All language subtitles for Out West with the Hardys-1938

Aldrich Brown.

Name sounds familiar.

You read the papers, don't you, Judge?

And I collected the $2 ,000 reward last
night in the city.

Returning, you pushed a bus driver from
his car, drove to Carvel, ignoring

scheduled stops and the protests of the
frightened passengers.

The form of charge is disorderly
conduct, operating a bus without a

driving while intoxicated, a technical
charge of grand theft, and kidnapping 17

people. Technicalities. It was only a
celebration.

You believe it proper to ignore the
rights of others because of that halo

wear around your head?

Let me tell you, young man, that a halo
has to drop a very short distance before

it becomes a noose.

I fine you $100. I've got it right here
in my pocket.

And 30 days in the county jail.

You got that in your pocket, too?

Court will recess for 30 minutes.

Take him away, deputy.

Hey, wait a minute now. Listen to...

Isn't every day we get a visit from our
sister -in -law? Sit down.

This letter, James.

I thought I'd better bring it here.

From Dora Northcott?

She was Dora Martin.

You remember.

Yes, yes. I used to go with her before I
met Emily.

Wasn't she the one?

Something about a Sunday school picnic
and you two got lost?

We got left behind.

I'd almost forgotten that old scandal.

The truth is she'd lost her Indian
blanket, and while we were looking for

the trolley car went off and left us.

The talk that caused.

Millie, I haven't been able to stand the
sight of an Indian blanket since.

I always wondered what Emily thought.

She never said anything. She couldn't
have heard.

You know, Millie, in every married life,
there's one subject that just isn't

discussed.

And in the 30 years that Emily and I
have been married, we've never once

mentioned that picnic.

That's why I brought the letter here.

Oh.

Oh, this is an invitation from Dora and
Bill to visit their ranch.

That'd be a long way to go, wouldn't it?

We're in trouble, Millie.

We need help.

What Bill Northcott did for me when we
were together in college means I'd go to

the ends of the earth to help him.

Now, let's see.

I can get Judge Bathgate from Lyndhurst
to come over here and sit in my court

for me and... You'll have to go alone,
James.

You'll never pry Emily loose from her
spring renovating.

She's half crazy in an orgy of house
cleaning.

Mother, have you seen the iron?

Iron?

Oh, I brought it down from the sewing
room so Andy could fix the cord. Well, I

finished my dress and I want to press it
before Dennis gets here.

Oh, for goodness sake, wait. I'll look.

At least I know how to look for things
when I don't know where they are.

Oh, here.

Oh, thank you.

Mother, do you think my dress looks as
though it weren't homemade?

You mean, will Mr. Dennis Hunt think so?

Well, he's been in New York a couple of
months, and I want to look as nice as

that debutante.

Oh, running around with a debutante, was
he?

Who told you?

Oh, he wrote me.

We tell each other everything. We
believe in absolute frankness.

Things have changed since my young days.

We're sophisticated and modern, darling.

Hmm, maybe.

Don't forget to take the cord out when
you finish with that iron.

And when Andy comes in, tell him to take
those old clothes down to the Salvation

Army.

Oh, hiya, Polly.

I didn't know you were so tired.

Maybe we'd better not go swimming.

Gee, me tired? Why, say, I've got pep
enough to swim the Atlantic Ocean.

Why'd you say that?

Well, usually you have enough energy to
walk up the front steps and ring the

doorbell. Uh, you women are getting so
you want to be waited upon all the time.

Just because you won your letter in
basketball, don't think you can toot

horn and I'll come running. The day of
the squaw is over. Here, take my suit.

Well, you're going to get a treat today
anyway. I'm going to dive off the 20

-foot board.

Oh, Andy, you don't dare.

Why, the instructor says it's only for
professionals.

Well, you watch me.

If you don't stop all this showing off
and doing all these crazy things.

Well, I get away with them, don't I?

He'll kill himself.

Andy, I forbid you to die from that
board.

Did they forbid Julius Caesar to cross
the Alps? Did they forbid Alexander the

Great to conquer the world?

Andy, please.

destiny calls upon Andy Hardy to be a
great diver, does Andy Hardy refuse the

golden crown?

No. A thousand times no.

Andrew, that's one of the prettiest
dives I've ever seen.

But don't do it again.

Because if the dive doesn't break their
neck, I will.

Don't you see, Andy? It's the principle
of the thing. The principle of my swan

dive was okay.

Ever since you won that letter in
basketball, I can't get you to be

me. You're so cute, Polly. How can I?

Don't you go acting like a college boy
with me, Andy Hardy. Who do you think

are?

Well, for the moment, I'm America's gift
to the fair sex.

Ah,

but I expect to find new worlds to
conquer. Who knows?

History may record the name Andrew Hardy
alongside of Washington, Lincoln,

Lindbergh, and... And Humpty Dumpty, who
fell off the wall and nobody could put

the pieces together again.

Listen, little lady.

The day Andy Hardy breaks up an admiring
public will flock to buy the little

pieces as souvenirs.

You're so conceited, you're impossible.

Conceited? Say, listen, I'm getting
tired of that. Just because I have the

initiative to do what I want and I
always come out on top.

Andy, please don't let's have a fight.

I'm only thinking of your own good.

And, well, besides, I'm having a party
on the 5th.

A party?

Any special kind of party?

It's a costume party.

I've been trying to ask you all
afternoon, but you've been so, so

there you go again, nagging.

Won't you women understand if there's
one thing a man can't put up with, it's

nagging? Polly Benedict, you're
henpecking me.

Listen, where a man's life is concerned,
a woman's got to stay in the

background. A man's got to do what he
feels he should do.

It's his destiny.

Very well, then.

Since you always do what you want to do,
I hope for your sake you don't want to

go with me anymore.

Because I'm not going with you.

Yeah,

what do I care?

What's one girl to a bachelor who has a
tuxedo in his own automobile?

Why don't you look where you're going?

What are you doing sitting over there in
the dark?

What's all this junk?

That's a box of magazines that Mother
wants you and Dad to carry out to the

garage. Gee, it looks like a cyclone hit
the joint.

Well, you know Mother.

Spring housecleaning.

You, of course, wouldn't understand a
woman's problems.

What's the matter? You had a fight with
Dennis?

Certainly not.

Yeah, you always moon around when you're
not.

Alone, alone on a night that was meant
for love.

That's too childish even to notice.

Yeah, well, the children of today are
the men of tomorrow. Remember that, my

dear sister. That was said by, uh...
Well, somebody said it anyway.

Get out. I want to type a letter. I got
a theme to write. Besides, the

typewriter's half mine.

Well, I saw it first. Do it by longhand.

Longhand? Why, you know my writing is as
bad as yours.

Oh, I think you're mean.

Oh, well, she's screaming her head off
because I got the typewriter first. Oh,

Marion, stop it. And you stop being a
bully. I'm too tired to have any problem

children on my hands.

If you want to fight, go out in the
backyard.

Of course, Mother.

Yeah.

Gee, this spring cleaning is getting Mom
down, you know that?

I'll stay home all day tomorrow and help
her.

Then I'll beat rugs till I drop.

There's Danch.

Hi, Dad.

Hello, Annie.

Hello, Marion.

See, I want to warn you, Dad. Man to
man, Mom's on the warpath. I'm going to

upstairs and get out of sight.

Might even put on a clean shirt for
dinner.

Well, what's all this?

Marion, James, supper's waiting.

There's only soup and bread because I'm
spring cleaning. But that's good enough

for anybody.

What about Augusta? What?

Augusta, the cook.

Oh, she left.

Said she couldn't stay in a madhouse.
Not that there's anything mad about

cleaning that I can see. Come on, come
on, come on.

Come on, everybody, hurry up.

Why, this is good soup, Emily.

One thing about soup, at least it fills
you up quick.

Bread, anybody?

No, thank you.

How's Dennis, Marion?

Fine.

I got a letter today from an old friend
of ours.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, Marion, what's the matter?

I just knocked over a plant. Boy, it
couldn't have been lightning. There

any rain.

Now, just keep still, everybody. The
lights will come on in a minute. They're

just switching the current in the
powerhouse.

Well, gee, they got lights on next door.
We must have blew out a fuse, Mom.

Oh. It's the electric iron. I forgot to
disconnect it. Here we are.

Here are candles. Oh.

Here, Marion.

Take one of these candles.

Hurry along and retest that iron.

Marion, I warned you about that iron.

Oh, I'm so sorry, Mother. Really, I'm
sorry.

I'll put in a new fuse, Mom.

Andy, honey, don't you touch another
thing. Oh, I can fix it, Mom. We're out

fuses. Andy used the last one this
morning trying to fix the washing

Andy! Now, now, now, Mother.

I thought I told you to bring some
fuses.

Well, I forgot.

It's plain where the children get their
poor memory.

I fixed it, Mom.

I fixed it.

I fixed it with a penny. A penny?

Andy Hardy, do you want to set fire to
the house?

I can't get the simplest kind of help
from anybody.

Everything that's not in this house I
have to do myself.

But I'm not going to anymore.

If none of you are interested enough to
cooperate, I don't see why I should kill

myself.

You were quite right, and we apologize.

I guess I'll rest a bit before I do the
dishes.

I'll take care of them.

I'll wipe them, too, Mom. One at a time.
No wet towels, either.

I can't understand it.

That's the first time my nerves have
ever gotten the best of me.

Well, Emily, I believe you're entitled
to that awful little steam.

You were so splendid when your mother
was sick, and you came right back here

this house without any rest.

I think you need a little change.

Gee, any change from here would be
swell, Dad.

That's a letter I was going to read to
you.

That's from the Northcots.

They seem to be in a little trouble, and
I believe I could help them.

Maybe going to their ranch would do us
all some good.

A ranch?

Oh, boy, Dad, can I have a six -shooter?
Will we leave right away?

Well, now, wait, wait, wait just a
minute. You know, going to a ranch, that

means roughing it.

This experience we've just had with the
lights, how helpless we were when the

electricity failed, well...

Maybe it would do us all some good if we
went where they didn't have modern

conveniences. But, James, a ranch.

Ranches are all out west, aren't they?

Well, there seems to be more room out
there.

We don't have any more trouble with the
Indians, do we?

Indians?

Well, this is it.

It's so, so big, isn't it, out west?

My mother, this is only a small part of
the 700 million acres of open country in

the United States.

Gee, I never saw such a wide place that
went on for so long.

Plenty of room to rough it.

It's quite lonely, too, isn't it? No
social life.

Here comes somebody.

Maybe it's a mirage.

Well, Jim Hardy, am I glad to see you.
Bill, am I glad to see you.

Oh, now, cut, you're getting gray.

That from you, Hardy, you whited
sepulcher.

You're right, you're right, boy.

Time's creeping up on us.

Oh, mother.

Mother, this is... I've been hearing
about you for years, Mrs. Hardy.

And this must be your sister.

And Marion and Andrew.

Gee, Mr. Northcott, you got automobiles
out here on the desert. I thought we'd

have to hop a camel to get to the
nearest oasis.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, Andrew.

Well, my men will take your luggage.
Shall we get going?

Yes, it'll do us good to go where we
have no modern conveniences.

Nora! Nora!

We're such a charming family, James. I
can understand why you look so well.

Of course, you'll want to freshen up a
bit and have a nice cool tub.

Mr. Northcott!

What is it, Ray?

Excuse me, Mr. Northcott, but Bruxton
shot our water off.

And there's over a thousand head of
steer ready to ship in the North Corral.

Well, he can't do that yet. He wants his
check every day in advance now.

He'll have it in an hour.

Thanks, boss. That beef sure needs water
quick.

Gosh, who is that?

That's our foreman, Ray Holt.

A thousand head of steer in the North
Corral.

Say, I'm going to like this place,
partner. It's a man's country.

have to wash in old round tubs.

What did you say?

Oh, you wouldn't understand.

What on earth have you got up for?

Well, the rest of you tenderfeet can
wallow in luxury if you want to. I'm

to be western if it kills me.

Well, you do too much horseback riding
the first day, and it certainly will.

Well. Isn't it, darling?

Aunt Dora gave it to me.

Who? Well, I'm going to call Aunt Dora
and Uncle Bill. Come on.

They seem to approve.

Marion, you look charming, dear. We'll
have to keep you here to decorate the

place. I'm going outside and see
everything.

But I thought we'd be camping out.

Let me show you around, Mrs. Hardy.

We'll start with the kitchen.

That's my department.

Here we are, right out. Well,

Jim, it's been a long time.

Shall we sit down and visit?

This room was made for that.

Mr. Bruxton is here. He's in the den.

Thank you, Jose.

Bruxton's the man who's trying to buy
our ranch.

Buy it?

Well, I didn't know it was for sale.

He's trying to force us to sell.

And we can't sell, Jim. Our whole life
is here.

There's another reason.

Bill doesn't know, but the doctor
doesn't want him to go back east.

Bill?

No, Dora.

It's not too bad.

They say he could live to be 90 if he
stays out in this climate.

Well, then he must stay.

That's why I had the courage to write to
you, Jim.

After all, you know, you did introduce
Bill and me.

Yes, I remember.

I brought him down to visit Carvel
during the school vacation.

Tell me, what's this man Braxton's hold
on the situation?

He owns the stream from which we get our
water. And out here, unless you get

water.

Our contract with him expires next
month. He won't renew. He wants to take

the place.

Oh.

Western racketeer, huh?

I don't know which way to turn.

That's why I wrote you, Jim. I thought
with your experience on water rights...

Well, now, don't you worry.

At least not yet.

I'll have a look at this stream of
Bruxelles.

And, of course, I'll do everything
that's humanly possible.

You seem to be happy and contented, Jim.

Well, Dora, I've been blessed with good
fortune and the finest family to ever

live. And I would be ungrateful if I
didn't try to save your happiness for

Oh, Dora, do you mind if I ask you...

Don't ever mention that picnic.

Mum's the word, Jim Hardy.

I'll see what I can do with him, Tex.

There's a horse you can ride now, Tex.

Good morning. You're Miss Marion.

And you're Mr. Holt, the foreman. I'm
pleased to meet you, ma 'am. Can I show

you around the place?

Will you?

I sure will.

Isn't it a swell morning?

Say, I'll bet you're the foreman. Glad
to know you, partner.

Like to see you brand some cattle
sometime.

Marion? Ah, you don't look half bad.
That is, for a girl that takes an hour

comb her hair.

I suppose you know this is my little
brother, Mr. Holt.

Little brother.

Oh, she still thinks I'm in robbers.

Say, I'll bet you wish your boyfriend
Dennis looked like Ray here.

Dennis is not my boyfriend.

Oh, I know. You had a fight with him,
but you made up with him at the station

before you left. You said you were going
to go buy a magazine, but I saw you

crying and him trying to kiss you.

It's too bad your brain hasn't developed
as much as your tongue.

What a charming place.

What is it?

That's where Jake and me bunk.

Jake? Who's Jake?

My kid.

Hi, Jake. Come on out.

Jake!

I was setting the bread.

Jake, Miss Marion, and Andrew Hardy.

Howdy. Howdy. Howdy.

Well, I guess we can leave the children
to amuse each other.

Children?

Would you like to see some desert, Miss
Marion?

Oh, yes.

You two youngsters will get along fine.

Youngsters.

Gee, some girls don't know the
difference between a 16 -year -old fella

little boy like yourself.

I ain't a boy.

I'm a girl.

A girl?

Sure, I'm a girl. And I can do anything
you can do, 16 or no 16.

Oh, yeah?

How good can you ride?

What do you mean, a horse?

Oh, I don't win for horses much. Where I
come from, people use mostly cars.

What's a car got that a horse ain't?

Well, I never saw a horse with an
emergency brake.

This is Calico, my own private horse.

My baby.

Want to try him?

Oh, I don't know.

Maybe you can't ride. Maybe you're just
a monkey -ward cowboy.

A what? A mail -order cowboy.

The kind that cuts a shine till they
straddle a pony.

I am not. I can ride anything. There's
nothing to it. Then why don't you?

I'm not in the mood.

Bet you two bits you can't ride Calico.

I bet you I can.

It's a bet.

Where's your dinero?

Dinero? Oh, dinero means dough, huh?

You're a funny kid.

Go on, ride him, cowboy.

That ain't the right side.

Oh, my, you're ignorant. Don't you know
you're right from your left?

I mean to get on a horse.

I was just clowning.

Ain't scared, are you?

No. All right, ride him, cowboy.

Sonny, you don't need any emergency
brakes. You need a parachute.

Listen, you heard my mom tell me to get
off the horse, didn't you?

I'll take the Mazuma now.

Andy! Andy!

Oh, darling, are you hurt?

No, I'm all right, Mom.

Howdy, ma 'am.

Don't worry. We got the kind of horses
that's fitting for your little boy.

Speed, partner.

Speed? Huh.

That's a fine name for this overgrown
mud turtle. Don't these things ever get

out of low gear?

Go on and get going, Speed.

Step on the gas.

Shh.

Don't let him hear you.

Burbles go crazy when anybody mentions
automobiles.

Are you all right? Are you hurt? I
shouldn't have gone near him. He's a

horse, especially when he knows you're
scared of him.

You shouldn't have done that, son. He's
not your horse, and besides, you know

nothing about riding. Just a day or two
of speed, and we'll promote you to a

nice, quiet old mare, Andy.

I'm not scared of any horse.

Surely a fellow who's a great basketball
star can do anything a little kid like

Jake here can do.

We'll go into that later, in private.

Yes, sir.

It ain't his fault he's a tenderfoot,
Judge.

He'll learn to ride.

Lots of other things to learn, too,
Jake.

I'll see you tonight.

In the meantime, you both come along
with me. I need you.

This is what we call Lupin.

Deep blue.

Deep as the sky, isn't it?

Have you always lived in this country?

My whole life.

It's a good country.

There's something about being a part of
all this.

It kind of makes a lot of things seem
mighty unimportant.

Yes, it does, doesn't it?

Does your wife like it here, too?

My wife died when Jake was born.

Oh, I'm sorry.

That adorable little girl of yours
growing up without a mother.

Why do you call her Jake? That's a boy's
name.

Because that was the last word her
mother spoke.

She was only conscious a couple of
minutes after the baby came.

She looked up at me.

And she said, is the little one all
right?

And I said, yes.

And she said, well, everything's Jake.

And she closed her eyes and didn't open
them anymore.

So I named the little baby Jake.

You don't think that's silly, do you?

I think it's beautiful.

Mr. Bruxton, in the deed by which the
Northcots bought this ranch, you're...

The water contract is specifically
referred to.

I maintain that implies an obligation on
your part to continue to supply him

with water.

Contract is up on the 5th, Judge.

The authorities will, I believe, support
my contention that you must renew it.

As a matter of fact, Judge, you're
right.

I'm glad you aren't going to force us to
go to court.

But there's no indication at what price
I must continue to sell the water.

Water has suddenly become mighty
valuable.

But the law is the law.

You can have all the water you want, but
on and after the fifth, my price will

be $100 a gallon.

Your attorneys, Mr. Bruxton, are very
shrewd men.

I thought they'd better be, Judge, with
you on the other side of the case.

And any time you want to renew the
contract at the new price, just let me

Good day, my friends.

We're licked, James.

We never should have signed such a
contract in the first place.

But we checked it over from the map
and... At least that map makes an

wall decoration.

It would be more attractive if an
earthquake changed it.

Perhaps that's the answer.

All we can do now is pray for a miracle.

Maybe a cotton junction is the miracle
we need.

That's as efficient as an earthquake and
much less expensive.

Oh, I didn't know you were busy, Dad.
Excuse me. No, no. If you want to talk

your father... Well, that's all right,
Aunt Dora. Take your time. I can wait.

Why, gee, I could wait a month if
necessary.

I was just going.

Thanks, James.

If you decide to stay up late again
tonight, remember, ice boxes were made

raided.

Sit down.

Sit down, son.

Gee, Dad, could I help it if Jake's
horse is nervous? Well, I'll bet you

off the first time you rode.

No, I was thrown.

Do you realize you might have been
killed?

At least that horse might have been
seriously injured.

Oh, the horse means more than I do.

To your mother and me, no.

To the horse, yes.

I'm going to ask a favor that I have
often granted you.

Okay. I mean, yes, sir.

I want to talk man to man.

Certainly.

Your actions have been insufferable ever
since you received that basketball

letter that made you think you were over
and above ordinary human beings.

Well, I was the star of the team. Even
the paper said so.

You played a good game, yes, but...
Good? Why, I was terrific.

You've been breaking all the rules that
make it possible for people to live

together. Rules, rules.

Gee, with 100 ,000 million rules, a
fellow's got to hide himself in the

to keep from breaking one.

Oh, you believe people should be allowed
to do as they please, huh?

No, but you bossing a fellow all the
time sort of makes him lose his

personality.

Well, maybe I'm wrong.

I'll tell you what we'll do.

For a week, you do as you please.

No rules, no don'ts. Boy, oh boy, Dad.
Man to man, does that mean I can do as I

please? But do I get punished if I'm
guilty of some slight error in judgment?

For the length of the experiment,
there'll be no punishment. You're on

It's a deal.

Now, wait a minute.

It's only fair to you to tell you why
I'm doing this.

This latest stage of your development is
only a phase that all boys go through.

In my opinion, you give the average boy
of your age enough rope and he'll hang

himself.

So without any rules or regulations,
you're very liable to find that instead

being a conquering hero, you're still a
little boy running home to his mother.

Oh, well, the day I come running home,
I'll have two brass bands in back of me

and a million dollars in my pocket.

Oh, boy, Dad, now I know how the slaves
felt when Lincoln signed the

Emancipation Proclamation.

Oh, excuse me.

James, I've only got a second. I want to
warn you.

Warn me?

Marion's falling in love with that
foreman, Ray Holt.

What? Oh, that's utterly ridiculous.

She had a fight with Dennis and Carl
Holt.

Now she's got that look in her eyes.

You'd better do something.

I'd better do something? What can I do?

James, you're so much wiser than any of
us.

Oh, now, see here, Millie, don't... Here
she comes.

Don't tell her that I told you.

Hello, Father.

Oh.

Marion.

Yes, Father.

Marion.

Are you having a nice time?

Do you know what the great outdoors has
made me realize?

That the qualities I admire most in a
man are simple kindness and real

of character.

James, how do you get yourself up for
dinner? Or do I have to wash back of

ears like I do Andy's?

Oh, James, I'm a new woman here where
we've nothing to worry about.

That's fine, that's fine.

Hurry along, dear. Come on, Marion.

Mr. Hardy.

Uh -huh?

Mr. Hall, the foreman's on the phone.

Oh, yes.

Yes, Ray, what is it?

What was that?

Wait just a minute till I get this thing
straight.

Is it all right for Andy to borrow your
six -shooter tomorrow to kill

rattlesnakes?

Stand back there, Jake. Give me a little
room.

That's it, girl.

Well!

Oh, you see?

Just a natural -born sharpshooter.

You suppose I could ever do that?

Well, I'd be afraid to let you try.

Now you see the difference between a
fellow 16 and a little kid of 8 like

yourself.

Say, I'll bet you a quarter you can't
even pull the trigger.

Maybe not the first time.

I tell you what I'll do. I'll bet you a
half a dollar that you can't even hit

the can in three tries.

I couldn't afford to lose that much
money.

Well, I lost a quarter to you. You can
be a good sport about it.

Look, I'll bet you a dollar that you
can't even hit the can in five tries.

A good sport?

Yeah. A woman's got to be a good sport,
same as a man.

It's a bet.

Take the gun in the right hand of the
lady?

Now just take a bead on it and rip right
out.

Of course, you'll miss it the first
time, but you're learning.

Why didn't you tell me that you got
the...

Mr. Hardy.

You think you're smart, don't you?

Well, I'll make you look silly before I
leave this joint.

Oh, forget it. Here, I'll give you your
dollar back.

No, no, I'm no quitter. You just wait.
I'll show you. You know, a man and woman

can be friends on equal basis.

Platonic, they call it. But once a woman
steps out of line and humiliates a man,

he's got to wipe out the insult or he
can't hold up his head again in the

You won't know it for years and years
yet, but this is a man's world.

It's getting late. Better take you home.

Ray, you've almost avoided me for the
last several days. If I hadn't asked you

to go walking with me tonight, we
wouldn't be here.

Why? Please tell me, Ray.

That's why.

It ought to have better sense.

But it's all right, Ray.

I'm in love with you.

Well, when a girl like you says she
loves me, there's only one thing for a

to do.

What?

When can I talk to your dad about
marrying you?

Dad, oh, yes, that's right. I suppose we
ought to... The sooner the better.

Well, I'll talk to him first.

Come on, let's go.

Northcote's told me of your fine record,
Ray.

You're hardworking, honest, and you're
good.

Mary knows how I feel about marriage.

To me, it's a 50 -50 partnership.

I know what you're willing to offer,
Ray.

What about you, Donna?

Me? Yes, there's a lot more than just
romance to being a wife out here in this

country. I was reading an article only
the other day about trial marriage.

Trial marriage?

I don't hold to those new ideas, Judge.
I don't think it's... Oh, I don't mean

carrying out the idea to the last
letter.

No, what I mean is, Marion, why don't
you try going to Ray's cottage every

morning and doing the housework, take
care of Jake?

Face some of the problems you'll have to
face after you're married.

I think that would be fun.

I know you. You think I'll fail.

Well, I'll show you.

Are you game?

Whatever you say.

We'll start tomorrow.

For breakfast?

For breakfast.

What time is breakfast?

Jake usually dishes up about a quarter
to five.

Well, maybe that's too early for you.
No, I'll be there on the dot. Well, I

wouldn't say anything to Mother about
this. Love's positive.

Then you can tell her the good news.

All right, Dad.

But I know it'll work out.

You gonna be our biscuit shooter?

Your what?

Cook our chow regular.

That's the idea.

Breakfast's almost ready.

Couple of minutes, Ray.

I can make doll clothes, too.

Doll clothes? For who?

Haven't you got a doll?

No. Had one once, but I traded it in for
a pair of spurs.

I'll make some cookies after breakfast.

You got any molasses?

Oh, here it is.

That ain't no molasses. That's varnish.

Varnish?

I'm glad you told me.

That's no place for the varnish.

Use the varnish can for a target.

Hey, Jake, will you dust off my boots?

Shall I?

No siree. Ray said to store by his
boots.

Paid 40 bucks for them.

Where do you keep the sugar?

In the salt jar.

Why don't you keep it in the sugar jar?

Because the salt's in there.

Now, wouldn't it be much easier to keep
the sugar in the sugar jar and the salt

in the salt jar?

Why?

Well, when you wanted the sugar, you
wouldn't have to go to so much trouble.

I don't go to no trouble. I just go to
the salt jar.

Morning. Sorry to be late with
breakfast.

But I had to help Mother get off this
morning. She and Aunt Millie are going

down to the reservation to look at
Indian blankets.

Oh!

Oh, Marion, I'm so sorry.

Hurt bad?

Not much now.

Good. Mush!

What's the matter, partner?

You'd cry too if you saw your father
being ruined.

Your dad, has he lost his job or signed
someone's note? No, that googie -eyed

sap sister of yours.

She's making up to him and the big lug
is bleeding like an orphan calf.

Caught you.

I guess maybe I ought to be, but I don't
have to be. You forgetting about our

deal, Dad?

Why don't you join me?

You're making an awful lot of noise with
that celery.

Boy, this is some spread.

Celery? Chicken. Oh, boy.

Drumstick, Dad?

No. No, thanks. You keep it. Well, you
can have it. No, no, no. You saw it

first. Oh, come on. Here, take it.

Oh, thanks, Andy.

Andy, what made you think of urging me
to take this drumstick?

You wanted it.

Well, I guess maybe it's because I can
do as I like and it puts me on equal

basis with you.

And somehow it kind of makes me want to
be polite.

Isn't that funny?

Oh, it's only Marion.

Any other time, then we'll be fighting
words.

But I'm too tired.

Is there any milk?

Milk? Sure, here's the whole pitcher
full.

Well, really?

Oh, yeah.

Is Jake putting you through the hoops?

Why have I let you live this long?

Well, here's your health, gentlemen.

But there's one thing.

What?

I'm beginning to understand what people
mean when they say you've got to grow up

with children, not take them at one fell
swoop.

Well, James Hardy.

Well, Emily Hardy.

Emily, we're all in the same boat. We're
all caught red -handed.

Just the same. I don't believe in eating
before you go to bed. I don't either,

Mom. Gee, the chicken's swell.

Have a chair, Millie.

Thanks. Boy, do I like midnight suppers.
Just as much fun as a picnic, only we

haven't got the ants.

They say there's no place like home.

Only where Mother is, that's home to us.

Pretty poor home before we left
Carville.

Was not. It was swell.

I have an apology to make to the whole
family.

I'm sorry I was such a cross over there.

I hope I didn't make things too
miserable for you. You were just tired,

Even tired I like her better than any
mother I know of. Now, Emily, no

postmortems. We don't allow that.

But poor Augusta, taking out my
tiredness on her. All that.

Last thing I did before I left Carville,
I hired Augusta back and paid her wages

till we got home.

Oh, Dad.

Pop's a magician.

Well, I wish I were.

Then I might solve this problem of
Dora's here.

Think of it.

Dora and Bill losing this ranch.

Dad, that'll mean Ray will be out of a
job.

Ray?

Oh, the foreman. Oh, don't worry, dear.
He'll soon get another job.

But, James, you must try to do something
to help the Northcuts.

Oh, I have. I've spent days in the
courthouse and nights planning strategy

didn't work.

Only the day the court refused my
petition for an injunction against

I guess Dora's right.

Miracles are answered.

My goodness gracious, Andy, you couldn't
have done this on one of these horses?

Nope, I rode a fence rail and Uncle Bill
tricked me in on the bronc with his

imported camera and a double exposure.

A pleasure.

The trouble with having you and Marion
here is it's going to be so lonely when

you leave.

I wish we could have you for keeps.

Thanks, Uncle Bill.

I'm going to go mail this to Polly.

Wait till Carville gets a load of
Daredevil Andy, the terror of the

Who's Polly?

A girlfriend.

You got a girlfriend?

I got several.

Can I be one?

What do you think I am, a cradle robber?
Now go on, Van Moose Jake, I got an

important letter to write.

Thought you'd gone to bed.

I don't have to, remember?

I'm just stealing a few moments from my
ranching activities to catch up with my

social correspondents.

Excuse me.

I'll try not to disturb you.

Doris said you wanted me. I know. I
warned you about too much horseback

Have a chair. Have a chair with me.

Yeah.

Nice last cool water.

Dad, whenever you act like this, you've
got some ideas in your mind.

You want something.

Yes, I do want something.

Emily,

Dora and Bill Northcott are licked.

Bruxton's going to take their ranch away
from them, and I'm powerless to help

them. Oh, Dad.

It's not like you to give up so easily.
I haven't given up. I've got one chance

left. It's a desperate one.

But it involves a decision that you've
got to make for me.

It means risking everything we have,
every dollar I can raise.

Well, do you think I'd understand if you
told me about it?

When Bill and Dora Northcott bought this
property, they signed an ironclad

agreement never to interfere with Bruxon
driving his cattle across their land.

But this morning I discovered in order
for Bruxon to get his cattle to the

railroad, he's got to cross another
property that's owned by a rich old

Now, if some disinterested person could
buy that Indian's property, he could

shut Bruxon off from the railroad.

Of course, Bill and Dora can't legally
do it, but I can buy that land.

and fight fire with fire until such time
as Bruxon agrees to give the North

Coast water at a reasonable rate.

But if something went wrong, we'd find
ourselves owning a desert waste and I'd

be liable to Bruxon for all the damage
he suffered.

Well, it's my idea that if you do
something because you think it's the

thing to do, somehow or other it's bound
to turn out right.

Where would the world be if it didn't?

Emily, you want me to do this?

James, how do you jump on your horse and
go and buy that land right away? But

don't try to outsmart that rich old
Indian.

My grandfather fought against the
Indians, and he used to tell me that an

could horn -swoggle the shirt right off
a white man's back.

Oh, but we mustn't breathe a word of
this.

If Braxton could ever prove the
Northcots knew what was going on, he'd

for everything they got, probably charge
him with criminal conspiracy.

If I were to tell one half of what I
know back home, the town of Carver would

break out in civil war.

Oh, Ma.

Oh, Mrs. Hardy, isn't it past your usual
bedtime?

Don't scold me, honey.

I'm going right away.

Good night. Good night, Ma.

Oh, Mother.

Oh, honey, you're tired.

Mustn't overdo things.

Remember, you're a modern, sophisticated
girl, not one of these, um, these

bronco -busters.

I'm remembering all right. Good night to
you.

Good night, dear. Good night, Andy.

Good night, Mommy.

Hey, Marion.

The latest dope on horses.

Latest dope on horses.

Say, ain't science doing wonderful
things nowadays for dumb animals?

Seeing as how you're going to marry a
horse's nurse, you ought to know

about... Sure.

Oh, you're perfect this morning.

You won't regret it.

Sure, I performed.

Can I have a doll for my birthday?

We'll see.

I'll get everything straightened up.
Let's see, you can start with... I

clean Ray's boots. He likes to look
right smart when he goes to town

Well, I'll do it. It's my duty to learn
how.

What do you use?

Polish?

If I was you...

I'd give them a good boiling first.

They're special leather, you know, and
boiling in baking soda keeps them soft.

Oh, really?

Yes, ma 'am.

Well, I don't know much about those
things.

And then I'd advise you to set him out
in the sun for a spell.

Ma, you look beautiful.

Ray will be so surprised.

See? You're sweet.

Well. I made it myself.

You know, it was awful, a little girl
not having anything to wear but pants

overalls. Not a single dress to her
name.

Look, I varnished the floor.

Well, that's just swell.

Come on now, we've got to hustle if
we're going to get to town before the

get all jammed up. Jake, dear, go fetch
your father's boots.

I cleaned them for you myself.

Be careful of the varnish.

It ought to be dry by now.

What kind of varnish did you use?

Smells sweet.

Varnish that Jake had in the molasses
can.

Jake, you didn't put the molasses back
in the molasses can. You told me to keep

things in the right places, didn't you?

But you didn't tell me that you changed
them.

What in the jumpin' jahasa fat has
happened to my boots?

Why, I just boiled them.

You boiled my boots?

Yes.

Boiled them?

Put them in water on the stove and
boiled them?

Yes, with plenty of baking soda. But
Mary and Boots are made of leather.

shouldn't be boiled in baking soda or
anything.

Can I help it if I'm not a tough Wild
West girl who knows all about Boots?

Dad, I was just being foolish and
romantic again.

Dad.

Oh, Dad.

Yeah, I think it's easy now. You aren't
going to faint, are you?

Dennis that I was going to marry someone
else.

Now he'll think I'm second -hand if I...
Does everyone pay for every impulsive

thing they do?

I always did.

I've got to eat humble pie.

I'll eat it and smear it all over my
face if he wants me to.

I'll phone and do it long distance right
now.

Someday I'll give you all the lurid
details of my trial marriage.

Pretty terrible?

Was it?

Hooray. I boiled his pet boots.

Oh, Mary, no.

Now, this isn't going to hurt you,
Calico. It's just to keep you from

while I'm in the saddle.

It's very simple. After a while, we'll
get used to each other, and then I'll

teach you to jump the back fence and
land right in front of Jake.

And boy, will her eyes pop open.

And guess she won't make any more cracks
about my riding.

Now, whoa.

Whoa, horse. Hold still.

We're going for a nice, quiet little
ride.

Hold still.

That's it.

Giddy -up!

Leg's broke, all right.

Nothing to do but shoot him.

Oh.

Honey, I'm sorry.

Please.

I'd like for Ray to shoot him.

We'll wait until he comes back.

Calico, baby.

It's maybe gonna hurt.

just a little minute.

But after that, I say, nothing will ever
hurt you.

And I heard Miss Northcott say, she's
sure horses get to heaven just like

anybody else. So just think, you'll have
plenty of green pastures up there.

If we could only talk and let me know
he's savvy.

I'll buy you another horse, Jake.

You've got hundreds of horses around the
ranch here.

Better than Calico.

You don't savvy.

Did you ever have a dog?

Sure, I... I had a dog.

Cutest little tyke you ever saw.

Where is he now?

He's dead.

Truck run over him.

I cried a little.

I cried a lot.

Well, then maybe you can understand a
tiny little bit of how I feel about

Calico.

There's just no sense in having to shoot
Calico.

Just no sense.

Why don't you tell me you hate me? Why
don't you tell me I'm a horse killer?

don't you beat me or something?

What's the matter, son?

Dad, you know that verse in the Bible
that goes, pride goeth before a fall?

Well, I got mine.

Gee.

Tell me about it, Andy.

I can't talk about it yet. You'll know
about it soon enough.

Look, I've got all my Christmas money
saved up in the bank at home, and I

sell my roadster for about... 20 bucks,
that's about $35.

And, well, I know how you feel about
credit, Dad, but could you give me 35

and 15 to go with it to make $50?

$50?

That's a lot of money for anyone, let
alone a... Must be a frightful emergency

to want that much money so badly.

Well, could I have it?

Of course.

Oh, you're swell, Dad.

As long as I've got anything, Andrew,
it's yours, too.

Yeah, I've been an awful fool.

Gosh, everything you said about me since
I got my basketball letter, ain't... I

mean, isn't a half of it.

Gee, I didn't have enough sense to see
that you knew most everything about life

and kids. I don't know nothing at all.

Gee, I'm not even worth being your son.

But I'm cured, Dad, and you're going to
find out.

Yeah, I'll never forget this.

You gotta promise me something. Don't
shoot him till I get back.

Okay. I'll try and fix it, but I think
you're plum loco. I don't care.

Surprise! For your den at home.

To hang on the wall across from the
Catalina swordfish.

Well, that's mighty sweet of you, Emily.

Only I'm not awfully fond of Indian
blankets.

Oh, you mean because of that picnic.

What do you mean, that picnic?

Don't you be coy with me, James Hardy.
Why, it was the town scandal.

Did you know about that? I'll tell you a
secret.

Before that, I hadn't really noticed
you. But when I heard, well, you can put

down to my extreme youth, but you
completely intrigued me.

I wanted to reform you. Reform me?

Of course, when I married you, I
realized that gossip was ridiculous.

Well, after all, water can't run uphill.

Well, the whole scheme of the universe,
women are the strangest creatures in it.

James, I never really believed that
gossip because I took the trouble to

out it wasn't true.

I just think we've had all these years.

And Marion and Andy.

Yes.

James, you're hiding something from me
to save me worry.

I can always tell.

Mother, it's Andy.

He's been missing all day. James. No,
no, no, no.

But didn't you say he was out on the
range with Ray Holt? Well, I just told

that to keep you from worrying because I
hoped he'd turn up every minute.

No one has seen Andy since right after
the accident at Calico.

Where did he go?

Where could he go?

Maybe he's running away from trouble,
afraid to stick it out and face the

I can't believe Andy would ever do that.
I don't believe it either, but the fact

remains he's disappeared.

No, no, no, no, Mother.

Bill's rounding up the cowboys, and
we're going out and look for him just as

soon as the horses are saddled.

I can't believe it.

Things like this don't happen to us.

Oh, steady, Mother, steady.

You're going to see this through with me
just as we've seen everything else

through.

I will, Dave.

I wouldn't worry too much, Judge. The
boy's not really lost when he's with

Speed.

Look.

All right, men.

Let's go.

I'm sure I'm tenderfoot, you... Jake,
Jake.

You, you undersized, crop -eared
maverick.

I was never so glad to see anybody in
all my life.

You ain't got the brains of a doodle
-bug. Running away, were you?

I was not.

Might never have found you. Speed hadn't
come in. And I figured from the wild

oats hanging from his bed, he'd been in
this particular canyon.

Don't you know this country? You could
wander in circles till you bellied up.

You could lay till the buzzards left
nothing but your bones for the coyotes

chew on. Why, you, you, you ornery flat
-brained smart aleck, you... You said

it. That ain't the half of it.

Speeder bucked me off.

Gee, I... I can't even write a jackass.

Well... First, I gotta decent you up a
bit. Your mother'd faint away if I brung

you in looking like you'd been through a
meat chopper.

Giddy up.

Have some java with me, Judge. Make you
feel better to face the messes without

the boy.

Yes, I believe I will, Ray.

Andrew, where have you been?

Well, I was out... I'm straightening him
up before I take him to his mom.

He's really in dreadful shape.

Do you realize your mother's been heart
sick about you?

Were you running away?

Are you such a quitter that you couldn't
stay and face the damage that you've

done? That ain't so, Judge.

It was all my fault. I went plum loco
about Calico, and I kind of wandered out

on the range.

Say, I would have got ate up by coyotes
and poisoned by rattlesnakes if Andy

hadn't followed me and brung me back.

Honest, Judge, Andy's a real tough
hombre of a hero.

What are you making up a bunch of lies
like that for, Jake?

It was me, Pop. I was the one that was
lost, and I'd still be there yet if she

hadn't come and got me.

Here we are, kid.

Where's the horse with the broken leg?

In the barn.

In the barn.

Got here as soon as I could, like I
promised.

What is all this, Andrew?

That's where I went, Dad, to get Dr.
Hodge.

I read about him in a magazine.

He's got a new system, a hodge sling. It
holds a horse up till his leg heals.

That's where you don't have to... You
won't have to shoot Calico.

Andy, oh, you're a swell hombre.

Oh, that's where you're... I feel kind
of tired, Dad.

Kind of sick.

I want my mom.

Yeah.

I'm very proud of Andy.

Maybe you think his father isn't.

Emily? Yes, Dad?

You were right.

We still do have trouble with the
Indians.

Oh. Your plan didn't work?

Within an hour after I'd legally
acquired that Indian's property, Bruxton

me with his court order.

That Indian and Bruxton have been in
cahoots all the time.

They can prove that that road that leads
to the railway is an old Mexican

-Indian trail been in use for nearly a
hundred years.

Never can be closed to public traffic.

That's going to be bad news for Bill and
Dora, isn't it?

We may lose our own home to make the
payments on that worthless land.

Well, we'll go back to the little
cottage where we were married.

You haven't been able to rent it since
1936 anyway.

It's taken us 30 years to get where we
are.

We've still got everything we had 30
years ago and a great deal more.

Then we only dared to hope for
happiness.

Now we've had it.

We've still got it. Nothing can ever
take that away from us.

Let's not tell the children about this
till we get home, huh?

Mother dearest, I love you because the
only worry you have about tomorrow is

how clear is your conscience today.

Just imagine, a hammock for a horse.

It's called a Hodge sling, Mom. Dr.
Hodge invented it. And it's going to fix

Calico's leg as good as new, isn't it,
Uncle Bill? He'll be galloping in no

time. Marion!

Oh.

Jose asked me to tell you that you
wanted on the telephone.

Long distance.

He said it's your boyfriend.

You're a swell guy, Ray.

Ow!

Well, we're going to catch our train.

Oh, Dora, we had such a lovely time.

Jim, it's been marvelous having you
here. I wish we could say goodbye in a

happier mood.

You've done all any human being could
do.

Don't take it to heart. We'll pull
through all right.

Suppose we just say we needed a miracle.

Everybody knows the day of miracles has
passed.

You two are the grandest friends in the
world.

Well, we've got the whole ride to the
station for goodbyes. Dora, you coming

with us?

I'm going to sit between Jim and Emily
and squeeze their hands all the way just

to thank them for coming.

Well, come on, everybody. Come on. Come
on, Andy. Oh, dear. Marion's on the

phone. I know we're going to miss that
train.

I'll tell you when we get home.

And we're leaving for home now.

Adios, Jake.

Adios, partner.

As one last favor, what was the idea of
making me out a hero yesterday when I

wasn't none at all? It's got to be that
way.

The men folks got to get the credit, and
the women folks got to stand back.

Even if they know they're bitter, they
got to make it look like the men folks

are.

I ain't so sure you're right.

What's that got to do with you and me?

Well, I'm kind of particular to you.

You are?

Well... And I figured someday, oh, not
for about five years maybe, but someday

you and me might get hitched, married.

have known Dennis was here when you're
talking that soup and fish voice.

Listen, did you take a stack of mail off
the hall table? There was only one for

you. From Polly, if I recognize that
mold, paper, and gardenia perfume.

Goodness, the airs children put on
nowadays.

My dear Miss Hardy, when was it you said
that before?

Oh, yes, I remember. It was the first
day that you kissed that cowboy.

I was going to tell you all about that,
Dennis.

Good night.

Hello, Miss Polly Benedict, please.

Mr. Andrew Hardy calling.

You say Miss Benedict's giving a party
tonight and she doesn't want to speak to

Mr. Hardy?

No,

no, no, no message.

Dad, can I... Could you... I need some
advice on a subject very close to my

heart. A little later on, dear.

Just now, your father's got some bad
news for you.

Bad news?

Yes, he... He's made some unfortunate
investments.

Well, Andy, it may be necessary for us
to economize.

perhaps curtail our activities.

Why, is that all?

Say, you can cut my allowance from a
buck and a half, a dollar and a half a

to 50 cents.

I think we can still manage the buck and
a half.

Look, Dad, I'm not a kid anymore.

It'd make me feel like I was really
growing up if I could take things along

you grown -ups.

Oh, then you don't mind altering your
mode of living?

It won't cramp your style?

Look, Dad, I've got troubles that'd make
going to the poor house seem a

pleasure. Look, after you get through
straightening out the family finances,

appreciate you helping me make up my
mind whether the rest of my life I'm

to be a man or a mouse.

Yes, yes, of course, but... Oh, don't
worry, Mom. Look, I can sell papers or

a job mowing the lawn or... Say, I could
even get a job driving a truck.

Bless your heart, I believe you could.

And I know you would if we needed it,
but we won't. So you just run along now

and not a word to your sister yet.

Okay, Dad.

I just realized something. Now that
we're poor people, we certainly can't

me a stiff white collar every Sunday.

Ha -ha!

Well, now that's over and done with,
maybe I'll get a little appreciation of

your lovely present.

Hmm?

That's very old and a unique design.

Looks familiar.

That's a map of the Northcote Valley.

See the stream?

That's nearly a hundred years old.

Jump in, G.

Hasselbeck. Goodness, do you like it
that much? Mother, according to this

that stream has been diverted from its
original course once it ran right

the Northcott property.

Mother, you're right. You saved the day.

Water can't run uphill.

Well, anybody knows that. I said so at
the ranch.

Do you mean we saved the Northcott
ranch? I mean you've saved everything,

Northcotts and ourselves.

Now the Northcotts got plenty of water,
that desert land I bought can be

irrigated. Oh, James, I'm so happy.

I didn't want to remind you, but you
remember that little house of ours

have any hot water? Now, you know you'd
never be happy if you didn't have your

warm bath every night.

That's all. Pass now.

Oh, my, George, it's too late.

Dora and Bill's water contract expires
today. They'll have sold out to Bruxton

before I could ever get there.

James, the telephone.

What? Use the telephone.

Oh!

long distance.

Give me the ranch of William Northcott
in Medville, Arizona.

Yes, Judge.

Yes, sir.

Now, listen. I just found out that years
ago, Bruxon had that stream diverted

off your property, and the law says that
any time the cost of a stream is

changed and the water's being wasted,
it's legal to turn the stream back to

original bed if it's necessary for the
living and sustenance of the original

property owners.

Man doesn't bring forth the rains or the
winter snow that feed the streams.

No man has the right to rob any other
man of God -given water.

Doro, we're saved.

Jim Hardy saved us.

Bruxton, you go jump in your own stream,
and quick, too, because I'm going to

take it away from you.

Bless you, Jim.

Why, with all that water, I can expand.

I'll buy that old Indian's property and
irrigate it. You bet your life you will,

because I'm going to sell you that land
for exactly what I paid for it.

Yippee! And another redskin bit the
dust.

Goodbye and love to Dora.

I'll get that legal ruling off the bill
right away.

James, I knew you'd find some excuse to
get out of unpacking.

Andy, I'm so happy I'm not even going to
make you do your own unpacking.

Listen, if I were you, I'd go and pay my
respects to Miss Polly Benedict.

Pop, I know you're busy, but I think
it's about time we had one of those man

-man talks.

We seem to get the best results that
way, son.

Well, man -to -man, I've been jilted.

I beg your pardon?

Jilted, you know, tossed aside like an
old pair of shoes or something.

Polly Benedict, I presume.

You bet, Polly Benedict.

But, you know, before we went out west,
well, I had a row with Polly and, well,

I was riding kind of high about that
time and... Go on.

Well, that's about all. I wrote her a
letter from the ranch and she sent me

letter back and didn't even open it up.

Now she won't even speak to me over the
phone.

Dad, you've got to help me out.

You must have had some trouble with
women in your day.

Yes, I seem to remember some little
difficulties.

She's going to have a party tonight,
and, well, gee, she invited me to the

party, too. But, well, and she got
fresh. I mean, I got fresh, and, well,

afraid she won't speak to me again after
I've given her some of the best years

of my life.

Well, that is pretty serious.

It's things like this that puts gray
hairs in a man's head.

You say Polly asked you to attend a
party.

Certainly did.

Well, in that case, we have a
contractual offer.

Were there any revocations?

Huh?

Did she take it back?

No, sir.

Then, well, I didn't get around to
saying yes, I could come, and she didn't

around to saying I couldn't.

Very good.

Thus, we have the continuing of an offer
which can ripen into a contract by the

mere fact of your acceptance.

You can accept by attending.

Technically, Andy, that's an overt act.

Constitutes the acceptance of an offer
of a unilateral contract molding all the

entire negotiations into a valid
contract with the necessary quid pro

that solves your problem.

Understand?

Does that mean I can go to the party?

Counsel recommends attendance.

What will I do, Dad, if I'm thrown out
of the house?

That event will sue for assault and
battery and lessening of your social

prestige.

Now, now, listen, son.

I see your trouble and I understand it
perfectly, for believe it or not, I was

16 once myself.

Now, you go to the party and you act the
humility and apology I see in you now,

and good luck to you.

Oh, boy, oh, boy.

Gee, Dad, am I glad you're a judge.

No, I can't go to the party.

Because it's a costume party and I
haven't got a costume.

Oh, wait, I've got an idea.

Why don't you... Evening, Mr. Hardy.

Good evening, Ambrose.

Oh, there's Andy Hardy.

Hi, Andy. How you doing, Andy?

Mr. Hardy.

I hardly recognized you in that costume.

Your hat, sir?

No, thanks, Ambrose. I may need it in a
hurry. Yes, sir.

If you're always telling me things like
that, I'm getting so I can't believe a

word you say. No, really, Polly, I mean
it.

Shall we?

Excuse me, please.

All right.

Good evening, Mr. Hardy.

Good evening, Miss Benedict.

Kind of surprised to see me at your
party, ain't you?

Aren't you? Yes, I am.

You invited me.

Did I?

Yeah. Don't you remember?

Oh, I suppose I must have.

For I'm sure Judge Hardy's son is too
well -bred to come where he's not

Oh. A glass of punch?

No.

Shall I ask one of the girls to dance
with you? No.

Polly.

Darling, what about our dance? Oh, I'm
so sorry, Cliff, dear. I'll only be a

minute. I had my duties as a hostess,
you know.

Especially toward the neighbor's
children.

I'll give you one minute, honey.

Well?

Polly. Who was that?

Cliff Thomas.

Isn't he handsome?

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, you don't sound as if you meant it.

Sure I do. Geez.

He's one of the handsomest white men I
ever saw.

Cliff is Father's New York
representative.

Father says he's the most promising
young man in the corporation.

He does, does he?

He's promising, huh?

Of course.

Nobody's supposed to know it yet, but...
But what?

Well, he and... Oh.

Shh,

here he comes.

Oh, Cliff, dear, I'd like you to know
Mr. Hardy. Mr. Hardy, Mr. Thomas. How do

you do?

How do you do?

I've been telling Mr. Hardy about you,
Cliff.

It's still a secret, but Cliff's going
to Europe for father's firm.

And he has the loveliest wife and the
two most adorable children.

Gee, Mr. Thomas, glad to know you. Gosh,
a wife and babies is what every man

should have.

Thanks. Say, you're the Andy Hardy
Polly's always talking about, the star

basketball team.

Gee, Mr. Thomas, things like that get
exaggerated and cause a lot of harm.

Gosh, I wouldn't have been able to make
a single goal all season if the other

fellas hadn't put the ball right in my
hands. You're too modest.

Go to work on him, Polly.

That's strange talk for a man of
destiny.

That's right, Polly.

Go ahead, rub it in.

I've got it coming to me.

There's something I want to talk to you
about. Come with me.

What was in that letter you wrote to me,
Andy?

Oh, nothing. It just said... I mean, I
just said that, well, I was sorry and

that I wanted you to forgive me and a
lot of other things.

What things?

Oh, nothing. Just things.

Darling. Before I left Carville, I was
sure I cared enough for you.

Now I know I do.

How did you know I wrote that?

I steamed your letter open and read it
before I sent it back to you.

And I want that picture of you on the
Bronco.

Gee, Polly, that wasn't me at all.

That was a double exposure.

That's not the kind of kiss I'd expect
from the terror of the rain.