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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 3 00:01:49,042 --> 00:01:51,943 Get a load of the boss, will you? 4 00:01:54,614 --> 00:01:57,742 - What a patron of the arts. - Shh! 11 00:02:52,805 --> 00:02:57,936 Mr. Louis McKinley's car! Mr. Louis McKinley's car! 13 00:03:03,016 --> 00:03:06,076 - Grandpa! Grandpa! - Ah, good evening, Alice. 14 00:03:06,152 --> 00:03:08,950 - Gee, Mr. Hodges, you were swell. - Thank you, my boy. 15 00:03:09,022 --> 00:03:11,490 Why didn't you tell us you were gonna play a solo? 16 00:03:11,558 --> 00:03:14,618 When you stood up with that big orchestra, it gave me goose pimples. 17 00:03:14,694 --> 00:03:17,663 - Really? Well, it's nice of you to say so. - All that applause! 18 00:03:17,730 --> 00:03:20,460 - Very gratifying. - What'd the maestro think? 19 00:03:20,533 --> 00:03:22,558 He seemed impressed. 20 00:03:22,635 --> 00:03:25,934 Funny. He didn't look so happy to me, the way he kept looking around. 21 00:03:26,005 --> 00:03:28,974 Oh, why should he have been happy? Grandpa stole the show. 22 00:03:29,042 --> 00:03:31,476 With nothing but a little old piccolo too. 23 00:03:31,544 --> 00:03:34,638 - Do you want to drive home with us, Grandpa? - No, thank you. 24 00:03:34,714 --> 00:03:38,275 Oh, come on, Grandpa. We won't be doing anything except a little necking. 25 00:03:38,351 --> 00:03:40,683 Maybe you could pick up a few pointers. 26 00:03:40,753 --> 00:03:45,486 Young man, it may interest you to know that when I retired from that field some years ago... 27 00:03:45,558 --> 00:03:47,822 necking became a lost art. 28 00:03:47,894 --> 00:03:50,260 - Good night. - Good night. 29 00:03:54,734 --> 00:03:56,964 What a guy. 30 00:03:57,036 --> 00:04:01,530 Now I understand why Grandma used to have that awfully pleased look on her face. 31 00:04:01,608 --> 00:04:04,042 Yeah, maybe, but times have changed. 32 00:04:04,110 --> 00:04:06,977 It takes more than that to make a go of marriage today. 33 00:04:07,046 --> 00:04:09,879 - Like for instance? - Like dough, for instance, you dope. 34 00:04:09,949 --> 00:04:11,974 Yes, I know. You have a theory... 35 00:04:12,051 --> 00:04:14,519 It's not a theory. It's facts. I pointed out... 36 00:04:14,587 --> 00:04:17,818 All right, Joe. All right. So we don't get married. 37 00:04:17,890 --> 00:04:21,519 Not until I'm in a financial condition to support a wife. 38 00:04:21,594 --> 00:04:24,791 - How? In a comfortable wheelchair? - Sure, if it takes that long. 39 00:04:24,864 --> 00:04:27,389 [Blows Whistle] 40 00:04:27,467 --> 00:04:30,334 I could keep my job. Lots of girls do. 41 00:04:30,403 --> 00:04:32,803 My dear girl, as I've pointed out before... 42 00:04:32,872 --> 00:04:35,841 this world happens to be run on certain economic principles. 43 00:04:35,908 --> 00:04:38,877 - But, Joe... - Until a man can take care of his own wife... 44 00:04:38,945 --> 00:04:42,005 how can he possibly succeed in the broader world of finance? 45 00:04:42,081 --> 00:04:44,709 World of finance! Who cares about that? 46 00:04:44,784 --> 00:04:47,810 I want to get married. Can't you understand that? 47 00:04:47,887 --> 00:04:51,050 M-a-r-r-i-e-d. 48 00:04:51,124 --> 00:04:53,524 Just the same, we're not getting married... 49 00:04:53,593 --> 00:04:56,585 until I'm assistant head of the personnel department. 50 00:04:56,663 --> 00:05:01,191 Oh, you... you economic pig head! Good night! 51 00:05:01,267 --> 00:05:04,759 - Hey, where are you goin'? - Anywhere you're not! 52 00:05:04,837 --> 00:05:08,204 - All right. Go ahead. Walk! - [Whistle Blows] 53 00:05:08,274 --> 00:05:10,265 See if I care. 54 00:05:16,816 --> 00:05:19,876 You know I'm right about not getting married now, don't you, Grandpa? 55 00:05:19,952 --> 00:05:23,786 Young man, kindly do not address me by that loathsome word "grandpa." 56 00:05:23,856 --> 00:05:27,952 I'm am not your paternal ancestor, and judging from Alice's remarks last night... 57 00:05:28,027 --> 00:05:30,894 I am not likely to be anytime soon... 58 00:05:30,963 --> 00:05:33,796 even by indirection. 59 00:05:35,501 --> 00:05:38,402 However, my boy, if you want my candid opinion... 60 00:05:38,471 --> 00:05:43,306 I don't believe the biological urge of which you both appear to be suffering so acutely... 61 00:05:43,376 --> 00:05:47,312 gives a hoot whether you're assistant head of personnel or not. 62 00:05:54,987 --> 00:05:56,978 Morning, Dick, my boy. 63 00:05:57,056 --> 00:05:59,047 Good morning, John. 64 00:06:08,167 --> 00:06:10,328 Hodges, John R. 65 00:06:14,407 --> 00:06:16,637 Walters, Robert H. 66 00:06:18,911 --> 00:06:21,573 No! Oh, no! 67 00:06:21,647 --> 00:06:24,741 By the eternal, no! 68 00:06:35,328 --> 00:06:37,319 Grandpa, you're late! 69 00:06:37,397 --> 00:06:39,388 Yes. 70 00:06:43,436 --> 00:06:46,303 - What kept you, Dad? - Business. 71 00:06:50,109 --> 00:06:52,703 Well, for goodness' sake, it's about time. 72 00:06:52,779 --> 00:06:56,875 Come on, everybody. I don't want to be out in that kitchen all night. 73 00:06:58,851 --> 00:07:03,185 You're usually the first one home, Grandpa. Whatcha been doing? 74 00:07:03,256 --> 00:07:05,281 Playing the piccolo someplace? 75 00:07:05,358 --> 00:07:07,792 I had to see the shop foreman. 76 00:07:07,860 --> 00:07:10,886 - I was fired today. - You, fired? 77 00:07:10,963 --> 00:07:13,329 Retired, I think they call it. 78 00:07:13,399 --> 00:07:16,061 - What for? What've ya done? - Nothing, Della. 79 00:07:16,135 --> 00:07:20,231 It seems it's the policy of the company not to employ people over 65. 80 00:07:20,306 --> 00:07:22,797 - Oh, Grandpa, I'm sorry. - Thank you, my dear. 81 00:07:22,875 --> 00:07:26,174 How do you like that? Fired just because you're 65. 82 00:07:26,245 --> 00:07:29,043 Hey, you're really 65, Grandpa? 83 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:31,140 My, how time flies. 84 00:07:31,217 --> 00:07:33,208 Boy, has this been a wonderful day. 85 00:07:33,286 --> 00:07:35,311 First I get pains in the stomach. 86 00:07:35,388 --> 00:07:37,656 When I get home, I find my father's been fired. 87 00:07:37,789 --> 00:07:39,848 Well, eat your soup before it gets cold. 88 00:07:39,924 --> 00:07:42,825 - I don't feel like soup! - What's wrong with it? 89 00:07:42,894 --> 00:07:45,920 - Not enough salt? - Not enough salt. Not enough anything. 90 00:07:45,997 --> 00:07:49,262 - If it rains tomorrow, I'll go nuts. - Who said anything about rain? 91 00:07:49,334 --> 00:07:53,236 That's all we need now... for it to rain and for me to catch pneumonia. 92 00:07:53,304 --> 00:07:55,772 How can you get pneumonia? You haven't even got a cold. 93 00:07:55,840 --> 00:08:00,038 Pneumonia happens to be an occupational disease with sign painters. 94 00:08:00,111 --> 00:08:02,739 You stand on a ladder, painting names on store windows. 95 00:08:02,814 --> 00:08:04,839 It starts raining, you get wet. 96 00:08:04,916 --> 00:08:07,578 Along comes a breeze... [Sneezes] 97 00:08:07,652 --> 00:08:09,677 There. See what I mean? Pneumonia. 98 00:08:09,754 --> 00:08:12,416 Pneumonia! Just because you sneeze once or... 99 00:08:12,490 --> 00:08:15,220 What's wrong with you? Cramps? 100 00:08:15,293 --> 00:08:17,284 Or don't you like my soup either? 101 00:08:17,362 --> 00:08:21,526 I assure you my action has nothing to do with the quality of your food. 102 00:08:21,599 --> 00:08:24,796 I'm just not hungry. So if you'll excuse me... 103 00:08:24,869 --> 00:08:29,101 Look, if certain people around here don't like the way I cook... 104 00:08:29,174 --> 00:08:31,199 just let them say so. 105 00:08:31,276 --> 00:08:34,803 After all, I would like to remind you that I was not raised to be a cook. 106 00:08:34,879 --> 00:08:38,406 I happen to be a singer, in case you've forgotten. 107 00:08:38,483 --> 00:08:41,941 Before I married your son, I never even had my hands in dishwater. 108 00:08:42,020 --> 00:08:44,113 Mother, nobody's talking about your cooking. 109 00:08:44,189 --> 00:08:46,384 No, but they're thinking about it. 110 00:08:46,458 --> 00:08:50,394 The first thing you know, somebody will remind me that I came from Brooklyn. 111 00:08:50,462 --> 00:08:52,828 But first I would like to remind them... 112 00:08:52,897 --> 00:08:56,492 that some of the finest people in the world have come from Brooklyn. 113 00:08:56,568 --> 00:08:59,731 Yes, and while we're on the subject, I would like to say... 114 00:08:59,804 --> 00:09:02,637 that there is no telling how far I might have gone... 115 00:09:02,707 --> 00:09:06,074 - if I hadn't thrown away my career for the... 116 00:09:06,144 --> 00:09:08,442 Oh, for goodness' sake. 117 00:09:08,513 --> 00:09:10,674 Now look what's happened. 118 00:09:10,749 --> 00:09:13,309 - Poor Grandpa. - [Sneezes] 119 00:09:13,384 --> 00:09:16,251 It's a wonder I have any appetite left. 120 00:09:16,321 --> 00:09:20,690 First Grandpa gets fired, then you sneeze, then the piccolo. 121 00:09:20,759 --> 00:09:23,956 All we need around here is a great big, shiny pipe organ. 124 00:09:46,751 --> 00:09:48,776 Oh, good morning, Grandpa. 125 00:09:48,853 --> 00:09:51,481 - Good morning, Della. - Whatcha doin' up so early? 126 00:09:51,556 --> 00:09:54,957 - I thought you'd sleep till 10:00. - I'm not sleepy. 127 00:09:55,026 --> 00:09:57,722 Take my advice. Sleep when you can. 128 00:09:57,796 --> 00:10:01,288 - You want some coffee? - Yes. Thanks. 129 00:10:01,366 --> 00:10:04,893 Only do me a favor, Grandpa. Don't sleep too late. 130 00:10:04,969 --> 00:10:07,802 Yours is the first room I clean. 131 00:10:07,872 --> 00:10:11,239 I assure you, Della, I have no intention of sleeping late. 132 00:10:11,309 --> 00:10:14,210 Thanks. Say, by the way... 133 00:10:14,279 --> 00:10:18,739 what are you gonna do with yourself all day now that you're 65? 134 00:10:18,817 --> 00:10:20,842 I don't know. 135 00:10:20,919 --> 00:10:23,979 Oh, go to the movies, I suppose. 136 00:10:24,055 --> 00:10:28,151 There's a swell double bill at the Rialto. 137 00:10:28,226 --> 00:10:32,560 Or maybe you could go up to the park and play checkers with those other old men. 138 00:10:32,630 --> 00:10:36,361 - What's so bad about that? 139 00:10:36,434 --> 00:10:40,894 Personally, when I think of the drudgery I go through day by day... 140 00:10:40,972 --> 00:10:43,566 I can't wait to get to be your age... 141 00:10:43,641 --> 00:10:46,269 so I can live out my life with dignity. 142 00:10:46,344 --> 00:10:49,905 Dignity can be a very empty feeling, Della. 143 00:10:49,981 --> 00:10:53,417 Yeah, well, you can get used to it, like me with the cooking. 144 00:10:55,186 --> 00:10:59,850 Hey, I just thought of somethin'. 145 00:10:59,924 --> 00:11:04,054 With you not workin', you won't be bringin' any money in. 146 00:11:04,128 --> 00:11:06,119 I'm afraid not. 147 00:11:06,197 --> 00:11:09,257 Well, if you'll pardon my saying so, Grandpa... 148 00:11:09,334 --> 00:11:12,030 that's gonna be quite a blow. 149 00:11:12,103 --> 00:11:14,936 - Financially speaking, I mean. - I expect so. 150 00:11:15,006 --> 00:11:19,238 Yeah, especially with the way prices are going up these days. 151 00:11:19,310 --> 00:11:22,871 Yesterday I went in to buy a soup bone... 152 00:11:22,947 --> 00:11:25,711 just a common, ordinary soup bone. 153 00:11:25,783 --> 00:11:28,081 Seventy-eight cents, he says. 154 00:11:28,152 --> 00:11:32,145 Seventy-eight cents, I says to him. You used to throw 'em in for nothin'. 155 00:11:32,223 --> 00:11:35,215 Not no more, he says. Seventy-eight cents. 156 00:11:35,293 --> 00:11:39,423 That'll give you a faint idea. Soup bones! Seventy-eight cents! 157 00:11:39,497 --> 00:11:41,965 [Scoffs, Sighs] 158 00:12:11,195 --> 00:12:14,028 - So what happened then? - So what happened 159 00:12:14,098 --> 00:12:16,931 So she picked up my hat and threw it at me. 160 00:12:17,001 --> 00:12:19,469 - Hit ya? - Right in the mouth. 161 00:12:19,537 --> 00:12:21,528 Get out of the house, she yelled. 162 00:12:21,606 --> 00:12:25,372 I got enough to do without you gettin' in my way all the time. 163 00:12:25,443 --> 00:12:29,004 Twenty years ago, I'd have thrown her out of the window for that. 164 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,105 I'm a Hungarian. 165 00:12:31,182 --> 00:12:36,142 Consolidated Motors. Consolidated Motors 166 00:12:36,220 --> 00:12:39,485 What's Consolidated Motors got to do with it? That's what I'd like to know. 167 00:12:39,557 --> 00:12:43,391 - This is a public park... - Never mind! Don't answer. 168 00:12:43,461 --> 00:12:45,452 I'll find out myself. 169 00:12:53,871 --> 00:12:57,363 Now, this is the course I'd like you to follow in all cases. 170 00:12:57,442 --> 00:13:01,538 We'll put the letter on the automatic typewriter. Leave the last paragraph... 171 00:13:01,612 --> 00:13:05,878 Young man, what has Consolidated Motors got to do with Acme Printing Services? 172 00:13:05,950 --> 00:13:08,885 - Grandpa, what are you doing here? - Never mind. Look at this. 173 00:13:08,953 --> 00:13:13,481 It says I've been fired because it's the policy of Consolidated Motors... 174 00:13:13,558 --> 00:13:17,085 and its subsidiaries not to hire men over 65. 175 00:13:17,161 --> 00:13:21,723 I want to know what in thunder Consolidated Motors has to do with it. 176 00:13:21,799 --> 00:13:26,702 Search me. Hey, Erickson, this is my girl's grandfather, Mr. Hodges. 177 00:13:26,771 --> 00:13:29,331 He'd like to know what Consolidated Motors has to do... 178 00:13:29,407 --> 00:13:31,671 with our 65-year-old retirement rule. 179 00:13:31,743 --> 00:13:35,804 It's really very simple, Mr. Hodges. If you'll just step this way for a moment. 180 00:13:44,121 --> 00:13:46,715 Now, we of the Acme Printing Services... 181 00:13:46,790 --> 00:13:49,224 are a subsidiary of the Bessamer Publishing Services... 182 00:13:49,293 --> 00:13:51,727 whose stock is owned by the Simpson Iron Foundry... 183 00:13:51,795 --> 00:13:54,423 which recently merged with the McCullough Nut and Bolt Company... 184 00:13:54,498 --> 00:13:57,126 whose parent organization is United Hardware... 185 00:13:57,201 --> 00:14:00,261 the director to which is interlocked with Rutherton Steel... 186 00:14:00,337 --> 00:14:02,862 a subsidiary of Consolidated Motors. 187 00:14:02,940 --> 00:14:07,104 - Does that answer your question? - Yes, but it seems a little complicated. 188 00:14:07,178 --> 00:14:10,113 - Big business. If you'll excuse me... - Just a moment, young man. 189 00:14:10,181 --> 00:14:12,581 Do you suppose if I went to Consolidated Motors... 190 00:14:12,650 --> 00:14:15,551 I might get them to change such an absurd policy? 191 00:14:15,619 --> 00:14:18,588 Why, Mr. Hodges, you don't mean you'd seriously consider... 192 00:14:18,656 --> 00:14:21,250 going to Consolidated Motors about such a policy? 193 00:14:21,325 --> 00:14:25,125 I'd seriously consider going to the North Pole by dogsled in the heart of winter... 194 00:14:25,196 --> 00:14:27,596 if I thought I could get my job back. 195 00:14:27,665 --> 00:14:31,567 Well, I certainly wouldn't advise a trip to Consolidated Motors. 196 00:14:31,635 --> 00:14:34,604 Even if you got an appointment, which is very unlikely... 197 00:14:34,672 --> 00:14:38,438 I don't see how Consolidated Motors could change its whole employment policy... 198 00:14:38,509 --> 00:14:41,774 involving several hundred thousand people, just to please you. 199 00:14:41,845 --> 00:14:43,904 Now wait a minute, Erickson. 200 00:14:43,981 --> 00:14:47,007 Maybe you could just write a letter to the president of Consolidated Motors. 201 00:14:47,084 --> 00:14:49,450 - Tell him how you feel... - What's his name? 202 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,853 - Whose name? - The president of Consolidated Motors. 203 00:14:52,923 --> 00:14:55,858 I don't know. Uh, Sloan, Stone... 204 00:14:55,926 --> 00:14:59,828 - Do you know, Mr. Erickson? - No, but I'll find out. 205 00:14:59,897 --> 00:15:03,162 Mr. Benson, who's president of Consolidated Motors? 206 00:15:03,234 --> 00:15:05,930 - The president of what? - The president of Consolidated Motors. 207 00:15:06,003 --> 00:15:08,665 - You got me. Why? - Never mind. 208 00:15:08,739 --> 00:15:11,003 I'll call Mr. Gallagher's office. 209 00:15:11,075 --> 00:15:13,805 Mr. Gallagher's vice president in charge of personnel. 210 00:15:13,877 --> 00:15:18,211 - Yeah? - Pardon me, Mr. Gallagher. Erickson speaking. 211 00:15:18,282 --> 00:15:21,718 Do you happen to know who's president of Consolidated Motors? 212 00:15:21,785 --> 00:15:25,380 Used to be Knudsen. No, he was president of... Anyhow, I'm busy. 213 00:15:25,456 --> 00:15:28,152 Yes, Mr. Gallagher. Thank you, sir. 214 00:15:28,225 --> 00:15:30,352 Mr. Gallagher doesn't know either. 215 00:15:30,427 --> 00:15:32,895 Amazing. Absolutely amazing. 216 00:15:32,963 --> 00:15:35,659 Here's one of the most important men in America... 217 00:15:35,733 --> 00:15:37,860 a veritable giant of industry... 218 00:15:37,935 --> 00:15:42,031 one of the powers behind the producing genius that is America... 219 00:15:42,106 --> 00:15:45,473 a man whose decisions affect millions of people... 220 00:15:45,542 --> 00:15:48,409 yet nobody even knows his name. 221 00:15:48,479 --> 00:15:52,074 - Fairliss. That's it... Fairliss. - He's president of U.S. Steel. 222 00:15:52,149 --> 00:15:56,051 - Oh. - Thank you, gentlemen. You've been a great help. 223 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,111 Good day. 224 00:16:02,593 --> 00:16:05,357 Here it is. I found it. 225 00:16:05,429 --> 00:16:09,331 Consolidated Motors. Look. Harold P. Cleveland, President. 226 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,426 Congratulations, Miss. Whether you're aware of it or not... 227 00:16:12,503 --> 00:16:16,269 you have just solved one of the great mysteries of the age. 228 00:16:17,841 --> 00:16:18,175 #[Piccolo] 229 00:16:18,175 --> 00:16:21,702 #[Piccolo] 230 00:16:21,779 --> 00:16:26,739 Listen to him. Since 11:00 this morning, it's been like this. 231 00:16:26,817 --> 00:16:28,842 It means he's thinking. 232 00:16:28,919 --> 00:16:31,410 He don't have to think on the piccolo, does he? 233 00:16:57,781 --> 00:17:00,750 - Oh, good morning, Mr. McKinley. - Good morning, Harriet. 234 00:17:00,818 --> 00:17:03,446 - Bring in your book and the mail. - Yes, Mr. McKinley. 235 00:17:12,996 --> 00:17:15,658 So what have we got for today? 236 00:17:15,733 --> 00:17:18,793 11:00 appointment with Mr. Gallagher of personnel... 237 00:17:18,869 --> 00:17:21,929 1:00 luncheon with a representative of the Blakewell Paper Company. 238 00:17:22,005 --> 00:17:24,803 - I'd like some coffee, dear. - Yes, Mr. McKinley. 239 00:17:24,875 --> 00:17:29,005 Then there's your tailor, the barber, the man about those shirts you ordered. 240 00:17:29,079 --> 00:17:31,809 - And don't forget your pills. - What the devil is this? 241 00:17:31,882 --> 00:17:34,783 I don't know, sir. I didn't have time to open it. 242 00:17:34,852 --> 00:17:37,013 - [Gallagher On Intercom] Yes, Mr. McKinley. - Listen, Gallagher. 243 00:17:37,087 --> 00:17:39,783 I just got a letter from the executive secretary of Consolidated Motors... 244 00:17:39,857 --> 00:17:43,816 advising me that Harold P. Cleveland will be in town Tuesday. 245 00:17:43,894 --> 00:17:46,863 Will I please show him every possible courtesy? 246 00:17:46,930 --> 00:17:50,263 - What the devil is this all about? - I don't know. Beats me. 247 00:17:50,334 --> 00:17:53,770 Get Herbert in New York. If you don't mind, I don't like it. 248 00:17:53,837 --> 00:17:57,603 What the devil does the president of Consolidated Motors want to come here for? 249 00:17:57,674 --> 00:17:59,869 - Maybe he's just passing through. - Okay. 250 00:17:59,943 --> 00:18:03,208 But I wish you'd please tell me what the devil this is all about. 251 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,340 - Have we ever heard of this bird before? - Not that I recall. 252 00:18:06,417 --> 00:18:09,978 Hello, Mr. Herbert? Just a moment. Mr. McKinley calling. 253 00:18:10,053 --> 00:18:15,184 Hello, Herbert? Listen. I just got a letter saying the president of Consolidated... 254 00:18:15,259 --> 00:18:18,228 is coming up here to inspect my plant next week. 255 00:18:18,295 --> 00:18:22,527 I'd like to know why all of a sudden is Consolidated fishing around my place? 256 00:18:22,599 --> 00:18:26,160 Well, maybe it is just a goodwill tour, but I don't like goodwill tours. 257 00:18:26,236 --> 00:18:29,069 So do me a favor. Get ahold of whoever you can... 258 00:18:29,139 --> 00:18:32,404 and find out if there's been a change in Consolidated Motors' policy toward its subsidiaries. 259 00:18:32,476 --> 00:18:36,242 Maybe they've decided to quit printing, make more cars or something. 260 00:18:36,313 --> 00:18:38,804 Okay. Call me back. 261 00:18:38,882 --> 00:18:42,215 I want every executive in the conference room at 10:30. 262 00:18:42,286 --> 00:18:45,517 - And cancel Gallagher. - Yes, Mr. McKinley. 263 00:18:45,589 --> 00:18:49,525 - Make three copies of this as soon as you can. - Yes, Mr. McKinley. 264 00:18:49,593 --> 00:18:52,494 Listen, gentlemen, the president of Consolidated Motors... 265 00:18:52,563 --> 00:18:55,498 is coming here next Tuesday to inspect our plant personally. 266 00:18:55,566 --> 00:18:59,730 I don't mind telling you, I don't like big shots sticking their noses in my business. 267 00:18:59,803 --> 00:19:04,172 How do we know they haven't decided to convert this place into an assembly line? 268 00:19:04,241 --> 00:19:08,075 And remember, you fellas are in this just as deep as I am. 269 00:19:08,145 --> 00:19:10,375 Your very jobs may depend upon it. 270 00:19:10,447 --> 00:19:12,847 Our only hope is to make a good impression. 271 00:19:12,916 --> 00:19:17,012 I'd like to see some drawn looks on your faces, as if you'd been working overtime for months. 272 00:19:17,087 --> 00:19:19,419 And I'd like to see this place really humming. 273 00:19:19,490 --> 00:19:22,550 Gallagher, how about that trouble we've been having with the Bookbinders Local? 274 00:19:22,626 --> 00:19:26,118 - We've got at least a month before any action will be taken. - Never mind how much time. 275 00:19:26,196 --> 00:19:29,597 I'd like to strike a note of accord in time for the inspection... 276 00:19:29,666 --> 00:19:32,464 give an impression of a factory full of happy employees. 277 00:19:32,536 --> 00:19:35,403 - What do they want? - Another restroom on the second floor. 278 00:19:35,472 --> 00:19:37,872 Okay. Get it installed immediately. 279 00:19:37,941 --> 00:19:42,037 I'm not letting our relations with Consolidated be disrupted over some bookbinder's comfort. 280 00:19:42,112 --> 00:19:45,240 Harriet, who's head of the program committee at the Chamber of Commerce? 281 00:19:45,315 --> 00:19:48,375 - Arnold Willoughby. - I want to talk to him on the phone. 282 00:19:48,452 --> 00:19:51,216 Then get my wife, dear. 283 00:19:57,694 --> 00:20:01,494 - What does he look like? - Great guns! Don't you know? 284 00:20:01,565 --> 00:20:05,001 - I never saw him in my life. - Well, of all the idiotic things! 285 00:20:05,068 --> 00:20:07,662 A big man like Mr. Cleveland, a man who... 286 00:20:07,738 --> 00:20:09,729 The president of Consolidated Motors. 287 00:20:24,922 --> 00:20:27,924 [Indistinct] 288 00:20:33,029 --> 00:20:36,362 Ah, Mr. McKinley, what a pleasant surprise to find you here. 289 00:20:36,432 --> 00:20:39,128 - I hadn't anticipated such a welcome. - You're... You're... 290 00:20:39,201 --> 00:20:41,192 Cleveland. Harold P. Cleveland. 291 00:20:41,270 --> 00:20:44,205 Well, how do you do, Mr. Cleveland? This is indeed a great honor. 292 00:20:44,273 --> 00:20:46,707 - Thank you. - May I present my associates? 293 00:20:46,776 --> 00:20:50,007 Oh, I recognize Mr. Saltonstall and Mr. Gallagher too. 294 00:20:50,079 --> 00:20:52,775 - A pleasure to see you, gentlemen. - How did you know? 295 00:20:52,848 --> 00:20:57,148 I make it a practice to familiarize myself with all my associates and employees. 296 00:20:57,219 --> 00:21:00,279 - Shall we go? - Yes, of course. My car's outside. 297 00:21:00,356 --> 00:21:03,553 - Take Mr. Cleveland's briefcase. - Oh, no, thank you. 298 00:21:03,626 --> 00:21:05,617 I can manage myself. 299 00:21:25,247 --> 00:21:28,148 Any special department you'd like to inspect? 300 00:21:28,217 --> 00:21:30,879 We'll start with the handpress department and the composing room. 301 00:21:30,953 --> 00:21:33,387 Afterwards, I'd like a word with your executives. 302 00:21:33,456 --> 00:21:37,153 I've already issued orders for all our executives to place themselves at your disposal. 303 00:21:37,226 --> 00:21:39,217 - Splendid. - Mr. Cleveland, may I ask... 304 00:21:39,295 --> 00:21:42,059 is there any special significance to your visit? 305 00:21:42,131 --> 00:21:44,156 Special significance? Not at all. 306 00:21:44,233 --> 00:21:46,463 It's only a routine inspection tour. 307 00:22:16,032 --> 00:22:18,125 That about covers it, Mr. Cleveland... 308 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,397 unless you'd be interested in inspecting our personnel department. 309 00:22:21,470 --> 00:22:24,439 I think I've seen all that's necessary. 310 00:22:35,518 --> 00:22:38,919 [Gasping] 311 00:22:38,988 --> 00:22:42,048 Here we are, Mr. Cleveland. This is our conference room. 312 00:22:42,124 --> 00:22:45,093 - What's the matter? - Well, I'll be a... 313 00:22:45,161 --> 00:22:49,120 - Do you know who that was? - Sure. The president of Consolidated Motors. 314 00:22:49,198 --> 00:22:51,962 The president of Consolidated Motors, my hind foot! 315 00:22:52,034 --> 00:22:54,059 - That was John Hodges. - Who? 316 00:22:54,136 --> 00:22:57,162 John Hodges of our handpress department, my girl's grandfather. 317 00:22:57,239 --> 00:23:00,174 - Your girl's what? - Grandfather. Didn't you see him wink at me? 318 00:23:00,242 --> 00:23:03,575 - Certainly not. What are you talking about? - AboutJohn Hodges. 319 00:23:03,646 --> 00:23:07,742 The old guy who asked us the name of the president of Consolidated Motors. 320 00:23:07,817 --> 00:23:10,786 - Yes, but what about him? - That's him in there. 321 00:23:10,853 --> 00:23:14,983 Only everybody thinks he's the president of Consolidated Motors. 322 00:23:15,057 --> 00:23:18,117 Really, Elliott, you ought to see a doctor or something. 323 00:23:18,194 --> 00:23:21,254 Why in the world would an important man like Mr. McKinley... 324 00:23:21,330 --> 00:23:25,130 be wasting his time with somebody from his own handpress department? 325 00:23:25,201 --> 00:23:28,329 Sometimes, Elliott, you're a very stupid man. 326 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,971 Gentlemen, I'll tell you why I wanted to visit your plant. 327 00:23:35,044 --> 00:23:39,003 As a young man, I had great admiration for the art of printing. 328 00:23:39,081 --> 00:23:42,778 I still have that feeling, but in all frankness I must tell you... 329 00:23:42,852 --> 00:23:46,811 that I've been keenly disappointed with what I've seen here today. 330 00:23:46,889 --> 00:23:50,950 Well, you've got this place running like an automobile factory... 331 00:23:51,026 --> 00:23:53,017 and that's downright foolish. 332 00:23:53,095 --> 00:23:57,225 Not one single white-haired man did I see on the job. 333 00:23:57,299 --> 00:24:00,063 Where, I ask myself... where are those men? 334 00:24:00,136 --> 00:24:03,799 Those artisans. Yes, those artists... 335 00:24:03,873 --> 00:24:07,639 whose love of their craft has been handed down from generation to generation. 336 00:24:07,710 --> 00:24:09,701 - Got that, Harriet? - Yes, sir. 337 00:24:09,778 --> 00:24:12,838 Now, I know it's the policy of Consolidated Motors... 338 00:24:12,915 --> 00:24:16,214 not to hire people 65 years of age or over. 339 00:24:16,285 --> 00:24:20,847 Perhaps the labor technique of putting an automobile together requires youth. 340 00:24:20,923 --> 00:24:24,882 But for the life of me, I don't see how such an asinine policy... 341 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,326 and I use the word asinine" advisedly... 342 00:24:27,396 --> 00:24:29,921 can apply to the art of printing. 343 00:24:29,999 --> 00:24:35,562 My suggestion is that you forget about the age requirements of our assembly lines... 344 00:24:35,638 --> 00:24:40,371 and bring back the experienced craftsmen who honor your trade immediately. 345 00:24:40,442 --> 00:24:43,206 Harriet, take a memo to all our executives. 346 00:24:43,279 --> 00:24:46,612 As of today, our employment policy is no longer governed... 347 00:24:46,682 --> 00:24:49,116 by the 65-year age level. 348 00:24:49,185 --> 00:24:52,416 All employees who have been retired for that reason... 349 00:24:52,488 --> 00:24:55,514 are to be notified immediately that their jobs are open... 350 00:24:55,591 --> 00:24:57,855 provided they wish to return to work. 351 00:24:57,927 --> 00:25:00,953 Thank you, gentlemen. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a train to catch. 352 00:25:01,030 --> 00:25:03,396 But, Mr. Cleveland, you can't leave just yet. 353 00:25:03,465 --> 00:25:06,593 I've arranged a luncheon in your honor at the Chamber of Commerce. 354 00:25:06,669 --> 00:25:09,797 - What? - And I've taken the liberty of engaging a suite for you. 355 00:25:09,872 --> 00:25:12,602 And my wife is expecting you for dinner tonight. 356 00:25:12,675 --> 00:25:15,109 I'd never live it down if you didn't show up. 357 00:25:15,177 --> 00:25:17,941 - Well, in that case, why not? - Thank you, Mr. Cleveland. 358 00:25:18,013 --> 00:25:20,038 - This way, please. - Pardon me, Mr. Cleveland. 359 00:25:20,115 --> 00:25:23,141 Wouldn't you like me to send you a copy of your speech? 360 00:25:23,219 --> 00:25:25,744 Thank you, young lady. I don't think it's necessary. 361 00:25:25,821 --> 00:25:29,257 - I'm sure my suggestions are going to be carried out. - Oh, yes, indeed. 362 00:25:29,325 --> 00:25:32,385 Well, Mr. Cleveland, I want you to know I think your speech was grand. 363 00:25:32,461 --> 00:25:34,895 I felt real honored just to hear it. 364 00:25:34,964 --> 00:25:38,400 Oh, no, my dear. It's I who've been honored. 365 00:25:38,467 --> 00:25:40,458 Good day. 366 00:25:40,536 --> 00:25:44,131 - Is he still in there? 367 00:25:44,206 --> 00:25:47,073 - Who? - John Hod... I mean, Mr. Cleveland. 368 00:25:47,142 --> 00:25:50,771 Yes, he's speaking now. Wait a minute. You can't go in. Only members... 369 00:25:50,846 --> 00:25:54,145 - But I gotta find out... - But you can't! 370 00:25:56,819 --> 00:26:01,188 Today I hear a great deal of talk in this country about the dangers of inflation... 371 00:26:01,257 --> 00:26:04,021 which may lead to another economic depression. 372 00:26:04,093 --> 00:26:07,620 In a society as complicated and delicate as ours... 373 00:26:07,696 --> 00:26:11,188 we must leave no stone unturned in our search for stability. 374 00:26:11,267 --> 00:26:16,637 - And in these old and expert men of 65 and over... - Come back. 375 00:26:16,705 --> 00:26:19,674 There is a great fund of stability. 376 00:26:24,580 --> 00:26:27,048 I confess there are moments, gentlemen... 377 00:26:27,116 --> 00:26:31,849 when I regard mass production and its subsequent benefits of a higher standard of living... 378 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,756 as a two-edged sword. 379 00:26:33,756 --> 00:26:34,723 As a two-edged sword. 380 00:26:34,790 --> 00:26:38,385 What are we sacrificing in this frantic chase for comfort? 381 00:26:38,460 --> 00:26:41,793 Well, for one thing, we're sacrificing... 382 00:26:41,864 --> 00:26:44,958 those simple dignities of life... 383 00:26:45,033 --> 00:26:49,367 which have helped make ours the greatest productive nation on Earth. 384 00:26:53,208 --> 00:26:58,043 And I think that security and comforts are wonderful things. 385 00:26:58,113 --> 00:27:00,809 I'm all for social security. 386 00:27:00,883 --> 00:27:03,545 But in all our quests for this security... 387 00:27:03,619 --> 00:27:07,851 let us not lose sight of those things which have made this a great nation. 388 00:27:07,923 --> 00:27:10,983 Let us not forget that our economic strength... 389 00:27:11,059 --> 00:27:13,653 depends basically on one thing: 390 00:27:13,729 --> 00:27:15,754 Individual initiative. 391 00:27:15,831 --> 00:27:19,927 We here in America have a great tradition to uphold... 392 00:27:20,002 --> 00:27:22,163 a tradition of hard work; 393 00:27:22,237 --> 00:27:24,569 a tradition of opportunity; 394 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:29,407 a tradition that every man may go just as far up the ladder of success... 395 00:27:29,478 --> 00:27:32,845 as he individually is capable of going; 396 00:27:32,915 --> 00:27:37,784 a tradition that no one in government, in industry, anywhere... 397 00:27:37,853 --> 00:27:41,846 can tell him what he can do and what he can't do... 398 00:27:41,924 --> 00:27:44,950 when he can work and when he can't. 399 00:27:49,264 --> 00:27:52,961 In all earnestness, I tell you, gentlemen... 400 00:27:53,035 --> 00:27:56,061 that just so long as our workers... 401 00:27:56,138 --> 00:27:58,572 can go to their jobs... 402 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,041 with the same fervor and self-respect... 403 00:28:02,110 --> 00:28:04,738 that they go to their wives... 404 00:28:04,813 --> 00:28:08,271 will we be able to fight off the threats of inflation... 405 00:28:08,350 --> 00:28:11,581 and avoid the pitfalls of depression. 406 00:28:11,653 --> 00:28:13,678 I thank you. 407 00:28:28,837 --> 00:28:31,465 Mr. Cleveland, may I have your autograph? 408 00:28:31,540 --> 00:28:33,770 Oh, delighted. Oh, I'm sorry. 409 00:28:33,842 --> 00:28:37,243 I'm not permitted to sign autographs. Company policy. 410 00:28:37,312 --> 00:28:39,872 - Congratulations, Mr. Cleveland. - Oh, I'm sorry. 411 00:28:56,865 --> 00:28:59,800 - Well, it's about time. Oh, it's you. - Where is he? 412 00:28:59,868 --> 00:29:02,302 - Where is who? - Mr. Hodges, your grandfather. 413 00:29:02,371 --> 00:29:05,431 - Out. Why? - Look at this. 414 00:29:05,507 --> 00:29:10,467 "C.M. Prexy says human dignity will beat inflation. " 415 00:29:10,545 --> 00:29:13,013 What's that got to do with us? 416 00:29:13,081 --> 00:29:16,312 Look at it. Look at it good. Whose picture is that? 417 00:29:16,385 --> 00:29:19,286 Says he's prexy of C.M., whatever that means. 418 00:29:19,354 --> 00:29:22,221 That's what it says, but it's him... Mr. Hodges, your old man. 419 00:29:22,291 --> 00:29:24,782 Dad? Ah, you're crazy. 420 00:29:24,860 --> 00:29:27,988 Look, I'm not blind. My eyes are good enough for the Air Corps. 421 00:29:28,063 --> 00:29:31,464 I'm telling you, that's Mr. Hodges. I saw him today with my own eyes. 422 00:29:31,533 --> 00:29:35,128 Oh, for heaven's sakes, Joe. Sit down and stop being ridiculous. 423 00:29:35,203 --> 00:29:38,866 What in the world would Grandpa be doing at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon? 424 00:29:38,941 --> 00:29:41,637 Just look at the picture. That's all I ask. 425 00:29:41,710 --> 00:29:43,803 That could be a picture of anybody. 426 00:29:43,879 --> 00:29:47,406 As far as I can see, the only resemblance is they both got whiskers. 427 00:29:47,482 --> 00:29:50,883 - Not even the same color. - But I'm telling you, he winked at me. 428 00:29:50,953 --> 00:29:54,821 Joe, look at me. Look me in the eye. Have you been drinking? 429 00:29:54,890 --> 00:29:57,688 Drinking? I? 430 00:29:57,759 --> 00:30:01,251 I who think of nothing but success 24 hours a day, drinking? 431 00:30:01,330 --> 00:30:04,390 Well, I like that. I'll tell you one thing. 432 00:30:04,466 --> 00:30:07,867 I'm gonna get cockeyed tonight if somebody doesn't start believing me. 433 00:30:07,936 --> 00:30:09,927 Oh, boy! What a house this is. 434 00:30:10,005 --> 00:30:13,998 First we get a piccolo player, then we get a fellow who sneezes just once... 435 00:30:14,076 --> 00:30:17,170 and all of a sudden he's in a hospital for an occupational disease. 436 00:30:17,245 --> 00:30:21,545 And now we got a lunatic on our hands who starts seein' things in newspapers. 437 00:30:21,616 --> 00:30:23,607 By George, this Cleveland makes sense. 438 00:30:23,685 --> 00:30:26,085 I'm gonna save this. I want dad to read it. 439 00:30:26,154 --> 00:30:28,349 Read it? He said it! 440 00:30:28,423 --> 00:30:30,789 - Joe, please. - So you think I'm drunk? 441 00:30:30,859 --> 00:30:35,023 Well, what else am I to think when you come bursting in here screaming that Grandpa... 442 00:30:35,097 --> 00:30:37,361 is president of Consolidated Motors? 443 00:30:37,432 --> 00:30:41,061 Okay. Okay, I'm a liar. I'm drunk. I don't know what I'm saying. 444 00:30:41,136 --> 00:30:44,799 But I'm telling you, I saw him today and he winked at me. 445 00:30:44,873 --> 00:30:47,364 Good evening, everybody. There's good news tonight. 446 00:30:47,442 --> 00:30:50,377 This afternoon, Harold P. Cleveland, president of Consolidated Motors... 447 00:30:50,445 --> 00:30:54,074 offered a confused world the best recipe to beat inflation and continue prosperity... 448 00:30:54,149 --> 00:30:56,140 that this commentator has heard. 449 00:30:56,218 --> 00:30:58,243 Yes, sir. Winked at me. 452 00:31:01,723 --> 00:31:04,317 - Have you already mixed the martinis? - Yes, madam. 453 00:31:04,393 --> 00:31:06,918 - My husband likes them very dry. - I understand, madam. 454 00:31:06,995 --> 00:31:10,055 - He also likes them served immediately after he comes in. 455 00:31:10,132 --> 00:31:12,464 - Yes, madam. - That may be he now. 456 00:31:12,534 --> 00:31:14,900 - Shall I go and see, madam? - Please. 457 00:31:14,970 --> 00:31:16,961 - Willie. - Huh? 458 00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:20,167 - Turn that thing off. - Okay. 459 00:31:23,211 --> 00:31:25,236 - Good evening. - Good evening. 460 00:31:25,313 --> 00:31:28,282 - Whom shall I say is calling, sir? - Me. 461 00:31:28,350 --> 00:31:30,750 Mr. McKinley. I live here. 462 00:31:30,819 --> 00:31:34,846 I beg your pardon, sir. You'll find Mrs. McKinley in the drawing room. 463 00:31:34,923 --> 00:31:38,518 - New butler. I tell you, the servant problem... - Yes, I know. 464 00:31:38,593 --> 00:31:41,960 I've been having trouble with my cook lately too. 465 00:31:42,030 --> 00:31:45,693 Lucille, this is Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland, my wife. 466 00:31:45,767 --> 00:31:48,702 How do you do, Mr. Cleveland? It was nice of you to come. 467 00:31:48,770 --> 00:31:51,534 Thank you. It was nice of you to have me. 468 00:31:51,606 --> 00:31:54,666 Come on, meet him, but do me a favor just for tonight. 469 00:31:54,743 --> 00:31:58,110 - Spare us your political philosophy. - Okay, okay. 470 00:31:58,180 --> 00:32:00,273 Mr. Cleveland, this is our son Willie. 471 00:32:00,348 --> 00:32:02,339 - Good evening, young man. - Hello, Mr. Cleveland. 472 00:32:02,417 --> 00:32:05,784 Hey, we were studying economics the other day, and I saw a picture of you. 473 00:32:05,854 --> 00:32:07,981 - You don't look a thing like... - Willie. 474 00:32:08,056 --> 00:32:10,047 Yes, sir. 475 00:32:10,125 --> 00:32:13,185 My husband likes martinis, but if you prefer something else... 476 00:32:13,261 --> 00:32:15,729 - Not at all. My favorite beverage. - Are these dry? 477 00:32:15,797 --> 00:32:18,231 - Yes, Louis. Very dry. - Four to one, sir. 478 00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:20,734 - Here's to Consolidated Motors. - Thank you. 479 00:32:20,802 --> 00:32:24,203 If you don't mind, I'd rather drink to a lovely lady. 480 00:32:24,272 --> 00:32:26,365 Thank you. 481 00:32:28,643 --> 00:32:30,702 - I'll take the tray. - Yes, sir. 482 00:32:30,779 --> 00:32:33,247 - What class are you in, young man? - Tenth. 483 00:32:33,315 --> 00:32:36,045 - On the football team? - Well, kind of. 484 00:32:36,118 --> 00:32:40,655 Kind of? Oh, so that's the way it is. I used to be a bench sitter myself. 485 00:32:40,788 --> 00:32:44,519 - How about a little refill, Mr. Cleveland? - A wee modicum, perhaps. 486 00:32:44,592 --> 00:32:47,652 I thought we'd have dinner at home tonight, just family style. 487 00:32:47,728 --> 00:32:51,755 After that, if you like, I thought we three might run out to the country club. 488 00:32:51,832 --> 00:32:55,495 - The country club? - I'd like you to see it. It's brand-new and not half bad. 489 00:32:55,569 --> 00:32:59,266 Most of my executives belong. Got a great little golf course. What do you say? 490 00:32:59,340 --> 00:33:02,901 - I'd be delighted. That is, if Mrs. McKinley... - Oh, I'd like it very much. 491 00:33:02,977 --> 00:33:05,002 Very much indeed. 493 00:33:18,092 --> 00:33:22,392 ByJove, I want to dance. I haven't danced in 25 years at least... 494 00:33:22,463 --> 00:33:24,693 and suddenly I want to dance. 495 00:33:24,765 --> 00:33:27,233 - May I have this dance? - Of course. 496 00:33:27,301 --> 00:33:29,997 - Do you mind? - Not at all. Go right ahead. 497 00:33:36,210 --> 00:33:39,407 - What kind of barbaric music is this? - It's the rumba. 498 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,075 For one moment, I had the wild illusion it was the Bunny Hug. 501 00:34:12,913 --> 00:34:15,643 - Let's get out of here. - Why? We just got here. 502 00:34:15,716 --> 00:34:19,015 - Look. Mr. McKinley. - Mr. McKin... 504 00:34:38,672 --> 00:34:41,368 Well, you two must enjoy dancing. 505 00:34:41,442 --> 00:34:44,502 Your wife happens to be a very beautiful dancer, Mr. McKinley. 506 00:34:44,578 --> 00:34:47,638 Yeah? Well, for myself, I think it's a waste of time. 507 00:34:47,715 --> 00:34:50,479 - If you don't mind, I'll run along. - Perhaps we all... 508 00:34:50,551 --> 00:34:53,145 Oh, no. You two stay here and enjoy yourselves. 509 00:34:53,220 --> 00:34:55,484 - I'll send the car back. - Oh, don't bother. We'll get a taxi. 510 00:34:55,556 --> 00:34:58,787 - No bother. My driver's used to waiting. - I'd prefer a taxi, Louis. 511 00:34:58,859 --> 00:35:01,054 Okay. Good night, Mr. Cleveland. 512 00:35:01,128 --> 00:35:03,619 Good night, and thank you for a wonderful evening. 513 00:35:03,697 --> 00:35:07,633 - Glad you liked it. We'll have to do this again. - I'd like that very much. 514 00:35:07,701 --> 00:35:12,161 Before you go, there's just one thought I'd like to leave with you... 515 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,537 just a bit of my personal philosophy. 516 00:35:14,608 --> 00:35:18,066 I like a man who works and works hard, but that's not enough. 517 00:35:18,145 --> 00:35:21,137 A man ought to play and play hard too. 518 00:35:21,215 --> 00:35:24,480 I have an idea that you don't play enough, Mr. McKinley. 519 00:35:24,552 --> 00:35:29,148 That's very sound advice, Mr. Cleveland. I'll take care of that in the future. 520 00:35:29,223 --> 00:35:31,589 - Good night. - Good night. 522 00:36:24,845 --> 00:36:27,245 Do you mind if we get out here? 523 00:36:27,314 --> 00:36:30,374 It's only a little way, but I can't bear to go in yet. 524 00:36:30,451 --> 00:36:32,817 Pull up here. We'll walk the rest of the way. 525 00:36:43,364 --> 00:36:45,855 Just wait for me, please. 526 00:36:51,005 --> 00:36:53,269 You think I'm silly, don't you? 527 00:36:53,340 --> 00:36:56,434 On the contrary, I think it was a charming idea. 528 00:36:56,510 --> 00:37:00,002 You'll never know how much this evening has meant to me. 529 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,311 You don't go dancing often, I take it. 530 00:37:03,384 --> 00:37:05,614 I never go dancing. 531 00:37:05,686 --> 00:37:08,348 Do you and... your wife? 532 00:37:08,422 --> 00:37:11,289 My wife died 25 years ago. 533 00:37:11,358 --> 00:37:15,761 Oh. That's why you said you hadn't danced in 25 years at least. 534 00:37:15,829 --> 00:37:20,528 I haven't done much of anything since then, except work. 535 00:37:20,601 --> 00:37:23,934 You loved her very much, of course? 536 00:37:24,004 --> 00:37:25,995 Of course. 537 00:37:26,073 --> 00:37:29,133 People don't love each other like that anymore. 538 00:37:29,209 --> 00:37:32,007 No. Life's become too complicated. 539 00:37:32,079 --> 00:37:34,604 Young men these days are afraid to marry... 540 00:37:34,682 --> 00:37:39,119 until they can offer their wives all the frills of security and comfort. 541 00:37:41,689 --> 00:37:44,715 I don't think it was that way with us. 542 00:37:44,792 --> 00:37:47,454 I loved my wife. 543 00:37:47,528 --> 00:37:49,792 I loved my work. 544 00:37:49,863 --> 00:37:54,129 Life somehow just went on with a sort of simple grace. 545 00:38:00,607 --> 00:38:02,632 Are you leaving tomorrow? 546 00:38:02,710 --> 00:38:05,201 Unfortunately, very early tomorrow. 547 00:38:09,216 --> 00:38:13,209 I'm sorry. L... I don't know what's the matter with me. 548 00:38:13,287 --> 00:38:15,687 But I've been so happy tonight... 549 00:38:15,756 --> 00:38:17,747 so really happy. 550 00:38:17,825 --> 00:38:20,760 It's been so long. Good night. 551 00:38:20,828 --> 00:38:22,819 Good night. 552 00:38:38,312 --> 00:38:41,611 Listen, don't give me that "he wanted to talk business" routine. 553 00:38:41,682 --> 00:38:44,352 Every time I want to talk business, you're too busy. 554 00:38:44,485 --> 00:38:48,046 But it's true, Mr. McKinley. As a rule, I never mix business and pleasure. 555 00:38:48,122 --> 00:38:51,717 I only thought Mr. Gallagher and I could take some office burdens off your shoulders. 556 00:38:51,792 --> 00:38:54,454 Office burdens? Well, that's a new one. 557 00:38:54,528 --> 00:38:59,693 And another thing, since when do you have to dress up like that for a business conference? 558 00:38:59,767 --> 00:39:03,931 Okay. Tell Gallagher I'll take up this matter with him in the morning. 559 00:39:04,004 --> 00:39:06,029 Good night. 560 00:39:06,107 --> 00:39:09,770 You two must have closed up the joint. 561 00:39:14,348 --> 00:39:18,079 By George, you're really a good-looking woman, Lucille. 562 00:39:18,152 --> 00:39:20,484 And did he go for you! 563 00:39:20,554 --> 00:39:23,614 Couldn't take his eyes off you. 564 00:39:23,691 --> 00:39:26,819 What did you do after I left? 565 00:39:26,894 --> 00:39:30,295 Louis, I want a divorce. 566 00:39:30,364 --> 00:39:32,491 What? 567 00:39:32,566 --> 00:39:35,558 Do you love me, Louis? 568 00:39:35,636 --> 00:39:38,434 What the devil has that got to do with it? 569 00:39:38,506 --> 00:39:40,974 Answer me. Do you? 570 00:39:41,041 --> 00:39:43,669 Well, how do you like that? 571 00:39:43,744 --> 00:39:49,341 She meets a guy one night, and right away she starts yapping about do I love her? 572 00:39:49,417 --> 00:39:52,477 What's the matter? Isn't my money good enough for you anymore? 573 00:39:52,553 --> 00:39:55,681 Haven't I supported you in the style to which you're accustomed? 574 00:39:55,756 --> 00:39:58,247 And your whole family too, for 20 years. 575 00:39:58,325 --> 00:40:01,453 You don't understand. You've never understood. 576 00:40:01,529 --> 00:40:03,929 Oh, yes, I do. I understand, all right. 577 00:40:03,998 --> 00:40:07,024 It's you that's cockeyed. But you're not gonna get away with it. 578 00:40:07,101 --> 00:40:10,161 You might as well get any tomfool ideas about divorce out of your head. 579 00:40:10,237 --> 00:40:13,172 Please, let's don't argue about it. 580 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:15,435 We've been married 20 years. 581 00:40:15,509 --> 00:40:19,138 Sounds kind of silly to be talking this way after 20 years, doesn't it? 582 00:40:19,213 --> 00:40:23,775 I'm sorry it's turned out so badly, but I've been so miserable. 583 00:40:23,851 --> 00:40:26,979 Not so fast. I want to know what happened tonight. 584 00:40:27,054 --> 00:40:30,717 - I told you, nothing happened. - Don't give me that. What happened? 585 00:40:32,893 --> 00:40:36,158 It's just that tonight, for the first time in years... 586 00:40:36,230 --> 00:40:39,791 I've known what it's like to be admired and respected... 587 00:40:39,867 --> 00:40:43,132 to be treated the way a woman wants to be treated. 588 00:40:43,204 --> 00:40:46,731 I know you think it's silly, but it's true. 589 00:40:46,807 --> 00:40:51,335 Just once more before I turn the corner... 590 00:40:51,412 --> 00:40:54,245 I want to know what love is. 591 00:40:54,315 --> 00:40:57,375 Well, that's just great. That's just wonderful. 592 00:40:57,451 --> 00:41:00,852 You know a man 20 minutes, and it's love in bloom. 593 00:41:00,921 --> 00:41:04,413 Oh, I realize I'll probably never see him again... 594 00:41:04,492 --> 00:41:07,484 but I can go on the rest of my life... 595 00:41:07,561 --> 00:41:09,893 just dreaming about tonight. 596 00:41:09,964 --> 00:41:12,524 Well, how do you like that? 597 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,400 We've been married 20 years, and now you're in love! 598 00:41:29,850 --> 00:41:32,318 [Groans] 599 00:41:39,460 --> 00:41:43,794 Ooh, that looks nice. Only $20 down. 600 00:41:43,864 --> 00:41:47,595 Yeah, but with the present credit system in this country, controls and all... 601 00:41:47,668 --> 00:41:52,196 - Joe, we're talking about a bedroom suite. 602 00:41:52,273 --> 00:41:55,265 My, my! Up so late? 603 00:41:55,342 --> 00:41:57,970 The prexy of C. M! 604 00:41:58,045 --> 00:42:02,880 - So I'm crazy, am I? I'm drunk? Look at him. - Grandpa, your beard! 605 00:42:04,985 --> 00:42:08,785 - Dad! - Mr. Hodges, before you say a word, do me a favor... 606 00:42:08,856 --> 00:42:12,257 I'll handle this. Dad, what have you done to yourself? 607 00:42:12,326 --> 00:42:15,762 You stay out of this! I want to get this matter settled first. 608 00:42:15,829 --> 00:42:19,925 Once and for all, are you or are you not the president of Consolidated Motors? 609 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,127 My boy, you've no idea what I am. 610 00:42:22,202 --> 00:42:26,832 There. There! You see? I told you so, but nobody'd believe me! Oh, no! 611 00:42:26,907 --> 00:42:30,001 - But why, Grandpa? Why did you do it? - I wanted my job back. 612 00:42:30,077 --> 00:42:34,810 And just for that, you pretend you're president of Consolidated Motors? 613 00:42:34,882 --> 00:42:37,612 I didn't count on its getting so involved, Della. 614 00:42:37,685 --> 00:42:41,086 I thought I'd just establish a new hiring policy and then come home. 615 00:42:41,155 --> 00:42:44,784 You didn't count on its getting so involved? Boy, that's a good one! 616 00:42:44,858 --> 00:42:47,850 - Get a load of this. - Oh, an atrocious picture. 617 00:42:47,928 --> 00:42:52,297 You'd think that with all the photographers in this town, one would've gotten me in focus. 618 00:42:52,366 --> 00:42:55,529 I give up. Honestly, I give up. My own father! 619 00:42:55,603 --> 00:42:58,629 Pardon me for asking, Grandpa, but what happens tomorrow... 620 00:42:58,706 --> 00:43:02,642 when the real president of Consolidated Motors finds out he made a speech today? 621 00:43:02,710 --> 00:43:06,840 I'm sure I don't know, Della, but I must say it reads like a very good speech. 622 00:43:06,914 --> 00:43:09,041 I'll tell you what's going to happen. 623 00:43:09,116 --> 00:43:12,176 This is what's called confidence work, like selling phony stock. 624 00:43:12,252 --> 00:43:15,653 - You can get five years in jail for this sort of thing. - Really? So much? 625 00:43:15,723 --> 00:43:18,851 I give them 24 hours before they put you in jail. 626 00:43:18,926 --> 00:43:21,952 Unless, of course, you turn yourself in. That way, they might be more lenient. 627 00:43:22,029 --> 00:43:26,693 I was in a show once where this fellow pretends he's somebody else. 628 00:43:26,767 --> 00:43:29,827 [Chuckles] Oh, boy, what they did to him! 629 00:43:29,903 --> 00:43:32,963 Holy smoke! I just thought of something. That jerk Erickson. 630 00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,134 I told him about it, and he's the sort that'll turn you in... 631 00:43:36,210 --> 00:43:39,236 'cause he knows he'll probably get a promotion for it. 632 00:43:39,313 --> 00:43:43,579 Just my luck. He turns you in, and they make him assistant head of personnel. 633 00:43:43,651 --> 00:43:47,485 - You sure about that? - He'd turn his own mother in to get that promotion. 634 00:43:47,554 --> 00:43:51,251 Then why don't you turn him in? Why should that other jerk get all the credit? 635 00:43:51,325 --> 00:43:54,988 - I couldn't do that! - Oh, don't be so noble all of a sudden. 636 00:43:55,062 --> 00:43:57,656 - You want to marry Alice, don't you? - Well, yes, but... 637 00:43:57,731 --> 00:44:01,223 - And you can't or you won't till you get that promotion. - No, but that's... 638 00:44:01,301 --> 00:44:03,861 No buts about it. This is your big chance. 639 00:44:03,937 --> 00:44:06,269 I can't do a thing like that, Mrs. Hodges. 640 00:44:06,340 --> 00:44:08,934 If it weren't for him, I'd never have known Alice. 641 00:44:09,009 --> 00:44:11,705 - Somebody's gonna turn him in. - Not me. 642 00:44:11,779 --> 00:44:13,940 Grandpa, will you tell rover boy here... 643 00:44:14,014 --> 00:44:17,677 that he ain't puttin'you behind the eight ball ifhe turns you in. 644 00:44:17,751 --> 00:44:20,049 Joe's of age. He can make his own decision. 645 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,281 I've already made my decision. 646 00:44:22,356 --> 00:44:24,688 - I'm not gonna do it. - Well, for goodness' sake, why not? 647 00:44:24,758 --> 00:44:29,218 You've all accused me of being just a man of facts and figures and economics. 648 00:44:29,296 --> 00:44:32,424 You're wrong. I'm also a man of heart and blood and soul. 649 00:44:32,499 --> 00:44:36,401 And I'm not gonna do it. I've got principles. 650 00:44:36,470 --> 00:44:38,734 - Joe. 651 00:44:38,806 --> 00:44:42,902 Well, how do you like that? After all the time he spent hanging around this house... 652 00:44:42,976 --> 00:44:46,380 - all of a sudden he's got principles. - Good night, all. 653 00:44:46,513 --> 00:44:48,981 You're really a wonderful person, Joe. 654 00:44:49,049 --> 00:44:52,246 Oh, she was nuts, even if she is your mother. 655 00:44:52,319 --> 00:44:56,915 In this awful world, where everybody's cutting everybody else's throat... 656 00:44:56,990 --> 00:44:59,322 you still have some decency left. 657 00:44:59,393 --> 00:45:02,328 I'm proud of you, Joe. You have real dignity. 658 00:45:02,396 --> 00:45:04,387 Yeah? 659 00:45:06,133 --> 00:45:08,124 I love you, Joe. 662 00:45:47,741 --> 00:45:49,800 Come in. 663 00:45:49,876 --> 00:45:53,209 - Grandpa, I just made a wonderful discovery. - Really? 664 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,649 - I just realized that you're a great man. 665 00:45:57,717 --> 00:46:01,278 I guess I'm beginning to grow up at last, Grandpa... to understand things. 666 00:46:01,354 --> 00:46:03,822 What kind of things, my dear? 667 00:46:03,890 --> 00:46:06,222 Dignity. That's the word... dignity. 668 00:46:06,293 --> 00:46:08,693 All of a sudden it came to me, like a flash of lightning... 669 00:46:08,762 --> 00:46:12,721 that there's nothing so important as a person's own dignity. 670 00:46:12,799 --> 00:46:15,893 It's more important than maintaining a high standard of living... 671 00:46:15,969 --> 00:46:19,632 or even being assistant to the head of some old department. 672 00:46:19,706 --> 00:46:22,539 And that's what this was all about, wasn't it? 673 00:46:22,609 --> 00:46:26,204 You were fighting for your dignity, the dignity of your work. 674 00:46:26,279 --> 00:46:30,409 And for that, you were willing to take on the whole complex world. 675 00:46:30,484 --> 00:46:33,817 I think you're a wonderful man, Grandpa. 676 00:46:33,887 --> 00:46:36,321 Thank you, my dear. Good night. 677 00:46:38,124 --> 00:46:40,115 Good night. 681 00:47:14,627 --> 00:47:18,723 In our time, we have grown accustomed to the machine age. 682 00:47:18,798 --> 00:47:23,735 Mr. Cleveland's fine speech has given us a new realization ofhonor and humanity... 683 00:47:23,803 --> 00:47:27,933 as well as a truer understanding of the individual's place in our American culture. 684 00:47:28,007 --> 00:47:32,103 Our hat is off to Mr. Cleveland. He is a great American. 685 00:47:32,178 --> 00:47:35,614 - Read what that paper there has to say, Mr. Cleveland? - Not yet. 686 00:47:35,681 --> 00:47:39,310 It says, God bless Mr. Cleveland and Consolidated Motors. 687 00:47:39,385 --> 00:47:41,751 They restored our faltering faith. 688 00:47:41,821 --> 00:47:44,085 That sure was some speech, Mr. Cleveland. 689 00:47:44,156 --> 00:47:47,216 - Kind of makes you proud to be an American. - Yeah. 690 00:47:47,293 --> 00:47:51,559 I've never seen anything like it. There must be 10,000! 691 00:47:51,630 --> 00:47:54,064 This isn't even half of'em. 692 00:47:54,133 --> 00:47:58,126 Listen, Clancy, of course I'm only head of public relations. 693 00:47:58,204 --> 00:48:01,264 I suppose it'd be too much trouble for anybody to tell me... 694 00:48:01,340 --> 00:48:03,638 when the boss is going to make a speech. 695 00:48:03,709 --> 00:48:06,269 I didn't know anything more about it than you did. 696 00:48:06,345 --> 00:48:09,644 - He told me he was going to the ball game yesterday. - What a speech! 697 00:48:09,715 --> 00:48:12,616 Look what's happened to the market. Open two points up across the board. 698 00:48:12,685 --> 00:48:14,482 Seen this? 699 00:48:14,553 --> 00:48:19,013 - That's cute. - I bet the rest of the industry's tearing their hair out. 700 00:48:19,091 --> 00:48:21,616 There's something fishy about all this. 701 00:48:21,694 --> 00:48:26,290 Unless I'm out of my mind, I was having luncheon with Mr. Cleveland at 1:00 yesterday. 702 00:48:26,365 --> 00:48:30,199 Oh, take it easy, Bill. That's when he was makin' his speech. 703 00:48:30,269 --> 00:48:33,295 Well, maybe 1:15, 1:30. But I know it was yesterday. 704 00:48:33,372 --> 00:48:37,331 - Hey, what's the big idea? - Set up a special meeting in my office at 11:00. 705 00:48:37,410 --> 00:48:39,469 And get my lawyer. 706 00:48:39,545 --> 00:48:43,037 To sum it up, gentlemen, it appears that this person's speech... 707 00:48:43,115 --> 00:48:47,176 has not only caught the public's fancy and brought this company a great deal of goodwill... 708 00:48:47,253 --> 00:48:49,949 but it's had a profound effect on the whole market... 709 00:48:50,022 --> 00:48:52,718 indeed on the whole business structure of America. 710 00:48:52,792 --> 00:48:55,955 The question now is, what are we going to do about it? 711 00:48:56,028 --> 00:48:59,464 There's only one thing we can do: Categorically deny the whole thing. 712 00:48:59,532 --> 00:49:02,797 And categorically deny ourselves $25 million? 713 00:49:02,868 --> 00:49:06,463 Well, if we don't deny it, somebody else will. Then where will we be? 714 00:49:06,539 --> 00:49:08,803 You're a lawyer, Joe. What do you think? 715 00:49:08,874 --> 00:49:11,866 Frankly, it looks to me like a carefully planned maneuver... 716 00:49:11,944 --> 00:49:13,969 not only to create a bull market... 717 00:49:14,046 --> 00:49:16,640 but to put Consolidated Motors in an awkward spot. 718 00:49:16,715 --> 00:49:20,742 Actually, the speech doesn't really say anything except what we've all been saying... 719 00:49:20,820 --> 00:49:24,654 About individual initiative, keeping our shoulders to the wheel... 720 00:49:24,723 --> 00:49:27,055 and giving a bunch of old men somejobs. 721 00:49:27,126 --> 00:49:29,526 I'd say it's the work of a crackpot. 722 00:49:29,595 --> 00:49:31,586 I disagree. 723 00:49:31,664 --> 00:49:35,930 I've read the speech a dozen times. I don't find any crackpot ideas in it. 724 00:49:36,001 --> 00:49:38,902 I consider it a splendid speech. I agree with everything it says. 725 00:49:38,971 --> 00:49:43,067 No, Ernest, the thing that worries me is, why didn't I make that speech? 726 00:49:43,142 --> 00:49:47,101 - What? - You're paid to handle the public relations of this company. 727 00:49:47,179 --> 00:49:50,273 Here's a fine business talk that I could have made. 728 00:49:50,349 --> 00:49:53,341 - Why didn't you think of it? - But, Mr. Cleveland, l-l... 729 00:49:53,419 --> 00:49:56,047 In fact, why didn't I think of it for myself? 730 00:49:56,121 --> 00:50:00,859 For that matter, why didn't some of you other gentlemen think of it for yourselves? 731 00:50:02,093 --> 00:50:04,027 I think Mr. Cleveland has a point. 732 00:50:04,095 --> 00:50:07,792 For the time being, at least until we can make an investigation... 733 00:50:07,866 --> 00:50:09,800 I've already taken steps to do that. 734 00:50:09,868 --> 00:50:12,803 - Then I move we just sit tight. - I second the motion. 735 00:50:12,871 --> 00:50:15,135 - All in favor? - [All Responding] Aye. 736 00:50:15,206 --> 00:50:19,700 I know I don't have to caution anyone here that this is a matter of utmost secrecy. 737 00:50:19,777 --> 00:50:21,472 Good day. 738 00:50:32,557 --> 00:50:35,617 - Uh, hey, Frank. - Yeah? 739 00:50:35,693 --> 00:50:37,684 You remember my telling you yesterday... 740 00:50:37,762 --> 00:50:39,787 about the president of Consolidated Motors... 741 00:50:39,864 --> 00:50:42,924 and how it was really an old guy in our handpress department? 742 00:50:43,001 --> 00:50:45,629 - So? - You haven't told anybody yet, have you? 743 00:50:45,703 --> 00:50:47,694 Well, hardly. 744 00:50:47,772 --> 00:50:50,206 Well, do me a favor and don't. 745 00:50:50,275 --> 00:50:53,972 It's a long story. I can't explain. Just take my word and don't. 746 00:50:54,045 --> 00:50:57,105 - Sure. - Thanks. 747 00:50:57,181 --> 00:51:00,275 Well... see you around. 748 00:51:29,914 --> 00:51:32,212 Hold this, Bess. 749 00:51:32,283 --> 00:51:34,376 Thank you. 750 00:51:36,821 --> 00:51:39,153 Come in. 751 00:51:43,127 --> 00:51:45,186 Well? 752 00:51:45,263 --> 00:51:47,663 Mr. Gallagher, there's something going on around here... 753 00:51:47,732 --> 00:51:50,758 that ought to be brought to Mr. McKinley's attention immediately. 754 00:51:50,835 --> 00:51:55,568 - What sort of something? - This whole Consolidated Motors thing, sir... it's just a gag. 755 00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:58,074 What whole Consolidated Motors thing? 756 00:51:58,142 --> 00:52:02,238 The man that was here inspecting the plant is not the president of Consolidated Motors. 757 00:52:02,313 --> 00:52:05,544 He's a printer in our handpress department. 758 00:52:05,616 --> 00:52:08,084 What's that behind your back, Erickson? Dirty pictures? 759 00:52:08,152 --> 00:52:11,747 Oh, no, sir. This is the file on him. 760 00:52:11,823 --> 00:52:13,848 The file on who? 761 00:52:13,925 --> 00:52:16,655 On this man who everybody thinks is the president of Consolidated Motors. 762 00:52:16,728 --> 00:52:19,754 The one who made that speech at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday? 763 00:52:19,831 --> 00:52:22,698 - Listen, are you drunk? - Oh, no, sir. 764 00:52:22,767 --> 00:52:24,598 Then what are you driving at? 765 00:52:24,669 --> 00:52:27,729 The man that was here inspecting the plant was an impostor. 766 00:52:27,805 --> 00:52:31,241 He pretended to be Harold P. Cleveland, president of Consolidated Motors... 767 00:52:31,309 --> 00:52:33,607 and he's not; he's John Hodges, a printer. 768 00:52:33,678 --> 00:52:36,738 Listen, Erickson, if this is a gag, I don't like it. 769 00:52:36,814 --> 00:52:40,716 - I know it sounds fantastic... - You're getting to be something of a screwball. You know that? 770 00:52:40,785 --> 00:52:42,776 Me, sir? 771 00:52:42,854 --> 00:52:45,914 I've got to make a choice for a new assistant around here pretty soon... 772 00:52:45,990 --> 00:52:49,050 and you're not giving me a very good impression. 773 00:52:49,127 --> 00:52:51,755 - But it's not a gag, sir, it's true! - What's true? 774 00:52:51,829 --> 00:52:53,820 The president of Consolidated Motors that was here yesterday... 775 00:52:53,898 --> 00:52:55,923 was not the real president of Consolidated Motors. 776 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,060 The real president is a man named Harold P. Cleveland. 777 00:52:59,137 --> 00:53:02,334 The man that was here yesterday is John Hodges, who works in our handpress department. 778 00:53:02,407 --> 00:53:06,901 - All you do have to do is look at his picture here in the file. - Never mind the file. 779 00:53:06,978 --> 00:53:10,004 You say the whole world thinks the man who inspected our plant yesterday... 780 00:53:10,081 --> 00:53:12,106 was the president of Consolidated Motors? 781 00:53:12,183 --> 00:53:15,243 Yes, sir. And then he made the speech at the Chamber of Commerce. 782 00:53:15,319 --> 00:53:17,844 Mr. McKinley thinks he was the president of Consolidated Motors. 783 00:53:17,922 --> 00:53:20,618 The Chamber of Commerce thinks so, but you don't. 784 00:53:20,691 --> 00:53:25,025 - You think he's a printer. - I'm sorry if you refuse to believe me, Mr. Gallagher. 785 00:53:25,096 --> 00:53:27,894 Don't be silly. Of course I believe you. 786 00:53:27,965 --> 00:53:30,798 And by the way, my name isn't Gallagher. 787 00:53:30,868 --> 00:53:33,496 I'm Harry Truman, president of the United States. 788 00:53:33,571 --> 00:53:37,166 And you're not Erickson, you're Princess Elizabeth's baby, Bonnie Prince Charlie. 789 00:53:37,241 --> 00:53:39,402 - But, Mr. Gallagher... - Get outta here! 790 00:53:39,477 --> 00:53:42,969 The next time you come in with one of your fool stories, I'll have you locked up! 791 00:53:43,047 --> 00:53:45,208 Now, get out! 792 00:53:55,460 --> 00:53:57,860 - Mr. McKinley in? - Who's calling, please? 793 00:53:57,929 --> 00:54:00,397 Kleinbaum's the name. Mr. Rogell. 794 00:54:00,465 --> 00:54:03,525 Mr. McKinley's in conference. Perhaps if I could help you. 795 00:54:03,601 --> 00:54:06,661 I hear you had quite a bit of excitement around here yesterday. 796 00:54:06,737 --> 00:54:08,728 Excitement? What kind of excitement? 797 00:54:08,806 --> 00:54:10,831 With Mr. Cleveland, I mean. 798 00:54:10,908 --> 00:54:13,342 Oh, yes. Of course. Mr. Cleveland. 799 00:54:13,411 --> 00:54:16,471 - Did you meet him, Miss? - Me? I took dictation from him. 800 00:54:16,547 --> 00:54:19,038 Yeah? Well, tell your boss he sent us. 801 00:54:21,752 --> 00:54:23,947 Just a moment. 802 00:54:35,499 --> 00:54:38,627 - Mr. McKinley will see you now. - Thank you, Miss. 805 00:54:56,353 --> 00:54:58,719 - How do you feel? - Awful. 806 00:54:58,789 --> 00:55:01,314 Here, take a swallow of this. 807 00:55:03,460 --> 00:55:06,020 - You'll be okay. 808 00:55:06,096 --> 00:55:09,122 - We've sent for the doctor. - I don't want a doctor. 809 00:55:09,199 --> 00:55:13,295 - And you keep outta here too! - I was only trying to help. 811 00:55:15,472 --> 00:55:19,033 Of course you understand this must be handled with absolute secrecy. 812 00:55:19,109 --> 00:55:22,977 Don't worry. I'm the guy that was taken. 813 00:55:23,047 --> 00:55:27,074 Why, if this ever gets out, they'll laugh me right out of town. 814 00:55:27,151 --> 00:55:30,712 - Don't excite yourself, Mr. McKinley. - Why shouldn't I? 815 00:55:30,788 --> 00:55:32,983 My whole life's been disrupted. 816 00:55:33,057 --> 00:55:36,493 First, my wife wants a divorce. Now I faint. 817 00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:38,994 All on account of this phony. 818 00:55:39,063 --> 00:55:41,497 Oh, the dirty, low-down crook. 819 00:55:41,565 --> 00:55:45,001 I took him to my house for dinner. Wait till I tell my wife. 820 00:55:45,069 --> 00:55:48,129 Oh, boy, will I laugh right in her face. 821 00:55:48,205 --> 00:55:51,265 - Falling for a phony. - We'll take a look around. 822 00:55:51,341 --> 00:55:54,401 - If we find out anything, we'll let you know. 823 00:55:54,478 --> 00:55:57,504 - Meanwhile, you get any ideas yourself... - Live in a palace. 824 00:55:57,581 --> 00:56:01,881 Oh, boy, will I laugh right in her face. Huh! 825 00:56:05,189 --> 00:56:08,249 I've gotta see Mr. McKinley. It's a matter of life and death. 826 00:56:08,325 --> 00:56:11,351 - What's the name? - Mr. Erickson of the personnel department. 827 00:56:11,428 --> 00:56:14,488 - Personnel. Mr. Gallagher's department? - That's right. Please hurry. 828 00:56:14,565 --> 00:56:19,434 - Mr. McKinley is very busy. - Mr. McKinley would rather have things go along as usual, Miss. 829 00:56:27,511 --> 00:56:30,969 Mr. Erickson of the personnel department to see you, Mr. McKinley. 830 00:56:31,048 --> 00:56:33,676 Who the devil is Mr. Erickson? 831 00:56:33,751 --> 00:56:38,051 I assure you, I haven't the faintest idea, only he says it's urgent. 832 00:56:38,122 --> 00:56:40,352 Oh, he does, does he? 833 00:56:40,424 --> 00:56:42,654 Really, Mr. McKinley, I'm only trying to... 834 00:56:42,726 --> 00:56:46,457 Okay, okay, send him in! Why not? The more the merrier. 835 00:56:52,803 --> 00:56:54,964 Well? 836 00:56:55,038 --> 00:56:58,804 I believe the man who was here posing as the president of Consolidated Motors... 837 00:56:58,876 --> 00:57:01,071 was really an impostor. 838 00:57:01,145 --> 00:57:03,579 - How would you like to be fired? - Sir? 839 00:57:03,647 --> 00:57:07,310 Listen, you half-wit, if you breathe another word of what you just said to a single soul... 840 00:57:07,384 --> 00:57:10,410 I'll have you thrown out of here on those pencil-striped pants! 841 00:57:10,487 --> 00:57:14,321 - I have the man's file! His picture! - Get out, before I brain you! 842 00:57:14,391 --> 00:57:17,417 - Wait a minute! Give me that file! - Yes, sir. 843 00:57:17,494 --> 00:57:20,156 - Mr. McKinley, control yourself. - Go fry an egg! 844 00:57:20,230 --> 00:57:21,925 Well! 845 00:57:22,299 --> 00:57:27,327 Oh. Thank you. Don't do anything until you hear further from me. Good-bye. 846 00:57:27,404 --> 00:57:31,033 - Kleinbaum says the man works right there in the plant. - The police been notified? 847 00:57:31,108 --> 00:57:33,542 Wait. You want to break this thing wide open? 848 00:57:33,610 --> 00:57:36,670 But you can't let a thief, a confidence man... 849 00:57:36,747 --> 00:57:39,773 go around professing to be president of Consolidated Motors. 850 00:57:39,850 --> 00:57:44,685 Keep your shirt on. Nobody suffered any great damages. In fact... 851 00:57:44,755 --> 00:57:47,246 Get a load of this! Straight from union headquarters. 852 00:57:47,324 --> 00:57:50,418 Since Mr. Cleveland has shown a willingness to see labor's point of view... 853 00:57:50,494 --> 00:57:53,554 and since the United Automobile Workers are as eager as Mr. Cleveland... 854 00:57:53,630 --> 00:57:55,860 to maintain the nation's economic strength... 855 00:57:55,933 --> 00:57:58,959 we hereby pledge ourselves to arbitrate all current differences... 856 00:57:59,036 --> 00:58:01,698 in the same spirit of this speech. How do you like that? 857 00:58:01,772 --> 00:58:05,230 Why, this is the most ridiculous position the company's ever been in. 858 00:58:05,309 --> 00:58:08,369 - Looks like we're saddled with that fool's speech. - That's right. 859 00:58:08,445 --> 00:58:12,939 If we deny it now, we'll be accused of trifling with the future prosperity of America. 860 00:58:13,016 --> 00:58:16,076 As a matter of fact, in view of the sharp market rise... 861 00:58:16,153 --> 00:58:19,714 I'm not sure that those of us who have bought Consolidated Motors stock recently... 862 00:58:19,790 --> 00:58:21,917 wouldn't end up in jail. 863 00:58:21,992 --> 00:58:27,555 Gentlemen, my advice is to emulate that estimable creature of the sea, the clam... 864 00:58:27,631 --> 00:58:29,826 and say absolutely nothing. 865 00:58:29,900 --> 00:58:33,165 I still say there's something screwy about a simple little printer... 866 00:58:33,237 --> 00:58:35,262 pulling a trick like this. 867 00:58:35,339 --> 00:58:38,399 That's possible. But if so, let's just hope he gets away with it. 868 00:58:38,475 --> 00:58:42,138 Have my car here at 6:00, and phone my home and say I won't be there for dinner. 869 00:58:42,212 --> 00:58:44,908 That's all, gentlemen. 870 00:58:47,217 --> 00:58:50,675 Just wait till you get a load of... What the devil is this? 871 00:58:50,754 --> 00:58:53,188 The suitcase I bought 12 years ago... 872 00:58:53,257 --> 00:58:56,317 when we were supposed to take that trip to Europe. 873 00:58:56,393 --> 00:58:58,987 - What's it doing here? - I'm going away. 874 00:58:59,062 --> 00:59:03,158 You got a fool notion like that, get it out of your head because I got news for you. 875 00:59:03,233 --> 00:59:07,329 And get a good hold on the bed, because when you faint I don't want you banging your head. 876 00:59:07,404 --> 00:59:10,862 What would you say if I told you we had a phony to dinner last night? 877 00:59:10,941 --> 00:59:13,273 - A what? - A phony. 878 00:59:13,343 --> 00:59:17,336 That bird's no more president of Consolidated Motors than I am. He's a crook, an impostor. 879 00:59:17,414 --> 00:59:22,374 But I'll send him to jail if it's the last thing I do. Here's a whole record on him. 880 00:59:22,452 --> 00:59:25,114 Just look for yourself. 881 00:59:25,188 --> 00:59:27,622 - Who is he? - A printer. 882 00:59:27,691 --> 00:59:29,886 In my own handpress department. 883 00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,087 John Hodges. How do you like that? 884 00:59:32,162 --> 00:59:34,153 I think it's wonderful. 885 00:59:34,231 --> 00:59:36,859 - What? - I said, I think it's wonderful. 886 00:59:36,934 --> 00:59:41,030 Look, I'm in no mood for jokes. Now, unpack that suitcase and come down to dinner. 887 00:59:41,104 --> 00:59:43,629 But I won't be here for dinner. I'm leaving. 888 00:59:43,707 --> 00:59:47,803 Now, listen, just because some $62-a-week printer in my own factory dances the rumba... 889 00:59:47,878 --> 00:59:51,939 Last night he made me realize just how empty my life has been. 890 00:59:52,015 --> 00:59:54,245 [Sobbing] 891 00:59:54,318 --> 00:59:58,015 Stop crying. You know I can't stand tears. 892 00:59:58,088 --> 01:00:01,114 Well, at least tell me, what have I done? 893 01:00:01,191 --> 01:00:03,523 You've killed my life for me. 894 01:00:03,593 --> 01:00:06,221 You've never loved me, not for one moment. 895 01:00:06,296 --> 01:00:08,287 - I'm 40 years old, - Forty-three! 896 01:00:08,365 --> 01:00:12,096 And I just can't go on being treated like a stick of furniture. 897 01:00:12,169 --> 01:00:16,230 I've as much right to love as anybody, even if I am 40... 898 01:00:16,306 --> 01:00:18,536 What you said. 899 01:00:20,610 --> 01:00:23,636 Have you really been so miserable, Lucille? 900 01:00:23,714 --> 01:00:28,083 I'm sorry if I've made life so unbearable for you. I didn't know I was doing it. 901 01:00:28,151 --> 01:00:30,585 Well, it's not all your fault, Louis. 902 01:00:30,654 --> 01:00:32,884 You can't help being what you are. 903 01:00:32,956 --> 01:00:36,892 But you are what you are, and I can't stand it any longer. 904 01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:40,225 Who's going to tell Willie? 905 01:00:40,297 --> 01:00:42,492 I'll tell him. 906 01:00:42,566 --> 01:00:45,228 This is a terrible thing that we're doing. 907 01:00:45,302 --> 01:00:48,829 I don't like divorce. I was brought up not to believe in divorce. 908 01:00:48,905 --> 01:00:52,466 We were married in a church, and there's something unholy about a divorce. 909 01:00:52,542 --> 01:00:55,670 - I wish you'd weigh this decision carefully. - [Sobs] 910 01:01:01,351 --> 01:01:04,411 - Willie. - Hello, Mom. I'm starved. 911 01:01:04,488 --> 01:01:08,117 Yes, dear, I know. Willie, I have a shock for you. 912 01:01:08,191 --> 01:01:11,786 But I think you're old enough and sensitive enough to understand. 913 01:01:11,862 --> 01:01:14,296 Sure. What is it? 914 01:01:14,364 --> 01:01:18,095 Your father and I, we're... we're separating. 915 01:01:18,168 --> 01:01:20,363 We're getting a divorce! 916 01:01:20,437 --> 01:01:22,462 Divorce? 917 01:01:22,539 --> 01:01:25,940 - Is it a very big shock to you, dear? - Is it a shock? 918 01:01:26,009 --> 01:01:29,775 Boy, is that some question. Of course it's a shock. Naturally it's a shock. 919 01:01:29,846 --> 01:01:32,144 I'm sorry. I didn't mean to shock you. 920 01:01:32,215 --> 01:01:35,878 But I thought it would be better if I came straight out and told you. 921 01:01:35,952 --> 01:01:39,012 - Here, sit down, darling. Please. - I don't want to. 922 01:01:39,089 --> 01:01:41,353 I don't feel like sitting down. 923 01:01:41,425 --> 01:01:44,883 - You're angry with me. - I'm not angry. I'm just upset, that's all. 924 01:01:44,961 --> 01:01:47,623 What's so surprising about being upset? 925 01:01:47,697 --> 01:01:50,131 You'd be upset too, under the circumstances. 926 01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,191 I didn't mean to upset you. 927 01:01:52,269 --> 01:01:55,329 Actually, I'm quite upset myself. 928 01:01:55,405 --> 01:01:58,863 I feel terrible, right here in my stomach. 929 01:01:58,942 --> 01:02:02,002 - You're not going to be sick? - I don't know. 930 01:02:02,079 --> 01:02:05,139 I must have some kind of psychosomatic disorder. 931 01:02:05,215 --> 01:02:08,241 - It hits me right here in my stomach. - Oh, dear. 932 01:02:08,318 --> 01:02:10,980 I don't know what to say. 933 01:02:11,054 --> 01:02:14,785 I've never felt so miserable in my whole life. 934 01:02:15,992 --> 01:02:18,756 - I'm going away. - Where? 935 01:02:18,829 --> 01:02:21,491 I don't know. 936 01:02:21,565 --> 01:02:24,591 To my family in Maryland, I suppose. 937 01:02:24,668 --> 01:02:27,967 Of course, they'll be furious. They'll want me to come back and apologize to your father. 938 01:02:28,038 --> 01:02:31,439 But l... I just couldn't do that. 939 01:02:31,508 --> 01:02:33,669 Oh. 940 01:02:38,515 --> 01:02:40,813 Good-bye, dear. 941 01:02:42,752 --> 01:02:47,314 Go take some aromatic spirits of ammonia. Then lie down flat. 942 01:02:51,127 --> 01:02:53,118 - Where's your mother? - Gone. 943 01:02:53,196 --> 01:02:56,757 - Gone where? - To Maryland. I feel sick. I'm sick to my stomach. 944 01:02:56,833 --> 01:03:01,361 - I got no time for you. I gotta stop her. - That's a fine thing to say. 945 01:03:01,437 --> 01:03:04,964 My mother says, "Don't get sick, but your father and I are getting a divorce." 946 01:03:05,041 --> 01:03:08,101 - Then my father says... - All right, all right. 947 01:03:08,177 --> 01:03:11,237 Take some soda water. I'll head her off at the railroad station. 948 01:03:11,314 --> 01:03:14,875 - If she comes back, don't let her out of the house. - [Door Slams] 949 01:03:14,951 --> 01:03:18,409 I think I'm gonna be sick all over the place. 950 01:03:18,488 --> 01:03:21,048 That'll show 'em. 951 01:03:21,123 --> 01:03:24,149 Alice! Alice, I got it! I got it! 952 01:03:24,227 --> 01:03:26,252 - Got what? - The job. The promotion. 953 01:03:26,329 --> 01:03:29,389 Oh, Joe, that's wonderful! Now can we get married? 954 01:03:29,465 --> 01:03:32,491 You said it. Just name the day, and I'll be there. 955 01:03:32,568 --> 01:03:35,628 - All you had to do was tell that Mr. Gallagher... - I didn't tell him anything. 956 01:03:35,705 --> 01:03:40,540 He just said, "Joe, Erickson's nuttier than a fruitcake. How'd you like to be my assistant?" 957 01:03:40,610 --> 01:03:42,908 - Congratulations, my boy. - Thank you. 958 01:03:42,979 --> 01:03:47,939 You're on your way. Someday, if you're not careful, you may even be a Mr. McKinley. 959 01:03:48,017 --> 01:03:50,042 - Yes, sir. - However, don't forget one thing. 960 01:03:50,119 --> 01:03:53,145 There's more in life than mere success. 961 01:03:53,222 --> 01:03:56,282 Or, rather, you should make up your mind what you mean by "success." 962 01:03:56,359 --> 01:04:00,159 Remember, it's not just having a job. It's not just making money. 963 01:04:00,229 --> 01:04:02,891 - It isn't? - It has nothing to do with those things. 964 01:04:02,965 --> 01:04:05,763 It's what a man gets out of his work that matters. 965 01:04:05,835 --> 01:04:08,099 Are you doing something you like? 966 01:04:08,170 --> 01:04:11,537 Are you aware of the essential dignity of what you're doing with your hands, your mind? 967 01:04:11,607 --> 01:04:13,598 Well, l... 968 01:04:13,676 --> 01:04:16,736 There's a stewardship of responsibility that one of your generation... 969 01:04:16,812 --> 01:04:18,803 - Yeah, well, there's the beer. 970 01:04:18,881 --> 01:04:21,941 - What beer? - The beer I ordered to celebrate our engagement. 971 01:04:22,018 --> 01:04:25,078 - A case. A whole case. - Wait. Maybe it's the police. 972 01:04:25,154 --> 01:04:28,715 The police? Oh, my goodness. I'll go. 973 01:04:31,527 --> 01:04:33,518 Yes? 974 01:04:33,596 --> 01:04:37,498 Does, uh, a Mr. John Hodges live here? 975 01:04:37,567 --> 01:04:40,661 - Who's calling, please? - Mrs. Louis McKinley. 976 01:04:40,736 --> 01:04:44,570 - McKinley? I'm sorry. He's gone to the country... - Alice, let Mrs. McKinley in. 977 01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:48,098 - You're... You're... - John Hodges. I dyed my whiskers. 978 01:04:48,177 --> 01:04:50,611 You must excuse my granddaughter's behavior... 979 01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:54,343 but we were expecting the police, so naturally she was suspicious. 980 01:04:54,417 --> 01:04:58,114 This is the rest of my family... my son George, my daughter-in-law. 981 01:04:58,187 --> 01:05:01,782 - Hello. - And Mr. Elliott, who thought you were a case of beer. 982 01:05:01,857 --> 01:05:04,155 - How do you do? - How do you do? 983 01:05:04,226 --> 01:05:07,286 - Uh, may I see you for a moment, alone? - Certainly. 984 01:05:07,363 --> 01:05:10,389 - Come into my bedroom. - Thank you. 985 01:05:10,466 --> 01:05:12,696 - [Whispering] His bedroom? - So what? 986 01:05:12,768 --> 01:05:16,363 After what's been going on in the house for the last 24 hours... 987 01:05:16,439 --> 01:05:18,930 you gonna draw the line at a bedroom? 988 01:05:20,710 --> 01:05:23,736 No, please. Don't turn on the lights. Not yet. 989 01:05:23,813 --> 01:05:26,873 It's a little compromising, isn't it, not having the lights on? 990 01:05:26,949 --> 01:05:30,817 Well, l... I'd like to feel a little compromised. 991 01:05:32,922 --> 01:05:35,186 I'm leaving my husband. 992 01:05:35,257 --> 01:05:37,691 Really? May I ask why? 993 01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:40,058 L... 994 01:05:42,098 --> 01:05:44,328 Well, l... 995 01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,699 - I told him I was in love with you. - With me? 996 01:05:47,770 --> 01:05:51,206 But that's ridiculous. You've only seen me once. 997 01:05:51,273 --> 01:05:54,333 That doesn't matter. I know you for what you are... 998 01:05:54,410 --> 01:05:58,005 a gallant and wonderful man who respects me and acts like a gentleman... 999 01:05:58,080 --> 01:06:01,743 even if you are what my husband said you are... a phony. 1000 01:06:01,817 --> 01:06:05,275 - Did your husband say that? - Oh, he said some terrible things about you. 1001 01:06:05,354 --> 01:06:08,414 He said you're an impostor, and he's going to put you in jail. 1002 01:06:08,491 --> 01:06:12,587 But I don't care. I'll stand by you. I'll even go to court and testify for you. 1003 01:06:12,662 --> 01:06:15,893 - And you can testify for me. - Mrs. McKinley, I'm going to turn on the lights. 1004 01:06:15,965 --> 01:06:17,990 Oh, no, please. Not yet. 1005 01:06:18,067 --> 01:06:21,093 Yes, Mrs. McKinley, now. Immediately. 1006 01:06:21,170 --> 01:06:26,301 Though I may be everything your husband says I am and everything you believe me to be... 1007 01:06:26,375 --> 01:06:29,936 I am emphatically -not- a correspondent in a divorce suit. 1008 01:06:30,012 --> 01:06:35,951 - Do I make myself clear? - Then last night was just last night? 1009 01:06:36,018 --> 01:06:38,543 Mrs. McKinley, you're a very handsome woman. 1010 01:06:38,621 --> 01:06:40,612 You dance extremely well. 1011 01:06:40,690 --> 01:06:43,750 You also have a gift for summing up a situation. 1012 01:06:43,826 --> 01:06:46,556 Last night was simply last night. 1013 01:06:46,629 --> 01:06:49,655 I'm sorry if my bluntness offends you... 1014 01:06:49,732 --> 01:06:53,600 but I assure you I have no intention of coming between any man and his wife. 1015 01:06:53,669 --> 01:06:57,469 Especially one as impulsive as you are. 1016 01:06:57,540 --> 01:07:00,270 - Perhaps if I were 30 years younger... - No, please. 1017 01:07:00,342 --> 01:07:03,800 Don't blame yourself. I understand, and I deserve this. 1018 01:07:03,879 --> 01:07:08,543 I guess I'm just a silly woman who's made quite a fool of herself. 1019 01:07:08,617 --> 01:07:11,609 Though it pains me to say so, you are. 1020 01:07:11,687 --> 01:07:16,750 My husband and I have been married for 20 years, and this is my first infidelity. 1021 01:07:16,826 --> 01:07:18,817 You don't say. 1022 01:07:18,894 --> 01:07:22,352 He married me because I was society, and I married him for his money. 1023 01:07:22,431 --> 01:07:25,923 Not that I couldn't have fallen in love with him. He's not bad-looking, you know. 1024 01:07:26,001 --> 01:07:28,663 - On the contrary. - He has a certain vibrance. 1025 01:07:28,738 --> 01:07:30,763 I'd say he's full of vibrance. 1026 01:07:30,840 --> 01:07:32,967 Sometimes there's something almost exciting about him... 1027 01:07:33,042 --> 01:07:35,374 only he's not in love with me. 1028 01:07:35,444 --> 01:07:37,639 How can you be so sure? 1029 01:07:37,713 --> 01:07:40,773 At first I thought he might be in love with me. 1030 01:07:40,850 --> 01:07:44,946 He used to kiss me with all the tenderness of a... of a... 1031 01:07:45,020 --> 01:07:47,989 A wild stallion? 1032 01:07:48,057 --> 01:07:51,117 Then after a while, he never kissed me at all. 1033 01:07:51,193 --> 01:07:55,857 Life was just a succession of fur coats and invitations to dinner. 1034 01:07:55,931 --> 01:07:58,991 That's all I've been... an invitation to dinner. 1035 01:07:59,068 --> 01:08:02,731 Mrs. McKinley, I think you're in love with your husband. 1036 01:08:02,805 --> 01:08:04,830 Me? 1037 01:08:04,907 --> 01:08:07,967 I have an idea that if you were to kiss him once, just once... 1038 01:08:08,043 --> 01:08:10,603 with all the tenderness of a... of a... 1039 01:08:10,679 --> 01:08:13,375 Wild mare? 1040 01:08:13,449 --> 01:08:17,852 Mrs. McKinley, I think we both need some coffee. Let's get out of here. 1041 01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:20,350 I knew this'd come in handy. 1042 01:08:20,422 --> 01:08:23,118 Here. Hang on to that. 1043 01:08:24,493 --> 01:08:26,927 - Serviette? 1044 01:08:26,996 --> 01:08:29,089 - The beer! - I'll get it. 1045 01:08:31,767 --> 01:08:33,667 Yes? 1046 01:08:33,736 --> 01:08:38,036 My name is Harold P. Cleveland. I'm looking for Mr. John Hodges. 1047 01:08:38,107 --> 01:08:40,667 - They're here. - Who? 1048 01:08:40,743 --> 01:08:43,371 Some man who says he's Harold P. Cleveland. 1049 01:08:43,445 --> 01:08:46,005 - The one with the black beard? - That was Grandpa. 1050 01:08:46,081 --> 01:08:48,140 Here. I'll handle this. 1051 01:08:50,152 --> 01:08:52,177 You got a warrant? 1052 01:08:52,254 --> 01:08:54,552 - No. - Nobody gets in here without a warrant. 1053 01:08:54,623 --> 01:08:56,784 Who is it now? 1054 01:08:56,859 --> 01:08:59,487 Some flatfoot pretending he's Harold P. Cleveland. 1055 01:08:59,561 --> 01:09:01,756 Who does he think he's fooling? 1056 01:09:01,830 --> 01:09:06,426 Harold P. Cleveland wouldn't be coming here personally to make the arrest. 1057 01:09:06,502 --> 01:09:09,198 Good evening, sir. You were looking for me? 1058 01:09:09,271 --> 01:09:11,262 - You'reJohn Hodges? - I am. 1059 01:09:11,340 --> 01:09:14,935 - I'm Harold P. Cleveland. - How do you do, Mr. Cleveland? Won't you come in? 1060 01:09:15,010 --> 01:09:17,035 Thank you. 1061 01:09:17,112 --> 01:09:20,775 Mr. Cleveland, meet my son George, my daughter-in-law Della... 1062 01:09:20,849 --> 01:09:25,445 Mrs. McKinley, my granddaughter Alice, and her fianc� Mr. Elliott. 1063 01:09:25,521 --> 01:09:28,081 - We're celebrating their betrothal. - Oh. Congratulations. 1064 01:09:28,157 --> 01:09:31,217 - Take Mr. Cleveland's hat, Alice. - I can only stay a moment. 1065 01:09:31,293 --> 01:09:34,854 You're not Harold P. Cleveland. You can't fool us. 1066 01:09:34,930 --> 01:09:38,889 But I am. If you don't believe me, my chauffeur is outside. Ask him. 1067 01:09:38,967 --> 01:09:44,098 - How do we know he's your chauffeur? - I don't carry much in my wallet. 1068 01:09:44,173 --> 01:09:47,336 But here. Sorry I haven't my fingerprints. 1069 01:09:47,409 --> 01:09:50,435 Uh, what is it you want, Mr. Cleveland? 1070 01:09:50,512 --> 01:09:54,414 I just wanted to meet Mr. Hodges, that's all. I'd like an explanation. 1071 01:09:54,483 --> 01:09:58,749 - I think I deserve an explanation. - I agree. Step in here. 1072 01:09:58,821 --> 01:10:03,952 You put Consolidated Motors in a highly ridiculous position with this escapade of yours. 1073 01:10:04,026 --> 01:10:07,086 And while I'm told that technically you've committed no crime... 1074 01:10:07,162 --> 01:10:09,687 I'd still like to know why you did it. 1075 01:10:09,765 --> 01:10:13,599 - Did I hear you say that I'd committed no crime? - That's what our lawyers say. 1076 01:10:13,669 --> 01:10:16,297 And from the fees they get, they ought to know. 1077 01:10:16,371 --> 01:10:19,602 Well, well. This is a pleasant surprise. 1078 01:10:19,675 --> 01:10:22,838 My son here was sure that I'd go to jail for five years. 1079 01:10:22,911 --> 01:10:25,141 Imagine that, George. No crime. 1080 01:10:25,214 --> 01:10:28,274 What do you know? He really is the president of Consolidated Motors. 1081 01:10:28,350 --> 01:10:30,545 - He is? - There's no doubt about it. 1082 01:10:30,619 --> 01:10:33,281 Is that so? [Giggles] 1083 01:10:33,355 --> 01:10:35,983 My, what a crazy evening this has been. 1084 01:10:36,058 --> 01:10:38,618 First my daughter gets engaged... 1085 01:10:38,694 --> 01:10:42,721 and then the president of Consolidated Motors drops in. 1086 01:10:42,798 --> 01:10:46,393 Joseph, get the president of Consolidated Motors a chair. 1087 01:10:46,468 --> 01:10:51,132 I declare. Nobody's gonna believe me when I tell them. 1088 01:10:51,206 --> 01:10:53,834 They're gonna laugh right in my face. 1089 01:10:53,909 --> 01:10:57,470 Somebody give him a piece of cake... Oh. 1090 01:10:57,546 --> 01:11:00,413 It's a Lady Anne chocolate surprise. 1091 01:11:00,482 --> 01:11:03,542 - Well, uh, no, thank you. - Oh, come on. I made it myself. 1092 01:11:03,619 --> 01:11:08,556 - My doctor doesn't allow me to eat cake. - Oh? Why? You got diabetes? 1093 01:11:08,624 --> 01:11:11,525 Well, no. It's something entirely different. 1094 01:11:11,593 --> 01:11:14,460 Oh. [Chuckles] I'm sorry. 1095 01:11:14,530 --> 01:11:16,760 May I shake your hand, Mr. Cleveland? 1096 01:11:16,832 --> 01:11:20,268 I'd like to tell people at the plant that I shook the hand... 1097 01:11:20,335 --> 01:11:22,565 of the president of Consolidated Motors. 1098 01:11:22,638 --> 01:11:26,699 - Not that they'd believe me, but I'd like to tell 'em anyway. - That'll do, Joe. 1099 01:11:26,775 --> 01:11:30,404 Maybe you'd like a cup of my special coffee, Mr. President. 1100 01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:34,279 Everybody says what good coffee I make, even though I'm not the cook type. 1101 01:11:34,349 --> 01:11:37,409 I was on the stage, you know. Maybe you saw me. 1102 01:11:37,486 --> 01:11:40,853 No, I'm afraid I never had that privilege. Have you any saccharin? 1103 01:11:40,923 --> 01:11:43,949 Saccharin? No. But we can get you some in just a minute. 1104 01:11:44,026 --> 01:11:47,655 Hey, Joseph, run next door and borrow a cup of saccharin. 1105 01:11:47,729 --> 01:11:51,529 Please don't bother. I'll take it just as it is, only half cream. 1106 01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:53,864 No bother at all. 1107 01:11:53,936 --> 01:11:58,430 You sure you never saw me? I was billed as Della Robia, The Bombshell of Song. 1108 01:11:58,507 --> 01:12:01,567 I never went to the theater when I was a young man. 1109 01:12:01,643 --> 01:12:05,875 - And now, Mr. Hodges, I'd like to hear your story. - It's a very silly story. 1110 01:12:05,948 --> 01:12:09,406 In fact, when I look back on it, it seems absolutely incredible. 1111 01:12:09,484 --> 01:12:11,714 Here you are. 1112 01:12:11,787 --> 01:12:15,223 Don't go away. I'll be back in just a minute. 1113 01:12:22,965 --> 01:12:25,991 Going to the Chamber of Commerce was something I hadn't counted on. 1114 01:12:26,068 --> 01:12:28,502 - The beer! 1115 01:12:28,570 --> 01:12:31,004 - Mr. McKinley! - I thought I'd find you here. 1116 01:12:31,073 --> 01:12:34,133 - Yes, Louis. - Okay, all right, I love you. Do you hear? 1117 01:12:34,209 --> 01:12:36,302 - Now, come on home. - I beg your pardon. 1118 01:12:36,378 --> 01:12:40,075 You keep out of this. This is between me and my wife. Who are you, anyway? 1119 01:12:40,148 --> 01:12:42,446 Harold P. Cleveland, president of... 1120 01:12:42,517 --> 01:12:46,613 I've heard all the Cleveland I wanna hear. It's all right if I never hear that name again. 1121 01:12:46,688 --> 01:12:49,748 Now, come on home, will ya? I apologize for whatever I did. 1122 01:12:49,825 --> 01:12:52,851 - I said I apologize! - All right, Louis. Only don't shout so. 1123 01:12:52,928 --> 01:12:57,262 - I'm not shouting! I just said I apologize! - Yes, dear, I heard you. 1124 01:12:57,332 --> 01:13:00,529 - Dear? D-Did you call me dear? - Yes, dear. 1125 01:13:00,602 --> 01:13:03,002 We'll, I'll be... [Chuckles] 1126 01:13:04,606 --> 01:13:06,938 Hodges, you're fired! 1127 01:13:11,013 --> 01:13:13,208 Grandpa! 1128 01:13:13,282 --> 01:13:16,774 - Grandpa? - I beg your pardon. 1130 01:13:24,359 --> 01:13:28,853 - Who the devil's car is that? - Harold P. Cleveland's, president of Consolidated Motors. 1131 01:13:28,931 --> 01:13:32,492 - Harold P. Whose? - The man you yelled at inside, dear. 1132 01:13:32,567 --> 01:13:34,797 [Groans] 1133 01:13:34,903 --> 01:13:38,634 - And that is the whole story. - And quite a story it is. 1134 01:13:38,707 --> 01:13:43,076 Pardon me for suggesting it, but I just happen to have this album laying around. 1135 01:13:43,145 --> 01:13:47,172 Only this afternoon I said to myself, Della, if the right part... 1136 01:13:47,249 --> 01:13:50,309 Della, there's no time for that now, after what's just happened. 1137 01:13:50,385 --> 01:13:54,185 - After what? - Dad's been fired, that's what. Fired! 1138 01:13:54,256 --> 01:13:56,281 Fired? What, again? 1139 01:13:56,358 --> 01:13:59,816 It's all right, Della. I knew all the time it wouldn't work. 1140 01:13:59,895 --> 01:14:02,830 Fired. And after all the trouble we've gone through. 1141 01:14:02,898 --> 01:14:05,389 - Mother, please. - Okay. 1142 01:14:05,467 --> 01:14:09,563 But it's a fine time to tell us, right in front of the president of Consolidated Motors. 1143 01:14:09,638 --> 01:14:12,163 If you've really been fired, what are you going to do? 1144 01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:16,233 I know one thing I won't do, and that's sit in a park and feed the pigeons. 1145 01:14:16,311 --> 01:14:19,212 How would you like to work with me in New York? 1146 01:14:19,281 --> 01:14:22,079 There's a little office next to mine. We could have it redecorated. 1147 01:14:22,150 --> 01:14:25,176 - Oh, Grandpa! - For goodness' sake, imagine! New York! 1148 01:14:25,253 --> 01:14:29,349 - Maybe you could find a little apartment. - I'm sorry. I couldn't do that. 1149 01:14:29,424 --> 01:14:33,121 You know the hackneyed phrase: "New York may be all right for a visit, but..." 1150 01:14:33,195 --> 01:14:37,499 - Maybe you could live in Brooklyn. - No, Della, not even Brooklyn. 1151 01:14:37,632 --> 01:14:40,567 - If it's a question of money... - No, thank you. 1152 01:14:40,635 --> 01:14:44,731 - I make all the money I need right here. - All the money you need? 1153 01:14:44,806 --> 01:14:49,300 You just lost your job, and with the price of soup bones goin' up... 1154 01:14:49,377 --> 01:14:52,778 - I'm sorry, Della. - You'd have lots of leisure. 1155 01:14:52,847 --> 01:14:56,112 I'd only want you around for advice in public relations matters. 1156 01:14:56,184 --> 01:14:59,244 Maybe we could go to a ball game together occasionally. 1157 01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:01,550 Thank you, Mr. Cleveland, but no. 1158 01:15:01,623 --> 01:15:04,888 This is my home. My family's here. We're happy. 1159 01:15:04,959 --> 01:15:07,086 That is, as happy as people need to be. 1160 01:15:07,161 --> 01:15:11,655 I have my health, I eat what I like, I drink my coffee without saccharin... 1161 01:15:11,733 --> 01:15:14,793 I don't have to make speeches, unless I want to... 1162 01:15:14,869 --> 01:15:20,068 go to board meetings, worry about stockholders, unions, income taxes. 1163 01:15:20,141 --> 01:15:25,135 Come to think of it, why don't you move out here? You're young enough to get a good job. 1164 01:15:25,213 --> 01:15:28,205 Now, please, Mr. Hodges, don't tempt me. 1165 01:15:28,283 --> 01:15:30,649 Well, I must be running along. 1166 01:15:30,718 --> 01:15:33,414 - Good night, everybody. - Good night, sir. 1167 01:15:35,723 --> 01:15:39,921 - Well, don't look at me. He's your father. 1168 01:15:39,994 --> 01:15:44,522 I'm sorry you won't come with me, but I see your point. 1169 01:15:44,599 --> 01:15:46,624 Thank you. 1170 01:15:46,701 --> 01:15:49,761 As to your job at Acme Printing, I wouldn't worry about that. 1171 01:15:49,837 --> 01:15:52,067 You heard Mr. McKinley fire me. 1172 01:15:52,140 --> 01:15:56,406 Mr. McKinley apparently has high blood pressure. I'll send him a note tomorrow. 1173 01:15:56,477 --> 01:16:00,846 No, I'll make it a directive that you're to have your job as long as you want it. 1174 01:16:00,915 --> 01:16:05,284 Well, thank you. You've been very understanding. If there's ever anything I can do for you... 1175 01:16:05,353 --> 01:16:08,447 If you should ever get an idea for another good speech... 1176 01:16:08,523 --> 01:16:12,152 It would be a pleasure, Mr. Cleveland, a pleasure indeed. 1177 01:16:12,226 --> 01:16:15,286 You're a great man, Mr. Hodges, a truly great man. 1178 01:16:15,363 --> 01:16:18,389 Thank you, Mr. Cleveland. So are you. 1179 01:16:18,466 --> 01:16:20,764 - Good night. - Good night. 104228