

00:37:50not going to take away my inspiration now, are you?

00:37:56Ladies, we're wasting valuable time.

00:37:58Uh-oh.

00:37:59That means clear out, Francie.

00:38:00Besides, I'm not supposed to be social.

00:38:02I keep forgetting.

00:38:05Audrey, make him finish his lunch, will you?

00:38:08These days, you just don't send back half a sandwich with a pickle on the side.

00:38:13I'll make you meet it.

00:38:14Hey, waitress.

00:38:18That's for being a cute kid.

00:38:19Oh.

00:38:20Thank you, sir.

00:38:21Nicest tip I've had today.

00:38:23Come on, Audrey.

00:38:23I'll help you dress.

00:38:24Fine.

00:38:24What a stunning suit.

00:38:26Oh, it's the new thing.

00:38:27Must have cost a fortune.

00:38:28Don't get the idea that I bought it.

00:38:30The store lets me wear these models for advertising.

00:38:33What a break.

00:38:35Are the skirts all that long?

00:38:37Oh, yes.

00:38:38That's a new style.

00:38:38It's quite a change, isn't it?

00:38:41I bought this in 1930.

00:38:43Yours is in 1933.

00:38:46By the time we reach 1940, they'll be dragging on the floor.

00:38:49The women aren't taking to the new lengths too quickly.

00:38:54I love this dress.

00:38:56Seems prettier each time.

00:38:58I wore it on the very first date I had with Tom.

00:39:00It was always his favorite.

00:39:02That's why I saved it.

00:39:03When it wears out, will you let me have it?

00:39:06Sorry.

00:39:07I guess there's a dress in everyone's life that somehow or other represents romance.

00:39:13Walter just has to finish that painting, Francie.

00:39:15I want to hang it in the library so Tom won't be lonely while I'm away.

00:39:19Then I'll always be with him, just as I was the first time he saw me.

00:39:23And you'll always be lovely to him, Audrey.

00:39:25But I know what you mean.

00:39:27Don't worry, we'll get the picture finished somehow.

00:39:30I think Bill feels just as you do about it.

00:39:33And he's put his heart as well as his soul into it.

00:39:36That's why it means so much to him.

00:39:38It's as if you were telling Tom what's in your heart in that painting.

00:39:42Tom needs to know and I can't seem to tell him.

00:39:46It's funny.

00:39:47Here we are, both of us working, trying to help out.

00:39:52Anybody would say this is a tough time for women.

00:39:54I don't agree.

00:39:55It's much worse for men.

00:39:59Especially sensitive, proud men.

00:40:00You haven't told your father?

00:40:02How?

00:40:02Strictly a secret among the three of us.

00:40:04I want it to be a complete surprise for Tom.

00:40:07To cheer him up though, I'm afraid it'd have to be a Gainsborough.

00:40:09Oh, Waldo Williams, please.

00:40:14Let's ride out and take a Gander at that hill.

00:40:16Hey, that's a hunch.

00:40:17Lord Gander's running the third.

00:40:18You're getting to be the smartest moron I've ever met.

00:40:21Thanks, Eddie.

00:40:31Say, by the way, sister, where is Marble Canyon?

00:40:33One mile east, then follow your echo.

00:40:40All right, Uncle Ed.

00:40:41You can go to lunch.

00:40:42Thank you, Horace.

00:40:44This might be my last.

00:40:45Look who's coming.

00:40:55Hey, Follinsby?

00:40:56Ab Follinsby?

00:40:57Who, me?

00:40:58My name is Johnson.

00:40:59Horace!

00:41:00Horace!

00:41:01Oh, hello, J.J.

00:41:02Don't give me that stuff.

00:41:03What's the matter?

00:41:04Less words and more action, Horace.

00:41:06The time has come to put up or shut up.

00:41:08I'm not fooling.

00:41:09I want the money you owe me, and I want it right now.

00:41:12I haven't got it.

00:41:13I've got to have it, Horace.

00:41:15I don't like to push you this way.

00:41:17It isn't as if I want it at all.

00:41:19Just have.

00:41:20Right now.

00:41:20That's all.

00:41:21Just have.

00:41:21But it's impossible.

00:41:22I've got to have it, Horace.

00:41:26Geraldine Atherton is putting the heat on me.

00:41:28I owe her $600 back rent.

00:41:30If I don't pay up, she's going to evict me.

00:41:32I knew it.

00:41:33I knew it.

00:41:33I'm terribly sorry, J.J., but...

00:41:35I don't want your sympathy.

00:41:36I want your cash.

00:41:38Come on, Horace.

00:41:39You know you've been hoarding funds someplace.

00:41:41Drag out the sock.

00:41:42Dig up the old tin can, but pay me my dough.

00:41:45For pity's sake, J.J., I tell you, I'm fat broke.

00:41:47I haven't got a dime.

00:41:48Horace, I'm warning you.

00:41:50If you don't slip me $600 right now, today, I'll get rough.

00:41:55I don't like to pull this on you, but to help me, it's sink or swim.

00:41:59If you don't pay me today, right now, I'll put Silver Creek in under the auctioneer's hammer before you can

00:42:05say ouch.

00:42:05Please, J.J., don't do a thing like that to me.

00:42:07I'd like to help you, but I...

00:42:09Just $600, not the whole debt.

00:42:12$600's no fortune.

00:42:13It isn't.

00:42:14Well, you've got at least that much.

00:42:16$10 would be a fortune to me.

00:42:19Horace, look.

00:42:20We're old friends, aren't we?

00:42:23Hmm?

00:42:23Huh?

00:42:24We're old friends, aren't we?

00:42:26Well, we've known each other a long time.

00:42:27Well, I gave you credit when you needed it, didn't I?

00:42:30Fair credit at fair prices?

00:42:32You gave me credit.

00:42:33Horace, Horace, please.

00:42:34We're friends.

00:42:36Just for me.

00:42:37Just $600.

00:42:38I haven't made any demands.

00:42:40I know you're making money.

00:42:41A cash business, maybe saving it.

00:42:43Saving what?

00:42:44I made $6.50 yesterday and today a dollar and a quarter.

00:42:50Not enough to pay the cook.

00:42:51Oh, don't give me that.

00:42:52Look at that safe.

00:42:54I'll betcha it's loaded.

00:42:55I'll betcha it's ripe with cash.

00:42:57Mm-hmm.

00:42:58There's nothing in that safe but dust, and I'll show it to you.

00:43:01Do you remember the story about Mother Hubbard?

00:43:04Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone.

00:43:09And when she got there, the cupboard was...

00:43:13Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard, eh?

00:43:17Hand over that bone, Horace.

00:43:19But I don't understand.

00:43:20I was telling the truth.

00:43:22You rascal, you.

00:43:23Holding out on an old friend.

00:43:24So help me, JJ.

00:43:27I...

00:43:28Waldo.

00:43:28Never mind who.

00:43:29How much?

00:43:29It's Waldo.

00:43:30The art gallery must have sold a picture after all.

00:43:32And I've misjudged the boy.

00:43:34Look here.

00:43:34How much?

00:43:35How much?

00:43:35One.

00:43:36Two.

00:43:37Three.

00:43:37Four.

00:43:37Uncle Ed should have told me something about this before.

00:43:39Five.

00:43:40Six.

00:43:40Seven.

00:43:41And here I've been badgering the poor boy.

00:43:42Eight.

00:43:43Nine.

00:43:43Ten.

00:43:44A thousand dollars.

00:43:46We're square.

00:43:47But I owe you 1,200.

00:43:48I'll cancel it out for cash.

00:43:50We're even.

00:43:50You can have all the credit you want.

00:43:52Oh, boy.

00:43:53Will I tell that old man that's a thing or two now.

00:43:56We're even.

00:43:57Ancestries, you can stop spinning now.

00:44:04Waldo.

00:44:06Waldo.

00:44:07My boy.

00:44:09My son.

00:44:22Waldo.

00:44:29Oh, no.

00:44:32Waldo.

00:44:33Just a minute.

00:44:34Please.

00:44:39Waldo, my boy.

00:44:42Hello, Mr. Taylor.

00:44:42Why?

00:44:43Sometimes it's a little difficult for an ungifted man like myself to appreciate an artist like

00:44:48you.

00:44:48You must be a little understanding with me, my boy.

00:44:51Well, I didn't expect anything quite like this.

00:44:53Now, I want to give you a dinner.

00:44:55We've got to celebrate.

00:44:57Youth and talent should be sponsored and not smothered.

00:44:59I want you to know how proud I am of you and your painting.

00:45:02And I think my daughter is one of the luckiest girls in the world.

00:45:06Well, I'm awfully glad you think so, sir.

00:45:08Oh, you're going to make a happy couple.

00:45:10Yes, indeed.

00:45:11And I'm going to show you how proud I am of you.

00:45:13Oh, my boy.

00:45:14This is a happy day.

00:45:16A happy day.

00:45:17You know, let's see what you're doing.

00:45:18Oh, no.

00:45:19Mr. Taylor, a painter has to have privacy.

00:45:22Oh, yes.

00:45:22I understand.

00:45:22Yes, yes.

00:45:23Of course.

00:45:24Well, then you get right on with your work.

00:45:25Here.

00:45:26Have a cigar.

00:45:28And I'll see you later, son.

00:45:40Take a look.

00:45:41A good look.

00:45:42How do you like them apples?

00:45:44Had me over a big barrel, eh, Geraldine?

00:45:47Well, it had weak staves.

00:45:49Oh, you can tear up that rip, Tom.

00:45:50Tear it up and write me a receipt for $1,000.

00:45:53Uh, thou count it, Tom.

00:45:54I still don't believe it.

00:45:55$1,000.

00:45:56Genuine, guaranteed coin of the realm.

00:45:58The real thing.

00:46:00No imitation.

00:46:01J.J., where'd you get this money?

00:46:03Oh, I don't consider that any of your business.

00:46:05That's right.

00:46:06$1,000.

00:46:07Well, give him a receipt.

00:46:09And if he's robbed a bank...

00:46:10Uh-oh.

00:46:10They're all closed, madam.

00:46:12Remember?

00:46:12Well, then you took it off of a dead body.

00:46:14I'll have the police examine it for blood stains.

00:46:17Oh, is that so?

00:46:18Well, while you're doing that, Geraldine, remember this.

00:46:21The back rent is paid, and there's an advance payment there.

00:46:23And if you set foot inside the Bon Ton market within the next eight weeks, I will have the personal

00:46:29pleasure of heaving you out on your ear.

00:46:32Thank you, my boy.

00:46:33It's been very nice.

00:46:35I trust that you'll remember me if I never see you again sometime.

00:46:38I never forget a face.

00:46:41And I'll always remember both of yours.

00:46:43Aye.

00:46:47Well, I guess that's that.

00:47:02As we were saying before, a man like you, with your background in your mind, has no right to feel

00:47:08bitter about his wife's working.

00:47:10Marriage is a 50-50 deal.

00:47:11And when one can't carry the load, the other must try.

00:47:14A man has his pride.

00:47:16So has a woman.

00:47:17What if Audrey felt the same way that you do?

00:47:19How would you feel when you came home with this if she were to resent it because she hadn't done

00:47:24it?

00:47:25And incidentally, that is yours.

00:47:28Mine?

00:47:29Yes, it's routine or on your services.

00:47:31Now, in the future, we've got to start thinking about reopening the mills.

00:47:34There'll be a lot of paperwork, reorganization, heaven knows what with this new administration.

00:47:38I'll check with you from time to time.

00:47:40But Mrs. Atherton, I...

00:47:41I know, I know.

00:47:42It isn't very much, but it's all I can afford right now.

00:47:44We'll increase the amount as we get active.

00:47:47Bye, Tom.

00:47:47My love to Audrey.

00:47:55My love to Audrey.

00:48:19Ha, ha, ha.

00:48:20He, he, he.

00:48:21Little brown jargon, he love thee.

00:48:23Ha, ha, ha.

00:48:24Well, well.

00:48:25You sound as spry as a kitten, Horace.

00:48:27I thought the tapioca pudding was a mite heavy myself.

00:48:30Ed, you old rascal.

00:48:32Why didn't you tell me before?

00:48:33About the tapioca pudding?

00:48:35About the money.

00:48:36What money?

00:48:37The money.

00:48:38The money in the safe.

00:48:39The thousand dollars.

00:48:41Oh, that money.

00:48:42Well, don't make it sound as if it was only five bucks.

00:48:45Don't you know how important it was to me?

00:48:47What it meant to me?

00:48:48A thousand dollars.

00:48:50Well, that's all right, Horace.

00:48:51I, I give the young fellow a receipt for it.

00:48:54Oh, I don't give a hang about the receipt, but the money.

00:48:57I needed it so desperately.

00:48:59And when you saw the...

00:49:02What young fellow?

00:49:03Well, the fellow that brought the money.

00:49:05Waldo, you mean.

00:49:06Waldo?

00:49:07Waldo.

00:49:08Waldo Williams.

00:49:09He owed me 970 dollars and he, he paid me.

00:49:12He did?

00:49:13Didn't he?

00:49:14You feeling all right, Horace?

00:49:17I don't know.

00:49:19I don't know.

00:49:19I'll tell you, I'll tell you when you answer this question.

00:49:22Did Waldo Williams give you 1,000 dollars?

00:49:24No, no, it was a fellow by the name of Peabody, Eustace Peabody.

00:49:27Are you sure?

00:49:28Of course I'm sure.

00:49:30Why, you think I was absent-minded or something to hear you talk.

00:49:33He brought the money for Ab Follensby.

00:49:36Only Ab Follensby was about to become a father and couldn't be here.

00:49:39That's all.

00:49:40So the man got excited and I put the money in the safe.

00:49:45What's the matter?

00:49:45Is that tapioca pudding bothering you?

00:49:49Not Waldo's money.

00:49:51That means it wasn't mine.

00:49:53And that means?

00:49:54Take it easy.

00:49:55Take it easy.

00:49:56Take it easy, he says.

00:49:57Shh.

00:49:57It's all right.

00:49:58It's all locked up.

00:49:59I spun the dial.

00:50:01There's nothing to worry about after all.

00:50:06What's biting, Horace?

00:50:08I don't know.

00:50:09I'll have to talk to Francie about her, Pa.

00:50:12He's getting senile or something.

00:50:16I never heard of such a thing.

00:50:17I can't believe it.

00:50:19Horace, it's awful.

00:50:20It's terrible.

00:50:21I knew you'd understand, J.J.

00:50:22Why, it's a catastrophe.

00:50:24Horace, they could put you in prison.

00:50:26Prison?

00:50:27It's a criminal offense.

00:50:29Misappropriation of funds.

00:50:30And the funds belong to somebody else.

00:50:32Yes.

00:50:32Yes, that's true.

00:50:34Oh, the disgrace of it.

00:50:36Poor Francie.

00:50:37Think of what people are saying.

00:50:39I can't.

00:50:40I only thank heaven for a friend like you at that time, like this.

00:50:42Yes.

00:50:44That's the spirit, Horace.

00:50:45A stiff upper lip, chin up, and face the world with a friend at your side and a pure heart.

00:50:51Thank you, J.J.

00:50:52I knew I could count on you to give me back the money.

00:50:55The money?

00:50:55Yes.

00:50:56The thousand dollars.

00:50:58Give it back?

00:50:59Yes.

00:50:59You see, if I can get it back into the safe before that Peabody fellow comes back.

00:51:02Really, Horace?

00:51:04What's the matter?

00:51:05Well, don't you think it'd be imposing on a friendship to ask for money in times like these?

00:51:10But that's what we're talking about.

00:51:11The money.

00:51:12It isn't mine.

00:51:13I gave it to you.

00:51:14It isn't yours.

00:51:15It's Peabody's.

00:51:15Are you trying to imply that I stole those funds?

00:51:18No, no.

00:51:18Nobody stole the funds.

00:51:19It's a mistake.

00:51:20It's an error, but I've got to get the money back.

00:51:22Please, J.J.

00:51:23Well, I'd be glad to help you out, Horace.

00:51:25Oh, thank heaven.

00:51:26But then don't frighten me like that.

00:51:28Only I haven't got the money.

00:51:29It's too hard on my nerves.

00:51:34You haven't got the money?

00:51:35Of course not.

00:51:37I told you Geraldine Atherner was going to throw me out.

00:51:39I had to pay her every cent of it.

00:51:40Horace, get a grip on yourself.

00:51:44The hotel.

00:51:45My ancestors.

00:51:46The safe.

00:51:47The money.

00:51:48Peabody.

00:51:49Waldo.

00:51:49Mrs. Atherton.

00:51:51Mrs. Atherton.

00:51:58A known fact, Ab.

00:52:00Yeah, the first one always takes a long time.

00:52:04All right, I'll tell the man.

00:52:05Don't you worry.

00:52:08Welcome to Silver...

00:52:10Only the fact that I'd wind up in the electric chair prevents me from killing you.

00:52:14Oh, Horace, you ain't right.

00:52:15You ain't feeling right.

00:52:16You ain't...

00:52:17I'm going mad.

00:52:18I'm going stark, staring, raving mad.

00:52:20And when I do, you'll be the first person that I vivisect.

00:52:22Now, that ain't a kind thought.

00:52:24What did I do?

00:52:24You didn't tell me about the money.

00:52:26Oh, yes, I did.

00:52:27It's all right.

00:52:28The money's in the safe.

00:52:29You got nothing to worry about.

00:52:30Don't you understand?

00:52:31Don't you know how it happened?

00:52:33You put the money in Waldo's envelope.

00:52:34I took it out and gave it to Johnson, and Johnson gave it to...

00:52:37Oh, you shouldn't have done that, Horace.

00:52:39It's unlawful to give away other people's money.

00:52:42But I didn't know it wasn't mine.

00:52:44Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

00:52:46You put the money in Waldo's envelope, and I thought he'd paid me.

00:52:49Oh.

00:52:51How do you see?

00:52:52Oh, yes, it's terrible.

00:52:54Oh, Waldo certainly had a lot of gall leaving that envelope around, didn't he?

00:52:58But Waldo didn't.

00:53:00Waldo.

00:53:09I wonder what's disturbing Horace.

00:53:15Williams!

00:53:21Williams!

00:53:22Just a minute, Mr. Taylor.

00:53:23I'll be right there.

00:53:26Hello, Mr. Taylor.

00:53:28You can tell old me goodbye me instead.

00:53:30You're through.

00:53:31Finished.

00:53:31Fired.

00:53:32No, not fired.

00:53:33You're out.

00:53:34Evicted.

00:53:35You pack your bags and get out of this hotel.

00:53:36You've got no credit.

00:53:38No room.

00:53:38No nothing.

00:53:39I wouldn't let my daughter marry you if you were the last man in the world.

00:53:41And if you were the last man in the world, you'd still owe somebody money.

00:53:45If you're not out of this hotel by tomorrow morning, I'll shoot you on sight.

00:53:50Horace, for heaven's sakes, what's all the hullabaloo about?

00:53:52Geraldine.

00:53:52I was trying to take a beauty nap, or a nap, anyway.

00:53:55Geraldine, I've got to talk to you.

00:53:56You're not making Indian signs now.

00:53:58The money.

00:53:59Whose money?

00:53:59My money.

00:54:00I mean, Waldo's money.

00:54:01I mean, the money I thought was Waldo's.

00:54:03Far be it from me to commit you to a loony bin, but your train sounds like it's off the

00:54:07track.

00:54:07Geraldine, did JJ give you $1,000?

00:54:09He did.

00:54:10I gave it to him.

00:54:11You did?

00:54:11Well, where'd you get it?

00:54:12From the safe, where Waldo put it.

00:54:14I thought.

00:54:14You thought?

00:54:15Only he didn't.

00:54:16I thought he did.

00:54:17I took it by mistake.

00:54:18Horace, if you're trying to get that money from me, you're working the wrong side of the

00:54:21track.

00:54:21Geraldine, have mercy.

00:54:22I don't mind if I do, but I haven't got the money.

00:54:25I gave it to Tom O'Connor.

00:54:25O'Connor?

00:54:26Oh, my gosh.

00:54:27Well, he might lend it back to you at a fair rate of interest.

00:54:29You think he would?

00:54:30Maybe I could.

00:54:32Oh, Dad, I was...

00:54:33How do you do?

00:54:37Charmed, I'm sure.

00:54:54Well, how goes it?

00:54:59What's eating you two?

00:55:00Waldo says he can't finish the picture.

00:55:02Can't finish it?

00:55:04Oh, Waldo, you have to finish it.

00:55:05I can't tell you how much, how very much it means to me.

00:55:08And to Tom.

00:55:09And to me, too, Audrey.

00:55:10That's the best thing I've ever done, but what can we do?

00:55:13You heard what Mr. Taylor said, clear out by morning.

00:55:15What is all this?

00:55:16Your father, Francie, he foreclosed.

00:55:19He can't do that?

00:55:20He not only can, but he did.

00:55:22Now, you're gonna finish that painting.

00:55:24Come on, Audrey, get back into your dress.

00:55:26Oh, I can't now.

00:55:26I have to hurry and shop for Tom's dinner.

00:55:28Can you come back after dinner and pose?

00:55:30Sure, I can do that.

00:55:31All right, we'll try it after dinner.

00:55:33About eight.

00:55:33Good.

00:55:36Al, you better tell me just what happened.

00:55:39Francie, I don't like to mention this, but sometimes does your dad go off the deep end?

00:55:44Oh, darling, he has a lot of worries.

00:55:46He just gets excited.

00:55:47Well, I don't get it.

00:55:47First, he comes tearing in here and says,

00:55:49Blessings on you, my children.

00:55:50Blessings on you, Waldo.

00:55:51You're a great guy.

00:55:52Next thing I know, back he comes with his fist in my face.

00:55:55I can never see you again, and he's gonna shoot me on sight.

00:55:58Don't worry about him, honey.

00:55:59I can handle him.

00:56:00No, Francie.

00:56:01Your boster men are supporting me for too long already.

00:56:04He's been mighty patient for six months, and I don't blame him for being fed up.

00:56:07It's time I clear it out.

00:56:10Well, all right.

00:56:12Let's see now.

00:56:13Where can you go?

00:56:14You should have heard what your father told me to go.

00:56:17No, I'm serious.

00:56:19I know.

00:56:20Audrey and Tom's.

00:56:20They have a big house.

00:56:21Will you use that pretty head of yours for a change?

00:56:23There's no money in this town.

00:56:24I have to sell paintings.

00:56:26So, logical conclusion, I go where people buy paintings.

00:56:28All right.

00:56:29How long have I got to pack?

00:56:30You're not going.

00:56:30Oh, yes, I am.

00:56:32Have you ever ridden the rods?

00:56:34No, not yet.

00:56:36I don't intend to let you start now, either.

00:56:38Well, what if I...

00:56:38Look.

00:56:39You should know by this time I'm a very stubborn guy.

00:56:42You're not going, and I'm not coming back until I can pay our way.

00:56:48Well, how long does that have to take, these folks?

00:56:52I don't know.

00:56:53The way things look right now, it may be some time.

00:57:00Well, hello again.

00:57:02Hey, what's this?

00:57:05An ass making an ass of himself.

00:57:07Yeah, that's a...

00:57:12Welcome to Silver Creek Inn.

00:57:14Save it, old timer.

00:57:15You'll wear it out.

00:57:16Oh, it's you.

00:57:17Say, what's the matter with these Vermont women?

00:57:19Just ain't enough of them, that's all.

00:57:20Well, they sure are a coal lot.

00:57:22Well, you gotta light a match before it'll burn.

00:57:24Now you take New York gals.

00:57:25Oh, no, I'll take a Vermont girl every time.

00:57:27Their heads may be as hard as marble, but their hearts are just as soft as the feather beds they

00:57:31sleep in.

00:57:32You lived here all your life?

00:57:33Not yet.

00:57:36Well, what do you Vermonters do for excitement?

00:57:38Raise more corn.

00:57:40You're supposed to ask me why.

00:57:42All right, Mr. Bones.

00:57:43Why do you raise more corn?

00:57:45To feed more cows.

00:57:46Why?

00:57:47To get more milk.

00:57:48Why?

00:57:49To make more money.

00:57:50Why?

00:57:50To buy more land.

00:57:51Why?

00:57:52To raise more corn.

00:57:53Why?

00:57:53That's enough, young fella.

00:57:54Thanks, son.

00:57:56Ain't been able to pull that since the tourist trade fell off.

00:58:00Say, what about this Follensby?

00:58:02Isn't he ever gonna show up?

00:58:03Oh, he just telephoned.

00:58:04He told me to tell you to keep calm.

00:58:06What does he mean, keep calm?

00:58:07I guess that's what the doctors have been telling him.

00:58:09I got a half a mind to take the dough and blow back to New York.

00:58:12Okay.

00:58:12That's the way you feel.

00:58:13It's your money.

00:58:14Uh-oh, uh-oh.

00:58:15Now, wait a minute.

00:58:16Wait a minute.

00:58:17No, no.

00:58:18Now, don't go off half cock.

00:58:19Ab needs that money, seeing as how he's going to become a parent and all.

00:58:23Now, you just go over there and sit down and make yourself to hum.

00:58:27If that guy doesn't show up pretty soon, I'll make myself to hum on the southbound train.

00:58:46Tom!

00:58:47Tom O'Conney!

00:58:55Tom!

00:58:57Hello, Audrey.

00:59:00Hmm, that's more like my husband.

00:59:01Ah, what's the idea of coming home so late?

00:59:03Don't you know a fella misses his gal?

00:59:04Why, Tom?

00:59:05You've been going quite a while, you know.

00:59:06Well, I had to do the marketing.

00:59:08Hmm.

00:59:09Mm-hmm.

00:59:10Hmm.

00:59:10What is all this?

00:59:12Oh, what?

00:59:12All this hocus pocus.

00:59:14Is something the matter?

00:59:14Nothing, nothing.

00:59:15That outfit isn't yours, is it?

00:59:17You know very well it isn't mine.

00:59:19Well, turn it back to them and buy yourself a new one.

00:59:21And while you're about it, buy yourself a new bonnet.

00:59:22Well, I always say there's nothing better for a woman's morale than a new bonnet.

00:59:25Oh, really?

00:59:26And get yourself a couple dozen pairs of silk stockings, too.

00:59:29You've got nice legs in silk stockings.

00:59:31And some, uh, lacy things, you know.

00:59:33Do you feel all right?

00:59:34Never felt better in my life.

00:59:38You haven't been visiting the local speakeasy.

00:59:40Mm-mm.

00:59:42Then, uh, where are we going to get the money to buy all these things?

00:59:45Money?

00:59:46Oh, oh, oh, money.

00:59:49I, uh, imagine this will take care of things for the present.

00:59:56A thousand dollars?

00:59:57Mm-hmm.

00:59:58Oh, darling, you haven't done something foolish.

01:00:00Sure have.

01:00:02Where did this come from?

01:00:04I'm a lawyer, Artie, remember?

01:00:06I'm a counsel at law.

01:00:07Well, I'm counseling at law again.

01:00:09That's a retainer.

01:00:10A retainer?

01:00:11Mm-hmm.

01:00:11I did a job for Geraldine Atherton.

01:00:13The, uh, rest is just in advance.

01:00:15She's thinking of the future.

01:00:16And the mills may be reopening again.

01:00:18Oh, darling, that's wonderful.

01:00:19Oh, the future.

01:00:21I'd begun to believe there wasn't any.

01:00:23Hey, you know what we're gonna do?

01:00:25What?

01:00:25We're going up and over the border and celebrate.

01:00:27We're gonna have a terrific dinner, a party,

01:00:28and a lot of good Canadian spirits.

01:00:30Oh, that's great. I'll wear my...

01:00:33Oh.

01:00:33Oh, what's the matter?

01:00:35Oh, we can't go.

01:00:36Oh, why not?

01:00:37Well, I...

01:00:38I promised Francie that I'd come over and talk to her tonight after dinner.

01:00:41Well, say, what is this?

01:00:42What's Francie Taylor got to do with us?

01:00:44Well, it's...

01:00:45It's Waldo Williams.

01:00:46She's so very much in love with him, and Horace is objecting.

01:00:49It's pretty rough.

01:00:50Oh, what's biting, Horace?

01:00:52Waldo's a nice guy.

01:00:55All right, if you say so.

01:00:56What the heck.

01:00:57We've had our good luck.

01:00:58Maybe you can bring Francie a little, eh, darling?

01:01:00We'll celebrate tomorrow night.

01:01:01Oh, I love you.

01:01:05Oh, I'd like to stay, but my husband's expecting me to cook his dinner.

01:01:10What's he got that I haven't got?

01:01:11I hate that guy.

01:01:12Why?

01:01:13Every time I get any place with you, he interferes.

01:01:16That's life.

01:01:17Back to the kitchen, slave.

01:01:19Stick around.

01:01:20We may be able to get rid of him.

01:01:34Hello?

01:01:36Oh, hello, Horace.

01:01:38After dinner?

01:01:39Yes, I'll be here.

01:01:40But can't you tell me what it is?

01:01:41No.

01:01:42No, Tom.

01:01:43I'll tell you when I get there.

01:01:47Please cheer up, Dan.

01:01:48Why?

01:01:49I just know that everything's gonna be all right.

01:01:51If you tell me it's always darkest before the dawn,

01:01:54I'll wail the living daylights out of you.

01:01:55Why didn't you tell Tom what you want?

01:01:57On the phone?

01:01:58It's a party line.

01:01:58You might as well put an ad in the bugle.

01:02:00Keep your fingers crossed, Dad.

01:02:02You're a little late.

01:02:11Gee, Eddie, look.

01:02:12Lord Dander run out of the money.

01:02:14Eddie lost me shirt.

01:02:16You'll lose your neck if that truck don't show up soon.

01:02:19It ain't my fault.

01:02:20I don't set the timetable for the trucks we're going to escort.

01:02:23Ah, shut up.

01:02:25You say so, Eddie.

01:02:37Yeah, I can make it.

01:02:39I pay him.

01:02:42Well, my friend, you can't do that.

01:02:45I can't.

01:02:46He's a old man.

01:02:48They're old man.

01:02:56There, my friend.

01:02:57He's a old man.

01:02:58Well, there's nothing in the...

01:03:01But there isn't.

01:03:03I know.

01:03:04But if they had cracked the safe,

01:03:07if they thought the money was still in there...

01:03:11Now it's too late.

01:03:23There really was an echo in that canyon.

01:03:25Oh, I bet you enjoyed talking to yourselves.

01:03:27Yes, it'd be nicer if you...

01:03:35Go get your dinner, Ed.

01:03:37I'll get mine later if I ever get my appetite back.

01:03:40They say they set a good table down at Windsor.

01:03:43What's at Windsor?

01:03:44State prison.

01:03:46Two dinners.

01:03:48That'll be one dollar.

01:03:49If you see a big truck go through, let us know, will you, boss?

01:03:51Oh, sure. I haven't anything else to think about.

01:03:55Did you get the money, Horace?

01:03:56Shh!

01:03:58What's the matter?

01:03:59Afraid the termites are cops in disguise.

01:04:08Do you gentlemen mind if I join you?

01:04:10Sure.

01:04:11Sit right down and take a load off the floor.

01:04:13I just hate to eat alone.

01:04:15Me, too.

01:04:15Nothing like a lady for dinner.

01:04:16Me, I like the...

01:04:17Rocky, he likes horses.

01:04:19Me, I like horses, too.

01:04:20Yeah?

01:04:21Yeah.

01:04:22Where would Lady Godiva been without a horse?

01:04:24Lady Godiva?

01:04:25What track is she running at?

01:04:26In the Epidermis Handicap at Coventry.

01:04:34Oh, good evening, Mr. Peabody.

01:04:36Wish I could say the same here for the dinner.

01:04:40Everything all right?

01:04:41Oh, I'm fed up to here with this one horseberg.

01:04:43If Follinsby doesn't show up before the 9.30 train for New York,

01:04:46you can tell him he's out of luck.

01:04:47Oh, and now, Mr. Peabody, Mr. Follinsby is usually a very punctual man,

01:04:50but you know how it is becoming a father.

01:04:52How would I know?

01:04:53I'm not married.

01:04:53Well, believe me, it's a very trying ordeal.

01:04:56I remember when I was...

01:04:57All I know is I was supposed to give him a grand this morning,

01:05:00and he didn't show up.

01:05:00In fact, the more I think about it, why should I wait for him?

01:05:03Why should I grow old in this graveyard?

01:05:05Oh, I'm getting out of here.

01:05:06Mr. Follinsby needs that money very badly.

01:05:09Not as badly as I need to get back to New York.

01:05:10Well, come on.

01:05:11Give me the cash.

01:05:12The cash?

01:05:13Yes, the cash.

01:05:14The guilt.

01:05:14It's in the safe.

01:05:15A thousand bucks.

01:05:16The old coot put it there.

01:05:17Oh, the cash.

01:05:18Oh, yes, Ed told me all about it.

01:05:22Well...

01:05:22I beg your pardon?

01:05:23How about it?

01:05:24How about my money?

01:05:25The money.

01:05:27Well, that's what I...

01:05:29It's really very embarrassing, but as a matter of fact, I...

01:05:31Now, look.

01:05:32Let's keep it simple.

01:05:33There's the receipt.

01:05:34Now, make with the money.

01:05:36Well, that's what I was trying to tell you.

01:05:38The...

01:05:40Isn't it ridiculous?

01:05:42It's getting to be, yes.

01:05:43I mean, about me being the owner of the hotel

01:05:46and not knowing the combination of the safe.

01:05:48You mean you don't...

01:05:49There's nothing to worry about.

01:05:50The clerk knows the combination.

01:05:51All right, I'll get him.

01:05:52No, no, no, Mr. Peabody.

01:05:53Look, it's...

01:05:54It's humiliating enough for me not to know the combination of the safe.

01:05:57But instead of having to send you on a...

01:05:58On a minion's errand.

01:06:00I don't mind.

01:06:00I'd like to take another squint at that nifty little waitress.

01:06:03I'll get her.

01:06:04I mean him.

01:06:05You stay right there.

01:06:06You, uh...

01:06:10Ed, come on.

01:06:11What's the idea?

01:06:13You got something in your eye, Eddie.

01:06:16He wears it well, doesn't he?

01:06:21Ed, you've got to get out of here.

01:06:22Get out of where?

01:06:23Peabody wants his money.

01:06:24I told him that you were the only one who had the combination to the safe.

01:06:26Go into the kitchen.

01:06:27Hide there until I give you the word.

01:06:28But I didn't have my dessert.

01:06:29Oh, there's plenty left.

01:06:30If he sees you, I'm sunk.

01:06:33Francie, get him out of here.

01:06:34Well, you can't hide him forever.

01:06:35That Peabody will just wait.

01:06:36And chances are, if he waits too long, he'll just send for the sheriff.

01:06:39Time.

01:06:40That's all I need.

01:06:41I've got to see Tom O'Connor.

01:06:42Well, go on, Uncle Ed.

01:06:43But it's rice pudding, and you know I like pudding.

01:06:45It agrees with me.

01:06:46Hurry, hurry.

01:06:47There's a whole pan full of it on the stove.

01:06:50Francie, Francie, you've got to do something for your father.

01:06:52You've got to make a great sacrifice.

01:06:54Anything, if it'll help.

01:06:55You've got to vamp Mr. Peabody.

01:06:57Now, wait a minute.

01:06:58Nothing serious.

01:06:59Just get him out of the hotel.

01:07:00Take him for a walk.

01:07:01Take his mind off money.

01:07:02Just give me a chance to see Tom O'Connor.

01:07:04I did say anything, didn't I?

01:07:06Yes.

01:07:06All right.

01:07:07But if it was anybody but you...

01:07:09Bless you, Francie.

01:07:10All right.

01:07:11Come on to the desk.

01:07:11I'll be with you in a minute.

01:07:20Hiya, beautiful.

01:07:21I've been waiting for you.

01:07:30Is everything okay?

01:07:31Yes, indeed.

01:07:32You got the combination?

01:07:32Well, as a matter of fact, no.

01:07:34What?

01:07:34Now, don't get excited.

01:07:35There's nothing to be excited about.

01:07:36Nothing.

01:07:37There's a thousand bucks to get excited about.

01:07:38And it's quite safe and sound right in here.

01:07:40And I want a safe and sound right in...

01:07:41Oh, excuse me.

01:07:43Maybe you didn't hear me the first time, but I'm getting out of here.

01:07:45Well, as a matter of fact, there's a slight delay.

01:07:47Never mind the delays.

01:07:48I'm getting that 9.30 train for New York.

01:07:50Get some nitro.

01:07:50Get a locksmith.

01:07:51Get my dough out of there.

01:07:52That won't be necessary.

01:07:53Yes, Francie.

01:07:53You think I'll go for a little walk now, Daddy?

01:07:56Do you mind?

01:07:56Well, now, daughter, you know I don't approve of you going out after dark alone.

01:07:59Oh, Daddy, I've been in all day.

01:08:02Yes, yes, I know.

01:08:03But, of course, if you could find somebody...

01:08:04Say, I think a little walk would do me good if it's company you want.

01:08:06Well, now, Mr. Peabody, that's very nice of you.

01:08:08Yeah?

01:08:09Okay by you, Mr.

01:08:10Uh...

01:08:10Taylor.

01:08:11Miss Taylor.

01:08:12Thank you, Mr. Peabody.

01:08:13That's very sweet of you.

01:08:15Yeah?

01:08:15I thought you put the chill on me.

01:08:17Oh, how ever could you think that?

01:08:18I just don't want to put you out.

01:08:20I'll have that little matter attended to by the time you get back.

01:08:23All right, Foxy.

01:08:28Ed!

01:08:29For heaven's sake!

01:08:30Is the coast clear?

01:08:32Yes.

01:08:32Come on, come on.

01:08:35Watch out for those termites, Horace.

01:08:37How do you spell Covetry?

01:08:38With a K.

01:08:40Now, you watch the desk and keep your mouth shut.

01:08:42And if you see Peabody before I do, you faint.

01:08:44Go unconscious.

01:08:45Anything.

01:08:45I never fainted in my life.

01:08:47You'll faint if you see him or I'll see that you faint permanently.

01:08:56I got another one that will slay you.

01:08:59I'm afraid my Boston ancestors wouldn't approve.

01:09:01Thanks for the laugh, boys.

01:09:03Good night and good luck.

01:09:04Good night, lady.

01:09:05If you have a short of a snort, give me your call in New York.

01:09:07Thank you. Good night.

01:09:08Good night.

01:09:11It was me who got Horace in this jam and it was up to me to get him out.

01:09:16Then I thought of a plan.

01:09:20Say, say there, you fellas.

01:09:22Come here a minute.

01:09:30Will you do me a favor?

01:09:32Sure thing, Pop.

01:09:34Will you watch the desk for a while?

01:09:37I wouldn't ask you ordinarily, only you see there's a thousand dollars in the safe, in cash, and I'm supposed

01:09:45to guard it.

01:09:45Go right ahead, Pop.

01:09:47Me and Eddie will watch it just like it was our very own.

01:09:49Well, that's right, neighborly of you.

01:09:50I'll only be gone a minute, maybe longer.

01:09:56That thing is a cracker box.

01:09:58It was built in 1890.

01:10:00Yeah, I used to crack that model twice a week, when I was learning the business.

01:10:03Gee, Eddie, I bet you was a beautiful safe cracker.

01:10:06Not bad.

01:10:07If I do save myself.

01:10:08Is it hard to open?

01:10:10Yeah, not as hard as opening a pack of cigarettes.

01:10:15A thousand bucks, huh?

01:10:17Hey, Eddie, could you learn me how to open a safe?

01:10:20Depends on your touch.

01:10:22Well, go ahead and open it just for fun.

01:10:23For fun?

01:10:25Well, then, for a G.

01:10:26Yeah, but the thing is, Pop kind of put us on our honor.

01:10:29Yeah?

01:10:30What's that?

01:10:33You got a point there.

01:10:46It's all in the touch of the fingers.

01:11:02No, you don't, Rocky.

01:11:03What's the idea?

01:11:04Like I said, the old man put us on our honor.

01:11:07Yeah, but I don't get it.

01:11:08It's like giving you word.

01:11:09And when you give your word, it's like giving your bond.

01:11:11See?

01:11:12Yeah.

01:11:13When you give your word and your bond, you can't double-cross a pal.

01:11:15You can't?

01:11:16That's what I said.

01:11:17It's like honor among thieves.

01:11:18It ain't ethical.

01:11:19We should break our word of honor.

01:11:21You understand?

01:11:22Yeah.

01:11:22I get it.

01:11:23But what's that got to do with this breaking open safe?

01:11:27Okay, if you say so, Eddie.

01:11:29I say so.

01:11:48Tom.

01:11:49Tom.

01:11:50Tom.

01:11:50I've got to talk to you.

01:11:51Oh, hello, Horace.

01:11:52I couldn't explain over the telephone party line.

01:11:54It would have been all over town.

01:11:55Quite a story about Francine and the cattle.

01:11:57Yes, Tom.

01:11:57Listen to me.

01:11:59I'm listening, Horace.

01:12:00I'm in trouble.

01:12:01I'm in awful trouble.

01:12:02I've done a terrible thing.

01:12:03Well, you'd better come into the house and tell me all about it.

01:12:05Yes.

01:12:06Yes.

01:12:06Well, you see.

01:12:07No, no, no.

01:12:08I can't go.

01:12:08I've got to get that money.

01:12:10What money?

01:12:10It wasn't mine.

01:12:11Don't you understand?

01:12:12It wasn't mine.

01:12:13And I thought it was.

01:12:14And that's why I gave it to J.J.

01:12:16Now, take it easy, Horace.

01:12:17Let me get this straight.

01:12:18You owed Johnson some money and you paid him with funds which didn't belong to you?

01:12:22That's right.

01:12:23And I've got to get that thousand dollars back.

01:12:25But you were not aware that the funds you transferred did not really belong to you?

01:12:28No.

01:12:28They belonged to Ab Follansbee.

01:12:30Oh, does Ab know that you misappropriated?

01:12:33Don't use the word like that.

01:12:35No, Ab doesn't know anything about it yet because the money hasn't exactly reached him.

01:12:39You see, it belongs to a fellow by the name of Peabody.

01:12:41Now, you're not making sense.

01:12:42If you want me to help you, Horace, you've got to make sense.

01:12:45Now, tell me the truth.

01:12:48Look, the money was in the safe.

01:12:50I thought it was mine.

01:12:51I took it.

01:12:53No intent to steal.

01:12:54No intent to defraud.

01:12:55Only an intent to pay my debts.

01:12:58It's a difficult case, Horace.

01:12:59A very difficult case.

01:13:01Ipso facto, no proof of criminal intent.

01:13:04Don't say criminal.

01:13:05Look, Tom, you've got to help me.

01:13:06I've got to get that money back.

01:13:07I'll pay you anything.

01:13:07Don't worry about a retainer at this time, Horace.

01:13:09I'll do all I can to help you.

01:13:13Now, as your lawyer, the first thing...

01:13:14As my lawyer?

01:13:15Yes.

01:13:15The first thing we must do is prove that your assumption the money was yours is valid.

01:13:19Otherwise, the district attorney...

01:13:20District attorney?

01:13:21What are you talking about?

01:13:22What's the matter with you?

01:13:22I don't want a lawyer.

01:13:23I don't want a district attorney.

01:13:24All I want is the money.

01:13:25I need that money.

01:13:26Now, hang on to yourself, Horace.

01:13:27The money, the money.

01:13:28I've got to have that thousand dollars.

01:13:30I gave it to JJ.

01:13:30He gave it to Geraldine.

01:13:34He...

01:13:35Oh.

01:13:36Oh, he says.

01:13:37Tom, for pity's sake, I've got it.

01:13:38Oh, I see.

01:13:38Well, I'm terribly sorry, Horace.

01:13:40I misunderstood you.

01:13:41I'd be glad to help you out.

01:13:43Oh, thank you.

01:13:44I'd really be glad to if I had it.

01:13:48It sounded like you said, if you had it.

01:13:52I did say so.

01:13:54Audrey's got it now.

01:13:55Oh, no.

01:13:56I just gave it to her only a few minutes ago.

01:13:58Why don't you ask her for it?

01:13:59She couldn't possibly have spent it.

01:14:00Shops are all closed.

01:14:01Where is she?

01:14:03She went to the inn to see Francie.

01:14:04To the inn.

01:14:05To see Francie.

01:14:05The thousand dollars at the inn.

01:14:07Horace.

01:14:08Take it easy.

01:14:17Knock, knock.

01:14:18Who's there?

01:14:19Francie.

01:14:20Francie who?

01:14:21Francie meeting you here.

01:14:24Brother Peabody, you're killing me.

01:14:26Oh, hello, Tom.

01:14:28Francie, where's Audrey?

01:14:29Audrey?

01:14:30You heard me.

01:14:31Now, wait a second, brother.

01:14:32You keep out of this, Francie.

01:14:33Why, I haven't seen her.

01:14:35Well, she said she was going over to see you.

01:14:37Oh, my gosh, I forgot.

01:14:39I must have missed her.

01:14:40I'll get right back to the inn.

01:14:41Say, who's Audrey?

01:14:42Is she that good-looking dish I saw going in that guy's room a little while ago?

01:14:44Oh, shut up.

01:14:45Which guy?

01:14:45Now, wait a second, brother.

01:14:46I'm a stranger here.

01:14:46I don't know from nothing.

01:14:47Which guy?

01:14:48Well, the artist, Williams, I think his name is.

01:14:50Is Audrey with Walter Williams?

01:14:51Then now, Tom, listen to me.

01:14:53That's why you're out with this.

01:14:54Tom.

01:14:55Hey.

01:14:55Oh, shut up.

01:14:59Welcome to Silver Creek.

01:15:01Where's Audrey O'Connor?

01:15:02Home, I reckon.

01:15:03She's not home.

01:15:03I just came from there.

01:15:04Tom said she was here.

01:15:05Well, I ain't seen her.

01:15:06Maybe she went by when my specs were up.

01:15:08Maybe she's out with Francie.

01:15:09Francie's out with that Peabody fellow.

01:15:10Oh, she must be harder.

01:15:12If they come back, you tell them I'm out.

01:15:14Stall them off.

01:15:14I've got to find Audrey O'Connor if I have to telephone everybody in town.

01:15:18Where now?

01:15:23Well, that just about does it.

01:15:25I hope Tom likes it.

01:15:26Oh, he'll love it.

01:15:28It's chilly in here.

01:15:30Wait till I swing it around to get a better perspective.

01:15:36Welcome to Silver Creek.

01:15:37Where's Walter Williams' room?

01:15:38Oh, Tom, how's Audrey?

01:15:40What's the number of Walter Williams' room?

01:15:42Number 16.

01:15:43Good night.

01:15:45Tom!

01:15:46Wait!

01:15:54Tom!

01:15:55Tom!

01:15:55Don't you go in there!

01:15:56You spoiled a surprise!

01:15:57Tom!

01:15:58Hello, Tom.

01:15:59Surprise, eh?

01:16:01Tom!

01:16:01Are you out of your mind?

01:16:03Phil!

01:16:05You didn't have to do things this way, Audrey.

01:16:08Hooray!

01:16:09You're jealous.

01:16:11Look.

01:16:14It's all yours.

01:16:15We just finished it.

01:16:17You mean...

01:16:18this?

01:16:20That's the little plan I had to cure your loneliness.

01:16:23Audrey, it's...

01:16:25it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

01:16:27Now I'll always be with you.

01:16:34Mrs. Atherton was right.

01:16:36I've been a fool.

01:16:38You go right on being a fool.

01:16:40Wake up, Bill.

01:16:43Waldo!

01:16:44Waldo.

01:16:48I'm terribly sorry, Fancy.

01:16:49It's all right.

01:16:50It's all right, old man.

01:16:52I can't thank you enough.

01:16:53Not in a thousand years.

01:16:54Thanks.

01:16:55Thanks, pal.

01:16:56Maybe it's me that's crazy.

01:16:58Oh, Bill.

01:16:59Your painting is really lovely.

01:17:01Isn't it wonderful?

01:17:02You're a great artist.

01:17:03Oh, no.

01:17:05Not... not right now.

01:17:06Maybe later, perhaps, but...

01:17:07No, now.

01:17:08That's right.

01:17:09It's a masterpiece.

01:17:12Do you really think so?

01:17:14Well, I'll be running along, Horace.

01:17:16All right, Ed.

01:17:17Good night.

01:17:17Come on, somebody.

01:17:18Hand it over.

01:17:18Oh, there's something I wanted to tell you, Horace.

01:17:20Tell him to give me a grand.

01:17:21Oh, hang it all.

01:17:22I can't remember a word of it with him interrupting all the time.

01:17:25It probably isn't important.

01:17:27Only thing is, it was important.

01:17:28I'll say it was.

01:17:29Well, you'll remember tomorrow.

01:17:30You can tell me then, if I'm still here.

01:17:32Only thing is, I hate forgetting.

01:17:34Folks will be saying I'm getting old.

01:17:35I wish getting old was the only thing I had to worry about.

01:17:38I don't worry about it.

01:17:39If I don't get old, I'll be dead.

01:17:41Now, you get a hold of a good criminal lawyer, Horace.

01:17:45Hold everything, Taylor.

01:17:46Uh, uh, something, Mr. Peabody?

01:17:48I'm blown out of town.

01:17:49Give me that dough.

01:17:50Ah, but, uh, what about Ab Follensby?

01:17:52I'm getting a 9.30 train for New York.

01:17:54And if Ab Follensby doesn't like it, he can lump it.

01:17:56Watch your language, Mr. Peabody.

01:17:58Give me my dough.

01:17:59Give me my dough.

01:18:00I will not.

01:18:01What?

01:18:01I will not turn over that money to you.

01:18:03It belongs to Mr. Ab Follensby.

01:18:05He's a friend of mine.

01:18:06Horace.

01:18:07Oh, Follensby.

01:18:08Follensby.

01:18:09Horace.

01:18:10Congratulate me.

01:18:11Have a cigar.

01:18:12I'm a father.

01:18:14Myra just had twins.

01:18:16Twin boys.

01:18:16Have two cigars.

01:18:18Congratulations.

01:18:19Twins?

01:18:20Wonderful.

01:18:20It saves time.

01:18:21Boys?

01:18:22Girls?

01:18:22Of course.

01:18:23What else would you expect?

01:18:24Are you Follensby?

01:18:26Is your name Ab Follensby?

01:18:27Here, young fella, take it easy.

01:18:29I'm the one that just had twins, not you.

01:18:31I mean my wife.

01:18:32You are Ab Follensby?

01:18:33That's me right enough.

01:18:34My name's Peabody, Acme Collection Agency.

01:18:36I've been hanging around this hole in the ball all day waiting for you.

01:18:38Well, Mr. Peabody, glad to see you.

01:18:40Have a cigar.

01:18:40Thank you very much.

01:18:41Twins.

01:18:41I got the money for you.

01:18:42Okay, pal.

01:18:43Hand over the money.

01:18:44The money?

01:18:45Yes.

01:18:45Don't tell me again you haven't got the combination.

01:18:47Shucks, Horace knows the combination of that lockup.

01:18:49Well, I use his own birthday, Horace.

01:18:51Sure, but...

01:18:52Come on.

01:18:52Step on it, Taylor.

01:18:53I've got to catch that train.

01:18:54But I just remembered something.

01:18:55The safe is jammed there.

01:18:57There's something wrong.

01:18:58The lock.

01:18:58I've got to fix the combination.

01:19:00Get a locksmith.

01:19:00You don't need a locksmith.

01:19:02Oh, but I do.

01:19:03I do.

01:19:03Eddie will open it for you.

01:19:04Sure.

01:19:05There ain't nothing to it.

01:19:07A baby could open it.

01:19:10It worked fine before.

01:19:11Before?

01:19:13Your man opened it.

01:19:15Sheriff.

01:19:16Get the sheriff.

01:19:16Sheriff?

01:19:17We don't need no sheriff.

01:19:18Nobody's gonna heist this door with us around.

01:19:20You said it, Eddie.

01:19:22Horace, I just remembered what I forgot to tell you not to forget to remember.

01:19:26Waldo paid up his bill.

01:19:28He sold a painting to Audrey O'Connor.

01:19:30Thousand dollars.

01:19:31The money's right there in the safe.

01:19:34There you are.

01:19:35I'll be running along.

01:19:36So long, Horace.

01:19:42Good old Waldo.

01:19:43Come on, come on, come on, come on.

01:19:45There you are, Mr. Peabody.

01:19:46Count it, if you please.

01:19:47We don't want to have any mistakes.

01:19:48Eight, nine, ten, one thousand.

01:19:50The receipt, if you please.

01:19:52All right.

01:19:52There you are.

01:19:54There you are, sir.

01:19:55One thousand dollars.

01:19:55A lot of money to take home in the dark.

01:19:58Horace, I think I'll just leave this in the dark.

01:19:59The safe for the night.

01:20:00Oh, no.

01:20:01No, nothing doing.

01:20:02I don't want to have any responsibility.

01:20:04Goodbye, Mr. Collinsby.

01:20:05Here, just a second, young fellow.

01:20:07Will you do some business for me?

01:20:08Why, sure, for the usual fee.

01:20:10Well, this money don't rightly belong to me.

01:20:12Would you take it to New York and pay the big dig tractor company?

01:20:15You can collect your fee from them.

01:20:16What?

01:20:17Yep.

01:20:17They was going to take my tractor.

01:20:19Own three back payments.

01:20:20This thousand makes it mine.

01:20:22If you want us to pay the money in New York, why don't you ask us instead of having me

01:20:25come

01:20:25way up here?

01:20:25I know.

01:20:26I never thought of it, I guess.

01:20:27You never?

01:20:28Yes, sir, Mr. Collinsby.

01:20:29And if we can be of any further service, don't fail to get in touch with us.

01:20:32Well, so long, everybody.

01:20:33Better get that train.

01:20:34Don't take any wooden nickels.

01:20:35If you don't mind waiting around a little bit, we can give you a lift back to New York.

01:20:40Yeah, we'd like to take you for a nice, long ride.

01:20:42No, thank you.

01:20:43What?

01:20:44Well, there you have it.

01:20:46The story of a thousand dollars.

01:20:48It arrived in Silver Creek at noon and left again at nine that night.

01:20:53And in that short time, it solved a lot of problems.

01:20:57Maybe that whisper room would sweep away the depression.

01:21:00It brought a young couple a bright hope in the future.

01:21:04And a thousand dollars bought a portrait.

01:21:06A symbol of permanence and security for a wavering marriage which had been headed for

01:21:12the rocks of vain pride and misunderstanding.

01:21:16It helped an old skinflint pay off his back rent.

01:21:19But it didn't square his debt to his maker.

01:21:23It saved the inn from the auctioneer's hammer.

01:21:25And it started something between a couple of old hearts you'd have thought too tough for Cupid's arrows.

01:21:32And while that money had nothing to do with Ab Follensbee having twins, it did save his tractor.

01:21:39And strangely enough, that money didn't belong to any of those people but Ab Follensbee.

01:21:44And maybe it didn't belong to him.

01:21:47That's quite a story, Uncle Ed, but what became of the gold?

01:21:52What gold?

01:21:53The gold you sell was in these boxes in 33.

01:21:56Oh, we went off the gold standard and it was a crime to hoard gold.

01:22:01They used it for filling teeth when they could find teeth to fill.

01:22:05What's so funny?

01:22:07Well, I was just thinking what a joke it would be if we went back on the gold standard

01:22:12and they made you turn in all that cash.

01:22:15They could do it too.

01:22:17Anything can happen.

01:22:18Ed, you're absolutely right.

01:22:20Well, what should I do?

01:22:22Take that money in the bank and put it back in circulation.

01:22:26Didn't you get the point of my story?

01:22:27That thousand dollars circulated.

01:22:30Money is like blood.

01:22:31No good unless it's circulating.

01:22:33You're absolutely right.

01:22:36Jim, Jim, let me out of here.

01:22:38I'm going to put this money in the bank.

01:22:43Hooray for Mason.

01:22:45I wish everybody would do that.

01:22:48Well, goodbye, Jim.

01:22:50Goodbye, Uncle Ed.

01:23:03Bye.

01:23:05Bye.

01:23:07Bye.

The Inside Story 1948 Marsha Hunt, William Lundigan & Charles Winninger

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