The Aviator (2004)

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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.

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You've seen the signs on the houses
where the coloureds live?

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Yes, Mother.

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- You know the typhus?
- I do, Mother.

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You know what they can do to you?

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Yes, Mother.

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You are not safe.

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You may be directing this movie, Howard,
but what you're asking, we can't do it.

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Don't tell me I can't do it.
Don't tell me it can't be done.

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The gyro forces are too much here.

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You send these planes into simultaneous...

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It's the goddamn climax of the picture,
Frank, all right? You make it work.

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Look, decrease the vertical trajectory,
if you have to.

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A LeRhone rotary won't stall at 60 degrees,
I've done it.

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Howard, we're still short two cameras.
We need to cut that sequence down...

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We're not cutting anything, all right.
I'll get those extra cameras.

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Set up for rehearsals in five.

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Mr Hughes, I'm Noah Dietrich.
Your office said I might find you here.

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Dietrich. You're a man on the come. I read
your résumé and talked to your references.

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You know what I'm looking for?

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As I understand it, you're looking for
a second in command at Hughes Tools.

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Someone to help oversee
the financial aspects of the business.

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Yeah. I'm looking for somebody
to run it and do a damn good job.

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Look, there's really one thing
you've got to know.

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My folks, they're gone now,
so it's my money.

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Now, what I choose to do with
that money may seem crazy

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to those sons of bitches in Houston -
and I'm sure as hell it does -

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but it all makes good sense to me.
You got that?

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- Got it.
- Good.

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Now, you made, what,
$5,200 a year on your last job?

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I'll pay you 10,000.

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- Guess I'll be working twice as hard.
- You'll be working four times as hard.

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I just got you at half-price, Mr Dietrich.
Welcome aboard.

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You're my voice now.
Make 'em understand that.

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Look, some of those fine folks down there
still call me "Junior".

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- You tell them it's "Mr Hughes" now.
- You bet.

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- So, when do we go to Houston?
- We don't. Cholera epidemic in 1913.

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2,000 dead. Whole place is
nothing but pestilential swamp.

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Typhus, malaria, cholera, yellow fever -
you name it, they got it.

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You see that, Mr Dietrich?

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You are looking at the largest
private air force in the entire world.

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- What do you think of that, now?
- It's your money.

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Start 'em up.

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I just saw the rough cut of
the new Tod Browning movie,

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London After Midnight.
Lon Chaney is incredible.

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It's his best performance in a long time. It's
gonna be a big hit. The cards are great.

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Hello, Mr Mayer.

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I don't know if you remember me.
My name's Howard Hughes.

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I was wondering
if I could have a moment of your time.

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Yeah, Howard Hughes.
The airplane picture, right?

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- Exactly.
- Yeah, I remember.

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- Hell's Angels. You heard of it. Good.
- Yes.

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Listen, I was wondering
if I could have a moment of your time.

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I need a few cameras.

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- Yeah?
- Yeah.

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Two, to be exact.

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I already bought every camera I could find,

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but we're shooting
our big dogfight sequence this week

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and I need two more, desperately.
Do you think MGM could help me out?

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- With what?
- Cameras.

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With the actual cam... We're not usually in
the practice of helping out the competition.

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- How many cameras do you have now?
- 24.

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Wait a minute.

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- You have 24 cameras?
- That's right.

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- And you need two more?
- Yeah.

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- You don't think you got it with 24?
- No. No, sir.

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You know, I think we've got them all...

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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.

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Take your drill bit money,
and why don't you put it in the bank?

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Because if you continue making the movie
the way that you are,

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there isn't gonna be a distributor
who'll want to distribute it.

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You're not gonna find anybody
who wants to see the movie,

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and you're not gonna have
any more oil money.

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So, welcome to Hollywood.

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Yeah. Well, I'll be sure
to remember that, Mr Mayer.

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- Good luck.
- All right.

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He needs 26 to make it work?
He's out of his mind.

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I looked down at my pants.
It was a strange situation.

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Boss.

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Scram, love boat, let's go.
Another soda. You know what I mean.

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Milk, please, in the bottle.
With the cap still on.

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OK, Howard, what did "His Highness" say?

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The son of a bitch won't part with a single
goddamn camera. Can you believe it?

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Howard, why don't you try
and make do with what you have?

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What I have isn't enough, John.
Not for how I see it. Look.

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My name depends on this picture.

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If it doesn't work, I'm back to Houston
with my tail between my legs,

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making goddamn drill bits
for the rest of my life.

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Couldn't you find a way to do it
with the cameras you have?

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I mean, jeez, you ought to hear what's
going on with DeMille over at Paramount.

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He's shooting this Bible picture, right,
and he's gotta do a crucifixion.

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- Johnny.
- He's doing it in Fresno.

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- Johnny. Johnny.
- All of a sudden there's...

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- Johnny.
- Yeah?

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- You're a press agent, are you not?
- Yeah.

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And you're supposed to know all the little
ins and outs of Hollywood? Do you?

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- Yeah, absolutely.
- Then you leave the big ideas to me.

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- Yeah, of course, boss.
- Cigar, cigarettes, Sen-Sen?

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Thelma. I thought you were over at
the Brown Derby with Trixie. No, Theresa.

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- Margaret, yeah.
- Exactly. What happened to Margaret?

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- She lost her shoes?
- Thank God that's settled.

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I'm sorry.
Thelma, this is Howard Hughes.

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Howard and I were just discussing how he
wants me to pull a camera out of my ass.

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- Cigarette?
- Oh, no, thanks. I don't smoke.

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Whew. Boy, you are just hitting
on all six cylinders, aren't you?

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My God.

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Would you do me a favour and just...

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Would you just smile for me one time?
Just once?

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Whew. Yeah. Yeah.
You see, you got a short upper lip.

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Makes for a much nicer smile.

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See, I wonder what gives
a beautiful woman like you pleasure.

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I mean, say you're just standing there,
right? And I just touch you.

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Just like this,
through my fingertips.

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Do you...
Do you like that?

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Do you?

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See, I want to learn what pleases you.

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I want to learn everything about you.

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Would you let me do that?
Would you give me that job?

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I'm off in a half an hour.

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- Well, I'm in room...
- 217.

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217.

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See you there.

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Johnny, get on the horn
to Universal and Warner's.

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I need two more cameras by Saturday.
Rent 'em if you can.

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Steal 'em if you have to.

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Abso-tively, boss.
Abso-tively.

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Rumours coming from
a lonely airstrip out in Van Nuys.

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Sources whisper that young
Texas industrialist Howard Hughes

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just won't stop pouring money
into his war epic. And do we mean epic.

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137 pilots, 87 airplanes,
35 cameramen, 2,000 extras.

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How long will it be before this picture
ends up costing as much as the real war?

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Goddamn it.
Why the hell do they look so slow?

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This isn't what it was like up there. They
look like a bunch of goddamn models.

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Son of a bitch.

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Howard?

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Without something standing still
behind the planes

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we've got no idea of how fast we're moving.

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We got no sense of relative motion.

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Call over to UCLA.
Get me the best meteorologist they got.

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You get him here in an hour, all right?

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Hey. You want the good news
or the bad news?

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- The bad news, always.
- All right.

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We installed the 450 radial
but the struts won't take the vibration.

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Minute we fire her up, the struts
start cracking at the attach points.

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- Well, what's the good news?
- There isn't any.

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Goddamn it, Odie, if the 450's too big,
we just got to figure something else out.

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We've done everything.
We've rebuilt her from top to toe.

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Now, if we drain the fuel tank, for a couple
of runs, she might make 180mph.

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I want minimum 200, all right?

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I want a date with Theda Bara,
but that ain't gonna happen either.

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Don't be so sure.

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So if the struts won't sustain the engine
we need, we got to get rid of the struts.

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No, then the top wing falls off.

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Then let it.

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What?

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Who says we need a top wing?
I mean, who says we need anything?

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- A monoplane.
- A cantilevered monoplane, right.

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I mean, they're doing it in France.
To hell with the top wing and the struts.

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- Put in a 550 Wasp engine.
- 100 octane fuel.

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- That'd give us a top horsepower of what?
- 700.

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We squeeze that to a thousand,
we've got the fastest plane ever built.

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You know, I just got to say we've already
spent over $ 200,000 rebuilding this plane.

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To hell with it.

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Tear it up, Odie.
Go on.

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Well.

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The cumulonimbus formations
about which you speak...

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that look like...

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Giant breasts full of milk.
I want clouds, damn it.

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Yes, clouds that look like
giant breasts full of milk

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cannot exactly be guaranteed
for any particular occasion.

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So you might have to...

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to wait.

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Then we'll wait.

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Look, whatever they pay you at UCLA, I'm
doubling it, all right? You work for me now.

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Find some clouds.

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Find some clouds.
Find me some clouds.

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Welcome to Hell's Angels.

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Thank you.

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We've been to Chatsworth, Santa Cruz,
Encino, San Diego, Riverside,

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Van Nuys and Bakersfield.
It has been eight months.

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- Where are my goddamn clouds?
- They move, Mr Hughes.

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Clouds move.
That's what they do. They move.

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See that? It is costing me $5,271 a day
to keep those planes on the ground.

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You find me some goddamn clouds.

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Nice day.

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Yeah, very funny.

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Listen, I got a call from Houston.
They're getting real nervous about all this.

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- Stop showing them the damn bills, Noah.
- That would be illegal, Howard.

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Shit, no.
Maybe it's a little bit naughty.

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Hughes Tools is incorporated in Texas.
They have to see the bills.

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Incorporate a new division out here,
all right? We'll call it Hughes Aircraft.

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Odie, do we need
these rivets on the cowling?

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Yeah, or the reverse thrust would rip it off.

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They're gonna give me drag.
Do something about that, OK?

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- Wind resistance on the rivets?
- Yeah, I want her slippery.

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There are serious tax consequences
to incorporating in California.

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- Just take care of it, would you?
- Mr Hughes. Mr Hughes.

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Oakland.
We have clouds in Oakland.

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- You mean it this time?
- Yes.

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Goddamn it, yes. I can promise you.
Clouds in Oakland.

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All right, all right,
don't get all jittery now.

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Oakland.
Oakland.

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We're going to Oakland.
Oakland.

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Down and to the left.

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That was perfect.

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Yes, young Howard Hughes
has pulled it off.

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After two years, Hell's Angels
has finally finished filming.

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There's going to be one heck
of a wrap party in Hollywood tonight.

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The price tag?
A staggering $ 2 million.

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So, if every human being
in America buys a ticket,

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heck, he might
even make a profit.

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First the clouds don't come, then the
planes break down, then the planes crash.

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Then the Zeppelins don't work.

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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.