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BBC - DEATH OF A SALESMAN - Warren Mitchell - Play by Arthur Miller - BBC4 Drama 1996

Name: BBC - DEATH OF A SALESMAN - Warren Mitchell - Play by Arthur Miller - BBC4 Drama 1996
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[Music] Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. >> Willie,
>> it's all right. It came back. >> Why? >> What happened? Something happened, Willie.
>> No, nothing happened. You >> didn't smash the car, did you? [Music] I said nothing happened. Didn't you hear
me? >> Oh, don't you feel well? >> I'm tired to the death. Couldn't make it. Just couldn't make it.
Linda, >> where were you all day? You look terrible. >> I got as far as a little above yankers.
I stopped for a cup of coffee. Maybe it was the coffee. >> What? >> I suddenly couldn't drive anymore.
The car kept going off into the shoulder, you know. >> Oh, maybe it was a steering again. I don't think Angelo knows a student the
Baker. >> No, it's me. It's me. Suddenly, I realize I'm going 60 mph. I don't remember the last 5 minutes. I'm
I can't seem to keep my mind to it. >> Maybe it's your glasses. You never went for your new glasses. >> No, I see everything. I came back 10
miles an hour. Oh, it took me nearly 4 hours from the anchors. >> Well, you just have to take a rest, Willie. You can't continue this way.
>> I just got back from Florida. >> But you didn't rest your mind. Your mind is overactive, and the mind is what counts, dear. I'll
>> start out in the morning. Maybe I'll feel better in the morning. These goddamn arch supports are killing me. >> Take an aspirin. Should I get you an
aspirin? It'll soothe you. >> I was driving along, you understand? I was fine. I was even observing the scenery.
You can imagine me looking at scenery on the road every week of my life. But it's beautiful up there, Linda. The trees are so thick and the sun is warm.
I open the windshield, just let the warm air bait over me. Then all of a sudden, I'm going off the road. I'm telling you, I absolutely
forgot I was driving. If I had gone the other way, I would have white line. I might have killed somebody. So I went on again and
5 minutes later I'm dreaming again. I nearly have such thoughts. Such strange thoughts.
>> Willy dear, talk to them again. There's no reason why you can't work in New York. >> They don't need me in New York. I'm the
New England man. I'm vital in New England. >> But you're 60 years old. They can't expect you to keep traveling every week.
>> I'll have to send a wire to Portland. I'm supposed to see Brown and Morrison tomorrow morning 10:00 to show the line. God damn it. I could sell them.
>> Why don't you go down to the place tomorrow and tell Howard that you simply got to work in New York. You're too accommodating. Dear,
>> if old man Wagner was alive, I'd have been in charge of New York by now. That man was a prince. He was a masterful man. But that boy of his Howard, he
don't appreciate. When I went north the first time, the Wagner company did not know where New England was.
>> Why don't you tell those things to Howard, dear? >> I will. I definitely will. >> Is there any cheese?
>> Jesus. Maybe he smashed up the car again. He's going to get his license taken away if he keeps that up. >> I'm getting nervous about him. You know,
Beth, >> his eyes are gone. >> No, I've driven with him. He sees all right. He just doesn't keep his mind on
it. I drove into the city with him last week. He stops at a green light and then it turns red and he goes. >> Maybe he's color blind.
>> Pop. Why? He's got the finest eye for color in the business. You know that. >> Are the boys in? >> They're sleeping. Abby took Biff on a
date tonight. >> That's so >> It was so nice seeing them shaving together. One behind the other in the
bathroom and going out together. You notice the whole house smells of shaving lotion. >> Yeah, figure it out. work a lifetime to
pay off a house, finally own it, there's nobody to live in it. >> Well, dear, life's a casting off. It's always that way.
>> No, some people some people accomplish something. Did Biff say anything after I went this morning?
>> You shouldn't have criticized him, Willie. Especially after he just got off the train. You mustn't lose your temper with him.
>> When the hell did I lose my temper? I simply asked him if it was making any money. Is that a criticism? >> Yes.
>> But dear, how could he make any money? There's such an undercurrent in him. He became a moody man. Did he apologize when I went this morning?
>> He was crest fallen, will he? You know how he admires you. I think if he finds himself, then you both be happier and not fight anymore.
>> How can he find himself on a farm? Is that a life? A farm hand? In the beginning when he was young, I thought, well, a young man, it's good for him to
around, take a lot of different jobs. It's over 10 years now. He's yet to make $35 a week. >> He's finding himself, Willie. Not
finding yourself at the age of 34 isn't as great trouble as he's lazy. God damn it. Biff is a lazy bum. >> You're sleeping. Go get something to
eat. Go on down. >> You smoking? >> Want one?
>> I can never sleep when I smell it. >> You're not still sour on dad, are you, Bill? >> He's all right, I guess.
>> Funny, Biff. You know us sleeping in here again. The old beds. All the talk that went across these two
beds, huh? Our whole lives. >> Yeah. A lot of dreams and plans. >> About 500 women would like to know what was said in this room. You remember that
big Betsy something? What the hell was her name? Over on Bushwick Avenue >> with a collie dogone. >> That's the one I got you in there.
Remember? >> Yeah, that was my first time. I think boy, there was a pig. You taught me everything I know about
women. Don't forget that. >> I bet you forgot how bashful you used to be. Especially with girls. >> I still am.
>> Ah, go on. >> I just control it, that's all. >> I think I got less bashful and you got more so. What happened, Biff? Where's
the old humor? The old confidence. >> But why'd he come home? I'd like to know what brought him home. >> I don't know. I think he's still lost,
Willie. I think he's very lost. Biff Lman is lost in the greatest country in the world. The young man of such personal attractiveness gets lost
and such a hard worker. That's one thing about Biff. He's not lazy. >> Never.
>> I'll see him in the morning. I'll have a nice talk with him. I get him a job selling. He could be big in no time. God,
you remember how they used to follow him around in high school? When he smiled at one of them, their faces lit up. When he walked down the
street, >> Willie, dear, I've got a new kind of American type cheese today. It's
whipped. >> Why'd you get American when I like Swiss? >> I just thought you'd like a change.
>> I don't want a change. I want Swiss cheese. Why am I always being contradicted? >> I thought it would be a surprise. Why
don't you open a window in here for God's sakes? >> They're all open, dear. >> Wait, they boxed us in here. Bricks and
windows. Windows and bricks. >> We should have bought the land next door. >> The street is lined with cars.
It's not a breath of fresh air in the neighborhood. >> Brass don't grow anymore. You can't raise a carrot in the backyard.
Should have had a law against apartment houses. You remember those two beautiful elm trees out there when I and Biff hung the swing between them?
Yeah, like being a million miles from the city. >> Should have arrested the builder for cutting those down. They massacred the
neighborhood. >> More and more I think of those days, Linda. This time of year was lilac,
wisteria, and then the pis come out and the daffodils. What a fragrance in this room.
>> Well, after all, people had to move somewhere. Now there's more people now. >> I didn't think there's more people.
>> There's more people. That's what's ruining this country. The population is getting out of control. Competition is maddening.
>> Smell the stink from that apartment house. And another one the other side. How can they whip cheese? >> Why does dad mock me all the time?
>> He's not mocking you. >> Everything I say, there's a twist of mockery on his face. I can't get near him.
>> He just wants you to make good, that's all. I wanted to talk to you about dad for a long time. Be
something's happening to him. He talks to himself. >> I noticed that this morning, but he always mumbled.
>> But not so noticeable. It got so embarrassing. I sent him to Florida. And he knows something. Most of the time he's talking to you.
>> What's he say about me? >> I can't make it out. >> What's he say about me? >> I think the fact that you're not
settled, that you're still kind. >> There's one or two other things depressing. I'm happy. >> What do you mean?
>> Never mind. Just don't lay it all to me. >> But I think if you just got started, I mean, is there any future for you out there?
>> I tell you, I don't know what the future is. I don't know what I'm supposed to want. >> What do you mean? Well, I spent six or
seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of
existence to get on that subway in the hot mornings and summer. to devote your whole life to keeping stock or making phone calls or selling or buying. To
suffer 50 weeks of the year for the sake of a two week vacation when all you really desire is to be outdoors with your shirt off and always to have to get
ahead of the next fella and still that's how you build a future. >> Well, do you really enjoy it on a farm? Are you content out there?
It's spring there now. See, they've got about 15 new colts. There's nothing more inspiring or beautiful than the sight of a mayor and a new cult. And it's cool
there now. Texas is cool and it's spring. And whenever spring comes to where I am, I suddenly get the feeling, my god, I'm not getting anywhere. What
the hell am I doing playing around with horses? $28 a week. I'm 34 years old. I ought to be making my future. That's when I come running home. And now I get
here and I don't know what to do with myself. I've always made a point of not wasting my life. And every time I come back
here, I know that all I've done is to waste my life. >> You're a poet. You know that, Biff. You're You're an idealist.
>> No, I'm mixed up very bad. Maybe I ought to get married. Maybe I ought to get stuck into something. Maybe that's my trouble. I'm like a boy. I'm
not married. I'm not in business. I'm just I'm like a boy. You're not worried about me, are you,
sweetheart? >> You're too much on the ball to worry about. >> You're my foundation, my support. Linda,
>> just try to relax, dear. You make mountains out of mole hills. >> I won't fight with him anymore. He wants to go back to Texas. Let him go.
>> He'll find his way. >> Sure. Certain men just don't get started till later in life, like uh Thomas Edison, I think.
BF Goodrich. One of them was deaf. I'll put my money on Biff >> and Willie. If it's warm Sunday, we'll
drive in the country. We'll open the windshield and take lunch. >> The windshields don't open on a new car. >> Well, you opened it today.
>> Me? I didn't. >> Oh, no. Isn't that peculiar? [Music]
>> Isn't that a remarkable? But darling, >> that is the most remarkable thing. >> What dear? >> I was thinking of the Chevy 1928 when I
had that blue Chevy. That funny. I could have sworn I was driving that Chevy today. >> Well, that's nothing. Something must
have reminded you. >> It's remarkable. You remember those days? The way Biff used to simonize that car,
the dealer refused to believe there was 80,000 miles on it. Close your eyes. I'll be right up. >> Be careful on the stairs, dear.
[Music] >> The cheese is on the middle shelf. >> Yes, sir. 80,000 miles.
82,000 But >> take those two we had tonight now.
Weren't they gorgeous creatures? >> Yeah. Yeah. Most gorgeous I've had in years. >> I get that anytime I want, Biff,
whenever I feel disgusted. The only thing is it gets like bowling or something. I keep knocking them over, but it doesn't mean anything. You still
run around a lot? >> Nah, I'd like to find a girl, steady, someone with substance. >> That's what I long for.
>> Oh, come on. You'd never come home. >> I would. Somebody with character, with resistance, like mom. I know you're going to call me a bastard when I tell
you this. That girl Charlotte I was with tonight is engaged to be married in 5 weeks. >> No kidding.
>> Sure. The guy's in line for vice presidency of the store. I don't know what gets into me. Maybe I have an overdeveloped sense of competition or
something, but I went and ruined her. And furthermore, I can't get rid of her. And he's the third executive I've done that to now. Isn't that a crummy
characteristic? And to top it all, I go to their weddings. Like I'm not supposed to take bribes.
Manufacturers offer me a $100 bill now and then to throw an order their way. Well, you know how honest I am. But it's like the girl. See, I hate myself for it
because I don't want the girl. But still, I take it and I love it. >> Let's go to sleep. >> I guess we didn't settle anything, huh?
>> I just got one idea I think I'm going to try. >> What's that? >> Remember Bill Oliver? Oh, sure. Olive is
very big now. You want to work for him again? >> No, but when I quit, he said something to me. He put his arm on my shoulder and
he said, "Biff, if you ever need anything, you come to me." >> I remember that. That sounds good. >> I think I'll go and see him. You know,
if I could get 10,000 or even seven or $8,000, I could buy a beautiful ranch. With a ranch, I could do the work I like and still be something.
I just wonder though. I wonder if Oliver still thinks I stole that Carter basketball. >> Oh, he probably forgot that long ago.
It's almost 10 years. You're too sensitive. Anyway, he didn't really fire you. >> No, I think he was going to. I think
that's why I quit. >> You going to watch the engine, Biff? >> Doesn't he know mom can hear that? >> Don't get your sweater dirty, Biff.
>> Isn't that terrible? Don't leave again, will you? You'll find a job here. You got to stick around. I don't know what to do about him. It's getting
embarrassing. >> What a shizing job. >> Mom's hearing that. >> No kidding. Biff, you got a date?
Wonderful. >> Go on to sleep, Biff. But talk to him in the morning, will you? >> With her in the house, brother.
>> I wish you'd have a good talk with him. >> Selfish. Stupid. Sh. Sleep. Those girls, if that's all, don't make any
promises. No promises of any kind. Girl, >> they always believe what you tell them. You're very young.
Too young to be talking seriously to girls. Too young entirely. You want to watch your schooling first, then when you're all sucked, there'll be
plenty of girls a boy like you. Is that so? The girls pay for you, huh? Oh, boy. You must really be making a hit. I've been
wondering why you polish the car so careful. Don't leave the hubcaps, boys. Get the shammy to the hubcaps. Happy. Use
newspaper on the windows. It's the easiest thing. Show them how to do it, Biff. If she happen, pat it up. Use like a pad. That's it.
Good work, H. You're doing all right. As soon as you boys finish the car, I want to see you. Got a surprise for you boys.
>> What do you got, Dad? >> No, you finished first. Never leave a job till it's finished. Remember that. Hey, Biff.
Up in Albany, I saw a beautiful hammock. I think I buy it next trip. We'll hang it right between those two elms. Wouldn't that be something just swinging
around those branches? Boy, that would be. How's that, Pop? Professional. Terrifying. Terrificing job, boys. Good work, Beth.
>> Where's the surprise, Pop? >> Backseat of the car. O, >> what is it, Dad? Tell me. What are you buying?
>> Something I want you to have. >> What is it, AB? >> IT'S A PUNCHING BAG. >> GOT JEAN CONNELLY'S signature on it.
>> You know, we wanted a punching bag. >> That's the finest thing for the timing. >> I'M LOSING WEIGHT, PAP. YOU KNOW THIS. >> JUMPING ROPE IS GOOD, TOO.
>> See the new football I got? >> Hey, where'd you get a new ball? >> The coach told me to practice my passing >> and he gave it a ball. Huh? Well, I
borrowed it from the locker room. >> Now I want you to return, Dad. >> I told you you wouldn't like it. >> Well, I'm bringing it back.
>> Sure. We got to practice with a regulation ball, don't he? Coach will probably congratulate you on your initial.
>> Oh, he keeps congratulating my initiative all the time. Pop. >> That's cuz he likes you. If somebody else took that ball, there'd be an
uproar. So, what's the report, boys? What's the report? >> Where'd you go this time, Dad? Gee, we were lonesome for you.
>> Lonesome, huh? >> Missed you every minute. >> You don't say. Tell you a little secret. Don't breathe it to a soul. Someday I'll
have my own business and I'll never have to leave home anymore. >> Like Uncle Charlie. Yeah. >> Bigger than Uncle Charlie. Cuz Charlie's
not like he's like, but he's not wellliked. >> Where'd you go this time, Dad? >> Got on the road, went north to
Providence. Met the mayor. >> The mayor of Providence? >> He was sitting in a hotel lobby. >> What'd he say?
>> He said, "Morning." And I said, "You got a fine city here, mayor." And then he had coffee with me. Then I went to Waterberry. Fine city. Waterberry. Big
clock city. You know the famous wall of berry clock. Then Boston. Now Boston is the cradle of the revolution. Fine city. And then a couple other towns in Mass,
uh, Portland, Bangor. Straight home. >> Gee, I'd love to go with you sometime. >> Soon as summer comes. >> Promise you and Hap and I. AND I'LL SHOW
YOU ALL THE TOWNS CUZ AMERICA'S full of beautiful towns and fine, upstanding people. And they know me, boys. They know me up and down New England. I can
park my car in any street in New England and the cops protect it LIKE THEIR OWN THIS SUMMER, HUH? >> YEAH,
>> you're back. We take our BATHING SUITS. WE'LL CARRY YOUR BAGS. >> HEY, won't that BE SOMETHING? ME COMING INTO THE BOSTON STORES WITH YOU BOYS
CARRYING MY BAGS. WHAT A SENSATION. >> You nervous about the game, Biff? >> Not if you're going to be there. >> What they say about you in school now to
make you captain? There's a crowd of girls behind him every time the classes change. This Saturday, Pop. This Saturday, just for you, I'm going to
break through for a touchdown. You're supposed to pass. >> I'm taking one play for Pop. You watch me, Pop. When I take off my helmet, that
means I'm breaking out. Then watch me crash THROUGH THAT LINE. >> WAY LIKE TALIS IN BOSTON. >> MYTH, where are you? You're supposed to
study with me today. >> Look at Bernard. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE SO ANEMIC ABOUT BERNARD? >> OH, he's got to study, Uncle Willie.
He's got regents next week. >> Let's box, Bernard. Biff, >> listen. Biff, I heard Mr. Vernbound say that if you don't start studying math,
he's going to flunk you and you won't graduate. I heard him. >> Let us study with him. Biff, go ahead. >> Yeah, I heard him. Hey, pop. You didn't
see MY NEW SNEAKER. >> HEY, THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL JOB OF PRINTING. >> Just because he printed University of Virginia on his sneakers doesn't mean
they got to graduate him, Uncle William. >> What are you talking about, BERNARD? WITH SCHOLARSHIPS AT THREE UNIVERSITIES, THEY'RE GOING TO FLUNK HIM.
>> YEAH, BUT I heard Mr. Burn Bump say, "Oh, >> DON'T BE A PASTOR, BERNARD." >> What an anemic, huh?
Okay, I'm waiting for you in my house, BETH. >> Bernard is not wellliked, is he? >> He's liked, but he's not wellliked.
>> That's what I mean. See, now Bernard, he can get the best marks in school, you understand? But when he gets out in the business world, you understand? You are
going to be five times ahead of him. And that's why I thank almighty God that you're both built like Adonis. Cuz the man who makes an appearance in the
business world, the man who creates a personal interest is the man who gets ahead, be liked, and you will never want. You
take me for instance. I never have to wait in line to see a buyer. Willie Lman is here. That's all I HAVE TO KNOW. AND I GO RIGHT THROUGH.
>> You knock him dead, pop. Knocked them cold and provenence the loud THEM IN BOSTON. I'M LOSING WEIGHT, POP, you notice.
>> I love you, >> sweetheart. How'd the Chevy run? >> Chevrolet Linda is the GREATEST CAR EVER
BUILT. SINCE WHEN DID YOU LET YOUR MOTHER carry wash up the stairs? >> Grab hold there, BOY. >> BUT TOO, MOM,
>> have them on the line. >> I was selling thousands and thousands, but I HAD TO COME HOME. >> OH, THE WHOLE BLOCK WILL be at that
game. >> I did 500 gross in Providence and 700 gross in Boston. No, wait a minute. I got a pencil. That makes your commission
200. My god. $212. >> Well, I didn't figure it yet. But >> how much did you do? >> Well, I I did about 180 gross in
Providence. And well, no, it came to roughly uh 200 gross in the whole trip. >> 200 gross. That makes >> trouble was three of the stores were
half closed for inventory in Boston. Otherwise, it would have broke records. >> Well, that makes $70 and some pennies. That's very good.
>> What do we owe? >> Well, on the first you've got $16 on the refrigerator. >> Why $16?
>> Well, the fan belt broke, so it was $180. >> But it's brand new. >> Well, the man says that's the way it is
until they work themselves in. You know, >> I hope we didn't get stuck on that machine. >> They got the biggest ads of any of them.
>> I know. It's a fine machine. What else? >> Well, there's 960 for the washing machine and for the vacuum cleaner, there's three and a half due on the
15th. Then the roof. You got $21 remaining. >> It don't leak, does it? >> No. They did a wonderful job. And then
you owe Frank for the carburetor. >> I'm not going to pay that man. >> Goddamn Chevrolet. >> Thought I prohibited the manufacturer
that car. >> You owe him three and a half. Odds and ends comes to around $120 by the 15th. >> $120.
My god. If business don't pick up, I don't know what I'm going to do. Well, next week you'll do better. >> Sure. I'll knock them dead next week.
I'll go to Hartford. I'm very wellliked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take to me.
>> Oh, don't be >> I know it. When I walk in, they seem to laugh at me. >> Why? Why would they laugh at you? Don't
talk that way, Willie. >> I don't know the reason for it, but they they just pass me by. I'm not noticed. >> Well, you're doing wonderful, dear.
You're making 70 to $100 a week. >> Yeah, I know, but I got to be at it 10 12 hours a day. other men, I don't know, they they do it
easier. I don't know why I talk too much. A man ought to come in with a few words. It's one thing about Charlie. He's a man of
few words, and I respect him. >> You don't talk too much. You're just lively. >> Well, I figure, what the hell? Life is
short. Couple of jokes. I joke too much. >> I'm short. >> Very foolish to look at, Linda. I didn't tell you this. Christmas time, I
happened to be calling on FH Stewarts and a salesman that I know. As I was going in to see the buyer, I heard him say something about shrimp. Well, I
cracked him right across the face. I won't take that. I simply will not take that. But they do. They laugh at me. I know that.
>> I got to overcome it. I know. I got to overcome it. I'm not dressing to advantage. Maybe >> you're the handsomest man in the world,
Willie. >> No, Linda. To me, you are the handsomest. And the boys, Willie, few men are
idolized by their children the way you are. You're the best there is, Linda. You're a pal. You know that?
On the road. On the road. I want to grab you sometimes and just kiss the life out of you cuz I get so lonely. Especially when business is bad, there's nobody to
talk to. I get the feeling I'm I'm never going to sell anything again. That I won't make a living for you or a business. A business
for the boys. There's so much I want to make for >> me. You didn't make me, Willie. I picked you.
>> You picked me, huh? >> Sure. I've been sitting at that desk watching all the salesman go by day in day out. But you've got such a sense of
humor. And we do have such a good time together, don't we? >> Sure. Sure. Why' you have to go now? >> 2:00.
>> No. Come on in. My sisters will be scandalized when you'll be back. >> Oh, two weeks about. Will you uh come up
again? >> Sure thing. You do make me laugh. It's good for me and I think you're a wonderful man.
>> You picked me, huh? >> Sure, because you're so sweet and such a kid. >> Well, I'll see you next time I'm in
Boston. >> I put you right through to the bias. >> Right. Well, >> bottoms up.
You just killed me. Really? [Music] Oh, you kill me. Thanks for the stockings. I love a lot
of stockings. Well, good night. >> Good night. Keep your pores open. >> Willie.
>> You are Willie. The handsomest man. You've no reason to fe >> I'll make it all up to you, Linda. >> Well, there's nothing to make up, dear.
You're doing fine. The >> just mending my stockings. They're so expensive. >> I won't have you mending stockings in
this house. I'll throw them out. >> Where is he? If he doesn't study, >> you'll give him the answers. >> I do, but I can't on a regent. That's a
state exam. They're liable to arrest me. >> Where is he? I'll whip him. I'll whip him. >> Better give back that football, Willie.
It's not nice. >> BIFF, WHERE IS HE? Why are he taking everything? >> He's too rough with the girls, Willie.
All the mothers are afraid of it. >> Whip him. >> He's driving the car without a license. >> Shut up.
>> All the mothers. >> Shut up. >> Mr. Burn Bum says he's stuck up. >> Get out of here.
>> If he doesn't buckle down, he'll flunk me math. >> There's nothing to matter with him. >> He's right, Willie. YOU'VE GOT TO
>> THERE'S NOTHING TO MATTER WITH HIM. YOU WANT HIM TO BE A worm like Bernard? He's got spirit, personality. He's loaded with it. Loaded.
What's he stealing? He's giving it back, isn't he? Why is he stealing? What' I tell him? I never in my life
told him anything but decent things. >> What's going on? Come on. >> Huh? [Music]
>> What brought you back tonight? >> I got an awful scare. I nearly hit a kid in Yonkers. God, why didn't I go to Alaska that time
with my brother Ben? Ben, >> that man was a genius. That man was success incarnate. What a mistake. He begged me to go.
>> Well, there's >> you guys. There was a man started with a clothes on his back, ENDED UP WITH DIAMOND MINES.
>> BOY, someday I'd like to know how he did it. >> What's the mystery? Man what he wanted out and got it. Walks into the jungle,
comes out the age of 21, is rich. The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress. Pop, I told you I'm going to retire you for life.
>> Your retire me for life on 70 goddamn dollars a week and your women and your car and your apartment and your retire me for life. Christ's
sakes. I couldn't get PAST YONERS TODAY. WHERE ARE YOU GUYS? WHERE ARE YOU? The woods are burning. I CAN'T DRIVE A CAR. >> Everything all right?
>> Yeah, Charlie. Everything's all right. >> What's the matter? Well, I heard some noise. I thought something happened.
Can we do something about the walls? You sneeze in here and in my house hats blow off. >> Let's go to bed. Not bad. Come on. No,
>> I'm not tired at the moment. You go on. >> Take it easy. Huh? >> What are you doing up? >> Couldn't sleep good. I had a hard one.
>> You don't know how to eat. >> I eat with my mouth. >> No, you're ignorant. You got to know about vitamins, things like that.
>> Come on, let's shoot. tie you out a little. >> You got cards? >> Yeah. Yeah, I got some.
>> What is it with those vitamins? >> They build up your bones. Chemistry. >> Yeah, but there's no bones in a heartburn.
>> What are you talking about? Do you know the first thing about it? >> Don't get insulted. >> Well, don't talk about something you
don't know anything about. >> What are you doing? Little trouble with a car.
I'd like to take a trip to California. >> Don't say. >> You want a job? >> I've got a job. I told you that.
>> What the hell are you offering me a job for? >> Don't get insulted. >> Well, don't insult me.
>> I don't see no sense in it. You don't have to go on this way. >> I've got a good job. >> What do you keep coming in here for?
>> You want me to go? >> I can't understand it, Charlie. He's going back to Texas again. Now, what the hell is that?
>> Let him go. >> I got nothing to give him, Charlie. I'm clean. I'm clean. >> He won't starve. None of them starve.
Forget about him. >> Then what have I got to remember? >> You take it too hard, hell with it. When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't
get your nickel back. >> It's easy enough for you to say. >> That ain't easy for me to say.
>> You see the ceiling I put up in the living room? Yeah, that's a piece of work. To put up a ceiling is a mystery to me.
>> How do you do it? >> What's the difference? >> Well, talk about it. >> You going to put up a ceiling?
>> How could I put up a ceiling? >> Well, what the hell are you bothering me for? >> You're insulted again.
>> A man who can't handle tools is not a man. You're disgusting. >> Don't call me disgusting, Willie.
>> I'm getting awful tired, Ben. >> Good. Keep playing. You're sleeping. >> Did you call me Ben? >> Funny. For a second there, you reminded
me of my brother Ben. >> I only have a few minutes. >> You never heard from him again since that time?
>> Didn't Linda tell you a couple of weeks ago we had a letter from his wife in Africa. He died. >> That's so.
>> So this is Brooklyn, huh? >> Maybe in for some of his money. Nah, >> he had seven sons. It's just one opportunity I have with that man.
>> I must make a train, William. There are several properties I'm looking at in Alaska. >> Sure.
>> If I had gone to Alaska with him that time, everything would have been totally different. >> I go on. You'd have froze to death up
there. >> What are you talking about? >> Opportunity is tremendous in Alaska, William. Surprised you're not up there.
>> Sure. Sure. Tremendous. >> That was the only man I ever met who knew the answers.
>> Who? >> How are you all? >> Fine. Fine. Hey, pretty sharp tonight.
>> Is mother living with you? >> No, she died long ago. >> Who? >> That's too bad. Finds best mother of a
lady, mother. >> Huh? >> I'd hope to see the old girl. >> Who died?
>> Heard anything from father? Have you? >> What do you mean who died? >> What are you talking about? >> William, it's half past eight.
>> Hey, that's my build. >> Hey, BUT THE ACE. >> OH, LOOK. IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO PLAY the game, I'm not going to throw my
money away on you. >> That was my ACE FOR GOD'S SAKE. >> I'M TRUE. ONE TRUE. >> When did mother die?
>> Long ago. From the beginning. You never knew how to play cards. >> All right. Next time I bring a deck with five aces.
>> I don't play that kind of game. >> You ought to be ashamed of yourself. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> Ignormus. >> So you're William. Ben, I've been waiting for you for so long. What's the answer, Ben? How'd you do it?
>> Oh, there's a story in there. >> Is this Ben? >> How do you do, my dear? >> Where have you been all these years?
Willy's always one. >> Where is dad? DIDN'T YOU FOLLOW HIM? HOW'D YOU get started? >> Well, I don't know how much you
remember. >> Well, I was just a baby, of course. Only three or four years old. >> 3 years, 11 months.
>> What a memory, Ben. >> I have many enterprises, William, when I've never kept books. >> Well, I remember sitting under the wagon
at Was it Nebraska? >> It was South Dakota. And I gave you a bunch of wild flowers. >> Yeah, I remember you walking away down
some open road. >> Yeah, I was going to find father in Alaska. >> Where is he?
>> At that age, I had a very faulty view of geography. William, I discovered after a few days I was heading due south. So instead of Alaska, I ended up in Africa.
>> Africa? >> The Gold Coast. >> Principally diamond mines. >> Diamond mines.
>> Yes, my dear. But I've only a few minutes. >> No. Boys. Boys. Listen to this.
This is your uncle Ben. He's a great man. Tell my boys. Ben. Why boys? When I was 17, I walked into the jungle. And when I
was 21, I walked out. And by God, I was rich. >> You see what I've been talking about? THE GREATEST THINGS CAN HAPPEN.
>> Have an appointment and catch a cat Tuesday week. >> Now, Ben, PLEASE TELL ABOUT THAT. I WANT MY BOYS TO HEAR. I want them to know the
kind of stock they spring from. See, all I remember is a man with a big beard. I was on mama's lap sitting around a fire in some kind of high music.
>> His flute. He played the flute. >> Sure. The flute. That's right. >> Father was a very great and a very wildarted man.
We would start in Boston and he toss the whole family into the wagon and then he'd drive the team right across the country through Ohio and Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois, and all the western states. and we'd stop in the towns and sell the flutes that he'd made on the way.
>> Great inventor, father. With one gadget, he made more in a week than a man like you could make in a lifetime. >> Well, that's just the way I'm bringing
THEM UP, THEN. RUGGED, WELLDIKED ALL AROUND. >> OH, YEAH.
Hit that boy hard as you can. >> Uh, no, sir. >> Come on. No. Get to me.
>> Go to it, babe. Go ahead. Show them. >> All right. Why must they fight, dear? >> Good boy. Good boy. How's that, Ben? Give him left. Piff,
>> why are you fighting? >> Good boy.
>> Look out, Piff. >> Jeez. Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
It was an honor and a pleasure to meet you, Linda. >> Have a nice trip. >> And good luck with you. What do you do?
Selling. >> Yeah. Well, Ben, I don't want you to think that's Brooklyn. I know, but we hunt, too.
>> Really? Now? >> Oh, sure. There's snakes and rabbits. And that's why I moved out here. What? Biff, he can fell any one of those trees
in no time at all. Hey, boys. Boys, go right over to where they're building the apartment house and get some sand. We're going to rebuild that entire front stoop
right now. You watch this, B. >> Yes, sir. I'm the double hat. >> I lost weight pop. You know this? >> Listen, if they steal any more from that
building, the watchman want to put the cops on them. >> Oh, DON'T LET ME. >> YOU SHOULD HAVE seen the lumber they
brought home last week. At least a dozen 6x10s worth all kinds of money. >> Listen, IF THAT WATCH >> I gave them hell, you understand? But I
got a couple of fearless characters here. >> Wendy, the jails are full of fearless characters. and the stock exchange
friend. >> Where's the rest of your pants? >> Oh, my wife bought them.
>> Yeah. Now all you need is a golf club. You can go upstairs and go to sleep. Great athlete. Between him and his son Bernard. They can't hammer a nail.
>> The watchman's chasing Biff. >> Shut up. He's not stealing anything. >> Well, where is he? BIFF HERE. >> THERE'S NOTHING WRONG. WHAT'S THE MATTER
WITH YOU? >> DON'T KNOW WHAT it is. My New England man comes back and he's bleeding. They murdered him up there.
>> Contacts, Charlie. I got in Portland contacts. >> Oh, glad to hear it, Willie. Be coming later. We should have a casino. I'll
take some of your Portland money. >> Business is bad. Murderous. Not for me, of course.
>> I'll stop by on my way back to Africa. Can't you stay a few days, babe? You're just what I need. See, because I Well, I have a fine position here, but well, Dad
left when I was such a baby. I never had a chance to talk with him, and I still feel kind of temporary about myself. >> I'll be late for my train.
>> Ben, my boys, can we talk? They go into the jaws of hell for me, see, but I >> William, you're being first rate with your boys. Outstanding manly champs.
>> Ben, that's good to hear. See, cuz sometimes I'm afraid I'm not teaching them the right kind of How should I teach them, Ben?
>> William, when I walked into the jungle, I was 17. When I walked out, I was 21. And by God, I was rich. >> Was rich. Yeah. That's just a spirit I
want to imbue them with. To walk into the jungle. I was right. I was right. I was right. Willie, do you hear?
Willie, >> I was right. >> Did you have some cheese?
>> It's very late, darling. Come to bed. Huh? >> You ain't got to break your neck to see a star in this yard.
>> Coming in. >> Whatever happened to that diamond watch fob? You remember when Ben came from Africa that time? Didn't he give me a
watch f with a diamond in it? >> You pawned it, dear 12, 13 years ago for this radio correspondence course. Oh gee, that was a beautiful thing.
I'll take a walk. >> But you're in your slippers. >> I was right. I was. What a man. >> There was a man worth talking to.
>> But in your slippers, Willie, >> what's he doing out there? >> Sh. God almighty. Mom, how long's he been doing this?
>> Don't. He'll hear you. >> What the hell is the matter with him? >> He could pass by morning. Shouldn't we do anything?
>> Oh, my dear, you should do a lot of things, but there's nothing to do, so go to sleep. >> I never heard him so loud, Mom.
>> Well, come around more often, you hear him. >> Why didn't you ever write me about this, Mom?
>> How could I write to you? For over 3 months, you had no address. >> I was on the move. You know, I thought of you all the time. You know that,
don't you, pal? >> I know, dear. I know. But he likes to have a letter just to know there's still a possibility for better things.
>> He's not like this all the time, is he? >> It's when you come home, he's always the worst. >> When I come home,
>> when you write you're coming, he's all smiles and talks about the future. And he's just wonderful. But then the closer you seem to come, the more shaky he
gets. And then by the time you get here, he's arguing and he seems angry at you. >> I think it's just that maybe he can't bring himself to open up to you.
Why are you so hateful to each other? Why is that? >> I'm not hateful, Mom. >> But you're no sooner to come in the door
than you're fighting. >> I don't know why. I mean to change. I'm trying. Mom, you understand? >> Are you home to stay now?
>> I don't know. I want to look around. See what it's doing. >> If you can't look around all your life, can you?
>> I just can't take hold, Mom. I can't take hold of some kind of a life. Be a man is not a bird to come and go with the springtime.
>> Her hair, your hair got so gray. >> It's been gray since you were in high school. I just stopped dying it, that's
all. >> I'll dye it again, will you? Although my pal looking old. >> Oh, you're such a boy. You think you can
go away for a year and you've got to get it into your head now. That one day you're going to knock on this door and there'll be strange people
here. >> What are you talking about? You're not even 60, Mom. >> But what about your father?
>> Well, I meant him, too. >> He admires pop. >> Dear, if you don't have any feeling for him, then you can't have any feeling for
me. >> Sure, I can, Mom. >> No, you can't just come to see me because I
love him. He's the dearest man in the world to me, and I won't have anyone making him feel unwanted and low and blue.
You've got to make up your mind now, darling. There's no leeway anymore. Either he's your father and you pay him that respect, or else you're not to come
here. >> I know he's not easy to get along with. Nobody knows that better than me.
>> What the hell is the matter with you? >> Don't Don't go near him. >> You stop making excuses for him. >> He always always wiped the floor with
you. He never had an ounce of respect for you. >> He always had respect. >> What the hell do you know about it? Just
don't call him crazy. >> He's got no character. Charlie wouldn't do this. Not in his own house. Spwing out that vomit from his mind.
>> Charlie never had to cope with what he's got. >> People are worse off than Willie Lman. Believe me, I've seen them.
>> Then make Charlie your father, Biff. You can't do that, can you? I don't say he's a great man. >> Willie Lman never made a lot of money.
His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived, but he's a human being and a terrible thing is happening to
him. So, attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention. Attention must
finally be paid to such a person. You called him crazy. >> I didn't mean it. >> No, no, no. A lot of people think he's
lost his balance. >> But you don't have to be very smart to know what his trouble is. The man is exhausted.
>> Sure. A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. He works for a company 36 years this March. Opens up unheard of territories to their
trademark. And now in his old age, they take his salary away. >> I didn't know that, Mom. >> No, you never asked, my dear. Now that
you get your spending money someplace else, you don't trouble your mind with him. >> But I gave you money last Christmas.
>> Christmas time. $50 to fix the hot water. It cost 97.50. For five weeks, he's been on straight commission like a beginner, an unknown.
>> Those ungrateful bastards. >> Are they any worse than his sons? When he brought them business when he was young, they were glad to see him.
But now his old friends, the old buyers who loved him so and always found some order to hand him in a pinch, they're all dead, retired.
He used to be able to make six, seven calls a day in Boston. Now he takes his biceses out of the car and puts them back and takes them out again and he's
exhausted. Instead of walking, he talks now. He drives 700 miles. And when he gets there, no one knows him anymore. No one welcomes him. And what goes through
a man's mind? Driving 700 miles home without having earned a scent. Why shouldn't he talk to himself? Why? When he has to go to
Charlie and borrow $50 a week and pretend to me that it's his pay. How long can that go on? How long? You see what I'm sitting here and
waiting for? And you tell me he has no character. The man who never worked a day but for your benefit.
When does he get the medal for that? Is this his reward? to turn around at the age of 63 and find his sons who he loved better
than his life. What a philandering bum. >> That's all you are, my baby. >> You, what happened to the love you had
for him? You were such pals. How you used to talk to him on the phone every night. How lonely he was till he could come home to you.
>> All right, Mom. I'll live here in my room and I'll get a job. I'll stay away from him, that's all. >> No, Biff, you can't stay here and fight
all the time. >> He threw me out of this house. Remember that. >> But why did he do that? I never knew
why. >> Because I know he's a fake. And he doesn't like anybody around who knows. >> Why a fake? In what way? What do you
mean? >> Just don't lay it all at my feet. That's all I have to say. It's between me and him. I'll chip in from now on. He'll
settle for half my paycheck. He'll be all right. I'll go to bed. >> He won't be all right. >> I hate this city and I'll stay here now.
What do you want? >> He's dying, Biff. >> Why is he dying? >> He's been trying to kill himself.
>> How? >> I live from day to day. >> What are you talking about? >> Remember I wrote you that he smashed up
the car again in February. >> Well, >> the insurance inspector came. It seems that they have evidence that
all these accidents in the last year weren't weren't accidents. >> How can they tell that? That's a lie. >> It seems there's a woman and this woman
>> What? >> Nothing. Go ahead. >> What did you say? >> Nothing. I just said what woman.
>> What about her? >> Well, it seems she was walking down the road and saw his car. She says that he wasn't driving fast at all, that he
didn't skid. She says he came to that little bridge and then deliberately smashed into the railing and it was only the shallowess of the water that saved
him. >> Oh no, he probably just fell asleep again. >> I don't think he fell asleep.
>> Why not? >> Last month, boys. It's so hard to say a thing like this.
He's just a little stupid man to you. But I tell you, there's more good in him than many other people. I was looking for a fuse. The lights
blew out. I went down the cellar and behind the fuse box, it happened to fall out, was a length of rubber pipe just short.
>> No kidding. >> There's a little attachment on the end of it. I knew right away. And sure enough, at the bottom of the water
heater, there's a new little nipple on the gas pipe. >> Did you have it taken off? >> I'm ashamed to. How can I mention it to
him? Every day I go down and I take away that little rubber pipe, but when he comes home, I put it back where it was. How can I insult him that way?
I don't know what to do. I live from day to day, boys. I tell you, I know every thought in his mind.
It sounds so oldfashioned and silly, but he put his whole life into you and you've turned your backs on him.
Biff, I swear to God, Biff, his life is in your hand. >> How do you like that? Damn, fool.
>> Oh, it's all right, pal. It's all right. It's all settled now. I've been remiss. I know that. But now I'll stay. And I swear to you, I'll apply myself. It's
just, you see, Mom, I don't fit in business. It's not that I won't try. I'll try and I'll make good. >> Sure you will. The trouble with you in
business was you never tried to please people. >> I know I >> like when you work for Harrison's. Bob
Harrison said you were tops and then you'd go and do some damn fool thing like whistling whole songs in the elevator like a comedian.
>> Well, so what I like to whistle sometimes. >> Do not raise a guy to a responsible job who whistles in the elevator.
>> Don't argue about it now. Like when you'd go off and take a swim in the middle of the day instead of taking the line around.
>> Well, don't you run off. You take off sometimes. Don't you on a nice summer day? >> Yeah, but I cover myself.
>> If I'm going to take a feed, the boss can call any number where I'm supposed to be, and they'll swear to him that I just left. I'll tell you something that
I hate to say, Biff, but in the business world, some of them think you're crazy. >> Screw the BUSINESS WORLD. >> ALL RIGHT, SCREW IT. GREAT. BUT COVER
YOURSELF. >> I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY THINK. They've laughed at dad for years. And you know why? Because we don't belong in this
nutouse of a city. We should be uh mixing cement on some open plane or carpenters. A carpenter is allowed to whistle.
Even your grandfather was better than a carpenter. You never grew up. Bernard does not whistle in the
elevator. I assure you. >> Yeah, but you do, POP. >> I NEVER IN MY LIFE WHISTLE IN AN ELEVATOR. AND WHO IN THE BUSINESS WORLD
THINKS I'M CRAZY? >> I DIDN'T MEAN IT LIKE THAT. Now don't make a whole thing out of it. >> Go back to the west. Be a carpenter
cowboy. Enjoy yourself. >> Willie, he was just saying. >> I heard what he say. >> HEY, COME ON UP. Laugh at me. Huh? Go to
Philines. Go to the hub. Go to slaughteries Boston. Call out the name Willie Lom and see what happens. Big Shack.
>> All right, P. All right. >> Why do you always insult me? >> I didn't say a word. Did I say a word? >> He didn't say anything, Willie.
>> All right. Good night. Good night, >> Willy dear. He just decided
>> You get tired of hanging around tomorrow. Paint the ceiling I put up in the living room. >> I'm leaving early tomorrow.
>> He's going to see Bill Oliver. Pop. >> Oliver for what? >> Well, he always said he'd stake me. I'd like to go into business, so maybe I can
take him up on it. Oh, >> isn't that wonderful? >> Don't interrupt. What's wonderful about it? There's 50 men in the city of New
York at stake. Kim sporting goods? >> I I guess so. I know something about it. >> He knows something about it. You know sporting goods better than Spalding for
God's sake. How much is it giving you? >> I don't know. I didn't even see. >> What are you talking about? >> Well, all I said was I'm going to see
him. That's all. >> You counting your chickens again, huh? >> Jesus. I'M GOING TO SLEEP. >> DON'T CURSE IN THIS HOUSE.
>> Since when did you get so clean? >> Use that language TO ME. I WON'T HAVE >> WAIT A MINUTE. I GOT AN IDEA. I GOT a feasible idea. Come here, Biff. Let's
talk this over now. Let's talk some sense here. When I was down in Florida the last time, I thought of a great idea to sell sporting goods. It just came
back to me. You and I, Biff, we have a line, the Loman line. We train a couple of weeks and we put on a couple of exhibitions. See
>> that? That's an idea. >> We formed two basketball teams. See, two water polo teams. We play each other. It's a million dollars worth of
publicity. Two brothers. See the Lman brothers displays in the royal palms. All the hotels, banners over the ring and the basketball courts. Loman
brothers, baby. We could sell SPORTING CUTS. THAT IS A $1 million idea. >> I'm in great shape as far as that's concerned.
>> And the beauty of it is, Biff, it wouldn't be like business. It'd be like being out playing ball again. >> Yeah. Yeah.
>> You wouldn't get fed up with it, Biff, cuz it'd be the old family. There'd be the old honor and comradeship. And if you wanted to go off for a swim or
something, will you do it without some smart cookie getting up ahead of you? >> Lick the world. You guys together could absolutely lick the civilized world.
>> I'll see Oliver tomorrow, Hap. If we could work that out, >> maybe. Will you stop interrupting? >> Don't wear a sport jacket and slacks
when you see >> a business suit and talk as little as possible. Don't crack any jokes. >> He did like me. ALWAYS LIKE ME.
>> WILL YOU STOP? >> Walking very serious. You're not applying for a boy's job. Money is to pass. Be quiet. Fine. Serious. Everybody
likes a kid, but nobody lends them money. >> I'll try to get some myself. I'm sure I can.
>> I see great things for you boys. I THINK YOUR TROUBLES ARE OVER. But remember, start big and you'll end big. Ask for 15. How much you going to ask for?
>> Gee, I don't know. >> Say G. G is a boy's word, man. Walking in asking for $15,000 does not say G. >> 10, I think, would be top.
>> DON'T BE SO MODEST. YOU ALWAYS STARTED TOO LOW. WALK IN WITH A BIG LAUGH. DON'T LOOK WORRIED. START OFF WITH A COUPLE OF GOOD STORIES. You know, just to lighten
things up. Remember, it's not what you say, BUT HOW YOU SAY IT. BECAUSE PERSONALITY ALWAYS WINS THE DAY. >> WILL YOU LET ME TALK?
>> STOP YELLING AT HER, WILL YOU? >> I WAS TALKING, wasn't I? >> Don't like he yelling at her all the time. And I'm telling you THAT'S
>> TAKING OVER THIS HOUSE. >> WILL HE >> DON'T TAKE HIS SIDE OVER? GOD DAMN IT. >> YOU STOP YELLING AT HER, WILL YOU?
Give my best to Bill Oliver. You may remember me. What you have to stop him for? You see how sweet he was as soon as you
talked? Hopefully. Come up and say good night to him. Don't let him go to bed that way. Come.
>> Come on, Miff. Let's buck him up. >> Please, dear. It takes so little to make him happy. Just say good night. Come.
>> Your pajamas are hanging in the bathroom, Willie. >> What a woman, huh? They broke the mold when they made. You
know that, Biff? He's off salary. My god. Working on commission. >> Well, let's face it. He's no hot shot selling man. Except sometimes you have
to admit he's got a sweet personality. >> Lend me 10 bucks, will you? I want to buy some new ties. >> I'll take you to a place I don't know.
Beautiful stuff. Wear one of my stripe shirts tomorrow. >> Can you do anything about the shower? It drips.
>> All of a sudden, everything falls to pieces. Goddamn plumbing. ought to be sued. Those people already finished putting it in the
thing. >> I'm wondering if Oliver will remember him. You think he might >> remember him? Somebody you crazy.
He'd have stayed with Oliver being tough by now. >> You wait till Oliver gets a look at him. You don't know the average caliber
anymore. Average young man today HAS GOT A CALIBER OF ZERO.
Greatest thing in the world for him was to bum around. >> She got gray. Mom got awful old. Gee, I'm going to go into Oliver and
knock him for a >> Come on up and tell that to dad. Let's give him a whirl. Come on. >> With 10,000 bucks, boy. That's the
doctor. That's the first time I hear the old confidence out of you. You're going to live with me, kid. And any baby you want, you just say the word.
[Music] Glad to hear it, boy. >> He wanted to say good night to you, sport.
>> Sure, knock him dead, boy. What do you want to tell me? >> Just take it easy, pal. >> Good night.
>> And if anything falls off his desk while you're talking to him, like a package or something, don't you pick it up. They have office boys for that.
>> I'll make a big >> Will you let me finish and tell him you're in the business in the West, not farmwork.
>> All right, Dad. I think everything. >> And don't underell yourself. No less than $15,000. >> Okay. Good night, Mom.
>> Cuz you got a greatness in you, Biff. Remember that. >> You got all kind of greatness. >> Sleep well, darling.
>> I'm going to get married. Mom, I wanted to tell you. >> Go to sleep, deed to tell you.
>> Keep up the good work happening. You remember that Ebbit's Field game? It's a championship of the city.
>> Just rest. Shall I sing too? >> Sure. Sing. >> When that team came out, he was the tallest. Remember?
>> Yes. And in gold, >> like a young god, >> Hercules, something like that. >> And the sun. The sun all around him.
You remember how he waved to me right up in the field with the representatives of three colleges standing by and the buyers I brought
and the cheers when he came out in the field. Low men low God almighty. A star like that magnificent can never
really fade away. Will he do? What's he got against you?
>> I'm so tired. Don't let us talk anymore. >> Will you ask Howard to let you work in New York? >> Sure. First thing in the morning,
everything will be all right. >> Gee, look at the moon moving between the
buildings. [Music]
Wonderful coffee meal in itself. >> Can I make you some eggs? >> No. Take a breath. >> You look so rested, dear.
>> I slept like a dead one. First time in months. Imagine sleeping till 10:00 on a Tuesday morning. Boys left nice and early, huh? They were
out of here by 8:00. >> Good work. >> It was so thrilling to see them leaving together. I can't get over the shaving
lotion in this house. >> Bic was very changed this morning. His whole attitude seemed to be hopeful. He
couldn't wait to get downtown to see Oliver. >> He's thin for a change. There's no question. There simply are Satan men
take longer to get solidified. How did he dress? >> His blue suit. He's so handsome in that suit. He could be a anything in that
suit. >> There's no question. No question at all. Gee, on the way home tonight, I'd like to buy some seeds.
>> That'll be wonderful to hear. But not enough sun gets back there. Nothing will grow anymore. >> You wait, kid. Before it's all over,
we're going to get a little place out in the country. I'll raise some vegetables, couple of chickens. >> You do it yet, dear.
>> They'll get married. Come for the weekend. I build a little guest house cuz I got so many fine tools. All I need is a little lumber and some peace of
mind. >> I sold the lining. >> I could build two guest houses. Then they both come.
>> Did he decide how much it's going to ask Oliver for? >> He didn't mention it, but I imagine 10 or 15,000.
You going to talk to Howard today? >> Sure. I'll put it to him straight and simple. You just have to take me off the road.
>> And Willie, don't forget to ask him for a little advance because we've got the insurance premium. It's the grace period now.
>> That's 100 >> 10868 because we're a little short again. >> Why are we short?
>> Well, you had the motor job on the car. >> Goddamn Studebaker. >> And you got one more payment on the refrigerator.
>> But it just broke again. >> It's old. Dear, >> I told you we should have bought a well advertised machine. Charlie bought a
General Electric. It's 20 years old and still good. A son of a >> But Willie. >> Well, WHO EVER HEARD OF A HASTINGS
REFRIGERATOR? Just once in my life, I'd like to own something outright before it's broken. I'm always in a race with a junkyard.
Just finished paying for the car. It's on its last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a goddamn maniac. They time those things. They time them.
So when you finally pay for them, they're all used up. >> All told, about $200 would carry us there. But that includes the last
payment on the mortgage. After this payment, Willie, the house belongs to us.
That's 25 years. >> Biff was 9 years old when we bought it. >> That's a great thing to weather a 25- year mortgage.
>> It's an accomplishment. >> All the cement, the lumber, the reconstruction I put into this house. It's not a crack to be founded in
anymore. >> Well, it served its purpose. >> What purpose? Some stranger come along, move in? That's that.
If only Biff would take the house, raise a family, and Well, goodbye. I'm late. >> Oh, I forgot. You're supposed to meet
them for dinner. >> Me? >> At Frank's Chop House on 48th near 6th Avenue.
>> Is that so? What about you? >> No, just the three of you. They're going to blow you to a big meal. >> You don't say. Who thought of that? Biff
came to me this morning, Willie, and he said, "Tell Dad we want to blow him to a big meal. Be there six o'clock. You and your two boys are going to have dinner."
>> She wish that really is something. I'm going to knock Howard for a loop, kid. I'll get an advance and I'll come home with a New YORK JOB. GOD DAMN IT.
NOW I'M GOING TO DO IT. >> You'll do it yet, do you? >> I'll never get behind a wheel the rest of my life. It's changing, Willie. I can
feel it changing. >> Beyond the question. >> Goodbye. I'm late. >> Oh, HAVE YOU GOT YOUR GLASSES?
>> OH, YEAH. YEAH. Got my glasses. >> And your handkerchief? >> Oh, yeah. My handkerchief. >> And your saccharine.
>> Yeah. Yeah. I got my saccharine. >> Be careful on the subway stairs. >> Would you stop mending stockings at least while I'm in the house, please? It
gets me nervous. I can't tell you. Remember Frank's Chop House.
>> Maybe beat should grow out there. >> But you've tried so many times. >> But work hard now. >> Be careful.
>> Oh, Willie. Come in. >> Like to have a little talk with you, Howard. I'm sorry to keep you waiting.
I'll be with you in a minute. >> What's that, Hammond? >> Didn't you ever see one of these wire recorder?
>> Oh, can we talk a minute? >> Records things. Just got delivery yesterday. Been driving me crazy. The most terrific machine I ever saw in my
life. I was up all night with it. >> What do you do with it? >> I bought it for dictation, but you can do anything with it. Listen to this. I
had it home last night. Listen to what I picked up. This first one is my daughter. Get this.
Listen to that kid whistle. >> That is lifelike, isn't it? >> 7 years old. Will he get that tone? Huh? >> I'd like to ask you a little favor. How
>> about you, Daddy? >> She's crazy for me. That's me. >> You're very good.
>> Shh. >> Get this now. This is my son. >> The capital of Alabama is Montgomery. The capital of Arizona is Phoenix. The
capital of Arkansas is Little Rock. The capital of California is >> 5 years old. Willie, >> the capital of Colorado.
>> Make an announcer someday. Alphabetical order. >> The capital. >> Wait a minute. The maid kicked the plug
out. >> You'll be there for dinner at 6:00. I didn't forget. Listen, I was dying to tell you. You know that little rubber
pipe I told you about that he connected to the gas heater? I finally decided to go down the cellar this morning and take it away and destroy it. But it's it's
gone. Imagine he took it away himself. It isn't there when
Oh. Oh, then you took it. Oh, nothing. I was just hoping he'd taken it away himself. Oh, no. I am not worried, darling,
because this morning he left in such high spirits like in the old days. I'm not afraid anymore. Did Mr. Oliver ever see you?
Well, you wait there then and make a nice impression on him, darling. Just don't persspire too much before he sees you. And have a nice time with Dad. He
may have good news, too. That's right. a New York job. Be sweet with him tonight, dear. Be loving to him, because he's only a
little boat looking for a harbor. Oh, that's wonderful, Biff. You'll save his life.
Thanks, darling. Just put your arms around him when he comes into the restaurant. Give him a smile. That's a boy.
Goodbye to you. Oh, have you got your comb? Fine. Goodbye, Biffy.
>> It's 9:00, but I've already watch time, so I have to go to sleep. >> That really is. >> Wait a minute. The next is my wife.
>> Go on, say something. >> Well, you going to talk? I I I can't think of anything. >> Talk. It's Tommy.
>> Hello. Oh, Howard, I can't talk into this. >> That was my wife. >> Hey, that's a wonderful machine, Howard.
>> I tell you, Willie, I'm going to take my camera and my band saw, all my hobbies, and out they go. This is the most fascinating relaxation I ever found. Oh,
>> I think I get one myself. >> Sure. They're only hundred and a half. You can't do without it. Supposing you want to hear Jack Benny. See, but you
can't be home in that hour. So, you tell the mate to turn the radio on when Jack Benny comes on and this automatically goes on with the radio.
>> And when you come home, you >> come home 12:00, 1:00, anytime you like, and you get yourself a Coke and sit yourself down, throw the switch, and
there's Jack Benny's program in the middle of the night. >> I'm definitely going to get one cuz lots of times I'm on the road, I think to
myself, what I must be missing on the radio. >> Don't you have a radio in the car? >> Yeah, sure.
Whoever thinks of turning it on. >> Say, aren't you supposed to be in Boston? >> That's what I want to talk to you about.
How you got a minute? >> Well, what happened? What are you doing here? >> Well,
>> you didn't crack up again, did you? >> No, no, no. >> Jeez, you had me worried there for a minute. Oh, what's the trouble?
>> Well, I tell you the truth, Howard. I've come to the decision. I'd rather not travel anymore. >> Not travel? Well, what do you do? Well,
you remember Christmas time you had to party here and you you said you'd try and think of some spot for me here in town
>> with us. >> Well, sure. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember. Well, I couldn't think of anything for you. Will
>> I tell you how the the kids are all grown up, you know? I I don't need much anymore. If I could take home well $65 a week, I could swing it.
>> Yeah, but Willie, see, >> I'll tell you why. How? speaking frankly just between the two of us. Uh, I'm just a little tired.
>> Oh, I could understand that, Willie. But you're a road man, Willie, and we do a road business. We've only got a half dozen salesmen on the floor here.
>> God knows Howard and I never asked a favor of any man. But I was with the firm when your father used to carry you in here in his arms.
>> I didn't know that, Willie. >> Your father came to me the day you were born and asked me what I thought of the name of Howard. May rest in peace. I
appreciate that, Willie, but there just is no spot here for you. If I had a spot, I'd slam you right in, but I I just don't have a single solitary spot.
>> All I need to set my table, Howard, is $50 a week. >> Where am I going to put you, kid? >> It's not a question of whether I can
sell merchandise, is it? >> No, but it's a business, kid, and everybody's got to pull his own weight. Well, just let me tell you a story.
>> You got to admit, business is business. >> Business is definitely business. But just listen a minute. You don't understand it.
When I was a boy, uh, 80, 19, I was already on the road. And there was a question in my mind as to whether selling had any future for me. Because
in those days, I had a yearning to go to Alaska. You see, there were three gold strikes in one month in Alaska. And I felt like
going out there just for the ride, you might say. >> Don't say. Oh, yeah. My father lived many years in Alaska. He he was an
adventurous man. We got quite a little streak of self-reliance in our family. And I thought I'd go out there with my older
brother, try to locate him, maybe settle in the north with the old man. And I was almost decided to go when I met a salesman in the Parker
House. His name was Dave Singleman and he was 84 years old and he drumed merchandise in 31 states. And old Dave,
he'd go up into his room, you understand, and he'd put on his green velvet slippers, never forget, and he'd pick up
the phone and call the buyers. And without ever moving out of his room at the age of 84, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling
was the greatest career a man could want. Because what could be more satisfying than to go at the age of 84 into 20, 30 different cities, pick up
the phone and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people. You know when he died, by the way, he died the death of a salesman and his
green velvet slippers in the smoke, the New York, New Haven Hartford going to Boston. When he died, there were hundreds of buyers and salesmen at his
funeral and things were sad and a lot of trains for months after that. You see how it in those days there was
personality, there was respect and and comradship and gratitude in it. today. Uh, it's all cut and dried.
There's no chance for bringing personality or friendship to bear. You see what I mean? They don't know me anymore.
>> That's just the thing, Willie. >> If I had $40 a week, Howard, that's all I need. $40?
>> I can't take blood from a stone. Howard, the year Al Smith was nominated, your father came to me. >> See some people, kid.
>> I'M TALKING ABOUT YOUR FATHER. THERE WERE PROMISES MADE ACROSS THIS DESK. YOU MUSTN'T TELL ME YOU got people to see. I PUT 34 YEARS INTO THIS FIRM, HOWARD, AND
NOW I CAN'T PAY my insurance. You can't eat the orange and throw away the peel. Man, it's not a piece OF FRUIT. NOW PAY ATTENTION. YOUR father
in 1928, I had a very big year. I averaged $170 a week in commissions. >> WILLIE, YOU NEVER >> I AVERAGED $170 A WEEK IN COMMISSIONS IN
THE YEAR OF 1928. AND YOUR FATHER CAME TO ME WAS HE WAS RIGHT ACROSS HIS DESK. HE PUT HIS HAND ON MY SHOULDER. >> YOU HAVE TO EXCUSE ME, WILLIE. I've got
to see some people. Pull yourself together. I'll be back in a little while.
Pull pull myself together. What the hell was I saying to him? Oh my god. I was yelling at him. How could I?
Frank. Frank, don't you remember what you said to me that time? How you you put your hand on
my shoulder and you Capital of New York is Albany. >> THE CAPITAL OF NEW YORK IS >> WHAT HAPPENED? SHUT IT OFF. SHUT IT OFF.
>> The capital of Look, >> Willie, I got to get myself some coffee. I'll get some coffee. Willie, look. >> I'll go to Boston.
>> Willie, you can't go to Boston for us. >> Why can't I go? >> I don't want you to represent us. I've been meaning to tell you for a long time
now. Howard, are you firing me? >> I think you need a good long rest, Willie. Howard,
>> when you feel better, come back and uh we'll see if we can work something out. But >> I got to earn money, Howard. I'm in no
position. >> Why your sons? Why don't your sons give you a hand? >> Oh, they're working on a very big deal.
>> This is no time for false pride. Well, you go to your sons and you tell them that you're tired. You got two great boys, haven't you?
>> No question. No question. But in the meantime, >> that huh? >> I'll go to Boston tomorrow.
>> No. No. Howard, I can't control myself on my sons. I'm not a Look, kid, I am BUSY TO SEE.
>> HOWARD, YOU GOT TO LET ME GO TO BOSTON. >> I GOT A LINE OF PEOPLE TO SEE. Sit down, take 5 minutes, and pull yourself together, and then go home, will you? I
need the office, will you? Oh, yeah. Whenever you can. Stop by this weekend, drop off your samples. You'll feel better. And then come back. We'll
talk. Put yourself together, kid. There's people outside.
Ben, what's the answer? How'd you do it? Did you wind up that Alaska deal already? >> Doesn't take much time if you know what
you're doing. Just a short business trip. Board and ship now. Wanted to say goodbye. >> Ben, I got to talk to you.
>> Having the time, William? >> Ben, nothing's working out. I don't know what to do.
Now, look here, William. I bought Timberland in Alaska and I need a man to look after things for me. God, >> Timberland,
me and my boys and those grand outdoors. You have a new continent at your doorstep with him. Get out of these cities. They're full of talk and time
payments and courts of law. Screw on your fists and you can fight for a fortune up there. >> Yeah. Yeah. Linda. Linda.
>> Oh, you are back. >> I have much time. No, Linda. He's got a proposition FOR ME IN ALASKA. >> BUT YOU'VE GOT HE'S GOT A BEAUTIFUL job
here. >> Yeah, BUT IN ALASKA. >> YOU'RE DOING well enough, Willie. >> Enough for what, my dear?
>> Enough to be happy right here, right now. Why must everybody conquer the world? You're wellliked, and the boys love you. And someday, why old man
Wagner told him just the other day that if he keeps it up, he'll be a member of the firm, didn't he, Willie? >> Sure. Sure. I'm building some with this
firm, Ben. Now, if a man is building something, he must be on the right track, mustn't he? >> What are you building? Lay your hand on
it. Where is it? >> That's right, Linda. There's nothing. >> Why? There's a man 84 years old. >> THAT'S RIGHT, BEN. THAT'S RIGHT. NOW,
WHEN I LOOK AT HIM, I SAY, "WHAT IS THERE TO WORRY ABOUT?" It's true, Ben. It's true. All he has to do is to go into ANY CITY, PICK UP THE PHONE, AND
he's making his living. AND YOU KNOW WHY? I'VE GOT TO GO. LOOK AT this boy here. Without a penny to his name, THREE GREAT UNIVERSES ARE BEGGING for him. And
from there, the skies the limit. Cuz not what you do, BEN, BUT WHO YOU KNOW, AND THE SMILE ON YOUR FACE. IT'S CONTACTS, BEN. CONTACTS. Where the whole wealth of
Alaska passes over the lunch table of the Commodore Hotel. And that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the
basis of being liked. AND THAT'S WHY WHEN YOU GET OUT ON that field today, boy, that's important because there'll be thousands of people out there rooting
for you and loving you. And when he walks into a business office, Ben, his name will sound out like a bell. All the doors will open for him. I've seen it,
Ben. I've seen it a thousand times. Can't feel it in your hand like timber, but it's there. Goodbye, William. >> Am I right, Ben? Don't you think I'm
right? I value your advice. There's a new continent at your doorstep, William. You could walk out rich. Rich? >> We'll do it here, Ben. You hear me?
We're going TO DO IT HERE. >> A gee, I was afraid you LEFT ALREADY. >> WHY? WHAT TIME IS IT? >> IT'S HALF PAST 1.
>> WELL, COME ON, EVERYBODY. ABBOTTZFIELD NEXT STOP. WHERE WOULD IT TURN? >> Need to pack fresh underwear. >> I want to go.
>> Oh, Biff, I'm carrying your helmet, ain't I? >> No, I'm carrying the helmet. >> Oh, Biff, you promised me.
>> I'm carrying the helmet. >> How am I going to get in the locker room? Oh, let him carry the shoulder guards.
>> Can I, Biff? Cuz I told everybody I'm going to be in the locker room. >> Field. It's the clubhouse. >> I meant the clubhouse. Biff.
>> Biff. >> Let him carry the shoulder guards. >> Everybody, YOU SAID, BOYS.
>> Ready to go, Pop. Every muscle is ready. >> You realize what this means. >> That's right, Papa. You're coming home this afternoon. Captain of the All
Scholastic Championship team of the city, New York. I got it. And remember, pal, when I take off my helmet, that touchdown is for you.
>> Let's go. >> Hey, I got NO ROOM FOR YOU, CHARLIE. >> ROOM FOR WHAT?
>> IN A CAR. >> ARE YOU GOING FOR A RIDE? I WANTED TO SHOOT SOME CASINO. >> CASINO? DON'T YOU REALIZE WHAT THE DAY
IS? >> OH, he knows, Willie. He's just kidding you. >> BUT THAT'S NOTHING TO KID ABOUT.
>> NO, LINDA. WHAT'S GOING ON? >> HE'S PLAYING in Everett Field. >> Baseball and this weather. OH, DON'T TALK TO HIM. Come on. Come on.
>> Oh, wait a minute. Haven't you heard the news? >> What? >> Don't you listen to the radio?
Ebottzfield just blew up. >> You go to hell. Come on. Come on. We're late. >> Not the home of Biff. Not the home.
>> I don't think that's funny. Charlie, this is the greatest day of his life. >> Willie, when are you going to grow up? >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, when this game is
over, Charlie, you're going to be laughing the other side of your face. They're going to be calling him another Red Graange. 25,000 a year.
>> Is that so? >> Yeah, that's so. >> Well, then I'm sorry, Willie, but tell me something.
>> What? Who is Red Grains? >> PUT UP YOUR HANDS. GODAMN YOU. PUT UP YOUR HANDS. WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE. YOU
DON'T know everything. You're big, IGNORANT, STUPID. PUT UP YOUR HANDS. >> HELLO, Uncle Willie.
>> Bernard, look who's here. >> How are you? Good to see you. >> What are you doing here?
>> I just stopped by to see Pop. Get off my feet till my train leaves. I'm going to Washington in a few minutes. >> Is he in?
>> Yes, he's in his office with the accountant or sit down.
>> What are you going to do in Washington? >> Oh, just a case I got there. Willie, >> so you're going to play tennis there, huh?
>> Um, staying with a friend who's got a court. >> His own tennis court. Wee. Must be fine people, I bet.
>> Oh, they are very nice. Dad tells me Biff's in town. >> Oh yeah, Biff's in working on a very big deal.
>> What's Biff doing? >> Well, he's been doing very big things in the West, but he's decided to establish himself here. Very big.
We're having dinner. Did I hear your wife had a boy? >> That's right. Our second. >> Two boys? What do you know?
>> Yeah. What kind of a deal has Biff got? Well, Bill Oliver, very big sporting goods man. He wants bit very badly. Call him in from the west. Long distance card
playing special delivery. Your friends have their own private tennis court. >> You still with the old firm Willie?
>> I'm I'm overjoyed Bernard to see how you made the grade.
overjoyed. It's an encouraging thing to see a young man. Really
looks very good for Biff. Very, >> Bernard. >> What is it, Willie? >> What's the secret?
>> What secret? >> How did you Why didn't he ever catch on? >> I wouldn't know that, Willie.
>> But you were his friend. His boilant friend. It's something I don't understand here. His life ended after that Ebottzfield game. From the age of
17, nothing could ever happen to him. >> He never trained himself for anything. >> But he did. He did. After high school, he took so many correspondence courses.
Radio mechanics, television, god knows what. Never made the slightest mark. >> Well, he do. You want to talk candidly? >> I regard you as a very brilliant man,
Bernard. I value your advice. >> The hell with the advice? I couldn't advise you. Will he? >> There's just one thing I've always
wanted to ask you. When he was supposed to graduate and the math teacher flunked him. >> That son of a He ruined his life.
>> Yeah, but Willie, all he had to do was to go to summer school and make up that subject. >> That's right. That's right.
>> Well, did you tell him not to go to summer school? >> Me? I begged him to go. I ordered him to go.
>> Then why wouldn't he go? >> Why? Why? That question's been trailing me around like a ghost for the last 15 years. He He flunked the subject and he
laid down and DIED LIKE A HAMMER hit him. >> Take it easy, kid. >> Let me talk to you, Bernard. I got
nobody to talk to, Bernard. Bernard, was that my fault? It keeps going around in my mind. Maybe I did something to him. I got nothing to give him. Bernard,
>> don't take it so hard. >> But why'd he lay down? What's the story there? You were his friend. >> Willie, I remember it was June and our
grades came out and he flunked math. >> That son of a No, it wasn't right then. Biff just got very angry, I remember. And he was ready to enroll in
summer school. He was >> He wasn't beaten by it at all. But then, Willie, he disappeared from the block for almost a month. And I I got the idea
that he'd gone up to New England to see you. Did he have a talk with you then? Will he?
He came to Boston. Yeah. What about it? >> Well, just that when he came back, I'll never forget this. It always mystifies
me because I thought so well of Biff, even though he'd always taken advantage of me. I loved him, will you know? And he came back after that month and
took his sneakers. Remember those sneakers with University of Virginia printed on them? He was so proud of those. Wore them every day. And he took
them down in the cellar and burned them up in the furnace. Yeah, we had a fist fight. It lasted at least half an hour. Just the two of us punching each other
down the cellar and crying right through it. I've often thought how strange it was that I knew he'd given up his life.
What happened in Boston, Willie? I just bring it up because you asked me. >> Nothing. >> What's that mean? What happened? What's
that got to do with anything? >> Well, don't get sold. >> What are you trying to do? Blame it on to me. The kid lays down. Is that my
fault? >> Now, Willie, >> don't don't talk to me that way. What's that mean? What happened?
>> Hey, you're going to miss that train. >> Yeah, I'm going. >> Yeah. >> A Thanks, Pop.
Goodbye, Willie. And don't worry about it. You know, if at first you don't succeed. >> I believe in that.
>> But sometimes, Willie, it's better for a man just to walk away. >> Walk away. That's right. >> And if you can't walk away,
>> I guess that's when it's tough. >> Bye, Willie. >> Bye, boy.
>> How do you like this kid? He's going to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court. >> Pop.
>> No, the Supreme Court. >> I got to run. Bye, Dad. >> Knock him dead, Bernard.
>> Supreme Court. He didn't even mention it. He don't have to. He's going to do it. >> You never told him what to do, did you?
You never took any interest in him. >> My salvation is I never took any interest in anything. He has some money. Uh $50. I got an
accountant inside. >> Charlie, uh I I got my insurance to pay if if you can manage it. I need $110.
I draw it out of the banks. Only Linda would know. Sit down, please. >> I'm keeping accounts of everything. Remember, I pay every penny back.
>> Now listen to me, Willy. >> I want you to know I appreciate >> Willie. What are you doing? What the hell is going on in your head?
>> Why? I'm simply >> I offered you a job. You can make $50 a week and I won't send you on the road. >> I've got a job
>> without pay. What kind of a job is a job without pay? Now look, kid, enough is enough. I'm no genius, but I know when I'm being insulted.
>> Insulted? >> Why don't you want to work for me? >> What's the matter with you? I GOT A GOOD JOB.
>> AND WHAT ARE YOU WALKING IN HERE EVERY WEEK FOR? YOU DON'T WANT ME TO WALK IN HERE? >> I AM OFFERING YOU A JOB.
>> I DON'T WANT YOUR GODDAMN JOB. >> WHEN THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO GROW UP, >> YOU BIGOTAMUS? YOU SAY THAT TO ME AGAIN, I'M GOING TO WRAP YOU UP. I DON'T CARE
HOW BIG YOU ARE. How much do you need, Willie? I'm strapped, Charlie. I'm strapped.
I don't know what to do. I was just fired. >> Howard fired you? >> That snuck knows? Imagine. I named him.
I named him Howard, Willie. When are you going to realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell
that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is you're a salesman
and you don't know that. >> Well, I was tried to think otherwise. I guess I always felt if a man was impressive and wellliked at nothing.
>> Why must everybody like you? Who liked JP Morgan? Was he impressive? And a Turkish bath, he looked like a butcher.
But with his pockets on, he was very wellliked. Now look, Willie, I know you don't like me and nobody can say I'm in love with
you, but I'll give you a job because well, just for the hell of it, put it that way. Now, what do you say? I just can't work for you, Charlie.
What? Are you jealous of me? I can't work for you, that's all. Don't ask me why. >> You've been jealous of me all your life,
you damn fool. Here, pay your insurance. >> I'm keeping strict accounts, remember? >> I got some work to do.
Take care of yourself. And pay your insurance. >> It's funny. After all the highways and the trains
and the appointments and the years, you end up worth more debt than alive.
Willie, nobody's worth nothing dead. Did you hear what I said? Willie,
apologize to Bernard for me. I didn't mean to argue with him. He's a fine boy. They're all fine boys. They'll end up big. All of them. Someday they'll all
play tennis together. Wish me luck, Charlie. He saw Bill Oliver today.
Good luck. >> You're the only friend I got, Charlie. Isn't that a remarkable thing?
Jesus. >> Oh, >> this is better.
>> Sure. In the front there, you're in the middle of all kinds of noise. Whenever you got a party, Mr. Lman, you just tell me and I'll put you back here.
>> So, how's it coming, Stanley? >> It's a dog's life. I only wish during the war they'd have took me in the army. I could have been dead by now.
>> My brother's back, Stanley. >> No, he come back, eh? From the far west. >> Yeah, big cattleman, my brother. So, treat him right. And my father's coming,
too. >> Oh, your father, too. >> Got a couple of nice lobsters. >> 100% big. I want them with the claws.
>> Don't worry, I don't give you no mice. How about some wine? It'll put a head on the meal. >> No. You remember, Stanley, that recipe I
brought from overseas with the champagne in it? >> Oh, yeah, sure. I I got it teched up yet in the kitchen, but um it'll have to
cost a buck a piece anyways. >> That's all right. >> What did you hit a number or something? >> No, it's a little celebration. My
brother, I think he pulled off a big deal today. I think we're going into business together.
>> Great. That's the best for you because a family business. You know what I mean? That's the best. >> That's what I think.
>> Cuz uh what's the difference? Somebody steals, it's in the family. You know what I mean?
>> Stanley, that's for you, Mr. Lman. Look at that mouth. God, the binoculars.
Jeez, you got a life, Mr. woman. >> Wait on her. >> Would you like a menu, ma'am? >> Oh, I'm expecting someone, but I'd like
>> Why don't you bring her Oh, excuse me, miss. I sell champagne. I'd like you to try my brand. Bring her a champagne, Stanley.
>> That's awfully nice of you. >> Don't mention it. It's all company money. >> Oh, that's a charming product to be
selling, isn't it? >> Oh, it gets to be like everything else. Selling is selling, you know. I suppose >> you don't happen to sell, do you?
>> No, I don't sell. >> Would you object to a compliment from a stranger? You ought to be on a magazine cover.
>> I have been. >> What did I say before, Stanley? You see, she's a cover girl. >> Oh, I could see. I could see.
>> What magazine? >> Oh, a lot of them. Thank you. >> You know what they say in France, don't you? Champagne is the drink of the
complexion. >> Hi, Biff. Hello, kid. Sorry I'm late. >> I just got here. Uh, Miss >> Foresight.
>> Miss Foresight. This is my brother. >> Stack. >> You might have heard of him. His name's Biff. Great football player.
>> Really? What team? >> Are you familiar with football? >> No, I'm afraid I'm not. >> Biff is quarterback with the New York
Giants. >> Well, that is nice, isn't it? >> Good health. >> I'm happy to meet you.
>> That's my name. Hap. It's really Harold, but at West Point, they call me Happy. >> Oh, I see. Dad, you do.
>> Is dad coming? You want to? >> Oh, I could never make that. >> I remember the time that idea would never come into your head. Where's the
old confidence? >> I just saw Oliver. >> Wait a minute. I got to see the old confidence. Do you want to? She's on
call. >> Uh, no. >> I'm telling you. Watch this. >> Uh, honey, are you busy?
Well, I am, >> but I could make a phone call. >> Do that, will you, honey? And see if you can get a friend. We'll be here for a
while. Biff is one of the greatest football players in the country. >> Well, I'm certainly happy to meet you. >> Come back soon.
>> I'll try. >> Don't try, honey. Try hard. Now, isn't that a shame? >> Beautiful girl like that. That's why I
can't get married. There's not a good woman in a thousand. New York is loaded with them, kid. I told you. >> Cut it out. Will you?
>> I want to say something to you. >> Did you see all of it? >> I saw him. All right. Now, look. I want to tell Dad a couple of things and I
want you to help me. >> What? Is he going to back you? Are >> you crazy? You're out of your goddamn head. You know that.
>> Why? What happened? >> I did a terrible thing today. H. It's been the strangest day I ever went through. I'm all numb. I swear. Do you
mean he wouldn't see you? Well, I waited 6 hours for MC. See, kept sending my name in. Even tried to date his secretary so she'd get me to him.
But no soap. >> Because you're not showing your old confidence. He remembered you, didn't he?
>> So, finally about 5:00, he comes out. didn't remember who I was or anything. I felt like such an idiot. H >> Did you tell him my Florida idea?
>> He walked away. I saw him for one minute. I got so mad I could have torn the walls down. How the hell did I get the idea I've been a salesman there? I
even believed myself that I've been a salesman for him. Then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been
talking in a dream for 15 years. I was a shipping clerk. >> So who what did you do? >> Well, he left. See, and the secretary
went out. I was all alone in the waiting room. I don't know what came over me. H. Next thing I know, I'm in his office. Paddled walls. Everything.
I can't explain it. How I took his fountain pen. >> Jeez. >> Did he catch you?
>> I ran out. I ran down to all 11 flights. I ran and ran and ran. >> That was an awful. What did you do that for?
>> I don't know it. >> I just wanted to take something. >> I don't know. You got to help me. H. I'm going to tell Pop.
>> You crazy. What for? >> He has got to understand that I am not the man that somebody lends that kind of money to. He thinks I've been spiting
him all these years and it's eating him up. >> That's just it. So, you tell him something nice.
>> I can't say you've got a lunch date with Oliver tomorrow. So, what do I do tomorrow? >> Tomorrow, you leave the house, you come
back at night, and you say all of us thinking it over. He thinks it over for a couple of weeks, and gradually it fades away, and nobody's the worst.
>> But it'll go on forever. >> Dad is never so happy as when he's looking forward to something. >> Hello, Scout.
>> Gee, I haven't been here in years. >> Sit down, Dad. You want a drink? >> Sure. Don't mind. >> Let's get a load on.
>> You look worried. >> No. Scotch all around. Make it doubles. >> Doubles? Right. A couple already, didn't you?
>> Uh, just a couple yet. >> Well, what happened, boy? Everything go all
right, >> pal. I had an experience today. Terrific, Paul.
>> Is that so? Well, what happened? >> I'm going to tell you everything from first to last. It's been a strange day. I had to wait quite a while for him. And
>> Oliver. >> Oliver. Yeah. All day as a matter of cold fact. And a lot of instances, facts, pop, facts about my life came
back to me. Who was it, Pop? Whoever said I was a salesman with Oliver. >> Well, you were. >> No, Dad. I was a shipping clerk.
>> But you were practices with Bill Oliver. >> What are you talking about? >> Let's hold on to the facts tonight, Pop.
We're not going to get anywhere bulling around. I was a shipping clerk. >> All right. Now, you listen to me. >> Why don't you let me finish? Well, I'm
not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys. You understand? There is a big blaze going on all
around. I was fired today. >> How could you be? >> I was fired. And I'm looking for little
good news to tell your mother because the woman has waited. The woman has suffered. The gist of it is Biff, I don't have a story left in my head. So,
don't give me a lecture about facts and aspects. I'm not interested. D. What do you got to say to me?
Did you see Oliver? Oh, >> Jesus. Dad, you mean you didn't go up there? >> Sure you.
>> I did. I saw him. How could they fire you? BUT >> WHAT KIND OF A WELCOME DID HE GIVE? >> He won't even let you work on
commission. >> I'm out. So, tell me he gave you a warm welcome. >> Sure, pop. Sure.
>> You know, I was wondering if he would remember you. Imagine a man don't see him 10, 12 years gives him that kind of a welcome.
>> Pop. >> You know why he remembered you? Don't you? Because you impressed him in those days.
>> Let's talk quietly and get this down of facts. Huh? Huh? Tell me what happened. It's great news, Biff. He He take you into his office. You talk in the waiting
room. >> Well, he came in. See? >> What did he say? Bet he threw his arm around you, huh?
>> He's a fine man. Very hard man to see, you know. >> Oh, I know. >> Is that where you had the drinks?
>> Yeah. Yeah, he gave me a >> No. No. >> He told him my Florida idea. >> Don't interrupt. So, how do you react to
the Florida ideas? >> Listen, Dad. Will you give me a minute to explain? >> Well, I've been waiting for you to
explain since I sat down here. What happened? He took her to his office and what? >> Well, I talked and he listened. See?
>> Famous for the way he listened. So So what was his answer? >> His Oh, Dad, you're not letting me tell you what I want to tell you.
>> You didn't see him, did you? >> I did see him. >> Well, he insult him or something. You insulted him, didn't you?
>> Oh, listen. Will you let me out of it? Will you just let me out of it? >> What the hell? >> TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED.
>> I CAN'T TALK. >> MRS. LMAN. MRS. LMAN. >> Tell him what happened. >> Shut up and leave me alone.
>> Yeah, you had to go and flunk math, didn't you? Flunk? What? What are you talking about? >> Mrs. Lman. Mrs. Lman.
>> Math. Math. Math. >> Take it easy, p. >> Mrs. Lman, >> IF YOU HADN'T FLUNKED, YOU'D HAVE BEEN
SET BY NOW. >> Now look, I am going to tell you what happened, and you are going to listen to me.
>> Mrs. Lman, >> I waited 6 hours. >> What the hell are you saying? >> I kept sending my name in, but he
wouldn't see me. So, finally, about 5 m. >> No. >> Burn bum flunked him. They won't graduate him.
>> But they have to. He's got to go to the university. Where is he? Fifth. Fifth year. >> He left. He went to Grand Central.
>> Grand? You mean he went to Boston? >> His uncle Willie in Boston. >> Oh, maybe Willie can talk to the teacher. Oh, the poor, poor boy.
>> So, I'm washed up with Oliver. You understand? Are you listening to me? >> Sure. If you hadn't flunked >> flunk, what are you TALKING ABOUT?
>> DON'T BLAME EVERYTHING on to me. I didn't flunk, Matt. You did? >> What pen? >> That was awful dumb if a pen like that
is worse. >> You took Oliver's pen. >> Dad, I've just explained it to you. You stole Bill Oliver's fountain pen.
>> I didn't exactly steal it. That's just what I've been explaining to you. >> He had it in his hand and just then Oliver walked in so he got nervous and
stuck it in his pocket. >> God bless. >> I never intended to do it, Dad. >> Stand as your arms. Good evening.
>> I'm not in my room. >> Dad. Dad. What's the matter? >> Calling Mr. Lman for you. >> I'm not there. Stop it.
>> Pop. I'll make good. I'll make good. Now sit down now. >> No, YOU'RE NO GOOD. YOU'RE NO GOOD FOR ANYTHING.
>> I AM. I I'LL FIND SOMETHING ELSE. You understand? Don't worry about anything. Talk to me, Dad. >> Mr. Lman does not answer. Should I PAGE
HIM? >> NO. NO. >> STRIKE SOMETHING. POP. >> POP. LISTEN. Listen to me. I'm telling
you something good. Oliver talked to his partner about the Florida idea. Are you listening? He talked to his partner and he came to me and I'm going to be all
right. You here? Pop. Pop. Listen to me. He said it was just a question of the amount. >> Then you got it.
>> It's going to be terrific. POP. >> YOU GOT IT, HAVEN'T YOU? YOU GOT IT. YOU GOT IT. LOOK, I'M SUPPOSED TO HAVE lunch with them tomorrow. I'm just telling you
this. So, you know, I can still make an impression, pop, and I'll make good somewhere, but I can't go tomorrow. >> Why not? You simply
>> Hey, the pen POP. >> OH, YOU GIVE HIM THAT. YOU TELL HIM THERE WAS AN OVER TOMORROW. YOU WERE DOING A CROSS WORD PUZZLE AND
ACCIDENTALLY YOU USED THIS PEN. >> LISTEN, KID. I took those balls years ago. Now I walk in with this fountain pen. Well, that clinches it. Don't you
see? I can't face him like that. I'll try elsewhere. >> PAGING, MR. LONE. >> DON'T YOU WANT TO BE ANYTHING?
>> DON'T TAKE IT LIKE THAT. HOW can I GO BACK? >> YOU DON'T WANT TO BE ANYTHING. IS THAT WHAT'S BEHIND IT?
>> DON'T YOU think it was easy walking in after what I done to him? A team of horses couldn't have dragged me back to Bill Oliver.
>> THEN WHY'D YOU GO? >> Why did I go? Why did I go? >> Look at you. Look at what's become OF YOU.
>> BE THAT LUNCH TOMORROW. >> I CAN'T GO. I'VE GOT NO APPOINTMENT. >> Are you SPITING ME? DON'T TAKE IT THAT WAY. GODAMN IT. LITTLE LASH. ARE YOU
SPITING ME? >> WELL, there's someone at the door. >> I'm no good. Can't you see what I am? >> Hey, you're in a restaurant now. Cut it
out. Both of you. Hello, girls. Sit down. >> Well, I guess you might as well. Look, this is Letter.
>> William, are you going to wake up? >> How are you, miss? Sit down. What do you drink? >> Letter might not be able to stay long.
>> I got to get up very early tomorrow. I got jury duty. I'm so excited. Were you fellas ever on a jury? >> No, but I've been in front of them.
>> This is my father. Oh, isn't he cute? We'll sit down with this pup. >> Sit him down, Bev. >> Come on, slug. Drink us.
>> Really? He going to answer the door. >> Come on. Sit down. >> Hey, where you going? Open the door. The door. THE WASHROOM. THE DOOR. WHERE'S
THE DOOR? >> THE DOOR. [Music]
WILLY. WILLY, you going to get up? Get up. Get up. Get up. >> I think it's sweet you bring your daddy along.
>> Oh, he isn't really your father. >> Miss Vythe, you've just seen a prince walk by. A fine, troubled prince. A hardworking unappreciated prince. A pal.
You understand? A good companion. Always for his boys. That's so sweet. >> Well, girls, what's the program? We're wasting time.
>> Come on, Biff. Where would you like to go? Huh? Why don't you do something for him? Oh, >> me. Don't you give a damn for a map?
>> What are you talking about? I >> sense it. I sense it. You don't give a good godamn about him. Look what I found in the cellar. For Christ's sake now.
How can you bear to let it go on? >> Me. Me. Who runs? But he doesn't mean anything to you. You could help him. I can't. Don't you understand what I'm
talking about? He's going to kill himself. Don't you know that? >> Don't I know it? >> Jesus. Help him. Help him.
>> Help me. Help me. >> I can't look on his face. >> What are you going?
>> He's so mad about >> Come on, girls. Catch him up. >> I don't like that temper of his. >> He's just a little overrung. He'll be
all right. >> Well, don't you want to tell your father? >> That's not my father. It's just a guy.
Come on. And honey, we're going to paint this town. We're going to catch Ben. Come on, Stanley. Where's the check? HEY,
>> MR. STANLEY. >> MR. LMAN, >> stop laughing. >> Would you stop it?
>> You going to answer the door? He'll wake the whole hotel. >> I'm not expecting anybody. >> Why don't you have another drink, honey,
and stop being so damn self-centered? >> It's so lonely. You know you ruined me, Willie. From now on, whenever you come to the
office, I'll see you go right through to the buyers. Not waiting at my desk anymore. Willie, >> you ruined me.
>> It's nice of you to say that. >> Gee, you are self senator. Why so sad? You are the saddest selfest I ever did see swarm.
[Music] Come on, drama boy. It's suited to be dressing in the middle of the night.
You going to answer the door? >> They're knocking on the wrong door. >> But I felt the knocking and he heard us talking in here. Maybe the hotel's on
fire. >> No, it's a mistake. >> They tell him to go away. >> There's nobody there.
>> It's getting on my nerves, Willie. There's somebody standing out there and it's getting on my nerves. >> All right, stay in the bathroom in here
and don't come out. I I think there's a law about it in Massachusetts, so don't come out. Could be that new room clerk. You look very
mean, so don't come out. That's a mistake. There's no fire. >> Why didn't you answer? >> Biff, what are you doing in Boston?
>> Why didn't you answer? I've been knocking for 5 minutes. I called you on the phone. >> I just heard you. I was in the bathroom.
I had the door shut. Did Did anything happen home? >> Dad, I let you down. >> What do you mean,
>> Dad? Now, Biffo, what is this about? Come on, kid. Let's
go downstairs. Get you molted. >> I flunked math. >> Not but a term. >> A term? I didn't get enough credits to
graduate. >> You mean to say Bernard wouldn't give you the answers? >> He did. He tried, but I only got a 61.
>> And they wouldn't give you four points. >> Bam. Refused. Absolutely. You got to talk to him before they close the school because if he saw the kind of man you
are, and you just talked to him in your way, I'm sure he'd come through for me. The class came right before practicy and I didn't go enough.
>> Mhm. >> Will you talk to him, Pop? He'd like you. You know, the way you could talk. >> You're on. We'll drive right back.
>> Oh, good work. Go downstairs. Tell the clerk I'm checking out. You go right down now. >> Yes, sir.
>> You see the reason he hates me, Pop. One day he was late for class and uh I got up at the blackboard and I imitated him. I crossed my eyes and talked with a
lith. >> You did? The kids like it. >> They nearly died laughing. >> Yeah. So, what did you do?
>> The square root of 63 is. And in the middle of it, he walks in. >> Hurry downstairs now. >> Somebody in there?
>> No, that's next door. >> You got somebody in your bathroom? >> It's the next room. There's a party. >> There's something in the bathtub,
Willie. And it's moving. >> Uh, you better go back to your room. They must be finished painting by now. They're painting a room. I'll let her
take a shower. Here, go back. Go back. >> I got to get dressed, Willie. Get out of here. Go back up. Biff, this is Miss Francis. She's a buyer. They're
painting a room. Go back, Miss Francis. Go back. >> My clothes. You are naked in the hall. >> Get out of here. Go back. Go.
>> My stockings. >> Have no stockings here. >> You promised me stockings. You had two boxes of size n shoes for me and I want
them. >> Oh, here. God's sakes. Now get out of here. >> Just hope there's nobody in the hall.
That's all I hope. You football or baseball? >> Football.
>> That's me, too. Good night. >> Right. Well, better get going. I want to get to that school first thing in the
morning. Now, you get my suits out the closet. I'll get my What's the matter? Oh, she's a buyer.
She buys to JH Simmons lift down the hall. They're painting. You don't imagine. Now look, pal. She's just a buyer. She sees merchandise
in a room and they got to keep it looking just so you get my suits and I'll Would you stop crying and do as I say?
I gave YOU AN ORDER, BIFF. IS THIS WHAT YOU DO WHEN I give YOU AN ORDER? HOW DARE YOU CRY?
BIFF, when you're grown up, you'll understand about these things. You mustn't overemphasize a thing like this. I'll see Burnbound first thing in
the morning. Never mind. >> Never mind. He's going to give you those points. I'll see to that. >> He wouldn't listen to you.
>> Certainly will listen to me. You need those points for you or Virginia. >> I'm not going. >> Huh?
>> And and if I can't get him to change the mark, will you make it up at a summer school? You got all summer.
>> Oh my boy. Dad, she's nothing to me. She I was lonely. I
was terribly lonely. >> You gave her mama's stockings. What? >> I gave you an order. B. >> Don't touch me. YOU LIAR.
>> YOU APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. >> You fake. You phony little fake. You fake. I GAVE HER AN ORDER. BIFF.
You come back here. I'll beat you. COME BACK HERE. I'LL WHIP YOU. I GAVE YOU AN ORDER. >> HEY, LET'S PICK IT UP. Pick it up, Mr.
Lman. >> Your boys left with the chippies. They said they'll see you home.
We're supposed to have dinner together. >> Can you make it? >> I'll uh Yeah. Yeah, I can make it.
Do I look all right? >> Sure you look all right. >> Here. Here's a dollar. >> Your son paid me. It's all right.
>> Thank you. Thank you. You're a good boy. >> Oh, no. You don't have >> Take it. Hey, here. Here's some more. Some more. I don't need it anymore.
>> Is there a seed store in the neighborhood? >> Seeds? You mean like to plant? >> Yeah. Yeah. Carrots, peas.
>> Hardware store is on 6th Avenue, but maybe too late now. I got to hurry. I got to get some seed right away. Nothing's planted.
I don't have a thing in the ground. >> Hey, what are you doing out? >> Where's Pop? Was he sleeping?
>> Where were you? >> We met two girls, Mom. Very fine types. Here I bought you some flowers. Put them in
your room. Ma, >> now what do you do that for? I want you to have some flowers. Mom,
>> don't you care whether he lives or dies. >> Come upstairs, B. Go away from me. What do you mean lives or dies? Nobody's dying around here, pal.
>> Get out of my sight. Get out of here. >> I want to see the boss. >> You're not going near him. >> Where is he? You invite him to dinner.
He looks forward to it all day. And then you desert him there. >> THERE'S NO STRANGER YOU DO THAT TO. >> WHY, he had a swell time with us.
Listen, when I desert him, I hope I don't outlive the day. >> Get out of here. >> Now look, Mom.
>> Did you have to go to Winnie tonight, YOU LOUSY ROTTEN HORSE? >> MOM, ALL WE DID WAS FOLLOW Piferon trying to cheer him up. Boy, what a
night you gave me. >> Get out of here, both of you. And don't come back. I don't want you tormenting him anymore. Go on, get your things
together. You can sleep in his apartment and pick up this stuff. I'm not your maid anymore. Pick it up, you bug, you pair of animals.
Not one. Not another living soul would have had the cruelty to walk out on that man in her restaurant. >> Is that what he said?
>> He didn't have to say anything. He was so humiliated he nearly limped when he came in. >> But mom, he had a great time.
>> Shut up. You You didn't even go in to see if he was
all right. >> No. Didn't Didn't do a damn thing. How do you like that? Huh? Left him babbling in a toilet.
>> You lash. >> Now you hit it on the nose. The scum of the earth. And you're looking at him. >> Get out of here.
>> I got to talk to the boss. Mom, where is he? >> You're not going near him. Get out of this house.
>> No. We are going to have an abrupt conversation, him and me. >> You're not talking to him.
>> Will you please leave him alone? >> What's he doing out there? >> He's planting the garden >> now.
Oh my god. Carrots.
Quarter inch apart. Rose one foot. One foot. Rose beats. Lettuce
one foot. See? What a proposition.
It's terrific. It's terrific cuz she suffered. Ben, the woman has suffered. You understand me? A man can't go out the way he came in. A
man has got to add up to something. You can't You can't You got to consider now. Don't answer so quick. Remember, it's a guaranteed
$20,000 proposition. Now, look, Ben, I want you to go through the ins and outs of this thing with me. I I got nobody to talk to, Ben. And
the woman has suffered. You hear me? >> What's the proposition? It's $20,000 on the barrelhead.
Guaranteed guilt edge. You understand? >> You don't want to make a fool of yourself. They might not honor the policy.
>> Well, how can they dare refuse? Didn't I work like a to meet every premium under nose and now they don't pay off? It's impossible. It's called a cowardly
thing, William. >> Why does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up a zero? >> That's a point, William. and 20,000 that
is something one can feel with the hand it is there man that's the whole beauty of it I can see it like a diamond shining in a
dark hard and rough that I can pick up and touch in my hand not like like an appointment this will not be another damn fool appointment and it changes all
the aspects Ben see cuz he thinks I'm nothing So he spites me. But the funeral, Ben, that funeral will be massive. They'll
come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, all the oldtimers with strange license plates. That boy will be thunder struck cuz he
never realized I am known. Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, I am known. And he'll see it with his eyes once and for all. He'll see what I am. He's in
for a shock, that boy. He'll call you a coward. >> No, that'll be terrible. >> Yes. And a damn fool. No, he mustn't. I
won't have that. He'll hate you, William. Oh, Ben, how do we get back to all the great
times? Used to be so full of light and comradeship,
the sleigh riding in the winter. and the ruddiness of his cheeks and all some kind of good news coming up. Almost something nice coming up
ahead and never even let me carry my vices in the house and simonizing simonizing that little blue car. What?
Why can't I give him something and not have him hate me? Let me think about it. I still have a little time. Remarkable proposition.
But you got to be sure you're not making a fool of yourself. Where the hell is that seed? You can't see nothing out here. BOXED IN THE WHOLE
GODDAMN NEIGHBORHOOD. >> PEOPLE AROUND HERE. Don't you realize that? >> I'm busy. Don't bother me.
>> I'm saying goodbye to you, Dad. I'm not coming back anymore. You're not going to see Oliver tomorrow. >> I've got no appointment, Dad.
>> He put his arm around you and you've got no appointment. >> Get this now, will you? Every time I've left, it's been a fight that sent me out
of here. Today, I realized something about myself and I tried to explain it to you. And I guess I'm just not smart enough to make any sense out of it for
you. To hell with whose fault it is or anything like that. Let's just wrap it up. Huh? Come on. We'll tell mom. >> No, I don't want to see her.
>> Come on. >> No. No. I don't want to see her. >> Why don't you want to see her? >> What do you mean you don't want to see
her? You don't want them calling you yell, do you? This isn't your fault. It's me. I'm a bum. Now come inside.
Did you hear what I said to you? Did you plan, dear? >> All right, we had it out. I'm going and
I'm not riding anymore. >> I think that's the best way, dear. Cuz there's no use drawing it out. You'll just never get along.
>> People ask where I am or what I'm doing. You don't know and you don't care. That way, it'll be off your mind. You can start brightening up again. All right,
that clears it, doesn't it? You going to wish me luck, Scal? >> What do you say?
>> Shake his head, Willie. >> There is no necessity to mention the pen at all. You know, >> I've got no appointment, Dad.
>> He put his arm around. >> Dad, you're never going to see who I am. So, what's use arguing? If I strike oil, I'll send you a check. Meanwhile, forget
I'm alive. >> Spite. See, >> shake hands, Dad. >> Not my hand.
>> I was hoping not to go this way. Well, this is the way you're going. Goodbye. >> May you ROT IN HELL IF YOU LEAVE THIS HOUSE.
>> EXACTLY. What is it you want from me? >> I want you to know on the train, in the mountains, IN THE VALLEYS, WHEREVER YOU GO, THAT YOU CUT DOWN YOUR LIFE FOR
SPIKE. >> NO. >> SPIKE, NO. >> WHY IS THE WORD OF YOUR UNDOING? AND
when you're down and out, remember what did it. When you're rallying somewhere beside the railroad tracks, remember. And don't you dare blame it onto me.
>> I'm not blaming it on you. I won't take the rapids. You're here. >> That's just what I'm telling you. >> You're trying to put a knife into me.
Don't think I don't know what you're doing. >> All right, phony. Then let's lay it on the line. Crazy.
>> Leave it there. Don't move it. >> What is that? >> You know goddamn well what that is. I never saw it. You saw it. The mice
didn't bring it in in the cellar. What's this supposed to do? Make a hero out of you. This supposed to make me feel sorry for you.
>> Never heard of it. >> There'll be no pity for you. You hear it? No pity. You here to spite? >> No. You were going to hear the truth.
What you are and what I am. >> SERVICE SPY. CUT IT NOW. >> THE MAN don't know who we are. The man is going to know. We never told the
truth for 10 minutes in this house. >> We always told the truth. >> You big blow. Are you the assistant buyer? You're one of the two assistants
to the assistant, aren't you? >> Well, I'm practically >> practically full of it. We all are. And I'm through with it. Now, hear this,
Willie. This is me. >> I know you. >> You know why I had no address for 3 months? I stole a suit in Kansas City.
And I was in jail. >> Stop crying. I'm through with it. >> I SUPPOSE THAT'S MY FAULT. >> AND I stole myself out of every good job
since high school. >> AND WHOSE FAULT IS THAT? >> AND I NEVER GOT ANYWHERE because you blew me so full of hot air that I can
never stand taking orders from anybody. That's whose fault it is. >> I hear that. >> IT'S GODDAMN TIME YOU HEARD IT. I had to
be boss big shot in two weeks and I'm THROUGH WITH IT. >> THEN HANG YOURSELF FOR HANG YOURSELF. >> NO. NOBODY'S hanging himself.
Willie, I ran down 11 flights with a pen in my hand today and suddenly I stopped. You hear me? And in the middle of that office building, do you hear this? I
stopped in the middle of that building and I saw the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world, the work, the food, and time to sit and smoke. And I
looked at the pen and I said to myself, "What the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office
making a contentuous begging fool of myself when all I want is out there waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
Why can't I say that, Willie? The door of your LIFE IS WIDE OPEN. >> HOP, I'M A DIME A DOZEN AND SO ARE YOU. >> I AM NOT A DIME A DOZEN. I AM WILLIE
LMAN AND YOU ARE BIFF LOEN. I AM NOT A LEADER OF MEN, WILLIE, AND NEITHER ARE YOU. YOU WERE NEVER ANYTHING BUT A HARDWORKING DRUMMER WHO LANDED IN THE
ASH CAN LIKE THE REST OF THEM. I'm $1 an hour, Willie. I tried SEVEN STATES AND COULDN'T RAISE IT. A BUCK AN HOUR. Do you gather my meaning? I AM NOT BRINGING
HOME ANY PRICES ANYMORE, AND YOU'RE GOING TO STOP WAITING FOR ME TO BRING THEM HOME? >> YOU VENGEFUL SPITEFUL.
>> I'm nothing. I'm nothing. Can't you see what I am? There's no spite in it anymore.
I'm just what I am. That's all. What are you doing? What are you doing? Why is she crying?
Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
I'll go in the morning. Put put him to bed. Isn't that Isn't that remarkable,
Biff? He likes me. >> He loves you, Willie. >> He always did, P.
>> Oh, Biff, he cried. He cried to me. That boy,
that boy is going to be magnificent. Yes, I'll stand with 20,000 behind them. >> Come to bed now, will he? It's all settled now.
>> Yeah, we'll sleep. Come on, go to sleep. Hap, >> it does take a great kind of man to crack the jungle.
>> I'm getting married, P. Don't forget it. Changing everything. I'm going to be running that department store before the year is up. U Seymour.
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds. Willie >> be good. You're both good boys. Just act that way. That's all.
>> Night pop. >> Come dear. >> One must go in to fetch a diamond out. >> I just want to get settled down. Linda,
let me sit alone for a little. >> I want you upstairs. >> Yeah, in a couple of minutes. I couldn't sleep right now. You go on.
You look so tired. >> Not like an appointment at all. A diamond is rough and hard to the touch.
>> Go on. I'll be right up. >> I think this is the only way, Willie. >> Sure. It's the best thing. >> Best thing.
>> It's the only way. Everything's going to be. Go on, kid. Get to bed. You look so tired. >> Yeah.
>> Come right up. >> 2 minutes. loves me. Always loved me.
Isn't that a remarkable thing? Oh, Ben, he'll worship me for it. >> It's dark there, but full of diamonds. >> Can you imagine that magnificence
with $20,000 in his pocket? >> Willie, come on. >> Yeah, coming. It's very smart. You realize that, don't
you, sweetheart? Even Ben sees that. I got to go, baby. Bye. Bye. Imagine when the mail comes, he'll be head up an art again. A perfect
proposition all around. Ben, did you see how he cried to me? Oh, Ben, if I could kiss him. >> Time, William. Time.
I always knew one way or another we were going to make it. Biff and I >> the boat. We were late. >> Now when you kick off, boy,
I want a 70 yard boot and get right down the field under the ball. And when you hit, hit low and hit hard because that's important, boy.
There's all kind of important people out there in the stands. And the first thing you know,
Ben Ben
Willie, you coming up? Willie?
Willie? Answer me. Willie, no.
It's getting dark in there. >> How about it, Mom? Better get some rest, huh? They'll be closing the gate soon. >> You got no right to do that.
>> There was no necessity for it. We would have helped them. >> Come along, Mom. >> Why didn't anybody come?
>> It was a very nice funeral. >> But where are all the people he knew? >> Maybe they blame him. No, it's a rough world, Linda. They
wouldn't blame him. >> I can't understand it, especially at this time. First time in 35 years, we were just
about free and clear. He only needed a little salary. He was even finished with the dentist. >> No man only needs a little salary.
>> I can't understand it. There were a lot of nice days when he'd come home from a trip or on Sundays making the stoop, finishing the
cellar. When he put up the new porch, built the extra bathroom. You know something, Charlie? There was more of him in that front stoop than in
all the sales he ever made. >> Yeah, he was a happy man with a batch of cement. >> He was so wonderful with his hands.
>> He had the wrong dreams. All all wrong. >> Could say that >> he never knew who he was.
>> Nobody does blame this man. You don't understand. Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there's no rock
bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut. He don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue
riding on a smile and a shoe shine. And when they start not smiling back, that's an earthquake. And then you
you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat and you're finished. Nobody does blame this man.
A salesman has got a dream, boy. It comes with a territory. >> Charlie, the man never knew who he was. Don't
>> Don't say that. >> Why don't you come with me, Hap? >> I'm not lick that easily. I'm going to stay right here in this
city and beat this racket. The Lone Brothers. >> I know who I am, kid. >> All right, boy. I'm going to show you
and everybody else that Willie Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have to come out number one man. Now, he fought it
out here and this is where I'm going to win it for him. >> Come along, Mom. >> I'll be with you in a minute.
Go on, Charlie. I want to just for a minute. I never had a chance to say goodbye.
Forgive me, dear. I can't cry. I don't know what it is, but I can't cry.
I don't understand it. Why did you ever do that? Help me, Willie. I can't cry.
It seems you're just on another trip. I keep expecting you. Willy, dear. I can't cry.
Why did you do that? I search and search and I search and I can't understand it. Willie,
I made the last payment on the house today. Today, dear. There'll be nobody home.
We're free and clear. We're free.
We're free. We're free.
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Tod eines HandlungsreisendenTod eines Handlungsreisenden (Originaltitel: Death of a Salesman) ist das bekannteste Drama Arthur Millers aus dem Jahr 1949, für das er noch im selben Jahr … Der Tod eines HandlungsreisendenDeath of a Salesman. Produktionsland, Vereinigte Staaten. Originalsprache, Englisch. Erscheinungsjahr, 1951 · Länge, 108 Minuten. Altersfreigabe · FSK 16. Stab. Tod eines Handlungsreisenden (Film)Death of a Salesman. Produktionsland, Vereinigte Staaten, Deutschland. Originalsprache, Englisch. Erscheinungsjahr, 1985 · Länge, 130 Minuten. Altersfreigabe.