Leatherheads Page #3
- No?
He certainly looks like
the retrieving type.
- Do you work here, Dodge?
- No, CC, I came to talk to you.
Yes, well, I'm afraid we're going to dinner.
Come, let's find a real valet, shall we?
I have $20,000 that says
you might want to talk.
So if I understand you
correctly, Mr Connelly,
it's your intention to
legitimise professional football?
- That's right.
- Well, let me say straight off,
there's no such beast
as professional football.
There's only miners and farmers and
shell-shocked veterans of the Great War,
smashing each other's skulls together
in a million turnip fields
from Duluth to East Jesus.
Now I ask you, how do you
intend to legitimise that?
By keeping it alive,
by investing in a team.
Well, you see, there's the catch.
I'm not interested in investing.
I'm more of a 20-percenter. New
talent, new ideas interest me.
Professional football does
not attract new talent,
and investing in a professional
football team is not a new idea.
Dodge,
we had some laughs a few years ago.
- You had some laughs.
- Yes.
Yes, I guess I did.
- So...
- Okay.
How about this for a new idea?
Carter Rutherford leaves Princeton
to play for the Duluth Bulldogs.
- What?
- Hear me out.
Carter, you're a pretty
remarkable guy, aren't you?
- I just play football.
- You don't have to be modest with me.
I know your story.
How you put your education on hold to
serve your country, to fight in the war.
I was just doing what
I thought was right.
The President gave you
a medal for bravery.
I was just in the right
place at the right time.
That's not what the papers said. They
called you the hero of the Argonne.
Then, when you went back to school, you
turned out to be a football hero, too.
- Mr Connelly, I'm just a guy...
- Carter.
Do kids chase you down
the hallway at school?
Sometimes.
Follow you around? Ask
you for an autograph?
It happens, yeah, but you can't
take that stuff too seriously.
You feel like sometimes everybody
wants something from you?
And how are you compensated for living your
life under that kind of public scrutiny?
By paying tuition to Princeton.
Let me ask you a question.
Do you like playing football?
I love playing football.
Good. You got one more year and
that's it. That's all she wrote.
What are you gonna do then?
Actually, I've already been
accepted to Yale Law School.
me at Hager, Danes and Upton
when I get my law degree.
It turns out, I'm not too bad a
student, when I put my mind to it.
You... That's good. It's good.
And all of that will be waiting
for you, no question about it.
But the world's full of good lawyers.
In football, there's only
one Carter Rutherford.
You don't need any more teaching
to be what you are out on the field.
You ought to be playing football, and
you ought to be rewarded for your talent.
Makes sense. Sort of.
So did bloodletting at the time.
You're very passionate, Mr Connelly.
What exactly do you have in mind?
Carter Rutherford takes a temporary
leave from Princeton to play for Duluth,
and in exchange he is
guaranteed $5,000 a game.
Let's you and I have
another drink, Mr Connelly.
You're the boss.
Why don't you two run along,
conduct your interview,
whilst Mr Connelly and
I thrash out your future?
Come on, Carter.
Carter Rutherford wouldn't sit
on a bench for that kind of money.
Did I say 5? I meant 10.
I assume you'll be paying
this out of the gate receipts?
- That's right.
- Of course, I'll want it in the form
of a guarantee. Plus I get
a percentage of the overages.
Of course. In the neighbourhood of 5%.
I was thinking a little more uptown.
- 10?
- 25.
I'll understand if you
decline. Most teams would.
Most, but not all.
Sudsy? Listen up.
Carter Rutherford's gonna be playing
for the Duluth Bulldogs starting Sunday.
We're... What? No, just listen. We're
taking a Pullman to Duluth tonight.
morning. Round up everybody you can.
Get the word around. I want a nice
welcoming committee when we pull in.
What? Just trust me. Thanks, pal.
Harvey, change of plans. I'm taking a
train with these knuckleheads to Duluth.
What? No, I haven't been
drinking! It's a long story.
Just give me a few days. Hey,
how'd it go with Mack Steiner?
So don't use his name.
Believe me, Harvey, by the end of the
week, this kid will cook his own goose.
I got to go.
Hey, what are you doing?
Sorry.
You know, truth be told, I
But college baseball isn't too popular.
What about the war? Where'd
all that courage come from?
I don't know about courage.
A platoon of German
soldiers surrendered to you.
Quite a few have made
a lot out of much less.
Let's talk about something else.
Like, how did Miss Lexie
Littleton get so curious
- she worked her way up a newspaper room?
- Not really the homemaker type.
Depends on the home, I guess.
This is me.
- An eventful day, Mr Bullet.
- Good night, Lexie.
Bright and early, Bullet.
You got a big day ahead.
Hey, Lexie,
you think I did the right
I think you did the right
Well, I'm glad.
I'm happy you're glad.
Good night.
I'm glad you're glad.
You've got a lot of moxie!
I didn't know it was your
berth. I would have armed myself.
I'm calling the porter.
- I'm not decent.
- Well, there's an understatement!
Neither are you.
- You looked?
- I glanced.
- Need help with that hook?
- No.
- Good evening.
- Yes, it is.
You know, this may seem a little awkward
coming from the man who only
promotes the man of your dreams,
but I've had a little thought.
- Perhaps it can wait till tomorrow?
- Probably, but that's not my style.
You see, Miss Littleton,
Carter is very important to me.
I want to make sure you treat
him fairly in your newspaper.
- I resent the implication that I wouldn't.
- Lexie,
Carter is good for the
country. He's a war hero.
Good for the Tribune, they
sell newspapers. Good for me.
- Good for you.
- Lexie...
I'm having a conversation
with a rather beautiful woman,
and she and I were wondering if
you'd care to join us for a nightcap?
- Good night, CC.
- Good night, Lexie.
- What?
- I think I'll sleep up here tonight.
You most certainly will not!
Really?
"Believe me, Harvey, by the end of the
week, this kid will cook his own goose."
- You were spying on me!
- I was observing.
- So, you want to play dirty?
- Maybe later. I'm a little tired right now.
So here we are.
- Not sure what the next move is.
- It happens.
- It's the first time for me.
- They all say that.
- I'm sure you snore.
- Attagirl!
Listen, I'm sorry if what
I said today upset you.
Don't be.
- Which part?
- The "kick in the head" part.
It's forgotten.
- I'm sorry if what I said today upset you.
- Don't be.
- Which part?
- The "tallest midget" part.
What about the "I know you" part?
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