Could I borrow your daughter for this evening? I'd like to look around the town.
Ann? Charlie.
Ann would be better. Ann knows everything about everybody.
Charlie. Well, if, uh, Charlie doesn't mind.
- I don't mind. - Swell.
Good-bye, then, Mrs. Newton. Good-bye.
Half past 6:00? Half past 6:00.
Okay. Good-bye. Bye. Bye, Mr. Saunders.
Bye. Good-bye.
He seems like a nice young man.
But I thought you were going to the movies with Catherine.
Oh, I'll tell her I don't feel well or something.
Hello, Charlie. Well... hello, Catherine. Hello, Shirley.
Hello. This is Jack Graham. He's in town.
How do you do? Hello.
How's your throat, Charlie? Oh, much better. Thank you.
Bill Forest was asking about you.
Oh. Bill Forest?
Well, uh... good-bye.
Bye. Good-bye. Bye.
I know what you are, really.
You're a detective.
There's something the matter and you're a detective. Charlie, listen.
I don't want to listen. Why, you're not on a survey at all.
You lied to us. You lied to Mother.
You just wanted to get in our house. Police.
That's what it is.
What do you want with us? What are you doing around here lying to us?
Look, Charlie, you've got to listen to me. You've got to trust me.
When you've done nothing but lie?
And you probably didn't want to take me out at all the way I thought.
You just wanted to ask me a lot of questions.
Have I asked you a lot of questions? Have I?
All right, I'm a detective. A pretty bad one.
Now, won't you even listen to me?
Why should I when you lied to me? I had to.
When I came here to find a man, I hadn't counted on you.
I hadn't counted on your mother or your family. Find a man? What man?
There's a man loose in this country. We're after him.
We don't know much. We don't even know what he looks like.
Charlie, think. How much do you know about your uncle?
Why, he's my mother's brother. What's he got to do with it?
This man we want may be your uncle.
Oh, I don't believe you. Go away and leave me alone.
We're after one man. Your uncle may be that man.
But in the East, there's another man who's being hunted, too,
through Massachusetts and into Maine; he may be the one.
My uncle hasn't done anything.
He knows it would kill my mother if he did.
He's her younger brother, just like Roger is mine.
Why don't they arrest that man in the East?
Why don't you go away and leave us alone?
Charlie, when we were eating tonight and talking about our folks...
and what we'd done and how we felt, we were like two ordinary people.
We'd been brought up about the same.
You liked me and I liked you. Oh, it doesn't matter now.
What do you mean, "it doesn't matter"? It's the only thing that does.
If it weren't for you, you don't think I'd care...
how or where I caught up with your uncle, do you?
Because if he's the guy, I'm going to catch up with him. Remember that.
And you're going to keep your mouth shut.
You're going to keep your mouth shut because you're such a nice girl...
you'd help if you knew your uncle was the man we wanted.
I wouldn't help you. And I know you would.
And I'm trying to make it easier for you.
If your uncle's the man we want, we'll get him out of town quietly.
We won't arrest him here. Arrest him here in town? With Mother?
I'm trying to tell you we won't.
- Please, Charlie. - I won't say anything.
Oh, take me home!
Good night, Charlie.
It's going to be funny when you find out you're wrong.
Good night.
Hello, Charlie. Home already? Oh, yes, Dad.
It's so nice out, I thought I'd get a breath of air before I went to bed.
Well, you better run in. Your Uncle Charlie's been asking about you.
I think I'll just go up the back way.
L-I'm tired and I don't feel like talking.
All right. Suit yourself.
Take care of yourself. Mm-hmm.
Good night, Herb. Good night, Charlie.
What were we saying, Herb? Did I notice what?
Well, did you taste anything funny...
about that coffee you had at my house this evening?
No. It tasted all right.
That's what I mean. It wasn't all right.
Put something in it? Put a little soda.
About the same amount that I'd have used if I'd wanted to use poison.
Well, you don't say. I never tasted a thing.
Of course, I might not notice the soda.
You'd notice the soda more than you would the poison.
For all you knew, you might just as well be dead now.
Aren't you asleep yet, Ann? Uh-uh.
Charlotte, what are you doing?
Oh, I'm just looking for a recipe I thought I saw,
but it's just so torn up...
They have papers in the "libarry." New ones and old ones.
Miss Corcoran will get them out for you.
She won't even notice if you cut out a little, bitty recipe.
Oh, it's not that important.
What time does the library close?
If you read as much as you should, you'd know it closes at 9:00.
Oh, well. If I think about it, maybe I'll go tomorrow.
You really ought to go to sleep, Ann.
Get back there! Get back! Get back!
Just a moment, Charlie. What do you think I am out here for?
Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Norton.
All right. Go ahead.
Oh! Miss Corcoran, please let me in!
Oh, please!
Oh, thank you.
Really, Charlie. You know as well as I do the library closes at 9:00.
If I make one exception, I'll have to make a thousand.
I'm sorry, Mrs. Corcoran, but there is something in the paper I've got to see.
I'm surprised at you, Charlie. No consideration.
Oh, I'll only be a minute. You've got all day, Charlie, to come here.
I don't know why you want to rush in here tonight like a madwoman.
I'll give you just three minutes.
Can't be anything really awful.
I'll prove to him it isn't.
Page three...
Hello.
Where's Charlie? She's still asleep. I don't want to wake her.
Charlie still asleep? No, she just woke up.
I shouldn't have let her sleep so long, but she needed it.
She doesn't look quite herself. She'll be down for dinner.
Mother, let me finish mashing those.
I'll fix the rest of dinner and get it on the table.
You go talk to Uncle Charlie.
How do you feel? Fine.
I must have been tired. I slept like a log.
Uncle Charlie was asking for you again. He's fond of you.
And that nice young man came twice to ask after you. I told him you were asleep.
I'm rested now and ready for anything. Is the gravy made?
Now you're humming that waltz. Please don't hum that tune anymore.
I've just got it out of my head and don't want it started again.
And don't keep getting up every few minutes.
You just sit there and be a real lady.
All right, if you say so, but at least I can carry in the soup.
Roger, wash your hands! Joe. Charles. Dinner.
Mama. Ann, I told you not to put things behind your ears.
And don't whisper. Anyone could hear you a block away. May I sit by you at the table?
By me? I should think you'd want to sit by Uncle Charlie.
No, I want to sit by you. Why do you want to change?
Mother, let her change if she wants to.
Roger doesn't mind.
No, certainly not. Uncle Charlie might think... No, certainly not.
Mother, let her change. All right, but Ann has too many foolish ideas.
Go in the dining room, both of you.
What's going on here? Have I lost my little girl?
Roger wanted to sit next to you,
and I thought it would be nice if the children took turns.
I never... Never what, Roger?
Nothing. Come, Ann. Come and help me.
Joe! I brought it in by mistake. Nothing special in it.
Want to look at the headlines, Charles? Thank you, Joe.
Roger, don't make so much noise with your soup.
If he holds his lips close together, he could draw it carefully, same as a horse.
Don't be disgusting. May I dip my bread in it?
Where's Charlie? She wanted to serve the dinner.
She'll be in in a minute. You're right, Joe.
Nothing special tonight. Oh, here she is!
Here's my girl. I wonder how many hours you slept.
If you could tell me the exact minute you went to sleep,
the exact minute you woke up, if you woke up in between...
and how long you stayed awake each time you woke up,
then I could tell you exactly...
You won't sleep tonight. Nobody who sleeps all day can sleep all night.
I slept all right, and I kept dreaming...
perfect nightmares about you, Uncle Charlie.
Nightmares about me?
You were on a train, running away from something...
and when I saw you on the train, I felt terribly happy.
How could you feel happy seeing Uncle Charlie on a train?
I don't want to see him on a train. I hope he stays here forever.
Well, he has to leave sometime. We have to face the facts.
I like people who face facts.
Well, we're not going to face any such facts as those.
Oh, Ann, would you like to see the funnies?
I'm too old for funnies. I read two books a week. I took a sacred oath I would.
Besides, no one's allowed to read at the table. It isn't polite.
Don't correct your elders!
She's right, Emmy. I'm forgetting my manners.
Joe, I'm going to blame this paper on you.
Roger, go to the icebox and bring me a big red bottle you'll find there.
You can throw the paper away. Dad's read it, you've read it.
We don't need to play any games with it tonight.
Ann, you can help Charlie carry in the vegetables.
I saw that bottle when I was getting dinner.
You know what St. Paul said: "Take a little wine for thy stomach's sake."
Wine for dinner... Sounds so gay!
Remember the time they had the champagne when the oldest Jones girl got married?
This is sparkling burgundy.
One sip and I'll be calling it "sparkling burgledy."
Maybe I'd better not take any.
Oh... imported.
Imported Frankie and his tweeds?
And his loaded cane.
His loaded everything!
Roger, go get four of the small glasses with stems.
Charles, I promised Mrs. Greene, the president of our club, that you'd talk to the ladies.
What am I going to talk about? Lecturers usually give travel or current events.
Oh, not current events. We get current events.
What sort of an audience will it be?
Oh, women like myself. Busy with our homes, most of us.
Women keep busy in towns like this.
In the cities it's different: Middle-aged widows, husbands dead;
husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working,
and then they die and leave their money to their wives... their silly wives.
And what do the wives do, these useless women?
You see them in the best hotels every day by the thousands;
drinking the money, eating the money,
losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night,
smelling of money.
Proud of their jewelry, but of nothing else.
Horrible, faded, fat, greedy women.
But they're alive! They're human beings!
Are they? Are they, Charlie?
Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals? Hmm?
And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?
Well, I seem to be making my speech right here.
Don't talk about women like that in front of my club! You'll be tarred and feathered.
And that nice Mrs. Potter's going to be there too. She was asking me about you.
The Greenes are bringing her here to the party I'm having for you after the lecture.
Joe, it's Herbert.
He always comes when we're eating.
Good evening, Mrs. Newton.
Good evening, Mr. Oakley. Good evening.
Well, Herb, how's your mother?
Oh, she's just middling.
Had your dinner? Oh, I had mine an hour ago.
You folks are getting pretty stylish. Having dinner later every evening.
Ha ha!
Joe. Huh?
Joe, l-I picked some mushrooms before dinner. You don't say.
Mushrooms mean anything to you, Joe?
I eat 'em on my steak when I'm out and the meat's not good enough as 'tis.
If I brought you some mushrooms, would you eat 'em?
Suppose I would. Why?
Then I've got it, you see? The worst I'd be accused of would be manslaughter.
Doubt if I'd get that. Accidental death, pure and simple.
A basket of good mushrooms and... two or three poisonous ones.
No, no. Innocent party might get the poisonous ones.
I thought of something better when I was shaving.
A bath tub. Pull the legs out from under you, hold you down.
It's been done, but it's still good.
Oh, what's the matter with you two?
Do you always have to talk about killing people?
We're not talking about killing people.
Herb's talking about killing me, and I'm talking about killing him.
It's your father's way of relaxing.
Can't he find some other way to relax?
Can't we have a little peace and quiet here without dragging in poisons all the time?
Charlie! She doesn't make sense talking like that.
I'm worried about her. Roger, bring her back.
I'll go. You stay and finish dinner. I'll catch up with her.
What's wrong with her?
Excuse me, Mr. Norton You're always running along the street at night.
Say, where were you going in such a hurry last night? Just doing an errand.
Is this gentleman your uncle I've heard so much about? Yes.
Uncle Charlie, Mr. Norton. Glad to know you. What's the name?
Oakley. Charles Oakley. Nice to meet you.
Better keep your eye on your niece. I'll have to give her a ticket for speeding.
City ordinance about running along these sidewalks. Hear that, Charlie?
Don't want to break the law. I'll take care of her. Good night.
What's the matter, Charlie? What's wrong?
I want to talk to you. You're hurting my arm again.
Come in here with me. I can't. I've never been in a place like this.
Go on in.
Why'd you bring me here? What does it matter where we are?
Hello, Charlie. Hello.
Hello, Louise. Uncle Charlie, Louise Finch. Hello.
This is my uncle. I was in Charlie's class in school.
I sure was surprised to see you come in. I never thought I'd see you here.
I been here two weeks. Lost my job over at Kern's.
I've been in half the restaurants in town. What'll you have, Charlie?
Nothing, thank you. Bring her some ginger ale. I'll have a double brandy.
Well, Charlie. Well?
Think you know something, don't you? That young fellow told you something.
Jack? Why should he know anything about you?
Now look, Charlie. Something's come between us. I don't want that to happen.
Why, we're old friends. More than that...
We're like twins.
You said so yourself. Don't touch me, Uncle Charlie.
What did that boy tell you?
He's got nothing to do with it. I hope he never knows anything about you.
Charlie, you're a pretty understanding sort of girl.
If you've heard some little things about me,
I guess you're a woman of the world enough to overlook them.
You're the head of your family, Charlie. Anyone can see that.
I'm not so old. I've been chasing around the globe since I was sixteen.
I guess I've done some pretty foolish things,
made some pretty foolish mistakes.
Nothing serious. Just... foolish.
Oh, Charlie, now, don't start imagining things.
How could you do such things? You're my uncle.
My mother's brother.
We thought you were the most wonderful man in the world.
- The most wonderful and the best. - Charlie, what do you know?
I'm sorry I was so long. We're awful busy.
Whose is it? Ain't it beautiful?
I'd just die for a ring like that.
Yes sir, for a ring like that, I'd just about die.
I love jewelry... real jewelry.
Notice I didn't even have to ask if it was real. You can tell.
I can. Bring me another brandy.
Sit down.
Sit down!
You think you know something, don't you?
You think you're the clever little girl who knows something.
There's so much you don't know. So much.
What do you know really?
You're just an ordinary little girl living in an ordinary little town.
You wake up every morning and know perfectly there's nothing in the world to trouble you.
You go through your ordinary little day...
and at night, you sleep your untroubled ordinary sleep filled with peaceful, stupid dreams.
And I brought you nightmares.
Or did I? Or was it a silly inexpert little lie?
You live in a dream. You're a sleepwalker... blind.
How do you know what the world is like?
Do you know the world is a foul sty?
Do you know if you ripped the fronts off houses, you'd find swine?
The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?
Wake up, Charlie. Use your wits. Learn something!
You goin', Charlie?
Charlie, will you help me? Help you?
The same blood flows through our veins, Charlie. A week ago, I was at the end of my rope.
Oh, I'm so tired. There's an end to the running a man can do.
You'll never know what it's like to be so tired. I was going to...
Well... then I got the idea of coming out here. It's my last chance, Charlie.
Give it to me.
Graham and the other fellow, they don't know.
There's a man in the east. They suspect him, too. And if they get him, I'll...
Charlie, give me this last chance.
Take your chance. Go!
I'll go, Charlie. Just give me a few days.
Think of your mother. It'll kill your mother.
Yes, it would kill my mother.
Take your few days. See that you get away from here.
You realize what it'll mean if they get me?
The electric chair.
Charlie, you've got to help me. I count on you.
You said yourself we're no ordinary uncle and niece, no matter what I've done.
You go in. I'll be in in a minute.
East, west, home's best. Where's Charlie?
She's outside. Don't worry about her. What was the matter?
She was a little edgy. I persuaded her to go for a walk. She's calmed down now.
I'm so glad. I've saved dessert for you, Charles. We had an ice-cream soda.
Oops-a-Daisy! Off to bed you go!
Roger, come here! No!
There's my girl. Psst! Ann!
Hello! You must be trying to hide or something.
We're not hiding. People who are hiding always say "psst."
We just don't want to yell on Sunday. Look, Ann.
Ask your sister to run over here for a minute. Just ask her quietly. We'll wait here.
Did my father and your father have a feud? My father?
Because if they didn't, there's no sense in my asking Charlotte quietly.
Mama won't care. She thinks girls ought to marry and settle down.
In a book I'm reading... Just ask her, Ann. Don't be literary.
All right. Remember, I'm doing all the talking.
Hello. Hello. Hello, Catherine.
Good morning, Mr. Graham.
Catherine, this is Mr. Saunders.
How do you do? How do you do?
Ann says you want to speak to me. Saunders wants to speak to you.
Come on, Ann. Tell Catherine the story of Dracula. Come on, Catherine.
What do you want? Let them get a little bit ahead.
I, uh, want to tell you about that photograph we took. The one of your uncle?
You gave it back to him. He probably burned it. Not that one he hasn't.
We gave him the wrong film.
We got the picture all right. We wired it east.
They've got witnesses can identify the man we want from that picture.
What do you mean, identify him? Just what I said.
The minute the witnesses see that picture, we'll know whether Oakley's the man.
We're waiting for the wire now. And then Uncle Charlie will be...
That's right. That's the way it is.
Graham thought you could get your uncle to leave town now. It would be better for...
I've got to, haven't I? I've got to! What's the most time you'll give me?
Two hours.
I'll make him leave!
You seem pretty sure he's the man we want. Why?
No reason why. I'm just scared. You're the ones who seem sure.
It's just that I can't stand for anything to happen here. You know what he's done?
No, I don't want to hear! Well, I want you to get this.
We're really doing you a favor. If you know anything more about your uncle, let's have it!
We also want to know when and how he leaves town.
If you hold out on us... I won't. I'll tell you.
Step on a crack, you'll break your mother's back.
I wish I knew we could trust you.
I won't do anything to help him, I promise.
But you can't ask me to spy on him.
We've made a bargain. I'll get him to leave. That's all I'll do.
Think, Charlie. The man's dangerous. If he gets away from us...
I don't want to hear what he'll do. We've made a bargain. I'll keep it.
I'll let you know when he leaves.
Funny if he turned out to be the wrong man. Could be.
Ann. I broke my mother's back three times.
Not bad. You didn't finish telling me whether Miss Rose married the rich guy...
or the one she was in love with. How long have you two been so friendly?
Oh, we play games. I ask questions. She knows all the answers.
The only trouble is I can't make out what she's making up.
I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true.
Come on, Ann. We'd better get home and help with dinner. Good-bye.
Good-bye. Good-bye, Mr. Graham. Mr. Saunders.
Good-bye, Catherine. Come on, Catherine.
Why don't you pick some flowers for the dinner table? Simple flowers are the best.
I didn't ask for orchids. I wish I'd been born in the South.
Southern women have a lot of charm. They pick flowers with gloves on.
Good-bye, Catherine. Good-bye, Charlie. See you after dinner.
Bye.
- Hello, Ann. - Hello.
How was church, Charlie? Did you count the house? Turn anybody away?
No, room enough for everyone.
I'm glad to hear that.
Show's been running such a long time, I thought maybe attendance might be falling off.
Anything special on the noon broadcast?
A fellow said they caught that other fellow... the Merry Widow Murderer.
They did, did they? Where? State of Maine. Portland.
Didn't catch him exactly. He was running away from the police,
and they were just about to nab him, at the airport, and he ran into the propeller of a plane.
Ooh, boy! Cut him all to pieces. Had to identify him by his clothes.
His shirts were all initialed, "C," "O," apostrophe "H."
Well, makes a good ending. Couldn't have done better myself.
I guess that closes that case pretty final.
Sure does. Never cared much for that case.
Well, I think I'll go get ready for dinner. I'm hungry. I can eat a good dinner today.
Charlie, I have great news for you. Where can we talk alone?
We got a wire from Maine, so we can call off the job. I'll bet you're relieved. I am.
Oh, I am relieved.
Here you were trying to get your uncle out of town. He must have thought you were crazy.
Now that it's over, I don't want to talk about it anymore.
I'd like to pretend the whole dreadful thing never happened.
There's nothing to pretend about. There's mother's gloves.
Mother and her gloves. She's always losing things.
All mothers lose things. Someday, she'll be losing you.
Mothers don't lose daughters, they gain sons.
That's right. But gain isn't always the word. Now take me.
Who'd want a detective for a son-in-law?
My father would. He would?
If you said to him, "Father, I'm going to marry a detective," he wouldn't disown you?
It wouldn't have to be me. There's Ann.
No, Ann wants to marry a librarian. She told me.
So she'll always have plenty of books around to read.
What's the matter?
I was laughing. It's been so long since I laughed.
I like it when you laugh.
I like it when you don't. I guess I like you whatever you do.
I guess I like you. I'm glad. I like you too.
Funny how you happen to meet someone and like them and... like them.
Mm-hmm.
Charlie? Yes?
I suppose it couldn't ever really happen some day that you'd tell your father...
You know, about marrying someone... a detective, I mean.
I don't know. I didn't mean to tell you.
I wanted to wait until you'd forgotten all the mess we've been through together,
'til you could stop thinking of me as something unpleasant and frightening.
I wanted to wait and come back and then tell you.
But I can't help it. I want to tell you now.
I love you, Charlie. I love you terribly.
I know it's no time to tell you now and I'm sorry. Do you mind?
I don't mind. Do you think you could think about it?
About your loving me? And perhaps your loving me.
L-I'd like us to be friends. I know that. We are friends.
I'd like to have that to think about. Nothing more?
I don't know, Jack. I... just don't know yet.
All right. But I may come back?
Oh, please come back. Please come back.
Listen, Charlie.
When I go, go back to that square in the middle of town.
Take a good look at it. That's where I first knew I loved you.
That's where we had the fight. I didn't know what to do.
I like my job, but I didn't like it that night.
I hated it that night.
You hate it now? No, not now.
You know, this is a swell place. I'm going to put a bronze plaque up there.
That door's always banging shut!
Ohh! Dig!
Uh!
What are you two locking yourselves in the garage for?
When I was young, we sat in the parlor. Hello, Mr. Oakley.
I was saying good-bye to Charlie. In the garage?
The door got stuck.
Now I'll have to say good-bye to you.
Let's say good-bye out here on the lawn. No use taking a chance on the garage.
- Finished here? - All finished, but I'll be back.
You'll be seeing me around. Oh?
Not on business, though.
I can understand you coming back. Charlie's a fine girl.
She's the thing I love most in the world.
I mean it. Have a nice trip, Mr. Graham.
And don't take any more photographs without permission.
Rights of man. You know, freedom?
We'll have a talk about freedom some day, Mr. Oakley.
Bye. Good-bye.
Don't forget to write. Remember, you have the addresses. Mm-hmm.
Jack!
Anything else? I've got butter, fruit, green thread and go to the library.
And whatever vegetable looks freshest. If I've forgotten anything, I'll send Ann later.
All right.
Mother!
Charlie! Darling! Are you hurt?
I tripped.
Oh, what is it? Is it your ankle?
I don't think I'm hurt. I grabbed the bannister.
Oh, darling. You might have been killed!
I worry myself sick every time one of the children come down these stairs.
They're too steep and rickety. They ought to be fixed.
Are you sure you're all right?
When are you leaving, Uncle Charlie?
Oh, come now, Charlie. That other business, it's all over. I'd like to forget it.
We're all happy here. When are you leaving?
I'm not going, you see.
Not yet. I'm not going.
I want to settle down. Live in a place where people know me. Have some money in the bank.
Some sort of business. Be a part of this family.
I see. The most sensible thing for you to do is to be friends with me.
I can do a lot for you, Charlie. For all of you.
No, not you. We don't want anything from you.
I wish I'd told my mother about you. I know what you've been thinking.
How do you think your mother would have felt? What would it do to her now?
How about your father? His job at the bank?
What would become of all of you if everything came out?
You needn't be afraid. I can't tell them.
But I'm not afraid. What would you tell? Who'd believe you?
A waltz runs through your head.
You don't like the initials on a ring and connect it all up with a newspaper clipping.
You haven't even got the ring. I don't know what became of it. You have it.
I? I gave it to you.
I don't want you here, Uncle Charlie. I don't want you to touch my mother.
So go away... I'm warning you. Go away, or I'll kill you myself.
See? That's the way I feel about you.
Here you are, Joe. Oh, perfume.
Just the nice, fresh, clean smell of lavender. Yeah, I know.
You look very handsome, both of you. I'm pretty proud of the two men in my family.
Emmy, you're a dream. It's a shame the children have to sit on our laps.
It's going to be a tight squeeze. It won't do my pants any good.
Joe, I wish you could drive. We do it this way:
Charles, you'll sit... Uncle Charlie can sit in back with Dad...
and the children can fit in beside them.
I'm getting a cab. You all go in the taxi...
Charlie and I'll go in the car. No, Uncle Charlie, you go in the taxi.
I want to ride in the taxi!
Course you do. So it's all arranged.
Charlie, run out to the garage and get the car. I'd rather drive the family.
I want you to hear my speech on the way. You're my severest critic.
Anyway, we need a taxi. Ann, go call Mr. Abercrombie.
Mother!
Mother, please ride with me. Father can take the children. Please!
Bet I'll be the only man outside of Charles fool enough to dress up like this.
Then You'll be the only other one to be correct. You look very distinguished.
Charles, are you all ready? Joe, are you?
Wait a minute! I've got to get my overcoat.
Please, dear. Hurry!
Take your time, Emmy. They can't start 'til I get there.
It's getting chilly in here.
KSRO, Santa Rosa,
with studios in Vallejo and Santa Rosa, California.
May as well have a little music while we wait.
Oregon State Police pressed their search today for five...
Oh! Does it have to be so loud?
Gets the lower tones better.
I like it loud! If music's too soft, I can't tell what they're playing!
If I have a band, I'm a-least have 87 men.
Help, everybody! Somebody's caught in the garage.
They're suffocating! There's something the matter with the door.
Joe!
I'll take her. I've got her.
Joe, there's a bottle of whiskey on my bureau. Get it quick.
Charlie. Charlie. Dear Charlie. Charlie?
Emmy, rub her feet. Roger, run get something to fan her with.
Charlie!
Ann, don't, dear.
Charlie? What are you trying to say, Charlie?
Go away.
Emmy, she wants you.
I'm here, darling. Here's mother. That's right, my baby.
That's right, my brave little girl. Here...
Take a little sip of this. No... I'm alright.
Joe, call Dr. Phillips. No, I'm all right. I just want to get up.
You had a wonderful escape, Charlie. Someone must have left the motor running.
I couldn't find the key to turn it off. The key was there when I went in.
Lucky thing I passed by.
She might have died. You saved her. You knew just what to do.
- Don't know how I happened to come across that way. - We'll put the lecture off.
Oh, yes, there is. I want you all to go. There's the cab now.
Oh, I couldn't. I just couldn't go.
Wh-Who found me in the garage?
Herb heard you beating on the door.
I was coming across the backyard and I heard this gaspin' and beatin'on the door.
I figured there must be a human bein' in there.
Quick thinking, Herb. Lucky thing.
I'm glad you happened to be going by, Herb.
Come on, Mother.
L-I want to stay with you.
I don't feel like making a speech now. When I think what might have happened to Charlie.
I'm all right. I just want to sit on the porch a while and get the air.
No, darling, I won't hear of it.
I'm all right, really. I'd rather stay home and get things ready for the party.
Darling, I want to stay with you.
Herb, will you take Roger? Ann, you come with us.
I just don't understand it. First the stairs and...
Mr. Graham isn't there?
This is the Hotel Stewart in Fresno, isn't it?
And you don't expect him?
I see. Thank you.
He isn't there? Thank you very much. Good-bye.
Can you tell me where I can reach him?
I've already tried to get him at the address he gave me in Fresno.
Thank you.
Mom, may we have some sandwiches?
Don't take anything from the dining room. Go in the kitchen.
Please go away. And just leave your coats...
Joe, dear, will you take care of everyone?
Charlie!
I'll be right down.
Well... now... hmm.
Now, now, Mr. Oakley. I thought champagne was only for battleships.
None for me and none, I'm sure, for my wife. But we hope you'll all forget we're here.
I'd like to propose a toast to... Isn't Charlie coming down?
She'll be down in a moment. Mrs. Potter.
Don't take that one. I don't know why I make tomato. They always soak through the bread.
Try one of these. It's just whole wheat bread and cream cheese. Paprika makes it pink.
Mrs. Greene, what would you like?
Thank you.
I think I'd like to propose a toast, too. Emmy.
To our distinguished visitor, The man who's made the best speech heard in town for years.
To that very good fellow, Mr. Oakley.
Herbie. Thank you.
We don't get many American speakers.
Seems like foreigners make the best talkers.
Ah, here she is. Now for my toast.
Charlie...
you're just in time for a farewell toast.
I hate to break the news to you like this, but tomorrow I must leave Santa Rosa.
Not forever. If that isn't thre strangest coincidence.
I was planning to go to San Francisco tomorrow. Charles.
Oh, Emmy darling, I didn't mean to spoil your fun tonight.
I got a letter today. I have to catch the early morning train.
I'll miss you, Emmy.
But I want you all to know that I'll always think of this lovely town...
as a place of hospitality and kindness...
and homes... homes.
- But I can't bear it if you go, Charles. - Oh, Emmy, I'll be back.
I've arranged with Dr. Phillips for our little memorial for the children.
It isn't any of the things you've done.
It's just the idea that we were together again. I'm sorry!
But you see, we were so close growing up.
And then Charles went away, and I got married, and...
Then you know how it is.
You sort of forget you're you. You're your husband's wife...
We'll be looking for you. We feel you're one of us, don't we, Margaret?
Indeed. I want to thank you on behalf of our club.
And bless you for your gift to our hospital.
The children will bless you, too, in the years to come. Thank you, sir.
Excuse me, sir, but l-I can hear the train coming now.
Excuse me.
Better get aboard, Charles.
All right. Good-bye, everybody. Roger, Ann, come see the train.
Come on, Charlie. You can see they get off.
All right.
I want to see the rooms, the private ones.
I've seen berths. I've slept in two uppers and one lower with Papa.
Good-bye, Joe. Good-bye, Charles.
Good-bye, Emmy. Good-bye. And don't forget to write!
I will. You write too. I'll send you my address.
Good-bye.
Don't jump on the seats, Roger.
Roger, what did I tell you?
Porter, there's one more bag. It got taken into the other car. Will you get it please?
Charlie, the train's going to start. I don't want to get carried away.
Maybe it's too late! Maybe I'll have to go along!
There's plenty of time. You run along, we'll follow.
Charlie.
Just a minute.
I want you to know I think you were right to make me leave.
It's best for your mother. Best for all of us.
You saw what happened to her last night.
She's not very strong, you know. I don't think she could stand the shock.
I remember once when she was a little girl... The train's moving!
Listen, Charlie. I want you to forget all about me. Forget that I ever came to Santa Rosa.
Your hands!
Let me go, Uncle Charlie! Let me go!
I've got to do this, Charlie...
so long as you know what you do about me.
Not yet, Charlie. Let it get a little faster.
Just a little faster.
Faster.
Now!
Santa Rosa has gained and lost a son,
a son that she can be proud of.
Brave, generous, kindly. With all of the splendid dignity...
I'm glad you were able to come, Jack. I couldn't have faced it without someone I knew.
I did know more. I couldn't tell you. I know.
He thought the world was a horrible place.
He couldn't have been very happy ever. No.
He didn't trust people. He seemed to hate them.
He hated the whole world.
You know, he said that people like us...
had no idea what the world was really like.
Well, it's not quite as bad as that,
but sometimes it needs a lot of watching.
It seems to go crazy every now and then.
Like your Uncle Charlie.
Of their souls, the sweetness ...the beauty of their characters...
live on with us forever.