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That's right.

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New York.

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It's 1958.

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Anyway, for a few more minutes it is.

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Come midnight, it's going to be 1959.

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A whole other feeling.

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The New Year.

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The future.

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Old Daddy Earth fixing to start
one more trip around the sun.

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Everybody hoping this ride round
be a little more giddy...

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a little more gay.

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All over town, champagne corks
is a-popping.

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Over in the Waldorf, the big shots is
dancing to the strains of Guy Lombardo.

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In Times Square, the little
folks is watching...

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and waiting for that big ball to drop.

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They're all trying to catch hold
of one moment of time...

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to be able to say:

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'Right now! This is it!

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'I got it!'

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Of course, by then it'll be past.

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But they're all happy...

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everybody having a good time.

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Well, almost everybody.

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There's a few lost souls
floating around out there.

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Now, if y'all ain't from the city...

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we got something here
called 'the rat race.'

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Got a way of chewing folks up
so that they don't want no celebrating...

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don't want no cheering up.

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Don't care nothing about no New Year's.

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Out of hope...

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out of rope...

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out of time.

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This here is Norville Barnes.

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That office he's stepping out of...

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is the office of the president
of Hudsucker Industries.

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That's his office.

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How'd he get so high?

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And why's he feeling so low?

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Is he really going to do it?

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Is Norville really going
to jelly up the sidewalk?

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Well, the future...

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that's something you can
never tell about.

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But the past...

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that's another story.

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So in the third quarter
we saw no signs of weakening.

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We're up 18% over last year's
third-quarter gross...

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and that, needless to say,
is a new record.

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Our competition continues to flag
and we continue to take up the slack.

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Market shares in most divisions
is increasing...

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and we have opened
seven new regional offices.

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Our international division...

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is also showing vigorous signs of upward
movement for the last six months...

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and we're looking
at some exciting things in R&D.

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Sub-franchising. Don't talk to me
about sub-franchising.

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We're making so much money
in sub-franchising...

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it isn't even funny.

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Our nominees and assigns continue
to multiply and expand...

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extending our influence nationally
and abroad.

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Our owned and operateds are performing...

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far beyond our expectations
both here and abroad.

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And the Federal Tax Act of 1958...

68
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is giving us a swell write-off
on our plant and heavies.

69
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And our last debenture issue
was this year's fastest seller.

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So, third quarter and year-to-date...

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we have set a new record in sales,
a new record in gross...

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a new record in pre-tax earnings...

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a new record in after-tax profits...

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and our stock has split twice
in the past year.

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In short...

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we're loaded.

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Mr. Hudsucker?

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It's a pity to waste a whole Monte Cristo.

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He could've opened the window.

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Waring Hudsucker never did anything
the easy way.

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Why? Why did he do it?
Everything was going so well.

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What am I, a headshrinker?
Maybe the man was unhappy.

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He didn't look unhappy.

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He didn't look rich.
- He was never an easy man to figure out.

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He built this company with his bare hands.

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Every step he took was a step up...

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except, of course, this last one.

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He was a swell fella...

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but when the president, chairman
and owner of 87% of the stock...

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drops...

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44 floors--

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45.

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Counting the mezzanine.

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Then the company, too, has a problem.
Stillson!

95
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What exactly is the disposition
of Waring's stock?

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As you know...

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Hud left no will and no family.

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The company bylaws are quite clear
in that event.

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'His entire portfolio will be converted
into common stock...

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'...and will be sold over the counter
as of the first of the fiscal year...

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'...following his demise.'
- Meaning?

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Meaning simply that Waring's stock
and control of the company...

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will be made available
to the public January 1st.

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Do you mean to say...

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that any slob in a smelly T-shirt
will be able to buy Hudsucker stock?

106
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The company bylaws are quite clear.

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My God! You're animals!

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How can you discuss his stock
when the man has just leapt 45 floors?

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44.

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Not counting the mezzanine.

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Quit showboating.

112
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The man is gone. The question now
is whether we'll let...

113
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John Q. Public waltz in here
and buy our company.

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What are you suggesting?

115
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Certainly we can't afford
to buy a controlling interest.

116
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Not while the stock is this strong.

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How soon before Hud's paper
hits the market?

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January 1st.

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Thirty days.
- Four weeks.

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A month at the most.
- One month...

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to make the blue-chip investment
of the century...

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look like a round-trip ticket
on the Titanic.

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We play up the fact that Hud is dead.

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Long live the Hud!

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We depress the stock.

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To the point where we can buy 50%.
- 51%.

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Not counting the mezzanine.

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It could work.

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It should work.
- It would work.

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It's working already.

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Waring Hudsucker is abstract art
on Madison Avenue.

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What we need now is a new president
who will inspire panic in the stockholder.

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A puppet!
- A proxy!

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A pawn!

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Some jerk...

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we can really push around.

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You punch in at 8:30 every a.m.,

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at 7:30 a.m. following
a business holiday...

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unless it's a Monday, then it's 8:00.

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Punch in late and they dock you.
- This goes to seven! Urgent.

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Incoming articles get a voucher.
Outgoing articles provide a voucher.

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Move any article without a voucher,
they dock you!

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Take this up to the secretarial pool
on three! ASAP!

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Letter-size, a green voucher!
Folder-size, a yellow voucher!

145
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Parcel-size, a maroon voucher!

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This is for Morgatross! Chop-chop!

147
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Wrong color voucher and they dock you!

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6-7-8-7-0-4-9-Alpha-6!

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That is your employee number!
It will not be repeated!

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Without it, you can't cash your paycheck.

151
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All right! This goes up to 27!

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Return a waiver!
Do not return without a signed waiver!

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Inter-office mail is code 37!
Intra-office mail is 37-3.

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Outside mail is 3-37.

155
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Code it wrong and they dock you!

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I was supposed to have this on 28
ten minutes ago!

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This has been your orientation.
Is there anything you do not understand?

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If you have not been fully orientated,
you must file a complaint!

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File a faulty complaint,
and they dock you!

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Kloppitt.

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Kloppitt, Kloppitt, Kloppitt, Kloppitt....

162
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Max Kloppitt.

163
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'Max Kloppitt, Jr.'

164
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What do you do when the envelope
is too big for the slot?

165
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If you fold them, they fire you.

166
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I usually throw them out.

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Just got hired today.

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<i>Terrific.</i>

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Entry level.

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But...

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I got big ideas.

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I'm sure you do.

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For instance...

174
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look at this sweet baby.

175
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I developed it myself.

176
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Yes, sirree, this is my ticket upstairs.

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You know, for kids.

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Terrific.

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So, you see. I won't be working
in the mail room long.

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No, I don't guess you will be.

181
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How long've you been here?

182
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Forty-eight years.

183
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Next year they move me up to parcels...

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if I'm lucky.

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Attention Hudsucker employees:

186
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We regretfully announce...

187
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that at 30 seconds after
the hour of noon...

188
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Hudsucker time...

189
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Waring Hudsucker, Founder, President...

190
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and Chairman of the Board
of Hudsucker Industries...

191
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merged with the infinite.

192
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To mark this occasion of corporate loss...

193
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we ask that all employees observe
a moment of silent contemplation.

194
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Thank you for your kind attention.

195
00:16:10,699 --> 00:16:13,736
This moment has been duly noted
on your timecards...

196
00:16:13,836 --> 00:16:17,831
and will be deducted from your pay.
That is all.

197
00:16:20,409 --> 00:16:21,710
Blue letter!

198
00:16:21,810 --> 00:16:22,945
Blue letter!

199
00:16:23,045 --> 00:16:25,680
They're bringing a blue letter!

200
00:16:58,947 --> 00:17:00,947
It's a blue letter.

201
00:17:01,183 --> 00:17:03,052
Top, top level.

202
00:17:03,152 --> 00:17:06,455
Confidential communication
between the brass.

203
00:17:06,555 --> 00:17:08,555
Usually bad news.

204
00:17:08,857 --> 00:17:11,577
They hate blue letters upstairs.

205
00:17:14,963 --> 00:17:15,965
Hate them.

206
00:17:16,065 --> 00:17:17,333
You!

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00:17:17,433 --> 00:17:19,433
Yeah, you! Barnes!

208
00:17:19,435 --> 00:17:21,170
You don't look busy!

209
00:17:21,270 --> 00:17:23,305
Think you can handle a blue letter?

210
00:17:23,405 --> 00:17:28,177
This letter was sent this morning
by the big man himself, Waring Hudsucker!

211
00:17:28,277 --> 00:17:31,947
It's addressed to Sid Mussburger,
Hudsucker's right-hand man!

212
00:17:32,047 --> 00:17:33,882
It's a blue letter!

213
00:17:33,982 --> 00:17:37,019
That means you got to put it right
in Mussburger's hands.

214
00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:39,555
No secretaries! No receptionists!

215
00:17:39,655 --> 00:17:41,885
No colleagues! No excuses!

216
00:17:42,858 --> 00:17:44,858
Mussburger!

217
00:17:45,961 --> 00:17:50,833
Hi! My name's Buzz, I got the fuzz,
I make the elevator do what she does.

218
00:17:50,933 --> 00:17:52,134
Hang it up to dry.

219
00:17:52,234 --> 00:17:54,203
What's your pleasure?
- Forty-four.

220
00:17:54,303 --> 00:17:57,306
Forty-four, the top-brass floor.
Say, buddy...

221
00:17:57,406 --> 00:18:01,310
what takes 50 years to get to
the top floor and 30 seconds to get down?

222
00:18:01,410 --> 00:18:03,912
Waring Hudsucker! You get it, buddy?

223
00:18:04,012 --> 00:18:07,349
Say, buddy! Mr. Kline, up to nine.
Mrs. Dell, Personnel.

224
00:18:07,449 --> 00:18:09,385
Mr. Levin, 37.
- Thirty-six.

225
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Walk down!

226
00:18:10,652 --> 00:18:12,388
Ladies and gentlemen,
please step to the rear.

227
00:18:12,488 --> 00:18:15,548
Here comes the gargantuan Mr. Grier.

228
00:18:16,959 --> 00:18:20,229
Buddy, who's the most liquid businessman
on the street?

229
00:18:20,329 --> 00:18:22,329
Waring Hudsucker.

230
00:18:22,331 --> 00:18:27,136
When is the sidewalk fully dressed?
When it's wearing Hudsucker!

231
00:18:27,236 --> 00:18:28,170
You get it?

232
00:18:28,270 --> 00:18:31,740
It's a pun, a knee-slapper,
a play on Jesus, Joseph and Mary....

233
00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,275
Is that a blue letter?

234
00:18:33,375 --> 00:18:39,580
Why didn't you tell a guy? Hold on, folks,
we're express to the top floor!

235
00:18:52,928 --> 00:18:54,928
Good luck, buddy.

236
00:18:57,599 --> 00:18:59,599
You'll need it.

237
00:19:11,813 --> 00:19:13,853
Mr. Mussburger's office?

238
00:20:10,839 --> 00:20:12,839
Hello.

239
00:20:12,841 --> 00:20:15,173
Do you have an appointment?

240
00:20:16,845 --> 00:20:19,055
Shall we look in the book?

241
00:20:21,116 --> 00:20:24,019
We don't seem to be in the book.
- I wouldn't be.

242
00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:27,944
If we had an appointment,
we'd be in the book.

243
00:20:28,323 --> 00:20:29,992
I have this....

244
00:20:30,092 --> 00:20:32,092
Oh, here it is.

245
00:20:37,132 --> 00:20:38,934
Gambotz?

246
00:20:39,034 --> 00:20:40,369
Harry Gambotz?

247
00:20:40,469 --> 00:20:44,124
No, too risky.
He's green but he's not slow.

248
00:20:44,606 --> 00:20:45,874
Who is he?

249
00:20:45,974 --> 00:20:50,989
No, I want an imbecile,
not a cipher, or you'd have the job.

250
00:20:51,313 --> 00:20:53,115
They moved him to grommets and O-rings.

251
00:20:53,215 --> 00:20:55,215
He's doing pretty well.

252
00:20:55,984 --> 00:20:57,984
No, not McClanahan.

253
00:20:58,654 --> 00:21:01,924
He bungled the Teleyard merger
so he's got something to prove.

254
00:21:02,024 --> 00:21:03,892
Who let you in?

255
00:21:03,992 --> 00:21:07,663
Atwater? Tremendous.
Except I just fired him last week.

256
00:21:07,763 --> 00:21:08,931
Mr. Mussburger...

257
00:21:09,031 --> 00:21:11,033
Mr. Bumstead's waiting downstairs.

258
00:21:11,133 --> 00:21:13,302
I'll be right there.
- Yes, Mr. Mussburger.

259
00:21:13,402 --> 00:21:15,402
Spit it out!

260
00:21:16,571 --> 00:21:19,174
Maybe you're the company's biggest moron.

261
00:21:19,274 --> 00:21:22,878
We can't use Morris. Been here too long.
He's a nice guy with too many friends.

262
00:21:22,978 --> 00:21:26,481
In fact, why don't you fire him?
Scratch that, I'll fire him.

263
00:21:26,581 --> 00:21:28,581
Make it fast. Fast!

264
00:21:28,583 --> 00:21:30,519
Mr. Bumstead is growing restless.

265
00:21:30,619 --> 00:21:33,055
Tell him I'll be right there.
Give him a magazine.

266
00:21:33,155 --> 00:21:35,155
What are you, a mute?

267
00:21:36,391 --> 00:21:37,726
How's the stock?

268
00:21:37,826 --> 00:21:40,461
Bad? Well, it's not bad enough.

269
00:21:40,595 --> 00:21:41,730
Listen, chump.

270
00:21:41,830 --> 00:21:46,034
Either you find me a ding-dong or tender
your key to the executive washroom.

271
00:21:46,134 --> 00:21:50,044
That goes double for you, pal.
Earclay? Oodgay!

272
00:21:53,709 --> 00:21:57,024
This better be good. I'm in a bad mood.

273
00:21:57,212 --> 00:22:00,649
Sir, I've got something for you
from the mail room, but first...

274
00:22:00,749 --> 00:22:05,754
if I could take a minute of your very
valuable time to show you something...

275
00:22:05,854 --> 00:22:10,274
I've been working on
for the past two or three years.

276
00:22:16,331 --> 00:22:18,331
You know, for kids.

277
00:22:18,633 --> 00:22:21,536
It's perfect for Hudsucker,
not that I'm any great genius.

278
00:22:21,636 --> 00:22:25,774
They say inspiration is 99% perspiration
and in my case it's at least twice that...

279
00:22:25,874 --> 00:22:29,869
but I've got to tell you, sir--
- Wait a minute!

280
00:23:13,455 --> 00:23:15,455
Sit down, son.

281
00:23:17,592 --> 00:23:19,592
Go ahead.

282
00:23:20,529 --> 00:23:22,529
Try it on.

283
00:23:35,143 --> 00:23:37,143
Put your feet up.

284
00:23:40,415 --> 00:23:42,415
Go ahead.

285
00:23:43,618 --> 00:23:47,018
Let's get to know one another, shall we?

286
00:23:47,989 --> 00:23:49,989
Let's chat...

287
00:23:52,561 --> 00:23:54,561
man-to-man.

288
00:24:00,902 --> 00:24:04,047
You're from the basement, aren't you?

289
00:24:04,439 --> 00:24:07,159
And weren't blessed with much...

290
00:24:08,677 --> 00:24:10,178
education?

291
00:24:10,278 --> 00:24:12,828
Well, I am a college graduate.

292
00:24:13,081 --> 00:24:15,650
But you did not excel in your studies.

293
00:24:15,750 --> 00:24:18,385
Well, I made the dean's list...

294
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,557
at the Muncie College
of Business Administration.

295
00:24:22,657 --> 00:24:26,652
And your friends called you 'jerk,'
didn't they?

296
00:24:27,028 --> 00:24:28,029
'Dope?'

297
00:24:28,129 --> 00:24:28,997
'Dipstick?'

298
00:24:29,097 --> 00:24:30,565
'Lamebrain?' 'Schmo?'

299
00:24:30,665 --> 00:24:31,900
Not even behind your back?

300
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,569
They voted me 'Most Likely to Succeed.'

301
00:24:34,669 --> 00:24:36,669
You're fired.

302
00:24:38,139 --> 00:24:41,943
Get your feet off my desk,
get out of my office.

303
00:24:42,043 --> 00:24:44,179
Leave your apron in the locker room.

304
00:24:44,279 --> 00:24:45,280
Oh, my God!

305
00:24:45,380 --> 00:24:49,851
The Bumstead contracts. I've been
working on that deal for four years!

306
00:24:49,951 --> 00:24:52,788
Get out of here! I'll take care of it!

307
00:24:52,888 --> 00:24:56,091
You could have destroyed
the most sensitive document of my career.

308
00:24:56,191 --> 00:24:58,727
Mr. Bumstead is threatening to leave.

309
00:24:58,827 --> 00:25:00,128
I'm on my way down.

310
00:25:00,228 --> 00:25:03,698
We need the first page of the contract
retyped with copies going to Legal.

311
00:25:03,798 --> 00:25:05,798
Yes, Mr. Mussburger.

312
00:25:09,271 --> 00:25:11,271
Out! Out of the office!

313
00:25:13,608 --> 00:25:14,776
Down three points?

314
00:25:14,876 --> 00:25:18,191
That's encouraging. How about New York?

315
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,882
Not that way, through the door!

316
00:25:20,982 --> 00:25:23,685
It'll take three hours to retype
the Bumstead contracts.

317
00:25:23,785 --> 00:25:24,886
Where are you going?

318
00:25:24,986 --> 00:25:26,986
Get out! Stop that!

319
00:25:26,988 --> 00:25:28,557
Mr. Bumstead's threatening to leave.

320
00:25:28,657 --> 00:25:31,393
Not the whole contract,
just the first page.

321
00:25:31,493 --> 00:25:33,528
I'll be there. Give him another magazine.

322
00:25:33,628 --> 00:25:37,283
He says he'll leave.
- I said I'll be there!

323
00:25:37,399 --> 00:25:41,303
Up on your feet! We don't crawl here
at Hudsucker Industries!

324
00:25:41,403 --> 00:25:43,205
My leg is on fire!
- No assumptions!

325
00:25:43,305 --> 00:25:49,000
It's early yet. Just let me know
where we stand at the closing bell.

326
00:25:56,451 --> 00:25:59,426
Oh, my God, the Bumstead contracts!

327
00:26:04,125 --> 00:26:06,165
No magazines! No coffee!

328
00:26:06,294 --> 00:26:11,833
Mussburger! I want to see Mussburger!
Or did he jump out a window too?

329
00:26:11,933 --> 00:26:17,288
Don't worry, Mr. Mussburger, I got you!
I got you by your pants.

330
00:26:18,473 --> 00:26:20,473
Pants?

331
00:26:23,979 --> 00:26:28,283
Mr. Mussburger, I'm gonna give
your pants a nice double stitch.

332
00:26:28,383 --> 00:26:32,888
It'll make them real strong
and you're going to look real sharp.

333
00:26:32,988 --> 00:26:35,513
No. Single stitch is fine.

334
00:26:35,724 --> 00:26:38,784
But the double stitch lasts forever.

335
00:26:39,260 --> 00:26:42,745
Why on earth would I want
a double stitch?

336
00:26:43,131 --> 00:26:44,900
To pad your account.

337
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,000
Single stitch is fine.

338
00:26:52,907 --> 00:26:54,907
Damn!

339
00:27:00,615 --> 00:27:04,219
What the heck! Mr. Mussburger
is such a nice man...

340
00:27:04,319 --> 00:27:07,923
I'm going to give him
a double stitch anyway.

341
00:27:08,023 --> 00:27:11,356
That's some strong stitch, you bet!

342
00:27:40,747 --> 00:27:44,247
<i></i>

343
00:27:58,848 --> 00:28:02,348
<i></i>

344
00:28:27,804 --> 00:28:31,304
<i></i>

345
00:28:57,766 --> 00:29:00,231
'The Einstein of Enterprise.'

346
00:29:00,935 --> 00:29:03,060
'The Edison of Industry.'

347
00:29:03,705 --> 00:29:06,170
'The Billion-Dollar Cranium!'

348
00:29:07,742 --> 00:29:09,742
'Idea Man!'

349
00:29:11,146 --> 00:29:13,448
And not one of you has given me
a story on him!

350
00:29:13,548 --> 00:29:15,548
Bunch of lamebrains!

351
00:29:15,750 --> 00:29:18,486
Facts, figures, charts.
They never sold a newspaper!

352
00:29:18,586 --> 00:29:20,522
I read this morning's Argus
and let me tell you something:

353
00:29:20,622 --> 00:29:22,190
I'd wrap a fish in it!

354
00:29:22,290 --> 00:29:23,892
I'd use it as kindling!

355
00:29:23,992 --> 00:29:28,463
I'd train my poodle on it if he wasn't
a French poodle and partial to Paris Soir.

356
00:29:28,563 --> 00:29:31,399
But I wouldn't pay a nickel
to read the thing!

357
00:29:31,499 --> 00:29:34,069
Come on, Chief, give us a break.

358
00:29:34,169 --> 00:29:36,379
Sure, Tibbs. Take a break.

359
00:29:37,038 --> 00:29:39,588
Go to Florida. Lie in the sun.

360
00:29:39,774 --> 00:29:42,477
Wait for a coconut to drop.
File a story on it.

361
00:29:42,577 --> 00:29:45,847
It'd be more of a grabber than your piece
on the county grain surplus!

362
00:29:45,947 --> 00:29:48,717
The human angle!
That's what sells papers!

363
00:29:48,817 --> 00:29:52,253
We need a front page with a heart
and the Idea Man can put it there!

364
00:29:52,353 --> 00:29:53,788
If we had more access--

365
00:29:53,888 --> 00:29:56,357
If a frog had wings
it wouldn't bump it's ass hopping.

366
00:29:56,457 --> 00:29:58,827
I don't want excuses, I want results!

367
00:29:58,927 --> 00:30:01,596
What makes the Idea Man tick?
Where's he from?

368
00:30:01,696 --> 00:30:05,266
I want to know everything about him!
Has he got a girl? Has he got parents?

369
00:30:05,366 --> 00:30:07,425
Everybody has parents.

370
00:30:07,602 --> 00:30:09,602
All right, how many?

371
00:30:10,405 --> 00:30:14,509
How about it, Parkinson?
You've been awfully quiet.

372
00:30:14,609 --> 00:30:16,044
Still waters run deep.

373
00:30:16,144 --> 00:30:18,613
Only thing deep with Parkinson
are the holes in his ears.

374
00:30:18,713 --> 00:30:20,713
Yes! Idea Man!

375
00:30:20,982 --> 00:30:24,419
What are his hopes and dreams,
his desires and aspirations?

376
00:30:24,519 --> 00:30:27,188
Does he think all the time
or a certain portion of the day?

377
00:30:27,288 --> 00:30:30,825
How tall is he? Where does he sleep?
What does he have for breakfast?

378
00:30:30,925 --> 00:30:33,128
Does he put jam on his toast
or doesn't he?

379
00:30:33,228 --> 00:30:35,863
If not, why not and since when?

380
00:30:36,297 --> 00:30:38,297
Well?

381
00:30:38,633 --> 00:30:40,633
You're useless.

382
00:30:40,902 --> 00:30:42,737
Yes. Idea Man.

383
00:30:42,837 --> 00:30:43,805
'Creator.'

384
00:30:43,905 --> 00:30:45,140
'Innovator.'

385
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,240
'Cerebrator.'

386
00:30:47,242 --> 00:30:48,843
Fake!

387
00:30:48,943 --> 00:30:50,945
I tell you, the guy's a phony.

388
00:30:51,045 --> 00:30:52,547
Phony?
- As a $3 bill.

389
00:30:52,647 --> 00:30:54,282
Says who?
- Says me, Amy Archer!

390
00:30:54,382 --> 00:30:56,684
Why is he an Idea Man?
Because Hudsucker says so?

391
00:30:56,784 --> 00:30:59,387
What are his ideas?
Why can't anyone interview him?

392
00:30:59,487 --> 00:31:02,323
Five bucks says she mentions her Pulitzer.

393
00:31:02,423 --> 00:31:04,423
Again? You're on.

394
00:31:04,492 --> 00:31:06,394
Look at the mug on this guy.

395
00:31:06,494 --> 00:31:09,631
The jutting eyebrows, the simian forehead,
the idiotic grin.

396
00:31:09,731 --> 00:31:12,934
He has a face only a mother could love...

397
00:31:13,034 --> 00:31:14,169
on payday.

398
00:31:14,269 --> 00:31:17,205
The only story here is
how this guy made a monkey out of you.

399
00:31:17,305 --> 00:31:20,008
Like it or not, I'm
still editor of this rag.

400
00:31:20,108 --> 00:31:23,178
I thought you were writing,
'J. Edgar Hoover: When Will He Marry?'

401
00:31:23,278 --> 00:31:26,548
I filed it yesterday. Nice tie, Earl.
- Well, do a follow-up.

402
00:31:26,648 --> 00:31:28,650
'Hoover: Crimebuster or Pantywaist?'

403
00:31:28,750 --> 00:31:33,521
The rest of you mugs get some brains
and get me that Idea Man story!

404
00:31:33,621 --> 00:31:35,621
He's the bunk.

405
00:31:40,962 --> 00:31:43,427
I'll stake my Pulitzer on it!

406
00:31:45,366 --> 00:31:47,368
Say, buddy, where'd you get the new duds?

407
00:31:47,468 --> 00:31:50,872
Say, buddy, how did Old Bucketbutt
like his blue letter?

408
00:31:50,972 --> 00:31:54,108
Did he bust a gut? Did he die?
Well, hello, Mr. Mussburger.

409
00:31:54,208 --> 00:31:55,610
Lobby, we haven't got all day.

410
00:31:55,710 --> 00:31:57,512
Right away, Mr. Mussburger.

411
00:31:57,612 --> 00:32:00,348
How're you this fine morning, sir?

412
00:32:00,448 --> 00:32:02,784
It's been a pleasure
serving you today, sir.

413
00:32:02,884 --> 00:32:05,620
It's been a pleasure
serving you too, buddy.

414
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,390
Shouldn't we be a little concerned
with the downward spiral of our stock...

415
00:32:09,490 --> 00:32:10,825
these past few days?

416
00:32:10,925 --> 00:32:13,561
You're the expert,
but at the Muncie College of Business--

417
00:32:13,661 --> 00:32:15,463
Relax, it's only natural...

418
00:32:15,563 --> 00:32:19,067
in a period of transition for
the more timid element to run for cover.

419
00:32:19,167 --> 00:32:22,837
Like I said, you're the expert
but do you remember the plan I outlined...

420
00:32:22,937 --> 00:32:26,407
the day I set fire to your....
The day I was promoted?

421
00:32:26,507 --> 00:32:31,862
I do remember and I was impressed.
But that's all forgotten now.

422
00:32:32,847 --> 00:32:34,847
Thank you, Sid.

423
00:32:34,849 --> 00:32:38,419
The reason I mention it is it requires
such a small capital investment....

424
00:32:38,519 --> 00:32:41,756
There's a huge potential profit...
- Damn it, where's my car?

425
00:32:41,856 --> 00:32:44,859
given the demographics boom
of the burgeoning middle-class.

426
00:32:44,959 --> 00:32:47,509
So if you agree, I'd like
to bounce the idea...

427
00:32:47,609 --> 00:32:48,997
off a few people at lunch.

428
00:32:49,097 --> 00:32:50,231
Sure.

429
00:32:50,331 --> 00:32:52,151
Tell whoever you want.

430
00:32:52,251 --> 00:32:55,991
I'd like to hear about
it at some point too.

431
00:33:03,544 --> 00:33:05,544
I got gas, Benny.

432
00:33:06,514 --> 00:33:08,216
Tell me about it.

433
00:33:08,316 --> 00:33:10,781
No kidding, Benny. I got gas.

434
00:33:11,386 --> 00:33:13,121
You get the special?

435
00:33:13,221 --> 00:33:15,221
Far from it.

436
00:33:18,359 --> 00:33:20,359
Enter the dame.

437
00:33:20,395 --> 00:33:22,690
There's one in every story.

438
00:33:22,997 --> 00:33:25,833
Ten bucks says she's
looking for a handout.

439
00:33:25,933 --> 00:33:29,304
Twenty bucks says not here,
she don't find one.

440
00:33:29,404 --> 00:33:31,039
She's looking for her mark.

441
00:33:31,139 --> 00:33:32,307
She finds him.

442
00:33:32,407 --> 00:33:35,069
She sits down and orders...

443
00:33:36,411 --> 00:33:38,179
a light lunch.

444
00:33:38,279 --> 00:33:40,815
How will she pay for this lunch?

445
00:33:40,915 --> 00:33:42,917
She looks through her purse.

446
00:33:43,017 --> 00:33:44,419
No money.

447
00:33:44,519 --> 00:33:46,519
The mark notices.

448
00:33:47,655 --> 00:33:49,324
He's not noticing, Benny.

449
00:33:49,424 --> 00:33:51,159
Maybe he's wise.

450
00:33:51,259 --> 00:33:53,259
He don't look wise.

451
00:33:54,929 --> 00:33:56,397
Plan two.

452
00:33:56,497 --> 00:33:58,622
Here come the waterworks.

453
00:33:58,633 --> 00:34:00,668
Yellowstone.
- Old Faithful.

454
00:34:00,768 --> 00:34:02,768
Hello, Niagara.

455
00:34:03,071 --> 00:34:04,205
He notices.

456
00:34:04,305 --> 00:34:05,840
She's distressed.

457
00:34:05,940 --> 00:34:07,940
He's concerned.

458
00:34:07,942 --> 00:34:10,407
She explains her predicament.

459
00:34:10,411 --> 00:34:11,980
And....

460
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,105
Enter the light lunch.

461
00:34:15,283 --> 00:34:17,352
She's got other problems, of course.

462
00:34:17,452 --> 00:34:19,687
There's illness in the family.

463
00:34:19,787 --> 00:34:22,757
Her mother needs an operation.
- Urgently.

464
00:34:22,857 --> 00:34:24,857
Adenoids.
- No, Benny.

465
00:34:25,860 --> 00:34:27,860
Lumbago.

466
00:34:28,062 --> 00:34:30,612
That gag's got whiskers on it.

467
00:34:31,566 --> 00:34:33,134
He ain't biting, Benny.

468
00:34:33,234 --> 00:34:36,634
She's losing him, Lou.
- Maybe he's wise.

469
00:34:36,704 --> 00:34:38,704
He don't look wise.

470
00:34:38,973 --> 00:34:41,709
How does she pull this out?
- He's getting away.

471
00:34:41,809 --> 00:34:43,611
She better think fast.

472
00:34:43,711 --> 00:34:45,279
She isn't.

473
00:34:45,379 --> 00:34:47,379
She is!

474
00:34:47,915 --> 00:34:49,915
She's good, Benny.

475
00:34:49,917 --> 00:34:51,917
She's damn good, Lou.

476
00:34:52,787 --> 00:34:55,592
Can I get you boys anything else?

477
00:34:57,191 --> 00:34:59,060
Bromo.

478
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,160
Bromo.

479
00:35:02,296 --> 00:35:06,034
I'm sorry we had to take the stairs.
It was just that horrible elevator boy!

480
00:35:06,134 --> 00:35:09,203
I can't say how much I appreciate
your listening to my story.

481
00:35:09,303 --> 00:35:14,208
I'm lucky to find someone in this bustling
city with a stout heart and a ready ear.

482
00:35:14,308 --> 00:35:16,577
There I was, travelling
through this great country.

483
00:35:16,677 --> 00:35:19,013
Some I met were kind to me,
others exceedingly cruel.

484
00:35:19,113 --> 00:35:21,482
Traveling by motor bus, rail,
even by thumb....

485
00:35:21,582 --> 00:35:23,017
The couch, please.

486
00:35:23,117 --> 00:35:26,687
Hoarding every dollar, counting
every nickel, pinching every penny.

487
00:35:26,787 --> 00:35:29,457
It's been a long road leading
to the coffee shop downstairs.

488
00:35:29,557 --> 00:35:33,161
Not that I'd trade a day, an hour,
a moment of it for anything.

489
00:35:33,261 --> 00:35:34,829
I don't know what came over me.

490
00:35:34,929 --> 00:35:37,198
I guess it was the shock of eating
after so long...

491
00:35:37,298 --> 00:35:41,293
without the enzymes kicking in
after so long....

492
00:35:43,804 --> 00:35:47,542
Then you couldn't possibly know
what it is to be tired and hungry.

493
00:35:47,642 --> 00:35:48,643
Hungry, anyway.

494
00:35:48,743 --> 00:35:51,846
I don't want to bore you with details
of my life. It's not happy.

495
00:35:51,946 --> 00:35:54,348
Suffice to say I'm jobless,
but not for want of trying.

496
00:35:54,448 --> 00:35:58,052
I'm friendless, with no one to take care
of me and had you not come along...

497
00:35:58,152 --> 00:36:00,888
exactly when you did....
- I, myself--

498
00:36:00,988 --> 00:36:02,924
I arrived in town not ten days ago...

499
00:36:03,024 --> 00:36:06,194
full of dreams, anxious to make my way
in the world...

500
00:36:06,294 --> 00:36:09,063
a little naive perhaps,
but armed with determination...

501
00:36:09,163 --> 00:36:11,766
a solid work ethic,
and an indomitable belief in the future...

502
00:36:11,866 --> 00:36:13,734
I, myself--
- ...only to have that belief...

503
00:36:13,834 --> 00:36:17,171
that unsullied optimism, dashed against
the marble of the workplace.

504
00:36:17,271 --> 00:36:20,274
Such is life. Seek and ye shall find.
Work and ye shall prosper.

505
00:36:20,374 --> 00:36:22,043
Cigarette?
- No, thank you.

506
00:36:22,143 --> 00:36:24,445
Seek and ye shall find,
work and ye shall prosper.

507
00:36:24,545 --> 00:36:27,281
These were the watchwords,
the ethos of my education...

508
00:36:27,381 --> 00:36:28,850
the values instilled in me...

509
00:36:28,950 --> 00:36:32,253
while I was growing up in a town
you've probably never heard of.

510
00:36:32,353 --> 00:36:33,988
Mind if I join you?
- Be my guest.

511
00:36:34,088 --> 00:36:36,124
A town you've probably never heard of...

512
00:36:36,224 --> 00:36:40,461
a dusty crossroads of which
you've probably never heard.

513
00:36:40,561 --> 00:36:43,257
Excuse me. Executive washroom.

514
00:36:46,534 --> 00:36:48,534
Are you all right?

515
00:36:50,238 --> 00:36:53,638
Is it your lunch? The chicken a la king?

516
00:36:55,409 --> 00:36:57,445
Is the a la king repeating on you?

517
00:36:57,545 --> 00:37:00,139
No, I'm fine. You were saying?

518
00:37:03,584 --> 00:37:06,389
Values, watchwords, tender years.

519
00:37:06,487 --> 00:37:09,824
A little town you've probably
never heard of:

520
00:37:09,924 --> 00:37:11,924
Muncie, Indiana.

521
00:37:12,226 --> 00:37:14,226
You're from Muncie?

522
00:37:14,695 --> 00:37:16,497
Why, yes.

523
00:37:16,597 --> 00:37:18,597
Do you know it?

524
00:37:34,949 --> 00:37:39,716
'Fight on Fight on, dear old Muncie

525
00:37:40,488 --> 00:37:44,390
'Fight on Hoist the gold and blue

526
00:37:44,525 --> 00:37:48,461
'You'll be tattered, torn and hurting

527
00:37:48,529 --> 00:37:52,625
'Once the Munce is done with...

528
00:37:53,401 --> 00:37:55,401
'...you.

529
00:37:59,907 --> 00:38:01,907
'Go...

530
00:38:01,942 --> 00:38:03,711
'Go...

531
00:38:03,811 --> 00:38:04,612
'...Eagles!

532
00:38:04,712 --> 00:38:06,712
'...Eagles!'

533
00:38:09,650 --> 00:38:13,220
A Muncie girl!
What do you know about that?

534
00:38:13,754 --> 00:38:17,024
I'm going to cancel the rest
of my appointments for today...

535
00:38:17,124 --> 00:38:18,993
and get you a job right here at Hud.

536
00:38:19,093 --> 00:38:20,828
Oh, no! Really--

537
00:38:20,928 --> 00:38:24,465
Don't bother to thank me. It's easy.
I know where a vacancy just came up.

538
00:38:24,565 --> 00:38:26,565
Mailroom.

539
00:38:27,335 --> 00:38:29,036
Good afternoon, this is Norville Barnes.

540
00:38:29,136 --> 00:38:33,896
Barnes! Where the hell have you been?
Where's my voucher?

541
00:38:34,141 --> 00:38:35,209
I'm not sure.

542
00:38:35,309 --> 00:38:39,380
I need that voucher!
I told you a week ago it was important!

543
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,182
I'm president of the company now.

544
00:38:41,282 --> 00:38:44,785
I don't care if you're president
of the company!

545
00:38:44,885 --> 00:38:47,012
I need the voucher now!

546
00:38:48,356 --> 00:38:50,524
Why don't you work in here with me?

547
00:38:50,624 --> 00:38:53,027
Are you familiar with
the mimeograph machine?

548
00:38:53,127 --> 00:38:57,765
Well, of course. I went
to the Muncie Secretarial Polytechnic.

549
00:38:57,865 --> 00:39:00,670
A Muncie girl! Can you beat that?

550
00:39:00,868 --> 00:39:03,504
I just don't know how to thank you,
Mr. Barnes.

551
00:39:03,604 --> 00:39:05,604
Please, Norville.

552
00:39:05,806 --> 00:39:07,642
Go, Eagles!

553
00:39:07,742 --> 00:39:09,742
Go, Eagles!

554
00:39:12,713 --> 00:39:14,415
'Once the Munce....'

555
00:39:14,515 --> 00:39:15,983
Holy moly!

556
00:39:16,083 --> 00:39:19,253
Is this guy from Chumpsville?
I even pulled the old mother routine.

557
00:39:19,353 --> 00:39:20,021
Adenoids?

558
00:39:20,121 --> 00:39:21,555
Lumbago.

559
00:39:21,655 --> 00:39:23,224
That gag's got whiskers on it.

560
00:39:23,324 --> 00:39:25,726
I'm telling you, the Hudsucker Board's
up to something.

561
00:39:25,826 --> 00:39:28,763
What's a six-letter word
for an affliction of the hypothalamus?

562
00:39:28,863 --> 00:39:31,966
It's a cinch. Goiter.
It's a cinch this guy isn't in on it.

563
00:39:32,066 --> 00:39:33,067
She's right here.

564
00:39:33,167 --> 00:39:36,137
How much time to make the late final?

565
00:39:36,237 --> 00:39:38,639
Hi, Chief, just the person
I wanted to apologize to.

566
00:39:38,739 --> 00:39:40,074
About seven minutes.

567
00:39:40,174 --> 00:39:42,843
I was all wet about your Idea Man.

568
00:39:42,943 --> 00:39:47,848
Well, thanks for being so generous.
It is human and you are divine.

569
00:39:47,948 --> 00:39:49,948
No, he's no faker.

570
00:39:50,317 --> 00:39:53,921
He's a 100% real McCoy,
beware of imitations, genuine article.

571
00:39:54,021 --> 00:39:57,425
The guy's a real moron,
as in a five-letter word for imbecile.

572
00:39:57,525 --> 00:40:01,180
As pure a specimen as
I've ever run across.

573
00:40:01,695 --> 00:40:03,097
If I'm not an expert...

574
00:40:03,197 --> 00:40:07,068
then my name isn't Amy Archer
and I never won the Pulitzer.

575
00:40:07,168 --> 00:40:09,168
In 1957.

576
00:40:10,137 --> 00:40:12,406
My series on the reunited triplets.

577
00:40:12,506 --> 00:40:15,343
Come down here, hammerhead,
and I'll show it to you!

578
00:40:15,443 --> 00:40:18,446
What's a three-letter word
for a flightless bird?

579
00:40:18,546 --> 00:40:20,014
Not now, I'm busy.

580
00:40:20,114 --> 00:40:24,118
I said, 'hammerhead' as in a ten-letter
word for a smug, bullying newspaper man.

581
00:40:24,218 --> 00:40:25,986
Gnu. That's G-N-U.

582
00:40:26,086 --> 00:40:29,623
Couldn't find the Empire State Building
with a compass, map and a guide.

583
00:40:29,723 --> 00:40:30,458
Or emu?

584
00:40:30,558 --> 00:40:34,362
That's just potatoes. Here's the gravy.
The chump really liked me.

585
00:40:34,462 --> 00:40:37,365
A Muncie girl!
- Better off falling for a rattlesnake.

586
00:40:37,465 --> 00:40:40,034
This guy's just a patsy
and I'm gonna find out what for.

587
00:40:40,134 --> 00:40:44,572
There's a real story here, some kind
of plot, set-up.... Did I tell you?

588
00:40:44,672 --> 00:40:46,540
He didn't offer you money?
- A sawbuck!

589
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,642
Ten smackers! Let's grab a highball!

590
00:40:48,742 --> 00:40:50,742
On Norville Barnes.

591
00:40:51,545 --> 00:40:53,545
Copy!

592
00:41:22,109 --> 00:41:25,346
Miss Smith, would you come in
and take a letter?

593
00:41:25,446 --> 00:41:27,571
Of all the cockamamie....

594
00:41:29,483 --> 00:41:32,253
Did you see the front page
of today's Manhattan Argus?

595
00:41:32,353 --> 00:41:34,462
I didn't bother to read the article.

596
00:41:34,562 --> 00:41:37,091
I didn't think the
picture did you justice.

597
00:41:37,191 --> 00:41:38,659
The picture's fine.

598
00:41:38,759 --> 00:41:42,530
It's what that knuckle-headed dame
wrote underneath.

599
00:41:42,630 --> 00:41:44,031
Take this down.

600
00:41:44,131 --> 00:41:46,131
Dear Miss Archer:

601
00:41:46,433 --> 00:41:49,937
I call you 'Miss' because you seem to have
missed the boat completely.

602
00:41:50,037 --> 00:41:52,006
How would you know if I'm an imbecile...

603
00:41:52,106 --> 00:41:55,042
when you didn't have the guts
to interview me man-to-man!

604
00:41:55,142 --> 00:41:56,710
Change 'man-to-man' to 'face-to-face.'

605
00:41:56,810 --> 00:42:00,214
No, change 'face-to-face' to 'eye-to-eye'
and 'guts' to 'common decency.'

606
00:42:00,314 --> 00:42:02,450
These wild speculations
about my intelligence...

607
00:42:02,550 --> 00:42:04,852
these preposterous inventions
would be better suited...

608
00:42:04,952 --> 00:42:07,955
for the pages of Amazing Tales Magazine.

609
00:42:08,055 --> 00:42:10,558
If the editors of the Manhattan Argus
see fit...

610
00:42:10,658 --> 00:42:14,995
to publish the work of a disordered mind,
perhaps they will see fit to publish this.

611
00:42:15,095 --> 00:42:16,230
But I doubt it.

612
00:42:16,330 --> 00:42:20,301
I most seriously doubt it. I doubt also
you could find a home at Amazing Tales...

613
00:42:20,401 --> 00:42:24,138
a periodical which I have enjoyed
for many years. Sincerely...

614
00:42:24,238 --> 00:42:26,238
et cetera.

615
00:42:32,780 --> 00:42:34,820
Is that all, Mr. Barnes?

616
00:42:36,850 --> 00:42:40,588
You know me, Amy, better than this dame.
Do you think I'm an imbecile?

617
00:42:40,688 --> 00:42:42,289
Well, I'm sure I....

618
00:42:42,389 --> 00:42:47,595
Tell the truth. I trust you.
I place a lot of stock in your opinion.

619
00:42:47,695 --> 00:42:49,735
Oh, sure, you're biased.

620
00:42:49,930 --> 00:42:51,970
You're a fellow Muncian.

621
00:42:52,399 --> 00:42:54,268
But let me ask you a question:

622
00:42:54,368 --> 00:42:57,428
Would an imbecile come up with this?

623
00:43:03,043 --> 00:43:05,043
I designed it myself.

624
00:43:05,713 --> 00:43:10,133
This sweet baby will put Hudsucker
right back on top.

625
00:43:11,652 --> 00:43:13,652
You know, for kids.

626
00:43:16,323 --> 00:43:18,626
Why don't I just type this up?

627
00:43:18,726 --> 00:43:21,695
That won't be necessary.
I shouldn't send it.

628
00:43:21,795 --> 00:43:24,298
She's just doing her job, I guess.

629
00:43:24,398 --> 00:43:27,001
I don't know, maybe she does deserve it.

630
00:43:27,101 --> 00:43:30,104
Maybe she should have come in here
and faced you man-to-man.

631
00:43:30,204 --> 00:43:34,341
She probably had a deadline.
- She still could've gotten your side...

632
00:43:34,441 --> 00:43:35,676
for the record.

633
00:43:35,776 --> 00:43:38,646
It's done now. What's the use
of grousing about it?

634
00:43:38,746 --> 00:43:42,016
Forget the letter,
I just had to blow off steam.

635
00:43:42,116 --> 00:43:45,346
She's probably just a little confused.

636
00:43:45,653 --> 00:43:46,487
'Confused?'

637
00:43:46,587 --> 00:43:49,924
Probably a fast-talking career gal,
thinks she's one of the boys.

638
00:43:50,024 --> 00:43:51,892
Probably is, if you know what I mean.

639
00:43:51,992 --> 00:43:54,595
I'm quite sure I don't know what you mean.

640
00:43:54,695 --> 00:43:57,531
Probably suffers from one
of these complexes they have nowadays.

641
00:43:57,631 --> 00:44:01,502
It's obvious. She's probably
very unattractive and bitter about it.

642
00:44:01,602 --> 00:44:03,602
Is that it?

643
00:44:03,637 --> 00:44:07,441
She probably dresses in men's clothing,
drinks with the guys at the local bar...

644
00:44:07,541 --> 00:44:11,579
hobnobs with some smooth-talking heel
reporter named Biff or Smoocher or--

645
00:44:11,679 --> 00:44:12,413
Smitty.

646
00:44:12,513 --> 00:44:15,015
Exactly. I bet she's ugly, real ugly.

647
00:44:15,115 --> 00:44:17,518
Otherwise, why isn't her picture
next to her byline?

648
00:44:17,618 --> 00:44:21,255
Maybe she puts her work
ahead of her personal appearance.

649
00:44:21,355 --> 00:44:23,223
I bet that's what she tells herself.

650
00:44:23,323 --> 00:44:27,294
But you and I know
she's a dried-up, bitter old maid.

651
00:44:27,394 --> 00:44:29,897
How about we grab a little dinner
and a show after work?

652
00:44:29,997 --> 00:44:32,933
I was thinking maybe The King and I?

653
00:44:33,033 --> 00:44:34,501
How about Oklahoma?

654
00:44:34,601 --> 00:44:37,104
You don't know a thing about that woman!

655
00:44:37,204 --> 00:44:41,108
You don't know who she really is!
Only a numbskull thinks he knows things...

656
00:44:41,208 --> 00:44:44,268
about things he knows nothing about.

657
00:44:45,312 --> 00:44:47,312
Say, what gives?

658
00:45:39,846 --> 00:45:43,346

659
00:45:44,887 --> 00:45:48,387

660
00:46:54,274 --> 00:46:57,911
The inventory of the Jacksonville facility
should be reduced...

661
00:46:58,011 --> 00:47:01,181
by 15%. Memo from the desk
of Sidney J. Mussburger--

662
00:47:01,281 --> 00:47:04,001
What are you doing, Miss Archer?

663
00:47:13,126 --> 00:47:16,356
Who are you?
How did you know who I am?

664
00:47:18,565 --> 00:47:22,369
I suspect Old Moses knows
just about everything...

665
00:47:22,469 --> 00:47:25,305
leastways if it concerns Hudsucker.

666
00:47:25,405 --> 00:47:27,708
Who are you? What do you do here?

667
00:47:27,808 --> 00:47:30,043
I keep the old circle turning.

668
00:47:30,143 --> 00:47:33,046
This old clock needs plenty of care.

669
00:47:33,146 --> 00:47:35,441
Time is money, Miss Archer.

670
00:47:35,582 --> 00:47:38,352
Money drives that old global economy...

671
00:47:38,452 --> 00:47:40,888
and keeps Big Daddy Earth
spinning around.

672
00:47:40,988 --> 00:47:44,133
See, without that capital formation--

673
00:47:45,559 --> 00:47:47,895
You won't tell anyone about me, will you?

674
00:47:47,995 --> 00:47:50,545
I don't tell no one nothing...

675
00:47:51,164 --> 00:47:52,900
unless they ask.

676
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,635
That just ain't Old Moses' way.

677
00:47:55,869 --> 00:47:57,504
If you know everything about Hudsucker...

678
00:47:57,604 --> 00:48:01,441
tell me why the board decided
to make Norville Barnes president?

679
00:48:01,541 --> 00:48:04,711
That even surprised Old Moses at first.

680
00:48:04,811 --> 00:48:06,947
I didn't think the board was that smart.

681
00:48:07,047 --> 00:48:07,948
'That smart?'

682
00:48:08,048 --> 00:48:10,984
But then I figured it out.
They did it because...

683
00:48:11,084 --> 00:48:12,905
they figured young Norville for...

684
00:48:13,005 --> 00:48:15,322
an imbecile, like some
other people I know.

685
00:48:15,422 --> 00:48:18,725
Why on earth would the board
want a nitwit to be president?

686
00:48:18,825 --> 00:48:23,430
Because they're little piglets.
They're trying to inspire panic...

687
00:48:23,530 --> 00:48:27,100
make that stock cheap so they can
snatch it all up for themselves.

688
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:31,205
But Norville's got some tricks
up his sleeve. He does.

689
00:48:31,305 --> 00:48:33,305
'You know, for kids?'

690
00:48:34,675 --> 00:48:37,905
Yeah, he's a smart one, that Norville.

691
00:48:38,278 --> 00:48:43,784
But I guess you don't really know him
any better than that board does, do you?

692
00:48:43,884 --> 00:48:44,785
Maybe I--

693
00:48:44,885 --> 00:48:50,624
And only some kind of knuckle-head thinks
she knows things about things....

694
00:48:50,724 --> 00:48:52,724
When she don't....

695
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:54,928
How'd that go?

696
00:48:55,028 --> 00:48:57,030
Well, it's hardly the same.

697
00:48:57,130 --> 00:48:59,633
You don't even know your own self.

698
00:48:59,733 --> 00:49:03,537
You ain't exactly the genuine article,
are you, Miss Archer?

699
00:49:03,637 --> 00:49:08,642
In connection with my job, sometimes
I have to go undercover, as it were.

700
00:49:08,742 --> 00:49:10,477
I don't mean that.

701
00:49:10,577 --> 00:49:14,948
Why are you pretending to be
such a hard old sourpuss?

702
00:49:15,048 --> 00:49:18,108
Ain't going to never make you happy!

703
00:49:19,152 --> 00:49:21,152
I'm happy enough.

704
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,760
I got gears to see to.

705
00:49:33,500 --> 00:49:35,500
I'm plenty happy!

706
00:49:45,746 --> 00:49:46,947
I can't print that!

707
00:49:47,047 --> 00:49:50,817
Why not? It's true. The board's using him
to depress the stock and buy it cheap.

708
00:49:50,917 --> 00:49:54,755
It's pure speculation!
They'd have my butt in a satchel!

709
00:49:54,855 --> 00:49:56,323
They'll buy that stock--

710
00:49:56,423 --> 00:49:59,993
You don't know anything. They haven't
bought it. What are they waiting for?

711
00:50:00,093 --> 00:50:00,761
I don't know.

712
00:50:00,861 --> 00:50:03,196
Amy's hunches are usually pretty good.

713
00:50:03,296 --> 00:50:06,033
You don't accuse somebody
of stock manipulation on a hunch!

714
00:50:06,133 --> 00:50:09,002
Our readers aren't interested
in sensationalism, gossip...

715
00:50:09,102 --> 00:50:10,437
unsupported speculation!

716
00:50:10,537 --> 00:50:13,540
Facts! Figures! Those are the tools
of the newspaper trade.

717
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:17,311
It's as if you're trying to take the heat
off him. Like you've gone soft on him.

718
00:50:17,411 --> 00:50:19,546
Come on, Chief. That's a low blow.

719
00:50:19,646 --> 00:50:22,382
Archer's not going to go gooey
for a corn-fed idiot.

720
00:50:22,482 --> 00:50:25,886
I was out of line. But you're out of line
with this stock-swindle story.

721
00:50:25,986 --> 00:50:28,555
Give me more of that
'moron from Sheboygan' stuff.

722
00:50:28,655 --> 00:50:29,790
Muncie.
- Whatever.

723
00:50:29,890 --> 00:50:31,525
That's what sells newspapers!

724
00:50:31,625 --> 00:50:34,294
I've got a harder story:
'The Sap From The City Desk!'

725
00:50:34,394 --> 00:50:36,897
Watch it!
- It's about a dim-witted editor who--

726
00:50:36,997 --> 00:50:38,997
Easy, tough guy.

727
00:50:41,668 --> 00:50:43,804
Does this suit look mannish to you?

728
00:50:43,904 --> 00:50:46,794
Yeah, sure. Let's grab a highball.

729
00:50:47,007 --> 00:50:48,408
Back off!

730
00:50:48,508 --> 00:50:50,508
Smoocher!

731
00:50:52,479 --> 00:50:54,479
What gives?

732
00:50:56,245 --> 00:50:59,745

733
00:50:59,995 --> 00:51:03,495

734
00:51:09,563 --> 00:51:12,555
A man of great managerial potency.

735
00:51:13,166 --> 00:51:15,569
My husband is also a president.

736
00:51:15,669 --> 00:51:19,172
Sears Braithwaite of Bullard.
Do you know him?

737
00:51:19,272 --> 00:51:21,399
Your companion is an ode!

738
00:51:21,575 --> 00:51:24,203
A lyric! Are you betrothed?

739
00:51:24,311 --> 00:51:26,813
Amy works in my office. She runs--

740
00:51:26,913 --> 00:51:29,074
Oh, the folly of youth!

741
00:51:29,249 --> 00:51:31,218
Those green remembered hills!

742
00:51:31,318 --> 00:51:34,888
That bourn from which no traveler returns.

743
00:51:35,088 --> 00:51:37,491
I once ran the mimeograph for Sidney.

744
00:51:37,591 --> 00:51:40,994
Though engaged at the time
to quelqu'un d'autre...

745
00:51:41,094 --> 00:51:44,834
my water-cooler romance
became a mad passion.

746
00:51:44,865 --> 00:51:47,766
Un amour fou. Une folie a deux.

747
00:51:50,036 --> 00:51:52,706
I'm brushing up on my French
with the most charming man...

748
00:51:52,806 --> 00:51:56,443
Pierre of 5th Avenue. Do you know him?
- Do you know him?

749
00:51:56,543 --> 00:52:01,983
Sidney and I are planning a trip
to Paris and points continental.

750
00:52:04,551 --> 00:52:06,551
Aren't we, dear?

751
00:52:06,620 --> 00:52:11,858
Sure. I'd like to borrow Norville
for a while, if you don't mind.

752
00:52:11,958 --> 00:52:13,958
Well, frankly, I....

753
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:16,797
You have a very charming wife, Mr.... Sid.

754
00:52:16,897 --> 00:52:18,765
So they tell me.

755
00:52:18,865 --> 00:52:22,135
Let me shepherd you
through some of the introductions here.

756
00:52:22,235 --> 00:52:24,360
Try not to talk too much.

757
00:52:24,738 --> 00:52:27,541
Some of our biggest stockholders are....

758
00:52:27,641 --> 00:52:29,242
Scratch that. Say whatever you like.

759
00:52:29,342 --> 00:52:32,379
Shake hands with
Sears Braithwaite of Bullard.

760
00:52:32,479 --> 00:52:34,381
Glad to know you, Barnes.

761
00:52:34,481 --> 00:52:36,249
This is Zebulon Cardozo...

762
00:52:36,349 --> 00:52:39,486
one of Hudsucker's largest
and most loyal stockholders.

763
00:52:39,586 --> 00:52:41,955
What's this I hear
about you being an imbecile?

764
00:52:42,055 --> 00:52:43,757
What's ailing you, boy?

765
00:52:43,857 --> 00:52:47,961
Last week, my stock was worth twice
what it is now. I think I'll sell...

766
00:52:48,061 --> 00:52:52,399
the whole kit and caboodle, boy,
unless I see a vast improvement.

767
00:52:52,499 --> 00:52:55,168
What you've got here, son, is a range war!

768
00:52:55,268 --> 00:53:00,607
You gonna have to circle our wagons
or I'm gonna get out of your wagon train.

769
00:53:00,707 --> 00:53:02,909
No need for concern, sir.
It's only natural...

770
00:53:03,009 --> 00:53:06,179
in a period of transition for the more
timid elements to run for cover.

771
00:53:06,279 --> 00:53:09,305
Yellow? I'll show you yellow, boy!

772
00:53:10,050 --> 00:53:13,186
You mind now and quit acting
like such an old grizzly.

773
00:53:13,286 --> 00:53:15,581
Step lively here, Norville.

774
00:53:15,689 --> 00:53:19,059
I'm sorry, I thought maybe if I showed him
the long view--

775
00:53:19,159 --> 00:53:22,095
And this is Thorstensen Finlandson...

776
00:53:22,195 --> 00:53:24,931
who heads a radical, splinter group
of disgruntled investors.

777
00:53:25,031 --> 00:53:26,433
Pleased to meet you.

778
00:53:26,533 --> 00:53:30,036
It might interest you to know I studied
a little Finnish in high school.

779
00:53:30,136 --> 00:53:32,261
I hope I'm not too rusty.

780
00:53:39,546 --> 00:53:43,049
Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished
members of the Hudsucker Board...

781
00:53:43,149 --> 00:53:47,654
I give you the Rajah of Romance,
the Ministereo of Moonlight...

782
00:53:47,754 --> 00:53:50,123
the incredible, the unforgettable...

783
00:53:50,223 --> 00:53:53,158
Mr. Vic Tenetta!

784
00:53:59,899 --> 00:54:01,899
'Rajah.' I like that.

785
00:54:44,711 --> 00:54:46,711
What happened?

786
00:54:47,547 --> 00:54:52,118
Nothing. Just the more timid investors
are no longer running for cover.

787
00:54:52,218 --> 00:54:53,853
Let me look.

788
00:54:53,953 --> 00:54:55,288
Sid found me the ice pack.

789
00:54:55,388 --> 00:54:59,128
Let me hold it or you'll
have a real shiner.

790
00:54:59,492 --> 00:55:02,796
I guess people are pretty hot
over this imbecile story.

791
00:55:02,896 --> 00:55:04,896
I'm sorry.

792
00:55:04,931 --> 00:55:08,868
It's not your fault. You've the one person
standing by me through all this.

793
00:55:08,968 --> 00:55:12,639
Norville, there's something
I have to tell you.

794
00:55:12,739 --> 00:55:14,374
You see...

795
00:55:14,474 --> 00:55:16,769
I�m not really a secretary.

796
00:55:17,410 --> 00:55:18,545
I know that, Amy.

797
00:55:18,645 --> 00:55:19,746
You do?

798
00:55:19,846 --> 00:55:22,949
I understand you're not very skilled yet
in the secretarial arts...

799
00:55:23,049 --> 00:55:26,152
but I'll tell you a secret:
I'm not that skilled as president.

800
00:55:26,252 --> 00:55:31,258
I know I put up a big front, but--
- I believe in you, Norville.

801
00:55:31,358 --> 00:55:32,892
At least...

802
00:55:32,992 --> 00:55:35,457
I believe in your intentions.

803
00:55:35,662 --> 00:55:39,666
I don't blame them, really.
I suppose I have made a mess of things.

804
00:55:39,766 --> 00:55:42,002
Those folks have to protect
their investment.

805
00:55:42,102 --> 00:55:43,670
Most of them are very nice people.

806
00:55:43,770 --> 00:55:47,173
Listen, you can't trust people here
like you did in Muncie.

807
00:55:47,273 --> 00:55:49,332
Certain people are--

808
00:55:49,409 --> 00:55:54,247
Did you ever go to the top of Larson's
feed tower and look out over the town?

809
00:55:54,347 --> 00:55:56,016
On Farm Route 17?

810
00:55:56,116 --> 00:55:58,550
Oh, yes, in Muncie.

811
00:55:59,786 --> 00:56:02,448
No, Vidalia. Farm Route 17.

812
00:56:04,157 --> 00:56:08,492
Seventeen. Yes, I....
Well, no, no. I never really--

813
00:56:09,362 --> 00:56:14,100
The guys from the Varsity Squad
would bring their dates up there...

814
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,200
to hold hands.

815
00:56:16,369 --> 00:56:19,089
Of course, I never made Varsity.

816
00:56:21,307 --> 00:56:23,432
There's a place I go now.

817
00:56:23,977 --> 00:56:26,980
Cutest little place near my apartment
in Greenwich Village.

818
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,120
It's called 'Ann's 440.'

819
00:56:29,382 --> 00:56:30,784
It's a beatnik bar.

820
00:56:30,884 --> 00:56:32,285
You don't say?
- Yes.

821
00:56:32,385 --> 00:56:33,353
A beatnik bar.

822
00:56:33,453 --> 00:56:37,490
You can get carrot juice or Italian coffee
and the people there...

823
00:56:37,590 --> 00:56:39,826
Well, none of them quite fit in.

824
00:56:39,926 --> 00:56:41,561
You'd love it.

825
00:56:41,661 --> 00:56:43,496
Come there with me.

826
00:56:43,596 --> 00:56:46,433
There's a marathon poetry-reading
on New Year's Eve. I go every year.

827
00:56:46,533 --> 00:56:48,913
It's marvelous!
- Every year?

828
00:56:51,004 --> 00:56:56,104
Well, this year, if it's good,
I plan to make it a tradition.

829
00:56:57,677 --> 00:57:00,227
My, it certainly is beautiful.

830
00:57:00,413 --> 00:57:02,413
The people...

831
00:57:02,415 --> 00:57:04,415
look like ants.

832
00:57:05,118 --> 00:57:08,755
The Hindus, and the beatniks also,
say that...

833
00:57:08,855 --> 00:57:11,991
in our next lives some of us
will come back as ants.

834
00:57:12,091 --> 00:57:16,329
Some will be butterflies, others will be
elephants or creatures of the sea.

835
00:57:16,429 --> 00:57:17,964
What a beautiful thought.

836
00:57:18,064 --> 00:57:21,768
What do you think you were
in a previous life?

837
00:57:21,868 --> 00:57:23,868
Oh, I don't know.

838
00:57:24,270 --> 00:57:26,106
Maybe I was just...

839
00:57:26,206 --> 00:57:30,343
a fast-talking career gal
who thought she was one of the boys.

840
00:57:30,443 --> 00:57:31,778
Oh, no, Amy.

841
00:57:31,878 --> 00:57:34,781
Pardon me for saying so,
but I find that very far-fetched.

842
00:57:34,881 --> 00:57:38,852
There really is something I must tell you.
- That person would come back as a hog.

843
00:57:38,952 --> 00:57:42,182
I find it more likely that you were...

844
00:57:43,022 --> 00:57:45,022
a gazelle...

845
00:57:45,058 --> 00:57:49,462
with long, graceful legs,
gamboling through the underbrush.

846
00:57:49,562 --> 00:57:51,562
Perhaps we met once.

847
00:57:51,898 --> 00:57:55,043
A chance encounter in a forest glade.

848
00:57:56,569 --> 00:57:59,969
I must have been an antelope or an ibex.

849
00:58:00,306 --> 00:58:04,711
The times we must've had
foraging together for sustenance...

850
00:58:04,811 --> 00:58:07,881
snorfling water
from a mountain stream...

851
00:58:07,981 --> 00:58:12,401
picking the grubs and burrs
from one another's coats.

852
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:20,185
Or perhaps we simply touched horns
briefly and went our separate ways.

853
00:58:20,193 --> 00:58:23,678
Oh, I wish it were that simple, Norville.

854
00:58:24,264 --> 00:58:28,939
I wish I was still a gazelle
and you were an antelope...

855
00:58:29,335 --> 00:58:31,335
or an ibex.

856
00:58:35,275 --> 00:58:37,110
Can I at least call you...

857
00:58:37,210 --> 00:58:39,210
deer?

858
00:58:41,414 --> 00:58:42,515
You're funny.

859
00:58:42,615 --> 00:58:46,019
Seriously, Amy, it's what
your beatnik friends call 'karma.'

860
00:58:46,119 --> 00:58:46,920
Karma.

861
00:58:47,020 --> 00:58:50,056
The great circle of
life, death and rebirth.

862
00:58:50,156 --> 00:58:53,860
I think I heard of that.
What goes around comes around.

863
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:58,765
That's it. A great wheel
that gives us all what we deserve.

864
00:58:58,865 --> 00:59:02,068
I've go to show Sid and all the guys
I deserve their confidence.

865
00:59:02,168 --> 00:59:05,823
Tomorrow's my big presentation
to the board.

866
00:59:07,140 --> 00:59:08,641
Kiss me, Amy!

867
00:59:08,741 --> 00:59:10,741
Kiss me once for luck.

868
00:59:11,711 --> 00:59:13,711
Sure, Norville.

869
00:59:50,326 --> 00:59:53,826

870
00:59:54,420 --> 00:59:55,989
You know, for kids!

871
00:59:56,089 --> 00:59:57,733
It has economy, simplicity, low...

872
00:59:57,833 --> 00:59:59,926
production cost,
potential for mass appeal.

873
01:00:00,026 --> 01:00:02,295
All that spells out great profitability.

874
01:00:02,395 --> 01:00:05,098
I had the boys at R&D
make this prototype...

875
01:00:05,198 --> 01:00:07,133
so our discussion
could have some focus...

876
01:00:07,233 --> 01:00:11,104
and to give you gentleman a firsthand
look at how exciting this gizmo is.

877
01:00:11,204 --> 01:00:14,641
It's fun, healthy, good exercise,
and the kids'll love it.

878
01:00:14,741 --> 01:00:17,777
We put a little sand inside
to make the experience more pleasant.

879
01:00:17,877 --> 01:00:22,807
The great part is we don't have
to charge an arm and a leg.

880
01:00:23,850 --> 01:00:26,686
What if you tire before it's done?
- Does it have rules?

881
01:00:26,786 --> 01:00:28,922
Can more than one play?
- Why is it a game?

882
01:00:29,022 --> 01:00:30,590
Is it a game?
- Will it break?

883
01:00:30,690 --> 01:00:32,859
It better break eventually.
- Is there an object?

884
01:00:32,959 --> 01:00:35,595
What if you tire before it's done?
- Does it have batteries?

885
01:00:35,695 --> 01:00:38,531
Could we charge extra for them?
- Is it safe for toddlers?

886
01:00:38,631 --> 01:00:41,000
How do you know you're finished?
- How does it stop?

887
01:00:41,100 --> 01:00:43,736
Is that a boy's model?
- Can a parent assemble it?

888
01:00:43,836 --> 01:00:48,041
What if you tire before it's done?
- Is there a larger model for the obese?

889
01:00:48,141 --> 01:00:50,336
What the hell is it?

890
01:00:50,410 --> 01:00:52,410
Well, it's....

891
01:00:55,548 --> 01:00:57,548
Brilliant!

892
01:00:58,551 --> 01:01:00,551
Genius.

893
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:05,058
It's exactly what Hudsucker Industry needs
at this juncture.

894
01:01:05,158 --> 01:01:10,997
Even a blind man can tell you
there'll be an enormous demand for this...

895
01:01:11,097 --> 01:01:12,966
this....

896
01:01:13,066 --> 01:01:14,100
Congratulations.

897
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:16,703
You've outdone yourself.
You've reinvented the wheel.

898
01:01:16,803 --> 01:01:21,374
I'll recommend to the board
that we proceed immediately...

899
01:01:21,474 --> 01:01:23,474
and that the...

900
01:01:24,577 --> 01:01:27,614
dingus be mass-produced
with all deliberate speed.

901
01:01:27,714 --> 01:01:29,754
Although, you realize...

902
01:01:29,949 --> 01:01:31,949
of course...

903
01:01:34,420 --> 01:01:36,022
as president...

904
01:01:36,122 --> 01:01:38,757
the ultimate decision is yours.

905
01:01:39,325 --> 01:01:43,799
I'm for it.

906
01:01:45,449 --> 01:01:56,649

907
01:01:56,899 --> 01:02:00,399

908
01:02:29,342 --> 01:02:30,610
The Flying Doughnut!

909
01:02:30,710 --> 01:02:33,046
The Dancing Dingus!
- The Belly-Go-Round.

910
01:02:33,146 --> 01:02:34,380
The Swingerina!

911
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:35,915
The Wacky Circumference!

912
01:02:36,015 --> 01:02:38,015
Uncle Midriff!

913
01:02:41,142 --> 01:02:44,642

914
01:02:44,892 --> 01:02:48,392

915
01:03:08,648 --> 01:03:10,416
We need something short!
- Sharp!

916
01:03:10,516 --> 01:03:11,217
Snappy!

917
01:03:11,317 --> 01:03:13,753
With a little jazz!
- The Shazzammeter!

918
01:03:13,853 --> 01:03:16,083
The Hipster!
- The Daddy-O!

919
01:03:18,764 --> 01:03:22,264

920
01:03:57,363 --> 01:03:59,031
The Hoopsucker.
- The Hudswinger.

921
01:03:59,131 --> 01:04:01,334
The Hoopsucker!
- The Hudswinger!

922
01:04:01,434 --> 01:04:04,154
The Hoopsucker!
- The Hudswinger!

923
01:04:31,264 --> 01:04:33,559
Fellas!
- You got something?

924
01:04:35,134 --> 01:04:37,134
I got something!

925
01:05:18,455 --> 01:05:19,355

926
01:05:34,613 --> 01:05:38,113

927
01:07:49,028 --> 01:07:53,192
Rockwell News presents: Tidbits of Time.

928
01:07:53,566 --> 01:07:56,569
World news in pictures, we kid you not!

929
01:07:56,669 --> 01:08:00,409
As Old Man 1958 hobbles
towards his finish...

930
01:08:00,473 --> 01:08:02,975
Barnes is the name
on every American lip.

931
01:08:03,075 --> 01:08:06,579
Norville Barnes, young president
of Hudsucker Industries...

932
01:08:06,679 --> 01:08:10,716
a boy bred in the heartland,
but now the toast of New York.

933
01:08:10,816 --> 01:08:15,788
Barnes is the brainy inventor of America's
craziest craze: The Hula Hoop!

934
01:08:15,888 --> 01:08:19,792
Reaping huge profits for his company
and winning the hearts...

935
01:08:19,892 --> 01:08:23,207
and hips of every youngster in America!

936
01:08:23,896 --> 01:08:25,498
Did I say youngster?

937
01:08:25,598 --> 01:08:29,235
Here's Mom taking a break
from her household chores...

938
01:08:29,335 --> 01:08:32,565
and even Dad is swinging into the act!

939
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:38,511
Cards, letters, congratulations come
pouring in from Kankakee to Petaluma...

940
01:08:38,611 --> 01:08:41,981
including one very special
long-distance call.

941
01:08:42,081 --> 01:08:44,291
He's on! He's on the line!

942
01:08:50,723 --> 01:08:53,359
Hello, Norville. This is the President.

943
01:08:53,459 --> 01:08:57,496
I just wanted to congratulate you.
I'm very proud of you.

944
01:08:57,596 --> 01:09:00,232
Mrs. Eisenhower is very proud of you.

945
01:09:00,332 --> 01:09:03,817
The American people
are very proud of you.

946
01:09:09,975 --> 01:09:13,245
How'd you come up with the idea
for the Hula Hoop?

947
01:09:13,345 --> 01:09:15,281
It was no great idea, really.

948
01:09:15,381 --> 01:09:19,351
A thing like this takes a whole company
to put together. I'm grateful.

949
01:09:19,451 --> 01:09:22,321
Did you have any idea
there'd be such a huge response?

950
01:09:22,421 --> 01:09:27,181
Frankly, I don't think anybody
expected this much hoopla.

951
01:09:27,426 --> 01:09:30,896
'Hoopla on the Hula Hoop.'
Can we quote you on that, Mr. Barnes?

952
01:09:30,996 --> 01:09:32,996
Sure, I guess.

953
01:09:33,132 --> 01:09:36,617
Will you give yourself a nice, fat raise?

954
01:09:36,769 --> 01:09:38,769
Come on, you guys.

955
01:09:43,669 --> 01:09:47,169

956
01:09:45,578 --> 01:09:50,316
What scientific principle explains
the motion of this wheel of wonder?

957
01:09:50,416 --> 01:09:52,751
The dingus is quite simple, really.

958
01:09:52,851 --> 01:09:56,989
It operates on the same principles that
keep the earth spinning around the sun...

959
01:09:57,089 --> 01:09:59,123
and that keeps you from flying off...

960
01:09:59,223 --> 01:10:01,594
the earth into the cold
reaches of space...

961
01:10:01,694 --> 01:10:04,196
where you would die
like a miserable Schwein.

962
01:10:04,296 --> 01:10:06,765
Yes, the principle is the same...

963
01:10:06,865 --> 01:10:11,737
except for the piece of grit
they put in to make the experience...

964
01:10:11,837 --> 01:10:12,972
more pleasant.

965
01:10:13,072 --> 01:10:15,802
Yes, it's hula-hula everywhere!

966
01:10:15,874 --> 01:10:19,869
From the parties of the Park Avenue
smart set...

967
01:10:21,814 --> 01:10:26,914
to sweethearts who want
to be married in the swing of things.

968
01:10:29,855 --> 01:10:33,192
Did the board consider you an 'Idea Man'
when they promoted you?

969
01:10:33,292 --> 01:10:36,829
I guess. I don't think they promoted me
because they thought I was a schmo.

970
01:10:36,929 --> 01:10:40,199
What's the next big idea for you
and Hudsucker Industries?

971
01:10:40,299 --> 01:10:43,669
I don't know. An idea like this sweet baby
doesn't just come overnight.

972
01:10:43,769 --> 01:10:48,741
Although, I'll tell you one thing:
I certainly didn't expect all this hoopla.

973
01:10:48,841 --> 01:10:50,966
You can quote me on that.

974
01:10:51,335 --> 01:10:54,835

975
01:10:58,050 --> 01:11:01,220
Rumpus Magazine has called you
the most eligible bachelor of the year.

976
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:04,423
And society pages have been linking you
with fashion model Za-Za.

977
01:11:04,523 --> 01:11:10,728
There's no truth to the rumors.
We're just dear friends. Isn't that right?

978
01:11:15,734 --> 01:11:20,039
How do you respond to the charges that
you're out of ideas? Have you run dry?

979
01:11:20,139 --> 01:11:24,376
Not at all. Just this week I came up
with several new sweet ideas.

980
01:11:24,476 --> 01:11:28,948
A larger model Hula Hoop for the portly,
a battery option for the lazy or spastic.

981
01:11:29,048 --> 01:11:31,383
A model with extra sand
for the hard-of-hearing.

982
01:11:31,483 --> 01:11:33,118
I'm earning my keep.

983
01:11:33,218 --> 01:11:36,088
Speaking of that,
do you expect to get a raise?

984
01:11:36,188 --> 01:11:40,259
By anyone's account I single-handedly
have saved Hudsucker Industries.

985
01:11:40,359 --> 01:11:44,374
Our stock is worth more now than ever.
Yes, I expect to be compensated for that.

986
01:11:47,985 --> 01:11:51,485

987
01:12:04,850 --> 01:12:06,619
Pull yourself together, man.

988
01:12:06,719 --> 01:12:08,719
Nobody told me!

989
01:12:09,154 --> 01:12:11,418
You sold all our stock?

990
01:12:11,857 --> 01:12:13,425
We dumped the whole load.

991
01:12:13,525 --> 01:12:15,891
I had 20,000 shares!

992
01:12:16,628 --> 01:12:18,330
I'd be a millionaire now!

993
01:12:18,430 --> 01:12:21,065
Sure. We'd all be millionaires.

994
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:24,005
There's no point in looking back.

995
01:12:24,036 --> 01:12:27,940
At the time, Stillson thought that dumping
our position would panic the market...

996
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:30,250
further depress the stock.

997
01:12:30,309 --> 01:12:33,812
Then we could buy it back and more,
of course, once it got cheap.

998
01:12:33,912 --> 01:12:35,214
Cheap?

999
01:12:35,314 --> 01:12:37,864
It's never been more valuable!

1000
01:12:39,151 --> 01:12:41,151
And I'm ruined.

1001
01:12:41,153 --> 01:12:43,153
Ruined!

1002
01:12:49,428 --> 01:12:52,659
I'm getting off this merry-go-round!

1003
01:13:02,775 --> 01:13:04,410
Plexiglass.

1004
01:13:04,510 --> 01:13:06,805
Had it installed last week.

1005
01:13:20,192 --> 01:13:22,402
So, the kid caught a wave.

1006
01:13:23,595 --> 01:13:27,087
Right now, he and his dingus are on top.

1007
01:13:27,699 --> 01:13:29,909
Well, this too shall pass.

1008
01:13:30,369 --> 01:13:33,939
Myrtle J. Mussburger
did not raise her boy to go...

1009
01:13:34,039 --> 01:13:36,742
knock-kneed at the
first sign of adversity.

1010
01:13:36,842 --> 01:13:40,497
I say, we made this chump,
we can break him!

1011
01:13:40,612 --> 01:13:44,692
I say, the higher he climbs,
the harder he drops!

1012
01:13:45,284 --> 01:13:47,284
I say, yes...

1013
01:13:47,286 --> 01:13:49,286
the kid has a future...

1014
01:13:50,389 --> 01:13:52,389
and in it...

1015
01:13:52,624 --> 01:13:54,664
I see shame, dishonor...

1016
01:13:55,294 --> 01:13:57,294
ignominy, disgrace.

1017
01:14:01,066 --> 01:14:04,041
The music plays, the wheel turns...

1018
01:14:04,570 --> 01:14:06,950
and our spin ain't over yet.

1019
01:14:31,330 --> 01:14:33,625
For Pete's sakes, Norville!

1020
01:14:33,699 --> 01:14:35,667
Where have you been hiding?

1021
01:14:35,767 --> 01:14:39,071
Do you know what those nincompoops
in the boardroom are doing?

1022
01:14:39,171 --> 01:14:40,773
I wouldn't call them nincompoops.

1023
01:14:40,873 --> 01:14:43,342
They're going to discharge 8%
of the workforce here!

1024
01:14:43,442 --> 01:14:46,378
In New York City alone,
that means 1,800 people out of work!

1025
01:14:46,478 --> 01:14:49,081
People with wives, children and families!

1026
01:14:49,181 --> 01:14:51,350
We're pruning away some of the dead wood.

1027
01:14:51,450 --> 01:14:53,485
You mean you know about this?

1028
01:14:53,585 --> 01:14:55,120
Know about it? Sure.

1029
01:14:55,220 --> 01:14:58,357
You think the board would do anything
without my authorization?

1030
01:14:58,457 --> 01:14:59,892
It was my idea.

1031
01:14:59,992 --> 01:15:01,293
Your--
- Sure it was.

1032
01:15:01,393 --> 01:15:04,296
We're in a period of transition.
Things have slowed down.

1033
01:15:04,396 --> 01:15:07,166
You're being awfully kind to yourself,
Norville Barnes.

1034
01:15:07,266 --> 01:15:11,136
You've slowed down, sitting up here
not doing a lick of work.

1035
01:15:11,236 --> 01:15:16,108
You haven't come up with an idea since
the Hoop and the reason is plain to see!

1036
01:15:16,208 --> 01:15:18,710
You've forgotten what made your ideas
exciting to you.

1037
01:15:18,810 --> 01:15:21,180
It wasn't for the fame and wealth....

1038
01:15:21,280 --> 01:15:26,125
Would you get out of here?
You too, sisters, move it. Out!

1039
01:15:27,352 --> 01:15:30,589
I've been watching you, even though
you've been trying to avoid me.

1040
01:15:30,689 --> 01:15:31,356
Shut up!

1041
01:15:31,456 --> 01:15:33,725
Don't think I haven't noticed
how you've changed.

1042
01:15:33,825 --> 01:15:35,594
I used to think you were a swell guy.

1043
01:15:35,694 --> 01:15:38,063
To be honest,
I thought you were an imbecile.

1044
01:15:38,163 --> 01:15:38,931
Shut up!

1045
01:15:39,031 --> 01:15:42,601
Then I figured out you were a swell guy.
A little slow maybe, but a swell guy.

1046
01:15:42,701 --> 01:15:46,138
Maybe you're not so slow
but you're not so swell either.

1047
01:15:46,238 --> 01:15:49,074
Looks like you're an imbecile, after all.
Shut up!

1048
01:15:49,174 --> 01:15:52,578
You haven't talked to me for a week
and now I'm going to say my piece.

1049
01:15:52,678 --> 01:15:54,718
Look, I've never been...

1050
01:15:55,681 --> 01:15:58,550
dumped by a fella before,
and that hurts...

1051
01:15:58,650 --> 01:16:01,487
but what really hurts is watching you
out-run your soul!

1052
01:16:01,587 --> 01:16:03,956
Chasing after money and ease
and the respect of a board...

1053
01:16:04,056 --> 01:16:06,391
that wouldn't give you the time of day...

1054
01:16:06,491 --> 01:16:07,960
if you....

1055
01:16:08,060 --> 01:16:10,270
Worked in a watch factory?

1056
01:16:11,029 --> 01:16:13,029
Shut up! Exactly.

1057
01:16:13,665 --> 01:16:17,669
Norville, don't you remember
how you used to feel about the Hoop?

1058
01:16:17,769 --> 01:16:21,340
You told me you'd bring a smile
to the hips of everyone in America...

1059
01:16:21,440 --> 01:16:23,375
regardless of race, creed or color.

1060
01:16:23,475 --> 01:16:27,079
Finally, there'd be a thingamajig
that would bring everyone together...

1061
01:16:27,179 --> 01:16:29,848
even if it kept them apart spatially.

1062
01:16:29,948 --> 01:16:31,450
'You know...

1063
01:16:31,550 --> 01:16:33,352
'...for kids.'

1064
01:16:33,452 --> 01:16:35,452
Your words...

1065
01:16:35,554 --> 01:16:37,554
not mine.

1066
01:16:38,056 --> 01:16:40,691
I used to love Norville Barnes.

1067
01:16:40,792 --> 01:16:42,792
Yes, love him...

1068
01:16:42,894 --> 01:16:47,566
when he was just a swell kid
with hot ideas who was in over his head.

1069
01:16:47,666 --> 01:16:50,002
Now your head's too big to be in over!

1070
01:16:50,102 --> 01:16:52,567
Consider this my resignation.

1071
01:16:53,305 --> 01:16:55,305
Effective immediately!

1072
01:18:14,820 --> 01:18:16,820
Buddy, buddy.

1073
01:18:17,522 --> 01:18:19,391
Buddy.

1074
01:18:19,491 --> 01:18:21,491
Oh, buddy.

1075
01:18:30,602 --> 01:18:32,602
Buddy. You busy?

1076
01:18:33,772 --> 01:18:38,957
Looks like you nodded off there, buddy.
Say, you got a minute?

1077
01:18:40,846 --> 01:18:42,180
Is this important?

1078
01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:45,550
I think so. It's this little idea
I've been working on.

1079
01:18:45,650 --> 01:18:48,320
You see, I don't intend
to be an elevator boy forever.

1080
01:18:48,420 --> 01:18:49,988
Take a look at this sweet baby!

1081
01:18:50,088 --> 01:18:52,524
Get it? Incredibly convenient, isn't it?

1082
01:18:52,624 --> 01:18:54,292
You know, for drinks?

1083
01:18:54,392 --> 01:18:56,570
This is how it works.
It's got these ridges...

1084
01:18:56,670 --> 01:18:58,363
on the side that give it its whammy.

1085
01:18:58,463 --> 01:19:02,134
You don't have to drink like this.
You can drink like this.

1086
01:19:02,234 --> 01:19:04,503
I call it the 'Buzz-Sucker.'
You get it, buddy?

1087
01:19:04,603 --> 01:19:08,440
People are dying for this and
we won't have to charge an arm and a leg.

1088
01:19:08,540 --> 01:19:10,540
Wait a minute.

1089
01:19:25,123 --> 01:19:27,123
This...

1090
01:19:29,227 --> 01:19:30,595
is worthless!

1091
01:19:30,695 --> 01:19:32,030
But, buddy!

1092
01:19:32,130 --> 01:19:35,033
This is the most idiotic thing
I've ever seen in my life.

1093
01:19:35,133 --> 01:19:37,436
Nobody wants a hair-brained product
like this.

1094
01:19:37,536 --> 01:19:38,637
You see, Buzz...

1095
01:19:38,737 --> 01:19:41,073
it lacks the creative spark...

1096
01:19:41,173 --> 01:19:44,943
the unalloyed genius
that made something like, say...

1097
01:19:45,043 --> 01:19:46,712
the Hula Hoop such a success.

1098
01:19:46,812 --> 01:19:49,247
How dare you barge in here
and take up my valuable time!

1099
01:19:49,347 --> 01:19:51,557
I've got a company to run!

1100
01:19:53,084 --> 01:19:55,954
I can't have every deadbeat
on the payroll pestering me...

1101
01:19:56,054 --> 01:19:57,756
with their idiotic brainwaves.

1102
01:19:57,856 --> 01:19:59,057
I'm sorry, buddy.

1103
01:19:59,157 --> 01:20:00,759
An example must be made!

1104
01:20:00,859 --> 01:20:02,859
What do you mean?

1105
01:20:03,428 --> 01:20:05,230
You're fired!

1106
01:20:05,330 --> 01:20:07,795
Is that plain enough for you?

1107
01:20:12,771 --> 01:20:14,771
Oh, buddy!

1108
01:20:14,940 --> 01:20:17,150
And don't call me 'buddy'!

1109
01:20:17,375 --> 01:20:21,780
Oh, please, sir! This job running
the elevator, it's all I got!

1110
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:23,915
It's okay if you don't
like the Buzz-Sucker!

1111
01:20:24,015 --> 01:20:27,670
Just let me keep my job,
I'm praying to you!

1112
01:20:27,686 --> 01:20:29,421
Get out of my office!

1113
01:20:29,521 --> 01:20:31,521
Get up! Up!

1114
01:20:31,957 --> 01:20:35,612
We don't crawl here
at Hudsucker Industries!

1115
01:20:36,194 --> 01:20:37,562
I'm sorry, sir!

1116
01:20:37,662 --> 01:20:39,662
I'm sorry!

1117
01:20:51,691 --> 01:20:55,191
<i></i>

1118
01:20:53,311 --> 01:20:55,311
Thank you, Aloysius.

1119
01:20:59,125 --> 01:21:02,625

1120
01:20:59,885 --> 01:21:01,885
This is...

1121
01:21:02,888 --> 01:21:04,888
useful.

1122
01:21:22,040 --> 01:21:27,479
I'm sorry I'm late, Sid. That back nine
at Riverdale's really murder.

1123
01:21:27,579 --> 01:21:31,064
It's a tough course. A real lollapalooza.

1124
01:21:32,017 --> 01:21:34,017
Sit down, son.

1125
01:21:36,621 --> 01:21:41,760
I thought the boardroom would be
a swell place to chat undisturbed.

1126
01:21:41,860 --> 01:21:46,264
Seems we've got some security problems
here at the Hud.

1127
01:21:46,364 --> 01:21:47,232
You don't say.

1128
01:21:47,332 --> 01:21:53,027
Ordinarily, I wouldn't bother you with it,
but this is embarrassing.

1129
01:21:53,038 --> 01:21:55,199
It concerns you directly.

1130
01:21:55,540 --> 01:21:58,677
How's that?
- It's not serious in itself.

1131
01:21:58,777 --> 01:22:02,047
Some elevator boy that you'd fired
came to me...

1132
01:22:02,147 --> 01:22:06,184
claiming that you'd stolen
the idea for the dingus.

1133
01:22:06,284 --> 01:22:08,409
You'd stolen it from him.

1134
01:22:11,122 --> 01:22:13,525
Maybe I was a little rough on him--
- Forget it.

1135
01:22:13,625 --> 01:22:17,229
You don't have to explain to me.
He's a little person. He's nothing.

1136
01:22:17,329 --> 01:22:19,329
Fire whoever you want.

1137
01:22:20,899 --> 01:22:22,899
No, the problem is...

1138
01:22:23,335 --> 01:22:25,036
who you hired.

1139
01:22:25,136 --> 01:22:26,571
That dame.

1140
01:22:26,671 --> 01:22:28,671
A spy, as it turns out.

1141
01:22:29,207 --> 01:22:32,644
She must have gotten
to that elevator schnook...

1142
01:22:32,744 --> 01:22:35,379
and her paper is going to town.

1143
01:22:35,981 --> 01:22:41,846
Sure, sure, we tried to kill the story,
but the Argus won't play ball.

1144
01:22:42,253 --> 01:22:45,690
The problem the board will have is
you hired this woman...

1145
01:22:45,790 --> 01:22:47,790
and you kept her on...

1146
01:22:47,826 --> 01:22:50,829
while she was making
a chump out of you.

1147
01:22:50,929 --> 01:22:53,224
Serious error in judgement.

1148
01:22:54,265 --> 01:22:56,265
Business is war, kid.

1149
01:22:56,935 --> 01:23:00,505
Take no prisoners, give no second chances.

1150
01:23:03,274 --> 01:23:05,810
When the board meets after New Year's...

1151
01:23:05,910 --> 01:23:07,910
your position....

1152
01:23:10,115 --> 01:23:12,410
Looks like you're finished.

1153
01:23:12,617 --> 01:23:14,617
Washed up.

1154
01:23:19,457 --> 01:23:21,693
Fourteenth hole at Riverdale...

1155
01:23:21,793 --> 01:23:23,495
some use a mashie...

1156
01:23:23,595 --> 01:23:25,595
some use a niblick.

1157
01:23:26,064 --> 01:23:27,599
Niblick.

1158
01:23:27,699 --> 01:23:30,504
You get more loft, more backspin.

1159
01:23:34,873 --> 01:23:36,873
That dame...

1160
01:23:37,475 --> 01:23:40,620
she got your throat pretty well slit.

1161
01:23:40,979 --> 01:23:43,699
When you're dead, you stay dead.

1162
01:23:43,848 --> 01:23:47,418
You don't believe me,
ask Waring Hudsucker.

1163
01:23:48,620 --> 01:23:50,620
Tough luck, kid.

1164
01:23:50,622 --> 01:23:52,747
You had a short climb up.

1165
01:23:53,458 --> 01:23:55,458
It's a long way down.

1166
01:24:07,124 --> 01:24:10,624

1167
01:24:07,705 --> 01:24:12,143
You can't print that!
- We are! She hits the streets tonight.

1168
01:24:12,243 --> 01:24:13,945
And she's dynamite!

1169
01:24:14,045 --> 01:24:18,149
But it's the bunk! Norville showed me his
design for the whatsit the day I met him.

1170
01:24:18,249 --> 01:24:21,019
Buzz couldn't have invented it.
Look at him, he's an imbecile.

1171
01:24:21,119 --> 01:24:25,090
Aren't you a broken record?
Gunderson did design it. He's a prodigy.

1172
01:24:25,190 --> 01:24:27,592
Says who?
- You're not the only one with sources.

1173
01:24:27,692 --> 01:24:30,462
Smith has a senior source
on the Hud Board. Very senior.

1174
01:24:30,562 --> 01:24:33,431
I bet his initials are
Sidney J. Mussburger.

1175
01:24:33,531 --> 01:24:36,167
You lost it. You gone soft,
by the looks of it.

1176
01:24:36,267 --> 01:24:38,902
Soft on the dummy from Dubuque.

1177
01:24:38,903 --> 01:24:40,205
Muncie.
- Whatever!

1178
01:24:40,305 --> 01:24:42,098
This story's hot and you're no longer...

1179
01:24:42,198 --> 01:24:44,175
on top of it. It's the
scoop of the century!

1180
01:24:44,275 --> 01:24:46,444
The other papers won't have this
till tomorrow!

1181
01:24:46,544 --> 01:24:50,415
Allemeinisher Zeitung, Le Figaro
will be choking on our dust come morning.

1182
01:24:50,515 --> 01:24:54,185
You're fools, both of you!
You're being used, don't you see?

1183
01:24:54,285 --> 01:24:57,188
Take a break. You worked hard on this.
You broke it for us.

1184
01:24:57,288 --> 01:25:01,878
But it's passed you by
and Smith's taking up the slack.

1185
01:25:01,993 --> 01:25:03,862
You want slack...

1186
01:25:03,962 --> 01:25:05,263
I�ll give you slack!

1187
01:25:05,363 --> 01:25:10,969
You're not putting me out to pasture!
I quit! Consider this my resignation!

1188
01:25:11,069 --> 01:25:13,069
Effective immediately!

1189
01:25:15,406 --> 01:25:17,406
Soft.

1190
01:25:25,783 --> 01:25:27,652
So, tell me...

1191
01:25:27,752 --> 01:25:31,067
why do you feel this woman
betrayed you?

1192
01:25:32,757 --> 01:25:34,292
What's the difference?

1193
01:25:34,392 --> 01:25:37,162
The whole world, it seems, is against you?

1194
01:25:37,262 --> 01:25:38,530
I don't know.

1195
01:25:38,630 --> 01:25:40,398
Und the elevator boy...

1196
01:25:40,498 --> 01:25:43,661
Buzz, he too works against you?

1197
01:25:45,937 --> 01:25:47,238
Classic.

1198
01:25:47,338 --> 01:25:50,575
Patient displayed listlessness, apathy,
gloomy indifference...

1199
01:25:50,675 --> 01:25:52,675
und was blue und mopey.

1200
01:25:53,011 --> 01:25:56,648
When asked what the Rorschach stains
represented, patient replied:

1201
01:25:56,748 --> 01:26:01,486
'Nothing much. I don't know.
Just a blotch. Sure beats me.'

1202
01:26:01,586 --> 01:26:05,423
Patient shows no ambition,
no get-up-and-go, no vim.

1203
01:26:05,523 --> 01:26:08,093
He is riding the grand loopen-ze-loop...

1204
01:26:08,193 --> 01:26:11,129
that goes from the height
of delusional gaiety...

1205
01:26:11,229 --> 01:26:13,354
to the trough of despair.

1206
01:26:13,565 --> 01:26:16,668
He is now near,
but not yet at his lowest point.

1207
01:26:16,768 --> 01:26:21,339
When he reaches bottom, he may erupt
und pose a danger to himself...

1208
01:26:21,439 --> 01:26:22,540
and others.

1209
01:26:22,640 --> 01:26:24,909
Diagnosis, Dr. Bromfenbrenner?

1210
01:26:25,009 --> 01:26:28,079
Patient is eine manic-depressive paranoid,
type B...

1211
01:26:28,179 --> 01:26:30,248
with acute schizoid tendencies.

1212
01:26:30,348 --> 01:26:32,348
So, patient is...?

1213
01:26:33,785 --> 01:26:35,420
Precisely.

1214
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:36,921
Nuts!

1215
01:26:37,021 --> 01:26:38,323
Prescription?

1216
01:26:38,423 --> 01:26:40,718
Three things: Commitment...

1217
01:26:40,992 --> 01:26:43,372
electroconvulsive therapy...

1218
01:26:43,394 --> 01:26:46,454
maintenance in eine secure facility.

1219
01:27:01,679 --> 01:27:04,654
Yeah, he's a tall guy. A real mess.

1220
01:27:05,683 --> 01:27:09,320
Look, you better get down here.
He says he's a friend of yours.

1221
01:27:09,420 --> 01:27:13,500
He didn't say.
But, man, is he from Squaresville.

1222
01:27:20,932 --> 01:27:22,932
I want a martini!

1223
01:27:22,934 --> 01:27:25,637
It's New Year's Eve. I deserve a martini.

1224
01:27:25,737 --> 01:27:27,505
It's like I've been telling you--

1225
01:27:27,605 --> 01:27:29,774
I thought you served misfits here!

1226
01:27:29,874 --> 01:27:32,777
That's a roger. But we don't sell alcohol.

1227
01:27:32,877 --> 01:27:35,480
What kind of bar doesn't serve martinis?

1228
01:27:35,580 --> 01:27:39,250
It's a juice-and-coffee bar, man,
like I've been telling you.

1229
01:27:39,350 --> 01:27:41,409
Right. So, I want...

1230
01:27:42,787 --> 01:27:44,622
a martini.

1231
01:27:44,722 --> 01:27:48,293
I've had a martini in every bar
on the way down here.

1232
01:27:48,393 --> 01:27:50,943
Martinis are for squares, man.

1233
01:27:52,430 --> 01:27:56,000
What'd you call me, you beatnik son of a--

1234
01:28:01,339 --> 01:28:02,774
Look who's here:

1235
01:28:02,874 --> 01:28:04,342
Amy Archer...

1236
01:28:04,442 --> 01:28:06,442
Prizeter Pule winner.

1237
01:28:06,778 --> 01:28:09,881
Looking for a nitwit to buy you lunch?

1238
01:28:09,981 --> 01:28:12,871
Bar fella, I'd like...
- I'm sorry.

1239
01:28:12,950 --> 01:28:14,319
a martini, please.

1240
01:28:14,419 --> 01:28:17,819
I tried to tell you so many times, I....

1241
01:28:18,256 --> 01:28:19,657
It's hard to admit...

1242
01:28:19,757 --> 01:28:21,757
when you've been wrong.

1243
01:28:22,193 --> 01:28:23,995
If you could just...

1244
01:28:24,095 --> 01:28:26,135
find it in your heart...

1245
01:28:26,531 --> 01:28:28,741
to give me another chance.

1246
01:28:30,868 --> 01:28:33,338
'You take no prisoners,
give no second chances.'

1247
01:28:33,438 --> 01:28:36,941
Please, Norville!
Please give me one more chance!

1248
01:28:37,041 --> 01:28:38,443
And yourself, too!

1249
01:28:38,543 --> 01:28:40,543
We both deserve one.

1250
01:28:40,611 --> 01:28:44,282
Just give us a second chance.
Together we can fight this thing.

1251
01:28:44,382 --> 01:28:48,486
I know the last story was a lie
and we can prove it. Release a statement!

1252
01:28:48,586 --> 01:28:52,156
I can help you write it!
- What's the difference?

1253
01:28:52,256 --> 01:28:54,256
I'm all washed up.

1254
01:28:55,059 --> 01:28:56,461
Extinct.

1255
01:28:56,561 --> 01:28:58,654
Homo sapiens sapicus.

1256
01:29:01,599 --> 01:29:03,692
That just about does it.

1257
01:29:04,669 --> 01:29:08,373
I've seen Norville Barnes,
the young man in a big hurry...

1258
01:29:08,473 --> 01:29:11,943
and I've seen Norville Barnes,
the self-important heel.

1259
01:29:12,043 --> 01:29:15,680
But I've never seen Norville Barnes,
the quitter...

1260
01:29:15,780 --> 01:29:17,780
and I don't like it.

1261
01:29:19,150 --> 01:29:21,150
'Fight on

1262
01:29:21,319 --> 01:29:24,186
'Fight on, dear old Muncie

1263
01:29:25,823 --> 01:29:28,986
'Fight on Hoist the gold and blue

1264
01:29:30,461 --> 01:29:33,606
'You'll be tattered, torn and hurting

1265
01:29:34,399 --> 01:29:37,857
'Once the Munce is done with you

1266
01:29:40,405 --> 01:29:42,006
'Go...

1267
01:29:42,106 --> 01:29:44,106
'...Eagles!'

1268
01:29:45,643 --> 01:29:49,043
You can't surrender, Norville! Remember:

1269
01:29:49,447 --> 01:29:51,049
'Fight on

1270
01:29:51,149 --> 01:29:52,583
'Fight on

1271
01:29:52,683 --> 01:29:55,083
'Dear old Muncie

1272
01:29:55,620 --> 01:29:56,954
'Fight on

1273
01:29:57,054 --> 01:30:00,581
'Hoist the gold and blue

1274
01:30:01,692 --> 01:30:03,828
'You'll be tattered, torn...

1275
01:30:03,928 --> 01:30:05,928
'...and hurting...'

1276
01:30:07,732 --> 01:30:09,732
You lied to me.

1277
01:30:09,767 --> 01:30:11,807
How could you lie to me?

1278
01:30:13,571 --> 01:30:15,173
You...

1279
01:30:15,273 --> 01:30:17,273
a Muncie girl.

1280
01:30:18,543 --> 01:30:20,543
But, Norville, I--

1281
01:30:21,279 --> 01:30:23,815
'When you're dead, you stay dead!'

1282
01:30:23,915 --> 01:30:24,982
Just ask...

1283
01:30:25,082 --> 01:30:27,082
Waring Hudsucker!

1284
01:30:34,091 --> 01:30:35,593
Extra, extra!

1285
01:30:35,693 --> 01:30:37,462
New Year's Eve edition!

1286
01:30:37,562 --> 01:30:40,031
Barnes' brain caught red-handed!

1287
01:30:40,131 --> 01:30:41,933
Ideas ersatz!

1288
01:30:42,033 --> 01:30:44,923
Man from Muncie a moron after all!

1289
01:30:45,102 --> 01:30:47,229
Read all about it!

1290
01:30:47,405 --> 01:30:51,809
New Year's Eve edition!
Man from Muncie a moron after all!

1291
01:30:51,909 --> 01:30:54,112
You're not so slow, but
you're not so swell.

1292
01:30:54,212 --> 01:30:57,248
And it looks like you're an imbecile
after all.

1293
01:30:57,348 --> 01:30:59,684
But your friends called you 'dope?'

1294
01:30:59,784 --> 01:31:01,986
'Dipstick?' 'Lamebrain?' 'Schmo?'

1295
01:31:02,086 --> 01:31:05,223
Please, buddy, running the elevator,
it's all I got.

1296
01:31:05,323 --> 01:31:07,425
Norville, you let me down.

1297
01:31:07,525 --> 01:31:11,996
You let Mrs. Eisenhower down.
You let the American people down.

1298
01:31:12,096 --> 01:31:15,156
And when you're dead, you stay dead.

1299
01:31:18,069 --> 01:31:20,874
The kid is screwy, it's official.

1300
01:31:21,739 --> 01:31:25,042
The barred-window boys
are out looking for him now.

1301
01:31:25,142 --> 01:31:26,911
We'll see how Wall
Street likes the news...

1302
01:31:27,011 --> 01:31:32,016
that the president of Hudsucker
is heading for the booby hatch.

1303
01:31:32,116 --> 01:31:35,186
When Doc Bromfenbrenner gets through
with him...

1304
01:31:35,286 --> 01:31:38,431
he'll need diapers and a dribble cup.

1305
01:31:39,657 --> 01:31:41,192
If that's all....

1306
01:31:41,292 --> 01:31:43,292
Long live the Hud!

1307
01:31:53,004 --> 01:31:54,305
Watch where you're--

1308
01:31:54,405 --> 01:31:56,405
Hiya, buddy!

1309
01:31:56,941 --> 01:31:59,110
Out on the town? Guess what?

1310
01:31:59,210 --> 01:32:02,046
Mr.... Sid says I can
have my old job back!

1311
01:32:02,146 --> 01:32:04,215
I deserve a second chance, he says.

1312
01:32:04,315 --> 01:32:05,082
He did?

1313
01:32:05,182 --> 01:32:08,085
Turns out he's not such
a bad guy after all.

1314
01:32:08,185 --> 01:32:10,054
That's wonderful.

1315
01:32:10,154 --> 01:32:13,825
He said you stole that swell hoop idea
from me. What gives?

1316
01:32:13,925 --> 01:32:15,159
I would never--

1317
01:32:15,259 --> 01:32:17,554
Gee, that was a swell idea.

1318
01:32:17,929 --> 01:32:20,064
And Sid says you stoled it!

1319
01:32:20,164 --> 01:32:23,394
What are you waiting for? Pop him one!

1320
01:32:33,177 --> 01:32:34,879
He's that big-shot faker!

1321
01:32:34,979 --> 01:32:36,814
That Wall Street fraud!

1322
01:32:36,914 --> 01:32:39,039
Nuttier than a fruitcake!

1323
01:32:40,117 --> 01:32:42,117
Somebody call the cops!

1324
01:33:13,451 --> 01:33:16,341
Ring out the old, ring in the new!

1325
01:37:58,102 --> 01:38:00,738
Strictly speaking, I'm never supposed
to do this...

1326
01:38:00,838 --> 01:38:03,473
but have you got a better idea?

1327
01:39:10,975 --> 01:39:13,950
Love that tune. How you doing, kid?

1328
01:39:14,411 --> 01:39:16,411
Mr. Hudsucker?

1329
01:39:16,947 --> 01:39:19,717
How do you like that thing?
They're all wearing them upstairs.

1330
01:39:19,817 --> 01:39:21,051
It's a fad.

1331
01:39:21,151 --> 01:39:22,586
Anyway...

1332
01:39:22,686 --> 01:39:24,154
I see you've been having some...

1333
01:39:24,254 --> 01:39:25,890
problems with the board.

1334
01:39:25,990 --> 01:39:28,926
I guess Sidney's been putting
the screws to you, Norman.

1335
01:39:29,026 --> 01:39:30,527
Norville.

1336
01:39:30,627 --> 01:39:33,831
Say what you like about his ethics,
he's a balls-to-the-wall businessman.

1337
01:39:33,931 --> 01:39:37,201
Beat you any way he can.
Straight for the jugular. Very effective.

1338
01:39:37,301 --> 01:39:40,537
Any particular reason you didn't give him
my blue letter?

1339
01:39:40,637 --> 01:39:45,509
Norman, just a dying man's last words
and wishes, no big deal.

1340
01:39:45,609 --> 01:39:47,144
I must've mislaid it.

1341
01:39:47,244 --> 01:39:50,547
It's in your apron pocket,
right where you left it.

1342
01:39:50,647 --> 01:39:51,682
Imbecile.

1343
01:39:51,782 --> 01:39:56,287
Failure to deliver a blue letter
is grounds for dismissal.

1344
01:39:56,387 --> 01:39:59,456
It's New Year's. I'm not going to add
to your woes.

1345
01:39:59,556 --> 01:40:02,326
Want to read it?
You might learn something.

1346
01:40:02,426 --> 01:40:06,761
Might keep you from jumping
out of any more windows.

1347
01:40:10,901 --> 01:40:14,672
'Blue letter from the desk
of Waring Hudsucker...

1348
01:40:14,772 --> 01:40:17,741
'...to Sidney J. Mussburger,
regarding my demise.

1349
01:40:17,841 --> 01:40:18,909
'Dear Sid:

1350
01:40:19,009 --> 01:40:22,579
'By the time you read this, I will have
joined the organization upstairs...

1351
01:40:22,679 --> 01:40:26,383
'...an exciting new beginning.
I will retain fond--'

1352
01:40:26,483 --> 01:40:27,384
Memories.

1353
01:40:27,484 --> 01:40:30,629
'Of the years you and I have spent--'

1354
01:40:30,654 --> 01:40:36,179
Standard resignation boilerplate.
Go down to the second paragraph.

1355
01:40:39,930 --> 01:40:42,166
'You will no doubt be wondering
why I've decided...

1356
01:40:42,266 --> 01:40:45,569
'...to end my tenure both at Hudsucker
and here on earth.

1357
01:40:45,669 --> 01:40:48,238
'From the standpoint of our balance sheet
and financials...

1358
01:40:48,338 --> 01:40:50,140
'...sure, we're doing fine.

1359
01:40:50,240 --> 01:40:53,544
'But in my personal life,
I have made grave errors.

1360
01:40:53,644 --> 01:40:56,246
'I let my success become my identity.

1361
01:40:56,346 --> 01:40:58,549
'I have foolishly played the great man...

1362
01:40:58,649 --> 01:41:02,319
'...and watched my life become more
and more empty as a result.

1363
01:41:02,419 --> 01:41:04,799
'My vanity drove away she...

1364
01:41:05,189 --> 01:41:07,399
'...who could've saved me.

1365
01:41:07,491 --> 01:41:10,928
'Yes, I loved a woman once, Sid,
as you well know.

1366
01:41:11,028 --> 01:41:12,796
'A beautiful, vibrant lady...

1367
01:41:12,896 --> 01:41:18,761
'...and angel who, in her wisdom,
saw fit to choose you instead of I.'

1368
01:41:24,374 --> 01:41:26,374
Skip this part.

1369
01:41:28,045 --> 01:41:30,045
Next page. Next page!

1370
01:41:40,491 --> 01:41:43,227
'This brings me to our company, Sid,
and its future.

1371
01:41:43,327 --> 01:41:46,530
'Our next president must have the liberty
I have had as owner...

1372
01:41:46,630 --> 01:41:48,532
'...to experiment and even fall...'

1373
01:41:48,632 --> 01:41:49,299
Fail.

1374
01:41:49,399 --> 01:41:53,704
'...without fear of the whims
of the stockholders or an impatient board.

1375
01:41:53,804 --> 01:41:55,440
'The new president must
be free to fall...'

1376
01:41:55,540 --> 01:41:56,540
Fail!

1377
01:41:56,640 --> 01:41:58,042
'...and learn to fail...'

1378
01:41:58,142 --> 01:41:58,776
Fall!

1379
01:41:58,876 --> 01:42:01,011
'...and rise again by applying...

1380
01:42:01,111 --> 01:42:02,479
'...what he has learned.

1381
01:42:02,579 --> 01:42:04,415
'Such is business.

1382
01:42:04,515 --> 01:42:06,515
'Such is life.

1383
01:42:06,950 --> 01:42:08,719
'Accordingly, I hereby bequeath...

1384
01:42:08,819 --> 01:42:11,455
'...all of my shares in
Hudsucker Industry...

1385
01:42:11,555 --> 01:42:14,691
'...to whomever you
and the board shall elect...

1386
01:42:14,791 --> 01:42:17,426
'...to succeed me as president.

1387
01:42:17,427 --> 01:42:19,229
'I assume this will be you.

1388
01:42:19,329 --> 01:42:23,033
'If not, if the board chooses someone else
to be president...

1389
01:42:23,133 --> 01:42:24,201
'...then, then....'

1390
01:42:24,301 --> 01:42:26,301
Tough titty toenails!

1391
01:42:28,238 --> 01:42:30,363
That'll show the bastard!

1392
01:42:38,882 --> 01:42:39,917
Go ahead.

1393
01:42:40,017 --> 01:42:42,386
'I urge you to work
with the new president...

1394
01:42:42,486 --> 01:42:44,855
'...and to remind him when he needs
to be reminded...

1395
01:42:44,955 --> 01:42:48,780
'...that failure should never lead
to despair.

1396
01:42:49,259 --> 01:42:51,595
'Despair looks only to the past...

1397
01:42:51,695 --> 01:42:53,695
'...in business...

1398
01:42:55,799 --> 01:42:57,601
'...and in love.'

1399
01:42:57,701 --> 01:42:59,701
The future is now.

1400
01:43:00,404 --> 01:43:02,404
'The future is now.

1401
01:43:03,307 --> 01:43:05,943
'When our future president needs it...

1402
01:43:06,043 --> 01:43:08,043
'...Waring Hudsucker...

1403
01:43:08,345 --> 01:43:10,640
'...hereby bequeaths him...

1404
01:43:11,248 --> 01:43:13,248
'...his second chance.'

1405
01:43:44,615 --> 01:43:47,590
Deliver that letter in the morning!

1406
01:44:47,577 --> 01:44:50,341
And so began 1959.

1407
01:44:51,214 --> 01:44:52,883
The New Year.

1408
01:44:52,983 --> 01:44:57,788
When he learned that Norville owned
the company, Sidney was upset at first.

1409
01:44:57,888 --> 01:45:01,625
It's a good thing Doc Bromfenbrenner
was there...

1410
01:45:01,725 --> 01:45:05,462
because he was able to keep Sidney
from harming himself.

1411
01:45:05,562 --> 01:45:09,833
He prescribed a long rest in the sana....
In the sanatory....

1412
01:45:09,933 --> 01:45:11,933
In the booby hatch.

1413
01:45:12,469 --> 01:45:14,469
Now, Norville...

1414
01:45:14,471 --> 01:45:18,108
he went on and ruled
with wisdom and compassion...

1415
01:45:18,208 --> 01:45:22,045
and started dreaming up
them exciting new ideas again.

1416
01:45:22,145 --> 01:45:23,680
You know, for kids.

1417
01:45:23,780 --> 01:45:26,583
I had the boys down at R&D
throw together this prototype...

1418
01:45:26,683 --> 01:45:28,552
so our discussion could have focus...

1419
01:45:28,652 --> 01:45:33,327
and to give you gentlemen of the board
a firsthand look.

1420
01:45:36,927 --> 01:45:41,265
That's the story of how Norville Barnes
climbed way up...

1421
01:45:41,365 --> 01:45:44,835
to the 44th floor
of the Hudsucker building...

1422
01:45:44,935 --> 01:45:49,873
and then fell all the way down,
but didn't quite squish himself.

1423
01:45:49,973 --> 01:45:54,378
You know, they say there was a man
who jumped from the 45th floor.

1424
01:45:54,478 --> 01:45:56,603
But that's another story.