Doctor Bull (1933) Movie Script
New Winton!
Everybody off for New Winton!
- Why, good morning, Miss Helen.
- Hello.
- Did you have a good Christmas?
- Don't be silly!
- In this dull place? How could you?
- It is quite dull, isn't it?
- Board!
Next stop, New Haven.
Dr. Bull's phone doesn't answer.
Listen to this, Helen.
It's kinda swell.
"And he said,
'Grave, where is thy victory? '
"So he passed over,
and all the trumpets sounded for him...
on the other side."
Ah, May, why don't you forget your troubles
and read the funny papers?
Yes, Mrs. Talbot.
I'll ring Dr. Bull again.
I wonder where old Dr. Bull is anyway.
I'll tell you where he is.
You'll find George Bull at the widow Cardmaker's,
if hes not at church.
Yes.
- Good morning, May.
- Good morning, Mrs. Ely.
My, my. I felt so sorry
when I heard Joe got hurt.
And to think it happened just a week
after you children were married.
Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk.
- It's terrible.
- But Dr. Bull says that-
Dr. Bull.! Ha.! It's a wonder to me you'd
even let him touch your husband.
- Why, Mrs. Ely.
- The way George Bull
and the widow Cardmaker carry on...
is a shame and a scandal
in this town.
Do you know, Lige Perry told me...
that Bull's car was up at her house
three nights last week...
and he said that one night
he didn't leave till-
Well, I won't tell you.
I must get to services.
Oh, I'm expecting a package...
from the Pontifex Medical Company.
- Be sure to save it for me, Helen.!
- I will.
That old-
Still, she's right about Doc Bull
and the widow Cardmaker.
They've been the main topic of conversation
in this town for the last five years.
I don't see why two people can't be friends
without everybody talking.
Yeah, but what sort of friends are they, darling?
That's what we want to know.
Hello?
Yes. Yes, I will.
Mrs. Talbot seems awful frightened.
Abide with me
Fast falls the evening tide
The darkness deepens
Lord, with me abide
Abide with me
Was that the phone, Aunt Myra?
- What you say, Kenneth?
- Aw, Kenneth.
How often have I told you that
your son Kenneth, for the last 50 years...
has been in heaven?
I hope he has.
I'm your nephew, George Bull.
Dr. Bull.
Have they found out
who committed the murder yet?
- I figure it was the doctor!
- The doctor?
- Purposely?
Come on.
We'll be late for church.
How's people who are sick gonna get well
if you do that kind of stunt?
Abide with me
Fast falls the evening tide
- The dark-
- Look at that hat!
- Excuse me, Aunt Myra. I forgot it was Sunday.
- Oh!
Wait a minute, Aunt Myra.
I'll help you down.
There's that big lummox again.!
How'd you know his name?
- What do you want?
- It's me, Doc.
Um, you run on to church, Aunt Myra.
I'll- I'll be there in a minute.
- What do you want?
- Well, Doc, I'm in trouble again.
Honest, I got the awfullest pain
in my left side...
and I know I got appendicitis.
You remember old man Crandall?
He had an appendicitis, and it burst on him
before they got him on the operating table!
I don't want that to happen to me!
Honest, I don't, Doc.
Come on. Go to church.
I never heard of one busting in church.
Aw, Doc, it hurts
and just pains so, honest.
- On your left side?
- Yeah, it throbs.
- You've got it.
- I knew it.
Get in here. There's only
one thing makes me doubt it.
Your appendix is on your right side.
Maybe I got two of 'em,
'cause I've had double pneumonia.
What's Mrs. Talbot want
with old Doc Bull?
She says Mamie's sick.
"Herbert Banning, Esquire."
Dividends keep coming in.
Page 73.
Joyful all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With the angelic host proclaim
Christ is born in Bethlehem
Hark the herald angels sing
Glory to the newborn king
Hello, Joe.
Yes, honey. How's everything?
Yes, I will.
And I'll be home at 5:00.
Keep the flannels around your feet.
- How is Joe today?
- Well, he always tells me he's better.
- He wants me to bring him some things
from the drugstore.
Hello. Hold the phone.
New Haven calling
the Banning residence.
There's your party.
- Virginia Banning?
- Mm-hmm.
Must be coming back
from the fraternity dance.
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh, all that girl does is run around.
Well, they can afford it.
Charles Edward's grave
needs attention, Janet.
Yes.
I'd speak to the sexton about it.
You must have it
attended to at once, Janet.
Yes.
- Good morning, Janet.
- Good morning, George.
Good morning, everybody.
All the-
- Good morning.
- The Bannings, the Cardmakers.
What are you all gathered here?
What's the matter? Somebody get out?
George, we did so enjoy
the singing this morning.
Well, thanks very much.
I was kind of proud of it myself.
L- I don't think us boys
ever did better.
Yes, we heard you.
- Come along, Janet.
- Come along, Janet.
Say, I hear you got some new cows
up at your place.
Yes, I have four new certified Jerseys.
- I'd love to come up there and see 'em.
- Well, why don't you?
Sorry, Dr. Bull, but Mrs. Cardmaker's
having lunch with us today.
Come, Janet dear.
- Bye.
- Good-bye.
That's Charles Edward, Doc.
He was a drunken sot...
and I'm glad Miss Janet
got rid of him.
Yeah, but those Bannings
and Cardmakers, they-
they always stick together,
dead or alive.
Yes, all except Miss Janet.
Oh. Mrs. Talbot wants you
on the phone, Doc.
Well, I got one other call to make.
I'll go right over.
- Good-bye, Sam.
- Yeah, all right. Good-bye, Doc.
Here you are, Joe.
Take one of those there.
I tell you, Doc.
If it wasn't for May, I'd do something.
I'm not gonna lie in bed
the rest of my life like this.
Hey, cut out that bellyaching.
Come on. Take that.
That'll get you some rest.
It's my legs, Doc.
They're like two slabs of stone.
Say, fallin' off a platform
50 feet high-
What do you expect, to get up
and walk out of here in a week?
A week?
It's been nearly two months now.
Well, maybe it has.
But you let me do the worrying, will you?
There.
There. Lay off that nicotine.
- It ain't good for you neither.
- Thanks, Doc.
Don't thank me.
I won 'em on a punch board.
- Oh, hello, May.
- Hello, Doc.
- How you feelin', honey?
- Better, darlin'.
Aw, he's great. He's feeling fine.
Just needs a little sleep, that's all, May.
I'll, uh-
I'll see you again tomorrow, Joe.
Thanks, Doc. Appreciate it.
- So long.
- Thanks, Doc.
Hello, Doc. You're just in time.
- We need you.
- What's the matter? Somebody sick?
- A cow.
- A cow?
Yes. Mrs. Cardmaker's
in the barn with her now.
Eh, good Lord.
Why don't you get a vet?
It's a Jersey. She's down too.
- Pretty bad?
- Well, she ain't doin' so good.
Say, you know,
she's not only paralyzed.
She's got a high fever too.
Here's your thermometer.
Wasn't any good, was she?
She won the Jersey prize at the fair.
- What, that thing?
- Yes, that thing.
Here. Take that right over
to the drugstore.
Give her that in water
about every two hours.
Keep those wet blankets
on her all night.
And then you better phone
that veterinarian over at Torrington.
By morning she'll be dead.
Well, I like that.
Well, there ain't anything else
you can do here.
You, uh, got any cider?
Come into the house.
Gonna stay for supper?
Always do, don't I?
Come on in.
Gee, you look pretty, Jane.
Aw, you always look pretty.
What mischief have you been up to
the last three days?
Mischief?
Been to choir practice mostly.
Well, I've been sticking pretty close
to Joe Tupping too.
I know doctors never tell
their professional secrets...
but have you any hope for Joe?
Pretty worried about him, Jane.
Well, that's a good sign for him.
- Hmm?
- How's the cider?
As Shakespeare says,
"It warms the cockles of my heart."
When I was a little tiny boy
With a heigh-ho
the wind and the rain
You have been
to choir practice, haven't you?
Silly old fool.
L-I don't know.
I kind of relax when I get up here...
on these windswept hills with thee.
Thank you, George.
You know, some old early settler
had the thing about right...
when he- he said that, uh...
most of life was a storm.
And without a harbor, a man is lost.
And a woman?
A woman don't need refuge
like a man.
I wonder.
Oh, Miss Janet, supper's ready.
- Good evening, Dr. Bull.
- Good evening, Mary.
Excuse me.
I can remember the time when you
used to leap to pull my chair out for me.
Say, I could leap some
in those days too, couldn't I?
- Oh, guess I'm gettin' old.
Or maybe- maybe your cider
was younger in those days.
You just take me for granted,
that's all.
No. You're wrong there, Jane.
I phoned and phoned,
and I could get no answer.
How is she now?
Mrs. Talbot's calmed down,
but Mamie's just the same.
- I wonder where Dr. Bull could be.
- Come here.
There's where he is.
Up there on that hill.
Do you see that light?
The shame of it!
Mamie lying there, needing him...
breathing her last breath maybe...
and he and Janet Cardmaker
are up there.
And what do you suppose they're doing?
Oh, it's a shame.
I'll tell you what they're doing.
"'Did you say pig or fig? ' said the Cat.
"'I said pig,' replied Alice...
"'and I wish you wouldn't keep
appearing and vanishing so suddenly.
"You make one quite giddy.'
"'All right,' said the Cat, and this time
it vanished quite slowly...
"beginning with the end of the tail
and ending with the grin...
"which remained some time
after the rest of it had gone.
"'Well, I've often seen a cat
without a grin,' thought Alice...
"'but a grin without a cat-
It's the most curious thing
I ever saw in all my life."'
- Silly kind of a thing, but sort of funny at that.
Well, that's why it's funny, George.
- Listen, I'm not here. You understand?
- Yes, you are.
- I'm not here!
Hello.
Yes. Oh, all right.
I'll tell him. George-
Oh, what'd you tell 'em
I was here for?
Mrs. Ely says Mamie Talbot's worse.
They want you to come right over.
Come on. You've got to go.
I just come by there a while ago
on my way over here.
Well, the old doctor's got to go...
no matter what happens.
Say, that old bunion, when you get here
by the fire, it kind of swells up on you.
Got to have me some house slippers.
Where's my coat?
Here.
I'm gonna quit this business
some of these days...
and I'm gonna come up here-
- Where's my nubie?
- Here.
I'm gonna sleep a month right there
on that couch, right by that fire.
You'll be welcome, George.
- Thanks, Jane. Where's my cap?
- Here.
Now hurry.
Ooh! Say, it's cold.
Listen.
Can you hear those trees popping?
Look at those stars.
- Good night, George.
Good night.
Hey, Jane. Come here.
Hear the carol singers.
I was supposed to sing with them tonight,
but it's too late now.
- Good night, George.
- Good night, Jane.
- Who's that coming?
What?
The baby! Yeah, the baby come!
Hello, Marietta. I'm back again.
- How you feelin', huh?
Ah. Good.
What do you want, a boy or a girl, huh?
Which one, huh?
- Well, you know old Doc here.
Give me some- Bowl of water
and a towel and soap, will you?
- You know what to get.
My Lord, Louie. Those all yours?
All mine, Doc!
Don't look like you need another one.
- Pretty tough night, Louie.
- Please, Doc.
But you've got a fine, big boy.
Yeah, you betcha. Have some vino.
I love to bring Italian babies
into the world.
A lot of places you go,
all you get is a cup of coffee.
One old skinflint farmer the other night-
I brought him twins, and all I got
was a cup of sassafras tea.
Do you speak English?
Well, that's a fine baby, Louie.
I think I'd save that one.
He's the best of the bunch.
Don't give him any of that wine
for a couple of days.
No, no, Doc. My wine for you.
Good-bye, Doc! Good-bye!
I thank you very much
for the fine baby, yes.
Arrivederci.! Hey! Arrivederci.!
Well, if you're going to have a doctor...
he ought to attend to his business.
- Mrs. Banning's right. It's time we made a change.
- Hmm.
Still, the Bannings hadn't ought to talk...
after the way they treated Mamie.
No, they hadn't.
- Come in.
Oh!
- Good morning.
- How is she, Mrs. Talbot?
She's sleeping at last, the poor thing.
Oh, that's fine. We've brought
some things and, uh, some food.
Oh, that's real kind.
We knew you would.
Oh, we knew you'd want to help out.
I'm sure it'll be appreciated.
- Mamie will like these things.
- I'll see about some coffee.
Yes.
Poor Mamie.
Well, there's Dr. George Bull for you.
- Improper medical attention, my dear.
- Absolutely.
- Correct!
- That's just what I think.
- Yes, these'll be awfully nice.
- She'll love these things.
She'll love them.
Oh, good morning, ma'am.
Good morning.
Is it terrible?
Poor Mamie. She was so young.
She must have hated to die.
Oh, I don't know.
I've seen a hundred people die...
and none of them
ever seemed to mind it.
They was all too sick to mind it.
What did you say?
Oh, there's an old saying-
"There's only one way into the world,
but there's a thousand ways out."
- The Bible.
- Mm-hmm.
- Here. You dropped your spoon, Granddad.
- Thanky.
Dr. Bull, why weren't you here
last night?
You might have been able to save her.
I don't know.
Thirty percent of the people
die with this disease...
even with a good doctor.
You either have the stamina to hang on
and develop a resistance...
or you haven't got it.
Poor Mamie didn't have it.
Fat person like you are,
Mrs. Banning-they'd have that.
- I beg your pardon!
- Well, you've got some meat on you.
Come, Herbert.
We leave everything in your charge, Bull,
and the expense of this-
Send me the bill. I'll pay for it.
All right.
Be sure that you do too.
Mamie worked for us, you know.
Yes. She worked for you.
- I don't think there can be any doubt about that.
- When's the funeral?
- I don't know.
What? First time I ever caught you
without any information.
- How old was Mamie?
- Seventeen.
- Come to think of it, wasn't she 18?
- No, she was older than that.
- I remember on the Fourth of July-
- Fourth of July?
- Fourth of July?
Oh, wait a minute.
Say, wait a minute.
It don't make any difference now,
does it?
- Hello, Doc.
- Oh, hello. Hello, boys.
Hello, Doc. How are you?
Frank, give me about
a quart of coffee, will you?
Sure.
What's the matter, Doc?
You look like you've had a hard night.
No, it wasn't me had the hard night.
It was my patients.
- How's Claire?
- She's fine, thanks.
- How's your folks, John?
- The baby has the sniffles.
I'll get over there this afternoon.
- There you are, Doc. See if that's strong enough.
- All right, Frank.
Say, Doc, I've been having trouble
with my side again...
and it just kept me awake
all night last night.
I took six of those pills
that you told me to take...
and it didn't do me a bit of good,
and I just don't know-
Oh, shut up, will you?
After anybody being up all night with real
sick people, they'd want to hear you whine?
Oh, well, Doc, I'm real sick too.
I'm one of your best patients, and I
wanna know what's the matter with me.
- Hello, girls! Well, goodness!
- What you gonna have?
- We want five chocolate malted milks.
- That's what's the matter with him.
- Yeah.
Five sweet malted milks
for five beautiful girls.
- Oh!
- You're kidding.
I'm not kidding.
Y'all going to the dance Saturday night?
- Sure!
- Oh, boy. I'll be there.
I'll be there if I don't have
that pain in my side again.
Aw, don't you feel good, Larry?
I just have pains all the time. I just don't
know what I'm gonna do about it.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
- There. Will you dance with me?
- Sure!
That is, providing
if I don't have that pain.
Yeah. But don't have
that pain that night.
- Well, I won't if you don't want me to.
Here you are.
It's got double ice cream in it.
- Oh, that's swell.
- Just special for you.
Say, Mr. Snyder.
I hope you're keeping that camp
of yours up there sanitary.
Sure. We'll be pulling out
of here next week...
and New Winton will have
plenty of electric power.
Yeah, and pay plenty
of money for it too.
We know your attitude
about modern improvements.
Dr. Bull would have us riding around
in a horse and buggy if he had his way.
- Yeah? We wouldn't all be
making payments on it anyhow.
Had no business ever putting that camp
so near where the town got its water supply...
but Mr. Banning insisted on it...
and, of course,
he has his way all the time.
But you better keep it clean,
I'll tell you that!
Well, hello, Doc Verney.!
How are you?
- How are you, Dr. Bull?
- I'm good.
Say, that's some car you got there.
Yeah, I made an awful mistake
by trying to learn medicine...
instead of being a diagnostician.
- There's many a tonsil in there, Doc.
- Look at that field truck of mine over there.
- Oh, yes.
Oh, by the way, Dr. Bull...
how's that paralyzed case
I x-rayed for you?
- Oh, Joe Tupping?
- Yes.
None too good.
You'd better take my advice
and get him into a state institution.
He'll never walk again.
Well, his wife's
got a kind of crazy idea...
that I'm gonna be able to help him.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, but I'll keep on doctoring
on him anyhow, see what happens.
Good luck. If I can help you-
All right. Thanks, Doc.
Here's a little snip of toddy, Kenneth.
Kenneth? Don't call me Kenneth.
I'm still the Reverend Ephraim Bull's
son, George...
but calling me "Kenneth" ain't gonna
keep me from taking this little snip.
Of course, George.
I must be getting old.
Near a hundred.
- You're feeling tough?
- Tough?
Oh, gee, l- I'm tired, Aunt Myra.
I'm gonna try to take a little nap.
Lige Perry came in today
with three dozen eggs to pay his bill.
Yep? I'll bet you half of them's
hatched by now.
- Oh, Lord. That there phone.
- You answer it, will you?
- Yes, I will.
And if anybody's tractor's broke down...
tell them to grease it with castor oil.
If anybody's sick...
tell 'em to do the same thing.
- It's me.
- That's what I was afraid of.
Oh, but I need you again, Doc.
Yeah. I need a lock on that door too.
Oh. Oh, honest, Doc. I'm awful sick,
and I've been having the terriblest dreams.
Honest. Last night,
I woke up in a cold sweat-
a cold sweat
and terrible pains in my chest.
And I dreamed I was in a big room
with a lot of doctors all around me close...
and they were dressed in white,
and they had me on an operating table...
and they come up real, real close to me
and pointed at me and said...
"You're bad sick,
and it's gonna kill you, Larry.
"There's a growth on your kidneys,
and it's gonna kill you...
and we're gonna take it out."
Then they put me on this table, and then
they had all these knives and hammers...
and saws and tongs around.
A-And one of the doctors grabbed one-
one with a long, gray beard-
and he sat right on my chest
and opened my shirt and just-
- And I woke up.
- Who woke you up?
I woke myself up.
If you're that smart, cure yourself.
Oh. Oh, I can't do it, Doc.
You gotta do something to help me.
Honest.
Aw, go take a big dose of castor oil...
and cut out that dreaming.
But I can't stop dreaming.
I've tried. Honest, I've tried.
- Stay awake.
- But I feel worse when I'm awake!
Oh, go to sleep then.
Oh! Aw, you're gettin'
hard-hearted, Doc...
and the people in town
are talkin' about it.
And it ain't gonna do you
any good if I die.
- You think it ain't.
- Oh!
Oh.!
Hello. Yes, Mrs. Banning.
Hold the line.
Hello. Hello, Torrington.
New Winton calling Dr. Verney.
One moment, please.
Here's your party.
That's the second time
Mrs. Banning called up today.
May, what's the matter with Virginia?
Don't ask me.
But you must, Virginia.
Dr. Verney said so.
I don't care what Dr. Verney said.
I'm not going to bed.
But you're ill, my darling.
You haven't been the same since you
came back from the dance at the university.
- What happened to you?
- Mother, will you leave me alone?
I won't see Verney,
and that's the end of it!
If you don't leave me alone,
I'll scream!
- But he'll be here any minute!
- I don't care. I won't see him!
- Where are you going?
- Where I can be alone!
Virginia, will you listen to your mother?
Listen to me!
- Call Dr. Verney. Virginia!
Virginia, listen to me!
Virginia! Virginia!
Please! Virginia!
Virginia, will you listen to me?
Virginia, come on over to our table
and sit with us.
I don't want to. I told you so.
- Will you leave me alone?
- Oh, come on, Virginia.
- Please come on, Virginia.
- I told you before- I wanna be alone!
- All right.
- Dr. Bull!
- What are you doing? Home on vacation?
- Yeah.
- Drinkin' beer, huh?
- Yeah. Have some?
Well, that's fine. We at least know
where you are now anyhow.
Oh, where, oh, where
has my little dog gone
Oh, where, oh, where can he be
With his ears cut short
and his tail cut long
- Oh, where, oh, where can he be
- Be
- Attaboy. Come on. Have some beer, Doc.
Just got time for one.
Hey, look at that Banning girl
over there drinking out of a flask.
Gosh, I ain't seen one in months.
Oh, where, oh, where
Can little dog gone
Oh, where, oh, where
Oh, where can he
Be
Virginia.
Say, let me take you home, will you?
I don't wanna go home!
Oh, that's all right.
Nobody will know anything about it.
I'll sneak you in the back way,
and they won't know you were here.
- I'm all right, Doc. Don't be silly.
- I'll take you home.
- Aw, don't be silly. Now, don't do that.
- I just wanna be alone.
Hey, Virginia.
Wait a minute. Here. Here.
- Hey, wait a minute.
Now listen. Let me tell ya-
Hey! You crazy-
- Hey, what's the matter? Are you crazy here?
- What are you doing? You get hurt?
- I hurt my ankle.
- I knew something would happen.
- Let's see how you are.
- Might've been killed there.
- I wish I had.
Didn't miss it very far. Come on up
to my office, and I'll look at that ankle.
- I want to talk to you about something, Doc.
- Yeah?
- Well, come on.
- I want to talk to you alone.
That'll be all, Mrs. Ely.
We won't need you any longer.
So that's the guy, huh?
Big football player.
I remember seeing his picture
in the paper.
Where'd you run on to him?
I was up to the university for a weekend.
I... met him at a house party.
So you fell for each other, huh?
Yes, we did.
We both had a lot to drink,
went out in his car.
Everything would have been all right
if the car hadn't stopped.
Now, don't go blamin' it all on the car.
Even back in my time,
the old horse would stop.
- Say, listen.
Didn't I see your picture in the paper
where you was gonna marry old, uh-
old Senator-
old Blowhard Hammond's son?
Well, that's Mother's idea.
- You wasn't stuck on him, was you?
- No.
Well, do you like-
Well, do you love this-this fella?
Yes.
Well, does-does he love you?
Yes.
- Ooh!
- What's his number?
- Oh, Doc, I don't want you to call him up.
- What's his number?
Kingsville 6525.
Hello, May. How are you?
Give me long distance, will you?
What you say that number was?
- Kingsville 6525.
- Kingsville 6-
Kingsville 6525.
Oh, Lord. When'd you girls go
to paintin' your toenails like that?
- Say, does he know about this?
- No, he doesn't, Doc.
I'm not blaming him.
It was all my fault.
But he does love me. Really he does.
I'm gonna give him
a chance to prove it. Hello?
Hello. Mueller? John Mueller?
- Oh, go on. Go.
- You do it.
Hello. John?
This is Virginia.
Tell him you're coming up.
I'm sorry I left in such a hurry...
but I had to come home right away.
I'm coming up to spend
a few days with Eunice.
Are you really glad?
- Why, certainly I like you.
- Love him.
I mean, I love you.
I'll see you tomorrow. What?
Well, yes, of course you can.
Later. Mother and Father are-
Of course,
they'll be glad to meet you, John.
Hello! Hello, son!
Hello. Hello.
Well, yes. Virginia tells me
you children had a little spat.
Well, you must fix that right up.
Yes. And our blessings are on you.
Good-bye, son.
Well, I guess it's all right.
I hope it is.
Aw, sure. It's gonna be all right.
It's gonna be fine.
How's your ankle?
You put the bandage on
as if it were really hurt.
Put it on so it would hurt.
You got a lot of alibiing to do
with your folks around here.
You're the best friend I ever had, Doc.
No. That football guy's
the best friend you ever had.
- He better be anyhow.
Oh, it's starting to rain.
Yeah.
Soon the birds will be singing...
and flowers will be blooming...
and first thing you know,
spring sickness will be here.
Then I'll have to load the whole town up
on sulfur and molasses.
- Good morning, Aunt Myra.
- Good morning.
Looks like it's gonna be
a good day today.
- Bless my soul!
- What is it?
"Football star weds New Winton girl.
"This morning, in a surprise wedding...
"Miss Virginia Banning
of New Winton...
became the bride of Mr. Jack Mueller."
Of all the things!
I'll bet the Banning family
are having a fit.
It's a good thing you read the papers.
I never would know what was goin' on
in society around here.
It's outrageous, preposterous!
Didn't she confide in you at all?
Didn't she say anything about it?
I tell you, Herbert, it isn't true.
It isn't true!
Virginia wouldn't do a thing like that.
She went up there to visit Eunice.
What is this, Herbert?
What is it all about?
Mother, it's awful.
I tell you, it's awful!
What's awful?
Mary, will you leave the room, please?
Virginia has married a German
up at the university.
- A German?
- A German.
- His name is Mueller.
- His name is Mueller!
I just can't believe it!
After all I've done for her,
after all I've planned for her.
What will Senator Hammond say?
Oh, the disgrace of it!
Oh, the disgrace of it.!
I'll get to the bottom of this!
I'll wager Bull had something
to do with it.
- Good mornin', Susie.
- Good morning, Doctor.
Why are you dragging around here,
drooping around like an old hen?
- What's the matter? Don't you feel good?
- No, I don't, Doc.
Come around here and let's see.
You better take a good,
big dose of castor oil.
What's the matter with that water?
It's been raining for a week.
It don't taste good.
You don't seem surprised
at this wedding.
Why would I be surprised?
Young people got to get married,
don't they? They better.
Say, I'm gonna phone Doc Verney.
All the Bannings will need him.
- They're gonna all be sick.
- Say, you want to hear a beautiful poem?
- No.
Good morning, girls. There must be
something for me this morning.
Yeah. It's here.
Sign this.
- Have you seen Dr. Bull?
- No. Are you sick?
No, but I met Susie on the street...
and she said he promised her
some medicine...
but he left the house
without giving it to her.
If I had my way, we'd have
a new doctor in this town.
Yes, Mrs. Ely, we know that.
That's better.
That's better still.
Doctor, you said
if he lasted till morning...
he'd be all right.
Well, it's morning, ain't it?
You're feeling better, ain't you?
What are you doing up
this time of the morning?
Let me get you a cup of hot coffee.
Oh, I wish I could.
I'd love to have one.
But you've been up all night.
I know, but I got to
be over at the school.
Will you, uh, let me
use your phone, will you?
We ain't got a phone, Doctor.
Oh, gee. You're lucky.
I wish I didn't have one.
I'll bring you
some ice cream tomorrow.
You're gonna be fine.
Good-bye, Martha.
- Bye, Doctor.
- It's all right. Don't worry.
Good-bye, Doctor.
Honey.
He said you're going
to be all right now.
Hello, Larry.
No, and I've tried everywhere I know
to reach Dr. Bull for you.
I'll try him again after a while.
May, why don't you
give Doc Bull a break?
Don't shock me.
What's Larry got now?
Hoof and mouth disease, I hope.
Don't see anything much
the matter with them, Miss Kiernan.
Seem to be all right.
- Hello, Doc.
- Hello, Billy. How are you?
- Hello, kids. How are you?
- Fine.
Come here, Bruce.
I want to see you.
What are you gonna do
to me now, Doc?
Gonna take out those tonsils.
You already took 'em out once!
- Oh, did I?
- Yeah.
- The crazy guy.
You can only take tonsils out once.
- Hello, Mary.
Unless they grow back in again.
Of course,
mine didn't grow back in again.
While you sit here messing
with your old cow medicine...
people in this town need ya!
I've just been over to see Susie.
I tell you, it isn't spring fever.
It's typhoid fever!
- What?
- That's what I said.
Susie's got it. I can smell her!
Say, typhoid fever's a disease...
caused by a specific organism
called Bacillus typhosus.
It don't fall on you out of the trees...
or like manna down from heaven.
Yes, but in plain words,
it's a germ, ain't it?
And you can get it
at your mouth, can't you?
Well, let it go a couple of days,
and we'll see what happens.
And let others catch it.
Catch it! You don't catch it.
It's an intestinal disease.
But sometimes them bugs
get into water, don't they?
And people drink the water,
don't they?
How did Susie look?
She's got a burning fever
and pains in her stomach.
Has she got any splotches
on her skin-
kind of rose-colored splotches?
She looks awful red.
Well, I told you.
Do you want tea or coffee
for supper?
Do you want
tea or coffee for your supper?
Kenneth?
Coffee.
Say, is all this yours, Doc?
- Oh, yes.
With an exhibit like this, you ought to
have taken it to the Century of Progress.
If the machinery will do you any good, you
ought to keep people living a hundred years.
Will you come in, Doctor?
Wouldn't mind
being a patient here myself.
Yes, we have all the latest equipment.
Will you sit down?
I'm gonna give you a chance
to try some of it out.
You know, Doctor, I got 11 cases of sickness
in my little town over there.
It's all broke out in the last couple of days.
In fact, since the rain.
Yes, I heard about it.
I got a specimen.
There's a specimen of blood there.
That's from our cook, Susie.
I want you to try that out
on your fancy apparati in there...
and see what's in it.
- What do you think is here?
- Typhoid.
Oh, I doubt that.
Well, of course you're a specialist,
and I'm an old cow doctor, but...
well, in fact, it wasn't me that discovered
the idea that it was typhoid.
It was- It was Aunt Myra.
She smelled it.
Smelled-
Nonsense.
But there should be
a source of infection.
Oh, Mrs. Janet Cardmaker supplies
the village with milk, doesn't she?
Yeah. It's the best milk
ever was milked too.
Has it examined
by the State every week.
Oh, Miss Stanley.
I want to do a typhoid culture.
Put 50 cubic centimeters of that solution
we have in the lab in an Ehrlenmeyer flask...
and three of this specimen of Dr. Bull's,
and shoot it in the incubator.
Immediately, Doctor.
- Where'd you get her, Doc?
- Oh, she's a bit new. She's a nice girl.
Well, I'll let you know
the results tomorrow.
By the way, I had a letter from the foundation
about that Joe Tupping case.
There's absolutely no chance.
I'm sorry.
Well, I am too.
I'm still working on him with a little serum
that I cooked up myself.
What?
Uh, you know,
I got a theory that, uh-
well, uh, well, what Joes
nervous system needs...
is a- it's a shock, you know...
like a-well, like a watch
when it ain't running.
You drop it,
and it starts sometimes.
Yes, I see.
Sounds kind of simple, don't it?
Yes, very.
- Good day, Doc.
- Good-bye, Doctor.
- Howdy, Doc.
- Hello, Gaylord.
- How's the cows?
- Pretty pert.
I hear Miss Janets got some new ones.
Is this one of em?
Don't you know her?
- No, I don't know her. How'd I know her?
- That's the cow you doctored.
Yeah?
- Didn't that old cow die?
- Die? Kicked me this mornin'.
Say, was-
Was she really afflicted
like you said she was?
That cow didn't move a leg
in three weeks.
- Plumb paralyzed, huh?
- Plumb.
By golly, I wish I could remember
what I give her.
Here. Joe.
This ain't gonna hurt... much.
Didn't hurt, did it?
How does the old leg feel?
About the same, Doc.
May, see those toes stickin' up there?
Gonna have them wiggling
pretty soon.
You keep up the rubbing on the leg.
Say, where's the-
where's the hot water bottle?
- Gosh, I'm freezing to death here, Doc.
Yeah.
You'll be sweating pretty soon.
What is that stuff you give me, Doc?
Oh. Oh, this?
Oh, it's, uh-
Oh. Oh, it's got a-
It's got a long Latin name here.
You wouldn't know what it was.
I can't hardly say it myself.
But it'll do the trick.
- The trick, huh?
- Mm-hmm.
About two more shots, and we got it.
Your Aunt Myra wants you to come over
to Susie's right away.
Susie's?
Say, uh, by the way, what are you-
what are you doing out here today?
- How come you ain't working?
- Doris is taking my place.
Well, that's fine. That's great.
Take good care of Joe there now.
He's, uh- He's getting along fine.
All he needs is a little more sleep.
I think you need some sleep, Dr. Bull.
Who, me? Doctor?
Sleep?
We gotta die to get any sleep.
- So long.
- So long, Doc.
- Say, uh, I'll be back tomorrow.
- All right, Doc.
Oh, Joe.
Did you hear what he said?
Yes, and what's the big idea?
- Hello, Doc. How are you?
Good morning, Bull.
Hello, Helen. Anything for me?
Yeah, here's a special for you.
By golly, Aunt Myra was right.
- Bad news, Doc?
- Yeah.
Say, we got a-we got
a typhoid epidemic in this town.
- Huh?
- What's that?
Here's a report
from the Verney Laboratory.
Says it's typhoid.
Now we gotta get busy.
- I knew something was wrong.
- Are you sure of that?
Yeah. Now, uh, we got
to boil all the water...
and everybody in town's
gotta be inoculated.
I won't let any child of mine
be shot full of them bugs!
My brother Howard nearly lost his arm
that time you stuck him for smallpox.
Do you mean to tell me that's what's wrong
with my little girl? Typhoid?
Well, l- I'm afraid it is.
I'm going to call Dr. Verney.
- And you say the water's contaminated?
- It may be.
How did it get contaminated?
Well, it's my opinion that it's the drainage
from that construction camp.
You're the health officer!
When did you last inspect that camp?
Well, l- Banning and Snyder-
I told them to keep it clean.
But you're the health officer,
ain't you?
Aw, there's a lot of sickness
in this town.
I've got no time to run around
looking at water!
Who cares what caused it?
It's here, ain't it?
I'm gonna vaccinate all the children
at the schoolhouse in the morning.
I want you parents
to have 'em there too.
I got some good news for you kids.
How would you like
to have a day's vacation?
- Swell!
- That's great.
Well, now, uh, all in the world
you're gonna have to do...
is just to, uh-
is to roll up your sleeve.
No, no. Your left sleeve.
You ain't gonna stick
that needle in us, are you, Doc?
If I did, it wouldn't hurt you.
I never did hurt any of you kids, did I?
No, you ain't done nothin'
but give us a lot of pills.
Yeah, my old man says
that's all you can do.
Oh, is that so?
Wait till your old man gets sick again.
- See what happens to him.
- He can beat you up.
Well, maybe. Now, here.
Who's gonna be the first to volunteer?
I will, Doctor.
Oh, well, now, ain't that fine?
See what a brave little girl Ruthie is?
Come here now, honey.
Dr. Bull, do you mean to tell me that
you're going to vaccinate these children?
Oh, now, don't worry.
Sit down now.
You're not going to vaccinate my child.
She's sick.
- Aw, she's not sick.
- But, Dr. Bull, l-
- I've had all my children vaccinated.
Now, that didn't hurt, did it?
- No.
- Hmm?
That's fine.
That's a brave little girl.
- Now, who's the next one to take a chance?
- I'll take a chance, Doc.
Oh, hello, Bruce.
How's the tonsils?
I ain't got any anymore.
No? Well, who took em out?
- You did!
- Did I?
Well, this ain't gonna hurt you.
Don't worry.
- There you are. Didn't hurt, did it, Bruce?
- Nah.
Who's the next lucky one?
You're Billy Watson, yes?
Yeah.
You was born on the Fourth of July,
wasn't you?
Yeah. How did you know, Doc?
'Cause you spoiled my whole day.
That was the biggest celebration
this town ever had.
I got there even
after the fireworks was all over.
Bull, as one of the selectmen
of this town...
I'm here to protest against
the inoculation of these children.
I'm health officer.
I'm doing my duty.
But you won't be health officer long,
I can assure you of that.
- Well, I am yet.
- This is over my protest!
But you'll not inoculate a child of mine.
Bruce, come here.
Okay, Pop.
Bruce, I hope that arm
don't hurt you tomorrow.
What's that bell ringing for?
Ain't you heard, Miss Janet? The folks are
gettin' up some kind of precedence against Doc.
- Against Dr. Bull?
- That's what I heard.
You go along home and tend to
the milking. I'll be in later.
All right, Miss Janet.
Take that stuff I give you?
Yeah, the same old stuff you give-
Always give the same old stuff.
Everybody in town's talking about it,
and they say you're just an old pill doctor.
- Oh, is that so?
- Mm-hmm.
- They say that you only know
how to give one kind of medicine.
- Only one kind, huh?
- Well, I know how to give two kinds of medicine.
- Yeah?
I'm twice as good a doctor
as they think I am.
Get you a glass of water there.
Well, I want something different
this time.
Thats just exactly what you're gonna get-
something different.
- Going to the meeting, Doc?
- What meeting?
The meeting the Bannings are holding.
- What are they holding a meeting about?
- About you.
About me? What about me?
- Negligence of duty.
- Oh, is that so?
- They don't think you're any good.
- No?
No. And they're gonna kick you out.
Oh, they're gonna kick me out, huh?
Is that so?
Here. You take that. I think you'll find
that different from anything you've ever had.
- Thank you.
- Kick me out, huh?
I don't think you're
such a terrible doctor, Doc.
The motion is that we recommend
George Bull's removal as health officer...
and ask that another doctor
be procured for New Winton.
- All in favor-
- No, don't do that!
You haven't been recognized
by the chair, Mrs. Cardmaker.
Well, we'll recognize her.
Let's hear what she's got to say!
That's right! Let her talk!
- She's got as much right to talk
as other folks around here.
- That's right. Go ahead.
At this moment, while you're sitting here
blaming George Bull for negligence of duty...
he's working his head off
attending to your sick folk.
If this town has an epidemic in it...
it's not George Bull's fault,
but my brother's-
Herbert Banning's there.
Why was Herbert Banning so anxious to rent
his camp site to the construction company?
Money. Money!
Both he and Snyder told George Bull...
they'd see that that camp
was kept clean.
Sit down. Janet.
There's a certain group in this town
that's been intending for a long time...
to get rid of George Bull because
they think he's old-fashioned.
And now is their chance just because
he failed to inspect the reservoir.
- All right. Go ahead and whisper.
Go ahead and laugh. He's been a good
friend to me. I'm not ashamed of it.
He's been a good friend to all of us.
The reason he's not here now
to defend himself is...
that at this very moment,
he's sitting at Joe Tupping's bedside...
trying to give that poor boy back
a chance at happiness...
trying even though Verney and everybody
else said there was no use trying.
Order! Order!
You ought to give him a chance.
He's no longer a young man.
If you get the State Board to take his license
away, there's nothing else he could do.
You'll ruin his life.
Well, he can always
go back to doctoring cows.
She's right! I claim she's right!
Now wait a minute.
You listen to me!
Now shut up.
You can't turn George Bull out.
Why, he brought most
of our children into the world.
He's stood by us through thick and thin.
I vote we adjourn!
Adjourn or not, but he'll never doctor
another one of my kids.
I move we recommend Dr. Hepburn's
appointment in Bull's place.
- No!
- Yes.!
Give him a chance.
Go ahead, Doc. Go ahead.
What is all this dogfight about anyhow?
The floor isn't yours, Dr. Bull.
You're out of order.
You shut up, Herring, or youll be out of order!
There's a lot of you out of order!
We're tired of your goings-on in this town.
It's a shame and a scandal in the community.
- Where was your car last night?
Now wait a minute.
What are you laughing about?
My car was right where
I wanted it to be.
Where I go or what I do
is none of your business.
You keep your nose out of my affairs.
Throw him out, somebody.!
Throw him out.!
Come on.! Come on.!
You'll throw me out when I get good
and ready for you to throw me out.
You grinning baboons.
Now listen here- If I was like
a lot of you, a scandal hound...
that went around jabbering
everything that I heard-
Suppose I told all I know around here?
- Mr. Chairman.!
- Yes, and you!
I could talk for an hour on what
I know about you, Mr. Upjohn!
I move that we
carry on with this adjustment.
Mrs. Ely, I wouldn't say a word,
if I was you.
Oh, you are the last person to talk.
And that goes for a lot of you-
what I know about lots of you.
The difference is, what I know
about you is the truth.
Now, I could resign,
but I'm not going to do it.
I'm going to give you the satisfaction
of kicking me out.
And when you do kick me out, and anybody
in the town gets run over by an automobile...
or dies of old age...
you can't say that Dr. Bull did it!
That's Doc Bull all over.
He just don't care.!
- Order!
- Order!
- Mr. Chairman.
- Mrs. Banning.
Ladies and gentlemen...
I don't see that Dr. Bull's
action here today...
has anything to do with the case.
I move that we take a vote
on the original motion.
I second the motion, Mrs. Banning.
- All in favor, respond by saying aye.
- Aye!
- No?
- No!
- It's a vote. The ayes have it.
- I move we adjourn!
- I second it!
- I third it!
- You can't do that.
- I've already done it.
The meeting's adjourned!
- Janet, I never was so ashamed in my life!
- You've disgraced us!
Let me alone.
And I'm ashamed of you!
You must be almost dead.
The old dog ain't any too spry, May.
Listen, Doc.
Maybe you better go on home.
If there's a change in Joe,
I'll call you.
Don't like that fever.
If we can only get him sweatin'-
That's fine.
Keep those just hot as you can.
I'll take a little rest here and then-
Then I'll do that,
and-and you must have a nap.
Listen, if there's a sign of a change...
you let me know right away, will you?
All right, Doc.
George, its Janet.
Oh.
Gee, l-
I like to dropped off to sleep.
I thought I'd ask you if you didn't
want to come to the house.
Maybe you could rest there.
That's awful nice of you.
No. I got- I got to stay here.
I'm so sorry, George.
Those fools!
Oh, it's all right.
I been a doctor long enough anyhow.
Now I can do some of the things
I always wanted to do.
I can go huntin'. I can go fishin'.
Look at that telephone there.
For 20 years, I've been every night
listening to one of those things.
You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna devote the rest of my life
to being a telephone breaker.
Did you ever see those fellas could take
52 cards and tear 'em apart like that?
That's what I'm gonna learn to do-
I'm gonna break 52 telephones at once.
Bust 'em up.
Oh, no, you're not. You're going to spend
that energy fighting these people back.
No, I'm not.
I'm a rotten doctor anyhow.
I never did do anything,
only give 'em a lot of castor oil.
They certainly oughta know enough
by now to take it themselves.
- George, you don't mean that.
- Yes, I do.
Soon as I'm through with Joe, I'm gonna take
that medicine kit and throw it right in the river.
And you'll be fishing it out
again the next day.
- I won't be fishing it out.
- You've spent your whole life among these people.
They're all you know.
Besides, you can't retire at your age.
Why, you're just in the prime of life.
You've got to carry on.
You've got to fight back.
Doc, come in here quick!
He's starting to sweat.
Say, his fever's gone.
Yeah, my clothes are
as wet as water, Doc.
Well, that's a-
that's a good sign, Joe.
We'll see how the feet are.
Why, Doc, you're tickling my feet.
- What?
- Sure.! I can feel it.!
- Look.! He moved his foot.!
- Yeah! Say, it's working!
- Oh, Joe!
- It's working. Get right under there.
Now, none of that now. Come on.
Hurry up. Get some more water.
Don't get excited now. Take it cool now.
Get some more hot water.
Lay down there.
We got to keep you all heated up here.
Here.
Put this right under your arm.
Lay back and be still.
Here. May, have you got any whiskey?
George, you're surely not
going to give him whiskey.!
Ah, no! It's for me!
He's cured!
I'm going to get paralyzed now.
Hey, fellas. Hey, fellas.
Come on out here.
Here's Doc Bull. There's somethin'
the matter. Come on, fellas.
Hey, hey!
Hey, I got some news for you!
Hey, Joe's cured!
- Who? Joe Tupping?
- He's cured? Isn't that marvelous?
Joe! He's moving his legs!
Good for you, Doc.
Come on in and have a real drink.
No, I'm going to Janets
and get some cider!
Janet, will you get out of that car?
Janet, will you get out of that car?
Jane? I want to talk to you.
All right, George.
What did you do?
Did you lose your head completely to go
and talk to those people like you did?
You know, I've caused you
enough trouble around here.
Then to have you get up there
and defend me before all those folks?
Well, you-
you just got yourself in worse.
Now they will talk about you.
George Bull...
some men are born blind...
and you're one of them.
Oh, we've been- I don't know.
We just seemed to
kind of hit it off here together.
We-Sittin' here and talkin',
and good friends.
But now that all this mess
is stirred up...
l- I can't even
come up here anymore.
Huh.
I'm telling you,
I'm gonna... feel kinda lost.
I see what you mean.
All right.
You better finish your drink
and go along home then.
Home? But, Jane, you-
As long as I've been coming up here,
you never told me to go home in your life.
You might take the jug with you too.
Then you won't be missing anything.
I don't want your old cider.
You think I been coming up here
just for that cider?
Oh, Jane.
I never did tell you before-
never did tell you because I...
well, I didn't have the courage
to tell you.
But the darned old cider
never was any good anyhow.
I don't- I don't know whether
I want to go or not.
Jane, you know I'm a whole lot better
at doctorin' cows...
than folks.
But could you-
could you use an extra hand...
in your dairy business?
Aw, I might know it'd be you.
Doc, I'm in trouble again.
What do you want?
He wants to get married.
Minnie, are these your brothers?
Yes, sir.
Yes, he wants to get married,
and mighty quick too.
No, I don't!
Yes, you do.
I'll fix you.
- No-
- Hello. Hello, Doris.
Get me the Reverend Wyck, will ya.
- Reverend Wyck? Doc Bull.
I've got some marrying customers
here for ya.
You won't have to have your wife
act as a witness for these.
They're bringing
their own witnesses with 'em.
Yeah. They've got two best men.
Doggone it, you can't do that!
I'm in no condition to get married!
I'm not a bit well!
And not only that, Doc...
but my family's opposed to marriages.
Yes, they are, Doc! There hasn't been
a marriage in my family for generations.
You wouldn't want me marrying her with them
hating me like they do, would ya, Doc?
Honest, I don't wanna get married!
Come on, get outta here. Come on!
- Get outta here!
- But think of their attitude about children!
Come on. Tell 'em I'll pay for it.
Get him out.
Ain't love grand?
It sure is.
Here. I thought you didn't
like my cider, Dr. Bull.
Well...
seems I changed my mind...
Miss Jane.
Yes, sir...
if I just had some house slippers now,
I'd be right at home.
I've been saving some for you, George.
Where'd you get those?
They were Charles Edward's.
New Winton!
Everybody off for New Winton!
- Why, good morning, Miss Helen.
- Hello.
- Did you have a good Easter?
- What do you expect? Dull as usual.
- Have you read the morning paper as yet?
- No.
- All about Dr. Bull.
- What's happened to him?
Why, medical circles are agog!
"Village doctor astounds
medical profession with serum discovery."
Well, for heaven's sake!
Hey, Doc! Look!
- Your name's all over the New York paper!
- Let me see.
- Well, George!
- How'd they know about the wedding?
- Don't be silly!
- Board.!
- You're famous!
- Can't get famous just for marrying.
Board.!
- Good-bye, Janet!
- Good-bye.!
If you hadn't brought flowers, they never
would've known we was marryin' anyhow.
- Good-bye!
- Good luck!
Say good-bye to the folks, Larry!
Good-bye, boys.
Everybody off for New Winton!
- Why, good morning, Miss Helen.
- Hello.
- Did you have a good Christmas?
- Don't be silly!
- In this dull place? How could you?
- It is quite dull, isn't it?
- Board!
Next stop, New Haven.
Dr. Bull's phone doesn't answer.
Listen to this, Helen.
It's kinda swell.
"And he said,
'Grave, where is thy victory? '
"So he passed over,
and all the trumpets sounded for him...
on the other side."
Ah, May, why don't you forget your troubles
and read the funny papers?
Yes, Mrs. Talbot.
I'll ring Dr. Bull again.
I wonder where old Dr. Bull is anyway.
I'll tell you where he is.
You'll find George Bull at the widow Cardmaker's,
if hes not at church.
Yes.
- Good morning, May.
- Good morning, Mrs. Ely.
My, my. I felt so sorry
when I heard Joe got hurt.
And to think it happened just a week
after you children were married.
Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk.
- It's terrible.
- But Dr. Bull says that-
Dr. Bull.! Ha.! It's a wonder to me you'd
even let him touch your husband.
- Why, Mrs. Ely.
- The way George Bull
and the widow Cardmaker carry on...
is a shame and a scandal
in this town.
Do you know, Lige Perry told me...
that Bull's car was up at her house
three nights last week...
and he said that one night
he didn't leave till-
Well, I won't tell you.
I must get to services.
Oh, I'm expecting a package...
from the Pontifex Medical Company.
- Be sure to save it for me, Helen.!
- I will.
That old-
Still, she's right about Doc Bull
and the widow Cardmaker.
They've been the main topic of conversation
in this town for the last five years.
I don't see why two people can't be friends
without everybody talking.
Yeah, but what sort of friends are they, darling?
That's what we want to know.
Hello?
Yes. Yes, I will.
Mrs. Talbot seems awful frightened.
Abide with me
Fast falls the evening tide
The darkness deepens
Lord, with me abide
Abide with me
Was that the phone, Aunt Myra?
- What you say, Kenneth?
- Aw, Kenneth.
How often have I told you that
your son Kenneth, for the last 50 years...
has been in heaven?
I hope he has.
I'm your nephew, George Bull.
Dr. Bull.
Have they found out
who committed the murder yet?
- I figure it was the doctor!
- The doctor?
- Purposely?
Come on.
We'll be late for church.
How's people who are sick gonna get well
if you do that kind of stunt?
Abide with me
Fast falls the evening tide
- The dark-
- Look at that hat!
- Excuse me, Aunt Myra. I forgot it was Sunday.
- Oh!
Wait a minute, Aunt Myra.
I'll help you down.
There's that big lummox again.!
How'd you know his name?
- What do you want?
- It's me, Doc.
Um, you run on to church, Aunt Myra.
I'll- I'll be there in a minute.
- What do you want?
- Well, Doc, I'm in trouble again.
Honest, I got the awfullest pain
in my left side...
and I know I got appendicitis.
You remember old man Crandall?
He had an appendicitis, and it burst on him
before they got him on the operating table!
I don't want that to happen to me!
Honest, I don't, Doc.
Come on. Go to church.
I never heard of one busting in church.
Aw, Doc, it hurts
and just pains so, honest.
- On your left side?
- Yeah, it throbs.
- You've got it.
- I knew it.
Get in here. There's only
one thing makes me doubt it.
Your appendix is on your right side.
Maybe I got two of 'em,
'cause I've had double pneumonia.
What's Mrs. Talbot want
with old Doc Bull?
She says Mamie's sick.
"Herbert Banning, Esquire."
Dividends keep coming in.
Page 73.
Joyful all ye nations rise
Join the triumph of the skies
With the angelic host proclaim
Christ is born in Bethlehem
Hark the herald angels sing
Glory to the newborn king
Hello, Joe.
Yes, honey. How's everything?
Yes, I will.
And I'll be home at 5:00.
Keep the flannels around your feet.
- How is Joe today?
- Well, he always tells me he's better.
- He wants me to bring him some things
from the drugstore.
Hello. Hold the phone.
New Haven calling
the Banning residence.
There's your party.
- Virginia Banning?
- Mm-hmm.
Must be coming back
from the fraternity dance.
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh, all that girl does is run around.
Well, they can afford it.
Charles Edward's grave
needs attention, Janet.
Yes.
I'd speak to the sexton about it.
You must have it
attended to at once, Janet.
Yes.
- Good morning, Janet.
- Good morning, George.
Good morning, everybody.
All the-
- Good morning.
- The Bannings, the Cardmakers.
What are you all gathered here?
What's the matter? Somebody get out?
George, we did so enjoy
the singing this morning.
Well, thanks very much.
I was kind of proud of it myself.
L- I don't think us boys
ever did better.
Yes, we heard you.
- Come along, Janet.
- Come along, Janet.
Say, I hear you got some new cows
up at your place.
Yes, I have four new certified Jerseys.
- I'd love to come up there and see 'em.
- Well, why don't you?
Sorry, Dr. Bull, but Mrs. Cardmaker's
having lunch with us today.
Come, Janet dear.
- Bye.
- Good-bye.
That's Charles Edward, Doc.
He was a drunken sot...
and I'm glad Miss Janet
got rid of him.
Yeah, but those Bannings
and Cardmakers, they-
they always stick together,
dead or alive.
Yes, all except Miss Janet.
Oh. Mrs. Talbot wants you
on the phone, Doc.
Well, I got one other call to make.
I'll go right over.
- Good-bye, Sam.
- Yeah, all right. Good-bye, Doc.
Here you are, Joe.
Take one of those there.
I tell you, Doc.
If it wasn't for May, I'd do something.
I'm not gonna lie in bed
the rest of my life like this.
Hey, cut out that bellyaching.
Come on. Take that.
That'll get you some rest.
It's my legs, Doc.
They're like two slabs of stone.
Say, fallin' off a platform
50 feet high-
What do you expect, to get up
and walk out of here in a week?
A week?
It's been nearly two months now.
Well, maybe it has.
But you let me do the worrying, will you?
There.
There. Lay off that nicotine.
- It ain't good for you neither.
- Thanks, Doc.
Don't thank me.
I won 'em on a punch board.
- Oh, hello, May.
- Hello, Doc.
- How you feelin', honey?
- Better, darlin'.
Aw, he's great. He's feeling fine.
Just needs a little sleep, that's all, May.
I'll, uh-
I'll see you again tomorrow, Joe.
Thanks, Doc. Appreciate it.
- So long.
- Thanks, Doc.
Hello, Doc. You're just in time.
- We need you.
- What's the matter? Somebody sick?
- A cow.
- A cow?
Yes. Mrs. Cardmaker's
in the barn with her now.
Eh, good Lord.
Why don't you get a vet?
It's a Jersey. She's down too.
- Pretty bad?
- Well, she ain't doin' so good.
Say, you know,
she's not only paralyzed.
She's got a high fever too.
Here's your thermometer.
Wasn't any good, was she?
She won the Jersey prize at the fair.
- What, that thing?
- Yes, that thing.
Here. Take that right over
to the drugstore.
Give her that in water
about every two hours.
Keep those wet blankets
on her all night.
And then you better phone
that veterinarian over at Torrington.
By morning she'll be dead.
Well, I like that.
Well, there ain't anything else
you can do here.
You, uh, got any cider?
Come into the house.
Gonna stay for supper?
Always do, don't I?
Come on in.
Gee, you look pretty, Jane.
Aw, you always look pretty.
What mischief have you been up to
the last three days?
Mischief?
Been to choir practice mostly.
Well, I've been sticking pretty close
to Joe Tupping too.
I know doctors never tell
their professional secrets...
but have you any hope for Joe?
Pretty worried about him, Jane.
Well, that's a good sign for him.
- Hmm?
- How's the cider?
As Shakespeare says,
"It warms the cockles of my heart."
When I was a little tiny boy
With a heigh-ho
the wind and the rain
You have been
to choir practice, haven't you?
Silly old fool.
L-I don't know.
I kind of relax when I get up here...
on these windswept hills with thee.
Thank you, George.
You know, some old early settler
had the thing about right...
when he- he said that, uh...
most of life was a storm.
And without a harbor, a man is lost.
And a woman?
A woman don't need refuge
like a man.
I wonder.
Oh, Miss Janet, supper's ready.
- Good evening, Dr. Bull.
- Good evening, Mary.
Excuse me.
I can remember the time when you
used to leap to pull my chair out for me.
Say, I could leap some
in those days too, couldn't I?
- Oh, guess I'm gettin' old.
Or maybe- maybe your cider
was younger in those days.
You just take me for granted,
that's all.
No. You're wrong there, Jane.
I phoned and phoned,
and I could get no answer.
How is she now?
Mrs. Talbot's calmed down,
but Mamie's just the same.
- I wonder where Dr. Bull could be.
- Come here.
There's where he is.
Up there on that hill.
Do you see that light?
The shame of it!
Mamie lying there, needing him...
breathing her last breath maybe...
and he and Janet Cardmaker
are up there.
And what do you suppose they're doing?
Oh, it's a shame.
I'll tell you what they're doing.
"'Did you say pig or fig? ' said the Cat.
"'I said pig,' replied Alice...
"'and I wish you wouldn't keep
appearing and vanishing so suddenly.
"You make one quite giddy.'
"'All right,' said the Cat, and this time
it vanished quite slowly...
"beginning with the end of the tail
and ending with the grin...
"which remained some time
after the rest of it had gone.
"'Well, I've often seen a cat
without a grin,' thought Alice...
"'but a grin without a cat-
It's the most curious thing
I ever saw in all my life."'
- Silly kind of a thing, but sort of funny at that.
Well, that's why it's funny, George.
- Listen, I'm not here. You understand?
- Yes, you are.
- I'm not here!
Hello.
Yes. Oh, all right.
I'll tell him. George-
Oh, what'd you tell 'em
I was here for?
Mrs. Ely says Mamie Talbot's worse.
They want you to come right over.
Come on. You've got to go.
I just come by there a while ago
on my way over here.
Well, the old doctor's got to go...
no matter what happens.
Say, that old bunion, when you get here
by the fire, it kind of swells up on you.
Got to have me some house slippers.
Where's my coat?
Here.
I'm gonna quit this business
some of these days...
and I'm gonna come up here-
- Where's my nubie?
- Here.
I'm gonna sleep a month right there
on that couch, right by that fire.
You'll be welcome, George.
- Thanks, Jane. Where's my cap?
- Here.
Now hurry.
Ooh! Say, it's cold.
Listen.
Can you hear those trees popping?
Look at those stars.
- Good night, George.
Good night.
Hey, Jane. Come here.
Hear the carol singers.
I was supposed to sing with them tonight,
but it's too late now.
- Good night, George.
- Good night, Jane.
- Who's that coming?
What?
The baby! Yeah, the baby come!
Hello, Marietta. I'm back again.
- How you feelin', huh?
Ah. Good.
What do you want, a boy or a girl, huh?
Which one, huh?
- Well, you know old Doc here.
Give me some- Bowl of water
and a towel and soap, will you?
- You know what to get.
My Lord, Louie. Those all yours?
All mine, Doc!
Don't look like you need another one.
- Pretty tough night, Louie.
- Please, Doc.
But you've got a fine, big boy.
Yeah, you betcha. Have some vino.
I love to bring Italian babies
into the world.
A lot of places you go,
all you get is a cup of coffee.
One old skinflint farmer the other night-
I brought him twins, and all I got
was a cup of sassafras tea.
Do you speak English?
Well, that's a fine baby, Louie.
I think I'd save that one.
He's the best of the bunch.
Don't give him any of that wine
for a couple of days.
No, no, Doc. My wine for you.
Good-bye, Doc! Good-bye!
I thank you very much
for the fine baby, yes.
Arrivederci.! Hey! Arrivederci.!
Well, if you're going to have a doctor...
he ought to attend to his business.
- Mrs. Banning's right. It's time we made a change.
- Hmm.
Still, the Bannings hadn't ought to talk...
after the way they treated Mamie.
No, they hadn't.
- Come in.
Oh!
- Good morning.
- How is she, Mrs. Talbot?
She's sleeping at last, the poor thing.
Oh, that's fine. We've brought
some things and, uh, some food.
Oh, that's real kind.
We knew you would.
Oh, we knew you'd want to help out.
I'm sure it'll be appreciated.
- Mamie will like these things.
- I'll see about some coffee.
Yes.
Poor Mamie.
Well, there's Dr. George Bull for you.
- Improper medical attention, my dear.
- Absolutely.
- Correct!
- That's just what I think.
- Yes, these'll be awfully nice.
- She'll love these things.
She'll love them.
Oh, good morning, ma'am.
Good morning.
Is it terrible?
Poor Mamie. She was so young.
She must have hated to die.
Oh, I don't know.
I've seen a hundred people die...
and none of them
ever seemed to mind it.
They was all too sick to mind it.
What did you say?
Oh, there's an old saying-
"There's only one way into the world,
but there's a thousand ways out."
- The Bible.
- Mm-hmm.
- Here. You dropped your spoon, Granddad.
- Thanky.
Dr. Bull, why weren't you here
last night?
You might have been able to save her.
I don't know.
Thirty percent of the people
die with this disease...
even with a good doctor.
You either have the stamina to hang on
and develop a resistance...
or you haven't got it.
Poor Mamie didn't have it.
Fat person like you are,
Mrs. Banning-they'd have that.
- I beg your pardon!
- Well, you've got some meat on you.
Come, Herbert.
We leave everything in your charge, Bull,
and the expense of this-
Send me the bill. I'll pay for it.
All right.
Be sure that you do too.
Mamie worked for us, you know.
Yes. She worked for you.
- I don't think there can be any doubt about that.
- When's the funeral?
- I don't know.
What? First time I ever caught you
without any information.
- How old was Mamie?
- Seventeen.
- Come to think of it, wasn't she 18?
- No, she was older than that.
- I remember on the Fourth of July-
- Fourth of July?
- Fourth of July?
Oh, wait a minute.
Say, wait a minute.
It don't make any difference now,
does it?
- Hello, Doc.
- Oh, hello. Hello, boys.
Hello, Doc. How are you?
Frank, give me about
a quart of coffee, will you?
Sure.
What's the matter, Doc?
You look like you've had a hard night.
No, it wasn't me had the hard night.
It was my patients.
- How's Claire?
- She's fine, thanks.
- How's your folks, John?
- The baby has the sniffles.
I'll get over there this afternoon.
- There you are, Doc. See if that's strong enough.
- All right, Frank.
Say, Doc, I've been having trouble
with my side again...
and it just kept me awake
all night last night.
I took six of those pills
that you told me to take...
and it didn't do me a bit of good,
and I just don't know-
Oh, shut up, will you?
After anybody being up all night with real
sick people, they'd want to hear you whine?
Oh, well, Doc, I'm real sick too.
I'm one of your best patients, and I
wanna know what's the matter with me.
- Hello, girls! Well, goodness!
- What you gonna have?
- We want five chocolate malted milks.
- That's what's the matter with him.
- Yeah.
Five sweet malted milks
for five beautiful girls.
- Oh!
- You're kidding.
I'm not kidding.
Y'all going to the dance Saturday night?
- Sure!
- Oh, boy. I'll be there.
I'll be there if I don't have
that pain in my side again.
Aw, don't you feel good, Larry?
I just have pains all the time. I just don't
know what I'm gonna do about it.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
- There. Will you dance with me?
- Sure!
That is, providing
if I don't have that pain.
Yeah. But don't have
that pain that night.
- Well, I won't if you don't want me to.
Here you are.
It's got double ice cream in it.
- Oh, that's swell.
- Just special for you.
Say, Mr. Snyder.
I hope you're keeping that camp
of yours up there sanitary.
Sure. We'll be pulling out
of here next week...
and New Winton will have
plenty of electric power.
Yeah, and pay plenty
of money for it too.
We know your attitude
about modern improvements.
Dr. Bull would have us riding around
in a horse and buggy if he had his way.
- Yeah? We wouldn't all be
making payments on it anyhow.
Had no business ever putting that camp
so near where the town got its water supply...
but Mr. Banning insisted on it...
and, of course,
he has his way all the time.
But you better keep it clean,
I'll tell you that!
Well, hello, Doc Verney.!
How are you?
- How are you, Dr. Bull?
- I'm good.
Say, that's some car you got there.
Yeah, I made an awful mistake
by trying to learn medicine...
instead of being a diagnostician.
- There's many a tonsil in there, Doc.
- Look at that field truck of mine over there.
- Oh, yes.
Oh, by the way, Dr. Bull...
how's that paralyzed case
I x-rayed for you?
- Oh, Joe Tupping?
- Yes.
None too good.
You'd better take my advice
and get him into a state institution.
He'll never walk again.
Well, his wife's
got a kind of crazy idea...
that I'm gonna be able to help him.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, but I'll keep on doctoring
on him anyhow, see what happens.
Good luck. If I can help you-
All right. Thanks, Doc.
Here's a little snip of toddy, Kenneth.
Kenneth? Don't call me Kenneth.
I'm still the Reverend Ephraim Bull's
son, George...
but calling me "Kenneth" ain't gonna
keep me from taking this little snip.
Of course, George.
I must be getting old.
Near a hundred.
- You're feeling tough?
- Tough?
Oh, gee, l- I'm tired, Aunt Myra.
I'm gonna try to take a little nap.
Lige Perry came in today
with three dozen eggs to pay his bill.
Yep? I'll bet you half of them's
hatched by now.
- Oh, Lord. That there phone.
- You answer it, will you?
- Yes, I will.
And if anybody's tractor's broke down...
tell them to grease it with castor oil.
If anybody's sick...
tell 'em to do the same thing.
- It's me.
- That's what I was afraid of.
Oh, but I need you again, Doc.
Yeah. I need a lock on that door too.
Oh. Oh, honest, Doc. I'm awful sick,
and I've been having the terriblest dreams.
Honest. Last night,
I woke up in a cold sweat-
a cold sweat
and terrible pains in my chest.
And I dreamed I was in a big room
with a lot of doctors all around me close...
and they were dressed in white,
and they had me on an operating table...
and they come up real, real close to me
and pointed at me and said...
"You're bad sick,
and it's gonna kill you, Larry.
"There's a growth on your kidneys,
and it's gonna kill you...
and we're gonna take it out."
Then they put me on this table, and then
they had all these knives and hammers...
and saws and tongs around.
A-And one of the doctors grabbed one-
one with a long, gray beard-
and he sat right on my chest
and opened my shirt and just-
- And I woke up.
- Who woke you up?
I woke myself up.
If you're that smart, cure yourself.
Oh. Oh, I can't do it, Doc.
You gotta do something to help me.
Honest.
Aw, go take a big dose of castor oil...
and cut out that dreaming.
But I can't stop dreaming.
I've tried. Honest, I've tried.
- Stay awake.
- But I feel worse when I'm awake!
Oh, go to sleep then.
Oh! Aw, you're gettin'
hard-hearted, Doc...
and the people in town
are talkin' about it.
And it ain't gonna do you
any good if I die.
- You think it ain't.
- Oh!
Oh.!
Hello. Yes, Mrs. Banning.
Hold the line.
Hello. Hello, Torrington.
New Winton calling Dr. Verney.
One moment, please.
Here's your party.
That's the second time
Mrs. Banning called up today.
May, what's the matter with Virginia?
Don't ask me.
But you must, Virginia.
Dr. Verney said so.
I don't care what Dr. Verney said.
I'm not going to bed.
But you're ill, my darling.
You haven't been the same since you
came back from the dance at the university.
- What happened to you?
- Mother, will you leave me alone?
I won't see Verney,
and that's the end of it!
If you don't leave me alone,
I'll scream!
- But he'll be here any minute!
- I don't care. I won't see him!
- Where are you going?
- Where I can be alone!
Virginia, will you listen to your mother?
Listen to me!
- Call Dr. Verney. Virginia!
Virginia, listen to me!
Virginia! Virginia!
Please! Virginia!
Virginia, will you listen to me?
Virginia, come on over to our table
and sit with us.
I don't want to. I told you so.
- Will you leave me alone?
- Oh, come on, Virginia.
- Please come on, Virginia.
- I told you before- I wanna be alone!
- All right.
- Dr. Bull!
- What are you doing? Home on vacation?
- Yeah.
- Drinkin' beer, huh?
- Yeah. Have some?
Well, that's fine. We at least know
where you are now anyhow.
Oh, where, oh, where
has my little dog gone
Oh, where, oh, where can he be
With his ears cut short
and his tail cut long
- Oh, where, oh, where can he be
- Be
- Attaboy. Come on. Have some beer, Doc.
Just got time for one.
Hey, look at that Banning girl
over there drinking out of a flask.
Gosh, I ain't seen one in months.
Oh, where, oh, where
Can little dog gone
Oh, where, oh, where
Oh, where can he
Be
Virginia.
Say, let me take you home, will you?
I don't wanna go home!
Oh, that's all right.
Nobody will know anything about it.
I'll sneak you in the back way,
and they won't know you were here.
- I'm all right, Doc. Don't be silly.
- I'll take you home.
- Aw, don't be silly. Now, don't do that.
- I just wanna be alone.
Hey, Virginia.
Wait a minute. Here. Here.
- Hey, wait a minute.
Now listen. Let me tell ya-
Hey! You crazy-
- Hey, what's the matter? Are you crazy here?
- What are you doing? You get hurt?
- I hurt my ankle.
- I knew something would happen.
- Let's see how you are.
- Might've been killed there.
- I wish I had.
Didn't miss it very far. Come on up
to my office, and I'll look at that ankle.
- I want to talk to you about something, Doc.
- Yeah?
- Well, come on.
- I want to talk to you alone.
That'll be all, Mrs. Ely.
We won't need you any longer.
So that's the guy, huh?
Big football player.
I remember seeing his picture
in the paper.
Where'd you run on to him?
I was up to the university for a weekend.
I... met him at a house party.
So you fell for each other, huh?
Yes, we did.
We both had a lot to drink,
went out in his car.
Everything would have been all right
if the car hadn't stopped.
Now, don't go blamin' it all on the car.
Even back in my time,
the old horse would stop.
- Say, listen.
Didn't I see your picture in the paper
where you was gonna marry old, uh-
old Senator-
old Blowhard Hammond's son?
Well, that's Mother's idea.
- You wasn't stuck on him, was you?
- No.
Well, do you like-
Well, do you love this-this fella?
Yes.
Well, does-does he love you?
Yes.
- Ooh!
- What's his number?
- Oh, Doc, I don't want you to call him up.
- What's his number?
Kingsville 6525.
Hello, May. How are you?
Give me long distance, will you?
What you say that number was?
- Kingsville 6525.
- Kingsville 6-
Kingsville 6525.
Oh, Lord. When'd you girls go
to paintin' your toenails like that?
- Say, does he know about this?
- No, he doesn't, Doc.
I'm not blaming him.
It was all my fault.
But he does love me. Really he does.
I'm gonna give him
a chance to prove it. Hello?
Hello. Mueller? John Mueller?
- Oh, go on. Go.
- You do it.
Hello. John?
This is Virginia.
Tell him you're coming up.
I'm sorry I left in such a hurry...
but I had to come home right away.
I'm coming up to spend
a few days with Eunice.
Are you really glad?
- Why, certainly I like you.
- Love him.
I mean, I love you.
I'll see you tomorrow. What?
Well, yes, of course you can.
Later. Mother and Father are-
Of course,
they'll be glad to meet you, John.
Hello! Hello, son!
Hello. Hello.
Well, yes. Virginia tells me
you children had a little spat.
Well, you must fix that right up.
Yes. And our blessings are on you.
Good-bye, son.
Well, I guess it's all right.
I hope it is.
Aw, sure. It's gonna be all right.
It's gonna be fine.
How's your ankle?
You put the bandage on
as if it were really hurt.
Put it on so it would hurt.
You got a lot of alibiing to do
with your folks around here.
You're the best friend I ever had, Doc.
No. That football guy's
the best friend you ever had.
- He better be anyhow.
Oh, it's starting to rain.
Yeah.
Soon the birds will be singing...
and flowers will be blooming...
and first thing you know,
spring sickness will be here.
Then I'll have to load the whole town up
on sulfur and molasses.
- Good morning, Aunt Myra.
- Good morning.
Looks like it's gonna be
a good day today.
- Bless my soul!
- What is it?
"Football star weds New Winton girl.
"This morning, in a surprise wedding...
"Miss Virginia Banning
of New Winton...
became the bride of Mr. Jack Mueller."
Of all the things!
I'll bet the Banning family
are having a fit.
It's a good thing you read the papers.
I never would know what was goin' on
in society around here.
It's outrageous, preposterous!
Didn't she confide in you at all?
Didn't she say anything about it?
I tell you, Herbert, it isn't true.
It isn't true!
Virginia wouldn't do a thing like that.
She went up there to visit Eunice.
What is this, Herbert?
What is it all about?
Mother, it's awful.
I tell you, it's awful!
What's awful?
Mary, will you leave the room, please?
Virginia has married a German
up at the university.
- A German?
- A German.
- His name is Mueller.
- His name is Mueller!
I just can't believe it!
After all I've done for her,
after all I've planned for her.
What will Senator Hammond say?
Oh, the disgrace of it!
Oh, the disgrace of it.!
I'll get to the bottom of this!
I'll wager Bull had something
to do with it.
- Good mornin', Susie.
- Good morning, Doctor.
Why are you dragging around here,
drooping around like an old hen?
- What's the matter? Don't you feel good?
- No, I don't, Doc.
Come around here and let's see.
You better take a good,
big dose of castor oil.
What's the matter with that water?
It's been raining for a week.
It don't taste good.
You don't seem surprised
at this wedding.
Why would I be surprised?
Young people got to get married,
don't they? They better.
Say, I'm gonna phone Doc Verney.
All the Bannings will need him.
- They're gonna all be sick.
- Say, you want to hear a beautiful poem?
- No.
Good morning, girls. There must be
something for me this morning.
Yeah. It's here.
Sign this.
- Have you seen Dr. Bull?
- No. Are you sick?
No, but I met Susie on the street...
and she said he promised her
some medicine...
but he left the house
without giving it to her.
If I had my way, we'd have
a new doctor in this town.
Yes, Mrs. Ely, we know that.
That's better.
That's better still.
Doctor, you said
if he lasted till morning...
he'd be all right.
Well, it's morning, ain't it?
You're feeling better, ain't you?
What are you doing up
this time of the morning?
Let me get you a cup of hot coffee.
Oh, I wish I could.
I'd love to have one.
But you've been up all night.
I know, but I got to
be over at the school.
Will you, uh, let me
use your phone, will you?
We ain't got a phone, Doctor.
Oh, gee. You're lucky.
I wish I didn't have one.
I'll bring you
some ice cream tomorrow.
You're gonna be fine.
Good-bye, Martha.
- Bye, Doctor.
- It's all right. Don't worry.
Good-bye, Doctor.
Honey.
He said you're going
to be all right now.
Hello, Larry.
No, and I've tried everywhere I know
to reach Dr. Bull for you.
I'll try him again after a while.
May, why don't you
give Doc Bull a break?
Don't shock me.
What's Larry got now?
Hoof and mouth disease, I hope.
Don't see anything much
the matter with them, Miss Kiernan.
Seem to be all right.
- Hello, Doc.
- Hello, Billy. How are you?
- Hello, kids. How are you?
- Fine.
Come here, Bruce.
I want to see you.
What are you gonna do
to me now, Doc?
Gonna take out those tonsils.
You already took 'em out once!
- Oh, did I?
- Yeah.
- The crazy guy.
You can only take tonsils out once.
- Hello, Mary.
Unless they grow back in again.
Of course,
mine didn't grow back in again.
While you sit here messing
with your old cow medicine...
people in this town need ya!
I've just been over to see Susie.
I tell you, it isn't spring fever.
It's typhoid fever!
- What?
- That's what I said.
Susie's got it. I can smell her!
Say, typhoid fever's a disease...
caused by a specific organism
called Bacillus typhosus.
It don't fall on you out of the trees...
or like manna down from heaven.
Yes, but in plain words,
it's a germ, ain't it?
And you can get it
at your mouth, can't you?
Well, let it go a couple of days,
and we'll see what happens.
And let others catch it.
Catch it! You don't catch it.
It's an intestinal disease.
But sometimes them bugs
get into water, don't they?
And people drink the water,
don't they?
How did Susie look?
She's got a burning fever
and pains in her stomach.
Has she got any splotches
on her skin-
kind of rose-colored splotches?
She looks awful red.
Well, I told you.
Do you want tea or coffee
for supper?
Do you want
tea or coffee for your supper?
Kenneth?
Coffee.
Say, is all this yours, Doc?
- Oh, yes.
With an exhibit like this, you ought to
have taken it to the Century of Progress.
If the machinery will do you any good, you
ought to keep people living a hundred years.
Will you come in, Doctor?
Wouldn't mind
being a patient here myself.
Yes, we have all the latest equipment.
Will you sit down?
I'm gonna give you a chance
to try some of it out.
You know, Doctor, I got 11 cases of sickness
in my little town over there.
It's all broke out in the last couple of days.
In fact, since the rain.
Yes, I heard about it.
I got a specimen.
There's a specimen of blood there.
That's from our cook, Susie.
I want you to try that out
on your fancy apparati in there...
and see what's in it.
- What do you think is here?
- Typhoid.
Oh, I doubt that.
Well, of course you're a specialist,
and I'm an old cow doctor, but...
well, in fact, it wasn't me that discovered
the idea that it was typhoid.
It was- It was Aunt Myra.
She smelled it.
Smelled-
Nonsense.
But there should be
a source of infection.
Oh, Mrs. Janet Cardmaker supplies
the village with milk, doesn't she?
Yeah. It's the best milk
ever was milked too.
Has it examined
by the State every week.
Oh, Miss Stanley.
I want to do a typhoid culture.
Put 50 cubic centimeters of that solution
we have in the lab in an Ehrlenmeyer flask...
and three of this specimen of Dr. Bull's,
and shoot it in the incubator.
Immediately, Doctor.
- Where'd you get her, Doc?
- Oh, she's a bit new. She's a nice girl.
Well, I'll let you know
the results tomorrow.
By the way, I had a letter from the foundation
about that Joe Tupping case.
There's absolutely no chance.
I'm sorry.
Well, I am too.
I'm still working on him with a little serum
that I cooked up myself.
What?
Uh, you know,
I got a theory that, uh-
well, uh, well, what Joes
nervous system needs...
is a- it's a shock, you know...
like a-well, like a watch
when it ain't running.
You drop it,
and it starts sometimes.
Yes, I see.
Sounds kind of simple, don't it?
Yes, very.
- Good day, Doc.
- Good-bye, Doctor.
- Howdy, Doc.
- Hello, Gaylord.
- How's the cows?
- Pretty pert.
I hear Miss Janets got some new ones.
Is this one of em?
Don't you know her?
- No, I don't know her. How'd I know her?
- That's the cow you doctored.
Yeah?
- Didn't that old cow die?
- Die? Kicked me this mornin'.
Say, was-
Was she really afflicted
like you said she was?
That cow didn't move a leg
in three weeks.
- Plumb paralyzed, huh?
- Plumb.
By golly, I wish I could remember
what I give her.
Here. Joe.
This ain't gonna hurt... much.
Didn't hurt, did it?
How does the old leg feel?
About the same, Doc.
May, see those toes stickin' up there?
Gonna have them wiggling
pretty soon.
You keep up the rubbing on the leg.
Say, where's the-
where's the hot water bottle?
- Gosh, I'm freezing to death here, Doc.
Yeah.
You'll be sweating pretty soon.
What is that stuff you give me, Doc?
Oh. Oh, this?
Oh, it's, uh-
Oh. Oh, it's got a-
It's got a long Latin name here.
You wouldn't know what it was.
I can't hardly say it myself.
But it'll do the trick.
- The trick, huh?
- Mm-hmm.
About two more shots, and we got it.
Your Aunt Myra wants you to come over
to Susie's right away.
Susie's?
Say, uh, by the way, what are you-
what are you doing out here today?
- How come you ain't working?
- Doris is taking my place.
Well, that's fine. That's great.
Take good care of Joe there now.
He's, uh- He's getting along fine.
All he needs is a little more sleep.
I think you need some sleep, Dr. Bull.
Who, me? Doctor?
Sleep?
We gotta die to get any sleep.
- So long.
- So long, Doc.
- Say, uh, I'll be back tomorrow.
- All right, Doc.
Oh, Joe.
Did you hear what he said?
Yes, and what's the big idea?
- Hello, Doc. How are you?
Good morning, Bull.
Hello, Helen. Anything for me?
Yeah, here's a special for you.
By golly, Aunt Myra was right.
- Bad news, Doc?
- Yeah.
Say, we got a-we got
a typhoid epidemic in this town.
- Huh?
- What's that?
Here's a report
from the Verney Laboratory.
Says it's typhoid.
Now we gotta get busy.
- I knew something was wrong.
- Are you sure of that?
Yeah. Now, uh, we got
to boil all the water...
and everybody in town's
gotta be inoculated.
I won't let any child of mine
be shot full of them bugs!
My brother Howard nearly lost his arm
that time you stuck him for smallpox.
Do you mean to tell me that's what's wrong
with my little girl? Typhoid?
Well, l- I'm afraid it is.
I'm going to call Dr. Verney.
- And you say the water's contaminated?
- It may be.
How did it get contaminated?
Well, it's my opinion that it's the drainage
from that construction camp.
You're the health officer!
When did you last inspect that camp?
Well, l- Banning and Snyder-
I told them to keep it clean.
But you're the health officer,
ain't you?
Aw, there's a lot of sickness
in this town.
I've got no time to run around
looking at water!
Who cares what caused it?
It's here, ain't it?
I'm gonna vaccinate all the children
at the schoolhouse in the morning.
I want you parents
to have 'em there too.
I got some good news for you kids.
How would you like
to have a day's vacation?
- Swell!
- That's great.
Well, now, uh, all in the world
you're gonna have to do...
is just to, uh-
is to roll up your sleeve.
No, no. Your left sleeve.
You ain't gonna stick
that needle in us, are you, Doc?
If I did, it wouldn't hurt you.
I never did hurt any of you kids, did I?
No, you ain't done nothin'
but give us a lot of pills.
Yeah, my old man says
that's all you can do.
Oh, is that so?
Wait till your old man gets sick again.
- See what happens to him.
- He can beat you up.
Well, maybe. Now, here.
Who's gonna be the first to volunteer?
I will, Doctor.
Oh, well, now, ain't that fine?
See what a brave little girl Ruthie is?
Come here now, honey.
Dr. Bull, do you mean to tell me that
you're going to vaccinate these children?
Oh, now, don't worry.
Sit down now.
You're not going to vaccinate my child.
She's sick.
- Aw, she's not sick.
- But, Dr. Bull, l-
- I've had all my children vaccinated.
Now, that didn't hurt, did it?
- No.
- Hmm?
That's fine.
That's a brave little girl.
- Now, who's the next one to take a chance?
- I'll take a chance, Doc.
Oh, hello, Bruce.
How's the tonsils?
I ain't got any anymore.
No? Well, who took em out?
- You did!
- Did I?
Well, this ain't gonna hurt you.
Don't worry.
- There you are. Didn't hurt, did it, Bruce?
- Nah.
Who's the next lucky one?
You're Billy Watson, yes?
Yeah.
You was born on the Fourth of July,
wasn't you?
Yeah. How did you know, Doc?
'Cause you spoiled my whole day.
That was the biggest celebration
this town ever had.
I got there even
after the fireworks was all over.
Bull, as one of the selectmen
of this town...
I'm here to protest against
the inoculation of these children.
I'm health officer.
I'm doing my duty.
But you won't be health officer long,
I can assure you of that.
- Well, I am yet.
- This is over my protest!
But you'll not inoculate a child of mine.
Bruce, come here.
Okay, Pop.
Bruce, I hope that arm
don't hurt you tomorrow.
What's that bell ringing for?
Ain't you heard, Miss Janet? The folks are
gettin' up some kind of precedence against Doc.
- Against Dr. Bull?
- That's what I heard.
You go along home and tend to
the milking. I'll be in later.
All right, Miss Janet.
Take that stuff I give you?
Yeah, the same old stuff you give-
Always give the same old stuff.
Everybody in town's talking about it,
and they say you're just an old pill doctor.
- Oh, is that so?
- Mm-hmm.
- They say that you only know
how to give one kind of medicine.
- Only one kind, huh?
- Well, I know how to give two kinds of medicine.
- Yeah?
I'm twice as good a doctor
as they think I am.
Get you a glass of water there.
Well, I want something different
this time.
Thats just exactly what you're gonna get-
something different.
- Going to the meeting, Doc?
- What meeting?
The meeting the Bannings are holding.
- What are they holding a meeting about?
- About you.
About me? What about me?
- Negligence of duty.
- Oh, is that so?
- They don't think you're any good.
- No?
No. And they're gonna kick you out.
Oh, they're gonna kick me out, huh?
Is that so?
Here. You take that. I think you'll find
that different from anything you've ever had.
- Thank you.
- Kick me out, huh?
I don't think you're
such a terrible doctor, Doc.
The motion is that we recommend
George Bull's removal as health officer...
and ask that another doctor
be procured for New Winton.
- All in favor-
- No, don't do that!
You haven't been recognized
by the chair, Mrs. Cardmaker.
Well, we'll recognize her.
Let's hear what she's got to say!
That's right! Let her talk!
- She's got as much right to talk
as other folks around here.
- That's right. Go ahead.
At this moment, while you're sitting here
blaming George Bull for negligence of duty...
he's working his head off
attending to your sick folk.
If this town has an epidemic in it...
it's not George Bull's fault,
but my brother's-
Herbert Banning's there.
Why was Herbert Banning so anxious to rent
his camp site to the construction company?
Money. Money!
Both he and Snyder told George Bull...
they'd see that that camp
was kept clean.
Sit down. Janet.
There's a certain group in this town
that's been intending for a long time...
to get rid of George Bull because
they think he's old-fashioned.
And now is their chance just because
he failed to inspect the reservoir.
- All right. Go ahead and whisper.
Go ahead and laugh. He's been a good
friend to me. I'm not ashamed of it.
He's been a good friend to all of us.
The reason he's not here now
to defend himself is...
that at this very moment,
he's sitting at Joe Tupping's bedside...
trying to give that poor boy back
a chance at happiness...
trying even though Verney and everybody
else said there was no use trying.
Order! Order!
You ought to give him a chance.
He's no longer a young man.
If you get the State Board to take his license
away, there's nothing else he could do.
You'll ruin his life.
Well, he can always
go back to doctoring cows.
She's right! I claim she's right!
Now wait a minute.
You listen to me!
Now shut up.
You can't turn George Bull out.
Why, he brought most
of our children into the world.
He's stood by us through thick and thin.
I vote we adjourn!
Adjourn or not, but he'll never doctor
another one of my kids.
I move we recommend Dr. Hepburn's
appointment in Bull's place.
- No!
- Yes.!
Give him a chance.
Go ahead, Doc. Go ahead.
What is all this dogfight about anyhow?
The floor isn't yours, Dr. Bull.
You're out of order.
You shut up, Herring, or youll be out of order!
There's a lot of you out of order!
We're tired of your goings-on in this town.
It's a shame and a scandal in the community.
- Where was your car last night?
Now wait a minute.
What are you laughing about?
My car was right where
I wanted it to be.
Where I go or what I do
is none of your business.
You keep your nose out of my affairs.
Throw him out, somebody.!
Throw him out.!
Come on.! Come on.!
You'll throw me out when I get good
and ready for you to throw me out.
You grinning baboons.
Now listen here- If I was like
a lot of you, a scandal hound...
that went around jabbering
everything that I heard-
Suppose I told all I know around here?
- Mr. Chairman.!
- Yes, and you!
I could talk for an hour on what
I know about you, Mr. Upjohn!
I move that we
carry on with this adjustment.
Mrs. Ely, I wouldn't say a word,
if I was you.
Oh, you are the last person to talk.
And that goes for a lot of you-
what I know about lots of you.
The difference is, what I know
about you is the truth.
Now, I could resign,
but I'm not going to do it.
I'm going to give you the satisfaction
of kicking me out.
And when you do kick me out, and anybody
in the town gets run over by an automobile...
or dies of old age...
you can't say that Dr. Bull did it!
That's Doc Bull all over.
He just don't care.!
- Order!
- Order!
- Mr. Chairman.
- Mrs. Banning.
Ladies and gentlemen...
I don't see that Dr. Bull's
action here today...
has anything to do with the case.
I move that we take a vote
on the original motion.
I second the motion, Mrs. Banning.
- All in favor, respond by saying aye.
- Aye!
- No?
- No!
- It's a vote. The ayes have it.
- I move we adjourn!
- I second it!
- I third it!
- You can't do that.
- I've already done it.
The meeting's adjourned!
- Janet, I never was so ashamed in my life!
- You've disgraced us!
Let me alone.
And I'm ashamed of you!
You must be almost dead.
The old dog ain't any too spry, May.
Listen, Doc.
Maybe you better go on home.
If there's a change in Joe,
I'll call you.
Don't like that fever.
If we can only get him sweatin'-
That's fine.
Keep those just hot as you can.
I'll take a little rest here and then-
Then I'll do that,
and-and you must have a nap.
Listen, if there's a sign of a change...
you let me know right away, will you?
All right, Doc.
George, its Janet.
Oh.
Gee, l-
I like to dropped off to sleep.
I thought I'd ask you if you didn't
want to come to the house.
Maybe you could rest there.
That's awful nice of you.
No. I got- I got to stay here.
I'm so sorry, George.
Those fools!
Oh, it's all right.
I been a doctor long enough anyhow.
Now I can do some of the things
I always wanted to do.
I can go huntin'. I can go fishin'.
Look at that telephone there.
For 20 years, I've been every night
listening to one of those things.
You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna devote the rest of my life
to being a telephone breaker.
Did you ever see those fellas could take
52 cards and tear 'em apart like that?
That's what I'm gonna learn to do-
I'm gonna break 52 telephones at once.
Bust 'em up.
Oh, no, you're not. You're going to spend
that energy fighting these people back.
No, I'm not.
I'm a rotten doctor anyhow.
I never did do anything,
only give 'em a lot of castor oil.
They certainly oughta know enough
by now to take it themselves.
- George, you don't mean that.
- Yes, I do.
Soon as I'm through with Joe, I'm gonna take
that medicine kit and throw it right in the river.
And you'll be fishing it out
again the next day.
- I won't be fishing it out.
- You've spent your whole life among these people.
They're all you know.
Besides, you can't retire at your age.
Why, you're just in the prime of life.
You've got to carry on.
You've got to fight back.
Doc, come in here quick!
He's starting to sweat.
Say, his fever's gone.
Yeah, my clothes are
as wet as water, Doc.
Well, that's a-
that's a good sign, Joe.
We'll see how the feet are.
Why, Doc, you're tickling my feet.
- What?
- Sure.! I can feel it.!
- Look.! He moved his foot.!
- Yeah! Say, it's working!
- Oh, Joe!
- It's working. Get right under there.
Now, none of that now. Come on.
Hurry up. Get some more water.
Don't get excited now. Take it cool now.
Get some more hot water.
Lay down there.
We got to keep you all heated up here.
Here.
Put this right under your arm.
Lay back and be still.
Here. May, have you got any whiskey?
George, you're surely not
going to give him whiskey.!
Ah, no! It's for me!
He's cured!
I'm going to get paralyzed now.
Hey, fellas. Hey, fellas.
Come on out here.
Here's Doc Bull. There's somethin'
the matter. Come on, fellas.
Hey, hey!
Hey, I got some news for you!
Hey, Joe's cured!
- Who? Joe Tupping?
- He's cured? Isn't that marvelous?
Joe! He's moving his legs!
Good for you, Doc.
Come on in and have a real drink.
No, I'm going to Janets
and get some cider!
Janet, will you get out of that car?
Janet, will you get out of that car?
Jane? I want to talk to you.
All right, George.
What did you do?
Did you lose your head completely to go
and talk to those people like you did?
You know, I've caused you
enough trouble around here.
Then to have you get up there
and defend me before all those folks?
Well, you-
you just got yourself in worse.
Now they will talk about you.
George Bull...
some men are born blind...
and you're one of them.
Oh, we've been- I don't know.
We just seemed to
kind of hit it off here together.
We-Sittin' here and talkin',
and good friends.
But now that all this mess
is stirred up...
l- I can't even
come up here anymore.
Huh.
I'm telling you,
I'm gonna... feel kinda lost.
I see what you mean.
All right.
You better finish your drink
and go along home then.
Home? But, Jane, you-
As long as I've been coming up here,
you never told me to go home in your life.
You might take the jug with you too.
Then you won't be missing anything.
I don't want your old cider.
You think I been coming up here
just for that cider?
Oh, Jane.
I never did tell you before-
never did tell you because I...
well, I didn't have the courage
to tell you.
But the darned old cider
never was any good anyhow.
I don't- I don't know whether
I want to go or not.
Jane, you know I'm a whole lot better
at doctorin' cows...
than folks.
But could you-
could you use an extra hand...
in your dairy business?
Aw, I might know it'd be you.
Doc, I'm in trouble again.
What do you want?
He wants to get married.
Minnie, are these your brothers?
Yes, sir.
Yes, he wants to get married,
and mighty quick too.
No, I don't!
Yes, you do.
I'll fix you.
- No-
- Hello. Hello, Doris.
Get me the Reverend Wyck, will ya.
- Reverend Wyck? Doc Bull.
I've got some marrying customers
here for ya.
You won't have to have your wife
act as a witness for these.
They're bringing
their own witnesses with 'em.
Yeah. They've got two best men.
Doggone it, you can't do that!
I'm in no condition to get married!
I'm not a bit well!
And not only that, Doc...
but my family's opposed to marriages.
Yes, they are, Doc! There hasn't been
a marriage in my family for generations.
You wouldn't want me marrying her with them
hating me like they do, would ya, Doc?
Honest, I don't wanna get married!
Come on, get outta here. Come on!
- Get outta here!
- But think of their attitude about children!
Come on. Tell 'em I'll pay for it.
Get him out.
Ain't love grand?
It sure is.
Here. I thought you didn't
like my cider, Dr. Bull.
Well...
seems I changed my mind...
Miss Jane.
Yes, sir...
if I just had some house slippers now,
I'd be right at home.
I've been saving some for you, George.
Where'd you get those?
They were Charles Edward's.
New Winton!
Everybody off for New Winton!
- Why, good morning, Miss Helen.
- Hello.
- Did you have a good Easter?
- What do you expect? Dull as usual.
- Have you read the morning paper as yet?
- No.
- All about Dr. Bull.
- What's happened to him?
Why, medical circles are agog!
"Village doctor astounds
medical profession with serum discovery."
Well, for heaven's sake!
Hey, Doc! Look!
- Your name's all over the New York paper!
- Let me see.
- Well, George!
- How'd they know about the wedding?
- Don't be silly!
- Board.!
- You're famous!
- Can't get famous just for marrying.
Board.!
- Good-bye, Janet!
- Good-bye.!
If you hadn't brought flowers, they never
would've known we was marryin' anyhow.
- Good-bye!
- Good luck!
Say good-bye to the folks, Larry!
Good-bye, boys.