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It's A Wonderful LifeEnd of last part: GEORGE: (unhappy) You know, your mother doesn't need to-- You know, I didn't come here to-- MARY: What did you come here for, then? GEORGE: (annoyed) I don't know! You're supposed to be the one with all the answers! You tell me! MARY: (shouts) Oh, why don't you go home?! GEORGE: I don't know why I came here in the first place! Good night! MARY: Good night! Act 1 - Part 4 [SOUND: PHONE RINGS] MRS. HATCH: Mary! Telephone, Mary! GEORGE: The way you're shouting, you'd think that-- MRS. HATCH: Mary! MARY: You'd think what? MRS. HATCH: Mary! MARY: All right, I'll get it! George, on your way out, would you mind turning off the music? GEORGE: I'd be very happy to! [MUSIC: MUSIC STOPS] GEORGE: "Buffalo Gals"! That's a crazy song! [SOUND: MARY PICKS UP PHONE]
MARY: Hello? Sam? SAM: (on the phone) Mary! Hey, it's good to hear your voice! MARY: How are you, Sam? GEORGE: I forgot my hat! MARY: I'm not surprised! SAM: What? MARY: Oh, I was just talking to an old friend of yours. George Bailey. SAM: Old George? MARY: Old George. SAM: Well, put him on . I'll talk to him, too! MARY: Wait a second. George? MRS. HATCH: He doesn't want to speak to George! MARY: He does so. He asked for him. GEORGE: (to Mary) Did you call me? Because if you did, I'm in a hurry, I got-- MARY: Sam wants to talk to you. GEORGE: Oh? (takes the phone) Hi, Sam!
SAM: Hey, fine pal you are. Trying to take my girlfriend from me! GEORGE: What do you mean? Nobody's trying to take anybody's girlfriend. Here, Mary, take the phone-- SAM: No, no, wait, wait, George. I want to speak to you both. Tell Mary to get on the extension telephone upstairs. GEORGE: (to Mary) He says for you to get on the extension phone upstairs. MARY: I can't. Mother's on the extension. MRS. HATCH: I am not! MARY: We can both hear on this phone, George. Just put your head a little closer to mine. GEORGE: What? MARY: There, that's - that's better. (to Sam) Uh, we're - we're listening, Sam.
SAM: Well, I have a big opportunity coming up that's going to make us all rich. George, you remember that time you told me about making plastics out of soybeans? GEORGE: Soybeans? Yeah, yeah... soybeans. Yeah. SAM: Well, my father's checked into it, George, see? And now he's going to build a factory! How do you like that? GEORGE: A factory, huh? SAM: And here's the point, George. I may have a job for you, unless you still can't leave that old Building and Loan. This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor, George! Oh, Mary? Mary? MARY: Well... Uh, I'm here. SAM: You tell that guy I'm giving him the chance of a lifetime, you hear? The chance of a lifetime! MARY: (to George) He says it's the chance of a lifetime. [SOUND: GEORGE DROPS THE PHONE] GEORGE: Now you listen to me! I don't want any plastics and I don't want any ground floors, and I don't want to get married -- ever -- to anyone! Do you understand that? MARY: (starts to cry) GEORGE: I want to do what I want to do! And you're... and you're ... Oh, Mary, Mary ... MARY: George, George, George! GEORGE: Mary...
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Slow internet connection (dial-up) Fast interner connection (DSL or cable) CLARENCE: Well, well. So George Bailey and Mary Hatch were--? JOSEPH: Yes. George and Mary were married. CLARENCE: Hmm. JOSEPH: And they started off on their honeymoon in Ernie Bishop's taxicab. [SOUND: MOTOR RUNNING] ERNIE: Hey, where were you two going on your honeymoon? GEORGE: We're gonna do a lot of great things, Ernie! A whole week in New York, a whole week in Bermuda, the highest hotel, the oldest champagne, the best music and the prettiest wife! ERNIE: Ha ha! So you're finally getting out of Bedford Falls! Then what? GEORGE: (to Mary) Then what, honey? MARY: After that, who cares? GEORGE: That does it! Hey, you know, Mrs. Bailey, I haven't kissed you yet. ERNIE: Hey, George, there's something funny going on over there! Look, look over there at the bank! It looks like a bank run!
GEORGE: Pull over there a minute, will ya, Ernie? MARY: George, let's not stop. Please. Let's go straight to the train station. [SOUND: CAR PULLS OVER ... STOPS ... CAR DOOR OPENS] GEORGE: Now, wait a minute. I had better see what it is. I'll be right back. MARY: George, please! George! [SOUND: APPLAUSE OF THEATRE AUDIENCE] WILLIAM KEIGHLEY: And now, we begin Act Two of "It's a Wonderful Life" starring Jimmy Stewart as George, Donna Reed as Mary, and Victor Moore as Clarence. WILLIAM KEIGHLEY: Well, we're back in heaven again, where the Superintendent of Angels is reviewing the life of a man named George Bailey. Clarence, the apprentice angel, is very eager to begin his mission to the Earth. CLARENCE: Poor George Bailey! Oh, he's certainly in desperate trouble, Joseph. I'll go to him at once. JOSEPH: Now, you sit down, Clarence, sit down. We're nowhere near the point where George Bailey is thinking of taking his life. CLARENCE: We're not? JOSEPH: Now, where were we? The year is 1932. George and Mary had just started out on their honeymoon when the country's economy suddenly became very bad. In the waiting room of the Building and Loan, a hundred scared people were trying to take their money out... [SOUND: NOISE OF A CROWD] GEORGE: Hey, what's going on , Uncle Billy? What's happened? Why are all those people out there?
UNCLE BILLY: We have a really bad problem, George. The bank called an hour ago and told us we had to pay all of our loan from them right away. I had to give the bank all our cash. GEORGE: Oh, nol! UNCLE BILLY: The whole town's gone crazy. The Bank is in the same trouble we are! GEORGE: Our charter--! UNCLE BILLY: What about our charter? GEORGE: Our charter says we have to stay open till six p.m. ...the state can take away our license if we don't! UNCLE BILLY: How can we stay open till six without any money? George, where're you going? GEORGE: Out to talk to those people. Come on! [SOUND: CROWD NOISE GETS LOUDER] GEORGE: Now, please! Now, now, please, folks! Now, just a minute! Just a minute, now, please!
CHARLIE: Tell us about our money, George? Where's our money? GEORGE: Now, please! Now, wait a minute! Listen to me! Now, you're thinking about a building and loan all wrong. Your money's not here! PEOPLE IN THE CROWD: What?
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