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Manhattan.
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New York.
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U.S.A.
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In any discussion of
contemporary America...
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... and how its people live, we must
inevitably start with Manhattan.
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New York City, U.S.A.
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Manhattan, glistening modern giant
of concrete and steel...
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... reaching to the heavens
and cradling in its arms 7 millions.
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Seven millions.
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Happy beneficiaries of the advantages and
comforts this great metropolis has to offer.
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Its fine, wide boulevards facilitate the
New Yorker's carefree, orderly existence.
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A transportation system second to none
in passenger comfort.
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Quaint little sidewalk cafés
make for leisurely, gracious living.
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For its nature lovers,
the peace and privacy of a day in the sun.
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The city offers delightful changes
in climate.
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Well, I'll tell you.
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Jim Blandings is part
of the fabric of this town.
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Born and raised right here, he's as typical
a New Yorker as anyone you'll ever meet.
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At least, he was.
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If you wanna know the real story, I guess
I'm your boy. My name's Cole. Bill Cole.
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I'm Jim's lawyer and "best friend."
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Jim's one of those bright young fellas
you see around.
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College graduate, ad business, lovely wife,
two fine kids, makes about 15,000 a year.
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Jim and Muriel Blandings are just like
thousands of other New Yorkers:
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Modern cliff dwellers.
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The morning it all started was just another
of those crisp September mornings.
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And the Blandings were still asleep.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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- Betsy?
- "Okay, Dad."
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- Joan.
- Okay, Dad.
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No. Good morning, Theodore.
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- Good morning, Mr. Blandings.
- Good morning, Gussie.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Looking for something?
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My socks.
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Why don't you look in your sock drawer.
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That's where I found my underwear.
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- Well, try your underwear drawer.
- I am in my underwear drawer.
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Well, they must be somewhere. Socks don't
get up and walk away by themselves.
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Muriel, I thought we had it
clearly understood that these two...
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Two and a half top drawers were mine.
I thought... Why do...?
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The closet. That's where they are.
We put them in the closet.
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- Put what in the closet?
- Your socks.
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- There wasn't room in the drawers.
- There's a lot in the closet.
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So Gussie and I decided that from now on
we'd keep them in a basket on the shelf.
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Basket.
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This? This.
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Jim, dear, I do wish you'd try
to make a little effort.
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I'll try, dear.
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Father, just one morning,
I wish you'd knock.
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I beg your pardon.
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Washcloth, dear.
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Thank you.
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Towel, dear.
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- Lf you don't mind, dear.
- One moment.
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Take your time.
I can spare the blood.
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- Did you cut yourself?
- I cut myself every morning.
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I kind of look forward to it.
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- Why don't you use an electric razor?
- Can't get used to them.
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Silly.
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- Bill Cole's been using one for years.
- He hasn't got my beard.
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- Bill's beard is just as coarse...
- I am not interested in discussing...
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...the grain and texture of Bill Cole's
hair follicles before I've had my breakfast.
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All I said was, why don't you use
an electric razor?
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Because I prefer the clean sweep
of the tempered steel as it glides smoothly...
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No advertising copy, please.
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- And hurry up. You'll be late for breakfast.
- Yeah. Sure.
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- Who did it? Yes?
- I did.
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Haven't I repeatedly told you not to cut up
the paper until I've read it?
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I'm sorry, Father.
It's necessary research.
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What? Another of Ms. Stellwagon's
so-called progressive projects?
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Coming through, Theodore.
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Does Theodore have to have breakfast with
us? Can't you take him to the living room?
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Dear.
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Why send your children to
an expensive school...
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...if you undermine the teacher's authority
in your dining room?
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I'm not undermining anything.
I'm in the advertising business.
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Keeping abreast of the times is important.
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So is your child's education.
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- That's not the point.
- It certainly is.
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- Not.
- Bicker, bicker, bicker.
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You drink your milk.
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Joan, every time Father and I have a lively
discussion, we aren't necessarily bickering.
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What is it, Betsy?
Another English composition?
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Ms. Stellwagon has assigned us
to take a classified ad...
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...and write a human-interest theme on it.
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I found one typical of the disintegration
of our present society.
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I wasn't aware of the fact
our society was disintegrating.
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I didn't expect you to be, Father.
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Ms. Stellwagon says middle-class people
like us are prone to overlook...
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Muriel, this is asking a lot,
but just one morning...
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...I would like to sit and have breakfast
without social significance.
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You must take more interest
in your children's education.
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Can't squeeze blood from a turnip.
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All right. I listen.
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- Shoot.
- It's just 16 words.
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I'm going to call it
"A Minor Tragedy of Our Times".
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Well?
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"Forced to sell.
Farm dwelling.
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Original beams.
Barn.
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Apple orchard.
Trout stream.
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Seclusion.
Superb view.
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Will sacrifice."
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- Go on.
- That's all.
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- That's all?
- You don't see it, do you, Father?
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A fellow wants to sell his house,
he puts an ad in the paper.
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What'd you expect him to do,
take it to the United Nations?
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There's more to it than that,
isn't there, dear?
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Certainly, Mother. What some people
don't see is the whole sordid picture.
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A poor, honest farmer
pushed to the wall by hardship.
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Until finally, in desperation,
he's forced to sell...
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...and stoops to the crass commercialism
of newspaper advertising.
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Oh, indeed. Newspaper advertising?
Crass commercialism?
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Ms. Stellwagon says advertising
is a basically parasitic profession.
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You don't say.
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Ms. Stellwagon says advertising
makes people who can't afford it...
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...buy things they don't want
with money they haven't got.
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Oh, she does, does she? Well,
perhaps your Ms. Stellwagon is right.
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Perhaps I'll quit this
basically parasitic profession.
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Which at the moment is paying
for your fancy tuition.
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And those extra French lessons.
And that progressive summer camp.
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To say nothing of the very braces
on your back teeth.
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You shouldn't discuss money
in front of the kids.
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Why not?
They spend enough of it.
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Bicker, bicker, bicker.
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Girls, get your things and run along.
You'll be late for school.
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Bye, Daddy.
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Give my regards to Ms. Stellwagon.
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I'll get it.
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- Hello. We haven't seen you in ages!
- Morning, Bill.
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- Betsy, is your mother up?
- She's in there.
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- Come on, Betsy.
- Wait.
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Bye.
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- Morning, Muriel.
- Good morning, Bill.
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- Hi, Jim.
- Hello, Bill.
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- Aren't you going to Lillie and Paul's?
- I am. They'll get me soon.
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I thought I'd return these in case you want
to go through with that Funkhauser deal.
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- Thanks.
- Cup of coffee, Bill?
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- Yeah, thanks. I will.
- Gussie.
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Personally, I think he's
2, $3000, out of line.
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Yes, I suppose so.
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Of course, you could save that amount by
not tearing out the living room wall.
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- Sort of impractical anyway.
- I guess so.
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What wall? Who are you talking about?
Who's Funkhauser?
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- Bunny Funkhauser.
- Who?
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You remember Bunny Funkhauser, dear.
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That clever, young interior decorator
we met at the Collins' cocktail party?
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You mean that young man
with the open-toed sandals?
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What about him?
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Well...
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You know how long we've said...
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...we've got to do something about
fixing up this apartment.
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Well, a couple of weeks ago,
he called.
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And I asked him to come over.
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And he had some
simply wonderful ideas.
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And...
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...I didn't want to bother you
with sketches and estimates...
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...until I knew whether
we could afford it.
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So I sent them over to Bill.
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How much?
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Why ask how much until you know
what you're going to get?
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I've seen Bunny Funkhauser.
I know what I'm getting.
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- I think he's got some interesting sketches.
- He's terribly clever. Look.
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Here's how he sees our living room.
Isn't it charming?
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What's that, a shoeshine stand?
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It's a cobbler's bench, dear.
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The room's Colonial. Breakfront.
Hooked rug.
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Student lamp. Pie cooler. And over here
is a Martha Washington desk.
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And where do I keep my powdered wig?
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I think it's perfect. It's us.
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Bunny says we're very American.
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Very grassroots.
Very blueberry pie.
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Well, don't look at me.
Bunny said it.
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Now, here in the hall...
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How much is all this going to cost?
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Well...
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...the figure isn't accurate,
because it includes...
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How much?
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- Well, $ 7000, Jim, but...
- $ 7000!
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Well, that includes tearing out a wall.
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- And I quite agree with Bill...
- Oh, you do?
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You're some lawyer.
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A defenseless woman without any
conception of the value of a dollar...
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...comes to you for advice
and you've got her tearing out walls.
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I am on record as being opposed
to tearing out walls, and so is the woman.
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- Lf you'd only listen...
- $ 7000 dollars?
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I wouldn't put 7 cents into
this broken-down rattrap.
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Jim, how can you talk that way?
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This is our home. Betsy was practically
born in this apartment.
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That does not make it a national shrine.
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Now, wait. When I came in this morning,
I had no intention of sending you to Reno.
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- I thought I was doing you a favor.
- He was.
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He was showing you how to save $3000
by not tearing out a wall.
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I can save $ 7000 by not doing
anything at all.
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Yeah. You can save another 3500
by not buying her that mink coat.
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- You don't take a cruise to the West Indies...
- All right, Bill. All right.
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Not a bad day.
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You've already saved $ 15,000
and it's not even 9:00.
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See you next week. Bye, Jim.
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- Bye, dear.
- Have a nice weekend.
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- Wait, I'll go down with you.
- All right.
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Seven thousand dollars.
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Blueberry pie.
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- Morning, Mary.
- Morning.
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- What's that?
- Seems we're in the midst of a situation.
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"W-H-A-M. Wham. A whale of a ham."
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- Why's it here? That's Johnson's headache.
- Not anymore.
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Mr. Johnson is no longer with us.
Mr. Johnson lost the touch.
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- Guess whose headache it is now?
- Oh, no.
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- Oh, yes.
- Oh, no.
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On your desk you will find a directive
from the high command.
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What a morning. Bunny Funkhauser,
blueberry pie and Wham.
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How's that?
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Nothing, Mary. Just a private joke between
me and whoever's going to be my analyst.
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They sent down Mr. Johnson's handiwork
before he was drummed from the corps.
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00:22:16,295 --> 00:22:20,841
July: "When you've got the whim,
say, 'Wham."'
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August, "House and Stream":
"For a grand slam in ham, try Wham."
219
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I have some more over here.
Balance of last year's campaign.
220
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September's the little gem
that cost him his job.
221
00:22:34,688 --> 00:22:35,981
Just a minute.
222
00:22:38,734 --> 00:22:40,235
Mary.
223
00:22:40,402 --> 00:22:44,489
Would you spend $ 7000 to tear out
someone else's walls...
224
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...when, for a few thousand more, you could
find a nice old place in Connecticut...
225
00:22:49,161 --> 00:22:53,165
...fix it up and have the dream
house you've always wanted?
226
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I beg your pardon?
227
00:22:57,628 --> 00:23:00,672
Well, that's the way it all started.
228
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The ad was enough to convince Jim.
229
00:23:05,219 --> 00:23:07,596
But Muriel was a little tougher.
230
00:23:08,263 --> 00:23:10,724
I guess the corsage did it.
231
00:23:13,143 --> 00:23:14,895
There they are.
232
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Two little fish from New York out in
the deep waters of Connecticut real estate.
233
00:23:20,943 --> 00:23:23,737
That's Smith, the real estate salesman.
234
00:23:23,904 --> 00:23:27,324
Mighty shrewd cookie,
in a quiet sort of way.
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"Yes, sir, he knows a sucker"...
I mean customer, when he sees one.
236
00:23:34,748 --> 00:23:36,333
He sees one.
237
00:23:36,875 --> 00:23:41,296
Well, Smith, looks like you're finally gonna
unload the old Hackett place.
238
00:23:42,631 --> 00:23:46,093
The old, very old Hackett place.
239
00:23:48,095 --> 00:23:51,598
Well, folks. There she is.
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00:23:52,599 --> 00:23:54,601
It's charming.
241
00:23:56,228 --> 00:23:57,604
That is, for an old house.
242
00:23:57,771 --> 00:24:01,817
You understand, Mr. Smith, we're just
window-shopping. Nothing definite.
243
00:24:01,984 --> 00:24:04,111
Oh, perfectly all right.
244
00:24:04,903 --> 00:24:06,738
Not a bad-looking house.
245
00:24:06,947 --> 00:24:09,700
But it's a lot older than anything
we had in mind.
246
00:24:09,867 --> 00:24:12,828
Well, she's no spring chicken.
247
00:24:13,287 --> 00:24:16,915
But that's just what
makes her such a buy. Yep.
248
00:24:17,082 --> 00:24:21,461
A man's got just about everything
he'd need here. A nice big hay barn.
249
00:24:23,130 --> 00:24:25,841
Couple of fruit orchards
just over the hill.
250
00:24:27,676 --> 00:24:30,721
Virgin stand oak grove other side
the trout stream there.
251
00:24:30,888 --> 00:24:35,601
The trout stream will give you your own
pure, clear, cold mountain water.
252
00:24:36,226 --> 00:24:38,770
Paved highway right to your door.
253
00:24:39,605 --> 00:24:42,482
Grocer from town delivers twice a week.
254
00:24:42,816 --> 00:24:44,651
Easy commuting distance, yeah.
255
00:24:44,818 --> 00:24:47,738
58 minutes from New York City.
256
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,533
Brand-new high school
right down the road.
257
00:24:51,700 --> 00:24:55,704
Yes, sir, 50 mighty pretty little acres.
258
00:24:56,371 --> 00:24:58,332
Fine old house too.
259
00:24:58,916 --> 00:25:01,960
Four family bedrooms,
plenty of closet space.
260
00:25:04,338 --> 00:25:07,841
However, it's not just all these,
you know.
261
00:25:08,008 --> 00:25:11,512
- You're buying a piece of American history.
- Really? How's that?
262
00:25:11,678 --> 00:25:17,226
Why, first year she was built, General Gates
stopped right here to water his horses.
263
00:25:18,519 --> 00:25:21,313
Old General Gates, huh? Civil War.
264
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:22,898
Revolutionary War.
265
00:25:23,357 --> 00:25:25,317
Oh, that General Gates.
266
00:25:26,527 --> 00:25:31,365
But I'm not trying to sell you anything,
understand. All I'm saying is that one day...
267
00:25:31,532 --> 00:25:35,828
...someone with a little imagination's gonna
come along and steal this place.
268
00:25:35,994 --> 00:25:38,455
And I mean steal it.
269
00:25:39,248 --> 00:25:41,667
I don't have to tell you,
Mrs. Blandings...
270
00:25:41,834 --> 00:25:45,254
...what a woman's touch could do
to a place like this.
271
00:25:56,390 --> 00:25:59,726
Yes, sir.
You've certainly got to visualize.
272
00:26:00,352 --> 00:26:04,022
Couple coats of paint,
a little pointing up here and there.
273
00:26:16,952 --> 00:26:19,830
Shall we go up and take a look at her?
274
00:26:20,914 --> 00:26:23,917
Well, I suppose as long as we're here.
275
00:26:24,084 --> 00:26:26,503
I guess it doesn't hurt to take a look.
276
00:26:29,548 --> 00:26:32,551
I'll just see if the keys are
up there where I left them.
277
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,180
It has possibilities.
You think we can get it?
278
00:26:36,346 --> 00:26:38,098
Like taking candy from a baby.
279
00:26:38,265 --> 00:26:42,728
- Now, don't lose your head.
- You just keep quiet, dear. Let me handle it.
280
00:26:43,562 --> 00:26:47,733
Tell me, Smith, what kind of price
is the owner asking for this old place?
281
00:26:57,451 --> 00:27:00,078
What do you think, Bill?
Steal, huh?
282
00:27:00,662 --> 00:27:02,706
"Steal" is an understatement.
283
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,042
"Swindle" might be more appropriate.
284
00:27:05,209 --> 00:27:07,211
Oh, well...
285
00:27:07,711 --> 00:27:09,421
What do you mean?
286
00:27:10,130 --> 00:27:14,426
Every time you get tight, you weep on my
shoulder about the advertising business.
287
00:27:14,593 --> 00:27:20,140
How it forces a sensitive soul like yourself
to live by bamboozling the American public.
288
00:27:20,974 --> 00:27:25,938
I would say a small part of that victimized
group has now redressed the balance.
289
00:27:26,146 --> 00:27:27,940
- What are you talking about?
- You.
290
00:27:28,148 --> 00:27:31,360
You got taken to the cleaners,
don't even know your pants are off.
291
00:27:31,527 --> 00:27:34,238
Darling, I told you.
I said we ought to call Bill.
292
00:27:34,404 --> 00:27:38,116
Now, Muriel. All right,
just what's wrong with this deal?
293
00:27:38,826 --> 00:27:42,454
First time around, you offered $ 10,000
for 50 acres, right?
294
00:27:42,621 --> 00:27:44,915
- What of it?
- That's $200 an acre.
295
00:27:45,082 --> 00:27:47,751
I know that part of Connecticut.
$ 100 an acre...
296
00:27:47,918 --> 00:27:51,755
...is standard top-gouge price
to city slickers.
297
00:27:51,922 --> 00:27:55,050
When the natives sell to each other,
it's around 40 or less.
298
00:27:55,217 --> 00:27:56,468
Forty!
299
00:27:56,677 --> 00:27:58,637
The man's entitled to a fair profit.
300
00:27:58,846 --> 00:28:01,306
Not 284 percent.
301
00:28:01,473 --> 00:28:06,019
Besides, you're not getting 50 acres,
you're only getting 35, more or less.
302
00:28:06,186 --> 00:28:10,107
- Where does it say that?
- I refer to a rather obscure postscript...
303
00:28:10,274 --> 00:28:14,111
...on the back of the second letter
from friend Smith.
304
00:28:16,864 --> 00:28:21,243
"Incidentally, Mr. Hackett has been a little
optimistic about the acreage.
305
00:28:21,410 --> 00:28:24,538
It will probably survey somewhere
in the neighborhood...
306
00:28:24,705 --> 00:28:28,834
...of 35 acres, more or less."
307
00:28:29,501 --> 00:28:31,879
All right, so it's 35.
What's the difference?
308
00:28:32,045 --> 00:28:35,174
Do you know how many tennis courts
you can get on 35 acres?
309
00:28:35,382 --> 00:28:38,927
You're not spending $ 11,500
for tennis courts.
310
00:28:39,094 --> 00:28:41,763
- That's not the point.
- That's precisely the point.
311
00:28:41,930 --> 00:28:46,226
We'll write Hackett a strong letter.
Tell him he can kick in those 15 acres...
312
00:28:46,393 --> 00:28:49,188
...reduce the price
or find another sucker.
313
00:28:49,396 --> 00:28:53,609
We'll do no such thing. I'm not gonna queer
this deal over 15 broken-down acres.
314
00:28:53,775 --> 00:28:57,029
- You just don't understand business.
- You mean extortion.
315
00:28:57,237 --> 00:28:59,948
Now, wait a minute.
Now, put that thing down.
316
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,951
Look, you can't measure everything
on a slide rule.
317
00:29:03,118 --> 00:29:06,079
- This house has intangibles.
- Like what, for instance?
318
00:29:06,246 --> 00:29:08,040
Like antique value, for instance.
319
00:29:08,248 --> 00:29:10,375
It just so happens that General...
320
00:29:10,542 --> 00:29:13,670
...Gates stopped at that very house
to water his horses.
321
00:29:13,837 --> 00:29:18,258
I don't care if General Grant dropped in
for Scotch and soda, you're getting rooked.
322
00:29:18,425 --> 00:29:20,636
That was a different war.
323
00:29:22,221 --> 00:29:24,681
I think Bill's absolutely right.
324
00:29:25,682 --> 00:29:27,809
Let me explain something to you both.
325
00:29:27,976 --> 00:29:31,230
For 15 years I've been cooped up
in a four-room cracker box.
326
00:29:31,438 --> 00:29:34,733
Just getting a morning shave
entitles a man to the Purple Heart.
327
00:29:34,942 --> 00:29:36,985
That still doesn't make it a good buy.
328
00:29:37,152 --> 00:29:38,612
Bill.
329
00:29:38,779 --> 00:29:42,950
Muriel and I have found what I'm not
ashamed to call our dream house.
330
00:29:43,450 --> 00:29:46,745
It's like a painting.
You buy it with your heart, not your head.
331
00:29:46,954 --> 00:29:49,915
You don't ask, "How much
was the paint? The canvas?"
332
00:29:50,332 --> 00:29:53,669
You look at it. And you say,
"It's beautiful. I want it."
333
00:29:53,836 --> 00:29:56,797
And if it costs a few more pennies,
you pay it and gladly.
334
00:29:56,964 --> 00:29:58,674
Because you love it.
335
00:29:58,841 --> 00:30:02,386
And you can't measure the things you love
in dollars and cents.
336
00:30:05,347 --> 00:30:07,933
Well, anyway, that's the way
I feel about it.
337
00:30:08,141 --> 00:30:12,312
When I sign on Saturday, I can look
the world in the face and say, "It's mine.
338
00:30:12,479 --> 00:30:14,481
My house. My home.
339
00:30:14,648 --> 00:30:16,984
My 35 acres."
340
00:30:20,612 --> 00:30:23,073
Our house. Our home.
341
00:30:23,282 --> 00:30:25,993
Our 35 acres.
342
00:30:29,580 --> 00:30:31,290
More or less.
343
00:30:36,170 --> 00:30:38,797
So Jim cashed in his government bonds.
344
00:30:38,964 --> 00:30:42,009
Gave old man Hackett a $ 6000 mortgage...
345
00:30:42,176 --> 00:30:43,927
... and bought the place.
346
00:30:44,094 --> 00:30:45,804
Then they drove me out to see it.
347
00:30:47,181 --> 00:30:49,766
This isn't the way we came
with Mr. Smith.
348
00:30:49,933 --> 00:30:52,519
What in the world are "Shrunk Mills"?
349
00:30:52,686 --> 00:30:55,272
Probably mills that have shrunk.
350
00:30:56,857 --> 00:30:59,151
Seems to me we go left.
351
00:30:59,735 --> 00:31:01,987
Over the bridge and turn right.
352
00:31:03,822 --> 00:31:05,449
Left.
353
00:31:23,258 --> 00:31:25,052
Congress ought to pass a law.
354
00:31:25,219 --> 00:31:30,557
When a man buys a house in Lansdale,
there's a prize. 10 percent off if he finds it.
355
00:31:32,142 --> 00:31:35,729
- Over the bridge and turn right.
- Left.
356
00:31:58,085 --> 00:32:01,046
If you really want to find that house,
it's no problem.
357
00:32:01,213 --> 00:32:04,925
Pretend you're one of General Gates'
horses and you're very thirsty.
358
00:32:05,092 --> 00:32:07,344
Where would you go for a drink of water?
359
00:32:33,996 --> 00:32:37,166
Well, I must admit,
it's a very beautiful thing.
360
00:32:38,083 --> 00:32:42,171
The house and the lilac bush at the corner
are just the same age, Bill.
361
00:32:42,421 --> 00:32:45,465
If a lilac can live and be so old,
so can the house.
362
00:32:45,674 --> 00:32:48,218
It just needs someone to love it,
that's all.
363
00:32:52,181 --> 00:32:55,767
It's good there are two of you.
One to love it, one to hold it up.
364
00:32:59,855 --> 00:33:02,941
What'd your engineer say
about the foundation and the roof?
365
00:33:03,108 --> 00:33:05,652
Who needs engineers?
This isn't a train.
366
00:33:06,153 --> 00:33:07,821
I just saw it move.
367
00:33:08,822 --> 00:33:11,992
It's stood since the second year
of the Continental Congress.
368
00:33:12,159 --> 00:33:15,204
You take one look at it
and shingles start to fall off.
369
00:33:15,746 --> 00:33:20,209
Let me do you a favor. I've got a client,
structural engineer, Joe Apollonio.
370
00:33:20,375 --> 00:33:22,419
Practically built
the George Washington Bridge.
371
00:33:22,586 --> 00:33:25,589
Thanks a lot, but we're
not building a bridge.
372
00:33:26,089 --> 00:33:28,842
He advised the government
not to raise the "Normandie".
373
00:33:29,009 --> 00:33:31,345
They didn't listen, cost them $5 million.
374
00:33:31,512 --> 00:33:34,223
You have my word.
If I were raising the "Normandie"...
375
00:33:34,389 --> 00:33:38,143
...I wouldn't make a move without
Apollonio. Would you like to come in?
376
00:33:38,685 --> 00:33:39,937
No, thanks.
377
00:33:50,364 --> 00:33:52,491
Muriel!
378
00:33:53,951 --> 00:33:55,202
Muriel!
379
00:33:55,369 --> 00:33:58,997
I think you'd better get in touch
with Mr. Apollonio.
380
00:34:01,375 --> 00:34:04,461
The house has charm,
hasn't it, Mr. Apollonio?
381
00:34:04,628 --> 00:34:08,632
Any small changes would have to conform
to the character of the countryside.
382
00:34:08,799 --> 00:34:11,260
And still be functional.
383
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,349
What is your professional opinion?
384
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,565
- Tear it down.
- Tear it down?
385
00:34:24,731 --> 00:34:28,819
If your sills were shot and your
timbers was okay, I'd say fix her up.
386
00:34:28,986 --> 00:34:32,698
If your timbers were shot and sills
was okay, I'd say fix her up.
387
00:34:33,490 --> 00:34:36,660
But your sills are shot
and your timbers are shot.
388
00:34:36,869 --> 00:34:38,537
I'll show you.
389
00:34:40,497 --> 00:34:44,710
Take a look at the way
what she leans. Here.
390
00:34:51,049 --> 00:34:53,343
It has to be level.
391
00:34:53,510 --> 00:34:58,515
So I say, don't throw good money
after bad. Tear it down. Good day.
392
00:35:01,393 --> 00:35:03,645
- Thanks a lot.
- That's okay.
393
00:35:03,812 --> 00:35:05,772
And I send my bill to your office.
394
00:35:07,441 --> 00:35:09,985
Bill Cole and his experts.
395
00:35:10,152 --> 00:35:15,532
Never mind, darling.
We'll get our own experts.
396
00:35:16,617 --> 00:35:19,495
And so they got their own experts.
397
00:35:19,661 --> 00:35:23,207
- "Mr. Simpson said:"
- Tear it down.
398
00:35:24,750 --> 00:35:28,921
- "On the other hand, Mr. Murphy said:"
- Tear it down.
399
00:35:30,923 --> 00:35:33,258
That's how our friend
Mr. Simms came into it.
400
00:35:34,885 --> 00:35:37,471
He said it was possible
to fix up the old place.
401
00:35:37,638 --> 00:35:39,765
But why not build
a new house, same size?
402
00:35:39,932 --> 00:35:43,810
It certainly wouldn't cost any more.
"Why not look at a floor plan?"
403
00:35:44,561 --> 00:35:47,272
Here we are. Something like this.
404
00:35:47,439 --> 00:35:50,609
First floor, living room,
dining room, study...
405
00:35:50,776 --> 00:35:54,488
...kitchen, breakfast room,
service porch, maid's rooms.
406
00:35:54,655 --> 00:35:58,617
Upstairs, three family bedrooms
with two adjoining baths.
407
00:36:00,619 --> 00:36:03,705
Well, it's very nice.
408
00:36:04,081 --> 00:36:06,792
But don't you think
it's a little conventional?
409
00:36:06,959 --> 00:36:09,086
Yes, Mr. Simms, of course...
410
00:36:09,294 --> 00:36:12,756
...if we were going to build a house,
we'd want it...
411
00:36:12,923 --> 00:36:14,883
...well, just a little bit different.
412
00:36:15,050 --> 00:36:17,719
Yes. Of course,
this is just a point of departure.
413
00:36:17,886 --> 00:36:20,639
You don't have to adhere
to any of this.
414
00:36:21,139 --> 00:36:25,018
Well, I don't think we're
at all ready to commit ourselves.
415
00:36:25,185 --> 00:36:27,563
- Oh, no.
- Of course not. I understand.
416
00:36:27,729 --> 00:36:31,024
Well, now,
if this were my house, I'd...
417
00:36:31,692 --> 00:36:33,902
Well, I mean...
418
00:36:37,656 --> 00:36:40,117
Now, here, for instance...
419
00:36:43,328 --> 00:36:44,913
Now. In the study...
420
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,792
...if we could push out this wall
a little and put in a built-in bar...
421
00:36:48,959 --> 00:36:50,586
Excuse me, dear.
422
00:36:50,752 --> 00:36:52,504
These bedrooms are too small.
423
00:36:52,671 --> 00:36:55,507
And we'll have to have
a little dressing room.
424
00:36:55,674 --> 00:36:58,343
Yeah, and closets, Mr. Simms,
plenty of closets.
425
00:36:58,510 --> 00:37:02,306
- One thing this family needs is closets.
- Lf I might make a suggestion...
426
00:37:02,472 --> 00:37:03,974
And bathrooms, Mr. Simms.
427
00:37:04,183 --> 00:37:07,019
Each bedroom must have
at least one bathroom.
428
00:37:07,186 --> 00:37:10,856
But that would be four bathrooms,
Mrs. Blandings. I better point out...
429
00:37:11,023 --> 00:37:14,985
I was wondering, do you think we
could manage a playroom in the basement?
430
00:37:15,194 --> 00:37:17,779
You know, nothing tremendous.
Something like this.
431
00:37:17,946 --> 00:37:21,783
Well, of course, it's always possible.
But our fundamental problem...
432
00:37:21,950 --> 00:37:24,369
And I've always wanted
a little sewing room.
433
00:37:24,536 --> 00:37:27,080
A little utility room upstairs...
434
00:37:27,247 --> 00:37:31,376
...where I could be alone and sew
or sulk on a rainy afternoon.
435
00:37:31,543 --> 00:37:34,546
Pardon me, dear.
Now, Mr. Simms, about that playroom...
436
00:37:34,713 --> 00:37:39,176
...not too small. Plenty of room for dodge,
Ping-Pong, nice big poker table.
437
00:37:39,384 --> 00:37:41,553
Yes. If you don't mind...
438
00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:45,057
- Off the kitchen, a flower sink...
- There should be a terrace...
439
00:37:45,224 --> 00:37:48,894
...a stone floor and shelves...
...an awning and fireplace...
440
00:37:49,061 --> 00:37:53,357
...and a closet for gardening things...
...a barbecue thing. A roasting thing.
441
00:37:53,524 --> 00:37:55,400
A rotisserie.
For Sunday afternoons.
442
00:37:59,488 --> 00:38:02,741
Well, let's see what we have here.
443
00:38:05,118 --> 00:38:08,163
In the first place, I'm afraid...
444
00:38:09,456 --> 00:38:13,919
In the first place, you've got the upstairs
about twice as big as the downstairs.
445
00:38:14,086 --> 00:38:17,756
- It's all those bathrooms.
- It's all those closets.
446
00:38:18,799 --> 00:38:23,846
By extending that breakfast room,
you've eliminated the possibility of stairs.
447
00:38:24,012 --> 00:38:27,391
I've allowed for that.
You can put them in behind the pantry.
448
00:38:29,268 --> 00:38:32,729
Mrs. Blandings, on that sewing room,
the way you have it there...
449
00:38:32,896 --> 00:38:35,774
...the chimney stack would
come up through the room...
450
00:38:35,941 --> 00:38:38,694
...leaving you with the shape
of a square doughnut.
451
00:38:38,861 --> 00:38:42,781
Which might be very warm in winter,
but otherwise of doubtful utility.
452
00:38:42,948 --> 00:38:45,367
Can't you put the chimney
somewhere else?
453
00:38:46,118 --> 00:38:49,204
Look, I think I know just about
what you two have in mind.
454
00:38:49,371 --> 00:38:51,623
Suppose I go ahead
with preliminary plans...
455
00:38:51,790 --> 00:38:54,918
...and we get together in a week.
- All right. You do that.
456
00:38:55,085 --> 00:38:57,296
- Fine.
- Holy smoke!
457
00:38:57,462 --> 00:38:59,423
I'm afraid we didn't realize.
458
00:38:59,590 --> 00:39:03,468
Well, Mr. Simms. Don't you forget,
we've got to hold it down under 10,000.
459
00:39:03,635 --> 00:39:06,096
That, I can tell you right now,
is impossible.
460
00:39:06,263 --> 00:39:08,974
Even with trimming
of the things you've indicated...
461
00:39:09,141 --> 00:39:12,978
...I don't see how we can bring it in
for less than 12 or 12,500.
462
00:39:13,395 --> 00:39:15,731
Twelve thousand, five hundred?
463
00:39:16,398 --> 00:39:20,068
I guess we won't quibble about
a few pennies one way or the other.
464
00:39:20,819 --> 00:39:25,949
By the way, have you any notions as to how
you'd like the old place taken down?
465
00:39:26,158 --> 00:39:28,619
Why don't we just blow on it.
466
00:39:36,835 --> 00:39:43,175
Well, so far it's cost us $ 13,329.45.
467
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:48,847
But we have the nicest vacant lot
in the state of Connecticut.
468
00:39:52,351 --> 00:39:55,687
Something will have to be cut.
These plans are too elaborate...
469
00:39:55,854 --> 00:39:58,398
...for the money you have to spend.
- All right.
470
00:39:58,565 --> 00:40:00,901
I'll make the sacrifice. You can cut it out.
471
00:40:01,068 --> 00:40:03,612
- Now we're getting somewhere.
- What's happening?
472
00:40:03,779 --> 00:40:05,948
Dad just lost his playroom.
473
00:40:06,114 --> 00:40:10,452
Muriel, as the house stands now,
it's over $ 15,000.
474
00:40:10,619 --> 00:40:13,372
- Mother, may we put Theodore to bed?
- Yes.
475
00:40:13,539 --> 00:40:17,292
It just doesn't seem possible
for a house with such small rooms.
476
00:40:17,459 --> 00:40:22,047
I've already explained. It's not so much
the size of the rooms as it is the number.
477
00:40:22,214 --> 00:40:24,550
Is it essential for each
of your daughters...
478
00:40:24,716 --> 00:40:27,594
...to have her own room
with two closets and a bath?
479
00:40:27,761 --> 00:40:29,054
Yes.
480
00:40:29,221 --> 00:40:32,891
You see, my daughters
are approaching womanhood and...
481
00:40:33,058 --> 00:40:36,019
I didn't realize they were
approaching it quite so fast.
482
00:40:36,186 --> 00:40:40,691
Perhaps what you need is not so much
a house as a series of little bungalows...
483
00:40:40,858 --> 00:40:43,902
...each with two closets
and a private bath.
484
00:40:44,528 --> 00:40:48,490
Well, what about that silly flower sink?
We could lose that.
485
00:40:48,991 --> 00:40:50,242
I beg your pardon.
486
00:40:50,409 --> 00:40:52,619
Or that sewing room. That's a waste.
487
00:40:52,786 --> 00:40:56,790
May I suggest that neither of these
are really major eliminations?
488
00:40:56,957 --> 00:41:00,711
- Lf you could do with one less bathroom...
- Sorry, we couldn't possibly.
489
00:41:00,878 --> 00:41:03,046
A simple bathroom, 8 by 10 by 8...
490
00:41:03,213 --> 00:41:06,049
...with grade-A fixtures
will cost around $ 1300.
491
00:41:06,216 --> 00:41:10,846
I refuse to endanger my children's health
in a house with less than four bathrooms.
492
00:41:11,013 --> 00:41:16,185
For $ 1300, they can live in a house
with three bathrooms and rough it.
493
00:41:22,941 --> 00:41:25,110
- Why, Bill!
- Hello, Muriel.
494
00:41:25,277 --> 00:41:26,904
Well, you've done it again.
495
00:41:27,112 --> 00:41:31,366
Once, just once, why don't you
come to me and find out if it's legal...
496
00:41:31,533 --> 00:41:34,995
...before you go barging off
and run yourself into another jam?
497
00:41:35,162 --> 00:41:38,540
- What's eating you?
- Simms, I hold you equally responsible.
498
00:41:38,707 --> 00:41:41,126
- What happened?
- I don't understand.
499
00:41:41,293 --> 00:41:44,338
- Did you let this idiot tear down that house?
- What of it?
500
00:41:44,505 --> 00:41:47,174
Reconstruction was unsound
and totally impractical.
501
00:41:47,341 --> 00:41:50,802
But you're dealing with a man
who doesn't think before he acts.
502
00:41:50,969 --> 00:41:53,305
- Who goes off half-cocked.
- What did I do?
503
00:41:53,472 --> 00:41:56,141
You're an architect.
You were aware of the legality.
504
00:41:56,308 --> 00:41:59,102
- What legality?
- There was a mortgage on that house.
505
00:41:59,269 --> 00:42:02,564
- I assumed as much.
- What are you talking about?
506
00:42:02,731 --> 00:42:05,442
- What did you do?
- I don't know. They won't tell me.
507
00:42:05,609 --> 00:42:08,362
Certainly, but since you
were his lawyer, I assumed...
508
00:42:08,529 --> 00:42:10,489
With a guy like this, don't assume.
509
00:42:10,656 --> 00:42:13,075
Just a minute.
I'm entitled to know what I did.
510
00:42:13,242 --> 00:42:16,286
This is America.
A man is guilty until proven innocent.
511
00:42:16,495 --> 00:42:18,330
It's the other way around, Father.
512
00:42:18,497 --> 00:42:20,666
- You go to bed.
- Girls.
513
00:42:20,833 --> 00:42:24,419
Bill, would you mind telling me in clear,
concise English...
514
00:42:24,586 --> 00:42:26,839
...just what crime I've committed and why?
515
00:42:27,005 --> 00:42:30,050
In clear, concise English,
you tore down a house...
516
00:42:30,217 --> 00:42:34,429
...on which another man holds a mortgage
without getting his written permission.
517
00:42:34,596 --> 00:42:36,557
Well, l... I did?
518
00:42:36,723 --> 00:42:41,019
And in such case, the mortgagee
can demand full payment of said mortgage.
519
00:42:41,186 --> 00:42:43,438
Mr. Ephemus Hackett so demands.
520
00:42:43,605 --> 00:42:45,816
Six thousand clams.
521
00:42:45,983 --> 00:42:47,609
And he wants them now.
522
00:42:47,776 --> 00:42:49,528
- Now?
- You've got 10 days.
523
00:42:49,695 --> 00:42:54,032
Ms. Stellwagon says the parents' problems
should be the children's problems.
524
00:42:54,199 --> 00:42:58,412
Well, you keep that in mind, dear,
it'll help prepare you for motherhood.
525
00:42:58,871 --> 00:43:02,499
- We'd better let the plans go for now.
- No, Simms. I'll work this out.
526
00:43:02,708 --> 00:43:06,712
- Go ahead and let's see some estimates.
- Very well. You'll hear from me soon.
527
00:43:06,879 --> 00:43:09,173
- Good night, Mr. Cole.
- Good night.
528
00:43:09,339 --> 00:43:12,176
- Six thousand dollars.
- Good night, Mr. Simms.
529
00:43:12,384 --> 00:43:13,635
Good night.
530
00:43:13,802 --> 00:43:16,722
What are you gonna do
about the collateral on your loan?
531
00:43:16,889 --> 00:43:19,433
Turn in my insurance policies or something.
532
00:43:19,892 --> 00:43:22,853
- Jim, you can't do that.
- Why not?
533
00:43:23,061 --> 00:43:26,982
Why, if anything should happen,
the children would be left unprotected.
534
00:43:27,441 --> 00:43:30,235
- I'm not dead yet.
- Well, of course you're not.
535
00:43:30,569 --> 00:43:34,823
I'll see the boys at the bank. Maybe you
can put up your insurance as collateral.
536
00:43:34,990 --> 00:43:36,867
If necessary...
537
00:43:37,451 --> 00:43:39,411
...l'll sign a personal note.
538
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:41,580
Thanks, Bill.
539
00:43:42,247 --> 00:43:44,625
Well, I gotta run along.
540
00:43:45,042 --> 00:43:46,752
Jim, do me a little favor.
541
00:43:46,919 --> 00:43:50,964
The next time you're gonna do anything
or say anything or buy anything...
542
00:43:51,131 --> 00:43:53,175
...think it over very carefully.
543
00:43:53,342 --> 00:43:57,554
When you're sure you're right,
forget the whole thing.
544
00:44:00,807 --> 00:44:04,061
- Good night, Muriel.
- Good night, Bill.
545
00:44:10,067 --> 00:44:12,569
What a wonderful friend.
546
00:44:13,487 --> 00:44:16,156
What's with all this kissing
all of a sudden?
547
00:44:16,323 --> 00:44:17,825
What's that?
548
00:44:17,991 --> 00:44:23,038
Just because a man helps in a business way
doesn't give him privileges with my wife.
549
00:44:23,205 --> 00:44:26,124
That's a fine thing to say
about a friend of 15 years.
550
00:44:26,291 --> 00:44:29,044
Well, I just don't like it.
551
00:44:29,211 --> 00:44:33,215
Every time he goes out of this house,
he shakes my hand and he kisses you.
552
00:44:33,382 --> 00:44:35,843
Would you prefer it
the other way around?
553
00:44:37,803 --> 00:44:41,682
Why is he always hanging around?
Why doesn't he ever get married?
554
00:44:41,849 --> 00:44:46,103
Because he can't find another girl as pretty
and sweet and wholesome as I am.
555
00:44:51,483 --> 00:44:54,862
Darling, let's not be silly about this.
556
00:44:55,028 --> 00:44:58,949
It isn't Bill,
it's the house that's upsetting you.
557
00:44:59,825 --> 00:45:01,827
I suppose so.
558
00:45:02,327 --> 00:45:05,581
- Do you think it's worth all this?
- Of course it is.
559
00:45:05,747 --> 00:45:09,293
It isn't a house we're building,
it's a home.
560
00:45:09,459 --> 00:45:12,254
For ourselves and our children.
561
00:45:12,421 --> 00:45:15,174
Maybe our children's children.
562
00:45:16,508 --> 00:45:19,845
Each with two closets and a private bath.
563
00:45:25,392 --> 00:45:27,519
Well, here are the estimates.
564
00:45:27,686 --> 00:45:29,855
Before you look,
I think I better explain.
565
00:45:30,022 --> 00:45:34,318
Don't bother, Mr. Simms. We're getting
to be old hands at this sort of thing.
566
00:45:41,867 --> 00:45:44,578
Of course, these bids
are obviously way out of line.
567
00:45:44,745 --> 00:45:47,873
That is, all except
John Retch & Son at 21,000.
568
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,834
- Twenty-one thousand!
- With some judicious cutting...
569
00:45:51,001 --> 00:45:55,589
...I think we could pare that down to 18.
- We've asked for the barest necessities.
570
00:45:55,756 --> 00:45:58,926
- Frankly, with all the extras...
- Never mind, Mr. Simms.
571
00:45:59,092 --> 00:46:02,721
Send us a bill for your services.
I'll see it's taken care of.
572
00:46:02,888 --> 00:46:05,516
- Goodbye, Mr. Simms.
- But one moment.
573
00:46:05,724 --> 00:46:07,976
- In the first place...
- In the first place...
574
00:46:08,143 --> 00:46:12,606
...I am going out to get my head examined.
If I don't jump off the Brooklyn Bridge...
575
00:46:12,773 --> 00:46:17,069
...l'm going to find the owner of our
apartment building and sign a 20-year lease.
576
00:46:17,236 --> 00:46:18,862
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye, sir.
577
00:46:19,029 --> 00:46:21,990
- Goodbye, Mr. Simms.
- Goodbye, Mrs. Blandings.
578
00:46:52,104 --> 00:46:56,692
Do you think you could keep
it down to 18,000?
579
00:47:29,892 --> 00:47:32,436
- Well, things are certainly humming.
- What?
580
00:47:32,644 --> 00:47:34,563
I said, "humming."
581
00:47:36,523 --> 00:47:40,152
Oh, there's my contractor, Mr. Retch.
I'll introduce you.
582
00:47:40,319 --> 00:47:42,446
We ordered that a month ago.
Get down...
583
00:47:42,613 --> 00:47:44,990
- Hello, Mr. Retch.
- Hi. Put a tracer on it.
584
00:47:45,157 --> 00:47:49,077
- We need that stuff.
- Got a lot on his mind.
585
00:47:50,913 --> 00:47:53,165
Hey, get out of the way.
Wanna get killed?
586
00:48:03,675 --> 00:48:08,096
- What's going on over there?
- That's Mr. Tesander. He's digging our well.
587
00:48:15,187 --> 00:48:17,981
- How long does that go on?
- Three weeks now...
588
00:48:18,148 --> 00:48:20,651
...at $4.50 a foot.
- Yeah, right.
589
00:48:20,818 --> 00:48:24,196
I think I'd better have a little talk
with Mr. Tesander.
590
00:48:26,490 --> 00:48:28,575
Mr. Tesander?
591
00:48:32,495 --> 00:48:34,831
Mr. Tesander!
592
00:48:37,041 --> 00:48:39,085
- Yep?
- How's it coming?
593
00:48:39,252 --> 00:48:41,379
It's coming.
594
00:48:45,341 --> 00:48:47,635
Mr. Tesander?
595
00:48:53,349 --> 00:48:55,184
- Yep?
- What I meant was...
596
00:48:55,351 --> 00:48:56,853
...how far down are you?
597
00:48:57,020 --> 00:49:00,189
Oh, about 130 feet.
598
00:49:00,940 --> 00:49:03,860
- Isn't that pretty deep?
- Yep.
599
00:49:04,027 --> 00:49:08,156
I mean, do you think perhaps
you ought to try another spot?
600
00:49:08,364 --> 00:49:09,616
Up to you.
601
00:49:11,159 --> 00:49:13,786
Haven't you hit anything yet at all?
602
00:49:14,913 --> 00:49:17,749
Hit some limestone yesterday.
603
00:49:17,916 --> 00:49:20,168
- That's good?
- That's bad.
604
00:49:21,377 --> 00:49:24,964
Right now, looks like
we're coming into some shale.
605
00:49:25,131 --> 00:49:28,009
- That's bad?
- That's good.
606
00:49:28,343 --> 00:49:32,722
- But it might turn out to be sandstone.
- That's bad.
607
00:49:34,057 --> 00:49:35,516
Can't tell.
608
00:49:35,683 --> 00:49:38,061
Might be good, might be bad.
609
00:49:38,436 --> 00:49:43,149
One thing you know: You got plenty shale,
sandstone and limestone.
610
00:49:43,316 --> 00:49:45,777
- I see.
- Mr. Tesander.
611
00:49:45,944 --> 00:49:47,779
- How do you do?
- How do you do?
612
00:49:47,946 --> 00:49:51,616
Just for the record, of course,
what happened to water?
613
00:49:51,783 --> 00:49:54,410
Oh, it's there, all right.
614
00:49:54,577 --> 00:49:57,121
Just got to be patient.
615
00:50:04,671 --> 00:50:08,591
- What's wrong with the steam shovel?
- I better go and take a look.
616
00:50:08,925 --> 00:50:11,427
- Jim!
- Come here.
617
00:50:13,054 --> 00:50:14,764
Thank you.
618
00:50:21,688 --> 00:50:24,941
- What's the matter? Is something wrong?
- How do you like that?
619
00:50:25,108 --> 00:50:28,444
I broke my bucket.
Two times this week, I broke my bucket.
620
00:50:28,736 --> 00:50:32,949
- What did you do, hit a boulder?
- That's no boulder. That's a ledge.
621
00:50:33,116 --> 00:50:36,202
- What does that mean?
- Means we gotta blast.
622
00:50:36,369 --> 00:50:39,289
- Blast?
- Blast, with dynamite.
623
00:50:39,872 --> 00:50:42,834
- What do you mean?
- What do you mean, "what do you mean"?
624
00:50:43,001 --> 00:50:47,297
Mr. Zucca explained, he has to use
dynamite to blast to get rid of the rock.
625
00:50:47,463 --> 00:50:49,632
That's no rock. That's a ledge.
626
00:50:50,300 --> 00:50:53,219
What Mr. Blandings means is,
what precisely is a ledge?
627
00:50:53,386 --> 00:50:57,140
A ledge is like a big stone,
only it's bigger.
628
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,310
- Like a boulder.
- No, like a ledge.
629
00:51:01,269 --> 00:51:03,855
- Like a ledge.
- But you don't have to worry.
630
00:51:04,022 --> 00:51:08,693
It only costs $6 a cubic yard,
plus the dynamite and the fuse.
631
00:51:10,028 --> 00:51:12,113
How far will you have to blast?
632
00:51:13,323 --> 00:51:17,702
Hard to tell. Might be a little baby ledge,
might run the whole top of the mountain.
633
00:51:18,036 --> 00:51:20,872
At $6 a yard,
do you realize what that means?
634
00:51:21,039 --> 00:51:23,124
It means we gotta blast.
635
00:51:27,754 --> 00:51:31,549
With a few minor deviations,
I know exactly where every penny is going.
636
00:51:31,716 --> 00:51:34,218
- Is that all?
- Yes, thanks.
637
00:51:36,971 --> 00:51:39,223
- Hi.
- Hello, Bill. Come in.
638
00:51:39,390 --> 00:51:43,102
I've been going over the Knapp contracts
with old man Dascomb.
639
00:51:44,312 --> 00:51:47,315
While I was in there,
the conversation got around to you.
640
00:51:47,523 --> 00:51:51,194
- Oh, what is it?
- Well, he didn't say in so many words...
641
00:51:51,402 --> 00:51:55,531
...that since you started with that house
you haven't come up with one slogan.
642
00:51:55,698 --> 00:51:58,242
- But?
- But...
643
00:51:58,826 --> 00:52:00,245
- Where is it?
- It's there.
644
00:52:02,580 --> 00:52:06,668
But since the Wham account
is the backbone of this agency...
645
00:52:06,834 --> 00:52:09,712
...I kind of felt that he kind of felt...
646
00:52:09,879 --> 00:52:15,093
...that if I kind of told you, you'd know that
he knew that you knew, or something...
647
00:52:15,260 --> 00:52:18,680
What's he worrying about?
The deadline is six months off.
648
00:52:21,266 --> 00:52:24,060
- Yeah?
- "Mrs. Blandings calling from Lansdale."
649
00:52:24,227 --> 00:52:25,561
Okay.
650
00:52:25,979 --> 00:52:28,106
Yes, Muriel? What?
651
00:52:29,857 --> 00:52:33,069
Tesander struck water?
Say, that's wonderful!
652
00:52:33,236 --> 00:52:36,322
- Bill, we've got our well!
- Congratulations.
653
00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:38,574
What?
654
00:52:38,783 --> 00:52:40,076
What's that?
655
00:52:40,243 --> 00:52:42,870
What do you mean,
we've got two wells?
656
00:52:46,874 --> 00:52:49,586
I'll be right out.
Come on, Bill.
657
00:53:12,358 --> 00:53:16,946
So you hit a spring, a bubbling spring,
right here in our cellar.
658
00:53:17,113 --> 00:53:19,824
It has to be diverted
before Retch can pour cement.
659
00:53:19,991 --> 00:53:23,286
May take a while.
Pumps are over in Jersey.
660
00:53:28,541 --> 00:53:31,711
- Water, Mr. Tesander.
- Yep.
661
00:53:31,878 --> 00:53:33,963
At 6 feet.
662
00:53:34,130 --> 00:53:35,590
Yep.
663
00:53:35,757 --> 00:53:41,888
And just over there, you had to go down
227 feet to hit the same water.
664
00:53:42,639 --> 00:53:46,601
- Yep.
- Now, how do you account for that?
665
00:53:46,809 --> 00:53:50,647
Well, the way it appears to me,
Mr. Blandings...
666
00:53:50,813 --> 00:53:55,193
...over here, the water
is down around 6 feet.
667
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,320
And over there...
668
00:53:57,487 --> 00:54:01,866
...it's down around 227 feet.
- It's down around 227 feet.
669
00:54:02,033 --> 00:54:04,202
Yep.
670
00:54:58,548 --> 00:55:01,092
What's this, another closet?
671
00:55:01,342 --> 00:55:04,470
- This happens to be our living room.
- This isn't it.
672
00:55:04,637 --> 00:55:08,641
- Living room's across the hall.
- Then where's the dining room?
673
00:55:08,808 --> 00:55:11,352
Well, I think it's...
674
00:55:11,519 --> 00:55:14,480
- Maybe it's this little room.
- That's the breakfast room.
675
00:55:14,647 --> 00:55:18,318
That isn't the breakfast room,
that's the powder room.
676
00:55:18,484 --> 00:55:23,406
- Just where is the dining room?
- It was right here a minute ago.
677
00:55:23,573 --> 00:55:26,868
- We couldn't just have lost it.
- Better put an ad in the paper.
678
00:55:27,035 --> 00:55:28,995
I don't get this Blandings at all.
679
00:55:29,162 --> 00:55:33,458
If you build on the windiest hill
in Connecticut, why pick the windiest side?
680
00:55:33,625 --> 00:55:38,504
You know those New York millionaires.
Easy come, easy go.
681
00:55:41,591 --> 00:55:47,555
- Now, here is the living room. Right?
- Yes. There's the fireplace.
682
00:55:47,722 --> 00:55:50,975
- Come right in.
- After you, Rockefeller.
683
00:55:51,142 --> 00:55:53,603
- Hey, mister. You the owner here?
- Yeah.
684
00:55:53,770 --> 00:55:56,105
Just the man I want to see.
685
00:55:56,272 --> 00:55:59,192
I'll browse around upstairs.
686
00:56:03,029 --> 00:56:07,492
The second-floor lintels between
the lally columns, should we rabbet them?
687
00:56:11,955 --> 00:56:14,457
The second-floor lallies?
688
00:56:14,624 --> 00:56:17,126
Second-floor lintels between the lallies.
689
00:56:19,254 --> 00:56:21,381
Oh, the lintels between the lallies.
690
00:56:21,547 --> 00:56:25,843
Yeah, from the blueprints you can't tell.
You want they should be rabbeted?
691
00:56:28,471 --> 00:56:31,933
- No, no, I guess not.
- Okay, you're the doctor.
692
00:56:32,100 --> 00:56:38,314
Hey, fellas! If you got any of them
rabbeted lintels set, rip them up!
693
00:56:46,281 --> 00:56:49,993
It sounded less expensive to say no.
694
00:56:50,785 --> 00:56:53,288
Stop it! Stop it!
695
00:56:55,373 --> 00:56:58,167
Okay, fellas, let's quit!
696
00:57:00,878 --> 00:57:02,714
Now look what you've done.
697
00:57:04,882 --> 00:57:06,718
Look, men!
698
00:57:06,884 --> 00:57:09,220
Mrs. Blandings didn't mean anything.
699
00:57:09,387 --> 00:57:13,016
There's no point in walking off a job
because a woman makes a remark.
700
00:57:13,182 --> 00:57:16,352
Look, mister, it's Saturday.
We quit at 12:00.
701
00:57:16,519 --> 00:57:18,855
Unless you want us to go on overtime.
702
00:57:19,022 --> 00:57:22,567
No, no, no. Very kind of you, I'm sure.
703
00:57:22,734 --> 00:57:25,069
See you Monday, fellas.
704
00:57:30,033 --> 00:57:31,409
I'm sick.
705
00:57:31,576 --> 00:57:34,537
From the outside, this place
looks like a grain elevator.
706
00:57:34,704 --> 00:57:38,833
On the inside, everything's miles too small.
707
00:57:39,334 --> 00:57:40,919
- What's that?
- What's what?
708
00:57:41,085 --> 00:57:45,048
That noise. It's upstairs.
709
00:58:09,072 --> 00:58:12,200
- What happened?
- The door blew shut. I got locked in.
710
00:58:12,367 --> 00:58:15,411
Impossible. I had this closet built
especially for myself.
711
00:58:15,578 --> 00:58:19,624
- The lock opens from the inside.
- Maybe for Houdini, not for me.
712
00:58:19,791 --> 00:58:23,544
Nothing to it, a child could do it.
Look, I'll show you.
713
00:58:25,129 --> 00:58:28,132
See? It just takes some
good old Yankee know-how.
714
00:58:28,299 --> 00:58:31,761
It's possible, darling, the lock works
for you and not for Bill.
715
00:58:31,928 --> 00:58:34,764
- Ridiculous. Even you could do it.
- Thank you.
716
00:58:34,931 --> 00:58:36,599
Come on, I'll show you. Get in.
717
00:58:38,726 --> 00:58:41,813
Now go ahead, dear. Just open the door.
718
00:58:48,528 --> 00:58:52,782
- I don't seem to be able to...
- Well, it's perfectly simple.
719
00:58:52,949 --> 00:58:56,786
You just take the knob
and turn it clockwise.
720
00:59:15,597 --> 00:59:17,890
Nothing like that
good old Yankee know-how.
721
00:59:20,101 --> 00:59:21,352
Hey!
722
00:59:21,519 --> 00:59:24,814
Somebody let us out of here!
723
00:59:35,533 --> 00:59:37,911
Oh, dear.
724
00:59:47,170 --> 00:59:50,465
If I could just get over to that scaffolding.
725
00:59:57,889 --> 01:00:00,725
Seems a shame, but I guess
it's the only way to do it.
726
01:00:00,892 --> 01:00:05,188
- What are you gonna do?
- Don't get panicky. I'll get you out of here.
727
01:00:05,355 --> 01:00:09,651
Stand up, Bill.
Hold that over the window.
728
01:00:12,236 --> 01:00:14,697
Stand back, Muriel.
729
01:00:14,989 --> 01:00:17,867
- Ready?
- Roger.
730
01:00:29,879 --> 01:00:32,799
In case of emergency, break glass.
731
01:00:33,132 --> 01:00:35,009
Come on, Bill.
732
01:00:39,764 --> 01:00:43,977
That's funny. There's no reason
why that shouldn't work.
733
01:01:01,327 --> 01:01:03,329
- Wham again.
- Yes, sir.
734
01:01:03,496 --> 01:01:07,333
- Muriel, I thought we'd agreed...
- Gussie, no more Wham for Mr. Blandings.
735
01:01:07,667 --> 01:01:11,379
- What about the rest of us?
- I'm sure there are other substitutes.
736
01:01:11,546 --> 01:01:15,008
- Bacon, sausages...
- The children like Wham.
737
01:01:15,174 --> 01:01:18,052
- There must be other...
- Mrs. Blandings likes it too.
738
01:01:18,219 --> 01:01:21,723
- Just the same...
- And I consider it very tasty.
739
01:01:21,931 --> 01:01:24,934
Gussie, I spend eight hours every day...
740
01:01:25,101 --> 01:01:28,354
...trying to cram this stuff down
the throats of millions.
741
01:01:28,521 --> 01:01:31,941
I know all about it.
Its succulent goodness.
742
01:01:32,108 --> 01:01:36,446
- Its sugar-smoked tenderness. Its...
- You don't have to sell me. I like it.
743
01:01:39,532 --> 01:01:41,576
Oh, thank you.
744
01:01:41,784 --> 01:01:43,786
Just bills.
745
01:01:44,037 --> 01:01:47,123
Darling, I'm going out
to the place this afternoon.
746
01:01:47,290 --> 01:01:50,043
Bill's driving me up
to see about the landscaping.
747
01:01:50,209 --> 01:01:52,295
That'll be nice.
748
01:01:52,629 --> 01:01:56,174
- What do you mean, Bill's driving you?
- Why do you ask...
749
01:01:56,341 --> 01:01:59,469
...when you know what I mean
and what you mean?
750
01:01:59,802 --> 01:02:03,640
I mean, the moment I turn my back,
Bill Cole's driving you someplace.
751
01:02:03,806 --> 01:02:06,434
- He's being helpful.
- I thought he was a lawyer.
752
01:02:06,643 --> 01:02:10,480
- Why isn't he out suing somebody?
- Bicker, bicker, bicker.
753
01:02:15,026 --> 01:02:19,530
- Well, we'll just see about that!
- What is it?
754
01:02:21,741 --> 01:02:26,496
- What's the matter, Jim?
- Mr. William Cole, please.
755
01:02:27,497 --> 01:02:29,832
Hello, Bill.
They can't get away with this.
756
01:02:29,999 --> 01:02:32,001
I know my rights as a citizen.
757
01:02:32,168 --> 01:02:35,004
Why, this notice from
the owner of this building.
758
01:02:35,171 --> 01:02:39,342
He wants our apartment.
He's ordering us to move in 30 days.
759
01:02:39,509 --> 01:02:42,804
How can I move into a house
that isn't even finished?
760
01:02:42,971 --> 01:02:46,391
There are no windows, no plaster, no paint...
761
01:02:46,557 --> 01:02:49,602
Listen to me.
I have no intention of moving in 30 days.
762
01:02:49,769 --> 01:02:55,066
This is not legal. I'll fight it and
I don't care if it takes every penny I've got.
763
01:02:55,233 --> 01:02:58,736
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
764
01:02:58,903 --> 01:03:00,863
- All right.
- Well?
765
01:03:01,030 --> 01:03:03,866
We're moving in 30 days.
766
01:03:07,245 --> 01:03:11,040
So came 30 days. And they moved.
767
01:03:14,085 --> 01:03:16,546
That is, we moved.
768
01:03:17,839 --> 01:03:20,717
Well, there she is, bright and shiny.
769
01:03:20,883 --> 01:03:24,345
And just about complete.
770
01:03:24,512 --> 01:03:29,267
The residence
of Mr. And Mrs. James Blandings.
771
01:03:30,393 --> 01:03:32,729
"All right, everybody out."
772
01:03:33,938 --> 01:03:37,942
Guess you can't blame them
for feeling just a little bit proud.
773
01:03:39,694 --> 01:03:42,363
Even Theodore's proud.
774
01:03:43,573 --> 01:03:47,493
"All right, men. Let's have a little action."
"Okay, Mac."
775
01:03:52,415 --> 01:03:54,876
The big moment.
776
01:03:55,293 --> 01:03:58,880
Look. He wants to carry her
across the threshold.
777
01:03:59,088 --> 01:04:00,632
Isn't that romantic?
778
01:04:06,930 --> 01:04:09,349
Watch that sacroiliac.
779
01:04:09,515 --> 01:04:13,061
Fifteen years since you've done
this sort of thing.
780
01:04:13,561 --> 01:04:17,440
Nice work, Tarzan. Now let's see
if you can make it into the living room.
781
01:04:17,690 --> 01:04:20,735
That's right. Go right in.
Don't pay attention to the sign.
782
01:04:23,446 --> 01:04:26,866
"Look where you're going!
Can't you see I'm varnishing?"
783
01:04:28,576 --> 01:04:31,829
"Stop painting that floor
and put some planks down in here!"
784
01:04:31,996 --> 01:04:36,459
"Okay, Mac, but take it easy.
The Republicans ain't in yet, you know. "
785
01:04:43,174 --> 01:04:47,303
"There. I'll just see Simms about this."
786
01:04:47,470 --> 01:04:51,516
"Oh, Father! Wait till you see
what we found. "
787
01:04:54,269 --> 01:04:55,979
"Now what?
788
01:04:56,771 --> 01:04:59,649
Oh, fine. No windows.
789
01:04:59,816 --> 01:05:02,944
Well, we'll just see Simms
about that too. "
790
01:05:04,612 --> 01:05:07,824
- Where's Simms?
- Around back, figuring out them windows.
791
01:05:07,991 --> 01:05:11,327
- What's the problem? You put windows up.
- These don't fit.
792
01:05:11,494 --> 01:05:13,830
Oh, they don't, don't they?
793
01:05:14,914 --> 01:05:17,834
Mr. Blandings, you'd better
take a look at these bills.
794
01:05:18,001 --> 01:05:20,795
- What about the windows?
- There's been a slip-up.
795
01:05:20,962 --> 01:05:23,840
These windows belong
to a Mr. Landing in Fishkill.
796
01:05:24,007 --> 01:05:27,135
- I spoke to him on the phone.
- Well, has he got mine?
797
01:05:27,302 --> 01:05:32,682
No. He seems to have some windows that
belong to a Mr. Blandsworth in Peekskill.
798
01:05:32,849 --> 01:05:36,102
- Where are my windows?
- As near as we can find out...
799
01:05:36,269 --> 01:05:38,980
...they've been sent
to a Mr. Banning in Danbury...
800
01:05:39,147 --> 01:05:41,316
...or a Mr. Bamberger in Waterbury.
801
01:05:42,025 --> 01:05:45,653
Shall we spend the rest of our lives
in a house without windows?
802
01:05:45,862 --> 01:05:47,780
It will only be a few days.
803
01:05:47,947 --> 01:05:52,285
- What's a "Zuz-zuz water softener"?
- How should I know?
804
01:05:52,452 --> 01:05:54,704
You've got one.
805
01:05:56,331 --> 01:06:01,377
"Furnishing and installing
one Zuz-zuz water softener, $285..."
806
01:06:01,544 --> 01:06:04,631
- I didn't order that!
- I authorized that, Mr. Blandings.
807
01:06:04,797 --> 01:06:07,050
- To save your boiler and water pipes.
- From?
808
01:06:07,216 --> 01:06:09,761
Rust. The plumber says
the water in your well...
809
01:06:09,928 --> 01:06:12,889
...is the most corrosive
in his entire experience.
810
01:06:13,056 --> 01:06:16,351
- Another first.
- Well, if it's necessary, put it in.
811
01:06:16,517 --> 01:06:18,895
- We're moving in today...
- It's in.
812
01:06:19,062 --> 01:06:22,023
- Then get me the bill for it.
- You've got it.
813
01:06:22,190 --> 01:06:24,484
Well, all right, then.
814
01:06:35,411 --> 01:06:38,706
- That's right, upstairs in the bedroom.
- Mother!
815
01:06:38,873 --> 01:06:43,670
- The moving vans just left...
- Never mind. Help Gussie in the kitchen.
816
01:06:43,836 --> 01:06:47,006
- Now, Mr. PeDelford, we'll discuss painting.
- Okay.
817
01:06:47,173 --> 01:06:51,386
I had some samples.
Here we are.
818
01:06:51,552 --> 01:06:53,888
Now, first, the living room.
819
01:06:54,055 --> 01:06:57,350
I want it to be a soft green.
820
01:06:57,517 --> 01:07:00,478
- Not as blue-green as a robin's egg.
- No.
821
01:07:00,645 --> 01:07:04,607
But not as yellow-green as daffodil buds.
822
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:08,653
Now, the only sample I could get
is a little too yellow.
823
01:07:08,820 --> 01:07:11,573
But don't let whoever does it
get it too blue.
824
01:07:11,739 --> 01:07:16,744
- No.
- It should be a sort of grayish yellow-green.
825
01:07:17,036 --> 01:07:20,957
Now the dining room. I'd like yellow.
826
01:07:21,124 --> 01:07:23,793
Not just yellow. A very gay yellow.
827
01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:26,963
Something bright and sunshiny.
828
01:07:27,130 --> 01:07:30,800
I tell you, if you'll send one of
your workmen to the grocer...
829
01:07:30,967 --> 01:07:36,306
...for a pound of their best butter and
match that exactly, you can't go wrong.
830
01:07:36,472 --> 01:07:40,310
This is the paper we'll use in the hall.
It's flowered.
831
01:07:40,476 --> 01:07:43,938
But I don't want the ceiling
to match any colors of the flowers.
832
01:07:44,105 --> 01:07:46,733
There are some little dots
in the background.
833
01:07:46,899 --> 01:07:49,319
And it's these dots I want you to match.
834
01:07:49,485 --> 01:07:53,281
Not the little greenish dot
near the hollyhock leaf.
835
01:07:53,448 --> 01:07:58,119
But the little bluish dot between
the rosebud and the delphinium blossom.
836
01:07:58,286 --> 01:08:01,039
Is that clear?
837
01:08:01,205 --> 01:08:04,125
Now, the kitchen's to be white.
838
01:08:04,292 --> 01:08:07,545
- Not a cold, antiseptic, hospital white.
- No.
839
01:08:07,712 --> 01:08:13,301
A little warmer, but still, not to
suggest any other color but white.
840
01:08:13,509 --> 01:08:17,388
Now, for the powder room in here,
I want you to match this thread.
841
01:08:17,555 --> 01:08:22,435
And don't lose it. It's the only spool
I have and I had an awful time finding it.
842
01:08:22,602 --> 01:08:25,521
As you can see,
it's practically an apple red.
843
01:08:25,688 --> 01:08:30,526
Somewhere between a healthy Winesap
and an unripened Jonathan.
844
01:08:31,110 --> 01:08:33,571
Oh, excuse me.
845
01:08:35,448 --> 01:08:39,953
- You got that, Charlie?
- Red, green, blue, yellow, white.
846
01:08:40,119 --> 01:08:41,829
Check.
847
01:08:47,835 --> 01:08:49,254
Oh, Joan.
848
01:08:50,463 --> 01:08:51,673
I'm awful sorry.
849
01:08:51,881 --> 01:08:54,968
You knew Father was supposed
to carry the heavy things.
850
01:08:55,134 --> 01:08:58,263
Father disappeared.
I haven't seen him for an hour.
851
01:08:58,429 --> 01:09:01,182
Where's Uncle Bill, Mother?
He'll miss his train!
852
01:09:01,349 --> 01:09:04,936
If they've run off somewhere,
it certainly isn't very...
853
01:09:06,229 --> 01:09:08,189
Heavens.
854
01:09:16,155 --> 01:09:19,784
- I thought you were going to take care of it.
- I thought you were.
855
01:09:19,951 --> 01:09:24,122
You're gonna miss your train, Uncle Bill.
It leaves Lansdale in 25 minutes.
856
01:09:25,039 --> 01:09:26,958
I hate to leave this little place.
857
01:09:27,125 --> 01:09:32,130
Just four walls and a couple of nail kegs,
but to me it'll always be home.
858
01:09:34,424 --> 01:09:38,761
- Isn't there a later one?
- Not till tomorrow morning at 6:15.
859
01:09:38,928 --> 01:09:41,598
- You mean 7:15.
- No, Dad, 6:15.
860
01:09:41,764 --> 01:09:44,767
What about the 7:15
I'm supposed to take to the office?
861
01:09:44,934 --> 01:09:49,397
There's a little asterisk. The 7:15 runs
only Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
862
01:09:49,564 --> 01:09:52,483
What? Bill, let me see that.
863
01:09:55,612 --> 01:09:58,489
- Muriel.
- Oh, dear, don't tell me I read it wrong.
864
01:09:58,656 --> 01:10:02,952
That's fine. I'll have to get up
at 5 in the morning to catch the 6:15...
865
01:10:03,119 --> 01:10:07,290
...to get to my office at 8. It opens at 9
and I never get there until 10.
866
01:10:07,457 --> 01:10:10,084
Maybe if you start earlier
you can leave earlier.
867
01:10:10,251 --> 01:10:13,421
To get home earlier to get to bed earlier
to get up earlier?
868
01:10:13,588 --> 01:10:17,258
Maybe you can get it pushed to 4:15.
Then you won't have to go to bed.
869
01:10:17,425 --> 01:10:20,386
- You'll miss your train.
- I'll drive you to the station.
870
01:10:20,553 --> 01:10:22,013
I can drive him!
871
01:10:22,180 --> 01:10:26,267
No, dear. You'd better save your strength.
You have to get up at 5.
872
01:10:34,192 --> 01:10:38,154
It would be nice if you could
spend your vacation up here, Bill.
873
01:10:38,321 --> 01:10:40,782
We'll see how things work out
at the office.
874
01:10:40,949 --> 01:10:46,162
I tell you, I'll scour around and see
if I can find you a cottage in Lansdale.
875
01:10:46,329 --> 01:10:51,042
If you can't find me a cottage,
I can always move back into that closet.
876
01:11:02,762 --> 01:11:06,140
- Father!
- Now look what you've done.
877
01:11:12,689 --> 01:11:17,151
Father, the first principle of lighting a fire
is to see if the flue is open.
878
01:11:17,318 --> 01:11:20,655
- A 3-year-old child knows that.
- Next time we want a fire...
879
01:11:20,822 --> 01:11:24,534
...l'll send out for a 3-year-old child.
Get that stuff cleaned up...
880
01:11:24,701 --> 01:11:28,496
...then help Gussie set the table.
It's getting late.
881
01:11:29,706 --> 01:11:33,793
- Look, Dad. Your fraternity pins.
- Pins? I only had one.
882
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:37,880
- There are two of them here.
- All right, just put them away.
883
01:11:38,047 --> 01:11:42,051
Funny. This one says
"W.C." on the back of it.
884
01:11:42,218 --> 01:11:46,681
W.C.? William Cole!
It must be Uncle Bill's.
885
01:11:46,889 --> 01:11:49,225
Let me see that.
886
01:11:56,441 --> 01:11:59,569
- What's that?
- It's Mother's diary from college.
887
01:11:59,736 --> 01:12:01,696
- It's slightly torrid.
- Let's see.
888
01:12:01,863 --> 01:12:03,698
That's none of your business.
889
01:12:03,865 --> 01:12:07,327
I'd say Mother and Uncle Bill
were somewhat of an item.
890
01:12:07,493 --> 01:12:10,038
People do not read other people's diaries.
891
01:12:10,246 --> 01:12:13,166
That's not a very nice thing to do.
Now, go help Gussie.
892
01:12:13,333 --> 01:12:15,960
- What about...?
- I'll take care of that.
893
01:12:30,141 --> 01:12:32,226
Excuse.
894
01:12:41,277 --> 01:12:44,155
Muriel, do you have to do that now?
895
01:12:44,322 --> 01:12:47,992
There's no need to be irritable
because you have to shave at night.
896
01:12:48,159 --> 01:12:53,039
- I'm not irritable.
- You haven't said a civil word all evening.
897
01:12:53,206 --> 01:12:56,709
Sometimes a man doesn't feel like talking.
898
01:12:57,168 --> 01:13:00,672
- What is it, dear? Something at the office?
- No.
899
01:13:00,838 --> 01:13:05,385
- You got the new slogan for Wham?
- It's not due yet.
900
01:13:06,970 --> 01:13:11,015
It's something.
You're certainly upset about something.
901
01:13:11,182 --> 01:13:13,768
I can always tell.
902
01:13:13,935 --> 01:13:16,104
I'm not upset.
903
01:13:16,312 --> 01:13:21,776
It's just that I don't approve of falsehood
and deception, particularly in my own wife.
904
01:13:21,985 --> 01:13:25,780
- What are you talking about?
- Oh, nothing.
905
01:13:26,114 --> 01:13:31,536
I distinctly remember you saying you gave
Bill back his fraternity pin 15 years ago.
906
01:13:32,495 --> 01:13:35,582
- What?
- Did you or didn't you?
907
01:13:35,999 --> 01:13:39,002
- Did I or didn't I what?
- Give it back to him.
908
01:13:39,502 --> 01:13:41,963
Well, of course I did.
If I said I did, I did.
909
01:13:44,632 --> 01:13:50,346
Then perhaps you'll have the goodness to
explain how this fell out of your jewel box.
910
01:13:58,187 --> 01:14:01,941
- What's so funny?
- You.
911
01:14:02,108 --> 01:14:04,193
You're jealous!
912
01:14:07,739 --> 01:14:10,617
If you were so crazy for him,
why didn't you marry him?
913
01:14:10,783 --> 01:14:14,787
- Because I wasn't in love with him.
- That's not what you said in your diary.
914
01:14:14,954 --> 01:14:17,373
Now you've been reading my diary!
915
01:14:17,832 --> 01:14:21,169
It just happened to fall open.
And I happened to look at it.
916
01:14:21,336 --> 01:14:24,964
- It just happened.
- I'll just bet.
917
01:14:25,131 --> 01:14:27,800
- It's all over the book!
- The children.
918
01:14:28,509 --> 01:14:31,888
Then why don't you admit it.
You were in love with Bill Cole.
919
01:14:32,055 --> 01:14:36,643
Of course I was in love with Bill. Those days,
I was in love with a new man every week.
920
01:14:36,809 --> 01:14:40,229
- Then why did you marry me?
- I'm beginning to wonder.
921
01:14:40,396 --> 01:14:44,275
Maybe it was those big cow eyes
or that ridiculous hole in your chin.
922
01:14:44,442 --> 01:14:48,071
Maybe I knew you were gonna bring
me out to this $38,000 icebox...
923
01:14:48,238 --> 01:14:52,784
...with a dried-up stream and no windows.
Maybe I happened to fall in love with you...
924
01:14:52,951 --> 01:14:55,536
...but for heaven's sakes,
don't ask me why!
925
01:15:09,467 --> 01:15:12,053
What time is it?
926
01:15:12,262 --> 01:15:14,722
- 9:20.
- Thank you.
927
01:15:14,931 --> 01:15:19,018
Muriel, would it do any good
to say I'm sorry?
928
01:15:19,727 --> 01:15:23,398
- I don't know.
- Well, I am.
929
01:15:26,776 --> 01:15:30,446
I've behaved like a schoolboy
and I'm sorry.
930
01:15:32,323 --> 01:15:34,534
Oh, Jim.
931
01:15:45,670 --> 01:15:48,590
Why don't you take the soap
out of your ears.
932
01:15:48,756 --> 01:15:51,676
Why do I love you so much?
933
01:15:57,473 --> 01:16:00,476
Darling, it's awfully late.
934
01:16:03,271 --> 01:16:06,232
Maybe you ought to go down
and lock the doors.
935
01:16:06,399 --> 01:16:09,736
What for? The windows
are all open anyway.
936
01:16:12,697 --> 01:16:15,867
You have to get up at 5:00.
937
01:16:19,078 --> 01:16:21,623
Yeah, I guess so.
938
01:16:24,709 --> 01:16:26,878
Good night.
939
01:16:28,046 --> 01:16:30,089
Good night.
940
01:16:49,525 --> 01:16:54,030
So the days sped by.
And the bills and the extras.
941
01:16:54,197 --> 01:16:56,908
And as autumn reared its lovely head...
942
01:16:57,075 --> 01:16:59,410
... so did the deadline for Jim's slogan.
943
01:16:59,577 --> 01:17:02,038
It was practically a photo finish.
944
01:17:04,499 --> 01:17:08,169
Send out for sandwiches and coffee.
Looks like an all-night session.
945
01:17:08,336 --> 01:17:11,339
- What did Mr. Dascomb say?
- He said, "Blandings...
946
01:17:11,547 --> 01:17:15,134
"...I want that slogan on my desk
by 9 in the morning. Check?"
947
01:17:15,301 --> 01:17:18,596
- I said, "Check."
- You'll have to dream something up...
948
01:17:18,763 --> 01:17:23,977
...good or bad.
- I got the impression that it better be good.
949
01:17:26,521 --> 01:17:29,399
Funny how you look forward
to the little things.
950
01:17:29,565 --> 01:17:31,901
Rain, for instance.
951
01:17:33,069 --> 01:17:37,865
For a month now I've been looking forward
to the first rainy night at the house.
952
01:17:38,074 --> 01:17:42,912
Big, blazing fire.
Muriel pouring coffee.
953
01:17:43,580 --> 01:17:45,707
Me in my new smoking jacket.
954
01:17:45,915 --> 01:17:50,253
With my pipe and slippers,
reading my newspaper.
955
01:17:50,461 --> 01:17:52,338
Well.
956
01:17:54,799 --> 01:17:57,760
Do you suppose my clothes are dry yet?
957
01:17:58,303 --> 01:18:00,888
Thank heavens. The children.
958
01:18:01,097 --> 01:18:04,434
Sit still. You look too comfortable.
959
01:18:09,105 --> 01:18:11,733
What a night!
I'm Harry Selby from down the road.
960
01:18:11,941 --> 01:18:13,985
- Won't you come in?
- Thank you.
961
01:18:14,152 --> 01:18:17,196
I'm afraid I'm gonna get your place all wet.
962
01:18:17,363 --> 01:18:21,326
I just came in to tell you that
the kids are safe, Mr. Blandings.
963
01:18:22,118 --> 01:18:25,246
Oh, I'm not Mr. Blandings.
Cole's the name. Bill Cole.
964
01:18:25,413 --> 01:18:28,875
Friend of the family.
Just came in out of the rain.
965
01:18:30,168 --> 01:18:33,379
- I'm Mrs. Blandings.
- Oh, how do?
966
01:18:34,047 --> 01:18:37,050
Mrs. Williams called and says
your phone is out of order.
967
01:18:37,216 --> 01:18:41,471
She wanted me to tell you the water's
rising. They've got the bridge roped off.
968
01:18:41,638 --> 01:18:46,267
- Your girls will spend the night at her place.
- Thank you. I was beginning to worry.
969
01:18:46,434 --> 01:18:49,646
- She'll take good care of them.
- May I get you some coffee?
970
01:18:49,812 --> 01:18:54,234
No, thank you. I'd better get back
before I have to swim for it.
971
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:57,070
- Night, Mrs. Blandings.
- I'm very grateful.
972
01:18:57,237 --> 01:19:02,325
- Not at all. Night, Mr. Bland...
- Cole. Bill Cole. Friend of the family.
973
01:19:02,492 --> 01:19:04,202
Just came in out of the rain.
974
01:19:05,787 --> 01:19:09,958
- Well, good night.
- Good night. And thank you.
975
01:19:14,712 --> 01:19:17,632
No bridge. That's fine.
976
01:19:17,799 --> 01:19:21,678
- How do I get back to Lansdale?
- You'll just have to spend the night here.
977
01:19:21,844 --> 01:19:25,431
Muriel, really? With your husband
in New York and your children away?
978
01:19:25,598 --> 01:19:29,185
- Think of my reputation.
- Don't worry, Snow White.
979
01:19:29,352 --> 01:19:34,107
You'll be as just pure and unsullied in the
morning as you were the night before.
980
01:19:34,274 --> 01:19:36,943
That's the story of my life.
981
01:20:17,150 --> 01:20:20,278
Compare the price
Compare the slice
982
01:20:20,445 --> 01:20:22,906
Take our advice
Buy Wham!
983
01:20:51,100 --> 01:20:55,146
If you'd buy better ham
You'd better buy Wham
984
01:20:55,313 --> 01:20:56,898
It's Boyle Petroleum.
985
01:20:57,106 --> 01:20:59,984
If you'd buy better oil
You'd better buy Boyle
986
01:21:00,944 --> 01:21:02,737
Yeah.
987
01:21:23,258 --> 01:21:27,887
This little piggy went to market
As meek and as mild as a lamb
988
01:21:28,054 --> 01:21:31,599
He smiled in his tracks
When they slipped him the ax
989
01:21:31,766 --> 01:21:34,644
He knew he'd turn out to be Wham
990
01:21:37,021 --> 01:21:41,359
Yeah.
"He knew he'd turn out to be Wham."
991
01:21:42,151 --> 01:21:45,196
It's gone! I've lost my touch.
992
01:21:45,363 --> 01:21:49,492
Oh, well. Maybe I never had a touch.
Who knows? I can't think anymore.
993
01:21:49,659 --> 01:21:53,204
All I've got on my mind is a house
with an $ 18,000 mortgage.
994
01:21:53,371 --> 01:21:57,500
And bills and extras
and antiques and, and...
995
01:21:57,667 --> 01:22:01,004
Oh, I don't know. I don't know.
996
01:22:14,350 --> 01:22:18,354
- Where are you going?
- Home to get some sleep. You do the same.
997
01:22:18,521 --> 01:22:20,648
- But you haven't...
- Suppose I haven't.
998
01:22:20,857 --> 01:22:24,068
- This isn't the only job in town.
- What'll I tell Mr. Dascomb?
999
01:22:24,235 --> 01:22:28,197
Oh, just tell him to...!
Just tell him.
1000
01:22:55,558 --> 01:23:00,021
- I'm sorry Jim isn't here.
- I was on my way to town anyway.
1001
01:23:00,188 --> 01:23:03,858
- Thought I might catch Jim.
- Sure you won't stay to breakfast?
1002
01:23:04,025 --> 01:23:07,570
- No, thanks very much all the same.
- Darling!
1003
01:23:07,737 --> 01:23:10,281
- Good morning, dear.
- You must be exhausted.
1004
01:23:11,574 --> 01:23:13,660
- How did it go?
- Fine, fine.
1005
01:23:13,826 --> 01:23:17,247
- Everything all right?
- Everything's fine.
1006
01:23:18,122 --> 01:23:21,459
Oh, hello, Henry. What are you doing up
with the morning dew?
1007
01:23:21,626 --> 01:23:24,837
Came to check the blueprints.
Some extras came in from Retch.
1008
01:23:25,004 --> 01:23:27,632
There are a couple things
we should go over.
1009
01:23:27,799 --> 01:23:30,468
- Really? What are they?
- Well, let's see.
1010
01:23:30,635 --> 01:23:34,555
A few things here that are all right, I guess.
1011
01:23:34,722 --> 01:23:39,018
- "Mortising five butts, $ 1.98."
- Let's not quibble about it.
1012
01:23:39,185 --> 01:23:42,146
A man's entitled to mortise
a few butts now and then.
1013
01:23:42,313 --> 01:23:47,860
- "Extra hardware, $3.89."
- Petty larceny, but let them get away with it.
1014
01:23:48,695 --> 01:23:53,741
Now, there's one here that, frankly,
I don't understand. Here we are.
1015
01:23:53,908 --> 01:23:59,163
"Changes in closet, $ 1247."
Did you authorize that?
1016
01:23:59,330 --> 01:24:02,250
Well, we probably told him to...
1017
01:24:02,417 --> 01:24:06,421
- Twelve hundred and what?
- $47. "Changes in closet."
1018
01:24:06,629 --> 01:24:09,048
That's the end!
1019
01:24:10,091 --> 01:24:13,094
What's this notation?
"Refer to detail sheet 135."
1020
01:24:13,303 --> 01:24:18,933
Near as I can remember, that's something
in back of the house. Let's take a look.
1021
01:24:19,434 --> 01:24:21,603
Here we are.
1022
01:24:23,771 --> 01:24:27,609
It isn't a closet at all.
It's off the back pantry.
1023
01:24:27,775 --> 01:24:30,945
Mrs. Blandings' little flower sink.
1024
01:24:33,031 --> 01:24:36,701
Oh, Mrs. Blandings' little flower sink.
1025
01:24:36,868 --> 01:24:39,787
You didn't authorize any changes, did you?
1026
01:24:39,954 --> 01:24:43,750
Well, they certainly weren't changes.
1027
01:24:43,917 --> 01:24:47,670
- What have you done?
- I haven't done anything.
1028
01:24:47,837 --> 01:24:51,966
All I did was... Just nothing at all.
1029
01:24:53,176 --> 01:24:56,179
What have you done?
1030
01:24:56,888 --> 01:24:58,514
Well...
1031
01:24:58,681 --> 01:25:03,811
All I did was, one day I saw four pieces
of flagstone left over from the porch...
1032
01:25:03,978 --> 01:25:08,024
...that were just going to be thrown away.
And I asked Mr. Retch...
1033
01:25:08,191 --> 01:25:11,110
...if he wouldn't put them
on the flower room floor...
1034
01:25:11,277 --> 01:25:15,156
...and poke a little cement between
the cracks and make a stone floor...
1035
01:25:15,323 --> 01:25:17,951
...where it might be wet
with flowers and things.
1036
01:25:18,117 --> 01:25:20,036
That's absolutely all I did.
1037
01:25:20,787 --> 01:25:23,915
- That's all you did.
- Absolutely.
1038
01:25:24,082 --> 01:25:27,377
Just four little pieces of flagstone.
1039
01:25:27,543 --> 01:25:32,173
- Did you, by any chance, authorize a drain?
- Of course I didn't.
1040
01:25:32,382 --> 01:25:37,720
All I said was that I wanted
a nice, dry stone floor...
1041
01:25:38,263 --> 01:25:41,766
...and Mr. Retch was just as nice
as he could be and said:
1042
01:25:41,933 --> 01:25:43,685
"Well, you're the doctor."
1043
01:25:43,893 --> 01:25:47,480
And that was all that anybody said
to anybody about anything.
1044
01:25:51,734 --> 01:25:55,363
- Well?
- I think I can tell you what happened.
1045
01:25:55,572 --> 01:25:58,575
First, the carpenters had
to rip out the flooring.
1046
01:25:58,741 --> 01:26:04,664
Those planks run under the width of the
pantry, so Retch had to knock out the wall.
1047
01:26:04,831 --> 01:26:09,961
Then he had to chop off the top of
the joists to make room for the cradle.
1048
01:26:10,128 --> 01:26:14,591
I guess he got some iron straps and fastened
them to a large pan to hold the cement.
1049
01:26:14,757 --> 01:26:16,884
With that load on the weakened joists...
1050
01:26:17,051 --> 01:26:20,221
...I bet he had to put a lally column
down there for support.
1051
01:26:20,430 --> 01:26:22,932
- I'll bet.
- It was just four little flagstones...
1052
01:26:23,099 --> 01:26:27,145
- Quiet!
- The main soil pipe runs under there.
1053
01:26:27,437 --> 01:26:31,858
So Retch had to get the plumber back,
take out a section to get the cradle set.
1054
01:26:32,025 --> 01:26:35,445
And I'll bet he had to change
the pitch of the soil pipe.
1055
01:26:35,612 --> 01:26:38,281
- Good morning, Mr. Cole.
- Morning. Morning, Jim.
1056
01:26:38,448 --> 01:26:39,741
Hello, Bill.
1057
01:26:39,908 --> 01:26:43,161
And there are hot and cold water pipes
right under the pantry.
1058
01:26:43,328 --> 01:26:46,039
They'd run to the bathroom
on the second floor...
1059
01:26:46,205 --> 01:26:48,708
The bridge was roped off.
Bill had to stay here.
1060
01:26:48,875 --> 01:26:51,794
- Slept like a rock.
...about 60 feet of armored cable...
1061
01:26:51,961 --> 01:26:54,172
...between the main panel
and junction box.
1062
01:26:54,339 --> 01:26:56,674
Including the 220-volt cable
to the stove.
1063
01:26:56,841 --> 01:27:00,011
Morning, everybody. What a night!
1064
01:27:00,178 --> 01:27:03,890
I never seen so much rain
in all my natural life!
1065
01:27:04,140 --> 01:27:08,061
- Gussie spent the night in Lansdale.
- I passed the girls at the Williams'.
1066
01:27:08,227 --> 01:27:12,065
- They'll be on any minute.
- Thank you. You better start breakfast.
1067
01:27:12,232 --> 01:27:14,025
Yes, ma'am.
1068
01:27:16,861 --> 01:27:18,821
Where were we?
1069
01:27:19,113 --> 01:27:22,533
We were at the 220-volt cable
that goes to the stove.
1070
01:27:22,700 --> 01:27:25,119
And there are water pipes
hooked to the...
1071
01:27:25,286 --> 01:27:28,915
Just a minute. You mean the children
weren't here last night either?
1072
01:27:29,082 --> 01:27:32,210
- How could they? The bridge was closed.
- I just came across.
1073
01:27:32,377 --> 01:27:35,463
- It was closed last night!
- It's open now.
1074
01:27:35,672 --> 01:27:39,008
Well, if you'll all excuse me,
I think I'll just go upstairs...
1075
01:27:39,175 --> 01:27:42,220
...and slip into something
a little more comfortable.
1076
01:27:45,431 --> 01:27:47,475
I guess that's about the size of it.
1077
01:27:47,684 --> 01:27:51,771
Except that Retch had to repair
the pantry wall. And he couldn't possibly...
1078
01:27:51,938 --> 01:27:55,650
...have broken through it without...
- All right, we'll take care of it.
1079
01:27:55,858 --> 01:28:00,446
I'll admit, it's a little steep, but I'll try
and get Retch to knock $ 100 off the bill.
1080
01:28:00,613 --> 01:28:03,616
- Lf I can't get that, I'll certainly try for 75.
- Fine.
1081
01:28:03,783 --> 01:28:08,538
- Lf not 75, I'll make a stab at 50.
- You do that.
1082
01:28:09,872 --> 01:28:13,376
Anyhow, I'm almost sure we can get 25.
1083
01:28:16,629 --> 01:28:17,964
- Good day.
- Good day.
1084
01:28:18,131 --> 01:28:19,591
Bye.
1085
01:28:21,884 --> 01:28:23,469
Darling.
1086
01:28:23,636 --> 01:28:25,179
You're upset.
1087
01:28:25,680 --> 01:28:27,849
You've got a lot of things on your mind.
1088
01:28:28,057 --> 01:28:31,144
Muriel, there's only
one thing I've got on my mind:
1089
01:28:31,311 --> 01:28:33,646
This house and how soon
we can get rid of it!
1090
01:28:33,813 --> 01:28:36,190
- That's not what you're thinking.
- Maybe.
1091
01:28:36,357 --> 01:28:38,526
Maybe I'm thinking
I was once a happy man.
1092
01:28:38,693 --> 01:28:42,488
I didn't have a closet or three bathrooms,
but I did have my sanity...
1093
01:28:42,655 --> 01:28:45,867
...a few dollars, two children
and a wife I could trust!
1094
01:28:46,034 --> 01:28:49,621
- That's a fine thing to say.
- I also had a job at Dascomb and Banton.
1095
01:28:49,787 --> 01:28:52,540
- Something I don't have at the moment.
- Jim!
1096
01:28:52,707 --> 01:28:56,169
That's right, I've resigned.
We're starting all over from scratch.
1097
01:28:56,336 --> 01:28:59,547
- And without this house!
- You love this house.
1098
01:28:59,756 --> 01:29:04,594
I hate it. From its rabbeted lintels
to its Zuz-zuz water softener.
1099
01:29:04,761 --> 01:29:07,555
- You know you don't mean that.
- Every word of it.
1100
01:29:07,722 --> 01:29:09,891
Anybody who builds
a house today is crazy!
1101
01:29:10,058 --> 01:29:13,937
The minute you start, they put you
on the all-American sucker list.
1102
01:29:14,103 --> 01:29:17,148
You start out to build a home
and wind up in the poorhouse!
1103
01:29:17,315 --> 01:29:21,027
If it can happen to me, what about
those who aren't making $ 15,000?
1104
01:29:21,194 --> 01:29:24,113
What about the newlyweds
who want a home of their own?
1105
01:29:24,280 --> 01:29:29,327
It's a conspiracy, I tell you, against every
boy and girl who were ever in love!
1106
01:29:29,869 --> 01:29:31,788
What do you want?
1107
01:29:34,874 --> 01:29:39,462
Mr. Blandings,
there's a matter of $ 12.36.
1108
01:29:40,338 --> 01:29:44,259
Twelve dollars and thirty-six cents.
1109
01:29:44,759 --> 01:29:47,136
Why be a piker, Mr. Tesander?
1110
01:29:47,303 --> 01:29:50,765
Here, take everything I've got.
Spread it out amongst your pals!
1111
01:29:51,266 --> 01:29:53,518
Perhaps Retch
would like a little something.
1112
01:29:53,685 --> 01:29:58,648
Maybe Zucca could use my new smoking
jacket! It's open house! Help yourself!
1113
01:29:58,815 --> 01:30:01,276
Now, hold on, Mr. Blandings.
1114
01:30:01,442 --> 01:30:05,822
This $ 12.36 you don't owe me.
I owe you.
1115
01:30:08,575 --> 01:30:11,244
- What was that?
- Yep.
1116
01:30:11,411 --> 01:30:16,124
Found I overcharged you,
almost three feet.
1117
01:30:18,251 --> 01:30:20,795
Better count it. I think it's all there.
1118
01:30:22,463 --> 01:30:25,508
Thank you very much, Mr. Tesander.
1119
01:30:27,552 --> 01:30:29,095
Well...
1120
01:30:29,596 --> 01:30:31,848
...I guess I better be going.
1121
01:30:33,099 --> 01:30:36,436
You sure got a pretty place here.
1122
01:30:36,978 --> 01:30:38,897
Take good care of it.
1123
01:30:43,192 --> 01:30:46,696
I'll tell Mr. Zucca
about the smoking jacket.
1124
01:30:52,368 --> 01:30:54,495
Darling, what did you mean?
1125
01:30:54,704 --> 01:30:57,749
Are we really going to
have to sell this house?
1126
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:03,171
I don't know, dear.
I don't know anything anymore.
1127
01:31:04,213 --> 01:31:07,467
In case anyone's interested,
I'm leaving for town.
1128
01:31:09,135 --> 01:31:12,847
Oh, Mr. Tesander!
Could you give me a lift into Lansdale?
1129
01:31:13,014 --> 01:31:15,975
- Yep.
- Fine, I'll be right with you.
1130
01:31:18,394 --> 01:31:21,522
If you wanna count
the silverware, I'll wait.
1131
01:31:21,773 --> 01:31:23,441
Be patient with me, Bill.
1132
01:31:23,608 --> 01:31:26,277
Maybe one of these days
I'll grow up.
1133
01:31:26,444 --> 01:31:30,406
- What happened to him?
- $ 12.36.
1134
01:31:31,866 --> 01:31:33,534
You mind if I say something?
1135
01:31:33,743 --> 01:31:37,872
Ever since this thing started, I've been
the voice of doom about the project.
1136
01:31:38,081 --> 01:31:42,335
Every step of the way, I've been convinced
you were getting fleeced, bilked...
1137
01:31:42,502 --> 01:31:45,505
...rooked, flimflammed,
and generally taken to the cleaners.
1138
01:31:45,672 --> 01:31:49,842
Maybe you were. Maybe it cost you
a lot more than you thought it would.
1139
01:31:50,009 --> 01:31:53,179
Maybe there were times
when you wish you'd never started.
1140
01:31:53,554 --> 01:31:56,891
But when I look at what
you two have got here...
1141
01:31:57,433 --> 01:31:59,435
Well, I don't know.
1142
01:32:00,395 --> 01:32:04,732
Maybe there are some things you should
buy with your heart, not your head.
1143
01:32:05,984 --> 01:32:09,112
Maybe those are the things
that really count.
1144
01:32:09,362 --> 01:32:11,281
Well, see you around.
1145
01:32:11,447 --> 01:32:12,949
Bye, dear.
1146
01:32:23,376 --> 01:32:26,004
- Oh, oh, Uncle Bill!
- Well, hi!
1147
01:32:26,170 --> 01:32:30,425
I heard all about it, you had a wonderful
night. Your mother's in there. Goodbye!
1148
01:32:30,633 --> 01:32:32,385
Bye! Morning, everybody.
1149
01:32:32,552 --> 01:32:34,470
Dad, why aren't you at the office?
1150
01:32:35,847 --> 01:32:39,642
- Well, I'm on a kind of vacation.
- You mean you got fired?
1151
01:32:40,393 --> 01:32:43,146
- We'll discuss it later.
- Come and get it, everybody!
1152
01:32:43,313 --> 01:32:46,566
- Breakfast is ready!
- Good, I'm starving! What are we having?
1153
01:32:46,733 --> 01:32:49,152
Orange juice, scrambled eggs
and you-know-what!
1154
01:32:49,319 --> 01:32:51,946
- Ham?
- Not ham, Wham!
1155
01:32:52,113 --> 01:32:54,908
If you ain't eating Wham,
you ain't eating ham!
1156
01:32:56,117 --> 01:32:57,785
Now, you kids go wash your hands.
1157
01:32:57,994 --> 01:33:02,457
Muriel! Darling!
Give Gussie a $ 10 raise!
1158
01:33:14,677 --> 01:33:16,679
Drop in and see us sometime.
1159
01:33:16,846 --> 01:33:18,598
Yeah, do that.
100550