Miss Luce. Miss Luce.
-My father sent this. -Thank you.
-Where's your mother? -She's dead.
She died long ago.
The lady's not interested in all that.
-Aren't you married? -No.
-Don't you want to marry? -That's enough! Shut up now.
(WOMAN SIGHING)
(SNIFFING)
WOMAN: Apparently, Miss Luce was married to a nobleman.
He was related to their king.
-He had a castle. -She fell for an American.
She left her husband to go to America.
When she got there, her American didn't turn up.
-She couldn't get in alone. -She's looking for a man now.
ANGELO: They say Luce was married to a prince,
but he had so many wives he sent her to America.
She's all on her own now,
and she needs a man to care for her.
-Perhaps she's a queen. -How should I know?
Signor Belvedere, Lucy.
(IN ENGLISH) Signor Belvedere is the largest purveyor
of ice in New York City.
(BABY CRYING)
(SIGHS)
FORTUNATA: The sleepwalker's back.
If you want my men's protection, you have to earn it.
Behave yourself like the rest of us.
My son's not right for you. You're too foreign.
You need a man who can support you. Look at your hands.
Why? What's wrong with my hands?
(ALL SCREAMING)
Come here, Pietro!
Don't be scared. Come with me.
(WOMAN SCREAMING)
(SHIP ENGINE CHUGGING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
You'll wake him!
Let go of me!
(FORTUNATA SINGING)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
(SINGING)
(DRUMS PLAYING)
(SINGING FASTER)
(CHAINS RATTLING)
So where's America?
It's here, but you can't see it.
-Good morning. -Good morning.
You look younger without a mustache.
I'm still young, though.
Salvatore, would you marry me?
Who? Me?
Of course. Right away.
You're the one asking me?
I need a man to help me get in.
I'm here. When can we get married?
When we reach the island, you'll have to call me out.
I'll call you right away. I'm not scared.
I'm not marrying you for love.
Love?
We hardly know each other.
Those things take time.
Isn't that right? Isn't that right?
Yes.
Here's what we'll do.
Give me a lock of your hair.
Now we won't lose each other.
I don't believe in magic.
With time, I'll teach you.
-We don't have all day. -Stay behind the line.
MAN 1 : (IN ENGLISH) Stand behind the line, please.
Stop there!
MAN 1 : (IN ENGLISH) Please circle over. Please.
MAN 2: All right. All right, hold it.
MAN 3: Stay behind the line! Over there! Over there! Move along!
Put the bags down! Put the bags down!
MAN 1 : (IN ENGLISH) Hats off, sir. Sir. Ask them to take their hats off.
MAN 3: Take your hats off!
(IN ENGLISH) Down. Heads down. I need you to put your heads down.
Lower your head.
(IN ENGLISH) Okay, down. That's it. Very good.
MAN 3: What month is it?
MAN 1 : (IN ENGLISH) Thank you.
MAN 2: (IN ENGLISH) What day is it today?
What day is it?
(IN ENGLISH) What month?
What month is it?
(IN ENGLISH) What day?
What day is it?
I'd like to know. What day is it?
Leave the cross there.
Do you understand me?
Why are you doing this?
Can't you answer?
-Your name? -Mancuso, Salvatore.
-Where are you from? -Petralia Sottana.
-How old are you? -Thirty-seven.
Thirty-seven.
MAN 1 : (IN ENGLISH) What's your name?
MAN 4: (IN ENGLISH) Okay, tell them to get their bags.
-MAN 3: Pick up your bags! -Was that so hard?
Pick up your bags!
In line! In line!
MAN 2: (IN ENGLISH) Everybody in line.
Everybody in line behind the line.
MAN 3: Nice and neat. I want neat lines above all.
Don't push.
In line!
Look down. Look up. Down. Up.
Don't worry. It's all right. Look down.
Open your eyes. Keep still. We won't hurt you.
-Try not to move. -Off you go.
Next.
Hat.
(IN ENGLISH) What's your name?
(IN ENGLISH) Show me your hat.
Listen. Here. Thank you.
(IN ENGLISH) Show me your hands.
MAN: Lift your hands. Lift your hands.
Spread your fingers.
(IN ENGLISH) Turn them around.
Turn your hands around.
(IN ENGLISH) Good. Open your mouth.
Open wide. Stick your tongue out.
Come on. Further. Further.
To one side.
Further out.
Wider. Stick your tongue out.
Further out. Further out.
(IN ENGLISH) Have you been ill?
Have you been sick?
(IN ENGLISH) Can he speak?
Can you speak?
(IN ENGLISH) Have you been ill? Can you speak?
(IN ENGLISH) Can you hear me? Can you hear me, what I'm saying?
Why don't you answer?
He's my son.
Can't you make him speak?
He's a stubborn one, but he works harder than a mule.
-Take your trousers off. -Take your pants off.
Take them off.
Come on! Come on!
-Leave your brother alone. -What are you doing?
Pietro. Pietro, don't be afraid. Take them off.
(IN ENGLISH) Step back, please.
He's still shaken from the journey, poor kid.
(IN ENGLISH) Follow me this way, please.
He'll do it now! He'll do it now!
My son stays with... Okay.
My son stays with me!
-Come back here. -I'm telling you he's my son!
-We have to finish the examination. -What examination?
SALVATORE: Don't worry, Pietro.
-My son... -MAN: Come. Come.
(IN ENGLISH) Would you please lie down?
Lie down, madam.
Lie down on your side, please.
Like this, with your head here.
What's she doing? Get your hands off. What are you doing?
-Calm down. It's procedure. -Get your hands off me!
I don't want anyone touching me!
(IN ENGLISH) Excuse me. Madam,
this lady is not used to this kind of examination.
-(IN ENGLISH) Are you English, miss? -(IN ENGLISH) Yes, I am.
-You came with Italians? -Yes, ma'am.
Is your husband traveling with you?
My fiancé. He's supposed to meet me here.
It is highly uncommon for an English lady
to be traveling with Italians. You'll be questioned about that.
(CLOCK TICKING)
MAN 1 : Don't be afraid. Take your time. Think hard.
(IN ENGLISH) Math test.
(CLEARS THROAT)
How many legs on a horse?
Four.
How many legs on a horse and how many on a hen?
Four and two.
MAN 1 : (IN ENGLISH) Four and two.
Therefore?
-They walk. -(CHUCKLES) No.
How many legs in all?
How many legs on a pig, a hen and a goat?
MAN 2: (IN ENGLISH) Okay.
All right. All right.
SALVATORE: This is the house.
You can dry things here or keep animals.
You can put them here.
(IN ENGLISH) Bread and gold.
(CLEARS THROAT)
You're out at sea in a small boat. There's a big storm.
There are two sacks in the boat.
One is full of bread, and the other, full of gold.
Which do you throw overboard?
Why throw them overboard?
Get rid of the gold? I can't throw gold away.
MAN 1 : (IN ENGLISH) He says he can't throw the gold.
I eat the bread.
MAN 1 : (IN ENGLISH) He'd eat the bread.
I don't throw anything overboard.
(IN ENGLISH) Nothing. He wouldn't throw anything.
Is that right? Is it right?
(IN ENGLISH) I'm ready.
(CLOCK TICKING)
(IN ENGLISH) Done. I love table games, sir.
May I ask, I thought you were looking
for illnesses and contagious diseases here.
Unfortunately, ma'am, it has been scientifically proven
that lack of intelligence is genetically inherited,
hence contagious in a way.
We are trying to prevent below-average people
from mixing with our citizens.
What a modern vision.
(FEELING GOOD PLAYING)
Let's try an exercise now.
I'll give you instructions, and you have to carry them out in order.
Open the door and put the chair near the door.
You have to do things in the order that I tell you.
First, you open the door, then you move the chair.
You got it wrong.
I asked you to open the door and then take the chair over to it.
Start again.
That's better.
Now
open the door, put the chair near the door,
pick up the book and put it on the floor.
(WOMEN CHATTERING)
(MEN CHATTERING)
(BELL DINGING)
MAN 1 : (IN ENGLISH) Miss Rita D'Agostino, please stand up.
WOMAN: Miss Rita D'Agostino, stand up, please.
MAN: (IN ENGLISH) Mr. Scandito, please stand up.
(IN ENGLISH) Mr. Scandito, do you acknowledge
the lady standing before you
-as your fiancée and future wife? -(IN ENGLISH) Yes, sir.
Miss D'Agostino, do you acknowledge the gentleman standing before you
as your fiancé and future husband?
WOMAN: Do you acknowledge this man as your future husband?
(WHISPERING)
Miss, look up a little, please.
WOMAN: Miss, do you acknowledge this man as your future husband?
Yes.
MAN: (IN ENGLISH) Very well. The wedding will take place
on the 1 7th of the current month
at Ellis Island.
WOMAN: The wedding will be on the 1 7th at Ellis Island.
MAN: You may now pass the flowers. Please be seated.
WOMAN: Please be seated.
MAN: Moving on. Miss Rosa Napolitano, please stand up.
WOMAN: Miss Rosa Napolitano, please stand up.
Mr. Ettore Scandelli, please stand up.
Mr. Scandelli, do you acknowledge the lady standing before you
-as your fiancée and future bride? -Yes.
MAN: Miss Napolitano,
do you acknowledge the gentleman standing before you
as your fiancé and future husband?
WOMAN: Miss, do you acknowledge this man as your future husband?
-How old are you? -ETTORE: Thirty-five.
-How old? -Thirty-five.
Liar! Wretch!
I thought you were a lot younger and taller.
You're so short.
Anyone would think you were still sitting.
This is what I left my family for?
I already have a father at home. I don't need another!
Ugly wretch! Have you got money?
WOMAN: Do you acknowledge this man as your future husband?
Yes.
MAN: Very well. The wedding will take place on the 1 7th of this current month
at Ellis Island. You may now pass the flowers.
WOMAN: The wedding will be on the 1 7th at Ellis Island.
Please be seated.
MAN: Moving on. Miss Dolores Torres, please stand up.
WOMAN: Miss Dolores Torres, please stand up.
MAN: Mr. Sergio Dominguez, please stand up.
WOMAN: Mr. Sergio Dominguez.
MAN: Sergio Dominguez, please stand up. Please stand up.
(IN SPANISH) Sergio Dominguez, I know you're here.
Why won't you show yourself?
How long will you leave me here?
I've been waiting for days now.
(IN ENGLISH) Which one? Right here?
(IN ENGLISH) Just take this.
Which one? This one? Please take the note.
The gentlemen have the notes.
-Which one? This lady here? -(IN ENGLISH) Yeah.
Would you hand me the notes?
This is for you. Take it. It's for you.
MAN 1 : (IN ENGLISH) Mrs. Fortunata Mancuso.
Mrs. Fortunata Mancuso. Thank you.
Mrs. Fortunata Mancuso.
-Present. -MAN 2: Please.
I'm fine sitting here.
What is that stuff? All those stars and crosses?
(IN ENGLISH) She wants to know what all these shapes are, sir.
(IN ENGLISH) Does she think we're going to harm her?
MAN 2: Madam, do you think we wish to do you harm?
What do you want from us?
MAN 2: What do we want from them? MAN 1 : Them who?
MAN 2: Who do you mean?
Everyone from the old world.
All the folk who came over from the old world.
Would you explain to her that we want to know
if they're fit enough to enter the new world?
Madam, we want to know if you're fit enough to enter the new world.
And you think you're God?
Who are you to decide if we're fit or not to enter this new world of yours?
Who do we think we are, God, to decide
who's good or not good to enter the new world?
If she wants to enter the United States, she's got to accept our rules.
If she refuses to take the test, she will be deported.
MAN 2: Madam, if you wish to enter the new world,
you must accept its rules. Sit here and take the exam,
or we'll deport you. We'll send you home.
MAN 1 : Mr. Marcello Tarsitano.
MAN 2: Mr. Marcello Tarsitano, please.
What the hell is this glass?
It's frosted glass. You can't see anything.
-Not a thing. -You can see from up there.
We'd have to climb up.
-Shall we climb up? -Let's do it.
(CHATTERING)
What are those long things?
-They look like towers. -Bell towers.
-Could they be houses? -MAN: They're houses, 1 00 floors high!
How do you get up there?
There's a wooden box that carries people up and down, on its own.
-On its own? -On its own.
-Can animals go up, too? -Everything can go up.
-I wouldn't like to go home in a box. -Me, neither.
-My house has to be on the ground. -I'd like a house in the sky.
What are you doing? Get down now!
(MUTTERING PRAYERS)
-What do we do? Pray, too? -Our Father or Ave Maria?
Let's say them all.
"In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit..."
It's like eating a cloud.
God be praised.
(SALVATORE WHISTLING)
(WHISTLING)
MAN: (IN ENGLISH) The wedding will take place
on the 1 7th of the current month
-at Ellis Island. -(IN ENGLISH) Thank you.
(IN ENGLISH) There are no further names on the list.
We now have 1 0 minutes.
-(IN ENGLISH) Excuse me, sir. -Yes?
You haven't called our names yet.
Your name hasn't been called 'cause your fiancé didn't put it on the list.
-But he's here waiting to be called. -Where is he?
-Over there. -The gentleman there?
LUCY: Mr. Salvatore Mancuso. MAN: Mr. Mancuso,
have you filled out this form?
Mr. Mancuso, have you filled out the form?
No.
MAN: (IN ENGLISH) Do you know this lady?
WOMAN: Do you know this woman?
You bet I know her, and she knows me, too.
WOMAN: (IN ENGLISH) He says, "Yes."
MAN: Can you tell me her name?
WOMAN: What is her name, please?
-Luce. -WOMAN: Luce what?
-Luce Reed. You always forget it. -Luce Reed.
(IN ENGLISH) It's a difficult name for him to pronounce.
Well, he must complete the form.
Please complete the form. Here.
What's going on? What do I do with this thing?
You don't want to marry me?
Of course I do, but you have to write it down.
I can't write. I can't read, either. Can't we get married anymore?
WOMAN: (IN ENGLISH) He says he doesn't know how to write.
MAN: (IN ENGLISH) Well, he's going to have to come back
with someone that can write for him.
WOMAN: He comes back another day?
(IN ENGLISH) That's me, sir. That's what I do when he needs to write.
What am I supposed to do, just wait here?
He doesn't know anybody out there.
Take the form and do it quickly, please.
Do you have any notes?
(IN ENGLISH) Mr. Salvatore Mancuso, please stand up.
WOMAN: Mr. Salvatore Mancuso, please stand up.
Miss Lucy Reed, please stand up.
Mr. Mancuso, do you acknowledge the lady standing before you
as your fiancée and future bride?
WOMAN: Mr. Mancuso,
do you acknowledge this woman as your future bride?
Of course. Would I be here otherwise? Yes.
WOMAN: (IN ENGLISH) He says, "Yes."
MAN: Miss Reed, do you acknowledge the gentleman standing before you
-as your fiancé and future husband? -(IN ENGLISH) Yes.
MAN: The wedding will take place at Ellis Island.
WOMAN: The wedding will be at Ellis Island. Date to be determined.
Do you have flowers for your fiancée?
I'll offer you this crown that flies.
(GIGGLES)
(IN ENGLISH) Mr. Salvatore Mancuso, step forward.
Mr. Mancuso, step forward.
(IN ENGLISH) Mr. Mancuso, your son is mute and cannot be admitted.
Your mother is feeble-minded and cannot be admitted.
What is your decision?
MAN: Mr. Mancuso, your son is mute and cannot be admitted.
Your mother is feeble-minded and cannot be admitted.
What will you do now, continue the admission process or return home?
But...
Excuse me. I...
I don't mean to be disrespectful,
but I don't understand.
What's wrong? How can they be a problem?
How are my mother and my son a problem
with all the land and work you have here?
Because he doesn't speak? It's for the best, you know.
This way, he won't bore anyone. He'll never complain.
And, my mother, look at her. She's like a young girl.
True, she talks a lot,
but I'll keep her indoors and won't let her out.
We've come all this way only to be parted now?
Dad,
Grandma told me she wants to go home.
She also told me that we have to stay.
(SINNERMAN PLAYING)
(SCATTING)