Miss Polly (1941) HAL ROACH COMEDY

[Music] so [Music] bye [Music] right speedy ain't he he's only doing 14. yeah tourist huh that there's two miles too fast two miles too fast what's your name ah reckless driver too aren't you got your run board knocked off got your one board knocked off are you kidding what kind of a bird is this i don't know it this young fellow this community we don't courage speed now owner nothing else is up to date that's why i'm getting out of town as soon as i get you broke in pretty little town what's holding it back oh that's darn civic league that's what while the 9 o'clock curfew rings they take in the sidewalk they lock up the town like it was a jail no late movies no spoon in the park no dancing why you can't even buy a bottle of soda here i've only got a few years left and i'm gonna spend them or i can get something out of life [Music] there they go headed for bridgeport to spend their paychecks 20 000 of them camped just outside of here with 21 a month to spend and they go through this place like it had small parks can't you do something about it not with old lady snodgrass and her civic league running this town watch the civic league about your blue nose long hair it's too old straight lace to have any fun yourself so they don't want nobody [Music] else [Music] there to sample your civic leaders it's a crime in this town for kids to act natural that's why we had no marriages in two [Music] years did you sell my daughter this disgraceful outfit is something wrong there certainly is when our daughters can buy in dc clothes like this right in our hometown it's about time the girls of this town wore something up to date i'll see the civic league puts a padlock on your door when mr sandgrass hears about this i'm gonna wear it you take it off and right [Music] [Music] now [Music] here's where the cause of it all lives who's that minerva snodgrass the worst old snoop in town find everybody's business better own i hope all the folks in town they like her oh we got a few exceptions now you think miss polly lives next door that prim and proper nomads you'd ever want to find but need a better life more respected lady in the whole town you don't say yes i do say she may not have made a success of her own life but you don't go around trying to mess up nobody else's [Music] there's miss polly [Music] anyone else get their mail there yes patsy her companion and cook and sam wilkins a hired man he's sort of a crazy inventor air slam on one of his inventions what's the name of ours get out is that thing one of my new inventions cuts the grass breaks the lead smokes out copper i'll show you well i'll be what won't you think of it what thunder kind of contraption is this must be another one of slim's invention howdy wilbur what do you think of my new burglar-proof mailbox what in tarnation is it fur so nobody can read other people's mail don't seem very burglar-proof to me oh just open the door and try and take that letter out [Music] slim wilkins i'll have the law on you for disturbing the peace sorry mrs snodgrass just trying out another one of my new inventions yeah keep snoops out other folks's mailbox you keep out of this you're a menace to the neighborhood well if he's a menace what do you call your concern civic league will the bombs i'll have you fired if i have to take it up with the postmaster general well for once in your life you ain't so smart because i'm retiring as of this evening pro bono publicly works for that effect until this evening keep your mouth to yourself you old fossil old-fashioned why are you oh sweetie i guess that's telling her let's get out of here i've been working 30 years to get my attention and i want to live long enough to spend it [Music] miss bali where's barbara i gave her your message she's waiting for you in the summer house but you have to be careful her mother's on the war path come on [Music] so [Music] oh she's coming round the mountain here she comes here she comes oh she's coming round the mountain here she comes [Music] better go round the summer house here she comes here she comes [Music] ah go ahead hmm what's the matter with you and me oh spring always does this to me duty keeps saying come here and go in go in but this beautiful weather just won't let me isn't the air bombing today that's not the only thing that's bombing around here boy that was close what you doing buttering around with some flowers those are her prized zinnias she's going to enter them in the flower show she might be out there for hours hours i've got to get back to work i'll lose my job and then we can't get married we can't get married anyway eddie yes we can you can sneak out tonight after she goes to bed darling we've been over all that i love you and want to marry you but but i can't you know it you can't stay tied to raping strings all your life no you said i i know i'll never be able to break away fiddlesticks why doesn't barbara assert yourself before it's too late okay then bears i'm gonna get out of town and start all over again oh eddie you don't really mean that yes i do i guess we might just as well forget the whole thing you don't love me already i do fabs so right under my very nose mrs snodgrass we really love each other not a word get into the house you're going to be locked in your room until you've learned obedience but mother you heard me go up to your room and stay there yes mother get off my property if i ever catch you on it again i'll have the law on you oh dear me what are you snooping around for i'm not snooping i was just trimming the hitch for you [Music] it's high time he was calling to me come on in wrong come on here's what left me miss polly not that rear guard attacking that homemade flamethrower of slims well never mind that get busy and do something do something while i do don't do anything get lunch ready but act like nothing's happened i can't get lunch ready the stove won't work i thought slim fixed the soul that's why it won't work where is he i'd like to get hold of him right around his neck here i am and i'll get it in the neck without any help from you oh come out of there and unfix what you're fixing the stove and if anyone questioned you remember you never invented a thing well what's all the excitement about it are we gonna add company we're liable to lots of company any minute oh dear hurry hurry but do something now look at this nothing works not this this not even the oven since you fixed it no wonder you couldn't work it you forgot to turn on my new gas saving safety device well get it going i'll go catch a chicken for lunch [Music] oh [Music] always running out of things around here say that i better oh no i said oh hello is anything wrong i'll show you what's wrong come with me oh well [Music] take a look at my prized flowers my zinnias my marigolds my gladiolas and that liquid garden of yours is the cause of it all with his idiotic contraption he calls an invention he ruined my home and nearly asphyxiated the leading members of the civic league oh really oh i mean that's too bad i'm calling a meeting of the civic league at the town hall at three o'clock this afternoon and you better be there well what's the use of my coming always vote yes anyway someday i'm gonna invent one of these things that really works you'll be at that meeting cause i'm bringing charges i'm gonna have you run out of town and maybe you'll go with him slim i'm ashamed of you you're really gonna let that old sourpuss bluff you out of town oh it ain't her exactly mr paulie him he's coming eddie i'll get her you going away too two who else is going me i'm getting out of this town for good what's this eddie why you can't go away what about barbara oh it's no use miss polly barbara will never leave her mother i thought you might help me to see her just once more so i can tell her goodbye oh now don't you be down-hearted love will always find a way i'll see if i can get her to sneak over barbara [Applause] barbara oh barbara eddie's over here and he wants to say goodbye to you he's leaving town tonight oh miss polly no he mustn't leave i won't let him well if you want to stop him you better get over here quick how can i mother's got me locked in oh dear really i listen that's all it's wearing yeah i can get her over here in a jiffy loving slim wilkins laughs at locksmiths well a slim has a way of getting you out just sit tight until we're ready all right you can get her out sure how with my patent applied for jiffy automatically open device uh-oh here we go again what'll happen when this is snug ross hears that thing go off you won't hear it i got that angle licked with this here silencer also takes the recoil out of the cannon are you sure it's safe i invented it didn't i answer the question you don't need to act so scared you won't even know when it goes off [Music] uh must have backfired a little oh i wonder if mrs snodgrass heard that hooking out the window still climbing that thing and slide on down hurry hey wait a minute mr snodgrass is about to open the window it's now or never come on [Applause] howdy mr snodgrass what are you up to now you old medley just to show you there's no hard feelings i just rigged up to clean the owls out of your chimney if there's any owls in my chimney let them be i was in my chimney indeed this is the last straw instead of running him out of town i'll have him jake slim wilkins that's cool oh come on now let's get out of here let these young and say goodbye come on [Music] well i only wish she had more gum she well i for one will keep on hoping you know there's many a slip twix the cup on the lip the cup in the lid i wonder now what you remember how papa used to tot her down the basement stairs to his secret wine cellar and then came bounding up three steps at a time raring to go yeah well he confided in me one day that what gave him that pep was out of a special secret bottle yeah would you remember my sister cadilla don't you she was just like barbara only more backward well one day she had sneaked a little drink out of the bottle and a lope of the butcher boy and in her last letter tells me that she's just had her 17th child and is still going strong but what's that all got to do with barbara if we could find just a little bit for barbara i'll bet she'd marry eddie just like that come on [Music] i guess that's goodbye eddie goodbye nothing i've got my car parked outside everything packed and ready to go we can be married in bridgeport and on our honeymoon before anybody misses you but when mother does find out your mother i'm marrying you not your mother let's get away from this mildew town before we both go to sea yeah it is pretty old-fashioned this on enjoy it stand back i wouldn't trust him with a potato masher much less an axe stand back give me a room no no my own strength now if we could only tell which is the special bottle that's empty that's only partly filled it may be the very one here you take this patsy bring a glass slam have you got a corkscrew here like this i learned that by correspondence do you mind drinking this slam well uh drinking's against my principles oh but it's for a noble cause does it give you sort of a warm glow no does it make you feel like you're falling in love no wrong bob here open this and does it make your heart beat faster feels like it stopped all together no there it goes again it doesn't make you feel amorous how do you mean well does it make you feel like you'd like to kiss patricia do i have to tasted bad enough as it was wrong bottle come on let's get some more i want to take you somewhere you can look as smart and be as beautiful as you really are now what do you say barbara and this time it's final [Music] idiot i can't believe it's me talking but but i'm saying yes barbara you've got to get me back there but barbara you just promised me i can't do it eddie i've got to get back up there before she finds out it's gone i might have known this was too good to be true [Music] what's the meaning of this are you out of your mind look at yourself take that thing off immediately until you get over this silly infatuation you won't get out of my sight everywhere i go i'll take you with me and i'll settle that precious any of yours once and for all you know i don't think you're pouring these drinks big enough maybe a good big one would do it how's that no that stuff's too old it's lost its kick too old let's see if i can find it [Applause] [Music] we want to get the full effect what do you mean we you're just wasting time miss polly slim's right the stuff's too old we're gonna think of some other way so wow [Music] great grief it can't be the drinks i'm [Applause] [Music] alright [Music] [Music] [Music] move over i was looking all over for you then right here lot of moisture in there might be warmer rain waffle clothes i'm more covered with perspiration let's go from what happened to us [Music] i do miss polly hell you're beautiful huh who me what are you doing tonight who me taking me to prayer meeting i know but what are you doing after prayer meeting [Music] so [Music] oh that is your right bottle [Music] [Applause] wow [Music] from the system have you seen this polly have i seen her who hasn't [Music] we're on the right track oh there she is oh hello neighbors hello look at that get up hello joey old kid [Music] how are you miss paulie oh you'd be surprised you old devil it's a great day for necky that's what they call it today vamping joe fry [Music] well how long has this been going on but martha you don't understand i got eyes and ears you old you just wait till i get you home and you'll hear about this at the meeting oh simple baffle [Music] slim we gotta stop they save that bottle [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey wait we've lost her let's double that what are we skipping for come on the next thing we must do fellow civic leaguers is to purify the street corners of this fair city and abolish the sinful practice of young men ogling our girls as they pass by an insidious infiltration has been boring from within in this community consisting of the emission of a whistling sound vulgarly known as the call of the wolf perpetrated by puckering the lips and expelling the sound thusly all those in favor of making this offense a legal misdemeanor say aye contrarily opposed signify by saying no no well i say you're all here but whatever it is it's still no longer remember elmer can fact devil know and none of the young men i've ever at me that'll often wish they would oh thank you boys thank you molly you are making a fool of yourself get off this platform oh phil fallon minerva i've got a few views myself about how this town should be run in the first place instead of passing laws that'll drive our young people out of town we should pass a few little key from here now you're talking that's the first sensible idea i've heard of one of these fool meetings in 15 years we've got to get her out of here if we could only sneak up close enough to grab her leave it to me let's have fewer lights in the park and let's keep it open till 10 o'clock and let them go to the movies without a chaperone so they can hold hands during the love scene and let's give more dances on saturday night so that they can get into each other's arms once in a while why you aren't doing anything to help them that's why there ain't been a marriage in this town for two years why isn't there as chairman of this meeting you will escort miss polly out of the hall yep once oh mayor i'm sorry mrs snodgrass as chairman of this meeting i'm doing no such thing what i've been knocking down to you for years but i'm the mayor and for once i'm gonna be the mayor it's time we heard somebody's views in this town besides yours how about it neighbors yeah let miss polly talk don't be afraid of miss polly where for you mr paulie you've got the right idea go ahead miss polly oh thank you mr maron miss snodgrass a little innocent love making never hurt a youngster i only wish i'd had more of it boy is miss polly giving those civic leaguers are going over wow only let our young folks have fun in the open like they want to and not beat around the bush like we had to what do you mean like we hunter why you remember those hayrides we used to sneak out on joe fry well you ought to you were the worst kissing bug in the crowd well you remember they used to call you mushy fry the lady killing guy yeah sure they did mushy fry the lady killing guy i am you went on those hayrides too henry remember you were sparking millie campbell but she turned you down so you married angie there instead just for spite mr mayor i'm protesting our children are present and we're respectable citizens at least i am you may be very proper now jim pennywinkle but you were the one who asked me to get off the hay wagon before we reached the fairgrounds and i said no i've often regretted that oh but you got off with him elvira and now you're a mrs pennywinkle oh so i was second choice eh what's she digging up the pass for we're trying to settle the problems of today well young folks today are the same as you was then our cena wiggins remember the time you stayed all night at my house sam frisbee over there asked me to steal out for a walk in the moonlight but i wouldn't go but you went so you took our moonlighting did you i'll moonlight you you went sparking without anemia or weasel well i'm starting proceedings in the morning and naming him there's correspondent you home record you calling me a homewrecker why don't you tell your wife about that ice skating episode with andy turner three nights before your wedding when you've said you were deploying on a business trip you tell me and you won't have a hair left in your head angie turner you shut your mouth or i'll tell what happened at the husking bee between you and sylvester updike and i can prove it by tilly moffat and the aloysius dunphy because we're both there at that disgraceful affair i can explain all about that husk and v never would have a know-how only once he fly there he's bite the cider spike the cider you and your temperance lectures and that's for the next thing i'm going to find out i'll see you after the meat mr frisbee you won't be able to see nobody when i get through with you shut up you old don't you you ain't heard the last of this jim pennywinkle boy i wouldn't have missed this it's more fun than a circus just like an orion angie henry jim keep your seats be quiet well miss polly i hope you're satisfied that you've said enough for one day well about all i was going to say in conclusion was that if our girls don't start dressing up a little the same thing is going to happen to them that happened to us when fifi that cute little redheaded waitress came to town and went to work at the station lunchroom it wasn't long before she had all the sparking in town and then for some mysterious reason she left just sudden like oh you were the station master then pop parson why did she leave like she did well i never intended to tell this but if i have to oh you said fifi was a french poodle that's why you never came home to your meals order mr parsons put away that book this is the most disgraceful meeting in the history of the midville civic league pandora polly i don't know what truth or substance there isn't what you've said about our other members but i've lived here girl and woman for over 50 years and you must admit not one breath of scandal has touched my name while i've been in this town no minerva while you lived in this town you behaved right good but what about that vacation we spent in 1911 at kiyuki lake why why pandora polly you don't mean your tail well i was just thinking about that starlet night when you paddled across the lake to lovers island with that big blonde sailor he was a marine so the head of our civic league has never had a past well not outside of the marine corps well whatever he was it was an awful night for me waiting for you from eight o'clock till nine o'clock till ten o'clock till eleven o'clock two get some water give her a drink yeah it's got some water get some water oh water i spilled it any neighbors out there got any water don't use it all i gotta have some of it analyzed yeah yeah drink this mother are you all right why of course i'm all right and as for you folks now that you've succeeded in scandalizing this meeting and disgracing yourselves i've just got one thing to say oh why don't you sweet young things get married love is the most beautiful thing in the world don't you think so miss polly well i always thought so minerva [Music] uh [Music] you

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Length: 44min 15sec (2655 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 27 2018