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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?
00:09:19 [Footsteps]
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.
00:26:21 I'll take her to the nearest room.
00:26:22 I'll take her to the nearest room.
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00:26:29 I'll take her to the nearest room.
00:26:30 I'll take her to the nearest room.
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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00:31:00 [music]
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00:31:50 [music]
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]
00:44:07 [Music]
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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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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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