Gentlemans Agreement

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00:04:31He'll be in himself in a half hour. If you don't mind waiting, I'll try again.

00:04:34Yes, please?

00:04:36I have an appointment with Mr. Minifee.

00:04:37Name, please?

00:04:38Skylar Green.

00:04:39A telegram for Mr. Pendleton.

00:04:41Through the door, second office to the right.

00:04:43Thank you.

00:04:44Skylar Green to see Mr. Minifee.

00:04:47Thank you.

00:04:49Mr. Minifee is expecting you.

00:04:50Mr. Irwin will call for thee.

00:04:51Janet, for Mr. Minifee.

00:04:54Follow me, please.

00:04:55All right.

00:04:57Yes, please?

00:04:58Miss Detters is expecting me.

00:04:59Just a moment, please.

00:05:01All right.

00:05:16Mr. Green.

00:05:17Oh, Mr. Green.

00:05:18Mr. Minifee is on the long distance.

00:05:20He'll be through in a moment.

00:05:21Won't you sit down?

00:05:22Have you seen the last issue?

00:05:23No, thank you.

00:05:24Is Mr. Green on there yet?

00:05:25Yes, Mr. Green is here.

00:05:26Good.

00:05:27I'll be right out.

00:05:32Come in, come in.

00:05:33Glad you're here, Green.

00:05:34This is all right now, Miss Miller.

00:05:35Get her off airmail special.

00:05:36Glad to see you.

00:05:37Come on in.

00:05:38Thanks.

00:05:41Sit down.

00:05:44Finding your way around?

00:05:45Almost.

00:05:46Good.

00:05:47Mother and kid like New York?

00:05:48Oh, fine.

00:05:49They like to go to New York.

00:05:50They like to go to New York.

00:05:51They like to go to New York.

00:05:53Had a bit of luck.

00:05:54Probably the last apartment left in Manhattan.

00:05:55Getting to know people here.

00:05:56Well, not yet.

00:05:57I'm always a little bit slow about that.

00:05:58Fix that up right away.

00:05:59How about tonight at my place?

00:06:00Having some people.

00:06:01A couple of girls and some people.

00:06:02Well, thanks.

00:06:03Some other time.

00:06:04Nonsense.

00:06:05I won't ask you another time.

00:06:06Here's the address.

00:06:07Miss Miller, don't disturb me till I call you for anything.

00:06:09Tell Mrs. Minifee Mr. Green's coming to dinner.

00:06:12Now, get good and comfortable.

00:06:16There.

00:06:17Because I'm going to tell her.

00:06:18I'm going to tell her.

00:06:19I'm going to tell her.

00:06:20I'm going to tell her.

00:06:21I'm going to tell her.

00:06:22Because I'm going to talk to you.

00:06:25For about an hour.

00:06:28Maybe two.

00:06:30I've had an idea.

00:06:50You'll go into the bar, won't you?

00:06:52Oh, Martini.

00:06:53Why don't we get you one?

00:06:54Jessie.

00:06:59Skylar Green I've been telling you about.

00:07:01My wife.

00:07:02Oh, don't be silly, Don.

00:07:03I know Mr. Green.

00:07:04I've read everything he ever wrote.

00:07:05You just never stop talking.

00:07:06Get him a drink.

00:07:07What'll you have?

00:07:08A martini and a good.

00:07:10Kathy, this is Mr. Green.

00:07:11My niece, Miss Lacey, and Bill Lacey.

00:07:13How do you do?

00:07:14You better clear things up now, Jessie,

00:07:15or you'll never get straightened out.

00:07:16Well, Mr. Green, Kathy and Bill...

00:07:18Kathy and Bill have been divorced for a couple of years, Green.

00:07:20She finds herself Miss Lacey and confuses everybody.

00:07:22All very friendly, very civilized, and very done.

00:07:24Life's your stuff, though.

00:07:26Please sit down, Mr. Green.

00:07:27Bill, would you get me another?

00:07:28Sure.

00:07:29The way it was before, all right?

00:07:30Just right, thank you.

00:07:31I haven't read everything you've written, Mr. Green,

00:07:33but what I have has been...

00:07:35What do people call a guy whose first name is Skylar?

00:07:37Phil.

00:07:38Good.

00:07:39Then I don't have to say Green all the time.

00:07:40Too hardy, last names, and Skylar is impossible.

00:07:42That bad.

00:07:43I wouldn't call a dog Skylar.

00:07:45John.

00:07:47My mother's name.

00:07:50My middle one.

00:07:51I started signing my stuff Skylar Green

00:07:53when I was on the college paper at Stanford.

00:07:55Sounded better to me, I guess, than Philip.

00:07:58Like, uh...

00:08:00Somerset Maugham instead of William,

00:08:02Sinclair Lewis instead of Harry.

00:08:04Somerset, Sinclair, Skylar.

00:08:06All S's. Maybe that means something.

00:08:08Yes.

00:08:09Do you mind telling people what you're writing now, Mr. Green?

00:08:13Oh, not at all.

00:08:15Well, I'm...

00:08:18I'm not writing anything just now.

00:08:20But, uh...

00:08:21Let me tell them.

00:08:22I've asked him to do a series on anti-Semitism.

00:08:24Break it wide open.

00:08:25Been wanting to do it for some time.

00:08:27Do I get a credit line?

00:08:28You?

00:08:29Yes.

00:08:30For what?

00:08:31Well, don't you remember?

00:08:32Oh, back around Christmas of last year,

00:08:33that Jewish schoolteacher resigning.

00:08:34I was the one who...

00:08:35Why, sure.

00:08:36I knew somebody was after me, but I forgot who.

00:08:38John, the Jacksons are here.

00:08:39All right.

00:08:40I'm always stealing ideas without knowing it, Phil.

00:08:42That's what keeps the magazine original.

00:08:48Funny you're suggesting the series.

00:08:51Is it?

00:08:52Why?

00:08:56Oh, uh...

00:08:59Lots of reasons.

00:09:01You make up your mind too quickly about people, Mr. Green.

00:09:04Women, anyway.

00:09:06I saw you do it when you sat down.

00:09:08As apparent as all that.

00:09:10You cross-filed and indexed me.

00:09:12A little too well-bred?

00:09:14Self-confident?

00:09:16Artificial?

00:09:17A little absurd?

00:09:18Typical New York.

00:09:19No.

00:09:20I didn't have time for all that.

00:09:21Oh, yes, you did.

00:09:22I even left out a few things.

00:09:23Faintly irritating, upper-class manner,

00:09:25over-bright voice.

00:09:26All right, all right.

00:09:28I give up.

00:09:29You win.

00:09:30I'm sorry.

00:09:31I couldn't resist it.

00:09:32Because it's only partly true.

00:09:35Is this your first trip east?

00:09:37No, it's not my first trip.

00:09:39Every other time I've been here, though,

00:09:41I've had a plane or railroad or something.

00:09:45A plane or railroad or boat ticket for tomorrow.

00:09:48Are you going to stay?

00:09:50I think so.

00:09:54You're getting a pretty complete story on me.

00:09:56Now it's your turn.

00:09:58Well, you know I'm divorced.

00:10:00I help run a nursery school.

00:10:02I'm called Miss Lacey.

00:10:06Do you want just anything?

00:10:10Just anything.

00:10:12Dinner.

00:10:14Dinner?

00:10:22No reading comics at the table, Tommy.

00:10:24Put it away.

00:10:25Oh, let me finish.

00:10:26I'm right at the end.

00:10:28No making mysteries at the table either, Phil.

00:10:30Mysteries?

00:10:31I haven't even mentioned your assignment.

00:10:33Oh.

00:10:34He wants me to do a series on anti-Semitism.

00:10:37You don't sound very enthused yet.

00:10:39I'm not.

00:10:41Will you insist on your doing it?

00:10:44Well, I'm kind of an editor.

00:10:46Mama, what do you do to just eggs to make them taste this way?

00:10:50Prey on them.

00:10:55Have a good time last night?

00:10:57Yeah.

00:10:59You know, you need new people as much as you need new places.

00:11:02I mean, everybody does, not just you.

00:11:05Oh, it was a good bunch to start with.

00:11:07And the funny thing, there's a girl.

00:11:09Menifee's niece suggested that series on anti-Semitism.

00:11:11Funny.

00:11:13Hey, why, women will be thinking next, Phil.

00:11:15What's anti-Semitism?

00:11:17That's anti-Semitism.

00:11:21Oh, that's where some people don't like other people just because they're Jews.

00:11:25Oh.

00:11:27Why? Are they bad?

00:11:29Some are, sure. Some aren't. It's like everybody else.

00:11:33What are Jews, anyway? I mean, exactly.

00:11:38Well, you remember last week when you asked me about that big church?

00:11:41Sure.

00:11:43There are lots of different churches?

00:11:44Yeah.

00:11:45Well, the people who go to that particular church are called Catholics, see?

00:11:49And there are people who go to other churches, and they're called Protestants.

00:11:53And there are others who go to still different ones, and they're called Jews.

00:11:57Only they call their kind of churches synagogues or temples.

00:12:00And why don't some people like those?

00:12:06Well, that's a kind of a tough one to explain, Tom.

00:12:09Some people hate Catholics, and some hate Jews.

00:12:12And no one hates us because we're Americans.

00:12:16Well, no, no. That's another thing again.

00:12:20So you can be an American and a Catholic, or an American and a Protestant, or an American and a Jew.

00:12:26Look, look, Tom. It's like this.

00:12:29One thing's your country, see? Like America.

00:12:32Or France, or Germany, or Russia. All the countries.

00:12:35The flag is different, and the uniform is different, and the language is different.

00:12:38And the airplanes are marked different?

00:12:40Well, that's right.

00:12:42But the other thing is religion, like the Jewish, or the Catholic, or the Protestant religion, see?

00:12:46That hasn't anything to do with the flag, or the uniform, or the airplanes.

00:12:50You got it?

00:12:51Yep.

00:12:52Well, don't ever get mixed up on that.

00:12:53I got it.

00:12:54Well, some people are mixed up.

00:12:56Why?

00:12:58It's 8.30, Tommy. You'd better get going.

00:12:59Yeah, yeah. You'll be late.

00:13:01Finish your milk.

00:13:02Thank you.

00:13:03Bye.

00:13:08That's all right, Phil. You're always good with him.

00:13:10That kid's going to wreck me, yeah.

00:13:12Did you and Dad have to go through this sort of stuff with me?

00:13:15Of course we did.

00:13:20Are you very disappointed, Phil?

00:13:22Yes, I am.

00:13:24I was almost sure he'd hand me the job.

00:13:26Well, he did.

00:13:27He did?

00:13:28Yeah.

00:13:30Yes, I am.

00:13:31I was almost sure he'd hand me the Stassen story, or Washington.

00:13:35I wasn't looking for an easier one, Ma.

00:13:37But I did want something that I could really make good on.

00:13:40I'd so like the first one here to be a natural.

00:13:42Something I'd know they'd read.

00:13:44Oh, you mean there's enough anti-Semitism in real life without people reading it?

00:13:47No.

00:13:48But this one's doomed before I start.

00:13:51What could I possibly say that hasn't been said before?

00:13:54I don't know.

00:13:56Maybe it hasn't been said well enough.

00:13:58If it had, you wouldn't have had to explain it to Tommy just now, your father and I to you.

00:14:03It would be nice sometimes not to have to explain it to someone like Tommy.

00:14:08Kids are so decent to start with.

00:14:12Home for lunch?

00:14:14No.

00:14:16I'll take a walk.

00:14:21You're quite a girl, Ma.

00:14:23Quite a girl, Ma.

00:14:54Well, you seem surprised.

00:14:56Yes.

00:14:57Why?

00:14:58Well, I didn't think you were going to do it.

00:15:00You have a bad poker face, Phil.

00:15:02I saw you were disappointed in the assignment the minute I mentioned it.

00:15:04That's why I didn't push it.

00:15:05What changed your mind?

00:15:06Oh, a couple of things.

00:15:07Uh-huh.

00:15:08I may put my niece on the contract.

00:15:09Inspiration department.

00:15:10No, it wasn't that.

00:15:12It was my kid.

00:15:13I had to explain it to him this morning.

00:15:15It was kind of tough.

00:15:17It's really each...

00:15:19It's really each...

00:15:21It's really each house, each family that decides it.

00:15:23Anyway, I want to do it very much.

00:15:25I couldn't be more pleased.

00:15:26I'll have to get some facts and figures from your research department.

00:15:28What?

00:15:29I said I'll have to get facts, figures from your research people.

00:15:32Now, wait a minute. Hold on.

00:15:34I've got 18 hacks on this magazine who can do this series with their left hands, Chuck,

00:15:37full of facts, figures and research.

00:15:39I don't need you for that.

00:15:40What do you think I brought you here for?

00:15:42Facts and figures?

00:15:43Use your head.

00:15:44Go right to the source.

00:15:45I want some angle.

00:15:46Some compelling lead.

00:15:47Some dramatic effect.

00:15:50Some compelling lead.

00:15:51Some dramatic device to humanize it so that it gets red.

00:15:54Boy, you don't want much.

00:15:55You just want the moon.

00:15:56With parsley.

00:15:57Suggestion?

00:15:58There's a bigger thing to do than to go after the crackpot story.

00:16:00It's been done plenty.

00:16:02It's the wider spread of it that I want to get at.

00:16:04The people that would never go near an anti-Semitic meeting

00:16:06or send a dime to Gerald L.K. Smith.

00:16:11All right.

00:16:14I'll knock it around.

00:16:16Give my best to the research department.

00:16:19You don't happen to want my niece's phone number, do you?

00:16:22Regent 70493.

00:16:24We're having dinner together.

00:16:26I always like to go right to the source.

00:16:39You're a very flattering listener.

00:16:41Oh, I've been interested.

00:16:42No, it's more than that.

00:16:43Your face takes sides.

00:16:45As if you were voting for and against.

00:16:48When I told you about my longing to have a nice home like other children,

00:16:51you looked happy.

00:16:52When I told you about Uncle John offering to send me to Vassa,

00:16:55you looked bleak.

00:16:58How'd your parents take it about Mr. Minifee

00:17:02giving you an allowance and pretty clothes and all the rest?

00:17:06Oh, they said they wanted Jane, my sister, and me

00:17:08to have the things that would make us happy.

00:17:13And did they?

00:17:14Yes, I think so.

00:17:16I quit being envious.

00:17:18And...

00:17:20snobbish.

00:17:22I felt right and easy.

00:17:26Now you're looking all dubious again.

00:17:28Oh, please.

00:17:30Don't think that I'm just sitting here approving and disapproving.

00:17:36It's not that.

00:17:37It's...

00:17:38It's just that...

00:17:40Well, I...

00:17:44We've certainly covered a lot of ground.

00:17:48Are you engaged to anybody now?

00:17:50Or in love, or anything?

00:17:52Not especially.

00:17:56Are you?

00:17:59Not anything.

00:18:04Dancing?

00:18:07Oh, by the way.

00:18:08What was the point of your ex-husband

00:18:10being asked up to the Minifees when you were there?

00:18:13Were they trying to bring you together?

00:18:15Could be.

00:18:16Aunt Jessie does it every once in a while.

00:18:20Did you ask me to dance?

00:18:38Oh...

00:18:41Oh...

00:18:43Oh...

00:18:47Oh...

00:18:49Oh...

00:19:08Oh, Phil!

00:19:10Miss Lacey!

00:19:16You'll be right here.

00:19:18He's still at it.

00:19:22Hi, how's the big outside world?

00:19:24Still there, everybody having fun?

00:19:26No, no, I'm fine.

00:19:28Just wish I were dead, that's all.

00:19:30Oh, thanks, Kathy.

00:19:32I'm in my stubborn streak now.

00:19:34If it won't budge, I won't.

00:19:37Great.

00:19:38At the rate it's going now,

00:19:39do you think you'd like me with white hair?

00:19:41Yeah, I think you'd look dandy with white hair.

00:19:43I'll be right here, still trying.

00:19:45Oh, please do.

00:19:47If you don't call, I just keep wondering why you don't.

00:19:49So it works out as an interruption either way.

00:19:51Well, I'm a working girl myself.

00:19:53How many interruptions a day do you want?

00:19:55Oh, thank you to call me five or six times a day.

00:19:57It's your fault I'm in this jam, anyway.

00:19:59Okay.

00:20:01Bye.

00:20:04Why don't you take some time off, Phil?

00:20:06Oh, you know me, Ma.

00:20:08When I'm like this, I wouldn't be any fun for Kathy or anybody else.

00:20:10I'm certainly no fun for myself.

00:20:12No ideas at all yet?

00:20:14Sure, plenty of ideas,

00:20:16but they all explode in my face after an hour or so.

00:20:18They just don't stand up.

00:20:20When you get the right one, there's a kind of a click that happens inside of you.

00:20:22It hasn't happened yet,

00:20:24and it doesn't look like it's going to either.

00:20:26I'm bored with the whole thing.

00:20:28Bored with myself, as a matter of fact.

00:20:30Hey, Ma, do you think I'm losing my grip?

00:20:32You're right, it's due. Maybe it's my turn.

00:20:35You better not.

00:20:37You wouldn't be able to make a nickel at anything else.

00:20:39Oh, thanks. You can go now.

00:20:41That's a big help.

00:20:43Bring those things in with you, will you?

00:20:45Isn't it always tough at the start, Phil?

00:20:47Never like this.

00:20:49Never.

00:20:51I've tried everything.

00:20:53Anti-Semitism and business, labor, professions.

00:20:55It's all there, all right, but I can't make it give.

00:20:57I've tried everything separately and together.

00:20:59Every time I think I'm getting on the edge of something good,

00:21:01I go into it a little deeper,

00:21:03into the same old drool of statistics and protest.

00:21:05It's like beating your head against a concrete wall.

00:21:11Gee, I wish Dave were here.

00:21:13Dave Goldman?

00:21:15Yeah. He'd be the guy to talk it over with, wouldn't he?

00:21:17Yes, I guess he would. He's still overseas.

00:21:19Yeah, looks like he's stuck there, too.

00:21:21He'd be just the one, though.

00:21:23Hey, you know,

00:21:25maybe that's a new tack.

00:21:27So far, I've been digging into facts and evidence.

00:21:29I sort of ignored feelings.

00:21:32How must a fellow like Dave feel about this thing?

00:21:34That's good, Phil.

00:21:36Over and above what we feel about it,

00:21:38what must a Jew feel about this thing?

00:21:40Dave.

00:21:42Can I think my way into Dave's mind?

00:21:44He's the kind of fellow I'd be if I were a Jew, isn't he?

00:21:46We grew up together.

00:21:48We lived in the same kind of homes.

00:21:50We were the gang. We did everything together.

00:21:52Whatever Dave feels now, indifference, outrage, contempt,

00:21:54would be the feelings of Dave

00:21:56not only as a Jew,

00:21:58but the way I feel as a man, as an American,

00:22:00as a citizen. Is that right, Ma?

00:22:02Sit down and write him a letter now.

00:22:04Hey, maybe I've broken this log jam, Ma.

00:22:06Maybe this is it.

00:22:08Put it down to me just like you said it to me.

00:22:16Now, what do I say?

00:22:21What do I say?

00:22:23Dear Dave, give me the lowdown on your guts

00:22:25when you hear about Rankin calling people kites.

00:22:27How do you feel when you hear about

00:22:29having their teeth kicked out by Jew haters in New York City?

00:22:31Could you write that kind of a letter, Ma?

00:22:33No.

00:22:35That's no good, all of it.

00:22:37Wouldn't be any good if I could write it.

00:22:39There isn't any way you can tear open

00:22:41the secret heart of another human being, Ma. You know that.

00:22:43Yes, I guess you're right, but there must be some way.

00:22:45There must.

00:22:47Hey, don't you get started.

00:22:49I don't want to depress the whole family.

00:22:51You look tired, Ma. Why don't you go to bed?

00:22:53One good thing came out of this anyway.

00:22:55It reminded me I owe Dave a letter.

00:22:57Oh, boy.

00:22:59And I'd like a little more sympathy around here

00:23:01to let you see how tough it is.

00:23:03Sympathy? Oh, no.

00:23:05But I think it's worth it, Phil, if that's any consolation.

00:23:07Oh, it's mighty small, Ma, mighty small,

00:23:09but I'm in no position to...

00:23:11Good night, Dave.

00:23:27Good night.

00:23:53Tommy?

00:23:57Ma?

00:24:01Ma?

00:24:05Is it your heart? Does it seem like your heart?

00:24:07Wait.

00:24:13All right.

00:24:15Does it seem any easier?

00:24:19Pass it.

00:24:21I'll get a doctor.

00:24:23I'll phone Kathy. She'll know what I want.

00:24:25Okay.

00:24:33I never...

00:24:35realized pain could be so...

00:24:37sharp.

00:24:39You let me phone Kathy. She'll know a heart man.

00:24:43What time is it?

00:24:45Oh, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

00:24:49Come on.

00:24:51Come back and hold my hand.

00:25:15Will she die, Pop?

00:25:17Will she?

00:25:19She'll die someday, Tom.

00:25:21Just like you or me or anybody.

00:25:23The doctor said she might be fine for years

00:25:25if she's careful.

00:25:27Your grandma's not young, Tom,

00:25:29and all that packing and unpacking tired her out too much.

00:25:31I'll bet we can run this place between us.

00:25:33Sure.

00:25:35See, Pop?

00:25:37It's scary, Tom, I know.

00:25:39I was scared last night myself, buddy.

00:25:41We'll take good care of her,

00:25:43and she might be fine

00:25:45until you're grown up and married and have kids.

00:25:47Well, that's the doctor.

00:25:49Will you make your own breakfast and get off to school?

00:25:51Sure.

00:25:53We'll run this place just fine. You get going now.

00:26:13I told your mother the truth.

00:26:15People with hearts outlive everyone else

00:26:17if they take care.

00:26:19This may prove to be what we call false angina

00:26:21instead of the true angina.

00:26:23You keep her in bed for a few days,

00:26:25and then we'll get her to the office and really see.

00:26:27No use getting too technical

00:26:29until we really know.

00:26:31Oh, doctor, yes, sure.

00:26:33I never minimize at a time like this, Mr. Green.

00:26:35I don't frighten, but I don't minimize.

00:26:37Right now, it's nothing to worry about.

00:26:39Phil?

00:26:41Go ahead. I know the way out.

00:26:43I'll keep dropping in for the next few days.

00:26:45Right.

00:26:49Everything okay?

00:26:51No need to look like Hamlet.

00:26:53I feel wonderful.

00:26:55Well, don't crowd things.

00:26:57Do you like talking?

00:26:59Ever know me when I didn't?

00:27:01Except last night.

00:27:03Now I really believe the doctor for the first time.

00:27:05Good. So do I.

00:27:07Tommy get off all right?

00:27:09Sure he did. Fixed his own breakfast.

00:27:11Did a good job of it, too.

00:27:13I'll be up tomorrow.

00:27:15Oh, no, you won't.

00:27:17Get any sleep?

00:27:19Eyes like poached eggs.

00:27:21Get some sleep today, Phil.

00:27:23Don't try to work, please.

00:27:25Oh, you don't need to worry about that more.

00:27:27I've decided.

00:27:29I'm going to phone Menifee.

00:27:31There's a certain virtue in knowing when you're licked.

00:27:33Well, I'm licked, and I might as well accept it gracefully.

00:27:35I decided last night.

00:27:37When?

00:27:39I was sitting here, holding your hand, waiting for the doctor.

00:27:41Why?

00:27:43I was scared, Ma.

00:27:45Just like I used to be

00:27:47when I get to wondering what I'd do

00:27:49if anything ever happened to you.

00:27:51It all came back.

00:27:53I was a kid again, and my Ma was sick.

00:27:55Ah, Phil.

00:27:57I wanted to ask, is it awful? Are you afraid?

00:27:59There's some questions nobody can ask,

00:28:01and they can't be answered.

00:28:03I'll know the answer to those two

00:28:05only when I feel it myself,

00:28:07when I'm lying there,

00:28:09and that's the way it is with the series, Ma.

00:28:11I can't really write it.

00:28:13But you did get the answers before, Phil.

00:28:15Every article you ever wrote,

00:28:17the right answers got in, somehow.

00:28:19Yeah, but I didn't ask for them,

00:28:21and I wanted to find out about a scared guy in a jalopy.

00:28:23I didn't stand out in Route 66

00:28:25and stop him so I could ask a lot of questions.

00:28:27I bought myself some old clothes

00:28:29and a broken-down car

00:28:31and took Route 66 myself.

00:28:33I lived in their camps, ate what they ate.

00:28:35I found the answers in my own guts,

00:28:37not somebody else's.

00:28:39I didn't say, what does it feel like to be an Okie?

00:28:41I was an Okie.

00:28:43That's the difference, Ma.

00:28:45On the coal mine series, I didn't sit in my bedroom

00:28:47and do a lot of research, did I?

00:28:49I didn't go out and tap some poor, grimy guy

00:28:51on the shoulder and make him talk.

00:28:53I got myself a job.

00:28:55I went down in the dark. I slept in a shack.

00:28:57I didn't try to dig into a coal miner's heart.

00:28:59I was a miner.

00:29:06Oh.

00:29:08Maybe.

00:29:10Yeah, maybe.

00:29:15I got it.

00:29:17I'll leave the idea of the angle.

00:29:19This is the way. It's the only way.

00:29:21I'll... I'll be Jewish.

00:29:23I'll...

00:29:25Well, all I gotta do is say it.

00:29:27Nobody knows me around here.

00:29:29I can just say it. I can live it myself

00:29:31for six weeks, eight weeks, nine months,

00:29:33no matter how long it takes. Ma, it's right this time.

00:29:35It must be, Phil.

00:29:37It always is when you're this sure.

00:29:39Listen, I even got the title.

00:29:41I was Jewish for six months.

00:29:43That's right, Phil.

00:29:45Oh.

00:29:47This is it.

00:29:49That click just happened inside of me.

00:29:53Well, it won't be the same.

00:29:55Sure, it won't, but it ought to be close.

00:29:57I can just tell them I am and see what happens.

00:29:59It'll work. It'll work fine, Phil.

00:30:01Dark hair, dark eyes, sure, so is Dave.

00:30:03So have a lot of guys who aren't Jewish.

00:30:05No accent, no mannerisms,

00:30:07neither is Dave.

00:30:11Name? Phil Green.

00:30:13Skip the Skyline.

00:30:15Might be anything. Phil Green.

00:30:17Boy, it's a cinch.

00:30:19Oh, Phil.

00:30:21This is the best medicine I could have had.

00:30:23Look, will you keep my secret if you're meeting new people?

00:30:25It has to be without exceptions if it works at all.

00:30:27Well, if you're Jewish, I am too, I guess.

00:30:29Take it easy. Don't get excited.

00:30:31I got a phone right away.

00:30:35Why didn't you have Kathy come over here?

00:30:37How'd you know I wasn't gonna phone Minify?

00:30:39Dope.

00:30:41Nobody phones a magazine editor

00:30:43with that look on his face.

00:30:47Oh, Phil.

00:30:49It's nice. It's attractive.

00:30:51Well, it's not done yet. Those packages of pictures,

00:30:53the last of our books just came.

00:30:55We have a fireplace. It works, too.

00:30:57All right. I spoke to Dr. Craig and he said she'd be fine.

00:30:59Oh, she's all right.

00:31:01What's the angle? Tell me fast.

00:31:03Oh, I will. Just a minute. I want to check up on Mark.

00:31:05Good. Give her my love.

00:31:27She's sleeping like a baby.

00:31:29Good. And don't worry about it.

00:31:31Let's have a drink. No, thanks.

00:31:33Just some sherry. All right.

00:31:35You're still not telling me.

00:31:37I know. It's funny.

00:31:39I thought I'd spill it out the minute you got inside the door.

00:31:41You sound as though excited. I am.

00:31:43Must have been really something to get you right there.

00:31:45Well, there'll be stumbling blocks and holes,

00:31:47but I don't care. I'll lift...

00:31:49lift them when I get to them.

00:31:57Carrie.

00:31:59Phil.

00:32:19Phil, wait now.

00:32:23You go over there and let me sit here.

00:32:25You go over there and let me sit here for a minute.

00:32:27What is it, Cathy?

00:32:29Nothing.

00:32:31I was just thinking.

00:32:37Marriage can...

00:32:39can be such a good way to live, Cathy.

00:32:41All these years, I've...

00:32:43kept hoping.

00:32:45I've kept hoping, too.

00:32:47But when you've made a mistake once, you're afraid.

00:32:51You're not afraid now.

00:32:55No, Phil.

00:32:57Oh, darling.

00:33:01What are you smiling at?

00:33:03Nothing.

00:33:05Come on. No secrets.

00:33:07I was just thinking.

00:33:09I was just playing that old game.

00:33:11All women do it, trying out the name.

00:33:13Say it out loud.

00:33:19Mrs. Skyler Green.

00:33:21How does it sound?

00:33:25It sounds just fine.

00:33:29How does it look on me?

00:33:31I like it.

00:33:33Cathy.

00:33:35You're not sorry about...

00:33:37Tom.

00:33:39Oh, Phil, I'm glad.

00:33:41It's almost as if my marriage hadn't been wasted,

00:33:43as if I'd had a son growing up for me.

00:33:45I knew you'd get it.

00:33:47But who'd ever think?

00:33:49Can you get away with it?

00:33:51Yeah, sure.

00:33:53If you and Cathy and Mrs. Minifee won't get me away,

00:33:55I haven't told Cathy yet.

00:33:57I'll take care of Mrs. Minifee.

00:33:59When do you start?

00:34:01Oh, what's the matter with right now?

00:34:03Fine. I'll get you an office and a secretary right away.

00:34:05But what about the secretary?

00:34:07She'd have to know.

00:34:09I'll get you an office and a secretary right away.

00:34:11But what about the secretary?

00:34:13She'd have to know, wouldn't she?

00:34:15Oh, yeah. Well, why?

00:34:17Supposing I were really Jewish and you gave me this assignment,

00:34:19what difference would it make to her or anybody?

00:34:21You're right, Phil. I'm excited about this.

00:34:23They'll read this all right.

00:34:25Mr. Minifee, Mr. Weissman is waiting in the dining room.

00:34:27Yes. What about lunch?

00:34:29Chance to meet the whole staff in one clip.

00:34:31Irving Weissman is lunching with us.

00:34:33Might be wise for you to know.

00:34:35Yeah, he's the big industrialist, isn't he?

00:34:37Yes. Come on. He's a colorful fellow.

00:34:39Old friend of mine. I know you'll like him.

00:34:42I know, but it was over in the air.

00:34:44Over to the left. That's what I'm talking about.

00:34:46Sorry, Welling. Very sorry, Irving.

00:34:48Mr. Phil Green.

00:34:50Irving Weissman. Mr. Weissman.

00:34:52Lou Jordan, our personnel manager.

00:34:54Joe Tingler, demon photographer.

00:34:56Art editor.

00:34:58The best layout man this side of the Mexican border.

00:35:00And last as a kind of dessert, Phil,

00:35:02Ann Dettry, our fashion editor.

00:35:04Clever, beautiful and dangerous.

00:35:06Eats men alive. Sit down beside her.

00:35:08Thank you very much.

00:35:11What's my writing name?

00:35:13Mr. Green is going to do a series on anti-Semitism for us.

00:35:15Really?

00:35:17Again?

00:35:19Not again. For the first time.

00:35:21We're going to split it wide open.

00:35:23Do you mind my saying as an old friend

00:35:25I think it a very bad idea, John?

00:35:27The worst, the most harmful thing you can possibly do now.

00:35:30Not at all. Why is it a harmful idea?

00:35:32Because it'll only stir it up more.

00:35:34That's why let it alone.

00:35:36We'll handle it in our own way.

00:35:38I don't care what you call it.

00:35:40Let it alone.

00:35:42You can't write it out of existence.

00:35:44We've been fighting it for years and we know from experience

00:35:46the less talk there is about it, the better.

00:35:48Sure. Pretend it doesn't exist

00:35:50and add to the conspiracy of silence.

00:35:52I should say not.

00:35:54Keep silent and let Bilbo and Gerald L.K. Smith

00:35:56do all the talking.

00:35:58No, sir. Irving,

00:36:00you and your let's-be-quiet-about-it committees

00:36:02have got just exactly no place.

00:36:04We're going to call a spade a dirty spade

00:36:06and I think it's high time and a fine idea.

00:36:08So do I. I couldn't agree with Mr. Minify more.

00:36:10You sound pretty hot about it, Mr. Green.

00:36:12Well, I feel pretty hot about it.

00:36:14I don't think it has anything to do with the fact

00:36:16that I'm Jewish myself.

00:36:32Right office?

00:36:34Mr. Green? Yes, sir, this is your office.

00:36:36I'm your secretary, Miss Wales. Elaine Wales is the name.

00:36:38How do you do?

00:36:48Mind if we get right to work?

00:36:50Not at all.

00:36:52You know about the series I'm doing?

00:36:54Yes, sir.

00:36:56Good. Now, the first thing I want to start is a file.

00:36:58I want you to write four letters to clubs, resorts,

00:37:00interviews for jobs,

00:37:02apartments for lease,

00:37:04application for medical schools and so forth.

00:37:06I've got a whole list here somewhere.

00:37:08Yes, sir.

00:37:10Now, write all the letters on blank stationery

00:37:12and I want you to write

00:37:14all the letters on blank stationery

00:37:16and I want you to write

00:37:18all the letters on blank stationery

00:37:20and write all the letters on blank stationery

00:37:22and send two to each address.

00:37:24One of them I want to sign Skyler Green

00:37:26and the other Philip Greenberg.

00:37:28See what I mean? Yes, sir.

00:37:30I have the replies sent to my home address. I'll give you that later.

00:37:32Yes, sir.

00:37:34Of course, you know that it will be

00:37:36yes to the Greens and no to the Greenbergs.

00:37:38Sure, but I want it for the record.

00:37:40Now, if your name

00:37:42was Saul Green or Irving

00:37:44or something like that, you wouldn't have to go to all this bother.

00:37:46I changed mine, did you?

00:37:48Wales?

00:37:50Well, Green's always been my name. What's yours?

00:37:52Walofsky. Estelle Walofsky.

00:37:54And I just couldn't take it.

00:37:56About applications, I mean.

00:37:58So, one day I wrote the same firm

00:38:00two letters. Same as you're doing now.

00:38:02I sent the Elaine Wales one

00:38:04after they'd said there were no openings

00:38:06to my first one.

00:38:08I got the job all right.

00:38:10Do you know what firm that was?

00:38:12Smith's Weekly.

00:38:14No.

00:38:16Yes, Mr. Green.

00:38:18The great liberal magazine

00:38:20that fights injustice on all sides.

00:38:22Slays me.

00:38:24I love it.

00:38:26Mr. Miniff, you know about that?

00:38:28Oh, he can't be bothered thinking about

00:38:30small fry. That's Mr. Jordan's department

00:38:32hiring and firing.

00:38:34But if anybody snitched, you know

00:38:36there'd be some excuse for

00:38:38throwing them out.

00:38:40So, anyway, I

00:38:42thought maybe you had changed yours sometime.

00:38:44I mean, when I heard you were Jewish.

00:38:48You heard it?

00:38:50Why, sure.

00:38:54Is this the last one?

00:38:56Yeah.

00:38:58When?

00:39:00Well,

00:39:02when you finished lunch and

00:39:04went back to Mr. Miniffy's office,

00:39:08it kind of got around.

00:39:10It kind of got around.

00:39:20She'll be up and about

00:39:22and fit as a fiddle day after tomorrow.

00:39:24You wouldn't mind if I had her see a good internist

00:39:26just to be on the safe side?

00:39:28Not at all. Good idea. I'll make an appointment if you wish.

00:39:30I always use Mason Van Dyke or James Kent.

00:39:32Or if you, some good man you'd like.

00:39:34One of the editors of the magazine recommended someone.

00:39:36Dr.

00:39:38Abrams.

00:39:40It's J.E. Abrams, Mount Sinai Hospital,

00:39:42Beth Israel, or both.

00:39:44Yes, yes, of course.

00:39:46Well, if you should decide to have your mother see

00:39:48Van Dyke or Kent, I'll arrange it.

00:39:50Why, isn't this Abrams fellow any good?

00:39:52No, nothing like that. Good man.

00:39:54Completely reliable.

00:39:56Not given to overcharging and stringing visits out

00:39:58the way some do.

00:40:02You mean the way

00:40:04some doctors do, or do you mean the way

00:40:06Jewish doctors do?

00:40:08I suppose you're right. I suppose

00:40:10some of us do it too.

00:40:12Not just the chosen people.

00:40:14Well, if Abrams doesn't impress me,

00:40:16I'll try Van Dyke or Kent.

00:40:18I've no special loyalty to Jewish doctors,

00:40:20simply because I'm Jewish myself.

00:40:24No. Of course not.

00:40:26Good man's a good man.

00:40:28I don't believe in prejudice.

00:40:30I see.

00:40:32Well, uh, good evening.

00:40:36Good evening.

00:40:46Evening, Mr. Green.

00:40:48Evening, Mr. Olson.

00:41:06I'm saying, Mr. Green,

00:41:08why don't you fill out one of them cards at the post office

00:41:10better, or watch for the mailman and tell him.

00:41:12What's the matter with this one?

00:41:14It's the rules.

00:41:16Leave that alone.

00:41:18There's nothing I can help, Mr. Green.

00:41:20It's the rules.

00:41:22The Renton agent should have explained.

00:41:24That is, excuse me, if you are.

00:41:26Excuse me, nothing.

00:41:28This is my job.

00:41:30I can't help you, Mr. Green.

00:41:32It's the rules.

00:41:34If you are.

00:41:36Excuse me, nothing.

00:41:38This is my place for two years, and don't touch that card.

00:41:54You don't mean that we're going to have dinner here.

00:41:56I do indeed.

00:41:58So we can talk.

00:42:00Talk.

00:42:02I won't let you get going on another thing.

00:42:04You don't even get dinner until you tell me the angle.

00:42:06I've been trying to guess what it is all day long.

00:42:08Have you really?

00:42:10Yes, I have.

00:42:12I kept thinking, suppose I were he and I had to find an angle,

00:42:14what would I do?

00:42:16Well, what would you do?

00:42:18Well, I got just no place.

00:42:20Some of the ideas you told me I thought were excellent,

00:42:22but you threw them out and kept hunting.

00:42:24Now you'll see why, as soon as I take it.

00:42:26Phil, tell me.

00:42:28Laura,

00:42:30here it is.

00:42:32I'm just going to let everybody know that I'm Jewish, that's all.

00:42:34Jewish?

00:42:36But you're not, Phil, are you?

00:42:38Not that it would make any difference to me,

00:42:40but you said, I'm going to let everybody know

00:42:42as if you hadn't before and would now.

00:42:44So I just wondered.

00:42:46Not that it would matter to me one way or the other.

00:42:48Phil, you're annoyed.

00:42:50No, I'm just thinking.

00:42:52Oh, don't be so serious about it.

00:42:54You must know where I stand.

00:42:56Oh, I do.

00:42:58But, you know,

00:43:00not knowing too much about you

00:43:02because you always make me talk about myself all the time,

00:43:04so that for a minute there,

00:43:06I wasn't very bright in the uptake.

00:43:08Well, anyway, you don't think much of my angle.

00:43:10Oh, I do.

00:43:12It's...

00:43:14It's what?

00:43:16It's just that I...

00:43:18I think it'll mix everybody up.

00:43:20People won't know what you are.

00:43:22Of course, after the series is finished,

00:43:24they'll know, but even so,

00:43:26it'll mix everybody up, won't it?

00:43:28All right.

00:43:30Let it.

00:43:32I must be out of my head.

00:43:34Let it, it's right. Who cares?

00:43:36I was just being too practical about things.

00:43:40That's what comes from being a schoolteacher.

00:43:42Now tell me more.

00:43:46Well,

00:43:48to begin with, you and the Menefees

00:43:50will have to promise not to give me away, but really,

00:43:52no exceptions for anything, okay?

00:43:54What about the people at Smith's?

00:43:56Well, they told...

00:43:58Well, they're not in on it, only Menefee.

00:44:00They think you're Jewish?

00:44:02Look, Kathy, I don't think you understand.

00:44:04If this thing is going to work,

00:44:06the only chance is to go whole hog at it.

00:44:08It's got to go right through everything.

00:44:14Of course.

00:44:16I hadn't really seen it before.

00:44:20I didn't mean to be so sharp.

00:44:22I'm sorry.

00:44:28Dinner?

00:44:30I'm fine.

00:44:32You sit there. I'm doing the serving myself.

00:44:52More coffee?

00:44:54It'll only take a minute, don't you think?

00:44:56No, thanks.

00:45:06No, I...

00:45:08I think I'd better be getting along.

00:45:12So soon?

00:45:14Well, I should look in at Ma

00:45:16before she gets back.

00:45:18So soon?

00:45:20Well, I should look in at Ma

00:45:22before she gets to sleep.

00:45:24Of course.

00:45:28You have to get to the school

00:45:30pretty early, don't you?

00:45:34Yes.

00:45:38I've got a pretty full day

00:45:40at the magazine, too.

00:45:42Yes.

00:45:48It was a mighty fine dinner.

00:45:50I'm glad you liked it.

00:45:52My car's downstairs.

00:45:54Let me run you home.

00:45:56Well, thanks. I think I'll walk.

00:45:58It's a lovely night.

00:46:04Yes, it is.

00:46:08It's lovely.

00:46:14I'd better be getting on.

00:46:18Don't bother. I know what my head is.

00:46:20It's no bother.

00:46:34I'll call you sometime tomorrow.

00:46:36All right.

00:46:38Good night.

00:46:40Good night, Bill.

00:46:48Good night.

00:46:58Mary said to come right over,

00:47:00but it'd be perfectly all right to bring you.

00:47:02She's cooked a big dinner, so there's plenty...

00:47:18I forgot something.

00:47:26What are we doing?

00:47:28What am I doing to her?

00:47:30It's my fault, dear.

00:47:32I'm always weighing and judging.

00:47:34I'm such a solemn fool.

00:47:36No, I should have said the angle was fine right away,

00:47:38and it is, darling. It is. It's wonderful.

00:47:40I don't know what happened.

00:47:42It started the minute you spoke.

00:47:44I felt insulted. If I were Jewish,

00:47:46I felt that I couldn't let you off.

00:47:48I couldn't make it any easier for you.

00:47:50All through dinner, I tried to reach you,

00:47:52tell you I was sorry, and I couldn't.

00:47:54I don't know what happened to me when you told me,

00:47:56except that a whole beautiful evening was spoiled.

00:47:58I wanted you to come back.

00:48:00Darling.

00:48:04But really, Mr. Menefee,

00:48:06I never make it a policy just to hire...

00:48:08Well, it's a question of personality.

00:48:10Please understand, Mr. Menefee,

00:48:12if a girl's personality

00:48:14is the type that fits in, I never...

00:48:16It's just by chance, you mean,

00:48:18that we haven't one secretary named Finkelstein or Cohn

00:48:20in the city of New York.

00:48:22Come off it, Jordan.

00:48:24Miss Miller, take a help-wanted ad.

00:48:26Expert secretary for editorial department,

00:48:28National Magazine.

00:48:30Exacting work, good pay,

00:48:32religion is a matter of indifference to this office.

00:48:34Got that? Yes, Mr. Menefee.

00:48:36In any other ad you run, be sure to use that last line.

00:48:38That's all, Miss Miller. Good afternoon, Jordan.

00:48:41By the way,

00:48:43if you should have to fire Miss Wales

00:48:45for any reason whatever at any time,

00:48:47remember, I'd like to review the case myself first.

00:48:50Good afternoon, Mr. Menefee.

00:48:56I'm ashamed of myself and this magazine, too.

00:48:58The sloppy, slovenly notion

00:49:00that everybody's busy doing bigger things.

00:49:02Well, there just isn't anything bigger than beating down

00:49:04the complacence of essentially decent people about prejudice.

00:49:06Yes, sir, I'm ashamed of myself.

00:49:08Go on back to work.

00:49:16I believe that I've given a clear

00:49:18and accurate picture of my qualifications,

00:49:20and I would

00:49:22very much appreciate

00:49:24your immediate consideration

00:49:26and reply sincerely yours.

00:49:28Better ask for an immediate reply on all of them.

00:49:30Don't bother to do it today,

00:49:32or it's too late. Tomorrow will be all right.

00:49:34Mr. Green, have you any idea

00:49:36when you'll start dictating the series itself?

00:49:38I would like to get the decks cleared.

00:49:40Well, I think I'll type it out myself to start with.

00:49:42I'm not much good on

00:49:44dictating actual copy.

00:49:46Well, that'll be all, Miss Wales.

00:49:48Better get along home.

00:49:50All right.

00:49:52Mr. Green,

00:49:54is it true about Mr. Jordan?

00:49:56What's true about Mr. Jordan?

00:49:58Well, he's telling everybody about Mr. Menefee's ad.

00:50:00He thinks it's a wonderful thing.

00:50:02He says.

00:50:04And I thought I'd ask you

00:50:06if it's really true that the ad says right out that...

00:50:08Right straight out, Miss Wales.

00:50:10It's got to be in all the papers tomorrow.

00:50:12You're practically inviting

00:50:14any type at all to apply.

00:50:16Any type? What do you mean?

00:50:18Mr. Green,

00:50:20you don't want things changed around here, do you?

00:50:22Even though you are a writer,

00:50:24and it's different for writers.

00:50:26Different for writers how?

00:50:28Well, I mean, just let them get

00:50:30one wrong one in here, and it'll come out of us.

00:50:32It's no fun being the fall guy

00:50:34for the kikey ones.

00:50:36Now, look, Miss Wales.

00:50:38We've got to be frank with each other.

00:50:40You have a right to know right now

00:50:42that words like yid

00:50:44and kike and kikey

00:50:46and nigger and coon make me kind of sick

00:50:48no matter who says them.

00:50:50But I only said it for a type.

00:50:52Yeah, but we're talking about a word first.

00:50:54But, Mr. Green,

00:50:56that doesn't mean a thing.

00:50:58Why, sometimes I even say it to myself

00:51:00about me, I mean.

00:51:02Like, if I'm about to do something

00:51:04and I know I shouldn't, I say,

00:51:06oh, don't be such a little kike.

00:51:08That's all.

00:51:10But just let one objectionable one get in here.

00:51:12Now, just a minute. What do you mean by objectionable?

00:51:14Loud and too much ruse.

00:51:16You can't hire any loud, vulgar girls here.

00:51:18What makes you think they're going to suddenly start?

00:51:20It's not only that.

00:51:22Mr. Green, you're sort of heckling me.

00:51:24You know as well as I do the sort that

00:51:26starts trouble in a place like this

00:51:28that doesn't like you or me.

00:51:30So what's the sense of pinning me down?

00:51:32You mean because we don't look especially Jewish?

00:51:34Because we're okay Jews.

00:51:36Because with us it can be kept nice and comfortable and quiet.

00:51:38I didn't say anything.

00:51:40Now, listen, Miss Wales, I hate anti-Semitism.

00:51:42I hate it when it comes from you or anybody who's Jewish

00:51:44just as much as I hate it when it comes from a Gentile.

00:51:46Me?

00:51:48Why, Mr. Green.

00:51:50See you tomorrow, Miss Wales.

00:51:52Good night.

00:51:58Good night.

00:52:06Why don't you go home?

00:52:08You're slowly going crazy.

00:52:10Hi there.

00:52:12Hello, Miss Diffrey.

00:52:14How can you stride down the hall with such energy and vitality

00:52:16at the end of the day?

00:52:18I'm bushed.

00:52:20Getting the book to bed gets worse every issue.

00:52:22I didn't know you called it the book around here.

00:52:24Oh, we do, we do.

00:52:26Are you thirsty?

00:52:28I do, and I'm just in the mood to hear the story of your life.

00:52:30Why, Mr. Green.

00:52:32I think this can be arranged.

00:52:34You can play your cards right.

00:52:36You know what Max Bauer wouldn't go to?

00:52:38This couldn't happen to a nicer girl.

00:52:40And he liked it, and that's how I got to be fashion editor in the first place.

00:52:42Oh, Jim Hoy.

00:52:44Oh, fine.

00:52:46Don't look now, but I think we've got visitors.

00:52:48Just when I was getting to the really tender part of my life, too.

00:52:50Mind if I sit with you charming people?

00:52:52No, sit down, Bert, sit down.

00:52:54It's such fun over here, I couldn't resist it.

00:52:56Oh, we just love to spread merriment.

00:52:58Our hearts are God's little garden, just an occasional weed here and there.

00:53:00Well, Ann, another issue gone to press.

00:53:02I swear, I don't see how we do it every week.

00:53:04Well, we're just brilliant, Bert.

00:53:06Every morning I get up and I say to the mirror,

00:53:08mirror, mirror on the wall,

00:53:10tell me who's the most brilliant of them all.

00:53:12What does the mirror say?

00:53:14That mirror ain't no gentleman, Mr. Green.

00:53:16Well, Green, how's the series coming?

00:53:18Well, I'm still just getting stuff together.

00:53:20There's plenty of it around.

00:53:22You know, our C.O. used to talk to us about it.

00:53:24Quite a liberal, that fellow.

00:53:26You were in public relations, weren't you?

00:53:30What makes you say that?

00:53:32I don't know.

00:53:34You just seem like a clever sort of a guy.

00:53:38What makes you think I wasn't a G.I.?

00:53:40Huh?

00:53:44Now, for goodness sake, Green, don't get me wrong.

00:53:46Why, some of my best friends...

00:53:48I know, dear, and some of your other best friends are Methodists,

00:53:50but you never bother to say it.

00:53:52Now, look, Ann. Skip it.

00:53:54Plug away, Phil, and be a dear.

00:53:58Well, if you'll excuse me, I've got to run.

00:54:02I'll be seeing you.

00:54:08Oh, drip.

00:54:10Now, for goodness sake, Green,

00:54:12don't get me wrong.

00:54:14Brittie believes it, too.

00:54:16Disapproves of the poll tax in Bilbo.

00:54:18Comes right out and says, so brave as anything.

00:54:22It's just a drip, let's face it.

00:54:24That imitation was wonderful.

00:54:26I've got a million of them.

00:54:28Well, we're back to lambs, anyway.

00:54:30Say, I'm having a flock of people up tomorrow night.

00:54:32What about pressing a black tide coming up?

00:54:34Sure, I like it fine. Can I bring my girl?

00:54:36Of course.

00:54:38What do you have, sir?

00:54:40More of the same.

00:54:48Wait here, will you?

00:54:50I'll be right back.

00:55:06It's dry.

00:55:08Well, that's what I call timing.

00:55:10I saw your cab driver.

00:55:12I just couldn't wait.

00:55:14Oh, brother.

00:55:16Oh, it's nothing.

00:55:18Little lady comes in twice a week and puts them up for me.

00:55:20Been with the family for generations.

00:55:22Look at you.

00:55:24First time I've seen you in dinner clothes.

00:55:26Enough to eat with a spoon.

00:55:28Come on, dear, let's go.

00:55:30Oh, I told Ma today all about us.

00:55:32Theo, was she pleased? Was she...

00:55:34She was delighted. She got very emotional for Ma.

00:55:36Anyway, she dropped one of her best dishes and broke it

00:55:38and blamed it all on Tom.

00:55:40I called my sister Jane this morning.

00:55:42She's out on the telephone and she's squealed Kathy.

00:55:44As if she'd given up all hope that anyone

00:55:46would ever ask me again.

00:55:48Oh, darling, she's aching to meet you.

00:55:50In fact, they're giving a big party for us next Saturday.

00:55:52Won't we have to let Jane in on it?

00:55:54I don't know. I haven't thought.

00:55:56I hadn't either until now.

00:55:58But won't we, my own sister? Your mother knows.

00:56:00Well, I know, dear, she had to.

00:56:02But Jane and her husband don't.

00:56:04You know, if you want to keep a secret, dear...

00:56:06But wouldn't it be sort of exaggerated of my own sister?

00:56:08Your sister-in-law knows.

00:56:10I mean, I do think it would be inflexible of you.

00:56:14Oh, I suppose it would.

00:56:16Inside the family.

00:56:18They won't tell anybody else, will they?

00:56:20Oh, they'd never breathe it.

00:56:22They want to fight this awful thing as much as you and I do.

00:56:26Darling, I'm going to see the proudest girl in the park.

00:56:28I'm going to have to kiss you in public

00:56:30and get a nice dark taxi outside.

00:56:32Oh, what are we waiting for?

00:56:34Come on.

00:56:36Don't dress so bad, dear.

00:56:40That's why I invited her.

00:56:56She is awfully attractive, isn't she?

00:56:58Yeah, she looks really beautiful.

00:57:00She certainly does. She likes you a lot.

00:57:04I'll scratch her eyes out if she makes a play for me.

00:57:06I'm sure.

00:57:08I've got this thing to worry about.

00:57:10Hello, Ann.

00:57:12Hello, Alex.

00:57:14Can I get you something? Food, drinks, some certified checks?

00:57:16Spending money? An emerald?

00:57:18Oh, it's a lovely party, Ann.

00:57:20We'll be better when it thins out a bit.

00:57:22I think I can get Sasha to play an effortless thing.

00:57:24Stick around.

00:57:26Say, Phil, Professor Lieberman just came in.

00:57:28Would you and Kathy like to meet him?

00:57:30Lieberman? I should say so.

00:57:32Hey, I'm scared. What does one say to a world-renowned physicist?

00:57:34Just hello to him.

00:57:36Hey, John.

00:57:40I'm not happy till I'm out of my boat.

00:57:42I brought myself a new one.

00:57:44You ought to join me one day.

00:57:46You look tired and drawn.

00:57:48Well, let's say so.

00:57:50Two people want to meet you but are scared.

00:57:52They'll introduce themselves.

00:57:54That'll make them open their mouths.

00:57:56You're on your own, kid.

00:57:58Come on, Fred. I want them to be alone.

00:58:00Professor, this is my fiancée, Kathy Lacy.

00:58:02How do you do, Professor?

00:58:04As a matter of fact, John Minify has been wanting to get us together.

00:58:06Oh, yes, yes.

00:58:08Yes, he told me he did.

00:58:10How do you do?

00:58:12I'm doing a series for him on antisemitism.

00:58:14For or against?

00:58:16Well, he thought that we might hatch over some ideas.

00:58:18What sort of ideas?

00:58:20Palestine, for instance. Zionism.

00:58:22Which? Palestine as a refuge?

00:58:24Or Zionism as a movement for a Jewish state?

00:58:26The confusion between the two, more than anything.

00:58:28Oh, if we agree there's confusion, we could talk.

00:58:30We scientists love confusion.

00:58:32But right now I'm starting on a new crusade of my own.

00:58:34You see, my young friends, I have no religion.

00:58:36So I'm not Jewish by religion.

00:58:38Further, I'm a scientist.

00:58:40So I must rely on science, which shows me I'm not Jewish by race.

00:58:42Since there's no such thing as a distinct Jewish race.

00:58:44There's not even such a thing as a Jewish type.

00:58:46Well, my crusade will have a certain charm.

00:58:48I will simply go forth and state frankly, I'm not a Jew.

00:58:50Or with my face.

00:58:52That becomes not an evasion, but a new principle.

00:58:54A scientific principle.

00:58:56What a scientific principle.

00:58:58Precisely.

00:59:00There must be millions of people nowadays

00:59:02who are religious only in the vaguest sense.

00:59:04I've often wondered why the Jewish ones among them

00:59:06still go on calling themselves Jews.

00:59:08Can you guess why, Mr. Green?

00:59:10I know, but I'd like to know.

00:59:12Because the world still makes it an advantage

00:59:14not to be one.

00:59:16Thus, for many of us, it becomes a matter of pride

00:59:18to go on calling ourselves Jews.

00:59:20So you see, I'm not a Jew.

00:59:22I'm not a Jew.

00:59:24I'm not a Jew.

00:59:26There's no space for those Jews.

00:59:28So you see,

00:59:30I will have to abandon my crusade before it begins.

00:59:32Only if there were no air to sanitize

00:59:34can I go on with it.

00:59:36And now,

00:59:38I would like to try another little scientific experiment.

00:59:40I wonder whether you would leave me alone

00:59:42with your very beautiful fiancée

00:59:44while you went and got me a plate of food.

00:59:46Well...

00:59:48Both in the interest of science.

00:59:50Or anything for science, professor.

00:59:52I'm John Menefee's niece, Toppy Lacy.

00:59:54London. I don't think that's right thank you this is not my third trip around this

01:00:00country it's going to be who's got a traffic in some kind of you. Told the doctor

01:00:06with my income tax. I have to give parties to see what the women are wearing get

01:00:10it you know. How you like my girl.

01:00:17Is it serious or just the first time careless rapture serious I'm going to be

01:00:21married in a minute I congratulate you willful headstrong fellow you want to go

01:00:26to the first time we look at each other I guess third day I came to New York tall

01:00:31buildings and subways and traffic. Brush the hay and straw to my hair and

01:00:36throw right in love with

01:00:37a city girl. You could call right in the study and you couldn't. Have you met

01:00:42a family yet your sister and no not yet you know slightly let me do so next week I

01:00:48think what. I just like the news real right. What do you mean what's the matter

01:00:53with. I just think it's

01:00:56a fine idea to meet the family first don't you think we're in town.

01:00:59To meet.

01:01:16The best part even I think yeah.

01:01:25I've been thinking maybe it would be better.

01:01:29Didn't tell your sister after all, huh?

01:01:31Not tell her why.

01:01:32Well, the whole business depends on my not

01:01:36making loopholes whenever it's convenient.

01:01:38I've already told her.

01:01:40You did?

01:01:41When?

01:01:41Tonight, I called her from Anne's.

01:01:43Jane maybe promised to let her know

01:01:44the minute you said you'd be free for Saturday.

01:01:46You know, it takes time to make arrangements

01:01:48for a big party.

01:01:51What'd she say when you told her?

01:01:52Oh, she thought it was the cleverest way

01:01:54in the world to do research.

01:01:55You'll love her.

01:01:56And Harry too, they're grand people.

01:01:58But she promised.

01:02:00Well, I wouldn't tell her until she had.

01:02:01And Harry.

01:02:03She just asked if you'd skip the whole thing for the party.

01:02:05She didn't mean to deny it, just not to bring it up.

01:02:07And I said...

01:02:08You said no.

01:02:09What?

01:02:10You said no, he won't skip the whole thing for the party.

01:02:13No, I didn't.

01:02:14I said I'd ask you.

01:02:17I'd never say yes without asking you.

01:02:21You mean you think I should?

01:02:23Darling, why do you always lose your sense of proportion

01:02:26whenever the subject comes up?

01:02:28That was what was so wonderful

01:02:29about Professor Lieberman tonight.

01:02:31He certainly feels the problem as deeply as anyone else,

01:02:33yet he did have a sense of humor about it.

01:02:35And besides, you know those suburban groups,

01:02:38Connecticut, Darien up there?

01:02:40It'd just start a whole mess for Jane and Harry for nothing.

01:02:43And if it were a mess for something?

01:02:47But Phil, you're not Jewish.

01:02:48It'd just ruin the party for Jane

01:02:50if she had problems with it.

01:02:52Why can't I make you see that?

01:02:53I know I promised.

01:02:55No exceptions.

01:02:56And you were being reasonable to stretch it to Jane.

01:02:59But it just seems so silly to start a thing for her

01:03:02up there when it's not true.

01:03:03Well, why not tell Jane just to call off the party?

01:03:07It would seem so queer, her only sister getting married.

01:03:11And if you were, I'd manage.

01:03:12Thanks.

01:03:14Now, Phil, I'm not asking you to make loopholes where it counts.

01:03:17At the office, meeting people like at Anne's tonight,

01:03:20but to go up to Connecticut to a party.

01:03:22And if we were to use my house next summer.

01:03:24And besides, Jane and Harry.

01:03:25I thought you said they were so grand.

01:03:27They are.

01:03:28But they can't help it if some of their friends are.

01:03:30And besides, it would just make a.

01:03:32A bang, a mess, an inconvenience.

01:03:33Well, it would.

01:03:34Just for Jane and Harry, or for you too?

01:03:36I'd be so tensed up all the time,

01:03:38I wouldn't have any fun either.

01:03:40Oh, Phil, if everything's going to be

01:03:41so tensed up and solemn, I.

01:03:47I think I better go now.

01:04:09Wake him up, no matter what he says.

01:04:10Tell him to hurry.

01:04:12Don't worry, I'll get him.

01:04:17Pop.

01:04:19Pop, get up, it's for you.

01:04:23Grandma said to wake you.

01:04:26Hello, it's for you.

01:04:29Telephone.

01:04:31OK.

01:04:33Get up.

01:04:37I'm late, isn't I?

01:04:38Mm-hmm.

01:04:39Here's your bathrobe.

01:04:42I said, put it on.

01:04:46Hey, Pop, here are your slippers.

01:04:49Finally roused him.

01:04:55Hello.

01:04:58Dave.

01:04:59Dave!

01:05:00Where are you?

01:05:01When did you get in?

01:05:02It's Dave.

01:05:03Hey, this is wonderful.

01:05:04Where are you?

01:05:06LaGuardia.

01:05:07Just now.

01:05:09I had a break and got assigned to a plane with my CO.

01:05:11And I haven't had breakfast.

01:05:13Get it?

01:05:14Well, grab yourself a cab and get right over here,

01:05:16will you?

01:05:17OK, so long.

01:05:18Hey, boy, can you sum up some of your famous hot cakes?

01:05:21We used to eat a stack apiece in the old days.

01:05:23I guess the old magic still works.

01:05:25Can I have some too, Grandma?

01:05:27How many breakfasts can you eat in one day?

01:05:30OK, I never have any fun.

01:05:31You're going to be late for school if you don't hurry.

01:05:33I know what time school starts.

01:05:34And besides, I don't like fruit.

01:05:36You like bananas, don't you?

01:05:38Oh, well, bananas are different.

01:05:44Say, Pop.

01:05:45Hello.

01:05:45Are we Jewish?

01:05:48Jimmy Kelly said we were.

01:05:49Our janitor told his janitor.

01:05:51Well, what did you say to Jimmy Kelly?

01:05:53I told him I'd ask you.

01:05:57You remember that movie that Kathy and I took you to?

01:05:59Sure.

01:06:00And how you asked if things like that really happened?

01:06:02Kathy said they were pretending.

01:06:04Yeah, well, I'm pretending that I'm

01:06:05Jewish for the stuff that I'm writing now.

01:06:08Oh, you mean like a movie or a game?

01:06:09Yeah, something like that.

01:06:11Look, Tom, I'd like it if you'd promise not

01:06:13to tell anybody it's a game.

01:06:14Would you promise that?

01:06:15OK, sure.

01:06:16Right.

01:06:17Well, you tell Jimmy, Tom.

01:06:18Well, I'll say I haven't any information.

01:06:20Well, wait a minute.

01:06:21Wait a minute.

01:06:22Maybe that's not such a good idea to say

01:06:24you haven't any information.

01:06:26Maybe you better say that you asked me

01:06:27and I said I was partly Jewish, OK?

01:06:30OK.

01:06:31OK.

01:06:31But not tell Mr. Movie, Pop.

01:06:45Have some more, Dave?

01:06:46Doctor.

01:06:47Doctor, please, you're hitting a nerve.

01:06:49Good.

01:06:50Then I can go do my marketing, and I'll

01:06:51thank you two hulks to at least pile the dishes

01:06:53in the sink while I'm gone.

01:06:55Oh, Dave, it's wonderful.

01:06:56You really think you'll bring Carol and the kids

01:06:58east and live in New York?

01:06:59We could all be together.

01:07:00That's the plan.

01:07:02You know, I can be eastern representative of the front.

01:07:04Big job.

01:07:04Best break I ever had.

01:07:06Well, it depends, of course, if I can find a place to live.

01:07:08I'm going to spend my terminal year just to look and look

01:07:10and look and try to find a place big enough for Carol and the kids.

01:07:13We'll find you something if we have to dynamite.

01:07:15Meantime, you'll stay here.

01:07:16Sure, Tommy can sleep on the sofa in the living room.

01:07:18Now, wait a minute.

01:07:19No arguments, please.

01:07:20You're talking to a civilian, Captain.

01:07:21You wouldn't.

01:07:22You know, my CEO had to move in with an uncle he hasn't seen

01:07:25since the First World War.

01:07:26I'll help with the cooking.

01:07:27Not while I'm conscious, you won't.

01:07:29Goodbye, boys.

01:07:30Don't settle all the problems today.

01:07:32Save some for tomorrow.

01:07:37Boy, I'm loaded.

01:07:39You know, I used to dream about doing this, Phil.

01:07:42What about this series you're doing?

01:07:44I've talked about myself enough.

01:07:46Come on.

01:07:47Give.

01:07:48Oh, we'll get to it later.

01:07:52What's eating you, Phil?

01:07:54Who, me?

01:07:56You expecting a call?

01:07:57You keep looking out toward the phone every few minutes.

01:08:03Is that obvious?

01:08:06Oh, I had a scrap with my girl.

01:08:09I guess I wanted her to be the one to phone.

01:08:12Pass it on to the department.

01:08:14I'm doing a series on anti-Semitism

01:08:16with a special angle.

01:08:18That's interesting.

01:08:20Interesting?

01:08:21Well, don't you want a good stiff series

01:08:22in a big national magazine?

01:08:24Me?

01:08:25Sure.

01:08:26You sound bored.

01:08:28Oh, I'm anything but.

01:08:30It's just that, well, I'm on the sidelines of anti-Semitism.

01:08:34It's your fight, brother.

01:08:37It's your fight, brother.

01:08:39Okay, I get it.

01:08:41Listen, I don't care about the Jews as Jews.

01:08:43It's the whole thing.

01:08:45Not the poor, poor Jews.

01:08:47Well, you know what I mean.

01:08:48Don't force me to make with the big words.

01:08:50Anyway, what's this special angle you've got?

01:08:55I've been doing it for a while.

01:08:58I'm saying I'm Jewish.

01:09:00And it works.

01:09:03Well, you fool.

01:09:05You crazy fool.

01:09:09And it's working?

01:09:10It works. It works too well.

01:09:12I've been having my nose rubbed in it

01:09:14and I don't like the smell.

01:09:16Yeah.

01:09:17I can guess.

01:09:19You're not insulated yet, Phil.

01:09:21It's new every time,

01:09:23so the impact must be quite a business on you.

01:09:26You mean to get indifferent to it in time?

01:09:28No, but you're concentrating a lifetime thing

01:09:30into a few weeks.

01:09:32You're making the thing happen every day,

01:09:34and facts are no different, Phil.

01:09:36It just telescopes it

01:09:38and makes it hurt more.

01:09:44Hello?

01:09:47No. Sorry.

01:09:58Wrong number.

01:10:00You want to talk about it?

01:10:02No. It's just one of those things.

01:10:04I'm probably wiser staying on my own.

01:10:07After seven years alone,

01:10:09you lose the instinct for marriage.

01:10:11Belonging.

01:10:13You and Carol ever get off on tangents much?

01:10:16Who doesn't?

01:10:18Go on and call her, you big dope.

01:10:20So you're right and she's wrong. So what?

01:10:22So she has to telephone you first?

01:10:24Who makes such rules? The Supreme Court?

01:10:26Go on and call her

01:10:28and stop licking your wounds.

01:10:31Listen.

01:10:33Meet me at the office between 5.30 and 6.00.

01:10:35I'll phone her. I'll get Ann Duffy.

01:10:37She's a girl who works at the office.

01:10:39We'll have a big celebration.

01:10:41Can you imagine what it's going to be like?

01:10:43Me married again, you and Carol here all of us together.

01:10:45First I've got to imagine a roof over Carol's head.

01:10:47Go on. Get going.

01:10:49I'm going to start looking right away.

01:10:56How long do we have to wait?

01:10:58I'll take you to your table as soon as it's ready, sir.

01:11:00How about these other people? They're getting in without waiting.

01:11:02They had reservations, sir.

01:11:04Who do you have to know to get a reservation?

01:11:06Me, madam.

01:11:08Captain, I'm expecting a call on the air. Will you call me when it comes?

01:11:10Your name, sir? Phil Green.

01:11:12Yes, sir.

01:11:14Have you ever been to Paris?

01:11:16Yes, I have.

01:11:18Well, there's a lovely restaurant on the Boulevard Montparnasse

01:11:20and we had delicious pressed duck.

01:11:22Anyone we know?

01:11:24Know what I'm having, gentlemen?

01:11:26More fun than you can shake a stick at?

01:11:28Do you have to wait around to get a stick just for a test?

01:11:30No, thanks. None of those things work for me.

01:11:32Once I tried to let a smile be my umbrella.

01:11:34I got awful wet.

01:11:36Another time I kept a stiff upper lip for about a week.

01:11:38People just thought I was having my face lifted.

01:11:40Tell me something, gentlemen.

01:11:42Tell me why it is that every man who seems attractive these days

01:11:44is either married or fired on a technicality.

01:11:48Your timing is rotten, but your instincts are just great.

01:11:52Here's to my instincts.

01:11:54Pardon me.

01:11:56Don't pardon me.

01:11:58You know,

01:12:00I don't like officers.

01:12:02Well, neither do I.

01:12:04I don't blame you.

01:12:06What's your name, bud?

01:12:08Dave.

01:12:10Dave Goldman. What's yours?

01:12:12Don't mind what my name is.

01:12:14I told you I don't like officers.

01:12:16I especially don't like them if they're here.

01:12:18Sorry, sir.

01:12:20He's terrible when he gets all tanked up.

01:12:22Sorry.

01:12:24What's the matter with you anyway?

01:12:26Come on, leave him alone.

01:12:28Let's take a walk.

01:12:40Come on, sit down.

01:12:42Take it easy, boy.

01:12:44I'm terribly sorry this happened.

01:12:46He won't bother you again.

01:12:48I was just coming over to tell you there's a call for you.

01:12:50Telephone Mr. Green, a lady.

01:12:52Oh, right.

01:12:56Come on, let's eat, Ann.

01:13:04You ever call in for Mr. Green?

01:13:06Yeah.

01:13:08Hello, Kathy.

01:13:10Where are you?

01:13:12I'm up at Jane's.

01:13:14I came up to have it out with her.

01:13:16I couldn't call you until I'd fixed everything up.

01:13:18And, darling, I was wonderful.

01:13:20I said all the things you would have wanted me to say.

01:13:22You would have been proud of me.

01:13:24Why can't I make myself clear to Jane and Harry

01:13:26when it's you I want to be clear with?

01:13:28Well, I told you, baby.

01:13:30Sometimes I can be such a solemn fool

01:13:32I'm hard to get along with.

01:13:34The party's tomorrow.

01:13:36Will you take the 3 o'clock train?

01:13:38And I'll be waiting for you at the station.

01:13:40Oh, darling, I can breathe now.

01:13:42Oh, darling, I can breathe again

01:13:44now that I've talked with you.

01:13:46I can scarcely wait until tomorrow.

01:13:48Good night, baby.

01:13:50Oh, uh, Kathy.

01:13:52I love you, darling.

01:13:54And I love you more than ever.

01:13:56Goodbye.

01:14:12Hello.

01:14:18How nice to hear you.

01:14:20How are you?

01:14:30Oh, hello, Harry.

01:14:34Your mother must be so proud of you, Mr. Green.

01:14:36Well, yes, I hope so.

01:14:38Are you enjoying yourself, Bill?

01:14:40Oh, Jane, uh...

01:14:42Does your mother just adore everything you write?

01:14:44Not everything, no, not exactly.

01:14:46Gee, Molly,

01:14:48some people have all the love.

01:14:50Yes, he's kind of nice.

01:14:52Nice? If I thought there were any more around like that,

01:14:54I'd go up into the hills myself and catch him with my bare hands.

01:14:56Oh, yes, I would.

01:14:58My dear, he's divine. How long have you been around, Lou?

01:15:00Oh, about three days.

01:15:02Mind if I steal Kathy away?

01:15:04Jane, you look beautiful.

01:15:06Oh, so do you.

01:15:08Oh, didn't I tell you?

01:15:10Joe called and said he had that dreadful heart fright that he's always getting

01:15:12and they said they were so sorry.

01:15:14And where are the Harlots and the Bullocks?

01:15:16Or are they coming later for dinner?

01:15:18Um, no. They all decided to go to Hot Springs at the last moment.

01:15:20I thought I mentioned it.

01:15:22Jane, dear, I'm in this just as deeply as fear.

01:15:24I feel just as strongly about it as he does.

01:15:26But darling, what do you mean?

01:15:28You know what I mean.

01:15:30Just a little careful screening. Just the safe ones.

01:15:32Oh, darling, you're mad.

01:15:34You're getting a little hip in this series, too.

01:15:37Tell me, do you get your ideas first

01:15:39and then write?

01:15:41Or do you write first and then get your ideas?

01:15:43Well, I...

01:15:45I'm afraid I don't think I quite understand

01:15:47what you mean.

01:15:49Excuse me.

01:15:51Darling, I'm afraid I'm going to have to spirit you away from me.

01:15:53Will you excuse us?

01:15:55Why, certainly, my dear.

01:15:57You make such a charming couple

01:15:59and we all wish you great happiness.

01:16:01Thank you.

01:16:03We'll be right back.

01:16:05Kathy, wait a minute.

01:16:07Where are you going?

01:16:09Phil and I are going to disappear for a minute.

01:16:11I want to show him the house before it gets dark.

01:16:13And we both need a breather.

01:16:15Of course. Give us all a chance to talk about Phil without whispering.

01:16:17He's won everybody.

01:16:19Has it been awful, Phil?

01:16:21No, I'm coming back for more.

01:16:23Good boy. Harry said this sort of thing is a kind of mental bankruptcy.

01:16:25But we women love it, don't we, Kathy?

01:16:27Come on, darling.

01:16:29See you later.

01:16:31Bye.

01:16:35I feel pretty much a fool

01:16:37over the fuss I kicked up beforehand.

01:16:39Can't imagine why Jane even bothered

01:16:41to ask if I'd lay off for the party.

01:16:43They all asked about the series, thought it was fine.

01:16:45Not one lifted eyebrow in the bunch.

01:16:49Hey, Miss Lacey, you're not even listening.

01:16:51That's right.

01:16:53I was thinking about you.

01:16:55How wonderful you are.

01:16:57Darling, there it is.

01:17:05Oh, aren't you supposed to carry me

01:17:07across the threshold or something?

01:17:09That's only if you refuse to marry me.

01:17:11In which case, I take you and throw you in.

01:17:13Oh, aren't you supposed to carry me

01:17:15across the threshold or something?

01:17:17That's only if you refuse to marry me.

01:17:19In which case, I take you and throw you in.

01:17:43Oh, aren't you supposed to carry me

01:17:45across the threshold or something?

01:17:47That's only if you refuse to marry me.

01:17:49In which case, I take you and throw you in.

01:17:51Oh, aren't you supposed to carry me

01:17:53across the threshold or something?

01:17:55That's only if you refuse to marry me.

01:17:57In which case, I take you and throw you in.

01:17:59Oh, aren't you supposed to carry me

01:18:01across the threshold or something?

01:18:03That's only if you refuse to marry me.

01:18:05In which case, I take you and throw you in.

01:18:07In which case, I take you and throw you in.

01:18:09In which case, I take you and throw you in.

01:18:11In which case, I take you and throw you in.

01:18:13It's lovely.

01:18:42The rooms are kind of quiet all its own.

01:18:47Did you do it all yourself?

01:18:48Every bit of it.

01:19:01We can redo the nursery.

01:19:03That was when Bill and I hoped we'd have a child.

01:19:06Could be Tom's room.

01:19:09Would he like to come in here?

01:19:11Crazy about it.

01:19:13You and Bill lived here long?

01:19:16Bill and I have never lived here.

01:19:19Never? Why not?

01:19:21Well, it's hard to explain.

01:19:23I love this house deeply.

01:19:27And I started to build it when things first began to go wrong between Bill and me.

01:19:33And somehow it became a symbol to me of many things.

01:19:39Sometimes when you're troubled and hurt, you pour yourself into things that can't hurt back.

01:19:46Can you understand that?

01:19:48Sure. I've done it myself at work.

01:19:52Well, I poured all my hopes into this place.

01:19:55And when it was finished, I somehow knew that Bill and I were finished.

01:20:02I knew I couldn't live here with someone I didn't really love.

01:20:07It was always more than just a house to me, a place I owned.

01:20:10It meant everything I hoped for.

01:20:15Marriage, children, good life.

01:20:19I knew I couldn't live here alone. I knew that for sure.

01:20:23And you never lived here at all?

01:20:25No, never. No one has.

01:20:27I stay up at Jane's and I come down here and walk through the house.

01:20:30Poke with the curtains a bit.

01:20:32Sit out here.

01:20:33And for a long while I hated it.

01:20:36Really hated it.

01:20:40But I could never let it go.

01:20:45And now I know why.

01:20:48I was right not to settle for second best.

01:20:50I was right to keep hoping because it's all come true.

01:20:54Darling, you and I are going to be so happy here.

01:21:00This house and I, we were waiting for you.

01:21:05I was always waiting for you, I think.

01:21:13Coffee, coffee, coffee.

01:21:15Ann, will you bring the cream?

01:21:17And the mints?

01:21:18Mints? Where?

01:21:19Right there.

01:21:20How do you want your coffee, Dave Block?

01:21:22Fine.

01:21:23Why don't you play that piece that you know, dear,

01:21:25and make it a perfect evening?

01:21:26You know, she plays beautifully.

01:21:27Darling, you keep on thinking out there.

01:21:29Yeah, well, you too.

01:21:30Ann, would you put the radio on?

01:21:31Sure.

01:21:32You know something, Ann?

01:21:33These two act like an old married couple.

01:21:35And two days before the wedding, it's kind of indecent.

01:21:37And depressing.

01:21:38At least give a little nervous flutter once in a while, can't you?

01:21:41The bellboys won't make jokes to each other

01:21:42if they carry up your bag.

01:21:44Well, is the honeymoon place a secret?

01:21:46Big dark secret.

01:21:46We're going to the White House.

01:21:47Don't tell him.

01:21:48Where is Mosey?

01:21:50I'll be able to turn up at odd hours

01:21:51pretending he's the house detective.

01:21:53Oh, I'd love that.

01:21:54I've always wanted to tell a house detective what for,

01:21:56haven't you?

01:21:57We're going to Flew Men.

01:21:58Do you know it?

01:21:59What?

01:22:01Flew Men?

01:22:02On your honeymoon?

01:22:03Oh, no, you wouldn't.

01:22:04You're kidding.

01:22:05No, we're not.

01:22:06Well, what's the matter with Flew Men?

01:22:08Well, it's restricted, that's all.

01:22:11Restricted?

01:22:13Darling, I'm sorry.

01:22:14I didn't realize when I set the wire.

01:22:15Oh, that's all right, baby.

01:22:16It's not your fault.

01:22:20So that's how it is, restricted.

01:22:22Are you sure, Ann?

01:22:23Have you been there recently?

01:22:24No, and I'm sure.

01:22:25But they confirmed the reservation.

01:22:26I'm not going to let them off the hook.

01:22:28Darling, you can open the cottage.

01:22:29We won't even have to tell James.

01:22:30Oh, sure, sure.

01:22:31You can always go somewhere.

01:22:32Those nasty little snobs aren't worth fretting over.

01:22:34There must be something to do besides accepting this.

01:22:37You can't pin him down, Phil.

01:22:39They never set straight out or put it in writing.

01:22:42They'll worry him out of it one way or another.

01:22:43They usually do.

01:22:45Phil, it's Tom.

01:22:46He wants you.

01:22:47He sounds frightened.

01:22:52Oh, Tom, what's up?

01:22:54What?

01:22:57Tom, listen.

01:22:57There's a bottle of medicine in the cabinet.

01:22:59Get it and give some to Grandma right away.

01:23:01I'll be there in five minutes.

01:23:02What's happened?

01:23:03Sounds like a stroke.

01:23:04I'll get a cab.

01:23:05Ann, find Dr. Abrams' name in his directory

01:23:06and ask him to get down there right away.

01:23:08J.E. Abrams.

01:23:09I'm going with you.

01:23:22She is magnificent.

01:23:24Never complains, just keeps worrying about my school

01:23:26if I'm down here all day.

01:23:27Maybe we ought to hire a part-time maid.

01:23:29Every trial of drying dishes and keeping your mouth

01:23:30sharp goes much faster.

01:23:32Shut up, darling.

01:23:33Postponing a wedding isn't the worst thing in the world.

01:23:35Oh, I suppose it isn't.

01:23:36Just a week to, at the most, Abrams said.

01:23:38I might as well break the news, folks.

01:23:40I'm afraid I won't be here for it.

01:23:42What?

01:23:42You should be.

01:23:43You've got to be.

01:23:44I don't think Phil could get married without you,

01:23:46and I couldn't either.

01:23:46Why?

01:23:47What happened?

01:23:47Nothing.

01:23:48That's just it.

01:23:49I can't abandon my family forever.

01:23:51Or find a house or an apartment.

01:23:52If it was just me alone, I'd sleep in a subway.

01:23:54But I've got Carol and the kids to think about.

01:23:56I've got to go back.

01:23:57There's no two ways about it.

01:23:59Yeah, but that means the job, your whole future.

01:24:03I'll live.

01:24:04I did before.

01:24:05Why did you leave that to Carol?

01:24:07I spoke to Carol on the phone last night.

01:24:09I told her I'd give it one more day,

01:24:11but I know there isn't a chance.

01:24:12She's lonely, too.

01:24:13I've got to go back.

01:24:16Big job or not.

01:24:19What is it, Phil?

01:24:23Oh, nothing.

01:24:24Come on, Phil.

01:24:25Let's you and I get out of the house for a while.

01:24:27Kathy won't mind.

01:24:28Kathy won't mind, and you know Ma's out of danger now.

01:24:30You need some air.

01:24:32I'm going.

01:24:33I have to flume in.

01:24:34What?

01:24:34I'm going to use those plane tickets we had for this afternoon,

01:24:37and I'll be back later.

01:24:37Phil, what for?

01:24:38You're wasting your time.

01:24:39Sure, but there must be a time once when you fight back, Dave.

01:24:42I want to make them look me in the eye and do it.

01:24:44I want the satisfaction.

01:24:46I can't explain it, but I want to do it for myself.

01:24:49Phil, there's nothing more than...

01:24:50Let him do it, Kathy.

01:24:51You have to face them once.

01:24:53I did it once at Monterey.

01:24:55They are more than nasty little snobs, Kathy.

01:24:58You call them that and you can dismiss them.

01:24:59It's too easy.

01:25:00They're persistent little traitors to everything that this country stands for

01:25:03and stands on, and you have to fight them.

01:25:06Not just for the poor, poor Jews, as Dave says,

01:25:08but for everything this country stands for.

01:25:14Anyway, I'm going.

01:25:19See you later.

01:25:28I think you'll find this room more comfortable, Firster.

01:25:31Thank you.

01:25:31I have a reservation.

01:25:32Double room and bath today through Thursday.

01:25:35In what room?

01:25:36In the room downstairs.

01:25:37In the floor and in the chair.

01:25:38All right.

01:25:39You can wait for me in the headlamp,

01:25:40the water pot, the mop and the kitchen utensils,

01:25:42and the washing machine.

01:25:43Get the next room.

01:25:43I'll have a conversation with you first.

01:25:45OK, see you later.

01:25:46Bye-bye.

01:25:46Good-bye.

01:25:49I have a reservation.

01:25:50Couple room and bath today through Thursday.

01:25:52In what room?

01:25:53In the headlamp, the water pot, the washing machine and the kitchen utensils.

01:25:56It's a day through Thursday.

01:25:57In what name, please?

01:25:59Green. Philip Green.

01:26:00Yes, Mr. Green.

01:26:02My wife will be here tomorrow.

01:26:03Oh, yes.

01:26:07Now, one more thing.

01:26:08Yes?

01:26:09Is your hotel restricted?

01:26:14Well, I'd hardly say if it's restricted.

01:26:17Then it's not restricted.

01:26:21Would you excuse me a moment, please?

01:26:26Yes.

01:26:41How do you do, Mr. Green?

01:26:42How do you do?

01:26:44In answer to your question, may I inquire, are you...

01:26:47Uh, that is, uh, do you follow the Hebrew religion yourself?

01:26:51Or is it that you just want to make sure?

01:26:54I've asked a simple question, I'd like to have a simple answer.

01:26:58Well, you see, we do have a very high-class clientele and...

01:27:02well, naturally.

01:27:03Then you do restrict your guests to gentlemen?

01:27:06Well, I wouldn't say that, Mr. Green.

01:27:10But in any event, there seems to be some mistake

01:27:12because we don't have a free room in the entire hotel.

01:27:15But if you'd like, perhaps I can fix you up at the Brewster Hotel, down near the station.

01:27:19I'm not staying at the Brewster.

01:27:21Look, I'm Jewish and you don't take Jews. That's it, isn't it?

01:27:24I never said that.

01:27:25If you don't accept Jews, say so.

01:27:27Don't raise your voice to me, Mr. Green.

01:27:29Speak a little more quietly, please.

01:27:31Do you or don't you?

01:27:33Mr. Green, I'm a very busy man.

01:27:34Now, if you want me to phone for a cab or room at the Brewster, I'll do so.

01:27:37Otherwise...

01:27:41Otherwise what?

01:27:50Well...

01:28:21Tommy?

01:28:23Oh, Phil.

01:28:25Hello.

01:28:30It was bad, I can tell by your face.

01:28:34Dave was right. It was a waste of time.

01:28:38How's Ma?

01:28:39She's fine. She's asleep. Tom's out playing.

01:28:43I'll go and get her.

01:28:44I'll go and get her.

01:28:45I'll go and get her.

01:28:46I'll go and get her.

01:28:47I'll go and get her.

01:28:48She's asleep. Tom's out playing.

01:28:51Where's Dave?

01:28:52He's gone out with Ann.

01:28:53He packed all afternoon.

01:28:54They decided to have a last night in the town.

01:28:56They'll wind up here later.

01:28:58How about some coffee?

01:29:00No, thanks.

01:29:06Tommy, darling.

01:29:09No.

01:29:11I'm just thinking about Dave.

01:29:14I suppose you're thinking about the cottage, Phil.

01:29:16Yes, I did think about that.

01:29:18So have I. You must know that.

01:29:20And it wouldn't work, Phil.

01:29:22It would just be too uncomfortable for Dave,

01:29:24knowing he'd moved into one of those neighborhoods.

01:29:26Darling, don't you see that?

01:29:29It's detestable, but that's the way it is.

01:29:31It's even worse in New Canaan.

01:29:32There, nobody can sell or rent to a Jew.

01:29:35And even in Darien, where Jane's house is and my house is,

01:29:38there's sort of a gentleman's agreement when you get married.

01:29:41Gentlemen's?

01:29:43Kathy, you can't...

01:29:49You're not going to fight it, Kathy.

01:29:52You're just going to give in, play along,

01:29:55let their idiotic rules stand.

01:29:57I don't play along.

01:29:58But what can one person do?

01:30:00You can tell them to go jump in the lake.

01:30:02What can they do?

01:30:03Plenty. Ostracize him.

01:30:05Some of the market's not delivered home.

01:30:07Not even wait on him.

01:30:08Phil, the series will be over by the time we get there.

01:30:12Phil, face facts.

01:30:13You expect us to live in that cottage once I know all this?

01:30:16You can't make over the whole world.

01:30:17You know I'm on Dave's side.

01:30:18Well, I'm not on Dave's side or any side

01:30:20except against their side.

01:30:22Kathy, do you or don't you believe in this?

01:30:24Because if you do, how can you talk about...

01:30:28Tom, will you please? Kathy and I are talking.

01:30:30Look, Tom, I...

01:30:33Tom, what is it?

01:30:34What's the matter?

01:30:37Did you have a fight?

01:30:39Argument with one of the guys?

01:30:42They call me a dirty Jew.

01:30:45And they're staying inside.

01:30:47And they don't let up at all.

01:30:49Oh, darling, it's not true.

01:30:51It's not true.

01:30:52You're no more Jewish than I am.

01:30:54It's just a horrible mistake.

01:30:55Kathy, I'm sorry.

01:30:56I'm sorry.

01:30:57I'm sorry.

01:30:58I'm sorry.

01:30:59I'm sorry.

01:31:00So tell me where I am.

01:31:01It's just a horrible mistake.

01:31:02Kathy.

01:31:05Come with me, Tom.

01:31:06We'll talk about it with her.

01:31:17Ahh.

01:31:18Take it easy.

01:31:19Take it easy, sweetheart.

01:31:20Where did it happen?

01:31:44Jimmy in it?

01:31:45Somebody sock somebody?

01:31:46No, they just yelled.

01:31:47It was at our Kermit.

01:31:48I was a kid.

01:31:49When I was a kid from school, they were playing Hotline as good I played, too, in the school

01:31:56and said, no dirty little Jew could play with them, and they all yelled those other things.

01:32:02I started to speak and they all yelled, your father has a long, curly beard, and turned

01:32:07and ran.

01:32:08Why did they pop?

01:32:09Why?

01:32:11Why?

01:32:16You're wondering so much.

01:32:23Do you want to tell them that you weren't really Jewish?

01:32:26No.

01:32:27That's good.

01:32:28See, there's a lot of kids just like you, Tommy, who are Jewish, and if you said it,

01:32:32it would be sort of admitting that there was something bad in being Jewish and something

01:32:37swell in not.

01:32:38They wouldn't fight.

01:32:39They just ran.

01:32:41Yeah, I know.

01:32:43There's a lot of grown-ups just like that, too, Tom.

01:32:46Only they do it with wisecracks instead of yelling.

01:32:59Okay.

01:33:00Sure.

01:33:01Oh, boy.

01:33:03You want to go and read or something while I talk to Kathy?

01:33:07Okay.

01:33:09Oh, let's keep this to ourselves till Grandma's well, huh?

01:33:13Okay.

01:33:39Phil, I've got something to tell you.

01:33:43I'm pretty tired of feeling wrong.

01:33:46Everything I do or say is wrong about anything Jewish.

01:33:49All I did just now was to face facts about Dave and Darian and to tell Tom just what

01:33:54you told him.

01:33:55Not just what.

01:33:56You've only assured him that he's the most wonderful of all creatures, a white Christian

01:34:00American.

01:34:01You instantly gave him that lovely taste of superiority, the poison that millions of parents

01:34:04drop into the minds of millions of children.

01:34:06You really do think I'm an anti-Semite.

01:34:08No, I don't, Kathy.

01:34:09You do.

01:34:10You've thought it secretly for a long time.

01:34:12No.

01:34:13It's just that I've come to see that lots of nice people who aren't, people who despise

01:34:16it and detest it and deplore it and protest their own innocence, help it along and then

01:34:20wonder why it grows.

01:34:21People who never beat up a Jew or your kinketed child.

01:34:24People who think that anti-Semitism is something way off in some dark crackpot place with low-class

01:34:29morons.

01:34:30That's the biggest discovery I've made about this whole business, Kathy.

01:34:34Good people and nice people.

01:34:38You mean you're not going to Darien this summer even though you're finished by now?

01:34:41Let's save that for another time.

01:34:42Oh, I hate it.

01:34:43I hate it.

01:34:44I hate everything about this horrible thing.

01:34:46They always make trouble for everybody, even their friends.

01:34:48They force people to take sides against them.

01:34:50Maria, quit that.

01:34:51They didn't suggest this series.

01:34:53They didn't give me the angle.

01:34:54They haven't got a single thing to do with what's happened between you and me.

01:34:56Don't shout at me.

01:34:57I know what you're thinking about, marrying me.

01:34:59I saw it on your face when I said that to Tom.

01:35:02And don't treat me to any more lessons of tolerance.

01:35:04I'm sick of it.

01:35:06I'm not going to marry into hothead shoutings and nerves.

01:35:09And you might as well know it now.

01:35:17Kathy.

01:35:21I'm sorry I shouted.

01:35:22I hate it when I do it.

01:35:23It's not just the shouting, Phil.

01:35:25It's everything.

01:35:26You've changed since that first night I met you at Uncle John's.

01:35:30It's no use, Phil.

01:35:33Now I know why I drew back when you told me the angle.

01:35:36You're doing an impossible thing.

01:35:39You are what you are for the one life you have.

01:35:43You can't help it if you were born Christian instead of Jewish.

01:35:45It doesn't mean you're glad you were.

01:35:48But I am glad.

01:35:50There, I've said it.

01:35:52It'd be terrible.

01:35:53I'm glad I'm not.

01:35:55I could never make you understand that.

01:35:58You could never understand that it's a fact.

01:36:00Like being glad you're good-looking instead of ugly.

01:36:03Rich instead of poor.

01:36:04Young instead of old.

01:36:06Healthy instead of sick.

01:36:08You could never understand that.

01:36:11It's just a practical fact.

01:36:13Not a judgment that I'm superior.

01:36:15I could never make you see that.

01:36:17You twist it into something horrible.

01:36:19A conniving, an aiding, an abetting.

01:36:21A thing that I loathe as much as you do.

01:36:23It's better to finish it now.

01:36:25Get it over with right now.

01:36:28I...

01:36:32I hate you for doing this.

01:36:35We could have been so happy.

01:36:37We had so much to enjoy and so much to share.

01:36:40And I hate you for taking it away from both of us.

01:36:44I hate you for that.

01:36:58Well, what do you know? He's asleep.

01:37:01This early.

01:37:02On your last night? Nonsense.

01:37:04Come on, let's wake him up.

01:37:05Let the poor guy alone.

01:37:06It's against my deepest principles.

01:37:08Hey, Phil. Come on, wake up. It's us.

01:37:11Let the poor lug alone.

01:37:12I told you I'd never let any man alone.

01:37:17Hey.

01:37:18I thought we were expecting sleepyhead.

01:37:20Where's Kathy?

01:37:21She left early.

01:37:22Why, you look nice in pajamas.

01:37:24Get on a dressing gown.

01:37:25I'll close my eyes if you're modest.

01:37:27You go get the ice tubes so he can get dressed.

01:37:29He wouldn't let any dame see his ratty bathrobe.

01:37:31And he's right.

01:37:32Go on.

01:37:33Don't trifle with your luck.

01:37:34I don't think any man should ever wear coats and ties.

01:37:37They look just wonderful in shirts and pants and in pajamas.

01:37:46What's wrong, Phil?

01:37:49Skip.

01:37:51Flu, men?

01:37:54Tommy got called dirty Jew and kite by some kids down the street.

01:38:00Came home pretty badly shaken up.

01:38:04Now you know it all.

01:38:06That's the place they really get at you.

01:38:08Your kids.

01:38:10Now you even know that.

01:38:14Well, you can quit being Jewish now.

01:38:17There's nothing else.

01:38:19My own kids got it without the names, Phil.

01:38:23Just setting their hearts on a summer camp

01:38:27that bunch were going to and being kept out.

01:38:33It wrecked them for a while.

01:38:36The only other thing that makes you want to murder is...

01:38:41There was a boy in our outfit.

01:38:43They tried to kill him.

01:38:46There was a boy in our outfit.

01:38:49Abe Schlesman.

01:38:51Good soldier.

01:38:53Good engineer.

01:38:56One night we...

01:38:58We got bombed and he caught it.

01:39:01I was ten yards off.

01:39:03Somebody said,

01:39:05Give me a hand with the shinny.

01:39:10Those were the last words he ever heard.

01:39:16Good morning.

01:39:39Good morning.

01:39:41Miss Wales.

01:39:43Here it is. The first three installments.

01:39:45Send every ten pages downstairs.

01:39:47Have it set up and galley immediately.

01:39:49Tell him I'm in a hurry.

01:39:51How long is that much going to take you?

01:39:53It's no more than ten thousand words.

01:39:55I guess I can have it finished by tonight.

01:39:57I am pretty jealous.

01:40:01I was Jewish for eight weeks.

01:40:05Why, Mr. Green,

01:40:07you're a Christian.

01:40:09But I never...

01:40:12But I've been around you more than anybody else,

01:40:14and I never once...

01:40:15What's so upsetting about that, Miss Wales?

01:40:18You mean there is some difference

01:40:20between Jews and Christians?

01:40:22Look at me. Look at me hard.

01:40:23I'm the same man I was yesterday.

01:40:25That's true, isn't it?

01:40:26Why should you be so astonished, Miss Wales?

01:40:29You still can't believe that anybody

01:40:31would give up the glory of being a Christian

01:40:33for even eight weeks, can you?

01:40:34That's what's eating you, isn't it?

01:40:36Now, if I tell you that that's anti-Semitism,

01:40:39your feeling of being Christian

01:40:41is better than being Jewish,

01:40:42you're going to tell me that I'm heckling you again,

01:40:44that I'm twisting your words around,

01:40:46that it's just facing facts,

01:40:48as someone else said to me yesterday.

01:40:50Face me now, Miss Wales. Come on, look at me.

01:40:52Same face, same eyes, same nose,

01:40:54same suit, same everything.

01:40:55Here, take my hand. Feel it.

01:40:57Same flesh as yours, isn't it?

01:40:59No different today than it was yesterday, Miss Wales.

01:41:02The only thing that's different is the word Christian.

01:41:10Of course I'll see him. Send him right in.

01:41:14Good morning.

01:41:15Thanks for seeing me, John.

01:41:16I'm sorry to break in on you like this.

01:41:18I turned the first half over to Miss Wales for typing.

01:41:21I'll finish the rest of it by the end of the week.

01:41:23Good.

01:41:24I want to clear out.

01:41:25Completely?

01:41:26Yeah, completely.

01:41:27Going back to California?

01:41:29As soon as we get packed.

01:41:30Will the office help me get train reservations?

01:41:32Yes. What about future assignments?

01:41:34Oh, I'll let you know.

01:41:36I don't want to be disturbed for anything.

01:41:41Sorry about you two.

01:41:42Kathy told my wife this morning.

01:41:44She seemed pretty upset.

01:41:46I'd have liked it to go on, Phil.

01:41:47It seems so right, you two.

01:41:49Anything I can do?

01:41:50Can I be of any help?

01:41:52Talk is useless, I know, but

01:41:54maybe someone who knew the both of you...

01:41:56Thanks, John. Thanks a lot.

01:42:00Oh, I'd better be getting back to work.

01:42:03Oh, I'd better be getting back.

01:42:04I'm clearing out of the office tonight.

01:42:06I'll finish the last three installments at home

01:42:08and I'll bring them in.

01:42:09We'll have one more session.

01:42:22Hey, I'm looking for you.

01:42:24It's the gall-darnedest idea

01:42:25for a series this magazine has ever run.

01:42:27No kidding, Green.

01:42:28I couldn't put these ten pages down.

01:42:30The whole place is buzzing with it.

01:42:31Now, about artwork.

01:42:33Photographic treatment is my hunch.

01:42:34What do you think?

01:42:35Okay.

01:42:36No pictures of my kid or me or my mother, understand?

01:42:39Hey, now, stop pushing me around.

01:42:41That's the trouble with you Christians.

01:42:42You know, too aggressive, loud, pushing.

01:42:44Everybody's got a copy but me.

01:42:46When's my turn to see it, Phil?

01:42:47The place is in a frenzy over the wonderful plot.

01:42:50Though what plot there can be

01:42:51to a series on anti-Semitism escapes me.

01:42:55This is something.

01:42:57It's hot on me.

01:43:00You fooled me, Phil, completely.

01:43:02Though I did want to say a couple of times,

01:43:04how have you lived this long

01:43:05spending this much juice on it all the time?

01:43:09I get it now.

01:43:11Everything.

01:43:13This is dynamite, Phil.

01:43:15Wait till you read the rest of it.

01:43:17I'll read the rest of it.

01:43:19I'll read the rest of it.

01:43:21I'll read the rest of it.

01:43:23Boy, if everybody dacked it out

01:43:24just one day of the year,

01:43:25there'd be curtains on the thing overnight.

01:43:27Well, I gotta go.

01:43:28A minute for your order and everything stops for this.

01:43:29See you later.

01:43:31That's a wonderful notion, Phil.

01:43:33Congratulations.

01:43:35Hey, you look kind of beat.

01:43:38I worry about you.

01:43:40I'm fine.

01:43:41Uh-huh.

01:43:42It's over with you and Kathy, isn't it?

01:43:46Phil, I guessed it last night but I wasn't sure.

01:43:50It is over, isn't it?

01:43:53Everything's so rotten, Phil.

01:43:55Me too.

01:43:57Look, if you're free tonight,

01:43:58come on down to my place and listen to my troubles.

01:44:01How about it?

01:44:03Okay.

01:44:04Thanks.

01:44:05We'll have dinner.

01:44:21Getting better?

01:44:23Yeah.

01:44:24Good.

01:44:26You almost smiled a minute ago.

01:44:29You take your coffee black, don't you?

01:44:32In one lump.

01:44:34I remember from the party.

01:44:36You do?

01:44:39You're quite a girl, Ann.

01:44:41I don't think I told you that before.

01:44:43Me?

01:44:44Sure, everybody loves Ann.

01:44:47If you said you weren't very happy,

01:44:48do you want to talk about it?

01:44:50Nothing bores any man so much as an unhappy female.

01:44:53Oh, look, Ann.

01:44:55We're good friends.

01:44:57Somehow, even in this short a time,

01:44:59we've been through quite a bit together.

01:45:01It's been good for me to be able to be with you tonight.

01:45:03I wish you would talk to me.

01:45:07All right, I'll talk.

01:45:11We've been skirting it all evening.

01:45:15Let's bring it out and clear the air.

01:45:18Do you mind if I say something about you and Kathy?

01:45:26Let's don't.

01:45:29All right, Phil.

01:45:30Mind your manners.

01:45:31Be the little gentleman.

01:45:32Don't let the flag touch the ground.

01:45:34This sort of honorableness gets me sick, Phil.

01:45:39It's just that I think you're pretty straight,

01:45:41It's just that I think you're pretty straight,

01:45:43and she's...

01:45:44And drop.

01:45:50Okay.

01:45:52I'm a cat,

01:45:54and this is dirty pool.

01:45:56But I'm intolerant of hypocrites.

01:45:59That's what I said, Phil, hypocrites.

01:46:02She'd rather let Dave lose that job

01:46:04than risk a fuss out there.

01:46:06That's it, isn't it?

01:46:08She's afraid.

01:46:09The Kathys everywhere

01:46:10are afraid of getting the gate

01:46:11from their little groups of nice people.

01:46:13They make little clucking sounds of disapproval,

01:46:15but they want you and Uncle John to stand up and yell

01:46:18and take sides and fight.

01:46:20But do they fight?

01:46:21Oh, no.

01:46:22Kathy and Harry and Jane and all of them.

01:46:25They scold Bilbo twice a year

01:46:26and think they fought the good fight

01:46:28for democracy in this country.

01:46:31They haven't got the guts

01:46:32to take the step from talking to action.

01:46:35One little action on one little front.

01:46:38Sure, I know it's not the whole answer,

01:46:40but it's got to start somewhere,

01:46:42and it's got to be with action,

01:46:44not pamphlets, not even with your series.

01:46:47It's got to be with people,

01:46:48nice people, rich people, poor people,

01:46:51big and little people.

01:46:53And it's got to be quick.

01:46:56But not Kathy.

01:46:57She can't.

01:46:58She never will.

01:47:00She doesn't rate you, Phil.

01:47:09Phil, do you hate me for saying this?

01:47:13No.

01:47:14I'd like to say one thing more.

01:47:17There's time.

01:47:19If two people are right for each other,

01:47:21they usually discover it in time.

01:47:25If I had a kid I loved,

01:47:28I'd want him to be brought up

01:47:29with people who felt the way I did

01:47:31about the basic human needs.

01:47:34I'd want him to be brought up

01:47:35with people who felt the way I did

01:47:37about the basic things.

01:47:40Are you proposing to him?

01:47:44Maybe.

01:47:47Maybe I am.

01:48:01Hello.

01:48:03Oh, Dave.

01:48:04Hello.

01:48:07Thank you for coming.

01:48:09It was good of you.

01:48:12You know about Phil and me.

01:48:14Yes.

01:48:17I want to ask you something.

01:48:20And I want you to answer me honestly.

01:48:22Go ahead.

01:48:24Do you think I'm anti-Semitic?

01:48:29No, Kathy, I don't.

01:48:30Phil does.

01:48:31Does he?

01:48:32You know I'm not anti-Semitic.

01:48:34You're a Jew and you know it.

01:48:36Why can I make it clear to everybody but Phil?

01:48:39I was the one who suggested the series.

01:48:41Did you know that?

01:48:42No, I didn't.

01:48:43I hate this thing just as much as he does.

01:48:45Why can't he see it?

01:48:46Why?

01:48:47That night at dinner,

01:48:48a man told a vicious little story and I was ill.

01:48:50I was sick with rage and shame.

01:48:52But Phil actually makes...

01:48:53What kind of story, Kathy?

01:48:55Oh, it was just a story.

01:48:56It had nothing to do...

01:48:57Well, suppose you tell me anyway.

01:48:59Well, it was just a vulgar little joke

01:49:01that a man told at dinner.

01:49:02It has nothing to do with this.

01:49:03Well, take it easy, Kathy.

01:49:04Maybe it has.

01:49:05What kind of a joke?

01:49:06I can take naughty words, you know.

01:49:08But why?

01:49:10Oh, all right.

01:49:11It was a man named Lockhart

01:49:13and he tried to get laughs with words like kike and coon

01:49:17and I despised him and everybody else at the table.

01:49:20What did you do, Kathy, when he told the joke?

01:49:23What do you mean?

01:49:25I mean, what did you say when he finished?

01:49:28I wanted to yell at him.

01:49:29I wanted to get up and leave.

01:49:30I wanted to say to everyone at that table,

01:49:32why do we sit here and take it

01:49:34when he's attacking everything that we believe in?

01:49:37Why don't we call him on it?

01:49:39And what did you do?

01:49:40I just sat there.

01:49:41I felt ashamed.

01:49:43We all just sat there.

01:49:46Yeah.

01:49:48And then you left and got me on the phone.

01:49:52Later, after dinner was over,

01:49:54I said I was ill and I am.

01:49:56I'm sick through.

01:49:58I wonder if you'd feel so sick now, Kathy,

01:50:01if you had nailed him.

01:50:03There's a funny kind of elation about socking back.

01:50:08I learned that a long time ago.

01:50:11Phil's learned it.

01:50:13And I haven't?

01:50:15Lots of things are pretty rough, Kathy.

01:50:17This is just a different kind of a war.

01:50:22And anybody who crawls away is a quitter just as much as...

01:50:26I didn't say that.

01:50:27You did.

01:50:29Somebody told a story.

01:50:31Sure.

01:50:32A man at a dinner table told a story

01:50:34and the nice people didn't laugh.

01:50:36They even despised him for it.

01:50:37Sure.

01:50:38But they let it pass.

01:50:40And behind that joke,

01:50:41there's Fleuming and Darian and Tommy and those kids.

01:50:45If you don't stop with that joke,

01:50:46where do you stop?

01:50:50Is that what you mean?

01:50:52That's right.

01:50:54Where do you call the halt?

01:50:58I've been getting mad at Phil

01:50:59because he expected me to fight this

01:51:01instead of getting mad at the people who help it along.

01:51:04Like Lockhart.

01:51:05Not just old Lockhart.

01:51:07At least he's out in the open.

01:51:09But what about the rest of the dinner guests?

01:51:11They're supposed to be on your side.

01:51:13And they didn't have to...

01:51:14No, they didn't.

01:51:15And I didn't.

01:51:17That's the trouble.

01:51:18We never do.

01:51:24It all links up, Dave.

01:51:27Phil will fight.

01:51:29He can fight.

01:51:30He always will fight.

01:51:33And if I just sit by and feel sick,

01:51:39then I'm not a fit wife for him.

01:51:44It was always on those deeper issues

01:51:46that we had our quarrels.

01:51:48Always.

01:51:50And I never knew it until now.

01:51:54A man wants his wife to be

01:51:58more than just a companion, Cathy.

01:52:01More than his beloved girl.

01:52:04More than even the mother of his children.

01:52:07He wants a sidekick, a buddy,

01:52:10to go through the rough spots with.

01:52:13And she has to feel that

01:52:15the same things are the rough spots.

01:52:18Or they're always out of line with each other.

01:52:21You're not cast in bronze, sweetie.

01:52:24You're nice and soft and pliable.

01:52:28And you can do anything you have to do,

01:52:30or want to do, with yourself.

01:52:37Can I?

01:52:42Can I?

01:52:45Can I?

01:52:51But it's got to be more than talk.

01:52:55Now, don't scold, Phil.

01:52:57I couldn't sleep, so I sneaked into your room

01:52:59and stole the first two installments.

01:53:03Come here.

01:53:08Come here.

01:53:12Come here.

01:53:16Come here.

01:53:18Come here.

01:53:20Come here.

01:53:22Come here.

01:53:44Thanks, Mark.

01:53:46I think maybe I'd rather have that than almost anything.

01:53:50I wish your father could have read this, Phil.

01:53:52He'd have liked it.

01:53:56He'd have liked this.

01:54:00Driving away from the inn,

01:54:02I knew all about every man or woman

01:54:04who'd been told the job was filled when it wasn't.

01:54:07Every youngster who'd ever been turned down

01:54:09by a college or a summer camp.

01:54:12I knew the rage that pitches through you

01:54:14when you see your own child shaken and dazed.

01:54:17From that moment, I saw an unending attack by adults

01:54:20on kids of 7 and 8 and 10 and 12,

01:54:23on adolescent boys and girls

01:54:25trying to get a job or an education

01:54:27or into medical school.

01:54:30And I knew that they had somehow known it, too.

01:54:33They, those patient, stubborn men

01:54:36who argued and wrote and fought

01:54:38and came up with a constitution and a bill of rights.

01:54:41They knew that the tree is known by its fruit

01:54:44and that injustice corrupts a tree,

01:54:46that its fruit withers and shrivels and falls at last

01:54:49to that dark ground of history

01:54:51where other great hopes have rotted and died.

01:54:54For equality and freedom remain still

01:54:57the only choice for wholeness and soundness

01:55:00in a man or in a nation.

01:55:06Your father would have liked to have you say that, Phil.

01:55:09Not enough of us realize it, Ma.

01:55:11Time's getting short.

01:55:13Not enough people, and the time's running out.

01:55:17You mean Kathy?

01:55:19Not just Kathy.

01:55:21All the Kathys.

01:55:24Everywhere.

01:55:27You know something, Phil?

01:55:29I suddenly want to live to be very old.

01:55:32Very.

01:55:34I want to be around to see what happens.

01:55:37The world is stirring in very strange ways.

01:55:39Maybe this is the century for it.

01:55:41Maybe this is the century for it.

01:55:43Maybe that's why it's so troubled.

01:55:45Other centuries had their driving forces.

01:55:47What will ours have been when men look far back through it one day?

01:55:52Maybe it won't be the American century after all,

01:55:54or the Russian century, or the atomic century.

01:55:57Wouldn't it be wonderful, Phil,

01:55:59if it turned out to be everybody's century?

01:56:01When people all over the world, free people,

01:56:04found a way to live together.

01:56:07I'd like to be around to see some of that.

01:56:09Thank you, Jenny.

01:56:13I may stick around for quite a while.

01:56:17I do.

01:56:35Hello?

01:56:37Dave Goldman calling.

01:56:39I'm sorry to call you at this late hour,

01:56:41but I can take that job.

01:56:43I'm bringing my family from California immediately.

01:56:47I've got a house.

01:56:49Thanks. So am I.

01:56:55She's going to live up there all summer at her sister's.

01:56:58And if anybody dishes anything out,

01:57:00she'll be right there to dish it back.

01:57:07Yes, sir.

01:57:09I think I'll stick around for a long time.

01:57:25Thanks, Dave.

01:57:37I'll see you later.

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