Contender (1944)

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Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 692 segments kept, 174 dropped as the kind of hallucination the model produces over music and silence. Each timestamp links to the Archive's player at that second. This has not been checked against the film and can be wrong.

2:44 She doesn't make it to keep it. I'm standing proud as a king. You're here.
2:48 You know, I can understand why he had his heart so set in coming here this...
2:52 Something about the music and the respect played the flag kind of gets under your skin, doesn't it? Sure does.
2:56 everything is a good that i have a designed to be inspiration
3:00 we concentrate on teaching them the meaning of honor.
3:02 patriotism and self respect yes there I can I can believe that.
3:06 Oh, by the way, Major.
3:08 How's the kid doing? Oh, excellent, Mr. Perry.
3:11 I'm sure you'll be proud of his progress. You can say that again. That boy sure got what it takes. Yeah, to hear him talk, you'd think he was the dad. Well, anytime you don't want the job, I'll take it over. Oh, by the way, it's a little expensive.
3:37 Good day, sir. Good day.
3:39 Good day.
3:40 - No.
3:45 I told you to take fancy dough to keep Mickey this joint. He's only been here a little while and already you got Bill. It's a high class place. Cost dough to keep a kid in here. I'll find that out. Sam! Hello, Sam. How are you? Huh? Hiya, General.
3:59 Hey, Beth.
4:02 Gee, Dad, I'm glad to see you and Biff.
4:04 If you'd been here a little sooner, you could have watched this march in review. We saw you through the window. Yeah, and did you look proud and handsome?
4:13 How do you like it so far, Nick?
4:15 Gee, Dad, it's super.
4:16 This is the real thing.
4:18 Not just pretending like when I was home.

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4:21 You sure used to put this and me through a stiff course in military training. Yeah, if you can take this military stuff like you poured on, you'll be all right.
4:28 I can take it.
4:29 But I'm worried about you, Bill.
4:31 I'm afraid you'll get...
4:33 sloppy when I'm not there to keep you on your toes. Oh, General, you know I wouldn't be like that. Don't you worry, Nick. I'll keep him on his toes.
4:41 That's an order from Mr. Perry Ock. Yes, sir.
4:46 Dad, you and Biff come on up and see my room.
4:49 I'll get permission from the Commandant.
4:52 We haven't got time right now, Mick. You see, we're on a run that took us nearby. We just stopped in to say hello.
4:57 John's glad that you're so happy about it all. I bet you're giving those other guys a mark to shoot at.
5:01 Well, we'll be seeing you. Come again as soon as you can. You'll do that.
5:05 Keep your chin up, General. Right.
5:09 She looks to follow his uniform, don't he?
5:11 Yeah.
5:12 My boy.
5:25 Well, for a guy who works for a living, you sure get some swell ideas. I tell you, Gary, you can't do it.
5:32 Can't do what?
5:33 Keep Mickey in that school. It costs more than you make, and the dough you saved up ain't gonna last long at this rate. Yeah, I know.
5:39 If that garage deal hadn't fallen through, everything would have been all right.
5:42 This I gotta keep making at school.
5:45 He's going to get some of the breaks in life I never got.
5:47 Working after school, jerking Soda's paper routes.
5:50 It's the way Mary and I planned it before she died. I'm not going to let her down. I know how you feel, Gary. What are you going to use for money? I don't know.
5:59 I'll work it out somehow.
6:02 Say, Beth.
6:05 I got an idea.
6:07 - I'd better be honest. - It is.
6:09 The industrial boxing tournament the company's pulling. There's a $500 prize and a heavyweight class. Say, are you kidding? Those mugs will murder you. I don't know about that. I've always been able to hold up my end in a fight. I know you have, Gary, but you'll be going up against guys who can box. That's different from an ordinary brawl. So what? A fight's a fight. If I can get away with that prize, it'll pay enough in advance to... to give me a chance to get the rest of it together. Okay.
6:32 What can I lose? Well, nothing much. Maybe an eye or two.
6:36 and business.
6:38 I'm pretty friendly with Pop Turner, who runs the company gym.
6:41 He knows a professional game backwards.
6:43 Maybe you can wise me up in a point or two.
6:45 That's the first time I've ever heard of a guy asking for expert advice on how to get murdered.
6:53 You know, Gary, you're going to run up against some pretty tough competition in that tournament. I expect that, Father.
6:59 The company wouldn't be putting up a $500 prize just to be giving away the dough.
7:11 Come on, Ed.
7:12 Come here.
7:15 Yeah, Pop. Meet Gary Farrell.
7:18 How are you? Hi, Callahan. I want you to go a couple of rounds with us.
7:21 Yeah, it'll be a pleasure. Gary?
7:22 Go in the locker room and get yourself a pair of trunks and a headgear. Thanks, Pop.
7:28 Remember, Sparky.
7:30 This is only a workout. Ha ha, don't worry. I won't hurt you, little protege.
7:37 You know, Bob Gary's a swell guy.
7:39 But he's taking a chance on getting his head knocked off because he needs a door to keep his kid in military school.
7:44 What are you going to do with a guy like that?
7:46 Help him win that door if we can.
7:50 I'm going to go.
7:54 I'm going to go.
8:06 Come on.
8:09 Come on.
8:14 No, I'm afraid he hasn't got it, Bev.
8:20 I'm not.
8:28 Come on.
8:45 Had enough, Gary?
8:47 No, Pop.
8:49 Not yet.
8:50 I'm not.
8:55 I'm not.
9:03 Come on.
9:07 I don't know.
9:16 All right.
9:17 I love you.
9:19 What?
9:20 What a war!
9:27 I'm sorry if I heard him, Pop.
9:28 Well, if you did, he don't know anything about it. He's out cold. He's out cold.
9:32 Hey, looks like he'll be out all night without going anyplace. Yeah, go get dressed and come into my office and we'll...
9:37 Talk about that tournament.
9:39 And say.
9:40 When he comes to explain to him what happened with him.
9:42 OK, Pop.
9:46 Hold on, wake up.
9:47 And so Gary if you learn how to defend yourself.
9:51 You might have a chance to cop the heavyweight title in that tournament.
9:53 Couldn't you teach me how, Pop?
9:55 Well, in my time, I taught quite a few who became top-notches. I know you have. That's why I'd like you to handle me.
10:00 Will you?
10:01 On one condition, Gary.
10:03 What's that?
10:04 You'll do what I tell you to.
10:05 Anything you say goes.
10:14 Oh, I'm sorry, miss.
10:15 It should be knocking me down like that.
10:18 Well, nobody knocked you down.
10:20 You fell. What else could I do when you so rudely jerk the door knob out of my hand?
10:24 Well, I said I sighed, didn't I?
10:26 Back.
10:27 You shouldn't be peeking in keyholes. Well, if all the nerds...
10:33 What a right.
10:34 Hope she doesn't end at the tenement.
10:37 Hey, who does he think he is?
10:39 Gary Farrell, one of our truck drivers.
10:41 Oh.
10:44 He's nice.
10:47 Well, what brings you here? Anytime Pop Turner comes out of retirement, there's a story in it.
10:51 You know my sports editor. No story this time, Linda.
10:54 I'm not in the fight game anymore. Oh, no?
10:56 Pop Turner, who trained three world champions, is now athletic instructor for the Braddock Trucking Company. Why? You know the right answer, so give.
11:04 Well, I had to go to work.
11:06 Some of my investments couldn't open my face.
11:08 And nothing could get you back in the fighting racket.
11:11 Not even if at the tournament I covered a boy with a punch like Dempsey's?
11:14 Hey, you're not a reporter.
11:16 You're a mind reader.
11:49 Well, Gary...
11:57 You flut yourself up to the finals.
11:58 You like a winner?
11:59 Hey, Pop.
12:01 I can't lose.
12:02 You'll break the heart of one fan if you do.
12:04 I saw Mickey out the ringside with Bill. Yeah.
12:07 Couldn't keep him away.
12:10 See, Vic, wouldn't it be swell to see Dad win the championship? It sure would, Mickey. But look, don't you feel about it if you see him slapped around a bit at first because he always takes a few while he's sousing up the other guy before he lays him on ice? I won't be worried. My dad's got everything.
12:40 He can take it. Well, he's got a son in any back to yourself, eh?
12:46 It's Kip Morgan. Hello, Linda. How are you? What are you doing away out here? How about you die if you didn't breathe a monoxide abroad? No, just looking the boys over. You know, never can tell where you'll find a go, Mark. So I've heard. Although I've never done any prospecting myself. Oh, pardon me. I'd like you to know Miss Langdon. Uh, Rita, this is Miss Mark.
13:05 Charmed, I'm sure. Are you really?
13:07 Linda's one of our best news for women. How thrilling. It really has its moments like bricklaying and golding and...
13:16 Come on, let's go.
13:46 championship of the tournament for the Atlantic Trucking Company at 195 pounds
13:55 Stoker Cooley!
14:01 And 196 pounds! The Pride of the Braddock Trucking Company!
14:07 Gary Farrell!
14:24 Remember, Gary, stay in your shell and you see a chance to punch.
14:30 Hey, that driver, the trucking company looks interesting. I think he's dynamite.
14:37 Watch the explosion. Smart little girls don't play with matches.
14:56 Jerry! Come on, let him have it! Watch that right, Jerry!
15:05 Come on, Jerry, come on, Jerry.
15:07 Come on.
15:37 Eight. Nine. Oh!
15:49 I think I died before getting murdered.
15:52 Hook that right. Hook in.
16:02 Rita, would you mind going home alone tonight? I'm going to try to stay after the fight.
16:07 You hurt, Gary? No, Pop, I'm all right. Lie to me, kid. I wouldn't. Okay.
16:37 When I joined up the barrel, I picked him up. That punch as easy as he can.
16:56 There he goes. There he goes. Left.
17:07 Gary, that's the one.
17:14 All closer. On the ropes. On the ropes, Gary. Get him in there.
17:40 Well, Mick, how'd you like? Huh?
17:41 See that history.
17:43 You're the cha... Well, some of the champ, I guess.
17:45 But you could like Joe Luce if I ever got the chance, I bet you. That's a mighty big order, I bet you. Thanks, Biff. Don't forget, boy, you got some prize money waiting at the box office for you. Forget it. That's the most important money I ever made.
17:57 I
17:59 Oh, so it's you again. Yeah, no wisecracks.
18:03 I'm sorry, miss.
18:05 Did you hurt yourself? Just my feelings.
18:08 Hey, you have a habit of flooring people. I was a little lucky tonight.
18:12 Pop, come here, will you? Huh?
18:14 If I've knocked this young lady down twice, I don't think I rate an introduction. How about it, Linda? Go ahead. I might as well know the guy if he's going to keep knocking me down. At hatchway!
18:22 Miss Linda Martin meet Mr Gary. How do you do Gary. Hello Linda.
18:26 Hey, Mickey, come here, will you, son?
18:28 I want you to meet the rest of the family. Come on, son. This is my boy, Mickey. Hello, Mickey. Hello.
18:32 I bet you feel mighty proud of your dad, don't you?
18:35 I sure do. I bet he's mighty proud of you, too. Whatever gave you that idea. Come on, Linda. It's time for you to scram. In fact, you shouldn't be here at all. Say, whoever made up the rule to keep women reporters out of fighters' dressing rooms? The Board of Censors. Gary's got to get dressed.
18:48 But you're not going to send me away without a story, Pop. Now, why should I give you one when I didn't give one to the other reporters?
18:53 We're hungry, now scram.
18:55 Besides, we got a dinner date over at Morris Tavern.
18:58 Okay, Pop. See you later.
19:01 You know, Pop, I like her. I wonder if she'd go out to dinner with me sometime.
19:06 How about tonight at the tavern?
19:10 Okay.
19:19 Well, that's my proposition, Gary. Now, if you didn't think you had possibilities, I wouldn't want to hand you. Okay.
19:24 What do you say?
19:25 How about it, Pop?
19:27 Well, sounds like a good proposition for both of us.
19:30 Costs gonna mean an awful lot of hard work.
19:32 You're gonna have to live according to the rules.
19:35 No drinking and...
19:37 No cigarettes.
19:41 You're not going to be able to call your life your own.
19:43 Now, don't say yes unless you intend to go through with it.
19:47 You ought to be flattered, Gary.
19:49 Kip Morgan is the best and squarest flight manager in the business.
19:52 I wouldn't have thought it possible. One fight means practically a chance.
19:56 Take it easy, Bill. I'll settle for a lot less. What are you talking about, you?
20:00 It's so much money the government won't know what to do with it.
20:03 Well, if you're interested, drop around my office tomorrow and pick up the papers.
20:06 Go on, Dad. Do it.
20:09 Okay.
20:10 Pardon me, champ. This champagne is for you. Come to the little lady at the table over there.
20:18 Oh, my God.
20:22 Early. Hey, will you...
20:24 Pour him a drink, huh?
20:26 Be right back.
20:31 Thanks very much, mister.
20:32 Miss Rita Langdon, right? Glad to know you, Rita.
20:35 Would you like to join our party? I'd love to.
20:40 Yes.
20:45 Rita, this is Miss Langdon. I've already had the pleasure. I met Miss Langdon.
20:49 It's a pop turner in the hand bit venom.
20:52 Becoming heavyweight champion of the world.
20:54 Gary Farrell.
20:56 I'm sorry.
20:58 Thanks, Pop.
21:03 Miss Linda, I wish we'd have Dad bring you out to visit me someday at school.
21:08 You've got yourself a date, soldier.
21:11 What's the joke, son?
21:13 I...
21:13 Just dated your girl, Dad.
21:17 Starting kind of young 80.
21:19 Wanna watch that?
21:30 Come on.
21:32 Mickey, I didn't know a little boy could keep a place so neat and clean.
21:36 Me and my wife had inspections
21:39 - Morning. - Oh, you and your...
21:41 You and your what?
21:43 Wife is a cadet's life for a roommate. Ricky, don't startle your daddy that way. He almost went down to the couch.
21:59 I think she's super, don't you?
22:01 We could do a lot worse.
22:04 Hey!
22:05 What are you two whispering about?
22:07 You'll find out someday.
22:09 Mickey hinted that a certain young lady met with his approval.
22:12 Or dead!
22:13 You ain't supposed to tell everything, you know.
22:16 I'm glad he did.
22:17 Because I know a certain young man who rates very high with me, too.
22:21 Maybe you could binge it for me, Linda, while I'm away at training camp.
22:24 keep Mickey from getting so lonesome.
22:25 That's the easiest assignment I've ever had. How about dinner and a movie once in a while?
22:30 Gee, that would be super...
22:32 How long will you be away, Dad? If I go to Big Pine's training camp, maybe a month.
22:36 You could phone me once in a while, couldn't you?
22:39 There's a phone out in the hall and I wrote the number down for you.
22:42 Okay, son, I'll phone you every chance I get.
22:45 After every fight?
22:47 That'll make it pretty late, won't it? Not if I get permission.
22:50 A lot of cadets get late calls. Okay, son, I'll phone you after every fight.
22:55 Win, lose, or draw.
22:56 You'll always win, I bet you.
23:00 And Dad, I'll keep you for your while you're away.
23:04 That'll be swell.
23:05 Now listen.
23:06 It's only temporary.
24:11 Come on, Perry, call them some way. That's it. Come on, look at that. You... Come on, Perry! Come on, Perry! Come on, Perry! Come on! Come on! Come on, get up! There goes another book!
24:45 You did it in the first round?
24:48 He did it again, fellas!
24:50 He knocked out and we got in the first round. Yeah!
24:56 Nice going, Pop. Goodbye.
25:28 I understand that Kip Morgan's cooking up a mash for you. Open your hands, Gary. This Coco Kid's a tough customer. They don't come too tough for me.
25:35 Gary, I'm going to throw a party for him. Didn't I warn you to leave him alone? Jealous? Jealous. Don't be silly. You know how we stand. He talked like I was poisoned. You ought to have a guy like Gary. I don't have to stand for such insults. You don't have to, but you will.
26:06 Listen, Rita. I like having you around for last, but don't think in one minute you've been kidding me.
26:11 All I ask you to do is just leave him alone. Put down your little pick and shovel. There's going to be no gold right.
26:17 I don't know why you have to talk to me like this. I'm sure I've never done anything to deserve it. I've always been on the square with you. Nuts, Rita.
26:28 I didn't care. That kid sure looks good tonight, don't he? Stay on top of me. Stay on top. Don't let him get away.
26:35 Three, four, five.
27:05 Here you go.
27:20 What did you say, chap?
27:22 Now, champ, that...
27:23 Okay, good night, son. Gassy as well, kid. Hey, get this, fellas. What well-known contender for a world's ring title persistently refuses to fight his challenger on the grounds that such a bout would be a financial failure? Yeah.
27:37 And it needs to be a discontenters cover up a white streak of yellow. Am I laughing?
27:50 That's a dirty line.
27:51 I ain't afraid of nobody.
27:53 Who does that newspaper Jane think she is anyway?
27:56 We'll be right back.
27:58 You're a chump to blow your top, Barma. Don't tell the world that you're the guy she was talking about. Who doesn't know she was cracking about me?
28:04 My fails, manager Kip Morgan throws a challenge at me every morning before breakfast.
28:10 What are you grinning at, Linda? Nothing in particular. What?
28:13 You women sure like to be mysterious.
28:18 I could wring that dame's neck. But you'll never have a better chance.
28:21 There's Linda Martin sitting over there.
28:26 Take it easy, farmer. Don't stick your neck out. Oh, shut up. I'm going to tell her off right now.
28:32 Why, you cheap little pencil pusher, you can't get away with that. Just a minute, big boy. Who do you think you're talking to? I'm not talking to you, buddy. Sit down.
28:39 Oh, yes, you are. Okay, chump, you ask what.
28:44 Thanks, boys. I'll see you at the office.
28:46 What's the big idea? Come on, let's get out of here before they turn in a riot call.
28:51 Now, wait a minute, wait a minute. There's something phony about this. Come clean. The palooka you just laid low was Balmer Brown.
28:57 The bomber? Yeah.
28:59 I'd like to see him duck a match with you now. Do you mean I've been framed? You've been framed right into the match with a contender. Oh, darling, I could kiss you. Hey, look, not here in front of all these people. Come on.
29:16 No wonder it takes Colin's phone this morning offering Gary a match with Obama. Wendy, you're a champ. Now can I go up to Big Prime's camp and interview Gary? No, the camp's the men only. Oh, forget I'm a girl. I'm only a reporter going up for a sports story. You wouldn't be falling for him, would you?
29:31 Whatever gave you that idea? That's what I thought. You can see him when he isn't training.
29:36 Oh, don't be so ungrateful. How am I going to interview him? Use the telephone.
29:40 Thanks, Cupid.
29:48 Hey, Kip, when you pass by a butcher shop, buy yourself a heart, will you?
29:56 Yes.
30:00 Hey, Pop, look what's coming.
30:03 All right.
30:14 Sorry I'm late, Pop. I found this Langdon down the road with car trouble.
30:17 She wants to use our phone. Okay.
30:20 Get going. Sparky's waiting for you. Thank you a million, Gary. You've been a darling.
30:23 I do hope you'll call and see me sometime when you're in town. I'll do that. You'll be able to find that any morning.
30:31 Am I intruding? You certainly are.
30:34 You'll find the phone in the house.
30:40 That gal sure knows her way around. Yeah.
30:43 What's the trouble with that car?
30:45 Park blokesmith.
30:47 Yeah?
30:48 What are you talking about? That's impossible.
30:50 I said she knew her way around, didn't I?
30:53 Oh.
30:56 Hey, Pop.
30:58 Looks like ladies' day.
31:02 - Hi, Vic. - Hello, Linda. Hi, Pop.
31:05 Now don't hold me.
31:07 Kip said I could interview Gary.
31:08 He didn't say you come out here to do it, did he? Well, not exactly. I thought not. Well, get back in your little buggy and scram. After coming all the way out here.
31:16 Come on, don't be an old meanie.
31:19 Hello, Tess.
31:20 Hello, you big hunker man. We got work for this. Okay, okay, Pop.
31:25 Goodbye, lady.
31:27 Say, that Pop's really on the warpath today, isn't he? Yeah, mostly about that Langdon gal. Rita Langdon?
31:33 Yeah, she's up to the house telephoning now. What's she doing up here? I don't think she'd come up here for the ride.
31:42 Here.
31:47 Hey, hey.
31:48 Hey, hey, wait a minute. Come here.
31:50 Keep that lift up.
31:52 If you don't protect your chin any better than that, that bummer will tire your head off. Don't you worry about me, Pop. I can take all he's got. Now, no back talk. I'm giving orders around here. Try it again. Okay, okay.
32:02 Oh, Mr. Turner.
32:05 Yes, Miss Langdon? The line was busy.
32:07 But the operator's going to call me. That won't be necessary now. Miss Martin's driving back to town. I'm quite sure she'd be very glad to give you a lift. I'd be delighted. I'd be delighted.
32:15 Oh, come on, cutie.
32:18 Come here.
32:19 There.
32:21 Goodbye, Gary. Come on. Goodbye.
32:33 All right.
32:34 Nice going.
32:44 Hey, I made you.
32:49 This completes all my half of your son's tuition, Mr. Farrell.
32:53 When may we expect the balance.
32:55 Well, uh, I would be all right, Major, if I give you a check after the fight.
32:59 When is the pipe?
33:00 Okay.
33:01 Saturday night.
33:04 That'll be all right.
33:05 Thanks. Thanks very much, sir.
33:07 Yeah.
33:08 Mind if I run upstairs and...
33:09 See you, my boy? No, it's quite all right.
33:11 Good day, sir.
33:12 Good day.
33:15 You're doing a great job here, Mick.
33:17 I'm proud of you.
33:19 And I'm proud of you, Dad.
33:21 You know, every kid in school is jealous of me.
33:24 Even the sergeants are nice to me. Oh, that really is something, isn't it?
33:30 You really like it, Mick?
33:32 See, Dad, it's super.
33:33 well.
33:34 Only I wish.
33:36 Where I wish... Go on, go on, Mick. What do you wish?
33:39 I wish that you could...
33:41 Visit me more than you do. Linda's been swell.
33:45 But I'm missing you.
33:47 Well...
33:48 Things are going to be different after my next fight, Mick. I'll have more time.
33:54 Sure, you'll never let me down. You bet I won't.
33:57 Oh, say, Dad, I've got a surprise for you. Now, wait a minute, wait a minute. Dad can wait. There's, uh...
34:02 Somebody downstairs waiting to see you.
34:04 Linda?
34:05 No, but somebody just as nice.
34:09 She'd have to go with something to be as nice as Linda.
34:12 Yeah, well, come on down, see for yourself.
34:14 Go on.
34:22 You remember Miss Langton, Mickey?
34:24 Yes, how do you do, Miss Langdon? It's a pleasure to see you again, Mickey.
34:28 No wonder your father's so proud of you.
34:31 I'd be proud of you, too, if you were my boy.
34:33 Thank you, Miss Langdon. Come on, Dad. I'll show you that surprise. Not now, Mickey. We have to hurry off.
34:38 Some friends of mine have invited us to dinner and...
34:41 Well, they're important people.
34:43 yeah yeah make we
34:45 We've got to be gone. But listen, I'll come back later and then you can show me that surprise, huh?
34:49 Okay, Dad.
34:50 So long, son.
34:53 Good luck.
34:55 Goodbye, Miss Landon. Goodbye, Cadet Farrell. So long, General.
35:11 Oh, my God.
35:33 Oh, my God.
35:50 Don't lie to me, Rita. If you know where Gary is, tell me.
35:52 Why should I bother to lie to you? I told you I haven't seen him for days.
35:58 Of course, Kip, darling. If I hear from him, I'll send him over to you.
36:02 If he isn't in condition, Obama will murder him.
36:04 You know that he had that three days training in the past month?
36:08 - Did you find him? - No. - Ran into a guy who seen him last night. - Where? At a cafe with Rita Langdon.
36:15 I knew that dame was mine.
36:32 That guy didn't show up in five minutes, I'll forfeit a fight.
36:34 You can't do that. Who said I can't? Well, it's that Langdon woman's fault.
36:39 Give him just five minutes.
36:49 I left him, boy.
36:51 Who have you been for the past three days and nights?
36:54 Around?
36:55 Sure, around every bar in town.
36:57 Don't you realize this is the most important part of your career? Don't you care. Now, quit your squawking, will you? I'll whip the bomber for you. Yeah.
37:03 What are you going to use, an axe?
37:05 Look, if you take care of the business, then, I'll do the fighting.
37:08 Do as I say, there'll be no fighting.
37:10 Okay, okay, don't bust a blood vessel.
37:13 Tell you the price in the bag.
37:14 Gary, yeah. The package just comes for you by missing one. Oh, swell. Thanks, Bill. Probably from one of my fans.
37:24 Hmm.
37:26 Wait for the party tonight.
37:36 What is this Biff a rib it don't fit well in a couple of weeks I
37:41 You know all the smart answers, don't you?
37:43 - But there, don't let anybody in here. - Don't worry, nobody will get by me.
37:50 You can't come in, Linda. I don't want to come in, Vic.
37:52 Good luck, Gary.
37:54 Thanks, Linda.
37:58 the
38:18 the the
38:22 Introducing the contender for the heavyweight championship of the world at 202 pounds, Homer Brown.
38:33 And his challenger at 198 pounds, Gary Farrell.
38:42 Bill Bryant referee, Billy Smith, thanking him.
39:08 Hey, it's almost 10 o'clock, fellas. Time for the main event.
39:11 What time do you think your dad will fall in? Oh, about five after ten.
39:15 He told me he'd finish the warmer quick.
39:21 Oh, yeah.
39:51 I'm going to go.
40:00 I've been fighting no blinks, bitch.
40:30 Keep grabbing your left hand, kid. You're letting me get to you. Leave me alone. I know what I'm doing.
40:37 Come on, telephone, ring for us.
40:39 You're well any second now. We can't wait much longer.
40:43 So what?
40:44 If Dad doesn't knock him out in the first round, he'll do it in the second.
40:49 Come on, telephone. Please ring.
40:57 Watch out your second hands. This ain't the last round. It is for you, won't you?
41:49 Well, what do you say now, wise guy? Seem to hit him with that axe? Yeah, what I said still goes. Yeah, well, bring on the champ. I'll take him, too.
42:11 Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Talk to Morgan. He's my manager.
42:19 I got a date with my girl.
42:22 Come on, baby. We've got places to go.
42:26 Well, looks like I lost that round, Vic.
42:33 I'm afraid you lost the decision.
42:35 I didn't have the heart to tell you.
42:39 Well, maybe I'll do better in my next fight.
42:40 I hope so.
42:50 Whistling.
42:54 *whistling*
42:55 Are you stepping out again tonight? That's right. I'm entitled to a little fun. I've earned it.
43:00 Yeah, but can you afford it?
43:02 Are you kidding? I'm in the big door now.
43:06 That wasn't what I meant.
43:08 *whistling*
43:21 Amen.
43:33 Mickey, are you crying?
43:36 No.
43:37 I get it.
43:38 You just got something in my eye.
43:41 Oh, it sounded like you were crying.
43:44 You're dead, Sherma.
43:46 Off the bomber, nothing flat.
43:48 Do you think he can win the heavyweight title?
43:51 Sure.
43:51 He's a saint.
43:53 You can't lose on my dad.
43:56 Oh, that's good.
44:29 Come on, boys. Play some more. What's the matter with you? How's that? Okay. There's a lot of dead people around you, aren't there, honey? Come on. Flap with me, will you?
44:47 *whistling*
44:49 Thanks, bud. Come on, baby, let's dance. Next time try and dance on the floor instead of my feet, will you? I'm sorry, honey. I didn't mean any harm. What's the matter with you tonight? You don't seem to be having much of a good time. All right, Gary, how's the old dynamite? It's right there, boy, right there. Come over and have a drink with us. Thanks, I'll do that. He's nice, brother.
45:09 Hey, Gary, when are you going to fight the champ? Pretty soon now, old man, pretty soon. And you can bet on me. I'm going to lick him. Well. Come on, I'll do it now. Oh, now, come on, baby. Don't bust up the evening now.
45:19 this and let's try it again hi it's a me later for a c_n_n_ what's the matter with you lately we do you change the few things on the system sorry yeah
45:38 Now look, honey.
45:39 last couple of weeks you don't blame him lady I apologize
45:55 Oh, Sheriff, after all, I just mean it. You know I'm your friend. Hey, waiter, see where my lady friend went? Yes, sir, right out the front door. Oh.
46:17 Oh, oh.
46:33 Mm-hmm.
46:38 Amen.
46:40 Amen.
46:49 Oh!
47:15 Hello.
47:16 Hello, this is Gary Farrell.
47:19 Let me talk to Rita.
47:22 Not in, eh?
47:24 I'll tell her I called.
47:26 Yeah.
47:50 I brought you some breakfast, Gary.
47:51 Oh...
47:54 Don't mention food, please. But you've got to eat something.
47:57 Look, you've got to feed a hangover. Oh, Biff, I'm sicker than a dog.
48:02 Sure.
48:03 What else can you expect the way you've been hitting it up?
48:06 And you've certainly been working overtime to make the headlines.
48:10 There's something in the paper about me? Yeah. The kind of publicity you can't pay for with money.
48:14 Listen to this.
48:16 popular fighter in cafe brawl. It wasn't a brawl. All I did was pick the guy up and put him back in his place. Not according to the papers.
48:23 Gary Farrell creates disturbance with Caffey drunk.
48:26 The lug spilled wine all over Rita's dress. What do you expect me to do?
48:30 So the contender for the heavyweight championship of the world had to show off for his lady love.
48:34 You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
48:36 So I lost my temper. So what? If liquor affects you like that, why don't you leave it alone before you start slapping kindergarten kids around? If all you can do is pick on me, go on. Get out of here. Scram. That's just what I'm going to do. Here in case you want that for your scrapbook.
49:02 You're a little late, Kip.
49:05 Biff has already said it all.
49:07 There may be a few things that Piff doesn't know. Well, if there are, you can save it for the next time.
49:12 Boy, what a night.
49:15 What a hangover.
49:22 Uh, say, Kip...
49:23 Ah.
49:24 I'm a little shy of money.
49:27 Let me have another thousand, will you?
49:29 I gave you last Saturday the balance you had coming from the bottom of the front. That's all there is.
49:33 I couldn't have spent that much.
49:35 You could under reader's management.
49:37 She's an expert, I know.
49:39 Why don't you get wise to yourself and quit being a chump?
49:42 Don't you know that dame's taking you for a buggy ride? Ah, quit this sermon. Quit this sermon.
49:46 You can let me have some money for my fight with the champ, can't you? Uh-huh. What makes you think you're going to fight the champs?
49:51 Why not?
49:52 Because the Boxing Commission is fed up with the way you've been hitting the booze, and they suspended you in this state for a whole year. They can't do that to me. Oh, they can't? Well, they've done it.
50:00 And I feel the way they do.
50:02 Listen, Gary.
50:03 You and I are through as of now.
50:06 That's okay with me, Kit.
50:07 I can get myself another manager.
50:10 And I'll fight the champ across the border. How do you like them apples?
50:13 Well, for your own sake, I hope you don't.
50:26 Hello, Mickey. How do you do, Miss Martin?
50:32 It used to be Linda.
50:34 I know.
50:47 All the kids in school say,
50:48 You will say about my dad.
50:51 Yes, Mickey, I did.
50:52 How could you write something?
50:54 to make people laugh at him?
50:56 I thought you were fond of him.
50:58 Please try to understand, Mickey.
51:01 I did it because I am very, very fond of you.
51:04 You do something to hurt his feelings because you are fond of him?
51:09 Tell me.
51:11 Did your daddy ever give you a spanking?
51:13 Sure.
51:14 He gave me some dandies.
51:16 Didn't he like you? Of course he liked me.
51:20 I was bad and he had it coming to me.
51:22 Do you suppose it made your daddy happy to give you a spanking? No, I don't suppose it did.
51:28 But it was for my own good. Well, that's just the answer.
51:32 You see, Mickey...
51:34 Your dad is being very foolish.
51:36 He won't listen to his friends.
51:39 He's hurting himself and everyone who loves him.
51:42 He's a little bit big for me to put over my knee. So that story was the only way I could spank him.
51:48 You mean it's true what you wrote?
51:50 Yes, Mickey, it's true.
51:51 And I hope that story brings him to his senses.
51:55 It might help if I had to talk with Dad.
51:58 Would you go with me to sing?
52:00 Yes, darling, if you'd like me to.
52:04 You try and get me a passport.
52:05 For Major Palmer.
52:07 Tell him it's very important.
52:09 Okay.
52:10 You give me that every time I call.
52:13 Well, when do you expect Miss Langdon back?
52:17 Okay, okay, I'll call later. Are you feeling better?
52:21 No.
52:22 Maybe I better not show you this.
52:25 Show me what?
52:26 What Linda wrote about you in her column.
52:28 Let me see that paper.
52:34 What well-known K.O. artist is trying to play gin?
52:36 From truck driver to stuff shirt via the glamour girl route.
52:39 What a swell friend Linda turned out to be.
52:42 What a two-timing she's giving him. It's the laugh of the month.
52:47 I'll sue that paper for damage.
52:51 Why didn't you say something?
52:53 What is it you say? When everybody knows it, Rita's making a chump out of it.
52:56 Go on, beat it, Biff. You annoy me.
52:58 Hey.
52:59 There's a letter for you.
53:01 Found over at the old house.
53:07 Hello, Linda. Hello, Vic. Hi, Mickey. Mickey, what are you doing here?
53:11 Why aren't you in school?
53:12 I want to find out something there.
53:14 Find out about what?
53:15 Goodbye, Drew.
53:16 Oh, I see. So you've been feeding in some of your lying keyhole gossip, eh?
53:21 Who's calling me a liar? Why, you can see the fathead's.
53:24 Dad, Linda wouldn't say anything about you that wasn't true. Go ahead. Tell Mickey. Tell him you're on the square with him and with Kip and all the rest of us who played you to win. Why don't you mind your own business for a change? Please, Dad. Shut up, Mick.
53:42 Once you used your rights, you could have knocked him out.
53:48 The winner, a new champ.
53:55 All right, champs.
53:57 It was worth it.
54:06 Come on.
54:36 I'm
55:29 Oh, it's you.
55:31 Hello, baby.
55:32 Aren't you going to invite me in? I haven't time right now. I'm getting ready to go out. Well, listen, honey, I'd like to talk to you. It'll only be for a minute. Well, all right, but make it brief.
55:40 Gee, gee, you look swell.
55:42 Where have you been the last couple of weeks? I haven't heard from you.
55:45 Forget that. What's on your mind?
55:48 I need some money, Rita. I thought you might let me have it. Are you trying to make a touch?
55:52 No, no, baby. It's only for a little while. Why don't you ask Kip Morgan? He's your manager.
55:58 Yeah.
56:00 He was my manager.
56:01 Don't tell me you split with him.
56:03 That's right.
56:04 Why?
56:05 Well, I...
56:07 I had a little trouble with the Athletic Commission. They suspended me for a year.
56:11 Kip, we refuse to handle me anymore.
56:13 So? So, uh...
56:15 I thought you might let me have a thousand.
56:18 Until I get started again.
56:19 You flatter me if you think I've got that kind of money. Well, listen, baby, I could get a thousand-hours bracelet I gave you. It'll only be for a couple of weeks. Not on your life, big boy. I've heard that routine before.
56:29 Why don't you run along and pet your cauliflower?
56:31 Oh, so that's it.
56:33 They were right.
56:34 You've been playing me for a sucker.
56:36 Call us that if you want to, Gary, but I gave you a lot of my time.
56:39 First I thought there was something to you besides muscle.
56:43 But you're so crude, you embarrass me.
56:46 Why don't you just forget little Rita?
56:50 That's going to be easy.
58:14 Morning, Kip.
58:15 Oh, morning Linda.
58:16 Any news of Gary?
58:18 No, no words from Biff either since last Monday.
58:21 And the Toledo clue let us nowhere, huh?
58:23 The guy turned out to be a Hammanegger from Chicago.
58:26 Maybe we're following the wrong angle. Maybe he's not fighting. Well, sure he is.
58:31 A guy as cocky as Gary wouldn't quit the ring even if it killed him.
58:35 - Vic! - Hi.
58:37 Did you find him?
58:38 Sure.
58:40 Did you talk to him?
58:41 I didn't have the heart to it. It's a beating I saw him take it.
58:44 Someone's fool in no condition, I suppose.
58:46 That's right. It was pitiful.
58:48 In the preliminaries?
58:49 Yeah.
58:50 Under the name of Knockout Burt.
58:53 There must be something we can do to stop him.
58:56 In spite of everything he's done to you, you're still loving me.
58:58 Sure.
58:59 He was only playing hooky.
59:02 Hey, he's fighting in Patterson tonight.
59:04 If we fly, we could make it.
59:05 Let's go, kid.
59:07 Get the airport there.
59:23 I'm going to go.
59:45 All right, what are you guys doing here?
59:47 came to see you at Christ.
59:48 Well, now that you had your laugh, you can scram. Nobody's laughing, Gary.
59:53 How'd you come then if you didn't come the last?
59:55 So, Friday you washed up, Gary. We can see you go on. All washed up.
1:00:00 Don't you worry about me, Morgan. I know what I'm doing.
1:00:03 It won't be very long if you keep this up.
1:00:05 Why don't you swallow your pride and quit? Listen, man.
1:00:08 You came here to give me a lecture, you're a little early.
1:00:11 School doesn't start till next week.
1:00:17 Oh, you too.
1:00:19 Well, I didn't think that you'd miss the fun.
1:00:21 How much of a licking do you have to take before you come to your senses?
1:00:24 You're wrong, Gary, and you know it.
1:00:26 but you haven't got the courage to say so.
1:00:28 Why are you so worried about this silly pride of yours?
1:00:31 You don't even give a thought to make the sweetest kid in the world. Mickey.
1:00:35 Mickey, what happened to him?
1:00:36 I'm all right, gang.
1:00:42 Romy.
1:00:45 Where's your uniform?
1:00:48 I guess I haven't been much of a dad to you, but... Listen, don't you worry, son, I'll have you back in that military school again. Okay.
1:00:54 Oh.
1:00:55 Who are you caring about?
1:00:58 I'm not.
1:01:00 cares about.
1:01:04 Who cares about playing soldiers?
1:01:08 That's
1:01:09 Stoked.
1:01:10 I'm going to be a newspaper man.
1:01:13 Linda says she can fix it for me.
1:01:16 If you and Frank can get married...
1:01:19 Married.
1:01:21 Sure.
1:01:22 We talked it over on the way, and that's it.
1:01:28 Think you have me?
1:01:29 Why don't you ask me, Gary?
1:01:38 My fans would be interested to hear the Gary Farrell
1:01:42 has given up the prize ring
1:01:45 to put the little gold grain
1:01:47 On the third finger of Linda Martin.
1:01:53 It's a cinch.
1:01:54 that they will be blended...
1:01:56 before this edition hits the streets.