"Q-U A-R A-N-T  I" " N" " E." "Quarantin e." "Q" " U-A" " R  A" " N-T  I" " N" " E." "Q u aran ti n e." "You kn ow th e ch ol era?" "Y es, M oth er." "You ' ve seen the signs on the houses where the coloreds live?" "Yes, Mother." "You know the typhus?" "I do, Mother." "You know what they can do to you?" "Yes, Mother." "You are not safe." "You may be directing this movie, but what you ' re asking, we can ' t do." "Don ' t tell me it can ' t be done." "The gyro forces are too much." "You send these planes into barrel rolls..." "... they won ' t make it." "lt ' s the climax of the picture." "Make it work." "Decrease the vertical trajectory if you have to." "A Le Rhône rotary won ' t stall at 60 degrees." "We ' re still short two cameras." "We need to cut that sequence down" "We ' re not cutting." "I ' ll get those cameras." "Set up for rehearsals." "I ' m Noah Dietrich." "Your office said I ' d find you here." "Dietrich." "You ' re a man on the come." "I read your résumé, tal ked to your references." "Know what I ' m looking for?" "You ' re looking for a second-in-command at Hughes T ools." "Someone to oversee the financial aspects of the business." "I ' m looking for somebody to run it and do a good job." "There' s only one thing you ' ve gotta know." "My fol ks, they' re gone now." "So it' s my money." "What I do with that money may seem crazy to those sons of bitches in Houston." "I ' m sure it does, but it all makes good sense to me." "You got that?" "Got it." "Good." "Now, you made, what, $ 5200 a year at your last job?" "I ' ll pay you $ 1 0,000." "I guess I ' ll be working twice as hard." "You ' ll be working four times as hard." "I just got you at half price." "Welcome aboard." "Than k you." "You ' re my voice now." "Make them understand that." "Some of those fol ks still call me Junior." "You tell them it ' s " Mr. Hughes " now." "You bet." "So when do we go to Houston?" "We don ' t." "Cholera epidemic in 1 9 1 3." "T wo thousand dead." "Whole place is nothing but pestilential swamp." "Typhus, malaria, cholera, yellow fever." "You name it, they got it." "You see that, Mr. Dietrich?" "You are looking at the largest private air force in the entire world." "What do you thin k of that, now?" "It' s your money." "Start them up!" "I saw the rough cut of the new T od Browning movie, London A fter Midnight." "Lon Chaney is incredi ble." "It ' s his best performance in a long time." "It ' s gonna be a big hit." "The cards are great." "It ' s supposed to be" "Hello, Mr. Mayer." "I don ' t know if you remember me." "My name' s Howard Hughes." "I was wondering if I could have a moment." "Oh, Howard Hughes." "The airplane picture?" "Exactly." "I remember." "Hell 's Angels." "You heard of it." "Good." "Y es." "I was wondering if I could have a moment of your time." "I need a few cameras." "Yeah?" "Yeah, two, to be exact." "I bought every camera I could find." "We ' re shooting our big dogfight sequence." "I need two more." "Desperately." "You thin k MG M could help me out?" "With what?" "Cameras." "Oh, with the actual cam" "We' re not usually in the practice of helping out competition." "No." "No." "So how many cameras do you have now?" "T wenty-four." "You...?" "Wait a minute." "You have 24 cameras?" "That ' s right." "And you need--?" "You need two more?" "Y eah." "You don ' t thin k you got it with 24?" " No." "No, sir." "You know, I thin k-- I thin k we ' ve got them all...." "Don ' t we have them...?" "They' re all used, right?" "All 26 of them." "I only need two, sir." "Jesus Christ, sonny." " Howard." "Howard." "Let me give you a little advice, huh?" "T ake your oil money" " Drill bits." "All right, take your drill-bit money and put it in the ban k." "If you continue making the movie the way you are there isn ' t gonna be a distri butor you won ' t find anybody who wants to see the movie and you ' re not gonna have any more oil money." "So welcome to Hollywood." "Y eah." "Well, I ' ll be sure to remember that, Mr. Mayer." "Good luck." "All right." "He needs 26 to make it work?" "He' s out of his mind." "I looked down at my pants." "It was a strange situation." "Boss." "Scram, love boat, let' s go." "Another soda." "You know what I mean." "Mil k." "In the bottle." "With the cap still on." "O kay, what did His Highness say?" "Son of a bitch won ' t part with a single goddamn camera." "Why don ' t you try and make do with what you have." "What I have isn ' t enough, John, not for how I see it." "Look." "My name depends on this picture." "If it doesn ' t work, I ' m back to Houston  making goddamn drill bits for the rest of my life." "Can ' t you do it with the cameras you have?" "You ought to hear about what' s going on with DeMille." "He' s shooting his Bi ble picture." "He' s gotta do a crucifixion in Fresno." "Johnny." "A bunch of tractors" "Johnny." "You ' re a press agent, are you not?" "Yeah." "You ' re supposed to know the ins and outs?" "Absolutely." "Do you?" "Yeah, absolutely." "Then you leave the big ideas..." "...to me." "Oh, yeah." "Of course, boss." "Cigar, cigarettes, Sen-Sen?" "I thought you were at the Brown Derby  with T rixie." "No, Theresa." "Margaret." "Margaret." "Exactly." "What happened to Margaret?" "She lost her" "Than k God that ' s settled." "Oh, I ' m sorry." "Thelma, this is Howard Hughes." "Howard and I were discussing how he wants me to pull a camera out of my ass." "Cigarette?" "Oh, no, than ks." "I don ' t smoke." "Boy, you are just hitting on all six cylinders, aren ' t you?" "My God." "Would you do me a favor and just...?" "Would you just smile for me one time?" "Just once?" "Y eah." "Y eah." "You see, you got a short upper lip." "Makes for a much nicer smile." "See, I wonder what gives a beautiful woman li ke you pleasure." "I mean, say you ' re just standing there, right?" "And I just touch you." "Just" " Just li ke this." "With my fingertips." "Do you--?" "Do you li ke that?" "Do you?" "You see, I wanna learn what pleases you." "I wanna learn everything about you." "Would you let me do that?" "Would you give me that job?" "I ' m off in a half an hour." "Well, I ' m in room-- - 2 1 7." "2 1 7." "See you there." "Johnny, get on the horn to Universal and Warners." "I need two more cameras by Saturday." "Rent them if you can." "Steal them if you have to." "Absotively, boss." "Absotively." "Rumors coming from a lonely airstrip out in Van Nuys." "Sources whisper tha t young T exas indus trialis t Ho ward Hughes  won 't s top pouring money in to his war epic." "A nd do we mean epic!" "One hundred and thirty-s even pilo ts, 8 7 airplanes  35 cameramen, 2 000 extras." "Ho w long will it be before this picture  ends up cos ting as much as the real war?" "Damn i t." "Wh y th e h el I d o th ey I oo k so sl ow?" "Th i s i sn ' t wh at i t w as I i ke u p th er e." "Th ey I oo k I i ke g od d amn mod el s!" "Son of a bi tch." "Howard?" "Wi th ou t someth i n g stan d i n g sti I I beh i n d th e p I an es  we ' ve g ot n o i d ea of h ow fast we ' re movi n g." "We g ot n o sen se of rel ati ve moti on." "C all UC LA." "G et me th e best meteorol ogi st th ey g ot." "You g et him h ere in an h our, all ri gh t?" "Hey." "You want th e g ood n ews or th e bad n ews?" "Bad n ews, always." "All right." "We installed the 450 radial." "Struts won ' t take the vi bration." "Minute we fire her up, the struts start cracking at the attach points." "Well, what ' s the good news?" "There isn ' t any." "Goddamn it, Odie." "If the 450 ' s too big, we figure something else out." "We' ve done everything." "We' ve rebuilt her from top to toe." "If we drain the fuel tan k..." "...she might make 1 80 miles per hour." "I want minimum 200, all right?" "I want a date with Theda Bara." "That ain ' t gonna happen." "Oh, don ' t be so sure." "If the struts won ' t sustain the engine we need, we gotta get rid of the struts." "No, then the top wing falls off." "Then let it." "What?" "Who says we need a top wing?" "I mean, who says we need anything?" "A monoplane." "A cantilevered monoplane, right?" "They' re doing it in France." "T o hell with the top wing and struts." "A 550 Wasp engine." "One-hundred-octane fuel." "That would give us a horsepower of what?" "Seven hundred." "We squeeze that to a thousand, we got the fastest plane ever built." "You know, I ' ve gotta say  we ' ve already spent over $ 200,000 rebuilding this plane." "T o hell with it." "T ear it up, Odie." "Go on." "Well...." "The cumulonimbus formations about which you speak that look li ke...." "Giant breasts full of mil k." "I want clouds, damn it." "Yes, clouds that look li ke giant breasts full of mil k cannot exactly be guaranteed for any particular occasion." "So you might have to...." "T o wait." "Then we' ll wait." "Look, whatever they pay you at UC LA  I ' m dou bling it, all right?" "You work for me now." "Find some clouds." "Find some clouds." "Find me some clouds!" "Welcome to Hell 's Angels." "Than k you." "I ' ve been to Chatsworth, Santa Cruz, Encino, San Diego  Riverside, Van Nuys and Bakersfiel d." "I t h as been ei gh t month s!" "Wh ere are my g od d amn cl ou d s, huh?" "Th ey move, Mr. Hu gh es!" "Cl ouds move." "That ' s what they do." "They move!" "You see that?" "It is costing me $ 527 1 a day  to keep those planes on the ground." "You find me some goddamn clouds, huh?" "Nice day." "Yeah, very funny." "I got a call from Houston." "They' re getting nervous." "Stop showing them the damn bills." "That would be illegal." "Shit, no." "Maybe it' s a little bit naughty." "Hughes T ool is incorporated in T exas." "They have to see the bills." "Incorporate a new division out here." "We' ll call it Hughes Aircraft." "Do we need these rivets on the cowling?" "Yeah, or the reverse thrust would rip it off." "They' re gonna give me drag." "Do something about that." "Wind resistance on rivets?" "I want her slippery." "There are tax consequences to incorporating in California." "Just take care of it, would you?" "Mr." "Hughes!" "Oakland!" "We have clouds in Oakland!" "You mean it this time?" "Yes!" "Goddamn it, yes." "I can promise you." "Clouds in Oakland." "All right, don ' t get all jittery now." "Oakland!" "Oakland!" "We' re going to Oakland!" "Oakland." "Down and to the left!" "That' s perfect!" "That' s right, Senator George." "Yes, young Howard Hughes has pulled it off!" "A fter two years, Hell ' s An g el s has finally finished filming." "There 's gonna be one heck of a wrap party in Hollywood tonigh t." "The price tag?" "A s taggering $ 2 million." "If every human being in A merica buys a ticket  he migh t even make a pro fit." "Fi rst, cl ou d s d on ' t come." "Th en p I an es brea k d own." "Th en th e p I an es crash." "We ' ve h ad everyth i n g bu t a p I ag u e of I ocu sts on th i s th i n g." "I mean, you h ave to ad mi t." "Now, h on esti y, d i d you ever th i n k you ' d actu al I y fi n i sh th e d amn th i n g?" "C ome wi th me." "Mama, darling, if I 'm a success in this sho w..." "... we 're gonna mo ve from here." " Oh, no." "Y es." "We 're gonna mo ve up in the Bronx." "Green grass, a lo t of people you kno w." "The Ginsbergs, the Guttenbergs and the Goldbergs." "Oh, a whole lo t of "bergs. " I don 't kno w them all." "See, th i s i s wh at th e p eop I e w an t." "Si I en t p i ctu r es ar e yester d ay' s n ew s." "So I fi g u r e w e g otta r esh oot Hell 's A ngels f or sou n d." "How mu ch of i t?" "Al I of i t." "Bef or e you as k, I ' I I tel I you." "An ad d i ti on al 1. 7 mi I I i on." "We g ot th at mu ch?" " No!" "Wel l, we ' I I ma ke i t." "T a ke care of th at, wou I d you?" "No w, get this." "In the halls of 7 000 Romaine it goes on da y after da y, mon th after mon th." "Ho ward Hughes is no w editing s ome 25 miles of film." "Heck, I sa y releas e it no w and give the world its firs t 560-hour mo vie." "Pat, M r." "Hu g h es n eed s th i s r eel i n th e p r oj ecti on r oom ri g h t n ow!" "Enough is enough, Mr. Hughes." "A re you ever gonna let us a ctually s ee this epic of yours?" "Hu rry u p!" "Wh o i s i t?" " Noah." "C ome on i n." "I ' ve been on th e p h on e to Hou ston f or th r ee h ou rs." "We ' re fi xi n g every g od d amn boo k we h ave." "Wai t, wai t." "Y eah." "Ru n reel 1 0 ag ai n." "I th i n k we ' re d u p I i cati n g a sh ot h ere." "An d tel I J i mmy I wan t 1 0 ch ocol ate ch i p coo ki es, al I ri g h t?" "M edium chip s, n on e too cl ose to th e outsi d e." "G ot i t?" "You remember th at g od d amn sh ot from reel 1 0?" "No." "I d on ' t remember anything g from reel 1 0." "I d on ' t kn ow wh at reel 1 0 i s." "I ' m a bu sin essman, Howard." "And so are you." "Now, look." "This has been a great ride." "We ' ve had a hell of a lot of fun." "But you ' re losing $ 25,000 a day doing this." "Every day." "So, what are my options?" "Well, this time I don ' t know that you have any." "I ' m afraid you gotta close it down." "Dig your way out." "I ' m sorry, Howard." "I truly am." "Reel 1 0, Mr. Hughes." "M ortg ag e T ool C o." "Every asset." "You h eard me." "I f you d o th at, you coul d I ose everything g." "Well, I won ' t." "I won ' t." "All ri gh t." "I ' ll g et into i t." "Th an ks, Noah." "More than half a million souls lining the curb of Hollywood Boulevard." "L ook a t the automobiles!" "There are 45, 000 cars here, making it the grea tes t tra ffic jam ever s een." "Ho ward Hughes mus t ha ve a lump in his throa t." "Six mon ths a fter the s tock market crashes and a fter three pilo ts ' dea ths  he 's finally un veiling his $ 4 million bab y doll." "It 's the mos t expensive mo vie ever ma de." "No thing five-and-dime for our Mr. Hughes." "No thing like tonigh t has ever been s een before, and I can sa y  it will never be s een again." "Five hundred thousand people are cro wding the s treets to get a glimps e o f the s tars." "Three companies o f Marines were called to assis t  the 250 special police who are handling this enormous cro wd" "This is an indus try to wn." "A nd nobody but nobody makes a mo vie outside a s tudio." "Some Hollywood insiders o ver a t the Bro wn Derb y ma y be la ughing...." "A nd no w, I think...." "Y es, yes, I can s ee Mr. Hughes ' car arriving no w." "Mr. Hughes es corts the lo vely s tarlet Jean Harlo w." "He dis co vered her for this picture, and we think her pla tinum blond locks  and ho t-jazz, bab y-doll s tyle are gonna make her a big s tar." "Howard!" "Howard!" "O ver h er e!" "Th i s w ay, boss." "Ri g h t over th er e." " M r." "Hu g h es, h ow a bou t a w or d?" "Bi g n i g h t f or you, M r." "Hu g h es." "Bi g n i g h t f or you ton i g h t." "V ery bi g." "V ery bi g." "T el I u s wh at i t was I i ke ma ki n g th i s fa bu I ou s p i ctu re." "Y es." "Y eah." "So 4 mi I I i on cl ams from you r own p oc ket." "Nervou s h ow th e fl i c k wi I I fl y?" "Bi g n i g h t." "You enj oy th e sh ow." "Y es, wel l, I et me p resent th e f eminin e star of thi s sp ectacl e, Hell 's A ngels..." "..." "Mi ss J ean Harl ow." "Th an k you." "I woul d li ke to u se thi s occasi on to th an k Mr. Hu gh es  f or th e opp ortuni ty h e g ave me." "Th an k you." "Th an k you!" "Now I ' d li ke to ask Roscoe Arbu ckl e  to introdu ce hi s p et li on cu b, Gilmore." "Wh at ' s th e matter with you?" "Can ' t remember my name?" "I ' m sorry." "Roscoe T urner, and this would be Gilmore." "It ' s going!" "It ' s going!" "Murder!" "That ' s what this dirty, rotten politician war is, murder!" "You know it as well as I do." "Stand up, slim, take a bow." "Reel four played too long." "T oo many coughs." "Get the team out of the party and to the office." "I wanna cut a few shots." "Oh, find Glenn." "Somebody write this down." "Flush rivets." "Got that?" " Flush rivets." " Flush rivets." "Lickety-split, boss." "Here he is!" "Here he is!" "Variety says, " This one won 't miss! "" "Magnificently photographed!" "A wesome beyond descrip tion!" "The mos t extraordinary output to emerge from a mo tion-picture s tudio." "No t for a long time ha ve I s een an ything as en thralling." "It cos ts 4 million dollars and has 4 million thrills!" "Majes tically...." "Mos t epic picture o f its time!" "A I i g h ter sh ad e." "I d on ' t w an t to I oo k I i ke Bori s Karl off." "I f you kn ow wh at I mean." "I r ead i n th e mag az i n es th at you p I ay g ol f." "O n occasi on." "Wel l, h ow a bou t n i n e h ol es?" "Now, M r." "Hu g h es?" "I f i t w ou I d be con ven i en t, M i ss Hep bu rn." "You ' re n ot exten d i n g en ou g h on you r f ol I ow -th rou g h." "Fol I ow -th rou g h i s everything g in g ol f, ju st li ke li f e." "Don ' t you fin d?" "Saw your Scarface pi cture." "Vi ol ent." " Reali sti c." "M ovi es are movi es, Howard." "Not li fe." "Now th e stag e." "Th e stag e i s real." "Real fl esh an d bl ood." "Human being g s ri gh t out th ere in front of you, bu ster." "C an ' t I ook away." "C an ' t mun ch p op corn." "Th at woul d be ru d e." "Do you li ke th e th eater?" " No." "Oh, I ad ore th e th eater." "Only alive on-stag e." "I ' ll teach you." "We ' ll see some I bsen." "If the Repu blicans haven ' t outlawed him by now." "You ' re not a Repu blican, are you?" "How did you vote in ' 32?" "Well, I didn ' t." "You must!" "It ' s your sacred franchise." "Heard you were wooing Ginger Rogers." "What about that?" "She ' s just a friend." "Men can ' t be friends with women." "They must possess them or leave them be." "It ' s a primitive urge from caveman days." "It ' s all in Darwin." "Hunt the flesh, kill the flesh, eat the flesh." "That ' s the male sex all over." "Excuse me?" "Well, if you ' re deaf, you must own up to it." "Get a hearing aid." "Or see my father." "He ' s a urologist, but it ' s all tied up inside the body, don ' t you find?" "Me, I keep healthy." "I take seven showers a day to keep clean." "Also because I am what ' s so vulgarly referred to as " outdoorsy. "" "I ' m not outdoorsy." "I ' m athletic." "I sweat." "There it is." "Now we both know the sordid truth." "I sweat and you ' re deaf." "Aren ' t we a fine pair of misfits?" "Three." "Noble effort." "So I suppose you ' re wooing me now?" "Oh, well." "Not enough." "Not enough." "These rivets have to be completely flush." "I want every screw and joint countersun k." "I want no wind resistance on the fuselage." "She has got to be clean, Odie." "Clean." "Understand?" "O kay, Howard." "I don ' t know what else to tell you." "What do you got for me?" "The thing is, TWA needs a new plane." "A modern plane." "Oh, yeah?" "What kind of plane?" "O kay." "The DC-3 has 2 1 daytime seats..." "... and 1 4 overnight berths." "Something bigger?" "Try 50 seats with a ceiling of 1 2,000 feet." "No." "No, 20,000." "Thin k about it." "What does 20,000 feet give you?" " Less turbulence." " Because it ' s above the weather." "Jack, we wanna fly above the weather." "Only 1 percent of the American population has set foot on an airliner." "Why?" "Because they' re scared to death." "They should be." "I mean, 7000 feet is bumpy as shit." "You know that." "We build a plane that flies above the weather  we could get every man, woman and child in this country to feel safe." "An airplane with the ability to fly into the su bstratosphere across the country." "Across the world." "Now that is the future." "You with me?" "Yeah." "I don ' t wanna get into this if your board doesn ' t have the balls for it." "Would they support us?" "I don ' t know." "What' s your financial picture?" "Not great." "Last year' s deficit?" "770,000." "What' s it selling at?" "About 8 dollars a share." "That' s the lowest it' s been, huh?" "I could do that." "Do what?" "Buy it." "You wanna buy the airline?" "For crying out loud we don ' t want pencil pushers getting in the way of us making our plane." "Give me brass tacks, now." "What does controlling interest in TWA cost me?" "Call it 1 5 million." "That is a chun k of change, huh?" "You call Noah Dietrich." "You have him start buying." "Howard, hold on." "Are you sure?" "You wanna thin k about it for five minutes?" "Hell, Jack, I got a tiger by the tail here." "I ain ' t gonna let it go." "Good evening, Mr. Hughes." "Welcome." "Your table is ready." "How goes the aviation?" "Oh, just fine, Pete." "I ' m so glad." "Good evening, Mr. Hughes." "Madame." "lt' s " miss. "" "Miss." "The usual, Mr. Hughes?" "Please." "May I recommend for the lady our clementine soup followed by roast duck with currant glaze and poached pears in rose sauce." "It' s truly divine." "Yeah." "That sounds fine." "Your kind of joint, is it?" "Wouldn ' t have thought." "They' re open late." "I go to a hot-dog stand on La Cienega too." "They' re open till about 4." "Are they?" "How marvelous." "Howard!" "Howard!" "Hi!" "Son of a gun." "Kate, this is Johnny Meyer." "I suppose you could call him my press agent." "Pleased to meet you." "Loved Alice A dams." "You ' re too kind." "I ' m sure you know Errol, right?" "Mr." "Flynn." "Y es." "Kate." "Kate." "Kate of the clenched-jawed Hep burns." "Enchanting as always." "You should use Lux on your hands, by the way." "I do." "You and Howard ought to cook up a picture." "Costar with Errol." "I could sell that in spades." "That would be marvelous." "Howard?" "I thin k not." "Don ' t you read Variety, Mr. Meyer?" "Well, I ' m box-office poison." "I ' m on the outs, the skids, the doldrums." "Washed-up, day-old fish not worth the eating, so they tell me." "Hell with them." "Hell with them, my dear." "Soulless pricks to a man, right?" "Johnny tells me you ' re thin king about doing a Western, of all goddamn things." "Are you making a Western, Howard?" "Yeah." "Making a Western." "I ' m gonna call it The Outlaw." "Yeah." "And you know what it ' s about?" "S" " E-X." " It ' s all about S" " E-X." " It ' s a Western." "You can ' t have fornication in a Western." "It isn ' t done." "It ' s not real sex, it ' s movie sex." "What Scarface did for the gangster picture, The Outlaw will do for the Western." "Put the sex and guts and blood up there on the screen." "Have you seen my cigarettes?" " Don ' t mind us." "New York cut steak, 1 2 peas, bottle of mil k with the cap on." "You can ' t afford your own cigarettes?" "Jack has all my money." "I hope your food isn ' t getting cold at your table somewhere or something." "No, no." "We ' re here all night." "Don ' t worry." "Now, Howard." "Now, Howard." "If you ' re seriously tal king about putting carnality  back on the silver screen, you must swear to let me in on the casting session." "I have an eye for talent." "Isn ' t that right?" "You ought to give up prancing in tights..." "... be a talent scout." "That prancing paid for my new yacht." "You must all come sailing with me." "Catalina." "What do you say?" "Catalina." "Sounds grand." "Y eah." "I ' ve even managed to coax  the luscious Miss De Havilland and her equally luscious sister to come." "Though I fear their mother will insist on coming, to preserve their questionable virtue." "We shall assault these twin monuments of pristine Britannic beauty nonetheless." "What do you say, Howard?" "Y eah?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Yeah?" "I gotta go." "If you ' ll excuse us, we have-- We have to be somewhere." "You are somewhere, Howard, you madman." "Somewhere else." "Excuse us." "Charmed, gentlemen." "Do help yourself to the poached pears." "I hear they' re divine." "Well." "Howard Hughes, ladies and gentlemen." "Was that meant for me?" "My hero." "God, all that Hollywood tal k bores me silly." "As if there aren ' t more important things, li ke Mussolini." "Where are we going, by the way?" "Do you feel li ke a little adventure?" "Do your worst, Mr. Hughes." "Thin k you own this place, you limey bastard?" "I ' m a T asmanian bastard, you prick." "Thataway, Errol." " Let me at him!" "That ' s Mr. Mayer ' s house right there." "Do you know where Jack Warner lives?" "What ' s that on the steering wheel?" "Cellophane." "If you had any idea of the crap that people carry around on their hands." "What kind of crap?" "You don ' t wanna know." "Hold on to the wheel for a bit." "That ' s too hard." "Relax your hand." "Relax your hand." "You see, you gotta feel the vi bration of the engine through your fingertips." "Do you feel that?" "Yes." "Well, that ' s good." "Golly!" "Well, she ' s all yours." "Where are you going?" "!" " I thin k there ' s some mil k back here." "You just keep us steady, now." "All right." " Howard." "Yeah?" "There ' s a rather alarming mountain heading our way." "Pull back on the wheel a smidge." "Go on." "Golly!" "I don ' t thin k I ' ve ever met someone who actually uses the word " golly. "" "You all right?" "Do you want me to take over?" "Just when I ' m getting the hang of it?" "You want some mil k?" "Oh, please." "Utterly smashing!" "We' ll do it again." "I ' m free Wednesday." "It' s a little early for golf, though." "Oh, no, no." "I live right there." "Feel li ke a drin k?" "Lead on." "Now, that makes for a challenging par four." "My decorator picked out the wallpaper and such." "He' s queer as a bed bug." "But I just hate this room." "Gives me the willies." "Li ke I ' m about to be swallowed up by the latest issue of Town  Country." "What room do you li ke?" "My study." "T ake me there." "You are the tallest woman I know." "And all sharp el bows and knees." "Beware." "Will you fly me to work tomorrow?" "It is tomorrow." "Keep your eye on the fuel." "She ' s got a minimum to keep her weight down." "T wo runs." "That ' s it." "After that, you ' re flying on vapors." "And then you crash and you die." "Give her easy flying." "Don ' t worry about speed and don ' t thin k about the record today." "I wish you ' d let someone else take her." "You ' ve got 20 test pilots." "Hell, why should I let someone else have all the fun?" "See you in a bit." "Contact!" "339." "Goddamn!" "347." "Son of a bitch!" "352." "352!" "Good girl." "Damn it!" "Goddamn it!" "Oh, God!" "There goes our meal ticket." "Come on!" "Howard!" " Howard!" " How did we do?" "352 on the last run." "She ' ll go faster." "Country mouse!" "Kate!" "Katie!" "Upstairs, city mouse." "Hello." "Good Lord, what happened to you?" "Oh, nothing." "A hard landing." "I cut my foot." "Sit down." "I ' ll take care of it." "You tell me everything." "You cannot imagine what it was li ke, Katie." "You cannot imagine the speed." "She was li ke a winged bullet up there." "What did she make?" "Oh, around 352." "You did it!" "Fastest man on the planet." "Hot dog!" "I ' m so proud of you." "She did it, baby." "You knew she would." "Oh, she was fine." "She was just fine." "Now let me see your foot." "Yeah." "Good God!" "You ' re covered in blood." "Oh, no." "That' s just beet juice." "I crashed into a beet field." "What?" "Yeah, I crashed in a beet field." "Let me get you cleaned up." "Heavens, what is this?" "Electrical tape?" "Yeah." "Odie just sort of slammed it on there." "But all I could thin k about was getting home to see you." "I am so proud of you." "Now, this is gonna sting a little bit." "Oh, this is useless." "Come to the bathroom." "Don ' t get beet juice on the carpet." "I won ' t, I won ' t." "T oo hot!" "Don ' t be a baby." "Was the press there?" "Some." "But they' re calling everyone." "Should be on the wires by now." "What is it?" "Kate?" "I ' ve been famous, for better or worse  for a long time now  and I wonder if you know what it  really means." "Y eah." "I had my fair share of press on Hell 's Angels." "I ' m used to it." "Are you?" "Howard, we ' re...." "We ' re not li ke everyone else." "T oo many acute angles." "T oo many eccentricities." "We have to be very careful not to  let people in, or they' ll make us into freaks." "Kate, they can ' t get in here." "We ' re safe." "They can always get in." "When my brother killed himself  there were photographers at the funeral." "There ' s no decency to it." "You know, sometimes I...." "I get these feelings, Katie." "I get these ideas, these crazy ideas about things that may not...." "Things that may not really be there." "Yeah." "Sometimes I truly fear that I ' m Iosing my mind." "And if I did, it would...." "It' d be li ke flying blind." "You understand?" "You taught me to fly, Howard." "I ' ll take the wheel." "Smashing all records, Howard Hughes outdoes Jules Verne 's wildest dreams." "A round the world from New York to New Y ork in four da ys." "Even bea ting Wiley Pos t 's mark b y o ver three da ys." "New a via tion his tory is written when his L ockheed monoplane  returns s wiftly and sa fely." "A daring a via tor." "A true pioneer o f the world 's airwa ys." "From New Y ork to Paris, he cuts Lindbergh 's time in half." "Then on to Mos co w." "Thirty- five hours out o f New Y ork, he roars a cross Siberia 's tra ckless was tes." "Sixty h o urs o ut o f New Y ork, h e h ea ds for A las ka, m os t hazardous hop o f all." "Con tinuing the terrific pa ce, h e com es home  bringing n ew la urels to A m erica n a via tion." "Ho wa rd Hugh es a n d his crew ma y fin d m ore w orlds to con qu er" "You w on ' t bel i eve th i s." "I t j u st came over th e wi res." "Hu g h es h as bou g h t con trol of TW A." "I th ou g h t M r." "Hu g h es w as fl yi n g ar ou n d th e w orl d." "Ap p ar en tl y h e d i d i t wh i I e h e w as fl yi n g, over th e rad i o." "I h ave h ear d some d i sq u i eti n g ru mors a bou t M r." "Hu g h es." "I ' d I i ke to kn ow everyth i n g th ere i s to kn ow a bou t M r." "Hu g h es." "I ' d I i ke you to atten d to th at for me." "Th orou ghly." "The Pantages is glittering tonigh t." " Howard!" " Ri g h t over h ere." "Th i s way, over to th e I eft." " M r." "Hu g h es, h ow was you r fl i g h t?" " M i ss Hep bu rn!" "Wh en are you g on n a n ame th e d ay?" " Rai se you r h ead." "Wh at ' s th e n ext movi e?" "G i ve u s th e scoop." "Ri g h t h ere." "How man y more record s are you g on n a set?" "Ri g h t over h ere." "C ome on." "Give u s a smil e." "I t won ' t kill you." "Howard, thi s way." " Beauti ful." "Over h ere, over h ere, Mr. Hu gh es." "Wh en are you g onn a fly aroun d th e worl d ag ain?" "You g onn a fly with Kate next time?" "Did you get lonely without her?" "T al k to Lind bergh about your flight yet?" "Where ' s Linda Darnell tonight?" "Please, Mr. Hughes." "Right here." "Right here, Mr. Hughes." "Are you trying to be more famous than Lind bergh?" "You know, fame is supposed to be my turf." "L. B.!" "If you don ' t get more distinguished every time I see you." "You look so beautiful." "Is that true?" "Don ' t worry about it, Howard." "She ' s just working the room." "It ' s her job, baby." "Sultry Southern tigress A va Gardner dazzles the room tonigh t." "She 's the newes t s tar in the MGM galaxy." "A nd believe you me, she puts the "chees e " in "chees ecake. "" "Wel l, Jane Eyre h as been sel I i n g p op corn f or over a h u n d r ed years, L. B." "Hel I o." "Hel I o." "C ou I d you r each me a tow el?" "I...." "I real I y can ' t d o th at." "I ' m sorry." "I ' m an i d i ot." "I ' m a comp I ete i d i ot, an d I ' m sorry." " Forg et i t." " No, n o." "I ' m a vai n, p reen i n g ass..." "... wi th ou t a si n g I e red eemi n g f eatu re." "Th at ' s n ot tru e." "You h ave very g ood teeth." "C ome on." "I ' ve g ot a better i d ea." "T ake me flyin g." "Or better yet, I ' ll take you flyin g." "Do your worst, Mi ss Hep burn." "Don ' t be so squirmy." "You ' re g onn a g et on famou sly wi th Fath er an d M oth er." "An d I ' m sure th ey' ll li ke you too." "Once they get to know you." " Hello!" "Hello!" " Kath, hello." "Kathy." "Who ' s that with the camera right there?" "That ' s my ex-husband, Ludlow." "Father and Mother are just mad about Luddie." "What the hell ' s he doing here?" "Oh, he' s here all the time." "Hello!" "Sorry we' re late." "Mom." "Oh." "Oh, than k you." "Dad." "Darling." "Uncle Willy." "Oh, who have we got here?" "Don ' t feel self-conscious." "Hep burns!" "Hep burns!" "Attention, please." "This is Howard." "Howard, welcome." "Don ' t worry, he' s had his lunch." "He li kes you." "That ' s unusual." "We pay our devotion to the arts here." "A colony we created." "Julian ' s a painter." "Abstract, of course." "What ' s the point of painting something real when you can just take a picture nowadays?" "Where do you stand on politics, Mr. Hughes?" " Excuse me?" "We ' re all socialists here." "We are not." "You ' ve met Mr. Roosevelt." "What make you of him?" "What are you sniggering at?" "What?" "What was that?" "You just sniggered." "No, no." "The dog." "It seems to be crushing my feet." "Oh, my God!" " Buster!" "Hey." "Hey!" "Don ' t you li ke dogs?" "I will not have you sniggering at Mr. Roosevelt." " Please leave." " No." "I wasn ' t." "I thought everybody li ked dogs." "Perhaps he had a bad experience." "Does it upset you that Howard gets more press?" "A bad experience with a dog?" " No, no." "You are such a shy creature, aren ' t you?" "Perhaps it was a very large dog." "The press can be a damned nuisance." "Was it a Doberman?" "A Doberman, Mr. Hughes?" "Or a dachshund?" " Neither, sir." "Dachshunds are little dogs, Hep dear." "They should all be lined up and shot." "What' s that Spanish painting?" "The Goya." "Goya." "Of course." "Y es." "Yes, Mexican." "What was that called?" "Anyway, that ' s the vulgar press, I ' m sure." "Do you read much, Mr. Hughes?" "I try to stay up to snuff on the trade journals, yeah." "Snuff?" "These would be flying magazines?" "What was that?" "Oh, he ' s a little deaf." "Pass the goddamn butter, I beg you." "You read flying magazines?" "Trade journals." "On engineering." "Aviation." "We read books." "Howard has to read the trade pieces, Mom, because he ' s designing a new aeroplane." "Oh, really?" "Do tell." "Well it' s quite exciting, actually." "It' s a spy plane for the Air Corps." "A twin-engine plane with some  I must admit, some rather unique design features." "You see, it has these two booms at the back" "Luddie built a birdhouse once." "You remember that, dear?" "Yes, well, a mere trifle, darling." "I remember the painting!" "The painting, it' s called May 1 8-0-something." "Anyway, Goya' s vastly overrated." "All the Spaniards are." " Nonsense!" "Picasso is sacred." "I ' m a urologist." "lt was quite aesthetic, really." "A sacred monster." "The birds don ' t care for it much, but the bats do." " I ' ll bet." "That' s such bun k!" "Do speak up, dear." "Nothing, nothing, Mrs. Hep burn." "Nothing." "Why did you speak?" "I can ' t abide people who speak but have nothing to say." "Did you go to mechanic school to learn all this airplane guff?" "No, no, I didn ' t, Luddie." "No." "Well, Howard just flew round the world in three days." "I thin k we' ve had enough about airplanes." "And dogs." "Then how did you make all that money?" "We don ' t care about money here." "Well, that' s because you have it." "Would you repeat that?" "You don ' t care about money because you ' ve always had it." "How did you make all that--?" "Excuse me, I ' m speaking." "O kay." "Than k you." "All right." "Some of us choose to work for a living." "Speaking of which, I have more of that airplane guff to attend to." "Excuse me." "Well, seems a rather high-strung chap." "You ' re a fine bunch of bullies, aren ' t you?" "Have you tal ked to Mr. Mayer about letting you do Jane Eyre?" "The old philistine won ' t budge." "T oo arty, don ' t you know." "I ' m convinced the man hasn ' t read anything longer than a Katzenjammer Kids in his life." "No fair, kicking." "You have to use the mallet." "Really, darling, you can ' t retire from the field of battle li ke that..." "... or they' ll never respect you." " Katie, I don ' t understand." "You ' re li ke a different person in there." "They just expect me to be a certain way." "There ' s only one real Kate, and that ' s your Kate." "Over in Hollywood, aviation tycoon Howard Hughes is cooking up something big." "Even as he edits his new picture, he 's been s ecretly meeting with the U. S. A ir Corps." "We appla ud his pa trio tism and look forward to his newes t marvel." "You kn ow h ow man y Al I i ed sh i p s w e I ost becau se of U - boat attac ks?" " No." "Si x h u n d r ed an d ei g h ty-on e sh i p s j u st th i s year so f ar." "Th e Army n eed s a n ew ai rp I an e to fl y th e troop s to Eu rop e." "Th ese sh i p s, th ey' re si tti n g d u c ks f or th e U- boats." "You wann a buil d a troop-carri er pl an e?" "Stop thin kin g li ke an in sect." "Not ju st to carry troop s, a pl an e to carry everything g." "Th e troops and the jeeps and the tan ks and whatnot." "Here, take a look." "No." "Other side." "I figure around 200 feet from nose to tail." "Wingspan, around 300." "We ' re gonna need about 24,000 horsepower." "Now, this is just what Kaiser and the Army are looking for." "They' re gonna pay for it this time." "What are you getting us into?" "Well, it' s a big plane, so I ' m calling it The Hercules." "Swell name, isn ' t it?" "How heavy you imagine this thing is?" "Say around 200 tons." "Well, I didn ' t say it was gonna be easy." "All right, boys, I want you to rig up something li ke this." "Should give the proper uplift ratios and reduce need for torque support on the front." "We are not getting enough production out of Jane Russell ' s breasts." "I want smooth titties, gentlemen." "Smooth titties." "lt ' s all in engineering, isn ' t it, Odie?" "Howard do you really thin k they' re gonna let you put out a whole movie just about tits?" "Sure." "Who doesn ' t li ke tits?" "Good afternoon, gentlemen." "Sorry I ' m late." "Please record that Mr. Hughes has arrived and this session is now called to order." "I yield the floor to Mr. Breen." "Mr." "Hughes  members of the committee, I ' ve reviewed the photoplay entitled The Outlaw  and I can state that I have never seen anything so unacceptable  as the shots of the mammaries of the character named Rio." "For almost half the picture, the girl ' s mammaries, which are quite large  and prominent, are shockingly uncovered." "For this reason, I concluded the picture appeals only to prurient interests and should be denied the Motion Picture Association ' s seal of approval." "Really, Mr. Hughes." "Than k you, Mr. Breen." "Mr. Hughes." "Than k you, Mr. Chairman." "Mr. Breen." "It ' s good to see you again." "I haven ' t seen you all since that situation with all the violence in Scarface." "The situation here revolves around Miss Russell ' s mammaries." "Mr. Breen feels that they are too prominent, yes?" "More prominent than other mammaries have been up on the screen?" "Well, I hope to dispel that notion." "Jean Harlow." "Ann Sheridan." "Irene Dunne." "Claudette Col bert." "Rita Hayworth." "Betty Grable." "And the lovely Miss Jane Russell." "Now, all these shots, save for Miss Russell, were enlarged from pictures  that received Mr. Breen ' s seal of approval." "Now, as you ' ve probably noticed by now, they all contain mammaries." "I will ask my associate to join me now." "May I introduce  Dr. Ludlow Branson of Columbia University." "Dr. Branson  is a mathematician of some note." "Yes." "And he will now demonstrate  that in fact  Miss Russell ' s mammaries are no more prominent  than any of these other fine ladies '." "Doctor. ... you forgot your calipers." "Gentlemen, Mr. Hughes." "Let us commence by calling this  Mammary Exhi bit Number One." "Now, you ' ll see that the length of the actual cleavage  if I may, is  5 inches and a quarter." "Now if we move to Mammary Exhi bit...." "Dateline :" "Hollywoodland." "Movie tycoon Howard Hughes must have the grea tes t job in the land." "Every nigh t, the lucky guy es corts a differen t bea utiful woman  to a differen t dazzling even t." "The TWA king alwa ys talks up his airlin e as h e es corts a s u ccession...." "Th e Hercules, la dies a n d gen tiem en." "Th e Hercules." "A pla n e, a b oa t, a flying city." "D on ' t f or g et, every bi I I c om e s t o m e." "Th ey d on ' t p ay f or an yth i n g." "Th ose men d eci d e wh eth er to fu n d th e p I an e, so I n eed th em h ap p y." " You d o wh at i t ta kes." "You betch a, boss." "How ar e th e g i rl s i n th e bom b d ep artmen t?" "Wel l, I et ' s p u t i t th i s way, i t ' I I be a reg u I ar boo b bu ff et." "I d on ' t th i n k th e Ai r C orp s men wi I I h ave trou bl e scoring g." "G ood." "A nd inside, 7 00 brave A merican soldiers a dozen Sherman tanks all winging their wa y o ver the A tlan tic  free from the threa ts o f the U-boa ts belo w." "Could Jules Verne hims elf ha ve ever imagined an ything s o magnificen t?" "Could he ha ve imagined her mammo th wingspan, longer than a foo tball field?" "Don ' t you see h ow th i s d emean s me?" "Si n ce wh en d o you car e a bou t scan d al rag s?" "Every ti me th er e ' s a p i ctu r e of you wi th an oth er w oman, i t ' s a sl ap i n th e face." " Don ' t you u n d erstan d th at?" "Wel l, th at ' s overstati n g i t." "J oan C rawford, G i n g er Rog ers, Li n d a Darn ell, J oan Fontain e  an d n ow Bette Davi s, f or G od ' s sake." "Look, th ey' re Cracker J ack can dy, h on ey." "Th ey d on ' t mean anythin g to me." "Oh, very ni ce." "You ' re th e on e th at sai d th at all men are pred ators." "I mean, i t ' s all in Darwin, remember?" "And am I to expect this behavior to continue after the wedding?" "What is really bothering you, Kate?" "Is it the women or the pu blicity?" "Can ' t you eat ice cream from a bowl li ke everyone else in the world?" "Don ' t you dare." "Yeah." "No, Odie, this is not a good time." "For chrissakes, we can ' t make The Hercules if we don ' t have any aluminum." "Wait." "I can hear you better now." "T ell the War Production Board  that this is an essential strategic operation." "If they' re giving aluminum to Boeing, they can give some to Hughes Aircraft." "Don ' t set the ice cream" "We gotta thin k of something else." "If we can ' t get aluminum, we ' ll find another way." "You tell me." "We ' ll find some alloy that works just as well." "Right." "Look...." "lf we can ' t get aluminum, we' ll use wood." "You can ' t make a plane out of wood." "Why not?" "The damn thing is a flying boat, right?" "What do they use to make boats?" "Oak." "And thin k of The Hercules li ke a flying Spanish galleon." "Spanish galleons can weigh 1 200 tons." "Good luck today." "We just have to find the right wood." "Something light but strong." "Morning, Kate." "Pine, cedar, maybe birch." "Catch." "From my farm." "If you li ke it, I can get you a bushel." "T rou ble with Mr. Hughes?" "There ' s too much Howard Hughes in Howard Hughes." "That ' s the trou ble." "Beautiful." "Don ' t you take Christmas off?" "Nice to see you." "Sorry, I ' ve got grease on my hands." "Have we got something to show you." "T ake a look." "The XF- 1 1 reconnaissance flier." "Spy plane, really." "Designed every inch of her myself." "She ' s got a top speed of 450  which means she can outrun anything they throw against her." "After the Japs stole my H- 1 design for their Zeros  I needed to do them one better." "Yeah, she ' s my Buck Rogers ship." "She ' s a looker." "O kay, what do you got for me?" "Jiminy Cricket." "Seating capacity for 60." "Wingspan, 1 23 feet." "Four Dou ble Cyclone engines." "Her ceiling ' s 25,000 feet." "Gross weight?" "86,000, wing loading of 41 pounds." "So less drag on the plane in thinner air." "So high-cruise power, you ' re looking at a top speed of around 340." "Giving her a range of about 3000 miles." "Cross-country." "Nonstop." "Bob you know something?" "You are a son of a bitch." "Y eah." "Bob, you got something on your suit." "Yeah." "On your lapel." "You got something on your lapel." "Right there, Bob." "You missed it." "Right there." "Clean it off, would you?" "Here." "Than ks." "No, throw it away." "No, over there." "Than ks." "So, what do you call her?" "The Constellation, but we can change that." "No, no." "It ' s pretty." "I li ke her." "So, what kind of deal can you give me?" "What kind of deal can you give me?" "The first 40 planes off the assembly line." "That should give us about two years ' exclusivity." "Hell, more than that." "United and American don ' t have the imagination for a plane li ke this." "T wo years ahead of Juan T rippe, then." "How much?" "Four hundred and fifty thousand each." "So that ' s 1 8 million for the first 40." "Hell, TWA can ' t afford that." "The damn airline ' s flat broke." "Guess I ' ll just have to pay for them myself." "Build them, Bob." "Send the bill to Noah Dietrich." "Oh, and than k you." "Merry Christmas." "You 've just placed the largest order for airplanes in the history of the damn planet." "L ockheed sen t us a bill for $ 1 8 million." "Don ' t g et al I h ysteri cal on me, Noah." "I t i sn ' t g ood f or you." " This is a lo t of money for planes." " I kn ow i t ' s a I ot of mon ey." "It 's too damn much." "You think I 've go t $ 1 8 million in petty cash?" "I sh ou I d ' ve tol d you." "I t sl i p p ed my mi n d." " Slipped your mind?" "Oh, for" " Ri g h t." " I ' I I g et bac k to you." "Bye." "Ho w could $ 1 8 million slip your mind?" "Hey, h on ey." "Wh at ar e you d oi n g h ome?" "You ' re n ot on e f or tears, an d, w el l  n ei th er am I, so i t ' s best to come ou t wi th i t." "I ' ve met someon e." "I ' ve fal I en i n I ove an d I ' m movi n g ou t." "I f I cou I d ma ke i t an y more g en tl e, I wou I d." "Bu t I can ' t, so  th ere we both are." "Let ' s be h on est." "I t ' s all been a gran d adventure, but i t coul dn ' t p ossi bly I ast." "We ' re too ali ke, you an d l." "You met someon e?" "Someon e more appropri ate." "T o me, I mean." "Wh at d oes th at mean, " more appropriate "?" "Someone more attuned to my needs." "Look at me, Katie." "Stop acting." "I ' m not acting." "I wonder if you even know anymore." "Don ' t be un kind." "You...?" "You wanna go?" "Go on." "Actresses are cheap in this town, darling." "And I got a lot of money." "This is beneath you." "No, no, this is exactly me." "You tell me you ' re leaving me, and you have the nerve to expect graciousness?" "I expect a little maturity." "I expect you to face the situation li ke an adult who" "Don ' t tal k down to me!" "Don ' t you ever tal k down to me!" "You are a movie star." "Nothing more." "Don 't answer it." "Wh at i s i t, Howard?" "Hey, Noah  I n eed you to g et to Penn ey' s an d buy me some cl oth es." "Penn ey' s i sn ' t op en." "Oh, shi t." "I t ' s 2 in th e mornin g." "Y eah, th at ' s ri gh t." "Well, first thin g tomorrow, th en, all ri gh t?" "I n eed two n ew sui ts off th e rack." "On e light and one dark." "Three white shirts and three pairs of white tennis shoes." "Got that?" "Yeah." " No, no." "Make it Woolworth ' s." "Woolworth ' s." "No, no, Penney' s." "Penney' s." "All right." "I ' ll get into it as soon as I can, Howard." "All right?" "Noah, do you have a recorder?" "No." "Are you recording this conversation?" " No." "O kay." "I trust you." " Howard " "I need those suits first thing tomorrow." "All right." "Wait." "Did I say Penney' s or Woolworth ' s?" "Penney' s." " Better make it Sears." "All right, then, Sears." "I ' m sorry, honey." "If I don ' t answer, he ' ll just call back." "Stop there, if you please, Miss Domergue." "Have you had surgery, Miss Domergue?" "No." "Do you have scars of any kind?" "No." "Wipe off your lipstick." "That ' s much better." "Now, you understand that you ' d be under contract to me?" "Personally." "Do you know what that means?" "Now turn around for me." "Very nice." "You move well." "You live with your family, do you?" "Yes." "That ' s nice." "T ell me something." "How old are you, Miss Domergue?" "Fifteen." "Holy Mother of God." "Well, a car picks me up every morning at 8, and off I go." "I ' m getting my high school diploma." "Howard thin ks that education is important." "That ' s right." "And then, after classes  I ' m off for elocution and grooming and fittings." "Well, blow me down." "Pan Am ' s working out of the Cocoanut Grove?" " Hello, Jack." " Hello, Juan." "Helen, good to see you." "How are you, Howard?" "Good, than ks." "This is Faith Domergue." "Sit down." " Pleasure." "What are you doing here?" "Well, I ' m out to meet with Douglas about the DC-4." "It ' s our new plane, and it is gonna be a pip, let me tell you." "How' s the Constellation coming?" "Good." "Great." "So how about letting me steal a peek?" "I don ' t thin k so." "I should be cross with you." "You stole Ray Loewy from us." "He ' s doing our interior design." "That ' s right." "He was doing ours." "So..." "... what are your colors?" "Stop fishing." "So you have buttons  or zippers?" "I ' m sorry?" "Buttons or zippers for the drapes on the sleeping berths?" "Zippers." "Buttons." "So I suppose you ' ll be expanding on down to Mexico." "Why do you say that?" "Well, your range is 3000 miles." "I ' d imagine you ' d expand from Los Angeles to Mexico and South America." "Hey, that ' s a good idea." "Anyone got a pen?" "Or across the Atlantic." "You ' ve had enough of this ice cream." "You give me that spoon." "You don ' t wanna get your gloves all sticky." "Isn ' t that too far?" "New York  to Newfoundland  to Ireland." "T o Paris." "Well  Pan Am welcomes you." "We ' re overbooked as it is." "It ' s such a burden doing it all on your own, let me tell you." "So when ' s the Connie gonna be ready?" "Next year maybe." "DC-4?" "Next year." "Well, we look forward to her then." "And I to the Connie." "I ' ve ordered the next 40 after you." " It ' s Miss...?" "Domergue." "Y es, of course." "Now, was that a rumba or a samba you were doing?" " It was a samba." "A samba, yes." "Howard, I never knew you were such a good dancer." "Helen, Jack." "Good going." "You gave away our entire postwar strategy." "He can ' t stop us." "He ' s Pan Am." "He can stop anything." "Give me the largest Scotch you got." "I don ' t know what in the hell you ' re so damn giddy about." "Excuse me." "Jack." "Get in touch with Joyce and Berg." "Those are my boys in Washington." "Set up a meeting with Jones, secretary of commerce, old golfing buddy." "Slow down." "We ' ll need terminals in Ireland and France." "I wanna get some tax breaks." "If that ass thin ks he owns the world, he ' s got another thing coming." "Pan Am owns Europe." "We ought to thin k about Mexico." "T o hell with Mexico." "No airline should have a monopoly on flying the Atlantic." "It just isn ' t fair." "He owns Pan Am, he owns Congress." "He owns the Civil Aeronautics Board, but he does not own the sky." "We ' re in a street fight with that son of a bitch." "I ' ve been fighting high-hat Ivy League pricks li ke him my whole life." "And listen, fire Ray Loewy." "You goddamn heard me?" "Fire Ray Loewy." "He' s spying for Trippe." "That shitheel knew all about the buttons." "Spies in my midst, Jack." "Spies in my midst." " Hello, Howard." "Roland." "So  what can I do for you?" "I want all the pictures you have of Kate Hep burn and Spencer T racy." "All the negatives." "And I want you to kill the story." "Howard, he ' s a married man." "He ' s a Catholic." "They' re movie stars." "Fair game all around." "My office knows where I am, Howard." "I ' m not gonna kill you, Roland." "I don ' t do that." " How much?" " Not for sale." "How much?" "Not for sale." "You ever cheat on your wife, Roland?" "You ever screw a colored girl?" "You ever steal anything?" "You ever hurt anyone?" "Good night, Howard." "You ever go to a Communist Party meeting, Roland?" "TWA stock." "How much?" "Fifty thousand shares." "T en." "All right." "This isn ' t gonna be that easy." "He ' s been making big contri butions on both sides of the aisle." "And Jack Frye is out there lobbying everybody in town." "The French and British ambassadors are lined up on his side." "I ' m telling you, TWA is serious about going international." "O kay." "Point, Mr. Hughes." "I thin k it' s time for you to introduce the community airline bill on the floor of the Senate." "ls it done?" "My people are finishing it right now." "I also have to get you on the committee investigating the national defense." "On the committee or chairman?" "I could be much more effective as chairman." "It ' s a great pu blic platform." "You know, it generates a lot of press." "Wasn ' t T ruman chairman of that committee?" "Yeah, right." "He ' s vice president." "Look what he did with it." "No, I thin k...." "I thin k chairman." "What do you thin k?" "Chairman." "That is interesting." "Y eah." "Let me show you these specs for the DC-4." "Ava, what do you thin k about T rans World Airlines?" "T ranscontinental and Western doesn ' t fit anymore." "We ' re international, we need a name that reflects that." "T rans World is good." "Kind of peppy." "TWA, right?" "That way you don ' t need to repaint any of the planes." "That' s you." "Always pinching pennies." "Hand me my wrap." "Knock it off." "I have something for you." "Stay here." "What the hell is this?" "lt' s a present." "Go on, open it." "Oh, a box of trash." "You shouldn ' t have." "Keep looking, keep looking." "It ' s a Kashmiri sapphire." "I had my boys all over the damn globe looking for this." "Why?" "Because." "Look." "It matches your eyes." "I am not for sale." "For chrissakes, it ' s just a present." "You can ' t buy me, Howard, so stop trying." "Don ' t buy me any more diamonds or sapphires or any other damn thing." "You can buy me dinner." "How about that?" "Jesus, Ava." "It ' s bad enough I have to endure those gym shoes of yours." "But I get all dolled up and we go out in this jalopy without a hood." "Ava, will you marry me?" "No, Howard." "Well, why not, for heaven ' s sake?" "In the first place, I don ' t love you." "In the second place, I ' m still married." "Look, you got girls stashed all over town." "You got a damn harem just at the Bel-Air." "Marry one of your bungalow girls." "Those are employees." "I won ' t marry an employee." "How would that look?" "What is going on?" "Oh, my God!" "Goddamn it!" "Faith!" " Faith, what the hell?" " Look out!" "Goddamn, what the hell are you doing?" "Are you okay, lady?" "What are you doing with her?" "We are going to dinner." "Now, get out of there." "Get that crazy bitch away from me!" "Don ' t you love me anymore?" "Course I love you, pork chop." "Ava, look over here." "Howard." "Hey." "Juan Trippe is working with Senator Brewster now." "Th ey' re after you." "I f th e communi ty airlin e bill becomes I aw, we are fini sh ed." "Pan Am will h ave a mon op oly on intern ati on al travel." "Well, h ow can th ey ju sti fy i t?" "I t ' s un" "Ameri can." "Brewster is saying that nationalized foreign carriers, li ke Air France  can offer lower rates because they don ' t have to compete." "Let ' s get rid of competition and have a nationalized airline..." "... and why don ' t we make it Pan Am?" "I ' m not kowtowing to anyone." "Howard, I need you up here." "One sec, Odie." "Look, we are Trans World Airlines, all right?" "Get me something with a circle or a globe or something round, for God ' s sake." "Speak up." "One cut." "I don ' t give a rat' s ass." "I ' m not making a cut." "I ' ll release it without a seal." "We gotta go pu blic with this." "I ' m gonna tal k to Hearst  but we gotta get some senators on our side." "What do you want me to do?" "What T rippe does." "Offshore operations." "See who ' s up for re-election..." "..." "let ' s start making donations." " Bri be senators?" "I don ' t want them bri bed." "I want it done legally." "I want them bought." "Put a team of investigators on Brewster." "I need to know everything about that shitbag." "Where he goes, what he says and who he screws." "Get into it right now." "You got it." "Just give me a second." "All right, what do you need?" "Rudder and elevators." "No." "These are fine." "Have Simon and Pete get back to me on the assemblies." "We need a secondary system." "O kay." "Listen, we need to take another look at the wheel." "Jesus." "The damn wheel?" "Yeah." "It just doesn ' t feel right." "Christ almighty, you ' ve seen 8000 goddamn wheels." "Choose one, please." "Just one of them." "I know, I know." "This one?" "I know, this one...." "This one' s pretty close." "Pretty close." "Odie." "That man sweeping up over there does he work for me?" "I mean, have you seen him before?" "Name' s Nick, something li ke that." "Why' s he looking at me?" "I don ' t know." "Fire him." "And make sure they use damp brooms from now on." "Respiratory diseases are expensive, and I don ' t want lawsuits." "But can we at least proceed with the instrument panel?" "The tool shop ' s ready." "I wanna see the blueprints." "Look, Howard, the deadline is now completely unrealistic." "The war is gonna be over by the time she' s done." "I need you to help consult on vital decisions, and you ' re off dealing with movies." "You got 1 000 workers waiting for you to make a decision" "Hey, Odie!" "T ake it easy, all right." "You ' re under pressure, but it' s gonna do me no good if you crack up on me." "All right?" "Look take a couple of hours off, all right." "You just relax a little." "O kay." "See your wife." "O kay." "All right." "Be sure to show me all the blueprints." "All right." "Show me all the blueprints." "Show me all the blueprints." "I ' m serious, now." "Show me all the blueprints." "Show me all the blueprints." "Howard." "Show me all the blueprints." "Show me all the blueprints." "Show me all the blueprints." "Show me all the blueprints." "I wanna get this done right." "Show me all the blueprints." "Show me all the blueprints." "Show me all the blueprints." "Show me all the blueprints." "Howard." "Show me all the blueprints." "Show me all the blueprints." "Show me all the blueprints...." "Quarantine." "Q  U A  R  A  N  T  I  N  E." "Q u aran ti n e." "G en eral M c Ew an." "C ol on el Bertran g." "Th an ks f or comi n g d own." "Odie, you reading me okay?" "Yeah, you ' re A-okay." "All right, fligh t controls are active." "She 's all yours." "Sp oti ess." "No wi g g I e on th e wh eel or th rottl e." "Take it eas y." " How d oes sh e sou n d, Howard?" "Sh e ' s wh i sp eri n g to me, bu d d y." "Al I ri g h t, ma ke h er si n g." "Wel l, O d i e, sh e can fl y." "C on g ratu I ati on s." "I ' m g I ad to h ear i t." "Retract I an d i n g g ear an d cl i m b to 5000 f eet  on a h ead i n g of 2-7 -0." "Retractin g I an din g g ear an d climbing g to 5000 f eet on a h eadin g 2-7 -0." "Sh e ' s fast." "Wh at ' s your air sp eed?" "29 2." "A ll righ t, take her back to 2 00." "No d amn way." "We g otta bring g h er h ome." "Scheduled time of one hour and 45 minutes has elapsed." " Set course for 0- 9- 0" "T en mor e mi n u tes." "Rog er th at." "Nega tive, Ho ward." "Bring her home." "O kay." "O kay." "Setti n g cou rse f or 0-9-0." "Prep ari n g to d escen d." "J esu s." " Wha t is it, Ho ward?" "Th e ri g h t wi n g j u st d i p p ed." "I ' m I osi n g star board en g i n e." "I n creasi n g p ow er to 2800 rp m." "C u tti n g bac k." "I n creasi n g star board en g i n e on I y." "C u tti n g bac k." "I ' m I osi n g al ti tu d e." "C h ec k star board-en gin e mani f ol d pressure." "I t ' s g ood, but rpm ' s are I ow." "A re both starboard props turning?" "Hol d on." "Th ey are, but sh e ' s pullin g me back an d starboard, O di e." "How bad i s your cross control?" " I ' m at full I eft ru d d er  an d full I eft all eron, but sh e won ' t stay I evel." "G od d amn i t." "Give u s your p osi ti on." "T wo th ou sand feet over" "Oh, Christ, I don ' t know, Beverly Hills." "Fifteen hundred feet." "We're going down." "I ' ll try for the Wilshire Country Clu b." "Ninth hole." "You reading me?" "Wilshire Country Club, copy that." "Howard, reduce engines to 1 000." "I ' m g oin g d own!" "I ' m n ot g onn a make i t, bu d dy!" "G od d amn i t!" "I s th ere an yon e el se i n si d e?" "I s th ere an yon e el se?" "!" "No." "I ' m Howard Hu g h es, th e avi ator." "every i n ch of h i s wi ri n g an d fl u i d con n ecti on." "He h as bu rn s to 78 p ercen t of h i s bod y." "Ni n e ri bs are sh attered, n ot broken, sh attered  as are hi s n ose, hi s chin, hi s ch eek, hi s I eft kn ee, hi s I eft el bow." "He h as 60 I acerati on s on hi s face, to th e bon e." "Hi s ch est was cru sh ed, so his left lung collapsed  and his heart has shifted to the right side of his chest cavity." "Jesus, God." "He ' s getting blood transfusions now, but" "Whose blood?" "I ' m sorry?" "Whose blood?" "From our stock." "Oh, he ' s not going to li ke that." " Mr. Dietrich, I dou bt he ' s  ever gonna li ke or disli ke anything again." "I ' m terri bly sorry." "Orange juice." "It ' s not fresh from the kitchen, so I...." "I have them make it here so...." "So I can see." "Look at me." "I ' m a monster." "Yeah." "Orange juice has nutritional value." "There ' s...." "There ' s some flies outside my window, though." "So  little Howard li kes citrus." "Don ' t he just...?" "T ell me." "An oil seal ripped off the starboard rear propeller." "When the pressure dropped, the prop reversed pitch." "Do you understand me?" "Howard, I ' m sorry to have to tell you this now, but there ' s something else." "You following me?" "Yeah." "The Air Force canceled the contract on The Hercules." "The war ' s over now, and they say they don ' t need it anymore." "I have to know what you want me to do." "Should I release the staff?" "How far  from finishing?" "About six months." "No, in money." "Seven million." "Maybe more." "Build it." "Build it, Odie." "Howard  a Constellation crashed outside Reading, Pennsylvania." "The Civil Aeronautics Board has grounded the whole fleet." "You know Juan Trippe sent me flowers." "T ake a look." "What did you do with all the others?" "Oh, I had them taken out." "They...." "They attract aphids." "Aphids are...." "They' re just awful little creatures." "But...." "But these ones  I wanted to see these ones every day." "Can white elephants fly?" "That 's everybody 's question." "The hull of the world's migh ties t airplane, a flying boa t built b y Ho ward Hughes." "Two hundred and twen ty feet long, it to wers higher than a five-s tory building." "Po wer lines ha ve to be cut as it s tarts the trip from Culver City  to the Pa cific, 3 0 miles a wa y." "Mo ving the 60- ton loa d is quite an engin eering problem." "But you go tta ask, was an ything this big ever s uppos ed to fly?" "There goes one wing s ection, 1 60 feet long with four engine housings." "Double tha t and you 've go t s ome idea o f the wingsprea d." "A n airplane tha t challenges a moun tain for sheer size." "How I on g can th ey keep u s g rou n d ed?" "Un ti I th ey fi n i sh i n vesti g ati n g th e Read i n g crash." "C ou I d be mon th s." "You ' re ru n n i n g a $ 1 4 mi I I i on d efi ci t." "How wi I I you aff ord to keep th em ou t of servi ce?" "We g o i n tern ati on al, we ' I I ma ke i t u p." " Brewster ' s C. A. B. bi I I i sn ' t g oin g away." "Th at bill p asses, an d you bou gh t th ese f or n othing g." "We ' re fi gh tin g th e C. A. B. bill." "M eanwhil e, h ow d o we keep TW A flying g?" "Don ' t say, " Ju st g o to T ool C o. " We ' re pumping every cent into The Hercules  which the Air Force doesn ' t even want anymore." "I ' m glad Jack is feeling sunny about things, but I ' ve seen the books." "I ' m telling it straight." "I ' m not crying wolf." "We' re in serious trou ble." "You ' ve gotta make a choice." "You wanna be ban krupted by the big plane or by the big airline?" "Go see Thomas Parkinson at the Equitable in New Y ork." "Get a loan against all the TWA equipment and capital." "Use the planes as collateral." "Hell, use the desks, use the pens, use everything we got." "Try to get me 40 million." "And if TWA defaults on the loan?" "Then Juan Trippe buys us cheap." "Under my bed!" "You put a goddamn microphone under my bed!" "Listen to me." "I am concerned about you." "I just wanna make sure you ' re okay." "And who is in that car?" "!" "It' s been with me 24 hours a day." "That car is for your protection!" "The only one I need protection from is you, you sick bastard!" "You don ' t own me, Howard." "I ' m not one of your teenage whores or some damn airplane." "I ' ll have them take all the bugs out." "I need to know where you are." "Why?" "!" "Because I worry about you, that ' s why." "Bullshit!" "What do you mean, " all the bugs "?" "What do you mean, " all the bugs "?" "There ' s more." "How many?" "I don ' t know, 1 2." "T welve, maybe, and on the telephones." "Oh, Christ, Howard, on the telephone?" "You listen to my phone calls?" "No, no, honey, I would never do that." "I ' d never do that." "I just read the transcripts, that' s all." "What do you wanna know, Howard?" "Was I screwing Artie Shaw last night?" "Was I screwing Sinatra the night before?" "You bet." "Everyone said you were a lunatic, I didn ' t listen." "It ' s no wonder Kate Hep burn dumped your demented ass!" "Shut your goddamn mouth." "Get out, you pathetic freak." "Get out!" "Is everything all right, sir?" "T ake out all the bugs, huh?" "Except for the one on the bedroom phone." "Sir, the fbi are at the house." "This is outrageous!" "Everything here is the private property of Hughes Productions." "My legal counsel is on the way" "Federal warrant." "Don ' t interfere with the search, sir." "Dateline :" "Los Angeles." "Howard Hughes has a new houseguest." "No, it 's not another beautiful s tarlet." "This time it 's the FBI." "Noah, you 've go t to help." "This is the 1 0th time they ha ve been here." "Rumor has it tha t agen ts working for Sena tor Owen Brews ter  ha ve pra ctically taken up residence in the a via tion mogul 's home." "Loo k, I mean, th ey are tou ch i n g th i n g s." " Noah, th ey ar e tou ch i n g th i n g s." "Jus t keep yours elf calm and I 'll be do wn there as s oon as I can, Ho ward." "Ho ward?" "Ho ward?" "Howard, h el I o." " Ni ce to see you ag ai n." "G ood to see you." "C ome on i n si d e." " Emma, you can start u p I u n ch n ow." "Y es, si r." "Wel l, real I y I ovel y room." "I t ' s n i cel y d ecorated." "Th an k you." "Here, h ave a seat." "Th an ks for comi n g by." "I th ou g h t you an d l sh oul d h ave a ch an ce to tal k privately." "You kn ow, outsi d e th e offi ce." "Well  I appreci ate th at, Owen." "So you ' re comin g out pretty stron g ag ain st th e C. A. B. bill." "You ' re comin g on pretty stron g for i t." "Well, it ' s my bill, Howard, you know." "Look, I believe sincerely that America cannot afford  to have more than one international carrier." "I mean, do you thin k it ' s fair that one airline should have a monopoly on international--?" "A monopoly?" "No, no, no." "Oh, no." "No, I thin k one airline could do it better, see, without competition." "All I ' m thin king about are the interests, the needs of the American passenger." "That' s just beautiful." "What is that?" "What is that?" "Is that a...?" "Is that a yak?" "Some kind of a yak?" "No, that' s a llama." "My wife picked that up when we were in Peru." "Son of a gun." "A real llama." "From Peru?" "Y eah." "From a year ago, I thin k it was" "Yeah, it was about a year ago." " Lunch is served, senator." "Good." "O kay." "Come on, let ' s go have some lunch." "Now, did you--?" "Did you actually get to see any llamas?" "No, no." "My wife just li ked the painting." "It ' s an interesting animal." "I ' ll have to read up on those." "How do you spell that?" "Li ke...?" "Li ke Fernando Lamas?" "No, no." "It' s-- lt' s the animal, it' s got two L' s." "Here, come on, have a seat." "It ' s brook trout." "Hope you li ke fish." "I love it." "Than ks." "I know you ' re not a drin king man, so I hope" " Hope water ' s okay." "Than ks." "All right, let ' s get down to business." "Let ' s tal k turkey." "My investigators" "My investigators have turned up a lot of dirt." "It could be really embarrassing if this stuff got out." "I ' d li ke to save you from that embarrassment." "That ' s very kind of you, Owen." "My committee has the power to hold pu blic hearings." "I ' d li ke to spare you that." "Would you, now?" "Look...." "Do you wanna go down in history as a war profiteer, Howard?" "Is that what you want?" "What do you want, Owen?" "You agree to support my C. A. B. bill, and I won ' t hold pu blic hearings." " I can ' t do that." "Why not?" "I can ' t do that, Owen." "The C. A. B. would kill TWA." "Sell TWA to Pan Am." "You ' ll get a good price." "You ' ll get a fair price." "And then--?" "Then you won ' t go pu blic?" "Right." "That' s right." "The investigation ' s closed." "Nobody knows a thing." "That' s-- lt' s better for everybody." "You know, Owen, I ' m still wondering one thing." "What' s that?" "The picture of the llama you got last year?" "Yeah." "Where ' d you sail from?" "We didn ' t sail." "We flew." "You flew?" "Yeah." "Are you sure you want to do this, Owen?" "You want to go to war with me?" "It isn ' t me, Howard." "It ' s the United States government." "We just beat Germany and Japan." "Who the hell are you?" "You" " You tell Juan T rippe something for me, all right?" "T ell him than ks for the flowers." "And he can kiss both sides of my ass." "Well, we have a long list of particulars." "Chi ef among them is that he defrauded the Ameri can g overnment  of $ 56 milli on whil e at war, wh en we coul d I east aff ord i t." "Whil e brave men were dyin g on th e beach es of Normandy  Mr. Hughes was picking the pocket of the American taxpayer." "I sleep  in this room  in the dark." "I ' ll have him dragged here to Washington if I have to." "I wanna see the whites of his lies." "I have a place." "I can sleep." "He has a lot of questions to answer." " I have a chair." "Particularly about that monstrous  boondoggle of his, that model airplane he ' s building  that flying lumberyard, that spruce goose." "No, he 'll" " We 'll get him here." "That ' s just beautiful." "Oh, yeah." "I li ke the desert." "It ' s hot there in the desert, but it ' s clean." "It ' s clean." "I need to sleep." "I should drin k something first." "I should drin k something first." "Wait a minute." "What if that mil k is sour?" "That mil k is bad." "I shouldn ' t pick up the bottle of mil k with my right hand." "And I shouldn ' t take the top off with my left hand put it in my pocket." "My left pocket." "Howard, it' s Kate." "I need" " I need to tal k to you." "Can you hear me?" "I ' m coming in." "Howard, unlock this door immediately." "I can ' t, sweetie." "You mean you won ' t." "Howard, please let me see you." " I haven ' t shaved." "Well, neither have I." "Come on." "You...." "You let me in." "I can hear you, Katie." "I could always hear you." "Even in the cockpit, with the engines on." "That ' s because I ' m so goddamn loud." "Howard, I...." "I came to than k you." "I found out what you did for Spence and me." "Buying those awful pictures." "You love him." "He ' s everything I have." "Howard?" "I ' m glad for you, Kate." "Go away now." "Would you do that?" "Howard, please." "Go away." "Just for now." "I ' ll see you soon." "We ' ll go flying together." "Yes." "Yes, please." "You take me flying again." "Howard, I can take the wheel." "Howard?" "Howard, are you--?" "Are you there?" "Howard?" "Howard, are you there?" "Come on, Howard." "Howard, are you there?" "Come in with the mil k." "Come in with the mil k." "Come in with the mil k." "He is to open the bag with his right hand  and hold the bag out to me at a 45-degree angle so I may reach into the bag without...." "Without touching the paper." "Repeated from the beginning." "Repeated from the beginning." "Repeated from the beginning." "If there is any variation of these instructions  even to the smallest degree  the en tire process mus t be repea ted..." "... from the beginning." "C ome i n wi th th e mi I k." "Repea ted from the beginning." " C ome i n wi th th e mi I k." " C ome i n wi th th e mi I k." "Repea ted  from the beginning." "Repea ted from the beginning." "C ome i n wi th th e mi I k." "Q...." "R...." "N...." "T...." "Q  U...." "E...." "I...." "T  I  N  E." "N  E." "E...." "I...." "H o w a r d?" "H e I l o?" "Wh o i s i t?" "H ow ar d, i t ' s J u an." "J u an." "J u an, ri g h t." "Y eah." "We h ad an ap p oi n tmen t, ri g h t?" "Y eah." "I remem ber th at." "Loo k  I g ot a h el I of a col d i n h er e." "A h el I of a col d." "So ta ke a seat ou t th er e, becau se I d on ' t wan n a g et you si c k." "I ' d n ever forg i ve mysel f i f I g ot you si c k." "I d on ' t wan n a g et you si c k." "I d on ' t wan n a" "Th an k you." "O kay, Howard, I ' m si ttin g." "I ' ve brou gh t al on g our accounting g s." "Now  Pan Am i s trading g at 1 3 an d five-ei gh th s." "TW A at four an d a qu arter." "Now, i f you take" "C ome on." "C ome on, come on, come on." "We both kn ow I ' m n ot g onn a sell TW A." "Besi d es, you coul dn ' t afford h er." "Our d omesti c routes al on e are worth more th an twi ce Pan Am." "Well, con si d erin g our stock i s trading g at three times yours  I find that a du bious claim, Howard." "What I " "What I mean is, you have no domestic routes." "All right?" "I mean, you get TWA, you span the globe." "I ' m not gonna sell, and you know I ' m not gonna sell." "Here ' s the point." "Owen Brewster works for you." "Howard, I didn ' t elect Senator Brewster." "We can than k the voters of Maine for that." "Now, if I appear at his hearings, Juan, it could get nasty." "Real nasty for all of us." "Well, I thin k, considerably more so for you." "While the good people of America were losing sons at Anzio you produced a dirty movie and built airplanes that don ' t fly." "Well, that' s just not fair, is it?" "I mean, the XF- 1 1 flew quite well for an hour and 45 minutes." "I wish you were up there with me, Juan." "It was exhilarating." "Be that as it may, you still have to answer for the Spruce Goose." "It ' s called The Hercules!" "And it will fly, goddamn it!" "I hope so." "The American people deserve something for their $ 1 3 million." "I won ' t sell TWA!" "I won ' t!" "I know that, Howard." "I know that." "But I ' m going to get it anyway." "You will default on your loan from Equitable after Senator Brewster  destroys your reputation and you can ' t find additional capital for the airline." "The hearings will also show Hughes Aircraft to be mismanaged and incompetent and it will go ban krupt too." "But you won ' t be insolvent." "You ' ll still have T ool Co." "Perhaps you ' ll head back to Houston to rebuild your empire." "I rather hope you do." "By that time, Pan Am will have bought TWA  and painted all those magnificent Connies blue and white." "So when you do return, it will be on a Pan Am plane." "Well...." "You seem to have me in a corner here, buddy." "Not a position in which I ' m very comfortable." "I thin k you ' re gonna be less comfortable at Senator Brewster ' s hearings." "Very pu blic, Howard." "Lots of cameras and newsmen." "I understand you ' re not particularly fond of crowds." "Perhaps we should spare you that." "Well, than k you for your concern, Juan." "I find that  very moving." "It ' s been a real pleasure." "Noah will see you back to the airport now." "You fly safe." "You fly safe." "Than k you, Howard, and you take care of that cold." "Don ' t you worry." "I certainly will." "Bye-bye." "If you let him appear at those hearings, the whole world will see what he ' s become." "People should remember him as he was." "He ' ll have a su bpoena in three days to appear in Washington." "If you can get him out of there by then." "Mr. Hughes?" "I don ' t have any shoes." "Could you get me some shoes?" "Shoes." "Yeah." "How nice of you to dress for me." "Can I come in?" "Yeah, you can come in." "Than k you for coming." "Now, let ' s get a drin k." "Wait, wait, wait, honey." "You can ' t move." "You ' re safe here." "You ' re in the germ-free zone now." "You understand?" "I ' ll take my chances." "No, no, honey." "Wait, wait." "Love what you ' ve done with the place." "Now, let me look at you." "When do you go to Washington?" "A week." "No, no." "Just under a week." "I don ' t know the date today, but I have to be...." "All right, take it easy." "There ' s nothing there, Howard." "I see things." "I know, baby." "Rinse your face off, now." "Put your hands in the water and wash off the soap." "I ' m right here." "I ' m not going anywhere." "Does that look clean to you?" "Nothing ' s clean, Howard." "But we do our best, right?" "Yeah." "What do you thin k?" "Well, I look all right." "You look great." "Will you marry me?" "You ' re too crazy for me." "I gotta go, baby." "O kay." "Than ks." "You ' d do it for me." "Hi, Howard." "How you doing?" "The committee will come to order." "Ladies and gentlemen, I must insist that we maintain quiet during these proceedings." "All right, Mr. Hughes, will you stand and be sworn?" "Do you solemnly swear that in the matter now pending before this committee you will tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" " I do." "Pardon me for speaking loudly..." "... but I know you have difficulty hearing." "That' s quite all right." "I mean, everybody knows I ' m deaf." "I ' m not gonna try to hide it." "Mr. Hughes, it is the intention of this committee" "Mr. Hughes has a statement." "All right, you may proceed with this statement, Mr. Hughes." "Mr. Hughes, do you have a statement?" "I ' m gonna attempt to be honest here." "I mean, my reputation ' s being destroyed, so I might as well lay the cards on the table." "Senator Brewster, if you hadn ' t gone too far overboard  if you hadn ' t put the red-hot iron in my side  I might have been willing to take a shellacking in this pu blicity spree of yours." "I may have been willing to sit back and take a certain amount of abuse simply because well, I am only a private citizen." "Whereas you are a senator  with all sorts of powers." "But I thin k this goddamn circus has gone on long enough!" "That ' s quite sufficient." "You have called me a liar, sir, in the press." "You have called me a liar and a thief and a war profiteer!" "The witness will restrain" "Why not tell the truth for once, senator?" "Why not tell the truth that this investigation was really born on the day that TWA  decided to fly to Europe?" "On the day that TWA first invaded Juan Trippe' s territory!" "Sit down." "On the day TWA first challenged the generally accepted theory that only Juan Trippe' s great Pan American Airways..." "...had the right to fly the Atlantic!" "You are not here to make a speech." "I asked for silence!" "I asked for quiet in this room...." "We have in our possession receipts in the amount of $ 1 70,000 acquired from Mr. John Meyer." "Mr. Meyer works for you, does he not?" "He does." "And what is his official title?" "I don ' t exactly know, senator." "A lot of people work for me." "Can you explain why your press agent would pay out more than $ 1 70,000 to representatives of the United States Air Force?" " I don ' t know." "You ' d have to ask him." "Well, would you produce him?" " Produce him?" "Will you cause him to appear?" "You had John Meyer on the stand for three days last week." "Be that as it may, we would li ke him to reappear." "Would you ask him to return?" "No, I don ' t thin k I will." "Will you try to have him return?" "No, I don ' t thin k I ' ll try." "You don ' t thin k you ' ll try?" "No, I don ' t thin k so." "The $ 1 70,000 paid out to the Air Force in the form of hotel suites  TWA stock  female companionship." "Now, is it possi ble that these could be considered bri bes?" "I suppose you could call them that, yes." "Would you repeat that?" "I said, I suppose you could consider them bri bes, yes." "Well, would you li ke to explain that, Mr. Hughes?" "I ' m afraid you don ' t know how the aviation business works, senator." "See, wining and dining Air Force dignitaries is common in our business." "It' s because we all want the big contracts." "All the major aircraft companies do it." "I don ' t know whether it' s a good system  I just know it ' s not illegal." "You, senator, you are the lawmaker." "If you pass a law that states no one can entertain Air Force officers, well, hell  I ' d be happy to abide by it." "Your story is a pack of lies." "I can tear it apart if allowed to cross-examine." "We ' re not gonna have this bickering." "Yes." "Somewhere between two and 500..." "... if you ' ll let me get started." "lf you believe your wealth and power  can intimidate any member of this committee, you ' re mistaken." "Now su bmit your questions." "I ' ll put this very simply." "On February 1 2th, at the Mayflower Hotel  did you or did you not tell me that if I were to sell TWA to Pan Am  that this entire investigation would be called off?" "I did not." "And I have asked you to su bmit your questions in writing." "How long have you known Juan T rippe?" " I ' ve known him for some time now." "And that ' s not the question." " Is it not true that Juan donated $ 20,000 to your last campaign?" "I mean, he spoke to me as if you worked for him." "I have a personal friendship with" "Is it true you accept free Pan Am tickets to circle the globe..." "... in support of your C. A. B. bill?" " No, it is not true." "Well, who wrote that bill, senator?" "Who actually wrote the C. A. B. bill?" "The actual words." "Did you write them?" "This is not how these hearings..." "... are gonna be conducted." "I have it." "Maybe it' ll refresh your memory." "" Bill S-987 to amend the Civil Aeronautics Act. "" "Now, you introduced this bill to the Senate." "A lot of words." "You write all of them?" "Did you write any of them, senator?" " Now, look" "Now, this entire bill was written by Pan Am executives  and designed to give that airline a monopoly on international travel." "You ' ve been flogging this bill all around the world on their behalf, have you not?" "I have duties that take me all over the world, Mr. Hughes." "Well, what the hell does a senator from Maine need to visit Peru for?" "I was seeking outlets for our trade goods." "Buy a lot of lobsters down there, do they?" "Senator, how many times have you visited T rippe ' s office in New Y ork  in the last three months?" "Would you li ke me to tell you, senator?" "All right, this has gone on long enough." "Juan is a great American." "His airline has advanced the cause of commercial aviation for decades." "Juan Trippe is a patriot." "Juan Trippe is not a man who is interested in making money." "Well, I ' m sure his stockholders would be happy to hear that." "We' re gonna clear this room." "This is James McNamara speaking to you from the Hughes 2 000-ton flying boat  the world's larges t aircraft." "This is the sky gian t  which has promp ted Congress to in ves tiga te the war con tra cts o f Mr. Hughes." "Before boarding the cra ft, Mr. Hughes told newsmen tha t this tes t  would be s olely a taxi experimen t." "He said he didn 't kno w wha t migh t happen." "The mammo th flying plywood shell  migh t ship wa ter under high-speed taxi press ure." "He will no t take  the cra ft in to the air un til next spring." "The thin man from Culver City pronounced the cra ft an unkno wn quan tity." "He has an idea wha t it can do...." "Non e of th at, n ow." "Non e of th at." "We are about 5 feet in ba ck o f Mr. Hughes." "We are looking through one of the side windo ws in the cockpit." "Pr of essor, wh y d on ' t you come on u p fr on t h er e." "In o ther words, we are 3 0 feet high in this aircraft." "Strap you rsel f i n ri g h t th er e." "You ou g h t to be a bl e to see j u st g r eat." "Huge cro wds jam the s urrounding shoreline this morning." "Al I ri g h t, boys, I et ' s fi r e i t u p." "O n e ' s g ood." "T w o ' s g ood." "Th ree ' s g ood." "Fou r ' s g ood." "Fi ve ' s g ood." "Si x i s g ood." "Seven ' s g ood." "Ei g h t ' s g ood." " Ad van ci n g master th rottl es." " Ad van ci n g master th rottl es." "A s you probably kno w, I ha ve to do a grea t deal  of screaming in to our microphone." " Un d erstood." "Lower i t 1 5 d eg rees of fl ap s." " Loweri n g 1 5 d eg rees of fl ap s." "Howard, sh e ' s g otta h i t 70 to h ave an y ki n d of ch an ce." "Y eah, I kn ow." "I kn ow." "It 's a beautiful da y here off the coas t of Southern California." "Blue skies..." "...a warm sun...." "T wen ty-fi ve mi I es p er h ou r." "A nd a rela tively calm s ea...." "Th i rty." "Th i rty-fi ve." "One would think thes e eigh t po wer plan ts migh t shake the craft to pieces...." "T a ke i t easy, Howard." " Forty!" "Th rottl i n g bac k f or star board tu rn 1 80." "Th rottl i n g bac k for star board tu rn 1 80." "The fligh t crew itself consis ts of four men." "Mr. Hughes, ho wever, has added 1 1 main tenance men to this maiden taxi tes t s ta tioned a t various pla ces throughout the ship, checking poin ts o f s tress and s train." "How d oes sh e sou n d, O d i e?" "Sou n d s g ood, How ar d." " Prof essor." "Y es?" "Wou I d you d o me a favor?" "Wou I d you ta ke a I oo k ou t th at wi n d ow an d tel I me wh at th e wi n d i s d oi n g?" "I w ou I d say th at we h ave a 1 5- kn ot wi n d." "Wou I d you cal I th at a h ead wi n d, p rof essor?" "I wou I d, M r." "Hu g h es." "We mus t main tain silence." "We mus t ha ve quiet during the proceedings." "M r." "Hu g h es, wi I I you stan d an d be sworn?" "Mr. Hughes, did you receive  $ 43 mi I I i on to man u f actu r e 1 00 XF- 1 1 sp y p I an es f or th e Un i ted States Ai r For ce?" "I d i d." "How man y fu n cti on al p I an es d i d you d el i ver to th e Un i ted States Ai r Force?" "Non e." "Wou I d you I ean a I i ttl e cl oser to th e mi crop h on es, si r?" "Non e." "Di d you recei ve $ 1 3 milli on to manufacture  a prototyp e of a flyin g boat kn own as Th e Hercul es?" "I di d." "An d di d you d eliver th at pl an e?" "I di d n ot." "So by your admission in this chamber, Mr. Hughes  you have received $ 56 million  from the United States government for planes you never delivered." "That is correct." "Well, excuse me for asking, Mr. Hughes  but where did all that money go?" "Well, it went into the planes, senator." "And a lot more." "More?" "Do tell, Mr. Hughes, what other larcenies did you commit?" "I mean, I put my money into the planes, senator." "My money." "See, the thing is that I care" "Your personal finances are not" "Let him speak." "Proceed, Mr. Hughes." "See, the thing is, I care very much about aviation." "It has been the great joy of my life." "That ' s why I put my own money into these planes." "And I ' ve lost millions, senator, and I ' ll go on losing millions." "It' s just what I do." "Now, if I ' ve lost a lot of the government' s money during the war, I hope fol ks will put that into perspective." "More than 60 other airplanes ordered from such firms as  Lockheed, Douglas, Northrop and Boeing never saw action either." "In all, more than $800 million was spent during the war on planes that never flew." "Over 6 billion on other weapons that were never delivered." "Yet Hughes Aircraft, with her 56 million is the only firm under investigation here." "I cannot help but thin k that has a little more to do with TWA than planes that did not fly." "You ' ve made your point, Mr. Hughes." "One second." "I have one more thing to say here to this committee." "And that has to do with The Hercules." "Now, I am supposed to be many things which are not complimentary." "I am supposed to be capricious." "I have been called a playboy." "I ' ve even been called an eccentric  but I do not believe that I have the reputation of being a liar." "Needless to say, The Hercules was a monumental undertaking." "It is the largest plane ever built." "It is over five stories tall with a wingspan longer than a football field." "That' s more than a city block." "Now, I put the sweat of my life into this." "I got my reputation all rolled up in it." "I have stated several times that if The Hercules fails to fly  I will leave this country and never come back." "And I mean it." "Now, Senator Brewster, you can su bpoena me  you can arrest me, you can even claim I ' ve folded up and taken a run-out powder  but, well, I ' ve had just about enough of this nonsense." "Good afternoon." "I had to do it." "Mr." "Hughes." "Mr." "Hughes." "I ' d love to see The Hercules in the air." "Than k you, than k you so much." "Switch it off." "The hearings aren ' t over yet." "The hearings are over." "The airline bill will be defeated in the Senate." "TWA will begin flights from New York to Paris  then on to Moscow, to Japan, to Hawaii, to Los Angeles  to New Y ork." "Fuck." "Power coming up." "Power coming up." "Howard Hughes has just alerted us." "He has asked everyone to hold on." "Tremendous horsepo wer kicking up." "Let me h ear i t, O d i e." "T wen ty-fi ve mi I es p er h ou r." "Th i rty." "Here we go." "Here we go." "Th i rty-fi ve." " The air-speed indica tor has mo ved up to 25." "Thirty." " Thirty-five." " Forty." "A s he pushes the thro ttle it 's 40." " Forty-fi ve." "Forty- five." "More thro ttle." "Forty- five." " Fi fty." "It 's 50 o ver a chopp y s ea." " Fi fty-fi ve." "It 's 55." "It 's 55." "Si xty." "More thro ttle." "It 's 60." "Si xty-fi ve." " Sixty- five." "Seven ty." "It 's 7 0." "Seven ty-fi ve." "It 's 7 5." "A nd s omething momen tarily cuts out." "I believe we are airborne." "We are airborne, la dies and gen tlemen." "I don 't believe tha t Hughes  mean t this to be." "I don 't kno w." "A nd we were really up in the air." "We were really up in the air." "La dies and gen tlemen, the Hughes mammo th aircra ft  has flo wn this a fternoon in L os A ngeles Harbor." "Well, it certainly looks a t this momen t tha t Ho ward Hughes will be around  the United Sta tes for quite s ome time to come." "We mu st u n d erstan d th at tech n ol og i es I i ke th ese are th e way of th e fu tu re." "Th at ' s en ou g h q u esti on s." "TW A an d Hu g h es Ai rcraft are d el i g h ted  to h ave you come h ere an d wi tn ess th i s won d erfu I si g h t." " Excu se u s f or j u st a secon d." "All ri gh t." "So you f eel li ke g oin g to Pari s?" " Now?" "TW A i s startin g up fli gh ts to Europ e." "I th ou gh t I mi gh t pil ot th e first on e." "Ou gh t to be some fun." "Lots of shopping in Paris." "I ' ll buy you anything." "You can buy me dinner." "How about that?" "Dinner, then." "We got a date?" "O kay, baby, you got a date." "I ' ll be back in a second, but don ' t you go anywhere, now." "I mean it." "All right, listen, boys." "Something new." "Jet airplanes." "You know about jets?" "No, but it sounds expensive." "Oh, it will be, but we gotta get started." "Come on, wal k with me." "Whoever can start utilizing jet technology  on commercial airliners is gonna win." "What do you know about the science?" "I know a little." "I can work something to show you." "Basic turbine stuff." "Noah, who are those fellas?" "Do they work for me?" "Everybody works for you, Howard." "Lockheed worked on the F-80." "Let ' s get Bob Gross and see if he can help us out." "What, now?" "Of course now." "We gotta get into it." "Jets are the way of the future." " It ' s 4 : 30." " I tal ked to Bob last week." "He ' s in New York." "So it ' s 7 :30." " He won ' t be in the office." "We ' ll figure out what hotel he ' s at." "Do you want a call..." "... or you want some kind of meeting?" "We want a meeting, don ' t we?" "Do you want me bring him out here tomorrow, then, Howard?" "The way of the future." " Howard?" " Howard?" "The way of the future." "The way of the future." " Let ' s take a wal k, Howard." "Way of the future." "Give me a hand." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "All right, stay here." "I ' ll be right back." "You understand, Howard?" "The way of the future." "Guard the door." "I ' ll get a doctor." "No one sees him li ke this." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "The way of the future." "You are not safe." "When I grow up I 'm gonna fly the fastest planes ever built make the bigges t mo vies ever and be the riches t man in the world." "Th e way of th e fu tu re." "Th e way of th e fu tu re." "Th e way of th e fu tu re." "Th e way of th e fu tu re." "Th e way of th e fu tu re." "Th e way of th e fu tu re." "[ E NG L I SH]"