Miss Sadie Thompson Page #2

I've got an important guest

for you, come on.

Gentlemen, I hope I don't

have to toss you out.

Sadie Thompson, Joe Horn.

- Hi, Mr. Horn.

- Hi, Sadie.

- Worst ex-non-com in the division.

- Nice kids.

I wish they were on another island.

Come on, kids, help your mom.

Give her the best room you got.

- I got nothing left.

- I'll end up in the barracks yet.

- Put her with Mrs. Horn.

- And me?

- It's only for a week.

- Only?

I won't get in the middle

of a happy marriage.

- Anything with a roof'll do.

- Follow me.

- It's my job to look after her.

- Says who?

Son of a...

Throwing a lady in a monkey cage!

- It's the kids' pet.

- Take it out!

Sorry to put you out.

- We'll get this place squared away.

- It'll take a year.

We've cleaned up islands in minutes.

Take it away!

Careful of my record player!

It means a lot to me.

Glad it's not a radio.

Haven't heard a commercial...

...any news, nothing

since I left the States.

- Get her out of here!

- Don't rush! I'm here for a week.

- Hey, Kilroy!

- What's cooking, Pop?

Tell everyone to get home

before they get caught in the rain.

Debbie! Tommy!

- Hi!

- Hi!

Get in before you get soaked!

Got any candy? Any gum?

Hey, you people!

Come sit down!

Chow. Maybe not so good,

but not so bad.

- I'll be eating out.

- You are so wise.

Come on, kids.

It's time to hit the sack!

Come on! Go on to bed!

- I hardly feel like eating.

- The rain doesn't help much.

- How long will it last?

- Two months, off and on.

Mostly on, if I remember

the rainy season right.

My dear?

Dear Lord, we thank thee

for this gathering...

- and for the food which

thou hast provided for us this day.

- Amen.

- Amen.

I didn't know Mr. Horn

allowed radios here.

What do you say?

Hi, folks, you done eating?

That's a good-looking layout.

- Hi, frogmen.

- Here's your shoe.

- Come on in and get wrung out.

- Yeah!

It's that cheap girl who kept playing

her phonograph to attract sailors.

It wasn't only sailors.

She caught our eye too.

Everyone was aware of her.

She made certain of that when

she came onboard.

Behaving outrageously.

Having those parties in her cabin.

- What's she doing here?

- Waiting for the same boat as us.

I detest being under the same roof.

She has as much right

to be here as we have.

I'm going to the hospital tomorrow.

- Feel free to come.

- I'd like to.

- You've done well for the natives.

- That's the least of it.

- What more is there?

- Raise their morals.

- They're happy with how high they are.

- Standards are never too high.

Especially here, where nature

works against us.

Things grow with savage violence.

You see flowers

where there were only roots.

Ice, Mr. Davidson?

The old box gave 18 cubes.

Not bad for war surplus

I got off the beach.

Works if you treat it like a dame.

If you keep it in shape.

Have them lower the music.

I have a headache.

Sure, Mrs. Davidson.

- Hi, your climate's lousy.

- It's the best we got.

Don't I know you? Don't stand.

You'd only have to sit.

We were shipmates on the Orduna.

- Too bad, that sailor getting typhus.

- You haven't met.

- We haven't.

- Mrs. McPhail, Mrs. Davidson.

- Mr. Davidson.

- Nice to know you.

- Miss Thompson.

- Meet Dr. McPhail.

- Glad to know there's a doctor.

- Hope you won't need me.

I'm so healthy it hurts.

- We gotta go.

- I'll be right there.

I've held up the parade long enough.

- Where are you going?

- A brawl at the Chinaman's.

Maybe you'd like to come.

You might have a few laughs.

- Shouldn't you stay?

- Because of the rain?

- No, not the rain.

- You're not reaching me.

You'll be the only white woman.

That's real decent. Don't worry.

A girl gets just what she asks for.

I'm just asking for company tonight.

If you get lonely, come on down.

- That jeep will be floating.

- It's raining cats and dogs!

- You think this is rain, just wait.

- This won't do anything for my figure!

- Don't need nothing!

- Why, private, I'm surprised.

Hold on!

To paraphrase an old saying:

"The situation has landed and has

the Marines well in hand."

Go away!

When I want you,

I'll rattle your cage.

Knock it off!

I told you to fall back!

That goes for the rest of you guys.

Sadie's only got two legs.

No, I like to dance while I can.

How about it?

We haven't danced.

- You're not my speed, honey.

- Just follow me!

Miss Thompson.

I've been trying to place her.

- Has she been here before?

- Not that I know of.

- How are things in the States? Better?

- In what way?

- People still knock themselves out?

- Faster.

Same old rat race. That's why

I never went back after the war.

Everything gone slam, bang, hurry up,

time is money, get it while you can.

Don't let up. For what? Money.

And what's it get them?

Taxes and gadgets that

don't bring nobody peace.

- You're quite a philosopher.

- No, lucky.

Fell for a native and learned a lot.

I remember where I saw her.

I'm sure of it now.

- There's no doubt.

- No doubt of what?

She worked at the Emerald Club.

- What?

- The plague spot of Honolulu.

The girl worked there.

She's a prostitute.

You shouldn't assume without proof.

- I was at the raid. I saw her.

- She might have come with a friend.

Men didn't bring women there.

They went looking.

It was an infamous trap

for servicemen.

I saw them coming in.

All with one purpose.

- Never smiling.

- Desire is sad when it must be bought.

I saw girls from all nations there.

"Entertainers." Harlots!

I finally forced the police

to close it.

The women were to be deported.

Somehow she managed to escape.

You could be mistaking her.

- Obviously, she continues her trade.

- I see nothing obvious.

Doctor, I've devoted my life to

fighting corruption.

- I know immorality when I see it.

- I know intolerance.

- Passing judgment without proof.

- Robert, please.

Excuse me.

With gangrene,

what proof do you need to operate?

Gangrene is fact. It's tangible.

- So is evil.

- It's a matter of definition.

Evil is a fact! Like right and wrong.

You think that immorality

doesn't exist.

Everything's relative.

I know what men of science believe.

Freud, Adler and Jung have

destroyed moral values.

- Now just a minute.

- Destroying moral values!

Letting people think

they're not responsible.

We are responsible.

Each of us must choose good or evil.

We must stamp evil out.

The way you fight a disease.

- There's no need to get upset.

- I'm not.

I know where I stand.

On the side of right.

- Good night, doctor.

- Good night.

Mrs. McPhail.

We'll see you in the morning.

The invitation to visit

the hospital stands.

I appreciate that, Mr. Davidson.

What right has he got

to figure she's out of some joint?

- He can't help it.

- How do you mean?

Fanatics are too obsessed by what

they fight to know why they fight.

Like a guy who's against drinking,

but wants the bottle?

Yes. All of us have hidden desires,

which we disguise one way or another.

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