Paper_Moon_(1973) ,WEB_H264(Paramount,Eng) 1280x720
(BIG BAND MUSIC: ''PAPER MOON'')
(WOMAN) # Say it's only a paper moon
# Sailing over a cardboard sea
# But it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me
# Yes, it's only a canvas sky
# Hanging over a cotton tree
# But it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me
# With all your love it's a honky-tonk parade
# Without your love, it's a melody played in a penny arcade
# lt's a Barnum and Bailey world
# Just as hollow as it can be
# But it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me #
# Rock of ages cleft for me
# Let me hide myself in thee
# Let the water and the blood
- # From thy wounded side which flowed - (SPLUTTER OF CAR ENGINE)
# Be of sin the double cure
# Save from wrath
# And make me pure #
(MINISTER) ''Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in mine integrity.
''I have trusted also in the Lord,
''therefore I shall not slide.
''Examine me, O Lord, and prove me.
''Try my reins and my heart.
''For thy loving kindness is before mine eyes
''and I have walked in thy truth.
''I have not sat with evil persons,
''neither will I go in with dissemblers.
''I will wash mine hands in innocency.
''So will I compass thine altar, O Lord.
''That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving
''and tell of all thy wondrous works...''
- Loggins' funeral? - Yes, ma'am.
- Ain't related, are you? - Related?
We're looking for the child's kin. Thought I saw some resemblance.
No kin?
None we know of, except in Missouri. Seems you got the child's jaw.
No, just a friend of her mama.
If ever a child needed a friend...
''...will I bless the Lord.
- ''Amen.'' - Amen.
Amen, Essie Mae. I just know your ass is still warm.
Would you like some water, Addie? We'll get the child some water.
Bless you, child. I wanted to pay my respects to your mama.
- I have to go. It's a long way to St Louis. - St Louis, Missouri?
Yes, ma'am. I sell the Good Book. Just spreading the Lord's good news.
Addie, don't you have your Aunt Billie living in St Joseph, Missouri?
Her poor mother's sister.
- Her only known relative. - That so?
If you're driving your chariot to Missouri, you could take her.
- I wouldn't call it a chariot, Reverend. - I'll write the woman a letter tonight.
I have to think upon this. I may have to make a few stops along the way.
- I never travelled with no child before. - The child's got no place to go!
Well...in the eyes of the Lord, I have no choice.
Hallelujah!
- God works in mysterious ways. - Don't He?
Come on, Addie, better get your things. This nice man's taking you to your aunt.
(CAR BACKFIRES )
- How come you're taking me? - Huh?
- How come you're taking me? - 'Cause I'm going that way, honey.
AIthough I do want to make just one stop before we leave town.
- Got a little business to do. - You know my mama real good?
Oh, pretty good.
You just stay out here. Don't you say a word unless I ask you to.
- Mr Robertson? - That's right.
- I'd like a minute of your time. - Not buying today.
- Just want you to meet somebody. - So what?
- Tell him your name, honey. - Addie. Addie Loggins.
You done real fine. I'll be out in a minute.
- Ain't she a sweet child? - No, she ain't.
Maybe not now, because she's sad,
with her mama dead and your drunken brother hitting that tree.
What are you trying to pull? Get out!
- I'm going, I'll tell you where, - I don't care!
To see J T Faraday,
You know who he is? One of the biggest lawyers in Kansas.
He don't favour the man with the money.
Know what's going to happen to your brother? A lawsuit against him.
Everything's going to be tied up in knots. His money, his house, all he owns!
Including half this plant.
Don't think that poor child ain't entitled, 'cause she is.
Now, I was thinking, $2,000 would be acceptable.
I'll give you 200.
- $200? - $200.
It's a deal.
There you are.
That'll be $67.54.
- You sure these tyres are new? - $67.54.
Now, we'll have you to St Jo in no time.
- When's the next train to St Joseph? - St Joseph? Let's see.
That'll be the 4.14. Change trains in Kansas City and into St Jo at 9.52 a.m.
One child's price ticket.
$11.45.
Send a telegram to Mrs Billie Roy Griggs, Cosmo Row, St Joseph.
''Train arriving 9.52 a.m. and bringing love, affection and $20 cash.''
Make that $25 cash and sign it just Addie Loggins.
Ten words, that will be 85 cents more.
That will be $12.30.
$12.30?
You'd better say in that message, ''Love, affection and $20 cash.''
Here's your ticket, and $20 for your Aunt Billie.
We got till 4.15.
I don't suppose you can wait here by yourself, can you?
You hungry? Want a Nehi and a Coney Island?
(JOLLY BACKGROUND MUSIC)
- Ain't you eating? - I ain't hungry.
You worried about going on the train? You'll like it.
You'll soon be at your aunt's and all your troubles over. So, eat up.
- She don't know me. - She will.
- She ain't going to want me. - She ain't seen you yet.
Never even cared for my mama. And she was her sister.
- Your mama was fine. - Everybody says she weren't!
- Everybody don't know your mama. - How good you know her?
Enough to know you can be proud of the happiness she gave.
Eat your Coney Island.
You meet her in a bar-room?
- Where would you get that question? - I hear talk, wondering if you was my pa.
Well, don't the world have a wild imagination?
Eat your Coney Island.
You my pa?
Course I ain't your pa. I'll get you some relish.
Coney Island ain't no good without relish.
Look, I know how you feel. I lost my ma and pa. I don't know where my sister is.
I wish I could tell you I'm your pa, but it just ain't like that.
You met her in a bar!
Just because a man meets a woman in a bar don't mean he's your pa! Eat up!
Then if you ain't my pa, I want my $200!
What's that?
I want my $200. I heard you through the door, talking to that man.
It's my money and I want it.
- You hold on a second... - I want my money. You took my $200!
- Will you quiet down? - (SHOUTS ) I want my $200!
- Hold on. Let me explain something. - If you was my pa, that'd be different!
- Well, I ain't! Get that out of your head. - I look like ya.
You don't look any more like me than you do that Coney Island! Eat it!
- We got the same jaw. - Lots of people do!
- It's possible! - It ain't!
- Then I want my $200! - All right!
We got the same jaw. I know a woman that looks like a bullfrog.
- That don't mean she's its mother! - You met my mom in a bar.
You think everybody gets met in a bar gets a baby?
- It's possible. - Anything is. Possible don't make it true.
- Then I want my money! - Will you quiet down?
The trouble with you is you got no appreciation.
Maybe I did get a little money from that man and you're entitled to that.
I'm entitled to my share for getting it for you. Where would you be without me?
Think them folks would spend a penny to send you east?
Who got you a ticket? Who got you a Coney Island?
And threw in $20 extra, not to mention 85 cents for that telegram.
You wouldn't have had that without me. I didn't have to take you, but I took you.
I think that's fair enough. We're both a little better off.
You get to St Jo. I get myself a little better car. Fair is fair.
Now, drink your Nehi and eat your Coney Island.
I want my $200.
I don't have your $200 no more and you know it.
If you don't give me my $200, I'm going to tell a policeman how you got it
and he'll make you give it to me, 'cause it's mine.
But I don't have it!
Then get it.
How we doing, angel pie? Going to have dessert when we finish our hot dog?
I don't know.
Daddy, why don't we get Precious a dessert if she eats her dog?
Her name ain't Precious.
I want my money back on this ticket and send this telegram, ''Trip delayed,
''but I'm coming real soon!''
Lie quiet.
Folks don't take to children when they're doing business.
(KNOCKING )
- Yes? - Ma'am, is Mr Morgan at home?
Mr Morgan?
My name is Moses Pray, Kansas Bible Company. He'll know.
I'm sorry. Mr Morgan has passed on.
Oh, ma'am, I just... I don't know what to say.
- What were you seeing him about? - He ordered this here Bible...
- Rudolph ordered a Bible? - The de luxe with the lady's name on it.
- Lady's name? - I expect a special gift to a family friend.
Under the circumstances, I'll give you back his dollar deposit with no obligation.
Ma'am, I don't know how to put into words the sorrow I feel.
What name is on it?
I don't really know what name Mr Morgan had put on it, ma'am. Let's see.
It's here somewhere. I've got it. Here it is...
- Pearl. - ...Pearl.
- I'm Pearl. - He must have got this for you, ma'am.
Yes, he bought it for me.
- Of course. You're not obliged to take it. - Of course I'll take it.
There's one thing. I told him I could sell him a cheaper Bible,
but he wanted the best, being the de luxe with the lady's name printed in gold...
- Oh, he would. - ...bringing a balance due of $8.
$8?
Well, that's $8, minus the dollar deposit,
- making it $7. - I'll go get my purse.
- You're not obliged to take it. - Of course I am. He ordered the de luxe!
(RADIO ) Cold or not, it's good to be back in Manhattan,
Jack, you've been here since Thursday, What have you done?
I've had a lot of fun, Don, I saw some shows, went to nightclubs,
Last night, I was invited to Fred Allen's apartment for dinner,
- Fred Allen? - We're good friends,
I'm glad to hear it, Has Fred got a nice apartment?
How could I tell, Don, with all that laundry hanging in the living room?
- Ain't you going to go to sleep? - Don't you want to hear Jack Benny?
No!
I don't want to sound catty,,,
You're too young to smoke! You're going to set this whole place on fire.
I now owe you $103.72.
7 4.
# I always knew some day I'd accompany you
# Along Flirtation Walk
# A dream foretold A story that you'd unfold
# That lives forever and never grows old
# I always felt that your little heart would melt
# Along Flirtation Walk,,, #
Roosevelt said we're all feeling better.
- He did? - Made me feel good saying that.
- Better than I've felt in a long time. - Bet old Frank wishes you was 21.
You don't like me, do you?
No, I don't like you!
- Yes? - Ma'am, is Mr Bates at home?
Mr Bates is dead. He died a week ago.
Passed over? I was just talking to him not less than a month ago.
- What was it you wanted? - My name is Pray, Kansas Bible Co.
I have this Bible Mr Bates ordered.
- Bible? - Who is it? What's the trouble?
- It's about Benjamin buying a Bible. - Bible? What kind of Bible?
Says he talked to Benjamin a month ago.
I'm not sure of the dates.
Benjamin didn't go near that shop for more than a month before he died.
I may be mixed up on the dates.
What company are you from?
Kansas Bible Company, out of Wichita.
- I ain't never heard of it. - Daddy?
Can't we go? I want to get to church and pray for Mama.
Yeah, sure we can, honey. Daddy was just fixing to leave.
This is my little girl. It's just the two of us.
- My mama's gone to the Lord. - So has poor Mr Bates.
Here's his deposit. Let us know if there's anything we can do.
Hold on there! Wait one damn minute.
- He actually ordered a Bible? - He did. Here it is.
- In gold, for somebody named Marie. - That's her. She's Marie.
She meant a lot to him. He wanted the de luxe edition.
- How much? - That's...
- It's the $12 one, Daddy! - $12?
Honey, we have to have a little goodness in our hearts in the circumstances.
If it'll make that woman happy,
I'll take it.
(MUSIC: TRAD JAZZ)
You owe me $85.7 4.
(RADIO ) I mean, we're going to Washington on the Q T,
Molly, she says we can't go on the Q T, we got to take ''The Pennsylvania'',
I'd better go! Where's my suitcase?
- I don't know, McGee, You had it last, - I know, lt's in the hall,
He's going to open the closet.
( CLATTERING AND LAUGHTER)
He'll say he's got to straighten it out.
Got to straighten out that closet one of these days,
- Would you like to do business with me? - Instead of paying me back?
I'll pay you back. While we head east, how about we do business together?
(MUSIC ON RADIO)
You're looking at me like I'm out to cheat you. It's business.
Take it or leave it. Turn off that radio. You'll drive us all deaf with it.
,,,in an average way, of course, I can,,,
OK. Remember one thing, I decide on the price.
Maybe you don't know French, but there's finesse!
I never sold no Bible for $12. That man was a law officer!
- We got it, didn't we? - I don't care if we got it!
Don't you go making the decisions! You just got to look like a pretty little girl.
You ain't got a ribbon in that cigar box?
I got my mom's kimono in my suitcase, Chinaman with umbrellas.
That ain't what I had in mind.
You look real nice in that ribbon. First off, I didn't know was she a boy or a girl.
- I'm a girl! - Well, it makes all the difference.
- Ain't she got a sweet face? Somehow. - We'll take a ribbon in each colour.
- How much is that going to cost me? - That'll be 15 cents.
Bought my grandchildren ribbons just like this, last holiday.
Grandchildren? I don't believe it. Break a five?
You can believe it all right. I'm just as old as I look.
Now, here you be.
That's one, two, three, four, five.
This wallet's about to bust inside. I give you five ones, you give me that $5 bill.
- How many grandchildren you got? - I got two granddaughters, nine and ten,
two grandsons near 16
and I got a grandson 35 years old!
Come on! Why don't you just give me a $10 bill?
Here's the five. The ones are there. It won't be so quick to break.
- Six children! - I got a daughter 51!
I don't mean to be handing you no line, but that's pretty hard to believe.
- You can believe it all right! - I'd have to see it. Much obliged.
- See you again! - Y'all come back!
(ENGINE STARTS UP)
It just don't seem quite right.
Somehow.
- Yes? - I'm looking for Mr Stanley.
- Mr Stanley's dead. - I'm looking for Mr Warren M Stanley.
Warren's passed on, sir.
I was just talking to him not more than two weeks back. He ordered this Bible.
He spent money on a Bible?
- Yes, with the name Elvira in the corner. - Why would he buy a Bible?
He took fast to the idea. He left a balance to it. Not counting the deposit...
- This one's already paid for! - Huh?
Mr Stanley paid for the whole thing, don't you remember?
(BABY CRYING )
- Afternoon, ma'am. Mr Huff at home? - Mr Huff passed away a week ago.
Gee, I was talking to him a month ago.
- What was it you wanted? - My name is Pray, Kansas Bible Co.
He ordered this Bible for Edna.
- That's my name. - You don't have to take it.
- I'll give you back his deposit and... - Of course I want to keep it.
He bought me a Bible.
I told him I could sell him a cheaper one, but he wanted the best,
the best being the de luxe
with the name printed in gold letters, bringing up a balance...
Of $24!
$24. I'll get my purse. What's your name, honey?
- Addie. - What a sweet little name.
- Addie Pray, ma'am. - Addie Pray, I'm going to get you $24
and an extra five for just coming to my door.
- Praise the Lord. - Praise the Lord.
# Keep your sunny side up, up
# Hide the side that gets blue #
- Let's give 'em some money. - No.
Just a little bit. We got $305.16.
It's a whole other business giving it away.
- They're poorly! - The whole country is.
- Frank Roosevelt said to care for people. - I don't care about Roosevelt.
- He says it! - That so? He's taking care of himself.
You think he don't eat off silver trays? He could eat off table tops. He don't.
Because that would make him look common. He ain't running this. I am.
- You don't say what we give away. - It's mine, too.
- $200 belongs to me, don't forget. - You want it?
Put my share in my pocket and I'll take you to a train station. You like that?
Find out where the nearest depot is. First you overcharge, then you give it away!
- Where are we? - Plainville.
$12 for a Bible! Then it's up to $24! If I stay with you, I'll end up in jail!
- You can take me to the Lincoln depot. - You bet I will!
- Where's Lincoln? - There.
- You think I'm taking you over there? - We'll hit one in Sylvan Grove.
- Where's Sylvan Grove? - Here.
- That's through Lucas. - You got to go some way!
- I'm not complaining! - You got to go through Waldo, Luray...
Luray? Those are pretty good towns. We could do some business.
- We won't. We're nearly out of Bibles. - What? Why didn't you tell me?
- You look in the box! - You've always got an excuse.
- You always blame me! - You should have told me!
- We're running out of Bibles! - We got to get new ones in Great Bend.
- Great Bend's the other way. - We got to have Bibles, don't we?
We can veer down to Lucas and Wilson. Veer off to Lorraine and Bushton.
We could veer off to Hoisington.
Just have to keep on veering, that's all.
- I'm getting hungry. You hungry? - Uh-huh.
(RADIO ) # Just one more chance
# To prove it's you alone I care for
# Each night I say a little prayer for,,, #
(DOOR CLOSES - LAUGHING )
(WOMAN) Sometimes I just don't know, Keeping people with all the Doodley-do!
(PRAY) Doodley-do! Doodley-do!
You go on back now. I'll see you another time.
- Don't send me back. - You got to go. Another time, I promise.
What you trying to keep secret? You got diamonds and rubies in there?
- Go on, go on. - OId Fido! Night-night, old Fido!
- Woof! - Woof, woof!
(RADIO ) # Still I'm hoping all the while
# You'll give me just one more word,,, #
(RADIO OFF)
(TRAIN HOOTS IN DISTANCE)
(LIGHT SNORING )
(SNIFFS )
There it is!
- Much obliged. - Thank you, sir.
All right, boy, you're next.
I ain't a boy!
- Don't let it bother you. - It ain't funny.
- There's no reason to get that sore. - He called me a boy.
- He just got mixed up, that's all. - He looked me straight in the eye!
- So am I and I think you're beautiful. - You're just saying that.
You're as beautiful as your mama and she put every flower to shame.
They feared she'd droop the tulips in Holland, and you got all her looks.
- Then how come he called me a boy? - I don't know.
- Maybe it's 'cause of what you got on. - What's wrong with it?
Nothing. It just...don't exactly make you look feminine.
Maybe we should get you fixed up. Get you a new dress, a fancy new hat.
It wouldn't exactly hurt business either.
- You really think I'm pretty as Mama? - Course I do.
- How much money's in the box? - $405.16.
- Give me a twenty. - What for?
Give me a twenty!
- Come on. - Where?
To get us new outfits with your money from Aunt Helen.
- I don't have no Aunt Helen. - Sure you do. Let me explain it to you.
- Yes, sir? - An Ipana toothpaste and Sen-Sen.
- 20 and 5. - 25.
- Yes, sir. - There.
75 makes 1, 4 makes 5 and 15 makes 20.
Thank you very much. I don't need a bag.
- Thank you very much. - Thank you. Bye now!
- How much is this? - 35 cents.
- 65 cents makes $1. Thank you. - Thank you.
- Yes? - A bottle of purple toilet water, please.
That'll be 25 cents.
There you go!
Lady, you made a mistake.
Huh? I give you $4.75.
- I gave you a $20 bill. - Uh-uh. You gave me a five.
No, ma'am, it was a $20 bill.
You give me a five and I give you $4.75.
It was a $20 bill.
No twenties in with no fives.
- What's all the turmoil? - This girl gave me a $5 bill.
I gave her a $20 bill, I know I did. It was a birthday present from my Aunt Helen.
She wrote ''Happy Birthday, Addie'' on it. You just go look and see!
That's it, right there! That's my $20 bill I got from my Aunt Helen!
- Give the child her $20 bill! - I am.
- Give the child her $20. - Yes, sir!
- And some candy. - Yes, sir!
- And pay attention to things! - Yes, sir!
Get your cotton candy!
Sweet hot cotton candy!
- Five cents. - Do you have change for this five?
There you are, little girl. Cotton candy! Cotton candy!
Mister, this purse is full. If you give me a five, I'll give you five ones.
- Get your cotton candy right here! - Mister!
Unless you've got a $10 bill? I'll give you the five back, along with the five ones.
There. Now, don't bother me any more.
Cotton candy! Step up and get your cotton candy!
(MUSIC: ''HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN'')
(SCREAMS FROM THE RIDES )
Get your tickets for a fourth of a dollar! The show goes on in five minutes!
Six unusual ladies unveiling the secret of passion,
found only a few years back in the Egyptian tomb of Queen Neferetti,
and featuring the luscious Miss Trixie Delight!
- I had my photo took! - You did?
- Come get a photo with me? - Not now.
- It'll only take a minute! - Not now!
- It won't be here after tonight! - I can't help that.
- How many times will you see it? - As many as I like.
- You've seen it half a dozen. - I might see it more. Go play bingo.
- I don't want to. - Write another love note to St Roosevelt.
- Maybe I will! - Stop standing around checking on me.
I ain't about to leave some poor child stranded. I got scruples, too.
- You know what that is, scruples? - No.
But if you've got them, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else.
And his name ain't Frank! It's Franklin!
(BELL DINGS - CHEERING )
(CAROUSEL MUSIC )
Hey there, I wondered where you got to. Where's your pa?
- Is my picture ready? - Sure. Excuse me, folks.
Sit back in the moon there. I'll be right with you.
Here it is. Hey now, I thought you were going to sit in the moon with your pa?
He ain't my pa!
Hi! Get ready! Smile!
Hold it, hold it!
Beautiful.
I don't want you smoking in the car tomorrow.
- What? - I didn't say nothing. I'm listening to you.
There'll be two extra people riding with us and one don't like smoke.
- What extra person? - What?
- What extra person? - A lady I'm taking to Topeka.
- I didn't know we was going there. - You don't know everything.
What's the lady's name?
Miss Delight. Miss Trixie Delight.
She's a real lady! I'm just giving her a ride!
That's what you're always talking about, helping other people out!
(WATER SPLASHING IN BASIN)
Don't drop nothing, Imogene. Take care of those breakables.
Yes, Miss Trixie.
Morning! Car is right over here.
You better ride in the back.
Come on, lmogene, you don't want to keep these nice people waiting,
(TRIXIE CHATTERS AND LAUGHS )
Then I danced in Tuscaloosa and the Mayor said the nicest things about me.
The newspaper ran a big photo on me. I got a scrapbook on me from all over.
Tell him about the time that man tried to crack your head with a bottle.
Imogene, you silly old thing. You know that's not true.
He wasn't going to hit me with no bottle. He was horsing around.
Ask me nice and I'll tell you about that.
Tell him about the time you almost got thrown in jail.
I don't understand it, Daddy. This little baby has to go winky-tinky all the time.
- Don't worry. We'll stop here for dinner. - We just stopped for her at lunch.
Right, and now we're stopping for dinner. Come on.
I ain't hungry.
# The whole day through
# Just a little song,,, #
- Want one? - OK.
- How old are you? - I don't know, 15. Why?
- Just asking. Where are you from? - Nowhere.
- You've got to be from somewheres. - Down by Troy, I guess.
How long you work for her?
Ain't kept count. A year, maybe. How old you be?
Nine. She really do all that dancing?
If you want to call it dancing.
All she do is waggle her hips and shake her behind.
How come she leave that job?
The boss try to make her put out for his friends.
- She don't put out for free. - She put out much?
Like a gum machine. Drop something in and she'll put something out.
- How much she charge? - Most she can get.
But she always asks for $5. She ain't putting out for your pa, though.
Says she's going to get all she can first.
He say he was my pa?
I heard him mumbling something like he didn't want to talk about it. Ain't he?
I'm with him, ain't I? How do you come to be with her?
She promised to give me $4 every week. She ain't gave me nothing!
Except a nickel or dime.
- Why don't you quit? - Quit?
How I'm going to quit? And what if I do? Ain't got no money to get home to Mom.
And what if I do get home? They got hard times as it is.
My mama say, ''Go work for a white lady, she'll take good care of you.''
Know what I think? You know that white speck on top of chicken doo-doo?
That's the kind of white she is.
She's just like that little white speck on top of old chicken shit!
I just love it, love it, love it!
All this white. It is absolutely the proper thing for my kind of appearance.
You need a new dress. The right dress makes all the difference in a face,
especially since you've got the right kind of bone structure.
Oh my, oh my, Daddy,
but wouldn't you look handsome behind the wheel of that?
Everything is in the bone structure.
A person can tell his whole life by his bone structure.
I tried pushing her out of a window.
(TRIXIE) I think there are bugs all over. I just hope there's no snakes round here.
I think we ought to go now, you know?
Thank you.
Now, hurry... Oh!
Come on, get those things in there. Don't break anything, either.
(CRASH)
- Let's go! - Baby's got to go winky-tinky.
Don't worry.
- Hey! - (CROCKERY CRASHES )
Come on, we're ready.
- Come on! - I ain't ready!
You don't look busy. Come on.
- I ain't coming! - You listen here...
- No, I won't listen here! - What's up with you?
I want to sit in front. How come we ain't working no more?
We're on vacation. Miss Delight and me are in front because we're grown-ups.
That's where grown-ups sit!
Children do not tell grown-ups what to do with their lives.
She ain't my grown-up and I ain't sitting no more in the back.
- Not for no cow! - Keep your voice down!
Miss Delight ain't no cow. She has a high school diploma!
And she's got to go to the bathroom, so get to the car!
She's always in the bathroom! She must have a bladder like a peanut.
I ain't getting back in that car till she's out of it!
(INAUDIBLE)
What's up? Daddy says you're wearing a sad face. That ain't good.
How would you like a colouring book? You like Mickey the Mouse?
Oh! Son of a bitch!
Come down to the car and let's all be friends. You see me smile?
Let's see you smile like Aunt Trixie. Come on down with Mademoiselle.
Kiddo, I understand how you feel. You don't have to worry.
One of these days you're going to be just as pretty as Mademoiselle, maybe more.
You already got bone structure. When I was your age, I didn't have any.
Took me years to get bone structure. Don't think that's not important.
Nobody started to call me Mademoiselle till I was 17 and getting bone structure.
At your age, I was skinny. Never thought I'd have nothing up here.
You're going to have them up there, too.
Tell you what, want me to show you how to use cosmetics?
I'll let you put on my earrings. You'll see how pretty you're going to be.
I'll show you how to make up your eyes and your lips.
I'll see to it you get a little bra, or something.
Now, pick your ass up, sit in the back,
and cut out the crap, you understand?
You're going to ruin it, ain't you?
I don't want to wipe you out and I don't want you wiping me out, you know?
So I'm going to level with you, OK?
With me, it's just a matter of time. I don't know why,
but somehow I just don't manage to hold on real long.
So, if you wait it out a little, it'll be over, you know?
Even if I want a fella, somehow or other I manage to get it screwed up.
Maybe I'll get a new pair of shoes, a nice dress, a few laughs.
Times are hard.
If you fool around on the hill up here, then you don't get nothing,
I don't get nothing, he don't get nothing.
So, how about it, honey? Just for a little while?
Let old Trixie sit up front with her big tits.
(HORN)
Hey, come on!
We're coming, and if you don't find me a gas station soon,
this little old snowflake's going to wet her pantaloons! Whoo!
Oh my, I almost fell down!
(TRIXIE) Yoo-hoo! Look what we got!
Ain't she the sweetest thing? Don't he look like a prince in this?
Imogene, get everything in here. We got more room than Kansas!
Listen to the horn! Blow the horn, Daddy!
- (HORN) - (TRIXIE LAUGHS )
- Do it again! - (HORN)
(LAUGHTER)
(MOZE CHATTERS WITH TRIXIE)
This girl's sitting on the trolley, takes out a magazine and starts to read it.
She ain't read more than two pages and, real slow,
she takes her stockings down and takes off her shoes.
She turns the stockings wrong side out and puts them back on.
All the passengers are wondering what's going on. This old guy asks her,
''I saw your strange procedure. What were you doing?''
She said, ''I was reading this magazine and found it to be such hot stuff,
''I felt compelled to turn the hose on myself.''
Have they a room with a canopy bed?
- Have you a room with a canopy bed? - No, but I got one with a fireplace.
I'd like that one, Daddy.
It ain't no canopy bed,
but it sure opens up a whole new can of peas!
- Can of peas! Ain't that cute! - (BELL)
How's that?
Imogene, help the boy with these things.
Give them 234, 235 and 236.
They're fixing the elevator. First flight up, if you don't mind.
It's all right. Thank you.
- Can of peas! - What was that?
Well, you know, canopy, can of... They rhyme.
I see! Can of peas, canopy. I get it now.
I knew you'd get it.
(RADIO ) # Picture Henry Ford without a car
# Picture heaven's firmament without a star
# Picture Fritzi Kreisler without a fiddle
# Picture poor Philadelphia without a Biddle
# Picture Central Park without a sailor
# Picture Mister Lord minus Mister Taylor
# Mix 'em all together and what have you got?
# Just a picture of me without,,, #
There's a rip in the seam of that dress. Get it sewed up. And wash these hose.
- Yes, Miss. - My bath ready?
- Yes, Miss Trixie. - You've made it awful hot lately.
- I knows you like it hot, Miss Trixie. - Not that hot! Finish up all these things.
- Come back in an hour and dry me off. - Yes, Miss Trixie.
- What you doing up there? - I got an idea. Come on!
- What kind of idea? - Come in here and I'll tell you. Go on.
What would Miss Trixie do if somebody offered her $25 to put out?
You crazy? For that much money, she'd drop her pants in the road.
That's what I figured. You want to get away from Miss Trixie? If you help me,
I'll give you money to get home.
- How much money? - $30.
- When do we start? - Tomorrow.
Miss Trixie, you know the man at the desk who checked us in?
Yeah?
He tell me he'd pay $25 just to have a good time with you.
What? That little two-bit-bum nerve of that guy!
Bet he don't make that in a week, Where would he get that?
I don't know. All I know is what he told me.
$25, huh? I'd sure have to see the money to believe it.
There you go. You come back and see us again real soon.
Hmm!
- I'll have a Juicy Fruit gum, please. - Here. Want I should chew it for you?
You know that red-headed lady, named Miss Trixie Delight?
- She thinks you're real cute. - Says you and who else?
Honest! She says you're better looking than Dick Powell.
- The lady's got good taste! - Thought you'd like to know.
Just a minute!
Give these to her. Say they're with Floyd's compliments.
She'll like that! Maybe you should write her a note.
What kind?
I thought men always wrote ladies notes when they send presents.
Maybe you should ask for a date. That'd tickle her.
Yeah, maybe I ought to. Say, she's not married, is she?
She don't even have a regular boyfriend. The man with her yesterday is my daddy.
He's her manager. She's a dancer.
I figured she was something like that. Whereabouts does she dance?
- Lots of big places. She's a star. - How about that!
Why not print it? She likes that.
Print it, huh?
''Some sweets for the sweet.
''Some girls say I'm a smooth dancer myself. How about trying me out?''
- You sure this is going to work? - I don't know, but we'll give it a try.
Throw this in the drawer, will you?
Keep your fingers crossed.
- Who is it? - It's Addie.
What is it?
I got a message from Moze. He had to run over to Haynesville.
- He won't be back until suppertime. - Huh?
I think he had to get something fixed on his car. He'll be gone all day.
Well, OK,
OK!
- Howdy. - Howdy.
- What you having? - Waffles.
I already ate. I had waffles, too. Sure are good, ain't they?
They ain't bad for waffles.
Mr Moze, Miss Trixie don't feel so good. She's staying in bed today.
She'll see you at supper.
She's sick? I'd better go up there.
She ain't real sick. Ain't no worry. She's having her lady's time.
Oh... Tell her I'll see her this evening.
Just wanted to say good morning. I think I'll go upstairs and polish my shoes.
- Somebody's at the door, lmogene, - Yes, Miss Trixie,
- Something for you, Miss, - What?
- lt was outside the door, - What is it?
lmogene, leave that, Run along, I'll call you when I need you,
Yes, Miss Trixie,
(ELEVATOR HUMS )
Hello, Cupid.
Miss Trixie wants to see you. Says it's important. Room 235.
She does, does she? When?
- Now. - I can't get off right now.
It's important.
You tell her I'll come up later tonight, when the moon is full.
But you can't. She won't even be here after tonight.
She won't even be here after today.
She won't? Well...
You won't be sorry.
I could go up for a few minutes. What's that room number?
Room 235. She's waiting for you.
OK. Tell her I'm on my way up, sweetheart.
He's coming! He's coming!
- Who is it? - Sheikh of Araby.
Well, don't you look purty!
Well, come on in, honey.
Come on.
- You don't give a girl much time, - I get around,
- You don't go around babbling, do you? - What?
lt's just important to me right now not to get talked about,
Do I look like that kind of fella?
Say! You are a wild one, aren't you? Hold it! Wait, you're going to tear it!
Now, just let me slip it off,
Hey! Well now,,,
,,,ain't you a show dog! Oh!
I'm going.
The key! Give me the key!
Mr Moze will kill them both, I knows it.
- Wait for me here! - OK.
- Moze! - What's the trouble?
- Better go up to Trixie's room right away! - Is she sick?
No, she's not. Just do what I tell you. And take the elevator!
Don't knock! Use a key!
(HUM OF ELEVATOR)
Your daddy going to kill that man.
- He'll cut him up pretty bad. - Moze wouldn't do that.
Down home, when a man come home and hear a man in bed with his wife,
he just go to the wood pile and get his double-blade axe
and go in and chop them up.
Folk say he cut them up just like kindling wood.
- Addie, we're leaving! - Now?
Right this minute!
(RADIO ON - MUSIC )
I don't know why that girl did such a thing to me.
I'd have done almost anything for that girl. It just ain't fair.
- I reckon she's been carrying on a while. - From the start.
- There were other men? - Lots.
Why didn't you tell me?
I just knew you wouldn't believe me.
- Promise me one thing. - What, Moze?
When you grow up, don't be the kind of woman who deceives men.
- Promise me that. - I promise, Moze.
(RADIO: ''BANKS OF THE OHIO'')
# ,,,let me go on
# Just a little ways away
# While we walk along we'll talk
# Talk about how it will be
# When you say that you'll be mine
# ln our home, we'll happy be
# Down beside where the waters flow
# Down on the banks of the,,, #
Moze... Moze, pay attention.
- What is it? - I seen something peculiar.
- That man in there. - What man?
- Standing by the door. - What's peculiar about him?
He's got a roll of money could choke us both to death.
I'm not up to anything.
He's got a notebook and all that money.
He keeps going outside and coming back in again.
Bootlegger. No question about it.
You think we might do business with him? Drop a wad?
We ain't done nothing for two months, since Trixie. And we only have $212 left.
- Better way of doing business. - What ways?
Oh, heaps.
Look, he's going out again!
- Follow him. - Yeah?
I told you, didn't I? Follow him. Find out where he goes.
# ,,, When you say that you'll be mine
# ln our home, we'll happy be
- # Down beside where the waters flow - (INAUDIBLE)
# Down on the banks of the Ohio,,, #
Thank you.
# Big brown eyes and curly hair,,, #
- What did you find out? - He's got bottles in a bin.
- How big's the bin? - Like our car trunk. What's your plan?
- Find out where he keeps his goods. - There's a shack, but he didn't go in it.
How about a walk before Daddy puts you to bed?
Oh, goody!
(MOZE HUMS )
He's Jess Hardin, a bootlegger. Wholesales across the county.
His brother's a big shot, too, but the girl couldn't tell me about him. I had to go.
- Where is it? - Over there.
OK, come on.
Keep watch. Anybody comes, cough real low. I'm going in.
- It may be locked. - Folks in the country never lock things.
Don't you know that?
# Come sit by my side, little darlin'
# Come lay your cool hand on my brow
# Promise me that you will never,,, #
You Hardin?
That's right.
Conrad's the name. Jack said I ought to look you up.
Jack who?
- Just Jack's good enough. - Don't know no Jack.
He's running the biggest wholesale business in the state.
- You selling? - Right.
Ain't interested in shiney.
I ain't selling shiney. I deal in bonded goods.
What kind?
- I have a good deal on Three Feathers. - How much?
It depends. You take 20 cases, I'd let them go for $25 per.
Too much.
- You can't get it that cheap legally. - Ain't legal here.
- All the more reason it's a bargain. - Give you $20.
Can't do it. Price is set down in Wichita.
How long before delivery?
How's early in the morning?
You got it in the county?
That's right.
# ,,,My mother is dead and in heaven,,, #
Where do I pick it up?
- OK. - You leave some?
Plenty. He'll never miss it.
Moze! Moze, we'd better get.
- Here. - It's all filled up!
Them's for me.
Get going!
(ENGINE RUNNING )
Hurry!
Get up there!
Now, hold on! And make sure nothing spills off!
Well, you'd better go slow. And hurry!
- (SQUEALS ) Easy! - I got to turn corners, don't I?
Won't he miss his whiskey?
In a week. By then, we'll be in Missouri.
He can't do nothing once we're in Missouri.
(CAR ENGINE)
Where is it?
Brrm-brmm.
(OWL HOOTS )
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
Scoot over!
- How much you get? - $625.
$625 and he bought his own whiskey!
That's $625, plus the $212 we already got.
If we drop some wallets and do some twenties...
- What's that? - Where?
- Behind us. - I don't see nothing.
- Something's back there. - Nothing but black.
- I thought I seen something flicker. - Nothing there.
- You put the money in the box? - Uh-huh.
I'll be glad to get out of this town, I'll tell you that.
There it is again! Dad blam it!
- Something flickered, sure as hell! - Nothing behind us!
Uh-oh!
I told you!
(SIREN)
- Who could it be? - Christ!
- Don't stop, keep going! - I can't. The car's in front of me.
It'll be OK. Let me do the talking.
- Playing games with us? - I didn't know who it was.
It's risky. Might get your tyres shot off. Where are you heading?
Me and my girl are going to St Jo.
- Live there? - Nearby.
What's your business?
Livestock. Mules, horses, cattle.
That's funny. I heard you was a bootlegger.
No, sir. Must be a mistake.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Way I hear it, you just had a transaction by the old barn.
- Where would you hear that? - A family friend.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I'm talking about bootlegging. I'm talking about $625.
- Where's that? - I don't have no $625.
I don't know what you mean. I don't even know where the old barn is.
Well, I reckon we'll just have to explain a little more thoroughly, won't we?
Beau, you take a ride with these nice people. We're all going back to town.
(DEPUTY HUMS )
Damn!
Just when you think you got it made.
Just ain't made.
- You good at this? - Not too good.
Not too good? Bootlegger's sitting there with his own little game
and he ain't even good at his own little game.
Yes, sir, that is some good joke.
Found these on the seat.
Wasn't any money in the car. I gone all through it.
Livestock business, huh?
That whiskey's for a friend.
Hold out your hands.
I said hold out your hands. You heard me.
I didn't say put them down, did I?
Clean hands for livestock.
Don't look like they do much but play a little casino.
- It's for a friend. I didn't see no harm... - Didn't see no harm?
Hear that, Beau? Bootlegger claims he don't know the law.
I don't need no bottles to book you.
Law says all I need is one little old drop.
And law says you use a vehicle to transport alcohol,
the said vehicle is confiscated to be sold at public auction.
Kiss that pretty little car goodbye.
- Hold on! That seems rough... - I didn't tell you to lower your hands.
I tell you to lower them, you lower them. You don't do nothing till I say.
Understand?
Yes, sir.
I already did. Ain't nothing in his clothes except him, and he ain't worth five cents.
She ain't got nothing on her, either.
You don't know what kind of trouble you're in. Better start thinking on it.
I got a case against you for possessing and transporting whiskey.
I can think of a few other things.
Better face it. You're going to be here for a while working on the county roads.
With luck, you're out in six months. Six more for influencing a child.
Maybe six years for that.
- Maybe we could work something out? - What's there to work out?
I sure don't like to send a man to the road gang. AIways felt sorry for them.
But I can't overlook the fact that you've been paid $625
and you ain't telling me where it is.
I know you're a bootlegger, so what's there for me to work out?
Let's cut this ring around the rosy.
Where's that...
...money?
You think I'm fooling around?
I ain't fooling around.
Maybe you'll come around in time. Get a little thirsty, get a little hungry.
Time has a way with criminals.
- Don't it, Beau? - Sure do.
It's almost five. Somebody ought to be stirring at the café. I'll step over there.
See if that family friend is there. I'll be back before long.
I got all day, you know? Got all the time in the world.
# ,,,trouble's just a bubble and the clouds will soon go by
# So let's have another cup of coffee Let's have another piece of pie
# Let a smile be your umbrella for it's just an April shower
# Even John D Rockefeller,,, #
Sir, may I get my things, please?
OK.
# ,,,so now's the time to buy So let's have another cup of coffee
# And let's have another piece of pie
Daddy, I need the shithouse.
There's one down the hall.
Daddy, I'm scared. I want you to come and stand by the door.
All right if I go with her?
Down there.
- Run! - You crazy?
Where are we running? God!
Stop them bootleggers!
- This is the craziest... - Hurry!
I'm hurrying!
- Bootleggers! - Oh, Jesus!
(SIREN)
- I'll hit him! - He can jump!
I could've killed him! They could've had me for murder!
- They're shooting at us! - They're missing. Go!
We won't make it! Not in this car!
Every lawman in Kansas will be looking for it. We got to cross the river!
- Where's the bridge? - Jesus!
- What? - The bridge is the other way!
- What?! - Hang on!
(SIREN)
It's no good! We'll make it too easy for them! We got to get off this road!
Holy smoke!
- Blow your horn! - Won't help. He can't pull off the road.
Selling whiskey to a sheriff's brother!
(SIREN)
- Hang on to your hat! Hold on! - Oh, God!
- You all right? - Uh-huh.
We held them, but we got to get off this road or we'll be in town.
Get that money out! You'll stop my heart!
We made it, didn't we?
Anybody to home?
Howdy. Need to get rid of my car here.
I need to get rid of my car. Sheriff wants to put her in an orphanage.
Know anybody that might want to swap?
How about that truck there?
We'll just let him chew on it a while.
Well, the rear tyres look new, anyway.
- The radio looks OK. - Think it runs?
- It better! - Where will we go?
Out of Kansas, across the river to St Jo, that's where.
Here he comes.
(MOZE) Look at them all.
I want a swap and three days' start before you take it out.
(HORN)
It's all legal. Got the papers here. Fill out the form and you own it.
Ain't going to swap.
It's brand-new.
- That car ain't no good! - What's the matter with it?
Can't haul nothing in it.
If that's all, you can sell it and get two trucks to do your hauling.
Ain't going to swap.
- Rassle you for it. - You crazy?
If I win, we swap. You win, keep the car and the truck. Quiet.
- What kind of rassling? - You name it.
- Catch as can? - Shoes or barefoot?
- Makes no never mind to me. - Barefoot.
(ALL) Ya-ha!
Go on, Leroy, go on!
You'll get killed just to give something away.
Ain't got no choice.
(OLD MAN) Get that city boy! Get the city boy!
- Let's go. - Make him say ''calf rope'', Leroy.
Come on, Leroy. Get him, Leroy.
Get him!
You stop that! You make him fight fair!
Look out for that rake!
Watch out!
Let's go in the car!
Yee-ha! Ya-hoo! Whoo!
(THEY BEEP THE HORN)
(TRUCK RATTLES )
- Are you pushing? - Of course I'm pushing!
OK, it'll go now. Put your foot on the brake.
- The brake! - It don't work!
The brake, goddamn it, the brake!
- Don't you know where the brake is? - It don't work.
Oh! Well, it figures. Well, we're in Missouri.
What'll we do now? Drop some twenties?
- How much money we got? - $837 and some change.
42 cents, I think.
We're just outside St Jo.
- So what? - So...
It's a big town. We can do better than twenties.
(RADIO ) Y'all know that one, ''Let's have another cup of coffee, ''
lt's 10,30 Sunday morning in St Jo and y'all get to church now, OK?
Here's the news, ln Omaha, President Roosevelt told the nation,,,
Moze, what if he don't believe you?
He will. He's out to make a killing, just like us.
- Maybe he don't have a silver mine? - I checked. Where's the money?
He's just what people say he is. Rich and greedy.
Pull up your socks.
We could get a house and everything.
Everything, just everything.
# Just around the corner There's a rainbow in the sky... #
Got it? Corner of East Waring and Burlington, 11.00.
Just show up with tears in your eyes.
Don't forget the money.
Of course I won't. See you in 30 minutes.
Moze, could we get a piano?
A piano? We'll have a whole factory.
# Just around the corner There's a rainbow in the sky #
I guess you just didn't make a good enough swap.
My brother's real sore at you. Seems you sold him his own whiskey.
You can't arrest me here. Your brother's a bootlegger!
You got an awful big mouth, mister.
Maybe I can't arrest you in Missouri. Maybe I don't want to.
But I can make sure you ain't going to feel good while you're here.
Let's go!
(CLOCK CHIMES )
(TYRES SQUEAL)
(FAINT) Addie!
Addie.
Moze!
Moze.
- I...I swallowed my gold tooth. - Oh, Moze...
- They took it all. - You're all beat up.
Nothing's left.
I've been keeping $10 for emergencies!
What'll we do with $10?
Buy Bibles. Do a little widow business.
Must be lots of good towns around here.
Do twenties, drop some wallets. Before you know it, we'll be good again.
I'll bet in no time, we could have a whole new car and everything.
You're taking me to Aunt Billie's now, ain't you?
I won't.
- Don't cry. - I won't.
It's where we set out for, ain't it?
Looks nice.
Yeah, looks real fine.
- That must be your uncle. - He looks nice, too.
Yep, real nice.
Maybe if Roosevelt comes by, they'll take me to see him.
- If you write him, he can write back now. - He might at that.
Course he will. Ain't no question but he will.
All this talk's just wasting time.
There's your skates and your radio.
- Where will you go? - I got plans.
New ideas coming in every day. Get going.
If I knew for sure you wasn't my pa...
It's for sure I ain't.
Sometimes I used to figure Mr Connors could have been my pa.
The way he touched my shoulder. Get me things from the candy counter free.
And Mr Pritchard, he smiled at me once, real nice.
Except they don't have my jaw or nothing.
So long.
Ain't you coming to the door with me?
There it is. Right there.
- They'll wonder how I got here. - Tell them a family friend brung you.
You had trouble on the way with your car and with finances.
Get going.
(TRUCK BACKFIRES )
Yes?
I'm Addie.
Addie! Aah.
I've been worried sick about you!
Come on in.
(RADIO - MELANCHOLY MUSIC )
(RADIO OFF)
I've been writing, and your Uncle Daniel's been trying to call
to see where you've been.
You're the spitting image of your mother. Pretty as a picture.
I don't know why I go on. What you need is cold lemonade.
You sit right there and I'll be right back.
Everybody's going to be so happy to see you.
(AUNT) We'll get those clothes off you and you're going to get into a nice bath,
Then you're going to sleep in your own little bed, alongside your cousin Edna,
I near give up on you, child,
I bet you're starving to death, I'm going to cut you a big piece of pie,
We got those telegrams, Then we never did hear from you,
(BREATHING HARD)
I said I don't want you riding with me no more.
You still owe me $200.
Look!
(HE SIGHS )
Come on!
Hurry up!
# Keep your sunny side up, keep it up!
# Hide the side that gets blue
# lf you have nine sons in a row
# Start a baseball team They make money, you know!
# Keep your funny side up, don't let up!
# Let your laughter come through, do!
# Stand upon your legs Be like two fried eggs
# Keep your sunny side up! #