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Q-U ...

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... A-R ... 

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... A-N-T ... 

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... I-N-E.

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Quarantine.

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Q-U-A-R ...

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... A-N-T ...

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... I-N-E.

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Quarantine.

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You know the cholera?

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Yes, Mother.

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You've seen the signs on
the houses where the coloreds live?

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Yes, Mother.

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You know the typhus?

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I do, Mother.

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You know what they
can do to you?

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Yes, Mother.

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You are not safe.

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You may be directing this movie,
but what you're asking, we can't do.

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Don't tell me it can't be done.

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The gyro forces are too much.
You send these planes into barrel rolls ...

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... they won't make it.
- It's the climax of the picture. Make it work.

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Decrease the vertical trajectory
if you have to.

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A "Le Rhône" rotary
won't stall at 60 degrees.

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We're still short two cameras.
We need to cut that sequence down --

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We're not cutting. I'll get those cameras.
Set up for rehearsals.

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I'm Noah Dietrich.
Your office said I'd find you here.

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Dietrich.
You're a man on the come.

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I read your résumé, talked to your
references. Know what I'm looking for?

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You're looking for a second-in-command
at Hughes Tools.

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Someone to oversee
the financial aspects of the business.

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I'm looking for somebody to run it
and do a good job.

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There's only one thing
you've gotta know.

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My folks, they're gone now.
So it's my money.

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What I do with that money may seem crazy
to those sons of bitches in Houston.

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I'm sure it does, but it all makes
good sense to me. You got that?

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- Got it.
- Good.

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Now, you made, what,
$5200 a year at your last job?

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- I'll pay you $10,000.
- I guess I'll be working twice as hard.

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You'll be working four times as hard.
I just got you at half price.

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- Welcome aboard.
- Thank you.

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You're my voice now.
Make them understand that.

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Some of those folks still call me Junior.
You tell them it's "Mr. Hughes" now.

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You bet.
So when do we go to Houston?

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We don't. Cholera epidemic in 1913.
Two thousand dead.

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Whole place is nothing but
pestilential swamp.

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Typhus, malaria, cholera, yellow fever.
You name it, they got it.

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You see that, Mr. Dietrich?

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You are looking at the largest
private air force in the entire world.

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What do you think of that, now?

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It's your money.

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Start them up!

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I saw the rough cut of the new
Tod Browning movie, London After Midnight.

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Lon Chaney is incredible.

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It's his best performance
in a long time.

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It's gonna be a big hit.
The cards are great.

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It's supposed to be --

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Hello, Mr. Mayer.

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I don't know if you remember me.
My name's Howard Hughes.

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I was wondering
if I could have a moment.

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- Oh, Howard Hughes. The airplane picture?
- Exactly.

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- I remember.
- Hell's Angels. You heard of it.

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- Good.
- Yes.

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I was wondering if I could
have a moment of your time.

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I need a few cameras.

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- Yeah?
- Yeah, two, to be exact.

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I bought every camera I could find.
We're shooting our big dogfight sequence.

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I need two more. Desperately.
You think MGM could help me out?

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With what?

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- Cameras.
- Oh, with the actual cam --

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We're not usually in the practice
of helping out competition.

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- No. No.
- So how many cameras do you have now?

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Twenty-four.

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You ...?
Wait a minute.

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- You have 24 cameras?
- That's right.

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- And you need --? You need two more?
- Yeah.

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- You don't think you got it with 24?
- No. No, sir.

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You know, I think --
I think we've got them all ...

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Don't we have them ...?
They're all used, right?

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- All 26 of them.
- I only need two, sir.

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- Jesus Christ, sonny.
- Howard.

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Howard. Let me give you
a little advice, huh?

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- Take your oil money --
- Drill bits.

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All right, take your drill-bit money
and put it in the bank.

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If you continue making
the movie the way you are ...

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... there isn't gonna be a distributor ...

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... you won't find anybody
who wants to see the movie ...

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... and you're not gonna have
any more oil money.

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So welcome to Hollywood.

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Yeah. Well, I'll be sure
to remember that, Mr. Mayer.

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- Good luck.
- All right.

92
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He needs 26 to make it work?
He's out of his mind.

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I looked down at my pants.
It was a strange situation.

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Boss.
Scram, love boat, let's go.

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- Another soda. You know what I mean.
- Milk. In the bottle.

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- With the cap still on.
- Okay, what did His Highness say?

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Son of a bitch won't part with
a single goddamn camera.

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Why don't you try and
make do with what you have.

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What I have isn't enough, John,
not for how I see it.

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Look.

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My name depends on this picture.
If it doesn't work, I'm back to Houston ...

102
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... making goddamn drill bits
for the rest of my life.

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Can't you do it
with the cameras you have?

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You ought to hear about
what's going on with DeMille.

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He's shooting his Bible picture.
He's gotta do a crucifixion in Fresno.

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Johnny.

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- A bunch of tractors --
- Johnny.

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- You're a press agent, are you not?
- Yeah.

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You're supposed to know
the ins and outs?

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- Absolutely.
- Do you?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Then you leave the big ideas ...

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... to me.
- Oh, yeah. Of course, boss.

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Cigar, cigarettes, Sen-Sen?

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I thought you were
at the Brown Derby ...

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... with Trixie. No, Theresa.

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- Margaret.
- Margaret. Exactly.

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What happened to Margaret?
She lost her --

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Thank God that's settled.

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Oh, I'm sorry.
Thelma, this is Howard Hughes.

121
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Howard and I were discussing how he
wants me to pull a camera out of my ass.

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- Cigarette?
- Oh, no, thanks. I don't smoke.

123
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Boy, you are just hitting
on all six cylinders, aren't you?

124
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My God.

125
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Would you do me
a favor and just ...?

126
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Would you just smile
for me one time? Just once?

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Yeah. Yeah. You see,
you got a short upper lip.

128
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Makes for a much nicer smile.

129
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See, I wonder what gives
a beautiful woman like you pleasure.

130
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I mean, say you're just standing
there, right? And I just touch you.

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Just -- Just like this.

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With my fingertips.

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Do you --?
Do you like that?

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Do you?

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You see, I wanna learn
what pleases you.

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I wanna learn everything about you.

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Would you let me do that?

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Would you give me that job?

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I'm off in a half an hour.

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- Well, I'm in room --
- 217.

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217.

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See you there.

143
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Johnny, get on the horn
to Universal and Warners.

144
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I need two more cameras
by Saturday.

145
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Rent them if you can.
Steal them if you have to.

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Absotively, boss.

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Absotively.

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Rumors coming from a lonely airstrip
out in Van Nuys.

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Sources whisper that young
Texas industrialist Howard Hughes ...

150
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... won't stop pouring money
into his war epic.

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And do we mean epic!

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One hundred and thirty-seven pilots,
87 airplanes ...

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... 35 cameramen, 2000 extras.
How long will it be before this picture ...

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... ends up costing as
much as the real war?

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Damn it.
Why the hell do they look so slow?

156
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This isn't what it was like up there.
They look like goddamn models!

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Son of a bitch.

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Howard?

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Without something standing
still behind the planes ...

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... we've got no idea
of how fast we're moving.

161
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We got no sense of relative motion.

162
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Call UCLA.
Get me the best meteorologist they got.

163
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You get him here in an hour, all right?

164
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Hey. You want the good news
or the bad news?

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- Bad news, always.
- All right.

166
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We installed the 450 radial.
Struts won't take the vibration.

167
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Minute we fire her up, the struts
start cracking at the attach points.

168
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- Well, what's the good news?
- There isn't any.

169
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Goddamn it, Odie. If the 450's too big,
we figure something else out.

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We've done everything.
We've rebuilt her from top to toe.

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If we drain the fuel tank ...

172
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... she might make 180 miles per hour.
- I want minimum 200, all right?

173
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I want a date with Theda Bara.
That ain't gonna happen.

174
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Oh, don't be so sure.

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If the struts won't sustain the engine
we need, we gotta get rid of the struts.

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No, then the top wing falls off.

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Then let it.

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What?

179
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Who says we need a top wing?

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I mean, who says we need anything?

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- A monoplane.
- A cantilevered monoplane, right?

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They're doing it in France.
To hell with the top wing and struts.

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- A 550 Wasp engine.
- One-hundred-octane fuel.

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- That would give us a horsepower of what?
- Seven hundred.

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We squeeze that to a thousand,
we got the fastest plane ever built.

186
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You know, I've gotta say ...

187
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... we've already spent over $200,000
rebuilding this plane.

188
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To hell with it.

189
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Tear it up, Odie.

190
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Go on.

191
00:13:04,867 --> 00:13:06,201
Well ...

192
00:13:09,163 --> 00:13:12,874
The cumulonimbus formations
about which you speak ...

193
00:13:14,335 --> 00:13:16,461
... that look like ...

194
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Giant breasts full of milk.

195
00:13:18,589 --> 00:13:20,340
I want clouds, damn it.

196
00:13:20,716 --> 00:13:22,300
Yes, clouds ...

197
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... that look like
giant breasts full of milk ...

198
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... cannot exactly be guaranteed
for any particular occasion.

199
00:13:30,142 --> 00:13:32,227
So you might have to ...

200
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To wait.

201
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Then we'll wait.

202
00:13:39,902 --> 00:13:42,237
Look, whatever they pay
you at UCLA ...

203
00:13:42,404 --> 00:13:46,032
... I'm doubling it, all right?
You work for me now. Find some clouds.

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00:13:47,493 --> 00:13:48,868
Find some clouds.

205
00:13:49,537 --> 00:13:51,287
Find me some clouds!

206
00:13:51,455 --> 00:13:53,665
Welcome to Hell's Angels.

207
00:13:56,877 --> 00:13:58,086
Thank you.

208
00:14:06,762 --> 00:14:10,223
I've been to Chatsworth,
Santa Cruz, Encino, San Diego ...

209
00:14:10,391 --> 00:14:14,269
... Riverside, Van Nuys and Bakersfield.
It has been eight months!

210
00:14:14,436 --> 00:14:16,229
Where are my goddamn clouds, huh?

211
00:14:16,397 --> 00:14:18,731
They move, Mr. Hughes!

212
00:14:18,899 --> 00:14:20,233
Clouds move.

213
00:14:20,401 --> 00:14:22,861
- That's what they do. They move!
- You see that?

214
00:14:23,028 --> 00:14:26,739
It is costing me $5,271 a day ...

215
00:14:26,907 --> 00:14:31,286
... to keep those planes on the ground.
You find me some goddamn clouds, huh?

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00:14:38,752 --> 00:14:40,253
Nice day.

217
00:14:40,713 --> 00:14:42,630
Yeah, very funny.

218
00:14:42,882 --> 00:14:45,717
I got a call from Houston.
They're getting nervous.

219
00:14:45,885 --> 00:14:47,802
Stop showing them the damn bills.

220
00:14:47,970 --> 00:14:49,345
That would be illegal.

221
00:14:49,513 --> 00:14:51,764
Shit, no.
Maybe it's a little bit naughty.

222
00:14:51,932 --> 00:14:55,810
Hughes Tool is incorporated in Texas.
They have to see the bills.

223
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Incorporate a new division out here.
We'll call it Hughes Aircraft.

224
00:15:00,941 --> 00:15:05,486
- Do we need these rivets on the cowling?
- Yeah, or the reverse thrust would rip it off.

225
00:15:05,654 --> 00:15:08,364
They're gonna give me drag.
Do something about that.

226
00:15:08,532 --> 00:15:10,825
- Wind resistance on rivets?
- I want her slippery.

227
00:15:10,993 --> 00:15:13,995
There are tax consequences
to incorporating in California.

228
00:15:14,163 --> 00:15:16,664
- Just take care of it, would you?
- Mr. Hughes!

229
00:15:16,832 --> 00:15:18,625
Oakland!

230
00:15:18,792 --> 00:15:21,836
- We have clouds in Oakland!
- You mean it this time?

231
00:15:22,004 --> 00:15:23,546
Yes!

232
00:15:23,714 --> 00:15:26,841
Goddamn it, yes.
I can promise you.

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- Clouds in Oakland.
- All right, don't get all jittery now.

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Oakland!

235
00:15:34,767 --> 00:15:38,019
We're going to Oakland!
Oakland.

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Down and to the left!

237
00:16:39,790 --> 00:16:41,791
That's perfect!

238
00:16:45,671 --> 00:16:50,091
That's right, Senator George.

239
00:16:50,259 --> 00:16:52,927
Yes, young Howard Hughes
has pulled it off!

240
00:16:53,095 --> 00:16:56,514
After two years, Hell's Angels
has finally finished filming.

241
00:16:56,682 --> 00:16:59,809
There's gonna be one heck
of a wrap party in Hollywood tonight.

242
00:16:59,977 --> 00:17:02,687
The price tag?
A staggering $2 million.

243
00:17:02,855 --> 00:17:05,356
If every human being
in America buys a ticket ...

244
00:17:05,524 --> 00:17:07,275
... he might even make a profit.

245
00:17:12,364 --> 00:17:13,698
First, clouds don't come.

246
00:17:13,866 --> 00:17:16,284
Then planes break down.
Then the planes crash.

247
00:17:17,953 --> 00:17:20,997
We've had everything but
a plague of locusts on this thing.

248
00:17:21,165 --> 00:17:22,540
I mean, you have to admit.

249
00:17:22,708 --> 00:17:26,711
Now, honestly, did you ever think
you'd actually finish the damn thing?

250
00:17:28,922 --> 00:17:30,298
Come with me.

251
00:17:32,217 --> 00:17:35,470
Mama, darling,
if I'm a success in this show ...

252
00:17:35,637 --> 00:17:37,722
... we're gonna move from here.
- Oh, no.

253
00:17:37,890 --> 00:17:39,849
Yes.
We're gonna move up in the Bronx.

254
00:17:40,017 --> 00:17:42,101
Green grass,
a lot of people you know.

255
00:17:42,269 --> 00:17:44,979
The Ginsbergs,
the Guttenbergs and the Goldbergs.

256
00:17:45,147 --> 00:17:47,815
Oh, a whole lot of "bergs."
I don't know them all.

257
00:17:48,442 --> 00:17:52,195
See, this is what the people want.
Silent pictures are yesterday's news.

258
00:17:52,362 --> 00:17:55,364
So I figure we gotta re-shoot
Hell's Angels for sound.

259
00:17:57,785 --> 00:17:59,327
How much of it?

260
00:17:59,495 --> 00:18:01,746
All of it.
Before you ask, I'll tell you.

261
00:18:01,914 --> 00:18:04,791
An additional 1.7 million.
We got that much?

262
00:18:05,918 --> 00:18:09,170
- No!
- Well, we'll make it.

263
00:18:09,338 --> 00:18:11,089
Take care of that, would you?

264
00:18:11,256 --> 00:18:12,590
Now, get this.

265
00:18:22,684 --> 00:18:24,852
In the halls of 7000 Romaine ...

266
00:18:25,020 --> 00:18:27,438
... it goes on day after day,
month after month.

267
00:18:27,606 --> 00:18:31,317
Howard Hughes is now editing
some 25 miles of film.

268
00:18:32,694 --> 00:18:37,323
Heck, I say release it now and give
the world its first 560-hour movie.

269
00:18:37,491 --> 00:18:41,744
Pat, Mr. Hughes needs this reel
in the projection room right now!

270
00:18:42,621 --> 00:18:44,205
Enough is enough, Mr. Hughes.

271
00:18:44,373 --> 00:18:47,583
Are you ever gonna let us
actually see this epic of yours?

272
00:18:47,751 --> 00:18:49,252
Hurry up!

273
00:19:10,232 --> 00:19:11,649
- Who is it?
- Noah.

274
00:19:11,817 --> 00:19:13,484
Come on in.

275
00:19:15,070 --> 00:19:17,655
I've been on the phone
to Houston for three hours.

276
00:19:17,823 --> 00:19:20,825
- We're fixing every goddamn book we have.
- Wait, wait.

277
00:19:21,743 --> 00:19:25,163
Yeah. Run reel 10 again.
I think we're duplicating a shot here.

278
00:19:25,330 --> 00:19:29,167
And tell Jimmy I want
10 chocolate chip cookies, all right?

279
00:19:29,334 --> 00:19:32,211
Medium chips,
none too close to the outside.

280
00:19:32,379 --> 00:19:33,880
Got it?

281
00:19:34,047 --> 00:19:36,382
You remember
that goddamn shot from reel 10?

282
00:19:36,550 --> 00:19:39,135
No. I don't remember
anything from reel 10.

283
00:19:39,303 --> 00:19:41,470
I don't know what reel 10 is.

284
00:19:41,638 --> 00:19:44,932
I'm a businessman, Howard.
And so are you.

285
00:19:45,100 --> 00:19:46,893
Now, look.

286
00:19:47,060 --> 00:19:48,519
This has been a great ride.

287
00:19:48,687 --> 00:19:50,605
We've had a hell of a lot of fun.

288
00:19:51,023 --> 00:19:54,692
But you're losing
$25,000 a day doing this.

289
00:19:54,985 --> 00:19:56,903
Every day.

290
00:20:02,451 --> 00:20:05,286
So, what are my options?

291
00:20:06,872 --> 00:20:09,624
Well, this time I don't know
that you have any.

292
00:20:09,791 --> 00:20:12,210
I'm afraid you gotta close it down.

293
00:20:12,961 --> 00:20:14,587
Dig your way out.

294
00:20:21,261 --> 00:20:23,262
I'm sorry, Howard.

295
00:20:23,805 --> 00:20:25,640
I truly am.

296
00:20:32,981 --> 00:20:34,607
Reel 10, Mr. Hughes.

297
00:20:40,656 --> 00:20:42,657
Mortgage Tool Co.

298
00:20:43,575 --> 00:20:48,663
- Every asset. You heard me.
- If you do that, you could lose everything.

299
00:20:48,830 --> 00:20:50,414
Well, I won't.

300
00:20:53,543 --> 00:20:55,002
I won't.

301
00:20:56,505 --> 00:20:58,297
All right.

302
00:20:59,508 --> 00:21:01,133
I'll get into it.

303
00:21:02,511 --> 00:21:04,053
Thanks, Noah.

304
00:21:39,172 --> 00:21:42,883
More than half a million souls lining
the curb of Hollywood Boulevard.

305
00:21:43,051 --> 00:21:44,719
Look at the automobiles!

306
00:21:44,886 --> 00:21:48,723
There are 45,000 cars here,
making it the greatest traffic jam ever seen.

307
00:21:48,890 --> 00:21:51,309
Howard Hughes must have
a lump in his throat.

308
00:21:51,476 --> 00:21:55,563
Six months after the stock market crashes
and after three pilots' deaths ...

309
00:21:55,731 --> 00:21:58,733
... he's finally unveiling his
$4 million baby doll.

310
00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:03,195
It's the most expensive movie ever made.
Nothing five-and-dime for our Mr. Hughes.

311
00:22:03,363 --> 00:22:06,657
Nothing like tonight has ever been
seen before, and I can say ...

312
00:22:06,825 --> 00:22:08,492
... it will never be seen again.

313
00:22:08,660 --> 00:22:12,663
Five hundred thousand people are crowding
the streets to get a glimpse of the stars.

314
00:22:12,831 --> 00:22:15,541
Three companies of Marines
were called to assist ...

315
00:22:15,709 --> 00:22:19,128
... the 250 special police who are
handling this enormous crowd --

316
00:22:19,296 --> 00:22:20,838
This is an industry town.

317
00:22:21,006 --> 00:22:23,924
And nobody but nobody
makes a movie outside a studio.

318
00:22:24,092 --> 00:22:27,595
Some Hollywood insiders over
at the Brown Derby may be laughing ...

319
00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:29,221
And now, I think ...

320
00:22:29,389 --> 00:22:32,224
Yes, yes, I can see
Mr. Hughes' car arriving now.

321
00:22:32,392 --> 00:22:35,353
Mr. Hughes escorts
the lovely starlet Jean Harlow.

322
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,523
He discovered her for this picture,
and we think her platinum blond locks ...

323
00:22:39,691 --> 00:22:43,944
... and hot-jazz, baby-doll style
are gonna make her a big star.

324
00:22:52,913 --> 00:22:55,206
Howard! Howard!

325
00:23:01,755 --> 00:23:03,631
Over here!

326
00:23:10,180 --> 00:23:14,433
- This way, boss. Right over there.
- Mr. Hughes, how about a word?

327
00:23:14,643 --> 00:23:17,103
Big night for you, Mr. Hughes.

328
00:23:19,022 --> 00:23:21,649
Big night for you tonight.

329
00:23:21,817 --> 00:23:24,151
Very big. Very big.

330
00:23:24,319 --> 00:23:28,030
Tell us what it was like
making this fabulous picture.

331
00:23:29,866 --> 00:23:31,659
Yes.

332
00:23:31,827 --> 00:23:33,202
Yeah.

333
00:23:33,370 --> 00:23:35,996
So 4 million clams
from your own pocket.

334
00:23:36,164 --> 00:23:37,832
Nervous how the flick will fly?

335
00:23:41,378 --> 00:23:44,672
Big night. You enjoy the show.

336
00:23:45,173 --> 00:23:50,553
Yes, well, let me present the feminine
star of this spectacle, Hell's Angels ...

337
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,347
... Miss Jean Harlow.
- Thank you.

338
00:23:53,515 --> 00:23:56,475
I would like to use this occasion
to thank Mr. Hughes ...

339
00:23:56,643 --> 00:23:59,937
... for the opportunity he gave me.
Thank you.

340
00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:03,482
Thank you!
Now I'd like to ask Roscoe Arbuckle ...

341
00:24:03,650 --> 00:24:06,610
... to introduce
his pet lion cub, Gilmore.

342
00:24:06,778 --> 00:24:09,447
What's the matter with you?
Can't remember my name?

343
00:24:09,614 --> 00:24:13,617
I'm sorry. Roscoe Turner,
and this would be Gilmore.

344
00:24:56,745 --> 00:24:58,412
It's going! It's going!

345
00:25:00,081 --> 00:25:03,501
Murder! That's what this
dirty, rotten politician war is, murder!

346
00:25:03,668 --> 00:25:05,127
You know it as well as I do.

347
00:25:42,916 --> 00:25:44,500
Stand up, slim, take a bow.

348
00:25:58,139 --> 00:26:00,349
Reel four played too long.
Too many coughs.

349
00:26:00,517 --> 00:26:04,478
Get the team out of the party and
to the office. I wanna cut a few shots.

350
00:26:04,646 --> 00:26:06,897
Oh, find Glenn.
Somebody write this down.

351
00:26:07,065 --> 00:26:08,315
Flush rivets.
Got that?

352
00:26:08,483 --> 00:26:10,150
- Flush rivets.
- Flush rivets.

353
00:26:10,318 --> 00:26:11,860
Lickety-split, boss.

354
00:26:12,112 --> 00:26:13,737
Here he is! Here he is!

355
00:26:15,824 --> 00:26:17,700
Variety says, "This one won't miss!"

356
00:26:17,867 --> 00:26:21,161
- Magnificently photographed!
- Awesome beyond description!

357
00:26:21,329 --> 00:26:24,915
The most extraordinary output
to emerge from a motion-picture studio.

358
00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:28,002
Not for a long time have I seen
anything as enthralling.

359
00:26:28,169 --> 00:26:31,213
It costs 4 million dollars
and has 4 million thrills!

360
00:26:31,381 --> 00:26:33,674
- Majestically ...
- Most epic picture of its time!

361
00:27:29,147 --> 00:27:32,107
A lighter shade. I don't want
to look like Boris Karloff.

362
00:27:32,275 --> 00:27:33,901
If you know what I mean.

363
00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:39,740
I read in the magazines
that you play golf.

364
00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:41,575
On occasion.

365
00:27:41,743 --> 00:27:43,994
Well, how about nine holes?

366
00:27:46,081 --> 00:27:48,248
Now, Mr. Hughes?

367
00:27:48,917 --> 00:27:51,669
If it would be convenient, Miss Hepburn.

368
00:28:14,234 --> 00:28:17,695
You're not extending
enough on your follow-through.

369
00:28:17,862 --> 00:28:20,781
Follow-through
is everything in golf, just like life.

370
00:28:20,949 --> 00:28:22,282
Don't you find?

371
00:28:22,450 --> 00:28:24,451
Saw your Scarface picture.

372
00:28:24,619 --> 00:28:25,953
- Violent.
- Realistic.

373
00:28:26,121 --> 00:28:28,455
Movies are movies, Howard.
Not life.

374
00:28:28,623 --> 00:28:30,290
Now the stage.

375
00:28:30,458 --> 00:28:31,709
The stage is real.

376
00:28:31,876 --> 00:28:35,879
Real flesh and blood. Human beings
right out there in front of you, buster.

377
00:28:36,047 --> 00:28:39,007
Can't look away. Can't munch popcorn.
That would be rude.

378
00:28:39,175 --> 00:28:40,467
Do you like the theater?

379
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,262
- No.
- Oh, I adore the theater.

380
00:28:43,430 --> 00:28:45,597
Only alive on-stage.
I'll teach you.

381
00:28:45,765 --> 00:28:49,685
We'll see some Ibsen. If the Republicans
haven't outlawed him by now.

382
00:28:49,853 --> 00:28:52,896
You're not a Republican, are you?
How did you vote in '32?

383
00:28:53,064 --> 00:28:56,525
- Well, I didn't.
- You must! It's your sacred franchise.

384
00:29:00,405 --> 00:29:03,157
Heard you were wooing Ginger Rogers.
What about that?

385
00:29:03,324 --> 00:29:05,659
She's just a friend.

386
00:29:05,827 --> 00:29:07,536
Men can't be friends with women.

387
00:29:07,704 --> 00:29:09,788
They must possess them
or leave them be.

388
00:29:09,956 --> 00:29:13,083
It's a primitive urge from caveman days.
It's all in Darwin.

389
00:29:13,251 --> 00:29:18,589
Hunt the flesh, kill the flesh, eat the flesh.
That's the male sex all over.

390
00:29:19,257 --> 00:29:20,632
Excuse me?

391
00:29:21,426 --> 00:29:24,428
Well, if you're deaf,
you must own up to it.

392
00:29:24,679 --> 00:29:26,638
Get a hearing aid.
Or see my father.

393
00:29:26,806 --> 00:29:30,476
He's a urologist, but it's all tied up
inside the body, don't you find?

394
00:29:30,810 --> 00:29:32,269
Me, I keep healthy.

395
00:29:32,437 --> 00:29:34,563
I take seven showers a day
to keep clean.

396
00:29:34,731 --> 00:29:38,066
Also because I am what's so
vulgarly referred to as "outdoorsy."

397
00:29:38,234 --> 00:29:42,237
I'm not outdoorsy.
I'm athletic. I sweat.

398
00:29:42,405 --> 00:29:45,199
There it is.
Now we both know the sordid truth.

399
00:29:45,366 --> 00:29:47,826
I sweat and you're deaf.

400
00:29:47,994 --> 00:29:50,871
Aren't we a fine pair of misfits?

401
00:29:54,417 --> 00:29:56,293
Three.

402
00:30:03,843 --> 00:30:05,677
Noble effort.

403
00:30:08,056 --> 00:30:10,724
So I suppose you're
wooing me now?

404
00:30:11,392 --> 00:30:13,393
Oh, well.

405
00:30:32,455 --> 00:30:33,956
Not enough.

406
00:30:34,541 --> 00:30:37,584
Not enough.
These rivets have to be completely flush.

407
00:30:37,752 --> 00:30:40,629
I want every screw and joint countersunk.

408
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,674
I want no wind resistance
on the fuselage.

409
00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:46,134
She has got to be clean, Odie.

410
00:30:46,302 --> 00:30:48,095
- Clean. Understand?
- Okay, Howard.

411
00:30:48,263 --> 00:30:50,055
I don't know
what else to tell you.

412
00:30:51,099 --> 00:30:54,685
- What do you got for me?
- The thing is, TWA needs a new plane.

413
00:30:54,853 --> 00:30:57,479
- A modern plane.
- Oh, yeah? What kind of plane?

414
00:30:57,647 --> 00:30:59,898
Okay. The DC-3 has 21 daytime seats ...

415
00:31:00,066 --> 00:31:02,484
... and 14 overnight berths.
- Something bigger?

416
00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:06,196
Try 50 seats with
a ceiling of 12,000 feet.

417
00:31:06,364 --> 00:31:08,615
No. No, 20,000.

418
00:31:08,950 --> 00:31:11,118
Think about it.
What does 20,000 feet give you?

419
00:31:11,286 --> 00:31:13,871
- Less turbulence.
- Because it's above the weather.

420
00:31:14,038 --> 00:31:16,415
Jack, we wanna fly
above the weather.

421
00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:20,127
Only 1 percent of the American population
has set foot on an airliner.

422
00:31:20,295 --> 00:31:23,088
Why? Because they're scared to death.
They should be.

423
00:31:23,256 --> 00:31:25,841
I mean, 7000 feet is bumpy as shit.
You know that.

424
00:31:26,009 --> 00:31:28,510
We build a plane
that flies above the weather ...

425
00:31:28,678 --> 00:31:32,472
... we could get every man, woman
and child in this country to feel safe.

426
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:37,144
An airplane with the ability to fly into
the sub-stratosphere across the country.

427
00:31:37,312 --> 00:31:39,146
Across the world.

428
00:31:39,314 --> 00:31:41,398
Now that is the future.

429
00:31:41,816 --> 00:31:43,066
- You with me?
- Yeah.

430
00:31:43,234 --> 00:31:47,154
I don't wanna get into this
if your board doesn't have the balls for it.

431
00:31:47,322 --> 00:31:49,656
- Would they support us?
- I don't know.

432
00:31:49,824 --> 00:31:52,034
- What's your financial picture?
- Not great.

433
00:31:52,201 --> 00:31:54,369
- Last year's deficit?
- 770,000.

434
00:31:54,537 --> 00:31:57,247
- What's it selling at?
- About 8 dollars a share.

435
00:31:57,415 --> 00:31:59,166
That's the lowest it's been, huh?

436
00:32:01,127 --> 00:32:02,586
I could do that.

437
00:32:02,754 --> 00:32:04,254
- Do what?
- Buy it.

438
00:32:04,422 --> 00:32:07,090
- You wanna buy the airline?
- For crying out loud ...

439
00:32:07,258 --> 00:32:11,178
... we don't want pencil pushers getting
in the way of us making our plane.

440
00:32:11,346 --> 00:32:15,182
Give me brass tacks, now. What does
controlling interest in TWA cost me?

441
00:32:16,184 --> 00:32:17,601
Call it 15 million.

442
00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:22,189
That is a chunk of change, huh?

443
00:32:25,610 --> 00:32:27,444
You call Noah Dietrich.

444
00:32:27,612 --> 00:32:29,571
You have him start buying.

445
00:32:29,739 --> 00:32:31,031
Howard, hold on.

446
00:32:31,199 --> 00:32:34,201
Are you sure?
You wanna think about it for five minutes?

447
00:32:34,369 --> 00:32:38,205
Hell, Jack, I got a tiger by the tail here.
I ain't gonna let it go.

448
00:32:47,048 --> 00:32:48,757
Good evening, Mr. Hughes.

449
00:32:48,925 --> 00:32:51,301
Welcome. Your table is ready.

450
00:32:52,470 --> 00:32:54,012
How goes the aviation?

451
00:32:54,180 --> 00:32:57,140
- Oh, just fine, Pete.
- I'm so glad.

452
00:32:59,477 --> 00:33:00,811
Good evening, Mr. Hughes.

453
00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:02,229
- Madame.
- It's "miss."

454
00:33:02,397 --> 00:33:04,815
Miss. The usual, Mr. Hughes?

455
00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:07,109
- Please.
- May I recommend for the lady ...

456
00:33:07,276 --> 00:33:10,779
... our clementine soup followed
by roast duck with currant glaze ...

457
00:33:10,947 --> 00:33:13,907
... and poached pears in rose sauce.
It's truly divine.

458
00:33:14,075 --> 00:33:15,575
Yeah. That sounds fine.

459
00:33:17,745 --> 00:33:20,497
Your kind of joint, is it?

460
00:33:21,624 --> 00:33:23,208
Wouldn't have thought.

461
00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:26,586
They're open late.
I go to a hot-dog stand on "La Cienega" too.

462
00:33:26,754 --> 00:33:29,423
- They're open till about 4.
- Are they?

463
00:33:31,426 --> 00:33:33,260
How marvelous.

464
00:33:49,110 --> 00:33:50,777
Howard! Howard!

465
00:33:51,738 --> 00:33:54,489
Hi! Son of a gun.

466
00:33:54,657 --> 00:33:58,493
Kate, this is Johnny Meyer.
I suppose you could call him my press agent.

467
00:33:58,661 --> 00:34:00,954
- Pleased to meet you. Loved Alice Adams.
- You're too kind.

468
00:34:01,122 --> 00:34:03,790
- I'm sure you know Errol, right?
- Mr. Flynn. Yes.

469
00:34:03,958 --> 00:34:08,837
Kate. Kate. Kate of the clenched-jawed
Hepburns. Enchanting as always.

470
00:34:09,005 --> 00:34:11,715
You should use Lux on your hands,
by the way. I do.

471
00:34:11,883 --> 00:34:14,051
You and Howard
ought to cook up a picture.

472
00:34:14,218 --> 00:34:16,762
Co-star with Errol.
I could sell that in spades.

473
00:34:16,929 --> 00:34:19,139
That would be marvelous. Howard?

474
00:34:19,724 --> 00:34:23,477
I think not.
Don't you read Variety, Mr. Meyer?

475
00:34:23,644 --> 00:34:27,314
Well, I'm box-office poison.
I'm on the outs, the skids, the doldrums.

476
00:34:27,482 --> 00:34:30,859
Washed-up, day-old fish
not worth the eating, so they tell me.

477
00:34:31,027 --> 00:34:34,863
Hell with them. Hell with them, my dear.
Soulless pricks to a man, right?

478
00:34:35,031 --> 00:34:39,076
Johnny tells me you're thinking about
doing a Western, of all goddamn things.

479
00:34:43,164 --> 00:34:45,916
Are you making a Western, Howard?

480
00:34:46,125 --> 00:34:48,877
Yeah. Making a Western.
I'm gonna call it The Outlaw.

481
00:34:49,045 --> 00:34:51,213
Yeah. And you know
what it's about? S-E-X.

482
00:34:51,380 --> 00:34:54,091
- It's all about S-E-X.
- It's a Western.

483
00:34:54,258 --> 00:34:57,177
You can't have fornication in a Western.
It isn't done.

484
00:34:57,345 --> 00:34:59,137
It's not real sex, it's movie sex.

485
00:34:59,305 --> 00:35:02,974
What Scarface did for the gangster picture,
The Outlaw will do for the Western.

486
00:35:03,142 --> 00:35:06,019
Put the sex and guts and blood
up there on the screen.

487
00:35:06,187 --> 00:35:08,188
- Have you seen my cigarettes?
- Don't mind us.

488
00:35:08,356 --> 00:35:11,775
New York cut steak, 12 peas,
bottle of milk with the cap on.

489
00:35:11,943 --> 00:35:15,195
- You can't afford your own cigarettes?
- Jack has all my money.

490
00:35:15,363 --> 00:35:19,658
I hope your food isn't getting cold
at your table somewhere or something.

491
00:35:19,826 --> 00:35:22,119
No, no. We're here all night.
Don't worry.

492
00:35:22,286 --> 00:35:27,833
Now, Howard. Now, Howard. If you're
seriously talking about putting carnality ...

493
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,671
... back on the silver screen, you must swear
to let me in on the casting session.

494
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:40,679
- I have an eye for talent. Isn't that right?
- You ought to give up prancing in tights ...

495
00:35:40,847 --> 00:35:44,432
... be a talent scout.
- That prancing paid for my new yacht.

496
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,061
You must all come sailing with me.
Catalina. What do you say?

497
00:35:48,229 --> 00:35:51,398
- Catalina. Sounds grand. Yeah.
- I've even managed to coax ...

498
00:35:51,566 --> 00:35:55,443
... the luscious Miss De Havilland
and her equally luscious sister to come.

499
00:35:55,611 --> 00:36:00,490
Though I fear their mother will insist on
coming, to preserve their questionable virtue.

500
00:36:00,658 --> 00:36:04,870
We shall assault these twin monuments
of pristine Britannic beauty nonetheless.

501
00:36:05,037 --> 00:36:07,080
- What do you say, Howard?
- Yeah?

502
00:36:07,498 --> 00:36:09,666
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah?

503
00:36:13,963 --> 00:36:15,255
I gotta go.

504
00:36:16,132 --> 00:36:19,676
If you'll excuse us, we have --
We have to be somewhere.

505
00:36:20,011 --> 00:36:22,470
You are somewhere, Howard,
you madman.

506
00:36:22,638 --> 00:36:25,682
- Somewhere else. Excuse us.
- Charmed, gentlemen.

507
00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:29,477
Do help yourself to the poached pears.
I hear they're divine.

508
00:36:30,104 --> 00:36:32,898
Well. Howard Hughes,
ladies and gentlemen.

509
00:36:33,774 --> 00:36:35,108
Was that meant for me?

510
00:36:35,276 --> 00:36:38,612
My hero. God, all that
Hollywood talk bores me silly.

511
00:36:38,779 --> 00:36:41,781
As if there aren't more important things,
like Mussolini.

512
00:36:41,949 --> 00:36:45,869
- Where are we going, by the way?
- Do you feel like a little adventure?

513
00:36:46,037 --> 00:36:47,954
Do your worst, Mr. Hughes.

514
00:36:48,122 --> 00:36:52,334
- Think you own this place, you limey bastard?
- I'm a Tasmanian bastard, you prick.

515
00:36:52,501 --> 00:36:54,920
- Thataway, Errol.
- Let me at him!

516
00:37:28,496 --> 00:37:31,206
That's Mr. Mayer's house right there.

517
00:37:31,374 --> 00:37:33,291
Do you know where Jack Warner lives?

518
00:37:42,551 --> 00:37:46,346
- What's that on the steering wheel?
- Cellophane.

519
00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:50,392
If you had any idea of the crap
that people carry around on their hands.

520
00:37:50,935 --> 00:37:52,560
What kind of crap?

521
00:37:53,271 --> 00:37:54,938
You don't wanna know.

522
00:38:00,194 --> 00:38:02,153
Hold on to the wheel for a bit.

523
00:38:10,204 --> 00:38:13,373
That's too hard. Relax your hand.
Relax your hand.

524
00:38:19,046 --> 00:38:24,009
You see, you gotta feel the vibration
of the engine through your fingertips.

525
00:38:24,176 --> 00:38:27,220
- Do you feel that?
- Yes.

526
00:38:29,849 --> 00:38:31,516
Well, that's good.

527
00:38:32,143 --> 00:38:33,852
Golly!

528
00:38:38,232 --> 00:38:40,066
Well, she's all yours.

529
00:38:40,276 --> 00:38:43,945
- Where are you going?!
- I think there's some milk back here.

530
00:38:44,947 --> 00:38:47,741
- You just keep us steady, now.
- All right.

531
00:39:06,761 --> 00:39:08,595
- Howard.
- Yeah?

532
00:39:08,763 --> 00:39:11,723
There's a rather alarming mountain
heading our way.

533
00:39:11,891 --> 00:39:14,100
Pull back on the wheel a smidge.
Go on.

534
00:39:18,939 --> 00:39:21,524
Golly!

535
00:39:27,073 --> 00:39:32,243
I don't think I've ever met someone
who actually uses the word "golly."

536
00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:41,961
You all right?
Do you want me to take over?

537
00:39:42,129 --> 00:39:44,130
Just when I'm getting the hang of it?

538
00:39:49,470 --> 00:39:53,181
- You want some milk?
- Oh, please.

539
00:40:15,121 --> 00:40:17,330
Utterly smashing!
We'll do it again.

540
00:40:17,498 --> 00:40:20,667
I'm free Wednesday.
It's a little early for golf, though.

541
00:40:20,835 --> 00:40:23,128
Oh, no, no. I live right there.

542
00:40:23,629 --> 00:40:26,172
- Feel like a drink?
- Lead on.

543
00:40:27,383 --> 00:40:30,593
Now, that makes
for a challenging par four.

544
00:40:30,845 --> 00:40:34,514
My decorator
picked out the wallpaper and such.

545
00:40:35,182 --> 00:40:37,225
He's queer as a bedbug.

546
00:40:37,393 --> 00:40:40,145
But I just hate this room.

547
00:40:40,438 --> 00:40:42,272
Gives me the willies.

548
00:40:42,773 --> 00:40:46,860
Like I'm about to be swallowed up
by the latest issue of Town & Country.

549
00:40:55,536 --> 00:40:57,287
What room do you like?

550
00:40:58,539 --> 00:41:00,039
My study.

551
00:41:02,418 --> 00:41:04,085
Take me there.

552
00:41:20,436 --> 00:41:23,480
You are the tallest woman I know.

553
00:41:24,398 --> 00:41:28,526
And all sharp elbows and knees.
Beware.

554
00:41:51,050 --> 00:41:54,093
Will you fly me to work tomorrow?

555
00:41:56,722 --> 00:41:58,932
It is tomorrow.

556
00:42:51,694 --> 00:42:55,488
Keep your eye on the fuel. She's got
a minimum to keep her weight down.

557
00:42:55,656 --> 00:42:58,658
Two runs. That's it.
After that, you're flying on vapors.

558
00:42:58,826 --> 00:43:01,619
And then you crash and you die.
Give her easy flying.

559
00:43:01,787 --> 00:43:05,081
Don't worry about speed
and don't think about the record today.

560
00:43:05,249 --> 00:43:08,710
I wish you'd let someone else take her.
You've got 20 test pilots.

561
00:43:08,877 --> 00:43:13,214
Hell, why should I let someone else
have all the fun? See you in a bit.

562
00:43:34,194 --> 00:43:35,945
Contact!

563
00:45:05,577 --> 00:45:06,786
339.

564
00:45:08,914 --> 00:45:10,790
Goddamn!

565
00:45:32,479 --> 00:45:34,021
347.

566
00:45:35,482 --> 00:45:36,774
Son of a bitch!

567
00:46:09,141 --> 00:46:11,684
- 352.
- 352!

568
00:46:12,936 --> 00:46:14,187
Good girl.

569
00:46:23,947 --> 00:46:25,656
Damn it!

570
00:46:29,453 --> 00:46:31,579
Goddamn it!

571
00:46:32,039 --> 00:46:34,248
- Oh, God!
- There goes our meal ticket.

572
00:46:34,416 --> 00:46:35,917
Come on!

573
00:47:16,083 --> 00:47:17,500
Howard!

574
00:47:17,668 --> 00:47:19,836
- Howard!
- How did we do?

575
00:47:20,921 --> 00:47:23,256
352 on the last run.

576
00:47:25,050 --> 00:47:26,676
She'll go faster.

577
00:47:27,261 --> 00:47:28,886
Country mouse!

578
00:47:29,638 --> 00:47:33,057
- Kate! Katie!
- Upstairs, city mouse.

579
00:47:36,144 --> 00:47:39,063
Hello.
Good Lord, what happened to you?

580
00:47:39,231 --> 00:47:41,440
Oh, nothing. A hard landing.
I cut my foot.

581
00:47:41,608 --> 00:47:44,652
Sit down. I'll take care of it.
You tell me everything.

582
00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:48,656
You cannot imagine what it was like, Katie.
You cannot imagine the speed.

583
00:47:48,824 --> 00:47:51,993
- She was like a winged bullet up there.
- What did she make?

584
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:56,330
Oh, around 352.

585
00:48:03,297 --> 00:48:04,797
You did it!

586
00:48:06,133 --> 00:48:07,967
Fastest man on the planet.

587
00:48:08,135 --> 00:48:11,387
Hot dog! I'm so proud of you.

588
00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:13,556
- She did it, baby.
- You knew she would.

589
00:48:13,724 --> 00:48:16,684
Oh, she was fine. She was just fine.

590
00:48:17,895 --> 00:48:19,478
Now let me see your foot.

591
00:48:19,688 --> 00:48:20,980
Yeah.

592
00:48:21,690 --> 00:48:25,276
- Good God! You're covered in blood.
- Oh, no. That's just beet juice.

593
00:48:25,444 --> 00:48:27,612
- I crashed into a beet field.
- What?

594
00:48:27,779 --> 00:48:29,989
Yeah, I crashed in a beet field.

595
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,286
Let me get you cleaned up.

596
00:48:36,288 --> 00:48:40,833
- Heavens, what is this? Electrical tape?
- Yeah. Odie just sort of slammed it on there.

597
00:48:41,835 --> 00:48:46,881
But all I could think about
was getting home to see you.

598
00:48:51,595 --> 00:48:54,472
I am so proud of you.

599
00:48:59,019 --> 00:49:01,354
Now, this is gonna sting a little bit.

600
00:49:01,521 --> 00:49:05,358
Oh, this is useless.
Come to the bathroom.

601
00:49:06,568 --> 00:49:09,445
- Don't get beet juice on the carpet.
- I won't, I won't.

602
00:49:09,613 --> 00:49:12,281
- Too hot!
- Don't be a baby.

603
00:49:13,951 --> 00:49:16,786
Was the press there?

604
00:49:17,704 --> 00:49:18,996
Some.

605
00:49:19,206 --> 00:49:24,335
But they're calling everyone.
Should be on the wires by now.

606
00:49:32,928 --> 00:49:34,512
What is it?

607
00:49:37,224 --> 00:49:38,808
Kate?

608
00:49:42,062 --> 00:49:45,147
I've been famous,
for better or worse ...

609
00:49:45,691 --> 00:49:47,650
... for a long time now ...

610
00:49:47,818 --> 00:49:52,154
... and I wonder if you know what it ...

611
00:49:52,781 --> 00:49:54,573
... really means.

612
00:49:55,742 --> 00:49:58,869
Yeah. I had my fair share
of press on Hell's Angels.

613
00:49:59,621 --> 00:50:01,414
I'm used to it.

614
00:50:03,375 --> 00:50:05,084
Are you?

615
00:50:08,755 --> 00:50:10,506
Howard, we're ...

616
00:50:13,427 --> 00:50:15,886
We're not like everyone else.

617
00:50:17,889 --> 00:50:22,810
Too many acute angles.
Too many eccentricities.

618
00:50:23,603 --> 00:50:26,439
We have to be very careful not to ...

619
00:50:27,774 --> 00:50:31,610
... let people in,
or they'll make us into freaks.

620
00:50:32,779 --> 00:50:37,366
Kate, they can't get in here.
We're safe.

621
00:50:39,077 --> 00:50:40,953
They can always get in.

622
00:50:43,123 --> 00:50:46,542
When my brother killed himself ...

623
00:50:47,711 --> 00:50:50,296
... there were photographers
at the funeral.

624
00:50:51,506 --> 00:50:53,758
There's no decency to it.

625
00:51:06,188 --> 00:51:08,272
You know, sometimes I ...

626
00:51:11,985 --> 00:51:14,153
I get these feelings, Katie.

627
00:51:19,159 --> 00:51:21,702
I get these ideas, these ...

628
00:51:24,539 --> 00:51:27,166
... crazy ideas about ...

629
00:51:29,586 --> 00:51:31,962
... things that may not ...

630
00:51:33,215 --> 00:51:36,092
Things that may not really be there.

631
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:38,302
Yeah.

632
00:51:44,976 --> 00:51:47,728
Sometimes I truly fear that I'm ...

633
00:51:49,773 --> 00:51:51,732
... losing my mind.

634
00:51:59,324 --> 00:52:01,200
And if I did, it would ...

635
00:52:04,287 --> 00:52:06,664
It'd be like flying blind.

636
00:52:14,798 --> 00:52:16,465
You understand?

637
00:52:20,637 --> 00:52:23,430
You taught me to fly, Howard.

638
00:52:26,393 --> 00:52:28,394
I'll take the wheel.

639
00:52:44,327 --> 00:52:48,372
Smashing all records, Howard Hughes
outdoes Jules Verne's wildest dreams.

640
00:52:48,665 --> 00:52:51,917
Around the world from New York
to New York in four days.

641
00:52:52,085 --> 00:52:55,045
Even beating Wiley Post's mark
by over three days.

642
00:52:55,213 --> 00:52:58,424
New aviation history is written
when his Lockheed monoplane ...

643
00:52:58,592 --> 00:53:01,594
... returns swiftly and safely.
A daring aviator.

644
00:53:02,053 --> 00:53:04,722
A true pioneer of the world's airways.

645
00:53:04,890 --> 00:53:08,893
From New York to Paris, he cuts Lindbergh's
time in half. Then on to Moscow.

646
00:53:09,060 --> 00:53:13,606
Thirty-five hours out of New York,
he roars across Siberia's trackless wastes.

647
00:53:13,773 --> 00:53:18,444
Sixty hours out of New York, he heads
for Alaska, most hazardous hop of all.

648
00:53:18,612 --> 00:53:20,988
Continuing the terrific pace,
he comes home ...

649
00:53:21,156 --> 00:53:23,490
... bringing new laurels
to American aviation.

650
00:53:24,826 --> 00:53:28,120
Howard Hughes and his crew
may find more worlds to conquer --

651
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:39,465
You won't believe this. It just came over the
wires. Hughes has bought control of TWA.

652
00:53:42,219 --> 00:53:45,095
I thought Mr. Hughes
was flying around the world.

653
00:53:45,305 --> 00:53:48,682
Apparently he did it while he was flying,
over the radio.

654
00:53:55,899 --> 00:53:59,193
I have heard some disquieting rumors
about Mr. Hughes.

655
00:54:00,779 --> 00:54:04,198
I'd like to know everything
there is to know about Mr. Hughes.

656
00:54:06,660 --> 00:54:08,869
I'd like you to attend to that for me.

657
00:54:09,871 --> 00:54:11,497
Thoroughly.

658
00:54:12,082 --> 00:54:14,500
The Pantages is glittering tonight.

659
00:54:14,668 --> 00:54:17,503
- Howard!
- Right over here. This way, over to the left.

660
00:54:17,671 --> 00:54:20,339
- Mr. Hughes, how was your flight?
- Miss Hepburn!

661
00:54:20,507 --> 00:54:23,175
- When are you gonna name the day?
- Raise your head.

662
00:54:23,343 --> 00:54:25,511
What's the next movie?
Give us the scoop.

663
00:54:25,679 --> 00:54:28,347
Right here. How many more
records are you gonna set?

664
00:54:28,515 --> 00:54:31,850
Right over here. Come on.
Give us a smile. It won't kill you.

665
00:54:32,018 --> 00:54:33,894
- Howard, this way.
- Beautiful.

666
00:54:34,062 --> 00:54:36,563
Over here, over here, Mr. Hughes.

667
00:54:36,731 --> 00:54:39,191
When are you gonna fly
around the world again?

668
00:54:39,359 --> 00:54:43,362
You gonna fly with Kate next time?
Did you get lonely without her?

669
00:54:43,530 --> 00:54:47,574
- Talk to Lindbergh about your flight yet?
- Where's Linda Darnell tonight?

670
00:54:47,742 --> 00:54:51,036
- Please, Mr. Hughes.
- Right here. Right here, Mr. Hughes.

671
00:54:51,204 --> 00:54:53,706
Are you trying to be more famous
than Lindbergh?

672
00:54:54,416 --> 00:54:58,168
You know,
fame is supposed to be my turf.

673
00:55:00,380 --> 00:55:02,047
L.B.!

674
00:55:04,676 --> 00:55:08,053
If you don't get more distinguished
every time I see you.

675
00:55:08,221 --> 00:55:10,222
You look so beautiful.

676
00:55:18,023 --> 00:55:19,648
Is that true?

677
00:55:28,450 --> 00:55:30,326
Don't worry about it, Howard.

678
00:55:30,493 --> 00:55:34,163
She's just working the room.
It's her job, baby.

679
00:55:37,208 --> 00:55:41,003
Sultry Southern tigress Ava Gardner
dazzles the room tonight.

680
00:55:41,171 --> 00:55:43,422
She's the newest star
in the MGM galaxy.

681
00:55:43,590 --> 00:55:47,217
And believe you me,
she puts the "cheese" in "cheesecake."

682
00:55:49,429 --> 00:55:54,975
Well, Jane Eyre has been selling popcorn
for over a hundred years, L.B.

683
00:56:35,725 --> 00:56:40,354
Hello.

684
00:56:45,568 --> 00:56:48,445
Could you reach me a towel?

685
00:56:55,870 --> 00:56:57,621
I ...

686
00:56:58,748 --> 00:57:02,000
I really can't do that.

687
00:57:03,628 --> 00:57:05,170
I'm sorry.

688
00:57:29,988 --> 00:57:34,324
I'm an idiot. I'm a complete idiot,
and I'm sorry.

689
00:57:34,659 --> 00:57:38,245
- Forget it.
- No, no. I'm a vain, preening ass ...

690
00:57:38,413 --> 00:57:43,417
... without a single redeeming feature.
- That's not true. You have very good teeth.

691
00:57:43,918 --> 00:57:45,377
Come on.

692
00:57:46,254 --> 00:57:50,591
I've got a better idea. Take me flying.
Or better yet, I'll take you flying.

693
00:57:50,758 --> 00:57:52,509
Do your worst, Miss Hepburn.

694
00:58:01,603 --> 00:58:05,439
Don't be so squirmy. You're gonna
get on famously with Father and Mother.

695
00:58:05,607 --> 00:58:09,234
And I'm sure they'll like you too.
Once they get to know you.

696
00:58:17,577 --> 00:58:20,370
- Hello! Hello!
- Kath, hello.

697
00:58:20,538 --> 00:58:22,080
Kathy.

698
00:58:25,043 --> 00:58:28,754
- Who's that with the camera right there?
- That's my ex-husband, Ludlow.

699
00:58:28,922 --> 00:58:31,215
Father and Mother are just mad
about Luddie.

700
00:58:31,382 --> 00:58:35,719
- What the hell's he doing here?
- Oh, he's here all the time.

701
00:58:36,596 --> 00:58:38,263
Hello!

702
00:58:39,766 --> 00:58:41,225
Sorry we're late.

703
00:58:41,392 --> 00:58:43,685
- Mom.
- Oh. Oh, thank you.

704
00:58:43,853 --> 00:58:45,479
- Dad.
- Darling.

705
00:58:45,647 --> 00:58:48,941
- Uncle Willy.
- Oh, who have we got here?

706
00:58:49,108 --> 00:58:51,860
- Don't feel self-conscious.
- Hepburns! Hepburns!

707
00:58:52,028 --> 00:58:55,781
Attention, please. This is Howard.

708
00:58:56,074 --> 00:58:57,908
Howard, welcome.

709
00:58:59,244 --> 00:59:01,328
Don't worry, he's had his lunch.

710
00:59:02,956 --> 00:59:04,831
He likes you. That's unusual.

711
00:59:04,999 --> 00:59:08,335
We pay our devotion to the arts here.
A colony we created.

712
00:59:08,503 --> 00:59:12,464
Julian's a painter. Abstract, of course.
What's the point of painting ...

713
00:59:12,632 --> 00:59:16,009
... something real when you can just
take a picture nowadays?

714
00:59:16,177 --> 00:59:18,637
Where do you stand on politics,
Mr. Hughes?

715
00:59:19,097 --> 00:59:21,640
- Excuse me?
- We're all socialists here.

716
00:59:21,808 --> 00:59:23,225
We are not.

717
00:59:24,477 --> 00:59:27,062
You've met Mr. Roosevelt.
What make you of him?

718
00:59:30,275 --> 00:59:32,317
What are you sniggering at?

719
00:59:32,485 --> 00:59:34,820
- What? What was that?
- You just sniggered.

720
00:59:35,613 --> 00:59:38,615
No, no. The dog.
It seems to be crushing my feet.

721
00:59:38,783 --> 00:59:40,742
- Oh, my God!
- Buster!

722
00:59:40,910 --> 00:59:42,160
Hey. Hey!

723
00:59:43,830 --> 00:59:45,289
Don't you like dogs?

724
00:59:45,456 --> 00:59:48,125
I will not have you sniggering
at Mr. Roosevelt.

725
00:59:48,293 --> 00:59:50,002
- Please leave.
- No. I wasn't.

726
00:59:50,169 --> 00:59:53,171
- I thought everybody liked dogs.
- Perhaps he had a bad experience.

727
00:59:53,339 --> 00:59:55,799
Does it upset you
that Howard gets more press?

728
00:59:55,967 --> 00:59:59,136
- A bad experience with a dog?
- No, no.

729
00:59:59,304 --> 01:00:03,849
- You are such a shy creature, aren't you?
- Perhaps it was a very large dog.

730
01:00:04,017 --> 01:00:07,811
- The press can be a damned nuisance.
- Was it a Doberman?

731
01:00:07,979 --> 01:00:11,064
- A Doberman, Mr. Hughes? Or a dachshund?
- Neither, sir.

732
01:00:11,232 --> 01:00:15,485
- Dachshunds are little dogs, Hep dear.
- They should all be lined up and shot.

733
01:00:15,653 --> 01:00:18,864
- What's that Spanish painting?
- The Goya.

734
01:00:19,032 --> 01:00:21,199
Goya. Of course. Yes.

735
01:00:21,868 --> 01:00:25,037
- Yes, Mexican.
- What was that called?

736
01:00:25,204 --> 01:00:29,333
Anyway, that's the vulgar press, I'm sure.
Do you read much, Mr. Hughes?

737
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,795
I try to stay up to snuff
on the trade journals, yeah.

738
01:00:33,963 --> 01:00:37,841
- Snuff?
- These would be flying magazines?

739
01:00:39,469 --> 01:00:41,887
- What was that?
- Oh, he's a little deaf.

740
01:00:42,055 --> 01:00:45,390
- Pass the goddamn butter, I beg you.
- You read flying magazines?

741
01:00:45,558 --> 01:00:48,644
Trade journals. On engineering. Aviation.

742
01:00:48,811 --> 01:00:50,562
We read books.

743
01:00:50,938 --> 01:00:55,233
Howard has to read the trade pieces, Mom,
because he's designing a new aeroplane.

744
01:00:55,401 --> 01:00:57,402
Oh, really? Do tell.

745
01:01:00,615 --> 01:01:02,157
Well ...

746
01:01:03,910 --> 01:01:08,580
... it's quite exciting, actually.
It's a spy plane for the Air Corps.

747
01:01:08,748 --> 01:01:10,874
A twin-engine plane with some ...

748
01:01:11,042 --> 01:01:14,044
... I must admit,
some rather unique design features.

749
01:01:14,212 --> 01:01:16,755
You see,
it has these two booms at the back --

750
01:01:16,923 --> 01:01:20,008
Luddie built a birdhouse once.
You remember that, dear?

751
01:01:20,259 --> 01:01:23,470
- Yes, well, a mere trifle, darling.
- I remember the painting!

752
01:01:23,638 --> 01:01:26,306
The painting, it's called
May 18-0-something.

753
01:01:26,474 --> 01:01:29,351
Anyway, Goya's vastly overrated.
All the Spaniards are.

754
01:01:29,519 --> 01:01:32,229
- Nonsense! Picasso is sacred.
- I'm a urologist.

755
01:01:32,397 --> 01:01:35,273
- I' was quite aesthetic, really.
- A sacred monster.

756
01:01:35,441 --> 01:01:38,110
The birds don't care for it much,
but the bats do.

757
01:01:38,277 --> 01:01:40,445
- I'll bet.
- That's such bunk!

758
01:01:40,613 --> 01:01:43,907
- Do speak up, dear.
- Nothing, nothing, Mrs. Hepburn. Nothing.

759
01:01:44,075 --> 01:01:47,953
Why did you speak? I can't abide people
who speak but have nothing to say.

760
01:01:48,121 --> 01:01:51,790
Did you go to mechanic school
to learn all this airplane guff?

761
01:01:51,958 --> 01:01:53,500
No, no, I didn't, Luddie. No.

762
01:01:53,668 --> 01:01:56,461
Well, Howard just flew round
the world in three days.

763
01:01:56,629 --> 01:01:59,548
- I think we've had enough about airplanes.
- And dogs.

764
01:01:59,716 --> 01:02:03,468
- Then how did you make all that money?
- We don't care about money here.

765
01:02:03,636 --> 01:02:05,595
Well, that's because you have it.

766
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:10,934
Would you repeat that?

767
01:02:12,270 --> 01:02:15,188
You don't care about money
because you've always had it.

768
01:02:15,356 --> 01:02:18,316
- How did you make all that --?
- Excuse me, I'm speaking.

769
01:02:18,484 --> 01:02:19,735
- Okay.
- Thank you.

770
01:02:19,902 --> 01:02:21,361
All right.

771
01:02:21,821 --> 01:02:24,239
Some of us choose to work for a living.

772
01:02:24,407 --> 01:02:29,661
Speaking of which, I have more of that
airplane guff to attend to.

773
01:02:30,580 --> 01:02:32,164
Excuse me.

774
01:02:39,756 --> 01:02:42,424
Well, seems a rather high-strung chap.

775
01:02:42,842 --> 01:02:45,844
You're a fine bunch of bullies,
aren't you?

776
01:02:46,012 --> 01:02:49,347
Have you talked to Mr. Mayer
about letting you do Jane Eyre?

777
01:02:49,515 --> 01:02:52,809
The old philistine won't budge.
Too arty, don't you know.

778
01:02:52,977 --> 01:02:57,898
I'm convinced the man hasn't read anything
longer than a Katzenjammer Kids in his life.

779
01:02:59,275 --> 01:03:02,736
No fair, kicking.
You have to use the mallet.

780
01:03:04,530 --> 01:03:08,283
Really, darling, you can't retire
from the field of battle like that ...

781
01:03:08,451 --> 01:03:11,912
... or they'll never respect you.
- Katie, I don't understand.

782
01:03:12,246 --> 01:03:14,706
You're like a different person in there.

783
01:03:15,500 --> 01:03:18,293
They just expect me to be a certain way.

784
01:03:20,213 --> 01:03:24,508
There's only one real Kate,
and that's your Kate.

785
01:03:27,970 --> 01:03:32,682
Over in Hollywood, aviation tycoon
Howard Hughes is cooking up something big.

786
01:03:32,850 --> 01:03:37,354
Even as he edits his new picture, he's been
secretly meeting with the U.S. Air Corps.

787
01:03:37,522 --> 01:03:41,066
We applaud his patriotism and look forward
to his newest marvel.

788
01:03:41,234 --> 01:03:44,653
You know how many Allied ships we lost
because of U-boat attacks?

789
01:03:44,821 --> 01:03:46,947
- No.
- Six hundred and eighty-one ships ...

790
01:03:47,114 --> 01:03:51,743
... just this year so far. The Army needs
a new airplane to fly the troops to Europe.

791
01:03:51,911 --> 01:03:55,413
These ships, they're sitting ducks
for the U-boats.

792
01:03:55,581 --> 01:03:59,251
- You wanna build a troop-carrier plane?
- Stop thinking like an insect.

793
01:03:59,418 --> 01:04:02,337
Not just to carry troops,
a plane to carry everything.

794
01:04:02,505 --> 01:04:06,758
The troops and the jeeps and the tanks
and whatnot. Here, take a look.

795
01:04:08,177 --> 01:04:10,011
No. Other side.

796
01:04:12,932 --> 01:04:16,476
I figure around 200 feet from nose to tail.
Wingspan, around 300.

797
01:04:16,644 --> 01:04:19,229
We're gonna need
about 24,000 horsepower.

798
01:04:20,523 --> 01:04:23,608
Now, this is just what Kaiser
and the Army are looking for.

799
01:04:23,776 --> 01:04:27,279
- They're gonna pay for it this time.
- What are you getting us into?

800
01:04:27,446 --> 01:04:30,323
Well, it's a big plane,
so I'm calling it The Hercules.

801
01:04:30,825 --> 01:04:32,367
Swell name, isn't it?

802
01:04:32,785 --> 01:04:35,954
- How heavy you imagine this thing is?
- Say around 200 tons.

803
01:04:39,125 --> 01:04:41,626
Well, I didn't say it was gonna be easy.

804
01:04:42,128 --> 01:04:45,213
All right, boys,
I want you to rig up something like this.

805
01:04:45,381 --> 01:04:49,843
Should give the proper uplift ratios and
reduce need for torque support on the front.

806
01:04:50,011 --> 01:04:53,763
We are not getting enough production
out of Jane Russell's breasts.

807
01:04:53,931 --> 01:04:56,474
I want smooth titties, gentlemen.
Smooth titties.

808
01:04:59,270 --> 01:05:02,439
- It's all in engineering, isn't it, Odie?
- Howard ...

809
01:05:02,940 --> 01:05:07,569
... do you really think they're gonna let you
put out a whole movie just about tits?

810
01:05:07,778 --> 01:05:10,655
Sure. Who doesn't like tits?

811
01:05:21,042 --> 01:05:24,336
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
Sorry I'm late.

812
01:05:24,503 --> 01:05:29,007
Please record that Mr. Hughes has arrived
and this session is now called to order.

813
01:05:29,175 --> 01:05:31,968
- I yield the floor to Mr. Breen.
- Mr. Hughes ...

814
01:05:32,136 --> 01:05:36,014
... members of the committee, I've reviewed
the photoplay entitled The Outlaw ...

815
01:05:36,182 --> 01:05:39,935
... and I can state that I have never seen
anything so unacceptable ...

816
01:05:40,102 --> 01:05:44,022
... as the shots of the mammaries
of the character named Rio.

817
01:05:44,398 --> 01:05:48,526
For almost half the picture,
the girl's mammaries, which are quite large ...

818
01:05:48,694 --> 01:05:51,863
... and prominent,
are shockingly uncovered.

819
01:05:52,823 --> 01:05:57,077
For this reason, I concluded the picture
appeals only to prurient interests ...

820
01:05:57,244 --> 01:06:01,790
... and should be denied the Motion Picture
Association's seal of approval.

821
01:06:02,416 --> 01:06:04,668
Really, Mr. Hughes.

822
01:06:04,835 --> 01:06:08,463
- Thank you, Mr. Breen. Mr. Hughes.
- Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

823
01:06:08,798 --> 01:06:10,966
Mr. Breen. It's good to see you again.

824
01:06:11,133 --> 01:06:15,261
I haven't seen you all since that situation
with all the violence in Scarface.

825
01:06:15,471 --> 01:06:18,598
The situation here revolves
around Miss Russell's mammaries.

826
01:06:18,766 --> 01:06:21,351
Mr. Breen feels that they are
too prominent, yes?

827
01:06:21,519 --> 01:06:24,896
More prominent than other mammaries
have been up on the screen?

828
01:06:25,064 --> 01:06:27,691
Well, I hope to dispel that notion.

829
01:06:31,195 --> 01:06:32,612
Jean Harlow.

830
01:06:34,573 --> 01:06:36,199
Ann Sheridan.

831
01:06:37,618 --> 01:06:39,077
Irene Dunne.

832
01:06:39,245 --> 01:06:40,870
Claudette Colbert.

833
01:06:41,455 --> 01:06:43,164
Rita Hayworth.

834
01:06:43,582 --> 01:06:47,919
Betty Grable.
And the lovely Miss Jane Russell.

835
01:06:48,087 --> 01:06:52,424
Now, all these shots, save for Miss Russell,
were enlarged from pictures ...

836
01:06:52,591 --> 01:06:55,885
... that received
Mr. Breen's seal of approval.

837
01:06:56,512 --> 01:07:01,599
Now, as you've probably noticed by now,
they all contain mammaries.

838
01:07:02,601 --> 01:07:05,603
I will ask my associate to join me now.
May I introduce ...

839
01:07:05,771 --> 01:07:09,482
... Dr. Ludlow Branson
of Columbia University.

840
01:07:10,943 --> 01:07:12,777
Dr. Branson ...

841
01:07:13,404 --> 01:07:16,865
... is a mathematician of some note.

842
01:07:17,033 --> 01:07:19,534
Yes. And he will now demonstrate ...

843
01:07:19,702 --> 01:07:21,453
... that in fact ...

844
01:07:21,620 --> 01:07:25,123
... Miss Russell's mammaries
are no more prominent ...

845
01:07:25,291 --> 01:07:28,126
... than any of these other fine ladies'.

846
01:07:30,629 --> 01:07:31,921
Doctor.

847
01:07:33,424 --> 01:07:35,008
Doctor ...

848
01:07:35,885 --> 01:07:38,136
... you forgot your calipers.

849
01:07:44,935 --> 01:07:48,146
Gentlemen, Mr. Hughes.

850
01:07:50,900 --> 01:07:53,443
Let us commence by calling this ...

851
01:07:54,278 --> 01:07:56,571
... Mammary Exhibit Number One.

852
01:07:56,739 --> 01:08:02,494
Now, you'll see that the length
of the actual cleavage ...

853
01:08:03,245 --> 01:08:06,456
... if I may, is ...

854
01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:09,667
... 5 inches and a quarter.

855
01:08:10,044 --> 01:08:11,419
Now if we move to Mammary Exhibit ...

856
01:08:11,587 --> 01:08:13,046
Dateline: Hollywoodland.

857
01:08:13,214 --> 01:08:16,716
Movie tycoon Howard Hughes
must have the greatest job in the land.

858
01:08:16,884 --> 01:08:20,345
Every night, the lucky guy escorts
a different beautiful woman ...

859
01:08:20,513 --> 01:08:22,430
... to a different dazzling event.

860
01:08:22,598 --> 01:08:27,268
The TWA king always talks up
his airline as he escorts a succession ...

861
01:08:29,563 --> 01:08:31,689
The Hercules, ladies and gentlemen.

862
01:08:31,857 --> 01:08:33,358
The Hercules.

863
01:08:33,526 --> 01:08:37,445
A plane, a boat, a flying city.

864
01:08:37,613 --> 01:08:41,074
Don't forget, every bill comes to me.
They don't pay for anything.

865
01:08:41,242 --> 01:08:44,702
Those men decide whether to fund
the plane, so I need them happy.

866
01:08:45,037 --> 01:08:47,330
- You do what it takes.
- You betcha, boss.

867
01:08:47,706 --> 01:08:50,041
How are the girls
in the bomb department?

868
01:08:50,209 --> 01:08:54,045
Well, let's put it this way,
it'll be a regular boob buffet.

869
01:08:54,213 --> 01:08:57,298
I don't think the Air Corps men
will have trouble scoring.

870
01:08:57,466 --> 01:09:01,136
- Good.
- And inside, 700 brave American soldiers ...

871
01:09:01,303 --> 01:09:05,807
... a dozen Sherman tanks all winging
their way over the Atlantic ...

872
01:09:05,975 --> 01:09:08,393
... free from the threats
of the U-boats below.

873
01:09:08,561 --> 01:09:12,897
Could Jules Verne himself have
ever imagined anything so magnificent?

874
01:09:13,065 --> 01:09:17,026
Could he have imagined her mammoth
wingspan, longer than a football field?

875
01:09:17,278 --> 01:09:19,028
Don't you see how this demeans me?

876
01:09:19,196 --> 01:09:21,531
Since when do you care
about scandal rags?

877
01:09:21,699 --> 01:09:24,993
Every time there's a picture of you with
another woman, it's a slap in the face.

878
01:09:25,161 --> 01:09:28,121
- Don't you understand that?
- Well, that's overstating it.

879
01:09:28,289 --> 01:09:31,624
Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers,
Linda Darnell, Joan Fontaine ...

880
01:09:31,792 --> 01:09:34,711
... and now Bette Davis,
for God's sake.

881
01:09:36,589 --> 01:09:41,759
Look, they're Cracker Jack candy, honey.
They don't mean anything to me.

882
01:09:41,927 --> 01:09:44,888
Oh, very nice.

883
01:09:46,557 --> 01:09:49,434
You're the one that said
that all men are predators.

884
01:09:49,602 --> 01:09:52,520
I mean, it's all in Darwin, remember?

885
01:09:52,855 --> 01:09:56,441
And am I to expect this behavior
to continue after the wedding?

886
01:09:56,609 --> 01:09:58,693
What is really bothering you, Kate?

887
01:09:58,861 --> 01:10:02,113
Is it the women or the publicity?

888
01:10:07,369 --> 01:10:11,623
Can't you eat ice cream from a bowl
like everyone else in the world?

889
01:10:18,714 --> 01:10:22,300
Don't you dare.

890
01:10:33,979 --> 01:10:35,230
Yeah.

891
01:10:36,398 --> 01:10:39,984
No, Odie, this is not a good time.

892
01:10:40,236 --> 01:10:44,405
For chrissakes, we can't make The Hercules
if we don't have any aluminum.

893
01:10:44,573 --> 01:10:46,157
Wait.

894
01:10:46,325 --> 01:10:49,410
I can hear you better now.
Tell the War Production Board ...

895
01:10:49,578 --> 01:10:52,789
... that this is an essential
strategic operation.

896
01:10:52,957 --> 01:10:57,502
If they're giving aluminum to Boeing,
they can give some to Hughes Aircraft.

897
01:10:57,670 --> 01:11:00,672
Don't set the ice cream --

898
01:11:00,839 --> 01:11:05,176
We gotta think of something else. If we
can't get aluminum, we'll find another way.

899
01:11:05,636 --> 01:11:08,972
You tell me. We'll find
some alloy that works just as well.

900
01:11:09,223 --> 01:11:11,849
Right. Look ...

901
01:11:12,017 --> 01:11:16,187
- If we can't get aluminum, we'll use wood.
- You can't make a plane out of wood.

902
01:11:16,355 --> 01:11:18,856
Why not?
The damn thing is a flying boat, right?

903
01:11:19,024 --> 01:11:21,025
- What do they use to make boats?
- Oak.

904
01:11:21,193 --> 01:11:24,112
And think of The Hercules
like a flying Spanish galleon.

905
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:27,073
Spanish galleons
can weigh 1,200 tons.

906
01:11:27,950 --> 01:11:29,784
Good luck today.

907
01:11:30,327 --> 01:11:33,663
We just have to find the right wood.
Something light but strong.

908
01:11:33,831 --> 01:11:36,624
- Morning, Kate.
- Pine, cedar, maybe birch.

909
01:11:47,136 --> 01:11:48,720
Catch.

910
01:11:52,641 --> 01:11:54,434
From my farm.

911
01:11:55,019 --> 01:11:57,603
If you like it, I can get you a bushel.

912
01:12:10,409 --> 01:12:12,869
Trouble with Mr. Hughes?

913
01:12:18,250 --> 01:12:22,712
There's too much Howard Hughes
in Howard Hughes.

914
01:12:24,548 --> 01:12:26,591
That's the trouble.

915
01:12:39,730 --> 01:12:41,522
Beautiful.

916
01:12:43,484 --> 01:12:44,901
Don't you take Christmas off?

917
01:12:46,236 --> 01:12:48,988
Nice to see you.
Sorry, I've got grease on my hands.

918
01:12:49,156 --> 01:12:51,699
Have we got something to show you.

919
01:12:56,080 --> 01:13:00,792
Take a look. The XF-11
reconnaissance flier. Spy plane, really.

920
01:13:01,752 --> 01:13:04,462
Designed every inch of her myself.

921
01:13:04,630 --> 01:13:06,631
She's got a top speed of 450 ...

922
01:13:06,799 --> 01:13:09,634
... which means she can outrun
anything they throw against her.

923
01:13:09,802 --> 01:13:12,887
After the Japs stole
my H-1 design for their Zeros ...

924
01:13:13,055 --> 01:13:15,223
... I needed to do them one better.

925
01:13:16,308 --> 01:13:19,477
Yeah, she's my Buck Rogers ship.

926
01:13:19,645 --> 01:13:21,646
She's a looker.

927
01:13:22,314 --> 01:13:23,940
Okay, what do you got for me?

928
01:13:31,365 --> 01:13:33,616
Jiminy Cricket.

929
01:13:33,784 --> 01:13:37,453
Seating capacity for 60.
Wingspan, 123 feet.

930
01:13:37,621 --> 01:13:40,998
Four Double Cyclone engines.
Her ceiling's 25,000 feet.

931
01:13:41,166 --> 01:13:44,377
- Gross weight?
- 86,000, wing loading of 41 pounds.

932
01:13:44,545 --> 01:13:47,338
So less drag on the plane in thinner air.

933
01:13:47,506 --> 01:13:51,008
So high-cruise power, you're looking
at a top speed of around 340.

934
01:13:52,052 --> 01:13:55,638
Giving her a range of about 3000 miles.

935
01:13:56,807 --> 01:13:59,308
- Cross-country.
- Non-stop.

936
01:14:00,602 --> 01:14:02,186
Bob ...

937
01:14:02,354 --> 01:14:05,523
... you know something?
You are a son of a bitch.

938
01:14:16,452 --> 01:14:19,954
Yeah. Bob, you got
something on your suit.

939
01:14:21,540 --> 01:14:22,999
Yeah.

940
01:14:23,375 --> 01:14:25,877
On your lapel.
You got something on your lapel.

941
01:14:29,006 --> 01:14:30,882
Right there, Bob.

942
01:14:32,634 --> 01:14:34,218
You missed it. Right there.

943
01:14:36,513 --> 01:14:38,389
Clean it off, would you?

944
01:14:38,557 --> 01:14:41,058
Here. Thanks.

945
01:14:44,313 --> 01:14:45,730
No, throw it away.

946
01:14:49,776 --> 01:14:51,194
No, over there.

947
01:14:57,701 --> 01:15:01,537
Thanks. So, what do you call her?

948
01:15:01,705 --> 01:15:03,873
The Constellation,
but we can change that.

949
01:15:04,041 --> 01:15:05,666
No, no.

950
01:15:05,834 --> 01:15:08,878
It's pretty. I like her.

951
01:15:09,838 --> 01:15:11,923
So, what kind of deal can you give me?

952
01:15:12,090 --> 01:15:13,925
What kind of deal can you give me?

953
01:15:14,092 --> 01:15:16,385
The first 40 planes off the assembly line.

954
01:15:16,553 --> 01:15:19,096
That should give us about
two years' exclusivity.

955
01:15:19,264 --> 01:15:20,556
Hell, more than that.

956
01:15:20,724 --> 01:15:24,727
United and American don't have
the imagination for a plane like this.

957
01:15:24,895 --> 01:15:27,480
Two years ahead of Juan Trippe, then.

958
01:15:32,528 --> 01:15:33,778
How much?

959
01:15:33,946 --> 01:15:36,113
Four hundred and fifty thousand each.

960
01:15:36,949 --> 01:15:39,784
So that's 18 million for the first 40.

961
01:15:40,744 --> 01:15:43,788
Hell, TWA can't afford that.
The damn airline's flat broke.

962
01:15:47,960 --> 01:15:50,461
Guess I'll just have
to pay for them myself.

963
01:15:51,338 --> 01:15:54,423
Build them, Bob.
Send the bill to Noah Dietrich.

964
01:15:54,591 --> 01:15:56,133
Oh, and thank you.

965
01:15:59,888 --> 01:16:01,722
Merry Christmas.

966
01:16:01,890 --> 01:16:06,352
You've just placed the largest order for
airplanes in the history of the damn planet.

967
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:08,646
Lockheed sent us a bill for $18 million.

968
01:16:08,814 --> 01:16:12,108
Don't get all hysterical on me, Noah.
It isn't good for you.

969
01:16:12,276 --> 01:16:15,611
- This is a lot of money for planes.
- I know it's a lot of money.

970
01:16:15,779 --> 01:16:19,407
It's too damn much. You think I've got
$18 million in petty cash?

971
01:16:19,575 --> 01:16:21,742
I should've told you. It slipped my mind.

972
01:16:21,910 --> 01:16:23,828
- Slipped your mind? Oh, for --
- Right.

973
01:16:23,996 --> 01:16:27,456
- I'll get back to you. Bye.
- How could $18 million slip your mind?

974
01:16:28,333 --> 01:16:31,502
Hey, honey.
What are you doing home?

975
01:16:35,924 --> 01:16:38,759
You're not one for tears, and, well ...

976
01:16:38,927 --> 01:16:43,180
... neither am l,
so it's best to come out with it.

977
01:16:46,310 --> 01:16:50,521
I've met someone.
I've fallen in love and I'm moving out.

978
01:16:53,150 --> 01:16:57,903
If I could make it
any more gentle, I would.

979
01:16:58,071 --> 01:17:02,158
But I can't, so ...

980
01:17:03,201 --> 01:17:05,077
... there we both are.

981
01:17:08,707 --> 01:17:10,541
Let's be honest.

982
01:17:10,709 --> 01:17:15,212
It's all been a grand adventure,
but it couldn't possibly last.

983
01:17:15,380 --> 01:17:18,257
We're too alike, you and I.

984
01:17:21,386 --> 01:17:22,720
You met someone?

985
01:17:22,888 --> 01:17:26,807
Someone more appropriate.
To me, I mean.

986
01:17:29,519 --> 01:17:32,480
What does that mean,
"more appropriate"?

987
01:17:32,898 --> 01:17:36,984
Someone more attuned to my needs.

988
01:17:37,527 --> 01:17:39,445
Look at me, Katie.

989
01:17:39,613 --> 01:17:41,530
Stop acting.

990
01:17:41,948 --> 01:17:44,742
I'm not acting.

991
01:17:49,373 --> 01:17:51,999
I wonder if you even know anymore.

992
01:17:56,922 --> 01:17:59,131
Don't be unkind.

993
01:18:01,843 --> 01:18:03,552
You ...?

994
01:18:04,888 --> 01:18:06,222
You wanna go?

995
01:18:09,851 --> 01:18:11,477
Go on.

996
01:18:12,062 --> 01:18:15,189
Actresses are cheap in this town, darling.

997
01:18:15,357 --> 01:18:17,942
- And I got a lot of money.
- This is beneath you.

998
01:18:18,110 --> 01:18:20,569
No, no, this is exactly me.

999
01:18:20,737 --> 01:18:25,866
You tell me you're leaving me, and you
have the nerve to expect graciousness?

1000
01:18:26,326 --> 01:18:28,327
I expect a little maturity.

1001
01:18:28,495 --> 01:18:31,414
I expect you to face the situation
like an adult who --

1002
01:18:31,581 --> 01:18:33,874
Don't talk down to me!

1003
01:18:34,042 --> 01:18:37,044
Don't you ever talk down to me!
You are a movie star.

1004
01:18:37,212 --> 01:18:38,796
Nothing more.

1005
01:19:50,827 --> 01:19:52,745
Don't answer it.

1006
01:19:55,624 --> 01:19:57,333
What is it, Howard?

1007
01:19:57,501 --> 01:19:59,794
Hey, Noah ...

1008
01:19:59,961 --> 01:20:02,963
... I need you to get to Penney's
and buy me some clothes.

1009
01:20:03,131 --> 01:20:04,924
- Penney's isn't open.
- Oh, shit.

1010
01:20:05,091 --> 01:20:08,052
- It's 2 in the morning.
- Yeah, that's right.

1011
01:20:08,220 --> 01:20:10,930
Well, first thing tomorrow, then, all right?

1012
01:20:11,097 --> 01:20:14,183
I need two new suits off the rack.
One light and one dark.

1013
01:20:14,351 --> 01:20:17,561
Three white shirts and three pairs
of white tennis shoes. Got that?

1014
01:20:17,729 --> 01:20:19,688
- Yeah.
- No, no.

1015
01:20:19,856 --> 01:20:21,690
- Make it Woolworth's.
- Woolworth's.

1016
01:20:21,858 --> 01:20:24,443
No, no, Penney's. Penney's.

1017
01:20:24,611 --> 01:20:26,362
All right.

1018
01:20:27,072 --> 01:20:29,865
I'll get into it as soon as I can, Howard.

1019
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:32,743
- All right?
- Noah, do you have a recorder?

1020
01:20:33,453 --> 01:20:36,664
- No.
- Are you recording this conversation?

1021
01:20:36,832 --> 01:20:39,250
- No.
- Okay.

1022
01:20:39,417 --> 01:20:41,252
I trust you.

1023
01:20:42,254 --> 01:20:45,631
- Howard --
- I need those suits first thing tomorrow.

1024
01:20:45,799 --> 01:20:49,260
- All right.
- Wait. Did I say Penney's or Woolworth's?

1025
01:20:49,427 --> 01:20:52,096
- Penney's.
- Better make it Sears.

1026
01:20:52,264 --> 01:20:54,765
All right, then, Sears.

1027
01:20:57,602 --> 01:20:59,770
I'm sorry, honey.

1028
01:21:00,981 --> 01:21:03,274
If I don't answer, he'll just call back.

1029
01:21:25,130 --> 01:21:28,173
Stop there, if you please, Miss Domergue.

1030
01:21:34,055 --> 01:21:35,973
Have you had surgery, Miss Domergue?

1031
01:21:37,809 --> 01:21:39,310
No.

1032
01:21:40,145 --> 01:21:43,230
Do you have scars of any kind?

1033
01:21:44,649 --> 01:21:46,150
No.

1034
01:21:47,819 --> 01:21:49,945
Wipe off your lipstick.

1035
01:21:54,492 --> 01:21:55,784
That's much better.

1036
01:21:57,370 --> 01:22:02,291
Now, you understand that you'd be
under contract to me? Personally.

1037
01:22:03,209 --> 01:22:04,835
Do you know what that means?

1038
01:22:13,678 --> 01:22:15,471
Now turn around for me.

1039
01:22:23,730 --> 01:22:25,230
Very nice.

1040
01:22:26,358 --> 01:22:28,233
You move well.

1041
01:22:31,071 --> 01:22:33,030
You live with your family, do you?

1042
01:22:35,158 --> 01:22:36,742
Yes.

1043
01:22:37,202 --> 01:22:38,744
That's nice.

1044
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:41,872
Tell me something.

1045
01:22:43,208 --> 01:22:45,626
How old are you, Miss Domergue?

1046
01:22:48,588 --> 01:22:50,381
Fifteen.

1047
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:54,927
Holy Mother of God.

1048
01:23:14,364 --> 01:23:18,158
Well, a car picks me up
every morning at 8, and off I go.

1049
01:23:18,326 --> 01:23:21,370
I'm getting my high school diploma.

1050
01:23:21,538 --> 01:23:24,248
Howard thinks that education is important.

1051
01:23:24,416 --> 01:23:26,792
- That's right.
- And then, after classes ...

1052
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:30,546
... I'm off for elocution
and grooming and fittings.

1053
01:23:30,714 --> 01:23:32,506
Well, blow me down.

1054
01:23:33,717 --> 01:23:35,926
Pan Am's working
out of the Cocoanut Grove?

1055
01:23:36,094 --> 01:23:38,053
- Hello, Jack.
- Hello, Juan.

1056
01:23:38,221 --> 01:23:39,930
Helen, good to see you.

1057
01:23:40,098 --> 01:23:42,599
- How are you, Howard?
- Good, thanks.

1058
01:23:42,767 --> 01:23:44,601
- This is Faith Domergue.
- Sit down.

1059
01:23:44,769 --> 01:23:46,603
- Pleasure.
- What are you doing here?

1060
01:23:46,771 --> 01:23:49,606
Well, I'm out to meet
with Douglas about the DC-4.

1061
01:23:49,774 --> 01:23:53,610
It's our new plane, and it is
gonna be a pip, let me tell you.

1062
01:23:53,778 --> 01:23:56,989
- How's the Constellation coming?
- Good.

1063
01:23:57,282 --> 01:23:58,574
Great.

1064
01:23:59,951 --> 01:24:02,453
So how about letting me steal a peek?

1065
01:24:04,456 --> 01:24:06,415
I don't think so.

1066
01:24:06,583 --> 01:24:09,626
I should be cross with you.
You stole Ray Loewy from us.

1067
01:24:10,420 --> 01:24:13,964
- He's doing our interior design. That's right.
- He was doing ours.

1068
01:24:16,468 --> 01:24:18,218
So ...

1069
01:24:18,762 --> 01:24:21,221
... what are your colors?
- Stop fishing.

1070
01:24:22,974 --> 01:24:25,476
So you have buttons ...

1071
01:24:25,643 --> 01:24:27,061
... or zippers?

1072
01:24:27,479 --> 01:24:28,771
I'm sorry?

1073
01:24:30,690 --> 01:24:34,610
Buttons or zippers for the drapes
on the sleeping berths?

1074
01:24:38,114 --> 01:24:39,782
Zippers.

1075
01:24:48,666 --> 01:24:50,250
Buttons.

1076
01:24:59,928 --> 01:25:02,930
So I suppose you'll be
expanding on down to Mexico.

1077
01:25:03,431 --> 01:25:06,975
- Why do you say that?
- Well, your range is 3000 miles.

1078
01:25:07,143 --> 01:25:11,230
I'd imagine you'd expand from Los Angeles
to Mexico and South America.

1079
01:25:11,397 --> 01:25:13,565
Hey, that's a good idea.
Anyone got a pen?

1080
01:25:13,733 --> 01:25:15,859
Or across the Atlantic.

1081
01:25:18,863 --> 01:25:20,781
You've had enough of this ice cream.

1082
01:25:20,949 --> 01:25:24,535
You give me that spoon. You don't
wanna get your gloves all sticky.

1083
01:25:26,496 --> 01:25:28,372
Isn't that too far?

1084
01:25:33,378 --> 01:25:35,295
New York ...

1085
01:25:35,463 --> 01:25:37,506
... to Newfoundland ...

1086
01:25:38,216 --> 01:25:39,466
... to Ireland.

1087
01:25:44,722 --> 01:25:46,306
To Paris.

1088
01:25:53,439 --> 01:25:55,065
Well ...

1089
01:25:55,608 --> 01:25:57,734
... Pan Am welcomes you.

1090
01:25:57,902 --> 01:25:59,736
We're overbooked as it is.

1091
01:25:59,904 --> 01:26:03,532
It's such a burden doing it all
on your own, let me tell you.

1092
01:26:03,700 --> 01:26:05,742
So when's the Connie gonna be ready?

1093
01:26:05,910 --> 01:26:08,579
- Next year maybe. DC-4?
- Next year.

1094
01:26:08,746 --> 01:26:11,915
Well, we look forward to her then.

1095
01:26:12,458 --> 01:26:14,209
And I to the Connie.

1096
01:26:16,087 --> 01:26:19,715
I've ordered the next 40 after you.

1097
01:26:19,924 --> 01:26:21,717
- It's Miss ...?
- Domergue.

1098
01:26:21,885 --> 01:26:25,262
Yes, of course. Now, was that a
rumba or a samba you were doing?

1099
01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:28,432
- I' was a samba.
- A samba, yes.

1100
01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:31,852
Howard, I never knew
you were such a good dancer.

1101
01:26:32,812 --> 01:26:34,646
Helen, Jack.

1102
01:26:36,482 --> 01:26:39,276
Good going. You gave away
our entire postwar strategy.

1103
01:26:39,444 --> 01:26:43,947
- He can't stop us.
- He's Pan Am. He can stop anything.

1104
01:26:45,950 --> 01:26:47,784
Give me the largest
Scotch you got.

1105
01:26:47,952 --> 01:26:51,538
I don't know what in the hell you're
so damn giddy about. Excuse me.

1106
01:28:43,609 --> 01:28:45,068
Jack.

1107
01:28:45,236 --> 01:28:48,864
Get in touch with Joyce and Berg.
Those are my boys in Washington.

1108
01:28:49,032 --> 01:28:52,409
Set up a meeting with Jones,
secretary of commerce, old golfing buddy.

1109
01:28:52,577 --> 01:28:55,537
- Slow down.
- We'll need terminals in Ireland and France.

1110
01:28:55,705 --> 01:28:57,164
I wanna get some tax breaks.

1111
01:28:57,332 --> 01:29:01,001
If that ass thinks he owns the world,
he's got another thing coming.

1112
01:29:01,169 --> 01:29:04,046
Pan Am owns Europe.
We ought to think about Mexico.

1113
01:29:04,213 --> 01:29:08,300
To hell with Mexico. No airline should
have a monopoly on flying the Atlantic.

1114
01:29:08,468 --> 01:29:11,762
It just isn't fair.
He owns Pan Am, he owns Congress.

1115
01:29:11,929 --> 01:29:15,766
He owns the Civil Aeronautics Board,
but he does not own the sky.

1116
01:29:15,933 --> 01:29:18,602
We're in a street fight
with that son of a bitch.

1117
01:29:18,770 --> 01:29:22,439
I've been fighting high-hat
Ivy League pricks like him my whole life.

1118
01:29:22,607 --> 01:29:26,234
And listen, fire Ray Loewy.
You goddamn heard me? Fire Ray Loewy.

1119
01:29:26,402 --> 01:29:29,780
He's spying for Trippe.
That shitheel knew all about the buttons.

1120
01:29:29,947 --> 01:29:31,948
Spies in my midst, Jack.

1121
01:29:32,617 --> 01:29:34,451
Spies in my midst.

1122
01:29:48,883 --> 01:29:51,802
- Hello, Howard.
- Roland.

1123
01:29:53,679 --> 01:29:55,263
So ...

1124
01:29:55,431 --> 01:29:56,973
... what can I do for you?

1125
01:30:00,144 --> 01:30:04,147
I want all the pictures you have
of Kate Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

1126
01:30:04,315 --> 01:30:07,859
All the negatives.
And I want you to kill the story.

1127
01:30:08,027 --> 01:30:11,405
Howard, he's a married man.
He's a Catholic.

1128
01:30:11,572 --> 01:30:13,824
They're movie stars.
Fair game all around.

1129
01:30:22,333 --> 01:30:24,501
My office knows where I am, Howard.

1130
01:30:25,503 --> 01:30:28,338
I'm not gonna kill you, Roland.

1131
01:30:28,506 --> 01:30:30,424
I don't do that.

1132
01:30:35,179 --> 01:30:37,806
- How much?
- Not for sale.

1133
01:30:41,060 --> 01:30:42,644
How much?

1134
01:30:43,521 --> 01:30:46,690
Not for sale.

1135
01:30:50,027 --> 01:30:52,112
You ever cheat on your wife, Roland?

1136
01:30:53,906 --> 01:30:56,366
You ever screw a colored girl?

1137
01:30:57,034 --> 01:31:00,203
You ever steal anything?
You ever hurt anyone?

1138
01:31:02,373 --> 01:31:04,207
Good night, Howard.

1139
01:31:04,584 --> 01:31:07,544
You ever go to
a Communist Party meeting, Roland?

1140
01:31:17,388 --> 01:31:19,556
TWA stock.

1141
01:31:20,558 --> 01:31:21,850
How much?

1142
01:31:23,436 --> 01:31:24,895
Fifty thousand shares.

1143
01:31:25,563 --> 01:31:27,022
Ten.

1144
01:31:30,067 --> 01:31:31,401
All right.

1145
01:31:34,530 --> 01:31:36,364
This isn't gonna be that easy.

1146
01:31:36,741 --> 01:31:40,118
He's been making big contributions
on both sides of the aisle.

1147
01:31:40,286 --> 01:31:43,747
And Jack Frye is out there
lobbying everybody in town.

1148
01:31:43,915 --> 01:31:47,083
The French and British ambassadors
are lined up on his side.

1149
01:31:48,419 --> 01:31:51,588
I'm telling you, TWA is serious
about going international.

1150
01:31:51,756 --> 01:31:53,381
Okay.

1151
01:31:53,549 --> 01:31:55,467
Point, Mr. Hughes.

1152
01:31:55,843 --> 01:31:59,513
I think it's time for you to introduce
the community airline bill ...

1153
01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:01,223
... on the floor of the Senate.

1154
01:32:02,225 --> 01:32:05,018
- Is it done?
- My people are finishing it right now.

1155
01:32:05,186 --> 01:32:09,731
I also have to get you on the committee
investigating the national defense.

1156
01:32:12,151 --> 01:32:15,237
On the committee or chairman?

1157
01:32:15,571 --> 01:32:18,240
I could be much more effective
as chairman.

1158
01:32:18,407 --> 01:32:22,160
It's a great public platform.
You know, it generates a lot of press.

1159
01:32:22,328 --> 01:32:25,789
- Wasn't Truman chairman of that committee?
- Yeah, right.

1160
01:32:25,957 --> 01:32:28,375
He's vice president.
Look what he did with it.

1161
01:32:28,543 --> 01:32:30,627
No, I think ...

1162
01:32:31,295 --> 01:32:33,255
I think chairman.

1163
01:32:33,923 --> 01:32:35,340
What do you think?

1164
01:32:37,385 --> 01:32:39,970
- Chairman. That is interesting.
- Yeah.

1165
01:32:40,137 --> 01:32:43,640
Let me show you
these specs for the DC-4.

1166
01:32:43,891 --> 01:32:47,352
Ava, what do you think about
Trans World Airlines?

1167
01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:50,063
Transcontinental and Western
doesn't fit anymore.

1168
01:32:50,231 --> 01:32:53,108
We're international,
we need a name that reflects that.

1169
01:32:53,276 --> 01:32:55,986
Trans World is good. Kind of peppy.

1170
01:32:56,153 --> 01:32:58,655
TWA, right?

1171
01:32:58,823 --> 01:33:01,616
That way you don't need
to repaint any of the planes.

1172
01:33:01,784 --> 01:33:03,952
That's you. Always pinching pennies.

1173
01:33:05,121 --> 01:33:07,122
Hand me my wrap.

1174
01:33:21,137 --> 01:33:23,305
Knock it off.

1175
01:33:29,520 --> 01:33:32,022
I have something for you.

1176
01:33:33,274 --> 01:33:35,108
Stay here.

1177
01:33:40,573 --> 01:33:43,241
- What the hell is this?
- It's a present.

1178
01:33:43,409 --> 01:33:45,327
Go on, open it.

1179
01:33:46,495 --> 01:33:49,956
Oh, a box of trash.
You shouldn't have.

1180
01:33:50,124 --> 01:33:51,833
Keep looking, keep looking.

1181
01:33:56,672 --> 01:33:58,715
It's a Kashmiri sapphire.

1182
01:33:58,883 --> 01:34:02,052
I had my boys all over
the damn globe looking for this.

1183
01:34:02,219 --> 01:34:03,470
Why?

1184
01:34:03,638 --> 01:34:04,888
Because.

1185
01:34:05,056 --> 01:34:06,723
Look.

1186
01:34:06,891 --> 01:34:08,933
It matches your eyes.

1187
01:34:09,101 --> 01:34:11,478
I am not for sale.

1188
01:34:11,646 --> 01:34:13,730
For chrissakes, it's just a present.

1189
01:34:13,898 --> 01:34:17,067
You can't buy me, Howard,
so stop trying.

1190
01:34:17,234 --> 01:34:20,820
Don't buy me any more diamonds
or sapphires or any other damn thing.

1191
01:34:20,988 --> 01:34:23,406
You can buy me dinner.
How about that?

1192
01:34:24,158 --> 01:34:25,408
Jesus, Ava.

1193
01:34:26,452 --> 01:34:29,537
It's bad enough I have to endure
those gym shoes of yours.

1194
01:34:29,705 --> 01:34:33,375
But I get all dolled up and we go out
in this jalopy without a hood.

1195
01:34:34,794 --> 01:34:37,921
Ava, will you marry me?

1196
01:34:38,089 --> 01:34:40,799
- No, Howard.
- Well, why not, for heaven's sake?

1197
01:34:40,966 --> 01:34:43,551
In the first place, I don't love you.

1198
01:34:43,719 --> 01:34:46,096
In the second place, I'm still married.

1199
01:34:46,263 --> 01:34:50,934
Look, you got girls stashed all over town.
You got a damn harem just at the Bel-Air.

1200
01:34:51,102 --> 01:34:53,061
Marry one of your bungalow girls.

1201
01:34:53,229 --> 01:34:57,023
Those are employees. I won't marry
an employee. How would that look?

1202
01:35:05,199 --> 01:35:06,449
What is going on?

1203
01:35:09,787 --> 01:35:12,414
- Oh, my God!
- Goddamn it!

1204
01:35:14,041 --> 01:35:15,291
Faith!

1205
01:35:16,085 --> 01:35:18,002
- Faith, what the hell?
- Look out!

1206
01:35:18,170 --> 01:35:20,880
Goddamn, what the hell are you doing?

1207
01:35:24,051 --> 01:35:26,803
- Are you okay, lady?
- What are you doing with her?

1208
01:35:26,971 --> 01:35:29,639
We are going to dinner.
Now, get out of there.

1209
01:35:29,807 --> 01:35:31,808
Get that crazy bitch away from me!

1210
01:35:31,976 --> 01:35:33,601
Don't you love me anymore?

1211
01:35:33,769 --> 01:35:35,311
Course I love you, pork chop.

1212
01:35:35,479 --> 01:35:37,272
Ava, look over here. Howard.

1213
01:35:37,982 --> 01:35:39,274
Hey.

1214
01:35:42,695 --> 01:35:45,321
Juan Trippe is working
with Senator Brewster now.

1215
01:35:45,489 --> 01:35:49,826
They're after you. If the community
airline bill becomes law, we are finished.

1216
01:35:49,994 --> 01:35:52,120
Pan Am will have a monopoly
on international travel.

1217
01:35:52,288 --> 01:35:54,831
Well, how can they justify it?
It's un-American.

1218
01:35:54,999 --> 01:35:58,835
Brewster is saying that nationalized
foreign carriers, like Air France ...

1219
01:35:59,003 --> 01:36:02,005
... can offer lower rates because
they don't have to compete.

1220
01:36:02,173 --> 01:36:05,508
Let's get rid of competition
and have a nationalized airline ...

1221
01:36:05,676 --> 01:36:08,720
... and why don't we make it Pan Am?
- I'm not kowtowing to anyone.

1222
01:36:08,888 --> 01:36:11,181
- Howard, I need you up here.
- One sec, Odie.

1223
01:36:11,348 --> 01:36:13,850
Look, we are Trans World Airlines,
all right?

1224
01:36:14,018 --> 01:36:18,396
Get me something with a circle or a globe
or something round, for God's sake.

1225
01:36:18,564 --> 01:36:19,856
- Speak up.
- One cut.

1226
01:36:20,024 --> 01:36:24,194
I don't give a rat's ass. I'm not making
a cut. I'll release it without a seal.

1227
01:36:24,361 --> 01:36:26,029
We gotta go public with this.

1228
01:36:26,197 --> 01:36:28,072
I'm gonna talk to Hearst ...

1229
01:36:28,240 --> 01:36:31,409
... but we gotta get
some senators on our side.

1230
01:36:31,577 --> 01:36:33,995
- What do you want me to do?
- What Trippe does.

1231
01:36:34,163 --> 01:36:36,873
Offshore operations.
See who's up for re-election ...

1232
01:36:37,041 --> 01:36:39,667
... let's start making donations.
- Bribe senators?

1233
01:36:40,085 --> 01:36:42,754
I don't want them bribed.
I want it done legally.

1234
01:36:42,922 --> 01:36:46,257
I want them bought.
Put a team of investigators on Brewster.

1235
01:36:46,425 --> 01:36:48,760
I need to know everything
about that shitbag.

1236
01:36:48,928 --> 01:36:51,846
Where he goes, what he says
and who he screws.

1237
01:36:52,014 --> 01:36:54,015
- Get into it right now.
- You got it.

1238
01:37:01,649 --> 01:37:03,066
Just give me a second.

1239
01:37:05,402 --> 01:37:08,404
- All right, what do you need?
- Rudder and elevators.

1240
01:37:09,073 --> 01:37:11,157
No. These are fine.

1241
01:37:11,325 --> 01:37:15,411
Have Simon and Pete get back to me on the
assemblies. We need a secondary system.

1242
01:37:15,579 --> 01:37:17,080
Okay.

1243
01:37:17,915 --> 01:37:20,583
Listen, we need to take
another look at the wheel.

1244
01:37:20,751 --> 01:37:23,586
- Jesus. The damn wheel?
- Yeah.

1245
01:37:23,754 --> 01:37:25,255
It just doesn't feel right.

1246
01:37:25,422 --> 01:37:29,425
Christ almighty, you've seen 8000
goddamn wheels. Choose one, please.

1247
01:37:29,593 --> 01:37:31,427
- Just one of them.
- I know, I know.

1248
01:37:31,595 --> 01:37:33,930
- This one?
- I know, this one ...

1249
01:37:34,098 --> 01:37:37,934
This one's pretty close. Pretty close.

1250
01:38:13,971 --> 01:38:15,471
Odie.

1251
01:38:16,390 --> 01:38:18,933
That man sweeping up over there ...

1252
01:38:19,101 --> 01:38:22,145
... does he work for me?
I mean, have you seen him before?

1253
01:38:22,313 --> 01:38:24,898
Name's Nick, something like that.

1254
01:38:27,151 --> 01:38:28,902
Why's he looking at me?

1255
01:38:31,113 --> 01:38:32,530
I don't know.

1256
01:38:34,658 --> 01:38:37,785
Fire him. And make sure
they use damp brooms from now on.

1257
01:38:37,953 --> 01:38:41,331
Respiratory diseases are expensive,
and I don't want lawsuits.

1258
01:38:41,498 --> 01:38:44,375
But can we at least proceed
with the instrument panel?

1259
01:38:44,543 --> 01:38:47,003
- The tool shop's ready.
- I wanna see the blueprints.

1260
01:38:47,171 --> 01:38:50,131
Look, Howard, the deadline
is now completely unrealistic.

1261
01:38:50,299 --> 01:38:52,842
The war is gonna be over
by the time she's done.

1262
01:38:53,010 --> 01:38:57,180
I need you to help consult on vital decisions,
and you're off dealing with movies.

1263
01:38:57,348 --> 01:39:00,350
You got 1,000 workers waiting
for you to make a decision --

1264
01:39:00,517 --> 01:39:02,143
Hey, Odie!

1265
01:39:02,311 --> 01:39:04,312
Take it easy, all right.

1266
01:39:04,480 --> 01:39:08,524
You're under pressure, but it's gonna
do me no good if you crack up on me.

1267
01:39:09,193 --> 01:39:10,944
All right? Look ...

1268
01:39:11,111 --> 01:39:13,446
... take a couple of hours off, all right.

1269
01:39:13,614 --> 01:39:15,490
- You just relax a little.
- Okay.

1270
01:39:15,908 --> 01:39:17,951
- See your wife.
- Okay.

1271
01:39:18,369 --> 01:39:19,702
All right.

1272
01:39:20,579 --> 01:39:23,831
- Be sure to show me all the blueprints.
- All right.

1273
01:39:25,459 --> 01:39:30,171
Show me all the blueprints.

1274
01:39:30,339 --> 01:39:33,967
I'm serious, now.
Show me all the blueprints.

1275
01:39:35,552 --> 01:39:37,220
Show me all the blueprints.

1276
01:39:37,388 --> 01:39:40,264
- Howard.
- Show me all the blueprints.

1277
01:39:40,432 --> 01:39:46,354
Show me all the blueprints.

1278
01:39:46,522 --> 01:39:48,606
I wanna get this done right.

1279
01:39:49,400 --> 01:39:57,240
Show me all the blueprints.

1280
01:39:57,408 --> 01:39:59,325
- Howard.
- Show me all the blueprints.

1281
01:39:59,493 --> 01:40:03,162
Show me all the blueprints.
Show me all the blueprints ...

1282
01:40:30,149 --> 01:40:32,608
Quarantine.

1283
01:40:33,610 --> 01:40:35,319
Q ...

1284
01:40:35,487 --> 01:40:37,447
... U ...

1285
01:40:37,614 --> 01:40:39,866
... A ...

1286
01:40:40,492 --> 01:40:42,452
... R ...

1287
01:40:43,120 --> 01:40:45,079
... A ...

1288
01:40:45,247 --> 01:40:46,748
... N ...

1289
01:40:46,915 --> 01:40:49,125
... T ...

1290
01:40:49,501 --> 01:40:51,085
... I ...

1291
01:40:51,253 --> 01:40:52,754
... N ...

1292
01:40:57,676 --> 01:40:59,719
... E.

1293
01:41:02,639 --> 01:41:04,724
Quarantine.

1294
01:41:42,721 --> 01:41:45,807
General McEwan. Colonel Bertrang.
Thanks for coming down.

1295
01:41:45,974 --> 01:41:48,142
Odie, you reading me okay?

1296
01:41:48,310 --> 01:41:49,519
Yeah, you're A-Okay.

1297
01:41:55,192 --> 01:41:58,361
All right, flight controls are active.
She's all yours.

1298
01:42:07,287 --> 01:42:09,622
Spotless.
No wiggle on the wheel or throttle.

1299
01:42:09,790 --> 01:42:11,624
Take it easy.

1300
01:42:28,642 --> 01:42:32,228
- How does she sound, Howard?
- She's whispering to me, buddy.

1301
01:42:32,396 --> 01:42:34,313
All right, make her sing.

1302
01:42:55,210 --> 01:42:58,421
Well, Odie, she can fly. Congratulations.

1303
01:42:58,589 --> 01:43:02,091
I'm glad to hear it. Retract landing gear
and climb to 5000 feet ...

1304
01:43:02,259 --> 01:43:03,843
... on a heading of 2-7-0.

1305
01:43:04,011 --> 01:43:09,891
Retracting landing gear and climbing
to 5,000 feet on a heading 2-7-0.

1306
01:43:14,396 --> 01:43:16,606
- She's fast.
- What's your air speed?

1307
01:43:16,773 --> 01:43:18,399
292.

1308
01:43:18,609 --> 01:43:22,111
- All right, take her back to 200.
- No damn way.

1309
01:43:47,930 --> 01:43:49,639
We gotta bring her home.

1310
01:43:49,806 --> 01:43:52,266
Scheduled time of one hour
and 45 minutes has elapsed.

1311
01:43:52,476 --> 01:43:55,394
- Set course for 0-9-0 --
- Ten more minutes. Roger that.

1312
01:43:55,562 --> 01:43:58,147
Negative, Howard. Bring her home.

1313
01:43:58,315 --> 01:44:04,195
Okay. Okay. Setting course for 0-9-0.

1314
01:44:04,905 --> 01:44:06,822
Preparing to descend.

1315
01:44:10,452 --> 01:44:13,704
- Jesus.
- What is it, Howard?

1316
01:44:14,998 --> 01:44:18,501
The right wing just dipped.
I'm losing starboard engine.

1317
01:44:18,961 --> 01:44:21,587
Increasing power to 2800 rpm.

1318
01:44:22,047 --> 01:44:23,297
Cutting back.

1319
01:44:23,674 --> 01:44:25,591
Increasing starboard engine only.

1320
01:44:26,718 --> 01:44:29,470
Cutting back. I'm losing altitude.

1321
01:44:29,638 --> 01:44:32,181
Check starboard-engine manifold pressure.

1322
01:44:33,058 --> 01:44:36,936
- It's good, but rpm's are low.
- Are both starboard props turning?

1323
01:44:37,104 --> 01:44:38,562
Hold on.

1324
01:44:38,814 --> 01:44:41,857
They are, but she's pulling me
back and starboard, Odie.

1325
01:44:42,025 --> 01:44:44,610
- How bad is your cross control?
- I'm at full left rudder ...

1326
01:44:44,778 --> 01:44:48,072
... and full left aileron,
but she won't stay level. Goddamn it.

1327
01:44:48,365 --> 01:44:51,200
- Give us your position.
- Two thousand feet over --

1328
01:44:51,368 --> 01:44:55,454
Oh, Christ, I don't know, Beverly Hills.
Fifteen hundred feet.

1329
01:44:55,622 --> 01:44:57,331
We're going down.

1330
01:44:58,250 --> 01:45:01,877
I'll try for the Wilshire Country Club.
Ninth hole. You reading me?

1331
01:45:02,045 --> 01:45:05,965
Wilshire Country Club, copy that.
Howard, reduce engines to 1,000.

1332
01:45:06,675 --> 01:45:11,637
I'm going down!
I'm not gonna make it, buddy!

1333
01:45:18,103 --> 01:45:19,895
Goddamn it!

1334
01:47:22,269 --> 01:47:25,771
Is there anyone else inside?
Is there anyone else?!

1335
01:47:25,939 --> 01:47:27,648
No.

1336
01:47:31,486 --> 01:47:34,864
I'm Howard Hughes, the aviator.

1337
01:47:44,124 --> 01:47:46,834
-- every inch of his
wiring and fluid connection.

1338
01:47:47,002 --> 01:47:49,670
He has burns to 78 percent of his body.

1339
01:47:49,838 --> 01:47:52,506
Nine ribs are shattered,
not broken, shattered ...

1340
01:47:53,008 --> 01:47:57,470
... as are his nose, his chin, his cheek,
his left knee, his left elbow.

1341
01:47:57,637 --> 01:48:00,222
He has 60 lacerations
on his face, to the bone.

1342
01:48:00,807 --> 01:48:03,559
His chest was crushed,
so his left lung collapsed ...

1343
01:48:03,727 --> 01:48:07,396
... and his heart has shifted
to the right side of his chest cavity.

1344
01:48:08,356 --> 01:48:10,232
Jesus, God.

1345
01:48:10,692 --> 01:48:15,029
- He's getting blood transfusions now, but --
- Whose blood?

1346
01:48:15,864 --> 01:48:18,032
- I'm sorry?
- Whose blood?

1347
01:48:18,533 --> 01:48:20,075
From our stock.

1348
01:48:20,744 --> 01:48:24,914
- Oh, he's not going to like that.
- Mr. Dietrich, I doubt he's ...

1349
01:48:25,081 --> 01:48:28,042
... ever gonna like or
dislike anything again.

1350
01:48:28,668 --> 01:48:30,836
I'm terribly sorry.

1351
01:48:59,282 --> 01:49:01,200
Orange juice.

1352
01:49:04,287 --> 01:49:07,748
It's not fresh from the kitchen, so I ...

1353
01:49:08,458 --> 01:49:13,546
I have them make it here so ...
So I can see.

1354
01:49:17,634 --> 01:49:19,593
Look at me.

1355
01:49:22,222 --> 01:49:24,223
I'm a monster.

1356
01:49:24,683 --> 01:49:29,478
Yeah. Orange juice has nutritional value.

1357
01:49:30,647 --> 01:49:35,651
There's ... There's some flies
outside my window, though.

1358
01:49:36,194 --> 01:49:37,987
So ...

1359
01:49:39,990 --> 01:49:42,658
... little Howard likes ...

1360
01:49:44,160 --> 01:49:46,287
... citrus.

1361
01:49:47,038 --> 01:49:48,914
Don't he just ...?

1362
01:49:52,043 --> 01:49:53,752
Tell me.

1363
01:49:55,380 --> 01:49:59,174
An oil seal ripped off
the starboard rear propeller.

1364
01:49:59,342 --> 01:50:02,845
When the pressure dropped,
the prop reversed pitch.

1365
01:50:03,346 --> 01:50:05,097
Do you understand me?

1366
01:50:05,640 --> 01:50:10,644
Howard, I'm sorry to have to tell you
this now, but there's something else.

1367
01:50:11,021 --> 01:50:13,772
- You following me?
- Yeah.

1368
01:50:14,983 --> 01:50:18,652
The Air Force canceled the contract
on The Hercules.

1369
01:50:20,989 --> 01:50:26,368
The war's over now,
and they say they don't need it anymore.

1370
01:50:26,870 --> 01:50:31,332
I have to know what you want me to do.
Should I release the staff?

1371
01:50:31,499 --> 01:50:33,584
How far ...

1372
01:50:35,378 --> 01:50:36,837
... from finishing?

1373
01:50:38,048 --> 01:50:42,885
- About six months.
- No, in money.

1374
01:50:46,139 --> 01:50:48,015
Seven million.

1375
01:50:48,808 --> 01:50:50,184
Maybe more.

1376
01:50:55,565 --> 01:50:57,399
Build it.

1377
01:50:58,902 --> 01:51:00,861
Build it, Odie.

1378
01:51:02,697 --> 01:51:04,239
Howard ...

1379
01:51:04,866 --> 01:51:08,911
... a Constellation crashed
outside Reading, Pennsylvania.

1380
01:51:09,412 --> 01:51:12,831
The Civil Aeronautics Board
has grounded the whole fleet.

1381
01:51:22,801 --> 01:51:24,468
You know ...

1382
01:51:25,553 --> 01:51:28,806
... Juan Trippe sent me flowers.

1383
01:51:31,017 --> 01:51:32,726
Take a look.

1384
01:51:36,481 --> 01:51:41,360
- What did you do with all the others?
- Oh, I had them taken out.

1385
01:51:41,528 --> 01:51:44,697
They ... They attract aphids.

1386
01:51:45,740 --> 01:51:50,452
Aphids are ...
They're just awful little creatures.

1387
01:51:51,287 --> 01:51:53,080
But ...

1388
01:51:55,417 --> 01:51:57,501
But these ones ...

1389
01:51:58,461 --> 01:52:02,339
... I wanted to see these ones every day.

1390
01:52:09,889 --> 01:52:12,891
Can white elephants fly?
That's everybody's question.

1391
01:52:13,059 --> 01:52:18,105
The hull of the world's mightiest airplane,
a flying boat built by Howard Hughes.

1392
01:52:18,273 --> 01:52:22,443
Two hundred and twenty feet long,
it towers higher than a five-story building.

1393
01:52:22,610 --> 01:52:26,613
Power lines have to be cut as it starts
the trip from Culver City ...

1394
01:52:26,781 --> 01:52:28,824
... to the Pacific, 30 miles away.

1395
01:52:28,992 --> 01:52:32,202
Moving the 60-ton load
is quite an engineering problem.

1396
01:52:32,370 --> 01:52:36,331
But you gotta ask, was anything this big
ever supposed to fly?

1397
01:52:36,499 --> 01:52:41,003
There goes one wing section,
160 feet long with four engine housings.

1398
01:52:41,171 --> 01:52:44,047
Double that and you've got some idea
of the wingspread.

1399
01:52:44,215 --> 01:52:48,510
An airplane that challenges
a mountain for sheer size.

1400
01:52:55,518 --> 01:52:57,770
How long can they keep us grounded?

1401
01:52:57,937 --> 01:53:01,523
Until they finish investigating
the Reading crash. Could be months.

1402
01:53:01,691 --> 01:53:06,612
You're running a $14 million deficit. How
will you afford to keep them out of service?

1403
01:53:06,821 --> 01:53:11,325
- We go international, we'll make it up.
- Brewster's C.A.B. bill isn't going away.

1404
01:53:11,493 --> 01:53:14,203
That bill passes,
and you bought these for nothing.

1405
01:53:14,370 --> 01:53:17,790
- We're fighting the C.A.B. bill.
- Meanwhile, how do we keep TWA flying?

1406
01:53:17,957 --> 01:53:22,544
Don't say, "Just go to Tool Co." We're
pumping every cent into The Hercules ...

1407
01:53:22,712 --> 01:53:25,547
... which the Air Force
doesn't even want anymore.

1408
01:53:25,715 --> 01:53:29,468
I'm glad Jack is feeling sunny about things,
but I've seen the books.

1409
01:53:29,803 --> 01:53:32,221
I'm telling it straight. I'm not crying wolf.

1410
01:53:32,388 --> 01:53:35,516
We're in serious trouble.
You've gotta make a choice.

1411
01:53:35,683 --> 01:53:40,729
You wanna be bankrupted
by the big plane or by the big airline?

1412
01:53:48,071 --> 01:53:51,657
Go see Thomas Parkinson
at the Equitable in New York.

1413
01:53:51,825 --> 01:53:55,410
Get a loan against
all the TWA equipment and capital.

1414
01:53:55,578 --> 01:54:01,416
Use the planes as collateral. Hell, use the
desks, use the pens, use everything we got.

1415
01:54:01,584 --> 01:54:05,754
- Try to get me 40 million.
- And if TWA defaults on the loan?

1416
01:54:06,339 --> 01:54:09,258
Then Juan Trippe buys us cheap.

1417
01:54:11,845 --> 01:54:14,930
Under my bed! You put a goddamn
microphone under my bed!

1418
01:54:15,098 --> 01:54:17,266
Listen to me.
I am concerned about you.

1419
01:54:17,433 --> 01:54:20,769
- I just wanna make sure you're okay.
- And who is in that car?!

1420
01:54:21,104 --> 01:54:23,272
It's been with me 24 hours a day.

1421
01:54:23,439 --> 01:54:25,232
That car is for your protection!

1422
01:54:25,400 --> 01:54:28,861
The only one I need protection from is you,
you sick bastard!

1423
01:54:29,028 --> 01:54:30,571
You don't own me, Howard.

1424
01:54:30,738 --> 01:54:33,866
I'm not one of your teenage whores
or some damn airplane.

1425
01:54:34,033 --> 01:54:36,076
I'll have them take all the bugs out.

1426
01:54:36,244 --> 01:54:38,287
I need to know where you are.

1427
01:54:38,454 --> 01:54:41,123
- Why?!
- Because I worry about you, that's why.

1428
01:54:41,291 --> 01:54:43,292
Bullshit!

1429
01:54:45,795 --> 01:54:56,597
What do you mean, "all the bugs"?

1430
01:54:58,892 --> 01:55:00,893
There's more.

1431
01:55:01,144 --> 01:55:02,978
How many?

1432
01:55:03,271 --> 01:55:09,443
I don't know, 12.
Twelve, maybe, and on the telephones.

1433
01:55:09,903 --> 01:55:13,572
Oh, Christ, Howard, on the telephone?

1434
01:55:13,740 --> 01:55:15,324
You listen to my phone calls?

1435
01:55:15,491 --> 01:55:19,328
No, no, honey, I would never do that.
I'd never do that.

1436
01:55:19,495 --> 01:55:22,497
I just read the transcripts, that's all.

1437
01:55:27,128 --> 01:55:29,254
What do you wanna know, Howard?

1438
01:55:29,422 --> 01:55:31,590
Was I screwing Artie Shaw last night?

1439
01:55:31,758 --> 01:55:34,468
Was I screwing Sinatra the night before?
You bet.

1440
01:55:34,636 --> 01:55:37,220
Everyone said you were a lunatic,
I didn't listen.

1441
01:55:37,388 --> 01:55:40,307
It's no wonder Kate Hepburn
dumped your demented ass!

1442
01:55:40,475 --> 01:55:42,935
Shut your goddamn mouth.

1443
01:55:47,106 --> 01:55:50,525
Get out, you pathetic freak.

1444
01:55:57,951 --> 01:56:00,118
Get out!

1445
01:56:00,286 --> 01:56:01,954
Is everything all right, sir?

1446
01:56:02,121 --> 01:56:04,456
Take out all the bugs, huh?

1447
01:56:06,584 --> 01:56:08,710
Except for the one
on the bedroom phone.

1448
01:56:08,878 --> 01:56:10,671
Sir, the FBI are at the house.

1449
01:56:12,507 --> 01:56:17,094
This is outrageous! Everything here is the
private property of Hughes Productions.

1450
01:56:17,261 --> 01:56:19,972
- My legal counsel is on the way --
- Federal warrant.

1451
01:56:20,139 --> 01:56:22,391
Don't interfere with the search, sir.

1452
01:56:42,078 --> 01:56:45,580
Dateline: Los Angeles.
Howard Hughes has a new houseguest.

1453
01:56:45,748 --> 01:56:49,376
No, it's not another beautiful starlet.
This time it's the FBI.

1454
01:56:49,544 --> 01:56:53,422
Noah, you've got to help. This is
the 10th time they have been here.

1455
01:56:53,589 --> 01:56:57,092
Rumor has it that agents
working for Senator Owen Brewster ...

1456
01:56:57,260 --> 01:57:01,096
... have practically taken up residence
in the aviation mogul's home.

1457
01:57:01,264 --> 01:57:03,348
Look, I mean, they are touching things.

1458
01:57:03,683 --> 01:57:06,810
- Noah, they are touching things.
- Just keep yourself calm ...

1459
01:57:06,978 --> 01:57:10,022
... and I'll be down there
as soon as I can, Howard.

1460
01:57:10,189 --> 01:57:13,900
Howard?

1461
01:57:38,259 --> 01:57:40,135
Howard, hello.

1462
01:57:40,303 --> 01:57:43,638
- Nice to see you again.
- Good to see you. Come on inside.

1463
01:57:43,806 --> 01:57:46,349
- Emma, you can start up lunch now.
- Yes, sir.

1464
01:57:46,517 --> 01:57:51,021
Well, really lovely room.
It's nicely decorated.

1465
01:57:51,189 --> 01:57:52,981
Thank you. Here, have a seat.

1466
01:57:53,149 --> 01:57:54,566
Thanks for coming by.

1467
01:57:54,734 --> 01:57:57,861
I thought you and l
should have a chance to talk privately.

1468
01:57:58,029 --> 01:57:59,821
You know, outside the office.

1469
01:58:01,824 --> 01:58:03,158
Well ...

1470
01:58:03,659 --> 01:58:05,660
... I appreciate that, Owen.

1471
01:58:13,044 --> 01:58:18,090
So you're coming out pretty strong
against the C.A.B. bill.

1472
01:58:18,841 --> 01:58:23,929
- You're coming on pretty strong for it.
- Well, it's my bill, Howard, you know.

1473
01:58:24,097 --> 01:58:28,350
Look, I believe sincerely
that America cannot afford ...

1474
01:58:28,518 --> 01:58:31,353
... to have more than one
international carrier.

1475
01:58:32,897 --> 01:58:38,068
I mean, do you think it's fair that one airline
should have a monopoly on international --?

1476
01:58:38,236 --> 01:58:41,613
A monopoly? No, no, no. Oh, no.

1477
01:58:41,781 --> 01:58:46,868
No, I think one airline could do it better,
see, without competition.

1478
01:58:47,203 --> 01:58:51,873
All I'm thinking about are the interests,
the needs of the American passenger.

1479
01:58:52,208 --> 01:58:55,168
That's just beautiful. What is that?

1480
01:58:59,382 --> 01:59:01,675
What is that? Is that a ...?

1481
01:59:01,843 --> 01:59:03,718
Is that a yak?

1482
01:59:03,886 --> 01:59:06,638
- Some kind of a yak?
- No, that's a llama.

1483
01:59:06,806 --> 01:59:09,057
My wife picked that up
when we were in Peru.

1484
01:59:09,225 --> 01:59:11,309
Son of a gun.

1485
01:59:11,477 --> 01:59:13,979
A real llama.

1486
01:59:15,273 --> 01:59:18,900
- From Peru?
- Yeah. From a year ago, I think it was --

1487
01:59:19,068 --> 01:59:22,279
- Yeah, it was about a year ago.
- Lunch is served, senator.

1488
01:59:22,446 --> 01:59:24,948
Good. Okay.
Come on, let's go have some lunch.

1489
01:59:26,534 --> 01:59:30,537
Now, did you --?
Did you actually get to see any llamas?

1490
01:59:30,705 --> 01:59:33,165
No, no. My wife just liked the painting.

1491
01:59:33,332 --> 01:59:36,418
It's an interesting animal.
I'll have to read up on those.

1492
01:59:36,586 --> 01:59:41,006
How do you spell that?
Like ...? Like Fernando Lamas?

1493
01:59:41,382 --> 01:59:45,635
No, no. It's --
It's the animal, it's got two L's.

1494
01:59:45,803 --> 01:59:47,846
Here, come on, have a seat.

1495
01:59:56,981 --> 01:59:59,441
It's brook trout. Hope you like fish.

1496
02:00:01,986 --> 02:00:05,614
I love it. Thanks.

1497
02:00:20,838 --> 02:00:24,966
I know you're not a drinking man,
so I hope -- Hope water's okay.

1498
02:00:37,855 --> 02:00:39,481
Thanks.

1499
02:00:45,404 --> 02:00:48,823
All right, let's get down to business.
Let's talk turkey.

1500
02:00:49,659 --> 02:00:51,993
My investigators --

1501
02:00:52,745 --> 02:00:55,580
My investigators
have turned up a lot of dirt.

1502
02:00:56,040 --> 02:00:59,376
It could be really embarrassing
if this stuff got out.

1503
02:01:00,086 --> 02:01:02,629
I'd like to save you
from that embarrassment.

1504
02:01:03,881 --> 02:01:06,007
That's very kind of you, Owen.

1505
02:01:09,011 --> 02:01:12,847
My committee has the power
to hold public hearings.

1506
02:01:14,433 --> 02:01:16,351
I'd like to spare you that.

1507
02:01:17,019 --> 02:01:18,270
Would you, now?

1508
02:01:19,605 --> 02:01:21,147
Look ... 

1509
02:01:21,315 --> 02:01:26,027
Do you wanna go down in history
as a war profiteer, Howard?

1510
02:01:26,195 --> 02:01:27,445
Is that what you want?

1511
02:01:29,949 --> 02:01:32,200
What do you want, Owen?

1512
02:01:33,744 --> 02:01:39,874
You agree to support my C.A.B. bill,
and I won't hold public hearings.

1513
02:01:40,042 --> 02:01:41,751
- I can't do that.
- Why not?

1514
02:01:41,919 --> 02:01:45,547
I can't do that, Owen.
The C.A.B. would kill TWA.

1515
02:01:45,715 --> 02:01:48,842
Sell TWA to Pan Am.

1516
02:01:49,468 --> 02:01:52,595
You'll get a good price.
You'll get a fair price.

1517
02:01:53,681 --> 02:01:55,890
And then --? Then you won't go public?

1518
02:01:56,058 --> 02:02:00,895
Right. That's right. The investigation's
closed. Nobody knows a thing.

1519
02:02:01,063 --> 02:02:04,065
That's -- It's better for everybody.

1520
02:02:08,738 --> 02:02:12,282
You know, Owen,
I'm still wondering one thing.

1521
02:02:12,450 --> 02:02:16,161
- What's that?
- The picture of the llama you got last year?

1522
02:02:16,329 --> 02:02:18,997
- Yeah.
- Where'd you sail from?

1523
02:02:19,707 --> 02:02:21,750
We didn't sail. We flew.

1524
02:02:23,085 --> 02:02:25,253
- You flew?
- Yeah.

1525
02:02:33,054 --> 02:02:36,306
Are you sure you want to do this, Owen?

1526
02:02:37,099 --> 02:02:39,517
You want to go to war with me?

1527
02:02:44,315 --> 02:02:48,651
It isn't me, Howard.
It's the United States government.

1528
02:02:49,612 --> 02:02:52,197
We just beat Germany and Japan.

1529
02:02:52,782 --> 02:02:54,783
Who the hell are you?

1530
02:03:00,039 --> 02:03:04,751
You -- You tell Juan Trippe
something for me, all right?

1531
02:03:05,378 --> 02:03:08,129
Tell him thanks for the flowers.

1532
02:03:08,506 --> 02:03:13,760
And he can kiss both sides of my ass.

1533
02:03:37,785 --> 02:03:40,245
Well, we have a long list of particulars.

1534
02:03:40,413 --> 02:03:44,582
Chief among them is that he defrauded
the American government ...

1535
02:03:44,750 --> 02:03:48,336
... of $56 million while at war,
when we could least afford it.

1536
02:03:48,504 --> 02:03:51,506
While brave men were dying
on the beaches of Normandy ...

1537
02:03:51,674 --> 02:03:55,135
... Mr. Hughes was picking the pocket
of the American taxpayer.

1538
02:03:55,302 --> 02:03:56,636
I sleep ...

1539
02:03:57,430 --> 02:03:59,681
... in this room ...

1540
02:04:01,434 --> 02:04:02,851
... in the dark.

1541
02:04:03,018 --> 02:04:05,895
I'll have him dragged here to Washington
if I have to.

1542
02:04:06,063 --> 02:04:08,314
I wanna see the whites of his lies.

1543
02:04:08,566 --> 02:04:10,608
I have a place.

1544
02:04:11,360 --> 02:04:15,029
- I can sleep.
- He has a lot of questions to answer.

1545
02:04:15,197 --> 02:04:18,241
- I have a chair.
- Particularly about that monstrous ...

1546
02:04:18,409 --> 02:04:22,871
 ... boondoggle of his,
that model airplane he's building ...

1547
02:04:23,038 --> 02:04:27,667
... that flying lumberyard,
that spruce goose.

1548
02:04:29,295 --> 02:04:31,671
No, he'll -- We'll get him here.

1549
02:04:35,217 --> 02:04:36,676
That's just beautiful.

1550
02:04:37,678 --> 02:04:41,264
Oh, yeah. I like the desert.

1551
02:04:43,184 --> 02:04:46,936
It's hot there in the desert,
but it's clean.

1552
02:04:47,521 --> 02:04:49,189
It's clean.

1553
02:04:50,900 --> 02:04:52,859
I need to sleep.

1554
02:04:55,738 --> 02:05:04,412
I should drink something first.

1555
02:05:09,084 --> 02:05:10,835
Wait a minute.

1556
02:05:12,213 --> 02:05:13,755
What if that milk is sour?

1557
02:05:14,965 --> 02:05:16,591
That milk is bad.

1558
02:05:17,343 --> 02:05:22,305
I shouldn't pick up
the bottle of milk with my right hand.

1559
02:05:22,723 --> 02:05:28,978
And I shouldn't take the top off
with my left hand ...

1560
02:05:29,939 --> 02:05:33,107
... put it in my pocket.

1561
02:05:33,275 --> 02:05:35,860
My left pocket.

1562
02:05:52,628 --> 02:05:56,923
Howard, it's Kate.
I need -- I need to talk to you.

1563
02:05:58,133 --> 02:06:00,093
Can you hear me?

1564
02:06:02,555 --> 02:06:04,556
I'm coming in.

1565
02:06:09,395 --> 02:06:12,146
Howard, unlock this door immediately.

1566
02:06:20,656 --> 02:06:23,074
I can't, sweetie.

1567
02:06:25,995 --> 02:06:27,870
You mean you won't.

1568
02:06:29,748 --> 02:06:33,167
Howard, please let me see you.

1569
02:06:33,335 --> 02:06:38,506
- I haven't shaved.
- Well, neither have l.

1570
02:06:41,719 --> 02:06:43,553
Come on.

1571
02:06:43,721 --> 02:06:45,430
You ...

1572
02:06:45,598 --> 02:06:48,057
You let me in.

1573
02:06:53,772 --> 02:06:56,149
I can hear you, Katie.

1574
02:06:57,610 --> 02:07:03,114
I could always hear you.
Even in the cockpit, with the engines on.

1575
02:07:03,782 --> 02:07:07,201
That's because I'm so goddamn loud.

1576
02:07:11,957 --> 02:07:13,875
Howard, I ...

1577
02:07:15,961 --> 02:07:18,379
I came to thank you.

1578
02:07:19,214 --> 02:07:22,425
I found out what you did
for Spence and me.

1579
02:07:22,593 --> 02:07:25,887
Buying those awful pictures.

1580
02:07:30,517 --> 02:07:32,185
You love him.

1581
02:07:38,901 --> 02:07:41,569
He's everything I have.

1582
02:07:49,578 --> 02:07:51,621
Howard?

1583
02:07:52,581 --> 02:07:55,041
I'm glad for you, Kate.

1584
02:07:56,377 --> 02:07:58,795
Go away now. Would you do that?

1585
02:08:00,214 --> 02:08:03,466
- Howard, please.
- Go away.

1586
02:08:03,634 --> 02:08:07,053
Just for now. I'll see you soon.

1587
02:08:07,221 --> 02:08:09,597
- We'll go flying together.
- Yes.

1588
02:08:09,765 --> 02:08:12,642
Yes, please. You take me flying again.

1589
02:08:12,810 --> 02:08:15,645
Howard, I can take the wheel.

1590
02:08:21,485 --> 02:08:23,111
Howard?

1591
02:08:29,576 --> 02:08:31,619
Howard, are you --? Are you there?

1592
02:08:37,334 --> 02:08:39,001
Howard?

1593
02:08:40,796 --> 02:08:42,672
Howard, are you there?

1594
02:08:45,134 --> 02:08:47,176
Come on, Howard.

1595
02:08:50,139 --> 02:08:52,056
Howard, are you there?

1596
02:09:18,333 --> 02:09:25,256
Come in with the milk.

1597
02:09:25,549 --> 02:09:28,593
He is to open the bag
with his right hand ...

1598
02:09:28,761 --> 02:09:31,846
... and hold the bag out to me
at a 45-degree angle ...

1599
02:09:32,014 --> 02:09:35,349
... so I may reach into the bag without ...

1600
02:09:37,394 --> 02:09:39,645
Without touching the paper.

1601
02:09:44,651 --> 02:09:52,283
Repeated from the beginning.

1602
02:10:02,711 --> 02:10:07,048
If there is any variation
of these instructions ...

1603
02:10:07,216 --> 02:10:10,551
... even to the smallest degree ...

1604
02:10:10,719 --> 02:10:14,931
... the entire process must be repeated ...

1605
02:10:15,098 --> 02:10:17,558
... from the beginning.
- Come in with the milk.

1606
02:10:17,726 --> 02:10:20,478
- Repeated from the beginning.
- Come in with the milk.

1607
02:10:20,646 --> 02:10:22,396
- Come in with the milk.
- Repeated ...

1608
02:10:22,564 --> 02:10:24,315
... from the beginning.

1609
02:10:24,483 --> 02:10:26,442
Repeated from the beginning.

1610
02:10:26,610 --> 02:10:28,319
Come in with the milk.

1611
02:10:28,487 --> 02:10:30,404
Q ...

1612
02:10:32,241 --> 02:10:33,533
R ...

1613
02:10:33,909 --> 02:10:35,993
N ...

1614
02:10:37,496 --> 02:10:39,080
T ...

1615
02:10:39,456 --> 02:10:41,958
Q ...

1616
02:10:42,793 --> 02:10:45,002
... U ...

1617
02:10:46,588 --> 02:10:48,506
E ...

1618
02:10:49,633 --> 02:10:51,759
I ...

1619
02:10:52,261 --> 02:10:54,345
T ...

1620
02:10:55,097 --> 02:10:56,973
... I ...

1621
02:10:57,224 --> 02:10:59,016
... N ...

1622
02:10:59,977 --> 02:11:02,061
... E.

1623
02:11:02,646 --> 02:11:04,564
N ...

1624
02:11:05,607 --> 02:11:06,983
... E.

1625
02:11:07,150 --> 02:11:09,277
E ...

1626
02:11:09,444 --> 02:11:11,404
I ...

1627
02:11:21,999 --> 02:11:23,791
Howard?

1628
02:11:25,961 --> 02:11:27,503
Hello?

1629
02:11:29,882 --> 02:11:31,257
Who is it?

1630
02:11:31,425 --> 02:11:33,426
Howard, it's Juan.

1631
02:11:41,894 --> 02:11:43,811
Juan.

1632
02:11:44,396 --> 02:11:46,647
Juan, right. Yeah.

1633
02:11:46,815 --> 02:11:49,609
We had an appointment, right? Yeah.

1634
02:11:50,277 --> 02:11:52,737
I remember that. Look ...

1635
02:11:52,905 --> 02:11:55,698
... I got a hell of a cold in here.
A hell of a cold.

1636
02:11:55,866 --> 02:11:59,285
So take a seat out there,
because I don't wanna get you sick.

1637
02:11:59,745 --> 02:12:04,832
I'd never forgive myself if I got you sick.
I don't wanna get you sick. I don't wanna --

1638
02:12:12,007 --> 02:12:13,841
Thank you.

1639
02:12:16,428 --> 02:12:18,179
Okay, Howard, I'm sitting.

1640
02:12:18,847 --> 02:12:21,933
I've brought along our accountings.
Now ...

1641
02:12:22,100 --> 02:12:25,269
... Pan Am is trading
at 13 and five-eighths.

1642
02:12:25,437 --> 02:12:28,064
TWA at four and a quarter.

1643
02:12:28,231 --> 02:12:29,690
- Now, if you take --
- Come on.

1644
02:12:29,858 --> 02:12:35,154
Come on, come on, come on.
We both know I'm not gonna sell TWA.

1645
02:12:35,322 --> 02:12:37,365
Besides, you couldn't afford her.

1646
02:12:37,532 --> 02:12:41,327
Our domestic routes alone
are worth more than twice Pan Am.

1647
02:12:41,912 --> 02:12:45,164
Well, considering our stock is trading
at three times yours ...

1648
02:12:45,332 --> 02:12:48,376
... I find that a dubious claim, Howard.

1649
02:12:48,543 --> 02:12:49,919
What I --

1650
02:12:52,047 --> 02:12:56,634
What I mean is,
you have no domestic routes. All right?

1651
02:12:56,802 --> 02:12:58,928
I mean, you get TWA,
you span the globe.

1652
02:12:59,096 --> 02:13:01,806
I'm not gonna sell,
and you know I'm not gonna sell.

1653
02:13:01,974 --> 02:13:03,849
Here's the point.

1654
02:13:04,017 --> 02:13:06,477
Owen Brewster works for you.

1655
02:13:07,062 --> 02:13:12,900
Howard, I didn't elect Senator Brewster.
We can thank the voters of Maine for that.

1656
02:13:20,575 --> 02:13:26,038
Now, if I appear at his hearings, Juan,
it could get nasty.

1657
02:13:26,206 --> 02:13:28,249
Real nasty for all of us.

1658
02:13:28,417 --> 02:13:32,753
Well, I think,
considerably more so for you.

1659
02:13:33,171 --> 02:13:36,382
While the good people of America
were losing sons at Anzio ...

1660
02:13:36,550 --> 02:13:40,261
... you produced a dirty movie
and built airplanes that don't fly.

1661
02:13:40,429 --> 02:13:43,014
Well, that's just not fair, is it?

1662
02:13:43,181 --> 02:13:46,976
I mean, the XF-11 flew quite well
for an hour and 45 minutes.

1663
02:13:47,144 --> 02:13:51,439
I wish you were up there with me, Juan.
It was exhilarating.

1664
02:13:52,399 --> 02:13:55,776
Be that as it may, you still have
to answer for the Spruce Goose.

1665
02:13:56,528 --> 02:13:58,988
It's called The Hercules!

1666
02:13:59,156 --> 02:14:02,408
And it will fly, goddamn it!

1667
02:14:02,576 --> 02:14:06,620
I hope so. The American people deserve
something for their $13 million.

1668
02:14:06,788 --> 02:14:09,790
I won't sell TWA!

1669
02:14:09,958 --> 02:14:11,125
I won't!

1670
02:14:16,131 --> 02:14:18,132
I know that, Howard.

1671
02:14:18,925 --> 02:14:20,634
I know that.

1672
02:14:22,429 --> 02:14:25,056
But I'm going to get it anyway.

1673
02:14:26,016 --> 02:14:29,894
You will default on your loan from
Equitable after Senator Brewster ...

1674
02:14:30,062 --> 02:14:34,356
... destroys your reputation and you can't
find additional capital for the airline.

1675
02:14:34,524 --> 02:14:39,737
The hearings will also show Hughes Aircraft
to be mismanaged and incompetent ...

1676
02:14:39,905 --> 02:14:41,989
... and it will go bankrupt too.

1677
02:14:42,157 --> 02:14:45,701
But you won't be insolvent.
You'll still have Tool Co.

1678
02:14:45,869 --> 02:14:49,705
Perhaps you'll head back to Houston
to rebuild your empire.

1679
02:14:49,956 --> 02:14:52,083
I rather hope you do.

1680
02:14:52,501 --> 02:14:55,836
By that time,
Pan Am will have bought TWA ...

1681
02:14:56,004 --> 02:15:00,049
... and painted all those magnificent
Connies blue and white.

1682
02:15:00,217 --> 02:15:05,096
So when you do return,
it will be on a Pan Am plane.

1683
02:15:08,517 --> 02:15:10,184
Well ...

1684
02:15:12,187 --> 02:15:15,272
You seem to have me
in a corner here, buddy.

1685
02:15:16,274 --> 02:15:19,443
Not a position in which
I'm very comfortable.

1686
02:15:21,029 --> 02:15:24,907
I think you're gonna be less comfortable
at Senator Brewster's hearings.

1687
02:15:26,034 --> 02:15:28,369
Very public, Howard.

1688
02:15:30,372 --> 02:15:33,791
Lots of cameras and newsmen.

1689
02:15:34,042 --> 02:15:37,795
I understand you're not
particularly fond of crowds.

1690
02:15:39,673 --> 02:15:42,842
Perhaps we should spare you that.

1691
02:15:44,719 --> 02:15:49,682
Well, thank you for your concern, Juan.

1692
02:15:49,850 --> 02:15:51,851
I find that ...

1693
02:15:52,978 --> 02:15:55,146

... very moving.

1694
02:15:55,897 --> 02:15:57,898
It's been a real pleasure.

1695
02:15:59,568 --> 02:16:02,653
Noah will see you back
to the airport now.

1696
02:16:03,655 --> 02:16:11,078
You fly safe.

1697
02:16:16,001 --> 02:16:18,752
Thank you, Howard,
and you take care of that cold.

1698
02:16:18,920 --> 02:16:20,838
Don't you worry.

1699
02:16:21,006 --> 02:16:23,174
I certainly will.

1700
02:16:24,092 --> 02:16:25,843
Bye-bye.

1701
02:16:30,515 --> 02:16:35,269
If you let him appear at those hearings,
the whole world will see what he's become.

1702
02:16:35,437 --> 02:16:38,355
People should remember him as he was.

1703
02:16:43,528 --> 02:16:47,031
He'll have a subpoena in three days
to appear in Washington.

1704
02:16:48,283 --> 02:16:50,868
If you can get him out of there by then.

1705
02:17:40,669 --> 02:17:42,503
Mr. Hughes?

1706
02:17:48,593 --> 02:17:50,928
I don't have any shoes.

1707
02:17:52,764 --> 02:17:55,641
- Could you get me some shoes?
- Shoes.

1708
02:17:56,393 --> 02:17:57,935
Yeah.

1709
02:18:23,336 --> 02:18:25,963
How nice of you to dress for me.

1710
02:18:29,217 --> 02:18:31,343
Can I come in?

1711
02:18:32,137 --> 02:18:36,515
Yeah, you can come in.

1712
02:18:43,356 --> 02:18:45,316
Thank you for coming.

1713
02:18:57,746 --> 02:18:59,788
Now, let's get a drink.

1714
02:18:59,956 --> 02:19:04,084
Wait, wait, wait, honey.
You can't move. You're safe here.

1715
02:19:04,252 --> 02:19:07,379
You're in the germ-free zone now.
You understand?

1716
02:19:07,547 --> 02:19:13,010
- I'll take my chances.
- No, no, honey. Wait, wait.

1717
02:19:26,107 --> 02:19:28,525
Love what you've done with the place.

1718
02:19:35,325 --> 02:19:39,411
Now, let me look at you.

1719
02:19:44,125 --> 02:19:46,543
When do you go to Washington?

1720
02:19:47,045 --> 02:19:48,962
A week.

1721
02:19:49,130 --> 02:19:52,007
No, no. Just under a week.

1722
02:19:52,175 --> 02:19:56,637
I don't know the date today,
but I have to be ...

1723
02:19:56,805 --> 02:19:59,390
All right, take it easy.

1724
02:20:12,320 --> 02:20:14,988
There's nothing there, Howard.

1725
02:20:21,913 --> 02:20:25,332
I see things.

1726
02:20:26,167 --> 02:20:28,085
I know, baby.

1727
02:20:29,212 --> 02:20:31,588
Rinse your face off, now.

1728
02:20:40,515 --> 02:20:43,016
Put your hands in the water
and wash off the soap.

1729
02:20:43,184 --> 02:20:46,437
I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere.

1730
02:20:50,859 --> 02:20:54,319
- Does that look clean to you?
- Nothing's clean, Howard.

1731
02:20:54,487 --> 02:20:57,489
But we do our best, right?

1732
02:20:58,199 --> 02:20:59,950
Yeah.

1733
02:21:19,304 --> 02:21:21,013
What do you think?

1734
02:21:21,181 --> 02:21:24,600
- Well, I look all right.
- You look great.

1735
02:21:24,767 --> 02:21:26,435
Will you marry me?

1736
02:21:26,603 --> 02:21:29,313
You're too crazy for me.

1737
02:21:30,940 --> 02:21:33,317
I gotta go, baby.

1738
02:21:34,068 --> 02:21:35,903
Okay.

1739
02:21:36,613 --> 02:21:38,322
Thanks.

1740
02:21:44,245 --> 02:21:46,497
You'd do it for me.

1741
02:21:52,879 --> 02:21:54,838
Hi, Howard. How you doing?

1742
02:22:35,630 --> 02:22:37,965
The committee will come to order.

1743
02:22:38,633 --> 02:22:43,345
Ladies and gentlemen, I must insist that
we maintain quiet during these proceedings.

1744
02:22:43,513 --> 02:22:46,765
All right, Mr. Hughes,
will you stand and be sworn?

1745
02:22:48,726 --> 02:22:52,771
Do you solemnly swear that in the matter
now pending before this committee ...

1746
02:22:52,939 --> 02:22:57,067
... you will tell the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

1747
02:22:57,235 --> 02:22:59,486
- I do.
- Pardon me for speaking loudly ...

1748
02:22:59,654 --> 02:23:03,907
... but I know you have difficulty hearing.
- That's quite all right.

1749
02:23:04,200 --> 02:23:07,786
I mean, everybody knows I'm deaf.
I'm not gonna try to hide it.

1750
02:23:10,164 --> 02:23:12,833
Mr. Hughes, it is the intention
of this committee --

1751
02:23:13,001 --> 02:23:14,585
Mr. Hughes has a statement.

1752
02:23:15,920 --> 02:23:21,842
All right, you may proceed
with this statement, Mr. Hughes.

1753
02:23:28,141 --> 02:23:30,434
Mr. Hughes, do you have a statement?

1754
02:23:37,775 --> 02:23:42,029
I'm gonna attempt to be honest here.

1755
02:23:42,780 --> 02:23:47,784
I mean, my reputation's being destroyed,
so I might as well lay the cards on the table.

1756
02:23:48,620 --> 02:23:52,706
Senator Brewster, if you hadn't
gone too far overboard ...

1757
02:23:52,874 --> 02:23:55,542
... if you hadn't put
the red-hot iron in my side ...

1758
02:23:55,710 --> 02:24:00,213
... I might have been willing to take a
shellacking in this publicity spree of yours.

1759
02:24:00,381 --> 02:24:05,969
I may have been willing to sit back and take
a certain amount of abuse simply because ...

1760
02:24:06,721 --> 02:24:09,306
... well, I am only a private citizen.

1761
02:24:09,474 --> 02:24:11,558
Whereas you are a senator ...

1762
02:24:11,726 --> 02:24:14,645
... with all sorts of powers.

1763
02:24:15,480 --> 02:24:18,398
But I think this goddamn circus
has gone on long enough!

1764
02:24:18,566 --> 02:24:22,444
- That's quite sufficient.
- You have called me a liar, sir, in the press.

1765
02:24:22,612 --> 02:24:25,656
You have called me a liar
and a thief and a war profiteer!

1766
02:24:25,823 --> 02:24:29,785
- The witness will restrain --
- Why not tell the truth for once, senator?

1767
02:24:29,952 --> 02:24:34,414
Why not tell the truth that this investigation
was really born on the day that TWA ...

1768
02:24:34,582 --> 02:24:40,170
... decided to fly to Europe? On the day that
TWA first invaded Juan Trippe's territory!

1769
02:24:40,338 --> 02:24:42,881
- Sit down.
- On the day TWA first challenged ...

1770
02:24:43,049 --> 02:24:47,594
... the generally accepted theory that only
Juan Trippe's great Pan American Airways ...

1771
02:24:47,762 --> 02:24:51,890
... had the right to fly the Atlantic!
- You are not here to make a speech.

1772
02:24:52,892 --> 02:24:56,353
I asked for silence!
I asked for quiet in this room ...

1773
02:24:56,521 --> 02:25:00,565
We have in our possession receipts
in the amount of $170,000 ...

1774
02:25:01,901 --> 02:25:06,196
... acquired from Mr. John Meyer.
Mr. Meyer works for you, does he not?

1775
02:25:06,364 --> 02:25:10,534
- He does.
- And what is his official title?

1776
02:25:11,452 --> 02:25:14,996
I don't exactly know, senator.
A lot of people work for me.

1777
02:25:15,164 --> 02:25:17,958
Can you explain why your press agent
would pay out ...

1778
02:25:18,126 --> 02:25:23,130
... more than $170,000 to representatives
of the United States Air Force?

1779
02:25:23,297 --> 02:25:27,759
- I don't know. You'd have to ask him.
- Well, would you produce him?

1780
02:25:28,636 --> 02:25:31,805
- Produce him?
- Will you cause him to appear?

1781
02:25:31,973 --> 02:25:35,225
You had John Meyer on the stand
for three days last week.

1782
02:25:35,393 --> 02:25:38,145
Be that as it may,
we would like him to reappear.

1783
02:25:38,312 --> 02:25:41,815
Would you ask him to return?

1784
02:25:47,822 --> 02:25:50,073
No, I don't think I will.

1785
02:25:51,701 --> 02:25:54,911
Will you try to have him return?

1786
02:25:56,998 --> 02:26:01,460
- No, I don't think I'll try.
- You don't think you'll try?

1787
02:26:02,503 --> 02:26:05,505
No, I don't think so.

1788
02:26:05,673 --> 02:26:10,510
The $170,000 paid out to the Air Force
in the form of hotel suites ...

1789
02:26:10,678 --> 02:26:12,304
... TWA stock ...

1790
02:26:12,972 --> 02:26:15,432
... female companionship.

1791
02:26:15,641 --> 02:26:19,936
Now, is it possible that
these could be considered bribes?

1792
02:26:20,605 --> 02:26:22,939
I suppose you could call them that, yes.

1793
02:26:24,317 --> 02:26:25,692
Would you repeat that?

1794
02:26:26,652 --> 02:26:30,489
I said, I suppose you could
consider them bribes, yes.

1795
02:26:33,117 --> 02:26:35,952
Well, would you like
to explain that, Mr. Hughes?

1796
02:26:37,663 --> 02:26:41,875
I'm afraid you don't know how
the aviation business works, senator.

1797
02:26:42,043 --> 02:26:46,463
See, wining and dining Air Force dignitaries
is common in our business.

1798
02:26:46,631 --> 02:26:51,551
It's because we all want the big contracts.
All the major aircraft companies do it.

1799
02:26:51,719 --> 02:26:53,887
I don't know whether
it's a good system ...

1800
02:26:54,055 --> 02:26:58,308
... I just know it's not illegal.
You, senator, you are the lawmaker.

1801
02:26:58,476 --> 02:27:03,063
If you pass a law that states no one
can entertain Air Force officers, well, hell ...

1802
02:27:03,231 --> 02:27:05,398
... I'd be happy to abide by it.

1803
02:27:07,485 --> 02:27:10,904
Your story is a pack of lies. I can
tear it apart if allowed to cross-examine.

1804
02:27:12,240 --> 02:27:16,535
- We're not gonna have this bickering.
- Yes. Somewhere between two and 500 ...

1805
02:27:16,702 --> 02:27:20,580
... if you'll let me get started.
- If you believe your wealth and power ...

1806
02:27:20,748 --> 02:27:24,709
... can intimidate any member
of this committee, you're mistaken.

1807
02:27:24,877 --> 02:27:27,754
- Now submit your questions.
- I'll put this very simply.

1808
02:27:27,922 --> 02:27:30,966
On February 12th,
at the Mayflower Hotel ...

1809
02:27:31,133 --> 02:27:36,763
... did you or did you not tell me
that if I were to sell TWA to Pan Am ...

1810
02:27:36,931 --> 02:27:39,724
... that this entire investigation
would be called off?

1811
02:27:39,892 --> 02:27:43,603
I did not. And I have asked you
to submit your questions in writing.

1812
02:27:43,771 --> 02:27:47,732
- How long have you known Juan Trippe?
- I've known him for some time now.

1813
02:27:47,900 --> 02:27:52,612
- And that's not the question.
- Is it not true that Juan donated $20,000 ...

1814
02:27:52,780 --> 02:27:57,033
... to your last campaign? I mean,
he spoke to me as if you worked for him.

1815
02:28:01,080 --> 02:28:02,956
I have a personal friendship with --

1816
02:28:03,124 --> 02:28:06,543
Is it true you accept free Pan Am tickets
to circle the globe ...

1817
02:28:06,711 --> 02:28:09,629
... in support of your C.A.B. bill?
- No, it is not true.

1818
02:28:09,797 --> 02:28:14,009
Well, who wrote that bill, senator?
Who actually wrote the C.A.B. bill?

1819
02:28:14,176 --> 02:28:18,138
- The actual words. Did you write them?
- This is not how these hearings ...

1820
02:28:18,306 --> 02:28:22,392
... are gonna be conducted.
- I have it. Maybe it'll refresh your memory.

1821
02:28:22,560 --> 02:28:27,147
"Bill S-987 to amend
the Civil Aeronautics Act."

1822
02:28:27,315 --> 02:28:30,150
Now, you introduced this bill
to the Senate.

1823
02:28:32,612 --> 02:28:34,738
A lot of words.

1824
02:28:35,072 --> 02:28:37,073
You write all of them?

1825
02:28:37,658 --> 02:28:40,535
- Did you write any of them, senator?
- Now, look --

1826
02:28:40,703 --> 02:28:43,705
Now, this entire bill was written
by Pan Am executives ...

1827
02:28:43,873 --> 02:28:48,168
... and designed to give that airline
a monopoly on international travel.

1828
02:28:48,336 --> 02:28:52,797
You've been flogging this bill all around
the world on their behalf, have you not?

1829
02:28:52,965 --> 02:28:56,718
I have duties that take me
all over the world, Mr. Hughes.

1830
02:28:56,886 --> 02:29:01,932
Well, what the hell does a senator
from Maine need to visit Peru for?

1831
02:29:02,683 --> 02:29:07,354
I was seeking outlets for our trade goods.

1832
02:29:08,314 --> 02:29:11,274
Buy a lot of lobsters down there, do they?

1833
02:29:13,861 --> 02:29:17,656
Senator, how many times have you visited
Trippe's office in New York ...

1834
02:29:17,823 --> 02:29:20,200
... in the last three months?

1835
02:29:22,787 --> 02:29:25,538
Would you like me to tell you, senator?

1836
02:29:26,290 --> 02:29:29,751
All right, this has gone on long enough.
Juan is a great American.

1837
02:29:29,919 --> 02:29:34,297
His airline has advanced the cause
of commercial aviation for decades.

1838
02:29:34,465 --> 02:29:40,011
Juan Trippe is a patriot. Juan Trippe is not
a man who is interested in making money.

1839
02:29:40,888 --> 02:29:44,683
Well, I'm sure his stockholders
would be happy to hear that.

1840
02:29:46,352 --> 02:29:47,852
We're gonna clear this room.

1841
02:29:48,396 --> 02:29:53,191
This is James McNamara speaking to you
from the Hughes 2000-ton flying boat ...

1842
02:29:53,359 --> 02:29:56,528
... the world's largest aircraft.
This is the sky giant ...

1843
02:29:56,696 --> 02:30:00,782
... which has prompted Congress to
investigate the war contracts of Mr. Hughes.

1844
02:30:00,950 --> 02:30:04,536
Before boarding the craft,
Mr. Hughes told newsmen that this test ...

1845
02:30:04,704 --> 02:30:08,915
... would be solely a taxi experiment.
He said he didn't know what might happen.

1846
02:30:09,083 --> 02:30:10,959
The mammoth flying plywood shell ...

1847
02:30:13,045 --> 02:30:16,798
... might ship water under high-speed
taxi pressure. He will not take ...

1848
02:30:16,966 --> 02:30:20,260
... the craft into the air until next spring.
The thin man from Culver City ...

1849
02:30:20,428 --> 02:30:24,931
... pronounced the craft an unknown
quantity. He has an idea what it can do ...

1850
02:30:25,099 --> 02:30:27,100
None of that, now. None of that.

1851
02:30:27,268 --> 02:30:30,186
We are about 5 feet
in back of Mr. Hughes.

1852
02:30:30,354 --> 02:30:33,732
We are looking through
one of the side windows in the cockpit.

1853
02:30:33,899 --> 02:30:36,443
Professor, why don't you
come on up front here.

1854
02:30:36,861 --> 02:30:40,113
In other words, we are 30 feet high
in this aircraft.

1855
02:30:40,281 --> 02:30:44,909
Strap yourself in right there.
You ought to be able to see just great.

1856
02:30:45,911 --> 02:30:49,164
Huge crowds jam the surrounding
shoreline this morning.

1857
02:30:49,331 --> 02:30:52,542
All right, boys, let's fire it up.

1858
02:30:56,422 --> 02:30:57,797
One's good.

1859
02:30:59,050 --> 02:31:01,009
Two's good.

1860
02:31:01,177 --> 02:31:02,886
Three's good.

1861
02:31:03,054 --> 02:31:05,096
Four's good.

1862
02:31:05,264 --> 02:31:06,973
Five's good.

1863
02:31:07,141 --> 02:31:08,641
Six is good.

1864
02:31:08,809 --> 02:31:10,143
Seven's good.

1865
02:31:10,311 --> 02:31:12,228
Eight's good.

1866
02:31:13,314 --> 02:31:17,150
- Advancing master throttles.
- Advancing master throttles.

1867
02:31:18,778 --> 02:31:21,488
As you probably know,
I have to do a great deal ...

1868
02:31:21,655 --> 02:31:23,782
... of screaming into our microphone.

1869
02:31:23,949 --> 02:31:28,328
- Understood. Lower it 15 degrees of flaps.
- Lowering 15 degrees of flaps.

1870
02:31:28,996 --> 02:31:32,749
Howard, she's gotta hit 70
to have any kind of chance.

1871
02:31:32,917 --> 02:31:35,168
Yeah, I know. I know.

1872
02:31:35,336 --> 02:31:39,672
It's a beautiful day here off the coast
of Southern California. Blue skies ...

1873
02:31:39,840 --> 02:31:43,343
... a warm sun ...
- Twenty-five miles per hour.

1874
02:31:43,511 --> 02:31:45,762
- And a relatively calm sea ...
- Thirty.

1875
02:31:47,389 --> 02:31:48,681
Thirty-five.

1876
02:31:48,849 --> 02:31:52,811
One would think these eight power plants
might shake the craft to pieces ...

1877
02:31:53,187 --> 02:31:54,771
Take it easy, Howard.

1878
02:31:57,066 --> 02:32:00,860
- Forty!
- Throttling back for starboard turn 180.

1879
02:32:01,028 --> 02:32:03,363
Throttling back for starboard turn 180.

1880
02:32:08,619 --> 02:32:11,121
The flight crew itself
consists of four men.

1881
02:32:11,288 --> 02:32:15,333
Mr. Hughes, however, has added 11
maintenance men to this maiden taxi test ...

1882
02:32:15,501 --> 02:32:21,131
... stationed at various places throughout the
ship, checking points of stress and strain.

1883
02:32:23,551 --> 02:32:25,218
How does she sound, Odie?

1884
02:32:26,137 --> 02:32:28,138
Sounds good, Howard.

1885
02:32:31,433 --> 02:32:33,560
- Professor.
- Yes?

1886
02:32:33,727 --> 02:32:35,645
Would you do me a favor?

1887
02:32:36,105 --> 02:32:40,150
Would you take a look out that window
and tell me what the wind is doing?

1888
02:32:45,197 --> 02:32:49,534
I would say that we have a 15-knot wind.

1889
02:32:49,702 --> 02:32:53,079
Would you call that a headwind,
professor?

1890
02:32:53,789 --> 02:32:55,999
I would, Mr. Hughes.

1891
02:32:56,167 --> 02:32:59,752
We must maintain silence. We must
have quiet during the proceedings.

1892
02:32:59,920 --> 02:33:02,255
Mr. Hughes, will you stand and be sworn?

1893
02:33:02,423 --> 02:33:04,883
Mr. Hughes, did you receive ...

1894
02:33:05,050 --> 02:33:11,431
... $43 million to manufacture 100 XF-11
spy planes for the United States Air Force?

1895
02:33:12,683 --> 02:33:13,850
I did.

1896
02:33:14,143 --> 02:33:18,271
How many functional planes did you
deliver to the United States Air Force?

1897
02:33:18,606 --> 02:33:19,606
None.

1898
02:33:19,773 --> 02:33:23,026
Would you lean a little closer
to the microphones, sir?

1899
02:33:23,527 --> 02:33:24,694
None.

1900
02:33:24,862 --> 02:33:28,781
Did you receive $13 million
to manufacture ...

1901
02:33:28,949 --> 02:33:33,745
... a prototype of a flying boat
known as The Hercules?

1902
02:33:35,289 --> 02:33:36,581
I did.

1903
02:33:36,749 --> 02:33:39,334
And did you deliver that plane?

1904
02:33:39,627 --> 02:33:40,919
I did not.

1905
02:33:42,004 --> 02:33:45,298
So by your admission
in this chamber, Mr. Hughes ...

1906
02:33:45,466 --> 02:33:48,384
... you have received $56 million ...

1907
02:33:48,761 --> 02:33:52,972
... from the United States government
for planes you never delivered.

1908
02:33:53,807 --> 02:33:55,600
That is correct.

1909
02:33:58,020 --> 02:34:01,022
Well, excuse me for asking,
Mr. Hughes ...

1910
02:34:01,190 --> 02:34:03,149
... but where did all that money go?

1911
02:34:03,525 --> 02:34:08,071
Well, it went into the planes, senator.
And a lot more.

1912
02:34:08,239 --> 02:34:13,034
More? Do tell, Mr. Hughes,
what other larcenies did you commit?

1913
02:34:13,244 --> 02:34:18,498
I mean, I put my money
into the planes, senator. My money.

1914
02:34:21,001 --> 02:34:25,546
- See, the thing is that I care --
- Your personal finances are not --

1915
02:34:25,714 --> 02:34:28,424
Let him speak.

1916
02:34:31,762 --> 02:34:33,096
Proceed, Mr. Hughes.

1917
02:34:35,182 --> 02:34:40,520
See, the thing is,
I care very much about aviation.

1918
02:34:40,771 --> 02:34:45,441
It has been the great joy of my life. That's
why I put my own money into these planes.

1919
02:34:45,609 --> 02:34:50,029
And I've lost millions, senator,
and I'll go on losing millions. It's just ...

1920
02:34:50,197 --> 02:34:52,115
... what I do.

1921
02:34:52,449 --> 02:34:56,786
Now, if I've lost a lot of the government's
money during the war, I hope folks ...

1922
02:34:56,954 --> 02:34:59,539
... will put that into perspective.

1923
02:34:59,707 --> 02:35:03,042
More than 60 other airplanes ordered
from such firms as ...

1924
02:35:03,210 --> 02:35:07,213
... Lockheed, Douglas, Northrop and Boeing
never saw action either.

1925
02:35:07,381 --> 02:35:13,886
In all, more than $800 million was spent
during the war on planes that never flew.

1926
02:35:14,054 --> 02:35:19,183
Over 6 billion on other weapons
that were never delivered.

1927
02:35:19,351 --> 02:35:23,813
Yet Hughes Aircraft, with her 56 million ...

1928
02:35:23,981 --> 02:35:26,482
... is the only firm
under investigation here.

1929
02:35:26,650 --> 02:35:32,238
I cannot help but think that has a little more
to do with TWA than planes that did not fly.

1930
02:35:32,406 --> 02:35:36,367
- You've made your point, Mr. Hughes.
- One second. I have one more thing ...

1931
02:35:36,744 --> 02:35:38,995
... to say here to this committee.

1932
02:35:39,163 --> 02:35:41,706
And that has to do with The Hercules.

1933
02:35:42,333 --> 02:35:47,587
Now, I am supposed to be many things
which are not complimentary.

1934
02:35:47,755 --> 02:35:49,797
I am supposed to be capricious.

1935
02:35:49,965 --> 02:35:53,926
I have been called a playboy.
I've even been called an eccentric ...

1936
02:35:54,094 --> 02:35:58,348
... but I do not believe that I have
the reputation of being a liar.

1937
02:35:59,308 --> 02:36:02,685
Needless to say, The Hercules
was a monumental undertaking.

1938
02:36:02,853 --> 02:36:05,563
It is the largest plane ever built.

1939
02:36:05,731 --> 02:36:09,609
It is over five stories tall with a wingspan
longer than a football field.

1940
02:36:09,777 --> 02:36:11,611
That's more than a city block.

1941
02:36:11,779 --> 02:36:16,324
Now, I put the sweat of my life into this.
I got my reputation all rolled up in it.

1942
02:36:16,492 --> 02:36:19,952
I have stated several times
that if The Hercules fails to fly ...

1943
02:36:20,120 --> 02:36:24,248
... I will leave this country
and never come back. And I mean it.

1944
02:36:25,626 --> 02:36:29,462
Now, Senator Brewster,
you can subpoena me ...

1945
02:36:29,630 --> 02:36:34,467
... you can arrest me, you can even claim
I've folded up and taken a run-out powder ...

1946
02:36:34,635 --> 02:36:39,639
... but, well, I've had just about enough
of this nonsense. Good afternoon.

1947
02:36:40,057 --> 02:36:41,307
I had to do it.

1948
02:36:41,475 --> 02:36:45,436
- Mr. Hughes.
- Mr. Hughes.

1949
02:36:45,604 --> 02:36:48,147
I'd love to see The Hercules in the air.

1950
02:36:48,315 --> 02:36:50,733
Thank you, thank you so much.

1951
02:36:59,743 --> 02:37:00,827
Switch it off.

1952
02:37:00,994 --> 02:37:03,830
- The hearings aren't over yet.
- The hearings are over.

1953
02:37:06,542 --> 02:37:09,377
The airline bill will be defeated
in the Senate.

1954
02:37:09,545 --> 02:37:12,630
TWA will begin flights from
New York to Paris ...

1955
02:37:12,798 --> 02:37:18,594
... then on to Moscow, to Japan,
to Hawaii, to Los Angeles ...

1956
02:37:20,722 --> 02:37:22,765
... to New York.

1957
02:37:26,603 --> 02:37:28,271
Fuck.

1958
02:37:32,317 --> 02:37:36,154
- Power coming up.
- Power coming up.

1959
02:37:39,450 --> 02:37:41,701
Howard Hughes has just alerted us.

1960
02:37:41,869 --> 02:37:46,456
He has asked everyone to hold on.
Tremendous horsepower kicking up.

1961
02:37:48,041 --> 02:37:49,167
Let me hear it, Odie.

1962
02:37:49,334 --> 02:37:51,377
Twenty-five miles per hour.

1963
02:37:51,962 --> 02:37:53,212
Thirty.

1964
02:37:53,547 --> 02:37:55,756
Here we go. Here we go.

1965
02:37:55,924 --> 02:37:58,092
- Thirty-five.
- The air-speed indicator ...

1966
02:37:58,260 --> 02:38:01,888
... has moved up to 25. Thirty.

1967
02:38:02,306 --> 02:38:04,390
- Thirty-five.
- Forty.

1968
02:38:04,558 --> 02:38:06,392
As he pushes the throttle it's 40.

1969
02:38:06,560 --> 02:38:09,854
- Forty-five.
- Forty-five. More throttle.

1970
02:38:10,022 --> 02:38:12,023
- Forty-five.
- Fifty.

1971
02:38:12,608 --> 02:38:15,067
- It's 50 over a choppy sea.
- Fifty-five.

1972
02:38:15,235 --> 02:38:17,570
It's 55. It's 55.

1973
02:38:18,071 --> 02:38:20,239
- Sixty.
- More throttle. It's 60.

1974
02:38:20,407 --> 02:38:22,158
- Sixty-five.
- Sixty-five.

1975
02:38:26,830 --> 02:38:28,748
- Seventy.
- It's 70.

1976
02:38:28,916 --> 02:38:31,667
- Seventy-five.
- It's 75.

1977
02:38:39,051 --> 02:38:44,347
And something momentarily cuts out.
I believe we are airborne.

1978
02:38:44,515 --> 02:38:48,100
We are airborne, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't believe that Hughes ...

1979
02:38:48,268 --> 02:38:51,020
... meant this to be. I don't know.

1980
02:38:53,232 --> 02:38:58,611
And we were really up in the air.
We were really up in the air.

1981
02:39:03,033 --> 02:39:06,452
Ladies and gentlemen,
the Hughes mammoth aircraft ...

1982
02:39:06,620 --> 02:39:11,123
... has flown this afternoon
in Los Angeles Harbor.

1983
02:39:11,291 --> 02:39:15,503
Well, it certainly looks at this moment
that Howard Hughes will be around ...

1984
02:39:15,671 --> 02:39:19,549
... the United States for quite
some time to come.

1985
02:39:30,602 --> 02:39:34,647
We must understand that technologies
like these are the way of the future.

1986
02:39:34,815 --> 02:39:38,359
- That's enough questions.
- TWA and Hughes Aircraft are delighted ...

1987
02:39:38,527 --> 02:39:41,821
... to have you come here
and witness this wonderful sight.

1988
02:39:41,989 --> 02:39:44,156
- Excuse us for just a second.
- All right.

1989
02:39:44,324 --> 02:39:46,325
- So you feel like going to Paris?
- Now?

1990
02:39:46,493 --> 02:39:48,494
TWA is starting up flights to Europe.

1991
02:39:48,662 --> 02:39:52,123
I thought I might pilot the first one.
Ought to be some fun.

1992
02:39:52,291 --> 02:39:55,001
- Lots of shopping in Paris.
- I'll buy you anything.

1993
02:39:55,168 --> 02:39:58,087
You can buy me dinner. How about that?

1994
02:40:00,340 --> 02:40:02,758
Dinner, then. We got a date?

1995
02:40:02,968 --> 02:40:05,303
Okay, baby, you got a date.

1996
02:40:06,930 --> 02:40:10,725
I'll be back in a second,
but don't you go anywhere, now. I mean it.

1997
02:40:10,892 --> 02:40:13,894
All right, listen, boys.
Something new. Jet airplanes.

1998
02:40:14,062 --> 02:40:17,023
- You know about jets?
- No, but it sounds expensive.

1999
02:40:17,190 --> 02:40:19,609
Oh, it will be, but we gotta get started.

2000
02:40:20,861 --> 02:40:23,654
Come on, walk with me.

2001
02:40:23,822 --> 02:40:26,157
Whoever can start utilizing
jet technology ...

2002
02:40:26,325 --> 02:40:30,202
... on commercial airliners is gonna win.
What do you know about the science?

2003
02:40:30,370 --> 02:40:34,832
I know a little. I can work something
to show you. Basic turbine stuff.

2004
02:40:39,463 --> 02:40:43,299
Noah, who are those fellas?

2005
02:40:44,217 --> 02:40:46,010
Do they work for me?

2006
02:40:47,346 --> 02:40:49,639
Everybody works for you, Howard.

2007
02:40:56,396 --> 02:41:01,108
Lockheed worked on the F-80. Let's get
Bob Gross and see if he can help us out.

2008
02:41:01,276 --> 02:41:03,569
- What, now?
- Of course now.

2009
02:41:03,737 --> 02:41:06,697
We gotta get into it.
Jets are the way of the future.

2010
02:41:06,865 --> 02:41:10,076
- It's 4:30.
- I talked to Bob last week. He's in New York.

2011
02:41:10,243 --> 02:41:12,870
- So it's 7:30.
- He won't be in the office.

2012
02:41:13,038 --> 02:41:16,248
We'll figure out what hotel he's at.
Do you want a call ...

2013
02:41:16,416 --> 02:41:19,919
... or you want some kind of meeting?
- We want a meeting, don't we?

2014
02:41:20,087 --> 02:41:23,339
Do you want me bring him
out here tomorrow, then, Howard?

2015
02:41:24,341 --> 02:41:26,759
- The way of the future.
- Howard?

2016
02:41:26,927 --> 02:41:28,678
- Howard?
- The way of the future.

2017
02:41:30,180 --> 02:41:32,932
- The way of the future.
- Let's take a walk, Howard.

2018
02:41:33,100 --> 02:41:35,017
- Way of the future.
- Give me a hand.

2019
02:41:35,185 --> 02:41:51,784
The way of the future.
The way of the future.

2020
02:41:51,952 --> 02:41:55,913
All right, stay here. I'll be right back.
You understand, Howard?

2021
02:41:56,081 --> 02:41:57,832
The way of the future.

2022
02:41:57,999 --> 02:42:01,627
Guard the door. I'll get a doctor.
No one sees him like this.

2023
02:42:01,795 --> 02:42:09,969
The way of the future.
The way of the future.

2024
02:42:14,099 --> 02:42:15,891
The way of the future.

2025
02:42:22,149 --> 02:42:24,191
You are not safe.

2026
02:42:32,701 --> 02:42:33,951
When I grow up ...

2027
02:42:34,494 --> 02:42:37,496
... I'm gonna fly the fastest planes
ever built ...

2028
02:42:37,664 --> 02:42:40,249
... make the biggest movies ever ...

2029
02:42:40,417 --> 02:42:43,335
... and be the richest man in the world.

2030
02:42:56,600 --> 02:43:31,383
The way of the future.