1 00:01:25,393 --> 00:01:30,937 I owe everything to George Bailey ... Help him, dear Father. 2 00:01:30,937 --> 00:01:37,088 Joseph, Jesus and Mary. Help my friend, Mr. Bailey. 3 00:01:37,088 --> 00:01:40,367 Help my son, George, tonight. 4 00:01:40,367 --> 00:01:44,094 He never thinks about himself, God, that's why he's in trouble. 5 00:01:44,094 --> 00:01:48,630 George is a good guy. Give him a break, God ... 6 00:01:48,630 --> 00:01:52,504 I love him, dear Lord. Watch over him tonight ... 7 00:01:52,504 --> 00:01:56,228 Please, God, something's the matter with Daddy ... 8 00:01:56,228 --> 00:02:00,798 Please bring Daddy back. 9 00:02:09,587 --> 00:02:11,568 Hello, Joseph. Trouble? 10 00:02:11,568 --> 00:02:14,281 Looks like we'll have to send someone down. 11 00:02:14,281 --> 00:02:17,643 A lot of people asking for help for a man named George Bailey. 12 00:02:17,643 --> 00:02:21,631 George Bailey. Yes. Tonight's his crucial night. You're right. 13 00:02:21,631 --> 00:02:24,697 We'll have to send someone down immediately. Whose turn is it? 14 00:02:24,697 --> 00:02:27,404 That's why I came to see you, sir. 15 00:02:27,404 --> 00:02:29,684 It's that clock-maker's turn again. 16 00:02:29,684 --> 00:02:32,982 Oh, Clarence. Hasn't got his wings yet, has he? 17 00:02:32,982 --> 00:02:35,158 We've passed him up right along. 18 00:02:35,158 --> 00:02:38,438 Because, you know, sir, he's got the I.Q. of a rabbit. 19 00:02:38,438 --> 00:02:42,163 Yes, but he's got the faith of a child. Simple. 20 00:02:42,163 --> 00:02:44,318 Joseph, send for Clarence. 21 00:02:47,734 --> 00:02:48,782 You sent for me, sir? 22 00:02:48,782 --> 00:02:52,057 Yes, Clarence. A man down on earth needs our help. 23 00:02:52,057 --> 00:02:53,551 Splendid! Is he sick? 24 00:02:53,551 --> 00:02:55,862 No. Worse. He's discouraged. 25 00:02:55,862 --> 00:02:58,779 At exactly ten forty-five P.M., earth-time, 26 00:02:58,779 --> 00:03:02,637 that man will be thinking seriously of throwing away God's greatest gift. 27 00:03:02,637 --> 00:03:06,717 Oh, dear, dear! His life! Then I have only an hour to dress. 28 00:03:06,717 --> 00:03:07,730 What are they wearing now? 29 00:03:07,730 --> 00:03:11,098 You will spend that hour getting acquainted with George Bailey. 30 00:03:11,098 --> 00:03:17,604 Sir ... If I should accomplish this mission ... I mean, uh, might I perhaps win my wings? 31 00:03:17,604 --> 00:03:20,121 I've been waiting for over two hundred years now, sir ... 32 00:03:20,121 --> 00:03:21,835 and people are beginning to talk. 33 00:03:21,835 --> 00:03:23,155 What's that book you've got there? 34 00:03:23,155 --> 00:03:25,634 Oh, 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.' 35 00:03:25,634 --> 00:03:29,199 Clarence, you do a good job with George Bailey and you'll get your wings. 36 00:03:29,199 --> 00:03:31,306 Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you. 37 00:03:31,306 --> 00:03:34,038 Poor George. Sit down. 38 00:03:34,038 --> 00:03:35,512 Sit down? What are we ... 39 00:03:35,512 --> 00:03:39,559 If you're going to help a man, you want to know something about him, don't you? 40 00:03:39,559 --> 00:03:43,383 - Well, naturally, of course, I ... - Well, keep your eyes open. 41 00:03:43,383 --> 00:03:47,240 - See the town? - Where? I — I don't see a thing. 42 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,306 Oh, I forgot. You haven't got your wings yet. 43 00:03:50,306 --> 00:03:52,206 Now look, I'll help you out. 44 00:03:52,206 --> 00:03:54,057 Concentrate. 45 00:03:54,057 --> 00:03:55,736 Begin to see something? 46 00:03:55,736 --> 00:03:58,539 Why, yes! This is amazing! 47 00:03:58,539 --> 00:04:01,170 If you ever get your wings, you'll see all by yourself. 48 00:04:01,170 --> 00:04:03,001 Oh, wonderful! 49 00:04:03,001 --> 00:04:05,912 Yippee! 50 00:04:05,912 --> 00:04:08,495 Okay, boys, let's go. 51 00:04:08,495 --> 00:04:09,628 Hey, who's that? 52 00:04:09,628 --> 00:04:12,545 - That's your problem, George Bailey. - A boy? 53 00:04:12,545 --> 00:04:15,831 That's him when he was twelve. Back in nineteen nineteen. 54 00:04:15,831 --> 00:04:19,200 Something happens here you'll have to remember later on. 55 00:04:20,405 --> 00:04:26,121 Come on, Marty. Come on, Marty. 56 00:04:27,137 --> 00:04:31,268 - Hee-haw! - Hee-haw! 57 00:04:31,268 --> 00:04:35,638 And here comes the scare-baby, my kid brother, Harry Bailey! 58 00:04:35,638 --> 00:04:37,716 I'm not scared! 59 00:04:40,743 --> 00:04:46,690 Go, Harry! C'mon, Harry! Attaboy, Harry! Come on, Harry! 60 00:04:47,465 --> 00:04:51,055 Help, George! Help! Help! 61 00:04:51,055 --> 00:04:53,820 Harry, I'm coming! 62 00:04:53,820 --> 00:04:56,244 - Help! - Hang on, Harry! 63 00:04:56,244 --> 00:04:58,698 I'm coming! Chain Gang! 64 00:04:58,698 --> 00:05:01,812 George saved his brother's life that day. 65 00:05:01,812 --> 00:05:05,457 But it caught him that cold which infected his left ear. 66 00:05:05,457 --> 00:05:07,876 Cost him his hearing in that ear. 67 00:05:07,876 --> 00:05:11,539 It was weeks before he was able to go back to his after-school job 68 00:05:11,539 --> 00:05:14,307 at old man Gower's Drugstore. 69 00:05:14,307 --> 00:05:15,696 Mr. Potter! 70 00:05:15,696 --> 00:05:17,885 Who's that? A king? 71 00:05:17,885 --> 00:05:20,077 That's Henry F. Potter. 72 00:05:20,077 --> 00:05:23,582 The richest and meanest man in the county. 73 00:05:27,376 --> 00:05:36,799 Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Go to work, slave ... 74 00:05:36,799 --> 00:05:44,452 I wish I had a million dollars! Hot dog! 75 00:05:44,452 --> 00:05:46,456 It's me, Mr. Gower. George Bailey. 76 00:05:46,456 --> 00:05:48,622 - You're late - Yes, sir. 77 00:05:57,172 --> 00:06:00,678 Hello, George. Hello, Mary. 78 00:06:00,678 --> 00:06:01,964 Hello, Violet. 79 00:06:01,964 --> 00:06:03,455 Two-cents' worth of shoelaces? 80 00:06:03,455 --> 00:06:04,930 She was here first. 81 00:06:04,930 --> 00:06:06,886 I'm still thinking. 82 00:06:06,886 --> 00:06:07,911 Shoelaces? 83 00:06:07,911 --> 00:06:11,546 Please, Georgie. I like him. 84 00:06:11,546 --> 00:06:13,329 You like every boy. 85 00:06:13,329 --> 00:06:15,260 What's wrong with that? 86 00:06:15,260 --> 00:06:17,468 Here you are. 87 00:06:17,468 --> 00:06:20,202 - Help me down. - Help you down? 88 00:06:27,253 --> 00:06:29,052 Made up your mind yet? 89 00:06:29,052 --> 00:06:30,902 I'll take chocolate. 90 00:06:30,902 --> 00:06:32,119 With coconuts? 91 00:06:32,119 --> 00:06:33,952 I don't like coconuts. 92 00:06:33,952 --> 00:06:35,896 You don't like coconuts? 93 00:06:35,896 --> 00:06:39,842 Say, brainless, don't you know where coconuts come from? 94 00:06:39,842 --> 00:06:44,705 Look it here ... from Tahiti, Fiji Islands, the Coral Sea! 95 00:06:44,705 --> 00:06:47,814 A new magazine! I never saw it before. 96 00:06:47,814 --> 00:06:49,100 Of course you never. 97 00:06:49,100 --> 00:06:51,136 Only us explorers can get it. 98 00:06:51,136 --> 00:06:56,239 I've been nominated for membership in the National Geographic Society. 99 00:06:56,239 --> 00:06:59,077 Is this the ear you can't hear on? 100 00:06:59,077 --> 00:07:02,560 George Bailey, I'll love you till the day I die. 101 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,486 I'm going out exploring some day, you watch. 102 00:07:05,486 --> 00:07:09,026 And I'm gonna have a couple of harems, and maybe three or four wives. 103 00:07:09,026 --> 00:07:10,379 Wait and see. 104 00:07:13,133 --> 00:07:16,335 - George! George! - Yes, sir. 105 00:07:16,335 --> 00:07:19,392 You're not paid to be a canary. 106 00:07:19,392 --> 00:07:20,755 No, sir ... 107 00:07:48,017 --> 00:07:50,151 Mr. Gower, do you want something? 108 00:07:50,151 --> 00:07:52,737 - Anything? - No. 109 00:07:52,737 --> 00:07:56,010 - Anything I can do back here? - Nope. 110 00:07:56,010 --> 00:07:57,400 I'll get them, sir. 111 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,762 take those capsules over to Mrs. Blaine's. 112 00:08:01,762 --> 00:08:03,889 - She's waiting for them. - Yes, sir ... 113 00:08:26,668 --> 00:08:29,111 They have the diphtheria there, haven't they, sir? 114 00:08:29,111 --> 00:08:30,261 Ummm. 115 00:08:30,261 --> 00:08:32,110 Is it a charge, sir? 116 00:08:32,110 --> 00:08:34,197 Yes, charge. 117 00:08:34,197 --> 00:08:36,744 - Mr. Gower, I think ... - Aw, get going! 118 00:08:36,744 --> 00:08:37,949 Yes, sir. 119 00:09:04,470 --> 00:09:06,432 Fast there, Captain Cook! Where you headin'? 120 00:09:06,432 --> 00:09:07,709 Got to see Pop, Uncle Billy. 121 00:09:07,709 --> 00:09:09,730 - Some other time, George. - It's important! 122 00:09:09,730 --> 00:09:12,422 There's a squall in there that's shapin' up into a storm. 123 00:09:12,422 --> 00:09:13,794 Uncle Billy, telephone. 124 00:09:13,794 --> 00:09:15,923 - Who is it? - The Bank examiner. 125 00:09:15,923 --> 00:09:17,421 Bank examiner? 126 00:09:17,421 --> 00:09:19,645 Oh, I should have called him yesterday. 127 00:09:19,645 --> 00:09:21,209 Switch it inside. 128 00:09:23,049 --> 00:09:24,694 I'm not crying, Mr. Potter. 129 00:09:24,694 --> 00:09:26,560 Well, you're begging and that's a whole lot worse. 130 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:28,631 All I'm asking for is thirty days more. 131 00:09:28,631 --> 00:09:29,732 - Pop! - Just a minute, son. 132 00:09:29,732 --> 00:09:32,586 Just thirty short days. I'll dig up that five thousand somehow. 133 00:09:32,586 --> 00:09:34,279 - Shove me up. Shove me up. - Pop! 134 00:09:34,279 --> 00:09:38,549 Have you put any real pressure on these people of yours to pay those mortgages? 135 00:09:38,549 --> 00:09:40,978 Times are bad, Mr. Potter. A lot of these people are out of work. 136 00:09:40,978 --> 00:09:42,907 - Then foreclose! - I can't do that. 137 00:09:42,907 --> 00:09:44,347 - These families have children. - Pop! 138 00:09:44,347 --> 00:09:45,538 They're not my children. 139 00:09:45,538 --> 00:09:47,439 But they're somebody's children, Mr. Potter. 140 00:09:47,439 --> 00:09:50,104 Are you running a business or a charity ward? 141 00:09:50,104 --> 00:09:52,344 - Well, all right ... - Not with my money. 142 00:09:52,344 --> 00:09:54,992 Mr. Potter, what makes you such a hard-skulled character? 143 00:09:54,992 --> 00:09:56,875 You have no family, no children. 144 00:09:56,875 --> 00:09:58,853 You can't begin to spend all the money you've got. 145 00:09:58,853 --> 00:10:02,715 So I suppose I should give it to miserable failures like you ... 146 00:10:02,715 --> 00:10:05,419 and that idiot brother of yours to spend for me. 147 00:10:05,419 --> 00:10:06,862 He's not a failure! 148 00:10:06,862 --> 00:10:09,169 - You can't say that about my father! - George, George, quiet. George, George ... 149 00:10:09,169 --> 00:10:10,909 You're not! You're the biggest man in town! 150 00:10:10,909 --> 00:10:12,105 - Run along. - Bigger than him. 151 00:10:12,105 --> 00:10:13,425 - Run along! - Bigger than everybody! 152 00:10:13,425 --> 00:10:14,931 Gives you an idea of the Baileys. 153 00:10:14,931 --> 00:10:16,802 Don't let him say things like that about you, Pop. 154 00:10:16,802 --> 00:10:17,847 All right, son. All right. 155 00:10:17,847 --> 00:10:20,001 Thanks. I'll talk to you tonight. 156 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:28,926 What! 157 00:10:28,926 --> 00:10:32,641 Why, that medicine should have been there an hour ago. 158 00:10:32,641 --> 00:10:35,438 It'll be over in five minutes, Mrs. Blaine. 159 00:10:39,112 --> 00:10:41,483 Where's Mrs. Blaine's box of capsules? 160 00:10:41,483 --> 00:10:43,271 I feel ... 161 00:10:43,996 --> 00:10:46,306 - Didn't you hear what I said? - Yes, sir, I ... 162 00:10:46,306 --> 00:10:48,730 What kind of tricks are you playing anyway? 163 00:10:50,515 --> 00:10:53,903 Why didn't you deliver them right away? 164 00:10:53,903 --> 00:10:55,280 Don't you know that boy's very sick? 165 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:56,977 You're hurting my sore ear. 166 00:10:56,977 --> 00:10:58,537 You lazy loafer! 167 00:10:58,537 --> 00:11:00,852 Mr. Gower, you don't know what you're doing. 168 00:11:00,852 --> 00:11:02,650 You put something wrong in those capsules. 169 00:11:02,650 --> 00:11:04,040 I know you're unhappy. 170 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:05,803 You got that telegram and you're upset. 171 00:11:05,803 --> 00:11:07,654 You put something bad in those capsules. 172 00:11:07,654 --> 00:11:09,532 It wasn't your fault, Mr. Gower. 173 00:11:11,263 --> 00:11:12,909 Just look and see what you did. 174 00:11:12,909 --> 00:11:14,400 Look at the bottle you took the powder from. 175 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,159 It's poison! I tell you it's poison! 176 00:11:17,159 --> 00:11:19,194 I know you feel bad. 177 00:11:19,194 --> 00:11:20,196 I didn't know ... 178 00:11:24,208 --> 00:11:25,964 - Oh ... - Don't hurt my sore ear again. 179 00:11:25,964 --> 00:11:27,290 - Don't hurt my sore ear again. - Oh, no, no, no ... 180 00:11:27,290 --> 00:11:30,361 Oh, George. George ... 181 00:11:30,361 --> 00:11:33,101 Oh, Mr. Gower, I won't ever tell anyone. 182 00:11:33,101 --> 00:11:34,608 I know what you're feeling. 183 00:11:34,608 --> 00:11:36,100 I won't tell a soul. 184 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:39,276 - Hope to die, I won't. - Oh, George, George ... 185 00:11:39,276 --> 00:11:42,093 An overnight bag, genuine English cowhide, 186 00:11:42,093 --> 00:11:44,275 combination lock, fitted up with brushes, combs ... 187 00:11:44,275 --> 00:11:46,824 Nope! Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. 188 00:11:46,824 --> 00:11:49,272 Now look, Joe. Now look, 189 00:11:49,272 --> 00:11:52,125 I, I — I want a big one. 190 00:11:52,125 --> 00:11:53,344 What did you stop it for? 191 00:11:53,344 --> 00:11:56,788 I want you to take a good look at that face. 192 00:11:56,788 --> 00:11:58,823 - Who is it? - George Bailey. 193 00:11:58,823 --> 00:12:02,100 Oh, you mean the kid that had his ears slapped back by the druggist? 194 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:03,763 That's the kid. 195 00:12:03,763 --> 00:12:06,452 Uh-huh. It's a good face. 196 00:12:06,452 --> 00:12:09,974 I like it. I like George Bailey. 197 00:12:09,974 --> 00:12:12,485 Tell me, did he ever tell anyone about the pills? 198 00:12:12,485 --> 00:12:14,011 Not a soul. 199 00:12:14,011 --> 00:12:16,830 Did he ever marry the girl? Did he ever go exploring? 200 00:12:16,830 --> 00:12:19,341 Well, wait and see. 201 00:12:19,341 --> 00:12:21,379 Big ... see ... I, I don't want one for one night. 202 00:12:21,379 --> 00:12:23,590 I want something for a thousand and one nights. 203 00:12:23,590 --> 00:12:28,140 With plenty of room here for labels from Italy and Baghdad, Samarkand ... 204 00:12:28,140 --> 00:12:29,328 a great big one. 205 00:12:29,328 --> 00:12:31,274 - I see, a flying carpet, huh? - Yeah. 206 00:12:31,274 --> 00:12:34,116 I don't suppose you'd like this old second-hand job, would you? 207 00:12:34,116 --> 00:12:35,409 Now you're talking. 208 00:12:35,409 --> 00:12:38,375 Gee whiz, I could use that as a raft in case the boat sunk. 209 00:12:38,375 --> 00:12:41,330 - How much does this cost? - No charge. 210 00:12:41,330 --> 00:12:43,655 That's my trick ear, Joe. It sounded as if you said no charge. 211 00:12:43,655 --> 00:12:44,683 That's right. 212 00:12:45,856 --> 00:12:47,468 Well, what's my name doing on it here? 213 00:12:47,468 --> 00:12:50,279 A little present form old man Gower. Came down and picked it out himself. 214 00:12:50,279 --> 00:12:51,322 He did? 215 00:12:51,322 --> 00:12:54,252 What do you know about that ... my old boss. Isn't that nice? 216 00:12:54,252 --> 00:12:55,301 What boat you sailing on? 217 00:12:55,301 --> 00:12:56,948 I'm working across on a cattle boat. 218 00:12:56,948 --> 00:12:59,322 - A cattle boat? - Okay, I like cows. 219 00:13:01,485 --> 00:13:03,202 - Hello, Mr. Gower. - George! 220 00:13:03,202 --> 00:13:05,127 How are you? Thanks ever so much for the baggage. 221 00:13:05,127 --> 00:13:06,426 - It's just exactly what I wanted. - Aw, forget it. 222 00:13:06,426 --> 00:13:07,837 Oh, it's wonderful of you to think of it. 223 00:13:07,837 --> 00:13:09,999 - Hope you enjoy it. - Oh, oh, oh, oh. 224 00:13:09,999 --> 00:13:13,369 I wish I had a million dollars. Hot dog! 225 00:13:13,369 --> 00:13:16,223 Avast there, Captain Cook! You got your sealegs yet? 226 00:13:16,223 --> 00:13:17,713 Parlez vous Francais, Mister? 227 00:13:17,713 --> 00:13:19,740 Hey, send us some of their picture postcards, will you, George? 228 00:13:19,740 --> 00:13:21,623 Hey, George, don't take any plugged nickels. 229 00:13:21,623 --> 00:13:23,642 Hey, George, your suitcase is leaking. 230 00:13:23,642 --> 00:13:26,055 Hey, Ernie! Hi, Ernie! 231 00:13:26,055 --> 00:13:27,087 - Hiya, George. - Hi, Bert. 232 00:13:27,087 --> 00:13:29,141 - George ... - Hey, hey, I, I'm a rich tourist today. 233 00:13:29,141 --> 00:13:30,882 - How about driving me home in style? - Great. 234 00:13:30,882 --> 00:13:34,201 Hop in Your Highness, hop in. And for the carriage trade. 235 00:13:34,201 --> 00:13:35,828 I put on my hat. 236 00:13:37,798 --> 00:13:41,011 - Good afternoon, Mr. Bailey. - Hello, Violet. 237 00:13:41,011 --> 00:13:43,191 Hey, you look good. That's some dress you got on there. 238 00:13:43,191 --> 00:13:44,869 What! This old thing? 239 00:13:44,869 --> 00:13:47,178 Why, I only wear it when I don't care how I look. 240 00:14:02,762 --> 00:14:04,557 - How would you like ... - Yes. 241 00:14:06,626 --> 00:14:08,255 Want to come along, Bert? We'll show you the town. 242 00:14:08,255 --> 00:14:12,471 No, thanks. I, uh, I've gotta go home and see what the wife's doing. 243 00:14:14,662 --> 00:14:15,836 Family man. 244 00:14:17,459 --> 00:14:19,039 George! Harry! 245 00:14:19,039 --> 00:14:21,329 You're shaking the house down! Stop it! 246 00:14:21,329 --> 00:14:24,283 Oh, let them alone! I wish I was up there with them. 247 00:14:24,283 --> 00:14:27,102 But Harry'll tear his dinner suit! George! 248 00:14:27,102 --> 00:14:29,257 That's why all children should be girls. 249 00:14:29,257 --> 00:14:31,534 But if they were all girls, there wouldn't be any ... 250 00:14:31,534 --> 00:14:33,102 Oh, never mind. 251 00:14:33,102 --> 00:14:35,597 George! Harry! Come down to dinner this minute. 252 00:14:35,597 --> 00:14:38,552 Everything's getting cold and you know, how long we've been waiting for you. 253 00:14:38,552 --> 00:14:40,308 Okay, Mom! 254 00:14:46,093 --> 00:14:53,628 - Here's a present for you, Pop. - Oh, you two idiots! 255 00:14:53,628 --> 00:14:55,677 - George, sit down and have dinner. - I've eaten. 256 00:14:55,677 --> 00:14:58,148 Well, aren't you going to finish dressing for your graduating party? 257 00:14:58,148 --> 00:14:59,353 - Look at you! - I don't care. 258 00:14:59,353 --> 00:15:01,994 It's George's tux. Annie, my sweet, have you got those pies? 259 00:15:01,994 --> 00:15:04,403 If you lay a hand on me, I'll hit you with this broom. 260 00:15:04,403 --> 00:15:06,861 Annie, I'm in love with you, there's a moon out tonight. 261 00:15:07,791 --> 00:15:11,699 Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, my last meal in the old Bailey Boarding House. 262 00:15:11,699 --> 00:15:13,904 Oh, my lands, my blood pressure! 263 00:15:13,904 --> 00:15:16,264 Pop, can I have the car? I have to take over a lot of plates and things. 264 00:15:16,264 --> 00:15:17,530 - What plates? - Oh, Mom, 265 00:15:17,530 --> 00:15:20,015 I'm Chairman of the Eats Committee and we only need a couple of dozen. 266 00:15:20,015 --> 00:15:22,529 Oh, no, you don't. Harry, now, not my best Haviland. 267 00:15:22,529 --> 00:15:25,602 Oh, let him have the plates, Mother. 268 00:15:25,602 --> 00:15:28,423 Hope you have a good trip, George. Uncle Billy and I are gonna miss you. 269 00:15:28,423 --> 00:15:31,565 I'll miss you too, Pop. What's the matter? You look tired. 270 00:15:31,565 --> 00:15:34,125 - Oh, I had another tussle with Potter today. - Oh. 271 00:15:34,125 --> 00:15:37,077 I thought when we put him on the board of Directors, he'd ease up on us a little bit. 272 00:15:37,077 --> 00:15:39,932 Oh, what's eating that old money-grubbing buzzard anyway? 273 00:15:39,932 --> 00:15:42,526 Oh, he's a sick man. Frustrated and sick. 274 00:15:42,526 --> 00:15:45,201 And his mind's sick in his soul, if he has one. 275 00:15:45,201 --> 00:15:48,095 He hates everybody that has anything that he can't have. 276 00:15:48,095 --> 00:15:49,805 He hates us mostly, I guess. 277 00:15:49,805 --> 00:15:51,487 Gangway! Gangway! So long, Pop. 278 00:15:51,487 --> 00:15:52,743 So long! 279 00:15:52,743 --> 00:15:54,759 - Harry, you got a match? - Very funny. Very funny. 280 00:15:54,759 --> 00:15:57,174 Put those things in the car and I'll get your tie and studs ready for you. 281 00:15:57,174 --> 00:15:58,845 - Now, hurry up, hurry up. - Okay, Mom. 282 00:15:58,845 --> 00:15:59,996 - You coming later? - Don't you drop one of those. 283 00:15:59,996 --> 00:16:01,247 - You coming later, George? - What do you mean, 284 00:16:01,247 --> 00:16:03,185 - and be bored to death? - Couldn't want a better death. 285 00:16:03,185 --> 00:16:05,406 Lots of pretty girls, and we're going to use that new floor tonight, too. 286 00:16:05,406 --> 00:16:07,261 - Oh, I hope it works. - No gin tonight, son! 287 00:16:07,261 --> 00:16:09,806 - Aw, Pop, just a little. - No, son. Not one drop. 288 00:16:09,806 --> 00:16:11,023 Oh! 289 00:16:11,023 --> 00:16:15,240 Boys and girls and music ... why do they need gin? 290 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:18,332 Father, did I act like that when I graduated from high school? 291 00:16:18,332 --> 00:16:19,391 Pretty much. 292 00:16:20,190 --> 00:16:22,752 You know, George, I wish we could send Harry to college with you. 293 00:16:22,752 --> 00:16:24,312 Your mother and I talked it over half the night. 294 00:16:24,312 --> 00:16:27,619 Mmm, we have that all figured out. 295 00:16:27,619 --> 00:16:30,728 Harry'll take my job at the Building and Loan, and work there four years, 296 00:16:30,728 --> 00:16:32,007 then he'll go. 297 00:16:32,925 --> 00:16:35,984 - He's pretty young for that job. - Well, no younger than I was. 298 00:16:35,984 --> 00:16:38,066 Maybe you were born older, George. 299 00:16:39,456 --> 00:16:40,810 How's that? 300 00:16:40,810 --> 00:16:42,548 I say, you were born older. 301 00:16:42,548 --> 00:16:45,773 I suppose you've decided what you want to do when you get out of college. 302 00:16:45,773 --> 00:16:48,805 Oh well, you know what I've always talked about ... build things ... 303 00:16:48,805 --> 00:16:51,252 design new buildings ... plan modern cities ... 304 00:16:51,252 --> 00:16:54,136 - all that stuff, I was talking about. - Still after that first million before you're thirty. 305 00:16:54,136 --> 00:16:55,575 No, I'll settle for half that in cash. 306 00:16:57,442 --> 00:17:00,689 'Course it's just a hope, but uh, 307 00:17:00,689 --> 00:17:03,229 you wouldn't consider coming back to the Building and Loan, would you? 308 00:17:05,844 --> 00:17:11,804 Well, I — I ... Why, Annie, why, why don't you draw up a chair? 309 00:17:11,804 --> 00:17:14,846 Then you'd be more comfortable and you could hear everything that's going on. 310 00:17:14,846 --> 00:17:17,281 I would if I thought I'd hear anything worth listening to. 311 00:17:17,281 --> 00:17:19,231 You would, eh? 312 00:17:19,231 --> 00:17:23,094 - I know it's soon to talk about it. - Oh, now, Pop. I, I, 313 00:17:23,094 --> 00:17:30,471 I couldn't. I couldn't face being cooped up for the rest of my life in a shabby little office ... 314 00:17:30,471 --> 00:17:32,959 Oh, I'm sorry, Pop, I didn't mean it that way, 315 00:17:32,959 --> 00:17:37,421 but this business of nickels and dimes and spending all your life ... 316 00:17:37,421 --> 00:17:41,102 trying to figure out how to save three cents on a length of pipe ... I'd go crazy. 317 00:17:41,102 --> 00:17:43,734 I — I wanna do something big and something important. 318 00:17:44,859 --> 00:17:48,291 You know, George, I feel that in a small way we are doing something important. 319 00:17:48,291 --> 00:17:50,634 Satisfying a fundamental urge. 320 00:17:50,634 --> 00:17:55,123 It's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace. 321 00:17:55,123 --> 00:17:58,658 And we're helping him get those things in our shabby little office. 322 00:17:58,658 --> 00:18:05,852 I know, Pop. I, uh, I, I know that I, I ... I wish I felt ... 323 00:18:05,852 --> 00:18:09,645 but I, I've been hoarding pennies like a miser here in order to ... 324 00:18:09,645 --> 00:18:11,898 Most of my friends have already finished college. 325 00:18:11,898 --> 00:18:15,468 I, uh, I just feel like if I didn't get away, I'd bust. 326 00:18:15,468 --> 00:18:20,617 Yes, yes. You're right, son. 327 00:18:20,617 --> 00:18:22,518 You see what I mean, don't you, Pop? 328 00:18:22,518 --> 00:18:26,515 This town is no place for any man unless he's willing to crawl to Potter. 329 00:18:26,515 --> 00:18:29,818 And you've got talent, son. I've seen it. 330 00:18:29,818 --> 00:18:33,218 You get yourself an education. Then get out of here. 331 00:18:35,527 --> 00:18:38,911 Pop, you want a shock? 332 00:18:38,911 --> 00:18:40,917 I think you're a great guy. 333 00:18:44,522 --> 00:18:45,948 Oh, did you hear that, Annie? 334 00:18:45,948 --> 00:18:49,789 I heard it. About time one of you lunkheads said it. 335 00:18:51,178 --> 00:18:52,982 I'm going to miss old Annie. 336 00:18:56,620 --> 00:18:59,918 Pop, I think I'll get dressed and go over to Harry's party. 337 00:18:59,918 --> 00:19:01,338 Have a good time, son. 338 00:19:08,099 --> 00:19:09,200 Here you are. 339 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:10,401 George! Hello! 340 00:19:10,401 --> 00:19:12,676 You know my kid brother, George? I'm going to put him through college. 341 00:19:12,676 --> 00:19:15,357 - Hello, George! - Hee-haw! 342 00:19:15,357 --> 00:19:16,957 Oh, oh, Sam Wainwright. 343 00:19:16,957 --> 00:19:18,259 How are you? When did you get here? 344 00:19:18,259 --> 00:19:20,551 Oh, this afternoon. I thought I'd give the kids a treat. 345 00:19:20,551 --> 00:19:22,012 Old college graduate now, huh? 346 00:19:22,012 --> 00:19:24,203 Yeah. Old Joe College Wainwright, they call me. 347 00:19:24,203 --> 00:19:26,769 Well, freshman, looks like you're going to make it after all. 348 00:19:26,769 --> 00:19:27,842 - Yep. - Hey, hey! 349 00:19:27,842 --> 00:19:30,055 Harry! You're the guy I want to see. 350 00:19:30,055 --> 00:19:31,703 - The Coach has heard all about you. - He has? 351 00:19:31,703 --> 00:19:33,681 Yeah. He's followed every game and his mouth's watering. 352 00:19:33,681 --> 00:19:35,478 He wants me to find out if you're going to come along with us. 353 00:19:35,478 --> 00:19:37,480 Well, I eh, I gotta make some dough first. 354 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,012 Well, you'd better make it fast. We need great ends like you. 355 00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:42,134 not broken-down old guys like this one! 356 00:19:42,134 --> 00:19:43,428 - Hee-haw! - Hee-haw! 357 00:19:43,428 --> 00:19:45,856 George! Welcome back! 358 00:19:45,856 --> 00:19:47,442 Hello, Mr. Partridge, how are you? 359 00:19:47,442 --> 00:19:49,452 Putting a pool under this floor was a great idea. 360 00:19:49,452 --> 00:19:50,619 Saved us another building. 361 00:19:50,619 --> 00:19:52,672 Now, Harry, Sam, have a lot of fun. 362 00:19:52,672 --> 00:19:54,052 There's lots of stuff here to eat and drink. 363 00:19:54,052 --> 00:19:58,339 - Lots of pretty girls around. - Hey, George ... 364 00:19:58,339 --> 00:20:00,988 - Hello, Violet. How are you ... - Hello. What am I bid? 365 00:20:00,988 --> 00:20:04,076 - George ... - Marty. Well, it's old home week. 366 00:20:04,076 --> 00:20:06,262 Marty! Glad to see you. 367 00:20:06,262 --> 00:20:08,229 - Do me a favor, will you, George? - What's that? 368 00:20:08,229 --> 00:20:10,690 - Well, you remember my kid sister, Mary? - Oh, yeah. Yeah. 369 00:20:10,690 --> 00:20:13,356 "Mamma wants you, Marty." "Mama wants you." Remember? 370 00:20:13,356 --> 00:20:14,389 Dance with her, will you? 371 00:20:14,389 --> 00:20:17,448 Oh, me? Oh, well, I feel funny enough already, with all these kids. 372 00:20:17,448 --> 00:20:18,448 Aw, come on. Be a sport. 373 00:20:18,448 --> 00:20:21,165 Just dance with her one time and you'll give her the thrill of her life. 374 00:20:21,165 --> 00:20:22,229 - Aw, go on. - Hey, sis! 375 00:20:22,229 --> 00:20:25,328 And don't be long, Marty! I don't want to be a wet nurse for ... 376 00:20:25,328 --> 00:20:27,655 And the next thing I knew, some guy came up and tripped me. 377 00:20:27,655 --> 00:20:29,675 That's the reason why I came in fourth. 378 00:20:29,675 --> 00:20:32,428 If it hadn't been for that, that race would have been a cinch. 379 00:20:32,428 --> 00:20:35,546 I tried to find out who it was later but I couldn't find out. 380 00:20:35,546 --> 00:20:39,633 Nobody'd ever tell you who ... whoever, whoever it was because they'd be scared. 381 00:20:39,633 --> 00:20:41,780 - They know what kind of a guy I am ... - You remember George? 382 00:20:41,780 --> 00:20:45,895 - This is Mary. Well, I'll be seeing you. - Well ... well ... well ... 383 00:20:45,895 --> 00:20:48,706 Now, to get back to my story, see ... 384 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:52,918 Hey, this is my dance. 385 00:20:52,918 --> 00:20:54,870 Oh, why don't you stop annoying people? 386 00:20:54,870 --> 00:20:56,847 Well, I'm sorry. Hey! 387 00:21:00,228 --> 00:21:03,415 - Well, hello. - Hello. 388 00:21:03,415 --> 00:21:06,851 - You look at me as if you didn't know me. - Well, I don't. 389 00:21:06,851 --> 00:21:09,193 You've passed me on the street almost every day. 390 00:21:09,193 --> 00:21:10,858 - Me? - Uh-huh. Uh-uh. 391 00:21:10,858 --> 00:21:13,907 That was a little girl named Mary Hatch. That wasn't you. 392 00:21:13,907 --> 00:21:15,637 O-yes, o-yes, o-yes! 393 00:21:15,637 --> 00:21:18,203 The big Charleston contest! 394 00:21:20,138 --> 00:21:22,432 The prize? A genuine loving cup! 395 00:21:22,432 --> 00:21:26,530 Those not tapped by the judges will remain on the floor. Let's go! 396 00:21:36,785 --> 00:21:39,764 - I'm not very good at this. - Neither am I. 397 00:21:39,764 --> 00:21:41,374 Okay. What can we lose? 398 00:21:53,506 --> 00:21:55,067 Hey, you're wonderful! 399 00:22:22,792 --> 00:22:25,222 What's the matter, Othello, jealous? 400 00:22:26,816 --> 00:22:30,348 Did you know there's a swimming pool under this floor? 401 00:22:30,348 --> 00:22:35,445 And did you know that button behind you causes this floor to open up? 402 00:22:35,445 --> 00:22:42,603 And did you further know that George Bailey is dancing right over that crack? 403 00:22:42,603 --> 00:22:44,639 And I've got the key? 404 00:23:06,891 --> 00:23:09,864 Stand back, everybody! Stand back! 405 00:23:14,152 --> 00:23:16,307 They're cheering us. We must be good. 406 00:23:55,192 --> 00:23:58,524 Get out! Oh, well ... 407 00:24:24,939 --> 00:24:27,802 - Oh, Hot dog! Just like an organ. - Beautiful. 408 00:24:27,802 --> 00:24:29,875 I told Harry I thought I'd be bored to death. 409 00:24:29,875 --> 00:24:31,724 You, you should have seen the commotion in that locker room. 410 00:24:31,724 --> 00:24:34,738 I, I had to knock off three people to get this stuff we're wearing here. 411 00:24:34,738 --> 00:24:37,281 Here, let me, let me hold that old wet dress of yours. 412 00:24:37,281 --> 00:24:38,729 Do I look as funny as you do? 413 00:24:38,729 --> 00:24:40,324 I guess I'm not quite the football type. 414 00:24:40,324 --> 00:24:43,111 I ... You, you look wonderful! 415 00:24:43,111 --> 00:24:46,344 You know, if it wasn't me talking I'd say you were the prettiest girl in town. 416 00:24:47,785 --> 00:24:50,197 Well, why don't you say it? 417 00:24:50,197 --> 00:24:53,232 Well, I don't know. Maybe I will say it. How old are you anyway? 418 00:24:54,709 --> 00:24:57,190 - Eighteen. - Eighteen? 419 00:24:57,190 --> 00:24:59,929 Why, it was only last year you were seventeen. 420 00:24:59,929 --> 00:25:01,269 Too young or too old? 421 00:25:01,269 --> 00:25:04,719 Oh, no, no. Just right. Your age fits you. 422 00:25:04,719 --> 00:25:07,692 Yes, sir, you look a little older without your clothes on. 423 00:25:07,692 --> 00:25:11,315 I, I mean, without a dress. You look older. 424 00:25:11,315 --> 00:25:14,165 I, I mean, younger. You look ... y-y-you just look ... 425 00:25:14,165 --> 00:25:15,504 - Oh, oh! - Oh, oh! 426 00:25:15,504 --> 00:25:19,244 - Oh, no. I wanna ... - Sir, my train, please! 427 00:25:19,244 --> 00:25:21,972 A pox upon me for a clumsy lout. 428 00:25:21,972 --> 00:25:25,439 Your — your caboose, me lady. 429 00:25:26,423 --> 00:25:29,076 - You may kiss my hand. - Ummm. 430 00:25:31,030 --> 00:25:32,412 Hey. 431 00:25:34,451 --> 00:25:35,668 Hey, Mary. 432 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:39,761 As I was lumbering down the street, 433 00:25:39,761 --> 00:25:42,361 down the street, down the street ... 434 00:25:42,361 --> 00:25:44,569 Okay then, I'll throw a rock at the old Granville house. 435 00:25:44,569 --> 00:25:46,899 Oh, no, don't! I — I love that old house. 436 00:25:46,899 --> 00:25:49,139 No. You see, you make a wish and then try and break some glass. 437 00:25:49,139 --> 00:25:50,758 And you got to be a pretty good shot nowadays, too. 438 00:25:50,758 --> 00:25:52,149 Oh, no, George, don't. 439 00:25:52,149 --> 00:25:54,509 It's full of romance, that old place. 440 00:25:54,509 --> 00:25:56,390 I'd like to live in it. 441 00:25:56,390 --> 00:25:58,000 - In that place? - Uh-huh. 442 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,768 I wouldn't live in it as a ghost. Now watch. 443 00:25:59,768 --> 00:26:01,660 There's a window right on the second floor there, see? 444 00:26:07,297 --> 00:26:10,979 - What did you wish, George? - Well, not just one wish. A whole hatful. 445 00:26:10,979 --> 00:26:12,946 Mary, I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow ... 446 00:26:12,946 --> 00:26:15,644 and the next day and the next year and the year after that. 447 00:26:15,644 --> 00:26:18,665 I'm shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet ... 448 00:26:18,665 --> 00:26:20,376 and I'm gonna see the world. 449 00:26:20,376 --> 00:26:23,830 Italy, Greece, the Parthenon ... the Colesseum. 450 00:26:23,830 --> 00:26:26,293 Then I'm coming back here and go to college and see what they know ... 451 00:26:26,293 --> 00:26:27,998 and then I'm going to build things. 452 00:26:27,998 --> 00:26:29,558 I'm gonna build air fields. 453 00:26:29,558 --> 00:26:32,237 I'm gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high. 454 00:26:32,237 --> 00:26:34,804 I'm gonna build bridges a mile long. 455 00:26:34,804 --> 00:26:36,135 Well, are you gonna throw a rock? 456 00:26:41,108 --> 00:26:42,395 Hey, that's pretty good. 457 00:26:43,446 --> 00:26:44,869 What'd you wish, Mary? 458 00:26:48,376 --> 00:26:50,651 Buffalo Gals, Can't you come out tonight? 459 00:26:50,651 --> 00:26:53,593 Can't you come out tonight? Can't you come out tonight? 460 00:26:53,593 --> 00:26:56,535 Buffalo Gal, Can't you come out tonight? 461 00:26:56,535 --> 00:27:03,612 And dance by the light of the moon. 462 00:27:03,612 --> 00:27:05,464 What'd you wish when you threw that rock? 463 00:27:05,464 --> 00:27:07,293 - Oh, no. - Come on, tell me. 464 00:27:07,293 --> 00:27:09,243 If I told you, it might not come true. 465 00:27:09,243 --> 00:27:11,149 What is it you want, Mary? 466 00:27:11,149 --> 00:27:12,199 What do you want? 467 00:27:12,199 --> 00:27:13,998 You, you want the moon? 468 00:27:13,998 --> 00:27:17,501 Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. 469 00:27:17,501 --> 00:27:19,914 Hey, that's a pretty good idea. 470 00:27:19,914 --> 00:27:24,804 - I'll give you the moon, Mary. - I'll take it. Then what? 471 00:27:24,804 --> 00:27:26,519 Well then, you could swallow it, 472 00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:28,626 and it'd all dissolve, see? 473 00:27:28,626 --> 00:27:32,011 And the moon beams'd shoot out of your fingers and your toes ... 474 00:27:32,011 --> 00:27:33,965 and the ends of your hair. 475 00:27:35,602 --> 00:27:36,957 Am I talking too much? 476 00:27:36,957 --> 00:27:38,240 Yes! 477 00:27:39,326 --> 00:27:41,539 Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death? 478 00:27:41,539 --> 00:27:42,605 How's that? 479 00:27:42,605 --> 00:27:45,642 Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death? 480 00:27:47,887 --> 00:27:49,122 Want me to kiss her, huh? 481 00:27:49,122 --> 00:27:53,915 Aw, youth is wasted on the wrong people! 482 00:27:53,915 --> 00:27:57,278 Hey, hey, hold on. Hey, mister, come on back out here. 483 00:27:57,278 --> 00:28:00,055 I'll show you some kissing that'll put hair back on your head. 484 00:28:00,055 --> 00:28:01,384 What are you ... 485 00:28:09,051 --> 00:28:10,219 Mary? 486 00:28:21,214 --> 00:28:23,492 Okay, I give up. Where are you? 487 00:28:23,492 --> 00:28:26,702 Over here, in the hydrangea bushes. 488 00:28:28,024 --> 00:28:30,170 Here you are. Catch. 489 00:28:30,170 --> 00:28:32,860 Wait a minute. What am I doing? 490 00:28:36,825 --> 00:28:39,390 This is a very interesting situation! 491 00:28:39,390 --> 00:28:43,046 - Please give me my robe. - Hmm. 492 00:28:43,046 --> 00:28:45,788 A man doesn't get in a situation like this every day. 493 00:28:45,788 --> 00:28:47,827 I'd like to have my robe. 494 00:28:47,827 --> 00:28:49,489 Not in Bedford Falls anyway. 495 00:28:49,489 --> 00:28:52,610 - Ooooouch! Oh! - Gesundheit. 496 00:28:52,610 --> 00:28:54,596 - George Bailey! - This requires a little thought here. 497 00:28:54,596 --> 00:28:56,378 Give me my robe! 498 00:28:56,378 --> 00:28:58,724 I've read about things like this, but I never ... 499 00:28:58,724 --> 00:29:01,757 Shame on you! I'm going to tell your mother on you! 500 00:29:01,757 --> 00:29:04,955 Oh, my mother's way up on the corner over there. 501 00:29:04,955 --> 00:29:06,773 I'll call the police! 502 00:29:06,773 --> 00:29:09,321 They're way downtown. They'd be on my side, too. 503 00:29:09,321 --> 00:29:12,265 Then, then, then I'm going to scream! 504 00:29:12,265 --> 00:29:14,960 Maybe I could sell tickets. 505 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:20,154 Let's see. No, no, the point is, in order to get this robe ... 506 00:29:20,154 --> 00:29:23,325 I've got it. I'll make a deal with you, Mary. 507 00:29:23,325 --> 00:29:25,130 George! George! 508 00:29:27,923 --> 00:29:30,181 George! Come on home. Quick. 509 00:29:30,181 --> 00:29:31,691 You father's had a stroke! 510 00:29:31,691 --> 00:29:32,807 What? 511 00:29:33,238 --> 00:29:34,970 Mary! Mary, I'm sorry. I've got to go. 512 00:29:34,970 --> 00:29:36,069 Come on, George. Let's hurry! 513 00:29:36,069 --> 00:29:38,655 - Did you get a doctor? - Yes. Campbell's there now. 514 00:29:49,633 --> 00:29:52,470 I think that's all we'll need you for, George, I know you're anxious to make a train. 515 00:29:52,470 --> 00:29:54,150 I have a taxi waiting downstairs. 516 00:29:54,150 --> 00:29:57,124 I want the Board to know that George gave up his trip to Europe ... 517 00:29:57,124 --> 00:30:00,407 to help straighten things out here these past few months. 518 00:30:00,407 --> 00:30:01,910 Good luck to you at school, George. 519 00:30:01,910 --> 00:30:04,203 - Thanks. - Good luck! So long! 520 00:30:04,203 --> 00:30:06,773 Now we come to the real purpose of this meeting ... 521 00:30:06,773 --> 00:30:09,492 to appoint a successor to our dear friend, Peter Bailey. 522 00:30:09,492 --> 00:30:11,740 Mr. Chairman, I'd like to get to my real purpose. 523 00:30:11,740 --> 00:30:14,004 - Wait just a minute now. - Wait for what? 524 00:30:14,004 --> 00:30:17,530 I claim this institution is not necessary to this town. 525 00:30:17,530 --> 00:30:21,811 Therefore, Mr. Chairman, I make a motion to dissolve this institution ... 526 00:30:21,811 --> 00:30:24,690 and turn its assets and liabilities over to the receiver. 527 00:30:24,690 --> 00:30:26,233 Potter, you dirty, contemptible ... 528 00:30:26,233 --> 00:30:27,461 I'll wring his neck, so help me, George, 529 00:30:27,461 --> 00:30:29,072 - you hear what that buzzard ... - Mr. Chairman, 530 00:30:29,072 --> 00:30:33,533 it's too soon after Peter Bailey's death to talk about chloroforming the Building and Loan. 531 00:30:33,533 --> 00:30:35,833 Peter Bailey died three months ago. 532 00:30:35,833 --> 00:30:37,717 I second Mr. Potter's motion. 533 00:30:37,717 --> 00:30:41,689 Very well. In that case, I'll ask the two executive officers to withdraw. 534 00:30:41,689 --> 00:30:43,203 But before you go, 535 00:30:43,203 --> 00:30:46,149 I'm sure the whole Board wishes to express its deep sorrow ... 536 00:30:46,149 --> 00:30:48,587 - at the passing of Peter Bailey. - Thank you very much. 537 00:30:48,587 --> 00:30:52,263 It was his faith and devotion that are responsible for this organization. 538 00:30:52,263 --> 00:30:54,258 I'll go further than that. 539 00:30:54,258 --> 00:30:58,869 I'll say that to the public, Peter Bailey was the Building and Loan. 540 00:30:58,869 --> 00:31:01,159 Oh, that's fine, Potter, coming from you, 541 00:31:01,159 --> 00:31:03,151 considering that you probably drove him to his grave. 542 00:31:03,151 --> 00:31:06,188 Peter Bailey was not a business man. 543 00:31:06,188 --> 00:31:10,654 That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. 544 00:31:10,654 --> 00:31:14,500 He was a man of high ideals, so-called. 545 00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:18,976 But ideals without common sense can ruin this town. 546 00:31:18,976 --> 00:31:22,446 Now, you take this loan here to Ernie Bishop ... 547 00:31:22,446 --> 00:31:28,407 you know, that fellow that sits around all day on his brains in his taxi, you know. 548 00:31:28,407 --> 00:31:33,855 I happen to know the bank turned down this loan, but he comes here ... 549 00:31:33,855 --> 00:31:39,536 and we're building him a house worth five thousand dollars. 550 00:31:39,536 --> 00:31:41,948 - Why? - Well, I handled that, Mr. Potter. 551 00:31:41,948 --> 00:31:43,255 You have all the papers there. 552 00:31:43,255 --> 00:31:46,249 His salary, insurance. I can personally vouch for his character. 553 00:31:46,249 --> 00:31:48,915 - A friend of yours. - Yes, sir. 554 00:31:48,915 --> 00:31:52,472 You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, 555 00:31:52,472 --> 00:31:55,131 you can come and borrow money. 556 00:31:55,131 --> 00:31:56,927 What does that get us? 557 00:31:56,927 --> 00:32:02,157 A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. 558 00:32:02,157 --> 00:32:07,369 And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey ... 559 00:32:07,369 --> 00:32:11,572 stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas. 560 00:32:11,572 --> 00:32:14,110 - Now, I say ... - Just a minute. Just a ... 561 00:32:14,110 --> 00:32:16,541 Just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. 562 00:32:16,541 --> 00:32:19,772 You're right when you say my father was no business man. I know that. 563 00:32:19,772 --> 00:32:23,087 Why he ever started this cheap penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. 564 00:32:23,087 --> 00:32:26,476 But neither you nor anybody else can say anything against his character, 565 00:32:26,476 --> 00:32:28,462 because his whole life was ... 566 00:32:28,462 --> 00:32:31,159 Why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, 567 00:32:31,159 --> 00:32:33,441 he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? 568 00:32:33,441 --> 00:32:36,495 He didn't save enough money to send Harry to school, let alone me. 569 00:32:36,495 --> 00:32:39,294 But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter. 570 00:32:39,294 --> 00:32:40,598 And what's wrong with that? 571 00:32:40,598 --> 00:32:43,313 Why ... here, you are all businessmen here. 572 00:32:43,313 --> 00:32:46,451 Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? 573 00:32:46,451 --> 00:32:48,520 You — you said that uh ... what'd you say just a minute ago ... 574 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:52,441 They, they had to wait and save their money before they even thought of a decent home. 575 00:32:52,441 --> 00:32:54,373 Wait! Wait for what? 576 00:32:54,373 --> 00:32:55,862 Until their children grow up and leave them? 577 00:32:55,862 --> 00:32:58,312 Until they're so old and broken-down that they ... 578 00:32:58,312 --> 00:33:01,043 Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars? 579 00:33:01,043 --> 00:33:04,505 Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about ... 580 00:33:04,505 --> 00:33:08,580 they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. 581 00:33:08,580 --> 00:33:10,843 Well, it is too much to have them work and pay and live and die ... 582 00:33:10,843 --> 00:33:12,876 in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? 583 00:33:12,876 --> 00:33:15,742 Anyway, my father didn't think so. 584 00:33:15,742 --> 00:33:17,232 People were human beings to him, 585 00:33:17,232 --> 00:33:21,137 but to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. 586 00:33:21,137 --> 00:33:23,644 Well, in my book, he died a much richer man than you'll ever be. 587 00:33:23,644 --> 00:33:28,008 I'm not interested in your book. I'm talking about the Building and Loan. 588 00:33:28,008 --> 00:33:29,869 I know very well what you're talking about. 589 00:33:29,869 --> 00:33:33,181 You're talking about something you can't get your fingers on, and it's galling you. 590 00:33:33,181 --> 00:33:35,639 That's what you're talking about, I know. 591 00:33:35,639 --> 00:33:37,469 Well, I, I, I've said too much. 592 00:33:37,469 --> 00:33:41,140 I ... You're, you're the Board here. You do what you want with this thing. 593 00:33:41,140 --> 00:33:42,631 There's j-just one thing more though. 594 00:33:42,631 --> 00:33:45,795 This town needs this measly one-horse institution ... 595 00:33:45,795 --> 00:33:49,740 if only to have some place where people can come without crawling to Potter. 596 00:33:49,740 --> 00:33:51,007 Come on, Uncle Billy. 597 00:33:56,564 --> 00:34:02,099 Sentimental hogwash. I want my motion. 598 00:34:02,099 --> 00:34:04,372 Oh boy, that was telling him, George, old boy. 599 00:34:04,372 --> 00:34:06,507 You shut his big mouth. You should have heard him. 600 00:34:06,507 --> 00:34:07,710 What happened? We heard a lot of yelling. 601 00:34:07,710 --> 00:34:11,156 Well, we're being voted out of business after twenty-five years. 602 00:34:11,156 --> 00:34:12,626 Easy come, easy go. 603 00:34:12,626 --> 00:34:14,579 Here it is. "Help wanted — Female." 604 00:34:14,579 --> 00:34:16,737 You still want me hang around, George? 605 00:34:16,737 --> 00:34:17,919 Yeah, I'll be right down. 606 00:34:17,919 --> 00:34:19,182 Hey, you'll miss your train. 607 00:34:19,182 --> 00:34:21,046 You're a week late for school already. Go on. 608 00:34:21,046 --> 00:34:23,984 - What's going on in there? - Oh, never mind. Don't worry about that. 609 00:34:23,984 --> 00:34:26,113 They're putting us out of business. So what? 610 00:34:26,113 --> 00:34:28,294 I can get another job. I'm only fifty-five. 611 00:34:28,294 --> 00:34:29,992 - Fifty-six. - Go on, go on. 612 00:34:29,992 --> 00:34:33,216 Hey, look, you gave up your boat trip, now you don't want to miss college, too, do you? 613 00:34:33,216 --> 00:34:34,415 George! George! 614 00:34:34,415 --> 00:34:36,846 They voted Potter down. They want to keep it going. 615 00:34:38,299 --> 00:34:40,121 - Whoopee! - You did it, George, you did it. 616 00:34:40,121 --> 00:34:42,276 But they got one condition, only one condition. 617 00:34:42,276 --> 00:34:43,994 - What's that? - That's the best part of it. 618 00:34:43,994 --> 00:34:47,405 They've appointed George here as Executive Secretary to take his father's place. 619 00:34:47,405 --> 00:34:48,677 Oh, no! But, Uncle Billy ... 620 00:34:48,677 --> 00:34:50,439 You can keep him on. That's all right. 621 00:34:50,439 --> 00:34:52,403 As Secretary you can hire anyone you like. 622 00:34:52,403 --> 00:34:54,315 Dr. Campbell, now let's get this thing straight. 623 00:34:54,315 --> 00:34:55,872 I'm leaving. I'm leaving right now. 624 00:34:55,872 --> 00:34:57,598 I'm going to school. This is my last chance. 625 00:34:57,598 --> 00:34:59,139 Uncle Billy here, he's your man. 626 00:34:59,139 --> 00:35:01,767 But, George, they'll vote with Potter otherwise. 627 00:35:04,142 --> 00:35:06,515 I know, I know, he didn't go. 628 00:35:06,515 --> 00:35:07,596 That's right. 629 00:35:07,596 --> 00:35:12,205 Not only that, but he gave his school money to his brother, Harry, and sent him to college. 630 00:35:12,205 --> 00:35:13,999 Harry became a football star. 631 00:35:13,999 --> 00:35:15,777 Made second team All-American. 632 00:35:15,777 --> 00:35:18,339 Yeah, but what happened to George? 633 00:35:18,339 --> 00:35:21,477 George got four years older, waiting for Harry to come back ... 634 00:35:21,477 --> 00:35:23,256 and take over the Building and Loan. 635 00:35:23,256 --> 00:35:25,952 Oh, there are plenty of jobs around for somebody that likes to travel. 636 00:35:25,952 --> 00:35:27,143 Look at this. There ... 637 00:35:27,143 --> 00:35:31,610 Venezuela oil fields — Wanted. Man with construction experience. 638 00:35:31,610 --> 00:35:36,365 Here's the Yukon, oh, right here — wanted - man with engineering experience. 639 00:35:37,226 --> 00:35:39,073 There she blows. 640 00:35:39,073 --> 00:35:41,464 You know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? 641 00:35:41,464 --> 00:35:43,880 - Uh-huh. - Breakfast is served, lunch is served, dinner ... 642 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,501 No, no, no, no! 643 00:35:45,501 --> 00:35:49,088 - Anchor chains, plane motors, and train whistles. - Peanut? 644 00:35:49,088 --> 00:35:50,409 There's the Professor now. 645 00:35:50,409 --> 00:35:54,321 - Old Professor Phil Beta Kappa Bailey! All-American. - Well, if it isn't old George Geographic Explorer Bailey. 646 00:35:54,321 --> 00:35:56,172 What? No husky dogs? No sled? 647 00:35:56,172 --> 00:35:57,642 Uncle Billy, you haven't changed a bit. 648 00:35:57,642 --> 00:36:01,032 - Nobody ever changes here, you know that. - Oh, am I glad to see you. 649 00:36:01,032 --> 00:36:03,305 - Say, where's mother? - She's home, cooking the fatted calf. 650 00:36:03,305 --> 00:36:05,284 - Come on. Let's go. - Oh, wait! Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. 651 00:36:05,284 --> 00:36:08,277 George, Uncle Billy, I want you to meet Ruth. 652 00:36:08,277 --> 00:36:09,628 - Hello. - How do you do. 653 00:36:09,628 --> 00:36:12,456 - Ruth Dakin. - Ruth Dakin Bailey, if you don't mind. 654 00:36:12,456 --> 00:36:13,548 Huh? 655 00:36:13,548 --> 00:36:17,062 Well, I wired you I had a surprise. Here she is. Meet the wife. 656 00:36:17,062 --> 00:36:19,955 Well, what do you know — wife. 657 00:36:21,002 --> 00:36:23,826 Well, how do you do. Congratulations. 658 00:36:23,826 --> 00:36:25,874 What am I doing? Congratulations! 659 00:36:25,874 --> 00:36:29,760 They're married ... why didn't you tell somebody? 660 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:33,237 Oh, I can't wait to see Tilly's face. 661 00:36:33,237 --> 00:36:34,646 - Did you really marry him? - Why, yes ... 662 00:36:34,646 --> 00:36:37,971 What's a pretty girl like you doing marrying this two-headed brother of mine? 663 00:36:37,971 --> 00:36:39,619 Well, I tell you. It's purely mercenary. 664 00:36:39,619 --> 00:36:40,905 My father offered him a job. 665 00:36:40,905 --> 00:36:45,560 Oh, he gets you and a job? Well, Harry's cup runneth over. 666 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,460 Uh, George, about that job, Ruth spoke out of turn. 667 00:36:48,460 --> 00:36:50,229 I never said I'd take it. 668 00:36:50,229 --> 00:36:53,098 You've been holding the bag here for four years, and ... 669 00:36:53,098 --> 00:36:54,740 well, I won't let you down, George. 670 00:36:54,740 --> 00:36:57,010 I would like to ... Oh, wait a minute. I forgot the bags. 671 00:36:57,010 --> 00:36:58,105 I'll be right back. 672 00:36:58,995 --> 00:37:03,736 It was a surprise to me. This is the new Mrs. Bailey, my nephew's wife. 673 00:37:03,736 --> 00:37:09,535 Old, old friends of the family. 674 00:37:09,535 --> 00:37:12,639 - Oh, of course, I've heard him speak of you. - And I want you to tell you, 675 00:37:12,639 --> 00:37:19,203 we're going to give the biggest party this town ever saw. 676 00:37:19,203 --> 00:37:21,104 Here, have some popcorn. 677 00:37:22,459 --> 00:37:24,934 George, George, George, that's all Harry ever talks about. 678 00:37:24,934 --> 00:37:29,095 Uh, uh, uh, Ruth, uh, this, uh, what about this job? 679 00:37:29,095 --> 00:37:31,590 Oh, well, my father owns a glass factory in Buffalo. 680 00:37:31,590 --> 00:37:34,050 He wants to get Harry started in the research business. 681 00:37:34,050 --> 00:37:36,621 - Well, is it a good job? - Oh, yes, very. 682 00:37:36,621 --> 00:37:40,007 - Not much money, but, uh, good future, you know. - I know. 683 00:37:40,007 --> 00:37:42,021 Harry's a genius at research. 684 00:37:42,021 --> 00:37:45,205 - My father just fell in love with him. - And you did, too. 685 00:38:00,351 --> 00:38:03,253 Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. 686 00:38:03,253 --> 00:38:07,338 I feel so good. I could spit in Potter's eye. 687 00:38:07,338 --> 00:38:10,239 I think I will. I think I will. 688 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,539 What did you say? Huh? 689 00:38:12,539 --> 00:38:14,794 Oh, maybe I'd better go home. 690 00:38:14,794 --> 00:38:16,706 Where's my hat? Where's my ... 691 00:38:16,706 --> 00:38:20,354 Oh! Oh, thank you, George, which is mine? 692 00:38:20,354 --> 00:38:23,693 - The middle one. - Oh, thank you, George, old boy, old boy. 693 00:38:23,693 --> 00:38:27,447 Now, look, if you'll point me in the right direction ... would you do that, George? 694 00:38:27,447 --> 00:38:31,197 - Right down here. - Oh ... Old Building and Loan pal, huh ... 695 00:38:31,197 --> 00:38:34,274 Now you just turn this way and go right straight down there. 696 00:38:34,274 --> 00:38:35,576 That way, huh? 697 00:38:43,241 --> 00:38:46,515 I'm all right. I'm all right. 698 00:39:28,795 --> 00:39:29,832 Hello, Mom. 699 00:39:32,343 --> 00:39:33,568 That's for nothing. 700 00:39:35,041 --> 00:39:37,801 - How do you like her? - Oh, she's swell. 701 00:39:37,801 --> 00:39:40,551 Looks like she can keep Harry on his toes. 702 00:39:40,551 --> 00:39:42,875 Keep him out of Bedford Falls anyway. 703 00:39:45,029 --> 00:39:47,775 Did you know that Mary Hatch is back from school? 704 00:39:47,775 --> 00:39:50,208 - Uh-huh. - Came back three days ago. 705 00:39:50,208 --> 00:39:51,952 Hmmm ... 706 00:39:51,952 --> 00:39:55,586 - Nice girl, Mary. - Hmmm. 707 00:39:55,586 --> 00:39:58,607 Kind that will help you find the answers, George. 708 00:39:58,607 --> 00:40:01,729 - Hmmm ... - Oh, stop that grunting. 709 00:40:01,729 --> 00:40:03,029 Hmmm. 710 00:40:03,029 --> 00:40:06,489 Can you give me one good reason why you shouldn't call on Mary? 711 00:40:06,489 --> 00:40:08,203 - Sure — Sam Wainwright. - Hmmm? 712 00:40:08,203 --> 00:40:11,551 - Yes, Sam's crazy about Mary. - Well, she's not crazy about him. 713 00:40:11,551 --> 00:40:12,555 Well, how do you know? 714 00:40:12,555 --> 00:40:14,111 - Well, did she discuss it with you? - No. 715 00:40:14,111 --> 00:40:16,972 - Well then, how do you know? - Well, I've got eyes, haven't I? 716 00:40:16,972 --> 00:40:20,231 Why, she lights up like a firefly whenever you're around. 717 00:40:20,231 --> 00:40:21,429 Oh ... 718 00:40:21,429 --> 00:40:25,742 And besides, Sam Wainwright's away in New York and you're here in Bedford Falls. 719 00:40:25,742 --> 00:40:28,473 And all's fair in love and war. 720 00:40:28,473 --> 00:40:30,003 Well, I don't know about war. 721 00:40:33,842 --> 00:40:37,646 Mother of mine, I can see right through you, right to your back collar button ... 722 00:40:37,646 --> 00:40:39,913 - trying to get rid of me, huh? - Uh-huh. 723 00:40:42,476 --> 00:40:44,524 Well, here's your hat, what's your hurry. 724 00:40:45,606 --> 00:40:48,443 All right, Mother, Old Building and Loan pal, 725 00:40:48,443 --> 00:40:51,585 I think I'll go out and find the girl and do a little passionate necking. 726 00:40:51,585 --> 00:40:53,133 Oh, George ... 727 00:40:53,133 --> 00:40:56,266 Now if you'll just point me in the right direction ... 728 00:40:57,942 --> 00:40:59,181 this direction? 729 00:41:06,408 --> 00:41:07,879 Good night, Mrs. Bailey. 730 00:41:19,328 --> 00:41:21,971 - Excuse me ... - Now, wait a minute. 731 00:41:21,971 --> 00:41:24,301 I think I got a date. 732 00:41:24,301 --> 00:41:26,883 But uh, stick around, fellows, just in case, huh? 733 00:41:28,442 --> 00:41:29,944 We'll wait for you, baby. 734 00:41:32,097 --> 00:41:34,712 - Hello, George-Porgie! - What? 735 00:41:34,712 --> 00:41:37,970 - Hey, uh ... What gives? - Nothing. 736 00:41:38,804 --> 00:41:43,208 - Where are you going? - Oh, I'm ... probably end up down at the library. 737 00:41:43,208 --> 00:41:47,459 Georgie, don't you ever get tired of just reading about things? 738 00:41:48,490 --> 00:41:52,868 - Yes. What are you doing tonight? - Not a thing. 739 00:41:53,438 --> 00:41:55,262 Are you game, Violet? Let's make a night of it. 740 00:41:55,262 --> 00:41:57,518 Oh, I'd love it, Georgie. What'll we do? 741 00:41:57,518 --> 00:42:00,881 Let's go out in the fields and take off our shoes, and walk through the grass. 742 00:42:00,881 --> 00:42:01,929 Huh? 743 00:42:01,929 --> 00:42:04,983 Then we can to up to the falls. It's beautiful up there in the moonlight, 744 00:42:04,983 --> 00:42:07,219 and there's a green pool up there, 745 00:42:07,219 --> 00:42:09,799 and we can, uh, s-swim in it. 746 00:42:09,799 --> 00:42:11,813 Then we can climb Mt. Bedford, 747 00:42:11,813 --> 00:42:14,781 and smell the pines and watch the sunrise against the peaks, 748 00:42:14,781 --> 00:42:16,270 and we'll stay up there the whole night, 749 00:42:16,270 --> 00:42:18,286 and everybody'll be talking and there'll be a terrific scandal ... 750 00:42:18,286 --> 00:42:20,191 Georgie, have you gone crazy? 751 00:42:20,191 --> 00:42:22,194 Walk in the grass in my bare feet? 752 00:42:23,515 --> 00:42:26,333 - Why, it's ten miles up to Mt. Bedford. - Shhh ... 753 00:42:26,333 --> 00:42:29,723 - You think just because you ... - O-O-Okay, just forget about the whole thing. 754 00:42:47,726 --> 00:42:50,404 What are you doing, picketing? 755 00:42:50,404 --> 00:42:52,173 Hello, Mary. 756 00:42:52,173 --> 00:42:54,412 I just happened to be passing by. 757 00:42:54,412 --> 00:42:56,751 Yes, so I noticed. 758 00:42:56,751 --> 00:42:59,134 - Have you made up your mind? - How's that? 759 00:42:59,134 --> 00:43:00,687 Have you made up your mind? 760 00:43:00,687 --> 00:43:03,909 - About what? - About coming in. 761 00:43:03,909 --> 00:43:07,629 Your mother just phoned and said you were on your way over to pay me a visit. 762 00:43:07,629 --> 00:43:10,327 My mother just called you? Well, how did she know? 763 00:43:10,327 --> 00:43:12,159 - Didn't you tell her? - I didn't tell anybody. 764 00:43:12,159 --> 00:43:15,270 I just went for a walk and happened to be passing by, idiot. 765 00:43:15,270 --> 00:43:20,851 What do you ... went for a walk. That's all. 766 00:43:22,153 --> 00:43:24,516 - I'll be downstairs, mother. - All right, dear. 767 00:43:46,918 --> 00:43:49,666 Well, are you coming in or aren't you? 768 00:43:49,666 --> 00:43:55,216 Well, I'll come in for a minute. But I ... 769 00:44:07,272 --> 00:44:10,205 I didn't tell anybody I was coming over here, you know. 770 00:44:12,189 --> 00:44:15,904 - When did you get back? - Tuesday. 771 00:44:15,904 --> 00:44:17,802 Where'd you get that dress? 772 00:44:17,802 --> 00:44:20,234 - Do you like it? - It's all right. 773 00:44:25,211 --> 00:44:28,958 I thought you'd go back to New York like Sam and Angie, and the rest of them. 774 00:44:30,236 --> 00:44:33,462 Oh, oh, I worked there a couple of vacations. But ... 775 00:44:33,462 --> 00:44:35,513 I don't know ... I — I guess I was homesick. 776 00:44:35,513 --> 00:44:38,907 Homesick? For Bedford Falls? 777 00:44:38,907 --> 00:44:45,686 Yes, and my family, and ... Oh, everything. 778 00:44:45,686 --> 00:44:47,590 Would you like to sit down? 779 00:44:47,590 --> 00:44:49,164 All right, for a minute. 780 00:44:50,297 --> 00:44:54,457 I — I still can't understand it though. You know I didn't tell anybody I was coming here. 781 00:44:54,457 --> 00:44:55,671 Would you rather leave? 782 00:44:55,671 --> 00:44:57,604 No, I don't want to be rude. 783 00:44:57,604 --> 00:44:59,405 Well, then sit down. 784 00:44:59,405 --> 00:45:00,546 What's this? 785 00:45:03,670 --> 00:45:05,227 Some joke, huh? 786 00:45:10,580 --> 00:45:15,874 Well, I see it still smells like pine needles around here. 787 00:45:16,599 --> 00:45:17,934 Thank you. 788 00:45:23,849 --> 00:45:27,231 And dance by the ... 789 00:45:27,231 --> 00:45:28,361 What's the matter? 790 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,599 Oh, oh, yeah ... yeah ... 791 00:45:34,110 --> 00:45:35,422 Well, I ... 792 00:45:35,422 --> 00:45:37,794 It was nice about your brother Harry, and Ruth, isn't it? 793 00:45:37,794 --> 00:45:40,286 Oh ... yeah, yeah. That's all right. 794 00:45:40,286 --> 00:45:41,471 Don't you like her? 795 00:45:41,471 --> 00:45:43,752 Well, of course, I like her. She's a peach. 796 00:45:45,089 --> 00:45:49,181 Oh, it's just marriage in general you're not enthusiastic about, huh? 797 00:45:49,181 --> 00:45:53,735 No. Uh, marriage is all right for Harry and Marty and Sam and you. 798 00:45:53,735 --> 00:45:55,530 Mary! Mary! 799 00:45:55,530 --> 00:45:57,102 Who's down there with you? 800 00:45:57,102 --> 00:45:59,069 It's George Bailey, Mother. 801 00:45:59,069 --> 00:46:01,987 George Bailey? What's he want? 802 00:46:01,987 --> 00:46:03,886 I don't know. 803 00:46:03,886 --> 00:46:04,999 What do you want? 804 00:46:06,331 --> 00:46:08,020 Me? 805 00:46:08,020 --> 00:46:10,595 Not a thing. I — I just came in to get warm. 806 00:46:13,310 --> 00:46:16,438 He's making violent love to me, Mother. 807 00:46:16,438 --> 00:46:19,678 You tell him to go right back home, and don't you leave the house, either. 808 00:46:19,678 --> 00:46:22,833 Sam Wainwright promised to call you from New York tonight. 809 00:46:22,833 --> 00:46:24,407 But your mother needn't ... 810 00:46:24,407 --> 00:46:26,017 You know I — I didn't come here to ... 811 00:46:26,017 --> 00:46:27,404 What did you come here for then? 812 00:46:27,404 --> 00:46:28,603 I don't know. You tell me. 813 00:46:28,603 --> 00:46:30,333 You're supposed to be the one that has all the answers. 814 00:46:30,333 --> 00:46:32,134 - You tell me. - Why don't you go home? 815 00:46:32,134 --> 00:46:35,037 That's where I'm going. I don't know why I came here in the first place. 816 00:46:35,037 --> 00:46:36,525 - Good night. - Good night! 817 00:46:36,525 --> 00:46:38,105 Mary! Mary! 818 00:46:38,105 --> 00:46:41,069 - The telephone. It's Sam! - I'll get it. 819 00:46:41,069 --> 00:46:43,370 Whatever were you doing that you couldn't hear? 820 00:46:52,832 --> 00:46:55,240 Mary, he's waiting! 821 00:46:58,635 --> 00:46:59,892 Hello. 822 00:47:01,587 --> 00:47:03,035 I forgot my hat. 823 00:47:04,858 --> 00:47:08,402 Hee-haw! Hello, Sam, how are you? 824 00:47:08,402 --> 00:47:11,355 Aw, I'm great. Gee, it's good to hear your voice again. 825 00:47:11,355 --> 00:47:15,166 Oh, well, that's awfully sweet of you, Sam. 826 00:47:15,166 --> 00:47:18,594 There's an old friend of yours here. George Bailey. 827 00:47:18,594 --> 00:47:20,578 You mean old moss-back George? 828 00:47:20,578 --> 00:47:23,351 Yes. Old moss-back George. 829 00:47:23,351 --> 00:47:25,215 Hee-haw! Put him on. 830 00:47:25,215 --> 00:47:27,514 W-Wait just a minute. I — I'll call him. George! 831 00:47:27,514 --> 00:47:29,782 He doesn't want to speak to George, you idiot! 832 00:47:29,782 --> 00:47:31,053 He does so. He asked for him. 833 00:47:31,053 --> 00:47:35,366 Geo-George! George, Sam wants to speak to you. 834 00:47:39,801 --> 00:47:42,911 - Hi, Sam. - Well, George Baileyoffski! 835 00:47:42,911 --> 00:47:44,638 Hey, a fine pal you are. 836 00:47:44,638 --> 00:47:46,608 What're you trying to do? Steal my girl? 837 00:47:46,608 --> 00:47:49,468 W-W-What do you mean? Nobody's trying to steal anybody's girl. 838 00:47:49,468 --> 00:47:51,464 H-Here ... here's Mary. 839 00:47:51,464 --> 00:47:53,038 No, no, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I want to talk to both of you. 840 00:47:53,038 --> 00:47:55,082 - Here to you. - Tell Mary to get on the extension. 841 00:47:55,082 --> 00:47:57,323 - You tell him. - Mother's on the extension. We ... 842 00:47:57,323 --> 00:47:58,636 I am not! 843 00:47:59,327 --> 00:48:01,914 We can both hear. Come here. 844 00:48:01,914 --> 00:48:04,032 We-We're listening, Sam. 845 00:48:04,032 --> 00:48:07,637 Well look, I have a big deal coming up that's going to make us all rich. 846 00:48:07,637 --> 00:48:10,655 George, you remember that night in Martini's Bar when, eh, 847 00:48:10,655 --> 00:48:13,754 you told me you read someplace about making plastics out of soybeans? 848 00:48:13,754 --> 00:48:15,006 Jelly beans? 849 00:48:15,006 --> 00:48:16,047 Shut up, will you? 850 00:48:16,047 --> 00:48:20,002 Do you remember out of jelly — out of soybeans? 851 00:48:20,002 --> 00:48:23,192 Huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah ... soybeans. Yeah. 852 00:48:23,192 --> 00:48:25,807 Well, listen. Dad snapped up the idea. 853 00:48:25,807 --> 00:48:28,067 And he's going to build a factory outside of Rochester. 854 00:48:28,067 --> 00:48:29,420 How do you like that? 855 00:48:31,675 --> 00:48:35,088 Rochester? Well, why Rochester? 856 00:48:35,088 --> 00:48:37,971 Well, why not? Can you think of anything better? 857 00:48:37,971 --> 00:48:39,713 Oh, I don't know ... It's just ... 858 00:48:39,713 --> 00:48:41,388 Why not right here? 859 00:48:41,388 --> 00:48:44,680 Y-You remember that ... that old tool and machinery works? 860 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,070 W-Well, you tell your father he can get that for a song. 861 00:48:47,070 --> 00:48:48,353 And all the labor he wants, too. 862 00:48:48,353 --> 00:48:51,185 Half the town was thrown out of work when they closed down. 863 00:48:51,185 --> 00:48:53,424 Is that so? Well, I'll tell him. 864 00:48:53,424 --> 00:48:54,964 Hey, that sounds great. 865 00:48:54,964 --> 00:48:56,793 Oh, baby, I knew you'd come through. 866 00:48:56,793 --> 00:48:58,146 Now here's the point, 867 00:48:58,146 --> 00:49:02,646 Mary ... Mary, you're in on this, too. Now listen, have you got any money? 868 00:49:05,158 --> 00:49:08,016 - Money? Yeah ... well, a little. - Well now, listen. 869 00:49:08,016 --> 00:49:11,822 I want you to put every cent you've got into our stock, you hear? 870 00:49:11,822 --> 00:49:14,518 And George, I may have a job for you, 871 00:49:14,518 --> 00:49:17,842 that is, unless you're still married to that broken-down Building and Loan. 872 00:49:19,111 --> 00:49:22,947 Well, this is the biggest thing since radio. And I'm letting you in on the ground floor. 873 00:49:22,947 --> 00:49:25,241 Oh, Mary ... Mary ... 874 00:49:27,070 --> 00:49:29,513 Well, I — I'm here. 875 00:49:29,513 --> 00:49:33,348 Uh, would you tell that guy I'm giving him the chance of a lifetime, you hear? 876 00:49:33,348 --> 00:49:35,287 The chance of a lifetime. 877 00:49:38,904 --> 00:49:41,803 H-He says it's the chance of a lifetime. 878 00:49:44,798 --> 00:49:46,526 Now you listen to me. 879 00:49:46,526 --> 00:49:49,624 I don't want any plastics. I don't want any ground floors. 880 00:49:49,624 --> 00:49:53,164 And I don't want to get married ever to anyone. You understand that? 881 00:49:53,164 --> 00:49:55,383 I want to do what I want to do. 882 00:49:55,383 --> 00:49:57,703 And you're ... and you're ... 883 00:49:58,412 --> 00:50:02,564 - Oh, Mary ... Mary ... - George ... George ... George ... 884 00:50:04,803 --> 00:50:11,016 Mary ... Would you? Would you ... 885 00:50:14,945 --> 00:50:17,284 Here they come! Here they come! 886 00:50:38,859 --> 00:50:40,059 Goodbye. 887 00:50:55,540 --> 00:50:58,102 First Harry. Now George. 888 00:50:58,102 --> 00:51:00,372 Annie, we're just two old maids now. 889 00:51:00,372 --> 00:51:02,514 You speak for yourself, Mrs. B. 890 00:51:05,195 --> 00:51:08,573 If either of you two see a stranger around here, it's me. 891 00:51:10,810 --> 00:51:13,285 Hey, look! There's somebody driving this cab. 892 00:51:13,285 --> 00:51:15,245 Bert the cop sent this over. 893 00:51:15,245 --> 00:51:17,512 He said to float away to Happy Land on the bubbles. 894 00:51:17,512 --> 00:51:20,128 - Oh, look at this. Old Bert. Champagne! - Good old Bert. 895 00:51:20,128 --> 00:51:23,165 By the way, where are you two going on this here now honeymoon? 896 00:51:23,165 --> 00:51:24,535 Where are we going? 897 00:51:24,535 --> 00:51:26,516 Look at this. There's the kitty, Ernie. 898 00:51:26,516 --> 00:51:28,308 Here, come on, count it, Mary. 899 00:51:28,308 --> 00:51:30,136 I feel like a bootlegger's wife. Look! 900 00:51:30,136 --> 00:51:32,389 You know what we're going to do? We're going to shoot the works. 901 00:51:32,389 --> 00:51:34,694 A whole week in New York. A whole week in Bermuda. 902 00:51:34,694 --> 00:51:37,375 The highest hotels, the oldest champagne, 903 00:51:37,375 --> 00:51:41,943 the richest caviar, the hottest music, and the prettiest wife! 904 00:51:41,943 --> 00:51:43,495 Wow! That does it! Then what? 905 00:51:43,495 --> 00:51:47,879 - Then what, honey? - After that, who cares? 906 00:51:47,879 --> 00:51:50,193 That does it, come here, come here, come here! 907 00:51:52,908 --> 00:51:57,031 Don't look now, but there's something funny going on over there at the bank, George. 908 00:51:57,031 --> 00:52:00,734 I've never really seen one, but that's got all the earmarks of being a run. 909 00:52:08,329 --> 00:52:11,487 Hey, Ernie, if you got any money in the bank, you better hurry. 910 00:52:11,487 --> 00:52:14,235 - George, let's not stop. Let's go. - Just a minute, dear. 911 00:52:16,746 --> 00:52:19,335 - Oh-oh ... - Please, let's not stop, George. 912 00:52:19,335 --> 00:52:20,686 I'll be back in a minute, Mary. 913 00:52:37,900 --> 00:52:40,494 Well, hello, everybody. Mrs. Thompson, how are you? 914 00:52:40,494 --> 00:52:42,856 Charlie? What's the matter here, can't you get in? 915 00:53:00,662 --> 00:53:02,779 What is this, Uncle Billy? A holiday? 916 00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:04,463 George ... 917 00:53:05,204 --> 00:53:06,656 Come on in, everybody. That's right. 918 00:53:07,687 --> 00:53:08,982 Just come on in. 919 00:53:12,836 --> 00:53:14,444 Now look, why don't you all sit down? 920 00:53:14,444 --> 00:53:16,251 There are a lot of seats over there. 921 00:53:17,691 --> 00:53:19,110 Just make yourself at home. 922 00:53:21,145 --> 00:53:23,262 George, can I see you a minute? 923 00:53:24,309 --> 00:53:26,360 - Why didn't you call me? - I just did, but they said you left. 924 00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,019 This is a pickle, George. This is a pickle. 925 00:53:28,019 --> 00:53:29,504 All right now, what happened? How did it start? 926 00:53:29,504 --> 00:53:32,048 Well, how does a thing like this ever start? All I know is the bank called our loan. 927 00:53:32,048 --> 00:53:33,378 - When? - About an hour ago. 928 00:53:33,378 --> 00:53:35,409 - I had to hand over all our cash. - All of it? 929 00:53:35,409 --> 00:53:37,088 Every cent of it and it still was less than we owe. 930 00:53:37,088 --> 00:53:38,919 Holy mackerel! 931 00:53:38,919 --> 00:53:42,718 And then I got scared, George, and closed the doors. I — I — I ... 932 00:53:44,959 --> 00:53:46,584 The whole town's gone crazy. 933 00:53:46,584 --> 00:53:48,124 Yes, h-hello? 934 00:53:48,124 --> 00:53:50,291 George, it's Potter. 935 00:53:54,078 --> 00:53:55,634 - Hello? - George, 936 00:53:55,634 --> 00:54:01,127 there is a rumor around town that you've closed your doors. Is that true? 937 00:54:01,127 --> 00:54:05,246 Oh, well, I'm very glad to hear that. George, are you all right? 938 00:54:05,246 --> 00:54:08,363 - Do you need any police? - Police? What's for? 939 00:54:08,363 --> 00:54:12,627 Well, mobs get pretty ugly sometimes, you know. 940 00:54:12,627 --> 00:54:17,468 George, I'm going all out to help in this crisis. 941 00:54:17,468 --> 00:54:22,919 I've just guaranteed the bank sufficient funds to meet their needs. 942 00:54:22,919 --> 00:54:26,223 They'll close up for a week and then reopen. 943 00:54:27,016 --> 00:54:28,315 He just took over the bank. 944 00:54:29,158 --> 00:54:34,745 I may lose a fortune, but I'm willing to guarantee your people too. 945 00:54:34,745 --> 00:54:39,923 Just tell them to bring their shares over here, and I will pay fifty cents on the dollar. 946 00:54:39,923 --> 00:54:42,178 Aw, you never miss a trick, do you, Potter? 947 00:54:42,178 --> 00:54:43,292 Well, you're gonna miss this one. 948 00:54:43,292 --> 00:54:47,242 If you close your doors before six P.M., you will never reopen. 949 00:54:55,980 --> 00:54:59,150 George, was it a nice wedding? Gosh, I wanted to be there. 950 00:55:00,011 --> 00:55:01,124 Yeah ... 951 00:55:02,988 --> 00:55:04,983 You can take this one off now. 952 00:55:13,703 --> 00:55:19,159 Now, just remember that this thing isn't as black as it appears. 953 00:55:28,712 --> 00:55:30,525 I have some news for you folks. 954 00:55:30,525 --> 00:55:33,816 I was just talking to old man Potter and he's guaranteed cash payments at the bank. 955 00:55:33,816 --> 00:55:35,439 The bank's going to reopen next week. 956 00:55:35,439 --> 00:55:37,354 But, George, I got my money here. 957 00:55:37,354 --> 00:55:39,148 Did he guarantee this place? 958 00:55:39,148 --> 00:55:40,935 Well, no, Charlie. I didn't even ask him. 959 00:55:40,935 --> 00:55:43,611 - We don't need Potter over here. - I'll take mine now. 960 00:55:44,318 --> 00:55:48,826 No, but you — you ... you're thinking of this place all wrong. 961 00:55:48,826 --> 00:55:50,674 As if I had the money back in a safe. 962 00:55:50,674 --> 00:55:52,741 The, the money's not here. 963 00:55:52,741 --> 00:55:55,267 Well, your money's in Joe's house ... that's right next to yours. 964 00:55:55,267 --> 00:55:59,238 And in the Kennedy House, and Mrs. Macklin's house, and, and a hundred others. 965 00:55:59,238 --> 00:56:01,078 Why, you're lending them the money to build, 966 00:56:01,078 --> 00:56:02,809 and then, they're going to pay it back to you as best they can. 967 00:56:02,809 --> 00:56:04,604 Now what are you going to do? Foreclose on them? 968 00:56:04,604 --> 00:56:07,447 I got two hundred and forty-two dollars in here ... 969 00:56:07,447 --> 00:56:10,907 and two hundred and forty-two dollars isn't going to break anybody. 970 00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:15,688 Okay, Tom. All right. Here you are. You sign this. 971 00:56:15,688 --> 00:56:18,316 - You'll get your money in sixty days. - Sixty days? 972 00:56:18,316 --> 00:56:20,488 Well, now that's what you agreed to when you bought you shares. 973 00:56:20,488 --> 00:56:22,613 - Tom ... Tom ... Did you get your money? - No. 974 00:56:22,613 --> 00:56:26,424 Well, I did. Old man Potter'll pay fifty cents on the dollar for every share you got. 975 00:56:26,424 --> 00:56:29,168 - Fifty cents on the dollar! - Yes, cash! 976 00:56:29,168 --> 00:56:31,844 - Well, what do you say? - Now, Tom, 977 00:56:31,844 --> 00:56:33,557 you have to stick to your original agreement. 978 00:56:33,557 --> 00:56:36,081 - Now give us sixty days on this. - Okay, Randall. 979 00:56:36,081 --> 00:56:38,918 - Are you going to go to Potter's? - Better get half than nothing. 980 00:56:39,325 --> 00:56:41,923 Tom! Tom! 981 00:56:41,923 --> 00:56:44,167 Randall, now wait a minute, wait ... 982 00:56:44,167 --> 00:56:45,979 now listen ... now listen to me. 983 00:56:45,979 --> 00:56:48,369 I — I beg of you not to do this thing. 984 00:56:48,369 --> 00:56:50,093 If Potter gets ahold of this Building and Loan, 985 00:56:50,093 --> 00:56:52,069 there'll never be another decent house built in this town. 986 00:56:52,069 --> 00:56:54,661 He's already got charge of the bank. He's got the bus line. 987 00:56:54,661 --> 00:56:56,948 He's got the department stores. And now he's after us. 988 00:56:56,948 --> 00:56:58,539 Why? Well, it's very simple. 989 00:56:58,539 --> 00:57:01,081 Because we're cutting in on his business, that's why. 990 00:57:01,081 --> 00:57:03,125 And because he wants to keep you living in his slums ... 991 00:57:03,125 --> 00:57:05,205 and paying the kind of rent he decides. 992 00:57:05,205 --> 00:57:08,019 Joe, you had one of those Potter houses, didn't you? Well, have you forgotten? 993 00:57:08,019 --> 00:57:10,852 Have you forgotten what he charged for that broken-down shack? 994 00:57:10,852 --> 00:57:13,855 Here, Ed. You know, you remember last year when things weren't going so well, 995 00:57:13,855 --> 00:57:15,173 you couldn't make your payments. 996 00:57:15,173 --> 00:57:18,276 You didn't lose your house, did you? Do you think Potter would have let you keep it? 997 00:57:18,276 --> 00:57:21,346 Ca-Can't you understand what's happening here? 998 00:57:21,346 --> 00:57:23,061 Don't you see what's happening? 999 00:57:23,061 --> 00:57:25,229 Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying. 1000 00:57:25,229 --> 00:57:28,165 And why? Because we're panicky and he's not. That's why. 1001 00:57:28,165 --> 00:57:29,311 He's picking up some bargains. 1002 00:57:29,311 --> 00:57:31,942 Now, We-We can get through this thing all right. 1003 00:57:31,942 --> 00:57:35,301 We — We've got to stick together, though. We've got to have faith in each other. 1004 00:57:35,301 --> 00:57:38,508 But my husband hasn't worked in over a year and I need money. 1005 00:57:38,508 --> 00:57:41,876 - How am I going to live until the bank opens? - I got doctor bills to pay. 1006 00:57:41,876 --> 00:57:44,517 - I need cash. - I can't feed my kids on faith. 1007 00:57:44,517 --> 00:57:46,608 How much do you need? 1008 00:57:46,608 --> 00:57:49,928 Hey! I got two thousand dollars. 1009 00:57:50,824 --> 00:57:53,403 Here's two thousand dollars. This'll tide us over until the bank reopens. 1010 00:57:53,403 --> 00:57:54,483 All right, Tom, how much do you need? 1011 00:57:54,483 --> 00:57:56,108 Two hundred and forty-two dollars. 1012 00:57:56,108 --> 00:57:58,530 Aw, Tom, just enough to tide you over till the bank reopens. 1013 00:57:58,530 --> 00:58:01,252 I'll take two hundred and forty-two dollars. 1014 00:58:03,661 --> 00:58:05,472 - There you are. - That'll close my account. 1015 00:58:05,472 --> 00:58:07,922 Your account's still here. That's a loan. 1016 00:58:07,922 --> 00:58:09,667 Okay. All right, Ed? 1017 00:58:09,667 --> 00:58:12,010 - I got 300 dollars here, George. - Alright, now, Ed ... 1018 00:58:12,010 --> 00:58:15,046 wh-wh-what'll it take till the bank opens? What do you need? 1019 00:58:15,046 --> 00:58:19,301 - Well, I — I suppose twenty dollars. - Twenty dollars. Now you're talking. 1020 00:58:19,301 --> 00:58:20,499 Fine. Thanks, Ed. 1021 00:58:20,499 --> 00:58:22,123 All right now, Mrs. Thompson, how much do you want? 1022 00:58:22,123 --> 00:58:24,019 - But it's your own money, George. - Never mind about that. 1023 00:58:24,019 --> 00:58:26,426 - How much do you want? - I can get along with twenty, all right. 1024 00:58:26,426 --> 00:58:28,436 - Twenty dollars. - And I'll sign a paper. 1025 00:58:28,436 --> 00:58:29,568 You don't have to sign anything. 1026 00:58:29,568 --> 00:58:31,090 I know you — you'll pay it when you can. 1027 00:58:31,090 --> 00:58:33,326 That's okay. All right, Mrs. Davis? 1028 00:58:33,326 --> 00:58:37,451 - Could I have 17.50? - Seven ... 1029 00:58:37,451 --> 00:58:40,502 Bless your heart, of course you can have it. You got fifty cents? 1030 00:58:40,502 --> 00:58:41,948 - Seven ... - We're going to make it, George. 1031 00:58:41,948 --> 00:58:45,780 - They'll never close us up today! - Six, five, four, 1032 00:58:45,780 --> 00:58:49,064 three, two, one ... 1033 00:58:49,064 --> 00:58:50,418 Bingo! 1034 00:58:50,418 --> 00:58:52,640 We made it. Close the door, Ernie. We made it. Look. 1035 00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:55,148 Look, we're still in business. We're still got two bucks left. 1036 00:58:55,148 --> 00:58:56,890 Well, look, let's have some of that. Let's celebrate, huh. 1037 00:58:56,890 --> 00:58:58,491 G-Get some glasses, Tilly. 1038 00:58:58,491 --> 00:59:00,353 Well, a couple of financial wizards. 1039 00:59:00,353 --> 00:59:02,007 Those Rockefellers. 1040 00:59:02,007 --> 00:59:04,413 Get a tray for these two great big important simoleans here. 1041 00:59:04,413 --> 00:59:06,072 We'll save them for seed. A toast. 1042 00:59:06,072 --> 00:59:09,493 A toast! A toast to Mama Dollar and to Papa Dollar, 1043 00:59:09,493 --> 00:59:11,751 and if you want to keep this old Building and Loan in business, 1044 00:59:11,751 --> 00:59:14,098 - you better have a family real quick. - I wish they were rabbits. 1045 00:59:14,098 --> 00:59:15,424 I wish they were, too. 1046 00:59:16,568 --> 00:59:18,930 Okay, let's put them in safe and see what happens. 1047 00:59:28,223 --> 00:59:31,733 - Folks, folks, wedding cigars! - Oh-oh ... wedding! 1048 00:59:31,733 --> 00:59:35,322 Holy mackerel, I'm married! Where's Mary? Mary ... 1049 00:59:35,322 --> 00:59:36,399 Well, poor Mary. 1050 00:59:36,399 --> 00:59:38,483 Look, I've got a train to catch. Well, the train's gone. 1051 00:59:38,483 --> 00:59:41,110 I wonder if Ernie's still here with his taxicab? 1052 00:59:41,110 --> 00:59:43,567 George, there's a call for you. 1053 00:59:43,567 --> 00:59:46,390 Look, will you get my wife on the phone? She's probably over at her mother's. 1054 00:59:46,390 --> 00:59:48,963 - Mrs. Bailey is on the phone. - I don't want Mrs. Bailey. 1055 00:59:48,963 --> 00:59:52,133 I want my wife. Mrs. Bailey! Mrs ... oh, that's my wife. 1056 00:59:52,133 --> 00:59:54,158 Here, I'll take it in here. 1057 00:59:54,158 --> 00:59:57,687 Mary! Hello. Listen, dear. I'm sorry ... 1058 00:59:57,687 --> 01:00:02,135 What? Come home? What home? 1059 01:00:02,135 --> 01:00:04,341 Three-twenty Sycamore? Well, what ... 1060 01:00:04,341 --> 01:00:09,315 whose home is that? The Waldorf Hotel, huh? 1061 01:00:19,487 --> 01:00:22,317 Hey, this is the company's posters, and the company won't like this. 1062 01:00:22,317 --> 01:00:24,514 How would you like to get a ticket next week? 1063 01:00:24,514 --> 01:00:27,447 - Haven't you any romance in you? - Sure I have, but I got rid of it. 1064 01:00:27,447 --> 01:00:28,595 Liver pills! 1065 01:00:28,595 --> 01:00:31,424 Who wants to see liver pills on their honeymoon? 1066 01:00:31,424 --> 01:00:35,397 What we want is romantic places, beautiful places ... places George wants to go. 1067 01:00:36,887 --> 01:00:39,997 - Hey, Bert. Here he comes. - Come on, we got to get this up. He's coming. 1068 01:00:39,997 --> 01:00:41,922 - Who? - The groom, idiot. 1069 01:00:41,922 --> 01:00:43,869 This is their honeymoon. Come on. Get that ladder. 1070 01:00:43,869 --> 01:00:45,193 What are they — ducks? 1071 01:00:48,315 --> 01:00:50,749 - Get that ladder up here. - All right, all right. 1072 01:00:50,749 --> 01:00:53,151 - Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry up. - I'm hurrying. 1073 01:01:02,583 --> 01:01:05,211 Hiya ... Geo ... uh ... good evening, sir. 1074 01:01:07,381 --> 01:01:09,229 Entree, Monsieur. 1075 01:02:30,677 --> 01:02:32,642 Welcome home, Mr. Bailey. 1076 01:02:38,082 --> 01:02:40,098 Well, I'll be ... 1077 01:02:44,988 --> 01:02:47,410 Mary, where did you ... 1078 01:03:09,226 --> 01:03:10,313 Oh, Mary ... 1079 01:03:13,148 --> 01:03:14,903 Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? 1080 01:03:49,497 --> 01:03:53,696 - Martini, you rented a new house? - Rent? 1081 01:03:54,912 --> 01:03:57,440 - You hear what he say, Mr. Bailey? - What's that? 1082 01:03:57,440 --> 01:03:59,406 I own the house. 1083 01:03:59,406 --> 01:04:02,835 Me, Giuseppe Martini, I own my own house. 1084 01:04:02,835 --> 01:04:06,248 No more we live like pigs in this Potter's Field. 1085 01:04:06,248 --> 01:04:07,698 Hurry, Marie! 1086 01:04:07,698 --> 01:04:09,121 Come on ... Bring the baby. 1087 01:04:09,977 --> 01:04:11,878 This is like a dream! 1088 01:04:11,878 --> 01:04:13,076 I'll take the kids in the car. 1089 01:04:13,076 --> 01:04:14,998 Oh, thank you, Mr. Bailey. 1090 01:04:14,998 --> 01:04:17,032 All right, kids. Here. 1091 01:04:17,032 --> 01:04:18,129 Get in here. 1092 01:04:18,129 --> 01:04:20,062 Now get right up on the seat there. 1093 01:04:22,305 --> 01:04:24,185 Get the ... get the dog! 1094 01:04:26,238 --> 01:04:27,997 You've got a goat too! 1095 01:04:29,316 --> 01:04:35,003 - All right. Goodbye. - Goodbye, everybody! 1096 01:04:37,683 --> 01:04:38,712 All in. 1097 01:04:57,471 --> 01:04:59,587 Mr. and Mrs. Martini, welcome home. 1098 01:05:00,377 --> 01:05:02,678 Good old George. He's always making a speech. 1099 01:05:03,947 --> 01:05:05,780 Hee-haw! 1100 01:05:05,780 --> 01:05:09,777 - Sam Wainwright! - Oh, who cares! 1101 01:05:09,777 --> 01:05:12,817 Bread! That this house may never know hunger. 1102 01:05:13,594 --> 01:05:17,091 Salt! That life may always have flavor! 1103 01:05:17,091 --> 01:05:20,875 And wine! That joy and prosperity may reign forever. 1104 01:05:20,875 --> 01:05:22,809 Enter the Martini castle! 1105 01:05:24,537 --> 01:05:26,944 Look, Mr. Potter, it's no skin off my nose. 1106 01:05:26,944 --> 01:05:28,808 I'm just your little rent collector. 1107 01:05:28,808 --> 01:05:32,637 But you can't laugh off this Bailey Park anymore. Look at it. 1108 01:05:33,941 --> 01:05:35,733 Congressman Black is here to see you. 1109 01:05:35,733 --> 01:05:38,890 Oh, tell the congressman to wait. Go on. 1110 01:05:38,890 --> 01:05:41,773 Fifteen years ago, a half-dozen houses stuck here and there. 1111 01:05:41,773 --> 01:05:44,099 There's the old cemetery, squirrels, buttercups, daisies. 1112 01:05:44,099 --> 01:05:45,905 I used to hunt rabbits there myself. 1113 01:05:47,312 --> 01:05:48,716 Look at it today. 1114 01:05:48,716 --> 01:05:51,720 Dozens of the prettiest little homes you ever saw. 1115 01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:54,993 Ninety per cent owned by suckers who used to pay rent to you! 1116 01:05:54,993 --> 01:05:58,472 Your Potter's Field, my dear Mr. Employer, is becoming just that. 1117 01:05:58,472 --> 01:06:02,016 And are the local yokels making with those David and Goliath wisecracks. 1118 01:06:02,016 --> 01:06:03,743 Oh, they are, are they? 1119 01:06:03,743 --> 01:06:06,625 Even though they know the Baileys never made a dime out of it. 1120 01:06:06,625 --> 01:06:07,909 You know very well why, 1121 01:06:07,909 --> 01:06:09,313 the Baileys were all chumps. 1122 01:06:09,313 --> 01:06:13,487 Every one of these homes is worth twice what it cost the Building and Loan to build. 1123 01:06:13,487 --> 01:06:16,181 - If I were you, Mr. Potter ... - Well, you are not me. 1124 01:06:16,181 --> 01:06:19,552 As I say, it's no skin off my nose. 1125 01:06:22,829 --> 01:06:27,208 But one of these days this bright young man is going to be asking George Bailey for a job. 1126 01:06:29,905 --> 01:06:33,483 The Bailey family has been a boil on my neck long enough. 1127 01:06:33,483 --> 01:06:34,746 - Yes, sir? - Come in here. 1128 01:06:35,451 --> 01:06:37,760 We just stopped in town to take a look at the new factory, and then ... 1129 01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:39,779 - we're going to drive on down to Florida. - Oh ... 1130 01:06:39,779 --> 01:06:42,313 - Why don't you have your friends join us? - Why, sure. 1131 01:06:42,313 --> 01:06:45,230 Hey, why don't you kids drive down with us, huh? 1132 01:06:45,230 --> 01:06:48,099 Oh, I'm afraid I couldn't get away, Sam. 1133 01:06:48,099 --> 01:06:50,165 Still got the nose to the old grindstone, eh? 1134 01:06:50,165 --> 01:06:55,121 Jane, I offered to let George in on the ground floor in plastics and he turned me down cold. 1135 01:06:55,121 --> 01:06:57,880 - Oh, now don't rub it in. - I'm not rubbing it in. 1136 01:06:57,880 --> 01:06:59,794 Well, I guess we better run along. 1137 01:06:59,794 --> 01:07:01,337 Awfully glad to have met you, Mary. 1138 01:07:01,337 --> 01:07:02,341 - Nice meeting you. - Goodbye. 1139 01:07:02,341 --> 01:07:03,776 - Goodbye, George. - So long, George. 1140 01:07:03,776 --> 01:07:04,797 - See you in the funny papers. - Goodbye, Sam. 1141 01:07:04,797 --> 01:07:07,141 - So long, Mary. - So long, Sam. Have fun. 1142 01:07:07,141 --> 01:07:08,221 Thanks for dropping around. 1143 01:07:08,221 --> 01:07:10,019 Florida! Hee-haw! 1144 01:07:10,019 --> 01:07:11,081 Hee-haw. 1145 01:07:40,416 --> 01:07:41,465 Thank you, sir. 1146 01:07:42,071 --> 01:07:43,408 Quite a cigar, Mr. Potter. 1147 01:07:43,408 --> 01:07:45,889 You like it? I'll send you a box. 1148 01:07:54,570 --> 01:07:58,761 Well, I, uh, I suppose I'll find out sooner or later, 1149 01:07:58,761 --> 01:08:01,120 but just what exactly did you want to see me about? 1150 01:08:02,877 --> 01:08:08,048 George, now that's just what I like so much about you. 1151 01:08:08,048 --> 01:08:11,836 George, I'm an old man, and most people hate me. 1152 01:08:11,836 --> 01:08:14,840 But I don't like them, either, so that that makes it all even. 1153 01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:19,861 You know, just as well as I do, that I run practically everything in this town ... 1154 01:08:19,861 --> 01:08:22,800 but the Bailey Building and Loan. 1155 01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:27,539 You know, also, that for a number of years I've been trying to get control of it or kill it. 1156 01:08:27,539 --> 01:08:29,870 But I haven't been able to do it. 1157 01:08:29,870 --> 01:08:32,868 You have been stopping me. 1158 01:08:32,868 --> 01:08:36,196 In fact, you have beaten me, George, 1159 01:08:36,196 --> 01:08:41,268 and as anyone in this county can tell you, that takes some doing. 1160 01:08:41,268 --> 01:08:44,494 Take during the depression, for instance. 1161 01:08:44,494 --> 01:08:47,790 You and I were the only ones that kept our heads. 1162 01:08:47,790 --> 01:08:51,680 You saved the Building and Loan, I saved all the rest. 1163 01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:54,448 Yeah. Well, most people say you stole all the rest. 1164 01:08:54,448 --> 01:08:58,732 The envious ones say that, George, the suckers. 1165 01:08:58,732 --> 01:09:03,282 Now, I have stated my side very frankly. 1166 01:09:03,282 --> 01:09:06,287 Now, let's look at your side. 1167 01:09:06,287 --> 01:09:13,229 Young man, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, married, making say ... forty a week. 1168 01:09:13,229 --> 01:09:16,729 - Forty-five! - Forty-five. Forty-five. 1169 01:09:16,729 --> 01:09:19,246 Out of which, after supporting your mother ... 1170 01:09:19,246 --> 01:09:23,883 and paying your bills, you're able to keep, say ten, if you skimp. 1171 01:09:23,883 --> 01:09:28,336 A child or two comes along, and you won't even be able to save the ten. 1172 01:09:28,336 --> 01:09:32,658 Now, if this young man of twenty-eight was a common, 1173 01:09:32,658 --> 01:09:35,667 ordinary yokel, I'd say he was doing fine. 1174 01:09:35,667 --> 01:09:39,901 But, George Bailey is not a common, ordinary yokel. 1175 01:09:39,901 --> 01:09:43,933 He's an intelligent, smart, ambitious young man, 1176 01:09:43,933 --> 01:09:49,421 who hates his job, who hates the Building and Loan, almost as much as I do. 1177 01:09:49,421 --> 01:09:54,359 A young man who's been dying to get out on his own ever since he was born. 1178 01:09:54,359 --> 01:09:57,386 A young man ... the smartest one of the crowd, mind you, 1179 01:09:57,386 --> 01:10:00,841 a young man who has to sit by and watch his friends go places, 1180 01:10:00,841 --> 01:10:02,540 because he's trapped. 1181 01:10:02,540 --> 01:10:10,459 Yes, sir, trapped into frittering his life away playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic-eaters. 1182 01:10:10,459 --> 01:10:13,824 Do I paint a correct picture, or do I exaggerate? 1183 01:10:16,099 --> 01:10:17,625 Oh, what's your point, Mr. Potter? 1184 01:10:17,625 --> 01:10:21,197 - My point? My point is, I want to hire you. - Hire me? 1185 01:10:21,197 --> 01:10:24,937 I want you to manage my affairs, run my properties. 1186 01:10:24,937 --> 01:10:30,056 George, I'll start you out at twenty thousand dollars a year. 1187 01:10:33,967 --> 01:10:37,007 Twenty thous ... twenty thousand dollars a year? 1188 01:10:37,007 --> 01:10:40,476 You wouldn't mind living in the nicest house in town, 1189 01:10:40,476 --> 01:10:43,109 buying your wife a lot of fine clothes, 1190 01:10:43,109 --> 01:10:47,921 a couple of business trips to New York a year, maybe once in a while Europe. 1191 01:10:47,921 --> 01:10:49,593 You wouldn't mind that, would you, George? 1192 01:10:49,593 --> 01:10:51,032 Would I? 1193 01:10:53,843 --> 01:10:56,070 Y-You're not talking to somebody else around here, are you? 1194 01:10:56,070 --> 01:10:58,707 you know, th-this is me, you remember me? George Bailey. 1195 01:10:58,707 --> 01:11:04,278 Oh, yes, George Bailey. Whose ship has just come in, 1196 01:11:04,278 --> 01:11:07,626 provided he has enough brains to climb aboard. 1197 01:11:16,003 --> 01:11:17,272 Holy mackerel! 1198 01:11:20,315 --> 01:11:22,880 Well, how about the Building and Loan? 1199 01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:26,522 Oh, confound it, man! Are you afraid of success? 1200 01:11:26,522 --> 01:11:31,569 I'm offering you a three-year contract at twenty thousand dollars a year, starting today. 1201 01:11:31,569 --> 01:11:33,426 Is it a deal, or isn't it? 1202 01:11:35,037 --> 01:11:36,820 Well, Mr. Potter, I ... 1203 01:11:36,820 --> 01:11:41,647 I — I know I ought to jump at the chance but I — I just, uh, 1204 01:11:41,647 --> 01:11:45,606 I — I wonder if-if it would be possible for you to give me twenty-four hours to think it over? 1205 01:11:45,606 --> 01:11:47,475 Sure, sure, sure. 1206 01:11:47,475 --> 01:11:50,209 You go on home and talk about it to your wife. 1207 01:11:50,209 --> 01:11:51,822 - I'd like to do that. - Yeah. 1208 01:11:51,822 --> 01:11:54,145 In the meantime, I'll draw up the papers. 1209 01:11:54,145 --> 01:11:56,415 - All right, sir. - Okay, George? 1210 01:11:57,772 --> 01:11:59,299 Okay, Mr. Potter. 1211 01:12:09,580 --> 01:12:12,512 No, no, no, no. Wait a minute here. Wait a minute. 1212 01:12:12,512 --> 01:12:15,607 I don't need twenty-four hours. I, I don't have to talk to anybody. 1213 01:12:15,607 --> 01:12:17,746 I know right now, and the answer is no! No! 1214 01:12:17,746 --> 01:12:19,338 Doggone it! 1215 01:12:19,338 --> 01:12:21,928 You sit around here and you spin your little webs ... 1216 01:12:21,928 --> 01:12:24,117 and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. 1217 01:12:24,117 --> 01:12:25,983 Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter. 1218 01:12:25,983 --> 01:12:29,205 In the ... in the whole vast configuration of things, 1219 01:12:29,205 --> 01:12:32,177 I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider. 1220 01:12:32,177 --> 01:12:36,946 You ... and that goes for you, too. 1221 01:12:40,858 --> 01:12:43,234 And it goes for you, too. 1222 01:12:49,954 --> 01:12:53,469 If you wouldn't mind living in the nicest house in town. 1223 01:12:53,469 --> 01:12:56,358 Buying your wife a lot of fine clothes. 1224 01:12:56,358 --> 01:12:59,856 Going to New York on a business trip a couple of times a year. 1225 01:12:59,856 --> 01:13:02,421 Maybe to Europe once in a while. 1226 01:13:03,148 --> 01:13:05,031 I know what I'm going to do tomorrow ... 1227 01:13:05,031 --> 01:13:08,377 and the next day and next year and the hear after that. 1228 01:13:08,377 --> 01:13:13,570 I'm shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet, and I'm going to see the world ... 1229 01:13:13,570 --> 01:13:16,421 and then I'm going to build things. I'm going to build air fields. 1230 01:13:16,421 --> 01:13:19,376 I'm going to build skyscrapers a hundred stories high. 1231 01:13:19,376 --> 01:13:22,831 I'm going to build a bridge a mile long. 1232 01:13:22,831 --> 01:13:24,595 What is it you want, 1233 01:13:24,595 --> 01:13:26,485 Mary? What? Y-You want the moon? 1234 01:13:26,485 --> 01:13:29,045 If you do, just say the word, I'll throw a lasso around it 1235 01:13:29,045 --> 01:13:31,140 and pulls her down for you. 1236 01:13:31,140 --> 01:13:33,610 Buffalo Gals, won't you come out tonight, 1237 01:13:33,610 --> 01:13:36,600 Won't you come out tonight, Won't you come out tonight. 1238 01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:40,004 Buffalo Gals, won't you come out tonight, 1239 01:13:40,004 --> 01:13:42,055 And ... 1240 01:13:48,181 --> 01:13:49,807 - Hi. - Hi. 1241 01:13:55,355 --> 01:13:56,759 Mary Hatch! 1242 01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:03,319 Wh-Why in the world did you ever marry a guy like me? 1243 01:14:03,319 --> 01:14:05,860 To keep from being an old maid. 1244 01:14:05,860 --> 01:14:09,937 You could have married Sam Wainwright and anybody else in town. 1245 01:14:09,937 --> 01:14:13,370 I didn't want to marry anybody else in town. 1246 01:14:13,370 --> 01:14:15,798 I want my baby to look like you. 1247 01:14:15,798 --> 01:14:17,719 You didn't even have a honeymoon. 1248 01:14:17,719 --> 01:14:21,320 I promised you ... your what? 1249 01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:23,934 My baby. 1250 01:14:23,934 --> 01:14:29,222 You — You-You-You-You-You-You-You ... Mary, you're on the nest? 1251 01:14:29,222 --> 01:14:31,937 George Bailey lassoes stork. 1252 01:14:31,937 --> 01:14:33,397 Lassoes the stork! 1253 01:14:35,416 --> 01:14:37,214 What do you ... 1254 01:14:37,214 --> 01:14:39,216 You mean ... you-you-you ... 1255 01:14:39,216 --> 01:14:41,438 What-what-what is it, a boy or a girl? 1256 01:14:41,438 --> 01:14:42,697 Uh-hm. 1257 01:14:44,757 --> 01:14:49,345 Now, you've probably already guessed that George never leaves Bedford Falls. 1258 01:14:49,345 --> 01:14:50,369 No! 1259 01:14:50,369 --> 01:14:53,493 Mary had her baby, a boy. 1260 01:14:53,493 --> 01:14:55,988 Then she had another one, a girl. 1261 01:14:55,988 --> 01:15:01,243 Day after day she worked away remaking the old Granville house into a home. 1262 01:15:01,243 --> 01:15:04,962 Night after night, George came back late from the office. 1263 01:15:08,548 --> 01:15:10,805 Potter was bearing down hard. 1264 01:15:15,985 --> 01:15:17,731 Then came a war. 1265 01:15:18,389 --> 01:15:22,469 Ma Bailey and Mrs. Hatch joined the Red Cross and sewed. 1266 01:15:22,469 --> 01:15:26,719 Mary had two more babies but still found time to run the U.S.O. 1267 01:15:26,719 --> 01:15:30,713 Sam Wainwright made a fortune in plastic hoods for planes. 1268 01:15:30,713 --> 01:15:33,502 Potter became head of the draft board. 1269 01:15:33,502 --> 01:15:41,641 One-A ... one-A ... one-A 1270 01:15:41,641 --> 01:15:44,462 Gower and Uncle Billy sold war bonds. 1271 01:15:44,462 --> 01:15:49,036 Bert the cop was wounded in North Africa, got the Silver Star. 1272 01:15:49,036 --> 01:15:52,895 Ernie, the taxi-driver, parachuted into France. 1273 01:15:52,895 --> 01:15:56,328 Marty helped capture the Remagen Bridge. 1274 01:15:56,328 --> 01:16:00,086 Harry, Harry Bailey topped them all. 1275 01:16:00,086 --> 01:16:03,861 A Navy flier, he shot down fifteen planes. 1276 01:16:03,861 --> 01:16:08,239 Two of them as they were about to crash into a transport full of soldiers. 1277 01:16:09,663 --> 01:16:12,379 - Yes, but George ... - George? 1278 01:16:12,379 --> 01:16:17,554 Four-F on account of his ear, George fought the battle of Bedford Falls. 1279 01:16:17,554 --> 01:16:19,692 Hold on, hold on, hold on now. 1280 01:16:19,692 --> 01:16:21,334 Don't you know there's a war on? 1281 01:16:21,334 --> 01:16:23,533 Air raid warden ... 1282 01:16:32,036 --> 01:16:36,536 paper drives ... scrap drives ... rubber drives ... 1283 01:16:36,536 --> 01:16:42,112 Like everybody else, on V-E day he wept and prayed. 1284 01:16:42,112 --> 01:16:46,875 On V-J day, he wept and prayed again. 1285 01:16:46,875 --> 01:16:49,403 Joseph, now show him what happened today. 1286 01:16:49,403 --> 01:16:50,728 Yes, sir. 1287 01:16:50,728 --> 01:16:55,625 This morning, day before Christmas, about ten A.M., Bedford Falls Time. 1288 01:16:55,625 --> 01:16:58,192 Hi, Ernie, look at that. 1289 01:17:03,444 --> 01:17:04,542 Gonna snow again. 1290 01:17:04,542 --> 01:17:07,841 What do you mean it's gonna snow? Look at the headlines. 1291 01:17:07,841 --> 01:17:10,335 I know, I know, George. And it's marvelous. 1292 01:17:10,335 --> 01:17:12,133 Commander Harry Bailey! 1293 01:17:12,133 --> 01:17:13,809 Mr. Gower, look at this. 1294 01:17:13,809 --> 01:17:15,873 The second page. Now look, this is for you. 1295 01:17:15,873 --> 01:17:17,665 This is for you. That's for you. 1296 01:17:17,665 --> 01:17:19,333 - Thanks. - See you again. 1297 01:17:20,965 --> 01:17:23,122 Be sure you spell the name right. 1298 01:17:23,122 --> 01:17:25,046 Hello, Billy, how are you? 1299 01:17:33,202 --> 01:17:35,934 Extra! Extra! Read all about it! 1300 01:17:35,934 --> 01:17:38,264 George! George! It's Harry now on long distance from Washington. 1301 01:17:38,264 --> 01:17:41,249 - Harry! What do you know about that! - He reversed the charges. It's okay, isn't it? 1302 01:17:41,249 --> 01:17:43,899 Reverse the charges ... of course it's for a hero. 1303 01:17:43,899 --> 01:17:45,402 Harry ... 1304 01:17:45,402 --> 01:17:48,377 Oh, you old seven times of a son of a gun. 1305 01:17:48,377 --> 01:17:49,664 Congratulations! 1306 01:17:49,664 --> 01:17:51,378 How's mother standing it? 1307 01:17:51,378 --> 01:17:52,810 She did? 1308 01:17:52,810 --> 01:17:53,910 What do you know ... 1309 01:17:53,910 --> 01:17:55,491 Mother had lunch with the President's wife. 1310 01:17:55,491 --> 01:17:56,770 Wait till Martha hears about this. 1311 01:17:56,770 --> 01:17:58,629 - What did they have to eat? - Wha-What did they have to eat? 1312 01:17:58,629 --> 01:18:03,427 H-H-Harry, you should see what they're cooking up in the town for you. 1313 01:18:03,427 --> 01:18:04,458 Oh, they are? 1314 01:18:04,458 --> 01:18:06,409 The Navy's going to fly mother home this afternoon. 1315 01:18:06,409 --> 01:18:08,171 In a plane? 1316 01:18:08,171 --> 01:18:10,174 What? Uncle Billy? 1317 01:18:10,174 --> 01:18:12,240 - Has Uncle Billy come in yet? - No, he stopped at the bank first. 1318 01:18:12,240 --> 01:18:14,276 No, he's not here right now, Harry. But look ... 1319 01:18:14,276 --> 01:18:15,844 - George ... - ... tell me about it. 1320 01:18:15,844 --> 01:18:17,937 George, tha-that man's here again. 1321 01:18:17,937 --> 01:18:19,623 - What man? - B-B-Bank ... examiner. 1322 01:18:19,623 --> 01:18:21,087 Oh, oh. Uh, uh, 1323 01:18:21,087 --> 01:18:23,295 Harry, talk to Eustace for a minute, will you? 1324 01:18:23,295 --> 01:18:25,355 I'll be right back. Well ... 1325 01:18:25,355 --> 01:18:27,357 - Harry ... - Good morning, sir. 1326 01:18:27,357 --> 01:18:28,677 Carter, bank examiner. 1327 01:18:28,677 --> 01:18:31,089 - Mr. Carter, Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas. 1328 01:18:31,089 --> 01:18:32,932 We're all excited around here. 1329 01:18:32,932 --> 01:18:34,902 My brother just got the Congressional Medal of Honor. 1330 01:18:34,902 --> 01:18:36,035 The president just decorated him. 1331 01:18:36,035 --> 01:18:37,867 Well, I guess they do those things. 1332 01:18:37,867 --> 01:18:39,649 Well, I trust you had a good year. 1333 01:18:39,649 --> 01:18:40,935 Good year? 1334 01:18:40,935 --> 01:18:44,301 Uh, well, between you and me, Mr. Carter, we're broke. 1335 01:18:44,301 --> 01:18:47,820 Yeah, very funny. 1336 01:18:47,820 --> 01:18:50,666 Uh, w-well ... Now, come right in here, Mr. Carter. 1337 01:18:50,666 --> 01:18:55,212 Oh, I shouldn't wonder when you okay reverse charges on personal long distance calls. 1338 01:18:55,212 --> 01:18:56,243 George, shall we hang up? 1339 01:18:56,243 --> 01:18:58,441 No, no. He wants to talk to Uncle Billy. You just hold on. 1340 01:18:58,441 --> 01:19:01,312 Now, if you'll cooperate, I'd like to finish with you by tonight. 1341 01:19:01,312 --> 01:19:04,149 I want to spend Christmas in Elmira with my family. 1342 01:19:04,149 --> 01:19:05,572 I don't blame you at all, Mr. Carter. 1343 01:19:05,572 --> 01:19:07,807 Just step right in here. We'll fix you up. 1344 01:19:07,807 --> 01:19:11,585 December twenty-fourth ... 1345 01:19:16,794 --> 01:19:19,698 Eight thousand. 1346 01:19:20,358 --> 01:19:23,080 Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter ... 1347 01:19:23,080 --> 01:19:25,252 Well, good morning, Mr. Potter? 1348 01:19:25,252 --> 01:19:26,613 What's the news? 1349 01:19:26,613 --> 01:19:30,320 Oh, well, well, well. Harry Bailey wins Congressional Medal. 1350 01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:32,476 That couldn't be one of the Bailey boys? 1351 01:19:32,476 --> 01:19:36,111 You just can't keep those Baileys down, now can you, Mr. Potter. 1352 01:19:36,111 --> 01:19:38,778 How does slacker George feel about that? 1353 01:19:38,778 --> 01:19:39,996 Very jealous. Very jealous. 1354 01:19:39,996 --> 01:19:42,322 He only lost three buttons off his vest. 1355 01:19:42,322 --> 01:19:46,522 Of course, slacker George would have gotten two of these medals if he had gone. 1356 01:19:46,522 --> 01:19:47,551 Bad ear. 1357 01:19:47,551 --> 01:19:51,770 Yes. After all, Potter, some people like George had to stay at home. 1358 01:19:51,770 --> 01:19:55,658 Not every heel was in Germany and Japan. 1359 01:20:03,370 --> 01:20:06,750 - Oh, good morning, Mr. Bailey. - Good morning, Horace. 1360 01:20:08,071 --> 01:20:10,654 - I guess you forgot something. - Huh? 1361 01:20:10,654 --> 01:20:12,727 - You forgot something. - What? 1362 01:20:12,727 --> 01:20:15,152 - Well, aren't you going to make a deposit? - Oh, sure, sure I am. 1363 01:20:15,152 --> 01:20:17,990 Well, then it's usually customary to bring the money with you. 1364 01:20:17,990 --> 01:20:22,404 Huh? Oh, shucks ... 1365 01:20:22,404 --> 01:20:25,645 Well, I knew I had ... 1366 01:20:25,645 --> 01:20:29,531 - How about that finger there? - Hmm? Well, I ... 1367 01:20:29,531 --> 01:20:30,739 Bailey ... 1368 01:20:37,430 --> 01:20:39,700 Take me back there. Hurry up. 1369 01:20:41,738 --> 01:20:43,860 Come on, look sharp. 1370 01:21:01,757 --> 01:21:02,918 Take me back. 1371 01:21:13,047 --> 01:21:16,311 Just make yourself at home, Mr. Carter. I'll get those books for you. 1372 01:21:16,311 --> 01:21:17,845 Oh, hello, Vi. 1373 01:21:17,845 --> 01:21:19,522 George, can I see you for a second? 1374 01:21:19,522 --> 01:21:22,581 Why, of course you can. Come on in the office here. 1375 01:21:22,581 --> 01:21:25,042 Uncle Billy, talk to Harry. He's on the telephone. 1376 01:21:26,159 --> 01:21:28,894 Hurry, Uncle Billy, hurry. Long distance, Washington. 1377 01:21:28,894 --> 01:21:29,975 Hey, here's Harry on the phone. 1378 01:21:29,975 --> 01:21:31,295 Harry, your nephew, remember? 1379 01:21:31,295 --> 01:21:33,796 Here he is. Hurry up. 1380 01:21:33,796 --> 01:21:35,516 Hello — hello. Y-Y-Yes, Harry. 1381 01:21:35,516 --> 01:21:37,542 Yes ... everything ... everything's fine. 1382 01:21:38,420 --> 01:21:41,208 I should have my head examined. Eight thousand dollars. 1383 01:21:41,208 --> 01:21:43,092 It's got to be somewhere. 1384 01:21:49,626 --> 01:21:50,678 Here you are. 1385 01:21:51,238 --> 01:21:52,957 Character? 1386 01:21:52,957 --> 01:21:54,198 If I had any character, I'd ... 1387 01:21:54,198 --> 01:21:57,972 It takes a lot of character to leave your home town and start all over again. 1388 01:21:57,972 --> 01:21:59,360 No, George, don't ... 1389 01:21:59,360 --> 01:22:02,258 - Now here, now you're broke, aren't you? - I know, but ... 1390 01:22:02,258 --> 01:22:05,106 What do you want to do, hock your furs and that hat? 1391 01:22:06,563 --> 01:22:07,954 Want to walk to New York? 1392 01:22:07,954 --> 01:22:09,665 You know, they charge for meals and rent up there 1393 01:22:09,665 --> 01:22:11,285 just the same as they do in Bedford Falls. 1394 01:22:11,285 --> 01:22:13,280 - Yeah, sure. - It's a loan. 1395 01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,910 That's my business. Building and Loan. 1396 01:22:15,910 --> 01:22:17,949 Besides, you'll get a job. 1397 01:22:17,949 --> 01:22:19,029 Good luck to you. 1398 01:22:19,029 --> 01:22:21,337 I'm glad I know you, George Bailey. 1399 01:22:26,599 --> 01:22:27,663 Say hello to New York for me. 1400 01:22:27,663 --> 01:22:29,087 Yeah, yeah ... sure, I will. 1401 01:22:29,087 --> 01:22:30,842 Now let's hear from you once in a while. 1402 01:22:31,909 --> 01:22:33,183 Hmm. 1403 01:22:35,374 --> 01:22:38,520 - Merry Christmas, Violet. - Merry Christmas, George. 1404 01:22:39,248 --> 01:22:40,985 - Mr. Bailey. - Oh, Mr. Carter, 1405 01:22:40,985 --> 01:22:42,436 I'm sorry. I'll be right with you. 1406 01:22:42,436 --> 01:22:45,024 - Uncle Billy in? - Yeah, he's in his office. 1407 01:22:45,024 --> 01:22:47,426 Unc ... What's going on? 1408 01:22:47,426 --> 01:22:50,178 The bank examiner's here, and I ... 1409 01:22:50,178 --> 01:22:51,549 - He's here? - Yeah, yeah. 1410 01:22:51,549 --> 01:22:53,385 He wants the accounts payable ... 1411 01:22:53,385 --> 01:22:56,212 - What's the matter with you? - Come here. 1412 01:23:17,090 --> 01:23:18,203 - Eustace. - Yeah? 1413 01:23:18,203 --> 01:23:19,399 Come here a minute. 1414 01:23:21,135 --> 01:23:23,530 Did you see Uncle Billy with any cash last night? 1415 01:23:23,530 --> 01:23:26,124 He had it on his desk counting it before he closed up. 1416 01:23:27,141 --> 01:23:28,666 Now look, did you buy anything? 1417 01:23:28,666 --> 01:23:31,154 - Nothing. Not even a stick of gum. - All right, all right. 1418 01:23:31,154 --> 01:23:33,478 Now, we'll go over every step you took since you left the house. 1419 01:23:33,478 --> 01:23:34,910 All right. This way. 1420 01:23:44,992 --> 01:23:46,892 And did you put the envelope in your pocket? 1421 01:23:46,892 --> 01:23:49,820 Yeah ... maybe, maybe, maybe ... 1422 01:23:49,820 --> 01:23:51,461 Maybe-Maybe! I don't want any maybe. 1423 01:23:51,461 --> 01:23:53,208 We've got to find that money! 1424 01:23:53,208 --> 01:23:56,734 - I'm no good to you, George. I ... - Uncle Billy, do you ... 1425 01:23:57,882 --> 01:24:03,035 Listen to me. Do you have any secret place hiding place? 1426 01:24:08,104 --> 01:24:11,421 Listen to me, listen to me! Think! Think! 1427 01:24:11,421 --> 01:24:15,467 I can't think anymore, George. I can't think anymore. It hurts ... 1428 01:24:15,467 --> 01:24:18,493 Where's that money, you silly, stupid old fool? 1429 01:24:18,493 --> 01:24:19,679 Where's that money? 1430 01:24:19,679 --> 01:24:21,408 Do you realize what this means? 1431 01:24:21,408 --> 01:24:24,562 It means bankruptcy and scandal, and prison! 1432 01:24:25,545 --> 01:24:26,849 That's what it means. 1433 01:24:26,849 --> 01:24:28,102 One of us is going to jail! 1434 01:24:28,102 --> 01:24:30,070 Well, it's not gonna be me. 1435 01:24:53,044 --> 01:24:54,106 Hello, darling. 1436 01:24:54,106 --> 01:24:55,887 Hello daddy, hello daddy. 1437 01:24:55,887 --> 01:24:58,060 How do you like it? We're going to put ... 1438 01:24:58,060 --> 01:24:59,983 Bless you! 1439 01:25:01,445 --> 01:25:02,446 Did you bring the wreath? 1440 01:25:02,446 --> 01:25:05,411 - Yes, Daddy, did you bring the Christmas wreath? - What wreath? 1441 01:25:05,411 --> 01:25:07,982 Oh, that's the Merry Christmas Wreath for the window. 1442 01:25:07,982 --> 01:25:09,572 No. I left it at the office. 1443 01:25:09,572 --> 01:25:11,660 - Is it snowing? - Yeah, just started. 1444 01:25:11,660 --> 01:25:15,235 - Where's your coat and hat? - Left them at the office. 1445 01:25:15,235 --> 01:25:18,131 - What's the matter? - Nothing's the matter. Everything's all right. 1446 01:25:26,370 --> 01:25:28,389 Go on, Pete, you're a big boy. 1447 01:25:28,389 --> 01:25:29,628 You can put the star up. 1448 01:25:29,628 --> 01:25:31,638 Way up at the top. 1449 01:25:31,638 --> 01:25:33,399 That's it. 1450 01:25:33,399 --> 01:25:34,635 All right. 1451 01:25:34,635 --> 01:25:36,346 Fill in that little bare spot right there. 1452 01:25:36,346 --> 01:25:37,600 That's it. 1453 01:25:39,641 --> 01:25:41,629 Isn't it wonderful about Harry? 1454 01:25:41,629 --> 01:25:43,003 We're famous, George. 1455 01:25:43,003 --> 01:25:47,033 I'll bet I had fifty calls today about the parade, the banquet. 1456 01:25:47,033 --> 01:25:49,328 Your mother's so excited, she ... 1457 01:26:10,001 --> 01:26:12,225 Must she keep playing that? 1458 01:26:12,225 --> 01:26:14,979 I have to practice it for the party tonight, Daddy. 1459 01:26:14,979 --> 01:26:18,225 Mommy says we can stay up till midnight and sing Christmas carols. 1460 01:26:18,225 --> 01:26:19,549 Can you sing, Daddy? 1461 01:26:20,173 --> 01:26:22,016 Better hurry and shave. 1462 01:26:22,016 --> 01:26:23,608 The families will be here soon. 1463 01:26:23,608 --> 01:26:27,081 Families! I — I don't want the families over here. 1464 01:26:29,034 --> 01:26:32,475 Come on out in the kitchen with me while I finish dinner. 1465 01:26:32,475 --> 01:26:35,743 Excuse me. Excuse me. 1466 01:26:35,743 --> 01:26:36,946 Have a hectic day? 1467 01:26:36,946 --> 01:26:41,005 Oh, yeah. Another big red-letter day for the Bailey's. 1468 01:26:41,005 --> 01:26:43,801 Daddy, the Brown's next door have a new car. You should see it. 1469 01:26:43,801 --> 01:26:46,248 Well, what's the matter with our car? Isn't it good enough for you? 1470 01:26:46,248 --> 01:26:47,603 Yes, Daddy. 1471 01:26:47,603 --> 01:26:50,101 Excuse me. Excuse me. 1472 01:26:50,101 --> 01:26:51,440 Excuse you for what? 1473 01:26:51,440 --> 01:26:52,772 I burped! 1474 01:26:53,805 --> 01:26:55,076 All right, darling, you're excused. 1475 01:26:55,076 --> 01:26:57,502 Now go upstairs and see what little Zuzu wants. 1476 01:26:58,518 --> 01:27:00,385 Zuzu. W-What's the matter with Zuzu? 1477 01:27:00,385 --> 01:27:02,429 Oh, she's got a cold. She's in bed. 1478 01:27:02,429 --> 01:27:04,159 Caught it coming home from school. 1479 01:27:04,159 --> 01:27:05,733 They gave her a flower for a prize 1480 01:27:05,733 --> 01:27:08,069 and she didn't want to crush it so she didn't button up her coat. 1481 01:27:08,069 --> 01:27:10,263 - What is it, a sore throat or what? - Just a cold. 1482 01:27:10,263 --> 01:27:11,361 - The doctor says it's nothing serious. - The doctor? 1483 01:27:11,361 --> 01:27:13,460 - Was the doctor here? - Yes, I called him right away. 1484 01:27:13,460 --> 01:27:15,205 - He says it's nothing to worry about. - Is she running a temperature? 1485 01:27:15,205 --> 01:27:17,538 - What is it? - Just a teensy one, ninety-nine, six. 1486 01:27:17,538 --> 01:27:19,831 - She'll be all right. - Gosh, it's this old house. 1487 01:27:19,831 --> 01:27:22,210 I don't ... I don't know why we don't all have pneumonia. 1488 01:27:22,210 --> 01:27:26,934 This drafty old barn! Might as well be living in a refrigerator. 1489 01:27:26,934 --> 01:27:31,673 Why did we have to live here in the first place and stay around this measly, crummy old town? 1490 01:27:32,705 --> 01:27:33,824 George, what's wrong? 1491 01:27:33,824 --> 01:27:35,047 Wrong? Everything's wrong. 1492 01:27:35,047 --> 01:27:36,421 You call this a happy family? 1493 01:27:36,421 --> 01:27:38,728 Why did we have to have all these kids? 1494 01:27:38,728 --> 01:27:40,143 Dad, how do you spell 'frankincense'? 1495 01:27:40,143 --> 01:27:42,386 I don't know. Why, ask your mother. 1496 01:27:42,386 --> 01:27:44,419 - Where're you going? - Going up to see Zuzu. 1497 01:27:44,419 --> 01:27:46,554 He told me to write a play for tomorrow. 1498 01:27:57,518 --> 01:28:01,489 F-R-A-N-K-I-N ... 1499 01:28:01,489 --> 01:28:02,951 Hi, Daddy. 1500 01:28:04,069 --> 01:28:07,648 - Well, what happened to you? - I won a flower. 1501 01:28:07,648 --> 01:28:09,413 Wait now. W-Where do you think you're going? 1502 01:28:09,413 --> 01:28:11,075 Want to give my flower a drink. 1503 01:28:11,075 --> 01:28:13,608 All right, all right, here, give Daddy the flower. 1504 01:28:13,608 --> 01:28:16,273 I'll give it a drink. All right, here. 1505 01:28:17,765 --> 01:28:22,850 - Look, Daddy ... paste it. - Yeah, all right ... 1506 01:28:26,628 --> 01:28:28,733 Now, I'll paste this together. 1507 01:28:32,305 --> 01:28:37,727 Now, there it is, good as new. All right, give the flower a drink. 1508 01:28:37,727 --> 01:28:40,095 - Now, will you do something for me? - What? 1509 01:28:40,095 --> 01:28:42,149 Will you try to get some sleep? 1510 01:28:42,149 --> 01:28:45,209 I'm not sleepy. I want to look at my flower. 1511 01:28:45,209 --> 01:28:47,755 I know, I know, but you just go to sleep 1512 01:28:47,755 --> 01:28:52,212 and then you can dream about it, and it'll be a whole garden. 1513 01:28:52,212 --> 01:28:54,389 - It will? - Uh-huh. 1514 01:29:01,848 --> 01:29:04,989 - Telephone! - I'll get it. 1515 01:29:07,198 --> 01:29:09,126 Hello. 1516 01:29:09,126 --> 01:29:11,448 Yes, this is Mrs. Bailey. 1517 01:29:11,448 --> 01:29:14,607 Oh, thank you, Mrs. Welch. I'm sure she'll be all right. 1518 01:29:14,607 --> 01:29:17,354 The doctor says that she ought to be out of bed in time to have her Christmas dinner. 1519 01:29:17,354 --> 01:29:19,026 - Is that Zuzu's teacher? - Yes. 1520 01:29:19,026 --> 01:29:20,462 Let me speak to her. 1521 01:29:20,462 --> 01:29:23,419 Hello. Hello, Mrs. Welch? 1522 01:29:23,419 --> 01:29:25,917 This is George Bailey. I'm Zuzu's father. 1523 01:29:25,917 --> 01:29:27,562 Say, what kind of a teacher are you anyway? 1524 01:29:27,562 --> 01:29:29,972 What do you mean sending her home like that, half naked? 1525 01:29:29,972 --> 01:29:32,127 Do you realize she'll probably end up with pneumonia on account of you? 1526 01:29:32,127 --> 01:29:33,636 - George! - Is this the sort of thing 1527 01:29:33,636 --> 01:29:36,652 we pay taxes for — to have teachers ... to have teachers like you? 1528 01:29:36,652 --> 01:29:40,181 Stupid, silly, careless people who send our kids home without any clothes on? 1529 01:29:40,181 --> 01:29:42,166 You know, maybe my kids aren't the best-dressed kids, 1530 01:29:42,166 --> 01:29:43,964 and maybe they don't have any decent clothes ... 1531 01:29:43,964 --> 01:29:46,104 Aw, that stupid ... 1532 01:29:46,104 --> 01:29:49,593 He-Hello, Mrs. Welch. I — I — I want to apologize. 1533 01:29:49,593 --> 01:29:52,396 Hel-lo ... hello ... 1534 01:29:53,427 --> 01:29:55,999 - She's hung up. - I — I — I'll hang her up. 1535 01:29:55,999 --> 01:29:57,995 Now, who do you think you are? 1536 01:29:57,995 --> 01:29:59,180 What is that? 1537 01:29:59,180 --> 01:30:00,978 Hello? Who is this? 1538 01:30:00,978 --> 01:30:02,982 Oh, Mr. Welch? 1539 01:30:02,982 --> 01:30:04,454 Okay, that's fine, Mr. Welch. 1540 01:30:04,454 --> 01:30:06,637 Gives me a chance to tell you what I really think of your wife. 1541 01:30:06,637 --> 01:30:09,629 - George ... - Will you get out and let me handle this? 1542 01:30:09,629 --> 01:30:11,172 Hello? 1543 01:30:11,172 --> 01:30:15,535 Hello? What? Oh, you will, huh? 1544 01:30:15,535 --> 01:30:18,569 Okay, Mr. Welch. Any time you think you're man enough. 1545 01:30:18,569 --> 01:30:22,268 Hello ... any ... 1546 01:30:22,268 --> 01:30:23,818 Oh ... 1547 01:30:23,818 --> 01:30:25,257 Daddy, how do you spell "Hallelujah?" 1548 01:30:25,257 --> 01:30:27,195 How should I know? What do you think I am, a dictionary? 1549 01:30:27,195 --> 01:30:28,756 Tommy, stop that! Stop it! 1550 01:30:28,756 --> 01:30:31,949 Janie, haven't you leaned that silly tune yet? You've played it over and over again. 1551 01:30:31,949 --> 01:30:33,695 Now stop it! Stop it! 1552 01:31:01,525 --> 01:31:03,389 I'm sorry, Mary. 1553 01:31:06,349 --> 01:31:07,946 Janie, I'm sorry. 1554 01:31:09,099 --> 01:31:11,236 I didn't mean ... 1555 01:31:11,843 --> 01:31:13,864 You go on and practice. 1556 01:31:18,679 --> 01:31:22,541 Pete, I owe you an apology, too. 1557 01:31:22,541 --> 01:31:24,014 I'm sorry. 1558 01:31:25,201 --> 01:31:26,726 What do you want to know? 1559 01:31:26,726 --> 01:31:28,064 Nothing, Daddy. 1560 01:31:34,975 --> 01:31:36,741 What's the matter with everybody? 1561 01:31:36,741 --> 01:31:38,368 Janie, go on. I told you to practice. 1562 01:31:38,368 --> 01:31:41,503 - Now, go on, play. - Oh, Daddy ... 1563 01:31:46,252 --> 01:31:47,817 George, why must you torture the children? 1564 01:31:47,817 --> 01:31:49,104 Why don't you ... 1565 01:31:50,477 --> 01:31:51,643 Mary ... 1566 01:32:05,881 --> 01:32:07,630 Bedford two-four-seven, please. 1567 01:32:07,630 --> 01:32:09,790 - Is Daddy in trouble? - Yes, Pete. 1568 01:32:09,790 --> 01:32:13,027 - Shall I pray for him? - Yes, Janie, pray very hard. 1569 01:32:13,027 --> 01:32:16,026 - Me, too? - You, too, Tommy. 1570 01:32:16,026 --> 01:32:18,604 Hello, Uncle Billy? 1571 01:32:18,604 --> 01:32:21,112 I'm in trouble, Mr. Potter. 1572 01:32:21,112 --> 01:32:23,388 I need help. 1573 01:32:23,388 --> 01:32:26,258 Through some sort of an accident my company's short in their accounts. 1574 01:32:26,258 --> 01:32:28,278 The bank examiner's got there today. 1575 01:32:28,278 --> 01:32:30,486 I've got to raise eight thousand dollars immediately. 1576 01:32:30,486 --> 01:32:33,084 Oh, so that's what the reporters wanted to talk to you about? 1577 01:32:33,084 --> 01:32:34,437 - The reporters? - Yes, 1578 01:32:34,437 --> 01:32:38,161 they called me up from your Building and Loan. 1579 01:32:38,161 --> 01:32:41,776 Oh, there's a man over there from the D.A.'s office, too. 1580 01:32:41,776 --> 01:32:42,977 He's looking for you. 1581 01:32:42,977 --> 01:32:44,947 Please help me, Mr. Potter. 1582 01:32:44,947 --> 01:32:46,641 Help me, won't you, please? 1583 01:32:46,641 --> 01:32:48,542 Can't you see what it means to my family? 1584 01:32:48,542 --> 01:32:51,479 I'll pay any sort of a bonus on the loan, any interest ... 1585 01:32:51,479 --> 01:32:53,219 if you still want the Building and Loan. I'm ... 1586 01:32:53,219 --> 01:32:56,866 George, could it possibly be there's a slight discrepancy in the books? 1587 01:32:56,866 --> 01:32:58,253 No, sir. There's nothing wrong with the books. 1588 01:32:58,253 --> 01:32:59,777 I've just misplaced eight thousand dollars. 1589 01:32:59,777 --> 01:33:01,490 I can't find it anywhere. 1590 01:33:01,490 --> 01:33:04,720 You misplaced eight thousand dollars? 1591 01:33:04,720 --> 01:33:05,826 Yes, sir. 1592 01:33:08,649 --> 01:33:10,393 Have you notified the police? 1593 01:33:10,393 --> 01:33:12,205 No, sir. I — I didn't want the publicity. 1594 01:33:12,205 --> 01:33:14,031 Harry's homecoming tomorrow ... 1595 01:33:14,031 --> 01:33:16,408 They're gonna believe that one. 1596 01:33:16,408 --> 01:33:18,785 What've you been doing, George? 1597 01:33:18,785 --> 01:33:20,482 Playing the market with the company's money? 1598 01:33:20,482 --> 01:33:21,716 No, sir, no, sir. I haven't. 1599 01:33:21,716 --> 01:33:23,738 What is it, a woman then? 1600 01:33:23,738 --> 01:33:27,836 You know, it's all over town that you've been giving money to Violet Bick. 1601 01:33:27,836 --> 01:33:30,177 - What! - Not that it makes any difference to me, 1602 01:33:30,177 --> 01:33:31,437 but why did you come to me? 1603 01:33:31,437 --> 01:33:34,205 Why don't you go to Sam Wainwright and ask him for the money? 1604 01:33:34,205 --> 01:33:35,785 I can't get ahold of him. He's in Europe. 1605 01:33:35,785 --> 01:33:37,395 Well, what about all your other friends? 1606 01:33:37,395 --> 01:33:39,194 They don't have that kind of money, Mr. Potter. 1607 01:33:39,194 --> 01:33:41,647 You know that. You're the only one in town that can help me. 1608 01:33:41,647 --> 01:33:43,526 I see. 1609 01:33:43,526 --> 01:33:47,114 I've suddenly become quite important. 1610 01:33:47,114 --> 01:33:50,023 Wha-What kind of security would I have, George? 1611 01:33:50,023 --> 01:33:53,315 - Have you got any stocks? - No, sir. 1612 01:33:53,315 --> 01:33:56,184 Bonds? Real estate? Collateral of any kind? 1613 01:33:56,706 --> 01:34:01,007 I have some life insurance, a fifteen thousand dollar policy. 1614 01:34:01,007 --> 01:34:03,282 Yes ... how much is your equity in it? 1615 01:34:03,282 --> 01:34:07,090 - Five hundred dollars. - Five hundred dollars! 1616 01:34:07,090 --> 01:34:11,370 And you ask me to lend you eight thousand. 1617 01:34:11,370 --> 01:34:12,518 Look at you. 1618 01:34:12,518 --> 01:34:14,745 You used to be so cocky! 1619 01:34:14,745 --> 01:34:18,346 You were going to go out and conquer the world. 1620 01:34:18,346 --> 01:34:23,895 You once called me a warped, frustrated old man. 1621 01:34:23,895 --> 01:34:27,805 What are you but a warped frustrated young man? 1622 01:34:27,805 --> 01:34:33,214 A miserable little clerk crawling in here on your hands and knees and begging for help. 1623 01:34:33,214 --> 01:34:35,313 No securities, no stocks, no bonds, 1624 01:34:35,313 --> 01:34:42,014 nothing but a miserable little five hundred dollar equity in a life insurance policy. 1625 01:34:42,014 --> 01:34:44,902 You're worth more dead than alive. 1626 01:34:44,902 --> 01:34:48,081 Why don't you go to the riff-raff you love so much ... 1627 01:34:48,081 --> 01:34:51,010 ask them to let you have eight thousand? 1628 01:34:51,010 --> 01:34:52,228 You know why? 1629 01:34:52,228 --> 01:34:54,964 Because they'd run you out of town on a rail. 1630 01:34:54,964 --> 01:34:58,297 But I tell you what I'm going to do for you, George. 1631 01:34:58,297 --> 01:35:01,595 Since the state examiner is still here, 1632 01:35:01,595 --> 01:35:04,194 as a stock holder of the Building and Loan, 1633 01:35:04,194 --> 01:35:07,594 I'm going to swear out a warrant for your arrest. 1634 01:35:07,594 --> 01:35:12,254 Misappropriation of funds, manipulation, malfeasance ... 1635 01:35:13,134 --> 01:35:15,648 All right, George, go ahead, George. 1636 01:35:15,648 --> 01:35:18,776 You can't hide in a little town like this. 1637 01:35:18,776 --> 01:35:21,221 Bill? This is Potter. 1638 01:35:34,038 --> 01:35:36,975 Joe! Merry Christmas! 1639 01:35:36,975 --> 01:35:38,622 - Glad you come. - Thank you. 1640 01:35:38,622 --> 01:35:41,408 - How about some of that good spaghetti? - We got everything. 1641 01:35:53,190 --> 01:35:54,824 God ... 1642 01:35:57,851 --> 01:35:59,101 Oh, God ... 1643 01:36:03,936 --> 01:36:05,835 Dear Father in Heaven, 1644 01:36:09,015 --> 01:36:13,116 I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there, 1645 01:36:13,116 --> 01:36:18,816 and you can hear me, show me the way. 1646 01:36:18,816 --> 01:36:22,961 I'm at the end of my rope. I ... 1647 01:36:22,961 --> 01:36:25,678 Show me the way, God. 1648 01:36:30,164 --> 01:36:31,537 Are you all right, George? 1649 01:36:31,537 --> 01:36:33,412 Want someone to take you home? 1650 01:36:36,227 --> 01:36:38,628 Why you drink so much, my friend? 1651 01:36:38,628 --> 01:36:42,497 Please go home, Mr. Bailey. This is Christmas Eve. 1652 01:36:42,497 --> 01:36:45,725 Bailey? Which Bailey? 1653 01:36:45,725 --> 01:36:47,950 This is Mr. George Bailey. 1654 01:36:52,021 --> 01:36:54,852 And the next time you talk to my wife like that, you'll get worse. 1655 01:36:54,852 --> 01:36:56,355 She cried for an hour. 1656 01:36:56,355 --> 01:36:58,825 It isn't enough she slaves teaching your stupid kids 1657 01:36:58,825 --> 01:37:00,771 how to read and write, and you have to bawl her out, eh. 1658 01:37:00,771 --> 01:37:02,011 You get out of here, Mr. Welch! 1659 01:37:02,011 --> 01:37:03,530 Now wait. I want to pay for my drink. 1660 01:37:03,530 --> 01:37:05,482 Never mind the money. You get out of here quick. 1661 01:37:05,482 --> 01:37:08,600 - All right. - You hit my best friend. Get out! 1662 01:37:13,874 --> 01:37:15,633 You all right, George? 1663 01:37:15,633 --> 01:37:16,802 Who was that? 1664 01:37:16,802 --> 01:37:19,003 He gone. No worry. 1665 01:37:19,003 --> 01:37:21,630 His name is Welch. He no come in to my place no more. 1666 01:37:21,630 --> 01:37:24,926 Oh, Welch. That's what I get for praying. 1667 01:37:24,926 --> 01:37:26,958 The last time he come in here. You hear that, Nick? 1668 01:37:26,958 --> 01:37:28,166 Yes, you bet. 1669 01:37:28,166 --> 01:37:31,838 Where's my insurance policy? Oh, here. 1670 01:37:31,838 --> 01:37:33,693 - Oh, no, please, no go out this way, Mr. Bailey. - I'm all right. 1671 01:37:33,693 --> 01:37:35,835 No, no, you no feel so good. Sit down and rest. 1672 01:37:35,835 --> 01:37:38,767 - I'm all right. - Please no go away. Please! 1673 01:37:57,344 --> 01:37:58,650 What do you think you're doing? 1674 01:38:01,745 --> 01:38:03,203 Now look what you did. 1675 01:38:03,203 --> 01:38:05,518 My great-grandfather planted this tree. 1676 01:38:06,447 --> 01:38:08,518 Hey, you! Hey, you! 1677 01:38:09,193 --> 01:38:10,984 Come back here, you drunken fool! 1678 01:38:10,984 --> 01:38:12,815 Get this car out of here! 1679 01:38:20,912 --> 01:38:23,121 Hey, what's the matter with you? Look where you're going! 1680 01:39:11,343 --> 01:39:12,801 Help! 1681 01:39:14,056 --> 01:39:18,624 Help! Help! Help! 1682 01:39:20,357 --> 01:39:22,949 Help! Help! 1683 01:39:24,678 --> 01:39:26,930 Help! 1684 01:39:29,189 --> 01:39:33,559 Help! Help! Help! Help! 1685 01:39:35,733 --> 01:39:37,097 Help! 1686 01:39:38,215 --> 01:39:42,330 Help! Help! Help! 1687 01:39:58,683 --> 01:40:00,975 I didn't have time to get some stylish underwear. 1688 01:40:00,975 --> 01:40:03,435 My wife gave me this on my last birthday. 1689 01:40:04,483 --> 01:40:06,325 I passed away in it. 1690 01:40:09,794 --> 01:40:12,503 Oh, Tom Sawyer's drying out, too. 1691 01:40:15,905 --> 01:40:18,700 You should read the new book Mark Twain's writing now. 1692 01:40:19,930 --> 01:40:21,895 How did you happen to fall in? 1693 01:40:21,895 --> 01:40:25,431 I didn't fall in. I jumped in to save George. 1694 01:40:25,431 --> 01:40:28,520 You what? To ... to save me? 1695 01:40:28,520 --> 01:40:31,707 Well, I did, didn't I? You didn't go through with it, did you? 1696 01:40:31,707 --> 01:40:33,924 - Go through with what? - Suicide. 1697 01:40:33,924 --> 01:40:37,109 Well, it's against the law to commit suicide around here. 1698 01:40:37,109 --> 01:40:39,979 Yeah, it's against the law where I come from, too. 1699 01:40:39,979 --> 01:40:42,767 - Where do you come from? - Heaven. 1700 01:40:47,532 --> 01:40:50,558 I had to act quickly. That's why I jumped in. 1701 01:40:50,558 --> 01:40:53,075 I knew if I were drowning you'd try to save me. 1702 01:40:53,075 --> 01:40:56,227 And you see, you did, and that's how I saved you. 1703 01:40:56,227 --> 01:40:58,399 Very funny. 1704 01:40:58,399 --> 01:41:00,469 Your lip's bleeding, George. 1705 01:41:00,469 --> 01:41:04,758 Yeah, I got a bust in the jaw in answer to a prayer a little bit ago. 1706 01:41:04,758 --> 01:41:08,636 Oh, no, no, no, George, I'm the answer to your prayer. 1707 01:41:08,636 --> 01:41:10,670 That's why I was sent down here. 1708 01:41:11,532 --> 01:41:13,012 How do you know my name? 1709 01:41:13,012 --> 01:41:16,599 Oh, I know all about you. I've watched you grow up from a little boy. 1710 01:41:16,599 --> 01:41:19,472 - What are you, a mind reader or something? - Oh, no. 1711 01:41:19,472 --> 01:41:24,076 - Well, who are you then? - Clarence Odbody, A-S-2. 1712 01:41:24,076 --> 01:41:28,786 Odbody ... A-S-2. Wh-Wh-What's that A-S-2? 1713 01:41:28,786 --> 01:41:30,328 Angel Second Class. 1714 01:41:40,984 --> 01:41:42,681 Cheerio, my good man. 1715 01:41:46,868 --> 01:41:48,341 Oh, brother ... 1716 01:41:53,082 --> 01:41:55,267 I wonder what Martini put in those drinks? 1717 01:41:57,800 --> 01:42:00,179 Hey, what's ... with you ... 1718 01:42:00,179 --> 01:42:02,625 wh-wh-what-did you say just a minute ago? 1719 01:42:02,625 --> 01:42:04,304 Why'd you want to save me? 1720 01:42:04,304 --> 01:42:08,438 That's what I was sent down for. I'm your guardian angel. 1721 01:42:08,438 --> 01:42:10,577 I wouldn't be a bit surprised. 1722 01:42:10,577 --> 01:42:13,690 Ridiculous of you to think of killing yourself for money. 1723 01:42:13,690 --> 01:42:16,439 - Eight thousand dollars. - Yeah, I'll say. Just things like that. 1724 01:42:16,439 --> 01:42:18,153 Now how do you know that? 1725 01:42:18,153 --> 01:42:19,983 I told you. I'm your guardian angel. 1726 01:42:19,983 --> 01:42:21,814 I know everything about you. 1727 01:42:23,153 --> 01:42:26,382 Well, you look about like the kind of an angel I'd get. 1728 01:42:26,382 --> 01:42:28,231 Sort of a fallen angel, aren't you? 1729 01:42:28,231 --> 01:42:29,399 What happened to your wings? 1730 01:42:29,399 --> 01:42:33,045 I haven't won my wings yet. That's why I'm an angel second class. 1731 01:42:37,813 --> 01:42:41,245 I don't know whether I like it very much being seen around with an angel without any wings. 1732 01:42:41,245 --> 01:42:45,027 Oh, I — I've got to earn them and you'll help me, won't you? 1733 01:42:45,027 --> 01:42:49,855 - Sure, sure. How? - By letting me help you. 1734 01:42:51,534 --> 01:42:52,605 Only one way you can help me. 1735 01:42:52,605 --> 01:42:54,659 Y-You don't happen to have eight thousand bucks on you? 1736 01:42:54,659 --> 01:42:57,267 Oh, no, no. We don't use money in heaven. 1737 01:42:57,267 --> 01:43:00,550 Oh, that's right, I keep forgetting. 1738 01:43:00,550 --> 01:43:02,485 Comes in pretty handy down here, bub. 1739 01:43:02,485 --> 01:43:05,256 Oh, tut, tut, tut. 1740 01:43:05,256 --> 01:43:07,855 I found it out a little late. 1741 01:43:07,855 --> 01:43:09,979 I'm worth more dead than alive. 1742 01:43:09,979 --> 01:43:14,215 Now look, you mustn't talk like that. I won't get my wings with that attitude. 1743 01:43:14,215 --> 01:43:16,745 You just don't know all that you've done. 1744 01:43:16,745 --> 01:43:17,948 If it hadn't been for you ... 1745 01:43:17,948 --> 01:43:20,847 Yeah, if it hadn't been for me, everybody'd be a lot better off. 1746 01:43:20,847 --> 01:43:22,915 My wife, and my kids, and my friends. 1747 01:43:22,915 --> 01:43:26,228 And my ... Look, little fellow, why, you go off and haunt somebody else, will you? 1748 01:43:26,228 --> 01:43:29,014 No, no, you don't understand. I've got my job. 1749 01:43:29,014 --> 01:43:30,828 Aw, shut up, will you? 1750 01:43:35,015 --> 01:43:38,092 Hmmm, this isn't gonna be so easy. 1751 01:43:42,467 --> 01:43:47,364 Yeah! So you still think killing yourself would make everyone feel happier, eh? 1752 01:43:48,807 --> 01:43:51,233 Oh, I don't know. I guess you're right. 1753 01:43:52,930 --> 01:43:55,956 I suppose it would have been better if I'd never been born at all. 1754 01:43:55,956 --> 01:43:59,399 - What'd you say? - I said I wish I'd never been born. 1755 01:43:59,399 --> 01:44:02,308 Oh, you mustn't say things like that. 1756 01:44:02,308 --> 01:44:03,629 You ... 1757 01:44:03,629 --> 01:44:05,802 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 1758 01:44:05,802 --> 01:44:07,964 That's an idea. 1759 01:44:07,964 --> 01:44:12,714 What do you think? Yeah, that'll do it. 1760 01:44:12,714 --> 01:44:13,834 All right. 1761 01:44:16,829 --> 01:44:18,593 You've got your wish. 1762 01:44:18,593 --> 01:44:20,314 You've never been born. 1763 01:44:25,412 --> 01:44:27,786 You don't have to make all that fuss about it. 1764 01:44:29,568 --> 01:44:30,986 What did you say? 1765 01:44:30,986 --> 01:44:33,552 You've never been born. You don't exist. 1766 01:44:33,552 --> 01:44:34,857 You haven't a care in the world. 1767 01:44:34,857 --> 01:44:38,378 No worries, no obligations, no eight thousand dollars to get, 1768 01:44:38,378 --> 01:44:40,211 no Potter looking for you with the sheriff. 1769 01:44:40,211 --> 01:44:43,057 - Say something else in that ear. - Sure. You can hear out of it. 1770 01:44:43,800 --> 01:44:46,129 Well, that's the doggonedest thing. 1771 01:44:46,129 --> 01:44:48,600 I haven't heard anything out of that ear since I was a kid. 1772 01:44:48,600 --> 01:44:50,857 Must have been that jump in that cold water. 1773 01:44:50,857 --> 01:44:53,095 Your lip's stopped bleeding, too, George. 1774 01:44:58,432 --> 01:44:59,957 What do you know about that? 1775 01:45:01,110 --> 01:45:02,174 What's happened? 1776 01:45:03,462 --> 01:45:05,853 It's stopped snowing out, hasn't it? 1777 01:45:05,853 --> 01:45:08,468 Well, I, uh ... What's happened here? 1778 01:45:08,468 --> 01:45:10,266 What I need is a couple of good stiff drinks. 1779 01:45:10,266 --> 01:45:12,320 How about you, angel, you want a drink? 1780 01:45:14,358 --> 01:45:16,394 Come on, soon as these clothes of ours are dry ... 1781 01:45:16,394 --> 01:45:18,628 Those are dry. 1782 01:45:18,628 --> 01:45:20,257 What do you know about that? 1783 01:45:20,257 --> 01:45:21,563 Stove's hotter than I thought. 1784 01:45:21,563 --> 01:45:24,981 Now, come on, get your clothes on, and we'll stroll up to my car and get ... 1785 01:45:24,981 --> 01:45:28,090 Oh, I'm sorry. I'll stroll, you fly. 1786 01:45:28,090 --> 01:45:29,870 I can't fly. I haven't got my wings. 1787 01:45:29,870 --> 01:45:31,702 You haven't got your wings. Yeah, that's right. 1788 01:45:38,309 --> 01:45:39,581 What's the matter? 1789 01:45:39,581 --> 01:45:42,452 Well, this is where I left my car and it isn't here. 1790 01:45:42,452 --> 01:45:43,706 You have no car. 1791 01:45:43,706 --> 01:45:47,481 Well, I had a car and it was right here. I guess somebody moved it. 1792 01:45:47,481 --> 01:45:50,193 - Good evening. - Oh, say ... Hey ... 1793 01:45:50,193 --> 01:45:51,883 wh-where's my car. 1794 01:45:51,883 --> 01:45:53,859 - I beg your pardon? - My car, my car. 1795 01:45:53,859 --> 01:45:56,340 I'm the fellow that owns the car that ran into your tree. 1796 01:45:56,340 --> 01:45:58,385 What tree? What do you mean, what tree? 1797 01:45:58,385 --> 01:46:00,643 This tree. Here. I ran into it. 1798 01:46:00,643 --> 01:46:04,484 Cut a big gash in the side of it there. 1799 01:46:08,178 --> 01:46:10,539 You must mean two other trees. 1800 01:46:10,539 --> 01:46:11,776 You had me worried. 1801 01:46:11,776 --> 01:46:14,018 One of the oldest trees in Pottersville. 1802 01:46:14,018 --> 01:46:16,891 Pottersville. Why, you mean Bedford Falls. 1803 01:46:16,891 --> 01:46:18,759 I mean Pottersville. 1804 01:46:18,759 --> 01:46:20,711 Don't you think I know where I live? 1805 01:46:20,711 --> 01:46:22,003 What's the matter with you? 1806 01:46:28,641 --> 01:46:31,955 Oh, I don't know. Either I'm off my nut, or he is. 1807 01:46:31,955 --> 01:46:33,163 or you are. 1808 01:46:33,939 --> 01:46:35,402 It isn't me! 1809 01:46:35,402 --> 01:46:39,019 Well, maybe I left the car up at Martini's. Well, come on, Gabriel. 1810 01:46:39,019 --> 01:46:41,256 - Clarence! - Clarence! Clarence! 1811 01:46:47,320 --> 01:46:48,356 That's all right. Go on in. 1812 01:46:48,356 --> 01:46:51,486 Martini is a friend of mine. 1813 01:46:51,486 --> 01:46:53,420 There's a place to sit down, sit down. 1814 01:47:00,472 --> 01:47:03,101 Oh, hello, Nick. Hey, where's Martini? 1815 01:47:03,101 --> 01:47:04,993 - You want a Martini? - No, no, Martini. 1816 01:47:04,993 --> 01:47:07,329 - Your boss. Where is he? - Look, I'm the boss. 1817 01:47:07,329 --> 01:47:08,633 You want a drink or don't you? 1818 01:47:08,633 --> 01:47:10,996 Okay, all right. Double bourbon, will you? Quick, huh. 1819 01:47:10,996 --> 01:47:12,182 Okay. 1820 01:47:15,398 --> 01:47:16,975 What's yours? 1821 01:47:16,975 --> 01:47:18,569 I was just thinking. 1822 01:47:18,569 --> 01:47:22,278 Uh ... It's been so long since I ... 1823 01:47:22,278 --> 01:47:25,815 Look, Mister, I'm standing here waiting for you to make up your mind. 1824 01:47:25,815 --> 01:47:27,461 That's a good man. 1825 01:47:27,461 --> 01:47:34,171 I was just thinking, uh, of a flaming rum punch. 1826 01:47:34,171 --> 01:47:36,665 No, it's not cold enough for that. Not nearly cold enough. 1827 01:47:36,665 --> 01:47:37,932 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 1828 01:47:37,932 --> 01:47:39,851 I got it. 1829 01:47:39,851 --> 01:47:43,471 Mulled wine, heavy on the cinnamon and light on the cloves. 1830 01:47:43,471 --> 01:47:45,423 Off with you, me lad, and be lively! 1831 01:47:45,423 --> 01:47:50,392 Hey, look, Mister, we serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast. 1832 01:47:50,392 --> 01:47:55,221 And we don't need any characters around to give the joint atmosphere. Is that clear? 1833 01:47:55,221 --> 01:47:57,906 Or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer? 1834 01:47:57,906 --> 01:47:59,050 What's he talking about? 1835 01:47:59,050 --> 01:48:04,546 Nick, Nick, just give him the same as mine. He's okay. 1836 01:48:04,546 --> 01:48:05,744 Okay. 1837 01:48:07,152 --> 01:48:08,596 What's the matter with him? 1838 01:48:08,596 --> 01:48:10,750 I never saw Nick act like that before. 1839 01:48:10,750 --> 01:48:14,169 You'll see a lot of strange things from now on. 1840 01:48:14,169 --> 01:48:15,612 Oh, yeah. 1841 01:48:16,918 --> 01:48:22,349 Hey, li-li-little fellow, you worry me. 1842 01:48:22,349 --> 01:48:25,845 - You know, y-y-you got someplace to sleep? - No. 1843 01:48:25,845 --> 01:48:27,491 You don't, huh? 1844 01:48:27,491 --> 01:48:31,079 - Well, y-y-you got any money? - No. 1845 01:48:31,079 --> 01:48:32,666 No wonder you jumped in the river. 1846 01:48:32,666 --> 01:48:36,269 I jumped in the river to save you so I could get my wings. 1847 01:48:36,269 --> 01:48:38,311 - Oh, that's right. - Oh-oh. 1848 01:48:40,316 --> 01:48:42,408 - Somebody's just made it. - Made what? 1849 01:48:42,408 --> 01:48:46,917 Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings. 1850 01:48:52,247 --> 01:48:59,584 Look, I think maybe you better not mention getting your wings around here. 1851 01:48:59,584 --> 01:49:02,150 Why? Don't they believe in angels? 1852 01:49:02,150 --> 01:49:05,744 A ... Yeah, they believe in angels. 1853 01:49:05,744 --> 01:49:08,615 Oh, oh! Why should they be surprised when they see one? 1854 01:49:11,372 --> 01:49:15,098 Aw, he never grew up. He's ... 1855 01:49:15,098 --> 01:49:17,051 How old are you, anyway, Clarence? 1856 01:49:17,051 --> 01:49:22,311 Two hundred and ninety-three, uh, next May. 1857 01:49:22,970 --> 01:49:24,426 That does it! 1858 01:49:24,426 --> 01:49:27,860 Out you two pixies go, through the door or out the window. 1859 01:49:27,860 --> 01:49:29,080 Look, Nick, what's wrong? 1860 01:49:29,080 --> 01:49:32,055 And that's another thing. Where do you come off calling me Nick? 1861 01:49:32,055 --> 01:49:33,599 Well, Nick, that's your name. 1862 01:49:33,599 --> 01:49:37,888 What's that got to do with it? I don't know you from Adam's off ox. 1863 01:49:37,888 --> 01:49:40,488 Hey! Hey, you, rummy there! Come here! Come here! 1864 01:49:44,286 --> 01:49:47,403 Didn't I tell you never to come panhandling around here, huh? 1865 01:49:54,956 --> 01:49:56,352 Mr. Gower! 1866 01:49:57,539 --> 01:49:58,773 Mr. Gower! 1867 01:50:00,506 --> 01:50:02,612 What ... what is he ... 1868 01:50:02,612 --> 01:50:05,042 Mr. Gower! This is George Bailey! 1869 01:50:06,365 --> 01:50:11,407 - Don't you know me? - No. No. 1870 01:50:11,407 --> 01:50:12,898 Throw 'em out. Throw 'em out! 1871 01:50:12,898 --> 01:50:16,097 Mr. Gower ... Hey, what is ... 1872 01:50:16,097 --> 01:50:18,475 Hey, Nick, Nick ... Isn't that Mr. Gower, the druggist? 1873 01:50:18,475 --> 01:50:20,614 You know, that's another reason for me not to like you. 1874 01:50:20,614 --> 01:50:24,152 That rum head spent twenty years in jail for poisoning a kid. 1875 01:50:24,152 --> 01:50:26,598 If you know him, you must be a jailbird yourself. 1876 01:50:26,598 --> 01:50:29,299 Uh, would you show these gentlemen to the door? 1877 01:50:29,299 --> 01:50:31,253 Sure. This way, gentlemen. 1878 01:50:37,010 --> 01:50:38,906 Stay out! Stay out! 1879 01:50:38,906 --> 01:50:40,141 Hey! Get me! 1880 01:50:40,611 --> 01:50:42,103 I'm giving out wings! 1881 01:50:44,602 --> 01:50:46,228 You see, George, you were not there 1882 01:50:46,228 --> 01:50:48,761 to stop Gower from putting that poison into the capsule ... 1883 01:50:48,761 --> 01:50:50,016 What do you mean I wasn't there? 1884 01:50:50,016 --> 01:50:54,730 I remember distinctly. What the ... 1885 01:50:54,730 --> 01:50:57,552 hey, what's going on around here? 1886 01:50:57,552 --> 01:51:02,252 Why, this ought to be Martini's place. 1887 01:51:08,636 --> 01:51:10,428 Look, who are you? 1888 01:51:10,428 --> 01:51:13,067 I told you, George. I'm your guardian angel. 1889 01:51:13,067 --> 01:51:14,755 Yeah, yeah, I know. You told me that. 1890 01:51:20,938 --> 01:51:23,155 What else are you? What are you? 1891 01:51:23,155 --> 01:51:25,261 - You are hypnotist? - No, of course not. 1892 01:51:25,261 --> 01:51:28,131 Well, then why am I seeing all these strange things? 1893 01:51:28,131 --> 01:51:30,322 Don't you understand, George? 1894 01:51:30,322 --> 01:51:32,598 It's because you were not born. 1895 01:51:32,598 --> 01:51:34,330 Then if I wasn't born, who am I? 1896 01:51:34,330 --> 01:51:37,158 You're nobody. You have no identity. 1897 01:51:37,158 --> 01:51:39,585 Oh, what do you mean, no identity? My name's George Bailey. 1898 01:51:39,585 --> 01:51:41,641 There is no George Bailey. 1899 01:51:42,946 --> 01:51:51,457 You have no papers, no cards, no driver's license, no 4-F card, no insurance policy. 1900 01:51:51,457 --> 01:51:53,259 They're not there, either. 1901 01:51:54,669 --> 01:51:57,545 - What? - Zuzu's petals. 1902 01:52:02,550 --> 01:52:05,388 You've been given a great gift, George ... 1903 01:52:05,388 --> 01:52:08,790 a chance to see what the world would be like without you. 1904 01:52:11,303 --> 01:52:14,207 Now wait a minute here. Wait a minute here. 1905 01:52:15,888 --> 01:52:19,289 Aw, this is some sort of a funny dream I'm having here. 1906 01:52:19,289 --> 01:52:21,206 So long, Mister, I — I'm going home. 1907 01:52:21,206 --> 01:52:23,760 - Home? What home? - Now shut up! Cut it out! 1908 01:52:24,606 --> 01:52:27,318 You're — You're — You're crazy. That's what I think. 1909 01:52:27,318 --> 01:52:30,422 You're — You're screwy and you're driving me crazy, too! 1910 01:52:30,422 --> 01:52:31,830 I'm seeing things here. 1911 01:52:31,830 --> 01:52:33,869 I'm going home and see my wife and family. 1912 01:52:33,869 --> 01:52:36,242 You understand that? And I'm going home alone! 1913 01:52:39,494 --> 01:52:42,978 How am I doing, Joseph? Thanks. 1914 01:52:43,613 --> 01:52:45,327 No, I didn't have a drink! 1915 01:53:36,109 --> 01:53:37,940 Hey, hey. 1916 01:53:37,940 --> 01:53:40,482 - Where did the Building and Loan move to? - The building and what? 1917 01:53:40,482 --> 01:53:42,178 The Bailey Building and Loan. It was up there. 1918 01:53:42,178 --> 01:53:44,379 They went out of business years ago. 1919 01:53:44,379 --> 01:53:46,159 That guy is a liar! 1920 01:53:46,159 --> 01:53:48,165 I know everything's shot in this town. 1921 01:53:48,165 --> 01:53:52,285 - I know ... - Hey, Violet. 1922 01:53:53,523 --> 01:53:56,327 Hey, listen, that's Violet Bick! 1923 01:53:56,327 --> 01:53:58,441 - I know. I know. - I know that girl. 1924 01:53:58,441 --> 01:54:00,016 Take a walk. Beat it. 1925 01:54:02,346 --> 01:54:04,195 Hey, Ernie, Ernie ... 1926 01:54:06,184 --> 01:54:08,332 Ernie, take me home. I've gone off my nut! 1927 01:54:08,332 --> 01:54:09,885 - Where do you live? - Aw, now, doggone it, 1928 01:54:09,885 --> 01:54:11,325 Ernie, don't you start pulling that stuff. 1929 01:54:11,325 --> 01:54:13,250 You know where I live. Three-twenty Sycamore. 1930 01:54:13,250 --> 01:54:15,798 - Now hurry up. - Okay. Three-twenty Sycamore? 1931 01:54:15,798 --> 01:54:18,945 - Yeah, yeah, hurry up. Zuzu's sick. - All right. All right. 1932 01:54:20,009 --> 01:54:22,081 Look here, Ernie, straighten me out here. 1933 01:54:22,081 --> 01:54:23,815 Look, I — I've got some bad liquor or something. 1934 01:54:23,815 --> 01:54:26,274 I want you to listen to me. Now, you are Ernie Bishop, 1935 01:54:26,274 --> 01:54:29,213 and you live in Bailey Park with your wife and kid? That's right, isn't it? 1936 01:54:29,213 --> 01:54:30,296 You seen my wife? 1937 01:54:30,296 --> 01:54:33,787 Seen your wife! I've been to your house a hundred times. 1938 01:54:33,787 --> 01:54:35,075 Look, bud, what's the idea? 1939 01:54:35,075 --> 01:54:38,743 I live in a shack in Potter's Field and my wife ran away three years ago and took the kid ... 1940 01:54:38,743 --> 01:54:41,360 And I ain't never seen you before in my life, see? 1941 01:54:41,360 --> 01:54:43,812 Okay. Just step on it. Just get me home. 1942 01:55:01,929 --> 01:55:03,963 - Is this the place? - Of course, it's the place. 1943 01:55:03,963 --> 01:55:06,729 Well, this house ain't been lived in for twenty years. 1944 01:55:13,337 --> 01:55:14,440 What's up, Ernie? 1945 01:55:14,440 --> 01:55:16,833 I don't know, but we'd better keep our eye on this guy. 1946 01:55:16,833 --> 01:55:17,843 He's bats. 1947 01:55:36,004 --> 01:55:38,404 Mary! Mary! 1948 01:55:41,226 --> 01:55:44,517 Tommy! Pete! Janie! Zuzu! Where are you? 1949 01:55:44,517 --> 01:55:47,286 They're not here, George. You have no children. 1950 01:55:47,286 --> 01:55:48,693 Where are they? What have you done with them? 1951 01:55:48,693 --> 01:55:50,995 All right, put up your hands. No fast moves. 1952 01:55:50,995 --> 01:55:52,580 Come on out here, both of you. 1953 01:55:52,580 --> 01:55:54,224 Bert! Thank heaven, you're here. 1954 01:55:54,224 --> 01:55:56,918 - Stand back! - Bert, what's happened to this house? 1955 01:55:56,918 --> 01:55:58,445 Wh-Where's Mary? Where's my kids? 1956 01:55:58,445 --> 01:55:59,540 Watch him, Bert. 1957 01:55:59,540 --> 01:56:00,860 - Come on, come on. - Bert, Ernie! 1958 01:56:00,860 --> 01:56:02,316 What's the matter with you two guys? 1959 01:56:02,316 --> 01:56:04,064 You — You — You were here on my wedding night. 1960 01:56:04,064 --> 01:56:07,021 You, both of you, stood out there on the porch and sung to us, don't you remember? 1961 01:56:07,021 --> 01:56:08,154 - Think I'd better be going. - Look, 1962 01:56:08,154 --> 01:56:10,448 now why don't you be a good kid and we'll take you into a doctor. 1963 01:56:10,448 --> 01:56:12,251 - Everything's gonna be all right. Now ... - Bert, now listen to me. 1964 01:56:12,251 --> 01:56:14,480 Ernie, will you take me over to my mother's house? 1965 01:56:14,480 --> 01:56:16,073 Bert! Listen! It's that fellow there. 1966 01:56:16,073 --> 01:56:18,276 He says he's an angel. He's tried to hypnotize me. 1967 01:56:18,276 --> 01:56:20,314 I hate to do this, fella, but ... 1968 01:56:21,983 --> 01:56:23,752 Run, George! Run, George! 1969 01:56:23,752 --> 01:56:27,570 Help! Joseph, help! 1970 01:56:27,570 --> 01:56:32,281 - Oh, shut up! - Help, oh, Joseph, Joseph! 1971 01:56:37,933 --> 01:56:40,870 Where'd he go? Where'd he go? I had him right here. 1972 01:56:43,983 --> 01:56:45,081 I need a drink. 1973 01:56:45,996 --> 01:56:48,016 Well, which way'd they go? Help me find 'em. 1974 01:56:58,588 --> 01:56:59,854 Well? 1975 01:57:03,069 --> 01:57:04,134 Mother. 1976 01:57:06,156 --> 01:57:08,187 Mother? What do you want? 1977 01:57:09,324 --> 01:57:14,162 Mother, this is, this is George. I — I thought sure you'd remember me. 1978 01:57:14,162 --> 01:57:15,719 George who? 1979 01:57:15,719 --> 01:57:17,240 If you're looking for a room, there's no vacancy. 1980 01:57:17,240 --> 01:57:19,396 Oh, Mother, listen. Please help me. 1981 01:57:19,396 --> 01:57:20,670 Something terrible's happened to me. 1982 01:57:20,670 --> 01:57:23,460 I — I — I don't know what it is. Something's happened to everybody. 1983 01:57:23,460 --> 01:57:25,092 Please let me come in. 1984 01:57:25,092 --> 01:57:27,552 - Keep me here until I get over it. - Get over what? 1985 01:57:27,552 --> 01:57:30,972 I don't take in strangers unless they're sent here by somebody I know. 1986 01:57:30,972 --> 01:57:34,739 What? Look, I know everybody you know. 1987 01:57:34,739 --> 01:57:36,916 What do you ... Your brother-in-law, Uncle Billy. 1988 01:57:36,916 --> 01:57:38,780 - You know him? - Well, sure I do. 1989 01:57:38,780 --> 01:57:41,073 - When'd you see him last? - Today over at his house. 1990 01:57:41,073 --> 01:57:42,191 That's a lie. 1991 01:57:42,191 --> 01:57:45,199 He's been in the insane asylum ever since he lost his business. 1992 01:57:45,199 --> 01:57:47,069 And if you ask me, that's where you belong. 1993 01:58:00,005 --> 01:58:02,112 Strange, isn't it? 1994 01:58:02,112 --> 01:58:05,582 Each man's life touches so many other lives ... 1995 01:58:05,582 --> 01:58:08,525 and when he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he? 1996 01:58:08,525 --> 01:58:09,709 I've heard of things like this. 1997 01:58:09,709 --> 01:58:11,439 You've got me in some kind of a spell, or something. 1998 01:58:11,439 --> 01:58:13,867 Well, I'm going to get out of it. I'll get out of it. 1999 01:58:13,867 --> 01:58:15,939 I know how, too. I ... 2000 01:58:15,939 --> 01:58:19,505 The last man I talked to before all this stuff started happening to me was Martini. 2001 01:58:19,505 --> 01:58:20,505 You know where he lives? 2002 01:58:20,505 --> 01:58:22,708 Sure I know where he lives. He lives in Bailey Park. 2003 01:58:27,474 --> 01:58:29,909 Are you sure this is Bailey Park? 2004 01:58:29,909 --> 01:58:32,614 Oh, I'm not sure of anything anymore. 2005 01:58:32,614 --> 01:58:35,022 All I know is this should be Bailey Park. 2006 01:58:36,328 --> 01:58:37,974 But where are the houses? 2007 01:58:37,974 --> 01:58:39,664 You weren't here to build them. 2008 01:58:44,601 --> 01:58:46,502 Your brother, Harry Bailey, 2009 01:58:46,502 --> 01:58:49,630 broke through the ice and was drowned at the age of nine. 2010 01:58:49,630 --> 01:58:51,778 That's a lie. Harry Bailey went to war! 2011 01:58:51,778 --> 01:58:53,169 He got the Congressional Medal of Honor! 2012 01:58:53,169 --> 01:58:55,298 He saved the lives of every man on that transport. 2013 01:58:55,298 --> 01:58:57,455 Every man on that transport died. 2014 01:58:57,455 --> 01:59:01,337 Harry wasn't there to save them, because you weren't there to save Harry. 2015 01:59:12,874 --> 01:59:16,907 You see, George, you really had a wonderful life. 2016 01:59:16,907 --> 01:59:21,227 Don't you see what a mistake it would be to throw it away? 2017 01:59:21,635 --> 01:59:24,525 - Clarence ... - Yes, George? 2018 01:59:24,525 --> 01:59:27,841 - Where's Mary? - Oh, well, I — I — I can't do ... 2019 01:59:27,841 --> 01:59:29,201 I don't know how you know these things, 2020 01:59:29,201 --> 01:59:30,405 - but tell me, where is she? - I ... 2021 01:59:30,405 --> 01:59:32,392 If you know where she is, tell me where my wife is. 2022 01:59:32,392 --> 01:59:33,662 I'm not supposed to tell. 2023 01:59:33,662 --> 01:59:35,529 Please, Clarence, tell me where she is. 2024 01:59:35,529 --> 01:59:37,872 - You're not going to like it, George. - Where is she? 2025 01:59:37,872 --> 01:59:40,282 She's an old maid. She never married. 2026 01:59:40,282 --> 01:59:41,868 Where's Mary, where is she? 2027 01:59:41,868 --> 01:59:42,874 - She is ... - Where is she? 2028 01:59:42,874 --> 01:59:45,803 She's just about to close up the library! 2029 01:59:48,863 --> 01:59:53,252 Aw, there must be some easier way for me to get my wings. 2030 02:00:04,567 --> 02:00:05,699 Mary! 2031 02:00:11,253 --> 02:00:12,340 Mary! 2032 02:00:14,971 --> 02:00:19,211 Mary, Mary, Mary ... 2033 02:00:19,211 --> 02:00:20,274 Mary, it's George. 2034 02:00:20,274 --> 02:00:21,764 Don't you know me? What's happened to us? 2035 02:00:21,764 --> 02:00:23,752 - I don't know you, let me go! - Mary, please! 2036 02:00:23,752 --> 02:00:26,352 Oh, don't do this to me. Please, Mary, help me. 2037 02:00:26,352 --> 02:00:28,342 Where's our kids? I need you, Mary! 2038 02:00:29,221 --> 02:00:32,133 Help me, Mary! Mary ... 2039 02:00:32,133 --> 02:00:33,192 Let me go! 2040 02:00:35,256 --> 02:00:38,938 - Mary, don't run away! - That man, stop him! 2041 02:00:38,938 --> 02:00:40,822 Tom! Ed! 2042 02:00:40,822 --> 02:00:43,621 Charlie! That's my wife! 2043 02:00:46,104 --> 02:00:47,720 - Mary! - Oh, no, you don't! 2044 02:00:47,720 --> 02:00:50,199 - Somebody call the police! - Hit him with a bottle! 2045 02:00:50,199 --> 02:00:52,207 He needs a straight jacket. 2046 02:00:52,610 --> 02:00:54,630 Mary! Clarence! 2047 02:00:55,392 --> 02:00:56,937 Get out of here! 2048 02:00:56,937 --> 02:01:01,038 - Clarence! - Where are you? 2049 02:01:01,038 --> 02:01:02,427 Oh, it's you! 2050 02:01:05,744 --> 02:01:06,980 Stand back! 2051 02:01:21,107 --> 02:01:22,326 Clarence! 2052 02:01:27,349 --> 02:01:29,980 Clarence! Clarence! 2053 02:01:31,201 --> 02:01:32,522 Help me, Clarence. 2054 02:01:33,998 --> 02:01:35,133 Get me back. 2055 02:01:36,268 --> 02:01:38,479 Get me back. I don't care what happens to me. 2056 02:01:39,545 --> 02:01:41,531 Get me back to my wife and kids. 2057 02:01:42,069 --> 02:01:43,528 Help me, Clarence, please. 2058 02:01:44,681 --> 02:01:48,060 Please! I want to live again. 2059 02:01:48,060 --> 02:01:49,619 I want to live again. 2060 02:01:51,078 --> 02:01:52,714 I want to live again. 2061 02:01:52,714 --> 02:01:55,328 Please, God, let me live again. 2062 02:02:04,086 --> 02:02:05,151 Hey, George. 2063 02:02:06,952 --> 02:02:08,115 George! 2064 02:02:09,153 --> 02:02:11,240 You all right. Hey, what's the matter? 2065 02:02:11,240 --> 02:02:13,667 Now get out of here, Bert or I'll hit you again! Get out! 2066 02:02:13,667 --> 02:02:15,603 What the Sam Hill you, you yelling for, George! 2067 02:02:15,603 --> 02:02:20,216 You ... George? 2068 02:02:20,216 --> 02:02:21,623 Bert, do you know me? 2069 02:02:21,623 --> 02:02:23,692 Know you? Hum, are you kidding'? 2070 02:02:23,692 --> 02:02:25,905 I've been looking all over town, trying to find you. 2071 02:02:25,905 --> 02:02:28,949 I saw your car piled into that tree down there, and I thought maybe you ... 2072 02:02:28,949 --> 02:02:31,328 Hey, your mouth's bleeding. Are you sure you're all right? 2073 02:02:31,328 --> 02:02:32,494 What did you ... 2074 02:02:36,754 --> 02:02:40,150 My mouth's bleeding, Bert! My mouth's bleed ... 2075 02:02:40,150 --> 02:02:43,305 Zuzu's petals, Zuzu's ... There they are! 2076 02:02:43,305 --> 02:02:46,221 Bert! What do you know about that? 2077 02:02:46,221 --> 02:02:48,693 Merry Christmas! 2078 02:02:48,693 --> 02:02:50,528 Well, Merry Christmas! 2079 02:02:50,528 --> 02:02:51,593 Mary! 2080 02:02:52,540 --> 02:02:53,794 Mary! 2081 02:02:55,100 --> 02:02:57,410 Yaa! 2082 02:03:01,001 --> 02:03:02,392 Yaa! 2083 02:03:02,392 --> 02:03:04,789 Hello, Bedford Falls! 2084 02:03:07,322 --> 02:03:10,553 - Merry Christmas! - Merry Christmas! 2085 02:03:10,553 --> 02:03:12,596 Merry Christmas, George! 2086 02:03:12,596 --> 02:03:15,543 Merry Christmas, movie house! 2087 02:03:15,543 --> 02:03:19,013 Merry Christmas, Emporium! 2088 02:03:19,013 --> 02:03:22,993 Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! 2089 02:03:27,148 --> 02:03:30,600 Hey! Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter! 2090 02:03:30,600 --> 02:03:33,406 Happy New Year to you ... in jail. 2091 02:03:33,406 --> 02:03:35,659 Go on home. They're waiting for you. 2092 02:03:37,195 --> 02:03:38,345 Mary! 2093 02:03:38,884 --> 02:03:40,000 Mary! 2094 02:03:41,767 --> 02:03:43,002 Mary! 2095 02:03:43,830 --> 02:03:46,850 Well, hello, Mr. Bank Examiner. How are you? 2096 02:03:46,850 --> 02:03:49,117 - Mr. Bailey, there's a deficit. - I know. Eight thousand dollars. 2097 02:03:49,117 --> 02:03:50,405 George, I've got a little paper here. 2098 02:03:50,405 --> 02:03:52,555 I'll bet it's a warrant for my arrest. Isn't it wonderful? 2099 02:03:52,555 --> 02:03:53,620 I'm going to jail. 2100 02:03:53,620 --> 02:03:54,809 Merry Christmas! Reporters? 2101 02:03:54,809 --> 02:03:56,132 Wh-Where's Mary? 2102 02:03:56,132 --> 02:03:59,050 Mary! Oh, look at this wonderful old drafty house. 2103 02:03:59,050 --> 02:04:03,879 Mary! Mary! Mary! 2104 02:04:04,448 --> 02:04:06,257 Have you ... Have you seen my wife? 2105 02:04:06,257 --> 02:04:09,129 - Merry Christmas, Daddy! - Merry Christmas, Daddy! 2106 02:04:09,129 --> 02:04:11,799 Kids! Pete! 2107 02:04:11,799 --> 02:04:13,376 Oh! 2108 02:04:15,875 --> 02:04:18,914 Kids! Janie! Janie! Tommy! 2109 02:04:20,967 --> 02:04:22,254 Oh, let me look at you. 2110 02:04:22,254 --> 02:04:23,757 Oh, I could eat you up. 2111 02:04:24,722 --> 02:04:27,443 - Where is your mother? - She went looking for you with Uncle Billy. 2112 02:04:27,443 --> 02:04:29,796 - Daddy! - Zuzu! Zuzu! 2113 02:04:29,796 --> 02:04:31,917 My little gingersnap! How do you feel? 2114 02:04:31,917 --> 02:04:35,990 - Fine! Not a smitch of temperature. - Not a smitch of tempe ... 2115 02:04:35,990 --> 02:04:37,395 Hallelujah! 2116 02:04:38,631 --> 02:04:40,325 - George! George! - Mary! Mary! 2117 02:04:40,325 --> 02:04:41,819 George, darling! Where have you been? 2118 02:04:41,819 --> 02:04:44,214 George, darling! Where have you been? 2119 02:04:44,214 --> 02:04:49,035 - Oh, George, George, George. - Mary! Let me touch you. 2120 02:04:49,035 --> 02:04:51,922 Let me touch you. Oh, you're real! 2121 02:04:51,922 --> 02:04:54,640 Oh, George ... George. 2122 02:04:54,640 --> 02:04:56,523 You have no idea what happened to me. 2123 02:04:56,523 --> 02:04:58,886 You have no idea what happened. 2124 02:04:58,886 --> 02:05:02,306 Well, well, come on, George, come on downstairs, quick. They're on their way. 2125 02:05:02,306 --> 02:05:03,984 - All right. - Come on! 2126 02:05:06,689 --> 02:05:08,538 Come on in here now. 2127 02:05:09,503 --> 02:05:13,573 Now, you stand right over here, by the tree. Right there, and don't move, don't move. 2128 02:05:13,573 --> 02:05:15,696 What's happening? Who's gonna come? 2129 02:05:15,696 --> 02:05:18,690 I hear 'em coming now, George, it's a miracle! 2130 02:05:18,690 --> 02:05:21,912 - It's a miracle! - Who's coming? 2131 02:05:21,912 --> 02:05:22,912 Who's gonna come, Daddy? 2132 02:05:22,912 --> 02:05:24,129 - Who, Daddy? - I don't know. 2133 02:05:24,129 --> 02:05:27,631 Come in, Uncle Billy. Everybody! In here! 2134 02:05:34,066 --> 02:05:36,233 Isn't it wonderful? So many faces! 2135 02:05:36,233 --> 02:05:37,377 Mary did it, George! Mary did it! 2136 02:05:37,377 --> 02:05:39,270 She told some people you were in trouble and then, 2137 02:05:39,270 --> 02:05:41,349 they scattered all over town collecting money. 2138 02:05:41,349 --> 02:05:44,189 They didn't ask any questions — just said: "If George is in trouble, count me in ... 2139 02:05:44,189 --> 02:05:47,689 What is this, George? Another run on the bank? 2140 02:05:48,296 --> 02:05:50,187 Here you are, George, Merry Christmas. 2141 02:05:52,834 --> 02:05:57,264 The line forms on the right. 2142 02:05:57,264 --> 02:05:59,692 Merry Christmas! God bless you. 2143 02:06:02,862 --> 02:06:06,160 - Oh, Mr. Martini! - Merry Christmas! 2144 02:06:06,160 --> 02:06:08,622 Step right up here. 2145 02:06:08,622 --> 02:06:10,945 I busted the jukebox, too! 2146 02:06:14,055 --> 02:06:15,476 Mr. Gower! 2147 02:06:18,062 --> 02:06:20,143 I made the rounds of all my charge accounts. 2148 02:06:27,997 --> 02:06:30,965 - Violet Bick! - I'm not going to go, George. I changed my mind. 2149 02:06:36,950 --> 02:06:40,951 I've been saving this money for a divorce, if ever I get a husband. 2150 02:06:45,897 --> 02:06:49,366 There you are, George. I got the faculty all up out of bed. 2151 02:06:49,366 --> 02:06:51,389 And here's something for you to play with. 2152 02:06:53,156 --> 02:06:56,379 I wouldn't have a roof over my head if it wasn't for you, George. 2153 02:06:56,379 --> 02:06:57,800 Just a minute. Just a minute. 2154 02:06:57,800 --> 02:06:59,977 Quiet, everybody. Quiet, quiet. 2155 02:06:59,977 --> 02:07:03,065 - I just got this. It's from London. - Oh. 2156 02:07:03,065 --> 02:07:05,872 Mr. Gower cabled you need cash. Stop. 2157 02:07:05,872 --> 02:07:10,245 My office instructed to advance you up to twenty-five thousand dollars. Stop. 2158 02:07:10,245 --> 02:07:13,269 Hee-haw and Merry Christmas. Sam Wainwright. 2159 02:07:23,521 --> 02:07:26,193 Mr. Martini. How about some wine? 2160 02:08:05,250 --> 02:08:09,461 Harry Bailey. 2161 02:08:12,405 --> 02:08:14,729 George, old son of a gun. 2162 02:08:14,729 --> 02:08:18,501 - Harry! Harry! - Looks like I got here too late. 2163 02:08:18,501 --> 02:08:21,119 Mary, I got him here from the airport as quickly as I could. 2164 02:08:21,119 --> 02:08:23,070 The fool flew all the way up here in a blizzard. 2165 02:08:23,070 --> 02:08:24,869 Harry, how about your banquet in New York? 2166 02:08:24,869 --> 02:08:27,230 Oh, I left right in the middle of it as soon as I got Mary's telegram. 2167 02:08:27,230 --> 02:08:29,659 Good idea, Ernie, a toast ... 2168 02:08:29,659 --> 02:08:31,271 to my big brother George. 2169 02:08:31,271 --> 02:08:33,053 The richest man in town! 2170 02:08:56,550 --> 02:08:57,566 What's that? 2171 02:08:59,144 --> 02:09:02,442 That's a Christmas present from a very dear friend of mine. 2172 02:09:03,675 --> 02:09:04,702 Look, Daddy. 2173 02:09:04,702 --> 02:09:11,037 Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. 2174 02:09:11,037 --> 02:09:14,055 That's right. That's right. 2175 02:09:16,061 --> 02:09:17,944 Atta boy, Clarence.