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New York... | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
USA. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
In any discussion of contemporary America | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
and how its people live, | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
we must inevitably start with Manhattan, | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
New York City, USA. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
Manhattan - | 0:01:42 | 0:01:43 | |
glistening modern giant of concrete and steel, | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
reaching to the heavens | 0:01:47 | 0:01:48 | |
and cradling in its arms seven millions... | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
seven millions... | 0:01:52 | 0:01:53 | |
happy beneficiaries of the advantages and comforts | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
this great metropolis has to offer. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
Its fine, wide boulevards facilitate | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
the New Yorker's carefree, orderly existence. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
HORNS HONK | 0:02:05 | 0:02:07 | |
A transportation system second to none | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
in passenger comfort. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
Quaint little sidewalk cafes | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
make for leisurely, gracious living. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
For its nature lovers, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
the peace and privacy of a day in the sun. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:30 | |
The city offers delightful changes in climate. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:35 | |
I suppose you're wondering | 0:02:41 | 0:02:42 | |
what all this has to do | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
with Mr Blandings and his dream house. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:46 | |
Well, I'll tell you. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:47 | |
Jim Blandings is part of the fabric of this town. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
Born and raised right here, | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
he's as typical a New Yorker as anyone you'll ever meet... | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
at least, he was. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
If you want to know the real story, | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
I guess I'm your boy. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:01 | |
My name's Cole, Bill Cole. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
I'm Jim's lawyer and "best friend". | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
Jim's one of those bright young fellas | 0:03:06 | 0:03:08 | |
you see around town. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
College graduate, advertising business, | 0:03:10 | 0:03:11 | |
lovely wife, two fine kids, makes about 15,000 a year. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:15 | |
Jim and Muriel Blandings are just like | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
thousands of other New Yorkers - | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
modern cliff dwellers. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
The morning it all started | 0:03:22 | 0:03:23 | |
was just another of those crisp September mornings. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
And the Blandings were still asleep. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
ALARM RINGS | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
ALARM STOPS | 0:03:34 | 0:03:35 | |
ALARM STARTS | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
ALARM STOPS | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
ALARM STARTS | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
Yes, yes. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
ALARM STOPS | 0:04:17 | 0:04:19 | |
Oh. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
WATER RUNNING | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
Betsy. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
OK, Dad. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
Joan. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:44 | |
OK, Dad. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:45 | |
CHIRPING | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
Good morning, Theodore. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
Good morning, Mr Blandings. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:15 | |
Good morning, Gussie. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
Mmm, thank you. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
Thank you. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:06 | |
Looking for something? | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
My socks. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
Why don't you look in your sock drawer? | 0:07:21 | 0:07:23 | |
That's where I found my underwear. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
Oh. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
Well, try your underwear drawer. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:31 | |
I am in my underwear drawer. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
Well, they must be somewhere. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
They can't walk away by themselves. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
Muriel, I thought we had it clearly understood | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
that these two...two and a half top drawers were mine. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
I thought... Why... | 0:07:52 | 0:07:53 | |
Oh. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
The closet. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:56 | |
That's where they are. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:58 | |
We put them in the closet. | 0:07:58 | 0:07:59 | |
Put what in the closet? | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
Your socks. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:02 | |
There didn't seem to be enough room in the drawers... | 0:08:02 | 0:08:04 | |
Oh, and there's so much of it in the closet. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
So, Gussie and I decided that from now on | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
we'd keep them in a basket on the shelf. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:10 | |
Basket. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:12 | |
Hmm... | 0:08:18 | 0:08:19 | |
This... | 0:08:21 | 0:08:22 | |
Jim, dear, | 0:08:35 | 0:08:36 | |
I do wish you'd try | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
to make a little effort. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
I'll try, dear. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
Oh. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:46 | |
< CRASHING | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
< GIRL SCREAMS | 0:09:03 | 0:09:05 | |
Father, just one morning, I wish you'd knock! | 0:09:07 | 0:09:10 | |
I beg your pardon. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
HE COUGHS | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
HE HUMS | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
# Home, home, home on the range | 0:10:50 | 0:10:54 | |
# Where the deer and the antelope play | 0:10:54 | 0:10:58 | |
# Where seldom is heard | 0:10:58 | 0:11:02 | |
# A discouraging word... # | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
MURIEL: # Home, home on the range | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
# Where the deer and the antelope play. # | 0:11:09 | 0:11:13 | |
< Wash cloth, dear. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
Thank you. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:22 | |
# Where seldom is heard | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
# A discouraging word | 0:11:26 | 0:11:28 | |
# And the skies are not cloudy all day. # | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
< Towel, dear. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:42 | |
If you don't mind, dear. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
One moment. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
Aah! | 0:12:27 | 0:12:28 | |
Take your time. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:33 | |
I can spare the blood. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
Did you cut yourself? | 0:12:35 | 0:12:37 | |
I cut myself every morning. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:38 | |
I kind of look forward to it. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:40 | |
Why don't you use an electric razor? | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
Can't get used to them. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
Oh, that's silly. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:46 | |
Bill Cole's been using one for years. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:48 | |
He hasn't got my beard. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
Bill's beard is just as coarse... | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
I am not interested in discussing | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
the grain and texture of Bill Cole's hair follicles | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
before I've had my breakfast. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
All I said was, why don't you use an electric razor? | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
Because I prefer the clean sweep of the tempered steel as it glides... | 0:13:04 | 0:13:08 | |
No advertising copy, please. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:09 | |
And hurry up. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
You'll be late for breakfast. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:12 | |
Who did it? Yes? | 0:13:22 | 0:13:24 | |
I did. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:25 | |
Haven't I repeatedly told you | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 | |
not to cut up the morning paper | 0:13:27 | 0:13:29 | |
until I've had a chance to look at it? | 0:13:29 | 0:13:31 | |
I'm sorry, Father. It's necessary research. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
What's that? Another of Miss Stellwagon's so-called progressive projects? | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
Coming through, Theodore. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:37 | |
Does Theodore have to have breakfast with us? | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
Can't you take him in the living room? | 0:13:40 | 0:13:44 | |
There's just no point sending your children to an expensive school | 0:13:44 | 0:13:48 | |
if you undermine the teacher's authority in your own dining room. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
I'm not undermining anything. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
I'm in the advertising business, | 0:13:53 | 0:13:55 | |
and keeping abreast of the times is important to me. | 0:13:55 | 0:13:57 | |
So is your children's education. | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
Well, that's not the point. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:00 | |
- It certainly is. - Not. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
Bicker, bicker, bicker. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
You drink your milk. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:06 | |
Joan, every time your father and I | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
have a lively discussion, | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
we aren't necessarily bickering. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:12 | |
What is it, Betsy? Another English composition? | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
Miss Stellwagon has assigned each of us | 0:14:14 | 0:14:17 | |
to take a classified ad | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
and write a human-interest theme about it. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
I found one typical of the disintegration of our present society. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
I wasn't aware of the fact our society was disintegrating. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:27 | |
I didn't expect you to be, Father. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
Miss Stellwagon says that middle-class people like us | 0:14:29 | 0:14:31 | |
are all too prone to overlook... | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
Muriel, I know this is asking a lot, | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
but just one morning I would like to sit down and have breakfast | 0:14:34 | 0:14:38 | |
without social significance. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:39 | |
Jim, you really must take more interest | 0:14:39 | 0:14:41 | |
in your children's education. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:42 | |
Can't squeeze blood from a turnip. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
All right. I listen. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:49 | |
Shoot. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:52 | |
It's just 16 words. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:53 | |
I'm going to call it, "A Minor Tragedy Of Our Times." | 0:14:53 | 0:14:58 | |
Well? | 0:14:58 | 0:14:59 | |
"Forced to sell. Farm dwelling. Original beams. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:04 | |
"Barn, apple orchard, trout stream, | 0:15:04 | 0:15:08 | |
"seclusion, superb view... | 0:15:08 | 0:15:12 | |
"will sacrifice." | 0:15:12 | 0:15:14 | |
Go on. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:17 | |
That's all. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
That's all? | 0:15:19 | 0:15:20 | |
You don't see it, do you, Father? | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
No. A fellow wants to sell his house, so he puts an ad in the paper. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
What did you expect him to do? Take it to the United Nations? | 0:15:26 | 0:15:28 | |
There must be more to it than that, isn't there, dear? | 0:15:28 | 0:15:32 | |
Certainly, Mother. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:33 | |
What some people don't see is the whole sordid picture. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
A poor, honest farmer, | 0:15:36 | 0:15:37 | |
pushed to the wall by hardship | 0:15:37 | 0:15:40 | |
until finally, in desperation, he's forced to sell | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
and stoops to the crass commercialism | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
of newspaper advertising. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:49 | |
Oh, indeed. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:50 | |
Newspaper advertising, hmm? | 0:15:50 | 0:15:51 | |
Crass commercialism? | 0:15:51 | 0:15:53 | |
Miss Stellwagon says advertising | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
is a basically parasitic profession. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:57 | |
You don't say? | 0:15:56 | 0:15:58 | |
Miss Stellwagon says advertising makes people who can't afford it | 0:15:58 | 0:16:01 | |
buy things they don't want | 0:16:01 | 0:16:03 | |
with money they haven't got. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
Oh, she does, does she? | 0:16:06 | 0:16:07 | |
Perhaps your Miss Stellwagon is right. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
Perhaps I should quit this basically parasitic profession, | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
which at the very moment is paying | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
for your fancy tuition | 0:16:15 | 0:16:17 | |
and those extra French lessons | 0:16:17 | 0:16:18 | |
and that progressive summer camp | 0:16:18 | 0:16:20 | |
to say nothing of the very braces on your back teeth. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:22 | |
Jim, I wish you wouldn't discuss money | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
in front of the children. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
Why not? They spend enough of it. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
Bicker, bicker, bicker. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
Girls, get your things and run along. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
You'll be late for school. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:33 | |
Bye, Daddy. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
Give my regards to Miss Stellwagon. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
DOORBELL RINGS | 0:16:39 | 0:16:40 | |
I'll get it! | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
Oh, hello. We haven't seen you in ages! | 0:16:43 | 0:16:45 | |
Hello, Bill! | 0:16:45 | 0:16:46 | |
Betsy, is your mother up? She's in there. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
Come on, Betsy! | 0:16:48 | 0:16:49 | |
Wait! | 0:16:49 | 0:16:50 | |
Bye! | 0:16:50 | 0:16:52 | |
Morning, Muriel. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
Good morning, Bill. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:55 | |
Hiya, Jim. Hello, Bill. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
I thought you were going out to Lillie and Paul's for the weekend. | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
I am. They're picking me up in a few minutes. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:02 | |
But I thought I'd better return these | 0:17:02 | 0:17:03 | |
in case you want to go through with that Funkhauser deal. | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
Oh, thanks. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:07 | |
Cup of coffee, Bill? | 0:17:07 | 0:17:08 | |
Thanks. I will. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:09 | |
Personally, | 0:17:09 | 0:17:10 | |
I think he's 3,000 out of line. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
Yes, I suppose so... | 0:17:12 | 0:17:13 | |
Of course, you could save that amount | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
by not tearing out the living room wall. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
Plus, it's sort of impractical anyway. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:19 | |
I guess so. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:21 | |
What wall? | 0:17:21 | 0:17:22 | |
Who are you talking about? Who's Funkhauser? | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
Uh, Bunny Funkhauser. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:26 | |
Who? | 0:17:26 | 0:17:28 | |
You remember Bunny Funkhauser, dear, | 0:17:27 | 0:17:29 | |
that clever young interior decorator | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
we met at the Collins' cocktail party. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:34 | |
You mean that young man | 0:17:34 | 0:17:36 | |
with the open-toed sandals? | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
What about him? | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
Well, er... | 0:17:40 | 0:17:41 | |
you know how long we've said | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
we've got to do something about | 0:17:44 | 0:17:46 | |
fixing up this apartment. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:48 | |
< Well, a couple of weeks ago he called, | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
< and I asked him to come over, | 0:17:51 | 0:17:54 | |
and he had some simply wonderful ideas. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:58 | |
And... | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
I didn't want to bother you | 0:17:59 | 0:18:03 | |
with sketches and estimates | 0:18:03 | 0:18:04 | |
until I knew whether we could afford it, | 0:18:04 | 0:18:08 | |
so I sent them over to Bill. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
Mm-hmm. How much? | 0:18:11 | 0:18:12 | |
What's the point in asking how much | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
until you know what you're going to get? | 0:18:15 | 0:18:18 | |
I've seen Bunny Funkhauser. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:19 | |
I know what I'm going to get. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
Personally, I think | 0:18:21 | 0:18:22 | |
he's got some fairly interesting sketches. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:24 | |
He's terribly clever. Look. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:26 | |
Here's how he sees our living room. Isn't it charming? | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
What's that? A shoeshine stand? | 0:18:29 | 0:18:31 | |
It's a cobbler's bench, dear. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:32 | |
The room's colonial - | 0:18:32 | 0:18:34 | |
breakfront, hooked rug, student lamp, | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
pie cooler, | 0:18:37 | 0:18:38 | |
and over here is a Martha Washington desk. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:41 | |
And where do I keep my powdered wig? | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
I think it's perfect. It's us. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
Bunny says we're very American, | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
very grass roots, very blueberry pie. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:54 | |
Don't look at me. Bunny said it. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
Now, the hall... | 0:19:00 | 0:19:01 | |
How much is all this going to cost? | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
Well... | 0:19:04 | 0:19:06 | |
Well, the figure isn't really accurate, | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
because it includes... | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
How much? | 0:19:10 | 0:19:11 | |
Well...7,000, Jim, but... | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
7,000! | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
Well, that includes tearing out a wall. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
And I quite agree with Bill... | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
Oh, you do? You're some lawyer. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
A defenceless woman without the slightest conception | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
of the value of a dollar comes to you for advice, | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
and the next minute you've got her tearing out walls! | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
I am on record as being opposed to tearing out walls, | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
and so is the woman. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
If you'd only listen... | 0:19:34 | 0:19:35 | |
7,000! | 0:19:35 | 0:19:36 | |
I wouldn't put seven cents into this broken-down rat trap! | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
Jim, how can you talk that way? This is our home. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:43 | |
Betsy was practically born in this apartment. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:46 | |
That does not make it a national shrine! | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
Now wait a minute. When I came in here this morning, | 0:19:49 | 0:19:51 | |
I had no intention of sending you two to Reno. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:54 | |
I thought I was doing you a favour. | 0:19:54 | 0:19:56 | |
And he was. He was showing you how you could save 3,000 | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
by simply not tearing out a wall. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
I can save 7,000 by not doing anything at all. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
You can save another 3,500 | 0:20:04 | 0:20:05 | |
by not buying her that mink coat. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
And if you don't take that cruise to the West Indies... | 0:20:08 | 0:20:11 | |
All right, Bill. All right. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:12 | |
Not a bad day. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:14 | |
You've already saved 15,000 | 0:20:14 | 0:20:15 | |
and it's not even 9.00. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
See you next week. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:19 | |
Bye, Jim. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:20 | |
Bye, dear. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:21 | |
Have a nice weekend. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:22 | |
Wait. I'll go down with you. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
All right. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:26 | |
7,000. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
Blueberry pie. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:29 | |
Morning, Mary. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:37 | |
Morning. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:38 | |
What's that? | 0:20:38 | 0:20:40 | |
Seems we're in the midst of a situation. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:44 | |
W-H-A-M. > | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
"Wham, a whale of a ham." | 0:20:46 | 0:20:48 | |
What's it doing here? That's Johnson's headache. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
Not anymore. Mr Johnson is no longer with us. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
Mr Johnson lost the touch. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
Guess whose headache it is now. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
Oh, no. Oh, yes. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
Oh, no. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:01 | |
On your desk | 0:21:01 | 0:21:02 | |
you will find a directive from the high command. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
What a morning - | 0:21:04 | 0:21:05 | |
Bunny Funkhauser, blueberry pie, and Wham. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
How's that? Oh, nothing, Mary. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
Just a private joke between me | 0:21:10 | 0:21:12 | |
and whoever's going to be my analyst. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
They sent down some of Mr Johnson's handiwork | 0:21:15 | 0:21:17 | |
before he was drummed from the corps. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:18 | |
July - "When you've got the whim, say wham." | 0:21:18 | 0:21:22 | |
August - "For a grand slam in ham, try wham." | 0:21:22 | 0:21:27 | |
I have some more over here, | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
the balance of last year's campaign. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
September's the little gem | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
that cost him his job. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:35 | |
Just a minute. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
Mary, would you spend 7,000 | 0:21:39 | 0:21:41 | |
to tear out someone else's walls, | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
when for a few thousand more, | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
you could find a nice old place in Connecticut, fix it up, | 0:21:46 | 0:21:50 | |
and have the kind of dream house you've always wanted? | 0:21:50 | 0:21:54 | |
I beg your pardon? | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
'Well, that's the way it all started. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:02 | |
'The ad was enough to convince Jim, | 0:22:02 | 0:22:05 | |
'but Muriel was a little tougher. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
'I guess the corsage did it. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:10 | |
'There they are, | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
'two little fish from New York | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
'out in the deep, deep waters of Connecticut real estate. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:20 | |
'That's Smith, the real estate salesman. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:23 | |
'Mighty shrewd cookie in a quiet sort of way. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
'Yes, sir. He knows a sucker - | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
'I mean customer - when he sees one. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:32 | |
'He sees one. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
'Well, Smith, looks like you're finally going to | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
'unload the old Hackett place... | 0:22:37 | 0:22:40 | |
'the old, very old Hackett place.' | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
Well, folks, there she is. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:50 | |
It's charming. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
Uh, that is, for an old house. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
Of course, you understand, Mr Smith, | 0:22:56 | 0:22:57 | |
we're just window shopping, so to speak. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
Nothing definite. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:00 | |
Oh, perfectly all right. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
Not a bad-looking house, | 0:23:02 | 0:23:04 | |
but it's a lot older than anything we had in mind. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:08 | |
Well, she's no spring chicken. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:10 | |
That's just what makes her such a buy. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:13 | |
A man's got just about everything he'd need here - | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
a nice big hay barn, | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
a couple of fruit orchards just over the hill... | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
virgin stand oak grove | 0:23:24 | 0:23:25 | |
other side of the trout stream there. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
The trout stream will give you | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
your own pure, clear, cold mountain water. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:34 | |
Paved highway right to your door. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:36 | |
Grocer from town delivers twice a week. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
Easy commuting distance, | 0:23:39 | 0:23:40 | |
58 minutes from New York City. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
Brand-new high school right down the road. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
Yes, sir, 50 mighty pretty little acres. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:51 | |
Fine old house, too. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
Four family bedrooms, plenty of closet space. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:57 | |
< However, | 0:23:59 | 0:24:01 | |
it's not just all these, you know. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
You're buying a piece of American history. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:06 | |
You don't say? How's that? | 0:24:06 | 0:24:08 | |
Why, first year she was built, | 0:24:08 | 0:24:10 | |
General Gates stopped right here to water his horses. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
Old General Gates, huh? | 0:24:12 | 0:24:14 | |
Civil war. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:15 | |
Revolutionary war. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:17 | |
Oh, that General Gates. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:19 | |
I'm not trying to sell you anything, understand. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:23 | |
All I'm saying is that one of these days | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
someone with a little imagination is going to come along | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
and just steal this place. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
And I mean steal it. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:32 | |
< Guess I don't have to tell you, Mrs Blandings, | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
what a woman's touch could do to a place like this. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:40 | |
Yes, sir. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:50 | |
You've certainly got to visualise. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:53 | |
< A couple coats of paint, | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
a little pointing up here and there. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
Shall we go up and take a look at her? | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
Well, I suppose as long as we're here... | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
I guess it doesn't hurt to take a look. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:19 | |
I'll just see if the keys | 0:25:21 | 0:25:23 | |
are up there where I left them. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:25 | |
It does have possibilities. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
You think we can get it? | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
Like taking candy from a baby. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:31 | |
Now, don't lose your head. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:32 | |
Now, you just keep quiet, dear, | 0:25:32 | 0:25:34 | |
and let me handle this. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:35 | |
Tell me, Smith, | 0:25:35 | 0:25:37 | |
what kind of price is the owner asking for this old place? | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
Mm-hmm. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
What do you think, Bill? A steal, huh? | 0:25:48 | 0:25:51 | |
Steal's an understatement. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:52 | |
Swindle might be a little more appropriate. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:55 | |
Oh, well... | 0:25:55 | 0:25:57 | |
What do you mean? | 0:25:57 | 0:25:58 | |
Every time you get tight, | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
you weep on my shoulder about the advertising business. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:04 | |
How it forces a sensitive soul like yourself | 0:26:04 | 0:26:07 | |
to make a living by bamboozling the American public. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:10 | |
I would say a small part of that victimised group | 0:26:10 | 0:26:14 | |
has now redressed the balance. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:16 | |
What are you talking about? | 0:26:16 | 0:26:18 | |
You. You've been taken to the cleaners, | 0:26:18 | 0:26:20 | |
and you don't even know your pants are off. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:23 | |
Darling, I told you, I said we ought to call Bill. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
Now, Muriel... | 0:26:26 | 0:26:27 | |
All right. Just what's wrong with this deal? | 0:26:27 | 0:26:29 | |
First time around, you offer 10,000 for 50 acres, right? | 0:26:29 | 0:26:32 | |
What of it? That's 200 an acre. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:34 | |
I know that part of Connecticut. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
100 an acre is standard top-gouge price | 0:26:36 | 0:26:38 | |
to city slickers. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:40 | |
When the natives sell to each other, | 0:26:40 | 0:26:42 | |
it's around 40 or less. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:44 | |
40! | 0:26:44 | 0:26:46 | |
The man's entitled to a fair profit. | 0:26:46 | 0:26:48 | |
Not 284%. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:50 | |
Besides, you're not getting 50 acres, | 0:26:50 | 0:26:52 | |
you're only getting 35, more or less. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:54 | |
Where does it say that? | 0:26:53 | 0:26:55 | |
I refer to a rather obscure postscript | 0:26:55 | 0:26:58 | |
on the back of the second letter | 0:26:58 | 0:27:01 | |
from friend Smith. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:03 | |
"Incidentally, Mr Hackett has been | 0:27:03 | 0:27:05 | |
"a little optimistic about the acreage. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:08 | |
"It will probably survey somewhere | 0:27:08 | 0:27:10 | |
in the neighbourhood of 35 acres, more or less." | 0:27:10 | 0:27:14 | |
All right. So it's 35. What's the difference? | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
Do you know how many tennis courts | 0:27:16 | 0:27:20 | |
you can get on 35 acres? | 0:27:20 | 0:27:22 | |
You're not spending 11,500 for tennis courts. | 0:27:22 | 0:27:25 | |
That's not the point. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
That's precisely the point. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:28 | |
We going to write this fellow Hackett a strong letter. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
Tell him he can either kick in with those 15 acres, | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
reduce the price, | 0:27:33 | 0:27:34 | |
or find another sucker. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:35 | |
We'll do no such thing. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:37 | |
I'm not going to queer this deal over 15 broken-down acres. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
You just don't understand business. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:41 | |
You mean extortion. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
Now, wait a minute. Put that thing down. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:46 | |
Look, you can't measure everything on a slide rule. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
This house has certain intangibles. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:50 | |
Like what, for instance? | 0:27:50 | 0:27:51 | |
Like antique value, for instance. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:53 | |
It just so happens that General...Gates | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
stopped right there at that very house to water his horses. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
I don't care if General Grant dropped in | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
for a Scotch and soda, | 0:28:01 | 0:28:03 | |
you're still getting rooked. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:05 | |
That was a different war! | 0:28:05 | 0:28:06 | |
I think Bill's absolutely right. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:08 | |
Now, let me explain something to both of you. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:10 | |
For 15 years I've been cooped up | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
in a four-room cracker box. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
Just getting shaved in the morning | 0:28:15 | 0:28:17 | |
entitles a man to the purple heart. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:19 | |
That still doesn't make this a good buy. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
Bill, Muriel and I have found | 0:28:21 | 0:28:23 | |
what I'm not ashamed to call our dream house. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:26 | |
It's like a fine painting. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:28 | |
You buy it with your heart, not your head. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:30 | |
You don't ask how much was the paint? How much was the canvas? | 0:28:30 | 0:28:33 | |
You look at it, and you say, | 0:28:33 | 0:28:36 | |
"It's beautiful. I want it." | 0:28:36 | 0:28:37 | |
And if it costs a few more pennies, | 0:28:37 | 0:28:39 | |
you pay it and gladly, because you love it. | 0:28:38 | 0:28:40 | |
And you can't measure the things you love | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 | |
in dollars and cents. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:46 | |
Well, anyway, that's the way I feel about it. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
When I sign those papers on Saturday, | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
I can look the world in the face and say, | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
"It's mine... my house, my home, | 0:28:55 | 0:28:57 | |
"my 35 acres." | 0:28:57 | 0:28:59 | |
Our house, our home, our 35 acres. | 0:29:03 | 0:29:08 | |
More or less. | 0:29:11 | 0:29:13 | |
So, Jim cashed in his government bonds, | 0:29:18 | 0:29:21 | |
gave old man Hackett a 6,000 mortgage, | 0:29:21 | 0:29:23 | |
and bought the place. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:25 | |
Then they drove me out to see it. | 0:29:25 | 0:29:27 | |
MURIEL: This certainly isn't the way we came with Mr Smith. | 0:29:27 | 0:29:30 | |
What in the world are "Shrunk Mills"? | 0:29:30 | 0:29:34 | |
Probably mills that have shrunk. | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
Seems to me we go left. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:40 | |
Over the bridge and turn right. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:42 | |
Left. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:46 | |
Congress ought to pass a law - | 0:30:02 | 0:30:04 | |
when a man buys a house in Lansdale county, | 0:30:04 | 0:30:07 | |
there's a prize. | 0:30:07 | 0:30:08 | |
He gets 10 per cent off if he can find it. | 0:30:08 | 0:30:11 | |
Over the bridge and turn right. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:13 | |
Left. | 0:30:13 | 0:30:15 | |
You know, | 0:30:34 | 0:30:35 | |
if you really want to find that house of yours, it's no problem. | 0:30:35 | 0:30:38 | |
Just pretend that you're one of General Gates' horses, | 0:30:38 | 0:30:41 | |
and you're very thirsty. | 0:30:41 | 0:30:43 | |
Where would you go for a drink of water? | 0:30:43 | 0:30:45 | |
Well, I must admit, | 0:31:11 | 0:31:13 | |
it's a very beautiful thing. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:15 | |
The house and the lilac bush at the corner are just the same age. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:18 | |
If a lilac can live and be so old, | 0:31:18 | 0:31:20 | |
so can the house. | 0:31:20 | 0:31:22 | |
It just needs someone to love it, that's all. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:24 | |
It's a good thing there are two of you. | 0:31:27 | 0:31:29 | |
One to love it, one to hold it up. | 0:31:29 | 0:31:32 | |
What did your engineer say | 0:31:35 | 0:31:37 | |
when he checked the foundation and that roof? | 0:31:36 | 0:31:39 | |
Who needs engineers? This isn't a train, you know. | 0:31:39 | 0:31:41 | |
I just saw it move. | 0:31:41 | 0:31:43 | |
This house has been standing | 0:31:43 | 0:31:45 | |
since the second year of the Continental Congress. | 0:31:45 | 0:31:47 | |
You take one look at it, and shingles start to fall off. | 0:31:47 | 0:31:50 | |
Look, let me do you a favour. I've got a client - | 0:31:50 | 0:31:52 | |
crackerjack structural engineer, | 0:31:52 | 0:31:54 | |
Joe Apollonio. | 0:31:54 | 0:31:55 | |
Practically built the George Washington bridge single-handed. | 0:31:55 | 0:31:58 | |
Thanks a lot, but we're not building a bridge. | 0:31:58 | 0:32:00 | |
He's the fellow who advised the government not to raise the Normandie. | 0:32:00 | 0:32:03 | |
They didn't listen to him. Cost them 5 million. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:06 | |
You have my word. If I were raising the Normandie, | 0:32:06 | 0:32:08 | |
I wouldn't make a move without Apollonio. | 0:32:08 | 0:32:10 | |
Now, would you like to come in and look around? | 0:32:10 | 0:32:12 | |
No, thanks. | 0:32:12 | 0:32:14 | |
CREAKING | 0:32:19 | 0:32:21 | |
CRASHING | 0:32:21 | 0:32:23 | |
JIM: Muriel! | 0:32:24 | 0:32:26 | |
Muriel! | 0:32:26 | 0:32:28 | |
I think you'd better get in touch with Mr Apollonio. | 0:32:28 | 0:32:32 | |
The house has charm, hasn't it, Mr Apollonio? | 0:32:34 | 0:32:37 | |
Mm-hmm. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:38 | |
Of course, any small changes would have to conform | 0:32:38 | 0:32:40 | |
to the character of the countryside. | 0:32:40 | 0:32:42 | |
MURIEL: And still be functional. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:44 | |
Uh...what is your professional opinion? | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
Tear it down. | 0:32:54 | 0:32:55 | |
Tear it down? | 0:32:55 | 0:32:57 | |
If your sills were shot and your timbers was OK, | 0:32:57 | 0:32:59 | |
I'd say go ahead, fix her up. | 0:32:59 | 0:33:01 | |
If your timbers were shot and your sills was OK, | 0:33:01 | 0:33:05 | |
again, I'd say go ahead and fix her up. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:07 | |
But your sills are shot, | 0:33:07 | 0:33:09 | |
and your timbers are shot. | 0:33:08 | 0:33:10 | |
I'll show you. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:12 | |
Take a look at the way what she leans. | 0:33:12 | 0:33:15 | |
It has to be level. | 0:33:22 | 0:33:24 | |
So I say don't throw good money after bad. | 0:33:24 | 0:33:27 | |
Tear it down. Good day. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:29 | |
JIM: Thanks a lot(!) | 0:33:32 | 0:33:34 | |
That's OK. And I'll send my bill to your office. | 0:33:33 | 0:33:36 | |
Bill Cole and his experts. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:40 | |
Never mind, darling. | 0:33:40 | 0:33:42 | |
We'll get our own experts. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:44 | |
Hmm. | 0:33:44 | 0:33:46 | |
'And so they got their own experts. | 0:33:47 | 0:33:50 | |
'Mr Simpson said...' | 0:33:50 | 0:33:51 | |
Tear it down. | 0:33:51 | 0:33:53 | |
'On the other hand, Mr Murphy said...' | 0:33:54 | 0:33:57 | |
Tear it down. | 0:33:57 | 0:33:58 | |
And that's how our friend Mr Simms came into it. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:04 | |
He said, "It's possible to fix it up, but why not build a new house? | 0:34:04 | 0:34:08 | |
"It certainly wouldn't cost any more. | 0:34:08 | 0:34:10 | |
"Why not look at a floor plan?" | 0:34:10 | 0:34:13 | |
Here we are. Something like this. | 0:34:13 | 0:34:16 | |
First floor - | 0:34:16 | 0:34:17 | |
living room, dining room, | 0:34:17 | 0:34:18 | |
study, kitchen, breakfast room, | 0:34:18 | 0:34:20 | |
service porch, maid's room. | 0:34:20 | 0:34:23 | |
Upstairs - three family bedrooms | 0:34:23 | 0:34:25 | |
with two adjoining baths. | 0:34:25 | 0:34:27 | |
Well, it's very nice. | 0:34:28 | 0:34:31 | |
But don't you think it's a little conventional? | 0:34:31 | 0:34:34 | |
Yes, Mr Simms, of course, | 0:34:34 | 0:34:36 | |
if we were going to build a house, | 0:34:36 | 0:34:39 | |
we'd want it, er... | 0:34:39 | 0:34:41 | |
just a little bit different. | 0:34:40 | 0:34:42 | |
Of course, this is just a point of departure. | 0:34:42 | 0:34:46 | |
You don't have to adhere | 0:34:46 | 0:34:48 | |
to any of this. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:49 | |
We're not ready to commit ourselves. | 0:34:49 | 0:34:52 | |
Oh, no. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:53 | |
Of course not. I understand. | 0:34:53 | 0:34:55 | |
If this were my house, I'd, er... | 0:34:55 | 0:34:58 | |
well, I mean... | 0:34:58 | 0:35:00 | |
Now, here, for instance... | 0:35:04 | 0:35:06 | |
JIM: In the study, if we could just push out this wall a little, | 0:35:09 | 0:35:13 | |
and put in a built-in bar... | 0:35:13 | 0:35:16 | |
MURIEL: Excuse me, dear. | 0:35:15 | 0:35:17 | |
These bedrooms are too small. | 0:35:17 | 0:35:19 | |
We'll have a little dressing room. | 0:35:19 | 0:35:21 | |
And plenty of closets. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:23 | |
If there's one thing we need, it's closets. | 0:35:23 | 0:35:26 | |
Yes, if I might make a suggestion... | 0:35:26 | 0:35:28 | |
And bathrooms. Each bedroom must have at least one bathroom. | 0:35:28 | 0:35:32 | |
But that would be four bathrooms. | 0:35:32 | 0:35:35 | |
I think I... | 0:35:35 | 0:35:36 | |
I was wondering, could we manage | 0:35:36 | 0:35:39 | |
a little playroom in the basement? | 0:35:39 | 0:35:41 | |
Nothing tremendous. Something like this. | 0:35:41 | 0:35:43 | |
Well, it's always possible, but our fundamental problem... | 0:35:43 | 0:35:46 | |
And I've always wanted a sewing room, | 0:35:46 | 0:35:49 | |
a little utility room upstairs, where I could be alone and sew | 0:35:49 | 0:35:54 | |
or sulk on a rainy afternoon. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:56 | |
Pardon me. | 0:35:56 | 0:35:58 | |
Now, Mr Simms, about that playroom, | 0:35:58 | 0:36:01 | |
room for dodge, ping-pong, nice big poker table. | 0:36:01 | 0:36:04 | |
If you don't mind... | 0:36:04 | 0:36:05 | |
Off the kitchen - a little flower sink... | 0:36:05 | 0:36:08 | |
There should be a terrace off the study. | 0:36:08 | 0:36:11 | |
Shelves for vases... | 0:36:11 | 0:36:13 | |
A barbecue... | 0:36:13 | 0:36:14 | |
Gardening things... | 0:36:14 | 0:36:15 | |
Roasting thing... | 0:36:15 | 0:36:17 | |
Oh. | 0:36:17 | 0:36:18 | |
Well, let's see what we have here. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:25 | |
In the first place, I'm afraid... | 0:36:28 | 0:36:30 | |
In the first place, I'm afraid you've got the upstairs twice as big as the downstairs. | 0:36:30 | 0:36:37 | |
It's all those bathrooms. | 0:36:37 | 0:36:38 | |
It's all those closets. | 0:36:38 | 0:36:40 | |
By extending that room, you've no possibility | 0:36:40 | 0:36:43 | |
of any stairs going up to the second floor. | 0:36:43 | 0:36:46 | |
I've allowed for that. You can put them in behind the pantry. | 0:36:46 | 0:36:50 | |
Mrs Blandings, on that sewing room, the way you have it there, | 0:36:50 | 0:36:54 | |
the chimney stack would come through the middle, | 0:36:54 | 0:36:57 | |
leaving you with a square doughnut, | 0:36:57 | 0:37:00 | |
which might be very warm in winter, | 0:37:00 | 0:37:02 | |
but of doubtful utility. | 0:37:02 | 0:37:04 | |
Can't you put it somewhere else? | 0:37:04 | 0:37:07 | |
Look, I think I know what you two have in mind. | 0:37:07 | 0:37:10 | |
Suppose I make preliminary plans | 0:37:10 | 0:37:12 | |
and we can get together in a week? | 0:37:12 | 0:37:15 | |
- All right. - Fine. | 0:37:15 | 0:37:17 | |
- Holy smoke! - We didn't realise. | 0:37:17 | 0:37:20 | |
Don't forget, we must hold it down under 10,000. | 0:37:20 | 0:37:23 | |
That, I can tell you right now, is impossible. | 0:37:23 | 0:37:26 | |
Even with considerable trimming, | 0:37:26 | 0:37:29 | |
I don't see how we can bring it in for less than 12,000 or 12,500. | 0:37:29 | 0:37:33 | |
12,500? | 0:37:33 | 0:37:35 | |
Oh, well, I guess we're not going to quibble | 0:37:35 | 0:37:37 | |
about a few pennies. | 0:37:37 | 0:37:39 | |
By the way, have you any notions how you'd like the old place taken down? | 0:37:39 | 0:37:44 | |
Why don't we just blow on it? | 0:37:44 | 0:37:47 | |
Well, so far, it's cost us 13,329.45. | 0:37:56 | 0:38:01 | |
But we have the nicest vacant lot | 0:38:02 | 0:38:05 | |
in the state of Connecticut. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:07 | |
MR SIMMS: Well, something will have to be cut. | 0:38:11 | 0:38:13 | |
These plans are just too elaborate for the money you have to spend. | 0:38:13 | 0:38:16 | |
JIM: All right, I'll make the sacrifice. | 0:38:16 | 0:38:18 | |
You can cut it out. | 0:38:18 | 0:38:19 | |
(What's happening?) | 0:38:19 | 0:38:21 | |
(Dad just lost his playroom.) | 0:38:21 | 0:38:24 | |
As the house stands now, it's over 15,000. | 0:38:24 | 0:38:27 | |
- Mother, may we put Theodore to bed? - Yes. | 0:38:27 | 0:38:31 | |
It just doesn't seem possible | 0:38:31 | 0:38:32 | |
for a house with such small rooms. | 0:38:32 | 0:38:35 | |
Mrs Blandings, I've already explained, | 0:38:35 | 0:38:37 | |
it's not so much the size as the number. | 0:38:37 | 0:38:39 | |
Now, is it absolutely essential for each of your daughters to have her own room | 0:38:39 | 0:38:42 | |
with two closets and a private bath? | 0:38:42 | 0:38:45 | |
Yes. | 0:38:45 | 0:38:46 | |
You see, my daughters are approaching womanhood... | 0:38:46 | 0:38:49 | |
I didn't realise | 0:38:49 | 0:38:50 | |
they were approaching it quite so fast. | 0:38:50 | 0:38:53 | |
Perhaps what you need is not so much a house, | 0:38:53 | 0:38:55 | |
as a series of little bungalows, | 0:38:55 | 0:38:57 | |
each with two closets and a private bath. | 0:38:56 | 0:39:00 | |
Well, what about that silly flower sink? | 0:39:00 | 0:39:03 | |
- We could lose that. | 0:39:03 | 0:39:06 | |
- I beg your pardon. | 0:39:04 | 0:39:06 | |
< Or that sewing room - that's certainly a waste. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:09 | |
May I suggest that | 0:39:09 | 0:39:10 | |
neither of these are really major eliminations? | 0:39:10 | 0:39:12 | |
Now, if you could do with one less bathroom - | 0:39:12 | 0:39:15 | |
I'm sorry, we couldn't possibly. | 0:39:15 | 0:39:16 | |
A simple bathroom, 8 x 10 x 8, | 0:39:16 | 0:39:18 | |
with Grade - A fixtures, will cost around 1,300. | 0:39:18 | 0:39:21 | |
I refuse to endanger the health of my children | 0:39:21 | 0:39:23 | |
with less than four bathrooms. | 0:39:23 | 0:39:25 | |
For 1,300, they can live in a house with three bathrooms | 0:39:25 | 0:39:29 | |
and rough it. | 0:39:29 | 0:39:31 | |
KNOCKING | 0:39:34 | 0:39:36 | |
Why, Bill. Hello, Muriel. | 0:39:37 | 0:39:39 | |
Well, you've done it again. | 0:39:39 | 0:39:41 | |
Once...just once... | 0:39:41 | 0:39:43 | |
why don't you come to me and find out if it's all right, if it's legal, | 0:39:43 | 0:39:46 | |
before you go barging off and run yourself smack into another jam? | 0:39:46 | 0:39:48 | |
What's eating you? | 0:39:48 | 0:39:50 | |
I must say, Simms, I hold you equally responsible. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:51 | |
JIM: What? What happened? | 0:39:51 | 0:39:53 | |
MR SIMMS: I don't understand. | 0:39:53 | 0:39:55 | |
Did you let this idiot | 0:39:55 | 0:39:56 | |
tear down that house? | 0:39:56 | 0:39:57 | |
What if he did? What of it? | 0:39:57 | 0:39:59 | |
Reconstruction was unsound and totally impractical. | 0:39:59 | 0:40:00 | |
I quite agree, but you're dealing with a man | 0:40:00 | 0:40:02 | |
who doesn't think before he acts, | 0:40:02 | 0:40:03 | |
who goes off half-cocked. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:05 | |
What did I do? | 0:40:05 | 0:40:06 | |
You're an architect. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:07 | |
You must have been aware of the legality involved. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:09 | |
What? What legality? | 0:40:09 | 0:40:10 | |
You knew there was a mortgage. | 0:40:10 | 0:40:12 | |
I assumed as much. | 0:40:12 | 0:40:13 | |
What happened? What are you talking about? | 0:40:13 | 0:40:15 | |
What did you do? | 0:40:15 | 0:40:17 | |
I don't know. They won't tell me. | 0:40:17 | 0:40:18 | |
MR SIMMS: Certainly, but since you were his lawyer, I naturally assumed... | 0:40:18 | 0:40:21 | |
With him, you don't assume anything. | 0:40:21 | 0:40:23 | |
Now, just a minute. I'm entitled to know what I did. | 0:40:23 | 0:40:26 | |
This is America. A man is guilty until he's proven innocent. | 0:40:26 | 0:40:28 | |
It's the other way around, Father. | 0:40:28 | 0:40:30 | |
You go to bed. Girls. | 0:40:30 | 0:40:32 | |
Bill, would you mind telling me | 0:40:32 | 0:40:34 | |
in clear, concise English | 0:40:34 | 0:40:36 | |
just what crime I've committed and why. | 0:40:36 | 0:40:39 | |
In clear, concise English, you tore down a house | 0:40:39 | 0:40:42 | |
on which another man holds a mortgage | 0:40:41 | 0:40:44 | |
without first getting his written permission. | 0:40:44 | 0:40:46 | |
I did? | 0:40:46 | 0:40:47 | |
And in such case, | 0:40:47 | 0:40:49 | |
the mortgagee can demand full payment of said mortgage. | 0:40:49 | 0:40:52 | |
Mr Ephemus Hackett so demands. | 0:40:52 | 0:40:54 | |
6,000 clams. | 0:40:54 | 0:40:55 | |
And he wants them now. | 0:40:55 | 0:40:57 | |
Now? You've got ten days. | 0:40:57 | 0:41:00 | |
Miss Stellwagon says the problems of the parents | 0:41:00 | 0:41:03 | |
should be the problems of the children. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:06 | |
Well, you keep that in mind, dear. | 0:41:06 | 0:41:07 | |
It will help prepare you for motherhood. | 0:41:07 | 0:41:09 | |
Perhaps we'd better let the plans go for the time being. | 0:41:09 | 0:41:11 | |
No, Simms, I'll work this out. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:13 | |
You go ahead with your final plans, and let's see some estimates. | 0:41:13 | 0:41:15 | |
Very well. You'll hear from me as soon as possible. | 0:41:15 | 0:41:17 | |
Good night. Good night, Mr Cole. | 0:41:17 | 0:41:18 | |
Good night. | 0:41:18 | 0:41:19 | |
6,000. | 0:41:19 | 0:41:20 | |
MURIEL: Good night, Mr Simms. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:22 | |
MR SIMMS: Good night, Mrs Blandings. | 0:41:22 | 0:41:23 | |
What are you going to do | 0:41:23 | 0:41:25 | |
about the collateral on your building loan? | 0:41:25 | 0:41:26 | |
I don't know. | 0:41:26 | 0:41:28 | |
Turn in my insurance policies or something. | 0:41:28 | 0:41:29 | |
- Jim, you can't do that. - Why not? | 0:41:29 | 0:41:32 | |
If anything should happen, | 0:41:32 | 0:41:33 | |
the children would be left unprotected. | 0:41:33 | 0:41:36 | |
I'm not dead yet. | 0:41:36 | 0:41:37 | |
Well, of course you're not. | 0:41:37 | 0:41:39 | |
I'll see the boys at the bank. | 0:41:39 | 0:41:41 | |
Maybe you can put up your insurance as collateral. | 0:41:41 | 0:41:43 | |
If necessary... | 0:41:43 | 0:41:45 | |
I'll sign a personal note. | 0:41:45 | 0:41:47 | |
Thanks, Bill. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:50 | |
Well, I got to run along. | 0:41:50 | 0:41:52 | |
Jim, do me a little favour, will you? | 0:41:52 | 0:41:55 | |
The next time you're gonna do anything | 0:41:55 | 0:41:57 | |
or say anything, or buy anything, | 0:41:57 | 0:41:59 | |
think it over very carefully. | 0:41:59 | 0:42:01 | |
When you're sure you're right, | 0:42:01 | 0:42:03 | |
forget the whole thing. | 0:42:02 | 0:42:04 | |
Good night, Muriel. | 0:42:07 | 0:42:09 | |
Good night, Bill. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:10 | |
Hmm... | 0:42:13 | 0:42:15 | |
What a wonderful friend. | 0:42:17 | 0:42:19 | |
What's with all this kissing | 0:42:19 | 0:42:21 | |
all of a sudden? | 0:42:21 | 0:42:22 | |
What's that? | 0:42:22 | 0:42:23 | |
Just because a man is helpful in a business way, | 0:42:23 | 0:42:27 | |
it doesn't give him | 0:42:26 | 0:42:28 | |
extracurricular privileges with my wife. | 0:42:28 | 0:42:30 | |
That's a fine thing to say | 0:42:30 | 0:42:32 | |
about a friend of 15 years. | 0:42:32 | 0:42:35 | |
Well, I just don't like it. | 0:42:35 | 0:42:36 | |
Every time he goes out of this house, | 0:42:36 | 0:42:38 | |
he shakes my hand and he kisses you. | 0:42:37 | 0:42:40 | |
Would you prefer it the other way around? | 0:42:40 | 0:42:43 | |
Why is he always hanging around? | 0:42:43 | 0:42:46 | |
Why doesn't he ever get married or something? | 0:42:46 | 0:42:48 | |
Because he can't find another girl as pretty, sweet and wholesome as I am. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:52 | |
Darling, let's not be silly about this. | 0:42:57 | 0:43:00 | |
It isn't Bill, | 0:43:00 | 0:43:01 | |
it's the house that's upsetting you. | 0:43:01 | 0:43:03 | |
I suppose so. | 0:43:05 | 0:43:06 | |
Do you think it's worth all this? | 0:43:06 | 0:43:09 | |
Of course it is. | 0:43:09 | 0:43:11 | |
It isn't a house we're building, | 0:43:11 | 0:43:13 | |
it's a home... | 0:43:13 | 0:43:14 | |
for ourselves and our children... | 0:43:14 | 0:43:16 | |
and maybe our children's children. | 0:43:16 | 0:43:19 | |
Each with two closets and a private bath. | 0:43:20 | 0:43:23 | |
Well, here are the estimates. | 0:43:30 | 0:43:32 | |
But before you look at them, I think I better explain. | 0:43:32 | 0:43:34 | |
Don't bother, Mr Simms. | 0:43:34 | 0:43:35 | |
We're getting to be old hands at this sort of thing. | 0:43:35 | 0:43:37 | |
Ah... | 0:43:37 | 0:43:39 | |
Of course, these bids are obviously way out of line. | 0:43:45 | 0:43:48 | |
That is, all except John Retch & son at 21,000. | 0:43:48 | 0:43:50 | |
21,000! | 0:43:50 | 0:43:52 | |
And with some judicious cutting, | 0:43:52 | 0:43:53 | |
I think we could pare that down to 18. | 0:43:53 | 0:43:56 | |
But we've only asked for the barest necessities. | 0:43:56 | 0:43:59 | |
Frankly, with all the extras that you two... | 0:43:59 | 0:44:01 | |
Never mind, Mr Simms. | 0:44:01 | 0:44:02 | |
If you'll send us a bill for your services, | 0:44:02 | 0:44:04 | |
I'll see it's taken care of. | 0:44:04 | 0:44:06 | |
Goodbye, Mr Simms. | 0:44:06 | 0:44:07 | |
Oh, but one moment, Mr Blandings, in the first place... | 0:44:07 | 0:44:09 | |
In the first place, I am going out to get my head examined. | 0:44:09 | 0:44:12 | |
Then, if I don't jump off the Brooklyn bridge, | 0:44:12 | 0:44:14 | |
I'm going to find the owner of our apartment building | 0:44:14 | 0:44:18 | |
and sign a 20-year lease. Goodbye. | 0:44:18 | 0:44:20 | |
Goodbye, sir. Goodbye, Mr Simms. | 0:44:20 | 0:44:22 | |
Goodbye, Mrs Blandings. | 0:44:22 | 0:44:24 | |
Do you think you could keep it down to 18,000? | 0:44:52 | 0:44:56 | |
Well, things are certainly humming. | 0:45:30 | 0:45:31 | |
What? I said "humming". | 0:45:31 | 0:45:33 | |
Oh. | 0:45:33 | 0:45:34 | |
Oh, there's my contractor, Mr Retch. | 0:45:34 | 0:45:36 | |
I'll introduce you. | 0:45:36 | 0:45:39 | |
We ordered that stuff over a month ago. | 0:45:39 | 0:45:40 | |
Get down to the freight office. | 0:45:40 | 0:45:41 | |
JOE: Hello, Mr Retch. | 0:45:41 | 0:45:42 | |
Hi. | 0:45:42 | 0:45:43 | |
Got a lot on his mind. | 0:45:43 | 0:45:46 | |
Hey, get out of the way. You want to get killed? | 0:45:48 | 0:45:51 | |
What's going on over there? | 0:46:01 | 0:46:03 | |
That's Mr Tesander. He's digging our well. | 0:46:03 | 0:46:05 | |
How long does that go on? | 0:46:12 | 0:46:15 | |
Three weeks now, at 4.50 a foot. | 0:46:15 | 0:46:17 | |
I think I'd better have a little talk with Mr Tesander. | 0:46:17 | 0:46:21 | |
Mr Tesander? | 0:46:23 | 0:46:25 | |
Mr Tesander! | 0:46:26 | 0:46:28 | |
Yep? | 0:46:31 | 0:46:32 | |
How's it coming? | 0:46:32 | 0:46:34 | |
It's coming. | 0:46:34 | 0:46:35 | |
Mr Tesander? | 0:46:39 | 0:46:40 | |
Yep? | 0:46:47 | 0:46:48 | |
What I meant was, | 0:46:48 | 0:46:49 | |
how far down are you? | 0:46:49 | 0:46:51 | |
Oh, about 130 feet. | 0:46:51 | 0:46:54 | |
Isn't that pretty deep? | 0:46:54 | 0:46:55 | |
Yep. | 0:46:55 | 0:46:57 | |
I mean, do you think perhaps you ought to try another spot? | 0:46:57 | 0:47:01 | |
Up to you. | 0:47:01 | 0:47:03 | |
Well... haven't you hit anything yet at all? | 0:47:03 | 0:47:07 | |
Hit some limestone yesterday. | 0:47:07 | 0:47:10 | |
That's good? > | 0:47:10 | 0:47:11 | |
That's bad. | 0:47:11 | 0:47:13 | |
Oh. | 0:47:13 | 0:47:14 | |
Right now, looks like we're coming into some shale. | 0:47:14 | 0:47:17 | |
That's bad? | 0:47:17 | 0:47:18 | |
< That's good. | 0:47:18 | 0:47:20 | |
Oh. | 0:47:20 | 0:47:21 | |
Of course, it might turn out to be sandstone. | 0:47:21 | 0:47:23 | |
JIM: That's bad. | 0:47:23 | 0:47:25 | |
Can't tell. | 0:47:26 | 0:47:27 | |
Might be good, might be bad. | 0:47:27 | 0:47:30 | |
One thing you know, | 0:47:30 | 0:47:31 | |
you got plenty shale, sandstone, and limestone. | 0:47:31 | 0:47:34 | |
I see. | 0:47:34 | 0:47:36 | |
MURIEL: Mr Tesander. | 0:47:36 | 0:47:37 | |
How do you do? | 0:47:37 | 0:47:39 | |
How do you do? | 0:47:38 | 0:47:40 | |
Just for the record, of course, | 0:47:40 | 0:47:41 | |
what happened to water? | 0:47:41 | 0:47:43 | |
Oh, it's there, all right. | 0:47:43 | 0:47:45 | |
Just got to be patient. | 0:47:45 | 0:47:47 | |
YELLING IN ITALIAN | 0:47:52 | 0:47:53 | |
What's wrong with the steam shovel? | 0:47:55 | 0:47:57 | |
I better go and take a look. | 0:47:57 | 0:47:59 | |
Jim! Come here. | 0:47:59 | 0:48:02 | |
Thank you. | 0:48:03 | 0:48:05 | |
YELLING IN ITALIAN | 0:48:08 | 0:48:09 | |
What's the matter, Mr Zucca, something wrong? | 0:48:10 | 0:48:13 | |
How do you like that? | 0:48:13 | 0:48:14 | |
I broke my bucket. | 0:48:14 | 0:48:15 | |
Two times this week I broke my bucket. | 0:48:15 | 0:48:18 | |
What did you do? Hit a boulder? | 0:48:18 | 0:48:20 | |
That's no boulder. That's a ledge. | 0:48:20 | 0:48:23 | |
What does that mean? | 0:48:23 | 0:48:24 | |
Means we got to blast. | 0:48:24 | 0:48:26 | |
- Blast? - Blast... | 0:48:26 | 0:48:27 | |
with dynamite. | 0:48:27 | 0:48:29 | |
What do you mean, dynamite? | 0:48:29 | 0:48:30 | |
What do you mean, "what do you mean?" | 0:48:30 | 0:48:32 | |
Mr Zucca explained he has to use dynamite | 0:48:32 | 0:48:33 | |
to blast to get rid of the rock. | 0:48:33 | 0:48:36 | |
That's no rock. That's a ledge. | 0:48:36 | 0:48:39 | |
What Mr Blandings means is, what precisely is a ledge? | 0:48:39 | 0:48:42 | |
A ledge is like a big stone, only it's bigger. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:46 | |
Like a boulder. | 0:48:46 | 0:48:47 | |
No, like a ledge. | 0:48:47 | 0:48:49 | |
Like a ledge. | 0:48:49 | 0:48:50 | |
MR ZUCCA: But you don't have to worry. | 0:48:50 | 0:48:52 | |
It only costs 6.00 a cubic yard, | 0:48:52 | 0:48:55 | |
plus the dynamite and the fuse. | 0:48:55 | 0:48:57 | |
How far will you have to blast? | 0:48:57 | 0:49:00 | |
Hard to tell. | 0:49:00 | 0:49:02 | |
Might be a little baby ledge, | 0:49:02 | 0:49:04 | |
might run over top of the mountain. | 0:49:03 | 0:49:05 | |
At 6.00 a yard, do you realise what that means? | 0:49:05 | 0:49:08 | |
It means we got to blast. | 0:49:08 | 0:49:12 | |
With a few minor deviations, | 0:49:16 | 0:49:17 | |
I know exactly where every penny is going. | 0:49:17 | 0:49:20 | |
- Is that all? - Yes, thanks. | 0:49:20 | 0:49:22 | |
Hi. | 0:49:23 | 0:49:25 | |
Hello, Bill. Come in. | 0:49:25 | 0:49:26 | |
I've been going over the Knapp contracts with old man Dascomb. | 0:49:26 | 0:49:30 | |
While I was in there with Dascomb, the conversation kind of got around to you. | 0:49:30 | 0:49:34 | |
Oh? What is it? | 0:49:34 | 0:49:36 | |
Well, he didn't say in so many words | 0:49:36 | 0:49:38 | |
that ever since you started fooling around with that house, | 0:49:38 | 0:49:41 | |
you haven't come up with one acceptable slogan. | 0:49:41 | 0:49:44 | |
But... | 0:49:44 | 0:49:45 | |
But... where is it? | 0:49:45 | 0:49:46 | |
It's there. | 0:49:46 | 0:49:47 | |
But since the Wham account | 0:49:48 | 0:49:50 | |
is the backbone of this agency, | 0:49:50 | 0:49:52 | |
I kind of felt that he kind of felt | 0:49:52 | 0:49:55 | |
that if I kind of told you, that you'd know | 0:49:55 | 0:49:59 | |
TOGETHER: That he knew that you knew... | 0:49:59 | 0:50:01 | |
What's he worrying about? The deadline is six months off. | 0:50:01 | 0:50:03 | |
BUZZER Yeah? | 0:50:03 | 0:50:07 | |
Mrs Blandings calling from Lansdale. | 0:50:07 | 0:50:09 | |
OK. | 0:50:09 | 0:50:11 | |
Yes, Muriel? | 0:50:11 | 0:50:12 | |
What? | 0:50:12 | 0:50:14 | |
Tesander struck water? | 0:50:14 | 0:50:15 | |
Say, that's wonderful. | 0:50:15 | 0:50:17 | |
Bill, we've got our well! | 0:50:17 | 0:50:19 | |
Congratulations. | 0:50:19 | 0:50:21 | |
Ha ha! What? | 0:50:21 | 0:50:23 | |
What's that? | 0:50:23 | 0:50:24 | |
What do you mean we've got two wells? | 0:50:24 | 0:50:26 | |
Oh. Oh. | 0:50:28 | 0:50:30 | |
I'll be right out. | 0:50:30 | 0:50:31 | |
Come on, Bill. | 0:50:31 | 0:50:33 | |
So, you hit a spring, | 0:50:56 | 0:50:57 | |
a bubbling spring, right here in our cellar? | 0:50:57 | 0:50:59 | |
It will have to be diverted | 0:50:59 | 0:51:01 | |
before Retch here can pour his cement. | 0:51:01 | 0:51:03 | |
May take a while. Pumps are over in Jersey. | 0:51:03 | 0:51:06 | |
Water, Mr Tesander. | 0:51:11 | 0:51:13 | |
Yep. | 0:51:12 | 0:51:14 | |
At six feet. | 0:51:14 | 0:51:15 | |
Yep. | 0:51:15 | 0:51:17 | |
And just over there, you had to go down 227 feet | 0:51:17 | 0:51:21 | |
to hit the same water. | 0:51:21 | 0:51:23 | |
Yep. | 0:51:24 | 0:51:25 | |
How do you account for that, Mr Tesander? | 0:51:25 | 0:51:28 | |
Well, the way it appears to me, Mr Blandings, | 0:51:28 | 0:51:32 | |
over here the water is down around six feet. | 0:51:32 | 0:51:36 | |
And over there... | 0:51:36 | 0:51:38 | |
TOGETHER: It's down around 227 feet. | 0:51:38 | 0:51:42 | |
Yep. | 0:51:42 | 0:51:44 | |
What's this, another closet? | 0:52:38 | 0:52:39 | |
This happens to be our living room. | 0:52:39 | 0:52:41 | |
This isn't the living room, darling. | 0:52:41 | 0:52:43 | |
The living room's across the hall. | 0:52:43 | 0:52:44 | |
Then, where's the dining room? | 0:52:44 | 0:52:46 | |
Well, I think it's... | 0:52:46 | 0:52:48 | |
Maybe it's this little room here. | 0:52:48 | 0:52:51 | |
That's the breakfast room. | 0:52:51 | 0:52:52 | |
That isn't the breakfast room. | 0:52:52 | 0:52:54 | |
That's the powder room. | 0:52:54 | 0:52:55 | |
Oh. | 0:52:55 | 0:52:56 | |
Just where is the dining room? | 0:52:56 | 0:52:58 | |
It was right here a minute ago. | 0:52:58 | 0:52:59 | |
We couldn't just have lost it. | 0:52:59 | 0:53:01 | |
Better put an ad in the paper. | 0:53:01 | 0:53:04 | |
WORKMAN: I don't get this guy Blandings at all. | 0:53:04 | 0:53:06 | |
You got to build on the windiest hill in Connecticut, | 0:53:06 | 0:53:09 | |
why does he have to pick the windiest side of the hill? | 0:53:09 | 0:53:13 | |
SECOND WORKMAN: You know those New York millionaires - | 0:53:13 | 0:53:15 | |
easy come, easy go. | 0:53:15 | 0:53:16 | |
Now, here is the living room, right? | 0:53:17 | 0:53:21 | |
Yes. There's the fireplace. | 0:53:21 | 0:53:23 | |
Come right in. | 0:53:23 | 0:53:25 | |
After you, Rockefeller. | 0:53:25 | 0:53:27 | |
WORKMAN: Hey, mister. | 0:53:27 | 0:53:28 | |
- You're the owner here, aren't you? - Yeah. | 0:53:28 | 0:53:31 | |
Just the man I want to see. | 0:53:31 | 0:53:33 | |
I'll browse around upstairs. | 0:53:33 | 0:53:34 | |
On them second floor lintels | 0:53:38 | 0:53:40 | |
between the lally columns- do you want we should rabbet them or not? | 0:53:40 | 0:53:43 | |
The, er... second floor lallies? | 0:53:47 | 0:53:50 | |
Second floor lintels between the lallies. | 0:53:50 | 0:53:52 | |
Oh, the lintels between the lallies. | 0:53:54 | 0:53:57 | |
Yeah, from the blueprints, you can't tell. | 0:53:57 | 0:53:59 | |
Do you want they should be rabbeted? | 0:53:59 | 0:54:01 | |
No, I guess not. | 0:54:03 | 0:54:05 | |
OK, you're the doctor. | 0:54:05 | 0:54:06 | |
Hey, fellas! | 0:54:06 | 0:54:08 | |
If you got any of them rabbeted lintels set, | 0:54:08 | 0:54:11 | |
rip them out! | 0:54:11 | 0:54:13 | |
WOOD FALLING | 0:54:15 | 0:54:16 | |
It sounded less expensive to say no. | 0:54:20 | 0:54:23 | |
Stop it! Stop it! | 0:54:25 | 0:54:27 | |
WHISTLE BLOWS | 0:54:27 | 0:54:29 | |
OK, fellas. Let's quit! | 0:54:29 | 0:54:31 | |
Now look what you've done. | 0:54:34 | 0:54:36 | |
Look, men! | 0:54:38 | 0:54:40 | |
Mrs Blandings didn't mean anything. | 0:54:40 | 0:54:42 | |
There's no point in walking off a job | 0:54:42 | 0:54:45 | |
just because a woman makes a silly little remark. | 0:54:45 | 0:54:48 | |
Look, mister, it's Saturday. We quit at 12.00. | 0:54:48 | 0:54:50 | |
MAN: Unless you want us to go on overtime. | 0:54:50 | 0:54:53 | |
No, very kind of you, I'm sure, but... | 0:54:53 | 0:54:55 | |
Well, see you Monday, fellas. | 0:54:55 | 0:54:56 | |
I'm sick. | 0:55:02 | 0:55:03 | |
From the outside, | 0:55:03 | 0:55:05 | |
this place looks like a grain elevator. | 0:55:05 | 0:55:08 | |
On the inside, everything's miles too small. | 0:55:08 | 0:55:11 | |
BANGING | 0:55:11 | 0:55:12 | |
What's that? What's what? | 0:55:12 | 0:55:14 | |
That noise. It's upstairs. | 0:55:14 | 0:55:15 | |
BANGING | 0:55:15 | 0:55:17 | |
BANGING | 0:55:28 | 0:55:29 | |
What happened? | 0:55:39 | 0:55:40 | |
The door blew shut. | 0:55:40 | 0:55:41 | |
I got locked in. | 0:55:41 | 0:55:42 | |
Impossible. I had this closet built especially for myself. | 0:55:42 | 0:55:45 | |
The lock opens from the inside. | 0:55:45 | 0:55:47 | |
Maybe for Houdini. Not for me. | 0:55:47 | 0:55:49 | |
Nothing to it. A child could do it. Look, I'll show you. | 0:55:49 | 0:55:53 | |
See? It just takes some good old yankee know-how. | 0:55:54 | 0:55:57 | |
It's possible, darling, the lock works for you and not for Bill. | 0:55:57 | 0:56:01 | |
Ridiculous. Even you could do it. Thank you. | 0:56:01 | 0:56:04 | |
Come on. I'll show you. Get in. | 0:56:04 | 0:56:05 | |
Now go ahead, dear. Just open the door. | 0:56:07 | 0:56:10 | |
I don't seem to be able to... | 0:56:15 | 0:56:18 | |
It's perfectly simple. | 0:56:18 | 0:56:20 | |
You just take the knob and turn it clockwise. | 0:56:20 | 0:56:24 | |
Nothing like that good old Yankee know-how. | 0:56:42 | 0:56:45 | |
Hey! | 0:56:47 | 0:56:48 | |
Somebody let us out of here! | 0:56:48 | 0:56:51 | |
ENGINE STARTS | 0:56:51 | 0:56:53 | |
Uh-oh. | 0:56:54 | 0:56:56 | |
Oh, dear. | 0:57:02 | 0:57:03 | |
Ahem. | 0:57:07 | 0:57:09 | |
Huh. | 0:57:11 | 0:57:13 | |
If I could just get over to that scaffolding. | 0:57:13 | 0:57:15 | |
It seems a shame. | 0:57:22 | 0:57:23 | |
I guess it's the only way to do it. | 0:57:23 | 0:57:26 | |
What are you going to do? | 0:57:26 | 0:57:28 | |
Don't get panicky, dear. | 0:57:28 | 0:57:29 | |
I'll get you out of here. Don't worry. | 0:57:29 | 0:57:31 | |
Stand up, Bill. | 0:57:31 | 0:57:32 | |
Huh? | 0:57:32 | 0:57:33 | |
Hold that over the window. | 0:57:33 | 0:57:35 | |
Stand back, Muriel. | 0:57:37 | 0:57:38 | |
Ready? | 0:57:40 | 0:57:41 | |
Roger. | 0:57:41 | 0:57:43 | |
GLASS BREAKING | 0:57:43 | 0:57:46 | |
In case of emergency, break glass. | 0:57:54 | 0:57:57 | |
Come on, Bill. | 0:57:57 | 0:57:58 | |
That's funny. | 0:58:03 | 0:58:05 | |
There's no reason why that shouldn't work. | 0:58:05 | 0:58:08 | |
BANGING | 0:58:11 | 0:58:12 | |
Oh... Wham again! Yes, sir. | 0:58:24 | 0:58:26 | |
Muriel, I thought we'd agreed... | 0:58:26 | 0:58:27 | |
Gussie, from now on, no more Wham for Mr Blandings. | 0:58:27 | 0:58:30 | |
What about the rest of us? | 0:58:30 | 0:58:32 | |
I'm sure there are other substitutes... | 0:58:32 | 0:58:35 | |
bacon, sausages. | 0:58:35 | 0:58:36 | |
The children like Wham. | 0:58:36 | 0:58:38 | |
There must be other things... | 0:58:38 | 0:58:40 | |
Mrs Blandings likes it, too, | 0:58:40 | 0:58:42 | |
and I consider it very tasty. | 0:58:42 | 0:58:44 | |
I spend eight hours every day | 0:58:44 | 0:58:46 | |
trying to cram this stuff down the throats | 0:58:46 | 0:58:49 | |
of 100 million people. | 0:58:49 | 0:58:51 | |
I know all about its succulent goodness, | 0:58:51 | 0:58:54 | |
its sugar-smoked tenderness, its... | 0:58:54 | 0:58:56 | |
You don't have to sell to me! I like it. | 0:58:56 | 0:58:58 | |
Oh, thank you. | 0:59:01 | 0:59:02 | |
Just bills. | 0:59:02 | 0:59:05 | |
Darling, I'm going out to the place this afternoon. | 0:59:05 | 0:59:08 | |
Bill's driving me up to see about the landscaping. | 0:59:08 | 0:59:11 | |
That will be nice. | 0:59:11 | 0:59:12 | |
What do you mean, Bill's driving you? | 0:59:12 | 0:59:15 | |
Why do you always say "what do you mean?" | 0:59:15 | 0:59:18 | |
when you know perfectly well what I mean and what you mean? | 0:59:18 | 0:59:20 | |
I mean the moment I turn my back, | 0:59:20 | 0:59:22 | |
Bill Cole's driving you someplace or something. | 0:59:22 | 0:59:24 | |
He's only being helpful. | 0:59:24 | 0:59:26 | |
I thought he was a lawyer. Why isn't he out suing somebody? | 0:59:26 | 0:59:29 | |
Bicker, bicker, bicker. | 0:59:29 | 0:59:31 | |
HE SIGHS | 0:59:31 | 0:59:33 | |
Hmm! | 0:59:33 | 0:59:34 | |
Well, we'll just see about that! | 0:59:34 | 0:59:37 | |
What is it? | 0:59:37 | 0:59:39 | |
What's the matter, Jim? | 0:59:40 | 0:59:43 | |
Mr William Cole, please. | 0:59:43 | 0:59:46 | |
Hello, Bill. | 0:59:46 | 0:59:47 | |
They can't get away with this! | 0:59:47 | 0:59:50 | |
I know my rights as a citizen! | 0:59:50 | 0:59:52 | |
Why, this notice from the owner of this building! | 0:59:52 | 0:59:55 | |
He wants our apartment! | 0:59:55 | 0:59:56 | |
He's ordering us to move in 30 days! | 0:59:56 | 0:59:58 | |
Well, that's ridiculous. | 0:59:58 | 0:59:59 | |
How can I move into a house that isn't finished? | 0:59:59 | 1:00:03 | |
There are no windows, no plaster, no paint! | 1:00:03 | 1:00:06 | |
Now you listen to me. I have no intention of moving in 30 days! | 1:00:06 | 1:00:09 | |
This is not legal! I'm going to fight this thing, | 1:00:09 | 1:00:11 | |
and I don't care if it takes every penny I've got! | 1:00:11 | 1:00:14 | |
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! | 1:00:14 | 1:00:17 | |
All right! | 1:00:17 | 1:00:18 | |
Well? | 1:00:18 | 1:00:20 | |
We're moving in 30 days. | 1:00:19 | 1:00:21 | |
'So came 30 days, and they moved. | 1:00:25 | 1:00:29 | |
'That is, we moved. | 1:00:31 | 1:00:33 | |
'Well, there she is, bright and shiny... | 1:00:35 | 1:00:38 | |
'and just about complete - | 1:00:38 | 1:00:41 | |
'the residence of Mr and Mrs James Blandings. | 1:00:41 | 1:00:46 | |
'All right. Everybody out! | 1:00:46 | 1:00:49 | |
'Guess you can't blame them | 1:00:49 | 1:00:52 | |
'for feeling just a little bit proud.' | 1:00:52 | 1:00:55 | |
CHIRPING | 1:00:55 | 1:00:57 | |
'Even Theodore's proud.' | 1:00:57 | 1:00:59 | |
'All right, come on, men. Let's have a little action here. | 1:00:59 | 1:01:02 | |
'OK, Mac.' | 1:01:02 | 1:01:04 | |
'The big moment. | 1:01:08 | 1:01:10 | |
'Aw, look. | 1:01:10 | 1:01:11 | |
'He wants to carry her across the threshold. | 1:01:11 | 1:01:14 | |
'Isn't that romantic?' | 1:01:14 | 1:01:16 | |
Ughhh! | 1:01:20 | 1:01:22 | |
'Watch that sacroiliac! | 1:01:22 | 1:01:24 | |
'15 years since you've done this sort of thing. | 1:01:24 | 1:01:27 | |
'Nice work, Tarzan. | 1:01:27 | 1:01:28 | |
'Now let's see if you can make it into the living room. | 1:01:28 | 1:01:32 | |
'That's right. Go right in. | 1:01:32 | 1:01:34 | |
'Don't pay any attention to the sign. | 1:01:34 | 1:01:37 | |
'Look where you're going! | 1:01:37 | 1:01:39 | |
'Can't you see I'm varnishing this floor?' | 1:01:38 | 1:01:41 | |
'Stop painting that floor | 1:01:41 | 1:01:43 | |
'and put some planks down in here or something! | 1:01:43 | 1:01:46 | |
'OK, Mac, OK, but take it easy. | 1:01:46 | 1:01:48 | |
'The Republicans ain't in yet, you know!' | 1:01:48 | 1:01:51 | |
'There! | 1:01:57 | 1:01:58 | |
'I'll just see Simms about this! | 1:01:58 | 1:02:01 | |
'Oh, Father! | 1:02:01 | 1:02:03 | |
'Wait till you see what we've found! | 1:02:03 | 1:02:06 | |
'Now what? | 1:02:08 | 1:02:09 | |
'Oh, fine. No windows! | 1:02:09 | 1:02:13 | |
'Well, we'll just see Simms about that, too!' | 1:02:13 | 1:02:16 | |
Where's Simms? | 1:02:17 | 1:02:19 | |
Around back, trying to figure out | 1:02:19 | 1:02:20 | |
what to do about them windows. | 1:02:20 | 1:02:22 | |
What's the problem? You put windows up. | 1:02:22 | 1:02:23 | |
Not these. They don't fit. | 1:02:23 | 1:02:24 | |
Oh, they don't, don't they? | 1:02:24 | 1:02:26 | |
Mr Blandings, you'd better take a look at these bills. | 1:02:26 | 1:02:30 | |
What's this about the windows? | 1:02:30 | 1:02:32 | |
I'm afraid there's been a little slip-up. | 1:02:32 | 1:02:34 | |
These windows seem to belong | 1:02:34 | 1:02:35 | |
to a Mr Landing in Fishkill. | 1:02:35 | 1:02:37 | |
I spoke to him on the phone this morning. | 1:02:37 | 1:02:38 | |
Well, has he got mine? | 1:02:38 | 1:02:39 | |
No. He seems to have some windows | 1:02:39 | 1:02:42 | |
that belong to a Mr Blandsworth in Peekskill. | 1:02:42 | 1:02:44 | |
Where are MY windows? | 1:02:44 | 1:02:46 | |
As near as we can find out, | 1:02:46 | 1:02:48 | |
they've either been sent to a Mr Banning in Danbury, | 1:02:48 | 1:02:51 | |
or a Mr Bamberger in Waterbury. | 1:02:51 | 1:02:53 | |
What are we supposed to do, spend the rest of our lives | 1:02:53 | 1:02:56 | |
in a house without windows? | 1:02:56 | 1:02:58 | |
It will only be a matter of a few days. | 1:02:58 | 1:03:00 | |
What's a zuz-zuz water softener? | 1:03:00 | 1:03:02 | |
How should I know? | 1:03:02 | 1:03:04 | |
You've got one. | 1:03:04 | 1:03:05 | |
Hmm? | 1:03:05 | 1:03:07 | |
"Furnishing and installing one zuz-zuz water softener, | 1:03:07 | 1:03:10 | |
"285..." | 1:03:10 | 1:03:11 | |
I didn't order that! | 1:03:11 | 1:03:13 | |
I'm afraid I authorised that, Mr Blandings, | 1:03:13 | 1:03:15 | |
to save your boiler and water pipes. | 1:03:15 | 1:03:18 | |
From what? | 1:03:18 | 1:03:19 | |
Rust. The plumber assures me that the water in your well | 1:03:19 | 1:03:21 | |
is the most corrosive | 1:03:21 | 1:03:22 | |
in his entire experience in the trade. | 1:03:22 | 1:03:24 | |
Another first. | 1:03:24 | 1:03:25 | |
Well, if it's necessary, put it in. We're moving in today. | 1:03:25 | 1:03:28 | |
It's in! | 1:03:28 | 1:03:29 | |
Oh. Then get me the bill for it! | 1:03:29 | 1:03:31 | |
You've got it. | 1:03:31 | 1:03:32 | |
Well, all right, then! | 1:03:32 | 1:03:34 | |
That's right. Upstairs in the bedroom. | 1:03:44 | 1:03:46 | |
Mother! > | 1:03:46 | 1:03:47 | |
The moving vans just left! | 1:03:47 | 1:03:49 | |
Never mind. You two go and help Gussie in the kitchen. | 1:03:49 | 1:03:51 | |
Now, Mr Pedelford, we'll talk about the painting. | 1:03:51 | 1:03:54 | |
OK. | 1:03:54 | 1:03:55 | |
I had some samples. | 1:03:55 | 1:03:57 | |
Oh, here we are. | 1:03:57 | 1:03:58 | |
Now, first the living room. | 1:03:58 | 1:04:00 | |
I want it to be a soft green. | 1:04:00 | 1:04:03 | |
Uh-huh. | 1:04:03 | 1:04:05 | |
Not as blue-green as a robin's egg. | 1:04:05 | 1:04:07 | |
No. | 1:04:07 | 1:04:09 | |
But not as yellow-green as daffodil buds. | 1:04:09 | 1:04:11 | |
Uh-huh. | 1:04:11 | 1:04:13 | |
The only sample I could get | 1:04:13 | 1:04:14 | |
is a little too yellow, | 1:04:14 | 1:04:16 | |
but don't let whoever does it go to the other extreme | 1:04:16 | 1:04:18 | |
and get it too blue. | 1:04:18 | 1:04:20 | |
No. | 1:04:20 | 1:04:21 | |
It should be a sort of greyish yellow-green. | 1:04:21 | 1:04:23 | |
Uh-huh. | 1:04:23 | 1:04:24 | |
Now, the dining room. | 1:04:24 | 1:04:26 | |
I'd like yellow. Not just yellow. | 1:04:26 | 1:04:29 | |
A very gay yellow. | 1:04:29 | 1:04:31 | |
Something bright and sunshiny. | 1:04:31 | 1:04:33 | |
Uh-huh. | 1:04:32 | 1:04:34 | |
I tell you, Mr Pedelford, if you'll send one of your workmen to the grocer | 1:04:34 | 1:04:39 | |
for a pound of their best butter and match that exactly, | 1:04:38 | 1:04:42 | |
you can't go wrong! | 1:04:42 | 1:04:43 | |
This is the paper we're going to use in the hall. | 1:04:43 | 1:04:46 | |
It's flowered, but I don't want the ceiling | 1:04:46 | 1:04:48 | |
to match any of the colours of the flowers. | 1:04:48 | 1:04:50 | |
No. | 1:04:50 | 1:04:51 | |
There are some little dots in the background, | 1:04:51 | 1:04:54 | |
and it's these dots I want you to match. | 1:04:54 | 1:04:56 | |
Not the little greenish dot near the hollyhock leaf. | 1:04:56 | 1:04:58 | |
No. | 1:04:58 | 1:05:00 | |
But the little bluish dot | 1:05:00 | 1:05:01 | |
between the rosebud and the delphinium blossom. | 1:05:01 | 1:05:03 | |
Is that clear? | 1:05:03 | 1:05:04 | |
Uh-huh. | 1:05:04 | 1:05:06 | |
Now, the kitchen's to be white. | 1:05:06 | 1:05:08 | |
Not a cold, antiseptic, hospital white. | 1:05:08 | 1:05:11 | |
No. | 1:05:11 | 1:05:12 | |
A little warmer, but still, | 1:05:12 | 1:05:14 | |
not to suggest any other colour but white. | 1:05:14 | 1:05:17 | |
Uh-huh. | 1:05:17 | 1:05:18 | |
Now, for the powder room in here, | 1:05:18 | 1:05:21 | |
I want you to match this thread. | 1:05:21 | 1:05:23 | |
And don't lose it. It's the only spool I have, | 1:05:23 | 1:05:25 | |
and I had an awful time finding it. | 1:05:25 | 1:05:27 | |
As you can see, it's practically an apple red, | 1:05:27 | 1:05:30 | |
somewhere between a healthy Winesap | 1:05:30 | 1:05:32 | |
and an unripened Jonathan. | 1:05:32 | 1:05:33 | |
Uh-huh. | 1:05:33 | 1:05:35 | |
CRASH | 1:05:35 | 1:05:36 | |
Oh, excuse me. | 1:05:36 | 1:05:38 | |
You got that, Charlie? | 1:05:40 | 1:05:42 | |
Red, green, blue, yellow, white. | 1:05:42 | 1:05:44 | |
Check. | 1:05:44 | 1:05:45 | |
HE SPITS | 1:05:45 | 1:05:46 | |
Oh, Joan. | 1:05:51 | 1:05:53 | |
I'm awful sorry. | 1:05:53 | 1:05:55 | |
You knew Father was supposed to carry the heavy things. | 1:05:55 | 1:05:58 | |
Father disappeared. | 1:05:58 | 1:06:00 | |
I haven't seen him for an hour. | 1:06:00 | 1:06:02 | |
Where's Uncle Bill? He's going to miss his train! | 1:06:02 | 1:06:05 | |
If they've run off somewhere, | 1:06:05 | 1:06:07 | |
it certainly isn't very... | 1:06:07 | 1:06:08 | |
BANGING | 1:06:08 | 1:06:10 | |
Heavens! | 1:06:10 | 1:06:11 | |
I thought you were going to take care of it. | 1:06:18 | 1:06:21 | |
I thought you were. | 1:06:21 | 1:06:22 | |
You're going to miss your train, Uncle Bill. It leaves Lansdale in 25 minutes. | 1:06:22 | 1:06:26 | |
I kind of hate to leave this little place. | 1:06:26 | 1:06:29 | |
Just four walls and a couple of nail kegs, | 1:06:29 | 1:06:32 | |
but to me, it will always be home. | 1:06:32 | 1:06:35 | |
Isn't there a later one? | 1:06:36 | 1:06:38 | |
Not till the commuter special | 1:06:38 | 1:06:39 | |
tomorrow morning at 6.15. | 1:06:39 | 1:06:41 | |
You mean 7.15. | 1:06:41 | 1:06:42 | |
No, Dad. 6.15. | 1:06:42 | 1:06:43 | |
What about the 7.15 | 1:06:43 | 1:06:44 | |
I'm supposed to take to the office every morning? | 1:06:44 | 1:06:47 | |
There's a little asterisk. The 7.15 runs only Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. | 1:06:47 | 1:06:51 | |
What? Bill, let me see that! | 1:06:51 | 1:06:54 | |
Muriel! | 1:06:56 | 1:06:58 | |
Oh, dear. Don't tell me I read it wrong. | 1:06:58 | 1:06:59 | |
That's fine. | 1:06:59 | 1:07:01 | |
For the rest of my life, I'll have to get up at 5.00am to catch the 6.15 | 1:07:01 | 1:07:04 | |
to get to my office at 8.00. | 1:07:04 | 1:07:05 | |
It doesn't even open until 9.00, and I never get there until 10.00. | 1:07:05 | 1:07:08 | |
Maybe if you start earlier, | 1:07:08 | 1:07:09 | |
you can leave the office earlier. | 1:07:09 | 1:07:11 | |
To get home earlier to get to bed earlier | 1:07:11 | 1:07:13 | |
to get up earlier I suppose, hmm? | 1:07:13 | 1:07:14 | |
Maybe you can get the railroad to push the train up to 4.15, | 1:07:14 | 1:07:16 | |
Then you won't have to go to bed at all. | 1:07:16 | 1:07:18 | |
You're going to miss your train, Uncle Bill. | 1:07:18 | 1:07:19 | |
I'll drive you to the station. | 1:07:19 | 1:07:21 | |
I can drive him! | 1:07:21 | 1:07:22 | |
No, dear. You better save your strength. | 1:07:22 | 1:07:24 | |
You have to get up at 5.00. | 1:07:24 | 1:07:26 | |
It would be nice if you could spend your vacation up here. | 1:07:33 | 1:07:38 | |
Mm-hmm. We'll see how things work out at the office. | 1:07:38 | 1:07:41 | |
I'll scout around and see if I can find you a cottage in Lansdale. | 1:07:41 | 1:07:45 | |
If you can't find me a cottage, | 1:07:45 | 1:07:47 | |
I can always move back into that closet. | 1:07:46 | 1:07:49 | |
Oh! | 1:07:49 | 1:07:50 | |
TRAIN BELLS RING | 1:07:50 | 1:07:53 | |
HE COUGHS | 1:07:57 | 1:07:59 | |
Oh! | 1:07:59 | 1:08:00 | |
Father! | 1:08:00 | 1:08:02 | |
Now look what you've done. | 1:08:02 | 1:08:04 | |
Father, the first principle of lighting a fire | 1:08:10 | 1:08:13 | |
is to see if the flue is open. | 1:08:13 | 1:08:16 | |
A three-year-old child knows that! | 1:08:16 | 1:08:18 | |
Next time we want a fire, I'll send out for a three-year-old child. | 1:08:18 | 1:08:22 | |
Now, get that stuff cleaned up, | 1:08:22 | 1:08:23 | |
then go on in and help Gussie set the table. It's getting late. | 1:08:23 | 1:08:25 | |
Look, Dad. Your fraternity pins! | 1:08:27 | 1:08:29 | |
Pins? I only had one. | 1:08:29 | 1:08:31 | |
There are two of them here. | 1:08:31 | 1:08:33 | |
All right, all right. Just put them away. | 1:08:33 | 1:08:35 | |
Funny. This one says WC on the back of it. | 1:08:35 | 1:08:38 | |
WC William Cole! | 1:08:38 | 1:08:40 | |
It must be Uncle Bill's. | 1:08:40 | 1:08:42 | |
Hmm? | 1:08:42 | 1:08:44 | |
Let me see that. | 1:08:44 | 1:08:45 | |
SHE WHISTLES | 1:08:51 | 1:08:53 | |
What's that? | 1:08:53 | 1:08:54 | |
It's Mother's diary while she was in college. | 1:08:54 | 1:08:57 | |
It's slightly torrid. | 1:08:57 | 1:08:58 | |
That's none of your business! | 1:08:58 | 1:09:00 | |
I'd say Mother and Uncle Bill were somewhat of an item! | 1:09:00 | 1:09:03 | |
People do not read other people's diaries. | 1:09:03 | 1:09:06 | |
That's not a very nice thing to do. | 1:09:06 | 1:09:07 | |
Go in there and help Gussie with the table. | 1:09:07 | 1:09:09 | |
What about... | 1:09:09 | 1:09:10 | |
I'll take care of that. Now, shoo! | 1:09:10 | 1:09:11 | |
Excuse. | 1:09:24 | 1:09:27 | |
Muriel, do you have to do that now? | 1:09:34 | 1:09:37 | |
There's no need to be so irritable | 1:09:37 | 1:09:40 | |
just because you have to shave at night. | 1:09:40 | 1:09:43 | |
I'm not irritable. | 1:09:43 | 1:09:44 | |
You're something. | 1:09:44 | 1:09:45 | |
You haven't said a civil word all evening. | 1:09:45 | 1:09:47 | |
Sometimes, a man doesn't feel like talking. | 1:09:47 | 1:09:50 | |
What is it, dear? Something down at the office? | 1:09:50 | 1:09:53 | |
No. | 1:09:53 | 1:09:55 | |
You got the new slogan for Wham? | 1:09:55 | 1:09:57 | |
It's not due yet. | 1:09:57 | 1:09:59 | |
Oh... it's something. | 1:09:59 | 1:10:01 | |
You're certainly upset about something. | 1:10:01 | 1:10:03 | |
I can always tell. | 1:10:03 | 1:10:06 | |
I'm not upset. | 1:10:06 | 1:10:07 | |
It's just that I don't happen to approve | 1:10:07 | 1:10:10 | |
of falsehood and deception, | 1:10:10 | 1:10:12 | |
particularly in my own wife. | 1:10:12 | 1:10:14 | |
What are you talking about? | 1:10:14 | 1:10:16 | |
Oh, nothing. It's just that I distinctly remember | 1:10:16 | 1:10:19 | |
your telling me you gave Bill back his fraternity pin | 1:10:19 | 1:10:22 | |
15 years ago. | 1:10:22 | 1:10:24 | |
What? | 1:10:24 | 1:10:25 | |
Did you or didn't you? | 1:10:25 | 1:10:28 | |
Did I or didn't I what? | 1:10:28 | 1:10:29 | |
Give it back to him. | 1:10:29 | 1:10:31 | |
Of course I did. If I said I did, I did. | 1:10:31 | 1:10:34 | |
Ahh... | 1:10:34 | 1:10:35 | |
then perhaps you'll have the goodness | 1:10:35 | 1:10:38 | |
to explain how this happened to fall out of your jewel box. | 1:10:38 | 1:10:42 | |
What's so funny? | 1:10:49 | 1:10:50 | |
You. | 1:10:50 | 1:10:52 | |
You're jealous! | 1:10:52 | 1:10:55 | |
SHE GIGGLES | 1:10:55 | 1:10:58 | |
If you were so crazy about the guy, | 1:10:58 | 1:11:00 | |
why didn't you marry him? | 1:11:00 | 1:11:01 | |
Because I wasn't in love with him. | 1:11:01 | 1:11:03 | |
That's not what you said in your diary! | 1:11:03 | 1:11:04 | |
Oh! Now you've been reading my diary! | 1:11:04 | 1:11:07 | |
Well, it just happened to fall open, | 1:11:07 | 1:11:09 | |
and I happened to look at it. | 1:11:09 | 1:11:12 | |
It just happened. > | 1:11:12 | 1:11:13 | |
I'll just bet! | 1:11:13 | 1:11:15 | |
It's all over the book! | 1:11:15 | 1:11:16 | |
Shh! The children. | 1:11:16 | 1:11:18 | |
Then why don't you admit it? | 1:11:18 | 1:11:20 | |
You were in love with Bill Cole! | 1:11:20 | 1:11:22 | |
Oh, don't be absurd! | 1:11:22 | 1:11:23 | |
Of course I was in love with Bill. | 1:11:23 | 1:11:24 | |
In those days, I was in love with a new man every week. | 1:11:24 | 1:11:27 | |
Then why did you marry me? | 1:11:27 | 1:11:29 | |
I'm beginning to wonder. | 1:11:29 | 1:11:30 | |
Maybe it was those big cow eyes of yours | 1:11:30 | 1:11:33 | |
or that ridiculous hole in your chin. | 1:11:33 | 1:11:35 | |
Maybe I knew you were going to bring me out | 1:11:35 | 1:11:36 | |
to this 38,000 icebox with a dried-up trout stream and no windows! | 1:11:36 | 1:11:39 | |
Or maybe I just happened to fall in love with you, | 1:11:39 | 1:11:42 | |
but for heaven's sake, don't ask me why! | 1:11:42 | 1:11:44 | |
Muriel... | 1:11:56 | 1:11:57 | |
What time is it? | 1:11:57 | 1:11:59 | |
9.20. | 1:11:59 | 1:12:00 | |
Thank you. | 1:12:00 | 1:12:02 | |
Muriel, would it do any good | 1:12:02 | 1:12:05 | |
to say I'm sorry? | 1:12:05 | 1:12:07 | |
I don't know. | 1:12:07 | 1:12:09 | |
Well, I am. | 1:12:08 | 1:12:11 | |
I've behaved like a schoolboy, | 1:12:14 | 1:12:16 | |
and I'm sorry. | 1:12:16 | 1:12:17 | |
Oh, Jim! | 1:12:19 | 1:12:21 | |
Mmm. | 1:12:30 | 1:12:32 | |
Why don't you take the soap out of your ears? | 1:12:31 | 1:12:35 | |
Why do I love you so much? | 1:12:35 | 1:12:37 | |
Darling, it's awfully late. | 1:12:43 | 1:12:45 | |
Mm-hmm. | 1:12:45 | 1:12:47 | |
Maybe you ought to go down and lock the doors. | 1:12:49 | 1:12:51 | |
What for? The windows are all open anyway. | 1:12:51 | 1:12:54 | |
You have to get up at 5.00. | 1:12:58 | 1:13:01 | |
Yeah. I guess so. | 1:13:04 | 1:13:06 | |
Good night. | 1:13:09 | 1:13:11 | |
Good night. | 1:13:12 | 1:13:14 | |
'So, the days sped by... | 1:13:32 | 1:13:35 | |
'and the bills and the extras. | 1:13:35 | 1:13:38 | |
'And as autumn reared its lovely head, | 1:13:38 | 1:13:41 | |
'so did the deadline for Jim's slogan. | 1:13:41 | 1:13:44 | |
'It was practically a photo finish.' | 1:13:44 | 1:13:46 | |
Send for sandwiches and coffee. | 1:13:47 | 1:13:48 | |
It looks like an all-night session. | 1:13:48 | 1:13:52 | |
What did Mr Dascomb say? | 1:13:52 | 1:13:53 | |
He said, "Blandings, I want that slogan | 1:13:53 | 1:13:55 | |
on my desk by 9.00am, check?" I said, "Check." | 1:13:55 | 1:13:58 | |
I guess you'll just have to dream something up, good or bad. | 1:13:58 | 1:14:02 | |
I rather got the impression | 1:14:02 | 1:14:04 | |
that it better be good. | 1:14:04 | 1:14:06 | |
HE SIGHS | 1:14:06 | 1:14:08 | |
Funny how you look forward to the little things. | 1:14:08 | 1:14:11 | |
Rain, for instance. | 1:14:11 | 1:14:13 | |
For a month now, I've been looking forward to | 1:14:13 | 1:14:17 | |
the first rainy night at the house... | 1:14:17 | 1:14:20 | |
big blazing fire, | 1:14:20 | 1:14:22 | |
Muriel pouring coffee. | 1:14:21 | 1:14:23 | |
Me in my new smoking jacket | 1:14:25 | 1:14:27 | |
with my pipe and slippers, | 1:14:27 | 1:14:29 | |
reading my newspaper. | 1:14:29 | 1:14:31 | |
Ah, well. | 1:14:31 | 1:14:33 | |
Do you suppose my clothes are dry yet? | 1:14:34 | 1:14:37 | |
KNOCK ON DOOR | 1:14:37 | 1:14:39 | |
Thank heavens. The children. | 1:14:39 | 1:14:41 | |
Sit still. | 1:14:40 | 1:14:42 | |
You look too comfortable. | 1:14:42 | 1:14:44 | |
KNOCKING | 1:14:45 | 1:14:47 | |
Woo! What a night! | 1:14:47 | 1:14:49 | |
I'm Harry Selby from down the road. | 1:14:49 | 1:14:52 | |
Won't you come in? | 1:14:52 | 1:14:53 | |
Oh, thank you. | 1:14:53 | 1:14:55 | |
I'm afraid I'm going to get your place all wet. | 1:14:55 | 1:14:57 | |
I just came in to tell you that the kids are safe, Mr Blandings. | 1:14:57 | 1:15:01 | |
Oh, I'm not Mr Blandings. | 1:15:01 | 1:15:03 | |
Cole's the name. Bill Cole. | 1:15:03 | 1:15:05 | |
A friend of the family. | 1:15:05 | 1:15:06 | |
Just came in out of the rain. | 1:15:06 | 1:15:08 | |
I'm Mrs Blandings. | 1:15:08 | 1:15:10 | |
Oh, how do? | 1:15:10 | 1:15:12 | |
Oh, Mrs Williams just called | 1:15:12 | 1:15:13 | |
and says your phone is out of order. | 1:15:13 | 1:15:16 | |
She wanted me to come over and tell you that the water's rising. | 1:15:16 | 1:15:19 | |
They've got the bridge roped off. | 1:15:19 | 1:15:21 | |
Your girls will spend the night over at her place. | 1:15:21 | 1:15:24 | |
Oh, thank you. I was beginning to get quite worried. | 1:15:24 | 1:15:26 | |
Aw, she'll take good care of them. | 1:15:26 | 1:15:28 | |
May I give you a cup of coffee? | 1:15:28 | 1:15:29 | |
No, thank you. I'd better be getting back | 1:15:29 | 1:15:31 | |
before I have to swim for it. Good night, Mrs Blandings. | 1:15:31 | 1:15:34 | |
Good night. I'm very grateful. | 1:15:34 | 1:15:36 | |
Not at all. Night, Mr Blandin... | 1:15:36 | 1:15:37 | |
Cole. Bill Cole. Friend of the family. | 1:15:37 | 1:15:40 | |
Just came in out of the rain. | 1:15:40 | 1:15:43 | |
Well... good night! | 1:15:43 | 1:15:45 | |
MURIEL: Good night! | 1:15:45 | 1:15:46 | |
Thank you! | 1:15:46 | 1:15:47 | |
No bridge. That's fine. | 1:15:52 | 1:15:54 | |
How do I get back to Lansdale? | 1:15:54 | 1:15:57 | |
You'll just have to spend the night here. | 1:15:57 | 1:16:00 | |
Muriel, really? With your husband in New York | 1:16:00 | 1:16:02 | |
and your children away? | 1:16:02 | 1:16:04 | |
Think of my reputation! | 1:16:03 | 1:16:05 | |
Don't worry, Snow White. | 1:16:05 | 1:16:06 | |
You'll be just as pure and unsullied in the morning | 1:16:06 | 1:16:09 | |
as you were the night before. | 1:16:09 | 1:16:11 | |
That's the story of my life. | 1:16:11 | 1:16:13 | |
HE SNAPS HIS FINGERS | 1:16:49 | 1:16:51 | |
"Compare the price. Compare the slice. | 1:16:51 | 1:16:54 | |
"Take our advice. Buy Wham!" | 1:16:54 | 1:16:57 | |
Ohh... | 1:17:00 | 1:17:03 | |
Uhh... | 1:17:13 | 1:17:15 | |
HE SNAPS HIS FINGERS | 1:17:21 | 1:17:24 | |
"If you'd buy better ham, you'd better buy Wham!" | 1:17:24 | 1:17:28 | |
That's Boyle petroleum. | 1:17:28 | 1:17:30 | |
"If you'd buy better oil, you'd better buy Boyle." | 1:17:30 | 1:17:33 | |
Yeah. | 1:17:33 | 1:17:35 | |
Hmm. | 1:17:35 | 1:17:36 | |
Tsk tsk. | 1:17:36 | 1:17:38 | |
Oh... | 1:17:38 | 1:17:40 | |
HE SNAPS HIS FINGERS | 1:17:53 | 1:17:54 | |
"This little piggy went to market | 1:17:54 | 1:17:57 | |
"as meek and as mild as a lamb. | 1:17:57 | 1:18:00 | |
"He smiled in his tracks when they slipped him the axe. | 1:18:00 | 1:18:04 | |
"He knew he'd turn out to be Wham." | 1:18:03 | 1:18:06 | |
Yeah. He knew he'd turn out to be Wham. | 1:18:08 | 1:18:12 | |
It's gone! | 1:18:13 | 1:18:14 | |
I've lost my touch. | 1:18:14 | 1:18:16 | |
Maybe I never had a touch. Who knows? | 1:18:16 | 1:18:19 | |
I can't think any more. | 1:18:19 | 1:18:20 | |
All I've got on my mind | 1:18:20 | 1:18:23 | |
is a house with an 18,000 mortgage | 1:18:23 | 1:18:25 | |
and bills and extras and antiques. | 1:18:25 | 1:18:28 | |
Oh, I don't know. I don't know. | 1:18:28 | 1:18:31 | |
Hmm. | 1:18:31 | 1:18:32 | |
Where are you going? | 1:18:43 | 1:18:44 | |
I'm going home to get some sleep, | 1:18:44 | 1:18:46 | |
and I'd advise you to do the same. | 1:18:46 | 1:18:47 | |
But you haven't... | 1:18:47 | 1:18:49 | |
Suppose I haven't? This isn't the only job in town! | 1:18:49 | 1:18:51 | |
What will I tell Mr Dascomb? | 1:18:51 | 1:18:54 | |
Oh, just tell him to... | 1:18:54 | 1:18:56 | |
Just tell him. | 1:18:55 | 1:18:57 | |
MURIEL: I'm sorry Jim isn't here. | 1:19:24 | 1:19:25 | |
SIMMS: Oh, that's quite all right. I was on my way to town anyway. | 1:19:25 | 1:19:28 | |
Thought I might catch Jim before he left for the office. | 1:19:28 | 1:19:30 | |
Sure you won't stay to breakfast? | 1:19:30 | 1:19:32 | |
No, thanks very much all the same. | 1:19:32 | 1:19:34 | |
Darling! | 1:19:34 | 1:19:35 | |
Good morning, dear. | 1:19:35 | 1:19:36 | |
You must be exhausted. | 1:19:36 | 1:19:38 | |
How did it go? | 1:19:38 | 1:19:40 | |
Fine, fine. | 1:19:40 | 1:19:41 | |
Everything all right? | 1:19:41 | 1:19:43 | |
Everything's fine. | 1:19:43 | 1:19:44 | |
Oh, hello, Henry. | 1:19:44 | 1:19:45 | |
What are you doing up with the morning dew? | 1:19:45 | 1:19:48 | |
Just dropped in to check the blueprints. | 1:19:48 | 1:19:51 | |
Some extras came in. There are a couple things | 1:19:51 | 1:19:53 | |
I thought we ought to go over together. | 1:19:53 | 1:19:54 | |
Really? What are they? | 1:19:54 | 1:19:56 | |
Well, let's see. | 1:19:56 | 1:19:57 | |
A few things here that are all right, I guess. | 1:19:57 | 1:20:01 | |
"Mortising five butts, | 1:20:01 | 1:20:03 | |
"1.98." | 1:20:03 | 1:20:05 | |
Let's not quibble about it. | 1:20:05 | 1:20:06 | |
A man's entitled to mortise a few butts now and then. | 1:20:06 | 1:20:08 | |
"Extra hardware, 3.89." | 1:20:08 | 1:20:11 | |
Petty larceny. Let him get away with it. | 1:20:11 | 1:20:14 | |
Now, there's one here that, frankly, | 1:20:14 | 1:20:16 | |
I don't understand. | 1:20:16 | 1:20:18 | |
Here we are. | 1:20:18 | 1:20:20 | |
"Changes in closet, 1,247." | 1:20:20 | 1:20:24 | |
Did you authorise that? | 1:20:24 | 1:20:25 | |
Well, we probably told him to... | 1:20:25 | 1:20:27 | |
1,200 and what? | 1:20:27 | 1:20:29 | |
< 47. | 1:20:29 | 1:20:30 | |
"Changes in closet." | 1:20:30 | 1:20:32 | |
That's the end! | 1:20:32 | 1:20:34 | |
Uh... | 1:20:34 | 1:20:35 | |
What's this notation? | 1:20:35 | 1:20:36 | |
"Refer to detail sheet 135." What's that? | 1:20:36 | 1:20:38 | |
As near as I can remember, | 1:20:38 | 1:20:41 | |
that's something in back of the house. | 1:20:41 | 1:20:43 | |
Let's take a look. | 1:20:43 | 1:20:45 | |
Here we are. | 1:20:45 | 1:20:47 | |
Well... | 1:20:46 | 1:20:48 | |
it isn't a closet at all. | 1:20:48 | 1:20:50 | |
It's off the back pantry. | 1:20:50 | 1:20:52 | |
Mrs Blandings' little flower sink. | 1:20:52 | 1:20:54 | |
Oh, Mrs Blandings' little flower sink. | 1:20:57 | 1:21:01 | |
You didn't authorise any changes, did you? | 1:21:01 | 1:21:04 | |
Well, they certainly weren't changes. | 1:21:04 | 1:21:07 | |
What have you done? | 1:21:06 | 1:21:08 | |
I haven't done anything. | 1:21:08 | 1:21:10 | |
All I did was... | 1:21:10 | 1:21:12 | |
Just nothing at all. | 1:21:12 | 1:21:14 | |
What have you done? | 1:21:16 | 1:21:19 | |
Well... | 1:21:19 | 1:21:20 | |
All I did was one day, | 1:21:20 | 1:21:23 | |
I saw four pieces of flagstone | 1:21:23 | 1:21:25 | |
left over from the porch | 1:21:25 | 1:21:26 | |
that were just going to be thrown away because nobody wanted them, | 1:21:26 | 1:21:30 | |
and I asked Mr Retch | 1:21:30 | 1:21:32 | |
if he wouldn't just put them on the floor of the flower room | 1:21:32 | 1:21:35 | |
and poke cement between the cracks and give me a stone floor | 1:21:35 | 1:21:38 | |
where it might be wet with flowers and things. | 1:21:38 | 1:21:41 | |
That's absolutely all I did. | 1:21:41 | 1:21:42 | |
That's all you did. | 1:21:42 | 1:21:44 | |
Absolutely. | 1:21:44 | 1:21:46 | |
Just four little pieces of flagstone. | 1:21:46 | 1:21:49 | |
Did you, by any chance, authorise a drain? | 1:21:49 | 1:21:52 | |
Of course I didn't! | 1:21:52 | 1:21:54 | |
All I said was that I wanted a nice, dry stone floor. | 1:21:54 | 1:21:59 | |
Mr Retch was just as nice as he could be | 1:21:59 | 1:22:03 | |
and said, "Well, you're the doctor," | 1:22:03 | 1:22:05 | |
and that was all that anybody said to anybody about anything. | 1:22:05 | 1:22:08 | |
Ohh... | 1:22:08 | 1:22:10 | |
Well... | 1:22:12 | 1:22:13 | |
I think I can tell you what happened. | 1:22:13 | 1:22:15 | |
First, the carpenters had to rip out the flooring that was already laid. | 1:22:15 | 1:22:18 | |
Those planks run under the entire width of the pantry. | 1:22:18 | 1:22:21 | |
So Retch had to knock out the bottom of the pantry wall to get at them, | 1:22:21 | 1:22:25 | |
then he had to chop off the top of the joists under the flower sink space | 1:22:25 | 1:22:29 | |
to make room for the cradle. | 1:22:29 | 1:22:30 | |
I guess he got some iron straps | 1:22:30 | 1:22:33 | |
and fastened it to a large pan to give him something to hold the cement. | 1:22:32 | 1:22:35 | |
With that added load on the weakened joists, | 1:22:35 | 1:22:37 | |
I'll bet he had to put a lally column down there for support, too. | 1:22:37 | 1:22:40 | |
I'll bet. | 1:22:40 | 1:22:42 | |
But it was just four little flagstones... | 1:22:41 | 1:22:43 | |
Quiet! | 1:22:43 | 1:22:44 | |
< That means solid pipe runs under there and wall brackets. | 1:22:44 | 1:22:46 | |
So Retch had to get the plumber back, take out a section | 1:22:46 | 1:22:49 | |
so that he could get that cradle set. | 1:22:49 | 1:22:51 | |
I'll bet he had to change the pitch of the soil pipe | 1:22:51 | 1:22:53 | |
from one end of the house to the other. | 1:22:53 | 1:22:54 | |
Good morning, Mr Cole. | 1:22:54 | 1:22:55 | |
Morning. Morning, Jim. | 1:22:55 | 1:22:57 | |
Hello, Bill. | 1:22:57 | 1:22:58 | |
< And, of course, there are hot and cold water pipes | 1:22:58 | 1:23:00 | |
< hooked to the joist right under that pantry. | 1:23:00 | 1:23:02 | |
< They run to the bathroom on the second floor. | 1:23:02 | 1:23:04 | |
The bridge was roped off, | 1:23:04 | 1:23:06 | |
and Bill had to stay here last night. | 1:23:06 | 1:23:08 | |
Slept like a rock. | 1:23:08 | 1:23:10 | |
..Between the main panel and the junction box by the oil burner, | 1:23:10 | 1:23:13 | |
including the 220 volt cable that goes to the stove. | 1:23:13 | 1:23:15 | |
GUSSY: Morning, everybody! | 1:23:15 | 1:23:16 | |
Wow! What a night! | 1:23:16 | 1:23:18 | |
I've never seen so much rain in all my natural life! | 1:23:18 | 1:23:21 | |
Gussie spent the night in Lansdale. | 1:23:21 | 1:23:24 | |
< I passed the girls over at the Williamses. | 1:23:24 | 1:23:27 | |
< They'll be on any minute. | 1:23:27 | 1:23:29 | |
Thank you, Gussie. You'd better get breakfast started. | 1:23:29 | 1:23:30 | |
< Yes, ma'am. | 1:23:30 | 1:23:31 | |
Uh... | 1:23:32 | 1:23:33 | |
where were we? | 1:23:33 | 1:23:35 | |
Ahem! | 1:23:35 | 1:23:37 | |
We were at the 220 volt cable that goes to the stove. | 1:23:36 | 1:23:39 | |
And, of course, there are hot and cold water pipes... | 1:23:39 | 1:23:41 | |
Just a minute. | 1:23:41 | 1:23:43 | |
You mean the children weren't here last night, either? | 1:23:43 | 1:23:46 | |
How could they be? The bridge was closed! | 1:23:46 | 1:23:48 | |
I just came across it. | 1:23:48 | 1:23:49 | |
It was closed last night! | 1:23:49 | 1:23:51 | |
It's open now. | 1:23:51 | 1:23:53 | |
If you'll all excuse me, I'll just go upstairs | 1:23:53 | 1:23:54 | |
and slip into something | 1:23:54 | 1:23:56 | |
a little more comfortable. | 1:23:56 | 1:23:57 | |
I guess that's about the size of it, | 1:24:01 | 1:24:04 | |
except that Retch had to repair the pantry wall. | 1:24:03 | 1:24:06 | |
That meant getting a plasterer back, | 1:24:06 | 1:24:07 | |
and he couldn't possibly have broken through that wall without... | 1:24:07 | 1:24:10 | |
All right, Henry. We'll take care of it. | 1:24:10 | 1:24:12 | |
I'll admit it's a little steep. | 1:24:12 | 1:24:14 | |
I'll try and get Retch to knock 100 off the bill. | 1:24:14 | 1:24:17 | |
If I can't get that, I'll certainly try for 75. | 1:24:17 | 1:24:18 | |
Fine. | 1:24:18 | 1:24:20 | |
If he doesn't go for 75, I'll make a stab at 50. | 1:24:20 | 1:24:22 | |
You do that. | 1:24:22 | 1:24:23 | |
Anyhow, I'm almost sure we can get 25. | 1:24:25 | 1:24:28 | |
Good day. | 1:24:31 | 1:24:32 | |
Good day. | 1:24:32 | 1:24:33 | |
Bye. | 1:24:33 | 1:24:34 | |
Darling... | 1:24:36 | 1:24:38 | |
you're upset. | 1:24:38 | 1:24:40 | |
You've got a lot of things on your mind. | 1:24:39 | 1:24:42 | |
Muriel, there's only one thing I've got on my mind - | 1:24:42 | 1:24:45 | |
this house and how soon we can get rid of it! | 1:24:45 | 1:24:48 | |
That's not what you're thinking. | 1:24:48 | 1:24:50 | |
Maybe it's not. Maybe I'm thinking I was once a happy man. | 1:24:50 | 1:24:53 | |
I didn't have a closet, I didn't have three bathrooms, | 1:24:53 | 1:24:55 | |
but I did have my sanity, a few dollars in the bank, | 1:24:55 | 1:24:58 | |
two children who love me, and a wife I could trust! | 1:24:58 | 1:25:00 | |
That's a fine thing to say! | 1:25:00 | 1:25:02 | |
I also had a job at Dascomb and Banton - | 1:25:02 | 1:25:04 | |
something I don't happen to have at the moment. | 1:25:04 | 1:25:06 | |
Jim! | 1:25:06 | 1:25:07 | |
That's right, I've resigned! | 1:25:07 | 1:25:08 | |
We're starting all over again from scratch and without this house! | 1:25:08 | 1:25:11 | |
You love this house! | 1:25:11 | 1:25:12 | |
I hate it, from its rabbetted lintels | 1:25:12 | 1:25:15 | |
to its zuz-zuz water softener. | 1:25:15 | 1:25:17 | |
You know you don't mean that. | 1:25:17 | 1:25:19 | |
Every word of it. Anybody who builds a house today is crazy! | 1:25:19 | 1:25:22 | |
The minute you start, | 1:25:22 | 1:25:24 | |
they put you on the list - the All-American sucker list. | 1:25:24 | 1:25:26 | |
You start out to build a home, | 1:25:26 | 1:25:28 | |
and you wind up in the poorhouse! | 1:25:28 | 1:25:29 | |
If it can happen to me, what about the fellas | 1:25:29 | 1:25:31 | |
who aren't making 15,000 a year? | 1:25:31 | 1:25:33 | |
What about the kids who just got married and want a home of their own? | 1:25:33 | 1:25:37 | |
It's a conspiracy, I tell you! | 1:25:36 | 1:25:38 | |
A conspiracy against every boy and girl who were ever in love! | 1:25:38 | 1:25:41 | |
KNOCKING | 1:25:41 | 1:25:42 | |
What do you want? | 1:25:42 | 1:25:44 | |
Mr Blandings, | 1:25:46 | 1:25:47 | |
there's a matter of 12.36. | 1:25:47 | 1:25:51 | |
12.36. | 1:25:51 | 1:25:54 | |
Why be a piker, Mr Tesander? | 1:25:54 | 1:25:57 | |
Here! Take everything I've got! | 1:25:57 | 1:25:59 | |
Spread it out amongst your pals! | 1:25:59 | 1:26:02 | |
Perhaps Retch would like a little something. | 1:26:02 | 1:26:04 | |
Maybe Zucca could use my new smoking jacket! | 1:26:04 | 1:26:07 | |
It's open house! Help yourself! | 1:26:07 | 1:26:09 | |
Now, hold on, Mr Blandings. | 1:26:09 | 1:26:11 | |
This 12.36, you don't owe me. | 1:26:11 | 1:26:14 | |
I owe you. | 1:26:14 | 1:26:18 | |
What was that? | 1:26:18 | 1:26:20 | |
Yeah. | 1:26:20 | 1:26:21 | |
Found I overcharged you, | 1:26:21 | 1:26:24 | |
almost three feet. | 1:26:24 | 1:26:26 | |
Better count it. Think it's all there. | 1:26:28 | 1:26:32 | |
Thank you very much, Mr Tesander. | 1:26:32 | 1:26:35 | |
Well... | 1:26:37 | 1:26:38 | |
I guess I better be going. | 1:26:38 | 1:26:41 | |
You sure got a pretty place here. | 1:26:42 | 1:26:46 | |
Take good care of it. | 1:26:46 | 1:26:48 | |
Oh, er... | 1:26:51 | 1:26:52 | |
I'll tell Mr Zucca about the smoking jacket. | 1:26:52 | 1:26:55 | |
Darling, what did you mean? | 1:27:00 | 1:27:02 | |
Are we really going to have to sell this house? | 1:27:02 | 1:27:06 | |
Don't know, dear. | 1:27:06 | 1:27:08 | |
Don't know anything any more. | 1:27:08 | 1:27:11 | |
In case anyone's interested, | 1:27:11 | 1:27:13 | |
I'm leaving for town. | 1:27:13 | 1:27:15 | |
Oh, Mr Tesander! | 1:27:16 | 1:27:18 | |
Could you give me a lift into Lansdale? | 1:27:18 | 1:27:21 | |
Yep. | 1:27:21 | 1:27:22 | |
Fine. I'll be right with you. | 1:27:22 | 1:27:23 | |
If you want to count the silverware, I'll wait. | 1:27:23 | 1:27:28 | |
Be patient with me, Bill. | 1:27:28 | 1:27:30 | |
Maybe one of these days I'll grow up. | 1:27:30 | 1:27:33 | |
What happened to him? | 1:27:33 | 1:27:35 | |
12.36. | 1:27:35 | 1:27:37 | |
You mind if I say something? | 1:27:38 | 1:27:40 | |
Ever since this thing started, | 1:27:40 | 1:27:42 | |
I've been the voice of doom about the whole project. | 1:27:42 | 1:27:44 | |
Every step of the way, | 1:27:44 | 1:27:46 | |
I've been convinced you were getting fleeced, bilked, | 1:27:46 | 1:27:48 | |
rooked, flim-flammed, and generally taken to the cleaners. | 1:27:48 | 1:27:52 | |
Maybe you were. > | 1:27:52 | 1:27:53 | |
Maybe it cost you a lot more than you thought it would. > | 1:27:53 | 1:27:56 | |
Maybe there were times when you wished > | 1:27:56 | 1:27:58 | |
you'd never started the whole thing. > | 1:27:57 | 1:27:59 | |
But when I look around at what you two have got here... | 1:27:59 | 1:28:03 | |
Well, I don't know. | 1:28:03 | 1:28:05 | |
Maybe there are some things | 1:28:05 | 1:28:07 | |
you should buy with your heart and not your head. | 1:28:07 | 1:28:09 | |
Maybe those are the things that really count. | 1:28:11 | 1:28:13 | |
Well, see you around. | 1:28:13 | 1:28:15 | |
Bye, dear. | 1:28:15 | 1:28:17 | |
Oh, Uncle Bill! | 1:28:28 | 1:28:29 | |
BOTH TALK AT ONCE | 1:28:29 | 1:28:31 | |
I heard all about it! | 1:28:31 | 1:28:33 | |
- Goodbye! - Bye! - Bye! | 1:28:33 | 1:28:36 | |
Morning, everybody! | 1:28:36 | 1:28:37 | |
Dad, why aren't you at the office? | 1:28:37 | 1:28:39 | |
Oh, well, I'm on a kind of vacation. | 1:28:39 | 1:28:42 | |
You mean you got fired? | 1:28:42 | 1:28:43 | |
We'll discuss it later. Not exactly. | 1:28:43 | 1:28:46 | |
Come and get it, everybody! Breakfast is ready! | 1:28:46 | 1:28:48 | |
I'm starving! What are we having? | 1:28:48 | 1:28:50 | |
Orange juice, scrambled eggs and you-know-what! | 1:28:50 | 1:28:52 | |
- Ham? | 1:28:52 | 1:28:55 | |
- Not ham! Wham! | 1:28:53 | 1:28:55 | |
If you ain't eatin' Wham, you ain't eatin' ham! | 1:28:55 | 1:28:58 | |
< Now you kids go wash your hands. | 1:28:58 | 1:29:01 | |
Muriel! > | 1:29:01 | 1:29:02 | |
Darling! | 1:29:02 | 1:29:04 | |
Give Gussie a 10 raise! | 1:29:04 | 1:29:06 | |
Drop in and see us sometime. | 1:29:17 | 1:29:19 | |
Yeah. Do that. | 1:29:19 | 1:29:21 | |
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