0:00:49 > 0:00:51WATER TRICKLES
0:01:08 > 0:01:12Q-U-A-R...
0:01:15 > 0:01:17..A-N-T...
0:01:19 > 0:01:21..I-N-E.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27Quarantine.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Q-U-A-R...
0:01:33 > 0:01:36..A-N-T...
0:01:36 > 0:01:39..I-N-E.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Quarantine.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45- You know the cholera? - Yes, Mother.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49- You've seen the signs on the houses where the coloureds live?- Yes.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53- You know the typhus? - I do, Mother.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58You know what they can do to you?
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Yes, Mother.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06You are not safe.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11AEROPLANE ENGINE ROARS
0:02:12 > 0:02:16You're directing this movie, Howard, but what you're asking, we can't do.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Don't tell me I can't do it or it can't be done!
0:02:19 > 0:02:23The gyro forces are too much. You send these planes into...
0:02:23 > 0:02:27It's the goddamn climax of the picture! You make it work!
0:02:27 > 0:02:32Decrease the vertical trajectory. It won't stall. I've done it.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36- We're short two cameras. We need to cut...- We're not cutting anything.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40- I'll get those cameras. - Mr Hughes, I'm Noah Dietrich.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44- Your office said I might find you here.- You're a man on the come.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48I read your resume. You know what I'm looking for?
0:02:48 > 0:02:51You're looking for a second in command of Hughes Tools,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54someone to oversee the financial aspects.
0:02:54 > 0:02:59I looking for somebody to run it. You only need to know one thing -
0:02:59 > 0:03:02my folks, they're gone now, so it's my money.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06What I choose to do may seem crazy to those sons of bitches in Houston,
0:03:06 > 0:03:09and I'm sure it does, but it all makes good sense to me.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11- Got it.- Good.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15You made what, 5,200 a year your last job? I'll pay you 10,000.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Guess I'll be working twice as hard.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22You'll be working four times as hard. I just got you half price.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Welcome aboard. You're my voice now. Make 'em understand.
0:03:25 > 0:03:30Some of those folks still call me Junior. Tell them it's Mr Hughes.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32- You bet. When do we go to Houston? - We don't.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Cholera epidemic in 1913, 2,000 dead.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39The whole place is pestilential swamp. Typhus, malaria, cholera.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41You name it, they got it.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44You see that, Mr Dietrich?
0:03:44 > 0:03:48You are looking at the largest private air force in the world.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52- What do you think of that now? - It's your money.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Start 'em up!
0:03:55 > 0:03:57DRAMATIC CLASSICAL MUSIC
0:04:32 > 0:04:36# I'll build a stairway to paradise
0:04:36 > 0:04:39# With a new step every day
0:04:39 > 0:04:42# I'm going to get there at any price
0:04:42 > 0:04:46# Stand aside, I'm on my way
0:04:46 > 0:04:47# I've got the blues
0:04:47 > 0:04:50# And up above it's so fair
0:04:50 > 0:04:52# Shoes, go on and carry me there
0:04:52 > 0:04:56# I'll build a stairway to paradise
0:04:56 > 0:04:59# With a new step every day... #
0:04:59 > 0:05:02TRUMPET SOLO
0:05:14 > 0:05:17# I'll build a stairway to paradise... #
0:05:17 > 0:05:21I saw the rough cut of Tod Browning's London After Midnight.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25Lon Chaney is incredible! It's his best performance in a long time.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28It's gonna be a big hit. The cards are great.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Hello, Mr Mayer.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35I don't know if you remember me. My name's Howard Hughes.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39- I was wondering if I could have a moment.- Oh, yeah, Howard Hughes.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42The airplane picture, right? I remember.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45- Hell's Angels. You've heard of it. Good.- Yes.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Could I have a moment of your time? I need a few cameras.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Yeah?
0:05:50 > 0:05:53- Two to be exact.- Mm-hmm.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57I bought every one I could find, but we're shooting our dogfight sequence
0:05:57 > 0:06:00and I need two more. Do you think MGM could help me out?
0:06:00 > 0:06:03- With what?- Cameras.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07With the actual cameras? We don't usually help out the competition.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11- Oh.- So, how many cameras do you have now?
0:06:11 > 0:06:1224.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Wait a minute...
0:06:19 > 0:06:24- You have 24 cameras?- That's right. - And you need two more?- Yeah.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28- You don't think you've got it with 24?- No. No, sir.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32You know, I think we have them all... They're all used, right?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35- All 26 of them. - HE SNIGGERS
0:06:35 > 0:06:38- Jesus Christ, son! - Howard.- Howard.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Let me give you some advice. Why don't you take your oil money...?
0:06:41 > 0:06:45- Drill bits.- OK, take your drill-bit money and put it in the bank.
0:06:45 > 0:06:50If you make a movie your way, there isn't a distributor who'll want it,
0:06:50 > 0:06:53you're not gonna find anyone who wants to see it,
0:06:53 > 0:06:56and you won't have any more oil money.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59So welcome to Hollywood.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Yeah, I'll be sure to remember that, Mr Mayer.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05- Good luck.- All right.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07He needs 26 to make it work?! He's out of his mind.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18I looked down at my pants. It was a strange situation.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Boss. Scram, love boat. Let's go.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Another soda. You know what I mean.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27Milk, please. In the bottle with the cap on.
0:07:27 > 0:07:32- What did His Highness say?- Son of a bitch won't part with one camera.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Why don't you try and make do with what you have?
0:07:34 > 0:07:38What I have isn't enough, not for how I see it.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43My name depends on this picture. If it doesn't work, I'm back to Houston
0:07:43 > 0:07:46making drill bits for the rest of my life!
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Couldn't you find a way to do with the cameras you have?
0:07:49 > 0:07:52You oughta here about DeMille at Paramount.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56- He's shooting his Bible picture, but he's doing it in Fresno!- John.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59- Johnny!- Yeah?
0:07:59 > 0:08:02- You're a press agent, are you not? - Yeah.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06- You're supposed to know all the ins and outs of Hollywood. Do you?- Yeah.
0:08:06 > 0:08:10Then you leave the big ideas to me.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13- Yeah, of course, boss. - Cigars, cigarettes, Sen-Sen?
0:08:13 > 0:08:17Thelma. I thought you were at the Brown Derby with Trixie.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20- No, Teresa.- Margaret, yeah. - What happened to her?
0:08:20 > 0:08:24- She lost her shoes... - Thank God that's settled!- Sorry.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Thelma, this is Howard Hughes.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30We were discussing how he wants me to pull a camera out of my ass.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34- Cigarette? - Oh, no, thanks. I don't smoke.
0:08:37 > 0:08:42You are just hitting on all six cylinders, aren't you? God!
0:08:42 > 0:08:48Would you do me a favour? Would you just smile for me one time?
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Yeah, you see, you've got a short upper lip.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Makes for a much nicer smile.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03See, I wonder what gives a beautiful woman like you pleasure?
0:09:03 > 0:09:07Say you're just standing there, right,
0:09:07 > 0:09:12and I just touch you like this just with my fingertips.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14Do you like that?
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Do you?
0:09:21 > 0:09:24See, I wanna learn what pleases you.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28I wanna learn everything about you.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Would you let me do that?
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Would you give me that job?
0:09:36 > 0:09:40Er... I'm off in a half an hour.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44- Well, I'm in room...- 217.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46217.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50See you there.
0:09:50 > 0:09:51# Shake that thing! #
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Johnny, get on the horn to Universal and Warners.
0:09:56 > 0:10:01I need two more cameras by Saturday. Steal them if you have to!
0:10:01 > 0:10:06Abso-tively, boss. Abso-tively.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10'Rumours coming from a lonely airstrip out in Van Nuys.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13'Sources whisper that Texas industrialist Howard Hughes
0:10:13 > 0:10:17'just won't stop pouring money into his war epic and do we mean epic!
0:10:17 > 0:10:23'137 pilots, 87 airplanes, 35 cameramen, 2,000 extras!
0:10:23 > 0:10:27'How long will it be before this costs as much as the real war?'
0:10:27 > 0:10:32Goddamn it! Why do they look so slow?! They look like models!
0:10:40 > 0:10:44- Son of a bitch.- Howard?
0:10:46 > 0:10:50Without something standing still behind the planes,
0:10:50 > 0:10:53we've got no idea how fast we're moving.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56We got no sense of relative motion.
0:10:56 > 0:11:01Call over to UCLA. Get me the best meteorologist they've got in an hour.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09- Hey, do you want the good news or the bad news?- Bad news.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13We installed the 450 radio, but the struts won't take the vibration.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Minute we fire her up, the struts start cracking.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19- What's the good news? - There isn't any.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23Goddamn it, Odie. If the 450's too big, we figure something else out.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27We've done everything. We've rebuilt her from top to toe.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30If we drain the fuel tank, she might make 180mph.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34- I want minimum 200. - I want a date with Theda Bara,
0:11:34 > 0:11:37- but that ain't gonna happen. - Don't be so sure. So...
0:11:37 > 0:11:41If the struts won't hold, we get rid of the struts.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44No. Then the top wing falls off.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47Then let it.
0:11:47 > 0:11:52- What?- Who says we need a top wing?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54I mean, who says we need anything?
0:11:56 > 0:11:59- A monoplane? - A cantilevered monoplane.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02To hell with the top wing and struts.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05- Put in a 550 Wasp engine. - 100-octane fuel.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08- That would give us horsepower of what?- 700.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13We squeeze that to 1,000, we got the fastest plane ever built!
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Er...
0:12:16 > 0:12:20I've just gotta say, we've already spent over 200,000 rebuilding this.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24Ah, to hell with it!
0:12:24 > 0:12:26Tear it up, Odie.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Go on!
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Well...
0:12:34 > 0:12:38The cumulonimbus formations about which you speak
0:12:38 > 0:12:41that look like...
0:12:42 > 0:12:46Giant breasts full of milk. I want clouds, dammit!
0:12:46 > 0:12:51Yes, clouds that look like giant breasts full of milk
0:12:51 > 0:12:55cannot exactly be guaranteed for any particular location.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58So you might have...
0:12:58 > 0:13:00to wait.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Then we'll wait.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08Look, whatever they pay you at UCLA, I'm doubling it.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11You work for me now. Find some clouds.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Find some clouds! Find some clouds!
0:13:15 > 0:13:18Welcome to Hell's Angels.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Thank you.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33We have been to Chatsworth, Santa Cruz, Encino,
0:13:33 > 0:13:38San Diego, Van Nuys and Bakersfield. It has been eight months!
0:13:38 > 0:13:42- Where are my goddamn clouds, huh?! - They move, Mr Hughes!
0:13:42 > 0:13:46- Clouds move! That's what they do! They move!- See that?
0:13:46 > 0:13:51It is costing 5,271 a day to keep those planes on the ground.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55You find me some goddamn clouds, huh?!
0:14:01 > 0:14:04- Nice day.- Yeah, very funny.
0:14:04 > 0:14:08Listen, I got a call from Houston. They're getting nervous about this.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12- Stop showing them the damn bills! - That would be illegal.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14No. Maybe it's a bit naughty.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18Hughes Tool is incorporated in Texas. They must see the bills.
0:14:18 > 0:14:23Incorporate a new division out here. We'll call it "Hughes Aircraft".
0:14:23 > 0:14:27- Do we need these rivets?- Yeah, or the reverse thrust would rip it off.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29They're gonna give me drag.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32- Wind resistance on rivets? - I want her slippery.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36- There's tax consequences to incorporating here.- Take care of it.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40Mr Hughes! Mr Hughes! Oakland!
0:14:40 > 0:14:44- We have clouds in Oakland! - You mean it this time?!- Yes!
0:14:44 > 0:14:49Goddamn it, yes! I can promise you clouds in Oakland!
0:14:49 > 0:14:52All right, don't get all jittery. OAKLAND!
0:14:52 > 0:14:55OAKLAND!
0:14:55 > 0:14:58We're going to Oakland! Oakland!
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Down and to the left!
0:15:57 > 0:15:59That's perfect!
0:16:06 > 0:16:10'Yes, young Howard Hughes has pulled it off!
0:16:10 > 0:16:14'After two years, Hell's Angels has finally finished filming.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17'There's gonna be one heck of a wrap party in Hollywood.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20'The price tag - a staggering 2 million.
0:16:20 > 0:16:25'If every human in America buys a ticket, he might make a profit!'
0:16:28 > 0:16:32First the clouds don't come and then the planes break and they crash.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36You've had everything but a damn plague of locusts on this thing!
0:16:36 > 0:16:42You have to admit, honestly, did you ever think you'd finish the thing?
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Come with me.
0:16:47 > 0:16:52Darling, if I'm a success in this show, we're gonna move from here.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55- Oh, no.- Yes, we're gonna move to the Bronx.
0:16:55 > 0:17:00Lot of green grass and people you know - the Ginsbergs, Goldbergs,
0:17:00 > 0:17:03a whole lot of 'bergs. I don't know them all.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07See, this is what the people want. Silent pictures are yesterday's news.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10We've gotta re-shoot Hell's Angels for sound.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- How much of it?- All of it.
0:17:14 > 0:17:19Before you ask, I'll tell you. An additional 1.7 million. We got that?
0:17:19 > 0:17:21No.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25Well, we'll make it. Take care of that, would you?
0:17:25 > 0:17:26Now get this.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29# Blue skies smiling at me, me, me, me
0:17:29 > 0:17:32# Nothing but little blue skies do I see
0:17:32 > 0:17:35# Do-do-do. #
0:17:36 > 0:17:38'In the halls of 7,000 Romaine,
0:17:38 > 0:17:41'it goes on day after day, month after month.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44'Howard Hughes is now editing some 25 miles of film.
0:17:44 > 0:17:50'Heck, I say release it now and give the world its first 560-hour movie!'
0:17:50 > 0:17:54Pat, Mr Hughes needs this reel in the projection room right now.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56'Enough is enough, Mr Hughes.
0:17:56 > 0:18:00'Are you ever gonna let us actually see this little epic of yours?'
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Hurry up!
0:18:21 > 0:18:24- Who is it?- Noah.- Come on in.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29Been on the phone to Houston for three solid hours.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- We're fixing every goddamn book we have.- Wait.
0:18:32 > 0:18:37Yeah. Run reel ten again. I think we're duplicating a shot here.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40Tell Jimmy I want ten chocolate-chip cookies.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Medium chips, none too close to the outside. Got it?
0:18:43 > 0:18:47Did you remember that goddamn shot from reel ten?
0:18:47 > 0:18:51No, I don't remember anything from reel ten. I don't know what that is.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55I'm a businessman, Howard, and so are you.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Now, look, this has been a great ride,
0:18:58 > 0:19:01we've had a hell of a lot of fun,
0:19:01 > 0:19:04but you're losing 25,000 a day doing this.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Every day.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14So, what are my options?
0:19:14 > 0:19:19This time I don't know that you have any.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23I'm afraid you've gotta close it down, dig your way out.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31I'm sorry, Howard.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34I truly am.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43'Reel ten, Mr Hughes.'
0:19:48 > 0:19:52Mortgage Tool Co. Every asset.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55You heard me.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58- If you do that, you could lose everything.- I won't.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03I won't.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06All right.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08I'll get into it.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Thanks, Noah.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44CHEERING
0:20:44 > 0:20:48'More than half a million good souls lining Hollywood Boulevard.
0:20:48 > 0:20:52'Look at the automobiles. There are at least 45,000 cars here
0:20:52 > 0:20:56- 'making it the greatest traffic jam. - Hughes has a lump in his throat.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00'Six months after the market crashes and after the death of three pilots,
0:21:00 > 0:21:03'he's unveiling his 4 million baby.
0:21:03 > 0:21:07'It's the most expensive movie ever. Nothing five-and-dime for Hughes.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11'Nothing like tonight has ever been seen before and I can certainly say
0:21:11 > 0:21:15- 'it will never be seen again. - 500,000 people crowd the streets
0:21:15 > 0:21:18'to glimpse the stars and celebrities.
0:21:18 > 0:21:23'Three companies of marines were called to assist special police.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27'This is an industry town and nobody makes a movie outside a studio.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31'Sure, some Hollywood insiders at the Brown Derby...
0:21:31 > 0:21:35'Now, ladies and gentleman, I can just see Mr Hughes' car arriving.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38'Mr Hughes escorts the lovely starlet Jean Harlow.
0:21:38 > 0:21:43'He discovered her for this picture and her platinum blonde locks
0:21:43 > 0:21:47'and hot jazz baby-doll style are gonna make her a big star.'
0:22:12 > 0:22:15Hughes! Mr Hughes, how about a word?!
0:22:16 > 0:22:19Big night for you, Mr Hughes.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Big night for you tonight.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Very big. Very big.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29Tell us what it was like making this fabulous picture.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Yes.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36Er...yeah. So four million clams from your own pocket.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Nervous how the flick will fly?
0:22:41 > 0:22:44Big night. You enjoy the show.
0:22:44 > 0:22:49Yes, well, let me present the feminine star
0:22:49 > 0:22:53- of this spectacle, Hell's Angels, Miss Jean Harlow.- Thank you.
0:22:53 > 0:22:58I would like to use this occasion to thank Mr Hughes for this chance.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01- Thank you.- Thank you.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05Now I'd like to ask Roscoe Arbuckle to introduce his lion cub, Gilmore.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09What the hell's the matter with you? Can't you remember my name?
0:23:09 > 0:23:13Sorry. Roscoe Turner and this would be Gilmore.
0:23:57 > 0:24:02Murder! That's what this dirty-rotten politician war is!
0:24:35 > 0:24:37SHE GIGGLES
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Stand up, Slim. Take a bow.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Reel four played way too long.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59Get Harry and the team out of the party. I wanna cut a few shots.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02Find Glen Odekirk. Write this down. Flush rivets.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04- Flush rivets.- Flush rivets.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07- Split, Boss.- Here he is!
0:25:07 > 0:25:10CHEERING
0:25:10 > 0:25:13'Variety says, "This one won't miss."
0:25:13 > 0:25:16- 'Thrilling! - Awesome beyond description!
0:25:16 > 0:25:20- 'The most extraordinary output!- I haven't seen a film so enthralling!
0:25:20 > 0:25:25'It cost 4 million and it has four million thrills!'
0:25:25 > 0:25:27MUSIC: "Thanks" by Bing Crosby
0:25:29 > 0:25:34# And thanks for unforgettable nights
0:25:36 > 0:25:39# I never can replace
0:25:40 > 0:25:45# And memories that linger like a haunting tune
0:25:47 > 0:25:52# It is better to have loved you, dear, and lost
0:25:52 > 0:25:56# Than never to have loved at all
0:25:56 > 0:26:01# Yes, it's better, for no matter what the cost
0:26:01 > 0:26:05# I held the world in sway, an emperor for a day
0:26:05 > 0:26:09# And thanks again
0:26:09 > 0:26:15# For taking me on the road to paradise
0:26:16 > 0:26:22# We lost our way, but still I must convey my thanks. #
0:26:26 > 0:26:30I, er, read in the magazines that you play golf.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34- On occasion. - How about nine holes?
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Now, Mr Hughes?
0:26:38 > 0:26:42If it would be convenient, Miss Hepburn.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07You're not extending enough on your follow-through.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11Follow-through is everything in golf and in life. Don't you find?
0:27:11 > 0:27:15- Saw your Scarface picture. Violent. - Realistic.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Movies are movies, not life.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21Now, the stage, the stage is real - real flesh and blood,
0:27:21 > 0:27:24human beings there in front of you, buster.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29Can't look away, can't munch popcorn. Do you like the theatre?
0:27:29 > 0:27:31- No.- Oh, I adore the theatre!
0:27:31 > 0:27:35I'm only alive on stage. We'll see some Ibsen,
0:27:35 > 0:27:38if the Republicans haven't outlawed him by now!
0:27:38 > 0:27:41- You're not a Republican? How did you vote in '32?- I didn't.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45You must! It's your sacred franchise.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52- Heard you were wooing Ginger Rogers. What about that?- She's a friend.
0:27:52 > 0:27:57Men can't be friends with women. They possess them or leave them be.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00It's a primitive urge from cave-man days. It's in Darwin.
0:28:00 > 0:28:05Hunt the flesh, kill the flesh, eat the flesh. That's the male sex.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Excuse me?!
0:28:07 > 0:28:11Well, if you're deaf, you must own up to it.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14Get a hearing aid or see my father. He's a urologist,
0:28:14 > 0:28:16but it's all tied up in the body.
0:28:16 > 0:28:20Me, I keep healthy. I take seven showers a day to keep clean,
0:28:20 > 0:28:24also because I'm what's referred to as "outdoorsy".
0:28:24 > 0:28:27I'm not "outdoorsy", I'm athletic.
0:28:27 > 0:28:31I sweat! There it is. Now we both know the sordid truth.
0:28:31 > 0:28:35I sweat and you're deaf. Aren't we a fine pair of misfits?
0:28:39 > 0:28:40Three.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50Noble effort.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55I suppose you're wooing me now?
0:28:55 > 0:28:57Ah, well...
0:29:16 > 0:29:18Not enough.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21Not enough. These rivets have to be completely flush.
0:29:21 > 0:29:24I want every screw and joint countersunk.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27I want no wind resistance on the fuselage.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30She has got to be clean, Odie. Understand?
0:29:30 > 0:29:33- OK. - I don't know what else to tell you.
0:29:33 > 0:29:38- What have you got for me? - The thing is, TWA needs a new plane.
0:29:38 > 0:29:41Oh, yeah? What kind of plane?
0:29:41 > 0:29:45- The DC-3 has 21 day-time seats and 14 overnight berths.- Bigger?
0:29:45 > 0:29:48Try 50 seats with a ceiling of 12,000 feet.
0:29:48 > 0:29:53No. 20,000. Think about it, Jack. What does 20,000 feet give you?
0:29:53 > 0:29:56- Less turbulence. - Right. It's above the weather.
0:29:56 > 0:30:01You wanna fly above the weather. Only 1% of America has been on an airline.
0:30:01 > 0:30:05Why? Cos they're scared to death, Jack, and they should be.
0:30:05 > 0:30:107,000 feet is bumpy as shit. If we build a plane to fly above weather,
0:30:10 > 0:30:14we could get every man, woman and child to feel safe up there.
0:30:14 > 0:30:18An airplane that can fly in the substratosphere across the country,
0:30:18 > 0:30:20across the world.
0:30:20 > 0:30:24- Now, that is the future. You with me? - Yeah.- Shoot straight with me
0:30:24 > 0:30:28cos I don't want this if your board doesn't have the balls.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30- Would they support us? - They're tight bastards.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32- Financial picture?- Not great.
0:30:32 > 0:30:35- Last year's deficit?- 770,000.
0:30:35 > 0:30:38- What's it selling at? - About 8 a share.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41That's the lowest it's been, huh? I could do that.
0:30:41 > 0:30:46- Do what?- Buy it. - You wanna buy the airline?!
0:30:46 > 0:30:50For crying out loud, we don't want pencil pushers getting in the way.
0:30:50 > 0:30:54Give me brass tacks now. What does controlling interest in TWA cost me?
0:30:54 > 0:30:57Call it 15 million.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59HE WHISTLES
0:30:59 > 0:31:02That is a chunk of change, huh?
0:31:04 > 0:31:08You call Noah Dietrich. You have him start buying.
0:31:08 > 0:31:13Hold on. Are you sure? You wanna think about it for five minutes?!
0:31:13 > 0:31:17I got a tiger by the tail. I ain't gonna let it go.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29Good evening, Mr Hughes. Welcome. Your table is ready.
0:31:30 > 0:31:34- How goes the aviation, Mr Hughes? - Just fine, Pete.- I'm so glad.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40- Good evening, Mr Hughes. Madam.- It's Miss.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43- Miss. The usual, Mr Hughes? - Please, yeah.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46May I recommend for the lady clementine soup
0:31:46 > 0:31:50followed by roast wild duck with currant glaze and poached pears?
0:31:50 > 0:31:52That sounds fine.
0:31:54 > 0:31:57Your kind of a joint, is it?
0:31:57 > 0:32:00Wouldn't have thought.
0:32:00 > 0:32:04They're open late. I go to a hot-dog stand, too. They're open till four.
0:32:04 > 0:32:07Are they?
0:32:07 > 0:32:10How marvellous.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18# Happy feet I've got those happy feet
0:32:18 > 0:32:20# Give them a low-down beat
0:32:20 > 0:32:23# And they begin dancing. #
0:32:23 > 0:32:26Howard! Howard!
0:32:26 > 0:32:29Hi. Son of a gun.
0:32:29 > 0:32:34This is Johnny Meyer. I suppose you could call him my press agent.
0:32:34 > 0:32:36Loved you in Alice Adams.
0:32:36 > 0:32:39- I'm sure you know Errol. - Mr Flynn, yes.
0:32:39 > 0:32:43Kate. Kate of the clench-jawed Hepburns. Enchanting as always.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46You should use Lux on your hands. I do.
0:32:46 > 0:32:52- Katie, you and Howard oughta cook up a picture.- Hey! My chair!
0:32:52 > 0:32:57I think not. Don't you read Variety, Mr Meyer?
0:32:57 > 0:33:02I'm box-office poison. I'm on the outs, the skids, the doldrums,
0:33:02 > 0:33:05- day-old fish not worth the eating, so they tell me.- Hell with them.
0:33:05 > 0:33:09Hell with them, my dear. Soulless pricks to a man.
0:33:09 > 0:33:12Johnny says you're thinking about doing a Western of all things.
0:33:16 > 0:33:20- Are you making a Western, Howard? - Yeah, I'm making a Western.
0:33:20 > 0:33:24- Gonna call it The Outlaw. - You know what it's about? S-E-X.
0:33:24 > 0:33:28- It's all about S-E-X. - It's a Western.
0:33:28 > 0:33:32- You can't have fornication in a Western.- Not real sex, movie sex.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35What Scarface did for gangster films, Outlaw will do for Westerns.
0:33:35 > 0:33:39Put the sex and guts and blood right up there on the screen.
0:33:39 > 0:33:44- Don't mind us.- New-York-cut steak, 12 peas, bottle of milk with a cap.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47You're the only star who can't afford cigarettes.
0:33:47 > 0:33:52I hope your food isn't getting cold on another table somewhere.
0:33:52 > 0:33:56- We're here all night. Don't worry. - So, Howard... Howard.
0:33:56 > 0:34:01If you're serious about putting carnality back on the screen,
0:34:01 > 0:34:05you must swear to let me in on the casting session.
0:34:06 > 0:34:10I have somewhat of an eye, an eye for talent. Isn't that right?
0:34:10 > 0:34:15- You've gotta give up prancing in tights first!- It paid for my yacht!
0:34:15 > 0:34:18You must all come sailing with me. Catalina, eh?
0:34:18 > 0:34:21Yeah, Catalina. Sounds grand.
0:34:21 > 0:34:23I coaxed the luscious Miss de Havilland
0:34:23 > 0:34:26and her equally luscious sister to accompany me.
0:34:26 > 0:34:30I fear their mother will insist on coming to preserve their virtue.
0:34:30 > 0:34:35We shall assault these monuments of pristine Britannic beauty!
0:34:35 > 0:34:37- What do you say, Howard?- Yeah?
0:34:37 > 0:34:40- Yeah.- Yeah?
0:34:43 > 0:34:49I gotta... I gotta go. If you'll excuse us, we have to be somewhere.
0:34:49 > 0:34:53- You are somewhere, Howard, you mad man!- Somewhere else. Excuse us.
0:34:53 > 0:34:58Ciao. Help yourself to the poached pears. I hear they're divine.
0:34:58 > 0:35:02Well, Howard Hughes, ladies and gentlemen.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04Was that meant for me?
0:35:04 > 0:35:07My hero. God! Hollywood talk bores me silly!
0:35:07 > 0:35:11There are more important things. Mussolini for one.
0:35:11 > 0:35:14- Where are we going? - Do you feel like an adventure?
0:35:14 > 0:35:16Do your worst, Mr Hughes.
0:35:16 > 0:35:20- You limey bastard!- I'm a Tasmanian bastard, you ignorant prick!
0:35:20 > 0:35:24- 'At a way, Errol.- Let me at him! Let me fix your face!
0:35:55 > 0:35:57That's Mr Mayer's house.
0:35:57 > 0:36:01You know where Jack Warner lives?
0:36:08 > 0:36:11What's that on the steering wheel?
0:36:11 > 0:36:15Cellophane. If you knew what kind of crap people carry on their hands...
0:36:15 > 0:36:18What kind of crap?
0:36:18 > 0:36:20You don't wanna know.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28- Hold on to the wheel for a bit. - Whoa!
0:36:28 > 0:36:31SHE GIGGLES
0:36:35 > 0:36:37That's too hard. Relax your hands.
0:36:43 > 0:36:48You've gotta feel the vibration of the engine through your fingertips.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51- Feel that?- Yes.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56That's good.
0:36:56 > 0:36:58Golly.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03Well, she's all yours.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07- Where are you going?! - I think there's some milk back here.
0:37:07 > 0:37:11- Just keep on steady now.- All right.
0:37:28 > 0:37:31- Howard.- Yeah?
0:37:31 > 0:37:35- There's a rather alarming mountain. - Pull back on the wheel a smidge.
0:37:35 > 0:37:38Go on.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43Golly!
0:37:49 > 0:37:53I don't think I've ever met someone who actually uses the word "golly"!
0:38:01 > 0:38:05- You OK? You want me to take over? - When I'm getting the hang of it?
0:38:10 > 0:38:14- You, er... You want some milk? - Please.
0:38:34 > 0:38:38Utterly smashing! We'll do it again! I'm free Wednesday.
0:38:38 > 0:38:43- Little early for golf, though, don't you think?- I live right there.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45- Feel like a drink?- Lead on.
0:38:45 > 0:38:49Now, that makes for a challenging par four!
0:38:49 > 0:38:53My decorator picked out the wallpaper and such.
0:38:53 > 0:38:58He's queer as a bedbug, but... I just hate this room.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01It gives me the willies.
0:39:01 > 0:39:05I'm about to be swallowed up by the latest issue of Town & Country.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16What room do you like?
0:39:16 > 0:39:18My study.
0:39:19 > 0:39:22Take me there.
0:39:37 > 0:39:40You are the tallest woman I know.
0:39:40 > 0:39:45And all sharp elbows and knees. Beware.
0:40:07 > 0:40:10Will you fly me to work tomorrow?
0:40:12 > 0:40:14It is tomorrow.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19# That's the only thing
0:40:19 > 0:40:24# I've plenty of, oh, baby
0:40:24 > 0:40:27# Dream a while
0:40:27 > 0:40:29# Scheme a while
0:40:29 > 0:40:33# We're sure to find, baby
0:40:33 > 0:40:36# Happiness and I guess... #
0:40:36 > 0:40:39SHE SCATS
0:40:41 > 0:40:45# Gee, I'd like to see you
0:40:45 > 0:40:48# Looking swell, baby
0:40:48 > 0:40:51# Diamond bracelets
0:40:51 > 0:40:56# Woolworths doesn't sell, my pretty baby
0:40:57 > 0:41:01# Till that lucky day, oh, you lucky day
0:41:01 > 0:41:05# You know darn well, oh, babe... #
0:41:05 > 0:41:09Watch the fuel gauge. She's got minimum fuel to keep weight down.
0:41:09 > 0:41:12Two runs, that's it. After that, you're on vapours.
0:41:12 > 0:41:15Then you crash and die. Easy flying. Don't worry about speed
0:41:15 > 0:41:18and don't think about the record.
0:41:18 > 0:41:20I wish you'd let someone else take her up.
0:41:20 > 0:41:25Why should I let someone else have all the fun? See you in a bit.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47Contact!
0:42:45 > 0:42:47Whoo!
0:43:11 > 0:43:14- Whoo-hoo!- 339.
0:43:16 > 0:43:19Goddamn!
0:43:36 > 0:43:37STOPWATCH TICKS
0:43:39 > 0:43:41347.
0:43:42 > 0:43:43(Son of a bitch!)
0:44:13 > 0:44:15352.
0:44:15 > 0:44:17352! CHEERING
0:44:17 > 0:44:19Good girl!
0:44:23 > 0:44:25ENGINE SPLUTTERS
0:44:25 > 0:44:27ENGINE STOPS
0:44:28 > 0:44:30Dammit!
0:44:34 > 0:44:36Goddammit!
0:44:36 > 0:44:40- Oh, God! - There goes our meal ticket.- Come on!
0:45:08 > 0:45:10SIRENS WAIL
0:45:17 > 0:45:20Howard! Howard!
0:45:20 > 0:45:25- How did we do? - 352 on the last run.
0:45:25 > 0:45:29HE LAUGHS She'll go faster.
0:45:29 > 0:45:31Country Mouse!
0:45:31 > 0:45:33Kate! Katie!
0:45:33 > 0:45:35'Upstairs, City Mouse.'
0:45:37 > 0:45:41Hello. Good Lord, what happened to you?!
0:45:41 > 0:45:44- I had a hard landing. I cut my foot. - I'll take care of it.
0:45:44 > 0:45:48- You tell me everything. - You cannot imagine what it was like.
0:45:48 > 0:45:52You cannot imagine the speed! She was like a winged bullet!
0:45:52 > 0:45:55- What did you make? - Oh, around, er...
0:45:56 > 0:45:58..352.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05You did it.
0:46:06 > 0:46:10- Fastest man on the planet. - Hot dog!
0:46:10 > 0:46:13- I'm so proud of you! - She did it, baby.
0:46:13 > 0:46:16- You knew she would. - She was fine. She was just fine.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19Now let me see your foot.
0:46:21 > 0:46:25- Good God! You're covered in blood! - No, that's just beet juice.
0:46:25 > 0:46:29- I crashed into a beet field. - What?!- I crashed in a beet field!
0:46:29 > 0:46:32THEY LAUGH
0:46:32 > 0:46:35Let me get you cleaned up.
0:46:35 > 0:46:37Heavens, what is this? Electrical tape?
0:46:37 > 0:46:40Yeah. Odie just slammed it on.
0:46:40 > 0:46:45All I could think about was getting home to see you.
0:46:50 > 0:46:52I'm so proud of you.
0:46:56 > 0:47:00- Now, this is gonna sting a little bit.- Argh!
0:47:00 > 0:47:03Oh, this is useless. Come to the bathroom.
0:47:03 > 0:47:07- Don't get beet juice on the carpet! - I won't.
0:47:07 > 0:47:10- Argh! Too hot! - Don't be a baby.
0:47:11 > 0:47:14Was the press there?
0:47:14 > 0:47:17Er, some. But, er...
0:47:17 > 0:47:21..Carl and everyone should be on the wires by now.
0:47:29 > 0:47:31What is it?
0:47:33 > 0:47:35Kate?
0:47:38 > 0:47:44I've been famous, for better or worse, for a long time now and...
0:47:45 > 0:47:50..I wonder if you know what it really means.
0:47:50 > 0:47:54Yeah, I had my fair share of press on Hell's Angels.
0:47:54 > 0:47:56I'm used to it.
0:47:58 > 0:48:01Are you?
0:48:04 > 0:48:06Howard, we're...
0:48:08 > 0:48:11We're not like everyone else.
0:48:13 > 0:48:17Too many acute angles. Too many...eccentricities.
0:48:17 > 0:48:21You have to be very careful not to...
0:48:22 > 0:48:26..let people in or they'll make us into freaks.
0:48:26 > 0:48:30Kate, they can't get in here. We're safe.
0:48:30 > 0:48:33Oh. Oh.
0:48:33 > 0:48:35They can always get in.
0:48:36 > 0:48:40When... When my brother k-killed himself,
0:48:40 > 0:48:43there were photographers at the funeral.
0:48:44 > 0:48:48There's no decency to it!
0:48:59 > 0:49:02You know, sometimes I...
0:49:04 > 0:49:07..I get these feelings, Katie.
0:49:10 > 0:49:13I get these ideas, these...
0:49:16 > 0:49:20..crazy ideas about, er...
0:49:21 > 0:49:27..things that may not... things that may not really be there.
0:49:28 > 0:49:31Yeah.
0:49:36 > 0:49:42Sometimes I truly feel that I'm...losing my mind.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53And if I did, it would...
0:49:55 > 0:49:58..be like flying blind.
0:50:04 > 0:50:07Do you understand?
0:50:10 > 0:50:13You taught me to fly, Howard.
0:50:16 > 0:50:18I'll take the wheel.
0:50:29 > 0:50:32FANFARE
0:50:32 > 0:50:34'Smashing all records,
0:50:34 > 0:50:37'Howard Hughes outdoes Jules Verne's wildest dreams,
0:50:37 > 0:50:40'around the world from New York to New York in four days,
0:50:40 > 0:50:43'even beating Wylie Post's mark by over three days.
0:50:43 > 0:50:48'Aviation history is written, when his Lockheed monoplane returns.
0:50:48 > 0:50:53'A daring aviator, a true pioneer of the world's airways.
0:50:53 > 0:50:56'New York to Paris, he cuts Lindbergh's time in half.
0:50:56 > 0:50:59'Then on to Moscow. 35 hours out of New York,
0:50:59 > 0:51:03'he roars across Siberia's trackless wastes. 60 hours out of New York,
0:51:03 > 0:51:06'he heads for Alaska, most hazardous hop of all.
0:51:06 > 0:51:09'Continuing the terrific pace, he comes home,
0:51:09 > 0:51:12'bringing new laurels to American aviation.
0:51:12 > 0:51:15'Hughes and his crew may find...'
0:51:21 > 0:51:26You won't believe this. Howard Hughes has bought control of TWA.
0:51:28 > 0:51:31I thought Mr Hughes was flying around the world.
0:51:31 > 0:51:35Apparently he did it while he was flying, over the radio.
0:51:41 > 0:51:45I have heard some disquieting rumours about Mr Hughes.
0:51:45 > 0:51:49I'd like to know everything there is to know about Mr Hughes.
0:51:52 > 0:51:57I'd like you to attend to that for me...thoroughly.
0:51:57 > 0:52:01- "The Pantages is glittering tonight!"- Howard! This way!
0:52:01 > 0:52:04Mr Hughes, how was your flight?!
0:52:04 > 0:52:06Miss Hepburn, when are you gonna name the day?!
0:52:06 > 0:52:10Over here, Mr Hughes. What's the next movie, Howard?
0:52:10 > 0:52:14Right here, Howard. How many records are you gonna set?
0:52:14 > 0:52:18Come on, Howard. Give us a smile. It won't kill you!
0:52:18 > 0:52:21- Raise your head a little. - Over here. Don't forget this side!
0:52:21 > 0:52:25When are you flying around the world again? Are you gonna fly with Kate?
0:52:25 > 0:52:29- Did you get lonely without her? - Have you talked to Lindbergh yet?
0:52:29 > 0:52:33Mr Hughes, where's Linda Darnell tonight?
0:52:33 > 0:52:37- Right here, Mr Hughes.- Are you talking more famous than Lindbergh?!
0:52:37 > 0:52:41You know, fame is supposed to be my turf.
0:52:43 > 0:52:45LB!
0:52:48 > 0:52:51If you don't get more distinguished every time I see you.
0:52:51 > 0:52:53You look so beautiful.
0:53:02 > 0:53:06< Mr Randolph Scott and his handsome...
0:53:10 > 0:53:14Don't worry about it, Howard. She's just working the room.
0:53:14 > 0:53:16It's her job, baby.
0:53:18 > 0:53:22< Southern tigress Ava Gardner dazzles the room tonight.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25< She's the new star of the MGM galaxy.
0:53:25 > 0:53:29< And believe you me...
0:53:30 > 0:53:35Well, Jane Eyre has been selling popcorn for over 100 years.
0:53:48 > 0:53:50TOILET FLUSHES
0:54:14 > 0:54:17Hello.
0:54:18 > 0:54:20Hello.
0:54:24 > 0:54:27Could you reach me a towel?
0:54:34 > 0:54:37I, er...
0:54:37 > 0:54:40I really, er...can't do that.
0:54:40 > 0:54:43I'm sorry.
0:55:04 > 0:55:06HE GASPS
0:55:06 > 0:55:11I'm an idiot. I'm a complete idiot and I'm sorry.
0:55:11 > 0:55:15- Forget it. - No, I'm a vain, preening ass
0:55:15 > 0:55:19- without a single redeeming feature. - No, you have very good teeth.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22SHE LAUGHS Come on.
0:55:22 > 0:55:25I've got a better idea. Take me flying.
0:55:25 > 0:55:29- Or better yet, I'll take you flying. - Do your worst, Miss Hepburn.
0:55:30 > 0:55:34# Some of these days You're gonna miss me, honey... #
0:55:37 > 0:55:41Don't be so squirmy. You'll get on famously with Father and Mother.
0:55:41 > 0:55:45I'm sure they'll like you, too, once they get to know you.
0:55:45 > 0:55:48# You'll be so sorry when I'm away
0:55:48 > 0:55:53# Now you're gonna be lonely Just for me only. #
0:55:53 > 0:55:56- Hello! - Kath, hello!
0:55:56 > 0:55:58Kathy!
0:55:59 > 0:56:04- Who's that with the camera? - That's my ex-husband, Ludlow.
0:56:04 > 0:56:09- Father and Mother are mad about him. - What the hell is he doing here?!
0:56:09 > 0:56:11Oh, he's here all the time.
0:56:11 > 0:56:13Hello!
0:56:13 > 0:56:15Sorry we're late.
0:56:15 > 0:56:18- Hello, darling! - Mom!
0:56:18 > 0:56:20- Dad! - Darling!
0:56:20 > 0:56:23- Uncle Willy! - Oh, who have we got here?
0:56:23 > 0:56:25Don't feel self-conscious.
0:56:25 > 0:56:29Attention, please! This is Howard.
0:56:29 > 0:56:31Howard, welcome.
0:56:31 > 0:56:35- Don't worry, he's had his lunch! - THEY LAUGH
0:56:35 > 0:56:38He likes you. That's unusual.
0:56:38 > 0:56:42We pay our devotion to the arts here. A colony we created.
0:56:42 > 0:56:45Julian's a painter. Abstract, of course.
0:56:45 > 0:56:48Why paint something real when you can just take a picture?
0:56:48 > 0:56:51Where do you stand on politics, Mr Hughes?
0:56:51 > 0:56:54- Excuse me? - We're all socialists here.
0:56:54 > 0:56:57Oh, we are not.
0:56:57 > 0:57:02- You've met Mr Roosevelt. What make you of him? - HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:57:02 > 0:57:06- What are you sniggering at? - What was that?
0:57:06 > 0:57:11- You just sniggered.- No, no. The dog seems to be crushing my feet.
0:57:11 > 0:57:14- Oh, my God! - Buster!
0:57:14 > 0:57:17- SHE LAUGHS - Don't you like dogs?
0:57:17 > 0:57:22- I will not have you sniggering at Mr Roosevelt. Please leave.- I wasn't.
0:57:22 > 0:57:25- Everyone likes dogs. - Perhaps he had a bad experience.
0:57:25 > 0:57:30- Does it stick in your craw that Howard gets more press than you? - A bad experience with a dog?- No. No.
0:57:30 > 0:57:35- You were such a shy creature. - Perhaps it was a very large dog.
0:57:35 > 0:57:39- The press can be a damn nuisance. - Was it a Doberman?
0:57:39 > 0:57:41- Or a dachshund? - Neither, sir.
0:57:41 > 0:57:46- Dachshunds are little dogs, dear. - They should be lined up and shot.
0:57:46 > 0:57:51- What's that Spanish painting? - The Goya?- The Goya, yes.
0:57:51 > 0:57:54Yes, Mexicans. Poor lambs.
0:57:54 > 0:57:58- What was that called?- That's the vulgar press. Read much, Mr Hughes?
0:58:01 > 0:58:05- I try to stay up to snuff on the trade journals.- Snuff?!
0:58:05 > 0:58:10- These would be flying magazines? - What? What was that?
0:58:10 > 0:58:14- He's a little deaf. - You read flying magazines?
0:58:14 > 0:58:19- Trade journals on engineering, aviation.- We read books.
0:58:19 > 0:58:24- Mm-hmm.- Howard has to read journals cos he's designing a new aeroplane.
0:58:24 > 0:58:26Oh, really? Do tell.
0:58:29 > 0:58:31Well, er...
0:58:31 > 0:58:34..it's quite exciting, actually.
0:58:34 > 0:58:37It's a spy plane for the air corps.
0:58:37 > 0:58:42A twin-engine plane with, I must admit, some unique design features.
0:58:42 > 0:58:46- You see, it has these two booms... - Luddy built a bird house once.
0:58:46 > 0:58:50- Do you remember that, dear? - Yes, well, a mere trifle, darling.
0:58:50 > 0:58:54I remember the painting. It's called May 18-0-something.
0:58:54 > 0:58:57- Goya is vastly overrated. All the Spaniards are.- Nonsense!
0:58:57 > 0:58:59- Picasso is sacred. - I'm a urologist.
0:58:59 > 0:59:03- It was quite aesthetic. - Picasso is a sacred monster.
0:59:03 > 0:59:07- The birds didn't like it, but bats do.- I'll bet.
0:59:07 > 0:59:11- Do speak up, dear. - Nothing. Nothing, Mrs Hepburn.
0:59:11 > 0:59:15Why speak? I can't abide people who speak but have nothing to say.
0:59:15 > 0:59:18Did you go to mechanics school to learn all this airplane guff?
0:59:18 > 0:59:23- No. No, I didn't.- Howard just flew round the world in three days.
0:59:23 > 0:59:27- We've had enough about airplanes. - How did you make all that money?
0:59:27 > 0:59:31- We don't care about money here, Mr Hughes.- That's cos you have it.
0:59:34 > 0:59:37Would you repeat that?
0:59:37 > 0:59:41You don't care about money because you've always had it.
0:59:41 > 0:59:44- How did you... - Excuse me, I'm speaking.- OK.
0:59:44 > 0:59:47- Thank you. - All right.
0:59:47 > 0:59:50Some of us choose to work for a living. Speaking of which,
0:59:50 > 0:59:56I have more of that "airplane guff" to attend to. Excuse me.
1:00:03 > 1:00:07Hmm, seems a rather high-strung chap.
1:00:07 > 1:00:11You're a fine bunch of bullies, aren't you?
1:00:11 > 1:00:15- Have you talked to Mr Mayer about doing Jane Eyre?- He won't budge.
1:00:15 > 1:00:19Too arty. I'm convinced the man hasn't made anything longer than...
1:00:22 > 1:00:26No fair kicking. You have to use the mallet.
1:00:28 > 1:00:32Really, though, darling, you can't retire from the battle like that
1:00:32 > 1:00:35- or they'll never respect you. - Katie, I don't understand.
1:00:35 > 1:00:38You were like a different person in there.
1:00:38 > 1:00:41Oh, they just expect me to be a certain way.
1:00:42 > 1:00:47There's only one real Kate and that's your Kate.
1:00:49 > 1:00:53"And over in Hollywood, aviation tycoon Howard Hughes,
1:00:53 > 1:00:57"seems to be cooking something big. Even as he edits his newest picture,
1:00:57 > 1:01:00"he's been secretly meeting with the US Air Corps.
1:01:00 > 1:01:03"We applaud his patriotism and look forward to his newest..."
1:01:03 > 1:01:07Do you know how many Allied ships we lost because of U-boat attacks?
1:01:07 > 1:01:10- No. - 681 ships. Just this year, so far.
1:01:10 > 1:01:14The army needs a new airplane to fly the troops over to Europe.
1:01:14 > 1:01:17These ships, they're sitting ducks for the U-boats.
1:01:17 > 1:01:20- You want to build a troop carrier plane.- Stop thinking like an insect.
1:01:20 > 1:01:24Not just a plane to carry troops, a plane to carry everything.
1:01:24 > 1:01:28The troops and the jeeps and the tanks and what-not! Take a look.
1:01:29 > 1:01:31No, other side.
1:01:32 > 1:01:37I figure around 200 feet from nose to tail, wingspan around 300.
1:01:37 > 1:01:40We'll need about 24,000 horsepower.
1:01:41 > 1:01:44Now, this, this is just what Kaiser and the army are looking for.
1:01:44 > 1:01:47- They'll pay for it this time.- Christ! What are you getting us into?
1:01:47 > 1:01:52It's a big plane, so I'm calling it the Hercules. Swell name, isn't it?
1:01:52 > 1:01:56- How heavy do you imagine this is? - I'd say around 200 tons.
1:01:59 > 1:02:01Well, I didn't say it was gonna be easy.
1:02:01 > 1:02:04All right, boys, rig up something like this.
1:02:04 > 1:02:07It should give proper uplift ratios,
1:02:07 > 1:02:10reducing the need for additional torque support on the front.
1:02:10 > 1:02:13We're not getting enough production out of Jane Russell's breasts.
1:02:13 > 1:02:17I want smooth titties, gentlemen. Smooth titties.
1:02:18 > 1:02:20It's all in engineering, isn't it?
1:02:20 > 1:02:23Howard, do you really think they're gonna let you
1:02:23 > 1:02:28- put out a whole movie just about tits?- Sure! Who doesn't like tits?
2:59:50 > 2:59:57.
3:00:08 > 3:00:11Afternoon, gentlemen. Sorry I'm late.
3:00:11 > 3:00:14Will the secretary record that Mr Hughes has arrived,
3:00:14 > 3:00:17and that this session is now called to order?
3:00:17 > 3:00:20Mr Hughes, members of the committee,
3:00:20 > 3:00:23I have reviewed Mr Hughes's photoplay, entitled The Outlaw.
3:00:23 > 3:00:26I can state that I have never seen anything quite so unacceptable
3:00:26 > 3:00:30as the shots of the mammaries of the character named Rio.
3:00:30 > 3:00:33For almost half the picture, the girl's mammaries,
3:00:33 > 3:00:38which are quite large and prominent, are shockingly uncovered.
3:00:38 > 3:00:40For this reason, I have concluded
3:00:40 > 3:00:43the picture appeals only to prurient interest
3:00:43 > 3:00:46and should be denied the Motion Picture Association's approval.
3:00:46 > 3:00:50Really, Mr Hughes...!
3:00:50 > 3:00:53- Thank you, Mr Breen. Mr Hughes. - Thank you, Mr Chairman.
3:00:53 > 3:00:56Mr Breen. It's good to see you again. I haven't seen you all
3:00:56 > 3:01:00since that situation with all the violence in Scarface.
3:01:00 > 3:01:03This situation revolves around Miss Russell's mammaries.
3:01:03 > 3:01:06Mr Breen feels they are too prominent,
3:01:06 > 3:01:09more prominent than other mammaries have been up on the screen.
3:01:09 > 3:01:12Well, I hope to dispel that notion.
3:01:15 > 3:01:17Jean Harlow...
3:01:18 > 3:01:21..Ann Sheridan...
3:01:22 > 3:01:24..Irene Dunne, Claudette Colbert...
3:01:25 > 3:01:27..Rita Hayworth,
3:01:27 > 3:01:31Betty Grable and the lovely Miss Jane Russell.
3:01:31 > 3:01:34Now, all these shots, save for Miss Russell,
3:01:34 > 3:01:38were enlarged from pictures that received Mr Breen's seal of approval.
3:01:39 > 3:01:44As you've probably noticed by now, they all contain...mammaries.
3:01:44 > 3:01:47I will ask my associate to join me now.
3:01:47 > 3:01:51May I introduce Dr Ludlow Branson of Columbia University.
3:01:53 > 3:02:00Dr Branson...is a mathematician of some note. Yes.
3:02:00 > 3:02:05And he will now demonstrate that, in fact, Miss Russell's mammaries
3:02:05 > 3:02:09are no more prominent than any of these other fine ladies'.
3:02:12 > 3:02:15Doctor?
3:02:15 > 3:02:17Doctor?
3:02:17 > 3:02:20You forgot your callipers.
3:02:20 > 3:02:22Oh...
3:02:25 > 3:02:28Er...gentlemen, Mr Hughes...
3:02:29 > 3:02:33Er...let us commence
3:02:33 > 3:02:37by calling this mammary exhibit number one.
3:02:37 > 3:02:42Now, you'll see that the length of the actual cleavage,
3:02:42 > 3:02:44if I may,
3:02:44 > 3:02:49is...five inches and a quarter.
3:02:49 > 3:02:53- Now, if we move to Mammary exhib... - "Dateline Hollywoodland,
3:02:53 > 3:02:56"movie tycoon, Howard Hughes, must have the greatest job in the land.
3:02:56 > 3:03:00"Each and every night, the guy has to escort a different beautiful woman
3:03:00 > 3:03:04"to a different dazzling event. The TWA king always talks up his airline
3:03:04 > 3:03:07"as he escorts a succession of eye-catching women..."
3:03:07 > 3:03:10FANFARE
3:03:10 > 3:03:13The Hercules, ladies and gentlemen. The Hercules!
3:03:13 > 3:03:18- A plane, a boat, a flying city!- Now, don't forget every bill comes to me.
3:03:18 > 3:03:22They don't pay for anything. Those men decide whether to fund the plane,
3:03:22 > 3:03:26- so I need them real happy. You do what it takes.- You betcha, boss.
3:03:26 > 3:03:29How about the girls? How are they in the bomb department?
3:03:29 > 3:03:32Let's put it this way, it'll be a regular boob buffet.
3:03:32 > 3:03:36The gentlemen from the air corps won't have trouble scoring tonight.
3:03:36 > 3:03:40Inside, 700 brave American soldiers, a dozen Sherman tanks,
3:03:40 > 3:03:43all winging their way over the Atlantic,
3:03:43 > 3:03:46free from the threat of the U-boats below.
3:03:46 > 3:03:50Could Jules Verne himself ever have imagined anything so magnificent?
3:03:50 > 3:03:54Could he have imagined her wingspan, longer than a football field?
3:03:54 > 3:03:57- Don't you see how this demeans me? - Since when do you care
3:03:57 > 3:04:00- about the scandal rags?- Every picture of you and another woman
3:04:00 > 3:04:04is like a slap in the face. Don't you understand that?
3:04:04 > 3:04:07- That's overstating it just a bit. - Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers,
3:04:07 > 3:04:11Linda Darnell, Joan Fontaine and now Bette Davis, for God's sake!
3:04:13 > 3:04:17Look...they're Crackerjack candy. They don't mean anything to me.
3:04:17 > 3:04:20Ohhh, very nice(!)
3:04:22 > 3:04:26Well, you're the one that said that all men are predators, right?
3:04:26 > 3:04:28I mean, it's all in... Darwin. Remember?
3:04:28 > 3:04:32And am I to expect this behaviour to continue after the wedding?
3:04:32 > 3:04:36What is really bothering you, Kate? Is it the women or the publicity?
3:04:41 > 3:04:45Can't you eat ice cream from a bowl like everyone else in the world?
3:04:45 > 3:04:48PHONE RINGS
3:04:54 > 3:04:57Don't you dare!
3:05:07 > 3:05:11Yeah?
3:05:11 > 3:05:14No, Odie, this is not a good time.
3:05:14 > 3:05:17For Christ's sakes, we can't make the Hercules
3:05:17 > 3:05:20if we don't have any aluminium. Wait.
3:05:20 > 3:05:23No, I can hear you better now. Tell the War Production Board
3:05:23 > 3:05:26that this is an essential strategic operation.
3:05:26 > 3:05:29If they're giving aluminium to Douglas and Boeing,
3:05:29 > 3:05:34- they can give some to Hughes Aircraft.- Don't set the ice cream...
3:05:34 > 3:05:38Think of something else. If we can't get aluminium, find another way.
3:05:38 > 3:05:42Christ! I don't know. We'll find some alloy that works just as well.
3:05:42 > 3:05:44Right. Look...
3:05:44 > 3:05:47If we can't get any aluminium, we'll use wood.
3:05:47 > 3:05:50- You can't make a 200-ton plane out of wood.- Why not?
3:05:50 > 3:05:53- It's a flying boat, right? What do they make boats out of?- Oak.
3:05:53 > 3:05:56Think of the Hercules like a flying Spanish galleon.
3:05:56 > 3:05:59Spanish galleons can weigh 1200 tons.
3:05:59 > 3:06:02Good luck today, huh?
3:06:02 > 3:06:05We just have to find the right wood. Something light but strong.
3:06:05 > 3:06:08- Morning, Kate. - Pine, cedar, maybe birch.
3:06:18 > 3:06:20Catch!
3:06:23 > 3:06:26From my farm.
3:06:26 > 3:06:28If you like it, I can get you a bushel.
3:06:40 > 3:06:43Trouble with Mr Hughes?
3:06:48 > 3:06:52There's too much Howard Hughes in Howard Hughes.
3:06:53 > 3:06:56That's the trouble.
3:07:05 > 3:07:07JAZZ PLAYS ON RADIO
3:07:08 > 3:07:11Beautiful!
3:07:12 > 3:07:15Don't you even take Christmas off?
3:07:15 > 3:07:18Nice to see you, Bob. Sorry, I've got grease on my hands.
3:07:18 > 3:07:20Have we got something to show you.
3:07:24 > 3:07:27Take a look. The XF-11 reconnaissance flier.
3:07:27 > 3:07:31Spy plane, really. Designed every inch of her myself.
3:07:31 > 3:07:34She's got a top speed of 450,
3:07:34 > 3:07:37which means she can outrun anything they throw against her.
3:07:37 > 3:07:40After the Japs stole my H-1 design for their Zeros,
3:07:40 > 3:07:47I figured I needed to do one better. Yeah. She's my Buck Rogers ship.
3:07:47 > 3:07:51- She's a looker. - OK, what have you got for me?
3:07:58 > 3:08:00Jiminy Cricket!
3:08:00 > 3:08:04Seating capacity for 60. Wingspan, 123 feet.
3:08:04 > 3:08:07Four double Cyclone engines. Her ceiling's 25,000 feet.
3:08:07 > 3:08:11- Gross weight? - 86,000. Wing loading of 41lbs.
3:08:11 > 3:08:14Less drag on the plane in thinner air.
3:08:14 > 3:08:17So high cruise power, you're looking at a top speed of around 340?
3:08:17 > 3:08:20Giving her a range of about 3,000 miles.
3:08:22 > 3:08:25- Cross-country. - Non-stop.
3:08:26 > 3:08:30Bob...you know something? You are a son of a bitch!
3:08:41 > 3:08:45Yeah. Bob, you got something on your suit.
3:08:45 > 3:08:48- Hmm? - Yeah. On your lapel there.
3:08:48 > 3:08:51You got something on your lapel.
3:08:53 > 3:08:56Right there, Bob.
3:08:57 > 3:09:00You missed it. Right there.
3:09:00 > 3:09:05Clean it off, would you? Here. Thanks.
3:09:08 > 3:09:11Now throw it away.
3:09:13 > 3:09:16No, over there.
3:09:20 > 3:09:22Thanks.
3:09:22 > 3:09:25So...what do you call her?
3:09:25 > 3:09:28- The Constellation. But we can change that.- No, no, no.
3:09:28 > 3:09:31It's pretty. I like her.
3:09:32 > 3:09:36What kind of deal can you give me? What kind of deal can you give me?
3:09:36 > 3:09:39We'll give you the first 40 planes off the assembly line.
3:09:39 > 3:09:42- That gives us two years' exclusivity with her.- Hell, more than that.
3:09:42 > 3:09:46United and American don't have the imagination for a plane like this.
3:09:46 > 3:09:49Two years ahead of Juan Trippe then.
3:09:54 > 3:09:58- How much? - 450,000 each.
3:09:58 > 3:10:01That's 18 million for the first four.
3:10:01 > 3:10:05TWA can't afford that. The damn airline's flat broke.
3:10:09 > 3:10:12Guess I'll just Have to pay for 'em myself.
3:10:12 > 3:10:15Build them, Bob. Send the bill to Noah Dietrich.
3:10:15 > 3:10:17Oh, and thank you.
3:10:20 > 3:10:23Merry Christmas.
3:10:23 > 3:10:27"You have just placed the largest order for airplanes in history!
3:10:27 > 3:10:31- "They sent a bill for 18million!" - Don't get hysterical on me, Noah.
3:10:31 > 3:10:34- It isn't good for you - "This is a lot of money for planes."
3:10:34 > 3:10:37- Yes, I know it's a lot of money. - "It's too damn much."
3:10:37 > 3:10:40- "You think I got it in petty cash?" - I should have told you earlier.
3:10:40 > 3:10:44- It slipped my mind. - "Slipped your mind?!"- Right.
3:10:44 > 3:10:47- I'll get back to you.- "How could 18 million slip your mind?"- Bye.
3:10:47 > 3:10:51Hey, honey. What are you doing home?
3:10:55 > 3:10:59You're not one for tears and, well, neither am I,
3:10:59 > 3:11:02so it's best to come out with it.
3:11:05 > 3:11:09I've met someone. I've fallen in love and I'm moving out.
3:11:11 > 3:11:15If I could make it any more gentle,
3:11:15 > 3:11:19I would but I...can't.
3:11:19 > 3:11:23So...there we both are.
3:11:25 > 3:11:28Let's be honest.
3:11:28 > 3:11:32It's all been a grand adventure, but it couldn't possibly last.
3:11:33 > 3:11:36We're too alike, you and I.
3:11:38 > 3:11:42- You met someone? - Someone more appropriate.
3:11:42 > 3:11:44To me, I mean.
3:11:46 > 3:11:49What...what does that mean, "more appropriate"?
3:11:49 > 3:11:54Oh, someone more attuned to my needs.
3:11:54 > 3:12:00- Look at me, Katie. Stop acting. - Oh, I'm not acting!
3:12:04 > 3:12:07I wonder if you even know any more.
3:12:12 > 3:12:15Don't be unkind.
3:12:17 > 3:12:22You, er...you want to go?
3:12:22 > 3:12:24Huh?
3:12:24 > 3:12:27Go on.
3:12:27 > 3:12:30Actresses are cheap in this town, darling.
3:12:30 > 3:12:34- And I got a lot of money.- Howard! Please, this is beneath you.- No, no.
3:12:34 > 3:12:37This is exactly me. You come in and tell me you're leaving me
3:12:37 > 3:12:41and you have the nerve to expect graciousness?
3:12:41 > 3:12:43I expect a little maturity.
3:12:43 > 3:12:46I expect you to face the situation like an adult.
3:12:46 > 3:12:50Don't talk down to me! Don't you ever talk down to me!
3:12:50 > 3:12:53You are a movie star, nothing more!
3:13:14 > 3:13:17DOWNBEAT JAZZ MUSIC
3:14:00 > 3:14:04- PHONE RINGS - 'Don't answer it.'
3:14:06 > 3:14:09What is it, Howard?
3:14:09 > 3:14:12Hey, Noah, I need you to get over to Penney's
3:14:12 > 3:14:16- and buy me some new clothes. - Penney's isn't open.- Oh, shit!
3:14:16 > 3:14:19- It's two in the morning. - Yeah, that's right.
3:14:19 > 3:14:22Well, first thing tomorrow, then, all right?
3:14:22 > 3:14:25I need two new suits off the rack. One light and one dark.
3:14:25 > 3:14:28Three white shirts and three pairs of white tennis shoes. Got that?
3:14:28 > 3:14:31- Yeah. - No. No. Make it Woolworths.
3:14:31 > 3:14:35- Woolworths. - No. No. Penney's. Penney's.
3:14:35 > 3:14:39All right, then. I'll get into it as soon as I can, Howard.
3:14:40 > 3:14:43- Noah, do you have a recorder? - No.
3:14:43 > 3:14:46Are you recording this conversation?
3:14:46 > 3:14:49- No. - OK... I trust you.
3:14:51 > 3:14:54- Howard?- Listen, I need those suits first thing tomorrow, all right?
3:14:54 > 3:14:57- All right.- Wait, wait, did I say Penney's or Woolworths?
3:14:57 > 3:15:01- Penney's - Better make it Sears.
3:15:01 > 3:15:03All right, then. Sears.
3:15:06 > 3:15:09I'm sorry, honey.
3:15:09 > 3:15:12If I don't answer, he'll just call back.
3:15:32 > 3:15:35Stop there, if you please, Miss Domergue.
3:15:40 > 3:15:43Have you had surgery, Miss Domergue?
3:15:43 > 3:15:45No.
3:15:47 > 3:15:50Do you have scars of any kind?
3:15:50 > 3:15:53No.
3:15:54 > 3:15:57Wipe off your lipstick.
3:16:01 > 3:16:03That's much better.
3:16:03 > 3:16:08Now, you understand that you'd be under contract to me, personally?
3:16:08 > 3:16:11Do you know what that means?
3:16:19 > 3:16:21Turn around for me.
3:16:29 > 3:16:33Very nice. You move well.
3:16:35 > 3:16:38You live with your family, do you?
3:16:39 > 3:16:43- Yes. - That's nice.
3:16:44 > 3:16:47Tell me something.
3:16:47 > 3:16:50How old are you, Miss Domergue?
3:16:52 > 3:16:5515.
3:16:58 > 3:17:00Holy mother...
3:17:03 > 3:17:06BIG BAND MUSIC PLAYS
3:17:17 > 3:17:21Well, a car picks me up every morning at eight and off I go.
3:17:21 > 3:17:24I'm getting my high-school diploma.
3:17:24 > 3:17:28- Howard thinks that education is important.- That's right.
3:17:28 > 3:17:33And then after classes I'm off for elocution and grooming and fittings.
3:17:33 > 3:17:35Well, blow me down!
3:17:35 > 3:17:38Don't tell me Pan Am's working out of the Cocoanut Grove?
3:17:38 > 3:17:41- Hello, Jack.- Hello, Juan. - Helen. Good to see you.
3:17:41 > 3:17:44- How are you, Howard? - Good. Thanks.
3:17:44 > 3:17:47- This is Miss Faith Domergue. - Sit down.- Pleasure.
3:17:47 > 3:17:51- What are you doing out here?- I'm meeting with Douglas about the DC-4.
3:17:51 > 3:17:54That's our new plane. It is gonna be a pip, let me tell you.
3:17:54 > 3:17:58- How's the Constellation coming? - Good.
3:17:58 > 3:18:03- Great.- So, how about letting me steal a peek?
3:18:05 > 3:18:08I don't think so.
3:18:08 > 3:18:11I should be cross with you. You stole Ray Loewy from us.
3:18:11 > 3:18:14- He's doing our interior design. That's right.- He was doing ours.
3:18:17 > 3:18:21- So...what are your colours? - Stop fishing!
3:18:23 > 3:18:27So, do you have buttons or zippers?
3:18:27 > 3:18:30I'm sorry?
3:18:30 > 3:18:34Buttons or zippers? For the drapes on the sleeping berths.
3:18:36 > 3:18:40Er, zippers.
3:18:41 > 3:18:43Oh...
3:18:47 > 3:18:50Buttons?
3:18:52 > 3:18:55Uh-huh.
3:18:58 > 3:19:01So, I suppose you'll be expanding on down to Mexico?
3:19:01 > 3:19:05- Why do you say that? - Well, your range is 3,000 miles.
3:19:05 > 3:19:08I imagine you'd expand from Los Angeles to Mexico
3:19:08 > 3:19:12- and maybe on down to South America. - Good idea. Anyone got a pen?
3:19:12 > 3:19:15Or across the Atlantic.
3:19:15 > 3:19:19Now, honey, you've had enough of this ice cream. Give me that spoon.
3:19:19 > 3:19:22You don't want to get your gloves all sticky.
3:19:24 > 3:19:27Isn't that too far?
3:19:30 > 3:19:34New York...to Newfoundland...
3:19:35 > 3:19:38..to Ireland...
3:19:41 > 3:19:43..to Paris.
3:19:49 > 3:19:53Well, Pan Am welcomes you.
3:19:54 > 3:19:56We're overbooked as it is.
3:19:56 > 3:20:00It's such a burden doing it all on your own, let me tell you.
3:20:00 > 3:20:03- So when's the Connie gonna be ready? - Next year, maybe. DC-four?
3:20:03 > 3:20:08- Next year. - Well, we look forward to her, then.
3:20:08 > 3:20:11And I to the Connie.
3:20:11 > 3:20:14I've ordered the next 40 after you.
3:20:15 > 3:20:18- Er, it's Miss...? - Domergue.- Domergue. Yes, of course.
3:20:18 > 3:20:22- Was that a rumba or a samba you were doing out there?- It was a samba.
3:20:22 > 3:20:26A samba, yes. Howard, I never knew you were such a good dancer.
3:20:27 > 3:20:29Helen. Jack.
3:20:31 > 3:20:34Good going(!) You just gave away our entire post-war strategy.
3:20:34 > 3:20:38- He can't stop us.- He's Pan Am, Howard, he can stop anything!
3:20:40 > 3:20:44- Waiter, Scotch.- I don't know what in the hell you're so giddy about.
3:20:44 > 3:20:46Excuse me.
3:21:06 > 3:21:08Agh.
3:21:18 > 3:21:20HE TUTS
3:22:32 > 3:22:36Jack! All right, I want you to get in touch with Mr Joyce
3:22:36 > 3:22:39and Mr Berg, those are my boys in Washington.
3:22:39 > 3:22:42Set up a meeting with Jesse Jones - Secretary of Commerce.
3:22:42 > 3:22:46- Slow down.- We're gonna need terminals in Ireland and France.
3:22:46 > 3:22:49If that shit ass thinks that he owns the entire goddamn world,
3:22:49 > 3:22:53- he's got another thing comin'! - We gotta think about Mexico!
3:22:53 > 3:22:56To hell with Mexico! No-one airline should have a monopoly
3:22:56 > 3:23:00on flying the Atlantic! It just isn't fair! He owns Pan Am, Congress,
3:23:00 > 3:23:03the Civil Aeronautics Board but he does NOT own the sky!
3:23:03 > 3:23:07We are in a fight with that son of a bitch and I'm not gonna lose!
3:23:07 > 3:23:10I've been fightin' Ivy League pricks like him my whole life!
3:23:10 > 3:23:14And fire Ray Loewy. You goddamn heard me?! Fire Ray Loewy!
3:23:14 > 3:23:18He's spyin' for Trippe! That shit-heel knew all about the buttons!
3:23:18 > 3:23:21Spies in my midst, Jack. Spies in my midst.
3:23:25 > 3:23:28# I'll be seeing you... #
3:23:36 > 3:23:38- Hello, Howard. - Roland.
3:23:40 > 3:23:43So...what can I do for ya?
3:23:45 > 3:23:49'I want all the pictures you have of Kate Hepburn and Spencer Tracy,
3:23:49 > 3:23:53'all the negatives, and I want you to kill the story.'
3:23:53 > 3:23:57Howard, he's a married man, he's a Catholic,
3:23:57 > 3:24:01they're both movies stars - fair game all around.
3:24:07 > 3:24:10My office knows where I am, Howard.
3:24:10 > 3:24:15I'm not gonna kill you, Roland... I don't do that.
3:24:20 > 3:24:23- How much? - Not for sale.
3:24:25 > 3:24:27'How much?'
3:24:27 > 3:24:30Not...for sale.
3:24:31 > 3:24:33SIGHS
3:24:34 > 3:24:40You ever cheat on your wife, Roland? Hm? You ever screw a coloured girl?
3:24:41 > 3:24:44You ever steal anything? You ever hurt anyone?
3:24:46 > 3:24:51- Good night, Howard.- You ever go to a Communist Party meeting, Roland?
3:25:01 > 3:25:04TWA stock.
3:25:04 > 3:25:06How much?
3:25:06 > 3:25:10- 50,000 shares? - 10.
3:25:12 > 3:25:14All right.
3:25:16 > 3:25:19This isn't gonna be that easy.
3:25:19 > 3:25:23He's been making big contributions on both sides of the aisle
3:25:23 > 3:25:26and Jack Frye is out there lobbying everybody in town.
3:25:26 > 3:25:30The French and British ambassadors are all lined up on his side now.
3:25:30 > 3:25:34I'm telling you, TWA is serious about going international.
3:25:34 > 3:25:36OK...point Mr Hughes.
3:25:36 > 3:25:40Very well. You know what I think? I think it's time for you
3:25:40 > 3:25:43to introduce the Community Airline Bill.
3:25:43 > 3:25:47- Is it done?- My people are finishing it now. I also have to get you
3:25:47 > 3:25:51on the committee investigating the national defence.
3:25:52 > 3:25:55On the committee or chairman?
3:25:56 > 3:25:59You know, I could be much more effective as chairman.
3:25:59 > 3:26:03It's a great public platform. You know, it generates a lot of press.
3:26:03 > 3:26:06- Wasn't Truman chairman of that committee?- Yeah, quite.
3:26:06 > 3:26:10Now he's vice president. Look what he did with it. I think, er...
3:26:11 > 3:26:14I think chairman.
3:26:14 > 3:26:16What do you think?
3:26:17 > 3:26:19Chairman, that is interesting.
3:26:19 > 3:26:23- Yeah.- Er, let me show you these specs for the, er, DC-4.
3:26:23 > 3:26:26What do you think about Trans World Airlines?
3:26:26 > 3:26:29Transcontinental and Western doesn't fit any more.
3:26:29 > 3:26:33We're going international, we need a name that reflects that.
3:26:33 > 3:26:35Trans World is good, kind of peppy.
3:26:35 > 3:26:38TWA, right? Keep the same initials,
3:26:38 > 3:26:42- that way you don't need to repaint any of the planes.- That's you,
3:26:42 > 3:26:45always pinching pennies. Hand me my wrap.
3:26:59 > 3:27:01Knock it off.
3:27:07 > 3:27:09I have something for you.
3:27:10 > 3:27:13Stay here.
3:27:17 > 3:27:20- What the hell is this? - It's a present.
3:27:20 > 3:27:23Go on, open it.
3:27:23 > 3:27:27Oh...a box of trash. You shouldn't have.
3:27:27 > 3:27:30Keep looking. Keep looking.
3:27:33 > 3:27:36It's a Kashmiri sapphire, best in the world.
3:27:36 > 3:27:39- I had my boys all over the damn globe lookin' for this.- Why?
3:27:39 > 3:27:41Because.
3:27:41 > 3:27:43Look.
3:27:43 > 3:27:48- It matches your eyes. - I am not for sale.
3:27:48 > 3:27:52- For Christ's sakes, Ava, it's just a present!- You can't buy me, Howard,
3:27:52 > 3:27:55so stop trying! Don't buy me any more diamonds or sapphires
3:27:55 > 3:28:01- or any other goddamn thing! You can buy me dinner.- Jesus, Ava.
3:28:01 > 3:28:05It's bad enough I have to endure those filthy gym shoes of yours
3:28:05 > 3:28:09but then I get all dolled up and we go out in this old jalopy.
3:28:10 > 3:28:14- Ava...will you marry me? - No, Howard.
3:28:14 > 3:28:18- Why not, for heaven's sake?- In the first place, I don't love you.
3:28:18 > 3:28:21In the second place, I'm still married.
3:28:21 > 3:28:24Look, you got girls stashed all over town!
3:28:24 > 3:28:26You got a damn harem at the Bel-Air!
3:28:26 > 3:28:30- Marry one of your girls. - I'm not gonna marry an employee!
3:28:30 > 3:28:32Jesus Christ, how would that look?!
3:28:38 > 3:28:40What is goin' on?!
3:28:43 > 3:28:45Oh, my God!
3:28:45 > 3:28:48- Goddammit! - Faith!
3:28:49 > 3:28:52- Faith, what the hell...?! - Look out!- Goddamn you!
3:28:52 > 3:28:55What the hell are you doin'?!
3:28:55 > 3:29:00- BYSTANDER:- Hey! Are you OK, lady?! - What are you doing with her?!
3:29:00 > 3:29:03We are going to dinner, that's all!
3:29:03 > 3:29:06- Get that crazy bitch away from me! - Don't you love me any more?!
3:29:06 > 3:29:11- Of course I love you, pork chop! - Look over here! Howard!- Hey!
3:29:11 > 3:29:13PRESS SHOUT
3:29:14 > 3:29:20Juan Trippe is working with Senator Brewster. If the bill becomes law
3:29:20 > 3:29:23we are finished, my friend - Pan Am will have a legal monopoly
3:29:23 > 3:29:27- on international travel.- How can they justify it?! It's un-American!
3:29:27 > 3:29:30Brewster's saying that nationalised foreign carriers
3:29:30 > 3:29:33can offer lower rates cos they don't have to compete,
3:29:33 > 3:29:37so let's get rid of that competition and have a nationalised airline -
3:29:37 > 3:29:40- Pan Am!- I'm not kowtowing to Washington or anyone else!
3:29:40 > 3:29:45- Howard, I need you!- One sec, Odie! We are Trans WORLD Airlines, all right?
3:29:45 > 3:29:49Get me something with a circle or a globe, for God's sake! HE WHISPERS
3:29:49 > 3:29:53Speak up! HE MUTTERS I'm not making a SINGLE cut!
3:29:53 > 3:29:56Tell him I will release it without a seal! I'm gonna talk to Hearst,
3:29:56 > 3:30:00see what press he can give me, but it's gonna come down to a vote,
3:30:00 > 3:30:02so we gotta get senators on our side.
3:30:02 > 3:30:05- What do you want me to do? - Do what Trippe does -
3:30:05 > 3:30:10- see who's up for re-election, make donations!- So bribe senators?
3:30:10 > 3:30:14I don't want them bribed, I want it done legally. I want them bought.
3:30:14 > 3:30:18And put investigators on Brewster. I need to know everything
3:30:18 > 3:30:21about that shitbag - where he goes, what he says and who he screws!
3:30:21 > 3:30:24- Get into it right now, Jack! - You got it.
3:30:30 > 3:30:32Just give me a second.
3:30:33 > 3:30:37- All right, what do you need? - Rudder and elevators.
3:30:37 > 3:30:41These are fine but have Simon and Pete get back to me
3:30:41 > 3:30:45- on the hydraulic assemblies. We need a secondary system here.- OK.
3:30:46 > 3:30:50And, listen, we need to take another look at the wheel.
3:30:50 > 3:30:53- Jesus! The damn wheel?! - Yeah. It just doesn't feel right.
3:30:53 > 3:30:56Christ Almighty, you've seen 8,000 goddamn wheels!
3:30:56 > 3:30:59- Choose one, please. Just one of them.- I know.
3:30:59 > 3:31:04- This one?- I know. This one... this one is pretty close.
3:31:04 > 3:31:06Pretty close.
3:31:40 > 3:31:42- Odie. - Hm?
3:31:42 > 3:31:46That man sweeping up over there... does he work for me?
3:31:46 > 3:31:50- I mean, have you seen him before? - Name is Nick, something like that.
3:31:52 > 3:31:54(Why is he looking at me?)
3:31:56 > 3:31:58I don't know.
3:31:59 > 3:32:03Fire him. And make sure they use damp brooms from now on.
3:32:03 > 3:32:07- Respiratory diseases are expensive. I don't want a bunch of lawsuits.- OK.
3:32:07 > 3:32:10Can we proceed with the instrument panel? The tool shop's -
3:32:10 > 3:32:15- No, I wanna see the blueprints again. - The deadline is now unrealistic.
3:32:15 > 3:32:19The war is gonna be over by the time she's done! I need you here
3:32:19 > 3:32:24to help consult on decisions and you are dealing with movies! You -
3:32:24 > 3:32:27Hey, Odie...take it easy... all right?!
3:32:27 > 3:32:31I understand you're under a lotta pressure but it's gonna do me no good
3:32:31 > 3:32:35if you crack up on me like that, all right?
3:32:35 > 3:32:39- Take a couple of hours off, all right? You relax a little.- OK.
3:32:39 > 3:32:42- See your wife. - OK. OK.
3:32:44 > 3:32:47- Be sure to show me all the blueprints.- All right.
3:32:48 > 3:32:51(Show me all the blueprints.)
3:32:51 > 3:32:54(Show me all the blueprints.) I'm serious, now.
3:32:54 > 3:32:57Show me all the blueprints.
3:32:58 > 3:33:03- Show me all the blueprints.- Howard... - Show me all the blueprints.
3:33:03 > 3:33:06Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints.
3:33:06 > 3:33:10Show me all the blueprints. I want to get this done right,
3:33:10 > 3:33:13so show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints.
3:33:13 > 3:33:16Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints.
3:33:16 > 3:33:20- Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints.- Howard...
3:33:20 > 3:33:24Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints.
3:33:24 > 3:33:27Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints.
3:33:27 > 3:33:32Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints. Show...
3:33:37 > 3:33:40Mmf!
3:33:44 > 3:33:46HE SIGHS
3:33:50 > 3:33:52Quarantine.
3:33:54 > 3:33:56Q,
3:33:56 > 3:33:58U,
3:33:58 > 3:34:00A,
3:34:00 > 3:34:02R,
3:34:02 > 3:34:05A,
3:34:05 > 3:34:07N,
3:34:07 > 3:34:09T,
3:34:09 > 3:34:11I,
3:34:11 > 3:34:14N...
3:34:17 > 3:34:19..E.
3:34:21 > 3:34:23Quarantine.
3:34:31 > 3:34:33HE CHUCKLES
3:34:33 > 3:34:38MUSIC: "Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor" by The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
3:35:00 > 3:35:03General McEwan, Colonel Bertrang, thanks for coming down.
3:35:03 > 3:35:07- Odie, you reading me OK? - Yeah, Howard, you're A-OK.
3:35:12 > 3:35:16- RADIO:- "All right, flight controls Are active. She's all yours."
3:35:24 > 3:35:28- She's spotless. No wiggle on the wheel or throttle.- "Take it easy."
3:35:44 > 3:35:48- How does she sound, Howard? - She's whisperin' to me, buddy.
3:35:48 > 3:35:51All right, make her sing.
3:36:10 > 3:36:12Well, Odie, she can fly.
3:36:12 > 3:36:14- Congratulations. - I'm glad to hear it.
3:36:14 > 3:36:18Retract landing gear and climb to 5,000 feet on a heading of 2-7-0.
3:36:18 > 3:36:23Retracting landing gear and climbing to 5,000ft on a heading of 2-7-0.
3:36:28 > 3:36:31- Jesus, she's fast! - What's your airspeed?- 292.
3:36:31 > 3:36:36- "All right, take her back to 200." - No damn way!
3:36:58 > 3:37:02All right, Howard, we gotta bring her home.
3:37:02 > 3:37:05"Scheduled time has elapsed, so set course for
3:37:05 > 3:37:08- "0-9-0..." - Give me ten more minutes.
3:37:08 > 3:37:12- "Negative, Howard. Bring her home." - OK. OK.
3:37:12 > 3:37:14Setting course for
3:37:14 > 3:37:160-9-0.
3:37:16 > 3:37:21Preparing to descend. ENGINE SPLUTTERS
3:37:22 > 3:37:25- Jesus! - "What is it, Howard?"
3:37:26 > 3:37:30The right wing just dipped! I-I-I'm losing starboard engine!
3:37:30 > 3:37:34Increasing power to 2800rpm! Cutting back!
3:37:34 > 3:37:39Increasing starboard engine only! Cutting back!
3:37:39 > 3:37:43- I'm losin' altitude!- Check starboard engine manifold pressure!
3:37:43 > 3:37:47- It's good but RPMs are low! - "Are both starboard props turning?!"
3:37:47 > 3:37:50Hold on! It looks like they are
3:37:50 > 3:37:53- but she's pulling me back! - How bad is your cross control?!
3:37:53 > 3:37:58I'm at full left rudder and full left aileron but she won't stay level!
3:37:58 > 3:38:01- Howard, give us your position! - 2,000ft over...
3:38:01 > 3:38:05Oh, Christ, I don't know, Beverly Hills! 1500ft!
3:38:05 > 3:38:10Oh, we're goin' down! I'm gonna try for the Wilshire Country Club,
3:38:10 > 3:38:13- ninth hole! You reading me?! - "Wilshire Country Club, copy that!"
3:38:13 > 3:38:17- "Reduce engines to 1,000!" - HE SCREAMS
3:38:17 > 3:38:21I'm goin' down! I'm not gonna make it, BUDDY!
3:38:24 > 3:38:28ENGINES ROARS Goddammit!
3:38:38 > 3:38:40SHE SCREAMS
3:38:51 > 3:38:52SCREAMING
3:38:57 > 3:38:59SHE SCREAMS
3:39:14 > 3:39:17Aaargh!
3:39:27 > 3:39:30Ugh! Ugh! CRUNCHING
3:39:30 > 3:39:34Aaaaaaaaaaargh! Argh!
3:39:34 > 3:39:36HE COUGHS
3:39:38 > 3:39:41HISSING Aaaaaaaaaaargh!
3:39:45 > 3:39:48Ugh! Ugh!
3:39:49 > 3:39:51Ugh! FIREBALL ROARS
3:40:03 > 3:40:06SIRENS WAIL IN DISTANCE HE PANTS
3:40:26 > 3:40:30- Is there anyone else inside?! Is there anyone else?!- No.
3:40:34 > 3:40:40- I'm Howard Hughes, the aviator. - Come on!
3:40:44 > 3:40:45Aaaaaaaaaaargh!
3:40:50 > 3:40:52He has burns to 78% of his body.
3:40:52 > 3:40:56Nine ribs are shattered, not broken, shattered, as are his nose,
3:40:56 > 3:41:00his chin, his cheek, his left knee, his left elbow.
3:41:00 > 3:41:02He has 60 lacerations on his face to the bone.
3:41:02 > 3:41:06His chest was crushed, so his left lung has collapsed,
3:41:06 > 3:41:10and his heart has shifted to the right side of his chest cavity.
3:41:10 > 3:41:12Jesus God!
3:41:12 > 3:41:17- He's getting blood transfusions now but, er...- Whose blood?
3:41:17 > 3:41:19- I'm sorry? - Whose blood?
3:41:19 > 3:41:24- From our stock. - Oh, he's not going to like that!
3:41:24 > 3:41:28Mr Dietrich, I doubt he's ever gonna like or dislike anything again.
3:41:29 > 3:41:32I'm terribly sorry.
3:41:59 > 3:42:03Orange juice...it's, er...
3:42:04 > 3:42:07..it's not fresh from the kitchen, so I...
3:42:08 > 3:42:12..I have them make it here, so...so I can see.
3:42:16 > 3:42:19Look at me.
3:42:21 > 3:42:23I'm a monster.
3:42:23 > 3:42:27Yeah, orange juice has nutritional value.
3:42:29 > 3:42:34There's, er...there's some flies outside my window, though,
3:42:34 > 3:42:36so...
3:42:38 > 3:42:40Little Howard likes...
3:42:42 > 3:42:45..citrus.
3:42:45 > 3:42:47Don't he just.
3:42:50 > 3:42:52Tell me.
3:42:53 > 3:42:57An oil seal ripped off the starboard rear propeller.
3:42:57 > 3:43:00When the pressure dropped, the prop reversed pitch.
3:43:00 > 3:43:05Do you understand me? Howard, I'm sorry to have to tell you this now
3:43:05 > 3:43:08but...there's something else.
3:43:08 > 3:43:10- You following me? - Yeah.
3:43:11 > 3:43:15The Air Force cancelled the contract on the Hercules.
3:43:17 > 3:43:19The war's over now
3:43:19 > 3:43:23and they say they don't need it any more.
3:43:23 > 3:43:27I have to know what you want me to do. Should I release the staff?
3:43:27 > 3:43:30How far...
3:43:31 > 3:43:34..from finishing?
3:43:34 > 3:43:39- About six months. - No, no...in money.
3:43:42 > 3:43:46Seven million...maybe more.
3:43:50 > 3:43:52Build it.
3:43:53 > 3:43:55Build it, Odie.
3:43:56 > 3:43:58Howard...
3:43:59 > 3:44:03..a Constellation crashed outside Reading, Pennsylvania.
3:44:03 > 3:44:07The Civil Aeronautics Board has grounded the whole fleet.
3:44:10 > 3:44:12HE CHUCKLES
3:44:17 > 3:44:22You know... Juan Trippe sent me flowers.
3:44:22 > 3:44:25HE CHUCKLES
3:44:25 > 3:44:27Take a look.
3:44:30 > 3:44:34- What did you do with all the others? - I had them taken out.
3:44:34 > 3:44:38They, er...they attract aphids.
3:44:38 > 3:44:42Aphids are... they're just awful little creatures.
3:44:43 > 3:44:46But, er...
3:44:48 > 3:44:53..these ones... I wanted to see these ones
3:44:53 > 3:44:55every day.
3:45:02 > 3:45:05'Can white elephants really fly?
3:45:05 > 3:45:09'It's the hull of the world's mightiest airplane - a flying boat
3:45:09 > 3:45:12'built by Howard Hughes. 220ft long, it towers higher
3:45:12 > 3:45:16'than a five-storey building. Power lines have to be cut
3:45:16 > 3:45:19'as it starts the trip from Culver City, California, to the Pacific.
3:45:19 > 3:45:23'Moving the 60-ton load is quite an engineering problem.
3:45:23 > 3:45:27'You gotta ask, "Was anything this big ever supposed to fly?"
3:45:27 > 3:45:32'There goes one wing section - 160ft long with 4 engine housings.
3:45:32 > 3:45:35'Double that and you've got some idea of the wingspread.
3:45:35 > 3:45:39'An airplane that challenges a mountain for sheer size.'
3:45:45 > 3:45:48How long can they keep us grounded?
3:45:48 > 3:45:51Until they finish investigating the crash. Could be months.
3:45:51 > 3:45:54You're running a 14-million deficit!
3:45:54 > 3:45:57- How are you gonna afford it?! - When we go international,
3:45:57 > 3:46:01- we'll make it up.- Brewster's bill isn't going away. It passes
3:46:01 > 3:46:04and you've bought these planes for nothing!
3:46:04 > 3:46:09- We're fighting the bill.- How do you suggest we keep TWA flying?
3:46:09 > 3:46:13We're pumping every damn cent into the Hercules, which, I might add,
3:46:13 > 3:46:16the Air Force doesn't even want any more. I'm glad Jack
3:46:16 > 3:46:21is feeling so sunny about things but I've seen the books.
3:46:21 > 3:46:25We're in serious trouble. You've gotta make a choice -
3:46:25 > 3:46:29you wanna be bankrupted by the big plane... or by the big airline?
3:46:36 > 3:46:40Go see Thomas Parkinson at the Equitable in New York.
3:46:40 > 3:46:43Get a loan against all the TWA equipment and capital.
3:46:43 > 3:46:47Use the planes as collateral. Hell, use the desks, use the pens,
3:46:47 > 3:46:50use everything we got. Try to get me 40 million.
3:46:50 > 3:46:52And if TWA defaults on the loan?
3:46:53 > 3:46:56Well, then, Juan Trippe buys us cheap.
3:46:59 > 3:47:02Under my bed! You put a goddamn microphone under my bed!
3:47:02 > 3:47:06I am concerned about you, baby! I just wanna make sure you're OK!
3:47:06 > 3:47:10And that goddamn car has been with me 24 hours a day!
3:47:10 > 3:47:14- It's there for your protection! - The only one I need protection from
3:47:14 > 3:47:17is you, you sick bastard! You don't own me.
3:47:17 > 3:47:20I'm not one of your whores and I'm not some damn airplane!
3:47:20 > 3:47:23I will take all the bugs out, you just have to understand
3:47:23 > 3:47:27- that I need to know where you are! - Why?!- Because I worry about you!
3:47:27 > 3:47:29Bullshit!
3:47:31 > 3:47:33What do you mean "all the bugs"?
3:47:39 > 3:47:42What do you mean "all the bugs"?
3:47:44 > 3:47:47- There's more. - How many?
3:47:47 > 3:47:51I don't know, 12. 12 maybe and, er...
3:47:52 > 3:47:54..on the telephones.
3:47:54 > 3:47:58Oh, Christ, Howard, on the telephone?
3:47:58 > 3:48:02- You listen to my phone calls?- No, no, no, honey, I would never do that!
3:48:02 > 3:48:07I'd never do that! I... I just read the transcripts, that's all.
3:48:11 > 3:48:16What do you wanna know, Howard? Was I screwing Artie Shaw last night
3:48:16 > 3:48:19and Sinatra the night before?! You bet! Everyone told me
3:48:19 > 3:48:23you were a goddamn lunatic but I didn't listen! It's no wonder Kate dumped you.
3:48:23 > 3:48:26Shut your goddamn mouth!
3:48:29 > 3:48:33Get out, you pathetic freak!
3:48:41 > 3:48:43GET OUT!
3:48:43 > 3:48:46- Is everything all right, sir?! - Take out all the bugs, huh?
3:48:49 > 3:48:53- Except for the one on the bedroom phone.- Sir, the FBI are at the house.
3:48:54 > 3:48:58This is outrageous! Everything in these offices is the property
3:48:58 > 3:49:02- of Hughes Productions! My counsel is on the way!- Federal warrant.
3:49:02 > 3:49:05Don't interfere with this search, sir.
3:49:23 > 3:49:26'Howard Hughes has a new house guest.'
3:49:26 > 3:49:30'No, it's not another beautiful starlet, this time it's the FBI.'
3:49:30 > 3:49:34'Noah, you have got to help. This is the TENTH time they've been here!'
3:49:34 > 3:49:37'Rumour has it that federal agents working for Senator Brewster
3:49:37 > 3:49:41'have practically taken up residence in his Hollywood home.'
3:49:41 > 3:49:46Look, they are touching things. Noah, Noah, they are touching things.
3:49:46 > 3:49:50'Just keep yourself calm and I'll be down there as soon as I can.'
3:49:50 > 3:49:52'Howard?'
3:49:52 > 3:49:54'Howard?!'
3:50:13 > 3:50:15KNOCK AT DOOR
3:50:17 > 3:50:20- Howard, hello. - Owen, nice to see you again.
3:50:20 > 3:50:25- Good to see you. Come inside. Emma, you can start up lunch now.- Sir.
3:50:25 > 3:50:30- Well, really lovely room. It's nicely decorated.- Thank you.
3:50:30 > 3:50:33- Here, have a seat.- Thanks. - Thanks for coming by.
3:50:33 > 3:50:36I just thought you and I should have a chance to talk privately,
3:50:36 > 3:50:39outside the office.
3:50:39 > 3:50:43Well... I appreciate that, Owen.
3:50:50 > 3:50:54So, you're coming out pretty strong against the CAB bill.
3:50:55 > 3:51:00- You're coming on pretty strong for it.- Well, it's my bill, Howard.
3:51:01 > 3:51:05Look, I believe...sincerely that America cannot afford
3:51:05 > 3:51:09- to have more than one international carrier.- Hm.
3:51:09 > 3:51:13So, I mean, do you think it's fair that...one airline
3:51:13 > 3:51:17- should have a monopoly on - - A monopoly? No, no, no! No, no.
3:51:17 > 3:51:21Oh, no! No, I think one airline could do it better
3:51:21 > 3:51:24without competition. All I'm thinking about
3:51:24 > 3:51:28are the interests, you know, the needs of the American passenger.
3:51:28 > 3:51:31That's just beautiful. What is that?
3:51:34 > 3:51:36What is that? Is that a...?
3:51:37 > 3:51:41- Is that a yak, some kind of a yak? - No, that's a llama.
3:51:41 > 3:51:44My wife picked that up when we were in Peru a year ago.
3:51:44 > 3:51:47Son of a gun. A real llama.
3:51:50 > 3:51:53- From Peru? - Yeah, a year ago.
3:51:53 > 3:51:55- Yeah, it was about a year ago. - Oh.
3:51:55 > 3:51:59- Lunch is served, Senator.- Good. OK, c'mon, let's go have some lunch.
3:52:00 > 3:52:04Now, did you...did you actually get to see any llamas?
3:52:04 > 3:52:07- No. No, my wife just liked the painting.- Ah.
3:52:07 > 3:52:10Interesting animal. I'll have to read up on those.
3:52:10 > 3:52:14How do you spell that, like, er, like Fernando Lamas?
3:52:15 > 3:52:18No, no. No, it's, er... The animal's got two Ls.
3:52:18 > 3:52:20Here, c'mon, have a seat.
3:52:29 > 3:52:32It's brook trout. Hope you like fish.
3:52:34 > 3:52:36I love it.
3:52:36 > 3:52:38Thanks.
3:52:52 > 3:52:57I know you're not a drinking man, so I hope water's OK.
3:53:09 > 3:53:11Thanks.
3:53:16 > 3:53:19All right, let's get down to business. Let's talk turkey.
3:53:20 > 3:53:23- My investigators... - HE CHUCKLES
3:53:23 > 3:53:27My investigators have turned up a lotta dirt.
3:53:27 > 3:53:30It could be really embarrassing if this stuff got out.
3:53:30 > 3:53:34I'd like to save you from that embarrassment.
3:53:34 > 3:53:36That's very kind of you, Owen.
3:53:39 > 3:53:42My committee has the power to hold public hearings.
3:53:44 > 3:53:48- I'd like to spare you that. - Would you, now?
3:53:49 > 3:53:52Look... you wanna go down in history
3:53:52 > 3:53:57as a war profiteer, Howard? Is that what you want?
3:53:59 > 3:54:02What do you want, Owen?
3:54:03 > 3:54:06You agree to support...my CAB bill
3:54:06 > 3:54:10- and I won't hold public hearings. - I can't do that.
3:54:10 > 3:54:14- Why not?- I can't do that, Owen - the CAB would kill TWA.
3:54:14 > 3:54:16Sell TWA to Pan Am.
3:54:17 > 3:54:22You'll get a good price. You'll get a fair price, I'm telling you.
3:54:22 > 3:54:25- And then? Then, you won't go public? - Right. That's right.
3:54:25 > 3:54:30The investigation is closed. Nobody knows a thing.
3:54:30 > 3:54:32It's better for everybody.
3:54:36 > 3:54:40You know, Owen, I'm... I'm still wondering one thing.
3:54:40 > 3:54:43- What's that?- You know the picture of the llama you got last year?
3:54:43 > 3:54:46- Yeah. - Where'd you sail from?
3:54:46 > 3:54:49We didn't sail, we flew.
3:54:50 > 3:54:52- You flew? - Yeah.
3:54:52 > 3:54:54Oh.
3:54:59 > 3:55:02Are you sure you wanna do this, Owen?
3:55:03 > 3:55:06You wanna go to war with me?
3:55:10 > 3:55:14It isn't me, Howard, it's the United States government.
3:55:15 > 3:55:20We just beat Germany and Japan. Who the hell are you?
3:55:25 > 3:55:29You...you tell Juan Trippe somethin' for me, all right?
3:55:30 > 3:55:35Tell him thanks for the flowers... and he can kiss...
3:55:36 > 3:55:39..both sides of my ass.
3:55:42 > 3:55:44HE PANTS
3:56:02 > 3:56:05'Well, we have a long list of particulars, chief among them'
3:56:05 > 3:56:09is that he defrauded the American government of 56 million
3:56:09 > 3:56:13while we were at war when we could least afford it. While brave men
3:56:13 > 3:56:18were dying Mr Hughes was picking the pocket of the American taxpayer.
3:56:18 > 3:56:20I sleep
3:56:20 > 3:56:22in this room...
3:56:24 > 3:56:26..in the dark.
3:56:26 > 3:56:29I'll have him dragged here if I have to.
3:56:29 > 3:56:31I wanna see the whites of his lies.
3:56:31 > 3:56:33I have a place
3:56:33 > 3:56:37- where I sleep.- 'He has a lot of questions to answer, Son...'
3:56:37 > 3:56:43- I have a chair.- ..particularly about that monstrous boondoggle of his,
3:56:43 > 3:56:47that model airplane he's building. You know, that flying lumberyard!
3:56:47 > 3:56:50- ALL LAUGH - That Spruce Goose.
3:56:50 > 3:56:53- ALL LAUGH - 'No, we'll get him here.'
3:56:57 > 3:56:59That's just beautiful.
3:57:00 > 3:57:03I like the desert.
3:57:05 > 3:57:10It's hot there in the desert but it's clean. It's clean.
3:57:11 > 3:57:14HE STAMPS FOOT I need to sleep!
3:57:16 > 3:57:19I should drink something first.
3:57:23 > 3:57:25I should drink something first.
3:57:29 > 3:57:34Wait a minute. What if that milk is sour?
3:57:35 > 3:57:37If that milk is bad,
3:57:37 > 3:57:42I SHOULDN'T pick up the bottle of milk with my right hand
3:57:42 > 3:57:48and I shouldn't take the...top off with my...left hand,
3:57:48 > 3:57:52put it in my...pocket,
3:57:52 > 3:57:54my left pocket.
3:58:06 > 3:58:09KNOCK AT DOOR
3:58:11 > 3:58:13Howard, it's Kate. >
3:58:13 > 3:58:18I need to talk to you. Can you hear me?
3:58:20 > 3:58:22- I'm coming in. - SHE KICKS DOOR
3:58:27 > 3:58:30Howard, unlock this door immediately.
3:58:38 > 3:58:41I can't, sweetie.
3:58:43 > 3:58:45You mean you won't.
3:58:46 > 3:58:50Howard, please let me see you.
3:58:50 > 3:58:54- I haven't shaved. - Well? Neither have I.
3:58:58 > 3:59:01C'mon. You...
3:59:02 > 3:59:04You let me in.
3:59:09 > 3:59:12I can hear you, Katie.
3:59:13 > 3:59:18I could always hear you, even in the cockpit with the engines on.
3:59:18 > 3:59:22Well, that's because I'm so goddamn loud.
3:59:27 > 3:59:29Howard, I...
3:59:31 > 3:59:34..I came to thank you.
3:59:34 > 3:59:37I found out what you did for Spence and me -
3:59:37 > 3:59:40buying those AWFUL pictures.
3:59:45 > 3:59:48You love him.
3:59:53 > 3:59:55He's everything I have.
3:59:59 > 4:00:01SCRAPING
4:00:03 > 4:00:05Howard?
4:00:06 > 4:00:11I'm glad for you, Kate. Go away now, would you do that?
4:00:13 > 4:00:18- Howard, please. - Go away...just for now.
4:00:18 > 4:00:20I'll see you soon.
4:00:20 > 4:00:22- We'll go flyin' together. - Yes.
4:00:22 > 4:00:27Yes, please, you take me flying again. Howard, I can take the wheel.
4:00:33 > 4:00:36Howard?
4:00:41 > 4:00:44Howard, are you there?
4:00:48 > 4:00:50Howard?
4:00:52 > 4:00:54Howard, are you there? >
4:00:56 > 4:00:58C'mon, Howard. >
4:01:28 > 4:01:31Come in with the milk. Come in with the milk.
4:01:31 > 4:01:35Come in with the milk. Come in with the milk.
4:01:35 > 4:01:38He is to open the bag with his RIGHT hand
4:01:38 > 4:01:41and hold the bag out to me at a 45-degree angle
4:01:41 > 4:01:45so I may reach INTO the bag without...
4:01:46 > 4:01:48..without touching the paper.
4:01:53 > 4:01:58Repeated from the beginning. Repeated from the beginning.
4:01:58 > 4:02:01Repeated from the beginning.
4:02:11 > 4:02:15'If there is any variation of these instructions,
4:02:15 > 4:02:20'even to the smallest degree, the entire process
4:02:20 > 4:02:24'must be repeated from the beginning.'
4:02:24 > 4:02:28Come in with the milk. Come in with the milk.
4:02:28 > 4:02:31Come in with the milk. Come in with the milk.
4:02:31 > 4:02:34'Come in with the milk. Come in with the milk.'
4:02:34 > 4:02:37'Come in with the milk.'
4:02:37 > 4:02:40Q, R... TRICKLING:
4:02:40 > 4:02:42..N...
4:02:44 > 4:02:46..T,
4:02:46 > 4:02:49Q,
4:02:49 > 4:02:51U...
4:02:53 > 4:02:55..E,
4:02:55 > 4:02:58I,
4:02:58 > 4:03:01T,
4:03:01 > 4:03:03I,
4:03:03 > 4:03:06N,
4:03:06 > 4:03:08E,
4:03:08 > 4:03:11N,
4:03:11 > 4:03:13E,
4:03:13 > 4:03:15E,
4:03:15 > 4:03:17I.
4:03:27 > 4:03:29< Howard?
4:03:31 > 4:03:33Hello?!
4:03:34 > 4:03:37- Who is it?! - < Howard, it's Juan.
4:03:45 > 4:03:47Juan!
4:03:47 > 4:03:50Juan, right.
4:03:50 > 4:03:53Yeah...we had an appointment, right? Yeah.
4:03:53 > 4:03:59I remember that. Look, erm... I got a helluva cold in here,
4:03:59 > 4:04:03so why don't you take a seat out there? I don't wanna get you sick.
4:04:03 > 4:04:07I don't wanna get you sick. I don't wanna...
4:04:15 > 4:04:17Thank you.
4:04:19 > 4:04:23OK, Howard, I'm sitting. I've brought along our accountings.
4:04:23 > 4:04:27Now, Pan Am is trading at thirteen and five-eighths,
4:04:27 > 4:04:32- TWA at...four and a quarter. Now - - Aw, c'mon!
4:04:32 > 4:04:37C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon! We both know I'm not gonna sell TWA!
4:04:37 > 4:04:39Besides, you couldn't afford her, anyway!
4:04:39 > 4:04:43Our domestic routes alone are worth more than TWICE Pan Am!
4:04:43 > 4:04:47Well, considering our stock is trading at three times yours,
4:04:47 > 4:04:51- I find that a...dubious claim, Howard.- What I...
4:04:53 > 4:04:57What I mean is... you have no domestic routes, all right?
4:04:57 > 4:05:00I mean, you get TWA, you span the globe.
4:05:00 > 4:05:03Now, I'm not gonna sell and you know I'm not gonna sell.
4:05:03 > 4:05:07Here's the point. Owen Brewster works for you!
4:05:07 > 4:05:10Howard, I didn't elect Senator Brewster,
4:05:10 > 4:05:13we can thank the voters of Maine for that.
4:05:20 > 4:05:26Now...if I appear at his hearings, Juan, it could get nasty,
4:05:26 > 4:05:28real nasty for all of us.
4:05:28 > 4:05:32Well... I think considerably more so for you.
4:05:32 > 4:05:36While the good people of America were losing sons at Anzio,
4:05:36 > 4:05:40you produced a dirty movie and built airplanes that don't fly.
4:05:40 > 4:05:42Well, that's just not fair, is it?
4:05:42 > 4:05:46I mean, the XF-11 flew quite well for an hour and 45 minutes!
4:05:46 > 4:05:50I mean, I wish you were up there with me, Juan! It was exhilarating!
4:05:50 > 4:05:54Be that as it may, you still have to answer for the Spruce Goose.
4:05:54 > 4:05:58THUD! It's called the Hercules!
4:05:58 > 4:06:02- And it will fly, goddammit! - I certainly hope so -
4:06:02 > 4:06:06the people deserve something for their 13 million.
4:06:06 > 4:06:08I WON'T SELL TWA!
4:06:08 > 4:06:10I WON'T!
4:06:14 > 4:06:16I know that, Howard.
4:06:16 > 4:06:18I know that...
4:06:20 > 4:06:22..but I'm going to get it anyway.
4:06:22 > 4:06:25You're going to default on your loan from Equitable
4:06:25 > 4:06:28after Senator Brewster destroys your reputation
4:06:28 > 4:06:31and you can't find additional capital for the airline.
4:06:31 > 4:06:35The hearings will also show Hughes Aircraft to be mismanaged
4:06:35 > 4:06:39and incompetent and...it will go bankrupt, too.
4:06:39 > 4:06:42But you won't be insolvent, you'll still have Toolco.
4:06:42 > 4:06:46Perhaps you'll head back to Houston to rebuild your empire.
4:06:46 > 4:06:51I rather hope you do. By that time Pan Am will have bought TWA
4:06:51 > 4:06:56and...painted all those magnificent Connies blue and white.
4:06:56 > 4:07:00So when you do return it will be on a PAN AM plane.
4:07:03 > 4:07:06Well...
4:07:07 > 4:07:10..you seem to have me in a corner here, buddy...
4:07:11 > 4:07:15Not a position in which I'm very comfortable.
4:07:15 > 4:07:18I think you're gonna be less comfortable
4:07:18 > 4:07:22at Senator Brewster's hearings. Very public, Howard...
4:07:24 > 4:07:27..lots of cameras, newsmen.
4:07:28 > 4:07:32I understand you're not particularly fond of crowds.
4:07:33 > 4:07:36Perhaps we should spare you that.
4:07:38 > 4:07:41Well, thank you
4:07:41 > 4:07:45for your concern, Juan! I find that...
4:07:46 > 4:07:52..very moving! It's been a real pleasure!
4:07:53 > 4:07:57Noah will see you back to the airport now.
4:07:57 > 4:07:59You fly safe.
4:08:02 > 4:08:04You fly safe.
4:08:07 > 4:08:10Thank you, Howard, and you take care of that cold.
4:08:10 > 4:08:15Oh, don't you worry... I certainly will!
4:08:17 > 4:08:19Bye-bye! HE SIGHS
4:08:22 > 4:08:25(If you let him appear at those hearings,
4:08:25 > 4:08:27the whole world will see what he has become.)
4:08:27 > 4:08:30(People should remember him as he was.)
4:08:35 > 4:08:38He'll have a subpoena in three days to appear in Washington...
4:08:40 > 4:08:43..if you can get him out of there by then.
4:08:47 > 4:08:50HE SCREAMS
4:09:01 > 4:09:03SCREAMING
4:09:30 > 4:09:32Mr Hughes?
4:09:36 > 4:09:39I don't have any shoes.
4:09:41 > 4:09:46- Could you get me some shoes? - Shoes?- Yeah.
4:10:11 > 4:10:13How nice of you to dress for me(!)
4:10:16 > 4:10:19Can I come in?
4:10:19 > 4:10:21Yeah.
4:10:21 > 4:10:23Yeah, you...you can come in.
4:10:29 > 4:10:33Thank you for coming.
4:10:44 > 4:10:47- Now, let's get a drink. - Wait, wait, wait!
4:10:47 > 4:10:50Wait, wait, honey, you can't move! You're safe here.
4:10:50 > 4:10:55- You're in the germ-free zone now, you understand?- I'll take my chances.
4:10:55 > 4:10:58No, no, no, honey, wait, wait, wait! Er...
4:11:11 > 4:11:14Love what you've done with the place(!)
4:11:20 > 4:11:24Now...let me look at you.
4:11:28 > 4:11:32- When do you go to Washington? - Erm...a week.
4:11:33 > 4:11:37No, no, just under a week. I mean, I don't know the date today
4:11:37 > 4:11:42- but, er, I have to be... I have to be, er...- All right, take it easy.
4:11:55 > 4:11:58There's nothing there, Howard.
4:12:00 > 4:12:02Mm.
4:12:04 > 4:12:10- You know, I... I see things. - I know, baby.
4:12:11 > 4:12:13Rinse your face off now.
4:12:22 > 4:12:25Put your hands in the water and wash off the soap.
4:12:25 > 4:12:28I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere.
4:12:32 > 4:12:34Does that look clean to you?
4:12:34 > 4:12:38Nothing's clean, Howard, but we do our best, right?
4:12:39 > 4:12:41Yeah.
4:13:00 > 4:13:03- What do you think? - I look all right.
4:13:03 > 4:13:06- You look great. - Will you marry me?
4:13:06 > 4:13:09You're too crazy for me.
4:13:11 > 4:13:14I gotta go, baby.
4:13:14 > 4:13:16OK.
4:13:16 > 4:13:18Thanks.
4:13:23 > 4:13:25You'd do it for me.
4:13:32 > 4:13:36- MAN:- Hi, Howard. How ya doin'? - ALL CHATTER
4:14:11 > 4:14:14- BANGING OF GAVEL - The committee will come to order.
4:14:15 > 4:14:19Ladies and gentlemen, I must insist that we maintain quiet
4:14:19 > 4:14:23during these proceedings. Mr Hughes, will you stand to be sworn?!
4:14:26 > 4:14:30Do you solemnly swear that you will tell the truth,
4:14:30 > 4:14:33the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?!
4:14:33 > 4:14:36- I do. - Pardon me for speaking loudly
4:14:36 > 4:14:40- but I understand you have some difficulty hearing!- That's all right.
4:14:40 > 4:14:43Everybody knows I'm deaf, I'm not gonna try to hide it.
4:14:43 > 4:14:48- LAUGHTER - Mr Hughes, it is the intention of this committee -
4:14:48 > 4:14:52- Mr Hughes has a statement. - All right.
4:14:52 > 4:14:57All right, you may proceed with this, er, statement, Mr Hughes.
4:15:02 > 4:15:05Mr Hughes, do you have a statement?
4:15:12 > 4:15:17I'm gonna... I'm gonna attempt to be, er, honest here.
4:15:17 > 4:15:19My reputation is being destroyed,
4:15:19 > 4:15:23so I'm might as well lay the cards on the table.
4:15:23 > 4:15:26Senator Brewster...if you hadn't have gone too far overboard,
4:15:26 > 4:15:30if you hadn't have put the red-hot iron in my side,
4:15:30 > 4:15:34I might have been willing to take a shellacking in your publicity spree.
4:15:34 > 4:15:38I might have been willing to sit back and take a certain amount of abuse
4:15:38 > 4:15:43simply because, well... well, I am only a private citizen,
4:15:43 > 4:15:47whereas you are a senator with all sorts of powers...
4:15:48 > 4:15:52..but I think this circus has gone on long enough! GAVEL BANGS
4:15:52 > 4:15:56- That's quite sufficient. - You have called me a liar, sir!
4:15:56 > 4:15:58A liar, a thief and a war profiteer!
4:15:58 > 4:16:02- The witness will restrain his - - Why not tell the truth for once?!
4:16:02 > 4:16:06Why not tell the truth that this investigation was really born
4:16:06 > 4:16:10on the day that TWA first invaded
4:16:10 > 4:16:13- Juan Trippe's territory? - Sit down, Mr Hughes.
4:16:13 > 4:16:17On the day that TWA first challenged the generally accepted theory
4:16:17 > 4:16:21that only Juan Trippe's great Pan Am had the sacred right
4:16:21 > 4:16:24- to fly the Atlantic! - You are not here to make a speech!
4:16:24 > 4:16:28- ALL CHATTER - I asked for silence! I asked for quiet in this room!
4:16:28 > 4:16:33We have in our possession receipts in the amount of 170,000
4:16:33 > 4:16:37acquired from Mr John Meyer. Mr Meyer works for you, does he not?
4:16:37 > 4:16:41- He does. - And what is his official title?
4:16:42 > 4:16:46Well, I... I don't exactly know, Senator. A lot of people work for me.
4:16:46 > 4:16:52Can you explain why your press agent would pay out more than 170,000
4:16:52 > 4:16:55- to representatives of the Air Force? - I don't know.
4:16:55 > 4:16:58- You'd have to ask him, Senator. - Would you produce him?
4:16:58 > 4:17:00Produce him?
4:17:00 > 4:17:04- Will you cause him to appear? - You had John Meyer on the stand
4:17:04 > 4:17:08- for three days last week. - Well, we would like him to reappear.
4:17:08 > 4:17:11Would you ask him to return?
4:17:15 > 4:17:19Er...no, I don't think I will.
4:17:19 > 4:17:23- LAUGHTER - Will you try to have him return?
4:17:24 > 4:17:28Well...no, I don't think I'll try.
4:17:28 > 4:17:30You don't think you'll try?
4:17:30 > 4:17:34Er...no... I don't think so. LAUGHTER
4:17:34 > 4:17:39The 170,000 paid out to the Air Force in the form of hotel suites,
4:17:39 > 4:17:43TWA stock... female companionship...
4:17:44 > 4:17:48..now is it possible that... these could be considered bribes?
4:17:48 > 4:17:51I suppose you could call them that, yes.
4:17:52 > 4:17:55- Would you repeat that? - I said
4:17:55 > 4:17:58I suppose you could consider them bribes, yes.
4:18:01 > 4:18:05Well, would you like to explain that, Mr Hughes?
4:18:05 > 4:18:09I'm afraid you don't know how the aviation business works, Senator.
4:18:09 > 4:18:12See, wining and dining Air Force dignitaries
4:18:12 > 4:18:16is common in our business. We all want the big contracts.
4:18:16 > 4:18:19All the major aircraft companies do it now. I don't know
4:18:19 > 4:18:23whether it's a good system or not, I just know it is not illegal.
4:18:23 > 4:18:25You are the law maker.
4:18:25 > 4:18:29If you pass a law that states no-one can entertain Air Force officers,
4:18:29 > 4:18:33well, hell, I'd be happy to abide by it. ALL CHATTER
4:18:33 > 4:18:38Senator Brewster, your story is a pack of lies!
4:18:38 > 4:18:40We're not gonna have this bickering.
4:18:40 > 4:18:43Somewhere between 2 and 500.
4:18:43 > 4:18:48If you believe you can intimidate any member of this committee,
4:18:48 > 4:18:52I wanna advise you that you're mistaken!
4:18:52 > 4:18:56I'll put this very simply. On February 12th at the Mayflower Hotel,
4:18:56 > 4:19:02did you or did you not tell me that if I were to sell TWA to Pan Am
4:19:02 > 4:19:06- that this investigation would be called off?- No. And I have asked you
4:19:06 > 4:19:08to submit your questions in writing.
4:19:08 > 4:19:12- How long have you known Juan Trippe? - For some time now and...
4:19:12 > 4:19:16- That's not the question here. - Is it not true that Juan Trippe
4:19:16 > 4:19:19donated 20,000 to your last campaign? I mean, he spoke to me
4:19:19 > 4:19:23- as if you worked for him! GASPING - All right.
4:19:25 > 4:19:29- I have a personal friendship -- Is it not true that you accept free tickets
4:19:29 > 4:19:32from Pan Am so you can circle the globe in support of your CAB bill?
4:19:32 > 4:19:35- No, it is not true. - Well, who wrote that bill?- We -
4:19:35 > 4:19:38Who actually wrote the CAB bill,
4:19:38 > 4:19:41- the actual words in the bill? You?- This is not how these hearings
4:19:41 > 4:19:45- are going to be conducted. - I have it right here.
4:19:45 > 4:19:49"Bill S987 to amend the Civil Aeronautics Act."
4:19:49 > 4:19:52Now...you introduced this bill to the Senate.
4:19:55 > 4:19:59A lot of words. Did you write all of them?
4:20:00 > 4:20:03- Did you write ANY of them, Senator? - Now, look, Mr Hughes -
4:20:03 > 4:20:06This entire bill was written by Pan Am executives
4:20:06 > 4:20:10and designed to give that airline a monopoly on international travel
4:20:10 > 4:20:15and you've been flogging this bill all around the world on their behalf.
4:20:15 > 4:20:19I have duties that take me all over the world, Mr Hughes -
4:20:19 > 4:20:22What the hell does a senator from Maine need to visit Peru for?
4:20:22 > 4:20:26- ALL CHATTER - I was... I was seeking outlets
4:20:26 > 4:20:29- for our trade goods. - Ah.
4:20:29 > 4:20:33Buy a lot of lobsters down there, do they? LAUGHTER
4:20:34 > 4:20:38Senator Brewster, how many times have you visited Juan Trippe's office
4:20:38 > 4:20:42in New York in the last three months?
4:20:42 > 4:20:46Huh? Would you like ME to tell you, Senator?
4:20:46 > 4:20:50This has gone on long enough. Juan Trippe is a great American.
4:20:50 > 4:20:52His airline has advanced the cause
4:20:52 > 4:20:55of commercial aviation in this country for decades.
4:20:55 > 4:20:59Juan Trippe is not a man who is interested in making money.
4:20:59 > 4:21:04Hm. Well, I'm sure his stockholders would be happy to hear that.
4:21:04 > 4:21:07- LAUGHTER - We're gonna clear this room.
4:21:07 > 4:21:11- RADIO:- 'James McNamara, speaking To you from the Howard Hughes
4:21:11 > 4:21:15'2,000-ton flying boat - the world's largest aircraft.
4:21:15 > 4:21:18'This is the sky giant which has prompted Congress
4:21:18 > 4:21:21'to investigate the war contracts with Mr Hughes.
4:21:21 > 4:21:23'Mr Hughes told newsmen
4:21:23 > 4:21:28'that this test would be a taxi experiment. He pointed out
4:21:28 > 4:21:31'that the plywood shell might ship some water
4:21:31 > 4:21:35'under high-speed taxi pressure. He said that he would not
4:21:35 > 4:21:38'take the craft into the air until next spring.
4:21:38 > 4:21:41'He pronounced the craft an unknown quantity.'
4:21:41 > 4:21:44Hiya, boys. APPLAUSE Ah, none of that! None of that.
4:21:44 > 4:21:48'As we speak to you, we're about five feet in back of Mr Hughes
4:21:48 > 4:21:51'and we are looking through a side window in the cockpit.'
4:21:51 > 4:21:55Professor, why don't you come on up front here?
4:21:55 > 4:21:58'We are 30ft high.'
4:21:58 > 4:22:02Strap yourself in right there. You oughta be able to see just great.
4:22:02 > 4:22:06'Huge crowds jammed the surrounding shoreline this morning.'
4:22:06 > 4:22:09All right, boys...let's fire it up.
4:22:13 > 4:22:18- One's good. - PROPELLER SPLUTTERS - Two's good.
4:22:18 > 4:22:21Three's good. Four's good.
4:22:21 > 4:22:23Five's good.
4:22:23 > 4:22:27Six is good. Seven's good. Eight's good.
4:22:29 > 4:22:33- Advancing master throttles. - Advancing master throttles.
4:22:34 > 4:22:39'I have to do a great deal of screaming here into my microphone!'
4:22:39 > 4:22:42Understood. Lowering 15 degrees of flap.
4:22:42 > 4:22:46- Lowering 15 degrees of flap. Howard. - Uh-huh?
4:22:46 > 4:22:50- She's gotta hit 70 to have any kind of chance.- Yeah, I know. I know.
4:22:50 > 4:22:55'It's a beautiful day here off the coast of Southern California -
4:22:55 > 4:22:57'warm sun...'
4:22:57 > 4:22:5925mph!
4:22:59 > 4:23:0230!
4:23:02 > 4:23:05- 35!- 'Certainly, one would think these eight power plants
4:23:05 > 4:23:09- 'might shake the mighty craft to pieces but...'- Take it easy.
4:23:11 > 4:23:15- 40!- Throttling back for starboard turn 180!
4:23:15 > 4:23:17Throttling back for starboard turn 180!
4:23:22 > 4:23:25'The flight crew consists of four men.
4:23:25 > 4:23:29'Mr Hughes, however, has added 11 maintenance men for this test,
4:23:29 > 4:23:31'stationed at various places,
4:23:31 > 4:23:34'checking points of stress and strain.'
4:23:36 > 4:23:40- How does she sound, Odie? - Sounds good, Howard.
4:23:44 > 4:23:47- Professor.- Yes? - Would you do me a favour?
4:23:47 > 4:23:50Would you take a look out that window there
4:23:50 > 4:23:53and tell me what the wind is doin'?
4:23:57 > 4:24:02I would say that we have a 15-knot wind.
4:24:02 > 4:24:05Would you call that a headwind, Professor?
4:24:05 > 4:24:09- I would, Mr Hughes.- 'I must insist that we maintain silence.'
4:24:09 > 4:24:14We must have quiet. Mr Hughes, will you stand and be sworn?
4:24:14 > 4:24:18Mr Hughes, did you receive 43 million
4:24:18 > 4:24:23to manufacture 100 XF-11 spy planes for the United States Air Force?
4:24:23 > 4:24:25I did.
4:24:25 > 4:24:27How many functional planes
4:24:27 > 4:24:31- did you deliver to the United States Air Force?- None.
4:24:31 > 4:24:35- Would you lean a little closer to the microphone, sir?- None!
4:24:35 > 4:24:38Did you receive 13 million
4:24:38 > 4:24:42to manufacture a prototype of a flying boat
4:24:42 > 4:24:44known as the Hercules?
4:24:44 > 4:24:47I did.
4:24:47 > 4:24:51- And did you deliver that plane? - I did not.
4:24:51 > 4:24:55So, by your admission in this chamber, Mr Hughes,
4:24:55 > 4:25:00you have received 56 million from the United States government
4:25:00 > 4:25:05- for planes you never delivered? - That is correct.
4:25:05 > 4:25:09Well, excuse me for asking, Mr Hughes,
4:25:09 > 4:25:12but where did all that money go?
4:25:12 > 4:25:16Well, it went into the planes, Senator, and a lot more.
4:25:16 > 4:25:20More? Do tell, Mr Hughes, what other larcenies
4:25:20 > 4:25:25- did you commit?- I mean I put MY money into the planes, Senator.
4:25:25 > 4:25:28My money.
4:25:29 > 4:25:33- See, the thing is that I care - - Mr Hughes, your personal finances
4:25:33 > 4:25:36- are not - - Let him speak.
4:25:40 > 4:25:42Proceed, Mr Hughes.
4:25:43 > 4:25:47See, the thing is, I care very much about aviation.
4:25:47 > 4:25:49It has been the great joy of my life,
4:25:49 > 4:25:52that's why I put my own money into these planes
4:25:52 > 4:25:56and I've lost millions and I'll go on losing millions,
4:25:56 > 4:25:59it's just...what I do.
4:25:59 > 4:26:03Now, if I've lost a lot of the government's money during the war,
4:26:03 > 4:26:05I hope folks will put that into perspective.
4:26:05 > 4:26:08You see, more than 60 other airplanes,
4:26:08 > 4:26:12ordered from such firms as Lockheed, Douglas, Northrop and Boeing,
4:26:12 > 4:26:14never saw action, either.
4:26:14 > 4:26:18In all, more than 800 million was spent during the war
4:26:18 > 4:26:23on planes that never flew. Over six BILLION on other weapons
4:26:23 > 4:26:29that were never delivered, yet Hughes Aircraft, with her 56 million,
4:26:29 > 4:26:32is the only firm under investigation here today.
4:26:32 > 4:26:36Now, I cannot help but think that has a little more to do with TWA
4:26:36 > 4:26:39- than planes that did not fly! - I think you've made your point.
4:26:39 > 4:26:44One second. I have one more thing to say here to this committee
4:26:44 > 4:26:46and that has to do with the Hercules.
4:26:47 > 4:26:52Now, I am supposed to be...many things which are not complimentary.
4:26:53 > 4:26:56I am supposed to be capricious, I have been called a playboy,
4:26:56 > 4:26:59I have even been called an eccentric
4:26:59 > 4:27:02but I do not believe that I have the reputation of being a liar.
4:27:03 > 4:27:07And, needless to say, the Hercules was a monumental undertaking.
4:27:07 > 4:27:11It is the largest plane ever built. It is over five storeys tall
4:27:11 > 4:27:14with a wingspan longer than a football field!
4:27:14 > 4:27:17I put the sweat of my life into this thing,
4:27:17 > 4:27:21I got my reputation all rolled up in it and I have stated several times
4:27:21 > 4:27:25that if the Hercules failed to fly, I will leave this country
4:27:25 > 4:27:28and never come back! And I mean it! GASPING
4:27:28 > 4:27:32Now, Senator Brewster... you can't subpoena me.
4:27:32 > 4:27:36You can arrest me, you can even claim that I've folded up
4:27:36 > 4:27:39and taken a run-out powder but, well... I've had
4:27:39 > 4:27:42just about enough of this nonsense. Good afternoon. APPLAUSE
4:27:42 > 4:27:46I had to do it, you know. REPORTERS FIRE QUESTIONS
4:27:48 > 4:27:51- I'd love to see the Hercules in the air.- Thank you.
4:27:51 > 4:27:56- Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you.- Excuse us.
4:27:56 > 4:28:01- Excuse us, please. Thank you. - Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
4:28:01 > 4:28:03Switch it off.
4:28:03 > 4:28:07- The hearings aren't over yet. - The hearings are over.
4:28:08 > 4:28:11The airline bill will be defeated in the Senate,
4:28:11 > 4:28:15TWA will begin flights from New York to Paris, then onto Moscow,
4:28:15 > 4:28:19to Japan, to Hawaii, to Los Angeles...
4:28:21 > 4:28:24..to New York.
4:28:33 > 4:28:36- Power coming up! - Power coming up!
4:28:36 > 4:28:39RUMBLING
4:28:39 > 4:28:43'Howard Hughes has alerted us. He has asked everyone to hold on.
4:28:43 > 4:28:46'Tremendous horsepower picking up.'
4:28:48 > 4:28:51- Let me hear it, Odie! - 25mph!
4:28:51 > 4:28:55- 30! - 'Here we go!
4:28:55 > 4:28:58- 'Here we go!'- 35! - 'The airspeed indicator
4:28:58 > 4:29:02'has moved up to 25, 30, 35...'
4:29:02 > 4:29:06- 40! - 'He pushes the throttle at 40.'
4:29:06 > 4:29:08- 45! - '45. More throttle.
4:29:08 > 4:29:11- '45.' - 50!- '50.
4:29:11 > 4:29:15- 'It's 50 over a choppy sea.' - 55! "55."
4:29:15 > 4:29:19- 'It's 55.'- 60! - 'More throttle. 60.'
4:29:19 > 4:29:22- 65! - '65.'
4:29:25 > 4:29:27- 70! - 'It's 70.'
4:29:27 > 4:29:30- 75! - 'It's 75.'
4:29:31 > 4:29:33RUMBLING STOPS
4:29:36 > 4:29:40'And something momentarily has just cut out
4:29:40 > 4:29:44'but we are airborne. We are airborne, ladies and gentlemen,
4:29:44 > 4:29:47'and I don't believe that Howard Hughes meant this to be.'
4:29:47 > 4:29:50ALL CHEER
4:29:50 > 4:29:52'And we were really up in the air.
4:29:52 > 4:29:56- 'We were really up in the air.' - CHUCKLES
4:29:59 > 4:30:03'Ladies and gentlemen, the Hughes, er, mammoth aircraft
4:30:03 > 4:30:07'has flown this afternoon in, er, Los Angeles harbour.
4:30:07 > 4:30:10'It certainly looks at this moment
4:30:10 > 4:30:13'that Howard Hughes will be around in the United States
4:30:13 > 4:30:15'for quite some time to come.'
4:30:26 > 4:30:29We must understand that technologies like these
4:30:29 > 4:30:33- are the way of the future. - TWA and Hughes Aircraft
4:30:33 > 4:30:37are delighted to have you come here and witness this wonderful sight.
4:30:37 > 4:30:39- Excuse us for just a second. - Sorry.
4:30:39 > 4:30:44- Feel like going to Paris?- Now? - TWA is startin' flights to Europe,
4:30:44 > 4:30:48- thought I might pilot the first one myself.- Good shopping in Paris.
4:30:48 > 4:30:51- I'll buy you anything you want. - You can buy me dinner.
4:30:51 > 4:30:54How about that?
4:30:55 > 4:31:00- Dinner, then. We got a date? - OK, baby, you got a date.
4:31:00 > 4:31:04I'll be back in a second. Don't you go anywhere, now, I mean it.
4:31:04 > 4:31:08All right, listen, boys, something new - jet airplanes.
4:31:08 > 4:31:11- Know anything about jets? - No, but it sounds expensive.
4:31:11 > 4:31:13It will be but we gotta get started.
4:31:14 > 4:31:18C'mon, walk with me. Whoever can start utilising jet technology
4:31:18 > 4:31:22on commercial airliners is gonna win all the marbles.
4:31:22 > 4:31:25- Odie, what do you know about the science?- A little.
4:31:25 > 4:31:28I can work something to show you, some basic turbine stuff.
4:31:32 > 4:31:35Noah...who are those fellas?
4:31:36 > 4:31:39Do they work for me?
4:31:40 > 4:31:42Everybody works for you, Howard.
4:31:44 > 4:31:46Oh.
4:31:48 > 4:31:51Lockheed worked on the F-80.
4:31:51 > 4:31:53- Get Bob Gross, see if he can help us. - OK.
4:31:53 > 4:31:57- What...now?- Of course now. We've gotta get into it.
4:31:57 > 4:32:00- Jets are gonna be the way of the future.- It's 4:30.
4:32:00 > 4:32:02Bob's in New York.
4:32:02 > 4:32:05- 7:30, he won't be in the office. - We'll get Nancy to figure out
4:32:05 > 4:32:09what hotel he's at. Do you want a telephone call or a meeting?
4:32:09 > 4:32:12We want a meeting, don't we, Howard?
4:32:12 > 4:32:15You want me to bring him out here tomorrow, Howard?
4:32:15 > 4:32:17- The way of the future. - Howard?
4:32:17 > 4:32:20- Howard? - The way of the future.
4:32:20 > 4:32:23- The way of the future. - Let's take a walk, Howard.
4:32:23 > 4:32:26- The way of the future. - Give me a hand, will you?
4:32:26 > 4:32:29The way of the future. The way of the future.
4:32:29 > 4:32:32The way of the future. The way of the future.
4:32:32 > 4:32:35The way of the future. The way of the future.
4:32:35 > 4:32:37The way of the future. The way of the future.
4:32:37 > 4:32:40The way of the future. The way of the future.
4:32:40 > 4:32:44- The way of the future. The way of the future.- Stay here.
4:32:44 > 4:32:47- I'll be right back, you understand, Howard?- The way of the future.
4:32:47 > 4:32:51- The way of the future.- I'll get a doctor. No-one sees him like this.
4:32:51 > 4:32:55The way of the future. The way of the future.
4:32:55 > 4:32:58The way of the future. The way of the future.
4:32:58 > 4:33:01The way of the future. The way of the future.
4:33:02 > 4:33:04The way of the future. The way of the future.
4:33:10 > 4:33:13'You are not safe.'
4:33:21 > 4:33:26When I grow up, I'm gonna fly the fastest planes ever built,
4:33:26 > 4:33:31make the biggest movies ever and be the richest man in the world.
4:33:44 > 4:33:46(The way of the future.)
4:33:54 > 4:33:56The way of the future.
4:34:03 > 4:34:06The way of the future.
4:34:08 > 4:34:11The way of the future.
4:34:12 > 4:34:14The way of the future.
4:34:15 > 4:34:17The way of the future.
4:34:20 > 4:34:24MUSIC: "Moonlight Serenade" by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
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