1 00:01:13,129 --> 00:01:15,393 Q-U... 2 00:01:15,564 --> 00:01:17,555 ...A-R... 3 00:01:20,236 --> 00:01:22,466 ...A-N-T... 4 00:01:24,607 --> 00:01:27,167 ...I-N-E. 5 00:01:30,646 --> 00:01:33,012 Quarantine. 6 00:01:33,649 --> 00:01:36,675 Q-U-A-R... 7 00:01:39,755 --> 00:01:42,223 ...A-N-T... 8 00:01:42,958 --> 00:01:45,449 ...I-N-E. 9 00:01:46,028 --> 00:01:47,620 Quarantine. 10 00:01:47,830 --> 00:01:49,388 You know the cholera? 11 00:01:49,565 --> 00:01:51,089 Yes, Mother. 12 00:01:51,267 --> 00:01:54,202 You've seen the signs on the houses where the coloreds live? 13 00:01:54,370 --> 00:01:56,031 Yes, Mother. 14 00:01:56,205 --> 00:01:57,467 You know the typhus? 15 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:59,699 I do, Mother. 16 00:02:02,611 --> 00:02:04,636 You know what they can do to you? 17 00:02:05,481 --> 00:02:07,039 Yes, Mother. 18 00:02:10,986 --> 00:02:13,352 You are not safe. 19 00:02:20,362 --> 00:02:23,957 You may be directing this movie, but what you're asking, we can't do. 20 00:02:25,301 --> 00:02:26,996 Don't tell me it can't be done. 21 00:02:27,169 --> 00:02:30,935 The gyro forces are too much. You send these planes into barrel rolls... 22 00:02:31,106 --> 00:02:34,598 ...they won't make it. - It's the climax of the picture. Make it work. 23 00:02:34,777 --> 00:02:37,268 Decrease the vertical trajectory if you have to. 24 00:02:37,446 --> 00:02:39,937 A Le Rhône rotary won't stall at 60 degrees. 25 00:02:40,115 --> 00:02:43,676 We're still short two cameras. We need to cut that sequence down... 26 00:02:43,852 --> 00:02:47,253 We're not cutting. I'll get those cameras. Set up for rehearsals. 27 00:02:47,423 --> 00:02:50,221 I'm Noah Dietrich. Your office said I'd find you here. 28 00:02:50,392 --> 00:02:52,485 Dietrich. You're a man on the come. 29 00:02:52,661 --> 00:02:56,495 I read your résumé, talked to your references. Know what I'm looking for? 30 00:02:56,665 --> 00:02:59,691 You're looking for a second-in-command at Hughes Tools. 31 00:02:59,868 --> 00:03:02,632 Someone to oversee the financial aspects of the business. 32 00:03:02,805 --> 00:03:05,569 I'm looking for somebody to run it and do a good job. 33 00:03:05,741 --> 00:03:08,005 There's only one thing you've gotta know. 34 00:03:08,177 --> 00:03:11,010 My folks, they're gone now. So it's my money. 35 00:03:11,180 --> 00:03:14,911 What I do with that money may seem crazy to those sons of bitches in Houston. 36 00:03:15,084 --> 00:03:18,645 I'm sure it does, but it all makes good sense to me. You got that? 37 00:03:18,821 --> 00:03:20,618 - Got it. - Good. 38 00:03:20,789 --> 00:03:23,917 Now, you made, what, $5200 a year at your last job? 39 00:03:24,093 --> 00:03:27,961 - I'll pay you $10,000. - I guess I'll be working twice as hard. 40 00:03:28,130 --> 00:03:31,691 You'll be working four times as hard. I just got you at half price. 41 00:03:31,867 --> 00:03:33,357 - Welcome aboard. - Thank you. 42 00:03:33,535 --> 00:03:35,696 You're my voice now. Make them understand that. 43 00:03:35,871 --> 00:03:40,035 Some of those folks still call me Junior. You tell them it's "Mr. Hughes" now. 44 00:03:40,209 --> 00:03:42,302 You bet. So when do we go to Houston? 45 00:03:42,478 --> 00:03:45,743 We don't. Cholera epidemic in 1913. Two thousand dead. 46 00:03:45,914 --> 00:03:47,973 Whole place is nothing but pestilential swamp. 47 00:03:48,150 --> 00:03:52,246 Typhus, malaria, cholera, yellow fever. You name it, they got it. 48 00:03:52,421 --> 00:03:53,888 You see that, Mr. Dietrich? 49 00:03:54,890 --> 00:03:58,951 You are looking at the largest private air force in the entire world. 50 00:03:59,128 --> 00:04:01,153 What do you think of that, now? 51 00:04:02,564 --> 00:04:04,122 It's your money. 52 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:06,700 Start them up! 53 00:05:32,654 --> 00:05:36,488 I saw the rough cut of the new Tod Browning movie, London After Midnight. 54 00:05:36,658 --> 00:05:38,455 Lon Chaney is incredible. 55 00:05:38,627 --> 00:05:40,959 It's his best performance in a long time. 56 00:05:41,130 --> 00:05:43,462 It's gonna be a big hit. The cards are great. 57 00:05:43,632 --> 00:05:45,065 It's supposed to be... 58 00:05:45,234 --> 00:05:47,668 Hello, Mr. Mayer. 59 00:05:47,836 --> 00:05:50,828 I don't know if you remember me. My name's Howard Hughes. 60 00:05:51,006 --> 00:05:53,372 I was wondering if I could have a moment. 61 00:05:53,542 --> 00:05:56,602 - Oh, Howard Hughes. The airplane picture? - Exactly. 62 00:05:56,779 --> 00:05:59,111 - I remember. - Hell's Angels. You heard of it. 63 00:05:59,281 --> 00:06:00,509 - Good. - Yes. 64 00:06:00,682 --> 00:06:03,480 I was wondering if I could have a moment of your time. 65 00:06:03,652 --> 00:06:04,949 I need a few cameras. 66 00:06:05,788 --> 00:06:08,780 - Yeah? - Yeah, two, to be exact. 67 00:06:09,691 --> 00:06:13,718 I bought every camera I could find. We're shooting our big dogfight sequence. 68 00:06:13,896 --> 00:06:17,332 I need two more. Desperately. You think MGM could help me out? 69 00:06:17,633 --> 00:06:18,861 With what? 70 00:06:19,034 --> 00:06:21,832 - Cameras. - Oh, with the actual cam... 71 00:06:22,004 --> 00:06:25,201 We're not usually in the practice of helping out competition. 72 00:06:25,474 --> 00:06:28,500 - No. No. - So how many cameras do you have now? 73 00:06:28,677 --> 00:06:30,042 Twenty-four. 74 00:06:32,614 --> 00:06:35,208 You? Wait a minute. 75 00:06:37,486 --> 00:06:39,351 - You have 24 cameras? - That's right. 76 00:06:39,521 --> 00:06:42,115 - And you need..? You need two more? - Yeah. 77 00:06:42,291 --> 00:06:45,886 - You don't think you got it with 24? - No. No, sir. 78 00:06:46,061 --> 00:06:48,689 You know, I think... I think we've got them all... 79 00:06:48,864 --> 00:06:51,298 Don't we have them? They're all used, right? 80 00:06:51,467 --> 00:06:53,731 - All 26 of them. - I only need two, sir. 81 00:06:53,902 --> 00:06:55,767 - Jesus Christ, sonny. - Howard. 82 00:06:55,938 --> 00:06:58,600 Howard. Let me give you a little advice, huh? 83 00:06:58,774 --> 00:07:00,867 - Take your oil money... - Drill bits. 84 00:07:01,043 --> 00:07:04,137 All right, take your drill-bit money and put it in the bank. 85 00:07:04,313 --> 00:07:06,975 If you continue making the movie the way you are... 86 00:07:07,149 --> 00:07:09,413 ...there isn't gonna be a distributor... 87 00:07:09,585 --> 00:07:12,554 ...you won't find anybody who wants to see the movie... 88 00:07:12,721 --> 00:07:15,383 ...and you're not gonna have any more oil money. 89 00:07:15,557 --> 00:07:18,583 So welcome to Hollywood. 90 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:22,161 Yeah. Well, I'll be sure to remember that, Mr. Mayer. 91 00:07:22,331 --> 00:07:24,128 - Good luck. - All right. 92 00:07:24,299 --> 00:07:27,496 He needs 26 to make it work? He's out of his mind. 93 00:07:34,743 --> 00:07:37,576 I looked down at my pants. It was a strange situation. 94 00:07:39,414 --> 00:07:42,144 Boss. Scram, love boat, let's go. 95 00:07:43,385 --> 00:07:46,411 - Another soda. You know what I mean. - Milk. In the bottle. 96 00:07:46,588 --> 00:07:49,557 - With the cap still on. - Okay, what did His Highness say? 97 00:07:49,725 --> 00:07:52,922 Son of a bitch won't part with a single goddamn camera. 98 00:07:53,095 --> 00:07:55,620 Why don't you try and make do with what you have. 99 00:07:56,198 --> 00:07:58,962 What I have isn't enough, John, not for how I see it. 100 00:07:59,134 --> 00:08:00,624 Look. 101 00:08:00,802 --> 00:08:04,738 My name depends on this picture. If it doesn't work, I'm back to Houston... 102 00:08:04,907 --> 00:08:07,705 ...making goddamn drill bits for the rest of my life. 103 00:08:07,876 --> 00:08:10,037 Can't you do it with the cameras you have? 104 00:08:10,212 --> 00:08:12,976 You ought to hear about what's going on with DeMille. 105 00:08:13,148 --> 00:08:17,414 He's shooting his Bible picture. He's gotta do a crucifixion in Fresno. 106 00:08:17,586 --> 00:08:18,814 Johnny. 107 00:08:18,987 --> 00:08:21,080 - A bunch of tractors... - Johnny. 108 00:08:21,256 --> 00:08:23,417 - You're a press agent, are you not? - Yeah. 109 00:08:23,592 --> 00:08:25,719 You're supposed to know the ins and outs? 110 00:08:25,894 --> 00:08:27,122 - Absolutely. - Do you? 111 00:08:27,296 --> 00:08:28,524 Yeah, absolutely. 112 00:08:28,697 --> 00:08:30,756 Then you leave the big ideas... 113 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,493 ...to me. - Oh, yeah. Of course, boss. 114 00:08:33,669 --> 00:08:35,432 Cigar, cigarettes, Sen-Sen? 115 00:08:36,572 --> 00:08:38,733 I thought you were at the Brown Derby... 116 00:08:38,907 --> 00:08:40,636 ...with Trixie. No, Theresa. 117 00:08:40,809 --> 00:08:42,333 - Margaret. - Margaret. Exactly. 118 00:08:42,511 --> 00:08:44,638 What happened to Margaret? She lost her... 119 00:08:44,813 --> 00:08:46,337 Thank God that's settled. 120 00:08:46,515 --> 00:08:49,643 Oh, I'm sorry. Thelma, this is Howard Hughes. 121 00:08:49,818 --> 00:08:53,811 Howard and I were discussing how he wants me to pull a camera out of my ass. 122 00:08:54,656 --> 00:08:58,456 - Cigarette? - Oh, no, thanks. I don't smoke. 123 00:09:01,296 --> 00:09:04,595 Boy, you are just hitting on all six cylinders, aren't you? 124 00:09:04,766 --> 00:09:06,631 My God. 125 00:09:07,235 --> 00:09:09,430 Would you do me a favor and just? 126 00:09:09,605 --> 00:09:12,267 Would you just smile for me one time? Just once? 127 00:09:15,544 --> 00:09:18,172 Yeah. Yeah. You see, you got a short upper lip. 128 00:09:18,547 --> 00:09:20,344 Makes for a much nicer smile. 129 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,115 See, I wonder what gives a beautiful woman like you pleasure. 130 00:09:29,358 --> 00:09:32,953 I mean, say you're just standing there, right? And I just touch you. 131 00:09:33,128 --> 00:09:35,119 Just... Just like this. 132 00:09:35,731 --> 00:09:37,096 With my fingertips. 133 00:09:37,265 --> 00:09:39,495 Do you..? Do you like that? 134 00:09:40,602 --> 00:09:42,194 Do you? 135 00:09:47,209 --> 00:09:50,235 You see, I wanna learn what pleases you. 136 00:09:51,446 --> 00:09:54,506 I wanna learn everything about you. 137 00:09:54,683 --> 00:09:56,708 Would you let me do that? 138 00:09:56,885 --> 00:09:59,080 Would you give me that job? 139 00:10:04,226 --> 00:10:06,194 I'm off in a half an hour. 140 00:10:07,896 --> 00:10:10,626 - Well, I'm in room... - 217. 141 00:10:10,799 --> 00:10:12,733 217. 142 00:10:14,736 --> 00:10:16,601 See you there. 143 00:10:20,909 --> 00:10:23,434 Johnny, get on the horn to Universal and Warners. 144 00:10:23,612 --> 00:10:25,477 I need two more cameras by Saturday. 145 00:10:25,647 --> 00:10:28,411 Rent them if you can. Steal them if you have to. 146 00:10:29,151 --> 00:10:31,244 Absotively, boss. 147 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:32,948 Absotively. 148 00:10:34,623 --> 00:10:37,387 Rumors coming from a lonely airstrip out in Van Nuys. 149 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:40,858 Sources whisper that young Texas industrialist Howard Hughes... 150 00:10:41,029 --> 00:10:43,429 ... won't stop pouring money into his war epic. 151 00:10:43,598 --> 00:10:44,997 And do we mean epic! 152 00:10:45,167 --> 00:10:48,000 One hundred and thirty-seven pilots, 87 airplanes... 153 00:10:48,170 --> 00:10:52,573 ... 35 cameramen, 2000 extras. How long will it be before this picture... 154 00:10:52,741 --> 00:10:54,971 ... ends up costing as much as the real war? 155 00:10:55,143 --> 00:10:57,373 Damn it. Why the hell do they look so slow? 156 00:10:57,546 --> 00:11:01,141 This isn't what it was like up there. They look like goddamn models! 157 00:11:09,524 --> 00:11:10,957 Son of a bitch. 158 00:11:12,260 --> 00:11:13,659 Howard? 159 00:11:16,231 --> 00:11:20,133 Without something standing still behind the planes... 160 00:11:20,302 --> 00:11:22,862 ...we've got no idea of how fast we're moving. 161 00:11:23,038 --> 00:11:25,871 We got no sense of relative motion. 162 00:11:27,042 --> 00:11:29,704 Call UCLA. Get me the best meteorologist they got. 163 00:11:29,878 --> 00:11:31,971 You get him here in an hour, all right? 164 00:11:35,350 --> 00:11:38,148 Hey. You want the good news or the bad news? 165 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:39,878 - Bad news, always. - All right. 166 00:11:40,055 --> 00:11:43,252 We installed the 450 radial. Struts won't take the vibration. 167 00:11:43,425 --> 00:11:47,225 Minute we fire her up, the struts start cracking at the attach points. 168 00:11:47,462 --> 00:11:50,192 - Well, what's the good news? - There isn't any. 169 00:11:50,599 --> 00:11:54,194 Goddamn it, Odie. If the 450's too big, we figure something else out. 170 00:11:54,369 --> 00:11:57,338 We've done everything. We've rebuilt her from top to toe. 171 00:11:57,506 --> 00:11:59,303 If we drain the fuel tank... 172 00:11:59,474 --> 00:12:03,137 ...she might make 180 miles per hour. - I want minimum 200, all right? 173 00:12:03,311 --> 00:12:06,178 I want a date with Theda Bara. That ain't gonna happen. 174 00:12:06,348 --> 00:12:08,248 Oh, don't be so sure. 175 00:12:08,617 --> 00:12:12,485 If the struts won't sustain the engine we need, we gotta get rid of the struts. 176 00:12:12,654 --> 00:12:14,713 No, then the top wing falls off. 177 00:12:17,425 --> 00:12:18,983 Then let it. 178 00:12:19,494 --> 00:12:20,961 What? 179 00:12:22,264 --> 00:12:24,289 Who says we need a top wing? 180 00:12:24,466 --> 00:12:26,525 I mean, who says we need anything? 181 00:12:28,703 --> 00:12:31,137 - A monoplane. - A cantilevered monoplane, right? 182 00:12:31,306 --> 00:12:34,503 They're doing it in France. To hell with the top wing and struts. 183 00:12:34,676 --> 00:12:37,076 - A 550 Wasp engine. - One-hundred-octane fuel. 184 00:12:37,245 --> 00:12:40,544 - That would give us a horsepower of what? - Seven hundred. 185 00:12:42,083 --> 00:12:46,213 We squeeze that to a thousand, we got the fastest plane ever built. 186 00:12:49,024 --> 00:12:50,548 You know, I've gotta say... 187 00:12:50,725 --> 00:12:54,422 ...we've already spent over $200,000 rebuilding this plane. 188 00:12:55,864 --> 00:12:57,456 To hell with it. 189 00:12:58,600 --> 00:12:59,965 Tear it up, Odie. 190 00:13:00,135 --> 00:13:01,500 Go on. 191 00:13:05,173 --> 00:13:06,504 Well... 192 00:13:09,444 --> 00:13:13,141 The cumulonimbus formations about which you speak... 193 00:13:14,616 --> 00:13:16,743 ...that look like... 194 00:13:16,918 --> 00:13:18,715 Giant breasts full of milk. 195 00:13:18,887 --> 00:13:20,616 I want clouds, damn it. 196 00:13:20,989 --> 00:13:22,581 Yes, clouds... 197 00:13:22,757 --> 00:13:26,557 ...that look like giant breasts full of milk... 198 00:13:26,728 --> 00:13:30,255 ...cannot exactly be guaranteed for any particular occasion. 199 00:13:30,432 --> 00:13:32,525 So you might have to... 200 00:13:33,835 --> 00:13:35,200 To wait. 201 00:13:37,305 --> 00:13:39,239 Then we'll wait. 202 00:13:40,208 --> 00:13:42,540 Look, whatever they pay you at UCLA... 203 00:13:42,711 --> 00:13:46,306 ...I'm doubling it, all right? You work for me now. Find some clouds. 204 00:13:47,782 --> 00:13:49,147 Find some clouds. 205 00:13:49,818 --> 00:13:51,581 Find me some clouds! 206 00:13:51,753 --> 00:13:53,948 Welcome to Hell's Angels. 207 00:13:57,158 --> 00:13:58,386 Thank you. 208 00:14:07,035 --> 00:14:10,493 I've been to Chatsworth, Santa Cruz, Encino, San Diego... 209 00:14:10,672 --> 00:14:14,540 ...Riverside, Van Nuys and Bakersfield. It has been eight months! 210 00:14:14,709 --> 00:14:16,506 Where are my goddamn clouds, huh? 211 00:14:16,678 --> 00:14:19,010 They move, Mr. Hughes! 212 00:14:19,180 --> 00:14:20,511 Clouds move. 213 00:14:20,682 --> 00:14:23,150 - That's what they do. They move! - You see that? 214 00:14:23,318 --> 00:14:27,015 It is costing me $5271 a day... 215 00:14:27,188 --> 00:14:31,591 ...to keep those planes on the ground. You find me some goddamn clouds, huh? 216 00:14:39,034 --> 00:14:40,524 Nice day. 217 00:14:41,002 --> 00:14:42,902 Yeah, very funny. 218 00:14:43,171 --> 00:14:46,004 I got a call from Houston. They're getting nervous. 219 00:14:46,174 --> 00:14:48,108 Stop showing them the damn bills. 220 00:14:48,276 --> 00:14:49,641 That would be illegal. 221 00:14:49,811 --> 00:14:52,041 Shit, no. Maybe it's a little bit naughty. 222 00:14:52,213 --> 00:14:56,081 Hughes Tool is incorporated in Texas. They have to see the bills. 223 00:14:57,485 --> 00:15:01,046 Incorporate a new division out here. We'll call it Hughes Aircraft. 224 00:15:01,222 --> 00:15:05,784 - Do we need these rivets on the cowling? - Yeah, or the reverse thrust would rip it off. 225 00:15:05,961 --> 00:15:08,657 They're gonna give me drag. Do something about that. 226 00:15:08,830 --> 00:15:11,094 - Wind resistance on rivets? - I want her slippery. 227 00:15:11,266 --> 00:15:14,292 There are tax consequences to incorporating in California. 228 00:15:14,469 --> 00:15:16,937 - Just take care of it, would you? - Mr. Hughes! 229 00:15:17,105 --> 00:15:18,902 Oakland! 230 00:15:19,074 --> 00:15:22,100 - We have clouds in Oakland! - You mean it this time? 231 00:15:22,277 --> 00:15:23,835 Yes! 232 00:15:24,012 --> 00:15:27,106 Goddamn it, yes. I can promise you. 233 00:15:27,282 --> 00:15:30,547 - Clouds in Oakland. - All right, don't get all jittery now. 234 00:15:30,719 --> 00:15:32,118 Oakland! 235 00:15:33,021 --> 00:15:34,886 Oakland! 236 00:15:35,056 --> 00:15:38,287 We're going to Oakland! Oakland. 237 00:16:14,462 --> 00:16:17,090 Down and to the left! 238 00:16:40,088 --> 00:16:42,079 That's perfect! 239 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:50,363 That's right, Senator George. 240 00:16:50,532 --> 00:16:53,228 Yes, young Howard Hughes has pulled it off! 241 00:16:53,401 --> 00:16:56,802 After two years, Hell's Angels has finally finished filming. 242 00:16:56,971 --> 00:17:00,099 There's gonna be one heck of a wrap party in Hollywood tonight. 243 00:17:00,275 --> 00:17:02,971 The price tag? A staggering $2 million. 244 00:17:03,144 --> 00:17:05,635 If every human being in America buys a ticket... 245 00:17:05,814 --> 00:17:07,543 ... he might even make a profit. 246 00:17:12,654 --> 00:17:13,985 First, clouds don't come. 247 00:17:14,155 --> 00:17:16,555 Then planes break down. Then the planes crash. 248 00:17:18,226 --> 00:17:21,286 We've had everything but a plague of locusts on this thing. 249 00:17:21,463 --> 00:17:22,828 I mean, you have to admit. 250 00:17:22,997 --> 00:17:26,990 Now, honestly, did you ever think you'd actually finish the damn thing? 251 00:17:29,204 --> 00:17:30,603 Come with me. 252 00:17:32,507 --> 00:17:35,772 Mama, darling, if I'm a success in this show... 253 00:17:35,944 --> 00:17:38,003 - ... we're gonna move from here. - Oh, no. 254 00:17:38,179 --> 00:17:40,147 Yes. We're gonna move up in the Bronx. 255 00:17:40,315 --> 00:17:42,374 Green grass, a lot of people you know. 256 00:17:42,550 --> 00:17:45,246 The Ginsbergs, the Guttenbergs and the Goldbergs. 257 00:17:45,420 --> 00:17:48,116 Oh, a whole lot of "bergs." I don't know them all. 258 00:17:48,723 --> 00:17:52,489 See, this is what the people want. Silent pictures are yesterday's news. 259 00:17:52,660 --> 00:17:55,652 So I figure we gotta reshoot Hell's Angels for sound. 260 00:17:58,066 --> 00:17:59,590 How much of it? 261 00:17:59,767 --> 00:18:02,031 All of it. Before you ask, I'll tell you. 262 00:18:02,203 --> 00:18:05,070 An additional 1.7 million. We got that much? 263 00:18:06,207 --> 00:18:09,472 - No! - Well, we'll make it. 264 00:18:09,644 --> 00:18:11,373 Take care of that, would you? 265 00:18:11,546 --> 00:18:12,877 Now, get this. 266 00:18:22,957 --> 00:18:25,118 In the halls of 7000 Romaine... 267 00:18:25,293 --> 00:18:27,727 ... it goes on day after day, month after month. 268 00:18:27,896 --> 00:18:31,593 Howard Hughes is now editing some 25 miles of film. 269 00:18:33,001 --> 00:18:37,597 Heck, I say release it now and give the world its first 560-hour movie. 270 00:18:37,772 --> 00:18:42,038 Pat, Mr. Hughes needs this reel in the projection room right now! 271 00:18:42,911 --> 00:18:44,503 Enough is enough, Mr. Hughes. 272 00:18:44,679 --> 00:18:47,876 Are you ever gonna let us actually see this epic of yours? 273 00:18:48,049 --> 00:18:49,539 Hurry up! 274 00:19:10,538 --> 00:19:11,937 - Who is it? - Noah. 275 00:19:12,106 --> 00:19:13,767 Come on in. 276 00:19:15,343 --> 00:19:17,937 I've been on the phone to Houston for three hours. 277 00:19:18,112 --> 00:19:21,104 - We're fixing every goddamn book we have. - Wait, wait. 278 00:19:22,050 --> 00:19:25,451 Yeah. Run reel 10 again. I think we're duplicating a shot here. 279 00:19:25,620 --> 00:19:29,454 And tell Jimmy I want 10 chocolate chip cookies, all right? 280 00:19:29,624 --> 00:19:32,491 Medium chips, none too close to the outside. 281 00:19:32,660 --> 00:19:34,150 Got it? 282 00:19:34,329 --> 00:19:36,661 You remember that goddamn shot from reel 10? 283 00:19:36,831 --> 00:19:39,425 No. I don't remember anything from reel 10. 284 00:19:39,601 --> 00:19:41,762 I don't know what reel 10 is. 285 00:19:41,936 --> 00:19:45,201 I'm a businessman, Howard. And so are you. 286 00:19:45,373 --> 00:19:47,170 Now, look. 287 00:19:47,342 --> 00:19:48,809 This has been a great ride. 288 00:19:48,977 --> 00:19:50,911 We've had a hell of a lot of fun. 289 00:19:51,312 --> 00:19:54,975 But you're losing $25,000 a day doing this. 290 00:19:55,283 --> 00:19:57,183 Every day. 291 00:20:02,757 --> 00:20:05,590 So, what are my options? 292 00:20:07,161 --> 00:20:09,891 Well, this time I don't know that you have any. 293 00:20:10,064 --> 00:20:12,498 I'm afraid you gotta close it down. 294 00:20:13,268 --> 00:20:14,860 Dig your way out. 295 00:20:21,542 --> 00:20:23,533 I'm sorry, Howard. 296 00:20:24,112 --> 00:20:25,909 I truly am. 297 00:20:33,288 --> 00:20:34,880 Reel 10, Mr. Hughes. 298 00:20:40,928 --> 00:20:42,953 Mortgage Tool Co. 299 00:20:43,865 --> 00:20:48,962 - Every asset. You heard me. - lf you do that, you could lose everything. 300 00:20:49,137 --> 00:20:50,695 Well, I won't. 301 00:20:53,841 --> 00:20:55,308 I won't. 302 00:20:56,778 --> 00:20:58,575 All right. 303 00:20:59,781 --> 00:21:01,408 I'll get into it. 304 00:21:02,784 --> 00:21:04,342 Thanks, Noah. 305 00:21:39,454 --> 00:21:43,185 More than half a million souls lining the curb of Hollywood Boulevard. 306 00:21:43,358 --> 00:21:44,985 Look at the automobiles! 307 00:21:45,159 --> 00:21:49,027 There are 45,000 cars here, making it the greatest traffic jam ever seen. 308 00:21:49,197 --> 00:21:51,597 Howard Hughes must have a lump in his throat. 309 00:21:51,766 --> 00:21:55,862 Six months after the stock market crashes and after three pilots' deaths... 310 00:21:56,037 --> 00:21:59,006 ... he's finally unveiling his $4 million baby doll. 311 00:21:59,173 --> 00:22:03,473 It's the most expensive movie ever made. Nothing five-and-dime for our Mr. Hughes. 312 00:22:03,644 --> 00:22:06,943 Nothing like tonight has ever been seen before, and I can say... 313 00:22:07,115 --> 00:22:08,776 ... it will never be seen again. 314 00:22:08,950 --> 00:22:12,943 Five hundred thousand people are crowding the streets to get a glimpse of the stars. 315 00:22:13,121 --> 00:22:15,817 Three companies of Marines were called to assist... 316 00:22:15,990 --> 00:22:19,426 ... the 250 special police who are handling this enormous crowd... 317 00:22:19,594 --> 00:22:21,118 This is an industry town. 318 00:22:21,295 --> 00:22:24,196 And nobody but nobody makes a movie outside a studio. 319 00:22:24,365 --> 00:22:27,857 Some Hollywood insiders over at the Brown Derby may be laughing... 320 00:22:28,035 --> 00:22:29,502 And now, I think... 321 00:22:29,670 --> 00:22:32,503 Yes, yes, I can see Mr. Hughes' car arriving now. 322 00:22:32,673 --> 00:22:35,642 Mr. Hughes escorts the lovely starlet Jean Harlow. 323 00:22:35,810 --> 00:22:39,803 He discovered her for this picture, and we think her platinum blond locks... 324 00:22:39,981 --> 00:22:44,247 ... and hot-jazz, baby-doll style are gonna make her a big star. 325 00:22:53,194 --> 00:22:55,492 Howard! Howard! 326 00:23:02,036 --> 00:23:03,901 Over here! 327 00:23:10,478 --> 00:23:14,710 - This way, boss. Right over there. - Mr. Hughes, how about a word? 328 00:23:14,916 --> 00:23:17,384 Big night for you, Mr. Hughes. 329 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,948 Big night for you tonight. 330 00:23:22,123 --> 00:23:24,455 Very big. Very big. 331 00:23:24,625 --> 00:23:28,322 Tell us what it was like making this fabulous picture. 332 00:23:30,164 --> 00:23:31,927 Yes. 333 00:23:32,099 --> 00:23:33,498 Yeah. 334 00:23:33,668 --> 00:23:36,296 So 4 million clams from your own pocket. 335 00:23:36,471 --> 00:23:38,098 Nervous how the flick will fly? 336 00:23:41,676 --> 00:23:44,975 Big night. You enjoy the show. 337 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:50,850 Yes, well, let me present the feminine star of this spectacle, Hell's Angels... 338 00:23:51,018 --> 00:23:53,612 ...Miss Jean Harlow. - Thank you. 339 00:23:53,788 --> 00:23:56,757 I would like to use this occasion to thank Mr. Hughes... 340 00:23:56,924 --> 00:24:00,223 ...for the opportunity he gave me. Thank you. 341 00:24:00,394 --> 00:24:03,761 Thank you! Now I'd like to ask Roscoe Arbuckle... 342 00:24:03,931 --> 00:24:06,900 ...to introduce his pet lion cub, Gilmore. 343 00:24:07,068 --> 00:24:09,730 What's the matter with you? Can't remember my name? 344 00:24:09,904 --> 00:24:13,897 I'm sorry. Roscoe Turner, and this would be Gilmore. 345 00:24:57,018 --> 00:24:58,679 It's going! It's going! 346 00:25:00,354 --> 00:25:03,790 Murder! That's what this dirty, rotten politician war is, murder! 347 00:25:03,958 --> 00:25:05,425 You know it as well as I do. 348 00:25:43,197 --> 00:25:44,789 Stand up, slim, take a bow. 349 00:25:58,412 --> 00:26:00,642 Reel four played too long. Too many coughs. 350 00:26:00,815 --> 00:26:04,774 Get the team out of the party and to the office. I wanna cut a few shots. 351 00:26:04,952 --> 00:26:07,182 Oh, find Glenn. Somebody write this down. 352 00:26:07,355 --> 00:26:08,583 Flush rivets. Got that? 353 00:26:08,756 --> 00:26:10,451 - Flush rivets. - Flush rivets. 354 00:26:10,625 --> 00:26:12,149 Lickety-split, boss. 355 00:26:12,393 --> 00:26:14,020 Here he is! Here he is! 356 00:26:16,097 --> 00:26:17,997 Variety says, "This one won't miss!" 357 00:26:18,165 --> 00:26:21,430 - Magnificently photographed! - Awesome beyond description! 358 00:26:21,602 --> 00:26:25,197 The most extraordinary output to emerge from a motion-picture studio. 359 00:26:25,373 --> 00:26:28,308 Not for a long time have I seen anything as enthralling. 360 00:26:28,476 --> 00:26:31,502 It costs 4 million dollars and has 4 million thrills! 361 00:26:31,679 --> 00:26:33,977 - Majestically... - Most epic picture of its time! 362 00:27:29,437 --> 00:27:32,406 A lighter shade. I don't want to look like Boris Karloff. 363 00:27:32,573 --> 00:27:34,165 If you know what I mean. 364 00:27:36,110 --> 00:27:40,046 I read in the magazines that you play golf. 365 00:27:40,214 --> 00:27:41,875 On occasion. 366 00:27:42,049 --> 00:27:44,279 Well, how about nine holes? 367 00:27:46,387 --> 00:27:48,548 Now, Mr. Hughes? 368 00:27:49,223 --> 00:27:51,953 If it would be convenient, Miss Hepburn. 369 00:28:14,515 --> 00:28:17,973 You're not extending enough on your follow-through. 370 00:28:18,152 --> 00:28:21,087 Follow-through is everything in golf, just like life. 371 00:28:21,255 --> 00:28:22,552 Don't you find? 372 00:28:22,723 --> 00:28:24,748 Saw your Scarface picture. 373 00:28:24,925 --> 00:28:26,222 - Violent. - Realistic. 374 00:28:26,393 --> 00:28:28,725 Movies are movies, Howard. Not life. 375 00:28:28,896 --> 00:28:30,591 Now the stage. 376 00:28:30,765 --> 00:28:31,993 The stage is real. 377 00:28:32,166 --> 00:28:36,159 Real flesh and blood. Human beings right out there in front of you, buster. 378 00:28:36,337 --> 00:28:39,306 Can't look away. Can't munch popcorn. That would be rude. 379 00:28:39,473 --> 00:28:40,735 Do you like the theater? 380 00:28:41,041 --> 00:28:43,532 - No. - Oh, I adore the theater. 381 00:28:43,711 --> 00:28:45,872 Only alive on-stage. I'll teach you. 382 00:28:46,046 --> 00:28:49,982 We'll see some Ibsen. If the Republicans haven't outlawed him by now. 383 00:28:50,151 --> 00:28:53,177 You're not a Republican, are you? How did you vote in '32? 384 00:28:53,354 --> 00:28:56,812 - Well, I didn't. - You must! It's your sacred franchise. 385 00:29:00,694 --> 00:29:03,458 Heard you were wooing Ginger Rogers. What about that? 386 00:29:03,631 --> 00:29:05,963 She's just a friend. 387 00:29:06,133 --> 00:29:07,828 Men can't be friends with women. 388 00:29:08,002 --> 00:29:10,061 They must possess them or leave them be. 389 00:29:10,237 --> 00:29:13,365 It's a primitive urge from caveman days. It's all in Darwin. 390 00:29:13,541 --> 00:29:18,877 Hunt the flesh, kill the flesh, eat the flesh. That's the male sex all over. 391 00:29:19,547 --> 00:29:20,912 Excuse me? 392 00:29:21,715 --> 00:29:24,707 Well, if you're deaf, you must own up to it. 393 00:29:24,985 --> 00:29:26,919 Get a hearing aid. Or see my father. 394 00:29:27,087 --> 00:29:30,750 He's a urologist, but it's all tied up inside the body, don't you find? 395 00:29:31,091 --> 00:29:32,558 Me, I keep healthy. 396 00:29:32,726 --> 00:29:34,853 I take seven showers a day to keep clean. 397 00:29:35,029 --> 00:29:38,362 Also because I am what's so vulgarly referred to as "outdoorsy." 398 00:29:38,532 --> 00:29:42,525 I'm not outdoorsy. I'm athletic. I sweat. 399 00:29:42,703 --> 00:29:45,467 There it is. Now we both know the sordid truth. 400 00:29:45,639 --> 00:29:48,107 I sweat and you're deaf. 401 00:29:48,275 --> 00:29:51,142 Aren't we a fine pair of misfits? 402 00:29:54,715 --> 00:29:56,580 Three. 403 00:30:04,124 --> 00:30:05,955 Noble effort. 404 00:30:08,329 --> 00:30:11,025 So I suppose you're wooing me now? 405 00:30:11,699 --> 00:30:13,690 Oh, well. 406 00:30:32,753 --> 00:30:34,243 Not enough. 407 00:30:34,822 --> 00:30:37,848 Not enough. These rivets have to be completely flush. 408 00:30:38,025 --> 00:30:40,926 I want every screw and joint countersunk. 409 00:30:41,161 --> 00:30:43,959 I want no wind resistance on the fuselage. 410 00:30:44,131 --> 00:30:46,429 She has got to be clean, Odie. 411 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,363 - Clean. Understand? - Okay, Howard. 412 00:30:48,535 --> 00:30:50,332 I don't know what else to tell you. 413 00:30:51,405 --> 00:30:54,966 - What do you got for me? - The thing is, TWA needs a new plane. 414 00:30:55,142 --> 00:30:57,770 - A modern plane. - Oh, yeah? What kind of plane? 415 00:30:57,945 --> 00:31:00,175 Okay. The DC-3 has 21 daytime seats... 416 00:31:00,347 --> 00:31:02,781 ...and 14 overnight berths. - Something bigger? 417 00:31:04,118 --> 00:31:06,484 Try 50 seats with a ceiling of 12,000 feet. 418 00:31:06,654 --> 00:31:08,884 No. No, 20,000. 419 00:31:09,256 --> 00:31:11,383 Think about it. What does 20,000 feet give you? 420 00:31:11,558 --> 00:31:14,152 - Less turbulence. - Because it's above the weather. 421 00:31:14,328 --> 00:31:16,694 Jack, we wanna fly above the weather. 422 00:31:16,864 --> 00:31:20,425 Only 1 percent of the American population has set foot on an airliner. 423 00:31:20,601 --> 00:31:23,365 Why? Because they're scared to death. They should be. 424 00:31:23,537 --> 00:31:26,131 I mean, 7000 feet is bumpy as shit. You know that. 425 00:31:26,307 --> 00:31:28,798 We build a plane that flies above the weather... 426 00:31:28,976 --> 00:31:32,742 ...we could get every man, woman and child in this country to feel safe. 427 00:31:32,913 --> 00:31:37,407 An airplane with the ability to fly into the substratosphere across the country. 428 00:31:37,584 --> 00:31:39,415 Across the world. 429 00:31:39,586 --> 00:31:41,679 Now that is the future. 430 00:31:42,122 --> 00:31:43,350 - You with me? - Yeah. 431 00:31:43,524 --> 00:31:47,460 I don't wanna get into this if your board doesn't have the balls for it. 432 00:31:47,628 --> 00:31:49,926 - Would they support us? - I don't know. 433 00:31:50,097 --> 00:31:52,327 - What's your financial picture? - Not great. 434 00:31:52,499 --> 00:31:54,660 - Last year's deficit? - 770,000. 435 00:31:54,835 --> 00:31:57,531 - What's it selling at? - About 8 dollars a share. 436 00:31:57,705 --> 00:31:59,434 That's the lowest it's been, huh? 437 00:32:01,408 --> 00:32:02,875 I could do that. 438 00:32:03,043 --> 00:32:04,533 - Do what? - Buy it. 439 00:32:04,712 --> 00:32:07,374 - You wanna buy the airline? - For crying out loud... 440 00:32:07,548 --> 00:32:11,450 ...we don't want pencil pushers getting in the way of us making our plane. 441 00:32:11,618 --> 00:32:15,452 Give me brass tacks, now. What does controlling interest in TWA cost me? 442 00:32:16,490 --> 00:32:17,889 Call it 15 million. 443 00:32:20,294 --> 00:32:22,455 That is a chunk of change, huh? 444 00:32:25,899 --> 00:32:27,730 You call Noah Dietrich. 445 00:32:27,901 --> 00:32:29,869 You have him start buying. 446 00:32:30,037 --> 00:32:31,299 Howard, hold on. 447 00:32:31,472 --> 00:32:34,498 Are you sure? You wanna think about it for five minutes? 448 00:32:34,675 --> 00:32:38,509 Hell, Jack, I got a tiger by the tail here. I ain't gonna let it go. 449 00:32:47,321 --> 00:32:49,050 Good evening, Mr. Hughes. 450 00:32:49,223 --> 00:32:51,589 Welcome. Your table is ready. 451 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:54,284 How goes the aviation? 452 00:32:54,461 --> 00:32:57,430 - Oh, just fine, Pete. - I'm so glad. 453 00:32:59,767 --> 00:33:01,098 Good evening, Mr. Hughes. 454 00:33:01,268 --> 00:33:02,496 - Madame. - It's "miss." 455 00:33:02,669 --> 00:33:05,103 Miss. The usual, Mr. Hughes? 456 00:33:05,272 --> 00:33:07,399 - Please. - May I recommend for the lady... 457 00:33:07,574 --> 00:33:11,066 ...our clementine soup followed by roast duck with currant glaze... 458 00:33:11,245 --> 00:33:14,214 ...and poached pears in rose sauce. It's truly divine. 459 00:33:14,381 --> 00:33:15,871 Yeah. That sounds fine. 460 00:33:18,052 --> 00:33:20,782 Your kind of joint, is it? 461 00:33:21,922 --> 00:33:23,480 Wouldn't have thought. 462 00:33:23,657 --> 00:33:26,854 They're open late. I go to a hot-dog stand on La Cienega too. 463 00:33:27,027 --> 00:33:29,689 - They're open till about 4. - Are they? 464 00:33:31,732 --> 00:33:33,563 How marvelous. 465 00:33:49,416 --> 00:33:51,043 Howard! Howard! 466 00:33:52,019 --> 00:33:54,783 Hi! Son of a gun. 467 00:33:54,955 --> 00:33:58,789 Kate, this is Johnny Meyer. I suppose you could call him my press agent. 468 00:33:58,959 --> 00:34:01,223 - Pleased to meet you. Loved Alice Adams. - You're too kind. 469 00:34:01,395 --> 00:34:04,091 - I'm sure you know Errol, right? - Mr. Flynn. Yes. 470 00:34:04,264 --> 00:34:09,133 Kate. Kate. Kate of the clenched-jawed Hepburns. Enchanting as always. 471 00:34:09,303 --> 00:34:11,999 You should use Lux on your hands, by the way. I do. 472 00:34:12,172 --> 00:34:14,333 You and Howard ought to cook up a picture. 473 00:34:14,508 --> 00:34:17,033 Costar with Errol. I could sell that in spades. 474 00:34:17,211 --> 00:34:19,406 That would be marvelous. Howard? 475 00:34:20,013 --> 00:34:23,744 I think not. Don't you read Variety, Mr. Meyer? 476 00:34:23,917 --> 00:34:27,614 Well, I'm box-office poison. I'm on the outs, the skids, the doldrums. 477 00:34:27,788 --> 00:34:31,155 Washed-up, day-old fish not worth the eating, so they tell me. 478 00:34:31,325 --> 00:34:35,159 Hell with them. Hell with them, my dear. Soulless pricks to a man, right? 479 00:34:35,329 --> 00:34:39,356 Johnny tells me you're thinking about doing a Western, of all goddamn things. 480 00:34:43,437 --> 00:34:46,201 Are you making a Western, Howard? 481 00:34:46,406 --> 00:34:49,170 Yeah. Making a Western. I'm gonna call it The Outlaw. 482 00:34:49,343 --> 00:34:51,504 Yeah. And you know what it's about? S-E-X. 483 00:34:51,678 --> 00:34:54,374 - It's all about S-E-X. - It's a Western. 484 00:34:54,548 --> 00:34:57,449 You can't have fornication in a Western. It isn't done. 485 00:34:57,618 --> 00:34:59,415 It's not real sex, it's movie sex. 486 00:34:59,586 --> 00:35:03,249 What Scarface did for the gangster picture, The Outlaw will do for the Western. 487 00:35:03,423 --> 00:35:06,290 Put the sex and guts and blood up there on the screen. 488 00:35:06,460 --> 00:35:08,485 - Have you seen my cigarettes? - Don't mind us. 489 00:35:08,662 --> 00:35:12,063 New York cut steak, 12 peas, bottle of milk with the cap on. 490 00:35:12,232 --> 00:35:15,463 - You can't afford your own cigarettes? - Jack has all my money. 491 00:35:15,636 --> 00:35:19,936 I hope your food isn't getting cold at your table somewhere or something. 492 00:35:20,107 --> 00:35:22,405 No, no. We're here all night. Don't worry. 493 00:35:22,576 --> 00:35:28,105 Now, Howard. Now, Howard. If you're seriously talking about putting carnality... 494 00:35:28,282 --> 00:35:32,946 ...back on the silver screen, you must swear to let me in on the casting session. 495 00:35:36,089 --> 00:35:40,958 - I have an eye for talent. Isn't that right? - You ought to give up prancing in tights... 496 00:35:41,128 --> 00:35:44,723 ...be a talent scout. - That prancing paid for my new yacht. 497 00:35:44,898 --> 00:35:48,356 You must all come sailing with me. Catalina. What do you say? 498 00:35:48,535 --> 00:35:51,698 - Catalina. Sounds grand. Yeah. - I've even managed to coax... 499 00:35:51,872 --> 00:35:55,740 ...the luscious Miss De Havilland and her equally luscious sister to come. 500 00:35:55,909 --> 00:36:00,778 Though I fear their mother will insist on coming, to preserve their questionable virtue. 501 00:36:00,948 --> 00:36:05,146 We shall assault these twin monuments of pristine Britannic beauty nonetheless. 502 00:36:05,319 --> 00:36:07,378 - What do you say, Howard? - Yeah? 503 00:36:07,788 --> 00:36:09,949 - Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah? 504 00:36:14,261 --> 00:36:15,558 I gotta go. 505 00:36:16,430 --> 00:36:19,957 If you'll excuse us, we have... We have to be somewhere. 506 00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:22,768 You are somewhere, Howard, you madman. 507 00:36:22,936 --> 00:36:25,962 - Somewhere else. Excuse us. - Charmed, gentlemen. 508 00:36:26,139 --> 00:36:29,768 Do help yourself to the poached pears. I hear they're divine. 509 00:36:30,410 --> 00:36:33,174 Well. Howard Hughes, ladies and gentlemen. 510 00:36:34,047 --> 00:36:35,378 Was that meant for me? 511 00:36:35,549 --> 00:36:38,916 My hero. God, all that Hollywood talk bores me silly. 512 00:36:39,086 --> 00:36:42,055 As if there aren't more important things, like Mussolini. 513 00:36:42,222 --> 00:36:46,158 - Where are we going, by the way? - Do you feel like a little adventure? 514 00:36:46,326 --> 00:36:48,260 Do your worst, Mr. Hughes. 515 00:36:48,428 --> 00:36:52,626 - Think you own this place, you limey bastard? - I'm a Tasmanian bastard, you prick. 516 00:36:52,799 --> 00:36:55,199 - Thataway, Errol. - Let me at him! 517 00:37:28,802 --> 00:37:31,498 That's Mr. Mayer's house right there. 518 00:37:31,672 --> 00:37:33,572 Do you know where Jack Warner lives? 519 00:37:42,849 --> 00:37:46,649 - What's that on the steering wheel? - Cellophane. 520 00:37:46,820 --> 00:37:50,688 If you had any idea of the crap that people carry around on their hands. 521 00:37:51,224 --> 00:37:52,851 What kind of crap? 522 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,221 You don't wanna know. 523 00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:02,434 Hold on to the wheel for a bit. 524 00:38:10,510 --> 00:38:13,638 That's too hard. Relax your hand. Relax your hand. 525 00:38:19,319 --> 00:38:24,279 You see, you gotta feel the vibration of the engine through your fingertips. 526 00:38:24,458 --> 00:38:27,518 - Do you feel that? - Yes. 527 00:38:30,130 --> 00:38:31,791 Well, that's good. 528 00:38:32,432 --> 00:38:34,127 Golly! 529 00:38:38,538 --> 00:38:40,335 Well, she's all yours. 530 00:38:40,574 --> 00:38:44,237 - Where are you going?! - I think there's some milk back here. 531 00:38:45,245 --> 00:38:48,043 - You just keep us steady, now. - All right. 532 00:39:07,033 --> 00:39:08,864 - Howard. - Yeah? 533 00:39:09,035 --> 00:39:12,004 There's a rather alarming mountain heading our way. 534 00:39:12,172 --> 00:39:14,367 Pull back on the wheel a smidge. Go on. 535 00:39:19,212 --> 00:39:21,806 Golly! 536 00:39:27,354 --> 00:39:32,519 I don't think I've ever met someone who actually uses the word "golly." 537 00:39:39,766 --> 00:39:42,234 You all right? Do you want me to take over? 538 00:39:42,402 --> 00:39:44,393 Just when I'm getting the hang of it? 539 00:39:49,776 --> 00:39:53,473 - You want some milk? - Oh, please. 540 00:40:15,402 --> 00:40:17,632 Utterly smashing! We'll do it again. 541 00:40:17,804 --> 00:40:20,967 I'm free Wednesday. It's a little early for golf, though. 542 00:40:21,141 --> 00:40:23,405 Oh, no, no. I live right there. 543 00:40:23,910 --> 00:40:26,470 - Feel like a drink? - Lead on. 544 00:40:27,681 --> 00:40:30,878 Now, that makes for a challenging par four. 545 00:40:31,117 --> 00:40:34,814 My decorator picked out the wallpaper and such. 546 00:40:35,455 --> 00:40:37,514 He's queer as a bedbug. 547 00:40:37,691 --> 00:40:40,421 But I just hate this room. 548 00:40:40,727 --> 00:40:42,558 Gives me the willies. 549 00:40:43,063 --> 00:40:47,159 Like I'm about to be swallowed up by the latest issue of Town & Country. 550 00:40:55,809 --> 00:40:57,572 What room do you like? 551 00:40:58,845 --> 00:41:00,335 My study. 552 00:41:02,716 --> 00:41:04,377 Take me there. 553 00:41:20,734 --> 00:41:23,760 You are the tallest woman I know. 554 00:41:24,704 --> 00:41:28,800 And all sharp elbows and knees. Beware. 555 00:41:51,331 --> 00:41:54,391 Will you fly me to work tomorrow? 556 00:41:57,003 --> 00:41:59,198 It is tomorrow. 557 00:42:51,992 --> 00:42:55,758 Keep your eye on the fuel. She's got a minimum to keep her weight down. 558 00:42:55,929 --> 00:42:58,955 Two runs. That's it. After that, you're flying on vapors. 559 00:42:59,132 --> 00:43:01,896 And then you crash and you die. Give her easy flying. 560 00:43:02,068 --> 00:43:05,367 Don't worry about speed and don't think about the record today. 561 00:43:05,538 --> 00:43:08,996 I wish you'd let someone else take her. You've got 20 test pilots. 562 00:43:09,175 --> 00:43:13,509 Hell, why should I let someone else have all the fun? See you in a bit. 563 00:43:34,467 --> 00:43:36,230 Contact! 564 00:45:05,859 --> 00:45:07,087 339. 565 00:45:09,195 --> 00:45:11,060 Goddamn! 566 00:45:32,786 --> 00:45:34,310 347. 567 00:45:35,755 --> 00:45:37,052 Son of a bitch! 568 00:46:09,422 --> 00:46:11,982 - 352. - 352! 569 00:46:13,226 --> 00:46:14,454 Good girl. 570 00:46:24,237 --> 00:46:25,932 Damn it! 571 00:46:29,742 --> 00:46:31,869 Goddamn it! 572 00:46:32,312 --> 00:46:34,542 - Oh, God! - There goes our meal ticket. 573 00:46:34,714 --> 00:46:36,204 Come on! 574 00:47:16,356 --> 00:47:17,789 Howard! 575 00:47:17,957 --> 00:47:20,118 - Howard! - How did we do? 576 00:47:21,227 --> 00:47:23,559 352 on the last run. 577 00:47:25,331 --> 00:47:26,958 She'll go faster. 578 00:47:27,533 --> 00:47:29,160 Country mouse! 579 00:47:29,936 --> 00:47:33,337 - Kate! Katie! - Upstairs, city mouse. 580 00:47:36,442 --> 00:47:39,343 Hello. Good Lord, what happened to you? 581 00:47:39,512 --> 00:47:41,742 Oh, nothing. A hard landing. I cut my foot. 582 00:47:41,915 --> 00:47:44,941 Sit down. I'll take care of it. You tell me everything. 583 00:47:45,118 --> 00:47:48,952 You cannot imagine what it was like, Katie. You cannot imagine the speed. 584 00:47:49,122 --> 00:47:52,285 - She was like a winged bullet up there. - What did she make? 585 00:47:52,458 --> 00:47:56,622 Oh, around 352. 586 00:48:03,603 --> 00:48:05,070 You did it! 587 00:48:06,406 --> 00:48:08,271 Fastest man on the planet. 588 00:48:08,441 --> 00:48:11,672 Hot dog! I'm so proud of you. 589 00:48:11,844 --> 00:48:13,835 - She did it, baby. - You knew she would. 590 00:48:14,013 --> 00:48:16,982 Oh, she was fine. She was just fine. 591 00:48:18,184 --> 00:48:19,742 Now let me see your foot. 592 00:48:19,986 --> 00:48:21,283 Yeah. 593 00:48:21,988 --> 00:48:25,549 - Good God! You're covered in blood. - Oh, no. That's just beet juice. 594 00:48:25,725 --> 00:48:27,886 - I crashed into a beet field. - What? 595 00:48:28,061 --> 00:48:30,256 Yeah, I crashed in a beet field. 596 00:48:33,466 --> 00:48:35,559 Let me get you cleaned up. 597 00:48:36,569 --> 00:48:41,097 - Heavens, what is this? Electrical tape? - Yeah. Odie just sort of slammed it on there. 598 00:48:42,141 --> 00:48:47,169 But all I could think about was getting home to see you. 599 00:48:51,884 --> 00:48:54,751 I am so proud of you. 600 00:48:59,292 --> 00:49:01,658 Now, this is gonna sting a little bit. 601 00:49:01,828 --> 00:49:05,628 Oh, this is useless. Come to the bathroom. 602 00:49:06,866 --> 00:49:09,733 - Don't get beet juice on the carpet. - I won't, I won't. 603 00:49:09,902 --> 00:49:12,564 - Too hot! - Don't be a baby. 604 00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:17,073 Was the press there? 605 00:49:18,011 --> 00:49:19,273 Some. 606 00:49:19,512 --> 00:49:24,609 But they're calling everyone. Should be on the wires by now. 607 00:49:33,226 --> 00:49:34,784 What is it? 608 00:49:37,497 --> 00:49:39,089 Kate? 609 00:49:42,335 --> 00:49:45,429 I've been famous, for better or worse... 610 00:49:45,972 --> 00:49:47,940 ...for a long time now... 611 00:49:48,107 --> 00:49:52,441 ...and I wonder if you know what it... 612 00:49:53,079 --> 00:49:54,876 ...really means. 613 00:49:56,049 --> 00:49:59,143 Yeah. I had my fair share of press on Hell's Angels. 614 00:49:59,919 --> 00:50:01,716 I'm used to it. 615 00:50:03,656 --> 00:50:05,351 Are you? 616 00:50:09,028 --> 00:50:10,791 Howard, we're... 617 00:50:13,733 --> 00:50:16,167 We're not like everyone else. 618 00:50:18,171 --> 00:50:23,108 Too many acute angles. Too many eccentricities. 619 00:50:23,876 --> 00:50:26,743 We have to be very careful not to... 620 00:50:28,047 --> 00:50:31,881 ...let people in, or they'll make us into freaks. 621 00:50:33,086 --> 00:50:37,648 Kate, they can't get in here. We're safe. 622 00:50:39,358 --> 00:50:41,258 They can always get in. 623 00:50:43,429 --> 00:50:46,830 When my brother killed himself... 624 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,560 ...there were photographers at the funeral. 625 00:50:51,804 --> 00:50:54,034 There's no decency to it. 626 00:51:06,486 --> 00:51:08,545 You know, sometimes I... 627 00:51:12,291 --> 00:51:14,452 I get these feelings, Katie. 628 00:51:19,432 --> 00:51:21,992 I get these ideas, these... 629 00:51:24,837 --> 00:51:27,431 ...crazy ideas about... 630 00:51:29,876 --> 00:51:32,242 ...things that may not... 631 00:51:33,513 --> 00:51:36,380 Things that may not really be there. 632 00:51:37,049 --> 00:51:38,573 Yeah. 633 00:51:45,258 --> 00:51:48,022 Sometimes I truly fear that I'm... 634 00:51:50,062 --> 00:51:52,030 ...losing my mind. 635 00:51:59,605 --> 00:52:01,470 And if I did, it would... 636 00:52:04,577 --> 00:52:06,943 It'd be like flying blind. 637 00:52:15,087 --> 00:52:16,748 You understand? 638 00:52:20,927 --> 00:52:23,725 You taught me to fly, Howard. 639 00:52:26,699 --> 00:52:28,690 I'll take the wheel. 640 00:52:44,617 --> 00:52:48,644 Smashing all records, Howard Hughes outdoes Jules Verne's wildest dreams. 641 00:52:48,955 --> 00:52:52,220 Around the world from New York to New York in four days. 642 00:52:52,391 --> 00:52:55,326 Even beating Wiley Post's mark by over three days. 643 00:52:55,494 --> 00:52:58,725 New aviation history is written when his Lockheed monoplane... 644 00:52:58,898 --> 00:53:01,890 ... returns swiftly and safely. A daring aviator. 645 00:53:02,335 --> 00:53:04,997 A true pioneer of the world's airways. 646 00:53:05,171 --> 00:53:09,164 From New York to Paris, he cuts Lindbergh's time in half. Then on to Moscow. 647 00:53:09,342 --> 00:53:13,904 Thirty-five hours out of New York, he roars across Siberia's trackless wastes. 648 00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:18,710 Sixty hours out of New York, he heads for Alaska, most hazardous hop of all. 649 00:53:18,884 --> 00:53:21,284 Continuing the terrific pace, he comes home... 650 00:53:21,454 --> 00:53:23,786 ... bringing new laurels to American aviation. 651 00:53:25,124 --> 00:53:28,389 Howard Hughes and his crew may find more worlds to conquer... 652 00:53:35,201 --> 00:53:39,763 You won't believe this. It just came over the wires. Hughes has bought control of TWA. 653 00:53:42,508 --> 00:53:45,375 I thought Mr. Hughes was flying around the world. 654 00:53:45,578 --> 00:53:48,979 Apparently he did it while he was flying, over the radio. 655 00:53:56,188 --> 00:53:59,487 I have heard some disquieting rumors about Mr. Hughes. 656 00:54:01,060 --> 00:54:04,496 I'd like to know everything there is to know about Mr. Hughes. 657 00:54:06,932 --> 00:54:09,162 I'd like you to attend to that for me. 658 00:54:10,169 --> 00:54:11,796 Thoroughly. 659 00:54:12,371 --> 00:54:14,805 The Pantages is glittering tonight. 660 00:54:14,974 --> 00:54:17,807 - Howard! - Right over here. This way, over to the left. 661 00:54:17,977 --> 00:54:20,639 - Mr. Hughes, how was your flight? - Miss Hepburn! 662 00:54:20,813 --> 00:54:23,475 - When are you gonna name the day? - Raise your head. 663 00:54:23,649 --> 00:54:25,776 What's the next movie? Give us the scoop. 664 00:54:25,951 --> 00:54:28,647 Right here. How many more records are you gonna set? 665 00:54:28,821 --> 00:54:32,120 Right over here. Come on. Give us a smile. It won't kill you. 666 00:54:32,291 --> 00:54:34,191 - Howard, this way. - Beautiful. 667 00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,851 Over here, over here, Mr. Hughes. 668 00:54:37,029 --> 00:54:39,463 When are you gonna fly around the world again? 669 00:54:39,632 --> 00:54:43,625 You gonna fly with Kate next time? Did you get lonely without her? 670 00:54:43,803 --> 00:54:47,864 - Talk to Lindbergh about your flight yet? - Where's Linda Darnell tonight? 671 00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:51,339 - Please, Mr. Hughes. - Right here. Right here, Mr. Hughes. 672 00:54:51,510 --> 00:54:54,001 Are you trying to be more famous than Lindbergh? 673 00:54:54,714 --> 00:54:58,445 You know, fame is supposed to be my turf. 674 00:55:00,686 --> 00:55:02,313 L. B! 675 00:55:04,957 --> 00:55:08,324 If you don't get more distinguished every time I see you. 676 00:55:08,494 --> 00:55:10,519 You look so beautiful. 677 00:55:18,304 --> 00:55:19,931 Is that true? 678 00:55:28,748 --> 00:55:30,613 Don't worry about it, Howard. 679 00:55:30,783 --> 00:55:34,446 She's just working the room. It's her job, baby. 680 00:55:37,490 --> 00:55:41,290 Sultry Southern tigress Ava Gardner dazzles the room tonight. 681 00:55:41,460 --> 00:55:43,690 She's the newest star in the MGM galaxy. 682 00:55:43,863 --> 00:55:47,492 And believe you me, she puts the "cheese" in "cheesecake." 683 00:55:49,735 --> 00:55:55,264 Well, Jane Eyre has been selling popcorn for over a hundred years, L.B. 684 00:56:36,015 --> 00:56:37,448 Hello. 685 00:56:39,084 --> 00:56:40,642 Hello. 686 00:56:45,858 --> 00:56:48,725 Could you reach me a towel? 687 00:56:56,168 --> 00:56:57,897 I... 688 00:56:59,038 --> 00:57:02,269 I really can't do that. 689 00:57:03,909 --> 00:57:05,433 I'm sorry. 690 00:57:30,269 --> 00:57:34,603 I'm an idiot. I'm a complete idiot, and I'm sorry. 691 00:57:34,940 --> 00:57:38,535 - Forget it. - No, no. I'm a vain, preening ass... 692 00:57:38,711 --> 00:57:43,705 ...without a single redeeming feature. - That's not true. You have very good teeth. 693 00:57:44,216 --> 00:57:45,683 Come on. 694 00:57:46,552 --> 00:57:50,886 I've got a better idea. Take me flying. Or better yet, I'll take you flying. 695 00:57:51,056 --> 00:57:52,785 Do your worst, Miss Hepburn. 696 00:58:01,901 --> 00:58:05,735 Don't be so squirmy. You're gonna get on famously with Father and Mother. 697 00:58:05,905 --> 00:58:09,534 And I'm sure they'll like you too. Once they get to know you. 698 00:58:17,850 --> 00:58:20,648 - Hello! Hello! - Kath, hello. 699 00:58:20,819 --> 00:58:22,377 Kathy. 700 00:58:25,324 --> 00:58:29,055 - Who's that with the camera right there? - That's my ex-husband, Ludlow. 701 00:58:29,228 --> 00:58:31,492 Father and Mother are just mad about Luddie. 702 00:58:31,664 --> 00:58:35,998 - What the hell's he doing here? - Oh, he's here all the time. 703 00:58:36,902 --> 00:58:38,529 Hello! 704 00:58:40,039 --> 00:58:41,506 Sorry we're late. 705 00:58:41,674 --> 00:58:43,972 - Mom. - Oh. Oh, thank you. 706 00:58:44,143 --> 00:58:45,770 - Dad. - Darling. 707 00:58:45,945 --> 00:58:49,244 - Uncle Willy. - Oh, who have we got here? 708 00:58:49,415 --> 00:58:52,145 - Don't feel self-conscious. - Hepburns! Hepburns! 709 00:58:52,318 --> 00:58:56,084 Attention, please. This is Howard. 710 00:58:56,355 --> 00:58:58,186 Howard, welcome. 711 00:58:59,525 --> 00:59:01,618 Don't worry, he's had his lunch. 712 00:59:03,262 --> 00:59:05,127 He likes you. That's unusual. 713 00:59:05,297 --> 00:59:08,630 We pay our devotion to the arts here. A colony we created. 714 00:59:08,801 --> 00:59:12,760 Julian's a painter. Abstract, of course. What's the point of painting... 715 00:59:12,938 --> 00:59:16,305 ...something real when you can just take a picture nowadays? 716 00:59:16,475 --> 00:59:18,943 Where do you stand on politics, Mr. Hughes? 717 00:59:19,378 --> 00:59:21,903 - Excuse me? - We're all socialists here. 718 00:59:22,081 --> 00:59:23,514 We are not. 719 00:59:24,750 --> 00:59:27,344 You've met Mr. Roosevelt. What make you of him? 720 00:59:30,556 --> 00:59:32,581 What are you sniggering at? 721 00:59:32,758 --> 00:59:35,124 - What? What was that? - You just sniggered. 722 00:59:35,894 --> 00:59:38,886 No, no. The dog. It seems to be crushing my feet. 723 00:59:39,064 --> 00:59:41,032 - Oh, my God! - Buster! 724 00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:42,428 Hey. Hey! 725 00:59:44,103 --> 00:59:45,570 Don't you like dogs? 726 00:59:45,738 --> 00:59:48,400 I will not have you sniggering at Mr. Roosevelt. 727 00:59:48,574 --> 00:59:50,303 - Please leave. - No. I wasn't. 728 00:59:50,476 --> 00:59:53,445 - I thought everybody liked dogs. - Perhaps he had a bad experience. 729 00:59:53,612 --> 00:59:56,080 Does it upset you that Howard gets more press? 730 00:59:56,248 --> 00:59:59,411 - A bad experience with a dog? - No, no. 731 00:59:59,585 --> 01:00:04,147 - You are such a shy creature, aren't you? - Perhaps it was a very large dog. 732 01:00:04,323 --> 01:00:08,089 - The press can be a damned nuisance. - Was it a Doberman? 733 01:00:08,260 --> 01:00:11,354 - A Doberman, Mr. Hughes? Or a dachshund? - Neither, sir. 734 01:00:11,530 --> 01:00:15,762 - Dachshunds are little dogs, Hep dear. - They should all be lined up and shot. 735 01:00:15,934 --> 01:00:19,131 - What's that Spanish painting? - The Goya. 736 01:00:19,304 --> 01:00:21,499 Goya. Of course. Yes. 737 01:00:22,141 --> 01:00:25,304 - Yes, Mexican. - What was that called? 738 01:00:25,477 --> 01:00:29,607 Anyway, that's the vulgar press, I'm sure. Do you read much, Mr. Hughes? 739 01:00:31,250 --> 01:00:34,083 I try to stay up to snuff on the trade journals, yeah. 740 01:00:34,253 --> 01:00:38,121 - Snuff? - These would be flying magazines? 741 01:00:39,758 --> 01:00:42,192 - What was that? - Oh, he's a little deaf. 742 01:00:42,361 --> 01:00:45,694 - Pass the goddamn butter, I beg you. - You read flying magazines? 743 01:00:45,864 --> 01:00:48,924 Trade journals. On engineering. Aviation. 744 01:00:49,101 --> 01:00:50,830 We read books. 745 01:00:51,236 --> 01:00:55,502 Howard has to read the trade pieces, Mom, because he's designing a new airplane. 746 01:00:55,674 --> 01:00:57,665 Oh, really? Do tell. 747 01:01:00,913 --> 01:01:02,437 Well... 748 01:01:04,183 --> 01:01:08,847 ...it's quite exciting, actually. It's a spy plane for the Air Corps. 749 01:01:09,021 --> 01:01:11,148 A twin-engine plane with some... 750 01:01:11,323 --> 01:01:14,315 ...I must admit, some rather unique design features. 751 01:01:14,493 --> 01:01:17,053 You see, it has these two booms at the back... 752 01:01:17,229 --> 01:01:20,289 Luddie built a birdhouse once. You remember that, dear? 753 01:01:20,566 --> 01:01:23,763 - Yes, well, a mere trifle, darling. - I remember the painting! 754 01:01:23,936 --> 01:01:26,598 The painting, it's called May 18-0- something. 755 01:01:26,772 --> 01:01:29,639 Anyway, Goya's vastly overrated. All the Spaniards are. 756 01:01:29,808 --> 01:01:32,504 - Nonsense! Picasso is sacred. - I'm a urologist. 757 01:01:32,678 --> 01:01:35,545 - It was quite aesthetic, really. - A sacred monster. 758 01:01:35,714 --> 01:01:38,376 The birds don't care for it much, but the bats do. 759 01:01:38,550 --> 01:01:40,711 - I'll bet. - That's such bunk! 760 01:01:40,886 --> 01:01:44,185 - Do speak up, dear. - Nothing, nothing, Mrs. Hepburn. Nothing. 761 01:01:44,356 --> 01:01:48,224 Why did you speak? I can't abide people who speak but have nothing to say. 762 01:01:48,393 --> 01:01:52,056 Did you go to mechanic school to learn all this airplane guff? 763 01:01:52,231 --> 01:01:53,789 No, no, I didn't, Luddie. No. 764 01:01:53,966 --> 01:01:56,730 Well, Howard just flew round the world in three days. 765 01:01:56,902 --> 01:01:59,837 - I think we've had enough about airplanes. - And dogs. 766 01:02:00,005 --> 01:02:03,736 - Then how did you make all that money? - We don't care about money here. 767 01:02:03,909 --> 01:02:05,877 Well, that's because you have it. 768 01:02:09,882 --> 01:02:11,213 Would you repeat that? 769 01:02:12,551 --> 01:02:15,486 You don't care about money because you've always had it. 770 01:02:15,654 --> 01:02:18,623 - How did you make all that..? - Excuse me, I'm speaking. 771 01:02:18,791 --> 01:02:20,019 - Okay. - Thank you. 772 01:02:20,192 --> 01:02:21,659 All right. 773 01:02:22,094 --> 01:02:24,528 Some of us choose to work for a living. 774 01:02:24,696 --> 01:02:29,963 Speaking of which, I have more of that airplane guff to attend to. 775 01:02:30,869 --> 01:02:32,427 Excuse me. 776 01:02:40,045 --> 01:02:42,707 Well, seems a rather high-strung chap. 777 01:02:43,148 --> 01:02:46,140 You're a fine bunch of bullies, aren't you? 778 01:02:46,318 --> 01:02:49,617 Have you talked to Mr. Mayer about letting you do Jane Eyre? 779 01:02:49,788 --> 01:02:53,087 The old philistine won't budge. Too arty, don't you know. 780 01:02:53,258 --> 01:02:58,195 I'm convinced the man hasn't read anything longer than a Katzenjammer Kids in his life. 781 01:02:59,565 --> 01:03:03,023 No fair, kicking. You have to use the mallet. 782 01:03:04,837 --> 01:03:08,568 Really, darling, you can't retire from the field of battle like that... 783 01:03:08,740 --> 01:03:12,198 ...or they'll never respect you. - Katie, I don't understand. 784 01:03:12,544 --> 01:03:15,012 You're like a different person in there. 785 01:03:15,781 --> 01:03:18,579 They just expect me to be a certain way. 786 01:03:20,519 --> 01:03:24,785 There's only one real Kate, and that's your Kate. 787 01:03:28,260 --> 01:03:32,959 Over in Hollywood, aviation tycoon Howard Hughes is cooking up something big. 788 01:03:33,131 --> 01:03:37,625 Even as he edits his new picture, he's been secretly meeting with the U.S. Air Corps. 789 01:03:37,803 --> 01:03:41,364 We applaud his patriotism and look forward to his newest marvel. 790 01:03:41,540 --> 01:03:44,941 You know how many Allied ships we lost because of U-boat attacks? 791 01:03:45,110 --> 01:03:47,237 - No. - Six hundred and eighty-one ships... 792 01:03:47,412 --> 01:03:52,008 ...just this year so far. The Army needs a new airplane to fly the troops to Europe. 793 01:03:52,184 --> 01:03:55,676 These ships, they're sitting ducks for the U-boats. 794 01:03:55,854 --> 01:03:59,517 - You wanna build a troop-carrier plane? - Stop thinking like an insect. 795 01:03:59,691 --> 01:04:02,626 Not just to carry troops, a plane to carry everything. 796 01:04:02,794 --> 01:04:07,060 The troops and the jeeps and the tanks and whatnot. Here, take a look. 797 01:04:08,467 --> 01:04:10,298 No. Other side. 798 01:04:13,238 --> 01:04:16,765 I figure around 200 feet from nose to tail. Wingspan, around 300. 799 01:04:16,942 --> 01:04:19,502 We're gonna need about 24,000 horsepower. 800 01:04:20,812 --> 01:04:23,906 Now, this is just what Kaiser and the Army are looking for. 801 01:04:24,082 --> 01:04:27,574 - They're gonna pay for it this time. - What are you getting us into? 802 01:04:27,753 --> 01:04:30,620 Well, it's a big plane, so I'm calling it The Hercules. 803 01:04:31,123 --> 01:04:32,647 Swell name, isn't it? 804 01:04:33,091 --> 01:04:36,254 - How heavy you imagine this thing is? - Say around 200 tons. 805 01:04:39,431 --> 01:04:41,922 Well, I didn't say it was gonna be easy. 806 01:04:42,401 --> 01:04:45,495 All right, boys, I want you to rig up something like this. 807 01:04:45,671 --> 01:04:50,131 Should give the proper uplift ratios and reduce need for torque support on the front. 808 01:04:50,309 --> 01:04:54,040 We are not getting enough production out of Jane Russell's breasts. 809 01:04:54,212 --> 01:04:56,737 I want smooth titties, gentlemen. Smooth titties. 810 01:04:59,551 --> 01:05:02,714 - It's all in engineering, isn't it, Odie? - Howard... 811 01:05:03,221 --> 01:05:07,851 ...do you really think they're gonna let you put out a whole movie just about tits? 812 01:05:08,060 --> 01:05:10,927 Sure. Who doesn't like tits? 813 01:05:21,340 --> 01:05:24,605 Good afternoon, gentlemen. Sorry I'm late. 814 01:05:24,776 --> 01:05:28,303 Please record that Mr. Hughes has arrived and this session is now called to order. 815 01:05:29,481 --> 01:05:32,245 - I yield the floor to Mr. Breen. - Mr. Hughes... 816 01:05:32,417 --> 01:05:36,319 ...members of the committee, I've reviewed the photoplay entitled The Outlaw... 817 01:05:36,488 --> 01:05:40,219 ...and I can state that I have never seen anything so unacceptable... 818 01:05:40,392 --> 01:05:44,328 ...as the shots of the mammaries of the character named Rio. 819 01:05:44,696 --> 01:05:48,792 For almost half the picture, the girl's mammaries, which are quite large... 820 01:05:48,967 --> 01:05:52,164 ...and prominent, are shockingly uncovered. 821 01:05:53,105 --> 01:05:57,371 For this reason, I concluded the picture appeals only to prurient interests... 822 01:05:57,542 --> 01:06:02,070 ...and should be denied the Motion Picture Association's seal of approval. 823 01:06:02,714 --> 01:06:04,944 Really, Mr. Hughes. 824 01:06:05,117 --> 01:06:08,746 - Thank you, Mr. Breen. Mr. Hughes. - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 825 01:06:09,087 --> 01:06:11,248 Mr. Breen. It's good to see you again. 826 01:06:11,423 --> 01:06:15,553 I haven't seen you all since that situation with all the violence in Scarface. 827 01:06:15,761 --> 01:06:18,889 The situation here revolves around Miss Russell's mammaries. 828 01:06:19,064 --> 01:06:21,624 Mr. Breen feels that they are too prominent, yes? 829 01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:25,167 More prominent than other mammaries have been up on the screen? 830 01:06:25,337 --> 01:06:27,965 Well, I hope to dispel that notion. 831 01:06:31,476 --> 01:06:32,909 Jean Harlow. 832 01:06:34,846 --> 01:06:36,473 Ann Sheridan. 833 01:06:37,916 --> 01:06:39,349 Irene Dunne. 834 01:06:39,518 --> 01:06:41,145 Claudette Colbert. 835 01:06:41,753 --> 01:06:43,448 Rita Hayworth. 836 01:06:43,855 --> 01:06:48,189 Betty Grable. And the lovely Miss Jane Russell. 837 01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:52,729 Now, all these shots, save for Miss Russell, were enlarged from pictures... 838 01:06:52,898 --> 01:06:56,163 ...that received Mr. Breen's seal of approval. 839 01:06:56,802 --> 01:07:01,899 Now, as you've probably noticed by now, they all contain mammaries. 840 01:07:02,874 --> 01:07:05,900 I will ask my associate to join me now. May I introduce... 841 01:07:06,078 --> 01:07:09,775 ...Dr. Ludlow Branson of Columbia University. 842 01:07:11,216 --> 01:07:13,081 Dr. Branson... 843 01:07:13,685 --> 01:07:17,143 ...is a mathematician of some note. 844 01:07:17,322 --> 01:07:19,813 Yes. And he will now demonstrate... 845 01:07:19,991 --> 01:07:21,720 ...that in fact... 846 01:07:21,893 --> 01:07:25,420 ...Miss Russell's mammaries are no more prominent... 847 01:07:25,597 --> 01:07:28,395 ...than any of these other fine ladies'. 848 01:07:30,936 --> 01:07:32,198 Doctor. 849 01:07:33,705 --> 01:07:35,297 Doctor... 850 01:07:36,174 --> 01:07:38,438 ...you forgot your calipers. 851 01:07:45,217 --> 01:07:48,448 Gentlemen, Mr. Hughes. 852 01:07:51,189 --> 01:07:53,714 Let us commence by calling this... 853 01:07:54,559 --> 01:07:56,857 ...Mammary Exhibit Number One. 854 01:07:57,028 --> 01:08:02,796 Now, you'll see that the length of the actual cleavage... 855 01:08:03,535 --> 01:08:06,732 ...if I may, is... 856 01:08:07,772 --> 01:08:09,967 ...5 inches and a quarter. 857 01:08:10,342 --> 01:08:11,707 Now if we move to Mammary Exhibit... 858 01:08:11,877 --> 01:08:13,344 Dateline: Hollywoodland. 859 01:08:13,512 --> 01:08:17,004 Movie tycoon Howard Hughes must have the greatest job in the land. 860 01:08:17,182 --> 01:08:20,618 Every night, the lucky guy escorts a different beautiful woman... 861 01:08:20,785 --> 01:08:22,719 ... to a different dazzling event. 862 01:08:22,888 --> 01:08:27,552 The TWA king always talks up his airline as he escorts a succession... 863 01:08:29,861 --> 01:08:31,988 The Hercules, ladies and gentlemen. 864 01:08:32,164 --> 01:08:33,631 The Hercules. 865 01:08:33,798 --> 01:08:37,734 A plane, a boat, a flying city. 866 01:08:37,903 --> 01:08:41,361 Don't forget, every bill comes to me. They don't pay for anything. 867 01:08:41,540 --> 01:08:44,976 Those men decide whether to fund the plane, so I need them happy. 868 01:08:45,343 --> 01:08:47,607 - You do what it takes. - You betcha, boss. 869 01:08:48,013 --> 01:08:50,311 How are the girls in the bomb department? 870 01:08:50,482 --> 01:08:54,316 Well, let's put it this way, it'll be a regular boob buffet. 871 01:08:54,486 --> 01:08:57,580 I don't think the Air Corps men will have trouble scoring. 872 01:08:57,756 --> 01:09:01,419 - Good. - And inside, 700 brave American soldiers... 873 01:09:01,593 --> 01:09:06,087 ... a dozen Sherman tanks all winging their way over the Atlantic... 874 01:09:06,264 --> 01:09:08,698 ... free from the threats of the U-boats below. 875 01:09:08,867 --> 01:09:13,201 Could Jules Verne himself have ever imagined anything so magnificent? 876 01:09:13,371 --> 01:09:17,307 Could he have imagined her mammoth wingspan, longer than a football field? 877 01:09:17,576 --> 01:09:19,305 Don't you see how this demeans me? 878 01:09:19,477 --> 01:09:21,809 Since when do you care about scandal rags? 879 01:09:21,980 --> 01:09:25,279 Every time there's a picture of you with another woman, it's a slap in the face. 880 01:09:25,450 --> 01:09:28,419 - Don't you understand that? - Well, that's overstating it. 881 01:09:28,587 --> 01:09:31,920 Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Linda Darnell, Joan Fontaine... 882 01:09:32,090 --> 01:09:34,991 ...and now Bette Davis, for God's sake. 883 01:09:36,861 --> 01:09:42,026 Look, they're Cracker Jack candy, honey. They don't mean anything to me. 884 01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:45,169 Oh, very nice. 885 01:09:46,838 --> 01:09:49,739 You're the one that said that all men are predators. 886 01:09:49,908 --> 01:09:52,809 I mean, it's all in Darwin, remember? 887 01:09:53,144 --> 01:09:56,739 And am I to expect this behavior to continue after the wedding? 888 01:09:56,915 --> 01:09:58,974 What is really bothering you, Kate? 889 01:09:59,150 --> 01:10:02,415 Is it the women or the publicity? 890 01:10:07,659 --> 01:10:11,891 Can't you eat ice cream from a bowl like everyone else in the world? 891 01:10:19,004 --> 01:10:22,565 Don't you dare. 892 01:10:34,252 --> 01:10:35,514 Yeah. 893 01:10:36,688 --> 01:10:40,283 No, Odie, this is not a good time. 894 01:10:40,525 --> 01:10:44,689 For chrissakes, we can't make The Hercules if we don't have any aluminum. 895 01:10:44,863 --> 01:10:46,455 Wait. 896 01:10:46,631 --> 01:10:49,691 I can hear you better now. Tell the War Production Board... 897 01:10:49,868 --> 01:10:53,065 ...that this is an essential strategic operation. 898 01:10:53,238 --> 01:10:57,800 If they're giving aluminum to Boeing, they can give some to Hughes Aircraft. 899 01:10:57,976 --> 01:11:00,945 Don't set the ice cream... 900 01:11:01,112 --> 01:11:05,481 We gotta think of something else. If we can't get aluminum, we'll find another way. 901 01:11:05,917 --> 01:11:09,250 You tell me. We'll find some alloy that works just as well. 902 01:11:09,521 --> 01:11:12,149 Right. Look... 903 01:11:12,324 --> 01:11:16,454 - lf we can't get aluminum, we'll use wood. - You can't make a plane out of wood. 904 01:11:16,628 --> 01:11:19,153 Why not? The damn thing is a flying boat, right? 905 01:11:19,331 --> 01:11:21,299 - What do they use to make boats? - Oak. 906 01:11:21,466 --> 01:11:24,401 And think of The Hercules like a flying Spanish galleon. 907 01:11:24,569 --> 01:11:27,367 Spanish galleons can weigh 1200 tons. 908 01:11:28,239 --> 01:11:30,070 Good luck today. 909 01:11:30,608 --> 01:11:33,941 We just have to find the right wood. Something light but strong. 910 01:11:34,112 --> 01:11:36,910 - Morning, Kate. - Pine, cedar, maybe birch. 911 01:11:47,425 --> 01:11:49,017 Catch. 912 01:11:52,931 --> 01:11:54,728 From my farm. 913 01:11:55,300 --> 01:11:57,894 If you like it, I can get you a bushel. 914 01:12:10,715 --> 01:12:13,149 Trouble with Mr. Hughes? 915 01:12:18,556 --> 01:12:22,993 There's too much Howard Hughes in Howard Hughes. 916 01:12:24,829 --> 01:12:26,854 That's the trouble. 917 01:12:40,011 --> 01:12:41,808 Beautiful. 918 01:12:43,782 --> 01:12:45,181 Don't you take Christmas off? 919 01:12:46,518 --> 01:12:49,282 Nice to see you. Sorry, I've got grease on my hands. 920 01:12:49,454 --> 01:12:51,979 Have we got something to show you. 921 01:12:56,361 --> 01:13:01,094 Take a look. The XF-11 reconnaissance flier. Spy plane, really. 922 01:13:02,033 --> 01:13:04,729 Designed every inch of her myself. 923 01:13:04,903 --> 01:13:06,894 She's got a top speed of 450... 924 01:13:07,071 --> 01:13:09,904 ...which means she can outrun anything they throw against her. 925 01:13:10,074 --> 01:13:13,168 After the Japs stole my H-1 design for their Zeros... 926 01:13:13,344 --> 01:13:15,505 ...I needed to do them one better. 927 01:13:16,614 --> 01:13:19,742 Yeah, she's my Buck Rogers ship. 928 01:13:19,918 --> 01:13:21,943 She's a looker. 929 01:13:22,587 --> 01:13:24,214 Okay, what do you got for me? 930 01:13:31,663 --> 01:13:33,893 Jiminy Cricket. 931 01:13:34,065 --> 01:13:37,728 Seating capacity for 60. Wingspan, 123 feet. 932 01:13:37,902 --> 01:13:41,269 Four Double Cyclone engines. Her ceiling's 25,000 feet. 933 01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:44,670 - Gross weight? - 86,000, wing loading of 41 pounds. 934 01:13:44,843 --> 01:13:47,641 So less drag on the plane in thinner air. 935 01:13:47,812 --> 01:13:51,270 So high-cruise power, you're looking at a top speed of around 340. 936 01:13:52,350 --> 01:13:55,911 Giving her a range of about 3000 miles. 937 01:13:57,088 --> 01:13:59,579 - Cross-country. - Nonstop. 938 01:14:00,892 --> 01:14:02,450 Bob... 939 01:14:02,627 --> 01:14:05,790 ...you know something? You are a son of a bitch. 940 01:14:16,741 --> 01:14:20,233 Yeah. Bob, you got something on your suit. 941 01:14:21,813 --> 01:14:23,280 Yeah. 942 01:14:23,648 --> 01:14:26,139 On your lapel. You got something on your lapel. 943 01:14:29,287 --> 01:14:31,152 Right there, Bob. 944 01:14:32,924 --> 01:14:34,482 You missed it. Right there. 945 01:14:36,794 --> 01:14:38,659 Clean it off, would you? 946 01:14:38,830 --> 01:14:41,321 Here. Thanks. 947 01:14:44,602 --> 01:14:46,035 No, throw it away. 948 01:14:50,074 --> 01:14:51,473 No, over there. 949 01:14:57,982 --> 01:15:01,816 Thanks. So, what do you call her? 950 01:15:01,986 --> 01:15:04,147 The Constellation, but we can change that. 951 01:15:04,322 --> 01:15:05,949 No, no. 952 01:15:06,124 --> 01:15:09,150 It's pretty. I like her. 953 01:15:10,128 --> 01:15:12,221 So, what kind of deal can you give me? 954 01:15:12,397 --> 01:15:14,194 What kind of deal can you give me? 955 01:15:14,365 --> 01:15:16,663 The first 40 planes off the assembly line. 956 01:15:16,834 --> 01:15:19,359 That should give us about two years' exclusivity. 957 01:15:19,537 --> 01:15:20,834 Hell, more than that. 958 01:15:21,005 --> 01:15:24,998 United and American don't have the imagination for a plane like this. 959 01:15:25,176 --> 01:15:27,770 Two years ahead of Juan Trippe, then. 960 01:15:32,817 --> 01:15:34,079 How much? 961 01:15:34,252 --> 01:15:36,413 Four hundred and fifty thousand each. 962 01:15:37,221 --> 01:15:40,088 So that's 18 million for the first 40. 963 01:15:41,025 --> 01:15:44,085 Hell, TWA can't afford that. The damn airline's flat broke. 964 01:15:48,266 --> 01:15:50,734 Guess I'll just have to pay for them myself. 965 01:15:51,636 --> 01:15:54,696 Build them, Bob. Send the bill to Noah Dietrich. 966 01:15:54,872 --> 01:15:56,396 Oh, and thank you. 967 01:16:00,178 --> 01:16:02,009 Merry Christmas. 968 01:16:02,180 --> 01:16:06,640 You've just placed the largest order for airplanes in the history of the damn planet. 969 01:16:06,818 --> 01:16:08,945 Lockheed sent us a bill for $18 million. 970 01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:12,385 Don't get all hysterical on me, Noah. It isn't good for you. 971 01:16:12,557 --> 01:16:15,890 - This is a lot of money for planes. - I know it's a lot of money. 972 01:16:16,060 --> 01:16:19,689 It's too damn much. You think I've got $18 million in petty cash? 973 01:16:19,864 --> 01:16:22,025 I should've told you. It slipped my mind. 974 01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:24,100 - Slipped your mind? Oh, for... - Right. 975 01:16:24,268 --> 01:16:27,726 - I'll get back to you. Bye. - How could $18 million slip your mind? 976 01:16:28,606 --> 01:16:31,769 Hey, honey. What are you doing home? 977 01:16:36,214 --> 01:16:39,047 You're not one for tears, and, well... 978 01:16:39,217 --> 01:16:43,483 ...neither am I, so it's best to come out with it. 979 01:16:46,591 --> 01:16:50,823 I've met someone. I've fallen in love and I'm moving out. 980 01:16:53,431 --> 01:16:58,198 If I could make it any more gentle, I would. 981 01:16:58,369 --> 01:17:02,430 But I can't, so... 982 01:17:03,474 --> 01:17:05,374 ...there we both are. 983 01:17:08,980 --> 01:17:10,811 Let's be honest. 984 01:17:10,982 --> 01:17:15,476 It's all been a grand adventure, but it couldn't possibly last. 985 01:17:15,653 --> 01:17:18,554 We're too alike, you and I. 986 01:17:21,693 --> 01:17:22,990 You met someone? 987 01:17:23,161 --> 01:17:27,097 Someone more appropriate. To me, I mean. 988 01:17:29,801 --> 01:17:32,770 What does that mean, "more appropriate"? 989 01:17:33,171 --> 01:17:37,267 Someone more attuned to my needs. 990 01:17:37,809 --> 01:17:39,743 Look at me, Katie. 991 01:17:39,911 --> 01:17:41,811 Stop acting. 992 01:17:42,246 --> 01:17:45,044 I'm not acting. 993 01:17:49,654 --> 01:17:52,282 I wonder if you even know anymore. 994 01:17:57,195 --> 01:17:59,425 Don't be unkind. 995 01:18:02,133 --> 01:18:03,828 You? 996 01:18:05,169 --> 01:18:06,500 You wanna go? 997 01:18:10,141 --> 01:18:11,768 Go on. 998 01:18:12,343 --> 01:18:15,471 Actresses are cheap in this town, darling. 999 01:18:15,646 --> 01:18:18,240 - And I got a lot of money. - This is beneath you. 1000 01:18:18,416 --> 01:18:20,850 No, no, this is exactly me. 1001 01:18:21,018 --> 01:18:26,149 You tell me you're leaving me, and you have the nerve to expect graciousness? 1002 01:18:26,624 --> 01:18:28,615 I expect a little maturity. 1003 01:18:28,793 --> 01:18:31,694 I expect you to face the situation like an adult who... 1004 01:18:31,863 --> 01:18:34,161 Don't talk down to me! 1005 01:18:34,332 --> 01:18:37,324 Don't you ever talk down to me! You are a movie star. 1006 01:18:37,502 --> 01:18:39,060 Nothing more. 1007 01:19:51,108 --> 01:19:53,042 Don't answer it. 1008 01:19:55,913 --> 01:19:57,608 What is it, Howard? 1009 01:19:57,782 --> 01:20:00,080 Hey, Noah... 1010 01:20:00,251 --> 01:20:03,243 ...I need you to get to Penney's and buy me some clothes. 1011 01:20:03,421 --> 01:20:05,218 - Penney's isn't open. - Oh, shit. 1012 01:20:05,389 --> 01:20:08,324 - It's 2 in the morning. - Yeah, that's right. 1013 01:20:08,492 --> 01:20:11,222 Well, first thing tomorrow, then, all right? 1014 01:20:11,395 --> 01:20:14,455 I need two new suits off the rack. One light and one dark. 1015 01:20:14,632 --> 01:20:17,863 Three white shirts and three pairs of white tennis shoes. Got that? 1016 01:20:18,035 --> 01:20:19,969 - Yeah. - No, no. 1017 01:20:20,137 --> 01:20:21,968 - Make it Woolworth's. - Woolworth's. 1018 01:20:22,139 --> 01:20:24,733 No, no, Penney's. Penney's. 1019 01:20:24,909 --> 01:20:26,638 All right. 1020 01:20:27,345 --> 01:20:30,143 I'll get into it as soon as I can, Howard. 1021 01:20:30,481 --> 01:20:33,041 - All right? - Noah, do you have a recorder? 1022 01:20:33,751 --> 01:20:36,948 - No. - Are you recording this conversation? 1023 01:20:37,121 --> 01:20:39,521 - No. - Okay. 1024 01:20:39,690 --> 01:20:41,521 I trust you. 1025 01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:45,927 - Howard... - I need those suits first thing tomorrow. 1026 01:20:46,097 --> 01:20:49,555 - All right. - Wait. Did I say Penney's or Woolworth's? 1027 01:20:49,734 --> 01:20:52,362 - Penney's. - Better make it Sears. 1028 01:20:52,536 --> 01:20:55,027 All right, then, Sears. 1029 01:20:57,909 --> 01:21:00,070 I'm sorry, honey. 1030 01:21:01,279 --> 01:21:03,543 If I don't answer, he'll just call back. 1031 01:21:25,436 --> 01:21:28,462 Stop there, if you please, Miss Domergue. 1032 01:21:34,345 --> 01:21:36,245 Have you had surgery, Miss Domergue? 1033 01:21:38,115 --> 01:21:39,582 No. 1034 01:21:40,418 --> 01:21:43,512 Do you have scars of any kind? 1035 01:21:44,922 --> 01:21:46,446 No. 1036 01:21:48,092 --> 01:21:50,219 Wipe off your lipstick. 1037 01:21:54,799 --> 01:21:56,061 That's much better. 1038 01:21:57,668 --> 01:22:02,571 Now, you understand that you'd be under contract to me? Personally. 1039 01:22:03,507 --> 01:22:05,634 Do you know what that means? 1040 01:22:13,985 --> 01:22:15,748 Now turn around for me. 1041 01:22:24,028 --> 01:22:25,518 Very nice. 1042 01:22:26,664 --> 01:22:28,529 You move well. 1043 01:22:31,369 --> 01:22:33,337 You live with your family, do you? 1044 01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:37,031 Yes. 1045 01:22:37,508 --> 01:22:39,032 That's nice. 1046 01:22:40,378 --> 01:22:42,141 Tell me something. 1047 01:22:43,514 --> 01:22:45,914 How old are you, Miss Domergue? 1048 01:22:48,886 --> 01:22:50,649 Fifteen. 1049 01:22:54,058 --> 01:22:55,218 Holy Mother of God. 1050 01:23:14,644 --> 01:23:18,444 Well, a car picks me up every morning at 8, and off I go. 1051 01:23:18,614 --> 01:23:21,640 I'm getting my high school diploma. 1052 01:23:21,818 --> 01:23:24,514 Howard thinks that education is important. 1053 01:23:24,687 --> 01:23:27,087 - That's right. - And then, after classes... 1054 01:23:27,256 --> 01:23:30,817 ...I'm off for elocution and grooming and fittings. 1055 01:23:30,993 --> 01:23:32,790 Well, blow me down. 1056 01:23:33,996 --> 01:23:36,226 Pan Am's working out of the Cocoanut Grove? 1057 01:23:36,399 --> 01:23:38,333 - Hello, Jack. - Hello, Juan. 1058 01:23:38,501 --> 01:23:40,230 Helen, good to see you. 1059 01:23:40,403 --> 01:23:42,894 - How are you, Howard? - Good, thanks. 1060 01:23:43,072 --> 01:23:44,869 - This is Faith Domergue. - Sit down. 1061 01:23:45,041 --> 01:23:46,906 - Pleasure. - What are you doing here? 1062 01:23:47,076 --> 01:23:49,874 Well, I'm out to meet with Douglas about the DC-4. 1063 01:23:50,046 --> 01:23:53,914 It's our new plane, and it is gonna be a pip, let me tell you. 1064 01:23:54,083 --> 01:23:57,280 - How's the Constellation coming? - Good. 1065 01:23:57,587 --> 01:23:58,849 Great. 1066 01:24:00,256 --> 01:24:02,747 So how about letting me steal a peek? 1067 01:24:04,727 --> 01:24:06,695 I don't think so. 1068 01:24:06,863 --> 01:24:09,889 I should be cross with you. You stole Ray Loewy from us. 1069 01:24:10,700 --> 01:24:14,227 - He's doing our interior design. That's right. - He was doing ours. 1070 01:24:16,739 --> 01:24:18,502 So... 1071 01:24:19,041 --> 01:24:21,509 ...what are your colors? - Stop fishing. 1072 01:24:23,246 --> 01:24:25,737 So you have buttons... 1073 01:24:25,915 --> 01:24:27,348 ...or zippers? 1074 01:24:27,783 --> 01:24:29,045 I'm sorry? 1075 01:24:30,987 --> 01:24:34,889 Buttons or zippers for the drapes on the sleeping berths? 1076 01:24:38,394 --> 01:24:40,055 Zippers. 1077 01:24:48,971 --> 01:24:50,529 Buttons. 1078 01:25:00,216 --> 01:25:03,208 So I suppose you'll be expanding on down to Mexico. 1079 01:25:03,719 --> 01:25:07,246 - Why do you say that? - Well, your range is 3000 miles. 1080 01:25:07,423 --> 01:25:11,519 I'd imagine you'd expand from Los Angeles to Mexico and South America. 1081 01:25:11,694 --> 01:25:13,855 Hey, that's a good idea. Anyone got a pen? 1082 01:25:14,030 --> 01:25:16,157 Or across the Atlantic. 1083 01:25:19,168 --> 01:25:21,068 You've had enough of this ice cream. 1084 01:25:21,237 --> 01:25:24,798 You give me that spoon. You don't wanna get your gloves all sticky. 1085 01:25:26,776 --> 01:25:28,641 Isn't that too far? 1086 01:25:33,683 --> 01:25:35,583 New York... 1087 01:25:35,751 --> 01:25:37,776 ...to Newfoundland... 1088 01:25:38,487 --> 01:25:39,749 ...to Ireland. 1089 01:25:44,994 --> 01:25:46,586 To Paris. 1090 01:25:53,736 --> 01:25:55,363 Well... 1091 01:25:55,905 --> 01:25:57,998 ...Pan Am welcomes you. 1092 01:25:58,174 --> 01:26:00,005 We're overbooked as it is. 1093 01:26:00,176 --> 01:26:03,805 It's such a burden doing it all on your own, let me tell you. 1094 01:26:03,980 --> 01:26:06,039 So when's the Connie gonna be ready? 1095 01:26:06,215 --> 01:26:08,843 - Next year maybe. DC-4? - Next year. 1096 01:26:09,018 --> 01:26:12,181 Well, we look forward to her then. 1097 01:26:12,755 --> 01:26:14,484 And I to the Connie. 1098 01:26:16,359 --> 01:26:19,988 I've ordered the next 40 after you. 1099 01:26:20,229 --> 01:26:21,992 - It's Miss? - Domergue. 1100 01:26:22,164 --> 01:26:25,531 Yes, of course. Now, was that a rumba or a samba you were doing? 1101 01:26:25,968 --> 01:26:28,698 - It was a samba. - A samba, yes. 1102 01:26:28,871 --> 01:26:32,136 Howard, I never knew you were such a good dancer. 1103 01:26:33,109 --> 01:26:34,940 Helen, Jack. 1104 01:26:36,779 --> 01:26:39,577 Good going. You gave away our entire postwar strategy. 1105 01:26:39,749 --> 01:26:44,209 - He can't stop us. - He's Pan Am. He can stop anything. 1106 01:26:46,255 --> 01:26:48,052 Give me the largest Scotch you got. 1107 01:26:48,224 --> 01:26:51,819 I don't know what in the hell you're so damn giddy about. Excuse me. 1108 01:28:43,906 --> 01:28:45,339 Jack. 1109 01:28:45,508 --> 01:28:49,137 Get in touch with Joyce and Berg. Those are my boys in Washington. 1110 01:28:49,311 --> 01:28:52,712 Set up a meeting with Jones, secretary of commerce, old golfing buddy. 1111 01:28:52,882 --> 01:28:55,817 - Slow down. - We'll need terminals in Ireland and France. 1112 01:28:55,985 --> 01:28:57,452 I wanna get some tax breaks. 1113 01:28:57,620 --> 01:29:01,283 If that ass thinks he owns the world, he's got another thing coming. 1114 01:29:01,457 --> 01:29:04,324 Pan Am owns Europe. We ought to think about Mexico. 1115 01:29:04,493 --> 01:29:08,589 To hell with Mexico. No airline should have a monopoly on flying the Atlantic. 1116 01:29:08,764 --> 01:29:12,063 It just isn't fair. He owns Pan Am, he owns Congress. 1117 01:29:12,234 --> 01:29:16,068 He owns the Civil Aeronautics Board, but he does not own the sky. 1118 01:29:16,238 --> 01:29:18,866 We're in a street fight with that son of a bitch. 1119 01:29:19,041 --> 01:29:22,704 I've been fighting high-hat Ivy League pricks like him my whole life. 1120 01:29:22,878 --> 01:29:26,507 And listen, fire Ray Loewy. You goddamn heard me? Fire Ray Loewy. 1121 01:29:26,682 --> 01:29:30,083 He's spying for Trippe. That shitheel knew all about the buttons. 1122 01:29:30,252 --> 01:29:32,220 Spies in my midst, Jack. 1123 01:29:32,922 --> 01:29:34,719 Spies in my midst. 1124 01:29:49,171 --> 01:29:52,072 - Hello, Howard. - Roland. 1125 01:29:53,976 --> 01:29:55,534 So... 1126 01:29:55,711 --> 01:29:57,235 ...what can I do for you? 1127 01:30:00,449 --> 01:30:04,442 I want all the pictures you have of Kate Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. 1128 01:30:04,620 --> 01:30:08,147 All the negatives. And I want you to kill the story. 1129 01:30:08,324 --> 01:30:11,691 Howard, he's a married man. He's a Catholic. 1130 01:30:11,861 --> 01:30:14,125 They're movie stars. Fair game all around. 1131 01:30:22,605 --> 01:30:24,766 My office knows where I am, Howard. 1132 01:30:25,808 --> 01:30:28,606 I'm not gonna kill you, Roland. 1133 01:30:28,777 --> 01:30:30,711 I don't do that. 1134 01:30:35,451 --> 01:30:38,079 - How much? - Not for sale. 1135 01:30:41,357 --> 01:30:42,915 How much? 1136 01:30:43,792 --> 01:30:46,955 Not for sale. 1137 01:30:50,299 --> 01:30:52,392 You ever cheat on your wife, Roland? 1138 01:30:54,203 --> 01:30:56,637 You ever screw a colored girl? 1139 01:30:57,339 --> 01:31:00,502 You ever steal anything? You ever hurt anyone? 1140 01:31:02,645 --> 01:31:04,476 Good night, Howard. 1141 01:31:04,880 --> 01:31:07,849 You ever go to a Communist Party meeting, Roland? 1142 01:31:17,693 --> 01:31:19,820 TWA stock. 1143 01:31:20,863 --> 01:31:22,125 How much? 1144 01:31:23,732 --> 01:31:25,199 Fifty thousand shares. 1145 01:31:25,834 --> 01:31:27,301 Ten. 1146 01:31:30,372 --> 01:31:31,703 All right. 1147 01:31:34,810 --> 01:31:36,641 This isn't gonna be that easy. 1148 01:31:37,012 --> 01:31:40,413 He's been making big contributions on both sides of the aisle. 1149 01:31:40,583 --> 01:31:44,019 And Jack Frye is out there lobbying everybody in town. 1150 01:31:44,186 --> 01:31:47,349 The French and British ambassadors are lined up on his side. 1151 01:31:48,691 --> 01:31:51,854 I'm telling you, TWA is serious about going international. 1152 01:31:52,027 --> 01:31:53,654 Okay. 1153 01:31:53,829 --> 01:31:55,763 Point, Mr. Hughes. 1154 01:31:56,131 --> 01:31:59,794 I think it's time for you to introduce the community airline bill... 1155 01:31:59,969 --> 01:32:01,493 ...on the floor of the Senate. 1156 01:32:02,504 --> 01:32:05,302 - Is it done? - My people are finishing it right now. 1157 01:32:05,474 --> 01:32:10,002 I also have to get you on the committee investigating the national defense. 1158 01:32:12,448 --> 01:32:15,508 On the committee or chairman? 1159 01:32:15,851 --> 01:32:18,513 I could be much more effective as chairman. 1160 01:32:18,687 --> 01:32:22,453 It's a great public platform. You know, it generates a lot of press. 1161 01:32:22,625 --> 01:32:26,083 - Wasn't Truman chairman of that committee? - Yeah, right. 1162 01:32:26,261 --> 01:32:28,661 He's vice president. Look what he did with it. 1163 01:32:28,831 --> 01:32:30,890 No, I think... 1164 01:32:31,600 --> 01:32:33,534 I think chairman. 1165 01:32:34,203 --> 01:32:35,636 What do you think? 1166 01:32:37,673 --> 01:32:40,233 - Chairman. That is interesting. - Yeah. 1167 01:32:40,409 --> 01:32:43,901 Let me show you these specs for the DC-4. 1168 01:32:44,179 --> 01:32:47,637 Ava, what do you think about Trans World Airlines? 1169 01:32:47,816 --> 01:32:50,341 Transcontinental and Western doesn't fit anymore. 1170 01:32:50,519 --> 01:32:53,386 We're international, we need a name that reflects that. 1171 01:32:53,555 --> 01:32:56,251 Trans World is good. Kind of peppy. 1172 01:32:56,425 --> 01:32:58,950 TWA, right? 1173 01:32:59,128 --> 01:33:01,892 That way you don't need to repaint any of the planes. 1174 01:33:02,064 --> 01:33:04,225 That's you. Always pinching pennies. 1175 01:33:05,401 --> 01:33:07,392 Hand me my wrap. 1176 01:33:21,417 --> 01:33:23,578 Knock it off. 1177 01:33:29,792 --> 01:33:32,317 I have something for you. 1178 01:33:33,562 --> 01:33:35,393 Stay here. 1179 01:33:40,869 --> 01:33:43,531 - What the hell is this? - It's a present. 1180 01:33:43,706 --> 01:33:45,606 Go on, open it. 1181 01:33:46,775 --> 01:33:50,233 Oh, a box of trash. You shouldn't have. 1182 01:33:50,412 --> 01:33:52,107 Keep looking, keep looking. 1183 01:33:56,952 --> 01:33:59,011 It's a Kashmiri sapphire. 1184 01:33:59,188 --> 01:34:02,316 I had my boys all over the damn globe looking for this. 1185 01:34:02,491 --> 01:34:03,753 Why? 1186 01:34:03,926 --> 01:34:05,188 Because. 1187 01:34:05,360 --> 01:34:06,987 Look. 1188 01:34:07,162 --> 01:34:09,221 It matches your eyes. 1189 01:34:09,398 --> 01:34:11,764 I am not for sale. 1190 01:34:11,934 --> 01:34:13,993 For chrissakes, it's just a present. 1191 01:34:14,169 --> 01:34:17,366 You can't buy me, Howard, so stop trying. 1192 01:34:17,539 --> 01:34:21,100 Don't buy me any more diamonds or sapphires or any other damn thing. 1193 01:34:21,276 --> 01:34:23,710 You can buy me dinner. How about that? 1194 01:34:24,446 --> 01:34:25,708 Jesus, Ava. 1195 01:34:26,749 --> 01:34:29,809 It's bad enough I have to endure those gym shoes of yours. 1196 01:34:29,985 --> 01:34:33,648 But I get all dolled up and we go out in this jalopy without a hood. 1197 01:34:35,090 --> 01:34:38,218 Ava, will you marry me? 1198 01:34:38,393 --> 01:34:41,089 - No, Howard. - Well, why not, for heaven's sake? 1199 01:34:41,263 --> 01:34:43,823 In the first place, I don't love you. 1200 01:34:43,999 --> 01:34:46,365 In the second place, I'm still married. 1201 01:34:46,535 --> 01:34:51,234 Look, you got girls stashed all over town. You got a damn harem just at the Bel-Air. 1202 01:34:51,406 --> 01:34:53,340 Marry one of your bungalow girls. 1203 01:34:53,509 --> 01:34:57,309 Those are employees. I won't marry an employee. How would that look? 1204 01:35:05,487 --> 01:35:06,749 What is going on? 1205 01:35:10,058 --> 01:35:12,686 - Oh, my God! - Goddamn it! 1206 01:35:14,329 --> 01:35:15,591 Faith! 1207 01:35:16,365 --> 01:35:18,299 - Faith, what the hell? - Look out! 1208 01:35:18,467 --> 01:35:21,163 Goddamn, what the hell are you doing? 1209 01:35:24,339 --> 01:35:27,103 - Are you okay, lady? - What are you doing with her? 1210 01:35:27,276 --> 01:35:29,938 We are going to dinner. Now, get out of there. 1211 01:35:30,112 --> 01:35:32,103 Get that crazy bitch away from me! 1212 01:35:32,281 --> 01:35:33,873 Don't you love me anymore? 1213 01:35:34,049 --> 01:35:35,607 Course I love you, pork chop. 1214 01:35:35,784 --> 01:35:37,547 Ava, look over here. Howard. 1215 01:35:38,287 --> 01:35:39,549 Hey. 1216 01:35:42,991 --> 01:35:45,619 Juan Trippe is working with Senator Brewster now. 1217 01:35:45,794 --> 01:35:50,128 They're after you. If the community airline bill becomes law, we are finished. 1218 01:35:50,299 --> 01:35:52,392 Pan Am will have a monopoly on international travel. 1219 01:35:52,568 --> 01:35:55,093 Well, how can they justify it? It's un-American. 1220 01:35:55,270 --> 01:35:59,104 Brewster is saying that nationalized foreign carriers, like Air France... 1221 01:35:59,274 --> 01:36:02,300 ...can offer lower rates because they don't have to compete. 1222 01:36:02,477 --> 01:36:05,776 Let's get rid of competition and have a nationalized airline... 1223 01:36:05,948 --> 01:36:09,008 ...and why don't we make it Pan Am? - I'm not kowtowing to anyone. 1224 01:36:09,184 --> 01:36:11,448 - Howard, I need you up here. - One sec, Odie. 1225 01:36:11,620 --> 01:36:14,145 Look, we are Trans World Airlines, all right? 1226 01:36:14,323 --> 01:36:18,692 Get me something with a circle or a globe or something round, for God's sake. 1227 01:36:18,861 --> 01:36:20,123 - Speak up. - One cut. 1228 01:36:20,295 --> 01:36:24,459 I don't give a rat's ass. I'm not making a cut. I'll release it without a seal. 1229 01:36:24,633 --> 01:36:26,328 We gotta go public with this. 1230 01:36:26,501 --> 01:36:28,366 I'm gonna talk to Hearst... 1231 01:36:28,537 --> 01:36:31,700 ...but we gotta get some senators on our side. 1232 01:36:31,874 --> 01:36:34,274 - What do you want me to do? - What Trippe does. 1233 01:36:34,443 --> 01:36:37,173 Offshore operations. See who's up for re-election... 1234 01:36:37,346 --> 01:36:39,940 ...let's start making donations. - Bribe senators? 1235 01:36:40,382 --> 01:36:43,044 I don't want them bribed. I want it done legally. 1236 01:36:43,218 --> 01:36:46,551 I want them bought. Put a team of investigators on Brewster. 1237 01:36:46,722 --> 01:36:49,054 I need to know everything about that shitbag. 1238 01:36:49,224 --> 01:36:52,125 Where he goes, what he says and who he screws. 1239 01:36:52,294 --> 01:36:54,285 - Get into it right now. - You got it. 1240 01:37:01,937 --> 01:37:03,370 Just give me a second. 1241 01:37:05,707 --> 01:37:08,699 - All right, what do you need? - Rudder and elevators. 1242 01:37:09,378 --> 01:37:11,437 No. These are fine. 1243 01:37:11,613 --> 01:37:15,709 Have Simon and Pete get back to me on the assemblies. We need a secondary system. 1244 01:37:15,884 --> 01:37:17,374 Okay. 1245 01:37:18,186 --> 01:37:20,882 Listen, we need to take another look at the wheel. 1246 01:37:21,056 --> 01:37:23,854 - Jesus. The damn wheel? - Yeah. 1247 01:37:24,026 --> 01:37:25,550 It just doesn't feel right. 1248 01:37:25,727 --> 01:37:29,720 Christ almighty, you've seen 8000 goddamn wheels. Choose one, please. 1249 01:37:29,898 --> 01:37:31,695 - Just one of them. - I know, I know. 1250 01:37:31,867 --> 01:37:34,233 - This one? - I know, this one... 1251 01:37:34,403 --> 01:37:38,237 This one's pretty close. Pretty close. 1252 01:38:14,276 --> 01:38:15,766 Odie. 1253 01:38:16,678 --> 01:38:19,203 That man sweeping up over there... 1254 01:38:19,381 --> 01:38:22,441 ...does he work for me? I mean, have you seen him before? 1255 01:38:22,617 --> 01:38:25,177 Name's Nick, something like that. 1256 01:38:27,422 --> 01:38:29,185 Why's he looking at me? 1257 01:38:31,393 --> 01:38:32,826 I don't know. 1258 01:38:34,930 --> 01:38:38,058 Fire him. And make sure they use damp brooms from now on. 1259 01:38:38,233 --> 01:38:41,600 Respiratory diseases are expensive, and I don't want lawsuits. 1260 01:38:41,770 --> 01:38:44,671 But can we at least proceed with the instrument panel? 1261 01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:47,274 - The tool shop's ready. - I wanna see the blueprints. 1262 01:38:47,442 --> 01:38:50,411 Look, Howard, the deadline is now completely unrealistic. 1263 01:38:50,579 --> 01:38:53,104 The war is gonna be over by the time she's done. 1264 01:38:53,281 --> 01:38:57,479 I need you to help consult on vital decisions, and you're off dealing with movies. 1265 01:38:57,652 --> 01:39:00,621 You got 1000 workers waiting for you to make a decision... 1266 01:39:00,789 --> 01:39:02,416 Hey, Odie! 1267 01:39:02,591 --> 01:39:04,582 Take it easy, all right. 1268 01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:08,787 You're under pressure, but it's gonna do me no good if you crack up on me. 1269 01:39:09,498 --> 01:39:11,227 All right? Look... 1270 01:39:11,400 --> 01:39:13,732 ...take a couple of hours off, all right. 1271 01:39:13,902 --> 01:39:15,767 - You just relax a little. - Okay. 1272 01:39:16,204 --> 01:39:18,229 - See your wife. - Okay. 1273 01:39:18,640 --> 01:39:20,005 All right. 1274 01:39:20,876 --> 01:39:24,107 - Be sure to show me all the blueprints. - All right. 1275 01:39:25,747 --> 01:39:27,977 Show me all the blueprints. 1276 01:39:28,450 --> 01:39:30,441 Show me all the blueprints. 1277 01:39:30,619 --> 01:39:34,248 I'm serious, now. Show me all the blueprints. 1278 01:39:35,857 --> 01:39:37,484 Show me all the blueprints. 1279 01:39:37,659 --> 01:39:40,560 - Howard. - Show me all the blueprints. 1280 01:39:40,729 --> 01:39:42,663 Show me all the blueprints. 1281 01:39:42,831 --> 01:39:44,389 Show me all the blueprints. 1282 01:39:44,566 --> 01:39:46,625 Show me all the blueprints. 1283 01:39:46,802 --> 01:39:48,895 I wanna get this done right. 1284 01:39:49,671 --> 01:39:51,104 Show me all the blueprints. 1285 01:39:51,273 --> 01:39:53,002 Show me all the blueprints. 1286 01:39:53,175 --> 01:39:55,769 Show me all the blueprints. 1287 01:39:55,944 --> 01:39:57,502 Show me all the blueprints. 1288 01:39:57,679 --> 01:39:59,613 - Howard. - Show me all the blueprints. 1289 01:39:59,781 --> 01:40:03,444 Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints... 1290 01:40:30,445 --> 01:40:32,879 Quarantine. 1291 01:40:33,915 --> 01:40:35,610 Q... 1292 01:40:35,784 --> 01:40:37,752 ...U... 1293 01:40:37,919 --> 01:40:40,149 ...A... 1294 01:40:40,789 --> 01:40:42,757 ...R... 1295 01:40:43,425 --> 01:40:45,359 ...A... 1296 01:40:45,527 --> 01:40:47,017 ...N... 1297 01:40:47,195 --> 01:40:49,390 ...T... 1298 01:40:49,798 --> 01:40:51,356 ...I... 1299 01:40:51,533 --> 01:40:53,023 ...N... 1300 01:40:57,973 --> 01:40:59,998 ...E. 1301 01:41:02,911 --> 01:41:05,004 Quarantine. 1302 01:41:43,018 --> 01:41:46,078 General McEwan. Colonel Bertrang. Thanks for coming down. 1303 01:41:46,254 --> 01:41:48,415 Odie, you reading me okay? 1304 01:41:48,590 --> 01:41:49,818 Yeah, you're A-okay. 1305 01:41:55,463 --> 01:41:58,660 All right, flight controls are active. She's all yours. 1306 01:42:07,576 --> 01:42:09,908 Spotless. No wiggle on the wheel or throttle. 1307 01:42:10,078 --> 01:42:11,909 Take it easy. 1308 01:42:28,930 --> 01:42:32,525 - How does she sound, Howard? - She's whispering to me, buddy. 1309 01:42:32,701 --> 01:42:34,601 All right, make her sing. 1310 01:42:55,490 --> 01:42:58,721 Well, Odie, she can fly. Congratulations. 1311 01:42:58,893 --> 01:43:02,385 I'm glad to hear it. Retract landing gear and climb to 5000 feet... 1312 01:43:02,564 --> 01:43:04,122 ...on a heading of 2-7-0. 1313 01:43:04,299 --> 01:43:10,169 Retracting landing gear and climbing to 5000 feet on a heading 2-7-0. 1314 01:43:14,676 --> 01:43:16,871 - She's fast. - What's your air speed? 1315 01:43:17,045 --> 01:43:18,672 292. 1316 01:43:18,880 --> 01:43:22,407 - All right, take her back to 200. - No damn way. 1317 01:43:48,209 --> 01:43:49,938 We gotta bring her home. 1318 01:43:50,111 --> 01:43:52,545 Scheduled time of one hour and 45 minutes has elapsed. 1319 01:43:52,747 --> 01:43:55,682 - Set course for 0-9-0... - Ten more minutes. Roger that. 1320 01:43:55,850 --> 01:43:58,444 Negative, Howard. Bring her home. 1321 01:43:58,620 --> 01:44:04,490 Okay. Okay. Setting course for 0-9-0. 1322 01:44:05,193 --> 01:44:07,093 Preparing to descend. 1323 01:44:10,732 --> 01:44:13,997 - Jesus. - What is it, Howard? 1324 01:44:15,303 --> 01:44:18,795 The right wing just dipped. I'm losing starboard engine. 1325 01:44:19,240 --> 01:44:21,868 Increasing power to 2800 rpm. 1326 01:44:22,344 --> 01:44:23,572 Cutting back. 1327 01:44:23,945 --> 01:44:25,879 Increasing starboard engine only. 1328 01:44:27,015 --> 01:44:29,745 Cutting back. I'm losing altitude. 1329 01:44:29,918 --> 01:44:32,478 Check starboard-engine manifold pressure. 1330 01:44:33,355 --> 01:44:37,223 - It's good, but rpm's are low. - Are both starboard props turning? 1331 01:44:37,392 --> 01:44:38,859 Hold on. 1332 01:44:39,094 --> 01:44:42,120 They are, but she's pulling me back and starboard, Odie. 1333 01:44:42,297 --> 01:44:44,891 - How bad is your cross control? - I'm at full left rudder... 1334 01:44:45,066 --> 01:44:48,365 ...and full left aileron, but she won't stay level. Goddamn it. 1335 01:44:48,636 --> 01:44:51,503 - Give us your position. - Two thousand feet over... 1336 01:44:51,673 --> 01:44:55,734 Oh, Christ, I don't know, Beverly Hills. Fifteen hundred feet. 1337 01:44:55,910 --> 01:44:57,605 We're going down. 1338 01:44:58,546 --> 01:45:02,141 I'll try for the Wilshire Country Club. Ninth hole. You reading me? 1339 01:45:02,317 --> 01:45:06,253 Wilshire Country Club, copy that. Howard, reduce engines to 1000. 1340 01:45:06,955 --> 01:45:11,915 I'm going down! I'm not gonna make it, buddy! 1341 01:45:18,400 --> 01:45:20,197 Goddamn it! 1342 01:47:22,557 --> 01:47:26,049 Is there anyone else inside? Is there anyone else?! 1343 01:47:26,227 --> 01:47:27,922 No. 1344 01:47:31,766 --> 01:47:35,133 I'm Howard Hughes, the aviator. 1345 01:47:44,412 --> 01:47:47,108 - every inch of his wiring and fluid connection. 1346 01:47:47,282 --> 01:47:49,944 He has burns to 78 percent of his body. 1347 01:47:50,118 --> 01:47:52,780 Nine ribs are shattered, not broken, shattered... 1348 01:47:53,288 --> 01:47:57,748 ...as are his nose, his chin, his cheek, his left knee, his left elbow. 1349 01:47:57,926 --> 01:48:00,520 He has 60 lacerations on his face, to the bone. 1350 01:48:01,095 --> 01:48:03,859 His chest was crushed, so his left lung collapsed... 1351 01:48:04,032 --> 01:48:07,695 ...and his heart has shifted to the right side of his chest cavity. 1352 01:48:08,636 --> 01:48:10,536 Jesus, God. 1353 01:48:10,972 --> 01:48:15,306 - He's getting blood transfusions now, but... - Whose blood? 1354 01:48:16,144 --> 01:48:18,305 - I'm sorry? - Whose blood? 1355 01:48:18,813 --> 01:48:20,371 From our stock. 1356 01:48:21,049 --> 01:48:25,213 - Oh, he's not going to like that. - Mr. Dietrich, I doubt he's... 1357 01:48:25,386 --> 01:48:28,321 ...ever gonna like or dislike anything again. 1358 01:48:28,957 --> 01:48:31,118 I'm terribly sorry. 1359 01:48:59,587 --> 01:49:01,487 Orange juice. 1360 01:49:04,592 --> 01:49:08,028 It's not fresh from the kitchen, so I... 1361 01:49:08,730 --> 01:49:13,827 I have them make it here so... So I can see. 1362 01:49:17,939 --> 01:49:19,873 Look at me. 1363 01:49:22,510 --> 01:49:24,501 I'm a monster. 1364 01:49:24,979 --> 01:49:29,780 Yeah. Orange juice has nutritional value. 1365 01:49:30,952 --> 01:49:35,912 There's... There's some flies outside my window, though. 1366 01:49:36,491 --> 01:49:38,254 So... 1367 01:49:40,294 --> 01:49:42,956 ...little Howard likes... 1368 01:49:44,432 --> 01:49:46,559 ...citrus. 1369 01:49:47,335 --> 01:49:49,200 Don't he just? 1370 01:49:52,340 --> 01:49:54,035 Tell me. 1371 01:49:55,677 --> 01:49:59,477 An oil seal ripped off the starboard rear propeller. 1372 01:49:59,647 --> 01:50:03,105 When the pressure dropped, the prop reversed pitch. 1373 01:50:03,618 --> 01:50:05,381 Do you understand me? 1374 01:50:05,920 --> 01:50:10,914 Howard, I'm sorry to have to tell you this now, but there's something else. 1375 01:50:11,325 --> 01:50:14,055 - You following me? - Yeah. 1376 01:50:15,263 --> 01:50:18,926 The Air Force canceled the contract on The Hercules. 1377 01:50:21,269 --> 01:50:26,673 The war's over now, and they say they don't need it anymore. 1378 01:50:27,141 --> 01:50:31,601 I have to know what you want me to do. Should I release the staff? 1379 01:50:31,779 --> 01:50:33,872 How far... 1380 01:50:35,683 --> 01:50:37,116 ...from finishing? 1381 01:50:38,352 --> 01:50:43,153 - About six months. - No, in money. 1382 01:50:46,427 --> 01:50:48,292 Seven million. 1383 01:50:49,097 --> 01:50:50,462 Maybe more. 1384 01:50:55,870 --> 01:50:57,701 Build it. 1385 01:50:59,207 --> 01:51:01,141 Build it, Odie. 1386 01:51:02,977 --> 01:51:04,501 Howard... 1387 01:51:05,146 --> 01:51:09,207 ...a Constellation crashed outside Reading, Pennsylvania. 1388 01:51:09,684 --> 01:51:13,120 The Civil Aeronautics Board has grounded the whole fleet. 1389 01:51:23,097 --> 01:51:24,758 You know... 1390 01:51:25,833 --> 01:51:29,098 ...Juan Trippe sent me flowers. 1391 01:51:31,305 --> 01:51:33,000 Take a look. 1392 01:51:36,778 --> 01:51:41,647 - What did you do with all the others? - Oh, I had them taken out. 1393 01:51:41,816 --> 01:51:44,979 They... They attract aphids. 1394 01:51:46,020 --> 01:51:50,719 Aphids are... They're just awful little creatures. 1395 01:51:51,592 --> 01:51:53,355 But... 1396 01:51:55,696 --> 01:51:57,789 But these ones... 1397 01:51:58,766 --> 01:52:02,634 ...I wanted to see these ones every day. 1398 01:52:10,178 --> 01:52:13,170 Can white elephants fly? That's everybody's question. 1399 01:52:13,347 --> 01:52:18,375 The hull of the world's mightiest airplane, a flying boat built by Howard Hughes. 1400 01:52:18,553 --> 01:52:22,717 Two hundred and twenty feet long, it towers higher than a five-story building. 1401 01:52:22,890 --> 01:52:26,883 Power lines have to be cut as it starts the trip from Culver City... 1402 01:52:27,061 --> 01:52:29,086 ... to the Pacific, 30 miles away. 1403 01:52:29,263 --> 01:52:32,494 Moving the 60-ton load is quite an engineering problem. 1404 01:52:32,667 --> 01:52:36,626 But you gotta ask, was anything this big ever supposed to fly? 1405 01:52:36,804 --> 01:52:41,298 There goes one wing section, 160 feet long with four engine housings. 1406 01:52:41,475 --> 01:52:44,342 Double that and you've got some idea of the wingspread. 1407 01:52:44,512 --> 01:52:48,812 An airplane that challenges a mountain for sheer size. 1408 01:52:55,823 --> 01:52:58,053 How long can they keep us grounded? 1409 01:52:58,226 --> 01:53:01,787 Until they finish investigating the Reading crash. Could be months. 1410 01:53:01,963 --> 01:53:06,900 You're running a $14 million deficit. How will you afford to keep them out of service? 1411 01:53:07,101 --> 01:53:11,595 - We go international, we'll make it up. - Brewster's C.A.B. bill isn't going away. 1412 01:53:11,772 --> 01:53:14,502 That bill passes, and you bought these for nothing. 1413 01:53:14,675 --> 01:53:18,076 - We're fighting the C.A.B. bill. - Meanwhile, how do we keep TWA flying? 1414 01:53:18,246 --> 01:53:22,842 Don't say, "Just go to Tool Co." We're pumping every cent into The Hercules... 1415 01:53:23,017 --> 01:53:25,815 ...which the Air Force doesn't even want anymore. 1416 01:53:25,987 --> 01:53:29,753 I'm glad Jack is feeling sunny about things, but I've seen the books. 1417 01:53:30,091 --> 01:53:32,525 I'm telling it straight. I'm not crying wolf. 1418 01:53:32,693 --> 01:53:35,787 We're in serious trouble. You've gotta make a choice. 1419 01:53:35,963 --> 01:53:41,026 You wanna be bankrupted by the big plane or by the big airline? 1420 01:53:48,342 --> 01:53:51,937 Go see Thomas Parkinson at the Equitable in New York. 1421 01:53:52,113 --> 01:53:55,674 Get a loan against all the TWA equipment and capital. 1422 01:53:55,850 --> 01:54:01,686 Use the planes as collateral. Hell, use the desks, use the pens, use everything we got. 1423 01:54:01,856 --> 01:54:06,020 - Try to get me 40 million. - And if TWA defaults on the loan? 1424 01:54:06,627 --> 01:54:09,528 Then Juan Trippe buys us cheap. 1425 01:54:12,133 --> 01:54:15,227 Under my bed! You put a goddamn microphone under my bed! 1426 01:54:15,403 --> 01:54:17,530 Listen to me. I am concerned about you. 1427 01:54:17,705 --> 01:54:21,072 - I just wanna make sure you're okay. - And who is in that car?! 1428 01:54:21,409 --> 01:54:23,570 It's been with me 24 hours a day. 1429 01:54:23,744 --> 01:54:25,507 That car is for your protection! 1430 01:54:25,680 --> 01:54:29,138 The only one I need protection from is you, you sick bastard! 1431 01:54:29,317 --> 01:54:30,841 You don't own me, Howard. 1432 01:54:31,018 --> 01:54:34,146 I'm not one of your teenage whores or some damn airplane. 1433 01:54:34,322 --> 01:54:36,347 I'll have them take all the bugs out. 1434 01:54:36,524 --> 01:54:38,549 I need to know where you are. 1435 01:54:38,726 --> 01:54:41,388 - Why?! - Because I worry about you, that's why. 1436 01:54:41,562 --> 01:54:43,553 Bullshit! 1437 01:54:46,067 --> 01:54:48,160 What do you mean, "all the bugs"? 1438 01:54:54,241 --> 01:54:56,869 What do you mean, "all the bugs"? 1439 01:54:59,180 --> 01:55:01,171 There's more. 1440 01:55:01,449 --> 01:55:03,246 How many? 1441 01:55:03,551 --> 01:55:09,717 I don't know, 12. Twelve, maybe, and on the telephones. 1442 01:55:10,191 --> 01:55:13,854 Oh, Christ, Howard, on the telephone? 1443 01:55:14,028 --> 01:55:15,620 You listen to my phone calls? 1444 01:55:15,796 --> 01:55:19,596 No, no, honey, I would never do that. I'd never do that. 1445 01:55:19,767 --> 01:55:22,793 I just read the transcripts, that's all. 1446 01:55:27,408 --> 01:55:29,535 What do you wanna know, Howard? 1447 01:55:29,710 --> 01:55:31,871 Was I screwing Artie Shaw last night? 1448 01:55:32,046 --> 01:55:34,742 Was I screwing Sinatra the night before? You bet. 1449 01:55:34,915 --> 01:55:37,509 Everyone said you were a lunatic, I didn't listen. 1450 01:55:37,685 --> 01:55:40,586 It's no wonder Kate Hepburn dumped your demented ass! 1451 01:55:40,755 --> 01:55:43,223 Shut your goddamn mouth. 1452 01:55:47,395 --> 01:55:50,831 Get out, you pathetic freak. 1453 01:55:58,239 --> 01:56:00,400 Get out! 1454 01:56:00,574 --> 01:56:02,235 Is everything all right, sir? 1455 01:56:02,410 --> 01:56:04,742 Take out all the bugs, huh? 1456 01:56:06,881 --> 01:56:08,974 Except for the one on the bedroom phone. 1457 01:56:09,150 --> 01:56:10,947 Sir, the FBI are at the house. 1458 01:56:12,787 --> 01:56:17,383 This is outrageous! Everything here is the private property of Hughes Productions. 1459 01:56:17,558 --> 01:56:20,254 - My legal counsel is on the way... - Federal warrant. 1460 01:56:20,428 --> 01:56:22,692 Don't interfere with the search, sir. 1461 01:56:42,383 --> 01:56:45,875 Dateline: Los Angeles. Howard Hughes has a new houseguest. 1462 01:56:46,053 --> 01:56:49,648 No, it's not another beautiful starlet. This time it's the FBI. 1463 01:56:49,824 --> 01:56:53,726 Noah, you've got to help. This is the 10th time they have been here. 1464 01:56:53,894 --> 01:56:57,352 Rumor has it that agents working for Senator Owen Brewster... 1465 01:56:57,531 --> 01:57:01,365 ... have practically taken up residence in the aviation mogul's home. 1466 01:57:01,535 --> 01:57:03,628 Look, I mean, they are touching things. 1467 01:57:03,971 --> 01:57:07,099 - Noah, they are touching things. - Just keep yourself calm... 1468 01:57:07,274 --> 01:57:10,300 ... and I'll be down there as soon as I can, Howard. 1469 01:57:10,478 --> 01:57:12,173 Howard? 1470 01:57:12,346 --> 01:57:14,177 Howard? 1471 01:57:38,539 --> 01:57:40,439 Howard, hello. 1472 01:57:40,608 --> 01:57:43,941 - Nice to see you again. - Good to see you. Come on inside. 1473 01:57:44,111 --> 01:57:46,636 - Emma, you can start up lunch now. - Yes, sir. 1474 01:57:46,814 --> 01:57:51,308 Well, really lovely room. It's nicely decorated. 1475 01:57:51,485 --> 01:57:53,248 Thank you. Here, have a seat. 1476 01:57:53,420 --> 01:57:54,853 Thanks for coming by. 1477 01:57:55,022 --> 01:57:58,150 I thought you and I should have a chance to talk privately. 1478 01:57:58,325 --> 01:58:00,088 You know, outside the office. 1479 01:58:02,096 --> 01:58:03,427 Well... 1480 01:58:03,964 --> 01:58:05,932 ...I appreciate that, Owen. 1481 01:58:13,340 --> 01:58:18,368 So you're coming out pretty strong against the C.A.B. bill. 1482 01:58:19,113 --> 01:58:24,210 - You're coming on pretty strong for it. - Well, it's my bill, Howard, you know. 1483 01:58:24,385 --> 01:58:28,617 Look, I believe sincerely that America cannot afford... 1484 01:58:28,789 --> 01:58:31,622 ...to have more than one international carrier. 1485 01:58:33,194 --> 01:58:38,359 I mean, do you think it's fair that one airline should have a monopoly on international..? 1486 01:58:38,532 --> 01:58:41,899 A monopoly? No, no, no. Oh, no. 1487 01:58:42,069 --> 01:58:47,132 No, I think one airline could do it better, see, without competition. 1488 01:58:47,508 --> 01:58:52,138 All I'm thinking about are the interests, the needs of the American passenger. 1489 01:58:52,513 --> 01:58:55,448 That's just beautiful. What is that? 1490 01:58:59,653 --> 01:59:01,951 What is that? Is that a? 1491 01:59:02,122 --> 01:59:04,022 Is that a yak? 1492 01:59:04,191 --> 01:59:06,921 - Some kind of a yak? - No, that's a llama. 1493 01:59:07,094 --> 01:59:09,358 My wife picked that up when we were in Peru. 1494 01:59:09,530 --> 01:59:11,589 Son of a gun. 1495 01:59:11,765 --> 01:59:14,256 A real llama. 1496 01:59:15,569 --> 01:59:19,198 - From Peru? - Yeah. From a year ago, I think it was... 1497 01:59:19,373 --> 01:59:22,570 - Yeah, it was about a year ago. - Lunch is served, senator. 1498 01:59:22,743 --> 01:59:25,234 Good. Okay. Come on, let's go have some lunch. 1499 01:59:26,814 --> 01:59:30,807 Now, did you..? Did you actually get to see any llamas? 1500 01:59:30,985 --> 01:59:33,453 No, no. My wife just liked the painting. 1501 01:59:33,621 --> 01:59:36,681 It's an interesting animal. I'll have to read up on those. 1502 01:59:36,857 --> 01:59:41,294 How do you spell that? Like? Like Fernando Lamas? 1503 01:59:41,662 --> 01:59:45,928 No, no. It's... It's the animal, it's got two L's. 1504 01:59:46,100 --> 01:59:48,125 Here, come on, have a seat. 1505 01:59:57,278 --> 01:59:59,746 It's brook trout. Hope you like fish. 1506 02:00:02,283 --> 02:00:05,912 I love it. Thanks. 1507 02:00:21,135 --> 02:00:25,265 I know you're not a drinking man, so I hope... Hope water's okay. 1508 02:00:38,152 --> 02:00:39,744 Thanks. 1509 02:00:45,693 --> 02:00:49,094 All right, let's get down to business. Let's talk turkey. 1510 02:00:49,963 --> 02:00:52,295 My investigators... 1511 02:00:53,033 --> 02:00:55,866 My investigators have turned up a lot of dirt. 1512 02:00:56,337 --> 02:00:59,670 It could be really embarrassing if this stuff got out. 1513 02:01:00,374 --> 02:01:02,899 I'd like to save you from that embarrassment. 1514 02:01:04,178 --> 02:01:06,305 That's very kind of you, Owen. 1515 02:01:09,316 --> 02:01:13,150 My committee has the power to hold public hearings. 1516 02:01:14,722 --> 02:01:16,622 I'd like to spare you that. 1517 02:01:17,324 --> 02:01:18,552 Would you, now? 1518 02:01:19,893 --> 02:01:21,417 Look... 1519 02:01:21,595 --> 02:01:26,294 Do you wanna go down in history as a war profiteer, Howard? 1520 02:01:26,467 --> 02:01:27,729 Is that what you want? 1521 02:01:30,237 --> 02:01:32,467 What do you want, Owen? 1522 02:01:34,041 --> 02:01:40,139 You agree to support my C.A.B. bill, and I won't hold public hearings. 1523 02:01:40,314 --> 02:01:42,043 - I can't do that. - Why not? 1524 02:01:42,216 --> 02:01:45,811 I can't do that, Owen. The C.A.B. would kill TWA. 1525 02:01:45,986 --> 02:01:49,114 Sell TWA to Pan Am. 1526 02:01:49,757 --> 02:01:52,885 You'll get a good price. You'll get a fair price. 1527 02:01:53,961 --> 02:01:56,156 And then..? Then you won't go public? 1528 02:01:56,330 --> 02:02:01,165 Right. That's right. The investigation's closed. Nobody knows a thing. 1529 02:02:01,335 --> 02:02:04,361 That's... It's better for everybody. 1530 02:02:09,042 --> 02:02:12,569 You know, Owen, I'm still wondering one thing. 1531 02:02:12,746 --> 02:02:16,443 - What's that? - The picture of the llama you got last year? 1532 02:02:16,617 --> 02:02:19,279 - Yeah. - Where'd you sail from? 1533 02:02:19,987 --> 02:02:22,012 We didn't sail. We flew. 1534 02:02:23,390 --> 02:02:25,517 - You flew? - Yeah. 1535 02:02:33,333 --> 02:02:36,598 Are you sure you want to do this, Owen? 1536 02:02:37,371 --> 02:02:39,805 You want to go to war with me? 1537 02:02:44,611 --> 02:02:48,945 It isn't me, Howard. It's the United States government. 1538 02:02:49,917 --> 02:02:52,477 We just beat Germany and Japan. 1539 02:02:53,053 --> 02:02:55,078 Who the hell are you? 1540 02:03:00,327 --> 02:03:05,026 You... You tell Juan Trippe something for me, all right? 1541 02:03:05,666 --> 02:03:08,430 Tell him thanks for the flowers. 1542 02:03:08,802 --> 02:03:14,035 And he can kiss both sides of my ass. 1543 02:03:38,065 --> 02:03:40,533 Well, we have a long list of particulars. 1544 02:03:40,701 --> 02:03:44,865 Chief among them is that he defrauded the American government... 1545 02:03:45,038 --> 02:03:48,599 ...of $56 million while at war, when we could least afford it. 1546 02:03:48,775 --> 02:03:51,801 While brave men were dying on the beaches of Normandy... 1547 02:03:51,979 --> 02:03:55,415 ...Mr. Hughes was picking the pocket of the American taxpayer. 1548 02:03:55,582 --> 02:03:56,913 I sleep... 1549 02:03:57,718 --> 02:03:59,982 ...in this room... 1550 02:04:01,722 --> 02:04:03,121 ...in the dark. 1551 02:04:03,290 --> 02:04:06,191 I'll have him dragged here to Washington if I have to. 1552 02:04:06,360 --> 02:04:08,590 I wanna see the whites of his lies. 1553 02:04:08,862 --> 02:04:10,887 I have a place. 1554 02:04:11,665 --> 02:04:15,294 - I can sleep. - He has a lot of questions to answer. 1555 02:04:15,469 --> 02:04:18,529 - I have a chair. - Particularly about that monstrous... 1556 02:04:18,705 --> 02:04:23,165 ...boondoggle of his, that model airplane he's building... 1557 02:04:23,343 --> 02:04:27,939 ...that flying lumberyard, that spruce goose. 1558 02:04:29,583 --> 02:04:31,949 No, he'll... We'll get him here. 1559 02:04:35,522 --> 02:04:36,955 That's just beautiful. 1560 02:04:37,958 --> 02:04:41,553 Oh, yeah. I like the desert. 1561 02:04:43,463 --> 02:04:47,229 It's hot there in the desert, but it's clean. 1562 02:04:47,801 --> 02:04:49,462 It's clean. 1563 02:04:51,204 --> 02:04:53,138 I need to sleep. 1564 02:04:56,043 --> 02:04:58,341 I should drink something first. 1565 02:05:02,916 --> 02:05:04,679 I should drink something first. 1566 02:05:09,389 --> 02:05:11,118 Wait a minute. 1567 02:05:12,492 --> 02:05:14,016 What if that milk is sour? 1568 02:05:15,262 --> 02:05:16,889 That milk is bad. 1569 02:05:17,631 --> 02:05:22,591 I shouldn't pick up the bottle of milk with my right hand. 1570 02:05:23,003 --> 02:05:29,272 And I shouldn't take the top off with my left hand... 1571 02:05:30,243 --> 02:05:33,371 ...put it in my pocket. 1572 02:05:33,547 --> 02:05:36,141 My left pocket. 1573 02:05:52,933 --> 02:05:57,199 Howard, it's Kate. I need... I need to talk to you. 1574 02:05:58,405 --> 02:06:00,373 Can you hear me? 1575 02:06:02,843 --> 02:06:04,834 I'm coming in. 1576 02:06:09,683 --> 02:06:12,413 Howard, unlock this door immediately. 1577 02:06:20,961 --> 02:06:23,361 I can't, sweetie. 1578 02:06:26,266 --> 02:06:28,166 You mean you won't. 1579 02:06:30,037 --> 02:06:33,473 Howard, please let me see you. 1580 02:06:33,640 --> 02:06:38,805 - I haven't shaved. - Well, neither have I. 1581 02:06:42,015 --> 02:06:43,846 Come on. 1582 02:06:44,017 --> 02:06:45,712 You... 1583 02:06:45,886 --> 02:06:48,354 You let me in. 1584 02:06:54,061 --> 02:06:56,427 I can hear you, Katie. 1585 02:06:57,898 --> 02:07:03,393 I could always hear you. Even in the cockpit, with the engines on. 1586 02:07:04,071 --> 02:07:07,472 That's because I'm so goddamn loud. 1587 02:07:12,245 --> 02:07:14,179 Howard, I... 1588 02:07:16,249 --> 02:07:18,649 I came to thank you. 1589 02:07:19,486 --> 02:07:22,717 I found out what you did for Spence and me. 1590 02:07:22,889 --> 02:07:26,154 Buying those awful pictures. 1591 02:07:30,797 --> 02:07:32,458 You love him. 1592 02:07:39,206 --> 02:07:41,834 He's everything I have. 1593 02:07:49,883 --> 02:07:51,908 Howard? 1594 02:07:52,886 --> 02:07:55,320 I'm glad for you, Kate. 1595 02:07:56,656 --> 02:07:59,090 Go away now. Would you do that? 1596 02:08:00,494 --> 02:08:03,759 - Howard, please. - Go away. 1597 02:08:03,930 --> 02:08:07,331 Just for now. I'll see you soon. 1598 02:08:07,501 --> 02:08:09,901 - We'll go flying together. - Yes. 1599 02:08:10,070 --> 02:08:12,937 Yes, please. You take me flying again. 1600 02:08:13,106 --> 02:08:15,939 Howard, I can take the wheel. 1601 02:08:21,782 --> 02:08:23,374 Howard? 1602 02:08:29,856 --> 02:08:31,915 Howard, are you..? Are you there? 1603 02:08:37,631 --> 02:08:39,292 Howard? 1604 02:08:41,101 --> 02:08:42,966 Howard, are you there? 1605 02:08:45,438 --> 02:08:47,463 Come on, Howard. 1606 02:08:50,410 --> 02:08:52,344 Howard, are you there? 1607 02:09:18,605 --> 02:09:20,698 Come in with the milk. 1608 02:09:20,874 --> 02:09:23,035 Come in with the milk. 1609 02:09:23,210 --> 02:09:25,542 Come in with the milk. 1610 02:09:25,846 --> 02:09:28,872 He is to open the bag with his right hand... 1611 02:09:29,049 --> 02:09:32,143 ...and hold the bag out to me at a 45-degree angle... 1612 02:09:32,319 --> 02:09:35,652 ...so I may reach into the bag without... 1613 02:09:37,691 --> 02:09:39,921 Without touching the paper. 1614 02:09:44,931 --> 02:09:46,990 Repeated from the beginning. 1615 02:09:47,534 --> 02:09:49,729 Repeated from the beginning. 1616 02:09:50,470 --> 02:09:52,563 Repeated from the beginning. 1617 02:10:02,983 --> 02:10:07,352 If there is any variation of these instructions... 1618 02:10:07,520 --> 02:10:10,853 ... even to the smallest degree... 1619 02:10:11,024 --> 02:10:15,222 ... the entire process must be repeated... 1620 02:10:15,395 --> 02:10:17,829 - ... from the beginning. - Come in with the milk. 1621 02:10:17,998 --> 02:10:20,762 - Repeated from the beginning. - Come in with the milk. 1622 02:10:20,934 --> 02:10:22,697 - Come in with the milk. - Repeated... 1623 02:10:22,869 --> 02:10:24,598 ... from the beginning. 1624 02:10:24,771 --> 02:10:26,739 Repeated from the beginning. 1625 02:10:26,907 --> 02:10:28,602 Come in with the milk. 1626 02:10:28,775 --> 02:10:30,675 Q... 1627 02:10:32,545 --> 02:10:33,807 R... 1628 02:10:34,180 --> 02:10:36,273 N... 1629 02:10:37,784 --> 02:10:39,342 T... 1630 02:10:39,753 --> 02:10:42,244 Q... 1631 02:10:43,089 --> 02:10:45,284 ...U... 1632 02:10:46,860 --> 02:10:48,794 E... 1633 02:10:49,930 --> 02:10:52,057 I... 1634 02:10:52,532 --> 02:10:54,625 T... 1635 02:10:55,402 --> 02:10:57,267 ...I... 1636 02:10:57,504 --> 02:10:59,301 ...N... 1637 02:11:00,273 --> 02:11:02,332 ...E. 1638 02:11:02,943 --> 02:11:04,843 N... 1639 02:11:05,912 --> 02:11:07,277 ...E. 1640 02:11:07,447 --> 02:11:09,540 E... 1641 02:11:09,716 --> 02:11:11,684 I... 1642 02:11:22,295 --> 02:11:24,058 Howard? 1643 02:11:26,266 --> 02:11:27,790 Hello? 1644 02:11:30,170 --> 02:11:31,535 Who is it? 1645 02:11:31,705 --> 02:11:33,696 Howard, it's Juan. 1646 02:11:42,182 --> 02:11:44,116 Juan. 1647 02:11:44,684 --> 02:11:46,948 Juan, right. Yeah. 1648 02:11:47,120 --> 02:11:49,884 We had an appointment, right? Yeah. 1649 02:11:50,557 --> 02:11:53,025 I remember that. Look... 1650 02:11:53,193 --> 02:11:55,991 ...I got a hell of a cold in here. A hell of a cold. 1651 02:11:56,162 --> 02:11:59,563 So take a seat out there, because I don't wanna get you sick. 1652 02:12:00,033 --> 02:12:05,130 I'd never forgive myself if I got you sick. I don't wanna get you sick. I don't wanna... 1653 02:12:12,278 --> 02:12:14,109 Thank you. 1654 02:12:16,716 --> 02:12:18,479 Okay, Howard, I'm sitting. 1655 02:12:19,152 --> 02:12:22,212 I've brought along our accountings. Now... 1656 02:12:22,389 --> 02:12:25,552 ...Pan Am is trading at 13 and five-eighths. 1657 02:12:25,725 --> 02:12:28,353 TWA at four and a quarter. 1658 02:12:28,528 --> 02:12:29,995 - Now, if you take... - Come on. 1659 02:12:30,163 --> 02:12:35,430 Come on, come on, come on. We both know I'm not gonna sell TWA. 1660 02:12:35,602 --> 02:12:37,661 Besides, you couldn't afford her. 1661 02:12:37,837 --> 02:12:41,603 Our domestic routes alone are worth more than twice Pan Am. 1662 02:12:42,208 --> 02:12:45,439 Well, considering our stock is trading at three times yours... 1663 02:12:45,612 --> 02:12:48,638 ...I find that a dubious claim, Howard. 1664 02:12:48,815 --> 02:12:50,214 What I... 1665 02:12:52,352 --> 02:12:56,914 What I mean is, you have no domestic routes. All right? 1666 02:12:57,090 --> 02:12:59,217 I mean, you get TWA, you span the globe. 1667 02:12:59,392 --> 02:13:02,088 I'm not gonna sell, and you know I'm not gonna sell. 1668 02:13:02,262 --> 02:13:04,127 Here's the point. 1669 02:13:04,297 --> 02:13:06,765 Owen Brewster works for you. 1670 02:13:07,333 --> 02:13:13,169 Howard, I didn't elect Senator Brewster. We can thank the voters of Maine for that. 1671 02:13:20,847 --> 02:13:26,308 Now, if I appear at his hearings, Juan, it could get nasty. 1672 02:13:26,486 --> 02:13:28,511 Real nasty for all of us. 1673 02:13:28,688 --> 02:13:33,057 Well, I think, considerably more so for you. 1674 02:13:33,460 --> 02:13:36,657 While the good people of America were losing sons at Anzio... 1675 02:13:36,830 --> 02:13:40,561 ...you produced a dirty movie and built airplanes that don't fly. 1676 02:13:40,733 --> 02:13:43,293 Well, that's just not fair, is it? 1677 02:13:43,470 --> 02:13:47,270 I mean, the XF-11 flew quite well for an hour and 45 minutes. 1678 02:13:47,440 --> 02:13:51,740 I wish you were up there with me, Juan. It was exhilarating. 1679 02:13:52,679 --> 02:13:56,080 Be that as it may, you still have to answer for the Spruce Goose. 1680 02:13:56,816 --> 02:13:59,284 It's called The Hercules! 1681 02:13:59,452 --> 02:14:02,683 And it will fly, goddamn it! 1682 02:14:02,856 --> 02:14:06,917 I hope so. The American people deserve something for their $13 million. 1683 02:14:07,093 --> 02:14:10,085 I won't sell TWA! 1684 02:14:10,263 --> 02:14:11,389 I won't! 1685 02:14:16,402 --> 02:14:18,393 I know that, Howard. 1686 02:14:19,205 --> 02:14:20,900 I know that. 1687 02:14:22,709 --> 02:14:25,337 But I'm going to get it anyway. 1688 02:14:26,312 --> 02:14:30,180 You will default on your loan from Equitable after Senator Brewster... 1689 02:14:30,350 --> 02:14:34,650 ...destroys your reputation and you can't find additional capital for the airline. 1690 02:14:34,821 --> 02:14:40,020 The hearings will also show Hughes Aircraft to be mismanaged and incompetent... 1691 02:14:40,193 --> 02:14:42,252 ...and it will go bankrupt too. 1692 02:14:42,428 --> 02:14:45,989 But you won't be insolvent. You'll still have Tool Co. 1693 02:14:46,166 --> 02:14:50,000 Perhaps you'll head back to Houston to rebuild your empire. 1694 02:14:50,236 --> 02:14:52,363 I rather hope you do. 1695 02:14:52,805 --> 02:14:56,138 By that time, Pan Am will have bought TWA... 1696 02:14:56,309 --> 02:15:00,336 ...and painted all those magnificent Connies blue and white. 1697 02:15:00,513 --> 02:15:05,382 So when you do return, it will be on a Pan Am plane. 1698 02:15:08,821 --> 02:15:10,482 Well... 1699 02:15:12,458 --> 02:15:15,552 You seem to have me in a corner here, buddy. 1700 02:15:16,563 --> 02:15:19,726 Not a position in which I'm very comfortable. 1701 02:15:21,301 --> 02:15:25,203 I think you're gonna be less comfortable at Senator Brewster's hearings. 1702 02:15:26,306 --> 02:15:28,638 Very public, Howard. 1703 02:15:30,643 --> 02:15:34,079 Lots of cameras and newsmen. 1704 02:15:34,314 --> 02:15:38,080 I understand you're not particularly fond of crowds. 1705 02:15:39,953 --> 02:15:43,116 Perhaps we should spare you that. 1706 02:15:45,024 --> 02:15:49,961 Well, thank you for your concern, Juan. 1707 02:15:50,129 --> 02:15:52,120 I find that... 1708 02:15:53,266 --> 02:15:55,427 ...very moving. 1709 02:15:56,202 --> 02:15:58,193 It's been a real pleasure. 1710 02:15:59,839 --> 02:16:02,933 Noah will see you back to the airport now. 1711 02:16:03,943 --> 02:16:05,308 You fly safe. 1712 02:16:09,082 --> 02:16:11,346 You fly safe. 1713 02:16:16,289 --> 02:16:19,019 Thank you, Howard, and you take care of that cold. 1714 02:16:19,192 --> 02:16:21,126 Don't you worry. 1715 02:16:21,294 --> 02:16:23,455 I certainly will. 1716 02:16:24,397 --> 02:16:26,126 Bye-bye. 1717 02:16:30,803 --> 02:16:35,570 If you let him appear at those hearings, the whole world will see what he's become. 1718 02:16:35,742 --> 02:16:38,643 People should remember him as he was. 1719 02:16:43,816 --> 02:16:47,308 He'll have a subpoena in three days to appear in Washington. 1720 02:16:48,588 --> 02:16:51,148 If you can get him out of there by then. 1721 02:17:40,973 --> 02:17:42,804 Mr. Hughes? 1722 02:17:48,881 --> 02:17:51,213 I don't have any shoes. 1723 02:17:53,052 --> 02:17:55,919 - Could you get me some shoes? - Shoes. 1724 02:17:56,689 --> 02:17:58,213 Yeah. 1725 02:18:23,616 --> 02:18:26,244 How nice of you to dress for me. 1726 02:18:29,489 --> 02:18:31,616 Can I come in? 1727 02:18:32,425 --> 02:18:36,794 Yeah, you can come in. 1728 02:18:43,636 --> 02:18:45,604 Thank you for coming. 1729 02:18:58,017 --> 02:19:00,076 Now, let's get a drink. 1730 02:19:00,253 --> 02:19:04,383 Wait, wait, wait, honey. You can't move. You're safe here. 1731 02:19:04,557 --> 02:19:07,651 You're in the germ-free zone now. You understand? 1732 02:19:07,827 --> 02:19:13,288 - I'll take my chances. - No, no, honey. Wait, wait. 1733 02:19:26,412 --> 02:19:28,812 Love what you've done with the place. 1734 02:19:35,621 --> 02:19:39,682 Now, let me look at you. 1735 02:19:44,397 --> 02:19:46,831 When do you go to Washington? 1736 02:19:47,333 --> 02:19:49,233 A week. 1737 02:19:49,402 --> 02:19:52,303 No, no. Just under a week. 1738 02:19:52,472 --> 02:19:56,932 I don't know the date today, but I have to be... 1739 02:19:57,109 --> 02:19:59,669 All right, take it easy. 1740 02:20:12,625 --> 02:20:15,287 There's nothing there, Howard. 1741 02:20:22,201 --> 02:20:25,602 I see things. 1742 02:20:26,472 --> 02:20:28,372 I know, baby. 1743 02:20:29,509 --> 02:20:31,875 Rinse your face off, now. 1744 02:20:40,786 --> 02:20:43,277 Put your hands in the water and wash off the soap. 1745 02:20:43,456 --> 02:20:46,721 I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere. 1746 02:20:51,163 --> 02:20:54,599 - Does that look clean to you? - Nothing's clean, Howard. 1747 02:20:54,767 --> 02:20:57,759 But we do our best, right? 1748 02:20:58,504 --> 02:21:00,233 Yeah. 1749 02:21:19,592 --> 02:21:21,287 What do you think? 1750 02:21:21,460 --> 02:21:24,896 - Well, I look all right. - You look great. 1751 02:21:25,064 --> 02:21:26,725 Will you marry me? 1752 02:21:26,899 --> 02:21:29,595 You're too crazy for me. 1753 02:21:31,237 --> 02:21:33,603 I gotta go, baby. 1754 02:21:34,340 --> 02:21:36,171 Okay. 1755 02:21:36,909 --> 02:21:38,604 Thanks. 1756 02:21:44,550 --> 02:21:46,780 You'd do it for me. 1757 02:21:53,159 --> 02:21:55,127 Hi, Howard. How you doing? 1758 02:22:35,901 --> 02:22:38,267 The committee will come to order. 1759 02:22:38,904 --> 02:22:43,637 Ladies and gentlemen, I must insist that we maintain quiet during these proceedings. 1760 02:22:43,809 --> 02:22:47,040 All right, Mr. Hughes, will you stand and be sworn? 1761 02:22:49,015 --> 02:22:53,042 Do you solemnly swear that in the matter now pending before this committee... 1762 02:22:53,219 --> 02:22:57,349 ...you will tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God? 1763 02:22:57,523 --> 02:22:59,753 - I do. - Pardon me for speaking loudly... 1764 02:22:59,925 --> 02:23:04,191 ...but I know you have difficulty hearing. - That's quite all right. 1765 02:23:04,497 --> 02:23:08,058 I mean, everybody knows I'm deaf. I'm not gonna try to hide it. 1766 02:23:10,469 --> 02:23:13,131 Mr. Hughes, it is the intention of this committee... 1767 02:23:13,305 --> 02:23:14,863 Mr. Hughes has a statement. 1768 02:23:16,208 --> 02:23:22,113 All right, you may proceed with this statement, Mr. Hughes. 1769 02:23:28,421 --> 02:23:30,719 Mr. Hughes, do you have a statement? 1770 02:23:38,064 --> 02:23:42,330 I'm gonna attempt to be honest here. 1771 02:23:43,069 --> 02:23:48,063 I mean, my reputation's being destroyed, so I might as well lay the cards on the table. 1772 02:23:48,908 --> 02:23:52,969 Senator Brewster, if you hadn't gone too far overboard... 1773 02:23:53,145 --> 02:23:55,807 ...if you hadn't put the red-hot iron in my side... 1774 02:23:55,981 --> 02:24:00,509 ...I might have been willing to take a shellacking in this publicity spree of yours. 1775 02:24:00,686 --> 02:24:06,249 I may have been willing to sit back and take a certain amount of abuse simply because... 1776 02:24:06,992 --> 02:24:09,586 ...well, I am only a private citizen. 1777 02:24:09,762 --> 02:24:11,855 Whereas you are a senator... 1778 02:24:12,031 --> 02:24:14,932 ...with all sorts of powers. 1779 02:24:15,768 --> 02:24:18,703 But I think this goddamn circus has gone on long enough! 1780 02:24:18,871 --> 02:24:22,739 - That's quite sufficient. - You have called me a liar, sir, in the press. 1781 02:24:22,908 --> 02:24:25,934 You have called me a liar and a thief and a war profiteer! 1782 02:24:26,112 --> 02:24:30,071 - The witness will restrain... - Why not tell the truth for once, senator? 1783 02:24:30,249 --> 02:24:34,709 Why not tell the truth that this investigation was really born on the day that TWA... 1784 02:24:34,887 --> 02:24:40,450 ...decided to fly to Europe? On the day that TWA first invaded Juan Trippe's territory! 1785 02:24:40,626 --> 02:24:43,151 - Sit down. - On the day TWA first challenged... 1786 02:24:43,329 --> 02:24:47,891 ...the generally accepted theory that only Juan Trippe's great Pan American Airways... 1787 02:24:48,067 --> 02:24:52,163 ...had the right to fly the Atlantic! - You are not here to make a speech. 1788 02:24:53,172 --> 02:24:56,630 I asked for silence! I asked for quiet in this room... 1789 02:24:56,809 --> 02:25:00,836 We have in our possession receipts in the amount of $170,000... 1790 02:25:02,181 --> 02:25:06,481 ...acquired from Mr. John Meyer. Mr. Meyer works for you, does he not? 1791 02:25:06,652 --> 02:25:10,816 - He does. - And what is his official title? 1792 02:25:11,724 --> 02:25:15,285 I don't exactly know, senator. A lot of people work for me. 1793 02:25:15,461 --> 02:25:18,259 Can you explain why your press agent would pay out... 1794 02:25:18,430 --> 02:25:23,424 ...more than $170,000 to representatives of the United States Air Force? 1795 02:25:23,602 --> 02:25:28,039 - I don't know. You'd have to ask him. - Well, would you produce him? 1796 02:25:28,941 --> 02:25:32,104 - Produce him? - Will you cause him to appear? 1797 02:25:32,278 --> 02:25:35,509 You had John Meyer on the stand for three days last week. 1798 02:25:35,681 --> 02:25:38,445 Be that as it may, we would like him to reappear. 1799 02:25:38,617 --> 02:25:42,075 Would you ask him to return? 1800 02:25:48,093 --> 02:25:50,357 No, I don't think I will. 1801 02:25:51,997 --> 02:25:55,194 Will you try to have him return? 1802 02:25:57,269 --> 02:26:01,729 - No, I don't think I'll try. - You don't think you'll try? 1803 02:26:02,808 --> 02:26:05,800 No, I don't think so. 1804 02:26:05,978 --> 02:26:10,779 The $170,000 paid out to the Air Force in the form of hotel suites... 1805 02:26:10,950 --> 02:26:12,577 ...TWA stock... 1806 02:26:13,252 --> 02:26:15,720 ...female companionship. 1807 02:26:15,921 --> 02:26:20,221 Now, is it possible that these could be considered bribes? 1808 02:26:20,893 --> 02:26:23,225 I suppose you could call them that, yes. 1809 02:26:24,597 --> 02:26:25,962 Would you repeat that? 1810 02:26:26,932 --> 02:26:30,766 I said, I suppose you could consider them bribes, yes. 1811 02:26:33,405 --> 02:26:36,238 Well, would you like to explain that, Mr. Hughes? 1812 02:26:37,943 --> 02:26:42,141 I'm afraid you don't know how the aviation business works, senator. 1813 02:26:42,314 --> 02:26:46,751 See, wining and dining Air Force dignitaries is common in our business. 1814 02:26:46,919 --> 02:26:51,856 It's because we all want the big contracts. All the major aircraft companies do it. 1815 02:26:52,024 --> 02:26:54,185 I don't know whether it's a good system... 1816 02:26:54,360 --> 02:26:58,592 ...I just know it's not illegal. You, senator, you are the lawmaker. 1817 02:26:58,764 --> 02:27:03,360 If you pass a law that states no one can entertain Air Force officers, well, hell... 1818 02:27:03,535 --> 02:27:05,696 ...I'd be happy to abide by it. 1819 02:27:07,773 --> 02:27:11,209 Your story is a pack of lies. I can tear it apart if allowed to cross-examine. 1820 02:27:12,544 --> 02:27:16,810 - We're not gonna have this bickering. - Yes. Somewhere between two and 500... 1821 02:27:16,982 --> 02:27:20,850 ...if you'll let me get started. - lf you believe your wealth and power... 1822 02:27:21,020 --> 02:27:24,979 ...can intimidate any member of this committee, you're mistaken. 1823 02:27:25,157 --> 02:27:28,058 - Now submit your questions. - I'll put this very simply. 1824 02:27:28,227 --> 02:27:31,253 On February 12th, at the Mayflower Hotel... 1825 02:27:31,430 --> 02:27:37,027 ...did you or did you not tell me that if I were to sell TWA to Pan Am... 1826 02:27:37,202 --> 02:27:40,000 ...that this entire investigation would be called off? 1827 02:27:40,172 --> 02:27:43,903 I did not. And I have asked you to submit your questions in writing. 1828 02:27:44,076 --> 02:27:48,012 - How long have you known Juan Trippe? - I've known him for some time now. 1829 02:27:48,180 --> 02:27:52,913 - And that's not the question. - Is it not true that Juan donated $20,000... 1830 02:27:53,085 --> 02:27:57,317 ...to your last campaign? I mean, he spoke to me as if you worked for him. 1831 02:28:01,360 --> 02:28:03,225 I have a personal friendship with... 1832 02:28:03,395 --> 02:28:06,831 Is it true you accept free Pan Am tickets to circle the globe... 1833 02:28:06,999 --> 02:28:09,934 ...in support of your C.A.B. bill? - No, it is not true. 1834 02:28:10,102 --> 02:28:14,300 Well, who wrote that bill, senator? Who actually wrote the C.A.B. bill? 1835 02:28:14,473 --> 02:28:18,409 - The actual words. Did you write them? - This is not how these hearings... 1836 02:28:18,577 --> 02:28:22,673 ...are gonna be conducted. - I have it. Maybe it'll refresh your memory. 1837 02:28:22,848 --> 02:28:27,410 "Bill S-987 to amend the Civil Aeronautics Act." 1838 02:28:27,586 --> 02:28:30,419 Now, you introduced this bill to the Senate. 1839 02:28:32,891 --> 02:28:35,018 A lot of words. 1840 02:28:35,361 --> 02:28:37,352 You write all of them? 1841 02:28:37,963 --> 02:28:40,830 - Did you write any of them, senator? - Now, look... 1842 02:28:41,000 --> 02:28:43,992 Now, this entire bill was written by Pan Am executives... 1843 02:28:44,169 --> 02:28:48,435 ...and designed to give that airline a monopoly on international travel. 1844 02:28:48,607 --> 02:28:53,067 You've been flogging this bill all around the world on their behalf, have you not? 1845 02:28:53,245 --> 02:28:57,011 I have duties that take me all over the world, Mr. Hughes. 1846 02:28:57,182 --> 02:29:02,210 Well, what the hell does a senator from Maine need to visit Peru for? 1847 02:29:02,955 --> 02:29:07,619 I was seeking outlets for our trade goods. 1848 02:29:08,594 --> 02:29:11,563 Buy a lot of lobsters down there, do they? 1849 02:29:14,133 --> 02:29:17,933 Senator, how many times have you visited Trippe's office in New York... 1850 02:29:18,103 --> 02:29:20,469 ...in the last three months? 1851 02:29:23,075 --> 02:29:25,839 Would you like me to tell you, senator? 1852 02:29:26,578 --> 02:29:30,036 All right, this has gone on long enough. Juan is a great American. 1853 02:29:30,215 --> 02:29:34,584 His airline has advanced the cause of commercial aviation for decades. 1854 02:29:34,753 --> 02:29:40,282 Juan Trippe is a patriot. Juan Trippe is not a man who is interested in making money. 1855 02:29:41,193 --> 02:29:44,959 Well, I'm sure his stockholders would be happy to hear that. 1856 02:29:46,632 --> 02:29:48,122 We're gonna clear this room. 1857 02:29:48,700 --> 02:29:53,467 This is James McNamara speaking to you from the Hughes 2000-ton flying boat... 1858 02:29:53,639 --> 02:29:56,802 ... the world's largest aircraft. This is the sky giant... 1859 02:29:56,975 --> 02:30:01,071 ... which has prompted Congress to investigate the war contracts of Mr. Hughes. 1860 02:30:01,246 --> 02:30:04,807 Before boarding the craft, Mr. Hughes told newsmen that this test... 1861 02:30:04,983 --> 02:30:09,215 ... would be solely a taxi experiment. He said he didn't know what might happen. 1862 02:30:09,388 --> 02:30:11,253 The mammoth flying plywood shell... 1863 02:30:13,325 --> 02:30:17,091 ... might ship water under high-speed taxi pressure. He will not take... 1864 02:30:17,262 --> 02:30:20,561 ... the craft into the air until next spring. The thin man from Culver City... 1865 02:30:20,732 --> 02:30:25,192 ... pronounced the craft an unknown quantity. He has an idea what it can do... 1866 02:30:25,370 --> 02:30:27,395 None of that, now. None of that. 1867 02:30:27,573 --> 02:30:30,474 We are about 5 feet in back of Mr. Hughes. 1868 02:30:30,642 --> 02:30:34,009 We are looking through one of the side windows in the cockpit. 1869 02:30:34,179 --> 02:30:36,739 Professor, why don't you come on up front here. 1870 02:30:37,149 --> 02:30:40,414 In other words, we are 30 feet high in this aircraft. 1871 02:30:40,586 --> 02:30:45,182 Strap yourself in right there. You ought to be able to see just great. 1872 02:30:46,191 --> 02:30:49,456 Huge crowds jam the surrounding shoreline this morning. 1873 02:30:49,628 --> 02:30:52,825 All right, boys, let's fire it up. 1874 02:30:56,702 --> 02:30:58,067 One's good. 1875 02:30:59,338 --> 02:31:01,306 Two's good. 1876 02:31:01,473 --> 02:31:03,168 Three's good. 1877 02:31:03,342 --> 02:31:05,367 Four's good. 1878 02:31:05,544 --> 02:31:07,239 Five's good. 1879 02:31:07,412 --> 02:31:08,902 Six is good. 1880 02:31:09,081 --> 02:31:10,446 Seven's good. 1881 02:31:10,616 --> 02:31:12,516 Eight's good. 1882 02:31:13,585 --> 02:31:17,453 - Advancing master throttles. - Advancing master throttles. 1883 02:31:19,057 --> 02:31:21,753 As you probably know, I have to do a great deal... 1884 02:31:21,927 --> 02:31:24,054 ... of screaming into our microphone. 1885 02:31:24,229 --> 02:31:28,632 - Understood. Lower it 15 degrees of flaps. - Lowering 15 degrees of flaps. 1886 02:31:29,268 --> 02:31:33,034 Howard, she's gotta hit 70 to have any kind of chance. 1887 02:31:33,205 --> 02:31:35,469 Yeah, I know. I know. 1888 02:31:35,641 --> 02:31:39,941 It's a beautiful day here off the coast of Southern California. Blue skies... 1889 02:31:40,112 --> 02:31:43,604 - ... a warm sun... - Twenty-five miles per hour. 1890 02:31:43,782 --> 02:31:46,046 - And a relatively calm sea... - Thirty. 1891 02:31:47,686 --> 02:31:48,983 Thirty-five. 1892 02:31:49,154 --> 02:31:53,090 One would think these eight power plants might shake the craft to pieces... 1893 02:31:53,458 --> 02:31:55,050 Take it easy, Howard. 1894 02:31:57,362 --> 02:32:01,128 - Forty! - Throttling back for starboard turn 180. 1895 02:32:01,300 --> 02:32:03,666 Throttling back for starboard turn 180. 1896 02:32:08,907 --> 02:32:11,398 The flight crew itself consists of four men. 1897 02:32:11,577 --> 02:32:15,604 Mr. Hughes, however, has added 11 maintenance men to this maiden taxi test... 1898 02:32:15,781 --> 02:32:21,413 ... stationed at various places throughout the ship, checking points of stress and strain. 1899 02:32:23,855 --> 02:32:25,516 How does she sound, Odie? 1900 02:32:26,425 --> 02:32:28,416 Sounds good, Howard. 1901 02:32:31,730 --> 02:32:33,857 - Professor. - Yes? 1902 02:32:34,032 --> 02:32:35,932 Would you do me a favor? 1903 02:32:36,401 --> 02:32:40,428 Would you take a look out that window and tell me what the wind is doing? 1904 02:32:45,477 --> 02:32:49,811 I would say that we have a 15-knot wind. 1905 02:32:49,982 --> 02:32:53,383 Would you call that a headwind, professor? 1906 02:32:54,086 --> 02:32:56,281 I would, Mr. Hughes. 1907 02:32:56,455 --> 02:33:00,016 We must maintain silence. We must have quiet during the proceedings. 1908 02:33:00,192 --> 02:33:02,558 Mr. Hughes, will you stand and be sworn? 1909 02:33:02,728 --> 02:33:05,162 Mr. Hughes, did you receive... 1910 02:33:05,330 --> 02:33:11,701 ...$43 million to manufacture 100 XF-11 spy planes for the United States Air Force? 1911 02:33:12,971 --> 02:33:14,131 I did. 1912 02:33:14,439 --> 02:33:18,569 How many functional planes did you deliver to the United States Air Force? 1913 02:33:18,877 --> 02:33:19,866 None. 1914 02:33:20,045 --> 02:33:23,310 Would you lean a little closer to the microphones, sir? 1915 02:33:23,815 --> 02:33:24,975 None. 1916 02:33:25,150 --> 02:33:29,052 Did you receive $13 million to manufacture... 1917 02:33:29,221 --> 02:33:34,022 ...a prototype of a flying boat known as The Hercules? 1918 02:33:35,594 --> 02:33:36,856 I did. 1919 02:33:37,029 --> 02:33:39,623 And did you deliver that plane? 1920 02:33:39,931 --> 02:33:41,193 I did not. 1921 02:33:42,301 --> 02:33:45,566 So by your admission in this chamber, Mr. Hughes... 1922 02:33:45,737 --> 02:33:48,672 ...you have received $56 million... 1923 02:33:49,041 --> 02:33:53,273 ...from the United States government for planes you never delivered. 1924 02:33:54,112 --> 02:33:55,875 That is correct. 1925 02:33:58,317 --> 02:34:01,309 Well, excuse me for asking, Mr. Hughes... 1926 02:34:01,486 --> 02:34:03,420 ...but where did all that money go? 1927 02:34:03,822 --> 02:34:08,350 Well, it went into the planes, senator. And a lot more. 1928 02:34:08,527 --> 02:34:13,328 More? Do tell, Mr. Hughes, what other larcenies did you commit? 1929 02:34:13,532 --> 02:34:18,799 I mean, I put my money into the planes, senator. My money. 1930 02:34:21,273 --> 02:34:25,835 - See, the thing is that I care... - Your personal finances are not... 1931 02:34:26,011 --> 02:34:28,707 Let him speak. 1932 02:34:32,050 --> 02:34:33,381 Proceed, Mr. Hughes. 1933 02:34:35,487 --> 02:34:40,789 See, the thing is, I care very much about aviation. 1934 02:34:41,059 --> 02:34:45,723 It has been the great joy of my life. That's why I put my own money into these planes. 1935 02:34:45,897 --> 02:34:50,300 And I've lost millions, senator, and I'll go on losing millions. It's just... 1936 02:34:50,469 --> 02:34:52,403 ...what I do. 1937 02:34:52,738 --> 02:34:57,072 Now, if I've lost a lot of the government's money during the war, I hope folks... 1938 02:34:57,242 --> 02:34:59,836 ...will put that into perspective. 1939 02:35:00,011 --> 02:35:03,344 More than 60 other airplanes ordered from such firms as... 1940 02:35:03,515 --> 02:35:07,474 ...Lockheed, Douglas, Northrop and Boeing never saw action either. 1941 02:35:07,652 --> 02:35:14,148 In all, more than $800 million was spent during the war on planes that never flew. 1942 02:35:14,326 --> 02:35:19,457 Over 6 billion on other weapons that were never delivered. 1943 02:35:19,631 --> 02:35:24,091 Yet Hughes Aircraft, with her 56 million... 1944 02:35:24,269 --> 02:35:26,760 ...is the only firm under investigation here. 1945 02:35:26,938 --> 02:35:32,501 I cannot help but think that has a little more to do with TWA than planes that did not fly. 1946 02:35:32,711 --> 02:35:36,647 - You've made your point, Mr. Hughes. - One second. I have one more thing... 1947 02:35:37,015 --> 02:35:39,279 ...to say here to this committee. 1948 02:35:39,451 --> 02:35:41,976 And that has to do with The Hercules. 1949 02:35:42,621 --> 02:35:47,854 Now, I am supposed to be many things which are not complimentary. 1950 02:35:48,026 --> 02:35:50,085 I am supposed to be capricious. 1951 02:35:50,262 --> 02:35:54,221 I have been called a playboy. I've even been called an eccentric... 1952 02:35:54,399 --> 02:35:58,631 ...but I do not believe that I have the reputation of being a liar. 1953 02:35:59,604 --> 02:36:02,971 Needless to say, The Hercules was a monumental undertaking. 1954 02:36:03,141 --> 02:36:05,837 It is the largest plane ever built. 1955 02:36:06,011 --> 02:36:09,879 It is over five stories tall with a wingspan longer than a football field. 1956 02:36:10,048 --> 02:36:11,913 That's more than a city block. 1957 02:36:12,083 --> 02:36:16,611 Now, I put the sweat of my life into this. I got my reputation all rolled up in it. 1958 02:36:16,788 --> 02:36:20,246 I have stated several times that if The Hercules fails to fly... 1959 02:36:20,425 --> 02:36:24,521 ...I will leave this country and never come back. And I mean it. 1960 02:36:25,897 --> 02:36:29,731 Now, Senator Brewster, you can subpoena me... 1961 02:36:29,901 --> 02:36:34,736 ...you can arrest me, you can even claim I've folded up and taken a run-out powder... 1962 02:36:34,906 --> 02:36:39,900 ...but, well, I've had just about enough of this nonsense. Good afternoon. 1963 02:36:40,345 --> 02:36:41,573 I had to do it. 1964 02:36:41,780 --> 02:36:45,716 - Mr. Hughes. - Mr. Hughes. 1965 02:36:45,884 --> 02:36:48,444 I'd love to see The Hercules in the air. 1966 02:36:48,620 --> 02:36:51,020 Thank you, thank you so much. 1967 02:37:00,031 --> 02:37:01,089 Switch it off. 1968 02:37:01,266 --> 02:37:04,099 - The hearings aren't over yet. - The hearings are over. 1969 02:37:06,838 --> 02:37:09,671 The airline bill will be defeated in the Senate. 1970 02:37:09,841 --> 02:37:12,901 TWA will begin flights from New York to Paris... 1971 02:37:13,078 --> 02:37:18,880 ...then on to Moscow, to Japan, to Hawaii, to Los Angeles... 1972 02:37:21,019 --> 02:37:23,044 ...to New York. 1973 02:37:26,892 --> 02:37:28,553 Fuck. 1974 02:37:32,597 --> 02:37:36,431 - Power coming up. - Power coming up. 1975 02:37:39,738 --> 02:37:42,002 Howard Hughes has just alerted us. 1976 02:37:42,173 --> 02:37:46,735 He has asked everyone to hold on. Tremendous horsepower kicking up. 1977 02:37:48,313 --> 02:37:49,439 Let me hear it, Odie. 1978 02:37:49,614 --> 02:37:51,639 Twenty-five miles per hour. 1979 02:37:52,250 --> 02:37:53,478 Thirty. 1980 02:37:53,818 --> 02:37:56,048 Here we go. Here we go. 1981 02:37:56,221 --> 02:37:58,382 - Thirty-five. - The air-speed indicator... 1982 02:37:58,557 --> 02:38:02,186 ... has moved up to 25. Thirty. 1983 02:38:02,594 --> 02:38:04,653 - Thirty-five. - Forty. 1984 02:38:04,829 --> 02:38:06,660 As he pushes the throttle it's 40. 1985 02:38:06,831 --> 02:38:10,130 - Forty-five. - Forty-five. More throttle. 1986 02:38:10,302 --> 02:38:12,293 - Forty-five. - Fifty. 1987 02:38:12,904 --> 02:38:15,372 - It's 50 over a choppy sea. - Fifty-five. 1988 02:38:15,540 --> 02:38:17,872 It's 55. It's 55. 1989 02:38:18,343 --> 02:38:20,538 - Sixty. - More throttle. It's 60. 1990 02:38:20,712 --> 02:38:22,441 - Sixty-five. - Sixty-five. 1991 02:38:27,118 --> 02:38:29,052 - Seventy. - It's 70. 1992 02:38:29,220 --> 02:38:31,950 - Seventy-five. - It's 75. 1993 02:38:39,331 --> 02:38:44,633 And something momentarily cuts out. I believe we are airborne. 1994 02:38:44,803 --> 02:38:48,398 We are airborne, ladies and gentlemen. I don't believe that Hughes... 1995 02:38:48,573 --> 02:38:51,303 ... meant this to be. I don't know. 1996 02:38:53,511 --> 02:38:58,915 And we were really up in the air. We were really up in the air. 1997 02:39:03,321 --> 02:39:06,722 Ladies and gentlemen, the Hughes mammoth aircraft... 1998 02:39:06,891 --> 02:39:11,419 ... has flown this afternoon in Los Angeles Harbor. 1999 02:39:11,596 --> 02:39:15,794 Well, it certainly looks at this moment that Howard Hughes will be around... 2000 02:39:15,967 --> 02:39:19,835 ... the United States for quite some time to come. 2001 02:39:30,882 --> 02:39:34,909 We must understand that technologies like these are the way of the future. 2002 02:39:35,086 --> 02:39:38,647 - That's enough questions. - TWA and Hughes Aircraft are delighted... 2003 02:39:38,823 --> 02:39:42,088 ...to have you come here and witness this wonderful sight. 2004 02:39:42,260 --> 02:39:44,455 - Excuse us for just a second. - All right. 2005 02:39:44,629 --> 02:39:46,620 - So you feel like going to Paris? - Now? 2006 02:39:46,798 --> 02:39:48,789 TWA is starting up flights to Europe. 2007 02:39:48,967 --> 02:39:52,403 I thought I might pilot the first one. Ought to be some fun. 2008 02:39:52,570 --> 02:39:55,300 - Lots of shopping in Paris. - I'll buy you anything. 2009 02:39:55,473 --> 02:39:58,374 You can buy me dinner. How about that? 2010 02:40:00,645 --> 02:40:03,045 Dinner, then. We got a date? 2011 02:40:03,248 --> 02:40:05,580 Okay, baby, you got a date. 2012 02:40:07,218 --> 02:40:11,018 I'll be back in a second, but don't you go anywhere, now. I mean it. 2013 02:40:11,189 --> 02:40:14,181 All right, listen, boys. Something new. Jet airplanes. 2014 02:40:14,359 --> 02:40:17,294 - You know about jets? - No, but it sounds expensive. 2015 02:40:17,462 --> 02:40:19,896 Oh, it will be, but we gotta get started. 2016 02:40:21,166 --> 02:40:23,930 Come on, walk with me. 2017 02:40:24,102 --> 02:40:26,434 Whoever can start utilizing jet technology... 2018 02:40:26,604 --> 02:40:30,472 ...on commercial airliners is gonna win. What do you know about the science? 2019 02:40:30,642 --> 02:40:35,102 I know a little. I can work something to show you. Basic turbine stuff. 2020 02:40:39,751 --> 02:40:43,585 Noah, who are those fellas? 2021 02:40:44,489 --> 02:40:46,286 Do they work for me? 2022 02:40:47,625 --> 02:40:49,923 Everybody works for you, Howard. 2023 02:40:56,701 --> 02:41:01,400 Lockheed worked on the F-80. Let's get Bob Gross and see if he can help us out. 2024 02:41:01,573 --> 02:41:03,871 - What, now? - Of course now. 2025 02:41:04,042 --> 02:41:06,977 We gotta get into it. Jets are the way of the future. 2026 02:41:07,145 --> 02:41:10,376 - It's 4:30. - I talked to Bob last week. He's in New York. 2027 02:41:10,548 --> 02:41:13,142 - So it's 7:30. - He won't be in the office. 2028 02:41:13,318 --> 02:41:16,515 We'll figure out what hotel he's at. Do you want a call... 2029 02:41:16,688 --> 02:41:20,180 ...or you want some kind of meeting? - We want a meeting, don't we? 2030 02:41:20,358 --> 02:41:23,623 Do you want me bring him out here tomorrow, then, Howard? 2031 02:41:24,629 --> 02:41:27,029 - The way of the future. - Howard? 2032 02:41:27,198 --> 02:41:28,961 - Howard? - The way of the future. 2033 02:41:30,468 --> 02:41:33,198 - The way of the future. - Let's take a walk, Howard. 2034 02:41:33,371 --> 02:41:35,305 - Way of the future. - Give me a hand. 2035 02:41:35,473 --> 02:41:38,909 The way of the future. The way of the future. 2036 02:41:39,077 --> 02:41:41,511 The way of the future. The way of the future. 2037 02:41:41,679 --> 02:41:44,239 The way of the future. The way of the future. 2038 02:41:44,415 --> 02:41:46,883 The way of the future. The way of the future. 2039 02:41:47,051 --> 02:41:49,519 The way of the future. The way of the future. 2040 02:41:49,687 --> 02:41:52,053 The way of the future. The way of the future. 2041 02:41:52,223 --> 02:41:56,182 All right, stay here. I'll be right back. You understand, Howard? 2042 02:41:56,361 --> 02:41:58,124 The way of the future. 2043 02:41:58,296 --> 02:42:01,925 Guard the door. I'll get a doctor. No one sees him like this. 2044 02:42:02,100 --> 02:42:04,660 The way of the future. The way of the future. 2045 02:42:04,836 --> 02:42:07,703 The way of the future. The way of the future. 2046 02:42:07,872 --> 02:42:10,238 The way of the future. The way of the future. 2047 02:42:14,379 --> 02:42:16,176 The way of the future. 2048 02:42:22,420 --> 02:42:24,479 You are not safe. 2049 02:42:32,997 --> 02:42:34,225 When I grow up... 2050 02:42:34,799 --> 02:42:37,768 ... I'm gonna fly the fastest planes ever built... 2051 02:42:37,936 --> 02:42:40,530 ... make the biggest movies ever... 2052 02:42:40,705 --> 02:42:43,606 ... and be the richest man in the world. 2053 02:42:56,888 --> 02:42:59,857 The way of the future. 2054 02:43:07,065 --> 02:43:09,727 The way of the future. 2055 02:43:17,342 --> 02:43:19,537 The way of the future. 2056 02:43:22,614 --> 02:43:24,707 The way of the future. 2057 02:43:26,551 --> 02:43:28,781 The way of the future. 2058 02:43:30,088 --> 02:43:31,646 The way of the future.