Back Door to Heaven (1939) LIMMY LYDON

[Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] so don't be criticizing me not after what you've been it ain't what a prison business what they are you used to be a soldier once but what have you been ever since nothing by the south that ain't nothing what you are shut your mouth shut your mouth don't you be throwing that in my face ah down with that stew will you you're not even a good cook [Applause] do you like it frankie where did it come from i got it for you victor brothers it almost fits but why mom graduation oh gee thanks the old man sauced again worse than ever i get so right sometimes i don't know how i spend supper's on i ain't blind shall we get down meatball well where did you get the hat mom bought it for me it's for graduation yeah that's where he got it i bought it for him he don't have to graduate no hat we can't spare the money seems like we got money for liquor it's all right it's all right i'll take it back right away i will yeah [Applause] you all right mom yeah i'm alright [Music] i'm not going to let you go until you promise me that you'll do something tomorrow afternoon well after all you don't graduate every day of your life you know it's an event you'll do all right miss williams without me and besides i can't do anything like those others well i don't care if you just stand up when i call on you the important thing is that you must take your place with them you're going to have to do it later with a great many other people nightmares william such a lovely time good night cal and you make frankie promise not to disappoint me all right good night good night new swimmers [Music] she's fine which way you going carol come on not to you promise look here i'm not going to promise you or anybody else anything especially when i can't do anything you're not mad at me of course not [Music] you like me can you stop but i like you frankie i gotta go home good night frankie nice [Music] my country is [Music] is today we are honored in having with us the president of our board of education [Applause] ladies and gentlemen children if i may obtrued the experience and observations of some years which i choose to call packing one's trunk for the journey packing one's trunk for the journey what's he talking about if into one's trunk one will put enough self-discipline strength of character respectful law and order then i assure you that each one of you shall find life a glorious and a happy adventure now first according to the plan we settled on last night i should like to call upon john shelley uh it is john's plan to enter high school and subsequently to study law what are you going to recite for us john portia's courtroom speech from the merchant of venice the quality of mercy is not strained it droppeth as a gentle rain from heaven and earthly power thus then show likes gods when mercy seasons [Applause] and justice um wallace kisler determined to take his place in the world of art well isn't that fine looks like we might go right into the wednesday night service doesn't it [Applause] and now oh robert hale robert after only brief study has shown great promise in his chosen field music [Music] [Applause] [Applause] me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and now charles smith charles has a definite flair for mathematics and he is i believe going to ask you some questions how much is 11 times 12 john 132 count how much is 11 times 14 154 how much is 11 times 18 frankie 198 don't you see it's this way it's just like my papa told me when you work in a bank you have to be quick at figures i work in a bank every saturday someday i'm gonna run it when you multiply by 11 you add the two outside figures and stick them in the middle now we're going to hear from one of our girls you know in this modern world girls have careers too carol evans [Music] by thy side [Music] me my own fair bride [Applause] and now frankie rogers have you thought of something to do frankie hmm [Music] me [Music] [Applause] so and now a brief recess after which there will be refreshments and you will receive your report cards and your certificates of graduation from grammar thank you well sheriff cramer hi mr herzing you should have been here sooner excellent entertainment excellent glad to see you sheriff i do wish you'd seen the children frankie was fine today you should have heard him play a harmonica i didn't know you played the harmonica frankie do you a little why won't you take a seat no thank you miss williams well after school would you mind dropping into my office well i'd be glad to and bring frankie with you well yes of course thank you miss williams where were you last night frankie i was home that's where i was i was home i was what time did you get home after i left miss williams house i was home all night hmm i see frankie i talked to your mother and she said you didn't get home till 10 o'clock what about that well i waited a little while that's all sure you didn't wait around players hardware store sure you didn't break in and steal that harmonica did you frankie i'm your friend you can talk to me yes i did what well they wanted me to do something at school today and that's about all i could do i didn't have the money to buy one i saw that and went on my way home so i took it what else did you think you took some money off the cash store didn't you yes how much seven dollars and 80 cents i'm glad you weren't in court today miss william to hear them blair's talk you'd think frankie had committed murder or something every kid steals something whether it's watermelon or cherries on the trees next door he has to steal something before he knows it's wrong i'm sorry about the whole thing couldn't you do anything about it sheriff no i suppose you might say frankie's gonna have to pay for well you know he lives on the other side of the tracks besides he's been in trouble before and on probation because nothing can be done about it i got to be going now it's not far from 8 15. may i go to the station to see frankie of course where is he now i sent him home to see his mother but he'll be there all right that's what i think of the boy thanks for giving me the old man suitcase mom i wanted to say goodbye to him but well he was asleep will you tell him no goodbye frankie see i never noticed how pretty these flowers looked before well except that rose bush over there kind of skinny ain't it mom do something about that will your mom where are you going frankie i don't know see now there's a job for you all a guy does is make a lot of dots and dishes do you understand it no well a is a [Music] three dots and c's gee i don't remember what c's it's a cinch if you just learned how to make them dots and dishes you shouldn't have come down here be a good boy thank you i'll write to you and we'll be waiting to see you back here this is where you belong oh gee thanks miss williams do what you're glowing me about you know i've never been on a train before every night when i'd hear him chug and whistle and go around the bend down there near smith's grove i always wanted to be on one going someplace and now i am going someplace ain't i sure and there'll be red plush cushions and everything will be a sheriff yeah frankie push cushions in there [Applause] goodbye miss williams i haven't had any tickets sheriff have you got them yes i got your tickets can you stop crying carol i'll be back soon before you know it i'm not going any place just to a farm i like to work on a farm someday i'll come back and you can't tell maybe someday i'll have a job like that guy in there a cinch that's all it is just a lot of dots and dashes you'll get along all right in here just as you want to that's up to you it's up to me to enforce the rules i do you understand don't you share yes i understand you understand don't you think yes sir all right sheriff is there anything i can do for you right there frankie no i don't think so sheriff gee this is a swell place ain't it you a new guy yeah where are you from i said where are you from that's none of your business oh a wise guy huh that's my business that's my business [Music] so [Music] oh why don't you quit i'm all right [Music] it looked better in the hospital cut thanks you've been well what's your name rogers kid thank you rogers that don't make no difference on this joint listen you you're no better than any other wrestling prisoners but i put you in charge was to keep order up there listen to them bums walking around they're scrubbing all right see that they scrub and see that they scrubbing their bare feet from now on no one puts their shoes on till noon how do you think i'm gonna sleep it'll be trouble yeah who's gonna make it anyone try that you beat them within an inch of their life you're big enough all right [Music] all right you mother get your shoes off get them off and from now on keep them off the left at 12 o'clock you gotta get it you can't snap into it come on come on come on i like you guys get them off get your shoes off there wake up get them shoes off in there come on stupid wake up get them off come on get him out go through that shoe was it you no just in case it was oh my god well i don't think we'll have to worry much longer about you rogers no warden no you can't steal automobiles and start riots and get away with it you're a cinch to go up for five years we'll know where to send your mail all right state penitentiary i hate to think how much i'm going to miss you [Music] and therefore i sentence you frank rogers to the state penitentiary for five years [Music] why not he's a loser he's got a fireball he'll be throwing past them all afternoon [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i didn't see nothing i ain't no stewing what do you want to steal things for that's how i got all right [Applause] [Music] all right that's all what are you taking me out for because they're getting three hits in five innings you don't think i'm gonna cover that you'll swear but they want you up in the office oh yeah don't give many fat ones and they start clouding the place for the right head good luck slim that's right warden i pitched fire dinners and i done five years so what i haven't had a respect for a man gets a chance and doesn't know how to handle it this is your chance now don't blow it don't worry i won't get you simon yeah whoever without music without while we're living here tomorrow we'll be low going three weeks in cleveland and we'll have a roll i'm going to miss this joint see you later i'm going to try on my suit we've got ours all picked out and yours won't fit any better yeah since three well-dressed men leave in store that's not what's going out just three suits of old clothes well here it is here what is outside look at it you know what what'd you like to do i don't want a steak [Music] i'd like to see some gap what'd you like frankie i just want to get rid of this funnel some color buttons old shirt blazer and five years [Music] gentlemen i shall speak to you tonight of success i have no patience with people who quarrel with their lot in life i tell you i have no patience with people who quarrel with their lot in life because success success after all rests within yourself it's well striking yeah that meat all around it take me for example when i was a little boy i began by singing in the choir and when the contribution box was passed i gave i tell you i gave i gave even of my pennies what are we going to do with the dishes say if i had a gun and you'd throw them up in the air i could knock them off like the clay pitching well you haven't got any rod you ain't gonna have one well i'm not gonna wash them nobody asked you to say i got an idea there's a joint down here i used to sing in i'd like to make them a present they don't care if they're washed or not anyway i'd like a drink yeah sure die okay frankie anything i just gotta keep moving so and gentlemen i want to introduce to you tonight a final artist who appeared here many years ago he's been a guest star for the last few years but what i mean to say is he's been a guest to the government but you wouldn't understand about that now i'm going to ask him to sing one of the old songs that he used to sing for me before he asked for a raise and pay ladies and gentlemen i take great point in introducing that marvelous singer of old songs accompanied by the silver slipper singing waiters and i want you to give him a great big hand mr bert ghetto [Music] i can see a bunch of country folks sitting at [Music] i must be crazy although the city gowns are not so slow take me to those country gals i used to know for since i rolled away night and day [Music] oh [Music] where i could eat a dozen lollipops and ask for more geez but i'd give the world [Music] say i can hear them just as plain standing on the street corner their heads bunched together harmonizing pad alive [Music] is [Music] my [Applause] what a nice what a night what a night well i got enough dough to get us out of these clothes the steak is sermon and danes swell wasn't it frankie yeah steak was okay what do we do next i'm going home you guys want to come along it's okay you know it's okay too wouldn't we get in a town like that just a lot of fresh air if you think you can stand it [Music] good morning [Music] oh i am a barber this morning you must be all worn out no no i'm in store been doing it for 30 years be retiring soon and on a pension too and i'd go efficient whenever i like and no more work just fishing yl but this town wouldn't be the same without you bringing the mail around every day i don't believe you would be happy if you couldn't i don't know what i'd do if it stopped me from teaching school man all the way to look at i suppose but i'm getting old well so am i you know where i got so much mail today it's my birthday well i'll be done i hope it's all right [Music] and you think so many of your friends remembered you why not that's what i'd say i didn't mean that but if you lovely don't you think oh they've all been so sweet now isn't this one nice that's from john shelley remember henry shelley's son oh yeah indeed i do oh he's done so well i hear but then of course i knew he would well i think he's supposed to write smart to make him a lawyer i do too yes what with the world being like what it is today [Music] [Applause] well i do hope john is happy oh and robert hale and his music remember how he used to play the violin he had a fine talent i thought i do hope he's doing well [Music] this one's from wallace kisler he says he painted that himself it's all in watercolors so the show's his early promise yes i suppose wallace is a big artist now [Music] my niece had a cousin who was a painter too but the last time she wrote me she told me that he was strictly on the bottle and what do you suppose she meant by that a man doesn't paint bottles all the time does he [Music] hello oh hello charlie i just wanted to wish you many happy returns miss williams yes i'm sorry i couldn't get over to see you but you know i just can't help being sentimental when it comes to birthdays especially concerning my teacher oh well it was awfully nice of you to remember goodbye that was charlie smith he's the only one of that class i believe who's still in town well i don't blame him being in charge of his father's bank and all carol evans carol evans who are shane don't you remember what she used to live next door to the nailies on elm street i believe she's a big actress now [Music] birds have a nest stars have their sky i'm just a wanderer [Music] no friends have i [Music] need a friend a wonderful friend to hold my hand [Music] to share with me the settings home everyone else in this wide wide world has nobody else in this wide wide world mentions me in [Music] my theirs my whole life i'd spend in your embrace any old [Music] well i don't think we need to worry about carol she'll turn out all right well i think these have made me happier than any of the others they're from frankie rogers well he certainly didn't come to a good end i don't think frankie was really a bad boy he just didn't have the same chance the others had he made those bookends himself he says according to this card he isn't in the reformatory he's traveling i do hope frankie's all right but sometimes i worry about him as much as though he were my own son i used to live in a little town once myself yeah why did you lay well it was like this i stole a horse and took it home it was a white horse and i started to paint it black well i just got one side of it done and then i run out of paint i've often thought that a little more paint would have changed my whole career what that's the way it goes right yeah that's the way it goes where'd you pick up this rod [Music] had to take something and there was no toothbrushes around i'll meet you guys in front of the first national bank at 2 30. 2 30 in the morning now 2 30 in the [Music] afternoon [Music] i know the old man died but what what about my mother ain't nothing more to tell you mr frankie seven she's just touched in the head that's all and it took my way to to to the leader somebody said ancillary is a place where they care crazy people yes that's the place i'm terrible sorry mr franken but did you see my mother when she left what did she say what did she do i didn't see i didn't but they say she just wasn't sad at all only one thing funny she did was just before she left when she stood out there at the gig she said that the gentleman would come to fetch her she said put pretty roses ain't it then they knew she was tits because there wasn't a single rose nowhere anything else then she said please take care of that scrawny one over there because that's the one frankie light then they took her away that's all you've been here long about a year oh yeah if not can fix you up for the night there's a room upstairs suppose you'd want to stay once more in your home after being away so long no thanks mrs hamilton how much how many children you got in this hamlet just these two oh yeah another one roy oh i guess you don't remember him though he's a man now deport on the b o fine miss williams is she still still in town uh miss williams she here she here all the time got no now but still just as pretty still lived at the same place over on spruce street thanks mrs hamilton are you gonna be a porter too when you grow up maybe i don't know sir i suppose you know your father got to join his lodge for he died no i didn't but you think that helped well it made him powerful happy and they say he died with the most loveliest smile on his face was he classic you mean the same miss williams after all them years you work for them they give you the gate i don't understand you frankie i think you should say after all those years they gave you the game but i still don't understand because they didn't give me any gait sorry miss williams you mean to say they put the slug on you what i'm trying to say is we ain't got no job no more is that it that's right only don't you think you ought to say you no longer have a position that's all i want to know who's running the joint who's the boss the big guy the head man [Music] you you certainly speak strangely frankie but i think i'm beginning to understand you charlie smith is the president of our board of education he runs the bank now you know you remember him yeah i remember with fresh little sorry the first little guy that was so smart at figures that's he oh he's done so well he's down at his bank now i'm sure he'd be very glad to see you that's fine i'll be glad to see him so [Music] he said he'd be here at 2 30. what time is it now 2 38 and a half if this thing's on the level where'd you get that watch oh i just picked it up how one of the local boys was eating a sack of popcorn but he won't miss it what does a guy want with a watch in this town anyway wait here some people say bankers are hard that they have no sentiment but i tell you here and now i will not see that little schoolhouse destroyed not for all the money in the world [Applause] yes and mr frankly righteous to see you mr smith what do you think of that show i'm in will you gentlemen excuse me please certainly charlie of course son well well frankie how are you this is a funny one i was just talking about you where's your cherry let's see how you look you haven't changed much i suppose you might say that comes from living right hey frankie yes you might say nice place you go to here why you haven't seen a thing sit down sit down oh thanks i don't want to waste your time no now at least you're letting me show you through the bank now here's a little idea of my own take a look at this burglar alarm if anybody just walks in front of that at night goes off sort of a radio beam arrangement not a chance for anybody to get away with a thing let's see now this safe is the very last word i can hardly get in there myself are you insured charlie yeah she has everything insured everything in apple pie order what do you want to do frankie you want a job i can't fix you up here but i understand the chain works is opening up soon mr hamilton yes the town certainly is booming how about miss williams oh she's fine what do you mean don't you think it'd be a good idea if you put her back to work well she has her pension after all she's done her service now she should have a rest this new school building takes care of 500 kids what we need is youth and our teaching staff don't you worry about miss williams frankie we'll take care of her all right yeah she'll sit in that little old house and with her and die thinking about you and me and the rest of the kids how about putting her back to work charlie i'll take it up at the next board meeting frankie and i want to thank you for coming in you're going to be in town long i don't think so do you need any money no thanks do what you can for will you i will frankie i certainly will and you've given me an idea okay then can we knock it over but this looks like a cinch i've been standing here for over an hour i ain't seen a single cup we're not knocking it over this is my hometown we're leaving we're for cleveland pardon me can you tell me where the chamber of commerce is i don't know i'm a stranger here bmf for a long time you say she's a big star and tell me she's getting along all right and a chance for a touch of the walls i wouldn't make it i don't know whether i'm going to light this town or not you've been talking about nothing all the way from macron what's on your mind well i had some dough and i got an attack the taxi driver was an old guy looking underneath just doing the best he could i guess and a copper give him a ticket for going three feet to a stoplight so you sucked a cup no no i didn't i tried to reason with him then i sucked what did you say to him i said to him i said a fine job you've got making people unhappy look at this old man here he's just crying and you come along and gum it all up what did he do i said what did he do that would hurt anybody you know what the copper says to me he says if you don't shut up i'll smuggy and throw you in again that's what he says so i seen i couldn't reason with him six months and i might say that the jail here stinks you know it's a funny thing about coppers what's funny about well i know a guy once a friend of mine he was an all right guy too he got out of police force the minute he got a load of himself all dressed up in those grass buttons he was a different guy i don't like him either our guests are just trying to do the best they can i wish you wouldn't use that word can why not can is a voice it may be a void for you but to me it's a joint where you do six months [Music] foreign take me out alone i may be able to [Music] is that was swell but you gotta get out of that dress and get out of it right away you didn't like it sure i liked it but the dame just come too somebody hit her with a cold towel or something here they should have slipped to a mickey some other time [Music] now [Music] fine [Music] what do you think of this paper [Music] should have been a big laugh oh i see old man bucky's dead yes that's good i hated that old brother [Music] beat me up i was a kid because my dog licked his dog that's you mustn't hate anybody frankie it's no good okay i won't you say so there was no good when he was alive i don't see that dying makes them any better what time is it [Music] 12 30. [Music] i don't know what are you gonna do i don't know i do you're gonna stay here you're gonna get a job why i watch it don't know what to do [Music] when it gives me frightening tomorrow night tomorrow night mouse remember the title it just matches the soap sure i hate to leave you fellas this isn't a big night yes i see same dame not a dame somebody else you're the luckiest guy that ever lived if you fell in a lake you'd come up with a handful of fish i ain't lucky at all this is a game of science and skill the trouble with you juddies you don't concentrate yeah i'll concentrate on knocking your head off the next time you deal one from the bottom what do you mean you know what i mean what do you got i got one two three four aces maybe you've got four aces but that ain't the hand i built you what do you mean you know what i mean i think you're being very unethical explain them words i think you're a crook and what are you i'm just a victim of society that's what i am and you're a crook too then we're a couple of crooks is that it yeah that's it oh you wanna fight oh i'm sorry frankie i'm sorry too it's okay uh you throw one of me in your head frankie that's how good you are cut it out you ain't gonna get nowhere it's fighting like that win or lose we gotta stick together come on shake hands boy i wish i had a hunk of beef steak good evening yeah mr hicks the manager i'd like to speak to you about your bill we've only been here three days but you have no baggage chill the people you fellas see you later come in mr hicks yeah yeah come in and have a chair some discussion about the bill yes there is we'll sit down there um do you ever play your cards gee this is i certainly fixed things up good wasn't the door knob carol i tried to stop two guys from punching each other and i ran into one myself what's the idea of the creator i'll fix up that eye that's the idea oh wait a minute i won't be able to see it all it doesn't matter i'll be here yeah well i guess i don't have to see you lots of times when i couldn't you know carol i always had a kind of a feeling you was around some ways know what i mean yes frankie see this is cold where'd you learn these things it's nothing i was gonna take you out tonight and have some fun here we are just you and me in a sliced potato but as well good evening good evening did these boys pay the bill i paid the bill what do you mean they got me into a poker game did you lose week's rent that's fine yeah that's fine i'll worry i'll give you a chance to get it back tonight [Music] hey [Music] more drivers step on it going hurry up here [Music] you all said [Music] let's go so what's happening what's happening what's happening what's happening good news not bad an offer kind of an offer how many weeks no it's an invitation to a class reunion what's that oh a fellow in my little hometown who made a lot of money wants to get all his old classmates together says he'll pay all the expenses oh i know it's one of those things everybody gets together and lies to each other about the success i wonder if he said one to frankie frankie yeah boy i was with last night what's his last name frankie who rogers frankie rogers what does it look like looks very nice at least i think so you saw it but does it look anything like that that's what i did miss what happened i didn't kill the guy and that's the truth that's just what they won't believe but i'll tell him you won't tell him anything i don't want you to i don't want you to come to see me no more but why because you can't help me and you can hurt yourself can't you see that did you send a reunion invitation to frankie rogers i've tried everything i can think of mr smith but i haven't been able to find the address for him you can find it now all right it's the cleveland county jail from the looks of this it'll soon be the ohio state penitentiary take a look at that i knew that boy tim i went to school with him you sure in trouble now look tim i've got fifty dollars do you want me to pay you what i owe you or will you let me go there and see him i'd like to help him if i can forget about me son i can leave you go help your friend see me when you get back thanks tim frankie what do you want how'd you make out okay when does the jewelry get it this afternoon sometime maybe good luck frankie thanks mouse [Music] what do you think's going to happen john i don't know what are you going to say this afternoon i don't know carol maybe i shouldn't have taken this please after all it's frankie's life i've gotten my hands i've never been at trial are you what does that mean john well out there in illinois i just fuss around trying to sell insurance do a little work on mortgages and leases at times i'm scared stiff ladies and gentlemen of the jury until a moment ago i had no idea what i could say to you the defendant himself has suggested a plan and it's this very fact which allows me to throw him so confidently on your mercy i've known the defendant since we were children i remember one afternoon frankie helped me take a a fish hooked out of my finger i know that nothing ever happened to help that boy but i had never heard him complain in fact even now when he sits before you all but condemned not by you but by the forces which inevitably brought him here he has no complaint to make it's not of himself but of me that he's thinking he asks me to bring glory on myself not mercy for himself i tell you there is much to be honored in such a man if we could take that which is so fine in him and build on it we could well be proud well what are we to achieve with destruction would that make the world a better place then why can't we begin here and now the very process which would eliminate these cruel moments from life why can't we give him a rather than unfeeling censor don't you see the the defendant himself has shown us the way tell you as well your honor mr foreman and ladies and gentlemen of the jury in all of my experience as an attorney and as a prosecutor i've never seen a more straightforward case let me sum it up for you once more three known criminals went into a respectable place of business armed prepared to commit murder and with the intention of robbery the proprietor a law-abiding citizen of this community attempted to save his property and he was mercilessly killed the defendant frankie rogers out of the state penitentiary but a short time fired the shot in cold blood i needn't call rogers a fiend or a foul blot on humanity or use any other dramatic term the truth is obvious but rogers is prepared to commit murder again and you are in duty bound to prevent this and that's why the state demands that you return a verdict of guilty and also demands the death penalty we the jury find the defendant what are you talking about you had two strikes on you before you started you were swell she i never had anybody say things like that about me before where'd you learn all them things wasn't he swirled carol well it wouldn't have been so bad if there was a recommendation from mercy but there wasn't what does that mean john oh why aren't you two-step but gee you think this was a funeral i'm sorry frank yeah i just did the best i could bye john bye carol [Applause] what are we gonna do now john i don't know carol i'd thought that on my way back to illinois i might stop by saint mary's for that that reunion but not now no do you think if we went back to the reunion we might get charlie smith to help frankie always the artist hey wallace of firing the pictures well i never went in much for that arch stuff myself mrs smith selected all these charlie is clever don't you think it was smarter than to bring you all here no i think it was a very nice sediment thank you of course there's a publicity well you see many of your old friends yeah walked around this afternoon saw hillary clinton hardly knew him and i saw tom bathwa he didn't look any too good either and i stopped in a new pool room downtown and it was the soul in the place that i knew [Music] i don't know coming back a little town is not so good i guess after a long time we just seem to see the years sit down on them that's right bob the years sit down miss williams [Applause] oh i'm so sorry i'm late i thought i'd find you all here this party's a bust yeah carol we were just talking about it what do you think is wrong we all know what's wrong it's frankie what can we do john anything i don't think so they denied the appeal well do you think we could get charlie to help him no carol and i talked to him i don't think he could help anyway it's too late yeah i bought some child some supper my friend this is your last meal rodgers what do you want what do you mean a slug of booze or anything you want sure get me a big hook or a whiskey and drink it yourself okay hi us okay frankie [Applause] you know took us a long time to get here but here we are yeah not far from heaven i'm a lot further from having my new [Music] tank [Music] where are you going back to my hometown is where i started this world finishing before making them nice job [Music] so [Music] well here we are right back where we started here's where i used to sit it's easy enough for you to remember you've got your initials carved all over that's my desk there and boy did i suffer a nazi miss williams used to ask the timeless questions but she was always sweet about it don't you think you bet you lost anything against me oh i was only kidding what did you said john right over there oh you didn't did you yeah that's where i said all right [Music] that this there was carols what a memory were you sure about that john yes i'm sure i know because i sat there and carol sat there and [Applause] i guess we all know who sat here [Music] well hello hello how's everybody today hello hello john wallace bob have a good sleep uh that's fine carol i got something for you there you are got one for each one of you bob thanks joe ellis and john now you're all members of the committee you know i'd have been here sooner but i had a little business at the bank you know how those things go george you needn't wait any longer we can take care of ourselves everything all set that's fine how does the old place look not much change eh well i want you all to take a good look at it we're tearing it down next week we just can't keep it any longer too much development real estate ms williams hasn't shown up yet eh no charlie no miss williams isn't here yet well there's it for her well she'll be along soon and i'll bet you i can tell you the very first thing she does what what did we always used to do friday afternoon the first thing you see i got you stuck already we sang right yes that's right you know i think we ought to have a little drink what do you say we had one while we're waiting for miss williams yes just a few refreshments i arranged don't think this is lemonade either i have george put plenty of my best stuff in this now you see out there where the duck pond is now we're going to build a small golf course plans all drawn up and everything so the way things turn out there just isn't room for our little school house anymore but as you might say that's life right carol that's life bob thanks joey wallace and john thank you hell how about a little toast defending the occasion carol you seem very quiet will you make it [Music] here's to frankie [Music] so [Music] thank you charlie of course on such a happy occasion it's very regrettable that one of our classmates is in trouble and i can understand exactly how we all feel about him after all what could we expect i tried to help him it's only been a short time since he called on me at the bank i offered to help him find a job i even offered to lend him money you know i might have got killed or robbed or something i showed him all around the bank told him just how everything worked i'm deeply sorry indeed but this is an occasion of deity it's a reunion it's for fun it's for you i want you all to enter into the spirit of things carol you've been in the theater won't you sing or dance for us just like you used to i'm afraid you'll have to excuse me charlie there's really nothing i can do but i would like to ask you a question sure go right ahead fire away carol did you try to help frankie yes yes i did just what did you do well i think that's beside the point i told you what i tried to do for him after all i think he deserved just what he got what did he do he stole he was in the reformatory he was in prison he was offered help and he committed murder and i don't see any point in our worrying about frankie rogers any longer [Music] gee okay miss williams hi charlie and bob [Music] kiesler hello john nice to see you all again [Music] shall i give you that job back miss williams but it doesn't matter about me frank how did you manage to come here i guess you're all i've been a little trouble them guys are staring at that point i told them all about this little party was given they let me come down for a little while but i gotta get right back can't stay very long well how you guys all been doing it great been doing great frankie good i guess i don't have to ask how you've been doing charlie yes frankie yes sorry you can't stay before i go i want you to smoke pals genre they come all the way from illinois just to help me beat a rap but no sword wasn't john's fault they just swallowed space too same speech you made here one afternoon that was a long time ago [Music] i had much more to say it's nice seeing all of you and i wish you all a lot of what where are you going i don't know thanks for coming along frankie we know you can't stay so we won't keep you we know how it is yes we know how it is i know how it is and you know how it is too you just said that frankie was not a law-abiding citizen did you ever think about yourself did you ever think about what caused frankie to get into trouble no all you ever cared about was money money position your own wife told me last night that getting us back here was nothing but a publicity stunt don't you think that's fine bringing us all back here to parade yourself in front of us you know we never lay the diamond over all [Applause] and i'll tell you something else i hate what you stand for and i hate you no no no terrible no you're wrong you mustn't hate anybody that ain't right there ain't no good remember i used to hate people too but that's easy but it ain't right i know the guy who still used to beat me over the head with a rubber hose i hated him one day i saw him going after the guy that was making her break a filling full of red he dropped right on my feet and i saw the look in that guy's eyes it took all the hate out of me forever i want to get him a 10 cup of water but he never left to drink it when you come back he was dead come on carol charlie's all right we're all all right i'm glad to see you all doing someone i know you all done the best you could maybe i did too i don't know [Music] i gotta go come on carol tell charlie you're sorry if you don't know you're never gonna be happy no more i'm sorry that's well carol [Music] ain't gonna need this bye john bye charlie what's up [Music] combine this waves i know charlie's going to get that job back for you [Music] foreign it's nice of frankie to come to see us wasn't it miss williams we were just saying before you came that was probably the first thing you'd let us do i know just what we always did on friday afternoon is that right charlie yes ms williams [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Published: Thu Oct 10 2013