His Girl Friday Page #41
- PASSED
- Year:
- 1940
- 92 min
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BRUCE:
(taking it and
surveying it coldly)
You got it back, eh? There's something
BURNS:
Hildy!
HILDY:
All right, Walter.
She sits down and begins to type.
BRUCE:
I'm taking the nine o'clock train,
Hildy. And you can meet us at the
station.
HILDY:
Fine.
She types away.
BURNS:
(coming over to Bruce)
I'll see she's there, Bruce, I promise
you.
BRUCE:
(dramatically)
If she's not there, mother and I are
leaving anyhow!
But Hildy continues typing and doesn't even get it.
as he leads Bruce away toward door.
BURNS:
I know how you feel, Bruce, but you've
got to forgive her. She's only a
woman, after all.
BRUCE:
Suppose she is -- I have feelings,
too! Do you know where I've been for
the last couple of hours? Locked up
in a police station and she didn't
BURNS:
Ts! Ts! Ts!
BRUCE:
And now I don't know where my mother
is. She may be lost.
BURNS:
I'll find her, Bruce, if I have to
put every detective in the city on
the job. Tell you what -- go over to
the Missing Persons Bureau and
describe your mother. What does she
look like?
BRUCE:
She's -- well, she's very motherly.
That's about the best description I
know.
BURNS:
(nodding)
That's the kind of stuff they want!
They go out the door.
INT. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE DOOR MED. CLOSE SHOT
as they come out.
BURNS:
Oh, Bruce, let me see that money
Hildy gave you.
BRUCE:
The money? Why?
BURNS:
There's a lot of counterfeit big
bills going around.
BRUCE:
(worried)
Gee! Take a look, will you?
He hands the money to Burns. Burns looks at it carefully and
hands it back.
BURNS:
Oh, this is all right, Bruce. I just
wanted to be sure.
BRUCE:
Say, I want to be sure, too!
Hildy is typing furiously. Burns enters, grinning, locks the
door behind him and goes to phone and picks it up.
BURNS:
(into phone)
Duffy. Good. Stick close.
He turns and crosses quickly to look out the window.
AT WINDOW:
Burns coming in to window.
BURNS:
(despairingly)
Now the moon's out!
He turns away, crossing to the desk, the CAMERA TRUCKING
with him. At the desk he taps three times, being answered by
three taps from within.
BURNS:
Fine. Three taps is me. Don't forget!
You're sitting pretty, now. Got enough
air?
He raises top an inch or two and fans air in to Williams.
BURNS:
Is that better? Now breathe deep!
We hear an intake of breath from inside the desk.
BURNS:
Attaboy!
He closes the desk and turns back to the table. As he passes
Hildy, who is still typing rapidly:
BURNS:
(looking over her
shoulder)
That's the stuff! Lam it into 'em,
Hildy.
He jerks the sheet from Hildy's machine, crosses to his desk
and picks up the phone.
BURNS:
(into phone)
Hello! Duffy, ready? Here we go!
CLOSEUP BURNS:
reading from the page he has taken from Hildy's typewriter.
BURNS:
(into phone)
"In the darkest hour of the city's
history --"
INT. MAIN FLOOR CRIMINAL COURTS BUILDING LONG SHOT
At the end of the hall are glass doors through which can be
seen a turmoil of activity in the street outside -- newsboys,
a crowd, and a mounted policeman or two. Bruce comes down
the hall, his face set and angry. As he goes, he sees a sign
set over a doorway in the hall. It reads: MISSING PERSONS
BUREAU. He stops and enters.
INT. PRESS ROOM - NIGHT CLOSEUP BURNS AT PHONE
BURNS:
(into phone)
Listen, did you impress it on Butch
that I want him and his gang here
right away? You did? Every minute
counts. All right.
(puts receiver down
on table)
Duffy's getting old!
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