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put in an accelerated learning program.

He'll need a full-time teacher.

Somebody with Mrs. Kinnian's background,

even more important...

someone he trusts.

Would you be available?

My fiance and I were planning to work...

on a joint thesis for our doctorates.

Well, at the moment,

it's all hypothetical anyway.

Of course.

- Thank you, Mrs. Kinnian.

- Thank you, Doctor.

Come on, Charly. Let's go.

Yeah, just one more, Miss Kinnian.

Not quite.

You sure are a smart mouse, Algernon.

Good night, Bert.

- Good night, Bert.

- Take it easy, Charly.

Good night, Algernon.

That Father Callahan now. Take him, Monty.

He's one of that new breed of liberal priests.

It's no wonder the younger generation

are selling their souls to the devil.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to the historical tour of Boston.

This is the Charles River Basin where

amateur yachtsmen can sail 365 days a year.

In the late afternoon,

you can see the sculling crews of Harvard...

MIT, and other universities,

practicing for their annual races.

On the left is the Prudential Center.

The Prudential Tower, 52 stories high...

is the tallest building

in the continental United States...

if you consider Manhattan Island

outside the continental United States.

Here's Bunker Hill Monument.

Stands 220 feet tall,

30 square feet at the bottom...

15 at the top, 294 winding stairs.

It'll take you approximately 2o minutes

to walk up, 15 minutes to come down...

and 10 days to get over it.

The Boston-Cambridge area has a total

of 189 universities and small colleges.

We are now going through

Boston University...

which includes a School of Law,

a School of Political Science...

a School of Philosophy,

a School of Accounting...

a School of Nursing,

a School of Business Administration...

a School of Fine Arts, and many others.

As we make a right-hand turn,

look to your left.

You'll see the Boston Public Library.

The third oldest library in America.

There's over 2 million volumes

in its collection.

On your far left is the Old South Church.

As we make a right-hand turn

on Boston Street, look to your right.

You will see Trinity Church,

founded in 1877...

designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.

Phillip Brooks was pastor of this church

for 22 consecutive years.

While being pastor,

he was made Bishop of Massachusetts.

Most of you people remember Phillip Brooks

by his famous church hymns.

One of the most famous Christmas carols,

O Little Town of Bethlehem.

We'll make a brief stop in South Boston,

to discharge a passenger.

- See you next Sunday, Charly.

- Okay.

- Come on, Charly, just one beer.

- No, I can't. Not tonight, Gimp.

- I bet you're gonna see that school teacher.

- Boy, could I give her a lesson.

- I didn't think you went for broads.

- Sure I do.

What do you do with her?

I promised her. I can't talk about it.

What do you mean

you can't talk about it, Charly?

- Ain't I your best buddy?

- Sure you are.

- What's the big mystery?

- I promised her. I can't talk about it.

- Charly, I'm disappointed in you.

- Don't be mad at me, Gimp.

So come on over and have a beer.

Just a little beer.

Okay.

- Charly, how about playing a little music?

- Yeah, okay.

- I've got it here.

- Hold it, Hank.

- Charly's got lots of dough. Right, Charly?

- Yeah, I save my dough.

I bet you got a bundle

tucked under the mattress.

What do you save it for, Charly?

- Well, I don't know. Something.

- What?

- So blow two bits, Charly?

- Yeah.

Watch this.

Charly, what did you do to it?

Drop a slug in?

No, I put a quarter in there, Gimp.

A real quarter.

Talk to the juke, Charly, like you always do.

Yeah, okay.

Juke, I put a quarter in there,

and you better play. Do you hear?

Charly, Juke don't like to be scolded.

Juke likes a nice, sweet tone of voice.

Okay, Juke.

You're a nice juke and you got nice lights,

and you're real nice.

- Come on back here, champ.

- We knew you could do it.

- Charly, you hear it's liable to snow tonight?

- I don't know. I didn't hear that, Gimp.

That's what they say. I'll tell you what.

How about stopping off at the corner of

Manning and Standish on your way home?

- Okay, what do I do there?

- I'll tell you, Charly.

A lot of people don't know this.

But I'm gonna let you in on it.

That's where the snow always starts. Yeah.

Right there on the corner

where Manning runs into Standish.

Now you wait there for a while...

and when that first flake comes down,

you give us a call.

That way we get to get home in time

before it really starts coming down.

- Okay, Charly?

- Yeah.

Who do I call?

Paddy, give Charles one of your cards.

- Better get started, Charly.

- Yeah.

None of that now.

I guess I can afford to buy a beer

for good old Charly.

All right.

Go get them, tiger, go get them.

So long, pal. See you later.

Well, here's to a blizzard.

Buddy, what you doing?

What you doing?

Waiting for it to snow.

Let's go.

Stupid.

The operation.

- The operation?

- Yes.

- I made it?

- Yes.

I made it!

- Miss Kinnian?

- Yes.

I don't feel no smarter.

Ready? Start.

Again, Charly.

Again. Try.

Please.

How did the lessons go tonight?

- Just one more...

- I keep doing it again and...

But try it, Charly.

Post-surgical recovery is complete.

These five mice, look at their mental curve.

He's shown no comparable

intellectual progress.

No.

Charly, I know that you can do it.

I know that I can't do it, Doctor.

Yesterday, and the day before,

you keep saying I can do it...

and Miss Kinnian says I can do it,

everybody says I can do it...

but I know I can't do it.

- But we know you can do it.

- I know I can't do it.

Charly, try. It makes a lovely, nice figure.

I can't do it, Dr. Straus,

you know I can't do it.

I know I can't do it, and I don't want to do it.

- I can't learn nothing.

- Charly!

- Did that operation make me dumber?

- Nothing of the sort.

I can't do any of the puzzles,

and I'll tell you something else.

I ain't racing that Algernon no more.

I'm sick of being beaten by a mouse...

- And people laughing at me.

- Nobody is laughing at you.

I don't care! I'm going out of here, now!

"My name is Dick. I live in a house.

"I have a sister named Jane

and a dog named Spot."

My name is Charly Gordon,

and I live in a room...

and I got no sister, no dog, and I am stupid!

And what are you doing here?

I ain't gonna race you.

I know why they brought you over here,

but I ain't gonna race you.

'Cause I don't like you. You're not my friend!

Charly Gordon.

Do you have a girl in your room?

No, it's a him!

Charly Gordon.

It's a mouse.

Young man, there are no mice in this house.

There's one in my room.

They brought him over in a cage.

But I ain't gonna race him.

Cage. Charly.

I've been meaning to talk to you.

Could you step in here, please?

Monty. That nice Charly Gordon

is coming to visit.

You say, a cage. A pet mouse?

Yeah, but I ain't gonna race him.

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