0:01:45 > 0:01:47Here we are, children - Chez Mamie.
0:01:47 > 0:01:48Doesn't look to me like Mamie's at home!
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Is this what Donnie's been raving about, this alley?
0:01:51 > 0:01:52I thought little girls were warned
0:01:52 > 0:01:54by their mothers to stay away from alleys.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57Wait till you see the inside. It could be priceless.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59In that case, it's a good thing I brought my chequebook.
0:01:59 > 0:02:00What band did you say was here?
0:02:00 > 0:02:03You've never heard of them, dear. Chick and his Swing Six.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05- Isn't he cute?- I'm more interested in Mamie.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07- Is she cute?- You'll find out.
0:02:07 > 0:02:12SWING MUSIC PLAYS
0:02:27 > 0:02:31Bon soiree and welcome. We're a little crowded.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34Rain always brings in the amateurs.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Cute is hardly the right word.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Here we are.
0:02:41 > 0:02:42Mike!
0:02:45 > 0:02:47When do you have to return the clothes?
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Isn't this priceless? Already I feel like a new woman.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56At the symphony, I'm just another ermine coat,
0:02:56 > 0:02:57but here I begin to live.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59I guess I'm just a patron of the lower arts.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01- How do you like the band? - Very solid.
0:03:01 > 0:03:02Where did this Mamie play football?
0:03:02 > 0:03:06Isn't she priceless? Is that music solid or not?
0:03:06 > 0:03:07The symphony's over, dear.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09You can take your hair down and be human again.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11Shall I put a ring through my nose?
0:03:11 > 0:03:13- See what I mean?- So she's a square.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Hey, how did you ever find this dive?
0:03:15 > 0:03:17I got a traffic ticket one night looking for a really riff band,
0:03:17 > 0:03:19and the cops sent me here.
0:03:20 > 0:03:25APPLAUSE
0:03:26 > 0:03:27How long's the intermission?
0:03:27 > 0:03:30Oh, maybe 15 minutes. Maybe not.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33So, you wanted to hear some riff music and got a traffic ticket?
0:03:33 > 0:03:35- PIANO MUSIC PLAYS - I went out to get a pack of
0:03:35 > 0:03:38cigarettes and came to in a cabana in Acapulco.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40It's what I get for telling the truth.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Once when I was seven, I told the truth
0:03:42 > 0:03:44and they locked me in my bedroom all one Saturday afternoon.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Since then, I only tell the truth
0:03:46 > 0:03:48when I want to get locked in my bedroom!
0:03:48 > 0:03:51I wonder whatever happened to Cathy?
0:04:00 > 0:04:01Did I say something?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23Light me a torch, will you, chum?
0:05:13 > 0:05:14You're probably half-drunk
0:05:14 > 0:05:17and want me to play a song that reminds you of some guy.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Well, you're out of luck till this gets finished.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24I call it A Concerto For Sweeney and I'm never going to end it.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27- How does it sound?- Hey, Miss M,
0:05:27 > 0:05:29don't you think you better come back to the table?
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Why should she, buddy? I'm exhibit A around here.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34I'm the blind piano player.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37She wants to know how I can find the keys with only my fingers.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40You tell her it's a Braille piano.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50That's what I like about you - you're such a friendly guy.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52But you still have something, brother,
0:05:52 > 0:05:54that not even a mink coat can keep out.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57I've got something that'll keep out a mink coat.
0:05:57 > 0:05:58She certainly went for that music,
0:05:58 > 0:06:00so she has brains to go with the diamonds.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Fall in love on your own time.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22You seem pretty unhappy so I think I ought to say something.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26Now, this is a very hospitable clip joint and Mamie doesn't like
0:06:26 > 0:06:30for anyone to be unhappy unless it makes them to want to drink more,
0:06:30 > 0:06:33so I thought I ought to apologise for my friend at the piano.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35I didn't know he was blind.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Oh, a lot of very nice people are blind.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39He's nice himself.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43Except when he gets around music, something happens to him.
0:06:43 > 0:06:44Do you see what I mean?
0:06:44 > 0:06:46No.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Well, that's the way the world goes.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Oh, Connie, this is Mr...
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Hello and very solid.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Perhaps we'd better go.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05That's not Tchaikovsky.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08- No.- I'm an old woman, my left foot in the grave.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11I forget what happens in the world after midnight,
0:08:11 > 0:08:13but something's happened to you.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- I didn't wake you, did I? - I haven't missed hearing you come in
0:08:18 > 0:08:20since you first got kissed by the football captain.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Where did you get that music?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25- Someone played it tonight.- He did?
0:08:30 > 0:08:33It's lovely music.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35It's not that lovely.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Oh, don't be such a wise old ogre!
0:08:37 > 0:08:40I just can't make it sound as beautiful as it really is.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42I'm your aunt, which is a blood relationship.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44I also run this house.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46I don't want to be a nagging old crow,
0:08:46 > 0:08:48so tell me and get it over with.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49What, Auntie darling?
0:08:49 > 0:08:53I'm not completely immunised to love's young dream.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56What does he look like?
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Who?
0:09:01 > 0:09:03So, you went somewhere after the symphony.
0:09:03 > 0:09:08Someone played this nice music for you. Describe him.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Well, I think he was tall.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17He had dark hair.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22His face was strong and very sad.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24He had marvellous fingers.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26What did he think of you?
0:09:28 > 0:09:30He was blind.
0:09:47 > 0:09:53HE SINGS
0:10:06 > 0:10:08When are you going to finish that thing?
0:10:08 > 0:10:13HE PLAYS A CHEERFUL TUNE
0:10:18 > 0:10:22- Come on, the beer. - I know, you hear it foam.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27I may not be the poor man's Stokowski,
0:10:27 > 0:10:29but I've been around music ever
0:10:29 > 0:10:33- since I was knee-high to a clarinet and I think it's good.- So it's good.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36You play sweet piano, but so do a lot of other guys.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Maybe not as good as Jose Iturbi, but a lot better than Jose Doakes.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41That's not the point.
0:10:41 > 0:10:42And so?
0:10:42 > 0:10:45You are a hard guy to talk to.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Go ahead, I'm listening.
0:10:47 > 0:10:48I'm hanging on every word.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50The point is you write music.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53You dream it up. I think you're a genius.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Coming from a schmo, that won't impress you.
0:10:56 > 0:10:59You're wrong twice.
0:10:59 > 0:11:03First, you're not a schmo and I am impressed.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Oh, when you get in this artistic mood, you can be a bore,
0:11:06 > 0:11:08but never a schmo.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10I can understand that when a guy goes blind,
0:11:10 > 0:11:13it's a bit tougher than tripping over his own shoelace.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15- It depends.- No, it don't!
0:11:15 > 0:11:16You can trip and kill yourself and
0:11:16 > 0:11:19that leaves you practically no problem,
0:11:19 > 0:11:23or you can break a wrist and eat with one hand for a while,
0:11:23 > 0:11:25but when a guy goes blind...
0:11:27 > 0:11:28Yeah.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33- Thanks.- But you shouldn't let it get to your music.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35So you're blind! But Schubert's dead.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39It isn't the guy, it's the music.
0:11:39 > 0:11:40Can you see what I mean?
0:11:40 > 0:11:42No.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44I can't see.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52You should've gammed that mink coat.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56Just pure white gown, blue eyes and red nails.
0:11:56 > 0:11:57Sounds like a flag.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Character.
0:12:01 > 0:12:02You know,
0:12:02 > 0:12:05that's what you miss.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09I can feel rain or snow, can touch a diamond or a fog,
0:12:09 > 0:12:12smell a rose or a river,
0:12:12 > 0:12:14but colour...
0:12:17 > 0:12:21Hey, let's hit the kip.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59How did it go?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05- Is that it?- Mm-hm.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08I don't like to bring a crass note into your daydreaming,
0:13:08 > 0:13:10but I have some cheques here for you to sign.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13Put them on the desk, darling.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Membership renewal for the Symphony Society,
0:13:16 > 0:13:18box for the ballet
0:13:18 > 0:13:22and that benefit concert.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25- Am I boring you?- Yes.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27There's also a letter from your mother.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29Florida's beginning to bore her.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32She's thinking of going to London. In London, she thinks
0:13:32 > 0:13:34she'll be able to find out if Paris is habitable again.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37She wonders if the idea might intrigue you.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39Would you like to go to Paris and buy a new dress?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41- Would you?- No.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44Paris reminds me of my youth - a horrible thought!
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- Willey?- Yes, I'm still here.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54Sun Valley, Palm Beach, Paris, Capri -
0:13:54 > 0:13:55walking through the Louvre
0:13:55 > 0:13:58as though it was the Saks Fifth Avenue of culture.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01That was all right before the war. I didn't know any better.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03This is worse than I thought.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Everything I can do doesn't mean anything.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08It has to mean something now.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10I wish your father were around to hear all this.
0:14:10 > 0:14:11He always wanted to do something,
0:14:11 > 0:14:13but all he ever did was make a million dollars.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16There are easier things to do,
0:14:16 > 0:14:18but not as hard as what he wanted to do.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20He wanted to create something.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22He wanted to write music.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24You don't create a million dollars -
0:14:24 > 0:14:27you make it or steal it or earn it or trap it.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30Music you've got to create.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34Then you've done something. However good or bad it is, it's yours.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36It means something and it's beautiful.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40Like a 20 bill never is.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Nobody despises money like rich people.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46- That isn't it.- Well...
0:14:46 > 0:14:49If it's economics, I don't understand it, but if it's love,
0:14:49 > 0:14:52which I suspect, you have my permission.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54You don't even believe me.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56I'm a cynical old girl, but I believe you.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58We can't do anything about it today.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00This afternoon, you're going to the Coles' Musicale.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02- Remember?- No.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05That's what I'm here for - I keep files, ledgers, books.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07You could always burn 'em.
0:15:09 > 0:15:14CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:24 > 0:15:27There's something obscene about music in the afternoon.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30People should be selling stocks or bonds or playing golf.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40Tonight, I'm going to take a long hot bath and read a detective story.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43You can't think of the profound pleasure there is
0:15:43 > 0:15:46in such a prospect, especially after...
0:15:53 > 0:15:55- Where are you going?- What?
0:15:55 > 0:15:57- Think nothing of it.- Oh, I'm sorry.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59- You mean tonight?- Mm.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01- I'm going dancing.- Very good idea.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04- With George.- Very nice young man.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06- Doesn't he want to marry you? - Usually.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09The sort of young man women should be happy to marry.
0:16:09 > 0:16:10- Yes.- Ssh!
0:16:12 > 0:16:15They seldom are. They like rascals and vagabonds.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17They only marry a George.
0:16:17 > 0:16:19It's one of the tragedies of life.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21You can't put salt and pepper in the same shaker.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23George is all right.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25That's what I mean.
0:16:25 > 0:16:26SSH!
0:16:26 > 0:16:28MUSIC STOPS
0:16:30 > 0:16:32APPLAUSE
0:16:49 > 0:16:50It can't be that late.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Where's George?
0:16:52 > 0:16:55I came home in a cab.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Have some coffee.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59No, thanks.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01What happened with George?
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Oh, he's an absolute 24-carat idiot.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05About 18-carat, I think.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10- Willey?- Yes?
0:17:10 > 0:17:12- I'm going back there.- To George?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17No.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20Well, I wouldn't go if I were you.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22If I were you, you might wind up like me.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25- I hope I do.- I'll go with you.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27They say it's never too late.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Plato didn't learn Greek till he was 80.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33- I'm going alone.- I begin to see what happened to George.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38You don't approve, do you?
0:17:42 > 0:17:44I'll let you know when you get back.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14# Who killed her?
0:18:14 > 0:18:17# Who killed the black wid-er?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20# Who took a broom and a frying pan
0:18:20 > 0:18:22# Hit her on the head and took it on the lam?
0:18:22 > 0:18:24# Who killed her?
0:18:24 > 0:18:27# Who killed the black wid-er?
0:18:27 > 0:18:30# Who beat her up till she was dead
0:18:30 > 0:18:32# And left poor me in a jam now?
0:18:32 > 0:18:35# I'm the district attorney
0:18:35 > 0:18:37# A very intelligent mouse
0:18:37 > 0:18:40# How could that villain escape me
0:18:40 > 0:18:42# When I was right here in her house
0:18:42 > 0:18:44# Who killed her?
0:18:44 > 0:18:47# Who killed the black wid-er?
0:18:47 > 0:18:50# Who threw her out in the garbage can
0:18:50 > 0:18:52# And left without a clue?
0:18:52 > 0:18:56# Well, I'm beginning to believe it was you
0:19:02 > 0:19:04# Who killed her?
0:19:04 > 0:19:06# Who killed the black wid-er?
0:19:08 > 0:19:10# Who took a broom to her spider web
0:19:10 > 0:19:12# Pulled her by the hair right out of her bed?
0:19:12 > 0:19:14# Who killed her?
0:19:14 > 0:19:17# Who killed the black wid-er?
0:19:17 > 0:19:20# Who beat her up with a kitchen chair
0:19:20 > 0:19:22# And hid her body in bed?
0:19:22 > 0:19:25# Now I just got a confession
0:19:25 > 0:19:27# The butler told me the deal
0:19:27 > 0:19:29# I caught him in the pantry
0:19:29 > 0:19:32# With a bloodstain on his heel
0:19:32 > 0:19:34# He killed her
0:19:34 > 0:19:37# He killed the black wid-er
0:19:37 > 0:19:40# He told me she'd poisoned him
0:19:40 > 0:19:42# But he got her instead
0:19:42 > 0:19:45# So case is dismissed It's self-defence
0:19:45 > 0:19:49# And I'm mighty glad she's dead. #
0:19:49 > 0:19:54APPLAUSE
0:20:02 > 0:20:04- Table for two?- For one.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05We've got a rule here, sister.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08- Really?- Against dames sitting alone.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Er, but I think, er...
0:20:10 > 0:20:12- Well, don't think any more. - No chance!
0:20:30 > 0:20:34No, it ain't him. He quit last night.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36He quits about once a month.
0:20:36 > 0:20:40Very unpredictable character, Miss Mallory.
0:20:40 > 0:20:41What'll you have?
0:20:41 > 0:20:43Do you mind if I have a cup of coffee?
0:20:43 > 0:20:46- Two coffees, please. - How did you know my name?
0:20:46 > 0:20:48I saw your picture in the paper when you joined the army,
0:20:48 > 0:20:50and I was in that London hospital
0:20:50 > 0:20:52when you brought Kleister to play for us.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53Small world.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56Was he blinded in the war?
0:20:56 > 0:20:59No, afterward. He had his own band before the war.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02I started with him. Now he's with me.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06- What happened? - When he went blind, he went sour.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10That music he was playing the other night, was it something of his own?
0:21:10 > 0:21:13The piano concerto he started two, three years ago.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15He won't finish it.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Won't finish it?
0:21:17 > 0:21:21He's Mr Blind Man and nobody with eyes can tell him anything.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23How about somebody without eyes?
0:21:23 > 0:21:26You know somebody?
0:21:26 > 0:21:29I was just thinking.
0:21:29 > 0:21:29I don't get you.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33You've got a jillion dollars and a pretty boyfriend.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35What do you keep slumming after him for?
0:21:35 > 0:21:37The music. I can't get it out of my head.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39I think it's fine and I want to help
0:21:39 > 0:21:42a man who can write like that any way I can, that's all.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45- You couldn't help him. - I could try, couldn't I?
0:21:45 > 0:21:47I live with him, I know the guy.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50I pour his beer, I make his bed, I read books to him.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53I spell out the big words and I take him walking on the beach.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57I know the guy and the only thing he wants from somebody like you
0:21:57 > 0:21:58is to be left alone.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01I think you're on the level, but that won't get it.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30We forgot the marinated herring for the seagulls.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Come on, let's take a walk.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57One of these times, we'll fish in the surf.
0:22:57 > 0:22:58The only fish I ever caught
0:22:58 > 0:23:01was a silverfish in the pocket of an old tuxedo.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04You might charm a halibut with that clarinet.
0:23:04 > 0:23:09- Ouch!- Just don't let the fresh air go to your head.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12You forget how old and soft you are.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Many people on the beach?
0:23:20 > 0:23:22No, just a girl.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27- Chick.- Yeah?
0:23:27 > 0:23:29I thought I recognised your voice.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33- Hello there.- My companion left me for a while.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35- He did?- No, she.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38- You really do remember me, don't you?- Oh, sure.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40Maybe you don't know my friend Dan Evans.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44- Dan, this is Miss...- Mary Willey, in case you've forgotten.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46- Mary Willey.- How do you do?
0:23:47 > 0:23:52You may be holding out your hand, Mr Evans, but if you are, I can't see.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54I'm blind.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Blind?
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Er, yes, I told you about him, didn't I?
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Of course, Dan Evans, the pianist.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06Look, why don't you two sit down and I'll go back and get the beer?
0:24:06 > 0:24:07Sure.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20I... I hear you're a fine musician.
0:24:23 > 0:24:24So, you're blind?
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Do you like music?
0:24:31 > 0:24:33I love it.
0:24:33 > 0:24:38- What do you like? - Oh, Bach, Debussy, Stravinsky...
0:24:38 > 0:24:42- Classics.- I like Gershwin, the Duke, Bix.
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Beiderbecke?
0:24:43 > 0:24:46- You know his stuff?- People think he was just a man with a horn,
0:24:46 > 0:24:48but he played a good piano.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50He died too soon.
0:24:50 > 0:24:51Yeah.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55I'd like to hear you play sometime.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57No, I don't play any more.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01- I just trade boogie-woogie for beer and hamburger.- Why?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Because I like to eat.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08I wish you'd teach me to play.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12You must like to be around blind people.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15I don't.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18I didn't think of it that way.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21It's just that music is about all I have to live for.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30I asked him to teach me to play the piano and now I think he's angry.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32He's an angry man.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34Now, if you want to take up clarinet,
0:25:34 > 0:25:35maybe we could talk business.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38- Have some suds?- No, thank you.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Do you, er, do you play at all?
0:25:42 > 0:25:45- A little.- What do you care?
0:25:45 > 0:25:48She's busted. She couldn't pay you anything.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51He's a very mercenary character.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53That's why he's a second-rate musician.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Come on, Chick, let's walk.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04- I'll see you around, Miss...?- Mary.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05Mary.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Well, what do you think?
0:26:10 > 0:26:13I don't know. With him, you never know.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Are you with me or against me?
0:26:15 > 0:26:17I'm right where you put me - dead in the middle.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19You don't think I can get away with it?
0:26:19 > 0:26:21You can try. One thing.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23- Yes?- You can't pull anything in that Nob Hill palace -
0:26:23 > 0:26:25no mink coats, no limousines.
0:26:25 > 0:26:31- No.- Nobody loves a millionaire except politicians, models and me.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34Be poor. Get some job with a piano and a hot plate.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36You know, clean but crummy.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03It's a high one. And duck.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Like the man said, clean but crummy.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14They should be here any minute.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16How do you really feel about this?
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Scared to death. Oh, you remember who you are, don't you?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21This is my badge of office.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23You're still my aunt and companion, but now you paint.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26I paint. I can't even bear the smell of turpentine.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28DOORBELL
0:27:34 > 0:27:36I'm Chick Morgan, this is Dan Evans.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38- I'm Miss Willey.- How do you do?
0:27:38 > 0:27:40- How do you do? Would you come in? - Thank you.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45Hello. I brought the maestro.
0:27:45 > 0:27:46I'm so glad you came.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50Who's been painting something?
0:27:50 > 0:27:53That's Aunt Willey. She's an artist.
0:27:53 > 0:27:54Here.
0:27:57 > 0:27:58I just dashed off a magazine cover.
0:27:58 > 0:27:59She's very clever.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05One of the reasons I like to live with her - she can respect my work cos she can't see it.
0:28:08 > 0:28:09I'd like to see some of your stuff.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12- You would?- Mm-hmm. - Come with me.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14You ever painted, Mr Morgan?
0:28:14 > 0:28:17I once painted things with iodine.
0:28:25 > 0:28:26I had my piano tuned.
0:28:27 > 0:28:28Oh?
0:28:39 > 0:28:41- What is it?- A Steinway.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43- Baby grand?- No, concert.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45- Concert!- It belonged to my father.
0:28:45 > 0:28:46It's all I have left.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51He was very good when he was young.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54- What happened to him? - He got married.
0:28:54 > 0:28:56- So did Mozart.- This was different.
0:28:57 > 0:29:01- He's dead now. - Let's hear how you play.
0:29:15 > 0:29:16How about Schumann's Carnaval?
0:29:16 > 0:29:17How about it?
0:29:20 > 0:29:22SHE PLAYS
0:29:40 > 0:29:42MUSIC DRIFTS THROUGH
0:29:42 > 0:29:44What did you put in this brew?
0:29:44 > 0:29:46It's a secret formula - took me years of research.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50So, you're Miss Willey?
0:29:50 > 0:29:54You sound as if you're looking at the Washington Monument for the first time.
0:29:56 > 0:29:58What do you think of this blind man's bluff?
0:29:59 > 0:30:01I haven't thought for 20 years,
0:30:01 > 0:30:02but I tell you this -
0:30:02 > 0:30:05I wouldn't be surprised if she played better than he did.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10SHE CONTINUES TO PLAY
0:30:19 > 0:30:21That's a nice thing.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24Of course, it says rubato and you play it straight,
0:30:24 > 0:30:25but, anyway, I recognised it.
0:30:25 > 0:30:27Was it as bad as that?
0:30:27 > 0:30:29I wish you'd show me how.
0:30:45 > 0:30:50HE PLAYS
0:31:07 > 0:31:09She seems to be improving already.
0:31:34 > 0:31:36You see, you should play it with more feeling,
0:31:36 > 0:31:38not so much like a metronome.
0:31:38 > 0:31:40I shouldn't play after that.
0:31:41 > 0:31:43Hi, Chick.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45Why don't we all have dinner together and go to the concert?
0:31:45 > 0:31:47I'm giving one at the Chez Mamie.
0:31:47 > 0:31:49They're playing Mussorgsky and Delius.
0:31:49 > 0:31:52- Delius, huh?- Yeah, why don't you?
0:31:52 > 0:31:54What do we do about tickets?
0:31:54 > 0:31:56Oh, Aunt Willey can always get some.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59The first violinist proposed to me in 1917.
0:32:01 > 0:32:04We could go to Petropolis up the street and have spaghetti.
0:32:04 > 0:32:07- Spaghetti...- Yeah, how can you go against that?
0:32:07 > 0:32:09Delius and spaghetti!
0:32:12 > 0:32:14I'm afraid I can't.
0:32:19 > 0:32:21ORCHESTRA PLAYS
0:32:44 > 0:32:46Come in.
0:32:49 > 0:32:51Just put your things over on the settee.
0:32:54 > 0:32:57- How does it look in here? - Very clean and neat.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59A tribute to a nice friend.
0:32:59 > 0:33:00Chick? Not a chance.
0:33:00 > 0:33:04A gal comes up here afternoons and teases the place with a dust rag.
0:33:04 > 0:33:05She cheats. Look.
0:33:05 > 0:33:07I'll fix the drinks.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10- What'll it be?- Could we have coffee?
0:33:10 > 0:33:13- If you've got to. - I'd like some coffee too.
0:33:13 > 0:33:15- OK, I'll fix it.- No, I'll do it.
0:33:15 > 0:33:17No man ever made coffee for me and no man ever will.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19- Where's the kitchen?- There.
0:33:19 > 0:33:21That's where I belong. You show Cathy around.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24- Cathy?- Oh, that's me, Mary Catherine.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27- You see, Aunt Willey hates the name of Mary. It's her name.- Oh.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33Maybe you'd like to try a good piano?
0:33:33 > 0:33:35Of course, it's not a concert grand like yours,
0:33:35 > 0:33:36but it does have all the keys.
0:33:41 > 0:33:43- SHE BEGINS TO PLAY - Sounds like the keys are yellow.
0:33:43 > 0:33:46They are. Kind of old and loose.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48Oh, please like Aunt Willey's coffee.
0:33:48 > 0:33:52It's horrible. She pours a handful into boiling water cowboy-style.
0:33:52 > 0:33:55You worry about hurting people's feelings.
0:33:55 > 0:33:57That's real nice. You want a torch?
0:33:59 > 0:34:01No, thanks.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05SHE PLAYS
0:34:11 > 0:34:13Very pretty.
0:34:15 > 0:34:17What?
0:34:17 > 0:34:19You play real pretty, real sweet.
0:34:20 > 0:34:23How long have you been blind?
0:34:23 > 0:34:25Since I was a child.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27Yeah, sure, that's what I figured.
0:34:27 > 0:34:30- Why?- Because you play like you've had a nice, sheltered kind of life.
0:34:32 > 0:34:33We sit over here.
0:34:42 > 0:34:44Why don't you ask me how long I've been blind?
0:34:44 > 0:34:47- I...- You've been wanting to ask me ever since we met.
0:34:47 > 0:34:48If you want to ask something, ask it.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50If you want to do something, do it.
0:34:50 > 0:34:53If you live like that... Oh, forget it.
0:34:56 > 0:34:59- How long have you been blind? - A year and a half.
0:35:00 > 0:35:03Too long or not long enough, I don't know yet which.
0:35:05 > 0:35:07What do you see when you play?
0:35:07 > 0:35:10I mean, what pictures do you get in your mind?
0:35:11 > 0:35:15I don't know. Sometimes I remember
0:35:15 > 0:35:17the sun on the lattice,
0:35:17 > 0:35:19the rain on the windowpane...
0:35:21 > 0:35:23..or flowers, a whole field.
0:35:25 > 0:35:26That's real pretty.
0:35:28 > 0:35:32Rain on the windowpane and you nice and safe and warm behind the window.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36That's not what rain means to me.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41It's trying to find a job in the rain,
0:35:41 > 0:35:45keeping a newspaper under your shirt - best way to keep you warm.
0:35:45 > 0:35:49Only pretty soon the paper gets soggy and the water drips down
0:35:49 > 0:35:51into your shoes. Rotten, cold rain.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53It never stops, you hate it.
0:35:56 > 0:35:59Did you ever in your life really hate anything?
0:36:04 > 0:36:06Field of flowers, she says.
0:36:07 > 0:36:08No.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12It's a kid finding out somebody on the block just died -
0:36:12 > 0:36:14old Mrs Halloran, maybe.
0:36:14 > 0:36:16It's running like crazy to Mr Kilp the undertaker.
0:36:17 > 0:36:19If it was a funeral that paid well,
0:36:19 > 0:36:21Kilp would turn his back and let you take some of the flowers.
0:36:21 > 0:36:24You could sell them, maybe make enough to see a movie.
0:36:24 > 0:36:25Oh, it was a happy day
0:36:25 > 0:36:27when you found there was a funeral on the block.
0:36:31 > 0:36:33Not very pretty, is it?
0:36:36 > 0:36:40No, not very pretty. But you do make me see what you mean.
0:36:41 > 0:36:42Sure.
0:36:44 > 0:36:45The pictures in my mind...
0:36:48 > 0:36:50..put them all together and they make music.
0:36:51 > 0:36:57Music for Sweeney - half-down on paper and it'll never get finished.
0:36:57 > 0:37:02- Why not?- Because the picture stopped a year and a half ago.
0:37:03 > 0:37:06- How did you...?- How did I get blind?
0:37:06 > 0:37:09I told you, if you want to ask something, ask it.
0:37:09 > 0:37:10Yes. I was going to ask you that.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13OK, I'll tell you.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19HE PLAYS
0:37:21 > 0:37:24I spent four years in the war, two years overseas.
0:37:25 > 0:37:27Never got a scratch.
0:37:27 > 0:37:32And then I came home and became a nice, safe civilian again.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34I was sitting in a drug store at the fountain.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37A drunken driver crashed into the plate glass window.
0:37:37 > 0:37:39The glass flew all over the place.
0:37:41 > 0:37:42DISSONANT CHORD
0:37:42 > 0:37:45Hearts and Flowers, that's one you ought to know.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52The thing I like about coffee, it keeps me awake.
0:37:52 > 0:37:56Nothing more ridiculous than lying unconscious on a bed.
0:37:56 > 0:37:57Besides, I have insomnia.
0:37:57 > 0:38:01I like to blame it on the coffee instead of my conscience.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03- How do you take it?- Straight.
0:38:03 > 0:38:06Don't you believe her? She's one of those awful heart of gold villains.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10My heart's an old wastepaper basket,
0:38:10 > 0:38:13filled with unpaid bills and paperback novels.
0:38:14 > 0:38:16How's the coffee?
0:38:16 > 0:38:18A work of art.
0:38:18 > 0:38:20What's this music manuscript?
0:38:20 > 0:38:23- It's nothing.- I heard you play this afternoon.
0:38:23 > 0:38:27I know music when I hear it, I know music when I see it.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29- Do you mind if I try it?- No.
0:38:32 > 0:38:34SHE PLAYS
0:38:34 > 0:38:36I'll play it.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46HE PLAYS
0:39:16 > 0:39:18Hello, Mother! I'm home.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20You shouldn't stay out so late, Son.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23Cigarettes and loss of sleep is bad for your wind.
0:39:23 > 0:39:26- You won't be able to blow your horn when you're a big boy.- Huh!
0:39:27 > 0:39:30You know, Chick, you're not a bad musician.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33You're too good for that dump.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36Well, that's what I keep telling myself, but nobody answers.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40Come on in and listen to something.
0:39:46 > 0:39:47You know that piece of music?
0:39:47 > 0:39:49- For Sweeney?- Yeah. Light me up.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57I've got something new for it.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59Shoot.
0:40:00 > 0:40:02HE PLAYS
0:40:13 > 0:40:15I can do it like that or like this.
0:40:15 > 0:40:17HE PLAYS STACCATO
0:40:23 > 0:40:24Keep them both!
0:40:28 > 0:40:31This is singing, all right. It's different.
0:40:31 > 0:40:34Yeah, it's like rain. Rain on the windowpane,
0:40:34 > 0:40:35simple as that.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44It's beautiful, baby - very, very pure.
0:40:45 > 0:40:49Good to see you back in the groove again after a year in the mothballs.
0:40:49 > 0:40:50Thanks.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55I've got news for you.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57We're being evicted again.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01I'm going back to the Chez Mamie.
0:41:03 > 0:41:06- How did it go tonight? - Delius was a little ragged,
0:41:06 > 0:41:08but the spaghetti was perfect.
0:41:12 > 0:41:15- That girl, what's her name? - You know her name.
0:41:16 > 0:41:18Mary.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23- What's she look like? - Oh, not too big, not too small,
0:41:23 > 0:41:26not too bad to look at, not too bad to be around.
0:41:26 > 0:41:30But not red, white and blue, huh?
0:41:30 > 0:41:31Listen, she's the kind that,
0:41:31 > 0:41:34no matter how crowded the streetcar was, or how tired you were,
0:41:34 > 0:41:36you'd get up and give her your seat.
0:41:36 > 0:41:38- Is that clear enough? - It'll have to do.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42Too bad she's blind.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46Yeah, ain't it(?)
0:41:47 > 0:41:50ORCHESTRA PLAYS
0:41:50 > 0:41:52INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:41:57 > 0:41:59- Am I late?- You're a woman.
0:41:59 > 0:42:02- Let's sit in a booth, shall we? - Uh-huh.- This way, please.
0:42:09 > 0:42:10William?
0:42:14 > 0:42:16A lemonade, please.
0:42:16 > 0:42:18A glass of beer and a saucer of milk.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23- I beg your pardon, sir?- A glass of beer and a saucer of milk.
0:42:26 > 0:42:28Thank you, sir.
0:42:28 > 0:42:30- I bought the guy a cat. It's his birthday.- Oh, Dan's?
0:42:30 > 0:42:32Yes, he likes cats.
0:42:32 > 0:42:34- He thinks they can sing. - Oh, he's singing now.
0:42:34 > 0:42:37Huh? Oh, here. Hurry, quick.
0:42:53 > 0:42:54CAT MEOWS
0:42:58 > 0:43:00I want to talk to you about Dan.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02- Why, sure.- How is he?
0:43:02 > 0:43:06Oh, I guess you performed a miracle - he's back at the Mamie and I think he's writing on that music.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08Oh, that's wonderful! Chick...
0:43:08 > 0:43:10You know, the good thing about this animal
0:43:10 > 0:43:12is it gives him something to roustabout instead of me.
0:43:12 > 0:43:15- Or me!- You ain't seen nothing.
0:43:15 > 0:43:16Oh?
0:43:18 > 0:43:19Maybe it's because he pities me, huh?
0:43:19 > 0:43:21Well, wasn't that the idea?
0:43:21 > 0:43:26I suppose so. Only now I feel funny.
0:43:26 > 0:43:27Well, think nothing of it
0:43:27 > 0:43:30because it's just as dangerous to go back now as it is to go ahead.
0:43:30 > 0:43:34- Well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about - going ahead.- Where?
0:43:35 > 0:43:38About Dan's eyes - what did the doctors say?
0:43:38 > 0:43:39Is there anything that can be done?
0:43:39 > 0:43:43Sure, a trick operation - it works sometimes, sometimes no.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46But the only guy he'll let touch him is a big shot surgeon in New York.
0:43:46 > 0:43:48Well?
0:43:48 > 0:43:50You know that stuff they keep in banks?
0:43:52 > 0:43:55- Why can't I...?- Because he's a very independent guy.
0:43:56 > 0:43:59I'm sorry, baby, you were rather late.
0:43:59 > 0:44:01- I've got a rehearsal. - I'll drop you, shall I?
0:44:01 > 0:44:02Thank you.
0:44:05 > 0:44:08Why couldn't I give you the money and you give it to him?
0:44:08 > 0:44:09Same thing.
0:44:10 > 0:44:13I know what - he could win a prize in a musical competition.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15A big cash prize.
0:44:15 > 0:44:19Very good, if there was a big cash prize and if you could get him to
0:44:19 > 0:44:21write the music and his music won it.
0:44:21 > 0:44:23You forget - I'm Catherine Mallory.
0:44:23 > 0:44:24I give it. I become a foundation.
0:44:24 > 0:44:25I give an award.
0:44:31 > 0:44:33- Well, I've got it.- What is it?
0:44:33 > 0:44:35We all get even, it's right here in the paper.
0:44:35 > 0:44:38It ain't no good reading those newspapers, they just make you unhappy.
0:44:38 > 0:44:39Listen, I'm skipping the build-up,
0:44:39 > 0:44:41but a dame named Mallory is giving a big prize.
0:44:41 > 0:44:44- Now, let's see. - Oh, fine, who's Mallory?
0:44:44 > 0:44:47Somebody with a jillion dollars. You want to hear it or not?
0:44:47 > 0:44:48I do. Go ahead.
0:44:48 > 0:44:50All right, so Mallory is a dame,
0:44:50 > 0:44:54so if they can give five grand for a golf tournament or a puzzle contest
0:44:54 > 0:44:57or the cutest man at Yale, this dame is going to do the same thing
0:44:57 > 0:44:59for the best piece of music lying around.
0:44:59 > 0:45:01- Why not?- Well, here it is.
0:45:01 > 0:45:07"Submitted compositions may be in any major musical form for a piano and orchestra." Hmm!
0:45:07 > 0:45:11"Compositions must be submitted within three months of above date.
0:45:11 > 0:45:14"First prize will be 5,000."
0:45:14 > 0:45:165,000!
0:45:16 > 0:45:19Yes, can you pick that up at Telegraph Hill on a rainy night?
0:45:19 > 0:45:21That's wonderful!
0:45:21 > 0:45:23Now you can go to work and get us all fat.
0:45:24 > 0:45:27Sure, I'll just whip up a boogie-woogie of Old Black Joe(!)
0:45:32 > 0:45:34My mistake.
0:45:35 > 0:45:37Is there anything in the ice box?
0:45:37 > 0:45:38I think so.
0:45:40 > 0:45:43You could win it, Dan. The piece you played for me -
0:45:43 > 0:45:44all you'd have to do is finish it.
0:45:44 > 0:45:47- Oh, just like that, huh?- I know my opinion doesn't count for much,
0:45:47 > 0:45:49but Chick knows something about it, doesn't he?
0:45:49 > 0:45:51- And he thinks it's great. - He's slightly prejudiced.
0:45:51 > 0:45:55- But...- If I could have finished it, I'd have finished it.
0:45:55 > 0:45:58My luck's gone, flown out the window.
0:45:58 > 0:46:01The plate glass window of a drug store, remember?
0:46:01 > 0:46:03When your luck's gone, it's gone.
0:46:03 > 0:46:04That's that.
0:46:04 > 0:46:08All I wanted to say was that your music had meant so much to me
0:46:08 > 0:46:09and I thought perhaps...
0:46:14 > 0:46:15- Are you ready?- Let's go.
0:46:40 > 0:46:41DOOR SHUTS
0:46:48 > 0:46:51SHE PLAYS
0:47:23 > 0:47:27HE PLAYS WITH GUSTO
0:47:27 > 0:47:29MUSIC DRIFTS THROUGH
0:47:39 > 0:47:43- Chick?- Yeah?- Not bad, is it? - How many times do I have to say it?
0:47:57 > 0:48:00That second theme needs development.
0:48:00 > 0:48:02It ought to be scored for full orchestra.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04That's right.
0:48:04 > 0:48:06If I have to tear this piano apart, I'm going to do it.
0:48:06 > 0:48:08Now you're talking, baby. Tear it apart!
0:48:08 > 0:48:12- Well, what are you waiting for? Go out and get some manuscript paper. - I just left!
0:48:12 > 0:48:15DAN RESUMES PLAYING
0:48:18 > 0:48:22Cathy? Well, the man just went to work.
0:48:22 > 0:48:26He had more trouble making up his mind than I do a bed, but he did it.
0:48:26 > 0:48:29Yeah. 88 to the bar, too.
0:48:31 > 0:48:35# Oh, the sheriff he came too He came too
0:48:35 > 0:48:41# Oh, the sheriff he came too with his little boys in blue... #
0:48:48 > 0:48:51So, we're stumped. Let's go to sleep on it.
0:48:51 > 0:48:55What a rotten occupation - a blind man grabbing music out of the air!
0:48:55 > 0:48:57I should have got a pencil concession.
0:48:57 > 0:48:58You may yet.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02Why don't you get out of here and live a normal life?
0:49:02 > 0:49:03I'm too happy with you.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06I'd miss your friendly smile(!)
0:49:06 > 0:49:08You and that girl, you pushed me into this.
0:49:08 > 0:49:11Nothing you can't push yourself out of.
0:49:19 > 0:49:23PIANO MUSIC DRIFTS THROUGH
0:49:48 > 0:49:49Get this.
0:49:57 > 0:49:59You got it! Is the left hand chromatic all the way?
0:49:59 > 0:50:01No, it doubles back, like this.
0:50:11 > 0:50:13All right, go ahead.
0:50:13 > 0:50:16Horns and strings in unison.
0:50:16 > 0:50:19HE RESUMES PLAYING
0:50:19 > 0:50:21HE HUMS
0:50:24 > 0:50:28Strings start moving after first quarter, right?
0:50:28 > 0:50:33Right. Piano again, starting with D flat and left hand's the same,
0:50:33 > 0:50:35only this time with seventh chords.
0:50:35 > 0:50:38HE RESUMES PLAYING
0:50:45 > 0:50:48That puts the finale in F minor.
0:50:48 > 0:50:49Swell for orchestra.
0:50:49 > 0:50:51HE RESUMES PLAYING
0:51:18 > 0:51:21- What happens now?- It goes to the committee of critics
0:51:21 > 0:51:25and if they agree with Catherine Mallory, it wins the first prize.
0:51:25 > 0:51:26And if they don't?
0:51:30 > 0:51:31Then it will lose.
0:51:33 > 0:51:36You're a strange girl.
0:51:36 > 0:51:39Even if it does lose, it so happens that Arthur Rubinstein is on
0:51:39 > 0:51:42the committee. He's also a very good friend of Miss Mallory's.
0:51:42 > 0:51:44If he likes it, maybe she can get him to play it.
0:51:44 > 0:51:48I don't want to sound corrupt, but if Miss Mallory's a friend of
0:51:48 > 0:51:51Mr Rubinstein, perhaps she could do some business with him.
0:51:53 > 0:51:54Not a chance in the world!
0:51:54 > 0:51:56It seems we might arrange
0:51:56 > 0:51:59this whole thing a little more on the frame-up side.
0:51:59 > 0:52:01Aunt Willey, I'm ashamed of you.
0:52:01 > 0:52:03No, this doesn't need it.
0:52:03 > 0:52:04It's first-rate.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07And you better get ready.
0:52:07 > 0:52:10- Where am I going? - Where the man said - fishing!
0:52:27 > 0:52:31My father always said a fishing rod had a hook at one end
0:52:31 > 0:52:35- and an idiot at the other.- That's only when your old man went fishing.
0:52:35 > 0:52:37Don't splash the oars so much.
0:52:37 > 0:52:40- What will we catch? - Rainbow, cutthroat.
0:52:40 > 0:52:42I've never caught a fish in my life.
0:52:42 > 0:52:44Maybe the fish are asleep.
0:52:44 > 0:52:46I never thought of that. Do fish sleep?
0:52:46 > 0:52:49- Sure, they sleep.- How do you know?
0:52:49 > 0:52:50I've seen them.
0:52:50 > 0:52:51Together?
0:52:51 > 0:52:54I've got a bite, I've got a bite.
0:52:54 > 0:52:56Snub him. Snub him!
0:52:56 > 0:52:58What's that poor little fish ever done to her
0:52:58 > 0:53:00- that she should snub him? - She has to get the fish on the hook.
0:53:00 > 0:53:02Jerk, then, if you're so fussy about words.
0:53:02 > 0:53:03Reel in - easy.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05- Take your time.- Take the pole! Take the pole!
0:53:05 > 0:53:08I can't, I've got one myself.
0:53:08 > 0:53:09Just reel in easy and watch it,
0:53:09 > 0:53:11don't let any slack get in your line.
0:53:11 > 0:53:14Now, keep it taut. Hey, look at him break water!
0:53:16 > 0:53:17I never knew a fish could dance.
0:53:17 > 0:53:19He's doing a first class hula.
0:53:20 > 0:53:21Keep reeling in.
0:53:23 > 0:53:27Bring him over towards the boat. Ah, looks like a rainbow.
0:53:27 > 0:53:28That's it, bring him in.
0:53:28 > 0:53:31It's a good thing you don't have twin hooks on your lines,
0:53:31 > 0:53:33I'd need a couple more hands!
0:53:40 > 0:53:42- What did I get, Chick? - Well, you got...
0:53:42 > 0:53:43Let me feel mine.
0:53:48 > 0:53:49Here, Dan.
0:53:49 > 0:53:51Oh, this is a beauty!
0:53:51 > 0:53:54Oh, I think I caught a guppy. I better put him back.
0:53:54 > 0:53:57If the poor little thing had had any strength, I'd never have landed him.
0:53:57 > 0:53:59At 60 cents a pound, we're doing all right.
0:54:06 > 0:54:09Well, how's the aroma?
0:54:09 > 0:54:12- Wonderful!- The French say a fish must swim three times -
0:54:12 > 0:54:14in water, sauce and wine.
0:54:14 > 0:54:15Here's to Mary's promise.
0:54:15 > 0:54:16And to yours, sir.
0:54:22 > 0:54:24I think I'll fix some hamburger.
0:54:25 > 0:54:27- Hamburger?- You don't like fish?
0:54:27 > 0:54:28She loves fish.
0:54:28 > 0:54:29Not this particular fish.
0:54:29 > 0:54:32- I can't eat it.- What's the matter with this fish? It's good fish.
0:54:32 > 0:54:35- I caught it. - And I cooked it.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37But I met this fish this afternoon.
0:54:37 > 0:54:40I saw him swimming. He was alive and happy.
0:54:40 > 0:54:42I was an accessory before the fact of his death.
0:54:42 > 0:54:44She's kidding, of course.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46This morning, he had his life before him.
0:54:46 > 0:54:49Now, he's lying on my plate, coated with cracker crumbs.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51I'm sorry, but I can't eat him.
0:54:51 > 0:54:53How can you eat that potato?
0:54:53 > 0:54:54It was torn out of the ground,
0:54:54 > 0:54:56peeled and boiled before your very eyes.
0:54:56 > 0:54:58What about a hamburger?
0:54:58 > 0:55:00Yes, you eat beef, don't you? They slaughter beef.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02I don't witness the execution.
0:55:02 > 0:55:05I don't spend the afternoon with a cow.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22Let's see - four, five, six...
0:55:22 > 0:55:24Don't tell me, I'm your opponent.
0:55:24 > 0:55:26Oh.
0:55:26 > 0:55:28Remember now - three or more cards
0:55:28 > 0:55:30in sequence in the same suit, or three or more of a kind
0:55:30 > 0:55:33make a spread and when your whole hand's that way,
0:55:33 > 0:55:35you discard and say "gin rummy".
0:55:35 > 0:55:36I discard? You do.
0:55:39 > 0:55:40Gin rummy.
0:55:45 > 0:55:4640,
0:55:46 > 0:55:4750, 60,
0:55:47 > 0:55:5067 and 20. For gin, 87.
0:55:50 > 0:55:51Deal, deal, deal.
0:56:06 > 0:56:11# I'll be in Scotland before you
0:56:11 > 0:56:14SHE HUMS LOCH LOMOND
0:56:14 > 0:56:17# Will never meet again
0:56:17 > 0:56:19# On the bonnie, bonnie banks
0:56:19 > 0:56:22# Of Loch Lomond. #
0:56:24 > 0:56:25- Nice.- The song?
0:56:27 > 0:56:28No, about the fish.
0:56:29 > 0:56:30What about the fish?
0:56:30 > 0:56:33You saw to it that I got the big one.
0:56:33 > 0:56:34Chick told me.
0:56:34 > 0:56:38I've been fishing before, I can tell an anchovy from a whale.
0:56:38 > 0:56:40- SHE LAUGHS - I suppose it was silly of me.
0:56:41 > 0:56:43Well, now I owe you for two things.
0:56:43 > 0:56:46I owe you for a fish.
0:56:46 > 0:56:48And I owe you something else.
0:56:49 > 0:56:51I know about the fish, but...
0:56:52 > 0:56:55A long time ago, I had the band up in Buffalo.
0:56:55 > 0:56:57I was playing a one-night date.
0:56:57 > 0:57:00The manager had a sign above his desk that said...
0:57:01 > 0:57:03"I don't want to be a millionaire.
0:57:03 > 0:57:05"I just want to live like one."
0:57:07 > 0:57:12Well, with me, it's always been kind of the opposite.
0:57:12 > 0:57:14I didn't want to live like a composer.
0:57:14 > 0:57:16I wanted to BE one.
0:57:17 > 0:57:19I wanted to be one bad.
0:57:20 > 0:57:22Now I've written a piece of music,
0:57:22 > 0:57:25it's on its way and I'm what I wanted to be.
0:57:25 > 0:57:28You'd have been that anyway, without me.
0:57:29 > 0:57:30No, you added it all up.
0:57:32 > 0:57:36I don't know what's going to happen about the contest, who will win it,
0:57:36 > 0:57:38but that's not important.
0:57:38 > 0:57:41The point is I've written something and, win or lose, I'm a composer.
0:57:43 > 0:57:45Yes, Dan.
0:57:45 > 0:57:47So...
0:57:47 > 0:57:48that's why I'm saying thanks.
0:57:50 > 0:57:52Thanks for the fish.
0:57:52 > 0:57:53And...
0:57:54 > 0:57:55..thanks for...
0:57:57 > 0:57:58- Dan?- Yeah?
0:57:59 > 0:58:01Your music's going to win that prize.
0:58:01 > 0:58:04I know it. You're going to get your sight back and be famous.
0:58:04 > 0:58:05I can feel it.
0:58:07 > 0:58:08I'll be anything you predict.
0:58:15 > 0:58:16You have beautiful hands.
0:58:34 > 0:58:35FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:58:37 > 0:58:39- Chick?- Yeah?
0:58:39 > 0:58:41How do you stand?
0:58:41 > 0:58:45I think about 50 years ago, she was a 21 dealer in Reno.
0:58:45 > 0:58:47LAUGHTER
0:58:59 > 0:59:01What on Earth are you trying to do?
0:59:01 > 0:59:03Painting. I thought I might have a small whirl at it.
0:59:03 > 0:59:05After all, I'm supposed to be an artist.
0:59:05 > 0:59:07What is it supposed to represent?
0:59:07 > 0:59:09You wouldn't dare say that in front of a Picasso.
0:59:09 > 0:59:12As a matter of fact, I started to paint Dan sitting at the piano
0:59:12 > 0:59:14and it turned out to be the piano sitting on Dan.
0:59:14 > 0:59:17No talent at all, no flair.
0:59:17 > 0:59:19Have you heard from Chick or anybody?
0:59:19 > 0:59:21There's a telegram over there.
0:59:21 > 0:59:23- A telegram?- On the piano.
0:59:24 > 0:59:26Oh.
0:59:26 > 0:59:28I want to built out a Christmas tree.
0:59:28 > 0:59:31I've beginning to feel at home here. I'm really a Bohemian at heart.
0:59:31 > 0:59:34- Why don't you open it? - I'm afraid to.
0:59:34 > 0:59:38- What if they reject it?- Fire them and get another bunch of critics.
0:59:38 > 0:59:41I'll open it. I've been rejected before.
0:59:46 > 0:59:48ORGAN PLAYS
0:59:56 > 0:59:59I'll get the car and come back for you.
0:59:59 > 1:00:01Dan, I've got something for you.
1:00:01 > 1:00:03It's a telegram. Chick read it to me.
1:00:05 > 1:00:07- We've got the news, huh? - I memorised it.
1:00:09 > 1:00:12Go ahead, I'm ready.
1:00:12 > 1:00:13It said...
1:00:13 > 1:00:17"Delighted to inform you, your concerto awarded Mallory Prize.
1:00:17 > 1:00:20"Proud to give it first performance this spring at Carnegie Hall.
1:00:20 > 1:00:22"Artur Rubinstein."
1:00:23 > 1:00:25You've won!
1:00:25 > 1:00:28Now you go to your doctor in New York.
1:00:28 > 1:00:29You'll see again.
1:00:31 > 1:00:32No.
1:00:34 > 1:00:36You did this.
1:00:36 > 1:00:39If it hadn't been for you, it never would have happened.
1:00:39 > 1:00:40You're going.
1:00:42 > 1:00:44It wouldn't be any use.
1:00:44 > 1:00:47I can't do anything without my eyes.
1:00:48 > 1:00:49If you did it for me...
1:00:50 > 1:00:52You said you did.
1:00:52 > 1:00:53That's what I said.
1:00:55 > 1:00:56Then go on for me.
1:01:00 > 1:01:02I'll be back.
1:01:02 > 1:01:04ORGAN PLAYS
1:01:08 > 1:01:10What's this?
1:01:10 > 1:01:12It's the Christmas music, I suppose.
1:01:14 > 1:01:16Holy smoke, I won it!
1:01:17 > 1:01:20I won it!
1:01:24 > 1:01:26Here's your daily vitamin.
1:01:26 > 1:01:27Thank you.
1:01:27 > 1:01:30I had wicked old aunt who used to quote,
1:01:30 > 1:01:32"Man's love is of his life a thing apart.
1:01:32 > 1:01:35"Tis woman's whole existence."
1:01:35 > 1:01:36Cut me in.
1:01:37 > 1:01:39"As usual, Chick is here, pushing the pen.
1:01:39 > 1:01:42"I want to say again, even in his cynical presence..."
1:01:42 > 1:01:44Never mind that.
1:01:45 > 1:01:48"The big news is that the main event goes on tomorrow."
1:01:50 > 1:01:52That means they operated yesterday.
1:01:55 > 1:01:56Why hasn't Chick called me?
1:01:57 > 1:01:59No news is good news.
1:02:01 > 1:02:02I suppose.
1:02:06 > 1:02:09"My doctor assures me that success is an absolute cinch.
1:02:11 > 1:02:15"You'd go for him - he's a young fat man with a happy face, Chick says,
1:02:15 > 1:02:16"and he has fingers like a card shark,
1:02:16 > 1:02:18"so things look pretty optimistic.
1:02:18 > 1:02:21"Of course, it will be several weeks until the bandages are removed
1:02:21 > 1:02:25"and then I can put away my cane until I break an ankle.
1:02:25 > 1:02:27"So cross your fingers for me."
1:02:32 > 1:02:34Weeks! We've got to wait weeks!
1:02:36 > 1:02:37So does he.
1:02:41 > 1:02:44PHONE RINGS
1:02:47 > 1:02:50Yeah? Oh, fine. California coming through.
1:02:50 > 1:02:52Thank you, lady.
1:02:52 > 1:02:54Give me a torch, will you? SHIP HORN BLOWS
1:03:00 > 1:03:02Mary, how are you?
1:03:04 > 1:03:07Oh, he's getting good food, a nice bed and he has a pretty nurse.
1:03:07 > 1:03:09What's the matter with that?
1:03:09 > 1:03:12Well, they took the bandages off yesterday for a while.
1:03:12 > 1:03:13He'll be all right.
1:03:15 > 1:03:18Just as soon as the croaker says he can travel.
1:03:18 > 1:03:20And don't worry, we'll be there.
1:03:22 > 1:03:24Yes, I sure will. Goodbye.
1:03:24 > 1:03:26What did she say?
1:03:26 > 1:03:27She sent you her love.
1:03:32 > 1:03:35He's all right! They'll be back as soon as he can travel.
1:03:35 > 1:03:37- He's going to be all right!- Good. SHE LAUGHS
1:03:37 > 1:03:40Oh, this is the happiest day of my life.
1:03:41 > 1:03:44What can I do to show my gratitude?
1:03:44 > 1:03:46Give something to your favourite charity.
1:03:46 > 1:03:47- Which one?- Me.
1:03:48 > 1:03:52That's an idea. What have you always wanted and never had?
1:03:52 > 1:03:53Peace.
1:04:17 > 1:04:18Let's grab a cab.
1:04:18 > 1:04:19- Let's walk a while.- OK.
1:04:22 > 1:04:24- Ah! - LAUGHTER
1:04:36 > 1:04:37Wonderful!
1:04:44 > 1:04:45Look at that!
1:04:47 > 1:04:49Look at that!
1:04:49 > 1:04:51Now I know what they mean by... HE WOLF WHISTLES
1:04:51 > 1:04:52Yeah, you'll have to grow some wolves wool,
1:04:52 > 1:04:54but on that part, take it easy.
1:04:54 > 1:04:55DAN LAUGHS
1:04:58 > 1:05:00Light me a torch, will ya?
1:05:00 > 1:05:02Boy, I need a shave.
1:05:03 > 1:05:04Hey, light it yourself!
1:05:06 > 1:05:08I'll have to get used to that.
1:05:14 > 1:05:16What do you think of yourself?
1:05:16 > 1:05:19Well, I didn't know I was so ugly or that you were so handsome.
1:05:19 > 1:05:20I was afraid of that.
1:05:22 > 1:05:25Boy, you have no idea how much better a cigarette tastes
1:05:25 > 1:05:26when you can see the smoke.
1:05:28 > 1:05:30Come on! Let's see something!
1:05:43 > 1:05:47Two weeks of this. Tougher than a six-day bike race.
1:05:47 > 1:05:49But after a while, I'll be like I was -
1:05:49 > 1:05:50looking without seeing, like you.
1:05:50 > 1:05:52I see.
1:05:53 > 1:05:55There's one thing I don't see, though.
1:05:55 > 1:05:56What's that?
1:05:56 > 1:05:58Why all this stall?
1:05:58 > 1:05:59Every letter she sends you,
1:05:59 > 1:06:03she wants to know when you're coming back.
1:06:03 > 1:06:04I need some time.
1:06:04 > 1:06:07Yeah. The longer you stall, the tougher it'll be.
1:06:07 > 1:06:09PHONE RINGS
1:06:12 > 1:06:13Hello.
1:06:13 > 1:06:15OK, it's Mary.
1:06:15 > 1:06:18- It's her. I'm out. - What will I tell her?
1:06:20 > 1:06:23Hello, Mary. Yeah, I'm fine, and you?
1:06:23 > 1:06:24Oh, swell.
1:06:25 > 1:06:29No, we haven't been able to get reservations yet.
1:06:29 > 1:06:31On the level, it's tough!
1:06:32 > 1:06:35No, he isn't here right now.
1:06:35 > 1:06:38He'll be very sorry he missed your call.
1:06:38 > 1:06:41I'll wire you just as soon as we're able to get reservations.
1:06:41 > 1:06:42So long, Mary.
1:06:45 > 1:06:47I'm a heel. I know it.
1:06:47 > 1:06:49Well...
1:06:49 > 1:06:50Just so's you know it.
1:06:59 > 1:07:00Well?
1:07:00 > 1:07:03I have a feeling something's wrong.
1:07:03 > 1:07:05Why should Chick say he's all right?
1:07:05 > 1:07:07I don't know.
1:07:07 > 1:07:10I think perhaps they're trying to spare me the shock. Perhaps....
1:07:10 > 1:07:12You're thinking too much, that's the trouble with you.
1:07:12 > 1:07:13You're lonely and you're bored.
1:07:13 > 1:07:15No. No, something's the matter.
1:07:16 > 1:07:19Aunt Willey, what do you think I ought to do?
1:07:19 > 1:07:21Just what you want to do.
1:07:21 > 1:07:22Oh!
1:07:22 > 1:07:25I wish you wouldn't be so smug and full of worldly wisdom.
1:07:25 > 1:07:28You're in love, I'm trying to humour you. It's a form of insanity.
1:07:28 > 1:07:31Well, I happen to think he's still blind.
1:07:31 > 1:07:32Because you haven't talked to him?
1:07:32 > 1:07:34Hasn't it occurred to you he hasn't talked to you,
1:07:34 > 1:07:36because he isn't blind any more?
1:07:38 > 1:07:39Oh.
1:07:41 > 1:07:44Now that you've had that bee added to your bonnetful,
1:07:44 > 1:07:45you want me to do it?
1:07:46 > 1:07:48- Do what?- Telephone the airport.
1:07:48 > 1:07:50Reservations for New York.
1:07:50 > 1:07:53Isn't that what you've been thinking of?
1:07:53 > 1:07:55- I think he needs me.- Pack something.
1:08:02 > 1:08:05- Where are the house phones, please? - Right over there, miss.
1:08:05 > 1:08:06Thank you.
1:08:10 > 1:08:12Mr Chick Morgan, please.
1:08:12 > 1:08:13PHONE RINGS
1:08:17 > 1:08:18Hello.
1:08:18 > 1:08:22Oh, hello, Fran, how's the weather out there today?
1:08:22 > 1:08:24In the lobby, huh? What lobby?
1:08:26 > 1:08:30OK, you stay there. I'll be right down.
1:08:30 > 1:08:32- HE SINGS QUIETLY: - # Saw Mary in the crowd, in the crowd
1:08:32 > 1:08:34# I saw Mary in the crowd
1:08:34 > 1:08:36- LOUDER: - # And I shouted right out loud... #
1:08:39 > 1:08:42- Small world!- It began to get too big for me.
1:08:42 > 1:08:44It never gets any bigger than a man's head.
1:08:44 > 1:08:45Come on, let's get out of this traffic.
1:08:45 > 1:08:47Well, you certainly surprised me.
1:08:47 > 1:08:50How do you like the big city and how's my old friend Willey?
1:08:51 > 1:08:54Yes, I get around sometimes and Willey as well.
1:08:54 > 1:08:57You're not writing me a letter now, you know. You can tell me the truth.
1:08:57 > 1:08:59All right, let's get it where it belongs.
1:08:59 > 1:09:01You should have told me the operation was a failure.
1:09:01 > 1:09:03- Failure?!- Well?
1:09:03 > 1:09:05Oh, no, baby, it worked.
1:09:05 > 1:09:08He can see. He can see as well as I can.
1:09:08 > 1:09:11All he does is go around seeing.
1:09:11 > 1:09:12- Oh, gee!- He can see people on Mars.
1:09:14 > 1:09:15- Here.- Thanks!
1:09:16 > 1:09:18- And you didn't believe me? - I didn't know what to believe.
1:09:18 > 1:09:21I got kind of frantic when he didn't come back.
1:09:21 > 1:09:23That's what I was stalling about.
1:09:26 > 1:09:28- Why didn't he come back? - How's the cat?
1:09:29 > 1:09:32The cat is fine. Why didn't he?
1:09:32 > 1:09:34You see, the guy was blind.
1:09:34 > 1:09:36He was in a big black grave as big as this world
1:09:36 > 1:09:39and he suddenly came to life and things fell in place again,
1:09:39 > 1:09:42like trees and streets and beautiful dames...
1:09:42 > 1:09:46Oh, I'm a clarinet player, I can't explain it very good.
1:09:46 > 1:09:50But, anyway, it's a big thing and you can't expect a guy to...
1:09:50 > 1:09:53- Go back to a blind girl? - Give him time.
1:10:05 > 1:10:08- Hello, Evans, how are you? - Oh, fine.
1:10:08 > 1:10:10There he is! Same guy!
1:10:10 > 1:10:12- Hey!- No...
1:10:13 > 1:10:16I heard that new piece of yours the other night. It sounded wonderful.
1:10:16 > 1:10:20- Well, thank you very much. I'm glad you liked it.- I'll be seeing you.
1:10:21 > 1:10:23Dan, this is...
1:10:23 > 1:10:24I've been so anxious to meet you.
1:10:24 > 1:10:26I'm Catherine Mallory.
1:10:26 > 1:10:27How do you do?
1:10:27 > 1:10:30Catherine Mallory, the Mallory Award - your benefactor.
1:10:30 > 1:10:32Be very nice to her.
1:10:32 > 1:10:34She took us off the streets, remember?
1:10:34 > 1:10:36We're all so happy you won the award.
1:10:37 > 1:10:38Thank you.
1:10:38 > 1:10:40I thought people who gave art prizes were either
1:10:40 > 1:10:43conscience-stricken millionaires or old spinsters
1:10:43 > 1:10:44who cheated Wall Street.
1:10:46 > 1:10:49Have you told her she's having dinner with us tonight?
1:10:49 > 1:10:50PIANO PLAYS
1:11:32 > 1:11:33This is all new stuff he's written.
1:11:33 > 1:11:36The guy writes all the time. He writes in his sleep and mine.
1:11:37 > 1:11:39Are you going to tell him who you are tonight?
1:11:39 > 1:11:41- Shall I?- Do you want to play a game?
1:11:45 > 1:11:46Never.
1:11:54 > 1:11:55MUSIC ENDS, APPLAUSE
1:11:55 > 1:11:57- Wonderful! Wonderful!- Thank you. Thank you.
1:11:57 > 1:12:00INDISTINCT CHATTER
1:12:00 > 1:12:02Thank you very much, glad you liked it.
1:12:04 > 1:12:06It's a little rough, but it's better than playing in that joint
1:12:06 > 1:12:08in San Francisco for 75 fish a week.
1:12:08 > 1:12:10Yeah, now you play for millionaires
1:12:10 > 1:12:13and get a martini and a cracker with some anchovy paste.
1:12:13 > 1:12:14He's homesick for the slums.
1:12:14 > 1:12:15- Aren't you?- Not me.
1:12:15 > 1:12:17I'm a bright lights boy from here on in.
1:12:17 > 1:12:19I lived with a sack over my head for a long time.
1:12:19 > 1:12:20A sack?
1:12:20 > 1:12:22Yeah. I was blind.
1:12:22 > 1:12:25- Oh, yes, I know.- Chick told me. - I think it's a marvellous story.
1:12:25 > 1:12:27It's like a bad novel you can't put down.
1:12:27 > 1:12:29You're like a character from a Greek fable.
1:12:29 > 1:12:31So are you.
1:12:31 > 1:12:33Oh, I can't stand this!
1:12:33 > 1:12:35- You mind if I blow? - LAUGHTER
1:12:35 > 1:12:37I can catch the last grind at a movie.
1:12:38 > 1:12:40That guy knows everything.
1:12:40 > 1:12:43He knows that all evening I've been thinking about you and...
1:12:43 > 1:12:47looking at you, wanting to talk to you, get alone with you.
1:12:47 > 1:12:49How could he guess all those things?
1:12:49 > 1:12:51I don't know. The same way you have.
1:12:51 > 1:12:54Well, I tried to disguise it a little, so...
1:12:54 > 1:12:58I suppose it isn't quite as obvious as the Empire State building.
1:12:58 > 1:12:59There must be some way to get out of here.
1:12:59 > 1:13:01How about the door?
1:13:01 > 1:13:02MUSIC PLAYS
1:13:10 > 1:13:12You're a pretty impulsive young man.
1:13:12 > 1:13:13I'm happy.
1:13:15 > 1:13:17I liked your Park Avenue cakewalk.
1:13:17 > 1:13:20Thank you. Could be better.
1:13:20 > 1:13:21Much better.
1:13:21 > 1:13:24Somehow, maybe I don't get the pictures clear,
1:13:24 > 1:13:27like I used to when I was blind, back in San Francisco.
1:13:28 > 1:13:31Maybe there are more distractions here.
1:13:31 > 1:13:33Tell me about you in San Francisco.
1:13:33 > 1:13:36I worked in a joint called the Chez Mamie, with Chick.
1:13:36 > 1:13:39Lived with a cat called Sam Hall. Chick gave me this cat.
1:13:39 > 1:13:42- Let's talk about somebody else. - No, no, go on.
1:13:42 > 1:13:44That's the old trick.
1:13:44 > 1:13:45The woman lets the guy unwind.
1:13:45 > 1:13:47No. No tricks. I'm curious.
1:13:48 > 1:13:50What about?
1:13:50 > 1:13:52About the part where a girl comes in.
1:13:53 > 1:13:55One does, doesn't she?
1:13:55 > 1:13:57Yeah. One did.
1:14:17 > 1:14:19This is where the man in that bad book you mentioned
1:14:19 > 1:14:22always says something very effective.
1:14:22 > 1:14:25Well...say something.
1:14:25 > 1:14:26HE CHUCKLES
1:14:26 > 1:14:30All I can think of is, "Ain't it pretty".
1:14:30 > 1:14:33You were telling me about that girl in San Francisco.
1:14:33 > 1:14:35No, I wasn't. You were telling me.
1:14:35 > 1:14:37- You don't want to tell? - Oh, I'll tell.
1:14:37 > 1:14:38What was she like?
1:14:40 > 1:14:43She was blind, like me.
1:14:43 > 1:14:45And she isn't the girl in your life?
1:14:50 > 1:14:52She's in part of it.
1:14:54 > 1:14:56A part you want to...
1:14:57 > 1:14:59..forget?
1:14:59 > 1:15:00No-one forgets anything.
1:15:03 > 1:15:05Are you going back to her?
1:15:07 > 1:15:10I think you came from a long line of lawyers.
1:15:10 > 1:15:11I suppose I'm interested.
1:15:13 > 1:15:16We were two blind people in a city full of eyes.
1:15:16 > 1:15:18I wasn't anything until she came along.
1:15:18 > 1:15:20I wouldn't even know what she looked like.
1:15:20 > 1:15:22I might know her hand, or her voice...
1:15:27 > 1:15:29Her voice was like yours.
1:15:29 > 1:15:31A little lower, but like yours.
1:15:31 > 1:15:33Like mine?
1:15:33 > 1:15:35Like yours is now, out here.
1:15:39 > 1:15:40So that's how it is.
1:15:42 > 1:15:44I remind you of someone.
1:15:45 > 1:15:48No. Not of anybody in the world.
1:15:50 > 1:15:51And...
1:15:51 > 1:15:53you're not going back?
1:15:54 > 1:15:55From you?
1:15:59 > 1:16:01I don't like looking down on people from a high place.
1:16:01 > 1:16:04They look too insignificant.
1:16:04 > 1:16:06Well, let's go down and be significant.
1:16:22 > 1:16:25I thought this would be a nice place for some conversation.
1:16:25 > 1:16:28And the older I get, the more at home I feel with squirrels.
1:16:28 > 1:16:30All right. What's the matter?
1:16:30 > 1:16:32Last night he checks in about 3am,
1:16:32 > 1:16:34and he sits down to write a song about June and the moon.
1:16:34 > 1:16:37He's walking on air because he's met a dame named Mallory.
1:16:37 > 1:16:39I thought you were going to tip him off.
1:16:39 > 1:16:41I was afraid of how he'd take it.
1:16:41 > 1:16:43How long do you think you can keep it up?
1:16:43 > 1:16:46I don't know. Until he goes back to Mary Willey.
1:16:46 > 1:16:48If he ever goes back.
1:16:48 > 1:16:51But that was a gag. Mary Willey was a gag.
1:16:51 > 1:16:53She was at first, but now she's very real to me.
1:16:55 > 1:16:57She's the girl he said he'd never forget.
1:16:57 > 1:17:00You once wrote me a letter for him, when you first came here.
1:17:00 > 1:17:03In it, he said he'd never been really lonesome
1:17:03 > 1:17:05in his life before, remember?
1:17:06 > 1:17:08That he'd been lonely but never lonesome.
1:17:08 > 1:17:11And that there was a big difference.
1:17:11 > 1:17:13And that he would remember very hard sometimes,
1:17:13 > 1:17:16just to be sure it wasn't another blind man's dream.
1:17:16 > 1:17:18That I, Mary, really did exist
1:17:18 > 1:17:21and was waiting for him.
1:17:21 > 1:17:23So I want him to go back.
1:17:23 > 1:17:25I want him to be great and famous and happy.
1:17:25 > 1:17:28I want him to be a lot of wonderful things.
1:17:28 > 1:17:31And, still, I want him to remain the man he used to be.
1:17:31 > 1:17:33Can you understand that?
1:17:35 > 1:17:38The last time I tried to understand a woman...
1:17:38 > 1:17:40Skip it.
1:17:40 > 1:17:41HE PLAYS
1:17:51 > 1:17:53That's better.
1:17:53 > 1:17:54I thought you were sleeping.
1:17:54 > 1:17:56No. Just practising.
1:17:58 > 1:18:00How did it sound to you?
1:18:00 > 1:18:02Good.
1:18:02 > 1:18:04But not as good as you think I can do, huh?
1:18:04 > 1:18:06It's good.
1:18:06 > 1:18:08I know. It just doesn't add up.
1:18:08 > 1:18:10You shouldn't work it so hard.
1:18:10 > 1:18:12It might be you work the life out of it.
1:18:12 > 1:18:14HE SIGHS
1:18:14 > 1:18:18HE PLAYS A LIVELY TUNE
1:18:37 > 1:18:38Miss Mallory, please.
1:18:41 > 1:18:42Hi.
1:18:42 > 1:18:46Yeah, I wore out another set of keys this afternoon.
1:18:46 > 1:18:49Say, they tell me there's a little restaurant up on Staten Island,
1:18:49 > 1:18:51where the food is unbelievably bad.
1:18:51 > 1:18:53Shall we see for ourselves?
1:18:54 > 1:18:57OK. I'll give you a minute-and-a-half.
1:18:57 > 1:18:58Right.
1:19:00 > 1:19:02Wake me up when you get in.
1:19:02 > 1:19:04Otherwise I'll never get to bed.
1:19:04 > 1:19:06HE GRUNTS
1:19:09 > 1:19:10FERRY RUMBLES
1:19:12 > 1:19:13SLOW ACCORDION TUNE
1:19:21 > 1:19:22How does it feel to be rich?
1:19:22 > 1:19:25Don't know. Never been poor.
1:19:25 > 1:19:27I've been so poor the mice have walked out of the place.
1:19:27 > 1:19:28You're not any more.
1:19:30 > 1:19:32Where all have you lived?
1:19:32 > 1:19:33Here, France, Italy.
1:19:35 > 1:19:37- I was in Italy. - I studied the piano there.
1:19:37 > 1:19:41I was at Salerno. We didn't have a piano.
1:19:41 > 1:19:44You know, I keep thinking I've known you,
1:19:44 > 1:19:46that I've met you.
1:19:46 > 1:19:49Must be a travelling salesman from Chicago.
1:19:49 > 1:19:51Chick remembered me from a hospital during the war.
1:19:51 > 1:19:53No, it's not like that.
1:19:53 > 1:19:55It's like when you think something has happened
1:19:55 > 1:19:58exactly the same way once before.
1:19:58 > 1:20:00And you're sure it has. LIVELY ACCORDION TUNE
1:20:00 > 1:20:02Oh, that's an exploded theory.
1:20:02 > 1:20:04All theories are exploded.
1:20:06 > 1:20:08Why so serious?
1:20:08 > 1:20:10Not serious, I'm just thinking.
1:20:10 > 1:20:13Fine thing to do - go out with a girl and think.
1:20:15 > 1:20:16It was about you.
1:20:17 > 1:20:19Then it's all right.
1:20:19 > 1:20:22I was just wondering why a dozen guys aren't after a girl like you.
1:20:22 > 1:20:24I'm hard to find.
1:20:25 > 1:20:27Yes, I know.
1:20:27 > 1:20:28Took me 30 years.
1:20:28 > 1:20:30LIVELY ACCORDION TUNE
1:20:50 > 1:20:53I'll have to go on a diet to stay with this laundry.
1:20:54 > 1:20:56What's wrong?
1:20:56 > 1:20:59- Nothing.- Ah, and the world was such a pretty place,
1:20:59 > 1:21:02filled with love songs and a gal named Mallory.
1:21:02 > 1:21:03Did she brush you off, baby?
1:21:05 > 1:21:07Have a little beef?
1:21:07 > 1:21:09- No.- Is it any of my business?
1:21:09 > 1:21:10No.
1:21:10 > 1:21:14Well, I think you're in love with the little gal out in San Francisco.
1:21:14 > 1:21:17Now, this Mallory's a gorgeous dame and she moves in gorgeous circles,
1:21:17 > 1:21:20but it's still a circle.
1:21:20 > 1:21:23So I think maybe you got yourself mixed up a little bit, I think...
1:21:23 > 1:21:26Let me know how I come out, will you?
1:21:26 > 1:21:30- HE SINGS SAM HALL: - # Oh, swinging up I go, with the crowd down there below
1:21:30 > 1:21:33# Shouting Chick I told you so.... #
1:21:34 > 1:21:37TRAFFIC RUMBLES
1:21:52 > 1:21:55I like you even when you're sour and gloomy.
1:21:55 > 1:21:57What's the matter? Did you bet on a slow horse?
1:21:57 > 1:21:59Or is it a piece of music you can't finish?
1:21:59 > 1:22:00No, it's not music.
1:22:02 > 1:22:03Seventh Avenue. This is us.
1:22:12 > 1:22:14Daniel Evans and Company.
1:22:14 > 1:22:16Pretty high-class company - Artur Rubinstein,
1:22:16 > 1:22:18Eugene Ormandy and the New York Philharmonic.
1:22:18 > 1:22:19Are you scared?
1:22:19 > 1:22:22- Scared to death. - I'm kind of scared myself.
1:22:22 > 1:22:24- Why?- For you.
1:22:24 > 1:22:25We'd better get out of here.
1:22:25 > 1:22:26BEEPING
1:22:28 > 1:22:29What if it's a bust?
1:22:29 > 1:22:31- It can't be.- Hm.
1:22:31 > 1:22:33Wagner was a bust in Paris one night.
1:22:33 > 1:22:35No, Paris was a bust one night.
1:22:36 > 1:22:38- Anyway, one thing...- What's that?
1:22:40 > 1:22:41It can't be a bust with me.
1:22:46 > 1:22:47- FAINT MUSIC PLAYS - Let's go.
1:22:52 > 1:22:55Those rehearsal licks - someday I'm going to do a piece about that.
1:22:55 > 1:22:57Carnegie tune-up. How's that?
1:22:57 > 1:22:58Big thing.
1:23:01 > 1:23:03Well, pal, you're on the eve of fame.
1:23:03 > 1:23:05I was on the eve of Christmas once and nothing happened.
1:23:05 > 1:23:06Not last Christmas.
1:23:06 > 1:23:10- No.- Now you're a big man in Kashmir, and waiters give you the nod.
1:23:10 > 1:23:12How do you feel? Are you happy?
1:23:12 > 1:23:14Why shouldn't I be? Made the grade, didn't I?
1:23:14 > 1:23:15More than a hop, skip and a jump
1:23:15 > 1:23:18from the Chez Mamie to Carnegie Hall. Try it sometime.
1:23:18 > 1:23:21- I just asked you how you felt. - I think I'll write a thing...
1:23:21 > 1:23:24Did you write Mary and tell her the broadcast time?
1:23:24 > 1:23:26- Yeah.- That was sweet of you. How is she these days?
1:23:26 > 1:23:28And what does she say?
1:23:28 > 1:23:30- Oh, not much.- And what do you say?
1:23:30 > 1:23:33Do you say that Mallory, the millionaire glamour girl,
1:23:33 > 1:23:35is taking you where the woodbine twineth?
1:23:38 > 1:23:40INDISTINCT CHATTER
1:23:42 > 1:23:45- Really, no more seats? - Sorry, not a thing.
1:23:49 > 1:23:51- Well, this is it. - I thought it was tough at Salerno.
1:23:51 > 1:23:52Why don't you sit with me?
1:23:52 > 1:23:54I won't be able to sit. I have to be ready to run.
1:23:54 > 1:23:57Don't be silly. If it weren't good, Rubinstein wouldn't play it.
1:23:57 > 1:24:00- And, if he's wrong, anything he plays will sound good.- Maybe. Maybe.
1:24:00 > 1:24:01If you run, where will you go?
1:24:01 > 1:24:04- That's joint in the village, remember?- Yes.
1:24:05 > 1:24:06Shall we synchronise watches?
1:24:06 > 1:24:07HE LAUGHS
1:24:10 > 1:24:12Good luck.
1:24:12 > 1:24:16ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
1:24:23 > 1:24:26MUSIC ENDS
1:24:27 > 1:24:29APPLAUSE
1:24:31 > 1:24:34You have just heard the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra,
1:24:34 > 1:24:36under the direction of Eugene Ormandy,
1:24:36 > 1:24:38in Beethoven's 5th Symphony.
1:24:38 > 1:24:40After a brief intermission,
1:24:40 > 1:24:42Artur Rubinstein will join the orchestra as soloist,
1:24:42 > 1:24:45for a first performance of the piano concerto in C minor
1:24:45 > 1:24:47by the young composer Daniel Evans.
1:24:49 > 1:24:51That Beethoven was pretty good.
1:24:51 > 1:24:54- Was it?- Yeah. Think he'll make the grade?
1:24:54 > 1:24:55You're next. Here.
1:25:00 > 1:25:01Hold my hand.
1:25:06 > 1:25:08Did you know how eccentric he was?
1:25:08 > 1:25:10He stopped right in the middle of the concerto,
1:25:10 > 1:25:12turned to the audience and said, "You like that?
1:25:12 > 1:25:13"I'll play it for you again."
1:25:13 > 1:25:15LAUGHTER
1:25:17 > 1:25:18Are you nervous?
1:25:18 > 1:25:20Me? No, I'm not nervous. Not a bit.
1:25:20 > 1:25:22Ah, well, I'm glad to hear that,
1:25:22 > 1:25:25because if you were there's not a thing to be done about it.
1:25:25 > 1:25:26DAN LAUGHS NERVOUSLY
1:25:26 > 1:25:28THEY LAUGH
1:25:28 > 1:25:29I like your music.
1:25:30 > 1:25:32- I like to play it. - Oh, thank you, sir.- We're ready.
1:25:36 > 1:25:37I'm nervous, too.
1:25:38 > 1:25:39- Rabbit's foot.- Thank you.
1:25:41 > 1:25:43APPLAUSE
1:26:01 > 1:26:03APPLAUSE FADES
1:26:12 > 1:26:15ORCHESTRA PLAYS
1:26:23 > 1:26:25DRAMATIC PIANO MUSIC
1:29:58 > 1:29:59PIANO PLAYS
1:30:28 > 1:30:30PIANO CONTINUES TO PLAY
1:30:52 > 1:30:55STRINGS PLAY
1:31:38 > 1:31:41PIANO PLAYS
1:31:41 > 1:31:44CLARINET PLAYS
1:33:17 > 1:33:18MUSIC SWELLS
1:34:09 > 1:34:11MUSIC ENDS
1:34:11 > 1:34:13APPLAUSE
1:34:20 > 1:34:21Baby, shake my hand!
1:34:21 > 1:34:24- Take a message to Cathy for me, will you?- But she's waiting for you.
1:34:24 > 1:34:25- Will you take it?- Yeah.
1:34:25 > 1:34:27- Tell her I've gone.- Gone? - To San Francisco.
1:34:27 > 1:34:29Tell her I've gone back to that blind girl.
1:34:29 > 1:34:31You ought to know how. You've buddied for me enough.
1:34:31 > 1:34:33- But wait a minute! - Tell her, will you?
1:34:35 > 1:34:36APPLAUSE CONTINUES
1:34:39 > 1:34:41Oh, wasn't it thrilling, Chick? Where's Daniel?
1:34:41 > 1:34:44I got news for you. We're leaving for San Francisco.
1:34:44 > 1:34:46Back to Mary. Not supposed to tell you why.
1:34:46 > 1:34:48You see, I've got a gift for the gab
1:34:48 > 1:34:50and I'm supposed to break it to you easy.
1:34:51 > 1:34:53Well, isn't that what you wanted?
1:34:53 > 1:34:55- Mm.- Oh, tears of joy, huh?
1:34:59 > 1:35:01TRAIN RUMBLES
1:35:03 > 1:35:05- HE SINGS SAM HALL: - # Oh, I killed a man, they said
1:35:05 > 1:35:07# And I smashed his bleeding head...
1:35:08 > 1:35:11# And I left him lying dead... #
1:35:11 > 1:35:13Says here that you show great promise. Mm.
1:35:13 > 1:35:17Pretty sweet of them, isn't it? This guy calls it promise.
1:35:17 > 1:35:19We might send him a little note.
1:35:19 > 1:35:21Sort of a promissory note, huh?
1:35:25 > 1:35:26Sorry.
1:35:28 > 1:35:31ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
1:35:48 > 1:35:49HORN BLARES
1:36:17 > 1:36:19PIANO PLAYS
1:37:09 > 1:37:13DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS