Kid Galahad Page #5

- The greatest fight I ever saw on TV, kid.

- Thank you.

Five different times

I thought you were dead.

Did you hear where

they introduced him from last night?

You bet I heard it.

- Every single word of it.

- "From Cream Valley, New York...

"Kid Galahad."

Frankly, it did something to me.

Did you get the same feeling, Pete?

I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.

And that goes for me, too.

- Nice going, kid.

- Thank you.

All these other muscle-heads

been training up here, not one of them...

said he was from Cream Valley.

I want to pay you for those re-threads

you let me have last week.

There's no hurry about it.

I figure she'll be ready

for a spray job pretty soon.

I want to know if it'd be all right

for me to use your garage tonight.

For you? Why wouldn't it be all right?

The shop is yours.

Thank you.

Now, there goes my kind of a boy.

Do you mean you're gonna walk right up

to him like bygones was bygones, Max?

Like nothing ever happened?

We live in an age where every dove

of peace has an angle or a proposition.

I think we've got the kind he'll listen to.

- Happy Fourth of July!

- Who's smiling?

If that's going to be your attitude, Willy...

Never mind my attitude.

All of a sudden, after three whole years...

you get democratic enough

to set your foot in my joint? Why?

If you'll kindly shut up long enough,

I'll give you two reasons.

- We can go inside?

- Who's stopping you?

First, as I was about to say, Willy,

it's the 4th of July, a day on which...

I've got no objection

to visiting with a fellow veteran.

Big deal.

Secondly, I am here with Harry,

on behalf of...

- the Cream Valley Chamber of Commerce.

- Another big deal.

From which you would not have been

blackballed, incidentally...

if it had not been

for that investigation in Washington.

- I can stand the loss.

- Willy...

- you better listen to Max.

- So? I'm listening.

A suggestion was made, Willy,

on account of how everybody...

myself included,

seems to like this young Galahad so much.

A suggestion was made...

that this year, over the Labor Day weekend,

we might sponsor a boxing show.

- With Galahad?

- No, with Max Schmeling. Who else?

What the committee has in mind

is Galahad and a suitable opponent...

at the fairgrounds.

We would draw from the whole resort

area, of course, not just from here.

Well, all I can tell you sharpshooters

right now is that Galahad will be expensive.

We didn't expect to pay the boy off

in Green Stamps.

- How about it, Willy?

- I'll take it.

But as I say...

he's gonna cost you.

I just haven't figured out how much yet.

It's pretty, isn't it?

- Hey, Galahad!

- What?

- Hello, Lew.

- You coming to the picnic with us?

Nope. I'm going in that.

In that?

First time I've had her on the road

since her new paint job, Lew.

I thought I'd give this picnic

some real class, you know?

Well, if Rose don't mind looking like

she's sitting in a can of ripe tomatoes...

you know, why not?

All right, we'll see you there.

Hey!

Why did she have to go off

in that beet-juice jalopy with him?

You're asking me?

She could've gone with Maynard and Lew,

couldn't she?

Willy, when you're 21

and you look like Rose...

you don't have to ride

with Lew and Maynard.

What's that supposed to mean?

You want diagrams?

- Now look, Dolly...

- That's just what I'm going to do.

Look at Maynard's corned beef.

I promised I'd put a low flame under it.

Mr. Grogan?

- Mr. Grogan?

- That's right.

My name is Frank Gerson.

I'm a guest of Lieberman's.

What can I do for you?

I also happen to be one of the assistant

District Attorneys for Manhattan.

That's a great help to everybody.

We've got nothing to talk about.

I doubt that.

New York's as curious as Washington

about Otto Danzig.

Sorry. I never knew the answers

in the first place.

If you don't know

who did that job on Rocky...

why are these imported hoodlums

sitting on your front doorstep...

twenty-three and a half hours every day?

Do you mind if I tell you something

off the record?

Please do.

Otto doesn't believe me, either.

Plenty of food, plenty of food.

You think you've eaten lobster before,

Maynard, just wait till you taste this.

Well, Maynard?

I ain't saying this lobster is for the birds...

but I'd rather be eating my own corned beef.

Lobster? I think I'd like some of that.

Is it good?

Fine, Father.

Come on, let's do it again, Galahad.

We're just getting warm.

You get any warmer,

you're gonna melt the guitar.

Walter?

That fight that Mr. Lieberman

and the others...

were talking about

for the Labor Day weekend?

I mean, what's the point of it?

What do you mean, for me,

or for the Chamber of Commerce?

For you, of course.

Well, it means a lot of money.

Do you want to fight?

Get all banged up again,

like you fell down three flights of stairs?

- Is that what you want?

- Nope.

Then don't do it. Tell them no.

Well, there's only one thing wrong with that.

I wouldn't get the money.

- Who cares?

- Me. I care.

I need it. I've made plans.

You think I did all right?

You cooked this great. It cuts real fine.

Let's get one thing settled, Lew.

Exactly what time was it

when you saw Rose leave the picnic?

I told you before. 6:30, 6:45, 6:50...

I didn't make a note of it.

What's all the commotion about?

She was with Galahad, wasn't she?

I know who she was with.

And I'll tell you something else I know...

it's 8:
40.

- Could she be safer with the FBI?

- Which way were they going?

I told you that before, too.

Back toward the village.

You're sure?

Man, how could anybody in our racket

not recognize that jalopy?

- It's the same color as a bloody nose.

- Very funny. How would you like one?

Little father.

Few things I wanted to finish

before Lew puts me back in training.

Mr. Prohosko doesn't mind

you coming in here like this...

- and using the place after hours?

- Mind?

Mr. Prohosko?

I wasn't gonna tell you

about Mr. Prohosko yet...

but after September,

we're gonna be partners.

You and Mr. Prohosko, partners?

If everything works out all right, he wants

to retire, so that's why I need the money.

- And no more fights?

- No more fights.

There won't be any need for any.

Well, it's like it had to happen.

- Well, what I'm trying to say is...

- Yes?

What I mean is,

I dropped the bolt. Excuse me.

- What kind of a bolt was it, Walter?

- Quarter inch.

How big was it?

A quarter inch bolt is a quarter inch.

It's about this big.

Walter.

What do you do when you feel like this?

People usually get married, I understand.

It's about the best and safest thing to do.

Picnics are wonderful, Willy.

Good night.

Come here, Galahad.

Who invited you to go cruising

in that jalopy with my sister today?

I'm sorry, Willy. What?

You heard me. Where did you go with her?

Well, for one thing, we went to the picnic.

That's not the one thing I'm concerned with.

Lew and Maynard have been back for hours.

Where else did you go?

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