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Somebody's looking for you.
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Oh, Miss Jeffries.
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Good morning, Marcia.
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We have just what you're looking for.
We get a good haul...
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-...over the Fourth of July.
-Good, come on, let's go.
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Here she comes, Bill.
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Come in. We'll see what we've got.
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Oh, wait a minute,
I forgot my tape recorder.
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-Boys, this is Miss Marcia Jeffries.
-How do you do?
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Her uncle owns a radio station
here in town. KGRK.
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She's doing a roving-reporter program.
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Maybe you've been listening.
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A Face in the Crowd? And a
mighty nice little program it is too.
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I know this is a little unusual.
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This morning, she's gonna do
her program from right in here.
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So, Miss Jeffries, the jail of
Tomahawk County is at your disposal.
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It's very simple. We just talk into
this little microphone in a natural voice.
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You know, we just sort of chat.
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Now, look, it's completely informal.
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So-- Well, if-- If anybody
wants to sing a song...
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...or tell an anecdote or funny story--
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Let me see, now. Hey, Beanie...
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...last time you were in here,
I heard you singing.
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I ain't got my teeth with me this time.
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This is radio KGRK, the voice
of Northeast Arkansas...
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...bringing you its morning feature,
A Face in the Crowd.
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Whose face? Why, it could be yours.
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Or yours or yours, because people are
fascinating wherever you find them.
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This is Marcia Jeffries,
looking for more faces in the crowd.
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This time from the Tomahawk County Jail.
Say something.
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Don't worry, Ma, everything's fine. Nicest
jail I've been in in this part of the country.
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Hey, you, you can do something.
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Just because I got black skin,
I'm no minstrel.
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I'm sorry, Miss Jeffries,
but they're just an ornery bunch.
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Where's the drunk we take in last night
with the guitar? What's his name?
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-Rhodes. That's him there--
-Well, go over and wake him up.
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Watch him, he's mean.
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-Miss Jeffries would like to speak with him.
-Hey, wake up!
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Morning, Mr. Rhodes,
I'm from radio KG--
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-Get away! Get away!
-The sheriff's here.
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I don't care if president of the
United States is here.
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A man can't get a little
decent sleep in jail--
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-Who are you?
-Well, I'd like to introduce you...
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-...to our radio audience and have you...
-Radio?
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-...sing a song and spin a yarn--
-Wait a minute, wait a minute.
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Quit racing your motor.
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What do I get out of this?
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I mean Mr. Me-Myself-and-I.
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-Sheriff?
-What's he in here for?
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A week. Drunk and disorderly.
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If you'd cooperate, I might
let you out the first thing in the morning.
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Me too, sheriff? I'm his manager.
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Sheriff, the boys in here says
you don't keep your word any too good.
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Well, you live up to your end of the bargain,
and I'll live up to mine.
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Well, okay. It's a deal. Tomorrow morning.
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I'll sing you a song.
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When I went east to Sarah Lawrence,
that's a college, I majored in music.
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I learned that the real American music
comes from the bottom up.
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When George Gershwin played in New York,
it was black-tie music.
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But the real beginning of it
was in folks who never owned a tie.
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I bumped into a fella
you never heard of, name of Rhodes.
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-Hey, what's your first name?
-Jack or Mac, what's the difference?
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Calls himself "Lonesome" Rhodes.
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Lonesome?
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Hey!
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Hey, now, don't be rushing me.
Cut that thing off a minute.
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Give me a chance to lubricate
my Adam's apple.
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Nothing like a little snake medicine to put
you in the mood. Ain't Mama a beauty?
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Oh, a guitar beats a woman every time.
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You know, I never have seen a woman
I could trust like this old guitar.
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Love my Mama guitar.
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She's always waiting for me
to pick her up and hold her.
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Never asks me for money or goes
cheating around when I ain't looking.
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If she gets a little sour, why, I just...
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...give her a little twist like so,
and we're back in tune together.
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-Hey, Lonesome, sing "Rye Whiskey."
-Lonesome.
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"Hallelujah, I'm a Bum."
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Oh, she can see that plain enough.
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You know, ma'am, whenever
a bunch of fellas like us...
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...outcasts, hoboes, nobodies, gentlemen
loafers, one-time or all-time losers...
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...call us what you want to. Whenever we
get together, we tell our funny stories.
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Me and Beanie and the rest of these
hand-to-mouth tumbleweed boys...
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...like you see in here.
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If whiskey don't get us
Then women must
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And it looks like
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I'm never gonna cease
My wandering
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Deep down, when we get ready to tuck our
heads under our wings and go to sleep...
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...we ain't kidding ourselves.
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We're so low-down lonely, the fella we
couldn't stand the sight of this morning...
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...tonight, when they get ready to douse
the lights and plunge us into darkness...
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...why, that same fella seems like
our nearest, dearest buddy.
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Ten thousand miles away from home
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And I don't even know my name
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But I ain't crying.
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No, I ain't crying, because I'm gonna
be a free man in the morning.
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You hear that, fellas? A free man!
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The sheriff's gonna open this cage, and I'm
gonna be as free as a bird in the morning.
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Hey, maybe I can try putting
a couple of rhymes together--
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Sing something dependable
like "Home on the Range."
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I ain't gonna sing no
"Home on the Range."
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No, sir, not if it means I rot
in here another month.
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I'm gonna sing what I'm gonna be!
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A free man in the morning.
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Oh, goodnight, moon
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Moon, you just fade, fade
Fade, fade away
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Oh, goodnight, moon
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Moon, you just fade away
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And hurry up, Mr. Sun
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Bring on new day
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Oh, bring on the sheriff
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With his great big old key
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Yeah!
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Bring on old Big Jeff
The sheriff of Pickett, Arkansas
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With his great big old fat key
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To open up this nasty, filthy jailhouse
And make a free man of me
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How about that, any objection
to being free in the morning?
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No, sir, I ain't.
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Gonna be a
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Free man in the morning
Free man in the morning
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Free man in the morning
Or know the reason--
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I'm ready as I'll ever be.
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Thank you, Lonesome Rhodes,
that was just fine.
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You mean you had that
thing going all the time?
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I'm a sneaky type.
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-You like him?
-Yes, sir.
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By golly, Marcia, I think you've got yourself
quite a fella there. Yep, quite a fella.
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I would like to use him on
our early-bird show from 7 to 8.
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Would you let me do that, Uncle J.B.?
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-Number please, Mr. Jeffries.
-Hello. Get me the jail, Gladys.
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-The jail?
-That's right, the sheriff.
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Or should I say "our future mayor"?
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That boy may be bashful, Marcia,
but he's pretty sweet on you.
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The only thing
I'm interested in right now...
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...is running the best radio program
in Northeast Arkansas.
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Hello, Big Jeff?
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-Rhodes?
-Yeah.
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That was the agreement. I was only
holding him on a drunk and disorderly.
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You got no idea which way
he was headed?
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There's only two ways out...
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...and I can't see him going west,
because he come from jail there.
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You'll likely find him on the east road.
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Let's go after him.
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There he is.
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Hey!
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Hi.
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Morning!
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-We've been looking for you.
-Yeah? What for?
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Listen, this is my-- My uncle, Mr. Jeffries,
who owns our radio station.
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Well, how's it feel to be
a free man in the morning?
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-Where you headed now?
-Port St. Joe, Florida.
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Well, that's a long walk.
What's down there?
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Plenty of water and plenty of fishing bridges
and snapper boats and tarpon rolling.
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You know, I've always wanted
to catch me a tarpon.
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What's to stop you?
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I can't afford it. I got a radio station,
newspaper, printing business...
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...president of the Kiwanis.
I can't afford it.
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-Come on, Beanie.
-Wait, we wanna talk to you.
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Listen, I ain't got but four or five days
to make it to St. Joe.
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Unless I steal somebody's car.
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Now, you just wait a minute.
We got a job for you.
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-Every morning on our station, 7 to 8.
-I don't want no job.
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-Why not?
-It's too much-- Too much like work, man.
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You got any money?
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Oh, Mama will always get me a little meal.
If it rains, I can sleep in a jail.
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Come on, try it for a day.
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How about if you had
a plane ticket to Florida?
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You can put it in your pocket.
If you ever wanna go, you just go.
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Well....
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Okay. I'll try it for one day.
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-I'll turn around.
-Let's go.
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Marcia, take him over to the hotel
and get him a room.
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Maybe we better clean him up a little bit.
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See you around, Beanie.
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Get in the back.
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Had a gal
Way down in Alabam'
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I met her like a lion
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Gonna be a free man
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Would you mind closing the door?
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My goodness, ain't we fussy.
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Look, this wardrobe you got, I think I
better send it to the laundry for you.
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I'll wash it out myself. That way,
I can cut out anytime I feel like it.
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So early in the morning?
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How'd you like to come over here and
sort of get acquainted early in the morning?
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We really do have to hurry.
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I bet you never sat on a hotel bed
with a man before, did you?
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Oh, really? Look, I'll meet you downstairs.
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Free man in the morning
Free man in the morning
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Ladies, or I guess I should say "girls" ...
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...boss lady of this here program
shoved a paper at me...
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...says I ain't got
but three more minutes.
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That's what I got against working.
It's all tangled up with that word "hurry."
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You know, back in my little old town
of Riddle, we had a cousin named Harry.
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We called him Cousin "Hurry"
because he was always running someplace.
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Till one day he fell down a flight
of steps and broke his fool neck.
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We put a sign on his grave says:
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"He was in such a hurry,
he just couldn't wait to get here."
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I was getting ready
to add a verse about being...
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...a free woman in the morning.
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I bet a lot of you dream
about that sometimes...
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...with all them breakfast dishes piling up.
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And them cranky husbands
to get off to work.
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Ain't it a shame how they get
on you about everything...
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...because they got no gumption
to take it out on the boss?
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Well, goodbye, dear, I'm late for work.
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I hate to talk against my own kind, but...
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...I never seen a man
could appreciate...
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...how hard you women work.
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Why, they think running water
over a dish is all there is to it.
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They never see you cleaning
the grease out of the sink...
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...or wiping out of the oven the beef gravy
or apple juice...
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-...that sizzles over the dish onto your grill.
-Now, how would he ever know that?
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Listen to this one. "Dear Lonesome,
though I never set eyes on you--"
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Hey, listen. "I know you must
be a saintly-looking man.
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Only a saint could understand the
burdens of a housewife like you do."
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All say the same thing. Morning, Bob.
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They love his voice, they love his guitar,
his ideas.
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-They should know some of his ideas.
-You're not fooling me, you're proud of him.
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Well, listen, there hasn't been mail
like this since you started the station.
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Hello.
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Oh, hello, Wayne.
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Oh, so you liked the fella, huh?
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Okay, I guess we could put you down
for three one-minute spots.
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Thanks for calling. Goodbye.
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Advertisers actually calling in to buy time.
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Looks like this station's liable
to make money yet.
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Go easy on that, Unc.
I don't think he wants to stay.
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Now, Marcia, you found him.
Now it's your job to keep him here.
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That's the time, honey.
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Every time you see this well run dry,
come over here and prime her again.
229
00:16:51,043 --> 00:16:54,843
-That's right, Lonesome.
-I'm afraid that's gonna be your name.
230
00:16:58,117 --> 00:17:01,348
My real intimate friends call me Larry.
231
00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,545
You call me Larry, huh?
232
00:17:06,692 --> 00:17:08,125
That's a good chaser.
233
00:17:09,228 --> 00:17:11,321
You always drink like that?
234
00:17:11,497 --> 00:17:14,591
Not always. Back in Riddle,
they was pretty strict.
235
00:17:14,767 --> 00:17:18,430
Didn't allow us to touch hard liquor
till we was 10 or 11.
236
00:17:18,604 --> 00:17:21,038
Now, is there really a town called Riddle?
237
00:17:21,740 --> 00:17:26,234
Well, tell you the flat truth, it's just
a sort of a whatchacallit, a--
238
00:17:26,412 --> 00:17:29,279
-Composite?
-Compost heap's more like it.
239
00:17:30,816 --> 00:17:32,545
Where do you come from?
240
00:17:32,718 --> 00:17:34,618
Oh, from all over.
241
00:17:38,290 --> 00:17:42,056
Any town you mention for 500 miles,
I bet I lived in it a day or two.
242
00:17:42,227 --> 00:17:46,254
-What'd your father do?
-He was a spieler with a two-bit con.
243
00:17:46,865 --> 00:17:50,562
"If each and every one of you will
hand me up your 1 -dollar bills...
244
00:17:50,736 --> 00:17:53,796
...l'm gonna favor you with a 5-dollar gift."
245
00:17:56,241 --> 00:17:58,141
You sort of loved him, didn't you?
246
00:17:58,310 --> 00:18:01,404
Ran off and left us when
I was knee-high to a beer barrel.
247
00:18:02,147 --> 00:18:04,342
Your mother had to take care of you?
248
00:18:05,050 --> 00:18:06,642
Never mind about her.
249
00:18:08,654 --> 00:18:10,884
What about all those aunts and uncles?
250
00:18:11,056 --> 00:18:12,990
Uncles?
251
00:18:13,158 --> 00:18:15,922
I wish I had a nickel
for every time I fell asleep...
252
00:18:16,095 --> 00:18:19,030
...waiting for her to come home.
I'd wake up, she'd say:
253
00:18:19,198 --> 00:18:21,632
"Your uncle's sleeping."
254
00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:28,137
I'd say, "Uncle Lou?" She'd say, "No,
this is your Uncle Mike." Or, "Uncle Moe."
255
00:18:28,740 --> 00:18:33,234
Seems like there wasn't a town in Arkansas
or Missouri I didn't have a uncle in.
256
00:18:34,613 --> 00:18:39,482
Yes, ma'am, my old lady sure was generous
about taking in relatives.
257
00:18:40,052 --> 00:18:42,316
Yet you grew up so happy-go-lucky.
258
00:18:50,329 --> 00:18:53,321
You put your whole self
into that laugh, don't you?
259
00:18:54,466 --> 00:18:58,368
Marcia, I put my whole self
into everything I do.
260
00:19:06,578 --> 00:19:10,173
You mean you turned down an invite
from me to go out with this tramp?
261
00:19:10,349 --> 00:19:13,978
-Why, you wanna fight?
-No, stop it! Stop it!
262
00:19:20,459 --> 00:19:23,053
Thanks for them pies, gals.
263
00:19:23,228 --> 00:19:25,458
You're gonna spoil me.
264
00:19:25,631 --> 00:19:29,863
Well, I reckon I've sung at you
enough for one morning, so...
265
00:19:30,035 --> 00:19:32,299
...maybe I ought to wind up with a joke.
266
00:19:32,471 --> 00:19:34,371
Let's see.
267
00:19:35,207 --> 00:19:38,040
Yeah. I got one.
268
00:19:39,244 --> 00:19:41,235
Sheriff Big Jeff Bess.
269
00:19:43,448 --> 00:19:45,348
You say that ain't no joke?
270
00:19:45,517 --> 00:19:48,714
The fact he's running for mayor
strikes me as kind of funny.
271
00:19:49,154 --> 00:19:54,854
You know, back in my little old town of
Riddle, the way we elect fellas to office is...
272
00:19:55,027 --> 00:19:59,225
...we try to figure which fella can best
be spared from useful labor.
273
00:19:59,398 --> 00:20:02,925
Like, you take the village half-wit...
274
00:20:03,202 --> 00:20:07,002
...now-- Now, in most places he's
gonna be put on town relief...
275
00:20:07,172 --> 00:20:11,632
...but, now, in Riddle, why, as economy
measure, we make him the dogcatcher.
276
00:20:11,810 --> 00:20:14,870
But now, this sheriff of yours...
277
00:20:15,047 --> 00:20:18,039
...now, of course, I don't wanna
say nothing agin him...
278
00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:21,380
...but if you got any mutts around
you wanna get rid of...
279
00:20:21,553 --> 00:20:25,512
...just take them over to his place to see
if he can handle the job.
280
00:20:25,691 --> 00:20:27,591
Here, Whitey. Here, Whitey.
281
00:20:41,006 --> 00:20:43,236
Hey, look at that fool!
282
00:20:52,884 --> 00:20:54,749
But how does it feel?
283
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:56,285
How does what feel?
284
00:20:56,455 --> 00:21:00,755
Saying anything that comes into your head
and being able to sway people like this.
285
00:21:00,926 --> 00:21:03,121
Yeah, I guess I can.
286
00:21:12,271 --> 00:21:14,501
Yeah, I guess I can.
287
00:21:14,906 --> 00:21:19,002
And now an amusing example
of grassroot democracy in action.
288
00:21:19,177 --> 00:21:22,544
It seems there's a small-town
radio personality called...
289
00:21:22,714 --> 00:21:25,148
...Lonesome Rhodes out in Arkansas...
290
00:21:25,317 --> 00:21:28,309
...who literally sent a mayoralty
candidate to the dogs.
291
00:21:29,521 --> 00:21:32,285
Larry? Larry?
292
00:21:33,125 --> 00:21:36,583
Just plow right through them.
Keep going and leave the rest to me.
293
00:21:37,229 --> 00:21:39,697
Thanks for bringing up
my breakfast, Laureen.
294
00:21:41,266 --> 00:21:44,258
Mr. Steiner. Larry, this is Mr. Steiner.
295
00:21:44,436 --> 00:21:47,234
-He's come all the way from Memphis.
-Mr. Rhodes.
296
00:21:47,406 --> 00:21:50,842
I'm one of the oldest theatrical agents
in the Mid-South.
297
00:21:51,009 --> 00:21:54,001
I book a lot of acts for the Grand Ole Opry.
298
00:21:54,179 --> 00:21:56,409
I discovered Hank Snow...
299
00:21:56,581 --> 00:21:59,982
...and Webb Pierce.
And the first morning I heard you...
300
00:22:00,152 --> 00:22:03,588
...I said to myself,
"Abe Steiner, that man's got power.
301
00:22:03,755 --> 00:22:07,657
Not just catchy songs
and funny stories. Power."
302
00:22:07,826 --> 00:22:10,124
How would you like
to come to Memphis, son?
303
00:22:10,295 --> 00:22:11,819
Memphis?
304
00:22:13,598 --> 00:22:18,001
Mr. Rhodes, you put me in mind of
Will Rogers when he first came to Memphis.
305
00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:21,401
I can make you a star, boy,
if you put yourself in my hands.
306
00:22:23,775 --> 00:22:26,243
Shucks, mister, I'm just a country boy.
307
00:22:26,411 --> 00:22:30,177
I ain't even sure I wanna stay
in this danged old radio business.
308
00:22:30,349 --> 00:22:34,718
I'm not one of these high-pressure fellas.
But do you mind if I call you again?
309
00:22:34,886 --> 00:22:36,478
No.
310
00:22:39,191 --> 00:22:40,749
Miss Jeffries.
311
00:22:44,529 --> 00:22:46,827
Grand Ole Opry. That's the big time.
312
00:22:46,998 --> 00:22:50,126
It never hurt none to play hard to get.
313
00:22:50,302 --> 00:22:52,270
You ought to know about that.
314
00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:55,932
You don't seem to be pining
for lack of company.
315
00:22:57,042 --> 00:22:59,909
I get extra hungry in the morning.
316
00:23:04,149 --> 00:23:07,175
You cold-fish respectable girls.
317
00:23:07,352 --> 00:23:11,880
Inside, you crave the same thing
as the rest of them.
318
00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:16,653
-Tell old Lonesome the truth.
-You're on in eight minutes.
319
00:23:19,931 --> 00:23:22,627
It's so hot this morning
the creek just give up.
320
00:23:22,801 --> 00:23:26,999
I mean it was bone dry.
321
00:23:27,172 --> 00:23:30,573
So I guess the young'uns figure
they ain't got no place to swim.
322
00:23:30,742 --> 00:23:31,868
But my boss...
323
00:23:32,043 --> 00:23:37,106
...old J.B. Jeffries, he's got a fine
swimming pool right here in town.
324
00:23:37,282 --> 00:23:40,376
Why don't all you kids go over
to his place for a ducking.
325
00:23:40,886 --> 00:23:43,787
J.B. will be proud to have you.
326
00:23:51,563 --> 00:23:53,588
Jeffries' big day.
327
00:23:54,399 --> 00:23:56,128
--personality, Lonesome Rhodes!
328
00:23:56,301 --> 00:23:59,668
You hear them? You hear them
splashing and a-yelling?
329
00:24:00,405 --> 00:24:06,833
That's your curly-headed little darlings
enjoying J.B. Jeffries' kind of hospitality.
330
00:24:07,546 --> 00:24:10,344
-Mr. Rhodes. The phone for you.
-He's on the air.
331
00:24:10,515 --> 00:24:12,210
That's all right. Who is it?
332
00:24:13,585 --> 00:24:16,247
It's the program manager
at the Memphis TV station.
333
00:24:16,421 --> 00:24:19,447
-He said Mr. Steiner told him about you.
-Well, shucks.
334
00:24:19,624 --> 00:24:21,421
I can talk to him here on the air.
335
00:24:21,593 --> 00:24:26,656
Since all these folks out here are my friends,
I ain't got nothing to hide from you.
336
00:24:26,832 --> 00:24:28,993
Hello there, partner!
337
00:24:29,968 --> 00:24:34,302
What's that? You want me
to come on your TV in Memphis?
338
00:24:34,473 --> 00:24:40,173
With this kisser of mine?
All I gotta say is, you're a brave man.
339
00:24:40,345 --> 00:24:42,813
Five hundred dollars a week, huh?
340
00:24:42,981 --> 00:24:45,211
-Confederate?
-Five hundred dollars a week?
341
00:24:45,383 --> 00:24:47,010
We can do better than that.
342
00:24:47,853 --> 00:24:51,914
Partner, leaving Pickett's like leaving
my own flesh-and-blood kin.
343
00:24:52,090 --> 00:24:55,184
Now, if I got to take leave
of these good folks...
344
00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:59,262
...why, I'd rather try it gratis, for nothing,
for a couple of weeks.
345
00:24:59,431 --> 00:25:03,595
And if you ain't satisfied,
or if I get homesick for Arkansas...
346
00:25:03,768 --> 00:25:06,293
...why, back I come,
and nobody gets hurt.
347
00:25:06,471 --> 00:25:10,202
But now, if we find we get along...
348
00:25:10,375 --> 00:25:15,039
...you make it, oh, $ 1000 a week.
349
00:25:15,814 --> 00:25:18,408
Yeah, you get the idea.
350
00:25:18,917 --> 00:25:23,217
Oh, yeah, and transportation for
yours truly and my little gal Friday.
351
00:25:23,388 --> 00:25:27,552
Not to mention Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday. Marcia Jeffries.
352
00:25:33,732 --> 00:25:36,963
I'm glad you're going with him.
Take good care of him for me.
353
00:25:37,135 --> 00:25:39,763
-I'll sure try.
-Take good care of yourself.
354
00:25:40,605 --> 00:25:42,163
Board!
355
00:25:43,642 --> 00:25:45,109
Marcia!
356
00:25:46,711 --> 00:25:49,236
Come on, honey. Come on,
we'll be late. Come on.
357
00:25:49,414 --> 00:25:52,679
-Come on, the train will leave. Come on.
-Board!
358
00:25:53,585 --> 00:25:57,487
Bye! Bye, Lucy. So long, Luther.
You write to me, now.
359
00:25:57,656 --> 00:25:59,385
I'll think of you good people.
360
00:25:59,558 --> 00:26:02,049
Boy, am I glad to shake that dump.
361
00:26:02,894 --> 00:26:04,759
I was only kidding, honey.
362
00:26:04,930 --> 00:26:08,388
You ought to know me better
than to believe everything I say.
363
00:26:09,701 --> 00:26:14,195
Bye! Bye! Goodbye and God bless you,
good people!
364
00:26:44,536 --> 00:26:47,471
If I knew you'd put lipstick on me,
I'd have never come.
365
00:26:47,639 --> 00:26:50,506
Stop complaining, you look beautiful.
Mel Miller.
366
00:26:50,675 --> 00:26:52,905
The station's assigned him as your writer.
367
00:26:53,078 --> 00:26:56,275
Writer? You're gonna have
the easiest job in the world...
368
00:26:56,448 --> 00:27:01,181
-...because I never learned much reading.
-I'll just block out the continuity for you.
369
00:27:01,353 --> 00:27:03,116
What are you, Eastern college?
370
00:27:03,288 --> 00:27:07,122
No, I went to school over in Nashville.
I was Vanderbilt '44.
371
00:27:08,093 --> 00:27:10,323
Okay, Vanderbilt '44.
372
00:27:11,162 --> 00:27:13,756
Mr. Rhodes, we're ready for you now.
373
00:27:14,833 --> 00:27:17,358
Hey, what are you doing to that makeup?
374
00:27:19,804 --> 00:27:21,533
Now, this way, please.
375
00:27:24,809 --> 00:27:28,643
Foot up here, look at the camera.
And relaxed, like this.
376
00:27:31,483 --> 00:27:34,452
Ten seconds. Ready on one. Stand by, two.
377
00:27:34,619 --> 00:27:38,316
And just be perfectly natural,
easy and relaxed and real country.
378
00:27:38,490 --> 00:27:41,891
Now, when that red light is on,
that camera is on you.
379
00:27:42,060 --> 00:27:43,857
Now, put this in your mouth.
380
00:27:46,031 --> 00:27:49,194
I think that straw is gonna be
a very nice touch.
381
00:27:51,236 --> 00:27:54,330
And here he is, a newcomer
to Memphis television...
382
00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:56,497
...but sure to become an old friend.
383
00:27:56,675 --> 00:28:01,009
A Face in the Crowd, starring that
Arkansas traveler Lonesome Rhodes.
384
00:28:02,547 --> 00:28:04,276
What do you want?
385
00:28:06,451 --> 00:28:08,282
Howdy.
386
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,881
You know, I never have seen myself
on one of these things before.
387
00:28:13,058 --> 00:28:19,019
So if I stop and admire myself
on this-- What do you call it?
388
00:28:19,531 --> 00:28:21,965
-Monitor.
-Yeah, monitor.
389
00:28:22,133 --> 00:28:24,658
Show the folks what
I'm talking about, will you?
390
00:28:30,608 --> 00:28:34,874
You know, the-- The director said
all I had to do was--
391
00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:39,142
He said all I had to do was act
like I was looking straight at you.
392
00:28:40,752 --> 00:28:45,746
But what he forgot to say was there'd be a
great big old red eye looking straight at me.
393
00:28:46,491 --> 00:28:50,086
You know, that old eye does look
kind of familiar, though.
394
00:28:50,261 --> 00:28:52,422
Reminds me of my old Uncle Abernathy...
395
00:28:52,597 --> 00:28:56,431
...after a night of drinking that
fine old five-star corn liquor.
396
00:28:57,635 --> 00:29:01,594
He put a star on the bottle
for every day it aged.
397
00:29:06,578 --> 00:29:11,106
If a ocean was moonshine
And I was a duck
398
00:29:11,282 --> 00:29:12,806
I'd dive--
399
00:29:15,086 --> 00:29:18,453
I got too hot a fire in my boiler
to sing this morning.
400
00:29:18,623 --> 00:29:21,285
What's the matter
with you big-city fellas, anyhow?
401
00:29:21,459 --> 00:29:24,428
Hey. Don't you all ever
go to bed around here?
402
00:29:24,596 --> 00:29:27,861
Last night I settled down
for my 12-hour nap in the hotel...
403
00:29:28,032 --> 00:29:30,796
...and "moly hoses," what a honking...
404
00:29:30,969 --> 00:29:33,870
...and lights flashing
and gals giggling on the street.
405
00:29:34,038 --> 00:29:37,872
So I called down to the desk
on this telephone they got in every room.
406
00:29:38,143 --> 00:29:42,443
"What's going on?" I says to the clerk.
"It ain't New Year's Eve by any chance?"
407
00:29:42,614 --> 00:29:47,415
"No," he said. "It's just 10:00
at night in Memphis."
408
00:29:47,585 --> 00:29:49,177
So I pulled back on my duds...
409
00:29:49,354 --> 00:29:52,755
...and I went out to take a look-see
what all the commotion was.
410
00:29:52,924 --> 00:29:56,360
Hey. Hey, Mr. Cameraman, move that
old red eye a little closer.
411
00:29:56,528 --> 00:29:58,621
He's already telling us what to do.
412
00:29:58,797 --> 00:30:02,028
I wanna talk face-to-face
with them friends of mine out there.
413
00:30:03,168 --> 00:30:05,830
Hey, which one of these holes I look in?
414
00:30:09,674 --> 00:30:13,667
You know-- You know, one thing I could see
right off about a big city...
415
00:30:13,845 --> 00:30:17,246
...there's a whole lot of people
in trouble out there.
416
00:30:17,415 --> 00:30:20,350
You don't see it much in the
daytime when everybody's...
417
00:30:20,518 --> 00:30:24,215
...hustling around, rushing from
where they is to where they ain't.
418
00:30:24,389 --> 00:30:27,415
But it's at night, you know, late at night--
419
00:30:27,592 --> 00:30:31,426
Around 4:00 in the morning
is what I call the "dividing line."
420
00:30:31,596 --> 00:30:35,293
All you got left then is folks in trouble.
421
00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:37,491
I wanna tell you people something...
422
00:30:37,669 --> 00:30:41,400
...that happened this morning just
before the sun was ready to come up.
423
00:30:41,573 --> 00:30:46,067
I'm gonna tell you, and see if it don't
happen to you the way it happened to me.
424
00:30:46,244 --> 00:30:48,735
If it don't move you the way
I think it will...
425
00:30:48,913 --> 00:30:51,507
...you're just a bunch of
big-city pickle-hearts.
426
00:30:51,683 --> 00:30:55,414
And I'm gonna pack up my one shirt
and the Bible my daddy give me...
427
00:30:55,587 --> 00:30:59,023
...and my cigar-box guitar,
and I'll get me on home to Riddle.
428
00:30:59,324 --> 00:31:03,021
He's telling the truth about one shirt,
but I haven't seen the Bible.
429
00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:06,891
When he talks about walking the night,
I couldn't write it that well.
430
00:31:07,065 --> 00:31:10,000
Now, come on out here.
Don't be scared of this thing...
431
00:31:10,201 --> 00:31:12,692
...least any more than I am. This one?
432
00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:15,863
Hey, a colored woman.
In Memphis, that takes nerve.
433
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,406
I told you, he's his own man.
434
00:31:18,576 --> 00:31:21,272
You just tell the folks
the same thing you told me.
435
00:31:21,446 --> 00:31:23,914
Well, you see, it's my house.
436
00:31:24,082 --> 00:31:27,245
It burnt down. She's got seven
young'uns and no insurance.
437
00:31:27,418 --> 00:31:33,015
Oh, Hilda, look who they're having
on television now. It's about time.
438
00:31:33,191 --> 00:31:37,594
So she just walked around and around
because she didn't have no place else to go.
439
00:31:37,762 --> 00:31:40,629
I didn't know a single living
soul in Memphis.
440
00:31:41,332 --> 00:31:42,822
Are you kidding?
441
00:31:43,001 --> 00:31:46,061
What do you gonna bet you got
20,000 friends out there?
442
00:31:46,237 --> 00:31:49,297
Each one ready to prove it
to you by sending half a buck...
443
00:31:49,474 --> 00:31:51,533
...so you can get back to Millington...
444
00:31:51,709 --> 00:31:54,439
...and build a decent house
for them brats of yours.
445
00:31:54,612 --> 00:31:57,410
Now, please, nobody send in
more than four bits...
446
00:31:57,582 --> 00:32:00,517
...because you may not be
able to spare it yourself.
447
00:32:00,685 --> 00:32:02,915
Miss Cooley, maybe you think--
448
00:32:03,121 --> 00:32:06,181
Every pot over $ 10, let's cut half
for that house of hers.
449
00:32:06,357 --> 00:32:09,849
--and they gonna be a-looking
out for you. Ain't you, folks?
450
00:32:13,598 --> 00:32:15,395
Yeah. Come in, door's open.
451
00:32:15,566 --> 00:32:18,558
Lonesome, you should see
how the money's pouring in.
452
00:32:18,736 --> 00:32:22,137
Young man, you've graduated
from sustaining. You've got a client.
453
00:32:22,307 --> 00:32:25,435
-What in the ever-loving world is that?
-A mattress company.
454
00:32:25,610 --> 00:32:29,273
-You get your 1000 a week.
-Get his shirt. Stand still, you slob.
455
00:32:29,447 --> 00:32:31,415
-Get your hand in here.
-There you go.
456
00:32:31,582 --> 00:32:33,277
Yeah, yonder she comes.
457
00:32:41,492 --> 00:32:44,552
Sure is prettier music than
a cigar-box guitar.
458
00:32:44,729 --> 00:32:49,860
There's 18,541...
459
00:32:50,034 --> 00:32:53,800
...of these things so far,
and we ain't hardly started yet.
460
00:32:54,038 --> 00:32:58,099
Miss Cooley says thank you.
You're good people.
461
00:32:58,276 --> 00:33:00,369
You folks are building a house.
462
00:33:00,678 --> 00:33:02,908
Ain't nothing in this world
you can't do...
463
00:33:03,081 --> 00:33:05,208
...when you let
your best side take over.
464
00:33:06,718 --> 00:33:09,710
Oh, I see my old clock-watcher
going this a-way.
465
00:33:09,887 --> 00:33:12,879
He wants me to make sure
I leave time for the commercial.
466
00:33:13,057 --> 00:33:15,218
You didn't know I had a sponsor, did you?
467
00:33:15,393 --> 00:33:17,987
Neither did I till they
woke me up this morning.
468
00:33:19,163 --> 00:33:21,859
He's a good-looking scoundrel, ain't he?
469
00:33:23,968 --> 00:33:29,372
What? Yeah, I got the commercial
on me somewhere. Let's see, yeah.
470
00:33:30,641 --> 00:33:35,704
See, it's, "Johnny Longshot's tip
for the daily double--"
471
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:40,214
No, no, that ain't it. Let's see....
472
00:33:41,953 --> 00:33:47,357
"Lonesome, darling, you ain't forgetting
your little Arkansas Annie?"
473
00:33:47,525 --> 00:33:50,085
No, that surely ain't it.
474
00:33:54,265 --> 00:33:56,597
This is it, this is it.
475
00:33:56,768 --> 00:34:01,831
"Friends, comma, why not invest
in sleep insurance, question mark?
476
00:34:02,006 --> 00:34:08,434
That is what you will be doing when you
buy your Luffler Easy Rest Mattress, period.
477
00:34:08,613 --> 00:34:11,605
Comes in six tasty flavors-- "
478
00:34:11,783 --> 00:34:15,446
-Isn't he wonderful?
-That's our next commercial.
479
00:34:17,922 --> 00:34:21,016
Personally, when I'm dog-tired,
I can sleep on the floor.
480
00:34:21,192 --> 00:34:25,094
One of the best night's sleep I ever had
was in a boxcar.
481
00:34:25,363 --> 00:34:29,265
They say that-- That a firm mattress
is better for your spine.
482
00:34:29,434 --> 00:34:31,664
If you're gonna follow that
all the way...
483
00:34:31,836 --> 00:34:34,396
...ain't it better to just sleep
on the floor?
484
00:34:36,107 --> 00:34:39,076
But if some of you softies
insist on sleeping on a bed...
485
00:34:39,243 --> 00:34:42,076
...I reckon you can do worse
than a Luffler Easy Rest.
486
00:34:42,346 --> 00:34:44,371
End of commercial.
487
00:34:44,549 --> 00:34:48,007
Maybe also the end of Lonesome Rhodes.
488
00:34:51,055 --> 00:34:54,547
Seriously, I was on the phone
with Mr. Luffler for half an hour.
489
00:34:54,725 --> 00:34:57,558
I'm sure he's seen us.
He hasn't even looked around.
490
00:34:57,962 --> 00:35:02,160
Says he's got a contract loophole,
and if you kid his commercial once more...
491
00:35:02,333 --> 00:35:04,494
...he's going to walk right through it.
492
00:35:09,006 --> 00:35:10,405
-Hey, hiya, Lonesome.
-Hi.
493
00:35:10,575 --> 00:35:14,238
Oh, hey, hey. Boy, I almost forgot.
494
00:35:14,412 --> 00:35:17,609
Got you a food ticket at the White Owl
for the plug you gave.
495
00:35:17,782 --> 00:35:19,409
-Yeah?
-Guess you didn't know...
496
00:35:19,584 --> 00:35:21,643
...I do "schlock-meistering"
on the side.
497
00:35:21,819 --> 00:35:25,152
-Schlock-meistering?
-You slip in a remark, innocent-like...
498
00:35:25,323 --> 00:35:27,484
...about a product, and they pay in kind.
499
00:35:27,658 --> 00:35:30,889
You know, a case of beer, free drinks
at the Yellow Rose Caf�.
500
00:35:31,062 --> 00:35:32,723
I tell you, boy, it mounts up.
501
00:35:32,897 --> 00:35:35,991
Isn't that illegal?
Stealing time from regular sponsors?
502
00:35:36,167 --> 00:35:37,725
Illegal?
503
00:35:37,902 --> 00:35:40,735
Honey, nothing's illegal
if they don't catch you.
504
00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:44,100
-See you around.
-Okay, see you around.
505
00:35:44,275 --> 00:35:47,039
-Who was that?
-Joey DePalma, Luffler's office boy.
506
00:35:47,211 --> 00:35:49,702
He won't be an office boy long.
507
00:35:51,282 --> 00:35:54,945
Mr. Luffler said he don't like me
to talk nasty about his mattress.
508
00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:59,180
Shucks, I said you could get
a good night's sleep on one of them.
509
00:35:59,457 --> 00:36:01,721
If you was real tired.
510
00:36:04,562 --> 00:36:06,154
There I go again.
511
00:36:06,330 --> 00:36:11,563
But I just can't get my mouth around some
of them things they wanted me to say.
512
00:36:12,303 --> 00:36:13,964
Well, I'll try.
513
00:36:20,011 --> 00:36:23,344
"And now a message of importance."
514
00:36:26,984 --> 00:36:30,647
Now, you good people ain't so dumb
you don't know what's important.
515
00:36:30,821 --> 00:36:34,222
Atom bomb's important,
and things like that.
516
00:36:34,392 --> 00:36:40,228
A Luffler mattress won't break your back,
but it sure ain't no world-shaking message.
517
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,298
Just in case you
won't be seeing me again--
518
00:36:45,469 --> 00:36:47,130
Hey, fellas, come on.
519
00:36:47,305 --> 00:36:50,001
Here's a little song
to remember me by.
520
00:36:55,446 --> 00:36:57,209
Give me a E.
521
00:36:57,381 --> 00:36:59,406
Well, goodbye, Mr. Luffler
522
00:36:59,584 --> 00:37:01,381
And thanks for the ride
523
00:37:02,019 --> 00:37:05,921
I like to have your money
But I'd rather have my pride
524
00:37:06,090 --> 00:37:10,026
On these corny old commercials
We just cannot agree
525
00:37:10,194 --> 00:37:12,719
So you can tear up my contract
526
00:37:12,897 --> 00:37:15,457
Make a free man of me
527
00:37:15,633 --> 00:37:19,535
-Gonna be a
-Free man
528
00:37:19,704 --> 00:37:22,070
-In the morning
-Free man
529
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,708
-In the morning
-Free man
530
00:37:24,875 --> 00:37:30,074
In the morning
Or know the reason why
531
00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:34,014
-Yes, Mr. Luffler?
-Get me my lawyer.
532
00:37:51,769 --> 00:37:53,498
Yeah?
533
00:37:54,805 --> 00:37:56,568
Who--? Who is it?
534
00:37:57,241 --> 00:38:00,176
It's me, Lonesome. Larry.
535
00:38:00,344 --> 00:38:02,005
Thought I'd say goodbye.
536
00:38:03,347 --> 00:38:05,008
Just a minute.
537
00:38:06,450 --> 00:38:08,975
Just thought I'd tell you
I'm gonna hit the road.
538
00:38:09,153 --> 00:38:12,179
-Where to?
-Oh, what's the difference?
539
00:38:12,356 --> 00:38:13,755
For Mr. Luffler.
540
00:38:13,924 --> 00:38:18,588
He wants to fire me unless I promise
to show him my scripts in advance.
541
00:38:18,763 --> 00:38:21,323
There ain't no scripts. It's just me.
542
00:38:21,499 --> 00:38:22,830
-It was me.
-Larry, stay.
543
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,991
Well, what you did for Miss Cooley--
544
00:38:25,169 --> 00:38:28,730
-No, I'm not my brother's keeper.
-You are, and you don't know it.
545
00:38:28,906 --> 00:38:31,636
No, I don't kowtow
to no mattress company.
546
00:38:32,643 --> 00:38:35,168
See you in jail sometime.
547
00:38:39,483 --> 00:38:41,348
Well...
548
00:38:41,585 --> 00:38:43,815
...we shook them up a little bit.
549
00:38:43,988 --> 00:38:47,253
-Got a ride for our money.
-Larry.
550
00:38:49,293 --> 00:38:51,022
You come here.
551
00:39:16,487 --> 00:39:20,389
Do I call you--?
Call you a cold fish, Marcia?
552
00:39:22,093 --> 00:39:24,118
Marcia.
553
00:39:26,230 --> 00:39:28,858
Short for "marshmallow."
554
00:39:30,301 --> 00:39:32,769
My marshmallow.
555
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,369
This way, please.
556
00:39:52,456 --> 00:39:55,914
Move it along.
Come on, move it, move it, move it.
557
00:40:00,064 --> 00:40:02,259
Joey, the boss wants you.
558
00:40:06,637 --> 00:40:08,628
That's terrible.
559
00:40:11,776 --> 00:40:14,904
-From the day that you hired Rhodes...
-No more phone calls.
560
00:40:15,079 --> 00:40:19,448
-...our sales have increased 55 percent.
-I smell smoke.
561
00:40:23,654 --> 00:40:26,714
I know he's hurt your feelings,
but as a merchandise man...
562
00:40:26,891 --> 00:40:30,918
...I must say that a 55-percent jump
in sales is quite a painkiller.
563
00:40:31,095 --> 00:40:32,926
-I'll think it over.
-You called?
564
00:40:33,097 --> 00:40:36,157
Yes. I can always get him back.
565
00:40:36,333 --> 00:40:39,928
-They're for the credit department.
-Oh, yes, sir.
566
00:40:40,104 --> 00:40:43,665
Joey. You're a smart lad.
567
00:40:44,575 --> 00:40:47,135
Do you think I acted hasty in the firing?
568
00:40:47,311 --> 00:40:49,609
I wouldn't let anybody ridicule my product.
569
00:40:49,780 --> 00:40:52,476
-Now what?
-Your wife on one.
570
00:40:53,117 --> 00:40:55,142
Yes, dear.
571
00:40:55,553 --> 00:40:57,646
Would you mind your own business, dear?
572
00:40:57,822 --> 00:41:01,121
And tell the ladies' garden club
to mind its own business.
573
00:41:01,559 --> 00:41:04,357
Credit department. Get Browning,
Schlagel and McNally...
574
00:41:04,528 --> 00:41:07,258
...in New York City now.
Don't worry, it's kosher.
575
00:41:07,431 --> 00:41:10,025
-Mr. Luffler gave me a message.
-Know the number?
576
00:41:10,201 --> 00:41:13,796
It's the biggest agency there.
Browning, Schlagel and McNally.
577
00:41:13,971 --> 00:41:15,802
Now, try information, huh?
578
00:41:16,474 --> 00:41:19,568
Browning, Schlagel and McNally.
Long-distance from Memphis?
579
00:41:19,743 --> 00:41:23,406
Just a moment.
A Mr. Joseph DePalma from Memphis.
580
00:41:23,581 --> 00:41:26,141
He represents Lonesome Rhodes.
581
00:41:26,784 --> 00:41:31,414
What a crazy business we're in. It's about
some joker called Lonesome Rhodes...
582
00:41:31,589 --> 00:41:36,583
...on a local Memphis stat--
Hey. He topped both CBS...
583
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,625
...and NBC down there.
584
00:41:39,296 --> 00:41:42,060
Hello? Mr. DePalma?
585
00:41:42,233 --> 00:41:45,999
Yeah, hello, I just thought I ought to
let you know Lonesome Rhodes...
586
00:41:46,170 --> 00:41:49,105
...is being flooded with offers. Yeah.
587
00:41:49,273 --> 00:41:52,970
Yeah, if you happen to be interested,
5:00 is our deadline.
588
00:41:54,078 --> 00:41:56,512
Right. I'll call you back at 5.
589
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:57,908
Fine.
590
00:41:58,082 --> 00:42:02,041
-Well, pleasure, baby.
-I caught that show on my vacation.
591
00:42:02,219 --> 00:42:04,517
He's a living doll.
592
00:42:04,688 --> 00:42:06,178
Well, could be.
593
00:42:06,357 --> 00:42:08,587
E.B.D. and O. in New York City.
594
00:42:18,936 --> 00:42:20,528
Marcia.
595
00:42:22,907 --> 00:42:24,841
Marcia?
596
00:42:27,278 --> 00:42:30,873
Marcia, you told me to pick you up
in time for the show.
597
00:42:47,298 --> 00:42:50,358
-Hey, have you seen Lonesome?
-You may find him in there.
598
00:42:50,534 --> 00:42:52,126
Where? Here?
599
00:42:54,138 --> 00:42:56,834
-Oh, you mean in here?
-Wait a minute, sir...
600
00:42:57,007 --> 00:43:00,135
-...I wouldn't barge in there if I were you.
-I'm not you.
601
00:43:00,311 --> 00:43:03,041
Hey, hey, Lonesome.
Lonesome boy. Hey.
602
00:43:03,213 --> 00:43:04,544
Yeah, yeah, who is it?
603
00:43:04,715 --> 00:43:07,912
It's destiny, that's who it is.
It's your destiny.
604
00:43:08,085 --> 00:43:09,416
-Who is it?
-Hi.
605
00:43:09,587 --> 00:43:12,886
-What the--? What--? What--?
-Honey child, I sold your show.
606
00:43:13,524 --> 00:43:16,015
-To who?
-To the big time.
607
00:43:17,161 --> 00:43:20,927
Ever hear of Browning, Schlagel
and McNally? The advertising company.
608
00:43:21,098 --> 00:43:24,295
Boy, I got them bidding
against the Cutner Agency, MCA--
609
00:43:24,468 --> 00:43:26,868
-MC who?
-And a dozen others you won't know.
610
00:43:27,037 --> 00:43:29,870
Look, B.S. and M. wants you
for The Vida Jakes Hour.
611
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:34,170
Eight o'clock, coast-to-coast. I told them
we'd let them know at 1700 hours.
612
00:43:34,345 --> 00:43:37,212
-Boy, I tell you, we're on to New York.
-We are?
613
00:43:37,381 --> 00:43:41,818
They asked if you had a New York agent.
Like to meet your New York agent?
614
00:43:42,453 --> 00:43:47,550
A bum out of jail in Pickett, Arkansas
and a Memphis office boy! Hey.
615
00:43:47,725 --> 00:43:50,956
I'm a roving gambler
Ramble all around
616
00:43:51,128 --> 00:43:54,461
Whenever I see a deck of cards
I lay my money down
617
00:43:54,632 --> 00:43:55,894
Go, baby!
618
00:43:56,066 --> 00:43:58,432
Whenever I see a deck of cards
I lay my money down
619
00:43:58,602 --> 00:44:03,096
-I lay my money down
-Here, will you sign this? Hey.
620
00:44:03,273 --> 00:44:04,467
Oh, yes, I'll sign
621
00:44:04,975 --> 00:44:06,533
Thank you. Oh, thank you.
622
00:44:06,710 --> 00:44:11,704
Now, in the last quarter, gentlemen,
and Miss Valerie...
623
00:44:11,882 --> 00:44:16,319
...we have spent over $300,000
of General Haynesworth's money...
624
00:44:16,487 --> 00:44:19,012
...to make this country Vitajex-conscious.
625
00:44:19,189 --> 00:44:22,625
And all we've succeeded
in doing-- Next chart, please.
626
00:44:22,793 --> 00:44:26,160
--is dropping from 10 percent
of the market to 7.
627
00:44:26,330 --> 00:44:30,198
-Now, l--
-I'm late for the dog-food meeting now.
628
00:44:30,367 --> 00:44:33,393
-Can I say my say and go?
-Yes, doctor.
629
00:44:33,570 --> 00:44:34,832
Miss.
630
00:44:35,005 --> 00:44:39,237
Now, I've gone over this product
pretty carefully in the lab.
631
00:44:39,410 --> 00:44:43,813
Vitajex has a few grains of aspirin.
632
00:44:43,981 --> 00:44:46,575
A little sugar
that might give you some energy.
633
00:44:46,750 --> 00:44:52,211
But, well, frankly, general or no general,
we have nothing to sell.
634
00:44:52,389 --> 00:44:55,654
Will you strike that from the transcript,
Miss Murray?
635
00:44:56,126 --> 00:45:00,187
You know that General Haynesworth
always reads the product group reports.
636
00:45:00,364 --> 00:45:03,265
I can't help it.
I was hired as a research chemist.
637
00:45:03,434 --> 00:45:06,494
Dr. Wylie, there's nothing wrong
with Vitajex, is there?
638
00:45:06,670 --> 00:45:09,434
It won't kill you,
if that's what you mean.
639
00:45:09,807 --> 00:45:12,867
It's relatively harmless,
like many old patent medicines.
640
00:45:13,043 --> 00:45:15,739
Thank you. Let's get this train
back on the tracks.
641
00:45:15,913 --> 00:45:21,283
-Miss Mills.
-With all due respect to our TV department.
642
00:45:22,486 --> 00:45:24,283
He hates our guts.
643
00:45:24,455 --> 00:45:30,052
And its sudden enthusiasm
for Lonesome Rhodes.
644
00:45:30,227 --> 00:45:33,822
I think we need a-- A dignified sell.
645
00:45:33,997 --> 00:45:38,900
I'd like to see a 15-minute participation
on the Ed Murrow show.
646
00:45:40,137 --> 00:45:42,605
Mr. Rhodes is here, sir.
647
00:45:42,773 --> 00:45:48,405
Jim boy, don't you think it--?
Well, I mean, it's irregular.
648
00:45:48,579 --> 00:45:52,071
Well, I just thought if you and the boys
got a look at him, Mace...
649
00:45:52,249 --> 00:45:54,877
...you'd see why the TV shop
is sold on him.
650
00:45:55,052 --> 00:45:59,045
-Gentlemen, Lonesome Rhodes.
-Hiya, folks.
651
00:46:00,257 --> 00:46:01,781
Howdy.
652
00:46:01,959 --> 00:46:06,191
I come to help you sell these little
kidney pills, whatever the heck they are.
653
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:21,470
Hey, what's the matter?
Ain't you got no spittoons around here?
654
00:46:21,912 --> 00:46:26,611
Denise, would you bring
the gentleman a spittoon?
655
00:46:27,417 --> 00:46:30,818
Now, what's your particular problem,
Mr. Fuzzy-Lip?
656
00:46:30,988 --> 00:46:35,220
Sit down, Mr. Rhodes. You may as well
know Vitajex is the sixth sister...
657
00:46:35,392 --> 00:46:39,522
...in the international drug family.
They're ready to put out a smaller pill...
658
00:46:39,696 --> 00:46:43,223
-...and to cut the--
-Before we make any hasty decisions...
659
00:46:43,500 --> 00:46:45,627
...l'd recommend--
660
00:46:46,436 --> 00:46:50,873
Look at these poor little white pills
you're trying to peddle.
661
00:46:51,208 --> 00:46:53,108
Look kind of pale.
662
00:46:53,277 --> 00:46:55,575
There's no charge to them.
663
00:46:56,413 --> 00:46:59,849
Hey, I got an idea.
Let's make them yellow.
664
00:47:00,017 --> 00:47:02,110
Yellow's the color of sunshine, energy.
665
00:47:02,286 --> 00:47:05,813
Gives a fellow that get-up-and-go
that sets him up with the ladies.
666
00:47:05,989 --> 00:47:11,791
You get the idea? Like this: "If you wanna
be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed...
667
00:47:11,962 --> 00:47:17,093
...why, just gobble up a handful of Vitajex,
and your battery's charged." Watch.
668
00:47:31,982 --> 00:47:33,244
I am ready.
669
00:47:33,417 --> 00:47:37,080
I mean, I'm in the mood!
670
00:47:37,254 --> 00:47:41,714
My personality undergoes
a startling change.
671
00:47:41,892 --> 00:47:43,587
I have a spittoon--
672
00:47:48,599 --> 00:47:53,002
Oh, I'm gonna get you,
you little redheaded filly, you.
673
00:47:55,205 --> 00:48:00,006
That's what Vitajex does to me,
and I ain't even swallowed them yet.
674
00:48:00,444 --> 00:48:04,107
And you college geniuses
want dignity on your program.
675
00:48:04,281 --> 00:48:06,943
Where I'm from,
if a fella looks too dignified...
676
00:48:07,117 --> 00:48:10,985
...we figure he's looking to steal
your watch. I'll move your merchandise.
677
00:48:11,288 --> 00:48:13,722
He's not exactly General Haynesworth's....
678
00:48:15,459 --> 00:48:17,427
Peace.
679
00:48:17,861 --> 00:48:19,886
Peace.
680
00:48:21,131 --> 00:48:23,156
Oh, Vitajex
681
00:48:23,467 --> 00:48:25,492
What you doing to me?
682
00:48:25,802 --> 00:48:29,465
Oh, Vitajex
What you doing to me?
683
00:48:30,374 --> 00:48:35,209
You fill me full of ecstasy
684
00:48:35,512 --> 00:48:39,778
-Oh, Vitajex, what you doing to me?
-Yeah!
685
00:48:44,388 --> 00:48:46,549
Vitajex
686
00:48:46,723 --> 00:48:50,819
Vitajex
What you doing to me?
687
00:48:51,962 --> 00:48:56,092
Vitajex
What you doing to me?
688
00:48:56,900 --> 00:49:01,394
You fill me full of ooh
And ecstasy
689
00:49:02,339 --> 00:49:06,571
Vitajex
Puts the gleam in your eye
690
00:49:07,811 --> 00:49:11,577
Vitajex
Puts the gleam in your eye
691
00:49:13,150 --> 00:49:15,141
You fill me full of ooh
692
00:49:15,319 --> 00:49:17,514
Keep your eye on that rating.
693
00:49:17,688 --> 00:49:18,780
Do it again.
694
00:49:18,956 --> 00:49:23,359
Vitajex puts the gleam in your eye
695
00:49:23,961 --> 00:49:25,121
It fills you full of:
696
00:49:33,003 --> 00:49:38,669
And each pill contains 97 units
of energy-giving endracain.
697
00:49:42,312 --> 00:49:45,713
Vitajex, jex, jex
Makes you go, go, go
698
00:49:45,882 --> 00:49:47,247
Vitajex, jex, jex
699
00:49:47,551 --> 00:49:49,849
Keep your eye on that rating.
700
00:49:50,020 --> 00:49:52,818
That's why Vitajex gives you
that get-up-and-go.
701
00:49:52,990 --> 00:49:56,983
Do you have trouble with your girl?
Does she look elsewhere?
702
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:01,028
Here's how Vitapig solved his problem.
703
00:50:09,272 --> 00:50:11,137
Oh, Vitajex.
704
00:50:11,575 --> 00:50:17,207
-You fill me full of ooh and ecstasy
-See what I mean?
705
00:50:17,614 --> 00:50:19,241
This is General Haynesworth.
706
00:50:19,416 --> 00:50:22,442
I've just seen Lonesome whatshisname
on the television...
707
00:50:22,619 --> 00:50:24,143
...and I like him.
708
00:50:25,689 --> 00:50:31,685
Why don't you take Vitajex
like Lonesome Rhodes does.
709
00:50:32,195 --> 00:50:36,894
She's talking about the new
large economy size.
710
00:50:40,070 --> 00:50:44,473
I bought my boyfriend a 10-year supply.
711
00:50:45,108 --> 00:50:48,373
-And now, the soft sell.
-Oomph.
712
00:50:48,545 --> 00:50:50,240
Keep your eye on the rating.
713
00:50:50,414 --> 00:50:54,214
-Vitajex, Vitajex--
-Vitajex, what you're doing to me.
714
00:50:54,484 --> 00:50:58,682
-Now, the hard sell.
-Vitajex, Vitajex.
715
00:50:59,790 --> 00:51:02,452
Vitajex, 39.8.
716
00:51:11,515 --> 00:51:14,109
General, l-- I'm willing
to put myself on record.
717
00:51:14,284 --> 00:51:17,776
I say he's a risk.
Uncooperative and unpredictable.
718
00:51:17,955 --> 00:51:22,119
Why, we've spent tens of thousands
of dollars to find out the key words like...
719
00:51:22,292 --> 00:51:24,021
..."bracing" and "zestful."
720
00:51:24,194 --> 00:51:27,857
Rhodes has the audacity to tear our copy up
in front of the audience.
721
00:51:28,032 --> 00:51:29,761
Thirty-nine-point-eight.
722
00:51:30,401 --> 00:51:33,859
-Hey, General, where are you?
-General, if you'll forgive us...
723
00:51:34,038 --> 00:51:38,031
-...we have to get back to town.
-Why, hello, girls.
724
00:51:38,208 --> 00:51:41,200
How's Princeton '28 and old eight
for the stump?
725
00:51:46,650 --> 00:51:48,948
I make these Madison Avenue
fellas unhappy.
726
00:51:49,119 --> 00:51:51,451
I'm not in the business
to make them happy.
727
00:51:51,755 --> 00:51:54,952
I'm in the business of getting the public
to buy Vitajex.
728
00:51:55,125 --> 00:51:57,093
-Exactly.
-Excuse us, dear.
729
00:51:57,261 --> 00:51:58,626
-Of course.
-Poor old Mace.
730
00:51:58,796 --> 00:52:02,197
He's had one heart attack.
You're winding him up to another one.
731
00:52:02,366 --> 00:52:05,199
-Well, General, that's his hard luck.
-Hello, senator.
732
00:52:05,369 --> 00:52:08,634
-Did you have a fine flight?
-Splendid, splendid.
733
00:52:08,806 --> 00:52:12,936
-I'll join you when I get freshened up a bit.
-My houseguest, Senator Fuller.
734
00:52:13,110 --> 00:52:15,271
I'd like to see him in the White House.
735
00:52:15,446 --> 00:52:20,179
-They call him "last of the isolationists."
-In some left-wing New York papers.
736
00:52:20,350 --> 00:52:23,376
Rhodes, I want you to get to know
people like that.
737
00:52:23,554 --> 00:52:26,921
I'd like to sort of take you under my wing
and educate you.
738
00:52:27,091 --> 00:52:30,219
Shucks, General, I'm just a country boy.
739
00:52:30,394 --> 00:52:32,589
Young man, never forget Will Rogers.
740
00:52:32,863 --> 00:52:36,060
He was just a gum-chewing,
rope-twirling cowboy.
741
00:52:36,233 --> 00:52:39,964
But he got to where he was telling off
presidents and kings.
742
00:52:40,137 --> 00:52:43,766
General, my thinking is the second section
of the same train.
743
00:52:44,341 --> 00:52:47,174
I've always gone in for long-range planning.
744
00:52:47,344 --> 00:52:51,212
Right now, Lonesome is merely popular.
Oh, very popular.
745
00:52:51,381 --> 00:52:56,250
But Lonesome Rhodes could be made
into an influence, a wielder of opinion.
746
00:52:56,420 --> 00:53:01,756
An institution positively sacred to this
country, like the Washington Monument.
747
00:53:01,925 --> 00:53:05,258
I suspect your idealistic young lady
disagrees with me.
748
00:53:05,429 --> 00:53:10,230
But my study of history has convinced me
that in every strong and healthy society...
749
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:15,133
...from the Egyptians on, the mass had
to be guided with a strong hand...
750
00:53:15,305 --> 00:53:16,966
...by a responsible elite.
751
00:53:17,407 --> 00:53:22,640
Let us not forget that in TV we have the
greatest instrument for mass persuasion...
752
00:53:22,813 --> 00:53:26,374
-...in the history of the world.
-I don't mean to flatter you, sir--
753
00:53:26,550 --> 00:53:29,018
What? Oh, yes.
Let's have a go at it, shall we?
754
00:53:29,186 --> 00:53:32,280
Roger. Roger!
755
00:53:32,856 --> 00:53:35,450
Are you jotting this down?
756
00:53:35,759 --> 00:53:40,526
First, I'll see if I can sell him on the idea
of a LIFE cover.
757
00:53:40,697 --> 00:53:43,165
Remind me to call him for lunch.
758
00:53:57,481 --> 00:54:01,815
I proudly dedicate to you
the latest hybrid iris...
759
00:54:01,985 --> 00:54:04,977
...of our horticultural laboratory...
760
00:54:05,155 --> 00:54:08,090
...the Oonus fraoratorum.
761
00:54:08,258 --> 00:54:13,560
We girls call it
the Lonesome Rhodes iris.
762
00:54:14,031 --> 00:54:18,195
I christen thee the USS Rhodes.
763
00:54:24,408 --> 00:54:27,536
And so, in behalf
of our great commonwealth...
764
00:54:27,711 --> 00:54:31,078
...l'm proud to dedicate
one of nature's wonders.
765
00:54:31,248 --> 00:54:36,311
Henceforth and forever
to be known as Mount Rhodes.
766
00:54:40,891 --> 00:54:45,692
And now, Lonesome,
back in those difficult days...
767
00:54:45,863 --> 00:54:48,024
...you had a pal.
768
00:54:49,032 --> 00:54:53,628
We flew him to New York tonight
to help recall the struggle and joys...
769
00:54:53,804 --> 00:54:57,763
...of times gone by,
because, Lonesome Rhodes...
770
00:54:57,975 --> 00:54:59,567
...you lived it.
771
00:55:02,646 --> 00:55:05,012
Hey, Lonesome!
772
00:55:05,782 --> 00:55:07,511
Beanie!
773
00:55:11,321 --> 00:55:14,757
You ugly scoundrel.
Where you been anyhow, huh?
774
00:55:14,925 --> 00:55:17,325
Go out and get you
some good-looking clothes.
775
00:55:17,494 --> 00:55:20,054
You've been looking ugly
as long as I can stand.
776
00:55:20,564 --> 00:55:24,432
White Plains, New York.
Thank you, thank you.
777
00:55:25,202 --> 00:55:27,670
Yeah. Hey, listen to this, listen to this:
778
00:55:27,838 --> 00:55:32,207
"Dear Lonesome, the boys in our ward
at the veterans' hospital just got together...
779
00:55:32,376 --> 00:55:35,004
...and donated $9.75."
780
00:55:35,178 --> 00:55:38,375
You ask me how I can keep going 17 hours
without sleep?
781
00:55:38,548 --> 00:55:40,641
Man, this is better than sleep.
782
00:55:40,817 --> 00:55:45,982
-Didn't I tell you, kid? Didn't I tell you?
-Do you still want me to hold this sign?
783
00:55:47,057 --> 00:55:51,653
As general manager of the Sherry Towers,
it's my honor to present you a gold key...
784
00:55:51,828 --> 00:55:55,696
...to the two top floors
of New York's finest hotel.
785
00:55:57,668 --> 00:56:01,604
-To the very top, boy.
-Yeah, you can't go much higher than that.
786
00:56:15,452 --> 00:56:18,421
Hello. Oh, Larry.
787
00:56:18,588 --> 00:56:20,647
Oh, what--? What time is it?
788
00:56:22,492 --> 00:56:24,426
Marcia, you-- You gotta come over.
789
00:56:24,594 --> 00:56:28,860
I never should've let Joey sell me
on living in a penthouse over the offices.
790
00:56:29,032 --> 00:56:31,057
Twenty-five rooms to be alone in.
791
00:56:31,234 --> 00:56:34,863
I feel like a shipwrecked fella on an island.
792
00:56:35,038 --> 00:56:39,441
Oh, Larry, I know that island.
It's populated by a tribe of friendly girls.
793
00:56:39,609 --> 00:56:44,069
Marcia, honey, do you believe me
when I say it's a matter of life and death?
794
00:56:46,116 --> 00:56:48,584
Call me soon, doll.
795
00:56:50,721 --> 00:56:52,712
-Larry?
-lf you don't come...
796
00:56:52,889 --> 00:56:57,292
...l'll dive off this balcony into the park,
and I'm 10 blocks from the lake.
797
00:57:04,267 --> 00:57:06,531
Marcia, come out here a minute.
798
00:57:19,016 --> 00:57:21,246
I had a girl up here tonight.
799
00:57:22,919 --> 00:57:25,046
I get restless.
800
00:57:25,489 --> 00:57:30,552
Well, I lied to you, but when it's over,
I'm more lonely than I was before.
801
00:57:32,662 --> 00:57:34,789
Marcia, will you
come out here a minute?
802
00:57:38,268 --> 00:57:42,329
Look at all them TV aerials sticking up
like branches down there.
803
00:57:42,672 --> 00:57:46,836
There's a whole forest of them
from here to San Diego.
804
00:57:47,310 --> 00:57:50,006
All of them waiting to hear
what I got to say.
805
00:57:50,180 --> 00:57:53,081
That's why you woke me up
in the middle of the night?
806
00:57:53,784 --> 00:57:58,517
Marcia, what I'm trying to say is, all
of them millions of people believing in me...
807
00:57:58,688 --> 00:58:01,088
...doing what I tell them to...
808
00:58:01,858 --> 00:58:03,450
...scares me.
809
00:58:03,660 --> 00:58:07,687
Honest. General and all them big shots
a-trying to educate me.
810
00:58:08,231 --> 00:58:09,698
Educate you or use you?
811
00:58:10,100 --> 00:58:16,005
That's it, see, the general says our country
needs me. I'm supposed to be an influence.
812
00:58:19,509 --> 00:58:22,273
That's mighty tall grass, Marcia.
813
00:58:25,816 --> 00:58:28,979
We're getting in deep, Marcia.
814
00:58:29,586 --> 00:58:34,751
A thousand times deeper than we dreamed
when we were starting out in Arkansas.
815
00:58:36,359 --> 00:58:42,229
On the set I'm beginning to act like I just
ate the western hemisphere for breakfast.
816
00:58:42,599 --> 00:58:46,262
But then, down here in the boiler room,
I know I need advice.
817
00:58:46,436 --> 00:58:50,031
Not the kind I get from Joey
or the Madison Avenue high-domes...
818
00:58:50,207 --> 00:58:54,507
...who say "gesundheit"
before I even pucker up to sneeze.
819
00:58:54,678 --> 00:58:59,115
No. And now, when I'm coming
to the top of the mountain...
820
00:58:59,749 --> 00:59:03,879
...I need you,
because you level with me.
821
00:59:04,588 --> 00:59:07,751
You're my lifeline to truth, and....
822
00:59:09,459 --> 00:59:11,324
Well....
823
00:59:13,029 --> 00:59:14,894
Marry me, Marcia...
824
00:59:15,665 --> 00:59:17,360
...will you?
825
00:59:17,601 --> 00:59:20,331
That's what I called you over here for.
826
00:59:36,753 --> 00:59:39,950
Can't keep anything alive up here.
827
00:59:40,524 --> 00:59:43,186
Dust in this city kills everything.
828
00:59:49,132 --> 00:59:50,895
Larry.
829
00:59:57,641 --> 00:59:59,632
Don't play with me.
830
01:00:00,944 --> 01:00:03,071
Don't hurt me.
831
01:00:08,818 --> 01:00:11,048
Don't hurt me.
832
01:00:18,295 --> 01:00:24,393
An old-fashioned marriage
Is my kind of marriage
833
01:00:24,568 --> 01:00:29,801
-A marriage that never grows old
-Marcia, there's a lady to see you.
834
01:00:29,973 --> 01:00:33,067
-A lady?
-I guess so, she's got a dress on.
835
01:00:33,410 --> 01:00:35,310
I don't wanna see anybody up here.
836
01:00:35,478 --> 01:00:38,743
Okay, I'll tell her to pick it up
and move it out.
837
01:00:40,450 --> 01:00:44,216
-I'm sorry, ma'am--
-l-- l-- l--
838
01:00:50,827 --> 01:00:52,158
Are you the--?
839
01:00:52,829 --> 01:00:55,024
I am Mrs. Rhodes.
840
01:00:58,301 --> 01:01:00,929
You related to Mr. Rhodes?
841
01:01:05,375 --> 01:01:07,605
But you're not his-- His mother.
842
01:01:09,346 --> 01:01:10,711
His wife.
843
01:01:14,451 --> 01:01:16,112
All right, Beanie.
844
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:25,951
Isn't he something?
845
01:01:26,196 --> 01:01:29,063
You mind if I mute this brass a little?
846
01:01:34,971 --> 01:01:36,302
So....
847
01:01:38,875 --> 01:01:41,605
You're Lonesome's new tootsie, huh?
848
01:01:43,346 --> 01:01:44,711
Lonesome.
849
01:01:44,881 --> 01:01:46,576
That's a hot one.
850
01:01:46,750 --> 01:01:51,278
I hope you have better luck
keeping him lonesome than I did.
851
01:01:51,588 --> 01:01:55,854
I think you should understand that I'm just
a business associate of Mr. Rhodes.
852
01:01:56,026 --> 01:01:59,393
Ain't you the whole box top, though?
853
01:01:59,562 --> 01:02:04,295
The floor manager of your program
is my brother-in-law's first cousin.
854
01:02:04,467 --> 01:02:06,958
He told me where I could find you.
855
01:02:07,170 --> 01:02:10,901
So you come off it, little lady.
856
01:02:11,775 --> 01:02:13,800
You mind if I do?
857
01:02:14,010 --> 01:02:16,274
I'm through with it.
858
01:02:20,016 --> 01:02:23,076
Mr. Rhodes might have done me
the courtesy of telling me.
859
01:02:23,253 --> 01:02:27,349
Oh, Mr. Rhodes don't do
no courtesies to nobody.
860
01:02:27,524 --> 01:02:30,425
I could write a book about him.
861
01:02:30,727 --> 01:02:33,628
Is that your purpose,
to collect some more material?
862
01:02:33,797 --> 01:02:36,288
Oh, I came to collect...
863
01:02:36,900 --> 01:02:39,164
...but it ain't material.
864
01:02:39,336 --> 01:02:42,965
Unless you get Larry to pay me
3 grand a month...
865
01:02:43,139 --> 01:02:45,903
...not only will I not divorce him...
866
01:02:46,076 --> 01:02:49,534
...but I will make it plenty hot
for the both of you.
867
01:02:50,613 --> 01:02:55,676
I already got some feelers
from Confidential magazine.
868
01:02:59,689 --> 01:03:02,317
I'm not engaged to your husband.
869
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:08,995
Larry, he thinks he has to take a bite
out of every broad he comes across.
870
01:03:09,299 --> 01:03:12,393
Then he calls them a tramp,
and he drops them, and....
871
01:03:12,702 --> 01:03:17,071
All sort of psycho-something-or-other,
you know.
872
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:21,006
I caught him red-handed
with my best girlfriend.
873
01:03:21,177 --> 01:03:25,944
-He broke my jaw.
-Seems to be working quite effectively now.
874
01:03:27,550 --> 01:03:32,749
Mrs. Rhodes, if you'll excuse me,
I'm very busy this morning.
875
01:03:34,958 --> 01:03:39,759
Well, tell Larry 3 G a month,
then he's yours.
876
01:03:46,436 --> 01:03:49,234
Happy second honeymoon,
Austin and Wilma.
877
01:03:50,206 --> 01:03:56,202
An old-fashioned marriage
Is my kind of marriage
878
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:01,416
It's a sincere-type song,
should be a big hit.
879
01:04:06,689 --> 01:04:08,350
Oh, shut up.
880
01:04:10,193 --> 01:04:13,993
Friendly greeting, Sunday-go-to-meeting
Just plain folks
881
01:04:14,164 --> 01:04:17,725
Bible-reading, pork-chop-feeding
Just plain folks
882
01:04:17,901 --> 01:04:22,201
-Stew on the table, mule in the stable
-These are our Barefoot Baritones.
883
01:04:22,372 --> 01:04:25,136
-They're rehearsing our new theme song.
-Very catchy.
884
01:04:25,308 --> 01:04:28,937
-Lonesome just wrote it.
-Actually, those two fellas there wrote it.
885
01:04:29,112 --> 01:04:31,444
Of course, their names aren't on it.
886
01:04:32,382 --> 01:04:35,317
Now, General, General,
we wanted to show you this.
887
01:04:35,485 --> 01:04:38,386
Lonesome designed it himself.
A reaction machine.
888
01:04:38,555 --> 01:04:42,491
You just push these little levers here.
It can laugh:
889
01:04:45,395 --> 01:04:47,090
Giggle:
890
01:04:52,268 --> 01:04:53,997
-Ain't that a booger?
-Ingenious.
891
01:04:54,170 --> 01:04:58,504
Thinking of putting them on the market.
The Lonesome Rhodes Automatic Reactor.
892
01:04:58,675 --> 01:05:01,667
Mechanical laughter and applause,
what are we coming to?
893
01:05:01,845 --> 01:05:04,973
We're coming to a bigger model,
that's what we're coming to.
894
01:05:05,949 --> 01:05:08,349
I'm sorry to end this.
Been most interesting.
895
01:05:08,518 --> 01:05:12,318
But I've got a date at my club.
Lunch with Senator Fuller.
896
01:05:12,589 --> 01:05:14,113
What's the matter with you?
897
01:05:14,290 --> 01:05:17,350
General, I wish you had time to see
our whole operation...
898
01:05:17,527 --> 01:05:20,928
-...the various departments....
-You're wound tight this morning.
899
01:05:21,097 --> 01:05:23,497
-What's the matter?
-Next time you propose...
900
01:05:23,666 --> 01:05:26,100
...you might consider
getting unmarried first.
901
01:05:26,970 --> 01:05:30,371
Listen, Beanie told me.
It ain't as bad as you think.
902
01:05:30,540 --> 01:05:35,307
See, I got a divorce couple of years ago in
Mexico, but the judge got indicted for fraud.
903
01:05:35,478 --> 01:05:39,812
-So my ex claimed that the divorce--
-Here are the latest ratings, Mr. Rhodes.
904
01:05:41,618 --> 01:05:43,313
Hallelujah!
905
01:05:43,486 --> 01:05:48,321
Rhodes, 41.4. Opposition, 19.5.
906
01:05:49,659 --> 01:05:52,856
Boy, that other fella's gonna be
jumping out of windows.
907
01:05:53,263 --> 01:05:56,994
Oh, so, like I say, the ex claimed
the divorce was a fraud too.
908
01:05:57,166 --> 01:05:59,430
I got a lawyer working it out in Ju�rez.
909
01:05:59,602 --> 01:06:03,038
He said if I go there,
he'd get her off my back in 24 hours.
910
01:06:03,406 --> 01:06:05,966
Don't play with me.
I'm not one of your girls.
911
01:06:06,442 --> 01:06:09,275
On a stack of Bibles, Marcia.
912
01:06:09,445 --> 01:06:13,711
Saturday, I'll be down in Pickett judging
the Arkansas Drum Majorette Contest.
913
01:06:13,883 --> 01:06:19,344
I'll go straight from there to Mexico. Next
time you hear from me, it'll be from Ju�rez.
914
01:06:19,522 --> 01:06:20,750
Believe me.
915
01:06:21,124 --> 01:06:24,685
-Dreadful. That is just dreadful.
-"Classics adapted while you wait.
916
01:06:24,861 --> 01:06:27,295
We also take in laundry."
That's a new one.
917
01:06:27,463 --> 01:06:30,591
Hey, welcome to the Black Hole of Calcutta.
918
01:06:30,767 --> 01:06:34,897
-One place they didn't show the general.
-Naturally. Here you see the lepers...
919
01:06:35,071 --> 01:06:38,040
...of the great television industry.
Men without faces.
920
01:06:38,207 --> 01:06:42,473
They even slide our paychecks under the
door so they can pretend we're not here.
921
01:06:44,514 --> 01:06:48,848
Think of the satisfaction of being a small
cog in the great wheel of humanity...
922
01:06:49,018 --> 01:06:50,645
...known as Lonesome Rhodes.
923
01:06:51,921 --> 01:06:54,913
Get her. Sounds like she's
coming over to our side.
924
01:06:57,493 --> 01:07:00,758
-Why don't you quit?
-Why don't you quit?
925
01:07:00,930 --> 01:07:03,558
Because I'm deeply involved with him.
926
01:07:03,733 --> 01:07:06,201
Spoken like a lady.
927
01:07:06,369 --> 01:07:08,098
You got his introduction ready?
928
01:07:08,271 --> 01:07:12,605
The hometown boy, not only making good
but making everybody.
929
01:07:12,775 --> 01:07:14,709
For a mild man, you sound vicious.
930
01:07:14,877 --> 01:07:17,311
Didn't you know?
All mild men are vicious.
931
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:20,711
They hate themselves for being mild
and hate the extroverts...
932
01:07:20,883 --> 01:07:24,444
...whose violence seems to have
an attraction for nice girls...
933
01:07:24,621 --> 01:07:26,384
...who should know better.
934
01:07:26,990 --> 01:07:30,517
"Today A Face in the Crowd
takes you on a sentimental journey.
935
01:07:30,693 --> 01:07:33,890
As Lonesome Rhodes,
your old Arkansas traveler...
936
01:07:34,063 --> 01:07:39,501
...goes home to the typical dirt-road,
cotton-picking town of Pickett, Arkansas."
937
01:07:39,702 --> 01:07:43,331
--where America's favorite country cousin
first got his humble start.
938
01:07:43,506 --> 01:07:47,533
And where he now returns to the simple
folks who saw and loved him first.
939
01:07:47,710 --> 01:07:51,737
To choose, on his latest Face in the Crowd,
the lucky and talented girl...
940
01:07:51,914 --> 01:07:55,008
...whom he will select from hundreds
of contestants...
941
01:07:55,184 --> 01:07:58,620
...as Miss Arkansas
Drum Majorette of 1957.
942
01:07:58,788 --> 01:08:01,723
And here's the man you've been
waiting for. Here he is.
943
01:08:01,891 --> 01:08:04,860
Look at them. Look at them!
944
01:08:05,028 --> 01:08:06,393
Ain't they the most?
945
01:08:06,562 --> 01:08:12,660
I mean the most! Corn-fed gals.
Country people.
946
01:08:12,835 --> 01:08:14,700
The heart of America.
947
01:08:14,871 --> 01:08:16,896
The salt of the earth.
948
01:08:24,781 --> 01:08:26,544
Hey, Beanie, Beanie, "L.R."
949
01:08:26,716 --> 01:08:29,014
"We love L.R."
950
01:08:33,322 --> 01:08:37,122
Hi, Lonesome!
951
01:08:38,394 --> 01:08:40,658
Hi, you-all!
952
01:08:52,341 --> 01:08:53,706
It's dangerous.
953
01:08:53,876 --> 01:08:55,343
What, baton twirling?
954
01:08:55,511 --> 01:08:57,604
No. Power.
955
01:08:57,780 --> 01:09:02,080
You gotta be a saint to stand off the power
that little box can give you.
956
01:09:05,188 --> 01:09:08,089
I got a button!
I got a button!
957
01:09:10,526 --> 01:09:12,016
It's wonderful.
958
01:09:23,005 --> 01:09:25,371
Lonesome Rhodes, rah-rah-rah!
959
01:09:33,216 --> 01:09:36,549
Friendly greeting, Sunday-go-to-meeting
Just plain folks
960
01:09:37,086 --> 01:09:40,578
Bible-reading, pork-chop-eating
Just plain folks
961
01:09:40,823 --> 01:09:44,259
Stew on the table, mule in the stable
Just poor folks
962
01:09:44,527 --> 01:09:47,655
Bill and Mabel, Levi label
Just plain folks
963
01:09:48,164 --> 01:09:50,530
She's only 17.
964
01:09:50,700 --> 01:09:53,498
She looks like a very sweet child.
965
01:09:53,803 --> 01:09:56,169
Just plain folks
966
01:10:00,143 --> 01:10:02,077
Friends.
967
01:10:08,317 --> 01:10:09,807
Friends.
968
01:10:14,724 --> 01:10:16,692
Friends.
969
01:10:16,859 --> 01:10:22,354
My heart is too full
to say anything more...
970
01:10:22,532 --> 01:10:25,933
...than welcome back to Pickett.
971
01:10:26,803 --> 01:10:32,105
A great artist, a great humanitarian...
972
01:10:32,542 --> 01:10:35,010
...a great American.
973
01:10:35,178 --> 01:10:40,172
Our very own Lonesome Rhodes.
974
01:10:48,191 --> 01:10:50,182
Friends...
975
01:10:50,726 --> 01:10:54,992
...fellow Arkansasians,
fellow Americans.
976
01:10:55,164 --> 01:11:01,125
I know I should start off with a funny story
about them kinfolk of mine in Riddle...
977
01:11:01,304 --> 01:11:03,829
...but I just feel too humble
this afternoon...
978
01:11:04,006 --> 01:11:07,635
...as I look out upon this fine
representative body...
979
01:11:07,810 --> 01:11:10,438
...of wholesome young
American womanhood.
980
01:11:10,613 --> 01:11:13,912
You know, I've been a fan
of baton twirling from way back.
981
01:11:14,083 --> 01:11:17,416
I think it's a honest-to-God
American art form.
982
01:11:17,587 --> 01:11:20,750
Here's a number I wrote
and recorded for the Gold Oak label.
983
01:11:20,923 --> 01:11:23,187
Thought you kids might enjoy
twirling to it.
984
01:11:23,359 --> 01:11:26,123
Here she goes, "Mama Guitar."
985
01:11:28,297 --> 01:11:32,393
Oh, yeah. Our first contestant will be...
986
01:11:32,568 --> 01:11:35,560
...Miss Suzanne McKinley
of Beaglestown.
987
01:11:35,738 --> 01:11:38,707
Let's have a real doozy, Suzie.
988
01:11:52,054 --> 01:11:56,184
And now Miss Linda Bruce
from Ganderstown.
989
01:11:56,359 --> 01:11:58,953
Go, girl, go!
990
01:12:11,474 --> 01:12:17,470
From the town of Snakebite,
Miss Peggy May Polhodie.
991
01:12:17,647 --> 01:12:21,481
Let's see you twirl it
and swirl it, Peggy May.
992
01:12:40,369 --> 01:12:43,429
I give you Miss Mary Jane Johnson...
993
01:12:43,606 --> 01:12:47,201
...from the neighboring village
of Pocahontas.
994
01:13:14,870 --> 01:13:20,672
And now Miss Betty Lou Fleckum.
995
01:14:04,453 --> 01:14:07,445
And I say that the winner...
996
01:14:07,623 --> 01:14:11,024
...by unanimous decision,
and that's me...
997
01:14:11,193 --> 01:14:13,661
...is little Miss Betty Lou Fleckum...
998
01:14:13,829 --> 01:14:19,028
...Miss Arkansas Drum Majorette
of 1957.
999
01:14:44,226 --> 01:14:46,285
I'm so ex-- Excited.
1000
01:14:46,462 --> 01:14:48,089
I'm so....
1001
01:14:53,736 --> 01:14:55,897
You're my idol, honest.
1002
01:14:57,006 --> 01:14:59,804
I pasted your picture
on the ceiling over my bed...
1003
01:15:00,076 --> 01:15:03,978
...so you're the first thing I see
when I wake up in the morning.
1004
01:15:04,580 --> 01:15:06,810
Well, bless your heart.
1005
01:15:08,117 --> 01:15:10,449
-Mike.
-Hey, that was a great show today.
1006
01:15:10,619 --> 01:15:12,587
I have a family, you know.
1007
01:15:12,755 --> 01:15:14,052
-Hello, Faye, Sam.
-Mace.
1008
01:15:14,223 --> 01:15:17,454
-Good show, Dad.
-Yes, I think it had size.
1009
01:15:17,626 --> 01:15:19,355
Hi, Burl, Virginia.
1010
01:15:19,528 --> 01:15:22,861
-Mace, that baton bit was the living end.
-Thanks, Betty.
1011
01:15:23,032 --> 01:15:26,365
As Lonesome said,
it's an American art form.
1012
01:15:26,535 --> 01:15:28,662
Glass of water, Joe.
1013
01:15:30,906 --> 01:15:33,170
-Peach of a show, Miss Jeffries.
-Thank you.
1014
01:15:33,342 --> 01:15:35,503
Should boost the rating.
1015
01:15:37,346 --> 01:15:39,075
Poor Macey.
1016
01:15:39,915 --> 01:15:44,716
He lives on a diet of nitroglycerin
and Trendex ratings.
1017
01:15:44,887 --> 01:15:49,915
Call it a Bible, but it's really
a death warrant with decimal points.
1018
01:15:50,092 --> 01:15:51,684
-Hello, Bennett.
-Mr. Cerf?
1019
01:15:51,861 --> 01:15:53,351
Thanks for the drinks.
1020
01:15:54,763 --> 01:15:56,196
Miss J, just came for you.
1021
01:15:56,365 --> 01:15:59,095
One thing about this place,
it's like the office.
1022
01:15:59,268 --> 01:16:02,101
Not quite. Joe, two more, please.
1023
01:16:02,271 --> 01:16:06,207
And this time, would you just
let the vermouth blow a kiss at the gin?
1024
01:16:06,642 --> 01:16:10,169
Oh, fine, our barefoot boy
won't be flying in tonight.
1025
01:16:10,346 --> 01:16:13,440
"Hopping to Ju�rez.
Get Arthur Godfrey to fill in for me.
1026
01:16:13,616 --> 01:16:15,811
Tell him I'll do the same
for him someday.
1027
01:16:15,985 --> 01:16:18,044
Counting on you to hold the fort."
1028
01:16:18,220 --> 01:16:21,951
Boy, this shoulder's getting
a permanent callus from holding that fort.
1029
01:16:22,124 --> 01:16:23,819
What's in Ju�rez?
1030
01:16:25,194 --> 01:16:26,661
Bars.
1031
01:16:27,997 --> 01:16:30,397
Lawyers, quick marriages...
1032
01:16:31,433 --> 01:16:32,991
...quick divorces.
1033
01:16:34,403 --> 01:16:36,337
Then this is it?
1034
01:16:40,309 --> 01:16:41,537
You're blushing.
1035
01:16:41,710 --> 01:16:44,201
It's these 60-to-1 martinis.
1036
01:16:46,248 --> 01:16:50,275
I suppose I should be a gentleman,
wish you all the happiness.
1037
01:16:52,454 --> 01:16:56,618
I think I'll just be a cad and hope
he chokes on a Vitajex pill.
1038
01:17:18,614 --> 01:17:20,275
You look nice.
1039
01:17:37,299 --> 01:17:39,130
Larry!
1040
01:17:56,719 --> 01:18:01,053
-Looks like he's found an all-original--
-It's for the bride.
1041
01:18:01,624 --> 01:18:03,888
Listen carefully,
this is front-page stuff.
1042
01:18:14,270 --> 01:18:16,363
Officer, I'm his fianc�e.
1043
01:18:16,538 --> 01:18:19,006
-Did he say "married"?
-Sure did.
1044
01:18:19,575 --> 01:18:23,636
This little lady has just done me the honor
of becoming Mrs. Lonesome Rhodes.
1045
01:18:23,812 --> 01:18:26,804
We do'd it in Ju�rez.
1046
01:18:43,565 --> 01:18:46,227
Easy, fellas, I just got her.
1047
01:18:48,037 --> 01:18:49,334
They eloped.
1048
01:19:00,482 --> 01:19:03,542
-Stand back, guys.
-Go ahead, smile at them.
1049
01:19:04,420 --> 01:19:07,548
Miss. Miss, I'm Earl Wilson.
What are you measurements?
1050
01:19:09,758 --> 01:19:13,353
What are you trying to do down there?
You out of your mind?
1051
01:19:13,862 --> 01:19:15,955
-Get it up there a little.
-That's it.
1052
01:19:16,231 --> 01:19:18,461
Their names are Tico and Pico.
1053
01:19:18,634 --> 01:19:20,727
Tico and Pico, kids.
1054
01:20:14,089 --> 01:20:16,751
Well, sir, here she is.
1055
01:20:16,925 --> 01:20:20,725
That's my little Arkansas
sweet potato, Betty Lou.
1056
01:20:23,098 --> 01:20:26,363
I ain't been so happy since
I fell into Grandpa Baskim's...
1057
01:20:26,535 --> 01:20:31,165
...hogshead of corn liquor and just guzzled
my way down to dry land.
1058
01:20:32,541 --> 01:20:35,408
I don't reckon I'll be a free man
tomorrow morning.
1059
01:20:35,577 --> 01:20:41,573
But if this ain't freedom,
man, it's the next best thing.
1060
01:21:04,373 --> 01:21:05,806
Hey.
1061
01:21:05,974 --> 01:21:11,002
And now you wanna see
what first caught my eye?
1062
01:21:13,081 --> 01:21:16,676
And what second caught my eye.
1063
01:21:18,587 --> 01:21:24,548
And what keeps on and on
catching my eye.
1064
01:21:27,329 --> 01:21:29,559
Ladies and gentlemen...
1065
01:21:29,731 --> 01:21:33,189
...I give you Mrs. Lonesome Rhodes...
1066
01:21:33,368 --> 01:21:38,829
...doing her unbelievable double-fire
baton-twirling dance...
1067
01:21:39,007 --> 01:21:42,033
...to the scherzo
from the Seventh Symphony...
1068
01:21:42,211 --> 01:21:46,147
...by Ludwig van Beethoven.
1069
01:21:55,824 --> 01:21:58,292
-Mr. Rhodes.
-Tico and Pico.
1070
01:21:58,460 --> 01:22:00,621
-I could eat you up.
-Could I talk to you?
1071
01:22:00,796 --> 01:22:03,765
-I don't want agency jokers nagging--
-This is important.
1072
01:22:03,932 --> 01:22:06,958
I've been with Browning, Schlagel
and McNally 17 years...
1073
01:22:07,135 --> 01:22:09,160
...in full charge of the drug account.
1074
01:22:09,338 --> 01:22:12,273
The general just told me
he's taking his business away.
1075
01:22:12,441 --> 01:22:15,171
Your young Mr. DePalma
has wormed his way--
1076
01:22:15,344 --> 01:22:18,074
Look, Macey, Joey DePalma's
doing a heck of a job.
1077
01:22:18,247 --> 01:22:21,045
But you know this business.
It's cutthroat. If a--
1078
01:22:21,216 --> 01:22:22,581
Look, Macey--
1079
01:22:22,751 --> 01:22:26,710
Well, if a rating nosedives,
or if you lose a client...
1080
01:22:26,889 --> 01:22:31,223
...even if it isn't your fault,
the account executive is the goat.
1081
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:35,690
Mr. Rhodes, if-- If I lose
this account, I'll be fired.
1082
01:22:36,365 --> 01:22:38,162
I've got a son at Princeton.
1083
01:22:38,567 --> 01:22:42,765
Mr. Rhodes, you-- You've seen my--
You've seen my office.
1084
01:22:43,305 --> 01:22:46,502
A corner office with four windows.
1085
01:22:47,042 --> 01:22:51,911
You know how long it takes at Browning,
Schlagel and McNally to get a corner...?
1086
01:23:00,289 --> 01:23:02,951
I was afraid to marry you,
and that's the truth.
1087
01:23:03,125 --> 01:23:05,593
The dirt-root, cotton-picking truth.
1088
01:23:06,361 --> 01:23:09,387
Last time, you said
you were afraid not to.
1089
01:23:10,399 --> 01:23:11,991
Both were true.
1090
01:23:12,801 --> 01:23:15,292
You sort of overawe me.
1091
01:23:15,470 --> 01:23:17,370
You know more than I do.
1092
01:23:17,539 --> 01:23:20,872
I can feel you being
so goldarned critical all the time.
1093
01:23:21,043 --> 01:23:23,375
You and that smart-alecky Mel.
1094
01:23:23,545 --> 01:23:26,537
And you don't really approve of me.
That's so, ain't it?
1095
01:23:28,083 --> 01:23:31,052
You're getting to be all the things
you used to harpoon.
1096
01:23:31,219 --> 01:23:32,447
See what I mean?
1097
01:23:34,122 --> 01:23:37,751
The bigger I get,
the smaller you make me feel.
1098
01:23:39,194 --> 01:23:42,891
-You take Betty Lou....
-Larry, don't try to explain.
1099
01:23:44,466 --> 01:23:46,229
Betty Lou is your public...
1100
01:23:46,401 --> 01:23:50,064
...all wrapped up with yellow ribbons
into one cute little package.
1101
01:23:50,372 --> 01:23:54,035
She's the logical culmination
of the great 20th-century love affair...
1102
01:23:54,209 --> 01:23:57,007
...between Lonesome Rhodes
and his mass audience.
1103
01:24:02,250 --> 01:24:03,774
Well...
1104
01:24:03,952 --> 01:24:05,977
...I wish you wasn't so bitter.
1105
01:24:06,154 --> 01:24:07,746
I'm not bitter.
1106
01:24:08,757 --> 01:24:13,126
If I sound stridently female about
Miss Drum Majorette, I don't mean to be.
1107
01:24:13,295 --> 01:24:16,594
I knew you married her
just as a way of not marrying me.
1108
01:24:29,044 --> 01:24:30,705
Look, Marcia...
1109
01:24:30,879 --> 01:24:33,473
...l'm not forgetting what I owe you.
1110
01:24:33,949 --> 01:24:37,077
I'm gonna give you a healthy slice
of our whole operation.
1111
01:24:37,252 --> 01:24:39,516
Say 10 percent of my end.
1112
01:24:39,688 --> 01:24:42,851
You won't have to lift your finger
with what I'm giving you.
1113
01:24:43,025 --> 01:24:44,925
Giving me? Giving me?
1114
01:24:45,093 --> 01:24:47,323
You're not giving me anything.
1115
01:24:47,496 --> 01:24:51,227
And you're not throwing me off the train
like poor Abe Steiner either.
1116
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:53,300
A Face in the Crowd was my idea.
1117
01:24:53,468 --> 01:24:56,733
The whole idea of Lonesome Rhodes
belongs to me.
1118
01:24:56,905 --> 01:25:01,137
I always should've been an equal partner.
Now I'm gonna be an equal partner.
1119
01:25:01,309 --> 01:25:03,504
I'm gonna get something I deserve.
1120
01:25:03,679 --> 01:25:07,740
-Doesn't sound like you, Marcia.
-And I want it on paper!
1121
01:25:07,916 --> 01:25:10,350
Okay. All right.
1122
01:25:11,153 --> 01:25:13,986
I'll tell Joey to draw up the papers.
1123
01:25:15,857 --> 01:25:18,223
Look at yourself in the mirror, Marcia.
1124
01:25:18,393 --> 01:25:20,827
You'll see a millionaire.
1125
01:25:26,601 --> 01:25:28,694
There's always Vanderbilt '44.
1126
01:25:29,271 --> 01:25:32,604
He's gone back to Memphis.
I think he wants to forget us both.
1127
01:25:34,609 --> 01:25:39,478
I thought he'd wait for you
till there was ice on the equator.
1128
01:25:42,617 --> 01:25:45,142
That's how long he did wait.
1129
01:26:13,949 --> 01:26:17,680
When newspaper people ask me,
"Walter, where do you get all that news?"
1130
01:26:17,853 --> 01:26:21,619
I invariably tell them, "I usually get it
from an awful lot of people...
1131
01:26:21,790 --> 01:26:25,419
...who promised somebody else
they'd keep it secret." As for example:
1132
01:26:25,594 --> 01:26:31,089
Just what is Lonesome Rhodes going to talk
to General Haynesworth about?
1133
01:26:31,266 --> 01:26:32,699
"Oh, General."
1134
01:26:32,868 --> 01:26:34,495
"Oh, Lonesome Rhodes."
1135
01:26:34,669 --> 01:26:38,105
And now Mike Wallace
interviews Senator Worthington Fuller.
1136
01:26:38,273 --> 01:26:43,711
Senator Fuller, you mean to tell me that you
are not infected with the presidential itch?
1137
01:26:43,879 --> 01:26:45,779
The itch?
1138
01:26:47,649 --> 01:26:52,018
Senator, is it not a fact that you
have a date tomorrow night...
1139
01:26:52,187 --> 01:26:56,556
...for what is known as "Madison Avenue
coaching" from Lonesome Rhodes...
1140
01:26:56,725 --> 01:27:00,593
...in General Haynesworth's
private projection room?
1141
01:27:01,229 --> 01:27:05,529
I have said it calls
for the closest scrutiny.
1142
01:27:05,700 --> 01:27:08,567
I am unable to persuade myself...
1143
01:27:08,737 --> 01:27:14,471
...and to believe in the belief that flagrant
squandering of American wealth...
1144
01:27:14,643 --> 01:27:18,636
...at home and abroad
is a road to a sound peace.
1145
01:27:20,916 --> 01:27:22,543
Thank you, all...
1146
01:27:23,018 --> 01:27:25,282
...and good evening, all.
1147
01:27:25,787 --> 01:27:27,414
Lights!
1148
01:27:42,237 --> 01:27:45,172
I know that's not what
the American people want to hear.
1149
01:27:45,340 --> 01:27:48,207
-I think I know what's best for them.
-We think so too.
1150
01:27:48,376 --> 01:27:53,143
That's why everyone here wants you to be
the next president of the United States.
1151
01:27:53,315 --> 01:27:56,682
But your problem is getting
the voters to listen to you...
1152
01:27:56,852 --> 01:27:59,719
...getting them to like you enough
to listen to you.
1153
01:27:59,888 --> 01:28:01,685
Senator, I've got to be blunt.
1154
01:28:01,857 --> 01:28:05,816
Your TV appearances have been--
Well, catastrophes.
1155
01:28:05,994 --> 01:28:07,757
Wouldn't you say so, Lonesome?
1156
01:28:07,929 --> 01:28:12,195
By the way, I asked you to check ratings
when the senator was on Face the People.
1157
01:28:12,367 --> 01:28:14,301
Brutal.
1158
01:28:15,303 --> 01:28:17,100
Oh, excuse me, 4.2.
1159
01:28:19,474 --> 01:28:21,499
-Go right ahead.
-We've got to face it.
1160
01:28:21,676 --> 01:28:25,077
Politics have entered a new stage,
a television stage.
1161
01:28:25,247 --> 01:28:29,183
Instead of long-winded public debates,
the people want capsule slogans.
1162
01:28:29,351 --> 01:28:31,979
"Time for a change."
"The mess in Washington."
1163
01:28:32,153 --> 01:28:35,953
More bang for a buck.
Punch lines and glamour.
1164
01:28:36,124 --> 01:28:38,388
Yes, Mr. Pervis, even glamour.
1165
01:28:38,560 --> 01:28:41,461
General, my papers have supported
Worthington Fuller...
1166
01:28:41,630 --> 01:28:43,689
...from the first day
he ran for office.
1167
01:28:43,865 --> 01:28:46,959
He's not a grandstander,
a backslapper or a baby-kisser.
1168
01:28:47,135 --> 01:28:49,433
That's exactly what he's got to become.
1169
01:28:49,604 --> 01:28:52,573
A majority in this country
don't see eye-to-eye with him.
1170
01:28:52,741 --> 01:28:57,440
We've got to find 35 million buyers
for the product we call Worthington Fuller.
1171
01:28:57,612 --> 01:29:01,343
-I think you underestimate the respect--
-Respect?
1172
01:29:01,516 --> 01:29:05,782
Did you ever hear of anyone buying
any product, beer, hair rinse, tissue...
1173
01:29:05,954 --> 01:29:08,320
...because they respect it?
1174
01:29:08,490 --> 01:29:11,721
You gotta be loved, man.
1175
01:29:12,394 --> 01:29:14,259
Loved.
1176
01:29:14,429 --> 01:29:18,627
I may be a bit old-fashioned, but it seems
to me there is still a distinction...
1177
01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:22,065
...between politics and, well,
the field you're in.
1178
01:29:22,404 --> 01:29:25,271
-Bull.
-I beg your pardon, sir.
1179
01:29:25,440 --> 01:29:28,136
Sorry if I tread on your corns,
but I said, bull.
1180
01:29:28,310 --> 01:29:29,641
Politics is people.
1181
01:29:30,045 --> 01:29:31,876
-Mr. Rhodes--
-Now, John--
1182
01:29:32,047 --> 01:29:35,175
The general asked me to cut
my rehearsal short to come here.
1183
01:29:35,350 --> 01:29:37,910
-lf you don't wanna hear my thinking--
-Do go on.
1184
01:29:38,086 --> 01:29:40,520
I'm sorry to make a disturbance,
but, General--
1185
01:29:40,689 --> 01:29:44,648
Senator, I'm a professional.
I have to look at the image on that screen...
1186
01:29:44,826 --> 01:29:47,317
...same as I'd look
at a performer on my show.
1187
01:29:47,495 --> 01:29:49,690
And I'll have to say...
1188
01:29:49,864 --> 01:29:52,264
...he'll never get over to my audience.
1189
01:29:52,434 --> 01:29:58,703
Not to the 65 million people who welcome
me into their living rooms each week.
1190
01:29:58,873 --> 01:30:04,072
And if I wouldn't buy him,
do you realize what that means?
1191
01:30:04,245 --> 01:30:05,644
If I wouldn't buy him...
1192
01:30:05,814 --> 01:30:09,409
...the people of this country
aren't ready to buy him for that job...
1193
01:30:09,584 --> 01:30:11,984
...on Pennsylvania Avenue.
1194
01:30:12,153 --> 01:30:14,417
I got a fella here,
know where I found him?
1195
01:30:14,589 --> 01:30:16,614
I don't think he'll mind my saying it.
1196
01:30:16,791 --> 01:30:19,055
In jail. He's stupid.
1197
01:30:19,227 --> 01:30:22,685
He's got no mentality.
He thinks with his feet.
1198
01:30:23,965 --> 01:30:26,661
But I trust those feet.
1199
01:30:26,835 --> 01:30:31,135
Now, if he don't laugh,
if he don't think the show is any good...
1200
01:30:31,306 --> 01:30:33,866
...then I know there's
something wrong with it...
1201
01:30:34,042 --> 01:30:37,569
...something people
just ain't a-gonna take to.
1202
01:30:37,746 --> 01:30:39,611
You see what I mean?
1203
01:30:40,482 --> 01:30:42,177
Now, Beanie...
1204
01:30:42,951 --> 01:30:46,717
...what did you think of the personality
you just saw on the screen?
1205
01:30:48,990 --> 01:30:53,154
-Well, I....
-Come on, give it to us straight.
1206
01:30:54,129 --> 01:30:56,859
Flatter than last night's beer.
1207
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:01,560
You see your problem now, senator?
1208
01:31:02,270 --> 01:31:06,639
How you gonna get this man,
this bush monkey, to vote for you?
1209
01:31:16,017 --> 01:31:18,349
Frankly, I don't know.
1210
01:31:18,520 --> 01:31:20,249
Well, maybe I do.
1211
01:31:21,122 --> 01:31:24,523
Do you know what you need
to lift your rating from 4.2...
1212
01:31:24,692 --> 01:31:27,627
...to 51.7?
1213
01:31:28,363 --> 01:31:33,323
You need-- Now, hold on to
your hat, my friend.
1214
01:31:34,436 --> 01:31:39,806
You need a whole new personality.
1215
01:31:39,974 --> 01:31:41,464
A new personality?
1216
01:31:41,643 --> 01:31:43,440
But, frankly, that's impossible.
1217
01:31:43,611 --> 01:31:45,545
Now, wait just a moment.
1218
01:31:46,414 --> 01:31:48,314
For instance, do you have a pet?
1219
01:31:49,084 --> 01:31:52,110
My wife and I have a Siamese cat.
1220
01:31:52,287 --> 01:31:53,754
Beanie.
1221
01:31:57,125 --> 01:31:59,423
My public love dogs.
1222
01:31:59,594 --> 01:32:03,690
One pitch with a hound
is worth 10,000 words.
1223
01:32:03,865 --> 01:32:07,892
That mutt didn't do Roosevelt any harm,
did it? Dick Nixon either.
1224
01:32:08,670 --> 01:32:11,503
-That's good.
-No, I'm sure you're right.
1225
01:32:11,673 --> 01:32:14,767
How about a nickname?
1226
01:32:16,444 --> 01:32:20,847
Only dishonest thing about "Curly" Fuller
is the way he combs his hair.
1227
01:32:21,950 --> 01:32:23,178
Curly.
1228
01:32:23,351 --> 01:32:25,615
-That's rather amusing.
-See?
1229
01:32:25,787 --> 01:32:29,746
Shows you got a sense of humor
about that fine head of skin you got there.
1230
01:32:30,325 --> 01:32:33,192
No hard feelings now,
we're talking television.
1231
01:32:33,628 --> 01:32:37,359
Don't press your lips together so much.
Gives you kind of a sissy look.
1232
01:32:37,532 --> 01:32:40,365
Keep your mouth relaxed,
so you can say:
1233
01:32:43,972 --> 01:32:46,099
Once in a while.
1234
01:32:47,642 --> 01:32:50,042
-Sounds sort of crazy to you, doesn't it?
-No.
1235
01:32:50,211 --> 01:32:53,146
I realize it's a new technique,
and I've got to face it.
1236
01:32:53,314 --> 01:32:56,249
-That's why I came.
-That's a boy, Curly.
1237
01:32:56,417 --> 01:32:58,647
You just put yourself in my hands.
1238
01:32:58,820 --> 01:33:03,280
I'll have them loving him.
I mean loving him!
1239
01:33:03,558 --> 01:33:06,891
You know, that's just
what he did for Vitajex.
1240
01:33:07,061 --> 01:33:09,120
He ought to be in the cabinet.
1241
01:33:13,234 --> 01:33:15,361
I'll be going to bed now, sir.
1242
01:33:15,537 --> 01:33:19,064
Good night, Sidney. Lonesome,
I don't know anyone in the country...
1243
01:33:19,240 --> 01:33:21,731
...who could've won the senator
the way you did.
1244
01:33:21,910 --> 01:33:25,004
-It was a brilliant piece of--
-Shut up, I'm thinking.
1245
01:33:25,180 --> 01:33:29,139
Lonesome. Listen to me,
as your adopted father.
1246
01:33:29,317 --> 01:33:34,584
You have only one flaw, the way you've
begun to suddenly shoot out of control.
1247
01:33:34,756 --> 01:33:37,657
Like this evening,
almost walking out on the senator.
1248
01:33:38,126 --> 01:33:41,425
And you're beginning to antagonize
the press. You'll grate.
1249
01:33:41,596 --> 01:33:43,325
Cracker Barrel.
1250
01:33:43,998 --> 01:33:47,126
Lonesome Rhodes' Cracker Barrel.
1251
01:33:47,302 --> 01:33:48,894
-What's that?
-My new show.
1252
01:33:49,070 --> 01:33:50,970
I want you to set it up right away.
1253
01:33:51,139 --> 01:33:56,202
Get me a whole bunch of colorful country-
looking characters all sitting around...
1254
01:33:56,377 --> 01:33:59,869
...listening to Lonesome Rhodes
sound off about everything...
1255
01:34:00,048 --> 01:34:03,711
...from the price of popcorn
to the hydrogen bomb.
1256
01:34:06,754 --> 01:34:08,915
You don't like it?
1257
01:34:09,757 --> 01:34:12,487
Well, just forget it.
1258
01:34:16,130 --> 01:34:18,291
All I've gotta do is pick up the phone...
1259
01:34:18,466 --> 01:34:23,028
...and I can get Tim Andrews of National
Motors to back it for me in a minute.
1260
01:34:23,204 --> 01:34:25,138
I'm not just an entertainer.
1261
01:34:25,306 --> 01:34:27,900
I'm an influence, a wielder of opinion.
1262
01:34:28,076 --> 01:34:30,101
A force.
1263
01:34:30,278 --> 01:34:32,178
A force.
1264
01:34:33,381 --> 01:34:36,578
Now Shelton Cigarettes,
Best Friend Dog Food and Vitajex...
1265
01:34:36,751 --> 01:34:39,481
...bring you the voice
of grassroot wisdom:
1266
01:34:39,654 --> 01:34:42,714
Lonesome Rhodes on The Cracker Barrel.
1267
01:34:43,491 --> 01:34:44,924
You know, boys...
1268
01:34:45,093 --> 01:34:47,653
...what really bugs me
about our limey cousins...
1269
01:34:47,829 --> 01:34:51,458
...is the way they keep on trying
to act like a first-class outfit...
1270
01:34:51,633 --> 01:34:55,160
...when their store is having to close
branches all over the world.
1271
01:34:55,336 --> 01:34:59,204
-That's telling them, Lonesome.
-That's telling him.
1272
01:34:59,374 --> 01:35:01,467
He's getting more global every minute.
1273
01:35:02,744 --> 01:35:05,474
That's the Lord's truth.
1274
01:35:08,616 --> 01:35:12,052
Well, look who's stopping by
to chew the fat with us...
1275
01:35:12,220 --> 01:35:17,089
...around the old cracker barrel.
Senator Worthington Fuller.
1276
01:35:17,659 --> 01:35:23,495
Howdy, Curly, how's my old bunkmate?
Fine. It's a real pleasant surprise.
1277
01:35:23,665 --> 01:35:26,225
-Come on in and meet the boys here.
-Hello, men.
1278
01:35:26,734 --> 01:35:29,862
Sit down here on the cracker barrel
and get your feet up.
1279
01:35:30,038 --> 01:35:32,097
That's a boy, now you look at home.
1280
01:35:32,273 --> 01:35:34,867
Well, here we are, all set for real....
1281
01:35:35,043 --> 01:35:37,637
Hello, Mr. Miller.
Long time no see, et cetera.
1282
01:35:37,812 --> 01:35:39,211
-The usual?
-Oh, yeah.
1283
01:35:39,380 --> 01:35:42,349
And just let the vermouth
blow a kiss at the gin.
1284
01:35:43,051 --> 01:35:46,578
Yes, in just a little while,
I'm gonna be tossing some questions...
1285
01:35:46,754 --> 01:35:51,418
...at old Curly Fuller here. I should say,
Senator Worthington Fuller.
1286
01:35:52,393 --> 01:35:56,625
-You waiting for someone?
-No. I'm just having a quiet drink.
1287
01:35:59,067 --> 01:36:02,161
I don't remember your doing that before.
1288
01:36:02,337 --> 01:36:04,498
I have to talk to
a thousand people a day.
1289
01:36:04,672 --> 01:36:07,140
This gives me a chance to unwind.
1290
01:36:08,476 --> 01:36:13,175
We didn't know that swallowing too much
raw politics can put a crease in your head...
1291
01:36:13,348 --> 01:36:16,374
...a lot deeper than that
homemade Kickapoo joy juice...
1292
01:36:16,551 --> 01:36:19,577
...that we used to concoct
back in Arkansas.
1293
01:36:20,488 --> 01:36:24,356
I wished you'd give me the real
cotton-picking truth about how you feel...
1294
01:36:24,525 --> 01:36:29,326
...on the subject of more and more
and more social security.
1295
01:36:30,164 --> 01:36:33,031
I'm glad you asked me
that question, Lonesome.
1296
01:36:33,601 --> 01:36:37,731
I'd say that people today are obsessed--
1297
01:36:38,339 --> 01:36:41,934
I mean, real gone for security.
1298
01:36:42,110 --> 01:36:46,171
They want protection, coddling
from the cradle to the grave.
1299
01:36:46,347 --> 01:36:49,111
I say that weakens the moral fiber.
1300
01:36:49,283 --> 01:36:52,275
Daniel Boone wasn't looking
for unemployment insurance...
1301
01:36:52,453 --> 01:36:54,387
...and old-age pension.
1302
01:36:54,555 --> 01:36:56,853
All he needed
was his ax and his gun...
1303
01:36:57,024 --> 01:37:01,427
...and a chance to hew a living out
of the forest with his own hands.
1304
01:37:01,696 --> 01:37:04,494
-Real woodsy, ain't he?
-That's telling them, senator.
1305
01:37:04,732 --> 01:37:07,792
You heard one that time. That's a boy.
1306
01:37:07,969 --> 01:37:10,267
That's the spirit that built this country.
1307
01:37:10,438 --> 01:37:13,669
Joe, would you turn that sound down
a little bit, please?
1308
01:37:13,841 --> 01:37:15,672
--not big government.
1309
01:37:16,177 --> 01:37:19,704
I'll say one thing for him,
he's got the courage of his ignorance.
1310
01:37:21,516 --> 01:37:23,848
Well, how's our old station in Memphis?
1311
01:37:24,485 --> 01:37:26,009
I didn't go near it.
1312
01:37:26,187 --> 01:37:29,384
I've been writing a book about:
1313
01:37:30,625 --> 01:37:33,560
I call it Demagogue in Denim.
1314
01:37:36,631 --> 01:37:39,623
Never had such a good time in my life.
1315
01:37:41,235 --> 01:37:43,601
Well, you look wonderful.
1316
01:37:43,771 --> 01:37:49,141
All those months he was calling me
Vanderbilt '44 and Frontal Lobe...
1317
01:37:49,310 --> 01:37:52,802
...when I should've been
punching him in the nose.
1318
01:37:52,980 --> 01:37:56,575
Well, now I got the book
to punch him in the nose.
1319
01:37:56,751 --> 01:37:59,083
Is it gonna be published?
1320
01:38:02,423 --> 01:38:05,984
Came up to sign the contracts.
Publishers are real high on it.
1321
01:38:06,160 --> 01:38:08,958
They think the time is right
to pull the mask off him.
1322
01:38:09,130 --> 01:38:13,931
-Let the public see what a fraud he really is.
-Mel, I wouldn't say that.
1323
01:38:15,403 --> 01:38:17,064
What would you say?
1324
01:38:17,238 --> 01:38:21,038
Well, it's just that it's harder for him
to be as simple as he was...
1325
01:38:21,209 --> 01:38:26,078
...with all those generals and senators
and political big shots hanging around him.
1326
01:38:26,247 --> 01:38:28,579
You're still with him.
1327
01:38:30,785 --> 01:38:35,654
Well, at least I tone down some of the
crazier notions he wants to spout on the air.
1328
01:38:35,823 --> 01:38:38,815
And I seem to be the only person
he can talk to anymore.
1329
01:38:38,993 --> 01:38:42,394
I keep a lot of people
from getting fired, and....
1330
01:38:44,031 --> 01:38:46,625
Well, there's an awful lot
of money at stake.
1331
01:38:46,801 --> 01:38:49,770
Our agency, the one
with International Drug Account...
1332
01:38:49,937 --> 01:38:52,201
...is grossing over 100 million a year.
1333
01:38:52,373 --> 01:38:54,841
And how are the Mama Guitars selling?
1334
01:39:00,715 --> 01:39:03,240
Mel, I found him.
1335
01:39:04,919 --> 01:39:09,583
He's mine for better or worse, and I keep
doing my small bit to make him better.
1336
01:39:10,525 --> 01:39:12,789
Know what you are?
You're the locker room...
1337
01:39:12,960 --> 01:39:16,259
...where he eases up after the fight,
win or lose.
1338
01:39:16,430 --> 01:39:20,127
You're the shock absorber for collisions
with ex-wives and models...
1339
01:39:20,301 --> 01:39:23,327
...and new wives and assorted tramps.
1340
01:39:23,504 --> 01:39:26,735
The wheel of efficiency
without which the streamlined express...
1341
01:39:26,908 --> 01:39:30,844
...called Lonesome Rhodes plunges
off the track and leaps to destruction.
1342
01:39:31,012 --> 01:39:33,947
I can hardly wait to read that book.
1343
01:39:34,949 --> 01:39:39,750
Don't you worry, I've spared you
more than you've spared yourself.
1344
01:39:41,556 --> 01:39:43,581
I know.
1345
01:39:44,492 --> 01:39:45,891
I know.
1346
01:39:51,332 --> 01:39:56,167
I'll call you again sometime,
when I think you're ready.
1347
01:40:03,744 --> 01:40:08,113
Hey, Betty Lou, take a look
at this Gallup Poll.
1348
01:40:08,716 --> 01:40:12,948
I got Curly up from 3 percent
of the voters to 11.
1349
01:40:13,120 --> 01:40:17,318
Eleven! That's a lucky number.
He's gonna be in.
1350
01:40:18,159 --> 01:40:19,786
Hey, sweet patootie...
1351
01:40:20,227 --> 01:40:24,288
...look who's home,
your big papa man.
1352
01:40:40,915 --> 01:40:43,145
You're not going to hit me.
1353
01:40:43,818 --> 01:40:47,276
Don't play the noble defender of
the sanctity of marriage with me.
1354
01:40:47,455 --> 01:40:50,982
I know where you've been
when Betty was waiting up for you.
1355
01:40:51,158 --> 01:40:54,184
You hit me, and it'll be all over the papers.
1356
01:40:54,362 --> 01:40:56,660
You're fired.
You're through with Lonesome--
1357
01:40:56,831 --> 01:40:59,698
I've got news that'll
move you and shake you.
1358
01:40:59,867 --> 01:41:02,461
I'm president of Lonesome
Rhodes Enterprises.
1359
01:41:02,637 --> 01:41:06,630
I own 51 percent of the voting stock.
1360
01:41:06,807 --> 01:41:11,107
You're in bed with me, Larry. In bed.
1361
01:41:31,265 --> 01:41:33,233
Get me Beanie.
1362
01:41:33,401 --> 01:41:35,562
Think I'll just freshen up my soda.
1363
01:41:35,736 --> 01:41:37,169
Beanie.
1364
01:41:37,338 --> 01:41:40,830
Get Mrs. Rhodes a "broomette"
on the next train to Little Rock.
1365
01:41:41,008 --> 01:41:43,704
You don't own 51 percent
of the stock. You're fired.
1366
01:41:43,878 --> 01:41:45,106
Fired?
1367
01:41:45,446 --> 01:41:48,108
Oh, Lonesome.... Lonesome, nothing--
1368
01:41:48,282 --> 01:41:50,807
Nothing happened, really.
1369
01:42:01,762 --> 01:42:05,698
I'm gonna treat you like any
performer on my show that flops.
1370
01:42:06,200 --> 01:42:08,065
I got a contract with you.
1371
01:42:08,235 --> 01:42:12,296
You'll get your money every week
as long as you stay in Arkansas.
1372
01:42:13,674 --> 01:42:15,938
But I don't wanna go home.
1373
01:42:16,110 --> 01:42:20,444
Ed Sullivan wants me to do my double-fire
baton dance on his show Sunday night.
1374
01:42:20,614 --> 01:42:23,447
You can do your double-fire
baton-twirling dance...
1375
01:42:23,617 --> 01:42:26,450
...in the ladies' room
of the Little Rock depot.
1376
01:42:39,300 --> 01:42:42,963
Marcia, can you hear me?
Get up! Wake up!
1377
01:42:43,504 --> 01:42:45,870
It's me, big me! The king!
1378
01:42:46,707 --> 01:42:48,436
Come on, Marcia, open up.
1379
01:42:48,609 --> 01:42:51,203
I said, hurry up on this door, Marcia.
1380
01:42:51,378 --> 01:42:53,778
Lonesome's back.
1381
01:42:58,052 --> 01:43:01,283
Just got rid of Betty Lou.
Sweet-talking little floozy.
1382
01:43:01,455 --> 01:43:04,185
She'd have ruined me,
that's what she'd have done.
1383
01:43:04,358 --> 01:43:06,792
-Fix me a drink.
-What are you doing?
1384
01:43:06,961 --> 01:43:09,361
We'll be more careful
than we used to be.
1385
01:43:09,530 --> 01:43:12,124
I'll stay married
till I get my appointment.
1386
01:43:12,900 --> 01:43:15,630
-Your what?
-This is still top-secret.
1387
01:43:15,970 --> 01:43:18,063
The general's been talking to Fuller.
1388
01:43:18,239 --> 01:43:22,141
He's selling him on the idea
of creating a new cabinet post for me.
1389
01:43:22,309 --> 01:43:27,042
"In time of imminent crisis and danger."
That's the way the general puts it.
1390
01:43:27,214 --> 01:43:29,705
Who could rally the people
better than I could?
1391
01:43:29,884 --> 01:43:33,149
Hold them in line
right behind the government.
1392
01:43:33,320 --> 01:43:36,084
If we put Fuller across
the way I know we're gonna...
1393
01:43:36,257 --> 01:43:38,487
...he's gonna owe me that.
1394
01:43:38,659 --> 01:43:41,958
Secretary for national morale.
1395
01:43:42,129 --> 01:43:43,824
How's that sound to you, Marcia?
1396
01:43:43,998 --> 01:43:47,126
Secretary for national morale.
1397
01:43:48,836 --> 01:43:50,827
General's asking to shake on it...
1398
01:43:51,005 --> 01:43:54,236
...after the big banquet
to launch Fighters for Fuller.
1399
01:43:55,543 --> 01:43:58,068
-Fighters for Fuller.
-Yeah, Fighters for Fuller.
1400
01:43:58,245 --> 01:44:01,078
How do you like that name, huh?
1401
01:44:01,248 --> 01:44:03,716
I made it up. Everybody's nuts about it.
1402
01:44:03,884 --> 01:44:06,853
I got 20 of the biggest men
in this country coming...
1403
01:44:07,021 --> 01:44:10,855
...to get Fighters for Fuller rolling.
I got an admiral, two governors...
1404
01:44:11,025 --> 01:44:14,517
...some of them big investment-house boys
and a cabinet minister.
1405
01:44:14,695 --> 01:44:17,721
-Which one?
-I don't know.
1406
01:44:17,898 --> 01:44:21,857
-I told the general to pick one out for me.
-They're coming to your party?
1407
01:44:22,036 --> 01:44:25,699
Oh, honey. If I ask them, they gotta come.
1408
01:44:25,873 --> 01:44:28,433
Baby, they'd be afraid not to come.
1409
01:44:28,609 --> 01:44:32,136
I could murder them like this:
1410
01:44:37,117 --> 01:44:38,846
I'm afraid it's true.
1411
01:44:39,019 --> 01:44:41,249
What's true?
1412
01:44:42,723 --> 01:44:45,317
Right here, tonight...
1413
01:44:45,826 --> 01:44:49,660
-...you might have that much power.
-See the new ratings this morning?
1414
01:44:49,830 --> 01:44:54,529
Fifty-three-point-seven.
1415
01:44:54,702 --> 01:44:56,727
Just picked up another million.
1416
01:44:56,904 --> 01:45:00,965
This whole country's
just like my flock of sheep.
1417
01:45:01,141 --> 01:45:03,041
-Sheep.
-Rednecks...
1418
01:45:03,210 --> 01:45:07,613
...crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus,
shut-ins, pea-pickers.
1419
01:45:07,781 --> 01:45:12,081
Everybody that's got to jump
when somebody else blows the whistle.
1420
01:45:12,720 --> 01:45:17,054
They don't know it yet, but they're
all gonna be Fighters for Fuller.
1421
01:45:17,224 --> 01:45:20,887
They're mine. I own them.
They think like I do.
1422
01:45:22,463 --> 01:45:26,297
Only they're even more stupid
than I am, so I gotta think for them.
1423
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:28,568
Marcia, you just wait and see.
1424
01:45:28,736 --> 01:45:30,931
I'll be the power
behind the president...
1425
01:45:31,105 --> 01:45:33,835
...and you'll be the power behind me.
1426
01:45:42,349 --> 01:45:44,681
You made me, Marcia.
1427
01:45:44,852 --> 01:45:47,116
You made me.
1428
01:45:47,288 --> 01:45:49,518
I always say that.
1429
01:45:50,157 --> 01:45:52,557
I owe it all to you.
1430
01:45:53,093 --> 01:45:55,789
I owe it all to you.
1431
01:45:56,430 --> 01:45:58,864
All to you.
1432
01:45:59,700 --> 01:46:03,329
I know it. I know it.
1433
01:46:03,837 --> 01:46:05,771
I know it.
1434
01:46:14,481 --> 01:46:16,312
Turn the light out.
1435
01:46:28,929 --> 01:46:30,726
I'm tired.
1436
01:46:31,966 --> 01:46:34,059
Big day tomorrow.
1437
01:46:35,202 --> 01:46:37,568
Real big day.
1438
01:46:42,876 --> 01:46:45,140
Real big day.
1439
01:46:55,889 --> 01:46:59,450
Come on, come on,
I got to get some sleep.
1440
01:47:04,698 --> 01:47:06,165
Marcia!
1441
01:47:06,834 --> 01:47:08,301
Marcia, where you going?!
1442
01:47:32,092 --> 01:47:34,788
All I can say is, tonight's show
is gonna be a mess.
1443
01:47:34,962 --> 01:47:38,090
Now you tell me the show's
in a mess. Now you tell me.
1444
01:47:38,265 --> 01:47:41,393
Yes, but you see, Marcia
never showed up all day.
1445
01:47:41,568 --> 01:47:45,664
-She's the only one who can coordinate.
-Coordinate, hell.
1446
01:47:45,839 --> 01:47:48,171
You mean to tell me
the success of my show...
1447
01:47:48,342 --> 01:47:52,608
...depends on one self-important,
neurotic, temperamental female?
1448
01:47:52,780 --> 01:47:57,308
I'm fed up with the whole lot of you
incompetents, nincompoops, bootlickers.
1449
01:47:57,684 --> 01:48:00,847
Would you like some
hot coffee, Mr. Rhodes?
1450
01:48:03,891 --> 01:48:05,756
Is that your subtle way...
1451
01:48:05,926 --> 01:48:09,225
...of trying to tell me I'm "swacked"?
1452
01:48:09,396 --> 01:48:13,162
Well, I'm not drunk, just disgusted!
1453
01:48:14,034 --> 01:48:16,093
-I'll handle it.
-Of course you will.
1454
01:48:16,270 --> 01:48:18,170
Ad-lib.
1455
01:48:18,338 --> 01:48:20,738
Just keep up with me.
1456
01:48:20,908 --> 01:48:23,342
I've saved the show before.
1457
01:48:23,844 --> 01:48:26,938
Well, I just wonder what they
do with their afternoons.
1458
01:48:27,114 --> 01:48:29,048
-Wives and all.
-Ready, two.
1459
01:48:29,216 --> 01:48:32,208
-One more day like this, and I'm--
-Here she comes now.
1460
01:48:32,386 --> 01:48:34,946
Where've you been?
We've been trying to find you.
1461
01:48:35,122 --> 01:48:37,056
Take two.
1462
01:48:37,224 --> 01:48:38,816
-It's important.
-I don't care.
1463
01:48:38,992 --> 01:48:41,586
We still haven't got
our commercials routine.
1464
01:48:41,762 --> 01:48:43,161
Take three.
1465
01:48:43,330 --> 01:48:46,993
I know that's kind of
gone out of style, like the corset.
1466
01:48:47,167 --> 01:48:49,294
But every once in a while, I ask myself:
1467
01:48:49,470 --> 01:48:52,439
"Lonesome, where's that unmodern...
1468
01:48:52,606 --> 01:48:55,074
...uncomplicated, unliberated...
1469
01:48:55,242 --> 01:48:59,372
...but oh-so-happy one-man woman gone?"
1470
01:49:00,781 --> 01:49:04,979
Ain't no use getting ourselves all het up
about something we can't change.
1471
01:49:05,419 --> 01:49:07,853
Curly and I was duck-shooting
over the weekend.
1472
01:49:08,021 --> 01:49:12,549
Brought my little movie camera along
to show you folks what it was like.
1473
01:49:13,060 --> 01:49:15,688
-Roll the film.
-Roll film.
1474
01:49:15,863 --> 01:49:17,421
Hit it.
1475
01:49:17,698 --> 01:49:21,134
You lunkheads up there in the
projection room, show us the movie!
1476
01:49:21,301 --> 01:49:23,667
You're off the air. They can't hear you.
1477
01:49:27,774 --> 01:49:29,469
It's about time.
1478
01:49:29,643 --> 01:49:31,508
I wanna talk to you.
1479
01:49:31,678 --> 01:49:34,647
I can't tonight because
I gotta rush over to the banquet.
1480
01:49:34,815 --> 01:49:39,115
But first thing in the morning.
In my office, in the morning.
1481
01:49:39,286 --> 01:49:41,720
Twenty seconds, Mr. Rhodes,
20 seconds.
1482
01:49:42,122 --> 01:49:44,556
Who can take this? I quit today.
1483
01:49:46,960 --> 01:49:51,090
Even after the senator had bagged his limit,
how he hated to leave that blind.
1484
01:49:51,265 --> 01:49:53,563
He says to me-- He says, "Lonesome--
1485
01:49:53,734 --> 01:49:58,034
Keep the door clear. I'm surrounded
by a lot of dimwitted sons of--
1486
01:49:58,805 --> 01:50:02,002
Hey, you redneck scoundrels still here?
1487
01:50:02,176 --> 01:50:05,373
Why ain't you out working someplace?
1488
01:50:05,546 --> 01:50:08,037
Ain't that Curly Fuller
a duck-shooting fool?
1489
01:50:08,215 --> 01:50:09,842
-Real man.
-Sure is.
1490
01:50:10,017 --> 01:50:12,247
You know, when we was standing there...
1491
01:50:12,419 --> 01:50:15,013
...in that cold water, bellybutton high...
1492
01:50:15,189 --> 01:50:18,454
...and the sun is commencing
to smile in on us.
1493
01:50:18,625 --> 01:50:21,025
Curly looked at me,
and he says, "Lonesome...
1494
01:50:21,195 --> 01:50:25,256
...the family that prays
together stays together. "
1495
01:50:25,732 --> 01:50:26,960
That's what he said.
1496
01:50:27,534 --> 01:50:30,469
I tell you, that man is a inspiration.
1497
01:50:30,904 --> 01:50:32,929
A man among men.
1498
01:50:34,041 --> 01:50:38,273
The Cracker Barrel, starring
that irrepressible Arkansas traveler.
1499
01:50:39,846 --> 01:50:41,074
You're off.
1500
01:50:42,316 --> 01:50:44,284
I'm glad that's over.
1501
01:50:44,451 --> 01:50:46,976
I'm gonna start shooting people
instead of ducks.
1502
01:50:47,254 --> 01:50:50,417
For relaxation and for health.
1503
01:50:50,924 --> 01:50:54,257
The cigarette that cleans
your tobacco without a filter.
1504
01:50:54,428 --> 01:50:57,693
-And by Best Friend Dog Food...
-Take one.
1505
01:50:57,864 --> 01:50:59,627
...your dog's best friend.
1506
01:50:59,800 --> 01:51:03,634
And by Vitajex, that old
"Vitajex, what you doing to me" pill.
1507
01:51:06,873 --> 01:51:10,707
Well, hurry back you-all.
Remember what old Uncle Lonesome said.
1508
01:51:10,877 --> 01:51:15,337
The family that prays together
stays together.
1509
01:51:19,953 --> 01:51:22,922
All right, super, one, and start the crawl.
1510
01:51:23,090 --> 01:51:25,354
This has been an FBN production--
1511
01:51:27,094 --> 01:51:29,324
Fuller, the great hunter.
1512
01:51:29,496 --> 01:51:31,657
He's shaking like this.
1513
01:51:32,499 --> 01:51:35,832
Oh, if they ever heard the way
that psycho really talks.
1514
01:51:36,003 --> 01:51:38,267
Choreography, Don Krantz.
1515
01:51:38,438 --> 01:51:40,770
Scenic design, James Fitzsimmons.
1516
01:51:40,941 --> 01:51:43,239
Costumes by Robert Hodes.
1517
01:51:43,410 --> 01:51:46,243
Unit manager, George K. George.
1518
01:51:46,413 --> 01:51:51,316
-...really sell that stiff as a man among men?
-To those morons out there?
1519
01:51:51,485 --> 01:51:55,979
Shucks, I can take chicken fertilizer
and sell it to them for caviar.
1520
01:51:57,224 --> 01:52:00,591
I can make them eat dog food,
and they'll think it's steak.
1521
01:52:00,894 --> 01:52:04,762
Sure, I got them like this:
1522
01:52:05,098 --> 01:52:09,330
You know what the public's like,
a cage full of guinea pigs.
1523
01:52:09,503 --> 01:52:12,904
Good night, you stupid idiots.
1524
01:52:14,408 --> 01:52:18,868
Good night, you miserable slobs.
1525
01:52:19,046 --> 01:52:21,173
They're a lot of trained seals.
1526
01:52:21,548 --> 01:52:24,949
I toss them a dead fish,
and they'll flap their flippers.
1527
01:52:34,461 --> 01:52:35,894
No.
1528
01:52:36,863 --> 01:52:38,558
Why, he's a monster!
1529
01:52:38,732 --> 01:52:41,929
I'm gonna call the station
and give them a piece of my mind.
1530
01:52:43,036 --> 01:52:45,527
We'll fix you, jerk.
1531
01:52:46,840 --> 01:52:51,470
I knew he'd open his big yap
once too often and blow my 3 G's.
1532
01:52:51,645 --> 01:52:54,614
I can hardly believe that's
the same Lonesome Rhodes.
1533
01:52:54,781 --> 01:52:59,548
It is, only this time, his personality
finally came through.
1534
01:53:00,020 --> 01:53:01,749
Give me a drink.
1535
01:53:03,357 --> 01:53:06,258
Gotta hurry, boys.
Heap-big important date.
1536
01:53:06,426 --> 01:53:11,591
You better come in strong tomorrow,
I'll be loaded for bear. Come on, Beanie.
1537
01:53:17,971 --> 01:53:21,998
Held the elevator for you, Mr. R.
The Lonesome Rhodes Express, going down.
1538
01:53:22,175 --> 01:53:25,440
-All the way down, lad.
-Yes, sir.
1539
01:53:30,684 --> 01:53:33,778
Federal Broadcasting Network.
That line is busy.
1540
01:53:33,954 --> 01:53:37,412
You can tell him I'll never listen
to his filthy program again.
1541
01:53:39,793 --> 01:53:43,160
So we're slobs, are we?
You can tell Lonesome Rhodes for me--
1542
01:53:43,330 --> 01:53:44,991
FBN.
1543
01:53:47,768 --> 01:53:50,259
Are we paying your network
100,000 an hour...
1544
01:53:50,437 --> 01:53:52,837
...to build up our business or destroy it?
1545
01:53:53,006 --> 01:53:55,770
Just a minute, General.
Get DePalma on the phone.
1546
01:53:55,942 --> 01:53:59,776
It was your advertising company
that brought Lonesome Rhodes to FBN.
1547
01:54:02,949 --> 01:54:05,679
Got to keep this from
rubbing off on Vitajex.
1548
01:54:05,852 --> 01:54:07,945
I mean dissociate ourselves.
1549
01:54:08,121 --> 01:54:10,316
Lonesome Rhodes. That line is busy.
1550
01:54:13,193 --> 01:54:16,185
-What'd he say?
-It must have been a whopper.
1551
01:54:16,363 --> 01:54:18,524
Better come up
with a good replacement.
1552
01:54:20,834 --> 01:54:22,096
Got you down in a hurry.
1553
01:54:22,269 --> 01:54:24,863
Give him a buck for not
stopping for the peasants.
1554
01:54:25,038 --> 01:54:26,972
How's your rating, Page?
1555
01:54:27,874 --> 01:54:29,808
No, Mr. Rhodes has left for the day.
1556
01:54:29,976 --> 01:54:32,342
No, I'm sorry,
there's no one in the studio.
1557
01:54:32,512 --> 01:54:35,447
DePalma, you know your contract,
the morals clause.
1558
01:54:35,615 --> 01:54:37,674
Any act abusing public confidence.
1559
01:54:37,851 --> 01:54:40,319
I think I've got just the boy to fill the gap.
1560
01:54:40,487 --> 01:54:42,614
Yeah, Barry Mills.
1561
01:54:43,990 --> 01:54:46,584
He's a young Lonesome Rhodes
and easier to handle.
1562
01:54:46,760 --> 01:54:49,456
Buddy, I'm just a country boy.
1563
01:54:50,564 --> 01:54:54,967
Don't spare the horses. I've only got
30 minutes to get into my dinner clothes.
1564
01:55:03,844 --> 01:55:06,642
"L.R.'s blooper tops Unk Don's."
1565
01:55:07,380 --> 01:55:10,781
I never seen what people saw
in that guy, but he's had it.
1566
01:55:15,388 --> 01:55:17,856
Like the sinking of the Titanic.
What happened?
1567
01:55:18,024 --> 01:55:19,855
Marcia, she went:
1568
01:55:20,026 --> 01:55:22,961
-Where is she?
-She's still in the booth.
1569
01:55:37,611 --> 01:55:40,375
I hear you just wrote
the ending to my book.
1570
01:55:47,053 --> 01:55:48,520
Yeah?
1571
01:55:50,490 --> 01:55:52,788
Just a minute, I'll see if she's here.
1572
01:55:54,928 --> 01:55:56,589
It's him.
1573
01:55:56,763 --> 01:55:58,390
I've got her. I've got her.
1574
01:55:58,565 --> 01:56:00,123
Marcia.
1575
01:56:00,300 --> 01:56:03,599
Oh, Marcia, I need you.
1576
01:56:03,770 --> 01:56:05,294
Come over right away.
1577
01:56:05,472 --> 01:56:08,066
Nobody's come, everybody cancelled out.
1578
01:56:08,241 --> 01:56:10,038
Fuller didn't even send me a wire.
1579
01:56:10,210 --> 01:56:12,110
The general sent me a wire.
1580
01:56:12,379 --> 01:56:14,813
The secretary of the interior
sent me a wire.
1581
01:56:14,981 --> 01:56:18,041
"Regret to inform you. "
"Unavoidably detained. "
1582
01:56:18,218 --> 01:56:19,708
"Unable to attend. "
1583
01:56:19,886 --> 01:56:22,184
All of a sudden, everybody's too busy.
1584
01:56:22,355 --> 01:56:25,415
All of a sudden, I'm-- I'm poison.
1585
01:56:34,701 --> 01:56:37,135
You laughing at me?
1586
01:56:38,405 --> 01:56:40,600
You laughing at me?
1587
01:56:40,774 --> 01:56:43,004
You think I'm washed up, don't you?
1588
01:56:43,176 --> 01:56:46,009
The same way I lost them,
I'll get them back again.
1589
01:56:46,179 --> 01:56:48,511
I'm gonna make them love me.
1590
01:56:48,949 --> 01:56:51,076
You're gonna love me.
1591
01:56:51,251 --> 01:56:54,846
Say you're gonna love me.
Say you're gonna love me.
1592
01:56:55,021 --> 01:56:56,545
You're gonna love me.
1593
01:56:56,723 --> 01:56:58,657
You're gonna love me.
1594
01:56:58,825 --> 01:57:00,884
All right, say you're gonna love me.
1595
01:57:01,061 --> 01:57:03,359
All right, you, say
you're gonna love me.
1596
01:57:03,530 --> 01:57:06,021
Say you're gonna love me.
You're gonna love me.
1597
01:57:06,199 --> 01:57:07,894
-What's your name?
-Francis.
1598
01:57:08,068 --> 01:57:10,832
Francis, you're gonna love me.
You're gonna love me.
1599
01:57:11,004 --> 01:57:13,097
Love me, love me!
1600
01:57:13,907 --> 01:57:18,241
Get out. Get out. Get out,
you dressed-up black monkeys.
1601
01:57:18,411 --> 01:57:21,539
You turn my stomach. Get out!
1602
01:57:21,948 --> 01:57:24,917
He sounds like he's finally
gone through the roof.
1603
01:57:25,085 --> 01:57:28,885
Marcia. Marcia, how soon can you
get here? I'm surrounded by traitors.
1604
01:57:29,055 --> 01:57:31,489
That engineer, wait till I get him.
1605
01:57:31,658 --> 01:57:35,594
I'll fire him. I'll burn him over a slow fire.
1606
01:57:35,762 --> 01:57:40,096
Marcia, if you don't come
right away, I'll jump!
1607
01:57:40,500 --> 01:57:44,266
-I'll jump! I'll jump!
-Jump. Jump!
1608
01:57:44,437 --> 01:57:46,564
Get out of my life.
1609
01:57:46,740 --> 01:57:49,607
Get out of everybody's life.
1610
01:57:49,776 --> 01:57:51,300
Jump.
1611
01:57:51,678 --> 01:57:53,339
Jump.
1612
01:57:53,980 --> 01:57:55,743
Jump.
1613
01:58:03,156 --> 01:58:05,954
I don't believe you.
In an hour, you'll be up there.
1614
01:58:06,126 --> 01:58:08,526
-Oh, Mel.
-Why didn't you tell him it was you?
1615
01:58:08,695 --> 01:58:11,596
-Because it's hard to.
-Let's make it harder.
1616
01:58:11,765 --> 01:58:16,134
I think you should go tell him face-to-face
before he blames it on 20 other guys.
1617
01:58:16,302 --> 01:58:18,862
Face-to-face, and then
maybe I'll believe you.
1618
01:58:19,039 --> 01:58:20,631
It's never as simple as that.
1619
01:58:20,807 --> 01:58:26,074
Finally, you gotta force complicated
things into simple channels like this.
1620
01:58:26,246 --> 01:58:30,546
Either you go up there and tell him it
was you who did it and chop it off clean...
1621
01:58:30,717 --> 01:58:33,049
...so he never comes
crying to you again...
1622
01:58:33,219 --> 01:58:36,814
...or you hold his hand,
wipe his poor, perspiring brow...
1623
01:58:36,990 --> 01:58:41,188
...fan his smoldering, dampened ego
so it can burst up into flames and burn....
1624
01:58:45,031 --> 01:58:48,057
Secretary for national morale...
1625
01:58:48,234 --> 01:58:51,533
...is a job that I was born for.
1626
01:58:51,705 --> 01:58:56,233
Somebody ought to send for a doctor. He's
been screaming like that for 20 minutes.
1627
01:58:56,409 --> 01:58:58,707
In a time of crisis...
1628
01:58:58,878 --> 01:59:03,008
...who else could rally the people
like Lonesome Rhodes?
1629
01:59:03,183 --> 01:59:06,311
Who else could
move the people to action...
1630
01:59:06,486 --> 01:59:08,886
...like Lonesome Rhodes?
1631
01:59:09,956 --> 01:59:14,586
You are looking at America's answer...
1632
01:59:14,761 --> 01:59:17,696
...to the crying need...
1633
01:59:17,864 --> 01:59:20,128
-...for national--
-What you doing that for?
1634
01:59:20,300 --> 01:59:22,495
-He likes lots of applause.
-Beanie.
1635
01:59:30,844 --> 01:59:33,904
Maybe I'm just a country boy...
1636
01:59:34,781 --> 01:59:37,272
...but if the president tries to stop me...
1637
01:59:37,450 --> 01:59:42,149
...l'll flood the White House
with millions of telegrams.
1638
01:59:42,322 --> 01:59:45,621
I made him, and I can break him.
1639
01:59:45,792 --> 01:59:47,919
Yeah!
1640
01:59:48,094 --> 01:59:50,358
Yeah, you know I can.
1641
01:59:51,097 --> 01:59:54,533
Because the people listen
to Lonesome Rhodes.
1642
01:59:54,701 --> 01:59:59,138
Because the people
love Lonesome Rhodes.
1643
01:59:59,305 --> 02:00:03,002
Lonesome Rhodes is the people.
1644
02:00:03,176 --> 02:00:06,839
The people is Lonesome Rhodes.
1645
02:00:07,013 --> 02:00:08,674
Beanie.
1646
02:00:08,948 --> 02:00:10,643
More. Yeah, yeah.
1647
02:00:10,817 --> 02:00:13,479
Go, go!
1648
02:00:38,077 --> 02:00:43,640
Ten thousand miles away from home
1649
02:00:44,884 --> 02:00:50,720
And I don't even know my name
1650
02:01:06,172 --> 02:01:07,867
Marcia.
1651
02:01:08,408 --> 02:01:11,400
Oh, Marcia.
1652
02:01:12,412 --> 02:01:14,209
Yeah.
1653
02:01:14,881 --> 02:01:16,508
Marcia.
1654
02:01:17,383 --> 02:01:21,114
I knew you'd come.
I knew you'd get here.
1655
02:01:21,287 --> 02:01:23,380
Listen, Marcia, I lost them.
1656
02:01:23,556 --> 02:01:26,218
But all I gotta do is talk
with them one more time.
1657
02:01:26,593 --> 02:01:30,620
Yeah, I'll tell them I just said that
to see how many is really listening.
1658
02:01:32,799 --> 02:01:36,895
Yeah. Sure, I'll have them eating out
of my hands again just like old times.
1659
02:01:37,070 --> 02:01:39,937
-Larry, it was me.
-Then I'm back on top again.
1660
02:01:40,106 --> 02:01:42,336
First thing I do when I'm back on top...
1661
02:01:42,508 --> 02:01:44,533
...l'll get that sound man.
1662
02:01:44,711 --> 02:01:47,908
I'll get that dirty, stinking
little mechanical genius.
1663
02:01:48,081 --> 02:01:49,844
It was me.
1664
02:01:59,292 --> 02:02:00,850
It was.
1665
02:02:02,996 --> 02:02:04,623
It was me.
1666
02:02:06,833 --> 02:02:08,824
I held the key open.
1667
02:02:09,602 --> 02:02:11,365
On purpose.
1668
02:02:13,573 --> 02:02:16,701
I'm telling you this so
you'll never call me again.
1669
02:02:18,711 --> 02:02:20,406
Never again.
1670
02:02:21,347 --> 02:02:23,110
Okay.
1671
02:02:23,283 --> 02:02:25,148
Okay, Marcia.
1672
02:02:28,054 --> 02:02:30,079
My marshmallow.
1673
02:02:32,425 --> 02:02:34,052
Good luck.
1674
02:02:35,061 --> 02:02:36,790
Good luck with Mel.
1675
02:02:36,963 --> 02:02:38,794
Let me alone.
1676
02:02:46,339 --> 02:02:48,500
Larry, I'm sorry. Forgive me.
1677
02:02:49,042 --> 02:02:50,600
Go on.
1678
02:03:00,219 --> 02:03:03,677
Listen, I'm not through yet.
You know what's gonna happen to me?
1679
02:03:03,856 --> 02:03:07,257
Suppose I tell you exactly
what's gonna happen to you.
1680
02:03:09,062 --> 02:03:11,292
You're gonna be back in television.
1681
02:03:11,464 --> 02:03:14,365
Only it won't be quite the same
as it was before.
1682
02:03:14,534 --> 02:03:17,469
There'll be a cooling-off period,
and somebody will say:
1683
02:03:17,637 --> 02:03:20,970
"Why don't we try him again
in a inexpensive format.
1684
02:03:21,140 --> 02:03:24,166
People's memories aren't too long."
1685
02:03:24,344 --> 02:03:26,608
And you know, in a way, he'll be right.
1686
02:03:26,779 --> 02:03:29,646
Some of the people will forget,
and some of them won't.
1687
02:03:29,816 --> 02:03:31,511
Oh, you'll have a show.
1688
02:03:31,684 --> 02:03:34,517
Maybe not the best hour
or, you know, top 10.
1689
02:03:34,687 --> 02:03:37,087
Maybe not even in the top 35.
1690
02:03:37,357 --> 02:03:39,188
But you'll have a show.
1691
02:03:39,359 --> 02:03:42,556
It just won't be quite the same
as it was before.
1692
02:03:42,729 --> 02:03:45,027
Then a couple of new fellas
will come along.
1693
02:03:45,198 --> 02:03:48,793
And pretty soon, a lot of your fans
will be flocking around them.
1694
02:03:48,968 --> 02:03:54,406
And then one day, somebody will ask,
"Whatever happened to whatshisname?
1695
02:03:54,574 --> 02:03:59,477
You know, the one who was so big. The
number-one fella a couple of years ago.
1696
02:03:59,645 --> 02:04:02,546
He was famous.
How can we forget a name like that?
1697
02:04:02,715 --> 02:04:05,513
Oh, by the way,
have you seen Barry Mills?
1698
02:04:05,685 --> 02:04:08,916
I think he's the greatest thing
since Will Rogers."
1699
02:04:19,298 --> 02:04:20,731
Beanie!
1700
02:04:51,397 --> 02:04:54,332
-Marcia!
-Mel.
1701
02:04:54,967 --> 02:04:57,765
Don't leave me!
1702
02:05:00,773 --> 02:05:03,173
I don't figure him for a suicide.
1703
02:05:03,342 --> 02:05:05,435
Marcia!
1704
02:05:05,611 --> 02:05:09,012
-lf I'd only left him in that jail in Pickett.
-Marcia, stop it.
1705
02:05:09,182 --> 02:05:12,879
You were taken in,
just like we were all taken in.
1706
02:05:13,286 --> 02:05:16,585
But we get wise to them,
and that's our strength.
1707
02:05:16,756 --> 02:05:20,556
-Come back, Marcia!
-We get wise to them.
1708
02:05:21,427 --> 02:05:23,952
Marcia!
1709
02:05:24,130 --> 02:05:26,394
Come back!
1710
02:05:29,168 --> 02:05:32,331
Don't leave me!
1711
02:05:32,972 --> 02:05:36,908
Don't leave me!
1712
02:05:37,076 --> 02:05:39,806
Don't leave me!
1713
02:05:41,247 --> 02:05:43,477
Marcia!
1714
02:05:43,649 --> 02:05:46,209
Don't leave me!
1715
02:05:46,786 --> 02:05:49,084
Come back!
1716
02:05:49,255 --> 02:05:51,189
Come back!
1717
02:05:51,991 --> 02:05:53,652
Come back!
1718
02:05:53,759 --> 02:05:55,750
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