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01:18Sometimes the future tries to warn us
01:20by casting a shadow over the present.
01:23Such a warning came to us one morning
01:25in the form of a scent of smoke
01:27borne by the wind.
01:29I smell smoke.
01:30So do I.
01:32Seems to be coming from the Hannibal place.
01:33Maybe there's a tramp in there.
01:35You better look into that.
01:36Fire scared me to death this time of year.
01:54I know.
01:56My house is on fire.
01:57Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say that.
02:00One lives in hope.
02:02Don't you know how dangerous a fire can be in these parts?
02:05Well, it isn't a fire, really.
02:08It's the stove.
02:10I can't seem to make it work.
02:16I'll take a look at it.
02:28I'm sorry.
02:30It's just that I haven't managed to do one single thing right
02:33since we got here.
02:34I have days when nothing seems to work.
02:36I guess we all do.
02:38Oh, well, I'd settle for a day here and there.
02:42It's my life, I'm so keen on it.
02:44It was the damper.
02:45You have to open it.
02:46As soon as the smoke clears, I'll show you how to use it.
02:57I'm Olivia Walton.
02:58And this is my husband's mother, Mrs. Esther Walton.
03:01How do you do?
03:02I'm Susan Hanover.
03:04Hanover?
03:05You're Bertram Hanover's daughter?
03:07Oh, he's my father-in-law.
03:08Are you saying that Bertram Hanover is here in this house?
03:11Not on your life.
03:13You couldn't drag him or my mother-in-law out of New York
03:16with a team of wild horses.
03:18Oh, Ted did suggest it, but the old man would hear none of it.
03:21Is Ted your husband?
03:22Yes, he's Bertram's son.
03:24This whole expedition was his idea.
03:28Can you imagine Bertram Hanover's kid right here on Walton's mountain?
03:34Mother.
03:37Mother, what on earth have you done?
03:39Looks like you've set fire to the place.
03:41Good, we can go home now.
03:43No such luck.
03:44Dad would rent a shanty somewhere just to keep us here.
03:47These are my offspring.
03:49Alicia, Charles, some of our neighbors, Mrs. Walton and Mrs. Walton.
03:53Hello there.
03:54How do you do?
04:01The children aren't very happy about being here either.
04:06Do you have any children?
04:07Seven.
04:08Seven?
04:09Good Lord, how do you keep your figure?
04:14Well, the smoke's gone.
04:16I can show you how to work that stove now, Miss Hanover.
04:19Oh, Susan, please.
04:22Yes, I would be very grateful.
04:32Awful, isn't it?
04:34Part of this stuff was left by the people who were renting, and some of it we had shipped down from New York.
04:39Well, it sure don't look like it used to in the old days.
04:42I have never lived in a country in my life, and I'm at my wit's end trying to put this place in shape.
04:48Well, getting the stove in good working order is a step in the right direction.
04:52Yes, well, it's right through here.
04:56Oh, dear.
04:59Oh, you tell your husband when he chops wood it should be dry.
05:03This here's green.
05:06That's why this smoked up so much.
05:08First you better tell him which end of the axe he's supposed to chop with.
05:11Alicia.
05:12And then you better write it down.
05:14He won't remember unless it's in a prospectus.
05:16Oh, not Bertram Hanover's son.
05:18Ted forgets that he wasn't born here.
05:21Doesn't really have the roots he thinks he has here.
05:24It's crazy.
05:25Must be hard on you all moving out here to the country.
05:28Where'd you live before?
05:29An apartment building in New York City.
05:33Susan, would you and your family like to come and have supper with us tonight?
05:36You can worry about all this getting settled tomorrow.
05:38In a word, yes.
05:40It's the first house on the right down the road.
05:42We usually sit down around six.
05:43Thank you so much.
05:44We'll see you then.
05:45Now, in the meantime, if you're going to use this stove...
05:48Now, come here.
05:49You make sure that this is open.
05:51Not closed.
05:52Open, like this.
05:54Thank you so much.
05:55I'll see you to the door.
06:05Bye-bye.
06:06Bye.
06:08It's hard to believe.
06:10Some people just have different ways, that's all.
06:13Oh, I didn't mean that.
06:15I was thinking about Bertram Hanover.
06:17Wondering what happened to him.
06:19If he ever had any children and what were they like.
06:22Did you know him well?
06:27He was one of my beaux.
06:30Yeah.
06:32These benches sure do get wobbly.
06:34Oh, it's them kids.
06:35They're growing up so fast.
06:37I took a look at Jason this morning.
06:39He is shooting up like corn after the 4th of July.
06:42Here it is, Lily.
06:43I found it in my memory book.
06:45What you got there?
06:46An old picture of me?
06:47I can't possibly be as handsome as I remember.
06:53Oh.
06:54Oh.
06:55Oh.
06:56Oh.
06:57Oh.
06:58Oh.
06:59Oh.
07:00Oh.
07:01What are you hanging on to a picture of that parlor snake for?
07:04Brought it down for Livvy.
07:06That's me and Bertram at the county fair.
07:08You sure are a looker, Ma.
07:10He's good looking too, Grandma.
07:11He was a parlor snake.
07:13You didn't know him like I did.
07:15He's so old, fired, great.
07:17Why did you turn him down when he proposed to you?
07:19You listen now, Liv.
07:20We're about to find out something from Ma's past.
07:23Bertram Hanover was a fine young man.
07:25And, well, we just didn't see eye to eye about the future.
07:29Nothing would do but that he'd go off to New York.
07:32But he did ask me to marry him and go along with him.
07:35Then to show his deep affection for her, he married Sabrina Wilkins two weeks after.
07:40What brought on all this ancient history, huh?
07:43Bertram's son and his family have moved to Walton's Mountain.
07:45Grandma and I bumped into Mrs. Hanover this morning.
07:48As a matter of fact, they're coming for supper tonight.
07:50Ugh.
07:51Like father, like son.
07:53Mark my words.
07:55Kid, don't you care for spoon bread?
07:58My appetite seems to have deserted me in the last few months.
08:01This mountain air will get your appetite back in no time.
08:03Soon you'll be eating like a wood chopper.
08:05As soon as I learn how to chop wood.
08:07That I've got to see.
08:08Hello.
08:09John Boyd.
08:10Come on in, meet the Hanovers.
08:12Ted and Susan, this is our oldest son, John Boyd.
08:14How do you do?
08:15Pleased to meet you.
08:16How do you do?
08:17I'm sorry I'm late.
08:18Sit here, John Boyd.
08:19All right.
08:20This is Alicia and Charles Hanover.
08:21Hello.
08:22Alicia used to live in a compartment house in New York.
08:25An apartment house.
08:28Are you folks here for good?
08:30Yes, we are.
08:31We're here to stay.
08:33Providing mother doesn't burn the house down.
08:36Your father was telling us you're in college.
08:38Yes, I am.
08:39Where do you go?
08:40Boadright University.
08:41It's in Weston, about 28 miles from here.
08:43Oh.
08:44You go to school every day and come home every night?
08:46Except once when he stayed out and danced all night.
08:49Mama was mad.
08:50You commute?
08:52Yes.
08:53Well, it's less expensive that way.
08:57Let me guess what school you're in.
09:00Law?
09:01No.
09:02No, you're just not that kind, are you?
09:05Art, maybe.
09:07No.
09:08Engineering, definitely not.
09:09No, definitely not engineering.
09:11Music?
09:13Am I close?
09:14Journalism, actually.
09:16Have you had anything published?
09:17No, not yet, but I'm getting closer.
09:19Used to be I just got printed rejection slips.
09:21Now I get letters telling me to try again.
09:23We know a lot of people in publishing.
09:25Maybe when we get back to New York,
09:26we could have some of your things read by the right people.
09:29Well, I thought you all were staying here.
09:31Oh, well, Dad keeps saying that.
09:33I guess you call it sort of a pilgrimage.
09:36What are we calling it today, Dad?
09:38I'm sure the Waltons aren't interested in why we came here, Alicia.
09:42I'd like to read some of those stories you were talking about.
09:46You may.
09:47Do you know who Maxwell Perkins is?
09:50Well, sure I know who Maxwell Perkins is.
09:52He's F. Scott Fitzgerald's editor.
09:54Yes, and a close friend of my father's.
09:56Really?
09:57Alicia, the days of clubs and socializing with Maxwell Perkins are over.
10:02Yes, well, maybe they are for you.
10:05But they're not for me.
10:10Excuse me.
10:12Mary Ellen, Aaron, why don't you clear and I'll see about dessert.
10:17What line of work are you in, Mr. Hanover?
10:19I was a stockbroker like my father.
10:22Was is the right word for it.
10:25From the newspaper I hear things are picking up.
10:28Yes, they are.
10:29So this sojourn here in Virginia is really the calm before the storm.
10:34Ted's father's just waiting for him to come back and start again.
10:37As you may have seen by now, my family isn't too keen on putting down new roots.
10:42Your father used to say that he was born here by mistake.
10:45Said he always belonged in a big city.
10:48He said the same thing about me.
10:50It only occurred to me recently that he might have been wrong.
10:53Well, we're glad you're here tonight.
10:55Who wants dessert?
10:57Charles, don't you want any dessert?
10:59No, I'd rather look around.
11:01Come on, Aaron, show me the sights.
11:03May I, Daddy?
11:05Sure, honey.
11:11Well, I'm ready for dessert.
11:21Aaron?
11:22I've got a problem.
11:25Yeah? A big one?
11:28A little one? A medium-sized one? What kind of problem, Aaron?
11:31Well, kind of medium-sized.
11:33I've never met anybody like those Hanover people.
11:36Well, you and Charlie seem to be getting along pretty well.
11:39You know tonight after supper when I showed him Blue and Chance and everything?
11:43Mm-hmm.
11:45Well, he asked me for a date.
11:48Well, I'm sure Mom and Daddy wouldn't mind if he came over.
11:51He wants me to go out with him.
11:53Out where?
11:55Nowhere special, just out.
11:57He wants me to show him Walton's Mountain.
12:00Aaron, is that the problem?
12:04Well, he's kind of fast.
12:06What if he tries to kiss me?
12:11Oh, well, you're a very pretty girl.
12:14I'm sure there's going to be lots of guys going to try to kiss you.
12:16What'll I do?
12:22Aaron, has Mama ever had a talk with you about kissing?
12:27Yeah, but she's so old-fashioned.
12:29In what way?
12:30She didn't let Daddy kiss her until they'd been going together for a long time.
12:35Well, it looks to me like Charlie Hanover's going to be around for a long time.
12:39What'll I do tomorrow if he tries?
12:44Well, do you want him to kiss you?
12:47I think.
12:48Well, then, I don't see what harm one little kiss could do.
12:51Thanks, John Gordon.
12:52Aaron!
12:53One little kiss.
12:55What else is there?
13:15Morning.
13:16Morning.
13:17I thought I'd like to take a look at your place during daylight.
13:20Maybe get some ideas about gardening, the kind of animals to keep, that sort of thing.
13:23Sure, look around much as you like.
13:26Don't you have any help?
13:27Usually Pa helps, but he's not feeling too good this morning.
13:30Well, is there anything I can do?
13:31No, I wouldn't want to impose.
13:33No, no, I'd like to.
13:34It's a new experience for me.
13:37All right.
13:38Grab the other end of this.
13:40When it's cut, we just stack them over there.
13:42Sounds easy.
13:43Heavy work.
13:44I'm game.
13:45Okay.
14:10Is that it?
14:20Got a visitor for dinner, Liv.
14:22Hello, Ted.
14:23Hello, Olivia.
14:24I hope you don't mind.
14:25John's asked me to lunch.
14:26There's plenty.
14:27Sit down.
14:28Right there.
14:29Whatever you're cooking smells marvelous, and I am famished.
14:31Mountain air.
14:32Not to mention the fact that I have been milling logs since the crack of dawn.
14:36Ah, it just seems that way, Ted.
14:38Zed's scratchy as an old bear.
14:40Sure sign he's getting better.
14:42Oh, Lord, Ted, you do look like your father.
14:45I noticed it last night, but you're the splitting image of him.
14:50It's only physical, Mrs. Walton.
14:52My father thrives on buying and selling, playing the market, wheeling and dealing.
14:56No, I finally found what I want, and it's the life you folks have right here.
15:00It's a good life most of the time, Ted.
15:02Your wife get that stove to working?
15:04She finally managed to meal on it this morning.
15:08I only wish, though, that she and the children could relax and enjoy the life here.
15:12Not everyone's cut out for country living.
15:14I wanted to talk to you about that, Olivia.
15:16I was hoping that you could go over and see Susan.
15:20Be her friend.
15:21Convince her that the life is good here.
15:24I'd be happy to be a friend, but I'm not going to try to convince her that this life is for her if it isn't.
15:28She has to decide that for herself.
15:33Come on, Ted, eat up.
15:34Have some of those carrots.
15:36Best scallions you ever tasted.
15:38Leftovers.
15:43Come on in, it's open.
15:49Oh, hello.
15:52I know you're one of the Walton children, but I can't remember which one.
15:56Mary Ellen.
16:03Won't you sit down?
16:05Oh, I just stopped by to say that our teacher, Miss Hunter, said that Charles was welcome to come to our school.
16:09Well, why don't you tell him yourself? He's probably right upstairs. Go on and up.
16:22Charles!
16:23Who's that?
16:24Mary Ellen Walton.
16:26Come in.
16:30Hello.
16:31Hi. I was looking for Charles.
16:33What on earth for?
16:35Well, when I was in school today, I was telling our teacher about you moving here,
16:38and she said that Charles was welcome to come to our school, so I just stopped by to tell him that.
16:42Serves the little brat right to have to go to a log schoolhouse after that progressive pig pen in New York.
16:47Doesn't she like your brother?
16:49No.
16:50Do you like yours?
16:51Most of the time.
16:53Tell me about John boy.
16:55Does he date?
16:56Sometimes.
16:58Well, does he have a steady?
17:00I don't think so.
17:03Oh, why on earth am I going to wear this out on the sticks?
17:08Oh, it's gorgeous.
17:10Mother bought it for me in Paris.
17:12Have you been to Paris?
17:13We used to go there all the time before Dad lost his money.
17:17Do you like the dress?
17:18I think it's beautiful.
17:20Try it on. If it fits, you can have it.
17:24Oh, I'd love to try it on, but I couldn't take it.
17:28Um.
17:31These two.
17:33Looks like they might fit.
17:41I'll go downstairs.
17:58Designer, that dress should pay you to wear it.
18:01I sure don't feel like me.
18:03You look like a lady.
18:05Just wait, we're not through.
18:07Come here, sit down.
18:10This is called a turban.
18:12Bend down.
18:15Bring it around in the front and twist it.
18:20Now hold it.
18:35Now take the purse. Stand up.
18:43There we go.
18:46Divine.
18:47It really is.
18:49Alicia, why don't you give it to her?
18:51I already have.
18:54I've never seen anything so beautiful in all my life.
19:06Hey look, here comes the movie star.
19:08Look, it's Mary Ellen.
19:16Isn't that snazzy?
19:18That's gorgeous.
19:21Mary Ellen, where did you get that dress?
19:23It came from France. The Hanovers used to go there all the time before they lost all their money.
19:27Yeah? How come we never went there?
19:29Did you lose all your money?
19:30Never had any money to lose, son.
19:32You look just like Ginger Rogers.
19:33Oh, Mama, quit teasing me.
19:34I'm not teasing you.
19:35Why are you planning to wear that thing around here?
19:37Well, she could wear it to a dog fight.
19:39Or a corn chicken.
19:40Or a weenie roast.
19:41Oh, I've had it with you. Oh, now look what you made me do.
19:43Mary Ellen, come back here.
19:47What's bothering her?
19:49I don't know. We were only teasing.
19:50Back to your chores.
19:52No need for her to get that upset.
19:54I'll go see to her.
20:14What?
20:16I'd like to talk to you a minute.
20:18Mama, just go away.
20:23Please don't speak to me like that.
20:25Like what?
20:26You know what I mean.
20:28Well, I'm tired of being treated like a baby around here.
20:31Mary Ellen, what is bothering you?
20:34You've been teased by the boys before. Why are you so angry?
20:37Can't be because of that silly dress.
20:39That's just what I mean. It is not a silly dress.
20:41It's wonderful and I look beautiful in it.
20:43Yes, you do.
20:45It's just not a dress that belongs here.
20:48Well, maybe I don't belong here either.
20:50I'm sorry, but I want more out of my life than junky dresses made from cheap pieces of material that I buy from Mike Godsey's store.
20:57Mary Ellen, you're very young.
20:59But when you grow up a little, I hope you'll want more for yourself than you do right now.
21:04What you wear has nothing to do with what you are.
21:12I'll expect you downstairs to help me start supper in an hour.
21:21And this is where we have recess.
21:23And what do you do at recess?
21:25Oh, we play games like hide and go seek, blind man's bluff, stuff like that.
21:31How can you stand all the excitement?
21:34Sometimes I think you're making fun of me, but I'm never really sure.
21:38Would I do that?
21:40No.
21:44The swing is only made for one person at a time.
21:47Don't you like me being close to you?
21:49Um, well, I do and I don't. It makes me nervous.
21:53You can trust me, Erin.
21:56Ah! Oh, no.
21:59Want to go higher?
22:00No.
22:02Oh, no.
22:08Hey, you're terrific. The girl's back home when I fade it on the spot.
22:11What's so scary about an old swing?
22:13Oh, it's nothing.
22:14It's just a swing.
22:15Oh, it's nothing.
22:16It's just a swing.
22:17It's just a swing.
22:18It's just a swing.
22:19It's just a swing.
22:20It's just a swing.
22:21It's just a swing.
22:22It's just a swing.
22:23It's just a swing.
22:24Oh, you want to try again?
22:25No.
22:34You're okay, Erin.
22:35Don't do that.
22:36Why not?
22:37Because I said so.
22:39Erin, if you and I are going to be friends, you've got to be a lot less provincial.
22:44What does provincial mean?
22:46Countryfied.
22:47Is that what you think I am?
22:49I haven't made up my mind about you yet.
22:51Let's just say that I'm thinking about it.
22:54Okay?
22:59Where's Erin and Mary Ellen?
23:00I don't see why you have to do all this work by myself.
23:03Mary Ellen's having a bad day.
23:05And I don't know where Erin is.
23:07Anybody home?
23:08Come on in, Alicia.
23:10Have you seen Erin anywhere?
23:11Oh, she's probably somewhere fighting off my brother.
23:14What did you say?
23:15Oh, a feeble joke.
23:17What did you say?
23:18Oh, a feeble joke.
23:19He considers himself a ladies' man, but he's really just a disgusting brat.
23:24You shouldn't talk about your brother like that.
23:26La-dee-da.
23:30Alicia, you may get away with talking to your mother like that, but don't you try that on me.
23:36I'm sorry.
23:38I really didn't mean anything.
23:40I'm sure you didn't.
23:41I just don't like the sound of it.
23:44Now, did you want something?
23:48Is John-boy here?
23:49He's upstairs doing his homework.
23:51Well, go upstairs and see him.
23:53Just a minute.
23:57John-boy.
23:59Alicia Hanover's here to see you.
24:01Okay.
24:02He'll be right down.
24:08Hi.
24:09John-boy.
24:10I'm glad you're here. I could use a break.
24:11Would you like to go for a walk?
24:13Yes, yes, that'd be nice.
24:15I wanted to talk to you about reading some of your work.
24:17Okay.
24:18Mama?
24:19John-boy, don't be late. There's chores to be done.
24:21Oh, we won't.
24:22Come on.
24:26Come on, there's work to be done.
24:29Well, give her a chance.
24:32That's it for me. I gotta go work on my stories.
24:34What about your homework, son?
24:35Well, that can wait for tonight.
24:37Alicia Hanover wrote a letter to Maxwell Perkins, that editor in New York,
24:40and she told him she was sending him some work by a new young writer.
24:43So I gotta get a couple of my stories in shape. He's a very important man.
24:47That girl has been worrying John-boy so hard about her important publishing friends,
24:50he's completely forgotten about his schoolwork.
24:52Oh, Mama, don't be so provincial.
24:54Now, what's that supposed to mean?
24:55It's something she learned from the love of her life, Charles Hanover.
24:58Oh, Mary, why don't you just shut up?
25:00Erin, don't talk to your sister that way.
25:02Okay, I won't talk to her at all.
25:04You may leave the table after you've been excused.
25:06May I be excused, please?
25:09Yes, you may.
25:14Daddy, what's going on around here?
25:16Well, I don't know, honey.
25:18Everyone's acting so crazy, ain't they?
25:20It's the curse of the Hanovers.
25:24Oh, good Lord, you're just acting sillier than usual, stop it.
25:28See what I mean?
25:34My man, I just got out of a sick bed. I hope you're not overdoing it, Mr. Walton.
25:38Theodore, if you feel so strongly about it,
25:41Theodore, if you feel so strongly on that subject,
25:43maybe you would take over for me for a spell.
25:47Um, what kind of chickens do you think I ought to stock up with?
25:51White leghorns are good for eggs.
25:53Rhode Island reds are good for eating.
25:55Buff orphictons, too, if you can lay your hands on some around here.
25:58You know, this place is really beginning to grow on me.
26:01I'm eating better, I'm sleeping better, I'm just feeling better in general.
26:05You'd have to dynamite me out of this place.
26:09My father was crazy to leave all this.
26:13Maybe he was right. We're not all cut out for this kind of life.
26:16Yeah, but don't you think a man should teach his children
26:20that there are other ways of thinking besides his own?
26:23Well, most of us hope our children grow up believing what we believe.
26:28My father didn't just hope, he insisted.
26:31Seems to me like you must have agreed with him in a way,
26:33or else you'd have been down here a long while back.
26:36Sometimes it takes a shock to knock some sense into a man's head.
26:40No, I came out here to find a better life.
26:43What I hear, the life back there wasn't so bad.
26:45Get up in the morning, put on a clean shirt and suit,
26:48go to your job, eat in restaurants, go on vacation.
26:53How many times have you been to Europe?
26:55Oh, I don't know. We used to go every summer, but that's not the point.
26:58Maybe it's not the point. Maybe I couldn't live that kind of a life,
27:01but parts of it sound real good to me.
27:04By the same token, your life has a lot of appeal to me.
27:07The simplicity of it all.
27:09It's simple, all right. Up at six, working past dark,
27:12never know whether you have enough food or clothes for your family.
27:15Here, Theodore, just how do you propose making a living around here?
27:21Do you have any ideas, John?
27:23I mean, I've got enough capital left to start some kind of a new life.
27:26Yeah, you could start a little farm, wheat, corn, raise some cattle, chickens.
27:33Maybe have a truck garden. Start a sawmill like me.
27:36Whatever you do, it's going to be hard work.
27:40Nothing much different between city living and country living in a way.
27:45Nothing this earth is provided for unless you provide it yourself.
27:50Ted, you've got time to figure out what you want to do,
27:52but let me tell you, come winter, things get real rough around here.
27:57Yeah, well, this job looks pretty well finished to me.
28:00Why don't we call it a day?
28:02Great idea.
28:03Anything you say.
28:05And I'll let you know what I decide.
28:08Thanks for everything.
28:17Is it ready?
28:18How did you know? I just took the paper off.
28:23Charles?
28:24Mama, may Charles and I go for a walk?
28:26Where to?
28:27Just up the road.
28:28You're back in time for supper.
28:29Is it all right with you, Susan?
28:31Oh, yes, of course. Go ahead.
28:35Here.
28:36Have a piece.
28:37No, it goes right to my hips.
28:38The good thing about this is it's so rich you don't eat too much of it.
28:41Come on.
28:47Oh, that's incredible.
28:49I'll give you the recipe.
28:50Oh, thank you so much.
28:52Oh, I do love candy.
28:55I think it's one of my great weaknesses.
28:58I bet you I've bought candy in every country in Europe.
29:00You've been to them all?
29:02Well, except for Russia, yes. I guess we have.
29:05Which one do you like best?
29:07Italy.
29:08Oh, Rome is my favorite city in the world.
29:11After New York.
29:12Italians have such a wonderful approach to life.
29:15Do you know that every night about six o'clock they take what they call a passeggiata?
29:20Sounds wonderful. What does it mean?
29:22Well, it's a walk, really.
29:24Everybody seems to come out of their house at the same time.
29:27And they walk and they talk and they look in shop windows and then they stop by a little sidewalk cafe for coffee.
29:35Then they all go home.
29:36But they all come back out later for dinner.
29:38What time do they eat?
29:40Nine or ten.
29:42We've been in bed for an hour by then.
29:44Olivia, oh, you would love Rome and Paris.
29:49Please don't say any more.
29:51I've always yearned to go to those places.
29:54Hearing you talk about them just makes the feeling all that much stronger.
30:16I'm very impressed.
30:19Really? Thank you.
30:21Now, the question is, what are you going to do about it?
30:25What do you mean?
30:27What are you going to do about your writing?
30:29Oh, uh, just keep on writing.
30:34But to what end?
30:38To get to be as good as I can get to be, I reckon.
30:41No, that's not what I mean.
30:43What are your ambitions?
30:45Where do you see yourself ten years from today?
30:47Ten years? That's a long way off.
30:51Uh, probably I'll be living in some big city somewhere.
30:56New York.
30:57All right, New York.
30:59And, uh, I reckon I'll be selling my work by then.
31:03So I'll have a, well, not too fancy, nice apartment.
31:07And I'd like to sort of have one overlooking a river or something like that.
31:10You know, big windows and a nice feeling to it.
31:13Just so I can do my work.
31:15Sounds kind of like Thomas Wolfe, doesn't it?
31:19No woman?
31:22Woman? Well, sure.
31:24Well, I guess she's just so much a part of my life I forgot to mention her.
31:29Who will she be?
31:30I don't know.
31:33Well, my wife.
31:34Your wife?
31:35Of course.
31:36I think that a writer could think of a better story about what his life was going to be like.
31:42John boy, I think the time has come for you to get out of here.
31:48Well, I already said I plan to be moving on someday.
31:51Now?
31:52Well, you're young and your senses are alive.
31:55Well, my senses plan to stay alive for a long time.
31:58You may think that now, but you're wrong.
32:01Things happen to people as they get older.
32:04Alicia, I'm in college.
32:08And I like being in college and I want to finish college.
32:11And even if I didn't like it, my parents gave up an awful lot so I could go there and I don't think it would really be fair for me to just...
32:16Artists don't have time for gratitude.
32:19They have to take everything they can get.
32:22They're special people.
32:24Gifted people are privileged.
32:26You better start thinking of yourself that way.
32:30Well, I don't know about that, but I appreciate you reading this for me.
32:35You'll have to make some changes, you know.
32:39No, why?
32:41Because I don't think it's saleable the way it is now.
32:45Let's see this first paragraph.
32:48Now, I don't think your opening sentence is enough of an attention getter.
32:52Well, I do. I rewrote it four times.
32:54Ah, well, that proves I'm right.
32:56Your instincts were trying to tell you something and you just weren't listening.
33:01Now, why not move this paragraph up here?
33:05Then the whole feeling of the piece is tougher.
33:08Well, my intention wasn't to be tough.
33:10Well, that's not the point.
33:12All the successful new books are being done that way.
33:15It's a new wave in literature.
33:17Alicia, Alicia, I don't want to write some certain way because it's a new wave in literature and everyone else is doing it.
33:22That's no reason to write in a certain style.
33:24John boy, you have so much to learn.
33:29I really worry about you.
33:36Isn't it a nice day?
33:38Who cares?
33:39Oh, Charles, what are you being like that for?
33:41Erin, there's nothing to do around here.
33:44The sun comes up, then it goes down.
33:46In between, excruciating boredom.
33:49We're not bored.
33:50I guess you don't miss what you've never had.
33:52I'm used to movies and dances and sports.
33:55You play baseball?
33:56In a clearing of some pine trees.
33:58I'm used to Yankee Stadium.
34:00You really don't want to stay here, do you?
34:02No.
34:07If I left, would you miss me?
34:09Yes, I would.
34:11I'd miss you too, Erin. I really would.
34:13I thought you weren't sure if you liked me.
34:15Well, I am now.
34:17Well, I'm glad, Charles, because I really like you too.
34:21What are you doing?
34:22I want to kiss you.
34:24Well, all right.
34:30I'd like to kiss you again.
34:31I don't think so.
34:33Didn't you like it?
34:35Yeah, but I think we should only kiss once.
34:38Don't be a baby.
34:39Don't. I don't want to.
34:40But I do.
34:42Leave me alone.
34:44I thought you were nice, and I thought we could be friends.
34:47I've got no time to be friends with babies.
34:55You're being so stubborn, I could scream.
34:57Alicia, I know what I meant when I wrote that story,
34:59and what you're asking me to do would change the whole meaning.
35:01So what? The impact will knock the reader down.
35:04No, I can't do that. I don't want it to be read that way.
35:06I'd rather it didn't get read at all.
35:08You're behaving like some simple-minded bumblebrain.
35:11Next thing you'll tell me is that you believe in art.
35:13For art's sake, don't be a baby.
35:15I'm not a baby.
35:16I'm not a baby.
35:17I'm not a baby.
35:18I'm not a baby.
35:19I'm not a baby.
35:20I'm not a baby.
35:21I'm not a baby.
35:22Next thing you'll tell me is that you believe in art.
35:24For art's sake.
35:25Alicia, there's no need to get so angry about it.
35:27I just want to feel good about what I write.
35:29And when I'm finished, I don't want to feel like I've written something
35:31to satisfy somebody else,
35:32just because they might be able to get it published.
35:35You're a fool, John boy.
35:37A fool.
35:45Well, you're no lady. Anybody ever tell you that?
35:52I'm sorry.
36:03Aaron?
36:04I can use a hand here.
36:16Oh, Aaron, I've been looking for you.
36:17There's a picture here of Ginger Rogers.
36:23Aaron, you're home early.
36:26You all right?
36:28What's the matter, honey? What happened?
36:31Mom, would you have to let someone kiss you more times than you want to kiss them?
36:36Did somebody want to kiss you?
36:38Charles Hanover.
36:40Did you want to kiss him?
36:42Yes, but just once.
36:44And he wanted more.
36:46Yes, but I didn't.
36:48I guess I didn't want to enough.
36:50Then you were quite right not to.
36:52But he got so mad when he called me a baby.
36:55Aaron, you don't ever have to do anything you don't really want to do.
36:58But why did he get so mad?
37:00Because Charles Hanover is used to getting everything he wants when he wants it,
37:04and when he doesn't, he behaves like a baby.
37:06That's just what he was like, an angry little baby.
37:09Aaron, I'm proud of you.
37:11Why?
37:13Because acting like a grown-up is one of the hardest things in the world to do,
37:16and you did it today.
37:18Mama, what if I see Charles?
37:20Well, why don't you tell him how you feel about what happened?
37:24Then maybe you two can remain friends,
37:27if he's grown up enough to listen to you.
37:29Mama, when Charles grabbed me, I got scared, and I pulled away, and I ripped my dress.
37:35That's all right, honey.
37:37Don't you worry about that.
37:39Thank you, Mama.
37:41I guess I'd better go find Muriel, and she probably thinks I've gone crazy.
37:46What is it, honey?
37:48I'd like to talk to you a minute.
37:50Right now?
37:51Yes, something's going on here, and I don't like it.
37:54Every single person in this house is upset because of the Hanovers.
37:58Alicia's been at John Bolton's for a while,
38:00and I don't like it.
38:02I don't like it.
38:04I don't like it.
38:06I don't like it.
38:08I don't like it.
38:10I don't like it.
38:12I don't like it because of the Hanovers.
38:14Alicia's been at John Bolton so hard about his right,
38:16and he stopped doing his schoolwork.
38:18All Mary Ellen can think about is marrying some millionaire and buying all the clothes she wants.
38:22I wouldn't worry about Mary Ellen or John Bolton either.
38:24They'll get over it.
38:25It's even getting to me.
38:26Susan Hanover was here the other day, talking about how wonderful Rome, Italy is.
38:30And all of a sudden, I started feeling dull and foolish.
38:33Just because I'd never been there, I hadn't had supper at ten o'clock at night.
38:36We can have supper at ten o'clock at night any time you want, if I can stay awake that late.
38:39I'm serious.
38:41Now, I know it'll all blow over, but Aaron's different.
38:44What about Aaron?
38:46Charles Hanover kissed her when she wouldn't go along
38:48with Morkis, and there was some kind of a struggle, and...
38:51Did she get hurt?
38:52No, not physically.
38:53Well, her feelings got hurt a little.
38:55She's all right.
38:57She knows she did what she should have done,
38:58but I just don't want my children exposed
39:01to that kind of thing.
39:03I don't either.
39:06I'll take care of it.
39:08Oh, hi, John.
39:18Susan's been admiring these elm trees,
39:20so I went out in the woods and dug one up for her.
39:22I'm transplanting it.
39:25This tree's not gonna live, Ted.
39:27What makes you say that?
39:28You cut the top root too short.
39:29You didn't leave enough root for it to feed itself.
39:32Oh, well, I guess I have a whole lot more
39:35to learn about country life, don't I?
39:38Ted, you've been talking to me for weeks
39:40about country life and about city life,
39:42and I don't think any of that talk's important.
39:45Well, now, it's important to me.
39:47What's important is what's happening to your family.
39:49It seems to me your wife and children
39:51are paying a heavy price for your confusion.
39:54A heavy price?
39:55Now, just a minute, John.
39:55Especially those children of yours.
39:58They don't know who they are.
39:59They don't know how to behave.
40:00They don't know what their limits are.
40:01Wait a minute.
40:02Has one of my kids gotten out of line?
40:03Your son, Charles, got rough with my daughter, Erin.
40:07He acted like a big-shot ladies' man.
40:09He got carried away with himself.
40:12Is she all right?
40:14She's all right.
40:14I just don't want anything like that to happen again.
40:18I know, and I'm sorry.
40:21I guess I just haven't been on top of things.
40:23That's right, I guess you haven't.
40:26You know, Ted, you and me don't have much in common,
40:29but one thing we do have in common are children.
40:31It seems to me when children are involved,
40:33a man's gotta forget his own confusion,
40:35give them the attention and the guidance they need.
40:38I know, and I haven't been doing that.
40:43I've been too involved in my own problems
40:45to put first things first.
40:49Don't you think maybe it's time you started?
40:52Yeah, yes, I do.
40:56That's all I came over to say.
40:59Thanks, John.
41:05Hey, John boy, been out reading your stories
41:08to the Orioles?
41:10No, Alicia Handel.
41:13You don't sound too happy about it.
41:17Well, I'm a lot happier than she is.
41:18I've never seen anybody so mad in my life.
41:21Why, didn't she like them?
41:22Judging by her reaction, no, she threw them at me.
41:25What?
41:26She threw them at me.
41:28We were just having a silly little argument
41:29about a couple of things, and she threw them at me.
41:31She threw them at me.
41:33We were just having a silly little argument
41:35about values in writing, and she got all upset,
41:37and she threw them at me.
41:38Said I didn't understand a thing.
41:39You deserve a better fate than that.
41:41I agree, I'd like a throttler.
41:42Hold on, John boy.
41:44Through the years, I've learned any time
41:46you feel like throttling a woman,
41:47you better take it out on a pile of wood.
41:54You want it stacked or sawed?
41:58Just a minute, I think I'd like to read
42:00one or two of your stories myself, John boy.
42:02Well, take your pick.
42:04Just please, don't throw them at me
42:07when you're finished.
42:07Okay.
42:16Did you talk to Ted?
42:17Yes, I did.
42:18I think things will be better from now on.
42:23What happens to families like that?
42:25Well, I guess they try to get back on their feet
42:27and lead happy lives.
42:29Hope they work it out.
42:31Guess we were just lucky, huh?
42:33Yes, we were.
42:45Well, there might be some hope for me after all.
42:47I have managed to make a casserole that looks edible,
42:51and if you're willing to risk your life,
42:52you can try my lemonade.
42:55You don't trust me.
42:59This was supposed to be a surprise for you.
43:02Oh, well, you do keep trying.
43:04What's the matter with it?
43:06Is it sick?
43:08It's dying.
43:09I cut the wrong root or something.
43:10I just didn't know.
43:14Well, it was a nice thought.
43:15Thank you, anyway.
43:26Ted, what are we really doing?
43:29I'm not sure anymore.
43:31Did you really think it would be like the days
43:33when you'd say, let's go to Paris,
43:35and I'd say, okay, when do we sail?
43:38No, no, those were just fun trips.
43:40Oh, yes, they were fun, and I'm so glad we took them.
43:45But this was supposed to be something quite different.
43:48I know.
43:49Those were just escapes to get away
43:51from the reality of New York for a few weeks.
43:54I know.
43:55I know.
43:58Do you think I've been kidding myself,
43:59and that's what this trip is to?
44:01Well, the realities in New York had gotten pretty harsh.
44:05I know.
44:06Then we came out here, and this place
44:08became far more real than I ever imagined.
44:12Just, just think how we must look
44:15to John and Olivia Walton.
44:18Well, just the same as they'd look to us
44:20if they moved into an apartment on Park Avenue.
44:24Without honestly wanting to be there.
44:32I guess I did all this to run away from our old life.
44:38Let's go back, Susan.
44:40Let's go back to New York.
44:43Okay.
44:46I almost said, when do we sail?
44:51Yes.
44:53Yes, let's go back, if you really want to.
44:56But I think it's very important that you know why.
45:01This was all a dream.
45:04You know, my father was right about one thing.
45:07He said that every man was born to do a certain thing.
45:11And I've suddenly realized
45:12that I was not born to be a farmer.
45:16Do you know, Ted, I have never cared
45:17what your father thought.
45:19But as for you, that's something else.
45:25Okay.
45:27When do we sail?
45:44Well, we're finally off.
45:46Oh, Olivia, we're here.
45:49Hello, Susan.
45:51There's the taxi.
45:53I know.
45:55Were you right to me?
45:56Sure, you too, okay?
46:01Erin.
46:02Okay.
46:08Good luck, Ted, thank you.
46:10Ted, would you do me a favor?
46:13Of course, Mrs. Walton.
46:14Well, would you give this to your father?
46:16I think it might amuse him.
46:18Do you want to part with this?
46:19Well, no, I'm not,
46:20but Zeb thinks it's been around long enough.
46:22Indeed, I do.
46:24Charles, are you ready?
46:25Yes, ma'am, bye.
46:27Bye.
46:30Thank you, Olivia.
46:31Take care.
46:32Oh, and say goodbye to the rest of the children
46:35and to John Boyd.
46:37Alicia, John Boyd said to say goodbye.
46:39He's in school.
46:40Give my best to Bertram.
46:41And Sabrina.
46:45There you go.
46:45Thanks again, Charles.
46:46All right.
46:48Don't forget next summer.
46:50Have a good trip.
46:52Bye-bye.
46:53Bye-bye.
47:10We were never to see the Hanovahs again,
47:12although Erin did receive one letter from Charles.
47:16She carried it around for a while,
47:19pinned inside her dress over her heart.
47:20But then a new boy came along
47:23and the last reminder of the Hanovahs went out of our lives.
47:29Liv.
47:29Hmm?
47:30I think I can let go of the boys when the time comes,
47:33but I don't know how it's gonna be
47:35give the girls to some other man.
47:38He probably won't have much to say about it.
47:40Liv.
47:41Yes?
47:43Maybe they'll be old maids.
47:45I wouldn't count on it.
47:47Liv, I love you.
47:49You go to sleep.
47:52Night, Liv.
47:54Goodnight, Charles.
47:55Goodnight, Mama.
47:56Goodnight, Daddy.
47:57Goodnight, Mama.
47:58Goodnight, Daddy.
48:00Now look what you've started.
48:01Goodnight, Mama.
48:02Goodnight, Daddy.
48:03Goodnight, Daddy.
48:03Goodnight, Mama.
48:04Goodnight.
48:05Goodnight.
48:46You