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It's A Wonderful LifeEnd of last part: 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? Act 2 - Part 1 continued GEORGE: Wait a minute, now, let me tell you. Let me tell you. Your money's in people's houses! In the Kennedy house, and the MacClaren house, and in your house, and a hundred others. You all put your savings in here and then we make loans to people to buy homes and cars and other things. Now, what are you going to do? Take their homes and cars and things from them?!
CHARLIE: I got two hundred and forty dollars in shares. Now lemme have it! GEORGE: All right, all right, Charlie. Now, you'll get your money in sixty days. CHARLIE: Sixty days?! GEORGE: Well, now, look, that's what you - that's what you agreed on when you bought your shares. RANDALL: I got my money! PEOPLE IN THE CROWD: Where? RANDALL: Old Man Potter has taken over the bank! He'll pay you fifty cents on the dollar CHARLIE: (to crowd) Then let's take our shares to Potter! Half is better than nothing! GEORGE: Wait a minute, wait a minute, please, folks! I please don't do that. If Potter gets hold of your shares, he'll own this building and loan. And he's got the bank. He's got the bus line. He's got the department stores. And now he's after us because he wants to keep you living in the houses and apartments he owns and paying the kind of rent he decides to charge. Now, we can get through this thing all right, but we have to work together and help each other! We've got to have faith in each other! MRS. THOMPSON: My husband's out of work. We need money. ANGRY MAN: I have doctor bills to pay! WORRIED WOMAN: I can't feed my kids on faith! PEOPLE IN THE CROWD: Me, too! What about that, George?! MARY: How much do you need? We've still got some money! GEORGE: Hey, Mary! MARY: Here is our money, George! You told me to take care of it. It would have paid for a nice honeymoon -- and bought furniture, too!
GEORGE: Hey, now, wait a minute, folks! Listen, I got two thousand dollars! All right, Charlie, how much do you need? CHARLIE: Two hundred and forty dollars. GEORGE: Please, Charlie, now, listen -- just enough to tide you over! CHARLIE: I said, two hundred and forty dollars! GEORGE: Okay, okay. Uncle Billy give Charlie two hundred and forty dollars. All right, Ed, now, how much just to get by? ED: Twenty dollars, I suppose. GEORGE: Now you're talking! Mrs. Thompson, how about you? MRS. THOMPSON: Twenty dollars will do me. GEORGE: Good, good, twenty dollars. All right, all right, who's next? [HOURS LATER] UNCLE BILLY: Look at the clock! Look!
GEORGE: (counts) Five seconds... four seconds... three... two... one... Six o'clock, we made it! Lock that door, quick! [SOUND: DOOR SLAMS SHUT ... PHONE RINGS] GEORGE: Boy! We're still in business, Uncle Billy! We even got two bucks left! TILLY: George, there's a call for you! Mrs. Bailey's on the line. GEORGE: I don't want Mrs. Bailey, I want my wife. Mrs. Bailey. Mrs. Bail-- Tha-- That's my wife! Give me the phone, will you? Hey, Mary? Listen, Mary, I'm sorry, I - I - Hm? Come home? Well, what home? Well, Three-twenty-three Sycamore? Well, whose home is that? What? Well, Mary, how can I--? Well, sure, all right, sure, I'll - I'll be there. JOSEPH: Clarence? Guess what Three-twenty-three Sycamore was? CLARENCE: His mother-in-law's house, huh? JOSEPH: Oh, no. Number Three-twenty-three Sycamore was the old Granville house, the one George threw rocks at and made wishes. Yes, sir, that's where they spent their honeymoon.
JOSEPH: That's where they started their home. They were still living there two years later when old man Potter asked George to stop over at his office... POTTER: Sit down, George, sit down. Uh, have a cigar. GEORGE: Well! Thank you, sir, but no thank you. POTTER: Now, George, you're a young man -- married, making, say, forty dollars a week at the Building and Loan-- GEORGE: Forty-five.
POTTER: Forty-five. Now, if you were some ordinary man, I'd say you were doing fine. But George Bailey is intelligent, ambitious. He hates the Building and Loan almost as much as I do. He's been wanting to get out of town ever since he was born. But he is trapped. Trapped and wasting his life taking care of a lot of lazy working class people. Do I describe a correct picture, George, or do I exaggerate? GEORGE: Well, what's your point, Mr. Potter? POTTER: My point is that you're the only man in town who can fight and win against me. I don't like that. George, I want to hire you. Manage my businesses. I'll start you off at twenty thousand dollars a year. GEORGE: Twenty thou--? Twenty thousand dollars a year? Are you sure you're talking to me? I'm George Bailey. Don't you remember me? The Building and Loan, remember? POTTER: Yes, George Bailey. Whose has been offered a chance of a lifetime...if he is smart enough to take it. GEORGE: Well, but - but - what about the Building and Loan? POTTER: (angry) What is wrong with you! I'm offering you a three-year contract at twenty thousand dollars a year! Are you gonna accept the offer or not? GEORGE: No! No! the answer's "no"! If you offered me a million dollars to stay around this town and be your stooge, the answer would still be " no"! Now, lemme alone! Don't bother me!
[LATER THAT NIGHT] MARY: George, what did Mr. Potter want? GEORGE: (tired) Oh, it was nothing. He just-- talk, talk, I don't know, it was nothing ... Aw, Mary... Mary Hatch... Mary, why in the world did you ever marry a guy like me, anyway? MARY: (chuckles) To keep from being an old maid. GEORGE: I was gonna see the world. I was gonna build things. I was gonna give you the moon. What have I given you, what have I given you? Not even a new dress, not for months. I-- I feel awful. MARY: So do I. Mornings especially. GEORGE: You could have married Sam Wainwright, anybody else in town. MARY: I didn't want to marry anybody else in town. I want my baby to look like you. GEORGE: You didn't even have a honeymoon, and I promised you... Your what? MARY: My baby. GEORGE: Your--? You mean-- Hey-- Mary-- Mary, you mean you're going to have a baby?
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