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Catalina, California.

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One of the greatest crowds in the West
gathers to witness the launching of a

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liberty ship.

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There is something about this crowd, as
there is about this ship, that is

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different from any other.

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Something you cannot see, yet something
that all who are assembled here can

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feel. The presence of an unseen, yet
vital personality.

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For the name of this ship is Jack
London.

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Never was a liberty ship more fittingly
named.

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The fearless spirit and purpose of the
man lives again in every member of its

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crew and invests the ship itself with
true significance.

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For Jack London was more than a great
author.

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He was a real American.

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He lived and wrote that others might be
free.

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Free to read the truth.

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Free to right a wrong.

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Free to raise their voices.

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On behalf of the welfare of their fellow
men.

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Was it bad?

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It was awful.

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She just sits there and falls asleep.

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And the next thing you know, she's into
it.

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And the machine smashes her hand.

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Get back to work.

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Hey, London.

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You too.

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Come on, get back to work or you won't
have a job.

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Could have been my fingers just as easy
as that girl's.

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Lots of times I've almost dozed off and
just caught myself in time.

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Just the rotten air and the noise that
never stops.

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Twelve hours a day beating in your
brain.

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For ten cents.

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Ten cents an hour.

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Oh, I know, honey, but things are bad
all over.

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It isn't that, Manny Jenny. It's just
that people like us, poor people, have

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to work in filthy holes just to exist.

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And that other people, rich people, can
have everything they want.

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Fine clothes and carriages and not only
things, but time.

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Time to live and time to think and time
to learn.

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That's what I want, Mammy Jenny.

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Time.

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I guess you're right, Jack.

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Mammy Jenny, have you got any money?

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Well, I've got some.

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Some I've been saving.

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Don't you lend it to me?

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What for?

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I want to get myself a boat.

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I can make money, lots of them, fast.

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Jack London?

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What are you thinking about?

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Oyster hauling.

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Oyster hauling?

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Oyster pirating, you mean?

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I wouldn't stay at it long, Mammy Jenny.
Just a few hauls and I'd have enough

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money to last me three months. A whole
year, maybe.

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Then I'd be free to get some schooling.

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Don't you let me hear you talk like
that.

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I have to bring you in this world.

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And I want to see you grow up right so
you'll mount to something.

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I ain't going to help you get in no
trouble.

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I don't want to get into trouble. I'm
trying to get out.

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Is it wrong to want to fight your way
out?

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I'd pay you back every cent, more even.

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Oh, it ain't that money, darling. You
can have all I've got, but...

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But I couldn't sleep nights worrying
over you.

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Oh, Jenny.

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If anything would happen to you, I'd
never forgive myself.

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Never mind, Jenny.

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Forget about it.

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170.

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180.

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200.

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220.

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Five makes 225. And you get bargain, my
dear.

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I tell you straight, I hate to give her
up, but I got a chance to buy a bigger

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boat.

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I've had my eye on her for a long time.

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I've been a food worker in those jute
mills and canning factories.

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Well, come on, let's wet down the deal.
Hurry!

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Oh, Mamie, get your stuff off that boat.

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Meet me on the reindeer No,

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you don't like that

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What are you doing here?

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Fell asleep alone.

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You going in with French Frank?

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What's that got to do with you?

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Nothing.

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Only there's an awful lot to learn about
oyster pirating.

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Who caught you?

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My brother.

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He was the best of them.

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Until he got a bullet in him.

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You're sort of young. You couldn't be
getting a bullet in you.

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Well, that's the chance you take.

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Hey, you shouldn't go out tonight.

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Why not?

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With the moon up.

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I'm not going out for races.

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Just like to try her out, huh?

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That's right.

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When you get a boat of your own, it sort
of makes a man out of you, don't it?

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Sure does.

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We got some sail patching to do.

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A rat must have got at this one.

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It is Scratch Nelson.

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Hi, Scratch.

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Hello, Jack.

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Hi, Mamie. How have you been? I haven't
seen you around lately.

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Hey, what happened to you?

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Oh, I had a run-in with French Frank
over the split.

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Well, a new dress.

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You everything, you know.

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Yes, sir. Mamie, the queen of the oyster
pirates.

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Come on, let's sit down, huh? Yeah.

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I was just wondering.

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How's about me coming in with you? Why,
sure, Scratch.

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We make enough for a three-way split. Be
glad to have you.

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Only you better talk to my skipper here.

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Well, what do you say, Mamie?

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Sure. Why not?

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Then I'd have somebody to chew the fat
with when Shakespeare is writing one of

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them yawns of his.

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Hey, Curly.

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Double drinks all around for my new
partner.

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Coming up, Jack.

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We'll have a real blowout after our
first big halt.

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We've been first again, Scrunch. We
ain't been second yet.

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Here comes Frankie.

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Coming in on a drag, ain't he?

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What are you thinking?

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I'm thinking that one of these days it's
going to be me laid out there on a

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slant, like a hulk, a dead fish, or
worse, a ten-year prison stretch, like

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me.

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Let's go someplace, huh?

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I can't.

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What are you going to do?

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I'm through with this rocking business.

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Oh, don't talk like that, honey. You're
just downhearted, honey. I don't know

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what's happening.

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And losing your boat.

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Isn't that I'm through?

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What about me?

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You gotta choose for yourself.

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You bet your life I'll choose if that's
the way you are.

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I'm sorry, but I got to.

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You're yellow.

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That's what you are.

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Quitter! Dirty, stinking quitter!

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There's all the mussel pounds. I'm here
to make you mine.

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$30 a month in pounds. Sign here and
make your order.

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$30 a month in pounds. Sign here.

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Well, Tom.

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Old 48.

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I thought you were back on that farm.

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I didn't make it.

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I'll make it this time, though, you bet.

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How long is this cruise?

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About seven months. It's a very easy.

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Well, that ain't so long.

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That's right, Tom.

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That's right.

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$30 a month in pounds.

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Sign your name.

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$30 a month and found. Sign here and
make your mark.

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$30 a month and found. Sign here.

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Name? Jack Linden.

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Experience? Not very much, sir, but I'm
a good sailor.

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What are you signing on for?

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Able-bodied seaman.

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All right.

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$30 a month and found. Sign here and
make your mark.

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He writes fine, just like a girl.

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$30 a month and found.

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Sign here and make your mark.

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$30 a month and found. Sign here and
make your mark.

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How soon do we sail, Captain?

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Oh, you're anxious to sail, eh? Sure am.

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You just can't wait to tangle with them
seals, huh?

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Down the focus.

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Help yourself, mate.

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Everybody for yourself.

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You're going

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to like this old boat.

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I'm glad to be on it.

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That's my bunk and my things within it.

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Those are my things in there now.
Listen.

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I always want to bunk by the ladder.

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I'll match you to it.

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Go ahead.

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You move.

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Maybe I'll bunk by the ladder next trip.

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Oh, shut up.

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How is it found?

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What's that, a Bible?

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Elder, I got a Bible if you want one.
What's this about, James?

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No, it's about men.

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Darwin's origin of species.

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For heaven's sake!

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Hey, mate!

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We got a...

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That's a reward.

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Give me that book. You ain't got to be
stubborn with your learning, are you?

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Give me that book. Hey, Victor!

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That's something you won't get out of
books.

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Why don't you leave the boy alone?

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Let's finish the game.

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You seem like killing these poor
innocent thieves.

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Only to get a fur coat for some dame.

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Yeah, who's doing it for dames? We're
doing it for dough.

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You mean we're doing it for dough to put
fur on, James.

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Well, I got one down in New Orleans, and
I'm going to marry you right after this

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trip. We're going to have plenty of
kids.

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That's right, Victor.

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Yeah, the trouble is you'll never get
past the fur saloon. Not this trip. Oh,

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I'm going to save every cent I make this
time.

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Yeah, like old Tom.

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He is always going to buy a farm.

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You mind your own business.

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Shut your big mouth.

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Yeah, why don't you leave the old man
alone?

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Hey, Vic, come here.

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Oh, Landlubber.

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Greenhorn.

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What'd you do with that wet stone?

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I left it there.

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Well, get it, will you? This knife of
mine wants paper seals, I'll add.

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I'm going to put the thing on Jack's
bumper. Don't nobody say nothing.

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We're going to have a rip-roaring time.

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Where are you going with that?

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He's got a date tonight, Bill. Nobody
say nothing.

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Pretty soon this dirty stealing business
will be

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finished. Then we'll be heading for
Yokohama.

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You ain't never been there, have you,
Jack?

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What's it like?

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Just imagine who is here. A flock of
geisha girls swarming all around.

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Geisha girls, that's...

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Just like any other girl, only better in
some respects.

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That sure sounds great.

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I wish it would happen soon.

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It'll be soon enough.

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You'll get an experience coming that
you'll never forget.

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Never. Sure sounds wonderful.

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It's like the kids turned the tables on
you. The joke is on you.

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Jack!

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Better get out of here.

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Why don't you turn in and get some
sleep?

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I just want to set something down.

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Not a man, but a beast.

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A wolf.

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A sea wolf.

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And that's what we are.

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But it's the sea that makes us that way,
son.

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Cooped up here like a lot of animals,
doing the same thing day after day,

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thinking the same thing night after
night.

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No wife, no kids.

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Nothing.

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Just dreams.

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Pretty soon we'll be back where we
started from.

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And then you'll see.

261
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The big pay will go in a night.

262
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And the dreams will go in a night, too.

263
00:23:00,460 --> 00:23:04,740
Then we'll sign on again and it'll be
the same thing all over.

264
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Not me.

265
00:23:10,180 --> 00:23:11,300
I'm gonna be a writer.

266
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What are you going to write about?

267
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About all this, I guess.

268
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Only sometimes I worry about words.

269
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I don't know enough about words.

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Well, keep digging, kid.

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They'll come to you.

272
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And when they do, weed them.

273
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Make every one count.

274
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I don't know anything about writing
stories, but it seems to me it ought to

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be something like...

276
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Well, like making a good net.

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Make every spring and every knot mean
something.

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When you've got them together, make them
hold.

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Make them strong.

280
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I hardly ever went to school.

281
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There's so much I want to learn.

282
00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:07,540
Well, keep after it, kid.

283
00:24:09,620 --> 00:24:11,340
Just steer a straight course.

284
00:24:12,810 --> 00:24:14,050
Keep that flashlight burning.

285
00:25:10,570 --> 00:25:13,550
I spent a pleasant evening going over
your short story compositions.

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As usual, I have selected examples from
the submissions.

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And as usual, the authors shall remain
anonymous.

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00:25:22,730 --> 00:25:27,670
So if the shoe fits, you can hide your
consternation behind a poker face.

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00:25:28,770 --> 00:25:32,110
The two stories I have selected
represent the extremes in writing.

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One is fraud, an attempt at whimsy that
evaporates into thin air.

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The other is raw.

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00:25:39,930 --> 00:25:42,150
almost brutal to the point of unbelief.

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00:25:43,050 --> 00:25:47,170
In other words, one of you will tickle
the cloud with a feather and the other

294
00:25:47,170 --> 00:25:49,470
has battered good taste with a
sledgehammer.

295
00:25:52,110 --> 00:25:54,230
I shall read from the feather.

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00:25:56,250 --> 00:26:00,310
Penelope nibbled at her bonbon. Her
thoughts skipped from nothing to

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nothing. She was in a pink-blue haze.

298
00:26:03,450 --> 00:26:06,890
Her mama wafted in and blended with the
nothingness.

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00:26:07,110 --> 00:26:08,810
She seemed desperately worried.

300
00:26:09,470 --> 00:26:12,230
Penelope, she breathed, have you seen my
pimple?

301
00:26:14,450 --> 00:26:16,650
This made a profound impression on me.

302
00:26:17,410 --> 00:26:21,290
I immediately stopped reading and went
back to my police gazette.

303
00:26:24,170 --> 00:26:25,950
I now come to the sledgehammer.

304
00:26:27,190 --> 00:26:30,170
Go on, he advised her, pull the trigger
and kill a man.

305
00:26:30,510 --> 00:26:34,670
Spatter his brains on the floor and slap
a hole in them the size of your fist.

306
00:26:34,870 --> 00:26:36,590
That's what killing a man means.

307
00:26:38,380 --> 00:26:42,380
Excuse me, Professor Hilliard, but since
you've made me a horrible example, would

308
00:26:42,380 --> 00:26:45,940
you mind discussing my story a little
bit? Not at all, London. Not at all.

309
00:26:46,660 --> 00:26:49,480
Well, sir, Jeff, what is it that's so
wrong with my writing?

310
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,460
Well, boiled down, I should say, too
much imagination.

311
00:26:54,100 --> 00:26:55,600
Too much exaggeration.

312
00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,860
After all, you know, London, slap a hole
in him the size of a man's fist is... I

313
00:27:00,860 --> 00:27:02,540
saw it happen in a joint in Singapore.

314
00:27:03,380 --> 00:27:04,500
You saw it happen?

315
00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:08,830
Well... Perhaps I shouldn't have brought
it up.

316
00:27:09,590 --> 00:27:12,570
You see, Professor Hilliard, I've only
written about what I saw.

317
00:27:13,270 --> 00:27:16,490
It seems to me there's nothing wrong in
writing about life and truth.

318
00:27:17,130 --> 00:27:21,050
But do you think you will get very far
writing about poverty, cruelty,

319
00:27:21,370 --> 00:27:22,370
brutality?

320
00:27:22,590 --> 00:27:24,610
It's my experience that they exist, sir.

321
00:27:25,290 --> 00:27:29,210
And if I could put them down on paper so
people would think about them and try to

322
00:27:29,210 --> 00:27:31,450
destroy them, then I'm doing something.

323
00:27:31,790 --> 00:27:33,710
Ah, now we're coming to it.

324
00:27:34,330 --> 00:27:35,790
Do you want to be a writer?

325
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:37,280
Or a crusader.

326
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,420
Well, I don't know if I'm capable of
being either.

327
00:27:41,620 --> 00:27:44,400
I knew when I came here that I was
different from the rest of you, but that

328
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:45,400
didn't stop me.

329
00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:50,400
Your entrance exams almost did, but I
crammed myself with what I needed to get

330
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,400
by. I knew that I had to dig harder than
the next fellow because I'm rough and

331
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:55,400
barren ground.

332
00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,220
But, sir, I've watched the Chinese cut
terraces into a rocky hillside and

333
00:28:00,220 --> 00:28:04,580
patiently wait for the rain to wash down
silk so things could be planted and made

334
00:28:04,580 --> 00:28:05,580
to grow.

335
00:28:05,770 --> 00:28:10,070
And the way I felt that I was like that,
that with a little help, I could make

336
00:28:10,070 --> 00:28:11,510
the things grow that are inside of me.

337
00:28:12,830 --> 00:28:17,530
I learned that a strong back wouldn't
take me half as far as a good head, if I

338
00:28:17,530 --> 00:28:18,530
could develop one.

339
00:28:19,150 --> 00:28:20,310
That's why I came here.

340
00:28:21,970 --> 00:28:26,230
But, Professor Hilliard, if my great
fault lies in writing about what I know

341
00:28:26,230 --> 00:28:30,130
and what I've seen, then I'm afraid it's
a fault that can't be corrected here.

342
00:28:31,570 --> 00:28:33,690
I'm sure you didn't intend to ridicule
me, sir.

343
00:28:34,430 --> 00:28:36,370
Perhaps a trick of yours to make me
think.

344
00:28:37,430 --> 00:28:38,930
Well, sir, the trick is what?

345
00:28:41,070 --> 00:28:42,170
Thanks. You

346
00:28:42,170 --> 00:28:55,950
have

347
00:28:55,950 --> 00:28:57,710
just witnessed an unusual display.

348
00:28:59,050 --> 00:29:01,470
Unusual in that we so seldom meet with
it today.

349
00:29:02,350 --> 00:29:03,950
The uncommon thing...

350
00:29:07,020 --> 00:29:13,000
I would suggest that the rest of you do
not try to emulate him.

351
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,060
It takes a lot of intestinal fortitude.

352
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:19,200
For which Mr.

353
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,020
London undoubtedly has another word.

354
00:29:39,790 --> 00:29:40,790
What's wrong?

355
00:29:40,970 --> 00:29:41,689
You in trouble?

356
00:29:41,690 --> 00:29:44,270
No, Mammy Jenny. I sent for you to help
me pack and store something.

357
00:29:45,370 --> 00:29:46,370
Pack and store?

358
00:29:46,610 --> 00:29:47,910
What are you talking about?

359
00:29:48,930 --> 00:29:51,250
I'm going away, Mammy Jenny. I don't
know when I'll be back.

360
00:29:51,630 --> 00:29:53,330
Oh, quit being foolish.

361
00:29:53,710 --> 00:29:54,870
What about your schooling?

362
00:29:55,130 --> 00:29:56,390
What about your writing?

363
00:29:57,950 --> 00:29:59,090
There goes most of it.

364
00:29:59,410 --> 00:30:02,550
You mean you burned all them stories you
done wrote?

365
00:30:02,810 --> 00:30:04,050
And rewrote, Mammy Jenny.

366
00:30:04,590 --> 00:30:06,330
Not all of them, though. I'm saving
some.

367
00:30:07,130 --> 00:30:09,450
And one of these days when I'm
successful, I'll...

368
00:30:09,790 --> 00:30:13,670
Dig them up out of this trunk and dust
them off and send them to the same

369
00:30:13,670 --> 00:30:15,010
editors who are turning them down now.

370
00:30:16,990 --> 00:30:19,570
They'll buy them when I'm famous and
write to tell me how good they are.

371
00:30:19,790 --> 00:30:22,130
But, Jack, you got me all mixed up.

372
00:30:22,570 --> 00:30:25,830
First you sweat and you grub and you
work yourself sick so as you can go to

373
00:30:25,830 --> 00:30:26,830
school and learn to write.

374
00:30:27,230 --> 00:30:29,110
And plus it. Just like that.

375
00:30:29,790 --> 00:30:30,910
And say you're going away.

376
00:30:31,990 --> 00:30:32,990
Where are you going?

377
00:30:33,830 --> 00:30:35,270
To the Yukon, Mammy Jenny.

378
00:30:36,170 --> 00:30:38,030
Yukon? Where is that?

379
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:39,680
Up north, in Alaska.

380
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,060
What are you going up there for?

381
00:30:42,820 --> 00:30:44,280
To get some money, Mammy Jenny.

382
00:30:46,020 --> 00:30:47,080
It's been a gold strike.

383
00:30:47,460 --> 00:30:49,040
And with a little luck, I can hit it.

384
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:50,520
Then I won't have to worry.

385
00:30:50,860 --> 00:30:53,920
I can sit tight and study and read and
write what I want to write.

386
00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:58,540
Not what a lot of editors and professors
expect me to write. But how do you know

387
00:30:58,540 --> 00:31:02,020
you can do better up there than you can
do here? And how are you so sure you

388
00:31:02,020 --> 00:31:03,420
ain't fighting off more than you can
chew?

389
00:31:05,140 --> 00:31:06,900
I got as much chance as the next fellow.

390
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,580
You don't understand me, Jenny. I just
can't stay around here and be cramped

391
00:31:11,580 --> 00:31:12,680
between the jaws of a vice.

392
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,060
I've got to get out. I've got to get
away.

393
00:31:16,220 --> 00:31:20,400
Oh, I just wish I could be sure you
wasn't jumping yourself out of a frying

394
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:21,400
pan into the fire.

395
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,140
It's so easy to do, Jenny.

396
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:32,600
But there's very few people that can
jump out of the fire back in the pan

397
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:33,600
again.

398
00:31:33,660 --> 00:31:36,680
Nothing could be as bad as the fire
that's burning inside of me now.

399
00:31:37,870 --> 00:31:38,930
They're trying to burn through.

400
00:31:39,290 --> 00:31:40,290
They've got to.

401
00:31:43,590 --> 00:31:45,750
Someday, Manny, Jenny, maybe you'll know
what I mean.

402
00:31:47,630 --> 00:31:50,570
Someday, maybe a lot of people will know
what I mean.

403
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,020
Make it 50 more.

404
00:33:01,180 --> 00:33:02,180
And 100.

405
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:05,440
That's not too much.

406
00:33:07,180 --> 00:33:08,560
Recall. 200 more.

407
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:11,240
All right.

408
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:12,920
Come in, Charlie.

409
00:33:17,220 --> 00:33:18,280
How are you, stranger?

410
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:19,840
Fine, how are you?

411
00:33:20,430 --> 00:33:21,650
Finding hope for your best gal?

412
00:33:21,910 --> 00:33:23,650
No, just counting down an idea.

413
00:33:24,490 --> 00:33:26,710
There's a sourdough over there bedding a
spool head off.

414
00:33:26,970 --> 00:33:28,610
It's all wrapped up in rabbit's feet.

415
00:33:28,850 --> 00:33:29,950
That's not Luke Lannigan.

416
00:33:32,230 --> 00:33:33,730
That's the end of the poker game, boys.

417
00:33:34,990 --> 00:33:39,690
Now get back to the bar and I'll buy it
for all of you. Give me anything you

418
00:33:39,690 --> 00:33:40,690
want, Al.

419
00:33:41,310 --> 00:33:42,310
Hey,

420
00:33:42,990 --> 00:33:43,609
read it.

421
00:33:43,610 --> 00:33:44,610
Read it.

422
00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:46,200
I didn't want to claim worth a million
bucks.

423
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,700
Imagine that cyborg trying to bluff me
out of a pair of boots.

424
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:53,480
Come on, baby, I'll buy you the joint.
Oh, I'm busy. Can't you see? Well, don't

425
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:54,480
give me that now.

426
00:33:54,820 --> 00:33:55,719
Look, rabbits.

427
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,880
You promised me if ever I wanted... Oh,
let me go. You heard what she said,

428
00:33:58,900 --> 00:33:59,900
didn't you? Some other time.

429
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:04,560
What happened? What's the matter?

430
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:05,920
Oh,

431
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:07,880
it's a good thing I blocked that.

432
00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:11,080
Oh, what's the difference? Come on, I
just made a million bucks.

433
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:12,400
Everybody's a bar.

434
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:16,600
Quite a character.

435
00:34:19,780 --> 00:34:20,980
Say, where are you from?

436
00:34:21,540 --> 00:34:22,540
California.

437
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,520
You from Spain?

438
00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:26,000
Uh-uh. I'm Greek.

439
00:34:26,340 --> 00:34:27,340
Oh.

440
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,380
The Isles of Greece, the Isles of
Greece.

441
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,940
The burning Sappho loved Spain.

442
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,040
You know your virus.

443
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:37,960
Say, what's the name?

444
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:39,320
Frida Madu.

445
00:34:40,179 --> 00:34:41,179
Frida from there.

446
00:34:42,580 --> 00:34:44,540
Frida, do you remember these famous
lines?

447
00:34:45,810 --> 00:34:47,870
Oh, maid of Athens, dare we part?

448
00:34:48,750 --> 00:34:50,750
Give, oh, give me back my heart.

449
00:34:53,350 --> 00:34:55,310
Why don't you stay here for a while?

450
00:34:55,810 --> 00:34:56,889
You'll worse up.

451
00:34:57,870 --> 00:35:00,650
We could have a great time together with
Byron and Kelly.

452
00:35:01,890 --> 00:35:05,330
Well, maybe I will.

453
00:35:20,740 --> 00:35:22,060
Hello. You got a minute?

454
00:35:22,460 --> 00:35:23,700
Where have you been all day?

455
00:35:23,980 --> 00:35:26,720
Well, I got an idea last night from what
you were telling me about that masked

456
00:35:26,720 --> 00:35:29,180
bull... Excuse me.

457
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,120
I got an idea last night from what you
were telling me about that masked bull,

458
00:35:33,140 --> 00:35:36,260
and I wrote a story about it. Of course,
it's still rough, but I think I caught

459
00:35:36,260 --> 00:35:37,260
something of you in it.

460
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,080
I'm going to call it The Squirmer of
Women.

461
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,100
Hey, that doesn't sound bad.

462
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:42,440
Well, here goes.

463
00:35:46,529 --> 00:35:47,650
Frida was a Greek girl.

464
00:35:47,890 --> 00:35:49,510
At least, she purported to be Greek.

465
00:35:49,790 --> 00:35:53,390
Her furs were the most magnificent from
Chilkoot to St. Michael. Oh, that's

466
00:35:53,390 --> 00:35:54,590
overdoing it a bit, isn't it?

467
00:35:56,310 --> 00:35:58,730
And her jewels were the envy of every
woman.

468
00:36:00,050 --> 00:36:01,050
Ready, Miss Bilou.

469
00:36:01,450 --> 00:36:02,450
All right.

470
00:36:11,250 --> 00:36:12,970
Are you going to come and hear my
number?

471
00:36:13,290 --> 00:36:14,910
Sure. I want to fix this first.

472
00:36:51,850 --> 00:36:52,850
Take a mile from here.

473
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,140
and a gold strike 80 miles north of
here.

474
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,840
Oh, but you're not going, are you? Well,
sure I am.

475
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,800
Oh, listen to me, T'Chako.

476
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,140
You haven't got a chance out there.

477
00:37:31,780 --> 00:37:33,260
I know this you can gain.

478
00:37:33,860 --> 00:37:38,160
You'll muck in the grassroots till your
heart breaks, till you rot of scurvy on

479
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:38,879
the trail.

480
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,080
I know, but... Believe me.

481
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,500
In the end, the winner is the loser.

482
00:37:43,060 --> 00:37:44,440
All the money comes here.

483
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:45,960
It stays here.

484
00:37:46,340 --> 00:37:47,380
Right here, my daughter.

485
00:37:49,380 --> 00:37:50,380
Thanks, Frida.

486
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:53,820
I don't think I'm cut out for this
stuff.

487
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,600
Oh, ideals.

488
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,460
Listen, I gave up a million bucks for
you last night. Doesn't that mean

489
00:38:00,460 --> 00:38:02,180
anything to you? Everything, beautiful.

490
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,400
I'm thinking you're on a trail,
Friedman.

491
00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:10,780
Byron and Shelly are the stars.

492
00:39:23,210 --> 00:39:24,850
Buck, where does all that snow come
from?

493
00:39:25,590 --> 00:39:26,590
And why?

494
00:39:27,170 --> 00:39:28,870
Does it snow a man in all winters?

495
00:39:29,430 --> 00:39:30,510
Heaten from his purpose?

496
00:39:33,150 --> 00:39:34,150
Frozen hands.

497
00:39:35,930 --> 00:39:37,270
See, there's an idea for you.

498
00:39:37,890 --> 00:39:41,230
A man commits a crime, evades the
police, and escapes to the Yukon. He

499
00:39:41,230 --> 00:39:42,230
gets snowed in.

500
00:39:42,610 --> 00:39:44,750
Spends the whole winter in solitary
confinement.

501
00:39:46,610 --> 00:39:48,850
Oh, don't like it. Not good.

502
00:39:55,150 --> 00:39:58,130
Well, let's light the lamp and spend a
cozy evening working.

503
00:40:14,470 --> 00:40:17,510
Now, if you're a good fellow, I'll let
you in on the last two chapters I wrote.

504
00:40:18,090 --> 00:40:19,610
Remember where we left off last night?

505
00:40:19,970 --> 00:40:21,330
Right in the middle of the big fight.

506
00:40:22,070 --> 00:40:23,070
Now, listen to this.

507
00:40:24,620 --> 00:40:28,020
In vain, Buck strode to sink his teeth
in the neck of the big white dog.

508
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,980
Fang clashed fang, and lips were cut and
bleeding.

509
00:40:31,380 --> 00:40:33,560
But Buck could not penetrate his enemy's
guard.

510
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,240
Time and time again, he tried for the
snow-white throat, where light bubbled

511
00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:39,240
near to the surface.

512
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,480
Where light bubbled near to the surface?

513
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,380
Not a bad phrase, then. What do you say?

514
00:40:48,860 --> 00:40:49,860
Hey, you!

515
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:50,960
Buck!

516
00:40:51,380 --> 00:40:52,380
Wake up!

517
00:40:54,980 --> 00:40:57,000
Aren't you even interested in hearing
about yourself?

518
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:04,400
Thank you, little lady dog.

519
00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:13,880
Hey, where did you get that terrible
stuff?

520
00:41:15,140 --> 00:41:16,820
That must have ripped you wide open.

521
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,160
I wonder what you must have left behind.

522
00:41:21,220 --> 00:41:23,760
If you could only speak, what story
would you tell me?

523
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:26,300
For the collaborator, you see.

524
00:41:35,980 --> 00:41:37,200
Thank you, Mr. Preston.

525
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,980
There's only one little point. Well,

526
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,080
I'm not awfully keen about it. Oh?

527
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:44,078
What's that?

528
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:45,240
The title you've drawn.

529
00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:46,580
The Call of the Wild?

530
00:41:46,860 --> 00:41:48,280
Why, that's a wonderful title.

531
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,400
The whole idea of the story, sir. I
wouldn't change it for the world.

532
00:41:52,010 --> 00:41:55,670
A dog reverting to the primitive, just
as a human being under hardship and

533
00:41:55,670 --> 00:41:57,130
brutality reverts to the wild.

534
00:41:57,590 --> 00:41:58,590
Well, it's your baby.

535
00:41:59,330 --> 00:42:00,390
I'm only the godfather.

536
00:42:01,370 --> 00:42:04,950
I'd like to change it for you, Mr.
Britt, but that's its name. It was born

537
00:42:04,950 --> 00:42:05,928
that way.

538
00:42:05,930 --> 00:42:06,888
All right, then.

539
00:42:06,890 --> 00:42:07,868
Thank you, sir.

540
00:42:07,870 --> 00:42:08,870
Well, shall we go?

541
00:42:12,670 --> 00:42:14,250
Sometime you must tell me how it was
born.

542
00:42:14,750 --> 00:42:16,470
Writing like that doesn't come out of
nowhere.

543
00:42:16,810 --> 00:42:20,170
It came out of the Yukon. Unless I miss
my guess, it's going to mark a milestone

544
00:42:20,170 --> 00:42:21,170
in American letters.

545
00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:22,500
A story about a dog?

546
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:24,120
A dog, huh?

547
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:25,880
Here you are, Mr. Baird. Thank you,
Jenny.

548
00:42:26,140 --> 00:42:29,280
That's what it's about, sir. It's about
life. You said so yourself.

549
00:42:33,740 --> 00:42:37,260
It wouldn't surprise me if the critics
hailed you as the rugged Kip thing of

550
00:42:37,260 --> 00:42:38,260
this country. Kip?

551
00:42:38,700 --> 00:42:39,920
He's always been my idol.

552
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,540
He was mine, too, until, well, quite
recently.

553
00:43:02,570 --> 00:43:05,770
Hello, Mr. Brant. Well, you two must
know each other, of course.

554
00:43:06,090 --> 00:43:07,090
I'm afraid not.

555
00:43:07,190 --> 00:43:10,990
Let me introduce you. Charmian Kittredge
and my favorite author, Mr. Jack London.

556
00:43:11,210 --> 00:43:12,210
How do you do, Miss Kittredge?

557
00:43:13,410 --> 00:43:14,410
Oh.

558
00:43:15,010 --> 00:43:16,010
How do you do?

559
00:43:16,630 --> 00:43:17,950
I'll see you later, Mr. Brant.

560
00:43:20,150 --> 00:43:21,150
Well.

561
00:43:47,180 --> 00:43:48,740
I beg your pardon. Did you wish to see
someone?

562
00:43:53,100 --> 00:43:56,180
You must excuse me for trailing you
here, but I had to ask you an important

563
00:43:56,180 --> 00:43:57,740
question. I just couldn't wait.

564
00:43:57,980 --> 00:43:59,880
I can imagine why you're really here.

565
00:44:00,460 --> 00:44:02,380
I want to apologize to you, Mr. London.

566
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:04,640
Apologize? Yes.

567
00:44:05,380 --> 00:44:12,320
I... I was in such a hurry to... to...
I'm afraid I

568
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:13,940
was a little abrupt on the street just
now.

569
00:44:14,380 --> 00:44:15,380
Abrupt?

570
00:44:16,010 --> 00:44:17,350
I'm glad you didn't notice it.

571
00:44:17,990 --> 00:44:19,350
I have to get to work.

572
00:44:19,630 --> 00:44:22,710
But I'm happy you gave me the chance to
explain that I didn't snub you

573
00:44:22,710 --> 00:44:23,710
purposely.

574
00:44:24,750 --> 00:44:25,810
Of course you didn't.

575
00:44:30,470 --> 00:44:31,610
Why did you snub me?

576
00:44:32,270 --> 00:44:34,570
Purposely? But I assure you, I didn't.
You snubbed me.

577
00:44:34,930 --> 00:44:38,430
Purposely. Believe me, Mr. London, I
didn't. Purposely. But everyone says

578
00:44:38,430 --> 00:44:41,130
you're going to be a gold miner to the
frame. I wouldn't dare snub you. What

579
00:44:41,130 --> 00:44:42,370
would Mr. Peck say?

580
00:44:43,930 --> 00:44:47,790
Purposely. Mr. London, if you're not
going to believe me... Pardon me, Miss

581
00:44:47,790 --> 00:44:48,790
Kiffrey.

582
00:44:49,770 --> 00:44:51,630
Mr. Brett wants to see you right away.

583
00:44:53,570 --> 00:44:55,230
And may I offer a couple of words of
advice?

584
00:44:55,650 --> 00:44:56,750
What? Don't go.

585
00:44:57,990 --> 00:45:00,750
No, no, you stay here. Let me go. I'll
explain to him and tell him it's all

586
00:45:00,750 --> 00:45:03,430
right as far as I'm concerned. Thank
you, Mr. London, but I happen to be

587
00:45:03,430 --> 00:45:05,430
quite capable of taking care of my own
affairs.

588
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,860
Well, do you usually read what you find
on other people's desks?

589
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,080
I have no compunction about reading my
own manuscripts.

590
00:46:04,580 --> 00:46:07,440
But I do wish you'd consult me before
making additions.

591
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:09,760
Additions? Yes, for instance.

592
00:46:11,180 --> 00:46:15,300
Once in 10,000 times a manuscript
appears from an unknown author which is

593
00:46:15,300 --> 00:46:16,300
a masterpiece.

594
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:20,640
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
makes a reader's life worth living at

595
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:21,640
last.

596
00:46:21,700 --> 00:46:22,700
Thank you.

597
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:24,880
P.S.

598
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:29,760
Unless you want to lose your favorite
reader, never introduce me to Mr.

599
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:30,779
London.

600
00:46:30,780 --> 00:46:36,460
If he's anything like his book, my heart
will stand still when I meet him.

601
00:46:37,660 --> 00:46:39,580
I... I wish you'd go.

602
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:44,880
Did Mr.

603
00:46:44,900 --> 00:46:46,020
Brett rake you over the cold?

604
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,020
No, it... No, it isn't Mr. Brett.

605
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:50,640
It isn't you.

606
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,700
Maybe it's myself. I don't think that
he...

607
00:46:54,090 --> 00:46:56,790
To know what I'm saying, do I? I guess
I'm babbling.

608
00:46:58,510 --> 00:47:01,850
Mr. London, I assure you I'm not this
sort of person at all.

609
00:47:03,210 --> 00:47:05,770
I don't know what kind of a person you
are, Miss Kittredge.

610
00:47:27,470 --> 00:47:28,630
I don't think that horse likes me.

611
00:47:29,090 --> 00:47:30,810
He doesn't like the way you ride him.

612
00:47:31,010 --> 00:47:32,610
Well, I don't like the way he rides me.

613
00:47:33,250 --> 00:47:34,350
You know, I don't get it.

614
00:47:34,650 --> 00:47:37,470
When I was poor, I rode the rod because
I had to.

615
00:47:37,730 --> 00:47:39,510
Now I ride a horse and I don't have to.

616
00:47:40,150 --> 00:47:41,370
Is that book being improved?

617
00:47:42,590 --> 00:47:47,730
Well, Jack, it wouldn't matter if you
were rich or poor, obscure or famous.

618
00:47:48,410 --> 00:47:50,030
You'll always be riding somewhere.

619
00:47:51,070 --> 00:47:53,570
You see, you just wrote the books. I
read them.

620
00:47:53,870 --> 00:47:56,210
I think I know more about you than you
know about yourself.

621
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:58,100
You're not like other men.

622
00:47:58,340 --> 00:47:59,340
That's not true.

623
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,480
You should read the works of Jack London
sometime and find out about yourself.

624
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:09,000
Now, ordinary man is content to stay
put, but you've got something in you

625
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:10,000
that won't let you rest.

626
00:48:10,580 --> 00:48:12,220
Well, it's just that I hate traps.

627
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:17,860
When I was young, I thought poverty was
the only trap and I swore I'd get out of

628
00:48:17,860 --> 00:48:21,080
it. Now I find that money can be just as
much of a trap.

629
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:22,800
Words can be a trap, too.

630
00:48:23,580 --> 00:48:26,620
Have you ever thought of all the people
who have been caught in hell by words

631
00:48:26,620 --> 00:48:29,220
like honor, duty, and love?

632
00:48:30,900 --> 00:48:34,100
You mean that you think love is a trap,
too?

633
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,980
No, I didn't mean that. I mean that... I
understand.

634
00:48:38,020 --> 00:48:39,740
You're afraid for me, aren't you?

635
00:48:40,100 --> 00:48:42,520
You're afraid that I'll be the one to be
fooled, Trent.

636
00:48:43,380 --> 00:48:46,140
Oh, don't be foolish. I thought you
understood about women.

637
00:48:46,980 --> 00:48:48,100
Don't you remember, Frodo?

638
00:48:48,700 --> 00:48:50,760
Your own heroine and daughter of the
snows.

639
00:48:51,230 --> 00:48:55,190
A girl who makes her own way, daring,
courageous, loyal, and understanding.

640
00:48:56,330 --> 00:48:59,870
She loved a man without that terrible
possession.

641
00:49:01,230 --> 00:49:02,230
You're like that.

642
00:49:02,570 --> 00:49:03,570
I'd like to be.

643
00:49:05,490 --> 00:49:11,970
Charmian, when a man and woman meet who
are meant for each other, it's like a

644
00:49:11,970 --> 00:49:17,330
ship, new launched, rushing to the sea.
The sliding waves rebel, but neither sea

645
00:49:17,330 --> 00:49:20,730
nor ship hear them as they rush into
each other's lives.

646
00:49:42,250 --> 00:49:46,830
A special Happy New Year for you, ma'am.
Oh, thank you, Captain Allen. Thank you.

647
00:49:46,950 --> 00:49:50,870
But ain't you a little mixed up with
Christmas? Oh, this is a different kind

648
00:49:50,870 --> 00:49:54,610
of Happy New Year, Mary Jimmy. It comes
only once every hundred years.

649
00:49:54,990 --> 00:49:57,290
Happy New Century, you mean. That's
right, yes.

650
00:49:57,910 --> 00:49:59,730
Oh, I can't wait to see what I got.

651
00:50:02,150 --> 00:50:06,390
Oh, that's beautiful, Captain Allen.

652
00:50:06,950 --> 00:50:08,390
Just beautiful.

653
00:50:09,370 --> 00:50:11,530
Now, if you're good, I'll be back with a
maid to that.

654
00:50:11,900 --> 00:50:12,900
In a hundred years.

655
00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:20,440
Oh, no, sir, Captain Allen. In a hundred
years, we both gonna be wearing golden

656
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,220
slippers. I hope.

657
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:34,300
But gentlemen, there's never been a
century like it. When you think of the

658
00:50:34,300 --> 00:50:37,800
progress we've made in culture, in
industry, the comforts we enjoy,

659
00:50:38,140 --> 00:50:39,440
electric lights, the telephone.

660
00:50:39,720 --> 00:50:41,320
And don't forget those hopeless
carriages.

661
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,760
A friend of mine has one. One younger.

662
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:49,220
And I swear, we must have been whizzing
along at 20 miles an hour at least.

663
00:50:49,660 --> 00:50:50,860
No doubt about it, Jack.

664
00:50:51,240 --> 00:50:52,680
Civilization's darn near reached the
apex.

665
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:55,060
The millennium, huh? Not far from it.

666
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:00,020
Well, the way I see it, we've only got
one foot out of the Dark Ages.

667
00:51:00,660 --> 00:51:01,760
Machines are great, sure.

668
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,000
But they only make more things more
quickly.

669
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:08,220
There's nothing spiritual about them.
You can't change what's in a man's mind

670
00:51:08,220 --> 00:51:09,178
or in his heart.

671
00:51:09,180 --> 00:51:12,800
You can brag all you want about culture
and progress, but what bucks big in a

672
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,960
man's mind today is materialism. Money.

673
00:51:15,540 --> 00:51:17,680
Money out of machines and money out of
everything.

674
00:51:18,060 --> 00:51:22,420
That's what rules this world today.
Greed and selfishness. In people and in

675
00:51:22,420 --> 00:51:26,820
nations. And before we get through,
instead of a millennium, we'll be

676
00:51:26,820 --> 00:51:28,320
ringing in a century of tyrants.

677
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:35,340
Good evening, Madam Jenny. Good evening,
Mr. Grant.

678
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,200
Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you.

679
00:51:37,660 --> 00:51:39,580
How do you do, Mr. Brett? Glad you could
come. Hello, Jack.

680
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,840
Jack, I took the privilege of bringing a
friend of mine, Mr. Kerwin Maxwell.

681
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:46,080
How do you do, Mr. Maxwell? London, I've
been wanting very much to meet you.

682
00:51:46,300 --> 00:51:49,660
Oh, thank you, sir. Oh, I'll take those
memories, Jenny. Now you can go back to

683
00:51:49,660 --> 00:51:50,660
your decorations.

684
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:54,000
You're having quite a shindig, aren't
you? Yes, why don't you go in? You know

685
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,440
everyone. Jack, Mr. Maxwell would like a
word with you privately.

686
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:58,340
Something rather interesting.

687
00:51:58,660 --> 00:51:59,660
Oh?

688
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:03,840
If you'll forgive my barging in on your
party like this. That's quite all right,

689
00:52:03,860 --> 00:52:05,180
sir. Glad you could come. Sit down.

690
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,050
Well? No, thank you, sir. I'll stick to
these.

691
00:52:08,330 --> 00:52:10,730
What I want to talk to you about won't
wait. Huh?

692
00:52:11,370 --> 00:52:12,370
What is it?

693
00:52:12,750 --> 00:52:15,070
How would you like to cover the Boer War
from my paper?

694
00:52:16,430 --> 00:52:17,430
The Boer War?

695
00:52:17,650 --> 00:52:18,930
Yes. Okay.

696
00:52:19,730 --> 00:52:23,270
There's nothing I'd rather do, but I've
never done any newspaper reporting, much

697
00:52:23,270 --> 00:52:24,270
less war reporting.

698
00:52:24,890 --> 00:52:27,630
Very modest, Mr. London, but I've read
your stories.

699
00:52:28,190 --> 00:52:30,650
You have the gift of setting down what
you see.

700
00:52:31,090 --> 00:52:33,750
That, in my opinion, is the quintessence
of good reporting.

701
00:52:34,330 --> 00:52:35,330
Oh, thanks.

702
00:52:35,470 --> 00:52:36,470
Thanks very much.

703
00:52:36,790 --> 00:52:39,430
You'll have to leave immediately for
London. From there, you go to South

704
00:52:39,430 --> 00:52:41,090
Africa. What will you say?

705
00:52:41,710 --> 00:52:47,010
I'd like to, but... Excuse me a moment.

706
00:53:22,410 --> 00:53:23,410
What is it, dearie?

707
00:53:25,610 --> 00:53:26,610
It's quite a surprise.

708
00:53:26,830 --> 00:53:28,090
I hardly know how to tell you.

709
00:53:28,770 --> 00:53:32,290
Mr. Maxwell of the Globe had just made
me a very flattering offer. Well, that's

710
00:53:32,290 --> 00:53:33,290
wonderful.

711
00:53:33,670 --> 00:53:35,150
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

712
00:53:35,750 --> 00:53:40,270
See, he wants me to leave right away for
South Africa to... to cover the Boer

713
00:53:40,270 --> 00:53:41,270
War.

714
00:53:42,970 --> 00:53:46,550
What did you tell him? I... I didn't
tell him anything.

715
00:53:48,050 --> 00:53:49,450
But you want to go, don't you?

716
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,980
It's out of the question. Of course,
we've been postponing all our plans.

717
00:53:55,660 --> 00:53:57,000
We'll have all our lives.

718
00:53:57,540 --> 00:53:59,340
This will be great adventure for you.

719
00:54:00,660 --> 00:54:01,100
But...

720
00:54:01,100 --> 00:54:08,060
Happy New

721
00:54:08,060 --> 00:54:09,060
Year.

722
00:55:41,759 --> 00:55:42,800
Thank you, sir.

723
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:46,600
Oh, Mr. Harvey!

724
00:55:47,180 --> 00:55:51,280
Mr. Harvey, here's a letter from Mr.
Jack. Return address, port said.

725
00:56:05,770 --> 00:56:06,770
Please, ma'am.

726
00:56:06,790 --> 00:56:07,230
Mark

727
00:56:07,230 --> 00:56:15,810
at

728
00:56:15,810 --> 00:56:16,850
96232.

729
00:56:18,330 --> 00:56:21,890
Good night, Lyme. Could you please tell
me what time does the Cambria get in?

730
00:56:22,590 --> 00:56:24,330
Why, the Cambria's out two hours ago.

731
00:56:25,310 --> 00:56:26,310
Thank you.

732
00:56:31,250 --> 00:56:35,060
I would have time to change, ma'am and
Jenny. The boat's out two hours... It

733
00:56:35,060 --> 00:56:37,640
was a girl. For goodness sake. Just give
me my cape.

734
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:39,000
Yes, ma'am. And my gloves.

735
00:56:39,380 --> 00:56:41,600
Yes, ma'am. Oh, and then again, don't
forget my purse.

736
00:56:41,860 --> 00:56:42,860
Yes, ma'am.

737
00:56:44,940 --> 00:56:47,140
Thank you.

738
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:52,740
You're as

739
00:56:52,740 --> 00:57:02,940
lovely

740
00:57:02,940 --> 00:57:03,940
as I knew you'd be.

741
00:57:05,180 --> 00:57:06,180
Jack!

742
00:57:16,860 --> 00:57:17,860
Oh, Jack.

743
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:21,720
Oh, Jack.

744
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,140
Beautiful. I got that at a bazaar in
Benari.

745
00:57:25,500 --> 00:57:28,320
To tell you the truth, I wasn't going to
buy it, but you put up such an awful

746
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:29,320
fuss. I?

747
00:57:30,460 --> 00:57:32,060
Everywhere I went, you were right with
me.

748
00:57:33,070 --> 00:57:34,510
Now you really mean it.

749
00:57:34,890 --> 00:57:35,890
It is.

750
00:57:36,130 --> 00:57:38,310
Nothing will ever take me away from you
again.

751
00:57:38,690 --> 00:57:39,690
Nothing, darling.

752
00:57:40,910 --> 00:57:42,510
Do you still want to marry me?

753
00:57:48,130 --> 00:57:48,650
I

754
00:57:48,650 --> 00:57:57,190
just

755
00:57:57,190 --> 00:58:01,670
said a batch of that only yesterday to
that outlandish place you were there.

756
00:58:02,060 --> 00:58:03,560
Good. Then I won't have to answer them.

757
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,100
Mr. Jack, here's a telegram.

758
00:58:07,380 --> 00:58:10,000
A telegram? Yes, I just told you about
an hour ago.

759
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:13,560
Do you want these, Mr. Jack? No, thanks,
Annie.

760
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:17,000
I won't do it.

761
00:58:17,780 --> 00:58:20,340
I won't do it. I tell you, I won't go,
Mammy Jenny. I won't go.

762
00:58:24,860 --> 00:58:26,580
But this has got to be the last.

763
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:28,020
The past closing time.

764
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:29,800
You want to have me lose me license?

765
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,420
But, Mike, we've got to settle this
first.

766
00:58:32,780 --> 00:58:34,280
There's only one way to settle it.

767
00:58:34,540 --> 00:58:35,820
I've been telling you all evening.

768
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,120
Get married and raise a house for the
kids.

769
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:42,600
Well, how can I do that with a war
breaking out?

770
00:58:42,860 --> 00:58:44,800
It ain't our war. We ain't even did it.

771
00:58:45,660 --> 00:58:46,660
But I'm in.

772
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:49,840
They want me to leave in the morning for
Japan.

773
00:58:50,580 --> 00:58:52,580
A lot of correspondents are going.

774
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:57,920
Jimmy Hare, Fred Palmer, and Richard
Harding Davis.

775
00:58:59,370 --> 00:59:01,210
Well, I've never seen a war, Mike.

776
00:59:01,630 --> 00:59:04,750
You can live your whole life and never
see a war.

777
00:59:05,010 --> 00:59:09,990
Sure. But what beats me is, if you're
brave enough to face a war, why can't

778
00:59:09,990 --> 00:59:11,690
you face her and tell her you're going?

779
00:59:13,390 --> 00:59:16,330
Mike, in a war, you've got a chance.

780
00:59:17,030 --> 00:59:18,110
But with a woman?

781
00:59:18,350 --> 00:59:19,350
Yeah, I know.

782
00:59:19,890 --> 00:59:21,270
You look before you start.

783
00:59:21,990 --> 00:59:23,970
But I gave her my word of honor.

784
00:59:24,270 --> 00:59:25,970
And if you go, you lose her.

785
00:59:26,430 --> 00:59:28,270
And if you don't go, you lose the war.

786
00:59:28,740 --> 00:59:29,740
That's right.

787
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,040
That's what I've been telling you all
evening.

788
00:59:32,500 --> 00:59:34,080
Then we're right back where we started.

789
00:59:38,860 --> 00:59:43,160
Good night, Mike.

790
00:59:43,540 --> 00:59:44,540
Thanks.

791
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:46,300
You've been a big help.

792
00:59:46,900 --> 00:59:48,900
Better stay home, Jack, and raise them
kids.

793
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:50,320
Now don't start that again.

794
01:00:17,900 --> 01:00:20,080
This is a fine way to keep our first
date in three weeks.

795
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:22,340
Oh, darling, please don't.

796
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,660
Push. I was detained.

797
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:27,000
How? Where?

798
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,080
Well, I received a telegram from Mr.

799
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:32,740
Maxwell and I had to go see him.

800
01:00:33,300 --> 01:00:34,600
Can you imagine?

801
01:00:35,300 --> 01:00:38,560
He wants me to leave for Japan in the
morning.

802
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:42,840
Japan? This is a war breaking out with
Russia.

803
01:00:45,130 --> 01:00:50,890
What did you tell him? Well, I... I told
him no, of course.

804
01:00:51,550 --> 01:00:54,230
And did it take you until 2 o'clock in
the morning to say no?

805
01:00:54,590 --> 01:01:00,530
Well, Maxwell's a funny fellow. He can't
take no like an ordinary person. He kept

806
01:01:00,530 --> 01:01:04,330
insisting that this was the chance of my
lifetime.

807
01:01:07,430 --> 01:01:09,610
Wars are getting scarcer and scarcer.

808
01:01:09,930 --> 01:01:12,170
And marriages are getting commoner and
commoner.

809
01:01:12,850 --> 01:01:13,850
Well, you can go.

810
01:01:14,220 --> 01:01:16,560
Perfectly obvious I mean nothing to you.
Nothing whatsoever.

811
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:19,560
You mean everything.

812
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:21,520
No use, Jack.

813
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:25,740
If you think I'm going to ruin my life
for a man who's blown here and there by

814
01:01:25,740 --> 01:01:27,620
every wind of adventure, you're very
much mistaken.

815
01:01:32,780 --> 01:01:34,040
I won't let you do it.

816
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:39,420
Even if I was a little tempted by
Maxwell's offer, which I don't admit...

817
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:48,620
I'll never think of leaving you again.

818
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:56,020
You're back,

819
01:01:58,140 --> 01:01:59,038
Mr. Jack.

820
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:00,900
All packed and ready to go.

821
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,020
Of course you're going, darling.

822
01:02:06,260 --> 01:02:09,020
Mr. Maxwell tried to get you at my
house. I knew all about it.

823
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:55,240
They're suddenly bringing their necks to
make us comfortable.

824
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:57,580
You can have it, caches and all.

825
01:02:57,980 --> 01:03:01,160
What I'd give for a steamed beer and a
corned beef sandwich. Looks like you're

826
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:03,820
going to have it. They're concluding
peace negotiations right now.

827
01:03:04,100 --> 01:03:08,560
7,000 miles to Tokyo and nothing to show
for it but a nice hot belly for washing

828
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:09,560
rice down with sake.

829
01:03:10,980 --> 01:03:14,280
You can't tell as long as those
skirmishes on the Korean border keep up.

830
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:15,560
They don't mean a thing, Dick.

831
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:19,060
Just save a ratling to scare the Tsar
into conceding some point or other.

832
01:03:19,100 --> 01:03:21,200
Maybe. Well, I'll string along with
Davis.

833
01:03:21,790 --> 01:03:23,390
Russia doesn't want war. That's a cinch.

834
01:03:23,690 --> 01:03:27,050
And if these boys want peace, why are
they sending troops into Korea?

835
01:03:27,610 --> 01:03:28,610
Who said they are?

836
01:03:28,870 --> 01:03:29,870
I said they are.

837
01:03:30,390 --> 01:03:32,390
I was down at the waterfront this
morning...

838
01:03:32,390 --> 01:03:39,010
You

839
01:03:39,010 --> 01:03:45,610
understand it?

840
01:03:45,990 --> 01:03:46,990
I'll break it out.

841
01:03:47,330 --> 01:03:50,870
You know what he's talking about, Dick?
No, I don't get it.

842
01:04:02,290 --> 01:04:03,290
Say,

843
01:04:06,330 --> 01:04:07,330
just a minute.

844
01:04:08,090 --> 01:04:09,390
What's all the excitement, sir?

845
01:04:10,670 --> 01:04:15,130
I have the pleasure to report that our
honorable Navy has just sent the Russian

846
01:04:15,130 --> 01:04:16,410
fleet at Port Arthur.

847
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:38,940
I believe they're all here.

848
01:04:40,580 --> 01:04:46,240
I deeply regret that I cannot grant your
minister's request that you be allowed

849
01:04:46,240 --> 01:04:48,100
to go to the stand at this time.

850
01:04:49,330 --> 01:04:51,310
Personally, I have no objection.

851
01:04:52,110 --> 01:04:57,670
But unfortunately, that permission must
come from a higher official than I have

852
01:04:57,670 --> 01:04:58,670
the honor to be.

853
01:05:00,150 --> 01:05:05,770
However, I will use my humble persuasion
in an effort to make your desires

854
01:05:05,770 --> 01:05:06,770
possible.

855
01:05:07,310 --> 01:05:12,330
We shall arrange a banquet where perhaps
you will meet the official who can grant

856
01:05:12,330 --> 01:05:13,950
permission for you to go to Korea.

857
01:05:14,170 --> 01:05:16,350
A banquet won't bring us any closer to
the front.

858
01:05:16,910 --> 01:05:19,270
We're all accredited correspondents, Mr.
Hiroshi.

859
01:05:19,690 --> 01:05:23,610
All we want to do is get the news and
get it back to our paper so the world

860
01:05:23,610 --> 01:05:24,610
will know what's going on.

861
01:05:25,370 --> 01:05:29,030
Sometimes it is not practical that the
world know what is going on.

862
01:05:29,830 --> 01:05:34,410
If, for instance, the Russians would
have known what was going on, there

863
01:05:34,410 --> 01:05:35,810
would have been no Port Arthur.

864
01:05:36,710 --> 01:05:41,130
We could not have dealt what you call in
your country the first punch.

865
01:05:41,730 --> 01:05:43,070
You're a little mixed up, aren't you?

866
01:05:43,330 --> 01:05:44,550
You mean sneak punch.

867
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:48,520
The idioms of your country are so
quaint, young man.

868
01:05:48,860 --> 01:05:49,860
I'm sorry.

869
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,200
There's nothing I can do at the moment.

870
01:06:01,180 --> 01:06:02,660
Who is that young man?

871
01:06:02,860 --> 01:06:03,860
One of our new writers.

872
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:05,740
Very brilliant and very popular.

873
01:06:06,160 --> 01:06:10,000
Yes. It will be very interesting to
follow his career.

874
01:06:18,410 --> 01:06:19,410
Dick, what are they going to do about
this?

875
01:06:19,810 --> 01:06:21,370
Well, there's no use of arguing about
it.

876
01:06:21,830 --> 01:06:24,270
We're in the same predicament as the
girl who was told she could go swimming,

877
01:06:24,370 --> 01:06:25,570
but not to go near the water.

878
01:06:26,090 --> 01:06:29,210
Well, I'm going near the water. I don't
care what that little sawed-off runt

879
01:06:29,210 --> 01:06:31,430
says. Permission or no permission, I'm
going to Korea.

880
01:06:31,690 --> 01:06:34,770
Jack, that's being plain bullheaded.
I've been in the game too long. You

881
01:06:34,770 --> 01:06:36,730
can't get out of Tokyo without official
protection.

882
01:06:36,990 --> 01:06:39,450
Dick, I'll bet you $100 I can get to the
front.

883
01:06:39,870 --> 01:06:41,170
I'll bet you $100 you won't.

884
01:06:42,270 --> 01:06:43,169
Get around.

885
01:06:43,170 --> 01:06:44,170
Hey, Jack.

886
01:06:44,190 --> 01:06:45,190
Jack!

887
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:48,600
Good luck, Jack.

888
01:06:48,780 --> 01:06:52,560
Good luck, Jack.

889
01:07:06,220 --> 01:07:07,220
Here,

890
01:07:08,060 --> 01:07:09,880
take a lot of money. I want to go on the
boat.

891
01:07:11,660 --> 01:07:13,640
Hey, you take a lot of money, see?
Money, money.

892
01:07:13,940 --> 01:07:14,940
Money, money.

893
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:16,420
Money, money.

894
01:07:16,940 --> 01:07:19,680
You have the money, yeah? Money, money.
Money, money.

895
01:07:19,940 --> 01:07:20,940
What? What?

896
01:07:23,420 --> 01:07:24,420
What? What?

897
01:07:43,180 --> 01:07:44,078
Come on, come on.

898
01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:45,080
Where are they?

899
01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:46,600
They're right there. Yes, sir. Busy,
busy.

900
01:07:48,340 --> 01:07:49,700
Go. Go.

901
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:52,640
Come on, come on.

902
01:07:54,540 --> 01:07:55,800
Busy. Busy.

903
01:08:02,300 --> 01:08:03,680
Busy. Busy.

904
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:13,240
Look, I'd like to get passage on one of
those sandpans across the Yellow Sea. No

905
01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:14,098
can do.

906
01:08:14,100 --> 01:08:15,540
I'll pay. Twenty money.

907
01:08:16,100 --> 01:08:17,100
Then, then, no go.

908
01:08:20,460 --> 01:08:21,460
One,

909
01:08:22,140 --> 01:08:25,279
two, three, four.

910
01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:16,720
Let me see that, please.

911
01:11:19,900 --> 01:11:21,680
I'm an American war correspondent.

912
01:11:22,060 --> 01:11:24,240
Yes, but this is a forbidden zone.

913
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:27,860
And pictures sometimes fall into the
wrong hands.

914
01:11:31,480 --> 01:11:32,480
Wonderful.

915
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:34,960
Very fast lens, I imagine.

916
01:11:35,940 --> 01:11:37,640
Let me congratulate you.

917
01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:41,760
Let me congratulate you on your
knowledge of my language.

918
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:44,340
You must have spent some time in
America.

919
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:48,140
Yes, although I learned my English at
Oxford.

920
01:11:49,060 --> 01:11:50,700
I am Captain Tanaka.

921
01:11:51,180 --> 01:11:53,580
Glad to know you, Captain. My name is
Jack London.

922
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:56,500
Oh, I've read some of your books.

923
01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:57,940
Very good, too.

924
01:11:58,360 --> 01:11:59,540
Well, thank you very much.

925
01:12:00,060 --> 01:12:01,380
Now you know I'm not a spy.

926
01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:03,400
Where are you going?

927
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:06,800
To the front, if I can persuade someone
to give me permission.

928
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:09,380
Perhaps I can arrange it.

929
01:12:09,940 --> 01:12:13,020
Meanwhile, it will be a great honor to
have you as my guest.

930
01:12:13,750 --> 01:12:14,750
Some enough.

931
01:12:26,950 --> 01:12:29,410
Better try some of this excellent
tapioca.

932
01:12:29,730 --> 01:12:31,470
It will do much for your appetite.

933
01:12:32,190 --> 01:12:33,190
Oh, thank you.

934
01:12:34,270 --> 01:12:35,270
Fine.

935
01:12:39,130 --> 01:12:41,210
This is a nice, cozy place you have
here, Captain.

936
01:12:42,090 --> 01:12:44,470
I believe in comfort, Mr. London.

937
01:12:45,510 --> 01:12:50,010
Especially when our enemies are precious
enough to possess good taste.

938
01:12:51,390 --> 01:12:55,790
As we go deeper toward Russia, I expect
to add to my collection.

939
01:12:56,250 --> 01:12:57,810
Is this part of your collection?

940
01:12:59,390 --> 01:13:00,550
No, Mr. London.

941
01:13:01,310 --> 01:13:05,970
This is a game we've devised, which has
become very popular in my kingdom.

942
01:13:06,510 --> 01:13:08,650
We call it Sinonde.

943
01:13:09,410 --> 01:13:12,440
Sinonde? Literally, that means patience.

944
01:13:13,060 --> 01:13:16,260
But you might even call it destiny.

945
01:13:19,180 --> 01:13:25,820
Now, this little contrivance here, I
call Jungenscha, the

946
01:13:25,820 --> 01:13:30,760
process, since it foreshadows coming
events.

947
01:13:34,020 --> 01:13:35,640
Interesting, is it not?

948
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:37,280
Yes, very interesting, Captain.

949
01:13:37,920 --> 01:13:41,650
You see, Mr. London, This is not only
the rising sun.

950
01:13:42,030 --> 01:13:43,830
It is also a wheel.

951
01:13:44,070 --> 01:13:48,810
The center, or hub of which, is Japan.

952
01:13:50,910 --> 01:13:54,170
That's a very unusual map you have
there, Captain Tanaka.

953
01:13:54,510 --> 01:13:58,150
Yes. Our eventual sphere of influence.

954
01:13:58,910 --> 01:14:00,570
Here, I shall show you.

955
01:14:13,550 --> 01:14:18,730
You will note that the spokes radiate in
all directions from the hub from which

956
01:14:18,730 --> 01:14:22,190
they naturally emit, and to which, of
course, they must convert.

957
01:14:25,050 --> 01:14:28,730
Now, if you will be good enough to watch
the map, I shall explain more fully.

958
01:14:33,530 --> 01:14:36,950
Here is the theater of our present
operations.

959
01:14:37,610 --> 01:14:42,090
But tomorrow, as you shall see, we will
have crossed...

960
01:14:42,330 --> 01:14:43,330
The Yellow River.

961
01:14:43,550 --> 01:14:46,170
And soon we'll have all of Korea.

962
01:14:47,630 --> 01:14:50,710
A stepping stone to Manchuria.

963
01:14:51,570 --> 01:14:55,650
Manchuria? And then... Mongolia.

964
01:14:56,890 --> 01:14:58,990
A land of milk and honey.

965
01:14:59,490 --> 01:15:01,650
200 million tons of timber.

966
01:15:01,990 --> 01:15:03,690
A billion tons of iron.

967
01:15:04,010 --> 01:15:05,470
Two billion tons of coal.

968
01:15:05,790 --> 01:15:08,630
Enough to last Japan for 70 years.

969
01:15:09,550 --> 01:15:11,230
We'll be stronger then.

970
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,720
Able to move both east and west.

971
01:15:15,860 --> 01:15:17,940
You're out to gobble up all Asia.

972
01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:19,200
Oh, yes.

973
01:15:19,660 --> 01:15:21,220
Though not at once.

974
01:15:22,440 --> 01:15:25,420
First, we must conquer China.

975
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,300
It sounds a little bit incredible.

976
01:15:33,700 --> 01:15:36,360
But entirely logical, I assure you.

977
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:40,620
Oh, won't you be seated, Mr. Landers?
Thank you.

978
01:15:41,420 --> 01:15:45,720
You see, a policy of peace is quite
impossible for Japan.

979
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:52,040
England can afford to pursue peace and
develop trade relations because she has

980
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:55,480
India and Australia who supply her with
foodstuff.

981
01:15:55,740 --> 01:15:59,700
So can America because of South America
and Canada.

982
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:06,640
But in Japan, our food supply decreases
in proportion to our

983
01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:08,280
population, you understand.

984
01:16:09,390 --> 01:16:14,190
If we merely hope to develop trade, we
shall be defeated by England and

985
01:16:14,190 --> 01:16:16,970
America. In the end, we will get
nothing.

986
01:16:17,510 --> 01:16:19,430
That is a mathematical certainty.

987
01:16:20,250 --> 01:16:22,190
We've got to control China.

988
01:16:22,930 --> 01:16:29,610
But in order to control China, we will
have to crush your country and

989
01:16:29,610 --> 01:16:30,610
England.

990
01:16:34,390 --> 01:16:36,590
That may take many years, of course.

991
01:16:37,230 --> 01:16:38,730
Fifty, a hundred, perhaps.

992
01:16:39,230 --> 01:16:41,190
But it has all been carefully planned.

993
01:16:42,810 --> 01:16:43,810
Scientifically.

994
01:16:45,230 --> 01:16:47,590
The rising sun has a destiny.

995
01:16:48,090 --> 01:16:50,010
Her expansion is inevitable.

996
01:16:50,930 --> 01:16:56,330
This, the taking of Korea, is only the
first step, the first act of the drama.

997
01:16:57,030 --> 01:16:59,970
But the play is on. The curtain is off.

998
01:17:00,550 --> 01:17:05,630
And it will ring down, you'll see, upon
a Japanese world.

999
01:17:10,440 --> 01:17:11,760
Why are you telling me all this?

1000
01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:15,560
Why not?

1001
01:17:16,760 --> 01:17:17,960
You'll not believe it.

1002
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:26,880
He spooked the whole world.

1003
01:17:27,220 --> 01:17:29,720
No other newspaper has it. Not even the
European paper.

1004
01:17:29,960 --> 01:17:33,180
How did he do it? Wait a minute, wait a
minute, boys. If you want to hear some

1005
01:17:33,180 --> 01:17:34,400
good reporting, listen to this.

1006
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:36,380
I knew he'd do it. I knew it.

1007
01:17:36,740 --> 01:17:37,740
Isn't it wonderful?

1008
01:17:37,820 --> 01:17:38,920
Read it, Mr. Branson.

1009
01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:42,080
He jumped the gun at us. Now, he said
he'd do it.

1010
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:44,000
Just a cub reporter in silence.

1011
01:17:44,680 --> 01:17:46,540
You know what I suggest, David? Yes?

1012
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:49,620
That we draw up a petition to the
Japanese government.

1013
01:17:50,200 --> 01:17:51,200
Protesting.

1014
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:54,080
Demanding. That London be ordered back
from the front.

1015
01:17:54,480 --> 01:17:57,800
Or else, that we be granted instant
permission to leave.

1016
01:17:58,020 --> 01:17:59,020
I second that idea.

1017
01:17:59,140 --> 01:18:00,880
We'll all sign it. You write it out,
David.

1018
01:18:01,740 --> 01:18:04,720
I'm as mortified as the rest of you
celebrated war correspondents.

1019
01:18:05,620 --> 01:18:07,140
Being scooped by a novice.

1020
01:18:07,530 --> 01:18:10,450
As a matter of fact, I should feel worse
having lost $100 to boot.

1021
01:18:11,490 --> 01:18:14,810
We all had the same chance to get to
Korea, at the risk of our lives.

1022
01:18:15,350 --> 01:18:18,930
To my mind, we should draw up a
commendation to a very courageous

1023
01:18:18,930 --> 01:18:19,889
newspaper man.

1024
01:18:19,890 --> 01:18:22,630
I suppose you're right, if you look at
it from that point of view.

1025
01:18:22,990 --> 01:18:26,230
I propose a toast. As a matter of fact,
I read it in one of London's books.

1026
01:18:27,310 --> 01:18:29,210
Here's to the man on the trail this
night.

1027
01:18:29,890 --> 01:18:31,210
May his growth hold out.

1028
01:18:31,490 --> 01:18:33,330
May his matches never miss mine.

1029
01:18:36,620 --> 01:18:37,620
Okay.

1030
01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:16,120
What for?

1031
01:19:16,940 --> 01:19:17,940
Tactic.

1032
01:19:38,780 --> 01:19:39,780
They gave.

1033
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:40,980
Press on. Yes, sir.

1034
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:43,280
Take off the hat.

1035
01:19:43,790 --> 01:19:44,790
Oh, sorry.

1036
01:19:46,590 --> 01:19:47,590
In here.

1037
01:19:49,990 --> 01:19:52,050
How did you get to Korea?

1038
01:19:52,570 --> 01:19:54,630
By Santa, across the Yellow Sea.

1039
01:19:56,870 --> 01:20:03,870
How did you get past Chimopo? Through
the courtesy of

1040
01:20:03,870 --> 01:20:04,829
Captain Tanaka.

1041
01:20:04,830 --> 01:20:06,270
Tanaka? Tanaka?

1042
01:20:07,070 --> 01:20:08,070
Also you.

1043
01:20:08,090 --> 01:20:10,710
Do not believe you. Well, why don't you
ask Captain Tanaka?

1044
01:20:13,260 --> 01:20:15,880
Why did you take pictures in Naki Saki?

1045
01:20:16,180 --> 01:20:19,360
Hmm? Why did you take pictures in Naki
Saki?

1046
01:20:21,100 --> 01:20:23,280
I was never in Naki Saki.

1047
01:20:25,840 --> 01:20:31,320
Japanese costume different from
American.

1048
01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:34,500
Therefore, you must not tell any lies.

1049
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:36,520
General,

1050
01:20:37,980 --> 01:20:39,360
it's all true.

1051
01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:40,640
Good, good.

1052
01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:42,440
You stay in the jail.

1053
01:21:39,050 --> 01:21:40,050
Why don't you give it to him?

1054
01:21:41,850 --> 01:21:42,850
Them? No.

1055
01:21:43,290 --> 01:21:44,290
You?

1056
01:24:55,880 --> 01:24:56,880
your excellency. Any news?

1057
01:24:57,320 --> 01:24:58,320
Always news.

1058
01:24:58,500 --> 01:24:59,500
Very good news.

1059
01:25:01,360 --> 01:25:04,060
Oh, about that writer's friend of yours,
Jack London.

1060
01:25:04,300 --> 01:25:07,680
Yes? No wonder he was so anxious to get
to the front. Why?

1061
01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:09,920
He's in jail, in Pyongyang.

1062
01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:11,960
He turned out to be a Russian spy.

1063
01:25:20,100 --> 01:25:21,100
Table blank, please.

1064
01:25:38,380 --> 01:25:40,100
The Japanese ambassador, Mr. Takahiro.

1065
01:25:43,420 --> 01:25:45,980
You wish to see me, Mr. President?

1066
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:03,740
Kindly inform your macabre that I demand
the immediate release of Mr. Jack

1067
01:26:03,740 --> 01:26:04,740
London.

1068
01:26:06,030 --> 01:26:09,490
I'll convey your suggestion, Mr.
President.

1069
01:26:23,250 --> 01:26:29,550
General Fujii say he very sorry.

1070
01:26:29,750 --> 01:26:33,650
His most honorable ancestor very sorry.

1071
01:26:34,190 --> 01:26:35,710
Me very sorry too.

1072
01:26:35,930 --> 01:26:38,750
Sorry you have been detained.

1073
01:26:39,250 --> 01:26:44,390
He say, he find out you very truthful
young man.

1074
01:26:46,150 --> 01:26:52,630
He say, our most honorable country

1075
01:26:52,630 --> 01:26:59,250
and your most honorable country always a
most honorable friend.

1076
01:26:59,610 --> 01:27:02,930
Well, that's just dandy. Now tell
General Fuji to give me my honorable

1077
01:27:02,930 --> 01:27:03,930
camera.

1078
01:27:04,350 --> 01:27:05,970
Nashi, Hogenashi, Kato.

1079
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:48,520
Japanese peril.

1080
01:27:49,500 --> 01:27:50,600
The brown beast.

1081
01:27:52,480 --> 01:27:53,480
Asiatic dream.

1082
01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:55,480
Great writing, Jack, great.

1083
01:27:56,340 --> 01:27:58,240
Heavens, man, you don't expect me to
publish these things.

1084
01:27:58,480 --> 01:27:59,119
Why not?

1085
01:27:59,120 --> 01:28:03,040
Because you're known for good common
sense, for hard facts, for the truth.

1086
01:28:03,220 --> 01:28:04,780
Now, who do you suppose is going to
swallow this stuff?

1087
01:28:05,540 --> 01:28:09,280
A big truth is more difficult to swallow
than a big lie. But it doesn't make it

1088
01:28:09,280 --> 01:28:10,280
any the less the truth.

1089
01:28:10,860 --> 01:28:13,420
I didn't write these articles for fame
or money, Mr. Maxwell.

1090
01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:16,360
I wrote them because I felt it was my
patriotic duty.

1091
01:28:16,730 --> 01:28:19,910
And it's your duty as a publisher to
print them. I'm sorry, Jack, but I

1092
01:28:19,910 --> 01:28:22,790
can't. For two reasons. First, you've
nothing to substantiate the charges you

1093
01:28:22,790 --> 01:28:25,070
make against Japan. But I saw it with my
own eyes.

1094
01:28:25,350 --> 01:28:29,070
Japanese treachery, Japanese barbarism.
I've told you the hours I spent

1095
01:28:29,070 --> 01:28:30,070
listening to Tanaka.

1096
01:28:30,290 --> 01:28:32,670
An army captain, a madman most likely.

1097
01:28:33,290 --> 01:28:36,770
Genghis Khan was a madman most likely.
So was every conqueror down through

1098
01:28:36,770 --> 01:28:39,930
history. And second and most important,
Japan and this country are friends.

1099
01:28:40,450 --> 01:28:43,430
Japan is one of this country's best
customers. We'd do billions of dollars

1100
01:28:43,430 --> 01:28:45,890
worth of business with her, and you
insult her at every turn. Well, look.

1101
01:28:46,250 --> 01:28:49,590
You say here the Japanese race has
embarked on a course of conquest, the

1102
01:28:49,590 --> 01:28:51,730
goal of which no man knows. That's
right.

1103
01:28:51,970 --> 01:28:56,490
And here again, the headmen of Japan are
dreaming ambitiously in the Puleonic

1104
01:28:56,490 --> 01:28:57,930
dream. I say more.

1105
01:28:58,150 --> 01:29:01,670
What happened at Port Arthur will happen
again someday. Will happen here to us.

1106
01:29:01,830 --> 01:29:04,690
When the Japs beat the Russians, they
conquered the white men for the first

1107
01:29:04,690 --> 01:29:07,010
time in history. And they mean to go on
conquering them.

1108
01:29:07,410 --> 01:29:11,210
Someday the white man's dream bubble of
peace with Japan will be punctured. But

1109
01:29:11,210 --> 01:29:12,810
one country at least won't be surprised.

1110
01:29:13,110 --> 01:29:14,390
That country will be Russia.

1111
01:29:14,810 --> 01:29:17,330
She was waking from her dream. We're
still dreaming.

1112
01:29:18,070 --> 01:29:21,290
Jack, you're a coot. Don't sort off
little rumps from their paper mache

1113
01:29:21,290 --> 01:29:25,310
island. We could lick them with one hand
tied behind us. Mr. Maxwell, if Jack

1114
01:29:25,310 --> 01:29:27,090
feels so strong... Don't argue with him,
Charmian.

1115
01:29:27,370 --> 01:29:30,750
I'll get this stuff published. I'll yell
it from the rooftops. Come along, Jack.

1116
01:29:31,550 --> 01:29:33,450
All right, you old firebrand.

1117
01:29:34,250 --> 01:29:35,630
But nobody will believe you.

1118
01:29:38,010 --> 01:29:38,969
No reason.

1119
01:29:38,970 --> 01:29:41,690
It's not the truth he's worried about. I
told that to him. It's money.

1120
01:29:42,170 --> 01:29:45,550
Two billion dollars worth of business.
Sure, sure. Lull yourself to sleep and

1121
01:29:45,550 --> 01:29:48,810
your little brown customer sneaks up and
slits your throat. And he says they

1122
01:29:48,810 --> 01:29:49,810
won't believe me.

1123
01:29:53,270 --> 01:29:54,610
Maybe they won't believe me.

1124
01:29:56,270 --> 01:29:57,410
Poor self-belief.

1125
01:29:58,550 --> 01:30:02,210
Darling, everything you write,
everything you say, really is the truth.

1126
01:30:02,270 --> 01:30:03,330
It's real and honest.

1127
01:30:03,630 --> 01:30:04,630
It's you.

1128
01:30:05,430 --> 01:30:06,950
It's the spirit of Jack London.

1129
01:30:09,690 --> 01:30:10,790
You're that part of me.

1130
01:30:11,630 --> 01:30:13,430
I knew it when I first met you.

1131
01:30:14,310 --> 01:30:15,650
You know what I told you.

1132
01:30:16,450 --> 01:30:17,930
About a ship in the sea?

1133
01:30:18,890 --> 01:30:19,930
I'll always remember.

1134
01:30:23,030 --> 01:30:28,310
When a man and woman are meant for each
other, like the ship new launched, they

1135
01:30:28,310 --> 01:30:29,310
rush to the sea.

1136
01:30:29,730 --> 01:30:33,310
The sliding waves rebel, but neither
seam or ship hither.

1137
01:30:33,990 --> 01:30:36,010
As they rush into each other's life.