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You know, I just had a thought.
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I'll go check in a hotel and get
some rest, and you go find your folks.
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Let's go meet them. The sooner
it's over with, the better.
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Mom will be out to lunch.
Dad's at his office.
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-You may not meet them till dinner.
-You may be wrong about them.
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You should've told them
we were coming.
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It may be the biggest shock
of your young life.
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After 23 years of living with them,
don't you think I know them?
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I hope so.
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There's no problem.
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We'll be a minute, then we'd
like to go to Claremont Drive.
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All right.
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I'll see if Mom's in the office.
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-Joey?
-Hilary, hi. How are you?
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What a surprise!
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-I'll be with you in a moment.
-Okay.
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-Strange.
-One of Hilary's favourites.
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-It's called a kinetic sculpture.
-A what?
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Look.
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Why, isn't that someth...?
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-What are you doing here?
-I thought Mother might be here.
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-I'd like you to meet Dr. Prentice.
-I'm so pleased to meet you.
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Pleasure to see you.
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Christina's lunching with Mr. Cazelet.
I can ring up.
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Just tell her I'm back
and that I'll be home.
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Has something happened?
Is anything wrong?
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Something's happened,
but everything's right.
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-How was Hawaii? Was it fun?
-Hawaii was simply unbelievable.
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Do you live in San Francisco, doctor,
or are you visiting?
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Just passing through.
It was a pleasure to have met you.
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-Thank you.
-Bye-bye.
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Hilary runs the gallery,
but it's Mom who has all the ideas.
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Her idea to put originals
in hotel rooms is brilliant.
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Gives people time
to decide if they like them.
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The hotel gets free decor, the guests
can look at good paintings...
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...the painter can make a sale,
and Mom gets a commission.
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Take the next right.
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-Isn't that clever?
-That is clever.
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-What do I owe you?
-Ten-fifty, Mac.
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Twelve bucks, right?
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Right.
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Right.
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John, come meet Tillie.
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Tillie, this is Dr. Prentice.
John, Miss Matilda Binks.
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Pleased to meet you, Miss Binks.
I've heard a great deal about you.
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What are you doing home unexpected?
You told them you're back?
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I left a message for Mom.
It's lovely to see you! I missed you.
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Why are you home?
You want those bags upstairs?
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-Not my two. I've not come to stay.
-I'll tell you all about it.
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You eat any lunch yet,
or are you expecting it now?
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Could you make us sandwiches?
We'll have it on the terrace.
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Do you like it?
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-It's beautiful.
-Come out and look from the terrace.
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-What?
-Hey, who's that?
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That's Dorothy. Isn't she a knockout?
She helps Tillie during the week.
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-Which days?
-Never mind.
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-I ought to call my folks.
-Use the phone in the study.
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-Will you introduce me?
-Not on the phone.
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-Won't you tell them?
-I'd rather write.
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I have to meet them
before I come to Geneva.
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Or will we keep our marriage
a secret from them?
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Why didn't I think of that?
See, that's a thought.
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I'll shut this in case Dorothy
goes by.
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Los Angeles, please. Area code 213.
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Axminister 246-99. Time and charges.
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I've got a right to my own opinions,
and you want my opinion?
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I don't like one of my race
getting above himself.
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If I ever want your opinion,
I'll ask for...
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Oh, Tillie, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean that.
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But you can't mean what you're saying,
and you're so wrong.
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You're the last person I'd expect...
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...to take such a silly attitude.
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I've always loved you,
and you're just as black as he is.
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It's right for me to love you
and wrong to love him?
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Just stop and think about that.
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-What's for dinner tonight?
-Celery soup and rump steak.
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Come on! Turtle soup and tournedos.
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And one of your best pies?
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It's Mom!
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Joey? Darling?
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-What the hell? Joey?
-Mom!
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Darling, are you all right?
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Nothing's wrong. Everything's fine!
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I rang the gallery to tell Hilary
that Cazelet had agreed to...
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He has? That's marvellous!
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She thought you might have a surprise.
What did she mean?
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Do I hear someone?
Is there someone here?
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00:11:38,739 --> 00:11:43,160
Mom! I've never been so happy
in all my life! I'm just...
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Bursting. I can see that.
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I'm feeling happy for you.
Do I know him?
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I only met him myself 10 days ago.
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You won't believe
what's happened in 10 days!
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I might, if you'd pipe down
long enough to tell me.
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-Wonderful things have happened in...
-Mom, he's so wonderful.
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00:12:04,974 --> 00:12:08,394
I've never known anyone like him.
Never known anything like this.
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I fell in love with him in 20 minutes!
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Well! That was quick.
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00:12:16,652 --> 00:12:21,449
Dad, I wanted to stop on the way back,
but time got so short...
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...and I've got to get to work.
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I don't understand why
you couldn't spend one day with us.
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Well, fact is, Dad, I met this girl.
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You met a girl? Why didn't you say so?
Mary, he's met a girl.
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That's good news.
Does she live in San Francisco?
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Yes. I'm at her house now.
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He's at the girl's house now.
Where did you meet her, Hawaii?
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Yes. And I wanted to meet her folks.
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-That sounds good, I mean, serious.
-Yes. It's serious.
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-This is quite a surprise.
-She's surprising in a lot of ways.
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-Your mother says, "Is she pretty?"
-Yes, she's pretty.
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Your mother says, "How old is she?"
What's the difference?
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-She's only 23, Dad.
-Twenty-three, that's good.
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You're 37, that's just right.
Women age faster than men.
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-You reckon to marry the girl?
-We've been talking about it, but...
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Dad, there's one or two problems,
you see...
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...that I'll write to you about
on the plane to New York tonight.
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All right?
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He's so calm and sure of everything.
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He doesn't have any tensions in him.
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He knows what he believes
and what he thinks is right...
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...and why, and where he's going.
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Mom, there's one thing I must tell you.
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He was married before,
and he had a son.
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It was so tragic.
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His wife and son were killed
in a train accident eight years ago.
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And John...
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I haven't even told you his name.
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It's John Wade Prentice.
Isn't that a lovely name?
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00:14:26,282 --> 00:14:28,367
John Wade...
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Joanna Prentice, I'll be.
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But, Mom. Mom?
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There's something else...
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...that John's been very deeply
concerned about.
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00:14:43,090 --> 00:14:46,761
He's been worrying if
you and Dad would be upset if...
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00:14:48,596 --> 00:14:52,475
Well, it's about time.
I was wondering where you'd been.
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Mom, this is John.
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Doc... Doc... Dr. Prentice?
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I'm so pleased to meet you.
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00:15:06,947 --> 00:15:09,784
I'm pleased to meet you, Mrs. Drayton.
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Joanna's already
busted out with the news.
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She has told me a good deal,
and all very quickly too.
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She's only known me for 10 days,
so she can't tell when I'm blushing.
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That could be another problem for us.
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I'm medically qualified, so I hope
you won't think it presumptuous...
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...if I say you should sit
before you fall down.
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He thinks you're gonna faint
because he's a Negro.
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Well...
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I don't think I'm going to faint.
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But I'll sit down anyway.
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Can't we all sit down?
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00:16:14,431 --> 00:16:17,059
Well, I...
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I suppose it would be all right
if I said, "My goodness," wouldn't it?
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Well, my goodness.
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-Do we mind her saying "My goodness"?
-I don't mind.
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-Did you tell them about me?
-Yes.
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They said I sounded serious and asked
if you were pretty. I said yes.
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They said this was a big surprise.
I said it was.
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Did you tell them I'm not
a coloured girl?
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I didn't. It was shocking for the phone.
People will think we're shocking.
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-Isn't that right, Mrs. Drayton?
-I know what you mean.
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-Tillie's made food. Let's go outside.
-Yes, let's.
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-Come on, Dr. Prentice.
-I'll explain it in two minutes.
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John was lecturing
at Hawaii University.
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We met at the dean's party,
and afterward we went for a drive.
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Since then, we've been
somewhere together every night.
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John was flying back to Los Angeles
on Saturday to see his parents.
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That's where they live.
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Thank you, Tillie.
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Try one of these. They're great.
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-Coffee?
-No, thanks.
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00:17:38,057 --> 00:17:41,018
-Does your father know you're back?
-Not yet.
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00:17:41,227 --> 00:17:45,981
-Do you think he'd come back early...?
-Yes, he's playing golf.
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00:17:46,190 --> 00:17:50,444
Marvellous! He'll meet John
and we can all talk over dinner.
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00:17:50,653 --> 00:17:55,032
John's flying to New York tonight
to see a friend at Columbia.
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Tomorrow he's flying to Geneva
for the World Health Organization.
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I'll fly to Geneva next week
so we can be married.
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00:18:04,250 --> 00:18:08,254
-That's the whole situation.
-In a nutshell.
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Except he thinks the fact he's a Negro
and I'm not creates a serious problem.
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00:18:14,051 --> 00:18:15,302
Does he?
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I've told him that it wouldn't
matter to you or Dad.
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00:18:19,848 --> 00:18:23,018
He won't believe me.
That's why we're here.
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00:18:23,894 --> 00:18:29,316
That's why he watches you so closely
while pretending not to at all.
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00:18:31,568 --> 00:18:36,240
She's right. I'm sorry. I told her
not to spring this on you so suddenly.
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00:18:37,533 --> 00:18:41,036
You can tell your father
you met someone in Hawaii...
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00:18:41,245 --> 00:18:43,998
-Now, really!
-Give him time to adjust...
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00:18:44,206 --> 00:18:48,460
But what for?
He still has to be told, doesn't he?
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You should make up your minds
because that's his car.
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00:18:58,512 --> 00:19:00,431
-Mr. Matt?
-Hi, Tillie.
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00:19:00,639 --> 00:19:04,059
-All hell's done broke loose!
-The waste disposal?
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00:19:04,268 --> 00:19:06,270
It ain't that.
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00:19:06,478 --> 00:19:10,691
-What happened? Where's Christina?
-On the terrace with Joey...
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00:19:10,899 --> 00:19:13,193
...and someone called Dr. Prentice.
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00:19:13,402 --> 00:19:16,780
Doctor? What's wrong?
What's happened?
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00:19:16,989 --> 00:19:18,324
Joey?
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00:19:20,617 --> 00:19:22,036
Here he comes.
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00:19:22,244 --> 00:19:25,581
-Daddy!
-What's happened?
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00:19:25,789 --> 00:19:30,294
-Tillie said there was a doctor...
-Dr. John Prentice. This is my dad.
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-Pleased to meet you.
-How are you?
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-Is something wrong?
-I decided to come home early.
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00:19:37,801 --> 00:19:41,013
We met in Hawaii and flew back today.
200
00:19:41,221 --> 00:19:46,477
Sit down. I thought something
was really wrong. Tillie said...
201
00:19:46,685 --> 00:19:49,813
Tillie's behaving very strangely.
Coffee?
202
00:19:50,022 --> 00:19:53,776
No, thanks. I'm playing golf
with Monsignor Ryan.
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00:19:53,984 --> 00:19:57,154
How are you? What's the matter?
Are you having a chill?
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00:19:57,363 --> 00:20:00,532
No, darling. I'm fine, I...
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00:20:00,741 --> 00:20:04,161
Doctor?
Are you practising in San Francisco?
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00:20:04,411 --> 00:20:09,124
-Sit down.
-No, sir. I am just here for one day.
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00:20:09,333 --> 00:20:12,127
Where is your practice? Hawaii?
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00:20:12,336 --> 00:20:17,257
No, I'm not established
in any one place.
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00:20:17,466 --> 00:20:20,928
I'm in tropical medicines,
mostly in Africa.
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00:20:21,136 --> 00:20:25,557
-That sounds interesting.
-Everything about him is interesting.
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00:20:25,766 --> 00:20:28,977
I'm sure. I wish I had more time.
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00:20:29,186 --> 00:20:31,939
-Excuse me...
-Couldn't you stay and talk?
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00:20:32,147 --> 00:20:37,027
I'd love to, but I'll be late.
I'll see you later, doctor?
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00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:40,572
-You certainly will.
-Good.
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00:20:40,781 --> 00:20:45,369
-Dr. Prentice will be here for dinner.
-Fine. Then you can tell me...
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00:20:45,577 --> 00:20:48,831
And there's a great deal to tell,
isn't there?
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00:20:51,708 --> 00:20:54,878
Fine. See you all later.
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00:21:21,238 --> 00:21:23,866
What the hell is going on here?
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00:21:24,783 --> 00:21:27,077
-This doesn't make sense.
-I told you.
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00:21:27,286 --> 00:21:32,291
What? If you don't explain
what you three are playing at...
221
00:21:32,499 --> 00:21:35,878
-I can explain it.
-You can? Let's have it.
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00:21:36,086 --> 00:21:41,508
Well, it's my fault. You see,
we have a sort of a situation here.
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00:21:42,885 --> 00:21:48,223
We didn't just meet in Hawaii.
We spent a lot of time together.
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I mean, all the time after we met.
225
00:21:52,019 --> 00:21:56,273
And, well, we have this problem.
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I fell in love with her.
227
00:22:03,363 --> 00:22:07,910
And as incredible as it may seem,
she fell in love with me.
228
00:22:08,577 --> 00:22:11,163
And we flew back to San Francisco...
229
00:22:11,371 --> 00:22:16,210
...to see if either of you had
any objections if we got married.
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Joanna told her mother
as soon as she walked in.
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00:22:23,675 --> 00:22:28,347
I had the stupid idea
that maybe there was some way to...
232
00:22:29,389 --> 00:22:32,643
...break this gently.
233
00:22:50,327 --> 00:22:53,705
-Daddy, you're making us nervous.
-Am I?
234
00:22:53,914 --> 00:22:59,002
I wouldn't want to make anybody
nervous. Chris, are you nervous?
235
00:22:59,211 --> 00:23:02,089
Sit down, doctor,
before you make me nervous.
236
00:23:05,425 --> 00:23:07,928
Would anybody like coffee?
237
00:23:08,136 --> 00:23:13,141
What did she say
when Joanna told her?
238
00:23:13,350 --> 00:23:17,312
-Did she raise any objections?
-None so far.
239
00:23:18,105 --> 00:23:19,231
What objections?
240
00:23:19,481 --> 00:23:23,527
I know this is a shock,
because it's all so unexpected.
241
00:23:23,735 --> 00:23:26,613
I never thought I'd
fall in love with a Negro...
242
00:23:26,822 --> 00:23:30,492
...but I did, and nothing in
the world will change that.
243
00:23:30,701 --> 00:23:36,123
Even if you were the governor
of Alabama, I wouldn't let him go.
244
00:23:36,373 --> 00:23:40,335
I mean, if Mom were.
So tell him, will you?
245
00:23:40,544 --> 00:23:44,798
Tell John if you have objections,
then you can play golf.
246
00:23:45,048 --> 00:23:47,676
What is it you expect me to say?
247
00:23:47,884 --> 00:23:50,762
You have to give me time
to think about this.
248
00:23:50,971 --> 00:23:53,599
You certainly have got a problem.
249
00:23:53,807 --> 00:23:58,312
If you're expecting a sensible
statement, I need time to think.
250
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:03,191
-Does that sound reasonable?
-Yes, but not quite practical.
251
00:24:04,109 --> 00:24:09,239
You see, Matt, there's sort of
a special problem.
252
00:24:09,448 --> 00:24:14,119
I'm flying to New York tonight,
and on to Switzerland tomorrow.
253
00:24:14,328 --> 00:24:19,082
Yes, and what Joey proposes
is to go to Geneva herself...
254
00:24:19,291 --> 00:24:22,586
...so they can marry
in the next few weeks.
255
00:24:22,794 --> 00:24:26,798
-What the hell's the rush?
-We know we want to get married.
256
00:24:27,007 --> 00:24:30,636
Unless there are objections,
why should we waste time?
257
00:24:30,844 --> 00:24:33,680
John and I aren't
gonna change our minds.
258
00:24:33,889 --> 00:24:36,224
Are you telling me...
259
00:24:36,433 --> 00:24:41,104
...that you want an answer today
about how your mother and I feel?
260
00:24:41,313 --> 00:24:44,358
Yes. We want you and Mom to state...
261
00:24:44,566 --> 00:24:47,194
...that you have no
objections whatever.
262
00:24:47,611 --> 00:24:50,822
And when we do marry,
we'll have your blessing.
263
00:25:00,540 --> 00:25:04,628
-Are you gonna play golf, or no?
-No.
264
00:25:04,836 --> 00:25:07,422
I'll call it off. Excuse me, doctor.
265
00:25:13,387 --> 00:25:18,600
-And that's my dad. Do you like him?
-I don't know. Does he like me?
266
00:25:18,809 --> 00:25:24,022
With his American-eagle face,
no one can tell what he's thinking.
267
00:25:24,231 --> 00:25:28,318
I don't think he liked any of us
after the way we began.
268
00:25:28,527 --> 00:25:30,529
Give John more coffee.
269
00:25:30,737 --> 00:25:35,450
She's beautiful, Joanna.
She's even better-looking than you.
270
00:25:35,659 --> 00:25:40,622
Hello, Edie?
Two things, Edie, both of them urgent.
271
00:25:40,831 --> 00:25:44,501
Call up Monsignor Ryan,
tell him I can't play today.
272
00:25:44,710 --> 00:25:49,005
Tell him something's come up,
something personal at home.
273
00:25:49,214 --> 00:25:53,719
Then call the library and see what
they have on a John Wade Prentice.
274
00:25:53,927 --> 00:25:58,557
Prentice. A doctor of medicine,
fellow of about 35, 36.
275
00:25:58,765 --> 00:26:02,102
-Oh, Matt!
-He's a coloured fellow.
276
00:26:02,310 --> 00:26:07,149
If they haven't got anything,
call up the Medical Association.
277
00:26:07,357 --> 00:26:10,986
Get anything you can.
Hurry it up and call me back.
278
00:26:11,194 --> 00:26:14,948
-There's no necessity for that.
-It can't do any harm.
279
00:26:15,157 --> 00:26:19,745
But, Matt! Joey said he was lecturing
at the university in Hawaii.
280
00:26:19,953 --> 00:26:23,039
Did it ever occur to you
that this might happen?
281
00:26:25,250 --> 00:26:26,626
No.
282
00:26:26,835 --> 00:26:30,046
Never occurred to me either. Not once.
283
00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:34,176
Tell me your reaction.
How do you feel?
284
00:26:34,384 --> 00:26:38,513
I don't know. I was shaken at first.
I still am, I suppose.
285
00:26:38,722 --> 00:26:43,268
But they mean what they're saying.
They know what they're doing.
286
00:26:43,477 --> 00:26:48,899
They may mean what they say, but
they don't know what they're doing.
287
00:26:52,569 --> 00:26:56,823
-If I'm not intruding?
-Of course not. Please come in.
288
00:26:57,032 --> 00:26:59,951
I'd like a couple of minutes
with the two of you, if I may.
289
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,871
Sure, doctor. Come on in.
290
00:27:05,081 --> 00:27:09,711
There's something you both
ought to know. I made a decision.
291
00:27:10,796 --> 00:27:13,548
Joanna doesn't know about it,
and she shouldn't.
292
00:27:14,424 --> 00:27:15,926
What is it, doctor?
293
00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:19,971
Joanna thinks that our future
is settled...
294
00:27:20,180 --> 00:27:22,891
...but there is no real commitment.
295
00:27:23,099 --> 00:27:26,645
Up to now, nothing is settled at all.
296
00:27:26,853 --> 00:27:31,274
I don't understand. She said you'd
marry no matter what we think.
297
00:27:31,483 --> 00:27:34,110
That's not the case.
298
00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:38,782
Unless you two approve,
there won't be any marriage.
299
00:27:40,617 --> 00:27:44,955
Why, John?
Why have you decided that?
300
00:27:46,456 --> 00:27:49,459
Mrs. Drayton,
this happened so quickly...
301
00:27:49,668 --> 00:27:52,712
...I'm just as startled
as you must be.
302
00:27:53,004 --> 00:27:55,799
Two weeks ago it'd be inconceivable.
303
00:27:57,050 --> 00:28:01,304
But two weeks ago
I had not met Joanna.
304
00:28:02,472 --> 00:28:06,935
She's not at all
like anyone I've ever known.
305
00:28:07,143 --> 00:28:11,106
It's not just that our colour
difference doesn't matter to her.
306
00:28:11,314 --> 00:28:15,694
It's that she doesn't seem to think
there is any difference.
307
00:28:18,446 --> 00:28:23,869
This has come up at a time
when I have all the problems I need.
308
00:28:24,077 --> 00:28:29,332
I can't afford to get married if it
meant taking on special problems...
309
00:28:29,541 --> 00:28:32,085
...in addition to those we'll have.
310
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:38,174
When you say "special problems,"
doctor, what do you mean?
311
00:28:38,383 --> 00:28:40,051
Well...
312
00:28:44,222 --> 00:28:47,809
Your attitude, Mr. Drayton...
313
00:28:48,018 --> 00:28:50,687
...and yours, Mrs. Drayton.
314
00:28:51,313 --> 00:28:54,107
Joanna is very close to both of you.
315
00:28:55,191 --> 00:28:58,778
If marrying me damaged
her relationship with either of you...
316
00:28:58,987 --> 00:29:01,907
...the pain of it
would be too much for her.
317
00:29:03,199 --> 00:29:06,453
I wouldn't know how to deal
with that kind of situation.
318
00:29:06,620 --> 00:29:09,414
I wouldn't want to try.
319
00:29:12,167 --> 00:29:14,336
I'm glad you told us this.
320
00:29:17,255 --> 00:29:20,675
Don't misunderstand me.
I love your daughter.
321
00:29:20,884 --> 00:29:25,013
I'd do anything to keep her
as happy as the day we met.
322
00:29:25,221 --> 00:29:30,268
But it seems that without your approval
we will make no sense at all.
323
00:29:30,477 --> 00:29:34,105
That is why I am asking
for a clear statement...
324
00:29:34,314 --> 00:29:36,441
...of what your attitude will be.
325
00:29:39,069 --> 00:29:41,613
I appreciate that, doctor.
326
00:29:41,821 --> 00:29:45,200
It's almost in the form
of an ultimatum.
327
00:29:45,992 --> 00:29:48,870
Not quite, Mr. Drayton.
328
00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:51,706
All you have to say is "goodbye."
329
00:29:56,544 --> 00:29:58,964
Well, that's where it's at.
330
00:29:59,172 --> 00:30:03,510
Thank you for the opportunity
to speak my piece.
331
00:30:10,058 --> 00:30:14,145
Well? Still think you ought
to have someone check on him?
332
00:30:14,354 --> 00:30:18,191
-No.
-He's right about Joey too.
333
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,318
-You know that, don't you?
-Yes.
334
00:30:20,527 --> 00:30:24,406
Thank God. That's how I feel,
thank God he's right.
335
00:30:24,614 --> 00:30:26,074
She's 23 years old...
336
00:30:26,282 --> 00:30:30,286
...and she is exactly how
we brought her up to be.
337
00:30:30,495 --> 00:30:34,374
We answered her questions.
We told her it was wrong...
338
00:30:34,582 --> 00:30:39,337
...to believe that white people
were superior to black people...
339
00:30:39,546 --> 00:30:42,507
...or brown, or red, or yellow ones.
340
00:30:42,716 --> 00:30:45,343
People thinking that way were wrong...
341
00:30:45,552 --> 00:30:50,598
...sometimes hateful, usually stupid,
but always, always wrong.
342
00:30:50,807 --> 00:30:53,351
That's what we said.
343
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,313
And when we said it, we did not add:
344
00:30:57,522 --> 00:31:01,401
"But don't ever fall in love
with a coloured man."
345
00:31:04,863 --> 00:31:08,992
-Edie, Mr. Drayton.
-What is it, Edie?
346
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,455
He's an important guy.
Born Los Angeles, 1930.
347
00:31:13,663 --> 00:31:16,666
Graduated maximum cum laude
Johns Hopkins, '54.
348
00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:19,502
Assistant professor,
Yale Medical School, '55.
349
00:31:19,711 --> 00:31:22,630
Professor at London School
of Tropical Medicine.
350
00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:25,925
Assistant director,
World Health Organization.
351
00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:30,847
Two textbooks and a long list
of Medical Society honours.
352
00:31:31,056 --> 00:31:35,310
Married Elizabeth Bowers 1955,
one son: John Wade.
353
00:31:35,518 --> 00:31:39,397
Both killed
in an accident in 1959.
354
00:31:39,606 --> 00:31:44,235
-There's a lot more here.
-No, that's all right. Thanks.
355
00:31:58,541 --> 00:32:03,379
-What's the $2.20?
-He called his parents in Los Angeles.
356
00:32:03,588 --> 00:32:07,634
I guess he doesn't bum
free telephone calls either.
357
00:32:07,842 --> 00:32:11,137
I understand why
he didn't talk about himself.
358
00:32:11,346 --> 00:32:13,807
Who the hell would believe him?
359
00:32:20,271 --> 00:32:24,567
-I beg your pardon, lady.
-Loves me, loves me not.
360
00:32:26,027 --> 00:32:27,946
Well, what do you think?
361
00:32:28,154 --> 00:32:31,908
-Aren't they the way I said they were?
-They're special...
362
00:32:32,117 --> 00:32:36,996
Shall I tell you something?
For a whole week, I've been nervous.
363
00:32:37,205 --> 00:32:39,415
No. I don't believe...
364
00:32:39,624 --> 00:32:42,877
Just about their first reaction.
365
00:32:43,086 --> 00:32:47,465
I thought they might let me down
for the first half-hour.
366
00:32:47,674 --> 00:32:51,886
You're a phoney, you know that?
You're a big phoney!
367
00:32:52,345 --> 00:32:54,848
I'm not a phoney.
368
00:33:15,785 --> 00:33:17,871
Well?
369
00:33:19,038 --> 00:33:22,667
She's always been
a happy human being.
370
00:33:22,876 --> 00:33:27,338
She laughed out loud
before she was 6 months old.
371
00:33:27,547 --> 00:33:31,009
She was happy as a baby,
happy as a little girl...
372
00:33:31,217 --> 00:33:34,345
...happy all through school
and college.
373
00:33:37,682 --> 00:33:43,104
But I don't think I've ever seen her
quite so happy as she is right now.
374
00:33:44,439 --> 00:33:49,194
And I have to be happy
for her, Matt...
375
00:33:49,402 --> 00:33:51,279
...and I am.
376
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:56,993
I feel happy for her.
377
00:33:58,244 --> 00:34:02,081
And proud of the fact
that we helped to make her.
378
00:34:02,290 --> 00:34:07,712
And whatever happens now,
I feel glad that Joey is Joey.
379
00:34:34,906 --> 00:34:37,742
How are you today?
Having a steak fry?
380
00:34:37,951 --> 00:34:41,412
Well, now, there she is.
How are you today?
381
00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:45,833
-Give me a lift to Market Street?
-You know it, doll!
382
00:34:46,042 --> 00:34:48,962
I hope it's better
than the last we had.
383
00:34:49,170 --> 00:34:52,131
I just deliver it,
I don't rustle the cattle.
384
00:34:52,340 --> 00:34:55,301
You said to remind you
to open the wine.
385
00:35:26,291 --> 00:35:30,461
Civil rights is one thing.
This here is something else.
386
00:35:30,670 --> 00:35:35,591
I went out onto the terrace.
Oh, it was so beautiful.
387
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,553
It was dark and the moon was rising.
388
00:35:38,761 --> 00:35:43,099
I didn't see him because of the view,
but he was standing there.
389
00:35:43,308 --> 00:35:46,602
Then, all of a sudden,
he moved, and I jumped.
390
00:35:48,438 --> 00:35:52,442
And he just stood there,
looking at me, and sort of...
391
00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:57,155
-You're burning your shirt.
-Oh, yes. Sort of smiling.
392
00:35:57,363 --> 00:36:00,616
"Hello," I said.
"Who are you?"
393
00:36:00,825 --> 00:36:05,163
And I think he thought I was,
you know, attractive.
394
00:36:06,372 --> 00:36:11,794
Finally he said, "Well, do you think
it could possibly matter?"
395
00:36:12,128 --> 00:36:16,382
-And it's just crazy, and I admit it...
-You'd better let me do this.
396
00:36:16,591 --> 00:36:20,803
But 20 minutes later
I felt I was in love with him.
397
00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:24,766
Mom, how long did it take you
to fall in love with Dad?
398
00:36:24,974 --> 00:36:28,978
Well, nothing so long as 20 minutes!
399
00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:33,524
Is that really true? Oh, Mom!
400
00:36:33,733 --> 00:36:38,363
I wanna ask you something.
How deeply are you and John invol...?
401
00:36:38,571 --> 00:36:40,281
No, I have no right...
402
00:36:40,490 --> 00:36:43,785
Do you mean
have we been to bed together?
403
00:36:43,993 --> 00:36:47,622
I don't mind you asking me that.
We haven't.
404
00:36:48,414 --> 00:36:50,458
He wouldn't.
405
00:36:50,666 --> 00:36:54,629
He couldn't have doubted
my feelings, but he wouldn't.
406
00:36:54,837 --> 00:36:56,631
You're burning my shirt.
407
00:36:56,839 --> 00:37:01,844
He's been concerned the whole time
about my getting hurt somehow.
408
00:37:03,304 --> 00:37:07,934
They're still talking. You'd think
everything was said by now.
409
00:37:08,184 --> 00:37:11,938
You say they don't have
any special sense of rhythm?
410
00:37:12,146 --> 00:37:13,564
That's right.
411
00:37:13,773 --> 00:37:19,112
But you can see it. You can't turn on
the TV without seeing kids dancing.
412
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:23,866
-The coloured kids are better.
-But there's an explanation.
413
00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:28,287
It's our dancing and our music.
We brought it here.
414
00:37:28,496 --> 00:37:32,375
You can do the watusi,
but we are the Watusi...
415
00:37:32,583 --> 00:37:34,377
...if you know what I mean.
416
00:37:34,585 --> 00:37:37,547
When I was your age,
my sports editor told me...
417
00:37:37,755 --> 00:37:41,467
...that Negroes would never
be able to play baseball.
418
00:37:41,676 --> 00:37:46,180
Willie Mays could be elected
mayor of San Francisco.
419
00:37:46,389 --> 00:37:50,435
I own a newspaper, but I couldn't
be elected dogcatcher.
420
00:37:50,643 --> 00:37:55,106
You don't want that any more
than he wants to be mayor.
421
00:37:55,314 --> 00:37:57,984
No, I suppose that's right.
422
00:38:00,319 --> 00:38:03,865
Doctor, we've talked about
a good many things...
423
00:38:04,073 --> 00:38:06,576
...but there's one we haven't.
424
00:38:06,784 --> 00:38:10,288
Have you considered the problems
of your children?
425
00:38:10,538 --> 00:38:13,875
Yes, and they'll have some.
426
00:38:14,083 --> 00:38:18,629
We'll have children,
or you couldn't call it a marriage.
427
00:38:19,505 --> 00:38:21,007
Is that the way Joey feels?
428
00:38:22,175 --> 00:38:25,470
She feels that our every
child will be president...
429
00:38:25,678 --> 00:38:28,848
...and they'll all
have colourful administrations.
430
00:38:32,435 --> 00:38:36,731
Well, you made her, Mr. Drayton.
I just met her in Hawaii.
431
00:38:36,939 --> 00:38:40,860
But how do you feel
about that problem?
432
00:38:41,068 --> 00:38:44,238
Frankly, I think your daughter
is a bit optimistic.
433
00:38:44,447 --> 00:38:47,783
I'd settle for secretary of state.
434
00:38:52,121 --> 00:38:55,708
Would you think it cowardice
if I told you that...
435
00:38:55,917 --> 00:38:59,629
...no matter how confident you are,
I'm scared?
436
00:39:00,296 --> 00:39:02,840
No, it wouldn't.
437
00:39:03,049 --> 00:39:06,427
But you never know.
Things are changing.
438
00:39:06,636 --> 00:39:11,015
They're not changing anywhere
as fast as in my own backyard.
439
00:39:11,224 --> 00:39:15,561
Tell me this. Don't you think
this quick decision...
440
00:39:15,770 --> 00:39:19,607
...about how we feel
is just a little unfair?
441
00:39:19,815 --> 00:39:21,192
In a way, I do.
442
00:39:25,363 --> 00:39:29,492
But it wasn't my idea that
everything be settled so quickly.
443
00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:32,286
Your daughter said there's no problem.
444
00:39:32,495 --> 00:39:37,124
"My dad's a lifelong fighting
liberal who loathes race prejudice...
445
00:39:37,333 --> 00:39:39,460
...and fights discrimination."
446
00:39:39,669 --> 00:39:43,881
She said, "My parents
will welcome you with open arms."
447
00:39:44,090 --> 00:39:48,427
And I said,
"Oh, I sure wanna meet them."
448
00:39:50,388 --> 00:39:53,266
John! Telephone, it's Los Angeles.
449
00:39:54,684 --> 00:39:57,562
-Take it in my study.
-Thank you.
450
00:40:12,118 --> 00:40:14,996
-Hello. Yes, this is he.
-Dr. Prentice?
451
00:40:15,204 --> 00:40:17,415
-Hello.
-Hi, Dad.
452
00:40:17,623 --> 00:40:21,127
-Dr. Graves call again?
-No, it's not that, son.
453
00:40:21,335 --> 00:40:27,091
I had an idea. What would you say
to us flying there for the evening?
454
00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:30,052
-This evening?
-Could be there at 6:30.
455
00:40:30,261 --> 00:40:33,764
I thought we could
take you both out...
456
00:40:33,973 --> 00:40:36,350
-Invite them to dinner.
-Just a minute.
457
00:40:36,559 --> 00:40:39,228
Dad, I'm having dinner with her folks.
458
00:40:39,437 --> 00:40:41,897
-They're invited!
-That the young lady?
459
00:40:42,106 --> 00:40:46,569
That's her. Just a minute.
You haven't asked your mother...
460
00:40:46,777 --> 00:40:52,033
Mr. Prentice, will you come to dinner?
John and I will meet your plane.
461
00:40:52,241 --> 00:40:55,286
-Who am I talking to? John?
-Hi.
462
00:40:55,494 --> 00:40:59,874
Looks like she wants us, even if you
don't. We certainly wanna meet her.
463
00:41:00,082 --> 00:41:03,419
-So we'll see you at 6:30.
-Oh, no, no.
464
00:41:03,628 --> 00:41:08,507
Your mother says she's pleased.
Hell, he knows that!
465
00:41:08,716 --> 00:41:12,887
-All right, son. We'll see you later.
-Dad? Dad!
466
00:41:15,014 --> 00:41:17,516
What's the matter with you?
467
00:41:17,725 --> 00:41:20,478
-Mom!
-Yeah?
468
00:41:20,686 --> 00:41:23,564
John's parents are coming to dinner.
469
00:41:24,940 --> 00:41:26,317
Good. Marvellous.
470
00:41:26,525 --> 00:41:30,071
-We'll meet their plane at 6:30.
-Fine. Tell Tillie.
471
00:41:30,279 --> 00:41:31,947
Okay.
472
00:41:32,156 --> 00:41:35,993
Joanna, I told you.
My folks, they don't...
473
00:41:36,202 --> 00:41:39,372
-They think you're coloured.
-Why didn't you tell them?
474
00:41:39,580 --> 00:41:42,875
-I was gonna write.
-What difference is it?
475
00:41:43,084 --> 00:41:46,003
You think they won't come?
Call and tell them.
476
00:41:46,212 --> 00:41:51,634
-They'll know when I go meet them.
-I'll meet them.
477
00:41:51,884 --> 00:41:57,306
-It gives me a chance to explain...
-Why do you dramatise everything?
478
00:41:57,515 --> 00:42:01,102
We're meeting Peter and Judith
for a drink at 5:30.
479
00:42:01,310 --> 00:42:03,854
There's time to get to the airport.
480
00:42:04,063 --> 00:42:08,234
She's my best friend.
You've just got to let them meet you.
481
00:42:11,696 --> 00:42:15,574
-Did he tell you about his plan?
-No. What?
482
00:42:15,783 --> 00:42:18,494
It's the damnedest thing.
483
00:42:18,703 --> 00:42:24,125
They put a medical school on trucks,
run into some African country...
484
00:42:24,667 --> 00:42:27,712
...pick up the brightest
native kids...
485
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,757
...and give them courses.
Like the U.S. Army Corps.
486
00:42:31,966 --> 00:42:37,221
His idea is that they're all
specialists trained to do one thing.
487
00:42:37,430 --> 00:42:42,685
Like sewing up a wound,
or delivering a baby, what have you.
488
00:42:43,144 --> 00:42:46,814
They go where people never heard
of an aspirin...
489
00:42:47,022 --> 00:42:49,066
...let alone a doctor.
490
00:42:49,275 --> 00:42:51,777
Imagine what that means.
491
00:42:51,986 --> 00:42:57,408
For every 1000 kids they train,
they can save a million lives a year.
492
00:42:58,159 --> 00:43:01,871
He seems to have made
quite an impression on you.
493
00:43:02,747 --> 00:43:07,042
I asked him how he got so far.
He's only 37.
494
00:43:07,251 --> 00:43:10,838
He said he thought
he got the best breaks...
495
00:43:11,088 --> 00:43:15,551
...because no one wanted him
to think they were prejudiced.
496
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,305
Yeah, he made an impression.
I couldn't fault him.
497
00:43:19,513 --> 00:43:22,516
-Are you trying to fault him?
-Of course not.
498
00:43:22,767 --> 00:43:27,229
You know his father's a mailman?
Retired in Los Angeles.
499
00:43:27,438 --> 00:43:30,900
How do you suppose
a coloured mailman...
500
00:43:31,108 --> 00:43:34,779
...produced a son
with all the qualities he has?
501
00:43:34,987 --> 00:43:37,740
-You'll find out this evening.
-What?
502
00:43:39,742 --> 00:43:43,162
-Guess who's coming to dinner.
-Who?
503
00:43:43,370 --> 00:43:45,247
You mean... His parents?
504
00:43:47,374 --> 00:43:49,084
Now, wait a minute.
505
00:43:49,627 --> 00:43:53,380
-Whose idea was that?
-Joey invited them.
506
00:43:53,589 --> 00:43:57,301
We're being pressurised.
You know that, don't you?
507
00:43:57,510 --> 00:44:01,055
First there was no marriage
unless we approved.
508
00:44:01,263 --> 00:44:03,808
Then we had one day to decide.
509
00:44:04,016 --> 00:44:09,271
Now we're entertaining somebody
we've never heard of! What the hell...?
510
00:44:13,818 --> 00:44:19,240
Don't look at my baby pictures.
That's at Klosters the year...
511
00:44:19,448 --> 00:44:22,034
I'll get it, Tillie. Just a second.
512
00:44:26,413 --> 00:44:31,168
-Monsignor Ryan, how wonderful!
-Good afternoon.
513
00:44:31,377 --> 00:44:33,921
But why are you here, not in Hawaii?
514
00:44:34,129 --> 00:44:38,175
What problem caused your father
to chicken out of golf?
515
00:44:38,384 --> 00:44:42,721
-And who is this gentleman?
-This is Dr. John Wade Prentice.
516
00:44:42,930 --> 00:44:46,058
We met in Hawaii
and we're gonna be married.
517
00:44:46,267 --> 00:44:50,271
Are you indeed?
I take it you mean to each other?
518
00:44:50,479 --> 00:44:52,231
-Dr. Prentice.
-Monsignor.
519
00:44:52,398 --> 00:44:54,817
-Of course, you're the problem.
-Yes.
520
00:44:55,025 --> 00:44:57,403
I'm afraid I am.
521
00:44:57,611 --> 00:45:00,489
Why haven't your parents
informed me?
522
00:45:00,698 --> 00:45:02,908
They didn't know either.
523
00:45:03,117 --> 00:45:07,955
Excuse me a second,
I forgot to tell Tillie something.
524
00:45:10,749 --> 00:45:13,669
-I suppose this was all very sudden?
-Yes.
525
00:45:13,878 --> 00:45:18,841
-Have you two had time to consider it?
-No, we've not.
526
00:45:19,758 --> 00:45:21,594
We'll be two more for dinner.
527
00:45:21,802 --> 00:45:25,306
-How many steaks?
-I got four. I was told four.
528
00:45:25,514 --> 00:45:29,268
Order two more because
the doctor's parents are coming.
529
00:45:29,476 --> 00:45:33,272
-His father and mother, here?
-That's right.
530
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,692
If the butcher can't send them,
send a taxi.
531
00:45:36,901 --> 00:45:40,571
It's more like a Holy Rollers'
meeting every minute.
532
00:45:40,779 --> 00:45:46,285
Of course! I know about you. I read
an article about you in Commonweal.
533
00:45:46,493 --> 00:45:49,288
I shall want to talk
to you about that.
534
00:45:49,496 --> 00:45:53,417
Are you aware this fellow's
a very important man?
535
00:45:53,626 --> 00:45:57,713
Wholly aware of it.
When we're married, I'll be important.
536
00:45:57,922 --> 00:46:01,008
I daresay you will,
as a matter of fact.
537
00:46:01,216 --> 00:46:04,136
-Where's Arnold Palmer?
-In the garden.
538
00:46:04,345 --> 00:46:07,681
Just go on with what you're doing.
Fore!
539
00:46:08,933 --> 00:46:11,685
Of all our friends, he's the closest.
540
00:46:11,894 --> 00:46:13,437
We're not Catholics...
541
00:46:13,646 --> 00:46:18,067
...but he and Dad and Mom
sat on committees and things.
542
00:46:18,692 --> 00:46:21,820
He's a wonderful man, and we love him.
543
00:46:23,864 --> 00:46:28,202
You're a remarkable fellow, Mike.
You get younger every minute.
544
00:46:28,410 --> 00:46:31,664
-Did you...?
-Yes! I've just seen him.
545
00:46:31,872 --> 00:46:35,751
Handsome fellow.
Little Joey's nothing less than radiant.
546
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:39,004
It warms me chilly old heart
looking at her.
547
00:46:39,213 --> 00:46:44,593
-Aren't you a little shocked?
-Shocked? Why should I be shocked?
548
00:46:44,802 --> 00:46:48,722
I've known many cases
of marriages between races.
549
00:46:48,931 --> 00:46:53,602
Strangely enough, they usually
work out well. I don't know why.
550
00:46:53,811 --> 00:46:57,398
Maybe because it takes
a special quality of effort.
551
00:46:57,606 --> 00:46:59,650
More consideration, compassion...
552
00:46:59,858 --> 00:47:03,696
...than most marriages
generate these days.
553
00:47:03,904 --> 00:47:07,700
-Could that be it?
-Yes, it could.
554
00:47:07,908 --> 00:47:09,410
I'm glad you said that.
555
00:47:09,827 --> 00:47:14,248
That's a beautiful thought.
You do have beautiful thoughts.
556
00:47:14,456 --> 00:47:17,251
It's my trade, you know.
557
00:47:18,293 --> 00:47:23,298
What about laddie over here?
You making heavy weather of it?
558
00:47:23,507 --> 00:47:27,011
You know, this man is quite
a famous fellow.
559
00:47:27,219 --> 00:47:31,640
He's done incredible work in Asia
and some awful place in Africa.
560
00:47:31,849 --> 00:47:34,893
Mom! Hilary's here.
She wants to see you.
561
00:47:36,729 --> 00:47:41,483
Excuse me. Express some more
beautiful thoughts to the lad.
562
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,115
Thank you.
563
00:47:48,323 --> 00:47:53,746
I hope you won't think I'm prying,
but, naturally, one is curious.
564
00:47:53,954 --> 00:47:54,997
Naturally.
565
00:47:55,205 --> 00:47:59,043
Dr. Prentice and I
are gonna be married, Hilary.
566
00:47:59,251 --> 00:48:01,295
Are you?
567
00:48:01,503 --> 00:48:05,257
I didn't even know.
Christina hadn't even mentioned it.
568
00:48:05,466 --> 00:48:09,428
-She didn't know. It was a surprise.
-A surprise?
569
00:48:09,636 --> 00:48:12,014
Well, I should think it was!
570
00:48:12,222 --> 00:48:17,478
Joey tells me congratulations
are in order. You didn't even know.
571
00:48:25,569 --> 00:48:29,656
What's the problem, Hilary?
What brings you up here?
572
00:48:29,865 --> 00:48:32,785
Mr. Cazelet phoned about the...
573
00:48:32,993 --> 00:48:37,623
Oh, that. Excuse us, will you?
I'll walk out to your car with you.
574
00:48:37,873 --> 00:48:40,084
I hope I'll see you shortly.
575
00:48:40,292 --> 00:48:45,339
Dr. Prentice is leaving tonight,
and Joey within the next two weeks.
576
00:48:45,547 --> 00:48:49,218
Then you must permit me
to wish you every happiness.
577
00:48:49,426 --> 00:48:51,512
Come along, Hilary.
578
00:48:55,557 --> 00:48:59,436
Christina! My poor dear,
what a shock for you.
579
00:48:59,645 --> 00:49:04,358
I knew something was up, but this?
What are you going to do?
580
00:49:04,566 --> 00:49:07,486
-The child is of age...
-Yes, the child is 23.
581
00:49:07,694 --> 00:49:11,990
Why didn't you simply ring up
with the Cazelet information?
582
00:49:12,199 --> 00:49:14,868
I must admit, I was intensely curious.
583
00:49:15,077 --> 00:49:20,082
I couldn't believe it. It's unlike
Joey to do anything so stupid.
584
00:49:20,290 --> 00:49:23,418
-Come along.
-What you must be going through!
585
00:49:23,627 --> 00:49:25,963
You must try not to worry about it.
586
00:49:26,922 --> 00:49:32,052
I have some instructions. Go back
to the gallery. Start your motor.
587
00:49:32,261 --> 00:49:36,014
Tell Jennifer she'll
look after things temporarily.
588
00:49:36,223 --> 00:49:39,268
She's to call if there's
anything she needs.
589
00:49:39,476 --> 00:49:46,108
Then go into the office and make out
a cheque for the sum of $5000.
590
00:49:46,316 --> 00:49:50,988
Then carefully, Hilary,
remove absolutely everything...
591
00:49:51,196 --> 00:49:54,449
...that might remind me
you were ever there...
592
00:49:54,658 --> 00:49:58,954
...including the yellow thing
with blue bulbs you like.
593
00:49:59,163 --> 00:50:03,500
Then take the cheque for $5000,
which I feel you deserve...
594
00:50:03,709 --> 00:50:07,546
...and get permanently lost.
595
00:50:07,754 --> 00:50:10,424
It's not that I don't
want to know you...
596
00:50:10,632 --> 00:50:14,136
...it's just that we're not
the sort of people...
597
00:50:14,344 --> 00:50:17,014
...that you can afford
to associate with.
598
00:50:17,222 --> 00:50:20,601
Don't speak, Hilary, just go.
599
00:50:25,939 --> 00:50:31,069
You see that boy? If he'd played his
cards right, you'd never met me.
600
00:50:31,278 --> 00:50:35,449
-He fell for some girl from Pomona.
-That'll teach him.
601
00:50:35,657 --> 00:50:40,287
You know what Hilary was doing?
She was being an absolute bitch!
602
00:50:40,495 --> 00:50:43,081
I wish you'd fire her, I really do.
603
00:50:43,290 --> 00:50:46,668
Joey! How can you be so hard?
604
00:50:46,877 --> 00:50:50,464
She has a ruthless streak, John.
Be warned about it.
605
00:50:50,672 --> 00:50:53,675
She gets it from her father.
606
00:50:53,884 --> 00:50:56,470
They need all the help
you can give them.
607
00:50:56,720 --> 00:51:00,015
They're gonna have
special difficulties...
608
00:51:00,224 --> 00:51:02,976
-Christina.
-Don't budge, please. Sit.
609
00:51:03,185 --> 00:51:08,482
Of course, they know all that.
They're serious, intelligent people.
610
00:51:08,690 --> 00:51:10,734
If they know what lies in store...
611
00:51:10,943 --> 00:51:14,112
...and want each other
enough to accept it...
612
00:51:14,321 --> 00:51:17,199
...then they love each other
very much.
613
00:51:17,407 --> 00:51:20,410
Any two people
who love each other that much...
614
00:51:20,619 --> 00:51:24,081
...deserve all the best luck
in the world.
615
00:51:24,289 --> 00:51:28,460
I don't know. I have the feeling
that they'll never make it.
616
00:51:28,669 --> 00:51:31,505
That the whole thing's impossible.
617
00:51:32,923 --> 00:51:36,176
You feel that way, do you?
618
00:51:36,385 --> 00:51:39,429
You're really thrashing about, then.
619
00:51:39,638 --> 00:51:43,725
That's very interesting, indeed.
And rather amusing too...
620
00:51:43,934 --> 00:51:48,939
...to see a broken-down phoney liberal
facing his principles.
621
00:51:50,023 --> 00:51:54,278
I always believed that under
the fighting liberal façade...
622
00:51:54,486 --> 00:51:58,407
...there must be a reactionary bigot
trying to get out.
623
00:51:58,615 --> 00:52:03,745
Oh, go to hell. You and your crowd
are still preaching hell.
624
00:52:03,954 --> 00:52:06,123
Well, I'm off.
625
00:52:06,748 --> 00:52:12,170
As much as I enjoy your discomfort,
I can save a few souls before supper.
626
00:52:12,379 --> 00:52:17,134
But I am, as it happens,
free for dinner...
627
00:52:17,342 --> 00:52:22,764
Please come, 7.30. The doctor's
family are flying up from Los Angeles.
628
00:52:23,015 --> 00:52:27,519
Well, in that case,
you'll actually need me.
629
00:52:27,728 --> 00:52:31,648
Otherwise, you won't even
outnumber the blacks.
630
00:52:31,857 --> 00:52:35,110
Thank you, my dear.
631
00:52:35,319 --> 00:52:37,654
Half past 7.
632
00:52:37,863 --> 00:52:40,157
What was that the Beatles sang?
633
00:52:51,168 --> 00:52:55,714
-Mom did it. Does it look like him?
-He looks a little grim...
634
00:52:55,922 --> 00:52:59,718
-Hey!
-No, no. Don't let me disturb you.
635
00:52:59,926 --> 00:53:03,680
I hope you don't mind,
but I'm coming to dinner.
636
00:53:03,889 --> 00:53:06,683
-I'm delighted you're coming.
-Thank you.
637
00:53:06,892 --> 00:53:11,897
I'm very delighted to have met you.
See you this evening.
638
00:53:12,105 --> 00:53:14,858
You know, you two make me feel...
639
00:53:15,067 --> 00:53:18,695
...quite extraordinarily happy.
640
00:53:23,116 --> 00:53:28,455
I'd better tell Tillie. Listen, you'll
hear her going through the roof.
641
00:53:32,918 --> 00:53:37,839
I've brought you the latest bulletin.
Guess who's coming to dinner now.
642
00:53:38,048 --> 00:53:42,052
-The Reverend Martin Luther King?
-Oh, Tillie.
643
00:53:42,260 --> 00:53:44,429
You're so close. Monsignor Ryan.
644
00:53:44,638 --> 00:53:47,933
Bake a second pie.
He loves your cooking.
645
00:53:48,141 --> 00:53:53,063
Is the big guest room in order?
Dr. Prentice wants to have a shower.
646
00:53:53,855 --> 00:53:57,692
-He does?
-He does.
647
00:54:00,654 --> 00:54:04,157
She's 23. She has the right
to do as she pleases.
648
00:54:04,366 --> 00:54:08,495
-That's not the point. He said...
-I know what he said.
649
00:54:08,745 --> 00:54:13,041
Could we go for a few minutes?
What are the others doing?
650
00:54:13,250 --> 00:54:17,170
Meeting Peter and Judith,
then going to the airport.
651
00:54:17,379 --> 00:54:18,839
Come on!
652
00:54:19,047 --> 00:54:22,259
Well, come on, will you?!
653
00:54:35,188 --> 00:54:40,485
What happened to Homer, that lawyer?
I thought she liked him a lot.
654
00:54:40,694 --> 00:54:44,197
Nothing happened.
Dr. Prentice happened to Joey.
655
00:54:44,406 --> 00:54:48,368
Only last Christmas she said
Homer had the inside track.
656
00:54:50,495 --> 00:54:54,207
That's where we got the ice cream.
Let's get some.
657
00:54:54,416 --> 00:54:58,587
-Oh, Matt, it's after 5!
-A little ice cream can't hurt!
658
00:55:17,439 --> 00:55:18,648
Yes?
659
00:55:18,857 --> 00:55:24,237
When I had ice cream before, I had
a special flavour I liked very much.
660
00:55:24,446 --> 00:55:27,157
-I can't remember.
-I'll bring the list.
661
00:55:27,365 --> 00:55:29,409
You must know what it is.
662
00:55:29,618 --> 00:55:32,829
Daiquiri ice, honeycomb candy,
cocoa-coconut...
663
00:55:33,038 --> 00:55:36,333
...mocha jamoca, peanut butter,
banana mint?
664
00:55:36,541 --> 00:55:40,462
-Must've been another place.
-Fresh Oregon boysenberry.
665
00:55:40,670 --> 00:55:42,422
That's it. That's it.
666
00:55:42,631 --> 00:55:48,053
That's it. Fresh Oregon boysenberry.
Bring me a big one, huh?
667
00:55:48,261 --> 00:55:50,889
-Will you have some?
-No, black coffee.
668
00:55:51,097 --> 00:55:55,977
One double fresh Oregon boysenberry
and one black coffee. Thank you.
669
00:56:01,608 --> 00:56:04,319
You know, Matt...
670
00:56:04,528 --> 00:56:08,198
...I think Mike was right,
that Joey is lucky.
671
00:56:08,406 --> 00:56:12,077
The work he does is so important.
She'll be able...
672
00:56:12,285 --> 00:56:16,289
...to share it all with him.
It's the best break.
673
00:56:17,666 --> 00:56:19,709
For us it's all been great.
674
00:56:19,918 --> 00:56:23,672
But do you know what was
the best time of all?
675
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:25,924
The beginning, when we struggled.
676
00:56:26,132 --> 00:56:30,679
You were working too hard and
worried, sometimes frightened.
677
00:56:30,887 --> 00:56:35,809
And there were times when I felt,
when I really knew...
678
00:56:36,017 --> 00:56:37,978
...that I was a help to you.
679
00:56:38,228 --> 00:56:40,981
That was the very best time
of all for me.
680
00:56:43,733 --> 00:56:47,904
-Okay. One black coffee.
-Thank you.
681
00:56:48,113 --> 00:56:52,450
-And one Oregon boysenberry sherbet.
-Thank you.
682
00:57:04,504 --> 00:57:08,592
This is not the stuff.
I never had this before.
683
00:57:17,309 --> 00:57:21,229
You know, it's not bad at all.
I kind of like it.
684
00:57:21,438 --> 00:57:24,608
Fresh Oregon boysenberry.
685
00:57:24,816 --> 00:57:26,151
Yes, sir?
686
00:57:26,359 --> 00:57:30,280
When I had ice cream before,
this isn't the stuff I had.
687
00:57:30,488 --> 00:57:33,283
But I like it, it's very good.
I like it very much.
688
00:57:33,450 --> 00:57:35,160
Okay.
689
00:57:45,211 --> 00:57:48,673
-How do you do, Miss Binks?
-I got something to say!
690
00:57:48,882 --> 00:57:52,427
Just exactly what
are you trying to pull here?
691
00:57:52,636 --> 00:57:56,222
I'm not trying to pull anything.
I was finding me a wife.
692
00:57:56,431 --> 00:57:58,433
Ain't that just likely?
693
00:57:58,642 --> 00:58:02,729
What kind of doctor are you
supposed to be?
694
00:58:02,937 --> 00:58:05,023
Would you believe horse?
695
00:58:06,441 --> 00:58:09,402
You make with witticisms and all, huh?
696
00:58:09,611 --> 00:58:14,574
You may think you're fooling these
folks, but you ain't fooling me.
697
00:58:14,783 --> 00:58:20,497
You're a smooth-talking, smart-ass
niggers out for all you can get...
698
00:58:20,747 --> 00:58:24,250
...with all that other
trouble-making nonsense.
699
00:58:24,459 --> 00:58:29,172
I brought up that child,
and ain't nobody gonna harm her.
700
00:58:29,381 --> 00:58:33,760
As long as you're here,
I'm watching. You read me, boy?
701
00:58:33,968 --> 00:58:38,223
You bring trouble, you'll know
what "black power" means!
702
00:58:38,431 --> 00:58:42,769
And furthermore, you ain't even
all that good-looking!
703
00:58:50,568 --> 00:58:55,990
That was good. If I come again,
remind me about the boysenberry.
704
00:58:56,783 --> 00:58:59,703
Yeah, I sure will. Thank you, sir.
705
00:59:02,622 --> 00:59:07,544
-Shall we take some home for dessert?
-No. Tillie's baked pies.
706
00:59:17,846 --> 00:59:20,265
You stupid idiot!
707
00:59:22,142 --> 00:59:27,105
-Can't you look where you're going?
-Your car's so low, I couldn't see it.
708
00:59:27,313 --> 00:59:31,359
Of course you didn't see me!
You weren't looking!
709
00:59:31,568 --> 00:59:35,613
-Look what you did!
-Okay, it's my fault. My insurance...
710
00:59:35,822 --> 00:59:40,410
Who cares about your insurance?
I worked three months on that!
711
00:59:40,618 --> 00:59:46,040
-How much to have it repaired?
-Look at it! Thirty or 40 bucks.
712
00:59:46,374 --> 00:59:50,670
Stupid old man! You ought to be
put away in a home.
713
00:59:50,879 --> 00:59:54,716
There's 50. Don't bother
to have it fixed. Buy a new one!
714
00:59:56,092 --> 00:59:59,095
Some of these old guys,
they're senile!
715
01:00:00,346 --> 01:00:01,639
Stupid old man!
716
01:00:02,432 --> 01:00:06,853
There ought to be a law!
There ought to be a law!
717
01:00:14,402 --> 01:00:16,988
What the hell is it today?
718
01:00:17,197 --> 01:00:20,533
Less than 12 percent of this city
are coloured.
719
01:00:20,742 --> 01:00:26,122
I can't even have a dish of Oregon
boozenberry without running into one!
720
01:01:07,580 --> 01:01:10,333
I can't tell you how happy
I am for you.
721
01:01:10,542 --> 01:01:13,086
It all happened so quickly.
722
01:01:13,294 --> 01:01:17,298
It took Peter and me three years
to get married.
723
01:01:17,507 --> 01:01:19,300
We lived together for two.
724
01:01:23,471 --> 01:01:26,099
-To John and Joey.
-John and Joanna.
725
01:01:26,307 --> 01:01:31,354
-He only calls me Joanna. I like it.
-To John and Joanna.
726
01:01:33,147 --> 01:01:36,776
You know, where you're so lucky
is in Joey's folks.
727
01:01:36,985 --> 01:01:42,073
Matt Drayton really
stands for something in this town.
728
01:01:42,782 --> 01:01:47,495
-It's always been a good paper.
-And he made it that way.
729
01:01:47,704 --> 01:01:52,000
Matt takes a stand on all
public issues.
730
01:01:52,208 --> 01:01:56,921
-When are you flying over?
-As soon as I can arrange everything.
731
01:01:57,130 --> 01:02:00,675
Why aren't you flying over with John?
732
01:02:00,925 --> 01:02:03,136
Why am I not flying over with you?
733
01:02:03,344 --> 01:02:07,807
-Why am I not flying with you?
-Is your passport in order?
734
01:02:08,016 --> 01:02:10,685
-Need anything?
-I could get it there.
735
01:02:10,894 --> 01:02:15,565
Then it seems crazy to go all that way
when you could go together.
736
01:02:15,815 --> 01:02:19,444
-Why don't you both leave tonight?
-Why not?
737
01:02:19,652 --> 01:02:20,778
Yes.
738
01:02:34,292 --> 01:02:39,297
It's 6:00. In an hour they'll be here.
The doctor leaves at 10:45.
739
01:02:39,505 --> 01:02:44,344
No matter what it is, you
have to tell them how you feel.
740
01:02:45,136 --> 01:02:48,264
I need more than one day
to make a decision like that.
741
01:02:48,473 --> 01:02:51,976
It's the silliest thing.
But I'll say this:
742
01:02:52,185 --> 01:02:56,856
I won't try to pretend
that I'm happy about it. I'm not.
743
01:02:57,065 --> 01:03:01,235
If the doctor's decision depends
on that, then it's too bad.
744
01:03:01,444 --> 01:03:03,863
I'm thinking only of Joey's welfare.
745
01:03:04,072 --> 01:03:07,450
I have nothing against him,
but he's a grown man...
746
01:03:07,659 --> 01:03:11,537
...and he behaved irresponsibly
by letting it happen.
747
01:03:11,746 --> 01:03:14,499
Now he wants me
to approve a situation...
748
01:03:14,707 --> 01:03:18,252
...when I know they'll
get their brains knocked out!
749
01:03:18,461 --> 01:03:23,299
Sorry, that's the way I feel.
And I know how you're reacting.
750
01:03:23,508 --> 01:03:26,594
You're so wrapped up
in Joey's excitement...
751
01:03:26,803 --> 01:03:30,556
...that you are not behaving
in her best interest.
752
01:05:01,856 --> 01:05:07,236
There's no reason not to go tonight.
You can understand, can't you, Mom?
753
01:05:07,653 --> 01:05:13,076
My passport's in order, I don't need
anything. I can pack in an hour.
754
01:05:13,284 --> 01:05:17,580
I'll be with him.
We'll be together the whole time.
755
01:05:17,789 --> 01:05:21,459
Mom, they're here. I can see them.
756
01:05:21,667 --> 01:05:25,546
They look like awfully nice people.
His mother looks lovely.
757
01:05:25,755 --> 01:05:28,091
Break it to Dad for me, will you?
758
01:05:29,133 --> 01:05:31,260
Well...
759
01:05:31,469 --> 01:05:36,891
I should've called you back again,
because there is one thing I...
760
01:05:37,725 --> 01:05:43,147
I've been meaning to write to you.
There's one thing I didn't explain.
761
01:05:43,606 --> 01:05:47,944
And I'm afraid it's gonna
be kind of a shock.
762
01:05:55,451 --> 01:05:57,954
If you see what I mean.
763
01:05:58,162 --> 01:06:01,499
Mom, Dad, this is Joanna Drayton.
764
01:06:01,707 --> 01:06:03,751
Joanna, my mom, my dad.
765
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,879
Mrs. Prentice, I'm so happy.
766
01:06:07,088 --> 01:06:09,966
-Miss Drayton?
-Drayton, yes.
767
01:06:10,466 --> 01:06:13,636
Mr. Prentice,
I'm very pleased to meet you.
768
01:06:18,182 --> 01:06:20,434
I can explain.
769
01:06:20,643 --> 01:06:24,605
I can imagine
what's going on in your mind...
770
01:06:24,814 --> 01:06:28,234
...but we can explain.
771
01:06:29,652 --> 01:06:33,030
-You can?
-Of course we can.
772
01:06:33,239 --> 01:06:35,616
You have bags?
773
01:06:35,867 --> 01:06:39,537
Of course you have bags.
Let's go get your bags.
774
01:06:39,745 --> 01:06:42,039
Mama.
775
01:06:45,042 --> 01:06:47,795
-What did your folks say?
-All's well.
776
01:06:48,004 --> 01:06:51,799
-Did you talk with your father?
-To Mom, but she'll tell him.
777
01:06:52,967 --> 01:06:56,345
-Tonight?
-I thought I ought to tell you.
778
01:06:56,554 --> 01:06:59,807
This whole thing...
That's out of the question.
779
01:07:00,016 --> 01:07:05,354
I couldn't do what you're doing, so
I don't understand how you'll do it.
780
01:07:05,563 --> 01:07:09,942
You can't break their hearts
and then sit down to dinner.
781
01:07:10,151 --> 01:07:12,653
Don't you think I know that?
782
01:07:12,862 --> 01:07:18,284
I'll talk to the doctor after dinner.
Tell him exactly how I feel.
783
01:07:18,492 --> 01:07:21,245
Matt, I'm not trying to argue.
784
01:07:21,495 --> 01:07:24,498
There's nothing to say
that you don't know.
785
01:07:24,707 --> 01:07:28,044
But it's important how wrong
I think you...
786
01:07:28,252 --> 01:07:30,504
You're making the worst mistake...
787
01:07:30,713 --> 01:07:35,134
I think you'll regret it
for as long as you live.
788
01:07:35,343 --> 01:07:38,137
You're as wrong as you can be.
789
01:07:38,346 --> 01:07:42,642
I'm thinking of her.
Even the doctor's gonna know that.
790
01:07:42,850 --> 01:07:47,897
There's something else. I'm
surprised it hasn't occurred to you.
791
01:07:48,105 --> 01:07:52,485
The doctor will accept it
because he's sensitive...
792
01:07:52,693 --> 01:07:54,862
...and because he said he would.
793
01:07:55,071 --> 01:07:59,909
But Joey won't. Your mistake is in
underestimating your daughter.
794
01:08:00,117 --> 01:08:05,373
She'll fight you and every argument
you ever try to give her.
795
01:08:06,082 --> 01:08:08,084
And one thing more.
796
01:08:08,292 --> 01:08:12,964
Until today I'd never have believed
I could say such a thing.
797
01:08:13,172 --> 01:08:17,051
But when she fights you,
and for what it's worth...
798
01:08:17,260 --> 01:08:20,221
...I'm going to be on her side.
799
01:08:23,891 --> 01:08:28,813
I never would've believed
I'd hear you say a thing like that.
800
01:08:29,105 --> 01:08:30,606
Damn it.
801
01:08:31,691 --> 01:08:35,361
-Can I get you another drink?
-No, thanks. I'll get it.
802
01:08:41,909 --> 01:08:44,412
I wish we had more time...
803
01:08:45,871 --> 01:08:47,331
What were you gonna say?
804
01:08:47,581 --> 01:08:52,128
I was gonna ask Miss Drayton
how her parents reacted to...
805
01:08:52,336 --> 01:08:55,881
-I wanted to ask that too.
-Please call me Joanna.
806
01:08:56,090 --> 01:08:59,176
They were shaken. I don't think
I've seen them so surprised.
807
01:08:59,385 --> 01:09:04,140
What really shook them was
that I wanted to marry anybody.
808
01:09:04,348 --> 01:09:07,268
I can't blame them for being stunned.
809
01:09:07,476 --> 01:09:12,398
Then you couldn't blame us
if we were a little stunned too.
810
01:09:12,606 --> 01:09:15,609
It's not unreasonable
to suggest that...
811
01:09:15,818 --> 01:09:19,322
...you two are behaving like
escaped lunatics.
812
01:09:20,281 --> 01:09:21,574
Dad...
813
01:09:21,782 --> 01:09:27,204
...this happened so quickly.
It's like riding a rocket.
814
01:09:27,955 --> 01:09:30,833
We didn't plan it,
it just happened that way.
815
01:09:31,083 --> 01:09:35,004
It's hard on Joanna's folks,
and it'll be hard on you.
816
01:09:36,464 --> 01:09:41,302
If you have any objections,
you'd better raise them soon...
817
01:09:41,510 --> 01:09:44,680
...because in exactly four hours
we'll be gone.
818
01:09:44,930 --> 01:09:50,353
I can't list all my objections
in four hours. I'd need eight hours.
819
01:09:50,895 --> 01:09:56,317
You've only got four hours, so you'll
just have to talk twice as fast.
820
01:10:11,457 --> 01:10:15,169
-Christina!
-Hello, darling. How are you?
821
01:10:15,378 --> 01:10:20,341
-Forgive me. I'm a little bit early.
-Come in.
822
01:10:20,549 --> 01:10:24,220
I don't like to be
always repeating myself...
823
01:10:24,428 --> 01:10:26,889
...but how long since I remarked...
824
01:10:27,098 --> 01:10:30,601
...that you are the loveliest woman
I've ever known?
825
01:10:30,810 --> 01:10:34,647
There is a kind of envy
that is in no way sinful.
826
01:10:34,855 --> 01:10:37,316
That's what I've had for Matt.
827
01:10:37,483 --> 01:10:41,946
-What can I get you to drink?
-I like Scotch.
828
01:10:42,196 --> 01:10:45,658
-But aren't we drinking wine?
-Yes.
829
01:10:45,866 --> 01:10:51,247
I'll have a drop of Scotch anyhow.
Equal amount of soda, please.
830
01:10:57,002 --> 01:10:58,838
Thank you.
831
01:11:01,715 --> 01:11:04,385
My dear, what's the matter?
832
01:11:09,056 --> 01:11:13,310
We're in trouble, Mike.
833
01:11:13,936 --> 01:11:17,064
We're in terrible trouble,
terrible trouble.
834
01:11:17,273 --> 01:11:21,235
John told Matt and me
that he wouldn't marry Joey...
835
01:11:21,444 --> 01:11:25,614
...unless we'd approve
with no reservations whatever.
836
01:11:25,865 --> 01:11:28,159
Joey doesn't know he said that.
837
01:11:28,367 --> 01:11:31,287
Now she's decided to go
with him tonight.
838
01:11:31,537 --> 01:11:35,124
They're on their way
with John's parents.
839
01:11:35,332 --> 01:11:39,837
Neither of them knows
that Matt has decided...
840
01:11:40,045 --> 01:11:42,965
Matt has decided that
he can't approve.
841
01:11:43,174 --> 01:11:47,428
That's not true.
Please tell me it's not true.
842
01:11:48,220 --> 01:11:51,724
-Where is Matt?
-He's upstairs, changing. He's...
843
01:11:52,808 --> 01:11:54,518
He's not himself, Mike.
844
01:11:57,146 --> 01:11:58,564
Excuse me.
845
01:11:59,648 --> 01:12:01,901
It's incredible!
846
01:12:12,036 --> 01:12:15,539
-Table all right?
-It's fine, Tillie. Thank you.
847
01:12:15,748 --> 01:12:19,001
Miss Christina,
what's gonna happen here?
848
01:12:19,210 --> 01:12:21,795
I don't know, Tillie.
849
01:12:22,004 --> 01:12:27,384
You and Mr. Matt gonna put a stop
to this damn nonsense foolishness?
850
01:12:27,593 --> 01:12:30,804
Tillie, I don't want
to put a stop to anything.
851
01:12:31,013 --> 01:12:34,099
He's a fine man.
He's a wonderful man.
852
01:12:34,308 --> 01:12:37,019
And Joey is
very much in love with him.
853
01:12:37,228 --> 01:12:40,523
And it isn't just
"damn nonsense foolishness."
854
01:12:40,731 --> 01:12:43,817
I tell you, the way you're talking...
855
01:12:44,026 --> 01:12:46,987
...I don't understand nothing no more.
856
01:12:49,698 --> 01:12:53,786
Nobody understands nothing no more.
857
01:12:54,245 --> 01:12:58,666
No, I don't think you're butting
in about what doesn't concern...
858
01:12:58,874 --> 01:13:01,001
Damn, blast!
859
01:13:01,210 --> 01:13:05,965
I understand how you feel, Mike.
I understand how everybody feels.
860
01:13:06,173 --> 01:13:11,053
But understand, they've boxed me
into a hell of a corner here.
861
01:13:11,262 --> 01:13:16,016
And no matter what anyone says,
I won't behave irresponsibly.
862
01:13:16,225 --> 01:13:19,937
I'm not gonna tell them
they can't get married.
863
01:13:20,145 --> 01:13:24,650
But they have no right to expect me
to be happy when...
864
01:13:24,858 --> 01:13:25,985
For God's sake!
865
01:13:26,193 --> 01:13:30,197
You're about to destroy
all the happiness there is...
866
01:13:30,406 --> 01:13:33,325
...in the happiest family
I've ever known.
867
01:13:33,534 --> 01:13:37,454
-Have you any thought for Christina?
-Christina?
868
01:13:37,663 --> 01:13:41,083
Have you any idea
of how she has behaved today?
869
01:13:41,292 --> 01:13:45,379
She was all for it as though
there were no problems.
870
01:13:45,588 --> 01:13:49,633
But there are no problems
they don't know about.
871
01:13:49,842 --> 01:13:53,387
Christina respects Joey's judgement
more than you.
872
01:13:53,596 --> 01:13:58,434
Come off it! If Joey came home
with some fuzzy-wuzzy and said:
873
01:13:58,642 --> 01:14:03,480
"Mom, this is the man for me,"
Christina would say, "How wonderful!
874
01:14:03,689 --> 01:14:06,734
Where will we get enough roses
to fill the Rose Bowl?"
875
01:14:06,942 --> 01:14:10,487
I'm trying to remember
where I've seen you so angry.
876
01:14:10,696 --> 01:14:13,824
When you took nine shots
on the 7th green.
877
01:14:15,576 --> 01:14:20,122
-Could you get the hell out of here?
-I know why you're angry.
878
01:14:20,331 --> 01:14:25,753
Not with the doctor, not with
Joey or Christina, not even with me.
879
01:14:26,170 --> 01:14:30,257
-You're angry with yourself.
-You pontificating old poop!
880
01:14:30,466 --> 01:14:34,845
You're angry because
suddenly you've been thrown.
881
01:14:35,054 --> 01:14:38,474
You're the last man
I'd expect to behave this way.
882
01:14:38,682 --> 01:14:43,896
You're not yourself! You don't know
who you are, or what you're doing.
883
01:14:44,104 --> 01:14:49,151
That's your trouble. You've gone back
on yourself. In your heart, you know it.
884
01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:52,446
I'll only take so much,
even from you!
885
01:14:52,655 --> 01:14:57,326
For 30 years, there's been no man
I've admired or respected more.
886
01:14:57,534 --> 01:14:59,620
You know that, Matt.
887
01:14:59,828 --> 01:15:05,084
And for the first time in all those
30 years, I feel sorry for you.
888
01:15:05,292 --> 01:15:07,294
Damn it, that's enough!
889
01:15:07,461 --> 01:15:11,090
Are you really capable of putting
yourself in my position?
890
01:15:11,298 --> 01:15:15,427
Unless you've got kids
of your own somewhere...
891
01:15:15,636 --> 01:15:19,682
...how could you know how a father
feels in this situation?
892
01:15:19,890 --> 01:15:24,311
You don't know! I know
they won't have a dog's chance...
893
01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:27,606
...not here, not in the whole
stinking world!
894
01:15:27,815 --> 01:15:32,319
They are this country.
They'll change this stinking world.
895
01:15:32,528 --> 01:15:35,364
In 50 years, maybe, or 100 years...
896
01:15:35,572 --> 01:15:38,409
...but not in your lifetime.
Maybe not even in mine.
897
01:15:38,617 --> 01:15:44,039
My dear friend, I wish with all my
heart you could be restrained.
898
01:15:44,248 --> 01:15:48,627
If I were younger, to prevent you
from going downstairs...
899
01:15:48,836 --> 01:15:52,297
...I'd make an effort
to wrestle you to the floor.
900
01:15:52,506 --> 01:15:55,551
That'll be the day.
901
01:15:58,053 --> 01:16:01,974
Is that the car? Did you hear a car?
902
01:16:06,103 --> 01:16:09,815
-Mrs. Prentice. I'm Christina Drayton.
-How do you do?
903
01:16:10,023 --> 01:16:13,652
How do you do?
I'm so pleased to meet you.
904
01:16:13,861 --> 01:16:18,073
Let me take your coat and hat.
And yours, Mrs. Prentice?
905
01:16:18,282 --> 01:16:21,994
How good of you to come
all this long way. Do go in.
906
01:16:22,244 --> 01:16:26,039
-Did you tell him? Was he shaken?
-It was a surprise.
907
01:16:26,248 --> 01:16:30,085
-Does he wanna talk to me?
-I'm sure he does, later.
908
01:16:30,252 --> 01:16:31,837
Please come in.
909
01:16:32,004 --> 01:16:35,966
-May I get you a drink?
-May I have some sherry, please?
910
01:16:36,175 --> 01:16:40,387
-What a lovely room.
-John, would you be bartender?
911
01:16:40,596 --> 01:16:42,723
Shall we sit over here?
912
01:16:42,931 --> 01:16:45,934
-What will you have, Dad? Bourbon?
-Thank you.
913
01:16:46,143 --> 01:16:50,981
-You have such a magnificent view.
-Thank you. Please sit down.
914
01:16:51,190 --> 01:16:53,692
Sit down, Mr. Prentice.
915
01:16:58,489 --> 01:17:02,618
-Did you have a pleasant flight?
-Very pleasant, thank you.
916
01:17:02,826 --> 01:17:06,205
The view of the sunset
was breathtaking.
917
01:17:06,413 --> 01:17:09,208
Only took 40 minutes.
Four hundred miles.
918
01:17:09,958 --> 01:17:11,960
It's incredible, isn't it?
919
01:17:15,297 --> 01:17:20,010
My husband will be down directly,
I think. He's upstairs changing.
920
01:17:20,219 --> 01:17:24,681
And we have a friend coming to dinner,
Monsignor Ryan.
921
01:17:24,890 --> 01:17:30,103
-They'll be down in a minute.
-Mrs. Prentice. Mom.
922
01:17:30,312 --> 01:17:32,773
-Here you are, Dad.
-Thanks, son.
923
01:17:34,316 --> 01:17:37,945
Are you Catholics, Mrs. Drayton?
924
01:17:38,904 --> 01:17:42,282
No, we're not, Mr. Prentice.
925
01:17:42,491 --> 01:17:47,412
We're nothing in particular.
Monsignor Ryan is an old friend.
926
01:17:47,621 --> 01:17:51,083
Do you come often to San Francisco?
927
01:17:51,291 --> 01:17:55,295
-I've got to talk to your father.
-There he is.
928
01:17:56,505 --> 01:18:00,050
Dad, I'd like you to meet
Mr. and Mrs. Prentice.
929
01:18:00,259 --> 01:18:04,012
-This is my father.
-Mrs. Prentice, nice to meet you.
930
01:18:04,221 --> 01:18:08,767
Mr. Prentice, happy to meet you.
May I present Monsignor Ryan?
931
01:18:08,976 --> 01:18:12,771
-How do you do?
-Glad to meet you, sir.
932
01:18:12,980 --> 01:18:14,857
-Are you tending bar?
-Yes.
933
01:18:15,065 --> 01:18:18,443
-We're both drinking Scotch.
-Coming up.
934
01:18:18,652 --> 01:18:22,781
Sit down, sit down.
Sit down, there, Mike.
935
01:18:27,244 --> 01:18:31,331
-Did you have a nice flight?
-Very nice flight.
936
01:18:31,540 --> 01:18:33,500
Only 40 minutes.
937
01:18:35,586 --> 01:18:38,171
-Only 40 minutes from L.A.
-Terrifying.
938
01:18:38,380 --> 01:18:41,842
You could talk
about flying to Geneva...
939
01:18:42,050 --> 01:18:46,013
...because John and I hope
you'll come for the wedding.
940
01:18:46,221 --> 01:18:49,725
Would anybody like to talk about that?
941
01:18:51,268 --> 01:18:55,772
I take it they've told you
all about their plans.
942
01:18:55,981 --> 01:18:59,359
Of course. It's only when you're
eloping that you keep it a secret.
943
01:18:59,985 --> 01:19:02,404
I don't know about you, Mr. Prentice...
944
01:19:02,613 --> 01:19:05,365
...but I think they're rushing it a bit.
945
01:19:06,158 --> 01:19:08,744
It seemed that way to me too.
946
01:19:09,536 --> 01:19:13,665
-It seems like that to you too?
-That's right.
947
01:19:14,833 --> 01:19:17,127
I'm certainly relieved to hear that.
948
01:19:17,377 --> 01:19:20,172
I was beginning to think
I was the only one...
949
01:19:20,380 --> 01:19:23,550
I would like Mrs. Prentice
to see the view.
950
01:19:23,759 --> 01:19:26,053
What are you talking about?
What view?
951
01:19:26,219 --> 01:19:28,263
From the terrace.
952
01:19:28,472 --> 01:19:31,683
-Would you care to see the view?
-Yes, thank you.
953
01:19:31,892 --> 01:19:35,479
Good. Excuse us.
Bring your drink, that's fine.
954
01:19:41,652 --> 01:19:47,074
Mrs. Prentice, have you had any
chance to speak privately with John?
955
01:19:47,658 --> 01:19:49,409
Well, no.
956
01:19:49,660 --> 01:19:52,579
It's important you know
what's happened...
957
01:19:52,788 --> 01:19:55,958
...and what I'm terribly
afraid will happen.
958
01:19:56,541 --> 01:20:00,712
May I explain the situation
to you, or try to?
959
01:20:00,921 --> 01:20:04,841
-Yes, please. I wish you would.
-First I have to ask you...
960
01:20:05,050 --> 01:20:08,261
Forgive my being so abrupt
and so direct.
961
01:20:08,470 --> 01:20:11,223
Are you shocked by the fact...
962
01:20:11,431 --> 01:20:15,268
...that John's involved
with a white girl?
963
01:20:15,477 --> 01:20:17,312
Yes, surprised.
964
01:20:18,021 --> 01:20:20,607
It never happened before.
965
01:20:20,816 --> 01:20:25,195
I guess it never occurred to me
that such a thing might happen.
966
01:20:25,404 --> 01:20:28,657
But it wouldn't be true
to say that I'm shocked.
967
01:20:28,865 --> 01:20:31,827
Are you, Mrs. Drayton?
968
01:20:32,035 --> 01:20:37,290
Well, I think I was at first,
this afternoon...
969
01:20:37,499 --> 01:20:40,460
...because it came as a surprise
to us too.
970
01:20:40,669 --> 01:20:43,672
But now I know how
they feel about each other.
971
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:48,260
Joey's very young, Mrs. Prentice,
but she's not a child.
972
01:20:49,970 --> 01:20:54,266
And they're deeply
in love with each other.
973
01:20:58,311 --> 01:21:02,816
Are you telling me that you'd
approve the marriage...
974
01:21:03,025 --> 01:21:07,112
...but that your husband won't?
Is that it?
975
01:21:08,321 --> 01:21:10,449
Yes, that's it.
976
01:21:10,657 --> 01:21:12,993
My husband won't, either.
977
01:21:14,703 --> 01:21:20,125
I wish there were more time,
just to adjust to the situation...
978
01:21:20,417 --> 01:21:24,546
...but there just isn't any time.
979
01:21:25,338 --> 01:21:28,341
If we're going to accept it...
980
01:21:28,592 --> 01:21:31,678
...we'll have to trust the two of them...
981
01:21:31,887 --> 01:21:35,057
...and accept that
they know what they're doing.
982
01:21:35,265 --> 01:21:40,312
Mrs. Drayton,
my husband just won't do that.
983
01:21:46,151 --> 01:21:49,946
They seem to be having
quite a conversation out there.
984
01:21:50,155 --> 01:21:54,076
It might do no harm
if we had a few words, Mr. Drayton.
985
01:21:54,284 --> 01:21:55,327
Yes, sure.
986
01:21:55,577 --> 01:22:00,248
We can go into my study.
Will you excuse us, please?
987
01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:07,839
Doc, you'll excuse us, please?
988
01:22:12,135 --> 01:22:14,930
I'll have another drink, if you will.
989
01:22:15,138 --> 01:22:17,974
-Another?
-No.
990
01:22:19,851 --> 01:22:23,230
If you'll excuse me, I'll go up
and throw a few things together...
991
01:22:23,438 --> 01:22:25,982
...like for the next 10 years.
992
01:22:34,950 --> 01:22:36,034
Mr. Drayton...
993
01:22:38,161 --> 01:22:41,665
...I don't know you,
and wouldn't wanna offend you...
994
01:22:41,873 --> 01:22:47,087
...but are you nuts? Are you telling
me that you approve of this?
995
01:22:47,295 --> 01:22:49,840
I wasn't going to tell you that.
996
01:22:50,048 --> 01:22:54,052
Because you may be
a big newspaper publisher...
997
01:22:54,261 --> 01:22:58,723
...and I'm a pensioned-off mailman,
but you are out of your mind!
998
01:23:07,023 --> 01:23:11,903
I have a good idea of what
my father is saying to him.
999
01:23:12,112 --> 01:23:13,530
I wish I knew.
1000
01:23:14,823 --> 01:23:17,701
You were talking with him upstairs.
1001
01:23:17,909 --> 01:23:21,955
Have you any idea what Mr. Drayton
is saying to my father?
1002
01:23:22,164 --> 01:23:24,249
I can tell you one thing.
1003
01:23:24,457 --> 01:23:28,253
I was sorry to hear that you
intend to withdraw...
1004
01:23:28,461 --> 01:23:32,090
...if you encounter any opposition.
1005
01:23:46,438 --> 01:23:49,191
She's up there packing.
1006
01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:54,196
John, your mother
would like to speak to you.
1007
01:24:00,076 --> 01:24:03,079
-This is a mess. Where's Joey?
-Upstairs.
1008
01:24:03,288 --> 01:24:05,290
I'm going up.
1009
01:24:05,498 --> 01:24:10,128
-Everything is ready when you are.
-We're not ready, Tillie.
1010
01:24:11,713 --> 01:24:16,843
Well, what you're saying is you feel
practically the same as I do.
1011
01:24:17,052 --> 01:24:22,474
That's right. But even so, this is a hell
of an unhappy situation...
1012
01:24:22,766 --> 01:24:26,269
...for both your son and my daughter.
1013
01:24:26,478 --> 01:24:30,482
I think it'd be best if you
talked to John yourself.
1014
01:24:40,075 --> 01:24:45,497
I said that if they didn't approve,
there'd be no marriage.
1015
01:24:48,291 --> 01:24:52,003
-I set the terms, Mama.
-They don't disapprove.
1016
01:24:53,255 --> 01:24:57,050
-Only Mr. Drayton.
-Are you sure?
1017
01:24:57,259 --> 01:25:01,429
She said she'd even
drive you to the airport.
1018
01:25:03,932 --> 01:25:09,145
John, I've lived with your father
for almost 40 years.
1019
01:25:09,980 --> 01:25:11,773
God willing, there'd be more.
1020
01:25:14,067 --> 01:25:19,447
And even though I've only known
about this situation for one hour...
1021
01:25:20,323 --> 01:25:23,618
...I feel the same way
Mrs. Drayton does.
1022
01:25:24,703 --> 01:25:27,706
She says Joanna
will never give you up.
1023
01:25:28,623 --> 01:25:34,045
I guess it depends upon
how much you want her.
1024
01:25:34,879 --> 01:25:36,589
Want her?
1025
01:25:39,134 --> 01:25:41,386
I want her, Mama.
1026
01:25:42,554 --> 01:25:47,017
You know what it's been like for me
these past eight years?
1027
01:25:47,225 --> 01:25:49,894
I felt like I never
wanted anybody again.
1028
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:53,940
But, Mama...
1029
01:25:54,149 --> 01:25:57,068
...these last few days with her...
1030
01:25:57,319 --> 01:26:01,614
...it's like I'm alive again.
It's love.
1031
01:26:02,032 --> 01:26:04,617
Excuse me, doctor.
1032
01:26:07,871 --> 01:26:11,499
-Your father wants to talk to you.
-Does he?
1033
01:26:11,708 --> 01:26:13,501
He's in my study.
1034
01:26:32,937 --> 01:26:38,068
I've been talking to your husband.
He seems upset by all this.
1035
01:26:38,276 --> 01:26:42,655
I know. Your wife says
you are too, Mr. Drayton.
1036
01:26:42,864 --> 01:26:46,534
Not upset, exactly.
It's a very difficult problem.
1037
01:26:48,286 --> 01:26:52,165
For whom? For you and my husband?
1038
01:26:52,791 --> 01:26:55,502
I think you'll solve your problem.
1039
01:26:56,127 --> 01:27:00,048
All you have to do is tell them
you're against them. That's all.
1040
01:27:00,256 --> 01:27:03,218
And you'll have no problem.
1041
01:27:04,677 --> 01:27:07,972
You're not telling me
you're happy about this?
1042
01:27:09,099 --> 01:27:12,769
This is not a night for talking
about happiness.
1043
01:27:12,977 --> 01:27:15,021
This is an unhappy night.
1044
01:27:16,648 --> 01:27:20,026
You talked to Christina.
I know how she feels.
1045
01:27:20,276 --> 01:27:24,572
Can you imagine for one minute
that I want to see them hurt?
1046
01:27:25,698 --> 01:27:29,661
No. No more than my husband does.
1047
01:27:30,912 --> 01:27:34,165
But hurt they're going to be...
1048
01:27:35,375 --> 01:27:38,586
...worse than my husband knows.
1049
01:27:38,795 --> 01:27:41,840
I think worse than you know too.
1050
01:27:44,217 --> 01:27:48,012
He's as much against this
as I am, maybe more.
1051
01:27:48,221 --> 01:27:53,101
Son, you've got to listen. I'm not
telling you how to live your life...
1052
01:27:53,309 --> 01:27:56,271
...but you never made
a mistake like this.
1053
01:27:56,479 --> 01:28:00,525
You've been a source
of pride for me and your mother.
1054
01:28:00,733 --> 01:28:02,819
But you don't know what you're doing!
1055
01:28:03,027 --> 01:28:07,157
This affair happened too fast,
you said so yourself.
1056
01:28:07,365 --> 01:28:12,454
You've got to stop and think!
Have you thought what people will say?
1057
01:28:12,662 --> 01:28:16,332
In 16 or 17 states
you'd be breaking the law.
1058
01:28:16,541 --> 01:28:21,379
And say they changed the law,
that don't change how people feel.
1059
01:28:21,588 --> 01:28:25,967
You never put a wrong foot anywhere.
But you're out of line!
1060
01:28:26,176 --> 01:28:28,344
That's for me to decide, man.
1061
01:28:28,595 --> 01:28:31,723
-Shut up and let me...
-Don't say that to me!
1062
01:28:32,474 --> 01:28:36,644
You have no right
after what I've been through.
1063
01:28:36,853 --> 01:28:41,357
You know that and I know that.
I know what you made of yourself...
1064
01:28:41,566 --> 01:28:45,153
...but I worked my ass off
to buy the chances you had!
1065
01:28:45,528 --> 01:28:49,491
You know how far I carried that bag
in 30 years?
1066
01:28:49,699 --> 01:28:53,661
Seventy-five thousand miles.
And mowing lawns in the dark...
1067
01:28:53,870 --> 01:28:58,291
...so you wouldn't be stoking furnaces
and could bear down on the books.
1068
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:02,962
There were things your mother should
have had that she insisted you have.
1069
01:29:03,171 --> 01:29:08,051
And I don't mean fancy things.
I mean a decent coat. A lousy coat!
1070
01:29:08,259 --> 01:29:13,097
You'll say that means nothing?
You'll break your mother's heart?
1071
01:29:16,434 --> 01:29:19,812
What happens to men
when they grow old?
1072
01:29:21,481 --> 01:29:23,775
Why do they forget everything?
1073
01:29:24,567 --> 01:29:29,989
I believe those two young people
need each other...
1074
01:29:30,365 --> 01:29:33,535
...like they need the air
to breathe in.
1075
01:29:34,118 --> 01:29:38,122
Anybody can see that
by just looking at them.
1076
01:29:38,331 --> 01:29:40,792
But you and my husband...
1077
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:44,170
...you might as well be blind men.
1078
01:29:44,379 --> 01:29:48,967
You can only see
that they have a problem.
1079
01:29:49,175 --> 01:29:52,595
But do you really know
what's happened to them...
1080
01:29:52,804 --> 01:29:55,515
...how they feel about each other?
1081
01:29:57,058 --> 01:30:00,520
I believe that men grow old...
1082
01:30:01,688 --> 01:30:06,276
...and when sexual things
no longer matter to them...
1083
01:30:06,484 --> 01:30:11,864
...they forget it all,
forget what true passion is.
1084
01:30:14,742 --> 01:30:18,246
If you ever felt what my son...
1085
01:30:19,956 --> 01:30:25,169
...feels for your daughter, you and my
husband forgot everything about it.
1086
01:30:25,378 --> 01:30:29,424
You knew once, but that
was a long time ago.
1087
01:30:29,632 --> 01:30:32,010
Now the two of you don't know.
1088
01:30:32,176 --> 01:30:37,599
And the strange thing
for your wife and me...
1089
01:30:37,974 --> 01:30:43,229
...is that you don't even remember.
1090
01:30:43,438 --> 01:30:48,610
If you did, how could you do
what you are doing?
1091
01:30:55,116 --> 01:30:59,245
I don't care what your mother says.
This is between you and me.
1092
01:30:59,454 --> 01:31:03,541
That's the first thing you've said
that makes any sense.
1093
01:31:03,750 --> 01:31:07,795
-And what I mean to say...
-You've said what you had to say.
1094
01:31:08,004 --> 01:31:10,757
You listen to me.
1095
01:31:13,468 --> 01:31:16,721
You don't want to tell me
how to live my life?
1096
01:31:16,929 --> 01:31:19,223
So, what have you been doing?
1097
01:31:19,432 --> 01:31:24,062
You tell me what rights I've got
and what I owe you.
1098
01:31:25,521 --> 01:31:30,234
Let me tell you something.
I owe you nothing.
1099
01:31:30,443 --> 01:31:35,657
If you carried that bag a million
miles, you did what you had to do.
1100
01:31:36,199 --> 01:31:38,284
You brought me into the world.
1101
01:31:38,493 --> 01:31:42,330
From that day, you owed me
everything you could...
1102
01:31:42,538 --> 01:31:47,001
...like I will owe my son.
But you don't own me!
1103
01:31:47,794 --> 01:31:51,172
You can't tell me when or
where I'm out of line...
1104
01:31:51,381 --> 01:31:54,092
...or make me live by your rules.
1105
01:31:54,926 --> 01:32:00,348
You don't know what or who I am, Dad.
How I feel, what I think!
1106
01:32:01,099 --> 01:32:04,936
And if I tried to explain,
you will never understand.
1107
01:32:06,020 --> 01:32:08,940
You are 30 years older than I am.
1108
01:32:09,148 --> 01:32:14,320
Your generation thinks the way it was
is the way it's got to be!
1109
01:32:14,529 --> 01:32:17,073
Not until your generation dies...
1110
01:32:17,281 --> 01:32:20,576
...will your dead weight
be off our backs!
1111
01:32:20,785 --> 01:32:24,622
You understand?
You've got to get off my back!
1112
01:32:42,140 --> 01:32:44,642
Dad.
1113
01:32:46,894 --> 01:32:49,188
Dad.
1114
01:32:50,898 --> 01:32:53,693
You're my father.
1115
01:32:53,901 --> 01:32:57,113
I'm your son. I love you.
1116
01:32:57,321 --> 01:33:02,285
I always have and I always will.
1117
01:33:02,493 --> 01:33:06,038
But you think of yourself
as a coloured man.
1118
01:33:07,039 --> 01:33:10,835
I think of myself as a man.
1119
01:33:17,049 --> 01:33:21,012
Now, I've got a decision to make.
1120
01:33:21,220 --> 01:33:26,017
And I've got to make it alone,
and I've got to make it in a hurry.
1121
01:33:26,225 --> 01:33:28,436
So...
1122
01:33:29,687 --> 01:33:33,900
...would you go out there
and see after my mother?
1123
01:34:21,948 --> 01:34:23,533
Mom!
1124
01:34:24,283 --> 01:34:27,036
Oh, darling!
1125
01:34:28,246 --> 01:34:31,666
Talk John's parents
into flying over with you.
1126
01:34:31,874 --> 01:34:36,379
It would mean so much to John,
and I know they can afford it.
1127
01:34:36,587 --> 01:34:39,674
John's father will make
it rough for him.
1128
01:34:39,882 --> 01:34:44,053
Did you see his expression
when he went to talk with Dad?
1129
01:34:44,262 --> 01:34:49,517
-But don't you like her already?
-Yes, darling, I do. She's a good one.
1130
01:34:49,725 --> 01:34:54,188
When John's father saw that I was
white, I thought he'd faint.
1131
01:34:54,981 --> 01:34:59,694
-What about your own father?
-Yes. That was funny, wasn't it?
1132
01:34:59,902 --> 01:35:03,030
Mom, isn't this thrilling?
Aren't you just...?
1133
01:35:03,239 --> 01:35:06,534
Yes, darling, I am just...
1134
01:35:54,415 --> 01:35:58,377
I should be able to say something
to you, Mrs. Prentice.
1135
01:35:58,586 --> 01:36:03,090
In my trade there are a hundred
clichéd phrases of comfort...
1136
01:36:03,299 --> 01:36:05,843
...for every human condition.
1137
01:36:06,052 --> 01:36:09,472
But in the midst
of this heartbreaking distress...
1138
01:36:09,680 --> 01:36:13,559
...I must admit
I'm completely stumped.
1139
01:36:14,894 --> 01:36:18,147
There's simply nothing I could say.
1140
01:36:20,650 --> 01:36:24,487
-Mary, you've got to understand...
-Please, John.
1141
01:36:24,695 --> 01:36:28,574
The monsignor is right.
Please, say no more.
1142
01:36:50,137 --> 01:36:53,391
I'll be a son of a bitch.
1143
01:37:12,284 --> 01:37:14,370
Close the door, Mr. Drayton.
1144
01:37:25,297 --> 01:37:28,426
You didn't have the guts
to tell me face to face?
1145
01:37:28,634 --> 01:37:31,429
Before you start telling me
about my guts...
1146
01:37:31,637 --> 01:37:34,890
...I told you I'd have
something to say.
1147
01:37:35,099 --> 01:37:37,685
Now I'm ready to say it.
1148
01:37:38,811 --> 01:37:41,814
Are you going to stay in here?
1149
01:37:50,906 --> 01:37:52,950
Joey.
1150
01:37:56,120 --> 01:38:00,166
You know that I'm completely
sympathetic, don't you?
1151
01:38:00,374 --> 01:38:03,878
You know that I have
no reservations about anything.
1152
01:38:04,086 --> 01:38:07,131
And whatever makes you happy,
I'm happy too.
1153
01:38:07,298 --> 01:38:10,342
Of course I know that.
1154
01:38:10,551 --> 01:38:13,637
Then listen to me, darling.
1155
01:38:13,846 --> 01:38:18,517
There's something I have to tell you
about this situation...
1156
01:38:18,726 --> 01:38:20,770
...which you don't really...
1157
01:38:20,978 --> 01:38:26,192
Christina! What are you doing up
there? Joey! Come down, both of you!
1158
01:38:28,694 --> 01:38:32,364
Can I get you a drink,
Mr. and Mrs. Prentice?
1159
01:38:32,573 --> 01:38:37,119
-No, thank you.
-John? Mike? No, you've had enough.
1160
01:38:37,328 --> 01:38:40,706
-Dad. What's going on?
-There's something I want to say.
1161
01:38:40,915 --> 01:38:45,920
I'd like you to sit down
and keep quiet. Please, sit down.
1162
01:38:46,128 --> 01:38:48,923
Sit down, Chris, please.
1163
01:38:49,882 --> 01:38:54,887
I have a few things to say, and you
might just think they're important.
1164
01:38:55,096 --> 01:38:59,350
It's been a strange day.
That's not putting it too strongly.
1165
01:38:59,558 --> 01:39:03,187
I might even say it's been
an extraordinary day.
1166
01:39:03,395 --> 01:39:07,942
I've been thinking about the day
and the way it has gone...
1167
01:39:08,150 --> 01:39:11,028
...and it seems to me that now...
1168
01:39:11,237 --> 01:39:14,907
...I need to make a few personal
statements...
1169
01:39:15,116 --> 01:39:17,493
...for a variety of reasons.
1170
01:39:21,664 --> 01:39:27,795
The day began for me when I came in
and Tillie said to me...
1171
01:39:28,003 --> 01:39:30,548
Excuse me. Tillie!
1172
01:39:30,756 --> 01:39:32,550
This'll only take a second.
1173
01:39:32,758 --> 01:39:37,054
-Everything's been ready...
-All right, Tillie. Sit down.
1174
01:39:37,263 --> 01:39:40,099
This is Miss Matilda Binks...
1175
01:39:40,307 --> 01:39:43,727
...who's been a member of this family
for 22 years.
1176
01:39:43,936 --> 01:39:48,023
And who today has made a great
deal of trouble. Sit down.
1177
01:39:51,235 --> 01:39:55,823
Now, the minute I walked into
this house this afternoon...
1178
01:39:56,031 --> 01:40:01,078
...Miss Binks said to me,
"All hell done broke loose now."
1179
01:40:01,287 --> 01:40:03,956
I asked to what she referred...
1180
01:40:04,165 --> 01:40:07,918
...and she said, "You'll see."
And I did.
1181
01:40:08,127 --> 01:40:13,549
After some preliminary guessing games,
at which I was never very good...
1182
01:40:13,841 --> 01:40:19,221
...it was explained by my daughter
that she intended to get married...
1183
01:40:19,430 --> 01:40:23,976
...and that her intended was a young
man whom I'd never met...
1184
01:40:24,185 --> 01:40:26,896
...who happened to be a Negro.
1185
01:40:27,104 --> 01:40:31,567
I think it's fair to say
that I responded to this news...
1186
01:40:31,775 --> 01:40:34,778
...the same way that
any good father would...
1187
01:40:34,987 --> 01:40:39,074
...unless his daughter
happened to be a Negro too.
1188
01:40:39,909 --> 01:40:41,410
In a word, I was flabbergasted.
1189
01:40:41,619 --> 01:40:44,788
And while I was
still being flabbergasted...
1190
01:40:44,997 --> 01:40:49,501
...I was informed by my daughter,
a very determined young woman...
1191
01:40:50,085 --> 01:40:55,090
...much like her mother,
that the marriage was on...
1192
01:40:55,299 --> 01:40:58,886
...no matter what her mother
and I might feel about it.
1193
01:40:59,887 --> 01:41:05,184
Then the next rather startling
development occurred, when you said...
1194
01:41:05,392 --> 01:41:09,021
...that unless we approved
of the marriage...
1195
01:41:09,230 --> 01:41:11,273
...there would be no marriage.
1196
01:41:11,482 --> 01:41:15,027
-You didn't. What a funny thing to do.
-Joey.
1197
01:41:17,029 --> 01:41:21,992
This may be the last chance I'll
ever have to tell you to do anything.
1198
01:41:22,201 --> 01:41:24,578
So I'm telling you, shut up.
1199
01:41:28,457 --> 01:41:33,254
Now, it became clear
that we had one single day...
1200
01:41:33,462 --> 01:41:37,967
...in which to make up our minds
about this situation.
1201
01:41:38,175 --> 01:41:41,679
So, what happened?
My wife, typically enough...
1202
01:41:41,887 --> 01:41:46,558
...decided to ignore every
practical aspect of the situation...
1203
01:41:46,767 --> 01:41:51,105
...and went off in a romantic haze,
which made her...
1204
01:41:51,355 --> 01:41:55,859
...totally inaccessible
to anything in the way of reason.
1205
01:41:58,737 --> 01:42:02,908
I have not as yet referred
to His Reverence...
1206
01:42:03,117 --> 01:42:06,578
...who forced his way
into the situation...
1207
01:42:06,787 --> 01:42:11,917
...insulted my intelligence
by mouthing 300 platitudes...
1208
01:42:12,126 --> 01:42:15,504
...and ended it by coming
to my room...
1209
01:42:15,713 --> 01:42:19,133
...and challenging me
to a wrestling match.
1210
01:42:19,341 --> 01:42:22,803
-What time is your plane?
-Ten forty-five.
1211
01:42:23,887 --> 01:42:25,306
Right.
1212
01:42:25,514 --> 01:42:30,060
Now, Mr. Prentice,
clearly a most reasonable man...
1213
01:42:30,269 --> 01:42:35,274
...says he has no wish to offend me
but wants to know if I'm a nut.
1214
01:42:36,442 --> 01:42:39,445
Mrs. Prentice says that,
like her husband...
1215
01:42:39,653 --> 01:42:44,658
...I'm a burned-out shell of a man
who cannot remember what it's like...
1216
01:42:44,867 --> 01:42:50,289
...to love a woman
the way her son loves my daughter.
1217
01:42:55,711 --> 01:42:58,881
And strange as it seems...
1218
01:42:59,089 --> 01:43:02,217
...that's the first statement
made to me all day...
1219
01:43:02,426 --> 01:43:05,596
...with which I'm prepared
to take issue.
1220
01:43:08,265 --> 01:43:13,020
Because I think you're wrong.
You're as wrong as you could be.
1221
01:43:14,063 --> 01:43:18,025
I admit that I hadn't considered it...
1222
01:43:18,233 --> 01:43:21,779
...but I know exactly
how he feels about her.
1223
01:43:22,613 --> 01:43:27,785
And there is absolutely nothing
that your son feels for my daughter...
1224
01:43:29,161 --> 01:43:32,373
...that I didn't feel for Christina.
1225
01:43:34,083 --> 01:43:36,126
Old, yes.
1226
01:43:36,335 --> 01:43:39,171
Burned-out, certainly.
1227
01:43:39,380 --> 01:43:43,842
But I can tell you,
the memories are still there.
1228
01:43:44,051 --> 01:43:48,680
Clear, intact, indestructible.
1229
01:43:48,889 --> 01:43:53,644
They'll be there if I live to be 110.
Where John made his mistake...
1230
01:43:53,852 --> 01:43:58,399
...was attaching so much importance
to what we thought.
1231
01:43:59,066 --> 01:44:03,529
Because in the final analysis it
doesn't matter a damn what we think.
1232
01:44:03,737 --> 01:44:06,949
The only thing that matters
is what they feel...
1233
01:44:07,116 --> 01:44:12,162
...and how much they feel
for each other.
1234
01:44:15,416 --> 01:44:19,837
And if it's half of what we felt...
1235
01:44:23,382 --> 01:44:25,384
...that's everything.
1236
01:44:39,481 --> 01:44:45,529
As for the problems you'll have,
they seem almost unimaginable.
1237
01:44:45,737 --> 01:44:47,823
But you'll have no problem with me.
1238
01:44:49,283 --> 01:44:53,620
And I think that when
Christina and I and your mother...
1239
01:44:53,829 --> 01:44:59,251
...have time to work on him, you'll
have no problem with your father.
1240
01:45:02,004 --> 01:45:07,426
But you do know, I'm sure you know,
what you're up against.
1241
01:45:07,843 --> 01:45:11,263
There'll be 100 million people
in this country...
1242
01:45:11,472 --> 01:45:16,894
...who'll be shocked and offended
and appalled at the two of you.
1243
01:45:18,520 --> 01:45:21,565
And you'll have to ride that out...
1244
01:45:21,773 --> 01:45:25,277
...maybe every day
for the rest of your lives.
1245
01:45:26,445 --> 01:45:29,615
You can try to ignore those people...
1246
01:45:29,823 --> 01:45:33,869
...or even feel sorry for them
and for their bigotry...
1247
01:45:34,077 --> 01:45:38,081
...and their blind hatreds
and stupid fears...
1248
01:45:38,290 --> 01:45:43,712
...but where necessary, you'll just
have to cling tight to each other...
1249
01:45:44,046 --> 01:45:47,007
...and say, "Screw all those people."
1250
01:45:47,966 --> 01:45:52,638
Anybody could make a case
against your getting married.
1251
01:45:53,305 --> 01:45:56,767
The arguments are so obvious,
nobody has to make them.
1252
01:45:58,227 --> 01:46:01,271
But you're two wonderful people...
1253
01:46:02,147 --> 01:46:04,107
...who fell in love...
1254
01:46:05,442 --> 01:46:08,737
...and happened to have
a pigmentation problem.
1255
01:46:09,655 --> 01:46:14,576
I think that no matter what kind
of a case some bastard could make...
1256
01:46:14,785 --> 01:46:19,706
...against your getting married,
there'd be only one thing worse.
1257
01:46:19,915 --> 01:46:24,628
And that would be if,
knowing what you two are...
1258
01:46:24,836 --> 01:46:27,005
...knowing what you two have...
1259
01:46:27,214 --> 01:46:30,217
...and knowing what you two feel...
1260
01:46:30,425 --> 01:46:32,553
...you didn't get married.
1261
01:46:53,490 --> 01:46:58,078
Well, Tillie. When the hell
are we gonna get some dinner?