Henry Fonda for President (2024) Movie Script

1
Friday, July 17th, uh,
with Henry Fonda in Bel Air.
You asked questions that it take such a long time for me
to try to find answers to,
'cause I don't think about those things.
I don't think of my influence at all.
I'm glad it's passed as far as I'm concerned.
Are you ready folks? Bring it in. Boys.
Our official campaign poster, HFB
Henry Fonda for President.
I know people speak of me as the typical American,
trustworthy, loyal, full of integrity and so on.
I read it, but it doesn't mean anything to me.
And I'm not conscious of trying to be like that at all.
Does
is deemed there a psyched un
a for food?
Are you Henry Fonda? Yes. Are you Henry Fonda? Yeah.
Are You the Henry Fonda, the
Gentlemen and fellow citizens?
I presume you all know who I am
The wrong man.
I'm Simon from
to I'm, yes.
Now Augustan
Quam Lake in New Hampshire
on Golden Pond in its
in Detroit, on on Golden
Pond, Paris, Ronald Reagan
as the fabric.
Well, the first thrill tonight was to find myself
for the first time in a long time in a movie on prime time.
But this, as you can imagine, is the second big thrill.
They're thrilled by the All Star
and is Ien Films casting eight,
leading this dream life.
This land is to
so historian,
It's impossible to capture in words the splendor
of this vast continent, which God has granted
as our portion of his creation.
There are no words to express the extraordinary strength
and character of this breed of people we call American.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Paris Henry fond
Moscow on the
motif on Henry Fonder beside of
when we were not kings.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Thomas Payne. And
Can we doubt that only
a divine providence placed this land, this island of freedom
here as a refuge for all those people in the world
who yearn to breathe free?
Well, as long as I'm an outlaw anyways,
maybe I can do something.
Maybe I can just find out something, just scrounge
around and maybe find out what it is that's wrong
and see, think something can be done about it.
I thought it all out clear my, I can't, I don't know enough.
I'll confess that I've been a little afraid to suggest
what I'm going to suggest.
I'm more afraid not to.
Can we begin our crusade, join together
in a moment of silent prayer
Then, then what Doc?
Then it don't matter. I I'll be all around in the dark.
I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look,
wherever there's a fight.
So hungry people can eat.
I'll be there wherever there's a cop beating up a guy.
I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when
they're mad and I'll be in the way.
Kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready.
And when the people are eating the stuff they raise
and living in the houses they build,
I'll be there too.
All around in the dark. Everywhere
the United States of Fonda
Alban
the, that this starts New York
in the first reformed church from Albany,
lived here a mohawk flu ing from Hudson, this median
teta in
she's first blend
thousand 12 Saint
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Creatures of our king
lived up your voice and
th son with need.
Thou
Give
Mohawk from the
A. Professor
Mann came
to our community when I was 10 or 11.
The professor, uh, wants
to ask a great-grandfather a question.
Uh, can you define for me
when the native indigenous people of America
says creator or God, what does that mean to you?
And the great-grandfather told the professor,
you must get a adding machine
bigger than the biggest building.
And you need 300 people to help.
They will count every human being in all the world
and every animal that's in the world.
You must put him on the machine.
Hawk had.
Then you must also count every day since the beginning
of the human and before.
And then you must count every star
that fills the nighttime sky.
And the summarization
or the total of all that life in the universe is what God is
and is what the creator is.
It means that the creator is in every tree
and the creator is in every wind, every thunder, every rain.
Henry
from on.
Well, maybe it's like Casey says
fell ain't got a soul of his own just
little piece of a big soul.
The one big soul belongs to everybody.
There can't be any such thing as civilization
unless people have a conscience.
'cause if people touch God anywhere, where is it?
Except through their conscience.
And what is anybody's conscience except a little piece
of the conscience of all men that ever lived?
Are, are you a religious
Men? No,
I'm an agnostic. I don't know the answers.
That's all it means
In drums along the mohawk bil fondas
and an agon Wuhan dear from Albany waned in Mohawk tile,
I will All matey God looked down upon
and blessed these two young people
as they go forth this day into the wilderness to make
for themselves in your home.
Take the film in the,
It's the most beautiful country I've ever seen.
I told you so Mo a priest place in
the whole country for a fact.
What are you thinking about?
Oh, I was just thinking about
what this place is gonna look like a couple years from now.
Next summer we can start building a barn
Right On that slope over there.
The roof ti extraction.
Oh, almighty god. Hallelujah.
No, they didn't settle it.
It was an Indian, had an Indian name,
which I couldn't pronounce until
the early fathers found their way
to this place up in the Mohawk Valley.
And eventually the name was changed to Fonda.
They came famous in the, in the revolutionary
warp by the Indians.
And there's a monument to it.
British
along the Mohawk re
Have you seen Lana?
No, I ain't killed.
Have you seen Lana?
I killed a man
House named in USS
Reenactments.
Henry Fond
Yep. The Veterans of the Revolution
Reenactment
the the Mohawk
in the Vietnam creeks
And inflation.
Today, I say to you, we have reached the turning point,
Huh?
Ford was a very special character.
You can write books about it.
There will never be another Ford.
Hello? Hey, what are you doing in Springfield?
But you're not setting myself up as a lawyer.
What you know about law? I don't have to hurt me
President.
I'm playing Abraham Lincoln.
I've been solicited by many friends to become a candidate
for the legislature.
My politics are short
and sweet like the old woman's dance Studio wanted
to do a picture of a young Mr.
Lincoln And I, uh, resisted it
because, uh, to me,
I didn't think I was any Lincoln character.
And sometime later they assigned Ford to the picture.
And uh, they had evidently told him
that they thought I should do it, but that I didn't want to.
And evidently he said, well, let me talk to him.
And I never met this man
and I, so I was told to go and see Mr. Ford.
I was under contract with the studio
and I went in there, never met him before.
And this man with a slouch hat and a coat collar up
and the handkerchief, the typical.
And uh, he sort of looked up at me and scowled
and he said words that you can't see on television,
you see. And uh,
I think his first words was something like,
what's all the st of what you not want to, I, uh, Lincoln,
I think he's the fg president.
He's a young jack leg lawyer from Springfield
for twice site.
And that's how he intimidated me, persuaded me.
You remember where you are. Do you recognize this? No.
No I don't. That's the Damnest place move.
I have no idea where the hell we are. Now where is it?
Where you did is this where over there is
where you did the walk in Lincoln
and you walked up the road, if you remember. I do.
Mm-hmm. I'll never forget
God was looking down on us that day.
The tears of the multitude I think you said. Mm-hmm.
I think you said the tears
of the multitude when it started to rain.
Mm-hmm. These are my sentiments and political principles.
If elected, I shall be thankful
if not be all the same.
In Springfield in New
Ted
Indiana, HASAs Andrew Jackson
in America on this
the transcendental club room on Emerson, Thoreau
and Margaret Fuller
is
a from full
politicians
Lincoln in New Zealand.
Hello,
I'm Sanga River in Liber
and Ratledge begin for the and Mr.
Lincoln and Ants
River. Sure. Pretty
today, ain't it?
You think a lot about things, don't you?
Well, my brain gets it.
And inside, sometimes I gotta scratch it.
I know how smart you are, how ambitious you are too
Ambitious.
You are deep down underneath. Even if you won't admit it.
Ford fond
and in pla to fin
Reckon he's all right with us, your Honor.
What I mean to say, uh, dang blame it
Is
Will you a great admirer of Fred Astaire?
Oh yeah. Get started. Joey's like to dance like him.
I dream about it. Do you? I dream I can dance like that.
Or Gene Kelly
Books of
To it.
From all I hear Scrub was doing some mighty fancy fighting
for a peace loving man
when you
Trouble is when men start taking the law
into their own hands.
They're just zapped in all the confusion
and fun to start hanging somebody who's not a
murderer, somebody who is.
And the next thing you know, they're
hanging one another just for fun.
We seem to lose our heads in times like this.
We do things together that we'd be mighty ashamed
to do by ourselves.
Why don't you put it down for a
billboards and it getting heavy
In Lincoln's
America.
That is what Abraham Lincoln said,
fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
No personal significance
or insignificance can spare one or another of us.
We must dis enthrall ourselves
and then we shall save our country.
This land is from the s the
manifest destiny.
Durant has far from an imposter
in California.
Correspondent this New York Tribune with Carl
Soldier.
Boy, boy. What a country.
40 miles from Mudhole to Mud Oak
Mule Creek, dead man.
Squash Schmitz Wells Hangman's flats Hapa
the end of the rainbow Ford Apache.
What Apache
Thursday is catastrophe.
Apache Army Bay in
Apache Scouts soldier
Apache Scouts.
We had couldn't seek the US Army in Indiana Creek in
Arizona from
Medal of
Good
Afternoon El
gentlemen.
This is Alese, head of the White Mountain Apache Satta
of the Mescaleros
and the UA medicine man named Jerome in our
language, but in Spanish.
I'll tell him to get on with it. Bo
What's he saying?
That the Apache are a great racer.
They've never been conquered,
but it is not well for a nation to be always at war.
The young men die. The women sing sad
songs vie and the old ones are hungry in the winter.
Best
Thursday,
Colonel Thursday I gave my word to coaches
your word to a breach.
Clouded savage. An illiterate uncivilized
murder and treaty breaker.
There's no question of honor, sir,
between an American officer and coachee.
There is to me, sir Captain York,
you may have commanded your own regiment in the late war.
What? So long as you command a troop in
mine, you will obey my orders.
You have your instruction sergeant Major
De masculinity studies
Thursday tricked the romantic as the Lady Eve.
Your permission Mrs. O'Rourke? May I have the honor?
It'll be a pleasure. Come on Thursday.
Oh, come over here and sit down beside me.
Oh, comfortable
Ms. Berry.
Oh, sorry. Oh, oh. Hold me.
Tell you, oh, you dunno what you've done to me.
I'm terribly sorry. Oh, that's all right.
I wouldn't have frightened you for anything in the world.
I mean if there's anyone in the world I
wouldn't have wanted to.
It's you.
Mm-hmm. You are very sweet. Don't let me go.
Thank you.
The Lady Eve is
Yes darling.
If there is one thing that distinguishes a man from a beast,
it's the ability to understand and understanding.
Forgive surely the qualities of mercy.
Understanding sweet forgiveness. Sweet What?
Sweet forgiveness. Oh,
Did do you like to do comedy?
Yeah. Do you miss the fact that you didn't do as much
as you would've liked to have done?
Not really.
Well I'll be so sorry sir. Excuse me.
Makes all day dreams. I know.
Can never be
The men.
Holy Moses. What's the matter? That perfume?
What's the matter with it? What's just that?
I've been up to Amazon for a year
and they don't use perfume.
Oh,
that perfume again, I can't stand it.
What's matter? It's that foul perfume.
The musk in it makes me deathly ill
scent of the desert flowers.
That's me. Barbara
From Arizona.
The
San Francisco Restaurants on salons.
Anyway, am I right here? You're gonna take
silver for this is actually,
I resist him flus.
This can touched the ab
Mexico deland.
The from
in the biography the her in Hollywood
Western, the youngest stuntman, John Ford heard him two
basically forth the elegant and annoying tree.
Don't think that's kind. No sir. No sir.
Clementine
CLE from
New jacket gets in next week from Kansas City, Kansas.
Bye bye. Henry Fonder is,
gangs was common.
18 years didn't
get much of a chance, did you?
James? Can't tell.
Maybe when we leave this country, young kids,
like you'll be able to grow up and live safe.
Is this Clementine Carter from the
the
To me ma'am?
Thank you.
Hold
It for question.
Hold it Sasha back and make room for our new marshal
and his lady fair
In tombstone. It
is.
Hi. Alright. Did you do it? Hi. Alright
Young lady. Come on
over here. No. Hey, hey, hey. Wait till I tell you.
Shower. We get the little ones. She has little ones.
Look, there's a little boy. Candy
Ford you were never real sure about.
He kept things secret from his own script supervisor.
He, he'd dream up little pieces
of business in the car driving
to the location, never say a word.
So he got to the scene
and then he'd say, why don't you do this or do that
or try put your feet up on the post changed position.
And uh, it would always turn out
to be the things that people remember.
Are you folks ready for a gun fight today? Yeah.
Now I said, are you folks ready?
Is South boy
I'm What's the historian she survey?
I want you to boo them in your loudest.
Give it a try right now. Good
Guys.
I very quickly realized there was a difference between
watching an actor that you knew was acting
or watching somebody
that made you believe and made you forget.
He was an actor. And I began thinking then
that's the way I want to be.
Please God, don't let 'em see the wheels go around.
Uh, don't let the machinery show
The undiscovered country from who's born
no traveler returns puzzles the will
and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly
to others that we know not of.
Thus, conscience does make cowards of us all
Is stock Holiday on stock holiday is Hamlet
tombstone,
19-year-old
Ing from
graveyard
pos
from Tombstone from
In one mile turn right on Henry Fonda Memorial Highway
House in the West Division Street, the Uncon
and his bright baby boy.
Do you remember Grand Island at all?
Can you remember anything like a railroad
tracks, anything like that?
Well, I've been back since I went
back there a couple of years ago.
They've, uh, picked up the home that I was born in
and have moved it to a museum outside Grand Island.
It's true.
Turn right on. Henry Fonda Memorial Highway,
The railroad town in museum from Grand Island
Creek, Nebraska.
Father 10 is the from
Hawk
Union Pacific on the Central Pacific Railroad.
The Great Plains
from Nebraska.
Midwestern.
This house certainly takes me back to the time when
I was just a little shirt tail boy.
Our place is just about this size too.
Some wild crab apple trees out in the front yard.
A big hearth inside where I used
to stretch out while my mother read to me.
I was very lucky with my and my parents.
Both of them were, were just dear. Sweet.
I couldn't have asked for a better father
and mother other, isn't they?
Do you see qualities of your father in yourself
or do you ever hear yourself saying something
that was your father?
Yeah, I have sometimes
walking in the streets of New York, turn the corner
or come on a shop window that's at a certain angle
where you're, you see a reflection.
And when I see it, I've had a sort
of an instantaneous thing.
My godde, it's my father.
I hear you turned 80 today. Is that what you heard?
Yeah. Man, that's really old.
Yeah. You should meet my father.
Your father's still alive. Ah,
But you should meet him.
The meat he integrated
and his
film on Golden Pond fast.
Maybe you and I should have the kind
of relationship that we're supposed to have.
What kind of relationship is that?
Well, you know, like a, like a father and a daughter
Trent in and in the the
Come around more often.
Your mother
Contact to Nebraska?
No. Did
you find that you lost your temper
with your children very often?
I think I lost my temper a lot.
I think they would say that
Jane once spoke about your rage.
She felt that my what? Rage your anger. Oh.
Was a rage of of frustration and
and directed against more against yourself she
felt than against anything else. Was that
I would guess yeah.
American.
How's your forehead? Huh?
Oh this. That's all right. Lot of pain.
Nothing to worry about.
And Indiana Ken, he man
Christian Science at,
Well I was brought up from Christian science.
My grandmother was a first reader and a practitioner.
My mother was a good Christian scientist
and his children, we all went
to Christian Science Sunday school and if we got colds
or something, we called Grammy for help.
Didn't go to a doctor. And that's all I knew.
Since then, I've never been inside a church.
Nebraska. What's it to me, the people,
the sounds in the field, the smells and the sights.
Like the stars in the sea.
The more that you look, the more that you
Seebo incident under
Gotta go there yourself.
Oh, you got stand before your makeup.
You got stand there by yourself.
Nobody here can stand for you.
You got stand there by yourself.
Oh, you got to ask the Lord forgiveness.
You got to ask him for yourself.
I'm September 19
courthouse in Omaha and
in Virginia and from man Africa
up 1,910,
the birth of a nation.
September, 1919 in Omaha.
William Brown is
William Brown and
the 18th Street on Harness Street,
17th Street on Dodge Street.
My dad's office looked down on the courthouse square
and he took me with him and went up into his office
and watched from the window.
Oh nice. And there was this young black that they had
arrested on suspicion of rape.
And this mob started to collect.
I know the mayor, he was on horseback.
He rode with two assistance also on horseback,
rode into the middle of this mob trying
to quell them and calm them.
They damn near lynched the mayor.
That's how outta control they were.
You couldn't believe that they would, you know,
overpower the law.
Force their way in.
Get this guy out of a cell, drag him through the streets,
hang him from a lamp post riddling with bullets
and then drag him in back of an automobile.
It was an experience I will never forget.
It was so horrifying.
I know that my dad never lectured.
We watched and when it was all over
and we went home, he didn't talk about it.
Well it was a great shock to me.
If you got any doubts, Ted Lee,
I say let's call off this party, take it back.
The judge like Davies wants is,
is only slightly any of your business my friend.
Remember that? Hang ins any man's business, it's around
Wrong man.
And,
and ly
you only live once the wrong man.
Let us live over there.
Wait a minute, that's him.
That's the father. He don't look to me. I sure it is.
Are you quite sure that this is the man? I swear to it.
Alright, father payment.
Forgive you break these people all mixed up. They what?
They're talking.
We submitted to electrocution until you are dead.
The
I'll never forget to play Gods of lightning.
It was about s vanzetti
and it was so real that I walked out of the theater,
remember sort of scowled at cops.
I'll never forget it as an experience.
I totally forgot
that they were actors. They were surreal.
Go ahead, take a good look. Your monkeys have a good time.
A big kick on it. It's fun to see an innocent man die.
Isn't it?
Represented Democrat
fond in the male animal in repertoire.
He wrote this in April, 1927, just
after he was condemned to die.
It has been printed in newspapers in this
book in many places.
But if you should destroy every printed copy,
it would still endure in the language
because a great many literary people know it by heart.
If it had not been for these thing,
I might have lived out my life talking at street corners
to scorning men,
I might have die unmarked, unknown.
A failure. Now we are not a failure.
Never in our full life could we hope to do so much work
for tolerance, for justice,
for man's understanding of man
as now we do by accident.
Our words, our lives,
our pain, nothing.
The taking of our lives.
The lives of a good shoemaker
and a poor fish peddler, all
that last moment belongs to us.
That agony is our triumph.
We got no chance to us little people, they're out
to get me and they'll do it.
If you found those guys and they swore
and a stack of bibles a mile high that they did the murder,
it still wouldn't do any good.
The law can't admit it's wrong.
I had an interview today as a matter of fact,
and the man interviewing me who talked about
that people think of me as a, as a man who has something
to say and I denied it.
I said John Steinbeck had something to say.
And uh, and Reggie Rose has something to say in, in 12.
Angry Man. But I'm just an actor
who I think recognizes a good part when I read it.
And I love to play it.
And if there's, uh, something to be told
or message, it's not mine.
It's it's the author's.
That's the way you tell it.
It has a great deal to do with it
that does make the difference, ah, the delivery.
Delivery the way you tell it.
Sarah, I bet you didn't know I had a sister once
just about your age.
Name Sarah too.
Only she died when her baby was born.
And I knew a girl like you, Carrie, Sue
and Dan and died too.
Hello? You called up. What? Eddie? We are ready.
Go ahead please. Hello. Hello Mom. Hello son.
Where you calling from? New York.
I just called to tell you I'm gonna
stay down here for a while.
Is Henry Fond
moment
and the farmer takes a wife
Cat, June Walker as Molly Henry Fonda
as Dan, can you cook?
I'd been frying a lot of cake.
I wouldn't like nothing better
than to have some of your cooking.
Part of the whole attraction of acting.
And what I learned very gradually was that it was therapy
for a very shy, self-conscious young man.
I was wearing a mask.
It was like hiding behind the character.
This, it was a game.
It was make believe was let's pretend
like a young kid playing cops and robbers
or cowboys and Indian.
I'm gonna get out there and I'm not gonna be myself
and people aren't gonna be looking at me
Fond.
We were in a depression as actors all the time.
And Charlie and Josh, when they graduated, they went
to Russia to study with sans
and they let me stay in the apartment rent free.
They had no sugar, no salt, nothing. You just boiled rice.
And it got so that all the, the cast and gals
and the secretaries got to know me so well they just look up
and smile and say nothing.
Hank. And it was during that time that Josh
said I was the best known unknown actor in New York
Of Cape Cod.
The university players sent any low budget.
I actually feel quite limited.
My middle west accent is too pronounced.
My Omaha is so there that I can't lose it
enough to play a lot of, I can't do
restoration comedy or Shakespeare at all.
For instance, I had to 50 years ago when stock company
and you played what they handed you,
Their farmer from Broadway, Andino
again in America's Leland Hayward.
By this time I was under contract
to Leland, an incredible man.
He could sell anything.
And the first thing I knew, he had dragged me out
to Hollywood and he sold me to Walter Ger, who had no idea
who I was to make movies or no in the summer.
And I could go back to New York in my beloved
theater in the winter.
Excuse me ma'am. He said for you to wait. Thank you ma'am.
I had no ambition to be a movie actor.
And I thought, well, you know, I think they're crazy,
but I'll take their money and go back to New York
AB
in Hollywood.
Let's go to the movies for more than half a century.
These words have meant an invitation to magic.
The magic of moving pictures
and the spinning of dreams in a darkened theater.
Hollywood in the thirties produces more stars than ever
before at work or at play to an adoring public.
There every activity is a constant of fascination.
Judy Garland, America's new sweetheart, Ronald Regan
and Jane Wyman, Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis,
and the swashbuckling hero, Errol Flynn.
Joan Bennett, Joan Crawford and Hedy Lamar.
The is the super,
the
Its Mar Dietrich and a young guy named Fonda.
Hint to the land van
the land push by and the founder Bel
and Robin Hood in I
Hi.
I Call you
and don't move.
Re this young checked in the moons our home.
Martin,
You better know.
There he is.
What's new? You're rather attractive in
an elementary sort of way.
Can't you manage to be a little less personal?
Well to be, sir, double martini. Yes sir. Now make it two,
Make it four.
Yosh Margaret Sullivan, but fond EFO the
What's new.
Have I seen you somewhere before?
Possibly. I'm the girl you married once
I knew it.
I never forget a face.
I never was temperamental and she was very
Margaret Sullivan,
Francis Seymour Tota as house On next
Jane on Peter in September.
Is, is it true that you never married your wives?
They all married you?
I'd say so. Yeah. To a party from
William Randolph Hearst on Mion Davis.
G Jean Deloit
Somebody. Somebody's asking
when will wounded justice
line prostrate on the streets of Selma Birmingham
and communities all over the south be lifted from this dust
of shame terrain, supreme among the children of men?
It will not be long
because truth press, the earth will rise again.
How long? Not long
'cause of the moral universe is long,
but it bends toward justice.
How long? Not long. Not long.
Because my eyes have seen the glory
of the coming of the Lord.
He's traveling out the where the sword.
Yes, he's loose.
The hateful lightning of his terrible Swiss sword.
His truth is marching on
This symbol is from the America
in republic.
The surface of the earth crusted a thin hard crust.
And as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale,
the first crust broke and the dust formed.
Every moving thing lifted the dust into the air.
Men and women huddled in their houses
and they tied handkerchiefs over their noses when they
went out and
Forever one of them there was 10,
15 families throw right out of their homes.
A hundred folks and no place to live.
But on the road, the ranches, the Peters', the Perrys,
the Georges one right after the other, they got thrown out.
Half the folks you
and me know throw right down into the road.
The cars of the migrant people crawled out
of the side roads onto the great cross country highway
and they took the migrant way to the west.
The families which had been units
of which the boundaries were a house at night of farm
by day changed their boundaries in the long hot light
moving slowly westward.
But at night they integrated with any group. They found,
I'm going down the road feel
and I am going down the
road feel
and I'm going down the
road feeling better.
Oh lordy, I ain't going
to be treated this away.
And when the sun went down, perhaps 20 families
and 20 cars were there.
The 20 families became one family.
The children were the children of all.
The loss of home became one loss.
And the golden time in the west was one dream.
They were not farm men anymore, but migrant men.
And the thought, the planning, the long staring silence
that had gone out to the fields went now
to the roads, to the distance.
Can we pull up here and sleep? Well sure.
Be proud to have you. What state you from? Oklahoma? Huh?
They spoke of the future. Wonder what it's like out there.
Well, the pictures sure do look nice.
I seen one where it's hot and fine and walnut trees
and berries and right
behind it's a tall up mountain covered with snow.
That's a pretty thing to see.
The Joe family moved slowly westward up into the mountains
of New Mexico, past the pinnacles
and pyramids of the upland.
They climbed into the high country of Arizona
and the stars flowed down in a slow cascade
over the western horizon.
A border guard stopped them. Where you going to California?
Got the desert yet said Tom
and I hear she's a son of a bh.
The truck moved on into the evening
and the edge of the sun struck the rough horizon
and turned the desert red.
He pulled to an all night gas station and filled the tank
and the radiator and filled the crank case.
There's the desert. They say, look out for the desert
so you don't get hung up.
Take plenty of water in case you get hung up.
What a place. I'd just like to walk across it.
People done it. They could. We could.
That must have died too. Well we ain't out our st.
They drove through Tehachapi in the morning glow
and the sun came up behind them
and then suddenly they saw the Great valley below them,
the vineyards, the orchards, the peach trees
and the walnut groves and the dark green patches of oranges
and PA said God Almighty.
Ruthie and Winfield scrambled down from the car
and then they stood silent and awestruck.
The distance was thinned with haze and the land grew softer
and softer in the distance.
Ruthie whispered, it's California
Weeping across the country comes one
of the great literary achievements of our time.
A human revealing soul stirring story
that instantly becomes the most disgusted novel
of modern literature.
The Grapes of Wrath, the Grapes of Wrath, the Grapes
of Wrath, the Grapes of wrath,
the Grapes of wrath, grapes of wrath.
Grapes of wrath has sailed skyrocket The Grapes
of Wrath becomes the Book of the Nations.
This unprecedented popularity producers vibe for the motion.
Picture rights. Darrell f Zuck, production head
of 20th century Fox Studios emphatically announces
that the Grapes of wrath will be made.
I'd worked with Zack several times.
I'd done a lot of films there and he was always
after a contract
and I wasn't interested until Grapes of Wrath.
And that was Bait
To Jones is played by Henry Fonda.
He said, I'm not gonna let you play Tom Jewel if
I can't control you.
I did Grapes of Wrath
and I followed it with some
of the worst st I've had to do in films.
The
California here in
Sure don't look not too prosperous.
Come on, come on, come on.
Wanna work? Sure. But what is this?
None of your business name, Joe?
How many men? Four
Women.
Two Kids.
Two. And they all work?
Sure, I guess so. Okay. How? 63 wages.
5 cents a box, no bruise fruit, move along.
You gotta work right away.
T Indian camps.
The Roosevelt Adminis
contract mentioned Ver
Wheat Patch Camp in Arvin.
Now these buildings were built in 35 and 36.
These three buildings
Have, I don't think they were allowed
to come into the camp and film
because of the families that were here.
Um, but they could film that much.
I'm okay. I know how to do this.
I think Don't get in
Sharon Garrison
Camp.
I'm checking my strength
now.
Okay. See, I can still do it.
Yes baby. That's the way I feel.
Some of the older people said we had ghosts
and I said, well, if we do, they're the sweet spirit
of people from long ago, so don't be afraid.
First thousand ab born in here May on October.
I didn't bargain
the
from John Ford
camps through the of
Mm-hmm.
The, the United Farm Workers of America
from
Farm Workers of America.
The Geist from Tom Jo is in the politic.
Met Henry Fonda in This
Is Grapes of Wrath. The
picture most people identify with you.
I guess so. Yeah.
Do you feel that there's a part of Tom Joe in you?
No. When did you get to know Steinbeck?
Well, it was after I'd done the film.
We just went on a tour of bars and got drunk
and we were never intimate.
Close, close. I think we had admiration for each other.
Now I, I wrote down, uh, something he said of you,
he said, my impressions of Hank are of a man reaching
but unreachable.
Gentle, but capable of a sudden wild
and dangerous violence, sharply critical of others,
but equally self-critical.
Caged and fighting the bars,
but timid of the light viciously opposed to external
restraint, imposing an iron slavery on himself.
His face is a picture of opposites in conflict.
Is he accurate?
I don't know. That's, those are steinbeck's words.
I I would never think
of me when I read those words.
Opposites in conflict.
You're about to bust a gut
to know what I'd done, ain't you?
Well I had a guy to let you down. Homicide.
Come on mom, let's dance. Oh,
Come on.
And
Used to be mine.
I give it to grandpa when I went away.
You reckon they're dead.
An outlaw is commander, president
Henry Fond
Going back. Abe?
No.
I think I might go on a piece maybe
to the top of that hill.
The
by in Biden for C air critic and America,
There wasn't a single family in town that wasn't akin
to one of the boys in company A.
We knew some of our boys would die.
We didn't know which ones of course,
but everybody tried not to think about it.
Your son Richard Todd killed in action.
Everybody stuck by their radios.
We were thinking about our boys.
It couldn't get much worse, but it did get worse.
This was war. War brought right here to our little town.
There were more telegrams.
There was one for old man Landry about his grandson,
Jamie who'd been an orphan.
One for the whites and the Greenbergs
and two for the Dunlaps.
The two Dunlap boys had always stuck together.
The war was here now right here with us
in every home in town.
This was what we had to fear and what we had to fight.
NAR was our to fond Dun
us to next Mr. Roberts in Broadway.
Look Dr. Sway out there and I'm here.
Well, I don't wanna be here. I wanna be out there.
I'm sick and tired of being a lousy spectator.
I just happen to believe in this thing
and I wanna feel I'm good enough to be in it.
How significant were you at three years in the Navy?
I didn't like a minute of it.
Of course, with a beginner like Hank on the team,
we'll have to allow a slight handicap.
He probably doesn't even know where to start.
Although I learned a great deal.
Well, oil, my roller skates, we did the boy and injustice.
He's going at this like a veteran.
A lot of it was going to school.
I sailed through this uh, bootcamp for officers
and came out as the head of the class
that impressed the st out of people.
And I'm an eager beaver.
And I said I want to go to the forward area.
Said to me, that's where the action was.
I was a typical even at the age of 37, 38, by this time
I was a typical eager beaver who wanted
to shoot it Japanese.
So what happened to that bronze star?
Uh, Peter lost it. I'd given it to Peter.
Were you angry with Peter when he lost it?
No. Meant nothing to me.
There's something in the air,
Something Behind that.
Sunset
And John for document film from midway hat,
from ham, from
These boys would never have to surrender
because we at home would never let them down.
We knew that all America would learn
what we had learned the hard way
that this is everybody's war.
Everybody's war is
in Los Angeles.
I put up your hand.
It's all right brother. You will.
The oxbow incident handled from
from
his man of war
up,
You knew about the dropping
of the atomic bomb, didn't you?
Before it was dropped.
Did you realize what that, what that was gonna be?
Not totally, because I had no idea what kind
of devastation it would create.
It was just something new, bigger bomb.
And I went up to 10 yian with my boss, uh, commander Keke.
We briefed the pilots about where he was going
and what marks to look for.
And the next thing I knew we hear about Hiroshima,
which sort of took you back.
I must say I can only wish that
they had never thought of making it in the first place
and never made an atomic bomb.
I'm against all of it.
So that's what we did.
And August 6th, 1945, a plane like this
dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Oshima.
Three days later, after no surrender,
another plane like this dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki.
That was the one that convinced him for Ito
we could systematically drop these
and decimate the entire Japanese population.
I wish they just said, well
that's dangerous. Let's don't touch it.
That's not the nature of man though, is it? No.
Do you think it will eventually destroy us?
I wouldn't be Surprised
Starring Henry Fonda Rehearsal one of these days.
You sitting there beside the radio
and I talking here into this microphone
must make a decision.
It must be the right decision.
If we fail, we may never have a chance to make another
for civilization.
As we know, it may disappear from the face of the earth
In Daisy Canyon.
Great. Look who you married the son of Dracula.
If you weren't there, you'll never know
exactly how it was.
You'll never know. That is not exactly,
This is film Strange victory.
The socialist on document. Leo Herwitz.
A Ken individual
War is an experience.
Mark non-transferrable.
Where are your ribbons? Oh,
I must have left 'em at the cleaners.
You must have been worse off at
that party last night than you thought you were.
I'm always worse off than I think I am.
Don't you remember giving these to me?
I always give them away when I
find somebody who will listen to me.
Why did you ask me 400 times last night if I were real?
Why not? Nothing else here is real.
When I came back from Europe the first time
after VE Day, they changed sixth Avenue into something
called Avenue of the Americas.
Wasn't New York, it wasn't home.
And
a democratic him and land
A fear runs through this country a worrying.
It spreads from face to face like an infection.
A sickness of fear.
We live like a man holding his breath against
what may happen tomorrow.
Where are we? Anyway, This is a star
club and this is America.
You are welcome here too.
Yeah, I do kind of feel welcome.
Next best thing going toran and letting the bell support me.
Broadway. Do we have to sit here? Peter?
Beginning of a new era,
Mr. Roberts and from
is held founder from Sin McCarthy's Hex of
Kitz from I
fond.
I mean the McCarthy era was just unbelievable to me.
That's when I started to become less friendly with Duke,
Wayne and Ward Bond.
They'd never indicated any political leanings.
And suddenly these two characters are naming names
of communists in the business, putting 'em on blacklists.
Did you ever get friendly with them again after that
With Duke?
A little bit warmer.
He was a very nice guy and uh, he had a sense of humor too.
But I never did forgive Ward Bond
and never spoke to him again.
Leo her
from
Virgil Richardson in Strange Victory
Forest.
Oh yes, Mr. Forest.
Uh, just a minute. Tell Mr. You are here.
American Negro Theater in Harlem Jobs.
Mr. Robeson asked me to tell you that all the pilot of me,
the field, I'm sorry,
In Mexico, But the
old job mapping the floor in the men's room is still open.
An negro flyer, a million soldiers, a people
of 14 millions who are still waiting
for their share of the victory.
Rest, baby rest.
Now you have been born into the land of the winner
rest while the resting is good.
You came in out of a war.
You came in out of the victory, out of the reign of shells,
into this sunlight, into this peace
shall rest now baby.
Make a wish now baby. Because nobody knows the trouble.
You'll see. Nobody knows for sure where the victory is
lost, strayed or stolen.
It isn't here. And if we won,
why do we look as if we lost?
Why is the news still bad?
This is Alfred Hitchcock speaking.
In the past I have given you many kinds
of suspense pictures,
but this time I would like you to see a different one.
The difference lies in the fact that this is a true story,
every word of it.
And yet it contains elements
that are stranger than all the fiction
that has gone into many of the thrillers
that I've made before.
This Craig House in T Hudson River is
photograph
Fitzgerald, German capo and Marilyn Monroe.
Sailing ton Rosemary Kennedy.
JFK
lived Seymour Fond.
In September 19th, six Onik Henry Fond inherited
and Pat before her, Sylvia Sydney on Fritz.
This is well place for kids
to ramp. What are laughing about?
Laughing. You only live once March in Helo
and in trauma house before the hype drum begins.
And m
Well she was a very fun person to be with.
She enjoyed life. She enjoyed the things we did
When I was a kid, we used to catch 'em in the sewer drain.
We were, were very happy
for 12, 13, 14 years was a
very successful marriage
By Romeo and Juliet.
No kidding. That's how they are.
Francis s Yugen
Ollywood fond
and held us Diego
diagnostic
photo picnic for Harper.
They ended France. S fond in Craig house
in Testament
as in Daisy Canyon had her
Craig house and Alfred Hitchcock,
Francis and Henry.
This wrong man. And in do Boden file,
It's almost morning. Haven't
you gone to bed yet?
No, I can't sleep
Honey. This isn't right.
Don't you think you want to see a doctor?
I
You wanna get the children outta the house
because you think I'm crazy.
Don't you? Don't you? Well you are not so perfect either.
How do I know you are not crazy?
You don't tell me everything you do.
How do I know you're not guilty?
You could be, you could be rose
The wrong man grave.
A fond
it was,
Is there something I've done Rose?
Is there something you can't forgive me?
She's living in another world from ours.
A frightening landscape
that could be on the dark side of the moon.
Oh,
And I'm not there.
My personal life was disintegrating but very slowly.
I wasn't even aware of it for a long time.
At what point did you become aware of it?
Well, I guess after we moved
east when I was doing Mr. Roberts.
Is it incurable? No case is incurable.
I want her to have the best there is the best for her
And that's when Francis had to first go to a home.
Here's your bag honey. I don't know what it was.
It was not a place where you were committed
but uh, for disturbed people.
Mine, honey, Did you ever know
what caused a disturbance?
No. A lot of that I've put outta my mind so
that it's almost a blank.
And uh, I never dreamed that it would be anything permanent.
It was just a board to have a wife who wasn't always Well
Is it, is it difficult to talk about that time for you?
Well it ain't easy, you know,
I don't, I don't like to talk about it
or be reminded uh,
of what happened.
Mile Mr. Roberts and Indiana Kent.
And how did the children find out?
They were too young to be told the truth.
So we just simply said that mother had
died and the hospital.
But I've been criticized for not telling them the truth.
I still think I was right
When they found out.
Did they blame you at all?
Were they angry with you? Did they
Say anything? No. No. There was
never dialogue about it at all.
When Peter did Easy Rider, how did you react to the scene
where Peter is in the uh, statue and he's on an LSD trip
and he starts talking as if it was his mother
That Was, what do you call the
Improvisation?
Improvisation, yeah. I don't remember
thinking anything about it. Particularly
Mother of God, pray for us.
I believe in God. Father almight
You over here and you're such a poor mother
and I hate you so much.
The wrong man gets,
If there's a reasonable doubt in your minds as
to the guilt of the accused, a reasonable doubt,
then you must bring me a verdict of not guilty.
The Bay in
from wrong man. Best man.
Well done. I like politics.
I like it so much. I'm beginning to worry
The 12 art mission statement
Stevenson, the candidate, the Democrat is
John's president and progressive intellectual
and at S and man,
Okay that's 11 guilty.
I was not guilty. One boy.
Oh boy, there's always one. Oh, what are we doing now?
I guess we talk boy oh boy.
Atley Stevenson's fiction ego had a folk
Probably right?
So what are you gonna do?
You know, we can be here all night.
A proposition to make, I'm gonna call for another vote. Is
That right?
Stevenson?
Eisenhower un.
How different would The country have been had
Stevenson been elected?
I think it's a great shame that he wasn't,
I think he was one of the great men that could,
should have been in office and didn't make it.
You know, it's hard to say what difference
would've made to the country.
I don't know. In the politic of, so the,
I'd like to ask you something.
You don't believe the boys' story.
How come you believe the woman's you's one
of them too, isn't she?
You Are a pretty smart fellow, aren't you?
It's the common sense. How do you like this guy
Mentioned?
Has anybody here any idea how long it would take an now
this isn't a game.
Did you see him? Hey, a nerve. Alright, listen.
Absolute nerve. Alright, forget it.
It's not important isn't a game. Who does he think he is?
I am not a political speaker, but I was the president
Line. Please
Fail safe.
I was the president.
Hello Buck. How's your rushing today? Fine sir.
I guess good. We may need it.
Hang on Jenny. It's a long way down
In Washington.
F and Oath took in tomorrow in telephone
here in the Air Force base.
Had any computer,
Sir,
we already have fighter planes in the air.
The next step would be to order the fighters
after the bombers who raise them visually
and divert them from their course.
But if the bombers don't respond, then what
The fighters would be ordered to shoot them down.
Who gives that order? You do sir.
Thank you General. I'll be back to you.
The point of no return is written.
The film fail safe sh and an under this ended the
strange love backed Sydney lum
and anti to Acal
safe
Project. The Soviet
fighter planes gimme tight
scale on the Russian border
In the,
the, the
and war rooms and the,
And the missile is on its way.
Four seconds later we get lift off. Right?
58 seconds from the time you turned that key,
that missile was on its way to target number two 30
to 35 minutes from now.
Target number two will no longer resist.
It will literally disappear in the light three times
brighter than the Stu.
Not your problem.
Say what you think. Don't be afraid.
All this is too big for you Buck. It's big.
All right, but it still depends on what each of us does.
History Lesson number one.
Now talk to Mosca now
The angst guilt in fail safe vinegar in Soviets as Machin
can computer
plant on fruit
program to Fond Stevenson
Element of our air
Conflict history.
Lesson number two, instrumental
missed with the computer
Secretary. I am
convinced at the moment the Russians know bombs
will fall on Moscow.
They will surrender. Don't you see sir? This is our chance.
We never would've made the first move deliberately.
But group six has made it for us by accident
and we must take advantage of it.
History demands it.
Yes. Mr. President
Is the touch phone open between Omaha
and the Soviet command headquarters.
Yes sir. Already keep it open.
I order that plane to drop it bombs.
It'll use the Empire State Building for ground zero.
When we hear the shriek of Mr.
Lent off's, phone melting,
we will know that he is gone.
William New York.
No human being did wrong.
No one is to be blamed. We're to blame both of us.
We let our machines get out of hand
still it was an accident.
Two great cities may be destroyed.
Millions of innocent people killed.
What do we say to them, Mr. Chairman? Accidents will happen.
I won't accept that.
What do we do Mr. Chairman?
What do we say to the
dead president?
Yes Jay.
I can hear the sound of explosions from the northeast.
The sky is very bright, all lit up.
You aren't crazy are you?
Any man who wants to be president is crazy.
Best man on this
John f Kennedy's.
Richard Nixon, founder Franklin.
She Sydney.
Sydney Life Ellips.
That's what I call a real demonstration.
We're only about an hour late for everything. Well Mr.
Secretary, how did you interpret
the Gallup poll this morning? I don't believe in
Polls accurate or not.
Do you think people mistrust
intellectuals like you in politics? Intellectual
You mean I wrote a book?
That's true. The hope Kna is then Popularist mi
Nixon ass tricky.
Joe Cantwell public enemy number one.
Now don't get me wrong, I've got a lot
of respect for William Russell. Ah,
Thank you Joe. But
I don't think he's got the people's touch.
May may the best man win.
Whats more senator may the best man win
Testimony shall least is can two five.
What about this integration business?
You don't have to worry about my
administration and that's a promise.
Nice thing about you, Joe, is
that you can sound like a liberal
but it heart you in America.
Nixon of course is just poisoned to me.
I started hating Nixon when he whipped Helen Hagen.
Douglas intimating that she was a red and a pinko and so on
and such fg lies.
You ever heard innuendo?
Well Bill, here we are.
The main event, like they say
The main event.
He was such a shift to the fact that he was our president,
Self-made man with a self-made issue.
Your imaginary communist mafia.
Now I got here is not the question.
What matters is I am here,
I in there is the best man and under
And I'm releasing my pledge delegates with instructions
to support Governor John Merwin.
You can't. I can and I have merwin's. Nobody.
Well he is now somebody
The United States of America.
I don't understand You. I know you don't
because you have no sense
of responsibility toward anybody or anything.
And that is a tragedy in a man.
And it is a disaster in a president.
You don't understand me. You don't understand politics.
You don't understand this country the way it is
and the way we are.
You're a fool.
Look, I admit that Henry Fond is a decent, sensible,
honest man, but he can't be elected president,
Not with those qualifications.
And I am of course happy that the best man won.
I am here to tell you this, that power is not a toy
that we give to good children.
It's a weapon. And the strong man takes it and he uses it.
And if you don't go down there
and beat Joe Cantwell to the floor
with this very dirty stick
and you've got no business in this big league
because if you don't fight, this job is not for you
and it never will be
Henry Fonder.
And so one by one these
compromises, these small corruptions
Don't want power as corruption already.
Well, art, how does it end? This sort of thing.
Where does it end
In the grave son, where the dust is neither good
nor bad, just nothing.
I am Colorado River.
The old Trails bridge is the Uber gang from Nan
in fight of Amelia
land and Pacific.
Hello as is folks. Lamb, milk and honey.
California
Detour.
Just Where do you think you're going?
Oh, we're strangers here, Mr.
We heard about there was work in a place
called Tavarus. Yeah,
Well you are heading the wrong way.
What's more? We don't want no more Okies in this town.
There ain't enough work here for them that's already here.
Which way it at Mr.
Well you'll turn right around and head north
and don't you come back until the cotton's ready.
You understand
That Stop under swoosh out
began in California
Easy rider ship as
16 Colorado River,
ed Mark Californian Beck from Earth to in the building.
And I suppose in the sense I'm a competition then
with my father because I like
to be the guy next door only these days.
The guy next door is far from being stoic
and uh, he smokes pot.
He understands that he hates his mother
and his father doesn't want to go to war,
doesn't believe the politicians, doesn't believe the clergy,
doesn't believe his teachers.
So he has to reject uh, all those things that were set up
as being the guiding lights for him.
I found myself somewhere in the same position.
That's why I say like, I feel like I'm the guy next door
because I sit inside my business.
Uh, there's no place for me inside the walls
of a motion picture studio.
Their idea of the guy next door is still my father.
But 40 years younger
or 20 years younger, uh, times they are changing
as some famous poet said.
And you gotta reflect the change of times.
Er is the it reservoir for the Pacific Gas
and Electric Company
industry atmosphere,
Pacific Gas in the electric.
I think water is becoming
a major problem all over the country.
There are still companies
that are illegally dumping poisonous waste in just
yards or someplace and don't say anything about it.
I think that's where our danger is.
Too many people think it's progress in
the the right direction.
Do you think big business is out
of control in this country?
No, I don't think they're outta control.
I think they're getting more and more in control.
I think Reagan is, he's for big business.
He's doing everything he can to help big business.
As Americans, we are just as capable of atrocities
of mistakes as all the other people in the world.
We're no better, but we're no worse.
And it's important for people to realize that, that just
because the system says something is right, that it's right,
maybe it's wrong.
Well, once you face that, you have
to start reexamining a lot of things.
Jane found median room from Vietnam.
Steam.
I wanna go back to the fossil fuel people
because Exxon knew in 1977
that what they were doing was poisoning the atmosphere.
And they said, well, it's not as bad as a, as a,
a nuclear war or famine
are these people whose hearts
and souls have been so distorted by greed
or what, what, who are these people?
Deloitte is in
mind attractive.
What's become of lighthearted show folk.
I know that most people come here to this kind of show,
to hear jokes and to laugh and be amused,
but from the kind of reaction that there is to tonight,
I get the feeling that, in fact,
if people are talking about things that are important,
that mean something to them, and if they're sincere
and you know that we're talking about all
of us together, don't you prefer that?
I wanted to know because it's, it's,
it's difficult when you're an actor, people always like
to classify human beings.
Mm-hmm. If you're an actor, then you don't get into anything
else, you know, and you've got a,
you've got an ad coming up, right?
Yeah. Right. Your eyes are glassing over.
Do you find it hard? They're signaling me again. Right.
Do you find it hard to, uh, to interrupt Jane,
uh, when she's,
He's the one that's hard to interrupt.
Am I right? Impossible
To interrupt Peter.
Once upon a time in the West, and
I enjoyed Sergio.
He's a real character, so I committed.
Still not sure why he'd cast me.
I had thought in the meantime, what could I do
to make myself look more like a villain?
And I grew a mustache
and a little divot to look something like
the guy that killed Lincoln.
And I got brown contact lenses
to cover my baby blues.
And I arrived with a set with the contacts and the beard,
and Sergio took one look and his head off.
And it is not what he wanted at all.
He wanted the baby blues and the found the face
From California nation Mayor.
I wanna see the blue of the Pacific outside that window.
Jobs in.
You see, Frank, there are many kinds of weapons
and the only one that can stop that is this
In Vietnam
from once upon a time in the west from,
And the camera's over his shoulder
and the camera very slowly is doing this.
And that's when I understood why
Sergio would cast me in this son of habitual party.
He was a, the worst son of a bh that's ever been written.
He could hear the audience say, Jesus Christ,
it's him fondant in shock.
Now That you've called me by
Name.
This tumultuous political year began as the year
of the non candidate,
The freedom rider. She
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which man will be the political leader.
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Don't tell me you are Henry
Fonda, please come.
I'm looking for the Tucker Hall Community Theater.
My agent gave me this address,
but obviously there's been some mistake.
Oh, well it's not really a mistake. No, it's more
Like a lie.
Afraid I don't understands.
Seven o'clock I'm doing on stage at eight 30.
I've never missed a curtain in my life.
Mr. Fonda, I proudly present you with your next career
president of the United States.
Jimmy Stewart put you up to this. Right?
This is your headquarters.
You are a presidential candidate.
Mrs. Findley, as we used to say back home,
a cat may have kittens in the oven,
but that don't make them biscuits.
Let me tell you something about my dream, Mr. President.
That does sound good, doesn't it? Mr. President? Sure.
You say, you say you are totally in completely
inexperienced, but inexperienced at what?
Inexperienced at corruption at, at pandering
to special interests at duplicity.
Mr. Fonda, you have something that no other candidate has.
It's, it's what I call spiritual honesty. Mr.
Fonda, you are the Quint essential American
and the only one who can bring
to this country the leadership it so desperately needs
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Yeah, that's us. The taxi fire
talked anonymous.
We are the people, you and I
and it is time to let the people rule.
Thank you.
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President Reagan,
the security cameras came from
the Oscars held.
It's the motion picture that shows us all, not only
how we look and sound, but more important how we feel
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You are in my dreams most night.
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Yeah. And the fruit sides,
the virtual reality as a meeting for,
I always considered the GAFU master,
an ingenious invention of great educational value.
Gee, I always thought it was just a lot of fun.
Finley. I'm positive you can do anything you set your mind
to do, but I do not wish
to become the president of the United States.
And because I am so sure
that you could do anything you set your mind to.
If you do succeed in getting me nominated, I will not run.
He's gone because he didn't think it was possible.
No, he's gone because he didn't want to do it.
I knew too much about what about him?
What do you know about him? He's a communist.
I ain't, I ain't communist, but I'm, I'm called a radical
and a rebel most of the time. Politically
Okta is,
Um, it's impossible.
It'd be impossible for me to get up as much
as my heart might be full
and my head full of a cause
to face an audience in my character to talk about it.
I couldn't do that. This whole idea
of yours is stupid anyway.
Running an actor for president.
Oh, is that so Arthur, well, who do you want
to be our next president?
Ronald Reagan.
And don't gimme that.
Look Mark Finley. Ronald Reagan was never an actor.
And you know it
Beat.
Can we Begin our crusade?
Join together in a moment of silent prayer.
Reagan upsets me so that it's hard to talk about.
I think we're headed for disaster.
I'm surprised there isn't more opposition.
I think he's got us on a path now that, uh,
we're gonna be on that path for a long time.
Do you know Reagan? Yeah.
Friends or just acquaintances?
Acquaintance. Was he ever a good actor?
No. Is he now?
No. How did he get elected?
He's a hell of a speechmaker.
Government is not the solution to our problem.
Government is the problem.
He says the things that people want to hear.
He says them very convincingly
and with what sounds like sincerity.
And he's talking a language that people haven't heard
for a long time and it impresses them.
I listen to a Reagan speech and wanna throw up.
Who the hell is that?
I'm en checked Fond here.
The ab
What's your favorite fruit?
Apples. What kind?
Well, my apples and I just had one for lunch
is a Beverly Hills.
It's not grown except in backyards.
It's not a commercial fruit
that you can buy from an orchard.
Organic farmer.
I've never studied, I'm commercial now
Reproduction, Seven
and half cents for each one.
Now I'm not gonna get rich, but it's gonna buy a lot
of brushes and paints for me.
John
from Kennedy Center Oscars And
The winner is Robert Dero,
The Academy.
Do you feel that there is an art to the movies? I,
Yeah, I think De Niro is an artist.
How about yourself in that regard?
I don't think about it. I don't think
about myself like that.
I forgot my line.
So, uh, the director wrote them down for me. I just wanna,
Under Robert and Kun
Henry Fonda's performances always carry a special dignity
that shows us that there is no such thing as a small
or unimportant person.
I never think about Oscar. Did
You ever feel cheated?
That you never got the Oscar st?
No. No. It would embarrass me.
Getting the special officer for last year
was more difficult.
They wouldn't stop applauding.
They was standing ovation
and they wouldn't, they wouldn't stop.
And I just kept standing there with Bob Redford for
what seemed like five minutes and
before I could say a few words.
Everybody knows how I feel about the Oscar
and yet getting it the way I was is all right.
They're not telling you that you were the best this year.
You were better than Al Pacino, Robert Janero and who else?
It was for a body of work
and that that was an honor.
I appreciated that.
Henry, you have honored us over the years with your work
and it pleases us here tonight to be able to honor you
with our appreciation and this special Oscar.
Thank you Robert. Thank you.
And ya nun
as best actor on Triton
And the winner is Henry Fonda.
Would you attend the Oscar ceremonies this coming time?
If your picture is nominated,
I will not be there
and put up with that ship that, uh,
I watch it on tv. No way.
I know that he's watching right now
and I know that he's very, very honored and very happy
and surprised and I'll bet when he heard it just now,
I bet he said, Hey, ain't I lucky
as though luck had anything to do with it, dad, me
and all the grandchildren are coming
over with it right away.
This house does Henry fond
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Then so
Do you fear death?
Do I what? Fear. Fear Death? No.
Have you thought about it? No.
I am Henry
in Nebraska.
The president, the
man is nobody.
Nobody Fond
checked him.
And nobody, nobody
Dear. Nobody
dying is not the worst
thing that can happen to a man.
Look at me. I've been dead for three days now
and I finally found my peace.
I've always tried to steer away from trouble,
but you seem to be looking for it all the time.
You can preserve a little of that illusion
that made my generation tick.
Maybe you'll do it in your own funny way,
but we'll be grateful.
Just the same. 'cause looking back
seems to me we were all a bunch of romantic fools
'cause the country ain't the same anymore.
And I'm already feeling a stranger myself.
This is why people like me gotta go
guess I'm talking like a damn preacher.
But it's your fault. What can you expect
of a national monument?
Well, if I've made any sense at all on
the four days that I've talked to you, you should understand
that I don't like myself.
I wish I was, you know, somebody better, smarter.
But look at the chances I've had to play all these
wonderful people and I've been able
to pretend I was those people.
And for somebody that doesn't like himself,
that's uh, that's great therapy.
Do you like yourself more now than,
than in the past or is it always
No, I don't feel I have good answers
to anything.