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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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- 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?
- - Yes, Mother.
- 10
- 00:01:53,030 --> 00:01:56,135
- You've seen the signs on the houses
- where the coloureds live?
- 11
- 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:57,932
- Yes, Mother.
- 12
- 00:01:58,036 --> 00:02:00,944
- - You know the typhus?
- - I do, Mother.
- 13
- 00:02:04,492 --> 00:02:07,233
- You know what they can do to you?
- 14
- 00:02:07,337 --> 00:02:09,700
- Yes, Mother.
- 15
- 00:02:12,708 --> 00:02:16,108
- You are not safe.
- 16
- 00:02:22,176 --> 00:02:25,789
- You may be directing this movie, Howard,
- but what you're asking, we can't do it.
- 17
- 00:02:25,893 --> 00:02:28,668
- Don't tell me I can't do it.
- Don't tell me it can't be done.
- 18
- 00:02:28,772 --> 00:02:30,880
- The gyro forces are too much here.
- 19
- 00:02:30,985 --> 00:02:32,655
- You send these planes into simultaneous...
- 20
- 00:02:32,759 --> 00:02:36,465
- It's the goddamn climax of the picture,
- Frank, all right? You make it work.
- 21
- 00:02:36,569 --> 00:02:38,849
- Look, decrease the vertical trajectory,
- if you have to.
- 22
- 00:02:38,953 --> 00:02:41,723
- A LeRhone rotary won't stall at 60 degrees,
- I've done it.
- 23
- 00:02:41,827 --> 00:02:45,599
- Howard, we're still short two cameras.
- We need to cut that sequence down...
- 24
- 00:02:45,704 --> 00:02:48,087
- We're not cutting anything, all right.
- I'll get those extra cameras.
- 25
- 00:02:48,191 --> 00:02:48,984
- Set up for rehearsals in five.
- 26
- 00:02:49,088 --> 00:02:51,820
- Mr Hughes, I'm Noah Dietrich.
- Your office said I might find you here.
- 27
- 00:02:51,924 --> 00:02:56,739
- Dietrich. You're a man on the come. I read
- your résumé and talked to your references.
- 28
- 00:02:56,843 --> 00:02:58,489
- You know what I'm looking for?
- 29
- 00:02:58,594 --> 00:03:01,663
- As I understand it, you're looking for
- a second in command at Hughes Tools.
- 30
- 00:03:01,768 --> 00:03:04,579
- Someone to help oversee
- the financial aspects of the business.
- 31
- 00:03:04,683 --> 00:03:07,457
- Yeah. I'm looking for somebody
- to run it and do a damn good job.
- 32
- 00:03:07,561 --> 00:03:09,835
- Look, there's really one thing
- you've got to know.
- 33
- 00:03:09,939 --> 00:03:12,962
- My folks, they're gone now,
- so it's my money.
- 34
- 00:03:13,066 --> 00:03:15,302
- Now, what I choose to do with
- that money may seem crazy
- 35
- 00:03:15,406 --> 00:03:18,117
- to those sons of bitches in Houston -
- and I'm sure as hell it does -
- 36
- 00:03:18,222 --> 00:03:20,512
- but it all makes good sense to me.
- You got that?
- 37
- 00:03:20,617 --> 00:03:22,512
- - Got it.
- - Good.
- 38
- 00:03:22,617 --> 00:03:25,808
- Now, you made, what,
- $5,200 a year on your last job?
- 39
- 00:03:25,913 --> 00:03:28,270
- I'll pay you 10,000.
- 40
- 00:03:28,374 --> 00:03:31,443
- - Guess I'll be working twice as hard.
- - You'll be working four times as hard.
- 41
- 00:03:31,547 --> 00:03:35,110
- I just got you at half-price, Mr Dietrich.
- Welcome aboard.
- 42
- 00:03:35,215 --> 00:03:37,053
- You're my voice now.
- Make 'em understand that.
- 43
- 00:03:37,157 --> 00:03:39,743
- Look, some of those fine folks down there
- still call me "Junior".
- 44
- 00:03:39,847 --> 00:03:42,992
- - You tell them it's "Mr Hughes" now.
- - You bet.
- 45
- 00:03:43,096 --> 00:03:46,747
- - So, when do we go to Houston?
- - We don't. Cholera epidemic in 1913.
- 46
- 00:03:46,851 --> 00:03:49,624
- 2,000 dead. Whole place is
- nothing but pestilential swamp.
- 47
- 00:03:49,728 --> 00:03:54,045
- Typhus, malaria, cholera, yellow fever -
- you name it, they got it.
- 48
- 00:03:54,149 --> 00:03:56,545
- You see that, Mr Dietrich?
- 49
- 00:03:56,650 --> 00:04:00,885
- You are looking at the largest
- private air force in the entire world.
- 50
- 00:04:00,989 --> 00:04:05,360
- - What do you think of that, now?
- - It's your money.
- 51
- 00:04:05,905 --> 00:04:08,505
- Start 'em up.
- 52
- 00:05:34,535 --> 00:05:36,937
- I just saw the rough cut of
- the new Tod Browning movie,
- 53
- 00:05:37,042 --> 00:05:40,445
- London After Midnight.
- Lon Chaney is incredible.
- 54
- 00:05:40,549 --> 00:05:45,250
- It's his best performance in a long time. It's
- gonna be a big hit. The cards are great.
- 55
- 00:05:47,047 --> 00:05:49,495
- Hello, Mr Mayer.
- 56
- 00:05:49,599 --> 00:05:52,705
- I don't know if you remember me.
- My name's Howard Hughes.
- 57
- 00:05:52,809 --> 00:05:55,167
- I was wondering
- if I could have a moment of your time.
- 58
- 00:05:55,271 --> 00:05:57,878
- Yeah, Howard Hughes.
- The airplane picture, right?
- 59
- 00:05:57,982 --> 00:05:59,423
- - Exactly.
- - Yeah, I remember.
- 60
- 00:05:59,528 --> 00:06:02,260
- - Hell's Angels. You heard of it. Good.
- - Yes.
- 61
- 00:06:02,364 --> 00:06:04,930
- Listen, I was wondering
- if I could have a moment of your time.
- 62
- 00:06:05,034 --> 00:06:07,510
- I need a few cameras.
- 63
- 00:06:07,614 --> 00:06:09,308
- - Yeah?
- - Yeah.
- 64
- 00:06:09,413 --> 00:06:11,306
- Two, to be exact.
- 65
- 00:06:11,410 --> 00:06:13,146
- I already bought every camera I could find,
- 66
- 00:06:13,251 --> 00:06:15,336
- but we're shooting
- our big dogfight sequence this week
- 67
- 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:19,104
- and I need two more, desperately.
- Do you think MGM could help me out?
- 68
- 00:06:19,209 --> 00:06:21,819
- - With what?
- - Cameras.
- 69
- 00:06:21,923 --> 00:06:26,874
- With the actual cam... We're not usually in
- the practice of helping out the competition.
- 70
- 00:06:28,047 --> 00:06:31,879
- - How many cameras do you have now?
- - 24.
- 71
- 00:06:35,471 --> 00:06:37,796
- Wait a minute.
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- 00:06:39,350 --> 00:06:41,003
- - You have 24 cameras?
- - That's right.
- 73
- 00:06:41,108 --> 00:06:44,010
- - And you need two more?
- - Yeah.
- 74
- 00:06:44,114 --> 00:06:47,717
- - You don't think you got it with 24?
- - No. No, sir.
- 75
- 00:06:47,822 --> 00:06:50,475
- You know, I think we've got them all...
- 76
- 00:06:50,580 --> 00:06:53,055
- Don't we have them all?
- They're all used.
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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.
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- - Why don't you take your oil money...
- - Drill bits.
- 81
- 00:07:03,211 --> 00:07:06,237
- Take your drill bit money,
- and why don't you put it in the bank?
- 82
- 00:07:06,341 --> 00:07:08,848
- Because if you continue making the movie
- the way that you are,
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- 00:07:08,952 --> 00:07:11,371
- there isn't gonna be a distributor
- who'll want to distribute it.
- 84
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- You're not gonna find anybody
- who wants to see the movie,
- 85
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- and you're not gonna have
- any more oil money.
- 86
- 00:07:17,272 --> 00:07:20,376
- So, welcome to Hollywood.
- 87
- 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,965
- Yeah. Well, I'll be sure
- to remember that, Mr Mayer.
- 88
- 00:07:24,069 --> 00:07:26,092
- - Good luck.
- - All right.
- 89
- 00:07:26,197 --> 00:07:29,355
- He needs 26 to make it work?
- He's out of his mind.
- 90
- 00:07:36,449 --> 00:07:40,363
- I looked down at my pants.
- It was a strange situation.
- 91
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- Boss.
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- Scram, love boat, let's go.
- Another soda. You know what I mean.
- 93
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- Milk, please, in the bottle.
- With the cap still on.
- 94
- 00:07:49,596 --> 00:07:51,224
- OK, Howard, what did "His Highness" say?
- 95
- 00:07:51,328 --> 00:07:54,592
- The son of a bitch won't part with a single
- goddamn camera. Can you believe it?
- 96
- 00:07:54,717 --> 00:07:57,996
- Howard, why don't you try
- and make do with what you have?
- 97
- 00:07:58,100 --> 00:08:02,418
- What I have isn't enough, John.
- Not for how I see it. Look.
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- 00:08:02,522 --> 00:08:04,131
- My name depends on this picture.
- 99
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- If it doesn't work, I'm back to Houston
- with my tail between my legs,
- 100
- 00:08:07,010 --> 00:08:09,510
- making goddamn drill bits
- for the rest of my life.
- 101
- 00:08:09,614 --> 00:08:11,911
- Couldn't you find a way to do it
- with the cameras you have?
- 102
- 00:08:12,015 --> 00:08:14,997
- I mean, jeez, you ought to hear what's
- going on with DeMille over at Paramount.
- 103
- 00:08:15,102 --> 00:08:17,771
- He's shooting this Bible picture, right,
- and he's gotta do a crucifixion.
- 104
- 00:08:17,875 --> 00:08:19,355
- - Johnny.
- - He's doing it in Fresno.
- 105
- 00:08:19,459 --> 00:08:21,316
- - Johnny. Johnny.
- - All of a sudden there's...
- 106
- 00:08:21,421 --> 00:08:22,900
- - Johnny.
- - Yeah?
- 107
- 00:08:23,004 --> 00:08:25,359
- - You're a press agent, are you not?
- - Yeah.
- 108
- 00:08:25,463 --> 00:08:28,863
- And you're supposed to know all the little
- ins and outs of Hollywood? Do you?
- 109
- 00:08:28,968 --> 00:08:34,243
- - Yeah, absolutely.
- - Then you leave the big ideas to me.
- 110
- 00:08:34,347 --> 00:08:37,257
- - Yeah, of course, boss.
- - Cigar, cigarettes, Sen-Sen?
- 111
- 00:08:38,302 --> 00:08:42,625
- Thelma. I thought you were over at
- the Brown Derby with Trixie. No, Theresa.
- 112
- 00:08:42,729 --> 00:08:45,503
- - Margaret, yeah.
- - Exactly. What happened to Margaret?
- 113
- 00:08:45,607 --> 00:08:48,132
- - She lost her shoes?
- - Thank God that's settled.
- 114
- 00:08:48,236 --> 00:08:51,636
- I'm sorry.
- Thelma, this is Howard Hughes.
- 115
- 00:08:51,740 --> 00:08:56,349
- Howard and I were just discussing how he
- wants me to pull a camera out of my ass.
- 116
- 00:08:56,454 --> 00:09:01,107
- - Cigarette?
- - Oh, no, thanks. I don't smoke.
- 117
- 00:09:02,284 --> 00:09:06,441
- Whew. Boy, you are just hitting
- on all six cylinders, aren't you?
- 118
- 00:09:06,545 --> 00:09:07,945
- My God.
- 119
- 00:09:09,129 --> 00:09:11,361
- Would you do me a favour and just...
- 120
- 00:09:11,465 --> 00:09:14,995
- Would you just smile for me one time?
- Just once?
- 121
- 00:09:17,049 --> 00:09:20,290
- Whew. Yeah. Yeah.
- You see, you got a short upper lip.
- 122
- 00:09:20,394 --> 00:09:23,671
- Makes for a much nicer smile.
- 123
- 00:09:27,268 --> 00:09:31,008
- See, I wonder what gives
- a beautiful woman like you pleasure.
- 124
- 00:09:31,112 --> 00:09:34,845
- I mean, say you're just standing there,
- right? And I just touch you.
- 125
- 00:09:34,949 --> 00:09:38,932
- Just like this,
- through my fingertips.
- 126
- 00:09:39,037 --> 00:09:42,354
- Do you...
- Do you like that?
- 127
- 00:09:42,458 --> 00:09:43,858
- Do you?
- 128
- 00:09:49,081 --> 00:09:53,072
- See, I want to learn what pleases you.
- 129
- 00:09:53,176 --> 00:09:56,531
- I want to learn everything about you.
- 130
- 00:09:56,636 --> 00:10:01,173
- Would you let me do that?
- Would you give me that job?
- 131
- 00:10:06,056 --> 00:10:08,049
- I'm off in a half an hour.
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- 00:10:09,643 --> 00:10:12,423
- - Well, I'm in room...
- - 217.
- 133
- 00:10:12,528 --> 00:10:13,328
- 217.
- 134
- 00:10:16,484 --> 00:10:19,188
- See you there.
- 135
- 00:10:22,782 --> 00:10:25,145
- Johnny, get on the horn
- to Universal and Warner's.
- 136
- 00:10:25,250 --> 00:10:28,234
- I need two more cameras by Saturday.
- Rent 'em if you can.
- 137
- 00:10:28,338 --> 00:10:30,988
- Steal 'em if you have to.
- 138
- 00:10:31,092 --> 00:10:34,747
- Abso-tively, boss.
- Abso-tively.
- 139
- 00:10:36,420 --> 00:10:39,412
- Rumours coming from
- a lonely airstrip out in Van Nuys.
- 140
- 00:10:39,516 --> 00:10:42,914
- Sources whisper that young
- Texas industrialist Howard Hughes
- 141
- 00:10:43,018 --> 00:10:46,750
- just won't stop pouring money
- into his war epic. And do we mean epic.
- 142
- 00:10:46,855 --> 00:10:52,879
- 137 pilots, 87 airplanes,
- 35 cameramen, 2,000 extras.
- 143
- 00:10:52,984 --> 00:10:56,315
- How long will it be before this picture
- ends up costing as much as the real war?
- 144
- 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,515
- Goddamn it.
- Why the hell do they look so slow?
- 145
- 00:10:59,619 --> 00:11:05,862
- This isn't what it was like up there. They
- look like a bunch of goddamn models.
- 146
- 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:12,788
- Son of a bitch.
- 147
- 00:11:14,125 --> 00:11:15,525
- Howard?
- 148
- 00:11:18,129 --> 00:11:22,074
- Without something standing still
- behind the planes
- 149
- 00:11:22,178 --> 00:11:24,660
- we've got no idea of how fast we're moving.
- 150
- 00:11:24,764 --> 00:11:28,706
- We got no sense of relative motion.
- 151
- 00:11:28,810 --> 00:11:31,420
- Call over to UCLA.
- Get me the best meteorologist they got.
- 152
- 00:11:31,524 --> 00:11:34,968
- You get him here in an hour, all right?
- 153
- 00:11:37,273 --> 00:11:40,014
- Hey. You want the good news
- or the bad news?
- 154
- 00:11:40,118 --> 00:11:41,763
- - The bad news, always.
- - All right.
- 155
- 00:11:41,867 --> 00:11:44,891
- We installed the 450 radial
- but the struts won't take the vibration.
- 156
- 00:11:44,995 --> 00:11:49,228
- Minute we fire her up, the struts
- start cracking at the attach points.
- 157
- 00:11:49,333 --> 00:11:52,273
- - Well, what's the good news?
- - There isn't any.
- 158
- 00:11:52,377 --> 00:11:56,150
- Goddamn it, Odie, if the 450's too big,
- we just got to figure something else out.
- 159
- 00:11:56,254 --> 00:11:59,158
- We've done everything.
- We've rebuilt her from top to toe.
- 160
- 00:11:59,262 --> 00:12:03,032
- Now, if we drain the fuel tank, for a couple
- of runs, she might make 180mph.
- 161
- 00:12:03,136 --> 00:12:04,996
- I want minimum 200, all right?
- 162
- 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:07,730
- I want a date with Theda Bara,
- but that ain't gonna happen either.
- 163
- 00:12:07,834 --> 00:12:08,791
- Don't be so sure.
- 164
- 00:12:08,895 --> 00:12:14,298
- So if the struts won't sustain the engine
- we need, we got to get rid of the struts.
- 165
- 00:12:14,403 --> 00:12:17,311
- No, then the top wing falls off.
- 166
- 00:12:19,190 --> 00:12:21,176
- Then let it.
- 167
- 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:22,280
- What?
- 168
- 00:12:23,699 --> 00:12:28,356
- Who says we need a top wing?
- I mean, who says we need anything?
- 169
- 00:12:30,534 --> 00:12:33,314
- - A monoplane.
- - A cantilevered monoplane, right.
- 170
- 00:12:33,418 --> 00:12:36,446
- I mean, they're doing it in France.
- To hell with the top wing and the struts.
- 171
- 00:12:36,551 --> 00:12:39,487
- - Put in a 550 Wasp engine.
- - 100 octane fuel.
- 172
- 00:12:39,591 --> 00:12:43,741
- - That'd give us a top horsepower of what?
- - 700.
- 173
- 00:12:43,845 --> 00:12:48,964
- We squeeze that to a thousand,
- we've got the fastest plane ever built.
- 174
- 00:12:50,846 --> 00:12:57,134
- You know, I just got to say we've already
- spent over $ 200,000 rebuilding this plane.
- 175
- 00:12:57,728 --> 00:13:00,387
- To hell with it.
- 176
- 00:13:00,491 --> 00:13:03,517
- Tear it up, Odie.
- Go on.
- 177
- 00:13:06,862 --> 00:13:07,862
- Well.
- 178
- 00:13:09,452 --> 00:13:15,035
- The cumulonimbus formations
- about which you speak...
- 179
- 00:13:16,372 --> 00:13:18,525
- that look like...
- 180
- 00:13:18,629 --> 00:13:22,403
- Giant breasts full of milk.
- I want clouds, damn it.
- 181
- 00:13:22,507 --> 00:13:28,413
- Yes, clouds that look like
- giant breasts full of milk
- 182
- 00:13:28,517 --> 00:13:32,249
- cannot exactly be guaranteed
- for any particular occasion.
- 183
- 00:13:32,353 --> 00:13:34,718
- So you might have to...
- 184
- 00:13:35,599 --> 00:13:37,199
- to wait.
- 185
- 00:13:39,061 --> 00:13:41,924
- Then we'll wait.
- 186
- 00:13:42,029 --> 00:13:46,474
- Look, whatever they pay you at UCLA, I'm
- doubling it, all right? You work for me now.
- 187
- 00:13:46,578 --> 00:13:49,766
- Find some clouds.
- 188
- 00:13:49,870 --> 00:13:53,438
- Find some clouds.
- Find me some clouds.
- 189
- 00:13:53,542 --> 00:13:56,025
- Welcome to Hell's Angels.
- 190
- 00:13:59,123 --> 00:14:00,238
- Thank you.
- 191
- 00:14:10,009 --> 00:14:13,416
- We've been to Chatsworth, Santa Cruz,
- Encino, San Diego, Riverside,
- 192
- 00:14:13,521 --> 00:14:16,337
- Van Nuys and Bakersfield.
- It has been eight months.
- 193
- 00:14:16,441 --> 00:14:20,883
- - Where are my goddamn clouds?
- - They move, Mr Hughes.
- 194
- 00:14:20,987 --> 00:14:24,469
- Clouds move.
- That's what they do. They move.
- 195
- 00:14:24,573 --> 00:14:30,514
- See that? It is costing me $5,271 a day
- to keep those planes on the ground.
- 196
- 00:14:30,618 --> 00:14:34,361
- You find me some goddamn clouds.
- 197
- 00:14:40,831 --> 00:14:42,631
- Nice day.
- 198
- 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:44,861
- Yeah, very funny.
- 199
- 00:14:44,966 --> 00:14:47,974
- Listen, I got a call from Houston.
- They're getting real nervous about all this.
- 200
- 00:14:48,078 --> 00:14:51,326
- - Stop showing them the damn bills, Noah.
- - That would be illegal, Howard.
- 201
- 00:14:51,430 --> 00:14:53,994
- Shit, no.
- Maybe it's a little bit naughty.
- 202
- 00:14:54,099 --> 00:14:59,294
- Hughes Tools is incorporated in Texas.
- They have to see the bills.
- 203
- 00:14:59,399 --> 00:15:02,799
- Incorporate a new division out here,
- all right? We'll call it Hughes Aircraft.
- 204
- 00:15:02,903 --> 00:15:05,464
- Odie, do we need
- these rivets on the cowling?
- 205
- 00:15:05,568 --> 00:15:07,679
- Yeah, or the reverse thrust would rip it off.
- 206
- 00:15:07,783 --> 00:15:10,177
- They're gonna give me drag.
- Do something about that, OK?
- 207
- 00:15:10,282 --> 00:15:12,623
- - Wind resistance on the rivets?
- - Yeah, I want her slippery.
- 208
- 00:15:12,728 --> 00:15:15,727
- There are serious tax consequences
- to incorporating in California.
- 209
- 00:15:15,831 --> 00:15:18,899
- - Just take care of it, would you?
- - Mr Hughes. Mr Hughes.
- 210
- 00:15:19,004 --> 00:15:23,279
- Oakland.
- We have clouds in Oakland.
- 211
- 00:15:23,383 --> 00:15:25,654
- - You mean it this time?
- - Yes.
- 212
- 00:15:25,758 --> 00:15:30,452
- Goddamn it, yes. I can promise you.
- Clouds in Oakland.
- 213
- 00:15:30,556 --> 00:15:32,435
- All right, all right,
- don't get all jittery now.
- 214
- 00:15:32,539 --> 00:15:35,939
- Oakland.
- Oakland.
- 215
- 00:15:36,768 --> 00:15:41,056
- We're going to Oakland.
- Oakland.
- 216
- 00:16:16,427 --> 00:16:18,918
- Down and to the left.
- 217
- 00:16:42,244 --> 00:16:45,494
- That was perfect.
- 218
- 00:16:52,421 --> 00:16:55,080
- Yes, young Howard Hughes
- has pulled it off.
- 219
- 00:16:55,184 --> 00:16:58,748
- After two years, Hell's Angels
- has finally finished filming.
- 220
- 00:16:58,853 --> 00:17:01,791
- There's going to be one heck
- of a wrap party in Hollywood tonight.
- 221
- 00:17:01,895 --> 00:17:04,880
- The price tag?
- A staggering $ 2 million.
- 222
- 00:17:04,985 --> 00:17:07,378
- So, if every human being
- in America buys a ticket,
- 223
- 00:17:07,482 --> 00:17:09,387
- heck, he might
- even make a profit.
- 224
- 00:17:14,401 --> 00:17:18,347
- First the clouds don't come, then the
- planes break down, then the planes crash.
- 225
- 00:17:18,451 --> 00:17:20,101
- Then the Zeppelins don't work.
- 226
- 00:17:20,205 --> 00:17:23,066
- Seems we've had everything but
- a damn plague of locusts on this thing.
- 227
- 00:17:23,171 --> 00:17:24,605
- I mean, you have to admit.
- 228
- 00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:30,493
- Now, honestly, did you ever think
- you'd actually finish the damn thing?
- 229
- 00:17:30,918 --> 00:17:32,460
- Come with me.
- 230
- 00:17:34,130 --> 00:17:37,743
- Mama, darling,
- if I'm a success in this show,
- 231
- 00:17:37,847 --> 00:17:39,844
- - well, we're going to move from here.
- - Oh, no.
- 232
- 00:17:39,969 --> 00:17:42,000
- Oh, yes.
- We're gonna move up in the Bronx.
- 233
- 00:17:42,104 --> 00:17:44,609
- Lot of nice green grass up there
- and a whole lot of people you know.
- 234
- 00:17:44,713 --> 00:17:47,087
- There's the Ginsbergs,
- the Guttenbergs, and the Goldbergs.
- 235
- 00:17:47,192 --> 00:17:49,019
- A whole lot of bergs.
- I don't know them all.
- 236
- 00:17:50,437 --> 00:17:54,383
- You see, this is what the people want.
- Silent pictures are yesterday's news.
- 237
- 00:17:54,487 --> 00:17:58,101
- So I figure we gotta reshoot
- Hell's Angels for sound.
- 238
- 00:17:59,738 --> 00:18:02,647
- - How much of it?
- - All of it.
- 239
- 00:18:02,751 --> 00:18:07,897
- Before you even ask, I'll tell you. An
- additional 1.7 million. We got that much?
- 240
- 00:18:08,001 --> 00:18:11,237
- - No.
- - Well, we'll make it.
- 241
- 00:18:11,342 --> 00:18:13,365
- Take care of that, would you?
- 242
- 00:18:13,469 --> 00:18:14,659
- Now get this.
- 243
- 00:18:24,972 --> 00:18:29,173
- In the halls of 7000 Romaine, it goes on
- day after day, month after month.
- 244
- 00:18:29,277 --> 00:18:33,135
- Howard Hughes is now editing
- some 25 miles of film.
- 245
- 00:18:34,899 --> 00:18:39,516
- Heck, I say release it now and give
- the world its first 560-hour movie.
- 246
- 00:18:39,620 --> 00:18:44,683
- Pat. Mr Hughes needs this reel
- in the projection room right now.
- 247
- 00:18:44,788 --> 00:18:46,482
- Enough is enough, Mr Hughes.
- 248
- 00:18:46,586 --> 00:18:49,690
- Are you ever gonna let us actually see
- this little epic of yours?
- 249
- 00:18:49,795 --> 00:18:51,595
- Hurry up.
- 250
- 00:19:12,311 --> 00:19:13,759
- - Who is it?
- - Noah.
- 251
- 00:19:13,864 --> 00:19:15,930
- Come on in.
- 252
- 00:19:17,149 --> 00:19:19,485
- I've been on the phone to Houston
- for three solid hours.
- 253
- 00:19:19,610 --> 00:19:21,513
- We're fixing every goddamn book we have.
- 254
- 00:19:21,617 --> 00:19:23,810
- Wait, wait, wait.
- 255
- 00:19:23,914 --> 00:19:27,314
- Yeah. Run reel ten again.
- I think we're duplicating a shot here.
- 256
- 00:19:27,418 --> 00:19:31,233
- And tell Jimmy I want
- ten chocolate chip cookies, all right?
- 257
- 00:19:31,337 --> 00:19:35,031
- Medium chips,
- none too close to the outside. Got it?
- 258
- 00:19:36,043 --> 00:19:38,529
- Do you remember
- that goddamn shot from reel ten?
- 259
- 00:19:38,633 --> 00:19:43,662
- No. I don't remember anything from
- reel ten. I don't know what reel ten is.
- 260
- 00:19:43,766 --> 00:19:47,000
- I'm a businessman, Howard,
- and so are you.
- 261
- 00:19:47,104 --> 00:19:48,916
- Now, look.
- 262
- 00:19:49,021 --> 00:19:52,960
- This has been a great ride.
- We've had a hell of a lot of fun.
- 263
- 00:19:53,064 --> 00:19:56,922
- But you're losing
- $ 25,000 a day doing this.
- 264
- 00:19:57,027 --> 00:19:59,027
- Every day.
- 265
- 00:20:04,655 --> 00:20:07,442
- So, what are my options?
- 266
- 00:20:09,034 --> 00:20:11,693
- Well, this time I don't know
- that you have any.
- 267
- 00:20:11,798 --> 00:20:14,862
- I'm afraid you got to close it down.
- 268
- 00:20:14,966 --> 00:20:16,700
- Dig your way out.
- 269
- 00:20:23,257 --> 00:20:25,788
- I'm sorry, Howard.
- 270
- 00:20:25,892 --> 00:20:28,092
- I truly am.
- 271
- 00:20:35,060 --> 00:20:38,429
- Reel ten, Mr Hughes.
- 272
- 00:20:42,693 --> 00:20:45,556
- Mortgage Toolco.
- 273
- 00:20:45,661 --> 00:20:47,974
- Every asset.
- 274
- 00:20:48,079 --> 00:20:50,771
- - You heard me.
- - If you do that, you could lose everything.
- 275
- 00:20:50,875 --> 00:20:52,944
- Well, I won't.
- 276
- 00:20:55,581 --> 00:20:57,181
- I won't.
- 277
- 00:20:58,344 --> 00:21:00,344
- All right.
- 278
- 00:21:01,545 --> 00:21:03,289
- I'll get into it.
- 279
- 00:21:04,548 --> 00:21:06,707
- Thanks, Noah.
- 280
- 00:21:41,252 --> 00:21:44,947
- More than half a million good souls
- lining the curb of Hollywood Boulevard.
- 281
- 00:21:45,051 --> 00:21:46,914
- Look at the automobiles,
- ladies and gentlemen.
- 282
- 00:21:47,018 --> 00:21:50,290
- There are at least 45,000 cars here,
- making it the greatest traffic jam...
- 283
- 00:21:50,394 --> 00:21:53,461
- Young Howard Hughes must have
- quite a lump in his throat tonight.
- 284
- 00:21:53,565 --> 00:21:57,590
- Six months after the stock market crashes
- and after the death of three of his pilots,
- 285
- 00:21:57,694 --> 00:22:00,798
- he's finally unveiling
- his $4-million baby doll.
- 286
- 00:22:00,903 --> 00:22:05,264
- It's the most expensive movie ever.
- Nothing five-and-dime for our Mr Hughes.
- 287
- 00:22:05,368 --> 00:22:07,474
- Nothing like tonight
- has ever been seen before,
- 288
- 00:22:07,578 --> 00:22:10,600
- and I can certainly say
- it will never be seen again.
- 289
- 00:22:10,704 --> 00:22:13,644
- 500,000 people are crowding the streets
- to get a glimpse
- 290
- 00:22:13,749 --> 00:22:17,317
- of the stars and celebrities.
- Three companies of Marines were called
- 291
- 00:22:17,421 --> 00:22:21,236
- to assist the 250 special police
- who are handling this enormous crowd.
- 292
- 00:22:21,341 --> 00:22:22,904
- This is an industry town, my friends,
- 293
- 00:22:23,008 --> 00:22:26,326
- and nobody, but nobody,
- makes a movie outside a studio.
- 294
- 00:22:26,430 --> 00:22:28,908
- Sure, some Hollywood insiders
- over at the Brown Derby...
- 295
- 00:22:29,012 --> 00:22:31,161
- And now, ladies and gentlemen, I think...
- 296
- 00:22:31,265 --> 00:22:34,374
- Yes, yes. I can just see
- Mr Hughes's car arriving now.
- 297
- 00:22:34,478 --> 00:22:38,212
- Mr Hughes escorts
- the lovely starlet Jean Harlow tonight.
- 298
- 00:22:38,316 --> 00:22:41,965
- He discovered her for this picture,
- and we think her platinum-blonde locks
- 299
- 00:22:42,070 --> 00:22:46,724
- and hot-jazz, baby-doll style
- are gonna make her a big star.
- 300
- 00:23:11,842 --> 00:23:13,035
- Mr Hughes.
- 301
- 00:23:13,139 --> 00:23:16,498
- Mr Hughes, how about a word?
- 302
- 00:23:16,602 --> 00:23:21,048
- Big night for you, Mr Hughes.
- 303
- 00:23:21,153 --> 00:23:24,051
- Big night for you tonight.
- 304
- 00:23:24,156 --> 00:23:26,261
- Very big.
- Very big.
- 305
- 00:23:26,365 --> 00:23:30,485
- Tell us what it was like
- making this fabulous picture.
- 306
- 00:23:31,987 --> 00:23:32,787
- Yes.
- 307
- 00:23:33,874 --> 00:23:34,874
- Yeah.
- 308
- 00:23:35,417 --> 00:23:41,197
- So, four million clams from your own
- pocket. Nervous how the flick will fly?
- 309
- 00:23:43,415 --> 00:23:47,239
- Big night.
- You enjoy the show.
- 310
- 00:23:47,343 --> 00:23:52,830
- Yes, well, let me present the feminine star
- of this spectacle, Hell's Angels.
- 311
- 00:23:52,934 --> 00:23:55,411
- - Miss Jean Harlow.
- - Thank you.
- 312
- 00:23:55,515 --> 00:23:58,708
- I would like to use this occasion
- to publicly thank Mr Hughes
- 313
- 00:23:58,812 --> 00:24:02,335
- for the opportunity he gave me.
- Thank you.
- 314
- 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,297
- Thank you. And now
- I'd like to ask Roscoe Arbuckle
- 315
- 00:24:06,401 --> 00:24:08,761
- to introduce his pet lion cub, Gilmore.
- 316
- 00:24:08,865 --> 00:24:11,329
- What the hell's the matter with you?
- Can't you remember my name?
- 317
- 00:24:11,433 --> 00:24:15,731
- I'm sorry. Roscoe Turner.
- And this would be Gilmore.
- 318
- 00:24:58,783 --> 00:25:00,526
- We've got him.
- We've got him.
- 319
- 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,316
- Murder. That's what
- this dirty rotten politician war is.
- 320
- 00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:07,288
- Murder. You know it as well as I do.
- 321
- 00:25:45,037 --> 00:25:47,706
- Stand up, Slim, take a bow.
- 322
- 00:26:00,177 --> 00:26:02,292
- Reel four played way too long.
- Too many coughs.
- 323
- 00:26:02,396 --> 00:26:04,984
- Get Harry and the team out of the party,
- get them over to the office.
- 324
- 00:26:05,088 --> 00:26:06,377
- I want to cut a few shots tonight.
- 325
- 00:26:06,481 --> 00:26:10,299
- Find Glenn Odekirk. Somebody write
- this down. "Flush rivets." You got that?
- 326
- 00:26:10,403 --> 00:26:12,260
- - Flush rivets.
- - Flush rivets.
- 327
- 00:26:12,364 --> 00:26:14,055
- Lickety split, boss.
- 328
- 00:26:14,159 --> 00:26:16,226
- Here he is.
- 329
- 00:26:17,862 --> 00:26:20,264
- Variety says,
- "This one won't miss."
- 330
- 00:26:20,368 --> 00:26:22,644
- Magnificently photographed...
- 331
- 00:26:22,749 --> 00:26:26,188
- Scenes that never
- have been approached...
- 332
- 00:26:26,292 --> 00:26:29,611
- Not for a long time have I seen
- anything as enthralling...
- 333
- 00:26:29,715 --> 00:26:34,665
- It cost four million dollars
- and it has four million thrills...
- 334
- 00:27:31,185 --> 00:27:37,057
- The lighter shade. I don't want to look like
- Boris Karloff, if you know what I mean.
- 335
- 00:27:38,108 --> 00:27:42,016
- I read in the magazines
- that you play golf.
- 336
- 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:43,811
- On occasion.
- 337
- 00:27:43,915 --> 00:27:46,397
- Well, how about nine holes?
- 338
- 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,940
- Now, Mr Hughes?
- 339
- 00:27:51,044 --> 00:27:54,074
- If it would be convenient, Miss Hepburn.
- 340
- 00:28:16,230 --> 00:28:19,760
- You're not extending enough
- on your follow-through.
- 341
- 00:28:19,864 --> 00:28:23,099
- Follow-through is everything in golf,
- just like life. Ha-ha-ha.
- 342
- 00:28:23,204 --> 00:28:24,350
- Don't you find?
- 343
- 00:28:24,454 --> 00:28:26,516
- Saw your Scarface picture.
- 344
- 00:28:26,621 --> 00:28:28,436
- - Violent.
- - Realistic.
- 345
- 00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:33,772
- Movies are movies, Howard, not life.
- Now, the stage - the stage is real.
- 346
- 00:28:33,877 --> 00:28:38,074
- Real flesh and blood. Human beings
- right up there in front of you, buster.
- 347
- 00:28:38,178 --> 00:28:41,282
- Can't look away.
- Can't munch popcorn. That would be rude.
- 348
- 00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:43,244
- - Do you like the theatre?
- - No.
- 349
- 00:28:43,349 --> 00:28:45,538
- I adore the theatre.
- 350
- 00:28:45,643 --> 00:28:47,832
- Only alive on stage.
- I'll teach you.
- 351
- 00:28:47,937 --> 00:28:51,963
- We'll see some Ibsen, if the Republicans
- haven't outlawed him by now. Ha-ha.
- 352
- 00:28:52,067 --> 00:28:55,196
- You're not a Republican, are you? Couldn't
- abide that. How did you vote in '32?
- 353
- 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:59,391
- - Well, I didn't.
- - You must. It's your sacred franchise.
- 354
- 00:29:02,234 --> 00:29:05,392
- Heard you were wooing Ginger Rogers.
- What about that?
- 355
- 00:29:05,496 --> 00:29:07,225
- Aw, she's just a friend.
- 356
- 00:29:07,329 --> 00:29:09,937
- Ha. Men can't be friends
- with women, Howard.
- 357
- 00:29:10,041 --> 00:29:13,979
- They must possess them or leave them be.
- It's a primitive urge from caveman days.
- 358
- 00:29:14,084 --> 00:29:17,359
- It's all in Darwin.
- Hunt the flesh, kill the flesh, eat the flesh.
- 359
- 00:29:17,463 --> 00:29:21,320
- That's the male sex all over.
- 360
- 00:29:21,424 --> 00:29:23,424
- Excuse me?
- 361
- 00:29:23,594 --> 00:29:28,744
- Well, if you're deaf you must own up to it.
- Get a hearing aid, or see my father.
- 362
- 00:29:28,848 --> 00:29:32,540
- He's a urologist, but it's all tied up
- inside the body, don't you find?
- 363
- 00:29:32,644 --> 00:29:36,796
- Me, I keep healthy.
- I take seven showers a day to keep clean.
- 364
- 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:40,589
- Also because I am what's so
- vulgarly referred to as "outdoorsy".
- 365
- 00:29:40,694 --> 00:29:44,552
- Well, I'm not "outdoorsy".
- I'm athletic. I sweat.
- 366
- 00:29:44,656 --> 00:29:47,432
- There it is.
- Now we both know the sordid truth.
- 367
- 00:29:47,536 --> 00:29:50,060
- I sweat and you're deaf.
- 368
- 00:29:50,165 --> 00:29:53,526
- Aren't we a fine pair of misfits?
- 369
- 00:29:56,622 --> 00:29:57,822
- Three.
- 370
- 00:30:05,965 --> 00:30:08,041
- Noble effort.
- 371
- 00:30:10,094 --> 00:30:13,373
- So I suppose you're wooing me now.
- 372
- 00:30:13,477 --> 00:30:15,277
- Oh, well.
- 373
- 00:30:34,493 --> 00:30:39,693
- Not enough. Not enough.
- These rivets have to be completely flush.
- 374
- 00:30:39,797 --> 00:30:42,948
- I want every screw and joint countersunk.
- 375
- 00:30:43,052 --> 00:30:45,741
- I want no wind resistance on the fuselage.
- 376
- 00:30:45,845 --> 00:30:49,162
- She has got to be clean, Odie.
- Clean. Understand?
- 377
- 00:30:49,266 --> 00:30:52,998
- - OK, Howard.
- - I don't know what else to tell you.
- 378
- 00:30:53,102 --> 00:30:54,333
- What have you got for me?
- 379
- 00:30:54,437 --> 00:30:58,004
- The thing is, TWA needs a new plane.
- A modern plane.
- 380
- 00:30:58,108 --> 00:31:00,337
- - Yeah? What kind of plane?
- - OK.
- 381
- 00:31:00,441 --> 00:31:03,760
- The DC-3 has 21 daytime seats
- and 14 overnight berths.
- 382
- 00:31:03,864 --> 00:31:06,258
- - Something bigger.
- - Try 50 seats.
- 383
- 00:31:06,363 --> 00:31:09,389
- - With a ceiling of 12,000 feet.
- - No.
- 384
- 00:31:09,493 --> 00:31:13,227
- 20,000. Think about it, Jack.
- What does 20,000 feet give you?
- 385
- 00:31:13,331 --> 00:31:15,774
- - Less turbulence.
- - Right, because it's above the weather.
- 386
- 00:31:15,878 --> 00:31:18,482
- Jack, we want to fly above the weather.
- 387
- 00:31:18,586 --> 00:31:22,155
- Only 1 per cent of the American population
- has ever set foot on a commercial airliner.
- 388
- 00:31:22,260 --> 00:31:25,241
- Why? Because they're scared to death,
- Jack, and they should be.
- 389
- 00:31:25,345 --> 00:31:28,033
- I mean, 7,000 feet is bumpy as shit.
- You know that.
- 390
- 00:31:28,137 --> 00:31:30,661
- We build a plane
- that flies above the weather,
- 391
- 00:31:30,765 --> 00:31:34,620
- we could get every man, woman and child
- in this country to feel safe up there.
- 392
- 00:31:34,724 --> 00:31:37,877
- An airplane with the ability
- to fly in the substratosphere.
- 393
- 00:31:37,982 --> 00:31:41,253
- Across the country.
- Across the world.
- 394
- 00:31:41,357 --> 00:31:43,754
- Now, that is the future.
- 395
- 00:31:43,858 --> 00:31:45,092
- - You with me?
- - Yeah.
- 396
- 00:31:45,196 --> 00:31:47,410
- Shoot straight with me now,
- cos I don't wanna get into all this
- 397
- 00:31:47,514 --> 00:31:49,261
- if your board doesn't have the balls for it.
- 398
- 00:31:49,365 --> 00:31:52,019
- - Would they support us?
- - I don't know. They're tight bastards.
- 399
- 00:31:52,123 --> 00:31:54,146
- - Well, what's your financial picture?
- - Not great.
- 400
- 00:31:54,250 --> 00:31:56,354
- - Last year's deficit?
- - 770,000.
- 401
- 00:31:56,459 --> 00:31:59,064
- - What's it selling at?
- - About eight dollars a share.
- 402
- 00:31:59,169 --> 00:32:02,985
- That's the lowest it's been.
- 403
- 00:32:03,089 --> 00:32:05,529
- - I could do that.
- - Do what?
- 404
- 00:32:05,633 --> 00:32:07,863
- - Buy it.
- - You want to buy the airline?
- 405
- 00:32:07,967 --> 00:32:10,787
- For crying out loud, Jack. We don't want
- a bunch of damn pencil-pushers
- 406
- 00:32:10,892 --> 00:32:13,287
- getting in the way
- of us making our plane, do we?
- 407
- 00:32:13,391 --> 00:32:18,206
- Give me brass tacks, now. What does
- controlling interest in TWA cost me?
- 408
- 00:32:18,311 --> 00:32:21,962
- - Call it 15 million.
- - Whew.
- 409
- 00:32:22,066 --> 00:32:25,013
- - That is a chunk of change.
- - Yeah.
- 410
- 00:32:27,773 --> 00:32:31,846
- You call Noah Dietrich.
- You have him start buying.
- 411
- 00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:36,267
- Howard, hold on. Are you sure? You want
- to think about it for five minutes?
- 412
- 00:32:36,371 --> 00:32:40,363
- Hell, Jack, I've got a tiger by the tail here,
- and I ain't gonna let it go.
- 413
- 00:32:49,170 --> 00:32:54,453
- Good evening, Mr Hughes.
- Welcome. Your table is ready.
- 414
- 00:32:54,557 --> 00:32:57,580
- - How goes the aviation, Mr Hughes?
- - Just fine, Pete.
- 415
- 00:32:57,684 --> 00:33:00,050
- I'm so glad.
- 416
- 00:33:01,599 --> 00:33:04,340
- - Good evening, Mr Hughes. Madame.
- - It's "Miss".
- 417
- 00:33:04,444 --> 00:33:07,881
- - Miss. The usual, Mr Hughes?
- - Please, yes.
- 418
- 00:33:07,985 --> 00:33:10,427
- And may I recommend for the lady
- our clementine soup,
- 419
- 00:33:10,532 --> 00:33:14,431
- followed by roast wild duck with currant
- glaze and poached pears in rose sauce?
- 420
- 00:33:14,536 --> 00:33:17,731
- - It's truly divine.
- - Yeah. That sounds fine.
- 421
- 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:23,562
- Your kind of a joint, is it?
- 422
- 00:33:23,667 --> 00:33:26,110
- - Wouldn't have thought.
- - They're open late.
- 423
- 00:33:26,214 --> 00:33:30,069
- I go to a hot dog stand on La Cienega, too.
- They're open till about four.
- 424
- 00:33:30,173 --> 00:33:31,973
- Are they?
- 425
- 00:33:33,464 --> 00:33:35,919
- How marvellous.
- 426
- 00:33:51,148 --> 00:33:54,140
- Howard. Howard.
- 427
- 00:33:54,244 --> 00:33:56,598
- Hi. Son of a gun.
- 428
- 00:33:56,703 --> 00:34:00,602
- Kate, this is Johnny Meyer. I suppose
- you could call him my press agent.
- 429
- 00:34:00,707 --> 00:34:02,420
- Pleased to meet you.
- Loved you in Alice Adams.
- 430
- 00:34:02,524 --> 00:34:04,314
- - You're too kind.
- - I'm sure you know Errol, right?
- 431
- 00:34:04,419 --> 00:34:07,153
- - Mr Flynn. Yes.
- - Kate. Kate.
- 432
- 00:34:07,257 --> 00:34:11,320
- Kate of the clenched-jawed Hepburns.
- Enchanting as always.
- 433
- 00:34:11,425 --> 00:34:13,782
- You should use Lux on your hands,
- by the way. I do.
- 434
- 00:34:13,887 --> 00:34:17,080
- Kate, sweetie, you and Howard ought
- to cook up a picture. Co-star with Errol...
- 435
- 00:34:17,185 --> 00:34:18,751
- My chair.
- 436
- 00:34:22,304 --> 00:34:25,667
- I think not.
- Don't you read Variety. Mr Meyer?
- 437
- 00:34:25,771 --> 00:34:29,423
- I'm box-office poison.
- I'm on the outs, the skids, the doldrums.
- 438
- 00:34:29,527 --> 00:34:33,260
- Washed up, day-old fish
- not worth the eating, so they tell me.
- 439
- 00:34:33,364 --> 00:34:36,887
- To hell with them. To hell with them,
- my dear. Soulless pricks to a man, right?
- 440
- 00:34:36,991 --> 00:34:43,273
- Johnny tells me you're thinking about
- doing a Western, of all goddamn things.
- 441
- 00:34:45,286 --> 00:34:48,066
- Are you making a Western, Howard?
- 442
- 00:34:48,170 --> 00:34:50,778
- Yeah. Making a Western.
- I'm gonna call it The Outlaw.
- 443
- 00:34:50,882 --> 00:34:55,114
- Yeah. And you know what it's about?
- S-e-x. It's all about s-e-x.
- 444
- 00:34:55,219 --> 00:34:56,949
- It's a Western.
- 445
- 00:34:57,054 --> 00:35:01,204
- - You can't have fornication in a Western.
- - It's not real sex, Skinny. It's movie sex.
- 446
- 00:35:01,308 --> 00:35:05,042
- What Scarface did for the gangster picture,
- The Outlaw is gonna do for the Western.
- 447
- 00:35:05,146 --> 00:35:08,086
- Put the sex and guts and blood
- right up there on the screen...
- 448
- 00:35:08,190 --> 00:35:10,298
- - Have any cigarettes?
- - Don't mind us.
- 449
- 00:35:10,402 --> 00:35:13,840
- New York-cut steak, 12 peas,
- bottle of milk with the cap on.
- 450
- 00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:17,219
- You're the only movie star I know
- can't afford his own goddamn cigarettes.
- 451
- 00:35:17,323 --> 00:35:21,686
- I hope your food isn't getting cold over
- at your table somewhere, or something.
- 452
- 00:35:21,790 --> 00:35:24,183
- No, no, no. We're here all night.
- Don't worry.
- 453
- 00:35:24,287 --> 00:35:27,857
- Now, Howard.
- Now, Howard, Howard. Howard.
- 454
- 00:35:27,962 --> 00:35:31,361
- If you're seriously talking about putting
- carnality back on the silver screen,
- 455
- 00:35:31,465 --> 00:35:36,035
- you must swear to let me in
- on the casting sessions.
- 456
- 00:35:37,922 --> 00:35:41,119
- I've somewhat of an eye -
- an eye for talent, isn't that right, Johnny?
- 457
- 00:35:41,223 --> 00:35:43,792
- You ought to give up that prancing
- in tights, be a talent scout.
- 458
- 00:35:43,896 --> 00:35:48,087
- That prancing in tights paid for my new
- yacht. You must all come sailing with me.
- 459
- 00:35:48,191 --> 00:35:49,756
- Catalina, this weekend.
- What do you say?
- 460
- 00:35:49,861 --> 00:35:52,087
- - Yeah, Catalina. Sounds grand.
- - Let's have some fun.
- 461
- 00:35:52,191 --> 00:35:54,845
- I've even managed to coax
- the luscious Miss de Havilland
- 462
- 00:35:54,949 --> 00:35:57,219
- and her equally luscious sister
- to accompany me.
- 463
- 00:35:57,323 --> 00:35:59,537
- Though I fear their mother
- will insist on coming along
- 464
- 00:35:59,641 --> 00:36:02,141
- to preserve their questionable virtue.
- 465
- 00:36:02,245 --> 00:36:06,938
- We shall assault these twin monuments
- of pristine Britannic beauty nonetheless.
- 466
- 00:36:07,042 --> 00:36:09,187
- - What do you say, Howard?
- - Yeah?
- 467
- 00:36:09,292 --> 00:36:10,690
- - Yeah.
- - Yeah?
- 468
- 00:36:10,794 --> 00:36:11,794
- Yeah.
- 469
- 00:36:16,127 --> 00:36:18,447
- I gotta... I gotta go.
- 470
- 00:36:18,551 --> 00:36:21,743
- If you'll excuse us,
- we have to be somewhere.
- 471
- 00:36:21,847 --> 00:36:24,620
- You are somewhere, Howard,
- you madman.
- 472
- 00:36:24,725 --> 00:36:27,749
- - Somewhere else. Excuse us.
- - Charmed, gentlemen.
- 473
- 00:36:27,853 --> 00:36:32,131
- Do help yourself to the poached pears.
- I hear they're divine.
- 474
- 00:36:32,235 --> 00:36:35,756
- Well. Howard Hughes,
- ladies and gentlemen.
- 475
- 00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:37,176
- Was that meant for me?
- 476
- 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,719
- My hero.
- God, all that Hollywood talk bores me silly.
- 477
- 00:36:40,823 --> 00:36:43,852
- As if there aren't more important things
- in the world. Mussolini, for one.
- 478
- 00:36:43,956 --> 00:36:48,022
- - Where are we going, by the way?
- - Do you feel like a little adventure?
- 479
- 00:36:48,126 --> 00:36:50,148
- Do your worst, Mr Hughes.
- 480
- 00:36:50,252 --> 00:36:51,520
- ...you limey bastard.
- 481
- 00:36:51,625 --> 00:36:54,484
- I'm a Tasmanian bastard,
- you ignorant prick.
- 482
- 00:36:54,588 --> 00:36:56,658
- That a way, Errol.
- 483
- 00:37:30,534 --> 00:37:33,314
- That's Mr Mayer's house right there.
- 484
- 00:37:33,418 --> 00:37:36,698
- Do you know where Jack Warner lives?
- 485
- 00:37:44,632 --> 00:37:48,494
- - What's that on the steering wheel?
- - Cellophane.
- 486
- 00:37:48,598 --> 00:37:52,878
- If you had any idea of the crap
- that people carry around on their hands...
- 487
- 00:37:52,983 --> 00:37:55,293
- What kind of crap?
- 488
- 00:37:55,398 --> 00:37:57,599
- You don't want to know.
- 489
- 00:38:02,233 --> 00:38:05,103
- Hold onto the wheel for a bit.
- 490
- 00:38:12,409 --> 00:38:14,651
- That's too hard.
- Relax your hand. Relax your hand.
- 491
- 00:38:21,127 --> 00:38:26,282
- You see, you've got to feel the vibration
- of the engine through your fingertips.
- 492
- 00:38:26,386 --> 00:38:29,745
- - Feel that?
- - Yes.
- 493
- 00:38:29,849 --> 00:38:30,849
- Yeah.
- 494
- 00:38:31,979 --> 00:38:34,169
- Well, that's good.
- 495
- 00:38:34,273 --> 00:38:35,473
- Golly.
- 496
- 00:38:40,437 --> 00:38:42,340
- Well, she's all yours.
- 497
- 00:38:42,445 --> 00:38:46,929
- - Where are you going?
- - I think there's some milk back here.
- 498
- 00:38:47,034 --> 00:38:50,942
- - You just keep us steady now.
- - All right.
- 499
- 00:39:08,966 --> 00:39:10,748
- - Howard.
- - Yeah?
- 500
- 00:39:10,852 --> 00:39:13,245
- There's a rather alarming mountain
- heading our way.
- 501
- 00:39:13,350 --> 00:39:16,216
- Pull back on the wheel a smidge.
- Go on.
- 502
- 00:39:20,811 --> 00:39:22,011
- Golly.
- 503
- 00:39:29,361 --> 00:39:35,067
- I don't think I've ever met someone
- who actually uses the word "golly".
- 504
- 00:39:41,457 --> 00:39:43,737
- You all right?
- Do you want me to take over?
- 505
- 00:39:43,842 --> 00:39:47,702
- Just when I'm getting the hang of it?
- 506
- 00:39:51,509 --> 00:39:55,458
- - You... You want some milk?
- - Please.
- 507
- 00:40:17,159 --> 00:40:21,066
- Utterly smashing.
- We'll do it again. I'm free Wednesday.
- 508
- 00:40:21,171 --> 00:40:23,030
- It's a little early for golf, though,
- don't you think?
- 509
- 00:40:23,134 --> 00:40:25,489
- Oh, no. I live right there.
- 510
- 00:40:25,594 --> 00:40:28,419
- - Feel like a drink?
- - Lead on.
- 511
- 00:40:29,463 --> 00:40:32,993
- Now, that makes
- for a challenging par four.
- 512
- 00:40:33,097 --> 00:40:37,209
- My decorator picked out
- the wallpaper and such.
- 513
- 00:40:37,314 --> 00:40:42,421
- He's queer as a bed bug, but...
- I just hate this room.
- 514
- 00:40:42,525 --> 00:40:44,755
- Gives me the willies. Ugh.
- 515
- 00:40:44,859 --> 00:40:49,017
- Feel I'm about to be swallowed up
- by the latest issue of Town & Country.
- 516
- 00:40:57,575 --> 00:41:00,605
- What room do you like?
- 517
- 00:41:00,709 --> 00:41:02,509
- My study.
- 518
- 00:41:04,457 --> 00:41:06,533
- Take me there.
- 519
- 00:41:22,641 --> 00:41:26,382
- You are the tallest woman I know.
- 520
- 00:41:26,486 --> 00:41:29,093
- And all sharp elbows and knees.
- 521
- 00:41:29,197 --> 00:41:30,597
- Beware.
- 522
- 00:41:53,172 --> 00:41:56,208
- Will you fly me to work tomorrow?
- 523
- 00:41:58,803 --> 00:42:01,638
- It is tomorrow.
- 524
- 00:42:53,566 --> 00:42:55,264
- Keep your eye on the fuel gauge.
- 525
- 00:42:55,368 --> 00:42:58,972
- She's got a minimum of fuel to keep
- her weight down. Two runs, that's it.
- 526
- 00:42:59,076 --> 00:43:02,126
- After that, you're flying on vapours.
- And then you crash and then you die.
- 527
- 00:43:02,231 --> 00:43:03,898
- - Right.
- - Just give her easy flying.
- 528
- 00:43:04,002 --> 00:43:06,856
- Don't worry about speed.
- And don't think about the record today.
- 529
- 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,301
- I wish to God you'd let someone else take
- her up. You've got damn 20 test pilots...
- 530
- 00:43:10,405 --> 00:43:13,366
- Hell, why should I let
- someone else have all the fun?
- 531
- 00:43:13,470 --> 00:43:16,248
- See you in a bit.
- 532
- 00:43:36,275 --> 00:43:37,875
- Contact.
- 533
- 00:45:05,614 --> 00:45:07,414
- Whoo-hoo.
- 534
- 00:45:07,750 --> 00:45:08,550
- 339.
- 535
- 00:45:10,911 --> 00:45:12,074
- Goddamn.
- 536
- 00:45:34,518 --> 00:45:35,318
- 347.
- 537
- 00:45:36,654 --> 00:45:38,887
- Whoo.
- Son of a bitch.
- 538
- 00:46:11,347 --> 00:46:13,947
- - 352.
- - 352.
- 539
- 00:46:15,100 --> 00:46:16,345
- Good girl.
- 540
- 00:46:25,945 --> 00:46:27,545
- Damn it.
- 541
- 00:46:31,450 --> 00:46:34,647
- Goddamn it.
- Oh, God.
- 542
- 00:46:34,751 --> 00:46:38,244
- - There goes our meal ticket.
- - Come on.
- 543
- 00:47:18,122 --> 00:47:20,402
- Howard. Howard.
- 544
- 00:47:20,507 --> 00:47:22,946
- How did we do?
- 545
- 00:47:23,051 --> 00:47:26,989
- 352 on the last run.
- 546
- 00:47:27,093 --> 00:47:28,797
- She'll go faster.
- 547
- 00:47:29,300 --> 00:47:31,580
- Country mouse.
- 548
- 00:47:31,684 --> 00:47:33,164
- Kate. Katie.
- 549
- 00:47:33,268 --> 00:47:35,338
- Upstairs, city mouse.
- 550
- 00:47:38,017 --> 00:47:39,217
- Hello.
- 551
- 00:47:39,486 --> 00:47:43,716
- - Good Lord, what happened to you?
- - Nothing. Hard landing. I cut my foot.
- 552
- 00:47:43,820 --> 00:47:46,677
- Sit down. I'll take care of it.
- You tell me everything.
- 553
- 00:47:46,782 --> 00:47:50,516
- Well, you cannot imagine what it was like,
- Katie. You cannot imagine the speed.
- 554
- 00:47:50,620 --> 00:47:52,682
- She was like a winged bullet up there.
- 555
- 00:47:52,787 --> 00:47:56,854
- - What did she make?
- - Around...
- 556
- 00:47:56,959 --> 00:47:57,759
- 352.
- 557
- 00:48:05,377 --> 00:48:07,577
- You did it.
- 558
- 00:48:08,141 --> 00:48:10,078
- Fastest man on the planet.
- 559
- 00:48:10,182 --> 00:48:14,625
- - Hot dog. I'm so proud of you.
- - She did it, baby.
- 560
- 00:48:14,729 --> 00:48:18,255
- - You knew she would.
- - She was fine. She was just fine.
- 561
- 00:48:20,392 --> 00:48:22,848
- - Now let me see your foot.
- - Yeah.
- 562
- 00:48:23,813 --> 00:48:25,595
- Good God.
- You're covered in blood.
- 563
- 00:48:25,699 --> 00:48:28,886
- No, no. That's just beet juice.
- I crashed into a beet field.
- 564
- 00:48:28,991 --> 00:48:32,816
- - What?
- - Yeah, I crashed in a beet field.
- 565
- 00:48:35,324 --> 00:48:38,232
- Let me get you cleaned up.
- 566
- 00:48:38,336 --> 00:48:40,442
- Heavens, what is this?
- Electrical tape?
- 567
- 00:48:40,546 --> 00:48:43,900
- Yeah. Odie just sort of slammed it on there.
- 568
- 00:48:44,005 --> 00:48:50,038
- But all I could think about was
- getting home to see you.
- 569
- 00:48:53,676 --> 00:48:57,294
- I am so proud of you.
- 570
- 00:49:01,100 --> 00:49:03,170
- Now, this is going to sting a little bit.
- 571
- 00:49:03,274 --> 00:49:07,681
- This is useless. Come to the bathroom.
- 572
- 00:49:08,732 --> 00:49:11,512
- - Don't get beet juice on the carpet.
- - I won't.
- 573
- 00:49:11,617 --> 00:49:14,445
- - Too hot.
- - Don't be a baby.
- 574
- 00:49:16,073 --> 00:49:19,648
- Was the press there?
- 575
- 00:49:19,752 --> 00:49:22,152
- Some, but...
- 576
- 00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:27,623
- They're calling everyone.
- Should be on the wires by now.
- 577
- 00:49:34,967 --> 00:49:37,167
- What is it?
- 578
- 00:49:39,388 --> 00:49:40,388
- Kate?
- 579
- 00:49:44,101 --> 00:49:47,631
- I've been famous,
- for better or worse,
- 580
- 00:49:47,735 --> 00:49:50,565
- for a long time now, and...
- 581
- 00:49:52,026 --> 00:49:56,735
- I wonder if you know
- what it really means.
- 582
- 00:49:57,823 --> 00:50:01,647
- Yeah. I had my fair share
- of press on Hell's Angels.
- 583
- 00:50:01,751 --> 00:50:04,116
- I'm used to it.
- 584
- 00:50:05,456 --> 00:50:07,056
- Are you?
- 585
- 00:50:10,836 --> 00:50:12,912
- Howard, we're...
- 586
- 00:50:15,549 --> 00:50:18,301
- We're not like everyone else.
- 587
- 00:50:20,054 --> 00:50:25,631
- Too many acute angles.
- Too many eccentricities.
- 588
- 00:50:25,736 --> 00:50:30,965
- We have to be very careful
- not to let people in,
- 589
- 00:50:31,069 --> 00:50:34,019
- or they'll make us into freaks.
- 590
- 00:50:34,985 --> 00:50:35,985
- Kate.
- 591
- 00:50:37,037 --> 00:50:39,976
- They can't get in here.
- We're safe.
- 592
- 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,110
- They can always get in.
- 593
- 00:50:45,287 --> 00:50:48,739
- When my brother killed himself,
- 594
- 00:50:49,792 --> 00:50:53,405
- there were photographers at the funeral.
- 595
- 00:50:53,509 --> 00:50:56,421
- There's no decency to it.
- 596
- 00:51:08,394 --> 00:51:10,303
- You know, sometimes I...
- 597
- 00:51:13,983 --> 00:51:16,604
- I get these feelings, Katie.
- 598
- 00:51:21,157 --> 00:51:24,027
- I get these ideas, these...
- 599
- 00:51:26,579 --> 00:51:28,951
- crazy ideas about...
- 600
- 00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:34,252
- things that may not...
- 601
- 00:51:35,296 --> 00:51:38,658
- things that may not really be there.
- 602
- 00:51:38,763 --> 00:51:39,763
- Yeah.
- 603
- 00:51:46,974 --> 00:51:50,260
- Sometimes I truly fear that I'm...
- 604
- 00:51:51,729 --> 00:51:54,729
- losing my mind.
- 605
- 00:52:01,363 --> 00:52:03,854
- And if I did, it would...
- 606
- 00:52:06,327 --> 00:52:09,244
- It'd be like flying blind.
- 607
- 00:52:16,962 --> 00:52:19,962
- You understand?
- 608
- 00:52:22,676 --> 00:52:25,796
- You taught me to fly, Howard.
- 609
- 00:52:28,474 --> 00:52:30,965
- I'll take the wheel.
- 610
- 00:52:46,158 --> 00:52:50,443
- Smashing all records, Howard Hughes
- outdoes Jules Verne's wildest dreams.
- 611
- 00:52:50,547 --> 00:52:53,695
- Around the world from New York
- to New York in four days,
- 612
- 00:52:53,799 --> 00:52:57,115
- even beating Wiley Post's mark
- by over three days.
- 613
- 00:52:57,219 --> 00:52:58,826
- New aviation history is written
- 614
- 00:52:58,930 --> 00:53:02,661
- when his Lockheed monoplane
- returns swiftly and safely.
- 615
- 00:53:02,765 --> 00:53:06,831
- A daring aviator.
- A true pioneer of the world's airways.
- 616
- 00:53:06,935 --> 00:53:09,709
- From New York to Paris,
- he cuts Lindbergh's time in half.
- 617
- 00:53:09,813 --> 00:53:11,128
- Then on to Moscow.
- 618
- 00:53:11,232 --> 00:53:15,759
- 35 hours out of New York, he roars
- across Siberia's trackless wastes.
- 619
- 00:53:15,863 --> 00:53:20,472
- 60 hours out of New York, he heads
- for Alaska, most hazardous hop of all.
- 620
- 00:53:20,576 --> 00:53:23,098
- Continuing the terrific pace,
- he comes home,
- 621
- 00:53:23,203 --> 00:53:25,681
- bringing new laurels
- to American aviation.
- 622
- 00:53:25,785 --> 00:53:30,194
- Howard Hughes and his crew may find
- more worlds to conq...
- 623
- 00:53:36,750 --> 00:53:39,138
- You're not gonna believe this.
- It just came across the wires.
- 624
- 00:53:39,243 --> 00:53:42,704
- Howard Hughes
- has bought control of TWA.
- 625
- 00:53:44,300 --> 00:53:47,208
- I thought Mr Hughes
- was flying around the world.
- 626
- 00:53:47,312 --> 00:53:52,297
- Apparently, he did it while he was flying,
- over the radio.
- 627
- 00:53:58,022 --> 00:54:02,806
- I have heard some disquieting rumours
- about Mr Hughes.
- 628
- 00:54:02,910 --> 00:54:07,611
- I'd like to know everything
- there is to know about Mr Hughes.
- 629
- 00:54:08,657 --> 00:54:12,869
- I'd like you to attend
- to that for me, thoroughly.
- 630
- 00:54:13,996 --> 00:54:16,610
- Ah, the Pantages is glittering tonight.
- 631
- 00:54:16,714 --> 00:54:18,970
- Right over here, Mr Hughes.
- This way, over to the left.
- 632
- 00:54:19,074 --> 00:54:21,074
- Mr Hughes. Mr Hughes,
- how was your flight?
- 633
- 00:54:21,178 --> 00:54:23,558
- Miss Hepburn, Miss Hepburn.
- When are you gonna name the day?
- 634
- 00:54:23,662 --> 00:54:27,538
- - Right over here, Mr Hughes.
- - What's your next movie, Howard?
- 635
- 00:54:27,642 --> 00:54:31,248
- Right here, Howard. How many more
- records are you gonna set?
- 636
- 00:54:31,352 --> 00:54:35,292
- Come on, Howard.
- Give us a smile. It won't kill you.
- 637
- 00:54:35,397 --> 00:54:37,467
- - Raise your head a little.
- - Over here. Over here.
- 638
- 00:54:37,572 --> 00:54:39,218
- Don't forget this side.
- 639
- 00:54:39,322 --> 00:54:41,471
- Mr Hughes, when are you
- gonna fly round the world again?
- 640
- 00:54:41,576 --> 00:54:45,433
- You going to fly with Kate next time?
- Did you get Ionely without her?
- 641
- 00:54:45,537 --> 00:54:47,978
- Did you talk to Lindbergh
- about your round-the-world flight yet?
- 642
- 00:54:48,082 --> 00:54:50,893
- Mr Hughes,
- where is Linda Darnell tonight?
- 643
- 00:54:50,998 --> 00:54:53,145
- Right here.
- Right here, Mr Hughes. That's it.
- 644
- 00:54:53,249 --> 00:54:56,484
- Are you trying to be
- more famous than Lindbergh?
- 645
- 00:54:56,589 --> 00:55:00,448
- You know,
- fame is supposed to be my turf.
- 646
- 00:55:02,461 --> 00:55:03,061
- LB.
- 647
- 00:55:06,799 --> 00:55:09,496
- If you don't get more distinguished
- every time I see you.
- 648
- 00:55:09,601 --> 00:55:12,380
- Ah, you look so beautiful.
- 649
- 00:55:20,229 --> 00:55:21,844
- Is that true?
- 650
- 00:55:21,948 --> 00:55:26,316
- ...Mr Randolph Scott.
- They make a handsome couple...
- 651
- 00:55:30,531 --> 00:55:32,395
- Don't worry about it, Howard.
- 652
- 00:55:32,500 --> 00:55:34,606
- She's just working the room.
- 653
- 00:55:34,710 --> 00:55:37,074
- It's her job, baby.
- 654
- 00:55:38,372 --> 00:55:42,989
- Sultry southern tigress
- Ava Gardner dazzles the room tonight.
- 655
- 00:55:43,093 --> 00:55:47,961
- She's the newest star in the MGM galaxy.
- And believe you me...
- 656
- 00:55:51,510 --> 00:55:56,303
- Jane Eyre has been selling
- popcorn for over a hundred years, LB.
- 657
- 00:56:37,932 --> 00:56:39,132
- Hello.
- 658
- 00:56:41,018 --> 00:56:42,218
- Hello.
- 659
- 00:56:47,691 --> 00:56:50,527
- Could you reach me a towel?
- 660
- 00:56:57,993 --> 00:56:58,793
- I...
- 661
- 00:57:00,878 --> 00:57:04,157
- I really can't do that.
- 662
- 00:57:05,751 --> 00:57:07,751
- I'm sorry.
- 663
- 00:57:32,027 --> 00:57:36,600
- I'm an idiot.
- I'm a complete idiot and I'm sorry.
- 664
- 00:57:36,704 --> 00:57:37,808
- - Forget it.
- - No, no.
- 665
- 00:57:37,912 --> 00:57:42,231
- I'm a vain, preening ass
- without a single redeeming feature.
- 666
- 00:57:42,336 --> 00:57:45,942
- That's not true.
- You have very good teeth.
- 667
- 00:57:46,047 --> 00:57:47,647
- Come on.
- 668
- 00:57:48,299 --> 00:57:50,530
- I've got a better idea.
- Take me flying.
- 669
- 00:57:50,635 --> 00:57:54,579
- - Or better yet, I'll take you flying.
- - Do your worst, Miss Hepburn.
- 670
- 00:58:03,100 --> 00:58:05,420
- Don't be so squirmy, Howard.
- 671
- 00:58:05,524 --> 00:58:07,636
- You're going to get on famously
- with Father and Mother.
- 672
- 00:58:07,740 --> 00:58:11,477
- And I'm sure they'll like you, too.
- Once they get to know you.
- 673
- 00:58:19,575 --> 00:58:20,768
- Hello. Hello.
- 674
- 00:58:20,872 --> 00:58:23,785
- - Kath, hello.
- - Kathy.
- 675
- 00:58:27,333 --> 00:58:29,262
- Sweetheart, who's that
- with the camera right there?
- 676
- 00:58:29,366 --> 00:58:33,202
- That's my ex-husband, Ludlow. Father
- and Mother are just mad about Luddie.
- 677
- 00:58:33,306 --> 00:58:36,077
- What the hell is he doing here?
- 678
- 00:58:36,181 --> 00:58:38,539
- He's here all the time.
- 679
- 00:58:38,643 --> 00:58:39,843
- Hello.
- 680
- 00:58:41,847 --> 00:58:44,755
- Sorry we're late. Mom.
- 681
- 00:58:44,860 --> 00:58:46,504
- - Thank you.
- - Dad.
- 682
- 00:58:46,608 --> 00:58:48,882
- - Darling.
- - Uncle Willy.
- 683
- 00:58:48,987 --> 00:58:52,470
- Who've we got here?
- Don't feel self-conscious.
- 684
- 00:58:52,575 --> 00:58:55,596
- Hepburns. Hepburns.
- Attention, please.
- 685
- 00:58:55,701 --> 00:58:58,058
- This is Howard.
- 686
- 00:58:58,163 --> 00:59:01,269
- Howard, welcome.
- 687
- 00:59:01,373 --> 00:59:03,905
- Don't worry, he's had his lunch.
- 688
- 00:59:04,995 --> 00:59:07,193
- He likes you.
- That's unusual.
- 689
- 00:59:07,298 --> 00:59:10,447
- We pay our devotion to the arts here.
- A colony we created.
- 690
- 00:59:10,551 --> 00:59:13,157
- Julian's a painter.
- Abstract, of course.
- 691
- 00:59:13,261 --> 00:59:15,266
- What the hell's the point
- of painting something real
- 692
- 00:59:15,370 --> 00:59:18,161
- when you can just take a picture
- nowadays, don't you agree?
- 693
- 00:59:18,265 --> 00:59:21,167
- Where do you stand on politics,
- Mr Hughes?
- 694
- 00:59:21,271 --> 00:59:23,709
- - Excuse me?
- - We're all socialists here.
- 695
- 00:59:23,813 --> 00:59:26,013
- We are not.
- 696
- 00:59:26,479 --> 00:59:29,180
- You've met Mr Roosevelt.
- What make you of him?
- 697
- 00:59:32,106 --> 00:59:34,386
- What are you sniggering at?
- 698
- 00:59:34,491 --> 00:59:37,558
- - What? What was that?
- - You just sniggered.
- 699
- 00:59:37,662 --> 00:59:40,728
- No, no. The dog.
- It seems to be crushing my feet.
- 700
- 00:59:40,832 --> 00:59:42,809
- - Oh, my God.
- - Buster.
- 701
- 00:59:42,914 --> 00:59:44,284
- Hey. Hey.
- 702
- 00:59:45,870 --> 00:59:47,856
- Don't you like dogs?
- 703
- 00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:50,864
- I will not have you sniggering
- at Mr Roosevelt at my table. Please leave.
- 704
- 00:59:50,968 --> 00:59:53,280
- - No, no, I wasn't.
- - I thought everybody liked dogs.
- 705
- 00:59:53,384 --> 00:59:54,868
- Perhaps he had a bad experience
- as a child.
- 706
- 00:59:54,972 --> 00:59:57,934
- So, Kathy, does it stick in your craw that
- Howard here gets more press than you?
- 707
- 00:59:58,038 --> 01:00:01,206
- - A bad experience with a dog?
- - No, no.
- 708
- 01:00:01,310 --> 01:00:05,957
- - You are such a shy creature, aren't you?
- - Perhaps it was a very large dog.
- 709
- 01:00:06,062 --> 01:00:07,568
- The press can be a damned nuisance...
- 710
- 01:00:07,673 --> 01:00:09,878
- - Was it a Doberman?
- - It burns my goat.
- 711
- 01:00:09,982 --> 01:00:11,676
- A Doberman, Mr Hughes, or a dachshund?
- 712
- 01:00:11,780 --> 01:00:14,679
- - Neither, sir.
- - Dachshunds are little dogs.
- 713
- 01:00:14,783 --> 01:00:16,932
- They should all be lined up
- against a wall and shot.
- 714
- 01:00:17,036 --> 01:00:19,889
- What's that Spanish painting? The...
- 715
- 01:00:19,993 --> 01:00:23,894
- - The Goya.
- - Goya. Of course. Yes.
- 716
- 01:00:23,998 --> 01:00:27,105
- - Yes. Mexicans. Poor lambs.
- - What was that called?
- 717
- 01:00:27,209 --> 01:00:31,948
- Anyway, that's the vulgar press, I'm sure.
- Do you read much, Mr Hughes?
- 718
- 01:00:33,542 --> 01:00:35,862
- I try to stay up to snuff
- on the trade journals, yeah.
- 719
- 01:00:35,967 --> 01:00:37,167
- Snuff?
- 720
- 01:00:37,387 --> 01:00:40,748
- These would be flying magazines?
- 721
- 01:00:41,592 --> 01:00:44,039
- - What was that?
- - He's a little deaf.
- 722
- 01:00:44,143 --> 01:00:46,961
- - Pass the goddamn butter.
- - You read flying magazines?
- 723
- 01:00:47,065 --> 01:00:50,713
- - Take the butter.
- - Trade journals on engineering, aviation.
- 724
- 01:00:50,817 --> 01:00:53,008
- We read books.
- 725
- 01:00:53,112 --> 01:00:57,138
- Howard has to read the trade pieces, Mom,
- because he's designing a new airplane.
- 726
- 01:00:57,242 --> 01:00:59,474
- Oh, really? Do tell.
- 727
- 01:01:02,822 --> 01:01:04,222
- Well...
- 728
- 01:01:05,917 --> 01:01:10,647
- It's quite exciting, actually.
- It's a spy plane for the Air Corps.
- 729
- 01:01:10,751 --> 01:01:13,654
- A twin-engine plane with some,
- I must admit,
- 730
- 01:01:13,759 --> 01:01:16,152
- some rather unique design features.
- 731
- 01:01:16,256 --> 01:01:19,282
- You see, it has these two booms...
- 732
- 01:01:19,386 --> 01:01:22,621
- Luddie built a birdhouse once.
- You remember that?
- 733
- 01:01:22,725 --> 01:01:25,580
- - Yes, well, a mere trifle.
- - I remember the painting.
- 734
- 01:01:25,684 --> 01:01:28,375
- - It's called "May 18" or something.
- - Hey. Hey.
- 735
- 01:01:28,479 --> 01:01:31,252
- Anyway, Goya's vastly overrated.
- All the Spaniards are.
- 736
- 01:01:31,356 --> 01:01:34,297
- - Nonsense. Picasso is sacred.
- - I'm a urologist.
- 737
- 01:01:34,401 --> 01:01:37,533
- - It was quite aesthetic, really.
- - A sacred monster, that's what Picasso is.
- 738
- 01:01:37,638 --> 01:01:40,224
- The birds don't care for it much,
- but the bats do.
- 739
- 01:01:40,328 --> 01:01:42,515
- - I'll bet.
- - That's such bunk.
- 740
- 01:01:42,620 --> 01:01:46,019
- - Do speak up, dear.
- - Nothing, nothing, Mrs Hepburn, nothing.
- 741
- 01:01:46,123 --> 01:01:50,022
- Then why did you speak? I can't abide
- people who speak but have nothing to say.
- 742
- 01:01:50,126 --> 01:01:53,859
- Did you go to mechanic school
- to learn all this airplane guff?
- 743
- 01:01:53,963 --> 01:01:55,194
- No, no, I didn't, Luddie. No.
- 744
- 01:01:55,298 --> 01:01:58,321
- Well, Howard just flew
- round the world in three days.
- 745
- 01:01:58,425 --> 01:02:01,532
- - We've heard enough about airplanes.
- - And dogs, apparently.
- 746
- 01:02:01,637 --> 01:02:05,537
- - Then how'd you make all that money?
- - We don't care about money here.
- 747
- 01:02:05,642 --> 01:02:09,335
- Well, that's because you have it.
- 748
- 01:02:11,765 --> 01:02:14,251
- Would you repeat that?
- 749
- 01:02:14,356 --> 01:02:17,049
- You don't care about money
- because you've always had it.
- 750
- 01:02:17,153 --> 01:02:20,093
- - Well then, how did you make...
- - Excuse me, I'm speaking.
- 751
- 01:02:20,197 --> 01:02:21,889
- - OK.
- - Thank you.
- 752
- 01:02:21,993 --> 01:02:23,478
- All right.
- 753
- 01:02:23,944 --> 01:02:26,392
- Some of us choose to work for a living.
- 754
- 01:02:26,496 --> 01:02:33,072
- Speaking of which, I have more of that
- "airplane guff" to attend to. Excuse me.
- 755
- 01:02:41,837 --> 01:02:44,496
- Well, seems a rather high-strung chap.
- 756
- 01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:48,089
- Well, you're a fine bunch
- of bullies, aren't you?
- 757
- 01:02:48,219 --> 01:02:51,332
- Have you talked to Mr Mayer
- about letting you do Jane Eyre?
- 758
- 01:02:51,436 --> 01:02:55,126
- The old Philistine won't budge.
- Too arty, don't you know.
- 759
- 01:02:55,230 --> 01:02:57,384
- Daddy, I'm convinced,
- the man hasn't read anything longer than
- 760
- 01:02:57,488 --> 01:03:00,311
- a Sunday Katzenjammer Kids in his life.
- 761
- 01:03:01,357 --> 01:03:04,726
- No fair kicking.
- You have to use the mallet.
- 762
- 01:03:06,695 --> 01:03:10,391
- Really, though, darling, you can't retire
- from the field of battle like that
- 763
- 01:03:10,495 --> 01:03:14,270
- - or they'll never respect you.
- - Katie, I don't understand.
- 764
- 01:03:14,374 --> 01:03:16,690
- You were like a different person in there.
- 765
- 01:03:16,794 --> 01:03:20,407
- They just expect me to be a certain way.
- 766
- 01:03:22,253 --> 01:03:24,783
- There's only one real Kate.
- 767
- 01:03:24,888 --> 01:03:27,206
- And that's your Kate.
- 768
- 01:03:30,010 --> 01:03:32,752
- And over in Hollywood,
- aviation tycoon Howard Hughes
- 769
- 01:03:32,856 --> 01:03:34,667
- seems to be cooking up something big.
- 770
- 01:03:34,771 --> 01:03:37,046
- Even as he edits
- his newest motion picture,
- 771
- 01:03:37,150 --> 01:03:39,506
- he's been secretly meeting
- with the US Air Corps.
- 772
- 01:03:39,611 --> 01:03:43,260
- We applaud his patriotism and look
- forward to his newest mechanical marvel.
- 773
- 01:03:43,364 --> 01:03:46,537
- Do you know how many Allied ships we
- lost this year because of U-boat attacks?
- 774
- 01:03:46,642 --> 01:03:50,309
- - No.
- - 681 ships, just this year so far.
- 775
- 01:03:50,413 --> 01:03:53,563
- Now, the army needs a new airplane
- to fly the troops over to Europe.
- 776
- 01:03:53,667 --> 01:03:57,483
- These ships, they're sitting ducks.
- They're sitting ducks for the U-boats.
- 777
- 01:03:57,587 --> 01:04:01,109
- - You want to build a troop carrier plane.
- - Stop thinking like an insect, Odie.
- 778
- 01:04:01,213 --> 01:04:04,449
- Not just a plane to carry the troops.
- A plane to carry everything.
- 779
- 01:04:04,553 --> 01:04:09,123
- The troops and the jeeps and the tanks
- and whatnot. Here, take a look.
- 780
- 01:04:10,259 --> 01:04:12,667
- No, other side.
- 781
- 01:04:14,972 --> 01:04:18,585
- I figure around 200 feet from nose to tail.
- Wingspan around 300.
- 782
- 01:04:18,689 --> 01:04:22,546
- We're gonna need
- about 24,000 horsepower.
- 783
- 01:04:22,651 --> 01:04:25,593
- Now, this, this is just what Kaiser
- and the army are looking for.
- 784
- 01:04:25,697 --> 01:04:27,474
- And don't worry,
- they're gonna pay for it this time.
- 785
- 01:04:27,578 --> 01:04:28,930
- Christ.
- What are you getting us into?
- 786
- 01:04:29,034 --> 01:04:32,685
- Well, it's a big plane.
- So I'm calling it the Hercules.
- 787
- 01:04:32,789 --> 01:04:34,729
- Swell name, isn't it?
- 788
- 01:04:34,834 --> 01:04:39,701
- - How heavy you imagine this thing is?
- - Say around 200 tons.
- 789
- 01:04:41,290 --> 01:04:44,031
- Well, I didn't say it was going to be easy.
- 790
- 01:04:44,136 --> 01:04:47,367
- All right, boys,
- I want you to rig up something like this.
- 791
- 01:04:47,471 --> 01:04:49,327
- Should give the proper uplift ratios
- 792
- 01:04:49,431 --> 01:04:52,218
- while reducing the need
- for additional torque support on the front.
- 793
- 01:04:52,343 --> 01:04:55,251
- We are not getting enough production
- out of Jane Russell's breasts.
- 794
- 01:04:55,355 --> 01:04:58,512
- All right, I want smooth titties, gentlemen.
- Smooth titties.
- 795
- 01:05:01,185 --> 01:05:04,925
- - It's all in engineering, isn't it, Odie?
- - Howard.
- 796
- 01:05:05,029 --> 01:05:09,639
- Do you really think they're gonna let you
- put out a whole movie just about tits?
- 797
- 01:05:09,743 --> 01:05:13,021
- Sure.
- Who doesn't like tits?
- 798
- 01:05:23,165 --> 01:05:26,362
- Good afternoon, gentlemen.
- Sorry I'm late.
- 799
- 01:05:26,466 --> 01:05:29,158
- Will the secretary please record
- that Mr Hughes has arrived,
- 800
- 01:05:29,262 --> 01:05:32,746
- and that this session is now called
- to order? I yield the floor to Mr Breen.
- 801
- 01:05:32,850 --> 01:05:34,956
- Mr Hughes, members of the committee,
- 802
- 01:05:35,060 --> 01:05:38,166
- I have reviewed Mr Hughes' photoplay
- entitled The Outlaw
- 803
- 01:05:38,270 --> 01:05:42,126
- and I can state categorically that I have
- never seen anything quite so unacceptable
- 804
- 01:05:42,230 --> 01:05:46,510
- as the shots of the mammaries
- of the character named Rio.
- 805
- 01:05:46,615 --> 01:05:49,469
- For almost half the picture,
- the girl's mammaries,
- 806
- 01:05:49,573 --> 01:05:54,850
- which are quite large and prominent,
- are shockingly uncovered.
- 807
- 01:05:54,954 --> 01:05:59,065
- For this reason I have concluded the
- picture appeals only to prurient interests
- 808
- 01:05:59,169 --> 01:06:04,315
- and should be denied the Motion Picture
- Association's seal of approval.
- 809
- 01:06:04,419 --> 01:06:06,779
- Really, Mr Hughes.
- 810
- 01:06:06,883 --> 01:06:10,910
- - Thank you, Mr Breen. Mr Hughes.
- - Thank you, Mr Chairman.
- 811
- 01:06:11,014 --> 01:06:12,742
- Mr Breen,
- it's good to see you again.
- 812
- 01:06:12,846 --> 01:06:17,374
- I haven't seen you all since that situation
- with all the violence in Scarface.
- 813
- 01:06:17,478 --> 01:06:20,544
- The situation here seems to revolve
- around Miss Russell's mammaries.
- 814
- 01:06:20,649 --> 01:06:23,337
- Mr Breen feels that
- they are too prominent, yes?
- 815
- 01:06:23,441 --> 01:06:26,880
- More prominent than other mammaries
- have been up on the screen?
- 816
- 01:06:26,984 --> 01:06:31,024
- Well, I hope to dispel that notion.
- 817
- 01:06:33,235 --> 01:06:35,477
- Jean Harlow.
- 818
- 01:06:36,655 --> 01:06:38,613
- Ann Sheridan.
- 819
- 01:06:39,784 --> 01:06:41,105
- Irene Dunne.
- 820
- 01:06:41,209 --> 01:06:43,482
- Claudette Colbert.
- 821
- 01:06:43,586 --> 01:06:45,443
- Rita Hayworth.
- 822
- 01:06:45,548 --> 01:06:46,777
- Betty Grable.
- 823
- 01:06:46,881 --> 01:06:50,071
- And the lovely Miss Jane Russell.
- 824
- 01:06:50,175 --> 01:06:53,244
- Now, all these shots,
- save for Miss Russell,
- 825
- 01:06:53,348 --> 01:06:58,328
- were enlarged from pictures
- that received Mr Breen's seal of approval.
- 826
- 01:06:58,432 --> 01:07:03,766
- Now, as you have probably noticed
- by now, they all contain mammaries.
- 827
- 01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:06,503
- I will ask my associate to join me now.
- 828
- 01:07:06,607 --> 01:07:10,931
- May I introduce Dr Ludlow Branson
- of Columbia University?
- 829
- 01:07:12,942 --> 01:07:14,942
- Dr Branson
- 830
- 01:07:15,366 --> 01:07:18,974
- is a mathematician of some note.
- 831
- 01:07:19,078 --> 01:07:20,105
- Yes, you.
- 832
- 01:07:20,209 --> 01:07:23,523
- And he will now demonstrate that, in fact,
- 833
- 01:07:23,627 --> 01:07:27,193
- Miss Russell's mammaries
- are no more prominent
- 834
- 01:07:27,298 --> 01:07:30,493
- than any of these other fine ladies'.
- 835
- 01:07:32,670 --> 01:07:34,045
- Doctor.
- 836
- 01:07:35,422 --> 01:07:36,822
- Doctor,
- 837
- 01:07:38,013 --> 01:07:41,424
- you forgot your callipers.
- 838
- 01:07:46,934 --> 01:07:49,507
- Gentlemen, Mr Hughes.
- 839
- 01:07:52,898 --> 01:07:58,643
- Let us commence by calling this
- Mammary Exhibit Number One.
- 840
- 01:07:58,747 --> 01:08:05,230
- Now, you'll see that the length
- of the actual cleavage,
- 841
- 01:08:05,335 --> 01:08:07,735
- if I may, is
- 842
- 01:08:09,466 --> 01:08:13,613
- five inches and quarter.
- Now, if we move to Mammary Exhibit...
- 843
- 01:08:13,717 --> 01:08:15,253
- Dateline Hollywoodland.
- 844
- 01:08:16,088 --> 01:08:18,664
- Movie tycoon Howard Hughes
- must have the greatest job in the land.
- 845
- 01:08:18,768 --> 01:08:22,792
- Each and every night the lucky guy
- has to escort a different beautiful woman
- 846
- 01:08:22,896 --> 01:08:26,877
- to a different dazzling event.
- The TWA king always talks up his airline
- 847
- 01:08:26,981 --> 01:08:29,845
- as he escorts a succession...
- 848
- 01:08:31,896 --> 01:08:35,425
- The Hercules, ladies and gentlemen.
- The Hercules.
- 849
- 01:08:35,529 --> 01:08:39,597
- A plane, a boat, a flying city.
- 850
- 01:08:39,701 --> 01:08:43,019
- Now, don't forget. Every bill comes to me.
- They don't pay for anything.
- 851
- 01:08:43,124 --> 01:08:46,772
- Those men decide whether or not to fund
- the plane, so I need them real happy.
- 852
- 01:08:46,876 --> 01:08:49,400
- - You do what it takes.
- - You betcha, boss.
- 853
- 01:08:49,504 --> 01:08:52,111
- What about the girls?
- How are they in the bomb department?
- 854
- 01:08:52,215 --> 01:08:56,198
- Well, let's put it this way.
- It'll be a regular boob buffet.
- 855
- 01:08:56,302 --> 01:08:59,663
- I don't think the gentlemen from the Air
- Corps will have any trouble scoring tonight.
- 856
- 01:08:59,767 --> 01:09:05,373
- And inside, 700 brave American soldiers,
- a dozen Sherman tanks,
- 857
- 01:09:05,477 --> 01:09:10,543
- all winging their way over the Atlantic,
- free from the threats of the U-boats below.
- 858
- 01:09:10,647 --> 01:09:15,133
- Could Jules Verne himself have ever
- imagined anything so magnificent?
- 859
- 01:09:15,237 --> 01:09:19,093
- Could he have imagined her mammoth
- wingspan, longer than a football field?
- 860
- 01:09:19,197 --> 01:09:21,096
- Don't you see how this demeans me?
- 861
- 01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:23,103
- Since when do you care about
- the scandal rags?
- 862
- 01:09:23,207 --> 01:09:27,059
- Every time there's a picture of you with
- another woman, it's like a slap in the face.
- 863
- 01:09:27,163 --> 01:09:30,234
- - Don't you understand that?
- - That's overstating it just a bit.
- 864
- 01:09:30,338 --> 01:09:33,737
- Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers,
- Linda Darnell, Joan Fontaine,
- 865
- 01:09:33,841 --> 01:09:36,833
- and now Bette Davis, for God's sake.
- 866
- 01:09:38,546 --> 01:09:43,884
- Look. They're Cracker Jack candy, honey.
- They don't mean anything to me.
- 867
- 01:09:44,885 --> 01:09:46,885
- Very nice.
- 868
- 01:09:48,305 --> 01:09:51,546
- Well, you're the one that said
- that all men are predators, right?
- 869
- 01:09:51,650 --> 01:09:54,589
- I mean, it's all in Darwin.
- Remember?
- 870
- 01:09:54,693 --> 01:09:58,632
- And am I to expect this behaviour
- to continue after the wedding?
- 871
- 01:09:58,737 --> 01:10:05,269
- What is really bothering you, Kate?
- Is it the women? Or the publicity?
- 872
- 01:10:09,368 --> 01:10:13,911
- Can't you eat ice cream from a bowl
- like everyone else in the world?
- 873
- 01:10:20,713 --> 01:10:23,713
- Don't you dare.
- 874
- 01:10:35,895 --> 01:10:36,895
- Yeah.
- 875
- 01:10:38,401 --> 01:10:42,092
- No. Odie, this is not a good time.
- 876
- 01:10:42,197 --> 01:10:46,432
- For Christ's sakes, we can't make the
- Hercules if we don't have any aluminum.
- 877
- 01:10:46,537 --> 01:10:49,727
- Wait. No, no.
- I can hear you better now.
- 878
- 01:10:49,831 --> 01:10:54,858
- Look, you tell the War Production Board
- that this is an essential strategic operation.
- 879
- 01:10:54,963 --> 01:10:57,427
- Odie, if they're giving aluminum
- to Douglas, Northrop and Boeing,
- 880
- 01:10:57,531 --> 01:10:59,571
- they sure as hell
- can give some to Hughes Aircraft.
- 881
- 01:10:59,676 --> 01:11:02,865
- Don't set the ice cream...
- 882
- 01:11:02,970 --> 01:11:04,684
- Meantime, we've got to think
- of something else.
- 883
- 01:11:04,788 --> 01:11:07,290
- If we can't get aluminum,
- we'll just have to find another way.
- 884
- 01:11:07,394 --> 01:11:09,083
- Christ, I don't know.
- You tell me.
- 885
- 01:11:09,187 --> 01:11:14,000
- We'll find some alloy that works
- just as well. Right. Look...
- 886
- 01:11:14,105 --> 01:11:16,300
- If we can't get any aluminum,
- we'll just have to use wood.
- 887
- 01:11:16,404 --> 01:11:18,505
- You can't make
- a 200-ton plane out of wood.
- 888
- 01:11:18,609 --> 01:11:20,971
- Why the hell not?
- The damn thing is a flying boat, right?
- 889
- 01:11:21,075 --> 01:11:22,952
- - What do they use to make boats out of?
- - Oak.
- 890
- 01:11:23,056 --> 01:11:26,180
- Think of the Hercules
- like a flying Spanish galleon.
- 891
- 01:11:26,285 --> 01:11:29,558
- Spanish galleons could weigh 1,200 tons.
- 892
- 01:11:29,662 --> 01:11:32,226
- Good luck today.
- 893
- 01:11:32,330 --> 01:11:35,650
- We just have to find the right kind of wood.
- Something light but strong.
- 894
- 01:11:35,754 --> 01:11:38,747
- - Morning, Kate.
- - Pine, cedar, maybe birch.
- 895
- 01:11:49,093 --> 01:11:50,293
- Catch.
- 896
- 01:11:54,598 --> 01:11:56,879
- From my farm.
- 897
- 01:11:56,983 --> 01:11:59,930
- If you like it,
- I can get you a bushel.
- 898
- 01:12:12,366 --> 01:12:15,284
- Trouble with Mr Hughes?
- 899
- 01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:24,749
- There's too much Howard Hughes
- in Howard Hughes.
- 900
- 01:12:26,422 --> 01:12:28,498
- That's the trouble.
- 901
- 01:12:41,770 --> 01:12:43,770
- Beautiful.
- 902
- 01:12:45,608 --> 01:12:48,222
- Don't you even take Christmas off?
- 903
- 01:12:48,326 --> 01:12:51,099
- Nice to see you, Bob.
- Sorry, I've got grease on my hands.
- 904
- 01:12:51,203 --> 01:12:53,770
- Have we got something to show you?
- 905
- 01:12:57,953 --> 01:13:03,653
- Take a look. She's the XF-11
- reconnaissance flier. Spy plane, really.
- 906
- 01:13:03,757 --> 01:13:06,531
- Designed every inch of her myself.
- 907
- 01:13:06,635 --> 01:13:08,782
- She's got a top speed of 450,
- 908
- 01:13:08,886 --> 01:13:11,706
- which means she can outrun
- anything they throw against her.
- 909
- 01:13:11,810 --> 01:13:14,958
- After the Japs stole my H-1 design
- for their goddamn Zeros,
- 910
- 01:13:15,062 --> 01:13:18,167
- I figured I needed to do them one better.
- 911
- 01:13:18,272 --> 01:13:21,589
- Yeah. She's my Buck Rogers ship.
- 912
- 01:13:21,694 --> 01:13:23,883
- She's a looker.
- 913
- 01:13:23,988 --> 01:13:26,055
- OK, what have you got for me?
- 914
- 01:13:33,239 --> 01:13:35,686
- Jiminy Cricket.
- 915
- 01:13:35,790 --> 01:13:39,523
- Seating capacity for 60.
- Wingspan, 123 feet.
- 916
- 01:13:39,627 --> 01:13:42,983
- Four double Cyclone engines.
- Her ceiling's 25,000 feet.
- 917
- 01:13:43,087 --> 01:13:46,406
- - Gross weight?
- - 86,000. Wing loading of 41 pounds.
- 918
- 01:13:46,510 --> 01:13:49,410
- So less drag on the plane in thinner air.
- 919
- 01:13:49,514 --> 01:13:53,956
- At high cruise power, you're looking
- at a top speed of around 340.
- 920
- 01:13:54,060 --> 01:13:58,668
- Giving her a range of about 3,000 miles.
- 921
- 01:13:58,772 --> 01:14:01,801
- - Cross-country.
- - Nonstop.
- 922
- 01:14:02,601 --> 01:14:04,838
- Bob, you know something?
- 923
- 01:14:04,942 --> 01:14:07,642
- You are a son of a bitch.
- 924
- 01:14:19,535 --> 01:14:22,240
- Bob, you got something on your suit.
- 925
- 01:14:23,497 --> 01:14:24,497
- Yeah.
- 926
- 01:14:25,255 --> 01:14:29,828
- On your lapel there.
- You got something on your lapel.
- 927
- 01:14:30,880 --> 01:14:32,956
- Right there, Bob.
- 928
- 01:14:34,550 --> 01:14:38,207
- You missed it.
- Right there.
- 929
- 01:14:38,311 --> 01:14:40,418
- Clean it off, would you?
- 930
- 01:14:40,523 --> 01:14:43,123
- Here. Thanks.
- 931
- 01:14:46,270 --> 01:14:49,271
- Now throw it away.
- 932
- 01:14:51,817 --> 01:14:54,355
- No, over there.
- 933
- 01:14:59,617 --> 01:15:03,607
- Thanks.
- So, what do you call her?
- 934
- 01:15:03,711 --> 01:15:05,984
- The Constellation.
- But we can change that.
- 935
- 01:15:06,089 --> 01:15:07,863
- No, no, no.
- 936
- 01:15:07,968 --> 01:15:10,628
- It's pretty. I like her.
- 937
- 01:15:11,796 --> 01:15:15,786
- So, what kind of deal can you give me?
- What kind of deal can you give me?
- 938
- 01:15:15,890 --> 01:15:18,452
- We'll give you the first 40 planes
- off the assembly line.
- 939
- 01:15:18,556 --> 01:15:21,038
- That should give us
- about two years exclusivity with her?
- 940
- 01:15:21,142 --> 01:15:22,587
- Hell, more than that.
- 941
- 01:15:22,691 --> 01:15:26,754
- United and American don't have
- the imagination for a plane like this.
- 942
- 01:15:26,858 --> 01:15:29,972
- Two years ahead of Juan Trippe, then.
- 943
- 01:15:34,527 --> 01:15:38,275
- - How much?
- - 450,000 each.
- 944
- 01:15:38,906 --> 01:15:42,646
- That's 18 million for the first 40.
- 945
- 01:15:42,750 --> 01:15:48,200
- Hell, TWA can't afford that.
- The damn airline's flat broke.
- 946
- 01:15:49,875 --> 01:15:52,580
- Guess I'll just have
- to pay for them myself.
- 947
- 01:15:53,295 --> 01:15:56,409
- Build them, Bob.
- Send the bill to Noah Dietrich.
- 948
- 01:15:56,513 --> 01:15:58,250
- And thank you.
- 949
- 01:16:01,846 --> 01:16:03,832
- Merry Christmas.
- 950
- 01:16:03,936 --> 01:16:07,560
- You have just placed the largest order for
- airplanes in the history of the damn planet.
- 951
- 01:16:08,435 --> 01:16:10,302
- Lockheed just sent us a bill for $18 million.
- 952
- 01:16:10,406 --> 01:16:13,970
- Now now, don't get all hysterical on me,
- Noah. It isn't good for you.
- 953
- 01:16:14,074 --> 01:16:17,761
- - This is a lot of money for some planes.
- - Yes. Yes, I know it's a lot of money.
- 954
- 01:16:17,866 --> 01:16:21,518
- It's too damn much. You think I've just got
- $18 million in petty cash?
- 955
- 01:16:21,623 --> 01:16:23,690
- I should have told you earlier.
- It slipped my mind.
- 956
- 01:16:23,795 --> 01:16:26,401
- - Slipped your mind? For God's sake.
- - Right. Well, look...
- 957
- 01:16:26,506 --> 01:16:30,274
- - How could $18 million slip your mind?
- - I'll get back to you. Goodbye, now.
- 958
- 01:16:30,378 --> 01:16:33,624
- Hey, honey.
- What are you doing home?
- 959
- 01:16:37,882 --> 01:16:41,789
- You're not one for tears
- and, well, neither am I.
- 960
- 01:16:41,893 --> 01:16:45,337
- So it's best to come out with it.
- 961
- 01:16:48,309 --> 01:16:53,054
- I've met someone.
- I've fallen in love and I'm moving out.
- 962
- 01:16:55,274 --> 01:16:59,930
- If I could make it any more gentle, I would.
- 963
- 01:17:00,034 --> 01:17:02,434
- But I can't.
- 964
- 01:17:02,747 --> 01:17:06,405
- So there we both are.
- 965
- 01:17:10,706 --> 01:17:12,654
- Let's be honest.
- 966
- 01:17:12,758 --> 01:17:17,240
- It's all been a grand adventure,
- but it couldn't possibly last.
- 967
- 01:17:17,344 --> 01:17:21,335
- We're too alike, you and I.
- 968
- 01:17:23,344 --> 01:17:26,623
- - You met someone?
- - Someone more appropriate.
- 969
- 01:17:26,727 --> 01:17:28,928
- To me, I mean.
- 970
- 01:17:31,602 --> 01:17:34,549
- What does that mean,
- more appropriate?
- 971
- 01:17:34,653 --> 01:17:39,219
- Someone more attuned to my needs.
- 972
- 01:17:39,323 --> 01:17:42,936
- Look at me, Katie.
- Stop acting.
- 973
- 01:17:44,615 --> 01:17:46,691
- I'm not acting.
- 974
- 01:17:51,330 --> 01:17:54,117
- I wonder if you even know any more.
- 975
- 01:17:58,879 --> 01:18:00,955
- Don't be unkind.
- 976
- 01:18:03,759 --> 01:18:04,959
- You...
- 977
- 01:18:06,855 --> 01:18:09,855
- You want to go?
- 978
- 01:18:11,809 --> 01:18:13,009
- Go on.
- 979
- 01:18:14,360 --> 01:18:18,048
- Actresses are cheap in this town, darling.
- I got a lot of money.
- 980
- 01:18:18,153 --> 01:18:22,600
- - Howard, please. This is beneath you.
- - No, no, this is exactly me.
- 981
- 01:18:22,704 --> 01:18:25,604
- You come in here out of the blue and
- tell me you're leaving me just like that,
- 982
- 01:18:25,708 --> 01:18:27,933
- and you have the nerve
- to expect graciousness?
- 983
- 01:18:28,038 --> 01:18:33,483
- I expect a little maturity. I expect you
- to face the situation like an adult who...
- 984
- 01:18:33,587 --> 01:18:37,443
- Don't talk down to me.
- Don't you ever talk down to me.
- 985
- 01:18:37,547 --> 01:18:40,912
- You are a movie star, nothing more.
- 986
- 01:19:52,952 --> 01:19:56,071
- Don't answer it.
- 987
- 01:19:57,581 --> 01:19:59,446
- What is it, Howard?
- 988
- 01:19:59,550 --> 01:20:01,550
- Hey, Noah.
- 989
- 01:20:01,716 --> 01:20:04,951
- I need you to get to Penney's
- and buy me new clothes.
- 990
- 01:20:05,055 --> 01:20:07,078
- - Penney's isn't open.
- - Shit.
- 991
- 01:20:07,183 --> 01:20:11,497
- - It's two in the morning.
- - Yeah, that's right. Ah, well.
- 992
- 01:20:11,602 --> 01:20:13,086
- First thing tomorrow, then, all right?
- 993
- 01:20:13,191 --> 01:20:16,210
- I need two suits off the rack.
- One light and one dark.
- 994
- 01:20:16,315 --> 01:20:19,755
- Three white shirts and three pairs
- of white tennis shoes. You got that?
- 995
- 01:20:19,859 --> 01:20:22,929
- - Yeah.
- - No, no. Make it Woolworths.
- 996
- 01:20:23,033 --> 01:20:26,553
- - Woolworths.
- - No, no. Penney's. Penney's.
- 997
- 01:20:26,657 --> 01:20:28,932
- All right, then.
- 998
- 01:20:29,037 --> 01:20:32,520
- I'll get into it as soon as I can, Howard.
- 999
- 01:20:32,625 --> 01:20:35,940
- - Noah, do you have a recorder?
- - No.
- 1000
- 01:20:36,045 --> 01:20:39,566
- - Are you recording this conversation?
- - No.
- 1001
- 01:20:39,670 --> 01:20:40,270
- OK.
- 1002
- 01:20:41,468 --> 01:20:43,868
- I trust you.
- 1003
- 01:20:44,010 --> 01:20:44,868
- Howard...
- 1004
- 01:20:44,972 --> 01:20:47,742
- Listen, I need those suits
- first thing tomorrow, all right?
- 1005
- 01:20:47,846 --> 01:20:49,033
- - All right.
- - Wait, wait.
- 1006
- 01:20:49,137 --> 01:20:52,290
- - Did I say Penney's or Woolworths?
- - Penney's.
- 1007
- 01:20:52,394 --> 01:20:56,135
- - Better make it Sears.
- - All right, then. Sears.
- 1008
- 01:20:59,643 --> 01:21:01,719
- I'm sorry, honey.
- 1009
- 01:21:02,980 --> 01:21:05,388
- If I don't answer,
- he'll just call back.
- 1010
- 01:21:26,962 --> 01:21:30,581
- Stop there, if you please,
- Miss Domergue.
- 1011
- 01:21:35,805 --> 01:21:39,628
- Have you had surgery, Miss Domergue?
- 1012
- 01:21:39,732 --> 01:21:40,332
- No.
- 1013
- 01:21:42,110 --> 01:21:45,353
- Do you have scars of any kind?
- 1014
- 01:21:46,565 --> 01:21:47,165
- No.
- 1015
- 01:21:49,777 --> 01:21:52,315
- Wipe off your lipstick.
- 1016
- 01:21:56,492 --> 01:21:59,189
- That's much better.
- 1017
- 01:21:59,294 --> 01:22:04,411
- Now, you understand that you'd be
- under contract to me, personally?
- 1018
- 01:22:05,209 --> 01:22:07,700
- Do you know what that means?
- 1019
- 01:22:15,928 --> 01:22:18,633
- Turn around for me.
- 1020
- 01:22:25,896 --> 01:22:27,896
- Very nice.
- 1021
- 01:22:28,321 --> 01:22:30,641
- You move well.
- 1022
- 01:22:32,945 --> 01:22:36,602
- You live with your family, do you?
- 1023
- 01:22:36,706 --> 01:22:37,506
- Yes.
- 1024
- 01:22:39,289 --> 01:22:41,689
- That's nice.
- 1025
- 01:22:42,169 --> 01:22:45,109
- Tell me something.
- 1026
- 01:22:45,214 --> 01:22:47,745
- How old are you, Miss Domergue?
- 1027
- 01:22:50,463 --> 01:22:51,063
- 15.
- 1028
- 01:22:55,676 --> 01:22:58,001
- Holy mother of God.
- 1029
- 01:23:16,322 --> 01:23:20,439
- Well, a car picks me up
- every morning at eight, and off I go.
- 1030
- 01:23:20,544 --> 01:23:26,361
- I am getting my high-school diploma.
- Howard thinks that education is important.
- 1031
- 01:23:26,465 --> 01:23:28,777
- - That's right.
- - And then after classes,
- 1032
- 01:23:28,881 --> 01:23:32,450
- I'm off for elocution
- and grooming and fittings.
- 1033
- 01:23:32,555 --> 01:23:34,622
- Well, blow me down.
- 1034
- 01:23:35,716 --> 01:23:38,166
- Don't tell me Pan Am's
- working out of the Cocoanut Grove now?
- 1035
- 01:23:38,271 --> 01:23:40,208
- - Hello, Jack.
- - Hello, Juan.
- 1036
- 01:23:40,312 --> 01:23:41,958
- Helen, good to see you.
- 1037
- 01:23:42,062 --> 01:23:44,670
- - How are you, Howard?
- - Good, thanks.
- 1038
- 01:23:44,774 --> 01:23:48,590
- - This is Miss Faith Domergue.
- - Sit down. Now, what you doing out here?
- 1039
- 01:23:48,695 --> 01:23:51,679
- Well, I'm out this way to meet
- with Douglas about the DC-4.
- 1040
- 01:23:51,783 --> 01:23:55,681
- That's our new plane
- and it is gonna be a pip, let me tell you.
- 1041
- 01:23:55,785 --> 01:23:59,224
- - How's the Constellation coming?
- - Good.
- 1042
- 01:23:59,328 --> 01:24:00,528
- Great.
- 1043
- 01:24:01,875 --> 01:24:04,619
- So, how about letting me steal a peek?
- 1044
- 01:24:06,455 --> 01:24:08,403
- Don't think so.
- 1045
- 01:24:08,507 --> 01:24:12,361
- You know, I should be cross with you.
- You stole Ray Loewy from us.
- 1046
- 01:24:12,465 --> 01:24:14,328
- He's doing our interior design.
- That's right.
- 1047
- 01:24:14,432 --> 01:24:16,913
- He was doing ours.
- 1048
- 01:24:18,467 --> 01:24:21,459
- So, what are your colours?
- 1049
- 01:24:21,563 --> 01:24:23,345
- Stop fishing.
- 1050
- 01:24:24,974 --> 01:24:29,130
- So, you have buttons or zippers?
- 1051
- 01:24:29,234 --> 01:24:30,888
- I'm sorry?
- 1052
- 01:24:32,690 --> 01:24:34,510
- Buttons or zippers?
- 1053
- 01:24:34,615 --> 01:24:37,775
- For the drapes on the sleeping berths.
- 1054
- 01:24:40,156 --> 01:24:41,756
- Zippers.
- 1055
- 01:24:50,624 --> 01:24:52,224
- Buttons?
- 1056
- 01:25:01,927 --> 01:25:05,002
- So, I suppose you'll be
- expanding on down to Mexico.
- 1057
- 01:25:05,107 --> 01:25:08,294
- - Why do you say that?
- - Well, your range is 3,000 miles.
- 1058
- 01:25:08,398 --> 01:25:11,339
- I would imagine you'd expand
- from Los Angeles to Mexico.
- 1059
- 01:25:11,443 --> 01:25:14,716
- - And maybe on down to South America.
- - Hey, that's a good idea.
- 1060
- 01:25:14,820 --> 01:25:18,267
- - Anyone got a pen?
- - Or across the Atlantic.
- 1061
- 01:25:20,446 --> 01:25:23,892
- Now, honey, you've had enough of this
- ice cream. You give me that spoon.
- 1062
- 01:25:23,996 --> 01:25:27,407
- You don't want to get your gloves all sticky.
- 1063
- 01:25:28,454 --> 01:25:30,493
- Isn't that too far?
- 1064
- 01:25:35,461 --> 01:25:39,126
- New York to Newfoundland...
- 1065
- 01:25:40,382 --> 01:25:42,873
- to Ireland...
- 1066
- 01:25:46,597 --> 01:25:48,397
- to Paris.
- 1067
- 01:25:55,314 --> 01:25:56,314
- Well,
- 1068
- 01:25:57,572 --> 01:26:01,767
- Pan Am welcomes you.
- We're overbooked as it is.
- 1069
- 01:26:01,872 --> 01:26:05,519
- It's such a burden doing it all on your own,
- let me tell you.
- 1070
- 01:26:05,623 --> 01:26:07,814
- So, when's the Connie gonna be ready?
- 1071
- 01:26:07,918 --> 01:26:10,607
- - Next year, maybe. DC-4?
- - Next year.
- 1072
- 01:26:10,712 --> 01:26:13,984
- Well, we look forward to her, then.
- 1073
- 01:26:14,088 --> 01:26:17,037
- And I to the Connie.
- 1074
- 01:26:17,878 --> 01:26:21,785
- I've ordered the next 40 after you.
- 1075
- 01:26:21,890 --> 01:26:23,203
- It's Miss?
- 1076
- 01:26:23,308 --> 01:26:24,854
- - Domergue.
- - Domergue. Yes, of course.
- 1077
- 01:26:24,958 --> 01:26:27,502
- Now, was that a rumba or a samba
- you were doing out there, my dear?
- 1078
- 01:26:27,607 --> 01:26:30,543
- - It was a samba.
- - A samba, yes.
- 1079
- 01:26:30,647 --> 01:26:33,975
- Howard, I never knew
- you were such a good dancer.
- 1080
- 01:26:34,812 --> 01:26:37,054
- Helen, Jack.
- 1081
- 01:26:38,482 --> 01:26:41,890
- Good going, boss. You just gave away
- our entire postwar strategy.
- 1082
- 01:26:41,994 --> 01:26:43,889
- - He can't stop us.
- - He's Pan Am, Howard.
- 1083
- 01:26:43,993 --> 01:26:46,276
- He can stop anything.
- 1084
- 01:26:47,992 --> 01:26:49,775
- Waiter, give me
- the largest Scotch you've got.
- 1085
- 01:26:49,879 --> 01:26:54,489
- I don't know what in the hell you're
- so goddamn giddy about. Excuse me.
- 1086
- 01:28:45,609 --> 01:28:46,609
- Jack.
- 1087
- 01:28:47,162 --> 01:28:49,770
- All right. I want you to get in touch
- with Mr Joyce and Mr Berg.
- 1088
- 01:28:49,874 --> 01:28:51,084
- Those are my boys in Washington.
- 1089
- 01:28:51,188 --> 01:28:53,649
- Set up a meeting with Jesse Jones,
- he's the secretary of commerce.
- 1090
- 01:28:53,753 --> 01:28:55,149
- - Old golfing buddy.
- - Slow down.
- 1091
- 01:28:55,253 --> 01:28:57,646
- We're gonna need terminals
- in both Ireland and France,
- 1092
- 01:28:57,751 --> 01:28:59,175
- and I want to get tax breaks from them.
- 1093
- 01:28:59,279 --> 01:29:02,238
- If that shit-ass thinks that he owns
- the entire goddamn world,
- 1094
- 01:29:02,343 --> 01:29:04,618
- - he's got another think coming.
- - Pan Am owns Europe, you know.
- 1095
- 01:29:04,722 --> 01:29:06,119
- He's smart.
- We ought to think about Mexico.
- 1096
- 01:29:06,224 --> 01:29:07,225
- To hell with Mexico, Jack.
- 1097
- 01:29:07,329 --> 01:29:10,203
- No one airline should have
- a monopoly on flying the Atlantic.
- 1098
- 01:29:10,307 --> 01:29:13,792
- For Christ's sakes, it isn't fair. Look,
- he owns Pan Am. He owns Congress.
- 1099
- 01:29:13,896 --> 01:29:17,878
- He owns the Civil Aeronautics Board,
- but he does not own the sky.
- 1100
- 01:29:17,982 --> 01:29:20,968
- We are in a street fight with that
- son of a bitch now, and I'm not gonna lose.
- 1101
- 01:29:21,072 --> 01:29:24,424
- I've been fighting high-hat, Ivy-League
- pricks like him my whole goddamn life.
- 1102
- 01:29:24,528 --> 01:29:28,302
- And listen, fire Ray Loewy.
- You goddamn heard me? Fire Ray Loewy.
- 1103
- 01:29:28,406 --> 01:29:31,726
- He's spying for Trippe. That shit-heel
- knew all about the goddamn buttons.
- 1104
- 01:29:31,831 --> 01:29:35,820
- Spies in my midst, Jack.
- Spies in my midst.
- 1105
- 01:29:50,841 --> 01:29:54,293
- - Hello, Howard.
- - Roland.
- 1106
- 01:29:55,638 --> 01:29:59,089
- So, what can I do for you?
- 1107
- 01:30:02,186 --> 01:30:06,220
- I want all the pictures you have
- of Kate Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
- 1108
- 01:30:06,324 --> 01:30:09,928
- All the negatives.
- And I want you to kill the story.
- 1109
- 01:30:10,032 --> 01:30:13,435
- Howard, he's a married man.
- He's a Catholic.
- 1110
- 01:30:13,539 --> 01:30:17,480
- They're both movie stars.
- Fair game all around.
- 1111
- 01:30:24,291 --> 01:30:27,366
- My office knows where I am, Howard.
- 1112
- 01:30:27,471 --> 01:30:30,369
- I'm not gonna kill you, Roland.
- 1113
- 01:30:30,474 --> 01:30:32,920
- I don't do that.
- 1114
- 01:30:37,138 --> 01:30:39,925
- - How much?
- - Not for sale.
- 1115
- 01:30:42,685 --> 01:30:44,485
- How much?
- 1116
- 01:30:45,487 --> 01:30:48,087
- Not for sale.
- 1117
- 01:30:51,861 --> 01:30:55,768
- You ever cheat on your wife, Roland?
- 1118
- 01:30:55,872 --> 01:30:58,895
- You ever screw a coloured girl?
- 1119
- 01:30:58,999 --> 01:31:02,409
- You ever steal anything?
- You ever hurt anyone?
- 1120
- 01:31:04,331 --> 01:31:06,529
- Good night, Howard.
- 1121
- 01:31:06,634 --> 01:31:10,955
- You ever go to
- a Communist Party meeting, Roland?
- 1122
- 01:31:19,388 --> 01:31:21,388
- TWA stock.
- 1123
- 01:31:22,606 --> 01:31:24,406
- How much?
- 1124
- 01:31:25,445 --> 01:31:29,136
- - 50,000 shares.
- - Ten.
- 1125
- 01:31:32,067 --> 01:31:34,067
- All right.
- 1126
- 01:31:36,697 --> 01:31:38,434
- This isn't gonna be that easy.
- 1127
- 01:31:38,539 --> 01:31:42,107
- He's been making big contributions
- on both sides of the aisle.
- 1128
- 01:31:42,211 --> 01:31:45,816
- And Jack Frye is out there lobbying
- everybody in town.
- 1129
- 01:31:45,920 --> 01:31:49,949
- The French and British ambassadors
- are all lined up on his side now.
- 1130
- 01:31:50,053 --> 01:31:54,078
- I'm telling you, TWA is serious
- about going international.
- 1131
- 01:31:54,182 --> 01:31:58,957
- OK. Point, Mr Hughes.
- Very well. You know what I think?
- 1132
- 01:31:59,061 --> 01:32:01,712
- I think it's time for you to introduce
- the Community Airline Bill
- 1133
- 01:32:01,816 --> 01:32:04,128
- on the floor of the Senate.
- 1134
- 01:32:04,232 --> 01:32:07,004
- - Is it done?
- - My people are finishing it right now.
- 1135
- 01:32:07,109 --> 01:32:13,223
- I also have to get you on the committee
- investigating the national defence.
- 1136
- 01:32:14,193 --> 01:32:17,434
- On the committee or chairman?
- 1137
- 01:32:17,538 --> 01:32:20,309
- You know, I could be
- much more effective as chairman.
- 1138
- 01:32:20,414 --> 01:32:24,186
- It's a great public platform.
- You know, it generates a lot of press.
- 1139
- 01:32:24,291 --> 01:32:26,234
- Wasn't Truman chairman
- of that committee?
- 1140
- 01:32:26,338 --> 01:32:30,276
- Yeah, right. Now he's vice president.
- Look what he did with it.
- 1141
- 01:32:30,380 --> 01:32:33,180
- No, I think...
- 1142
- 01:32:33,305 --> 01:32:35,781
- I think chairman.
- 1143
- 01:32:35,885 --> 01:32:39,244
- What do you think?
- 1144
- 01:32:39,348 --> 01:32:42,123
- - Chairman. That is interesting.
- - Yeah.
- 1145
- 01:32:42,227 --> 01:32:45,712
- Let me show you these specs
- for the DC-4.
- 1146
- 01:32:45,816 --> 01:32:49,548
- Ava, what do you think about
- "Trans World Airlines"?
- 1147
- 01:32:49,652 --> 01:32:52,131
- "Transcontinental and Western"
- just doesn't fit any more.
- 1148
- 01:32:52,235 --> 01:32:55,011
- Now that we're international,
- we need a name that reflects that.
- 1149
- 01:32:55,115 --> 01:32:57,972
- "Trans World" is good.
- Kind of peppy.
- 1150
- 01:32:58,076 --> 01:33:00,276
- TWA. Right?
- 1151
- 01:33:00,744 --> 01:33:03,690
- Keep the same initials. That way you
- don't need to repaint any of the planes.
- 1152
- 01:33:03,795 --> 01:33:06,980
- That's you, always pinching pennies.
- 1153
- 01:33:07,084 --> 01:33:09,155
- Hand me my wrap.
- 1154
- 01:33:23,137 --> 01:33:25,426
- Knock it off.
- 1155
- 01:33:31,520 --> 01:33:35,095
- I have something for you.
- 1156
- 01:33:35,199 --> 01:33:37,199
- Stay here.
- 1157
- 01:33:42,531 --> 01:33:45,311
- - What the hell is this?
- - It's a present.
- 1158
- 01:33:45,415 --> 01:33:48,523
- Go on and open it.
- 1159
- 01:33:48,627 --> 01:33:52,028
- A box of trash.
- You shouldn't have.
- 1160
- 01:33:52,133 --> 01:33:54,698
- Keep looking.
- Keep looking.
- 1161
- 01:33:58,672 --> 01:34:01,664
- It's a Kashmiri sapphire.
- Best in the world.
- 1162
- 01:34:01,768 --> 01:34:04,123
- I had my boys all over the damn globe
- looking for this.
- 1163
- 01:34:04,227 --> 01:34:06,999
- - Why?
- - Because.
- 1164
- 01:34:07,104 --> 01:34:10,960
- Look.
- It matches your eyes.
- 1165
- 01:34:11,064 --> 01:34:13,546
- I am not for sale.
- 1166
- 01:34:13,650 --> 01:34:15,760
- For Christ sakes, Ava,
- it's just a present.
- 1167
- 01:34:15,865 --> 01:34:19,219
- You can't buy me, Howard,
- so stop trying.
- 1168
- 01:34:19,323 --> 01:34:22,848
- Don't buy me any more diamonds or
- sapphires or any other goddamn thing.
- 1169
- 01:34:22,952 --> 01:34:26,144
- You can buy me dinner.
- How about that?
- 1170
- 01:34:26,248 --> 01:34:27,570
- Jesus, Ava.
- 1171
- 01:34:28,410 --> 01:34:31,607
- It's bad enough I have to endure
- those filthy gym shoes of yours,
- 1172
- 01:34:31,712 --> 01:34:36,695
- but then I get all dolled up and we have
- to go out in this old jalopy without a hood.
- 1173
- 01:34:36,799 --> 01:34:39,991
- Ava, will you marry me?
- 1174
- 01:34:40,095 --> 01:34:41,410
- No, Howard.
- 1175
- 01:34:41,514 --> 01:34:45,625
- - Why not, for heaven's sake?
- - In the first place, I don't love you.
- 1176
- 01:34:45,729 --> 01:34:48,167
- In the second place, I'm still married.
- 1177
- 01:34:48,271 --> 01:34:53,048
- Look, you got girls stashed all over town.
- You got a damn harem just at the Bel-Air.
- 1178
- 01:34:53,152 --> 01:34:55,104
- Why don't you marry
- one of your bungalow girls?
- 1179
- 01:34:55,229 --> 01:34:57,512
- Those are employees.
- I'm not going to marry an employee.
- 1180
- 01:34:57,617 --> 01:35:00,519
- Jesus Christ, how would that look?
- 1181
- 01:35:06,115 --> 01:35:08,606
- Good Lord, what is going on?
- 1182
- 01:35:11,829 --> 01:35:14,534
- - Oh, my God.
- - Goddamn it.
- 1183
- 01:35:16,041 --> 01:35:17,241
- Faith.
- 1184
- 01:35:18,093 --> 01:35:20,155
- - Faith. What the hell?
- - Look out.
- 1185
- 01:35:20,259 --> 01:35:23,208
- Goddamn, what the hell are you doing?
- 1186
- 01:35:26,051 --> 01:35:28,915
- - You OK, lady?
- - What are you doing with her?
- 1187
- 01:35:29,019 --> 01:35:31,754
- We're going to dinner, that's all.
- Now get out of there.
- 1188
- 01:35:31,858 --> 01:35:33,919
- Get that crazy bitch away from me.
- 1189
- 01:35:34,023 --> 01:35:37,425
- - Don't you love me any more?
- - Course I love you, pork chop.
- 1190
- 01:35:37,530 --> 01:35:39,758
- - Ava, look over here.
- - Howard.
- 1191
- 01:35:39,862 --> 01:35:42,099
- - Hey.
- - Come on, Howard.
- 1192
- 01:35:45,446 --> 01:35:47,750
- Juan Trippe is working with
- that goddamn Senator Brewster now.
- 1193
- 01:35:47,854 --> 01:35:48,682
- They're after you, Howard.
- 1194
- 01:35:48,787 --> 01:35:51,940
- If the Community Airline Bill becomes law,
- we are finished, my friend.
- 1195
- 01:35:52,044 --> 01:35:54,340
- Pan Am will have a legal monopoly
- on international travel.
- 1196
- 01:35:54,444 --> 01:35:56,816
- How can they justify it, Jack?
- It's un-American.
- 1197
- 01:35:56,920 --> 01:35:59,262
- Senator Brewster's saying that
- nationalised foreign carriers,
- 1198
- 01:35:59,366 --> 01:36:00,738
- like Air France and Lufthansa,
- 1199
- 01:36:00,842 --> 01:36:03,700
- can offer lower rates
- cos they don't have to compete, right?
- 1200
- 01:36:03,804 --> 01:36:05,977
- So, hey, let's just get rid of
- all that messy competition
- 1201
- 01:36:06,081 --> 01:36:08,959
- and have a nationalised airline of our own,
- and why don't we make it Pan Am?
- 1202
- 01:36:09,063 --> 01:36:10,836
- I'm not kowtowing to Washington
- or anyone else.
- 1203
- 01:36:10,940 --> 01:36:12,916
- - Howard, I need you up here.
- - One sec, Odie.
- 1204
- 01:36:13,020 --> 01:36:15,795
- Look, we are Trans World Airlines,
- all right?
- 1205
- 01:36:15,899 --> 01:36:20,465
- Get me something with a circle or a globe
- or something round, for God's sake.
- 1206
- 01:36:20,570 --> 01:36:23,306
- Speak up. I know.
- I don't give a rat's ass what he says.
- 1207
- 01:36:23,410 --> 01:36:26,309
- I'm not making a single cut.
- Tell him I'm releasing without a seal.
- 1208
- 01:36:26,413 --> 01:36:28,141
- All right.
- We gotta go public with this.
- 1209
- 01:36:28,245 --> 01:36:30,251
- I'm gonna talk to Hearst,
- see what press he can give me,
- 1210
- 01:36:30,355 --> 01:36:32,336
- but sooner or later it's gonna come down
- to a vote in the Senate,
- 1211
- 01:36:32,441 --> 01:36:33,567
- so we gotta get senators on our side.
- 1212
- 01:36:33,671 --> 01:36:36,278
- - What do you want me to do?
- - Do what Trippe does, for Christ sake.
- 1213
- 01:36:36,382 --> 01:36:37,650
- Set up some offshore operations.
- 1214
- 01:36:37,754 --> 01:36:40,011
- See who's up for re-election.
- Let's start making donations.
- 1215
- 01:36:40,115 --> 01:36:43,491
- - So, you want me to bribe senators?
- - I don't want them bribed, Jack.
- 1216
- 01:36:43,596 --> 01:36:46,201
- I want it done legally.
- I want them bought.
- 1217
- 01:36:46,306 --> 01:36:48,227
- And put a team of investigators
- on Senator Brewster.
- 1218
- 01:36:48,332 --> 01:36:50,833
- I need to know everything there is to know
- about that shit bag.
- 1219
- 01:36:50,937 --> 01:36:53,920
- Where he goes, what he says
- and who he screws.
- 1220
- 01:36:54,024 --> 01:36:57,218
- - Get into it right now, Jack.
- - You got it.
- 1221
- 01:37:03,732 --> 01:37:06,484
- Just give me a second.
- 1222
- 01:37:07,403 --> 01:37:11,016
- - All right. What do you need?
- - Rudder and elevators.
- 1223
- 01:37:11,120 --> 01:37:15,937
- These are fine. Have Simon and Pete get
- back to me on the hydraulic assemblies.
- 1224
- 01:37:16,042 --> 01:37:19,815
- - We need a secondary system here.
- - OK.
- 1225
- 01:37:19,919 --> 01:37:22,779
- And listen, we need to take
- another look at the wheel.
- 1226
- 01:37:22,883 --> 01:37:27,367
- - Jesus. The damn wheel?
- - Yeah. It just doesn't feel right.
- 1227
- 01:37:27,471 --> 01:37:31,666
- Christ almighty, you've seen 8,000
- goddamn wheels. Choose one, please.
- 1228
- 01:37:31,770 --> 01:37:33,498
- - Just one of them.
- - I know. I know.
- 1229
- 01:37:33,602 --> 01:37:35,998
- - This one?
- - I know. This one...
- 1230
- 01:37:36,102 --> 01:37:38,213
- This one's pretty close.
- 1231
- 01:37:38,317 --> 01:37:40,385
- Pretty close.
- 1232
- 01:38:15,971 --> 01:38:16,971
- Odie?
- 1233
- 01:38:18,312 --> 01:38:21,005
- That man sweeping up over there.
- 1234
- 01:38:21,109 --> 01:38:24,259
- Does he work for me?
- I mean, have you seen him before?
- 1235
- 01:38:24,363 --> 01:38:27,106
- Name's Nick.
- Something like that.
- 1236
- 01:38:29,151 --> 01:38:31,025
- Why's he looking at me?
- 1237
- 01:38:33,155 --> 01:38:35,231
- I don't know.
- 1238
- 01:38:36,492 --> 01:38:39,899
- Fire him. And make sure they use
- damp brooms from now on.
- 1239
- 01:38:40,004 --> 01:38:43,403
- Respiratory diseases are expensive, and
- I don't want a bunch of damn lawsuits.
- 1240
- 01:38:43,507 --> 01:38:46,366
- OK. But can we at least proceed
- with the instrument panel we discussed?
- 1241
- 01:38:46,471 --> 01:38:47,534
- The tool shop's ready to go.
- 1242
- 01:38:47,638 --> 01:38:49,557
- - No. I wanna see the blueprints again.
- - Howard,
- 1243
- 01:38:49,661 --> 01:38:52,161
- the deadline is now completely unrealistic.
- 1244
- 01:38:52,265 --> 01:38:54,955
- At this rate, the war is gonna be over
- by the time she's done.
- 1245
- 01:38:55,059 --> 01:38:57,499
- Now, I need you here
- to help consult on vital decisions
- 1246
- 01:38:57,604 --> 01:38:59,295
- and you're off dealing with movies.
- 1247
- 01:38:59,399 --> 01:39:02,487
- You got a thousand goddamn workers
- waiting for you to make a decision here...
- 1248
- 01:39:02,591 --> 01:39:04,175
- Hey. Odie.
- 1249
- 01:39:04,279 --> 01:39:07,761
- Take it easy, all right?
- I understand you're under a lot of pressure,
- 1250
- 01:39:07,865 --> 01:39:13,095
- but it's gonna do me no good if you
- crack up on me like that. All right? Look.
- 1251
- 01:39:13,199 --> 01:39:15,515
- Take a couple of hours off, all right?
- 1252
- 01:39:15,620 --> 01:39:17,562
- - You relax a little.
- - OK.
- 1253
- 01:39:17,666 --> 01:39:20,272
- - See your wife.
- - OK.
- 1254
- 01:39:20,376 --> 01:39:22,376
- All right.
- 1255
- 01:39:22,627 --> 01:39:26,405
- - Be sure to show me all the blueprints.
- - All right.
- 1256
- 01:39:27,460 --> 01:39:29,951
- Show me all the blueprints.
- 1257
- 01:39:30,171 --> 01:39:32,240
- Show me all the blueprints.
- 1258
- 01:39:32,345 --> 01:39:37,411
- I'm serious, now.
- Show me all the blueprints.
- 1259
- 01:39:37,515 --> 01:39:39,524
- Show me all the blue...
- Show me all the blueprints.
- 1260
- 01:39:39,628 --> 01:39:42,293
- - Howard...
- - Show me all the blueprints.
- 1261
- 01:39:42,397 --> 01:39:44,550
- Show me all the blueprints.
- Show me all the blueprints.
- 1262
- 01:39:44,654 --> 01:39:48,425
- Show me all the blueprints.
- Show me all the blueprints.
- 1263
- 01:39:48,530 --> 01:39:51,264
- I want to get this done right,
- so show me all the blueprints.
- 1264
- 01:39:51,368 --> 01:39:52,929
- Show me all the blueprints.
- 1265
- 01:39:53,033 --> 01:39:55,060
- Show me all the blueprints.
- Show me all the blueprints.
- 1266
- 01:39:55,164 --> 01:39:57,563
- Show me all the blueprints.
- Show me all the blueprints.
- 1267
- 01:39:57,667 --> 01:40:00,059
- - Show me all the blueprints.
- - Howard.
- 1268
- 01:40:00,163 --> 01:40:03,575
- Show me all the blueprints.
- 1269
- 01:40:03,788 --> 01:40:07,737
- Show me all the blueprints.
- 1270
- 01:40:07,958 --> 01:40:11,078
- Show me all the blueprints.
- 1271
- 01:40:32,233 --> 01:40:34,433
- Quarantine.
- 1272
- 01:40:35,328 --> 01:40:36,128
- Q...
- 1273
- 01:40:37,410 --> 01:40:38,210
- U...
- 1274
- 01:40:39,662 --> 01:40:40,462
- A...
- 1275
- 01:40:42,502 --> 01:40:43,302
- R...
- 1276
- 01:40:45,211 --> 01:40:46,011
- A...
- 1277
- 01:40:47,295 --> 01:40:48,095
- N...
- 1278
- 01:40:49,092 --> 01:40:49,892
- T...
- 1279
- 01:40:51,507 --> 01:40:52,307
- I...
- 1280
- 01:40:53,343 --> 01:40:54,143
- N...
- 1281
- 01:40:59,760 --> 01:41:00,160
- E.
- 1282
- 01:41:04,598 --> 01:41:06,674
- Quarantine.
- 1283
- 01:41:44,680 --> 01:41:47,877
- General McEwan. Colonel Bertrang.
- Thanks for coming down.
- 1284
- 01:41:47,981 --> 01:41:53,432
- - Odie, you reading me OK?
- - Yeah, Howard. You're A-OK.
- 1285
- 01:41:57,234 --> 01:42:02,655
- All right, flight controls are active.
- She's all yours.
- 1286
- 01:42:09,288 --> 01:42:11,697
- She's spotless, Odie.
- No wiggle on the wheel or throttles.
- 1287
- 01:42:11,801 --> 01:42:13,867
- Take it easy.
- 1288
- 01:42:30,518 --> 01:42:34,341
- - How does she sound, Howard?
- - She's whispering to me, buddy.
- 1289
- 01:42:34,445 --> 01:42:37,225
- All right, make her sing.
- 1290
- 01:42:57,086 --> 01:43:00,532
- Well, Odie, she can fly.
- Congratulations.
- 1291
- 01:43:00,636 --> 01:43:05,831
- I'm glad to hear it. Retract landing gear and
- climb to 5,000 feet on a heading of 2-7-0.
- 1292
- 01:43:05,935 --> 01:43:12,381
- Retracting landing gear and climbing
- to 5,000 feet on a heading 2-7-0.
- 1293
- 01:43:16,397 --> 01:43:18,677
- - Jesus, she's fast.
- - What's your airspeed, Howard?
- 1294
- 01:43:18,781 --> 01:43:22,553
- - 292.
- - All right, take her back to 200.
- 1295
- 01:43:22,657 --> 01:43:24,278
- No damn way.
- 1296
- 01:43:49,930 --> 01:43:51,751
- All right, Howard, we gotta bring her home.
- 1297
- 01:43:51,855 --> 01:43:55,173
- Scheduled time of one hour and 45
- minutes has elapsed. Set course for 0-9-0.
- 1298
- 01:43:55,277 --> 01:44:00,341
- - Give me ten more minutes. Roger that.
- - Negative. Howard, bring her home.
- 1299
- 01:44:00,445 --> 01:44:01,634
- OK. OK.
- 1300
- 01:44:01,738 --> 01:44:06,684
- Setting course for 0-9-0.
- 1301
- 01:44:06,788 --> 01:44:08,939
- Preparing to descend.
- 1302
- 01:44:12,411 --> 01:44:15,910
- - Jesus.
- - What is it, Howard?
- 1303
- 01:44:16,957 --> 01:44:20,614
- The right wing just dipped.
- I'm losing starboard engine.
- 1304
- 01:44:20,718 --> 01:44:23,658
- Increasing power to 2800 rpm.
- 1305
- 01:44:23,762 --> 01:44:25,410
- Cutting back.
- 1306
- 01:44:25,514 --> 01:44:27,714
- Increasing starboard engine only.
- 1307
- 01:44:28,803 --> 01:44:31,960
- Cutting back.
- I'm losing altitude.
- 1308
- 01:44:32,064 --> 01:44:35,585
- Howard, check starboard engine
- manifold pressure.
- 1309
- 01:44:35,690 --> 01:44:39,009
- - It's good, but rpms are low.
- - Are both starboard props turning?
- 1310
- 01:44:39,113 --> 01:44:40,713
- Hold on.
- 1311
- 01:44:40,907 --> 01:44:43,928
- It looks like they are, but she's pulling me
- back and starboard, Odie.
- 1312
- 01:44:44,032 --> 01:44:47,721
- - How bad is your cross control?
- - I'm at full left rudder and full left aileron,
- 1313
- 01:44:47,826 --> 01:44:50,269
- but she won't stay level.
- Goddamn it.
- 1314
- 01:44:50,373 --> 01:44:53,357
- - Howard, give us your position.
- - 2,000 feet over...
- 1315
- 01:44:53,462 --> 01:44:57,525
- Oh, Christ, I don't know.
- Beverly Hills. 1,500 feet.
- 1316
- 01:44:57,629 --> 01:44:59,450
- We're going down.
- 1317
- 01:45:00,334 --> 01:45:03,947
- I'm gonna try for the Wilshire Country
- Club. Ninth hole. You reading me?
- 1318
- 01:45:04,051 --> 01:45:08,091
- Wilshire Country Club. Copy that.
- Howard, reduce engines to one thousand.
- 1319
- 01:45:08,717 --> 01:45:11,165
- I'm going down.
- 1320
- 01:45:11,269 --> 01:45:13,753
- I'm not gonna make it, buddy.
- 1321
- 01:45:19,979 --> 01:45:21,141
- Goddamn it.
- 1322
- 01:47:24,353 --> 01:47:27,844
- Is there anyone else inside?
- Is there anyone else?
- 1323
- 01:47:27,948 --> 01:47:28,548
- No.
- 1324
- 01:47:33,446 --> 01:47:36,392
- I'm Howard Hughes, the aviator.
- 1325
- 01:47:36,496 --> 01:47:38,096
- Come on.
- 1326
- 01:47:45,791 --> 01:47:49,032
- Every inch of wiring and fluid connection...
- 1327
- 01:47:49,136 --> 01:47:51,825
- He has burns to 78 per cent of his body.
- 1328
- 01:47:51,930 --> 01:47:54,997
- Nine ribs are shattered.
- Not broken, shattered.
- 1329
- 01:47:55,102 --> 01:47:59,626
- As are his nose, his chin, his cheek,
- his left knee, his left elbow.
- 1330
- 01:47:59,730 --> 01:48:02,835
- He has 60 lacerations on his face
- to the bone.
- 1331
- 01:48:02,940 --> 01:48:05,797
- His chest was crushed,
- so his left lung has collapsed
- 1332
- 01:48:05,901 --> 01:48:10,346
- and his heart has shifted entirely
- to the right side of his chest cavity.
- 1333
- 01:48:10,450 --> 01:48:12,344
- Jesus, God.
- 1334
- 01:48:12,448 --> 01:48:15,806
- He's getting blood transfusions now, but...
- 1335
- 01:48:15,910 --> 01:48:19,396
- - Whose blood?
- - I'm sorry?
- 1336
- 01:48:19,500 --> 01:48:22,816
- - Whose blood?
- - From our stock.
- 1337
- 01:48:22,920 --> 01:48:24,776
- He's not gonna like that.
- 1338
- 01:48:24,880 --> 01:48:30,571
- Mr Dietrich, I doubt he's ever
- gonna like or dislike anything again.
- 1339
- 01:48:30,676 --> 01:48:33,042
- I'm terribly sorry.
- 1340
- 01:49:01,281 --> 01:49:03,268
- Orange juice.
- 1341
- 01:49:03,372 --> 01:49:04,772
- It's...
- 1342
- 01:49:06,212 --> 01:49:09,453
- It's not fresh from the kitchen, so I...
- 1343
- 01:49:10,499 --> 01:49:14,627
- I have them make it here so I can see.
- 1344
- 01:49:19,716 --> 01:49:21,792
- Look at me.
- 1345
- 01:49:24,304 --> 01:49:28,000
- I'm a monster.
- Yeah.
- 1346
- 01:49:28,104 --> 01:49:31,800
- Orange juice has nutritional value.
- 1347
- 01:49:32,854 --> 01:49:38,183
- There's some flies
- outside my window, though.
- 1348
- 01:49:38,287 --> 01:49:39,287
- So...
- 1349
- 01:49:42,072 --> 01:49:44,148
- little Howard likes...
- 1350
- 01:49:46,076 --> 01:49:47,476
- citrus.
- 1351
- 01:49:49,127 --> 01:49:51,197
- Don't he just?
- 1352
- 01:49:54,126 --> 01:49:55,726
- Tell me.
- 1353
- 01:49:57,471 --> 01:50:01,325
- An oil seal ripped off
- the starboard rear propeller.
- 1354
- 01:50:01,429 --> 01:50:05,332
- When the pressure dropped,
- the prop reversed pitch.
- 1355
- 01:50:05,436 --> 01:50:07,627
- Do you understand me?
- 1356
- 01:50:07,731 --> 01:50:12,712
- Howard, I'm sorry to have to tell you
- this now, but there's something else.
- 1357
- 01:50:12,816 --> 01:50:15,267
- - You following me?
- - Yeah.
- 1358
- 01:50:17,065 --> 01:50:22,892
- The Air Force cancelled
- the contract on the Hercules.
- 1359
- 01:50:22,996 --> 01:50:28,687
- The war's over now,
- and they say they don't need it any more.
- 1360
- 01:50:28,792 --> 01:50:33,403
- I have to know what you want me to do.
- Should I release the staff?
- 1361
- 01:50:33,507 --> 01:50:35,507
- How far...
- 1362
- 01:50:36,005 --> 01:50:38,955
- from finishing?
- 1363
- 01:50:40,130 --> 01:50:42,871
- - About six months.
- - No, no.
- 1364
- 01:50:42,976 --> 01:50:44,776
- In money.
- 1365
- 01:50:48,222 --> 01:50:52,302
- Seven million.
- Maybe more.
- 1366
- 01:50:58,023 --> 01:50:59,823
- Build it.
- 1367
- 01:51:00,952 --> 01:51:03,952
- Build it, Odie.
- 1368
- 01:51:04,787 --> 01:51:06,187
- Howard,
- 1369
- 01:51:06,915 --> 01:51:10,941
- a Constellation crashed
- outside Reading, Pennsylvania.
- 1370
- 01:51:11,045 --> 01:51:14,903
- The Civil Aeronautics Board
- has grounded the whole fleet.
- 1371
- 01:51:24,841 --> 01:51:30,927
- You know, Juan Trippe sent me flowers.
- 1372
- 01:51:33,016 --> 01:51:35,092
- Take a look.
- 1373
- 01:51:38,605 --> 01:51:43,511
- - What did you do with all the others?
- - I had them taken out.
- 1374
- 01:51:43,615 --> 01:51:46,813
- They attract aphids.
- 1375
- 01:51:47,823 --> 01:51:53,233
- Aphids are...
- They're just awful little creatures.
- 1376
- 01:51:53,338 --> 01:51:54,538
- But...
- 1377
- 01:51:57,416 --> 01:51:59,492
- But these ones...
- 1378
- 01:52:00,669 --> 01:52:04,797
- I wanted to see these ones every day.
- 1379
- 01:52:11,889 --> 01:52:14,963
- Can white elephants really fly?
- That's everybody's question.
- 1380
- 01:52:15,068 --> 01:52:17,838
- It's the hull of the world's
- mightiest airplane,
- 1381
- 01:52:17,942 --> 01:52:20,300
- a flying boat built
- by Howard Hughes.
- 1382
- 01:52:20,404 --> 01:52:24,553
- 220 feet long, it towers higher
- than a five-storey building.
- 1383
- 01:52:24,658 --> 01:52:28,724
- Power lines have to be cut as it starts
- the trip from Culver City, California,
- 1384
- 01:52:28,828 --> 01:52:30,975
- to the Pacific, 30 miles away.
- 1385
- 01:52:31,080 --> 01:52:34,399
- Moving the 60-ton load
- is quite an engineering problem.
- 1386
- 01:52:34,503 --> 01:52:38,440
- But you gotta ask, "Was anything this big
- ever supposed to fly?"
- 1387
- 01:52:38,544 --> 01:52:43,074
- There goes one wing section.
- 160 feet long with four engine housings.
- 1388
- 01:52:43,178 --> 01:52:46,577
- Double that, and you've got
- some idea of the wing spread.
- 1389
- 01:52:46,682 --> 01:52:50,837
- An airplane that challenges
- a mountain for sheer size.
- 1390
- 01:52:57,601 --> 01:52:59,921
- How long can they keep us grounded?
- 1391
- 01:53:00,025 --> 01:53:03,428
- Till they finish investigating
- the Reading crash. Could be months.
- 1392
- 01:53:03,532 --> 01:53:08,179
- Jesus. You're already running a
- $14 million deficit. How you gonna afford...
- 1393
- 01:53:08,283 --> 01:53:10,598
- We go international,
- we'll make it up.
- 1394
- 01:53:10,703 --> 01:53:13,356
- Look, Brewster's CAB bill
- just isn't going away.
- 1395
- 01:53:13,461 --> 01:53:16,046
- That bill passes and you bought
- all these goddamn planes for nothing.
- 1396
- 01:53:16,151 --> 01:53:17,444
- - We're fighting the CAB bill.
- - Yeah.
- 1397
- 01:53:17,548 --> 01:53:19,858
- Meanwhile, how do you suggest
- we keep TWA flying?
- 1398
- 01:53:19,962 --> 01:53:21,844
- And don't say, "Just go to Toolco,"
- this time.
- 1399
- 01:53:21,948 --> 01:53:24,388
- As it is we're pumping every damn cent
- we have into the Hercules,
- 1400
- 01:53:24,492 --> 01:53:27,615
- which, I might add,
- the Air Force doesn't even want any more.
- 1401
- 01:53:27,720 --> 01:53:30,540
- Now look, Howard, I'm glad Jack here
- is feeling so sunny about things,
- 1402
- 01:53:30,644 --> 01:53:31,562
- but I've seen the books.
- 1403
- 01:53:31,666 --> 01:53:34,461
- And I'm telling it to you straight,
- I'm not just crying wolf this time,
- 1404
- 01:53:34,565 --> 01:53:37,587
- we're in serious trouble.
- You've got to make a choice.
- 1405
- 01:53:37,691 --> 01:53:43,057
- You want to be bankrupted by
- the big plane or by the big airline?
- 1406
- 01:53:49,987 --> 01:53:53,727
- Go see Thomas Parkinson
- at the Equitable in New York.
- 1407
- 01:53:53,831 --> 01:53:58,940
- Get a loan against all the TWA equipment
- and capital. Use the planes as collateral.
- 1408
- 01:53:59,045 --> 01:54:03,489
- Hell, use the desks, use the pens,
- use everything we got.
- 1409
- 01:54:03,593 --> 01:54:08,323
- - Try to get me 40 million.
- - And if TWA defaults on the loan?
- 1410
- 01:54:08,427 --> 01:54:11,542
- Well, then Juan Trippe buys us cheap.
- 1411
- 01:54:13,844 --> 01:54:16,919
- Under my bed. You put
- a goddamn microphone under my bed.
- 1412
- 01:54:17,023 --> 01:54:19,250
- Honey, listen to me.
- I am concerned about you, baby.
- 1413
- 01:54:19,355 --> 01:54:22,879
- - I just want to make sure you're OK.
- - And who is in that car?
- 1414
- 01:54:22,983 --> 01:54:25,380
- That goddamn car
- has been with me 24 hours a day.
- 1415
- 01:54:25,485 --> 01:54:27,383
- That car is there for your protection.
- 1416
- 01:54:27,488 --> 01:54:30,929
- The only one I need protection from is you,
- you sick bastard.
- 1417
- 01:54:31,033 --> 01:54:32,681
- You don't own me, Howard.
- 1418
- 01:54:32,786 --> 01:54:35,937
- I'm not one of your teenage whores,
- and I'm not some damn airplane.
- 1419
- 01:54:36,041 --> 01:54:38,108
- Now look, honey,
- I'll have them take all the bugs out.
- 1420
- 01:54:38,212 --> 01:54:40,485
- You just have to understand
- that I need to know where you are.
- 1421
- 01:54:40,589 --> 01:54:43,195
- - Why?
- - Because I worry about you, that's why.
- 1422
- 01:54:43,299 --> 01:54:45,099
- Bullshit.
- 1423
- 01:54:47,920 --> 01:54:51,086
- What do you mean, all the bugs?
- 1424
- 01:54:56,011 --> 01:54:58,716
- What do you mean, all the bugs?
- 1425
- 01:55:00,933 --> 01:55:02,964
- There's more.
- 1426
- 01:55:03,068 --> 01:55:04,868
- How many?
- 1427
- 01:55:05,279 --> 01:55:07,340
- I don't know, 12.
- 12, maybe.
- 1428
- 01:55:07,444 --> 01:55:11,844
- And on the telephones.
- 1429
- 01:55:11,995 --> 01:55:15,681
- Oh, Christ, Howard, on the telephone?
- 1430
- 01:55:15,785 --> 01:55:17,434
- You listen to my phone calls?
- 1431
- 01:55:17,539 --> 01:55:21,395
- No, no, no, honey. I would never do that.
- I'd never do that. I...
- 1432
- 01:55:21,499 --> 01:55:24,662
- I just read the transcripts, that's all.
- 1433
- 01:55:29,044 --> 01:55:31,324
- What do you want to know, Howard?
- 1434
- 01:55:31,429 --> 01:55:33,658
- Was I screwing Artie Shaw last night?
- 1435
- 01:55:33,762 --> 01:55:36,537
- Was I screwing Sinatra the night before?
- You bet.
- 1436
- 01:55:36,641 --> 01:55:39,294
- Everyone told me you were
- a goddamn lunatic but I didn't listen.
- 1437
- 01:55:39,398 --> 01:55:42,379
- It's no wonder Kate Hepburn
- dumped your demented ass.
- 1438
- 01:55:42,483 --> 01:55:44,431
- Shut your goddamn mouth.
- 1439
- 01:55:49,189 --> 01:55:52,309
- Get out, you pathetic freak.
- 1440
- 01:55:59,950 --> 01:56:01,550
- Get out.
- 1441
- 01:56:02,085 --> 01:56:04,025
- Is everything all right, sir?
- 1442
- 01:56:04,129 --> 01:56:07,324
- Take out all the bugs.
- 1443
- 01:56:08,500 --> 01:56:10,781
- Except for the one on the bedroom phone.
- 1444
- 01:56:10,885 --> 01:56:13,962
- Sir, the FBI are at the house.
- 1445
- 01:56:14,965 --> 01:56:17,926
- This is outrageous. Everything in these
- offices is the private property
- 1446
- 01:56:18,051 --> 01:56:21,043
- of Hughes Productions.
- My legal counsel is on the way...
- 1447
- 01:56:21,147 --> 01:56:25,088
- Federal warrant.
- Don't interfere with this search, sir.
- 1448
- 01:56:44,244 --> 01:56:47,568
- Dateline Los Angeles.
- Howard Hughes has a new house guest.
- 1449
- 01:56:47,673 --> 01:56:51,443
- No, it's not another beautiful starlet
- this time. It's the FBI.
- 1450
- 01:56:51,547 --> 01:56:53,158
- Noah, you have got to help, all right?
- 1451
- 01:56:53,263 --> 01:56:55,573
- This is the tenth goddamn time
- they have been here.
- 1452
- 01:56:55,678 --> 01:56:59,163
- Rumour has it that federal agents working
- for Senator Ralph Owen Brewster
- 1453
- 01:56:59,268 --> 01:57:03,166
- have practically taken up residence
- in the aviation mogul's Hollywood home.
- 1454
- 01:57:03,271 --> 01:57:07,964
- Look, they are touching things.
- Noah, Noah, they are touching things.
- 1455
- 01:57:08,068 --> 01:57:12,094
- Just keep yourself calm and I'll be
- down there as soon as I can, Howard.
- 1456
- 01:57:12,198 --> 01:57:15,059
- Howard?
- Howard?
- 1457
- 01:57:40,300 --> 01:57:42,331
- Howard, hello.
- 1458
- 01:57:42,436 --> 01:57:45,790
- - Owen, nice to see you again.
- - Good to see you. Come on inside.
- 1459
- 01:57:45,894 --> 01:57:48,503
- - Emma, you can start the lunch now.
- - Yes, sir.
- 1460
- 01:57:48,608 --> 01:57:53,173
- Well, really lovely room.
- Nicely decorated.
- 1461
- 01:57:53,277 --> 01:57:55,136
- Thank you.
- Here, have a seat.
- 1462
- 01:57:55,240 --> 01:57:56,608
- - Thanks.
- - Thanks for coming by.
- 1463
- 01:57:56,733 --> 01:57:59,763
- I just thought you and I should have
- a chance to talk privately.
- 1464
- 01:57:59,868 --> 01:58:02,892
- You know, outside the office.
- 1465
- 01:58:02,996 --> 01:58:04,396
- Well...
- 1466
- 01:58:05,753 --> 01:58:07,782
- I appreciate that, Owen.
- 1467
- 01:58:15,085 --> 01:58:20,746
- So, you're coming out pretty strong
- against the CAB bill.
- 1468
- 01:58:20,850 --> 01:58:26,124
- - You're coming on pretty strong for it.
- - Well, it's my bill, Howard. You know?
- 1469
- 01:58:26,228 --> 01:58:28,919
- Look, I believe sincerely that
- 1470
- 01:58:29,023 --> 01:58:33,310
- America cannot afford to have
- more than one international carrier.
- 1471
- 01:58:34,980 --> 01:58:39,969
- So, do you think it's fair that one airline
- should have a monopoly on...
- 1472
- 01:58:40,074 --> 01:58:43,681
- A monopoly? No, no, no.
- No, no, no. Oh, no.
- 1473
- 01:58:43,786 --> 01:58:49,313
- No, I think one airline could do it better,
- see, without competition.
- 1474
- 01:58:49,417 --> 01:58:54,195
- All I'm thinking about are the interests,
- the needs of the American passenger.
- 1475
- 01:58:54,299 --> 01:58:57,292
- That's just beautiful.
- What is that?
- 1476
- 01:59:01,506 --> 01:59:03,827
- What is that?
- Is that a...
- 1477
- 01:59:03,931 --> 01:59:06,917
- Is that a yak?
- Some kind of a yak?
- 1478
- 01:59:07,021 --> 01:59:11,130
- No, that's a llama. My wife picked that up
- when we were in Peru a year ago.
- 1479
- 01:59:11,234 --> 01:59:14,640
- Son of a gun.
- A real llama.
- 1480
- 01:59:17,105 --> 01:59:20,014
- - From Peru?
- - Yeah. A year ago.
- 1481
- 01:59:20,118 --> 01:59:22,556
- Yeah, it was about a year ago.
- 1482
- 01:59:22,660 --> 01:59:24,889
- - Lunch is served, Senator.
- - Good. OK.
- 1483
- 01:59:24,994 --> 01:59:27,610
- Come on, let's go have some lunch.
- 1484
- 01:59:28,659 --> 01:59:32,604
- Now did you...
- Did you actually get to see any llamas?
- 1485
- 01:59:32,709 --> 01:59:34,652
- No, no.
- My wife just liked the painting.
- 1486
- 01:59:34,756 --> 01:59:38,527
- It's a hell of an interesting animal.
- I'll have to read up on those.
- 1487
- 01:59:38,631 --> 01:59:43,366
- How do you spell that?
- Like Fernando Lamas?
- 1488
- 01:59:43,470 --> 01:59:45,868
- No, no, no. It's...
- 1489
- 01:59:45,972 --> 01:59:49,171
- It's the animal. It's got two Ls.
- Here, come on, have a seat.
- 1490
- 01:59:59,147 --> 02:00:02,516
- It's brook trout.
- Hope you like fish.
- 1491
- 02:00:04,152 --> 02:00:05,973
- I love it.
- 1492
- 02:00:06,077 --> 02:00:07,477
- Thanks.
- 1493
- 02:00:22,963 --> 02:00:27,126
- I know you're not a drinking man,
- so I hope water's OK.
- 1494
- 02:00:39,897 --> 02:00:41,297
- Thanks.
- 1495
- 02:00:47,154 --> 02:00:51,560
- All right, let's get down to business.
- Let's talk turkey.
- 1496
- 02:00:51,665 --> 02:00:54,772
- My investigators...
- 1497
- 02:00:54,876 --> 02:00:58,111
- My investigators
- have turned up a lot of dirt.
- 1498
- 02:00:58,215 --> 02:01:02,069
- Could be really embarrassing
- if this stuff got out.
- 1499
- 02:01:02,173 --> 02:01:05,864
- I'd like to save you
- from that embarrassment.
- 1500
- 02:01:05,968 --> 02:01:08,206
- That's very kind of you, Owen.
- 1501
- 02:01:11,136 --> 02:01:14,968
- My committee has the power
- to hold public hearings.
- 1502
- 02:01:16,516 --> 02:01:19,047
- I'd like to spare you that.
- 1503
- 02:01:19,151 --> 02:01:21,591
- Would you, now?
- 1504
- 02:01:21,696 --> 02:01:22,696
- Look.
- 1505
- 02:01:23,324 --> 02:01:28,099
- Do you want to go down in history
- as a war profiteer, Howard?
- 1506
- 02:01:28,203 --> 02:01:30,816
- Is that what you want?
- 1507
- 02:01:31,990 --> 02:01:34,660
- What do you want, Owen?
- 1508
- 02:01:35,786 --> 02:01:42,030
- You agree to support my CAB bill
- and I won't hold public hearings.
- 1509
- 02:01:42,134 --> 02:01:43,779
- - I can't do that.
- - Why not?
- 1510
- 02:01:43,883 --> 02:01:47,701
- I can't do that, Owen.
- The CAB would kill TWA.
- 1511
- 02:01:47,805 --> 02:01:51,411
- Sell TWA to Pan Am.
- 1512
- 02:01:51,515 --> 02:01:55,666
- You'll get a good price.
- You'll get a fair price, I'm telling you.
- 1513
- 02:01:55,770 --> 02:01:57,962
- And then?
- Then you won't go public?
- 1514
- 02:01:58,066 --> 02:02:03,047
- Right. That's right. The investigation's
- closed. Nobody knows a thing.
- 1515
- 02:02:03,152 --> 02:02:06,515
- It's better for everybody.
- 1516
- 02:02:10,779 --> 02:02:12,727
- You know, Owen, I'm...
- 1517
- 02:02:12,831 --> 02:02:14,783
- - I'm still wondering one thing.
- - What's that?
- 1518
- 02:02:14,908 --> 02:02:18,271
- You know the picture of the llama
- you got last year?
- 1519
- 02:02:18,375 --> 02:02:21,122
- - Yeah.
- - Where'd you sail from?
- 1520
- 02:02:21,874 --> 02:02:23,866
- We didn't sail.
- We flew.
- 1521
- 02:02:25,127 --> 02:02:27,534
- - You flew?
- - Yeah.
- 1522
- 02:02:35,137 --> 02:02:38,999
- Are you sure you want to do this, Owen?
- 1523
- 02:02:39,103 --> 02:02:41,637
- You want to go to war with me?
- 1524
- 02:02:46,356 --> 02:02:51,511
- It isn't me, Howard.
- It's the United States government.
- 1525
- 02:02:51,616 --> 02:02:54,725
- We just beat Germany and Japan.
- 1526
- 02:02:54,829 --> 02:02:57,030
- Who the hell are you?
- 1527
- 02:03:02,206 --> 02:03:07,322
- You tell Juan Trippe something for me,
- all right?
- 1528
- 02:03:07,426 --> 02:03:10,366
- Tell him thanks for the flowers.
- 1529
- 02:03:10,470 --> 02:03:15,885
- And he can kiss both sides of my ass.
- 1530
- 02:03:39,785 --> 02:03:42,271
- Well, we have a long list of particulars.
- 1531
- 02:03:42,375 --> 02:03:46,777
- Chief among them is that
- he defrauded the American government
- 1532
- 02:03:46,881 --> 02:03:50,450
- of $56 million while we were at war,
- when we could least afford it.
- 1533
- 02:03:50,554 --> 02:03:53,620
- While brave men were dying
- on the beaches of Normandy,
- 1534
- 02:03:53,725 --> 02:03:56,623
- Mr Hughes was picking the pocket
- of the American taxpayer.
- 1535
- 02:03:56,728 --> 02:03:58,128
- I sleep
- 1536
- 02:03:59,564 --> 02:04:04,564
- in this room in the dark.
- 1537
- 02:04:05,026 --> 02:04:08,048
- I'll have him dragged here
- to Washington if I have to.
- 1538
- 02:04:08,153 --> 02:04:10,383
- I want to see the whites of his lies.
- 1539
- 02:04:10,487 --> 02:04:14,972
- I have a place where I sleep.
- 1540
- 02:04:15,076 --> 02:04:18,184
- - He has a lot of questions to answer.
- - I have a chair.
- 1541
- 02:04:18,288 --> 02:04:23,231
- Particularly about that
- monstrous boondoggle of his.
- 1542
- 02:04:23,336 --> 02:04:28,112
- That model airplane he's building.
- You know, that flying lumberyard.
- 1543
- 02:04:28,217 --> 02:04:31,366
- That Spruce Goose.
- 1544
- 02:04:31,470 --> 02:04:34,213
- No, we'll get him here.
- 1545
- 02:04:37,259 --> 02:04:41,166
- That's just beautiful.
- 1546
- 02:04:41,270 --> 02:04:43,505
- I like the desert.
- 1547
- 02:04:45,100 --> 02:04:50,723
- It's hot there in the desert, but it's clean.
- It's clean.
- 1548
- 02:04:52,858 --> 02:04:55,693
- I need to sleep.
- 1549
- 02:04:57,946 --> 02:05:01,362
- I should drink something first.
- 1550
- 02:05:04,578 --> 02:05:06,903
- I should drink something first.
- 1551
- 02:05:11,126 --> 02:05:13,926
- Wait a minute.
- 1552
- 02:05:14,138 --> 02:05:16,870
- What if that milk is sour?
- 1553
- 02:05:16,975 --> 02:05:19,285
- If that milk is bad,
- 1554
- 02:05:19,390 --> 02:05:24,751
- I shouldn't pick up the bottle of milk
- with my right hand,
- 1555
- 02:05:24,855 --> 02:05:30,684
- and I shouldn't take the top off
- with my left hand.
- 1556
- 02:05:32,022 --> 02:05:35,263
- Put it in my pocket.
- 1557
- 02:05:35,367 --> 02:05:37,435
- My left pocket.
- 1558
- 02:05:54,711 --> 02:05:56,576
- Howard, it's Kate.
- 1559
- 02:05:56,680 --> 02:05:59,079
- I need to talk to you.
- 1560
- 02:06:00,217 --> 02:06:02,209
- Can you hear me?
- 1561
- 02:06:04,596 --> 02:06:07,134
- I'm coming in.
- 1562
- 02:06:11,520 --> 02:06:14,272
- Howard, unlock this door immediately.
- 1563
- 02:06:22,614 --> 02:06:25,651
- I can't, sweetie.
- 1564
- 02:06:28,036 --> 02:06:30,610
- You mean you won't.
- 1565
- 02:06:31,832 --> 02:06:35,655
- Howard, please let me see you.
- 1566
- 02:06:35,760 --> 02:06:37,655
- I haven't shaved.
- 1567
- 02:06:37,760 --> 02:06:40,708
- Well, neither have I.
- 1568
- 02:06:43,760 --> 02:06:45,360
- Come on.
- 1569
- 02:06:45,896 --> 02:06:48,696
- You let me in.
- 1570
- 02:06:55,689 --> 02:06:59,513
- I can hear you, Katie.
- 1571
- 02:06:59,617 --> 02:07:04,848
- I could always hear you.
- Even in the cockpit, with the engines on.
- 1572
- 02:07:04,952 --> 02:07:08,697
- Well, that's because I'm so goddamn loud.
- 1573
- 02:07:13,999 --> 02:07:16,075
- Howard, I...
- 1574
- 02:07:18,212 --> 02:07:21,120
- I came to thank you.
- 1575
- 02:07:21,224 --> 02:07:24,577
- I found out what you did
- for Spence and me.
- 1576
- 02:07:24,682 --> 02:07:27,428
- Buying those awful pictures.
- 1577
- 02:07:32,559 --> 02:07:34,303
- You love him.
- 1578
- 02:07:40,984 --> 02:07:43,558
- He's everything I have.
- 1579
- 02:07:51,620 --> 02:07:53,020
- Howard.
- 1580
- 02:07:54,632 --> 02:07:57,956
- I'm glad for you, Kate.
- 1581
- 02:07:58,502 --> 02:08:01,948
- Go away now.
- Would you do that?
- 1582
- 02:08:02,052 --> 02:08:04,162
- Howard, please.
- 1583
- 02:08:04,266 --> 02:08:09,207
- Go away.
- Just for now. I'll see you soon.
- 1584
- 02:08:09,312 --> 02:08:11,707
- - We'll go flying together.
- - Yes.
- 1585
- 02:08:11,811 --> 02:08:14,753
- Yes, please.
- You take me flying again.
- 1586
- 02:08:14,858 --> 02:08:18,018
- Howard, I can take the wheel.
- 1587
- 02:08:23,652 --> 02:08:25,052
- Howard?
- 1588
- 02:08:31,577 --> 02:08:34,281
- Howard, are you there?
- 1589
- 02:08:39,334 --> 02:08:40,734
- Howard?
- 1590
- 02:08:42,838 --> 02:08:45,245
- Howard, are you there?
- 1591
- 02:08:47,259 --> 02:08:49,335
- Come on, Howard.
- 1592
- 02:08:52,264 --> 02:08:54,837
- Howard, are you there?
- 1593
- 02:09:20,334 --> 02:09:22,320
- Come in with the milk.
- Come in with the milk.
- 1594
- 02:09:22,424 --> 02:09:26,076
- Come in with the milk. Come in with
- the milk. Come in with the milk.
- 1595
- 02:09:26,180 --> 02:09:27,327
- Come in with the milk.
- 1596
- 02:09:27,431 --> 02:09:30,703
- He is to open the bag with his right hand
- 1597
- 02:09:30,808 --> 02:09:33,999
- and hold the bag out to me
- at a 45-degree angle
- 1598
- 02:09:34,104 --> 02:09:39,336
- so I may reach
- into the bag without...
- 1599
- 02:09:39,440 --> 02:09:43,054
- without touching the paper.
- 1600
- 02:09:46,652 --> 02:09:49,182
- Repeated from the beginning.
- 1601
- 02:09:49,287 --> 02:09:53,740
- Repeated from the beginning.
- Repeated from the beginning.
- 1602
- 02:10:04,670 --> 02:10:12,328
- If there is any variation of these
- instructions, even to the smallest degree,
- 1603
- 02:10:12,433 --> 02:10:18,543
- the entire process
- must be repeated from the beginning.
- 1604
- 02:10:18,647 --> 02:10:20,545
- - Come in with the milk.
- - Repeated...
- 1605
- 02:10:20,649 --> 02:10:22,573
- - Come in with the milk.
- ...from the beginning.
- 1606
- 02:10:22,677 --> 02:10:25,970
- - Come in with the milk.
- - Repeated from the beginning.
- 1607
- 02:10:26,074 --> 02:10:30,139
- - Repeated from the beginning.
- - Come in with the milk.
- 1608
- 02:10:30,243 --> 02:10:31,043
- Q...
- 1609
- 02:10:34,283 --> 02:10:35,083
- R...
- 1610
- 02:10:35,708 --> 02:10:36,508
- N...
- 1611
- 02:10:39,121 --> 02:10:39,921
- T...
- 1612
- 02:10:41,589 --> 02:10:42,389
- Q...
- 1613
- 02:10:44,877 --> 02:10:45,677
- U...
- 1614
- 02:10:48,630 --> 02:10:49,430
- E...
- 1615
- 02:10:51,842 --> 02:10:52,642
- I...
- 1616
- 02:10:54,226 --> 02:10:55,026
- T...
- 1617
- 02:10:57,222 --> 02:10:58,022
- I...
- 1618
- 02:10:59,313 --> 02:11:00,113
- N...
- 1619
- 02:11:02,026 --> 02:11:02,826
- E...
- 1620
- 02:11:04,692 --> 02:11:05,492
- N...
- 1621
- 02:11:07,774 --> 02:11:08,574
- E...
- 1622
- 02:11:09,200 --> 02:11:09,600
- E.
- 1623
- 02:11:11,495 --> 02:11:12,295
- I...
- 1624
- 02:11:24,082 --> 02:11:25,482
- Howard?
- 1625
- 02:11:28,045 --> 02:11:29,245
- Hello?
- 1626
- 02:11:31,882 --> 02:11:36,045
- - Who is it?
- - Howard, it's Juan.
- 1627
- 02:11:43,310 --> 02:11:44,310
- Juan.
- 1628
- 02:11:46,489 --> 02:11:48,882
- Juan, right. Yeah.
- 1629
- 02:11:48,986 --> 02:11:51,680
- We had an appointment, right? Yeah.
- 1630
- 02:11:51,784 --> 02:11:54,807
- I remember that. Look...
- 1631
- 02:11:54,911 --> 02:11:57,519
- I've got a hell of a cold in here.
- A hell of a cold.
- 1632
- 02:11:57,623 --> 02:11:59,316
- So why don't you just take
- a seat out there?
- 1633
- 02:11:59,420 --> 02:12:01,354
- Cos you know,
- I don't want to get you sick.
- 1634
- 02:12:01,458 --> 02:12:07,705
- I'd never forgive myself if I got you sick.
- I don't want to get you sick. I don't want to...
- 1635
- 02:12:14,007 --> 02:12:16,007
- Thank you.
- 1636
- 02:12:18,428 --> 02:12:20,831
- OK, Howard, I'm sitting.
- 1637
- 02:12:20,935 --> 02:12:23,046
- I've brought along our accountings.
- 1638
- 02:12:23,150 --> 02:12:27,381
- Now, Pan Am is trading
- at 13 and five-eighths.
- 1639
- 02:12:27,485 --> 02:12:30,220
- TWA at four and a quarter...
- 1640
- 02:12:30,325 --> 02:12:31,802
- Come on.
- 1641
- 02:12:31,906 --> 02:12:34,386
- Come on, come on, come on, come on.
- 1642
- 02:12:34,490 --> 02:12:39,475
- We both know I'm not gonna sell TWA.
- Besides, you couldn't afford her anyway.
- 1643
- 02:12:39,580 --> 02:12:43,942
- Our domestic routes alone
- are worth more than twice Pan Am.
- 1644
- 02:12:44,047 --> 02:12:47,112
- Well, considering our stock
- is trading at three times yours,
- 1645
- 02:12:47,217 --> 02:12:50,448
- I find that a dubious claim, Howard.
- 1646
- 02:12:50,552 --> 02:12:52,352
- What I...
- 1647
- 02:12:54,172 --> 02:12:58,790
- What I mean is,
- you have no domestic routes. All right?
- 1648
- 02:12:58,894 --> 02:13:01,122
- I mean, you get TWA,
- you span the globe.
- 1649
- 02:13:01,226 --> 02:13:04,213
- Now, I'm not gonna sell,
- and you know I'm not gonna sell.
- 1650
- 02:13:04,317 --> 02:13:08,601
- Here's the point.
- Owen Brewster works for you.
- 1651
- 02:13:09,229 --> 02:13:15,481
- Howard, I didn't elect Senator Brewster.
- We can thank the voters of Maine for that.
- 1652
- 02:13:22,534 --> 02:13:28,112
- Now, if I appear at his hearings, Juan,
- it could get nasty.
- 1653
- 02:13:28,216 --> 02:13:30,443
- Real nasty for all of us.
- 1654
- 02:13:30,547 --> 02:13:35,114
- Well, I think considerably more so for you.
- 1655
- 02:13:35,219 --> 02:13:38,244
- While the good people of America
- were losing sons at Anzio,
- 1656
- 02:13:38,348 --> 02:13:42,414
- you produced a dirty movie
- and built airplanes that don't fly.
- 1657
- 02:13:42,519 --> 02:13:45,082
- Well, that's just not fair, is it?
- 1658
- 02:13:45,186 --> 02:13:49,172
- I mean, the XF-11 flew quite well
- for an hour and 45 minutes.
- 1659
- 02:13:49,277 --> 02:13:54,219
- I mean, I wish you were up there with me,
- Juan. It was exhilarating.
- 1660
- 02:13:54,323 --> 02:13:58,434
- Be that as it may, you still have
- to answer for the Spruce Goose.
- 1661
- 02:13:58,538 --> 02:14:01,059
- It's called the Hercules.
- 1662
- 02:14:01,163 --> 02:14:05,018
- - And it will fly, goddamn it.
- - I certainly hope so.
- 1663
- 02:14:05,123 --> 02:14:08,693
- The American people deserve something
- for their $13 million.
- 1664
- 02:14:08,797 --> 02:14:11,902
- I won't sell TWA.
- 1665
- 02:14:12,007 --> 02:14:13,245
- I won't.
- 1666
- 02:14:18,090 --> 02:14:20,831
- I know that, Howard.
- 1667
- 02:14:20,935 --> 02:14:23,002
- I know that.
- 1668
- 02:14:24,388 --> 02:14:27,879
- But I'm going to get it anyway.
- 1669
- 02:14:27,983 --> 02:14:30,377
- You're going to default on
- your loan from Equitable
- 1670
- 02:14:30,481 --> 02:14:32,758
- after Senator Brewster
- destroys your reputation
- 1671
- 02:14:32,862 --> 02:14:36,262
- and you can't find additional capital
- for the airline.
- 1672
- 02:14:36,366 --> 02:14:39,849
- The hearings will also show
- Hughes Aircraft to be mismanaged
- 1673
- 02:14:39,953 --> 02:14:44,063
- and incompetent,
- and it will go bankrupt, too.
- 1674
- 02:14:44,167 --> 02:14:47,732
- But you won't be insolvent.
- You'll still have Toolco.
- 1675
- 02:14:47,836 --> 02:14:51,862
- Perhaps you'll head back to Houston
- to rebuild your empire.
- 1676
- 02:14:51,966 --> 02:14:54,404
- I rather hope you do.
- 1677
- 02:14:54,508 --> 02:14:57,115
- By that time,
- Pan Am will have bought TWA
- 1678
- 02:14:57,219 --> 02:15:02,035
- and painted all those
- magnificent Connies blue and white.
- 1679
- 02:15:02,139 --> 02:15:07,128
- So when you do return,
- it will be on a Pan Am plane.
- 1680
- 02:15:10,601 --> 02:15:12,001
- Well...
- 1681
- 02:15:14,187 --> 02:15:18,011
- You seem to have me
- in a corner here, buddy.
- 1682
- 02:15:18,115 --> 02:15:22,236
- Not a position in which
- I'm very comfortable.
- 1683
- 02:15:23,113 --> 02:15:27,980
- I think you're gonna be less comfortable
- at Senator Brewster's hearings.
- 1684
- 02:15:28,085 --> 02:15:31,695
- Very public, Howard.
- 1685
- 02:15:32,456 --> 02:15:35,863
- Lots of cameras and newsmen.
- 1686
- 02:15:35,968 --> 02:15:40,538
- I understand you're not
- particularly fond of crowds.
- 1687
- 02:15:41,590 --> 02:15:44,793
- Perhaps we should spare you that.
- 1688
- 02:15:46,762 --> 02:15:51,668
- Well, thank you for your concern, Juan.
- 1689
- 02:15:51,772 --> 02:15:53,972
- I find that
- 1690
- 02:15:54,946 --> 02:15:57,346
- very moving.
- 1691
- 02:15:57,821 --> 02:16:00,056
- It's been a real pleasure.
- 1692
- 02:16:01,568 --> 02:16:05,514
- Noah will see you back to the airport.
- Now you...
- 1693
- 02:16:05,618 --> 02:16:07,192
- You fly safe.
- 1694
- 02:16:10,786 --> 02:16:13,193
- You fly safe.
- 1695
- 02:16:18,043 --> 02:16:20,097
- Thank you, Howard.
- And you take care of that cold.
- 1696
- 02:16:20,201 --> 02:16:22,868
- Don't you worry.
- 1697
- 02:16:22,972 --> 02:16:26,078
- I certainly will.
- 1698
- 02:16:26,182 --> 02:16:27,782
- Bye-bye.
- 1699
- 02:16:32,432 --> 02:16:37,338
- If you let him appear at those hearings,
- the whole world will see what he's become.
- 1700
- 02:16:37,443 --> 02:16:40,557
- People should remember him as he was.
- 1701
- 02:16:45,529 --> 02:16:50,146
- He'll have a subpoena in three days
- to appear in Washington.
- 1702
- 02:16:50,250 --> 02:16:52,994
- If you can get him out of there by then.
- 1703
- 02:17:42,711 --> 02:17:44,668
- Mr Hughes?
- 1704
- 02:17:50,594 --> 02:17:53,085
- I don't have any shoes.
- 1705
- 02:17:54,848 --> 02:17:57,711
- - Could you get me some shoes?
- - Shoes.
- 1706
- 02:17:57,816 --> 02:17:58,816
- Yeah.
- 1707
- 02:18:25,379 --> 02:18:28,083
- How nice of you to dress for me.
- 1708
- 02:18:31,218 --> 02:18:33,460
- Can I come in?
- 1709
- 02:18:34,012 --> 02:18:37,713
- Yeah. Yeah.
- You can come in.
- 1710
- 02:18:45,399 --> 02:18:47,937
- Thank you for coming.
- 1711
- 02:18:59,746 --> 02:19:01,900
- Now, let's get a drink.
- 1712
- 02:19:02,004 --> 02:19:04,990
- Wait, wait, wait, honey.
- You can't move. You can't move.
- 1713
- 02:19:05,094 --> 02:19:09,492
- You're safe here. You're in the germ-free
- zone now. You understand?
- 1714
- 02:19:09,596 --> 02:19:13,285
- - I'll take my chances.
- - Oh, no. No, no, honey.
- 1715
- 02:19:13,389 --> 02:19:15,958
- Wait, wait, wait.
- 1716
- 02:19:28,150 --> 02:19:32,148
- Love what you've done with the place.
- 1717
- 02:19:37,367 --> 02:19:41,531
- Now, let me look at you.
- 1718
- 02:19:46,126 --> 02:19:49,034
- When do you go to Washington?
- 1719
- 02:19:49,138 --> 02:19:50,538
- A week.
- 1720
- 02:19:51,136 --> 02:19:53,368
- No, no.
- Just under a week.
- 1721
- 02:19:53,472 --> 02:19:58,834
- I don't know the date today,
- but I have to be... I have to be...
- 1722
- 02:19:58,938 --> 02:20:01,386
- All right, take it easy.
- 1723
- 02:20:14,363 --> 02:20:17,150
- There's nothing there, Howard.
- 1724
- 02:20:19,034 --> 02:20:19,634
- Mm.
- 1725
- 02:20:23,872 --> 02:20:27,455
- You know, I...
- I see things.
- 1726
- 02:20:28,293 --> 02:20:30,784
- I know, baby.
- 1727
- 02:20:31,380 --> 02:20:33,668
- Rinse your face off now.
- 1728
- 02:20:42,558 --> 02:20:45,088
- Put your hands in the water
- and wash off the soap.
- 1729
- 02:20:45,192 --> 02:20:48,554
- I'm right here.
- I'm not going anywhere.
- 1730
- 02:20:52,943 --> 02:20:56,389
- - Does that look clean to you?
- - Nothing's clean, Howard.
- 1731
- 02:20:56,493 --> 02:20:59,608
- But we do our best, right?
- 1732
- 02:21:00,325 --> 02:21:01,325
- Yeah.
- 1733
- 02:21:21,305 --> 02:21:24,380
- - What do you think?
- - I look all right?
- 1734
- 02:21:24,484 --> 02:21:26,672
- You look great.
- 1735
- 02:21:26,777 --> 02:21:30,469
- - Will you marry me?
- - You're too crazy for me.
- 1736
- 02:21:32,941 --> 02:21:36,182
- I gotta go, baby.
- 1737
- 02:21:36,286 --> 02:21:36,886
- OK.
- 1738
- 02:21:38,663 --> 02:21:40,063
- Thanks.
- 1739
- 02:21:46,371 --> 02:21:48,945
- You'd do it for me.
- 1740
- 02:21:54,796 --> 02:21:57,085
- Hi, Howard.
- How are you doing?
- 1741
- 02:22:37,714 --> 02:22:40,539
- The Committee will come to order.
- 1742
- 02:22:40,643 --> 02:22:45,501
- Ladies and gentlemen, I must insist that we
- maintain quiet during these proceedings.
- 1743
- 02:22:45,606 --> 02:22:49,429
- All right, Mr Hughes,
- will you stand to be sworn?
- 1744
- 02:22:50,727 --> 02:22:54,634
- Do you solemnly swear that in the matter
- now pending before this committee,
- 1745
- 02:22:54,739 --> 02:22:59,016
- you will tell the truth, the whole truth and
- nothing but the truth, so help you God?
- 1746
- 02:22:59,120 --> 02:23:01,513
- - I do.
- - Pardon me for speaking loudly,
- 1747
- 02:23:01,617 --> 02:23:03,977
- but I understand
- you have some difficulty hearing.
- 1748
- 02:23:04,081 --> 02:23:09,069
- That's quite all right. Everybody knows
- I'm deaf. I'm not gonna try to hide it.
- 1749
- 02:23:12,249 --> 02:23:14,735
- Mr Hughes,
- it is the intention of this committee...
- 1750
- 02:23:14,839 --> 02:23:17,782
- Mr Hughes has a statement.
- 1751
- 02:23:17,886 --> 02:23:23,965
- All right. All right. You may proceed
- with this statement, Mr Hughes.
- 1752
- 02:23:30,100 --> 02:23:33,469
- Mr Hughes, do you have a statement?
- 1753
- 02:23:39,818 --> 02:23:44,195
- I'm gonna attempt to be honest here.
- 1754
- 02:23:44,865 --> 02:23:50,526
- My reputation's being destroyed, so I might
- as well lay the cards on the table.
- 1755
- 02:23:50,630 --> 02:23:54,944
- Senator Brewster,
- if you hadn't have gone too far overboard,
- 1756
- 02:23:55,048 --> 02:23:57,611
- if you hadn't have put
- the red-hot iron in my side,
- 1757
- 02:23:57,715 --> 02:24:02,283
- I might have been willing to take a
- shellacking in this publicity spree of yours.
- 1758
- 02:24:02,388 --> 02:24:05,745
- I might have been willing to sit back
- and take a certain amount of abuse.
- 1759
- 02:24:05,849 --> 02:24:08,624
- Simply because, well...
- 1760
- 02:24:08,728 --> 02:24:11,381
- Well, I am only a private citizen,
- 1761
- 02:24:11,485 --> 02:24:16,350
- whereas you are a senator,
- with all sorts of powers.
- 1762
- 02:24:17,522 --> 02:24:20,302
- But I think this goddamn circus
- has gone on long enough.
- 1763
- 02:24:20,407 --> 02:24:21,721
- That's quite sufficient.
- 1764
- 02:24:21,826 --> 02:24:24,643
- You have called me a liar, sir, in the press.
- 1765
- 02:24:24,747 --> 02:24:27,730
- You have called me a liar
- and a thief and a war profiteer.
- 1766
- 02:24:27,834 --> 02:24:31,942
- - The witness will restrain his comments...
- - Why not tell the truth for once, Senator?
- 1767
- 02:24:32,046 --> 02:24:35,234
- Why not tell the truth
- that this investigation was really born
- 1768
- 02:24:35,338 --> 02:24:38,362
- on the day that TWA
- first decided to fly to Europe?
- 1769
- 02:24:38,466 --> 02:24:41,784
- On the day that TWA
- first invaded Juan Trippe's territory.
- 1770
- 02:24:41,889 --> 02:24:43,245
- Sit down, Mr Hughes.
- 1771
- 02:24:43,349 --> 02:24:46,870
- On the day that TWA first challenged
- the generally accepted theory
- 1772
- 02:24:46,974 --> 02:24:49,666
- that only Juan Trippe's
- great Pan American Airways
- 1773
- 02:24:49,770 --> 02:24:55,002
- - had the sacred right to fly the Atlantic.
- - You are not here to make a speech.
- 1774
- 02:24:55,106 --> 02:24:58,509
- I asked for silence.
- I asked for quiet in this room...
- 1775
- 02:24:58,614 --> 02:25:03,428
- We have in our possession receipts
- in the amount of $170,000
- 1776
- 02:25:03,532 --> 02:25:05,641
- acquired from Mr John Meyer.
- 1777
- 02:25:05,746 --> 02:25:08,223
- Mr Meyer works for you,
- does he not?
- 1778
- 02:25:08,327 --> 02:25:13,273
- - He does.
- - And what is his official title?
- 1779
- 02:25:13,377 --> 02:25:17,232
- Well, I don't exactly know, Senator.
- A lot of people work for me.
- 1780
- 02:25:17,336 --> 02:25:22,782
- Can you explain why your press agent
- would pay out more than a $170,000
- 1781
- 02:25:22,886 --> 02:25:25,327
- to representatives of
- the United States Air Force?
- 1782
- 02:25:25,431 --> 02:25:28,204
- I don't know.
- I suppose you'd have to ask him, Senator.
- 1783
- 02:25:28,308 --> 02:25:32,209
- - Well, would you produce him?
- - Produce him?
- 1784
- 02:25:32,313 --> 02:25:34,459
- - Will you cause him to appear?
- - Well, Senator,
- 1785
- 02:25:34,563 --> 02:25:37,421
- you had John Meyer on
- the stand for three days last week.
- 1786
- 02:25:37,525 --> 02:25:43,937
- Well, be that as it may, we would like him
- to reappear. Would you ask him to return?
- 1787
- 02:25:49,740 --> 02:25:53,602
- No, I don't think I will.
- 1788
- 02:25:53,706 --> 02:25:56,110
- Will you try to have him return?
- 1789
- 02:25:57,372 --> 02:26:01,029
- Well, no, I don't think I'll try.
- 1790
- 02:26:01,133 --> 02:26:03,582
- You don't think you'll try?
- 1791
- 02:26:04,546 --> 02:26:07,704
- No, I don't think so.
- 1792
- 02:26:07,808 --> 02:26:12,583
- The $170,000 paid out to the Air Force
- in the form of hotel suites,
- 1793
- 02:26:12,688 --> 02:26:14,688
- TWA stock,
- 1794
- 02:26:14,937 --> 02:26:17,590
- female companionship...
- 1795
- 02:26:17,695 --> 02:26:22,062
- Now, is it possible
- that these could be considered bribes?
- 1796
- 02:26:22,564 --> 02:26:26,139
- I suppose you could call them that, yes.
- 1797
- 02:26:26,243 --> 02:26:28,515
- Would you repeat that?
- 1798
- 02:26:28,619 --> 02:26:32,610
- I said, I suppose you could
- consider them bribes, yes.
- 1799
- 02:26:35,160 --> 02:26:38,690
- Well, would you like
- to explain that, Mr Hughes?
- 1800
- 02:26:38,794 --> 02:26:43,944
- Well, I'm afraid you don't know how
- the aviation business works, Senator.
- 1801
- 02:26:44,048 --> 02:26:48,661
- See, wining and dining Air Force
- dignitaries is common in our business.
- 1802
- 02:26:48,765 --> 02:26:52,581
- It's because we all want the big contracts.
- All the major aircraft companies do it.
- 1803
- 02:26:52,685 --> 02:26:57,046
- Now, I don't know whether it's a good
- system or not. I just know it's not illegal.
- 1804
- 02:26:57,150 --> 02:27:00,337
- You, Senator, you are the lawmaker.
- 1805
- 02:27:00,442 --> 02:27:03,760
- If you pass a law that states
- no one can entertain Air Force officers,
- 1806
- 02:27:03,864 --> 02:27:07,556
- well, hell,
- I'd be happy to abide by it.
- 1807
- 02:27:09,486 --> 02:27:11,556
- Senator Brewster,
- your story is a pack of lies,
- 1808
- 02:27:11,660 --> 02:27:14,186
- and I can tear it apart
- if allowed to cross-examine you.
- 1809
- 02:27:14,290 --> 02:27:16,685
- - We're not gonna have this bickering...
- - Yes.
- 1810
- 02:27:16,789 --> 02:27:19,402
- Somewhere between two and five hundred,
- if you'll just let me...
- 1811
- 02:27:19,507 --> 02:27:22,234
- Now, if you believe that
- because of your great wealth and power,
- 1812
- 02:27:22,339 --> 02:27:24,818
- you can intimidate
- any member of this committee,
- 1813
- 02:27:24,922 --> 02:27:26,783
- I want to advise you that you're mistaken.
- 1814
- 02:27:26,887 --> 02:27:29,871
- - Now, submit your questions to the chair.
- - Now, I'll put this very simply.
- 1815
- 02:27:29,975 --> 02:27:33,122
- On February 12th at the Mayflower Hotel,
- 1816
- 02:27:33,227 --> 02:27:38,879
- did you, or did you not, tell me
- that if I were to sell TWA to Pan Am
- 1817
- 02:27:38,983 --> 02:27:41,799
- that this entire investigation
- would be called off?
- 1818
- 02:27:41,903 --> 02:27:45,717
- No, I did not. I have asked you repeatedly
- to submit your questions in writing.
- 1819
- 02:27:45,821 --> 02:27:49,471
- - How long have you known Juan Trippe?
- - I've known Mr Trippe for some time now,
- 1820
- 02:27:49,575 --> 02:27:51,305
- and that's not the question here.
- 1821
- 02:27:51,409 --> 02:27:55,937
- Is it not true that Juan Trippe donated
- $ 20,000 to your last campaign?
- 1822
- 02:27:56,041 --> 02:27:59,395
- I mean, he spoke to me
- as if you worked for him.
- 1823
- 02:27:59,500 --> 02:28:01,154
- All right.
- 1824
- 02:28:03,123 --> 02:28:04,927
- I have a personal friendship
- with Mr Trippe...
- 1825
- 02:28:05,031 --> 02:28:08,530
- Is it true that you accept free tickets
- from Pan Am so you can circle the globe
- 1826
- 02:28:08,634 --> 02:28:11,704
- - in support of your CAB bill?
- - No, no, it is not true.
- 1827
- 02:28:11,808 --> 02:28:16,083
- Well, who wrote that bill, Senator?
- Who actually wrote the CAB bill?
- 1828
- 02:28:16,187 --> 02:28:18,376
- The actual words in the bill,
- did you write them?
- 1829
- 02:28:18,480 --> 02:28:21,152
- This is not how these hearings
- are gonna be conducted, Mr Hughes.
- 1830
- 02:28:21,256 --> 02:28:24,421
- I have it right here.
- Maybe it'll refresh your memory.
- 1831
- 02:28:24,526 --> 02:28:27,844
- "Bill S-987,
- to amend the Civil Aeronautics Act."
- 1832
- 02:28:27,948 --> 02:28:31,807
- Now, you introduced
- this bill to the Senate.
- 1833
- 02:28:34,738 --> 02:28:37,102
- Lot of words.
- 1834
- 02:28:37,206 --> 02:28:39,563
- You write all of them?
- 1835
- 02:28:39,667 --> 02:28:42,606
- - Did you write any of them, Senator?
- - Now look, Mr Hughes.
- 1836
- 02:28:42,711 --> 02:28:45,862
- Now, this entire bill
- was written by Pan Am executives
- 1837
- 02:28:45,966 --> 02:28:50,159
- and designed to give that airline
- a monopoly on international travel.
- 1838
- 02:28:50,263 --> 02:28:53,494
- And you've been flogging this bill
- all around the world on their behalf,
- 1839
- 02:28:53,599 --> 02:28:54,867
- have you not?
- 1840
- 02:28:54,971 --> 02:28:58,874
- I have duties that take me
- all over the world, Mr Hughes.
- 1841
- 02:28:58,978 --> 02:29:04,048
- Well, what the hell does a senator
- from Maine need to visit Peru for?
- 1842
- 02:29:04,601 --> 02:29:08,886
- I was seeking outlets
- for our trade goods.
- 1843
- 02:29:08,990 --> 02:29:12,480
- Buy a lot of lobsters down there,
- do they?
- 1844
- 02:29:15,821 --> 02:29:19,184
- Senator Brewster, how many times
- have you visited Juan Trippe's office
- 1845
- 02:29:19,288 --> 02:29:23,411
- in New York in the last three months?
- 1846
- 02:29:24,913 --> 02:29:27,700
- Would you like me to tell you, Senator?
- 1847
- 02:29:28,292 --> 02:29:31,738
- All right, this has gone on long enough.
- Juan Trippe is a great American.
- 1848
- 02:29:31,842 --> 02:29:35,660
- His airline has advanced the cause
- of commercial aviation in this country
- 1849
- 02:29:35,765 --> 02:29:38,038
- for decades.
- Juan Trippe is a patriot.
- 1850
- 02:29:38,142 --> 02:29:41,468
- Juan Trippe is not a man
- who is interested in making money.
- 1851
- 02:29:42,931 --> 02:29:46,134
- Well, I'm sure his stockholders
- will be happy to hear that.
- 1852
- 02:29:48,312 --> 02:29:50,304
- I'm telling you,
- we're gonna clear this room.
- 1853
- 02:29:51,398 --> 02:29:52,785
- This is James McNamara
- speaking to you
- 1854
- 02:29:52,889 --> 02:29:57,097
- from aboard the Howard Hughes 2000-ton
- flying boat, the world's largest aircraft.
- 1855
- 02:29:57,202 --> 02:29:59,765
- This is the sky giant
- which has prompted Congress
- 1856
- 02:29:59,869 --> 02:30:02,562
- to investigate
- the war contracts of Mr Hughes.
- 1857
- 02:30:02,667 --> 02:30:05,484
- Today, before boarding the craft,
- Mr Hughes told newsmen
- 1858
- 02:30:05,588 --> 02:30:08,320
- that this test would
- be solely a taxi experiment.
- 1859
- 02:30:08,424 --> 02:30:10,401
- He said he didn't know
- what might happen.
- 1860
- 02:30:10,506 --> 02:30:13,159
- He pointed out that the mammoth
- flying plywood shell
- 1861
- 02:30:13,264 --> 02:30:17,160
- might ship some water under high-speed
- taxi pressure. He said definitely, however,
- 1862
- 02:30:17,265 --> 02:30:20,748
- that he would not take the craft into the air
- until next spring.
- 1863
- 02:30:20,852 --> 02:30:24,917
- The thin man from Culver City pronounced
- the craft an unknown quantity.
- 1864
- 02:30:25,021 --> 02:30:26,585
- Hi, boys.
- 1865
- 02:30:26,690 --> 02:30:28,446
- All right, none of that, now.
- None of that.
- 1866
- 02:30:28,550 --> 02:30:31,798
- As we speak to you, we're about
- five feet in back of Mr Hughes,
- 1867
- 02:30:31,902 --> 02:30:35,804
- and we are looking through
- one of the side windows in the cockpit.
- 1868
- 02:30:35,908 --> 02:30:38,560
- Professor, why don't you
- come on up front here?
- 1869
- 02:30:38,664 --> 02:30:42,228
- In other words,
- we are 30 feet high in this aircraft.
- 1870
- 02:30:42,332 --> 02:30:45,212
- Strap yourself in right there.
- You ought to be able to see just great.
- 1871
- 02:30:45,317 --> 02:30:47,899
- ...just how gigantic this ship is.
- 1872
- 02:30:48,004 --> 02:30:51,237
- Huge crowds jammed
- the surrounding shoreline this morning...
- 1873
- 02:30:51,341 --> 02:30:54,667
- All right, boys.
- Let's fire it up.
- 1874
- 02:30:58,423 --> 02:31:00,623
- One's good.
- 1875
- 02:31:01,097 --> 02:31:03,163
- Two's good.
- 1876
- 02:31:03,267 --> 02:31:04,960
- Three's good.
- 1877
- 02:31:05,064 --> 02:31:07,208
- Four's good.
- 1878
- 02:31:07,312 --> 02:31:09,128
- Five's good.
- 1879
- 02:31:09,232 --> 02:31:10,758
- Six is good.
- 1880
- 02:31:10,862 --> 02:31:12,301
- Seven's good.
- 1881
- 02:31:12,405 --> 02:31:15,005
- Eight's good.
- 1882
- 02:31:15,159 --> 02:31:20,681
- - Advancing master throttles.
- - Advancing master throttles.
- 1883
- 02:31:20,785 --> 02:31:21,936
- As you probably know by now,
- 1884
- 02:31:22,041 --> 02:31:24,689
- I have to do a great deal of screaming
- here into my microphone.
- 1885
- 02:31:24,794 --> 02:31:26,853
- - Prop start up.
- - Understood.
- 1886
- 02:31:26,957 --> 02:31:30,942
- - Lowering 15 degrees of flaps.
- - Lowering 15 degrees of flaps.
- 1887
- 02:31:31,047 --> 02:31:32,404
- Howard.
- 1888
- 02:31:32,509 --> 02:31:34,863
- She's gotta hit 70
- to have any kind of chance.
- 1889
- 02:31:34,967 --> 02:31:36,742
- Yeah, I know. I know.
- 1890
- 02:31:36,846 --> 02:31:40,616
- I might add that it's a beautiful day over
- here off the coast of Southern California.
- 1891
- 02:31:40,720 --> 02:31:43,246
- Crystal blue skies, a warm sun...
- 1892
- 02:31:43,351 --> 02:31:46,130
- 25 miles per hour.
- 1893
- 02:31:47,264 --> 02:31:47,864
- 30.
- 1894
- 02:31:49,521 --> 02:31:50,121
- 35.
- 1895
- 02:31:50,897 --> 02:31:54,883
- One would think these eight power plants
- might shake the mighty craft to pieces.
- 1896
- 02:31:54,987 --> 02:31:56,844
- Take it easy, Howard.
- 1897
- 02:31:56,949 --> 02:31:59,010
- ...and certainly, it's holding up...
- 1898
- 02:31:59,114 --> 02:32:03,016
- - 40.
- - Throttling back for starboard turn 180.
- 1899
- 02:32:03,120 --> 02:32:06,862
- Throttling back for starboard turn 180.
- 1900
- 02:32:10,495 --> 02:32:13,275
- The flight crew itself consists of four men.
- 1901
- 02:32:13,380 --> 02:32:17,446
- Mr Hughes, however, has added 11
- maintenance men to this maiden taxi test,
- 1902
- 02:32:17,550 --> 02:32:20,075
- stationed at various places
- throughout the ship,
- 1903
- 02:32:20,179 --> 02:32:23,541
- checking points of stress and strain.
- 1904
- 02:32:25,594 --> 02:32:28,080
- How does she sound, Odie?
- 1905
- 02:32:28,184 --> 02:32:30,256
- Sounds good, Howard.
- 1906
- 02:32:33,352 --> 02:32:35,632
- - Professor.
- - Yes?
- 1907
- 02:32:35,736 --> 02:32:38,009
- Would you do me a favour?
- 1908
- 02:32:38,114 --> 02:32:44,358
- Would you take a look out that window
- there and tell me what the wind is doing?
- 1909
- 02:32:47,241 --> 02:32:51,148
- I would say that we have
- a 15-knot wind.
- 1910
- 02:32:51,252 --> 02:32:55,242
- Would you call that a headwind,
- Professor?
- 1911
- 02:32:55,832 --> 02:32:57,319
- I would, Mr Hughes.
- 1912
- 02:32:57,424 --> 02:32:59,737
- I must insist that we maintain silence.
- 1913
- 02:32:59,842 --> 02:33:01,823
- We must have quiet during
- these proceedings.
- 1914
- 02:33:01,927 --> 02:33:04,369
- All right, Mr Hughes,
- will you stand to be sworn?
- 1915
- 02:33:04,473 --> 02:33:08,245
- Mr Hughes,
- did you receive $43 million
- 1916
- 02:33:08,349 --> 02:33:14,627
- to manufacture one hundred XF-11
- spy planes for the United States Air Force?
- 1917
- 02:33:14,732 --> 02:33:15,919
- I did.
- 1918
- 02:33:16,023 --> 02:33:20,387
- How many functional planes did you
- deliver to the United States Air Force?
- 1919
- 02:33:20,492 --> 02:33:21,492
- None.
- 1920
- 02:33:21,824 --> 02:33:25,474
- Would you lean a little closer
- to the microphone, sir?
- 1921
- 02:33:25,578 --> 02:33:26,578
- None.
- 1922
- 02:33:26,913 --> 02:33:30,812
- Did you receive $13 million to manufacture
- 1923
- 02:33:30,917 --> 02:33:35,867
- a prototype of a flying boat
- known as the Hercules?
- 1924
- 02:33:36,456 --> 02:33:37,656
- I did.
- 1925
- 02:33:38,759 --> 02:33:41,659
- And did you deliver that plane?
- 1926
- 02:33:41,763 --> 02:33:43,763
- I did not.
- 1927
- 02:33:44,011 --> 02:33:47,497
- So, by your admission in this chamber,
- Mr Hughes,
- 1928
- 02:33:47,601 --> 02:33:52,793
- you have received $56 million
- from the United States government
- 1929
- 02:33:52,897 --> 02:33:55,753
- for planes you never delivered.
- 1930
- 02:33:55,857 --> 02:33:58,721
- That is correct.
- 1931
- 02:33:59,980 --> 02:34:05,219
- Well, excuse me for asking, Mr Hughes,
- but where did all that money go?
- 1932
- 02:34:05,323 --> 02:34:10,141
- Well, it went into the plane, Senator,
- and a lot more.
- 1933
- 02:34:10,245 --> 02:34:15,146
- More? Do tell, Mr Hughes.
- What other larcenies did you commit?
- 1934
- 02:34:15,250 --> 02:34:20,666
- I mean, I put my money
- into the plane, Senator. My money.
- 1935
- 02:34:23,003 --> 02:34:24,824
- - See, the thing is...
- - Mr Hughes,
- 1936
- 02:34:24,928 --> 02:34:27,701
- your personal finances are not...
- 1937
- 02:34:27,806 --> 02:34:30,551
- Let him speak.
- 1938
- 02:34:33,764 --> 02:34:37,088
- All right, proceed, Mr Hughes.
- 1939
- 02:34:37,192 --> 02:34:42,678
- See, the thing is,
- I care very much about aviation.
- 1940
- 02:34:42,782 --> 02:34:46,635
- It has been the great joy of my life. That's
- why I put my own money into these planes.
- 1941
- 02:34:46,739 --> 02:34:49,137
- And I have lost millions, Senator Brewster.
- 1942
- 02:34:49,242 --> 02:34:54,309
- And I'll go on losing millions.
- It's just what I do.
- 1943
- 02:34:54,414 --> 02:34:58,188
- Now, if I've lost a lot of the government's
- money during the war,
- 1944
- 02:34:58,292 --> 02:35:01,612
- well, I hope folks
- will put that into perspective.
- 1945
- 02:35:01,717 --> 02:35:03,778
- You see, more than 60 other airplanes,
- 1946
- 02:35:03,882 --> 02:35:07,157
- ordered from such firms as Lockheed,
- Douglas, Northrop and Boeing,
- 1947
- 02:35:07,261 --> 02:35:09,287
- never saw action, either.
- 1948
- 02:35:09,391 --> 02:35:15,998
- In all, more than $800 million was spent
- during the war on planes that never flew.
- 1949
- 02:35:16,102 --> 02:35:20,466
- Over six billion on other weapons
- that were never delivered.
- 1950
- 02:35:20,570 --> 02:35:25,844
- Yet Hughes Aircraft, with her 56 million,
- 1951
- 02:35:25,948 --> 02:35:28,600
- is the only firm
- under investigation here today.
- 1952
- 02:35:28,704 --> 02:35:31,851
- Now, I cannot help but think
- that has a little more to do with TWA
- 1953
- 02:35:31,955 --> 02:35:33,850
- than planes that did not fly.
- 1954
- 02:35:33,954 --> 02:35:36,857
- - I think you've made your point...
- - One second.
- 1955
- 02:35:36,961 --> 02:35:41,070
- Senator Brewster, I have one more thing
- to say here to this committee,
- 1956
- 02:35:41,174 --> 02:35:44,278
- and that has to do with the Hercules.
- 1957
- 02:35:44,382 --> 02:35:49,704
- Now, I am supposed to be many things
- which are not complimentary.
- 1958
- 02:35:49,809 --> 02:35:51,951
- I am supposed to be capricious.
- 1959
- 02:35:52,056 --> 02:35:56,168
- I have been called a playboy.
- I've even been called an eccentric.
- 1960
- 02:35:56,272 --> 02:36:01,213
- But I do not believe that I have
- the reputation of being a liar.
- 1961
- 02:36:01,317 --> 02:36:04,884
- Now, needless to say, the Hercules
- was a monumental undertaking.
- 1962
- 02:36:04,988 --> 02:36:07,721
- It is the largest plane ever built.
- 1963
- 02:36:07,826 --> 02:36:11,473
- It's over five storeys tall,
- with a wingspan longer than a football field.
- 1964
- 02:36:11,577 --> 02:36:13,684
- That's more than a city block.
- 1965
- 02:36:13,789 --> 02:36:18,270
- Now, I put the sweat of my life into this
- thing, I got my reputation all rolled up in it,
- 1966
- 02:36:18,375 --> 02:36:21,776
- and I have stated several times
- that if the Hercules fails to fly
- 1967
- 02:36:21,880 --> 02:36:24,697
- I will leave this country
- and never come back.
- 1968
- 02:36:24,801 --> 02:36:27,533
- And I mean it.
- 1969
- 02:36:27,637 --> 02:36:32,617
- Now, Senator Brewster,
- you can subpoena me. You can arrest me.
- 1970
- 02:36:32,721 --> 02:36:37,955
- You can even claim that I've folded up
- and taken a run-out powder, but, well...
- 1971
- 02:36:38,059 --> 02:36:41,711
- I've had just about enough
- of this nonsense. Good afternoon.
- 1972
- 02:36:41,816 --> 02:36:43,424
- I had to do it.
- 1973
- 02:36:43,528 --> 02:36:46,638
- Mr Hughes. Mr Hughes.
- 1974
- 02:36:47,606 --> 02:36:50,303
- I'd love to see the Hercules in the air.
- 1975
- 02:36:50,408 --> 02:36:52,773
- Thank you.
- Thank you so much.
- 1976
- 02:36:54,696 --> 02:36:57,816
- Excuse us.
- Excuse us, please. Thank you.
- 1977
- 02:36:58,992 --> 02:37:01,281
- Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- 1978
- 02:37:01,828 --> 02:37:03,830
- - Switch it off.
- - The hearings aren't over yet.
- 1979
- 02:37:03,956 --> 02:37:05,948
- The hearings are over.
- 1980
- 02:37:08,669 --> 02:37:11,577
- The airline bill
- will be defeated in the Senate.
- 1981
- 02:37:11,681 --> 02:37:14,785
- TWA will begin flights
- from New York to Paris.
- 1982
- 02:37:14,889 --> 02:37:19,675
- Then on to Moscow, to Japan,
- to Hawaii, to Los Angeles...
- 1983
- 02:37:22,808 --> 02:37:24,884
- to New York.
- 1984
- 02:37:28,522 --> 02:37:29,522
- Fuck.
- 1985
- 02:37:34,319 --> 02:37:37,937
- - Power coming up.
- - Power coming up.
- 1986
- 02:37:41,451 --> 02:37:43,982
- Howard Hughes has just alerted us.
- 1987
- 02:37:44,086 --> 02:37:49,779
- He has asked everyone to hold on.
- Tremendous horsepower picking up.
- 1988
- 02:37:49,883 --> 02:37:53,911
- - Let me hear it, Odie.
- - 25 miles per hour.
- 1989
- 02:37:54,015 --> 02:37:54,615
- 30.
- 1990
- 02:37:55,386 --> 02:37:57,913
- Here we go.
- Here we go.
- 1991
- 02:37:58,017 --> 02:37:58,617
- 35.
- 1992
- 02:38:00,478 --> 02:38:04,000
- ...has moved up to 25. It's 30.
- 1993
- 02:38:04,104 --> 02:38:06,463
- - It's 35.
- - 40.
- 1994
- 02:38:06,567 --> 02:38:08,463
- As he pushes the throttle, it's 40.
- 1995
- 02:38:08,567 --> 02:38:12,930
- - 45.
- - 45. More throttle. It's 45.
- 1996
- 02:38:13,034 --> 02:38:16,055
- - 50.
- - 50. It's 50 over a choppy sea.
- 1997
- 02:38:16,159 --> 02:38:19,159
- - 55.
- - 55. 55.
- 1998
- 02:38:19,787 --> 02:38:22,978
- - 60.
- - More throttle. It's 60.
- 1999
- 02:38:23,083 --> 02:38:25,365
- - 65.
- - 65.
- 2000
- 02:38:28,874 --> 02:38:30,860
- - 70.
- - It's 70.
- 2001
- 02:38:30,964 --> 02:38:32,786
- - 75.
- - It's 75.
- 2002
- 02:38:41,136 --> 02:38:43,750
- And something momentarily
- has just cut out.
- 2003
- 02:38:43,854 --> 02:38:48,132
- I believe we are airborne.
- We are airborne, ladies and gentlemen.
- 2004
- 02:38:48,236 --> 02:38:51,927
- I don't believe that Howard Hughes
- meant this to be. I don't know.
- 2005
- 02:38:55,317 --> 02:39:00,773
- And we're really up in the air.
- We're really up in the air.
- 2006
- 02:39:05,077 --> 02:39:08,523
- Ladies and gentlemen,
- the Hughes mammoth aircraft
- 2007
- 02:39:08,627 --> 02:39:13,278
- has flown this afternoon
- in Los Angeles Harbour.
- 2008
- 02:39:13,382 --> 02:39:16,574
- It certainly looks, at this moment,
- that Howard Hughes
- 2009
- 02:39:16,678 --> 02:39:21,879
- will be around the United States
- for quite some time to come.
- 2010
- 02:39:32,479 --> 02:39:35,593
- What we must understand
- is that technologies like these
- 2011
- 02:39:35,697 --> 02:39:37,953
- are the way of the future.
- That's enough questions for now.
- 2012
- 02:39:38,058 --> 02:39:40,768
- TWA and Hughes Aircraft are delighted
- to have you come here
- 2013
- 02:39:40,872 --> 02:39:43,809
- and witness this wonderful sight.
- 2014
- 02:39:43,913 --> 02:39:46,144
- - Excuse us for just a second.
- - Sorry.
- 2015
- 02:39:46,248 --> 02:39:48,396
- - So you feel like going to Paris?
- - Now?
- 2016
- 02:39:48,500 --> 02:39:52,025
- TWA is starting up flights to Europe.
- Thought I might pilot the first one myself.
- 2017
- 02:39:52,129 --> 02:39:54,194
- Ought to be some fun.
- 2018
- 02:39:54,298 --> 02:39:57,087
- - Lots of good shopping in Paris.
- - I'll buy you anything you want.
- 2019
- 02:39:57,212 --> 02:40:02,202
- You can buy me dinner.
- How about that?
- 2020
- 02:40:02,306 --> 02:40:04,870
- Dinner, then.
- We got a date?
- 2021
- 02:40:04,974 --> 02:40:07,426
- OK, baby, you got a date.
- 2022
- 02:40:08,932 --> 02:40:12,839
- I'll be back in a second.
- But don't you go anywhere, now. I mean it.
- 2023
- 02:40:12,944 --> 02:40:16,970
- Al right, listen, boys. Something new. Jet
- airplanes. You know anything about jets?
- 2024
- 02:40:17,075 --> 02:40:22,810
- - No. But it sounds expensive.
- - It will be. But we got to get started.
- 2025
- 02:40:22,914 --> 02:40:25,646
- Come on, walk with me.
- 2026
- 02:40:25,750 --> 02:40:29,315
- Whoever can start utilising jet technology
- on commercial airliners
- 2027
- 02:40:29,419 --> 02:40:31,152
- is gonna win all the marbles,
- you understand?
- 2028
- 02:40:31,257 --> 02:40:32,570
- Odie, what do you know
- about the science?
- 2029
- 02:40:32,675 --> 02:40:37,574
- I know a little. I can work something
- to show you. Basic turbine stuff.
- 2030
- 02:40:41,548 --> 02:40:45,048
- Noah, who are those fellows?
- 2031
- 02:40:46,261 --> 02:40:48,135
- Do they work for me?
- 2032
- 02:40:49,389 --> 02:40:51,762
- Everybody works for you, Howard.
- 2033
- 02:40:58,440 --> 02:41:01,078
- Lockheed worked on the F-80,
- so let's get Bob Gross on the phone.
- 2034
- 02:41:01,182 --> 02:41:04,472
- - See if he can help us out.
- - OK. What, now?
- 2035
- 02:41:04,576 --> 02:41:08,772
- Of course, now. We gotta get into it.
- Jets are gonna be the way of the future.
- 2036
- 02:41:08,877 --> 02:41:10,021
- It's 4:30.
- 2037
- 02:41:10,126 --> 02:41:12,982
- I talked to Bob last week.
- He's in New York, so it's 7:30.
- 2038
- 02:41:13,086 --> 02:41:14,273
- He won't be in the office.
- 2039
- 02:41:14,377 --> 02:41:16,364
- We'll get Nancy
- to figure out what hotel he's at.
- 2040
- 02:41:16,469 --> 02:41:18,220
- The question is,
- do you want a telephone call
- 2041
- 02:41:18,325 --> 02:41:20,055
- or do you want
- some kind of meeting right away?
- 2042
- 02:41:20,160 --> 02:41:21,951
- We want a meeting,
- don't we, Howard?
- 2043
- 02:41:22,055 --> 02:41:26,165
- All right. Well, do you want me to bring
- him out here tomorrow, then, Howard?
- 2044
- 02:41:26,269 --> 02:41:28,918
- - The way of the future.
- - Howard?
- 2045
- 02:41:29,023 --> 02:41:32,209
- - Howard.
- - The way of the future.
- 2046
- 02:41:32,314 --> 02:41:35,087
- - The way of the future.
- - Let's take a walk, Howard.
- 2047
- 02:41:35,191 --> 02:41:37,427
- - The way of the future.
- - Give me a hand here, will you, Glenn?
- 2048
- 02:41:37,531 --> 02:41:40,678
- The way of the future.
- The way of the future.
- 2049
- 02:41:40,782 --> 02:41:44,598
- The way of the future. The way
- of the future. The way of the future.
- 2050
- 02:41:44,702 --> 02:41:47,558
- The way of the future.
- The way of the future.
- 2051
- 02:41:47,662 --> 02:41:51,313
- The way of the future. The way
- of the future. The way of the future.
- 2052
- 02:41:51,417 --> 02:41:53,896
- The way of the future.
- The way of the future. The way...
- 2053
- 02:41:54,000 --> 02:41:58,068
- All right, stay here. I'll be right back.
- Do you understand, Howard?
- 2054
- 02:41:58,173 --> 02:42:00,012
- The way of the future.
- The way of the future.
- 2055
- 02:42:00,116 --> 02:42:03,742
- Guard the door. I'll get a doctor.
- No one sees him like this.
- 2056
- 02:42:03,846 --> 02:42:07,255
- The way of the future. The way
- of the future. The way of the future.
- 2057
- 02:42:08,427 --> 02:42:11,834
- The way of the future. The way
- of the future. The way of the future.
- 2058
- 02:42:11,939 --> 02:42:14,416
- The way of the fut...
- 2059
- 02:42:14,520 --> 02:42:17,968
- The way of the future.
- The way of the future.
- 2060
- 02:42:24,109 --> 02:42:27,509
- You are not safe.
- 2061
- 02:42:34,745 --> 02:42:39,567
- When I grow up, I'm gonna fly
- the fastest planes ever built,
- 2062
- 02:42:39,672 --> 02:42:42,325
- make the biggest movies ever,
- 2063
- 02:42:42,429 --> 02:42:45,455
- and be the richest man in the world.
- 2064
- 02:42:58,644 --> 02:43:33,545
- The way of the future.
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