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[FAST DRUMBEATS]

[CHATTER AND LAUGHTER]

Yes, in this land, the fish jump from the stream onto your hooks.

The rabbits hop into your pot.

Ah, so beautiful.

If only you could see it,

I would not have to talk myself hoarse all the time asking for money.

You would force it on me.

You been there before, Marco? You bet.

I sure would like to see this place before I die.

Papo, when you see this place you will not have time to die.

Plenty room, plenty water, plenty hunting.

Are there no gajos there? No gajos, none at all.

No gajos? Who do we steal from?

Papo, why do you upset me?

Our king is a smart gypsy fella. He always find somebody to steal from.

See.

[BELLS JINGLE]

Business. Everybody out.

[MURMURS]

Come in, come in, gentleman. Your fortune waits to be told.

Fifty cents for one hand. One dollar for both.

Do you want to know all? Or half?

I'll be back in a minute, Mama.

I read palms, not words. Sit down, please.

[CHATTER]

Hello, Marco.

Is that me?

Well? Positive? Negative? Good? Bad?

I've a pretty big family down there. Who's gonna take care of 'em?

Get 'em jobs, get 'em bail. Give 'em hope.

You're not dead yet. If you could only get--

I'm very lucky. I've had a deep sense of this all along.

Now things are shaping up.

Tell me, Doctor, how long do you think I can put off this dying business?

Well, it's unpredictable. It's an unpredictable thing.

How soon can you get away?

May I have the pictures, please?

MAMA: Your other hand, please. MAN: No more.

I didn't come for that. Not at all. A matter of business brought me.

A Mr Stephen Torino gave this place as his address

but now that I see it I can't imagine why he wants to work for me.

And you think I'm too hard with him. Job-hunting with the gajos.

What do you want, mister? I think he wants Stephano to work.

Is that so? What kind of work?

A dance instructor. Oh, a dance instructor.

Dance instructor? Oh, I see.

You know, we thought maybe you came from the police.

MAMA: But you mustn't think my son Stephano is a bad fellow.

Sometimes small things, a fight,

or some of his friends steal, and he's blamed.

But he's a very fine boy, a very reliable gypsy, most of the time.

Oh, yeah. I'm sure.

But...

This is not my hat. Mama.

He tempted me.

You see, our instructors are required to go into private homes.

Private instructions for ladies. Sure, sure!

You've got no worries with my brother Steve, mister.

He was only arrested maybe five, six times, but never for dancing.

Never for dancing. Never for dancing.

No, you'll make no mistake hiring Steve, mister.

For dancing, he's the greatest.

And for the ladies he's an atom bomb. A bomb!

[BELLS JINGLE]

A bomb.

He's a bum.

Mama, Papa, what do we do with him?

Yeah. Sometimes the wildest colt make the best horse.

He's not a colt. He's a man. With a brain.

He's got a lot of crazy ideas. He's got to get married.

You think Stephano should marry. I think Stephano should marry.

But what does Stephano think? I haven't asked him yet.

I just arranged it. I don't care what he thinks.

Hey, Marco. Hello, Bimbo.

The police just picked up three gypsies from Chicago.

They've got 'em all in jail.

Is one of them a woman? Yeah. Annie Caldash.

Look, while I'm getting the habeas corpus,

round up 10 or 15 gypsies, noise-makers, and tell 'em to meet me at the jail.

What precinct? Third?

After that, pick me up at the lawyer's.

[CROWD SHOUTING]

Hey, shut up!

Shut up!

Will you tell 'em to shut up?

What's that? A writ of habeas corpus? Complete, legal and correct.

Let's skip the ceremonies, Marco.

They're always complete, legal and correct.

Too bad some of your other people aren't so correct.

Can't you get 'em to shut up? Who can shut up happiness?

My brother Steve is getting married.

Well, well! I didn't know he was in love.

A gypsy marriage has nothing to do with love. That comes later.

Repeat the charge.

Your friends are booked on suspicion of grand theft.

Booked for what we are always booked for, suspicion of being gypsies.

An ancient crime.

Grand theft, when our visitors are here only two little hours.

Six little hours. Six, eight, one. What's the difference?

It's bookmaking, vagrancy, or dancing without a tail light.

What are you cryin' about? You never let us keep 'em very long.

Even Texas jails had better eats.

For just one little fortune I told in Peoria!

Some boy steals apples

and we are all Dillingers, Brinks robbers, bandits.

Welcome! Welcome, my friends! And forget these small troubles.

I am Marco Torino.

Theodore Caldash. Father of Annie and Xano.

Bimbo, my assistant, and friends and neighbours of our vitsa.

We apologise for this meagre reception.

We are, however, filled with joy to find you all in such good health.

We hope that your brother Stephano is also in good health.

Since I showed him your picture his health is tremendous.

Are you sure you have never been married before?

Bimbo will help you to free your automobile,

then he will bring you to my house, which will be your home, Annie.

Yours and Stephano's.

[HISSES]

Hey, Steve! You sure don't believe in long goodbyes, do you, baby?

The whole block is watching, and half of 'em are my relatives.

A dancing teacher gets used to being watched.

Yeah. Well, let's make it good.

[CAR HORN BLARES]

You're gonna make a very good dancing teacher.

I'll meet you here tomorrow night, in back, huh?

Okay.

[BELLS JINGLE]

As usual, my last-born son comes last.

Maybe because we had a flat tyre the day he was born.

And what happened when Marco was born? A flock of eagles pass over?

Say, it smells good.

What's the celebration?

Still smells good.

It doesn't smell so good as what I saw driving you home.

Smells pretty good up close.

You gotta know everything fast as it happens, don't you?

Some day when you take my place and you have 55 families to look after,

you'll want to know everything too.

No argument?

One brother says "white", other brother says "black".

Some people make noise through the mouth and say nothing.

Our playboy rides around in convertibles.

That car was bringing me back from the job I want.

Is that so? This job...

I saw it only today in the cards. Somebody was dancing.

Yeah? What else did the cards tell you about it?

That it's a job I'm not letting you take.

You're not? You have a job with your own people.

You never get tired of trying to run my life, do you?

Black, white. White, black.

Yes, I get tired.

Stephano. You are going to get married.

We have bought you an angel.

Very beautiful, Marco.

Very good, Marco.

If you can't break a horse, harness him, huh?

About this marriage you're gonna listen to me.

I listened to you all my life till I learned not to hear.

Don't push me no more, Marco.

I don't owe nobody nothing.

No king brother, no deep law. Just myself.

Nobody's free like that, Stephano.

Even the president of United States, he has a few laws on top of him, too,

I think so.

From the moment you are born you start to owe something.

I had nothing to say about how I was born.

I can say how I'm gonna be married.

Day is night. Night is day.

Stephano, this Annie is very pretty in the face.

I don't care if she's got a mouthful of pearls. I'm not interested.

I say you are. I say you are!

This time you're gonna do what's right even if I have to teach you with the buckle!

You're gonna what? Stephano! Stop! Stop!

Turn your face to the wall. The bride is coming.

You shouldn't look. Turn your face to the wall.

Here's the bride.

[LAUGHING]

Hey, Annie. Come over and sit down. Make yourself at home.

Sorry to disappoint you, Grandpa.

Take this outside.

Get it out. Let's go. Okay.

Everything's going to be all right. Our people will get you anything you want.

Mr Torino, the marriage agreement signed?

All fixed. Two thousand payable at the ceremony, as agreed.

Thank you, Bimbo.

And now you will excuse me. I have important business for our vitsa.

Rest well.

Well, boys? Come on, let's get this in hand.

Stay here.

Hello, Mr Torino.

Goodbye, dear. I'll speak to you tomorrow.

Another payment so soon?

You're looking better today. Thank you.

Oh, Mr Torino, don't you want your paints?

Some beauty you are.

Two, three more payments, and you're gonna be all mine.

Then we'll travel the long journey together. Both of us.

But first, I have another match to make. Yes, sir.

Come on.

Fine, good. Okay. Fine, fine.

Why do you got to have all the special dressings this time?

We only gonna fly the coop like always.

Yeah, like always.

Tricks and getaways and a new name in every city. Some sweet life.

Well, you've still got us, Annie. Yeah.

All right, take it off.

Oh! Thank you, Grandpa Johnny.

[KNOCK AT DOOR]

I'm Steve Torino.

And you're the bride from Chicago.

I gotta talk to your father.

I am the proud papa. Some beauty, huh?

Now you see her, you know what a bargain you're getting.

Plenty smart too. My brains.

And this is her brother Xano.

Very fine fellow too. He-- Yeah, he eats.

Most gypsy people say it is bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding.

But me, I'm up-to-the-date modern. No superstition.

Xano, wine for the bridegroom.

Nothing is too good for the goose who lays golden eggs.

Crazy. We drink to the bridegroom. There isn't gonna be any.

PAPA THEODORE: Huh?

It's kinda hard to have a wedding without one, isn't it?

There isn't going to be any wedding.

But your brother Marco signed the agreement.

That's his lookout.

The wedding is off because I'm not marrying her, that's all.

That is not all. Xano, watch that door.

Maybe I'm not good enough for you, huh?

Ah, sure. My brother picks the best.

You see, I don't wear his neckties, neither. I got my own taste.

Maybe for neckties but not for a bride.

The head of the family makes the choice.

Not mine. By custom and by our deep law.

Not my wife. I'll choose her myself, when I'm ready.

Maybe I'm not pretty enough for you, huh?

Sure, it's--

You're beautiful. But you're a complete stranger.

He wants to know who he marries. Like a gajo.

Maybe he's got some other girl.

I got a lot of girls. I don't want to marry them either.

But when I do, it's not gonna be Marco's choice. And it won't take Marco's money.

It'll be like one spark in a battery.

This fella's crazy.

No, I don't think so.

So to turn down your brother, you'd turn me down, huh?

Well, you're his idea. Hey, how about my expense?

You got any ideas about that? Yeah. See Marco.

Xano, don't let him out! Shut up!

Stop it, you brainless goats.

So you don't wanna go through with this wedding, huh?

I say he got to. Shut up, Papa.

Now, I'm gonna tell you something

that you and your king brother don't know.

We didn't intend to go through with this wedding, neither.

No. We're here for the big trick.

Cash in our pocket and dust in your eyes.

Our dust. Well, go on, tell him.

Well, not exactly a trick.

Only, at this wedding she might get sick kinda sudden.

Yeah, but after your brother has paid for the bride.

You grab the dough and up the road, and Marco's 2,000 out the window

and I'm still free.

Nobody hurt but Marco.

My brother's face!

It would have been worth it just to see his face.

Do you know what 2,000 bucks means to him?

To him! 2,000 bucks!

Wouldn't it still be worth it?

You play him a good trick, and we get paid a little bit for the trouble.

You know, after such a bajour,

I don't think that your brother would bother you any more.

You're wonderful. You willing?

No. Ha! How does it work?

Shh! Xano, watch outside, nobody comes.

Stephano, you stay close, like you are the groom, huh? Now, listen.

At the moment in the ceremony

when Marco raises the knife to join your blood forever,

what happens? I get sick.

You grab your throat like you swallowed a bone.

[COUGHING]

Then I say to them, "Nobody wants to marry a sick bride."

I release them from the promise and we rush out fast to Xano,

who's waiting in the car with the engine running.

And I get left at the altar, huh?

Heartbroken. But not so broken as Marco, huh?

Huh? Huh?

Nice fella. Huh? Huh?

[LOUD CHATTER]

Hey, Marco! Marco!

Ah, Stephano!

Hey, Zorno, Marco!

Korka, no bears. No, no bears today, Korka.

Only you, my friend. Only you.

Korka! Papo! Oh, Papo.

Papo. Look. Korka brought Abishca.

[LAUGHTER]

Marco?

Take him home. Take him home and then you come back without Abishca.

He's gonna take you home.

Hey, Marco. Come on over and join the celebration!

Hey, Marco!

Come on, Marco!

Here he is.

So now he's a groom. Look at him. Look at him good.

If it wasn't for me, tonight this groom would be with down in an alley with some yellow-haired gajo cat.

I guess you're right. You don't guess. You know.

Tell 'em the arguments you gave me.

"Never gonna get married. I want to live my own life."

Sure, fine. Great. I listen.

All I know is when he heard the sound of her voice, no more arguments.

[LAUGHTER]

Well, my brother is always right. Who can argue about an angel?

He's a good king, Marco. [CROWD CHEERS]

BIMBO: I don't care what anyone says. You gotta hand it to Marco.

Sure, and while you're handing it,

don't forget the contributions to the Promised Land.

You know, some gypsies have been holding their fists a little tight, the last couple of weeks,

but don't worry, I'll get you the Promised Land,

and some day I'm gonna find you a king even better than me.

CROWD: No!

Impossible.

[SINGS WORDLESS MELODY]

Stephano Torino,

are you ready to take Annie Theodore as your bride?

Yeah, ready.

You, Annie? Ready. For a long time.

Grandpa Johnny Torino, do you accept Annie into our family and to be one of us?

A man without a wife is like a bird with only one wing.

[RIPPLE OF LAUGHTER]

Mama, the tray.

Papa Theodore...

I now offer you a drink from the fountain of success

that has brought these two together.

Sostimos. Sostimos.

And the price you have asked,

I pay it. Two thousand dollars.

And I give you my daughter for a wedding.

Annie Theodore, Nita Johnny gives you her son.

You give her respect and many grandchildren.

Moisture...

and soil

for the seed of love and happiness.

MARCO: Annie, Stephano, your left hands.

You don't feel good maybe, Annie? Fine, Papa.

Let the blood flow as one for now and forever.

Let the sun and the moon be our witness.

STEPHANO: What are you waiting for? Annie, come on.

Hey, wait a minute, Marco.

MARCO: What's the matter? Are you nervous?

Poor father.

Such emotions.

Annie Theodore, you are now Annie Stephano

for as long as you live.

Drink.

Drink.

By this you shall never thirst.

For every broken bit, a year of married happiness.

I name you man and wife!

[GUESTS CHEER]

Papo, congratulations!

Strength, happiness, much money and many children. All boys.

Eat. Drink. Dance. [DANCE MUSIC STARTS]

And don't forget the dowry!

Don't look like you've been sentenced to death, Stephano.

Yeah, I only got life, huh?

Your cell will be padded. Yeah.

Fill up the bread with the dough.

[SOBS]

Not from you, Theodore.

You already give us the best gift.

You bet. My life.

Too bad it wasn't.

[LOUDER MUSIC]

Stephano. Look.

So she dances.

[DRUMBEATS]

[DRUMMING AND SINGING]

MAN: What's the matter, Stephano? No fire in the feet?

She go too fast for you to catch?

[DRUMMING AND SINGING]

Catch her, Stephano!

Hey, Stephano. What's the matter? No fire in those feet, hey?

This bride's gotta be tamed.

Maybe her husband ain't man enough. Stephano! Marco!

Marco!

Stephano.

Stephano. Steph...

Korka, the whip. Give me the whip.

Now you'll see a woman tamer.

[GUESTS GASP]

[DRUMBEATS] [APPLAUSE]

[FASTER DRUMS]

[CROWD CHEERS]

Tonight Stephano flies like an eagle! [GUESTS CHEER]

My business! My daughter! Gone. Gone.

[DANCE MUSIC]

[SHOUTING]

Everybody inside!

[WHOOPING AND LAUGHTER]

[NEARBY DANCE MUSIC]

Where did you learn to handle a whip so good?

In a carney show. I used to work with whips and knives.

Tonight was the first time I ever had a knife hit me square in the back.

You should've worked also with a mind-reader.

You wouldn't have looked so surprised at our wedding, my husband.

You aren't gonna ask me why I did it? Why should I?

You just don't care?

You're smart, all right. Got every trick in the bag.

Where are my shirts? In there.

There's one little thing you forgot.

In the deep law of the gypsies

a marriage can be ended at any time, see?

Not just like that.

All it takes is for the husband or the wife to stand up in front of the tribe

and say, "There is no love." That's all.

Is that what you're gonna do? No.

You are. Pretty soon, I think.

When is this "pretty soon" gonna be?

Whenever you get tired of being married to a man who's not gonna--

who's not gonna be your husband.

You will if I want.

Listen, bag of tricks,

a gypsy wife, even a bad one, has got to be faithful to only one man.

That's our law.

But there's no law that says a husband has got to be a husband to the wife.

♪ Tsara, Tsara Joy and strife ♪

♪ Listen, man, you've got to kiss your wife ♪

♪ Tsara, tsara Listen, wife ♪

♪ You obey your husband all your life ♪

♪ Tsara, tsara Let's be gay ♪

♪ There's a gypsy wedding here today ♪

♪ Tsara, tsara Now it starts ♪

You're not going out there past all our families on our wedding night?

I'll just wait till...

Oh, I can go out the front door.

Listen, I don't care nothing about you!

♪ Tsara, tsara Eyes are meeting ♪

♪ Tsara, tsara Gypsy hearts are beating ♪

♪ Tsara, tsara Let's be gay ♪

♪ There's a gypsy wedding here today ♪

♪ Tsara, tsara Now it starts ♪

♪ With the wedding of two gypsy hearts ♪

♪ Listen, woman, listen well ♪

♪ Hear the words I have to tell ♪

♪ Though your skirt are lined with gold ♪

♪ Gold at night grows very cold ♪

♪ Man is heat and man is storm ♪

♪ Man can keep you cold or warm ♪

♪ What he's not there hasn't been ♪

♪ What he is will now begin ♪

[DRUMBEATS]

♪ Tsara, tsara Joy and strife ♪

♪ Listen, man, you've got to kiss your wife ♪

Such passion! Such emotion!

♪ You obey your husband all your life ♪

♪ Tsara, tsara Let's be gay

♪ There's a gypsy wedding here today ♪

♪ Tsara, tsara Now it starts ♪

♪ With the wedding of two gypsy hearts ♪

[DRUMBEATS]

♪ Tsara, tsara Joy and strife ♪

♪ Listen, man, you've got to kiss your wife ♪

♪ Tsara, tsara Listen, wife ♪

♪ You obey your husband all your life ♪

♪ Tsara, tsara Let's be gay ♪

♪ There's a gypsy wedding here today ♪

♪ Tsara, tsara... ♪

[CHATTER]

[SCREAMS]

Oh, you-- Get away.

[CAR HORN BLARES]

[CROCKERY SMASHES]

Didn't want to keep you waiting.

I don't even want to see you again! Get out!

Steve, can't you let it wait till tomorrow?

I want to know tonight.

It's me. Now, what's the story? I hear you're not hiring me. Why?

You'll have to contact Mr Swift by mail.

I'll contact him now. Where is he?

I am Mr Swift. Your personal records are unsuitable to us. Goodnight.

What's the matter? I got two left feet or something?

All right, I don't smell good, my eyes are the wrong colour, or what?

You must understand that I have nothing personal against gypsies--

No, of course not.

You're just afraid maybe I'll pick one of your customer's pockets or steal one of their kids, huh?

I got something to say to you, gajo! You'd better call the police.

Yeah, call the cops! Go ahead, call the cops!

Steve. Please.

But first you're gonna hear something from me!

Some gypsies lie and steal a little, maybe.

But you never heard of a gypsy stealing an oil well, did you?

Or robbin' a bank?

Or a gypsy woman double-timin' her husband or beatin' up her kid? Did you?

It's nothing like that. Then what is it?

You think I can't dance, maybe?

[POLICE SIREN]

The judge fined him $50 for dancing without the bride.

And $300 damages.

Oh, Tim. Hm?

If he asks who paid his fine this time, don't tell him.

Okay.

Still they sleep. Shh. If you must talk, whisper.

Not out yet, hm? Not out? Not even up.

Shh!

MARCO: Put some honey in their tea, Mama.

Sage. It's the best.

But acorns works good too.

Hm? Now, once travelling in China, I--

Oh, stop. Annie, we have some hot tea ready for you two.

Stephano's still asleep, Mama.

There is no sleep like the bridegroom's.

JOHNNY: Is there, my new daughter?

No, Papa Johnny. Just like a baby.

Look, I remember.

I remember. I remember when...

Annie...

Stephano, listen.

Come out, Annie, there's someone here you'll want to see.

Stephano said to tell you--

Somebody's gonna pay plenty for this.

This is nobody's business. Only mine.

Nobody does nothing till I talk with my daughter alone.

Compensation talk.

Did you pay my fine, sucker?

The least you could have done is come by the back door.

♪ Tsara, tsara... ♪

What passion! What emotion!

[SPITS]

Double-trick your own flesh and blood.

Why, Annie?

Why did you take it in your head

to marry this good-for-nothing son of a rooster?

Partly how he looked,

partly how he talked.

Partly because I'm tired.

Tired of me? Of your brother Xano? Of the way we live.

Better we all stayed in jail.

Look what a beautiful tent you make for him.

It don't matter, Annie. You're not gonna stay with him.

You're going with your papa and your brother back to Chicago.

We find other bridegrooms.

No, Papa, I'm gonna stay with him.

And I'm gonna be the best wife.

I'm gonna make more money than any other gypsy wife among the Torinos.

Before I'm through

he's gonna want me more than any man ever wanted a woman.

But, Annie... Someday he'll tell everybody that.

And that day, that's the day I'll go back to Chicago.

Everybody here is crazy.

No argument about that.

You'd better have some big apologies for my daughter and me.

I want to talk to Annie alone.

Anything that is said to her is said to both.

Papa, go out, please, huh? All right, then.

You ain't seen me for the last time, Mr Marco Torino.

That's for sure.

Well?

What a bride!

What a waste! What an idiot my brother is!

He's so stubborn he double-crosses himself.

A man can change.

Or somebody can change him.

You've got big plans for him, haven't you?

He's a Torino. This vitsa will soon need a new king.

It's got a pretty good one now from what I've seen.

I haven't told this to anyone, but there's something...

Very important disease.

Well, you don't look like a sick man.

The gajo doctor says I'm going to have to retire pretty soon.

Four or five weeks maybe.

He says gypsies shouldn't live in the city.

My job looks easy, but it isn't.

MARCO: The one who follows me needs the right wife to help him.

Stephano doesn't think I'm the right one.

Annie,

give him the chance to find out.

Suppose you're putting all your eggs in the wrong basket?

I don't think so. I have confidence in you. I've got to have that.

Marco...

Nothing.

All right, Papa, you can come in now.

That changes everything, I suppose, huh?

No, Papa. We still go to Chicago. On that day.

Good, Annie. Good.

I tell Xano.

They packed yet?

She wants to talk to you.

I don't want to talk to her.

I just want a clean shirt.

I find you a queen and you wipe your feet on her.

[HUMS TUNE]

♪ A gypsy's heart is never free ♪

Warm wine with peaches in it. Good for the head.

♪ Your maid is chosen while you're young ♪

Sit down. Make yourself comfortable. I just came for a clean shirt.

♪ They make a deal for you and me ♪

Another business appointment? That's right. Tonight, at the Bayou.

Another dancing job. I'm still tryin'.

So am I.

♪ The glass is broken Songs are sung ♪

♪ Our hearts are filled with doubt and hate ♪

You still mad at me? That's right.

♪ And love is distant as a star ♪

You weren't expecting to get married last night, were you?

But you were, huh?

♪ We're thrown together It's our fate ♪

♪ The deal was made and here we are ♪

ANNIE: ♪ I could learn to love you ♪

♪ This is my desire ♪

♪ How can love start burning, Poochka ♪

♪ If you never light the fire ♪

♪ I could learn to love you and your foolish pride ♪

♪ Your lips say you hate me, Poochka ♪

♪ But your eyes say your lips lied ♪

♪ I could learn to warm your wine and kiss those lips ♪

♪ Why do your hands search for freedom? ♪

♪ Look what's at your fingertips ♪

♪ You could learn to love me Pluck me from the vine ♪

♪ I could learn to love you ♪

♪ Husband, here's your wine ♪

Here's your wine.

That's good wine.

Very good wine.

You were nearly married before?

Uh-huh. When I was 14.

When the time came to join the blood and I looked at that one,

I got sick all right. For real.

I told Papa I'd never get married again.

Not by gypsy law.

Not to anyone I hadn't seen first and knew I wanted.

[GRUNTS]

You've had too much.

You'll be late for your business appointment.

She won't run away. She-- She'll wait. Yeah?

You go whenever you want to

but I'm sleepy and I'm going to bed.

I'm-- I'm going to fix that window for you.

Agreed? All right.

I'm very glad you didn't marry that fat fella from Michigan.

You need a real man.

But real men have only time for business appointments, huh?

Annie. Yes, Stephano?

I'm not going.

I'm staying.

That I am glad to hear. That's wonderful.

Oh, no. Why don't you-- Stephano, that's just wonderful!

This morning I was ready to give you up. Did you hear that? Annie?

What did I tell you, huh? Give him a little time. Did I say it, Annie?

Oh, Annie, I could...

See, Stephano, it's like I always told you.

The only right girl is a gypsy girl.

She makes the living. You do the living.

She rules the house and you'll rule the gypsies.

This is our way. This is our law. Annie and I understand these things.

You and Annie have a very good understanding with each other, don't you?

And it's so easy. Just put the right positive and negative together...

Electricity!

[GLASS SMASHES]

What did I do? You-- He blew a fuse!

They had it all planned.

Here he comes.

I told you he'd show. He's the brother of a gypsy king, you know.

He's a very busy fellow. He'll be busy if he can dance.

Hi there.

Joe Randy of Famous Enterprises.

Steve, Joe's offering us a contract.

Ninety days in San Diego, if he likes the audition.

Ninety days. That's a long time out of town.

I thought you said you were free, Steve.

What's to keep you here? Nothing, I guess.

[JINGLES]

Friend of yours, Steve?

Tell your fortune, dear?

Love? Money? Travel? A book on dreams?

Lady from Jerusalem. Your future in seven languages.

Our future's all planned. Ah, go ahead.

No. Leave us alone, will you? We're talkin' business.

It's very cheap. Only one dollar for two hands.

I'll buy.

I see a man crossing your lifeline. Only one?

Do not trust him. He will bring only unhappiness.

Much unhappiness. Who can that be?

Other hand, dear. Plans and dreams.

I see a business venture with this same fella. Very bad mistake.

Come on. That-- That's enough.

Please! She's only had forty cents' worth.

I would break up with this man. Right away.

Why? He's married.

Annie, now, look-- More married than he knows.

Really? I hadn't noticed.

Don't listen to any more-- No, wait, wait, I'm learning things.

Phoney. That's none of your business.

Oh, no. I speak of the man, dear. Your partner.

You think he's interested in you. He is not.

He is in love with his wife.

He just doesn't know this yet.

And this business venture? You do not get it.

Steve, I've had enough of this.

Yeah, go on home, will you, now?

I say something to make people unhappy? I tell only what I see.

I'm just a good gypsy wife earning her husband a living.

Besides, dear, it's better to be safe than sorry, huh?

You know, picking the wrong partner is like putting on a cheap hair dye.

On the top it looks all gold, but it's black at the roots.

Would you like me to read your head, dear? I'm very good at reading--

Come on. Hey!

Hey, come on!

[SHRIEKS]

[SHRIEKS]

Oh!

Mac!

[SCREAMING]

Gajo!

Cut it out!

Let's get her out of here.

No!

Come here!

Hey! All right, Stephano!

Come on, Annie!

Just to get away from here, I'll sign that contract. Come on!

[TRAIN WHISTLE]

[NEARBY DANCE MUSIC]

Good evening, ladies.

Nobody home, Stephano. Everybody gone out.

You seen Annie? I've seen everyone.

Marco, too. Look for him, and you find Annie.

Where is she? In jail? [LAUGHS]

Your feet should follow your ears.

[WHISPERING]

[DRUMMING AND SINGING]

[DRUMMING AND SINGING]

Hey, Stephano!

Stephano is back!

Papo, what do you think?

My turn.

You know this fellow, Annie?

Yeah, he looks familiar.

Is she a good teacher, Marco?

WOMAN: The bad penny returns!

How do you like that? First minute home, he steals my dance.

[COUGHING]

Good. Good.

Why did you come back, Stephano? I got sick of gajo cooking.

Not enough seasoning, huh?

Sleeping in buses, dancing in smoky rooms.

And blondes. Did you get enough of them too?

I notice you didn't die of lonesomeness while I was away.

You wanted me to?

Sob in the window and count the days?

You should've told me, Stephano.

Guess I forgot.

Papo, what do you think? Is he home to stay?

I'm going to make it sure.

Korka! Yes, Papo.

The present I brought you. Lend it back to me, please.

All right, Papo.

We will make a brew from this ceremonial popskull.

But it will make everyone sick.

Only Stephano, but such a good sickness.

Thank you, daughter.

He made the best medicine in all Serbia...

he thought. [LAUGHTER]

[DRUMMING AND SINGING]

Some more roots, Korka? Yeah, Papo. Here.

Come on.

The strength of grass.

The sweetness of flowers.

The heat of the grape!

[DRUMMING AND SINGING]

[WHOOPING AND LAUGHTER]

Papo!

The shavings of a goat's hoof and the skull of a crow

would be very good.

Very good, yeah. But not for tonight.

No? No. Let's go.

[DRUMMING AND SINGING]

Such gloom, Papa, on Korka's birthday!

There's no one like you!

[DRUMMING AND SINGING]

Watch out, Marco! You'll get burned!

Not to be burned is not to live, my brother!

[SONG FINISHES]

Everybody look at me!

I made a drink to welcome home the husband.

In this cup is happiness, health, love and life!

Drink, my friends. Thank you, Papo.

Stephano had all this happiness, love and life and what did he do? He ran away.

To Annie. From a man who knows the best when he sees it.

Just a minute. That's too good for bachelors.

I leave it to you, Annie. Which is the best, my dear?

The man who stays or the man who runs away? Which is the best, Annie?

Neither of you. Tonight, Korka is the honoured one.

Happy birthday, Korka!

[CHEERING]

You did it again. Well, what could I do? I just--

Annie. Annie.

Well, I didn't mean...

I mean, it's...

MAMA: Come on!

Looks nice.

Fixed it up real good. It's just like it was before.

You know something else good? That dance of yours.

Could've burned up a town. Yeah, yeah.

Or even a man.

How about some more wine? Oh, no.

A cigarette or something to eat? No, I don't want anything.

Nothing but sleep.

Since you been sleeping in hotels

you won't mind the bedroll tonight, will you?

What?

What's the matter, Annie?

When I find out, I'll tell you.

I got no business appointment tonight.

When I was leavin' you wrecked the town to stop me, and now--

Now what am I? A stranger? It's got nothing to do with you.

Well, who, then?

Met somebody in your sleep, huh?

Some dream fella been movin' in on me?

Please, Stephano, go to bed.

I just can't swallow any more talk tonight.

Yeah, I'd like to punch that dream fella right in the nose!

You told Annie I'm here?

She don't want to see nobody.

If this no-good husband caused her sickness, I'll kill him.

I'll break him in half!

Calmness, please.

Who knows what can cause sickness?

Pains in Annie's head, somebody said.

In the head. In the stomach. What is the difference?

Eurgh!

I fixed dandelion tea, some sweet chocolate. She won't touch nothing.

In Serbia, once, I fixed an important medicine. You see, it was like--

Please do me a favour. Forget everything you ever fixed, anywhere, anytime.

The head, the stomach. She don't drink nothing?

When somebody gets sick, everybody becomes physician!

Physician, not. Woman, yes!

I had same kind of sickness before each one of my eight.

Oh!

And you had it double before the twins!

Untrue!

Impossible!

My Annie don't even like him! [WOMEN LAUGH]

You cackling hens! Shut up!

Wouldn't I, the mother of the husband, be the first one to know?

The first one to know would be the wife of the husband.

If you tell one word of this, I'll pluck you like ducks!

Who would talk of such a thing?

Get out! Get out! We don't talk!

Out! Yack, yack, yack, yack, yack, yack!

[WOMEN CHATTER]

[CHATTER]

Every gypsy on the street is whispering.

Like some dirty joke.

Since I felt sick like that I haven't been out of this room,

and you've gotta pay me for mind-readin'.

What were you sick from?

Who knows? Not knowing won't stop people from talking if they want to--

But talk can be true.

You think it is?

Stephano, you got a lot of funny ideas for a husband who wasn't a husband

and went away.

What I want to know is

while I was gone

did my wife get lonely and forget that she was a wife?

Maybe for company.

Lonely? Why not?

But if you think I'm one of your gajo friends, with a bottle in the window and the door wide open,

you should've stayed gone!

Look, I'm your husband. I got a right to know.

Right? Yeah, you got a lot of rights, Stephano.

Rights to get drunk, rights to run away,

and rights to go and come and listen to a lot of dirty gossip on the street.

If you want any more rights than that,

you better shuffle the deck and get a new queen.

Only, the next time, don't marry just to make your brother a joke.

Look, forget my brother!

Your brother is more man and more king than you could ever be.

I'm gonna ask for a special council meeting

to free me from this marriage to you!

You still got Stephano in your name.

You show me respect.

If you'd hit me and given me orders on our wedding night

I would have kissed your hand.

Respect? I'll show you respect in front of the whole tribe,

when I ask them to free me, free me from your name,

my husband who wasn't a husband!

Marco!

Is there anything wrong?

So this is your promised land?

Part of it.

I guess it's time for me to tell you a few things about myself--

You don't have to tell me anything.

I know everything you've done. Well, good.

It stinks! What? What, this trailer?

It's paid for, and nobody's hurt,

and there's a little something coming to me besides.

Stephano, the time has come for you take my place.

I can't tell you how important that is.

Look, don't give me any of your con stuff, Marco.

I'm not one of your pigeons in the vitsa.

What's eating you?

You've been stealing from your people. That's up to them.

Now you've stolen from me. What? What did I steal from you?

Annie, that's what. You got that from her?

Yeah, she told me that you're a better king and a better man than I could ever be.

And I see what kind of king you are.

Now I'm gonna see if you're a better man.

Gajo style?

Ah. Like gypsies.

Yeah. Like gypsies.

You're a good dancer, Stephano. Now I'm gonna teach you some new steps.

Not bad. Not bad at all.

But ducking baseballs in the amusement park

should've taught you how to feint with your head.

That was a good job I taught you. I never forgot.

Like that.

Like that.

[GRUNTING]

Stephano! Stephano!

Stop it, Stephano!

She wants a council meeting to divorce me. Make it soon.

Take everything. Don't leave him nothing. The mattresses and all.

Sort of hurts you right here, huh, Annie?

What do you mean? Not a scratch. Not a scar. I've forgotten him already.

What are you? Nervous?

When the council ends the marriage I'll be the happiest rag-head on the road.

We'll be a caravan of joy!

Shut up, and get the rugs too. He never slept home anyway!

And the lights, all the lights.

There's some over there.

Stephano! Those are Marco's private business papers.

Yeah.

He's like a gajo, stealing from his own people.

At the council meeting, I'll get a clear look at him for the first time.

Stephano, you don't see.

Even if there is no Promised Land it makes people happy to believe in it.

I don't like lies! Or doors that can't be left open at night.

Too bad the roof is nailed down, eh, Annie?

That he can have. The rent's due.

Boy, he sure got under your skin!

Stephano. For a long time he hid this from you. From all of us.

Open it. Open it.

You still think Marco did so wrong?

One little thing for himself, but how much for everyone?

All those people he got out of jail.

Somebody needs bail? Marco go.

If gajo doctor, Marco get.

Somebody dies? Marco bury.

And you think only he was a thief, yeah?

[LOUD CHATTER]

You got it fixed in the head what you gonna say, Annie?

Don't worry, Papa. Suppose Stephano don't come?

Always the genius! How he'll get divorced if he ain't here?

He's here.

Black is white. White is black.

Do what's in your heart, my boy.

Papo.

[LOUD CHATTER]

Don't be shy.

[QUIET CHATTER]

With the permission of the elders,

I ask that another Torino shall, for today,

take my place as judge and king of our vitsa.

My brother Stephano.

The elders approve? Yes.

Your first act must be to judge your own divorce.

You accept this, my son?

I do.

If anyone has business before this council, speak now.

My name is Annie Stephano. I ask the annulment of my marriage.

[CHATTER]

You realise, Annie, this makes you a second-class girl.

You cannot again marry first class.

You must say why you want this.

The deep law says a marriage can end when there is no love between the husband or wife.

There is no love.

Why? Haven't you heard?

My husband never wanted me.

Not before the marriage, not after.

When he tried to back out, I-- I tricked him.

Tricks didn't work for me.

Stephano was too busy listening to a lot of dirty gossip and lies!

They worked. Against me.

We were married by law, not by heart.

Now I want never to see his face or hear his voice.

I wanna throw away his name.

[CROWD SHOUTING]

It is now the husband who must speak.

[CHATTER]

Now listen to me. What Annie said was true.

I was married but that didn't make me a husband.

When my brother pushed this marriage at me, I hit back.

I didn't understand about Annie. I didn't understand Marco.

Annie's right. I-- I did believe a lot of lies.

I didn't look for the truth.

When I hit back at my brother, I hurt my wife.

I didn't ask, I accused. I took my belt to a sick man.

[CROWD CHATTERS] Go on, Stephano.

Where I thought there was only a fat wallet, there's a big heart.

My brother is a better king for this vitsa than I could ever be.

Bravo. Bravo.

Annie Stephano.

You wanted this marriage over. The husband agrees.

Annie Stephano.

By your wish, before all,

the blood that was joined is now separated.

[CROWD MURMURS]

Hey, Annie! Annie!

Sit down! Sit down and listen to me! Now, listen!

I may be stronger than my brother, but I know I'm not wiser.

But I'm smart enough to know that he ought to start for the Promised Land first.

To take care of it for us so we can follow him there some day.

I persuaded Marco, I convinced him to use some of our contributions,

so that he can get started.

Bimbo will see that he gets there, and we'll see that he enjoys it there.

An empty hat is worse than an empty glass.

I'll do this.

You always like the gajo ideas.

Isn't it their custom for the man to run after the woman

when the woman walks out? Huh?

[SHOUTING]

Why do you stand there? Get going! [CHEERING]

Annie! Hey, Annie!

Annie!

Annie, I gotta talk to you. Drive slower.

There's nothing to talk about. The marriage is finished.

Listen, maybe the marriage is but we're not.

We can start all over again. a regular proposal and everything.

Drive slower, you wanna wear him out? Well, start.

I love you! I want to marry you! But I want to marry a king.

I'll be a king. I'll be anything. Faster!

[CHEERING]

Such passion! Such emotion!

[CHEERING]

♪ Listen, man, you've got to kiss your wife ♪

♪ Tsara, tsara Listen, wife ♪

♪ You obey your husband ♪

♪ Yes, obey your husband all your life ♪♪

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