It Happened on 5th Avenue Page #11

Season #Winter

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Will you go right in?

Thank you.

O'CONNOR:
Farrow. I told you to transfer

some cash to our Paris office.

Two million? Do you expect them

to operate with pennies?

Cable them 3 million more right away.

Can't I leave this office five minutes

without things going haywire?

Where are those lumber contracts?

Call San Francisco and tell them...

...if the contracts aren't here tomorrow

the deal is off.

Anything happen on that steel mill lease?

I don't care what it costs.

I want it closed today.

Yeah. right.

And by the way.

cable Kennedy in London...

...and tell him we'll sell our British

and Canadian holdings for 12 million.

If my American Can goes up tomorrow.

sell a hundred thousand shares.

Right.

Hello. boys.

Mike. What are you doing

behind O'Connor's desk?

- You gone nuts?

- How'd you get in here?

We'd better get him out

before O'Connor comes in.

We- Uh-

Gentlemen. Gentlemen.

[MUFFLED SHOUTING]

- Good morning. gentlemen.

ALL:
Good morning.

Where's Mr. O'Connor?

We haven't seen him.

We have an appointment with him.

[KNOCKING]

What's that?

- Well. it ain't mice.

O'CONNOR:
Help. Somebody open this door.

[KNOCKING]

O'CONNOR:

Open this-

Mr. O'Connor.

Mr. O'Connor.

What were you doing in that closet?

I like it in there.

There's nothing so restful

as a nice. dark. stuffy closet.

Did you say...?

Mr. O'Connor?

O'CONNOR:

That's what he said.

[MUTTERING]

Don't start popping questions.

I haven't time.

- Where are those papers of transfer?

- Right here.

Yeah. Oh. Oh. good.

Now. then.

before I transfer this barracks property...

...over to you three gentlemen...

- ... there's one thing you must do for me.

- Yes. sir.

Not one word of this to McKeever.

As far as he is concerned.

I am still just a-

A panhandler.

- Gentlemen. is that clear?

HANK:
Yes. sir.

Good.

Sit down. make yourself at home.

[CHATTERING. LAUGHING]

Just a minute. folks.

To Mike...

...I never would have believed it possible.

but he certainly came through in a pinch.

ALL:
To Mike!

- To Michael J.-

McKEEVER:
Speech. Mike. Speech.

- Come on. Mike.

Well. I- Ahem.

I really don't know what to say...

...excepting that I'm glad

I was able to be of service...

...even though Mac here

chooses to think of me...

...as a drifter. a panhandler

and a man of little principle.

[CHUCKLES]

Water under the bridge. Mike.

Please try and forget that I ever said it.

Mac. it's already forgotten.

[CHUCKLES]

Well...

It's too bad we have to leave here.

But we did promise the patrolmen

to be out of here by the first of the year.

Naturally. I would have preferred...

...to spend the winter

as I customarily do.

But...

All good things must come to an end.

Soon the O'Connor servants

will be coming back.

Taking down the boards.

Tomorrow.

we must put the house in order...

...so that everything

will be just as we found it.

Tonight is our last night together.

Our paths may never cross again.

And I would like to feel

that you're all my friends.

For to be without friends

is a serious form of poverty.

[CHIMING]

The New Year.

And may it bring happiness to all of you.

ALL:

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

You know. I always come out

the same way I go in.

Well. everything is just as we found it.

You know.

it's been a very pleasant winter after all.

[DOG BARKING]

[McKEEVER CHUCKLES]

I guess Sam knows

that he's going on the road.

All right. Sam. I'm ready.

Well. look. Mac. I...

Well. that is...

- ... Trudy and I are gonna be married.

- Oh.

- We're gonna have plenty of room.

- Yes. we could all stay together.

Mike and I wish

you'd come stay with us.

How about it. Mac?

Well. thanks.

Thanks to all of you.

But you have your own lives

to lead and I...

Well. it's a little too late

for me to change.

Anyway. I have a very nice place

to go to down in Virginia.

It's near Bubbling Springs.

It's Mr. O'Connor's place.

[CHUCKLES]

When he comes back here.

I go down there.

Oh.

[ALL CHUCKLING]

Well. we better not all leave at once.

Jim and Trudy. you go out first.

- Goodbye. Mr. McKeever.

McKEEVER:
Goodbye. dear.

I hope you'll be very happy.

Thank you.

Mac.

- I'll always remember you. Good luck.

- Oh.

Good luck to both of you too.

My. they're a nice couple.

Oh. by golly. I nearly forgot.

In case you've no place

to spend your honeymoon...

...here's the key

to the Guggenhoff mansion.

- They're in Europe.

- Thanks.

And. Mary. if Mike doesn't treat you right.

you come back and report to me.

I'll be back here next November 3rd.

That's a date.

Mike.

Mac.

Thanks.

Goodbye. Mary.

Come on. Sam. Attaboy.

[WHISTLING]

TOUR GUIDE:
Fifth Avenue. This street

where the original 400 built their homes...

...making it the most celebrated

residential avenue in the world.

That magnificent marble dwelling we are

just passing is the Guggenhoff mansion.

Bye.

TOUR GUIDE:
He was the copper king.

- Bye.

TOUR GUIDE:
On your right. that big

brownstone mansion that's all boarded up...

...that is the townhouse

of the great industrial wizard...

...Michael J. O'Connor.

the second-richest man in the world.

- You know. Mary.

- Yes. Mike.

There are richer men than I.

- Mary.

- Yes. Mike.

Remind me to nail up the board

in the back fence.

He's coming through the front door

next winter.

[WHISTLING]

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