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1:12 royal boy lily that's all right i came back why what happened did something happen oh nothing happened you didn't smash the car did you i said nothing happened didn't you hear me don't you feel well i'm tired of death linda couldn't make it but just couldn't make it well where are you all day you look terrible well i got up as far as a little above yonkers i stopped for a cup of coffee
1:59 maybe it was a coffee you know car kept going off the road onto the shoulder you see maybe it's the stealing again i don't think angela knows the studebaker no it's me it's me i'm going along 60 miles an hour suddenly i don't remember the last five minutes i i can't seem to keep my mind to it damn arch supports are killing me take an aspen i'll get you an aspirin dear that'll soothe you oh you see i was going along i was fine i was even observing the scenery imagine me looking at the scenery on the road every week of my life but it's so beautiful up there linda the trees are so thick the sun is warm i open the windshield
2:47 let the warm air bathe over me suddenly i'm going off the road i tell you i absolutely forgot i was driving if i gone the other way across the white line i might have killed someone so i went on again and five minutes later i'm dreaming again i have such thoughts i have such strange thoughts willie talk to them again there's no reason why you can't work in new york you don't need me in new york i'm the new england man i'm vital in new england but you're 60 years old here they can't expect you to keep traveling every week got to send a wire to portland i was supposed to see brown and morrison
3:33 tomorrow morning show them the line damn it i could sell them why don't you go down to the place tomorrow and tell howard you've simply got to work in new york you're too accommodating dear old man howard was alive i'd be in charge in new york now that man was a prince he was a masterful man that boy of his that howard he don't appreciate first time i went up north the wagner company didn't know where new england was why don't you tell those things to howard i will well i definitely would the boys home they're sleeping happy took biff on a date tonight it was so nice to see them shaving together one behind the other in the bathroom and going out together
4:20 notice the whole house smells of shaving lotion figure it out you work a lifetime to pay off a house you finally own it and no one to live in it dip say anything after all up this morning you shouldn't have criticized india especially after he just got off the train you must lose your temper with him when the hell i lose my temper i ask him if he's making any money is that a criticism well how could he make any money such an undercurrent and then he became such a moody man did he apologize when i left this morning he was crestfallen willie you know how much he admires you i think when he finds himself then you'll both be happier and not fight anymore how's he's gonna find himself on a farm is
5:05 that a life a farmhand he's finding himself willing not to find yourself at the age of 34 is a disgrace trouble is he's lazy biff is a lazy bum why did he come home i'd like to know what brought him home well i think he's lost i think he's very lost biffloman is law in the greatest country in the world a young man with such personal attractiveness gets lost and such a hard worker that's one thing about biff he's not lazy never i'll see him in the morning i'll have a nice talk with him get him a job selling he could be big in no time remember they used to follow him around at high school when he
5:52 smiled at one of them their faces lit up he'd go down the street really i bought a new kind of american-type cheese today it's whipped why'd he get american when i like swiss i thought it would be a change i don't want to change i want swiss cheese well i'm always being contradicted around well i thought it would be a surprise why don't you open a window for god's sake they're all open to you they boxed us in here bricks and windows windows and bricks the street is lined with cars not a breath of fresh air in the neighborhood the grass some girl you can't raise a carrot in the backyard
6:38 said i had a law against apartment houses remember those two beautiful elm trees out here and biff and i hung the swing between them should have arrested the builder for cutting him down more and more i think of those days linda this time of year was lilac and wisteria and the peonies would come in the daffodils such fragrance people had to move somewhere there's more people now that oh i don't think they're more there's more people now that's what's ruining this country population is getting out of control the competition is maddening smell the stink from that apartment house next door
7:24 another one on the other side how can they whip cheese go on india try some and be quiet you're not worried about me are you sweetheart you've got too much on the ball to worry about you're my foundation and my support linda i won't fight with him anymore if he wants to go back to texas let him he'll find his way where sure some people just don't get started till later in life like thomas edison or i think or b.f goodrich one of them was dead i'll put my money on biff
8:10 if it's warm on sunday we'll ride out in the country and open the windshield and take lunch you can't open the windshield on a new car why you opened it today no i'd i didn't and i peculiar [Music] not remarkable that's the most remarkable thing i was thinking about the chevy 1928 we had that red chevy that funny i could have sworn i was driving that chevy today that's nothing something must have reminded you remember those days
8:56 huh i mean biff used to simonize that car the dealer refused to believe there was 80 000 miles on it no you go and close your eyes i'll be right in 80 000 miles you smash the car up again 82 000. he's going to get his license taken away if he keeps up like that i'm telling him i'm getting nervous about him biff i drove into the city with him last week he stops at a green light and then it turns red and he goes simonizing job i'm going to sleep
9:42 hey funny you know biff i was sleeping in here again yo beds all the time we want to cross these two beds huh whole lives yeah a lot of dreams and plans [Laughter] about 500 women would like to know what was said in this room hey remember that big betsy something what the hell was the name over on bushwick avenue the one with the fake golly dog yeah that's the one hey you taught me everything i know about women don't forget that i bet you forgot how bashful it used to be especially with girls oh yeah i still am barefoot's
10:29 just i control it more like so you know i think i got less bashful and you've got more so what happened biff where's the old confidence the old humor what's matter why does dad mock me all the time oh he does that everything i say there's a twist of mockery in his face i can't get near him he just wants you to make good that's all i think it's the fact that you're not settled down that you're still kind of up in the air there's one or two other things depressing i'm happy what do you mean never mind just uh just don't let it all to me but if you just got started but hey i mean is there any future for you out there tell you a half i don't know what the future is i i don't know what
11:16 i'm supposed to want i spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up shipping clerk salesman business of one kind or another to devote your whole life to keeping stock or making phone calls or selling or buying to suffer 50 weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation when all you really desires to be outdoors with your shirt off okay you really like it on a phone you can turn up there app i've had 20 or 30 different kinds of jobs since i left home it always turns out the same that's why i came home now i guess because i realized that this farm i work on it's it's spring now there see and they they got about 15 new cults and there's nothing more uh
12:02 inspiring beautiful than the sight of a mayor and a new cult and every time spring comes to where i am i suddenly get the feeling my god i'm not getting anywhere what the hell am i doing playing around with horses 28 a week i'm 34 years old i would have been making my future and and that's when i come running home and now i get here i i don't know what to do with myself i'm uh i'm i'm like a boy i'm i'm not married i'm i'm not in business i just uh um i'm like a boy are you content huh hell no why you you're making money aren't you yeah all i could do now is wait for the merchandise manager to die
12:49 what if i get to be merchandise manager um he's a good friend of mine just built a terrific estate on long island lived in it for two months sold it and now he's building a new one he can't enjoy it once it's finished and i know that's just what i would do i don't know what the hell i'm working for but then it's what i always wanted my own apartment car plenty of women still i'm lonely listen why don't you come out west with me hey you and i oh maybe we could buy a ranch race cattle use our muscles men built like we are should be working out in the open the loman brothers we've been known all over the country oh that's what i dream about you see everybody around me so false i'm constantly lowering my ideals
13:35 i tell you how we weren't brought up to grow up for money i don't know how to do it either can i let's go the only thing is what can you make out there well look at your friend builds an estate hasn't the peace of mind to live on yeah but when he walks in the store the waves just part in front of him that's 52 000 a year coming through the revolving door and i've got more on my pinky finger than he has in his head ah i'm gonna show some of those pompous self-important executives over there that haploromine can make the grade then i'll go with you we'll be together yet i swear let's go to sleep are you i guess we didn't settle anything huh i just uh
14:22 i got one idea i think i'm gonna try yeah what's that you remember bill oliver oh sure hey oliver's very big now well when i quit he he said something if he put his arm on my shoulder he said biff if you ever need anything come to me i remember that well i think i'll go to see him if i could get ten thousand or even seven or eight thousand dollars i could buy a beautiful ranch biff i bet he becky cause he thought highly of you i mean they all do you're well like if with the ranch i could i could do the work i like and still be something i i just wonder though if oliver still thinks i still let god in a basketball ah he probably forgot that long ago it's almost ten years you're gonna watch the
15:07 engine doesn't you know mom can hear that hey they'll get your sweater dirty baby isn't that terrible i'm telling you you got you got to stick around you can't leave biff i don't know what to do about them it's getting embarrassing ah what a simulation i'm seeing that but go to sleep bit but talk to him in the morning huh hey hey what watch those hubcaps with her in the house brother the stupid sleep no kidding bib you got a date huh
15:53 [Music] don't make any promises no promises at all because a girl you know yeah you're too young to be thinking seriously about girls too young entirely you want to finish your schooling first man when you're all set there'll be plenty of time for girls for a boy like you [Music] you guys the girls pay for [Music] you you really must be making a hit
16:39 i've been wondering why you polish the car so carefully hey hey biff bit what about the hubcaps take a shower me to the hubcaps and happy use a newspaper for the windows is the best thing how's that professional that's terrific terrific great yeah hey over in auburn i saw a beautiful hammock riff what do you say next week i buy that hammock we hang them between these two elm trees won't that be something hey pop i'm losing weight you notice jumping ropes good too hey pop the new football i got coach wants me to practice my passing what the coach gave it to you well i borrowed it from the locker room oh come on i want you to return i told you you wouldn't like it well i'm bringing it back well he needs a regulation ball of practice with doesn't
17:25 he coach will probably congratulate you on your initiative steve we were launching for you there launcher man missed every minute i'll tell you a secret one of these days i'm going to have my own business i'll never have to leave home again like i'll go charlie huh big and uncle charlie because charlie's not liked he's like but he's not well-liked where'd you go this time well i got my car went up north to providence and met the mayor he was sitting in a hotel lobby what he said he said morning i said you got a fine city here and uh i went on a waterbury big clock city famous waterbury clark yeah i'd love to come with you sometime pop sooner summer comes you promise you hap and i i'll show you all the towns america's full of beautiful towns you
18:11 know fine upstanding people and they all know me oh i got friends i can park my car in any street in new england the cusp protected like their own this summer yeah you bet we're taking our bathing suit hey hey you're nervous about the game oh not if you're gonna be there listen pop this saturday just for you i'm gonna break through for a touchdown when i take off my helmet that means i'm breaking out well here is a boss now where are you you're supposed to study with me today bernard look at brett what are you looking so anemic about listen biff i heard mr biernbaum say that if you don't start studying math he's going to flunk you and you won't graduate you didn't see my sneakers hey just
18:57 because he printed university of virginia on his sneakers doesn't mean they have to graduate him what are you talking about with three universities offering them scholarships they're going to flunk him what are you such a pest don't be what an anemic okay i'm waiting for you in my house bill [Music] [Laughter] ah good bernard's not well-liked well he's like pop but he's now well-known that's right bob that's what i mean he can get the best marks in school you know what i mean but when you get out in the business world you'll be five times ahead of him that's why i thank god almighty i've got a couple of adonises here be liked and you'll never want take me for instance i never have to stand in line to see a buyer willie lowman is here
19:44 i go straight through you knock him deadpool i knocked him cold in providence i slaughtered him in boston hello do you sweetheart how did chevy run chevrolet is the greatest car ever built well you let your mother carry the wash in by herself hold on come on oh did you sell anything oh yeah i was selling thousands and thousands but i just had to come home how much did you do well i didn't figure it out yet i i i saw 200 growths for the whole trip 100 that makes 70 and some pennies oh that's very good what do we hope well on the first we owe sixteen dollars on the refrigerator why sixteen the fan belt broke and that was a dollar eight
20:29 but it's brand new the man says that's the way they are they work themselves in there's 960 on the washing machine and you owe frank for the carburetor that's three dollars and a half i'm not gonna pay that man damn chevrolet they ought to prohibit the manufacture of that car odds and ends it all comes to around 120 by the 15th 120. my god linda things don't pick up i don't know what i'm gonna do oh next week you'll do better than ever i'll knock them dead next week i'll go to hartford i'm very well liked in hartford trouble is people linda don't take to me oh don't be foolish no i know it when i walk in they they seem to laugh at me now why why would they laugh i don't know why i can't stop myself i talk too much a man ought to
21:15 come in with a few words uh charlie charlie's a man of few words and they respect him you don't talk too much you're just lively uh i i'm i'm foolish to look at you're the handsomest man in the world oh no linda no to me you are the handsomest and the boys willie you men are idolized by their children the way you were you're the best there is linda you know that you're a pal on the road on the road i want to grab you some time and just kiss the life out of you because i get so lonely especially when business is bad and there's nobody to talk to i got to think maybe i won't sell anything anymore
22:02 there's so much i want to make me you didn't make me willy i picked you you picked me huh i did i've been sitting at that desk watching all those salesmen go by day in and day out but you've got such a sense of humor and we do have such a good time together don't we why do you have to go my sisters will be scandalized when will you be back oh two weeks ago will you come up again huh sure thing well i'll see you the next time i'm in boston i'll put you right through to the
22:47 buyers well bottom's up you just kill me willie you kill me and thanks for the stocking i love a lot of stockings well good night keep your pores open [Laughter] you are really the handsomest man there's no reason no i'll make it all up to you what's that oh my stockings i'm mending them they're so expensive linda i won't have you mending stockings in this house throw them out where is he if he doesn't study you'll give him the answer i do but i
23:33 can't on the regents that's a state exam they're liable to arrest you where is he your whitman he's got to get back that football it's not nice why is he taking things he's too rough for the girls all the mothers are afraid of it i'll whip him shut up mr biernbaum says he's stuck up get out of here if he doesn't buckle down you'll flunk man he's right really you've got to do something about it there's nothing the matter with him what do you want him to be a worm like bernard he's got spirit personality he's loaded with it wow what's he stealing he's giving everything back his name
24:26 why is he stealing why did i tell him i never in my life told him anything but the decent things why is he stealing all right come on why does she have to wax the floors herself every time she waxes the floor she heals over she knows that shh take it easy now what brought you back tonight i had an awful scare i nearly hit a kid in yonkers god why didn't i go that time to alaska with my brother ben ben my man was a genius he was success
25:14 incarnate what a mistake he he begged me to go ah if i told you i'm going to retie you for life you'll retire me for life on your 70 damn dollars a week and you're women in your cars and your apartment you'll retire me for life dear god i couldn't get past yonkers today where are you guys where are you the woods are burning i can't drive a car [Music] so [Music] is everything all right yeah charlie everything's fine
26:01 what's the matter oh yeah i heard a noise i thought maybe something happened yeah can we do something about the walls no you sneeze in here and in my house hats blow off take it easy huh what are you doing though hmm uh uh i couldn't couldn't sleep so good i got a heartburner you don't know how to eat gotta know about vitamins and things like that okay come on let's shoot tire out little huh what is it with these vitamins
26:46 it builds up your bones chemistry yeah well there's no bones in a heartbreak well what are you talking about what are you uh what are you doing home i had little trouble with a car you want a job i've got a job i told you that what the hell are you keep offering me a job for all right all right don't get insulted don't insult me do you want me to go i don't understand it charlie he's going back to texas again what the hell is that well let him go let him go he won't starve none of them starve just forget about him what have i got to remember
27:34 see the ceiling i put up in this room yeah yeah that's a real piece of work all right putting up a ceiling is a mystery to me how do you do it what's the difference well talk about it what are you going to put up a ceiling how can i put up a seat what the hell are you bothering me [Music] i'm getting awfully tired ben oh good good keep playing and make your sleep better hey did you call me ben that's funny for a second lady reminded me of my brother ben i only have a few minutes i must make a train william there are several properties i'm
28:21 looking at in alaska you never saw him again huh since that time didn't linda tell you a couple of weeks ago got a letter from his wife in africa he died so this is brooklyn eh well maybe you're in for some money ah he had seven sons there's just one opportunity i had with that man opportunity is tremendous in alaska william surprised you're not up there you're tremendous huh mother living with you no she died a long time ago oh too bad fine specimen of a lady mother i'd hope to see the old girl who died heard anything from father have you
29:08 how do you mean who died what are you talking about william it is half past eight no no that's my bill look i put the ace well if you don't know how to play the game i'm not going to waste my money on you well that was my ace when did mother die long ago from the very beginning you never know how to play cards all right all right the next time i'll bring a deck it's got five aces ignoramus so you are william oh man i waited for you so long what's the answer how did you get started i was so young i was about three or four years old i remember you going down some open road i had a faulty view of
29:53 geography william i discovered after a few days that i was heading due south so instead of alaska i ended up in africa the gold coast principally diamond mine boys boys this is your uncle ben a great man ben tell my son my boys when i walked into the jungle i was 17 and when i walked out i was 21 and by george i was rich see what i've been telling you the greatest things can happen that's just the way i'm bringing them up and rugged well-liked all around yeah well hit me there boy hard as you can oh oh no
30:40 [Laughter] never fight fair with a stranger boy you'll never get out of the jungle that way boy go over to where they're building the new apartment house bring some sand we're going to rebuild the entire front stoop right now watch this because if they steal any more from that building the watchman will put the cops on them you should have seen the lumber those kids brought home last week at least a dozen six by tens worth all kinds of money i gave them hell you understand but i got a couple of fearless characters lily the jails are just full of fearless characters and the stock exchange friends oh where the rest of your pants my wife bought it all you need now is a golf club
31:25 you can go upstairs and go to sleep between him and the son bernard they can't hammer a nail a watch is chasing biff shut up he's not stealing anything i'll stop by on my way back to africa william oh hey ben can't can't we talk i have a a solid position here but i feel sort of temporary about myself and my boys william you're doing first race with your boys outstanding manly chaps man that's good to hear because sometimes i think maybe i'm not teaching them the right guy ben how shall i teach them william when i walked into the jungle i was 17
32:13 and when i walked out i was 21 and by george i was rich was rich well just the spirit i'm trying to imbue them with to walk into a jungle i was right really dear willy it's very late dear come to bed [Music] you're gonna break your neck to see a star in this backyard you coming in dear no i'm going for a walk your slippers
32:58 with me i was right what a man there was a man worth talking to i was right you're in your slippers willy how long have you been doing this it'll pass by morning shouldn't we do something my dear you should do a lot of things but there's nothing to do so go to sleep mom i never heard him so loud come around more often than you'll hear him he's not like this all the time is he when you come home is always the worst why are you so hateful to each other why is that i'm not hateful mom you no sooner get in the door than you're fighting
33:45 are you home stay i don't know i want to look around see what's doing if a man's not a bird to come and go with the springtime yeah your hair got so gray no it's been great since you were in high school i just stopped dying at that time i died again well yeah i don't want my pal looking old you're such a boy you think you can go away for a year and if you've got to get it through your head that one day you're going to knock on that door and there'll be strange people here what are you talking about you're not even 60 mom what about your father i meant him too he admires bob if you don't have any feeling for him then you can't have any feeling for me sure i can mom no you can't just come to see me because i love him
34:30 he's the dearest man in the world to me and i won't have anybody making him feel unwanted and low and blue you got to get it through your head there's no leeway anymore either he's your father and you pay him that respect or you're not to come here anymore i know he's not easy to live with nobody knows that better than me hey what the hell's the matter with him don't don't go near him oh stop making excuses for him well yeah he always always wiped the floor but he never had an ounce of respect he always had respect what the hell do you know just don't call him crazy he's got no character charlie wouldn't do this not in his own house spewing out that vomit from his mind well charlie never had to cope with what he has to people are a lot worse off than willie loman believe me i've seen then make charlie your father
35:15 you can't do that can you i don't say he's a great man willie loman never made a lot of money his name was never in the papers he's not the finest character that ever was but he's a human being and a terrible thing is happening so attention must be paid he's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog attention attention must be paid to such a person you call him crazy oh my god a lot of people think he's lost his balance you don't have to be very smart to know what his trouble is the man is exhausted sure a small man can be just as exhausted as a great man he works for a firm 36 years next march opens up unheard of territories to their trademark now on his old age they take away his
36:00 salary i didn't know that mom you never asked my dear now that you get your spending money someplace else you don't trouble your head with i gave you money just last christmas fifty dollars to fix a hot water heater it costs 97.50 for the past five weeks he's been on a straight commission like a beginner an unknown grateful pigs are they any worse than his sons when he brought them business when he was young they were glad to see him now his old friends all the old buyers who always managed to hand him some order in a pinch they're all dead retired he used to be able to make six or seven calls a day in boston now he takes his releases out of the car puts him back again takes him out again and he's exhausted instead of walking he talks now
36:45 he drives 700 miles when he gets there no one knows him anymore no one welcomes him what goes through a man's mind driving 700 miles home without having earned ascent why shouldn't he talk to himself why and he has to go to charlie and borrow 50 a week and pretend to me that it's his pay how long can that go on how long you see what i'm sitting here and waiting for when you tell me he has no character a man who never worked a day but for your benefit when does he get the medal for that is this his reward to turn around at the age of 63 and find his sons who he loved better than his life won a philandering bum mom that's all you are my baby you
37:31 what happened to the love you had for him you were such pals how you used to talk to him on the phone every night how lonely he was till he could get home to you all right mom live here in my room and i'll get a job i'll keep away from them that's no biff you can't stay here and fight all the time he threw me out of this house remember that oh i was that i never knew because i know he's a fake how fake and what like what do you mean it's between him and me that's all i have to say about it i'll chip in from now on he'll be all right i'm going to bed he won't be all right i hate this city and i'll stay here now what do you want from me he's dying biff he's been trying to kill himself
38:16 how the insurance inspector came he says they have evidence that all those accidents last year weren't accidents that's a lie it seems there's a woman what what'd you say nothing i said what woman this woman was walking down the road she saw the car she says he wasn't driving very fast and that he didn't skid she says he came to that bridge and deliberately smashed into the railing and the only the shallowness of the water saved him last month i was looking for the fuse the lights blew and i went down in the cellar and
39:03 behind the fuse box it just happened to fall out was a length of rubber pipe just short there's a little attachment on the end of it i knew right away and sure enough on the bottom of the hot water heater there's a new little nipple on the gas pipe check do you have it taken off i'm ashamed to how can i mention it to him every day i go down and take away that little rubber pipe but when he comes home i put it back again how can i insult him that way if i swear to god his life is in your head all right pal
39:48 all right it's all settled here it's all subtle i've been remiss i know that but now i'll stay here and i swear to you i'll apply myself sure you will you know the only trouble with you in business biff was you never tried to please people i know like the time you worked for harrison's bob harrison thought you were tops and then you go and do some stupid fool thing like whistling whole songs in the elevator so what i like to whistle sometimes you don't raise a guy to a responsible job a whistle's in the elevator i'm going to say something biff i hate to tell you but in the business world some of them are great business well i don't care what they think they laughed at that for years you know why because we don't belong in this not house of a city we should be be mixing cement on some open plane a a carpenter's a carpenter is allowed to whistle even your grandfather is better than a carpenter
40:39 bernard doesn't whistle in the elevator i assure you yeah yeah but uh you do pop i've never in my life whistled on the elevator and who in the business world thinks i'm crazy i didn't mean it they laugh at me go to filene's go to the hub go to slattery's boston call out the name willie lohm and see what happens big all right all right why do you always insult him i didn't say i would did i say a word good night you just decided you're tired hanging around tomorrow you can paint the ceiling i put up i'm leaving early tomorrow he's gonna see bill oliver tomorrow pop oliver what for uh he always said he'd stake me i'd like to go into business for myself i thought maybe i'd take him up on him isn't that wonderful don't interrupt what's wonderful about it at least 50 men in the city of new
41:26 york would stake you but sporting good i guess so how much does he given you well i don't know i didn't even see him what are you talking about well i said i was going to see counting your chickens again don't curse on this house just when did you get so clean i don't have nothing for jesus now wait a minute let's just settle down now let's talk some sense now listen the last time i was in florida i got an idea to sell sporting goods it just came back to me you and i biff we have a line the loman line we train a couple of weeks put on a couple of exhibitions you see oh wait wait that's right we formed two basketball teams two water polo teams see we play each other two brothers see it's a million dollars worth of publicity with displays in all the hotels banners over the ring and the basketball courts the longman brothers baby we could sell sporting goods that's
42:12 a one million dollar idea lick the world together you guys could absolutely lick the civilized world see all of it tomorrow things are beginning to work out don't interrupt don't wear your sport coat and slacks when you see all right nice quiet fine serious money is to pa everybody likes a kidder but nobody lends them any money i'll try to get some myself i'm sure i can how much you're going to ask for gee i don't know don't don't say g g is a boy's word a man walking in for fifteen thousand dollars doesn't matter on a ten i think it'd be tough don't don't be so modest you always started too long always had the highest talk i don't don't yell out i was talking wasn't it
42:59 don't take his side yelling at him all right uh tell my best to oliver he may remember me why did you have to start that your pajamas are hanging in the bathroom willie come on india say goodnight to him don't let him go to bed like that it takes so little to make him happy come along dear what a woman they broke the mole when they made her you know that biff she got gray mom got off alone i wonder if oliver will remember him you
43:44 think he might remember him when he crazy if he didn't leave oliver he'd be on top of the world now gee i'm gonna see oliver tomorrow i'm gonna knock him through a loop hey come on in tell that to dad let's get my work come on i'm uh glad to hear it he wanted to say goodnight to you scott uh well what do you want to say to me well just uh take it easy pop good night yeah if something falls off the desk while you're talking to oliver don't you pick it up they got office boys all right and don't undersell yourself no less than fifteen thousand dollars okay
44:31 good night man you've got greatness in your bed all kinds of greatness sleep well live dear mom i'm going to get married i wanted to tell you go to bed here i just wanted to tell you keep up the good work ah remember that that ebbets field game for the championship of the city just try to rest dear shall i sing do you yes sing to me when he came in on the field
45:17 ah he was the tallest remember yes and in gold like a young god [Music] hercules or something like that the sun the sun all around him [Music] and how he waved to me from the field with the representatives of three colleges sitting in the stands and the buyers i brought yeah and the cheers when he came out [Music] oh man hello [Music] every great yet
46:05 a star like that magnificent can never really fade away what is he got against you i'm so tired don't talk anymore you tell howard you've simply got to work in new york first thing in the morning everything's going to be all right
46:52 [Music] hmm [Music] gee look at the moon moving between the buildings [Music]
47:50 it's wonderful coffee meal in itself you look so rested dear i slept like a dead man first time in months boys left nice and early they were out of the house by eight o'clock lift was very changed this morning dear his whole attitude seemed to be hopeful we could hardly wait to get downtown to see oliver gee on the way home tonight i'd like to buy some seeds that'd be wonderful but not enough sun gets back there nothing will grow anymore ah you wait kid before we're through we'll have a place of our own in the country we'll raise vegetables chickens ah talk to howard today dear yeah i'll put it to him straight he'll just have to take me off the road don't forget to ask him for a little advance because we've got the insurance premium it's the grace period now that's a hundred dollars 108.68 because we're a little short again and
48:37 there's one more payment on the refrigerator but it just broke i know dear but it's old linda i told you we should have bought a well-advertised machine charlie bought a general electric is at it for 20 years is still good who ever heard of a hastings refrigerator once in my life i'd like to own something outright before it's broken always in a race for the junkyard all told about 200 would see us through but that includes the last payment on the mortgage after this payment the house belongs to us 25 years this was nine years old when we bought it well that's really something you know to whether a 25-year mortgage is really
49:24 it's an accomplishment everybody i'm late i forgot you're supposed to meet them for dinner thanks chop house 48th street and 6th avenue wait what about you no just the three of you biff came to me this morning he said tell dad we're gonna blow him to a big meal be there at six o'clock linda that's really something for you oh i'm gonna knock that howard for a loop i'll come back with an advance and uh new york job linda will you stop mending stockings at least while i'm at the house it gets me so nervous please ah maybe beets would grow there
50:15 hello oh biff oh i'm so glad you called yes i told him he'll be there six o'clock i didn't forget if i was just dying to tell you you remember that little rubber pipe i told you about well i finally decided to go down in the cellar and take it away and destroy it but it's gone imagine he took it away himself it isn't there anymore oh then you took it no i was just hoping he'd taken it himself no i'm not worried because this morning he left in such high spirits it was like the old days i'm not afraid anymore
51:01 have a good time with dad tonight dear he may have good news too a new york job be sweet to him dear be loving because he's only a little boat looking for a harbor put your arms around him when he comes in the restaurant give him a smile bye goodbye bifty howard oh hello willie got a minute thank you come here be with you in a minute i'd like to have a little talk with you
51:46 ever see one of these wire recorder records things just got delivery yesterday i had it home last night listen to what i picked up uh the first one is my daughter get this lifelike isn't it seven years old willie get that tone now you daddy ah this is crazy for me trust me [Music] you're very good get this now this is my son alabama's montgomery the capital of arizona's venus the capitol berkeley five
52:32 the capital of california is sacramento you'll make an announcement you get the alphabetical order oh the maid kicked the plug out that's a wonderful machine i i tell you willie this is the most fascinating relaxation i ever found yeah i think i'll get one myself sure they're only about hundred and a half say aren't you supposed to be in bus that's what i want to see you about you didn't crack up again legend no oh it's cheap you had me worried there for a minute well what's trouble well i would have come to the decision i'd rather not travel anymore not travel well what do you do you remember christmas time you had the party here you said you looked for a spot for me
53:18 here in town with us oh sure oh yeah yeah i remember well i couldn't think of anything for you i tell you how the kids are all grown up i don't eat much anymore i could bring home well 65 dollars a week yeah but will you see i just our business here is i tell you why howard just between the two of us speaking frankly i i'm just a little tired oh i can understand that willie but you're a road man we do a road business we've only got half a dozen salesmen on the floor here yeah well out i i never asked a favor of any man but i i was with a firm when your father used to carry you in here on his arm i know that willie your father came to me the day you were born ask me what i
54:05 thought of the name howard may he rest in peace i appreciate that willie but there just is no spot here for you now if i had a spot i'd slam you right in but i just don't have a single solitary spot you know what how about all i need to set my table is 50 a week where am i gonna put your question of whether i can sell merchandise i said no but it's a business kid and everybody has got to pull his own weights yeah well let me tell you a story because you got to admit now business is business business is definitely business but you don't understand this how let me let me tell you see when i was 18 19 i was on the road already there was a question in my mind as to whether selling had a future for me because in those days i wanted to go to alaska you know i'm saying oh yeah see
54:51 i was almost decided to go when i i met a salesman in the parker house his name was dave singelman and he was 84 years old he drum merchandise in 31 states and all dave he'd go up to his room he understand put on his green velvet slippers i'll never forget when you pick up the phone and he'd call the buyers without ever leaving his room at the age of 84 he made his living when i saw that i realized selling was the greatest career a man could wish for because what could be more satisfying then to be able to go into 20 30 cities pick up the phone and
55:38 and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people you know when he died and by the way he died the death of a salesman with his green velvet slippers arm and the smoker of the new york new haven in hartford going into boston when he died hundreds of salesmen and buyers were to his funeral things were sad on a lot of trains for months after that see what i mean in those days there was respect
56:23 uh personality comradeship uh gratitude see today it's all cut and dried you know what i mean there's no chance of bringing friendship to bear or or or personality they don't know me anymore ah that's just the point where if i had forty dollars a week that's all i need yeah they can't take blood from a stone of the year al smith was nominated your father i've got to see some people talking about your father there were promises made in this office you mustn't tell me you've got people to see i put 34 years into the spring now i can't pay my insurance you can't eat the orange and throw away
57:10 the peel a man isn't a piece of fruit now pay attention in 1928 i remember i had a good year i averaged 170 a week in commissions oh willie you never ever i averaged 170 a week in the year of 1928 and your father came to me or rather it was right here in this office across his desk he put his hand on my shoulder you have to excuse me willy i've got to see some people pull yourself together put myself together what
57:56 the hell did i say to him i yelled at him how could i oh frank frank don't you remember what you said to me huh you put your hand on my shoulder and you said alabama's montgomery the capitol arizona's phoenix the capitol the capital of california and sacramento now look willie gotta get some coffee i'll i'll get some coffee i'll go to boss willie you can't go to boston for us why can't i go i don't want you to represent us i've been meaning to tell you that for a long time now
58:44 are you firing me i think you need a good long rest willie yeah well but i need the money i i i have i have to earn oh i'll go to boston i'll put down kids i'm busy this morning now you've got to let me go to boston i've got a line of people to see this morning now sit on take five minutes pull yourself together and then go home willie i need the office willie oh yeah whenever you can this week stop by and drop off the samples pull yourself together kid it's people outside [Music]
59:31 how did how did you do it ben [Music] what's the answer did you wind up your alaska deal already it doesn't take much time if you know what you're doing don't bend [Music] nothing's working out i don't know what to do look here willie i've bought some timberland in alaska and i need a man to look after things for me ah timberland me and my boys and those grand outdoors linda oh you're back i haven't much time go linda he's got a proposition for me in alaska oh you're doing well enough really well enough for what my dear enough to be happy right here right now
1:00:17 i'm building something with a firm and if a man is building something you must be on the right track must me i've got to go no ben i'm telling you and look at this boy without a penny to his name three great universities are begging for him and from there the sky's the limit because it's not what you do ben it's whom you know it's the smile on your face it's contact spin contact goodbye william no ben am i right tell me am i right i value your advice there's a new continent at your doorstep william you could walk out rich but we'll do it here
1:01:03 you hear me ben we're going to do it here it's that past one all right everybody evansville next stop you're coming back today captain of the all scholastic championship team of the city of new york got it pop remember when i take off my helmet that touchdown's for you hey what's going on baseball in this weather knuckle homer biff knock over this is the most important day of his life willie when are you gonna grow up after this game you'll be laughing out of the other side of your mouth i'll be calling him another red grain's 25 000 to here who's red grains oh put up your hand come on up put up your hands better than anybody else you don't know
1:01:49 everything you big stupid ignoramus put up your hands i know you where are you going what are you walking away from i know you laugh at me behind my back well you'll be laughing out of the other side of your face before i'm through with you touchdown come on one of this game touchdown huh hiya jenny how you working today is still honest fine how are you feeling well not much anymore huh hello uncle willie bernard well what do you know how are you good to see you oh what are you doing here oh
1:02:34 just stop by to see pop get off my feet to my train leaves i'm going to washington in a few minutes come in sit down is he in uh he's in the office with his account huh sit down willy what are you going to do in uh washington oh it's just the case i've got there is that so what are you going to play tennessee i'm staying with a friend who's got a court you don't say own private tennis court must be five people over here they are very nice yeah oh dad tells me biff's in town oh yeah bison he's working on a big deal really i'm very glad to hear that you know bill oliver big sporting goods man he wants me very bad
1:03:20 you know he brought him in from the west long distance special delivery cart blanche you know your friends have their own private tennis corner i'll are you still with the old firm willie i'm overjoyed to see how you made the grade up over joy it's an encouraging thing to see uh um yeah
1:04:07 biff is doing very big bernard what is it willie what's secret what secret how did you why didn't he ever catch up i wouldn't know that really you were his friend his his boyfriend one thing i don't understand is life ended after that evan's field game on the age of 17 nothing could ever happen to him willie do you want to talk candidly but i regard you as a very brilliant man i value your advice willie
1:04:52 there's just one thing i've always wanted to ask you when he was supposed to graduate and the math teacher flunked him that man ruined his life yeah yeah but willie all he had to do was go to summer school and make up the subject why wouldn't he go why that question's been trailing me like a ghost for the last 15 years he flunked the subject lay down and died like a hammer hit him willie i remember it was june and our grades came out and he flunked math but he was ready to enroll in summer school but then but then willie he disappeared from the block for almost a month and i i got the feeling that he'd gone
1:05:39 up to new england to see you did he have a talk with you then willie hmm yeah he came up to boston yeah what about it well just that when he came back i'll never forget this it always mystifies me because i thought so well of biff even though he'd always taken advantage of me i loved him really you know and uh he came back after that month and he took his sneakers do you remember
1:06:24 those sneakers with the university of virginia printed on them he was so proud of them wore them every day and he took them down in the cellar and he burned them up in the furnace what happened in boston willie nothing what do you mean what happened no willie told me so you blame me if a boy lays down is that my fault no willie well what kind of talk is that what does it mean what what happened hey hey hey hey you're gonna miss that train yeah i'm going
1:07:14 you are bernard thanks pop bye willy goodbye how do you like this kid huh he's to argue a case in front of the supreme court pop the supreme court look i've got to go well goodbye dad bye knock him dead bernard huh the supreme court he didn't even mention it he don't have to he's gonna do it you never told him what to do did you charlie you never took an interest in it
1:08:01 my salvation is that i never took any interest in anything now and here's some money 50 dollars well i got an accounting charlie and i i have to uh pay my insurance i'll need a 110 dollars see i'd draw it out of the bank but then linda would know sit down really well i'm keeping strict accounts you'll get every penny back willie what are you doing what the hell is going on in your head now i offered you a job you can make fifty dollars a week and i won't send you on the run i've got a job without
1:08:47 pay why don't you want to work for me i'm i'm offering you a job i don't want your damn when the hell are you gonna grow up listen you say that to me again and i'll wrap you one how much do you need i'm strapped charlie i'm strapped i was just fired howard fired you that's not known imagine that i i named him i named him howard willie when are you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything all you got in this world is what you can sell funny thing is you're a salesman and you don't know
1:09:33 that well i always felt otherwise i guess i always felt if a man was impressive and well-liked why should everybody like you who liked jp morgan was he impressive in a turkish bath he'd look like a butcher but with his pockets on he was very well liked um now look willie i uh all right i know you don't like me and no doubt i told you nobody can say that i'm in love with you either no but uh well uh uh i'll give you a job just oh uh just for the hell of it let's uh let's put it that way what do you say i just can't work for you charlie somebody you're jealous of me i can't work for you don't ask me why yeah you have been jealous of me all your life
1:10:20 damn fool here pay your insurance i'm keeping strict accounts charlie you as funny after all the highways and the trains and the appointments and the years you end up being worth more dead and alive willie nobody's worth nothing dead you hear what i said willie oh and and apologize to bernard for me i'm sorry i argue with him he's a fine boy
1:11:06 they're all fine boys they'll end up big all them come there they'll all play tennis together wish me luck charlie he saw bill oliver today good luck charlie you're the only friend i've got not a remarkable thing [Music] yeah a lot of people they don't like it private but i know you you ain't from hackensack this is better hey stanley
1:11:52 you got a couple of nice lobsters don't worry i don't give you no mice one hundred percent big how about some wine it'll top off no no no no you remember that uh recipe i brought you back from overseas and the champagne and what'd you do hit a number or something ah it's just a little celebration my brothers i think my brother pulled up a big deal today i think we're going into business together oh now that's great because you know a family business you know what i mean that's the best what's the difference somebody steals it's in the family you know what i mean strudel's coming oh no there ain't no how did you know i got radar something [Music] oh stem i uh i think that's for you mr
1:12:37 roman hey would you like a menu why don't you bring her excuse me miss do you mind i uh sell champagne i'd like you to try my brand stanley bring her champagne that's a charming product to be selling it gets to be like everything else you know selling selling you don't have to sell do you no i don't sell it hey fifo hello kids sorry i'm late it's all right i just got uh miss uh this fourth side this is my brother maybe you've heard it from biff but a great football player really what team uh are you familiar with football i'm afraid not well biff is quarterback for the new york giants well i'm very happy to meet you that's my name huh it's really harold but at west point
1:13:23 they called me isn't that coming well i am but i could make a phone call well why don't you do that honey and uh see if you can get a friend i'll try don't try honey try hard isn't that a shame now a beautiful girl like that that's why i can't get married there's not a good woman and a thousand well i'm new york slaughter with her kids no no i want to say something to you hey did you see oliver i saw him all right now now look i want to tell dad a couple things and i want you to help me what is he going to bag you are you crazy you're out of your head you know that what happened hap i did a terrible thing today it's been the strangest day i've ever been through i'm all numb i swear i mean
1:14:09 he wouldn't see you well uh i waited six hours for him see all day kept sending my name in he even tried to date his secretary so she'd get me to him but no so that's because you're not showing the old confidence but people remembered you didn't he finally about five o'clock he comes out he didn't remember me or anything i felt like such an idiot did you tell him my florida idea the way i saw him for one minute how the hell did i ever get the idea that i was a salesman there i i even believed myself i've been a salesman before we've been talking in a dream for 15 years i was a shipping clerk but what did you do well he left see and uh his secretary went out i was all alone in the waiting room well i don't know what came over me half the next thing i know i'm in his office panel walls everything
1:14:55 i can't explain it i hope i i i took his fountain pen did he catch you well i i ran out i i ran down all 11 flights i i ran that was an awful what did you do i don't know i don't know i just uh i wanted to take something i don't know you gotta help me i'm i'm gonna tell dad are you crazy what thing well he's gotta understand that i'm not the man somebody lends that kind of money to he thinks i've been spiting him all these years and it's it's eating them up well that's just it you tell them something nice i can't tell him you got a lunch date with oliver tomorrow so so what happens tomorrow you leave the house tomorrow you come back at night and you say oliver's thinking it over he thinks it over for a couple of weeks gradually it fades away and nobody's no worries but it'll it'll go on forever look dad is never so happy is when he's looking forward to something
1:15:41 hey hello scout i've been here for years hey sit down pop you want a drink huh let's uh let's get a load on i don't mind you look worried no no scotch is all around making doubles you had a couple of drinks already huh that's the couple yeah yeah what happened everything go all right pal i uh i had an experience terrific bob thank you well what happened i'm gonna tell you everything from first to last it's uh it's been a strange day uh i i had to wait quite a while for him see oliver
1:16:27 yeah oliver and uh all day as a matter of cold fact and uh a lot of instances facts papa facts about my life came back to me who was it pop who ever said that i was a salesman with oliver well you were you no papa i was a shipping club practically no now let's let's let's keep this down to the facts tonight we're not gonna get anywhere bowling around i i was a shipping club all right well now you listen to me why don't you learn about it i'm not interested in any stories about the past or any crud of that kind because the woods are burning boys there's a big blaze going on all around i was fired today how could you be i was fired i'm looking for a little good news to tell your mother because the woman has waited the woman has suffered the gist
1:17:12 of it is i don't have the story left in my head so don't give me any stories about facts or aspects i'm not interested components yeah oh what happened did uh did you see all of that i did i saw him how could they fire you what kind of a welcome did he you won't even let you work in commission i'm out did he give you a warm welcome sure bob sure i was wondering if he'd remember you see a man doesn't see him for what 10 12 years see the kind of welcome he is damn right you know why i remembered you because you impressed him in those days hey let's let's talk quietly and get this done kind of a greeting did he bet he put his
1:17:57 arm around you yeah he he kind of he's a fine man he's a very hard man to see told him my flawed idea pop oh how did he react to the florida dad will you give me a minute to explain i've been waiting for you to explain as i sat down what what was his answer it's his answer dad you you're not letting me tell you what i want to tell you you didn't see him i did i did i saw him why'd you insult him or something you insulted him listen will you let me out of it well you just live what the hell are you telling me i can't talk to him mrs loman you had to go and flunk math yeah what math what are you talking about now look now look i'm i'm going to tell you what happens and you're going to listen to me i
1:18:44 i waited six hours fifth long math they won't graduate him no but they have to he's got to go to the university where is he there there he went to grand central he must have gone to boston or maybe willie can talk to his teacher oh that poor poor boy so i i i'm washed up with oliver you understand don't blame me i didn't flunk math you did what what pen oh and if that was awful dumb a pen like that's you took oliver's panda i just explained it to you you stole bill oliver's fountain i never intended to do it standish arms good evening i'm not in my room that was the matter ringing mr loman for you i'm not there
1:19:30 stop it i'll make good dad i i'll make her you're no good you're no good for anything mr loman does not answer shall i page him no you strike something bob listen to me i'm telling you something good uh oliver spoke to his partner about the flowering idea you're listening no it's gonna be all right then you're gonna he's gonna be terrific then you're gonna no no you're not you're going no no i'm supposed to have lunch with him tomorrow pop but i can't go tomorrow why not but the pen you tell him it was an oversight i can't save you you were doing a crossroad process look kid those balls those balls i stole those balls years ago now i walk in with this fountain pen that clinches it don't you see i i'll try everything listen you're going to keep that luncheon tomorrow i can't i got no idea you're spiding me something i'm no good
1:20:16 someone's at the door willie and a letter may not be able to stay too long i gotta get up very early tomorrow i got jury duty this is my father oh isn't he come on let's sit up willy are you gonna answer the door hey where you going huh where's the door the door the washroom was just just go straight down i think it's sweet you bring your daddy along well what's on the program girls where would you like to go huh can we [Music]
1:21:10 aren't you ever gonna get up get up camp [Music] [Laughter] why don't you do something for him don't you care about him huh look what i found in the cellar how can you better let this go on you could help him i can't he's trying to kill himself don't you know that i know it me help him help me i can't bear to look at his face [Music] hey he'll be all right don't answer it oh come on let's catch up to biv well don't you want to tell your father where
1:21:56 you're going oh no that's not my father he's just some guy come on oh you stop laughing will you stop laughing you know you ruined me willie from now on whenever you come into the office i'm gonna see that you go straight through the buyers no standing anymore at my desk willie you ruined me well it's nice of you to say that oh oh come on drama boy no neat dressing in the middle of the night aren't you gonna answer the door willie
1:22:41 maybe the hotel's on fire it's a it's a it's a mistake it's getting on my nerves there's somebody standing out there it's getting on my nerves go into the bathroom and don't come out yeah i think there's a law in massachusetts so don't come out it's a mistake there's no fire what hey what are you doing in boston why didn't you answer i i didn't hear i was in the bed and the door was shut did anything happen at home that i i let you down
1:23:26 why come on boy i'll get your market my funk math i i haven't enough credits to graduate we're bernard wouldn't give you the answers he did he tried i only got a 61. and i wouldn't give you four points boom bomb refused absolutely i begged him pop you got to talk to him there the class came right before practice see and i i didn't go enough would you talk to him pop he'd like you you know the way you could talk to him oh go on uh we'll drive right back you're on gentlemen i'm checking out yes sir hey see the reason he hates me one day he was late for class and i uh i got up in front of the blackboard and i imitated him i crossed my eyes and i talked with a lift no the square root of
1:24:12 63 and in the middle of it he walks in there's somebody in there it's next door somebody got in your van can i come in there's something in the bathtub willie and it's moving [Laughter] yeah you go back now there uh must be through painting your room by now they were painting her room so i let her take her shower here you're through painting you you could this is miss francis if she's a buyer you can go back but my clothes i can't go naked into the hall come on get out of here oh you promised me stockings billy i don't have any stockings you had two boxes of size nines for me and i want them
1:25:01 i just hope there's no one out in the hall that's all i hope are you football or baseball football that's me too good night well we need to get started gonna get to school first thing in the morning she's a buyer he buys for j.h simmons lives down the hall see they they were painting you don't imagine maybe if she's a buyer he she sees merchandise in her room they
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