"We've been waiting some time." "Hey!" "Hey, pop!" "Excuse me, please." "I told you, no..." "Oh." "Come in, Martin." "Your bouquet, Miss Diana." "Thank you, Martin." "This is a memorable day." "(DOOR CLOSES) RALPH:" "This is utterly ridiculous..." "I hope they didn't go to a lot of trouble for these because I won't need them!" "You can't just cancel everything with all those people downstairs." "Oh, I know it's awful, Uncle Ralph, but it's better than being unappy for the rest of my life, isn't it?" "Dr. Blucher, can't you do something with her?" "You're her psychiatrist." "I called you because I thought she might listen to you." "I don't believe Miss Dillwood wants my advice in this matter." "I do, Dr. Blucher." "You're the best psychiatrist I ever had." "Miss Dillwood, in my opinion you've allowed yourself to become alarmed over nothing." "It's perfectly natural for a girl to have doubts before getting married." "In your case, it certainly isn't surprising." "After all, you've been engaged six times." "Officially." "If you want the unofficial total, you'll need an adding machine." "You've always been indecisive." "You've never been able to make up your mind about anything, much less a husband." "I think your behavior verges on the idiotic." "What do you want me to do?" "Marry a man who just isn't right for me?" "Of course he's right!" "He's got everything:" "Money, position, partner in one of the best law firms in New York, and his father and I were at Harvard together." "That's a fine recommendation." "You must have thought he was right when you agreed to marry him." "Just why did you do that, Miss Dillwood?" "Well, there didn't seem to be any reason not to marry him." "Then why do you change your mind now?" "Well, it's the way he coughs." "Before he says anything he always barks," "(IMITATES FOX BARKING) Like a fox." "Oh, that's absurd, a cough." "Why, after you've been married a few days you wouldn't even notice it." "My third wife had a maddening way of sighing every time I entered the room, but after about six months I wasrt even aware that she did." "And after seven months she divorced you." "That remark was in very bad taste." "Well, I didn't mean to be nasty, Uncle Ralph, but Aunt Martha was the nicest wife you had, and you should've hung on to her." "Miss Dillwood, I don't think anything as trivial as your fiancé's cough is the real reason for your indecision." "Isn't it?" "That's just an excuse." "The truth is you're so afraid of a big step like marriage that you cling to the security of your spinsterhood." "Now, Dr. Blucher, would you describe a girl of 26 as a spinster?" "Girl of what?" "28." "I use the word advisedly, Miss Dillwood." "I think it's time you were married." "It might have a very soothing effect on you." "I can get that from an aspirin." "I was hoping for something more..." "Something exciting, something..." "That's a pleasant, romantic dream, but it's just an illusion." "The important thing about marriage is a solid, substantial relationship, and a husband who can be your friend." "That's absolutely true." "There's nothing like a husband and wife being friends." "The cure for indecision is decision, Miss Dillwood." "You decided to get married." "Go ahead with it." "Plunge into it." "MINISTER:" "Henry, wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife, so long as you both shall live?" "(HENRY CLEARS THROAT)" "I will." "Diana, wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, so long as you both shall live?" "I..." "I will." "I now pronounce you man and wife." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "Henry, couldn't we..." "Couldrt we go for a walk in the park?" "It's such a lovely evening." "But it looks like rain." "Oh, but I love to walk in the rain." "Come on, let's." "We're leaving for Bermuda in the morning." "We ought to get some rest." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR) But think of all the time that we'll..." "(INAUDIBLE)" "Diana, it's too late and..." "May I help you, sir?" "That's fine." "Oh, good evening, sir." "Hello." "I'd like to see Mr. Hebert." "Mr. Hebert is off duty now." "He comes on at midnight this week." "Oh, I see." "Good evening." "My name is Marvin Payne." "Mr. Hebert's a personal friend of mine." "He always lets me stay here when I come to New York." "Well, I'm sorry." "We haven't anything available." "Mr. Hebert always lets me use the wedding suite." "Oh, I'm afraid that's impossible." "You see..." "What time's your first wedding in the morning?" "Well, at 9:00, but we couldn't possibly..." "I'll be out by 7:00." "Well, I suggest that you come back when Mr. Hebert is here." "Look, look, I'm awful tired." "I just flew an airplane all the way from California." "I've got to get up in the morning and fly it all the way back again." "Now, couldn't you sort of take my word for it?" "Pardon me." "I'll speak to our Mr. Thrush." "Very well, Mr. Payne." "Here you are." "The rate of that suite is $35." "Well, Mr. Hebert always gives me a special rate, you know, five bucks?" "You know, I'll be out early in the morning." "Pardon me, Mr. Payne." "Very well, Mr. Payne, the special rate." "Subject to Mr. Hebert's approval, of course." "Oh, sure, sure, sure." "(RINGS BELL) Front, please." "2305 for this gentleman." "Thank you." "Thank you." "I've got a very small bag here." "Reservation for Benson, please." "May I help you, sir?" "Lift that, will you?" "It's not very heavy, is it?" "No, sir." "Well, I can carry it." "BOTH:" "Twenty-three." "Henry." "Henry..." "Yes?" "Do you think we should..." "Should what?" "Go up now?" "Of course." "Twenty-three, please." "Henry, couldn't we go to the movies or a night club or..." "Really, my dear, it's quite late." "Well, I was thinking we'd be in time for the last show at the Copa." "We could dispense with a show tonight." "But I'd rather..." "Will you come along?" "We'll talk about it inside." "Henry, I..." "Hey!" "Wait a minute." "The young lady doesn't seem to want to go with you." "I beg your pardon?" "Now, look, you're not supposed to drag girls into hotel rooms." "Not if they don't want to be dragged, that is." "Will you please go away?" "No, I don't think I will." "Very well." "If you insist..." "(THUDDING)" "Oh, I'm sorry." "I didn't mean for anyone to get hurt." "Come along." "Isn't this nice?" "Look at that view." "Marvelous!" "Oh, thank you very much." "Will that be all, sir?" "Yes, thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Good night, sir." "Good night." "Good night." "Good night!" "Well, what's wrong, Diana?" "Is something troubling you?" "No, I guess I'm just a little nervous, that's all." "Of course." "I'm afraid I'm a little nervous myself." "I apologize for that little incident out there." "Regrettable." "But we'll both feel better after we've had a drink and relaxed." "Now, wouldn't you like to change and freshen up?" "And I'll order some supper." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "Room service, please." "Ready, Diana?" "Not quite." "HENRY:" "Supper's ready and I'm opening the wine." "All right." "(CORK POPS)" "(MUSIC PLAYS LOUDLY)" "(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)" "Better hurry." "I'll be right out." "If you need any help with any buttons or things, I'll be glad to oblige." "No, I'm coming right out." "I was just looking for my perfume." "(SIGHS)" "Well... (SNIFFS)" "Smells wonderful." "Here we are." "I think a toast is in order." "To us and to our future." "Together forever!" "(CLEARS THROAT)" "I can't, Henry." "I can't drink to that!" "And I can't stay here any longer." "What?" "There's no use talking about it or pretending anymore." "What are you talking about, Diana?" "I've tried, really, I have." "And our marriage hasn't worked out." "Our marriage hasn't worked out?" "We've only been married a few hours." "I think you should see a psychiatrist." "I have." "What did he say?" "He said I was unstable, and insecure, and indecisive and..." "And what?" "And he said I ought to marry you." "There you are." "Now, Diana..." "No, Henry, I shouldn't have listened to him or to Uncle Ralph." "I shouldn't have let anyone talk me into this." "Let's look at this thing calmly, Diana." "We'll sit down, relax, have a glass of wine, and you'll see how silly you're being." "No, I won't!" "I don't care what anyone says." "I know it isn't right when two people aren't right." "They just aren't right and nothing can make them right." "And it would be wrong to pretend that we're not wrong when we are wrong." "So if you don't mind, I'll just get dressed and go home." "But I do mind." "You're my wife!" "Yes, but it isn't..." "I mean, it..." "Here." "I won't take it!" "I won't be humiliated this way." "Well, I'm sorry, Henry." "You'll have to find someone else." "Somebody who'll make you a good wife." "But I've got a wife." "Now, here..." "Well, it's no use shouting and losing your temper!" "Now, Henry, you know, what I'm saying is true, and that this is a horrible mistake for both of us." "No, don't touch me." "Now, you leave me alone." "We couldn't possibly be more wrong for each other, and if we go on with this, well, I know we'll regret it." "What do you expect me to do?" "Tip my hat and say, "It was nice knowing you, drop in again sometime"?" "What kind of a man do you think I am?" "Well, I don't know." "You're going to sit right down here and act like a sensible person, Diana." "No, I'm not." "Oh, yes, you are!" "I'll call for help." "You'll call for help?" "Do you think anyone's going to help a wife run away from her husband?" "I'm the one they'll help." "Now, Henry..." "Now, Henry..." "Look." "Will you, for heaven..." "Excuse me." "I'm terribly sorry." "Hey!" "Oh, just a moment, sir." "I'm looking for my wife, a small, blonde woman." "I thought maybe in the..." "Have you seen her?" "No." "If I do, I'll tell her you've already had your dinner." "Thank you for coming to my rescue." "I always dreamed of someone defending my honor, but you've gone to bat twice tonight." "Once." "This time I'm just looking for a little peace and quiet." "Well, thank you for letting me come in here, anyway." "I was in terrible trouble." "You were?" "Well, do you want me to call the police?" "Oh, no, please don't." "That would just make matters worse." "It would, huh?" "Definitely." "Who is this guy, anyway?" "That's a man I know..." "He's a friend of the family." "I've known him quite a while and..." "Well, I got rather involved before I knew I was getting involved." "It's a little hard to explain." "Well, I don't think it'll be necessary for you to explain it." "It's an old story." "It is?" "Oh, sure." "Usually it goes like this." "Young girl comes to the big city..." "You're probably from out of town someplace, huh?" "Yes, a little way out of town." "Well, this girl comes to New York to be a big success." "She's an actress or a model, or something like that." "It doesn't make any difference what she is." "Anyway, she flops." "Hard times, things really get tough, and then in comes your friend here." "He's rich and smooth and married probably, right?" "In a way, he is." "Yes." "But he and his wife don't understand each other." "Well, he makes a big pitch for this girl, and he buys her a few things, and he promises her a few more things, and she ends up like this." "Sound terribly sordid, doesn't it?" "You take my advice." "You go back where you came from." "But I can't do that." "What's the matter?" "Wort your parents let you come back?" "I haven't any parents." "Oh." "Well, you must have somebody." "Where were you raised?" "Well, actually, I was raised in a convent." "Uh-huh." "You don't believe that, do you?" "I merely said, "Uh-huh."" "You probably think I was raised in a home for delinquents." "(PHONE RINGING)" "It's probably for me." "I'll answer it." "Hello?" "Yes, this is 2305." "Oh." "It's my co-pilot." "What do you want?" "I'm in a little joint called the Club Fifty." "Yeah, things turned out to be livelier than I expected." "Yeah." "And my friend's got a friend who's very friendly." "Yeah, I thought you might come down and have a few laughs with us." "No, not tonight, Bullets." "I'm bushed." "I've got to get some sleep." "Oh, Marv, look, I'm worried about you." "You're too straitlaced." "It ain't human, the way you keep away from dames." "Well, I'm too tired to go out tonight, Bullets." "Besides, I'm expecting a call from Jack." "Yeah, I'll see you in the morning." "And be on time, will you?" "I want to take off at 8:00." "Right." "Hope I'm not keeping you from going someplace." "The only place you're keeping me from going is to sleep." "I've got to get up in the morning." "Well, why don't you go to bed?" "I'll just sit here for a while and then maybe later on, I can sneak out." "You can't go out like that." "No, I suppose I can't." "Certainly can't." "Well..." "Well..." "Let's see." "(COUGHS)" "You've got a cough." "Huh?" "No, I don't have a..." "I never cough." "It's just a..." "Maybe you've been smoking too much." "No, I don't smoke." "Look, if you want to, you can sleep here tonight." "I can?" "Where will you sleep?" "I'll sleep here on the couch." "You can have the bedroom." "There's a lock on the door." "I don't think I'll need it." "I'll clear out my stuff." "Do you work for one of the airlines?" "Yeah." "Payne Airlines." "I'm Marvin Payne, the president of it." "Never heard of it." "That's entirely possible." "This is no four-engine type airline." "Not yet, anyway." "You see, a bunch of us who were in the war together, we pooled our money and went into business." "We just have two airplanes, old war surplus stuff." "I think that was very enterprising of you..." "All right, it's all yours." "Say, by the way, what's your name?" "Dottie..." "Dottie Blucher." "How do you do?" "Good night." "Good night." "Hello." "Say, I want to leave a call for 7:00 tomorrow morning." "Yeah." "Good night." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "DIANA:" "May I come in?" "Yeah." "Do you happen to have any sleeping pills?" "'Cause I know I'm not going to be able to sleep." "I think I've got some in my bag here." "We used to carry them for passengers." "There you are." "Thanks." "There's only three left." "Mmm-hmm." "You won't be needing any, will you?" "Uh-uh." "Good night." "Good night." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Hello?" "Hi, Marv!" "I just came on duty and I heard you were registered." "Thought I'd come up and have a chat with you." "Well, listen, Dick, I'm paralyzed." "I'm practically out on my feet." "I had a pretty rough trip." "I'll see you in the morning before I leave, huh?" "Okay, good night." "(MUMBLES)" "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "DIANA:" "Can I come in?" "Can she come in, she wants to know." "It's those sleeping pills." "They don't seem to work." "I'm in knots." "I can't even lie down." "Why don't you take two?" "Well, I took all three, but they must be awfully weak ones." "You..." "Do you think they'd have stronger ones down at the desk?" "I'll find out." "Let me speak to Mr. Hebert, please." "Excuse me." "Hello, Dick?" "Say, Dick, I was wondering, do you happen to have a sleeping pill down there you could send up to me?" "I thought you said you were out on your feet." "What do you want with a pill?" "Uh..." "I guess I'm too sleepy." "You know, knots." "Yeah." "Well, thanks very much, Dick." "He'll send one right up." "Good." "Say, I don't think you'd better be here." "They might not understand." "No, I guess they wouldn't." "I wish I knew what I was going to do about clothes in the morning." "We'll figure out something in the morning, shall we?" "I'd better disappear." "(MUMBLING)" "(DOORBELL BUZZING)" "Here's the pill." "Oh, Dick, well, you didn't have to bring it up yourself." "No trouble." "I thought I'd come up and keep you company, since you can't sleep." "Say, I ran into Johnny Matthews today." "You remember." "He used to be operations officer with our outfit?" "Oh, yeah." "Yeah." "He was telling me that..." "Go ahead." "Take the capsule." "I'll sit here till you pass out." "Well, I don't think you'd better do that, Dick." "With someone around, I'm liable to stay awake all night." "Okay, pal, I'll run along." "Say, that stuff is pretty strong." "If you want to wake up early, you'd better take only a half of it." "Stick a pin in the capsule and take some of the powder out." "All right, I'll do that." "And thanks ever so much, Dick." "Well, good night." "Good night, Dick." "What's the idea of sleeping in here?" "There's a bedroom, you know." "Yes, I know." "But I didn't want to muss it up, you know, when I'm here on a special rate." "Oh, that's silly, pal." "Make yourself comfortable." "You'll sleep a lot better in a nice, soft bed." "Now, don't worry about me, Dick." "I'm fine." "I like the couch." "I think you ought to try the bed, Marv." "How do you know you don't like it until you've tried it?" "Don't go in there, Dick." "Why not, pal?" "I'm sorry, Marv." "Dick, I..." "Just what did you expect to find in here?" "Something just passed through my mind..." "You just happened to wonder if..." "I just happened to think..." "You just happened to think..." "I apologize." "Okay." "Well, good night, Marv." "Good night, old man." "Okay, I give up." "Is he gone?" "Yeah." "I was hiding in the shower." "Saw the window open, I was afraid you..." "Oh, no, that comes much later on in your story, after the girl has gone down and down." "Here's your pill." "Thank you." "Good night, Marv." "Good night, Dottie." "DIANA:" "Don't think this one's going to work either, Marv." "What'd you say?" "Huh?" "What'd you say?" "Hey." "(BIRDS CHIRPING)" "(DOORBELL BUZZING)" "How do you do, sir?" "I'm sorry to bother you at this unseemly hour, but I am collecting a fund for broken-down fliers." "They're pitiful objects, these poor fellows." "Punch-drunk, nerve-racked, old before their time, forced to continue in their loathsome profession long after they should be retired to pursue their hobbies." "Boy, did I pursue my hobby last night." "(SCATTING)" "(PHONE RINGING)" "WOMAN.:" "Good morning, it's 7.:00." "Good morning, it's 7:00." "Huh?" "You know, Prexy, you ought to get out more, mix with people." "You can't live like a hermit all the time." "You gotta stay happy." "(SCATTING)" "(PHONE RINGING)" "Payne Airlines, office of the president." "Hello?" "Oh, good morning, Dick." "Yeah, I'm up." "Well, I know all about that." "I'll be out long before 9:00." "Yeah." "The pill?" "What pill?" "Oh, the pill!" "(EXCLAIMS)" "Pill worked fine, Dick." "I'll see you on the way out." "Some hermit you..." "She's a complete stranger to me." "She was in a jam, came running in here last night, looking for help." "And you helped her?" "She looks awful limp." "You don't suppose she's dead?" "No, no, of course not." "It's the dope." "The dope?" "You doped her?" "No, no, the sleeping pill." "Only I forgot to tell her just to take half of it." "I think we better wake her up." "Hey, Dottie..." "Miss Blucher." "Hey." "She's still breathing." "Hey, Dottie!" "(WHISTLES)" "(SHUSHING)" "Miss Blucher, it's time to get up." "(DOORBELL BUZZING)" "Answer the door, will you?" "Don't let anybody in." "I got orders to clean up in here." "Clean up in here?" "(STAMMERS) Where you been?" "We been waiting for you." "You have?" "Yeah, the housekeeper's been calling." "Wants you to come down and clean up 2333, right away." "2333?" "Yeah, let me give you a lift with this thing." "Kind of heavy, isn't it?" "Well, yes, it is." "You know, you ought to have an engine in this thing." "Hey!" "Rise and shine!" "Hey, remember me?" "I'm the fellow that..." "Hey!" "Look..." "This is ridiculous." "Dottie!" "Hey!" "Hey, look!" "I've got to get you out of the room because there's gonna be a..." "There's gonna be a wedding." "It was the maid." "I got rid of her." "How're you coming?" "Oh, dear." "Let me take a whirl at her." "I've had a lot of experience with unconscious dames." "(WHISTLES)" "Hey, Prexy, when you travel, you sure travel in very select circles." "This is strictly four-engine stuff." "(DOORBELL BUZZING)" "Hey, Dottie!" "Break it up!" "(HOOTING)" "They don't want me in 2333." "This is the suite I've got to clean right away." "Now, look, you can't clean up in here." "Come back later, will you?" "Go count your linens." "Hey!" "Wake up, sweetheart!" "Say hello to Uncle Bullets!" "Now, that won't do any good." "I'll order some coffee." "Hey, Prexy, I don't like to interfere with your social life, but in a short while, we're scheduled to soar into the wild gray yonder." "Room service." "And it's getting wilder and grayer by the minute!" "Hey, this is 2305." "Send me up some coffee, will you?" "Enough for six people." "I'm so sleepy." "Is that the 8:00 sequence?" "Okay, Newark, thanks a lot." "Well, Newark says there's a lot of weather west of Chicago." "We've got to get rolling." "How do you feel, Miss Blucher?" "There she goes." "Get her on her feet." "I'll try a little more of my shock treatment." "Oh, no, don't!" "Here, come on, have some more coffee, huh?" "(DOORBELL BUZZING)" "There's that maid again." "I guess I'll have to have a talk with her." "Now, look, Miss Floor Mop..." "Oh, Dick." "What's this all about, Marv?" "The maid says you won't let her clean up in here." "You know there's a..." "So that's it!" "Hi, Dick." "Dick..." "I thought you were playing a few false notes last night, but I gave you the benefit of the doubt." "Say, what's wrong with her?" "She's doped." "Doped?" "No, the sleeping pill you brought up last night." "Who is she?" "Oh, excuse me." "Miss Blucher." "Fix her..." "Miss Blucher, I'd like you to meet Mr. Hebert." "He's our host." "How do you do?" "How do you do?" "Dick, I realize this might seem odd..." "Please, don't insult my intelligence with any fantastic explanations." "Well, now that you're here, Dick, and everything's straightened out," "Marv and I can run along." "We're due to leave for California in an hour..." "Oh, no, you don't." "You stay right here, the both of you." "You're not going to leave any unconscious female on my hands." "You don't leave unless she leaves with you." "Mustrt worry about me." "I'm perfectly all right." "There she goes!" "Oh, please don't go to sleep again." "I'm all right." "Listen, Miss Blucher, where would you like the boys to take you?" "To California with them." "But of course!" "Oh, no." "Can't do that." "No, no, that'd be impossible." "I want to get out of town, far away." "Marv, you understand, after last night." "You were so wonderful." "Sure, sure, I guess you probably want to get away and get a fresh start." "Fresh start." "Yes." "Fresh start." "Oh, take me with you." "You've got to take her someplace." "I don't care where, as long as it's out of this hotel." "(DOORBELL BUZZING)" "That's the wedding party." "I'll go clean up the other room." "Come on, Marv." "Let's go." "We can't just go away and leave her when she's in a jam." "(DOORBELL BUZZING) That's the time to go." "Go let them in, Bullets, and stall them until I get there." "Okay." "And if they want to come in here, tell them the room is closed temporarily." "Hey, maybe I get to kiss the bride." "(CLICKS TONGUE)" "Where are her clothes?" "She doesn't have any." "What?" "No, she came in here last night, just the way she is." "(PEOPLE CHATTERING) Well, she can't go out that way." "Maybe I have something here." "Hold that." "(PEOPLE LAUGHING)" "You think these will do?" "Well, they'll have to do." "Now, look, Miss Blucher." "I want you to concentrate." "Do you think you'll be able to stand up alone?" "Of course." "Fine." "BULLETS:" "Oh, come right in, you must be the organist." "Would you like to warm up the organ?" "Sit down." "Play us a little tune." "We'll have to dress her." "WOMAN 1:" "Is there a room where Mom and I can freshen up?" "WOMAN 2:" "Why, probably right in here through this door, honey." "You'll excuse us, everybody?" "BULLETS:" "Oh, I'm afraid not." "No, no, not in here." "This room is closed temporarily." "You know, it's a mighty cute little doll that's getting married in there." "Redhead, name of Georgia." "Marrying a soldier, mother had to bankrupt herself to pay for the wedding." "You know, none of those people in there ever been in a fancy hotel like this before?" "OPERATOR:" "Going down?" "Here, take this." "Yes, sir." "Put her in the corner, will you?" "Well, did you say something about going down, or did you change your mind?" "Yes, sir." "HENRY:" "Just a moment." "Good morning." "Good morning, sir." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "My bill please, 2303." "CLERK:" "Yes, sir." "CLERK:" "Oh, Mr. Benson, your receipt." "(ENGINE SPUTTERING)" "(INAUDIBLE)" "Hey, wake her up when you get to New York, and then take her where she wants to go." "Okay." "Hey, where are we?" "This is Newark." "Listen, I gave the..." "I mean, I gave that cab 10 bucks to take you wherever you wanted to go." "No." "A cab can't take me as far as I..." "Look, Miss Blucher." "Now, you said something about going to California with us." "I'm sorry, that's impossible." "Oh, take me with you, Marv." "There are all sorts of ways you can get there." "You can take the regular passenger airline." "You can take a train or a bus." "Why don't you take a boat through the Panama Canal?" "No, I can't go any other way, because I haven't any money." "Of course, I'll pay you back later." "It isn't a question of money." "This is a cargo outfit and we're not supposed to carry passengers." "But there must be some way you can take me." "Please, Marv, I have to get out of town for just a little while." "Well, take me half of the way." "I'm sorry, no passengers." "We've got new regulations." "Good morning, Jack." "I thought you guys were gonna leave early." "Yeah, so did we." "We got slowed down a little at the hotel." "Afraid it was my fault." "So?" "Jack, this is Miss Blucher." "This is Jack Samuels, our freight agent." "How do you do?" "Am I keeping you up?" "Mmm-mmm." "Just a little early for me, that's all." "Well, look, let's get going, huh?" "How about the load, Jack?" "It's great, great." "I got you another 1,000 pounds." "Magazines, paper clips and some live lobsters." "The lobsters I have not yet loaded." "Why not?" "Because once those lobsters are aboard, the contract says you gotta go, hot or cold." "How's about the weather west?" "If we lose this load, we're out of business." "So we're going, all right." "The mail must go through." "I wish we had some mail to carry." "Then I could sit in back and sort it, instead of sitting up in front staring into the overcast." "JACK:" "You'll have to make up the time someplace." "That coffin has got to be at the Garden Of The Immortals cemetery by 10:00 tomorrow morning." "The chimpanzee is set to open a show tomorrow." "We promised to deliver him on time and in good health." "We'll do that, all right." "Now, you two guys load the lobster." "I'll file a flight plan." "Uh..." "Miss Blucher's going with us." "JACK:" "She is?" "Yeah, put her down as personnel." "Thanks, Marv." "As far as Chicago." "Bullets will tell you when we're ready to take off." "Say, Marv, as a stockholder in Payne Air, is it permitted to ask..." "I withdraw the question." "Got the cash for the gas?" "Certainly, indeed." "There you are, 100 turnips." "Thanks." "Hey, Bullets, when you get out to the airplane..." "GEORGIA:" "Mr. Baker!" "Mr. Baker?" "Pardon me, Prexy." "Some old friends." "BULLETS:" "Hello." "Glad to see you made it." "I was getting worried." "We sure were afraid we were gonna be late, Mr. Baker." "Yeah, it was so exciting, Mr. Baker." "Glad you made it, Mrs. Goodrich." "Well, I guess you can call me Georgia, Mr. Baker." "Hi, Georgia." "I feel like we're old friends." "My name is Milt." "Hi, Milt." "Where's the plane?" "Right over here." "There she is." "She's an old campaigner, too." "Got a great war record." "Bucket seats?" "It is said of Payne Air that our bucket seats are the most comfortable in the industry." "They hurt you when you sit." "Not if I'm sitting on your lap." "BULLETS:" "You're absolutely correct." "Oh, Marv..." "Captain Payne, this is Mr. And Mrs. Goodrich." "How do you do?" "How do you do?" "How do you do?" "Mrs. Goodrich, doesn't that sound funny?" "Newlyweds?" "Oh, they were married this morning at the hotel." "You're on your honeymoon, huh?" "Well, yeah, I guess you could say that, yes." "Hey, why don't you go over to the plane and wait around?" "We're gonna take off pretty soon." "Okay." "Come on, sugar lump." "All right, lover man." "Captain Payne, we're sure gonna enjoy our trip on your airline." "What'd she say?" "(STAMMERING) I sold them a round trip to California and back." "Oh, fine." "Well, you go over there and tell them..." "Look, look, look, Prexy, I had to." "I got in over my head last night." "I spent most of our gas money." "As it happens, these kids had exactly 100 clams to spend on their honeymoon." "So I..." "So you sold them tickets?" "Who's gonna find out about it?" "Look, Prexy, you worry too much." "You gotta stay happy." "Don't look for trouble." "What are you trying to do, get us grounded?" "If you got no gas, you'd be grounded, too." "Listen, now, I'm going over to Operations." "Now, while I'm gone, behave yourself, will you?" "Or I'll personally ground you from 10,000 feet." "Roger, Wilco!" "Oh, shut up!" "Hey, Mac!" "Hey, take me over to Operations, will you?" "Okay." "Hey, Mr. Bullets!" "Come here!" "I've got another personnel!" "Huh?" "We've got another passenger." "Oh, no." "Well, a man came in and wanted a plane to California, so I..." "Look, Dottie, you don't understand." "We don't carry passengers." "Never!" "Oh, I thought you needed the money." "He paid you?" "Well, he didn't seem to care how much it cost, so I just yawned a little to get things started and he gave me $300." "Three hundred..." "Well, we do make exceptions, you know, in rare cases." "Get your passenger aboard the plane!" "One man coming up." "Oh, Mr. Caslon!" "Your plane's ready." "Oh, yes, of course, the plane." "I'm getting cigarettes." "I'll be with you in just a minute." "Right outside, Payne Airlines." "Just where have you been?" "I was afraid to wait over in the waiting room, there's so many people waiting over there, so I waited over here." "How was I supposed to know that?" "Well, I just didn't think." "Yeah, see, well, you just better start thinking!" "What happened to your face?" "When I shaved my mustache off, I guess my hand shook a little." "It's a good thing you didn't have a beard." "You might have cut your throat." "Mae, do you think we ought to go through with this?" "Now, don't be so nervous, honey." "Everything's gonna be all right." "Why do we have to travel separately?" "I've told you 100 times." "It's safer if we're not together." "Did you get your ticket?" "I'm going on a freight plane, Payne Air." "That's a good idea." "Now, remember, honey, don't get off the plane, and don't let that bag out of your sight." "I'll meet you out there." "All right." "Goodbye." "Oh, Mae, maybe you better take care of this." "Oh, no, thanks." "You take it." "If I'm left holding the bag, it's not gonna be that one!" "What about me?" "Oh, for heavers sakes, honey, pull yourself together and stop shaking." "Better get aboard your plane, before you faint." "I'll meet you at Burbank." "Mr. Caslon!" "Hurry up!" "No, no, I'll take it." "Oh, hurry up." "This is Mr. Caslon." "How are you?" "How do you do?" "You better get him aboard." "Right this way, sir." "Oh, no, no, no." "I'll take it." "Who's this?" "Extra personnel." "Does Marv know about him?" "Well, no, it's a surprise." "Are we going all the way to the coast in a thing like this?" "Why, sure, Mr. Caslon." "This is a cargo ship." "You'll like it." "It's like traveling in a tramp steamer, sort of informal." "As we go along, we point out the sights." "If you see something you like, we buzz it for you." "No, I'd rather you wouldn't..." "Or not, as you prefer." "Is that a coffin?" "Where?" "Right there." "Well, it does look like one, doesn't it?" "Is there someone in it?" "Well, I haven't looked." "Should we open it and see?" "No, thanks." "Okay." "Step forward in the car, Mr. Caslon." "(HOOTING)" "Is that gorilla safe?" "Joe is not a gorilla, he's a chimpanzee." "And he certainly won't bother you if you don't bother him." "Well, don't worry about that!" "Hello, Joe." "Oh, I think he's sweet." "Joe likes you." "If I must say so, that's a great accomplishment." "He makes very few friends." "All set?" "Yeah." "Listen, when you pick up that whitefish in Chicago, be sure you got plenty of ice." "It's got to be delivered fresh." "Okay." "Will you all sit down, please?" "Fasten your seat belts." "We're gonna take off right away." "Well, say, Captain, I have some fruit and candy." "Will you give Joe some every few hours?" "You'll also find some cigars in the sack." "Let him have one after every meal." "Well, does he eat them or smoke them?" "He smokes them." "Well, goodbye, Captain." "Goodbye." "Give him a hand, will you, Jack?" "JACK:" "Come here, pop." "Give my regards to the stockholders in Burbank." "So long." "(JOE SCREECHING)" "Hey, I want you to meet a friend of mine." "Joe, meet Marv." "How do you do?" "Here you are." "Be sure and fasten your seat belt, huh?" "Think you better get in another seat for takeoff." "Oh, but Miltikins and I promised we'd never leave each other." "Well, the belt isn't long enough to go around both of you." "Oh..." "You can come back after we're in the air, baby face." "I just hate to get off your lappy-wappy for a second." "Goodbye, lover man." "Goodbye, sugar love." "Excuse me." "Belt fastened?" "Thank you." "Who are you?" "I am... (STAMMERS) Well, I am..." "Why do you ask?" "Well, Mr. Payne, this is Mr. Caslon." "Mr. Caslon, meet our captain and president, Mr. Payne." "Can't I leave for five minutes without..." "Look, Prexy, Prexy, four passengers can't get you in any more trouble than three." "That's simple mathematics." "And Caslon had 300 good reasons why we should take him." "You see, Prexy, you gotta stay..." "Yeah, I gotta stay happy." "Well, I think I'd be much happier if I take charge of this." "Now, come on." "Let's get going." "Anybody else you'd like to have come along?" "All right." "Clear the right." "Well, everything all right?" "Oh, yes." "It's just gorgeous." "I gave him a cigar and he lit it all by himself." "Watch he doesn't bite you." "Why, he's almost human." "Put a highball in the other hand and he'd look like a man of distinction." "MARV:" "I thought the airplane was on fire." "You better sit down." "Yeah, maybe not." "What's the matter, you cold?" "Just from the ankles down." "I think I can fix that." "Any idea who's in there?" "Yeah, a man by the name of Harry Selby." "Sad, isn't it?" "Well, that depends." "If he did anything with his life, I guess it isn't so bad." "What's a person supposed to do with his life?" "Lots of things." "Work, come out to something, be a success, raise a family." "And that's what you're doing?" "I'm trying." "The first part of it, anyway." "According to my schedule, I won't be able to support a family until 1954." "You're going to do all that on schedule?" "Well, I think a person should plan his life." "Well, suppose you fall in love before then, like those two?" "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "You know, they told me they didn't even have enough money for an engagement ring, but they seem to be happy." "Oh, now, yeah!" "But wait till later on, when they have kids, bills they can't pay, she starts wanting things he can't get for her." "And you figure you'll be ready for all these things in 1954, huh?" "You just wait till we get some four-engine equipment." "We'll go places." "I don't see how you can be so sure of the future." "The world's so mixed up and uncertain, there's so many problems." "Well, the world's always had problems." "They get solved somehow." "No use getting hysterical about it." "The war didn't do anything to you, did it?" "Look, it didn't give me any complexes, if that's what you mean." "Sure, it set me back a few years." "But there's nothing wrong with me that a million dollars won't cure." "Money won't cure anything, Marv." "Don't you believe it." "If you'd ever had any, you'd know better." "You really think money would make you happy, huh?" "Money would buy Payne Air a four-engine airplane." "That would make me happy." "Oh, that's wonderful." "I wish I could be as positive about things as you are." "I've never been able to make a five minute plan for myself and stick to it." "All you have to do is decide where you're going and what you want out of life." "Like Joe there." "He wants some candy." "Here you are." "Now, go on, eat it." "Oh, no, Joe." "(JOE HOOTING)" "Here, let me try." "Here, Joe." "You're going to miss me west of Chicago, aren't you, Joe?" "Maybe you two would like to be alone." "Chicago!" "Folks, we're going to be here about an hour and a half." "You can get out and stretch your legs, have some lunch..." "No, thank you." "(WHIMPERS)" "Well, goodbye, Joe." "I hope you don't starve to death before you get to the coast." "Well, goodbye." "Goodbye." "Thanks for the lift." "It was a great help." "Where shall I send the clothes?" "Well, the address is Payne Airlines, Burbank, California, but there's no hurry about it." "Goodbye, Bullets." "So long." "Miss Blucher." "What are you going to do?" "Just stay In Chicago here?" "Well, I would very much like to go to California." "I have an aunt there, and I thought she might take me in." "I see." "Well, you grab yourself a sandwich and be here at 4:00." "Oh, Marv!" "Thanks!" "I thought it'd be a good idea if we kept her with us, so she could take care of the monkey." "He seems to like her." "Wait, please." "Bank's closed, it's 3:15." "I'd like to see Mr. Burns." "I'm Diana Dillwood." "Well, I don't know..." "And I'm in a hurry." "Well, wait a minute." "I'll find out." "(PEOPLE MURMURING)" "Will you come in, Miss Dillwood?" "Thank you." "Here, Prexy." "Well, the weather's not good." "Think we ought to curl up here till things get better?" "Listen, the fish is loaded, and that body has to be in Los Angeles tonight, and so does the monkey." "Now, as a stockholder in Payne Air, does that answer your questions?" "Hey, fellas, do you belong with that plane?" "Yeah." "Just come in from New York, did you?" "That's right." "Anyone with you?" "Passengers, I mean." "No, we're just a small cargo outfit." "Sometimes people who don't want to be traced take cargo planes." "Now, I'm looking for a blonde about 28 years old and a man about 40." "He wears glasses and a mustache." "Have you seen them?" "You mean a blonde about that high?" "Cute figure?" "Yeah." "No." "Havert seen her." "You're quite a joker, aren't you?" "Hey, hey, wait a minute." "What do you want them for?" "About $50,000 won'th of embezzlement." "Dottie?" "Of course not." "You heard him, he said embezzlement." "She's flat broke." "He said a guy with glasses and a mustache." "That could be the guy that socked you at the hotel." "It could be 40 million other people, too." "Oh, Mr. Baker!" "Mr. Baker!" "Mr. Baker and Mr. Payne!" "Just look at that." "Isn't it the most gorgeous thing you ever saw?" "Well, what do you know?" "Diamond ring, about three pounds, I'd say." "Dottie bought it for me." "Just because she heard me say I didn't have one." "Isn't she an old sweet-sweet?" "Hello, bought myself a present, too." "Do you like it?" "Sure, yeah." "It's a little baggy in the shoulders, but I didn't have time for alterations." "I thought you were short of cash." "Oh, I had a little stashed away in Chicago." "I bought Joe some fruit." "(WOMAN ANNOUNCING ON PA)" "All right, folks, let's get aboard." "Come on, we're late." "Prexy, do you know what happens to guys who help people get away from the police?" "The police take a very dim view of such goings-on." "They call us accessories to the crime." "Take it a minute, will you?" "Prexy, we could put a chute on her and drop her out." "(WHIMPERS)" "Joe doesn't feel so well." "It's the altitude." "We're trying to get on top of this weather." "I've been thinking about that jam you were in in New York." "You have?" "Of course, you didn't tell me very much about it." "Well, you told me, small-town girl comes to big city..." "Uh-huh." "Did I have it figured out wrong?" "It wasrt quite the way you thought." "Well, maybe you're making a mistake running away." "You know, sometimes it's better just to face a thing and get it over with." "Not this." "I had to run, Marv." "You did, huh?" "It was the only thing I could do." "Otherwise, I..." "Well, I might have been trapped, perhaps for the rest of my life." "Anything like this ever happen to you before?" "Well, it had never got quite this far." "Well, do you think..." "Do you think..." "Maybe someday I can tell you about it, after it's all straightened out." "(RATTLING)" "Well, I guess I better get back up front and give Bullets a hand." "We're at 14,000." "We can't top this stuff." "Well, we might as well stop wasting gas." "That monkey's getting sick." "What's he got to be sick about?" "He doesn't have to fly this pressure cooker." "I got it." "While you were out, Kansas City called." "They report 500 feet and a mile visibility." "Say, I was just thinking, let's skip Kansas City and go on to Tulsa." "Isn't that stretching our gas a little far?" "Well, it's easier to get in at Tulsa in this kind of weather." "Oh, and the cops might be waiting at Kansas City for Miss Blucher." "Well, how do we know they want her?" "That flatfoot in Chicago wasrt looking for any lost Airedale." "That doesn't prove anything." "Now, go on, get out your computer, and give me a figure on that gas." "Kansas City radio, this is NC551." "Over." "Hey, when you go for a dame, you don't hold back any, do you, Marv?" "MAN ON RADIO.:" "Plane calling Kansas City radio, say again." "Kansas City radio, NC551." "Marv!" "(SHUSHING)" "Well, we're picking up a nice load of ice." "I hope she's going to make Tulsa." "We ought to be pretty close to Chanute." "Give them a call, will you?" "Chanute radio, this is NC551." "Do you read?" "MAN ON RADIO.:" "NC551, this is Chanute radio... (RADIO CRACKLING)" "(THUNDER CRASHING)" "There goes the antenna." "I should have listened to my mother." "She wanted me to be a dentist." "You know what I think?" "I think we better find a nice hole and sit down, while we have enough gas to sit down with." "Here, take it, will you?" "Hold that heading." "I'll tell the passengers." "Give them the "Routine landing, nothing to be alarmed about" speech." "No breaks yet." "I got it." "(SCREECHING)" "Joe, don't do that." "No." "What a way to die." "Strapped in this infernal machine with gorillas and dead bodies..." "If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die sitting on your lappy-wappy." "We're not gonna die." "Well, I hope not." "We ain't hardly married yet." "Not enough gas to clean your necktie." "Well, we can't stay up here in this slop any longer." "We'll just have to go down through it, take a chance of breaking out of it." "Now?" "Now." "(WHIMPERS)" "Down to 2,000 feet." "Do you see anything?" "There may be a break ahead." "I think I see a light." "It's the ground, Prexy, and it looks flat." "Lose a little more altitude and we'll be in the clear." "I think I can get her in here." "Looks kind of skimpy to me." "See if you can release that flare." "I hope that mud isn't too deep." "We'll soon find out." "Gear down." "Going down." "If it wasrt for that blonde of yours, we'd be sitting in Kansas City right now, having a hamburger and a cup of coffee." "In the future, if we have any future, leave dame-chasing to me." "Gear down and locked, mixture rich, pressure up, green light." "I got a wheel, I think." "I got a wheel, probably." "Okay, full flaps." "Full flaps." "Cut it!" "I've come to the conclusion that this is a young mars game." "I'm too old to be an intrepid aviator." "Boy, that was a raunchy landing, wasrt it?" "Raunchy?" "What do you mean, raunchy?" "It was beautiful." "We're alive." "Well, let's go back and see if everybody else is." "Everybody all right?" "(SIGHS) Okay." "Dottie?" "Fine." "Nice work, Marv." "How about Joe?" "(HOOTING)" "Mr. Caslon?" "Mr. Caslon!" "Missing some personnel?" "Here's his bag." "He must be around somewhere." "Say, you folks just keep your seats, and we'll..." "Lover, I think that sugar lump's going to be sickie-wickie." "Hey, Bullets, open up the door, will you?" "Get some air in here." "Caslon?" "Do you think he could have crawled in with Mr. Selby?" "You sure you're all right?" "Perfectly." "Well, sit over here." "We'll look around outside." "Don't suppose he jumped out, do you?" "I hope not." "He might want a refund." "(CASLON GROANS)" "Where are we?" "Let me out of here!" "Get out of my way!" "BULLETS:" "Hey, wait a minute!" "I tried to tell you, no steps." "Some people just ain't air-minded." "I love you!" "Everybody get under the wing." "Seems to be all in one piece." "I'll stow this in here." "No, I'll keep it..." "I'd rather keep it... (DOOR CLOSING)" "May have a long walk." "Let's go." "Wait a minute." "About 110?" "108." "But that's dry and no clothes on." "RACKNELL:" "Hey, there!" "You people all right?" "Yeah, we're all right." "You come by airship, didn't you?" "Yeah, we had some trouble." "Thought so." "You like to took the roof off of the house when you come in." "My place, right over yonder." "You folks better come along, get out of the wet." "Where are we, anyhow?" "Forty miles north of Tulsa as the crow flies." "No crows are flying to Tulsa tonight." "If they got any sense, they're walking." "These here folks alighted in that airship, Ella." "This here is my wife, Mrs. Racknell." "How do you do?" "Howdy." "You folks better come on in and get into some dry duds and have something warm to eat." "There's plenty left over from our supper." "Supper, that's a beautiful word." "Dindin, sugar lump?" "Uh-huh." "Dindin." "Foreigners?" "No, just married." "Don't stand there, Matt, come on in." "Everybody in." "That's right." "Right up the stairs." "Shucks, don't let a little mud bother you." "Come on, children, hurry up." "Hurry up." "Come." "I hope you have a telephone, Mr. Racknell." "I'll have to report that landing to Tulsa." "Right over there." "Thank you." "Fine." "Somebody on the line." "Don't hang up." "What're they saying?" "We always listen in." "We got about 10 families on the line, makes it kind of sociable." "A fellow talking about a pain in his back." "That so?" "Says it's worse." "Oh, Jud Tavis." "Let me have that." "Jud?" "This is Matt Racknell talking." "Yeah, get off the line, will you?" "I got an important call to make." "Never mind what it is, you'll hear it in just a minute." "There you are." "Thank you." "(PLAYING BLUEGRASS MUSIC)" "(WHISTLING)" "(PLAYING MORE SLOWLY)" "(WHOOPING)" "Happen to have him down in a cage down in the airplane." "Of course, he's not really a monkey, he's an ape." "A chimpanzee, to be exact." "They come from Africa." "Where is that?" "Well, you go down to South America to Natale, then jump across to the Ascension Islands, then up to Dakar." "Or if you have a four-engine airplane, you can fly the great circle route." "What is he talking about?" "Where's Africa?" "It's across the ocean." "Too many people up here." "You ought to be in bed." "Kiss your mom good night and get." "Well, I should think." "Hurry up, get in line, line up." "Good night, good night." "Come on." "Good night, dear." "Good night." "Good night." "Good night." "ELLA:" "Good night." "(SNIFFLING)" "Well, Matt, I'll take Pauline." "Pop?" "What is it?" "(WHISPERING)" "He wants to know if he can see that chimpanzee you were telling us about." "Sure, sure thing." "Show him to you the first thing in the morning." "Barnabas, tell you what, we'll have him smoke a cigar for you." "(GASPS)" "You sure have a fine family, Mr. Racknell." "It's going to be a fine family by the time we're finished with it." "We're just getting started." "I'm a family man." "Is that so?" "I got two boys and a baby girl." "That's fine." "Maybe you'd like to hold Pauline while I wash up the dishes." "Well, I believe I would." "(GURGLING)" "(SNIFFLING)" "Excuse me." "Come on, Martha." "Martha." "Time to get to work." "I think I'll have a look at the weather." "It's clearing off fast, ain't it?" "Weather ought to be good for flying tomorrow." "Think you can rise your airship off my field?" "It's pretty short." "We can't be sure until morning." "You're positive about that wind?" "Wind blows from that direction every morning, almost." "I'll drive into Tulsa first thing with the truck and get you gas." "Now, we're gonna have to tow the airplane up onto solid ground." "Do you have a tractor?" "Nope." "Never could afford one." "Nobody around here's got one." "Excepting the Cherokees up the road." "They got a beauty." "Biggest thing you ever seen." "Well, do you think we could get them to bring it over?" "We'll pay them for it." "I don't reckon they'd be interested in anything you could pay them." "They got more money than they know what to do with." "Oil wells all over their land." "But I'll stop by on the way to town and see if I can persuade them." "Fine." "Fine!" "Thank you." "I hope Milty and I'll have 10 children, just like you, Mrs. Racknell." "Wouldrt be surprised if you did better than that." "Such a big family must keep you awfully busy." "Sure does, but I don't mind." "I don't know what else there is in life for a woman, besides helping her man and raising some kids." "You must be really happy, aren't you?" "What?" "Well, yes, I suppose I am." "That's wonderful." "Ain't you happy, Miss Blucher?" "Well, I don't think I really know." "Did you ever think of getting married, Miss Blucher?" "Yes, but it's not that easy." "What's hard about it?" "Oh, well, it's a hard decision to make." "I..." "How do you make up your mind about a thing like that?" "If you have to make up your mind, you got the wrong man." "GEORGIA:" "I knew Milty was for me from the very beginning." "From the first time you saw him?" "Well, the first time I kissed him." "I don't see how you can tell from a thing like that." "I've kissed a man or two, but I never got any message." "Oh, you will, when you kiss the right one." "Is that so?" "Excuse me." "Would you care to dance?" "Well, I've got to go down and check over the airplane." "I'll go with you." "I might be able to help you or something." "Okay." "Fine." "(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)" "Well, everything seems to be all right." "We were pretty lucky." "It was more than luck, Marv." "You're a wonderful pilot." "Well, in this case it was mostly luck." "Airplanes take a lot of care, don't they?" "You've got to take good care of your airplane, or some other guy'll be taking good care of your widow." "But you wouldn't have a widow for a guy to take care of, would you?" "No, no, it's just a saying we had in the Air Force." "What'd you fly, bombers?" "No, I flew this." "Over the Hump, India to China." "I don't know." "I sort of got fond of the old girl." "So, when the war was over, I bought her." "Well, I didn't know you were sentimental, Marv." "I guess I'm as sentimental as the next guy." "Only about airplanes?" "Well, I know more about airplanes than anything else." "How to handle them." "What to expect of them." "And you don't know how to..." "Oh, Marv." "Oh, Marv." "Marv, you're it." "Oh, yes." "Oh, I've wanted to do this ever since I saw you leave the airplane in Chicago with those silly shoes on." "You have?" "How wonderful." "Oh, but I've ruined your beautiful schedule that went all the way up to 1954." "You sure have." "I love it." "Well, it sort of complicates things for me, too." "Yeah, it sort of does, doesn't it?" "Do you want to tell me about it?" "Not tonight, Marv." "Oh, please, not tonight." "CASLON:" "Mr. Payne." "Mr. Payne." "Mr. Payne, I've got to talk to you right away." "What do you mean?" "What I have to say is extremely urgent." "You'll excuse us, won't you, miss?" "It's very important." "Just a second." "Look, Dottie..." "Well, I ought to be getting back, anyway." "I know, but, well, what about the complications?" "Mr. Payne, please..." "Just hold on." "Just hold on a minute." "Well, there's really no use talking about something that I'm not ready to talk about yet, until I know it's ready to be talked about." "I'll see you in the morning." "Good night, Marv." "Good night." "Mr. Payne, I'm not going to continue this trip." "I can't." "I know it's been pretty rough." "I've been contemptible, I've been rotten." "I've been a despicable cad." "All right, now, what's your trouble, Mr. Caslon?" "I've always been weak and selfish." "My whole life has been like that." "I see that now." "Well, what's this all about, anyway?" "Well, come with me, Mr. Payne, and I'll try to tell you." "I was contemptible." "I was rotten." "I was assistant cashier of the Eternal Fountain Pen company." "Well, is that bad?" "But tonight when I held that baby in my arms, I came to my senses." "It made me think of my own family, my good wife, Harriet." "We've been married for 25 years, Mr. Payne, but I forgot all that, my duty, my reputation..." "Now, wait a minute, wait a minute." "Now, just a minute." "Would you mind telling me where we're going?" "Behind that door is $50,000 of the company's money." "I'm a thief, Mr. Payne." "A thief and an embezzler." "My name isn't Caslon, it's Chalmers." "You must be the one the police were looking for in Chicago." "I'm a contemptible..." "A contemptible, rotten guy." "Yeah, but they were looking for two people, a man and a woman." "Well, I was running away with Mae, my secretary." "She's on her way to meet me by another route." "She doesn't happen to be a blonde, does she?" "She is." "Mae's the sort of girl it's easy to get involved with, and well, I got involved with her, but I know better now." "Tonight, when I held that baby..." "Yes, yes, I know." "I'm going into Tulsa with Racknell in the morning and get the first plane for the east." "Well, I'm glad you're gonna do that, Mr. Caslon." "I mean, Chalmers." "Yeah, that's the right thing for you to do." "Now, if you'll excuse me..." "I want to stay and guard that money." "You're money's safe." "The airplane's locked." "Would you mind if I stay and keep an eye on it?" "You can stay there all night if you want." "Hello, operator?" "I want to put in a call to New York City." "The Hampshire House hotel." "I want to speak to the night manager, Mr. Dick Hebert." "That's right." "That does it." "Pretty soon Payne Air will be on the march again." "Yeah, I'm in no particular hurry to get where we're marching." "Hey, you're not staying very happy this morning, Prexy." "Oh, sure I am." "Sure." "Every time I think of that ice melting around the fish, and the monkey missing his show, and the late Mr. Selby being late for his funeral," "I feel like laughing my head off." "But I don't do it because I'm afraid people wouldn't understand." "It's not like you to worry about a little thing like bankruptcy." "It's something else, isn't it, Marv?" "Where's that wind you promised me?" "Funny about that." "It should have been here by this time." "What about the Indians and their tractor?" "They should have been here by this time, too." "By the way, before I forget it, here's the change from that gasoline money." "No, you keep it." "We owe you that and much more for all you've done for us." "Oh, I don't want to be paid for helping people who are in trouble." "It was a pleasure." "Okay." "Thanks very much." "(CHEERING EXCITEDLY)" "(CHILDREN CLAMORING)" "Hey!" "Get away from there." "(WHISTLES)" "How's your back, Jud?" "Oh, it kept me awake all night." "This damp weather gets me right here like a knife." "Good morning." "I wanted to get out here earlier but I just woke up." "I haven't slept so well in years." "I guess the air cargo business agrees with me." "That's good." "Hi." "When is he gonna smoke a cigar?" "You promised us." "In a little while." "Hello, Joe." "What's wrong, Marv?" "What makes you think anything's wrong, Miss Blucher?" "There is something wrong, isn't there?" "Well, now, maybe if you concentrate real hard, you'll be able to figure it out for yourself." "(JUD LAUGHING)" "RACKNELL:" "You don't say." "JUD:" "Seems this fellow was telephoning New York." "Speaking to a friend of his in some hotel." "He wanted to get the name of the gal who was staying in the room next to his the other night." "Only she didn't stay in her room, she spent the night in his room." "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "Seems her brand new husband was in her room, and she was running away from him." "Turns out this gal's supposed to be the world's richest orphan." "Worth about $80 million, name of Dillwood." "Oh, she's been mixed up with a dozen different men." "Sure got an earful, didn't you?" "I sure did." "You know, this here telephone's better than a radio..." "I was going to tell you about this, but I wanted to do it in my own way, so that you'd understand." "Oh, I understand, all right." "Your name is Dee Dee Dillwood Benson." "You're married and you're dusting off your husband." "I'm not really married." "I knew right after the wedding that I'd made a mistake, so I ran." "Henry doesn't mean anything to me." "Then why did you marry him?" "Because I was mixed up and confused and I didn't know my own mind." "But I do now." "I love you, Marv." "I guess you said that quite a few times before, huh?" "Not the way I'm saying it to you now." "Oh, now, look." "How many times have you used that one?" "I've made a lot of mistakes, but this isn't one of them." "You've got to believe that." "I'll tell you what I believe." "I believe that you're a spoiled, pampered girl, who has to have everything she wants, when she wants it, no matter how much it hurts anybody else." "Well, in that case, I'd better not go on to the coast with you." "I might hurt someone." "I guess we can manage without you." "Eighty million bucks?" "Will you take me into Tulsa with you, Mr. Racknell?" "Why, sure, as soon as we get finished here." "I'll wait for you in the truck." "(TRACTOR ENGINE WHIRRING)" "Mr. Racknell, you tell him to move the tractor round to the tail of the airplane." "Sure will." "(INAUDIBLE)" "There seems to be a slight complication." "They want to see the chimpanzee smoke a cigar." "I promised them they could." "That was the only way I could get them to bring the tractor." "Okay." "But it'd save time if they'd tow the airplane up onto solid ground first, then they can watch the monkey while we get things ready." "I'll ask them." "They won't do it." "No cigar, no tractor." "They drive a hard bargain." "Okay." "Okay, let's get it over with." "Get me those cigars, will you, Bullets?" "Good morning, gentlemen." "Right this way." "Step right over there." "You'll get a better look." "Now, folks, this is the only monkey in the world that can smoke a cigar." "All right, Joe." "His name's Joe." "Joe." "Have a cigar." "Here you are." "Wouldrt you..." "Don't..." "Don't you want the nice cigar, Joe?" "Please." "(LAUGHS NERVOUSLY)" "Hey, King Kong, smoke the cigar." "Smoke for the people." "That old monkey can't smoke." "MARV:" "Joe, please." "Well, now, wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "We'll get him to do it in just a second here." "Just a minute and he'll do it." "All right." "It'll just take a little time." "All right, now." "Now, here you are, Joe." "Let's have a..." "Let's have a smoke, huh?" "(JOE SCREECHING)" "All right, now, take it easy, take it easy, Joe." "Now, Joe, I'll tell you what I'll do." "I'll light it for you." "It might help him along a little." "Here we go." "(COUGHS)" "Here you are." "Here you are, Joe." "Now, just like that." "You know how." "I know you do." "Now, watch." "It's very simple." "Very simple." "Very sim... (HOOTING)" "(COUGHS)" "Have a smoke." "Here, Joe." "That's it." "Smoke it for mother." "(LAUGHING)" "(ALL APPLAUDING)" "So, you can manage without me?" "Okay, tell them where to put the tractor." "Get those two fellows, get those two fellows." "Hi, Neil." "Glad to see you, Marv." "Curly." "You had a tough time, didn't you?" "Oh, we had a lovely trip." "Air travel is the thing." "Well, there's an impressive group of vultures waiting over there." "We'd better get on over and square their beefs." "Well, first we got to have lunchie-wunchie." "It's been a long time since we had becksie..." "Look, Bullets, from now on in Payne Air, let's have it breakfast, lunch and dinner, shall we?" "Okay, okay." "Okay." "Oh, dear me." "No, it was just the altitude." "We had to fly pretty high." "MAN:" "You guaranteed to deliver him safe and sound and on time, which he ain't." "MARV:" "Just send in the bill." "And we hold Payne Air responsible." "Do I make myself clear?" "Just send in your bill." "We will, Mr. Payne." "We will." "This the end of Payne Air?" "No, it isn't." "Now, what about the other airplane?" "Didrt Ted and Eddie get a good load out of Mexico City?" "Yeah." "With what we make out of that load, we'll be able to keep our heads above water." "We don't have..." "What happened?" "You know that cemetery on the downwind end of the runway at Hermosia?" "Well, there was a ground fog." "They hit a monument." "Boys get hurt?" "They walked away from it." "Well, what about the airplane?" "It melted." "Well, I've been looking over things all afternoon, and I..." "No matter how I figure, it all adds up that Payne Air is just about broke." "Just had a lot of bad breaks, that's all." "But we're gonna work out of it." "It may be tough going, but we'll do it." "Well, that's okay for you, Marv." "You're single." "But I've got two kids to think about." "And Eddie's got a wife." "Yeah, yeah, I know." "We've got to have some dough coming in." "So today..." "Well, Eddie and I had an offer, and..." "Are you trying to say you sold your stock?" "Yeah." "How'd you know?" "Because I sold mine, too, this afternoon." "CURLY:" "So did I." "Now, who'd buy stock in this outfit?" "Somebody fresh out of a padded cell?" "Some rich dame, says she's interested in the air cargo racket." "Whereabouts is this address?" "It's out in Bel Air." "She's not going to get away with this." "But it's too late to do anything about it, Marv." "She's already got the stock." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "I just don't comprehend, Diana." "I just don't comprehend." "You've said that once." "Martha, it's not necessary to make remarks like that." "This is my house and you're not my husband any longer, hurray, so I'll make all the remarks I choose." "Please, Mrs. Tutwiler." "We didn't fly out here all the way just for you and Ralph to start quarrelling again." "We came here to talk to Diana." "Diana, when your lawyer telephoned and said you wanted an annulment," "I just couldn't let it go at that." "Why, what would people think?" "Couldrt we at least try our marriage for a while?" "This is a whim, Diana." "You've never really known what you wanted." "I do now." "For the first time in my life, I know what I want." "Only he doesn't want me." "He?" "Why, it couldn't possibly..." "You've only been gone two days." "How long do you think it takes?" "Diana, you're positive you've made up your mind?" "Very well." "But you're trampling on something that could have been beautiful." "Well, don't worry." "It'll sprout up again with somebody else." "Goodbye, Henry." "Thank you." "Martha..." "Martha, I don't suppose... (SIGHING LOUDLY)" "No, I don't suppose you would." "Martha, what am I going to do?" "I know Marv and I are right for each other, but he's an awfully hard man to convince." "You'll think of something, if I know you." "But we'll talk about it in the morning, dear." "You'd better take a pill and get some sleep." "You must be dead tired." "But you can't go in there." "I want to see Miss Dillwood." "You can't!" "Mrs. Tutwiler, he just came..." "Hello, Marv." "It's all right, Martha." "I want to talk to you!" "I'm glad to see you, Marv." "I thought that maybe..." "I want to know why you bought Payne Air." "Well, I didn't exactly buy it." "I just invested some money in it." "Enough to control it!" "Well, I thought if I did that, that we could buy some new equipment and all sorts of things, and then Payne Air would be a big airline, and everybody'd make a lot of money," "and then no one would have to wait until 1954 to get married." "And who wants to get married?" "Well, I thought that we might, after I got my annulment." "Oh, I see, just like that!" "And as president of Payne Air, you'd be able to afford a wife, even me." "Well, I've got news for you." "I'm not president of Payne Air." "And I'm resigning, as of right now." "Now, don't be stubborn, Marv." "I'm not working for any woman." "I love you." "Look, you can get..." "You're the first one I've ever loved." "You can get somebody else to run your outfit for you." "And you love me, even if you won't admit it." "Listen, there are all sorts of old broken-down pilots who would..." "Who..." "Oh, you are it." "You do love me, don't you, Marv?" "Now, wait a minute." "Why, I spin every time I'm around you." "I get all fogged up and I can't think straight." "Now, you get over here and sit on that bed and listen to me." "Yes, Marv." "Now, stay there." "Now, it isn't as if I don't appreciate what you're trying to do." "I..." "What?" "Are you still taking these sleeping pills?" "Don't you know they're bad for you?" "Now that you own Payne Airline, if I stay around..." "Look, listen to me..." "I say, if I stay around, it's just the same as your giving me the money." "And I'm not going to have any woman supporting me." "If my kids want ice-cream cones, they're going to have to come to me for the money and not their mother." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Did you hear what I said?" "Ice-cream cones from their father." "Yeah!" "So the best thing for you and me to do is just forget about the whole thing." "I'm sorry, but that's the way it's got to be." "Was that clear?" "(MUTTERING)" "HENRY:" "So, you're the one." "Who?" "Me?" "He's the one." "Oh, you mean the one Dee Dee mentioned?" "He's the one, all right." "I guess I'm the one." "Well, you're the one, too." "I got a little unfinished business with you and I'm just in the mood to finish it." "Don't start that again." "I don't feel like bothering with you." "You don't have anything to say about it." "Very well." "If you insist... (THUDDING)" "(CLEARS THROAT)" "Mmm-hmm." "You must be the one." "Morning, Marv." "Sorry to hold you up." "Little business transaction I had to help out on." "How is business?" "(SCATTING)" "All right." "All right." "Let's get going!" "Got any idea where we're going, or am I being too curious?" "They say the United Nations are going to have an air force someday." "We might join up with them." "I heard about a C-47 back in New Jersey for sale cheap." "Thought maybe we might go back there and make a deal for that and start all over again." "What are we going to use for money?" "Well, I hadrt figured that out." "Are you sure you want to string along with me?" "Am I sure?" "Who'd keep you happy if I wasrt around?" "Okay." "Look at that Constellation out there!" "All set to take off for New York." "Did you ever see anything you wanted more than that?" "No, I guess a four-engine airplane is just about the most beautiful thing in the world." "Just look at her." "It's as if she felt so good, she wanted to shout about it." "Ten thousand horses raring to go and singing their heads off." "Seems silly to be jealous of an airplane, but I am." "You walked out on me last night." "You took advantage of me when I was asleep." "I had a lot more arguments." "Yeah." "So did I." "Well, there's only one thing that matters, anyway." "Either someone loves someone, or someone doesn't love someone, I guess." "Well, it's not quite that simple." "Sometimes things are just out of your reach, no matter how much you want them." "Like that Connie." "That's not so hard to get." "Take another look." "Now, wait a minute." "I know." "You don't want to work for a woman." "Well, you won't have to." "You'll be in complete control." "Besides, I'll be busy at home, I hope, like Mrs. Racknell." "No one will ever love that plane the way you do, or handle it the way you will." "Now, I told you last night, what happens to me every time I get close to you." "I know, you get all fogged up and you spin and so do I, and what's wrong with that?" "Hey, Prexy, if Payne Air is going to take off, we gotta file a flight plan." "Are we stopping anyplace?" "I guess not."