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00:04:30Well, now, nephew, which one of your many causes
00:04:33brings you out into the snowy night, huh?
00:04:35Some eubangees with the yaws?
00:04:38Some perverted mass murderer who's seen the light
00:04:40and wishes to assume his rightful place in society?
00:04:44As an alternative to the electric chair?
00:04:47No, no, that was, uh, that was last year, wasn't it?
00:04:50What is it this time?
00:04:51A movement to donate the Mississippi River
00:04:53to the Sahara Desert?
00:04:55You can do better than that.
00:04:56Not on a full stomach, I can't.
00:04:58Not before coffee.
00:05:02I'm here about one of your causes.
00:05:05What about Jack Harris?
00:05:07Harris? Jack Harris?
00:05:09I, uh, I don't know the fellow.
00:05:11Professor John Harris?
00:05:14You know him?
00:05:15Look, Fred, we usually wind up our little discussions
00:05:18yelling at each other.
00:05:19Now, let's get a quiet start this time, all right?
00:05:23Jack just called me.
00:05:24The university board of trustees cancelled his credentials
00:05:27for the cultural exchange program.
00:05:30Ah, yes, yes, that Harris.
00:05:31Yes, I, uh, I heard that decision.
00:05:33It was your decision.
00:05:34You just said it was the trustees.
00:05:36I'm not even on the board.
00:05:37The words were theirs,
00:05:38but the voice belonged to a high-powered ventriloquist
00:05:40named Daniel Grudge.
00:05:41You sit here at that desk,
00:05:42throw your voice through a telephone,
00:05:44everybody jumps.
00:05:45Bankers, politicians, newspapers, universities.
00:05:48Coffee is cold.
00:05:50Now, why should a little thing like this
00:05:52sit so heavily in your tender tummy, Fred?
00:05:54Little thing?
00:05:55Uncle Dan,
00:05:56you know what this project has meant to all of us on the faculty,
00:05:59to the whole university.
00:06:00Everything from the raising of our own pedagogical standards
00:06:03to international recognition to...
00:06:06We've worked on it for an entire year.
00:06:08It's been cleared by Washington, cleared by the other end,
00:06:11and now you come along to dump it all.
00:06:13Why?
00:06:20Why should you object
00:06:21if one of our professors spends a year
00:06:23studying and teaching abroad?
00:06:26Yes, abroad.
00:06:29Poland, wasn't it?
00:06:31Your Professor Harris
00:06:32was to spend a year in Poland
00:06:34at the University of Krakow, was it not?
00:06:37Stop asking me questions you know the answer to.
00:06:40You care for a drink?
00:06:41No, thanks.
00:06:43And in exchange for our Professor Harris,
00:06:45the University of Krakow in Poland
00:06:47would send to our university one of their boys,
00:06:50whose name, even if I knew what it was,
00:06:52is probably unpronounceable.
00:06:54Of course, Leniowski,
00:06:55it's really quite easily pronounced.
00:06:57And that's what's known these days as a cultural exchange.
00:07:01You know, Fred,
00:07:02for a fairly talented professor of history,
00:07:04you seem to be a little naive
00:07:06as to the current political climate
00:07:08of the native country of this professor,
00:07:10whatever his name is.
00:07:11Are you serious?
00:07:13Stop asking me questions you know the answers to, nephew.
00:07:16You know what he teaches.
00:07:17You know what courses he teaches.
00:07:19Do you know what Korzeniowski and Harris both teach?
00:07:2118th century European literature.
00:07:23What's that got to do with politics?
00:07:26I don't know.
00:07:27And I'm not interested in finding out.
00:07:30Get smart, boy.
00:07:31We've been digging his kind out of the woodwork for years.
00:07:34You don't really expect me to be a party
00:07:36to inviting one of them in here now, do you?
00:07:38Ah, no.
00:07:40No, he stays on his side of the fence
00:07:41and Harris stays on ours.
00:07:43Get used to the idea.
00:07:45When you finally go,
00:07:46that'll be your epitaph, won't it?
00:07:49Here lies Daniel Grudge on his side of the fence.
00:07:53Well, get used to this idea, Uncle.
00:07:55There are certain fences the world can no longer afford.
00:07:59Quite a wall through Berlin, I've heard, Al.
00:08:02Exactly.
00:08:03A fence.
00:08:04And who put it there?
00:08:05You think it's right?
00:08:08All right, Fred.
00:08:09Turn it off.
00:08:10Right now.
00:08:13There's only one side I'm on.
00:08:16First, last, and always.
00:08:19Our side.
00:08:21Don't you ever forget that.
00:08:22And spread it around.
00:08:24I want all the members
00:08:25of your various domestic and international orders
00:08:27of the bleeding heart
00:08:28to know precisely where Daniel Grudge stands.
00:08:31Because any time you
00:08:32and or one of your fuzzy fellow do-gooders
00:08:35tries to get me
00:08:37or friends of mine
00:08:38or my city, state, or my country
00:08:40involved in any of your so-called causes,
00:08:43then I intend to be there every time
00:08:44with a body block
00:08:45that'll throw all of you flat on your
00:08:47involved butts.
00:08:49Now get out.
00:08:56Now get out.
00:09:07Merry Christmas, by the way.
00:09:13Yes, so it is.
00:09:15And tonight, especially tonight,
00:09:17I am in no mood for the brotherhood of man.
00:09:20You mind?
00:09:23I've heard that speech.
00:09:25And heard it.
00:09:27Oh, I've had it with you, Fred.
00:09:28With all of you, I've had it.
00:09:30Right up to here.
00:09:31Mind your own business.
00:09:33And let everybody else mind theirs.
00:09:36Your responsibility
00:09:37happens to be your classroom.
00:09:39Not classrooms in Krakow, Poland,
00:09:41Butte, Montana,
00:09:42or Johannesburg, South Africa.
00:09:45Do you insist upon making
00:09:46it a better world?
00:09:48Won't you die happy until you do?
00:09:50Do you insist upon
00:09:51helping the needy and oppressed?
00:09:54Is that some kind of a niche
00:09:55that you can't stop scratching?
00:09:58Then tell them to help themselves.
00:10:00Let them know the cash drawer is closed
00:10:01and make them believe it.
00:10:03You'll be surprised how much less
00:10:04needy and oppressed
00:10:05the needy and oppressed turn out to be.
00:10:08But you've heard that one before.
00:10:10And heard it.
00:10:12Now, I can't change you.
00:10:14And you can't change me.
00:10:16So just stay out of my way, Fred.
00:10:19Out of my house
00:10:21and out of my life.
00:10:29Uncle Dan.
00:10:33Uncle Dan, this is Christmas Eve.
00:10:36A very special night
00:10:37apart from everything else.
00:10:39For you and for me.
00:10:42All my life we've
00:10:43disagreed about most things
00:10:45you and I.
00:10:47But there's one thing
00:10:48we both have in common.
00:10:51Someone we care the world about.
00:10:54Your son.
00:10:56My cousin, Marley.
00:11:01May I have that drink now?
00:11:38There's one solitary thing
00:11:39on this earth that I cared
00:11:40anything at all for.
00:11:43And to what end?
00:11:45So that his life
00:11:46could be snuffed out.
00:11:48His fine young body
00:11:49turned into a bundle
00:11:50of bleeding garbage.
00:11:53In return for which
00:11:54I'm sent his dog tags,
00:11:56some medals
00:11:57and a 12-word telegram.
00:12:00Something for something.
00:12:05I give them a son
00:12:07and they give me back his effects.
00:12:11And that, I submit to you,
00:12:12is a lousy bargain.
00:12:13Nobody could argue that.
00:12:15The point is
00:12:16that kind of bargaining
00:12:17has got to stop.
00:12:22Oh.
00:12:24And who's gonna stop it?
00:12:26Armies of professional
00:12:27plea coppers like you?
00:12:30Your kind mouth
00:12:31the platitudes that get us
00:12:32into war?
00:12:34His kind go off
00:12:35to fight them.
00:12:37You might raise that point
00:12:38with one of your debating
00:12:39societies.
00:12:41The point that every two
00:12:42decades we seem to pay
00:12:43for your indiscriminate
00:12:44affections with the
00:12:45lives of our sons.
00:12:47Those indiscriminate
00:12:48affections, as you put it,
00:12:50is simply the acknowledgement
00:12:51that all men have sons.
00:12:53That grief for the
00:12:54unnecessary debt is not
00:12:55exclusive to this country,
00:12:56this town,
00:12:57or to the house of grudge.
00:12:58Mine is exclusive.
00:13:00It concerns me.
00:13:01Forgive me, Uncle Dan.
00:13:03But I feel you mourn
00:13:04the death of Marley
00:13:05less than you mourn
00:13:06your personal loss of him.
00:13:09You keep his room
00:13:10like a shrine.
00:13:11You keep a place for him
00:13:12at dinner each Christmas Eve
00:13:13because he died on
00:13:14Christmas Eve.
00:13:15Those things are for you,
00:13:16not for him.
00:13:18Who cares who they're for?
00:13:19I'm the one who
00:13:20feels the pain.
00:13:22And you'll go on feeling it,
00:13:23nursing it even,
00:13:24until you realize
00:13:25the true tragedy,
00:13:26the tragic insanity
00:13:27of Marley's death.
00:13:29Not that your son
00:13:30was killed by another
00:13:31man's son,
00:13:32but that mankind
00:13:33still allows such
00:13:34dying to happen.
00:13:36It wasn't his war.
00:13:37No war is anybody's war.
00:13:39I'm not talking about anybody.
00:13:41How do we stay out?
00:13:42By getting ourselves
00:13:43involved with the same people,
00:13:44the same problems,
00:13:45the same places?
00:13:46None of them are business?
00:13:48Is that your answer?
00:13:49Involvement?
00:13:51A hop-head's pipe dream
00:13:52in which everybody,
00:13:53yellow, black, and white
00:13:54gets thrown into one pot?
00:13:56And now comes a stew
00:13:57called world brotherhood,
00:13:59in which mankind lives
00:14:00forever in peace
00:14:01and putrefaction.
00:14:03Is that your answer?
00:14:05Oh, not even close.
00:14:07That's the way
00:14:08you keep putting it.
00:14:09Maybe for some
00:14:10very private reason
00:14:11you have to keep telling it
00:14:12to yourself that way.
00:14:14At any rate,
00:14:15as you said,
00:14:16I sure couldn't change you.
00:14:18Thanks for the drink.
00:14:20And I have a Christmas
00:14:21present for you, Fred.
00:14:23Call it a contribution,
00:14:24if you like,
00:14:25to all your causes,
00:14:26involvements, exchanges,
00:14:27cultural and otherwise,
00:14:29whatever terms you apply
00:14:30to international freeloading
00:14:31on our pocketbook.
00:14:33If you have this
00:14:34overpowering concern
00:14:35for everybody everywhere
00:14:36in the world,
00:14:37here's your answer.
00:14:38Just you put your effort,
00:14:39sweat and faith
00:14:40into developing
00:14:41the fastest bombers
00:14:42and the most powerful
00:14:43missiles on earth.
00:14:44They'll provide
00:14:45a lot more security
00:14:46for our young
00:14:47and for the rest
00:14:48of the world's young
00:14:49than all your debating
00:14:50societies, forums,
00:14:51treaties, pacts
00:14:52and other forms
00:14:53of surrender and hand out.
00:14:54Excuse me.
00:14:57That's quite an answer,
00:14:58Uncle Dan, for today.
00:15:00But what about tomorrow?
00:15:01Of course you'll grant
00:15:02all other nations
00:15:03an equal right to put their
00:15:04faith and sweat and effort
00:15:06in trying to make their
00:15:07bombs faster and more
00:15:08powerful than ours.
00:15:10Just let them try it.
00:15:12Each behind its own fence.
00:15:14Each capable eventually
00:15:16of destroying everything
00:15:17and everybody else.
00:15:19And each uninvolved
00:15:20with the other.
00:15:22Uninvolved with us?
00:15:23I'll settle for that.
00:15:24Just let them know
00:15:25we have the biggest
00:15:26and the fastest.
00:15:27Just let them know
00:15:28we're not too chicken
00:15:29to use them.
00:15:30Peace on earth,
00:15:31goodwill to men.
00:15:33To all men, by the way.
00:16:00Marley?
00:16:30Marley?
00:17:00You hear anything?
00:17:03I asked you,
00:17:04did you hear anything?
00:17:05Like what?
00:17:10Are you all right, sir?
00:17:30She just loves to dance
00:17:32And she's just what she is
00:17:34Oh no!
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00:19:17What do you say, Chief?
00:19:19You're Grudge, huh?
00:19:20Daniel Grudge, right?
00:19:22Where, uh...
00:19:26What is this,
00:19:27some kind of a
00:19:28troop transport?
00:19:31Yeah, you might call it that.
00:19:33On its way.
00:19:34From France?
00:19:36One of our stops.
00:19:38Or where else?
00:19:40You name it.
00:19:44Meet the troops.
00:19:46They're dead.
00:19:49Killed in action.
00:19:51Chateau Thierry,
00:19:52Belleau Wood, Le Mans.
00:19:54How are you gonna keep them
00:19:55down on the farm
00:19:56after they've seen Paris?
00:19:59They saw Paris.
00:20:01Very briefly.
00:20:04Lafayette?
00:20:05They were there.
00:20:08You talk like the A.E.F.
00:20:10What's your name?
00:20:12I'm all the A.E.F.'s.
00:20:14Also B.E.F.'s,
00:20:15the Poilus,
00:20:16the Huns,
00:20:17the Ruskies, etc.
00:20:19Gallipoli,
00:20:20the Crimea,
00:20:21even Waterloo,
00:20:22if you care to go back that far.
00:20:24You get the picture, Chief?
00:20:26I'm all of them.
00:20:28I'm the one who rallied
00:20:29around the flag.
00:20:30Any flag.
00:20:31All flags.
00:20:33See what I mean?
00:20:35Yeah.
00:20:36Yeah, no names
00:20:37and all names, huh?
00:20:38You know,
00:20:40I haven't heard that one
00:20:41since the radio programs
00:20:42in the 30s.
00:20:44Your name is
00:20:45Joe,
00:20:46Tony,
00:20:47Izzy,
00:20:48Pat,
00:20:49all one and the same.
00:20:51America the melting pot,
00:20:52right?
00:20:53Wrong.
00:20:55I'm not getting across
00:20:56to you, I can see that.
00:20:58Who said only America's part?
00:21:00I'm the dead,
00:21:01all the dead.
00:21:03We're quite a stew,
00:21:05you'll have to admit.
00:21:06Still,
00:21:08nameless as I am,
00:21:09I've got a terrific title.
00:21:11The Ghost of Christmas Past.
00:21:14How's that hit you?
00:21:16It doesn't.
00:21:18I don't look like a ghost, huh?
00:21:21You want to make your point?
00:21:22It's damp out here
00:21:23and I'm uncomfortable.
00:21:24Uncomfortable?
00:21:25You, Chief?
00:21:27I've been given to understand
00:21:28you were an old salt.
00:21:29That was 20 years ago
00:21:30when I was in the Navy.
00:21:32I'm afraid you still
00:21:33don't come for any more.
00:21:34Not 20 years ago,
00:21:3620 years from now.
00:21:39This is 1918, capisce?
00:21:44It was a long war
00:21:45for some of these boys
00:21:47and short for some.
00:21:49And a short life for ours.
00:21:51Which ones were yours?
00:21:53Can you pick them out?
00:21:57Yeah, we didn't belong
00:21:58in that one either.
00:22:01You know,
00:22:02we didn't belong either.
00:22:06Made the world safer democracy,
00:22:07did they?
00:22:09That's what they were told.
00:22:11They sure as hell gave it a try.
00:22:15They change the hats,
00:22:17they update the slogans
00:22:18but it's the same old shell game.
00:22:20Like clockwork.
00:22:21Every 20 years
00:22:22somebody rings a fire bell
00:22:2310,000 miles away
00:22:25and out comes Uncle Sam's
00:22:26expeditionary sucker brigade.
00:22:29Is that what they are?
00:22:30Suckers?
00:22:35Is that what your son's
00:22:36going to be?
00:22:37My son?
00:22:42My son?
00:22:44My son will be a victim
00:22:46just as these men are victims
00:22:48of somebody else's war.
00:22:52You kill me, Chief,
00:22:53you really do.
00:22:54If it isn't Valley Forge
00:22:55or the Boston Tea Party
00:22:56you leave it strictly alone.
00:22:58Your big gripe is what?
00:23:00Every 20 years
00:23:01American boys got to
00:23:02climb on troop ships
00:23:03and head off to someplace else?
00:23:04It rubs you raw.
00:23:05So what else is new?
00:23:0860,000 limeys
00:23:09die in Flanders.
00:23:11100,000 frogs
00:23:12catch it if we're done.
00:23:14The Germans march
00:23:15through Belgium
00:23:16and Austria declares
00:23:17war on Japan.
00:23:18But who cares?
00:23:19It's a nice summer.
00:23:21Yeah, Boston's going
00:23:22to win the World Series.
00:23:24So we'll rock on the front porch
00:23:25and swat flies.
00:23:27Do I, uh,
00:23:28translate you right, Chief?
00:23:31Better than American blood.
00:23:32Infinitely better
00:23:33than American blood.
00:23:34Amen, I grant you.
00:23:36If it were possible.
00:23:38But it ain't possible.
00:23:40War is also
00:23:41a contagious disease,
00:23:42Mr. G.
00:23:43And until we can
00:23:44stamp it out...
00:23:45Nobody...
00:23:46Nobody ever found a way
00:23:47to do that.
00:23:48Right.
00:23:49But is that any reason
00:23:50to stop trying?
00:23:52The one thing we do know
00:23:54the only chance to keep
00:23:55this particular disease
00:23:56from spreading
00:23:57is to keep talking.
00:24:00So long as you talk
00:24:01you don't fight.
00:24:02Simple.
00:24:04Look,
00:24:05I bump a guy in the street.
00:24:07He bumps me.
00:24:08We stand there, we argue.
00:24:10He gives me lip,
00:24:11I give him lip.
00:24:12But when we stop talking
00:24:13we start swinging.
00:24:15And then we bleed.
00:24:18Then we got problems.
00:24:20Like...
00:24:21winding up dead.
00:24:24I recognize the commercial.
00:24:25But it's no sale.
00:24:27I'm not selling you, pal.
00:24:29I'm donating to you.
00:24:30Free of charge.
00:24:33Remember the...
00:24:35Excuse the expression.
00:24:36League of Nations sport?
00:24:38That was going to be
00:24:39the point there.
00:24:40Remember?
00:24:41I would have been opposed
00:24:42to the League of Nations.
00:24:43Of course you would.
00:24:44And you were.
00:24:45So you blew it.
00:24:46Bunch of fancy characters
00:24:47with top hats and monocles.
00:24:49We're not buying any of that.
00:24:50Right, Mr. G.?
00:24:51No sale.
00:24:52We've had it with foreigners.
00:24:53We've had it with...
00:24:54with making the world safe
00:24:55for democracy
00:24:56and the rest of the slogans.
00:24:58So we...
00:25:00tell them to drift.
00:25:02We're sitting this one out.
00:25:04That's how you keep
00:25:05wars from happening,
00:25:06right, Grudge?
00:25:08Don't get involved.
00:25:10Right?
00:25:13Well, is it?
00:25:15Tell them.
00:25:16They'd like to know.
00:25:18Wasn't that how you kept
00:25:19the world from a second world war?
00:25:20Uninvolvement?
00:25:21Stay isolated?
00:25:22Wasn't that how?
00:25:24Well, tell them!
00:25:26Well, obviously,
00:25:27if we hadn't become involved,
00:25:28why, they wouldn't be here.
00:25:30No, they...
00:25:31they wouldn't be here.
00:25:33They'd be back
00:25:34in their hometowns.
00:25:36What was left of them.
00:25:39Buried right where they fell.
00:25:49Another ship?
00:25:51Also on her way.
00:25:54I can just make out the deck.
00:26:24Those are American soldiers
00:26:47from my war.
00:26:50Nicely put, Chief.
00:26:51They're the sons.
00:26:54These are the fathers.
00:26:58Yeah, after 1918,
00:26:59we got sick of war.
00:27:01Fed up.
00:27:02All those American kids
00:27:03getting blown to pieces.
00:27:04Out of sight
00:27:05in foreign places
00:27:06with strange-sounding names.
00:27:08So, for the next 20 years,
00:27:09we closed our eyes
00:27:10and decided what we couldn't see
00:27:12wouldn't happen.
00:27:13Right?
00:27:15Of course, we don't want
00:27:16to take all the credit.
00:27:17Do we?
00:27:18I mean,
00:27:19we weren't the only ones
00:27:20playing shut-eye.
00:27:23When old Adolf
00:27:24walked into the Rhineland,
00:27:25France didn't want
00:27:26to get involved.
00:27:28Italy pulled down
00:27:29a window shade
00:27:30when Hitler took Austria.
00:27:32England wasn't about
00:27:33to involve herself
00:27:34when Czechoslovakia went under.
00:27:35And Russia kept
00:27:36their phone off the hook
00:27:37while Poland was destroyed.
00:27:38And before you knew it,
00:27:39everybody was singing
00:27:40Don't Rock the Boat
00:27:42while it sank
00:27:43slowly to the bottom.
00:27:46So, they died
00:27:47at other places
00:27:48on other dates.
00:27:50Don't you tell me
00:27:51you're not selling anything.
00:27:54Now, you listen to me.
00:27:55Nobody,
00:27:56nobody, mortal man
00:27:57or dressed-up ghost
00:27:58can convince me
00:27:59that every time there's a war
00:28:00we have to step in
00:28:01and finish it.
00:28:02Now, you listen to this.
00:28:03The next one,
00:28:04the next one
00:28:05we don't bring up the bucket.
00:28:07We stay home.
00:28:08We stay on our side
00:28:09of the fence.
00:28:10Talk about your
00:28:11old-time radio shows.
00:28:12Seems to me
00:28:13I heard that one before, too.
00:28:15Hey, you want to know
00:28:16something, pal?
00:28:17That ocean you call a fence
00:28:18keeps nothing out anymore.
00:28:20Except fish.
00:28:22It's a lousy stream
00:28:23of water now.
00:28:24It's about as wide as a ditch.
00:28:26A couple of supersonic bombers
00:28:27can spit over it.
00:28:29And I see a BM
00:28:30will leave it behind.
00:28:32You don't want to get involved,
00:28:33sport.
00:28:34You got a job out of you.
00:28:35You really got a job.
00:28:37You got to disinvent
00:28:38the airplane
00:28:39and the missile
00:28:40and the submarine
00:28:41and a little old thing
00:28:42called the bomb.
00:28:45It.
00:28:47See what I mean?
00:28:48You don't want to get involved.
00:28:49You got to give back
00:28:50the 20th century.
00:28:51If you can find a chump
00:28:52to take it.
00:28:53But isolation?
00:28:55I got news.
00:28:57I went out with gaslight
00:28:58and 50-cent steaks.
00:29:00It's for the dinosaurs,
00:29:01isolation.
00:29:02And closing your eyes,
00:29:04that's for sleeping.
00:29:06Also, at certain times,
00:29:08it leads to dying.
00:29:14Convoy.
00:29:16Hundreds of ships.
00:29:18Thousands of ships.
00:29:20Loaded with boxes, chief.
00:29:23China, Ethiopia,
00:29:24Spain, Latvia, Hungary.
00:29:26Undeclared wars.
00:29:28Police actions.
00:29:30Some minor league insurrections.
00:29:33All the way back, chief.
00:29:35All the way back
00:29:36as far as anyone can remember.
00:29:38And still farther.
00:29:40But it all boils down to
00:29:42somebody stopped talking.
00:29:44So they fought.
00:29:45So they bled.
00:29:48So they died.
00:30:01Hey, wouldn't you think, sport,
00:30:03with all the brains we got
00:30:04on this earth,
00:30:06the way we build things
00:30:07and cure things
00:30:09and invent stuff on Tuesday
00:30:10that wasn't possible on Monday,
00:30:12wouldn't you think we could
00:30:13come up with something
00:30:14that could keep a kid
00:30:16from getting killed
00:30:17at the age of 18?
00:30:44Roast.
00:30:47Sir?
00:30:50Where did they go?
00:30:51The ships, I mean.
00:30:53Where did they go?
00:30:55Nowhere.
00:30:56Like I said, just
00:30:58on their way.
00:31:01Why, Mr. Grudge?
00:31:03You want to throw a wreath
00:31:04or something?
00:31:08I don't know.
00:31:10I don't know.
00:31:11You want to throw a wreath or something?
00:31:17We've reached your port,
00:31:18Mr. Grudge.
00:31:19This is where we get off.
00:31:25In here.
00:31:26What's in there?
00:31:28A place you should remember.
00:31:30A place,
00:31:32a foreign place
00:31:33you had a feeling about one time.
00:31:36I doubt it.
00:31:37Do you, Chief?
00:31:39Well, maybe you just
00:31:40feel good.
00:31:41Not only where you've been,
00:31:43even what you say.
00:31:45Like, let them know
00:31:46we're not too chicken
00:31:47to use that bomb.
00:31:53They already know that,
00:31:54Mr. Grudge.
00:32:10Hiroshima
00:32:29Do you remember any better, Grudge?
00:32:32Hiroshima, right?
00:32:35Hiroshima.
00:32:38I was here
00:32:39in September 1945.
00:32:42I was off my ship.
00:32:43I came here.
00:32:45Of course, this is only
00:32:46your memory of it.
00:32:48It wasn't quite as clean
00:32:49as you remember.
00:32:52Oh, they did quite a job.
00:32:54They cleared away
00:32:55all the dead real quick.
00:32:58They only left the
00:33:00silence.
00:33:09Hiroshima
00:33:16Do you recognize the officer,
00:33:17Chief?
00:33:23Why, it's me.
00:33:25It's me 20 years ago.
00:33:28It's me when I came here
00:33:29that afternoon.
00:33:32A daffy trick's memory plays.
00:33:36Some things we think we forgot.
00:33:38We only misplace.
00:33:47Would you like to get
00:33:48out here, sir?
00:34:04Good morning.
00:34:06Do you speak English?
00:34:08Yes, Commander.
00:34:09I do.
00:34:10Grudge is my name.
00:34:12My cruise is in Yokohama.
00:34:14This is Lieutenant Gibson.
00:34:15She's attached to
00:34:16our headquarters there.
00:34:17Tell me, Doctor,
00:34:18who has that lovely voice?
00:34:20That is Sachiko.
00:34:22It means child of happiness.
00:34:24Sachiko.
00:34:27Doctor, was she...
00:34:28She was one of the
00:34:29group of schoolgirls.
00:34:30They were clearing away
00:34:31fire lanes when the bomb fell.
00:34:34Would you care to meet them?
00:34:35They're very lonely here.
00:34:36They enjoy company.
00:34:46I must tell you that
00:34:48when the plane flew overhead,
00:34:50these children
00:34:51looked up at the sky.
00:34:53Their faces were
00:34:54upturned to the blast.
00:34:56They suffered what we
00:34:57call flash burns.
00:34:59It is a term we used
00:35:00to describe instantaneous
00:35:01thermal radiation.
00:35:04How badly were they burned?
00:35:05They have no more faces,
00:35:06Commander.
00:35:24It's all right.
00:35:27These people
00:35:28only came to say hello.
00:35:32To the young ladies
00:35:33at your American naval
00:35:34offices, and you've
00:35:35come to wish them well.
00:35:57Doctor, I know
00:35:58it's not much consolation,
00:35:59but at least we can
00:36:00hope that their children
00:36:01will be safe.
00:36:03Children, Commander?
00:36:05These girls?
00:36:12Excuse me.
00:36:21Lieutenant.
00:36:24Sir.
00:36:25Never seen a burn
00:36:26case before?
00:36:28Several times, sir.
00:36:30I was at the Bethesda
00:36:31Naval Hospital.
00:36:33I was there
00:36:34after Coral Sea,
00:36:35after Midway,
00:36:36after Samar.
00:36:37I saw a lot
00:36:38of burn cases.
00:36:40And when you saw them,
00:36:41did you run?
00:36:44The burn cases I saw
00:36:45were American sailors,
00:36:46Commander.
00:36:47They had been fighting
00:36:48an enemy.
00:36:49They weren't school children.
00:36:51The distinction is
00:36:52most subtle, sir.
00:36:53I'll give you that.
00:36:55But by God,
00:36:56there is a difference.
00:37:01What about the kids
00:37:02flying up toward the sky?
00:37:04Or Malayan kids?
00:37:05Or Chinese kids?
00:37:07Sympathize all you want, Lieutenant,
00:37:08but keep your perspective.
00:37:10The President of the United States
00:37:11found it necessary
00:37:12to drop that bomb
00:37:13because there would have been
00:37:14500,000 American casualties
00:37:15and a couple of million
00:37:16Japanese dead
00:37:17had he not dropped it.
00:37:20Harsh as it may sound,
00:37:21in my book,
00:37:22that makes
00:37:23simple arithmetic.
00:37:27Commander, I wouldn't
00:37:28debate military planning
00:37:29with you.
00:37:30I'm just suggesting that
00:37:32we are standing in the middle
00:37:33of what was once a city.
00:37:36For on one given morning,
00:37:37100,000 people were killed.
00:37:40People, Commander?
00:37:43That's almost
00:37:44as many deaths
00:37:45as the Confederates had
00:37:46in four years of Civil War.
00:37:51Quite apart
00:37:52from anything else, sir.
00:37:55Doesn't that suggest to you
00:37:56that
00:37:58from this second on,
00:38:00if the world ever decided
00:38:02to go to war again,
00:38:04it could kill itself off
00:38:05in a couple of afternoons?
00:38:10Doesn't it suggest, sir,
00:38:11that
00:38:13maybe,
00:38:15maybe war is obsolete now?
00:38:19Just,
00:38:21just do me one favor,
00:38:22would you please, Commander?
00:38:25Don't call it arithmetic
00:38:26anymore.
00:38:30♪
00:38:56Where'd you go?
00:38:57Where'd you go?
00:39:00Where'd you go?
00:39:03The school.
00:39:06Toshiko and Fujiko
00:39:07were his sisters.
00:39:09That's where they were
00:39:10that morning.
00:39:11♪
00:39:31Whenever there's thunder now,
00:39:32they always remember.
00:39:33♪
00:39:43Oh, dear God.
00:39:44Oh, dear God.
00:40:02Look, son,
00:40:03you take it easy, huh?
00:40:05Everything's gonna be all right.
00:40:07You understand me?
00:40:08Huh?
00:40:10It's just a little thunder.
00:40:12Come on, give me a smile.
00:40:14Come on, a little more.
00:40:16That a boy.
00:40:44If our enemy be hungry,
00:40:46give him bread to eat.
00:40:49If he be thirsty,
00:40:50give him water to drink.
00:40:54Your enemy thanks you,
00:40:55Commander.
00:41:00If our enemy be hungry,
00:41:02give him bread to eat.
00:41:04If he be thirsty,
00:41:05give him water to drink.
00:41:08Your enemy thanks you,
00:41:09Commander.
00:41:14♪
00:41:38It's starting to rain,
00:41:39Mr. Grudge.
00:41:41I remember the rain.
00:41:44A yellow child
00:41:45is a black child
00:41:46is a white child
00:41:47is a child.
00:41:49Can we agree to that much?
00:41:55Where to now?
00:41:57Through there, Mr. Grudge.
00:42:00Oh, I've been there.
00:42:02This time,
00:42:03it's another place.
00:42:05Like every place
00:42:06is another place.
00:42:07Like every place
00:42:08is another place.
00:42:25Are you coming with me?
00:42:27No, sir.
00:42:29I'm then.
00:42:30In there is now.
00:42:37♪
00:43:07♪
00:43:37♪
00:43:56Grudge, isn't it?
00:43:59Daniel Grudge.
00:44:01Join me in a snack,
00:44:02won't you?
00:44:03A potluck, I'm afraid.
00:44:04This table,
00:44:05my chandelier.
00:44:07You have an eye
00:44:08for possessions.
00:44:09Glad to see it.
00:44:10Little turkey,
00:44:11Mr. Grudge?
00:44:13Drumstick?
00:44:14Wing?
00:44:15Baked ham, perhaps?
00:44:17Candied yams?
00:44:18Suckling pig?
00:44:20I find myself
00:44:21overeating at Christmas.
00:44:23Thanksgiving, too.
00:44:24A tradition
00:44:25of overeating, as it were.
00:44:27You don't make sense to me.
00:44:30My apologies,
00:44:31Mr. Grudge.
00:44:32I thought you knew.
00:44:33I'm the ghost
00:44:34of Christmas present.
00:44:38Representing what?
00:44:39Gluttony?
00:44:42If you like.
00:44:44No, I...
00:44:45I represent the human race,
00:44:47Mr. Grudge.
00:44:48So to a certain extent
00:44:49as gluttony.
00:44:51Also starvation.
00:44:52I represent that, too.
00:44:54You might say
00:44:55that I'm as close to being
00:44:56a walking, eating image
00:44:58of the human race
00:44:59as it's possible
00:45:00for a man or phantom
00:45:01to be.
00:45:03Part of me
00:45:04feels annoying hunger.
00:45:06Part of me is satiated.
00:45:08I'm warm,
00:45:09contented, healthy.
00:45:13But much of me
00:45:14shivers in the cold.
00:45:17Now I understand.
00:45:19This is where I get
00:45:20my lecture about
00:45:21the haves and the have-nots.
00:45:23Mankind includes
00:45:24extremes, Mr. Grudge.
00:45:26Extremes.
00:45:27It's some people
00:45:28living alone
00:45:29in a 24-room house
00:45:31and 24 others
00:45:32living in one room.
00:45:34Some eating
00:45:35high off the hog
00:45:38and some
00:45:41simply not eating at all.
00:45:47Not at all.
00:46:02Displaced persons.
00:46:04Today,
00:46:05more than 20 years
00:46:06after...
00:46:07Quite a few of them.
00:46:08Still around.
00:46:09The barbed wire set.
00:46:13How can you eat
00:46:14like this when you know
00:46:15that they're right there
00:46:16staring at you?
00:46:18Why not?
00:46:19Oh, it takes a special breed
00:46:20to stuff himself
00:46:21in front of starvation.
00:46:22You get the point there,
00:46:23old boy.
00:46:24You're really
00:46:25getting the point.
00:46:26You're really getting
00:46:27the point.
00:46:28You're really getting
00:46:29the point.
00:46:30You get the point there,
00:46:31old boy.
00:46:32You really did.
00:46:34It takes a special breed
00:46:35indeed.
00:46:36But you see,
00:46:37I don't happen to be
00:46:38a breed, Mr. Grudge.
00:46:39I'm a ghost.
00:46:41I don't have a heart.
00:46:42I don't have a soul.
00:46:43No nerve endings.
00:46:44No brain center.
00:46:46I'm just a reflection.
00:46:48But then I've already
00:46:49told you that.
00:46:50Shall I now tell you
00:46:51how many times
00:46:52you've stuffed yourself
00:46:53while two-thirds
00:46:54of the world
00:46:55starved in a cage?
00:46:57Yeah.
00:47:00Throw on my bone.
00:47:01Don't you talk to me
00:47:02like that.
00:47:03I have feelings.
00:47:04Nothing on this earth
00:47:05could force me to eat
00:47:06while starving people
00:47:07watch my...
00:47:08Watching makes
00:47:09all the difference, what?
00:47:10You never saw them
00:47:11while tearing
00:47:12into your mashed potatoes.
00:47:13They weren't actually there
00:47:15when you buttered
00:47:16your bread.
00:47:20There.
00:47:22Better, Mr. Grudge?
00:47:24Appetite back?
00:47:26Two.
00:47:28Sit down.
00:47:30Sit down.
00:47:33You're gonna have to
00:47:34explain the logic
00:47:35of man to me,
00:47:36Mr. Grudge.
00:47:38For example,
00:47:39tell me how you
00:47:40come about
00:47:41your selective morality.
00:47:43This ease
00:47:44with which you
00:47:45strip off your conscience
00:47:46like an overcoat
00:47:48and let your satisfied belch
00:47:51drown out the hunger cries
00:47:52that fill the air
00:47:54around you.
00:47:56How do you create
00:47:57this exact science
00:47:59whereby you disinvolve yourself
00:48:01from all the anguish
00:48:02of the world
00:48:03that doesn't happen to be
00:48:04in your direct line of vision?
00:48:06Why, it doesn't take
00:48:07a special breed
00:48:08of man at all,
00:48:09Mr. Grudge.
00:48:10That is man
00:48:11in his normal condition.
00:48:13No.
00:48:14No, man isn't cruel.
00:48:16I don't think I'm cruel.
00:48:18But we can't,
00:48:19at least I can't,
00:48:20spend my time
00:48:21grieving because
00:48:22part of the world is rich
00:48:23and part of it is poor.
00:48:25Because part of it has
00:48:26and part of it has not.
00:48:27But when we see,
00:48:29when we actually see
00:48:30human beings in want,
00:48:32we react,
00:48:33we respond.
00:48:36Is that a fact,
00:48:37Mr. Grudge?
00:48:42Do you insist upon
00:48:43making it a better world?
00:48:45Won't you die happy
00:48:46until you do?
00:48:48Do you insist upon
00:48:49helping the needy and oppressed?
00:48:50Then tell them
00:48:51to help themselves.
00:48:52Let them know the cash
00:48:53drawer is closed
00:48:54and make them believe it.
00:48:55You'll be surprised
00:48:56how much less needy and oppressed
00:48:57the needy and oppressed
00:48:58turn out to be.
00:49:08I could need another bite.
00:49:12They make the portions
00:49:15much too big these days.
00:49:26Obsolete materials.
00:49:28Vitamins, calories,
00:49:29small fragments of nutrition.
00:49:32That's not what they want.
00:49:35You tell them, Mr. Grudge.
00:49:37You tell them what it is.
00:49:38It's bombers and missiles,
00:49:40isn't it?
00:49:41Tell them that's
00:49:42their diet for survival.
00:49:44No, no, no.
00:49:45That, that was
00:49:46in a different context.
00:49:47I was talking politics
00:49:48at the time.
00:49:49Politics?
00:49:51You mean
00:49:52you were talking
00:49:53politics?
00:49:54Mr. Grudge,
00:49:55politics?
00:49:57Now grasp this
00:49:58if you can.
00:50:00Humanity
00:50:01is no longer
00:50:02a political thesis.
00:50:03It is not
00:50:04a subject for debate.
00:50:06There are no pros and cons,
00:50:07no arguments and rebuttals.
00:50:10We are talking
00:50:11about human want
00:50:12and human need,
00:50:14and this
00:50:15is a fact of life.
00:50:21And as to your
00:50:22involvement in this,
00:50:23as to your involvement,
00:50:24Mr. Grudge,
00:50:25you are involved, sir,
00:50:26as of the date
00:50:27of your birth.
00:50:28You are all mankind
00:50:31because you are
00:50:32a part of mankind,
00:50:33a willy-nilly,
00:50:34as it were.
00:50:53We are all mankind
00:50:55because we are
00:50:56a willy-nilly,
00:50:57a willy-nilly,
00:50:58a willy-nilly,
00:50:59a willy-nilly,
00:51:00a willy-nilly,
00:51:01a willy-nilly,
00:51:02a willy-nilly,
00:51:03a willy-nilly,
00:51:04a willy-nilly,
00:51:05a willy-nilly,
00:51:06a willy-nilly,
00:51:07a willy-nilly,
00:51:08a willy-nilly,
00:51:09a willy-nilly,
00:51:10a willy-nilly,
00:51:11a willy-nilly,
00:51:12a willy-nilly,
00:51:13a willy-nilly,
00:51:14a willy-nilly,
00:51:15a willy-nilly,
00:51:16a willy-nilly,
00:51:17a willy-nilly,
00:51:18a willy-nilly,
00:51:19a willy-nilly,
00:51:20a willy-nilly,
00:51:21a willy-nilly,
00:51:22a willy-nilly,
00:51:23a willy-nilly,
00:51:24a willy-nilly,
00:51:25a willy-nilly,
00:51:26a willy-nilly,
00:51:27a willy-nilly,
00:51:28a willy-nilly,
00:51:29a willy-nilly,
00:51:30a willy-nilly,
00:51:31a willy-nilly,
00:51:32a willy-nilly,
00:51:33a willy-nilly,
00:51:34a willy-nilly,
00:51:35a willy-nilly,
00:51:36a willy-nilly,
00:51:37a willy-nilly,
00:51:38a willy-nilly,
00:51:39a willy-nilly,
00:51:40a willy-nilly,
00:51:41a willy-nilly,
00:51:42a willy-nilly,
00:51:43adoro al mio,
00:51:48adoro al mio,
00:51:53che ha nascito io.
00:52:02Mankind, Mr. Crutch.
00:52:06In there,
00:52:09the hungry part of mankind,
00:52:12the anguished part,
00:52:15the dispossessed.
00:52:20If you shared a loaf of bread with them,
00:52:22how would you be relinquishing your freedom?
00:52:26Or if you joined other nations to administer vaccinations to their children,
00:52:30how would you have desecrated your flag?
00:52:34Or if you had offered them solace and hope and comfort,
00:52:40how would you have made yourself susceptible to tyranny?
00:52:46What are they singing?
00:52:47Foreign words,
00:52:49but not necessarily conspiracies to destroy you, Mr. Crutch.
00:52:53Just Christmas songs.
00:52:55And of those who do not celebrate Christmas,
00:52:57songs of hope.
00:52:59They sang them in their languages before you did in yours.
00:53:02Your Christmases have just been a lot merrier, that's all.
00:53:06And your hope more of a reality.
00:53:10Are there many like this?
00:53:11Many.
00:53:14Mr. Crutch, many.
00:53:16You'd like it statistically. Would you appreciate that?
00:53:19The clean, calculated order of mathematics.
00:53:23Like how many million tons of wheat are surplus.
00:53:25How many tons of butter rot in warehouses.
00:53:29Well, here it is, Mr. Crutch. Arithmetic.
00:53:31The mathematics of now.
00:53:33Right now, this Christmas.
00:53:35But don't take your eyes off these faces.
00:53:37Keep relating.
00:53:39On this earth, Mr. Crutch, there are 10 million displaced persons.
00:53:44They are without homes, without property, they own nothing.
00:53:48They are stripped of rights, stripped of nationality,
00:53:51barbed wire nomads,
00:53:53whose crime was that they lived in a world that went to war.
00:53:57But don't take your eyes off of them.
00:53:59Keep relating, Mr. Crutch.
00:54:02On this earth, 13 million human beings have tuberculosis.
00:54:08There are 10 million blind.
00:54:11There are 130 million cases of malaria.
00:54:16Today, the present, now on the clock and now on the calendar.
00:54:22Two thirds of the world, Mr. Crutch, go to bed hungry.
00:54:27One half of the earth's population, that's 3 billion people,
00:54:33actually suffer from hunger, from lack of food.
00:54:38Of these, Mr. Crutch, there are 100 million children.
00:54:44No more now.
00:54:45No more now. No more this moment.
00:54:48When, Mr. Crutch?
00:54:50Tomorrow. Thursday.
00:54:52A week from today, will you think about them?
00:54:55A month from today, will you involve yourself?
00:54:58I don't want to see them. I don't want to look at them.
00:55:01Do.
00:55:02Do, Mr. Crutch. Look at them now.
00:55:06Because tomorrow, a week from now, a lot of them won't be around.
00:55:12No more now.
00:55:13I want to get out. I want to go back where I belong. Do you understand?
00:55:17I just want to leave here.
00:55:19Please leave me alone.
00:55:25Please.
00:55:56Fuck.
00:56:03So there you are, Crutch.
00:56:09I was expecting you.
00:56:11I thought you'd be here a bit sooner.
00:56:26Why, this is the meeting hall in our town.
00:56:30That's what it is.
00:56:32This is our town hall.
00:56:35Why is it this way?
00:56:37You're in the future, Mr. Crutch.
00:56:41The future?
00:56:42The world's future.
00:56:44The world's future.
00:56:46The world's future.
00:56:48The world's future.
00:56:50The world's future.
00:56:52The future.
00:56:53The world's future.
00:56:55You've gone on a bit, so to speak.
00:56:58What do you think of the old neighborhood?
00:57:02Our town hall.
00:57:05But what could have done this? What happened here?
00:57:08Time.
00:57:10Time happened here, Mr. Crutch.
00:57:14Attrition, neglect, misuse, a few passing catastrophes.
00:57:20Time.
00:57:23Of little consequence, really.
00:57:25There grew to be less and less need for a meeting place, for a platform for debate.
00:57:30The American town hall, you will remember, Mr. Crutch,
00:57:33was a microcosm of all the meeting halls of the world.
00:57:37Places where men could talk it over.
00:57:41It seems we reached a moment in time when talk became superfluous.
00:57:46So now your town hall is past tense.
00:57:49But then again, if you step outside,
00:57:52you will note that most of what you see is past tense,
00:57:55or rather, most of what you don't see.
00:57:58How far in the future am I?
00:58:00It is a Christmas Eve, a night of December the 24th.
00:58:06The year is not important.
00:58:08Calendars are past tense now also.
00:58:12The clock has stopped.
00:58:14Indeed, the clock is stopped.
00:58:17So has electricity.
00:58:19The fact is, there are so few people around, the loss is hardly noticed.
00:58:26Why?
00:58:33Comprehending, are you, Mr. Crutch?
00:58:36There was a war.
00:58:37A dandy.
00:58:39When?
00:58:40When? On Doomsday.
00:58:42We don't have dates now, but that's how it's remembered.
00:58:45The exact hour hardly matters, does it?
00:58:47It seemed, at a given moment, we thought that they'd dropped some bombs,
00:58:52or they thought we'd dropped some bombs.
00:58:55Anyway, somebody thought somebody had dropped some bombs.
00:58:58By then, of course, everybody had the bomb.
00:59:00They'd all been wanting it, you remember?
00:59:02It got so with no controls that nobody was really anybody if they didn't have the bomb.
00:59:08What you see before you, Mr. Crutch,
00:59:11is a tiny part of a big, round, radioactive mud-burying ground.
00:59:18Is it all like this? Is the whole world a burying ground?
00:59:21All of it.
00:59:22All of the towns and all of the meeting places in all of the countries of the world,
00:59:28just like this.
00:59:31Did no one speak out? Was there no single voice of reason?
00:59:38But what about the United Nations?
00:59:42It was supposed to keep the peace.
00:59:44The United?
00:59:46Oh, that town meeting hall.
00:59:50Oh, yes, well, that went some time back, I'm afraid.
00:59:52You see, they dropped out.
00:59:54Or maybe we dropped out.
00:59:56Anyway, somebody dropped out, and pretty soon everybody was dropping or had dropped out.
01:00:01And before anybody knew it, the talking had stopped.
01:00:08But there were voices, Mr. Crutch.
01:00:12The world didn't lack for sound.
01:00:14Behind each separate fence, each separate wall,
01:00:18came screams of anger, suspicion, and prejudice.
01:00:21And they grew, and they grew.
01:00:23But there were no answers, remember.
01:00:26No discussion.
01:00:27No place for it.
01:00:28And so, in the end, the world was filled with the noise of hate.
01:00:32And so, in the end, the world was filled with the noise of hate.
01:00:35And inevitably...
01:00:38Ah.
01:01:03The inheriting strong of the earth.
01:01:06The fittest who happened to survive.
01:01:09The leftovers of the crap game after they rolled the H-bomb,
01:01:13and nobody made their point.
01:01:33Oh.
01:01:45Yeah!
01:02:02Yeah!
01:02:33I am the imperial me.
01:02:37The imperial me. Hallelujah!
01:02:41And this is the non-government of the me people.
01:02:47The non-government of the me people. Hallelujah!
01:03:03Now, why don't we just relax and get nice and cozy?
01:03:20Now, folks, the first item on today's agenda is this business.
01:03:27If the people from down yonder and the people from across the river
01:03:32wanted to come in here and talk about what they call our mutual problems.
01:03:42Our common differences.
01:03:47Now, they want to talk, talk, talk, talk, talk about our problems.
01:03:55They want to debate, debate, debate...
01:03:59about solutions.
01:04:01Until somehow they get their problems solved.
01:04:07They want to waste our time.
01:04:10They want us to commit ourselves to that kind of surrender.
01:04:15Abortion! Abortion!
01:04:18Take the Aussie!
01:04:21They're insane.
01:04:24Abortion! Abortion!
01:04:30Now then.
01:04:33They don't come out in so many words and say that they want to take us over.
01:04:38They're too clever for that.
01:04:41But that's what they want.
01:04:44They want to take over us individual me's.
01:04:48And if we let them seep in here from down yonder and across the river.
01:04:53If we let these do-gooders, these bleeding hearts
01:04:58propagate their insidious doctrine of involvement among us.
01:05:03Then my dear friend, my beloved me's.
01:05:08We's in trouble.
01:05:11Deep, deep trouble.
01:05:15Because...
01:05:17Because we have now reached a pure state of civilization.
01:05:23The world of the ultimate me is finally within our grasp.
01:05:29It's a world where only the strong will exist.
01:05:33Where only the powerful will love.
01:05:36Where finally the word we, the ultimate me,
01:05:41Where finally the word we will be stamped out and will become I forever.
01:05:50Because we are each the wise.
01:05:55We are each the strong.
01:06:00And we are each the individual me's.
01:06:05Me! Me! Me! Me!
01:06:31That's Charles.
01:06:33Over here, it's Mr. Grunt.
01:06:35He doesn't hear you, he doesn't see you.
01:06:37You're as much a phantom as I am.
01:06:40Me! Me! Me! Me!
01:06:43Me! Me! Me! Me!
01:06:46Me! Me! Me! Me!
01:06:49Me! Me! Me! Me!
01:06:52Now listen! Now!
01:06:55Me! Me! Me! Me!
01:06:58Me! Me! Me! Me!
01:07:02Please! Let me speak!
01:07:11Let him speak.
01:07:17To the best of our knowledge, we are all of humanity who remain alive.
01:07:22All that's left.
01:07:25We have survived the Holocaust.
01:07:27And if we are to go on surviving, we must work together now.
01:07:31We must talk together.
01:07:33And if other people want to join us, if they want to talk with us, we must listen to them.
01:07:42And we must respond to them.
01:07:48We must begin again.
01:07:51We must have law again, and ethics, and honor, and decency.
01:07:58These things were not destroyed by the bomb.
01:08:02But this time they must be made real.
01:08:04They must be made facts.
01:08:07Only these things can guarantee our survival.
01:08:18The potential goodness of man.
01:08:21The potential morality of man.
01:08:23The capability.
01:08:25That's it.
01:08:27The capability of human beings to achieve dignity and decency.
01:08:40Together.
01:08:42Not us.
01:08:44Together.
01:08:46Together.
01:08:48Together.
01:08:50Together.
01:08:52Not I or they.
01:08:55But we.
01:08:57Don't you understand?
01:09:00The only alternative to that is nothing.
01:09:04Don't you see that, people?
01:09:06Don't you see?
01:09:20Don't you see?
01:09:40That's enough. Bring him over here. Come. Bring him over here.
01:09:51You are charged with the treason of involvement.
01:09:57You are charged with the subversion of the individual me.
01:10:03How do you plead?
01:10:05Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:07Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:09Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:11Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:13Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:15Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:17Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:19Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:21Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:23Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:25Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:27Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:29Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:31Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:33Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:35Guilty! Guilty!
01:10:37Do you have anything to say?
01:10:39It's your right as an individual me, you know.
01:10:42Just say anything that comes in your head. You don't have to think about it.
01:10:45Just say it.
01:10:48Oh, you want to use the microphone?
01:11:06I may be all the sanity that is left.
01:11:11I may be all the conscience that remains on earth.
01:11:14I can't let you kill me.
01:11:45Chum.
01:12:06Chum!
01:12:09Chum.
01:12:12Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:14Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:16Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:18Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:20Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:22Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:24Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:26Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:28Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:30Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:32Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:34Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:36Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:38Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:40Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:42Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:44Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:12:46Animals. Miserable, rotten animals.
01:12:48Revelation, Mr. Grudge.
01:12:50Brand new experience for you, is it?
01:12:52Don't you remember people shouting,
01:12:54Jump! Jump! Jump! in your day,
01:12:56closing their windows to screams in the street,
01:12:58hiding behind their newspapers in the subways
01:13:00while their fellow men were being assaulted?
01:13:02And later,
01:13:04while civilization was being raped?
01:13:06Take a good look, Mr. Grudge.
01:13:08Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:10Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:12Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:14Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:16Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:18Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:20Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:22Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:24Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:26Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:28Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:30Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:32Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:34Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:13:36Jump! Jump! Jump!
01:14:06And now, my friends, next on the agenda, we must go out and dispose of those people
01:14:22from down yonder on Cross River who want to come in here and talk.
01:14:27We must dispose of them.
01:14:28You understand?
01:14:29Dispose!
01:14:30Dispose!
01:14:31Dispose!
01:14:33Because we are the individual me's, and we must carry our glorious philosophy through
01:14:41to its glorious culmination, so that the end, with enterprise and determination, the world
01:14:49and everything in it will belong to one individual me, and that'll be the ultimate, the absolute
01:14:57ultimate!
01:14:58So, me's, after we kill the interlopers, the talkers, the involvers, who are on their way
01:15:12here now, we shall then be free to proceed with the most important business of all, which
01:15:21is the killing of each other, until there remains only the one individual me.
01:15:32Right?
01:15:33Right!
01:15:34One?
01:15:35One!
01:15:36Alone?
01:15:37Alone!
01:15:38Then let's get at it, each behind his own fence, each behind his own barricade.
01:15:50Welcome me, my friends, my loved ones, to the perfect society, the civilization of I!
01:16:20Victorial enough for you, is it, Mr. Grudge?
01:16:35Rubble and madness.
01:16:36Rubble and madness.
01:16:37I can't imagine why you're surprised, when the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the fate
01:16:42of man could have been predicted by a cut-rape gypsy, the ultimate garden of Eden, planted
01:16:51by man, cultivated by his weapons, and irrigated by his blood, and brought to fruition by his
01:17:00prejudices and his hate.
01:17:06Ghost, Ghost, tell me something.
01:17:11Did I die before all this?
01:17:35Tell me what happened to me.
01:17:36What happened to me?
01:17:43Just answer me one thing.
01:17:44One thing.
01:17:45Is the world that you've shown me tonight, the world as it must be, or as it might be?
01:17:54Tell me!
01:17:55I want to know!
01:17:56Tell me!
01:17:57Tell me!
01:17:58Must it be like this?
01:17:59Must it be like this?
01:18:00Tell me!
01:18:01Tell me!
01:18:02Tell me!
01:18:03I want to know!
01:18:04Tell me!
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01:19:33Are you all right, sir?
01:19:40I just wanted to call you.
01:19:43Your bed hadn't been slept in.
01:19:45Oh, I must have Dozed off by the fire in the study.
01:19:52I spent the night down here, Charles.
01:19:57Well, I'll see about your breakfast, sir.
01:20:24Uncle Dan, good morning.
01:20:27Are you all right?
01:20:28Yes, of course I am. Why shouldn't I be?
01:20:31You didn't seem too good at three o'clock this morning.
01:20:33I what?
01:20:34When you phoned me.
01:20:37When I phoned you?
01:20:39Yes, I may well have done that.
01:20:42Come in. Please.
01:20:48You said on the phone that you wanted me to drop by on my way to church, that you had something to say to me.
01:20:54I... Well, I...
01:20:57I just wanted to apologize to you, Fred, for last night.
01:21:02Thank you, Uncle Dan. I...
01:21:18That's from New York.
01:21:20United Nations.
01:21:22Children of the delegates singing Christmas carols in their native languages.
01:21:26Of course, that won't stop their fathers from beating each other's brains out tomorrow, with words.
01:21:32I've heard those songs.
01:21:34Not here, somewhere else.
01:21:36Recently, too.
01:21:40I'll have Charles turn it off.
01:21:42Uh, no. No.
01:21:47It's a good sound. Kids' voices.
01:21:53You know, Fred, I...
01:21:56About this family of nations,
01:21:59I'm not at all sure that it's the final answer.
01:22:02Perhaps it's not the final one.
01:22:05So far, it's the only possible one.
01:22:08Possibility? Perhaps.
01:22:12So long as there are children, I suppose there are possibilities.
01:22:16So long as there are children, there have to be possibilities.
01:22:20So long as there are children, there have to be possibilities.
01:22:29I've been giving things some thought.
01:22:31Some, uh... Some second thoughts.
01:22:34Oh? Any conclusions?
01:22:38No, maybe an observation or two.
01:22:40For instance?
01:22:43For instance, the old one. Banal by now.
01:22:47That no man, as the poet says, is an island.
01:22:56It seems the conclusion is inevitable.
01:22:59There must be involvement.
01:23:03Every man's death does diminish me.
01:23:09It appears we've run out of the luxury of alternatives, Fred.
01:23:13We find ourselves living in a world
01:23:16in which we either greet the morning
01:23:20or accept the night.
01:23:26So I wish you a Merry Christmas, Fred.
01:23:30And a good morning.
01:23:33Merry Christmas, Uncle.
01:23:42Merry Christmas.
01:24:00Good morning, Ruby.
01:24:02Good morning, Mr. Grudge.
01:24:13I, uh...
01:24:16I thought I'd have my coffee in here this morning.
01:24:42In excelsis Deo
01:24:46Gloria
01:24:53In excelsis Deo
01:25:01O come, all ye faithful
01:25:05Joyful and triumphant
01:25:09O come ye, O come ye
01:25:13To Bethlehem
01:25:17Come and behold him
01:25:22Born the King of Angels
01:25:26O come, let us adore him
01:25:30O come, let us adore him
01:25:34O come, let us adore him
01:25:39Christ the Lord
01:25:44Amen
01:25:50O come, let us adore him