1 00:00:28,190 --> 00:00:31,190 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 2 00:00:31,230 --> 00:00:34,160 I wish to announce that during the strike, 3 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,670 we shall continue to do business. 4 00:00:36,700 --> 00:00:38,670 And all but the very near-sighted 5 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:40,240 can see our show, 6 00:00:40,270 --> 00:00:42,670 without crossing the picket line. 7 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:46,110 Actually, this is not a strike about wages. 8 00:00:46,140 --> 00:00:49,410 I am a worker myself when I can’t avoid it. 9 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:53,110 And I have long campaigned for the four-hour lunch. 10 00:00:53,150 --> 00:00:56,480 Actually, these are actors who claim I kill 11 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,790 too many of them off during my stories. 12 00:00:59,820 --> 00:01:02,420 They’re striking for longer hours. 13 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,290 I see the pickets have stopped walking 14 00:01:06,330 --> 00:01:08,500 so they can watch tonight’s story. 15 00:01:08,530 --> 00:01:09,630 Will you join them? 16 00:02:00,450 --> 00:02:02,220 [engine starts] 17 00:02:25,540 --> 00:02:26,980 Haven’t you anything to say? 18 00:02:30,550 --> 00:02:32,480 When you rode around town with that young car thief, 19 00:02:32,510 --> 00:02:33,920 you had something to say. 20 00:02:33,950 --> 00:02:35,780 I’ll bet you talked a blue streak to him. 21 00:02:38,690 --> 00:02:39,850 Would you please have the courtesy 22 00:02:39,890 --> 00:02:41,260 to look at me when I’m talking to you? 23 00:02:42,860 --> 00:02:44,190 Do you know why the judge let you off 24 00:02:44,230 --> 00:02:46,230 with only a reprimand? 25 00:02:46,260 --> 00:02:47,760 Because the judge knew I was the councilman 26 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,700 from Allendale. 27 00:02:49,730 --> 00:02:51,130 He realized that, if he sentenced you 28 00:02:51,170 --> 00:02:52,630 along with your boyfriend, 29 00:02:52,670 --> 00:02:54,100 it would create further scandal 30 00:02:54,100 --> 00:02:55,270 and damage my reputation, 31 00:02:56,470 --> 00:02:58,610 so he put you on probation. 32 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:01,340 I hope you realize your little escapade could’ve wrecked everything 33 00:03:01,380 --> 00:03:02,640 that’s taken me a whole lifetime 34 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,350 to build up in this community. 35 00:03:04,380 --> 00:03:05,680 I don’t expect gratitude, 36 00:03:05,710 --> 00:03:07,580 but at least a few words of appreciation. 37 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:10,650 Thank you for everything, Uncle Charles. 38 00:03:10,690 --> 00:03:11,750 You’ve been very kind. 39 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:14,760 In my day, we were taught to have 40 00:03:14,790 --> 00:03:16,320 a sense of responsibility. 41 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:17,790 [woman] Yes, Uncle. 42 00:03:17,830 --> 00:03:19,960 I didn’t ask to be your legal guardian. 43 00:03:20,060 --> 00:03:21,760 Since your father’s will so provided, 44 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,070 I’ve tried to do what I thought best for you. 45 00:03:24,070 --> 00:03:26,130 I know. 46 00:03:26,170 --> 00:03:28,100 So I can’t even consider now 47 00:03:28,140 --> 00:03:29,540 sending you back to Deep Valley School 48 00:03:29,570 --> 00:03:30,870 in the fall. 49 00:03:30,910 --> 00:03:32,410 I’ll find one of my business associates 50 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,080 who needs a girl in his office. 51 00:03:35,310 --> 00:03:36,810 If the finest finishing school in the West 52 00:03:36,850 --> 00:03:38,180 couldn’t teach you the difference between 53 00:03:38,210 --> 00:03:39,650 right and wrong, maybe a year or more 54 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:41,280 in a business office... 55 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,150 That boyfriend of yours learned his lesson. 56 00:03:43,180 --> 00:03:44,790 Let’s hope not going back to school 57 00:03:44,820 --> 00:03:46,150 will be punishment enough for you. 58 00:03:51,890 --> 00:03:53,190 Dry your eyes and sit up. 59 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,100 Can’t tell, I might run into somebody 60 00:03:56,100 --> 00:03:58,000 I do business with in this town. 61 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,310 I’m out of cigarettes. Would you like anything? 62 00:04:18,220 --> 00:04:19,790 Now don’t try anything foolish, 63 00:04:19,820 --> 00:04:21,460 like running away. 64 00:04:21,490 --> 00:04:23,190 Just remember last time. 65 00:04:33,340 --> 00:04:34,400 [sighs] 66 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:19,610 [metallic crash] 67 00:05:21,380 --> 00:05:24,050 Look at her. Can’t even pull out of a parking space. 68 00:05:24,090 --> 00:05:26,290 [honks horn] 69 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:29,660 It’s stuck. 70 00:05:32,060 --> 00:05:33,530 [honking continues] 71 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,200 Shut up! 72 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,470 [honking continues] 73 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,220 [horn stops] 74 00:05:58,250 --> 00:06:00,020 Why, thank you, son. 75 00:06:00,020 --> 00:06:01,920 A noisy horn, it bugs me. 76 00:06:02,020 --> 00:06:03,930 You seem to know quite a bit about auto mechanics. 77 00:06:04,030 --> 00:06:06,460 Either you dig a motor or you don’t. 78 00:06:08,330 --> 00:06:09,500 This is a nice hunk of metal. 79 00:06:09,530 --> 00:06:11,270 -Will it do over 100? -I wouldn’t know. 80 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:12,670 You don’t win the County Safety Award 81 00:06:12,700 --> 00:06:14,140 two out of three years by speeding. 82 00:06:14,170 --> 00:06:17,040 Hallelujah. Look, you headed toward San Francisco? 83 00:06:17,070 --> 00:06:19,040 -Allendale. -That’s close enough. 84 00:06:19,070 --> 00:06:20,610 How about giving me a lift? 85 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:21,840 Young man, I make it a practice 86 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:23,040 never to pick up strangers. 87 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:24,580 Well, I’m not a stranger. 88 00:06:24,610 --> 00:06:27,220 I’m the mechanical marvel who fixes noisy horns 89 00:06:27,250 --> 00:06:28,720 for safety drivers, remember? 90 00:06:28,750 --> 00:06:30,620 And I appreciate that and I thank you very much. 91 00:06:30,650 --> 00:06:32,920 Well, then stretch it a bit. Just give me a lift. 92 00:06:34,890 --> 00:06:36,790 -All right, hop in. -Thanks. 93 00:06:43,630 --> 00:06:44,900 [engine starts] 94 00:06:54,110 --> 00:06:55,480 What’s your name, son? 95 00:06:57,380 --> 00:06:59,080 I like to call people by name. 96 00:07:00,420 --> 00:07:03,020 Some people are called by numbers. 97 00:07:03,050 --> 00:07:04,290 What’s that? 98 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,490 [chuckles] 99 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,090 But if it’s names you want... 100 00:07:09,890 --> 00:07:12,760 Make mine... Len. 101 00:07:12,790 --> 00:07:15,530 I’m Councilman Underhill. This is my niece Anne. 102 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,030 This young man is on his way 103 00:07:18,030 --> 00:07:19,570 to San Francisco. 104 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,670 -Hi, Anne. -Hello, Len. 105 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:24,340 Been working in this neck of the woods? 106 00:07:25,740 --> 00:07:27,080 You can call it that. 107 00:07:29,110 --> 00:07:31,350 I assume you learned about automobile mechanics 108 00:07:31,380 --> 00:07:35,550 -in school? -[laughing] 109 00:07:35,580 --> 00:07:39,590 -That’s-- That’s comical, real comical. -Yeah. Yeah. 110 00:07:39,620 --> 00:07:40,760 Let me in on the joke. 111 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,160 I don’t think you’d get it. 112 00:07:46,190 --> 00:07:49,330 This joke, it’s-- it’s kind of personal. 113 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:50,900 Hmm. 114 00:07:50,930 --> 00:07:54,270 All you young people today have a wall you hide behind 115 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:55,900 whenever your elders try to be friendly 116 00:07:55,940 --> 00:07:57,970 or helpful. 117 00:07:58,070 --> 00:07:59,140 You’ve got it all figured out 118 00:07:59,170 --> 00:08:00,880 about young people, don’t you? 119 00:08:00,910 --> 00:08:02,910 [Charles] Well, I’ve been able to observe first-hand 120 00:08:03,010 --> 00:08:05,080 one fine example of your generation. 121 00:08:05,110 --> 00:08:07,320 Uncle Charles, please, no. 122 00:08:11,790 --> 00:08:12,890 [tires screeching] 123 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:17,830 Look. 124 00:08:17,860 --> 00:08:20,800 [all exclaiming, whistling and cat-calling] 125 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:25,730 [exclamations continue] 126 00:08:25,770 --> 00:08:28,340 How did they ever give him a license to drive a truck? 127 00:08:28,370 --> 00:08:30,210 [exclamations continue] 128 00:08:39,510 --> 00:08:41,820 Peculiar bunch of young men. 129 00:08:41,850 --> 00:08:43,820 They’re being shipped to the... 130 00:08:43,850 --> 00:08:46,290 State Farm five miles away. 131 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,320 Some will dig holes and plant baby junipers 132 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,130 and white pine. 133 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,360 The rest will level off the hillsides. 134 00:08:52,390 --> 00:08:53,930 At 5:00, 135 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:55,930 the guard’ll pile them back in the truck... 136 00:08:57,770 --> 00:08:59,070 and the driver will bring them back 137 00:08:59,070 --> 00:09:00,600 to the Farm. 138 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:02,700 Farm? What farm? 139 00:09:02,740 --> 00:09:04,670 The Honor Farm. 140 00:09:04,710 --> 00:09:05,670 What’s an Honor Farm? 141 00:09:05,710 --> 00:09:07,780 [exhales] 142 00:09:07,810 --> 00:09:10,850 It’s a place, sugar, for juvenile jerks 143 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:12,850 who never discovered how to walk the narrow fence 144 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,480 without being nabbed by the law. 145 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,490 You mean, those men were convicts? 146 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,020 If you’re a prison psychiatrist, Dad... 147 00:09:21,020 --> 00:09:25,730 you call them cases of arrested emotional development. 148 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,630 Yeah. A label for everything at the Farm. 149 00:09:31,730 --> 00:09:33,640 You kill your old man, it’s not murder. 150 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,270 Assault, forgery, snatching... 151 00:09:40,780 --> 00:09:43,310 they’ve all got labels that sound real fancy. 152 00:09:46,210 --> 00:09:47,950 But it’s still jailhouse-rock, 153 00:09:48,050 --> 00:09:49,550 label or no label. 154 00:09:49,580 --> 00:09:51,350 How do you know so much about those convicts? 155 00:09:52,590 --> 00:09:54,220 Because until this morning, 156 00:09:54,260 --> 00:09:56,290 I might’ve stood in that truck 157 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:57,360 whistling at your niece. 158 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:02,660 [tires screech] 159 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:08,140 Out. 160 00:10:08,170 --> 00:10:09,940 He’s done nothing to us. 161 00:10:09,970 --> 00:10:12,640 Well, I’m not going to give him the chance. 162 00:10:12,670 --> 00:10:14,340 What are you waiting for? Get out! 163 00:10:14,380 --> 00:10:17,410 -All right, Dad. -Len, he doesn’t mean it. 164 00:10:17,450 --> 00:10:18,950 Is that what they taught you at school? 165 00:10:18,980 --> 00:10:20,620 Champion convicts? 166 00:10:20,650 --> 00:10:22,680 He’s been nice and friendly. 167 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,450 [Charles] It’s all part of the same pattern, isn’t it? 168 00:10:25,490 --> 00:10:26,760 A girl who thinks it’s thrilling 169 00:10:26,790 --> 00:10:27,860 to sit in the same car 170 00:10:27,890 --> 00:10:29,520 with a young jailbird. 171 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:32,490 Never mind, Anne. I’ll get off here. 172 00:10:32,530 --> 00:10:33,700 Lots of luck. 173 00:10:36,030 --> 00:10:37,970 Wait a moment. 174 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,300 For once, my niece is quite right. 175 00:10:39,330 --> 00:10:40,470 I am a man of my word. 176 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:43,340 You can ride with us. 177 00:10:48,740 --> 00:10:49,880 Thanks. 178 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:54,150 It’s always the insider squashing the outsider 179 00:10:54,180 --> 00:10:55,580 like he was a bug. 180 00:10:55,620 --> 00:10:57,250 I don’t understand. 181 00:10:57,290 --> 00:10:58,690 Look. A chick like you, 182 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,620 young, just hatched out of her shell... 183 00:11:01,660 --> 00:11:03,290 you’re an outsider, see? 184 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,930 But the insider, he’s lived a lot of years. 185 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:08,600 He hates change. 186 00:11:08,630 --> 00:11:11,730 Hates anybody doing anything different than he does it. 187 00:11:11,770 --> 00:11:14,400 The insider doesn’t take a chance, 188 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,400 never gets a ticket for speeding 189 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,510 or gets drunk or looks anywhere he shouldn’t. 190 00:11:18,540 --> 00:11:19,940 [scoffs] 191 00:11:19,970 --> 00:11:22,780 He’s the number-one man in his hometown. 192 00:11:22,810 --> 00:11:24,210 He’s got it made. 193 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:28,120 Right, Mr. Underhill? 194 00:11:28,150 --> 00:11:29,880 Where did you get this interesting theory, 195 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,590 -in jail? -Yeah, 196 00:11:31,620 --> 00:11:33,420 from listening and watching. 197 00:11:33,460 --> 00:11:35,690 -I see. -Daddy-O, 198 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,390 let me tell you about an outsider I know 199 00:11:37,430 --> 00:11:39,330 who is out of this world, on the highest cloud. 200 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,660 He’s gone, but gone. 201 00:11:41,700 --> 00:11:45,100 He-- He loves knives. I mean, any kind of knives. 202 00:11:45,100 --> 00:11:47,240 Uh, kitchen knives, 203 00:11:47,270 --> 00:11:50,840 penknives, anything sharp and made of steel. 204 00:11:50,870 --> 00:11:52,340 [chuckles] 205 00:11:52,370 --> 00:11:53,680 That cool cat 206 00:11:53,710 --> 00:11:55,780 with the yen to use the knife 207 00:11:55,810 --> 00:11:57,210 was my pal, he was my buddy. 208 00:11:59,110 --> 00:12:00,550 Did you ever know anybody crazy 209 00:12:00,580 --> 00:12:02,680 about sharp steel, Mr. Underhill? 210 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:04,190 No. No, I haven’t. 211 00:12:05,390 --> 00:12:06,650 He was clever, too. 212 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:11,330 I mean, he could fix noisy horns... 213 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:12,960 -[snap] -...dig any motor. 214 00:12:13,060 --> 00:12:15,700 He could take it apart, put it together. 215 00:12:18,330 --> 00:12:19,830 I think we should stop 216 00:12:19,870 --> 00:12:21,370 and get something to eat, don’t you, Anne? 217 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,200 Fine, Uncle Charles. 218 00:13:07,350 --> 00:13:10,550 Hello, folks. What’ll it be? 219 00:13:10,590 --> 00:13:12,220 I’ll have a tuna fish on white, toasted, 220 00:13:12,250 --> 00:13:13,520 and coffee, please. 221 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:16,060 A hamburger, medium-well and coffee, please. 222 00:13:16,060 --> 00:13:17,530 Same, please. 223 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:21,930 Let me tell you more about that guy at the Farm. 224 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:23,470 What about him? 225 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:26,400 He was a flipper from way, way out. He was-- 226 00:13:26,430 --> 00:13:28,470 He was always quoting a wild-haired cat 227 00:13:28,500 --> 00:13:30,340 named-- named Dylan Thomas. 228 00:13:32,670 --> 00:13:34,540 Now, an insider like you 229 00:13:34,580 --> 00:13:37,180 wouldn’t have heard of a poet like him, 230 00:13:37,210 --> 00:13:38,680 would you have, Mr. Underhill? 231 00:13:41,250 --> 00:13:42,780 You know why your uncle never heard of him? 232 00:13:43,950 --> 00:13:45,620 Because he was young, 233 00:13:45,650 --> 00:13:48,220 and he was just trying to be himself. 234 00:13:48,260 --> 00:13:50,090 And that’s what I want to be, Mr. Underhill. 235 00:13:52,090 --> 00:13:54,100 And that makes me a criminal in your eyes, doesn’t it? 236 00:13:55,860 --> 00:13:58,100 Just wanting to be me. 237 00:13:58,100 --> 00:13:59,330 [clicks tongue] 238 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,350 [big-band music starts] 239 00:14:28,300 --> 00:14:30,200 You dance like they wrote the music for you. 240 00:14:30,230 --> 00:14:32,070 [Anne] Oh, you’re pretty good yourself. 241 00:14:32,070 --> 00:14:33,230 [Len] I’m out of practice. 242 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:38,770 Proprietor. 243 00:14:41,710 --> 00:14:42,880 Proprietor! 244 00:14:44,980 --> 00:14:46,380 I’m sorry, sir. 245 00:14:46,410 --> 00:14:47,880 But I just gave my wife your orders. 246 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:49,120 She’s the cook, you know. 247 00:14:49,150 --> 00:14:50,620 Yeah, yeah. Where’s the phone? 248 00:14:50,650 --> 00:14:52,990 Right around the back. There’s a booth there. 249 00:14:53,090 --> 00:14:54,220 Change, please. 250 00:14:54,260 --> 00:14:55,490 -Change? -Yes, sir. 251 00:14:56,830 --> 00:14:58,160 [register rings] 252 00:14:59,930 --> 00:15:01,130 Just a second, please. 253 00:15:03,100 --> 00:15:04,400 [music continues] 254 00:15:11,470 --> 00:15:13,110 Was it the real thing between you and the kid 255 00:15:13,140 --> 00:15:14,680 who took the rap? 256 00:15:14,710 --> 00:15:16,540 Oh, no. I hardly knew him. 257 00:15:16,580 --> 00:15:17,750 He called one day and asked me 258 00:15:17,780 --> 00:15:20,050 to go for a ride, so I went. 259 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,150 I didn’t know it was a stolen car. I-- 260 00:15:22,180 --> 00:15:24,350 I didn’t do anything wrong. 261 00:15:24,390 --> 00:15:26,250 You couldn’t. 262 00:15:26,290 --> 00:15:28,260 Thanks. 263 00:15:28,290 --> 00:15:29,960 But your uncle gets a bang out 264 00:15:30,060 --> 00:15:31,890 of thinking you did, doesn’t he? 265 00:15:31,930 --> 00:15:34,300 Well, he won’t let me go back to school. 266 00:15:34,330 --> 00:15:36,230 I was happy there. All my friends are there. 267 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,370 Well, why don’t you tell him off, just for once? 268 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,240 Here you are, sir. Thank you. 269 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,070 Operator, get me the police. 270 00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:16,940 Well, all right, then the sheriff’s office. 271 00:16:19,270 --> 00:16:21,880 Your... coffee’s getting cold. 272 00:16:25,150 --> 00:16:26,820 -Yes. -Coffee. 273 00:16:41,300 --> 00:16:43,470 [Len sighs] 274 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:46,170 What do you like studying most at school? 275 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,270 Oh, English Lit. I like to read. 276 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:50,640 Me, too. 277 00:16:52,110 --> 00:16:53,880 You ever read Dostoyevsky? 278 00:16:53,910 --> 00:16:56,750 No. But a teacher of mine told me about him once. 279 00:16:56,780 --> 00:16:59,180 Oh, and I-I saw a movie. 280 00:16:59,210 --> 00:17:01,080 I know the one you mean, where the-- 281 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,250 where the young guy kills an old man. 282 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,550 [Anne] Yes, that’s the one. 283 00:17:05,590 --> 00:17:07,420 Oh, he said things the way I’d like to say ’em. 284 00:17:07,460 --> 00:17:08,720 [clicks tongue] 285 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,430 Oh, brother, was he an outsider. 286 00:17:11,460 --> 00:17:15,060 Well, maybe I’ll get to read him next term. 287 00:17:15,100 --> 00:17:16,870 You forget, Anne, you’re not going back to school 288 00:17:16,900 --> 00:17:18,070 next term. 289 00:17:18,100 --> 00:17:19,530 [Anne] I don’t think you can stop me, 290 00:17:19,570 --> 00:17:20,640 Uncle Charles. 291 00:17:20,670 --> 00:17:22,040 -Oh, no? -No. 292 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:23,510 My father made a provision in his will 293 00:17:23,540 --> 00:17:24,840 for my education. 294 00:17:24,870 --> 00:17:26,370 I’m still your legal guardian. 295 00:17:26,410 --> 00:17:27,710 And I’m going back to school, 296 00:17:27,740 --> 00:17:29,340 and there’s nothing you can do about it. 297 00:17:29,380 --> 00:17:30,810 I know what’s best for you. 298 00:17:30,850 --> 00:17:33,110 -Oh, no, you don’t! -You keep out of this. 299 00:17:33,150 --> 00:17:35,280 You think you know what we all want, don’t you? 300 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,120 -Well, you know what I’d like? -No. No, I don’t-- 301 00:17:37,150 --> 00:17:38,490 I’d like to build a racing car, 302 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:40,890 faster than anything else on the road. 303 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:43,560 [imitates engines] 304 00:17:43,590 --> 00:17:45,330 There goes Len’s car 305 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:49,730 and I’d race it in Spain and Rome and Paris. 306 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,100 Yeah, if I had the dough like that crazy young cat 307 00:17:52,130 --> 00:17:54,200 who builds his own. 308 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:55,940 That sounds crazy, doesn’t it? 309 00:17:55,970 --> 00:17:58,670 Wanting to build something with my own two hands, 310 00:17:58,710 --> 00:18:00,810 like Anne wants to go back to school, like-- 311 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,380 well, like all of us. 312 00:18:04,250 --> 00:18:07,780 Oh, brother, the way you treat this girl... 313 00:18:07,820 --> 00:18:10,090 [clicks tongue] If-- 314 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:13,820 If my buddy were here, you know what he’d do? 315 00:18:19,030 --> 00:18:20,360 [makes squelching sound] 316 00:18:23,330 --> 00:18:26,070 That’s-- That’s just what he’d do. 317 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:36,380 [engine revs] 318 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:53,830 [siren wailing] 319 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,020 [siren stops] 320 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:27,530 Officer, if you know how glad I am to see you. 321 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,700 In kind of a hurry to get home, aren’t you? Your license, please. 322 00:19:29,730 --> 00:19:31,030 If you only knew the horrible experience 323 00:19:31,070 --> 00:19:32,600 -I’ve just been through. -Your license, please. 324 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:35,340 You realize how fast you were going? 325 00:19:35,370 --> 00:19:36,940 Well, I know it was over the limit-- 326 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,610 You were doing 80 miles an hour in a 45-mile zone. 327 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:40,780 That’s what I want to explain. 328 00:19:40,810 --> 00:19:42,080 Explain it in court. 329 00:19:42,110 --> 00:19:43,380 Court! You mean... 330 00:19:43,410 --> 00:19:46,410 Mister, for the third time, your license, please? 331 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:48,780 Thank you. 332 00:19:48,820 --> 00:19:50,420 Officer, I’ve won the Safe Driving Award 333 00:19:50,450 --> 00:19:52,090 in this county for two years. 334 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:54,590 You’ll have an opportunity to tell all that in court. 335 00:19:54,620 --> 00:19:56,290 -But, I was-- -Is this your correct address, 336 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,160 -Mr. Underhill? -Yes, yes, it is. 337 00:19:58,190 --> 00:19:59,630 I’m setting your court appearance 338 00:19:59,660 --> 00:20:01,630 for Wednesday, on the ninth. 339 00:20:04,130 --> 00:20:06,370 Here’s your citation. And I certainly hope 340 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,000 Judge Adams is not on the bench. 341 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:10,410 He’s giving 10-day sentences to all speeders. 342 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,170 Sentencing? Jail? 343 00:20:12,210 --> 00:20:14,040 But, Officer, this wasn’t my fault! 344 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,710 That boy in my car is responsible for it all. 345 00:20:16,750 --> 00:20:18,610 He insisted on a lift. And out on the highway 346 00:20:18,650 --> 00:20:19,910 I found out he was an ex-convict, 347 00:20:19,950 --> 00:20:22,920 from the Honor Farm, a knifer. 348 00:20:22,950 --> 00:20:24,320 -A knifer? -Yes. 349 00:20:24,350 --> 00:20:25,950 He threatened to use one on me. 350 00:20:25,990 --> 00:20:27,520 Oh? 351 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,060 Well, maybe we’d better have a talk with him. 352 00:20:29,090 --> 00:20:30,830 Now you’ll understand why I stepped on the gas 353 00:20:30,860 --> 00:20:32,860 when I saw the lights of this town. 354 00:20:32,890 --> 00:20:34,660 OK, kid, outside. 355 00:20:37,530 --> 00:20:40,170 -Who’s the girl? -That’s my niece. 356 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,570 -You out from the Farm? -Yeah. I’m on my way home. 357 00:20:45,010 --> 00:20:46,410 Here’s my release. 358 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:57,950 Mr. Underhill, here, said you threatened him. 359 00:20:57,990 --> 00:20:59,620 Did you? 360 00:20:59,650 --> 00:21:01,660 [exhales] No. 361 00:21:01,690 --> 00:21:03,530 Search him! Get that knife. 362 00:21:05,090 --> 00:21:07,400 -OK, kid, up top. -I know what to do. 363 00:21:10,470 --> 00:21:11,670 Uh, Officer. 364 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,070 Turn around, kid. 365 00:21:19,110 --> 00:21:20,680 [Charles] Now, you see! 366 00:21:26,450 --> 00:21:28,080 See what? 367 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:30,120 If he had a knife on him, he doesn’t have it now. 368 00:21:31,650 --> 00:21:33,520 Relax, kid. 369 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,090 Well, that ought to take care of your worries, Mr. Underhill. 370 00:21:36,090 --> 00:21:37,860 Now, you take it easy from now on, huh? 371 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:50,810 [engine starts] 372 00:21:56,610 --> 00:21:58,350 You’re going to be put right back on that Farm. 373 00:21:58,380 --> 00:22:00,180 I’m going to cross and convince those police officers 374 00:22:00,220 --> 00:22:01,550 -that you did threaten me. -Oh! 375 00:22:01,580 --> 00:22:03,050 -That isn’t true. -You keep out of this. 376 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:04,190 Did you hear what that officer said? 377 00:22:04,220 --> 00:22:05,550 A jail sentence! 378 00:22:05,590 --> 00:22:06,860 It’ll be in every newspaper in the Valley. 379 00:22:06,890 --> 00:22:08,720 Me, Charles Underhill, arrested! 380 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,330 And all because of you. Well, you just watch and-- 381 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,340 -Where did you get it? -I’ve been doing 382 00:22:24,370 --> 00:22:25,770 a three month’s stretch at the Farm 383 00:22:25,810 --> 00:22:28,510 for picking a guy’s pocket when I was out of a job. 384 00:22:28,540 --> 00:22:32,080 My talent just came in handy, that’s all. 385 00:22:32,110 --> 00:22:37,290 Pickpocket? But I thought... all that talk about knives. 386 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:38,990 Not me. My cellmate. 387 00:22:39,090 --> 00:22:41,260 I tried to tell you that, but you didn’t believe me. 388 00:22:41,290 --> 00:22:43,460 You wanted to think the worst of me. 389 00:22:43,490 --> 00:22:46,290 Of course, if you’re such an upright citizen, 390 00:22:46,330 --> 00:22:49,160 you can always walk across the street, 391 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,830 and hand them this officer’s book, 392 00:22:51,870 --> 00:22:53,400 and then you’ll take the rap. 393 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:05,410 Well? 394 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,050 Get in. 395 00:23:10,590 --> 00:23:11,720 [both chuckling] 396 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:23,930 [engine starts] 397 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,090 I wish it understood that my presence here 398 00:23:53,090 --> 00:23:55,830 does not constitute an endorsement 399 00:23:55,860 --> 00:23:57,570 of the methods employed 400 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,400 by the characters in the play. 401 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,140 The striking actors were somewhat disappointed 402 00:24:03,170 --> 00:24:06,210 that no one was killed in tonight’s play. 403 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,180 They’re the understudies, you know. 404 00:24:09,210 --> 00:24:11,710 Next time we shall try to do better. 405 00:24:11,750 --> 00:24:13,750 Until then, goodnight.