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- Yeah, D.B.
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Oh, just cleaning out the deadwood.
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Okay.
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- Look, Mr. Connell, I just can't afford
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to be without work right
now, not even for a day.
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I've got a mother and two kid sisters
to--
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- More good luck telegrams.
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- Well, you know how it is.
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I've just got to keep on working, see?
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- Sorry, sister, I was sent
down here to clean house.
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I told you, I can't use
your column anymore.
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It's lavender and old lace.
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- Sir?
- Send those other people in.
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- I'll tell you what I'll do.
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I get $30.
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I'll take $25, $20 if necessary.
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I'll do anything you say.
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- It isn't the money.
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We're after circulation.
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What we need is fireworks,
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people who can hit with
sledgehammers, start arguments.
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- Oh, I can do that.
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I know this town inside-out.
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Oh, give me a chance, please.
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- All right, come in, come in, come in.
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Cashier's got your check.
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Who are these people?
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Gibbs, Crawley, Cunningham, Giles
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Hey you, sister.
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Don't forget to get out your last column
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before you pick up your check.
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- You're a couple of sticks
shy in your column, Ann.
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- Big, rich slob like
D.B. Norton buys a paper
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and 40 heads are chopped off.
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- Did you get it, too?
- Yeah.
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You too?
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Oh, Joe.
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Oh, I'm sorry darling.
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Why don't we tear the building down?
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- Before you do, Ann,
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perhaps you'd better finish this column.
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- Yeah, lavender and old lace.
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Wait, Joe.
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Wait.
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He wants fireworks, huh?
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Okay.
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Here.
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- Below is a letter which
reached my desk this morning.
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It's a commentary on what we
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laughingly call a civilized world.
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Dear Miss Mitchell, four years ago,
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I was fired outta my job.
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Since then, I haven't been
able to get another one.
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At first I was sore at
the state administration
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because it's on account
of the slimy politics here
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we have all this unemployment.
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But in looking around,
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it seems the whole world's going to pot.
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So, in protest, I'm
going to commit suicide
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by jumping off the City Hall roof.
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Signed, a disgusted
American citizen, John Doe.
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Editor's note, if you ask this column,
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the wrong people are
jumping off the roofs.
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Hey, Ann, this is the
old fak-a-roo, isn't it?
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- Nevermind that, Joe, go ahead.
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- And it's because of the slimy politics
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that we have all this unemployment here.
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There it is.
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That's D.B. Norton's opening
attack on the governor.
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- Why, Jim, it's just a
letter sent into a column.
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- No, no, I can smell it, that's Norton.
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- Good morning, gentlemen.
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- Good morning, Governor.
- Good morning, Governor.
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- You're here rather early.
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- Governor, did you happen to
see this in the New Bulletin?
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- Yes.
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I had it served with my
breakfast this morning.
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- Jim thinks it's D.B. Norton at work.
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- Of course it is.
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- Oh, come, Jim.
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That little item?
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D.B. Norton does things
in a much bigger way.
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- {Jim] This is his opening
attack on you, Governor,
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take my word for it.
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What did he buy a paper for?
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Why did he engage a high-pressure
editor like Connell for?
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He's in the oil business.
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I tell you, Governor,
he's after your scalp.
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- All right, Jim, all right,
don't burst a blood vessel.
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I'll look into it.
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- Yes sir?
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- Get me Spencer of the
Daily Chronicle please.
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- Yes, yes, I saw it, Governor.
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If you ask me, that's a phony letter.
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Why, that gag has got whiskers on it.
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Hmm?
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Okay, I'll get the mayor
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and maybe the Chamber of
Commerce to go after them.
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Get Mayor Lovett on the phone.
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- Sorry, the mayor's
busy on the other phone.
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- Yes, I know, Mrs. Brewster.
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It's a terrible reflection on our city.
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I've had a dozen calls already.
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- Spencer at the Chronicle.
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- Hold him.
- Just a minute.
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- Yes, Mrs. Brewster, I'm listening.
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- I insist that this John Doe man be
found
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and given a job at once.
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Now, if something isn't done about it,
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I'll call out the whole auxiliary.
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and the junior auxiliary.
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We'll hold a meeting and see that--
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- Yes, Spency?
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Who?
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The governor?
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Well, what about me?
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It's my building he's jumping off of,
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and I'm up for reelection too.
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What are you doing?
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Get Connell at the Bulletin.
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Why, he's liable to go right past my--
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- Get me Connell.
- What was that?
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- What?
- Out the window.
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Something just flew by.
- I didn't see anything.
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- Well, don't stand there,
you idiot, go and look.
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Open the window.
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Oh, why did he have to
pick on my building?
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Is there a crowd in the street?
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- No, sir.
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- Then maybe he's caught
on a ledge, look again.
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- I think it must've been a seagull.
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- A seagull?
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What's a seagull doing
around the City Hall?
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That's a bad omen, isn't it?
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- Oh, no sir, the
seagull is a lovely bird.
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- It's all right, Mrs.
Brewster, it was just a seagull.
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- Connell?
- Nothing's happened yet.
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No, I'm watching.
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Don't worry, Mrs. Brewster.
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Just leave it all to me.
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Spencer, I'll call you back.
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Hello, Connell?
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This is--
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What are you doing?
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This is the mayor.
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- Yes, Mayor Lovett.
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How many times are you gonna call me?
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I've got everybody and his brother
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and sister out looking for him.
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Did you see the box I'm running?
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An appeal to John Doe.
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Think it over, John.
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Life can be beautiful, says mayor.
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If you need a job, apply
to editor to this paper,
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and so forth and so forth.
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Okay, Mayor, I'll let you know
as soon as I have something.
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What?
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Well, pull down the blinds.
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- Went up to Miss Mitchell's house,
boss.
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Boy, she's in a bad way.
- Where is she?
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- Hey, do you know something?
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She supports her mother and two kids.
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What do you know about that?
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- Did you find her?
- No.
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Her mother's awful worried about her.
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When she left the house,
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said she was going on a roaring drunk.
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The girl, I mean.
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- Go out and find her.
- Sure.
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Hey, but the biggest
thing I didn't tell you.
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Her old man's Doc Mitchell.
- Hello?
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- You know, the doc that
saved my mother's life
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and wouldn't take any money for it?
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You remember that?
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Okay, boss, I'll go and look for her.
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- Holy smokes, Commissioner,
you've had 24 hours.
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Okay, Hawkshaw, grab a
pencil, here it is again.
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About five foot five, brown
eyes, light chestnut hair,
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and as fine a pair of legs as
ever walked into this office.
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- Did you wanna see me?
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- No, I've had the whole Army
and Navy out searching for you
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because that's a game
we play here every day.
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- I remember distinctly being fired.
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- That's right.
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But you have a piece of property
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that still belongs to this newspaper
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and I'd like to have it.
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- What's that?
- The letter.
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- What letter?
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- The letter from John Doe.
- Oh.
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- The whole town's in an uproar.
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We've gotta find him and
the letter's the only clue.
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- There is no letter.
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- We'll get a handwriting expert to--
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What?
- There is no letter.
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- Say that again.
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- There's no letter, I made it up.
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- You made it up?
- Mm-hmm.
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You said you wanted fireworks.
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- Don't you know there are
nine jobs waiting for this guy,
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22 families wanna board him free,
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five women wanna marry him,
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and the mayor's practically
ready to adopt him?
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And you--
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- Just called the morgue, boss.
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They say there's a girl there--
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- Shut up.
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- Ann.
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Say, why didn't you--
- Beany.
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- Only one thing to do, Hank,
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drop the whole business quickly.
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- How?
- Run a story.
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Say John Doe was in here and
he's sorry he wrote the letter.
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- That's right.
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You got it, sure.
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He came in here and I
let him change his mind.
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Bulletin editor saves John Doe's life.
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Why, it's perfect.
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I'll have Ned write it up.
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Oh, Ned?
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I've got a story I want you to--
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- Wait a minute.
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Listen, you great big wonderful
genius of a newspaper man.
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You came down here to shoot some life
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into this dying paper, didn't you?
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Well, the whole town's
curious about John Doe,
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and, boom, just like that,
you're going to bury him.
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There's enough circulation in that man
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to start a shortage in the ink market.
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- In what man?
- John Doe.
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- What John Doe?
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- Our John Doe, the one I made up.
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Look, genius, now look.
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Suppose there was a John Doe
and he walked into this office.
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What would you do?
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Find him a job and forget about
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the whole business, I suppose, huh?
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Not me.
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I'd make a deal.
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- A deal?
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- Sure, when you get ahold
of a stunt that sells papers,
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you don't drop it like a hot potato.
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Why, this is good for at
least a couple of months.
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You know what I'd do?
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Between now and let's say
Christmas when he's gonna jump,
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I'd run a daily yarn,
starting with his boyhood,
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his schooling, his first job.
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A wide-eyed youngster
facing a chaotic world.
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The problem of the average man,
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of all the John Does in the world.
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Now, then comes the drama.
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He meets discouragement.
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He finds the world has feet of clay.
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His ideals crumble.
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So what does he do?
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He decides to commit suicide in protest
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against the state of civilization.
260
00:11:05,481 --> 00:11:06,481
He thinks of the river.
261
00:11:06,580 --> 00:11:08,330
But no, no, he has a better idea.
262
00:11:08,430 --> 00:11:09,430
The City Hall.
263
00:11:09,529 --> 00:11:10,529
Why?
264
00:11:10,628 --> 00:11:12,145
Because he wants to attract attention.
265
00:11:12,245 --> 00:11:14,003
He wants to get a few
things off his chest,
266
00:11:14,103 --> 00:11:16,100
and that's the only way
he can get himself heard.
267
00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:17,200
- So?
- So?
268
00:11:17,299 --> 00:11:19,016
So he writes me a letter and I dig him
up.
269
00:11:19,116 --> 00:11:20,234
He pours out his soul to me.
270
00:11:20,334 --> 00:11:23,150
And from now on, we quote,
I protest, by John Doe.
271
00:11:23,250 --> 00:11:25,600
He protests against all
the evils in the world,
272
00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:27,420
the greed, the lust, the hate, the fear,
273
00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,360
all of man's inhumanity to man.
274
00:11:29,460 --> 00:11:30,650
Arguments will start.
275
00:11:30,750 --> 00:11:32,467
Should he commit suicide or should he
not?
276
00:11:32,567 --> 00:11:34,180
People will write in pleading with him.
277
00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:35,280
But no.
278
00:11:35,379 --> 00:11:36,379
No, sir.
279
00:11:36,478 --> 00:11:37,636
John Doe will remain adamant.
280
00:11:37,736 --> 00:11:40,237
On Christmas Eve, hot or cold, he goes.
281
00:11:40,337 --> 00:11:41,337
See?
282
00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:44,380
- Very pretty.
283
00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,280
Very pretty indeed, Miss Mitchell.
284
00:11:46,380 --> 00:11:49,050
But would you mind telling
me who goes on Christmas Eve?
285
00:11:49,150 --> 00:11:50,422
- John Doe.
- What John Doe?.
286
00:11:50,522 --> 00:11:52,578
- The one we hire for
the job, you lunkhead.
287
00:11:52,678 --> 00:11:53,916
- Wait a minute, wait a minute.
288
00:11:54,016 --> 00:11:56,210
Let me get this through
this lame brain of mine.
289
00:11:56,310 --> 00:11:58,147
Are you suggesting we
go out and hire someone
290
00:11:58,247 --> 00:12:00,284
to say he's gonna commit
suicide on Christmas Eve?
291
00:12:00,384 --> 00:12:01,941
Is that it?
- Why, you're catching on.
292
00:12:02,041 --> 00:12:03,319
- Who, for instance?
- Anybody.
293
00:12:03,419 --> 00:12:04,419
Beany'll do.
294
00:12:04,518 --> 00:12:05,890
- Why, sure--
295
00:12:05,990 --> 00:12:06,990
Who, me?
296
00:12:07,089 --> 00:12:08,089
Jump off a--
297
00:12:08,188 --> 00:12:09,188
Oh, no.
298
00:12:09,287 --> 00:12:11,006
Any time but Christmas, I'm
superstitious.
299
00:12:15,789 --> 00:12:17,467
- Miss Mitchell, do me a favor, will
you?
300
00:12:17,567 --> 00:12:19,603
Go on out and get married
and have a lotta babies,
301
00:12:19,703 --> 00:12:21,061
but stay outta newspaper business.
302
00:12:21,161 --> 00:12:23,360
- Better get that story
in, Hank, it's getting late.
303
00:12:23,460 --> 00:12:24,898
- You're supposed to be a smart guy.
304
00:12:24,998 --> 00:12:26,156
If it was raining $100 bills,
305
00:12:26,256 --> 00:12:29,010
you'd be out looking for
a dime you lost someplace.
306
00:12:29,110 --> 00:12:31,630
- Holy smokes, wasting my time
listening to this mad woman.
307
00:12:31,730 --> 00:12:32,730
- Look, Chief.
308
00:12:32,829 --> 00:12:34,707
Look what the Chronicle's
running on John Doe.
309
00:12:34,807 --> 00:12:35,807
They say it's a fake.
310
00:12:35,906 --> 00:12:36,906
- Why, the no good--
311
00:12:37,730 --> 00:12:40,380
John Doe story amateur journalism.
312
00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:41,480
It's palpably phony.
313
00:12:41,579 --> 00:12:43,810
It's a wonder anyone
is taking it seriously.
314
00:12:43,910 --> 00:12:45,188
What do you think of those guys?
315
00:12:45,288 --> 00:12:46,366
- That's fine, that's fine.
316
00:12:46,466 --> 00:12:47,760
Now, fall right into their lap.
317
00:12:47,860 --> 00:12:49,740
Go ahead, say John Doe walked in
318
00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:51,078
and called the whole thing off.
319
00:12:51,178 --> 00:12:53,335
You know what that's gonna
sound like on top of this.
320
00:12:53,435 --> 00:12:54,593
- That's all, Ned, thank you.
321
00:12:54,693 --> 00:12:55,693
- All right.
322
00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:58,910
- Amateur journalism, huh?
323
00:12:59,010 --> 00:13:00,720
Why, that bunch of sophomores.
324
00:13:00,820 --> 00:13:02,280
I can teach them more about--
325
00:13:02,380 --> 00:13:04,250
- Hey, boss, get a load of this.
326
00:13:04,350 --> 00:13:05,467
- What?
- Look.
327
00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:11,149
- What do they want?
328
00:13:11,249 --> 00:13:13,439
- They all say they
wrote the John Doe letter.
329
00:13:14,264 --> 00:13:15,542
- Oh, they all wrote the letter.
330
00:13:15,642 --> 00:13:16,642
- Tell them all to wait.
331
00:13:16,741 --> 00:13:19,050
Look, Mr. Connell, one of
those men is your John Doe.
332
00:13:19,150 --> 00:13:21,547
They're desperate and will do
anything for a cup of coffee.
333
00:13:21,647 --> 00:13:24,480
Pick one out and you can make
the chronicle eat their words.
334
00:13:24,580 --> 00:13:25,945
- I'm beginning to like this.
335
00:13:26,045 --> 00:13:28,990
- If you ask me, Hank, you're
playing around with dynamite.
336
00:13:29,090 --> 00:13:30,607
- No, no, no, no, no, the gal's right.
337
00:13:30,707 --> 00:13:32,625
We can't let the Chronicle
get the laugh on us.
338
00:13:32,725 --> 00:13:34,290
We've gotta produce a John Doe now.
339
00:13:34,390 --> 00:13:36,080
Amateur journalism, huh?
340
00:13:36,180 --> 00:13:37,180
I'll show those guys.
341
00:13:37,279 --> 00:13:38,437
- Sure, and there's no reason
342
00:13:38,537 --> 00:13:40,015
for them to find out the truth either
343
00:13:40,115 --> 00:13:42,253
because, naturally, I won't say
anything.
344
00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:45,963
- Okay, sister, you get your job back.
345
00:13:46,063 --> 00:13:47,240
- Plus a bonus.
346
00:13:47,340 --> 00:13:48,340
- What bonus?
347
00:13:48,439 --> 00:13:50,836
- Oh, the bonus of $1,000 the
Chronicle was going to pay me
348
00:13:50,936 --> 00:13:51,990
for this little document.
349
00:13:52,090 --> 00:13:53,288
You'll find that it says that,
350
00:13:53,388 --> 00:13:54,626
I, Ann Mitchell, hereby certify
351
00:13:54,726 --> 00:13:56,524
that the John Doe letter
was created by me--
352
00:13:56,624 --> 00:13:57,624
- I can read, I can read.
353
00:13:57,723 --> 00:13:58,723
- Sorry.
354
00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,157
- You think this is worth $1,000, do
you?
355
00:14:02,257 --> 00:14:05,120
- Oh, the Chronicle would
consider it dirt cheap.
356
00:14:05,220 --> 00:14:07,580
- Packs everything, including a gun.
357
00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:09,550
Okay, sister, you got yourself a deal.
358
00:14:09,650 --> 00:14:11,327
Now, let's take a look at the
candidates.
359
00:14:11,427 --> 00:14:13,790
The one we pick has gotta
be the typical average man,
360
00:14:13,890 --> 00:14:15,767
typical American that
can keep his mouth shut.
361
00:14:15,867 --> 00:14:17,025
- Show me an American who can
362
00:14:17,125 --> 00:14:18,605
keep his mouth shut and I'll eat him.
363
00:14:20,945 --> 00:14:22,665
- Okay, Beany, bring 'em in one at a
time.
364
00:15:26,453 --> 00:15:28,213
Did you write that
letter to Miss Mitchell?
365
00:15:29,060 --> 00:15:30,158
- No, I didn't.
366
00:15:30,258 --> 00:15:32,416
- What are you doin' up here then?
367
00:15:32,516 --> 00:15:34,832
- Well, the paper said there
were some jobs around loose.
368
00:15:34,932 --> 00:15:36,410
Thought there might be one left over.
369
00:15:36,510 --> 00:15:37,510
- Had any schooling?
370
00:15:38,060 --> 00:15:39,760
- Yeah, a little.
371
00:15:39,860 --> 00:15:41,590
- What do you do when you work?
372
00:15:41,690 --> 00:15:43,190
- I used to pitch.
- Baseball?
373
00:15:44,396 --> 00:15:46,600
- Yeah, till my wing went bad.
374
00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:47,700
- Where'd you play?
375
00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:50,450
- Bush leagues, mostly.
376
00:15:50,550 --> 00:15:52,520
- How about family, got any family?
377
00:15:52,620 --> 00:15:53,620
- No.
378
00:15:53,719 --> 00:15:55,120
- Oh, just traveling through, huh?
379
00:15:55,220 --> 00:15:57,160
- Yep, me and a friend of mine.
380
00:15:57,260 --> 00:15:58,260
He's outside.
381
00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:03,760
- Looks all right.
382
00:16:03,859 --> 00:16:05,217
- He's perfect, a baseball player.
383
00:16:05,317 --> 00:16:06,928
What could be more American?
384
00:16:07,028 --> 00:16:08,528
- Wish he had a family though.
385
00:16:08,628 --> 00:16:10,387
- Be less complicated
without a family.
386
00:16:10,487 --> 00:16:11,950
- Look at that face, it's wonderful.
387
00:16:12,050 --> 00:16:13,050
They'll believe him.
388
00:16:13,149 --> 00:16:14,483
Come on.
389
00:16:16,090 --> 00:16:17,163
- What's your name?
390
00:16:17,263 --> 00:16:18,690
- Willoughby, John Willoughby.
391
00:16:18,790 --> 00:16:21,140
Long John Willoughby they
called me in baseball.
392
00:16:22,813 --> 00:16:24,433
- Would you like to make some money?
393
00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:28,720
- Yeah, maybe.
394
00:16:28,820 --> 00:16:30,377
- Would you be willing to say you wrote
395
00:16:30,477 --> 00:16:32,443
that letter and stick by it?
396
00:16:37,430 --> 00:16:38,483
- I get the idea.
397
00:16:39,875 --> 00:16:41,713
Yeah, maybe.
398
00:16:46,459 --> 00:16:47,937
- That's our man, he's made to order.
399
00:16:48,037 --> 00:16:49,037
- I don't know,
400
00:16:49,136 --> 00:16:50,574
he don't seem like the kind of a guy
401
00:16:50,674 --> 00:16:51,674
that would fall in line.
402
00:16:51,773 --> 00:16:53,131
- When you're desperate for money,
403
00:16:53,231 --> 00:16:54,629
you do a lotta things, Mr. Connell.
404
00:16:54,729 --> 00:16:55,729
He's our man, I tell you.
405
00:16:55,828 --> 00:16:56,828
He's fainted!
406
00:16:57,090 --> 00:16:58,180
Get some water, quickly.
407
00:16:58,280 --> 00:16:59,860
- Hurry up, Pop.
408
00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:00,960
Why don't you sit down?
409
00:17:01,059 --> 00:17:02,290
- Are you all right?
410
00:17:02,390 --> 00:17:03,733
- Yeah, I'm all right.
411
00:17:04,613 --> 00:17:06,083
- How many is that, six?
412
00:17:16,550 --> 00:17:18,227
Pretty hungry, weren't you?
413
00:17:19,787 --> 00:17:21,230
- Say all this John Doe
414
00:17:21,330 --> 00:17:22,650
business is batty if you ask me.
415
00:17:22,750 --> 00:17:23,950
- Well, nobody asked you.
416
00:17:24,870 --> 00:17:27,500
- Trying to improve the world
by jumping off buildings.
417
00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:28,798
You couldn't improve the world
418
00:17:28,898 --> 00:17:30,136
if the buildings jumped on you.
419
00:17:30,890 --> 00:17:32,607
- Don't mind the Colonel, he hates
people.
420
00:17:32,707 --> 00:17:34,960
- He likes you well
enough to stick around.
421
00:17:35,060 --> 00:17:37,210
- Oh, that's 'cause we
both play doohickeys.
422
00:17:38,780 --> 00:17:40,640
I met him in a boxcar
a couple of years ago.
423
00:17:40,740 --> 00:17:42,297
I was fooling around with my harmonica,
424
00:17:42,397 --> 00:17:43,900
and he comes over and joins in.
425
00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:45,900
I haven't been able to shake him since.
426
00:17:51,685 --> 00:17:56,685
("William Tell Overture" by
Gioachino Rossini on harmonicas)
427
00:18:07,690 --> 00:18:08,888
- All right, boys, here he is.
428
00:18:08,988 --> 00:18:11,225
- No, no, no, you can't take
pictures of him like that,
429
00:18:11,325 --> 00:18:12,723
eating a sandwich and with a beard.
430
00:18:12,823 --> 00:18:14,301
- But he's gonna jump off a building.
431
00:18:14,401 --> 00:18:16,078
- Yes, but not because he's out of a
job.
432
00:18:16,178 --> 00:18:17,178
That's not news.
433
00:18:17,277 --> 00:18:19,313
This man's going to jump
as a matter of principle.
434
00:18:19,413 --> 00:18:21,130
- Maybe you're right.
- We'll clean him up
435
00:18:21,230 --> 00:18:22,987
and put him a hotel
room, under bodyguards.
436
00:18:23,087 --> 00:18:24,365
We'll make a mystery out of him.
437
00:18:24,465 --> 00:18:25,623
- Do you speak to Mr. Norton?
438
00:18:25,723 --> 00:18:26,723
- Thinks it's terrific.
439
00:18:26,822 --> 00:18:27,940
Says for us to go the limit.
440
00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:29,120
Wants us to build a bonfire
441
00:18:29,216 --> 00:18:30,576
under every big shot in the state.
442
00:18:30,663 --> 00:18:32,023
- Oh, swell, is that the contract?
443
00:18:32,099 --> 00:18:33,099
- Yes.
444
00:18:33,156 --> 00:18:34,716
What's he doing here?
- Friend of his.
445
00:18:34,749 --> 00:18:35,749
They play duets together.
446
00:18:35,751 --> 00:18:36,751
- Duets?
447
00:18:36,717 --> 00:18:37,717
But can we trust him?
448
00:18:37,646 --> 00:18:38,646
- Oh.
- I trust him.
449
00:18:38,542 --> 00:18:39,542
- Oh, you trust him, eh?
450
00:18:39,412 --> 00:18:40,412
Well, that's fine.
451
00:18:40,266 --> 00:18:41,426
I suppose he trusts you, too?
452
00:18:41,278 --> 00:18:42,278
- Oh, stop worrying.
453
00:18:42,143 --> 00:18:43,143
He's all right.
454
00:18:43,037 --> 00:18:44,477
- Well, okay, but we don't want more
455
00:18:44,410 --> 00:18:46,410
than a couple of hundred
people in on this thing.
456
00:18:46,387 --> 00:18:48,187
Now, the first thing I
want is an exact copy
457
00:18:48,208 --> 00:18:50,128
of the John Doe letter
in your own handwriting.
458
00:18:50,183 --> 00:18:51,263
- I got it all ready, here.
459
00:18:51,338 --> 00:18:52,600
- Now, that's fine.
460
00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:54,860
Now, I want you to sign this agreement.
461
00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,450
It gives us an exclusive
story under your name
462
00:18:57,550 --> 00:18:59,663
day by day from now until Christmas.
463
00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:04,520
On December 26th you get one
railroad ticket out of town,
464
00:19:04,620 --> 00:19:07,070
and the Bulletin agrees to
pay to have your arm fixed.
465
00:19:07,170 --> 00:19:08,408
That's what you want, isn't it?
466
00:19:08,508 --> 00:19:10,466
- Yeah, but it's got to
be by Bone-Setter Brown.
467
00:19:10,566 --> 00:19:11,804
- Okay, Bone-Setter Brown goes.
468
00:19:11,904 --> 00:19:12,930
Here, sign it.
469
00:19:13,030 --> 00:19:15,053
Meanwhile, here's $50 for spending
money.
470
00:19:16,110 --> 00:19:17,110
That's fine.
471
00:19:17,209 --> 00:19:18,209
Beany?
- Yes, boss?
472
00:19:18,308 --> 00:19:19,308
- Take charge of him.
473
00:19:19,407 --> 00:19:21,724
Get him a suite at the Imperial
and hire some bodyguards.
474
00:19:21,824 --> 00:19:23,262
- Yeah, and some new clothes, Beany.
475
00:19:23,362 --> 00:19:25,245
- Do you think we
better have him deloused?
476
00:19:25,345 --> 00:19:26,345
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
477
00:19:26,444 --> 00:19:27,444
- Both of 'em?
478
00:19:27,543 --> 00:19:28,543
- Yes, both of 'em.
479
00:19:28,642 --> 00:19:30,080
But don't let 'em out of your sight.
480
00:19:30,180 --> 00:19:31,338
- Hey, Beany, gray suit, huh?
481
00:19:31,438 --> 00:19:32,438
- Yeah.
482
00:19:32,537 --> 00:19:33,537
- Okay, fellas.
483
00:19:36,660 --> 00:19:39,260
And you, start pounding that typewriter.
484
00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:40,920
Oh boy, this is terrific.
485
00:19:41,020 --> 00:19:42,298
No responsibilities on our part.
486
00:19:42,398 --> 00:19:43,556
Just statements from John Doe
487
00:19:43,656 --> 00:19:44,894
and we can blast our heads off.
488
00:19:44,994 --> 00:19:46,352
- Before you pop too many buttons,
489
00:19:46,452 --> 00:19:49,030
don't forget to make out
that check for 1,000.
490
00:19:52,393 --> 00:19:54,200
- Okay fellas, now let me see.
491
00:19:54,300 --> 00:19:55,300
You sit outside the door.
492
00:19:55,399 --> 00:19:56,399
Nobody comes in, see.
493
00:19:56,498 --> 00:19:57,760
You two fellas sit in here.
494
00:19:57,860 --> 00:19:59,270
- Hey, pretty nifty, huh?
495
00:20:01,220 --> 00:20:02,738
- You ain't gonna get me to stay here.
496
00:20:02,838 --> 00:20:03,838
- Sure you are.
497
00:20:03,937 --> 00:20:05,375
- No sir, that spot under the bridge
498
00:20:05,475 --> 00:20:07,820
where we slept last
night's good enough for me.
499
00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,438
- Hey, what do I do with this baggage?
500
00:20:09,538 --> 00:20:11,035
- Oh, stick 'em in the bedroom.
501
00:20:11,135 --> 00:20:12,415
- Give me mine, I ain't stayin'.
502
00:20:13,270 --> 00:20:15,507
You know, we were headed for
the Columbia River country
503
00:20:15,607 --> 00:20:17,325
before all this John Doe business came
up.
504
00:20:17,425 --> 00:20:18,583
You remember that, don't you?
505
00:20:18,683 --> 00:20:19,710
- Sure, I remember.
506
00:20:19,810 --> 00:20:21,886
- Say, did your ears pop
coming up in the elevator?
507
00:20:21,986 --> 00:20:22,986
Mine did.
508
00:20:23,085 --> 00:20:24,763
- Oh, Long John, I tell ya, it's no
good.
509
00:20:24,863 --> 00:20:26,380
You're gonna get used to a lotta stuff
510
00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:27,480
that's gonna wreck you.
511
00:20:27,579 --> 00:20:28,777
Why, that $50 in your pocket's
512
00:20:28,877 --> 00:20:30,315
beginning to show up on you already.
513
00:20:30,415 --> 00:20:31,773
And don't pull that on me neither.
514
00:20:31,873 --> 00:20:32,873
- Stop worrying, Colonel.
515
00:20:32,972 --> 00:20:34,489
I'm gonna get my arm fixed outta this.
516
00:20:34,589 --> 00:20:36,346
- Hey, here's some
cigars the boss sent us.
517
00:20:36,446 --> 00:20:37,446
Have one.
- Hey, cigars.
518
00:20:37,545 --> 00:20:38,545
- Help yourself.
- No.
519
00:20:48,270 --> 00:20:49,988
- Hey, I'll bet ya even the Major
Leaguers
520
00:20:50,088 --> 00:20:51,326
don't rate an outfit like this.
521
00:20:51,426 --> 00:20:52,874
- Here, make yourself comfortable.
522
00:20:52,974 --> 00:20:53,974
Paper?
523
00:20:54,073 --> 00:20:55,191
- No, I don't read no papers
524
00:20:55,291 --> 00:20:57,040
and I don't listen to radios either.
525
00:20:57,140 --> 00:20:59,176
I know the world's been
shaved by a drunken barber
526
00:20:59,276 --> 00:21:00,430
and I don't have to read it.
527
00:21:03,515 --> 00:21:05,790
I've seen guys like you go under before.
528
00:21:05,890 --> 00:21:07,400
Guys that never had a worry,
529
00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:09,497
then they got ahold of
some dough and went goofy.
530
00:21:09,597 --> 00:21:11,155
The first thing that happens to a guy--
531
00:21:11,255 --> 00:21:13,057
- Hey, did you
get a load of the bedroom?
532
00:21:13,157 --> 00:21:14,157
- No.
533
00:21:14,256 --> 00:21:16,293
- The first thing that
happens to a guy like that,
534
00:21:16,393 --> 00:21:17,991
he starts wanting to go into restaurants
535
00:21:18,091 --> 00:21:22,037
and sit down at a table and eat
salads and cupcakes and tea.
536
00:21:22,140 --> 00:21:24,643
Boy, what that kinda
food does to your system.
537
00:21:29,420 --> 00:21:31,680
The next thing the dope wants is a room.
538
00:21:31,780 --> 00:21:35,194
Yes sir, a room with steam
heat, and curtains and rugs.
539
00:21:35,294 --> 00:21:37,091
And before you know it,
he's all softened up
540
00:21:37,191 --> 00:21:39,300
and he can't sleep unless he has a bed.
541
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:40,598
- Hey, stop worrying, Colonel.
542
00:21:40,698 --> 00:21:41,856
50 bucks ain't gonna ruin me.
543
00:21:41,956 --> 00:21:44,090
- I've seen plenty of fellas
start out with 50 bucks
544
00:21:44,190 --> 00:21:45,700
and wind up with a bank account.
545
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,837
- Hey, what's a matter
with a bank account anyway?
546
00:21:47,937 --> 00:21:49,330
- You let me tell you, Long John,
547
00:21:49,430 --> 00:21:53,050
when you become a guy with
a bank account, they gotcha.
548
00:21:53,150 --> 00:21:54,687
Yes sir, they gotcha.
549
00:21:56,340 --> 00:21:57,340
- Who's got him?
550
00:21:57,439 --> 00:21:58,439
- The heelots.
551
00:21:58,538 --> 00:21:59,538
- Who?
552
00:21:59,637 --> 00:22:01,000
- Hey, there's the City Hall tower
553
00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:02,323
I'm supposed to jump off of.
554
00:22:02,423 --> 00:22:04,100
It's even higher than this.
555
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:05,200
- Who's got him?
556
00:22:05,299 --> 00:22:06,909
- The heelots.
557
00:22:07,009 --> 00:22:08,340
- Woo.
558
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,340
- Hey, wait a minute.
559
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,358
You're not supposed to
jump till Christmas Eve.
560
00:22:12,458 --> 00:22:14,038
Do you wanna get me in a jam?.
561
00:22:14,138 --> 00:22:16,335
- If it's gonna get you in
a jam, I'll do you a favor.
562
00:22:16,435 --> 00:22:17,435
I won't jump.
563
00:22:18,790 --> 00:22:19,963
- And when they got you,
564
00:22:20,063 --> 00:22:22,480
you got no more chance than a road
rabbit.
565
00:22:22,580 --> 00:22:24,182
- Hey, who'd you say was gonna get him?
566
00:22:24,282 --> 00:22:25,640
- Say, is this one of those places
567
00:22:25,740 --> 00:22:27,218
where you ring if you want something?
568
00:22:27,318 --> 00:22:28,636
- Yeah, yeah, just use the phone.
569
00:22:28,736 --> 00:22:30,214
- Boy, I've always wanted to do this.
570
00:22:30,314 --> 00:22:31,420
- Hey, Doc, look.
571
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:32,520
Look, Doc.
572
00:22:33,170 --> 00:22:34,990
Gimme that again, will ya?
573
00:22:35,090 --> 00:22:36,353
Who's gonna get him?
574
00:22:36,453 --> 00:22:38,210
- The heelots.
575
00:22:38,310 --> 00:22:39,650
- Who are they?
576
00:22:39,750 --> 00:22:41,290
- Listen, sucker, you ever been broke?
577
00:22:41,390 --> 00:22:43,217
- Sure, mostly often.
- All right.
578
00:22:43,317 --> 00:22:46,050
You're walking along, not
a nickel in your jeans,
579
00:22:46,150 --> 00:22:47,947
you're free as the wind,
nobody bothers you.
580
00:22:48,047 --> 00:22:50,363
Hundreds of people pass you
by in every line of business,
581
00:22:50,463 --> 00:22:53,243
shoes, hats, automobiles,
radios, furniture, everything.
582
00:22:53,343 --> 00:22:55,930
They're all nice lovable
people and they let you alone.
583
00:22:56,030 --> 00:22:57,393
Is that right?
584
00:22:58,536 --> 00:23:01,036
Then you get ahold of some
dough and what happens?
585
00:23:01,990 --> 00:23:05,960
All those nice, sweet,
lovable people become heelots.
586
00:23:06,060 --> 00:23:07,463
A lotta heels.
587
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,596
They begin creeping up on you,
trying to sell you something.
588
00:23:12,696 --> 00:23:16,197
They got long claws and they
get a stranglehold on you.
589
00:23:16,297 --> 00:23:18,410
And you squirm and you duck and you
holler
590
00:23:18,510 --> 00:23:19,668
and you try to push 'em away,
591
00:23:19,768 --> 00:23:21,860
but you haven't got a
chance, they've got you.
592
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,820
First thing you know, you own things.
593
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,680
A car, for instance.
594
00:23:25,780 --> 00:23:27,058
Now your whole life is messed up
595
00:23:27,158 --> 00:23:28,730
with a lot more stuff.
596
00:23:28,830 --> 00:23:31,480
You got license fees and number plates
597
00:23:31,580 --> 00:23:34,860
and gas and oil and taxes and insurance
598
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,100
and identification cards and letters
599
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,920
and bills and flat tires and
dents and traffic tickets
600
00:23:40,020 --> 00:23:43,090
and motorcycle cops and
courtrooms and lawyers and fines
601
00:23:43,190 --> 00:23:45,888
and a-million-and-one other things.
602
00:23:45,988 --> 00:23:46,988
Then what happens?
603
00:23:48,500 --> 00:23:51,190
You're not the free and
happy guy you used to be.
604
00:23:51,290 --> 00:23:54,050
You gotta have money to
pay for all those things.
605
00:23:54,150 --> 00:23:56,940
So, you go after what
the other fella's got.
606
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,863
And there you are,
you're a heelot yourself.
607
00:24:07,530 --> 00:24:09,433
- You win, Colonel, here, take the 50.
608
00:24:10,972 --> 00:24:11,972
Go out and get rid of it.
609
00:24:12,071 --> 00:24:14,255
- You bet I will, just as fast as I can.
610
00:24:14,355 --> 00:24:16,273
I'm gonna get some canned
goods, a fishing rod,
611
00:24:16,373 --> 00:24:18,570
and the rest I'm gonna give away.
612
00:24:18,670 --> 00:24:19,980
- Give away?
613
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,520
- Hey, get me a pitcher's glove.
614
00:24:21,620 --> 00:24:23,770
I gotta get me some practice.
615
00:24:23,870 --> 00:24:26,227
- Say, he's giving it away,
I'm gonna get me some of that.
616
00:24:26,327 --> 00:24:28,147
- Hey, come back here, you heelot.
617
00:24:30,863 --> 00:24:34,790
- Will you send up five
hamburgers with all the trimmings,
618
00:24:34,890 --> 00:24:37,570
five chocolate ice cream sodas,
619
00:24:37,670 --> 00:24:39,070
and five pieces of apple pie?
620
00:24:39,990 --> 00:24:41,893
No, apple, with cheese.
621
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:43,980
Yeah, thanks.
622
00:24:57,790 --> 00:24:58,790
- Hello there.
623
00:25:01,304 --> 00:25:05,120
Well, if it isn't the man about town.
624
00:25:05,220 --> 00:25:06,220
- All set, Miss Ann?
625
00:25:06,319 --> 00:25:07,319
- Hmm?
626
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,503
Oh, oh yes, let's go.
627
00:25:11,850 --> 00:25:13,847
Let's see, we want some
action in these pictures.
628
00:25:13,947 --> 00:25:14,947
- Action?
- Mm-hmm.
629
00:25:17,476 --> 00:25:18,634
- That's good.
- No, no, no.
630
00:25:18,734 --> 00:25:20,730
This man's going to jump off a roof.
631
00:25:20,830 --> 00:25:23,040
Here, wait a minute,
let me comb your hair.
632
00:25:23,140 --> 00:25:24,140
Sit down.
633
00:25:28,330 --> 00:25:29,823
There, that's better.
634
00:25:37,297 --> 00:25:39,620
You know, he's got a nice face, hasn't
he?
635
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,944
- Yeah, he's pretty.
636
00:25:43,044 --> 00:25:44,200
- Here, sit down.
637
00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:45,373
Quiet, egghead.
638
00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:48,160
All right, now a serious expression.
639
00:25:49,060 --> 00:25:50,338
- I can't, I'm feeling too good.
640
00:25:50,438 --> 00:25:52,020
- Oh, come on now, this is
serious.
641
00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:54,180
You're a man disgusted
with all of civilization.
642
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:55,280
- With all of it?
643
00:25:55,379 --> 00:25:57,780
- Yes, you're sore
at the world, come on now.
644
00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:59,380
- Oh, crabby guy, huh?
- Yeah.
645
00:26:02,430 --> 00:26:03,430
No, no.
646
00:26:05,788 --> 00:26:06,788
No.
647
00:26:09,380 --> 00:26:10,380
No, look.
648
00:26:10,479 --> 00:26:12,458
You don't have to smell the world.
649
00:26:14,474 --> 00:26:16,351
- With all those guys
in the bleachers think--
650
00:26:16,451 --> 00:26:17,451
- Nevermind those guys.
651
00:26:17,550 --> 00:26:18,550
All right, stand up.
652
00:26:18,649 --> 00:26:20,920
Now, let's see what you
look like when you protest.
653
00:26:21,020 --> 00:26:22,020
- Against what?
654
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:23,733
- Against anything, just protest.
655
00:26:25,450 --> 00:26:26,507
- You got me.
656
00:26:26,607 --> 00:26:28,470
- Oh, look, I'm the umpire
657
00:26:28,570 --> 00:26:30,927
and you just cut the heart of
the plate with your fast one
658
00:26:31,027 --> 00:26:32,027
and I called it a ball.
659
00:26:32,126 --> 00:26:33,126
What would you do?
660
00:26:33,225 --> 00:26:34,225
- Oh you did, huh?
661
00:26:34,324 --> 00:26:35,324
- Yeah.
662
00:26:35,423 --> 00:26:37,779
- Why can't you call 'em right,
you boneheaded big-eared--
663
00:26:37,879 --> 00:26:39,758
- Grab it, Eddie, grab it.
664
00:26:46,146 --> 00:26:48,729
- Extra, extra!
665
00:27:02,846 --> 00:27:03,846
Extra.
666
00:27:04,901 --> 00:27:05,984
Extra, extra!
667
00:27:31,710 --> 00:27:34,340
- I don't care whose
picture they're publishing.
668
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,600
I still say that this
John Doe person is a myth,
669
00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:39,800
and you can quote me on that.
670
00:27:39,900 --> 00:27:40,900
And I'm going to insist
671
00:27:40,999 --> 00:27:43,150
on his being produced for questioning.
672
00:27:43,250 --> 00:27:45,940
You know as well as I
do that this whole thing
673
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,690
is being engineered by a vicious man
674
00:27:48,790 --> 00:27:52,691
with a vicious purpose, Mr. D.B. Norton.
675
00:28:15,496 --> 00:28:17,693
- Mr. Connell and Miss
Mitchell are at the house, sir.
676
00:28:17,793 --> 00:28:18,793
- Oh, they are?
677
00:28:18,892 --> 00:28:19,892
All right, come on.
678
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:22,798
- Personally, I think it's just
679
00:28:22,898 --> 00:28:24,136
plain stupidity to drop it now.
680
00:28:24,236 --> 00:28:25,794
You should see his fan mail, thousands.
681
00:28:25,894 --> 00:28:27,940
Why, it's going over like a house afire.
682
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:29,420
- What are you afraid of, Connell?
683
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:30,850
It's doubled our circulation.
684
00:28:30,950 --> 00:28:32,480
- Yeah, but it's got everybody sore.
685
00:28:32,580 --> 00:28:33,690
Ads are being pulled.
686
00:28:33,790 --> 00:28:35,268
The governor's starting a libel suit.
687
00:28:35,368 --> 00:28:37,246
What's more, they all
know John Doe's a phony,
688
00:28:37,346 --> 00:28:39,503
and they insist on seeing him.
- Well, what about it?
689
00:28:39,603 --> 00:28:40,603
Let them see him.
690
00:28:40,702 --> 00:28:42,660
We'll go 'em one better,
they can also hear him.
691
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,198
You own a radio station, Mr. Norton.
692
00:28:44,298 --> 00:28:45,376
Why not put him on the air?
693
00:28:45,476 --> 00:28:47,753
- Watch out for this dame,
D.B., she'll drive you batty.
694
00:28:47,853 --> 00:28:49,131
- Oh--
- Look, we can't let 'em
695
00:28:49,231 --> 00:28:51,428
get to this bush-league
pitcher and start pumping him.
696
00:28:51,528 --> 00:28:52,528
Good night.
697
00:28:52,627 --> 00:28:54,224
No telling what that screwball might do.
698
00:28:54,324 --> 00:28:55,684
I walked in yesterday, here he is,
699
00:28:55,781 --> 00:28:57,941
standing on a table with a
fishing pole, fly-casting.
700
00:28:58,028 --> 00:28:59,508
Take my advice and get him outta town
701
00:28:59,576 --> 00:29:01,176
before this thing explodes in our faces.
702
00:29:01,215 --> 00:29:02,215
- If you do, Mr. Norton,
703
00:29:02,212 --> 00:29:04,052
you're just as much of
a dumb cluck as he is.
704
00:29:03,992 --> 00:29:04,992
Excuse me.
705
00:29:04,871 --> 00:29:06,431
- No, you've got yourself a meal ticket
706
00:29:06,253 --> 00:29:07,253
and you hate to let go.
707
00:29:07,036 --> 00:29:08,916
- Sure, it's a meal
ticket for me, I admit it.
708
00:29:08,689 --> 00:29:10,849
But it's also a windfall
for somebody like Mr. Norton
709
00:29:10,644 --> 00:29:12,244
who's trying to crash national politics.
710
00:29:12,090 --> 00:29:14,170
That's what you bought the
newspaper for, isn't it?
711
00:29:14,082 --> 00:29:15,802
You wanna reach a lotta people, don't
you?
712
00:29:15,774 --> 00:29:16,934
Well, put John Doe on the air
713
00:29:16,953 --> 00:29:18,433
and you can reach 130 million of 'em.
714
00:29:18,472 --> 00:29:20,712
He can say anything he wants
and they'll listen to him.
715
00:29:20,748 --> 00:29:22,788
All right, we'll forget
the Governor and the Mayor
716
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,080
and all the small fry like that.
717
00:29:24,055 --> 00:29:25,415
This can arouse national interest.
718
00:29:25,344 --> 00:29:26,504
If he made a hit around here,
719
00:29:26,386 --> 00:29:28,186
he can do it everyplace
else in the country.
720
00:29:28,023 --> 00:29:29,903
And you'll be pulling
the strings, Mr. Norton.
721
00:29:29,978 --> 00:29:32,255
- Go down to the office and
arrange for some radio time.
722
00:29:32,355 --> 00:29:33,793
- Why, D.B., you're not gonna fall--
723
00:29:33,893 --> 00:29:35,538
- I want it as soon as possible.
724
00:29:37,970 --> 00:29:38,970
- Okay.
725
00:29:39,069 --> 00:29:41,110
I just came in to get warm, myself.
726
00:29:41,210 --> 00:29:42,210
Come on, let's go.
727
00:29:43,070 --> 00:29:44,150
- Don't you go.
728
00:29:44,250 --> 00:29:45,250
I wanna talk to you.
729
00:29:52,140 --> 00:29:53,140
Sit down.
730
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,622
Hey, this John Doe idea was yours, huh?
731
00:30:13,722 --> 00:30:14,722
- Yes sir.
732
00:30:20,947 --> 00:30:22,495
- How much money do you get?
733
00:30:22,595 --> 00:30:23,595
- $30.
734
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:25,320
- $30.
735
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,190
Well then, what are you after?
736
00:30:28,290 --> 00:30:31,409
I mean what do you want,
a journalistic career?
737
00:30:31,509 --> 00:30:32,509
- Money.
738
00:30:33,310 --> 00:30:34,310
- Money.
739
00:30:34,409 --> 00:30:36,473
Well, I'm glad to hear somebody admit
it.
740
00:30:39,759 --> 00:30:42,422
Do you suppose you could
write a radio speech
741
00:30:42,522 --> 00:30:44,135
that would put that fellow over?
742
00:30:44,235 --> 00:30:45,304
- Oh, I'm sure I can.
743
00:30:45,404 --> 00:30:47,317
- Do it, and I'll give you $100 a week.
744
00:30:47,417 --> 00:30:48,417
- $100--
745
00:30:48,516 --> 00:30:49,770
- That's only the beginning.
746
00:30:49,870 --> 00:30:50,870
You play your cards right
747
00:30:50,969 --> 00:30:53,580
and you'll never have to
worry about money again.
748
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:54,680
Oh, I knew it.
749
00:30:54,779 --> 00:30:55,779
- Hello.
- Hello.
750
00:30:55,878 --> 00:30:57,930
Whenever there's a pretty woman around--
751
00:30:58,030 --> 00:30:59,930
This is my nephew, Ted
Sheldon, Miss Mitchell.
752
00:31:00,030 --> 00:31:01,388
- How do you do?
- How do you do?
753
00:31:01,488 --> 00:31:03,326
- All right, Casanova,
I'll give you a break.
754
00:31:03,426 --> 00:31:05,503
See that Miss Mitchell gets
a car to take her home.
755
00:31:05,603 --> 00:31:07,810
- Always reading my mind, aren't you?
756
00:31:07,910 --> 00:31:09,633
- Thank you very much for everything.
757
00:31:10,561 --> 00:31:12,360
- And, Miss Mitchell,
758
00:31:12,460 --> 00:31:15,490
I think from now on you'd
better work directly with me.
759
00:31:15,590 --> 00:31:16,590
- Yes, sir.
760
00:31:25,653 --> 00:31:26,653
761
00:31:50,638 --> 00:31:51,638
Hey!
762
00:31:52,539 --> 00:31:53,591
I thought you were asleep.
763
00:31:53,691 --> 00:31:55,379
- We just wanted to say good
night.
764
00:31:55,479 --> 00:31:56,479
- Goodnight sis.
765
00:31:56,973 --> 00:31:58,810
- Oh, you little brats,
you're just stalling.
766
00:31:58,910 --> 00:31:59,973
I said goodnight.
767
00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:02,058
- Come, come, come, children.
768
00:32:02,158 --> 00:32:03,158
It's past your bedtime.
769
00:32:03,257 --> 00:32:04,537
Go on, go on.
770
00:32:04,637 --> 00:32:07,536
- Come on, pooch, come on.
- Come on, come on.
771
00:32:07,636 --> 00:32:08,899
- Now scooch off to bed.
772
00:32:08,999 --> 00:32:10,437
- Stick a fork through me, I'm done.
773
00:32:10,537 --> 00:32:11,855
I'll never get this speech right.
774
00:32:11,955 --> 00:32:13,153
- Oh, yes you will, Ann, dear.
775
00:32:13,253 --> 00:32:14,273
You're very clever.
776
00:32:14,373 --> 00:32:15,580
- Yeah, I know.
777
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:16,688
What are you looking for?
778
00:32:16,788 --> 00:32:18,850
- Your purse, I need $10.
- What for?
779
00:32:18,950 --> 00:32:20,830
I gave you $50 just the other day.
780
00:32:20,930 --> 00:32:23,326
- Yes, I know, dear, but Mrs.
Burke had her baby yesterday.
781
00:32:23,426 --> 00:32:24,781
Nine pounds.
782
00:32:24,881 --> 00:32:26,560
And there wasn't a thing in the house.
783
00:32:26,660 --> 00:32:28,258
And then the Community Chest lady came--
784
00:32:28,358 --> 00:32:29,389
- And 50's all gone, huh?
785
00:32:29,489 --> 00:32:30,690
Who is the 10 for?
786
00:32:30,790 --> 00:32:32,110
- The Websters.
- The Websters.
787
00:32:32,210 --> 00:32:33,608
- You remember, those lovely people
788
00:32:33,708 --> 00:32:35,110
your father used to take care of?
789
00:32:35,210 --> 00:32:37,190
I thought I'd buy them some groceries.
790
00:32:37,290 --> 00:32:39,040
Oh, Ann, dear, it's a shame, those
poor--
791
00:32:39,140 --> 00:32:40,140
- You're marvelous, Ma.
792
00:32:40,239 --> 00:32:41,750
You're just like Father used to be.
793
00:32:41,850 --> 00:32:43,380
Do you realize a couple of weeks ago
794
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,080
we didn't have enough to eat ourselves?
795
00:32:45,180 --> 00:32:48,210
- Well, yes, I know, dear, but
these people are in such need
796
00:32:48,310 --> 00:32:49,310
and we have plenty now.
797
00:32:49,409 --> 00:32:51,326
- If you're thinking of
that $1,000, forget it.
798
00:32:51,426 --> 00:32:52,464
It's practically all gone.
799
00:32:52,564 --> 00:32:53,602
We owed everybody in town.
800
00:32:53,702 --> 00:32:55,830
Now, you just gotta stop
giving all your money away.
801
00:32:55,930 --> 00:32:57,370
- Oh, Ann, dear.
802
00:32:57,470 --> 00:32:58,780
- Oh, I'm sorry, Ma.
803
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:00,520
Oh, don't pay any attention to me.
804
00:33:00,620 --> 00:33:02,673
I guess I'm just upset about all this.
805
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:04,560
Gee whiz, here I am with
806
00:33:04,659 --> 00:33:06,137
a great opportunity to get somewhere,
807
00:33:06,237 --> 00:33:08,554
to give us security for once
in our lives, and I'm stuck.
808
00:33:08,654 --> 00:33:11,677
If I can put this over, your
Mrs. Burke can have six babies.
809
00:33:11,777 --> 00:33:13,255
- You mean the speech you're writing?
810
00:33:13,355 --> 00:33:16,350
- Yeah, I don't know, I
simply can't get it to gel.
811
00:33:16,450 --> 00:33:17,728
I created somebody who was going
812
00:33:17,828 --> 00:33:19,266
to give up his life for a principle.
813
00:33:19,366 --> 00:33:20,604
Hundreds of thousands of people
814
00:33:20,704 --> 00:33:22,262
are gonna listen to him over the radio.
815
00:33:22,362 --> 00:33:23,800
And unless he says something that's,
816
00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:25,970
well, that's sensational,
it's just no good.
817
00:33:26,070 --> 00:33:27,548
- Well, honey, of course I don't know
818
00:33:27,648 --> 00:33:29,720
what kind of a speech
you're trying to write,
819
00:33:29,820 --> 00:33:32,000
but judging from the samples I've read,
820
00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:33,730
I don't think anybody'll listen.
821
00:33:33,830 --> 00:33:35,190
- What?
822
00:33:35,290 --> 00:33:38,780
- Darling, there are so many
complaining political speeches.
823
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:39,958
People are tired of hearing
824
00:33:40,058 --> 00:33:42,000
nothing but doom and despair on the
radio.
825
00:33:42,100 --> 00:33:43,860
If you're gonna have him say anything,
826
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,730
why don't you let him say
something simple and real,
827
00:33:46,830 --> 00:33:48,080
something with hope in it?
828
00:33:49,742 --> 00:33:52,428
If your father were alive,
he'd know what to say.
829
00:33:52,528 --> 00:33:53,528
- Oh, yes.
830
00:33:54,493 --> 00:33:57,477
Father certainly would.
831
00:33:57,577 --> 00:34:02,377
- Wait a minute.
- Hmm?
832
00:34:15,854 --> 00:34:17,706
- That's your father's diary, Ann.
833
00:34:17,806 --> 00:34:18,806
- Father's--
834
00:34:18,905 --> 00:34:21,008
I never knew he had a diary.
835
00:34:21,108 --> 00:34:23,260
- There's enough in it for a 100
speeches,
836
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,910
things people ought to hear nowadays.
837
00:34:26,010 --> 00:34:28,150
You'll be careful of it, won't you,
dear?
838
00:34:28,250 --> 00:34:30,657
Always helped to keep
your father alive for me.
839
00:34:30,757 --> 00:34:33,226
- You bet I will, Ma.
840
00:34:34,987 --> 00:34:38,360
- Wait a minute, John Doe
don't wanna sign no autographs.
841
00:34:38,460 --> 00:34:39,738
- Well, what does he do all day?
842
00:34:39,838 --> 00:34:41,250
- What does he do all day?
843
00:34:41,350 --> 00:34:42,910
He's writing out his memories.
844
00:34:44,190 --> 00:34:45,730
- Sorry, lady, you can't see Mr. Doe.
845
00:34:45,830 --> 00:34:47,200
He wants to be alone.
846
00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:48,300
No.
847
00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:51,350
No, he just sits around all
day and commutes with himself.
848
00:34:57,343 --> 00:34:58,343
Ball.
849
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,037
- I don't know how you're gonna stand it
850
00:35:10,137 --> 00:35:11,457
around here till after Christmas.
851
00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:17,923
I'll bet you ain't heard a
train whistle in two weeks.
852
00:35:25,527 --> 00:35:26,527
- Strike.
853
00:35:40,413 --> 00:35:42,163
- I know why you're hanging around.
854
00:35:49,310 --> 00:35:50,743
You're stuck on the girl.
855
00:35:53,727 --> 00:35:56,527
That's all a guy needs is to
get hooked up with a woman.
856
00:36:14,490 --> 00:36:16,460
- What was that, a single?
857
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,588
- First baseman dropped the ball.
858
00:36:18,688 --> 00:36:20,560
- Butterfingers.
859
00:36:20,660 --> 00:36:21,660
Tough luck, pal.
860
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,277
- A guy has a woman on his
hands, first thing he knows,
861
00:36:30,377 --> 00:36:33,338
his life is balled up
with a lot more things.
862
00:36:33,438 --> 00:36:34,438
Furniture.
863
00:36:45,977 --> 00:36:46,977
- Did you get him?
864
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:49,400
- You're out.
865
00:36:49,499 --> 00:36:50,780
- Swell.
866
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,278
What's this, the end of the eighth?
867
00:36:52,378 --> 00:36:53,378
- Ninth.
868
00:36:57,510 --> 00:36:59,827
- Hey, Beany, there's a couple
of lugs from the Chronicle
869
00:36:59,927 --> 00:37:00,927
snooping around out here.
870
00:37:01,026 --> 00:37:02,026
- Ah.
871
00:37:04,460 --> 00:37:05,880
Come on, Angelface.
872
00:37:07,790 --> 00:37:08,970
Gangway.
873
00:37:09,070 --> 00:37:11,386
- What's the score, Angelface?
- Three to two, our favor.
874
00:37:11,486 --> 00:37:12,900
- Gee, that's great.
875
00:37:19,213 --> 00:37:20,770
- Hey, you got swell form there.
876
00:37:20,870 --> 00:37:22,530
Must've been a pretty good pitcher.
877
00:37:22,630 --> 00:37:23,630
- Pretty good, yeah.
878
00:37:23,729 --> 00:37:25,526
I was just about ready
for the Major Leagues
879
00:37:25,626 --> 00:37:26,984
when I chipped a bone in my elbow.
880
00:37:27,084 --> 00:37:28,600
I got it pitching a 19 inning game.
881
00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:29,700
- 19?
882
00:37:29,799 --> 00:37:30,799
- Yep.
883
00:37:30,898 --> 00:37:33,095
There was a Major League
scout there watching me, too.
884
00:37:33,195 --> 00:37:35,152
And he came down after
the game with a contract.
885
00:37:35,701 --> 00:37:36,790
But you know what?
886
00:37:36,890 --> 00:37:38,540
I couldn't lift my arm to sign it.
887
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,598
I'll be okay though as
soon as I get it fixed up.
888
00:37:41,698 --> 00:37:42,698
- That's too bad.
889
00:37:43,870 --> 00:37:44,988
- What do you mean, too bad?
890
00:37:45,088 --> 00:37:46,088
- Huh?
891
00:37:46,187 --> 00:37:48,590
Oh, that you'll never
be able to play again.
892
00:37:48,690 --> 00:37:49,848
- What are you talking about?
893
00:37:49,948 --> 00:37:51,386
I just told you I was gonna get my--
894
00:37:51,486 --> 00:37:53,203
- Well, you know
how they are in baseball
895
00:37:53,303 --> 00:37:54,583
if a guy's mixed up in a racket.
896
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:56,160
- Racket, what do you mean?
897
00:37:56,260 --> 00:37:59,513
- Well, I was just thinking
about this John Doe business.
898
00:37:59,613 --> 00:38:02,300
Why, as soon as it comes
out it's all a fake,
899
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,500
you'll be washed up in
baseball, won't you?
900
00:38:07,060 --> 00:38:08,060
- Yeah.
901
00:38:11,036 --> 00:38:13,414
Doggone, I never thought about that.
902
00:38:13,514 --> 00:38:18,464
("Funeral March" by Frederic
Chopin on harmonica)
903
00:38:19,102 --> 00:38:20,102
Gosh.
904
00:38:20,201 --> 00:38:22,637
- And another thing, what about
all the kids in the country,
905
00:38:22,737 --> 00:38:24,513
the kids that idolize ballplayers?
906
00:38:24,613 --> 00:38:27,809
What are they gonna think about you?
907
00:38:27,909 --> 00:38:28,909
- Yeah.
908
00:38:29,610 --> 00:38:30,689
Hey, Colonel.
909
00:38:33,730 --> 00:38:35,080
Did you hear that?
910
00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:37,790
I got to figure some
way out of this thing.
911
00:38:37,890 --> 00:38:39,540
- The elevators are still running.
912
00:38:41,090 --> 00:38:43,030
- I know one way you can do it.
913
00:38:43,130 --> 00:38:44,330
- How?
914
00:38:44,660 --> 00:38:46,417
- Well, when you get
up there on the radio,
915
00:38:46,517 --> 00:38:48,754
all you have to do is say
the whole thing's a frame up.
916
00:38:48,854 --> 00:38:50,763
Make you a hero, sure as you're born.
917
00:38:52,180 --> 00:38:54,780
- Yeah, but how am I
going to get my arm fixed?
918
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:55,880
- That's a cinch.
919
00:38:56,690 --> 00:38:58,760
I know somebody who'll give you $5,000
920
00:38:58,860 --> 00:39:00,777
just to get up on the
radio and tell the truth.
921
00:39:00,877 --> 00:39:02,270
- $5,000?
922
00:39:02,370 --> 00:39:04,450
- Yeah, $5,000 and he gets it right
away.
923
00:39:04,550 --> 00:39:07,050
You don't have to wait till Christmas.
924
00:39:07,150 --> 00:39:09,763
- Look out, Long John,
they're closing in on you.
925
00:39:11,390 --> 00:39:13,810
- Say, who's putting up this dough?
926
00:39:13,910 --> 00:39:15,210
- Fella runs the Chronicle.
927
00:39:17,590 --> 00:39:21,857
Here's the speech you make
and it's all written for you.
928
00:39:21,957 --> 00:39:23,253
- $5,000.
929
00:39:26,376 --> 00:39:27,483
- It's on the level.
930
00:39:38,476 --> 00:39:41,800
- No, I'm sorry, tickets for
the broadcast are all gone.
931
00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:42,980
Phone the Bulletin.
932
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,735
- Sorry, no more tickets left.
933
00:39:54,757 --> 00:39:56,300
- Here he is.
934
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,620
- Hello John, all
set for the big night?
935
00:39:58,720 --> 00:39:59,720
Swell.
936
00:39:59,819 --> 00:40:00,977
- Turn around.
- One moment.
937
00:40:01,077 --> 00:40:02,635
- Now stand still.
- Hold it, Mr. Doe.
938
00:40:02,735 --> 00:40:03,735
Big smile, Mr. Doe.
939
00:40:03,834 --> 00:40:04,834
Ah that's swell.
940
00:40:04,933 --> 00:40:06,969
- Okay, Beany, that's all,
take them out will you?
941
00:40:07,069 --> 00:40:08,387
- Alright, scram now.
- Come on.
942
00:40:08,487 --> 00:40:09,605
Can't I get another picture?
943
00:40:09,705 --> 00:40:11,103
- Now look John, here's the speech.
944
00:40:11,203 --> 00:40:12,441
It's in caps and double spaced.
945
00:40:12,541 --> 00:40:14,019
You won't have no trouble reading it.
946
00:40:14,119 --> 00:40:15,237
Not nervous, are you?
- No.
947
00:40:15,337 --> 00:40:16,617
- Of course not, he wouldn't be.
948
00:40:16,712 --> 00:40:18,192
- Who?
- John Doe, the one in there.
949
00:40:18,277 --> 00:40:19,637
- Hey don't let your knees rattle.
950
00:40:19,709 --> 00:40:20,709
It picks up on the mic.
951
00:40:20,764 --> 00:40:21,764
- Oh Beany.
952
00:40:21,796 --> 00:40:22,916
You needn't be nervous, John
953
00:40:22,922 --> 00:40:24,482
All you have to remember to be sincere.
954
00:40:24,458 --> 00:40:26,418
- Pick up that phone Miss
Mitchell it's for you.
955
00:40:26,367 --> 00:40:27,367
- Okay.
956
00:40:27,296 --> 00:40:28,296
Hello?
957
00:40:28,220 --> 00:40:29,220
Yes, mother.
958
00:40:29,158 --> 00:40:30,158
- Oh, thank you, darling.
959
00:40:30,123 --> 00:40:31,523
Oh, there he is, the poor dear man.
960
00:40:31,522 --> 00:40:33,151
Oh good luck to you, Mr. Doe.
961
00:40:33,251 --> 00:40:35,682
We want you to know that
we're are all for you.
962
00:40:35,782 --> 00:40:37,447
The girls all decided that
963
00:40:37,547 --> 00:40:40,967
you're not to jump off any roof at all.
964
00:40:42,434 --> 00:40:43,914
- You got the speech I gave you?
965
00:40:44,014 --> 00:40:45,014
- Yeah.
966
00:40:46,058 --> 00:40:48,313
- Now look, I'll give
the money to the Colonel
967
00:40:48,413 --> 00:40:50,130
just as soon as you get started.
968
00:40:50,230 --> 00:40:52,427
We'll have a car waiting at
the side entrance for you.
969
00:40:52,527 --> 00:40:53,845
- Okay.
- How'd you get in here?
970
00:40:53,945 --> 00:40:55,463
- Oh, I just came in to wish him luck.
971
00:40:55,563 --> 00:40:56,883
- Come on, out, out.
972
00:40:57,990 --> 00:40:59,510
Mother says good luck, too.
973
00:40:59,610 --> 00:41:01,270
John, when you read the speech please,
974
00:41:01,370 --> 00:41:02,890
please believe every word.
975
00:41:02,990 --> 00:41:04,979
He turned out to be wonderful person
John.
976
00:41:05,079 --> 00:41:06,079
- Who?
977
00:41:06,178 --> 00:41:07,711
- John Doe, the one in the speech.
978
00:41:07,811 --> 00:41:08,811
- Oh.
979
00:41:08,910 --> 00:41:09,910
- You know something?
980
00:41:10,009 --> 00:41:11,528
I've actually fallen in love with him.
981
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:13,598
- All right, there he is, sister.
982
00:41:13,698 --> 00:41:15,495
Now come, plenty of bulk.
- What's the idea?
983
00:41:15,595 --> 00:41:17,073
- No, no, no, no, no that's too much.
984
00:41:17,173 --> 00:41:18,691
That's not what, not so much, come on.
985
00:41:18,791 --> 00:41:19,791
- That's it.
986
00:41:19,890 --> 00:41:22,127
- Oh, this is no time for
cheap publicity, Mr. Connell.
987
00:41:22,227 --> 00:41:24,890
- Listen if that guy lays an
egg I want something out of it.
988
00:41:24,990 --> 00:41:26,430
I'm getting a Jane Doe ready.
989
00:41:26,530 --> 00:41:27,728
- Ah come on, will you fellas?
990
00:41:27,828 --> 00:41:29,063
Give me a chance, I have to--
991
00:41:29,163 --> 00:41:30,481
- Just one more, will you please?
992
00:41:30,581 --> 00:41:32,099
- Now that's fine honey, you go ahead.
993
00:41:32,199 --> 00:41:33,199
After you.
994
00:41:33,298 --> 00:41:34,696
You've got to be running, go ahead.
995
00:41:34,796 --> 00:41:35,796
- How you doing?
996
00:41:35,895 --> 00:41:37,133
- Alright Beany, bring them in.
997
00:41:37,233 --> 00:41:39,906
- Holy smoke, a half a Heelot.
998
00:41:40,006 --> 00:41:41,843
- There you are, boss,
just like you ordered.
999
00:41:41,943 --> 00:41:42,943
Symbols of little people.
1000
00:41:43,042 --> 00:41:44,799
- Okay, get 'em up.
- Alright little fella.
1001
00:41:44,899 --> 00:41:46,257
- This is ridiculous, Mr. Connell.
1002
00:41:46,357 --> 00:41:47,357
Come on give me a chance.
1003
00:41:47,456 --> 00:41:49,413
The man's on the air in
only a few more minutes.
1004
00:41:49,513 --> 00:41:50,711
Oh, fellas I told you can have
1005
00:41:50,811 --> 00:41:52,418
all the pictures you want afterward.
1006
00:41:52,518 --> 00:41:53,580
No, come on, Ed.
1007
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:54,680
And how about you?
1008
00:41:54,779 --> 00:41:56,017
Come on, come on, that's right.
1009
00:41:56,117 --> 00:41:58,114
Afterwards you can get
all the pictures you want.
1010
00:41:58,214 --> 00:41:59,972
- Oh I know but,
well thank you very much.
1011
00:42:00,072 --> 00:42:01,072
- Come on, will you?
1012
00:42:01,171 --> 00:42:02,171
That way, that's right.
1013
00:42:02,270 --> 00:42:03,270
- Come on Snooks.
1014
00:42:03,369 --> 00:42:04,369
You better bail out.
1015
00:42:04,468 --> 00:42:05,468
- Well, goodbye, Mr. Doe.
1016
00:42:05,567 --> 00:42:06,567
- Beany.
1017
00:42:06,666 --> 00:42:07,666
- Alright, alright.
1018
00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:10,178
- Better get ready, one minute to go.
1019
00:42:10,278 --> 00:42:12,674
- Wow, one minute to go and
the score's nothing to nothing.
1020
00:42:12,774 --> 00:42:13,940
Now please, John.
1021
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:15,823
You won't let me down, will ya?
1022
00:42:17,342 --> 00:42:18,342
Will ya?
1023
00:42:19,350 --> 00:42:20,610
Of course you won't.
1024
00:42:20,710 --> 00:42:23,363
If you'll just think of
yourself as the real John Doe.
1025
00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:26,050
Listen, everything in that speech
1026
00:42:26,150 --> 00:42:27,990
are things a certain man believed in.
1027
00:42:28,090 --> 00:42:30,360
He was my father, John.
1028
00:42:30,460 --> 00:42:32,573
When he talked, people listened.
1029
00:42:32,673 --> 00:42:34,173
And they'll listen to you, too.
1030
00:42:35,450 --> 00:42:38,883
Funny, you know what my
mother said the other night?
1031
00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:43,333
She said to look into your eyes
and I'd see my father there.
1032
00:42:46,130 --> 00:42:47,928
- Hey what do you say?
- Okay, we're coming.
1033
00:42:48,028 --> 00:42:49,028
Come on.
1034
00:42:49,810 --> 00:42:51,680
Now listen, John, you're a pitcher.
1035
00:42:51,780 --> 00:42:53,163
Now get in there and pitch.
1036
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:56,350
Good luck.
1037
00:42:56,450 --> 00:42:58,592
- Give him room,
let him through, come on.
1038
00:43:13,203 --> 00:43:14,361
- Hey, let's get out of here.
1039
00:43:14,461 --> 00:43:15,619
There's the door right there.
1040
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,090
- Hey what are you doing here?
1041
00:43:17,190 --> 00:43:18,428
- That's what I'd like to know.
1042
00:43:18,528 --> 00:43:19,528
- Come on, out, out.
1043
00:43:19,627 --> 00:43:20,785
- Hey, he's a friend of mine.
1044
00:43:20,885 --> 00:43:22,605
- Never mind, let him alone, he's
alright.
1045
00:43:24,203 --> 00:43:27,620
I'll be right over there pulling for
you.
1046
00:43:29,673 --> 00:43:31,006
John, over here.
1047
00:43:35,950 --> 00:43:36,950
- Stand by.
1048
00:44:08,858 --> 00:44:09,858
- Phone the Chronicle.
1049
00:44:09,957 --> 00:44:12,437
Tell 'em to start
getting those extras out.
1050
00:44:34,037 --> 00:44:35,634
- And good evening ladies and gentlemen,
1051
00:44:35,734 --> 00:44:37,780
this is Kenneth Fry speaking
for the New Bulletin.
1052
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,810
Tonight we give you something
entirely new and different.
1053
00:44:40,910 --> 00:44:42,400
Standing beside me is the young man
1054
00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:44,020
who has declared publicly that
1055
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,700
on Christmas Eve he
intends to commit suicide,
1056
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:48,680
giving as his reason, quote,
1057
00:44:48,780 --> 00:44:51,370
I protest against the
state of civilization.
1058
00:44:51,470 --> 00:44:52,530
End quote.
1059
00:44:52,630 --> 00:44:54,960
Ladies and gentlemen, the
New Bulletin takes pleasure
1060
00:44:55,060 --> 00:44:56,777
in presenting the man who is fast
becoming
1061
00:44:56,877 --> 00:45:00,700
the most talked about person
in the country, John Doe.
1062
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:01,800
1063
00:45:23,934 --> 00:45:25,851
- Ladies and gentlemen.
1064
00:45:28,530 --> 00:45:31,073
I am the man you all know as John Doe.
1065
00:45:32,590 --> 00:45:35,747
I took that name because
it seems to describe--
1066
00:45:38,590 --> 00:45:42,862
Because it seems to describe
the average man, and that's me.
1067
00:45:44,060 --> 00:45:45,060
And that's me.
1068
00:45:49,130 --> 00:45:52,190
Well, it was me before I
said I was going to jump off
1069
00:45:52,290 --> 00:45:54,933
the City Hall roof at
midnight on Christmas Eve.
1070
00:45:56,350 --> 00:45:58,283
Now I guess I'm not average anymore.
1071
00:45:59,750 --> 00:46:02,443
Now I'm getting all sorts of
attention, from big shots too.
1072
00:46:02,543 --> 00:46:04,200
- We've been double crossed.
- We have?
1073
00:46:04,300 --> 00:46:06,980
- The Mayor and Governor, for instance,
1074
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,077
they don't like those
articles I've been writing.
1075
00:46:09,177 --> 00:46:10,800
- You're an impostor, young fella.
1076
00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:12,700
That's a pack of lies you're telling.
1077
00:46:13,900 --> 00:46:16,049
Who wrote that speech for you?
1078
00:46:17,928 --> 00:46:20,127
- Beany, get that guy.
1079
00:46:20,227 --> 00:46:23,274
- A publicity
stunt for the Bulletin.
1080
00:46:27,096 --> 00:46:28,494
A publicity stunt for the Bulletin.
1081
00:46:28,594 --> 00:46:29,594
- Get him out.
1082
00:46:29,693 --> 00:46:30,693
- Spencer.
1083
00:46:30,792 --> 00:46:32,129
- Ladies and
gentlemen,
1084
00:46:32,229 --> 00:46:33,427
the disturbance you just heard
1085
00:46:33,527 --> 00:46:35,005
was caused by someone in the audience
1086
00:46:35,105 --> 00:46:36,223
who tried to heckle Mr. Doe.
1087
00:46:36,323 --> 00:46:37,340
The speech will continue.
1088
00:46:42,260 --> 00:46:46,509
- Well, people like the Governor
people like the Governor--
1089
00:46:46,609 --> 00:46:50,080
people like the Governor and
that fella can stop worrying.
1090
00:46:50,180 --> 00:46:52,180
I'm not gonna talk about them.
1091
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:56,463
I'm gonna talk about us, the
average guys, the John Does.
1092
00:46:57,630 --> 00:47:01,130
If anybody ever asked you what
the average John Doe is like,
1093
00:47:01,230 --> 00:47:04,233
you couldn't tell him because
he's a million and one things.
1094
00:47:05,150 --> 00:47:07,700
He's Mr. Big and Mr. Small.
1095
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,490
He's simple and he's wise.
1096
00:47:09,590 --> 00:47:11,130
He's inherently honest,
1097
00:47:11,230 --> 00:47:13,340
but he's got a streak
of larceny in his heart.
1098
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,230
He seldom walks up to a public
telephone without shoving
1099
00:47:16,330 --> 00:47:17,590
his finger in the slot to see
1100
00:47:17,690 --> 00:47:19,347
if somebody left a nickel there.
1101
00:47:30,710 --> 00:47:33,537
He's the man the ads are written for,
1102
00:47:33,637 --> 00:47:36,680
the fella everybody sells things to.
1103
00:47:36,780 --> 00:47:40,160
He's Joe Dokes, the
world's greatest stooge,
1104
00:47:40,260 --> 00:47:42,083
and the world's greatest strength.
1105
00:47:51,356 --> 00:47:52,356
Yes, sir.
1106
00:47:53,470 --> 00:47:56,400
Yes, sir, we're a great
family, the John Does.
1107
00:47:56,500 --> 00:48:00,073
We're the meek who are
supposed to inherit the earth.
1108
00:48:01,300 --> 00:48:02,920
You'll find us everywhere.
1109
00:48:03,020 --> 00:48:05,770
We raise the crops, we dig
the mines, work the factories,
1110
00:48:05,870 --> 00:48:09,080
keep the books, fly the
planes, and drive the buses.
1111
00:48:09,180 --> 00:48:11,660
And when a cop yells,
stand back there you,
1112
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,723
he means us, the John Does.
1113
00:48:13,823 --> 00:48:15,310
- Well what kind of a speech is that?
1114
00:48:15,410 --> 00:48:16,590
Didn't you read it?
1115
00:48:16,690 --> 00:48:18,610
- We've existed since time began.
1116
00:48:18,710 --> 00:48:22,560
We built the Pyramids,
we saw Christ crucified,
1117
00:48:22,660 --> 00:48:25,100
pulled the oars for Roman emperors,
1118
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,210
sailed the boats for Columbus,
1119
00:48:27,310 --> 00:48:29,790
retreated from Moscow with Napoleon,
1120
00:48:29,890 --> 00:48:32,483
and froze with Washington at Valley
Forge.
1121
00:48:35,670 --> 00:48:37,470
Yes, sir, we've been in there
1122
00:48:37,570 --> 00:48:41,450
dodging left hooks since
before History began to walk.
1123
00:48:41,550 --> 00:48:42,960
In our struggle for freedom
1124
00:48:43,060 --> 00:48:44,510
we've hit the canvas many a time,
1125
00:48:44,610 --> 00:48:46,180
but we always bounce back because
1126
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,186
we're the people and we're tough.
1127
00:48:53,651 --> 00:48:56,470
They've started a lot of talk
about free people going soft,
1128
00:48:56,570 --> 00:48:57,840
that we can't take it.
1129
00:48:57,940 --> 00:48:58,990
That's a lot of hooey.
1130
00:49:00,410 --> 00:49:03,080
The free people can beat the
world at anything from war
1131
00:49:03,180 --> 00:49:06,764
to tiddlywinks if we all
pull in the same direction.
1132
00:49:14,250 --> 00:49:17,440
I know a lot of you are
saying, what can I do?
1133
00:49:17,540 --> 00:49:18,880
I'm just a little punk.
1134
00:49:18,980 --> 00:49:20,420
I don't count.
1135
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:21,520
Well you're dead wrong.
1136
00:49:21,619 --> 00:49:24,110
The little punks have always
counted because in the long run
1137
00:49:24,210 --> 00:49:26,730
the character of a
country is the sum total
1138
00:49:26,830 --> 00:49:28,775
of the character of it's little punks.
1139
00:49:35,870 --> 00:49:37,668
But we've all got to
get in there and pitch.
1140
00:49:37,768 --> 00:49:40,970
We can't win the ball game
unless we have team work,
1141
00:49:41,070 --> 00:49:44,130
and that's where every John Doe comes
in.
1142
00:49:44,230 --> 00:49:47,510
It's up to him to get
together with his team mate,
1143
00:49:47,610 --> 00:49:52,140
and your team mate, my friends,
is the guy next door to you.
1144
00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:54,530
Your neighbor, he's a
terribly important guy,
1145
00:49:54,630 --> 00:49:56,480
that guy next door.
1146
00:49:56,580 --> 00:49:57,580
You're gonna need him
1147
00:49:57,679 --> 00:49:59,730
and he's gonna need you so look him up.
1148
00:49:59,830 --> 00:50:01,680
If he's sick, call on him.
1149
00:50:01,780 --> 00:50:03,580
If he's hungry, feed him.
1150
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,003
If he's out of a job, find him one.
1151
00:50:06,860 --> 00:50:08,880
To most of you, your
neighbor is a stranger.
1152
00:50:08,980 --> 00:50:11,910
A guy with a barking dog
and a high fence around him.
1153
00:50:12,010 --> 00:50:13,160
Now you can't be a stranger
1154
00:50:13,260 --> 00:50:15,700
to any guy that's on your own team.
1155
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,490
So tear down the fence that separates
you.
1156
00:50:18,590 --> 00:50:20,780
Tear down the fence and you'll tear down
1157
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,800
a lot of hates and prejudices.
1158
00:50:22,900 --> 00:50:24,680
Tear down all the fences in the country
1159
00:50:24,780 --> 00:50:26,060
and you'll really have teamwork.
1160
00:50:35,166 --> 00:50:37,430
I know a lot of you are
saying to yourselves,
1161
00:50:37,530 --> 00:50:39,220
he's asking for a miracle to happen.
1162
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,600
He's expecting people to
change all of a sudden.
1163
00:50:42,700 --> 00:50:43,700
Well, you're wrong.
1164
00:50:43,799 --> 00:50:44,799
It's no miracle.
1165
00:50:44,898 --> 00:50:47,100
It's no miracle because I see it happen
1166
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:51,343
once a year and so do
you, at Christmas time.
1167
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,300
There's something swell about
the spirit of Christmas.
1168
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,980
To see what it does to
people, all kinds of people.
1169
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:03,010
Now why can't that spirit, that
same warm Christmas spirit,
1170
00:51:03,110 --> 00:51:05,160
last the whole year round?
1171
00:51:05,260 --> 00:51:06,260
Gosh.
1172
00:51:07,060 --> 00:51:10,280
If it ever did, if each and every John
Doe
1173
00:51:10,380 --> 00:51:14,170
would make that spirit last
365 days out of the year
1174
00:51:14,270 --> 00:51:15,770
we'd develop such a strength,
1175
00:51:15,870 --> 00:51:18,240
we'd create such a tidal wave of
goodwill
1176
00:51:18,340 --> 00:51:20,593
that no human force
could stand against it.
1177
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:23,473
Yes sir, my friends,
1178
00:51:24,900 --> 00:51:28,400
the meek can only inherit
the Earth when the John Does
1179
00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:29,900
start loving their neighbors.
1180
00:51:30,900 --> 00:51:32,303
You better start right now.
1181
00:51:33,310 --> 00:51:36,210
Don't wait till the game is
called on account of darkness.
1182
00:51:37,904 --> 00:51:40,304
Wake up, John Doe, you're
the hope of the world.
1183
00:51:49,300 --> 00:51:50,875
- John, you were wonderful.
1184
00:51:50,975 --> 00:51:51,975
1185
00:51:58,804 --> 00:52:02,554
- Let's get out of here.
- Now you're talking.
1186
00:52:05,929 --> 00:52:10,129
Gangway, you Heelots.
1187
00:52:10,384 --> 00:52:11,384
Hey.
1188
00:52:20,121 --> 00:52:21,900
I knew you'd wake up sooner or later.
1189
00:52:22,950 --> 00:52:25,240
Boy, am I glad we got out of that mess.
1190
00:52:25,340 --> 00:52:27,933
- I had the 5,000 all sewed up.
1191
00:52:28,033 --> 00:52:30,033
Could've been on my way to old Doc
Brown.
1192
00:52:32,217 --> 00:52:33,575
"You're a pitcher, John" she says.
1193
00:52:33,675 --> 00:52:35,050
"Now go in there and pitch."
1194
00:52:35,150 --> 00:52:36,398
What a sucker.
1195
00:52:36,498 --> 00:52:38,600
- She's a Heelot just like the rest.
1196
00:52:38,700 --> 00:52:40,090
Lucky you got away from her.
1197
00:52:40,190 --> 00:52:43,500
- What was I doing making
a speech, anyway, me, huh?
1198
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:45,636
Jeez, the more I think
about it the more I could--
1199
00:52:45,736 --> 00:52:47,160
- Tear town all the fences.
1200
00:52:47,260 --> 00:52:48,718
Why, if you tore one picket off
1201
00:52:48,818 --> 00:52:50,673
your neighbor's fence, he'd sue you.
1202
00:52:50,773 --> 00:52:52,800
- 5,000, had it right in my hand.
1203
00:52:52,900 --> 00:52:54,910
- What do you mean he ran away?
1204
00:52:55,010 --> 00:52:56,140
Well go after him, find him.
1205
00:52:56,240 --> 00:52:57,240
That man is terrific.
1206
00:53:04,371 --> 00:53:05,954
- And here we come.
1207
00:53:52,344 --> 00:53:53,693
Jitterbugs.
1208
00:53:53,793 --> 00:53:54,793
Yeah.
1209
00:53:55,410 --> 00:53:56,756
- How much money we got left?
1210
00:53:56,856 --> 00:53:57,856
- Four bits.
1211
00:53:57,955 --> 00:53:59,233
- Better make it doughnuts, huh?
1212
00:53:59,333 --> 00:54:00,333
- Yeah.
1213
00:54:12,269 --> 00:54:14,010
- What'll it be, gents?
1214
00:54:14,110 --> 00:54:15,428
- Have you got a couple of steaks
1215
00:54:15,528 --> 00:54:17,090
about that big and that thick?
1216
00:54:17,190 --> 00:54:19,424
- Yeah, with hash
brown potatoes and tomatoes
1217
00:54:19,524 --> 00:54:22,160
and apple pie and ice cream and coffee?
1218
00:54:22,260 --> 00:54:24,090
- And doughnuts, I know.
1219
00:54:24,190 --> 00:54:27,022
Hey, Ma, sinkers, a pair.
1220
00:54:27,122 --> 00:54:28,602
- Sinkers, a pair, comin' up.
1221
00:54:28,930 --> 00:54:30,580
- Glad he took the T out of that.
1222
00:54:35,660 --> 00:54:37,153
- Hey Look.
1223
00:54:38,260 --> 00:54:41,739
- Join the John Doe Club.
1224
00:54:41,839 --> 00:54:45,239
- John Doe Club?
1225
00:54:49,324 --> 00:54:50,924
- Uh-oh.
1226
00:54:52,990 --> 00:54:54,300
- Are you John Doe?
- Who?
1227
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:55,400
- John Doe.
1228
00:54:55,499 --> 00:54:57,360
- Ah, you need glasses, buddy.
1229
00:54:57,460 --> 00:54:58,978
- It's the spitting image of John Doe.
1230
00:54:59,078 --> 00:55:00,436
- Yeah, but his name's Willoughby.
1231
00:55:00,536 --> 00:55:02,541
- I'm John Willoughby,
I'm a baseball player.
1232
00:55:02,641 --> 00:55:04,920
- Ah, no, I'd know that voice anywhere.
1233
00:55:05,020 --> 00:55:06,800
You can't kid me.
1234
00:55:06,900 --> 00:55:08,473
You're John Doe.
1235
00:55:08,573 --> 00:55:09,573
Ma!
1236
00:55:09,745 --> 00:55:10,745
Ma.
1237
00:55:10,844 --> 00:55:12,427
That's John Doe.
- John Doe?
1238
00:55:12,527 --> 00:55:14,304
- Yeah, sitting right there, big as
life.
1239
00:55:14,404 --> 00:55:15,404
- Who'd you say it was?
1240
00:55:15,503 --> 00:55:17,892
- John Doe, the big guy there.
1241
00:55:18,954 --> 00:55:22,754
That is John Doe.
1242
00:55:29,647 --> 00:55:32,000
Hey Operator, Dan Beaver.
1243
00:55:32,100 --> 00:55:33,210
Call everybody in town.
1244
00:55:33,310 --> 00:55:35,050
John Doe was just in my place.
1245
00:55:35,150 --> 00:55:36,843
Yeah, he ordered doughnuts.
1246
00:55:44,465 --> 00:55:45,919
- John Doe.
1247
00:55:46,019 --> 00:55:48,173
Let's see John Doe.
1248
00:55:50,902 --> 00:55:53,299
- You're all here to see John
Doe and you're all neighbors,
1249
00:55:53,399 --> 00:55:55,156
but my office is packed
like a sardine box.
1250
00:55:55,256 --> 00:55:57,125
- What does John
Doe look like, Mr. Mayor?
1251
00:55:57,225 --> 00:55:59,342
- Oh he's one of those
great, big, outdoor type men.
1252
00:55:59,442 --> 00:56:01,838
No you can't see him, you didn't
vote for me the last time.
1253
00:56:01,938 --> 00:56:03,456
Shame on you, what are you doing here?
1254
00:56:03,556 --> 00:56:04,556
Get off my front porch.
1255
00:56:04,655 --> 00:56:05,700
Mr. Norton come yet?
1256
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:07,597
Well wonder where he
is, what's keeping him?
1257
00:56:07,697 --> 00:56:09,214
He should've been here 15 minutes ago.
1258
00:56:09,314 --> 00:56:10,314
There he comes now.
1259
00:56:13,750 --> 00:56:14,948
Now everybody on your dignity.
1260
00:56:15,048 --> 00:56:16,925
Don't do anything to
disgrace our little town.
1261
00:56:17,025 --> 00:56:18,025
We gotta show off.
1262
00:56:20,900 --> 00:56:22,018
- Better let me talk to him.
1263
00:56:22,118 --> 00:56:23,396
- Alright, but present it to him
1264
00:56:23,496 --> 00:56:24,934
as a great cause for the common man.
1265
00:56:25,034 --> 00:56:26,034
- Ah here he comes.
1266
00:56:26,133 --> 00:56:27,730
Give him room down there, give him room.
1267
00:56:27,830 --> 00:56:28,830
Come on now.
1268
00:56:28,929 --> 00:56:30,247
- Here they come, here they come.
1269
00:56:30,347 --> 00:56:31,522
Here's Mr. Norton.
1270
00:56:31,622 --> 00:56:32,660
How do you do, Mr. Norton?
1271
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:33,760
I'm Mayor Hawkins.
1272
00:56:34,578 --> 00:56:36,697
- The crowd back there.
- Let me go you darn fool.
1273
00:56:36,797 --> 00:56:37,797
I'm the Mayor.
1274
00:56:37,896 --> 00:56:40,980
Mr. Norton, Mr. Norton, Mr.
Norton, I'm Mayor Hawkins.
1275
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:42,650
Your office telephoned me to hold him.
1276
00:56:42,750 --> 00:56:43,948
- Well that's fine, how is he?
1277
00:56:44,048 --> 00:56:45,926
- Oh he's fine, he's
right in my office there.
1278
00:56:46,026 --> 00:56:48,463
You know it's a big honor having
John Doe here, and you too.
1279
00:56:48,563 --> 00:56:49,761
Haven't had so much excitement
1280
00:56:49,861 --> 00:56:51,450
since the old City Hall burnt down.
1281
00:56:51,550 --> 00:56:53,666
People so excited, they
nearly tore his clothes off.
1282
00:56:53,766 --> 00:56:55,230
Oh Matilda, phone the newspapers.
1283
00:56:55,330 --> 00:56:56,448
Tell them Mr. Norton's here.
1284
00:56:56,548 --> 00:56:58,065
Step inside, Mr. Norton, to my office.
1285
00:56:58,165 --> 00:56:59,653
It's very comfortable Mr. Norton.
1286
00:56:59,753 --> 00:57:00,871
Just had it air-conditioned.
1287
00:57:00,971 --> 00:57:02,959
Gangway please, make room for Mr.
Norton.
1288
00:57:03,059 --> 00:57:04,543
Gangway, gangway.
1289
00:57:04,643 --> 00:57:06,361
Here he is Mr. Norton, well taken care
of.
1290
00:57:06,461 --> 00:57:08,620
The neighbors are serving
him a light lunch.
1291
00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:09,720
- Hello, John.
1292
00:57:11,350 --> 00:57:12,770
- Hello.
1293
00:57:12,870 --> 00:57:14,108
- Mr. Mayor, if you don't mind,
1294
00:57:14,208 --> 00:57:15,470
we'd like to talk to him alone.
1295
00:57:15,570 --> 00:57:16,810
- Why certainly, certainly.
1296
00:57:16,910 --> 00:57:18,546
Alright everybody clear out.
1297
00:57:18,646 --> 00:57:20,097
Everybody, quickly now.
1298
00:57:20,197 --> 00:57:21,197
Come on.
1299
00:57:21,296 --> 00:57:22,296
Come on.
1300
00:57:23,505 --> 00:57:26,863
That's right, come on.
1301
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:29,600
Don't argue with me here.
1302
00:57:29,699 --> 00:57:30,699
Wait till we get home.
1303
00:57:30,798 --> 00:57:32,236
- Don't you push me around like that
1304
00:57:32,336 --> 00:57:33,553
even though I am your wife.
1305
00:57:33,653 --> 00:57:35,650
- Look Mr. Norton, I think
you got a lot of nerve
1306
00:57:35,750 --> 00:57:37,393
having these people hold us here.
1307
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,470
- There's nobody holding you here Mr.
Doe.
1308
00:57:41,570 --> 00:57:42,570
It's only natural that--
1309
00:57:42,669 --> 00:57:44,786
- If there's nobody holding
us here let's get going.
1310
00:57:44,886 --> 00:57:46,883
Incidentally, my name
isn't Doe, it's Willoughby.
1311
00:57:46,983 --> 00:57:47,983
- Look, John.
1312
00:57:48,082 --> 00:57:49,500
Something important happened.
1313
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:51,040
They're forming John Doe Clubs.
1314
00:57:51,140 --> 00:57:52,860
We know of eight already and they say--
1315
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:54,105
- John Doe Clubs, what for?
1316
00:57:54,205 --> 00:57:55,363
- To carry out the principles
1317
00:57:55,463 --> 00:57:56,981
you talked about in your radio speech.
1318
00:57:57,081 --> 00:57:58,519
- I don't care what they're forming.
1319
00:57:58,619 --> 00:57:59,817
I'm on my way and I don't like
1320
00:57:59,917 --> 00:58:01,235
the idea of being stopped either.
1321
00:58:01,335 --> 00:58:03,052
- Oh, but you don't how big this thing
is.
1322
00:58:03,152 --> 00:58:04,829
You should see the thousands of
telegrams
1323
00:58:04,929 --> 00:58:06,926
we've received and what
they're saying about you.
1324
00:58:07,026 --> 00:58:09,182
- Look, it started as a
circulation stunt, didn't it?
1325
00:58:09,282 --> 00:58:10,480
Well you got your circulation.
1326
00:58:10,580 --> 00:58:11,830
Now why don't you let me alone?
1327
00:58:11,930 --> 00:58:14,650
- Oh it started as a circulation
stunt but it isn't anymore.
1328
00:58:14,750 --> 00:58:16,228
Mr. Norton wants to get in back of it
1329
00:58:16,328 --> 00:58:18,190
and sponsor clubs all over the country.
1330
00:58:18,290 --> 00:58:20,190
He wants to send you on a lecture tour.
1331
00:58:21,090 --> 00:58:22,090
- Me?
- Uh-huh.
1332
00:58:22,189 --> 00:58:23,189
- Certainly.
1333
00:58:23,288 --> 00:58:24,880
With your ability to influence people,
1334
00:58:24,980 --> 00:58:27,160
it might grow into a glorious movement.
1335
00:58:27,260 --> 00:58:29,310
- Then let's get something straight
here.
1336
00:58:29,410 --> 00:58:31,445
I don't want any part of this.
1337
00:58:31,545 --> 00:58:32,943
If you got an idea I'm going around
1338
00:58:33,043 --> 00:58:35,360
lecturing to people why you're crazy.
1339
00:58:35,460 --> 00:58:37,610
Baseball's my racket
and I'm sticking to it.
1340
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,358
Come on Colonel, let's get out of here.
1341
00:58:40,458 --> 00:58:41,458
- John--
1342
00:58:41,557 --> 00:58:43,900
- Please, please
I just got rid of one crowd.
1343
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:45,410
- But please, Mr. Mayor,
1344
00:58:45,510 --> 00:58:48,570
tell him the John Doe
Club wants to talk to him.
1345
00:58:48,670 --> 00:58:50,560
- Let them in, Mr.
Mayor, let them come in.
1346
00:58:50,660 --> 00:58:52,217
- Okay folks but remember your manners.
1347
00:58:52,317 --> 00:58:53,320
No stampeding.
1348
00:58:53,420 --> 00:58:56,213
Walk slow, like you do when
you come to pay your taxes.
1349
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:04,360
- Okay.
1350
00:59:04,459 --> 00:59:05,740
All right, give me a chance.
1351
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:06,840
- Come right in.
1352
00:59:09,276 --> 00:59:11,220
- My name's Bert Hansen, Mr. Doe.
1353
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:15,120
I'm the head soda-jerker
at Schwabacher's drugstore.
1354
00:59:15,220 --> 00:59:18,750
Well, sir, you see me and my
wife, we heard your broadcast
1355
00:59:18,850 --> 00:59:20,440
and we got quite a bang out of it.
1356
00:59:20,540 --> 00:59:21,950
Especially my wife.
1357
00:59:22,050 --> 00:59:23,567
Kept me up half the night saying,
1358
00:59:23,667 --> 00:59:25,027
"that man's right, honey.
1359
00:59:25,127 --> 00:59:26,165
"Trouble with the world is
1360
00:59:26,265 --> 00:59:28,187
"nobody gives a hoot about his neighbor.
1361
00:59:28,287 --> 00:59:29,517
"That's why everybody in town
1362
00:59:29,617 --> 00:59:31,500
"is sore and cranky with each other."
1363
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:33,247
I said, "that's fine,
1364
00:59:33,347 --> 00:59:35,307
"but how's a guy gonna go around lovin'
1365
00:59:35,407 --> 00:59:37,007
"the kind of neighbors we got?
1366
00:59:37,107 --> 00:59:38,707
"Old Sourpuss, for instance."
1367
00:59:39,890 --> 00:59:42,990
You see, Sourpuss Smithers
lives alone next door to us.
1368
00:59:43,090 --> 00:59:44,750
He's a cranky old man who runs
1369
00:59:44,850 --> 00:59:46,128
the second hand furniture store.
1370
00:59:46,228 --> 00:59:47,903
We haven't spoken to him for years.
1371
00:59:48,990 --> 00:59:50,340
I always figured he was
1372
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:52,400
an ornery old gent that hated the world
1373
00:59:52,500 --> 00:59:54,720
'cause was always slamming his garage
door
1374
00:59:54,820 --> 00:59:58,072
and playing the radio so loud
it kept half the neighbors up.
1375
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,380
Well anyway, the next morning
I'm out watering the lawn
1376
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:05,010
and I look over and there's Sourpuss
1377
01:00:05,110 --> 01:00:06,308
on the other side of the hedge
1378
01:00:06,408 --> 01:00:08,750
straightening out a dent in his fender.
1379
01:00:08,850 --> 01:00:11,900
And my wife yells to me out the window,
1380
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,340
she says, "go on, speak to him, Bert."
1381
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:16,540
I figured well heck I can't lose
anything,
1382
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:20,290
so I yelled over to him,
"good morning, Mr. Smithers."
1383
01:00:20,390 --> 01:00:22,470
He went right on pounding his fender.
1384
01:00:22,570 --> 01:00:23,570
Was I burned.
1385
01:00:23,669 --> 01:00:26,670
So I turned around to
give my wife a dirty look.
1386
01:00:26,770 --> 01:00:29,900
She said, "louder, he didn't hear you."
1387
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:31,278
So in a voice you could've heard
1388
01:00:31,378 --> 01:00:32,496
in the next county I yelled,
1389
01:00:32,596 --> 01:00:33,754
"good morning, Mr. Smithers!"
1390
01:00:36,570 --> 01:00:39,340
Well sir, you could have
knocked me over with a feather.
1391
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:42,300
Old Sourpuss turned
around, surprised like,
1392
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:46,040
put on a big smile, came
over and took my hand
1393
01:00:46,140 --> 01:00:49,777
like an old lodge brother and
said, "good morning, Hansen.
1394
01:00:49,877 --> 01:00:51,635
"I've been wanting to
talk to you for years
1395
01:00:51,735 --> 01:00:53,173
"only I thought you didn't like me."
1396
01:00:53,273 --> 01:00:56,360
Then he started chatting
away like a happy little kid.
1397
01:00:56,460 --> 01:00:58,117
He got so excited his eyes--
1398
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,220
Well, Mr. Doe before we got through
1399
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:04,770
I found out Smithers is a swell
egg, only he's pretty deaf
1400
01:01:04,870 --> 01:01:06,840
and that accounts for all the noises.
1401
01:01:06,940 --> 01:01:10,000
He says it's a shame how little
we know about our neighbors.
1402
01:01:10,100 --> 01:01:11,600
And then he got an idea.
1403
01:01:11,700 --> 01:01:14,217
And he said, "how's about
inviting everybody some place
1404
01:01:14,317 --> 01:01:15,657
"where we can all get together
1405
01:01:15,757 --> 01:01:18,120
"and know each other a little better?"
1406
01:01:18,220 --> 01:01:20,680
Well I'm feeling so good by
this time I ripe for anything.
1407
01:01:20,780 --> 01:01:22,390
So Smithers goes around the neighborhood
1408
01:01:22,490 --> 01:01:24,650
inviting everybody to a
meeting at the schoolhouse.
1409
01:01:24,750 --> 01:01:25,988
And I tell everybody that comes
1410
01:01:26,088 --> 01:01:29,383
into the store, including
Mr. Schwabacher my boss.
1411
01:01:30,290 --> 01:01:31,290
I'm talking too much.
1412
01:01:31,389 --> 01:01:32,983
- Oh no.
1413
01:01:34,990 --> 01:01:38,680
- Well, I'll be doggone if
for 40 people don't show up.
1414
01:01:38,780 --> 01:01:40,178
Course, none of us knew what to do,
1415
01:01:40,278 --> 01:01:42,850
but we sure got a kick out
of seeing how glad everybody
1416
01:01:42,950 --> 01:01:45,451
was just to say hello to one another.
1417
01:01:45,551 --> 01:01:47,548
- Tell him about making
Sourpuss chairman, honey.
1418
01:01:47,648 --> 01:01:49,150
- Oh yeah, we made Sourpuss chairman
1419
01:01:49,250 --> 01:01:51,920
and decided to call
ourselves the John Doe Club.
1420
01:01:52,020 --> 01:01:53,640
Say, incidentally, this is my wife.
1421
01:01:53,740 --> 01:01:55,280
Come here, honey.
1422
01:01:55,380 --> 01:01:56,970
This is my wife, Mr. Doe.
1423
01:01:57,070 --> 01:01:58,270
- How do you do, Mr. Doe?
1424
01:01:59,332 --> 01:02:00,841
Sourpuss is here, too.
1425
01:02:00,941 --> 01:02:02,474
- Oh, is he?
1426
01:02:03,978 --> 01:02:07,430
- This is Sourpuss, or excuse
me, Mr. Smithers, Mr. Doe.
1427
01:02:07,530 --> 01:02:09,527
- That's alright, if you
didn't call me Sourpuss,
1428
01:02:09,627 --> 01:02:10,627
it wouldn't feel natural.
1429
01:02:12,630 --> 01:02:14,860
- Well anyway, I guess nearly everybody
1430
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:17,492
in the neighborhood came
except the Delaneys.
1431
01:02:17,592 --> 01:02:19,110
The Delaneys live in a big house
1432
01:02:19,210 --> 01:02:20,580
with an iron fence around it
1433
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:22,830
and they always keep their blinds drawn.
1434
01:02:22,930 --> 01:02:25,780
And we always figured that he
was an old miser that sat back
1435
01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:29,820
counting his money, so why
bother about inviting him?
1436
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:33,637
Until Grimes the milkman
spoke up and he said,
1437
01:02:33,737 --> 01:02:36,550
"say, you've got the Delaneys all
wrong."
1438
01:02:36,650 --> 01:02:37,688
And then he tells us about
1439
01:02:37,788 --> 01:02:39,750
how they canceled their milk last week,
1440
01:02:39,850 --> 01:02:42,300
and he found it looked
kind of curious like
1441
01:02:43,300 --> 01:02:46,187
peeked in under the blinds
and found the house was empty.
1442
01:02:46,287 --> 01:02:48,870
"If you ask me", he
says, "they're starving."
1443
01:02:48,970 --> 01:02:50,790
- Old man Delaney's been bringing
1444
01:02:50,890 --> 01:02:52,870
his furniture over to my place at night,
1445
01:02:52,970 --> 01:02:54,753
one piece at a time and selling it.
1446
01:02:56,543 --> 01:02:58,980
- Well sir a half a dozen of
us went over there to fetch him
1447
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:00,438
and we brought him to the meeting.
1448
01:03:00,538 --> 01:03:02,300
And what a reception they got.
1449
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:05,990
Everybody shook hands with
them and made a fuss over them.
1450
01:03:06,090 --> 01:03:09,450
Well, finally Mr. and Mrs.
Delaney sat right down and cried.
1451
01:03:09,550 --> 01:03:10,968
- Then we started to find
1452
01:03:11,068 --> 01:03:12,346
out about a lot of other people.
1453
01:03:12,446 --> 01:03:14,444
- Yeah sure, well you know
Grubbel, for instance.
1454
01:03:14,544 --> 01:03:15,544
- Grubbel's here.
1455
01:03:15,643 --> 01:03:16,643
See?
1456
01:03:16,742 --> 01:03:17,768
- Yeah, that's him.
1457
01:03:17,868 --> 01:03:20,080
You don't know Grubbel, but he's the man
1458
01:03:20,180 --> 01:03:22,960
that everybody figured
was the worst no account
1459
01:03:23,060 --> 01:03:26,600
in the neighborhood because
he lived like a hermit.
1460
01:03:26,700 --> 01:03:28,710
Nobody would have anything to do with
him
1461
01:03:28,810 --> 01:03:31,313
that is until Murphy the
postman told us the truth.
1462
01:03:32,237 --> 01:03:34,957
"Grubbel," he says, "he
lives out of garbage cans
1463
01:03:35,057 --> 01:03:36,437
"because he won't take charity.
1464
01:03:36,537 --> 01:03:39,670
"'Cause it'd ruin his
self respect" he says.
1465
01:03:39,770 --> 01:03:41,527
- Just like you said
on the radio, Mr. Doe.
1466
01:03:41,627 --> 01:03:44,250
- Well sir, about a dozen
families got together
1467
01:03:44,350 --> 01:03:46,148
and gave Grubbel a job
watering their lawns.
1468
01:03:46,248 --> 01:03:47,248
Isn't that wonderful?
1469
01:03:47,347 --> 01:03:49,420
And then we found jobs
for six other people
1470
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:51,490
and they've all gone off relief.
1471
01:03:51,590 --> 01:03:53,010
- And my boss, Mr. Schwabacher,
1472
01:03:53,110 --> 01:03:55,230
made a job in his warehouse
for old man Delaney.
1473
01:03:55,330 --> 01:03:56,830
- And he gave you that $5 raise.
1474
01:03:56,930 --> 01:03:58,977
- Yeah, wasn't that swell?
1475
01:04:00,823 --> 01:04:03,110
- Why, Bert, I feel slighted.
1476
01:04:03,210 --> 01:04:06,120
I'd like to join, but nobody asked me.
1477
01:04:06,220 --> 01:04:08,520
- I'm sorry, Mayor, but we voted
1478
01:04:08,620 --> 01:04:10,440
that no politician could join.
1479
01:04:10,540 --> 01:04:12,973
- Just the John Does of the
neighborhood.
1480
01:04:13,073 --> 01:04:14,633
You know how politicians are.
1481
01:04:14,733 --> 01:04:16,533
- Yeah.
1482
01:04:18,350 --> 01:04:21,980
- Well the reason we wanted
to tell you this, Mr. Doe,
1483
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:25,900
was to give you an idea
of what you started.
1484
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,190
From where I'm sitting, I don't see
1485
01:04:28,290 --> 01:04:31,009
any sense in you jumping off any
building.
1486
01:04:31,109 --> 01:04:32,760
- No, no.
1487
01:04:32,860 --> 01:04:34,513
- Well, thank you for listening.
1488
01:04:36,070 --> 01:04:37,213
Goodbye, Mr. Doe.
1489
01:04:38,550 --> 01:04:40,180
You're a wonderful man.
1490
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:42,160
It strikes me you could be mighty useful
1491
01:04:42,260 --> 01:04:43,703
walking around for a while.
1492
01:04:44,822 --> 01:04:47,239
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye, Mr. Doe.
1493
01:04:54,295 --> 01:04:56,920
- I'm Mrs. Delaney, Mr. Doe.
1494
01:04:57,020 --> 01:04:58,723
God bless you, my boy.
1495
01:05:32,998 --> 01:05:35,331
- Gee wiz, I'm all mixed up.
1496
01:05:38,750 --> 01:05:39,750
I don't get it.
1497
01:05:41,290 --> 01:05:42,620
Look, all those swell people
1498
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:44,810
think I'm gonna jump off
a building or something.
1499
01:05:44,910 --> 01:05:46,513
I never had any such idea.
1500
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:50,400
Gosh.
1501
01:05:51,220 --> 01:05:53,137
A fella would have to be
a fine example himself
1502
01:05:53,237 --> 01:05:55,690
to go around telling other people how
to--
1503
01:05:55,790 --> 01:05:57,347
Say look, what happened the other night
1504
01:05:57,447 --> 01:05:58,925
was on account of Miss Mitchell here.
1505
01:05:59,025 --> 01:06:00,025
She wrote the stuff.
1506
01:06:00,124 --> 01:06:02,370
- Don't you see what a
wonderful thing this can be?
1507
01:06:02,470 --> 01:06:04,360
But we need you, John.
- You're hooked.
1508
01:06:04,460 --> 01:06:06,580
I can see that right now, they got you.
1509
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:07,773
Well, I'm through.
1510
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:12,237
For three years I've
been trying to get you
1511
01:06:12,337 --> 01:06:13,655
up to the Columbia River country.
1512
01:06:13,755 --> 01:06:15,840
First it was your glass
arm, then it was the radio
1513
01:06:15,940 --> 01:06:17,500
and now it's the John Doe Clubs.
1514
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:19,400
Well, I ain't waiting another minute.
1515
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:24,280
Gangway, you heelots!
1516
01:06:26,050 --> 01:06:27,269
- Hey Colonel, wait a minute.
1517
01:06:27,369 --> 01:06:30,016
Hey, Colonel!
1518
01:06:30,116 --> 01:06:31,514
- I want you personally to go along
1519
01:06:31,614 --> 01:06:32,852
with John Doe and Miss Mitchell
1520
01:06:32,952 --> 01:06:34,350
and handle the press and the radio.
1521
01:06:34,450 --> 01:06:35,450
- Me?
- Yes.
1522
01:06:35,549 --> 01:06:36,549
I won't take any chances.
1523
01:06:36,648 --> 01:06:37,686
And Johnson.
- Yes, D.B.?
1524
01:06:37,786 --> 01:06:39,184
- Your crew will do the mop up job.
1525
01:06:39,284 --> 01:06:40,881
They'll follow John Doe into every town,
1526
01:06:40,981 --> 01:06:42,658
see that the clubs are properly
organized
1527
01:06:42,758 --> 01:06:44,116
and the charters issued.
- Right.
1528
01:06:44,216 --> 01:06:45,694
- There are eight flags up there now.
1529
01:06:45,794 --> 01:06:48,065
I want to see that map
covered before we get through.
1530
01:07:38,766 --> 01:07:39,766
1531
01:07:52,962 --> 01:07:54,800
- This has grown like wildfire.
1532
01:07:54,900 --> 01:07:56,458
If they made demands I'd understand it,
1533
01:07:56,558 --> 01:07:59,280
but the John Does ask for nothing.
1534
01:07:59,380 --> 01:08:00,590
- People are going off relief.
1535
01:08:00,690 --> 01:08:02,451
If this keeps up, I'll be out of a job.
1536
01:08:02,551 --> 01:08:03,909
- As soon as he gets strong enough
1537
01:08:04,009 --> 01:08:05,167
we'll find out what he wants.
1538
01:08:05,267 --> 01:08:07,820
30 every Thursday, 60 at 60.
1539
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:09,480
Who knows what?
1540
01:08:09,580 --> 01:08:11,097
- I'm sorry, boss, they just won't let
1541
01:08:11,197 --> 01:08:12,955
anybody talk politics
with him, it's crazy.
1542
01:08:13,055 --> 01:08:14,133
- We've got to get to them.
1543
01:08:14,233 --> 01:08:16,596
They represent millions of voters.
1544
01:08:24,860 --> 01:08:26,218
- I tell you ladies and gentlemen,
1545
01:08:26,318 --> 01:08:28,435
this thing has been nothing
short of a prairie fire.
1546
01:08:28,535 --> 01:08:30,492
We've received so many
applications for charters
1547
01:08:30,592 --> 01:08:31,910
for the John Doe clubs we haven't
1548
01:08:32,010 --> 01:08:33,248
been able to take care of them.
1549
01:08:33,348 --> 01:08:35,268
- I'd hate to have
that many pins stuck in me.
1550
01:08:36,005 --> 01:08:37,602
- This John Doe convention is a natural.
1551
01:08:37,702 --> 01:08:39,370
It's going to put our city on the map.
1552
01:08:39,470 --> 01:08:41,270
Why over 2,400 John Doe clubs
1553
01:08:41,370 --> 01:08:43,390
are sending delegates,
can you imagine that?
1554
01:08:43,490 --> 01:08:45,087
You Mr. Mayor will be the official host.
1555
01:08:45,187 --> 01:08:47,424
You will make the arrangements
for decorating the city,
1556
01:08:47,524 --> 01:08:49,761
parades and a reception for
John Doe when he gets home.
1557
01:08:49,861 --> 01:08:51,127
And don't wear your high hat.
1558
01:08:51,227 --> 01:08:52,760
- No high hat?
- No high hat.
1559
01:08:52,860 --> 01:08:54,560
And from you Connell I want a special
1560
01:08:54,660 --> 01:08:57,350
John Doe edition every day
until the convention is over.
1561
01:08:57,450 --> 01:08:59,770
And now please step into the outer
office
1562
01:08:59,870 --> 01:09:00,870
and look your prettiest
1563
01:09:00,969 --> 01:09:02,447
because there are photographers there
1564
01:09:02,547 --> 01:09:03,945
to take pictures of this committee.
1565
01:09:04,045 --> 01:09:06,281
- Don't worry, D.B.,
everything will be taken care of.
1566
01:09:06,381 --> 01:09:07,901
- Sure.
- Isn't it all too wonderful?
1567
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:12,202
- Oh Mr.
Mayor, would you sit down
1568
01:09:12,302 --> 01:09:13,302
in the front row please?
1569
01:09:13,401 --> 01:09:14,519
You ladies get close to him.
1570
01:09:14,619 --> 01:09:16,057
- Well, I don't get it.
- Get what?
1571
01:09:16,157 --> 01:09:18,560
- Look D.B. I'm supposed
to know my way around.
1572
01:09:18,660 --> 01:09:20,810
This John Doe movement's
cost you a fortune.
1573
01:09:20,910 --> 01:09:22,970
Now this convention is
going to cost plenty.
1574
01:09:23,070 --> 01:09:24,070
- Well?
1575
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:26,038
- I'm stuck with two and two
1576
01:09:26,138 --> 01:09:28,215
and I'm a sucker if I
can make four out of it.
1577
01:09:28,315 --> 01:09:29,315
Where do you come in?
1578
01:09:32,988 --> 01:09:34,820
- I have the satisfaction of knowing
1579
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:37,393
that my money has been
spent for a worthy cause.
1580
01:09:38,288 --> 01:09:41,280
- I see, I better stick
to running the paper.
1581
01:09:41,380 --> 01:09:42,880
- I think maybe you better had.
1582
01:09:47,094 --> 01:09:50,530
Connell, I'd like to have
the John Doe contract,
1583
01:09:50,630 --> 01:09:51,948
all of the receipts for the money
1584
01:09:52,048 --> 01:09:53,925
we advanced for the
letter Miss Mitchell wrote
1585
01:09:54,025 --> 01:09:55,477
for which I gave her a $1,000.
1586
01:09:56,540 --> 01:09:57,633
- Yes, sure.
1587
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:01,760
- Well we leave for the
airport in half an hour.
1588
01:10:01,860 --> 01:10:03,100
Is that Johnny boy's room?
1589
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:04,200
Better hustle him up.
1590
01:10:04,299 --> 01:10:06,057
- He'll be ready on
time, he's packing now.
1591
01:10:06,157 --> 01:10:07,157
- Ah good.
1592
01:10:07,256 --> 01:10:09,093
Did you see his picture
on the cover of Time?
1593
01:10:09,193 --> 01:10:10,193
- Yeah.
1594
01:10:10,292 --> 01:10:11,809
- I gotta give you credit, Annie girl.
1595
01:10:11,909 --> 01:10:13,985
I've handled a good many
big promotions in my time,
1596
01:10:14,085 --> 01:10:15,843
from the World's Fair
to a channel swimmer,
1597
01:10:15,943 --> 01:10:17,700
but this one has
certainly got me spinning.
1598
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:20,100
And now, a John Doe convention.
1599
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:21,200
Wow.
1600
01:10:21,870 --> 01:10:23,320
Hey, if you could only get him
1601
01:10:23,420 --> 01:10:26,610
to jump off City Hall
roof on Christmas Eve,
1602
01:10:26,710 --> 01:10:28,859
I'd guarantee you a half
a million people there.
1603
01:10:28,959 --> 01:10:30,441
- Charlie?
- Hmm?
1604
01:10:30,541 --> 01:10:32,073
- What do you make of him?
1605
01:10:32,173 --> 01:10:33,173
- Who, Johnny boy?
1606
01:10:34,270 --> 01:10:36,613
Well, I don't know what angle you want
1607
01:10:36,713 --> 01:10:38,280
but I'll give it to you quick.
1608
01:10:38,380 --> 01:10:41,670
Number one, he's got great yokel
appeal but he's a nice guy.
1609
01:10:41,770 --> 01:10:44,020
Number two, he's beginning
to believe he really wrote
1610
01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:46,360
that original suicide
letter that you made up.
1611
01:10:46,460 --> 01:10:49,730
Number three, he thinks you're
Joan of Arc or something.
1612
01:10:49,830 --> 01:10:50,830
- Yeah I know.
1613
01:10:50,929 --> 01:10:54,560
- Number four, well,
you know what number four is.
1614
01:10:54,660 --> 01:10:55,660
He's nuts about you.
1615
01:10:55,759 --> 01:10:57,610
Yeah it's running out of his ears.
1616
01:10:57,710 --> 01:10:58,900
- You left out number five.
1617
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,653
We're all heels, me especially.
1618
01:11:01,731 --> 01:11:02,881
- Holy smoke.
1619
01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:04,800
- Come in.
1620
01:11:10,761 --> 01:11:11,761
- I'm all packed.
1621
01:11:11,860 --> 01:11:13,220
- Good, I'll go and get Beany boy.
1622
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:16,041
- Okay, Charlie boy.
1623
01:11:29,290 --> 01:11:31,446
Do you care if I sit down, out here?
1624
01:11:31,546 --> 01:11:32,746
- No.
1625
01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:46,043
- You know, I had a
crazy dream last night.
1626
01:11:48,920 --> 01:11:50,337
It was about you.
1627
01:11:51,518 --> 01:11:52,518
- About me?
1628
01:11:53,660 --> 01:11:54,660
- Sure was crazy.
1629
01:11:54,759 --> 01:11:56,323
I dreamt I was your father.
1630
01:12:01,846 --> 01:12:04,973
There was something I was
trying to stop you from doing.
1631
01:12:06,010 --> 01:12:10,310
So, I got up out of
bed, and I walked right
1632
01:12:10,410 --> 01:12:13,550
through the wall here, right
straight into your room.
1633
01:12:13,650 --> 01:12:14,833
You know how dreams are.
1634
01:12:16,190 --> 01:12:18,960
And there you were in bed,
but you were a little girl,
1635
01:12:19,060 --> 01:12:21,963
you know about 10 and very pretty, too.
1636
01:12:23,590 --> 01:12:26,760
So I shook you and the moment you opened
1637
01:12:26,860 --> 01:12:28,630
your eyes, you hopped out of bed
1638
01:12:28,730 --> 01:12:30,128
and started running like the devil.
1639
01:12:30,228 --> 01:12:31,228
In your nightgown.
1640
01:12:31,327 --> 01:12:32,685
You ran right out the window there
1641
01:12:32,785 --> 01:12:34,302
and you ran over the tops of buildings
1642
01:12:34,402 --> 01:12:36,720
and roofs and everything for
miles and I was chasing you.
1643
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:40,390
And all the time you were running,
1644
01:12:40,490 --> 01:12:42,520
you kept growing bigger
and bigger and bigger.
1645
01:12:42,620 --> 01:12:44,030
And pretty soon you were as big
1646
01:12:44,130 --> 01:12:46,833
as you are now, you know, grown up?
1647
01:12:47,690 --> 01:12:50,570
And all the time I kept asking myself,
1648
01:12:50,670 --> 01:12:51,993
what am I chasing her for?
1649
01:12:53,199 --> 01:12:54,533
And I didn't know.
1650
01:12:56,302 --> 01:12:57,352
Isn't that a hot one?
1651
01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:01,520
Well anyway, you ran into some place
1652
01:13:01,620 --> 01:13:02,738
and then I ran in after you.
1653
01:13:02,838 --> 01:13:07,253
And when I got there there
you were getting married.
1654
01:13:10,519 --> 01:13:14,103
The nightgown had changed
into a beautiful wedding gown.
1655
01:13:16,651 --> 01:13:18,051
You sure looked pretty, too.
1656
01:13:19,570 --> 01:13:22,420
And then I knew what I was
trying to stop you from doing.
1657
01:13:23,700 --> 01:13:26,160
Dreams are sure crazy, aren't they?
1658
01:13:26,260 --> 01:13:31,210
Well, would you like to know
who it was you were marrying?
1659
01:13:32,043 --> 01:13:35,683
- Oh, a tall handsome Ubangi, I suppose.
1660
01:13:36,759 --> 01:13:37,793
- No, not that bad.
1661
01:13:37,893 --> 01:13:40,310
It was the fella that sends
you flowers every day.
1662
01:13:40,410 --> 01:13:41,410
Yeah, what's his name?
1663
01:13:41,509 --> 01:13:42,583
Mr. Norton's nephew?
1664
01:13:44,550 --> 01:13:46,443
- Ted Sheldon.
- Yeah, that's the one.
1665
01:13:47,550 --> 01:13:50,150
- But here's the funniest part of it
all.
1666
01:13:50,250 --> 01:13:52,070
I was the fella up there
doing the marrying.
1667
01:13:52,170 --> 01:13:54,180
You know, the Justice of
the Peace or something.
1668
01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:55,280
- You were?
1669
01:13:55,379 --> 01:13:56,700
I thought you were chasing me.
1670
01:13:56,800 --> 01:13:59,733
- Well, yes I was, but I was
your father then you see?
1671
01:14:00,610 --> 01:14:05,090
But the real me, John Doe,
that is Long John Willoughby,
1672
01:14:05,190 --> 01:14:07,990
I was the fella with a book.
1673
01:14:08,090 --> 01:14:10,360
You know what I mean?
- I guess so.
1674
01:14:10,460 --> 01:14:11,890
Then what happened?
1675
01:14:11,990 --> 01:14:16,496
- Well I took you across my
knee and I started spanking you.
1676
01:14:16,596 --> 01:14:19,040
That is, I didn't do
it, I mean I did do it.
1677
01:14:19,140 --> 01:14:21,393
But it wasn't me, see,
I was your father then.
1678
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:25,517
Well I had you across my knee and I
said,
1679
01:14:25,617 --> 01:14:30,493
"Annie, I won't allow you to
marry a man that's just rich
1680
01:14:31,867 --> 01:14:35,107
"or that has his secretary
send you flowers.
1681
01:14:35,207 --> 01:14:37,997
"The man you marry has got
to swim rivers for you,
1682
01:14:38,097 --> 01:14:40,617
"he's got to climb high mountains for
you,
1683
01:14:40,717 --> 01:14:42,177
"he's got to slay dragons for you.
1684
01:14:42,277 --> 01:14:45,730
"He's got to perform
wonderful deeds for you."
1685
01:14:45,830 --> 01:14:47,610
Yes sir, and all the time,
1686
01:14:47,710 --> 01:14:50,120
the guy up there you
know with the book, me,
1687
01:14:50,220 --> 01:14:52,887
just stood there noddin'
his head and he said,
1688
01:14:52,987 --> 01:14:54,385
"go to it Pop, whack her one for me
1689
01:14:54,485 --> 01:14:57,060
"because that's the way
I feel about it too."
1690
01:14:57,910 --> 01:15:01,130
So he says, "come down
and whack her yourself."
1691
01:15:01,230 --> 01:15:04,360
So I came down and I
whacked you a good one, see?
1692
01:15:04,460 --> 01:15:06,880
The he whacked you and I
whacked you another one.
1693
01:15:06,980 --> 01:15:08,867
We both started whacking you like--
1694
01:15:10,609 --> 01:15:12,087
- Well if you're through whacking her
1695
01:15:12,187 --> 01:15:13,187
come on let's get going.
1696
01:15:13,286 --> 01:15:14,910
Okay fellas, right in here.
1697
01:15:15,010 --> 01:15:16,168
You go out the side entrance.
1698
01:15:16,268 --> 01:15:18,280
There's a bunch of
autograph seekers out front.
1699
01:15:18,380 --> 01:15:20,843
We'll be down with the bags in a minute.
1700
01:15:22,050 --> 01:15:24,860
Come on, don't make a
Government project out of this.
1701
01:15:27,910 --> 01:15:29,230
Hi, Beany.
1702
01:15:29,330 --> 01:15:31,069
- When's our plane take off again?
1703
01:15:31,169 --> 01:15:32,647
- Couple of minutes.
1704
01:15:32,747 --> 01:15:35,920
- How many people do you
think we've talked to already,
1705
01:15:36,020 --> 01:15:37,452
outside the radio, I mean?
1706
01:15:37,552 --> 01:15:40,772
- Oh, I don't know, about 300,000.
1707
01:15:40,872 --> 01:15:41,872
- 300,000.
1708
01:15:43,380 --> 01:15:44,730
What makes them do it, Ann?
1709
01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:47,106
What makes them come and listen
1710
01:15:47,206 --> 01:15:50,663
and get up their John Doe
Clubs the way they do?
1711
01:15:52,832 --> 01:15:54,190
I've been trying to figure it out.
1712
01:15:54,290 --> 01:15:56,910
- Look, John, what we're
handing them are platitudes
1713
01:15:57,010 --> 01:15:58,650
things they've heard a million times.
1714
01:15:58,750 --> 01:16:00,800
Love thy neighbor, clouds
have silver linings,
1715
01:16:00,900 --> 01:16:01,900
turn the other cheek.
1716
01:16:01,999 --> 01:16:02,999
It's just--
1717
01:16:03,098 --> 01:16:04,655
- Yeah I heard 'em a million times too,
1718
01:16:04,755 --> 01:16:08,683
but they are, maybe they're like me,
1719
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:13,573
just beginning to get an
idea what those things mean.
1720
01:16:13,673 --> 01:16:15,631
I never really thought
much about people before.
1721
01:16:15,731 --> 01:16:18,173
They were always just somebody
to fill up the bleachers.
1722
01:16:19,050 --> 01:16:21,110
Only time I worried
about them is if they--
1723
01:16:21,210 --> 01:16:23,273
is when they didn't see me pitch.
1724
01:16:25,110 --> 01:16:27,470
You know, lately I've been
1725
01:16:27,570 --> 01:16:29,220
watching them when I talk to them.
1726
01:16:30,210 --> 01:16:32,033
I see something in their faces.
1727
01:16:33,570 --> 01:16:38,473
I could feel that they
were hungry for something.
1728
01:16:40,083 --> 01:16:41,350
You know what I mean?
1729
01:16:41,450 --> 01:16:42,560
Maybe that's why they came.
1730
01:16:42,660 --> 01:16:44,800
Maybe they're just lonely
1731
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:48,080
and wanted somebody to say hello to.
1732
01:16:49,844 --> 01:16:51,895
I know how they feel.
1733
01:16:51,995 --> 01:16:54,233
I've been lonely and hungry for
something
1734
01:16:54,333 --> 01:16:59,133
practically all my life.
1735
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:04,480
- All aboard, folks.
1736
01:17:04,580 --> 01:17:05,858
- We'll have the city behind us.
1737
01:17:05,958 --> 01:17:06,958
- Yeah, that's true.
1738
01:17:07,694 --> 01:17:08,954
Oh, somebody else sitting here?
1739
01:17:09,054 --> 01:17:11,022
- No, that's your seat.
1740
01:17:11,122 --> 01:17:13,154
- And this is your coat.
1741
01:17:13,254 --> 01:17:14,290
- Mine?
1742
01:17:14,390 --> 01:17:17,036
- A little token of appreciation.
1743
01:17:17,136 --> 01:17:18,136
- Oh.
1744
01:17:19,993 --> 01:17:21,960
Oh, it's beautiful, D.B.
1745
01:17:22,060 --> 01:17:25,007
Well, I don't quite know what to say.
1746
01:17:25,107 --> 01:17:28,890
- Oh don't say anything
at all, just sit down.
1747
01:17:31,490 --> 01:17:33,163
- Go ahead and open it, open it.
1748
01:17:36,932 --> 01:17:37,932
- Oh.
1749
01:17:41,285 --> 01:17:42,720
Oh it's lovely.
1750
01:17:42,820 --> 01:17:44,593
- And a new contract goes with it.
1751
01:17:48,892 --> 01:17:51,287
- Well, come on spring it.
1752
01:17:51,387 --> 01:17:53,890
You've got something on your mind.
1753
01:17:53,990 --> 01:17:56,140
Must be stupendous.
1754
01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:57,838
- You know that's what I like about her.
1755
01:17:57,938 --> 01:18:02,102
Right to the point like that.
1756
01:18:02,202 --> 01:18:04,730
Alright practical Annie, here it is.
1757
01:18:04,830 --> 01:18:07,477
Tomorrow night, before
a crowd of 15,000 people
1758
01:18:07,577 --> 01:18:10,320
and talking over a
nationwide radio hook-up,
1759
01:18:10,420 --> 01:18:14,662
John Doe will announce the
formation of a third party.
1760
01:18:14,762 --> 01:18:15,980
- A third party?
1761
01:18:16,080 --> 01:18:18,560
- Yes, the John Doe Party,
1762
01:18:18,660 --> 01:18:20,120
devoted entirely to the interests
1763
01:18:20,220 --> 01:18:23,230
of all the John Does all over the
country.
1764
01:18:23,330 --> 01:18:27,733
Which practically means 90% of the
voters.
1765
01:18:28,590 --> 01:18:30,849
He will also announce the third party's
1766
01:18:30,949 --> 01:18:33,316
candidate for the presidency.
1767
01:18:34,505 --> 01:18:37,230
A man who he personally recommends.
1768
01:18:37,330 --> 01:18:38,700
A great humanitarian.
1769
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:40,670
The best friend the John Does have.
1770
01:18:42,621 --> 01:18:44,345
- Mr. D.B. Norton.
1771
01:18:44,445 --> 01:18:45,645
- Yes.
1772
01:18:51,630 --> 01:18:52,630
- Wow.
1773
01:18:53,813 --> 01:18:57,993
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1774
01:18:58,093 --> 01:19:02,510
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1775
01:19:02,610 --> 01:19:06,537
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1776
01:19:06,637 --> 01:19:10,638
♪ His truth is marching on ♪
1777
01:19:18,389 --> 01:19:20,235
-
And although the opening
1778
01:19:20,335 --> 01:19:22,132
of the convention is
hours off the delegates
1779
01:19:22,232 --> 01:19:24,349
are already pouring into
the ball park by the droves
1780
01:19:24,449 --> 01:19:26,766
with lunch baskets, banners
and petitions asking John Doe
1781
01:19:26,866 --> 01:19:28,105
not to jump off any roof.
1782
01:19:28,205 --> 01:19:30,243
- No
matter how you look at it,
1783
01:19:30,343 --> 01:19:31,661
it's still a phenomenal movement.
1784
01:19:31,761 --> 01:19:33,450
These John Does or the hoy polloi,
1785
01:19:33,550 --> 01:19:34,868
as you've heard people call them,
1786
01:19:34,968 --> 01:19:36,860
have been laughed at and ridiculed,
1787
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:39,030
but here they are gay and happy,
1788
01:19:39,130 --> 01:19:42,290
having traveled 1,000s of
miles, their expenses paid
1789
01:19:42,390 --> 01:19:44,910
by their neighbors to come to pay homage
1790
01:19:45,010 --> 01:19:46,760
to their hero John Doe.
1791
01:19:46,860 --> 01:19:49,470
- And in these days of wars and
bombings,
1792
01:19:49,570 --> 01:19:51,229
it's a hopeful sign that a simple idea
1793
01:19:51,329 --> 01:19:53,150
like this can sweep the country.
1794
01:19:53,250 --> 01:19:56,990
An idea based on friendliness,
on giving and not taking,
1795
01:19:57,090 --> 01:19:59,830
on helping your neighbor and
asking nothing in return.
1796
01:19:59,930 --> 01:20:01,750
And if a thing like this can happen,
1797
01:20:01,850 --> 01:20:03,610
don't let any of your grumbling friends
1798
01:20:03,710 --> 01:20:06,650
tell you that humanity is falling apart.
1799
01:20:06,750 --> 01:20:09,040
This is John B. Hughes signing off now,
1800
01:20:09,140 --> 01:20:10,520
returning you to our main studio
1801
01:20:10,620 --> 01:20:13,603
until nine o'clock when the
convention will officially open.
1802
01:20:15,740 --> 01:20:17,140
- Oh, John, come in.
1803
01:20:18,410 --> 01:20:19,720
- Say, I'm kind of...
1804
01:20:20,901 --> 01:20:22,778
It's raining out a little.
- That's all right.
1805
01:20:22,878 --> 01:20:25,629
It's good to see you, sit down.
1806
01:20:25,729 --> 01:20:26,729
- Thanks.
1807
01:20:42,030 --> 01:20:43,340
It's for Ann.
1808
01:20:43,440 --> 01:20:46,100
- Oh how nice,
thank you very much.
1809
01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:47,200
- Flowers.
1810
01:20:48,540 --> 01:20:50,340
- I'm terribly sorry she isn't here.
1811
01:20:51,250 --> 01:20:52,250
- She isn't?
1812
01:20:52,349 --> 01:20:54,746
- No, she just left, I'm
surprised you didn't run into her.
1813
01:20:54,846 --> 01:20:56,284
She went over to Mr. Norton's house.
1814
01:20:56,936 --> 01:20:57,936
- Oh.
1815
01:20:59,530 --> 01:21:02,410
- Did you want to see her
about something important?
1816
01:21:02,510 --> 01:21:04,483
- Yeah, well, no, it'll wait.
1817
01:21:06,486 --> 01:21:07,770
Say he's a nice man, isn't he?
1818
01:21:07,870 --> 01:21:09,110
Mr. Norton, I mean.
1819
01:21:10,390 --> 01:21:12,063
He's done a lot for the...
1820
01:21:18,800 --> 01:21:21,713
Say, my coat's pretty wet.
1821
01:21:21,813 --> 01:21:23,753
I'm afraid I might have
wet the couch a little.
1822
01:21:29,573 --> 01:21:31,747
I'll I guess I'll see her
at the convention later.
1823
01:21:31,847 --> 01:21:35,018
- Yes of course, I'll see
that she gets the flowers.
1824
01:21:35,118 --> 01:21:36,118
- Thanks.
1825
01:21:36,217 --> 01:21:38,243
Good night, Mrs. Mitchell.
- Good night, John.
1826
01:21:44,863 --> 01:21:49,196
- Say Mrs. Mitchell I'm
kind of glad Ann isn't here.
1827
01:21:51,726 --> 01:21:56,100
You see, I came over here
hoping to see her alone
1828
01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:59,840
and kind of hoping I wouldn't
too you know what I mean?
1829
01:21:59,940 --> 01:22:02,513
There was something I
wanted to talk to her about.
1830
01:22:05,740 --> 01:22:07,413
Well it can wait, I guess.
1831
01:22:09,230 --> 01:22:10,983
- Good night.
- Good night, John.
1832
01:22:15,154 --> 01:22:18,730
- Say look Mrs. Mitchell,
have you ever been married?
1833
01:22:18,830 --> 01:22:20,950
Well, sure you have, gosh.
1834
01:22:21,050 --> 01:22:22,050
That's pretty silly.
1835
01:22:23,490 --> 01:22:25,790
Well I guess you must
think I'm kind of batty.
1836
01:22:27,475 --> 01:22:30,013
Well I guess I better be going at that.
1837
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:35,703
- John, my husband said,
1838
01:22:35,803 --> 01:22:37,587
"I love you, will you marry me?"
1839
01:22:38,440 --> 01:22:39,440
- He did?
1840
01:22:40,650 --> 01:22:41,840
- What happened?
1841
01:22:41,940 --> 01:22:42,940
- I married him.
1842
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:46,901
- Yeah, that's what I mean, see?
1843
01:22:47,001 --> 01:22:48,401
It was easy as all that, huh?
1844
01:22:50,300 --> 01:22:51,813
Yeah, but look Mrs. Mitchell.
1845
01:22:53,210 --> 01:22:56,150
You know I love Ann, and
it's gonna be awfully hard
1846
01:22:56,250 --> 01:23:01,200
for me to say it 'cause well
you know she's so wonderful
1847
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:04,813
and well the best I ever was
was a bush league pitcher.
1848
01:23:06,540 --> 01:23:07,898
And you know I think she's in love
1849
01:23:07,998 --> 01:23:11,070
with another man, the one she made up.
1850
01:23:11,170 --> 01:23:12,593
You know, the real John Doe.
1851
01:23:13,605 --> 01:23:16,460
Well that's pretty tough competition.
1852
01:23:16,560 --> 01:23:18,078
I bet he'd know how to say it alright.
1853
01:23:18,178 --> 01:23:22,383
But me, I get up to it and
around and in back of it,
1854
01:23:22,483 --> 01:23:25,010
but I never get right to it.
1855
01:23:25,110 --> 01:23:26,760
You know what I mean?
1856
01:23:26,860 --> 01:23:28,900
So the only chance I've got is,
1857
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:32,150
well, if somebody could
kind of give her a warning.
1858
01:23:32,250 --> 01:23:34,733
Sort of prepare her for the shock?
1859
01:23:36,180 --> 01:23:37,880
- You mean you'd like me to do it?
1860
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:43,273
- Well, I was thinking,
yeah sort of break the ice.
1861
01:23:45,291 --> 01:23:46,541
- Of course I will, John.
1862
01:23:50,131 --> 01:23:51,481
- Thank you, Mrs. Mitchell.
1863
01:23:53,092 --> 01:23:54,092
Hey, you're okay.
1864
01:24:06,420 --> 01:24:07,698
- This John Doe meeting is gonna
1865
01:24:07,798 --> 01:24:09,555
be one of the biggest
things ever happened.
1866
01:24:09,655 --> 01:24:10,655
- Is that so?
1867
01:24:10,754 --> 01:24:13,191
- Why they're coming from all
over, trains, boxcars, wagons.
1868
01:24:13,291 --> 01:24:14,291
Look out!
1869
01:24:14,390 --> 01:24:16,267
- Hello, bodyguards, hey
have your dinner yet?
1870
01:24:16,367 --> 01:24:17,725
- Not yet.
- Oh that's all right.
1871
01:24:17,825 --> 01:24:18,825
- No, go and have dinner.
1872
01:24:18,924 --> 01:24:19,924
- Wait a minute, John.
1873
01:24:24,460 --> 01:24:27,060
- Hello, Mr. Connell.
- How are you, John?
1874
01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:29,363
John, I want to have a
little talk with you.
1875
01:24:31,380 --> 01:24:32,380
What's the matter?
1876
01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:33,479
Are you falling?
1877
01:24:33,578 --> 01:24:34,578
Come on.
1878
01:24:34,677 --> 01:24:36,750
- Hey, Boss.
- Oh, quiet, quiet, quiet.
1879
01:24:36,850 --> 01:24:38,647
So tell me something, did you read
1880
01:24:38,747 --> 01:24:40,670
the speech you're going to make tonight?
1881
01:24:40,770 --> 01:24:42,847
- No, I never read the
speeches before I make them.
1882
01:24:42,947 --> 01:24:44,544
I get more of a kick out of it that way.
1883
01:24:44,644 --> 01:24:46,537
- Uh-huh, it's just
exactly what I thought.
1884
01:24:46,637 --> 01:24:47,990
Beany, go on down to the office,
1885
01:24:48,090 --> 01:24:49,368
tell Pop to give you the speech.
1886
01:24:49,468 --> 01:24:50,506
There's a copy on my desk.
1887
01:24:50,606 --> 01:24:52,110
- Gee wiz boss, you know Mr. Norton
1888
01:24:52,210 --> 01:24:54,182
told me not to leave
him, even for a minute.
1889
01:24:54,282 --> 01:24:55,282
- Go on, go on, go on.
1890
01:24:55,381 --> 01:24:57,533
We'll be at Jim's Bar, up the street.
1891
01:24:58,430 --> 01:25:00,400
You're a nice guy, John.
1892
01:25:00,500 --> 01:25:04,430
I like you, you're gentle.
1893
01:25:04,530 --> 01:25:05,880
I always like gentle people.
1894
01:25:07,200 --> 01:25:09,590
Me, I'm hard.
1895
01:25:09,690 --> 01:25:10,763
Hard and tough.
1896
01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:13,727
I got no use for hard people.
1897
01:25:15,510 --> 01:25:17,300
Gotta be gentle to suit me.
1898
01:25:21,470 --> 01:25:22,803
Like you, for instance.
1899
01:25:30,540 --> 01:25:31,540
Yep, I'm hard.
1900
01:25:31,639 --> 01:25:34,010
But you want to know something?
1901
01:25:34,110 --> 01:25:35,747
I've got a weakness.
1902
01:25:35,847 --> 01:25:37,492
You'd never guess that would you?
1903
01:25:37,592 --> 01:25:39,315
Well, I have.
1904
01:25:39,415 --> 01:25:41,611
Wanna know what it is?
1905
01:25:41,711 --> 01:25:43,107
The Star Spangled Banner.
1906
01:25:44,310 --> 01:25:46,200
Screwy, huh?
1907
01:25:46,300 --> 01:25:47,690
Maybe it is.
1908
01:25:47,790 --> 01:25:51,850
Play The Star Spangled Banner
and I'm a sucker for it.
1909
01:25:51,950 --> 01:25:53,948
Always gets me right here.
1910
01:25:54,048 --> 01:25:55,442
You know what I mean?
1911
01:25:55,542 --> 01:25:58,027
- Yeah, it gets me right back here.
1912
01:25:58,127 --> 01:25:59,127
- Oh, back there, huh?
1913
01:26:00,030 --> 01:26:02,733
Well, every man to his own taste.
1914
01:26:06,099 --> 01:26:11,099
You weren't old enough for
the world war were you then?
1915
01:26:11,965 --> 01:26:14,089
No, no of course not.
1916
01:26:14,189 --> 01:26:15,639
You must have been just a kid.
1917
01:26:16,990 --> 01:26:17,990
I was.
1918
01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:24,053
I was just ripe and raring to go.
1919
01:26:25,167 --> 01:26:28,280
Know what my old man did when I joined
up?
1920
01:26:28,380 --> 01:26:29,380
He joined up too.
1921
01:26:30,460 --> 01:26:31,460
Got to be a sergeant.
1922
01:26:31,559 --> 01:26:33,327
And here's a kick for you.
1923
01:26:34,200 --> 01:26:35,550
We were in the same outfit.
1924
01:26:36,664 --> 01:26:37,664
Funny, huh?
1925
01:26:43,447 --> 01:26:45,114
He was killed, John.
1926
01:26:47,580 --> 01:26:49,140
I saw him get it.
1927
01:26:51,230 --> 01:26:54,437
I was right there and
saw it with my own eyes.
1928
01:27:00,090 --> 01:27:02,513
Me, I came out without a scratch.
1929
01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:06,893
That is, excepting my ulcers.
1930
01:27:12,270 --> 01:27:15,023
I should be drinking milk,
you know this stuff is poison.
1931
01:27:16,116 --> 01:27:17,116
Hey, Jimmy.
1932
01:27:17,890 --> 01:27:19,012
- Yes, Mr. Connell?
1933
01:27:19,112 --> 01:27:23,307
- What do you say, huh?
- All right.
1934
01:27:23,407 --> 01:27:26,187
- Yep, I'm a sucker for this country.
1935
01:27:26,287 --> 01:27:27,964
I'm a sucker for The Star Spangled
Banner
1936
01:27:28,064 --> 01:27:29,950
and I'm a sucker for this country.
1937
01:27:30,050 --> 01:27:32,634
I like what we got here.
1938
01:27:32,734 --> 01:27:33,734
I like it.
1939
01:27:35,300 --> 01:27:38,910
A guy can say what he wants
and do what he wants without
1940
01:27:39,010 --> 01:27:41,490
having a bayonet shoved through his
belly.
1941
01:27:41,590 --> 01:27:42,590
And that's all right.
1942
01:27:43,720 --> 01:27:45,217
- You betcha.
- Yeah.
1943
01:27:45,317 --> 01:27:49,269
And we don't anybody coming
around changing that, do we?
1944
01:27:49,369 --> 01:27:50,986
- No, sir.
- No, sir.
1945
01:27:51,850 --> 01:27:56,850
When they do, I get
mad, I get boiling mad.
1946
01:27:58,241 --> 01:27:59,450
Right now, I'm sizzling.
1947
01:28:01,940 --> 01:28:05,263
I get mad for a lot of
other guys besides myself.
1948
01:28:06,550 --> 01:28:08,883
I get mad for a guy named Washington.
1949
01:28:10,327 --> 01:28:13,950
And a guy named Jefferson and Lincoln.
1950
01:28:15,030 --> 01:28:16,463
Lighthouses, John.
1951
01:28:17,930 --> 01:28:20,573
Lighthouses in a foggy world.
1952
01:28:23,138 --> 01:28:25,272
You know what I mean?
1953
01:28:25,372 --> 01:28:26,655
- Yeah, you bet.
1954
01:28:27,980 --> 01:28:28,980
- Listen, pal.
1955
01:28:29,906 --> 01:28:33,050
This fifth column stuff is
pretty rotten, isn't it?
1956
01:28:33,150 --> 01:28:35,428
- Yeah, it certainly is.
1957
01:28:35,528 --> 01:28:37,006
- And you'd feel like an awful sucker
1958
01:28:37,106 --> 01:28:38,480
if you found yourself marching
1959
01:28:38,580 --> 01:28:40,273
right in the middle of it, wouldn't you?
1960
01:28:40,373 --> 01:28:45,323
You, of course you wouldn't
know it because you're gentle.
1961
01:28:45,475 --> 01:28:47,687
But that's what you're doing.
1962
01:28:47,787 --> 01:28:50,617
You're mixed up with a skunk, my boy.
1963
01:28:51,830 --> 01:28:54,393
A no good, dangerous skunk.
1964
01:28:57,870 --> 01:29:00,420
- You're not talking
about Mr. Norton are you?
1965
01:29:00,520 --> 01:29:03,143
- I'm not talking about his
grandfather's pet poodle.
1966
01:29:07,501 --> 01:29:09,400
- You must be wrong, Mr. Connell.
1967
01:29:09,500 --> 01:29:11,550
He's been marvelous
about the John Doe Clubs.
1968
01:29:11,650 --> 01:29:13,250
- Yeah.
1969
01:29:13,960 --> 01:29:16,703
Say, you're sold on this John Doe idea?
1970
01:29:17,684 --> 01:29:18,684
- Sure.
1971
01:29:18,783 --> 01:29:20,565
- Yeah sure, I don't blame you, sure.
1972
01:29:20,665 --> 01:29:24,700
It's a beautiful miracle, a
miracle that can only happen
1973
01:29:24,800 --> 01:29:29,063
right here in the good old
USA, and I think it's terrific.
1974
01:29:29,163 --> 01:29:30,590
What do you think of that?
1975
01:29:30,690 --> 01:29:34,873
Me, hard-boiled Connell, and
I think it's plenty terrific.
1976
01:29:36,470 --> 01:29:37,470
Alright.
1977
01:29:37,569 --> 01:29:40,220
Now supposing a certain
unmentionable worm,
1978
01:29:40,320 --> 01:29:43,150
who's initials are D.B.,
1979
01:29:43,250 --> 01:29:45,140
was trying to use that to shove
1980
01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:47,630
his way into the White House.
1981
01:29:47,730 --> 01:29:49,703
So he could put the screws on.
1982
01:29:50,640 --> 01:29:54,263
So he could turn out the
lights in those lighthouses.
1983
01:29:57,830 --> 01:29:59,460
What would you say about that?
1984
01:30:00,672 --> 01:30:02,152
- Nobody's gonna do that Mr. Connell.
1985
01:30:02,993 --> 01:30:06,160
They can't use the John
Doe Clubs for politics.
1986
01:30:06,260 --> 01:30:08,010
That's the main idea.
- Is that so?
1987
01:30:09,060 --> 01:30:10,730
Then what's a big political boss
1988
01:30:10,830 --> 01:30:12,237
like Hammett doing in town?
1989
01:30:12,337 --> 01:30:14,807
And a labor leader like Bennett.
1990
01:30:14,907 --> 01:30:16,185
And lots of other big shots that
1991
01:30:16,285 --> 01:30:18,018
are up at D.B.'s house right now.
1992
01:30:18,118 --> 01:30:20,003
Wolves, John, wolves.
1993
01:30:20,840 --> 01:30:22,763
Waiting to cut up the John Does.
1994
01:30:24,770 --> 01:30:25,808
Wait till you get a gander
1995
01:30:25,908 --> 01:30:27,590
at that speech you're gonna make
tonight.
1996
01:30:27,690 --> 01:30:28,750
- You're all wet.
1997
01:30:28,850 --> 01:30:30,248
Miss Mitchell writes those speeches
1998
01:30:30,348 --> 01:30:32,345
and nobody can make her
write that kind of stuff.
1999
01:30:32,445 --> 01:30:33,445
- They can't huh?
2000
01:30:33,544 --> 01:30:36,610
Who do you think writes 'em, my aunt
Emma?
2001
01:30:36,710 --> 01:30:38,580
I know she writes them and gets
2002
01:30:38,680 --> 01:30:40,840
a big bonus for doing them, too.
2003
01:30:40,940 --> 01:30:43,650
A mink coat and diamond bracelet.
2004
01:30:43,750 --> 01:30:45,521
Don't write 'em?
2005
01:30:45,621 --> 01:30:47,120
Why that gold-grabbing dame
2006
01:30:47,220 --> 01:30:48,550
would double cross her own mother
2007
01:30:48,650 --> 01:30:50,870
for a handful of Chinese yams.
2008
01:30:50,970 --> 01:30:51,970
- Shut up.
2009
01:30:53,220 --> 01:30:55,420
If you weren't drunk, I'd--
2010
01:30:55,520 --> 01:30:56,520
- Hey, Boss.
2011
01:30:57,410 --> 01:30:59,260
Here's the speech, Boss.
2012
01:30:59,360 --> 01:31:00,360
Hey.
2013
01:31:00,900 --> 01:31:03,630
- Go on and read it John,
and then start sockin'.
2014
01:31:05,950 --> 01:31:07,893
- Hey wait a minute, Mr. Doe.
2015
01:31:09,623 --> 01:31:11,040
- Jimmy.
- Yes, sir.
2016
01:31:11,140 --> 01:31:13,113
- Better bring me a glass of milk.
2017
01:31:15,353 --> 01:31:17,030
I'm smoking too much.
2018
01:31:21,220 --> 01:31:23,050
- Yes, Charlie, everything all set?
2019
01:31:23,150 --> 01:31:24,150
Fine.
2020
01:31:24,249 --> 01:31:25,612
John Doe been take care of?
2021
01:31:25,712 --> 01:31:26,712
Good.
2022
01:31:27,010 --> 01:31:29,980
How many people will be there, 15,000?
2023
01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:32,280
Oh my, that's fine.
2024
01:31:32,380 --> 01:31:33,460
Now listen, Charlie.
2025
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:35,504
As soon as John Doe stops talking about
me
2026
01:31:35,604 --> 01:31:37,300
I want you to start that demonstration,
2027
01:31:37,400 --> 01:31:38,878
and make it a big one you understand?
2028
01:31:38,978 --> 01:31:40,975
- Don't worry about that,
D.B. my boys are there.
2029
01:31:41,075 --> 01:31:42,075
They'll take care of it.
2030
01:31:42,174 --> 01:31:43,174
- What?
2031
01:31:43,273 --> 01:31:45,413
Yes, I'll be there 15 minutes
after I get your call.
2032
01:31:46,630 --> 01:31:48,430
- Why, Mr. Doe.
2033
01:31:48,530 --> 01:31:49,668
- Where are they?
2034
01:31:49,768 --> 01:31:51,018
- In the dining room, sir.
2035
01:31:56,320 --> 01:31:57,598
- Gentlemen, I think we're about
2036
01:31:57,698 --> 01:31:59,330
ready to throw that great big bombshell.
2037
01:31:59,430 --> 01:32:01,030
- Yeah, it's about time.
2038
01:32:01,130 --> 01:32:02,710
Even a conservative estimate shows
2039
01:32:02,810 --> 01:32:04,680
that we can count on anywhere between 10
2040
01:32:04,780 --> 01:32:07,040
and 20 million John Doe votes.
2041
01:32:07,140 --> 01:32:10,457
Add that to the labor vote
that Mr. Bennett will throw in.
2042
01:32:10,557 --> 01:32:12,115
And the votes controlled by Mr. Hammett
2043
01:32:12,215 --> 01:32:14,372
and the rest of you gentlemen
in your own territories
2044
01:32:14,472 --> 01:32:15,472
and nothing can stop us.
2045
01:32:15,571 --> 01:32:16,889
- As I said before, I'm with you,
2046
01:32:16,989 --> 01:32:19,560
providing you can guarantee
the John Doe vote.
2047
01:32:19,660 --> 01:32:20,894
- Don't worry about that.
2048
01:32:20,994 --> 01:32:23,280
- You can count on me, on one condition.
2049
01:32:23,380 --> 01:32:25,030
Little Bennett's gotta be taken care of.
2050
01:32:25,130 --> 01:32:26,779
- Didn't I tell you that
everybody
2051
01:32:26,879 --> 01:32:28,317
in this room would be taken care of?
2052
01:32:28,417 --> 01:32:30,160
My agreement with you gentlemen stands.
2053
01:32:30,260 --> 01:32:32,270
- I'm with you, D.B., but I still think
2054
01:32:32,370 --> 01:32:34,340
it's a very daring thing we're
attempting.
2055
01:32:34,440 --> 01:32:36,500
- These are daring times, Mr.
Barrington.
2056
01:32:36,600 --> 01:32:38,590
We're coming to a new order of things.
2057
01:32:38,690 --> 01:32:40,688
There's too much talk been
going in this country.
2058
01:32:40,788 --> 01:32:41,788
- That's right.
2059
01:32:41,887 --> 01:32:43,484
- Too many
concessions have been made.
2060
01:32:43,584 --> 01:32:44,584
- True.
2061
01:32:44,683 --> 01:32:46,640
- What the American people
need is an iron hand.
2062
01:32:46,740 --> 01:32:48,138
- You're right D.B.
- That's true.
2063
01:32:48,238 --> 01:32:49,276
- You're quite right, D.B.
2064
01:32:49,376 --> 01:32:50,454
Quite right.
- Discipline.
2065
01:32:50,554 --> 01:32:53,313
And now may I offer a little
toast to Miss Ann Mitchell,
2066
01:32:54,466 --> 01:32:56,100
the brilliant and beautiful lady
2067
01:32:56,200 --> 01:32:57,920
who is responsible for all this.
2068
01:32:58,020 --> 01:32:59,320
- Miss Mitchell.
2069
01:33:00,211 --> 01:33:02,622
- Mr. Norton, I'd like to talk
to you alone for a minute.
2070
01:33:02,722 --> 01:33:05,200
- Oh, Miss Mitchell has
something to say to us.
2071
01:33:05,300 --> 01:33:06,667
- Speech, speech.
2072
01:33:11,504 --> 01:33:12,504
- Hello.
2073
01:33:20,888 --> 01:33:22,126
- John, I'm so glad to see you.
2074
01:33:22,226 --> 01:33:25,400
I was terribly worried.
- Did you write this?
2075
01:33:25,500 --> 01:33:29,418
- Yes I did, John, but I had
no idea what was going on.
2076
01:33:29,518 --> 01:33:30,968
- You didn't?
- No.
2077
01:33:33,300 --> 01:33:35,350
- That's a swell bracelet you're
wearing.
2078
01:33:39,440 --> 01:33:41,233
- John, why aren't you at the
convention?
2079
01:33:58,310 --> 01:33:59,310
Is there anything wrong?
2080
01:33:59,409 --> 01:34:00,653
- No, no, nothing's wrong.
2081
01:34:01,540 --> 01:34:02,540
Everything's fine.
2082
01:34:03,980 --> 01:34:06,320
So there's going to be a
new order of things, huh?
2083
01:34:06,420 --> 01:34:07,578
Everybody's gonna cut himself
2084
01:34:07,678 --> 01:34:09,720
a nice fat slice of the John Does eh?
2085
01:34:11,040 --> 01:34:13,210
You forgot one detail, Mr. Big Shot.
2086
01:34:13,310 --> 01:34:16,590
You forgot me, the prize
stooge of the world.
2087
01:34:16,690 --> 01:34:18,203
Why if you or anybody thinks
2088
01:34:18,303 --> 01:34:19,837
he's gonna use the John Doe Clubs
2089
01:34:19,937 --> 01:34:21,080
for his own rotten purpose
2090
01:34:21,180 --> 01:34:23,058
he's going to have to
do it over my dead body.
2091
01:34:23,158 --> 01:34:24,930
- Now hold on a minute, young man.
2092
01:34:25,030 --> 01:34:27,100
Hold on, that's rather big talk.
2093
01:34:27,200 --> 01:34:29,950
I started the John Doe Clubs with my
money
2094
01:34:30,050 --> 01:34:32,447
and I'll decide whether or not
they're being properly used.
2095
01:34:32,547 --> 01:34:33,547
- No, you won't.
2096
01:34:33,646 --> 01:34:34,964
You're through deciding anything.
2097
01:34:35,064 --> 01:34:37,320
And what's more, I'm going
down to that convention
2098
01:34:37,420 --> 01:34:39,583
and I'm gonna tell those
people exactly what you
2099
01:34:39,683 --> 01:34:41,620
and all your fine feathered friends here
2100
01:34:41,720 --> 01:34:43,790
are trying to cook up for them.
2101
01:34:43,890 --> 01:34:46,203
And I'm gonna say it in
my own words this time.
2102
01:34:48,625 --> 01:34:50,843
- Stop him D.B.
2103
01:34:50,943 --> 01:34:52,150
- He'll ruin us, D.B..
2104
01:34:52,250 --> 01:34:54,030
- Wait a minute, wait a minute fella.
2105
01:34:54,130 --> 01:34:55,677
My uncle wants to talk to you.
2106
01:34:55,777 --> 01:34:57,660
- Listen to me, my son.
2107
01:34:57,760 --> 01:34:59,810
Before you lose your head completely,
2108
01:34:59,910 --> 01:35:02,660
may I remind you that I picked
you up out of the gutter,
2109
01:35:02,760 --> 01:35:04,950
and I can throw you
right back there again.
2110
01:35:05,050 --> 01:35:07,710
You've got a nerve
accusing people of things.
2111
01:35:07,810 --> 01:35:09,420
These gentlemen and I know what's best
2112
01:35:09,520 --> 01:35:10,930
for the John Does of America
2113
01:35:11,030 --> 01:35:13,083
regardless of what tramps like you
think.
2114
01:35:14,630 --> 01:35:16,170
Get off that righteous horse of yours
2115
01:35:16,270 --> 01:35:17,760
and come to your senses.
2116
01:35:17,860 --> 01:35:18,860
You're the fake.
2117
01:35:18,959 --> 01:35:20,730
We believe in what we're doing.
2118
01:35:20,830 --> 01:35:23,050
You're the one that was paid
the 30 pieces of silver.
2119
01:35:23,150 --> 01:35:24,150
Have you forgotten that?
2120
01:35:24,249 --> 01:35:25,330
Well, I haven't.
2121
01:35:25,430 --> 01:35:28,010
You're a fake, John
Doe, and I can prove it.
2122
01:35:28,110 --> 01:35:29,508
You're the big hero that's supposed
2123
01:35:29,608 --> 01:35:31,920
to jump off tall buildings and things?
2124
01:35:32,020 --> 01:35:33,020
You remember?
2125
01:35:33,119 --> 01:35:34,877
What do you suppose
your precious John Does
2126
01:35:34,977 --> 01:35:36,694
will say when they find out that you
never
2127
01:35:36,794 --> 01:35:37,992
had any intention of doing it?
2128
01:35:38,092 --> 01:35:39,850
That you were paid to say so?
2129
01:35:39,950 --> 01:35:42,550
You're lucky they don't
run you out of the country.
2130
01:35:42,650 --> 01:35:44,367
With the newspapers and the radio
stations
2131
01:35:44,467 --> 01:35:45,720
that these gentlemen control,
2132
01:35:45,820 --> 01:35:48,170
we can kill the John Doe
movement deader than a doornail.
2133
01:35:48,270 --> 01:35:50,620
We'll do it too the moment
you step out of line.
2134
01:35:52,410 --> 01:35:54,330
Now if you still want
to go that convention
2135
01:35:54,430 --> 01:35:56,843
and shoot your trap off,
you go ahead and do it.
2136
01:36:05,080 --> 01:36:07,451
- You mean, you'd try to
kill the John Doe movement
2137
01:36:07,551 --> 01:36:10,250
if you can't use it to get what you
want?
2138
01:36:10,350 --> 01:36:12,493
- You bet your
bottom dollar we would.
2139
01:36:18,940 --> 01:36:20,763
- Well that certainly is a new low.
2140
01:36:22,920 --> 01:36:24,663
I guess I've seen everything now.
2141
01:36:27,070 --> 01:36:29,200
You sit there back with your big cigars
2142
01:36:29,300 --> 01:36:30,618
and think of deliberately killing
2143
01:36:30,718 --> 01:36:33,690
an idea that's made millions
of people a little bit happier.
2144
01:36:33,790 --> 01:36:35,630
An idea that's brought thousands of them
2145
01:36:35,730 --> 01:36:37,420
here from all over the country.
2146
01:36:37,520 --> 01:36:40,600
By bus, and by freight
and jalopy and on foot
2147
01:36:40,700 --> 01:36:42,030
so they can pass on to each other
2148
01:36:42,130 --> 01:36:44,880
their own simple little experiences.
2149
01:36:44,980 --> 01:36:48,270
Why look, I'm just a mug and I know it,
2150
01:36:48,370 --> 01:36:50,630
but I'm beginning to
understand a lot of things.
2151
01:36:50,730 --> 01:36:52,320
Why your types are as old as history.
2152
01:36:52,420 --> 01:36:55,220
If you can't lay your dirty
fingers on a decent idea,
2153
01:36:55,320 --> 01:36:56,918
and twist it and squeeze it and stuff it
2154
01:36:57,018 --> 01:36:59,230
into your pocket you
slap it down like dogs,
2155
01:36:59,330 --> 01:37:02,000
if you can't eat it, you bury it.
2156
01:37:02,100 --> 01:37:05,010
Why this is the one worthwhile
thing that's come along.
2157
01:37:05,110 --> 01:37:06,540
People are finally finding out
2158
01:37:06,640 --> 01:37:08,664
that the guy next door isn't a bad egg.
2159
01:37:08,764 --> 01:37:09,858
That's simple, isn't it?
2160
01:37:09,958 --> 01:37:12,194
And yet a thing like that
has got a chance of spreading
2161
01:37:12,294 --> 01:37:14,491
till it touches last doggone
human being in the world,
2162
01:37:14,591 --> 01:37:17,090
and you talk about killing it.
2163
01:37:17,190 --> 01:37:19,540
Well, when this fire dies
down, what's going to be left?
2164
01:37:19,640 --> 01:37:22,060
More misery, more hunger and more hate.
2165
01:37:22,160 --> 01:37:24,800
And what's to prevent that
from starting all over again?
2166
01:37:24,900 --> 01:37:27,400
Nobody knows the answer to
that one and certainly not you,
2167
01:37:27,500 --> 01:37:29,920
with those slimy, bollixed
up theories you got.
2168
01:37:30,020 --> 01:37:32,240
The John Doe idea may
be the answer though.
2169
01:37:32,340 --> 01:37:33,890
It may be the one thing capable
2170
01:37:33,990 --> 01:37:35,188
of saving this cockeyed world,
2171
01:37:35,288 --> 01:37:37,220
yet you sit back there on your fat hulks
2172
01:37:37,320 --> 01:37:39,238
and tell me you'll kill
it if you can't use it.
2173
01:37:39,338 --> 01:37:40,620
Well, go ahead and try!
2174
01:37:40,720 --> 01:37:42,890
You couldn't do it in a
million years with all your
2175
01:37:42,990 --> 01:37:45,770
radio stations and all your
power because it's bigger than
2176
01:37:45,870 --> 01:37:48,110
whether I'm a fake, it's
bigger than your ambitions
2177
01:37:48,210 --> 01:37:49,528
and bigger than all the bracelets
2178
01:37:49,628 --> 01:37:50,706
and fur coats in the world.
2179
01:37:50,806 --> 01:37:51,806
- You bet it is, John!
2180
01:37:51,905 --> 01:37:53,303
- And that's exactly what I'm going
2181
01:37:53,403 --> 01:37:54,683
down there to tell those people.
2182
01:37:57,917 --> 01:37:59,520
- I'm gonna, you ungrateful rat.
2183
01:37:59,620 --> 01:38:00,778
My uncle's been too good to--
2184
01:38:00,878 --> 01:38:01,878
2185
01:38:03,390 --> 01:38:04,947
- He's getting away.
2186
01:38:05,047 --> 01:38:06,167
- John!
2187
01:38:06,267 --> 01:38:08,456
- Get me the Bulletin.
2188
01:38:08,556 --> 01:38:09,841
- John.
2189
01:38:09,941 --> 01:38:12,523
- I told you, D.B., you're
playing with dynamite.
2190
01:38:14,433 --> 01:38:16,662
- Don't let that girl get away.
2191
01:38:16,762 --> 01:38:18,900
- Before he gets through
tonight, he'll ruin us all.
2192
01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:20,370
I'll stop him, I'll stop him cold.
2193
01:38:20,470 --> 01:38:21,987
Don't worry, I've been ready for this.
2194
01:38:22,087 --> 01:38:23,087
- John.
2195
01:38:23,186 --> 01:38:24,487
Oh John, please listen to me.
2196
01:38:24,587 --> 01:38:26,630
Please I can explain everything John.
2197
01:38:26,730 --> 01:38:28,407
I didn't know what they were going to
do.
2198
01:38:28,507 --> 01:38:30,003
Let me go with you John.
2199
01:38:30,103 --> 01:38:31,103
John, please.
2200
01:38:31,202 --> 01:38:32,595
- Go ahead, driver, ball park.
2201
01:38:32,695 --> 01:38:34,343
- Let me explain it to you John.
2202
01:38:34,443 --> 01:38:36,113
Please let me go with you.
2203
01:38:36,213 --> 01:38:37,246
Please, John.
2204
01:38:38,293 --> 01:38:40,110
- Mr. Norton wants to see you.
2205
01:38:40,210 --> 01:38:42,167
- Listen to me, Mayor I
want you to do as I say.
2206
01:38:42,267 --> 01:38:43,305
I want them both arrested.
2207
01:38:43,405 --> 01:38:45,441
You tell the police
department to pick up Connell.
2208
01:38:45,541 --> 01:38:46,541
I've got the girl here.
2209
01:38:46,640 --> 01:38:47,640
- I've got the Bulletin.
2210
01:38:47,739 --> 01:38:49,416
- I don't care what you charge them
with.
2211
01:38:49,516 --> 01:38:51,353
If you're worried let
them go in the morning,
2212
01:38:51,453 --> 01:38:52,731
but keep them in jail overnight.
2213
01:38:52,831 --> 01:38:53,831
Hello, Bulletin?
2214
01:38:53,930 --> 01:38:54,930
Put Buck Meyer on.
2215
01:38:55,029 --> 01:38:56,147
♪ With my banjo on my knee ♪
2216
01:38:56,247 --> 01:38:57,285
♪ I'm going to Louisiana ♪
2217
01:38:57,385 --> 01:38:58,465
♪ My true love for to see ♪
2218
01:38:58,561 --> 01:39:00,081
♪ It rained all night the day I left ♪
2219
01:39:00,168 --> 01:39:01,622
♪ The weather it was dry ♪
2220
01:39:01,722 --> 01:39:03,360
♪ The sun so hot I froze to death ♪
2221
01:39:03,460 --> 01:39:05,564
♪ Susanna, don't you cry ♪
2222
01:39:05,664 --> 01:39:08,936
♪ Oh Susanna, oh don't you cry for me ♪
2223
01:39:09,036 --> 01:39:12,840
♪ I've come from Alabama
with my banjo on my knee ♪
2224
01:39:12,940 --> 01:39:16,235
♪ Oh Susanna, oh don't you cry for me ♪
2225
01:39:16,335 --> 01:39:19,879
♪ I've come from Alabama
with my banjo on my knee ♪
2226
01:39:19,979 --> 01:39:23,292
♪ I came from Alabama
with my banjo on my knee ♪
2227
01:39:23,392 --> 01:39:27,010
♪ I'm going to Louisiana,
my true love for to see ♪
2228
01:39:27,110 --> 01:39:28,800
♪ It rained all night the day I left ♪
2229
01:39:43,323 --> 01:39:45,620
- Three cheers for John Doe.
2230
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:48,420
- Hurray, hurray, hurray.
2231
01:39:53,020 --> 01:39:57,031
♪ My country 'tis of thee ♪
2232
01:39:57,131 --> 01:40:01,664
♪ Sweet land of liberty of thee I sing ♪
2233
01:40:07,275 --> 01:40:12,038
♪ Land where my fathers died ♪
2234
01:40:12,138 --> 01:40:16,975
♪ Land of the pilgrims' pride ♪
2235
01:40:17,075 --> 01:40:21,942
♪ From every mountainside
let freedom ring ♪
2236
01:40:38,460 --> 01:40:39,913
- Ladies and gentlemen.
2237
01:40:40,013 --> 01:40:41,546
- One moment, John.
2238
01:40:42,528 --> 01:40:45,111
We'll begin with a soft prayer.
2239
01:40:48,098 --> 01:40:49,265
Quiet, please.
2240
01:40:50,711 --> 01:40:53,547
Ladies and gentlemen, let's have a
moment
2241
01:40:53,647 --> 01:40:56,780
of silent prayer for the John Does
2242
01:40:56,880 --> 01:41:01,830
all over the world, many of
whom are homeless and hungry.
2243
01:41:04,200 --> 01:41:05,330
Rise, please.
2244
01:41:06,985 --> 01:41:08,235
Everybody rise.
2245
01:41:59,843 --> 01:42:01,494
- News boys,
hundreds
2246
01:42:01,594 --> 01:42:02,912
of yelling news boys are swarming
2247
01:42:03,012 --> 01:42:04,130
into the crowd like locusts.
2248
01:42:04,230 --> 01:42:05,747
- They're yelling John Doe's a
fake.
2249
01:42:05,847 --> 01:42:06,847
- Fake?
2250
01:42:13,200 --> 01:42:16,283
- John Doe's a fake!
2251
01:42:18,579 --> 01:42:21,201
- Federal investigation
urged by Chamber of Commerce.
2252
01:42:21,301 --> 01:42:22,737
- How could he be a fake?
2253
01:42:22,837 --> 01:42:24,537
- It must be some kind of a gag.
2254
01:42:24,637 --> 01:42:26,587
- A what?
- A gag, a gag.
2255
01:42:28,127 --> 01:42:29,127
2256
01:42:37,877 --> 01:42:41,036
- Come on, come on step on it.
2257
01:42:41,136 --> 01:42:42,331
Step on it, step on it.
2258
01:42:42,431 --> 01:42:44,467
You all know you're places
now so let's get going.
2259
01:42:44,567 --> 01:42:45,567
Wait for the signal.
2260
01:42:45,666 --> 01:42:47,423
- Hey mister will you
autograph my balloon?
2261
01:42:47,523 --> 01:42:48,523
- Sure.
2262
01:42:57,236 --> 01:43:00,662
- Ladies and gentlemen,
this is exactly what
2263
01:43:00,762 --> 01:43:04,295
I came down here to
tell you about tonight.
2264
01:43:05,176 --> 01:43:07,558
Please, if you all would just
be quiet for a few minutes,
2265
01:43:07,658 --> 01:43:10,775
I can explain this whole thing to you.
2266
01:43:11,635 --> 01:43:13,587
As you all know, this paper is published
2267
01:43:13,687 --> 01:43:16,478
by a man by the name of D.B. Norton.
2268
01:43:16,578 --> 01:43:18,488
- Get back, you.
2269
01:43:18,588 --> 01:43:20,788
- Everybody, wait a minute.
2270
01:43:21,818 --> 01:43:26,766
Wait a minute ladies and
gentlemen, my name is D.B. Norton.
2271
01:43:26,866 --> 01:43:28,658
You all know me.
2272
01:43:28,758 --> 01:43:31,180
I accuse this man of being a faker.
2273
01:43:31,280 --> 01:43:32,758
We've been taken for a lot of suckers
2274
01:43:32,858 --> 01:43:34,560
and I'm the biggest of the lot.
2275
01:43:34,660 --> 01:43:36,350
I spent a fortune backing this man
2276
01:43:36,450 --> 01:43:38,330
in what I believed to be a sincere
2277
01:43:38,430 --> 01:43:40,594
and worthy cause just as you all did
2278
01:43:40,694 --> 01:43:43,160
and now I find out it's
nothing but a cheap racket,
2279
01:43:43,260 --> 01:43:45,200
cooked up by him and two of my employees
2280
01:43:45,300 --> 01:43:47,370
for the sole purpose of collecting dues
2281
01:43:47,470 --> 01:43:49,122
from John Does all over the country.
2282
01:43:49,222 --> 01:43:50,580
- That's a lie!
- It's not a lie.
2283
01:43:50,680 --> 01:43:52,677
Nickel and dimes to stuff
into their own pockets.
2284
01:43:52,777 --> 01:43:54,814
You can read all about it
in the newspapers there.
2285
01:43:54,914 --> 01:43:55,914
- That's a lie, listen--
2286
01:43:56,013 --> 01:43:57,371
- Let go of me.
- Don't believe--
2287
01:43:57,471 --> 01:43:59,189
- This man had no intention of jumping
off
2288
01:43:59,289 --> 01:44:00,327
the the top of a building.
2289
01:44:00,427 --> 01:44:01,427
He was paid to say so.
2290
01:44:01,526 --> 01:44:02,526
Do you deny that?
2291
01:44:02,625 --> 01:44:04,090
- That's got nothing to do with it.
2292
01:44:04,190 --> 01:44:05,470
- Were you paid or weren't you?
2293
01:44:05,570 --> 01:44:06,570
- Yes, I was paid, but--
2294
01:44:06,669 --> 01:44:08,050
- And what about the suicide note.
2295
01:44:08,150 --> 01:44:09,308
You didn't write that either.
2296
01:44:09,408 --> 01:44:10,726
- What difference does that make?
2297
01:44:10,826 --> 01:44:12,144
- Did you write it or didn't you?
2298
01:44:12,244 --> 01:44:13,562
- No, I didn't I didn't write it.
2299
01:44:13,662 --> 01:44:14,900
- You bet your life you didn't.
2300
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:16,798
You look in your papers
ladies and gentlemen
2301
01:44:16,898 --> 01:44:18,336
and find you'll find Miss Mitchell's
2302
01:44:18,436 --> 01:44:20,552
signed confession that she
was the one who wrote it.
2303
01:44:20,652 --> 01:44:23,048
- Listen folks it's a fact that
I didn't write the letter--
2304
01:44:23,148 --> 01:44:24,266
- Now you see, he admits it.
2305
01:44:24,366 --> 01:44:25,366
You're a fake, John Doe.
2306
01:44:25,465 --> 01:44:27,822
And for what you have done to
all these people good people
2307
01:44:27,922 --> 01:44:29,602
they ought to run you out of the
country.
2308
01:44:29,697 --> 01:44:30,901
And I hope they do it.
2309
01:44:39,781 --> 01:44:41,897
- Speak up, John, we believe you.
2310
01:44:41,997 --> 01:44:43,929
- Please listen, folks.
2311
01:44:44,029 --> 01:44:46,530
Now that he's through
shooting off his face,
2312
01:44:46,630 --> 01:44:49,069
I got couple of things to tell you
about.
2313
01:44:49,169 --> 01:44:51,126
- Come on, the rest of
you get in here and riot.
2314
01:44:51,226 --> 01:44:52,384
Break this crowd up, come on.
2315
01:44:52,484 --> 01:44:54,481
- I'm sorry folks, but we
can't hear him anymore.
2316
01:44:54,581 --> 01:44:56,530
Something's gone wrong
with the loudspeakers.
2317
01:44:56,630 --> 01:44:57,670
- Doe's a fake.
2318
01:44:57,770 --> 01:44:58,770
Boo!
2319
01:44:59,540 --> 01:45:00,736
- Please, they can't hear me.
2320
01:45:00,836 --> 01:45:02,036
- Boo!
2321
01:45:03,064 --> 01:45:04,900
- This thing's not working.
2322
01:45:05,000 --> 01:45:06,000
Ladies and gentlemen.
2323
01:45:07,156 --> 01:45:08,156
2324
01:45:24,290 --> 01:45:26,490
This thing's bigger
than whether I'm a fake.
2325
01:45:28,630 --> 01:45:31,243
Look Bert, you believe me, don't ya?
2326
01:45:32,106 --> 01:45:34,220
- Sure, I believe you.
2327
01:45:34,320 --> 01:45:38,590
Walking my legs off picking up
5,000 signatures for a phony.
2328
01:45:38,690 --> 01:45:40,030
There you are, Mr. Doe.
2329
01:45:40,130 --> 01:45:43,450
5,000 names asking you
not to jump off any roof.
2330
01:45:43,550 --> 01:45:44,714
- Makes no difference, Bert.
2331
01:45:44,814 --> 01:45:45,890
The idea's still good.
2332
01:45:45,990 --> 01:45:47,348
We don't have to give up our club.
2333
01:45:47,448 --> 01:45:49,922
- Yeah, well you can have it.
2334
01:45:51,517 --> 01:45:52,915
- They're starting to throw things.
2335
01:45:53,015 --> 01:45:54,173
Somebody's going to get hurt.
2336
01:45:54,273 --> 01:45:56,177
I'm afraid it will be John Doe.
2337
01:45:56,277 --> 01:45:57,659
Listen to that mob.
2338
01:46:00,271 --> 01:46:01,931
- I've got to go to him.
2339
01:46:02,031 --> 01:46:03,429
- Sorry, lady, I can't let you out.
2340
01:46:03,529 --> 01:46:05,121
- Let me go.
2341
01:46:05,221 --> 01:46:07,068
Oh please, please let me go.
2342
01:46:07,168 --> 01:46:08,168
They're crucifying him.
2343
01:46:08,267 --> 01:46:09,267
I can help him.
2344
01:46:09,366 --> 01:46:11,184
- Sorry sister, we
got orders to hold you.
2345
01:46:11,284 --> 01:46:12,284
- Orders from who?
2346
01:46:12,383 --> 01:46:13,581
Can't you see it's a frame up?
2347
01:46:13,681 --> 01:46:14,681
- Ann darling.
2348
01:46:14,780 --> 01:46:16,178
- Oh Mother, they won't let me go.
2349
01:46:16,278 --> 01:46:17,640
They won't let me go.
2350
01:46:18,832 --> 01:46:20,006
- Listen, folks.
2351
01:46:21,072 --> 01:46:23,093
You gotta--
- Back to the jungle you hobo.
2352
01:46:23,193 --> 01:46:25,594
- Just another racket.
2353
01:46:25,694 --> 01:46:26,941
- Stick to your clubs.
2354
01:46:27,041 --> 01:46:30,021
- We've been fed baloney so
long we're getting used to it.
2355
01:46:38,677 --> 01:46:40,760
- The idea is still good.
2356
01:46:42,810 --> 01:46:44,310
Believe me, folks.
2357
01:46:46,962 --> 01:46:50,851
Listen John Does were
the hope of the world.
2358
01:47:26,321 --> 01:47:28,205
-
They just finally managed
2359
01:47:28,305 --> 01:47:29,383
to get him out of the park.
2360
01:47:29,483 --> 01:47:31,360
And if that boy isn't
hurt it'll be a miracle.
2361
01:47:31,460 --> 01:47:33,137
Ladies and gentlemen this certainly
looks
2362
01:47:33,237 --> 01:47:35,413
like the end of the John Doe movement.
2363
01:47:35,513 --> 01:47:40,296
- Well, boys, chalk up another
one to the Pontius Pilates.
2364
01:47:46,592 --> 01:47:49,190
- I should have been there.
2365
01:47:49,290 --> 01:47:50,440
I could have helped him.
2366
01:47:52,703 --> 01:47:54,383
He was so all alone.
2367
01:47:58,104 --> 01:47:59,542
- A lot of us are going to be mighty
2368
01:47:59,642 --> 01:48:01,041
ashamed of ourselves after tonight.
2369
01:48:01,954 --> 01:48:04,504
We certainly didn't give
that man much of a chance.
2370
01:48:14,230 --> 01:48:16,193
- Want sore coffee, Long John?
2371
01:48:17,070 --> 01:48:18,707
- No thanks, Colonel.
2372
01:48:38,127 --> 01:48:39,389
- Fake.
- Racketeer.
2373
01:48:39,489 --> 01:48:40,560
- Liar.
- Cheat.
2374
01:48:40,660 --> 01:48:42,990
- Impostor.
- Why don't you jump?
2375
01:48:43,090 --> 01:48:46,507
- Christmas Eve midnight.
2376
01:48:46,607 --> 01:48:48,140
- Goodbye, Mr. Doe.
2377
01:48:48,977 --> 01:48:51,460
You're a wonderful man.
2378
01:48:51,560 --> 01:48:53,843
- And God bless you, my boy.
2379
01:48:54,745 --> 01:48:57,162
- Now get in there and pitch.
2380
01:49:00,082 --> 01:49:02,030
- You're a fake John
Doe and I can prove it.
2381
01:49:02,130 --> 01:49:04,390
You're the big hero that's meant to jump
2382
01:49:04,490 --> 01:49:07,330
off tall buildings and
things, do you remember?
2383
01:49:07,430 --> 01:49:08,748
What do you suppose your precious
2384
01:49:08,848 --> 01:49:10,490
John Does will say when they find out
2385
01:49:10,590 --> 01:49:12,428
that you never had any
intention of doing it?
2386
01:49:12,528 --> 01:49:13,920
That you were paid to say so?
2387
01:49:14,020 --> 01:49:17,084
- Christmas Eve,
at midnight.
2388
01:49:17,184 --> 01:49:22,134
♪ Silent night, holy night ♪
2389
01:49:24,903 --> 01:49:29,903
♪ Shepherds quake at the sight ♪
2390
01:49:31,988 --> 01:49:36,155
♪ Glories stream from heaven afar ♪
2391
01:49:39,284 --> 01:49:40,784
- Merry Christmas.
2392
01:49:42,409 --> 01:49:43,909
- Merry Christmas.
2393
01:49:47,241 --> 01:49:52,241
♪ Christ, the Savior is born ♪
2394
01:49:54,912 --> 01:49:58,662
♪ Christ, the Savior is born ♪
2395
01:50:07,275 --> 01:50:09,642
- Merry Christmas.
2396
01:50:10,686 --> 01:50:13,330
- Who, John Doe?
2397
01:50:13,430 --> 01:50:15,760
Is that screwball still around?
2398
01:50:15,860 --> 01:50:17,750
- That dame's been calling all day.
2399
01:50:17,850 --> 01:50:19,280
- Sure, sure, I know.
2400
01:50:19,380 --> 01:50:21,640
Yeah, at midnight, huh?
2401
01:50:21,740 --> 01:50:25,733
Okay, lady, we'll have the
place surrounded with nets.
2402
01:50:25,833 --> 01:50:27,743
- They're laughing at me.
2403
01:50:33,680 --> 01:50:34,954
- You're a sick girl, Ann.
2404
01:50:35,054 --> 01:50:36,054
You better take it easy.
2405
01:50:38,730 --> 01:50:40,143
- Who are you calling now?
2406
01:50:41,310 --> 01:50:44,163
You called that number,
not 10 minutes ago.
2407
01:50:45,257 --> 01:50:46,703
- Hello. Mr. Connell.
2408
01:50:46,803 --> 01:50:47,803
Have you seen him yet?
2409
01:50:47,902 --> 01:50:49,470
- Now listen, Ann, he can't possibly
2410
01:50:49,570 --> 01:50:51,430
get in without our seeing him.
2411
01:50:51,530 --> 01:50:52,568
I'm watching the side door
2412
01:50:52,668 --> 01:50:54,563
and the Colonel's out
front so stop worrying.
2413
01:50:55,724 --> 01:50:57,057
- Oh, thank you.
2414
01:51:04,546 --> 01:51:07,379
- Why Ann.
- Ann, don't be foolish.
2415
01:51:11,040 --> 01:51:13,367
- If this isn't the
craziest, the battiest,
2416
01:51:13,467 --> 01:51:15,540
the looniest wild goose
chase I ever heard of.
2417
01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:16,640
- Oh shut up, Bert.
2418
01:51:16,739 --> 01:51:17,739
Sourpuss is right.
2419
01:51:17,838 --> 01:51:19,515
- Yeah well if he is, I'm a banana
split.
2420
01:51:19,615 --> 01:51:21,440
- That man's gonna be on that roof.
2421
01:51:21,540 --> 01:51:23,095
Don't ask me how I know I just know
2422
01:51:23,195 --> 01:51:24,553
and you know it as well as you do.
2423
01:51:24,653 --> 01:51:26,820
- Sure, sure I'd like to
believe in fairy tales,
2424
01:51:26,920 --> 01:51:29,117
but a guy that's a fake isn't
gonna jump off any roof.
2425
01:51:29,217 --> 01:51:30,415
- I don't think he was a fake.
2426
01:51:30,515 --> 01:51:31,515
Not with that face.
2427
01:51:31,614 --> 01:51:33,440
At any rate what he
stood for wasn't a fake.
2428
01:51:33,540 --> 01:51:35,063
- Okay, honey, okay.
2429
01:51:53,820 --> 01:51:56,197
- Elevators ain't runnin'.
2430
01:51:56,297 --> 01:51:57,297
- Colonel.
2431
01:51:57,396 --> 01:51:59,219
- You should've
got out of bed Miss.
2432
01:51:59,319 --> 01:52:00,319
- Has he been here?
2433
01:52:00,418 --> 01:52:01,496
- No.
- Have you seen him?
2434
01:52:01,596 --> 01:52:02,794
- Haven't seen him for a week.
2435
01:52:02,894 --> 01:52:03,894
- Where's Connell?
2436
01:52:03,993 --> 01:52:05,231
- He's watching the other door.
2437
01:52:05,331 --> 01:52:06,463
- Oh, you're swell.
2438
01:52:07,787 --> 01:52:08,787
Oh.
2439
01:52:11,910 --> 01:52:13,180
- No sense in going up there.
2440
01:52:13,280 --> 01:52:14,280
I've been here for hours.
2441
01:52:14,379 --> 01:52:15,379
He ain't here.
2442
01:52:15,478 --> 01:52:16,506
- Let me go, will ya?
2443
01:52:20,510 --> 01:52:23,293
- Now that's crazy, it's 14 floors.
2444
01:53:06,464 --> 01:53:08,160
- It's as far as the elevator goes.
2445
01:53:08,260 --> 01:53:09,863
We gotta walk up to the tower.
2446
01:54:00,703 --> 01:54:02,760
- That tramp is probably
full of Christmas cheer
2447
01:54:02,860 --> 01:54:04,260
and asleep in some flophouse.
2448
01:54:04,360 --> 01:54:06,660
- Let's go, I've
got to decorate my tree.
2449
01:54:18,430 --> 01:54:20,113
- Well, I give up.
2450
01:54:20,980 --> 01:54:23,220
I don't what gave us the idea
2451
01:54:23,320 --> 01:54:24,690
he'd attempt anything like this.
2452
01:54:24,790 --> 01:54:25,970
- I guess you're right.
2453
01:54:26,070 --> 01:54:28,683
I'm afraid the joke's on us, let's go.
2454
01:54:28,783 --> 01:54:31,400
- I hope nobody finds out we've been
here.
2455
01:56:14,340 --> 01:56:16,240
I wouldn't do that if I were you John.
2456
01:56:28,450 --> 01:56:29,500
It'll do you no good.
2457
01:56:30,587 --> 01:56:34,080
The Mayor has policemen
downstairs with instructions
2458
01:56:34,180 --> 01:56:36,510
to remove all marks of identification
2459
01:56:36,610 --> 01:56:37,723
you have on your person.
2460
01:56:39,430 --> 01:56:41,354
You'll be buried in Potter's Field
2461
01:56:41,454 --> 01:56:44,487
and you'll have accomplished nothing.
2462
01:56:53,932 --> 01:56:56,099
- I've taken care of that.
2463
01:56:57,120 --> 01:57:00,103
I've already mailed a copy of
this letter to Mr. Connell.
2464
01:57:03,180 --> 01:57:05,070
- John, why don't you
forget this foolishness?
2465
01:57:05,170 --> 01:57:06,730
- Stop right where you are, Mr. Norton,
2466
01:57:06,830 --> 01:57:08,880
if you don't want to go overboard with
me.
2467
01:57:13,730 --> 01:57:17,310
I'm glad you gentlemen are here.
2468
01:57:17,410 --> 01:57:20,323
You killed the John
Doe movement all right,
2469
01:57:21,617 --> 01:57:24,030
but you're gonna see
it born all over again.
2470
01:57:31,881 --> 01:57:35,283
Now take a good look, Mr. Norton.
2471
01:57:35,383 --> 01:57:36,383
- John!
2472
01:57:37,143 --> 01:57:38,143
John.
2473
01:57:38,890 --> 01:57:41,014
Oh John, don't do it.
2474
01:57:41,114 --> 01:57:43,800
I love you, I love you darling.
2475
01:57:43,900 --> 01:57:44,900
Oh please.
2476
01:57:45,960 --> 01:57:47,500
Please don't give up.
2477
01:57:47,600 --> 01:57:49,320
We'll start all over again.
2478
01:57:49,420 --> 01:57:51,520
Just you and I, it isn't too late.
2479
01:57:51,620 --> 01:57:53,653
The John Doe movement isn't dead yet.
2480
01:57:55,111 --> 01:57:57,470
You see John it isn't dead
or they wouldn't be here.
2481
01:57:57,570 --> 01:57:58,897
It's alive in them.
2482
01:57:58,997 --> 01:58:01,393
They kept it alive by being afraid of
it.
2483
01:58:01,493 --> 01:58:03,360
That's why they came up here.
2484
01:58:03,460 --> 01:58:04,583
Oh, darling.
2485
01:58:05,620 --> 01:58:06,898
Sure it should have been killed.
2486
01:58:06,998 --> 01:58:07,999
It was dishonest.
2487
01:58:08,099 --> 01:58:10,010
But we can start clean now.
2488
01:58:10,110 --> 01:58:11,380
Just you and I.
2489
01:58:11,480 --> 01:58:13,580
It'll grow, John, and it'll grow big
2490
01:58:13,680 --> 01:58:15,553
because it'll be honest this time.
2491
01:58:17,050 --> 01:58:21,960
Oh John, if it's worth dying
for, it's worth living for.
2492
01:58:22,060 --> 01:58:23,133
Oh please, John.
2493
01:58:24,600 --> 01:58:25,600
Oh.
2494
01:58:27,030 --> 01:58:28,780
Oh please.
2495
01:58:28,880 --> 01:58:31,093
Please God, help me.
2496
01:58:34,003 --> 01:58:35,003
John.
2497
01:58:35,466 --> 01:58:37,000
John, look at me.
2498
01:58:37,100 --> 01:58:39,365
You want to be honest, don't you?
2499
01:58:39,465 --> 01:58:42,530
Well you don't have to die to
keep the John Doe idea alive.
2500
01:58:42,630 --> 01:58:44,750
Someone already died for that once.
2501
01:58:44,850 --> 01:58:46,418
The first John Doe.
2502
01:58:46,518 --> 01:58:49,840
And he's kept that idea
alive for nearly 2,000 years.
2503
01:58:49,940 --> 01:58:52,520
It was he who kept it alive
in them and he'll go on
2504
01:58:52,620 --> 01:58:54,594
keeping it alive forever and always.
2505
01:58:54,694 --> 01:58:56,780
For every John Doe movement these men
kill
2506
01:58:56,880 --> 01:58:58,860
a new one will be born.
2507
01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:01,210
That's why those bells are ringing John.
2508
01:59:01,310 --> 01:59:02,580
They're calling to us.
2509
01:59:02,680 --> 01:59:04,420
Not to give up, but to keep on fighting,
2510
01:59:04,520 --> 01:59:05,877
to keep on pitching.
2511
01:59:05,977 --> 01:59:08,300
Oh don't you see, darling?
2512
01:59:08,400 --> 01:59:10,570
This is no time to give up.
2513
01:59:10,670 --> 01:59:12,950
You and I John, we...
2514
01:59:14,020 --> 01:59:15,220
Oh no.
2515
01:59:15,877 --> 01:59:19,270
No, John, if you die, I want to die,
too.
2516
01:59:19,370 --> 01:59:20,370
Oh.
2517
01:59:20,710 --> 01:59:22,255
Oh, I love you.
2518
01:59:22,355 --> 01:59:23,355
Oh John.
2519
01:59:36,560 --> 01:59:39,550
- Mr. Doe, you don't have to...
2520
01:59:40,670 --> 01:59:42,630
We're with you, Mr. Doe.
2521
01:59:42,730 --> 01:59:45,080
We just lost our heads
and acted like a mob.
2522
01:59:45,180 --> 01:59:48,662
- What Bert's trying to say
is that we need you Mr. Doe.
2523
01:59:48,762 --> 01:59:49,840
There were a lot of us that
2524
01:59:49,940 --> 01:59:51,630
didn't believe what that man said.
2525
01:59:51,730 --> 01:59:52,888
We were going to start up our
2526
01:59:52,988 --> 01:59:54,963
John Doe Club again,
whether we saw you or not.
2527
01:59:55,063 --> 01:59:56,430
Weren't we, Bert?
2528
01:59:56,530 --> 01:59:57,728
And there were a lot of others
2529
01:59:57,828 --> 01:59:59,186
that were gonna do the same thing.
2530
01:59:59,286 --> 02:00:00,364
Well, Mr. Sourpuss even got
2531
02:00:00,464 --> 02:00:01,902
a letter from his cousin in Toledo--
2532
02:00:02,002 --> 02:00:03,571
- I got it right here, Mr.
Doe.
2533
02:00:03,671 --> 02:00:06,235
- Only, it'd be a lot easier with you.
2534
02:00:06,335 --> 02:00:07,335
Please.
2535
02:00:09,496 --> 02:00:11,913
Please come with us, Mr. Doe.
2536
02:00:37,154 --> 02:00:38,987
- Long John.
- Mr. Doe.
2537
02:00:40,136 --> 02:00:41,397
Here we'll help you with her.
2538
02:00:41,497 --> 02:00:42,497
She'll be all right.
2539
02:00:42,596 --> 02:00:45,278
- We'll take her down to the car.
2540
02:00:45,378 --> 02:00:47,011
We gotta car right back down there.
2541
02:00:47,111 --> 02:00:52,002
- There you are, Norton, the
people, try and lick that.
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