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...A-R...

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...A-N-T...

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...I-N-E.

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Quarantine.

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Q-U-A-R...

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...A-N-T...

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...I-N-E.

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Quarantine.

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You know the cholera?

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Yes, Mother.

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You've seen the signs on
the houses where the coloreds live?

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Yes, Mother.

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You know the typhus?

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I do, Mother.

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You know what they
can do to you?

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Yes, Mother.

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You are not safe.

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You may be directing this movie,
but what you're asking, we can't do.

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Don't tell me it can't be done.

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The gyro forces are too much.
You send these planes into barrel rolls...

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...they won't make it.
- It's the climax of the picture. Make it work.

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Decrease the vertical trajectory
if you have to.

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A Le Rhône rotary
won't stall at 60 degrees.

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We're still short two cameras.
We need to cut that sequence down...

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We're not cutting. I'll get those cameras.
Set up for rehearsals.

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I'm Noah Dietrich.
Your office said I'd find you here.

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Dietrich.
You're a man on the come.

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I read your résumé, talked to your references.
Know what I'm looking for?

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You're looking for a second-in-command
at Hughes Tools.

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Someone to oversee
the financial aspects of the business.

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I'm looking for somebody to run it
and do a good job.

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There's only one thing
you've gotta know.

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My folks, they're gone now.
So it's my money.

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What I do with that money may seem crazy
to those sons of bitches in Houston.

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I'm sure it does, but it all makes
good sense to me. You got that?

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- Got it.
- Good.

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Now, you made, what,
$5200 a year at your last job?

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- I'll pay you $10,000.
- I guess I'll be working twice as hard.

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You'll be working four times as hard.
I just got you at half price.

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- Welcome aboard.
- Thank you.

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You're my voice now.
Make them understand that.

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Some of those folks still call me Junior.
You tell them it's "Mr. Hughes" now.

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You bet.
So when do we go to Houston?

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We don't. Cholera epidemic in 1913.
Two thousand dead.

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Whole place is nothing but
pestilential swamp.

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Typhus, malaria, cholera, yellow fever.
You name it, they got it.

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You see that, Mr. Dietrich?

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You are looking at the largest
private air force in the entire world.

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What do you think of that, now?

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It's your money.

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Start them up!

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I saw the rough cut of the new
Tod Browning movie, <i>London After Midnight.</i>

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Lon Chaney is incredible.

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It's his best performance
in a long time.

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It's gonna be a big hit.
The cards are great.

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It's supposed to be...

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Hello, Mr. Mayer.

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I don't know if you remember me.
My name's Howard Hughes.

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I was wondering
if I could have a moment.

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- Oh, Howard Hughes. The airplane picture?
- Exactly.

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- I remember.
<i>- Hell's Angels.</i> You heard of it.

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- Good.
- Yes.

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I was wondering if I could
have a moment of your time.

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I need a few cameras.

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- Yeah?
- Yeah, two, to be exact.

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I bought every camera I could find.
We're shooting our big dogfight sequence.

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I need two more. Desperately.
You think MGM could help me out?

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With what?

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- Cameras.
- Oh, with the actual cam...

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We're not usually in the practice
of helping out competition.

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- No. No.
- So how many cameras do you have now?

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Twenty-four.

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You?
Wait a minute.

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- You have 24 cameras?
- That's right.

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- And you need..? You need two more?
- Yeah.

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- You don't think you got it with 24?
- No. No, sir.

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You know, I think...
I think we've got them all...

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Don't we have them?
They're all used, right?

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- All 26 of them.
- I only need two, sir.

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- Jesus Christ, sonny.
- Howard.

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Howard. Let me give you
a little advice, huh?

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- Take your oil money...
- Drill bits.

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All right, take your drill-bit money
and put it in the bank.

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If you continue making
the movie the way you are...

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...there isn't gonna be a distributor...

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...you won't find anybody
who wants to see the movie...

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...and you're not gonna have
any more oil money.

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So welcome to Hollywood.

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Yeah. Well, I'll be sure
to remember that, Mr. Mayer.

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- Good luck.
- All right.

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He needs 26 to make it work?
He's out of his mind.

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I looked down at my pants.
It was a strange situation.

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Boss.
Scram, love boat, let's go.

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- Another soda. You know what I mean.
- Milk. In the bottle.

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- With the cap still on.
- Okay, what did His Highness say?

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Son of a bitch won't part with
a single goddamn camera.

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Why don't you try and
make do with what you have.

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What I have isn't enough, John,
not for how I see it.

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Look.

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My name depends on this picture.
If it doesn't work, I'm back to Houston...

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...making goddamn drill bits
for the rest of my life.

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Can't you do it
with the cameras you have?

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You ought to hear about
what's going on with DeMille.

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He's shooting his Bible picture.
He's gotta do a crucifixion in Fresno.

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Johnny.

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- A bunch of tractors...
- Johnny.

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- You're a press agent, are you not?
- Yeah.

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You're supposed to know
the ins and outs?

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- Absolutely.
- Do you?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Then you leave the big ideas...

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...to me.
- Oh, yeah. Of course, boss.

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Cigar, cigarettes, Sen-Sen?

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I thought you were
at the Brown Derby...

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...with Trixie. No, Theresa.

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- Margaret.
- Margaret. Exactly.

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What happened to Margaret?
She lost her...

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Thank God that's settled.

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Oh, I'm sorry.
Thelma, this is Howard Hughes.

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Howard and I were discussing how he
wants me to pull a camera out of my ass.

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- Cigarette?
- Oh, no, thanks. I don't smoke.

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Boy, you are just hitting
on all six cylinders, aren't you?

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My God.

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Would you do me
a favor and just?

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Would you just smile
for me one time? Just once?

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Yeah. Yeah. You see,
you got a short upper lip.

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Makes for a much nicer smile.

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See, I wonder what gives
a beautiful woman like you pleasure.

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I mean, say you're just standing
there, right? And I just touch you.

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Just... Just like this.

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With my fingertips.

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Do you..?
Do you like that?

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Do you?

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You see, I wanna learn
what pleases you.

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I wanna learn everything about you.

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Would you let me do that?

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Would you give me that job?

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I'm off in a half an hour.

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- Well, I'm in room...
- 217.

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217.

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See you there.

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Johnny, get on the horn
to Universal and Warners.

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I need two more cameras
by Saturday.

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Rent them if you can.
Steal them if you have to.

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Absotively, boss.

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Absotively.

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<i>Rumors coming from a lonely airstrip</i>
<i>out in Van Nuys.</i>

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<i>Sources whisper that young</i>
<i>Texas industrialist Howard Hughes...</i>

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<i>... won't stop pouring money</i>
<i>into his war epic.</i>

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<i>And do we mean epic!</i>

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<i>One hundred and thirty-seven pilots,</i>
<i>87 airplanes...</i>

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<i>... 35 cameramen, 2000 extras.</i>
<i>How long will it be before this picture...</i>

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<i>... ends up costing as</i>
<i>much as the real war?</i>

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Damn it.
Why the hell do they look so slow?

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This isn't what it was like up there.
They look like goddamn models!

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Son of a bitch.

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Howard?

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Without something standing
still behind the planes...

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...we've got no idea
of how fast we're moving.

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We got no sense of relative motion.

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Call UCLA.
Get me the best meteorologist they got.

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You get him here in an hour, all right?

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Hey. You want the good news
or the bad news?

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- Bad news, always.
- All right.

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We installed the 450 radial.
Struts won't take the vibration.

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Minute we fire her up, the struts
start cracking at the attach points.

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- Well, what's the good news?
- There isn't any.

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Goddamn it, Odie. If the 450's too big,
we figure something else out.

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We've done everything.
We've rebuilt her from top to toe.

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If we drain the fuel tank...

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...she might make 180 miles per hour.
- I want minimum 200, all right?

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I want a date with Theda Bara.
That ain't gonna happen.

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Oh, don't be so sure.

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If the struts won't sustain the engine
we need, we gotta get rid of the struts.

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No, then the top wing falls off.

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Then let it.

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What?

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Who says we need a top wing?

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I mean, who says we need anything?

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- A monoplane.
- A cantilevered monoplane, right?

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They're doing it in France.
To hell with the top wing and struts.

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- A 550 Wasp engine.
- One-hundred-octane fuel.

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- That would give us a horsepower of what?
- Seven hundred.

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We squeeze that to a thousand,
we got the fastest plane ever built.

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You know, I've gotta say...

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...we've already spent over $200,000
rebuilding this plane.

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To hell with it.

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Tear it up, Odie.

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Go on.

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Well...

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The cumulonimbus formations
about which you speak...

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...that look like...

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Giant breasts full of milk.

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I want clouds, damn it.

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Yes, clouds...

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...that look like
giant breasts full of milk...

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...cannot exactly be guaranteed
for any particular occasion.

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So you might have to...

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To wait.

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Then we'll wait.

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Look, whatever they pay
you at UCLA...

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...I'm doubling it, all right?
You work for me now. Find some clouds.

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Find some clouds.

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Find me some clouds!

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Welcome to <i>Hell's Angels.</i>

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Thank you.

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I've been to Chatsworth,
Santa Cruz, Encino, San Diego...

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...Riverside, Van Nuys and Bakersfield.
It has been eight months!

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Where are my goddamn clouds, huh?

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They move, Mr. Hughes!

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Clouds move.

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- That's what they do. They move!
- You see that?

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It is costing me $5271 a day...

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...to keep those planes on the ground.
You find me some goddamn clouds, huh?

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Nice day.

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Yeah, very funny.

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I got a call from Houston.
They're getting nervous.

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Stop showing them the damn bills.

220
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That would be illegal.

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Shit, no.
Maybe it's a little bit naughty.

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Hughes Tool is incorporated in Texas.
They have to see the bills.

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Incorporate a new division out here.
We'll call it Hughes Aircraft.

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- Do we need these rivets on the cowling?
- Yeah, or the reverse thrust would rip it off.

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They're gonna give me drag.
Do something about that.

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- Wind resistance on rivets?
- I want her slippery.

227
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There are tax consequences
to incorporating in California.

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- Just take care of it, would you?
- Mr. Hughes!

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Oakland!

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- We have clouds in Oakland!
- You mean it this time?

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Yes!

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Goddamn it, yes.
I can promise you.

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- Clouds in Oakland.
- All right, don't get all jittery now.

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Oakland!

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Oakland!

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We're going to Oakland!
Oakland.

237
00:16:14.462 --> 00:16:17.090
Down and to the left!

238
00:16:40.088 --> 00:16:42.079
That's perfect!

239
00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:50.363
That's right, Senator George.

240
00:16:50.532 --> 00:16:53.228
<i>Yes, young Howard Hughes</i>
<i>has pulled it off!</i>

241
00:16:53.401 --> 00:16:56.802
<i>After two years,</i> Hell's Angels
<i>has finally finished filming.</i>

242
00:16:56.971 --> 00:17:00.099
<i>There's gonna be one heck</i>
<i>of a wrap party in Hollywood tonight.</i>

243
00:17:00.275 --> 00:17:02.971
<i>The price tag?</i>
<i>A staggering $2 million.</i>

244
00:17:03.144 --> 00:17:05.635
<i>If every human being</i>
<i>in America buys a ticket...</i>

245
00:17:05.814 --> 00:17:07.543
<i>... he might even make a profit.</i>

246
00:17:12.654 --> 00:17:13.985
First, clouds don't come.

247
00:17:14.155 --> 00:17:16.555
Then planes break down.
Then the planes crash.

248
00:17:18.226 --> 00:17:21.286
We've had everything but
a plague of locusts on this thing.

249
00:17:21.463 --> 00:17:22.828
I mean, you have to admit.

250
00:17:22.997 --> 00:17:26.990
Now, honestly, did you ever think
you'd actually finish the damn thing?

251
00:17:29.204 --> 00:17:30.603
Come with me.

252
00:17:32.507 --> 00:17:35.772
<i>Mama, darling,</i>
<i>if I'm a success in this show...</i>

253
00:17:35.944 --> 00:17:38.003
<i>- ... we're gonna move from here.</i>
<i>- Oh, no.</i>

254
00:17:38.179 --> 00:17:40.147
<i>Yes.</i>
<i>We're gonna move up in the Bronx.</i>

255
00:17:40.315 --> 00:17:42.374
<i>Green grass,</i>
<i>a lot of people you know.</i>

256
00:17:42.550 --> 00:17:45.246
<i>The Ginsbergs,</i>
<i>the Guttenbergs and the Goldbergs.</i>

257
00:17:45.420 --> 00:17:48.116
<i>Oh, a whole lot of "bergs."</i>
<i>I don't know them all.</i>

258
00:17:48.723 --> 00:17:52.489
See, this is what the people want.
Silent pictures are yesterday's news.

259
00:17:52.660 --> 00:17:55.652
So I figure we gotta reshoot
<i>Hell's Angels</i> for sound.

260
00:17:58.066 --> 00:17:59.590
How much of it?

261
00:17:59.767 --> 00:18:02.031
All of it.
Before you ask, I'll tell you.

262
00:18:02.203 --> 00:18:05.070
An additional 1.7 million.
We got that much?

263
00:18:06.207 --> 00:18:09.472
- No!
- Well, we'll make it.

264
00:18:09.644 --> 00:18:11.373
Take care of that, would you?

265
00:18:11.546 --> 00:18:12.877
<i>Now, get this.</i>

266
00:18:22.957 --> 00:18:25.118
<i>In the halls of 7000 Romaine...</i>

267
00:18:25.293 --> 00:18:27.727
<i>... it goes on day after day,</i>
<i>month after month.</i>

268
00:18:27.896 --> 00:18:31.593
<i>Howard Hughes is now editing</i>
<i>some 25 miles of film.</i>

269
00:18:33.001 --> 00:18:37.597
<i>Heck, I say release it now and give</i>
<i>the world its first 560-hour movie.</i>

270
00:18:37.772 --> 00:18:42.038
Pat, Mr. Hughes needs this reel
in the projection room right now!

271
00:18:42.911 --> 00:18:44.503
<i>Enough is enough, Mr. Hughes.</i>

272
00:18:44.679 --> 00:18:47.876
<i>Are you ever gonna let us</i>
<i>actually see this epic of yours?</i>

273
00:18:48.049 --> 00:18:49.539
Hurry up!

274
00:19:10.538 --> 00:19:11.937
- Who is it?
- Noah.

275
00:19:12.106 --> 00:19:13.767
Come on in.

276
00:19:15.343 --> 00:19:17.937
I've been on the phone
to Houston for three hours.

277
00:19:18.112 --> 00:19:21.104
- We're fixing every goddamn book we have.
- Wait, wait.

278
00:19:22.050 --> 00:19:25.451
Yeah. Run reel 10 again.
I think we're duplicating a shot here.

279
00:19:25.620 --> 00:19:29.454
And tell Jimmy I want
10 chocolate chip cookies, all right?

280
00:19:29.624 --> 00:19:32.491
Medium chips,
none too close to the outside.

281
00:19:32.660 --> 00:19:34.150
Got it?

282
00:19:34.329 --> 00:19:36.661
You remember
that goddamn shot from reel 10?

283
00:19:36.831 --> 00:19:39.425
No. I don't remember
anything from reel 10.

284
00:19:39.601 --> 00:19:41.762
I don't know what reel 10 is.

285
00:19:41.936 --> 00:19:45.201
I'm a businessman, Howard.
And so are you.

286
00:19:45.373 --> 00:19:47.170
Now, look.

287
00:19:47.342 --> 00:19:48.809
This has been a great ride.

288
00:19:48.977 --> 00:19:50.911
We've had a hell of a lot of fun.

289
00:19:51.312 --> 00:19:54.975
But you're losing
$25,000 a day doing this.

290
00:19:55.283 --> 00:19:57.183
Every day.

291
00:20:02.757 --> 00:20:05.590
So, what are my options?

292
00:20:07.161 --> 00:20:09.891
Well, this time I don't know
that you have any.

293
00:20:10.064 --> 00:20:12.498
I'm afraid you gotta close it down.

294
00:20:13.268 --> 00:20:14.860
Dig your way out.

295
00:20:21.542 --> 00:20:23.533
I'm sorry, Howard.

296
00:20:24.112 --> 00:20:25.909
I truly am.

297
00:20:33.288 --> 00:20:34.880
<i>Reel 10, Mr. Hughes.</i>

298
00:20:40.928 --> 00:20:42.953
Mortgage Tool Co.

299
00:20:43.865 --> 00:20:48.962
- Every asset. You heard me.
- lf you do that, you could lose everything.

300
00:20:49.137 --> 00:20:50.695
Well, I won't.

301
00:20:53.841 --> 00:20:55.308
I won't.

302
00:20:56.778 --> 00:20:58.575
All right.

303
00:20:59.781 --> 00:21:01.408
I'll get into it.

304
00:21:02.784 --> 00:21:04.342
Thanks, Noah.

305
00:21:39.454 --> 00:21:43.185
<i>More than half a million souls lining</i>
<i>the curb of Hollywood Boulevard.</i>

306
00:21:43.358 --> 00:21:44.985
<i>Look at the automobiles!</i>

307
00:21:45.159 --> 00:21:49.027
<i>There are 45,000 cars here,</i>
<i>making it the greatest traffic jam ever seen.</i>

308
00:21:49.197 --> 00:21:51.597
<i>Howard Hughes must have</i>
<i>a lump in his throat.</i>

309
00:21:51.766 --> 00:21:55.862
<i>Six months after the stock market crashes</i>
<i>and after three pilots' deaths...</i>

310
00:21:56.037 --> 00:21:59.006
<i>... he's finally unveiling his</i>
<i>$4 million baby doll.</i>

311
00:21:59.173 --> 00:22:03.473
<i>It's the most expensive movie ever made.</i>
<i>Nothing five-and-dime for our Mr. Hughes.</i>

312
00:22:03.644 --> 00:22:06.943
<i>Nothing like tonight has ever been</i>
<i>seen before, and I can say...</i>

313
00:22:07.115 --> 00:22:08.776
<i>... it will never be seen again.</i>

314
00:22:08.950 --> 00:22:12.943
<i>Five hundred thousand people are crowding</i>
<i>the streets to get a glimpse of the stars.</i>

315
00:22:13.121 --> 00:22:15.817
<i>Three companies of Marines</i>
<i>were called to assist...</i>

316
00:22:15.990 --> 00:22:19.426
<i>... the 250 special police who are</i>
<i>handling this enormous crowd...</i>

317
00:22:19.594 --> 00:22:21.118
<i>This is an industry town.</i>

318
00:22:21.295 --> 00:22:24.196
<i>And nobody but nobody</i>
<i>makes a movie outside a studio.</i>

319
00:22:24.365 --> 00:22:27.857
<i>Some Hollywood insiders over</i>
<i>at the Brown Derby may be laughing...</i>

320
00:22:28.035 --> 00:22:29.502
<i>And now, I think...</i>

321
00:22:29.670 --> 00:22:32.503
<i>Yes, yes, I can see</i>
<i>Mr. Hughes' car arriving now.</i>

322
00:22:32.673 --> 00:22:35.642
<i>Mr. Hughes escorts</i>
<i>the lovely starlet Jean Harlow.</i>

323
00:22:35.810 --> 00:22:39.803
<i>He discovered her for this picture,</i>
<i>and we think her platinum blond locks...</i>

324
00:22:39.981 --> 00:22:44.247
<i>... and hot-jazz, baby-doll style</i>
<i>are gonna make her a big star.</i>

325
00:22:53.194 --> 00:22:55.492
Howard! Howard!

326
00:23:02.036 --> 00:23:03.901
Over here!

327
00:23:10.478 --> 00:23:14.710
- This way, boss. Right over there.
- Mr. Hughes, how about a word?

328
00:23:14.916 --> 00:23:17.384
Big night for you, Mr. Hughes.

329
00:23:19.320 --> 00:23:21.948
Big night for you tonight.

330
00:23:22.123 --> 00:23:24.455
Very big. Very big.

331
00:23:24.625 --> 00:23:28.322
Tell us what it was like
making this fabulous picture.

332
00:23:30.164 --> 00:23:31.927
Yes.

333
00:23:32.099 --> 00:23:33.498
Yeah.

334
00:23:33.668 --> 00:23:36.296
So 4 million clams
from your own pocket.

335
00:23:36.471 --> 00:23:38.098
Nervous how the flick will fly?

336
00:23:41.676 --> 00:23:44.975
Big night. You enjoy the show.

337
00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:50.850
Yes, well, let me present the feminine
star of this spectacle, <i>Hell's Angels...</i>

338
00:23:51.018 --> 00:23:53.612
...Miss Jean Harlow.
- Thank you.

339
00:23:53.788 --> 00:23:56.757
I would like to use this occasion
to thank Mr. Hughes...

340
00:23:56.924 --> 00:24:00.223
...for the opportunity he gave me.
Thank you.

341
00:24:00.394 --> 00:24:03.761
Thank you!
Now I'd like to ask Roscoe Arbuckle...

342
00:24:03.931 --> 00:24:06.900
...to introduce
his pet lion cub, Gilmore.

343
00:24:07.068 --> 00:24:09.730
What's the matter with you?
Can't remember my name?

344
00:24:09.904 --> 00:24:13.897
I'm sorry. Roscoe Turner,
and this would be Gilmore.

345
00:24:57.018 --> 00:24:58.679
It's going! It's going!

346
00:25:00.354 --> 00:25:03.790
Murder! That's what this
dirty, rotten politician war is, murder!

347
00:25:03.958 --> 00:25:05.425
You know it as well as I do.

348
00:25:43.197 --> 00:25:44.789
Stand up, slim, take a bow.

349
00:25:58.412 --> 00:26:00.642
Reel four played too long.
Too many coughs.

350
00:26:00.815 --> 00:26:04.774
Get the team out of the party and
to the office. I wanna cut a few shots.

351
00:26:04.952 --> 00:26:07.182
Oh, find Glenn.
Somebody write this down.

352
00:26:07.355 --> 00:26:08.583
Flush rivets.
Got that?

353
00:26:08.756 --> 00:26:10.451
- Flush rivets.
- Flush rivets.

354
00:26:10.625 --> 00:26:12.149
Lickety-split, boss.

355
00:26:12.393 --> 00:26:14.020
Here he is! Here he is!

356
00:26:16.097 --> 00:26:17.997
Variety <i>says, "This one won't miss!"</i>

357
00:26:18.165 --> 00:26:21.430
<i>- Magnificently photographed!</i>
<i>- Awesome beyond description!</i>

358
00:26:21.602 --> 00:26:25.197
<i>The most extraordinary output</i>
<i>to emerge from a motion-picture studio.</i>

359
00:26:25.373 --> 00:26:28.308
<i>Not for a long time have I seen</i>
<i>anything as enthralling.</i>

360
00:26:28.476 --> 00:26:31.502
<i>It costs 4 million dollars</i>
<i>and has 4 million thrills!</i>

361
00:26:31.679 --> 00:26:33.977
<i>- Majestically...</i>
<i>- Most epic picture of its time!</i>

362
00:27:29.437 --> 00:27:32.406
A lighter shade. I don't want
to look like Boris Karloff.

363
00:27:32.573 --> 00:27:34.165
If you know what I mean.

364
00:27:36.110 --> 00:27:40.046
I read in the magazines
that you play golf.

365
00:27:40.214 --> 00:27:41.875
On occasion.

366
00:27:42.049 --> 00:27:44.279
Well, how about nine holes?

367
00:27:46.387 --> 00:27:48.548
Now, Mr. Hughes?

368
00:27:49.223 --> 00:27:51.953
If it would be convenient, Miss Hepburn.

369
00:28:14.515 --> 00:28:17.973
You're not extending
enough on your follow-through.

370
00:28:18.152 --> 00:28:21.087
Follow-through
is everything in golf, just like life.

371
00:28:21.255 --> 00:28:22.552
Don't you find?

372
00:28:22.723 --> 00:28:24.748
Saw your <i>Scarface</i> picture.

373
00:28:24.925 --> 00:28:26.222
- Violent.
- Realistic.

374
00:28:26.393 --> 00:28:28.725
Movies are movies, Howard.
Not life.

375
00:28:28.896 --> 00:28:30.591
Now the stage.

376
00:28:30.765 --> 00:28:31.993
The stage is real.

377
00:28:32.166 --> 00:28:36.159
Real flesh and blood. Human beings
right out there in front of you, buster.

378
00:28:36.337 --> 00:28:39.306
Can't look away. Can't munch popcorn.
That would be rude.

379
00:28:39.473 --> 00:28:40.735
Do you like the theater?

380
00:28:41.041 --> 00:28:43.532
- No.
- Oh, I adore the theater.

381
00:28:43.711 --> 00:28:45.872
Only alive on-stage.
I'll teach you.

382
00:28:46.046 --> 00:28:49.982
We'll see some Ibsen. If the Republicans
haven't outlawed him by now.

383
00:28:50.151 --> 00:28:53.177
You're not a Republican, are you?
How did you vote in '32?

384
00:28:53.354 --> 00:28:56.812
- Well, I didn't.
- You must! It's your sacred franchise.

385
00:29:00.694 --> 00:29:03.458
Heard you were wooing Ginger Rogers.
What about that?

386
00:29:03.631 --> 00:29:05.963
She's just a friend.

387
00:29:06.133 --> 00:29:07.828
Men can't be friends with women.

388
00:29:08.002 --> 00:29:10.061
They must possess them
or leave them be.

389
00:29:10.237 --> 00:29:13.365
It's a primitive urge from caveman days.
It's all in Darwin.

390
00:29:13.541 --> 00:29:18.877
Hunt the flesh, kill the flesh, eat the flesh.
That's the male sex all over.

391
00:29:19.547 --> 00:29:20.912
Excuse me?

392
00:29:21.715 --> 00:29:24.707
Well, if you're deaf,
you must own up to it.

393
00:29:24.985 --> 00:29:26.919
Get a hearing aid.
Or see my father.

394
00:29:27.087 --> 00:29:30.750
He's a urologist, but it's all tied up
inside the body, don't you find?

395
00:29:31.091 --> 00:29:32.558
Me, I keep healthy.

396
00:29:32.726 --> 00:29:34.853
I take seven showers a day
to keep clean.

397
00:29:35.029 --> 00:29:38.362
Also because I am what's so
vulgarly referred to as "outdoorsy."

398
00:29:38.532 --> 00:29:42.525
I'm not outdoorsy.
I'm athletic. I sweat.

399
00:29:42.703 --> 00:29:45.467
There it is.
Now we both know the sordid truth.

400
00:29:45.639 --> 00:29:48.107
I sweat and you're deaf.

401
00:29:48.275 --> 00:29:51.142
Aren't we a fine pair of misfits?

402
00:29:54.715 --> 00:29:56.580
Three.

403
00:30:04.124 --> 00:30:05.955
Noble effort.

404
00:30:08.329 --> 00:30:11.025
So I suppose you're
wooing me now?

405
00:30:11.699 --> 00:30:13.690
Oh, well.

406
00:30:32.753 --> 00:30:34.243
Not enough.

407
00:30:34.822 --> 00:30:37.848
Not enough.
These rivets have to be completely flush.

408
00:30:38.025 --> 00:30:40.926
I want every screw and joint countersunk.

409
00:30:41.161 --> 00:30:43.959
I want no wind resistance
on the fuselage.

410
00:30:44.131 --> 00:30:46.429
She has got to be clean, Odie.

411
00:30:46.600 --> 00:30:48.363
- Clean. Understand?
- Okay, Howard.

412
00:30:48.535 --> 00:30:50.332
I don't know
what else to tell you.

413
00:30:51.405 --> 00:30:54.966
- What do you got for me?
- The thing is, TWA needs a new plane.

414
00:30:55.142 --> 00:30:57.770
- A modern plane.
- Oh, yeah? What kind of plane?

415
00:30:57.945 --> 00:31:00.175
Okay. The DC-3 has 21 daytime seats...

416
00:31:00.347 --> 00:31:02.781
...and 14 overnight berths.
- Something bigger?

417
00:31:04.118 --> 00:31:06.484
Try 50 seats with
a ceiling of 12,000 feet.

418
00:31:06.654 --> 00:31:08.884
No. No, 20,000.

419
00:31:09.256 --> 00:31:11.383
Think about it.
What does 20,000 feet give you?

420
00:31:11.558 --> 00:31:14.152
- Less turbulence.
- Because it's above the weather.

421
00:31:14.328 --> 00:31:16.694
Jack, we wanna fly
above the weather.

422
00:31:16.864 --> 00:31:20.425
Only 1 percent of the American population
has set foot on an airliner.

423
00:31:20.601 --> 00:31:23.365
Why? Because they're scared to death.
They should be.

424
00:31:23.537 --> 00:31:26.131
I mean, 7000 feet is bumpy as shit.
You know that.

425
00:31:26.307 --> 00:31:28.798
We build a plane
that flies above the weather...

426
00:31:28.976 --> 00:31:32.742
...we could get every man, woman
and child in this country to feel safe.

427
00:31:32.913 --> 00:31:37.407
An airplane with the ability to fly into
the substratosphere across the country.

428
00:31:37.584 --> 00:31:39.415
Across the world.

429
00:31:39.586 --> 00:31:41.679
Now that is the future.

430
00:31:42.122 --> 00:31:43.350
- You with me?
- Yeah.

431
00:31:43.524 --> 00:31:47.460
I don't wanna get into this
if your board doesn't have the balls for it.

432
00:31:47.628 --> 00:31:49.926
- Would they support us?
- I don't know.

433
00:31:50.097 --> 00:31:52.327
- What's your financial picture?
- Not great.

434
00:31:52.499 --> 00:31:54.660
- Last year's deficit?
- 770,000.

435
00:31:54.835 --> 00:31:57.531
- What's it selling at?
- About 8 dollars a share.

436
00:31:57.705 --> 00:31:59.434
That's the lowest it's been, huh?

437
00:32:01.408 --> 00:32:02.875
I could do that.

438
00:32:03.043 --> 00:32:04.533
- Do what?
- Buy it.

439
00:32:04.712 --> 00:32:07.374
- You wanna buy the airline?
- For crying out loud...

440
00:32:07.548 --> 00:32:11.450
...we don't want pencil pushers getting
in the way of us making our plane.

441
00:32:11.618 --> 00:32:15.452
Give me brass tacks, now. What does
controlling interest in TWA cost me?

442
00:32:16.490 --> 00:32:17.889
Call it 15 million.

443
00:32:20.294 --> 00:32:22.455
That is a chunk of change, huh?

444
00:32:25.899 --> 00:32:27.730
You call Noah Dietrich.

445
00:32:27.901 --> 00:32:29.869
You have him start buying.

446
00:32:30.037 --> 00:32:31.299
Howard, hold on.

447
00:32:31.472 --> 00:32:34.498
Are you sure?
You wanna think about it for five minutes?

448
00:32:34.675 --> 00:32:38.509
Hell, Jack, I got a tiger by the tail here.
I ain't gonna let it go.

449
00:32:47.321 --> 00:32:49.050
Good evening, Mr. Hughes.

450
00:32:49.223 --> 00:32:51.589
Welcome. Your table is ready.

451
00:32:52.760 --> 00:32:54.284
How goes the aviation?

452
00:32:54.461 --> 00:32:57.430
- Oh, just fine, Pete.
- I'm so glad.

453
00:32:59.767 --> 00:33:01.098
Good evening, Mr. Hughes.

454
00:33:01.268 --> 00:33:02.496
- Madame.
- It's "miss."

455
00:33:02.669 --> 00:33:05.103
Miss. The usual, Mr. Hughes?

456
00:33:05.272 --> 00:33:07.399
- Please.
- May I recommend for the lady...

457
00:33:07.574 --> 00:33:11.066
...our clementine soup followed
by roast duck with currant glaze...

458
00:33:11.245 --> 00:33:14.214
...and poached pears in rose sauce.
It's truly divine.

459
00:33:14.381 --> 00:33:15.871
Yeah. That sounds fine.

460
00:33:18.052 --> 00:33:20.782
Your kind of joint, is it?

461
00:33:21.922 --> 00:33:23.480
Wouldn't have thought.

462
00:33:23.657 --> 00:33:26.854
They're open late.
I go to a hot-dog stand on La Cienega too.

463
00:33:27.027 --> 00:33:29.689
- They're open till about 4.
- Are they?

464
00:33:31.732 --> 00:33:33.563
How marvelous.

465
00:33:49.416 --> 00:33:51.043
Howard! Howard!

466
00:33:52.019 --> 00:33:54.783
Hi! Son of a gun.

467
00:33:54.955 --> 00:33:58.789
Kate, this is Johnny Meyer.
I suppose you could call him my press agent.

468
00:33:58.959 --> 00:34:01.223
- Pleased to meet you. Loved <i>Alice Adams.</i>
- You're too kind.

469
00:34:01.395 --> 00:34:04.091
- I'm sure you know Errol, right?
- Mr. Flynn. Yes.

470
00:34:04.264 --> 00:34:09.133
Kate. Kate. Kate of the clenched-jawed
Hepburns. Enchanting as always.

471
00:34:09.303 --> 00:34:11.999
You should use Lux on your hands,
by the way. I do.

472
00:34:12.172 --> 00:34:14.333
You and Howard
ought to cook up a picture.

473
00:34:14.508 --> 00:34:17.033
Costar with Errol.
I could sell that in spades.

474
00:34:17.211 --> 00:34:19.406
That would be marvelous. Howard?

475
00:34:20.013 --> 00:34:23.744
I think not.
Don't you read <i>Variety,</i> Mr. Meyer?

476
00:34:23.917 --> 00:34:27.614
Well, I'm box-office poison.
I'm on the outs, the skids, the doldrums.

477
00:34:27.788 --> 00:34:31.155
Washed-up, day-old fish
not worth the eating, so they tell me.

478
00:34:31.325 --> 00:34:35.159
Hell with them. Hell with them, my dear.
Soulless pricks to a man, right?

479
00:34:35.329 --> 00:34:39.356
Johnny tells me you're thinking about
doing a Western, of all goddamn things.

480
00:34:43.437 --> 00:34:46.201
Are you making a Western, Howard?

481
00:34:46.406 --> 00:34:49.170
Yeah. Making a Western.
I'm gonna call it <i>The Outlaw.</i>

482
00:34:49.343 --> 00:34:51.504
Yeah. And you know
what it's about? S-E-X.

483
00:34:51.678 --> 00:34:54.374
- It's all about S-E-X.
- It's a Western.

484
00:34:54.548 --> 00:34:57.449
You can't have fornication in a Western.
It isn't done.

485
00:34:57.618 --> 00:34:59.415
It's not real sex, it's movie sex.

486
00:34:59.586 --> 00:35:03.249
What <i>Scarface</i> did for the gangster picture,
<i>The Outlaw</i> will do for the Western.

487
00:35:03.423 --> 00:35:06.290
Put the sex and guts and blood
up there on the screen.

488
00:35:06.460 --> 00:35:08.485
- Have you seen my cigarettes?
- Don't mind us.

489
00:35:08.662 --> 00:35:12.063
New York cut steak, 12 peas,
bottle of milk with the cap on.

490
00:35:12.232 --> 00:35:15.463
- You can't afford your own cigarettes?
- Jack has all my money.

491
00:35:15.636 --> 00:35:19.936
I hope your food isn't getting cold
at your table somewhere or something.

492
00:35:20.107 --> 00:35:22.405
No, no. We're here all night.
Don't worry.

493
00:35:22.576 --> 00:35:28.105
Now, Howard. Now, Howard. If you're
seriously talking about putting carnality...

494
00:35:28.282 --> 00:35:32.946
...back on the silver screen, you must swear
to let me in on the casting session.

495
00:35:36.089 --> 00:35:40.958
- I have an eye for talent. Isn't that right?
- You ought to give up prancing in tights...

496
00:35:41.128 --> 00:35:44.723
...be a talent scout.
- That prancing paid for my new yacht.

497
00:35:44.898 --> 00:35:48.356
You must all come sailing with me.
Catalina. What do you say?

498
00:35:48.535 --> 00:35:51.698
- Catalina. Sounds grand. Yeah.
- I've even managed to coax...

499
00:35:51.872 --> 00:35:55.740
...the luscious Miss De Havilland
and her equally luscious sister to come.

500
00:35:55.909 --> 00:36:00.778
Though I fear their mother will insist on
coming, to preserve their questionable virtue.

501
00:36:00.948 --> 00:36:05.146
We shall assault these twin monuments
of pristine Britannic beauty nonetheless.

502
00:36:05.319 --> 00:36:07.378
- What do you say, Howard?
- Yeah?

503
00:36:07.788 --> 00:36:09.949
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah?

504
00:36:14.261 --> 00:36:15.558
I gotta go.

505
00:36:16.430 --> 00:36:19.957
If you'll excuse us, we have...
We have to be somewhere.

506
00:36:20.300 --> 00:36:22.768
You are somewhere, Howard,
you madman.

507
00:36:22.936 --> 00:36:25.962
- Somewhere else. Excuse us.
- Charmed, gentlemen.

508
00:36:26.139 --> 00:36:29.768
Do help yourself to the poached pears.
I hear they're divine.

509
00:36:30.410 --> 00:36:33.174
Well. Howard Hughes,
ladies and gentlemen.

510
00:36:34.047 --> 00:36:35.378
Was that meant for me?

511
00:36:35.549 --> 00:36:38.916
My hero. God, all that
Hollywood talk bores me silly.

512
00:36:39.086 --> 00:36:42.055
As if there aren't more important things,
like Mussolini.

513
00:36:42.222 --> 00:36:46.158
- Where are we going, by the way?
- Do you feel like a little adventure?

514
00:36:46.326 --> 00:36:48.260
Do your worst, Mr. Hughes.

515
00:36:48.428 --> 00:36:52.626
- Think you own this place, you limey bastard?
- I'm a Tasmanian bastard, you prick.

516
00:36:52.799 --> 00:36:55.199
- Thataway, Errol.
- Let me at him!

517
00:37:28.802 --> 00:37:31.498
That's Mr. Mayer's house right there.

518
00:37:31.672 --> 00:37:33.572
Do you know where Jack Warner lives?

519
00:37:42.849 --> 00:37:46.649
- What's that on the steering wheel?
- Cellophane.

520
00:37:46.820 --> 00:37:50.688
If you had any idea of the crap
that people carry around on their hands.

521
00:37:51.224 --> 00:37:52.851
What kind of crap?

522
00:37:53.560 --> 00:37:55.221
You don't wanna know.

523
00:38:00.500 --> 00:38:02.434
Hold on to the wheel for a bit.

524
00:38:10.510 --> 00:38:13.638
That's too hard. Relax your hand.
Relax your hand.

525
00:38:19.319 --> 00:38:24.279
You see, you gotta feel the vibration
of the engine through your fingertips.

526
00:38:24.458 --> 00:38:27.518
- Do you feel that?
- Yes.

527
00:38:30.130 --> 00:38:31.791
Well, that's good.

528
00:38:32.432 --> 00:38:34.127
Golly!

529
00:38:38.538 --> 00:38:40.335
Well, she's all yours.

530
00:38:40.574 --> 00:38:44.237
- Where are you going?!
- I think there's some milk back here.

531
00:38:45.245 --> 00:38:48.043
- You just keep us steady, now.
- All right.

532
00:39:07.033 --> 00:39:08.864
- Howard.
- Yeah?

533
00:39:09.035 --> 00:39:12.004
There's a rather alarming mountain
heading our way.

534
00:39:12.172 --> 00:39:14.367
Pull back on the wheel a smidge.
Go on.

535
00:39:19.212 --> 00:39:21.806
Golly!

536
00:39:27.354 --> 00:39:32.519
I don't think I've ever met someone
who actually uses the word "golly."

537
00:39:39.766 --> 00:39:42.234
You all right?
Do you want me to take over?

538
00:39:42.402 --> 00:39:44.393
Just when I'm getting the hang of it?

539
00:39:49.776 --> 00:39:53.473
- You want some milk?
- Oh, please.

540
00:40:15.402 --> 00:40:17.632
Utterly smashing!
We'll do it again.

541
00:40:17.804 --> 00:40:20.967
I'm free Wednesday.
It's a little early for golf, though.

542
00:40:21.141 --> 00:40:23.405
Oh, no, no. I live right there.

543
00:40:23.910 --> 00:40:26.470
- Feel like a drink?
- Lead on.

544
00:40:27.681 --> 00:40:30.878
Now, that makes
for a challenging par four.

545
00:40:31.117 --> 00:40:34.814
My decorator
picked out the wallpaper and such.

546
00:40:35.455 --> 00:40:37.514
He's queer as a bedbug.

547
00:40:37.691 --> 00:40:40.421
But I just hate this room.

548
00:40:40.727 --> 00:40:42.558
Gives me the willies.

549
00:40:43.063 --> 00:40:47.159
Like I'm about to be swallowed up
by the latest issue of <i>Town & Country.</i>

550
00:40:55.809 --> 00:40:57.572
What room do you like?

551
00:40:58.845 --> 00:41:00.335
My study.

552
00:41:02.716 --> 00:41:04.377
Take me there.

553
00:41:20.734 --> 00:41:23.760
You are the tallest woman I know.

554
00:41:24.704 --> 00:41:28.800
And all sharp elbows and knees.
Beware.

555
00:41:51.331 --> 00:41:54.391
Will you fly me to work tomorrow?

556
00:41:57.003 --> 00:41:59.198
It is tomorrow.

557
00:42:51.992 --> 00:42:55.758
Keep your eye on the fuel. She's got
a minimum to keep her weight down.

558
00:42:55.929 --> 00:42:58.955
Two runs. That's it.
After that, you're flying on vapors.

559
00:42:59.132 --> 00:43:01.896
And then you crash and you die.
Give her easy flying.

560
00:43:02.068 --> 00:43:05.367
Don't worry about speed
and don't think about the record today.

561
00:43:05.538 --> 00:43:08.996
I wish you'd let someone else take her.
You've got 20 test pilots.

562
00:43:09.175 --> 00:43:13.509
Hell, why should I let someone else
have all the fun? See you in a bit.

563
00:43:34.467 --> 00:43:36.230
Contact!

564
00:45:05.859 --> 00:45:07.087
339.

565
00:45:09.195 --> 00:45:11.060
Goddamn!

566
00:45:32.786 --> 00:45:34.310
347.

567
00:45:35.755 --> 00:45:37.052
Son of a bitch!

568
00:46:09.422 --> 00:46:11.982
- 352.
- 352!

569
00:46:13.226 --> 00:46:14.454
Good girl.

570
00:46:24.237 --> 00:46:25.932
Damn it!

571
00:46:29.742 --> 00:46:31.869
Goddamn it!

572
00:46:32.312 --> 00:46:34.542
- Oh, God!
- There goes our meal ticket.

573
00:46:34.714 --> 00:46:36.204
Come on!

574
00:47:16.356 --> 00:47:17.789
Howard!

575
00:47:17.957 --> 00:47:20.118
- Howard!
- How did we do?

576
00:47:21.227 --> 00:47:23.559
352 on the last run.

577
00:47:25.331 --> 00:47:26.958
She'll go faster.

578
00:47:27.533 --> 00:47:29.160
Country mouse!

579
00:47:29.936 --> 00:47:33.337
- Kate! Katie!
- Upstairs, city mouse.

580
00:47:36.442 --> 00:47:39.343
Hello.
Good Lord, what happened to you?

581
00:47:39.512 --> 00:47:41.742
Oh, nothing. A hard landing.
I cut my foot.

582
00:47:41.915 --> 00:47:44.941
Sit down. I'll take care of it.
You tell me everything.

583
00:47:45.118 --> 00:47:48.952
You cannot imagine what it was like, Katie.
You cannot imagine the speed.

584
00:47:49.122 --> 00:47:52.285
- She was like a winged bullet up there.
- What did she make?

585
00:47:52.458 --> 00:47:56.622
Oh, around 352.

586
00:48:03.603 --> 00:48:05.070
You did it!

587
00:48:06.406 --> 00:48:08.271
Fastest man on the planet.

588
00:48:08.441 --> 00:48:11.672
Hot dog! I'm so proud of you.

589
00:48:11.844 --> 00:48:13.835
- She did it, baby.
- You knew she would.

590
00:48:14.013 --> 00:48:16.982
Oh, she was fine. She was just fine.

591
00:48:18.184 --> 00:48:19.742
Now let me see your foot.

592
00:48:19.986 --> 00:48:21.283
Yeah.

593
00:48:21.988 --> 00:48:25.549
- Good God! You're covered in blood.
- Oh, no. That's just beet juice.

594
00:48:25.725 --> 00:48:27.886
- I crashed into a beet field.
- What?

595
00:48:28.061 --> 00:48:30.256
Yeah, I crashed in a beet field.

596
00:48:33.466 --> 00:48:35.559
Let me get you cleaned up.

597
00:48:36.569 --> 00:48:41.097
- Heavens, what is this? Electrical tape?
- Yeah. Odie just sort of slammed it on there.

598
00:48:42.141 --> 00:48:47.169
But all I could think about
was getting home to see you.

599
00:48:51.884 --> 00:48:54.751
I am so proud of you.

600
00:48:59.292 --> 00:49:01.658
Now, this is gonna sting a little bit.

601
00:49:01.828 --> 00:49:05.628
Oh, this is useless.
Come to the bathroom.

602
00:49:06.866 --> 00:49:09.733
- Don't get beet juice on the carpet.
- I won't, I won't.

603
00:49:09.902 --> 00:49:12.564
- Too hot!
- Don't be a baby.

604
00:49:14.240 --> 00:49:17.073
Was the press there?

605
00:49:18.011 --> 00:49:19.273
Some.

606
00:49:19.512 --> 00:49:24.609
But they're calling everyone.
Should be on the wires by now.

607
00:49:33.226 --> 00:49:34.784
What is it?

608
00:49:37.497 --> 00:49:39.089
Kate?

609
00:49:42.335 --> 00:49:45.429
I've been famous,
for better or worse...

610
00:49:45.972 --> 00:49:47.940
...for a long time now...

611
00:49:48.107 --> 00:49:52.441
...and I wonder if you know what it...

612
00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:54.876
...really means.

613
00:49:56.049 --> 00:49:59.143
Yeah. I had my fair share
of press on <i>Hell's Angels.</i>

614
00:49:59.919 --> 00:50:01.716
I'm used to it.

615
00:50:03.656 --> 00:50:05.351
Are you?

616
00:50:09.028 --> 00:50:10.791
Howard, we're...

617
00:50:13.733 --> 00:50:16.167
We're not like everyone else.

618
00:50:18.171 --> 00:50:23.108
Too many acute angles.
Too many eccentricities.

619
00:50:23.876 --> 00:50:26.743
We have to be very careful not to...

620
00:50:28.047 --> 00:50:31.881
...let people in,
or they'll make us into freaks.

621
00:50:33.086 --> 00:50:37.648
Kate, they can't get in here.
We're safe.

622
00:50:39.358 --> 00:50:41.258
They can always get in.

623
00:50:43.429 --> 00:50:46.830
When my brother killed himself...

624
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:50.560
...there were photographers
at the funeral.

625
00:50:51.804 --> 00:50:54.034
There's no decency to it.

626
00:51:06.486 --> 00:51:08.545
You know, sometimes I...

627
00:51:12.291 --> 00:51:14.452
I get these feelings, Katie.

628
00:51:19.432 --> 00:51:21.992
I get these ideas, these...

629
00:51:24.837 --> 00:51:27.431
...crazy ideas about...

630
00:51:29.876 --> 00:51:32.242
...things that may not...

631
00:51:33.513 --> 00:51:36.380
Things that may not really be there.

632
00:51:37.049 --> 00:51:38.573
Yeah.

633
00:51:45.258 --> 00:51:48.022
Sometimes I truly fear that I'm...

634
00:51:50.062 --> 00:51:52.030
...losing my mind.

635
00:51:59.605 --> 00:52:01.470
And if I did, it would...

636
00:52:04.577 --> 00:52:06.943
It'd be like flying blind.

637
00:52:15.087 --> 00:52:16.748
You understand?

638
00:52:20.927 --> 00:52:23.725
You taught me to fly, Howard.

639
00:52:26.699 --> 00:52:28.690
I'll take the wheel.

640
00:52:44.617 --> 00:52:48.644
<i>Smashing all records, Howard Hughes</i>
<i>outdoes Jules Verne's wildest dreams.</i>

641
00:52:48.955 --> 00:52:52.220
<i>Around the world from New York</i>
<i>to New York in four days.</i>

642
00:52:52.391 --> 00:52:55.326
<i>Even beating Wiley Post's mark</i>
<i>by over three days.</i>

643
00:52:55.494 --> 00:52:58.725
<i>New aviation history is written</i>
<i>when his Lockheed monoplane...</i>

644
00:52:58.898 --> 00:53:01.890
<i>... returns swiftly and safely.</i>
<i>A daring aviator.</i>

645
00:53:02.335 --> 00:53:04.997
<i>A true pioneer of the world's airways.</i>

646
00:53:05.171 --> 00:53:09.164
<i>From New York to Paris, he cuts Lindbergh's</i>
<i>time in half. Then on to Moscow.</i>

647
00:53:09.342 --> 00:53:13.904
<i>Thirty-five hours out of New York,</i>
<i>he roars across Siberia's trackless wastes.</i>

648
00:53:14.080 --> 00:53:18.710
<i>Sixty hours out of New York, he heads</i>
<i>for Alaska, most hazardous hop of all.</i>

649
00:53:18.884 --> 00:53:21.284
<i>Continuing the terrific pace,</i>
<i>he comes home...</i>

650
00:53:21.454 --> 00:53:23.786
<i>... bringing new laurels</i>
<i>to American aviation.</i>

651
00:53:25.124 --> 00:53:28.389
<i>Howard Hughes and his crew</i>
<i>may find more worlds to conquer...</i>

652
00:53:35.201 --> 00:53:39.763
You won't believe this. It just came over the
wires. Hughes has bought control of TWA.

653
00:53:42.508 --> 00:53:45.375
I thought Mr. Hughes
was flying around the world.

654
00:53:45.578 --> 00:53:48.979
Apparently he did it while he was flying,
over the radio.

655
00:53:56.188 --> 00:53:59.487
I have heard some disquieting rumors
about Mr. Hughes.

656
00:54:01.060 --> 00:54:04.496
I'd like to know everything
there is to know about Mr. Hughes.

657
00:54:06.932 --> 00:54:09.162
I'd like you to attend to that for me.

658
00:54:10.169 --> 00:54:11.796
Thoroughly.

659
00:54:12.371 --> 00:54:14.805
<i>The Pantages is glittering tonight.</i>

660
00:54:14.974 --> 00:54:17.807
- Howard!
- Right over here. This way, over to the left.

661
00:54:17.977 --> 00:54:20.639
- Mr. Hughes, how was your flight?
- Miss Hepburn!

662
00:54:20.813 --> 00:54:23.475
- When are you gonna name the day?
- Raise your head.

663
00:54:23.649 --> 00:54:25.776
What's the next movie?
Give us the scoop.

664
00:54:25.951 --> 00:54:28.647
Right here. How many more
records are you gonna set?

665
00:54:28.821 --> 00:54:32.120
Right over here. Come on.
Give us a smile. It won't kill you.

666
00:54:32.291 --> 00:54:34.191
- Howard, this way.
- Beautiful.

667
00:54:34.360 --> 00:54:36.851
Over here, over here, Mr. Hughes.

668
00:54:37.029 --> 00:54:39.463
When are you gonna fly
around the world again?

669
00:54:39.632 --> 00:54:43.625
You gonna fly with Kate next time?
Did you get lonely without her?

670
00:54:43.803 --> 00:54:47.864
- Talk to Lindbergh about your flight yet?
- Where's Linda Darnell tonight?

671
00:54:48.040 --> 00:54:51.339
- Please, Mr. Hughes.
- Right here. Right here, Mr. Hughes.

672
00:54:51.510 --> 00:54:54.001
Are you trying to be more famous
than Lindbergh?

673
00:54:54.714 --> 00:54:58.445
You know,
fame is supposed to be my turf.

674
00:55:00.686 --> 00:55:02.313
L. B!

675
00:55:04.957 --> 00:55:08.324
If you don't get more distinguished
every time I see you.

676
00:55:08.494 --> 00:55:10.519
You look so beautiful.

677
00:55:18.304 --> 00:55:19.931
Is that true?

678
00:55:28.748 --> 00:55:30.613
Don't worry about it, Howard.

679
00:55:30.783 --> 00:55:34.446
She's just working the room.
It's her job, baby.

680
00:55:37.490 --> 00:55:41.290
<i>Sultry Southern tigress Ava Gardner</i>
<i>dazzles the room tonight.</i>

681
00:55:41.460 --> 00:55:43.690
<i>She's the newest star</i>
<i>in the MGM galaxy.</i>

682
00:55:43.863 --> 00:55:47.492
<i>And believe you me,</i>
<i>she puts the "cheese" in "cheesecake."</i>

683
00:55:49.735 --> 00:55:55.264
Well, <i>Jane Eyre</i> has been selling popcorn
for over a hundred years, L.B.

684
00:56:36.015 --> 00:56:37.448
Hello.

685
00:56:39.084 --> 00:56:40.642
Hello.

686
00:56:45.858 --> 00:56:48.725
Could you reach me a towel?

687
00:56:56.168 --> 00:56:57.897
I...

688
00:56:59.038 --> 00:57:02.269
I really can't do that.

689
00:57:03.909 --> 00:57:05.433
I'm sorry.

690
00:57:30.269 --> 00:57:34.603
I'm an idiot. I'm a complete idiot,
and I'm sorry.

691
00:57:34.940 --> 00:57:38.535
- Forget it.
- No, no. I'm a vain, preening ass...

692
00:57:38.711 --> 00:57:43.705
...without a single redeeming feature.
- That's not true. You have very good teeth.

693
00:57:44.216 --> 00:57:45.683
Come on.

694
00:57:46.552 --> 00:57:50.886
I've got a better idea. Take me flying.
Or better yet, I'll take you flying.

695
00:57:51.056 --> 00:57:52.785
Do your worst, Miss Hepburn.

696
00:58:01.901 --> 00:58:05.735
Don't be so squirmy. You're gonna
get on famously with Father and Mother.

697
00:58:05.905 --> 00:58:09.534
And I'm sure they'll like you too.
Once they get to know you.

698
00:58:17.850 --> 00:58:20.648
- Hello! Hello!
- Kath, hello.

699
00:58:20.819 --> 00:58:22.377
Kathy.

700
00:58:25.324 --> 00:58:29.055
- Who's that with the camera right there?
- That's my ex-husband, Ludlow.

701
00:58:29.228 --> 00:58:31.492
Father and Mother are just mad
about Luddie.

702
00:58:31.664 --> 00:58:35.998
- What the hell's he doing here?
- Oh, he's here all the time.

703
00:58:36.902 --> 00:58:38.529
Hello!

704
00:58:40.039 --> 00:58:41.506
Sorry we're late.

705
00:58:41.674 --> 00:58:43.972
- Mom.
- Oh. Oh, thank you.

706
00:58:44.143 --> 00:58:45.770
- Dad.
- Darling.

707
00:58:45.945 --> 00:58:49.244
- Uncle Willy.
- Oh, who have we got here?

708
00:58:49.415 --> 00:58:52.145
- Don't feel self-conscious.
- Hepburns! Hepburns!

709
00:58:52.318 --> 00:58:56.084
Attention, please. This is Howard.

710
00:58:56.355 --> 00:58:58.186
Howard, welcome.

711
00:58:59.525 --> 00:59:01.618
Don't worry, he's had his lunch.

712
00:59:03.262 --> 00:59:05.127
He likes you. That's unusual.

713
00:59:05.297 --> 00:59:08.630
We pay our devotion to the arts here.
A colony we created.

714
00:59:08.801 --> 00:59:12.760
Julian's a painter. Abstract, of course.
What's the point of painting...

715
00:59:12.938 --> 00:59:16.305
...something real when you can just
take a picture nowadays?

716
00:59:16.475 --> 00:59:18.943
Where do you stand on politics,
Mr. Hughes?

717
00:59:19.378 --> 00:59:21.903
- Excuse me?
- We're all socialists here.

718
00:59:22.081 --> 00:59:23.514
We are not.

719
00:59:24.750 --> 00:59:27.344
You've met Mr. Roosevelt.
What make you of him?

720
00:59:30.556 --> 00:59:32.581
What are you sniggering at?

721
00:59:32.758 --> 00:59:35.124
- What? What was that?
- You just sniggered.

722
00:59:35.894 --> 00:59:38.886
No, no. The dog.
It seems to be crushing my feet.

723
00:59:39.064 --> 00:59:41.032
- Oh, my God!
- Buster!

724
00:59:41.200 --> 00:59:42.428
Hey. Hey!

725
00:59:44.103 --> 00:59:45.570
Don't you like dogs?

726
00:59:45.738 --> 00:59:48.400
I will not have you sniggering
at Mr. Roosevelt.

727
00:59:48.574 --> 00:59:50.303
- Please leave.
- No. I wasn't.

728
00:59:50.476 --> 00:59:53.445
- I thought everybody liked dogs.
- Perhaps he had a bad experience.

729
00:59:53.612 --> 00:59:56.080
Does it upset you
that Howard gets more press?

730
00:59:56.248 --> 00:59:59.411
- A bad experience with a dog?
- No, no.

731
00:59:59.585 --> 01:00:04.147
- You are such a shy creature, aren't you?
- Perhaps it was a very large dog.

732
01:00:04.323 --> 01:00:08.089
- The press can be a damned nuisance.
- Was it a Doberman?

733
01:00:08.260 --> 01:00:11.354
- A Doberman, Mr. Hughes? Or a dachshund?
- Neither, sir.

734
01:00:11.530 --> 01:00:15.762
- Dachshunds are little dogs, Hep dear.
- They should all be lined up and shot.

735
01:00:15.934 --> 01:00:19.131
- What's that Spanish painting?
- The Goya.

736
01:00:19.304 --> 01:00:21.499
Goya. Of course. Yes.

737
01:00:22.141 --> 01:00:25.304
- Yes, Mexican.
- What was that called?

738
01:00:25.477 --> 01:00:29.607
Anyway, that's the vulgar press, I'm sure.
Do you read much, Mr. Hughes?

739
01:00:31.250 --> 01:00:34.083
I try to stay up to snuff
on the trade journals, yeah.

740
01:00:34.253 --> 01:00:38.121
- Snuff?
- These would be flying magazines?

741
01:00:39.758 --> 01:00:42.192
- What was that?
- Oh, he's a little deaf.

742
01:00:42.361 --> 01:00:45.694
- Pass the goddamn butter, I beg you.
- You read flying magazines?

743
01:00:45.864 --> 01:00:48.924
Trade journals. On engineering. Aviation.

744
01:00:49.101 --> 01:00:50.830
We read books.

745
01:00:51.236 --> 01:00:55.502
Howard has to read the trade pieces, Mom,
because he's designing a new airplane.

746
01:00:55.674 --> 01:00:57.665
Oh, really? Do tell.

747
01:01:00.913 --> 01:01:02.437
Well...

748
01:01:04.183 --> 01:01:08.847
...it's quite exciting, actually.
It's a spy plane for the Air Corps.

749
01:01:09.021 --> 01:01:11.148
A twin-engine plane with some...

750
01:01:11.323 --> 01:01:14.315
...I must admit,
some rather unique design features.

751
01:01:14.493 --> 01:01:17.053
You see,
it has these two booms at the back...

752
01:01:17.229 --> 01:01:20.289
Luddie built a birdhouse once.
You remember that, dear?

753
01:01:20.566 --> 01:01:23.763
- Yes, well, a mere trifle, darling.
- I remember the painting!

754
01:01:23.936 --> 01:01:26.598
The painting, it's called
<i>May 18-0-</i> something.

755
01:01:26.772 --> 01:01:29.639
Anyway, Goya's vastly overrated.
All the Spaniards are.

756
01:01:29.808 --> 01:01:32.504
- Nonsense! Picasso is sacred.
- I'm a urologist.

757
01:01:32.678 --> 01:01:35.545
- It was quite aesthetic, really.
- A sacred monster.

758
01:01:35.714 --> 01:01:38.376
The birds don't care for it much,
but the bats do.

759
01:01:38.550 --> 01:01:40.711
- I'll bet.
- That's such bunk!

760
01:01:40.886 --> 01:01:44.185
- Do speak up, dear.
- Nothing, nothing, Mrs. Hepburn. Nothing.

761
01:01:44.356 --> 01:01:48.224
Why did you speak? I can't abide people
who speak but have nothing to say.

762
01:01:48.393 --> 01:01:52.056
Did you go to mechanic school
to learn all this airplane guff?

763
01:01:52.231 --> 01:01:53.789
No, no, I didn't, Luddie. No.

764
01:01:53.966 --> 01:01:56.730
Well, Howard just flew round
the world in three days.

765
01:01:56.902 --> 01:01:59.837
- I think we've had enough about airplanes.
- And dogs.

766
01:02:00.005 --> 01:02:03.736
- Then how did you make all that money?
- We don't care about money here.

767
01:02:03.909 --> 01:02:05.877
Well, that's because you have it.

768
01:02:09.882 --> 01:02:11.213
Would you repeat that?

769
01:02:12.551 --> 01:02:15.486
You don't care about money
because you've always had it.

770
01:02:15.654 --> 01:02:18.623
- How did you make all that..?
- Excuse me, I'm speaking.

771
01:02:18.791 --> 01:02:20.019
- Okay.
- Thank you.

772
01:02:20.192 --> 01:02:21.659
All right.

773
01:02:22.094 --> 01:02:24.528
Some of us choose to work for a living.

774
01:02:24.696 --> 01:02:29.963
Speaking of which, I have more of that
airplane guff to attend to.

775
01:02:30.869 --> 01:02:32.427
Excuse me.

776
01:02:40.045 --> 01:02:42.707
Well, seems a rather high-strung chap.

777
01:02:43.148 --> 01:02:46.140
You're a fine bunch of bullies,
aren't you?

778
01:02:46.318 --> 01:02:49.617
Have you talked to Mr. Mayer
about letting you do <i>Jane Eyre</i>?

779
01:02:49.788 --> 01:02:53.087
The old philistine won't budge.
Too arty, don't you know.

780
01:02:53.258 --> 01:02:58.195
I'm convinced the man hasn't read anything
longer than a <i>Katzenjammer Kids</i> in his life.

781
01:02:59.565 --> 01:03:03.023
No fair, kicking.
You have to use the mallet.

782
01:03:04.837 --> 01:03:08.568
Really, darling, you can't retire
from the field of battle like that...

783
01:03:08.740 --> 01:03:12.198
...or they'll never respect you.
- Katie, I don't understand.

784
01:03:12.544 --> 01:03:15.012
You're like a different person in there.

785
01:03:15.781 --> 01:03:18.579
They just expect me to be a certain way.

786
01:03:20.519 --> 01:03:24.785
There's only one real Kate,
and that's your Kate.

787
01:03:28.260 --> 01:03:32.959
<i>Over in Hollywood, aviation tycoon</i>
<i>Howard Hughes is cooking up something big.</i>

788
01:03:33.131 --> 01:03:37.625
<i>Even as he edits his new picture, he's been</i>
<i>secretly meeting with the U.S. Air Corps.</i>

789
01:03:37.803 --> 01:03:41.364
<i>We applaud his patriotism and look forward</i>
<i>to his newest marvel.</i>

790
01:03:41.540 --> 01:03:44.941
You know how many Allied ships we lost
because of U-boat attacks?

791
01:03:45.110 --> 01:03:47.237
- No.
- Six hundred and eighty-one ships...

792
01:03:47.412 --> 01:03:52.008
...just this year so far. The Army needs
a new airplane to fly the troops to Europe.

793
01:03:52.184 --> 01:03:55.676
These ships, they're sitting ducks
for the U-boats.

794
01:03:55.854 --> 01:03:59.517
- You wanna build a troop-carrier plane?
- Stop thinking like an insect.

795
01:03:59.691 --> 01:04:02.626
Not just to carry troops,
a plane to carry everything.

796
01:04:02.794 --> 01:04:07.060
The troops and the jeeps and the tanks
and whatnot. Here, take a look.

797
01:04:08.467 --> 01:04:10.298
No. Other side.

798
01:04:13.238 --> 01:04:16.765
I figure around 200 feet from nose to tail.
Wingspan, around 300.

799
01:04:16.942 --> 01:04:19.502
We're gonna need
about 24,000 horsepower.

800
01:04:20.812 --> 01:04:23.906
Now, this is just what Kaiser
and the Army are looking for.

801
01:04:24.082 --> 01:04:27.574
- They're gonna pay for it this time.
- What are you getting us into?

802
01:04:27.753 --> 01:04:30.620
Well, it's a big plane,
so I'm calling it The Hercules.

803
01:04:31.123 --> 01:04:32.647
Swell name, isn't it?

804
01:04:33.091 --> 01:04:36.254
- How heavy you imagine this thing is?
- Say around 200 tons.

805
01:04:39.431 --> 01:04:41.922
Well, I didn't say it was gonna be easy.

806
01:04:42.401 --> 01:04:45.495
All right, boys,
I want you to rig up something like this.

807
01:04:45.671 --> 01:04:50.131
Should give the proper uplift ratios and
reduce need for torque support on the front.

808
01:04:50.309 --> 01:04:54.040
We are not getting enough production
out of Jane Russell's breasts.

809
01:04:54.212 --> 01:04:56.737
I want smooth titties, gentlemen.
Smooth titties.

810
01:04:59.551 --> 01:05:02.714
- It's all in engineering, isn't it, Odie?
- Howard...

811
01:05:03.221 --> 01:05:07.851
...do you really think they're gonna let you
put out a whole movie just about tits?

812
01:05:08.060 --> 01:05:10.927
Sure. Who doesn't like tits?

813
01:05:21.340 --> 01:05:24.605
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
Sorry I'm late.

814
01:05:24.776 --> 01:05:28.303
Please record that Mr. Hughes has arrived
and this session is now called to order.

815
01:05:29.481 --> 01:05:32.245
- I yield the floor to Mr. Breen.
- Mr. Hughes...

816
01:05:32.417 --> 01:05:36.319
...members of the committee, I've reviewed
the photoplay entitled <i>The Outlaw...</i>

817
01:05:36.488 --> 01:05:40.219
...and I can state that I have never seen
anything so unacceptable...

818
01:05:40.392 --> 01:05:44.328
...as the shots of the mammaries
of the character named Rio.

819
01:05:44.696 --> 01:05:48.792
For almost half the picture,
the girl's mammaries, which are quite large...

820
01:05:48.967 --> 01:05:52.164
...and prominent,
are shockingly uncovered.

821
01:05:53.105 --> 01:05:57.371
For this reason, I concluded the picture
appeals only to prurient interests...

822
01:05:57.542 --> 01:06:02.070
...and should be denied the Motion Picture
Association's seal of approval.

823
01:06:02.714 --> 01:06:04.944
Really, Mr. Hughes.

824
01:06:05.117 --> 01:06:08.746
- Thank you, Mr. Breen. Mr. Hughes.
- Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

825
01:06:09.087 --> 01:06:11.248
Mr. Breen. It's good to see you again.

826
01:06:11.423 --> 01:06:15.553
I haven't seen you all since that situation
with all the violence in <i>Scarface.</i>

827
01:06:15.761 --> 01:06:18.889
The situation here revolves
around Miss Russell's mammaries.

828
01:06:19.064 --> 01:06:21.624
Mr. Breen feels that they are
too prominent, yes?

829
01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:25.167
More prominent than other mammaries
have been up on the screen?

830
01:06:25.337 --> 01:06:27.965
Well, I hope to dispel that notion.

831
01:06:31.476 --> 01:06:32.909
Jean Harlow.

832
01:06:34.846 --> 01:06:36.473
Ann Sheridan.

833
01:06:37.916 --> 01:06:39.349
Irene Dunne.

834
01:06:39.518 --> 01:06:41.145
Claudette Colbert.

835
01:06:41.753 --> 01:06:43.448
Rita Hayworth.

836
01:06:43.855 --> 01:06:48.189
Betty Grable.
And the lovely Miss Jane Russell.

837
01:06:48.360 --> 01:06:52.729
Now, all these shots, save for Miss Russell,
were enlarged from pictures...

838
01:06:52.898 --> 01:06:56.163
...that received
Mr. Breen's seal of approval.

839
01:06:56.802 --> 01:07:01.899
Now, as you've probably noticed by now,
they all contain mammaries.

840
01:07:02.874 --> 01:07:05.900
I will ask my associate to join me now.
May I introduce...

841
01:07:06.078 --> 01:07:09.775
...Dr. Ludlow Branson
of Columbia University.

842
01:07:11.216 --> 01:07:13.081
Dr. Branson...

843
01:07:13.685 --> 01:07:17.143
...is a mathematician of some note.

844
01:07:17.322 --> 01:07:19.813
Yes. And he will now demonstrate...

845
01:07:19.991 --> 01:07:21.720
...that in fact...

846
01:07:21.893 --> 01:07:25.420
...Miss Russell's mammaries
are no more prominent...

847
01:07:25.597 --> 01:07:28.395
...than any of these other fine ladies'.

848
01:07:30.936 --> 01:07:32.198
Doctor.

849
01:07:33.705 --> 01:07:35.297
Doctor...

850
01:07:36.174 --> 01:07:38.438
...you forgot your calipers.

851
01:07:45.217 --> 01:07:48.448
Gentlemen, Mr. Hughes.

852
01:07:51.189 --> 01:07:53.714
Let us commence by calling this...

853
01:07:54.559 --> 01:07:56.857
...Mammary Exhibit Number One.

854
01:07:57.028 --> 01:08:02.796
Now, you'll see that the length
of the actual cleavage...

855
01:08:03.535 --> 01:08:06.732
...if I may, is...

856
01:08:07.772 --> 01:08:09.967
...5 inches and a quarter.

857
01:08:10.342 --> 01:08:11.707
Now if we move to Mammary Exhibit...

858
01:08:11.877 --> 01:08:13.344
<i>Dateline: Hollywoodland.</i>

859
01:08:13.512 --> 01:08:17.004
<i>Movie tycoon Howard Hughes</i>
<i>must have the greatest job in the land.</i>

860
01:08:17.182 --> 01:08:20.618
<i>Every night, the lucky guy escorts</i>
<i>a different beautiful woman...</i>

861
01:08:20.785 --> 01:08:22.719
<i>... to a different dazzling event.</i>

862
01:08:22.888 --> 01:08:27.552
<i>The TWA king always talks up</i>
<i>his airline as he escorts a succession...</i>

863
01:08:29.861 --> 01:08:31.988
<i>The Hercules, ladies and gentlemen.</i>

864
01:08:32.164 --> 01:08:33.631
<i>The Hercules.</i>

865
01:08:33.798 --> 01:08:37.734
<i>A plane, a boat, a flying city.</i>

866
01:08:37.903 --> 01:08:41.361
Don't forget, every bill comes to me.
They don't pay for anything.

867
01:08:41.540 --> 01:08:44.976
Those men decide whether to fund
the plane, so I need them happy.

868
01:08:45.343 --> 01:08:47.607
- You do what it takes.
- You betcha, boss.

869
01:08:48.013 --> 01:08:50.311
How are the girls
in the bomb department?

870
01:08:50.482 --> 01:08:54.316
Well, let's put it this way,
it'll be a regular boob buffet.

871
01:08:54.486 --> 01:08:57.580
I don't think the Air Corps men
will have trouble scoring.

872
01:08:57.756 --> 01:09:01.419
- Good.
<i>- And inside, 700 brave American soldiers...</i>

873
01:09:01.593 --> 01:09:06.087
<i>... a dozen Sherman tanks all winging</i>
<i>their way over the Atlantic...</i>

874
01:09:06.264 --> 01:09:08.698
<i>... free from the threats</i>
<i>of the U-boats below.</i>

875
01:09:08.867 --> 01:09:13.201
<i>Could Jules Verne himself have</i>
<i>ever imagined anything so magnificent?</i>

876
01:09:13.371 --> 01:09:17.307
<i>Could he have imagined her mammoth</i>
<i>wingspan, longer than a football field?</i>

877
01:09:17.576 --> 01:09:19.305
Don't you see how this demeans me?

878
01:09:19.477 --> 01:09:21.809
Since when do you care
about scandal rags?

879
01:09:21.980 --> 01:09:25.279
Every time there's a picture of you with
another woman, it's a slap in the face.

880
01:09:25.450 --> 01:09:28.419
- Don't you understand that?
- Well, that's overstating it.

881
01:09:28.587 --> 01:09:31.920
Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers,
Linda Darnell, Joan Fontaine...

882
01:09:32.090 --> 01:09:34.991
...and now Bette Davis,
for God's sake.

883
01:09:36.861 --> 01:09:42.026
Look, they're Cracker Jack candy, honey.
They don't mean anything to me.

884
01:09:42.200 --> 01:09:45.169
Oh, very nice.

885
01:09:46.838 --> 01:09:49.739
You're the one that said
that all men are predators.

886
01:09:49.908 --> 01:09:52.809
I mean, it's all in Darwin, remember?

887
01:09:53.144 --> 01:09:56.739
And am I to expect this behavior
to continue after the wedding?

888
01:09:56.915 --> 01:09:58.974
What is really bothering you, Kate?

889
01:09:59.150 --> 01:10:02.415
Is it the women or the publicity?

890
01:10:07.659 --> 01:10:11.891
Can't you eat ice cream from a bowl
like everyone else in the world?

891
01:10:19.004 --> 01:10:22.565
Don't you dare.

892
01:10:34.252 --> 01:10:35.514
Yeah.

893
01:10:36.688 --> 01:10:40.283
No, Odie, this is not a good time.

894
01:10:40.525 --> 01:10:44.689
For chrissakes, we can't make The Hercules
if we don't have any aluminum.

895
01:10:44.863 --> 01:10:46.455
Wait.

896
01:10:46.631 --> 01:10:49.691
I can hear you better now.
Tell the War Production Board...

897
01:10:49.868 --> 01:10:53.065
...that this is an essential
strategic operation.

898
01:10:53.238 --> 01:10:57.800
If they're giving aluminum to Boeing,
they can give some to Hughes Aircraft.

899
01:10:57.976 --> 01:11:00.945
Don't set the ice cream...

900
01:11:01.112 --> 01:11:05.481
We gotta think of something else. If we
can't get aluminum, we'll find another way.

901
01:11:05.917 --> 01:11:09.250
You tell me. We'll find
some alloy that works just as well.

902
01:11:09.521 --> 01:11:12.149
Right. Look...

903
01:11:12.324 --> 01:11:16.454
- lf we can't get aluminum, we'll use wood.
- You can't make a plane out of wood.

904
01:11:16.628 --> 01:11:19.153
Why not?
The damn thing is a flying boat, right?

905
01:11:19.331 --> 01:11:21.299
- What do they use to make boats?
- Oak.

906
01:11:21.466 --> 01:11:24.401
And think of The Hercules
like a flying Spanish galleon.

907
01:11:24.569 --> 01:11:27.367
Spanish galleons
can weigh 1200 tons.

908
01:11:28.239 --> 01:11:30.070
Good luck today.

909
01:11:30.608 --> 01:11:33.941
We just have to find the right wood.
Something light but strong.

910
01:11:34.112 --> 01:11:36.910
- Morning, Kate.
- Pine, cedar, maybe birch.

911
01:11:47.425 --> 01:11:49.017
Catch.

912
01:11:52.931 --> 01:11:54.728
From my farm.

913
01:11:55.300 --> 01:11:57.894
If you like it, I can get you a bushel.

914
01:12:10.715 --> 01:12:13.149
Trouble with Mr. Hughes?

915
01:12:18.556 --> 01:12:22.993
There's too much Howard Hughes
in Howard Hughes.

916
01:12:24.829 --> 01:12:26.854
That's the trouble.

917
01:12:40.011 --> 01:12:41.808
Beautiful.

918
01:12:43.782 --> 01:12:45.181
Don't you take Christmas off?

919
01:12:46.518 --> 01:12:49.282
Nice to see you.
Sorry, I've got grease on my hands.

920
01:12:49.454 --> 01:12:51.979
Have we got something to show you.

921
01:12:56.361 --> 01:13:01.094
Take a look. The XF-11
reconnaissance flier. Spy plane, really.

922
01:13:02.033 --> 01:13:04.729
Designed every inch of her myself.

923
01:13:04.903 --> 01:13:06.894
She's got a top speed of 450...

924
01:13:07.071 --> 01:13:09.904
...which means she can outrun
anything they throw against her.

925
01:13:10.074 --> 01:13:13.168
After the Japs stole
my H-1 design for their Zeros...

926
01:13:13.344 --> 01:13:15.505
...I needed to do them one better.

927
01:13:16.614 --> 01:13:19.742
Yeah, she's my Buck Rogers ship.

928
01:13:19.918 --> 01:13:21.943
She's a looker.

929
01:13:22.587 --> 01:13:24.214
Okay, what do you got for me?

930
01:13:31.663 --> 01:13:33.893
Jiminy Cricket.

931
01:13:34.065 --> 01:13:37.728
Seating capacity for 60.
Wingspan, 123 feet.

932
01:13:37.902 --> 01:13:41.269
Four Double Cyclone engines.
Her ceiling's 25,000 feet.

933
01:13:41.439 --> 01:13:44.670
- Gross weight?
- 86,000, wing loading of 41 pounds.

934
01:13:44.843 --> 01:13:47.641
So less drag on the plane in thinner air.

935
01:13:47.812 --> 01:13:51.270
So high-cruise power, you're looking
at a top speed of around 340.

936
01:13:52.350 --> 01:13:55.911
Giving her a range of about 3000 miles.

937
01:13:57.088 --> 01:13:59.579
- Cross-country.
- Nonstop.

938
01:14:00.892 --> 01:14:02.450
Bob...

939
01:14:02.627 --> 01:14:05.790
...you know something?
You are a son of a bitch.

940
01:14:16.741 --> 01:14:20.233
Yeah. Bob, you got
something on your suit.

941
01:14:21.813 --> 01:14:23.280
Yeah.

942
01:14:23.648 --> 01:14:26.139
On your lapel.
You got something on your lapel.

943
01:14:29.287 --> 01:14:31.152
Right there, Bob.

944
01:14:32.924 --> 01:14:34.482
You missed it. Right there.

945
01:14:36.794 --> 01:14:38.659
Clean it off, would you?

946
01:14:38.830 --> 01:14:41.321
Here. Thanks.

947
01:14:44.602 --> 01:14:46.035
No, throw it away.

948
01:14:50.074 --> 01:14:51.473
No, over there.

949
01:14:57.982 --> 01:15:01.816
Thanks. So, what do you call her?

950
01:15:01.986 --> 01:15:04.147
The Constellation,
but we can change that.

951
01:15:04.322 --> 01:15:05.949
No, no.

952
01:15:06.124 --> 01:15:09.150
It's pretty. I like her.

953
01:15:10.128 --> 01:15:12.221
So, what kind of deal can you give me?

954
01:15:12.397 --> 01:15:14.194
What kind of deal can you give me?

955
01:15:14.365 --> 01:15:16.663
The first 40 planes off the assembly line.

956
01:15:16.834 --> 01:15:19.359
That should give us about
two years' exclusivity.

957
01:15:19.537 --> 01:15:20.834
Hell, more than that.

958
01:15:21.005 --> 01:15:24.998
United and American don't have
the imagination for a plane like this.

959
01:15:25.176 --> 01:15:27.770
Two years ahead of Juan Trippe, then.

960
01:15:32.817 --> 01:15:34.079
How much?

961
01:15:34.252 --> 01:15:36.413
Four hundred and fifty thousand each.

962
01:15:37.221 --> 01:15:40.088
So that's 18 million for the first 40.

963
01:15:41.025 --> 01:15:44.085
Hell, TWA can't afford that.
The damn airline's flat broke.

964
01:15:48.266 --> 01:15:50.734
Guess I'll just have
to pay for them myself.

965
01:15:51.636 --> 01:15:54.696
Build them, Bob.
Send the bill to Noah Dietrich.

966
01:15:54.872 --> 01:15:56.396
Oh, and thank you.

967
01:16:00.178 --> 01:16:02.009
Merry Christmas.

968
01:16:02.180 --> 01:16:06.640
<i>You've just placed the largest order for</i>
<i>airplanes in the history of the damn planet.</i>

969
01:16:06.818 --> 01:16:08.945
<i>Lockheed sent us a bill for $18 million.</i>

970
01:16:09.120 --> 01:16:12.385
Don't get all hysterical on me, Noah.
It isn't good for you.

971
01:16:12.557 --> 01:16:15.890
<i>- This is a lot of money for planes.</i>
- I know it's a lot of money.

972
01:16:16.060 --> 01:16:19.689
<i>It's too damn much. You think I've got</i>
<i>$18 million in petty cash?</i>

973
01:16:19.864 --> 01:16:22.025
I should've told you. It slipped my mind.

974
01:16:22.200 --> 01:16:24.100
<i>- Slipped your mind? Oh, for...</i>
- Right.

975
01:16:24.268 --> 01:16:27.726
- I'll get back to you. Bye.
<i>- How could $18 million slip your mind?</i>

976
01:16:28.606 --> 01:16:31.769
Hey, honey.
What are you doing home?

977
01:16:36.214 --> 01:16:39.047
You're not one for tears, and, well...

978
01:16:39.217 --> 01:16:43.483
...neither am I,
so it's best to come out with it.

979
01:16:46.591 --> 01:16:50.823
I've met someone.
I've fallen in love and I'm moving out.

980
01:16:53.431 --> 01:16:58.198
If I could make it
any more gentle, I would.

981
01:16:58.369 --> 01:17:02.430
But I can't, so...

982
01:17:03.474 --> 01:17:05.374
...there we both are.

983
01:17:08.980 --> 01:17:10.811
Let's be honest.

984
01:17:10.982 --> 01:17:15.476
It's all been a grand adventure,
but it couldn't possibly last.

985
01:17:15.653 --> 01:17:18.554
We're too alike, you and I.

986
01:17:21.693 --> 01:17:22.990
You met someone?

987
01:17:23.161 --> 01:17:27.097
Someone more appropriate.
To me, I mean.

988
01:17:29.801 --> 01:17:32.770
What does that mean,
"more appropriate"?

989
01:17:33.171 --> 01:17:37.267
Someone more attuned to my needs.

990
01:17:37.809 --> 01:17:39.743
Look at me, Katie.

991
01:17:39.911 --> 01:17:41.811
Stop acting.

992
01:17:42.246 --> 01:17:45.044
I'm not acting.

993
01:17:49.654 --> 01:17:52.282
I wonder if you even know anymore.

994
01:17:57.195 --> 01:17:59.425
Don't be unkind.

995
01:18:02.133 --> 01:18:03.828
You?

996
01:18:05.169 --> 01:18:06.500
You wanna go?

997
01:18:10.141 --> 01:18:11.768
Go on.

998
01:18:12.343 --> 01:18:15.471
Actresses are cheap in this town, darling.

999
01:18:15.646 --> 01:18:18.240
- And I got a lot of money.
- This is beneath you.

1000
01:18:18.416 --> 01:18:20.850
No, no, this is exactly me.

1001
01:18:21.018 --> 01:18:26.149
You tell me you're leaving me, and you
have the nerve to expect graciousness?

1002
01:18:26.624 --> 01:18:28.615
I expect a little maturity.

1003
01:18:28.793 --> 01:18:31.694
I expect you to face the situation
like an adult who...

1004
01:18:31.863 --> 01:18:34.161
Don't talk down to me!

1005
01:18:34.332 --> 01:18:37.324
Don't you ever talk down to me!
You are a movie star.

1006
01:18:37.502 --> 01:18:39.060
Nothing more.

1007
01:19:51.108 --> 01:19:53.042
<i>Don't answer it.</i>

1008
01:19:55.913 --> 01:19:57.608
What is it, Howard?

1009
01:19:57.782 --> 01:20:00.080
<i>Hey, Noah...</i>

1010
01:20:00.251 --> 01:20:03.243
...I need you to get to Penney's
and buy me some clothes.

1011
01:20:03.421 --> 01:20:05.218
- Penney's isn't open.
- Oh, shit.

1012
01:20:05.389 --> 01:20:08.324
- It's 2 in the morning.
- Yeah, that's right.

1013
01:20:08.492 --> 01:20:11.222
Well, first thing tomorrow, then, all right?

1014
01:20:11.395 --> 01:20:14.455
I need two new suits off the rack.
One light and one dark.

1015
01:20:14.632 --> 01:20:17.863
Three white shirts and three pairs
of white tennis shoes. Got that?

1016
01:20:18.035 --> 01:20:19.969
- Yeah.
- No, no.

1017
01:20:20.137 --> 01:20:21.968
- Make it Woolworth's.
- Woolworth's.

1018
01:20:22.139 --> 01:20:24.733
No, no, Penney's. Penney's.

1019
01:20:24.909 --> 01:20:26.638
All right.

1020
01:20:27.345 --> 01:20:30.143
I'll get into it as soon as I can, Howard.

1021
01:20:30.481 --> 01:20:33.041
- All right?
- Noah, do you have a recorder?

1022
01:20:33.751 --> 01:20:36.948
- No.
- Are you recording this conversation?

1023
01:20:37.121 --> 01:20:39.521
- No.
- Okay.

1024
01:20:39.690 --> 01:20:41.521
I trust you.

1025
01:20:42.560 --> 01:20:45.927
- Howard...
- I need those suits first thing tomorrow.

1026
01:20:46.097 --> 01:20:49.555
- All right.
- Wait. Did I say Penney's or Woolworth's?

1027
01:20:49.734 --> 01:20:52.362
- Penney's.
- Better make it Sears.

1028
01:20:52.536 --> 01:20:55.027
All right, then, Sears.

1029
01:20:57.909 --> 01:21:00.070
I'm sorry, honey.

1030
01:21:01.279 --> 01:21:03.543
If I don't answer, he'll just call back.

1031
01:21:25.436 --> 01:21:28.462
Stop there, if you please, Miss Domergue.

1032
01:21:34.345 --> 01:21:36.245
Have you had surgery, Miss Domergue?

1033
01:21:38.115 --> 01:21:39.582
No.

1034
01:21:40.418 --> 01:21:43.512
Do you have scars of any kind?

1035
01:21:44.922 --> 01:21:46.446
No.

1036
01:21:48.092 --> 01:21:50.219
Wipe off your lipstick.

1037
01:21:54.799 --> 01:21:56.061
That's much better.

1038
01:21:57.668 --> 01:22:02.571
Now, you understand that you'd be
under contract to me? Personally.

1039
01:22:03.507 --> 01:22:05.634
Do you know what that means?

1040
01:22:13.985 --> 01:22:15.748
Now turn around for me.

1041
01:22:24.028 --> 01:22:25.518
Very nice.

1042
01:22:26.664 --> 01:22:28.529
You move well.

1043
01:22:31.369 --> 01:22:33.337
You live with your family, do you?

1044
01:22:35.439 --> 01:22:37.031
Yes.

1045
01:22:37.508 --> 01:22:39.032
That's nice.

1046
01:22:40.378 --> 01:22:42.141
Tell me something.

1047
01:22:43.514 --> 01:22:45.914
How old are you, Miss Domergue?

1048
01:22:48.886 --> 01:22:50.649
Fifteen.

1049
01:22:54.058 --> 01:22:55.218
Holy Mother of God.

1050
01:23:14.644 --> 01:23:18.444
Well, a car picks me up
every morning at 8, and off I go.

1051
01:23:18.614 --> 01:23:21.640
I'm getting my high school diploma.

1052
01:23:21.818 --> 01:23:24.514
Howard thinks that education is important.

1053
01:23:24.687 --> 01:23:27.087
- That's right.
- And then, after classes...

1054
01:23:27.256 --> 01:23:30.817
...I'm off for elocution
and grooming and fittings.

1055
01:23:30.993 --> 01:23:32.790
Well, blow me down.

1056
01:23:33.996 --> 01:23:36.226
Pan Am's working
out of the Cocoanut Grove?

1057
01:23:36.399 --> 01:23:38.333
- Hello, Jack.
- Hello, Juan.

1058
01:23:38.501 --> 01:23:40.230
Helen, good to see you.

1059
01:23:40.403 --> 01:23:42.894
- How are you, Howard?
- Good, thanks.

1060
01:23:43.072 --> 01:23:44.869
- This is Faith Domergue.
- Sit down.

1061
01:23:45.041 --> 01:23:46.906
- Pleasure.
- What are you doing here?

1062
01:23:47.076 --> 01:23:49.874
Well, I'm out to meet
with Douglas about the DC-4.

1063
01:23:50.046 --> 01:23:53.914
It's our new plane, and it is
gonna be a pip, let me tell you.

1064
01:23:54.083 --> 01:23:57.280
- How's the Constellation coming?
- Good.

1065
01:23:57.587 --> 01:23:58.849
Great.

1066
01:24:00.256 --> 01:24:02.747
So how about letting me steal a peek?

1067
01:24:04.727 --> 01:24:06.695
I don't think so.

1068
01:24:06.863 --> 01:24:09.889
I should be cross with you.
You stole Ray Loewy from us.

1069
01:24:10.700 --> 01:24:14.227
- He's doing our interior design. That's right.
- He was doing ours.

1070
01:24:16.739 --> 01:24:18.502
So...

1071
01:24:19.041 --> 01:24:21.509
...what are your colors?
- Stop fishing.

1072
01:24:23.246 --> 01:24:25.737
So you have buttons...

1073
01:24:25.915 --> 01:24:27.348
...or zippers?

1074
01:24:27.783 --> 01:24:29.045
I'm sorry?

1075
01:24:30.987 --> 01:24:34.889
Buttons or zippers for the drapes
on the sleeping berths?

1076
01:24:38.394 --> 01:24:40.055
Zippers.

1077
01:24:48.971 --> 01:24:50.529
Buttons.

1078
01:25:00.216 --> 01:25:03.208
So I suppose you'll be
expanding on down to Mexico.

1079
01:25:03.719 --> 01:25:07.246
- Why do you say that?
- Well, your range is 3000 miles.

1080
01:25:07.423 --> 01:25:11.519
I'd imagine you'd expand from Los Angeles
to Mexico and South America.

1081
01:25:11.694 --> 01:25:13.855
Hey, that's a good idea.
Anyone got a pen?

1082
01:25:14.030 --> 01:25:16.157
Or across the Atlantic.

1083
01:25:19.168 --> 01:25:21.068
You've had enough of this ice cream.

1084
01:25:21.237 --> 01:25:24.798
You give me that spoon. You don't
wanna get your gloves all sticky.

1085
01:25:26.776 --> 01:25:28.641
Isn't that too far?

1086
01:25:33.683 --> 01:25:35.583
New York...

1087
01:25:35.751 --> 01:25:37.776
...to Newfoundland...

1088
01:25:38.487 --> 01:25:39.749
...to Ireland.

1089
01:25:44.994 --> 01:25:46.586
To Paris.

1090
01:25:53.736 --> 01:25:55.363
Well...

1091
01:25:55.905 --> 01:25:57.998
...Pan Am welcomes you.

1092
01:25:58.174 --> 01:26:00.005
We're overbooked as it is.

1093
01:26:00.176 --> 01:26:03.805
It's such a burden doing it all
on your own, let me tell you.

1094
01:26:03.980 --> 01:26:06.039
So when's the Connie gonna be ready?

1095
01:26:06.215 --> 01:26:08.843
- Next year maybe. DC-4?
- Next year.

1096
01:26:09.018 --> 01:26:12.181
Well, we look forward to her then.

1097
01:26:12.755 --> 01:26:14.484
And I to the Connie.

1098
01:26:16.359 --> 01:26:19.988
I've ordered the next 40 after you.

1099
01:26:20.229 --> 01:26:21.992
- It's Miss?
- Domergue.

1100
01:26:22.164 --> 01:26:25.531
Yes, of course. Now, was that a
rumba or a samba you were doing?

1101
01:26:25.968 --> 01:26:28.698
- It was a samba.
- A samba, yes.

1102
01:26:28.871 --> 01:26:32.136
Howard, I never knew
you were such a good dancer.

1103
01:26:33.109 --> 01:26:34.940
Helen, Jack.

1104
01:26:36.779 --> 01:26:39.577
Good going. You gave away
our entire postwar strategy.

1105
01:26:39.749 --> 01:26:44.209
- He can't stop us.
- He's Pan Am. He can stop anything.

1106
01:26:46.255 --> 01:26:48.052
Give me the largest
Scotch you got.

1107
01:26:48.224 --> 01:26:51.819
I don't know what in the hell you're
so damn giddy about. Excuse me.

1108
01:28:43.906 --> 01:28:45.339
Jack.

1109
01:28:45.508 --> 01:28:49.137
Get in touch with Joyce and Berg.
Those are my boys in Washington.

1110
01:28:49.311 --> 01:28:52.712
Set up a meeting with Jones,
secretary of commerce, old golfing buddy.

1111
01:28:52.882 --> 01:28:55.817
- Slow down.
- We'll need terminals in Ireland and France.

1112
01:28:55.985 --> 01:28:57.452
I wanna get some tax breaks.

1113
01:28:57.620 --> 01:29:01.283
If that ass thinks he owns the world,
he's got another thing coming.

1114
01:29:01.457 --> 01:29:04.324
Pan Am owns Europe.
We ought to think about Mexico.

1115
01:29:04.493 --> 01:29:08.589
To hell with Mexico. No airline should
have a monopoly on flying the Atlantic.

1116
01:29:08.764 --> 01:29:12.063
It just isn't fair.
He owns Pan Am, he owns Congress.

1117
01:29:12.234 --> 01:29:16.068
He owns the Civil Aeronautics Board,
but he does not own the sky.

1118
01:29:16.238 --> 01:29:18.866
We're in a street fight
with that son of a bitch.

1119
01:29:19.041 --> 01:29:22.704
I've been fighting high-hat
Ivy League pricks like him my whole life.

1120
01:29:22.878 --> 01:29:26.507
And listen, fire Ray Loewy.
You goddamn heard me? Fire Ray Loewy.

1121
01:29:26.682 --> 01:29:30.083
He's spying for Trippe.
That shitheel knew all about the buttons.

1122
01:29:30.252 --> 01:29:32.220
Spies in my midst, Jack.

1123
01:29:32.922 --> 01:29:34.719
Spies in my midst.

1124
01:29:49.171 --> 01:29:52.072
- Hello, Howard.
- Roland.

1125
01:29:53.976 --> 01:29:55.534
So...

1126
01:29:55.711 --> 01:29:57.235
...what can I do for you?

1127
01:30:00.449 --> 01:30:04.442
I want all the pictures you have
of Kate Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

1128
01:30:04.620 --> 01:30:08.147
All the negatives.
And I want you to kill the story.

1129
01:30:08.324 --> 01:30:11.691
Howard, he's a married man.
He's a Catholic.

1130
01:30:11.861 --> 01:30:14.125
They're movie stars.
Fair game all around.

1131
01:30:22.605 --> 01:30:24.766
My office knows where I am, Howard.

1132
01:30:25.808 --> 01:30:28.606
I'm not gonna kill you, Roland.

1133
01:30:28.777 --> 01:30:30.711
I don't do that.

1134
01:30:35.451 --> 01:30:38.079
- How much?
- Not for sale.

1135
01:30:41.357 --> 01:30:42.915
How much?

1136
01:30:43.792 --> 01:30:46.955
Not for sale.

1137
01:30:50.299 --> 01:30:52.392
You ever cheat on your wife, Roland?

1138
01:30:54.203 --> 01:30:56.637
You ever screw a colored girl?

1139
01:30:57.339 --> 01:31:00.502
You ever steal anything?
You ever hurt anyone?

1140
01:31:02.645 --> 01:31:04.476
Good night, Howard.

1141
01:31:04.880 --> 01:31:07.849
You ever go to
a Communist Party meeting, Roland?

1142
01:31:17.693 --> 01:31:19.820
TWA stock.

1143
01:31:20.863 --> 01:31:22.125
How much?

1144
01:31:23.732 --> 01:31:25.199
Fifty thousand shares.

1145
01:31:25.834 --> 01:31:27.301
Ten.

1146
01:31:30.372 --> 01:31:31.703
All right.

1147
01:31:34.810 --> 01:31:36.641
This isn't gonna be that easy.

1148
01:31:37.012 --> 01:31:40.413
He's been making big contributions
on both sides of the aisle.

1149
01:31:40.583 --> 01:31:44.019
And Jack Frye is out there
lobbying everybody in town.

1150
01:31:44.186 --> 01:31:47.349
The French and British ambassadors
are lined up on his side.

1151
01:31:48.691 --> 01:31:51.854
I'm telling you, TWA is serious
about going international.

1152
01:31:52.027 --> 01:31:53.654
Okay.

1153
01:31:53.829 --> 01:31:55.763
Point, Mr. Hughes.

1154
01:31:56.131 --> 01:31:59.794
I think it's time for you to introduce
the community airline bill...

1155
01:31:59.969 --> 01:32:01.493
...on the floor of the Senate.

1156
01:32:02.504 --> 01:32:05.302
- Is it done?
- My people are finishing it right now.

1157
01:32:05.474 --> 01:32:10.002
I also have to get you on the committee
investigating the national defense.

1158
01:32:12.448 --> 01:32:15.508
On the committee or chairman?

1159
01:32:15.851 --> 01:32:18.513
I could be much more effective
as chairman.

1160
01:32:18.687 --> 01:32:22.453
It's a great public platform.
You know, it generates a lot of press.

1161
01:32:22.625 --> 01:32:26.083
- Wasn't Truman chairman of that committee?
- Yeah, right.

1162
01:32:26.261 --> 01:32:28.661
He's vice president.
Look what he did with it.

1163
01:32:28.831 --> 01:32:30.890
No, I think...

1164
01:32:31.600 --> 01:32:33.534
I think chairman.

1165
01:32:34.203 --> 01:32:35.636
What do you think?

1166
01:32:37.673 --> 01:32:40.233
- Chairman. That is interesting.
- Yeah.

1167
01:32:40.409 --> 01:32:43.901
Let me show you
these specs for the DC-4.

1168
01:32:44.179 --> 01:32:47.637
Ava, what do you think about
Trans World Airlines?

1169
01:32:47.816 --> 01:32:50.341
Transcontinental and Western
doesn't fit anymore.

1170
01:32:50.519 --> 01:32:53.386
We're international,
we need a name that reflects that.

1171
01:32:53.555 --> 01:32:56.251
Trans World is good. Kind of peppy.

1172
01:32:56.425 --> 01:32:58.950
TWA, right?

1173
01:32:59.128 --> 01:33:01.892
That way you don't need
to repaint any of the planes.

1174
01:33:02.064 --> 01:33:04.225
That's you. Always pinching pennies.

1175
01:33:05.401 --> 01:33:07.392
Hand me my wrap.

1176
01:33:21.417 --> 01:33:23.578
Knock it off.

1177
01:33:29.792 --> 01:33:32.317
I have something for you.

1178
01:33:33.562 --> 01:33:35.393
Stay here.

1179
01:33:40.869 --> 01:33:43.531
- What the hell is this?
- It's a present.

1180
01:33:43.706 --> 01:33:45.606
Go on, open it.

1181
01:33:46.775 --> 01:33:50.233
Oh, a box of trash.
You shouldn't have.

1182
01:33:50.412 --> 01:33:52.107
Keep looking, keep looking.

1183
01:33:56.952 --> 01:33:59.011
It's a Kashmiri sapphire.

1184
01:33:59.188 --> 01:34:02.316
I had my boys all over
the damn globe looking for this.

1185
01:34:02.491 --> 01:34:03.753
Why?

1186
01:34:03.926 --> 01:34:05.188
Because.

1187
01:34:05.360 --> 01:34:06.987
Look.

1188
01:34:07.162 --> 01:34:09.221
It matches your eyes.

1189
01:34:09.398 --> 01:34:11.764
I am not for sale.

1190
01:34:11.934 --> 01:34:13.993
For chrissakes, it's just a present.

1191
01:34:14.169 --> 01:34:17.366
You can't buy me, Howard,
so stop trying.

1192
01:34:17.539 --> 01:34:21.100
Don't buy me any more diamonds
or sapphires or any other damn thing.

1193
01:34:21.276 --> 01:34:23.710
You can buy me dinner.
How about that?

1194
01:34:24.446 --> 01:34:25.708
Jesus, Ava.

1195
01:34:26.749 --> 01:34:29.809
It's bad enough I have to endure
those gym shoes of yours.

1196
01:34:29.985 --> 01:34:33.648
But I get all dolled up and we go out
in this jalopy without a hood.

1197
01:34:35.090 --> 01:34:38.218
Ava, will you marry me?

1198
01:34:38.393 --> 01:34:41.089
- No, Howard.
- Well, why not, for heaven's sake?

1199
01:34:41.263 --> 01:34:43.823
In the first place, I don't love you.

1200
01:34:43.999 --> 01:34:46.365
In the second place, I'm still married.

1201
01:34:46.535 --> 01:34:51.234
Look, you got girls stashed all over town.
You got a damn harem just at the Bel-Air.

1202
01:34:51.406 --> 01:34:53.340
Marry one of your bungalow girls.

1203
01:34:53.509 --> 01:34:57.309
Those are employees. I won't marry
an employee. How would that look?

1204
01:35:05.487 --> 01:35:06.749
What is going on?

1205
01:35:10.058 --> 01:35:12.686
- Oh, my God!
- Goddamn it!

1206
01:35:14.329 --> 01:35:15.591
Faith!

1207
01:35:16.365 --> 01:35:18.299
- Faith, what the hell?
- Look out!

1208
01:35:18.467 --> 01:35:21.163
Goddamn, what the hell are you doing?

1209
01:35:24.339 --> 01:35:27.103
- Are you okay, lady?
- What are you doing with her?

1210
01:35:27.276 --> 01:35:29.938
We are going to dinner.
Now, get out of there.

1211
01:35:30.112 --> 01:35:32.103
Get that crazy bitch away from me!

1212
01:35:32.281 --> 01:35:33.873
Don't you love me anymore?

1213
01:35:34.049 --> 01:35:35.607
Course I love you, pork chop.

1214
01:35:35.784 --> 01:35:37.547
Ava, look over here. Howard.

1215
01:35:38.287 --> 01:35:39.549
Hey.

1216
01:35:42.991 --> 01:35:45.619
<i>Juan Trippe is working</i>
<i>with Senator Brewster now.</i>

1217
01:35:45.794 --> 01:35:50.128
They're after you. If the community
airline bill becomes law, we are finished.

1218
01:35:50.299 --> 01:35:52.392
Pan Am will have a monopoly
on international travel.

1219
01:35:52.568 --> 01:35:55.093
Well, how can they justify it?
It's un-American.

1220
01:35:55.270 --> 01:35:59.104
Brewster is saying that nationalized
foreign carriers, like Air France...

1221
01:35:59.274 --> 01:36:02.300
...can offer lower rates because
they don't have to compete.

1222
01:36:02.477 --> 01:36:05.776
Let's get rid of competition
and have a nationalized airline...

1223
01:36:05.948 --> 01:36:09.008
...and why don't we make it Pan Am?
- I'm not kowtowing to anyone.

1224
01:36:09.184 --> 01:36:11.448
- Howard, I need you up here.
- One sec, Odie.

1225
01:36:11.620 --> 01:36:14.145
Look, we are Trans World Airlines,
all right?

1226
01:36:14.323 --> 01:36:18.692
Get me something with a circle or a globe
or something round, for God's sake.

1227
01:36:18.861 --> 01:36:20.123
- Speak up.
- One cut.

1228
01:36:20.295 --> 01:36:24.459
I don't give a rat's ass. I'm not making
a cut. I'll release it without a seal.

1229
01:36:24.633 --> 01:36:26.328
We gotta go public with this.

1230
01:36:26.501 --> 01:36:28.366
I'm gonna talk to Hearst...

1231
01:36:28.537 --> 01:36:31.700
...but we gotta get
some senators on our side.

1232
01:36:31.874 --> 01:36:34.274
- What do you want me to do?
- What Trippe does.

1233
01:36:34.443 --> 01:36:37.173
Offshore operations.
See who's up for re-election...

1234
01:36:37.346 --> 01:36:39.940
...let's start making donations.
- Bribe senators?

1235
01:36:40.382 --> 01:36:43.044
I don't want them bribed.
I want it done legally.

1236
01:36:43.218 --> 01:36:46.551
I want them bought.
Put a team of investigators on Brewster.

1237
01:36:46.722 --> 01:36:49.054
I need to know everything
about that shitbag.

1238
01:36:49.224 --> 01:36:52.125
Where he goes, what he says
and who he screws.

1239
01:36:52.294 --> 01:36:54.285
- Get into it right now.
- You got it.

1240
01:37:01.937 --> 01:37:03.370
Just give me a second.

1241
01:37:05.707 --> 01:37:08.699
- All right, what do you need?
- Rudder and elevators.

1242
01:37:09.378 --> 01:37:11.437
No. These are fine.

1243
01:37:11.613 --> 01:37:15.709
Have Simon and Pete get back to me on the
assemblies. We need a secondary system.

1244
01:37:15.884 --> 01:37:17.374
Okay.

1245
01:37:18.186 --> 01:37:20.882
Listen, we need to take
another look at the wheel.

1246
01:37:21.056 --> 01:37:23.854
- Jesus. The damn wheel?
- Yeah.

1247
01:37:24.026 --> 01:37:25.550
It just doesn't feel right.

1248
01:37:25.727 --> 01:37:29.720
Christ almighty, you've seen 8000
goddamn wheels. Choose one, please.

1249
01:37:29.898 --> 01:37:31.695
- Just one of them.
- I know, I know.

1250
01:37:31.867 --> 01:37:34.233
- This one?
- I know, this one...

1251
01:37:34.403 --> 01:37:38.237
This one's pretty close. Pretty close.

1252
01:38:14.276 --> 01:38:15.766
Odie.

1253
01:38:16.678 --> 01:38:19.203
That man sweeping up over there...

1254
01:38:19.381 --> 01:38:22.441
...does he work for me?
I mean, have you seen him before?

1255
01:38:22.617 --> 01:38:25.177
Name's Nick, something like that.

1256
01:38:27.422 --> 01:38:29.185
Why's he looking at me?

1257
01:38:31.393 --> 01:38:32.826
I don't know.

1258
01:38:34.930 --> 01:38:38.058
Fire him. And make sure
they use damp brooms from now on.

1259
01:38:38.233 --> 01:38:41.600
Respiratory diseases are expensive,
and I don't want lawsuits.

1260
01:38:41.770 --> 01:38:44.671
But can we at least proceed
with the instrument panel?

1261
01:38:44.840 --> 01:38:47.274
- The tool shop's ready.
- I wanna see the blueprints.

1262
01:38:47.442 --> 01:38:50.411
Look, Howard, the deadline
is now completely unrealistic.

1263
01:38:50.579 --> 01:38:53.104
The war is gonna be over
by the time she's done.

1264
01:38:53.281 --> 01:38:57.479
I need you to help consult on vital decisions,
and you're off dealing with movies.

1265
01:38:57.652 --> 01:39:00.621
You got 1000 workers waiting
for you to make a decision...

1266
01:39:00.789 --> 01:39:02.416
Hey, Odie!

1267
01:39:02.591 --> 01:39:04.582
Take it easy, all right.

1268
01:39:04.760 --> 01:39:08.787
You're under pressure, but it's gonna
do me no good if you crack up on me.

1269
01:39:09.498 --> 01:39:11.227
All right? Look...

1270
01:39:11.400 --> 01:39:13.732
...take a couple of hours off, all right.

1271
01:39:13.902 --> 01:39:15.767
- You just relax a little.
- Okay.

1272
01:39:16.204 --> 01:39:18.229
- See your wife.
- Okay.

1273
01:39:18.640 --> 01:39:20.005
All right.

1274
01:39:20.876 --> 01:39:24.107
- Be sure to show me all the blueprints.
- All right.

1275
01:39:25.747 --> 01:39:27.977
Show me all the blueprints.

1276
01:39:28.450 --> 01:39:30.441
Show me all the blueprints.

1277
01:39:30.619 --> 01:39:34.248
I'm serious, now.
Show me all the blueprints.

1278
01:39:35.857 --> 01:39:37.484
Show me all the blueprints.

1279
01:39:37.659 --> 01:39:40.560
- Howard.
- Show me all the blueprints.

1280
01:39:40.729 --> 01:39:42.663
Show me all the blueprints.

1281
01:39:42.831 --> 01:39:44.389
Show me all the blueprints.

1282
01:39:44.566 --> 01:39:46.625
Show me all the blueprints.

1283
01:39:46.802 --> 01:39:48.895
I wanna get this done right.

1284
01:39:49.671 --> 01:39:51.104
Show me all the blueprints.

1285
01:39:51.273 --> 01:39:53.002
Show me all the blueprints.

1286
01:39:53.175 --> 01:39:55.769
Show me all the blueprints.

1287
01:39:55.944 --> 01:39:57.502
Show me all the blueprints.

1288
01:39:57.679 --> 01:39:59.613
- Howard.
- Show me all the blueprints.

1289
01:39:59.781 --> 01:40:03.444
Show me all the blueprints.
Show me all the blueprints...

1290
01:40:30.445 --> 01:40:32.879
Quarantine.

1291
01:40:33.915 --> 01:40:35.610
Q...

1292
01:40:35.784 --> 01:40:37.752
...U...

1293
01:40:37.919 --> 01:40:40.149
...A...

1294
01:40:40.789 --> 01:40:42.757
...R...

1295
01:40:43.425 --> 01:40:45.359
...A...

1296
01:40:45.527 --> 01:40:47.017
...N...

1297
01:40:47.195 --> 01:40:49.390
...T...

1298
01:40:49.798 --> 01:40:51.356
...I...

1299
01:40:51.533 --> 01:40:53.023
...N...

1300
01:40:57.973 --> 01:40:59.998
...E.

1301
01:41:02.911 --> 01:41:05.004
Quarantine.

1302
01:41:43.018 --> 01:41:46.078
General McEwan. Colonel Bertrang.
Thanks for coming down.

1303
01:41:46.254 --> 01:41:48.415
Odie, you reading me okay?

1304
01:41:48.590 --> 01:41:49.818
Yeah, you're A-okay.

1305
01:41:55.463 --> 01:41:58.660
<i>All right, flight controls are active.</i>
<i>She's all yours.</i>

1306
01:42:07.576 --> 01:42:09.908
Spotless.
No wiggle on the wheel or throttle.

1307
01:42:10.078 --> 01:42:11.909
<i>Take it easy.</i>

1308
01:42:28.930 --> 01:42:32.525
- How does she sound, Howard?
- She's whispering to me, buddy.

1309
01:42:32.701 --> 01:42:34.601
All right, make her sing.

1310
01:42:55.490 --> 01:42:58.721
Well, Odie, she can fly. Congratulations.

1311
01:42:58.893 --> 01:43:02.385
I'm glad to hear it. Retract landing gear
and climb to 5000 feet...

1312
01:43:02.564 --> 01:43:04.122
...on a heading of 2-7-0.

1313
01:43:04.299 --> 01:43:10.169
Retracting landing gear and climbing
to 5000 feet on a heading 2-7-0.

1314
01:43:14.676 --> 01:43:16.871
- She's fast.
- What's your air speed?

1315
01:43:17.045 --> 01:43:18.672
292.

1316
01:43:18.880 --> 01:43:22.407
<i>- All right, take her back to 200.</i>
- No damn way.

1317
01:43:48.209 --> 01:43:49.938
We gotta bring her home.

1318
01:43:50.111 --> 01:43:52.545
<i>Scheduled time of one hour</i>
<i>and 45 minutes has elapsed.</i>

1319
01:43:52.747 --> 01:43:55.682
<i>- Set course for 0-9-0...</i>
- Ten more minutes. Roger that.

1320
01:43:55.850 --> 01:43:58.444
<i>Negative, Howard. Bring her home.</i>

1321
01:43:58.620 --> 01:44:04.490
Okay. Okay. Setting course for 0-9-0.

1322
01:44:05.193 --> 01:44:07.093
Preparing to descend.

1323
01:44:10.732 --> 01:44:13.997
- Jesus.
<i>- What is it, Howard?</i>

1324
01:44:15.303 --> 01:44:18.795
The right wing just dipped.
I'm losing starboard engine.

1325
01:44:19.240 --> 01:44:21.868
Increasing power to 2800 rpm.

1326
01:44:22.344 --> 01:44:23.572
Cutting back.

1327
01:44:23.945 --> 01:44:25.879
Increasing starboard engine only.

1328
01:44:27.015 --> 01:44:29.745
Cutting back. I'm losing altitude.

1329
01:44:29.918 --> 01:44:32.478
Check starboard-engine manifold pressure.

1330
01:44:33.355 --> 01:44:37.223
- It's good, but rpm's are low.
<i>- Are both starboard props turning?</i>

1331
01:44:37.392 --> 01:44:38.859
Hold on.

1332
01:44:39.094 --> 01:44:42.120
They are, but she's pulling me
back and starboard, Odie.

1333
01:44:42.297 --> 01:44:44.891
- How bad is your cross control?
- I'm at full left rudder...

1334
01:44:45.066 --> 01:44:48.365
...and full left aileron,
but she won't stay level. Goddamn it.

1335
01:44:48.636 --> 01:44:51.503
- Give us your position.
- Two thousand feet over...

1336
01:44:51.673 --> 01:44:55.734
Oh, Christ, I don't know, Beverly Hills.
Fifteen hundred feet.

1337
01:44:55.910 --> 01:44:57.605
We're going down.

1338
01:44:58.546 --> 01:45:02.141
I'll try for the Wilshire Country Club.
Ninth hole. You reading me?

1339
01:45:02.317 --> 01:45:06.253
<i>Wilshire Country Club, copy that.</i>
<i>Howard, reduce engines to 1000.</i>

1340
01:45:06.955 --> 01:45:11.915
I'm going down!
I'm not gonna make it, buddy!

1341
01:45:18.400 --> 01:45:20.197
Goddamn it!

1342
01:47:22.557 --> 01:47:26.049
Is there anyone else inside?
Is there anyone else?!

1343
01:47:26.227 --> 01:47:27.922
No.

1344
01:47:31.766 --> 01:47:35.133
I'm Howard Hughes, the aviator.

1345
01:47:44.412 --> 01:47:47.108
- every inch of his
wiring and fluid connection.

1346
01:47:47.282 --> 01:47:49.944
He has burns to 78 percent of his body.

1347
01:47:50.118 --> 01:47:52.780
Nine ribs are shattered,
not broken, shattered...

1348
01:47:53.288 --> 01:47:57.748
...as are his nose, his chin, his cheek,
his left knee, his left elbow.

1349
01:47:57.926 --> 01:48:00.520
He has 60 lacerations
on his face, to the bone.

1350
01:48:01.095 --> 01:48:03.859
His chest was crushed,
so his left lung collapsed...

1351
01:48:04.032 --> 01:48:07.695
...and his heart has shifted
to the right side of his chest cavity.

1352
01:48:08.636 --> 01:48:10.536
Jesus, God.

1353
01:48:10.972 --> 01:48:15.306
- He's getting blood transfusions now, but...
- Whose blood?

1354
01:48:16.144 --> 01:48:18.305
- I'm sorry?
- Whose blood?

1355
01:48:18.813 --> 01:48:20.371
From our stock.

1356
01:48:21.049 --> 01:48:25.213
- Oh, he's not going to like that.
- Mr. Dietrich, I doubt he's...

1357
01:48:25.386 --> 01:48:28.321
...ever gonna like or
dislike anything again.

1358
01:48:28.957 --> 01:48:31.118
I'm terribly sorry.

1359
01:48:59.587 --> 01:49:01.487
<i>Orange juice.</i>

1360
01:49:04.592 --> 01:49:08.028
It's not fresh from the kitchen, so I...

1361
01:49:08.730 --> 01:49:13.827
I have them make it here so...
So I can see.

1362
01:49:17.939 --> 01:49:19.873
Look at me.

1363
01:49:22.510 --> 01:49:24.501
I'm a monster.

1364
01:49:24.979 --> 01:49:29.780
Yeah. Orange juice has nutritional value.

1365
01:49:30.952 --> 01:49:35.912
There's... There's some flies
outside my window, though.

1366
01:49:36.491 --> 01:49:38.254
So...

1367
01:49:40.294 --> 01:49:42.956
...little Howard likes...

1368
01:49:44.432 --> 01:49:46.559
...citrus.

1369
01:49:47.335 --> 01:49:49.200
Don't he just?

1370
01:49:52.340 --> 01:49:54.035
Tell me.

1371
01:49:55.677 --> 01:49:59.477
An oil seal ripped off
the starboard rear propeller.

1372
01:49:59.647 --> 01:50:03.105
When the pressure dropped,
the prop reversed pitch.

1373
01:50:03.618 --> 01:50:05.381
Do you understand me?

1374
01:50:05.920 --> 01:50:10.914
Howard, I'm sorry to have to tell you
this now, but there's something else.

1375
01:50:11.325 --> 01:50:14.055
- You following me?
- Yeah.

1376
01:50:15.263 --> 01:50:18.926
The Air Force canceled the contract
on The Hercules.

1377
01:50:21.269 --> 01:50:26.673
The war's over now,
and they say they don't need it anymore.

1378
01:50:27.141 --> 01:50:31.601
I have to know what you want me to do.
Should I release the staff?

1379
01:50:31.779 --> 01:50:33.872
How far...

1380
01:50:35.683 --> 01:50:37.116
...from finishing?

1381
01:50:38.352 --> 01:50:43.153
- About six months.
- No, in money.

1382
01:50:46.427 --> 01:50:48.292
Seven million.

1383
01:50:49.097 --> 01:50:50.462
Maybe more.

1384
01:50:55.870 --> 01:50:57.701
Build it.

1385
01:50:59.207 --> 01:51:01.141
Build it, Odie.

1386
01:51:02.977 --> 01:51:04.501
Howard...

1387
01:51:05.146 --> 01:51:09.207
...a Constellation crashed
outside Reading, Pennsylvania.

1388
01:51:09.684 --> 01:51:13.120
The Civil Aeronautics Board
has grounded the whole fleet.

1389
01:51:23.097 --> 01:51:24.758
You know...

1390
01:51:25.833 --> 01:51:29.098
...Juan Trippe sent me flowers.

1391
01:51:31.305 --> 01:51:33.000
Take a look.

1392
01:51:36.778 --> 01:51:41.647
- What did you do with all the others?
- Oh, I had them taken out.

1393
01:51:41.816 --> 01:51:44.979
They... They attract aphids.

1394
01:51:46.020 --> 01:51:50.719
Aphids are...
They're just awful little creatures.

1395
01:51:51.592 --> 01:51:53.355
But...

1396
01:51:55.696 --> 01:51:57.789
But these ones...

1397
01:51:58.766 --> 01:52:02.634
...I wanted to see these ones every day.

1398
01:52:10.178 --> 01:52:13.170
<i>Can white elephants fly?</i>
<i>That's everybody's question.</i>

1399
01:52:13.347 --> 01:52:18.375
<i>The hull of the world's mightiest airplane,</i>
<i>a flying boat built by Howard Hughes.</i>

1400
01:52:18.553 --> 01:52:22.717
<i>Two hundred and twenty feet long,</i>
<i>it towers higher than a five-story building.</i>

1401
01:52:22.890 --> 01:52:26.883
<i>Power lines have to be cut as it starts</i>
<i>the trip from Culver City...</i>

1402
01:52:27.061 --> 01:52:29.086
<i>... to the Pacific, 30 miles away.</i>

1403
01:52:29.263 --> 01:52:32.494
<i>Moving the 60-ton load</i>
<i>is quite an engineering problem.</i>

1404
01:52:32.667 --> 01:52:36.626
<i>But you gotta ask, was anything this big</i>
<i>ever supposed to fly?</i>

1405
01:52:36.804 --> 01:52:41.298
<i>There goes one wing section,</i>
<i>160 feet long with four engine housings.</i>

1406
01:52:41.475 --> 01:52:44.342
<i>Double that and you've got some idea</i>
<i>of the wingspread.</i>

1407
01:52:44.512 --> 01:52:48.812
<i>An airplane that challenges</i>
<i>a mountain for sheer size.</i>

1408
01:52:55.823 --> 01:52:58.053
How long can they keep us grounded?

1409
01:52:58.226 --> 01:53:01.787
Until they finish investigating
the Reading crash. Could be months.

1410
01:53:01.963 --> 01:53:06.900
You're running a $14 million deficit. How
will you afford to keep them out of service?

1411
01:53:07.101 --> 01:53:11.595
- We go international, we'll make it up.
- Brewster's C.A.B. bill isn't going away.

1412
01:53:11.772 --> 01:53:14.502
That bill passes,
and you bought these for nothing.

1413
01:53:14.675 --> 01:53:18.076
- We're fighting the C.A.B. bill.
- Meanwhile, how do we keep TWA flying?

1414
01:53:18.246 --> 01:53:22.842
Don't say, "Just go to Tool Co." We're
pumping every cent into The Hercules...

1415
01:53:23.017 --> 01:53:25.815
...which the Air Force
doesn't even want anymore.

1416
01:53:25.987 --> 01:53:29.753
I'm glad Jack is feeling sunny about things,
but I've seen the books.

1417
01:53:30.091 --> 01:53:32.525
I'm telling it straight. I'm not crying wolf.

1418
01:53:32.693 --> 01:53:35.787
We're in serious trouble.
You've gotta make a choice.

1419
01:53:35.963 --> 01:53:41.026
You wanna be bankrupted
by the big plane or by the big airline?

1420
01:53:48.342 --> 01:53:51.937
Go see Thomas Parkinson
at the Equitable in New York.

1421
01:53:52.113 --> 01:53:55.674
Get a loan against
all the TWA equipment and capital.

1422
01:53:55.850 --> 01:54:01.686
Use the planes as collateral. Hell, use the
desks, use the pens, use everything we got.

1423
01:54:01.856 --> 01:54:06.020
- Try to get me 40 million.
- And if TWA defaults on the loan?

1424
01:54:06.627 --> 01:54:09.528
Then Juan Trippe buys us cheap.

1425
01:54:12.133 --> 01:54:15.227
Under my bed! You put a goddamn
microphone under my bed!

1426
01:54:15.403 --> 01:54:17.530
Listen to me.
I am concerned about you.

1427
01:54:17.705 --> 01:54:21.072
- I just wanna make sure you're okay.
- And who is in that car?!

1428
01:54:21.409 --> 01:54:23.570
It's been with me 24 hours a day.

1429
01:54:23.744 --> 01:54:25.507
That car is for your protection!

1430
01:54:25.680 --> 01:54:29.138
The only one I need protection from is you,
you sick bastard!

1431
01:54:29.317 --> 01:54:30.841
You don't own me, Howard.

1432
01:54:31.018 --> 01:54:34.146
I'm not one of your teenage whores
or some damn airplane.

1433
01:54:34.322 --> 01:54:36.347
I'll have them take all the bugs out.

1434
01:54:36.524 --> 01:54:38.549
I need to know where you are.

1435
01:54:38.726 --> 01:54:41.388
- Why?!
- Because I worry about you, that's why.

1436
01:54:41.562 --> 01:54:43.553
Bullshit!

1437
01:54:46.067 --> 01:54:48.160
What do you mean, "all the bugs"?

1438
01:54:54.241 --> 01:54:56.869
What do you mean, "all the bugs"?

1439
01:54:59.180 --> 01:55:01.171
There's more.

1440
01:55:01.449 --> 01:55:03.246
How many?

1441
01:55:03.551 --> 01:55:09.717
I don't know, 12.
Twelve, maybe, and on the telephones.

1442
01:55:10.191 --> 01:55:13.854
Oh, Christ, Howard, on the telephone?

1443
01:55:14.028 --> 01:55:15.620
You listen to my phone calls?

1444
01:55:15.796 --> 01:55:19.596
No, no, honey, I would never do that.
I'd never do that.

1445
01:55:19.767 --> 01:55:22.793
I just read the transcripts, that's all.

1446
01:55:27.408 --> 01:55:29.535
What do you wanna know, Howard?

1447
01:55:29.710 --> 01:55:31.871
Was I screwing Artie Shaw last night?

1448
01:55:32.046 --> 01:55:34.742
Was I screwing Sinatra the night before?
You bet.

1449
01:55:34.915 --> 01:55:37.509
Everyone said you were a lunatic,
I didn't listen.

1450
01:55:37.685 --> 01:55:40.586
It's no wonder Kate Hepburn
dumped your demented ass!

1451
01:55:40.755 --> 01:55:43.223
Shut your goddamn mouth.

1452
01:55:47.395 --> 01:55:50.831
Get out, you pathetic freak.

1453
01:55:58.239 --> 01:56:00.400
Get out!

1454
01:56:00.574 --> 01:56:02.235
Is everything all right, sir?

1455
01:56:02.410 --> 01:56:04.742
Take out all the bugs, huh?

1456
01:56:06.881 --> 01:56:08.974
Except for the one
on the bedroom phone.

1457
01:56:09.150 --> 01:56:10.947
Sir, the FBI are at the house.

1458
01:56:12.787 --> 01:56:17.383
This is outrageous! Everything here is the
private property of Hughes Productions.

1459
01:56:17.558 --> 01:56:20.254
- My legal counsel is on the way...
- Federal warrant.

1460
01:56:20.428 --> 01:56:22.692
Don't interfere with the search, sir.

1461
01:56:42.383 --> 01:56:45.875
<i>Dateline: Los Angeles.</i>
<i>Howard Hughes has a new houseguest.</i>

1462
01:56:46.053 --> 01:56:49.648
<i>No, it's not another beautiful starlet.</i>
<i>This time it's the FBI.</i>

1463
01:56:49.824 --> 01:56:53.726
<i>Noah, you've got to help. This is</i>
<i>the 10th time they have been here.</i>

1464
01:56:53.894 --> 01:56:57.352
<i>Rumor has it that agents</i>
<i>working for Senator Owen Brewster...</i>

1465
01:56:57.531 --> 01:57:01.365
<i>... have practically taken up residence</i>
<i>in the aviation mogul's home.</i>

1466
01:57:01.535 --> 01:57:03.628
Look, I mean, they are touching things.

1467
01:57:03.971 --> 01:57:07.099
- Noah, they are touching things.
<i>- Just keep yourself calm...</i>

1468
01:57:07.274 --> 01:57:10.300
<i>... and I'll be down there</i>
<i>as soon as I can, Howard.</i>

1469
01:57:10.478 --> 01:57:12.173
<i>Howard?</i>

1470
01:57:12.346 --> 01:57:14.177
<i>Howard?</i>

1471
01:57:38.539 --> 01:57:40.439
Howard, hello.

1472
01:57:40.608 --> 01:57:43.941
- Nice to see you again.
- Good to see you. Come on inside.

1473
01:57:44.111 --> 01:57:46.636
- Emma, you can start up lunch now.
- Yes, sir.

1474
01:57:46.814 --> 01:57:51.308
Well, really lovely room.
It's nicely decorated.

1475
01:57:51.485 --> 01:57:53.248
Thank you. Here, have a seat.

1476
01:57:53.420 --> 01:57:54.853
Thanks for coming by.

1477
01:57:55.022 --> 01:57:58.150
I thought you and I
should have a chance to talk privately.

1478
01:57:58.325 --> 01:58:00.088
You know, outside the office.

1479
01:58:02.096 --> 01:58:03.427
Well...

1480
01:58:03.964 --> 01:58:05.932
...I appreciate that, Owen.

1481
01:58:13.340 --> 01:58:18.368
So you're coming out pretty strong
against the C.A.B. bill.

1482
01:58:19.113 --> 01:58:24.210
- You're coming on pretty strong for it.
- Well, it's my bill, Howard, you know.

1483
01:58:24.385 --> 01:58:28.617
Look, I believe sincerely
that America cannot afford...

1484
01:58:28.789 --> 01:58:31.622
...to have more than one
international carrier.

1485
01:58:33.194 --> 01:58:38.359
I mean, do you think it's fair that one airline
should have a monopoly on international..?

1486
01:58:38.532 --> 01:58:41.899
A monopoly? No, no, no. Oh, no.

1487
01:58:42.069 --> 01:58:47.132
No, I think one airline could do it better,
see, without competition.

1488
01:58:47.508 --> 01:58:52.138
All I'm thinking about are the interests,
the needs of the American passenger.

1489
01:58:52.513 --> 01:58:55.448
That's just beautiful. What is that?

1490
01:58:59.653 --> 01:59:01.951
What is that? Is that a?

1491
01:59:02.122 --> 01:59:04.022
Is that a yak?

1492
01:59:04.191 --> 01:59:06.921
- Some kind of a yak?
- No, that's a llama.

1493
01:59:07.094 --> 01:59:09.358
My wife picked that up
when we were in Peru.

1494
01:59:09.530 --> 01:59:11.589
Son of a gun.

1495
01:59:11.765 --> 01:59:14.256
A real llama.

1496
01:59:15.569 --> 01:59:19.198
- From Peru?
- Yeah. From a year ago, I think it was...

1497
01:59:19.373 --> 01:59:22.570
- Yeah, it was about a year ago.
- Lunch is served, senator.

1498
01:59:22.743 --> 01:59:25.234
Good. Okay.
Come on, let's go have some lunch.

1499
01:59:26.814 --> 01:59:30.807
Now, did you..?
Did you actually get to see any llamas?

1500
01:59:30.985 --> 01:59:33.453
No, no. My wife just liked the painting.

1501
01:59:33.621 --> 01:59:36.681
It's an interesting animal.
I'll have to read up on those.

1502
01:59:36.857 --> 01:59:41.294
How do you spell that?
Like? Like Fernando Lamas?

1503
01:59:41.662 --> 01:59:45.928
No, no. It's...
It's the animal, it's got two L's.

1504
01:59:46.100 --> 01:59:48.125
Here, come on, have a seat.

1505
01:59:57.278 --> 01:59:59.746
It's brook trout. Hope you like fish.

1506
02:00:02.283 --> 02:00:05.912
I love it. Thanks.

1507
02:00:21.135 --> 02:00:25.265
I know you're not a drinking man,
so I hope... Hope water's okay.

1508
02:00:38.152 --> 02:00:39.744
Thanks.

1509
02:00:45.693 --> 02:00:49.094
All right, let's get down to business.
Let's talk turkey.

1510
02:00:49.963 --> 02:00:52.295
My investigators...

1511
02:00:53.033 --> 02:00:55.866
My investigators
have turned up a lot of dirt.

1512
02:00:56.337 --> 02:00:59.670
It could be really embarrassing
if this stuff got out.

1513
02:01:00.374 --> 02:01:02.899
I'd like to save you
from that embarrassment.

1514
02:01:04.178 --> 02:01:06.305
That's very kind of you, Owen.

1515
02:01:09.316 --> 02:01:13.150
My committee has the power
to hold public hearings.

1516
02:01:14.722 --> 02:01:16.622
I'd like to spare you that.

1517
02:01:17.324 --> 02:01:18.552
Would you, now?

1518
02:01:19.893 --> 02:01:21.417
Look...

1519
02:01:21.595 --> 02:01:26.294
Do you wanna go down in history
as a war profiteer, Howard?

1520
02:01:26.467 --> 02:01:27.729
Is that what you want?

1521
02:01:30.237 --> 02:01:32.467
What do you want, Owen?

1522
02:01:34.041 --> 02:01:40.139
You agree to support my C.A.B. bill,
and I won't hold public hearings.

1523
02:01:40.314 --> 02:01:42.043
- I can't do that.
- Why not?

1524
02:01:42.216 --> 02:01:45.811
I can't do that, Owen.
The C.A.B. would kill TWA.

1525
02:01:45.986 --> 02:01:49.114
Sell TWA to Pan Am.

1526
02:01:49.757 --> 02:01:52.885
You'll get a good price.
You'll get a fair price.

1527
02:01:53.961 --> 02:01:56.156
And then..? Then you won't go public?

1528
02:01:56.330 --> 02:02:01.165
Right. That's right. The investigation's
closed. Nobody knows a thing.

1529
02:02:01.335 --> 02:02:04.361
That's... It's better for everybody.

1530
02:02:09.042 --> 02:02:12.569
You know, Owen,
I'm still wondering one thing.

1531
02:02:12.746 --> 02:02:16.443
- What's that?
- The picture of the llama you got last year?

1532
02:02:16.617 --> 02:02:19.279
- Yeah.
- Where'd you sail from?

1533
02:02:19.987 --> 02:02:22.012
We didn't sail. We flew.

1534
02:02:23.390 --> 02:02:25.517
- You flew?
- Yeah.

1535
02:02:33.333 --> 02:02:36.598
Are you sure you want to do this, Owen?

1536
02:02:37.371 --> 02:02:39.805
You want to go to war with me?

1537
02:02:44.611 --> 02:02:48.945
It isn't me, Howard.
It's the United States government.

1538
02:02:49.917 --> 02:02:52.477
We just beat Germany and Japan.

1539
02:02:53.053 --> 02:02:55.078
Who the hell are you?

1540
02:03:00.327 --> 02:03:05.026
You... You tell Juan Trippe
something for me, all right?

1541
02:03:05.666 --> 02:03:08.430
Tell him thanks for the flowers.

1542
02:03:08.802 --> 02:03:14.035
And he can kiss both sides of my ass.

1543
02:03:38.065 --> 02:03:40.533
<i>Well, we have a long list of particulars.</i>

1544
02:03:40.701 --> 02:03:44.865
Chief among them is that he defrauded
the American government...

1545
02:03:45.038 --> 02:03:48.599
...of $56 million while at war,
when we could least afford it.

1546
02:03:48.775 --> 02:03:51.801
While brave men were dying
on the beaches of Normandy...

1547
02:03:51.979 --> 02:03:55.415
...Mr. Hughes was picking the pocket
of the American taxpayer.

1548
02:03:55.582 --> 02:03:56.913
I sleep...

1549
02:03:57.718 --> 02:03:59.982
...in this room...

1550
02:04:01.722 --> 02:04:03.121
...in the dark.

1551
02:04:03.290 --> 02:04:06.191
I'll have him dragged here to Washington
if I have to.

1552
02:04:06.360 --> 02:04:08.590
I wanna see the whites of his lies.

1553
02:04:08.862 --> 02:04:10.887
I have a place.

1554
02:04:11.665 --> 02:04:15.294
- I can sleep.
<i>- He has a lot of questions to answer.</i>

1555
02:04:15.469 --> 02:04:18.529
- I have a chair.
- Particularly about that monstrous...

1556
02:04:18.705 --> 02:04:23.165
...boondoggle of his,
that model airplane he's building...

1557
02:04:23.343 --> 02:04:27.939
...that flying lumberyard,
that spruce goose.

1558
02:04:29.583 --> 02:04:31.949
<i>No, he'll... We'll get him here.</i>

1559
02:04:35.522 --> 02:04:36.955
That's just beautiful.

1560
02:04:37.958 --> 02:04:41.553
Oh, yeah. I like the desert.

1561
02:04:43.463 --> 02:04:47.229
It's hot there in the desert,
but it's clean.

1562
02:04:47.801 --> 02:04:49.462
It's clean.

1563
02:04:51.204 --> 02:04:53.138
I need to sleep.

1564
02:04:56.043 --> 02:04:58.341
I should drink something first.

1565
02:05:02.916 --> 02:05:04.679
I should drink something first.

1566
02:05:09.389 --> 02:05:11.118
Wait a minute.

1567
02:05:12.492 --> 02:05:14.016
What if that milk is sour?

1568
02:05:15.262 --> 02:05:16.889
That milk is bad.

1569
02:05:17.631 --> 02:05:22.591
I shouldn't pick up
the bottle of milk with my right hand.

1570
02:05:23.003 --> 02:05:29.272
And I shouldn't take the top off
with my left hand...

1571
02:05:30.243 --> 02:05:33.371
...put it in my pocket.

1572
02:05:33.547 --> 02:05:36.141
My left pocket.

1573
02:05:52.933 --> 02:05:57.199
Howard, it's Kate.
I need... I need to talk to you.

1574
02:05:58.405 --> 02:06:00.373
Can you hear me?

1575
02:06:02.843 --> 02:06:04.834
I'm coming in.

1576
02:06:09.683 --> 02:06:12.413
Howard, unlock this door immediately.

1577
02:06:20.961 --> 02:06:23.361
I can't, sweetie.

1578
02:06:26.266 --> 02:06:28.166
You mean you won't.

1579
02:06:30.037 --> 02:06:33.473
Howard, please let me see you.

1580
02:06:33.640 --> 02:06:38.805
- I haven't shaved.
- Well, neither have I.

1581
02:06:42.015 --> 02:06:43.846
Come on.

1582
02:06:44.017 --> 02:06:45.712
You...

1583
02:06:45.886 --> 02:06:48.354
You let me in.

1584
02:06:54.061 --> 02:06:56.427
I can hear you, Katie.

1585
02:06:57.898 --> 02:07:03.393
I could always hear you.
Even in the cockpit, with the engines on.

1586
02:07:04.071 --> 02:07:07.472
That's because I'm so goddamn loud.

1587
02:07:12.245 --> 02:07:14.179
Howard, I...

1588
02:07:16.249 --> 02:07:18.649
I came to thank you.

1589
02:07:19.486 --> 02:07:22.717
I found out what you did
for Spence and me.

1590
02:07:22.889 --> 02:07:26.154
Buying those awful pictures.

1591
02:07:30.797 --> 02:07:32.458
You love him.

1592
02:07:39.206 --> 02:07:41.834
He's everything I have.

1593
02:07:49.883 --> 02:07:51.908
Howard?

1594
02:07:52.886 --> 02:07:55.320
I'm glad for you, Kate.

1595
02:07:56.656 --> 02:07:59.090
Go away now. Would you do that?

1596
02:08:00.494 --> 02:08:03.759
- Howard, please.
- Go away.

1597
02:08:03.930 --> 02:08:07.331
Just for now. I'll see you soon.

1598
02:08:07.501 --> 02:08:09.901
- We'll go flying together.
- Yes.

1599
02:08:10.070 --> 02:08:12.937
Yes, please. You take me flying again.

1600
02:08:13.106 --> 02:08:15.939
Howard, I can take the wheel.

1601
02:08:21.782 --> 02:08:23.374
Howard?

1602
02:08:29.856 --> 02:08:31.915
Howard, are you..? Are you there?

1603
02:08:37.631 --> 02:08:39.292
Howard?

1604
02:08:41.101 --> 02:08:42.966
Howard, are you there?

1605
02:08:45.438 --> 02:08:47.463
Come on, Howard.

1606
02:08:50.410 --> 02:08:52.344
Howard, are you there?

1607
02:09:18.605 --> 02:09:20.698
Come in with the milk.

1608
02:09:20.874 --> 02:09:23.035
Come in with the milk.

1609
02:09:23.210 --> 02:09:25.542
Come in with the milk.

1610
02:09:25.846 --> 02:09:28.872
He is to open the bag
with his right hand...

1611
02:09:29.049 --> 02:09:32.143
...and hold the bag out to me
at a 45-degree angle...

1612
02:09:32.319 --> 02:09:35.652
...so I may reach into the bag without...

1613
02:09:37.691 --> 02:09:39.921
Without touching the paper.

1614
02:09:44.931 --> 02:09:46.990
Repeated from the beginning.

1615
02:09:47.534 --> 02:09:49.729
Repeated from the beginning.

1616
02:09:50.470 --> 02:09:52.563
Repeated from the beginning.

1617
02:10:02.983 --> 02:10:07.352
<i>If there is any variation</i>
<i>of these instructions...</i>

1618
02:10:07.520 --> 02:10:10.853
<i>... even to the smallest degree...</i>

1619
02:10:11.024 --> 02:10:15.222
<i>... the entire process must be repeated...</i>

1620
02:10:15.395 --> 02:10:17.829
<i>- ... from the beginning.</i>
- Come in with the milk.

1621
02:10:17.998 --> 02:10:20.762
<i>- Repeated from the beginning.</i>
- Come in with the milk.

1622
02:10:20.934 --> 02:10:22.697
- Come in with the milk.
<i>- Repeated...</i>

1623
02:10:22.869 --> 02:10:24.598
<i>... from the beginning.</i>

1624
02:10:24.771 --> 02:10:26.739
<i>Repeated from the beginning.</i>

1625
02:10:26.907 --> 02:10:28.602
Come in with the milk.

1626
02:10:28.775 --> 02:10:30.675
Q...

1627
02:10:32.545 --> 02:10:33.807
R...

1628
02:10:34.180 --> 02:10:36.273
N...

1629
02:10:37.784 --> 02:10:39.342
T...

1630
02:10:39.753 --> 02:10:42.244
Q...

1631
02:10:43.089 --> 02:10:45.284
...U...

1632
02:10:46.860 --> 02:10:48.794
E...

1633
02:10:49.930 --> 02:10:52.057
I...

1634
02:10:52.532 --> 02:10:54.625
T...

1635
02:10:55.402 --> 02:10:57.267
...I...

1636
02:10:57.504 --> 02:10:59.301
...N...

1637
02:11:00.273 --> 02:11:02.332
...E.

1638
02:11:02.943 --> 02:11:04.843
N...

1639
02:11:05.912 --> 02:11:07.277
...E.

1640
02:11:07.447 --> 02:11:09.540
E...

1641
02:11:09.716 --> 02:11:11.684
I...

1642
02:11:22.295 --> 02:11:24.058
Howard?

1643
02:11:26.266 --> 02:11:27.790
Hello?

1644
02:11:30.170 --> 02:11:31.535
Who is it?

1645
02:11:31.705 --> 02:11:33.696
Howard, it's Juan.

1646
02:11:42.182 --> 02:11:44.116
Juan.

1647
02:11:44.684 --> 02:11:46.948
Juan, right. Yeah.

1648
02:11:47.120 --> 02:11:49.884
We had an appointment, right? Yeah.

1649
02:11:50.557 --> 02:11:53.025
I remember that. Look...

1650
02:11:53.193 --> 02:11:55.991
...I got a hell of a cold in here.
A hell of a cold.

1651
02:11:56.162 --> 02:11:59.563
So take a seat out there,
because I don't wanna get you sick.

1652
02:12:00.033 --> 02:12:05.130
I'd never forgive myself if I got you sick.
I don't wanna get you sick. I don't wanna...

1653
02:12:12.278 --> 02:12:14.109
Thank you.

1654
02:12:16.716 --> 02:12:18.479
Okay, Howard, I'm sitting.

1655
02:12:19.152 --> 02:12:22.212
I've brought along our accountings.
Now...

1656
02:12:22.389 --> 02:12:25.552
...Pan Am is trading
at 13 and five-eighths.

1657
02:12:25.725 --> 02:12:28.353
TWA at four and a quarter.

1658
02:12:28.528 --> 02:12:29.995
- Now, if you take...
- Come on.

1659
02:12:30.163 --> 02:12:35.430
Come on, come on, come on.
We both know I'm not gonna sell TWA.

1660
02:12:35.602 --> 02:12:37.661
Besides, you couldn't afford her.

1661
02:12:37.837 --> 02:12:41.603
Our domestic routes alone
are worth more than twice Pan Am.

1662
02:12:42.208 --> 02:12:45.439
Well, considering our stock is trading
at three times yours...

1663
02:12:45.612 --> 02:12:48.638
...I find that a dubious claim, Howard.

1664
02:12:48.815 --> 02:12:50.214
What I...

1665
02:12:52.352 --> 02:12:56.914
What I mean is,
you have no domestic routes. All right?

1666
02:12:57.090 --> 02:12:59.217
I mean, you get TWA,
you span the globe.

1667
02:12:59.392 --> 02:13:02.088
I'm not gonna sell,
and you know I'm not gonna sell.

1668
02:13:02.262 --> 02:13:04.127
Here's the point.

1669
02:13:04.297 --> 02:13:06.765
Owen Brewster works for you.

1670
02:13:07.333 --> 02:13:13.169
Howard, I didn't elect Senator Brewster.
We can thank the voters of Maine for that.

1671
02:13:20.847 --> 02:13:26.308
Now, if I appear at his hearings, Juan,
it could get nasty.

1672
02:13:26.486 --> 02:13:28.511
Real nasty for all of us.

1673
02:13:28.688 --> 02:13:33.057
Well, I think,
considerably more so for you.

1674
02:13:33.460 --> 02:13:36.657
While the good people of America
were losing sons at Anzio...

1675
02:13:36.830 --> 02:13:40.561
...you produced a dirty movie
and built airplanes that don't fly.

1676
02:13:40.733 --> 02:13:43.293
Well, that's just not fair, is it?

1677
02:13:43.470 --> 02:13:47.270
I mean, the XF-11 flew quite well
for an hour and 45 minutes.

1678
02:13:47.440 --> 02:13:51.740
I wish you were up there with me, Juan.
It was exhilarating.

1679
02:13:52.679 --> 02:13:56.080
Be that as it may, you still have
to answer for the Spruce Goose.

1680
02:13:56.816 --> 02:13:59.284
It's called The Hercules!

1681
02:13:59.452 --> 02:14:02.683
And it will fly, goddamn it!

1682
02:14:02.856 --> 02:14:06.917
I hope so. The American people deserve
something for their $13 million.

1683
02:14:07.093 --> 02:14:10.085
I won't sell TWA!

1684
02:14:10.263 --> 02:14:11.389
I won't!

1685
02:14:16.402 --> 02:14:18.393
I know that, Howard.

1686
02:14:19.205 --> 02:14:20.900
I know that.

1687
02:14:22.709 --> 02:14:25.337
But I'm going to get it anyway.

1688
02:14:26.312 --> 02:14:30.180
You will default on your loan from
Equitable after Senator Brewster...

1689
02:14:30.350 --> 02:14:34.650
...destroys your reputation and you can't
find additional capital for the airline.

1690
02:14:34.821 --> 02:14:40.020
The hearings will also show Hughes Aircraft
to be mismanaged and incompetent...

1691
02:14:40.193 --> 02:14:42.252
...and it will go bankrupt too.

1692
02:14:42.428 --> 02:14:45.989
But you won't be insolvent.
You'll still have Tool Co.

1693
02:14:46.166 --> 02:14:50.000
Perhaps you'll head back to Houston
to rebuild your empire.

1694
02:14:50.236 --> 02:14:52.363
I rather hope you do.

1695
02:14:52.805 --> 02:14:56.138
By that time,
Pan Am will have bought TWA...

1696
02:14:56.309 --> 02:15:00.336
...and painted all those magnificent
Connies blue and white.

1697
02:15:00.513 --> 02:15:05.382
So when you do return,
it will be on a Pan Am plane.

1698
02:15:08.821 --> 02:15:10.482
Well...

1699
02:15:12.458 --> 02:15:15.552
You seem to have me
in a corner here, buddy.

1700
02:15:16.563 --> 02:15:19.726
Not a position in which
I'm very comfortable.

1701
02:15:21.301 --> 02:15:25.203
I think you're gonna be less comfortable
at Senator Brewster's hearings.

1702
02:15:26.306 --> 02:15:28.638
Very public, Howard.

1703
02:15:30.643 --> 02:15:34.079
Lots of cameras and newsmen.

1704
02:15:34.314 --> 02:15:38.080
I understand you're not
particularly fond of crowds.

1705
02:15:39.953 --> 02:15:43.116
Perhaps we should spare you that.

1706
02:15:45.024 --> 02:15:49.961
Well, thank you for your concern, Juan.

1707
02:15:50.129 --> 02:15:52.120
I find that...

1708
02:15:53.266 --> 02:15:55.427
...very moving.

1709
02:15:56.202 --> 02:15:58.193
It's been a real pleasure.

1710
02:15:59.839 --> 02:16:02.933
Noah will see you back
to the airport now.

1711
02:16:03.943 --> 02:16:05.308
You fly safe.

1712
02:16:09.082 --> 02:16:11.346
You fly safe.

1713
02:16:16.289 --> 02:16:19.019
Thank you, Howard,
and you take care of that cold.

1714
02:16:19.192 --> 02:16:21.126
Don't you worry.

1715
02:16:21.294 --> 02:16:23.455
I certainly will.

1716
02:16:24.397 --> 02:16:26.126
Bye-bye.

1717
02:16:30.803 --> 02:16:35.570
If you let him appear at those hearings,
the whole world will see what he's become.

1718
02:16:35.742 --> 02:16:38.643
People should remember him as he was.

1719
02:16:43.816 --> 02:16:47.308
He'll have a subpoena in three days
to appear in Washington.

1720
02:16:48.588 --> 02:16:51.148
If you can get him out of there by then.

1721
02:17:40.973 --> 02:17:42.804
Mr. Hughes?

1722
02:17:48.881 --> 02:17:51.213
I don't have any shoes.

1723
02:17:53.052 --> 02:17:55.919
- Could you get me some shoes?
- Shoes.

1724
02:17:56.689 --> 02:17:58.213
Yeah.

1725
02:18:23.616 --> 02:18:26.244
How nice of you to dress for me.

1726
02:18:29.489 --> 02:18:31.616
Can I come in?

1727
02:18:32.425 --> 02:18:36.794
Yeah, you can come in.

1728
02:18:43.636 --> 02:18:45.604
Thank you for coming.

1729
02:18:58.017 --> 02:19:00.076
Now, let's get a drink.

1730
02:19:00.253 --> 02:19:04.383
Wait, wait, wait, honey.
You can't move. You're safe here.

1731
02:19:04.557 --> 02:19:07.651
You're in the germ-free zone now.
You understand?

1732
02:19:07.827 --> 02:19:13.288
- I'll take my chances.
- No, no, honey. Wait, wait.

1733
02:19:26.412 --> 02:19:28.812
Love what you've done with the place.

1734
02:19:35.621 --> 02:19:39.682
Now, let me look at you.

1735
02:19:44.397 --> 02:19:46.831
When do you go to Washington?

1736
02:19:47.333 --> 02:19:49.233
A week.

1737
02:19:49.402 --> 02:19:52.303
No, no. Just under a week.

1738
02:19:52.472 --> 02:19:56.932
I don't know the date today,
but I have to be...

1739
02:19:57.109 --> 02:19:59.669
All right, take it easy.

1740
02:20:12.625 --> 02:20:15.287
There's nothing there, Howard.

1741
02:20:22.201 --> 02:20:25.602
I see things.

1742
02:20:26.472 --> 02:20:28.372
I know, baby.

1743
02:20:29.509 --> 02:20:31.875
Rinse your face off, now.

1744
02:20:40.786 --> 02:20:43.277
Put your hands in the water
and wash off the soap.

1745
02:20:43.456 --> 02:20:46.721
I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere.

1746
02:20:51.163 --> 02:20:54.599
- Does that look clean to you?
- Nothing's clean, Howard.

1747
02:20:54.767 --> 02:20:57.759
But we do our best, right?

1748
02:20:58.504 --> 02:21:00.233
Yeah.

1749
02:21:19.592 --> 02:21:21.287
What do you think?

1750
02:21:21.460 --> 02:21:24.896
- Well, I look all right.
- You look great.

1751
02:21:25.064 --> 02:21:26.725
Will you marry me?

1752
02:21:26.899 --> 02:21:29.595
You're too crazy for me.

1753
02:21:31.237 --> 02:21:33.603
I gotta go, baby.

1754
02:21:34.340 --> 02:21:36.171
Okay.

1755
02:21:36.909 --> 02:21:38.604
Thanks.

1756
02:21:44.550 --> 02:21:46.780
You'd do it for me.

1757
02:21:53.159 --> 02:21:55.127
Hi, Howard. How you doing?

1758
02:22:35.901 --> 02:22:38.267
The committee will come to order.

1759
02:22:38.904 --> 02:22:43.637
Ladies and gentlemen, I must insist that
we maintain quiet during these proceedings.

1760
02:22:43.809 --> 02:22:47.040
All right, Mr. Hughes,
will you stand and be sworn?

1761
02:22:49.015 --> 02:22:53.042
Do you solemnly swear that in the matter
now pending before this committee...

1762
02:22:53.219 --> 02:22:57.349
...you will tell the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

1763
02:22:57.523 --> 02:22:59.753
- I do.
- Pardon me for speaking loudly...

1764
02:22:59.925 --> 02:23:04.191
...but I know you have difficulty hearing.
- That's quite all right.

1765
02:23:04.497 --> 02:23:08.058
I mean, everybody knows I'm deaf.
I'm not gonna try to hide it.

1766
02:23:10.469 --> 02:23:13.131
Mr. Hughes, it is the intention
of this committee...

1767
02:23:13.305 --> 02:23:14.863
Mr. Hughes has a statement.

1768
02:23:16.208 --> 02:23:22.113
All right, you may proceed
with this statement, Mr. Hughes.

1769
02:23:28.421 --> 02:23:30.719
Mr. Hughes, do you have a statement?

1770
02:23:38.064 --> 02:23:42.330
I'm gonna attempt to be honest here.

1771
02:23:43.069 --> 02:23:48.063
I mean, my reputation's being destroyed,
so I might as well lay the cards on the table.

1772
02:23:48.908 --> 02:23:52.969
Senator Brewster, if you hadn't
gone too far overboard...

1773
02:23:53.145 --> 02:23:55.807
...if you hadn't put
the red-hot iron in my side...

1774
02:23:55.981 --> 02:24:00.509
...I might have been willing to take a
shellacking in this publicity spree of yours.

1775
02:24:00.686 --> 02:24:06.249
I may have been willing to sit back and take
a certain amount of abuse simply because...

1776
02:24:06.992 --> 02:24:09.586
...well, I am only a private citizen.

1777
02:24:09.762 --> 02:24:11.855
Whereas you are a senator...

1778
02:24:12.031 --> 02:24:14.932
...with all sorts of powers.

1779
02:24:15.768 --> 02:24:18.703
But I think this goddamn circus
has gone on long enough!

1780
02:24:18.871 --> 02:24:22.739
- That's quite sufficient.
- You have called me a liar, sir, in the press.

1781
02:24:22.908 --> 02:24:25.934
You have called me a liar
and a thief and a war profiteer!

1782
02:24:26.112 --> 02:24:30.071
- The witness will restrain...
- Why not tell the truth for once, senator?

1783
02:24:30.249 --> 02:24:34.709
Why not tell the truth that this investigation
was really born on the day that TWA...

1784
02:24:34.887 --> 02:24:40.450
...decided to fly to Europe? On the day that
TWA first invaded Juan Trippe's territory!

1785
02:24:40.626 --> 02:24:43.151
- Sit down.
- On the day TWA first challenged...

1786
02:24:43.329 --> 02:24:47.891
...the generally accepted theory that only
Juan Trippe's great Pan American Airways...

1787
02:24:48.067 --> 02:24:52.163
...had the right to fly the Atlantic!
- You are not here to make a speech.

1788
02:24:53.172 --> 02:24:56.630
I asked for silence!
I asked for quiet in this room...

1789
02:24:56.809 --> 02:25:00.836
We have in our possession receipts
in the amount of $170,000...

1790
02:25:02.181 --> 02:25:06.481
...acquired from Mr. John Meyer.
Mr. Meyer works for you, does he not?

1791
02:25:06.652 --> 02:25:10.816
- He does.
- And what is his official title?

1792
02:25:11.724 --> 02:25:15.285
I don't exactly know, senator.
A lot of people work for me.

1793
02:25:15.461 --> 02:25:18.259
Can you explain why your press agent
would pay out...

1794
02:25:18.430 --> 02:25:23.424
...more than $170,000 to representatives
of the United States Air Force?

1795
02:25:23.602 --> 02:25:28.039
- I don't know. You'd have to ask him.
- Well, would you produce him?

1796
02:25:28.941 --> 02:25:32.104
- Produce him?
- Will you cause him to appear?

1797
02:25:32.278 --> 02:25:35.509
You had John Meyer on the stand
for three days last week.

1798
02:25:35.681 --> 02:25:38.445
Be that as it may,
we would like him to reappear.

1799
02:25:38.617 --> 02:25:42.075
Would you ask him to return?

1800
02:25:48.093 --> 02:25:50.357
No, I don't think I will.

1801
02:25:51.997 --> 02:25:55.194
Will you try to have him return?

1802
02:25:57.269 --> 02:26:01.729
- No, I don't think I'll try.
- You don't think you'll try?

1803
02:26:02.808 --> 02:26:05.800
No, I don't think so.

1804
02:26:05.978 --> 02:26:10.779
The $170,000 paid out to the Air Force
in the form of hotel suites...

1805
02:26:10.950 --> 02:26:12.577
...TWA stock...

1806
02:26:13.252 --> 02:26:15.720
...female companionship.

1807
02:26:15.921 --> 02:26:20.221
Now, is it possible that
these could be considered bribes?

1808
02:26:20.893 --> 02:26:23.225
I suppose you could call them that, yes.

1809
02:26:24.597 --> 02:26:25.962
Would you repeat that?

1810
02:26:26.932 --> 02:26:30.766
I said, I suppose you could
consider them bribes, yes.

1811
02:26:33.405 --> 02:26:36.238
Well, would you like
to explain that, Mr. Hughes?

1812
02:26:37.943 --> 02:26:42.141
I'm afraid you don't know how
the aviation business works, senator.

1813
02:26:42.314 --> 02:26:46.751
See, wining and dining Air Force dignitaries
is common in our business.

1814
02:26:46.919 --> 02:26:51.856
It's because we all want the big contracts.
All the major aircraft companies do it.

1815
02:26:52.024 --> 02:26:54.185
I don't know whether
it's a good system...

1816
02:26:54.360 --> 02:26:58.592
...I just know it's not illegal.
You, senator, you are the lawmaker.

1817
02:26:58.764 --> 02:27:03.360
If you pass a law that states no one
can entertain Air Force officers, well, hell...

1818
02:27:03.535 --> 02:27:05.696
...I'd be happy to abide by it.

1819
02:27:07.773 --> 02:27:11.209
Your story is a pack of lies. I can
tear it apart if allowed to cross-examine.

1820
02:27:12.544 --> 02:27:16.810
- We're not gonna have this bickering.
- Yes. Somewhere between two and 500...

1821
02:27:16.982 --> 02:27:20.850
...if you'll let me get started.
- lf you believe your wealth and power...

1822
02:27:21.020 --> 02:27:24.979
...can intimidate any member
of this committee, you're mistaken.

1823
02:27:25.157 --> 02:27:28.058
- Now submit your questions.
- I'll put this very simply.

1824
02:27:28.227 --> 02:27:31.253
On February 12th,
at the Mayflower Hotel...

1825
02:27:31.430 --> 02:27:37.027
...did you or did you not tell me
that if I were to sell TWA to Pan Am...

1826
02:27:37.202 --> 02:27:40.000
...that this entire investigation
would be called off?

1827
02:27:40.172 --> 02:27:43.903
I did not. And I have asked you
to submit your questions in writing.

1828
02:27:44.076 --> 02:27:48.012
- How long have you known Juan Trippe?
- I've known him for some time now.

1829
02:27:48.180 --> 02:27:52.913
- And that's not the question.
- Is it not true that Juan donated $20,000...

1830
02:27:53.085 --> 02:27:57.317
...to your last campaign? I mean,
he spoke to me as if you worked for him.

1831
02:28:01.360 --> 02:28:03.225
I have a personal friendship with...

1832
02:28:03.395 --> 02:28:06.831
Is it true you accept free Pan Am tickets
to circle the globe...

1833
02:28:06.999 --> 02:28:09.934
...in support of your C.A.B. bill?
- No, it is not true.

1834
02:28:10.102 --> 02:28:14.300
Well, who wrote that bill, senator?
Who actually wrote the C.A.B. bill?

1835
02:28:14.473 --> 02:28:18.409
- The actual words. Did you write them?
- This is not how these hearings...

1836
02:28:18.577 --> 02:28:22.673
...are gonna be conducted.
- I have it. Maybe it'll refresh your memory.

1837
02:28:22.848 --> 02:28:27.410
"Bill S-987 to amend
the Civil Aeronautics Act."

1838
02:28:27.586 --> 02:28:30.419
Now, you introduced this bill
to the Senate.

1839
02:28:32.891 --> 02:28:35.018
A lot of words.

1840
02:28:35.361 --> 02:28:37.352
You write all of them?

1841
02:28:37.963 --> 02:28:40.830
- Did you write any of them, senator?
- Now, look...

1842
02:28:41.000 --> 02:28:43.992
Now, this entire bill was written
by Pan Am executives...

1843
02:28:44.169 --> 02:28:48.435
...and designed to give that airline
a monopoly on international travel.

1844
02:28:48.607 --> 02:28:53.067
You've been flogging this bill all around
the world on their behalf, have you not?

1845
02:28:53.245 --> 02:28:57.011
I have duties that take me
all over the world, Mr. Hughes.

1846
02:28:57.182 --> 02:29:02.210
Well, what the hell does a senator
from Maine need to visit Peru for?

1847
02:29:02.955 --> 02:29:07.619
I was seeking outlets for our trade goods.

1848
02:29:08.594 --> 02:29:11.563
Buy a lot of lobsters down there, do they?

1849
02:29:14.133 --> 02:29:17.933
Senator, how many times have you visited
Trippe's office in New York...

1850
02:29:18.103 --> 02:29:20.469
...in the last three months?

1851
02:29:23.075 --> 02:29:25.839
Would you like me to tell you, senator?

1852
02:29:26.578 --> 02:29:30.036
All right, this has gone on long enough.
Juan is a great American.

1853
02:29:30.215 --> 02:29:34.584
His airline has advanced the cause
of commercial aviation for decades.

1854
02:29:34.753 --> 02:29:40.282
Juan Trippe is a patriot. Juan Trippe is not
a man who is interested in making money.

1855
02:29:41.193 --> 02:29:44.959
Well, I'm sure his stockholders
would be happy to hear that.

1856
02:29:46.632 --> 02:29:48.122
We're gonna clear this room.

1857
02:29:48.700 --> 02:29:53.467
<i>This is James McNamara speaking to you</i>
<i>from the Hughes 2000-ton flying boat...</i>

1858
02:29:53.639 --> 02:29:56.802
<i>... the world's largest aircraft.</i>
<i>This is the sky giant...</i>

1859
02:29:56.975 --> 02:30:01.071
<i>... which has prompted Congress to</i>
<i>investigate the war contracts of Mr. Hughes.</i>

1860
02:30:01.246 --> 02:30:04.807
<i>Before boarding the craft,</i>
<i>Mr. Hughes told newsmen that this test...</i>

1861
02:30:04.983 --> 02:30:09.215
<i>... would be solely a taxi experiment.</i>
<i>He said he didn't know what might happen.</i>

1862
02:30:09.388 --> 02:30:11.253
<i>The mammoth flying plywood shell...</i>

1863
02:30:13.325 --> 02:30:17.091
<i>... might ship water under high-speed</i>
<i>taxi pressure. He will not take...</i>

1864
02:30:17.262 --> 02:30:20.561
<i>... the craft into the air until next spring.</i>
<i>The thin man from Culver City...</i>

1865
02:30:20.732 --> 02:30:25.192
<i>... pronounced the craft an unknown quantity.</i>
<i>He has an idea what it can do...</i>

1866
02:30:25.370 --> 02:30:27.395
None of that, now. None of that.

1867
02:30:27.573 --> 02:30:30.474
<i>We are about 5 feet</i>
<i>in back of Mr. Hughes.</i>

1868
02:30:30.642 --> 02:30:34.009
<i>We are looking through</i>
<i>one of the side windows in the cockpit.</i>

1869
02:30:34.179 --> 02:30:36.739
Professor, why don't you
come on up front here.

1870
02:30:37.149 --> 02:30:40.414
<i>In other words, we are 30 feet high</i>
<i>in this aircraft.</i>

1871
02:30:40.586 --> 02:30:45.182
Strap yourself in right there.
You ought to be able to see just great.

1872
02:30:46.191 --> 02:30:49.456
<i>Huge crowds jam the surrounding</i>
<i>shoreline this morning.</i>

1873
02:30:49.628 --> 02:30:52.825
All right, boys, let's fire it up.

1874
02:30:56.702 --> 02:30:58.067
One's good.

1875
02:30:59.338 --> 02:31:01.306
Two's good.

1876
02:31:01.473 --> 02:31:03.168
Three's good.

1877
02:31:03.342 --> 02:31:05.367
Four's good.

1878
02:31:05.544 --> 02:31:07.239
Five's good.

1879
02:31:07.412 --> 02:31:08.902
Six is good.

1880
02:31:09.081 --> 02:31:10.446
Seven's good.

1881
02:31:10.616 --> 02:31:12.516
Eight's good.

1882
02:31:13.585 --> 02:31:17.453
- Advancing master throttles.
- Advancing master throttles.

1883
02:31:19.057 --> 02:31:21.753
<i>As you probably know,</i>
<i>I have to do a great deal...</i>

1884
02:31:21.927 --> 02:31:24.054
<i>... of screaming into our microphone.</i>

1885
02:31:24.229 --> 02:31:28.632
- Understood. Lower it 15 degrees of flaps.
- Lowering 15 degrees of flaps.

1886
02:31:29.268 --> 02:31:33.034
Howard, she's gotta hit 70
to have any kind of chance.

1887
02:31:33.205 --> 02:31:35.469
Yeah, I know. I know.

1888
02:31:35.641 --> 02:31:39.941
<i>It's a beautiful day here off the coast</i>
<i>of Southern California. Blue skies...</i>

1889
02:31:40.112 --> 02:31:43.604
<i>- ... a warm sun...</i>
- Twenty-five miles per hour.

1890
02:31:43.782 --> 02:31:46.046
<i>- And a relatively calm sea...</i>
- Thirty.

1891
02:31:47.686 --> 02:31:48.983
Thirty-five.

1892
02:31:49.154 --> 02:31:53.090
<i>One would think these eight power plants</i>
<i>might shake the craft to pieces...</i>

1893
02:31:53.458 --> 02:31:55.050
Take it easy, Howard.

1894
02:31:57.362 --> 02:32:01.128
- Forty!
- Throttling back for starboard turn 180.

1895
02:32:01.300 --> 02:32:03.666
Throttling back for starboard turn 180.

1896
02:32:08.907 --> 02:32:11.398
<i>The flight crew itself</i>
<i>consists of four men.</i>

1897
02:32:11.577 --> 02:32:15.604
<i>Mr. Hughes, however, has added 11</i>
<i>maintenance men to this maiden taxi test...</i>

1898
02:32:15.781 --> 02:32:21.413
<i>... stationed at various places throughout the</i>
<i>ship, checking points of stress and strain.</i>

1899
02:32:23.855 --> 02:32:25.516
How does she sound, Odie?

1900
02:32:26.425 --> 02:32:28.416
Sounds good, Howard.

1901
02:32:31.730 --> 02:32:33.857
- Professor.
- Yes?

1902
02:32:34.032 --> 02:32:35.932
Would you do me a favor?

1903
02:32:36.401 --> 02:32:40.428
Would you take a look out that window
and tell me what the wind is doing?

1904
02:32:45.477 --> 02:32:49.811
I would say that we have a 15-knot wind.

1905
02:32:49.982 --> 02:32:53.383
Would you call that a headwind,
professor?

1906
02:32:54.086 --> 02:32:56.281
I would, Mr. Hughes.

1907
02:32:56.455 --> 02:33:00.016
<i>We must maintain silence. We must</i>
<i>have quiet during the proceedings.</i>

1908
02:33:00.192 --> 02:33:02.558
Mr. Hughes, will you stand and be sworn?

1909
02:33:02.728 --> 02:33:05.162
<i>Mr. Hughes, did you receive...</i>

1910
02:33:05.330 --> 02:33:11.701
...$43 million to manufacture 100 XF-11
spy planes for the United States Air Force?

1911
02:33:12.971 --> 02:33:14.131
I did.

1912
02:33:14.439 --> 02:33:18.569
How many functional planes did you
deliver to the United States Air Force?

1913
02:33:18.877 --> 02:33:19.866
None.

1914
02:33:20.045 --> 02:33:23.310
Would you lean a little closer
to the microphones, sir?

1915
02:33:23.815 --> 02:33:24.975
None.

1916
02:33:25.150 --> 02:33:29.052
Did you receive $13 million
to manufacture...

1917
02:33:29.221 --> 02:33:34.022
...a prototype of a flying boat
known as The Hercules?

1918
02:33:35.594 --> 02:33:36.856
I did.

1919
02:33:37.029 --> 02:33:39.623
And did you deliver that plane?

1920
02:33:39.931 --> 02:33:41.193
I did not.

1921
02:33:42.301 --> 02:33:45.566
So by your admission
in this chamber, Mr. Hughes...

1922
02:33:45.737 --> 02:33:48.672
...you have received $56 million...

1923
02:33:49.041 --> 02:33:53.273
...from the United States government
for planes you never delivered.

1924
02:33:54.112 --> 02:33:55.875
That is correct.

1925
02:33:58.317 --> 02:34:01.309
Well, excuse me for asking,
Mr. Hughes...

1926
02:34:01.486 --> 02:34:03.420
...but where did all that money go?

1927
02:34:03.822 --> 02:34:08.350
Well, it went into the planes, senator.
And a lot more.

1928
02:34:08.527 --> 02:34:13.328
More? Do tell, Mr. Hughes,
what other larcenies did you commit?

1929
02:34:13.532 --> 02:34:18.799
I mean, I put my money
into the planes, senator. My money.

1930
02:34:21.273 --> 02:34:25.835
- See, the thing is that I care...
- Your personal finances are not...

1931
02:34:26.011 --> 02:34:28.707
Let him speak.

1932
02:34:32.050 --> 02:34:33.381
Proceed, Mr. Hughes.

1933
02:34:35.487 --> 02:34:40.789
See, the thing is,
I care very much about aviation.

1934
02:34:41.059 --> 02:34:45.723
It has been the great joy of my life. That's
why I put my own money into these planes.

1935
02:34:45.897 --> 02:34:50.300
And I've lost millions, senator,
and I'll go on losing millions. It's just...

1936
02:34:50.469 --> 02:34:52.403
...what I do.

1937
02:34:52.738 --> 02:34:57.072
Now, if I've lost a lot of the government's
money during the war, I hope folks...

1938
02:34:57.242 --> 02:34:59.836
...will put that into perspective.

1939
02:35:00.011 --> 02:35:03.344
More than 60 other airplanes ordered
from such firms as...

1940
02:35:03.515 --> 02:35:07.474
...Lockheed, Douglas, Northrop and Boeing
never saw action either.

1941
02:35:07.652 --> 02:35:14.148
In all, more than $800 million was spent
during the war on planes that never flew.

1942
02:35:14.326 --> 02:35:19.457
Over 6 billion on other weapons
that were never delivered.

1943
02:35:19.631 --> 02:35:24.091
Yet Hughes Aircraft, with her 56 million...

1944
02:35:24.269 --> 02:35:26.760
...is the only firm
under investigation here.

1945
02:35:26.938 --> 02:35:32.501
I cannot help but think that has a little more
to do with TWA than planes that did not fly.

1946
02:35:32.711 --> 02:35:36.647
- You've made your point, Mr. Hughes.
- One second. I have one more thing...

1947
02:35:37.015 --> 02:35:39.279
...to say here to this committee.

1948
02:35:39.451 --> 02:35:41.976
And that has to do with The Hercules.

1949
02:35:42.621 --> 02:35:47.854
Now, I am supposed to be many things
which are not complimentary.

1950
02:35:48.026 --> 02:35:50.085
I am supposed to be capricious.

1951
02:35:50.262 --> 02:35:54.221
I have been called a playboy.
I've even been called an eccentric...

1952
02:35:54.399 --> 02:35:58.631
...but I do not believe that I have
the reputation of being a liar.

1953
02:35:59.604 --> 02:36:02.971
Needless to say, The Hercules
was a monumental undertaking.

1954
02:36:03.141 --> 02:36:05.837
It is the largest plane ever built.

1955
02:36:06.011 --> 02:36:09.879
It is over five stories tall with a wingspan
longer than a football field.

1956
02:36:10.048 --> 02:36:11.913
That's more than a city block.

1957
02:36:12.083 --> 02:36:16.611
Now, I put the sweat of my life into this.
I got my reputation all rolled up in it.

1958
02:36:16.788 --> 02:36:20.246
I have stated several times
that if The Hercules fails to fly...

1959
02:36:20.425 --> 02:36:24.521
...I will leave this country
and never come back. And I mean it.

1960
02:36:25.897 --> 02:36:29.731
Now, Senator Brewster,
you can subpoena me...

1961
02:36:29.901 --> 02:36:34.736
...you can arrest me, you can even claim
I've folded up and taken a run-out powder...

1962
02:36:34.906 --> 02:36:39.900
...but, well, I've had just about enough
of this nonsense. Good afternoon.

1963
02:36:40.345 --> 02:36:41.573
I had to do it.

1964
02:36:41.780 --> 02:36:45.716
- Mr. Hughes.
- Mr. Hughes.

1965
02:36:45.884 --> 02:36:48.444
I'd love to see The Hercules in the air.

1966
02:36:48.620 --> 02:36:51.020
Thank you, thank you so much.

1967
02:37:00.031 --> 02:37:01.089
Switch it off.

1968
02:37:01.266 --> 02:37:04.099
- The hearings aren't over yet.
- The hearings are over.

1969
02:37:06.838 --> 02:37:09.671
The airline bill will be defeated
in the Senate.

1970
02:37:09.841 --> 02:37:12.901
TWA will begin flights from
New York to Paris...

1971
02:37:13.078 --> 02:37:18.880
...then on to Moscow, to Japan,
to Hawaii, to Los Angeles...

1972
02:37:21.019 --> 02:37:23.044
...to New York.

1973
02:37:26.892 --> 02:37:28.553
Fuck.

1974
02:37:32.597 --> 02:37:36.431
- Power coming up.
- Power coming up.

1975
02:37:39.738 --> 02:37:42.002
<i>Howard Hughes has just alerted us.</i>

1976
02:37:42.173 --> 02:37:46.735
<i>He has asked everyone to hold on.</i>
<i>Tremendous horsepower kicking up.</i>

1977
02:37:48.313 --> 02:37:49.439
Let me hear it, Odie.

1978
02:37:49.614 --> 02:37:51.639
Twenty-five miles per hour.

1979
02:37:52.250 --> 02:37:53.478
Thirty.

1980
02:37:53.818 --> 02:37:56.048
<i>Here we go. Here we go.</i>

1981
02:37:56.221 --> 02:37:58.382
- Thirty-five.
<i>- The air-speed indicator...</i>

1982
02:37:58.557 --> 02:38:02.186
<i>... has moved up to 25. Thirty.</i>

1983
02:38:02.594 --> 02:38:04.653
<i>- Thirty-five.</i>
- Forty.

1984
02:38:04.829 --> 02:38:06.660
<i>As he pushes the throttle it's 40.</i>

1985
02:38:06.831 --> 02:38:10.130
- Forty-five.
<i>- Forty-five. More throttle.</i>

1986
02:38:10.302 --> 02:38:12.293
<i>- Forty-five.</i>
- Fifty.

1987
02:38:12.904 --> 02:38:15.372
<i>- It's 50 over a choppy sea.</i>
- Fifty-five.

1988
02:38:15.540 --> 02:38:17.872
<i>It's 55. It's 55.</i>

1989
02:38:18.343 --> 02:38:20.538
- Sixty.
<i>- More throttle. It's 60.</i>

1990
02:38:20.712 --> 02:38:22.441
- Sixty-five.
<i>- Sixty-five.</i>

1991
02:38:27.118 --> 02:38:29.052
- Seventy.
<i>- It's 70.</i>

1992
02:38:29.220 --> 02:38:31.950
- Seventy-five.
<i>- It's 75.</i>

1993
02:38:39.331 --> 02:38:44.633
<i>And something momentarily cuts out.</i>
<i>I believe we are airborne.</i>

1994
02:38:44.803 --> 02:38:48.398
<i>We are airborne, ladies and gentlemen.</i>
<i>I don't believe that Hughes...</i>

1995
02:38:48.573 --> 02:38:51.303
<i>... meant this to be. I don't know.</i>

1996
02:38:53.511 --> 02:38:58.915
<i>And we were really up in the air.</i>
<i>We were really up in the air.</i>

1997
02:39:03.321 --> 02:39:06.722
<i>Ladies and gentlemen,</i>
<i>the Hughes mammoth aircraft...</i>

1998
02:39:06.891 --> 02:39:11.419
<i>... has flown this afternoon</i>
<i>in Los Angeles Harbor.</i>

1999
02:39:11.596 --> 02:39:15.794
<i>Well, it certainly looks at this moment</i>
<i>that Howard Hughes will be around...</i>

2000
02:39:15.967 --> 02:39:19.835
<i>... the United States for quite</i>
<i>some time to come.</i>

2001
02:39:30.882 --> 02:39:34.909
We must understand that technologies
like these are the way of the future.

2002
02:39:35.086 --> 02:39:38.647
- That's enough questions.
- TWA and Hughes Aircraft are delighted...

2003
02:39:38.823 --> 02:39:42.088
...to have you come here
and witness this wonderful sight.

2004
02:39:42.260 --> 02:39:44.455
- Excuse us for just a second.
- All right.

2005
02:39:44.629 --> 02:39:46.620
- So you feel like going to Paris?
- Now?

2006
02:39:46.798 --> 02:39:48.789
TWA is starting up flights to Europe.

2007
02:39:48.967 --> 02:39:52.403
I thought I might pilot the first one.
Ought to be some fun.

2008
02:39:52.570 --> 02:39:55.300
- Lots of shopping in Paris.
- I'll buy you anything.

2009
02:39:55.473 --> 02:39:58.374
You can buy me dinner. How about that?

2010
02:40:00.645 --> 02:40:03.045
Dinner, then. We got a date?

2011
02:40:03.248 --> 02:40:05.580
Okay, baby, you got a date.

2012
02:40:07.218 --> 02:40:11.018
I'll be back in a second,
but don't you go anywhere, now. I mean it.

2013
02:40:11.189 --> 02:40:14.181
All right, listen, boys.
Something new. Jet airplanes.

2014
02:40:14.359 --> 02:40:17.294
- You know about jets?
- No, but it sounds expensive.

2015
02:40:17.462 --> 02:40:19.896
Oh, it will be, but we gotta get started.

2016
02:40:21.166 --> 02:40:23.930
Come on, walk with me.

2017
02:40:24.102 --> 02:40:26.434
Whoever can start utilizing
jet technology...

2018
02:40:26.604 --> 02:40:30.472
...on commercial airliners is gonna win.
What do you know about the science?

2019
02:40:30.642 --> 02:40:35.102
I know a little. I can work something
to show you. Basic turbine stuff.

2020
02:40:39.751 --> 02:40:43.585
Noah, who are those fellas?

2021
02:40:44.489 --> 02:40:46.286
Do they work for me?

2022
02:40:47.625 --> 02:40:49.923
Everybody works for you, Howard.

2023
02:40:56.701 --> 02:41:01.400
Lockheed worked on the F-80. Let's get
Bob Gross and see if he can help us out.

2024
02:41:01.573 --> 02:41:03.871
- What, now?
- Of course now.

2025
02:41:04.042 --> 02:41:06.977
We gotta get into it.
Jets are the way of the future.

2026
02:41:07.145 --> 02:41:10.376
- It's 4:30.
- I talked to Bob last week. He's in New York.

2027
02:41:10.548 --> 02:41:13.142
- So it's 7:30.
- He won't be in the office.

2028
02:41:13.318 --> 02:41:16.515
We'll figure out what hotel he's at.
Do you want a call...

2029
02:41:16.688 --> 02:41:20.180
...or you want some kind of meeting?
- We want a meeting, don't we?

2030
02:41:20.358 --> 02:41:23.623
Do you want me bring him
out here tomorrow, then, Howard?

2031
02:41:24.629 --> 02:41:27.029
- The way of the future.
- Howard?

2032
02:41:27.198 --> 02:41:28.961
- Howard?
- The way of the future.

2033
02:41:30.468 --> 02:41:33.198
- The way of the future.
- Let's take a walk, Howard.

2034
02:41:33.371 --> 02:41:35.305
- Way of the future.
- Give me a hand.

2035
02:41:35.473 --> 02:41:38.909
The way of the future.
The way of the future.

2036
02:41:39.077 --> 02:41:41.511
The way of the future.
The way of the future.

2037
02:41:41.679 --> 02:41:44.239
The way of the future.
The way of the future.

2038
02:41:44.415 --> 02:41:46.883
The way of the future.
The way of the future.

2039
02:41:47.051 --> 02:41:49.519
The way of the future.
The way of the future.

2040
02:41:49.687 --> 02:41:52.053
The way of the future.
The way of the future.

2041
02:41:52.223 --> 02:41:56.182
All right, stay here. I'll be right back.
You understand, Howard?

2042
02:41:56.361 --> 02:41:58.124
The way of the future.

2043
02:41:58.296 --> 02:42:01.925
Guard the door. I'll get a doctor.
No one sees him like this.

2044
02:42:02.100 --> 02:42:04.660
The way of the future.
The way of the future.

2045
02:42:04.836 --> 02:42:07.703
The way of the future.
The way of the future.

2046
02:42:07.872 --> 02:42:10.238
The way of the future.
The way of the future.

2047
02:42:14.379 --> 02:42:16.176
The way of the future.

2048
02:42:22.420 --> 02:42:24.479
<i>You are not safe.</i>

2049
02:42:32.997 --> 02:42:34.225
<i>When I grow up...</i>

2050
02:42:34.799 --> 02:42:37.768
<i>... I'm gonna fly the fastest planes</i>
<i>ever built...</i>

2051
02:42:37.936 --> 02:42:40.530
<i>... make the biggest movies ever...</i>

2052
02:42:40.705 --> 02:42:43.606
<i>... and be the richest man in the world.</i>

2053
02:42:56.888 --> 02:42:59.857
The way of the future.

2054
02:43:07.065 --> 02:43:09.727
The way of the future.

2055
02:43:17.342 --> 02:43:19.537
The way of the future.

2056
02:43:22.614 --> 02:43:24.707
The way of the future.

2057
02:43:26.551 --> 02:43:28.781
The way of the future.

2058
02:43:30.088 --> 02:43:31.646
The way of the future.