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(CONFESSION ROOM
WINDOW SLIDES OPEN)

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Bless me, Father,
for I have sinned.

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It's been, uh, 24 hours
since my last confession.

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Son, it's so late.

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Yeah, Father.
Work has just...

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(SIGHS)

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I lied to Connie.
Uh, to my wife.

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This is
very serious.

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I know.

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I promised her
I'd quit smoking.

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She thinks it's bad for me.

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And I'm trying, but...

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I snuck a couple
of cigarettes.

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Maybe three.

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(THUNDER RUMBLING AT DISTANCE)

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Yes.

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It's so hard.

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Yes.

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But I'm trying.

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(THUNDER RUMBLING)

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NARRATOR: It is 5:00 a. m.

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Still shank of night for some.

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(CAMERA CLICKING AT DISTANCE)

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But for Eddie Mannix,
beginning of a new work day.

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The movie studio for which
he works manufactures stories,

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each its own day-lit drama or
moonlit dream. (WOMAN LAUGHING)

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But the work of Eddie Mannix
cares not for day or night.

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(WOMAN EXCLAIMING)

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And cares little for his rest.

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PHOTOGRAPHER: That's right, doll
face. Churn that butter for me.

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Atta girl.

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Oh, Jesus Christ
on a scooter!

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You here?

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EDDIE: The studio has the rights
to Gloria's likeness, Falco.

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Give me the negatives and
things will go easier on you.

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These are for
private use, Eddie.

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Come on.

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Oh, boy.

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Can't a girl take a few
pictures, have a few laughs?

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Jeez, Eddie! What an
old stick in the mud.

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(GASPS)

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Now, you listen to me.

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You were at a party,
had too much to drink.

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Somebody brought you here,
you don't remember who.

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You're going home now.

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Your name's
Mary Jo Scheinbrotte.

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(SOBBING) Okay, Eddie.
COP: So, Eddie Mannix.

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Saw your heap outside.

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Got a call.
Loud, disorderly.

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Possible French
postcard situation.

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Someone was
pulling your leg.

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Mary Jo here was just
at a costume party.

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It's not really
her dirndl.

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She wants to contribute
something to your pension fund.

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Sorry to drag you
out in the rain.

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Well, say,
no problem at all.

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Aren't you
Gloria DeLamour?

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No, no,
I'm Mary Jo

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something.

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Scheinbrotte.

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(THUNDER RUMBLING)

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Say, Brian.

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Can I bum a cigarette?

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(SOLDIERS MARCHING)

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NARRATOR: Ancient Rome.

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Twelve years into the rule
of Tiberius, Ruler Maximus.

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Rome's legions are
masters of the world.

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The stomp of its
sandals heard from

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the Iberian
Peninsula in the west,

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through the halls of the great
library of Alexandria in the east.

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As oppressed people everywhere
writhe under the Roman lash,

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freeman and vassal are united
in one compulsory worship.

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(GRUNTS)

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The emperor,
Caesar, is Godhead.

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Lord of every man's
body and spirit.

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For those who will not submit,

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the galleys, the arenas,
even crucifixion await.

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But there is a new wind
blowing from the east,

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from the dusty streets
of Bethlehem,

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that will soon challenge
the vast house of Caesar,

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that edifice wrought
of brick and blood

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which now seems so secure.

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(HORSE SNORTS)

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Ha!

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There she is, Gracchus.

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Ah, what a beauty.

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GRACCHUS: Aye,
Autolochus. Rome.

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Suckled by a she-wolf and
nurturing us, her sons, in turn.

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Tonight I bathe in Caracalla

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and wash away the dust of
300 miles of Frankish road.

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To Rome.

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To Rome!
(HORSE NEIGHING)

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NARRATOR: Yes, to Rome!

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Glorious center
of Caesar's rule.

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But far away in Palestine,
another man is coming home.

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Saul, humble
merchant of Tarsus

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is about to be
struck down by a vision.

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What thing is this?

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NATALIE: Gloria DeLamour
has been checked into

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Our Lady of Perpetual Rest
to dry out. EDDIE: Uh-huh.

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NATALIE: You have a 10:00
a. m. with Monsignor O'Reilly

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at the Wallace
Beery Conference Room,

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and he's bringing
in a Lester Silkwood

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from the Legion of
Catholic Decency.

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And we've also invited Patriarch
Vlassos for the Eastern view.

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Have they read the script? Roger.

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Let's also invite a rabbi and
a Protestant padre of some sort

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so we can get
everybody's two cents.

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Check.

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How's production
on Tucumcari?

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Principal is
on schedule,

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but second unit
has been idle

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in Gallup, New Mexico
for four days.

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Heavy rain.

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Forecast?
Not good.

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Send an insert truck,

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have them shoot driving
plates for Came the Rain.

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Check.

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Jonah's Daughter
still behind?

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Yes. Uh, director says
the problem is DeeAnna,

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and she's
getting worse.

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I know what it is. I'll drop
in on her after my 10 o'clock.

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All right,
let's call New York.

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(LINE BUZZES) NATALIE (ON INTERCOM)
Mr. Schenk's office, line two.

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Hi, Dorothy. Eddie
Mannix. The old man in?

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Natalie, I want
the box office

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on The Debonaires
and on Blessed Event.

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Can you also... Yes!
Good morning, Mr. Schenk.

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Very well.
Thank you.

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Proceeding.
You know, proceeding.

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Yeah, Merrily We Dance
starts shooting today.

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Beardly Auberon
gave us a draft

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that's extremely classy.

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Joan Van Vechten's
playing Dierdre,

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but we need a male lead
and we need him now.

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No, Jack Hogarth is
drying out at Cedars.

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Metro won't lend us Gable

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unless we give them
the Comiskey twins.

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Of course not.
I agree.

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What?

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Hobie Doyle? Do you
really think so?

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After all,
he's a dust actor.

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The man barely
knows how to talk.

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Yes, of course,
Mr. Schenk, I agree,

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but I don't know
if Hobie Doyle

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has the (STUTTERS) poise
in a dinner jacket.

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Yes, we do need
someone pronto.

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No, I don't,
that's very true.

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But let me talk to Laurence
Laurentz, the director.

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It could work.
It could work.

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Hobie Doyle is
a very promising idea.

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(GRUNTS)

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(GUNSHOT)

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(MEN GRUNTING)

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(WHISTLES)

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HOBIE: Whitey!

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(GUNSHOTS)

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(GUNSHOTS CONTINUE)

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(WHISTLES)

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(WHINNYING)

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DIRECTOR: And cut!

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Great, Hobie.

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I can do the
handstand smoother

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if you give me
another shot at her.

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We got four good ones,
Hobie, and Whitey's tired.

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Okay, you're
the boss man.

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If that's lunch, I'm gonna
grab me a plate of beans.

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(BEVERAGE FIZZING)

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All right, kids,
this is Rome.

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You're over at this
guy's house for a revel.

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And in comes Antoninus.

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Lots of energy.

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What are you doing at
the table of viands?

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Huh? You're supposed to
be reclining with the lyre.

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I'm sorry,
I was just...

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Recline with the lyre.

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Don't sit on the
pediment. Recline.

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Relaxed, festive.

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CREW MEMBER: Extras set? Set!

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CREW MEMBER: Roll sound!

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I got my eye on you.

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CREW MEMBER:
Roll camera. Fountain!

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(BELL RINGING)

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Hail, Caesar!
Ten-apple, take 10.

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DIRECTOR: And action!

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(HARP PLAYING)

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SENATOR SESTIMUS: Autolochus!

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I had heard rumors
of your return to Rome.

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(HARP PLAYS OUT OF TUNE) AUTOLOCHUS:
More than rumors, noble Sestimus.

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I see that you are the same
worshipper of Bacchus.

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What gaiety.

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There is still
truth in the adage

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"What pleasures
cannot be found

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"in the villa of
Sestimus Amydias

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"cannot be
found in Rome!"

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(ALL LAUGHING)

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But seriously,

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there is talk the Senate will
send our legions out again,

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and this time not on
a short march to Gaul.

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What truth to these
mutterings, Sestimus?

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The matter has been
taken up in the Senate.

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It seems that there
is unrest in Palestine.

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Palestine?

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(SIGHS)
That backwater!

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They'll hardly be
sending the sixth legion

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to that godforsaken
patch of desert!

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(ALL LAUGHING)

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MAN: Palestine!

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WOMAN:
(CHUCKLING) Palestine!

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Ah.

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Holding for
a dissolve...

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Still laughing...

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Holding...

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And cut!

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Fine, boys.
That was just fine.

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BAIRD: Was I okay?
Was I all right?

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(BELL RINGING)
CREW MEMBER: That's a cut!

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DIRECTOR: We're gonna
move on to the brazier scene.

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Was I all right with the
"mutterings"? It felt a little...

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No, no, no, no,
it's fine.

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Moving on, brazier scene, 20 minutes.

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Popping over
to the trailer.

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Okay. In the
brazier scene,

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they changed
"passion" to "ardor. "

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What? Why?
I liked "passion. "

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It's strong.
It's passion!

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BAIRD: "Such is my greeting after
three months' sojourn in Gaul?

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"Not so, Ursulina. "

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(GROANING)

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"My ardor...

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"My ardor is yet as warm

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"as the embers
of this brazier.

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BAIRD: "Embers
of this brazier. "

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We're ready for you,
Mr. Whitlock!

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BAIRD: "Not so,
Sperm-ulina. "

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(GRUNTS SOFTLY)

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(GRUNTS)

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EDDIE: Gentlemen,
thank you all for coming.

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I know you have parishes,
flocks and temples

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making enormous
demands on your time.

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But I'm sure you
appreciate also

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that great masses
of humanity

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look to pictures for
information and uplift

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and, yes, entertainment.

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Now, here at Capitol
Pictures, as you know,

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an army of technicians and actors
and top-notch artistic people

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are working hard to bring to the
screen the story of the Christ.

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It's a swell story.

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A story told before, yes,

250
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but we like to
flatter ourselves

251
00:13:24,845 --> 00:13:25,887
that it's never been told

252
00:13:26,055 --> 00:13:27,931
with this kind of
distinction and panache.

253
00:13:28,098 --> 00:13:31,392
Perhaps, sir, you forget its
telling in the Holy Bible.

254
00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:34,020
Quite right, Patriarch. The
Bible, of course, is terrific.

255
00:13:34,104 --> 00:13:35,730
But for
millions of people,

256
00:13:35,898 --> 00:13:38,775
pictures will be their
reference point for the story.

257
00:13:38,859 --> 00:13:42,237
The story's embodiment,
the story's, uh...

258
00:13:42,321 --> 00:13:43,571
Realization.

259
00:13:43,739 --> 00:13:45,073
Realization.

260
00:13:45,157 --> 00:13:48,326
You "realize," of
course, that for we Jews,

261
00:13:48,410 --> 00:13:52,247
any visual depiction of the
Godhead is most strictly prohibited.

262
00:13:52,623 --> 00:13:53,623
Oh.

263
00:13:54,333 --> 00:13:57,752
But, of course, for us, the
man Jesus Nazarene is not God.

264
00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:58,920
A- ha!

265
00:13:59,255 --> 00:14:00,755
Who plays Christ?

266
00:14:00,923 --> 00:14:02,632
Oh, a kid we're all
very excited about.

267
00:14:02,716 --> 00:14:03,842
Todd Hocheiser.

268
00:14:03,926 --> 00:14:07,470
Wonderful young actor we found in
Akron, Ohio, in a nationwide talent hunt.

269
00:14:07,638 --> 00:14:09,556
But Hocheiser is
seen only fleetingly

270
00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,182
and with extreme taste.

271
00:14:11,350 --> 00:14:14,519
Our story is told through
the eyes of a Roman tribune.

272
00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:16,771
Autolochus Antoninus.

273
00:14:16,939 --> 00:14:19,274
Ordinary man,
skeptical at first,

274
00:14:19,441 --> 00:14:21,109
but who comes to
a grudging respect

275
00:14:21,277 --> 00:14:22,944
for this swell
figure from the East.

276
00:14:23,279 --> 00:14:25,655
And Autolochus
is played by

277
00:14:26,365 --> 00:14:27,949
Baird Whitlock.

278
00:14:28,450 --> 00:14:29,450
Oh, my.

279
00:14:29,994 --> 00:14:32,453
Well, he is certainly
a great talent.

280
00:14:32,621 --> 00:14:34,247
Now, Hail, Caesar!
is a prestige picture,

281
00:14:34,331 --> 00:14:35,790
our biggest
release of the year,

282
00:14:35,958 --> 00:14:38,251
and we're devoting huge
resources to its production

283
00:14:38,335 --> 00:14:39,586
in order to
make it first-class

284
00:14:39,670 --> 00:14:40,712
in every respect.

285
00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,214
Gentlemen, given
its enormous expense,

286
00:14:43,382 --> 00:14:45,300
we don't wanna send it to
market except in the certainty

287
00:14:45,467 --> 00:14:47,927
that it will not offend
any reasonable American

288
00:14:48,012 --> 00:14:50,388
regardless of faith or creed.

289
00:14:50,472 --> 00:14:52,807
Now that's where you come in.
You've read the script.

290
00:14:52,892 --> 00:14:54,976
I wanna know if the theological
elements of the story

291
00:14:55,060 --> 00:14:56,060
are up to snuff.

292
00:14:56,228 --> 00:14:58,313
I thought the
chariot scene was fakey.

293
00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,565
How is he going to jump
from one chariot to the other

294
00:15:00,649 --> 00:15:02,317
going full speed?

295
00:15:04,653 --> 00:15:05,612
Uh-huh.

296
00:15:05,696 --> 00:15:07,780
Well, we can look at that.

297
00:15:08,157 --> 00:15:10,909
But as for the
religious aspect,

298
00:15:10,993 --> 00:15:13,578
does the depiction of
Christ Jesus cut the mustard?

299
00:15:14,330 --> 00:15:16,164
Well, the nature of Christ
is not quite as simple

300
00:15:16,248 --> 00:15:17,707
as your photoplay
would have it.

301
00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:18,917
How so, Father?

302
00:15:19,001 --> 00:15:22,253
It's not the case simply that
Christ is God, or God Christ.

303
00:15:22,421 --> 00:15:23,504
You can say
that again.

304
00:15:23,589 --> 00:15:25,048
The Nazarene
was not God.

305
00:15:25,215 --> 00:15:26,341
He was not not-God.

306
00:15:26,425 --> 00:15:27,592
RABBI: He was a man.
Part God.

307
00:15:27,676 --> 00:15:28,760
RABBI: No, sir.

308
00:15:28,844 --> 00:15:30,845
But, Rabbi, all of us have a
little bit of God in us, don't we?

309
00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:31,930
Well...

310
00:15:32,014 --> 00:15:33,765
It's the foundation
of our belief

311
00:15:33,849 --> 00:15:37,685
that Christ is most properly
referred to as the Son of God.

312
00:15:37,937 --> 00:15:41,522
It's the Son of God who takes
the sins of the world upon himself

313
00:15:42,191 --> 00:15:46,945
so that the rest of God's
children, we imperfect beings,

314
00:15:47,112 --> 00:15:50,448
through faith, may enter
the Kingdom of heaven.

315
00:15:51,700 --> 00:15:54,202
So God is split?
CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN: Yes.

316
00:15:54,870 --> 00:15:56,037
And no.

317
00:15:56,121 --> 00:15:57,664
EASTERN ORTHODOX CLERGYMAN:
There is unity in division.

318
00:15:57,748 --> 00:15:59,123
And division
in unity.

319
00:15:59,291 --> 00:16:00,541
I'm not sure
I follow, Padre.

320
00:16:00,709 --> 00:16:02,794
Young man, you don't follow
for a very simple reason.

321
00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:04,128
These men
are screwballs.

322
00:16:04,296 --> 00:16:06,297
RABBI: God has children?
What, and a dog?

323
00:16:06,799 --> 00:16:08,049
A collie, maybe?

324
00:16:08,133 --> 00:16:09,300
God doesn't
have children.

325
00:16:09,385 --> 00:16:11,135
He's a bachelor.
And very angry.

326
00:16:11,220 --> 00:16:12,303
No, no, he used
to be angry.

327
00:16:12,388 --> 00:16:13,388
What?
He got over it?

328
00:16:13,555 --> 00:16:14,931
You worship the God
of another age.

329
00:16:15,099 --> 00:16:16,224
Who has no love.

330
00:16:16,392 --> 00:16:17,892
Not true.
He likes Jews.

331
00:16:18,060 --> 00:16:19,143
God loves everyone.

332
00:16:19,228 --> 00:16:20,353
God is love!

333
00:16:21,063 --> 00:16:22,188
God is who he is.

334
00:16:22,272 --> 00:16:24,023
This is special?
Who isn't who is?

335
00:16:24,108 --> 00:16:27,068
But how should God be
rendered in a motion picture?

336
00:16:27,236 --> 00:16:28,569
God isn't in the
motion picture!

337
00:16:28,737 --> 00:16:30,071
Then who is
Todd Hocheiser?

338
00:16:30,239 --> 00:16:32,740
Gentlemen, maybe we're biting
off more than we can chew.

339
00:16:32,908 --> 00:16:35,159
We don't need to agree on
the nature of the deity here,

340
00:16:35,327 --> 00:16:38,997
if we could focus on the
Christ, whatever his parentage.

341
00:16:39,164 --> 00:16:42,417
My question is,
is our depiction fair?

342
00:16:42,584 --> 00:16:43,793
I have seen worse.

343
00:16:43,877 --> 00:16:44,919
Reverend?

344
00:16:45,170 --> 00:16:47,964
There is nothing to
offend a reasonable man.

345
00:16:48,048 --> 00:16:49,090
EDDIE: Father.

346
00:16:49,174 --> 00:16:51,968
CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN: The motion
picture teleplay was respectful

347
00:16:52,052 --> 00:16:54,887
and exhibited
tastefulness and class.

348
00:16:54,972 --> 00:16:56,681
Who made you an expert
all of a sudden?

349
00:16:58,517 --> 00:17:00,101
And what do
you think, Rabbi?

350
00:17:00,436 --> 00:17:01,436
Eh...

351
00:17:01,645 --> 00:17:03,438
I haven't
an opinion.

352
00:17:03,939 --> 00:17:05,398
How did we do?
I don't...

353
00:17:05,482 --> 00:17:06,941
Fine. What's up?

354
00:17:07,109 --> 00:17:09,027
Can't find
Baird Whitlock.

355
00:17:09,194 --> 00:17:10,236
He left the set
over an hour ago,

356
00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:11,946
said he was going
to his dressing room,

357
00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:13,197
but he isn't there.

358
00:17:13,282 --> 00:17:15,366
Out on a bender? Middle
of the day? Am I crazy?

359
00:17:15,451 --> 00:17:17,201
You're not crazy,
but, no.

360
00:17:17,369 --> 00:17:20,705
I checked the Til Two, Dan
Tana's, Rusty Scupper. No soap.

361
00:17:20,789 --> 00:17:22,290
Home, maybe? Called his wife? Yep.

362
00:17:22,458 --> 00:17:23,458
What did Laura say?

363
00:17:23,542 --> 00:17:24,792
"He's not home,
he's never home.

364
00:17:24,877 --> 00:17:26,252
"He's a louse.
Try one of his chippies. "

365
00:17:26,336 --> 00:17:27,754
Called that script girl,
what's her name, Francie?

366
00:17:27,838 --> 00:17:28,880
Uh, check.

367
00:17:28,964 --> 00:17:30,006
Any of the gals
missing from the set?

368
00:17:30,090 --> 00:17:31,090
Nope.

369
00:17:31,258 --> 00:17:34,135
EDDIE: All right, gone an
hour? We won't worry yet.

370
00:17:40,392 --> 00:17:41,434
STUDIO ASSISTANT: Hobie?

371
00:17:42,186 --> 00:17:44,020
The studio says
you're finished here,

372
00:17:44,104 --> 00:17:45,855
and you're to report
back to the lot.

373
00:17:45,939 --> 00:17:46,981
How come?

374
00:17:47,149 --> 00:17:48,524
They're changing
your image.

375
00:17:48,692 --> 00:17:49,734
Okay.

376
00:17:49,902 --> 00:17:52,278
And the studio says you're
escorting Carlotta Valdez

377
00:17:52,362 --> 00:17:53,738
to your premiere tonight.

378
00:17:54,490 --> 00:17:55,907
How come?
I don't know her.

379
00:17:55,991 --> 00:17:58,785
The studio's arranging it.
They're changing your image.

380
00:18:38,534 --> 00:18:40,201
(WOMAN SINGING OPERATICALLY)

381
00:20:27,476 --> 00:20:29,185
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

382
00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:32,063
(GONG RINGS)

383
00:20:46,912 --> 00:20:48,120
Damn it!

384
00:20:51,333 --> 00:20:52,333
(MUSIC STOPS)

385
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:55,920
(DRESS STRAINING)

386
00:20:57,965 --> 00:20:58,965
(GRUNTS)

387
00:20:59,675 --> 00:21:00,675
(DRESS POPS)

388
00:21:03,136 --> 00:21:04,971
You have gas
again, ma'am?

389
00:21:05,138 --> 00:21:07,223
Ma'am? Miss.
Do I look married?

390
00:21:07,391 --> 00:21:09,517
No, miss. No! Yeah, "Gas again. "

391
00:21:10,018 --> 00:21:11,394
Ask him. He knows.

392
00:21:11,561 --> 00:21:12,937
All right. Scram.

393
00:21:13,855 --> 00:21:15,189
How are you,
DeeAnna?

394
00:21:15,899 --> 00:21:17,984
How am I? Wet.

395
00:21:18,068 --> 00:21:20,403
I don't think I'm gonna fit in
that fish-ass after this week.

396
00:21:20,570 --> 00:21:22,613
Oh, we should have the water
ballet in the can after tomorrow.

397
00:21:22,698 --> 00:21:23,781
In the nightclub scene,

398
00:21:23,865 --> 00:21:26,450
wardrobe will have a gown
for you that's more forgiving.

399
00:21:28,287 --> 00:21:29,954
Any more thoughts about
who you might marry?

400
00:21:30,038 --> 00:21:30,997
(SCOFFS)

401
00:21:31,081 --> 00:21:32,957
I ain't doing that again.
I had two marriages.

402
00:21:33,041 --> 00:21:35,334
It just cost the studio a
lot of money to bust them up.

403
00:21:35,419 --> 00:21:36,669
Well, we had to
have those annulled.

404
00:21:36,753 --> 00:21:37,920
One was to
a minor mob figure...

405
00:21:38,088 --> 00:21:39,797
Vince was not minor.

406
00:21:39,965 --> 00:21:40,965
And Buddy Flynn
was a bandleader

407
00:21:41,049 --> 00:21:42,842
with a long history
of narcotic use.

408
00:21:43,010 --> 00:21:44,802
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm
saying. They were both louses.

409
00:21:44,886 --> 00:21:46,929
Marrying a third louse
ain't gonna do me no good.

410
00:21:47,097 --> 00:21:49,015
We've offered you some very
suitable, clean young men.

411
00:21:49,182 --> 00:21:50,933
Pretty boys,
saps and swishes!

412
00:21:51,018 --> 00:21:53,185
What, you think if there
wasn't a good, reliable man,

413
00:21:53,270 --> 00:21:54,353
I wouldn't have
grabbed him?

414
00:21:54,438 --> 00:21:56,564
What about Arne Seslum?
He is the father, isn't he?

415
00:21:56,773 --> 00:21:57,898
Yeah, yeah.

416
00:21:57,983 --> 00:21:59,859
The marriage doesn't
have to last forever.

417
00:22:00,027 --> 00:22:01,819
But, DeeAnna, having a
child without a father

418
00:22:01,987 --> 00:22:04,071
would present a public-relations
problem for the studio.

419
00:22:04,239 --> 00:22:06,324
The aquatic pictures
do very nicely for us.

420
00:22:06,867 --> 00:22:09,535
So you go and strap on a
fish-ass and marry Arne Seslum.

421
00:22:09,703 --> 00:22:11,245
The pictures do well
for all of us,

422
00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:12,788
and it's a tribute to you.

423
00:22:12,873 --> 00:22:15,333
The public loves you because
they know how innocent you are.

424
00:22:15,667 --> 00:22:17,126
That's true.

425
00:22:17,210 --> 00:22:18,669
Let me see if Arne
is open to matrimony.

426
00:22:18,754 --> 00:22:19,754
You're sure he's the father?

427
00:22:19,921 --> 00:22:22,631
Yeah, yeah. Absolutely,
he's the father, yes!

428
00:22:23,008 --> 00:22:24,091
Pretty sure.

429
00:22:24,968 --> 00:22:26,677
Hey, Maxie,
bring me my ass back.

430
00:22:27,554 --> 00:22:29,055
Hey, hey, buddy,
come here!

431
00:22:44,321 --> 00:22:45,446
How you doing, Hobie?

432
00:22:45,614 --> 00:22:46,781
Hello there, Scotty.

433
00:22:46,865 --> 00:22:48,616
They got you
shooting on the lot?

434
00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:51,160
Uh, well, Mr. Mannix
pulled me off the western.

435
00:22:51,328 --> 00:22:53,412
Says I'm doing
a movie on a sound stage.

436
00:22:53,497 --> 00:22:55,664
They built a drawing room.

437
00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:14,975
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

438
00:23:19,981 --> 00:23:22,400
(DOOR CREAKING)

439
00:23:30,784 --> 00:23:31,784
CREW MEMBER: He's here.

440
00:23:33,703 --> 00:23:36,247
Oh, my dear boy.
Welcome.

441
00:23:36,540 --> 00:23:38,207
Laurence Laurentz.

442
00:23:38,375 --> 00:23:41,085
And you look wonderful,
wonderful. How do you feel?

443
00:23:41,586 --> 00:23:44,505
Uh, well, this here
collar is a little tight.

444
00:23:44,673 --> 00:23:46,590
No, no, no. It's nicely
fit, looks a marvel.

445
00:23:46,675 --> 00:23:48,551
Oh. Just takes a little getting used to.

446
00:23:49,386 --> 00:23:51,762
Now, Hobie,
here is our set.

447
00:23:51,930 --> 00:23:54,557
And, in fact, that's right,
yes, you enter from there,

448
00:23:54,724 --> 00:23:57,017
having just seen Biff's
valise in the foyer,

449
00:23:57,185 --> 00:24:00,771
in spite of Allegra's claim
that he hasn't been to the house.

450
00:24:00,939 --> 00:24:02,898
I'm sweet on Allegra.
Indeed you are.

451
00:24:03,066 --> 00:24:04,358
But I seen
Biff's grip.

452
00:24:04,443 --> 00:24:05,693
Indeed you have.

453
00:24:05,861 --> 00:24:08,112
And so here we
find you, Hobie...

454
00:24:08,196 --> 00:24:10,573
We find you haunted
by unspoken suspicions.

455
00:24:10,740 --> 00:24:12,283
Haunted.
By Biff's grip.

456
00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:14,326
By his
valise, yes.

457
00:24:14,494 --> 00:24:17,705
But here is Dierdre

458
00:24:17,789 --> 00:24:19,790
harboring deep
feelings for you,

459
00:24:19,875 --> 00:24:21,208
and sensing opportunity.

460
00:24:21,376 --> 00:24:22,626
Dierdre.
Dierdre, yes.

461
00:24:22,711 --> 00:24:25,129
So at her importuning,
you join her on the couch

462
00:24:25,297 --> 00:24:27,339
and conversation ensues.

463
00:24:28,341 --> 00:24:29,341
Um...

464
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,179
So, she's gonna importune, Mr. Laurence?

465
00:24:33,346 --> 00:24:34,430
Laurentz.

466
00:24:34,514 --> 00:24:35,806
Oh, I'm sorry.

467
00:24:35,891 --> 00:24:37,933
She's gonna importune, Mr. Laurentz?

468
00:24:38,018 --> 00:24:39,727
Is that something I
should be concerned about?

469
00:24:39,811 --> 00:24:41,020
No, she'll simply
ask you to join her

470
00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:42,354
on the couch,
is all I mean to say,

471
00:24:42,439 --> 00:24:43,439
and then conversation ensues.

472
00:24:43,523 --> 00:24:44,523
Okay. Okay.
I gotcha.

473
00:24:44,649 --> 00:24:46,442
Very good, very good. Let's try
one, shall we? (CLEARS THROAT)

474
00:24:46,526 --> 00:24:47,943
Sure. (CHUCKLES)
I'll give it a go.

475
00:24:48,111 --> 00:24:49,737
Wonderful, splendid.

476
00:24:49,905 --> 00:24:52,156
Now, the only thing
I would suggest is,

477
00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:56,368
before your first line,
you respond to her line

478
00:24:56,453 --> 00:24:59,497
with a
mirthless chuckle.

479
00:25:00,957 --> 00:25:02,124
A mirthless chuckle.

480
00:25:02,292 --> 00:25:03,959
Yes, I think given your
unspoken suspicions

481
00:25:04,044 --> 00:25:05,544
about Allegra,

482
00:25:06,129 --> 00:25:07,546
a mirthless chuckle.

483
00:25:07,631 --> 00:25:09,757
Uh-huh. Okay, Mr. Laurence,
I'll give it a shot.

484
00:25:09,925 --> 00:25:11,008
Laurentz.

485
00:25:11,092 --> 00:25:13,469
Oh, gosh, I'm so sorry, Mr. Laurentz.

486
00:25:13,553 --> 00:25:14,678
I'll give it a shot.

487
00:25:22,646 --> 00:25:23,854
(DOOR RATTLES)

488
00:25:23,939 --> 00:25:24,980
(BELL RINGING)

489
00:25:25,065 --> 00:25:26,941
CLAPPER BOY: Merrily We Dance.
27-apple, take one.

490
00:25:30,070 --> 00:25:31,320
LAURENCE: Action.

491
00:25:32,155 --> 00:25:34,031
(RATTLING)

492
00:25:36,576 --> 00:25:37,576
DIERDRE: Oh, Monty.

493
00:25:38,203 --> 00:25:39,870
Come join me
on the divan.

494
00:25:50,590 --> 00:25:51,799
(FOOT THUMPS)

495
00:25:58,056 --> 00:25:59,557
It seems
Allegra's a no-show,

496
00:25:59,641 --> 00:26:01,308
which is simply a bore.

497
00:26:01,476 --> 00:26:03,394
But I'll partner
you in bridge.

498
00:26:04,479 --> 00:26:05,980
Why the pout?

499
00:26:06,481 --> 00:26:07,481
Ha!

500
00:26:08,024 --> 00:26:10,150
Would that it were so simple.

501
00:26:16,491 --> 00:26:17,575
Uh, cut.

502
00:26:18,159 --> 00:26:19,910
(BELL RINGING) CREW MEMBER:
That's a cut. Back to one.

503
00:26:21,371 --> 00:26:24,248
Very good.
Wonderful, in fact.

504
00:26:26,042 --> 00:26:27,918
But, um, let's try it a
little differently this time.

505
00:26:28,003 --> 00:26:29,169
Sure.
Let's try...

506
00:26:30,213 --> 00:26:31,964
Let's see, first of all, why don't we

507
00:26:32,048 --> 00:26:33,757
dispense with
the mirthless chuckle?

508
00:26:33,925 --> 00:26:35,342
No mirthless chuckle.

509
00:26:35,677 --> 00:26:38,679
No, no need, really. It was a
bad idea. It was bad directorial.

510
00:26:38,847 --> 00:26:40,431
My fault
overthinking the thing.

511
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:42,474
If you say so, but I'm
happy to do another,

512
00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:43,767
maybe try her
one more time.

513
00:26:43,935 --> 00:26:46,353
I mean, if you want that chuckle,
I sure wanna give her to you.

514
00:26:46,521 --> 00:26:48,480
No, no, no. Completely unnecessary
under the circumstances.

515
00:26:48,565 --> 00:26:50,065
I think the audience
can, to that extent,

516
00:26:50,150 --> 00:26:51,150
they can read
your thoughts,

517
00:26:51,318 --> 00:26:53,694
and they will assume
your mirthlessness.

518
00:26:53,862 --> 00:26:55,446
Okay, you're the boss man, Mr. Laurence.

519
00:26:55,530 --> 00:26:56,572
Laurentz.

520
00:26:56,740 --> 00:26:59,617
Oh, gosh. I am so sorry, Mr. Laurentz.

521
00:26:59,784 --> 00:27:01,535
Also, this time,
let's try actually

522
00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:03,579
looking at Dierdre
as we speak.

523
00:27:03,747 --> 00:27:05,623
Looking into her eyes
and speaking our line

524
00:27:05,707 --> 00:27:07,583
with a certain
ruefulness.

525
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,294
Ruefulness, okay.

526
00:27:10,462 --> 00:27:12,588
Yes. Because it's
not so simple, you see.

527
00:27:12,756 --> 00:27:14,548
Not so simple
as she suggests.

528
00:27:14,716 --> 00:27:15,883
Okay.

529
00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:19,136
Your feelings
are not so simple.

530
00:27:19,304 --> 00:27:21,013
No, sir. Okay.

531
00:27:22,474 --> 00:27:23,515
(BELL RINGING) CREW MEMBER: Roll camera.

532
00:27:23,683 --> 00:27:25,517
Merrily We Dance.
27-apple, take two.

533
00:27:31,566 --> 00:27:33,400
(SIGHS) Action.

534
00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:38,989
DIERDRE: Oh, Monty.

535
00:27:39,282 --> 00:27:41,533
Come join me
on the divan.

536
00:27:50,418 --> 00:27:53,379
Seems Allegra's a no-show,
which is simply a bore.

537
00:27:53,546 --> 00:27:55,422
But I'll partner
you in bridge.

538
00:27:55,590 --> 00:27:57,007
Why the pout?

539
00:27:59,594 --> 00:28:03,389
(SLOWLY) Would that
it were so simple.

540
00:28:07,394 --> 00:28:08,477
Cut.

541
00:28:08,770 --> 00:28:09,770
(BELL RINGING)

542
00:28:13,149 --> 00:28:14,900
Very good,
very good.

543
00:28:15,610 --> 00:28:17,611
Um... (CLICKS TONGUE)

544
00:28:20,657 --> 00:28:21,699
Come, come.

545
00:28:23,410 --> 00:28:24,618
HOBIE: All right.

546
00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:26,120
(EXHALES)

547
00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:29,206
All right,
let's try this.

548
00:28:29,582 --> 00:28:32,418
Your line, just say it as I say it.

549
00:28:32,585 --> 00:28:34,586
Say your line exactly as I'm about to.

550
00:28:34,754 --> 00:28:36,046
Just as
I'm about to do.

551
00:28:36,214 --> 00:28:37,548
Sure, okay.

552
00:28:39,467 --> 00:28:41,135
Would that it
were so simple.

553
00:28:41,845 --> 00:28:42,845
Um...

554
00:28:43,138 --> 00:28:44,680
Would that ih
twuuuuuuh so simple.

555
00:28:44,848 --> 00:28:46,181
Would that it
were so simple.

556
00:28:46,349 --> 00:28:48,142
Would that ih
twuuuuuuh so simple.

557
00:28:48,309 --> 00:28:49,351
My dear boy,
why do you say that?

558
00:28:49,436 --> 00:28:50,686
Why do you say "twuuuuuuh"?

559
00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:53,063
You said, "Say it like I said it. " Yes.

560
00:28:53,231 --> 00:28:55,190
Would that ih
twuuuuuuh so simple.

561
00:28:55,358 --> 00:28:56,442
Would that it
were so simple.

562
00:28:56,526 --> 00:28:58,277
Would that ih
twuuuuuuh so simple.

563
00:28:58,445 --> 00:29:00,112
Would that it... Would
that ih twuuuuuuh so simple?

564
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,239
No, no, watch my mouth.
Would that it were so simple.

565
00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:03,490
Would that ih
twuuuuuuh so simple.

566
00:29:03,658 --> 00:29:05,242
Keep your head still.
Would that it were so simple.

567
00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:06,535
Would that ih
twuuuuuuh so simple.

568
00:29:06,703 --> 00:29:07,870
Would that it
were so simple.

569
00:29:08,037 --> 00:29:09,788
I'm trying to
say that, Mr. Laurentz.

570
00:29:09,873 --> 00:29:10,914
Laurence. Mmm.

571
00:29:12,292 --> 00:29:13,292
I thought...

572
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,711
A minute ago
it was Laurentz.

573
00:29:15,879 --> 00:29:17,463
No, we can use Christian
names, my good dear boy.

574
00:29:17,630 --> 00:29:19,298
Laurence is fine,
just as I call you Hobie.

575
00:29:19,382 --> 00:29:20,424
Okay.

576
00:29:20,508 --> 00:29:22,176
So, would that
it were so simple.

577
00:29:22,302 --> 00:29:23,427
Would that ih
twuuuuuuh so...

578
00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:25,763
Keep your hand down, now! Would
that it were so simple. Trippingly.

579
00:29:25,930 --> 00:29:27,723
Would that ih twuuuuuuh
so simple. Trippingly.

580
00:29:27,891 --> 00:29:29,516
No, don't say "trippingly,"
say the line trippingly.

581
00:29:29,684 --> 00:29:31,351
Would that ih twuuuuuuh...
Would that it... (CLEARS THROAT)

582
00:29:31,436 --> 00:29:32,436
Would that it
were so simple.

583
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:33,520
Would that ih
twuuuuuuh so simple.

584
00:29:33,605 --> 00:29:34,605
Would that it
were so simple.

585
00:29:34,689 --> 00:29:35,689
Would that ih
twuuuuuuh so simple.

586
00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:36,774
Would that it
were so simple.

587
00:29:36,858 --> 00:29:37,858
Would that ih
twuuuuuuh so simple.

588
00:29:37,942 --> 00:29:38,901
Would that it
were so simple.

589
00:29:39,027 --> 00:29:40,944
Would that ih twuuuuuuh so
simple. Rueful, rueful, rueful.

590
00:29:41,029 --> 00:29:42,279
Would that ih twuuuuuuh
so simple. Rueful.

591
00:29:42,363 --> 00:29:43,530
Would that it
were so simple.

592
00:29:43,656 --> 00:29:44,865
Rueful "simple. " Would
that ih twuuuuuuh...

593
00:29:44,991 --> 00:29:46,492
Soulful "simple. " Would
that ih twuuuuuuh so simple.

594
00:29:46,659 --> 00:29:48,160
Or soulful.
You could say soulful.

595
00:29:48,328 --> 00:29:49,953
Rueful, soulful. Would
that it were so simple.

596
00:29:50,121 --> 00:29:51,538
Would that ih
twuuuuuuh so simple.

597
00:29:51,706 --> 00:29:52,706
What are you
doing this for?

598
00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:53,791
Would that
ih twuuuuuuh so...

599
00:29:53,958 --> 00:29:55,834
Your hands!
Just keep still!

600
00:30:08,056 --> 00:30:10,098
(KNOCK ON THE DOOR)
(DOG BARKING)

601
00:30:21,736 --> 00:30:23,445
PRODUCER: Stall?
For how long?

602
00:30:23,530 --> 00:30:24,488
What do I
tell the director?

603
00:30:24,572 --> 00:30:25,572
EDDIE: That we're
looking for him.

604
00:30:25,740 --> 00:30:27,032
But we don't want it
in the gossip columns.

605
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:28,617
Baird on a bender,
in a love nest,

606
00:30:28,701 --> 00:30:30,035
or wherever we
end up finding him.

607
00:30:30,203 --> 00:30:32,621
And as far as the set is
concerned, it's business as usual.

608
00:30:32,789 --> 00:30:35,707
Tell the ADs Baird is out
briefly with a high ankle sprain.

609
00:30:35,875 --> 00:30:37,376
Fine, but what do
we shoot without him?

610
00:30:37,460 --> 00:30:39,169
We got the brazier
scene up this afternoon.

611
00:30:39,337 --> 00:30:40,754
Could you get through it
shooting around him?

612
00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:42,214
Maybe use his stunt double,
Chunk Mulligan?

613
00:30:43,049 --> 00:30:44,299
Chunk can't act.

614
00:30:44,467 --> 00:30:46,051
Get the writer to
trim his speeches.

615
00:30:46,219 --> 00:30:47,344
Well, maybe,
but then what do we do?

616
00:30:47,428 --> 00:30:48,929
All we got left
is the final scene.

617
00:30:49,013 --> 00:30:51,515
Autolochus' speech at the
feet of the penitent thief.

618
00:30:51,808 --> 00:30:54,393
It's the emotional climax
of the entire picture.

619
00:30:54,477 --> 00:30:57,938
We gotta see Autolochus has
absorbed the message of the Christ.

620
00:30:58,106 --> 00:30:59,189
Yeah, I can see that.

621
00:30:59,274 --> 00:31:01,024
We need Baird's
star power, his charisma.

622
00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:02,401
Sure, his emotional, uh...

623
00:31:02,569 --> 00:31:04,403
This can't be faked! It's the
heart and soul of the picture.

624
00:31:04,571 --> 00:31:06,530
I understand.
End of the film!

625
00:31:06,823 --> 00:31:09,366
We can't just give
the speech to some...

626
00:31:09,617 --> 00:31:10,993
Some

627
00:31:11,077 --> 00:31:12,452
Roman schmo!

628
00:31:12,620 --> 00:31:13,996
No, no. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I got it.

629
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,206
But his benders can
last a day or two.

630
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,500
What does it cost
to shut down?

631
00:31:18,668 --> 00:31:20,252
Plenty. You know how
big this picture is?

632
00:31:20,336 --> 00:31:22,170
We're on Stages 5 and 14.

633
00:31:22,338 --> 00:31:24,506
If we're carrying everybody
in the final scene

634
00:31:24,591 --> 00:31:25,966
who's up on crucifixes

635
00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:29,219
that's $3.40 an hour hardship
pay, eight hour minimum.

636
00:31:29,387 --> 00:31:30,554
Yeah.
Plus we lose...

637
00:31:30,638 --> 00:31:32,097
NATALIE: (ON INTERCOM) Mr.
Mannix, I'm sorry... Not now.

638
00:31:32,181 --> 00:31:34,641
We lose Todd Hocheiser to Fox
at the end of the week.

639
00:31:34,726 --> 00:31:35,726
We should have
made him exclusive.

640
00:31:35,810 --> 00:31:36,768
Who knew?
(PHONE BUZZES)

641
00:31:36,853 --> 00:31:37,978
NATALIE: I'm sorry, sir.
Not now!

642
00:31:38,146 --> 00:31:40,898
It's Mr. Laurentz.
I can't stop him!

643
00:31:41,274 --> 00:31:42,900
Mannix, I won't have
it! NATALIE: No! No!

644
00:31:42,984 --> 00:31:45,319
For two decades the words
"Laurence Laurentz Presents"

645
00:31:45,403 --> 00:31:46,486
have meant something
to the public.

646
00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:48,697
It's all right, Natalie.
Okay, Walt, let me know.

647
00:31:49,115 --> 00:31:50,115
(SIGHS)

648
00:31:50,199 --> 00:31:52,367
What's on your
mind, Laurence?

649
00:31:52,535 --> 00:31:54,494
Hobie Doyle cannot act!

650
00:31:54,996 --> 00:31:56,538
Hobart Doyle is
one of the biggest

651
00:31:56,623 --> 00:31:57,998
movie stars in the world.

652
00:31:58,166 --> 00:31:59,249
On horseback.

653
00:31:59,334 --> 00:32:01,001
But this is a drama,
Mannix, a real drama.

654
00:32:01,169 --> 00:32:02,920
It's an adaptation
of a Broadway smash!

655
00:32:03,087 --> 00:32:05,297
It requires the skills
of a trained thespian,

656
00:32:05,465 --> 00:32:07,215
not a rodeo clown!

657
00:32:07,383 --> 00:32:08,634
I begged you for Lunt!

658
00:32:08,801 --> 00:32:10,677
Mr. Mannix, I'm sorry,
but you wanted me to make sure

659
00:32:10,762 --> 00:32:12,930
you didn't miss your lunch
at the Imperial Gardens.

660
00:32:13,097 --> 00:32:14,348
You never told me who with.

661
00:32:14,515 --> 00:32:15,599
Nuts.

662
00:32:15,683 --> 00:32:17,643
Look, no one
wants to see Lunt.

663
00:32:17,727 --> 00:32:20,062
We're not recasting. This
came from Mr. Schenk himself.

664
00:32:20,146 --> 00:32:22,189
It's Hobie Doyle.
Is the boy game?

665
00:32:22,357 --> 00:32:24,608
No, he's game.
And gamey!

666
00:32:24,776 --> 00:32:26,735
Well, if he needs help,
it's your job to help him.

667
00:32:26,819 --> 00:32:29,112
I'll have a talk with Hobie and
take a look at what you've shot,

668
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,156
but right now
I've got a lunch.

669
00:32:39,666 --> 00:32:44,002
"Truth to these
mutterings, Sestimus. "

670
00:32:44,170 --> 00:32:45,754
(GROANING)

671
00:32:46,714 --> 00:32:47,714
(MUMBLING)

672
00:32:50,718 --> 00:32:51,718
(DOORBELL RINGS)

673
00:32:52,261 --> 00:32:53,261
(DOG BARKING)

674
00:32:54,055 --> 00:32:56,056
(INDISTINCT)

675
00:33:08,236 --> 00:33:09,486
Quiet, Engels!

676
00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:17,911
How pleasant to
see you, Mr. Mannix.

677
00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:19,705
Your table is
right over here.

678
00:33:19,872 --> 00:33:21,289
Thank you, Arthur.

679
00:33:24,585 --> 00:33:25,961
How you doing, Mannix?

680
00:33:26,129 --> 00:33:27,421
Mr. Cuddahy.

681
00:33:27,588 --> 00:33:30,298
They mix a hell of a Mai
Tai. I like this place.

682
00:33:30,466 --> 00:33:33,635
Sorry to keep you hanging.
It's a tough decision.

683
00:33:33,803 --> 00:33:37,389
Nothing to apologize for. We said
the deal was on the table for a week.

684
00:33:37,932 --> 00:33:38,932
Oh.

685
00:33:39,475 --> 00:33:40,642
Go ahead.

686
00:33:41,853 --> 00:33:43,687
No, I'm
trying to quit.

687
00:33:44,397 --> 00:33:45,689
I just wanted
to visit again

688
00:33:45,773 --> 00:33:47,607
to see if there was some
impediment we could help with,

689
00:33:47,775 --> 00:33:49,276
or if something in
the offer isn't clear?

690
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,403
No, the offer's very clear.
And very generous.

691
00:33:51,571 --> 00:33:53,739
We want to make it easy
for you to say yes.

692
00:33:55,491 --> 00:33:57,075
Mannix, we need a guy with
your talents in management,

693
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,660
problem-solving.

694
00:33:58,828 --> 00:34:00,871
And you need to
think about the future.

695
00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:02,748
Lockheed is booming.

696
00:34:02,915 --> 00:34:04,124
Everyone's
riding in airplanes,

697
00:34:04,208 --> 00:34:06,126
and we're moving
into jet airplanes.

698
00:34:06,294 --> 00:34:08,670
It's a new age, Mannix,
and we're part of it.

699
00:34:08,838 --> 00:34:11,798
The industry you're in,
what's the future there?

700
00:34:12,008 --> 00:34:14,134
What happens when everybody
owns a television set?

701
00:34:14,218 --> 00:34:16,136
Will they still be going
to pictures every week?

702
00:34:16,304 --> 00:34:17,804
Well, we like to
think that families...

703
00:34:17,972 --> 00:34:19,139
I don't mean to denigrate.

704
00:34:19,223 --> 00:34:21,850
I'm sure the picture business
is pretty damned interesting.

705
00:34:22,018 --> 00:34:25,062
But it's also pretty
frivolous, isn't it?

706
00:34:25,438 --> 00:34:29,316
Aviation is serious. Serious
business, serious people.

707
00:34:29,484 --> 00:34:32,360
You won't be babysitting a
lot of oddballs and misfits,

708
00:34:32,528 --> 00:34:34,154
shouldering a lot of
crackpot problems for...

709
00:34:34,322 --> 00:34:36,031
We have some
kooks, sure, but...

710
00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:38,825
(CHUCKLES) Of course they're
kooks! It's all make-believe.

711
00:34:40,995 --> 00:34:41,995
(CHUCKLES)

712
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,246
I told myself
I wasn't gonna

713
00:34:43,331 --> 00:34:45,165
badmouth the competition,
and look at me.

714
00:34:45,333 --> 00:34:47,793
Sorry, Mannix. I'll stick
with what we're about.

715
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,211
Let me show
you something.

716
00:34:49,837 --> 00:34:51,755
Ever heard of
the Bikini Atoll?

717
00:34:51,923 --> 00:34:52,964
No.

718
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:54,841
Test site.

719
00:34:55,009 --> 00:34:56,468
Just couple of rocks in the
middle of the Pacific,

720
00:34:56,552 --> 00:34:58,303
until a few weeks ago,

721
00:34:58,471 --> 00:35:00,180
when we blew
the H-erino.

722
00:35:00,765 --> 00:35:02,265
I shouldn't be
telling you this.

723
00:35:03,476 --> 00:35:05,060
It's the real world.

724
00:35:05,269 --> 00:35:06,520
Hydrogen bomb.

725
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:08,897
Fusion device.

726
00:35:10,483 --> 00:35:11,733
Armageddon.

727
00:35:11,818 --> 00:35:13,568
And Lockheed was there. We
had a... (BEADS JANGLING)

728
00:35:13,861 --> 00:35:15,195
Call for you,
Mr. Mannix.

729
00:35:15,863 --> 00:35:16,863
Oh, thank you.

730
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:20,242
Hello?

731
00:35:22,286 --> 00:35:23,578
Yeah, he has it now?

732
00:35:24,539 --> 00:35:26,748
No, have him stay on
set, I'll go to him.

733
00:35:28,376 --> 00:35:30,502
Sorry, Cuddahy,
work emergency.

734
00:35:30,586 --> 00:35:32,754
Still do work there,
for the day anyway.

735
00:35:32,922 --> 00:35:35,298
You make a good case.
I'll let you know.

736
00:35:38,511 --> 00:35:39,511
(DEVICE WHIRRING)
(THUD)

737
00:35:41,180 --> 00:35:42,180
(THUDDING CONTINUES)

738
00:35:56,904 --> 00:35:57,904
(GRUNTS)

739
00:36:25,558 --> 00:36:26,558
(THUD)

740
00:36:42,575 --> 00:36:43,575
(VACUUM CLEANER STOPS)

741
00:36:43,784 --> 00:36:44,784
Uh...

742
00:36:44,869 --> 00:36:46,411
You one of the
Hollywood people?

743
00:36:49,790 --> 00:36:51,124
Maybe.

744
00:36:51,626 --> 00:36:52,876
They're in there.

745
00:36:53,878 --> 00:36:54,878
(VACUUM CLEANER STARTS)

746
00:37:04,597 --> 00:37:06,765
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

747
00:37:11,395 --> 00:37:13,271
(CHATTER GROWS LOUDER)

748
00:37:13,522 --> 00:37:14,522
(DOOR CREAKING)

749
00:37:22,490 --> 00:37:26,576
Please, enter.
All are welcome.

750
00:37:44,470 --> 00:37:45,470
(GRUNTS)

751
00:37:50,643 --> 00:37:51,935
Those things
are a nuisance.

752
00:37:54,105 --> 00:37:55,188
Thank you.

753
00:37:58,526 --> 00:38:00,694
We'll have sandwiches
in a minute.

754
00:38:01,529 --> 00:38:02,570
Tea?

755
00:38:02,655 --> 00:38:03,655
Tea?

756
00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:07,158
Uh, okay.

757
00:38:07,326 --> 00:38:09,202
Yeah. (CLEARS THROAT)
And, uh...

758
00:38:09,370 --> 00:38:11,663
And what's going on?

759
00:38:11,747 --> 00:38:12,872
Yeah.

760
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:14,708
Well, we've just
read the minutes.

761
00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:16,876
And Alan was about to
bring up new business.

762
00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:22,716
Well, I missed
the minutes.

763
00:38:23,217 --> 00:38:24,384
I wouldn't
worry about it.

764
00:38:24,552 --> 00:38:26,636
They're usually
pretty boring.

765
00:38:32,893 --> 00:38:34,686
What kind of
a meeting is this?

766
00:38:34,854 --> 00:38:36,313
HEAD WRITER: Well,
it's not a meeting

767
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:37,981
so much as a...

768
00:38:38,691 --> 00:38:42,902
It's, uh, more of
a study group.

769
00:38:43,070 --> 00:38:44,529
And you're studying?

770
00:38:44,989 --> 00:38:46,406
All sorts of jolly stuff.

771
00:38:46,574 --> 00:38:48,158
History.
Economics.

772
00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:49,743
WRITER 1: Same thing,
isn't it?

773
00:38:49,910 --> 00:38:52,162
History, economics.

774
00:38:52,330 --> 00:38:53,747
Don't you agree?

775
00:38:56,917 --> 00:39:01,212
I'm not really
a student of history.

776
00:39:05,468 --> 00:39:06,468
(DOG BARKING)

777
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:07,719
WRITER 2: Quiet, Engels!

778
00:39:08,512 --> 00:39:09,512
BAIRD: Thank you.

779
00:39:09,889 --> 00:39:11,765
Man is split?

780
00:39:11,932 --> 00:39:13,433
Well, Man's functions
are split.

781
00:39:13,601 --> 00:39:17,145
There's the little guy, the
regular Joe who works for a living.

782
00:39:17,229 --> 00:39:19,564
He's the body,
body politic.

783
00:39:19,732 --> 00:39:22,067
Then there's the brain,
the boss, the owner.

784
00:39:22,234 --> 00:39:23,568
The boss is
not the brain.

785
00:39:23,736 --> 00:39:25,236
No, no!
The boss is parasite!

786
00:39:25,696 --> 00:39:29,115
HEAD WRITER: Well, it's true that the
boss doesn't work, but he has a function.

787
00:39:29,283 --> 00:39:30,617
He controls the means of...

788
00:39:30,785 --> 00:39:33,578
Production. Sure, but that's
not a function, that's...

789
00:39:33,746 --> 00:39:35,789
Parasitism! On the... Shut up!

790
00:39:35,956 --> 00:39:38,792
On the body politic. Of the
regular Joe! WRITER 3: Shut up!

791
00:39:39,835 --> 00:39:40,835
(CLEARS THROAT)

792
00:39:45,466 --> 00:39:48,301
Man is unitary.

793
00:39:48,469 --> 00:39:50,887
A simple economic agent.

794
00:39:51,055 --> 00:39:53,473
Man's institutions
are split,

795
00:39:53,641 --> 00:39:57,143
expressing contradictions
that must be worked through.

796
00:39:57,561 --> 00:40:03,233
And they are worked through in
a causative, predictable way.

797
00:40:04,318 --> 00:40:06,152
History is science.

798
00:40:06,654 --> 00:40:09,656
This is the essence of the
dialectic. (WRITERS AGREEING)

799
00:40:10,491 --> 00:40:12,283
You see, if you
understand economics,

800
00:40:12,493 --> 00:40:15,245
you can actually write down
what will happen in the future.

801
00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:18,248
With as much confidence as you
write down the history of the past.

802
00:40:18,332 --> 00:40:21,751
Because it's science.
It's not make believe.

803
00:40:21,919 --> 00:40:23,837
We don't believe
in Santa Claus.

804
00:40:23,963 --> 00:40:24,963
(ALL LAUGHING)

805
00:40:25,256 --> 00:40:26,589
Another finger sandwich?

806
00:40:26,757 --> 00:40:29,467
Thank you. Now if I follow this
correctly... (CAMERA CLICKS)

807
00:40:30,678 --> 00:40:31,678
Who's that guy?

808
00:40:33,264 --> 00:40:37,100
Uh, Mr. Smitrovich takes
pictures for our newsletter.

809
00:40:38,102 --> 00:40:41,312
Our understanding of the
true workings of history

810
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,232
gives us access to
the levers of power.

811
00:40:44,316 --> 00:40:48,945
Your studio, for instance, is
a pure instrument of capitalism.

812
00:40:49,113 --> 00:40:53,867
As such, it expresses the
contradictions of capitalism

813
00:40:54,034 --> 00:40:59,706
and can be enlisted to
finance its own destruction.

814
00:41:00,207 --> 00:41:01,458
Which is exciting.

815
00:41:01,625 --> 00:41:04,878
It can be made to help the
little guy, the regular Joe.

816
00:41:05,045 --> 00:41:06,546
The body politic!
Shut up!

817
00:41:06,714 --> 00:41:09,215
Even though its purpose
is to exploit the little guy.

818
00:41:09,383 --> 00:41:10,717
WRITER 4: And
the body politic.

819
00:41:10,885 --> 00:41:11,968
You're for the little guy?
(CAMERA CLICKS)

820
00:41:12,595 --> 00:41:14,304
For the little guy or against,
it doesn't matter.

821
00:41:14,388 --> 00:41:15,930
History will be
what it will be,

822
00:41:16,015 --> 00:41:17,056
and we already
know what it'll be.

823
00:41:17,224 --> 00:41:18,683
But yes, we're
for the little guy.

824
00:41:18,851 --> 00:41:20,560
Aren't you?
Shut up!

825
00:41:20,728 --> 00:41:23,188
Are you joking?
Me, for the little guy?

826
00:41:23,272 --> 00:41:24,522
Of course I'm for
the little guy.

827
00:41:24,690 --> 00:41:26,232
What, is this guy
a comedian?

828
00:41:26,525 --> 00:41:27,525
(ALL CHUCKLING)

829
00:41:30,070 --> 00:41:33,406
Listen, I better get back. The
studio's gotta be going nuts.

830
00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:35,158
Can we cut it off now
and pick it up right here

831
00:41:35,242 --> 00:41:37,452
at the next
study session?

832
00:41:37,578 --> 00:41:38,578
(CLEARS THROAT)

833
00:41:39,580 --> 00:41:43,082
Okay, well, see...

834
00:41:45,544 --> 00:41:47,670
I'm afraid it's
not that simple.

835
00:41:50,424 --> 00:41:56,429
NARRATOR: And so, Baird Whitlock found
himself in the hands of communists.

836
00:41:56,597 --> 00:42:00,433
Meanwhile, far from
the crashing surf of Malibu,

837
00:42:00,601 --> 00:42:04,604
Eddie Mannix, torn from his
lunch with a Lockheed man,

838
00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:07,857
hurries back to the vastness
of Capitol Pictures,

839
00:42:08,025 --> 00:42:10,610
whose tireless
machinery clanks on,

840
00:42:10,778 --> 00:42:13,363
producing this year's
ration of dreams

841
00:42:13,489 --> 00:42:16,115
for all the weary
peoples of the world.

842
00:42:16,283 --> 00:42:19,077
Hey, numbskull. Didn't you
see the rolling light was on?

843
00:42:19,245 --> 00:42:21,788
Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Mannix.
Can I help you find someone?

844
00:42:21,956 --> 00:42:23,122
No.

845
00:42:23,207 --> 00:42:24,791
URSULINA: Autolochus!
AUTOLOCHUS: Yes?

846
00:42:25,543 --> 00:42:28,920
Why do you present yourself in my
chambers in such humble fashion?

847
00:42:29,088 --> 00:42:31,297
Do not look
upon me, Ursulina.

848
00:42:31,465 --> 00:42:33,341
The fires of the
brazier of Sestimus

849
00:42:33,425 --> 00:42:35,468
have latterly
burned my face!

850
00:42:35,636 --> 00:42:36,928
Though the unguents
of Arkimideus

851
00:42:37,012 --> 00:42:39,138
promise shortly
to undo the damage.

852
00:42:39,306 --> 00:42:42,392
Autolochus, you know
that my love is for you,

853
00:42:42,476 --> 00:42:43,560
not for your station.

854
00:42:44,478 --> 00:42:50,149
AUTOLOCHUS: And my ardor
for you... (STAMMERING)

855
00:42:50,234 --> 00:42:52,110
CHUNK: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

856
00:42:55,906 --> 00:42:57,490
"We are the Future. "

857
00:42:58,409 --> 00:42:59,576
What does
that mean?

858
00:42:59,743 --> 00:43:00,910
Beats me.

859
00:43:01,620 --> 00:43:02,912
Somebody slipped
it under my door

860
00:43:02,997 --> 00:43:04,664
sometime after we
broke this morning.

861
00:43:04,832 --> 00:43:06,082
Mention it
to anyone?

862
00:43:06,166 --> 00:43:07,250
Nope.

863
00:43:07,334 --> 00:43:09,168
Okay, well, let's
keep it that way.

864
00:43:11,505 --> 00:43:14,757
Hey, by the way, Chunk
sounded good in there.

865
00:43:17,094 --> 00:43:19,512
Natalie, could you please get
me Stu Schwartz, Accounting?

866
00:43:20,681 --> 00:43:22,849
(LINE BUZZES)
NATALIE: Stu Schwartz on two.

867
00:43:23,851 --> 00:43:26,644
Stu, how are ya?
I need some petty cash.

868
00:43:26,812 --> 00:43:28,187
$100,000.

869
00:43:28,355 --> 00:43:29,856
I'm sorry,
did I say petty?

870
00:43:30,024 --> 00:43:31,858
Well, it's a long story, and
I'll tell it to you some time.

871
00:43:32,026 --> 00:43:33,693
You have that much
in the office?

872
00:43:33,861 --> 00:43:35,945
Yeah, how much space
will that take up?

873
00:43:36,196 --> 00:43:37,238
Uh, Mr. Mannix?

874
00:43:37,323 --> 00:43:38,531
All right,
this might do it.

875
00:43:39,366 --> 00:43:41,034
Uh, Thora Thacker
just came in.

876
00:43:41,201 --> 00:43:42,535
Wonders if you
have a moment.

877
00:43:43,537 --> 00:43:45,622
Thora Thacker.

878
00:43:45,706 --> 00:43:47,206
Tell her I'm
stuck on a call.

879
00:43:47,458 --> 00:43:49,000
I'll leave
through the patio.

880
00:43:51,211 --> 00:43:53,087
Call didn't take
so long then.

881
00:43:53,172 --> 00:43:55,173
Yes. No.
Fast talkers.

882
00:43:55,341 --> 00:43:56,549
What can I
do for you, Thora?

883
00:43:56,717 --> 00:43:57,967
Well, I'll be
fast, too.

884
00:43:58,052 --> 00:43:59,844
I only wanted to
notify you as a courtesy

885
00:43:59,928 --> 00:44:02,221
that I am running my
Baird Whitlock story.

886
00:44:02,389 --> 00:44:03,640
Yeah?
What's the story?

887
00:44:03,724 --> 00:44:07,060
The story. I have a credible
source and I am going to run it,

888
00:44:07,227 --> 00:44:08,811
and I think you know
what story I mean.

889
00:44:08,979 --> 00:44:10,104
I have no idea.

890
00:44:10,189 --> 00:44:12,106
There's nothing going on with
Baird. I would know, wouldn't I?

891
00:44:12,191 --> 00:44:13,441
Don't play dumb, Eddie.

892
00:44:13,525 --> 00:44:14,817
I am talking about

893
00:44:15,819 --> 00:44:18,071
On Wings as Eagles.

894
00:44:20,032 --> 00:44:21,115
What?

895
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:22,367
Running it tomorrow.

896
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:24,410
First of all...

897
00:44:25,704 --> 00:44:27,580
First of all, there's
nothing to that story.

898
00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:28,915
I've heard it,
it's been around forever,

899
00:44:28,999 --> 00:44:30,249
and it's never
been confirmed.

900
00:44:30,334 --> 00:44:31,751
And secondly,
you can't print that.

901
00:44:31,919 --> 00:44:33,378
Even if you could print it,
you couldn't print it.

902
00:44:33,545 --> 00:44:35,004
And you wouldn't want to,
Thora. It's beneath you.

903
00:44:35,172 --> 00:44:36,506
The facts are
never beneath me.

904
00:44:36,674 --> 00:44:38,925
People don't want the facts,
they wanna believe!

905
00:44:39,093 --> 00:44:41,678
That's our great industry,
mine and yours, too.

906
00:44:41,762 --> 00:44:42,970
They wanna believe
that Baird Whitlock

907
00:44:43,055 --> 00:44:44,764
is a great star
and a good man.

908
00:44:44,932 --> 00:44:46,015
You're admitting he isn't.

909
00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:48,184
No, I'm saying he is,
though it's beside the point.

910
00:44:48,352 --> 00:44:50,228
There's nothing to it,
nothing to the gossip.

911
00:44:50,396 --> 00:44:52,522
I am not
a gossip columnist!

912
00:44:52,690 --> 00:44:53,815
No, no, no,
of course not.

913
00:44:53,899 --> 00:44:55,733
Don't confuse me
with my sister!

914
00:44:55,901 --> 00:44:58,277
Hardly. But look, do you
have to run it tomorrow?

915
00:44:58,696 --> 00:44:59,987
It's my entire column.

916
00:45:00,072 --> 00:45:01,572
I'm happy to talk
to Baird for comment,

917
00:45:01,657 --> 00:45:03,116
but it will have to
be this afternoon.

918
00:45:03,283 --> 00:45:04,784
Baird's unavailable
right now. Wait one day.

919
00:45:04,868 --> 00:45:05,868
Ha!

920
00:45:05,953 --> 00:45:07,495
Thora, wait one
day and I'll give you

921
00:45:07,579 --> 00:45:09,288
a true story for
tomorrow's column.

922
00:45:09,373 --> 00:45:11,290
A little something

923
00:45:11,417 --> 00:45:12,792
about Hobie Doyle.

924
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:14,335
My readers don't
care about Hobie Doyle.

925
00:45:14,420 --> 00:45:15,461
He wears chaps!

926
00:45:15,629 --> 00:45:16,796
Do they care about
Carlotta Valdez?

927
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:17,880
They're sweet on each other.

928
00:45:18,048 --> 00:45:20,383
You should see the two of them
together. Like peas in a pod.

929
00:45:20,926 --> 00:45:23,052
Trade the story of my career
for a puff piece on Hobie Doyle?

930
00:45:23,137 --> 00:45:24,554
I don't think so.

931
00:45:24,638 --> 00:45:26,097
You're not trading anything,
you're waiting one day

932
00:45:26,181 --> 00:45:27,598
on a story
that's years old.

933
00:45:27,683 --> 00:45:29,434
Wait one day. I can
let you talk to Baird,

934
00:45:29,518 --> 00:45:30,601
show you your
story's the bunk.

935
00:45:30,686 --> 00:45:33,146
If I'm wrong, no skin off
your nose. You run the column.

936
00:45:33,230 --> 00:45:34,772
In the meantime,
you have an exclusive.

937
00:45:34,940 --> 00:45:36,941
No one else knows
about Hobie and Carlotta.

938
00:45:37,109 --> 00:45:38,818
No kidding.
You're it.

939
00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:41,237
What kind of name
is Thora, anyway?

940
00:45:41,321 --> 00:45:43,740
It's a name that 19
million readers trust.

941
00:45:43,907 --> 00:45:45,491
Don't play games
with them, Eddie.

942
00:45:45,659 --> 00:45:47,577
Oh, nobody's
playing games here.

943
00:45:50,289 --> 00:45:51,289
(BAG STRAINING)

944
00:45:51,498 --> 00:45:52,832
Is that big enough?

945
00:45:53,083 --> 00:45:54,083
(LOCKS LATCHING)

946
00:45:56,170 --> 00:45:58,337
Hello, Eddie. I'm
notifying you as a courtesy

947
00:45:58,422 --> 00:46:00,256
before I run
tomorrow's story.

948
00:46:00,424 --> 00:46:02,508
Thessaly? Yeah,
I just saw your...

949
00:46:02,676 --> 00:46:04,677
Ah, never mind. How you
doing? What's the story?

950
00:46:04,845 --> 00:46:06,179
It's about
Baird Whitlock.

951
00:46:06,263 --> 00:46:08,473
There's absolutely no truth
to that old story, believe me.

952
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:09,849
Old?
Old, stale, rotten and...

953
00:46:09,933 --> 00:46:11,851
I'm talking about today.

954
00:46:11,935 --> 00:46:13,227
What?

955
00:46:13,312 --> 00:46:15,938
A little bird told me that he
disappeared from the set today.

956
00:46:16,023 --> 00:46:17,607
Oh, that! No, no.

957
00:46:17,775 --> 00:46:19,275
Yes, he did
have to take a break.

958
00:46:19,359 --> 00:46:20,818
Minor injury.
High ankle sprain.

959
00:46:20,986 --> 00:46:22,069
What did you
think I meant?

960
00:46:22,154 --> 00:46:23,863
No, nothing. I saw
your sister earlier.

961
00:46:24,031 --> 00:46:25,865
She was trying to resurrect
some old gossip about Baird.

962
00:46:26,033 --> 00:46:28,117
Oh, I'm sure
she was, that cow!

963
00:46:28,202 --> 00:46:30,495
She wouldn't know a news story
if it bit her on the posterior.

964
00:46:30,662 --> 00:46:32,205
Yeah, well, she's...
High ankle sprain?

965
00:46:32,289 --> 00:46:34,081
Is that really the best
you could come up with?

966
00:46:34,208 --> 00:46:36,959
We all know about the
womanizing and the drinking jags

967
00:46:37,127 --> 00:46:38,461
and those trips
to San Berdoo.

968
00:46:38,545 --> 00:46:39,629
Baird is a
good family man.

969
00:46:39,797 --> 00:46:41,881
He has a high ankle sprain.

970
00:46:42,049 --> 00:46:43,299
Mr. Mannix?

971
00:46:43,467 --> 00:46:44,550
What's up, Peanut?

972
00:46:44,635 --> 00:46:46,719
Natalie told me
to find you PDQ.

973
00:46:46,887 --> 00:46:48,054
I know it sounds screwy,
but she said

974
00:46:48,138 --> 00:46:49,555
someone's calling
from the future.

975
00:46:50,224 --> 00:46:52,642
Good Lord! Thessaly,
I have to run.

976
00:46:52,726 --> 00:46:55,228
If you do know where Baird is,
you must let me talk to him.

977
00:46:55,395 --> 00:46:57,313
Sure. I'll find out where
he is right away, Thessaly,

978
00:46:57,397 --> 00:46:58,523
and I'm sure...

979
00:46:58,690 --> 00:47:00,399
Say, what kind of
name is Thessaly, anyway?

980
00:47:00,567 --> 00:47:02,568
It's a name that 20
million readers trust.

981
00:47:02,736 --> 00:47:04,237
They want the truth, Eddie.

982
00:47:04,404 --> 00:47:06,531
The truth, yes.
Mmm-hmm.

983
00:47:07,241 --> 00:47:09,283
We're gonna
give it to them.

984
00:47:10,744 --> 00:47:13,162
On three. And Hobie Doyle is in there.

985
00:47:13,330 --> 00:47:14,997
Hey.
HOBIE: Hello, Mr. Mannix.

986
00:47:15,165 --> 00:47:17,416
EDDIE: Thanks for
coming, Hobie. One second.

987
00:47:19,002 --> 00:47:20,086
Hello, Mannix...
(DIAL TONE)

988
00:47:20,712 --> 00:47:22,088
Damn.

989
00:47:22,381 --> 00:47:24,090
Hung up, Natalie. Tell me
the second they call back.

990
00:47:24,424 --> 00:47:25,591
NATALIE: Yes, sir.

991
00:47:25,759 --> 00:47:27,009
What's going
on there, Mr. Mannix?

992
00:47:27,094 --> 00:47:29,011
Looks like you're
expecting rain.

993
00:47:29,179 --> 00:47:30,763
No, it's nothing.

994
00:47:30,931 --> 00:47:32,431
How's the first
day on the picture?

995
00:47:32,516 --> 00:47:34,100
You getting comfortable?

996
00:47:34,768 --> 00:47:36,060
Oh, I guess it's
going pretty good.

997
00:47:36,228 --> 00:47:39,188
Uh, that Mr. Laurentz,
he's an awful good man.

998
00:47:39,273 --> 00:47:40,690
He's helping me
get through it.

999
00:47:40,858 --> 00:47:42,400
I give him all the
credit in the world,

1000
00:47:42,484 --> 00:47:44,527
me being the new hand
in the bunkhouse.

1001
00:47:44,695 --> 00:47:46,529
They got me talking a lot,

1002
00:47:46,613 --> 00:47:47,780
which takes a little
getting used to,

1003
00:47:47,948 --> 00:47:51,450
talking with the camera looking
at me, but, heck, I enjoy.

1004
00:47:51,618 --> 00:47:52,702
Oh, good, that's fine.

1005
00:47:52,786 --> 00:47:55,913
Usually on a picture, I just
say, "Whitey" or "Whoa, there. "

1006
00:47:56,081 --> 00:47:58,291
But this one here,
it's talking.

1007
00:47:58,375 --> 00:47:59,792
And it's people listening.

1008
00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:01,544
That threw me
a little at first,

1009
00:48:01,628 --> 00:48:03,754
but I think I got
my leg up on her now.

1010
00:48:03,922 --> 00:48:05,381
That's fine. Laurentz
came by this morning

1011
00:48:05,465 --> 00:48:06,632
to tell me how
well you're doing.

1012
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,968
You just continue to
do whatever he says.

1013
00:48:09,052 --> 00:48:10,595
He knows how to make
a quality picture.

1014
00:48:11,221 --> 00:48:13,764
That is true. He will not quit
on a take until it has quality.

1015
00:48:13,849 --> 00:48:15,892
(LINE BUZZES)
That them?

1016
00:48:15,976 --> 00:48:17,310
NATALIE: Sorry, sir, no.

1017
00:48:17,394 --> 00:48:19,562
Do you want
Mrs. Mannix on one?

1018
00:48:23,483 --> 00:48:24,650
Hiya, hon.

1019
00:48:25,485 --> 00:48:27,111
You know, busy.

1020
00:48:27,446 --> 00:48:28,446
Uh-huh.

1021
00:48:29,531 --> 00:48:30,531
Uh-huh.

1022
00:48:32,075 --> 00:48:34,452
I thought he asked
to play infield.

1023
00:48:35,829 --> 00:48:36,954
I see.

1024
00:48:37,122 --> 00:48:38,998
Maybe we should make him
honor that commitment.

1025
00:48:41,501 --> 00:48:44,086
That's true. No, of
course, you're right.

1026
00:48:44,254 --> 00:48:46,464
Okay. Okay,
I'll call the coach.

1027
00:48:46,632 --> 00:48:47,840
Sure.

1028
00:48:48,967 --> 00:48:50,217
I love you, too.

1029
00:48:56,350 --> 00:48:57,391
Mr. Mannix,
you want me to run out

1030
00:48:57,476 --> 00:48:58,517
and get you a bigger grip?

1031
00:48:58,685 --> 00:49:00,478
That one looks
a little bit snug.

1032
00:49:00,646 --> 00:49:01,646
(LOCKS CLICKING)

1033
00:49:15,702 --> 00:49:17,119
Hobie.

1034
00:49:18,038 --> 00:49:20,790
There's $100,000 in
that attaché case.

1035
00:49:22,542 --> 00:49:23,876
Ransom money.

1036
00:49:24,795 --> 00:49:27,004
Baird Whitlock
has been kidnapped.

1037
00:49:32,052 --> 00:49:33,552
This is bad.

1038
00:49:36,139 --> 00:49:38,099
Bad for movie stars
everywhere.

1039
00:49:42,562 --> 00:49:45,064
And you got no idea who's
mixed up in this thing?

1040
00:49:49,695 --> 00:49:51,487
I would look at the extras.

1041
00:49:51,655 --> 00:49:53,906
The extras? Why?

1042
00:49:55,075 --> 00:49:57,910
Well, you just never know about
an extra. They come and go.

1043
00:49:58,078 --> 00:50:00,955
Everyone else, I'm on the set,
I see the guy setting the 5K,

1044
00:50:01,039 --> 00:50:03,541
I think, "Why, there's
old Bud setting the 5K."

1045
00:50:03,709 --> 00:50:06,043
Script girl,
wrangler, same thing.

1046
00:50:06,211 --> 00:50:07,712
Extras, that's different.

1047
00:50:08,005 --> 00:50:09,839
Not making
a blanket call here.

1048
00:50:09,923 --> 00:50:12,842
I mean, there's good
extras and bad extras.

1049
00:50:12,926 --> 00:50:14,760
All I'm saying

1050
00:50:15,470 --> 00:50:16,470
(CLEARS THROAT)

1051
00:50:16,930 --> 00:50:19,515
you look at an extra,

1052
00:50:19,599 --> 00:50:21,934
you got no idea
what he's thinking.

1053
00:50:22,602 --> 00:50:23,644
(LINE BUZZES)

1054
00:50:23,729 --> 00:50:25,438
NATALIE:
He's back! Line two.

1055
00:50:26,273 --> 00:50:27,648
Hello.
You have the money?

1056
00:50:27,858 --> 00:50:29,275
Yes, I have it.

1057
00:50:29,443 --> 00:50:30,735
Stage 8?

1058
00:50:30,902 --> 00:50:33,362
Behind the electrical box?
Just leave it there?

1059
00:50:33,530 --> 00:50:35,531
And when do I get Baird?
When we have the money.

1060
00:50:35,615 --> 00:50:37,116
I'll do it right now.

1061
00:50:39,369 --> 00:50:40,619
Can I use your belt?

1062
00:50:41,580 --> 00:50:43,164
(SHIP HORN BLARING)

1063
00:50:45,792 --> 00:50:46,792
(BELL DINGING)

1064
00:50:48,003 --> 00:50:50,212
The Swingin' Dinghy
is closing, folks.

1065
00:50:50,297 --> 00:50:53,716
Time for me to clean up,
time for you to clear out.

1066
00:50:53,884 --> 00:50:56,302
So long, fellas.
See ya in eight months.

1067
00:50:56,470 --> 00:50:57,803
GIRL 1: Toodle-oo.
GIRL 2: See ya later, boys.

1068
00:50:57,888 --> 00:50:59,055
Eight months?

1069
00:50:59,139 --> 00:51:00,806
Yeah, we're shipping
out in the morning.

1070
00:51:00,974 --> 00:51:03,893
Golly! Eight months without a dame.

1071
00:51:04,311 --> 00:51:05,478
Can you beat it?

1072
00:51:05,645 --> 00:51:07,146
You're gonna
have to beat it!

1073
00:51:10,984 --> 00:51:11,984
(GIRLS LAUGHING)

1074
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:14,320
(SIGHS)

1075
00:51:17,157 --> 00:51:20,618
(SINGING)
We are heading out to sea

1076
00:51:20,786 --> 00:51:24,455
And however it'll be

1077
00:51:24,623 --> 00:51:29,126
(PIANO PLAYING)
It ain't gonna be the same

1078
00:51:29,294 --> 00:51:31,670
'Cause no matter what we see

1079
00:51:31,838 --> 00:51:35,049
When we're out
there on the sea

1080
00:51:35,217 --> 00:51:39,345
We ain't gonna see a dame

1081
00:51:41,139 --> 00:51:42,973
We'll be
searching high and low

1082
00:51:43,058 --> 00:51:45,351
On the deck and down below

1083
00:51:45,519 --> 00:51:48,771
But it's a crying shame

1084
00:51:48,939 --> 00:51:53,442
We'll see a lot of fish
But we'll never clock a dish

1085
00:51:53,610 --> 00:51:56,946
We ain't gonna see a dame

1086
00:51:57,114 --> 00:51:58,906
No dames

1087
00:51:59,074 --> 00:52:01,033
We might see
some octopuses

1088
00:52:01,201 --> 00:52:02,827
No dames

1089
00:52:02,994 --> 00:52:05,037
Or a half
a dozen clams

1090
00:52:05,205 --> 00:52:06,872
No dames

1091
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,291
We might even
see a mermaid

1092
00:52:09,459 --> 00:52:14,130
ALL: But mermaids
got no gams

1093
00:52:14,297 --> 00:52:17,299
No gams

1094
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,225
(FEET TAPPING RHYTHMICALLY)

1095
00:53:05,765 --> 00:53:07,600
Hey!
Off of there!

1096
00:53:07,767 --> 00:53:08,976
Hey, come on.

1097
00:53:10,645 --> 00:53:12,313
Hey! Come on.

1098
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:13,480
Hey!

1099
00:53:13,940 --> 00:53:15,024
Oh, come on!

1100
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,485
Oh, Christ!
Climb up and tappin'.

1101
00:53:25,285 --> 00:53:26,285
Ah, come on!

1102
00:53:57,984 --> 00:54:00,277
(METALLIC CLINKING)

1103
00:54:18,797 --> 00:54:19,797
(BELL RINGING)

1104
00:54:40,193 --> 00:54:41,944
SAILOR 1: Have we got a girl for you!

1105
00:54:42,654 --> 00:54:45,155
SAILOR 2: (SINGING)
Out there on the sea

1106
00:54:45,699 --> 00:54:48,117
Here's how it will be

1107
00:54:48,827 --> 00:54:51,662
I'm gonna
dance with you, pal

1108
00:54:51,746 --> 00:54:54,248
You're gonna dance with me

1109
00:54:54,416 --> 00:54:56,000
ALL: When we're out
there on the sea

1110
00:54:56,084 --> 00:54:57,793
We'll be happy as can be

1111
00:54:57,961 --> 00:55:00,587
Or so the captain claims

1112
00:55:00,755 --> 00:55:03,674
But we have to disagree
'Cause the only guarantee

1113
00:55:03,842 --> 00:55:06,802
Is I'll see a lot of you
And you'll see a lot of me

1114
00:55:06,970 --> 00:55:11,849
ALL: And it's absolutely certain
that we'll see a lot of sea

1115
00:55:12,225 --> 00:55:15,477
But we ain't
gonna see no dames

1116
00:55:15,645 --> 00:55:16,770
SAILOR 2: No dames!

1117
00:55:16,896 --> 00:55:17,980
We're gonna see
How will it be?

1118
00:55:18,106 --> 00:55:19,732
No dames!
With no dames!

1119
00:55:19,899 --> 00:55:21,025
We're gonna see
How will it be?

1120
00:55:21,192 --> 00:55:22,860
No dames!
No dames!

1121
00:55:23,028 --> 00:55:24,528
We're gonna see
And how will it be?

1122
00:55:24,696 --> 00:55:27,156
We ain't gonna see no...

1123
00:55:34,247 --> 00:55:35,831
This place looks open!

1124
00:55:35,915 --> 00:55:36,915
(SAILORS CHEERING)

1125
00:55:39,210 --> 00:55:40,252
What the...

1126
00:55:49,054 --> 00:55:50,346
You, out!

1127
00:55:57,854 --> 00:55:58,854
(EXCLAIMS)

1128
00:55:58,980 --> 00:56:00,147
Stop it! Hey!
Hey!

1129
00:56:00,315 --> 00:56:01,523
Quit it!
Cut that out!

1130
00:56:01,691 --> 00:56:02,900
This ain't that
kind of a place!

1131
00:56:04,569 --> 00:56:05,611
ARNE: Cut!

1132
00:56:06,696 --> 00:56:08,489
Yeah, okay.
CREW MEMBER: Okay, kids...

1133
00:56:08,573 --> 00:56:09,573
Okay.

1134
00:56:10,867 --> 00:56:13,452
Come here, Burt Gurney. We go again.

1135
00:56:13,620 --> 00:56:14,995
Anything different,
Mr. Seslum?

1136
00:56:15,246 --> 00:56:16,538
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, no, no.

1137
00:56:16,623 --> 00:56:18,290
Mostly pretty good,
but this time

1138
00:56:18,583 --> 00:56:21,293
don't put dishrag
on bartender's head.

1139
00:56:21,461 --> 00:56:23,295
You're a big star,
Burt Gurney.

1140
00:56:23,463 --> 00:56:25,172
Who cares about
the bartender?

1141
00:56:25,340 --> 00:56:26,673
You are the star.
(SCOFFS)

1142
00:56:26,758 --> 00:56:28,217
That's my whole character,
the slow burn.

1143
00:56:28,301 --> 00:56:29,718
Gosh, Mr. Seslum, I don't
mind if he wants to...

1144
00:56:29,803 --> 00:56:31,095
It is decided.
Hello, Burt.

1145
00:56:31,638 --> 00:56:32,846
Hello, Mr. Mannix.

1146
00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:35,349
Arne.
Hello.

1147
00:56:35,517 --> 00:56:37,768
Listen, I don't wanna stick my
nose in other people's business,

1148
00:56:37,852 --> 00:56:39,228
but, uh...

1149
00:56:39,312 --> 00:56:43,107
Well, I understand you've been
associating with DeeAnna Moran?

1150
00:56:43,191 --> 00:56:44,191
Yeah, yeah,
we associated.

1151
00:56:44,275 --> 00:56:45,275
Yes.

1152
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:48,070
But no more, no more. Don't
you worry, Eddie Mannix.

1153
00:56:48,488 --> 00:56:50,072
But, Arne, you are
aware that she's...

1154
00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:53,158
This must not be in movie
magazines, that we are associated.

1155
00:56:53,326 --> 00:56:54,410
No, no,
of course not.

1156
00:56:54,494 --> 00:56:55,828
My wife cannot read this.

1157
00:56:57,038 --> 00:56:58,122
Your... Excuse me?

1158
00:56:58,415 --> 00:56:59,873
llsa Pflug.

1159
00:57:01,042 --> 00:57:03,252
llsa Pflug-Seslum.

1160
00:57:04,254 --> 00:57:05,462
In Malmö.

1161
00:57:05,547 --> 00:57:06,755
I was not aware of that.

1162
00:57:07,048 --> 00:57:08,674
ARNE: Yeah, two children.

1163
00:57:09,175 --> 00:57:10,717
And a third on the way,
apparently. Mmm-hmm.

1164
00:57:11,052 --> 00:57:14,847
Do you enjoy physical culture,
Eddie Mannix? Do you ski?

1165
00:57:15,932 --> 00:57:19,351
No. I never took it up.
Seems like a lot of fun, Arne.

1166
00:57:19,436 --> 00:57:21,437
I no more associate
with DeeAnna Moran.

1167
00:57:21,521 --> 00:57:22,604
I hug you.

1168
00:57:23,481 --> 00:57:25,023
Goodbye.

1169
00:57:25,859 --> 00:57:27,234
BAIRD: I spent the night.

1170
00:57:27,318 --> 00:57:29,987
So, I feel somebody poking at
me, and I wake up and it's Clark.

1171
00:57:30,071 --> 00:57:33,532
And he says, "Well, your keys aren't
in there, so I guess we're walking. "

1172
00:57:33,867 --> 00:57:34,867
(ALL LAUGHING)

1173
00:57:36,536 --> 00:57:39,746
This was back before
Gable was Gable.

1174
00:57:39,831 --> 00:57:43,250
Yeah, we used to go up to
San Berdoo every weekend.

1175
00:57:43,334 --> 00:57:45,294
Bob Stack would
come up sometimes.

1176
00:57:45,378 --> 00:57:47,296
Blue Grotto
was still open.

1177
00:57:47,464 --> 00:57:49,882
Dave Chasen
was a busboy.

1178
00:57:50,592 --> 00:57:52,718
Quite a place.
Yours?

1179
00:57:52,927 --> 00:57:55,304
Gracious, no. It belongs to
a member of our study group.

1180
00:57:55,722 --> 00:57:57,389
He couldn't be
here this afternoon.

1181
00:57:57,557 --> 00:57:58,807
He'll be sad to
have missed you.

1182
00:57:58,892 --> 00:57:59,933
He's a fan.

1183
00:58:00,101 --> 00:58:01,310
Uh-huh.
That's swell.

1184
00:58:01,478 --> 00:58:03,228
So, I black out,
I wake up here...

1185
00:58:04,189 --> 00:58:05,189
(WINCES)

1186
00:58:05,565 --> 00:58:07,399
And I say to myself,

1187
00:58:07,567 --> 00:58:09,818
"Baird, you gotta stop
doing this. " (ALL LAUGHING)

1188
00:58:11,613 --> 00:58:14,573
But you're saying, actually,
technically, I was kidnapped.

1189
00:58:14,908 --> 00:58:17,034
Well, technically, yes.

1190
00:58:17,410 --> 00:58:18,577
There's gonna be a ransom?

1191
00:58:18,661 --> 00:58:20,162
I'd hardly
call it a ransom.

1192
00:58:20,246 --> 00:58:22,915
Benedict there. That's
Benedict de Bonaventure.

1193
00:58:22,999 --> 00:58:24,791
He wrote
The House of Ahasuaris.

1194
00:58:25,084 --> 00:58:28,670
Enormous hit. Made the
studio millions of dollars.

1195
00:58:28,755 --> 00:58:31,006
Did you see any of those
millions of dollars, Ben?

1196
00:58:31,090 --> 00:58:32,174
I did not.

1197
00:58:32,425 --> 00:58:33,550
Dutch over there.

1198
00:58:34,010 --> 00:58:36,678
Dutch Zweistrong wrote
All The Way To Uruguay.

1199
00:58:36,846 --> 00:58:38,931
I wrote all the
All The Way pictures.

1200
00:58:39,098 --> 00:58:42,017
All successful. You see any
of the profits, Dutch? (SCOFFS)

1201
00:58:42,602 --> 00:58:44,603
See, all of us
here are writers.

1202
00:58:45,438 --> 00:58:48,440
The pictures originated
with us. They're our ideas.

1203
00:58:48,608 --> 00:58:50,067
But they're owned
by the studio.

1204
00:58:50,944 --> 00:58:53,862
I'm not saying only writers
are being exploited.

1205
00:58:53,947 --> 00:58:55,113
I mean, look at
yourself, Baird.

1206
00:58:58,451 --> 00:59:00,452
The studio takes
pretty good care of me.

1207
00:59:00,620 --> 00:59:01,870
What are you, a child?

1208
00:59:02,789 --> 00:59:05,207
I think what Herschel's
trying to say is,

1209
00:59:05,375 --> 00:59:08,335
just because the studio owns
the means of production,

1210
00:59:08,711 --> 00:59:13,173
why should it be able to
take the money, our money,

1211
00:59:13,258 --> 00:59:15,175
the value created
by our labor,

1212
00:59:15,260 --> 00:59:17,553
and dole out
what it pleases?

1213
00:59:17,637 --> 00:59:18,804
That's not right.

1214
00:59:18,972 --> 00:59:22,140
So, no. No.
I wouldn't call it ransom.

1215
00:59:22,308 --> 00:59:23,892
Payback.
WRITER 1: That's right.

1216
00:59:24,060 --> 00:59:28,564
Now, until quite recently our
study group had a narrow focus.

1217
00:59:28,731 --> 00:59:32,401
We concentrated on getting communist
content into motion pictures.

1218
00:59:32,569 --> 00:59:34,695
Always in a sub
rosa way, of course.

1219
00:59:34,862 --> 00:59:37,239
And we were
pretty darn successful.

1220
00:59:37,407 --> 00:59:39,533
You remember in
Kerner's Corner

1221
00:59:39,701 --> 00:59:40,742
the town hall scene
where the alderman

1222
00:59:40,827 --> 00:59:42,119
overturned the
rotten election

1223
00:59:42,203 --> 00:59:43,912
and made Gus the mayor?

1224
00:59:44,747 --> 00:59:45,831
Yeah.

1225
00:59:46,833 --> 00:59:50,502
Well, I like to think
we've changed a few minds.

1226
00:59:51,754 --> 00:59:55,048
But then Dr. Marcuse came down from
Stanford, joined the study group

1227
00:59:55,216 --> 00:59:59,177
and started teaching
us about direct action.

1228
00:59:59,345 --> 01:00:00,929
Praxis.
Action.

1229
01:00:01,014 --> 01:00:05,559
We each pursue our
own economic interest.

1230
01:00:06,185 --> 01:00:09,313
We ourselves are not above
the laws of history.

1231
01:00:09,856 --> 01:00:14,026
But in pursuing our
interests with vigor,

1232
01:00:14,193 --> 01:00:17,446
we accelerate the dialectic

1233
01:00:17,530 --> 01:00:22,034
and hasten the end of history
and the creation of the New Man.

1234
01:00:22,410 --> 01:00:24,411
Plus, we make a little
dough. DUTCH: Shut up!

1235
01:00:24,704 --> 01:00:26,413
We're not even
talking about money!

1236
01:00:26,497 --> 01:00:28,206
We're talking about economics.

1237
01:00:28,791 --> 01:00:30,459
Sure, good.

1238
01:00:31,419 --> 01:00:33,086
Good stuff.

1239
01:00:35,089 --> 01:00:36,840
So, now, uh, do I get
a share of the ransom?

1240
01:00:36,966 --> 01:00:38,133
No.
(ALL LAUGHING)

1241
01:00:38,217 --> 01:00:42,638
No, Mr. Whitlock, you can
hardly share in your own ransom.

1242
01:00:42,722 --> 01:00:44,139
That would be unethical.

1243
01:00:44,223 --> 01:00:46,224
I don't know. That
doesn't seem fair, fellas.

1244
01:00:46,893 --> 01:00:49,645
I mean, the whole setup only
works if I play along, right?

1245
01:00:50,063 --> 01:00:52,731
If I don't let on that
I know who kidnapped me.

1246
01:00:52,899 --> 01:00:54,191
Well, yes,
that's right.

1247
01:00:54,901 --> 01:00:56,234
What if I name names?

1248
01:00:57,904 --> 01:01:01,073
If I just tell the truth.

1249
01:01:02,909 --> 01:01:03,909
Uh...

1250
01:01:04,494 --> 01:01:07,412
I don't think you'll
do that, Mr. Whitlock.

1251
01:01:09,082 --> 01:01:14,419
What if we told the truth
about On Wings as Eagles?

1252
01:01:20,134 --> 01:01:21,551
EDDIE: Sid.

1253
01:01:22,970 --> 01:01:24,805
We have to work something
out for DeeAnna Moran.

1254
01:01:25,348 --> 01:01:26,431
She get married again?

1255
01:01:26,516 --> 01:01:29,017
No, that's the problem.
Having a child, not married.

1256
01:01:29,102 --> 01:01:30,185
Whew. Tough.

1257
01:01:30,269 --> 01:01:31,353
Yeah, no father.

1258
01:01:31,437 --> 01:01:32,688
Well, of course
there is one somewhere.

1259
01:01:33,356 --> 01:01:34,564
But who knows?
Exactly.

1260
01:01:34,649 --> 01:01:35,774
So is there any way...

1261
01:01:36,109 --> 01:01:37,442
I'm just spitballing here.

1262
01:01:37,777 --> 01:01:40,737
Any way she could
adopt her own child?

1263
01:01:43,700 --> 01:01:45,617
Interesting. As a single... Mmm-hmm.

1264
01:01:46,035 --> 01:01:48,120
She disappears for a
while, reappears. Uh-huh.

1265
01:01:48,287 --> 01:01:50,330
She wants to share her
blessings, adopt a child.

1266
01:01:50,498 --> 01:01:53,333
Sure. She's always
yearned to be a mother.

1267
01:01:53,793 --> 01:01:54,876
That's it.

1268
01:01:55,002 --> 01:01:56,545
Well, I don't see
why not.

1269
01:01:56,629 --> 01:01:57,629
Nothing in the
California statute

1270
01:01:57,672 --> 01:01:59,631
prohibits adoption by
one's own parent. Mmm-hmm.

1271
01:02:00,508 --> 01:02:01,717
This is new ground.

1272
01:02:01,801 --> 01:02:03,385
Technically, she'd have
to give up the baby

1273
01:02:03,469 --> 01:02:05,053
to a third party.

1274
01:02:05,138 --> 01:02:06,304
Joe Silverman.

1275
01:02:06,431 --> 01:02:09,057
Joe Silverman. Exactly.

1276
01:02:09,142 --> 01:02:11,810
He's the foster father
for a few days.

1277
01:02:11,894 --> 01:02:14,563
She hands the kid to Joe,
he hands it back.

1278
01:02:14,897 --> 01:02:16,022
I'll do
some research.

1279
01:02:16,107 --> 01:02:17,107
All right.

1280
01:02:17,358 --> 01:02:19,151
NATALIE:
Mr. Mannix, it's 5:30.

1281
01:02:19,318 --> 01:02:20,527
This is exciting.

1282
01:02:20,695 --> 01:02:23,613
NATALIE:... and asked all of the
assistant directors, and one of them said

1283
01:02:23,698 --> 01:02:27,200
that an extra in the courtyard
of Sestimus Amydias seemed jumpy.

1284
01:02:27,285 --> 01:02:28,618
All right. Get Walt
the name of the extra

1285
01:02:28,703 --> 01:02:30,162
so he can bring
him in and sweat him.

1286
01:02:30,246 --> 01:02:31,580
Walt should tell him that
we won't press charges

1287
01:02:31,664 --> 01:02:32,622
if he tells us where
Baird's been taken.

1288
01:02:32,707 --> 01:02:33,749
NATALIE: Check.

1289
01:02:33,833 --> 01:02:35,834
And if he plays dumb, or the
AD's wrong and he is dumb,

1290
01:02:35,918 --> 01:02:37,169
check the other extras.

1291
01:02:37,253 --> 01:02:38,837
Check. Thessaly Thacker called, (SIGHS)

1292
01:02:39,005 --> 01:02:41,173
said you promised her an
interview with Baird today.

1293
01:02:41,340 --> 01:02:43,091
Check that. It was
Thora Thacker.

1294
01:02:43,176 --> 01:02:44,301
No, it's Thessaly.

1295
01:02:44,385 --> 01:02:45,927
Tell her he was at the
doctor longer than expected,

1296
01:02:46,012 --> 01:02:47,804
and she can see him on the
set bright and early tomorrow.

1297
01:02:47,889 --> 01:02:50,015
Check. And is that
last part true?

1298
01:02:50,099 --> 01:02:51,600
Let's hope so.
Oh, that reminds me.

1299
01:02:51,684 --> 01:02:53,018
I need a list of
everyone who worked on

1300
01:02:53,102 --> 01:02:54,936
On Wings as Eagles
who's still at the studio.

1301
01:02:55,021 --> 01:02:57,022
On Wings as Eagles?
That's a while ago now.

1302
01:02:57,106 --> 01:02:59,191
Aside from Baird and the
director, it won't be a long list.

1303
01:02:59,275 --> 01:03:00,776
Yeah. Get it
for me. That it?

1304
01:03:00,860 --> 01:03:02,778
Uh, no.
One more thing.

1305
01:03:02,862 --> 01:03:04,112
A Mr. Cuddahy called,

1306
01:03:04,197 --> 01:03:05,781
said you know him.
Yeah, yeah.

1307
01:03:05,865 --> 01:03:08,116
He said it's urgent, he'll
see you one last time,

1308
01:03:08,201 --> 01:03:10,452
suggested same place,
7:00 this evening.

1309
01:03:10,536 --> 01:03:12,287
Why? Never mind.

1310
01:03:12,371 --> 01:03:14,706
Okay, tell him
I'll be there.

1311
01:03:14,916 --> 01:03:15,999
CAD: Back to your place?

1312
01:03:16,083 --> 01:03:17,167
WOMAN: What a bore.

1313
01:03:17,251 --> 01:03:18,293
Hello, C.C.

1314
01:03:18,377 --> 01:03:19,669
WOMAN: I rather thought
we might go to Lake...

1315
01:03:20,755 --> 01:03:21,922
Oh, hi, Eddie.

1316
01:03:22,215 --> 01:03:24,049
Wanna lace up what you got
on Merrily We Dance?

1317
01:03:24,217 --> 01:03:26,426
It's up now. I'll put some music on it.

1318
01:03:29,722 --> 01:03:30,722
(PROJECTOR WHIRRING)

1319
01:03:40,399 --> 01:03:42,442
(MUSIC PLAYING)

1320
01:04:08,010 --> 01:04:09,135
CAD: Taxi!

1321
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:10,720
(TIRES SCREECHING)

1322
01:04:17,645 --> 01:04:19,187
Back to your place?

1323
01:04:19,272 --> 01:04:20,522
What a bore.

1324
01:04:20,606 --> 01:04:23,692
I rather thought we might go to
Lake Onondaga for the weekend.

1325
01:04:23,860 --> 01:04:25,151
Just the two of us.

1326
01:04:25,319 --> 01:04:27,612
Don't have my valise.
I left it in your foyer.

1327
01:04:27,780 --> 01:04:29,739
Oh, you'll get by
without a change.

1328
01:04:29,824 --> 01:04:30,949
Suits me.

1329
01:04:31,033 --> 01:04:32,868
If you don't mind skipping
out on your own party, Allegra.

1330
01:04:32,952 --> 01:04:33,910
Suits me.

1331
01:04:33,995 --> 01:04:35,453
And skipping out on Monty.

1332
01:04:35,538 --> 01:04:37,372
That suits me as well.

1333
01:04:37,456 --> 01:04:39,416
Oh, poor Monty.
(BOTH CHUCKLING)

1334
01:04:39,500 --> 01:04:40,876
What Monty
doesn't know...

1335
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:42,127
Won't hurt Monty.

1336
01:04:56,851 --> 01:04:57,893
DIERDRE: Oh, Monty.

1337
01:04:58,561 --> 01:05:00,145
Come join me
on the divan.

1338
01:05:10,197 --> 01:05:13,491
It seems Allegra's a no-show,
which is simply a bore.

1339
01:05:13,659 --> 01:05:14,659
But I'll...

1340
01:05:19,999 --> 01:05:20,999
(C.C CALHOUN CHOKING)

1341
01:05:24,170 --> 01:05:25,170
(FEEBLY) Reverse.

1342
01:05:26,756 --> 01:05:28,381
(STRAINING)
Reverse! Reverse!

1343
01:05:30,927 --> 01:05:31,927
(EXCLAIMING)

1344
01:05:32,470 --> 01:05:33,470
Whoa!

1345
01:05:35,348 --> 01:05:36,973
Whoa!
(CHAIR THUDS)

1346
01:05:42,188 --> 01:05:43,897
I shouldn't wear scarves.

1347
01:05:53,616 --> 01:05:56,868
It seems Allegra's a no-show,
which is simply a bore.

1348
01:05:57,203 --> 01:05:59,037
But I'll partner
you in bridge.

1349
01:05:59,538 --> 01:06:00,956
Why the pout?

1350
01:06:04,043 --> 01:06:05,043
(CLICKS TONGUE)

1351
01:06:09,048 --> 01:06:10,715
It's complicated.

1352
01:06:11,717 --> 01:06:13,843
How pleasant to see
you again, Mr. Mannix.

1353
01:06:15,388 --> 01:06:16,846
Thanks for
coming back, Mannix.

1354
01:06:16,931 --> 01:06:18,223
EDDIE: Sure.

1355
01:06:18,307 --> 01:06:19,683
You're taking us down
to the wire, aren't ya?

1356
01:06:21,102 --> 01:06:23,645
It's not a ploy,
it's a big decision.

1357
01:06:23,729 --> 01:06:25,063
Absolutely. No foul.

1358
01:06:25,147 --> 01:06:26,147
But the board
was concerned

1359
01:06:26,232 --> 01:06:27,816
when I couldn't give
them a yes this afternoon,

1360
01:06:27,900 --> 01:06:29,734
so they authorized me
to say this.

1361
01:06:30,820 --> 01:06:34,239
You sign on, your term
of contract is 10 years.

1362
01:06:34,865 --> 01:06:35,865
(WHISTLES)

1363
01:06:35,950 --> 01:06:38,159
Yeah. You get it, right?

1364
01:06:38,244 --> 01:06:40,662
That means your stock options
are guaranteed to vest.

1365
01:06:40,746 --> 01:06:41,913
You'd never
have to work again

1366
01:06:41,998 --> 01:06:44,040
if you chose to retire
after your term.

1367
01:06:44,625 --> 01:06:46,418
Think about it.

1368
01:06:46,502 --> 01:06:48,503
Lifetime employment.

1369
01:06:48,587 --> 01:06:50,672
You wouldn't be a glorified
working stiff like you are now,

1370
01:06:50,756 --> 01:06:52,424
and you'd be running a
business, not a circus.

1371
01:06:55,261 --> 01:06:56,261
Drink?

1372
01:06:57,930 --> 01:06:58,930
Cigarette?

1373
01:07:03,644 --> 01:07:05,353
No, no. I gotta run.

1374
01:07:05,688 --> 01:07:07,272
I should talk this
over with my wife.

1375
01:07:07,356 --> 01:07:09,274
Of course. Talk it over,
think about your family,

1376
01:07:09,608 --> 01:07:10,942
let us know
in the morning.

1377
01:07:11,027 --> 01:07:12,569
Oh! (CHUCKLES)

1378
01:07:12,653 --> 01:07:14,029
If you think
this is a bribe,

1379
01:07:14,113 --> 01:07:15,530
you're absolutely right.

1380
01:07:15,698 --> 01:07:16,823
You have two kids, right?
A boy and a girl?

1381
01:07:16,907 --> 01:07:17,991
That's right.

1382
01:07:18,284 --> 01:07:21,661
They love this stuff.
Used to be trains.

1383
01:07:21,829 --> 01:07:24,789
(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

1384
01:08:23,349 --> 01:08:24,390
CARLOTTA: Hello, Hobie.

1385
01:08:25,184 --> 01:08:27,018
Oh, hello, Carlotta.

1386
01:08:27,103 --> 01:08:28,103
Am I late?

1387
01:08:28,521 --> 01:08:29,729
Oh, no, it ain't nothin'.

1388
01:08:29,814 --> 01:08:32,107
Thanks an awful bunch for
coming to this picture with me.

1389
01:08:32,191 --> 01:08:33,691
I don't know if
you like livestock,

1390
01:08:33,776 --> 01:08:35,944
but I think it's got
moments, I really do.

1391
01:08:36,028 --> 01:08:37,153
You look very purty.

1392
01:08:37,238 --> 01:08:38,363
Thank you, Hobie!

1393
01:08:38,447 --> 01:08:39,489
I'm sure I'll
like the picture.

1394
01:08:39,573 --> 01:08:40,949
I like all of your pictures.

1395
01:08:41,033 --> 01:08:42,033
Well, I like yours, too.

1396
01:08:42,118 --> 01:08:44,077
They are just
the craziest things.

1397
01:08:44,161 --> 01:08:46,704
Uh, is it hard to dance with
all them bananas on your head?

1398
01:08:46,789 --> 01:08:48,790
Oh, no.
Anyone can do it.

1399
01:08:51,794 --> 01:08:54,254
It's all in the hips and the
lips and the eyes and the thighs.

1400
01:08:56,215 --> 01:08:57,215
(DOOR OPENING)

1401
01:09:23,367 --> 01:09:26,286
Little Eddie wanted me to tell
you about his baseball game.

1402
01:09:26,370 --> 01:09:28,329
They won.

1403
01:09:28,414 --> 01:09:29,956
That is terrific.

1404
01:09:30,082 --> 01:09:32,167
(SIGHS) Gosh, I never
called the coach.

1405
01:09:32,251 --> 01:09:33,334
Eddie played at shortstop?

1406
01:09:33,544 --> 01:09:36,588
Mmm. And he did so well,
he wants to stay there now.

1407
01:09:36,881 --> 01:09:38,423
That's great.

1408
01:09:38,716 --> 01:09:40,008
Took care of itself.

1409
01:09:40,467 --> 01:09:43,219
And Darlene did very
well on her Spanish test.

1410
01:09:43,304 --> 01:09:46,014
That's good. She was worried about that.

1411
01:09:46,974 --> 01:09:48,683
Hey, thanks for heating
up the roast, hon.

1412
01:09:48,767 --> 01:09:49,851
Warm glass of milk?

1413
01:09:49,935 --> 01:09:51,436
Uh, no, thanks,
hon. Coffee.

1414
01:09:51,937 --> 01:09:53,521
I gotta run back
to the studio.

1415
01:09:53,606 --> 01:09:54,689
A few things
to take care of.

1416
01:09:55,524 --> 01:09:58,151
Gee, another late night.
Hmm.

1417
01:10:00,196 --> 01:10:02,989
You know, Lockheed
improved their offer.

1418
01:10:03,574 --> 01:10:04,532
Darned good money,

1419
01:10:04,617 --> 01:10:06,951
and the hours wouldn't
be crazy like this either.

1420
01:10:07,119 --> 01:10:08,870
It's nice
to be wanted.

1421
01:10:09,622 --> 01:10:11,956
Yeah. Sure, but...

1422
01:10:13,626 --> 01:10:15,543
What do you think?
They wanna know tomorrow.

1423
01:10:16,337 --> 01:10:17,378
(SIGHS)

1424
01:10:17,463 --> 01:10:19,297
I like the shorter hours.

1425
01:10:19,965 --> 01:10:22,008
But what do you think,
honey? You know best.

1426
01:10:22,801 --> 01:10:23,801
Hmm.

1427
01:10:25,804 --> 01:10:27,472
How's it going with
the smoking, dear?

1428
01:10:29,225 --> 01:10:30,600
Oh, you know...

1429
01:10:34,813 --> 01:10:40,235
NARRATOR: The denizens of Los Angeles
make ready for nightlife, or for sleep.

1430
01:10:40,402 --> 01:10:43,071
But Eddie Mannix
will have neither.

1431
01:10:45,491 --> 01:10:49,077
Even in westerly Malibu,
the sun has moved on,

1432
01:10:49,245 --> 01:10:50,912
leaving the vast
and tireless sea

1433
01:10:50,996 --> 01:10:54,499
to heave itself
blindly upon the shore.

1434
01:10:58,295 --> 01:11:00,922
The communists welcome
a rare moment of leisure.

1435
01:11:01,006 --> 01:11:03,341
Brief surcease from struggle.

1436
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:10,473
Baird Whitlock has
become their acolyte,

1437
01:11:10,557 --> 01:11:12,350
a convert to their cause,

1438
01:11:12,434 --> 01:11:15,186
his belief compelled
but not grudging.

1439
01:11:16,605 --> 01:11:20,108
He now seeks to learn more
from Professor Marcuse

1440
01:11:20,192 --> 01:11:22,026
and becomes
ever more committed

1441
01:11:22,111 --> 01:11:24,612
to the quest to hasten
an end to history

1442
01:11:25,656 --> 01:11:27,532
and bring on the New Man.

1443
01:11:27,866 --> 01:11:29,450
Herb, that's exactly
what I'm talking about.

1444
01:11:29,535 --> 01:11:31,536
That's what happened to me when
I went to Reno with Danny Kaye,

1445
01:11:31,620 --> 01:11:33,288
and he asked me
to shave his back.

1446
01:11:33,372 --> 01:11:34,622
The exact same thing.

1447
01:11:34,707 --> 01:11:36,374
Because I'm thinking,
"Who benefits?"

1448
01:11:36,500 --> 01:11:39,919
Also, I gotta tell ya, everybody
thinks that Danny is a jerk.

1449
01:11:40,004 --> 01:11:41,462
He's not really a jerk.

1450
01:11:41,630 --> 01:11:44,841
It's just the theory
generating its own anti-theory.

1451
01:11:45,134 --> 01:11:46,801
Anyway, there we were,
it's me and Danny,

1452
01:11:46,969 --> 01:11:48,261
and I'm wondering
what the hell am I doing

1453
01:11:48,345 --> 01:11:49,554
with a razor
in my hand.

1454
01:11:49,763 --> 01:11:52,015
And he says it's for
a Norman Taurog picture.

1455
01:11:52,099 --> 01:11:54,434
But Judy Canova is there,
and she knows Norman.

1456
01:11:54,518 --> 01:11:56,561
She says, "Danny's not doing
a Norman Taurog picture.

1457
01:11:56,729 --> 01:11:58,855
"He just wants you
to shave his back!"

1458
01:11:59,315 --> 01:12:00,648
And that's who benefits.

1459
01:12:05,029 --> 01:12:06,821
NARRATOR:
In livelier precincts,

1460
01:12:06,905 --> 01:12:09,824
the swells of Dreamland
gather to inspect

1461
01:12:09,908 --> 01:12:12,952
the completed weave
of another piece of gossamer.

1462
01:12:13,037 --> 01:12:14,829
Another movie,

1463
01:12:14,913 --> 01:12:17,332
another portion of balm

1464
01:12:17,416 --> 01:12:20,918
for the ache of
a toiling mankind.

1465
01:12:26,383 --> 01:12:27,508
CURLY: Where is she?

1466
01:12:27,593 --> 01:12:29,093
Hold your horses,
I'm right here.

1467
01:12:29,178 --> 01:12:30,511
What's on your
mind, Curly?

1468
01:12:30,596 --> 01:12:32,680
CURLY: It's not my fault
you saw me take

1469
01:12:32,765 --> 01:12:35,183
that pie off the sill,
Ms. McGraw.

1470
01:12:35,267 --> 01:12:38,269
Not your fault? Whose
fault was it, Curly?

1471
01:12:38,354 --> 01:12:42,690
Why, that crazy,
lazy full moon!

1472
01:12:43,317 --> 01:12:45,818
Two weeks ago, you'd
never seen me take it.

1473
01:12:46,111 --> 01:12:47,111
(CHUCKLES)

1474
01:12:49,615 --> 01:12:52,408
Darn you, moon!
What good are you anyway?

1475
01:12:53,077 --> 01:12:54,077
Don't know
about this part.

1476
01:12:54,161 --> 01:12:56,704
They only give me
one shot at the song.

1477
01:12:56,789 --> 01:12:58,706
I wish there
never was no moon.

1478
01:12:59,041 --> 01:13:01,793
I wish there weren't
no bossy old women!

1479
01:13:01,960 --> 01:13:06,047
Don't blame that moon, Curly.
She can't do nothin' but shine.

1480
01:13:06,131 --> 01:13:10,802
(SINGING) Lazy ol' moon, keep shinin'

1481
01:13:11,220 --> 01:13:12,595
Darn you.

1482
01:13:12,888 --> 01:13:14,389
HOBIE:
Shinin' down on me

1483
01:13:14,473 --> 01:13:18,810
You turned Curly Strimlin in to
the authorities for the last time!

1484
01:13:20,020 --> 01:13:22,146
HOBIE: Lazy ol' moon,
keep shinin'

1485
01:13:26,026 --> 01:13:30,655
Shinin' just to be

1486
01:13:33,242 --> 01:13:39,747
On that ol' plantation
where I used to roam

1487
01:13:39,915 --> 01:13:43,584
Light my weary
way back home

1488
01:13:46,171 --> 01:13:48,256
Darn! Where'd she go?

1489
01:13:48,340 --> 01:13:50,967
HOBIE: Lazy ol' moon,
keep shinin'

1490
01:13:53,137 --> 01:13:56,472
Shinin' down for me

1491
01:14:07,693 --> 01:14:09,986
(SIRENS WAILING)

1492
01:14:12,614 --> 01:14:16,325
NARRATOR: Another part of town,
another cast of characters,

1493
01:14:18,287 --> 01:14:21,289
another task
for Eddie Mannix.

1494
01:14:35,971 --> 01:14:37,638
We're just
getting started.

1495
01:14:37,723 --> 01:14:39,807
I've been taking
DeeAnna through this.

1496
01:14:39,892 --> 01:14:41,809
So Joe has done

1497
01:14:41,894 --> 01:14:44,604
just a whole lot of good
work for us in the past.

1498
01:14:44,688 --> 01:14:46,898
Whenever we've needed a
witness or a third party for...

1499
01:14:47,816 --> 01:14:51,194
I don't know, a petition of
grievance or alienation of affection.

1500
01:14:51,653 --> 01:14:52,820
And he's reliable?

1501
01:14:52,905 --> 01:14:54,197
I'm bonded, miss.

1502
01:14:54,281 --> 01:14:55,990
Joseph Silverman is the
most reliable human being

1503
01:14:56,074 --> 01:14:58,242
on the planet
in our experience.

1504
01:14:58,452 --> 01:15:00,286
When Chubby Cregar
was intoxicated

1505
01:15:00,370 --> 01:15:02,163
and hit that
pedestrian on Gower,

1506
01:15:02,664 --> 01:15:04,457
we had the vehicle title
transferred to Joe's name,

1507
01:15:05,375 --> 01:15:07,793
and Joe did six months
in LA County lockup.

1508
01:15:08,754 --> 01:15:10,171
But you're off
the sauce now?

1509
01:15:10,506 --> 01:15:12,590
I never touch it.
It was a legal fiction.

1510
01:15:12,758 --> 01:15:13,925
That's right.

1511
01:15:14,009 --> 01:15:15,176
When the studio needs
someone who meets

1512
01:15:15,260 --> 01:15:16,844
the legal standard of, uh...

1513
01:15:16,929 --> 01:15:18,095
How did you put it, Sid?

1514
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:20,014
Personhood.

1515
01:15:20,098 --> 01:15:23,809
Joe steps in and
acts as the person.

1516
01:15:25,103 --> 01:15:27,897
So you're a
professional person?

1517
01:15:28,065 --> 01:15:30,900
That's right, miss.
Initial here and here.

1518
01:15:31,068 --> 01:15:33,319
SID: Joe will be the foster
parent until such time as

1519
01:15:33,403 --> 01:15:34,612
you adopt the child,

1520
01:15:34,780 --> 01:15:37,949
which you can do as soon as
Joe takes possession of it.

1521
01:15:38,992 --> 01:15:40,284
And he's reliable?

1522
01:15:40,410 --> 01:15:41,619
I'm bonded, miss.

1523
01:15:42,371 --> 01:15:43,371
The release papers
you're signing

1524
01:15:43,455 --> 01:15:45,206
will not be a matter
of public record.

1525
01:15:45,374 --> 01:15:49,126
All these documents will be
sealed until the year 2015.

1526
01:15:50,254 --> 01:15:51,629
And no one's
the wiser.

1527
01:15:51,838 --> 01:15:53,047
SID: No one the wiser.

1528
01:15:53,257 --> 01:15:57,134
No fans, no press, no court
officials, not even a notary public.

1529
01:15:57,469 --> 01:15:59,303
EDDIE: Joe himself
is the notary.

1530
01:16:01,557 --> 01:16:03,349
You must have
very strong forearms.

1531
01:16:05,102 --> 01:16:07,061
Is it hard
squeezing it like that?

1532
01:16:12,401 --> 01:16:13,985
It's part of the job, miss.

1533
01:16:20,617 --> 01:16:22,410
Late night, Mr. Mannix?

1534
01:16:22,494 --> 01:16:23,911
Late night for both of us.

1535
01:16:23,996 --> 01:16:25,246
Will you call Projection
Seven and have them

1536
01:16:25,330 --> 01:16:27,540
lace up yesterday's
dailies on Hail, Caesar!

1537
01:16:27,624 --> 01:16:29,417
Sure thing.
Yesterday's?

1538
01:16:29,501 --> 01:16:30,751
Thanks, Scotty.

1539
01:16:33,672 --> 01:16:34,672
(GRUNTING)

1540
01:16:36,133 --> 01:16:40,344
AUTOLOCHUS: Romans before
slaves! Make room, you fools!

1541
01:16:41,430 --> 01:16:43,431
Romans before slaves!

1542
01:16:44,850 --> 01:16:47,518
Romans before slaves!

1543
01:16:49,021 --> 01:16:50,229
Make room!

1544
01:17:04,411 --> 01:17:05,995
How's that? What do you
think? DIRECTOR: Cut!

1545
01:17:06,079 --> 01:17:07,204
CLAPPER BOY: 27, Baker two.

1546
01:17:07,289 --> 01:17:08,331
DIRECTOR: Action.

1547
01:17:08,415 --> 01:17:09,957
Go ahead,
I'm listening.

1548
01:17:10,250 --> 01:17:12,418
Walt talked to the
extra. Right guy.

1549
01:17:12,711 --> 01:17:14,629
No info. Doesn't know
where they took Baird,

1550
01:17:14,713 --> 01:17:17,506
but described the truck
they put him in.

1551
01:17:17,591 --> 01:17:18,716
DIRECTOR: Cut! Good!

1552
01:17:18,967 --> 01:17:21,677
Walt found the guy who owns
the truck and is talking to him.

1553
01:17:21,845 --> 01:17:23,012
CLAPPER BOY: Baker four.

1554
01:17:23,096 --> 01:17:25,056
Walt's a problem-solver. He's
a good man. DIRECTOR: Action!

1555
01:17:25,641 --> 01:17:26,807
What else?

1556
01:17:26,892 --> 01:17:29,560
PR just called in their report
on the Hobie Doyle premiere.

1557
01:17:29,686 --> 01:17:31,062
Warm reception.

1558
01:17:31,146 --> 01:17:32,396
I got something... I had spittle. Good.

1559
01:17:32,898 --> 01:17:34,565
CLAPPER BOY: Baker six.
DIRECTOR: Action.

1560
01:17:34,650 --> 01:17:36,233
Okay.
He's terrific.

1561
01:17:37,027 --> 01:17:39,362
DIRECTOR: Squint! Squint
against the grandeur.

1562
01:17:39,571 --> 01:17:40,571
It's blinding! Blinding!

1563
01:17:42,032 --> 01:17:44,158
(MUSIC PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1564
01:17:50,165 --> 01:17:52,541
HOBIE: Now, let's see
what we can do here.

1565
01:17:53,877 --> 01:17:55,336
Okay.

1566
01:17:55,420 --> 01:17:59,507
Well, I don't think it's regulation
size, but it'll have to do.

1567
01:17:59,633 --> 01:18:02,426
You ever heard of origami,
what the Japanese do? Uh-huh.

1568
01:18:03,136 --> 01:18:04,512
This here's
Italian origami.

1569
01:18:05,097 --> 01:18:06,138
Yeah?

1570
01:18:06,223 --> 01:18:07,932
See, now you just...
Whoop!

1571
01:18:08,767 --> 01:18:10,601
Let's see how
she does now.

1572
01:18:12,771 --> 01:18:14,271
Oh, she's peekin' back.

1573
01:18:14,398 --> 01:18:15,856
Oh! There she goes.

1574
01:18:16,274 --> 01:18:17,274
(LAUGHING)

1575
01:18:17,359 --> 01:18:18,359
She's bawlin'.

1576
01:18:19,986 --> 01:18:21,153
Clear!
Ah!

1577
01:18:21,947 --> 01:18:24,782
This is why I never
order it with meat sauce.

1578
01:18:24,950 --> 01:18:26,534
How'd you get into
pictures, Hobie?

1579
01:18:26,702 --> 01:18:27,993
Got roped into it.

1580
01:18:30,706 --> 01:18:31,872
(LAUGHING) Stop!

1581
01:18:34,876 --> 01:18:38,421
Don't play
with your food.

1582
01:18:39,798 --> 01:18:40,840
Food!

1583
01:18:41,341 --> 01:18:42,383
You're the one
playing with it.

1584
01:18:42,467 --> 01:18:43,718
Stop it!

1585
01:18:44,136 --> 01:18:45,970
Pictures. Well,
I wrangled for a while,

1586
01:18:46,054 --> 01:18:48,139
and then they saw I
could say a line or two,

1587
01:18:48,306 --> 01:18:50,433
and I was Bad Clem
or Deputy Number Two

1588
01:18:50,517 --> 01:18:52,643
or a guy's buddy
for a couple of years,

1589
01:18:52,811 --> 01:18:56,230
and then someone heard me
sing and they made me the guy.

1590
01:18:56,398 --> 01:18:57,690
You're awfully cute.

1591
01:18:57,858 --> 01:19:00,651
Oh, heck, you ain't seen the
half of it. I'll show you cute.

1592
01:19:00,819 --> 01:19:04,321
Just a second here, a little
souvenir from my rodeo days.

1593
01:19:08,577 --> 01:19:10,119
(LAUGHING)

1594
01:19:10,203 --> 01:19:12,079
Tell you what,
I was steer-bustin',

1595
01:19:12,164 --> 01:19:13,414
and I went down and
the steer went up,

1596
01:19:13,498 --> 01:19:16,041
and my teeth headed
off for east Texas.

1597
01:19:16,251 --> 01:19:18,002
Here, it's coming
around again.

1598
01:19:18,795 --> 01:19:19,795
Whoo!

1599
01:19:22,549 --> 01:19:24,341
(SINGING)
You gotta give a little

1600
01:19:24,426 --> 01:19:25,676
Take a little

1601
01:19:26,011 --> 01:19:28,679
BOTH: And let your poor
heart break a little

1602
01:19:28,847 --> 01:19:30,139
That's the story of...

1603
01:19:30,348 --> 01:19:31,474
CARLOTTA:
That's the glory of love

1604
01:19:34,728 --> 01:19:38,230
You gotta laugh a little,
cry a little

1605
01:19:38,398 --> 01:19:40,107
And let the clouds
roll by a...

1606
01:19:40,942 --> 01:19:42,526
Well, now,
this is interesting.

1607
01:19:42,611 --> 01:19:44,236
I didn't know you
two were friends.

1608
01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:46,614
Oh, heck, yeah.

1609
01:19:46,782 --> 01:19:49,909
We just caught my picture Lazy
Ol' Moon, and I guess we're...

1610
01:19:50,952 --> 01:19:53,078
Yes, we're
friends. We're...

1611
01:19:53,246 --> 01:19:54,914
We're fixin' to be
friendly, tell you that.

1612
01:19:55,707 --> 01:19:56,999
That's good.

1613
01:19:57,083 --> 01:19:58,250
"Fixin' to be friendly. "

1614
01:19:58,335 --> 01:20:00,211
That can be my
column headline.

1615
01:20:00,796 --> 01:20:02,171
Oh, I guess
that'd be okay.

1616
01:20:02,255 --> 01:20:03,422
Have a good evening.

1617
01:20:03,715 --> 01:20:04,715
(EXHALES)

1618
01:20:05,383 --> 01:20:06,675
I mentioned
the name of my picture.

1619
01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:07,968
I think we're
supposed to do that.

1620
01:20:08,220 --> 01:20:09,303
Well, now,
this is interesting.

1621
01:20:12,307 --> 01:20:14,391
I thought I was getting
an exclusive on this.

1622
01:20:14,559 --> 01:20:16,894
I'd like to know what
the hell is going on here.

1623
01:20:17,229 --> 01:20:20,439
Oh, well, like I said, we
just saw Lazy Ol' Moon, and...

1624
01:20:20,607 --> 01:20:23,317
And Hobie and I are
fixin' to be friendly.

1625
01:20:23,819 --> 01:20:25,402
What?
HOBIE: We're just...

1626
01:20:25,487 --> 01:20:27,238
THORA: Friends, my foot!

1627
01:20:36,790 --> 01:20:37,873
What's the matter, Hobie?

1628
01:20:40,168 --> 01:20:42,336
I gotta skedaddle. So sorry. Oh!

1629
01:20:42,504 --> 01:20:43,504
Have to catch one of
your pictures next time.

1630
01:20:43,588 --> 01:20:45,005
I'm looking
forward to it.

1631
01:20:45,090 --> 01:20:46,257
CARLOTTA: Bye, Hobie.

1632
01:20:47,425 --> 01:20:49,426
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

1633
01:20:58,270 --> 01:20:59,728
Hey, toss me
them keys, pard.

1634
01:20:59,813 --> 01:21:00,938
I'm taking the car.

1635
01:23:00,058 --> 01:23:01,558
Hobie Doyle?

1636
01:23:02,102 --> 01:23:03,602
You're a communist, too?

1637
01:23:06,940 --> 01:23:08,899
So, it's commies.

1638
01:23:08,984 --> 01:23:11,318
You ever been in this
place? Pretty nice, huh?

1639
01:23:11,403 --> 01:23:12,987
It's Burt Gurney's.

1640
01:23:13,071 --> 01:23:15,906
He sings, he dances,
he's got taste.

1641
01:23:18,243 --> 01:23:19,743
You here alone?

1642
01:23:19,911 --> 01:23:21,662
Everybody else went
down to the beach.

1643
01:23:23,331 --> 01:23:24,790
Well, all right, pard.

1644
01:23:26,751 --> 01:23:28,919
Let's us head on
back to town.

1645
01:23:29,087 --> 01:23:31,422
You got Mr. Mannix
worried sick.

1646
01:23:36,636 --> 01:23:38,679
(DOG BARKING)

1647
01:23:58,950 --> 01:24:00,117
Easy.

1648
01:24:06,332 --> 01:24:07,458
Easy.

1649
01:24:12,088 --> 01:24:13,088
Here!

1650
01:24:43,078 --> 01:24:44,578
(EXHALES)

1651
01:24:46,831 --> 01:24:48,749
(WATER GURGLING)

1652
01:24:48,917 --> 01:24:52,628
(SONAR BEEPING)

1653
01:26:04,784 --> 01:26:07,619
(BARKING)

1654
01:26:21,593 --> 01:26:23,468
Take care of him.

1655
01:26:31,186 --> 01:26:32,769
Comrade. Comrade!

1656
01:26:33,146 --> 01:26:35,105
We salute you.

1657
01:26:35,481 --> 01:26:38,317
You are going to Moscow
to become Soviet Man

1658
01:26:38,484 --> 01:26:39,943
and help forge the future.

1659
01:26:40,612 --> 01:26:44,031
We stay behind, continuing
to serve in our disguise

1660
01:26:44,115 --> 01:26:46,325
as capitalist handmaidens.

1661
01:26:46,492 --> 01:26:48,911
But the money should
go to the cause,

1662
01:26:48,995 --> 01:26:50,454
not to the servants
of the cause.

1663
01:26:50,622 --> 01:26:51,872
ALL: Yes!
That's right.

1664
01:26:51,956 --> 01:26:53,248
We... Well...

1665
01:26:54,042 --> 01:26:57,628
Our modest contribution
to the Comintern.

1666
01:27:04,177 --> 01:27:05,469
They will be pleased.

1667
01:27:06,679 --> 01:27:07,679
(ENGELS BARKING)

1668
01:27:09,140 --> 01:27:10,349
No! No!

1669
01:27:11,184 --> 01:27:12,434
Engels!

1670
01:27:14,020 --> 01:27:15,020
(ALL GASPING)

1671
01:27:18,191 --> 01:27:19,233
(WHIMPERING) No.

1672
01:27:22,278 --> 01:27:23,278
(ALL SIGHING)

1673
01:27:26,491 --> 01:27:29,493
(SUBMARINE SIRENS BLARING)

1674
01:27:34,582 --> 01:27:36,833
(MEN GRUNTING)

1675
01:27:39,712 --> 01:27:40,712
(SONAR BEEPING)

1676
01:28:16,541 --> 01:28:17,541
Oh.

1677
01:28:27,719 --> 01:28:30,220
BAIRD: Oh, boy! It's late.
I'm in the doghouse.

1678
01:28:30,388 --> 01:28:32,264
Better forget
about my place.

1679
01:28:32,432 --> 01:28:34,391
Drop me off at the Beverly Hills
Hotel. (POLICE SIRENS BLARING)

1680
01:28:34,559 --> 01:28:35,892
HOBIE: All righty.

1681
01:28:50,116 --> 01:28:51,116
Huh.

1682
01:29:19,645 --> 01:29:21,021
Who are you?

1683
01:29:21,189 --> 01:29:22,356
Todd.

1684
01:29:23,107 --> 01:29:24,358
Todd.

1685
01:29:25,109 --> 01:29:27,277
You get a hot breakfast
or a box breakfast?

1686
01:29:28,613 --> 01:29:29,863
I don't know.

1687
01:29:30,490 --> 01:29:32,449
Are you a principal
or an extra?

1688
01:29:33,618 --> 01:29:35,285
I think
I'm a principal.

1689
01:29:35,453 --> 01:29:36,661
Yeah.

1690
01:29:37,830 --> 01:29:39,206
BAIRD: I'm thinking,
"What the hell?"

1691
01:29:39,290 --> 01:29:40,457
Woken up in some
strange houses before,

1692
01:29:41,292 --> 01:29:42,793
but never without
a broad next to me.

1693
01:29:43,419 --> 01:29:45,962
Mmm-hmm. These guys are
pretty interesting, though.

1694
01:29:46,047 --> 01:29:50,008
They've actually figured out
the laws that dictate everything.

1695
01:29:50,093 --> 01:29:53,678
History, sociology, politics,
morality, everything.

1696
01:29:53,846 --> 01:29:56,890
It's all in a book
called Kapital, with a "K."

1697
01:29:57,058 --> 01:29:58,308
That right?

1698
01:29:58,393 --> 01:29:59,684
Yeah. And you're not
gonna believe this.

1699
01:29:59,852 --> 01:30:01,436
These guys even figured out

1700
01:30:01,521 --> 01:30:03,146
what's going on
here at the studio,

1701
01:30:03,314 --> 01:30:05,524
because the studio
is nothing more

1702
01:30:05,608 --> 01:30:08,276
than an instrument of capitalism. Hmm.

1703
01:30:08,361 --> 01:30:12,697
Yeah, so we blindly follow these
laws like any other institution,

1704
01:30:12,865 --> 01:30:14,741
laws that these
guys figured out.

1705
01:30:14,826 --> 01:30:17,619
The studio makes pictures
to serve the system.

1706
01:30:17,703 --> 01:30:19,079
That is its function.

1707
01:30:19,330 --> 01:30:21,164
That's really what
we're up to here.

1708
01:30:21,499 --> 01:30:22,833
Is it?
Yeah.

1709
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:26,002
It's just confirming what
they call the "status quo. "

1710
01:30:26,421 --> 01:30:29,131
I mean, we may tell
ourselves that we're creating

1711
01:30:29,215 --> 01:30:31,174
something of artistic value,

1712
01:30:31,342 --> 01:30:35,345
or there's some sort of spiritual
dimension to the picture business.

1713
01:30:35,513 --> 01:30:38,223
But what it really is,
is this fat cat,

1714
01:30:38,349 --> 01:30:39,766
Nick Schenk,
out in New York,

1715
01:30:39,934 --> 01:30:43,353
running this factory, serving
up these lollipops to the...

1716
01:30:43,521 --> 01:30:45,730
What they used to call the
bread and circuses for the...

1717
01:30:48,609 --> 01:30:49,693
What...

1718
01:30:50,194 --> 01:30:51,194
(GRUNTS)

1719
01:30:51,446 --> 01:30:52,696
Now, you listen
to me, buster.

1720
01:30:53,072 --> 01:30:54,698
Nick Schenk and this studio
have been good to you

1721
01:30:54,866 --> 01:30:56,366
and to everyone else
who works here.

1722
01:30:56,534 --> 01:30:58,410
If I ever hear you
bad-mouthing Mr. Schenk again,

1723
01:30:58,578 --> 01:30:59,911
it will be the last
thing you say

1724
01:30:59,996 --> 01:31:00,954
before I have you
tossed in jail

1725
01:31:01,038 --> 01:31:02,372
for colluding in
your own abduction.

1726
01:31:02,498 --> 01:31:03,874
Eddie, I wouldn't...
I would never do that!

1727
01:31:05,209 --> 01:31:06,251
Shut up!

1728
01:31:06,419 --> 01:31:08,420
You're gonna go out there and
you're gonna finish Hail, Caesar!

1729
01:31:08,546 --> 01:31:09,504
You're gonna
give that speech

1730
01:31:09,589 --> 01:31:10,589
at the feet of the
penitent thief,

1731
01:31:10,673 --> 01:31:12,424
and you're gonna believe
every word you say.

1732
01:31:12,717 --> 01:31:13,717
(GRUNTING)

1733
01:31:14,010 --> 01:31:15,135
You're gonna do it
because you're an actor

1734
01:31:15,219 --> 01:31:16,261
and that's what you do,

1735
01:31:16,345 --> 01:31:18,013
just like the director
does what he does,

1736
01:31:18,097 --> 01:31:19,097
and the writer
and the script girl

1737
01:31:19,182 --> 01:31:20,390
and the guy who
claps the slate.

1738
01:31:20,475 --> 01:31:22,392
You're gonna do it because
the picture has worth!

1739
01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:24,144
And you have worth if
you serve the picture,

1740
01:31:24,228 --> 01:31:26,188
and you're never gonna
forget that again.

1741
01:31:26,355 --> 01:31:27,355
(MUMBLING)

1742
01:31:28,983 --> 01:31:30,484
I won't forget, Eddie.

1743
01:31:31,235 --> 01:31:33,069
You're damn right
you won't.

1744
01:31:33,237 --> 01:31:35,280
Not as long as
I run this dump.

1745
01:31:39,619 --> 01:31:41,203
(DOOR OPENS)
Baird.

1746
01:31:45,750 --> 01:31:47,751
Go out there
and be a star.

1747
01:31:49,253 --> 01:31:50,420
NATALIE: Mr. Mannix!

1748
01:31:52,340 --> 01:31:53,465
Since you're
going to your car,

1749
01:31:53,549 --> 01:31:55,008
I thought you might
wanna take this.

1750
01:31:55,092 --> 01:31:56,218
What is it?

1751
01:31:56,302 --> 01:31:57,636
From DeeAnna Moran.

1752
01:31:57,803 --> 01:31:59,179
Thank you, and she
doesn't need to

1753
01:31:59,263 --> 01:32:01,014
adopt her baby
after all.

1754
01:32:01,098 --> 01:32:02,098
Huh?

1755
01:32:02,433 --> 01:32:04,518
She asked Joe Silverman
out for dinner last night,

1756
01:32:04,602 --> 01:32:06,019
and I guess
it went well.

1757
01:32:06,187 --> 01:32:07,270
They drove to
Palm Springs

1758
01:32:07,355 --> 01:32:09,523
and were married at
3:00 this morning.

1759
01:32:09,607 --> 01:32:11,191
Huh.
(SIGHS)

1760
01:32:11,275 --> 01:32:13,193
Will you be gone long? Today's
call list to go through.

1761
01:32:13,277 --> 01:32:15,529
No, less than an hour.
Personal errand.

1762
01:32:15,613 --> 01:32:17,113
It's a nice arrangement.

1763
01:32:17,281 --> 01:32:18,823
She charged it
to the studio.

1764
01:32:18,991 --> 01:32:20,534
Right. (GASPS)

1765
01:32:21,118 --> 01:32:22,160
Just coming to see you.

1766
01:32:22,286 --> 01:32:23,453
Good morning. Uh...

1767
01:32:23,621 --> 01:32:26,456
Sorry about last night, Thora. I
didn't know your sister would show up.

1768
01:32:26,874 --> 01:32:29,417
Well, that's as may be, but
I certainly learned my lesson.

1769
01:32:29,669 --> 01:32:31,545
Whatever you say today,
Eddie Mannix,

1770
01:32:31,629 --> 01:32:33,129
my column tomorrow
is about

1771
01:32:34,131 --> 01:32:36,132
On Wings as Eagles.

1772
01:32:36,300 --> 01:32:37,676
Thora, I wouldn't do
that if I were you.

1773
01:32:37,843 --> 01:32:39,010
I'm sure you wouldn't.

1774
01:32:39,178 --> 01:32:41,763
No, no, no, you don't
understand. Let's sit down.

1775
01:32:42,139 --> 01:32:44,975
I'm telling you not to run the
column, Thora, for your own good.

1776
01:32:45,142 --> 01:32:46,184
(LAUGHS)

1777
01:32:46,269 --> 01:32:47,561
I can judge
my own interest.

1778
01:32:47,645 --> 01:32:49,479
This will be
the story of the year.

1779
01:32:49,647 --> 01:32:51,231
And it so happens
the Hearst syndicate

1780
01:32:51,315 --> 01:32:53,316
are looking to pick up
a Hollywood column.

1781
01:32:53,484 --> 01:32:54,526
And you think this
will cinch it for you?

1782
01:32:54,610 --> 01:32:55,610
You know it will.

1783
01:32:56,112 --> 01:32:58,738
Baird Whitlock,
your biggest star,

1784
01:32:58,864 --> 01:33:01,533
got his first major part
in On Wings as Eagles

1785
01:33:01,617 --> 01:33:03,243
by engaging in sodomy

1786
01:33:04,453 --> 01:33:07,289
with the picture's director,
Laurence Laurentz.

1787
01:33:07,373 --> 01:33:08,915
Oh, we've all
heard the story.

1788
01:33:09,166 --> 01:33:11,001
But here's something
you haven't heard.

1789
01:33:11,168 --> 01:33:13,420
Your source
is a communist.

1790
01:33:14,213 --> 01:33:15,422
If you print it,
it'll be dismissed

1791
01:33:15,506 --> 01:33:16,548
as a commie smear tactic,

1792
01:33:16,716 --> 01:33:19,134
and you'll be dismissed
as a commie stooge.

1793
01:33:19,302 --> 01:33:20,927
Burt Gurney has
left the country.

1794
01:33:21,012 --> 01:33:23,597
The cell he was part of has
been smashed by the police.

1795
01:33:24,181 --> 01:33:25,265
Might have thought
he was credible

1796
01:33:25,349 --> 01:33:27,851
because he's Mr. Laurentz's
current protégé,

1797
01:33:29,020 --> 01:33:32,022
but you don't want to be seen as
Burt Gurney's mouthpiece after this.

1798
01:33:33,065 --> 01:33:35,150
How did you know
Burt was my source?

1799
01:33:35,318 --> 01:33:36,693
Late last night,
I talked to Laurence,

1800
01:33:36,777 --> 01:33:38,570
put two and two together.

1801
01:33:38,738 --> 01:33:41,323
Well, no reason to send this
since I ran into you.

1802
01:33:41,657 --> 01:33:44,200
It's my way of apology for
Thessaly horning in last night.

1803
01:33:44,368 --> 01:33:46,161
I do value
our friendship, Thora,

1804
01:33:46,329 --> 01:33:48,163
but I'm late for
something important.

1805
01:33:51,250 --> 01:33:52,250
(GOAT BLEATING)

1806
01:33:52,585 --> 01:33:54,210
(WOMAN SOBBING)

1807
01:34:06,849 --> 01:34:07,849
(THUNDER RUMBLES)

1808
01:34:09,435 --> 01:34:13,355
Why on your knees before
this Hebrew, Autolochus?

1809
01:34:13,522 --> 01:34:16,066
I encountered him
before, Gracchus.

1810
01:34:16,233 --> 01:34:18,568
Beside the well
of Jehosaphat.

1811
01:34:20,696 --> 01:34:22,572
And what manner of man.

1812
01:34:22,740 --> 01:34:24,449
He's a priest of
the Israelites,

1813
01:34:24,533 --> 01:34:26,534
despised even by
the other priests.

1814
01:34:26,702 --> 01:34:27,869
No.

1815
01:34:28,537 --> 01:34:30,372
On yesterday's march,

1816
01:34:30,873 --> 01:34:33,083
punished by the
dust of the road,

1817
01:34:33,250 --> 01:34:35,293
I sought to drink
first at the well,

1818
01:34:35,461 --> 01:34:37,003
before the slaves
in my charge,

1819
01:34:37,088 --> 01:34:39,756
whose thirst was far
greater than my own.

1820
01:34:39,924 --> 01:34:42,092
A Roman drinks
before a slave.

1821
01:34:42,259 --> 01:34:44,094
This man was
giving water to all.

1822
01:34:44,428 --> 01:34:47,263
He saw no Roman,
he saw no slave.

1823
01:34:47,431 --> 01:34:51,810
He saw only men, weak men,
and gave succor.

1824
01:34:52,937 --> 01:34:56,272
He saw suffering,
which he sought to ease.

1825
01:34:56,440 --> 01:34:58,733
He saw sin,
and gave love.

1826
01:34:59,318 --> 01:35:01,111
Love, Autolochus?

1827
01:35:02,071 --> 01:35:04,531
He saw my own sin,
Gracchus, and greed.

1828
01:35:04,949 --> 01:35:09,119
But in his eyes, I saw
no shadow of reproach.

1829
01:35:10,287 --> 01:35:12,080
I saw only light.

1830
01:35:12,915 --> 01:35:14,624
The light of God.

1831
01:35:15,167 --> 01:35:17,460
You mean,
of the gods.

1832
01:35:18,170 --> 01:35:21,214
I do not, friend Gracchus.

1833
01:35:21,298 --> 01:35:23,842
This Hebrew is
a son of the one God.

1834
01:35:24,009 --> 01:35:26,469
The God of this
far-flung tribe.

1835
01:35:27,138 --> 01:35:30,140
And why shouldn't
God's anointed appear here

1836
01:35:30,599 --> 01:35:33,768
among these strange people,
to shoulder their sins?

1837
01:35:34,478 --> 01:35:39,566
Here, Gracchus,
in this sun-drenched land.

1838
01:35:39,984 --> 01:35:42,485
Why should He
not take this form,

1839
01:35:43,028 --> 01:35:44,946
the form of
an ordinary man?

1840
01:35:45,114 --> 01:35:47,323
A man bringing us
not the old truths,

1841
01:35:48,325 --> 01:35:49,784
but a new one.

1842
01:35:51,495 --> 01:35:52,996
A new truth?

1843
01:35:53,164 --> 01:35:56,374
AUTOLOCHUS: A truth beyond
the truth that we can see.

1844
01:35:56,876 --> 01:35:59,335
A truth beyond this world.

1845
01:35:59,837 --> 01:36:04,007
A truth told not in words, but in light.

1846
01:36:04,550 --> 01:36:07,969
A truth that we could see
if we had but...

1847
01:36:08,888 --> 01:36:11,014
If we had but...

1848
01:36:13,684 --> 01:36:16,186
Cut! Cut! "Faith!
Have but faith!"

1849
01:36:16,353 --> 01:36:18,563
(BELL RINGING)
"Faith. "

1850
01:36:18,731 --> 01:36:20,648
"Faith. Faith!"
God damn it!

1851
01:36:20,816 --> 01:36:21,983
Go one again.
Isn't it...

1852
01:36:22,151 --> 01:36:23,193
They changed it.

1853
01:36:23,360 --> 01:36:25,361
You got most of it, man.
You're all right.

1854
01:36:25,696 --> 01:36:27,739
All right, hang on.
(SIGHS)

1855
01:36:27,907 --> 01:36:29,991
Can I get a pat down? I'm
sweating like a pig in this thing.

1856
01:36:30,075 --> 01:36:31,075
Ah, son of a bitch!

1857
01:36:34,246 --> 01:36:35,246
(SIGHS)

1858
01:36:38,042 --> 01:36:40,084
Bless me, Father,
for I have sinned.

1859
01:36:40,878 --> 01:36:43,505
How long since your
last confession, my son?

1860
01:36:43,672 --> 01:36:47,050
It's been,
what, 27 hours.

1861
01:36:49,678 --> 01:36:51,846
It's really
too often, my son.

1862
01:36:52,014 --> 01:36:53,181
You're not
that bad.

1863
01:36:53,349 --> 01:36:55,099
I don't know, Father.

1864
01:36:55,267 --> 01:36:58,436
I snuck a cigarette.
Or two.

1865
01:36:59,188 --> 01:37:01,564
I didn't make it home
in time for dinner.

1866
01:37:04,652 --> 01:37:05,652
(SIGHS)

1867
01:37:06,111 --> 01:37:08,780
And I, uh, struck
a movie star in anger.

1868
01:37:12,701 --> 01:37:14,077
All right.

1869
01:37:14,245 --> 01:37:16,079
Five Hail Marys.

1870
01:37:16,914 --> 01:37:18,289
Okay.

1871
01:37:19,250 --> 01:37:20,583
Okay.

1872
01:37:21,585 --> 01:37:22,919
Father?

1873
01:37:23,879 --> 01:37:25,213
Yes, my son.

1874
01:37:25,381 --> 01:37:27,549
May I ask you
something, Father?

1875
01:37:29,802 --> 01:37:31,469
Of course, my son.

1876
01:37:35,975 --> 01:37:38,434
If there's something
that's easy,

1877
01:37:39,395 --> 01:37:41,563
is that wrong?

1878
01:37:42,273 --> 01:37:43,398
Easy?

1879
01:37:43,566 --> 01:37:45,775
Yeah, easy to do.

1880
01:37:45,943 --> 01:37:47,652
Easy to...

1881
01:37:47,820 --> 01:37:49,237
Like, an easy job.

1882
01:37:49,405 --> 01:37:52,240
No, it's not a bad job.
It's not bad.

1883
01:37:55,286 --> 01:38:00,248
But, then, there's this
other job that's not so easy.

1884
01:38:00,416 --> 01:38:03,126
No, in fact, it's hard.

1885
01:38:03,294 --> 01:38:04,627
It's so hard, Father...

1886
01:38:04,795 --> 01:38:07,463
Sometimes I don't know
if I can keep doing it,

1887
01:38:08,632 --> 01:38:10,466
but it seems right.

1888
01:38:12,970 --> 01:38:14,971
I don't know
how to explain.

1889
01:38:19,810 --> 01:38:22,645
God wants us to
do what's right.

1890
01:38:27,151 --> 01:38:28,359
Yeah.

1891
01:38:29,987 --> 01:38:31,654
Yeah, of course
He does.

1892
01:38:31,822 --> 01:38:34,699
The inner voice that
tells you what's right,

1893
01:38:34,867 --> 01:38:37,493
it comes from God,
my son.

1894
01:38:37,661 --> 01:38:38,786
Yeah, I got it.

1895
01:38:38,954 --> 01:38:40,330
That's His way
of saying that...

1896
01:38:40,497 --> 01:38:41,998
Yeah, yeah,
I got it.

1897
01:38:42,166 --> 01:38:43,666
NATALIE: Still raining
in Gallup, New Mexico.

1898
01:38:43,834 --> 01:38:45,126
And the Tucumcari crew
has shot all the plates

1899
01:38:45,210 --> 01:38:46,461
we need for
Came the Rain.

1900
01:38:46,629 --> 01:38:49,213
Well, just shoot the showdown in
the weather and we'll retitle it.

1901
01:38:49,298 --> 01:38:52,717
Tucumcari Tempest, Desert
Squall, Hold Back The Storm.

1902
01:38:52,885 --> 01:38:55,219
NARRATOR: The stories
begin, the stories end.

1903
01:38:55,387 --> 01:38:56,679
I don't know, bounce it off the writers.

1904
01:38:56,847 --> 01:38:57,805
NARRATOR: So it has been.

1905
01:38:57,890 --> 01:38:58,932
Here's today's
call list.

1906
01:38:59,016 --> 01:39:01,517
Add a call to a Mr. Cuddahy
at the Lockheed Corporation.

1907
01:39:01,685 --> 01:39:03,019
Long call?
Short?

1908
01:39:03,187 --> 01:39:05,063
"Thanks, but no thanks. "
How long was that?

1909
01:39:05,230 --> 01:39:06,439
NARRATOR: But the
story of Eddie Mannix...

1910
01:39:06,523 --> 01:39:07,774
Who do we
call first?

1911
01:39:07,858 --> 01:39:09,192
...will never end.

1912
01:39:09,276 --> 01:39:10,443
New York first.

1913
01:39:10,527 --> 01:39:11,736
Time to check in
with Mr. Schenk.

1914
01:39:11,904 --> 01:39:16,866
NARRATOR: For his is a tale
written in light everlasting.

1915
01:45:19,187 --> 01:45:21,647
(SIRENS WAILING)