It Grows on Trees (1952)

[Music] [Applause] hi cowboy write down people sleep around here [Music] how about some coffee girl oh she's fine thank you I'm sorry I didn't mean to be noisy oh that's alright do it again bang your bottles together louder my family gets awfully cross when I wake them up but if it happens accidentally if there's nothing they knew about easing no I guess not [Music] [Applause] sorry dear the milk just came it's time to get up anyway Phil oh thank you very much oh you're welcome oh no you don't out of bed oh just have to wear your thumb issues until we can buy you from your ones I tell them please can be resold again I'll have your cereal in a minute if your father's gone back to sleep [Music] oh my goodness what's that for I got the longest time to run a we make it oh and you've also got some milk of magnesia coming to you when you get home from school oh please mother it's about taking my lunch all the girls in my class even the cafeteria now dear Wiggin all over this before and you know the budget will not allow so mother it's always the budget I can't have a new blouse because of the budget I have to carry my lunch in a greasy paper bag like a day later I'll give you a greasy foods oh maybe mother Diane I think that sweater these something around the neck my silver necklace would be just the thing but you never let me wear it I'll get it for you [Music] what did you do on my sweatshirt well I washed it and it needed it badly but why is it pink oh dear some of midges red spots must have gotten in with it but it'll come out for next time next time today and the kids will razz me I don't think they dare to there didn't you tell me you were the best something on the team sure eyes voted the LPS 25 quarterback in the school where is oh dear oh well I don't think anybody's going to notice the color of your shirt go on I'll get to breakfast is 20 by more than you better than Kansas Ozma gorillas mine are you headed for a wedding niche oh no no not again my my good it's not more than with two months since you bought those is it did she do it deliberately no dear she's 6 years old I will take down we'll find it though somewhere sweetie what do you think you think I can skip shaving this morning that fabulous hurry [Music] Poli Poli what happen at the screen in here what is Rusted and full of holes I gave it to the man for six well Dustin stuff blows them down the window well cover change see gee then eat it you yet not ain't our waiter I'm still a true if you'd better brush your teeth with the sink downstairs and Diane get the children started on their breakfast 0:01 dear take best shoes down to her will you so the last time somebody watched me show you I cut my throat from ear to ear and they had to replace my head oh the new ones perfectly lovely and here don't forget to leave me three dollars the men bringing the screen that's this afternoon three bucks from one of the wired screen what do you know how everything's gone off yeah everything except my salary I'll pay you back out of next month's house money oh you will huh oh I see that makes our 1200 mm next month's house money though I 19 years plus interested 6% I love that so you're talking so you don't trust me darling I trust you I trust you with my life my arm my future but not with three bucks for the simple reason I haven't got a wife in your raise there on a five dollar bill five dollars that's not mine honestly Holly I but tonight I try not a bilious anybody yes I could the window blown and the energy is that where it came from I don't know where it came from but I know where it's going the pay for the screen and there'll be enough left over so Diane can double the cafeteria the rest of the week but I'll wait a minute that money belongs to somebody that isn't ours okay blue in our window didn't live into our bathroom anyway how could anybody identifiers by saying there's a picture of George of Lincoln on the front of it there's a talent sense bill and I'm not going to make you get Noble and stuffy about it either oh so you're going so your house money again this month silver that has nothing to do with it besides what's the difference today is painting and tonight our little monthly budget hassle - we'll tackle it right after dinner and honey honey you fix a good substantial meal so I'll have the fortitude to face your extraordinary bookkeeping Oh bully in it finger and I love you [Music] [Applause] [Music] you're a good wife for them and mother and a very pretty woman so I suppose it's too much to expect you to be able to answer yes now let's see here thank you honey milk eight dollars eight dollars that's good that's $18 the one sort of ran into the K of milk eighteen dollars that's an awful lot of money from milk Oh babies in it around here you have three growing children all of them drink it it's good for them it keeps them healthy and it's fine for their teeth fine for their teeth someone you please explain this flip thankful care $25 doesn't the milk work on our son yeah what for adjusting his braces what does it matter if a boy's teeth are quite straight he won't have to catch a rich husband someday well hello why baby where they see ya honey I'm sorry I barked at you it's only there I make some little I want us to get some money a heads okay good no I know so you can open your own accounting office we'll make it one of these days Judis on a raft what's this what what nursery and now there's nursery Polly don't tell me I did mr. McGonigle and mystery man the man who tells me my plans we can't afford enough entities and you fight plants whether they're not plants they're their trees I thought you notice them well I haven't what kind of tree costs 10 bucks oh well they're two of them here they only cost five dollars a piece and that's terribly terribly cheap for three still Oh what kind are they okay there are all kinds of trees every tree is a different kind I don't know exactly mr. McGonigle doesn't know either they're guarding to a shipment by mistake and that flag awesome so t2 anonymous treat ten hard-earned bucks honestly look honey would you do me a favor of course do five will you stop buying things just because they're cheaper in the long run they cost more in this life sweetie you just don't get something for nothing bill every once in a while the most wonderful thing just seems to drop out of the booth well those two trees dropped out of the blue right into our budget so I bought things for myself there for all of us and they're beautiful and you know how I need to see things so what about needing to see our bankroll girl what about our getting some money ahead for a change what about ah what about us going to the movies tonight drop something or better take Diane can't we go to I'm afraid not flip but we simply can't afford it you might explain to them dear we can't see the movies for the trees oh very funny why don't you put on the radio there must be some good programs on it keeps fading you can't hear Rob doesn't need the new condenser why don't we get one because we simply cop has another brought into the house now can't do it without their hmm the know the scratches like that she's not safe for you Mitch I wish you'd stop calling Karen over she [Music] you know what is it it's a $10 bill has an overhead Casanova hey does anybody hears the doorbell around here where's my date zero you better get your things I will miss the first show is anything wrong look what the cat dragged in Ralph took a look at this bill as a bank teller you ought to know is that okay is that a good bill I wish I had a bushel of them what's it all about you have to know about it too so we could all go to the roof come on drag along get your coat I can't skits now wait just a minute if this bill is good we have to give it back it isn't anybody's money it came to us because we need it Polly really made his money for the screen and we got it now we need money for ninja shoes a little entertainment tonight so there it is my wife still believes in fairy tales of course I do Philip Baxter and it's high time life caught up with fairy tales we saw Frances that new picture the children loved it heaven over good morning I'll have your breakfast in the balance [Applause] for mums opened up during the night well good for them yeah [Music] hey I know the nameless trees yeah are insane darling dear I'd say there dear darling so you have to admit they're pretty hey maybe next hour if they're big enough we can sing I have up between them then getting them wasn't such a bad idea was it no honey Phil it was a good idea we needed some shade out here I gotta run have a good day dear good morning mr. Baxter good morning mrs. Pryor well your husband just going to work my Jim's still asleep well that comes a big news old balls I suppose he'd been rolling till almost 2:00 this morning he said he has a lot of work piled up Oh miss Baxter Jim forgot to stop at the store monk you could spare me some sugar the bye dear well you you don't mind helping yourself do you oh I'm trying to show the butter - I wonder if you could spare me a smidgen well just a tiny smidgen [Music] you garden looks real pretty the only time I have a few flowers is around Easter Jim brings me a positive plan he ain't to posit himself to remember [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and her idea of a smidgen was a whole quarter pound of butter get away with it all right thief I don't know there she probably has kleptomania we put that on the form Diane our class secretary I have bad news what's wrong I've been made one of the officials of the class dance well that's good news no it's going to be formal and I haven't a thing to wear what about your blue with the silver trim that old thing the silvers tarnished and it's much too tight the old couldn't we take no flowers now that makes any steer couldn't we take a little out of the Christmas fun it's still insured mono/poly I saw the loveliest little profit leaves for only Queen oh no no no no now we are not going to take money out of the Christmas fund it makes me a tyrant I suppose and from now on we are not going to talk about buying things for a very simple reason we haven't any money to buy things with we're not even going to talk about money I'm mindful of subject manager I just had to do what you doing hi star I'm the birthday girl she man and I take all the money [Music] 20 30 days $35 this is not play money honey this is real money where'd you get it I found it where did you find it oh that's before outside can't you remember just where you whether she too little to remember just where yesterday morning $5 blows into our bathroom last night the cab shows up for 10 more now our daughter finds 35 whose money is this ours it's what I said yesterday we needed it so it's here it'll buy Diane's dress and there'll be enough left over for to Bali it is not ours we've got to try to find the rightful owner and give it back so in the morning on my way to work I'll stop at the police station and I'll turn this in and I suppose that you're so disgustingly honest you want to give back the other $15 to well that must have come from the same source so I'll include we've already vetted then you'll have to come out of your house morning really when we need money power sorry we can do without a lot of things but these things we hold on to our integrity and our self-respect now we just don't spend money we haven't come by in the gentlemen like what you're doing Philip Baxter is practically snatching a drink of your daughter's back if you will drop this discussion like [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right how much money have we on the Christmas fund [Applause] thank [Music] Phil Phil not that way not that way absolute you want to know definitely that might fall off are you chewing gum yeah you on some look happy wonder both fries will you please go down the driveway wrong man I me wrong man I'm resting on my merit badge what are you talking about my good deed of yesterday honey you should have seen it but he's auxins face when I took in that 50 bucks his jaw dropped a full two feet he probably thought you were crazy he thought I was a good citizen and he said so what's more I'll bet you that somebody reports the loss of that though probably be somebody reads it very badly I'll be right up don't forget the driveway after that honey I'll do the laundry and Vegas a cake all right hi this 814 Larrabee yeah you the man that turned in that money at the station yesterday I am well we just stopped by to let you know it's been claimed oh good I was just telling my wife that would happen yeah there's someone that needed it bad huh sure look like it we never saw anyone so relieved to find the dough there strawberry someone from right here in the neighborhood huh the day I leave any name bill let's uh flustered aim who picked up the dough what was her name mrs. Pawley Baxter this is Polly Baxter mrs. Pawley banks I'll be pinion hey mother there's a police car backing out of our driveway what's it doing here is his father in trouble not father Farley come down here party at once poly hi feelings if I'm here why did you go to the because it's ours that's insane we found that Casanova and you that is not only muddled thinking four completely disarmed we need it very very badly there some things I have to go to the police and tell them my wife is history I didn't want to tell you because you're already madam that my wife my own wife is nothing about jockster said nitch has to have her tonsils out and her adenoids out this coming week and I thought that $50 would help pay the doctor and I'm so sick sick sick scrimping and being afraid to spend a nickel and if it's a crime to see that your sick child gets well in Moultonborough your husband whom you love although he doesn't appreciate it about money which he hasn't gotten yet said I'm a thief and you can throw me in jail and let me rot there but the minute I get out I'll do it all over again I'll do it stand there and say horrid things to me when I'm only trying to help out for you and our children and when I see the look on your [Music] [Music] oh no no [Music] what's the pulling out of that airplane although with all the doors in the window seal offered money a falling out [Music] I could call Airport I sell any pair of hands so we can put the money back in the crown apology now still don't you start that again no we can no you don't stop oh go go to the police and tell them this time the money fell out of heaven they'll lock you up and I'll swear you've been acting strangely which is the absolute truth I'll phone the airport [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh [Music] the plane is just landed nobody dropped money from Phil I have something to tell you and I have something to tell you Pauline you are not to spend any of that money of that is an order Hansel they'll borrow on our insurance [Music] but certainly no one is throwing money away people just don't do that if they did why should they throw it our way have you heard of anyone else finding money probably are you this thing were you talking to you for the last 10 minutes I just asked you if you've heard of anyone else finding money oh no they couldn't have why couldn't they have well because I I probably would've learned about it well and so since you didn't fall out of the skies and goodnight say the streets aren't paid for this stuff yeah maybe we'll give it to some charity or something [Applause] suppose it did fill suppose who did what what you said suppose is did fall from our supplies or something what are you talking about what you were talking about money from heaven or well growing on trees let's say could we spend it of course not look honey I have to get up early tomorrow and go to work because it wouldn't be money issued by the government of the United States it wouldn't be backed up by gold or silver reserves now will you go to sleep but it looks like the government had issued it I suppose you could now we talk this nonsense in the dead of night and of night it's only a quarter past ten they leave it well sort of a gift from above because when it should be destroyed but why because this is a heck of a time to have to give you a lesson in economics because such odd money could upset the monetary balance of the country it could create inflation it could cause a lot of trouble for a lot of people well I don't see why it wouldn't be legal that's why that will you please shut up and go to sleep fill our peaches legal pitchers got to do with it you wake up the children merely ask you a perfectly reasonable question if someone grew peaches and sold them have got money for them the government wouldn't object would they it would be an exchange wasn't it so why should they objective someone found our groove money in exchange if a peaches is the same thing the other way around isn't it isn't it Phil Phil the name of the Secretary of the Treasury good morning mr. Murchison morning the trees they should go to the secretary himself I think a theses personal attention oh and send this statement to Internal Revenue I don't know how I got here in the first place oh by the way miss Reid my anniversary is Thursday and if I forget it my wife will have my scalp mrs. Medicine has already found to remind me what's your hand well then it's no flowers this year means my bank account takes a severe beating why is it miss Reid that you women have the whimsical notion that well money grows on trees because it does least on mint is back to the trees what you talking about this woman in Connecticut she has two of them she's already spinster only now she's not sure she should roam 30-pin Lane we've got our luncheon date have you I'll be right with you boys she spent some of what miss Reed of the money that grows on her tree what's their money on trees there's something for the poor guys think boys read that letter to us please dear mr. daga tree in my backyard I have two trees to grow money Hey that letter belongs the Department of Agriculture let me have it well let's hear the rest of it first on the one's landed near is the garage and the shade produces five-dollar bills the other which gets the full Sun grows $10 bills I have already used some of the money to get our radio fixed however now I'm a little unsure since my husband who is the soul of Honor says that money which grows on trees is not legal is it it's an interesting question I would appreciate your opinion on this matter since if it is legal we need so many things that would be a real blessing could you answer these by return mail anxiously your point second thought my department doesn't want that letter it's a hot potater agriculture only deals with them in the raw y'all should answer that letter friendly as a servant of the people that should duty to reply let's have some lunch boys gentlemen there's a postscript PS I'm not trying to influence your judgment mr. secretary but I think you should know that I voted for your party at the last election which helped put you in office you see freely I told you she'd answer the letter right you are well since she belongs to our club boys I agree we do she deserves it I think take a letter of is read My dear mrs. Baxter mrs. Baxter your letter to the Secretary of the Treasury has come to my attention and since C is an extremely busy man at this time I am replying for him paragraph if you are in possession of trees which grow the currency of our country and meets all its standards it is my opinion that your strange fruit is perfectly legal how can you tell her that now you weren't listening if her tree money meets all the standards of our currency no what's wrong with that nothing wrong couldn't possibly know exactly I don't quite know how you should file your income tax return mrs. Baxter I'm sure if you will write mr. John leatherby of the Department of Internal Revenue here you lay off my department he will give you that information if you bought these trees or grew them from seed which you purchase you will probably have to pay only a capital gains tax yes that sounds reasonable you should also write mr. Carroll another Department of Agriculture and ask him what fertilizer will hasten the productivity of your trees you all tell her to use a good steer manure Henry hey include me out of this yeah but you wanted a and remember now if you would send us some cuttings from your trees mrs. Baxter we could plant them in the backyard of the White House this would please the president since he would no longer have to send budget requests to Congress a procedure which he frequently finds very discouraged thanking you in advance I remain yours respectfully etcetra etcetra use my signature stamp on them to send it home you're really home to send that letter well you said it was my duty to the public servant but she's liable to take it seriously as seriously as I take the information that money grows on trees come on boys let's see [Music] thank you come [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh [Applause] oh good morning miss Baxter the milkman is miss name is morning I wonder if you'd left I'm sorry but we used all our milk and cream for breakfast oh well then I guess there's no use my barn a cup of oat means no it's not very good without milk is it hey I mean why you put them bridal veils on your tree it's too early for frosting it's to protect them against of insects and and birds everything they're very delicate what kind did you say they was kind of man she ain't ready yet what do you wanna go for anyway oh no bother at all pal none at all Oh Ralph I'm not ready yet you go on and talk to father you know oh yeah well maybe a little bother you'll find out soon enough not me [Applause] my you look pretty Oh evening straight out I suspect this my daughter will look even prettier yeah I'm sure she will sir now for you excuse me turn around just in just a minute that's a little like something hit okay now think nothing of it I used to rent wine from the same place well your date may take a little time you better sit down oh thank you sir I think South Bank Oh swell yeah hi I got promoted today you see I'm the mortgage and loans department now huh I got a raise and pay too congratulations uh yeah I've been thinking that uh well I with what I'll be getting now I could afford a a small place and I've already got a little money saved up to start furnishing it with and I thought that if you might meet with Ralph Ralph it yeah it's all right with me if it's okay with Diane you that's what you were yeah thank you thanks very much Oh Diane doesn't have to finish college does she college not as far as I'm concerned no Coursera her mother did you'd never know this it was a naked eye I well how do I look you'll do very well indeed thanks to Eddie oh thanks dad I'm here I was just out in the yard jump three utiful night Polly congratulate them engaged well Diane and I've been working on you for a whole year oh dear you look lovely you'll be the prettiest girl we were justified through each other we got married you managed to grow up yes of course we did but if I had it all to do over again I'd never wear blue I'd wear white lace and that's exactly what I am going to wear let's see it's a church wedding and don't don't have the reception here and we'll put a tent in the backyard in case it rains and the bridesmaids all in taffeta pastel shade do we need a shirt honey honey let me see customer has it the father of the bride foots the bills although custom evades the question as to where the poor guy gets the money mommy don't you ever worry about anything but money yes yes I do I I worry about you and the kids and our future right now I I am thinking about money because you are going to be handling hours for the next month all by yourself you see this Saturday the firm is sending me to Baltimore on a job you'll be away for a whole month honey I know it's gonna be tough on both of us but this could lead to something you know this Baltimore outfits one of our biggest clients if they like me this could be the opening wedge and setting up for myself so don't worry about it worry well what for Oh Phil I have a wonderful idea bye the time you get back the kids will be ready to get married and they'll be going off of their honeymoon and we'll go to whistle of course not we'll go on our second honeymoon with mijin Flip Miami should be just lovely about that time well the California desert you always want to go there or Hawaii I'll make some calls and make some sense too while you're at it let me tell you something Phillip Baxter if you only knew how much sense I was making but a little hair you have left would stand on him well let me tell you something Bali Baxter yes I kept it a secret after now the real reason I married you no not because you were pretty and not because you aroused certain arteries in me and not for your money Evans owes you didn't have any I married you for your brains mm-hmm they disturb me they still disturb me more than ever well that's supposed to be sarcasm well for your information in case you're interested I have more brains in my head than most people having their little fingers that I give you [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] not quite right [Music] now honey don't expect me to write every day because I'll be too busy but you'll get a letter at least once a week is that translate are you listening of course Jerry you said you'd write every day but I don't think you should you'll be too busy are you glad to see me go what a thing to say well considering this is our first real separation since we've been married you you seem awfully unconcerned but it's only for a month and I think the change will be so good for you where's a handkerchief and then as you said it may lead to something I sure hope so you know I just have a hunch it might be here what time is that I want to get to the bank before it closes well it's only a few minutes after 10:00 the bank's barely opened for my expense check that reminds me you did get it - didn't you okay silly on me of course I have it right here there it is $100 wildfires intense what's the difference it's not even give an illusion of prosperity no bargains no options no unnecessary stuff keep your eye on their budget while I'm going oh you'll be surprised how well I'll do good goodbye beer seven hundred and forty fifty seventeen hundred and sixty seventy seventy-five seventeen hundred and eighty that pays off the mortgage in full I have a little windfall it looks more like a hurricane but I'll bet I know exactly where you got this dough mrs. Baxter you do you've been holding out in the old man haven't you a few bucks here and there out of the budget every woman does it you want to know how I deduce that I'm dying to know because they're all fives and ten if you tried to hold out bigger sums you gotten suspicious you know Ralph I'm awfully glad I am going to marry you instead of somebody else thank you let's see I don't have to have the house painted I can't make up my mind whether to have the picket fence repair to buy a new one I think a new one is more economical in the long run and I think mijin flip should have a television set all their friends have them and you better take it easy you can't grow this kind of cabbage you know don't you worry about that I have a green thumb [Music] [Applause] [Music] everything is going on this Factory [Music] what do we do with him before get him out of here we'll dump in the Arroyo [Music] [Applause] [Music] I know your mom forgot to get me some sugar [Music] well [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] what color Oh [Applause] [Music] Department of Agriculture Bureau of Internal Revenue US Treasury Department US Treasury Department if you are in possession of trees which grow the currency of this country nothing is from this tree [Applause] [Music] [Applause] well right [Applause] [Music] what what are you doing here I live here remember well I wasn't expecting you until tomorrow tomorrow I would do home yesterday sorry sweetie yesterday where were you I might have worried well you should have I was in jail in jail we're 20 droves you were drinking drinking that's only a misdemeanor I'm a big time operator I got jug for passing counterfeit though where could you have top coat if money from that expense check that you cash for me move the couch yeah as long as I live I'll never understand it Bank must have stepped up somewhere generally they check their clean sweep pretty carefully we had three kids on I left don't have eleven they're simply flying to tell me just what happened well my last night in town I took Anderson that's one of the big bosses out to dinner yeah nice bunch there two-ton like I think something important is going to come on my association deal but but it tell me about the counterfeit money well we went to some flush joint that II know about and I put on the dogs good for business we had drinks takes asparagus Roquefort brandy with the works and then he had to leave he had some sort of date somewhere and I have about two hours till train time so I just sat there and had myself another brain enjoy but go on please well so I called a waiter over asking for my check pretty steep almost 20 bucks but what I was saying I didn't mind cuz once in a blue moon a man is entitled to paint down a little red hey how come you had the house painted well I'll tell you about that later Phil please go on well I I pulled out my wallet and I took out two ten to the five darndest thing I ever saw well what are the tins broke right in there ii was kind of curled around the edges and i tried to dis treyton it out and it it crumbled into a thousand pieces the five dollar bill that was really something it was it curled up like a kitten in kind of granulated great I pulled out my wallet again because I had to pay the man off it was full of dust ashes and crumbling bits of bills so since I couldn't pay them they called the cops and they marched me off to the clink Anderson sprung me this morning oh here now I'll show you should be around 60 bucks there now if you don't loose any of that and get an envelope and put it in it I'll take it down to the bank in the morning and if I can't get them to replace it hey what are you doing - this place is a new drapes I think dear Diane and I made them well what about you say oh you must be awfully tired why don't you take a shower and a nice nap a nice long I don't even call you for summer I think I will you know what that stuff reminds me of dead leaves now you tell me how that can happen - money [Music] Oh [Music] it'd be yes sir Ralph just look at those Oh what are they mr. slavish counterfeit the markings on those still in tax team genuine they've been coming in from all over town and all of them fives and tens it's very peculiar you agree oh yes indeed sir here then how do you account for seventeen hundred and eighty dollars more of this peculiar money having been wrapped in your bank strap my strap well I I don't know sir they certainly weren't in this condition when I got them I'm not in fun they were I'm merely trying to find out who gave them to you well I don't remember I handled quite a few times down John Ralph obviously someone must have given you that some a repayment of a loan or a mortgage so you ought to be able to remember who gave you seventeen hundred and eighty dollars in fives and tens seventeen hundred and eighty whoever passed this money should be questioned that's dealt with no no sir right I can't remember I'm disappointed in you Ralph the poor memories a bad recommendation for advancement in the banking profession well I'll send this to the bureau engraving and printing in Washington for analysis and I hope we'll replacement for your sake yeah is that all sir I no not quite until we hear from Washington you better not handle money starting tomorrow I'm putting you back on the books whoops that was my job when I started sir do I get my present salary well scarcely in loans and mortgages you were department head in bookkeeping you're not well sir then I can't get married you see we plan to this month the best laid plans and so forth or so folk now good morning Ralph yes sir you know John we might be doing the Boyan injustice it's quite possible the administration is trying to save money by printing it on inferior paper by Jove I'm going to send this directly to the Treasury Department with a sharp note there's a limit washing machine table for 12 a fifties paintings please shapes Polly I want to talk to you not now dear about something I'm a situ on the back porch she'll keep I hope so I wanna know what I'm tell you you don't know what I was going to wear I've got some money to pay all our bills and get the house painted and a new fence and a television seven drapes and slipcovers and everything and I just can't tell you I got this honestly and legally only you would say it wasn't did you want me to stop spending it or give it back she came by money honestly why should I object because you're just too too ethical and righteous and and wrong wrong wrong wrong sorry what's going on I just don't get this we've been married now almost 20 years we've had you I just can't things are happening which I didn't expect and you've got to give me time to work for not somehow and when I do if anything is going wrong then we have to work them out together just the same as we always have now Polly I demand to know where you got that money well go away just simply go away and leave me alone I don't watch I didn't say your mother was a thief Brandon is it I got the room and he can marry me I only said since I didn't know we were on our engagements which is just simply fine with me it's just the way I wanted justice now about the land wife giving you bad money oh I'm not gonna stay here and listen to him say it again Diane and you mean shut me up father I'm too old to be bullied if you're gonna let him stay in this go ahead Ralph oh what's this all about now I'm not trying to break off our engagement mr. Baxter I loved I and I didn't say you were what she said I only said the money it gave me in payment of the mortgage was sort of funny oh you mean the installment oh no sir no sir mrs. Baxter paid it off in full yeah and it was wrapped in my currency strap and the money was no good what was wrong with it it well it crumbled crumbled and sort of granulated yes sir I never saw anything like it before were they all five and ten dollars Bill's how did you know I have moments of clairvoyance Ralph and I quit worrying this'll all work out I hope and don't worry about Diane you know she'll come around good night boy gosh mrs. Baxter I'm sorry if I opened my big mouth and started something you know if anything happened to me and Diane and if this wasn't gonna be my family I just couldn't take it would you take these good night well Pauline don't you think it's about time that you told me where you got this unhappy money it grows on our trees [Music] I think it ate it don't fear on the trees are both from mr. McGonigle and I guess what's happening now that the bills are drying up after all it's only a plant you said yourself it reminded you of dead leaves I don't think they're quite dead anyway I'm trying to revive them come I'll show you oh I know exactly how you feel Phil when I thought up the tree money was a shock to me too but you'll get used to the idea I did agriculture again they told me what fertilizer to use and it didn't help and now I'm going to ask them if there isn't some preservative to keep the money alive they should know something after all that's why we pay taxes on them here prepare yourself for a surprise you've never seen anything like this before I don't understand [Music] [Music] they approached you that I'm not like that I did write for the Secretary of the Treasury in two other important people in the Treasury Department even asked me to send him some cuttings for the White House Gardens which I did I'm telling you the truth I'm not saying I don't believe you but please see him you've met him and and you know he's a kind man I'll have him over here first thing in the morning and you tell him everything tell him the whole time all right just like you know I'm not crazy and it seems to me at all the end we've been married you know you're making it very tough for us I won door oh you're not doing me a lot of good either you know if you go on this way we may have to get tough with you are you gonna send me Atlanta could be there was a page torn out of this ledger by someone in a hurry looks like you know anything about this boy tearing pages out of ledges in all my years of bein in order to hold him for questioning you have to prefer a charge until we can take it up with Washington well I'm sorry because a woman outside wants to open an account well didn't open it what she wants to pause a little over a thousand dollars and in fives and tens I brought some I knew you want to check them what was this woman where is she at the first window there she is I'm here there what's wrong mother I've just been robbed he's in jail Oh what did he do he kept his mouth shut that's what federal men came from Washington and he didn't tell them about the money you gave him oh he's protecting you and they may keep him in prison for the rest of his life Oh mother how can I ever wedding with my groom in jail no no no baby now they're not going to keep Ralph in jail I I won't let them well what can you do I'm going to get him out right now and don't you worry and Diane if I don't come back you explain to your father little Phillip Baxter I live at 81 for therapy and I've come to talk to you about Ralph born you're detaining him here are children yeah we better well you you must let him go at once he's not guilty I am I gave him that money the phony though which isn't really funny it just happens to be dying you see I didn't know that was going to happen when I gave it to him I had quite forgotten it was a growing thing he'd forgotten what was a growing thing lady the money it grows on my trees another nut I know it's hard to believe my own husband doesn't believe me but it's true look lady I think maybe you don't feel so good why don't you go home and lie down and put a cold damp cloth on your head or take an aspirin maybe drink a cup of black coffee if that's what's causing it I am NOT crazy and I don't drink I demand that you release Ralph born madam Peter Reilly you've been holding out on the press which means we'll misspelled your name for a full year now what about this guy you're holding for passing bad money he didn't do it she's right she the Dame that just left is it sort of hard to say seems like she grows this thing what that's what the woman says it grows on her trees 20ms McGwire the first Harold oh we already subscribed you know what nothing like that I'm a reporter we bump into one another at the police station remember no well anyway they told me a very interesting story about you having some trees which grow money are those the wealthy little numbers out there if you've come here to ridicule me as the police did oh no mrs. Baxter of course not you know how cops are yeah cynical but I'm a reporter and it's my job to keep an open mind I suppose you tell me all about it huh well I was just going to make myself some coffee would you like some coffee any time oh let's see I take it you did something like this you planted a $10 bill and then one day you went out into the yard and there you saw a tiny tender green shoes that's welcome how it happened at all and I think you'd better go mr. McGuire because I see you insist upon being funny besides I haven't any coffee this is very serious to me and I'm terribly terribly fed up with people thinking that I'm a drunk mm okay Oh mrs. Baxter you got me all wrong I not only believe your story but I found some coffee for you suppose you what I have a little cup of java and a little talk and you give me the end that slow down okay mr. McGuire oh right you humor where's your phone in the hall right there on the table what are you going to do call Washington I feel it you believe me mr. McLaughlin water the point is a lot of important people believe you this is McGuire I'm 813 Larrabee not a 14-minute 814 Laramie hello Cooper target was open right away and hold the front a joke I got the greatest story of the year no murders what's a little compared to there never mind what it is get those guys over here on the double they were in the coffee yeah okay step on it this is Baxter I love you I'm gonna go outside the wing hey who are you this is my husband still this is mr. McGuire from the Press Herald hi don't lose those because this story isn't just for our local sheet it belongs to the world [Music] their dreams and in fact imagine [Music] - they're mighty good there you are lady free money free free runner [Music] do you think y'all going Bub's home I live there your husband yes many wife to be needed okay can L speak to us these branches off the trees in the back [Music] I could endorse it all right you can do photographer right over no no I am my own space the phone hasn't stopped once all morning people asking me to do all sorts of food did you know that flippin Mitch were outside practicing petty larceny on your public oh do you think I should stop somebody I don't know you're the one who set the precedent it's up to you birthday and she's in jail jail what's she done no no no she's waiting for Ralph they're going to let him out today on bail look Polly this is no good our children the gone haywire our house has become a maker for morons what's left of our house I mean because know that picket fence you're gonna be trampled flat any minute now I told you you were starting something where do we go from here nevermind I know where we're going I'll take Ralph's sole sale you can double up with mrs. Pryor [Music] wasn't a four-way will soon find out where the fries why are they going around to the back I suspect they're gonna look at your trees you recognize the gentleman leading the prey favorite correspondent Murchison at the Treasury dr. burrows the whole thing is an obvious hoax these trees don't even look capable of growing leaves let alone money that that can be explained mr. Murchison yes they they're probably deciduous which means that they would have lost their forties this late in the year but we were robbed by my neighbor you must have read about it I'm Polly Baxter mr. Murchison this is a great honor masters at my husband Carolyn agriculture Anton you dare letter the Internal Revenue marry dr. burrows botanical research doctor I really feel is alive I think the newspapers have been dreadfully cruel general and I think you're answering my letters was very thoughtful and very courteous mrs. Baxter be honest have you been playing a practical joke on us I wouldn't think of doing such a thing you actually believe these trees draw money I know they do why else would I bring you about them curious very curious in all my experience I've never run across this particular species hey mrs. Baxter would you say that their new syphilis are VAX difference or perhaps coniferous oh I don't think they belong to any of those families doctor if anything they're more flora fresh oh you think the buds were more like tulips and when they open inside each koala curl up around the salmon if you don't mind let's get down to business well as I'm saying nothing inside each Kurama curled up around the Phelan well on riff 3 $10 bills yes and I'll just won $5 bill come on fascinating mrs. Baxter fascinating mrs. Baxter we've gotta put a stop to all this and you're the only one who can do it oh by issuing a public statement admitting that it was all a deliberate hoax what do I couldn't do that it wouldn't be the truth and besides if she did gentlemen it would be an admission that she'd passed there'd money which is a criminal act I believe a felony yes ma'am 10 to 20 years in federal prison oh good and are you gentlemen going to jail with her what what are you driving at what do you mean I mean and all of you not only condoned the act but you encouraged it which makes you accessories an equally culpable and I'm not going to let you make mrs. Baxter yes Kate go mr. Baxter sir have you actually seen money on those trees no but my wife and and I've had her nearly 20 years and should know her by now is an honest woman and if she says her trees grow money her trees grow money what my dear sir it sounds like her like that like a wish come true and that's actually what it was we needed money so badly at the time remember Phil and I believe if you wish long enough and strong enough your wishes do come true and that's what makes like the full of wonder mrs. Baxter I don't know what you're talking about I'm talking about wonder personally I wouldn't want to live in a world without it and the world does have a to know it's just foolish except people forget or when they grow up and meet us I call it a fate now wouldn't it be wonderful if on your birthday instead of ties and socks and things you got three wishes and they all came true every year on your birthday I'll write to our congressmen about it there gentlemen gentlemen hey it happens only rarely and seldom comes in full fruition but this one should mature sufficiently they let us know what kind it is what kind what is dr. oh I'm sorry I thought I'd mentioned it mrs. Baxter you're $10 she has a button money bud well I don't know yet we'll just have to wait and find out no no no much too early we can do that in about five days from now but in the meantime we don't know how the weather is going to be so I want to Pupkin you're going to put a tent over them oh no indeed sir I'm going to sleep with them for five days [Music] [Applause] [Music] - it'll only stay mild like this for a few days oh it will you it just [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you'll be doctor don't you want this cold Thank You mrs. Baxter dear this will be a great help [Music] I'm afraid it's more abundant extremist what's that mean in English if the bud is dying [Music] thank you for coming so quickly gentlemen honey honey I understand you have a statement for us mr. Murchison definitely my boy we have a very conclusive statement for you gentlemen the Bund has proven to be a washout which not only vindicates us but takes this case out of the realm of abracadabra and makes it instead the willful passing of bad money now I spoke to the Attorney General perfectly dream you know baby do a crisscross ruffles and we're gonna have a cheese bedspread for the double flat double my goodness that's why Ralph we better hurry and take your raincoat better yet another I will oh you'll love it's wonderful isn't it well now I'm sure you all do probably mine what a babe Miss America no thank you may I have it mrs. Baxter but of course wonderful day simply wonderful day what's wonderful about it something quite the ragas has happened I've never seen anything like it before like watch well as I say saddest ideas get on with it man get on with it well as you all know it was terribly cold last night and the bud was in very bad shape quite hopeless in fact I couldn't sleep for worrying about it so I plucked it and all night I kept it with me here so I suppose it was the wall for my body underneath the bike it's the did it didn't watch revived it sir droves it back to life is it is it a money but haven't looked yet well that's Albany Murchison this is the doctor show Thank You mr. Baxter [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I remember above all else tact if necessary humility what do you mean if necessary mrs. Baxter ma'am when I wrote y'all that should only have to pay the capital gains tax I wasn't aware of the exact situation I'm afraid now you'll have to pay the regular tax it's not due until March 15th isn't well no we should have a fine new crop by then huh we'll pay in cash mr. Baxter as you know this money isn't legal now that's why I would've thought if I hadn't read your letter to my wife Finley I think we can appropriate those trees by law I quote you from article 5 of the Bill of Rights nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation Oh naturally will pay be glad to how much you want why are you paying with money we grow our own it seems to me sir that it is your patriotic duty to give up those trees so that we can destroy them they're a menace to the economy of our country I never intended keeping them and I've never approved using the money my wife will confirm that then we can have them just a minute gentlemen you pushed my wife around and I don't like that you've called our names too and solve I I'm sorry dear I'm sorry too mrs. Baxter my apologies and my apologies interviewed me in there Jim now shall we go outside and give him the trees do they have to be destroyed couldn't they be planted somewhere where no one could get two of them and they could go on growing it seems to me you're killing something very wonderful and very special believe me mrs. Baxter is absolutely necessary in the interests of national safety well then do it quickly I don't want to see them go all right gentlemen oh wait that's um Oh what did you call it feel matter that just compensation the money I spent will have to be replaced and well we just haven't got it we'll take care of that have you any idea how much money you spent twenty-nine hundred and four dollars you asked me to make a list remember that'll be a nine and sixty-eight dollars each boys oh wait I forgot to add in the cost of the trees ten dollars oh yes the original investment 334 more apiece nine hundred and seventy one dollars thirty four cents total gentlemen my husband's a certified public accountant in business for himself now we'll have dr. burrows prepare the trees for shipment to Washington thank you thank you thank you thank you it's all my fault I went to the hotel to write my report to the Institute and I quite forgot what the weather was like outside so you see [Music] they're dead I'm afraid so mrs. Baxter dear Oh doctor my poor darling trees mr. Fawley Baxter yes oh yes when this apologized a sign for 12 voice perhaps last night's cross saved us a lot of trouble goodbye mrs. banks heavy what's in this thing now what do you mean you don't know what's in here I said I bought it at a blind auction for only two dollars and 40 cents and then terribly terribly cheap for for what for what no we'll see in a minute oh please Polly look at all that junk well now all that needs is a little cleaning off and straightening out enjoy your Easter bonnet well of course for only two dollars and 40 cents you can expect something useful master a cheese knife Phil please don't tease me today I'm not teasing you honey I know how you'll feel about those trees really Polly it was all for the best wondering Enchantment all the rest of it are just fine but they don't fit in with everyday life I wonder [Applause] [Music] Oh Oh [Music]

Channel: Chris Johnson

Views: 67,157

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Keywords: Irene Dunne, Dean Jagger, Joan Evans, Richard Crenna, Edith Meiser, Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, Maclom Lee Beggs, Frank Ferguson, Bob Sweeney, Dee Pollock, Sandy Descher

Id: eMYQYyTCwDk

Length: 83min 54sec (5034 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 25 2018