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00:00:00 [Bells ringing]
00:00:30 [Bells ringing]
00:00:46 [Bells ringing]
00:01:16 [Bells ringing]
00:01:43 [Bells ringing]
00:01:57 Good morning, Mr. Nair. This early, you'll have to take the local.
00:02:01 All right, Phil.
00:02:03 [Train whistle]
00:02:13 40th floor executive, Miss Lanier.
00:02:15 Thank you, Phil.
00:02:17 Good morning, Miss Lanier.
00:02:23 Good morning, Martha.
00:02:25 I couldn't find a cab anywhere.
00:02:26 Such a lovely day, though.
00:02:27 [Phone ringing]
00:02:32 40th floor executive, Ramsey & Company, Miss Stevens.
00:02:34 I'm sorry, sir, our switchboard doesn't open till 9.
00:02:38 You should be able to reach him shortly thereafter.
00:02:40 Anne.
00:02:42 That's correct, sir.
00:02:44 Mr. Staples begins with the company today.
00:02:46 I'll leave your message on his desk.
00:02:49 Anne, would you put this on Mr. Staples' desk, please?
00:02:52 Yes, ma'am.
00:02:54 Mr. Staples will be in Mr. Quinn's old office, executive corridor.
00:02:56 Yes, I know.
00:02:58 I said deliver it, not read it.
00:03:01 Yes, ma'am.
00:03:02 [Phone ringing]
00:03:04 Executive, 40th floor, Miss Stevens.
00:03:07 [Indistinct chatter]
00:03:13 Morning.
00:03:15 Hi.
00:03:16 Oh, good morning, madam.
00:03:17 I wonder if Marge is going to go to work next door.
00:03:19 Oh, no.
00:03:20 Well, I'm glad I don't.
00:03:21 Not there.
00:03:22 Maybe.
00:03:23 Well.
00:03:24 You really fixed up a new exec's office for him, didn't you, Phil?
00:03:26 Very nice.
00:03:28 A new man.
00:03:30 Right next door to your boss.
00:03:31 And awfully close to Mr. Ramsey.
00:03:34 So happens it's a new man.
00:03:36 What's his name?
00:03:38 Staples?
00:03:40 Mm-hmm.
00:03:41 Will be working with Mr. Briggs.
00:03:42 That's why they have adjoining offices.
00:03:44 Marjorie, baby, you're awfully defensive.
00:03:47 I guess that's 'cause you're worried about your Mr. Briggs.
00:03:51 Run along, will you?
00:03:53 May I have some more cream, please?
00:03:59 [Bell tolling]
00:04:01 Next car, please.
00:04:21 Next car.
00:04:22 Next car, please.
00:04:23 Okay.
00:04:24 Next car.
00:04:25 Next car.
00:04:26 Harry, Charlie, Joe, express down.
00:04:31 No stops for Jen.
00:04:32 Next car.
00:04:42 Next car.
00:04:43 Next car, please.
00:04:44 Next car.
00:04:45 Next car.
00:04:46 Good morning, Mr. Ramsey.
00:04:47 Next car, please.
00:04:48 All right.
00:04:50 Thank you, Lenny.
00:04:51 Yes, sir.
00:04:52 Miss Lannier, Miss Stevens, he's here.
00:04:57 Thank you, Martha.
00:04:58 Chief Operator, please.
00:05:04 Miss Phillips, you can put this morning's three long-distance calls through to Mr. Ramsey.
00:05:09 Portland, Dallas, St. Louis offices.
00:05:12 Thank you.
00:05:14 Thank you.
00:05:16 Miss Phillips, you can put this morning's three long-distance calls through to Mr. Ramsey.
00:05:19 Portland, Dallas, St. Louis offices.
00:05:21 Good morning, Mr. Ramsey.
00:05:27 Good morning, Miss Lannier.
00:05:28 Any messages?
00:05:33 You have calls placed for our Portland, Dallas, and St. Louis offices.
00:05:36 Nothing else important, sir.
00:05:37 Martin Toulon died. You said you'd wire him.
00:05:40 Yes, you'll find a copy in my briefcase.
00:05:42 You're right, as usual. Nothing important.
00:05:45 Miss Phillips, I want it teletyped this morning to Seattle.
00:05:48 Have someone there drive over to Portland and get it to Johnson before lunch.
00:05:52 Then run off 20 copies, confidential mimeographing, and have them ready in time for the board meeting.
00:05:57 I want it on the agenda.
00:05:58 Has Mr. Staples arrived yet?
00:06:01 Not yet, sir.
00:06:02 Delay that meeting until 10 this morning to give you time to get the report mimeoed and distributed.
00:06:08 I want it read, and carefully.
00:06:11 Give word underground to their secretaries that no one is to count on making any early luncheon appointments.
00:06:15 And make a note.
00:06:17 Staples is to sit one down from Van Deventer on my left.
00:06:20 Yes, sir.
00:06:22 Let me know as soon as Mr. Staples arrives.
00:06:25 Yes, Mr. Ramsey.
00:06:26 [Street noise]
00:06:50 [Street noise]
00:06:58 Well, Fred, here we are.
00:07:00 Ah, here we are.
00:07:02 A little different than Mansfield, isn't it?
00:07:05 Now I know what a mother feels like when a child goes to school for the first time.
00:07:09 Oh, goodbye, Mother.
00:07:10 Looks big, doesn't it?
00:07:13 Oh, give me a chance, honey. Maybe I can cut it down to my size.
00:07:16 Well, I'm a little late.
00:07:19 Shall I call you when I...
00:07:20 No, no, no. You go on home after you finish shopping.
00:07:24 And find a garage somewhere around midtown and park the car.
00:07:27 I'll phone you on what train I'll be on. Bye-bye.
00:07:30 Goodbye, darling!
00:07:35 [Street noise]
00:07:55 Ramsey and Company, the board says...
00:07:58 Yes, sir. Executive or administrative?
00:08:00 Oh, the executive, Mr. Ramsey.
00:08:02 Fortieth floor, sir.
00:08:04 Good morning.
00:08:05 Morning.
00:08:06 So, uh, you're with the tower, sir.
00:08:09 The tower elevator, sir.
00:08:12 They'll be down in a minute.
00:08:14 Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you.
00:08:16 My pleasure, sir.
00:08:17 Good morning.
00:08:19 Good morning, Ed.
00:08:20 Good morning.
00:08:21 Good morning.
00:08:23 Good morning.
00:08:24 Morning, Jamie.
00:08:25 Good morning, Bill.
00:08:26 Morning, Marge. How was the weekend?
00:08:30 Fine. Your letters are on your desk and the coffee cart will be here in a minute.
00:08:33 I can use some coffee.
00:08:34 Didn't you get any rest at all?
00:08:35 Couldn't even take my kid to the doubleheader.
00:08:37 Aw, what a shame.
00:08:38 That planning report's going to be a real job, Marge.
00:08:41 This'll be a big week for you, too, with that thing.
00:08:44 I believe we'll try a rough first draft.
00:08:46 Long?
00:08:47 No longer than the telephone directory.
00:08:49 Phew!
00:08:50 Marge?
00:08:52 Has Mr. Staples come in yet, Marge?
00:08:56 No, sir.
00:08:58 Mr. Staples?
00:09:00 Yes?
00:09:01 I'm Margaret Lanier, Mr. Ramsey's secretary.
00:09:03 Oh, how do you do?
00:09:04 Mr. Ramsey would, of course, be here to welcome you himself, but you caught him on a long-distance call.
00:09:09 May I take you back to your office?
00:09:11 Well, thank you very much.
00:09:12 And on our way, I might show you some of our other departments.
00:09:15 Have you met Miss Stevens?
00:09:17 I introduced myself as Lanier.
00:09:19 Fine.
00:09:20 And may I bid you my own personal welcome?
00:09:23 We're very glad to see you.
00:09:25 Well, that's very nice of you. Thank you.
00:09:27 Now, if you'll just come with me, Mr. Staples.
00:09:30 Miss Stevens?
00:09:31 Marketing and sales are below here.
00:09:33 We have our own research department on the 40th floor.
00:09:36 Perhaps you'd like to see that later.
00:09:38 This is the executive corridor.
00:09:40 Mr. Ramsey's office is that one down at the end.
00:09:43 Then Mr. Jameson, head of purchasing.
00:09:45 Mr. Briggs.
00:09:46 You'll be working closely with Mr. Briggs.
00:09:48 Mr. Vanderbilt, chief engineer.
00:09:50 And this is your office.
00:09:53 Isn't it nice?
00:09:54 I hope you like it.
00:09:56 Mr. Ramsey was told by someone in your old office
00:09:59 that you were especially fond of this period.
00:10:01 Weren't your office in Mansfield furnished in early American?
00:10:06 My furniture consisted of two filing cabinets
00:10:09 and a surplus metal cabinet.
00:10:11 I was able to get a good deal of it.
00:10:13 I'm sure you'll be happy to see it.
00:10:15 I'm sure you'll be happy to see it.
00:10:17 I'm sure you'll be happy to see it.
00:10:19 It consisted of two filing cabinets
00:10:21 and a surplus metal desk off of a destroyer escort.
00:10:24 No, it's really very attractive.
00:10:30 Very.
00:10:31 I appreciate it very much indeed.
00:10:33 Excuse me, Miss Lanier.
00:10:36 Ann said you wanted to see me.
00:10:37 Oh, yes, Marge.
00:10:38 Mr. Staples, this is Miss Fleming.
00:10:40 How do you do?
00:10:41 Marge, will you see that Mr. Staples has everything he needs
00:10:44 in the way of office equipment?
00:10:46 It was arranged for this morning at Mr. Briggs' suggestion.
00:10:48 Oh, fine.
00:10:49 I must rush now, Mr. Staples.
00:10:51 Again, a most cordial welcome.
00:10:52 Thank you very much.
00:10:53 And, Marge, will you step by at my desk when you finish here, please?
00:10:57 Yes, Miss Lanier.
00:10:58 I think I'd better explain the phone system, Mrs. Staples.
00:11:06 There are four lines.
00:11:08 One is your private line, direct to outside.
00:11:11 Two is for conference calls.
00:11:13 Three is for inter-office.
00:11:14 And four, this button is for your secretary.
00:11:18 Oh, I'm sorry. May I?
00:11:19 Oh, yes, thank you.
00:11:21 Yes, I think I have that.
00:11:24 Let's see.
00:11:26 Outside, inter-office, conference.
00:11:30 Yes, that's fine.
00:11:33 Thank heavens, this isn't early American.
00:11:40 Busy?
00:11:45 No.
00:11:46 No, not at all.
00:11:47 Oh, you must be...
00:11:48 Bill Briggs, your next-door neighbor.
00:11:50 Yes, of course.
00:11:51 Well, I'm certainly glad to meet you, sir.
00:11:53 I think Mr. Ramsey told me you'd been sick, didn't he?
00:11:56 Oh, did he?
00:11:57 Actually, it's just a...
00:11:59 just a pesky stomach that's been acting up on me.
00:12:01 You just in from Mansfield?
00:12:03 Yes, they took a house for...
00:12:05 Oh, sit down, Mr. Briggs.
00:12:06 Settled already?
00:12:08 Good.
00:12:09 I'm not trying to set myself up as a real New Yorker.
00:12:12 Altoona, Pennsylvania, that's where I came from.
00:12:15 My first trip home, I was wearing spats.
00:12:18 I remember my father not being able to get over it.
00:12:20 He says, "Bill, Bill," he says,
00:12:23 "you went to New York to see the sights,
00:12:25 and instead you become one of them."
00:12:27 Well, we just got here Friday afternoon,
00:12:32 so this morning, Nancy insisted...
00:12:34 my wife, she insisted on driving me to work first morning.
00:12:38 You know the way women are.
00:12:40 You know, you come out of a small town, Plants,
00:12:44 you...
00:12:45 you feel a little lost in a place like this.
00:12:48 Well, as I was saying, you know,
00:12:50 we walked into our house Friday afternoon,
00:12:52 we'd never laid eyes on the place before, you know?
00:12:54 And there it was, furnished like a magazine.
00:12:57 Milk in the icebox, bourbon on the shelf, and...
00:13:00 I don't know, you gotta hand it to them,
00:13:02 the way they do things around here.
00:13:04 Yes, Miss Lemire handles all that, does a fine job.
00:13:07 That feeling that I got driving into town this morning...
00:13:13 I got to admit, it's just...
00:13:15 it's just a little overwhelming.
00:13:18 Yes, and it's a pretty wonderful thing
00:13:21 to be as young as you are and...
00:13:23 see it all spread out in front of you like a...
00:13:26 like a Christmas tree.
00:13:29 You know, you think of...
00:13:32 you think of big business,
00:13:34 you always think of it as being...
00:13:36 very impersonal, you know?
00:13:38 But...
00:13:42 that's certainly not true with your Mr. Ramsey.
00:13:44 I know what you mean.
00:13:47 How much time did you put in in Mansfield?
00:13:51 Almost six years.
00:13:53 You must have blown a bugle in Ramsey's ear out in Ohio.
00:13:56 He brought you here in a hurry.
00:13:57 Well, actually, I wasn't at all sure
00:14:00 I wanted to come to New York, but...
00:14:02 this Ramsey is a pretty dynamic man.
00:14:06 Yes, I know.
00:14:08 You see, you've been with the firm some time now,
00:14:11 haven't you?
00:14:12 Oh, maybe 40 years or so.
00:14:15 I seem to recall Mr. Ramsey's talking about you
00:14:19 as a production man.
00:14:21 You're an engineer, aren't you?
00:14:23 Yes, but...
00:14:24 from what he told me,
00:14:26 I guess I'll be a little of everything around here,
00:14:28 mostly in industrial relations.
00:14:30 Industrial relations.
00:14:34 Matter of fact, it's been one of my specialties.
00:14:40 We...
00:14:41 we ought to get along pretty well together.
00:14:44 I'm sure we will.
00:14:46 Excuse me.
00:14:48 Mr. Ramsey's called a meeting in the conference room,
00:14:50 Mr. Briggs.
00:14:51 Oh?
00:14:52 Well, Fred, it's been a real pleasure meeting you.
00:14:55 Thank you.
00:14:56 Mr. Ramsey's expecting Mr. Staples, too.
00:14:58 Oh.
00:15:00 Well, then, I'll...
00:15:03 I'll go in with you if you don't mind.
00:15:05 Not at all.
00:15:09 I just hope Mr. Ramsey remembers hiring me.
00:15:12 Mr. Ramsey rarely forgets anything.
00:15:16 After you.
00:15:17 Thank you.
00:15:18 - Staples? - Yes.
00:15:19 Hello.
00:15:20 Fred, this is Harvey Jamison,
00:15:22 head of purchasing.
00:15:23 Oh, how are you?
00:15:24 So they finally finished it.
00:15:25 What?
00:15:26 Well, Fred, your office on Friday,
00:15:28 the painters and all, it was a madhouse.
00:15:30 Say, Bill, are you taking along Ramsey's breakdown?
00:15:32 No, I forgot that.
00:15:34 A couple of other things I forgot, too.
00:15:36 Jamie, would you and Fred go along together?
00:15:37 I'll be in in a few minutes.
00:15:38 Fine.
00:15:39 I suppose Lanier's given you the cook's tour.
00:15:41 What? Oh, yes.
00:15:42 Is she sure you're in the conference room?
00:15:44 Oh, yes, on the other side, yes.
00:15:46 Mr. Briggs?
00:15:48 What is it, Marge?
00:15:50 I don't know.
00:15:54 Mr. Briggs, I think I ought to resign.
00:15:58 Resign? What are you talking about?
00:16:00 What happened?
00:16:01 What is it, Marge?
00:16:03 Mr. Briggs, I've just been ordered to go over to Mr. Staples
00:16:05 as his new secretary.
00:16:06 Temporarily?
00:16:07 No, I don't think so.
00:16:08 Who gave this order?
00:16:10 Miss Lanier.
00:16:11 When?
00:16:12 About five minutes ago.
00:16:14 I'm supposed to break in your new secretary.
00:16:16 They've picked a new secretary for me?
00:16:18 Yes, I think so.
00:16:20 It's out of the question for you to resign, Marge,
00:16:23 to even think of resigning.
00:16:25 You're a fine, wonderful woman and a great secretary.
00:16:28 That's the reason they want you over with Staples.
00:16:31 He'll need someone like you because he's new here
00:16:33 and they want him to get into harness fast.
00:16:35 Who can tell, Marge, one of these days,
00:16:38 that stomach of mine's a pretty perverse organ
00:16:41 and I'm tired.
00:16:44 You know, as it must to all men.
00:16:47 Mr. Briggs.
00:16:49 Have you any idea who your successor is?
00:16:52 Yes, they've chosen Sylvia Trammell.
00:16:55 Miss Trammell?
00:16:57 If it is so ordained, so be it.
00:16:59 She's new, but she's supposed to be very good at dictation.
00:17:03 Well, we'll give her a chance to prove it.
00:17:06 Mr. Briggs.
00:17:08 If I could only tell you what this job has meant to me.
00:17:12 What working with you has meant to me.
00:17:15 All right, kid.
00:17:17 Wash up, get your money and get out of here.
00:17:20 And give Mr. Staples all the best you've got in you.
00:17:25 I know you will. That's the only way you operate.
00:17:28 I like the guy.
00:17:30 I have a feeling he's going to carve out a career around here.
00:17:33 Yes, sir.
00:17:35 Everybody seems to think so.
00:17:37 I'm sorry to keep you waiting, gentlemen.
00:17:41 Mr. Ramsey will be with us in a moment.
00:17:43 (indistinct chatter)
00:17:45 Been away, have you?
00:18:10 Sorry, Fred, I was held up for a few minutes.
00:18:13 See you later, Fred.
00:18:15 Now, where are we going to sit you?
00:18:17 Here's an empty chair. I guess you can sit right here.
00:18:19 Mr. Staples, will you sit over there, please?
00:18:21 Right next to Mr. Van Deventer.
00:18:23 One down for Mr. Ramsey, please.
00:18:25 Welcome back, Bill. Feeling better?
00:18:30 Much, thank you. A little stomach.
00:18:32 Good. I'm glad it's cleared up.
00:18:35 John, don't forget that contract.
00:18:38 Can you get it through tomorrow?
00:18:40 I think so. I have a plan.
00:18:42 First, gentlemen, I'd like you to look over the mimeo sheet on top.
00:18:46 Haverford Mutual had some doctors look into the matter of executive diets.
00:18:51 Their findings showed incredible deficiencies.
00:18:54 They've gotten up some food tables.
00:18:56 I've had the mimeo.
00:18:58 I'd like you to look them over.
00:19:00 As you know, it's in my feeling that a healthy executive is an efficient one.
00:19:07 I think it not amiss now to introduce the newest member of our team, Mr. Fred Staples.
00:19:12 He's from Mansfield, Ohio.
00:19:14 As you all know, he was general manager of Queen's City Tool & Dye until we took it over.
00:19:19 His record there was a brilliant one.
00:19:21 He's a production engineer by training, an industrial relations man by instinct.
00:19:25 I expect good things from him.
00:19:34 You've probably met everyone, but just for the record, reading from left to right...
00:19:39 Mr. Jameson, head of purchasing.
00:19:41 Mr. Granigan, controller.
00:19:43 Mr. Gordon, head of sales.
00:19:45 Mr. Latham, head of service.
00:19:47 Mr. Portier, chief of operations.
00:19:49 Nice knowing him.
00:19:51 And Mr. Van de Venter, chief engineer.
00:19:53 - How are you? Nice to see you. - Pleasure.
00:19:56 Oh, and of course you've met Mr. Briggs.
00:19:59 Oh, yes. He's our vice president, assistant general manager...
00:20:02 in charge of everything that everybody else forgets to do.
00:20:05 Now, gentlemen, you all have before you a copy of the Williamston plant purchase prospectus.
00:20:12 Mr. Jameson, did you attach your supplements?
00:20:15 It's right there, Mr. Ramsey. Page 17R, under process equipment.
00:20:19 And, Mr. Granigan, the stock purchase plan I outlined, I have your comments here?
00:20:23 - You do, Mr. Ramsey. - Good.
00:20:25 - Feasible, is it? - Very much so, in my opinion.
00:20:28 Good.
00:20:30 Well, that about winds it up, unless there are any further points to be made.
00:20:35 I do think, Mr. Ramsey, if we could keep the transaction under wraps for a bit,
00:20:38 at least during the preliminaries.
00:20:40 You know, what'll happen to the stock quotations if it leaks out that we've agreed to purchase?
00:20:44 I've arranged it this way.
00:20:46 The stock quotation as of yesterday morning...
00:20:49 You seem to be straining at the leash, Mr. Briggs, or am I mistaken?
00:20:57 You mention here that probable time of purchase would be sometime in June.
00:21:00 Are the plants to be in receivership until then?
00:21:02 That seems to be what it says.
00:21:04 That means six months with improper maintenance of equipment.
00:21:07 Oh, I doubt it, Bill. I've had two of my best men out there for the last six weeks.
00:21:11 We had a varying voltage problem, but that was taken care of.
00:21:14 Maintenance-wise, I doubt if there'll be $1,000 worth of deterioration.
00:21:18 - How about goodwill? - What about it?
00:21:20 The plant employs 900 men. That's half the working force of the village.
00:21:24 - So? - So what do we do with these men?
00:21:27 Cover them with cosmoline and put them away in a drawer until we get ready to resume production?
00:21:31 I thought your concern was for the plant.
00:21:33 And what good is the plant without the men?
00:21:35 You chop a village payroll in half for six months and you might not have a plant,
00:21:38 because you might not have a village.
00:21:40 Mr. Briggs, if we may be permitted to disregard for the moment the considerations that you have brought up,
00:21:45 what about the rest of the plan?
00:21:47 I'd say it was adequate.
00:21:49 Adequate?
00:21:53 That gentleman is the kiss of death, believe me.
00:21:56 I've known Mr. Briggs for a long time.
00:21:58 When he says something is adequate, what he means is that it is entirely inadequate.
00:22:02 I must admit to feeling a concern over some 900 men suddenly deprived of a livelihood.
00:22:06 Mr. Briggs, if you would do me the goodness to look at what I consider to be a fairly elementary business principle.
00:22:11 By putting 900 men out of work temporarily,
00:22:14 we may ultimately employ twice that number in the same town.
00:22:17 By cutting production costs as a result, we will then be able to compete more favorably in the market.
00:22:22 Thus, we'll be able to sell more goods.
00:22:24 We're not going to ruin that town, we're going to make it.
00:22:27 I should think, Mr. Briggs, that after 30 years,
00:22:29 you'd be able to think beyond the tongue-clucking stage
00:22:32 and come up with something resembling an analytical point of view.
00:22:35 I was under the impression I'd given you a point of view.
00:22:37 I saw none!
00:22:38 I perceived what amounts to a rather emotional little tidbit
00:22:41 that was decidedly more charitable than cooperative, and by no means thought through.
00:22:45 I asked, I believe, for an objective view of a business venture.
00:22:48 From you I got, and I seem constantly to be getting, a very negative response of any at all.
00:22:53 Adequate, I believe you said.
00:22:55 Well, Mr. Briggs, this little move will save us conservatively half a million dollars,
00:22:59 which we'll be able to put back into the business.
00:23:01 I must say you take a liberal view of adequacy.
00:23:04 I didn't intend to make a central issue out of this, but I did feel it important enough to air in this meeting.
00:23:08 Well, you have aired it in this meeting.
00:23:15 I think it's a good thing you did.
00:23:17 But I think, Bill, we're pretty much of one mind about it now.
00:23:20 Then we may assume the matter is closed now.
00:23:23 Mr. Briggs.
00:23:25 How about you, Mr. Staples?
00:23:36 Do you have an opinion?
00:23:38 No.
00:23:39 No, I think not, Mr. Renzi.
00:23:41 Why not?
00:23:44 Well, frankly, it's a little out of my grasp at the moment.
00:23:47 I don't know anything about the firm, its corporative set up, reasons for bankruptcy.
00:23:52 Or for that matter, its product.
00:23:54 I'm afraid I'll have to pass.
00:23:56 Good answer.
00:23:59 I respect thoughtful judgment, Mr. Staples.
00:24:03 Congratulations.
00:24:05 We'll adjourn now until two o'clock.
00:24:12 I'm sorry we got started so late this morning, but I wanted this analysis mimeoed for your inspection.
00:24:17 After lunch, we'll take up the Portland report, which you have before you.
00:24:21 Mr. Granigan attended the stockholders' meeting there on Tuesday, and we'll begin our discussion with his report.
00:24:27 That's all.
00:24:29 All right, sir.
00:24:31 Oh, Bill.
00:24:33 All right, come and have some lunch, eh?
00:24:36 Oh, thank you.
00:24:40 Oh, Bill, wasn't there something you wanted to speak to me about before?
00:24:44 Nothing important.
00:24:45 Fine.
00:24:46 Tummy's all right, eh?
00:24:47 Cast iron. Couldn't be better.
00:24:49 Good. Keep it up.
00:24:51 Oh, uh, Staples.
00:24:54 See you later.
00:24:55 You bet.
00:24:56 Good to have you with us, Staples.
00:24:59 Thank you.
00:25:00 The arrangement satisfactory?
00:25:01 Oh, yes, just perfect. I'm sure you'll be hearing from my wife very soon about that.
00:25:05 It's a beautiful house.
00:25:06 Beautiful country up there. I'm sure you'll love it.
00:25:09 Oh, uh, see you later, Bill.
00:25:12 Oh, Fred.
00:25:15 Briggs is working on a project now, a comprehensive planning report.
00:25:20 The point is that it's very important.
00:25:22 Most important, indeed, for our future program.
00:25:24 And it's far too big a job for Briggs, or for any one man to handle.
00:25:28 Now, what I want you to do is get your finger in there.
00:25:31 Certainly.
00:25:32 What I mean is more than just your finger.
00:25:34 You understand?
00:25:36 Yes, Mr. Ramsey, you make that quite clear.
00:25:39 (clattering)
00:25:41 Oh, could I see you a minute, Miss Fleming?
00:25:53 (clattering)
00:25:55 Yes, sir?
00:26:13 Oh, I wonder if you could check for me, please, as to who's to be my secretary.
00:26:18 I need some notes typed up.
00:26:21 I'm to be your secretary, Mr. Staples.
00:26:23 But I thought Mr. Briggs...
00:26:28 It was arranged for just before the meeting, Mr. Staples.
00:26:31 I take it you'd rather remain with Mr. Briggs.
00:26:36 I was Mr. Briggs' secretary for seven years, Mr. Staples.
00:26:39 Well, in that case, I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to get someone else.
00:26:43 It was Mr. Ramsey's idea.
00:26:48 Do you want to give me those notes now?
00:26:50 No, uh, why don't you have your lunch first, Miss Fleming?
00:26:58 We'll take care of these when you come back.
00:27:00 Mr. Briggs?
00:27:17 (clattering)
00:27:19 There are some notes here that...
00:27:23 Later, Marge.
00:27:24 I'll do it later.
00:27:26 (clattering)
00:27:28 (clattering)
00:27:30 (clattering)
00:27:32 (clattering)
00:27:34 (clattering)
00:27:51 (train rumbling)
00:27:53 Darling, you didn't say anything about my new hairdo. Do you like it?
00:28:11 Yeah, it's lovely.
00:28:13 Wish you could see the new dresses I bought. They're just beautiful.
00:28:20 Where are they?
00:28:21 Oh, they're still at the store having little things done to them.
00:28:24 Go on in the kitchen. I'll fix you a drink.
00:28:27 Not the kitchen. The library.
00:28:30 Oh.
00:28:33 I hoped they'd have the dresses ready and have them sent over to your office this afternoon.
00:28:45 I spoke to your secretary about it when I called.
00:28:48 It's funny she didn't mention it.
00:28:50 They didn't get the job done in time.
00:28:53 She had a nice voice. What's she like?
00:28:55 Who?
00:28:57 Your secretary.
00:28:59 Oh.
00:29:00 What you might expect.
00:29:02 You know.
00:29:04 What's her name?
00:29:07 I'll tell you the truth, I didn't get her name.
00:29:11 Only your dimensions.
00:29:13 (laughs) All right.
00:29:16 No, her name is Fleming.
00:29:18 So happens you don't have a thing in the world to worry about.
00:29:22 She doesn't like me worth a bit.
00:29:24 Why?
00:29:26 Well, I guess she prefers working for her former boss.
00:29:31 Well, then why doesn't she?
00:29:34 I don't know. Some kind of...
00:29:36 ...strategy at the top, I guess.
00:29:40 That sounds funny.
00:29:43 Yeah.
00:29:46 Her ex-boss happens to be only one of the vice presidents.
00:29:50 My superior and a very nice guy to boot.
00:29:54 Could that perhaps be a good sign?
00:29:58 You figure it out. Left me a little up in the air.
00:30:01 You know, Nancy, running a plant in Ohio is beginning to take on all the...
00:30:10 ...aspects of a nice, simple, uncomplicated gravy train.
00:30:15 What happened today?
00:30:19 Oh, nothing really.
00:30:21 Just...
00:30:23 ...an impression, I guess.
00:30:25 Sort of...
00:30:29 ...queer undercurrents and tensions and...
00:30:33 Good luck.
00:30:38 Good luck.
00:31:07 Mr. Ramsey?
00:31:08 Good morning, Mr. Ramsey.
00:31:10 Mr. Stevens?
00:31:11 Fine, thanks, Jerry.
00:31:16 Let me see that breakdown again.
00:31:18 Oh, sure.
00:31:19 Miss Fleming, would you step in for a minute, please?
00:31:21 Yes, Mr. Stevens.
00:31:22 No, that's a good one.
00:31:28 Oh, sorry.
00:31:29 Let me see this.
00:31:30 Here's... Yeah.
00:31:32 Now, this is the only one that I have cross-indexed for division, so don't let him keep it.
00:31:36 I want Billy to take my letter from Henry Jacobson with him.
00:31:39 Oh, yes.
00:31:40 Now, look, Billy.
00:31:41 Henry is a nice, sincere guy, you know?
00:31:45 Made out of Bessemer steel.
00:31:47 He hasn't been off of his duff since he learned how to walk.
00:31:49 He started out stoking coke furnaces when he was 14,
00:31:52 was mill foreman when he was 20,
00:31:54 and then he ended up buying the whole plant for his own 40th birthday present, so...
00:31:57 You know what I mean. Watch out.
00:31:59 I sure will.
00:32:00 Now, give him that report, and then remember what he says.
00:32:02 Make stenographic notes when you can,
00:32:04 and when you can't, put it all down on paper as soon as you get out of the office.
00:32:07 No approximations.
00:32:08 Make it as... Yes, I know.
00:32:09 I want to know what they're thinking.
00:32:11 I want to know how they feel about every paragraph of that thing.
00:32:13 I just hope they'll open up more to you than they did to me.
00:32:16 I'll be down there sometime next week for their decision.
00:32:18 Okay.
00:32:19 Mention that to him, will you?
00:32:20 Yes, I will.
00:32:21 Hello?
00:32:22 Uh... Hold it, please, just a second.
00:32:25 Have a nice trip, Billy, and be sure and call me Sunday night.
00:32:28 Yeah, I will. Thank you very much.
00:32:29 Thank you, Mark.
00:32:30 Yes, put him on.
00:32:31 Don't go away, Mr. Fleming, please.
00:32:33 Hello?
00:32:34 Judd!
00:32:35 Look, I'm sorry, I meant to call you right back.
00:32:37 Uh, it's about that Atlantic States Nitrate meeting set up for October the 3rd.
00:32:41 I'd like a delay on that.
00:32:42 Well, I want to walk in there sure on my ground,
00:32:48 and October's not going to give me any ground at all.
00:32:51 Yeah, could you do that?
00:32:55 That'll be a help.
00:32:57 November 7th?
00:33:00 Fine.
00:33:02 Look, I'll see you in the dining room.
00:33:04 Okay, good.
00:33:05 Put that on my calendar, please.
00:33:08 Now then, uh...
00:33:10 Would you get those wires off?
00:33:11 Yes, sir.
00:33:12 Good. Right after lunch, I want you to set up a conference call
00:33:14 with Ramsey, Jameson, myself, with Frank Dering in Denver.
00:33:17 Got a minute, Fred?
00:33:19 Sorry, Mark, this is urgent.
00:33:20 It's about that NLRB vote in Portland.
00:33:22 What about it?
00:33:23 Ramsey's grumbling about it.
00:33:24 He thinks it's premature.
00:33:25 Premature? What's he talking about?
00:33:28 He's had that plant running on wishful thinking for 19 years.
00:33:31 He's had that plant running on wishful thinking for 19 months now.
00:33:33 We've got a labor problem out there, all primed to explode in our face.
00:33:37 Now look, Bill, you better walk in his office with a great big neon sign,
00:33:40 "Strike," you know?
00:33:42 Then tell him I've got a little estimate worked out
00:33:44 that it'll cost us conservatively $4,000 a day if that plant goes out.
00:33:47 Oof, you know how that'll hit him.
00:33:49 Yeah, well, you go in there and dig up the ground,
00:33:51 and I'll follow you with a bulldozer, and we'll plow him under.
00:33:54 Now, we've got 800 big lumberjacks out there,
00:33:56 and if they go, that'll do it big, you know.
00:33:58 This won't be any one-week picket.
00:33:59 This thing could go on for a year with no strain at all.
00:34:02 You walk in there, set the charge, and I'll be in to light the fuse, huh?
00:34:05 Fine.
00:34:06 I'll have to call you back.
00:34:08 Is 2.30 convenient for your call to Denver, Mr. Staples?
00:34:17 For everything else on?
00:34:19 I've got another problem out here, if you can spare a minute.
00:34:21 Well, Paul, how are you, partner?
00:34:23 Mr. Staples, that gun.
00:34:25 Oh, you got it, huh? You like it? You try it out yet?
00:34:27 Try it yet. 30 seconds from the time he read Winchester double barrel on the box,
00:34:30 he was sighting it.
00:34:31 Well, how about going out for a little skeet shooting on Sunday?
00:34:33 Give it a try, huh?
00:34:34 Wonderful. Can I, Dad?
00:34:36 He's all yours, Fred.
00:34:37 He's a little too strenuous for me.
00:34:39 Mr. Staples doesn't get tired like you do, Dad.
00:34:41 I don't get tired.
00:34:43 He was an all-American.
00:34:44 Well, it was just horrific, so I had to stop by and thank you.
00:34:46 You forget it.
00:34:47 Well, so long. I'll see you outside.
00:34:49 All right.
00:34:50 Real thoughtful of you, Fred.
00:34:54 It was my pleasure, Bill.
00:34:56 Hello, Mr. Ramsey.
00:34:57 How are you, Paul? Still taking your vitamins, are you?
00:35:00 I guess so, sir.
00:35:01 Fine, fine. Keep it up.
00:35:03 Excuse me, Mr. Ramsey.
00:35:06 Oh, man, I'm tired.
00:35:10 I've made arrangements for your call to Denver, Mr. Staples.
00:35:12 If I could go over one paragraph...
00:35:13 No, I think I'll knock that off after lunch, if you don't mind, Miss Fleming.
00:35:17 All right, Mr. Staples.
00:35:18 No, drink it here. Relax a minute.
00:35:22 Thank you.
00:35:24 I will?
00:35:25 Would you like some of mine?
00:35:46 Yes, thank you. As a matter of fact, I would.
00:35:50 No, that is plenty. Thank you.
00:35:52 Where'd you play your football, Mr. Staples?
00:35:59 Oh, Ohio State, but don't ask me the years. I won't tell you.
00:36:04 I won't ask you.
00:36:05 Anyway, I feel about three times older than when I first came here.
00:36:09 They've kept you busy.
00:36:11 Yes, they sure have.
00:36:13 I'm afraid I'm going to have to go.
00:36:17 Yes, they sure have.
00:36:18 You've done very well. You fitted in quickly.
00:36:22 Thank you.
00:36:27 You know, I think that's the first out-and-out friendly thing you've said to me.
00:36:34 I think you resent me a little, don't you, Miss Fleming?
00:36:37 I don't know why. You should...
00:36:38 Well, it's just a feeling that I've gotten from time to time.
00:36:44 You work with a man for a long time, a fine man.
00:36:47 You become part of him. You identify yourself with him.
00:36:50 Then along comes the new man.
00:36:52 I like Bill Briggs. I like him a lot.
00:36:55 I have from the first.
00:36:57 If I have done or said anything...
00:36:59 No, no, no. Of course not.
00:37:01 Because I must say, you've been very fair.
00:37:05 But seven years isn't a day.
00:37:10 I owe a lot to Mr. Briggs.
00:37:14 Mr. Briggs is the last of the original bunch around here.
00:37:17 The people who really started this business.
00:37:19 That's not easy to be the last of the original bunch.
00:37:22 I know.
00:37:24 He's not well. He has a bad heart.
00:37:27 And an ulcer.
00:37:29 I guess that's just about par for the executive course, isn't it?
00:37:34 Well, I guess I've always been a field man.
00:37:37 I haven't been an executive long enough to find that out for myself.
00:37:40 But you're a good one.
00:37:42 I think you're a very good executive.
00:37:44 You admit mistakes.
00:37:47 You don't pass the buck.
00:37:49 You're a lot like Mr. Briggs that way.
00:37:53 I take that as a very nice compliment.
00:37:56 I mean it.
00:37:57 Mr. Briggs' only trouble is that he could never be a yes man.
00:38:01 Not even to Mr. Ramsey himself.
00:38:03 He always has to speak his mind.
00:38:07 And Mr. Ramsey doesn't like his judgment questioned.
00:38:11 You either go along...
00:38:13 or you get off.
00:38:15 Bill Briggs never got off.
00:38:18 No, he never did.
00:38:20 But maybe he's about to be pushed.
00:38:24 ...he blew up at the next round and then Howard went right by him with a 65.
00:38:36 A 65, I ask you.
00:38:37 Seven birdies and he sank an 82-foot putt on the last green for a deep.
00:38:40 Oh, hello, my dear. You know, that's some golf.
00:38:42 The coffee will be ready in just a little while.
00:39:06 Fine.
00:39:07 You know, my father's recipe for coffee was to mix salt and chocolate with the grounds.
00:39:14 Cook them all up together.
00:39:16 He'd never drink anything else.
00:39:19 Sounds wonderful.
00:39:20 They serve it at a small downtown restaurant I eat at occasionally.
00:39:26 I must remember to mention it to Fred.
00:39:29 You said he was a confirmed coffee drinker?
00:39:34 Dedicated.
00:39:35 Fine.
00:39:37 He's quite a young man, this husband of yours.
00:39:40 Have you had a chance to read much of the report?
00:39:43 Of course, it isn't finished yet, but...
00:39:45 Well, thank you for letting me see this much.
00:39:47 Not according to Miss Post, I suppose, at the dinner party, but...
00:39:51 it makes me extremely proud of my gentleman.
00:39:55 So happy.
00:39:57 He's been worried about it and...
00:39:59 Nancy!
00:40:00 Will you excuse me?
00:40:03 Yes.
00:40:04 Wonderful party, you two.
00:40:12 Makes me think I should get married.
00:40:14 Oh, don't do anything as drastic as that.
00:40:16 Wonderful having you, Ed. Come again soon.
00:40:18 You try keeping me away. I'll see you at the office tomorrow, Fred.
00:40:21 Yes, bright and early, Ed.
00:40:22 Good night.
00:40:23 Ah, Jamie, you don't have to go yet. Stick around a while. It's early.
00:40:26 Of course, I'd love to stay all night, however.
00:40:28 We're going home.
00:40:29 Can't get him out of here, Nancy. Usually he leaves office parties as soon as the canapes are fast.
00:40:34 I thought everybody behaved very well.
00:40:36 I thought so.
00:40:37 Gotta get some credit for that.
00:40:38 Not again.
00:40:39 I was beginning to like all of them.
00:40:41 Will you come over and see us?
00:40:43 Certainly.
00:40:44 Come over during the day?
00:40:45 You know, nowadays, Jamie never gets home at all.
00:40:47 I think we wives ought to form a union.
00:40:49 You're right. We should.
00:40:50 Good night, dear.
00:40:51 Bye-bye.
00:40:52 Good night.
00:40:54 I wonder what happened to Bill Briggs tonight.
00:40:56 Oh, darling, I forgot to tell you. He phoned earlier.
00:41:00 He said he wanted to come, but he just didn't feel up to it.
00:41:02 Oh, Nancy, I wish you'd have called me to the phone. I wanted to talk to him anyway.
00:41:05 Darling, you were busy.
00:41:07 Well, I know, but I...
00:41:09 What about Ramsey? Is he planning to spend the night?
00:41:13 No. He just gravitated towards the library and made himself cozy.
00:41:18 That sounds a little like artificial gravitation to me.
00:41:21 You didn't have anything to do with it, of course.
00:41:23 Well, he's really an amazing person.
00:41:27 You know, I expected a real tycoon, but he's so simple, almost childlike.
00:41:33 Baby, I just hope by mistake you never wander into a jungle.
00:41:37 Good night, dear.
00:41:40 Good night.
00:41:41 You have a wonderful party.
00:41:42 Thank you.
00:41:43 Good night.
00:41:44 Good night.
00:41:45 Good night.
00:41:46 Good night.
00:41:47 Thank you.
00:41:48 Some interesting reading matter here, Fred.
00:41:54 Very interesting reading.
00:41:56 I took the liberty of accepting your wife's kind invitation to look over your report.
00:42:01 Oh, really?
00:42:03 Good, heady stuff.
00:42:05 Good, solid thinking.
00:42:07 And some of it is better than good.
00:42:09 Of course, I can't say that I agree with all your conclusions, but I listen to arguments.
00:42:16 It'll be good to hear arguments for a change.
00:42:18 Good arguments.
00:42:20 Well, I can't tell you what a relief that is.
00:42:23 We really sweat that one out.
00:42:24 Fred, I like a man to show initiative.
00:42:26 I like a man who's not afraid to think a new thought, to take a different kind of step on his own.
00:42:32 With your permission, I'll borrow this extra copy of your report just overnight.
00:42:38 But for now, I can say I'm very impressed.
00:42:44 Well, of course, we haven't finished this thing yet, but Bill and I feel that another week...
00:42:47 Bill?
00:42:48 You mean Briggs?
00:42:51 Yes, sir. Well, we worked together on this.
00:42:55 Oh, come now, Staples.
00:42:57 I pride myself on my sense for style.
00:43:00 I can link what I see with what I know to be peculiar to a certain individual.
00:43:05 And I know Bill Briggs well.
00:43:07 I've been exposed to it since I was a voting age.
00:43:09 This...
00:43:11 This isn't his style.
00:43:13 It isn't his brand of thinking.
00:43:14 Well, I don't know what Nancy could have told you, but Bill and I worked together...
00:43:18 Fred, learn to accept success.
00:43:20 It's tougher sometimes than learning to accept failure.
00:43:23 Don't take half of your accomplishment and...
00:43:26 and hand it out gratuitously to the man on your left who hasn't the stuff to do it on his own.
00:43:31 That's charitable, humane, and it makes you feel good.
00:43:35 But it's not business.
00:43:36 Mr. Ramsey, I'd like to clear up one point.
00:43:38 There'll be a meeting on Tuesday, Fred.
00:43:40 We can discuss the report then.
00:43:42 I assure you I don't want any undue credit.
00:43:44 I never extend undue credit!
00:43:47 Ask anybody!
00:43:48 Ask your friend Briggs!
00:43:49 You think I'm tough on him, don't you?
00:43:53 I am tough on him.
00:43:56 Well, I think Bill is...
00:44:02 I think he's a good man.
00:44:05 He was.
00:44:06 And grandfather clocks were good clocks,
00:44:09 and Stanley steamers were good automobiles,
00:44:11 but you can't run them in competition today.
00:44:13 I must say that I like some of his ideas very much.
00:44:18 Very much indeed.
00:44:20 So do I.
00:44:21 Some of them.
00:44:23 Not many.
00:44:25 Still, a man with...
00:44:28 Bill's experience and...
00:44:30 I don't know, I think he'd be very hard to replace.
00:44:34 I'll see if that coffee's ready.
00:44:36 Are you serious, Fred?
00:44:37 Briggs would be hard to replace?
00:44:39 Do you honestly think that?
00:44:41 And why do you think I brought you on here from Mansfield on such short notice?
00:44:45 Do you think that was a whim?
00:44:47 Is that what you think?
00:44:48 Fred, you're Briggs' replacement!
00:44:51 I thought you understood that.
00:44:53 I'm...
00:44:56 expecting his resignation.
00:44:59 I don't like to prolong these things.
00:45:01 They're unpleasant and personal, no matter what tack you use.
00:45:06 And, under no circumstances could I or would I undertake to fire him.
00:45:12 Coffee's in the living room.
00:45:20 I thought perhaps you'd like to go in there. It's quiet.
00:45:22 Look at the time. I really must go.
00:45:24 It's been a wonderful evening.
00:45:26 I'm sorry you have to leave so soon.
00:45:29 I really must.
00:45:30 My coat, I think, is in the bedroom.
00:45:35 Oh, yes, of course. I'll get it for you.
00:45:37 May I make a suggestion?
00:45:49 Mr. Ramsey, I don't want to seem ungrateful.
00:45:53 I'm not looking for gratitude!
00:45:55 You can't run a business on thank-you notes!
00:45:58 That's Briggs' trouble!
00:46:00 And, God forgive me, that was my father's trouble, too.
00:46:04 This...
00:46:05 This incredible conception of a huge industry being run like a soup kitchen,
00:46:10 like a... like a welfare comfort station.
00:46:13 I know what the old-timers think of me.
00:46:17 I've grown up getting stared at by a lot of tongue-clucking old fogies who find me ruthless.
00:46:23 The kind of people who represent everything that might have kept our business
00:46:27 from growing to anything like its present size.
00:46:31 This... this stupid black-and-white idea that honesty and fair profit are incompatible.
00:46:36 I just happen to feel that the atmosphere of a large corporation
00:46:42 cannot be constantly cathedral-like.
00:46:45 Thank you, Mrs. Staples.
00:46:59 And, again, thanks for a wonderful evening.
00:47:02 I'll see you in the morning, Fred.
00:47:11 You didn't steal that promotion.
00:47:15 You won it.
00:47:17 Remember that.
00:47:19 Good night, Mr. Ramsey. I hope you'll come soon again.
00:47:28 Thank you, Nancy. I hope I'll be able to. Good night.
00:47:30 Good night.
00:47:31 What was that all about?
00:47:48 I'm Bill Briggs' replacement.
00:47:51 A vice-presidency.
00:47:54 You must have really spread it on him.
00:47:57 Listen.
00:47:58 A little rare roast beef and wifely pride don't get you that kind of a promotion.
00:48:04 Yeah, I'll take something a little more.
00:48:06 A little misrepresentation for one thing.
00:48:09 A little switch in authorship for another.
00:48:12 You told him I'd written that report.
00:48:14 I did not. I told him, Bill, it helped you.
00:48:16 But, Nancy, this is Bill's basic idea.
00:48:19 Oh, the same set of ideas that he's had for years. I gathered that much.
00:48:22 You gave it life. You made it work. You made it practical.
00:48:25 Even so, Nancy, I don't want any part of it.
00:48:27 Oh, Fred, I happen to know what you contributed to this.
00:48:29 I also know that you can't stand winning if you have even a nodding acquaintance with a loser.
00:48:34 I don't like stepping on another human being to get into our capital gains bracket.
00:48:38 Ramsey's stalking that poor guy like an animal.
00:48:40 He'll whip him to death if he has to to make him resign.
00:48:42 I didn't hear you tell Mr. Ramsey that he was mistaken.
00:48:44 I didn't hear any clear-cut defense of Mr. Briggs.
00:48:47 If you don't want to be successful, go and tell that to Mr. Ramsey.
00:48:50 He'll give you a prom.
00:48:51 Will you please?
00:48:52 And you can check in at 7 o'clock every night. But don't tell him.
00:48:54 I don't want to argue about it.
00:48:55 No, I don't do. I just want you to answer me.
00:48:58 Did you tell him that your wife was mistaken?
00:49:01 Did you tell him that you were taking vows for something you did not do?
00:49:04 No.
00:49:12 No, I didn't.
00:49:15 Why not, Fred?
00:49:19 Why not?
00:49:21 Because I want the job.
00:49:23 Thank you.
00:49:27 For a straight and honest answer.
00:49:30 Now I think we can both sleep tonight.
00:49:34 Now I think we can both sleep tonight.
00:49:36 I'm going to bed.
00:49:37 Good night.
00:49:39 [Door opens]
00:49:40 [Door closes]
00:50:07 Hi.
00:50:08 Good morning, Paul.
00:50:09 Where's Cora?
00:50:11 She's late, I guess.
00:50:12 Aren't you going to be late for school?
00:50:20 It's only 8.10.
00:50:21 I've still got six minutes.
00:50:23 You've got to figure out to a science, haven't you?
00:50:26 I've just got to figure out how far I have to go and how long it's going to take me.
00:50:32 Well, if you found that out, you've found out a lot.
00:50:36 Thanks for breakfast.
00:50:38 You worked late again last night.
00:50:42 Yeah, no rest for the weary.
00:50:44 You haven't got it down to a science yet, have you, Dad?
00:50:48 What?
00:50:49 How far you have to go and how long it'll take you.
00:50:53 What's the matter, Paul?
00:50:57 Here, here's last night's double head.
00:51:04 The one we were going to see.
00:51:06 Oh, I forgot all about it, Paul.
00:51:08 I'm... I'm sorry.
00:51:10 We didn't miss much.
00:51:12 I watched it on television.
00:51:13 Crummy double header.
00:51:15 The Braves took both of them.
00:51:16 You're lucky.
00:51:17 The Yanks are playing tonight, aren't they?
00:51:20 Yeah, they play the Red Sox.
00:51:21 Let's start all over again.
00:51:23 You meet me at the office, we'll have dinner, and then we'll go to the game together.
00:51:26 Sounds good.
00:51:27 It's a date.
00:51:28 You're on.
00:51:30 So long, Dad.
00:51:32 Have a good day and...
00:51:34 Uh, if you can't make it tonight, would you give me a call at school?
00:51:39 I've raised the world's worst pessimist.
00:51:42 At eight o'clock in the morning, you're figuring out the worst possible thing that could happen at six o'clock tonight.
00:51:46 Upstairs in my room, I've...
00:51:49 I've got a drawer full of tickets to ball games we've never seen.
00:51:52 Because of that stuff.
00:51:54 But, um...
00:51:56 Call me if you can't, Dad. It's important.
00:51:58 I'll make it this time, son.
00:52:01 Can't you have another glass of milk and maybe tell me about last night's doubleheader?
00:52:05 I'd be late.
00:52:07 Wish I could.
00:52:08 So long, Dad.
00:52:10 Take it easy.
00:52:11 Sure.
00:52:13 Good evening, Mr. Staple.
00:52:14 Good evening, Sally.
00:52:38 (Doorbell rings)
00:52:40 Paul?
00:52:52 Hi, Bill.
00:53:03 Hi, Fred.
00:53:06 I thought it was my son.
00:53:07 He's gonna pick me up.
00:53:09 Got time for a cigarette?
00:53:12 Sure.
00:53:15 What are you doing here? I thought you were going to the ball game.
00:53:22 I've had a miserable headache since dinner.
00:53:24 So I sent Paul on to see the game alone.
00:53:28 He's gonna pick me up.
00:53:29 How long have you been here?
00:53:31 Couple of hours, I guess.
00:53:33 Can I get you an aspirin or something?
00:53:35 Oh, no, no. It's much better now.
00:53:37 Anyway, it gave me a chance to look over the supplements you did for the report.
00:53:44 I think Ramsey's right, Fred.
00:53:48 You may be an engineer by diploma, but you're a...
00:53:51 Crackerjack industrial planner by instinct or something.
00:53:55 Coming from you, Bill, that sounds real good.
00:53:58 No quid pro quo.
00:54:01 That sounds real good.
00:54:02 No question about it.
00:54:04 Some of your suggestions were great, Fred.
00:54:07 Really great.
00:54:08 I've incorporated them verbatim.
00:54:10 I like your approach, Fred.
00:54:15 You think of people in terms of the human factor.
00:54:18 Not just logistically.
00:54:21 Something I've never been able to make Ramsey understand.
00:54:25 Anyway, now he can't complain.
00:54:28 I turn in the same report every year.
00:54:31 He won't be able to say that this year.
00:54:33 Join me, Fred?
00:54:37 No thanks, Bill. I've got to pick Nancy up for supper and...
00:54:42 And that long drive home, you know.
00:54:45 I don't know. Maybe I'm just getting old.
00:54:52 I used to be pretty tough.
00:54:55 Still tough, I guess.
00:54:59 But every now and then I get tired.
00:55:02 Tired of arguments. Tired of battling.
00:55:09 Tired of the whole bloody mess with all this fancy organization and super finagling.
00:55:14 Oh, I know it's legal and modern and all that.
00:55:17 It's what they call the trend, isn't it?
00:55:19 In the old days, things were a lot simpler.
00:55:22 Businesses grow, Bill.
00:55:25 This business didn't grow.
00:55:27 Not since old man Ramsey passed on.
00:55:29 It's been added to.
00:55:31 That's not growth.
00:55:32 It's just plain acquisition of business of stock transfers and bank loans.
00:55:37 Manipulated by hired shysters and their sharpshooting accountants.
00:55:41 And organized and controlled by a barracuda like Walter Ramsey.
00:55:46 You sure you won't have a snifter, Fred?
00:55:50 I wish you would.
00:55:52 No.
00:55:55 Well, times change, Bill. You know that.
00:55:57 But do they always change for the better?
00:55:59 Old man Ramsey could walk down a production line and call every man by his first name.
00:56:03 And get called by his first name in return.
00:56:06 I know that feeling. Believe me.
00:56:09 He didn't need public relations experts.
00:56:12 Honor was enough. Character.
00:56:15 And he never sold a share of stock in his company either.
00:56:18 Not till the depression came along and he had to raise cash or go under.
00:56:23 And do you know why?
00:56:24 Because he would not lay off one single man.
00:56:27 That's the kind of man Jim Ramsey was.
00:56:30 Now I sit in that fancy conference room with Jim Ramsey's son.
00:56:36 I sit there and I see all the old man's principles.
00:56:41 All his beliefs.
00:56:43 Every single thing holy to him.
00:56:45 Jobbed off by this spindly little financial wizard.
00:56:50 Wall-eyed, ice-coated little rooster who knows more about debentures than he does about the human heart.
00:56:55 Bill. I'm all right.
00:56:57 Take it easy. I'm all right.
00:56:59 Begin to work yourself up. I'm all right.
00:57:02 Sit down, friend.
00:57:06 Sit down quietly and be a nice, sympathetic friend and associate.
00:57:12 I'm wondering if you're as good a human being as you are an industrial relations man.
00:57:20 He doesn't like you, does he?
00:57:22 No.
00:57:24 Bill, has it ever occurred to you to resign?
00:57:30 Of course it has. A thousand times.
00:57:33 Why don't you?
00:57:36 What?
00:57:38 Resign.
00:57:40 You can't take the chance of letting this man fire you.
00:57:46 On our level, you don't get fired. You know that.
00:57:49 After 30 years of productive work, they can't say to a man like me, "All right, now get out."
00:57:54 They just can't do that.
00:57:56 So what do they do?
00:57:58 They create a situation.
00:58:01 A situation you can't work in and finally that you can't live in.
00:58:06 Where there's tension, abuse, small humiliations.
00:58:13 It all starts out on a scale so subtle, so microscopic,
00:58:17 that at first you can't really believe it's happening at all.
00:58:22 But gradually the thing begins to take shape.
00:58:26 The pieces fit together, all the little bits, and it becomes unmistakable.
00:58:31 They chip away at your pride, your security,
00:58:35 until you begin to have doubts.
00:58:40 Doubts.
00:58:41 Then fears.
00:58:44 Ramsey.
00:58:47 He wants me to resign. He wants me to get my cross so full that I'll be miserable enough to do just that.
00:58:53 But you'd take it.
00:58:55 Yes, I'd take it.
00:58:57 Why?
00:58:59 The bigger the job, the more desperately you try to hang on to it.
00:59:01 Why?
00:59:03 Why do you take it? Why don't you quit?
00:59:05 Quit?
00:59:08 You'd have your pension, your peace of mind.
00:59:10 No.
00:59:12 You know Ramsey's gonna go on hounding you until he makes you quit.
00:59:15 Never.
00:59:17 He'll never make me quit.
00:59:19 Bill, I...
00:59:26 I wish I could understand why you go on taking it.
00:59:30 Because I'm weak, I guess.
00:59:32 Because I'm 62 years old and I don't think I could get another job.
00:59:37 How does that strike you?
00:59:38 How do you think?
00:59:40 Once in a while I have a dream.
00:59:45 I dream I'm sitting in that conference room and he starts working me over.
00:59:50 I'm just smiling, see?
00:59:52 Perfectly calm and I'm taking it.
00:59:55 I don't show the slightest resentment.
00:59:58 And then...
01:00:00 Then without any change of expression I get up out of my chair and I walk over to him.
01:00:06 And I say, "Ramsey!"
01:00:07 Bill.
01:00:09 Ramsey!
01:00:10 Ramsey, I say!
01:00:11 And then I smash him!
01:00:12 And then I smash him again!
01:00:14 Bill, get a hold of yourself!
01:00:15 And I hit him again!
01:00:16 What's wrong with you?
01:00:17 And I hold him up!
01:00:18 Bill!
01:00:19 I say, "I'm not through!"
01:00:20 Bill!
01:00:21 It's the kid.
01:00:28 He's coming to pick me up.
01:00:30 Fred, I don't want him to see me, not like this!
01:00:32 You're all right, Bill. Just sit down now.
01:00:34 No, he can't see me like this!
01:00:36 Fred, help me. Help me!
01:00:38 All right, all right. I'll take care of him.
01:00:40 You just lay low for a minute. I'll see he gets home.
01:00:42 Tell him I left early to get some...
01:00:43 Bill, please!
01:00:44 Be quiet!
01:00:45 Hurry!
01:00:46 Be quiet!
01:00:47 Oh, it's me, Paul.
01:00:54 Oh, hi, Mr. Staples.
01:00:56 Man, what a place by night.
01:01:00 Where do they keep the caskets?
01:01:02 How you doing, partner?
01:01:03 Dad said I should drop in and pick him up.
01:01:05 Oh, well, he went on home. He needs a little rest.
01:01:08 Oh, good.
01:01:10 He's under orders not to work late.
01:01:12 Can't seem to keep away lately.
01:01:15 Always work, always worrying.
01:01:17 No wonder he's number two, man.
01:01:20 Suppose I drop you off at Grand Central, huh?
01:01:22 Swell, thanks, Mr. Staples.
01:01:24 Ever since I can remember, he's been married to this place.
01:01:27 Mom used to say the same thing.
01:01:29 They were great together, Mr. Staples.
01:01:31 Mom and Dad, they used to yell and argue and carry on.
01:01:35 He was a fighter.
01:01:36 It was great growing up.
01:01:38 I remember.
01:01:40 (door slams)
01:01:41 (door slams)
01:02:10 - A door? - There's another bundle on the truck.
01:02:12 Mr. Staples, you left your hat in Mr. Briggs' office.
01:02:29 Oh, Fred, I have the Stanley contracts made up.
01:02:31 If you'd like to take a look at them.
01:02:32 Right here, please.
01:02:33 Bad night.
01:02:35 (phone rings)
01:02:38 (footsteps)
01:02:39 Yes, Mr. Staples?
01:02:43 Now, this is the proposals report.
01:02:46 Give that to Miss Lanier for confidential memoing.
01:02:48 Tell her that Mr. Briggs has the only carbon.
01:02:51 Is he in yet?
01:02:52 No, sir.
01:02:53 Mr. Staples?
01:02:54 Yes?
01:02:55 It's not signed.
01:02:56 How would you like the names?
01:02:58 In what order?
01:03:00 First yours, or first Mr. Briggs?
01:03:02 Oh, I don't care. It makes no difference to me.
01:03:04 But in joint projects, Mr. Staples...
01:03:05 I really don't think it's too important.
01:03:07 Put Mr. Briggs' name first, if you like.
01:03:09 Just give it to Miss Lanier right away.
01:03:11 I'd like this thing printed by afternoon, if possible.
01:03:15 That's all, Marge.
01:03:18 Yes, Mr. Staples.
01:03:20 (truck engine starts)
01:03:25 (truck engine stops)
01:03:26 Yes, Marge dear, what is it?
01:03:37 The proposals report.
01:03:38 Would you sign it so it can be printed?
01:03:39 Oh, would you...
01:03:40 (phone rings)
01:03:41 Just a moment, please.
01:03:43 Marge, will you please take it in to Mr. Ramsey?
01:03:45 He asked to see it first.
01:03:46 Oh, good.
01:03:47 Hello?
01:03:48 Oh, yes, good morning.
01:03:49 Is that the report?
01:03:52 Yes, sir.
01:03:53 I thought you said you wanted to see it.
01:03:54 Yes, I do.
01:03:55 Who signed this?
01:03:57 I wrote the title page.
01:03:58 Mr. Staples suggested I sign it.
01:03:59 Print it.
01:04:05 I'm sure that if Mr. Staples...
01:04:06 Print it, Miss Fleming.
01:04:07 I can sign that report now, Marge.
01:04:18 (papers rustling)
01:04:19 Now, we meet with Ramsey in 20 minutes.
01:04:27 Under the conditions and in the time we've got left,
01:04:29 it's the best plan I can devise,
01:04:30 and it's the only one ready,
01:04:31 so you fellas have got to go along.
01:04:33 There's nothing wrong with...
01:04:34 Marge, I can sign that report now.
01:04:36 ...hold us up for a while.
01:04:37 You've got to hold a section B and review the...
01:04:39 (door slams)
01:04:40 Thank you, Marge.
01:04:44 (indistinct chatter)
01:04:45 The major projects during the period of aforementioned being
01:04:57 the Huber Petroleum Refinery,
01:04:59 the Sterling Cast Airs Refinery,
01:05:01 the Chatham Nickel Smelter Company,
01:05:03 the Henderson Valley Dam,
01:05:04 the Swing Carbon Steam Plant,
01:05:06 and the New England Canadian Natural Gas Pipeline.
01:05:09 Good report, Van.
01:05:10 Thank you.
01:05:11 I got a real feeling of activity.
01:05:13 I got a real feeling of activity during your reading.
01:05:16 The next item of business is the project's proposal report.
01:05:22 Clearly of the greatest single importance
01:05:24 on our docket this morning.
01:05:26 I must say, and I'm sure you'll all agree,
01:05:28 that I am not given to enthusiasms
01:05:29 at the drop of a submission.
01:05:31 But of this, I feel impelled to say
01:05:33 that it is unique in effort, ingenious in thought.
01:05:36 To Mr. Fred Staples of our organization
01:05:38 goes my heartfelt thanks and congratulations.
01:05:41 Besides being our newest member,
01:05:43 he seems to be shaping up as among our most astute.
01:05:46 This set of proposals is ingenious,
01:05:48 comprehensive, and fresh.
01:05:50 Congratulations.
01:05:52 Your success is a reaffirmation of my own judgment.
01:05:54 Mr. Ransey.
01:05:55 Of my own good judgment, I may add.
01:05:56 Mr. Ransey.
01:05:57 I prefer not to be drenched with modesty, Mr. Staples.
01:05:59 This is not modesty,
01:06:00 just the extension of credit where it's due.
01:06:03 Bill here is as responsible as...
01:06:04 Mr. Price, is your name about to be used in vain?
01:06:07 I don't think Fred would use my name in vain.
01:06:10 Isn't it refreshing to find someone
01:06:12 not suffering from over-modesty?
01:06:14 What I was trying to say is
01:06:15 that we worked on this project together.
01:06:17 It's a combined effort.
01:06:19 I'm sure it was.
01:06:20 Well, as long as that's understood.
01:06:22 Oh, it is, it is.
01:06:23 It's just that I feel reasonably competent
01:06:25 to assess individual performances
01:06:27 and to single out those that I feel should be singled out,
01:06:31 with all due regard for Mr. Staples' concern
01:06:34 for his fellow man.
01:06:36 Now then, if Mr. Briggs' ego
01:06:39 has been sufficiently nourished...
01:06:40 I don't think Fred brought this out to feed my ego.
01:06:43 Oh? Well, then whatever it was
01:06:44 that prompted his precipitate dash to your defense.
01:06:47 There was no dash to my defense.
01:06:48 Why don't we drop the thing, Mr. Briggs?
01:06:50 I hate becoming entangled
01:06:51 in absurd little personality conflicts.
01:06:53 I'll put a star by your name on the front cover
01:06:55 if that'll make you happy.
01:06:56 My name is no longer on the front cover.
01:06:58 Mr. Briggs.
01:06:59 You're twisting the entire thing
01:07:00 to make it appear as if I were grubbing
01:07:01 for some sort of recognition.
01:07:03 Mr. Briggs.
01:07:04 I find it unfair, Mr. Ramsey.
01:07:05 We have a full agenda.
01:07:07 If you feel so bruised that you must persist
01:07:09 in prolonging this discussion...
01:07:11 Mr. Ramsey.
01:07:12 Let me finish, Mr. Staples, if I may.
01:07:14 We have only one purpose here.
01:07:16 To work.
01:07:17 We cannot hope to accomplish this
01:07:19 if we must be continually subjected to these...
01:07:21 to these singularly unbecoming strains and tensions.
01:07:24 These childish claims and counterclaims.
01:07:27 Mr. Briggs, I ask you a simple question.
01:07:30 Is it or is it not within my province
01:07:32 to credit a man with a job well done?
01:07:34 Of course it is.
01:07:35 Then may we drop it now?
01:07:36 Only if it's clearly understood
01:07:37 that I don't submit to any of these
01:07:39 calculated discolorations of a man's worth.
01:07:41 As to a man's worth, Mr. Briggs,
01:07:42 I think I've proven myself a competent judge.
01:07:45 I ask you to recall that I built this business
01:07:47 from a scratch pile of used lumber
01:07:49 and a few machines into a giant.
01:07:51 And I made few mistakes in doing it.
01:07:53 Few mistakes in business
01:07:54 and few mistakes in judging men.
01:07:56 Well, you've made one this time.
01:07:57 This report...
01:07:58 I refuse to engage in a running fight
01:07:59 because a supposedly responsible official
01:08:01 of this company persists in wasting time
01:08:03 haggling over credit.
01:08:05 That is not fair!
01:08:06 I was not haggling over credit.
01:08:08 This is a joint report that we worked on.
01:08:09 Don't presume to tell me what's true
01:08:11 and what is not true!
01:08:12 What am I, some kind of idiot
01:08:13 that I can't recognize another man's thinking?
01:08:15 Whatever your abilities in the past, Mr. Briggs,
01:08:18 your work hasn't shown this stamp
01:08:19 of originality and talent in 10 years!
01:08:22 A man slips, clutches, he loses his grip,
01:08:25 he tries to hang on by someone else's.
01:08:27 You have no right to say that.
01:08:30 Bill, will you please speak up?
01:08:33 Do, by all means, Mr. Briggs.
01:08:36 You think I'm mistaken, do you?
01:08:38 Shall I go through 150 pages
01:08:40 and point out to you line by line
01:08:42 where another man has taken over for you?
01:08:44 Has had to take over for you?
01:08:45 And I can point out sections of this report
01:08:47 that I never had to touch?
01:08:48 Had to, Mr. Staples, of course you can!
01:08:51 Let me show them to you.
01:08:52 I've seen them submitted year after year.
01:08:55 Principles and precepts for better business.
01:08:58 Mr. Briggs, yearly platitudes.
01:09:00 But you translated his unworkable,
01:09:03 well-intentioned philosophy
01:09:04 into tough business procedure.
01:09:06 You make it work!
01:09:07 Ramsey!
01:09:08 Mr. Briggs, I will not tolerate
01:09:10 insubordination on any level!
01:09:12 And if anyone here finds that intolerable,
01:09:14 he has the God-given right to offer his resignation.
01:09:18 (silence)
01:09:20 Bill.
01:09:32 Please.
01:09:34 Mr. Ramsey.
01:09:38 I had no intention of seeming insubordinate.
01:09:42 I...
01:09:46 (sigh)
01:09:47 Meeting is adjourned.
01:10:14 Mr. Briggs.
01:10:16 Mr. Briggs.
01:10:22 (scream)
01:10:24 Bill, is Mr. Briggs in here?
01:10:26 Bill?
01:10:27 Bill, can you hear me?
01:10:29 A little...
01:10:30 A little bottle of pills.
01:10:33 Coping.
01:10:34 Office.
01:10:35 Get some water.
01:10:36 Yes.
01:10:37 Rannigan, get an ambulance.
01:10:39 I'll call Dr. Blake.
01:10:40 Don't move him.
01:10:42 Fred, he's still...
01:10:45 still giving orders.
01:10:48 Do me a favor, Fred.
01:10:50 What, Bill?
01:10:51 Tell him...
01:10:53 Tell him...
01:10:55 Go to...
01:11:10 (phone rings)
01:11:12 Hello?
01:11:18 Thank you, Mr. Staples.
01:11:24 Five minutes to go.
01:11:30 (footsteps)
01:11:32 Just had word from the hospital.
01:11:49 He died five minutes ago.
01:11:52 Thank you, Mr. Rannigan.
01:11:54 (footsteps)
01:11:57 (footsteps)
01:12:00 (footsteps)
01:12:03 (footsteps)
01:12:05 (footsteps)
01:12:07 (footsteps)
01:12:34 (footsteps)
01:12:36 (doorbell rings)
01:12:54 (doorbell rings)
01:12:56 (door slams)
01:13:11 (doorbell rings)
01:13:14 (doorbell rings)
01:13:17 (doorbell rings)
01:13:20 (doorbell rings)
01:13:23 (doorbell rings)
01:13:25 (doorbell rings)
01:13:28 (doorbell rings)
01:13:34 (door slams)
01:13:36 (indistinct chatter)
01:13:41 (door opens)
01:13:48 (door closes)
01:13:51 (footsteps)
01:13:53 Nancy?
01:13:57 What are you doing here?
01:13:59 I called your office.
01:14:01 And there wasn't any train, so I drove here.
01:14:04 How did you know where to find me?
01:14:09 They told me at the hospital.
01:14:11 Does Paul know?
01:14:18 Yes, he's with Bill's sister. He's all right.
01:14:21 Did you have a something else for me?
01:14:24 Have you had anything to eat?
01:14:28 Huh?
01:14:30 Have you eaten anything?
01:14:33 Fred...
01:14:40 What happened?
01:14:43 Nothing.
01:14:46 Not a thing.
01:14:48 Except a murder.
01:14:51 There were witnesses too, plenty of us.
01:14:55 And no one lifted a finger to stop it.
01:14:58 Fred...
01:14:59 Nancy, I know I didn't lift a finger.
01:15:01 You don't know.
01:15:03 I'm not going to have you going around in sackcloth and ashes
01:15:06 for something that you did everything in your power to stop.
01:15:09 You begged him to resign, you know that.
01:15:12 What more could you have done?
01:15:14 What more could anyone have done?
01:15:16 Nancy, I think you'd better go home.
01:15:18 Would you take this, please?
01:15:20 Are you coming?
01:15:22 No.
01:15:23 Then I won't go.
01:15:25 I want you to go home and start packing.
01:15:28 Where are we going?
01:15:30 I don't know.
01:15:32 Somewhere, anywhere.
01:15:34 Just away.
01:15:36 There's an awful stink in this town and we're going to get away from it.
01:15:42 Come on, I'll put you in the car.
01:15:44 No, I'm not going to leave you alone.
01:15:46 Nancy, I want you to go home, please.
01:15:48 No, I'm not going tonight.
01:15:50 Tomorrow I'll do anything you ask.
01:15:52 I'll pack, I'll go anywhere you ask, but not tonight.
01:15:54 Not in the state you're in.
01:15:56 Now look, there's something I've got to do.
01:15:58 Fine, then we'll do it together.
01:16:00 [door opens]
01:16:02 [door closes]
01:16:06 [door closes]
01:16:14 [car engine starts]
01:16:20 [car engine stops]
01:16:22 [door closes]
01:16:48 Bill was supposed to go to Lansing tomorrow morning for a meeting with Phillips.
01:16:52 You'll have to take his place.
01:16:54 I believe I've already mentioned that.
01:16:56 Yeah, you mentioned it.
01:16:58 You'll leave on flight number 116, 832 from LaGuardia.
01:17:08 Miss Lanier will meet you at the airport with your reservation...
01:17:11 and all the memoranda and correspondence pertaining to the negotiation.
01:17:15 You'll have three uninterrupted hours in the air to familiarize yourself with all the details.
01:17:20 I have no interest whatever in the Phillips matter.
01:17:24 What was that?
01:17:26 I'm telling you that I don't want the job.
01:17:28 I'm through, I'm quitting, I resign as of now.
01:17:31 Why?
01:17:32 Because I hate your guts.
01:17:34 You used Bill Briggs for a whipping boy.
01:17:37 You made him knuckle under and then you beat him to death.
01:17:40 You wouldn't try anything like that with me because I'd kill you first.
01:17:43 I'm not a nice human being. What else?
01:17:45 You're nothing but a freak.
01:17:47 You drive your people into peak efficiency if they can make it or a grave if they can't.
01:17:52 Because Bill Briggs lacked the strength and the capacity.
01:17:55 He was second in command.
01:17:57 He had a lot of responsibility to hold and he cracked up.
01:17:59 It was his business too.
01:18:00 It's no one's business.
01:18:02 It belongs only to the best.
01:18:04 To those who can control it, sustain it, nurture it, keep it growing.
01:18:08 Right now it belongs to us because we're producing.
01:18:11 But in the future it belongs to whoever has the brains, the nerve and the skill to take it away from us.
01:18:16 Well, they can have my share of it right now because I don't want any part of it.
01:18:19 What do you want from me? Apologies?
01:18:21 I don't apologize.
01:18:24 What else?
01:18:26 A nice unsullied conscience?
01:18:29 You walk out of here with a halo because you spoke your mind?
01:18:33 What do you do then?
01:18:35 Go to work for some nickel and dime outfit run by nice people...
01:18:38 ...who won't challenge you and prod you and gold you and drive you to a height you never even dreamed of?
01:18:43 A company where there's nothing to fight for because you're the best and there's no competition?
01:18:48 Where everything is handed to you and nothing is worth fighting for?
01:18:53 I want you to stay!
01:18:56 I don't think you understand, Ramsey.
01:18:59 I don't like you. I don't like anything about you.
01:19:02 I didn't hire you to like me.
01:19:04 All right, I'm not a nice person in your eyes.
01:19:07 But whatever I am, you learn more, grow more and do more here with me than anywhere else on earth.
01:19:13 I want you to stay because I need help on my level.
01:19:16 And you're the only one who's able to function there.
01:19:19 Be a conscience for me if you want.
01:19:21 Be anything you like.
01:19:23 And if it's something I don't like, you'll know about it soon enough.
01:19:26 I think you're strong enough to take it.
01:19:28 And if not, I think you're strong enough to get out.
01:19:31 Name your terms.
01:19:33 All terms are negotiable.
01:19:36 I don't think so. Not mine.
01:19:39 All right. I just assume not waste any time doing trading.
01:19:44 As of now, your salary is doubled.
01:19:47 Your stock option is doubled right down the line.
01:19:51 Your expense account is whatever you make it.
01:19:53 Add to that a new title, vice president.
01:19:57 I want a lot more than that.
01:20:01 You're not going to take me on as just another vice president you can push around.
01:20:06 You'll take me as someone who hates you down to the bare nerve.
01:20:10 Nothing in the world will ever change that.
01:20:12 I'll argue with you, contradict you, fight you in every way I know how.
01:20:17 I'll do everything in my power to push you out and take your place myself.
01:20:21 Go ahead and try.
01:20:23 Mr. Staples, you have yourself a deal.
01:20:28 Have it drawn up.
01:20:30 No reservations now?
01:20:33 Yes, one.
01:20:37 Bill had one pitiful little dream that someday he'd walk in here and break your jaw.
01:20:43 I reserve the right to have that wish for myself.
01:20:47 I'll have it drawn into the contract.
01:20:50 With a little rider giving me the same privilege.
01:20:54 Oh, uh...
01:20:56 Staples, you'll be pleased to know that Bill Briggs' boy is being taken care of.
01:21:02 Will that let you sleep better tonight?
01:21:09 It begins, huh?
01:21:12 It begins. Fair enough?
01:21:15 Fair enough, Mr. Staples.
01:21:19 It begins. Fair enough?
01:21:22 Fair enough.
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01:21:57 Do we pack?
01:22:08 No, we stay.
01:22:11 On whose terms?
01:22:13 Mine...
01:22:15 and his.
01:22:17 Are you satisfied?
01:22:19 Yes.
01:22:20 Oh, Fred.
01:22:22 You know, it's easy enough to judge something you think is wrong, but...
01:22:27 I don't know, this way maybe there's a chance.
01:22:29 I'm so happy.
01:22:31 I will see.
01:22:33 I've got to go to Lansing.
01:22:35 Morning train.
01:22:37 When will you be back?
01:22:38 Tomorrow night.
01:22:40 I'll be late.
01:22:43 Aren't you always?
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