Till the End of Time

0:01:54 > 0:01:55Line up along the corridor.

0:01:55 > 0:01:58This way, men.

0:01:58 > 0:01:59Line up along the corridor.

0:01:59 > 0:02:01Throw your stuff right here.

0:02:12 > 0:02:14I don't know where most of you guys were on VJ Day,

0:02:14 > 0:02:16but for one reason or another, you're here today.

0:02:16 > 0:02:17You're being discharged.

0:02:17 > 0:02:19Before you know it, you'll be home.

0:02:19 > 0:02:20What the Corporal is giving you now

0:02:20 > 0:02:22is your master schedule,

0:02:22 > 0:02:23showing you what group you're in,

0:02:23 > 0:02:25where that group's got to be at what hour.

0:02:25 > 0:02:27Group one, sound off.

0:02:27 > 0:02:29McConnell. Marks.

0:02:29 > 0:02:30Harding. Ramsey.

0:02:30 > 0:02:32Kern. Tabeshaw.

0:02:32 > 0:02:34Conte. Harper. Farst.

0:02:34 > 0:02:35MAN: Name?

0:02:35 > 0:02:36Tabeshaw, William J.

0:02:36 > 0:02:39840067.

0:02:39 > 0:02:42Guadal, Kwajalein, Saipan, and Iwo Jima, right?

0:02:42 > 0:02:43That's right.

0:02:43 > 0:02:45Silver star and purple heart.

0:02:45 > 0:02:48Hospitalised - New Zealand, Pearl, and Balboa.

0:02:48 > 0:02:50Skull tree panned and silver plate inserted.

0:02:50 > 0:02:51They put the gizmo in my head

0:02:51 > 0:02:53to keep my brains where they belong.

0:02:53 > 0:02:54Feel OK?

0:02:54 > 0:02:56Well, with this hunk of silver and a real dime,

0:02:56 > 0:02:57I can always get a cup of coffee.

0:02:57 > 0:02:59Name?

0:02:59 > 0:03:01Harper, Clifford W.

0:03:01 > 0:03:03976955.

0:03:03 > 0:03:05Got the same action record as Tabeshaw's.

0:03:05 > 0:03:07Been together since boot camp in Diego.

0:03:07 > 0:03:08Better than three years.

0:03:08 > 0:03:10Three years, nine months.

0:03:10 > 0:03:13Four battle stars and the silver star.

0:03:13 > 0:03:15We parted company when he was dumb enough

0:03:15 > 0:03:16to get himself shot.

0:03:16 > 0:03:17Why don't you own up, Harper?

0:03:17 > 0:03:20I was a big hero, and you were a coward.

0:03:20 > 0:03:22As soon as I find out about your education

0:03:22 > 0:03:23and military specialities,

0:03:23 > 0:03:24I'll pass you on to rehab section.

0:03:24 > 0:03:26Are you going back to truck driving?

0:03:26 > 0:03:28You don't work as an MP for two years

0:03:28 > 0:03:31and then go back to truck driving! I'm going to be a cop.

0:03:31 > 0:03:33The rehabilitation officer nearest you

0:03:33 > 0:03:34is in New Orleans.

0:03:34 > 0:03:36Here's his name and address if you want his help.

0:03:36 > 0:03:38Maybe you'll find things changed.

0:03:38 > 0:03:39I don't need help.

0:03:39 > 0:03:41I'm going to buy me a farm.

0:03:41 > 0:03:43Little ever changes on a farm, mister.

0:03:43 > 0:03:45After you leave me, you'll go to the Red Cross.

0:03:45 > 0:03:47That's important to you, because there's where

0:03:47 > 0:03:48you file claim to a pension.

0:03:48 > 0:03:50That silver plate in your skull entitles you to a pension.

0:03:50 > 0:03:51You don't think I'm going to

0:03:51 > 0:03:52charge somebody for that, do you?

0:03:52 > 0:03:54Lots of men say that, Corporal,

0:03:54 > 0:03:57but you file that claim with the Red Cross anyway.

0:03:57 > 0:03:59Did you sign for this insurance when you went in?

0:03:59 > 0:04:01Between now and the next year and a half,

0:04:01 > 0:04:03you'll have to convert that policy.

0:04:03 > 0:04:06In the meantime, don't forget to pay your premiums.

0:04:06 > 0:04:08Don't worry, I won't!

0:04:08 > 0:04:11You left college in the middle of your freshman year, hmm?

0:04:11 > 0:04:13Right after Pearl Harbor.

0:04:13 > 0:04:15You're going back to school, I suppose?

0:04:15 > 0:04:16Well, I hadn't thought about it.

0:04:16 > 0:04:18Let's see...

0:04:18 > 0:04:20you worked for your father one summer

0:04:20 > 0:04:21in the construction business, didn't you?

0:04:21 > 0:04:23I was getting primed for football.

0:04:23 > 0:04:28It might be a good idea for you to take some engineering courses.

0:04:28 > 0:04:29Well, maybe, but first I want to get home.

0:04:29 > 0:04:31You and me both, Mack.

0:04:31 > 0:04:34Tabeshaw. Here.

0:04:34 > 0:04:37Total, 455.97.

0:04:37 > 0:04:39Back pay is 387.42.

0:04:39 > 0:04:42Railway fare to Stinking Creek, New Mexico

0:04:42 > 0:04:44at five cents a mile is 68.55.

0:04:44 > 0:04:46100 mustering out pay.

0:04:46 > 0:04:47I'll give you the first 100 now.

0:04:47 > 0:04:48The second 100 will be mailed

0:04:48 > 0:04:49from Washington to your home in 30 days.

0:04:49 > 0:04:51Third 100, 30 days after that.

0:04:51 > 0:04:53What? So you can't blow it all in at once, huh?

0:04:53 > 0:04:54That's the skinny, Corporal.

0:04:54 > 0:04:56Count it, Mack. Are you kidding?

0:04:56 > 0:04:58Tabeshaw.

0:04:58 > 0:05:00Here's your discharge button,

0:05:00 > 0:05:01your honourable discharge,

0:05:01 > 0:05:02and an envelope to keep it in.

0:05:02 > 0:05:03Thank you, sir.

0:05:03 > 0:05:04Good luck, Tabeshaw.

0:05:09 > 0:05:11ORCHESTRA PLAYS THE US MARINE CORPS HYMN

0:06:22 > 0:06:24Keep the change.

0:06:27 > 0:06:29BOY: Hi, Cliff!

0:06:29 > 0:06:31Hi. What's your name?

0:06:31 > 0:06:33I'm Freddy Stewart.

0:06:33 > 0:06:35Freddy Stewart?

0:06:35 > 0:06:36Why, the last time I saw you,

0:06:36 > 0:06:38you were this high.

0:06:38 > 0:06:40Now I'm...this high.

0:06:40 > 0:06:41You sure are!

0:06:41 > 0:06:43So long! So long!

0:07:00 > 0:07:01DOORBELL RINGS

0:07:17 > 0:07:19DOORBELL RINGS

0:07:43 > 0:07:45GIRL: Hi!

0:07:46 > 0:07:47Your folks aren't home.

0:07:47 > 0:07:48Your father's playing golf,

0:07:48 > 0:07:50and your mother's out shopping with my mother.

0:07:50 > 0:07:52Oh, I'm sure they'll be positively grim

0:07:52 > 0:07:53when they discover you came back from the wars

0:07:53 > 0:07:56and they weren't here!

0:07:56 > 0:07:57Welcome home!

0:07:57 > 0:07:59What do you like to be called?

0:07:59 > 0:08:02Leatherneck, Gyrene, or Devil Dog?

0:08:02 > 0:08:03Marine suits me fine.

0:08:03 > 0:08:05Just plain marine.

0:08:05 > 0:08:06OK, marine.

0:08:06 > 0:08:08I'm Helen Ingersoll.

0:08:08 > 0:08:10We're your next-door neighbours.

0:08:10 > 0:08:12Oh, what happened to the Crenshaws?

0:08:12 > 0:08:14Oh, they moved north to Alameda three years ago.

0:08:14 > 0:08:16Lucky for us, too, because when Daddy was transferred

0:08:16 > 0:08:18out here from the plant in Detroit,

0:08:18 > 0:08:19we didn't have a place to live.

0:08:19 > 0:08:21Daddy's production manager at Lockheed,

0:08:21 > 0:08:23and although we could have gotten into war housing,

0:08:23 > 0:08:24we thought maybe...

0:08:24 > 0:08:26Oh, but you're bored, aren't you? Naw, go ahead.

0:08:26 > 0:08:29I'm interested in people, especially our new neighbours.

0:08:29 > 0:08:31Oh, we're going to be your neighbours for a long time, too.

0:08:31 > 0:08:34Daddy says southern California's the coming part of the country.

0:08:34 > 0:08:36Daddy says six out of every ten veterans

0:08:36 > 0:08:37will settle here after the war.

0:08:37 > 0:08:38Never mind about your daddy.

0:08:38 > 0:08:41Haven't you got any ideas of your own?

0:08:42 > 0:08:46Oh, for our return marine, I've got some super ideas!

0:08:52 > 0:08:53Anything I can help you with, hay?

0:08:53 > 0:08:55No, thanks. I'll see you later.

0:08:55 > 0:08:57OK. Bye, hay.

0:09:10 > 0:09:12FOOD SIZZLES

0:10:03 > 0:10:06SWING MUSIC PLAYS LOUDLY

0:10:06 > 0:10:08TURNS RADIO OFF

0:12:20 > 0:12:22SWING MUSIC PLAYS

0:12:35 > 0:12:37What'll it be, chum?

0:12:37 > 0:12:39Don't chum me, you four-eyed, little square!

0:12:42 > 0:12:44Cliff!

0:12:44 > 0:12:45Cliff Harper!

0:12:45 > 0:12:47Well, Cliff, you're...you're back!

0:12:47 > 0:12:49You're back from the thing!

0:12:49 > 0:12:50I sure am, Scuffy!

0:12:50 > 0:12:53Well, well!

0:12:53 > 0:12:54Say!

0:12:54 > 0:12:57You did all right, chum! You did fine!

0:12:57 > 0:12:59You did all right yourself!

0:12:59 > 0:13:01Why, when I left here, this was nothing

0:13:01 > 0:13:03but a hard candy and ice cream parlour!

0:13:03 > 0:13:06La guerre, chum. La guerre.

0:13:06 > 0:13:07That's french for "the war," chum.

0:13:07 > 0:13:08The war?

0:13:08 > 0:13:11Yes, what with all the rationing

0:13:11 > 0:13:13and the liquor licence I finally got,

0:13:13 > 0:13:15I'd have been a creep not to jump on the gravy train!

0:13:15 > 0:13:16Good going!

0:13:16 > 0:13:18Give me a rum and coke.

0:13:18 > 0:13:19You all in one piece?

0:13:19 > 0:13:21Yes, sir!

0:13:21 > 0:13:23I'm rigged as good as the day we took

0:13:23 > 0:13:25the city championship away from Fairfax.

0:13:25 > 0:13:27Boy, I'll never forget that one!

0:13:27 > 0:13:29Oh, no, chum!

0:13:29 > 0:13:30Your money buys nothing here.

0:13:30 > 0:13:32Until tomorrow.

0:13:32 > 0:13:33BOTH CHUCKLE

0:13:33 > 0:13:35Well, thanks!

0:13:35 > 0:13:38I'm glad you're back, chum.

0:13:38 > 0:13:40See your kisser?

0:13:47 > 0:13:49Yeah! Where'd you get it?

0:13:49 > 0:13:51Nailed your ma for it.

0:13:51 > 0:13:52Hey! I'm right next to Pinky!

0:13:52 > 0:13:55Not only is he a lieutenant, senior grade,

0:13:55 > 0:13:58having distinguished himself as a naval flier,

0:13:58 > 0:14:00but he's sitting right in that booth over there!

0:14:00 > 0:14:02Hey, Pinky!

0:14:02 > 0:14:04Look what the marines threw back!

0:14:04 > 0:14:06Cliff! Well, I'll be a son of a...

0:14:06 > 0:14:07You're home! Yeah.

0:14:07 > 0:14:09When did you get in?

0:14:09 > 0:14:10Just got off the train.

0:14:10 > 0:14:11I'll be! Hey, this is Cliff Harper!

0:14:11 > 0:14:12Hello!

0:14:12 > 0:14:14These are a couple of tired old crumbs!

0:14:14 > 0:14:15I've made them even more tired

0:14:15 > 0:14:17by telling them what a big hero I am! Hey, grab it!

0:14:17 > 0:14:19Thanks.

0:14:19 > 0:14:20How was it, Cliff?

0:14:20 > 0:14:21It was all right.

0:14:21 > 0:14:23How was it with you?

0:14:23 > 0:14:24Upstairs, it was fine.

0:14:24 > 0:14:26The minute I got back to the flight deck,

0:14:26 > 0:14:27it nearly drove me nuts.

0:14:27 > 0:14:28Yeah, I'll bet.

0:14:28 > 0:14:29WOMAN: If you gents aren't careful,

0:14:29 > 0:14:31you're going to get maudlin.

0:14:31 > 0:14:34Well, Pat Ruscomb, this is Cliff Harper.

0:14:34 > 0:14:35PAT: Hello.

0:14:35 > 0:14:38Don't let the uniform fool you, Pat. He's a civilian.

0:14:38 > 0:14:39You on terminal leave?

0:14:39 > 0:14:41I'm in for the duration -

0:14:41 > 0:14:42the duration of the peace.

0:14:42 > 0:14:43If they start another war,

0:14:43 > 0:14:45brother, I'm resigning!

0:14:45 > 0:14:46I had enough points to get out,

0:14:46 > 0:14:48but I like the navy.

0:14:48 > 0:14:49You know, I wanted navy even before the war.

0:14:49 > 0:14:51That's the kind of guy I am.

0:14:51 > 0:14:54Any idea where they'll send you?

0:14:54 > 0:14:55There's a new carrier bank commission

0:14:55 > 0:14:56that I'm bucking for.

0:14:58 > 0:15:00I'd have been out of these today,

0:15:00 > 0:15:01but my clothes don't fit!

0:15:01 > 0:15:04Going back to school?

0:15:04 > 0:15:06I don't know.

0:15:06 > 0:15:08Maybe.

0:15:08 > 0:15:10Well, that's one thing I'll miss,

0:15:10 > 0:15:12but I'll be getting back more often to see you guys

0:15:12 > 0:15:14and shoot it with you.

0:15:14 > 0:15:16I...know I'll want to.

0:15:21 > 0:15:23Let's dance.

0:15:24 > 0:15:25All right.

0:15:47 > 0:15:49You with Pinky?

0:15:50 > 0:15:51With nobody.

0:15:53 > 0:15:55Pinky didn't bring you?

0:15:55 > 0:15:57I drove over, by myself.

0:15:58 > 0:16:01But I'm driving you home.

0:16:01 > 0:16:04You know that, huh? Mm-hmm.

0:16:04 > 0:16:06You told me.

0:16:06 > 0:16:08When?

0:16:08 > 0:16:11When you sat down next to me.

0:16:14 > 0:16:17Want to say goodbye to them?

0:16:17 > 0:16:19I'll say goodbye tomorrow.

0:16:55 > 0:16:57This is it.

0:16:57 > 0:17:00A bit on the elegant side but home.

0:17:00 > 0:17:02I share it with a friend of mine

0:17:02 > 0:17:04who works for the governor.

0:17:04 > 0:17:06Not bad. Mm-hmm.

0:17:06 > 0:17:08I thought it would work out pretty well,

0:17:08 > 0:17:10having someone around all the time.

0:17:11 > 0:17:15So far, she's been in Washington for the last three months.

0:17:15 > 0:17:16Uh-huh.

0:17:17 > 0:17:20Gives you a little more room, huh?

0:17:21 > 0:17:22Uh-huh.

0:17:24 > 0:17:25This your hometown?

0:17:25 > 0:17:28Yeah.

0:17:28 > 0:17:30Glad to be home?

0:17:30 > 0:17:31Uh-huh.

0:17:33 > 0:17:35Marines are... kind of rugged, hmm?

0:17:38 > 0:17:39Yeah.

0:17:45 > 0:17:46Well, that's fine.

0:17:47 > 0:17:49Now what do we talk about?

0:17:49 > 0:17:51Not much of a talker.

0:17:53 > 0:17:54Come here.

0:18:00 > 0:18:02What if I don't?

0:18:05 > 0:18:06You will.

0:18:20 > 0:18:21I liked it.

0:18:23 > 0:18:26I've got to tell you something.

0:18:26 > 0:18:28It's true.

0:18:28 > 0:18:32I saw you, and funny things happened.

0:18:32 > 0:18:35Couldn't wait to put my arms around you.

0:18:35 > 0:18:36Don't be frightened.

0:18:39 > 0:18:41It isn't love.

0:18:41 > 0:18:44You don't think so?

0:18:44 > 0:18:45What is it?

0:18:48 > 0:18:51Lots of things.

0:18:51 > 0:18:52Growing up...

0:18:52 > 0:18:55Six, eight, ten months in the Pacific,

0:18:55 > 0:18:58um...jukebox joint...

0:19:00 > 0:19:02..and then a room that's not too crowded.

0:19:03 > 0:19:06All those things.

0:19:06 > 0:19:07Half of them's in love.

0:19:19 > 0:19:22You're pretty grown up...

0:19:22 > 0:19:25for a kid your age.

0:19:25 > 0:19:27If you're laughing at me, I don't like it.

0:19:28 > 0:19:29I'm sorry.

0:19:43 > 0:19:45Who's Flash Gordon?

0:19:46 > 0:19:48His name's John Ruscomb.

0:19:48 > 0:19:51First lieutenant AAF,

0:19:51 > 0:19:528th bomber command.

0:19:52 > 0:19:54Who is he?

0:19:58 > 0:20:00My husband.

0:20:07 > 0:20:09If you hadn't had his picture here,

0:20:09 > 0:20:11I don't think I would have cared one way or the other,

0:20:11 > 0:20:13whether you were married or not.

0:20:13 > 0:20:14But this way...

0:20:14 > 0:20:18I don't like me, and I don't like you.

0:20:18 > 0:20:20Great.

0:20:20 > 0:20:22Where is he?

0:20:22 > 0:20:25They...buried him in France.

0:20:25 > 0:20:29They sent me the name of the place about three weeks ago.

0:20:29 > 0:20:32I... You're sorry.

0:20:33 > 0:20:36I'm sorry, too.

0:20:38 > 0:20:40Sit down.

0:20:46 > 0:20:50I...met John about three years ago.

0:20:52 > 0:20:56I was a hostess at the canteen, and he was a cadet.

0:20:56 > 0:20:58It happened like that.

0:21:00 > 0:21:02I trotted around with him,

0:21:02 > 0:21:05until he got his wings and his assignment to go overseas.

0:21:05 > 0:21:07And away he went.

0:21:09 > 0:21:11Up into the wild, blue yonder. MUSIC TURNS ON

0:21:11 > 0:21:13It's very corny but true.

0:21:13 > 0:21:15That's what makes it so corny.

0:21:15 > 0:21:16It's happened to so many.

0:21:21 > 0:21:22The last letter I got from him,

0:21:22 > 0:21:24he'd made a second mission.

0:21:24 > 0:21:27The CO told me he was killed on his third.

0:21:27 > 0:21:29He's been dead about 14 months.

0:21:30 > 0:21:31He sent me a package

0:21:31 > 0:21:34with...some of his personal things in it,

0:21:34 > 0:21:35but I never opened it.

0:21:35 > 0:21:37I sent it to his family.

0:21:37 > 0:21:39They live in Louisville.

0:21:40 > 0:21:43They ought to give purple hearts for war widows.

0:21:46 > 0:21:47You're sweet.

0:21:52 > 0:21:53I'll see you again.

0:21:59 > 0:22:02I want to kiss you goodbye...

0:22:02 > 0:22:05but the room's too crowded.

0:22:06 > 0:22:08Bye, Cliff.

0:22:08 > 0:22:09Goodbye, Pat.

0:22:22 > 0:22:23Cliff! Dad!

0:22:24 > 0:22:26How are you, Son?

0:22:26 > 0:22:29I'm OK!

0:22:29 > 0:22:30Where've you been?

0:22:30 > 0:22:31I left a note for you.

0:22:31 > 0:22:33Oh, we called Scuffy's. You weren't there.

0:22:33 > 0:22:36You had us nearly crazy waiting for you.

0:22:36 > 0:22:37Why didn't you let us know?

0:22:37 > 0:22:40Aw, I thought I'd surprise you, Dad.

0:22:40 > 0:22:42You look mighty fit, Son.

0:22:42 > 0:22:44Feel great, too.

0:22:44 > 0:22:47Amy! Amy, he's here!

0:22:47 > 0:22:49She's been crying ever since she got home.

0:22:49 > 0:22:51Imagine that! AMY: Cliff!

0:22:51 > 0:22:53Oh, my boy!

0:22:53 > 0:22:55Oh! My boy!

0:22:55 > 0:22:57Oh! You're home! Thank God! Thank God!

0:22:57 > 0:22:58Take it easy, ma. Take it easy.

0:22:58 > 0:23:00Home for good, Amy!

0:23:00 > 0:23:02Be a good girl! Don't carry on so!

0:23:02 > 0:23:03Oh, you're thin!

0:23:03 > 0:23:06Thin? He's 32lbs heavier than when he left here!

0:23:06 > 0:23:09Oh, I felt just awful when I saw your note.

0:23:09 > 0:23:10I could have killed myself

0:23:10 > 0:23:11for going shopping this afternoon,

0:23:11 > 0:23:13but we're having company for barbecue tonight,

0:23:13 > 0:23:15and I just had to get some things.

0:23:15 > 0:23:17Well, it was kind of spooky coming home

0:23:17 > 0:23:18and not finding anyone around.

0:23:18 > 0:23:19How does it look, Cliff?

0:23:19 > 0:23:21Does it look the same to you?

0:23:21 > 0:23:23Fine, Ma. It looks just fine.

0:23:23 > 0:23:24You're not tired after your trip?

0:23:24 > 0:23:26No, I'm all right.

0:23:26 > 0:23:28Guess you're old enough to handle this now, Son.

0:23:28 > 0:23:30I've been saving this bourbon for when you got home.

0:23:30 > 0:23:31Say when.

0:23:35 > 0:23:36Clifford!

0:23:36 > 0:23:38CW, do you want to make him sick?!

0:23:38 > 0:23:42Women don't understand us fightin' men, Son.

0:23:42 > 0:23:44Glad to have you back from the wars.

0:23:44 > 0:23:46Glad to be back.

0:23:52 > 0:23:53SHE SNIFFS

0:23:54 > 0:23:56I guess after that GI food,

0:23:56 > 0:23:57you'll enjoy home cooking.

0:23:57 > 0:23:59I sure will, Ma!

0:23:59 > 0:24:01But I've got so much to talk about,

0:24:01 > 0:24:02I don't know where to begin.

0:24:02 > 0:24:04I want to tell you where I've been and what I saw...

0:24:04 > 0:24:05Don't talk about it, Cliff.

0:24:05 > 0:24:08I know you don't want to talk about it.

0:24:08 > 0:24:09Sure great to have you home, Son.

0:24:09 > 0:24:12Now you two hurry and get washed up.

0:24:12 > 0:24:14Company will be here before you know it.

0:24:20 > 0:24:23MAN: That's the last club you'll get.

0:24:23 > 0:24:24CLIFF: Is this the bag you wanted, Mom?

0:24:24 > 0:24:26Yes, Cliff. Thank you.

0:24:26 > 0:24:28There we are. How's that?

0:24:28 > 0:24:30How you doing, Dad? Oh, fine, Son. Fine.

0:24:30 > 0:24:33Now, if he gives me one of these,

0:24:33 > 0:24:34and I have this left,

0:24:34 > 0:24:35I go down, you see?

0:24:35 > 0:24:37AMY: Want a cold drink or something, Clifford?

0:24:37 > 0:24:39No, thanks, Ma. I'm all right.

0:24:39 > 0:24:40That's fine, dear.

0:24:40 > 0:24:41MAN: Didn't play much gin

0:24:41 > 0:24:42in the marines, eh, Cliff?

0:24:42 > 0:24:43No, Mr Ingersoll.

0:24:43 > 0:24:45Mostly Acey deucy. Sometimes a little poker.

0:24:45 > 0:24:49Why, in the last show, CW and I had a boy in our company -

0:24:49 > 0:24:50a fellow by the name of Scotty Blodgett -

0:24:50 > 0:24:53knocked off over 60,000 shootin' crap at Paris.

0:24:53 > 0:24:55What's the matter with the kids in this war, Cliff? Nobody gamble?

0:24:55 > 0:24:57Oh, there was a little of it, I guess.

0:24:57 > 0:24:59I left a note for him that I'd be over here.

0:24:59 > 0:25:00Who?

0:25:00 > 0:25:01Oh, I told you. Tommy Hendricks.

0:25:01 > 0:25:03He's taking me to the frosh dance tonight.

0:25:03 > 0:25:04He's her steady.

0:25:04 > 0:25:05Father!

0:25:07 > 0:25:08You wouldn't be in the mood

0:25:08 > 0:25:09to treat me to a drink, would you?

0:25:09 > 0:25:10Yes, ma'am!

0:25:10 > 0:25:11CW: How's one?

0:25:11 > 0:25:12MR INGERSOLL: I think you're safe.

0:25:12 > 0:25:14MAN: I have 3.

0:25:14 > 0:25:15You get 14.

0:25:15 > 0:25:17In spite of what your old man tells ya!

0:25:17 > 0:25:18That's the way to play gin, my boy!

0:25:20 > 0:25:22I takes it as is.

0:25:22 > 0:25:23What? No glass chaser?

0:25:23 > 0:25:24Ha ha. Just neat.

0:25:24 > 0:25:26Hi! Well, where have you been?

0:25:26 > 0:25:29Well, I...I...couldn't get my car started.

0:25:29 > 0:25:30That is, right away.

0:25:30 > 0:25:32Cliff, this is Tommy Hendricks.

0:25:32 > 0:25:33Tommy, Cliff Harper.

0:25:33 > 0:25:34Hiya, Tommy.

0:25:34 > 0:25:36Well, how are you, sir?

0:25:36 > 0:25:37Uh, do you think we'll make it?

0:25:37 > 0:25:40Relax, Tommy!

0:25:40 > 0:25:42Oh, I'll need a wrap.

0:25:42 > 0:25:43Tommy, would you mind stepping through the hedge

0:25:43 > 0:25:44and getting it for me?

0:25:44 > 0:25:46Well, sure! Thank you.

0:25:46 > 0:25:48MAN: Sucker!

0:25:48 > 0:25:51We could be more comfortable.

0:25:53 > 0:25:55Smoke?

0:25:56 > 0:25:58Oh, I'm dying for one,

0:25:58 > 0:26:00but...my father - you know.

0:26:00 > 0:26:01Yeah, I know.

0:26:01 > 0:26:03My folks were like that, too, when I was your age.

0:26:03 > 0:26:05Oh, I'm not so young!

0:26:05 > 0:26:07SWING SQUEAKS

0:26:08 > 0:26:10RADIO ANNOUNCER SPEAKS

0:26:11 > 0:26:13This thing needs oiling.

0:26:13 > 0:26:16What it needs is using.

0:26:16 > 0:26:19I've been waiting three and a half years to sit here and use this,

0:26:19 > 0:26:20oiling or no oiling.

0:26:21 > 0:26:23Was it rugged?

0:26:24 > 0:26:27Was what rugged?

0:26:27 > 0:26:30Oh, the war. You know.

0:26:32 > 0:26:34Yep, got to get some oil tomorrow.

0:26:35 > 0:26:37Tomorrow's Sunday.

0:26:37 > 0:26:39You mean today only started this morning?

0:26:39 > 0:26:40Sure, it started at...

0:26:41 > 0:26:42Hey, you want to go to the beach tomorrow?

0:26:42 > 0:26:43Tomorrow I sleep.

0:26:47 > 0:26:49I honestly don't think I can take this any longer, kid.

0:26:49 > 0:26:51This is getting me seasick.

0:26:51 > 0:26:53I thought the marines were good on land or sea.

0:26:53 > 0:26:55I'm an ex-marine.

0:26:55 > 0:26:57Here you are.

0:26:57 > 0:26:58Well, I'm happy to have met you, sir.

0:26:58 > 0:26:59Same here, Tommy.

0:26:59 > 0:27:01Have a good time.

0:27:01 > 0:27:02Oh, we sure will, sir.

0:27:02 > 0:27:03Yes, sir.

0:27:05 > 0:27:07Good night, hay.

0:27:08 > 0:27:10WOMEN LAUGH

0:27:10 > 0:27:11I'll take this one.

0:27:14 > 0:27:16I'm the dummy.

0:27:16 > 0:27:18Oh, Ma, if you don't tell anybody, I won't.

0:27:18 > 0:27:20I-oh!

0:27:22 > 0:27:24I saw you and Helen over by the glider together.

0:27:24 > 0:27:26Yeah?

0:27:26 > 0:27:27Ingersolls are nice people.

0:27:27 > 0:27:29Seem to be all right.

0:27:29 > 0:27:32Helen can cook and sew, is wonderful in the garden,

0:27:32 > 0:27:33and she's very smart at school.

0:27:33 > 0:27:36How's her knitting? Going to be a sophomore next term at USC,

0:27:36 > 0:27:38and she made a very good sorority.

0:27:38 > 0:27:39WOMAN: Oh, Amy, darling? Yes, dear?

0:27:39 > 0:27:41Made three hearts and rubber.

0:27:41 > 0:27:43Oh, that's wonderful, dear!

0:27:43 > 0:27:45We'll talk some more about it, Son.

0:27:45 > 0:27:47We have so much to talk about!

0:27:56 > 0:27:57CW: How you doing, Son?

0:27:57 > 0:27:59Guess I'll hit the sack, Dad.

0:27:59 > 0:28:01All right, Son.

0:28:01 > 0:28:02It's been a long day.

0:28:02 > 0:28:03Well, good night, Dad. Good night, Son.

0:28:03 > 0:28:04Good night, everybody.

0:28:04 > 0:28:05MEN: Good night.

0:28:05 > 0:28:06Good night, Ma.

0:28:06 > 0:28:07Good night, Son.

0:28:07 > 0:28:09CW: Poor kid's bushed!

0:28:09 > 0:28:10Remember the day we got out?

0:28:10 > 0:28:13We didn't stop celebrating for 72 hours!

0:28:13 > 0:28:15I remember! ALL LAUGH

0:28:15 > 0:28:17CW: Do I remember!

0:28:23 > 0:28:25RADIO ANNOUNCER: We proudly point to bandstand number 1,

0:28:25 > 0:28:27where you'll hear the delectable ditty

0:28:27 > 0:28:30that jumped to the top of the totem pole in popularity.

0:28:30 > 0:28:32It's good.

0:28:32 > 0:28:33BIG BAND MUSIC PLAYS

0:28:38 > 0:28:43WOMAN: # Till the end of time

0:28:43 > 0:28:47# Long as stars are in the blue

0:28:47 > 0:28:51# Long as there's a spring of birds who sing

0:28:51 > 0:28:56# I'll go on loving you

0:28:57 > 0:29:01# Till the end of time

0:29:01 > 0:29:05# Long as roses bloom in May

0:29:05 > 0:29:10# My love for you will grow deeper

0:29:10 > 0:29:13# With every passing day

0:29:13 > 0:29:18# Till the wells run dry

0:29:18 > 0:29:23# And each mountain disappears

0:29:23 > 0:29:25# I'll be there for you to care for you

0:29:25 > 0:29:31# Through laughter and through tears

0:29:31 > 0:29:36# So take my heart in sweet surrender... #

0:29:44 > 0:29:46DOOR LATCH CLICKS

0:31:19 > 0:31:21HE SOBS

0:31:39 > 0:31:41RATTLING

0:31:45 > 0:31:46HORN HONKS

0:31:51 > 0:31:53Hi. Hiya, sailor.

0:31:53 > 0:31:55What gives?

0:31:55 > 0:31:56Oh, my folks had a barbecue last night.

0:31:56 > 0:31:58Turned out to be a homecoming.

0:31:58 > 0:32:00I had one of those things. It turned out to be murder.

0:32:00 > 0:32:03Half of them were afraid if they said anything it would upset me,

0:32:03 > 0:32:05and the other half were afraid if I said something,

0:32:05 > 0:32:06I'd upset them.

0:32:06 > 0:32:08Look, my friend, let's face it -

0:32:08 > 0:32:10nobody's gonna listen to us.

0:32:10 > 0:32:11Why don't we take off an hour sometime?

0:32:11 > 0:32:13You tell me what you did, and I'll tell you what I did.

0:32:13 > 0:32:15You got it.

0:32:15 > 0:32:17In the meantime, leave us turn our talents to something gainful.

0:32:17 > 0:32:18Want to go skating?

0:32:18 > 0:32:20I haven't had a pair of skates on in four years.

0:32:20 > 0:32:22I've got a date with Pat.

0:32:22 > 0:32:24Pat who?

0:32:24 > 0:32:26Girl you took out of Scuffy's yesterday

0:32:26 > 0:32:28without saying goodbye to me.

0:32:28 > 0:32:30Oh, that girl.

0:32:30 > 0:32:32Grab yourself a date. I'll pick you up in an hour.

0:32:32 > 0:32:35I'll try to think of somebody. Well, goodbye.

0:32:35 > 0:32:37What do you mean, goodbye? I'm gonna pick you up in an hour.

0:32:37 > 0:32:38That's goodbye for yesterday.

0:32:38 > 0:32:39Oh.

0:32:41 > 0:32:43Hey, do you skate? SHE SWITCHES ENGINE OFF

0:32:43 > 0:32:45Do you skate?

0:32:45 > 0:32:48Why, natch, hay!

0:32:49 > 0:32:50HORN HONKS

0:32:54 > 0:32:55Hi.

0:32:55 > 0:32:56Hi.

0:32:56 > 0:32:58HELEN: Hi!

0:33:02 > 0:33:04He said he'd get somebody. He did.

0:33:04 > 0:33:06Quiet. She's cute.

0:33:11 > 0:33:13Well, hey, aren't you going to the beach with me?

0:33:13 > 0:33:15Oh, I'm so sorry, Tommy,

0:33:15 > 0:33:17but something terribly important has come up

0:33:17 > 0:33:19and I just can't go today.

0:33:19 > 0:33:22And get some clothes on!

0:33:28 > 0:33:29He's such a child.

0:33:29 > 0:33:30Helen Ingersoll, Pat Ruscomb.

0:33:30 > 0:33:31Hello, Pat.

0:33:31 > 0:33:33Pinky Laddis. Hiya, Pinky.

0:33:33 > 0:33:35Westwood all right with you?

0:33:35 > 0:33:36Everything's all right with me.

0:33:36 > 0:33:38You guys? Aye, aye, sir.

0:33:51 > 0:33:53Say, where do you get the skates?

0:33:53 > 0:33:54HELEN: Oh, over this way.

0:33:56 > 0:33:57I'll get 'em.

0:33:57 > 0:33:59Size three for me. Figure skates.

0:33:59 > 0:34:01Are you in the Sonja Henie department, too?

0:34:01 > 0:34:02Anytime. Size 6. You flat foot?

0:34:02 > 0:34:05I'm coming with you. We'll bring you the ice skates.

0:34:05 > 0:34:08Give me a pair of figures for a girl size 3,

0:34:08 > 0:34:11a pair for a girl size 6, 10 for me,

0:34:11 > 0:34:12and you, sir?

0:34:12 > 0:34:14Make mine size 11s. Figure skates.

0:34:14 > 0:34:15I'm one of those hot kids.

0:34:15 > 0:34:17The girls seem to be getting along all right.

0:34:17 > 0:34:19Pat can take care of herself anywhere any time.

0:34:19 > 0:34:21Skip the detail. Just tell me.

0:34:21 > 0:34:22Is she is or is she ain't your girl?

0:34:22 > 0:34:25Pat's nobody's girl but Johnny's.

0:34:25 > 0:34:27What you mean is, she's not yours.

0:34:27 > 0:34:30Me for the life on the bounty main, me friend.

0:34:30 > 0:34:31I don't believe you.

0:34:31 > 0:34:33Carry on.

0:34:33 > 0:34:35GIRLS GIGGLE

0:34:37 > 0:34:39Oh, it's wonderful!

0:34:39 > 0:34:41Anybody who can't do this is grounded.

0:34:44 > 0:34:46Hiya, fellas!

0:34:46 > 0:34:48Ever do much skating, Mrs Ruscomb?

0:34:48 > 0:34:49Um, yes and no.

0:34:49 > 0:34:51Well, I'd be careful when I first got on the ice.

0:34:51 > 0:34:53You can get an awful wrench in your back.

0:34:53 > 0:34:54I'll try.

0:34:54 > 0:34:56Why don't one of you fellas help Mrs Ruscomb?

0:34:56 > 0:34:58That's me.

0:35:01 > 0:35:03They all laughed when I sat down to skate.

0:35:03 > 0:35:05Oh!

0:35:05 > 0:35:06You're really great.

0:35:49 > 0:35:50Very neat!

0:35:50 > 0:35:53Now I know why I feel so old when she calls me Mrs Ruscomb.

0:35:53 > 0:35:55Come on, Grandma. Let's try it.

0:36:19 > 0:36:22She doesn't need any help at all.

0:36:22 > 0:36:23Watch me.

0:36:25 > 0:36:27SHE LAUGHS

0:36:27 > 0:36:29Let me help you.

0:36:32 > 0:36:33Coke, please.

0:36:36 > 0:36:37Coffee?

0:36:37 > 0:36:39Two coffees, please.

0:36:39 > 0:36:41Where did you learn to skate like that?

0:36:41 > 0:36:43Little town you've never heard of in Wisconsin.

0:36:43 > 0:36:46Well, tell me. I'll look it up on the map.

0:36:46 > 0:36:47Ready? Ready.

0:36:47 > 0:36:48Chippewa Falls.

0:36:48 > 0:36:50Chippewa Falls. I'll remember that.

0:36:50 > 0:36:51You've got enough to remember.

0:36:51 > 0:36:54I'm forgetting things so I'll have more room.

0:36:54 > 0:36:56You ought to try that sometime.

0:36:56 > 0:36:59I will sometime.

0:37:00 > 0:37:02Was it a lake or river in Chippewa Falls?

0:37:02 > 0:37:04A river filled with deadheads.

0:37:04 > 0:37:05Anybody I know?

0:37:07 > 0:37:10A deadhead is a piece of timber that's been waterlogged.

0:37:10 > 0:37:12It just sits in the river

0:37:12 > 0:37:14with its head above water going no place.

0:37:14 > 0:37:16Then it is somebody I know.

0:37:20 > 0:37:21Excuse me a minute.

0:37:25 > 0:37:27Hiya, Dollface.

0:37:27 > 0:37:30Close in, marine. I'm getting the shakes.

0:37:30 > 0:37:31Go ahead. Shake.

0:37:40 > 0:37:42Thanks.

0:37:44 > 0:37:46Anybody looking?

0:37:46 > 0:37:48What if they are?

0:38:03 > 0:38:05Feeling better?

0:38:05 > 0:38:08The doctor said they'd wear off in time.

0:38:08 > 0:38:11Once you get home, things will brighten up. You'll be fine.

0:38:11 > 0:38:13I'm not going home.

0:38:13 > 0:38:17My folks will go nuts if they see me like this.

0:38:17 > 0:38:19I couldn't take it.

0:38:19 > 0:38:21Where do you live, soldier?

0:38:21 > 0:38:23Boise, Idaho.

0:38:25 > 0:38:29I got a 21-day pass from the hospital.

0:38:29 > 0:38:31I used up five of them already.

0:38:47 > 0:38:49I guess I better check back to the hospital.

0:38:49 > 0:38:51Your being afraid to go home

0:38:51 > 0:38:53reminds me of myself my first year in high school,

0:38:53 > 0:38:55my first dance.

0:38:55 > 0:38:57My mother made my dress for me.

0:38:57 > 0:38:59I was so convinced it was awful

0:38:59 > 0:39:02that every time some boy came up and asked me to dance,

0:39:02 > 0:39:04I made up some silly excuse.

0:39:04 > 0:39:06I was afraid to get out on the floor.

0:39:06 > 0:39:08I was afraid people would laugh.

0:39:08 > 0:39:11I was panicky.

0:39:12 > 0:39:14"Patricia," I said to myself,

0:39:14 > 0:39:17"this is your first dance, and it's going to be your last

0:39:17 > 0:39:20"unless you stop being so ridiculous

0:39:20 > 0:39:22"and beat this here and now."

0:39:24 > 0:39:27While I'm having this big argument with myself,

0:39:27 > 0:39:29a cute little boy comes up

0:39:29 > 0:39:31and asks the girl next to me.

0:39:31 > 0:39:33Before I knew what I was doing,

0:39:33 > 0:39:35I grabbed him, and I was dancing.

0:39:35 > 0:39:37And after that, it was a cinch.

0:39:37 > 0:39:41You figure I can beat this by taking up dancing?

0:39:42 > 0:39:45All I'm saying is let them look.

0:39:45 > 0:39:47And if they don't like it,

0:39:47 > 0:39:49let them kill themselves.

0:39:49 > 0:39:50Sure.

0:39:50 > 0:39:52Let them kill themselves.

0:39:56 > 0:39:58Thanks.

0:39:58 > 0:40:00You're good Joes.

0:40:00 > 0:40:03That's us - service with a smile.

0:40:03 > 0:40:04You OK? Yeah.

0:40:04 > 0:40:05Good day.

0:40:12 > 0:40:14I hope he does go home.

0:40:14 > 0:40:16You handled him well, Pat.

0:40:16 > 0:40:18He's nice.

0:40:18 > 0:40:19Our coffee's cold.

0:40:19 > 0:40:21I'll get some more.

0:40:21 > 0:40:23Never mind. Come on. Let's skate.

0:40:25 > 0:40:28CW IMITATES BUGLE

0:40:32 > 0:40:34Hello there, Son! Rise and shine!

0:40:34 > 0:40:36Up and at 'em! Hit the deck! Aw, Dad.

0:40:36 > 0:40:38Come on! It's a wonderful morning.

0:40:38 > 0:40:41God's in his heaven. All's right with the world.

0:40:41 > 0:40:42Knock it off.

0:40:42 > 0:40:44Oh, you're not gonna pound that pillow all day, are you?

0:40:44 > 0:40:46There's work to be done. There's a world to be won.

0:40:46 > 0:40:47It's too early for that old fight, Dad.

0:40:47 > 0:40:49You got some mail. A man's got to read his mail.

0:40:49 > 0:40:50It's the same old malarkey.

0:40:50 > 0:40:54"We have your post-war bungalow ready for you today. Now.

0:40:54 > 0:40:57"Sign up for that post-war trip around the world today. Now."

0:40:57 > 0:40:59Everything has to be today.

0:40:59 > 0:41:01And plugs from 18 veteran outfits.

0:41:01 > 0:41:04Got to be careful with those, Son. Some of them can be bad.

0:41:04 > 0:41:07Ever heard of the American War Patriots? What's that?

0:41:07 > 0:41:10I don't know, but when you want to join up, talk to me about it.

0:41:10 > 0:41:12When I want to join up?

0:41:12 > 0:41:14Say, that's some suit.

0:41:14 > 0:41:16Pretty snappy, huh?

0:41:16 > 0:41:19Well, I hope you charged it to me like I told you to.

0:41:19 > 0:41:22I've still got plenty of cash, Dad. 920 bucks.

0:41:22 > 0:41:24I don't need your money for a long time.

0:41:24 > 0:41:25Thanks anyway.

0:41:25 > 0:41:27But, er, but if you don't get started with something,

0:41:27 > 0:41:30your money won't last forever. You know that, Cliff.

0:41:30 > 0:41:32How about school? Starts Monday.

0:41:32 > 0:41:34Made up your mind about it?

0:41:34 > 0:41:37I've made up my mind about one thing, Dad,

0:41:37 > 0:41:40and that is not to make up my mind...

0:41:40 > 0:41:42for a while yet.

0:41:42 > 0:41:44Sure. Sure, Cliff.

0:41:44 > 0:41:46I just thought I'd mention it.

0:41:51 > 0:41:53Waffles!

0:41:53 > 0:41:55Why, Ma, that's sensational.

0:41:55 > 0:41:57You always liked them.

0:42:03 > 0:42:05I remember one night -

0:42:05 > 0:42:08I forget where it was - we were in a foxhole.

0:42:08 > 0:42:10You don't know what a foxhole is, Ma,

0:42:10 > 0:42:12but try to think of three fellas

0:42:12 > 0:42:15lying in a telephone booth.

0:42:15 > 0:42:18It's raining and hot and...

0:42:18 > 0:42:21I don't want to upset you, Ma, but it really stunk.

0:42:23 > 0:42:25Tried to think of something

0:42:25 > 0:42:30that would take my mind off how rugged it was.

0:42:30 > 0:42:32So for no reason at all, I thought of your waffles.

0:42:34 > 0:42:36Son, don't talk about it. Just eat.

0:42:36 > 0:42:41Anybody who talks about another war is out of his mind.

0:42:41 > 0:42:43Those foxholes sure can stink.

0:42:43 > 0:42:46Clifford, darling, please don't live in the past.

0:42:46 > 0:42:48I'm not living in the past, Ma.

0:42:48 > 0:42:50I was just... MAN SINGS

0:42:50 > 0:42:51What's that?

0:42:51 > 0:42:53That's my past!

0:42:54 > 0:42:58# And they sing all angels that are single

0:42:58 > 0:43:01# And that song ain't so very far from wrong. #

0:43:01 > 0:43:03Hiya, Bill. Hi, partner.

0:43:03 > 0:43:05A kid from Kwajalein.

0:43:05 > 0:43:07In the flesh. How are you, Cliff? What's the word?

0:43:07 > 0:43:09Everything's swell. Come on in and meet my mother.

0:43:09 > 0:43:11Boy, these kids around here sure know you.

0:43:11 > 0:43:13You must spend all your time digging

0:43:13 > 0:43:15to scoop out a foxhole like this.

0:43:15 > 0:43:17Mom, I want you to meet a friend of mine.

0:43:17 > 0:43:19Bill Tabeshaw. Bill, my mother.

0:43:19 > 0:43:21I'm happy to know you, Bill.

0:43:21 > 0:43:23Thank you, ma'am. I'm glad to meet Cliff's mother.

0:43:23 > 0:43:26Cliff's just having his breakfast. Would you like a waffle?

0:43:26 > 0:43:28Oh, no, thanks, ma'am, but a cup of coffee would be mighty fine.

0:43:28 > 0:43:29Right.

0:43:29 > 0:43:31Go ahead and finish your chow, Cliff.

0:43:31 > 0:43:33Come on, now. Sound off. Where have you been?

0:43:33 > 0:43:35How's that hunk of metal in your skull?

0:43:35 > 0:43:38Say, I'm getting to like that better than my own head.

0:43:38 > 0:43:39Well, how do you like it?

0:43:39 > 0:43:42You're too beautiful for Stinking Creek, New Mexico.

0:43:42 > 0:43:43Oh, it's nothing.

0:43:43 > 0:43:45Nothing that doesn't set you back a couple of months' pay.

0:43:45 > 0:43:47Sit down, Ma, listen to the scuttlebutt.

0:43:47 > 0:43:48Thank you, ma'am.

0:43:48 > 0:43:49What happened to you at Diego?

0:43:49 > 0:43:51Well, you remember I left the station

0:43:51 > 0:43:52to go across the street for a beer? Yeah.

0:43:52 > 0:43:54Well, coming back, I'm hailed by a couple of b...

0:43:54 > 0:43:57a couple of girls that are going to Tijuana to get some nylons.

0:43:57 > 0:43:59Well, you know me. I tag along.

0:43:59 > 0:44:01I get down there, and I'm picked up

0:44:01 > 0:44:03by a pair of promoters that want to play red dog.

0:44:03 > 0:44:05I figure they've seen the Gooney bird on my blouse

0:44:05 > 0:44:08and they know I'm loaded, so I play them very close.

0:44:08 > 0:44:10I clipped them for 2,100 fish. Hubba hubba.

0:44:12 > 0:44:14Still got it? I'm gonna keep it.

0:44:14 > 0:44:16Catching me that Grand Canyon limited tonight.

0:44:16 > 0:44:18If they let a guy dressed like you on the train.

0:44:18 > 0:44:20Day after tomorrow, I lay this dough on the line

0:44:20 > 0:44:22for a little old ranch, and I'm raising steers.

0:44:22 > 0:44:25Now hear this. What have you got on the roster for today?

0:44:25 > 0:44:26You tell me.

0:44:26 > 0:44:28Well, I'm gonna make a slight social call.

0:44:28 > 0:44:30She got a sister?

0:44:32 > 0:44:34Well, this is a boy that was laying next to me in the hospital.

0:44:34 > 0:44:36When I got out, I told him I was gonna play the table,

0:44:36 > 0:44:38so he gave me a silver dollar for good luck.

0:44:38 > 0:44:39I got the luck, he gets 10%.

0:44:39 > 0:44:41Are you gonna sit there all day

0:44:41 > 0:44:43and bore my mother with the story of your life,

0:44:43 > 0:44:45or are we gonna brighten up?

0:44:45 > 0:44:46Ma'am, it's been a pleasure to meet you.

0:44:46 > 0:44:48If you ever get to Stinking Creek...

0:44:48 > 0:44:51Thank you, Bill. I don't expect I will.

0:44:51 > 0:44:53Well, sometimes I wish my ma

0:44:53 > 0:44:54had said that same thing years ago.

0:44:57 > 0:44:59SHE WOLF WHISTLES

0:44:59 > 0:45:00Hi!

0:45:00 > 0:45:02Gee, do you look super!

0:45:02 > 0:45:04Not a brass button anywhere.

0:45:04 > 0:45:06You look like a dream, man.

0:45:06 > 0:45:07HE CHUCKLES

0:45:07 > 0:45:09Meet the cowboy of Kwajalein.

0:45:09 > 0:45:11Bill Tabeshaw, Helen Ingersoll.

0:45:11 > 0:45:12Hello, Bill. Miss Ingersoll, it's a pleasure.

0:45:12 > 0:45:13What are you up to?

0:45:13 > 0:45:16Same thing I'm up to every day about this time - waiting for you.

0:45:16 > 0:45:18Haven't you got anything else to do?

0:45:18 > 0:45:21Want a little high-class chauffeuring?

0:45:21 > 0:45:23Tour of the city with some sightseeing chatter thrown in?

0:45:25 > 0:45:27Well, when you Marines make up your mind,

0:45:27 > 0:45:30you make up your mind.

0:45:30 > 0:45:33You know where 1121 South Orlando is?

0:45:41 > 0:45:43TAPPING

0:45:51 > 0:45:53MAN: I can't do it.

0:45:53 > 0:45:55I can't do it. They hurt.

0:45:55 > 0:45:58SECOND MAN: Come on, Perry. Give it another chance.

0:45:58 > 0:45:59CREAK

0:46:06 > 0:46:08Should we take her?

0:46:08 > 0:46:10No, honey. It wouldn't be much fun for you.

0:46:10 > 0:46:11Oh, sure, Bill. Go ahead.

0:46:11 > 0:46:13You're a nice kid.

0:46:13 > 0:46:14Thanks, Grandpa.

0:46:14 > 0:46:16KNOCK ON DOOR

0:46:16 > 0:46:18Come in.

0:46:18 > 0:46:20Son, you have visitors.

0:46:20 > 0:46:21Bill!

0:46:21 > 0:46:23What do you say, partner? How are you, anyway?

0:46:23 > 0:46:25I'm just fine, cowboy. Ma, this is the boy who was with me

0:46:25 > 0:46:26up at Merritt Island Hospital,

0:46:26 > 0:46:28had the bunk next to mine.

0:46:28 > 0:46:29How do you do? Hello.

0:46:29 > 0:46:31Gunny, shake hands with ex-marine corporal Bill Tabeshaw.

0:46:31 > 0:46:32Hiya, Gunny.

0:46:32 > 0:46:34Gunny Watrous, Rehabilitation Office, Los Angeles.

0:46:34 > 0:46:35Glad to know you.

0:46:35 > 0:46:37Oh, er, PFC Cliff Harper, Mrs Kincheloe.

0:46:37 > 0:46:38BOTH: How do you do?

0:46:38 > 0:46:40The sergeant. How are you?

0:46:40 > 0:46:41How are you, Kincheloe?

0:46:41 > 0:46:43Hiya, Perry. Hi there.

0:46:43 > 0:46:45Hi, Sergeant. Hi, Perry.

0:46:45 > 0:46:47This is my youngest son James.

0:46:47 > 0:46:48Hi, fellas.

0:46:48 > 0:46:49Gonna work out this afternoon?

0:46:49 > 0:46:51You better limber up first with a little rope.

0:46:51 > 0:46:53Sure. I'll whip it to death.

0:46:53 > 0:46:55Come on, James.

0:46:55 > 0:46:57You're always welcome here.

0:46:57 > 0:46:59Drop in often, will you?

0:46:59 > 0:47:00Thank you, ma'am.

0:47:00 > 0:47:01We will, Mrs Kincheloe.

0:47:03 > 0:47:04I remember seeing your papers

0:47:04 > 0:47:06when they came through the office, Harper.

0:47:06 > 0:47:09I wrote you a letter asking could we do anything to help out.

0:47:09 > 0:47:10Never heard a word from you.

0:47:10 > 0:47:12The letters a guy gets when he's mustered out

0:47:12 > 0:47:13are just murder, Sergeant.

0:47:13 > 0:47:16Oh, it's just that everybody wants to help.

0:47:16 > 0:47:18I thought letter-writing was a lost art. Like steer milking.

0:47:18 > 0:47:19THEY CHUCKLE

0:47:19 > 0:47:21Well, I got to be getting on.

0:47:21 > 0:47:23I'll drop in again next week, Perry.

0:47:23 > 0:47:25So long, men.

0:47:25 > 0:47:27If you need any advice, Harper,

0:47:27 > 0:47:30just look in that wastebasket and fish out that letter.

0:47:30 > 0:47:32If I don't hear from you in 40 days, you'll get another.

0:47:34 > 0:47:36Man, you're loaded.

0:47:39 > 0:47:41What's this for?

0:47:41 > 0:47:42That's your cut.

0:47:42 > 0:47:44I took that lucky silver dollar you gave me

0:47:44 > 0:47:47and rolled it front and centre till it showed 2,100 iron men.

0:47:47 > 0:47:50That's mighty nice of you, Bill, but I don't really need it.

0:47:50 > 0:47:51I got me another lucky dollar.

0:47:51 > 0:47:53Well, turn it over, man. Put it to work for you.

0:47:53 > 0:47:55This one belongs to me.

0:47:55 > 0:47:57THUMPING

0:48:00 > 0:48:01That kid's skipping rope.

0:48:01 > 0:48:04He's pretty good, too.

0:48:04 > 0:48:06"Young Perry" I'll title him.

0:48:06 > 0:48:08All this year I'm working on his wind and balance.

0:48:08 > 0:48:11Next year, I'll teach him timing.

0:48:11 > 0:48:13He'll be adding weight by then.

0:48:13 > 0:48:15I'll work on him every year until he's 16.

0:48:15 > 0:48:17That's when I had my first bout. Then he'll be ready.

0:48:17 > 0:48:19He's got a pair of shoulders like yours.

0:48:19 > 0:48:21When he gets some meat behind 'em.

0:48:21 > 0:48:23And if his jaw ain't made of glass,

0:48:23 > 0:48:25he'll be as good as I was.

0:48:27 > 0:48:30Somebody in this family's got to be a fighter.

0:48:32 > 0:48:34You ain't by any chance trying to put your life

0:48:34 > 0:48:36into Jimmy's, are you, Perry?

0:48:36 > 0:48:38Why not? Got no life of my own left.

0:48:38 > 0:48:40Aw, now, don't give me that.

0:48:40 > 0:48:42Just do what you did up at the hospital.

0:48:42 > 0:48:44Put 'em on, mate, put 'em on.

0:48:44 > 0:48:45Number one - they murder me.

0:48:45 > 0:48:47Number two - after I've got 'em on, what have I got?

0:48:47 > 0:48:50Cowboy, you've no idea what a feeling I get,

0:48:50 > 0:48:53letting my mother look at me like this.

0:48:53 > 0:48:56I get sick in my stomach when she has to help me in the chair,

0:48:56 > 0:48:58when she has to lift me back in the bed.

0:49:02 > 0:49:04I'm 21, and I'm dead.

0:49:04 > 0:49:07Now, listen, dummy.

0:49:07 > 0:49:10I'm pulling out for Stinking Creek tonight,

0:49:10 > 0:49:12but when I get back, I want to see you with those legs on,

0:49:12 > 0:49:15and I want to see you kicking 'em around like you were born with 'em.

0:49:15 > 0:49:17Do you hear me? Got you, Bill.

0:49:17 > 0:49:20That's what the man said. Have a nice trip.

0:49:20 > 0:49:21Semper Fidelis.

0:49:21 > 0:49:23Drop around again, mate. I'll be by, Perry.

0:49:23 > 0:49:24I'll be here.

0:49:28 > 0:49:30I owe this to Perry.

0:49:30 > 0:49:32I borrowed it from him at the hospital.

0:49:32 > 0:49:34Well, are you sure?

0:49:34 > 0:49:36Ma'am, that's 200 there.

0:49:36 > 0:49:38I wouldn't be giving it to you unless I'm sure.

0:49:38 > 0:49:40Thanks.

0:49:40 > 0:49:41Goodbye. Goodbye.

0:49:41 > 0:49:43Goodbye, Mrs Kincheloe.

0:49:43 > 0:49:44Oh, goodbye, Mr Harper.

0:49:53 > 0:49:55How are you, chums?

0:49:55 > 0:49:57Hi. Hi, Scuffy.

0:49:57 > 0:49:59Oh, Cliff. Hello. What will you have?

0:49:59 > 0:50:00Rum and coke.

0:50:00 > 0:50:02Well, go on. Tell the man.

0:50:02 > 0:50:04Make it the same, Scuffy.

0:50:04 > 0:50:07Oh, no. Now, please, you know the law.

0:50:07 > 0:50:09Oh, come on, Scuffy.

0:50:09 > 0:50:11I've been 18 since last March.

0:50:11 > 0:50:14Well, you come back in about three years.

0:50:14 > 0:50:16Bring your birth certificate, too.

0:50:16 > 0:50:17HE LAUGHS Right now, no rum.

0:50:17 > 0:50:19Bourbon and ginger ale.

0:50:19 > 0:50:20Bourbon and ginger ale,

0:50:20 > 0:50:22rum and coke,

0:50:22 > 0:50:23come back in three years.

0:50:24 > 0:50:26You know, Bill,

0:50:26 > 0:50:28that Perry -

0:50:28 > 0:50:30he's never gonna put on those legs.

0:50:30 > 0:50:32What he says makes sense. That's what rots you.

0:50:32 > 0:50:34You know, when I left him up at Merritt Island,

0:50:34 > 0:50:36he was coming along.

0:50:36 > 0:50:39I guess that's because there were thousands of guys around

0:50:39 > 0:50:40that's in the same fix.

0:50:40 > 0:50:42War was still on.

0:50:42 > 0:50:44It was like when we hit the beaches.

0:50:44 > 0:50:47Yeah. We were a team. Everybody together.

0:50:47 > 0:50:49There was a guy next to you you could depend on.

0:50:49 > 0:50:51You didn't know where you were going, but everybody else

0:50:51 > 0:50:53was going to the same place, so what difference did it make?

0:50:54 > 0:50:56Well, now we're civilians again.

0:50:56 > 0:50:58A rugged individual.

0:50:58 > 0:51:00And nobody to tell us what to do

0:51:00 > 0:51:01or when to do it.

0:51:02 > 0:51:05We're on our own - Perry, you, me, all of us.

0:51:07 > 0:51:09Well, we've been yapping for it.

0:51:09 > 0:51:10Now we got it.

0:51:10 > 0:51:12What are you doing?

0:51:12 > 0:51:14I've been driving you fellas on your business.

0:51:14 > 0:51:15This is my business.

0:51:15 > 0:51:16How's business?

0:51:16 > 0:51:19Oh, which one of you is the lucky one?

0:51:19 > 0:51:20No, I'm stale.

0:51:20 > 0:51:23Come on, Cliff. OK.

0:51:23 > 0:51:26I brought you one of our very best rumless cokes.

0:51:26 > 0:51:28I need a little courage.

0:51:28 > 0:51:30Come on. I'll bring you up to date.

0:51:30 > 0:51:32SWING MUSIC PLAYS

0:51:54 > 0:51:57Cliff Harper, you've been holding out on me!

0:52:56 > 0:52:59Cliff, you make the rest of them look like...

0:52:59 > 0:53:00You should have seen me when I was young.

0:53:00 > 0:53:03Come on. Let's have another one. Any nickels?

0:53:03 > 0:53:05Say, that's not bad at all.

0:53:05 > 0:53:07Yes, sir. You kids are really groovy.

0:53:07 > 0:53:09You're next, Bill, whether you like it or not.

0:53:09 > 0:53:11Oh, he's an old man, Helen.

0:53:11 > 0:53:13Let him have his drink in peace.

0:53:13 > 0:53:14MUSIC: "Till The End Of Time"

0:53:14 > 0:53:16Hey, I didn't pick that.

0:53:16 > 0:53:18There must be somebody ahead of you.

0:53:31 > 0:53:33Hi, Pat. Hi.

0:53:33 > 0:53:34You're a good dancer.

0:53:34 > 0:53:36A girl always makes me look good.

0:53:36 > 0:53:38You'll wear yourself out doing that all afternoon.

0:53:38 > 0:53:40I haven't been doing it all afternoon.

0:53:40 > 0:53:42No? Where have you been? To the beach?

0:53:42 > 0:53:44Making a bad social call.

0:53:44 > 0:53:46Anybody I know?

0:53:46 > 0:53:48You don't want to know him.

0:53:48 > 0:53:50You can't tell. I know a lot of people.

0:53:52 > 0:53:54What about tonight?

0:53:56 > 0:53:58No good for tonight.

0:53:58 > 0:53:59I like your new clothes.

0:53:59 > 0:54:01I'll get used them.

0:54:01 > 0:54:03Do you like my new dress?

0:54:03 > 0:54:06Can't see anything but your eyes.

0:54:08 > 0:54:10Are you sure about tonight?

0:54:10 > 0:54:11Mm-hmm. Pretty sure.

0:54:11 > 0:54:13MAN: Hiya, Pat. Very sure.

0:54:13 > 0:54:14Hello.

0:54:14 > 0:54:16Captain Winthrop, ex-marine Harper.

0:54:16 > 0:54:18How do you do? How are you, captain?

0:54:18 > 0:54:21Well, I'll see you later.

0:54:23 > 0:54:25Who's the babe, Clifford?

0:54:25 > 0:54:26My best friend.

0:54:26 > 0:54:28Oh, no, a man's best friend is his mother.

0:54:28 > 0:54:29Pardon me.

0:54:29 > 0:54:31Where are you going?

0:54:31 > 0:54:33I just remembered a previous engagement I had.

0:54:33 > 0:54:35Thanks for the chauffeuring, Helen.

0:54:40 > 0:54:41Well, I've got to shove.

0:54:41 > 0:54:43What's she mad about?

0:54:43 > 0:54:45When she brightens up, you can write me a long letter.

0:54:45 > 0:54:47You can also write me when you get rid of that heartburn.

0:54:50 > 0:54:51How about a dance?

0:54:56 > 0:54:58Hey, will you take my advice and get yourself

0:54:58 > 0:55:00some traveller's cheques for all that dough?

0:55:00 > 0:55:02Oh, I'll be all right.

0:55:02 > 0:55:05You figure this heap will last to the union station?

0:55:05 > 0:55:06Well, it did yesterday.

0:55:08 > 0:55:10Well, keep punching, Bill.

0:55:10 > 0:55:12Take it easy, Clifford. Be good.

0:55:26 > 0:55:28Oh, Mother, come on! Come on!

0:55:28 > 0:55:31Oh, let the Carters wait five minutes.

0:55:32 > 0:55:34Clifford, where have you been?

0:55:34 > 0:55:36Out.

0:55:37 > 0:55:40Aren't you gonna say good evening, Son?

0:55:40 > 0:55:41Sorry, Dad. Good evening.

0:55:41 > 0:55:43That's better.

0:55:43 > 0:55:45Son, you ought to call your mother when you're not coming home

0:55:45 > 0:55:48instead of letting her worry her head off.

0:55:48 > 0:55:50I'm sorry, Ma. I just didn't think.

0:55:50 > 0:55:51That's one of your troubles, Clifford.

0:55:51 > 0:55:53You never do much thinking.

0:55:53 > 0:55:54Lay off me, will you, Ma?

0:55:54 > 0:55:56Are you sick, Clifford?

0:55:56 > 0:55:58No. I'm all right.

0:55:58 > 0:56:00Your father and I would like to talk to you a moment.

0:56:02 > 0:56:03Sure.

0:56:07 > 0:56:09Go ahead, dear.

0:56:11 > 0:56:14Cliff,

0:56:14 > 0:56:18your mother and I haven't been seeing much of you lately.

0:56:18 > 0:56:21We'd just like to ask you where you've been and...

0:56:23 > 0:56:25..well, if you're happy...

0:56:25 > 0:56:27What your father's trying to say, Clifford,

0:56:27 > 0:56:29is we're very disappointed in your behaviour.

0:56:29 > 0:56:30Why are you disappointed?

0:56:30 > 0:56:32Well, you come home, grab a bite to eat,

0:56:32 > 0:56:34and then you're off again.

0:56:34 > 0:56:36I suppose you're gallivanting around

0:56:36 > 0:56:38with boys like this Bill Tabeshaw,

0:56:38 > 0:56:40and, well, I don't think that's the sort of company...

0:56:40 > 0:56:42Tabeshaw's my buddy, Ma. He's the only guy...

0:56:42 > 0:56:43Cliff!

0:56:43 > 0:56:44What your mother is trying to say

0:56:44 > 0:56:46is that since you've been back, we're...

0:56:48 > 0:56:50..well, we just haven't been able to...

0:56:54 > 0:56:58Well, Son, it's just not like old times.

0:56:58 > 0:57:01Maybe that's because old times is three and a half years ago, Dad.

0:57:07 > 0:57:09I know you're both sore at me

0:57:09 > 0:57:11cos I didn't go back to school.

0:57:11 > 0:57:13Maybe you're annoyed because I haven't done anything else,

0:57:13 > 0:57:15but I'm not ready yet! That's all.

0:57:15 > 0:57:17But we had other plans - plans about the present,

0:57:17 > 0:57:19about your future.

0:57:19 > 0:57:21Maybe I have to make my own plans about the future, Ma.

0:57:26 > 0:57:28Think I'll have a beer and hit the sack.

0:57:28 > 0:57:32There's a cold plate in the icebox for you, dear.

0:57:32 > 0:57:34If you feel better later, Cliff,

0:57:34 > 0:57:35come over to the Carters.

0:57:35 > 0:57:37Thanks.

0:57:54 > 0:57:56MUSIC: "Till The End Of Time"

0:59:21 > 0:59:22CAR DOOR CLOSES

0:59:25 > 0:59:27Hey, you all right?

0:59:27 > 0:59:29Sorry. I'm fine.

0:59:34 > 0:59:35SHE HUMS

0:59:35 > 0:59:37Oh! I'm sorry.

0:59:37 > 0:59:40I must be very, very tired.

0:59:40 > 0:59:41Oh, you're OK.

0:59:41 > 0:59:42Good night, Captain.

0:59:42 > 0:59:44Good night.

0:59:44 > 0:59:45I've had a wonderful evening.

1:00:04 > 1:00:06CAR DOOR CLOSES

1:00:06 > 1:00:09CAR DRIVES AWAY

1:00:22 > 1:00:25Officer, there's a man following me.

1:00:29 > 1:00:32Have a cigarette. Have a drink.

1:00:33 > 1:00:35Well, have something.

1:00:35 > 1:00:39I thought I told you I was going to be busy tonight.

1:00:39 > 1:00:41So you're busy.

1:00:41 > 1:00:43So... I was busy.

1:00:43 > 1:00:46What did you want to see me about?

1:00:46 > 1:00:48I can say it all in a minute.

1:00:48 > 1:00:51Fine. I'll time you.

1:00:51 > 1:00:53You're a tramp.

1:00:59 > 1:01:01That leaves you just 40 seconds.

1:01:46 > 1:01:47BIRDS CHIRP

1:02:04 > 1:02:06TAP RUNS

1:02:06 > 1:02:07DOORBELL BUZZES

1:02:22 > 1:02:23Hot coffee.

1:02:23 > 1:02:26If I'd wanted coffee, I would have made it.

1:02:26 > 1:02:28Well, you still owe me 40 seconds.

1:02:28 > 1:02:30I don't owe you anything...

1:02:30 > 1:02:32except for the price of that coffee.

1:02:32 > 1:02:35If you'll tell how much it was, I'll pay you, and you can get out of here!

1:02:35 > 1:02:38Come on, drink this, and I'll tell you how I got my silver star.

1:02:38 > 1:02:39I don't want to know anything about you.

1:02:39 > 1:02:42Take a sip. Then I'll go.

1:02:46 > 1:02:48I'm sorry I called you that. I came back to tell you.

1:02:48 > 1:02:50That's very nice of you.

1:02:50 > 1:02:52Very generous.

1:02:52 > 1:02:54I know I shouldn't have acted the way I did,

1:02:54 > 1:02:57but I was beginning to think of you as my girl.

1:02:57 > 1:02:59Try to see it my way. You're smart, Pat.

1:02:59 > 1:03:01Of course I'm smart.

1:03:06 > 1:03:09There are lots of smart girls like me.

1:03:09 > 1:03:12We had a choice to make, and we made it.

1:03:12 > 1:03:15Why, John married me because...

1:03:15 > 1:03:18when he went to war, he wanted to be able to dream of home.

1:03:18 > 1:03:21That's why I married him. I wanted him to have that dream.

1:03:21 > 1:03:25The thing I didn't count on is at the end of the war,

1:03:25 > 1:03:28John's coming home would be my dream.

1:03:32 > 1:03:34The war is over...

1:03:37 > 1:03:40..and John isn't coming home...

1:03:40 > 1:03:42and I'm stuck with my dream.

1:03:42 > 1:03:45SHE SOBS

1:03:53 > 1:03:55"Patricia," I said to myself,

1:03:55 > 1:03:58"this is your first dance, and it's going to be your last...

1:03:58 > 1:04:01"unless you stop being so ridiculous

1:04:01 > 1:04:03"and beat this, here and now."

1:04:03 > 1:04:04SHE CRIES

1:04:08 > 1:04:12That's what the girl said to the soldier, Pat.

1:04:12 > 1:04:14That's exactly what she said.

1:04:17 > 1:04:18SHE SOBS

1:05:22 > 1:05:24Cliff?

1:05:24 > 1:05:26Yeah?

1:05:26 > 1:05:28Could I have a cigarette?

1:05:42 > 1:05:45What did you want to see me about?

1:05:45 > 1:05:47I'm lonesome.

1:05:47 > 1:05:51Cliff, there are two million people in this town,

1:05:51 > 1:05:54and you've got to be lonesome for me?

1:05:54 > 1:05:56Does that make sense?

1:05:58 > 1:06:00A lot of things don't make sense.

1:06:02 > 1:06:07For instance, why was I so burned up when I saw you with that captain?

1:06:07 > 1:06:10That captain was John's co-pilot.

1:06:10 > 1:06:14He's on terminal leave, passing through town on his way home.

1:06:15 > 1:06:16And?

1:06:18 > 1:06:20And...

1:06:23 > 1:06:25..we talked about John...

1:06:26 > 1:06:28..and France.

1:06:31 > 1:06:34He told me so many things about John

1:06:34 > 1:06:35I'd wanted to know.

1:06:37 > 1:06:38Somehow...

1:06:40 > 1:06:41..just for a moment,

1:06:41 > 1:06:44he almost seemed to be John.

1:06:49 > 1:06:51Is that all right?

1:06:54 > 1:06:57Yes. It's all right.

1:07:00 > 1:07:03Pat, I'm lonesome. There's nobody.

1:07:03 > 1:07:05Nobody?

1:07:05 > 1:07:07My pal left for home.

1:07:07 > 1:07:10Helen doesn't talk my kind of talk.

1:07:11 > 1:07:13And my folks...

1:07:13 > 1:07:16What's the matter with your folks?

1:07:16 > 1:07:18I don't know.

1:07:18 > 1:07:21I don't know what's the matter with me, either.

1:07:23 > 1:07:25We just don't seem to get along.

1:07:28 > 1:07:30You know why you're lonesome?

1:07:31 > 1:07:33You've got nothing to do.

1:07:33 > 1:07:35You've got no interests.

1:07:36 > 1:07:38What are you, a blank?

1:07:38 > 1:07:41No, I mean work - a job.

1:07:41 > 1:07:43What kind of a job?

1:07:43 > 1:07:45I don't know. What have you ever done?

1:07:46 > 1:07:49Go to school. Go to war.

1:07:53 > 1:07:55Have you ever tried working?

1:07:55 > 1:07:57Can you keep a secret?

1:07:57 > 1:08:00Keep-a-secret Ruscomb - that's what they call me at the club.

1:08:00 > 1:08:02I tried working...

1:08:02 > 1:08:05half a day at a filling station...

1:08:05 > 1:08:07half a day at JC Roberts' men's clothing.

1:08:07 > 1:08:09You were too good for them.

1:08:09 > 1:08:11No, they were swell jobs.

1:08:11 > 1:08:14Somebody else has got them and going great.

1:08:15 > 1:08:17It's me that's wrong.

1:08:19 > 1:08:22I guess I just don't fit anyplace yet.

1:08:23 > 1:08:26What about your father's office?

1:08:26 > 1:08:28Too easy. Maybe later.

1:08:28 > 1:08:29What do you do, Pat?

1:08:29 > 1:08:31Since August 14th,

1:08:31 > 1:08:35radios, recording machines, phonographs.

1:08:35 > 1:08:38Do you think I could get in there?

1:08:38 > 1:08:41We're hiring veterans every day.

1:08:41 > 1:08:44You're a vet, you get the job.

1:08:48 > 1:08:52It would be nice being close to you all the time.

1:08:52 > 1:08:55Would it?

1:08:55 > 1:08:58You know what I'm talking about.

1:08:58 > 1:09:01You know what I'm thinking about.

1:09:03 > 1:09:05I think I'll go to work...

1:09:05 > 1:09:07Monday.

1:09:09 > 1:09:12That's a nice, clean decision.

1:09:13 > 1:09:15Try and make it last...

1:09:15 > 1:09:17through the day.

1:09:22 > 1:09:24HORNS HONK

1:09:31 > 1:09:33No, not me. I'm not joining anything.

1:09:33 > 1:09:35What have they got to offer?

1:09:35 > 1:09:37Oh, I don't know. Some of those veteran organisations

1:09:37 > 1:09:39have done some pretty good things.

1:09:39 > 1:09:42Yeah, I guess they have. So many new ones are coming along,

1:09:42 > 1:09:44a guy doesn't know which is good and which is lousy.

1:09:44 > 1:09:47I got a pitch last night from one of those outfits called American War Patriots.

1:09:47 > 1:09:49Ever catch them?

1:09:49 > 1:09:51Not yet, but they'll get to me. They all do.

1:09:51 > 1:09:53Why can't those girls put these transformers together

1:09:53 > 1:09:54so a guy can check them right?

1:09:54 > 1:09:56Here's another reject.

1:09:56 > 1:09:59PA: Anne Hartman, report to personnel.

1:09:59 > 1:10:02Anne Hartman, report to personnel.

1:10:04 > 1:10:07You've been rejecting a lot of good material, Harper.

1:10:07 > 1:10:09I call 'em as I see 'em.

1:10:11 > 1:10:13Try it now.

1:10:13 > 1:10:14What was wrong?

1:10:14 > 1:10:15You're off two degrees.

1:10:15 > 1:10:17OK!

1:10:17 > 1:10:19Why don't you take ten minutes for a smoke, Harper?

1:10:19 > 1:10:20This heat digs into everybody.

1:10:20 > 1:10:21I've been in hotter places.

1:10:21 > 1:10:23I know that, Harper.

1:10:23 > 1:10:25If I hadn't have been, I'd have been sitting at this bench

1:10:25 > 1:10:28working at it for three years, and I'd be as good as you.

1:10:28 > 1:10:30Better, I think.

1:10:30 > 1:10:32Quit riding me.

1:10:32 > 1:10:34I'm not riding you, Harper. I'm trying not to.

1:10:34 > 1:10:35I don't need any help from you.

1:10:37 > 1:10:40If fighting would help any, I'd take you on.

1:10:44 > 1:10:45TYPEWRITER CLACKS

1:11:09 > 1:11:11CAR HORN HONKS

1:11:12 > 1:11:15Hi! Coffee - black.

1:11:15 > 1:11:16Give me another one.

1:11:16 > 1:11:18What's driving you to drink, Cliff?

1:11:18 > 1:11:20I'll tell you.

1:11:20 > 1:11:22It's the needles on the testers.

1:11:22 > 1:11:24You see, they were off two degrees.

1:11:24 > 1:11:25Oh, Cliff.

1:11:25 > 1:11:27I made a dummy out of myself.

1:11:27 > 1:11:30The foreman tried to straighten me out on something,

1:11:30 > 1:11:31and I got sore at him.

1:11:31 > 1:11:35Well, you're over it. He'll forget about it.

1:11:35 > 1:11:37I've been thinking.

1:11:37 > 1:11:38I'll listen. OK.

1:11:38 > 1:11:41CASH REGISTER RINGS

1:11:41 > 1:11:44OK. I'm back from the war. I'm lucky.

1:11:44 > 1:11:46I've got two arms, two legs, and two eyes, right?

1:11:46 > 1:11:47Right.

1:11:47 > 1:11:49Right.

1:11:49 > 1:11:52Nine out of ten of the fellas coming home

1:11:52 > 1:11:54are going to be in the same shape.

1:11:54 > 1:11:56Mm-hmm-normal. Normal.

1:11:56 > 1:11:58Then what's burning me up?

1:11:58 > 1:12:00I'm edgy.

1:12:00 > 1:12:03I feel out of things. You know why?

1:12:03 > 1:12:04Tell me, and we'll both know.

1:12:04 > 1:12:06Because I've been scrounged.

1:12:06 > 1:12:09I'm robbed out of three and a half years. Somebody stole my time.

1:12:09 > 1:12:12Look, Cliff, you can't twist up the rest of your life

1:12:12 > 1:12:13worrying about lost time.

1:12:13 > 1:12:15I know that.

1:12:15 > 1:12:18I know that, but if I'd been in school,

1:12:18 > 1:12:20maybe I'd have had an engineering degree...

1:12:20 > 1:12:21CASH REGISTER RINGS

1:12:21 > 1:12:24I might even have made a good fraternity.

1:12:24 > 1:12:27You made a good fraternity - 14 million members.

1:12:29 > 1:12:31Well, I have to be doing something.

1:12:31 > 1:12:33I'm near you.

1:12:33 > 1:12:36That's not much to make a career over.

1:12:36 > 1:12:38What about going to the beach tonight

1:12:38 > 1:12:40as soon as we finish?

1:12:40 > 1:12:42Sounds good. OK.

1:12:42 > 1:12:43Anything else?

1:12:43 > 1:12:44No, I've had enough.

1:12:44 > 1:12:48I'm glad to see that stuff isn't getting you.

1:12:48 > 1:12:49CASH REGISTER RINGS

1:12:50 > 1:12:53PA: Adele Jensen, call Purchasing.

1:12:53 > 1:12:56Adele Jensen, call Purchasing.

1:12:56 > 1:12:57Hey, Hal.

1:12:57 > 1:12:59Yeah, Harper?

1:12:59 > 1:13:02Uh, I should've kept my eyes on that tester.

1:13:02 > 1:13:05Well, you got a beef, but I can't help you square it.

1:13:05 > 1:13:07Only time can.

1:13:07 > 1:13:09Don't let that bench get you down.

1:13:09 > 1:13:11After you've learned every part of a radio,

1:13:11 > 1:13:12we'll probably transfer you someplace else.

1:13:12 > 1:13:15Sure. I got to start somewhere. You're doing OK.

1:13:15 > 1:13:18PA: Cliff Harper, you're wanted in the superintendant's office.

1:13:18 > 1:13:20I'll see you, Hal. Yeah.

1:13:20 > 1:13:22PA: Cliff Harper, you're wanted in the superintendant's office.

1:13:23 > 1:13:25Hello, Harper. Remember me?

1:13:25 > 1:13:27Sure, Sergeant. Well, you kept your promise.

1:13:27 > 1:13:29I got that second letter from you.

1:13:29 > 1:13:32I didn't answer because...

1:13:32 > 1:13:33we'll, I've been pretty busy.

1:13:33 > 1:13:35Yeah. You're doing all right.

1:13:35 > 1:13:37On the level? No squawks?

1:13:37 > 1:13:38Of course not.

1:13:38 > 1:13:40You've been out of the Marine Corps a few weeks.

1:13:40 > 1:13:42It's kind of tough getting yourself reorganised.

1:13:42 > 1:13:45Indoor work, but you'll make out.

1:13:45 > 1:13:47These people here know what you're up against.

1:13:47 > 1:13:4980% of their men are veterans.

1:13:49 > 1:13:50Good guys.

1:13:50 > 1:13:52No, you're no problem...

1:13:52 > 1:13:55but I'd like to talk to you about my problem.

1:13:55 > 1:13:57One of them, anyway.

1:13:57 > 1:13:58What?

1:13:58 > 1:13:59Remember Perry?

1:13:59 > 1:14:01Yeah. I'd be a problem, too,

1:14:01 > 1:14:03if I had both my legs off.

1:14:09 > 1:14:10I'll only be a minute.

1:14:10 > 1:14:12PAT: Take two.

1:14:22 > 1:14:24Hiya, Cliff! Hi!

1:14:24 > 1:14:26Hiya, Red. How are you doing?

1:14:26 > 1:14:28Why, hello, Mr Harper! Hello, Mrs Kincheloe.

1:14:28 > 1:14:31How would you boys like some nice, cold iced tea, huh?

1:14:31 > 1:14:32It's hot enough for anything cold.

1:14:32 > 1:14:33Jimmy, go help Mom.

1:14:33 > 1:14:35Oh, don't let me break it up.

1:14:35 > 1:14:37Did you ever punch a bag?

1:14:37 > 1:14:39No, but I've always wanted to.

1:14:39 > 1:14:41What do you hear from Tabeshaw?

1:14:41 > 1:14:42Not a word.

1:14:42 > 1:14:44Funny he wouldn't write a guy.

1:14:44 > 1:14:46If you're going to do it, you might as well do it right.

1:14:46 > 1:14:50The idea is to keep it going. Keep your eye on the one spot,

1:14:50 > 1:14:54and hit the centre of the bag so you're sure to meet it as it comes to you.

1:14:54 > 1:14:55Go ahead, try it.

1:14:58 > 1:15:00Say, this is all right!

1:15:00 > 1:15:02You ought to teach this stuff, Perry.

1:15:02 > 1:15:04I mean, to a lot of people.

1:15:05 > 1:15:07Gunny send you?

1:15:08 > 1:15:10Yeah, he did.

1:15:10 > 1:15:13He sent me some books to read about being a playground instructor.

1:15:13 > 1:15:14Did you read them?

1:15:14 > 1:15:15How can I teach kids games?

1:15:15 > 1:15:17You're teaching Jimmy.

1:15:17 > 1:15:18I can't teach him footwork.

1:15:18 > 1:15:22You could... if you'd put on those legs they gave you.

1:15:22 > 1:15:23They hurt.

1:15:23 > 1:15:27Look, Perry, you aren't doing yourself or anybody else any good

1:15:27 > 1:15:28by refusing to lick this thing.

1:15:28 > 1:15:30Maybe.

1:15:30 > 1:15:32Why didn't Gunny tell me this himself?

1:15:32 > 1:15:34He thought if he said it, it'd be official.

1:15:34 > 1:15:36I got nothing against topside,

1:15:36 > 1:15:39but if Gunny can show me a book that will teach a guy

1:15:39 > 1:15:42how to win a boxing championship with no legs, I'll read it.

1:15:53 > 1:15:54No good, hmm?

1:15:54 > 1:15:57I guess I made it even worse.

1:16:08 > 1:16:10How was it? Still wet.

1:16:10 > 1:16:11Hey, you're dripping on me!

1:16:11 > 1:16:13Water never hurt you.

1:16:18 > 1:16:20Mmm.

1:16:20 > 1:16:22You like?

1:16:22 > 1:16:25I think I'll just do this the rest of my life.

1:16:25 > 1:16:27SHE LAUGHS

1:16:27 > 1:16:29Have me rub your back?

1:16:29 > 1:16:30That...

1:16:30 > 1:16:33and live on the beach and swim...

1:16:33 > 1:16:36lie on the sand in front of a fire.

1:16:36 > 1:16:38Yes, sir, that's what I'm going to do.

1:16:40 > 1:16:43Pat, this is the best time I've had since I've been home.

1:16:43 > 1:16:45Why shouldn't I keep on doing it?

1:16:45 > 1:16:47You might get lonesome here.

1:16:47 > 1:16:50Nearly everybody else has something to do.

1:16:50 > 1:16:52I won't be lonesome.

1:16:53 > 1:16:56I'll be with you. You're my girl.

1:16:56 > 1:16:58I am your girl.

1:17:03 > 1:17:05Well, then it's all settled.

1:17:05 > 1:17:08We live on the beach until our dough runs out.

1:17:08 > 1:17:10And then?

1:17:10 > 1:17:13Then it will be all straightened out.

1:17:13 > 1:17:15We'll go back to work.

1:17:21 > 1:17:23Foreman will still be there.

1:17:23 > 1:17:25Perry still won't wear his legs.

1:17:25 > 1:17:28Aw, that's got nothing to do with it.

1:17:28 > 1:17:31I just feel good here doing this. I want it to last.

1:17:32 > 1:17:33Pat...

1:17:33 > 1:17:34Hmm?

1:17:34 > 1:17:37What about us getting married? To whom?

1:17:37 > 1:17:38Me to you, you to me.

1:17:39 > 1:17:41Pat...

1:17:41 > 1:17:42I'm levelling.

1:17:42 > 1:17:45You just think you want to marry me.

1:17:45 > 1:17:46I know. You're sure?

1:17:46 > 1:17:49Positive.

1:17:49 > 1:17:51Well, that's good,

1:17:51 > 1:17:53because it's the only thing you're positive about.

1:17:53 > 1:17:56I know what I want.

1:17:56 > 1:17:58You're lucky.

1:17:59 > 1:18:02I don't know what I want.

1:18:04 > 1:18:06You must have some idea.

1:18:06 > 1:18:08I don't think my idea of heaven

1:18:08 > 1:18:10is to be married to a guy who wants to lay around

1:18:10 > 1:18:12on the beach till he's broke.

1:18:12 > 1:18:16OK. If you don't like my idea of heaven, what's yours?

1:18:16 > 1:18:20I don't know. Sometimes I think that if I do get married again,

1:18:20 > 1:18:25I'd like to marry a guy who could make things easy for me...

1:18:25 > 1:18:27someone who can deliver a 20-room house

1:18:27 > 1:18:31and thinks a 16-cylinder car is for bringing home the groceries...

1:18:31 > 1:18:32Someone who doesn't yell each time I hire a nurse

1:18:32 > 1:18:34for each one of the kids he wants.

1:18:35 > 1:18:38You make me feel like a cheap pick-up.

1:18:38 > 1:18:41I'm not talking about you, Cliff. I'm talking about me.

1:18:41 > 1:18:43You asked me what I think about,

1:18:43 > 1:18:45and sometimes I do think about security.

1:18:45 > 1:18:48I don't mean the kind of man I was talking about.

1:18:48 > 1:18:51But...if I do get married again,

1:18:51 > 1:18:53I think I'd like to end up

1:18:53 > 1:18:57with more than just a gold star and nothing else.

1:18:57 > 1:18:59And until then?

1:18:59 > 1:19:02I...live on velvet.

1:19:04 > 1:19:06Where do I fit in?

1:19:06 > 1:19:08You're the velvet.

1:19:09 > 1:19:12Darling... Let's take off.

1:19:29 > 1:19:31Cliff.

1:19:33 > 1:19:34Yeah?

1:19:36 > 1:19:38Aren't you going to kiss me good night?

1:19:42 > 1:19:43Good night.

1:19:55 > 1:19:57Well, gee, Helen!

1:19:57 > 1:19:59I didn't know you...

1:20:01 > 1:20:03How dare you?!

1:20:05 > 1:20:07CAR DOOR SLAMS

1:20:19 > 1:20:21Hello, Cliff.

1:20:23 > 1:20:24Hi, Bill. What are you doing here?

1:20:24 > 1:20:27Oh, I just breezed into town. I thought I'd look you up.

1:20:27 > 1:20:29Why didn't you wait in the house?

1:20:29 > 1:20:31Came to call on you, not your folks.

1:20:31 > 1:20:32Careful. You'll get your hand caught.

1:20:32 > 1:20:34I need 20 bucks.

1:20:43 > 1:20:45Are you in any trouble?

1:20:45 > 1:20:47For 20, you want the story of my life?

1:20:49 > 1:20:51You look awful.

1:20:52 > 1:20:53You look cute.

1:20:53 > 1:20:56Come on in the house, and we'll have a beer.

1:20:56 > 1:20:58It ain't polite to drink and run.

1:20:58 > 1:21:01Where are you running to?

1:21:01 > 1:21:03You're asking too many questions, Cliff.

1:21:14 > 1:21:17Bill, level with me. What's the matter with you?

1:21:17 > 1:21:19Bill!

1:21:23 > 1:21:25It's my head. It's busting wide open.

1:21:25 > 1:21:28I've had these headaches for weeks.

1:21:28 > 1:21:30Sometimes it's better, sometimes like now.

1:21:30 > 1:21:32Always this pressure. It's like clamps on my skull.

1:21:32 > 1:21:34Why didn't you go to the veterans' hospital?

1:21:34 > 1:21:36My folks don't know anything about the silver plate.

1:21:36 > 1:21:37I don't want to worry them.

1:21:37 > 1:21:39Go on in the house. I'll get a doctor.

1:21:39 > 1:21:40No. I've got a better idea.

1:21:40 > 1:21:42I've got 20 bucks. Let me buy you a drink.

1:21:42 > 1:21:45I'll get the keys to the car and take you to the VA hospital.

1:21:45 > 1:21:48Will you stop talking about the VA hospital?

1:21:50 > 1:21:52Come on, Cliff. Let me buy you that drink.

1:21:52 > 1:21:55OK. Maybe a drink will do us both some good.

1:21:55 > 1:21:57A couple of drinks.

1:21:57 > 1:21:59That's for me.

1:21:59 > 1:22:00MUSIC PLAYS

1:22:13 > 1:22:14You got any pain now?

1:22:14 > 1:22:17I haven't felt better since I've been off a horse.

1:22:17 > 1:22:20Me, too, Bill. Now hear this.

1:22:20 > 1:22:22Tomorrow morning, I take you to the VA hospital.

1:22:22 > 1:22:24Uh-uh. I got better plans.

1:22:24 > 1:22:27I get me some dough, and I go back looking for another range.

1:22:27 > 1:22:29Whatever happened to that 2,000 you left here with?

1:22:31 > 1:22:33Ever hear of a town called Vegas?

1:22:33 > 1:22:34Yeah.

1:22:34 > 1:22:37Brother, that fouled me up, but good.

1:22:37 > 1:22:41Come on, cowboy. All of it.

1:22:41 > 1:22:43Well, I get to Vegas with the dough.

1:22:43 > 1:22:46I figure 5,000 will buy me better land and more stock than two.

1:22:46 > 1:22:48That's right? That's right.

1:22:49 > 1:22:52I get in the game. I play, I lose.

1:22:52 > 1:22:54I'm flat.

1:22:54 > 1:22:57So I ask the house for a goodbye drink.

1:22:57 > 1:23:00A little while later, three guys come and toss me out of the joint.

1:23:00 > 1:23:03I land on the back of my head. It starts to hurt.

1:23:03 > 1:23:06Well, didn't you ever get to Stinking Creek?

1:23:06 > 1:23:09Sure. I hired out as a cowhand.

1:23:09 > 1:23:12But my head started driving me crazy,

1:23:12 > 1:23:14so I thumbed my way west.

1:23:14 > 1:23:17Now I get me some more dough, and I go someplace else.

1:23:17 > 1:23:20I've got some money at home - 700.

1:23:21 > 1:23:24What's your 700 got to do with me?

1:23:24 > 1:23:26Look, as soon as we get your head fixed up,

1:23:26 > 1:23:28which we do first thing in the morning,

1:23:28 > 1:23:30maybe I'll go into ranching with you.

1:23:32 > 1:23:34You've never even been on a horse.

1:23:34 > 1:23:37Well, I can learn.

1:23:37 > 1:23:39Hey, that would be a good deal.

1:23:39 > 1:23:42You know, it would be kind of nice working with an ex-buddy.

1:23:42 > 1:23:45Maybe we could work Perry in on this some way, too.

1:23:45 > 1:23:47That's a good idea.

1:23:47 > 1:23:50But I'm not going to the hospital. This will stop by itself.

1:23:50 > 1:23:51You're no doctor.

1:23:51 > 1:23:53Then the deal is off.

1:23:57 > 1:23:59Oh, I get it. You're just saying all this

1:23:59 > 1:24:01to try to get me to go to the hospital.

1:24:01 > 1:24:04You don't know what you're talking about.

1:24:04 > 1:24:06Be swell having Perry with us.

1:24:06 > 1:24:08I'll go call Perry and tell him right away.

1:24:08 > 1:24:10Let me.

1:24:10 > 1:24:13I'll be right here at the pinball machine.

1:24:13 > 1:24:16TELEPHONE RINGS

1:24:17 > 1:24:19Hello?

1:24:19 > 1:24:21Oh, hello, Mr Harper.

1:24:22 > 1:24:24Uh-huh. Cliff. Yes, he is.

1:24:24 > 1:24:26Just a moment.

1:24:26 > 1:24:27Here you are.

1:24:27 > 1:24:29Thanks, Ma. Greetings, Mack.

1:24:29 > 1:24:33Hello. Perry, listen. Tabeshaw's in town, and it's not good.

1:24:33 > 1:24:36That silver plate in his skull has been acting up,

1:24:36 > 1:24:38but he won't let me take him to the hospital.

1:24:38 > 1:24:40Look, can you call that rehab sergeant Gunny Watrous

1:24:40 > 1:24:42and ask him to come over here and give me a hand?

1:24:42 > 1:24:44Why, sure. Give me the address.

1:24:44 > 1:24:46It's the Swan Club on Western Avenue.

1:24:46 > 1:24:49And tell him to hurry, will you?

1:24:49 > 1:24:50The guy's really hurt, Perry.

1:24:50 > 1:24:52Gotcha.

1:24:53 > 1:24:55So long.

1:24:55 > 1:24:56PHONE CLICKS

1:24:58 > 1:24:59What is it, Son?

1:24:59 > 1:25:01One of my buddies is sick and in trouble.

1:25:03 > 1:25:05Well, you've got to help him, then.

1:25:06 > 1:25:08Yeah.

1:25:08 > 1:25:12Yeah, he'll take it better from me than from Gunny.

1:25:23 > 1:25:24I can't help him.

1:25:24 > 1:25:26Yes, you can, Son.

1:25:26 > 1:25:28I can't, Ma. I can't.

1:25:28 > 1:25:30Perry...

1:25:30 > 1:25:34I watched you fight over 20 fights.

1:25:34 > 1:25:38Every time you got hurt, it hurt me, too.

1:25:38 > 1:25:40But that didn't matter, because you were a good fighter,

1:25:40 > 1:25:43and you'd fight, win, lose, or draw.

1:25:43 > 1:25:45I'm washed up with fighting.

1:25:45 > 1:25:46There are different kinds of fighting.

1:25:46 > 1:25:49You've been losing a fight ever since you got...

1:25:49 > 1:25:52Stop talking foolish, Ma! What can a man do when he's got no legs?

1:25:52 > 1:25:57There was a man who lost the use of his legs when he was 39 years old.

1:25:57 > 1:26:00He didn't quit. He got to be president.

1:26:37 > 1:26:39DOOR OPENS

1:27:02 > 1:27:06Son, it's good to see you in your fighting clothes.

1:27:07 > 1:27:09SHE CRIES

1:27:11 > 1:27:13MUSIC PLAYS

1:27:15 > 1:27:18Hey, you're getting a little stinky.

1:27:18 > 1:27:20I've been doing a little thinking.

1:27:20 > 1:27:21Well, don't fracture yourself.

1:27:21 > 1:27:23You know what?

1:27:23 > 1:27:25That ranch deal makes a lot of sense.

1:27:25 > 1:27:27Of course it makes sense.

1:27:27 > 1:27:29I was kidding before, but now I'm squaring off.

1:27:29 > 1:27:31I'm gonna tell my girl.

1:27:31 > 1:27:34She should know everything I know - no secrets.

1:27:34 > 1:27:38The only way to be happy is not to have any secrets.

1:27:40 > 1:27:42Hey, build up my score, will you, soldier?

1:27:42 > 1:27:43OK.

1:27:55 > 1:27:59TELEPHONE RINGS

1:27:59 > 1:28:00Hello?

1:28:00 > 1:28:01Hi!

1:28:01 > 1:28:04Hello, Sourpuss. How are you?

1:28:04 > 1:28:07I'm fine. Where are you?

1:28:07 > 1:28:09I'm with friends, and we're discussing

1:28:09 > 1:28:10a big deal that involves you.

1:28:10 > 1:28:13Well, what did I do to deserve it?

1:28:13 > 1:28:15Patricia, I'm serious.

1:28:15 > 1:28:16BILL: Hey, move over.

1:28:17 > 1:28:20Hey, Patricia, how'd you like to go live on a ranch?

1:28:20 > 1:28:22Well, who are you?

1:28:22 > 1:28:24There are a lot of things I could tell you,

1:28:24 > 1:28:26but none of them would be as interesting

1:28:26 > 1:28:28as the fact that I'm Cliff's buddy.

1:28:28 > 1:28:30Now, Patricia, what about this here ranch deal?

1:28:30 > 1:28:32What kind of a ranch?

1:28:32 > 1:28:33Outdoor ranch.

1:28:33 > 1:28:36Everyone should get a lot of fresh air.

1:28:36 > 1:28:37You like chickens?

1:28:37 > 1:28:39They're wonderful fried.

1:28:39 > 1:28:41OK, we'll have chickens and cows.

1:28:41 > 1:28:43And horses...

1:28:43 > 1:28:45and maybe some pigs, too.

1:28:45 > 1:28:46No rabbits?

1:28:46 > 1:28:48Ah, rabbits aren't trustworthy.

1:28:48 > 1:28:51And now I'm going to tell you the best part.

1:28:51 > 1:28:52Where's Cliff?

1:28:52 > 1:28:54Cliff's right here, standing right next to me.

1:28:54 > 1:28:57We're in a very exclusive rendezvous on Western Avenue

1:28:57 > 1:28:58called the Swan Club.

1:28:58 > 1:29:01In order to get in here, you have to push the door open.

1:29:01 > 1:29:03Let me talk to Cliff, will you?

1:29:03 > 1:29:04Hello, Patricia.

1:29:04 > 1:29:06Cliff, you're getting drunk. Get out of there.

1:29:06 > 1:29:10Look, the only reason I called you up was to find out

1:29:10 > 1:29:12if you'd like to go to this ranch with us.

1:29:12 > 1:29:14I want "yes" or "no," nothing else.

1:29:14 > 1:29:18Get out of there, Cliff. You can come up here and talk if you like.

1:29:18 > 1:29:21Are you giving me no for an answer?

1:29:22 > 1:29:23Cliff, please.

1:29:23 > 1:29:26Very well. That's all I wanted to know.

1:29:26 > 1:29:29I don't think we can count on my girl for this ranch deal.

1:29:29 > 1:29:31Aw, forget about her, my friend.

1:29:31 > 1:29:34If worse comes to worst, we'll raise women, too.

1:29:34 > 1:29:36PINBALL MACHINE BELL RINGS

1:29:36 > 1:29:38Hey, you hit 35,000.

1:29:38 > 1:29:40Yeah. You win a free game.

1:29:40 > 1:29:42My friend, I award it to you... with clusters.

1:29:42 > 1:29:43Thank you.

1:29:43 > 1:29:45Hey, get a load of that.

1:29:48 > 1:29:50Let's go help him.

1:29:50 > 1:29:52No, no. Play it down.

1:29:55 > 1:29:58CLIFF: Well, get a load of him!

1:29:58 > 1:29:59BILL: Hubba hubba hubba!

1:29:59 > 1:30:01What gives?

1:30:01 > 1:30:02Gives a lot.

1:30:02 > 1:30:04We're going to secure us a ranch, all of us.

1:30:04 > 1:30:05Cliff and you and me.

1:30:05 > 1:30:08And we're going to hire nobody but ex-servicemen,

1:30:08 > 1:30:09and...well, that's the skinny.

1:30:09 > 1:30:11But I thought... What are you going to do,

1:30:11 > 1:30:13let a guy just stand there and not get him a drink?

1:30:13 > 1:30:15Oh, right away. Got to get the man a drink.

1:30:15 > 1:30:17I don't get this.

1:30:17 > 1:30:19Look, you didn't have to come, Perry.

1:30:19 > 1:30:21But you said Tabeshaw was in trouble.

1:30:21 > 1:30:22That plate in his head has been killing him.

1:30:22 > 1:30:24I want to get him to a hospital,

1:30:24 > 1:30:26so I figured Gunny would be the guy to help.

1:30:26 > 1:30:27Did you reach him? No.

1:30:27 > 1:30:29Well, it's just as well. We'll...

1:30:29 > 1:30:33I figure the size of the ranch depends upon the amount of cash we can get.

1:30:33 > 1:30:35Let's drink to old killer Kincheloe.

1:30:54 > 1:30:55You want anything, lady?

1:30:55 > 1:30:57Give me a Rye and water, please...

1:30:57 > 1:31:00and that blond young man standing next to the marine.

1:31:00 > 1:31:01Now, lady, you know we don't...

1:31:01 > 1:31:05That blond young man standing next to the marine, please.

1:31:17 > 1:31:18WOMAN LAUGHS

1:31:31 > 1:31:33This is a nice ranch you have.

1:31:33 > 1:31:35What are you doing here?

1:31:35 > 1:31:37Oh, having a drink with you.

1:31:37 > 1:31:38Did you order?

1:31:38 > 1:31:40Mm-hmm. Getting it, too.

1:31:46 > 1:31:48Thank you.

1:31:49 > 1:31:51Happy days, as they say.

1:31:51 > 1:31:53Go on, drink.

1:31:55 > 1:31:57What'd you come down here for?

1:31:57 > 1:31:59Because...

1:32:01 > 1:32:03..you're drinking and you might do something silly.

1:32:03 > 1:32:05What would I do that's silly?

1:32:05 > 1:32:07I thought you'd straightened yourself out

1:32:07 > 1:32:08with the foreman this afternoon.

1:32:08 > 1:32:10It'll happen again.

1:32:10 > 1:32:12Then I'll really bust him in the jaw.

1:32:12 > 1:32:13That'll be that.

1:32:15 > 1:32:17That takes care of your job.

1:32:18 > 1:32:21That leaves me.

1:32:21 > 1:32:23Go home and pack your bags.

1:32:23 > 1:32:25Where are we going?

1:32:25 > 1:32:26To New Mexico to buy that ranch.

1:32:26 > 1:32:28Oh, Cliff, this is the growing city of the world.

1:32:28 > 1:32:30Pat... Wherever you go,

1:32:30 > 1:32:31you're going to have to face these same headaches.

1:32:31 > 1:32:33It'll be fun. We'll see new places. We'll see new people.

1:32:33 > 1:32:36I see new people till it drives me crazy.

1:32:36 > 1:32:37We'll be happy.

1:32:37 > 1:32:38Actually, you have no beef.

1:32:38 > 1:32:39Who has?

1:32:39 > 1:32:42Only the men who are never coming back.

1:32:42 > 1:32:45Here we go - right back to Johnny Ruscomb.

1:32:45 > 1:32:49Did you put his picture back on the table again?

1:32:50 > 1:32:54I'm going...with you or without you.

1:32:56 > 1:32:58With you or without you, Pat.

1:32:59 > 1:33:01Without me.

1:33:01 > 1:33:04Pay the man for my drink.

1:33:26 > 1:33:28How you doin', men?

1:33:28 > 1:33:29We're doing great.

1:33:29 > 1:33:32Say, I see we belong to the same club.

1:33:32 > 1:33:34Well, where did you sweat out the four freedoms, brother?

1:33:34 > 1:33:37They busted him out of the army on a frame-up.

1:33:38 > 1:33:41Let's see you make that one.

1:33:51 > 1:33:53A sharpshooter.

1:33:53 > 1:33:55Fellas, this is Mr Praeger and Mr Lawson.

1:33:55 > 1:33:58Howdy. Hiya, fellas.

1:33:58 > 1:34:00Well, I suppose you've told them all about

1:34:00 > 1:34:02our organisation, have you, Mitch? No, not yet.

1:34:02 > 1:34:04Ever heard of our outfit...

1:34:04 > 1:34:05American War Patriots?

1:34:05 > 1:34:07That's us, in the local district, anyway.

1:34:07 > 1:34:09Got 1,700 members throughout the country.

1:34:09 > 1:34:11I've heard of most of the rest of them,

1:34:11 > 1:34:13but I'm afraid that's one I missed.

1:34:13 > 1:34:15Son, we start where those fuzzbuddies leave off.

1:34:15 > 1:34:17Know what we're going to do for you boys?

1:34:17 > 1:34:20How would you like to have a bonus of 200 a month income

1:34:20 > 1:34:22for as long as you live? Without the labour union?

1:34:22 > 1:34:24Yeah. You fellas know that 15% of every pay cheque you get

1:34:24 > 1:34:26goes to those foreign-born labour racketeers.

1:34:26 > 1:34:29That's the kind of a free country we were fighting for.

1:34:29 > 1:34:32Course, we don't know whether you men are eligible.

1:34:32 > 1:34:33You see, we have certain restrictions.

1:34:33 > 1:34:36What does that mean?

1:34:36 > 1:34:38No Catholics, Jews, or Negroes.

1:34:52 > 1:34:55You know, we had a friend named Maxie Klein.

1:34:55 > 1:34:58If Maxie was here, he'd probably spit right in your eye.

1:34:58 > 1:35:00Yeah?

1:35:00 > 1:35:03Yeah, but Maxie's dead in Guadalcanal.

1:35:03 > 1:35:06So just for him, I'm going to spit in your eye.

1:35:06 > 1:35:08HE SPITS

1:35:10 > 1:35:12WOMAN SCREAMS

1:35:22 > 1:35:24I'm with you, boys.

1:35:40 > 1:35:43Push 'em to me! Push 'em to me!

1:35:47 > 1:35:49This one's mine. Go help Perry. PERRY: Bill!

1:35:57 > 1:35:59WOMAN SCREAMS

1:36:08 > 1:36:10Let's take off.

1:36:10 > 1:36:11CLIFF: The car's in front.

1:36:11 > 1:36:13You go ahead, Perry. I'll cover you.

1:36:13 > 1:36:15Can you make it, Perry? Yeah.

1:36:21 > 1:36:23Cops.

1:36:23 > 1:36:25Come on - the back way. I'll see if it's clear.

1:36:25 > 1:36:27Bill, behind you!

1:36:27 > 1:36:28WOMAN SCREAMS

1:36:31 > 1:36:33All right, break it up.

1:36:33 > 1:36:34Break it up.

1:36:34 > 1:36:35All right, you'll do the talking.

1:36:35 > 1:36:39CLIFF: We'll have to do the talking on the way to the hospital.

1:36:39 > 1:36:41Get an ambulance on the double. Right.

1:36:43 > 1:36:45I don't know what gets into you fellas.

1:36:45 > 1:36:48Once you get to be a hero, you figure you've got to be a hero all your life.

1:36:48 > 1:36:50If I had a plate in my skull,

1:36:50 > 1:36:52I'm sure I wouldn't go around looking for saloon fights.

1:36:52 > 1:36:55They weren't looking for it, sir. It came to them.

1:36:55 > 1:36:56OK, sergeant.

1:36:56 > 1:36:58Get the patient ready.

1:36:58 > 1:37:00Cliff....

1:37:01 > 1:37:03I'm not going to run away.

1:37:03 > 1:37:05Yeah. Me, too.

1:37:05 > 1:37:06If I make this,

1:37:06 > 1:37:08I'm going back to Stinking Creek

1:37:08 > 1:37:10and get me that cowhand job.

1:37:10 > 1:37:14It will take you a little longer to get that cattle ranch,

1:37:14 > 1:37:15but you'll be home.

1:37:15 > 1:37:17Listens.

1:37:21 > 1:37:22Hello, Cliff.

1:37:22 > 1:37:24Hello, Dad. Glad you got here.

1:37:24 > 1:37:26How's the other boy going to be, sergeant?

1:37:26 > 1:37:28We'll check after the operation.

1:37:28 > 1:37:30I'll call you at headquarters.

1:37:30 > 1:37:32We're holding all those men.

1:37:32 > 1:37:34You fellas get an assist for nailing them.

1:37:34 > 1:37:37Good. I'm going to get Tabeshaw's papers squared away with admitting.

1:37:37 > 1:37:39I'll see you all later.

1:37:39 > 1:37:41I'll go along for the ride.

1:37:41 > 1:37:43CLIFF: Well, so long, Perry.

1:37:45 > 1:37:48It's good to be back on my feet again.

1:37:51 > 1:37:53Anything else I can do?

1:37:53 > 1:37:55I think not, Lieutenant. Thanks for picking me up

1:37:55 > 1:37:56and for straightening this out.

1:37:56 > 1:37:58Good night. Good night.

1:38:04 > 1:38:06I'm glad it happened, Dad.

1:38:08 > 1:38:10It showed me that if you believe something,

1:38:10 > 1:38:12you'd better get in there and fight for it.

1:38:12 > 1:38:15A lot of things have happened to me since I've come back.

1:38:15 > 1:38:18I've got a good job... although I don't think

1:38:18 > 1:38:22I want to do it all my life.

1:38:22 > 1:38:24I'd like to be with my girl all my life...

1:38:24 > 1:38:27if she'd let me.

1:38:27 > 1:38:30But right now, standing here with nothing decided,

1:38:30 > 1:38:32I'm better off than Perry...

1:38:32 > 1:38:35and luckier than Tabeshaw.

1:38:36 > 1:38:38It'll take time, I guess.

1:38:38 > 1:38:41Sure. You didn't make yourself a soldier overnight.

1:38:41 > 1:38:45You can't make yourself a civilian again overnight.

1:38:47 > 1:38:50I'm going to stay here and sweat out the operation, Dad.

1:38:50 > 1:38:52You better run along.

1:38:53 > 1:38:57I'll sweat it out with you, Son.

1:38:57 > 1:39:01Now, this is what I did when I waited for you once before...

1:39:01 > 1:39:0423 years ago, come May 18th.

1:39:04 > 1:39:06HE CHUCKLES

1:39:09 > 1:39:10HORN HONKS

1:39:15 > 1:39:17Ma!

1:39:17 > 1:39:18How's your buddy?

1:39:18 > 1:39:19He's going to make it.

1:39:19 > 1:39:20Oh, I'm glad.

1:39:20 > 1:39:22Are you all right, Son?

1:39:22 > 1:39:25I'm all right, Ma, and I'm going to stay all right.

1:39:25 > 1:39:27I know you are, Clifford.

1:39:27 > 1:39:29Amy, you shouldn't have come here at this hour.

1:39:29 > 1:39:31Well, I had to keep Pat company.

1:39:31 > 1:39:32Pat?

1:39:45 > 1:39:47Cliff! Pat!

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