1. Come on, Charlie. Stop messing
about. We really have to get down to it now.Copy !req
2. I just hope our friendship
survives the day, that's all.Copy !req
3. Oh, George,
don't be so melodramatic.Copy !req
4. Well, it's
your autobiography, Charlie.Copy !req
5. And as your editor, I have to tell you
that parts of the manuscriptCopy !req
6. are pretty vague, to say the least.
I mean, for instance, your mother.Copy !req
7. Now, when did she first lose control?Copy !req
8. We need to know those facts.Copy !req
9. It's hard to say.Copy !req
10. She could be so wonderful
on her good days.Copy !req
11. Can't hear you, love!Copy !req
12. - Come on, get on with it!
- Get off!Copy !req
13. Silly woman! Get off, you silly cow!Copy !req
14. Come on, Mum!Copy !req
15. We want our money back!Copy !req
16. - Come on!
- What's the matter with you?Copy !req
17. Get off!Copy !req
18. Off! Off! Quick, lady, off!Copy !req
19. Listen, listen. Come on. Cut it out!Copy !req
20. Off!Copy !req
21. You're out of it. Finished.Copy !req
22. Ladies and gentlemen...
Ladies and gentlemen!Copy !req
23. Ladies and gentlemen,
retaining your special attention...Copy !req
24. Come on! Play the game! Play fair, lads.Copy !req
25. Play the game! Come on, lads!Copy !req
26. - Stop! Please, sir!
- Get off the stage!Copy !req
27. Get off the bloody stage!Copy !req
28. - Isn't he cute?
- We got another lovely act for you...Copy !req
29. - What?
- Mister, I know it. I can do the song.Copy !req
30. Says he knows it, let him do it!
- Let him have a go!Copy !req
31. Give the boy a chance, then!Copy !req
32. What's your name, son?Copy !req
33. - Charles.
- Charles, Charles what?Copy !req
34. - Charles Chaplin.
- Charles Chaplin.Copy !req
35. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
at very short notice and at great expense,Copy !req
36. for your special pleasure, we're delighted
to present Master Charles Chaplin.Copy !req
37. Half a mo!Copy !req
38. Ready?Copy !req
39. Your mother never sang again?
No. Never.Copy !req
40. I'm warning you, Mrs. Chaplin,
if I don't get me rent, I'll report you!Copy !req
41. Them two little mites ain't fed proper!Copy !req
42. If I don't get me rent today, I'll report you!Copy !req
43. You're two months behind!Copy !req
44. The rent? Rent?Copy !req
45. What on Earth is that?Copy !req
46. Oh, shut up, you ghastly woman!Copy !req
47. Go on, Mum.Copy !req
48. Sorry it's only fish heads again, darlings.Copy !req
49. I'll get you a plum cake one day.Copy !req
50. When my ship comes in.Copy !req
51. Mum? Someone's coming!Copy !req
52. Mrs. Chaplin?Copy !req
53. These are your children, I take it?Copy !req
54. Not the workhouse.Copy !req
55. For their own good.Copy !req
56. Stop! Come back here!Copy !req
57. Stop him!Copy !req
58. Stop, you little...Copy !req
59. Come here! We've got...Copy !req
60. Come here, you little...Copy !req
61. We've got him!Copy !req
62. Syd!Copy !req
63. Syd!Copy !req
64. Now, then. Up you go.Copy !req
65. Syd!Copy !req
66. Get off! Put me down! Let me go!
Let go of me.Copy !req
67. You were beaten?Copy !req
68. With a cane as thick
as a man's thumb.Copy !req
69. And Syd?Copy !req
70. Sent to a training ship.
Then to sea.Copy !req
71. You don't tell us how long you
spent in the workhouse, or how you got out.Copy !req
72. I don't? That's a mistake.
I was there for a year.Copy !req
73. Um, my mother started taking in piecework.Copy !req
74. Sewing gloves.Copy !req
75. So, while you were growing up,
it was just the two of you.Copy !req
76. - Your father?
What about my father?Copy !req
77. Well, he died during that period,
didn't he? When you were 12.Copy !req
78. - You don't write very much about him.
I don't know very much about him.Copy !req
79. He left just after I was born,
he sang on the stage, he died of drink.Copy !req
80. What else should I say?Copy !req
81. Well, this is your book
we're talking about, Charlie.Copy !req
82. It's your life. It's up to you.Copy !req
83. Hold your horse, gov.
Hold your horse, gov.Copy !req
84. What's up, Rummy?
All the booze gone down to your feet?Copy !req
85. - Don't you give me that lip, Charlie.
Come on.Copy !req
86. All right, clear off out of here!
Go on, go on. Now!Copy !req
87. Didn't mean no harm.Copy !req
88. Watch you, Lil.Copy !req
89. - Charlie?
- Yeah.Copy !req
90. Hello, love.Copy !req
91. Hi, Charlie. Know what?
Your mum's gone mad again!Copy !req
92. Get off!Copy !req
93. Mum?Copy !req
94. Thank God you got here, Charlie!Copy !req
95. I got you that plum cake, just like I said.Copy !req
96. Thanks, Mum.Copy !req
97. Make your mark, son,
if you can't sign.Copy !req
98. The parish doctor said to bring her here.Copy !req
99. Well, she'll be better off.Copy !req
100. - What about you, son?
- I'll be fine.Copy !req
101. - What do you mean, "fine"?
- I'll stay with me aunty.Copy !req
102. You watch your feet, mister!
Shoes cost money!Copy !req
103. Sometimes she thinks
the floor is the River Jordan.Copy !req
104. - We won't get wet, Mum.
- Yes, we'll do our best.Copy !req
105. Why don't you say goodbye
to her now, sonny?Copy !req
106. - Charlie!
- Wasn't thinking, Mum.Copy !req
107. - Mum, I love you so much.
- I know, I know.Copy !req
108. If only you'd given me a cup of tea,
I'd have been all right.Copy !req
109. They'll take better care of you
than I can, Mum.Copy !req
110. One cup of tea!
You must have wanted to get rid of me bad.Copy !req
111. I didn't, Mum. I really didn't.Copy !req
112. - Come along, dear.
- You're a lying little runt.Copy !req
113. You're gonna end up just like your father.Copy !req
114. Charlie? Don't do this to me.Copy !req
115. I love you, Charlie.
Don't let them take me away from you!Copy !req
116. No, you can't
let them do this to me!Copy !req
117. Don't let them do this to me, Charlie!Copy !req
118. Don't let them take me away from you!
Charlie!Copy !req
119. Why are you doing this?Copy !req
120. Was you scared, Syd?
First time you met this Karno geezer?Copy !req
121. Every bugger's scared. And it's
Mr. Karno to the likes of you, remember.Copy !req
122. If you wanna be in vaudeville,Copy !req
123. you don't work for him,
you don't work for nobody. Got it?Copy !req
124. Yes.Copy !req
125. Now, look, if you get this job,
and with what I'm bringing in,Copy !req
126. we can move Mum somewhere better.Copy !req
127. - Don't let me down.
- I'll be great, Syd.Copy !req
128. You don't have to be great.
Just shut up and be funny.Copy !req
129. - Morning, Mr. Karno.
- Hello, Sydney. Come on over.Copy !req
130. - All right.
- We've got summat to eat.Copy !req
131. Ta.Copy !req
132. Now, then,
what about this young brother of yours?Copy !req
133. Well, you know,
he's been legit up to now, Mr. Karno.Copy !req
134. But he sings and he dances a treat.Copy !req
135. Sydney, Sydney.Copy !req
136. I've got song and dance men like you
coming out of me ears.Copy !req
137. I need comics.Copy !req
138. Yeah, well, his slapstick is fantastic.Copy !req
139. You know, he's got the knack. Watch him.Copy !req
140. He can do more, you know. More stuff.Copy !req
141. I hope so.Copy !req
142. Bloody hell!Copy !req
143. - You all right, kid?
- Yes.Copy !req
144. Need the job that bad, eh?Copy !req
145. Yes, sir.Copy !req
146. You know what comedy is?Copy !req
147. Knowing who you are
and where you come from.Copy !req
148. - And it's got to be perfection.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
149. - Can I come out now?
- You may.Copy !req
150. Ladies and gentlemen, it's been
a great evening so far, hasn't it?Copy !req
151. Well, I promise you,
you are going to love the next act.Copy !req
152. Everybody loves elephants.Copy !req
153. And, right here on our stage,Copy !req
154. you will see 20 of the largest,
most graceful specimens.Copy !req
155. These are straight from the jungle.Copy !req
156. Do you mind, sir?Copy !req
157. I'm trying to introduce
our dancing elephants.Copy !req
158. Do please take your seat, sir.Copy !req
159. Sit down, sir!Copy !req
160. Take your feet down, sir!Copy !req
161. Show a little respect!Copy !req
162. And now, ladies and gentlemen,
a very big round of applauseCopy !req
163. for our next act!Copy !req
164. Captain Boytom
and his pulchritudinous pachyderms!Copy !req
165. Oh, no, really, sir! This is too much.Copy !req
166. Kindly remember, sir,
this is a place of entertainment,Copy !req
167. not a four-ale bar
or a rest home for inebriates!Copy !req
168. Now, sit down and behave yourself.Copy !req
169. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Charles Chaplin!Copy !req
170. Good evening.Copy !req
171. Ladies and gentlemen,
for your continuing enjoyment...Copy !req
172. - How do, cookie?
- All right, dearie?Copy !req
173. - Hello, Charlie.
- Hello, Laurie love.Copy !req
174. - Hear your governor's in tonight.
- Yeah, I saw him.Copy !req
175. Hello, love.Copy !req
176. Hey, Charlie, come and do me up,
will you, love?Copy !req
177. I'm that late!Copy !req
178. I'm never going to make it.Copy !req
179. So, when did it start?Copy !req
180. This afternoon. He's only four.Copy !req
181. I thought he'd cough his little heart out.Copy !req
182. It could be the croup.
You should call a doctor.Copy !req
183. I can't afford no doctor!Copy !req
184. Yankee Doodles,
five minutes, please!Copy !req
185. Just give him a bit
and say you'll pay the rest later.Copy !req
186. Come on, girls, you'll be off.
Get a move on!Copy !req
187. Can't get this blasted thing
to close.Copy !req
188. Here, Charlie, my Harry was in last night.
He thought you were hysterical!Copy !req
189. - Charlie, now, how do I look?
- Fine. Yeah, fine.Copy !req
190. You're a good boy, Charlie.
Saved my bacon.Copy !req
191. Stupid...Copy !req
192. What are you doing in here?Copy !req
193. The others don't mind.Copy !req
194. Well, I do!Copy !req
195. You must be new.Copy !req
196. I'm going to complain. I'll tell Mr. Karno.Copy !req
197. - Dirty, little good-for-nothing.
- Lips.Copy !req
198. What?Copy !req
199. Lips.Copy !req
200. Oh, no.Copy !req
201. Here.Copy !req
202. I'm still going to complain.Copy !req
203. Ta.Copy !req
204. Well, thanks, I suppose.Copy !req
205. Last again?Copy !req
206. Good evening, my lady.Copy !req
207. - Evening, my Lord.
Evening, Joe.Copy !req
208. Here, give us your coat.Copy !req
209. - Thank you.
- Coat, sir?Copy !req
210. - Thank you, madam.
- Thank you.Copy !req
211. And your hat, sir.Copy !req
212. Go! Look the other way.Copy !req
213. Oi!Copy !req
214. Hello, hello, who's out on the town, then?Copy !req
215. - Evening, Governor.
- And in my tails, at that!Copy !req
216. Mrs. Karno.Copy !req
217. Don't go spilling nothing down your front,
my lad.Copy !req
218. Cost me good money, did that suit.Copy !req
219. Ah, Fred, you are a one.Copy !req
220. You want to watch him, darling.Copy !req
221. This time tomorrow, be on the high seas.Copy !req
222. Don't say I didn't warn you.Copy !req
223. Cor blimey.Copy !req
224. Good evening. I booked a table.Copy !req
225. Name of Chaplin.Copy !req
226. I booked it a week ago.Copy !req
227. There's nothing here, sir.Copy !req
228. We're fully booked.Copy !req
229. There must be some error.Copy !req
230. I really did book that table. You know?Copy !req
231. I know.Copy !req
232. You know,
it's 'cause that geezer's seen us with Karno.Copy !req
233. And they won't have theatricals
in them fancy places.Copy !req
234. You wait. Someday they'll beg.Copy !req
235. Yeah, we'll walk in there, you and me.Copy !req
236. You in a fur, dripping jewels,
me in me own whistle.Copy !req
237. - Whistle?
- Yeah, whistle and flute. Suit.Copy !req
238. Oh. I see.Copy !req
239. Will you marry me?Copy !req
240. No.Copy !req
241. I mean, where would I get
the jewels, anyway?Copy !req
242. From me, you know.Copy !req
243. Engagement rings, wedding tiaras, rubies,
diamonds, pearls, emeralds...Copy !req
244. Charlie, I can't marry you.Copy !req
245. I can't think of any reason why not.Copy !req
246. Well, I'm only 16.Copy !req
247. Yeah, well, you know, you get older.
Why else?Copy !req
248. Well, we hardly know each other.Copy !req
249. This is the first time we spent
more than a couple of minutes together.Copy !req
250. All right, well, when I get back from America,
we'll spend more time together.Copy !req
251. Why else?Copy !req
252. Charlie, are you serious?Copy !req
253. Well, were you, Charlie?Copy !req
254. 'Cause you say you were.Copy !req
255. I just want to make sure you got down
exactly what you meant. That's all.Copy !req
256. - It's on page 40-something.
- 33.Copy !req
257. Yes.Copy !req
258. I mean, you never even kissed her.Copy !req
259. You think I don't know that?Copy !req
260. Okay, I'll just backtrack for a moment. Um...Copy !req
261. After you had your mother committed
to the asylum,Copy !req
262. it all gets a bit vague.Copy !req
263. - Don't you think?
- Yes, it does.Copy !req
264. Why is that?Copy !req
265. Because I don't wish to remember it.Copy !req
266. All right, fair enough.Copy !req
267. But if you'll allow me to say so, Charlie,Copy !req
268. I don't think, and I know
this will sound very American,Copy !req
269. but you shouldn't be afraid to let the readers
share your emotions or your feelings.Copy !req
270. Know what I mean?Copy !req
271. You'll break me heart
if you don't marry me, Hetty.Copy !req
272. I mean, or at least say you'll wait for me.Copy !req
273. I'll wait for you.Copy !req
274. Charlie, how long are you going to be
in America?Copy !req
275. Well, I don't know. Do I? I mean, exactly.Copy !req
276. You know, we'll be on tour.Copy !req
277. Depends if they like the drunk act.Copy !req
278. You know, if they start throwing things,
I won't be gone long.Copy !req
279. They're not gonna throw things
at you, Charlie.Copy !req
280. They're gonna think you're wonderful.
I mean, I...Copy !req
281. I think you're wonderful.Copy !req
282. But you know what the funny thing is?Copy !req
283. You never mentioned love.Copy !req
284. Well, I don't have to, do I?Copy !req
285. Number nine, pulling in from Chicago.Copy !req
286. Let's get them steer loaded up, boys.Copy !req
287. Nickel.Copy !req
288. Sit down.Copy !req
289. Sorry.Copy !req
290. Uh... Have you seen
that English bloke? There he is.Copy !req
291. Watch this, Stanley.Copy !req
292. I've told you. I've seen it before.Copy !req
293. Here look, there's a telegram come for you.Copy !req
294. Show it again.Copy !req
295. But you've already seen everything twice.Copy !req
296. The one with the fire engine.Copy !req
297. You'll love this one, Stanley.Copy !req
298. If any of them could really act,
they'd be on stage.Copy !req
299. Charlie, look. You must listen.
It's a telegram.Copy !req
300. That can only mean somebody's died.Copy !req
301. Some bloke offering me a job in California.Copy !req
302. In the flickers.Copy !req
303. It's not legit in the flickers.Copy !req
304. $150 a week.Copy !req
305. At $150 a week!Copy !req
306. Watch your step.Copy !req
307. Bye, sir.Copy !req
308. Hit him harder, Fred!Copy !req
309. Harder!Copy !req
310. Put some effort in to it, boys!
This ain't no Sunday school picnic!Copy !req
311. That's right. Good! Again!Copy !req
312. Good, Fred.Copy !req
313. Ready when you are, Mr. Sennett.Copy !req
314. Everyone set? Okay. Begin!Copy !req
315. - There's someone in the shot.
- Keep cranking. Still cranking!Copy !req
316. Cut. Cut it! Jesus Christ!Copy !req
317. Were we good till the dummies come out?Copy !req
318. Excuse me, miss? Can you tell me
where I could find Mr. Mack Sennett?Copy !req
319. What the hell do you think you're doing?Copy !req
320. I'm afraid you just found him.Copy !req
321. How do you do, sir. I'm Charlie Chaplin.Copy !req
322. Chaplin. You sent me a telegram.Copy !req
323. Butte, Montana.Copy !req
324. You've hired me for a year, Mr. Sennett.Copy !req
325. You can't be Chaplin.Copy !req
326. The guy I hired did
the best comedy drunk I ever saw.Copy !req
327. But he was old.Copy !req
328. I don't pay $100 a week to juveniles.Copy !req
329. Another one, boss?
No, we'll move on.Copy !req
330. Mr. Sennett?Copy !req
331. Okay.Copy !req
332. You might be Chaplin after all.Copy !req
333. Oh. It was $150, Mr. Sennett.Copy !req
334. Plum in the middle of the shot.
See?Copy !req
335. You really screwed it up,
didn't you, Chaplin?Copy !req
336. Fix it, will you, Rollie?Copy !req
337. We don't print till we cut it.Copy !req
338. That was negative, kid.Copy !req
339. Now, I know this is all new to you.
But remember something, we're all new.Copy !req
340. This is not an ancient industry.Copy !req
341. This whole place here is built around speed.Copy !req
342. Start the story, start the chase.Copy !req
343. I get bored easy, is why.Copy !req
344. How much do you reckon, Mack?
A couple of yards of Mabel?Copy !req
345. Yeah. No, make it three.
But don't go thinking we sacrifice quality.Copy !req
346. I never make more than
two motion pictures a week.Copy !req
347. But I'll spend up to $1, 000 on each of them
if I have to.Copy !req
348. How we doing there, Rollie?Copy !req
349. In a moment, boss.Copy !req
350. "Waste not, want not. "
That's my motto, son.Copy !req
351. When Rollie's done, no one will ever know
you were on that dirt road at all.Copy !req
352. Just rewinding.Copy !req
353. You're on the cutting room floor, Chaplin.
Not the place to be.Copy !req
354. Got it.Copy !req
355. Go ahead, kid.Copy !req
356. Just forget everything you ever learned.
You're not in the theater anymore.Copy !req
357. Yeah, that did it.Copy !req
358. Thanks, Rollie.
If you need me, I'll be with Mabel.Copy !req
359. - Good night, sir.
Good night, boss.Copy !req
360. Nothing quite like it.Copy !req
361. The feeling of film.Copy !req
362. But have I made it clear
how much the movies terrified me?Copy !req
363. No, not really. Why?Copy !req
364. Oh, well, you've got to help me get that right.Copy !req
365. Nevertheless, I was right to be frightened.
I was dreadful at the beginning.Copy !req
366. Sennett wished he'd never hired me.
It was all I could do to keep control.Copy !req
367. Mario, grazie.Copy !req
368. The truth is I'd have been a total disaster
if I hadn't invented The Tramp.Copy !req
369. Yeah, I've been meaning to talk to you about
the way you've written that.Copy !req
370. I mean, the words just poured out.
It practically wrote itself.Copy !req
371. Remember, I'd only been with Sennett
for a month.Copy !req
372. Oh, that magical moment as I walked through
the wardrobe door.Copy !req
373. I felt possessed.Copy !req
374. I could feel him calling out to me.Copy !req
375. The Tramp.Copy !req
376. Bullshit. And you know it.Copy !req
377. But the truth was
so boring, George.Copy !req
378. Jesus.Copy !req
379. You told him to get changed, remember?Copy !req
380. What's he putting on? A suit of armor?Copy !req
381. Chaplin! Chaplin!Copy !req
382. Get your ass on to the stage, right now!Copy !req
383. Forget the little limey.
Get cranking, Rollie.Copy !req
384. Okay! Begin!Copy !req
385. Very formal, everybody.Copy !req
386. What the hell?Copy !req
387. He's gone crazy.Copy !req
388. What do I do? What do I do?Copy !req
389. Cut it. No, wait, wait. Hold it. Keep it going.Copy !req
390. Maybe he's not so crazy after all.
Photographer!Copy !req
391. Henry, chase him around the camera!Copy !req
392. Okay, put him in line.
Big reaction! Big reaction! Who is this?Copy !req
393. Stay down, Henry. Stay down!Copy !req
394. Groom! Look jealous! Jealous!Copy !req
395. You can do better than that, can't you?Copy !req
396. Bride. Mabel, give the tramp the eye.
That's right.Copy !req
397. Yeah, yeah, yeah.Copy !req
398. Matron, you're real hoity-toity.
Who is this bum? Good. Very good!Copy !req
399. Groom, get mad.
He's trying to spoon your lovely bride!Copy !req
400. Matron, take a swing at him!Copy !req
401. All right! Domino fall! Domino fall!Copy !req
402. Into the chase! Into the chase!Copy !req
403. Bunched up! Keep it bunched up!Copy !req
404. Good! Good! Terrific!Copy !req
405. Look at the camera.Copy !req
406. Henry, snap it.Copy !req
407. Watch the birdie.Copy !req
408. That's enough. Cut.Copy !req
409. God damn you, Chaplin!
What are you trying to do to me?Copy !req
410. I knew I was right to hire that kid.Copy !req
411. Listen.Copy !req
412. Charlie, you do what I say
or I'll report you to Mack.Copy !req
413. You stand up right now, pick up this hoseCopy !req
414. and when I say, "Begin,"
you sprinkle the road.Copy !req
415. I could do a lot more with that hose
than sprinkle the road.Copy !req
416. I could be funny.Copy !req
417. Two months and you think
you know everything.Copy !req
418. Look, Charlie, I'm the director.Copy !req
419. And this is not a picture about
being funny with a hose.Copy !req
420. You're right. But it could be.Copy !req
421. Chaplin!Copy !req
422. All right, everyone.Copy !req
423. Everyone in wardrobe.Copy !req
424. Head back to the stage.Copy !req
425. We need to hurry, please.Copy !req
426. Let's keep moving.Copy !req
427. Mabel, he's on his way.Copy !req
428. I'm not insisting that you fire him
but if you want to, that's fine with me.Copy !req
429. I love you, honey,
and I'd love to ax the little limey,Copy !req
430. - but they called me from New York.
- And?Copy !req
431. It seems he's an asset to the company.Copy !req
432. But now, don't you worry.
I'll scare him good.Copy !req
433. You're a great director
and I'll make damn sure he knows that.Copy !req
434. Would you hurry, please?Copy !req
435. Is Mack ever waiting for you.Copy !req
436. All right, everyone! We don't have all day!Copy !req
437. Come in!Copy !req
438. Charlie, come in. Please come in.Copy !req
439. You got to help me with Mabel.
She actually thinks she can direct.Copy !req
440. Have a seat. Have a seat.Copy !req
441. Oh. You're not mad, then?Copy !req
442. I've been sitting here waiting for
an actor with the guts to stand up to her.Copy !req
443. How could I be mad?Copy !req
444. I really like you, Charlie.Copy !req
445. I really like you, too, Mack.Copy !req
446. And I bet you've been talking to New York.Copy !req
447. Let me direct the next one.Copy !req
448. What makes you think you can do it?Copy !req
449. - I couldn't do any worse.
- Says you.Copy !req
450. Says I, "What if nobody wants it?
What if it stinks? Who'll pay?"Copy !req
451. I've never seen you pick up a check.Copy !req
452. I'll pay.Copy !req
453. This is my work.Copy !req
454. Did you ever have to pay up?Copy !req
455. No. But, boy, did I work.Copy !req
456. I directed more than 20 films
before the year was out.Copy !req
457. Well, why on Earth
didn't you send for Hetty, then?Copy !req
458. I did write. Never got a reply.Copy !req
459. Thought maybe she was away on tour.Copy !req
460. So I asked Syd to track her down for me.
See how she felt.Copy !req
461. Oh, my God! Look at him!Copy !req
462. This is Minnie.Copy !req
463. - Hello, Charlie.
- Hello.Copy !req
464. Nice to meet you.Copy !req
465. - You, too.
I'll take that.Copy !req
466. Give us a hand, then, Chas, come on.Copy !req
467. What did you pick him for?Copy !req
468. Oh, he's not so bad.Copy !req
469. - Yeah, our Syd's all right.
- Mmm-hmm.Copy !req
470. I don't know, Chas.Copy !req
471. I don't see anybody staring at you.Copy !req
472. Nice little flivver, Chas.
How long you had it?Copy !req
473. A couple of weeks.Copy !req
474. How soon do I get to see Mr. Sennett?Copy !req
475. Got something to show you first.Copy !req
476. Get a load of that!Copy !req
477. I don't believe it!Copy !req
478. It's happened so quick, Chas.Copy !req
479. Twelve months ago,
you were still in vaudeville.Copy !req
480. I'm top of the bill, Syd.Copy !req
481. Yeah? Well, I still haven't seen
anybody staring at you.Copy !req
482. Yeah, that's 'cause I don't look like me.Copy !req
483. - Syd?
- What?Copy !req
484. - What news?
- Mum?Copy !req
485. Mum is fine.Copy !req
486. Well, no.
Not fine but there are lots of good days.Copy !req
487. Well, not lots of, but some.Copy !req
488. And Hetty. Does she know?Copy !req
489. The whole world knows about you, Charlie.Copy !req
490. She gave me this for you.Copy !req
491. Fancy Hetty writing.Copy !req
492. Yeah.Copy !req
493. Syd!Copy !req
494. Look at this.Copy !req
495. She got married.Copy !req
496. I know.Copy !req
497. I'm not surprised. A girl like Hetty.Copy !req
498. I wish her lots of happiness.Copy !req
499. Well, not lots. But some.Copy !req
500. Chin up, kid.Copy !req
501. See, I was right.
He's the most famous man in the world.Copy !req
502. Value for money is all we're after,
Mr. Sennett.Copy !req
503. Charlie, take this guy back to the asylum.Copy !req
504. Look, Syd's me manager now.Copy !req
505. He's given up his acting career
to handle me full time.Copy !req
506. Oh, woe is me!
The theater will never be the same.Copy !req
507. What career?
1, 000 a week is more than I get.Copy !req
508. Charlie's name is bigger, Mr. Sennett.
If you'll pardon me for saying so.Copy !req
509. Charlie, Charlie, I've been so rotten to you!Copy !req
510. I don't know if you can forgive me.Copy !req
511. I forced you to leave Butte, Montana.Copy !req
512. I made you accept $150 per.Copy !req
513. You mentioned directing
and I stuffed that down your throat, too.Copy !req
514. Now, tell me how else
Uncle Mack can make it up to you!Copy !req
515. I want to run me own show, Mack.
I want control.Copy !req
516. Dream on, kid. I know this business.
And you're not that big.Copy !req
517. First time I've seen you miss, Mack.Copy !req
518. But, Charlie, Mack Sennett
was the absolute king of comedy.Copy !req
519. He gave you your start.Copy !req
520. And how could you
just walk out and leave him flat?Copy !req
521. The reasons were
purely intellectual. Money.Copy !req
522. So, you joined up with
"Bronco Billy" Anderson,Copy !req
523. a puffed-up cowboy star.Copy !req
524. Not one of the high points of my career.Copy !req
525. But I knew I wanted my own studio.Copy !req
526. Even then,
I was putting money aside to build one.Copy !req
527. Excuse me, miss.Copy !req
528. Do you always eat alone?Copy !req
529. Only when I'm trying
to make a new acquaintance.Copy !req
530. Actually, I'm waiting for my girlfriend.Copy !req
531. Actually, I'm a motion picture director.Copy !req
532. And I'm forming a new company
with Bronco Billy over there.Copy !req
533. And you're looking for a new leading lady.Copy !req
534. Lucky me.Copy !req
535. Obviously, you are an actress, Miss...Copy !req
536. Purviance. Sorry, just a secretary.Copy !req
537. Don't be sorry. I'm auditioning for
actresses who aren't actresses.Copy !req
538. Well, if you're on the lookout for untalented
actresses who aren't actresses,Copy !req
539. then you couldn't do better than me.
Worse than me.Copy !req
540. Don't you want to know who I am?Copy !req
541. I have no interest whatsoever
in who you are,Copy !req
542. Mr. Chaplin.Copy !req
543. Cut! Not great. Uh...Copy !req
544. We'll do another.Copy !req
545. Charlie, if I eat one more bean,
I'm going to be sick.Copy !req
546. You almost had it.Copy !req
547. But this time not quite so daintily.
You're starving.Copy !req
548. I know.Copy !req
549. But it's hard to be hungry after 46 takes.Copy !req
550. Of course it is.
No else one could do it this well.Copy !req
551. We both know it.Copy !req
552. - I'll do my best.
- Right.Copy !req
553. How about dinner tonight? Chili con carne.Copy !req
554. I'll kill you, Charlie.Copy !req
555. More beans.Copy !req
556. More beans!Copy !req
557. Camera!Copy !req
558. Action!Copy !req
559. That's all for today, folks.Copy !req
560. Good to know I can always
count on my nearest and dearest.Copy !req
561. Don't come it with me, son.Copy !req
562. "Arrival in the land of liberty"?
Sticking in the statue like that?Copy !req
563. What are you playing at?Copy !req
564. Nobody else seemed to mind.Copy !req
565. Answer me!Copy !req
566. Kicking an immigration officer
up the backside.Copy !req
567. Do you think that's funny?Copy !req
568. Well, for those of us with
a sense of humor, very.Copy !req
569. Charlie.Copy !req
570. Charlie, it was supposed to be a comedy.Copy !req
571. Now, you've turned it
into a bloody political tract.Copy !req
572. We're guests here!Copy !req
573. And you can't go around criticizing
the way it's run.Copy !req
574. Syd, I love this country. I owe it everything.Copy !req
575. That's precisely why I can criticize it.Copy !req
576. - Don't forget...
- Why I must.Copy !req
577. where we're from.Copy !req
578. There's a war on, remember?Copy !req
579. Now, you make a million a year
while British boys are dying in France.Copy !req
580. The London papers are already after you.
Do you want the same thing to happen here?Copy !req
581. I registered for the draft,
and they never called me.Copy !req
582. - Oh, for Christ's sake...
- It isn't as if I'm hard to find.Copy !req
583. Look, I'm on your side, kid.Copy !req
584. First one on board, remember?Copy !req
585. Be careful, Chas.Copy !req
586. Just watch it.Copy !req
587. That's all I'm saying.Copy !req
588. There.Copy !req
589. You always said
you detested studio parties.Copy !req
590. Oh! The worst,Copy !req
591. but not where
Doug Fairbanks was concerned.Copy !req
592. Life was fun when Doug was around.Copy !req
593. As you know, I don't think anyone today
remembers what a huge star he was.Copy !req
594. I mean, back in the silent days, he was huge.Copy !req
595. Men liked him,Copy !req
596. women adored him.Copy !req
597. He was royalty.Copy !req
598. Charles!Copy !req
599. Look out below!Copy !req
600. Sire, you are most truly welcome.Copy !req
601. What a great party, Doug.Copy !req
602. - Isn't it fabulous?
- Wonderful.Copy !req
603. - Thank you.
May I take your coat, sir?Copy !req
604. First class. Bet I hate it more than you do.Copy !req
605. I doubt it.Copy !req
606. Of course
everything changed whenCopy !req
607. America's sweetheart came on the scene.Copy !req
608. You mean Mary Pickford?Copy !req
609. Yes, I always found her to be
something of an undersized bitch,Copy !req
610. but Doug fell for her like a ton of bricks.Copy !req
611. - Hello, Charlie.
- Hello, Mary.Copy !req
612. - Hi, Doug.
- Hello.Copy !req
613. Thanks for inviting me.Copy !req
614. Mary, it's a pleasure.Copy !req
615. Duty calls. Excuse me.Copy !req
616. He's a really lovely person, Charlie.Copy !req
617. Yes. Hungry?Copy !req
618. Hello, Charlie.Copy !req
619. Her name is Mildred Harris.Copy !req
620. An actress?Copy !req
621. Oh, yeah. A child actress.Copy !req
622. You ever hear the word "jailbait," Charlie?Copy !req
623. That's the definition.
I'd watch it if I was you.Copy !req
624. I value that, Mary.Copy !req
625. Coming from you.Copy !req
626. When America's own sweetheart
gives you advice, you'd better listen.Copy !req
627. "Better listen?" Thanks, Charlie.Copy !req
628. Especially since you're married
and Doug's married,Copy !req
629. and the two of you are rutting
with each other every afternoonCopy !req
630. - all the time pretending you've just met.
- Miss Pickford,Copy !req
631. Mr. Chaplin, please?Copy !req
632. Lecture me more about morality.Copy !req
633. Better. Better. Better.Copy !req
634. Bitch. Better.Copy !req
635. I washed my face.Copy !req
636. Come here.Copy !req
637. Charlie, what is it?Copy !req
638. I just need some...
You just need some lip rouge.Copy !req
639. I've got some in my purse.Copy !req
640. It's in the drawer, over there. It's top right.Copy !req
641. Look at me.Copy !req
642. Is this what you want?Copy !req
643. Yeah. Just put it on.Copy !req
644. My God, Charlie!
You weren't even 30.Copy !req
645. You were the most famous man in the world.Copy !req
646. You had your own studio, named after you.
I mean, couldn't you just enjoy?Copy !req
647. Mmm. I can, now.Copy !req
648. But I couldn't then. It meant too much.Copy !req
649. Morning.Copy !req
650. Mr. Chaplin, welcome.Copy !req
651. Welcome, Charlie!Copy !req
652. Take your picture, Charlie?Copy !req
653. Chaplin.Copy !req
654. Cut!
All right. Hold it.Copy !req
655. I think, perhaps,
we should try a little less next time.Copy !req
656. Hold it.
Hold the smoke.Copy !req
657. The dirt, I mean. For God's sake,
somebody get me out of this thing.Copy !req
658. Looks great, Charlie.Copy !req
659. But I thought I better keep the boys here
under control till you got out of costume.Copy !req
660. - You are an ass!
- Thank you.Copy !req
661. That wasn't bad, Charlie. One more?Copy !req
662. Check it.
- How's the light, Rollie?Copy !req
663. - I know. It's better down at Barney's Bar.
It's better down at Barney's Bar.Copy !req
664. Call it a day.Copy !req
665. - I don't feel funny anymore.
- Come on, Charlie, let's go.Copy !req
666. Not cheating are you, Fairbanks?Copy !req
667. You are a truly strange fellow, Charles.Copy !req
668. - Nonsense.
- Facts indicate otherwise.Copy !req
669. Close, but out.Copy !req
670. And these facts show a young man,
of what, 29?Copy !req
671. Not perhaps conventionally handsome,
but certainly not repellent.Copy !req
672. Flatteringly put.Copy !req
673. Double fault. Lucky me.Copy !req
674. Yes, an unrepellant fellow of some fame
and fortune, not totally without talent.Copy !req
675. Ready?Copy !req
676. If only you'd put one in play.Copy !req
677. Call this one out.Copy !req
678. Don't have to, I'm winning.Copy !req
679. Damn.Copy !req
680. And who is this fellow escorting?Copy !req
681. Why, Mildred Harris?Copy !req
682. That intellectual giant of 16
who still sucks her thumb.Copy !req
683. That's very funny.Copy !req
684. Then why aren't you laughing?Copy !req
685. Perhaps because I'm marrying her.Copy !req
686. She's really not that bad.Copy !req
687. "Really not that bad"?Copy !req
688. Spoken like a man desperately in love.Copy !req
689. You're madder even than I thought, Charles.Copy !req
690. You sure it's yours?Copy !req
691. I can only hope.Copy !req
692. There are ways of getting out of this.
You know, all it takes is money.Copy !req
693. Where I come from, that's not an option.Copy !req
694. Besides, I want a family and...Copy !req
695. I predict you're going to have one
before you know it.Copy !req
696. May I be the first to congratulate you?Copy !req
697. You may not!Copy !req
698. Good!Copy !req
699. You didn't suspect about Mildred?Copy !req
700. Not for a moment.Copy !req
701. Well, why don't you add that?
Put that in?Copy !req
702. I'll never forget the night
Mary told me the truth.Copy !req
703. We were celebrating the end
of the First World War.Copy !req
704. And I met J. Edgar Hoover for the first time.Copy !req
705. Then I think
you should make it clearCopy !req
706. that this was before
he became head of the FBI.Copy !req
707. If I may continue, Mr. Hearst.Copy !req
708. We're too generous.Copy !req
709. We're too open.Copy !req
710. Now, if we don't watch out,Copy !req
711. if we don't take steps now to impose
some new discipline, some decency,Copy !req
712. then we're in trouble. Deep trouble.Copy !req
713. I know it's not fashionable to say this.Copy !req
714. We're celebrating. Everyone thinks it's over.Copy !req
715. - But democracy carries a price tag.
Hear, hear.Copy !req
716. And I just happen to think
that one of the mostCopy !req
717. misguided promises we ever madeCopy !req
718. was inscribed on the base
of the Statue of Liberty.Copy !req
719. One that I predict will lead this country
into all kinds of trouble.Copy !req
720. "Give us your poor, your huddled masses. "Copy !req
721. Now, we have to stop this
before it goes too far.Copy !req
722. Our conception of America
does not include,Copy !req
723. was never meant to include,
this kind of scum.Copy !req
724. You will have to forgive our famous,
young friends, the artistic temperament.Copy !req
725. But what you're saying is important,
very important.Copy !req
726. Right now we are giving sanctuary
to the refuse of the world.Copy !req
727. All kinds of left-wing intellectualsCopy !req
728. who'd like nothing more
than to bring us down.Copy !req
729. Don't you think you're overstating?Copy !req
730. No, sir. I do not.Copy !req
731. And I sometimes wonder if you people
realize the responsibility you carry.Copy !req
732. To my way of thinking,Copy !req
733. motion pictures are, potentially,Copy !req
734. the most influential form of communication
ever invented.Copy !req
735. And there's no control over them.Copy !req
736. Your message reaches
everyone, everywhere.Copy !req
737. Message?Copy !req
738. Of course.Copy !req
739. Mr. Chaplin here reaches millions
who only have to see.Copy !req
740. And when they see a mockery being made
of our immigration services,Copy !req
741. I call that a message.Copy !req
742. Yes. Well,Copy !req
743. as you've already said, Mr. Hoover,
motion pictures are for the people.Copy !req
744. Most of the people work for a living
and they don't make much money doing it.Copy !req
745. It gives them pleasure to see officialdom
and the upper classesCopy !req
746. getting a kick up the backside.Copy !req
747. Always has and it always will.Copy !req
748. And if that can change things,
so much the better.Copy !req
749. Better.Copy !req
750. He's improving.Copy !req
751. But motion pictures have made you rich,
Mr. Chaplin.Copy !req
752. They sure have.Copy !req
753. What about your own
motion picture career, Mrs. Chaplin?Copy !req
754. - I think you've handled it all wonderfully.
- What?Copy !req
755. Mildred.Copy !req
756. The pregnancy?Copy !req
757. Everyone knows
you've been conned, Charlie.Copy !req
758. Mildred.Copy !req
759. Please excuse us, Mr. Hearst.
I have to be up very early.Copy !req
760. - Yes, of course.
- Come along, my dear.Copy !req
761. It's been a pleasure.Copy !req
762. Good night.Copy !req
763. You made an enemy there, Charlie.Copy !req
764. Was it personal, do you think?Copy !req
765. Personal? Maybe.Copy !req
766. But I'm sure he really did believe
I was a communist.Copy !req
767. I wasn't, of course. I was simply a humanist.Copy !req
768. He also believed you were a Jew.Copy !req
769. Something I've rarely troubled
to deny, mainly because of Syd.Copy !req
770. He's half-Jewish, as you know.
Same mother, different fathers.Copy !req
771. I suppose the false pregnancy
was the beginning of the end with Mildred.Copy !req
772. You're awful late again, Charlie.
I'd almost given up on you.Copy !req
773. Funny.Copy !req
774. Sometimes I feel I'm so close
to getting it right,Copy !req
775. it slips away.Copy !req
776. You've been editing that film for months.Copy !req
777. Will be for months, more than likely.Copy !req
778. Not like the old days.Copy !req
779. The good times.Copy !req
780. The good times? Are they over?Copy !req
781. Do you want me to leave?Copy !req
782. No.Copy !req
783. I'll leave.Copy !req
784. Why aren't you
more bitter towards her?Copy !req
785. Stealing my movie wasn't her idea.Copy !req
786. Oh! Poor child was so stupid, I'm not sure
she could even spell the word "idea. "Copy !req
787. Charlie?Copy !req
788. Charlie, wake up!Copy !req
789. - Charlie!
- What?Copy !req
790. Wake up. Quick.Copy !req
791. - They're trying to seize the film.
- Who?Copy !req
792. Just go and wash your face
and wake up, will you?Copy !req
793. That sweet child bride of yours,Copy !req
794. well, her divorce lawyers have informed her
it's an asset.Copy !req
795. - An asset?
- Yes.Copy !req
796. So, I've got Rollie, the wifeCopy !req
797. - and 40 cans of film in the car. Come on.
- Okay.Copy !req
798. Once we're over the state line,Copy !req
799. we keep you under wraps
till we finish cutting the film.Copy !req
800. Charlie, you've got your pants on
back to front.Copy !req
801. Yeah, yeah. It's good.Copy !req
802. It moves now.Copy !req
803. I really do love that kid.Copy !req
804. We're still waiting for that other shot, Syd.Copy !req
805. - Have a look in 102, Rollie.
- Sure I put it on there.Copy !req
806. Wait. No, Chas, I've got it here.Copy !req
807. Minnie, answer the door. Hurry up.Copy !req
808. Charlie.Copy !req
809. - Here's your tea, ma'am.
- Thank you very much. Thank you.Copy !req
810. Thank you.Copy !req
811. He's on to us, boys.Copy !req
812. They're...
They're here, boss.Copy !req
813. I've dreamed of this moment for years.Copy !req
814. This is America, Mum.
This is where your dreams come true.Copy !req
815. Charlie's bought you a lovely house, Mum.Copy !req
816. It's not too big.Copy !req
817. Great view of the ocean.Copy !req
818. You always wanted
to live by the seaside, didn't you?Copy !req
819. Don't stop, Syd. You're right. I have.Copy !req
820. I think I shall love watching the waves.Copy !req
821. I'm sure I will. You boys, you spoil me so.Copy !req
822. More tea, dear?Copy !req
823. No.Copy !req
824. Mum. Mum.Copy !req
825. The mark on my arm, Charles?Copy !req
826. They gave me that at the asylum.Copy !req
827. If only I'd been able to feed you proper,
I'd never have gone there.Copy !req
828. Now, if they ever come back for me,
I'll have enough food for us all.Copy !req
829. I never could deal with my mother.Copy !req
830. I only ever threw money at her.Copy !req
831. Come on, Charlie,
you've got to explainCopy !req
832. why you chose that particular time
to go to London.Copy !req
833. Now, I don't have to explain a damn
thing, I was tired. I had a movie opening.Copy !req
834. I wanted to see old friends.Copy !req
835. Straight into the water, arse over tit!Copy !req
836. He needed the job that bad!Copy !req
837. But I was worried, Charlie.
I was prepared for the absolute worst.Copy !req
838. I've seen it happen in the profession,
oh, so many times.Copy !req
839. Mmm, I'm sure you have, Mr. Karno.Copy !req
840. His head size.
That is the only true measure of a man.Copy !req
841. I sent this lad to America.Copy !req
842. Look what's come back to me.Copy !req
843. My head never swelled,
not with all my successes.Copy !req
844. I was worried about you, though, Charlie.Copy !req
845. And that other night at the Troc, remember?Copy !req
846. Well, you took a tail-suit
out of the wardrobe, tried to be a gent.Copy !req
847. Trying to impress that young dancer, Hetty.Copy !req
848. Wasn't that her name?Copy !req
849. Hetty Kelly.Copy !req
850. I could see in your eyes you fancied her.Copy !req
851. Sad.Copy !req
852. Yes, I know all about it, Fred.
She got married.Copy !req
853. Sent me a lovely note.Copy !req
854. Brought it with me.
Somewhere in my baggage.Copy !req
855. Oh, Charlie, Charlie.Copy !req
856. Charlie, don't you know?Copy !req
857. Has nobody told you?Copy !req
858. She's gone!Copy !req
859. The flu epidemic after the war
carried her away.Copy !req
860. Well, I thought someone must have told you.Copy !req
861. Must have written.Copy !req
862. Didn't nobody?Copy !req
863. Charlie!Copy !req
864. Hey, hey, hey. Charlie!Copy !req
865. What do we do, Charlie?Copy !req
866. Smile.Copy !req
867. Give me my hat.Copy !req
868. - Evening, sir.
- Good evening.Copy !req
869. - Good evening.
- Evening, sir.Copy !req
870. Hey! That's Charlie Chaplin!Copy !req
871. Now, what can I get you?Copy !req
872. - Light ale, please.
That'll be tuppence, sir.Copy !req
873. Well, here's someone who's had a good war!Copy !req
874. Yeah, you didn't see him
in the bleeding army.Copy !req
875. Come to stare at the animals, Charlie?Copy !req
876. Oh, go and sit down, Ted,
and give your mouth a rest.Copy !req
877. I just came in for a quiet drink.Copy !req
878. Great to see you back, Charlie.Copy !req
879. Here, have one on me.Copy !req
880. You have one on me.Copy !req
881. Mr. Charlie fucking Chaplin!Copy !req
882. Ted.
Bleeding commie bastard!Copy !req
883. Go, lads, sit down.
Come, sit down. Come.Copy !req
884. Don't worry about him, Charlie.
He's always been a miserable old sod.Copy !req
885. Get him off the premises.Copy !req
886. Charlie Chaplin.Copy !req
887. Well, bugger Mr. Charlie bleeding Chaplin.Copy !req
888. Good luck, Charlie!Copy !req
889. - Good luck, Charlie!
- I've seen all your pictures!Copy !req
890. That's him. Charlie Chaplin!Copy !req
891. The back way's through there, sir.Copy !req
892. Oh. You're very kind.Copy !req
893. Good old Charlie.Copy !req
894. See him coming in here,
Charlie Chaplin.Copy !req
895. Welcome home, Charlie.Copy !req
896. I knew then that I had no home.
So I decided to put down roots in America.Copy !req
897. Whoa, whoa.Copy !req
898. A man came to see me the other day.Copy !req
899. A corset salesman? I sent him.
Your paunch is in need of help.Copy !req
900. He was the FBI, old darling.Copy !req
901. Said he knew what a loyal American I was.Copy !req
902. He wondered if everyone else
felt the same way.Copy !req
903. I just sat there and let him work his way
around to you,Copy !req
904. which he did.Copy !req
905. He asked were you a member
of the Communist Party.Copy !req
906. I said that was an absolute impossibility.Copy !req
907. Because I love America.Copy !req
908. Because you're too cheap to pay the dues.Copy !req
909. Remarkable. Your timing in work is flawless.
In life, it's the reverse.Copy !req
910. You're a miserable pain in the ass, Charles.Copy !req
911. But I'm worried about you.Copy !req
912. You worry about your family jewels,
old darling.Copy !req
913. I'm serious.Copy !req
914. Watch out.Copy !req
915. What am I supposed to watch?Copy !req
916. Charles, you're a foreigner.
You're still an outsider.Copy !req
917. You've never understood this country.Copy !req
918. It's a good country underneath, Doug.Copy !req
919. No. It's a good country on top.Copy !req
920. Underneath, that's what starts showing
when we're scared.Copy !req
921. But you don't care about politics.
What is this?Copy !req
922. - Why are you so worried?
- Me?Copy !req
923. I haven't a care in the world.Copy !req
924. I'm the oldest action star in the business
and talkies are coming.Copy !req
925. What the hell
have I got to be worried about?Copy !req
926. That's talkies, Charles.Copy !req
927. Talkies! Talkies!Copy !req
928. Can you imagine The Tramp talking?Copy !req
929. It's the future, Charlie.Copy !req
930. Not in my lifetime.Copy !req
931. Talkies!Copy !req
932. It'll never catch on.Copy !req
933. Talkies!Copy !req
934. Talkies!Copy !req
935. Talkies! Talkies!Copy !req
936. This is it, sir. We've enlarged it for you.Copy !req
937. I still can't make him out.Copy !req
938. Have you got a positive identification?Copy !req
939. Oh, yes. No doubt, sir. It is Hawkins, sir.
The red labor leader.Copy !req
940. Visiting him at the studios.Copy !req
941. How can we make them realize the danger?Copy !req
942. I told him that once, face to face,
"You can damage this country. "Copy !req
943. He didn't get it.Copy !req
944. How old is this one?Copy !req
945. Well, sir, she's underage is all that matters.Copy !req
946. When the baby's born,
we can go after him for statutory rape.Copy !req
947. A scandal like that would destroy him.Copy !req
948. I appreciate your zeal, Mr. Seeley,Copy !req
949. but Chaplin and Miss Grey
were married in Mexico yesterday.Copy !req
950. If only he'd just sleep with them.
Everything would be so much easier.Copy !req
951. Still, we must do what we can.Copy !req
952. Lita was your second wife, okay?Copy !req
953. She gave you two sons, whom you adored.Copy !req
954. This book is over 500 pages long.Copy !req
955. Yet, you only devote five lines to her. Why?Copy !req
956. I hated the bitch.Copy !req
957. Oh, come on,
she was hardly more than a child.Copy !req
958. It can't all have been her fault, surely.Copy !req
959. George, she was
a profoundly flawed human being.Copy !req
960. Well, we've got to deal
with the problem, Charlie.Copy !req
961. You married her. All your life,
you've bedded down with the babies.Copy !req
962. Your readers will want to understand.Copy !req
963. Where were you when she gave birth
to those two boys less than a year apart?Copy !req
964. You know where I was.Copy !req
965. I happened to be making a little film
called The Gold Rush.Copy !req
966. You're a flawed human being, Charles,
just like the rest of us.Copy !req
967. Only, you have to address it. That's all.Copy !req
968. I mean, why are we here?Copy !req
969. Why are we talking in Switzerland
and not in Southern California? Hmm?Copy !req
970. It wasn't just
the parlor pink business, Charlie,Copy !req
971. or the speeches or the donations
that finally did you thatCopy !req
972. turned you into an exile,
you know what I mean?Copy !req
973. Nah.Copy !req
974. - You know what it was, don't you?
- What?Copy !req
975. Sex.Copy !req
976. Sex.Copy !req
977. Yes. Sex.Copy !req
978. It's odd, you know, but I don't think
I've ever looked at a womanCopy !req
979. without measuring
that possibility between us.Copy !req
980. At the same time, I'm not all that interested.Copy !req
981. Never during work.Copy !req
982. I suppose it was only
when I wasn't working, that I wasCopy !req
983. vulnerable.Copy !req
984. Well, why don't you write
about that vulnerability?Copy !req
985. If you want to understand me,Copy !req
986. watch my movies.Copy !req
987. All right, sonny boy,Copy !req
988. tell your poor little brother today's problem.Copy !req
989. Same as yesterday and the day before that
and the day before that.Copy !req
990. And the day before that,
and the day before that.Copy !req
991. All right. You be creative for a change!Copy !req
992. The Tramp buys a flower from the girl.Copy !req
993. In order for the plot to work,
she has to think he's rich.Copy !req
994. That's all.Copy !req
995. Except, as you're aware,
the flower girl is blind.Copy !req
996. I don't know how to make a blind girl
mistake The Tramp for a millionaire.Copy !req
997. Easy.Copy !req
998. We'll do what everyone else is doing.Copy !req
999. Joe!Copy !req
1000. We'll have the actors talk.Copy !req
1001. Joseph Curb, Vitaphone.Copy !req
1002. - Hello, sir.
- Oh, hello, Joe.Copy !req
1003. It's not your fault, son.
You're in the middle of a family feud.Copy !req
1004. Now, you decide who's right.
The Tramp can't talk.Copy !req
1005. The minute he talks, he's dead.Copy !req
1006. Tell me I'm right.Copy !req
1007. He can't, because you're wrong.Copy !req
1008. Who the hell is gonna pay to see you,Copy !req
1009. when everybody else
has gone over to sound?Copy !req
1010. Who? I'll tell you who.Copy !req
1011. The Japanese, for one thing,
and the Russkies for another.Copy !req
1012. And anyone else
who doesn't happen to speak English.Copy !req
1013. Or have you forgotten
about the other nine-tenths of the globe?Copy !req
1014. All right, I guess I'll have to show you.Copy !req
1015. Who's the most famous ballet dancer
in the world?Copy !req
1016. Pardon?Copy !req
1017. The most famous ballet dancer in the world!Copy !req
1018. Nijinsky.Copy !req
1019. Fine. So let's say that
he was doing Swan Lake todayCopy !req
1020. and we all went to see it.Copy !req
1021. And he came down to the footlights.Copy !req
1022. And the orchestra stopped.Copy !req
1023. And he said, "Hi folks, I'm Vaslav Nijinsky. "Copy !req
1024. No, he'd have a Russian accent.Copy !req
1025. "Hi, folksies. Call me
Vaslav Nijinsky. Sky, sky, sky.Copy !req
1026. "Oh, just call me Vas.
It doesn't matter. It's okay by me.Copy !req
1027. "Everything is wonderful in California.Copy !req
1028. "Okay, today I'm going to jump
up and down for youCopy !req
1029. "like nothing what you've ever seen before.Copy !req
1030. "Hope you for to like me. Bye. "Copy !req
1031. You know what would happen
when he danced?Copy !req
1032. It would be awful.Copy !req
1033. Because the magic is gone.Copy !req
1034. Just as it would be with The Tramp.Copy !req
1035. Tell me I'm right.Copy !req
1036. I'm in the word business, Mr. Chaplin,
so I have to say that you're wrong.Copy !req
1037. But I'm sure as hell glad
I got a chance to meet you.Copy !req
1038. See you.
- Enjoyed the dancing.Copy !req
1039. Yeah. And the talking.Copy !req
1040. Take Mr. Curb back to his office.
Will you, Rollie?Copy !req
1041. Rollie! Get them all back.
Syd, we're in business!Copy !req
1042. How does a blind girl
mistake The Tramp for a millionaire?Copy !req
1043. When she hears the door slam
on a rich man's car.Copy !req
1044. She thinks The Tramp's the owner.Copy !req
1045. Easy.Copy !req
1046. When you know how.Copy !req
1047. Charlie! Sydney! Over here! Throw it to Dad.Copy !req
1048. Boys!Copy !req
1049. Boys! I'm taking your ball
down to the cellar.Copy !req
1050. I don't see any stairs.Copy !req
1051. Mum's here. Off you go now!Copy !req
1052. Your mummy's here. Ready?Copy !req
1053. I'll see you next weekend, okay?
Come on, off you go!Copy !req
1054. Off you go! Hey, boys!Copy !req
1055. It can't be as bad as all that, Mr. Chaplin.Copy !req
1056. Do I know you? And why don't I?Copy !req
1057. I'm Paulette Levy.Copy !req
1058. Would you like a drink, Miss Levy?Copy !req
1059. I already have one.Copy !req
1060. How about a fur coat?Copy !req
1061. Well...Copy !req
1062. No, seriously. You look hungry.Copy !req
1063. Thank you.Copy !req
1064. Actress?Copy !req
1065. If you watch the B-movies and don't blink.Copy !req
1066. - Don't get any ideas, though.
- You're taken, then.Copy !req
1067. No, but I'm 21.Copy !req
1068. Way too old for you.Copy !req
1069. You're very pretty, Miss Levy.Copy !req
1070. I'd better be. I didn't get out here
thanks to my Shakespeare reviews.Copy !req
1071. And may I say something?
You'd be even prettier as a brunette.Copy !req
1072. Well, you'd be devastating
if you were six inches taller.Copy !req
1073. Punch? Two, please.Copy !req
1074. Well, at least you can do something
about your hair.Copy !req
1075. Never! I was born this way.Copy !req
1076. Oh, thank you.Copy !req
1077. Hello.
- Nice to see you again, sir.Copy !req
1078. Evening, Mr. Chaplin.Copy !req
1079. Sorry, miss. I'm waiting for a natural blonde.Copy !req
1080. Hi.Copy !req
1081. You look beautiful.Copy !req
1082. - My usual table.
- Of course, Mr. Chaplin, come right this way.Copy !req
1083. - Hello, Charlie.
- Hello, Charlie.Copy !req
1084. You've come a long way, Charlie.
Yes. My own suit.Copy !req
1085. No need to book a table.
I lived in the lap of luxury. But I was blind.Copy !req
1086. Blind?Copy !req
1087. Yes. That's fatal, for a storyteller.Copy !req
1088. Did I ever tell you that I sold
all my stocks and sharesCopy !req
1089. the year before the Wall Street crash?Copy !req
1090. That was clever.Copy !req
1091. It was deeply cruel, the Depression.Copy !req
1092. Can I have an autograph, Mr. Chaplin?Copy !req
1093. - Yes, yes, of course.
- Sign mine?Copy !req
1094. Yes.Copy !req
1095. I wish they'd wanted my money.Copy !req
1096. - You know what?
- Hmm?Copy !req
1097. I've always had that gift.Copy !req
1098. After a man makes love to me,
he just goes wild from happiness.Copy !req
1099. I am happy.Copy !req
1100. Then tell me when you get sad,
because I don't want to be around.Copy !req
1101. Terrible things have been
happening out there since the crash.Copy !req
1102. Millions of decent Americans have been
robbed of their right to work.Copy !req
1103. Machinery is replacing manpower.Copy !req
1104. And I've said nothing.Copy !req
1105. Shame on me.Copy !req
1106. Shame on me.Copy !req
1107. You're right, Charlie, you're right.
About three seconds too short.Copy !req
1108. Okay, Johnny! We'll do a two-bar repeat
of the xylophone. Yes?Copy !req
1109. Sure.Copy !req
1110. Honey?Copy !req
1111. Oh, sorry, darling.Copy !req
1112. I'm taking the boys out on the boat today.
Why don't you come on out for some air?Copy !req
1113. Hmm.Copy !req
1114. Tomorrow, darling. Definitely tomorrow.Copy !req
1115. All right.Copy !req
1116. Put that in straight away.Copy !req
1117. - What do you want to do?
- Take it out of the minor key.Copy !req
1118. Fine. Let me hear it.Copy !req
1119. No. I'll tell you why.Copy !req
1120. Charlie, you were supposed to meet us
at the fight.Copy !req
1121. I'm sorry, sweetheart. Who was fighting?Copy !req
1122. Mostly Mary and Doug, as it turned out.Copy !req
1123. - You're wonderful, Miss Goddard.
- Thanks!Copy !req
1124. Well, that didn't work either, did it?Copy !req
1125. Well, the Fairbanks are getting a divorce.Copy !req
1126. And Mussolini has invaded Abyssinia.Copy !req
1127. You really need a break, Charlie.Copy !req
1128. We should take a trip.Copy !req
1129. That's a good idea.Copy !req
1130. What? What's a good idea?Copy !req
1131. Around the world, I thought.Copy !req
1132. I'm not going to make it.Copy !req
1133. Charlie!Copy !req
1134. Did you lose your other wives this way?Copy !req
1135. I think so.Copy !req
1136. But you'd have to ask them.Copy !req
1137. Paulette. She was wonderful.Copy !req
1138. Her personality, you mean?
No.Copy !req
1139. You mean in bed?
No. Well, that was good.Copy !req
1140. No, she's the only one
who didn't take me for a fortune.Copy !req
1141. Here, let me help you. Come on.Copy !req
1142. Okay?Copy !req
1143. I know you so well, Charlie.Copy !req
1144. I even know what you're thinking.
You're thinking of Doug, aren't you?Copy !req
1145. I was the only one who knew.Copy !req
1146. Don't say Daddy doesn't look after you.Copy !req
1147. - Paulette!
- Doug?Copy !req
1148. Mr. Chaplin. Always a pleasure.Copy !req
1149. - How are you? Oh!
- Fine.Copy !req
1150. How do you look even prettier?Copy !req
1151. Nobody's fine and everybody needs a drink.
Paulette, another champagne or a scotch?Copy !req
1152. Ooh, Scotch, please.Copy !req
1153. - Is he...
- Yes.Copy !req
1154. Seriously?Copy !req
1155. - His heart.
- Shit.Copy !req
1156. Say.Copy !req
1157. Don't laugh.Copy !req
1158. I'm going to test for Scarlett.Copy !req
1159. Why should I laugh?Copy !req
1160. Because it's a joke.
Everybody's testing for Scarlett.Copy !req
1161. Mmm-hmm.Copy !req
1162. Anyway, I hear Katie Hepburn
has it locked away. So they say.Copy !req
1163. I have not worked since Modern Times.Copy !req
1164. No. Neither have I.Copy !req
1165. No ideas. I'm desperate.Copy !req
1166. Catch you later.Copy !req
1167. I can manage a double if I have to.Copy !req
1168. Should you?Copy !req
1169. Say, are you two still married or what?
I find it all very confusing. Hmm!Copy !req
1170. Hmm. It's not at all confusing.Copy !req
1171. See, when everyone thought
that we were having an affair,Copy !req
1172. we were married.Copy !req
1173. Now everyone realizes we're married,
we're getting divorced.Copy !req
1174. Man's a wizard with women,
no question about it.Copy !req
1175. Who's that man? Sounds German.
- Looks German.Copy !req
1176. Probably one of those directors,
there's a lot of them over here now.Copy !req
1177. Maybe he's got a job for me.Copy !req
1178. Just like Plato,
Adolf Hitler is defining the ideal stateCopy !req
1179. which will become a model
for backward systems.Copy !req
1180. Do you know him personally?Copy !req
1181. I do have that good fortune, yes.Copy !req
1182. And you have my word.Copy !req
1183. Our ambitions are only to defendCopy !req
1184. our historical frontiers to the east.
That's paramount.Copy !req
1185. Told you. Paramount.Copy !req
1186. It's not funny, Doug.Copy !req
1187. He merely wants to improve the situation
for the German people.Copy !req
1188. Create jobs...Copy !req
1189. - How can they let these fascist thugs...
- Charlie...Copy !req
1190. to cut out the profit speculator.Copy !req
1191. The Jew.Copy !req
1192. Mr. Chaplin! I am a great admirer of yours.Copy !req
1193. I'm sorry.
I prefer not to shake hands with Nazis.Copy !req
1194. What have you got against us, Mr. Chaplin?Copy !req
1195. What have you got against everybody else?Copy !req
1196. You must forgive Mr. Chaplin.Copy !req
1197. - He's a Jew.
- Ah, so!Copy !req
1198. I'm afraid I don't have that honor.Copy !req
1199. Shame on you!Copy !req
1200. Ah! The former Miss Levy.Copy !req
1201. Shall we, my dear?Copy !req
1202. - Good night.
- God bless you, Charlie.Copy !req
1203. - Uh, I'll call you.
- Yes. Please do.Copy !req
1204. - All right. Good night.
- Night.Copy !req
1205. A lovely international incident
you caused in there!Copy !req
1206. Hey, let's go on.Copy !req
1207. Not tonight, old darling. A bit tired.Copy !req
1208. It's funny, you know, you look a lot like him.Copy !req
1209. Adolf, I mean.Copy !req
1210. You know, with your mustache on.Copy !req
1211. I think he stole your act!Copy !req
1212. Good night, old boy.Copy !req
1213. Night!Copy !req
1214. Sweet prince.Copy !req
1215. So much ended around then.Copy !req
1216. I'd been there 25 years.Copy !req
1217. Everybody else had gone over to sound.Copy !req
1218. I didn't know how much longer
I could hold out against it.Copy !req
1219. Mario.Copy !req
1220. Of course, UA was over for me.Copy !req
1221. United Artists?Copy !req
1222. You know, you haven't written anything
about that. How it began, I mean.Copy !req
1223. Oh, I'll put something in.
It was a great idea, I think.Copy !req
1224. Creative people really had their say
for the first time.Copy !req
1225. - You like milk?
- No milk.Copy !req
1226. I remember some distributor saying,
"The lunatics have taken over the asylum. "Copy !req
1227. - That became quite a famous remark.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1228. Thank you.Copy !req
1229. But UA did mean a lot to Doug.Copy !req
1230. When my mother died, it was sad. Yes, but...Copy !req
1231. She was old, she'd had her run.Copy !req
1232. It was different with Doug.Copy !req
1233. Even today, I still miss him.Copy !req
1234. Oh, yes, tell me, when did you actually
start work on The Great Dictator?Copy !req
1235. - '38.
- '38?Copy !req
1236. And everyone thought you were crazy then.Copy !req
1237. When the Second World War broke out,
you became a genius overnight.Copy !req
1238. Well, not to those who thought
I was a communist.Copy !req
1239. Big smile!Copy !req
1240. I know you. You bastard.Copy !req
1241. Syd? Is that you?Copy !req
1242. Hmm.Copy !req
1243. What's the matter, Syd?Copy !req
1244. For 10 years, you've been on at me
to make me a talkie. Now I'm making a talkie.Copy !req
1245. Yeah, but not this.Copy !req
1246. I know this man.Copy !req
1247. We're born the same year, four days apart.Copy !req
1248. He's like me, capable of anything.Copy !req
1249. Nobody wants to see a film
about Adolf fucking Hitler!Copy !req
1250. I do!Copy !req
1251. You're missing the point.Copy !req
1252. In the end, it's not about Hitler,
it's about The Tramp.Copy !req
1253. - The little Jewish barber taking his place.
- Charlie,Copy !req
1254. what's happening in Europe
is not our problem.Copy !req
1255. 90% of Americans say
we should stay out of the war.Copy !req
1256. That's nine out of 10!Copy !req
1257. It's not your business.Copy !req
1258. You're a comic.Copy !req
1259. Yes, Syd. And you are a Jew.Copy !req
1260. Nevertheless,Copy !req
1261. I've got to give it a try.Copy !req
1262. Otherwise, what have I been doingCopy !req
1263. all these years?Copy !req
1264. I know talking will be the end of The Tramp.
That's for sure.Copy !req
1265. But at least he'll go out
saying something I believe in.Copy !req
1266. All right. We'll see how it goes.Copy !req
1267. Roll camera!Copy !req
1268. The Great Dictator, scene Y-11-A, take one.Copy !req
1269. I'm sorry, but I'm not an emperor.Copy !req
1270. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.Copy !req
1271. I should like to help everyone, if possible.Copy !req
1272. Jew, Gentile, black man, white.Copy !req
1273. We all want to help one another.
Human beings are like that.Copy !req
1274. We want to live by each other's happiness,
not by each other's misery.Copy !req
1275. Greed has poisoned men's souls,Copy !req
1276. has barricaded the world with hate,Copy !req
1277. has goose-stepped us
into misery and bloodshed.Copy !req
1278. Do not despair.Copy !req
1279. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die.Copy !req
1280. He's not talking about Germany, you know?Copy !req
1281. He is talking about America. That is...
Turn that goddamn thing down!Copy !req
1282. Soldiers, don't
give yourselves to brutes.Copy !req
1283. That is what we need
to make people understand.Copy !req
1284. tell you what to do,
what to think and what to feel.Copy !req
1285. To drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle
and use you as cannon fodder.Copy !req
1286. Mr. Seeley, you're looking a little pale.Copy !req
1287. Maybe it's time you took a trip to California.Copy !req
1288. Comrades! Let us all fight for a new world.Copy !req
1289. Commie bastard!Copy !req
1290. Soldiers! In the name of democracy,
let us unite!Copy !req
1291. - So what brings you to California?
- Oh, I was sent by my firm.Copy !req
1292. We're planning on expanding our interest
in the movie business.Copy !req
1293. Although I really don't know
that much about it.Copy !req
1294. Quite a full house today, sir.Copy !req
1295. Congratulations, Charlie,
on the London opening.Copy !req
1296. Oh, thank you.Copy !req
1297. - Tea is on its way, sir.
- Good.Copy !req
1298. Lovely afternoon, Charlie, thank you.Copy !req
1299. Sorry, Charlie.Copy !req
1300. Women drop handkerchiefs.
I guess men drop other things.Copy !req
1301. - Charlie?
- Yes.Copy !req
1302. Charlie, upper regional domes
immensely expansive.Copy !req
1303. What?Copy !req
1304. Upper regional domes,
immensely expansive.Copy !req
1305. That's how you describe Joan Barry
in your book.Copy !req
1306. She was very... She was
well-endowed, is that what you mean?Copy !req
1307. Yes.Copy !req
1308. You honestly expect your readers
to believe that it wasn't just sex?Copy !req
1309. Well, I didn't have to put a girl
under contract to sleep with her.Copy !req
1310. I didn't exactly throw money around.
I spent thousands on her.Copy !req
1311. I wrote a screenplay for her.Copy !req
1312. I don't care what the readers think.
Joan definitely had talent.Copy !req
1313. She was intelligent. She was pretty.Copy !req
1314. She was willing to work hard.Copy !req
1315. And the screen test proved
that she was very photogenic.Copy !req
1316. But she became erratic.Copy !req
1317. For whatever reason,
she began to have some kind of breakdown.Copy !req
1318. She took to driving up to my house,
drunk, in the middle of the night.Copy !req
1319. She was arrested, ran up debts,
made scenes.Copy !req
1320. In the end, as I've explained, I refused
to have anything further to do with her.Copy !req
1321. How could you have been
such a fool, Charlie?Copy !req
1322. You took up with a crazy girl
with umpteen different identities,Copy !req
1323. was a promiscuous, vengeful liar.Copy !req
1324. And for, perhaps, the only time in your life,
you didn't propose marriage.Copy !req
1325. Hoover had kept tabs on you for 20 years.Copy !req
1326. And he still had no idea how to nail you
until you playedCopy !req
1327. right into his hands by shutting Joan out.Copy !req
1328. You're improving, Frank.Copy !req
1329. Can't you find someone else
to play with?Copy !req
1330. Apparently not. Not anymore.Copy !req
1331. - Who's that?
- Ah, the debutante.Copy !req
1332. You're doing a favor for her agent.Copy !req
1333. Oh, not another one that wants to act.
It's endless. Endless!Copy !req
1334. This is the last time.Copy !req
1335. They all think it's so easy, you know.Copy !req
1336. I bet when she was 10,
she wanted to be a fireman.Copy !req
1337. Tell you what, you have half an hour,
then get me out of it.Copy !req
1338. - Some appointment.
- Right.Copy !req
1339. - Someone important.
- Leave it to me.Copy !req
1340. Mr. Chaplin?Copy !req
1341. I'm Oona O'Neill.Copy !req
1342. Hi.Copy !req
1343. My agent did say 3:00.Copy !req
1344. But if I'm interrupting your game,
I can always come back...Copy !req
1345. No! No.Copy !req
1346. I was waiting for you.Copy !req
1347. I always have tea at 4:00.Copy !req
1348. - So how long have you been in Hollywood?
- Just this summer.Copy !req
1349. My agent got me a screen test at Fox.Copy !req
1350. They gonna put you under contract?Copy !req
1351. I don't know.Copy !req
1352. You tell me.Copy !req
1353. Yes, if you want me to.Copy !req
1354. Uh, Charlie!Copy !req
1355. Charlie, excuse me.
It's nearly time for your appointment.Copy !req
1356. Appointment?Copy !req
1357. Appointment.Copy !req
1358. Who's it with, Frank?Copy !req
1359. Uh, Fred.Copy !req
1360. Fred. Not Astaire again.Copy !req
1361. - That's right.
- Ginger, too?Copy !req
1362. Could be.Copy !req
1363. Well, I'm sick of them.Copy !req
1364. Tell them I've got nothing more
to teach them.Copy !req
1365. They're gonna have to try
and make it on their own.Copy !req
1366. Right.Copy !req
1367. I'm sorry.
I asked him to interrupt in case I was...Copy !req
1368. I mean, in case you were...Copy !req
1369. I've never been to England.Copy !req
1370. You're a good dancer.Copy !req
1371. George, l've just
written this for the end.Copy !req
1372. For the last 20 years
I have known what happiness means.Copy !req
1373. I wish I could write more about this.
But it involves love.Copy !req
1374. And perfect love is the most beautiful
of all frustrations.Copy !req
1375. Because it is more than one can express.Copy !req
1376. Excuse me.Copy !req
1377. - ... Excuse me, sir.
- Yes, Henry.Copy !req
1378. - I'm sorry for the intrusion, sir.
- No, it's all right. Come in. Come in.Copy !req
1379. What is it, Henry?Copy !req
1380. Well, I'm not quite sure, sir.Copy !req
1381. I just took a call from Miss Barry, sir.Copy !req
1382. She wanted me to tell you, sir,
that she's pregnant, sir.Copy !req
1383. I never... Um... Before I started...Copy !req
1384. Where's Mr. Charles?Copy !req
1385. With Harry.Copy !req
1386. Oh, he may be on the stage by now.Copy !req
1387. Mr. Charles, he down there?Copy !req
1388. Charlie. Okay.Copy !req
1389. She'll drop the paternity suit.
I just talked to her lawyers, she'll settle.Copy !req
1390. - No.
- What?Copy !req
1391. Well, just listen.Copy !req
1392. She'll take $150,000.
And that's nothing, not compared to a trial.Copy !req
1393. She says you did it at Christmas
when she came to your house.Copy !req
1394. - Morning, Mary.
- Good morning.Copy !req
1395. Kid, I've been making deals for you
all our lives.Copy !req
1396. I've never made one this good.Copy !req
1397. It was over long before Christmas.
It can't be my child.Copy !req
1398. Just get it out of the way.Copy !req
1399. I can't do that.Copy !req
1400. I've got Oona to think of now.
Syd, I've got to prove my innocence.Copy !req
1401. Look, I'm all for proving your innocence, kid.
But how?Copy !req
1402. Go back to them.Copy !req
1403. I beg you.Copy !req
1404. Get them to agree to a blood test.Copy !req
1405. So that night
when you went to his house,Copy !req
1406. did you and Mr. Chaplin
have sexual relations?Copy !req
1407. Doesn't it look like it?Copy !req
1408. Never mind what it looks like.Copy !req
1409. Did you have sexual relations
with Mr. Chaplin?Copy !req
1410. She just said she did. Why else
would she agree to the blood tests?Copy !req
1411. The next morning he just called a cab.Copy !req
1412. Paid me off.Copy !req
1413. He wanted somebody younger, classier.Copy !req
1414. Didn't he?Copy !req
1415. Hello.Copy !req
1416. Yes.Copy !req
1417. Yes.Copy !req
1418. Yes, thank you.Copy !req
1419. It's all over.Copy !req
1420. The blood test prove it's not my baby.Copy !req
1421. Right, let's just forget all this new-fangled
rubbish about blood tests.Copy !req
1422. Let's put it out of our minds.Copy !req
1423. His Honor has ruled them inadmissible.Copy !req
1424. What is important now
is the financial future of this poor child.Copy !req
1425. It is her future the state of California
is here to protect.Copy !req
1426. It makes me madCopy !req
1427. to watch the way this fellow
tries to put it over us simpletons.Copy !req
1428. This great star of stage and screen,
this alien,Copy !req
1429. who has enjoyed the hospitality
of our country for nearly 30 yearsCopy !req
1430. without ever once, ever once,Copy !req
1431. deigning to apply for American citizenship.Copy !req
1432. But what good
has all this money done Chaplin?Copy !req
1433. Wasting his substance in debauching girls.Copy !req
1434. What good has it done the country?Copy !req
1435. This is the kind of stuff
that makes for communism.Copy !req
1436. Now my client, on the other hand,Copy !req
1437. is, alas,Copy !req
1438. no more moral than Chaplin.Copy !req
1439. Yes. Yes. They're both equally guilty.Copy !req
1440. Only, Chaplin is old enough to be her father.Copy !req
1441. Prowling around with girls that age.Copy !req
1442. Members of the jury, use your God-given
common sense, and just look at this man.Copy !req
1443. This cheap, Cockney cad.Copy !req
1444. ThisCopy !req
1445. little tramp.Copy !req
1446. And then take a very good lookCopy !req
1447. at innocent little Carol Ann.Copy !req
1448. I defy you not to see the resemblance.Copy !req
1449. Gentlemen and ladies,Copy !req
1450. wives and mothers around the country
are watching you.Copy !req
1451. Watching to see you stop Chaplin
in his tracks.Copy !req
1452. You'll sleep well
the night you give this baby a name.Copy !req
1453. The night you show this lecherCopy !req
1454. that the law means him
as well as the bums on skid row.Copy !req
1455. It's a star-studded evening here.Copy !req
1456. Here is Charlie Chaplin
with his lovely wife, Oona.Copy !req
1457. There goes Mrs. Chaplin,
looking gorgeous this eveningCopy !req
1458. on the arm of her famous husband...Copy !req
1459. Are you a communist, Mr. Chaplin?Copy !req
1460. - Are you a fellow traveler?
- Mr. Chaplin...Copy !req
1461. Are you going to attend
the McCarthy hearing?Copy !req
1462. - Gentlemen. Gentlemen, please.
- Mr. Chaplin...Copy !req
1463. Mr. Chaplin has repeatedly said
he'll go whenever they call him.Copy !req
1464. And even... Even if there were only
one communist in the state department,Copy !req
1465. even if there were only one communist
in the state department,Copy !req
1466. that would still be one communist too many.Copy !req
1467. Mr. Lawson, are you
a member of the Communist PartyCopy !req
1468. or have you ever been
a member of the Communist Party?Copy !req
1469. It's unfortunate and tragic
that I have to teach this committeeCopy !req
1470. - the basic principles of Americanism.
- That's not the question.Copy !req
1471. That's not the question.Copy !req
1472. The question is, have you ever been
a member of the Communist Party?Copy !req
1473. I'm framing my answer in
the only way in which any American citizenCopy !req
1474. can frame his answer to a question
which absolutely invades his...Copy !req
1475. Then you refuse to answer
that question, is that correct?Copy !req
1476. I have told you
that I will offer my beliefs...Copy !req
1477. - I have written Americanism...
- Stand away from the stand!Copy !req
1478. - ... for many years and I shall continue...
- Stand away from the stand!Copy !req
1479. to fight for the Bill of Rights
which you are seeking to destroy.Copy !req
1480. Officer, take this man
away from the stand.Copy !req
1481. I'd love to get away for a while, darling.Copy !req
1482. Maybe after this bundle arrives
we could take the children and go.Copy !req
1483. Sir.Copy !req
1484. Sir.Copy !req
1485. We've just got word.
Chaplin's off to London on vacation.Copy !req
1486. KK.
- Mummy, Mummy.Copy !req
1487. Where did you leave Mr. Chaplin?Copy !req
1488. - We left him back there at the stern.
- Mummy.Copy !req
1489. It's all right, darling.Copy !req
1490. Charlie.Copy !req
1491. Charlie.Copy !req
1492. What? What is it, sweetheart?Copy !req
1493. Is it Syd?Copy !req
1494. No.Copy !req
1495. What is it?Copy !req
1496. They've thrown you out.Copy !req
1497. Thrown me out? Thrown me out of what?Copy !req
1498. Of America.Copy !req
1499. I'm so sorry.Copy !req
1500. - I can't go back?
- No.Copy !req
1501. Charlie.Copy !req
1502. There are nights
it's still hard being in exile.Copy !req
1503. I'm sure they wouldn't
refuse you a visa now, Charles.Copy !req
1504. Have you never thought of going back?Copy !req
1505. - Why don't we all go inside?
I have everything I need right here.Copy !req
1506. - But it's cold.
I like the cold.Copy !req
1507. - I have to go anyway.
Telephone.Copy !req
1508. Charlie, I heard the first three rings,
thank you.Copy !req
1509. No, George, in answer to your question.
I'm used to invitations.Copy !req
1510. Ah, yes.Copy !req
1511. Well, it's been a long day, Charlie.Copy !req
1512. Yes. You must be very tired.Copy !req
1513. Come on, George, finish it off.Copy !req
1514. The question mark.Copy !req
1515. What's it all about?Copy !req
1516. You mean that?Copy !req
1517. Yes.Copy !req
1518. Well, it was a personal matter, really.
Nothing relevant.Copy !req
1519. Tell me.Copy !req
1520. All right.Copy !req
1521. The madness.Copy !req
1522. I just wondered, how much did it affect you?Copy !req
1523. What makes you think it did?Copy !req
1524. - Well, your mother was certified insane...
- Yes.Copy !req
1525. and your grandmother
was certified insane as well, and...Copy !req
1526. Yes.Copy !req
1527. That's not what dogged me, George.
It wasn't that.Copy !req
1528. It was...Copy !req
1529. It was the knowledge that if you did
what I did for a living, if you were a clown,Copy !req
1530. and you had a passion
to tell a particular kind of story,Copy !req
1531. somethingCopy !req
1532. beyond,Copy !req
1533. but you only have the one chance
to get it right.Copy !req
1534. And I never did.Copy !req
1535. One never does. But you know that.Copy !req
1536. That's not the problem.Copy !req
1537. It's when you feel you're getting really closeCopy !req
1538. but you can't make it the rest of the way.Copy !req
1539. You're not good enough.
You're not complete enough.Copy !req
1540. And despite all your fantasies,Copy !req
1541. you're second-rate.Copy !req
1542. Charlie.Copy !req
1543. Human.Copy !req
1544. That's very hard.Copy !req
1545. Why didn't you add that?Copy !req
1546. It's not important, really.Copy !req
1547. End of the day,
you're not judged by what you didn't do,Copy !req
1548. but by what you did.Copy !req
1549. And I didn't change things, I just...Copy !req
1550. He justCopy !req
1551. cheered people up.Copy !req
1552. Not bad, that.Copy !req
1553. Charlie?Copy !req
1554. Charlie?Copy !req
1555. Charlie, dear.Copy !req
1556. I dreamed I was answering questions
for George. Silly.Copy !req
1557. Charlie, that was California calling again.
You really do have to give them an answer.Copy !req
1558. No. They took 20 years
to make up their mind,Copy !req
1559. - I can take another afternoon.
- Enough. Enough!Copy !req
1560. What if they still hate me?Copy !req
1561. Live from Los Angeles, the 44th
annual Academy Awards presentation.Copy !req
1562. Suppose they start throwing things.Copy !req
1563. Now that would be a story.Copy !req
1564. You never know on the stage.Copy !req
1565. Hmm, I can see the headlines now.
"Amazing Incident At Academy Awards.Copy !req
1566. "Chaplin Disappears
Under Avalanche Of Oscars. "Copy !req
1567. Mr. Walter Matthau.Copy !req
1568. Oh, look, darling, it's Walter.Copy !req
1569. Does that make you happy?Copy !req
1570. - No.
- Crabby.Copy !req
1571. Oh, I should never have let them
show those film clips. I never...Copy !req
1572. People won't like them.
They'll think they're old.Copy !req
1573. Well, they are old.
Well over 50 years, some of them.Copy !req
1574. You know the worst thing about age,Copy !req
1575. you can't defend yourself.Copy !req
1576. When I was young, handsome,
had my power,Copy !req
1577. if they came after me, I'd make a movie
and make them laugh and I'd make them cry.Copy !req
1578. Now I'm at their mercy.Copy !req
1579. - Come in.
- Go away.Copy !req
1580. We're ready for you, Mr. Chaplin.Copy !req
1581. This is a historic milestone
in the life of the Academy.Copy !req
1582. Behave yourself.Copy !req
1583. I would like to present the President
of the Academy, Mr. Daniel Taradash.Copy !req
1584. Now remember, the President
of the Academy, Mr. Daniel Taradash.Copy !req
1585. - Taradash?
- Yes.Copy !req
1586. Sounds like a spice.Copy !req
1587. The inscription reads,
"To Charles Chaplin,Copy !req
1588. "for the incalculable effect
he has had in making motion picturesCopy !req
1589. "the art form of this century.Copy !req
1590. "Humor heightens our sense of survival
and preserves our sanity. "Copy !req
1591. These are the words of Charlie Chaplin.Copy !req
1592. The abiding elements
of Chaplin's artistic conscienceCopy !req
1593. as actor, writer, director,Copy !req
1594. and to quote W.C. Fields,
"The greatest ballet dancer that ever lived. "Copy !req
1595. A few years ago, Mr. Chaplin said,Copy !req
1596. "My only enemy is time. "Copy !req
1597. We respectfully disagree.Copy !req
1598. I'm going to leave you here, darling.Copy !req
1599. My white dress, remember?Copy !req
1600. They mustn't see anyone
till the clips are over.Copy !req
1601. some unfathomable future
on some faraway star.Copy !req
1602. Time is Charlie Chaplin's dearest
and eternal friend.Copy !req
1603. And here is the proof.Copy !req
1604. Watch, remember, rejoice.Copy !req
1605. I love you, Charlie.Copy !req