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00:02:24 Elwell?

00:02:26 I am Rodney Elwell. Do you wish to see me?

00:02:28 Pickett.

00:02:29 I beg your pardon?

00:02:30 Sarah Pickett.

00:02:31 Quite so. Your name. In any case, I'm late for class.

00:02:33 They said for me to come right away.

00:02:35 Who said?

00:02:36 The agency.

00:02:37 The agency? What ag...

00:02:39 Of course, the detective agency. Sergeant Coonan.

00:02:42 Yes, come in, come in.

00:02:44 If I come in, does the door get closed?

00:02:46 Naturally.

00:02:47 Then I don't come in.

00:02:48 Why not?

00:02:49 You know why not. You're grown up.

00:02:51 My dear Mrs. Pickett...

00:02:52 Miss Pickett, and don't butter me up.

00:02:54 I have conducted my affairs behind closed doors for 20 years.

00:02:57 Not with me.

00:02:59 You overestimate both of us. Have it your way.

00:03:04 [Footsteps]

00:03:10 Ah, yes, here we are.

00:03:14 You are Rebecca Pickett, is that correct?

00:03:17 Sarah Pickett.

00:03:19 Quite so. Sarah.

00:03:21 Rebecca Pickett is my grandma.

00:03:23 Was your grandma?

00:03:24 She still is. She's 103.

00:03:26 Interesting.

00:03:27 She's a liar.

00:03:28 Possibly.

00:03:29 108, she's a dame.

00:03:31 Probably.

00:03:33 Miss Sarah Pickett, you were engaged some 15 years ago by one Noah Pretorius.

00:03:38 As his housekeeper?

00:03:39 That's right.

00:03:40 Where?

00:03:41 Goose Creek, where I come from.

00:03:42 Goose Creek. Goose Creek is a little village way downstate, is it not?

00:03:46 Way back in the hills.

00:03:48 And at that time, what was the profession of this Pretorius?

00:03:52 He was a doc.

00:03:53 A doc?

00:03:54 He healed people.

00:03:55 How?

00:03:56 If I knew how, I'd be a doc myself.

00:03:58 I mean, what were his methods of treatment?

00:04:01 Well, some healers use one thing and some use another.

00:04:05 But Doc Pretorius used them all.

00:04:07 Once he'd give a powder, sometimes syrup, sometimes pills, sometimes a jab with a needle.

00:04:13 And sometimes, just talk.

00:04:16 Just sit there and talk about a body's misery and talk a body into being well.

00:04:23 Like working a miracle.

00:04:25 A miracle worker too, eh?

00:04:27 Well, if my grandma isn't a miracle, what is?

00:04:30 Your grandma?

00:04:31 Four times she laid down to die and four times he talked her off on her feet.

00:04:35 Told her she was going to live forever.

00:04:37 Looks like he was right.

00:04:39 Doc, healer, miracle worker, possible hypnotist.

00:04:44 Check on narcotics administered.

00:04:47 Now, Miss Pickett, are you completely certain that this man's name was Noah Pretorius?

00:04:52 Would I make up a name like that?

00:04:54 And is this Doc Pretorius by whom you were employed the same man as the famous Doctor Pretorius of this university and this city?

00:05:02 Doc Pretorius was already as famous as you can get back in Goose Creek.

00:05:05 He had people coming from miles around.

00:05:07 But is he now the famous Doctor Pretorius?

00:05:11 When you say doctor, do you mean school doctor, out of books?

00:05:14 That is precisely what I mean.

00:05:16 Can't say. For my part, I wouldn't get caught dead in a room with one of them.

00:05:20 Miss Pickett, I am a school doctor out of books.

00:05:24 That's one reason why the door is open.

00:05:27 This man.

00:05:32 Is he the healer? The miracle worker?

00:05:38 Is this Doc Pretorius?

00:05:40 That's him.

00:05:42 Only he looked younger 15 years ago.

00:05:44 We all did.

00:05:46 Not me.

00:05:48 We come now, Miss Pickett, to the most important subject of all.

00:05:53 What can you tell me about a man named Shunderson?

00:06:00 Who did you say?

00:06:05 Shunderson.

00:06:07 Hello?

00:06:10 It's Hoskins, Professor Elwell.

00:06:13 In case, perhaps, Professor Elwell, you'd forgotten, the class is still waiting.

00:06:18 Yes, Professor, of course.

00:06:21 No, no, no, not at all. It's just that, well, Doctor Pretorius is also waiting to see you.

00:06:27 Doctor Pretorius? To see me?

00:06:30 Well, he'll have to wait too.

00:06:34 But not for long, eh, Miss Pickett?

00:06:38 What's the matter with you?

00:06:41 What's in this for me, Professor Elwell?

00:06:43 I thought that Sergeant Coonan had made it quite clear.

00:06:45 He said you wanted some information from me, but also that you were going to give me a job.

00:06:49 That's right.

00:06:50 What kind of a job?

00:06:52 In the dissecting rooms, as sort of a housekeeper.

00:06:55 What I want to know is, will the job be worth it?

00:06:59 Will the job be worth what, Miss Pickett?

00:07:04 Shunderson.

00:07:06 Tell me about him.

00:07:08 I didn't know very much. Nobody did.

00:07:11 Tell me everything you knew or heard. Every detail.

00:07:15 You're a professor, and it's hard to make you understand anything that ain't in a book.

00:07:27 I'm not a book.

00:07:29 You're a professor, and it's hard to make you understand anything that ain't in a book.

00:07:33 Well, most of what goes on in the world ain't in a book.

00:07:36 Spare me your philosophy. What about Shunderson?

00:07:39 To begin with, we used to call him the Bat.

00:07:43 Did it ever occur to you, Shunderson, that skeletons always laugh?

00:07:51 Now, why?

00:07:53 Why should a man die and then laugh for the rest of eternity?

00:07:59 [Door opens]

00:08:01 What news, Uriah?

00:08:06 I've just spoken with Professor Elwell, Doctor.

00:08:08 He regrets exceedingly that he is unavoidably detained.

00:08:11 A meaningless phrase, which could signify anything from oversleeping to being arrested for malpractice.

00:08:16 I've never known a professor to be late before.

00:08:19 He'd be the last to tolerate it, and anyone else.

00:08:22 Ah, it saddens me, Uriah.

00:08:24 The unmistakable symptom of human weakness, Professor Elwell of all men.

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00:09:10 [Gasps]

00:09:13 Have you your notebooks ready?

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00:09:22 I would be quite unable to give the lecture you came to hear,

00:09:29 and I'm not sure you should hear the lecture I'd like to give.

00:09:32 We want to hear anything you've got to say, Doctor Pictorius.

00:09:35 [Door opens]

00:09:37 That's very flattering, thank you.

00:09:40 We thank you. The cadaver and I.

00:09:43 A cadaver in a classroom.

00:09:46 As students of medicine, it's important at the outset that you realize

00:09:49 that a cadaver in a classroom is not a dead human being.

00:09:54 I don't understand that, Doctor.

00:09:56 Anatomy is more or less the study of the human body.

00:09:59 The human body is not necessarily the human being.

00:10:03 Here lies a cadaver. The fact that she was, not long ago,

00:10:07 a living, warm, lovely young girl

00:10:10 is of little consequence in this classroom.

00:10:13 You will not be required to dissect and examine the love that was in her,

00:10:17 nor the hate, or the hope, despair,

00:10:21 memories and desires that motivated every moment of her existence.

00:10:25 They cease to exist when she ceased to exist.

00:10:28 Instead, for weeks and months to come,

00:10:32 you will dissect, examine and identify her organs,

00:10:36 bones, muscles, tissues and so on, one by one.

00:10:39 And these you will faithfully record in your notebooks.

00:10:43 And when the notebooks are filled,

00:10:45 you will know all about this cadaver

00:10:48 that the medical profession requires you to know.

00:10:51 Oh! Oh!

00:10:53 Get back! Get back!

00:11:02 Don't touch her! It may be her!

00:11:04 Quiet down! A couple of cups of couch would know better than the crowd like this.

00:11:07 Back up!

00:11:09 Have you any idea why you fainted?

00:11:14 Have you ever fainted before?

00:11:17 How do you feel?

00:11:20 Silly.

00:11:22 I think you'd better tell the doctor about this. There may be a reason.

00:11:25 Can you get up now?

00:11:27 Good.

00:11:29 Perhaps you'd better go somewhere and relax. You go with her.

00:11:33 And, you know, if you insist upon studying anatomy,

00:11:36 I suggest you do not sit on the aisle.

00:11:39 Have a candy.

00:11:41 Thank you.

00:11:43 Oh, you're not leaving, doctor?

00:11:51 Yes, you are. And please give my thanks to Professor Alwell for the use of the hall.

00:11:55 It's been fun.

00:11:56 All I can't understand is not being here. It's most unusual.

00:11:59 It's an unusual world, you riot.

00:12:02 I understand I've kept you waiting.

00:12:07 Please forgive me. It was most urgent business.

00:12:09 My business, on the other hand, was the idlest of curiosity.

00:12:12 You were going to let me know about a tumor you'd found.

00:12:14 Ah, yes. A malignant dysgermanoma.

00:12:17 Professor Alwell, you are the only man I know who can say "malignant"

00:12:21 the way other people say "bingo."

00:12:24 A malignant dysgermanoma.

00:12:26 Good day, Professor Alwell.

00:12:28 Good day.

00:12:30 Coming back in?

00:12:45 Mm-mm.

00:12:46 Aren't you going back at all?

00:12:48 Mm-mm.

00:12:50 Are you going to see a doctor?

00:12:52 I guess so.

00:12:54 Good morning, Dr. Victoria.

00:13:17 Good morning.

00:13:20 (door slams)

00:13:22 Run another test. How was she when you made this one? Depressed?

00:13:27 Cried all through it.

00:13:28 Yeah, well, when you run it again, call me.

00:13:30 We'll have a laugh through the next one, see what happens with a different set of emotional factors.

00:13:34 Well, if you like.

00:13:35 Dr. Pretorius, a problem's come up about Mrs. Bixby.

00:13:39 Mrs. Bixby? I thought she was doing so well.

00:13:41 She's nearly ready to go home, but she wants to take her gallbladder with her and a bottle of alcohol.

00:13:45 I think that's quite touching. Let her have it.

00:13:47 Dr. Pretorius, you know we don't keep gallbladders lying about once they've been removed.

00:13:50 Mrs. Peggler, so it's highly unlikely that Mrs. Bixby would recognize her own,

00:13:54 so why don't you just give her any old gallbladder and make her happy?

00:13:57 Doctor, unless all of the patients are served breakfast at the same time,

00:14:05 I cannot operate the kitchen with our present personnel.

00:14:07 Then hire more people to work in the kitchen.

00:14:09 But it is common practice in hospitals--

00:14:11 Miss Fillmore, in my clinic, no patient shall be waken from a health-giving sleep

00:14:14 and forced to eat breakfast at a time which pleases the culinary union.

00:14:18 But in the interest of good economy--

00:14:19 Bad therapy is never good economy.

00:14:21 If you must economize, do it in the doctor's dining room.

00:14:24 And I will not have all the patients bathed at the stroke of a gong

00:14:27 for the convenience of the nurses.

00:14:29 One of the reasons for my founding this clinic is a firm conviction

00:14:31 that patients are sick people, not inmates.

00:14:33 Of course, Dr. Pretorius.

00:14:35 I'll bet I know what you're thinking.

00:14:43 Here comes Dr. Happiness, the good humor man.

00:14:46 He tries to cheer me up, so help me, I'll hit him with an ice bag, right?

00:14:49 Wrong.

00:14:51 Not that I blame him.

00:14:52 One of the few pleasures of being sick is the right to feel good and miserable,

00:14:55 and don't let any doctor tell you differently.

00:14:58 I was thinking, it's not much fun when you get to be old.

00:15:02 It's even less fun if you don't get to be old.

00:15:05 I want to die.

00:15:07 You'd like that, wouldn't you?

00:15:08 Just lie around in a coffin all day with nothing to do.

00:15:12 How was last night?

00:15:14 Just fine, doctor.

00:15:16 Well, if we have another good night tonight,

00:15:19 maybe tomorrow morning we'll go back into surgery and take another look.

00:15:22 Doctor, does it hurt when you die?

00:15:25 Not a bit. Where'd you get that idea?

00:15:28 They tell me there's so much pain.

00:15:31 Did anyone who actually died ever tell you that?

00:15:34 Of course not.

00:15:36 Well, there you see.

00:15:38 All this silly gossip about dying.

00:15:41 You know, I nearly died once when I was a kid.

00:15:44 The doctors gave me up for lost.

00:15:48 The nerve of some doctors giving people up for lost as though they found them in the first place.

00:15:52 Anyway, I was dying, and I was in a coma.

00:15:55 You know how it felt?

00:15:57 No, how?

00:15:59 It was winter at the time,

00:16:02 and I felt as if I was flying very slowly in a sled high up in the sky.

00:16:08 And the world below was covered in snow and ice and bitter cold.

00:16:12 But I was warm and cozy in the back of the sled,

00:16:15 wrapped in an ermine blanket.

00:16:18 And then I came out of the coma, I came back to life.

00:16:21 How'd you feel?

00:16:23 Awful. I had a splitting headache, and I vomited for three days.

00:16:26 I've never felt as good being alive as I did when I was dying.

00:16:30 You certainly make dying a pleasure, Dr. Pretorius.

00:16:35 Well, we'll keep that our little secret, shall we? I wouldn't want that to get around.

00:16:40 Doctor, are you feeling all right?

00:16:59 Just my usual twilight sadness.

00:17:03 Did it ever strike you that days die pretty much the way people do?

00:17:07 Fighting for every last minute of light before they give up to the dark.

00:17:12 You think about the strangest things, Doctor.

00:17:15 It's my unbalanced diet. Who's waiting?

00:17:19 Just one patient left, Mrs. Higgins.

00:17:22 She was in earlier today. You had Dr. Beacham run a test and told her to come back.

00:17:26 Here's the laboratory report.

00:17:28 Thank you.

00:17:30 Well, the day will die on a happy note at any rate. Have Mrs. Higgins come in.

00:17:35 Mrs. Higgins?

00:17:39 Pardon me for getting up. It's the only exercise I take. Sit down, won't you?

00:17:51 Mrs. Higgins, as a doctor, it's my duty, if at all possible, to find something for you to worry about.

00:17:59 However, I cannot repudiate a laboratory report such as I hold in my hand.

00:18:03 Mrs. Higgins, you have nothing to worry about.

00:18:07 You mean everything is all right?

00:18:09 Perfect.

00:18:10 Then the fainting this morning, it didn't mean a thing, did it?

00:18:13 Nothing of the ordinary.

00:18:15 You might eat lightly, however, on the days you dissect cadavers.

00:18:18 Oh, that. I've given that up. I wasn't really a medical student anyway.

00:18:22 Just sitting in on some courses.

00:18:24 Well, I imagine it'll be more fun just sitting home with Mr. Higgins.

00:18:27 Yes. Yes, it will be. I can't say how grateful I am to you, Dr. Pretorius.

00:18:31 For just a routine examination, after all, it didn't exactly save your life.

00:18:35 Thank you, anyway.

00:18:37 Not at all.

00:18:38 Now, Mrs. Higgins, don't forget to have Miss James give you another appointment in about a month.

00:18:44 In about a month? To see you?

00:18:47 Of course, if you can afford it, it might be preferable to have a regular obstetrician.

00:18:51 In that case, there are several I'd be pleased to recommend.

00:18:55 But didn't you say that I had nothing to worry about?

00:18:58 That everything was all right?

00:19:00 It couldn't be any better, Mrs. Higgins. You're pregnant.

00:19:03 Are you sure? I mean, couldn't there be some mistake?

00:19:09 There's always a possibility of error.

00:19:11 However, with a result as positive as this, that possibility is remote.

00:19:15 After all, it wasn't a very thorough test. I mean, it only took a couple of hours.

00:19:19 I thought in order to be sure, you had to wait weeks.

00:19:22 Not anymore. Nowadays, we find out about everything a lot more quickly than we used to.

00:19:27 About life, and even about death.

00:19:30 Now, they used to use a little pink rabbit for the pregnancy test.

00:19:35 But now they use a frog. Not only is he cute, but he's a lot faster.

00:19:39 Only two hours, and just as certain.

00:19:42 The name of the frog, by the way, is Rhinopipians.

00:19:45 Sounds like a movie star, doesn't it?

00:19:50 You're not married.

00:19:52 What about the baby's father?

00:19:55 It has no father.

00:19:57 That would be the first time in the annals of biology.

00:20:00 I have no husband.

00:20:02 But when he knows about the baby...

00:20:04 He'll never know. I got a telegram the other day.

00:20:07 The other day. Seems as if he left just the other day.

00:20:12 Seems as if we met just the other day. It's all such a crazy, mixed-up nightmare.

00:20:16 He was in the reserve, the medical corps.

00:20:19 That's why I took the courses when he came back and we were married.

00:20:22 I wanted to know something about his work.

00:20:24 When did he leave?

00:20:26 Six weeks ago. Or was it five?

00:20:28 How right you are, doctor. How quick we've become with life and death.

00:20:32 And had you known him long?

00:20:34 No. Not even that. Not even long enough to be sure.

00:20:37 Either of us. You're not permitted enough time these days to be sure of anything.

00:20:42 And then when he had to go, and we had to say goodbye...

00:20:46 I was suddenly afraid.

00:20:48 I wanted to prove to myself and to him that I wasn't afraid.

00:20:51 The frightening things we do sometimes when we're afraid to be afraid.

00:21:00 Sit down, why don't you?

00:21:02 What are you afraid of now?

00:21:10 I'm not.

00:21:11 Then stop behaving as if fear was something to be ashamed of.

00:21:14 Stop being such a pompous know-it-all. You don't even know what I'm crying about.

00:21:17 Do you? Yes!

00:21:19 Miss Higgins. I can't call you Miss Higgins. What's your first name?

00:21:23 Deborah. Blow your nose.

00:21:25 There's tissue in the top drawer. No, no, here.

00:21:28 I can't speak with as much assurance as I usually do because you just called me a pompous know-it-all.

00:21:36 I'm sorry. Don't be. I do get pompous.

00:21:39 But I'm really not a know-it-all.

00:21:42 As a matter of fact, right now I'm confused.

00:21:44 By what?

00:21:45 Well, it seems to me that if you were crying because of the father of your baby,

00:21:50 the time for you to cry would have been when you thought you weren't pregnant.

00:21:54 Not now that you know you are.

00:21:56 Isn't that so?

00:21:58 So, he isn't the reason.

00:22:02 No, he isn't.

00:22:05 Then were you crying because you were afraid for yourself?

00:22:09 Afraid of what people will say? No.

00:22:11 Are you sure?

00:22:14 Society has a strict set of rules about that sort of thing.

00:22:17 The bylaws of our social corporation.

00:22:20 You violated section A, article 1.

00:22:23 That can bring heavy penalties up to and including expulsion.

00:22:26 You really think I'm a coward, don't you?

00:22:29 Are you? No.

00:22:30 Which brings us to the party of the third part, the baby.

00:22:34 Are you crying because of the baby?

00:22:38 You can't say there won't be time enough for you to love your baby.

00:22:42 And if you're a good mother to have it love you,

00:22:45 it is the baby you're afraid of.

00:22:49 In a way.

00:22:52 Don't you want it? Of course I do, but I can't have it. I just can't have it.

00:22:57 Why not?

00:22:58 Why not, Deborah?

00:23:00 You couldn't understand.

00:23:04 I could try.

00:23:06 Why?

00:23:07 Because of my father.

00:23:21 You can never tell about fathers.

00:23:24 They can be suddenly understanding at the most unexpected times.

00:23:27 He's the most understanding and most gentle man in the world.

00:23:31 Well, then?

00:23:32 I'm all he's got.

00:23:33 If he knew about this, it would kill him.

00:23:36 Oh.

00:23:37 Well, if you're all he's got, then the baby will give him just that much more.

00:23:42 He couldn't live if he knew.

00:23:44 Deborah, no man could be as gentle and understanding as you say,

00:23:48 and still so deeply prejudiced...

00:23:50 It's got nothing to do with prejudice.

00:23:52 Then what has it to do with?

00:23:54 Perhaps...

00:23:56 This is only a suggestion, but perhaps if I were to tell him...

00:23:59 No.

00:24:00 It's possible I could put it to him in such a way...

00:24:02 No, please.

00:24:03 It's very kind of you, but you mustn't even consider it.

00:24:06 Dr. Pretorius, believe me, if you did see my father,

00:24:10 you couldn't tell him about me.

00:24:12 Even you wouldn't know how.

00:24:14 And if you did, you wouldn't have the heart.

00:24:17 Thanks, just the same.

00:24:19 What are you going to do?

00:24:24 I don't know.

00:24:26 You had a pretty good idea, didn't you,

00:24:28 even before you came to see me that you were having a baby.

00:24:31 I wasn't sure.

00:24:32 Tell me, of all the doctors you could have gone to,

00:24:36 why did you pick me?

00:24:37 There wasn't anyone else I could...

00:24:39 Well, when you talked to us this morning,

00:24:42 I felt suddenly that you could help me somehow.

00:24:44 How?

00:24:46 You seemed to care so much more about people

00:24:48 than just any doctor would, and so...

00:24:50 So you came to me for help, and all I did was talk to you some more.

00:24:54 There is nothing I wanted from you, Dr. Pretorius,

00:24:57 that would have affected your conscience in any way.

00:24:59 Not even the tiniest hope that,

00:25:01 perhaps for your father's peace of mind?

00:25:04 I wouldn't want to buy my father's peace of mind

00:25:07 at the cost of yours.

00:25:08 Did Miss Higgins make another appointment?

00:25:33 Miss Higgins?

00:25:34 Sorry, I meant Mrs. Higgins, of course.

00:25:37 I'm sorry.

00:25:38 No, doctor, she left without saying a word.

00:25:40 Sometimes, Shunderson, it seems to me

00:25:43 that half the women who come in here want babies they can't have,

00:25:46 and that the other half...

00:25:47 She's old enough to know what she's doing,

00:25:49 and to take what's coming to her.

00:25:50 I never want to hear you say anything as idiotic and heartless as that again.

00:25:53 But, doctor, I...

00:25:54 For one thing, you're a nurse,

00:25:55 and for another, you're a woman.

00:25:57 I'm ashamed of both of you.

00:25:59 Have her taken to the nearest treatment room.

00:26:01 You prepare her yourself.

00:26:03 Left side, flesh wound.

00:26:05 Doesn't look too bad.

00:26:07 Get Billings for intravenous anesthesia.

00:26:10 Yes, doctor.

00:26:12 Thank you, Billings.

00:26:13 Yes, doctor.

00:26:14 Shall I take her to the nearest room?

00:26:17 Yes, doctor.

00:26:18 I'll take her to the nearest room.

00:26:19 I'll take her to the nearest room.

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00:26:31 I'll take her to the nearest room.

00:26:32 I'll take her to the nearest room.

00:26:33 I'll take her to the nearest room.

00:26:34 I'll take her to the nearest room.

00:26:35 I'll take her to the nearest room.

00:26:37 Thank you, Billings.

00:26:38 Yes, doctor.

00:26:39 Shall I take her to the ward, doctor?

00:26:42 Yes, and get some blankets, please.

00:26:44 Is it bad?

00:26:59 It's a good thing most people have the foggiest notion where the heart is actually located.

00:27:03 She didn't even come close.

00:27:05 Why'd she try to kill herself?

00:27:07 I imagine, Shunderson, that when people need help the most,

00:27:11 it must sometimes seem as if they're all alone in the world.

00:27:14 Isn't that true?

00:27:16 Then she'll try it again.

00:27:19 She's still all alone, and if there's still nobody to help her,

00:27:24 she'll try it again.

00:27:26 She'll try it again.

00:27:29 [Footsteps]

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00:28:47 [Music]

00:28:50 And so into the mixed court.

00:29:16 How are they coming along?

00:29:17 Just fine, Dr. Pretorius.

00:29:18 They're ready to start with you any time now.

00:29:20 Good. The sooner the better.

00:29:21 Set the first full rehearsal for next week.

00:29:23 Well, tonight, for the first time, your attack was not premedical.

00:29:30 The horns did not sound as if they'd been sterilized.

00:29:34 The second fiddle still pulled a little.

00:29:36 You're still inclined to regard the strings as catcut for sewing rather than for playing.

00:29:40 And as for the gentleman on the third bowl fiddle,

00:29:44 Professor Barker,

00:29:46 is there any reason why you, Professor Barker,

00:29:49 who lives so intimately with millions of neutrons and know them all by name,

00:29:53 cannot maintain a simple beat on a bowl fiddle?

00:29:56 Are you referring to me?

00:29:58 I do not mean to impugn your academic standing, of course.

00:30:02 My dear Dr. Pretorius,

00:30:04 I would willingly entrust the life of my sister to your skill as a gynecologist,

00:30:08 but I would not let you conduct my three-year-old nephew to the bathroom.

00:30:12 The point is that I am the conductor of this orchestra,

00:30:16 and that you pay no attention to me.

00:30:18 I do pay attention.

00:30:19 Very well. We shall see.

00:30:21 Start at letter B, please, Professor Barker. Just your part alone.

00:30:26 It's going to sound a little silly.

00:30:28 After all, the bass viol is not a solo instrument.

00:30:31 On the contrary.

00:30:32 For one Serge Koussevitzky has concertized as a virtuoso of the bass viol.

00:30:37 Look who's talking about Koussevitzky.

00:30:41 Ready?

00:30:42 [laughter]

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00:31:52 Tell me, Professor, do the neutrons bombard the electrons,

00:32:09 or do the electrons do it to the neutrons?

00:32:12 [laughter]

00:32:15 [laughter]

00:32:17 Same time next week. Thank you and good night all.

00:32:30 [laughter]

00:32:32 I'll be there with you.

00:32:34 You drive my car home. I'll drive with Professor Barker.

00:32:48 Oh, and leave the canach first and the rest on the kitchen table. I'll cook them.

00:32:52 I don't want you to wait up.

00:32:55 You'll make me very unhappy if you don't go straight to bed.

00:32:58 [sigh]

00:32:59 He gets up before I do and won't go to bed till I'm asleep.

00:33:06 I keep forgetting he can't stand these long hours anymore.

00:33:09 Noah, there's something I want to talk to you about.

00:33:17 Here and now?

00:33:18 Well, it's fresh on my mind. Just for a minute.

00:33:21 Sit down.

00:33:22 [papers rustling]

00:33:24 You behave as if you were about to propose.

00:33:35 Noah, one of the differences between matter and mankind is that

00:33:43 in matter all relationships can be stated,

00:33:46 whereas between people they can rarely be put into words.

00:33:49 Granted.

00:33:50 Now I want you to know that I'm your good and devoted friend.

00:33:53 I've been aware of that for some time, and I am yours.

00:33:57 Therefore I have the right to point out to you that there are occasions

00:34:00 when you behave like a cephalic idiot.

00:34:03 Also granted. Any particular occasion?

00:34:06 Out of a universe full of time and space,

00:34:09 only you could pick Rodney Elwell's anatomy class.

00:34:12 Ah, the good word gets around, doesn't it?

00:34:16 Don't take this lightly, Noah.

00:34:18 There's been trouble brewing, talk of rummaging about in your past.

00:34:22 Let them rummage. They're spitting into the wind.

00:34:25 And all this talk about charges and whatnot, of an investigation.

00:34:29 Noah, as a friend, tell me, can Elwell dig up anything in your past

00:34:33 that would conceivably discredit you enough to justify,

00:34:36 say, a hearing before a faculty committee?

00:34:39 How much discredit is enough?

00:34:41 I've known you intimately for ten years,

00:34:43 and I can't even guess at what you were up to the day before I met you.

00:34:47 Suppose I told you all. Could it affect our friendship?

00:34:51 Of course not.

00:34:52 I'm glad to hear that.

00:34:53 You know, it's not much to have a friend who knows all about you.

00:34:56 But one who's a friend even though he's not quite sure,

00:34:59 that's worth having.

00:35:01 Then will you tell me just this,

00:35:06 about the bat.

00:35:09 The bat?

00:35:11 I thought you knew that's what they called him.

00:35:13 Shenderson.

00:35:14 Who calls him that?

00:35:16 Why, the students, the faculty?

00:35:19 Even the staff at your own clinic.

00:35:21 No, I didn't know. It's not a proper name for him.

00:35:24 Noah, who is he?

00:35:26 A man named Shenderson.

00:35:28 Where does he come from?

00:35:29 Why is he with you day and night, everywhere you go?

00:35:32 I have no right to tell even you anything about Mr. Shenderson.

00:35:36 Can Elwell uncover something about his past, or yours, or both,

00:35:40 that he can use to make trouble?

00:35:44 That depends.

00:35:46 Drop me by the clinic first, will you? I want to look in on a patient.

00:35:50 [footsteps]

00:35:52 [footsteps]

00:35:54 [train whistle]

00:36:15 [crickets chirping]

00:36:21 [crickets chirping]

00:36:23 [door slams]

00:36:32 [crickets chirping]

00:36:34 [footsteps]

00:36:36 [footsteps]

00:36:38 [footsteps]

00:37:07 [footsteps]

00:37:09 Don't turn the light on, please.

00:37:26 You've been crying again.

00:37:33 That doesn't necessarily follow.

00:37:35 That's a pretty good guess, when a woman wants the light kept off.

00:37:38 Either that or her face isn't on.

00:37:40 I don't mind being seen without makeup.

00:37:43 I don't mind seeing you without makeup.

00:37:46 You know all about women, don't you?

00:37:50 Not nearly enough.

00:37:52 I don't mean just as a doctor.

00:37:54 Not even as a doctor.

00:37:56 Deborah, I, uh, I've got something to tell you.

00:38:00 And as a pompous know-it-all.

00:38:02 I didn't mean that, even when I said it.

00:38:04 As a pompous know-it-all, it isn't going to be easy.

00:38:08 But do you remember the remote possibility that I thought could never occur?

00:38:12 About the frog being wrong?

00:38:14 Well, the frog wasn't wrong.

00:38:17 But you've got the wrong frog.

00:38:19 It seems the possibility of a laboratory assistant making a mistake is not remote at all.

00:38:24 I don't understand.

00:38:26 Two tests were being run at the same time.

00:38:29 One had a positive result, and the other negative.

00:38:34 Through unforgivable negligence, your report read positive...

00:38:38 ...when it should have read negative.

00:38:41 Then... I'm not having a baby after all.

00:38:49 You're not having a baby after all.

00:38:51 Sleep well. You've got nothing to worry about.

00:38:56 That's what you think.

00:38:58 Now what are you crying about?

00:39:02 It's just awful.

00:39:04 What is?

00:39:05 To think I had to go and tell you all about myself and what I did.

00:39:10 Now it turns out I didn't really have to.

00:39:13 Well, it did you good to have someone to tell it to.

00:39:16 But not to you.

00:39:18 Why not?

00:39:21 I'll see you in the morning, Deborah.

00:39:23 Dr. Pretorius...

00:39:25 Are all your patients women?

00:39:30 Almost.

00:39:31 I guess they all fall in love with you.

00:39:34 Not all of them.

00:39:36 Just most.

00:39:38 Not even most.

00:39:40 I'm sure you're not the only one.

00:39:43 I'm sure you're not the only one.

00:39:47 Just most.

00:39:48 Not even most.

00:39:50 Good night.

00:39:52 What a mess.

00:40:02 Why do you have to stop by the clinic?

00:40:09 Anything interesting?

00:40:11 A physician respects the confidence of his patients and does not discuss them with anyone.

00:40:16 How true, how true.

00:40:18 Was it the young girl who tried to shoot herself?

00:40:21 Mm-hmm.

00:40:22 Why?

00:40:23 Because of an unpremeditated baby.

00:40:25 Her condition pretty bad?

00:40:27 Better than yours on the whole, just a superficial flesh wound.

00:40:30 Then why drive all the way up to the clinic to see her?

00:40:33 I wanted to tell her she was not pregnant.

00:40:35 Lost the baby, huh?

00:40:37 Was it shock? Or when she fell?

00:40:40 She's as pregnant now as she ever was.

00:40:44 And why in the name of good sense tell her that she isn't?

00:40:47 Pregnancy, my dear boy, is not a state of the mind.

00:40:51 Here, get me some of MacAvoy's stuff.

00:40:53 Two reasons.

00:40:54 One, to get her a good night's sleep.

00:40:56 And the second, to keep her from trying it again until I can find her father and talk with him.

00:41:01 What has her father got to do with it?

00:41:03 Well, she has an unshakable conviction that the knowledge of what she's done will kill her.

00:41:07 You intend to talk him into clicking his heels with joy over the situation?

00:41:13 I intend to convince him either to be compassionate about it...

00:41:16 ...or to convince her that her father will survive her disgrace and that her chief responsibility is to the baby.

00:41:23 Noah.

00:41:25 Has it ever occurred to you, aside from certain medical considerations, that most of this is none of your business?

00:41:31 No. What is my business?

00:41:33 To diagnose the physical ailments of human beings and to cure them.

00:41:38 Wrong. My business is to make sick people well.

00:41:41 There's a vast difference between curing an ailment and making a sick person well.

00:41:45 We won't go into that. I'm too tired.

00:41:47 Besides, doctors bore me.

00:41:49 Just one little question.

00:41:51 What have you great men of science done with atomic energy to make people well?

00:41:56 That's wonderful sauerkraut.

00:41:58 It tastes like sauerkraut you used to taste.

00:42:00 There's a German woman who makes it in a barrel. I'll send you some.

00:42:04 More beer?

00:42:05 Yes, please.

00:42:07 Sauerkraut belongs in a barrel, not a can.

00:42:09 Our American mania for sterile packages has removed the flavor from most of our foods.

00:42:15 Butter is no longer sold on a wooden tub.

00:42:18 And the whole generation thinks butter tastes like paper.

00:42:21 There was never a perfume like an old-time grocery store.

00:42:25 Now they smell like drugstores.

00:42:27 They don't even smell like drugstores anymore.

00:42:29 You country doctors live romantic lives.

00:42:34 Just think, it might be coontoplets.

00:42:36 This time of the morning is usually heartburn or loneliness.

00:42:39 Hello?

00:42:41 Dr. Pretorius?

00:42:42 Dr. Pretorius?

00:42:44 One of our patients is missing.

00:42:46 Miss Higgins.

00:42:47 That's it, Deborah Higgins.

00:42:50 It must have been in the last hour, doctor.

00:42:52 Miss Myers said Miss Higgins was sleeping when she made her rounds about an hour ago.

00:42:56 We've searched the grounds.

00:42:59 Doctor, I just can't imagine how she got out.

00:43:02 I can tell you exactly how she got out.

00:43:04 By walking down the corridor and out the front door, just as I did a couple of hours ago.

00:43:08 No, don't notify the police. I'll take care of it in the morning.

00:43:12 Keep looking, of course.

00:43:13 And let me know if you find her.

00:43:15 Good night.

00:43:16 Who flew the coop?

00:43:24 The young lady we were discussing?

00:43:27 Yeah.

00:43:28 Why would she run away?

00:43:29 I don't know.

00:43:30 But I've got to find her.

00:43:32 I should think so.

00:43:33 It seems you've got some important information about her that she hasn't got.

00:44:01 You'd better wait in the car while I ask.

00:44:03 Yes.

00:44:04 [Music]

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00:44:10 [Music]

00:44:13 [Dogs barking]

00:44:16 [Dogs barking]

00:44:19 [Dogs barking]

00:44:21 [Door slams]

00:44:30 [Dogs barking]

00:44:33 [Door slams]

00:44:38 [Dogs barking]

00:44:41 [Dogs barking]

00:44:43 [Dogs barking]

00:44:53 [Dogs barking]

00:44:57 [Door creaks]

00:45:05 [Door slams]

00:45:10 [Dog whines]

00:45:11 [Dog whines]

00:45:15 I wondered what Beelzebub was barking at.

00:45:22 Beelzebub?

00:45:23 Beasts like that are usually called pal.

00:45:26 I call him Beelzebub because he's an evil dog.

00:45:28 I am delighted to meet someone courageous enough not to love all dogs.

00:45:32 My name is Pretorius.

00:45:34 Dr. Pretorius?

00:45:35 This is a pleasure.

00:45:36 I'm Arthur Higgins.

00:45:38 I'm delighted Beelzebub didn't frighten you away,

00:45:40 but I am surprised he gave up so easily.

00:45:42 Mr. Shunderson has a way with dogs.

00:45:45 Mr. Shunderson?

00:45:46 How do you do?

00:45:47 Won't you come sit down?

00:45:49 Thank you.

00:45:50 You're far from a stranger to me, Dr. Pretorius.

00:45:53 I've heard so much about you from my daughter, Deborah.

00:45:56 Have you?

00:45:57 How fortunate you were such good friends when she had that ridiculous little accident.

00:46:01 Yes, it was ridiculous, wasn't it?

00:46:04 I still do not understand how a woman can accidentally burn a deep welt in her side with a curling iron.

00:46:09 Well, it's not uncommon for women, female students in particular,

00:46:14 to curl their hair, eat, read and telephone all at the same time.

00:46:17 The results are often disastrous.

00:46:19 Yes, I imagine it could have been worse.

00:46:21 Much worse.

00:46:22 I happen to be devoted to porch sitting.

00:46:26 If you'd rather go inside...

00:46:28 Oh, this is very pleasant.

00:46:29 And I see that you're properly protected against too much fresh air.

00:46:32 Don't you believe in the benefits of fresh air?

00:46:34 I do not.

00:46:35 Nor do I believe that eating fish develops the brain,

00:46:38 or that oysters will increase virility.

00:46:40 Oh, you must tell that to Deborah.

00:46:42 She's forever driving me out of the house.

00:46:44 You're an unusual man of science, Dr. Pretorius.

00:46:48 You're an unusual farmer, Mr. Higgins.

00:46:51 But I'm not a farmer.

00:46:52 This isn't my farm.

00:46:53 It belongs to my brother.

00:46:55 I see.

00:46:56 Then you're just visiting here.

00:46:57 You might say I'm staying here.

00:47:01 We need help.

00:47:02 Beelzebub called in under the ice house and...

00:47:05 He won't come out.

00:47:07 Beelzebub belongs under the ice house.

00:47:09 Deborah, we have guests.

00:47:11 Yes, I see.

00:47:12 Hello, doctor.

00:47:13 Hello, Mr. Shunderson.

00:47:14 I was wondering about that nasty little burn you got from the curling iron.

00:47:19 It's fine.

00:47:20 It's been almost a week, and since we happen to be driving out this way...

00:47:24 Happen to be out this way?

00:47:26 Hours from your clinic and the university?

00:47:28 Dr. Pretorius has far-flung interests.

00:47:31 Then I'm sure both he and Mr. Shunderson will be interested in joining us for Sunday dinner.

00:47:36 No, really, we couldn't impose upon you.

00:47:38 Dr. Pretorius must have more important matters.

00:47:41 Nonsense.

00:47:42 We can't let them drive miles to get here and send them away unfed.

00:47:45 We'd love to have you.

00:47:47 We'll be happy to stay.

00:47:49 I'll tell Bella.

00:47:56 Have you been here long?

00:47:58 Your father and I have just been getting acquainted.

00:48:00 Dr. Pretorius has a way of knowing people very well, very quickly.

00:48:04 He's entitled to as much time as he wants.

00:48:06 After all, you've told me so much about him.

00:48:08 Father, I'm not at all sure that it's good for you to be out of doors.

00:48:13 There is nothing healthier than fresh air.

00:48:15 You said something about telling Bella?

00:48:21 I haven't the slightest information about her.

00:48:24 And the slightest intention of leaving here.

00:48:26 Bella!

00:48:27 It seems also that Deborah has told me a great deal about you, Mr. Higgins.

00:48:33 There wasn't much to know, was there?

00:48:35 The number of accomplishments in my life, Doctor, is one.

00:48:39 Deborah.

00:48:40 Quite an accomplishment.

00:48:42 If you don't mind, I'd rather not be discussed this intimately on the front porch.

00:48:47 On the front porch, you're in a test tube.

00:48:49 It is obvious that you're going to be discussed.

00:48:51 So why do you insist upon remaining where you're not wanted?

00:48:54 Well, why should you want to discuss me?

00:48:56 There's nothing to discuss, is there?

00:48:59 Deborah.

00:49:01 Doctor Pretorius has not driven this great distance to see Beelzebub.

00:49:06 Or to inquire whether you're being more careful with your curling iron.

00:49:10 It's quite apparent that he's come to talk with me.

00:49:12 Now go and tell Bella there will be two extra for dinner.

00:49:15 Somebody yelled for me?

00:49:17 Yes, Bella. These two gentlemen are staying for dinner.

00:49:20 Mr. John know about it?

00:49:23 There's plenty of food.

00:49:24 Mr. John better know about it.

00:49:26 I'll tell him.

00:49:27 He's done his books now and he don't like to be disturbed.

00:49:30 I'll tell him when he's finished, Bella.

00:49:32 Well, I'll put two plates on anyway.

00:49:35 You left the peas half done.

00:49:38 I'll be right in.

00:49:39 I would like to help.

00:49:41 Oh, Mr. Shaunda's in the room.

00:49:42 Oh, really, it isn't necessary.

00:49:43 Don't let him. It's a good idea. He'll be of great help.

00:49:47 May I ask, is Mr. Shaunda's in your servant?

00:49:50 He's my friend, but he likes to help.

00:49:53 I see.

00:49:54 Dr. Pretorius, I referred a moment ago to Deborah as the only accomplishment of my life.

00:50:00 I'm sure you were being modest.

00:50:02 No, she's more than my only accomplishment.

00:50:04 Quite simply, she's my only contact with and reason to be with.

00:50:08 I'm sure you're being modest.

00:50:10 No, she's more than my only accomplishment.

00:50:12 Quite simply, she's my only contact with and reason for what is sometimes described as life.

00:50:19 If you'll permit a rather lurid analogy, Deborah is my heartbeat.

00:50:24 Mr. Hager, please don't feel that you have to tell me anything.

00:50:28 No, I want to tell you about myself for just a moment.

00:50:31 I can't say what makes me want to.

00:50:33 Perhaps it was Bella's rudeness.

00:50:35 Perhaps because I think of you already as a friend.

00:50:38 Have you got a match?

00:50:41 No.

00:50:42 I smoke too much anyway.

00:50:45 The Mr. John Bella seems so concerned about is my brother.

00:50:50 He owns this farm.

00:50:52 He owns the food I invited you to share.

00:50:56 The beds we sleep in.

00:50:58 The clothes we wear.

00:50:59 Deborah's tuition.

00:51:01 And the tobacco in my pipe.

00:51:03 The pipe is mine.

00:51:06 I have other possessions.

00:51:09 Some scrapbooks.

00:51:10 A thin volume of poetry.

00:51:12 Mine too.

00:51:13 It was published but didn't sell of course.

00:51:15 And Deborah.

00:51:17 And the memory of my wife.

00:51:18 I wondered about her.

00:51:20 She died when Deborah was very little in London.

00:51:23 That's where Deborah was born.

00:51:25 What were you doing in London?

00:51:27 I did the same thing, Dr. Pretorius, in most of the major cities of the world.

00:51:32 I failed miserably at whatever it was I tried to do.

00:51:36 We haven't any matches.

00:51:41 Why?

00:51:42 Oh, it's become a nervous habit I guess.

00:51:46 My brother John never left this farm.

00:51:50 Physically, mentally, spiritually or in any other fashion.

00:51:54 I don't imagine John's been more than a hundred miles from this porch in any given direction.

00:51:59 When you left the farm, what did you set out to be?

00:52:02 Nothing in particular except to be as far from here as possible.

00:52:06 I remained both throughout my life.

00:52:09 Far from here and nothing in particular.

00:52:12 I was an indifferent journalist, a minor poet, an ineffective teacher, a wretched businessman.

00:52:20 Unable to provide properly for my wife and child and then not even for just my child.

00:52:26 When my heart gave way, it seemed to me that my functions had achieved a unanimous failure.

00:52:33 And so I applied to my brother for permission to return here with Deborah as a complete dependent.

00:52:40 Which I am in every sense of the word.

00:52:44 Including being listed as such in his income tax report.

00:52:49 And now, if you'll excuse me, I'll ask John about dinner.

00:52:55 Perhaps it would be better if you didn't.

00:52:57 Please, I'd consider it a favor. Would you like to come inside?

00:53:00 No, I'll stay out here for another minute.

00:53:04 [birds chirping]

00:53:06 [door opens]

00:53:08 [door closes]

00:53:10 [birds chirping]

00:53:12 [door opens]

00:53:20 [birds chirping]

00:53:22 [car engine]

00:53:35 [birds chirping]

00:53:37 I thought you were helping in the kitchen.

00:53:39 The woman didn't want me.

00:53:41 I can't say I approve of the company you keep.

00:53:45 The dog is frightened and unhappy.

00:53:48 He has that in common with most of humanity.

00:53:53 It's not going to be easy.

00:53:57 What you came here for.

00:53:59 Let's go for a walk.

00:54:03 [birds chirping]

00:54:05 [car engine]

00:54:09 [birds chirping]

00:54:14 Sunday ain't Sunday without chicken.

00:54:21 Two things I guess I did every Sunday of my life.

00:54:23 Go to church and eat chicken.

00:54:26 Don't you ever eat chicken on a weekday?

00:54:29 Only on Sundays.

00:54:31 Oh.

00:54:33 But if you like chicken so much, why don't you eat it more often?

00:54:36 Because I only eat it on Sundays.

00:54:38 Uncle John lives according to a very strict schedule.

00:54:41 Two things I live by. A good book and a calendar.

00:54:44 I got a day's work to do every day in the year.

00:54:46 I take care of my work and the good book takes care of me.

00:54:49 Then you do the same thing every day of every year, is that it?

00:54:52 Just like the cows and horses and vegetables.

00:54:54 That's right. That's what the good Lord and Old Mother Nature put us here for.

00:54:58 To do the job they set out for us.

00:55:00 Oh.

00:55:02 Well, I can't speak for the good Lord, of course, but I know a little about Old Mother Nature.

00:55:05 If Old Mother Nature had her way, there wouldn't be a human being alive.

00:55:09 How do you mean that?

00:55:10 I mean, among other things, that Old Mother Nature tries to destroy us periodically...

00:55:15 by means of pestilence, disease and disaster.

00:55:18 That's why the human race has been at war with Old Mother Nature ever since it became the human race.

00:55:22 What do you mean, became the human race?

00:55:25 Is that what you teach?

00:55:26 No. And I'm not really a teacher.

00:55:29 That merely happens to be my opinion.

00:55:31 Oh.

00:55:33 You make a lot of money?

00:55:35 John, really, I don't think you...

00:55:37 I don't mind telling him.

00:55:38 Yes, Mr. Higgins, I make a lot of money as a doctor.

00:55:42 But then I'm one of the few fortunate ones.

00:55:44 I'll say. We've got one here in town who works night and day.

00:55:48 Hasn't got a red cent.

00:55:50 If you had a teacher here in town, he'd be a little worse off than even your doctor.

00:55:53 But then the government doesn't pay them for the patients they don't treat...

00:55:58 or the children they don't teach.

00:56:00 Oh, you mean like I get paid for not growing some crops.

00:56:04 I never could figure that one out.

00:56:07 But then I never ask too many questions about it.

00:56:10 Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

00:56:12 You?

00:56:13 I never look any horse in the mouth.

00:56:16 Well, I'm going back to working on my books.

00:56:19 Then I'm going to sleep a while till it's time for my radio programs.

00:56:22 Off the schedule today, income tax.

00:56:25 I ain't complaining, though.

00:56:27 Got more deductions than I thought.

00:56:29 Doc, do you mind if I put you and your friend down as a couple of feed salesmen?

00:56:33 Flattered. Just don't call me Doc.

00:56:36 That way I deduct the whole dinner.

00:56:38 Every little bit helps.

00:56:39 I write it all down in a book.

00:56:41 Most of my equipment don't cost me a thing, writing it off year by year.

00:56:45 What's it called, Arthur?

00:56:46 Depletion and depreciation.

00:56:48 Yeah, that's it.

00:56:49 Means it's running down. Don't work so good as it did.

00:56:52 One thing about teachers and writers and such...

00:56:55 They have less bother with their income tax than farmers and oil well owners.

00:56:59 That so? Why?

00:57:01 Because their equipment is talent and a highly developed mind.

00:57:05 And when they run down and don't work so good as they did...

00:57:09 The depletion and depreciation can't be written off their income tax.

00:57:13 See what I mean?

00:57:15 What's so smart about 'em?

00:57:16 Don't play the radio loud while I'm sleeping, Arthur.

00:57:19 No, John.

00:57:22 Deborah, why don't you show Dr. Pretorius the farm?

00:57:25 I'm sure he'd be interested.

00:57:27 Still a lot of depletion and depreciation, that's all.

00:57:30 Let's see it before it's all written off.

00:57:33 I'll get a sweater and meet you outside.

00:57:47 How old were you when you learned to walk?

00:57:50 I did pretty well by the time I was four.

00:57:52 When did you leave the farm?

00:57:54 I was 16.

00:57:55 It couldn't have taken you 12 years to make up your mind.

00:57:58 You enjoy music, Mr. Shennison?

00:58:05 More than anything.

00:58:07 You enjoy music, Mr. Shennison?

00:58:09 More than anything.

00:58:34 Mr. Shennison, Dr. Pretorius has come here to ask Deborah to marry him, hasn't he?

00:58:41 I wouldn't be surprised.

00:58:43 This, as you see, is the dairy.

00:58:58 The cows are out in the pasture.

00:59:00 Doing the job the good Lord gave them.

00:59:04 Uncle has eight cows.

00:59:06 That's far more milk, butter and cheese than what we need.

00:59:09 He sells the rest in town. That makes it a commercial enterprise.

00:59:12 And he can write off the dairy and the equipment and the cows.

00:59:15 I think I like the dairy best of all.

00:59:24 It's certainly spotless, isn't it?

00:59:25 The Board of Health is very strict about that.

00:59:27 Where do you hide Bella when they come around? Under the ice house?

00:59:32 Down here.

00:59:33 This room is for the separator and things.

00:59:35 I'd stay out of there if I were you.

00:59:37 You might get caught in a room with a dead end.

00:59:39 The milk gets certified, you know.

00:59:46 According to the amount of butter fed in it.

00:59:49 Why did you run away from the clinic?

00:59:53 And this, of course, is the separator where the cream gets separated from the milk.

00:59:57 Why did you run away?

00:59:59 It works by centrifugal action.

01:00:00 It used to be done by just skimming it off.

01:00:02 But the cream, being lighter than the milk, rises to the surface.

01:00:05 Deborah.

01:00:06 Because I had to.

01:00:07 Why?

01:00:08 I had to, that's all.

01:00:09 Why?

01:00:10 Because.

01:00:11 Why?

01:00:12 I had reasons.

01:00:13 What?

01:00:14 They were private and personal. I don't have to tell you everything.

01:00:16 Why?

01:00:17 I'm in love with you.

01:00:25 I'm in love with you.

01:00:26 What makes you think so?

01:00:31 I can't give you symptoms. It's love, not measles.

01:00:34 Am I being pompous again?

01:00:36 Well, there are some things you can't be scientific about.

01:00:39 Even so.

01:00:40 Why should that make you want to run away in the middle of the night in your bathrobe and slippers?

01:00:44 I didn't want to see you the next morning.

01:00:46 I wanted to see you.

01:00:48 Not if I knew about you what you knew about me you wouldn't want to.

01:00:53 Possibly, I don't know.

01:00:55 A person just doesn't fall in love that fast.

01:00:59 Or that often.

01:01:00 I just couldn't lie there anymore and think about it. I couldn't stand it.

01:01:03 Don't you see? If I do love you, then how could I have been in love with him?

01:01:08 And if I didn't love him, then why?

01:01:10 And anyway, even if I did, why did I have to go and tell you about it?

01:01:15 Are you crying again?

01:01:18 No, but I want to run away again.

01:01:20 No, no more running away.

01:01:23 Now you were right about your father.

01:01:26 I couldn't have told him.

01:01:27 He'd have understood, but I couldn't have told him.

01:01:30 Certainly you couldn't have.

01:01:32 Now you tell me something.

01:01:43 Why did you come here?

01:01:45 What do you mean?

01:01:47 It couldn't have been to talk to my father.

01:01:50 Well, as a matter of fact...

01:01:53 Because if it was, what about?

01:01:55 There wasn't anything to tell him really, was there?

01:01:58 No, not really.

01:01:59 A superficial flesh wound like mine.

01:02:02 You weren't worried about my condition, were you?

01:02:04 Of course not.

01:02:05 Going to all the trouble of finding me, searching the registrar's records and whatnot.

01:02:10 Why did you come all the way out here?

01:02:12 I don't know really.

01:02:13 I think you do know.

01:02:15 What's your first name? I can't go on calling you Dr. Pretorius.

01:02:18 Uh, Noah.

01:02:20 Why did you come after me, Noah?

01:02:22 You know, what you said before about cream being lighter than milk, that wasn't quite accurate.

01:02:26 Noah's a cute name.

01:02:27 My real name is Ludwig.

01:02:29 You see, cream is the oily part of the milk. It's not actually a separate product.

01:02:33 I prefer Noah.

01:02:34 In homogenizing milk, for instance, the particles of fat become emulsified.

01:02:38 I do not want to appear unladylike about this, but I'd feel silly acting coy.

01:02:42 So that the cream becomes part of the general body of the milk.

01:02:45 With you, of all men.

01:02:47 You couldn't have come out here because you wanted to talk to my father.

01:02:50 And you couldn't have come out because you were worried about my health.

01:02:53 And there comes a time when a patient asks the doctor questions.

01:02:57 Why did you come all this way just to see me, Noah?

01:03:01 I did have a reason, you know.

01:03:03 I know.

01:03:04 Well, you know, it doesn't seem to matter at the moment.

01:03:07 You're being pompous again at the moment.

01:03:09 You'd be surprised how un-pompous.

01:03:12 Then what are you being?

01:03:14 Well, things do have a way of happening, don't they?

01:03:28 Old mother nature.

01:03:30 Old mother nature knows best.

01:03:33 [music]

01:03:39 [birds chirping]

01:03:42 What's Uncle John up to?

01:04:06 He's got the radio on full blast.

01:04:08 Something about rustlers.

01:04:10 It seems somebody rustled 15,000 television sets.

01:04:13 Here, use this.

01:04:15 Dropping my things out of the window.

01:04:17 You'd think I was escaping from a girls' reformatory.

01:04:20 There is no reason why we can't just walk out the front door.

01:04:23 It's more fun this way.

01:04:25 When are you going to break the news to the gentleman farmer?

01:04:27 John?

01:04:28 During his favorite quiz program, I intend to let him have it as a personal jackpot.

01:04:32 He'll be mad.

01:04:33 I hope so.

01:04:34 I am scared.

01:04:36 Deborah, I thought I was going to have to die without seeing you safely out of here and without telling him off.

01:04:42 Remember your promise to come and live with us.

01:04:44 Of course he will.

01:04:45 Much against everybody's better judgment, including my own, I intend to live very happily with you.

01:04:50 I'm still scared.

01:04:52 There's nothing that John can do to either of us.

01:04:54 Oh, she's not scared of John, she's scared of me.

01:04:56 Pompous know-it-all.

01:04:57 It just so happens that what I'm afraid of is that you don't really want to marry me and that I won't make you a good enough wife.

01:05:03 In the first place, I'm not in the habit of marrying women I don't really want to marry.

01:05:07 His first name isn't Noah, you know, it's Ludwig.

01:05:09 And in the second place, a woman has yet to be born who doesn't in her heart believe she'll make her husband a much better wife than he has any possible right to expect.

01:05:17 I just don't want to get married tonight.

01:05:19 I don't want a long engagement, but can't I even have one day?

01:05:23 You'll be married in New York. That takes three days.

01:05:25 All right?

01:05:27 It's just so I can feel more feminine about it.

01:05:30 I must say, you're the only man I ever heard of who acts exactly like some poor girl that has to get married.

01:05:37 I imagine that as a man, I've come as close to it as any other man who ever lived.

01:05:43 (Sighs)

01:05:45 (Knocking)

01:06:08 Come in.

01:06:10 I got it, Professor.

01:06:11 Sergeant Coonan.

01:06:12 I got your man.

01:06:14 Excellent.

01:06:20 Is that the same Shunderson?

01:06:22 Very probably.

01:06:23 Could you identify him from this?

01:06:24 Almost positively.

01:06:26 You've got to do better than bury an almost.

01:06:28 My dear man, this newspaper appeared in 1917.

01:06:32 The photograph is 34 years old at least.

01:06:36 The identification may not be entirely positive, but it satisfies me.

01:06:41 We've got to be sure.

01:06:42 Get me a new picture of this character.

01:06:44 There are none that I know of.

01:06:46 Mr. Shunderson has always manifested a violent aversion to being photographed, even to snapshots by students.

01:06:51 Want me to handle it?

01:06:53 Please.

01:06:54 Okay.

01:06:55 Comes tomorrow, we slap a tail on this monkey.

01:06:57 Mr. Coonan, I have spoken to you about this before.

01:07:02 I must be able to understand you.

01:07:05 Oh. What I mean is, start tomorrow, we have him followed.

01:07:08 Unhappily, it will have to wait until Monday.

01:07:11 Dr. Pretorius is undermining a medical convention in New York and will not return until then.

01:07:16 Monday it is.

01:07:17 Good luck to you.

01:07:20 (Train)

01:07:23 May I be of service to you, madam?

01:07:41 Yes, you may. I want to buy an electric train outfit.

01:07:43 Very fancy and very elaborate. It's for a birthday.

01:07:46 I'm sure we can find something nice.

01:07:48 May I ask how old is the boy?

01:07:50 Forty-one. He'll be forty-two tomorrow.

01:07:52 Mr. Shunderson!

01:08:16 Is anything the matter?

01:08:18 No. I thought I saw a friend.

01:08:20 Well, if you'd like to come...

01:08:21 No, it doesn't matter.

01:08:22 Then would you help me with the trains?

01:08:24 We've got more equipment than the Union Pacific.

01:08:26 Sure.

01:08:27 Good night, Dr. Pretorius.

01:08:35 Good night.

01:08:36 Good night, doctor.

01:08:37 Good night.

01:08:43 I think you should know.

01:08:45 Someone took my picture today.

01:08:47 Give me one to wear and a locket around my neck.

01:08:50 It wasn't that kind.

01:08:51 He ran away after he took it.

01:08:53 I see.

01:08:55 Perhaps it would be better if I went away too.

01:08:58 No.

01:08:59 You've made a great career.

01:09:00 You have a home now. A wife.

01:09:02 Responsibilities.

01:09:04 No.

01:09:06 (train horn)

01:09:08 Want me to answer, Mrs. Pretorius?

01:09:10 Oh, don't bother, Anna.

01:09:11 Mr. Shunderson's somewhere out front. He'll get it.

01:09:14 Professor Elwell from the university.

01:09:24 At this time of day? What about?

01:09:26 He's come to see Dr. Pretorius in very urgent business.

01:09:29 He's got a letter for you.

01:09:31 Oh, thank you.

01:09:32 He's come to see Dr. Pretorius in very urgent business.

01:09:35 Shall I call him?

01:09:36 Certainly not.

01:09:37 Dr. Pretorius is not to be disturbed.

01:09:39 I'll talk to Professor Elwell.

01:09:41 Good evening, Professor Elwell.

01:09:49 Mrs. Pretorius?

01:09:52 This is indeed an honor.

01:09:54 I'd heard, of course, of Dr. Pretorius' marriage.

01:09:57 But until now, I had no knowledge of the extent...

01:10:00 ...to which he was to be complimented upon his exquisite taste.

01:10:03 Thank you, Professor.

01:10:04 How sweet of you to come all this way just to say those nice things.

01:10:06 Won't you sit down?

01:10:07 Thank you.

01:10:08 No, my business is with Dr. Pretorius.

01:10:10 A most urgent and confidential matter.

01:10:13 And I have no wish to intrude for long...

01:10:15 ...upon what seems to be a festive occasion.

01:10:17 His birthday.

01:10:18 So, these must be happy days indeed for your husband.

01:10:22 Unfortunately, they're busy days, too.

01:10:24 And at the moment, he's in a very important conference.

01:10:26 But surely, if you were to tell him...

01:10:28 ...that a most pressing matter concerning the university...

01:10:30 I'm afraid he cannot be disturbed.

01:10:33 Mrs. Pretorius, I assure you that it is necessary for me to talk with him.

01:10:37 It just is not possible.

01:10:39 You're welcome to wait if you like, but...

01:10:43 ...I assure you, my husband will be in conference until dinner time.

01:10:47 I, too, have a home, Mrs. Pretorius.

01:10:49 I have come here at no little inconvenience to myself.

01:10:52 Exactly what have you come here for, Professor Elwell?

01:10:55 I have a message for your husband.

01:10:57 Not a happy one, I regret to say.

01:11:00 Oh?

01:11:02 Well, if you'll give it to me, I'll see that he gets it.

01:11:05 I had hoped...

01:11:08 That is, I have been asked to inform Dr. Pretorius of it in person.

01:11:12 Has the message to do with some confidential information about a patient?

01:11:15 It has to do only with your husband.

01:11:17 Well, then, in that case, it doesn't matter whether I tell him about it...

01:11:20 ...or he tells me.

01:11:21 A relationship of...

01:11:23 A relationship of such mutual trust is heartwarming.

01:11:26 Thank you.

01:11:27 You understand, of course, that my presence here is a matter of beauty...

01:11:30 ...not necessarily personal inclination.

01:11:33 You are well known, Professor, as a man without personal inclinations.

01:11:36 Thank you.

01:11:38 May I have a glass of water?

01:11:43 On the table. Help yourself.

01:11:44 So beautifully arranged.

01:11:46 Just drinking some water won't hurt it.

01:11:48 You're extremely generous.

01:11:50 Thank you.

01:11:52 Mrs. Pretorius...

01:12:02 There have been for some time now persistent...

01:12:05 ...but obviously unreliable rumors about your husband.

01:12:09 About women?

01:12:11 About the circumstances under which he has practiced medicine.

01:12:14 About his methods.

01:12:16 And certain events, both past and present.

01:12:19 Oh, that.

01:12:21 And, uh, in view of certain disclosures...

01:12:24 ...unfounded, of course...

01:12:26 ...which have come to light recently...

01:12:28 ...concerning both Dr. Pretorius and his most intimate associate...

01:12:32 My husband is intimate. Only with me.

01:12:35 The dean of our university has asked me to present to Dr. Pretorius...

01:12:39 ...a list of the charges that have been brought against him.

01:12:42 Who brought these charges?

01:12:44 Dean Brockwell invites your husband to disprove these charges.

01:12:47 In confidence, of course.

01:12:49 Should your husband be unwilling to accept this offer of a private hearing...

01:12:53 ...then the dean will have no recourse other than to summon Dr. Pretorius...

01:12:56 ...before a faculty committee...

01:12:58 ...for an open discussion of the charges in question.

01:13:02 They must be pretty serious.

01:13:05 What are they?

01:13:06 I'm not privileged to reveal them.

01:13:08 But you know what they are.

01:13:10 Unhappily, I do.

01:13:14 This must be a great strain on you, professor.

01:13:17 The performance of one's duty in a profession founded upon such high standards...

01:13:22 ...of honor, dignity, of learning and ethics...

01:13:25 One thing you can be sure of...

01:13:27 ...my husband isn't going to sneak into the dean's office to clear his name in private.

01:13:30 He'll drag those nasty, vicious rumors of yours right out into the open...

01:13:33 ...and get rid of them in the open, where you've been spreading them.

01:13:36 - Mrs. Pretorius, you're not being objective. - We are discussing my husband, not a kidney.

01:13:40 You are also leaping at conclusions.

01:13:42 All rumors need not necessarily be vicious and nasty.

01:13:45 It depends upon the viewpoint.

01:13:47 I am pretty well committed to one particular viewpoint, professor.

01:13:50 Quite so.

01:13:52 Well, I must be going.

01:13:54 I admire your courage and faith.

01:14:04 Most women would be perhaps apprehensive.

01:14:07 - Most women are not married to my husband. - True.

01:14:09 Whatever he did, he did for good and sufficient reason.

01:14:12 Even if it turns out he murdered somebody.

01:14:14 I have never had occasion to envy Dr. Pretorius.

01:14:23 May I say that I envy him you?

01:14:25 You have that right under the Constitution of the United States.

01:14:28 Will you show the professor to the door, Mr. Shunderson? He's leaving.

01:14:33 Thank you for your hospitality.

01:14:35 Drop in any time.

01:14:37 Give this to the miracle man.

01:14:54 I'm not a miracle man.

01:14:56 I'm a doctor.

01:14:59 Give this to the miracle man.

01:15:01 I'll take it to him.

01:15:13 Beep!

01:15:28 Beep!

01:15:30 Beep! Beep!

01:15:41 Beep! Beep! Beep!

01:15:49 Beep!

01:15:51 Beep!

01:16:18 Beep!

01:16:20 What was that?

01:16:34 Darling?

01:16:39 - Professor Lionel Barker! - What happened?

01:16:43 What happened?

01:16:45 Did your train leave on beep-beep or beep-beep-beep?

01:16:48 - Beep-beep-beep. - Your signal was beep-beep.

01:16:50 Other signal was beep-beep. Mine was beep-beep-beep.

01:16:53 - We'll soon find out about that. - It was beep-beep-beep.

01:16:56 What a bloody mess.

01:16:58 And whose fault is it, my fine atomic friend?

01:17:01 You can't go around smashing everything. You see, you know everything isn't atoms.

01:17:04 - Yes, it is. - Not for smashing it isn't. Not in my house and not my train.

01:17:08 Deborah, get out of the way before Professor Barker smashes you. He's on a smashing band.

01:17:12 - Darling, I... - Beep-beep-beep. Those were your orders.

01:17:14 - Beep-beep-beep. Beep-beep-beep. - What was your signal to dispatch your train?

01:17:16 - Beep-beep. - I told you so. Mine was beep-beep-beep.

01:17:18 - Beep-beep. Arthur, yours was beep-beep-beep. - Beep-beep.

01:17:21 - Beep-beep-beep. - Beep-beep.

01:17:23 Now look, they're my trains and I'm the chief dispatcher. I know how I set them up.

01:17:26 Beep from me, beep-beep from you and beep-beep-beep from Arthur.

01:17:29 - What difference does it make? - What difference does it make? Look at this disaster.

01:17:32 In case of disaster, the responsibility remains with the chief dispatcher.

01:17:35 And in a catastrophe like this, he either resigns or blows his brains out.

01:17:38 I refuse to be held accountable for the inability of two idiotic assistants to remember two simple signals.

01:17:43 I consider your high-handed refusal to accept the testimony of two responsible men as worse than idiotic.

01:17:48 Under the circumstances, I consider it criminal.

01:17:50 Your signal was beep-beep-beep and you know it was beep-beep-beep.

01:17:53 Noah!

01:17:55 - Deborah, I leave it to you, but remember your... - Deborah, I am your father and I have no right to...

01:17:59 These trains were supposed to leave these various rooms at various times.

01:18:03 (All arguing)

01:18:08 He began to issue...

01:18:10 (Door closes)

01:18:13 (Whimpering)

01:18:24 (Whimpering)

01:18:30 (Whimpering)

01:18:56 Is this what you're crying about? Then what?

01:18:59 It's just that I love you so much and I went and put all those candles on that cake when you were really only nine years old.

01:19:07 According to this document, I am not the picture of childish innocence you imagine me to be.

01:19:13 - Do you want to read it? - No.

01:19:15 Do you want me to tell you about it?

01:19:18 Not if you think you shouldn't.

01:19:20 "Not if you think you shouldn't."

01:19:22 It's a phrase used exclusively by women who assume a man's guilt without having the guts to come out and say so.

01:19:28 Nothing could be less important to me than this whole business of rumors and charges against you.

01:19:34 That's my girl.

01:19:36 Just a minute.

01:19:38 What, just from the type of men who attack you, anybody would know you were innocent.

01:19:45 Anybody but half and I.

01:19:47 You haven't done anything you shouldn't have, have you, Noah?

01:19:51 Many times, but none as a doctor.

01:19:54 - Don't let it worry you. - I won't.

01:19:57 Noah.

01:19:59 Does it seem to you that I cry a lot?

01:20:04 Truthfully, darling, there's never been anything like it since the little Dutch boy took his finger out of the dike.

01:20:09 He never took it out, that's what killed him.

01:20:11 Pompous know it all.

01:20:13 Never used to cry at all, you know.

01:20:15 Oh, if I bump my head, something like that.

01:20:17 But now the least little thing that happens, I start to bawl.

01:20:20 Why do you suppose it is?

01:20:22 Why do you suppose it is?

01:20:24 Well, I get upset so easily these days, and I used to be, well, if anything, sort of calm, even placid about things.

01:20:31 What did you say the name of that frog was?

01:20:34 - What frog? - The one that gets pregnant in two hours.

01:20:37 A frog doesn't get pregnant, darling, it just shows certain indications.

01:20:41 Well, I'm beginning to show certain indications.

01:20:45 Anyway I think I am.

01:20:47 I feel so silly talking to you about it.

01:20:49 No, no, I understand. It's the kind of thing you'd rather discuss with a doctor.

01:20:53 I don't pretend to be an expert about such things, but I've always thought I was a fairly normal adult young lady who knew roughly what every fairly normal adult young lady should know.

01:21:03 Right now I feel like a kind of idiot Elsie Dinsmore.

01:21:07 What seems to be your problem, Mrs. Vittorius?

01:21:10 I'm confused. I can't figure anything out, I'm all mixed up.

01:21:14 Heaven knows, after all I've been through these past few weeks, I've got a right to be, but not this mixed up, not this confused.

01:21:20 Married exactly two weeks and three days.

01:21:24 Now, darling, forgive me for being little Nell from the country about this, but is it possible that I could be having a baby already?

01:21:33 Little Nell, Elsie Dinsmore, or Catherine the Great? It is entirely possible.

01:21:38 Well, if it's possible, then you should be the first to know.

01:21:42 It is also probable. Do you mind?

01:21:45 Comes the dawn, I'll stand on that windowsill and crow.

01:21:50 Comes the dawn next December, you'll be walking the floor with it.

01:21:57 Next September.

01:21:59 December, dear.

01:22:01 September.

01:22:02 Now you're getting mixed up. This is April.

01:22:05 December.

01:22:06 September.

01:22:07 My dear Dr. Praetorius, unless they've changed the rules about how long it takes, or unless there's a new way to count, I make it December.

01:22:14 There's nothing wrong with the way you're counting, you're just not starting back far enough.

01:22:19 Well, how can I possibly start any farther back than...

01:22:22 No.

01:22:26 Oh, no.

01:22:35 You're quite a noble character, aren't you?

01:22:38 I've never thought of myself as one particularly.

01:22:41 No, really. I mean, I've heard of doctors who were self-sacrificing and unselfish, but apparently there's no limit to yours.

01:22:47 Deborah, you couldn't be more wrong.

01:22:50 Were you that afraid I'd kill myself?

01:22:53 How afraid is that afraid?

01:22:55 Afraid enough to marry me, to keep me from it?

01:22:58 Is it conceivable to you that I would?

01:23:01 It seems obvious, doesn't it?

01:23:04 You mean that as a doctor I was faced by a situation which I could only meet by marrying you, that I did it as a remedy.

01:23:11 Deborah, as you know, I believe in using any form of therapy that would make people well,

01:23:17 but it would be highly impractical to make marrying my patients a standard form of treatment.

01:23:22 Why did you marry me?

01:23:24 Because I was in love with you.

01:23:26 Is that why you came to the farm? To ask me to marry you?

01:23:29 No, not consciously at any rate.

01:23:33 Let's not mess with the unconscious right now. We've got enough conscious trouble to worry about.

01:23:38 You fell in love all of a sudden, didn't you?

01:23:44 All of a sudden. I'm still falling.

01:23:47 Let me know when you hit bottom.

01:23:49 Anytime within the next 30 or 40 years.

01:23:52 You came to the farm because you knew I was pregnant.

01:23:55 Then you met my father and my uncle, and you understood why I tried to kill myself.

01:24:01 But by that time you were all mixed up in it because you told me that silly lie about the wrong frog.

01:24:08 And I was so obviously in love with you, it was all over me like a tattoo.

01:24:12 And so, with no possible way out for anybody, all of a sudden you fell in love with me, and that solved everything.

01:24:19 And everybody lived happily ever after.

01:24:22 For two weeks and three days, that is.

01:24:25 Until I found out that my baby isn't going to be yours.

01:24:29 Funny. This calls for tears.

01:24:35 And I haven't got any.

01:24:37 I take it all back about my being normal and adult and lady.

01:24:41 What makes you think it isn't going to be my baby?

01:24:44 Because it isn't. Because its father is someone you never even knew.

01:24:47 Someone I can't even remember as well as I should.

01:24:50 All of which, however true, has nothing to do with our baby.

01:24:54 His interest in this world will begin as it does with all babies,

01:24:57 when suddenly, through no fault of his own, he is rudely deprived of a warm, secure and well-fed existence.

01:25:03 Which he has every reason to believe will go on forever, and finds himself upside down in the air, being smacked on the backside.

01:25:10 Are you going to love him?

01:25:11 Of course I am.

01:25:13 So am I, and we'll keep him warm, and we'll feed him and make him feel secure again.

01:25:17 And give him brothers to play with.

01:25:19 All boys, eh?

01:25:20 Now it's time you stopped thinking about yourself and started thinking about my baby.

01:25:26 No. If you really suddenly fell in love with me.

01:25:29 No if.

01:25:30 Why?

01:25:31 I couldn't say why.

01:25:32 Haven't you ever wondered?

01:25:33 Falling as fast as I am, I don't have time.

01:25:35 A man as exact as you, with a reason for everything?

01:25:37 Then I'll find it.

01:25:38 Any time in the next thirty or forty years, I'll start wondering.

01:25:42 I won't be doing much else, it looks like, except wondering.

01:25:45 What, you and me? About you and the baby? Me and my fine character?

01:25:49 Are you feeling sorry for yourself?

01:25:51 I'm feeling sorry for you.

01:25:52 Don't be.

01:25:53 I love you.

01:25:54 Be that.

01:25:55 Forgive me.

01:25:56 Shut up.

01:25:57 Love me.

01:25:58 [Music]

01:26:15 Dinner is served.

01:26:16 I have forbidden you to bring that disgusting echo chamber into my house.

01:26:20 As your friend it is my duty.

01:26:22 Why is he here? Am I not the master in my own house?

01:26:24 To provide for your wife some contact with a world of sensitivity of which you have no knowledge.

01:26:29 Here, here.

01:26:30 [Singing]

01:26:52 [Music]

01:27:21 Pardon me.

01:27:22 Excuse me.

01:27:23 Pardon me.

01:27:24 Pardon me.

01:27:25 Lalo.

01:27:27 Oh, I'm late.

01:27:29 The hearing must have started. Why aren't you there?

01:27:31 No, not yet, but in a second.

01:27:32 Now, you mustn't be nervous. There's nothing to be worried about.

01:27:35 Just see to it that they get it over with quickly. Such nonsense.

01:27:39 May I?

01:27:40 Thank you.

01:27:41 [Music]

01:27:46 How dare they hold their silly investigation the same night as the concert.

01:27:49 It's unforgivable.

01:27:51 It may be worse.

01:27:52 From what I hear, Professor Elwell and his gang insisted upon it.

01:27:56 They consider it unlikely that Noah will conduct if the hearing goes against him.

01:28:00 The reasons for it could then hardly be kept confidential.

01:28:03 The hearing will not go against him.

01:28:05 And besides, Noah would conduct on his way to be hanged.

01:28:09 [Music]

01:28:20 [Door opening]

01:28:24 I'm terribly sorry, gentlemen. It was unavoidable.

01:28:27 My apologies.

01:28:28 [Knocking]

01:28:30 Well, now that we're all here, shall we begin?

01:28:33 It is my intention, gentlemen, to conduct this hearing informally.

01:28:36 Dr. Pretorius, wouldn't you like to sit closer?

01:28:39 Thank you. I prefer to remain as remote as possible.

01:28:42 I suggested it merely to avoid having our discussion take on the appearance of a trial.

01:28:46 I appreciate your thoughtfulness, but I consider this trial to be a trial.

01:28:51 I have no intention of regarding an investigation of my methods and myself as a cozy little chat among friends.

01:28:59 Hear, hear.

01:29:00 Professor Barker, I will have to insist that no one speak without being recognized by the chair.

01:29:05 I am by nature a man who interrupts. However, I shall try.

01:29:09 Thank you.

01:29:11 Dr. Pretorius, may I suggest to begin with, in order to avoid both the embarrassment and time involved in examination,

01:29:17 that you give of your own accord a pertinent account of your life and professional activities prior to your arrival in this city, in this university.

01:29:24 I prefer to be questioned.

01:29:26 Why?

01:29:27 Because I do not intend to tell things about myself of my own accord, which are nobody's business but my own.

01:29:33 They are the concern of the entire medical profession.

01:29:35 Uh-uh. Be recognized.

01:29:37 You too, Professor Barker.

01:29:39 Your objection is understandable, Dr. Pretorius.

01:29:42 Professor Alva, you may begin your questioning.

01:29:44 My colleagues have appointed me to speak in their name.

01:29:47 I hope I may prove worthy of what is not only an honor, but a grave responsibility.

01:29:52 Dr. Pretorius, will you stipulate and agree to abide by the verdict of this committee?

01:29:57 I would do nothing of the kind.

01:29:59 Why not?

01:30:00 Because I don't know what the verdict will be.

01:30:03 The verdict will affect you seriously, whether you agree to abide by it or not.

01:30:07 Then why ask idiotic questions to which you already know the answers?

01:30:11 One horse on you, Elwell.

01:30:14 Will you admit that in 1936 you were a highly successful quack and miracle healer in a remote little village in the southern part of this state?

01:30:24 I will admit nothing of the kind.

01:30:27 Where did you live in 1936?

01:30:30 In Goose Creek.

01:30:32 Would you describe Goose Creek as a thriving metropolis?

01:30:35 It is a remote little village in the southern part of this state.

01:30:39 Exactly.

01:30:40 And, uh, what was your source of income in Goose Creek in 1936?

01:30:44 My practice.

01:30:46 You practiced openly?

01:30:48 I was available to anyone at any time.

01:30:50 I mean to say, did you set up practice as a doctor of medicine?

01:30:55 When I came to Goose Creek, I had my degree as a doctor of medicine.

01:30:58 I did not, however, display my M.D. upon my door.

01:31:01 Upon your shop door?

01:31:03 I beg your pardon, his shop door?

01:31:05 Isn't it true, Dr. Pretorius, that in that remote little village called Goose Creek, you opened a butcher shop?

01:31:12 An honorable trade, if ever there was one.

01:31:15 In itself, unimpeachable.

01:31:17 But what did you sell in your butcher shop?

01:31:19 Meat, at cost.

01:31:21 At cost? Without profit?

01:31:24 Then how did you make your living?

01:31:26 I made sick people well.

01:31:29 Uh-huh.

01:31:31 Why should that startle you? I still do.

01:31:34 Do you deny that at that time, your patients were under the impression that you were a butcher and not a doctor?

01:31:39 Do you prefer the impression given to their patients by so many of our colleagues that they are doctors and not butchers?

01:31:46 Bravo! Bravo!

01:31:49 Dr. Pretorius, won't you admit that your practice flourished in Goose Creek because you took advantage of the ignorance of its backward inhabitants?

01:31:57 Of the pathetic willingness of those poor people to rely upon a belief in miraculous cure rather than scientific knowledge?

01:32:04 And because of the readiness with which so many people will prefer the glamorous quack to the licensed practitioner?

01:32:10 Despite your definition of a quack as someone who does not practice medicine according to your rules, Professor Elver,

01:32:16 the fact remains that a quack is an unqualified person who pretends to be a doctor.

01:32:21 I was a licensed practitioner and therefore not a quack.

01:32:24 And as to the willingness of those so-called ignorant and backward people to rely upon the curative powers of faith and possibly miracles too,

01:32:32 I consider faith properly injected into a patient as effective in maintaining life as adrenaline.

01:32:36 And a belief in miracles has been the difference between living and dying as often as any surgeon's skull falls.

01:32:42 That is not the issue under discussion. It is precisely the issue.

01:32:46 Whether the practice of medicine shall become more and more intimately involved with the human beings it treats,

01:32:51 or whether it's to go on in this present way of becoming more and more a thing of pills, serums, and knives,

01:32:56 until eventually we shall undoubtedly evolve an electronic doctor.

01:33:00 The issue at hand is quite simply that you amassed a fortune by treating sick people who believed that you were a miracle-working butcher.

01:33:07 I could not have amassed that fortune unless I had made an enormous number of sick people well.

01:33:13 All this folderol, as I see it, has got nothing to do with the ethics and honor of our profession.

01:33:19 It has everything to do with envy of one man's genius for healing the sick,

01:33:23 of his use of remedies you can't prescribe by bottles or apply with a knife.

01:33:27 Call Praetorius a psychiatrist, high priest, voodoo, medicine man, witch doctor, anything you like.

01:33:33 But don't investigate him, gentlemen. Learn from him.

01:33:36 Professor Barker! It was understood you would not interrupt.

01:33:40 I'm sorry. You can strike my remarks from the record.

01:33:44 I'm sure you all agree with me anyway, so why don't we call this whole silly thing off and start the concert?

01:33:50 It would interest me, Dr. Praetorius, to know why you ever left this lucrative practice in Goose Creek, and under what circumstances.

01:34:03 I'd always intended to leave when I'd acquired enough money to start a clinic of my own.

01:34:08 As it turned out, I left a little sooner than I'd planned.

01:34:11 You see, I'd fired my housekeeper. She was falsifying my grocery bills and splitting the money with the grocer.

01:34:17 Unfortunately, she had previously discovered my medical diploma in the bottom drawer of my desk.

01:34:23 In revenge for being fired, she let it be known around Goose Creek that I was not a butcher at all, but a licensed M.D.

01:34:30 I was confronted by a crowd of angry townspeople and forced to admit the truth.

01:34:35 I narrowly escaped being run out of town on a rail.

01:34:39 Any more questions, Professor Elwood?

01:34:44 A great many more, thank you.

01:34:47 [crowd noise]

01:34:50 [applause]

01:34:57 [applause]

01:35:00 Professor Barker?

01:35:21 May I point out that these monkey shines are seriously delaying the concert of our student orchestra.

01:35:26 Our concern here is the future good and welfare of our students as doctors of medicine, not as troubadours.

01:35:32 Were you recognized?

01:35:33 Professor Barker, we're all concerned about the delay of the concert.

01:35:36 The fact that this hearing conflicts with it is a most unfortunate coincidence.

01:35:39 You don't believe that any more than I do.

01:35:42 Continue, Professor Elwood.

01:35:44 Dr. Pretorius.

01:35:52 I thought you'd forgotten me.

01:35:55 Who is Shunderson?

01:35:57 I take it you mean Mr. Shunderson.

01:36:01 Mr. Shunderson is my friend.

01:36:04 Is he associated with you professionally?

01:36:07 Not as a professional. He helps whatever he can.

01:36:11 He is also employed in your home as a manservant or a butler, is he not?

01:36:19 I do not employ him at all. He works at whatever he pleases, where he pleases, and when.

01:36:24 He's never very far from your side, or for long, it seems.

01:36:27 Rarely.

01:36:29 Dr. Pretorius, what was Mr. Shunderson before you knew him?

01:36:35 I refuse to answer that question.

01:36:42 What were the circumstances under which you made his acquaintance?

01:36:48 I refuse to answer that question.

01:36:52 You have always evidenced a remarkable tolerance for this strange and mysterious man.

01:36:58 His qualifications have been questioned.

01:37:00 His blundering and slow-wittedness have caused complaint,

01:37:03 and yet you have protected him at all times to the fullest extent of your authority.

01:37:08 His qualifications concern no one but me, since his responsibility is to no one but me.

01:37:14 As to his so-called blundering, I have not seen it.

01:37:18 As to his so-called blundering and so-called slow-wittedness,

01:37:22 perhaps I overlook them because I know the reason for them.

01:37:25 And is the reason of so delicate a nature that you cannot divulge it even here?

01:37:29 I have no right to divulge it anywhere.

01:37:32 May I suggest to you then, Dr. Pretorius,

01:37:35 that your refusal to divulge it is not out of loyalty to Mr. Shunderson,

01:37:39 but is due to some unsavory and dishonorable coercion upon you,

01:37:43 because the reason, which has been so delicately characterized here,

01:37:46 has to do simply with Mr. Shunderson having been a convicted murderer.

01:37:50 What are you doing here?

01:38:01 I was listening through the door.

01:38:04 I protest against this highly irregular, unethical, and probably prearranged eavesdropping.

01:38:09 Elwell, you can use more words more unpleasantly

01:38:12 than any irritating little pipsqueak I've ever known.

01:38:15 Gentlemen, I suggest we leave the saloon floor

01:38:18 and return to a more academic level of behavior.

01:38:21 I want to tell my story.

01:38:26 He'll never tell it,

01:38:28 but what you want to know about me has nothing to do with him.

01:38:32 Well, let's hear it by all means.

01:38:34 - Okay? - Certainly, Mr. Shunderson.

01:38:37 Certainly, Mr. Shunderson.

01:38:39 Okay.

01:38:52 I'm not a fancy talker.

01:38:58 I don't know a lot of words.

01:39:00 That alone is a welcome relief.

01:39:04 - Well, now, I... - Don't start with "well, now."

01:39:08 Where should I begin?

01:39:11 Tell them when you were condemned to death for murder.

01:39:14 The first time?

01:39:16 Of course.

01:39:18 Well, the first time was in Canada in 1917.

01:39:24 It was Christmas.

01:39:26 It wasn't a very merry Christmas.

01:39:29 Don't editorialize. Just tell the facts.

01:39:32 I had a sweetheart and a friend.

01:39:35 We were very close, the three of us.

01:39:37 We went everywhere together.

01:39:39 Well, this one time, we went mountain climbing.

01:39:43 My sweetheart couldn't climb very high,

01:39:46 so she stayed behind at a hotel while my friend and I went on.

01:39:50 We didn't get very far before we started to argue.

01:39:54 I don't remember what about.

01:39:56 We always argued, as friends do.

01:39:59 But this time, he hit me with a rock.

01:40:03 So I hit him with one.

01:40:06 Not too much detail.

01:40:08 Anyway, we had a bloody fight, and he ran away.

01:40:13 So I went back to my sweetheart.

01:40:16 She was waiting in the lobby of the hotel.

01:40:19 She didn't even say hello.

01:40:22 She took one look at the blood on my clothes

01:40:25 and saw that I was alone

01:40:27 and started to scream, "Murderer! Murderer!"

01:40:31 That was how I found out that my sweetheart and my friend were sweethearts.

01:40:37 Who saw to it that you were arrested and charged with murder?

01:40:41 Oh, my sweetheart, of course.

01:40:43 Her testimony and the blood on my clothes were enough.

01:40:47 I was found guilty of murdering my friend,

01:40:50 and I was condemned to death.

01:40:52 But because nobody could produce the corpse of my friend, living or dead,

01:40:57 my sentence was commuted to 15 years at hard labor.

01:41:02 And was the corpse of your friend never found?

01:41:04 I found it myself.

01:41:06 After I served out my full 15 years at hard labor,

01:41:10 I found it accidentally.

01:41:13 I was walking past a restaurant in Toronto.

01:41:16 I happened to look in the window,

01:41:18 and there was the corpse of my friend sitting at a table eating a bowl of soup.

01:41:23 I think it was pea soup.

01:41:26 Immaterial and irrelevant.

01:41:29 Well, I went in and spoke to my friend in a very friendly fashion.

01:41:34 I asked him very nicely where he had been for 15 years

01:41:37 and why he never admitted that I didn't kill him.

01:41:41 His answer, gentlemen, was unsatisfactory.

01:41:44 So I hit him in the face with the bowl of soup.

01:41:47 Then I hit him with a chair.

01:41:49 Somebody called a policeman.

01:41:51 The policeman had a club.

01:41:53 I took the club away from him,

01:41:55 and it was with the policeman's club I finished up on my friend.

01:41:59 I tried to explain to the policeman that if I was committing a crime,

01:42:03 it was a crime for which I had already paid the penalty.

01:42:07 He arrested me anyway.

01:42:09 You were released, of course.

01:42:11 No. I was tried for his murder again and sentenced to death again.

01:42:16 But how could you be tried twice for the murder of the same man?

01:42:21 The prosecutor insisted that this was not the same murder.

01:42:25 The first time, no dead body was produced as evidence.

01:42:28 The prosecutor was very fair about it.

01:42:31 He was willing to admit that my first conviction was probably a miscarriage of justice,

01:42:36 but even though the first jury made a mistake,

01:42:38 he said I didn't have the right to commit a murder just to correct that mistake.

01:42:43 He demanded the death penalty, and I was condemned to death.

01:42:48 But this time you were pardoned.

01:42:50 No. This time they didn't even commute my sentence.

01:42:54 You see, the fact that I killed my friend with a policeman's club made it a very serious crime.

01:43:00 Then will you tell us, Mr. Shaunderson, how did you manage to escape?

01:43:04 I didn't escape.

01:43:06 Well, what happened to get you out of it?

01:43:08 Nothing. I was executed.

01:43:11 Executed? This is absurd.

01:43:14 It was on the morning of the 29th of February, 1932.

01:43:19 A leap year.

01:43:21 It was a gray and rainy morning.

01:43:24 The hangman put the noose around my neck.

01:43:27 Then we had to wait because some official forgot his glasses.

01:43:31 They held an umbrella over me so I wouldn't get wet.

01:43:35 Then the official's glasses came.

01:43:37 He read something. The minister prayed.

01:43:41 I closed my eyes and thought of my mother.

01:43:45 The floor went out from under me and that was that.

01:43:50 I must protest against this fantastic and childish assault upon our intelligence.

01:43:56 You be quiet.

01:43:58 Then what happened?

01:44:01 The next thing I felt was a finger with a rubber glove on it.

01:44:04 It was in my mouth pressing down on my tongue.

01:44:07 I bit it and somebody yelled.

01:44:10 I opened my eyes and that was the first time I saw Dr. Pretorius.

01:44:17 Only he wasn't a doctor then, just a medical student.

01:44:22 I think I can make this next part of the story clear to you.

01:44:27 At the time all this happened, I was just finishing my studies as a medical student.

01:44:31 I was also keeping company, as they say, with a young lady who happened to be the hangman's daughter.

01:44:38 Both the hangman and his daughter were generous and sympathetic.

01:44:42 The hangman in particular was sympathetic to my desire as a student of anatomy to have a cadaver of my own.

01:44:49 Knowing that Mr. Shunderson's body would go unclaimed,

01:44:52 because certainly no one was ever more alone in this world than poor Mr. Shunderson was,

01:44:57 the hangman managed to send it to me immediately after the hanging, along with a sweet note from his daughter.

01:45:03 I was delighted, of course.

01:45:05 But not for long. I soon found out that Mr. Shunderson was still alive.

01:45:10 You must have been furious.

01:45:12 He told me a story.

01:45:14 We put some pig iron in the cheap wooden coffin that he'd arrived in and had it buried in a charity graveyard.

01:45:21 From that day on he has never left me.

01:45:25 And I think it is understandable that from time to time he may seem a little confused,

01:45:31 and perhaps even a little dull-witted.

01:45:34 I don't mean to intrude too much, gentlemen, but I'm sure that by now you must have made up your minds.

01:45:51 Deborah! A wife simply does not come barging into a room when her husband is being investigated.

01:45:57 After all, if he's innocent, he's late for the concert.

01:46:00 And if he isn't, well, he'd better start conducting anyway, because he may have to earn his living at it.

01:46:05 I am of the opinion the hearing is at an end.

01:46:08 Do you agree, Professor Elwell?

01:46:11 The trouble with you is, Elwell, you've never had a cadaver of your own,

01:46:19 much less one that bit your finger.

01:46:22 And as for this incredible evening, gentlemen, the sooner we can forget it, the better for all concerned.

01:46:27 And I think we've held up the concert far too long.

01:46:30 Professor Elwell, you're a little man.

01:46:48 It's not that you're short, you're little in the mind and in the heart.

01:46:53 Tonight you tried to make a man little whose boots you couldn't touch

01:46:57 if you stood on tiptoe on top of the highest mountain in the world.

01:47:01 And as it turned out, you're even littler than you were before.

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