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Pal Joey
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- Year:
- 1957
- 111 min
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Wait a minute, fellows.
You got this all wrong.
- l never laid a hand on her.
- We got there just in time.
That's the trouble with you nightclub
entertainers. You're all alike.
You think you can own
every dame in the country.
Show me a law in the country that says
l can't buy a doll a friendly drink.
No law, just don't buy a drink in your
hotel room for a doll that's underage.
- Let's get goin', bud.
- How'd l know she was jailbait?
She looked like she was 35.
Want I should ask
for a driver's license?
lf you had, you would have found out
she was the mayor's daughter.
But-- Well, can't
we talk this over?
Come on !
You're leaving town now!
- l can't. l'm broke.
- Here's your ticket.
One-way.
All aboard!
Thank you.
- Taxi!
- Taxicab!
Cab, lady?
Taxi, sir?
No, thanks. l got my car
and chauffeur meetin' me.
Step lively for a tour
of San Francisco.
Aid, young man?
Can l give you aid?
- What did you have in mind?
- l beg your pardon.
- Get your early morning paper.
Golden Gate Park,
the world-renowned Cliff House...
overlooking the Pacific.
- Let your hips swing around the whirl.
- Herm, you need a singer?
Singer? l don't care if you sing like a
nightingale. l'm runnin' a girls' show.
Legs, not tonsils.
l see what you mean.
Thanks a lot.
Hurry, hurry.
This is the place
you can write home about.
This is the spot.
Hurry, hurry.
The show is just about to begin.
Plenty of seats available.
Step right on in out of the rain.
Everybody happy on the inside.
We got the greatest show in town.
The greatest show.
Come on in and hear
Ned Galvin And His Galvinizers...
the hottest band in town.
We got the finest food in town.
Hurry, hurry.
Everybody happy on the inside.
Go on right in, bud.
Hey, hey!
How are your fortune cookies?
Hi, maestro.
Remember your old pal Joey?
How could l forget? You still owe me
What do you think l'm doing here?
l came back to pay you the loot.
- Oh, man, am l glad to see you.
- Sure.
Take it out of
my first week's salary.
Tell the management
l'm available.
- You're always available.
- You got to stay loose.
That's the trouble, you see,
but we have an M.C.
Excuse me a minute.
Listen, can't we go
someplace after the show?
Have a cup of coffee and
yak up old times? Have some laughs?
That'd be good,
but l got a date with a girl.
lf she's a good-looking chick,
bring her along.
She's good-lookin' all right.
You don't understand.
Joey's turned over a new leaf.
New Joey, huh?
Sure, how about that?
How good-lookin' is she?
Back again, huh?
I'm a red-hot mama
But I'm blue for you
l get purple with anger
At the things you do
And l'm green with envy
When you meet a dame
And you burn my heart up
With an orange flame
I'm a red-hot mama
But you're white and cold
Don't you know your mama
Has a heart of gold
Hey. Who's the mouse
with the built?
A terrific rainbow
over you and l
You got to lay off of her, Joey.
She's a nice kid.
She has ambition too.
She wants to be a singer.
By the way, l'm helping her
with some of her arrangements.
Looks like she's pretty
well arranged as it is.
- Has that crummy M.C. shown up yet?
- Not yet, Mike. He must be stuck.
Yeah, in a crap game. That's twice
this week this bum has been late.
What do you want me to do? Cut his
number out and we'll go right to finale?
- Yeah, go right into the finale.
- Okay then.
Over you and I
Come on, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's hear it. Make the ladies know it.
You can do better than that.
Thank you. Thank you very much,
ladies and gentlemen.
We bid you good evening. l'm very happy
to be working in my hometown of...
San Francisco.
l've never seen him before.
l was born right here in this town,
right top of Telegraph Hill.
Yes, sir, my mother
was sending a wire at the time.
That's in Morse code. Secret Service
joke. What are you gonna do?
- You know this bum?
- Yeah, l know him.
- What's his name?
- His name's Joey Evans.
ls that the same Joey Evans
that caused all that trouble...
at the Hi-Ho Club a few years back?
You mean the same Joey Evans who--
l've had a request to do a song that's
dedicated to all the saloon keepers...
who are blowing their liquor license
called ""l Didn't Know What Time lt Was."'
""l didn't know--''
Oh, boy. C7, please.
l didn't know what time it was
Till l met you
Oh, what a lovely time it was
How sublime it was too
I didn't know what day it was
You held my hand
Warm like the month of May it was
And I'll say it was grand
He's got them in a trance.
Better they stay awake.
ln a trance, they won't drink.
lf they won't drink,
I got to go out of business.
Grand to see your face
Feel your touch
Hear your voice say I'm yours
Alone
l didn't know what time it was
And then I met you
Oh, what a lovely time it was
How sublime it was too
I didn't know what day it was
Then you held my hand
Warm like the month of May it was
And I'll say it was grand
Grand to be alive, to be young
To be mad, to be yours alone
Grand to see your face
Feel your touch
Hear your voice say
I'm all your own
He's cute!
You think anyone
with pants on is cute!
That's a lie.
l Iike lots of people without pants.
- What l mean is--
- Let it lay, honey.
l'm wise and
l know what time it is now
l'm wise and
I know what time it is now
I'm so wise
And I know what time it is now
Thank you very much.
Okay, hit the finale.
- Say, when do I start?
- You already started.
- What about my billing?
- Your what?
My billing. You know,
my picture out front.
- Are you kidding?
- Who's kiddin', Mike?
l got a big following. Put my picture
out front, they'll break the door down.
You'll have the rope up
every night.
One bad night
and you'Il be on the end of it.
Get this straight, lover boy.
I don't want you sniffing
around the customers' dames.
One false move and
you're out on your Frances.
Yeah, you.
That's what l like, Mike.
Security in a job.
Say, nobody's brought it up yet,
but l get 200 a week.
- What?
- l'll take less.
l made it a point never to argue
with the fellow who owns the saloon.
When the sun goes down
it is wide awake
Take your ma and your pa
and go to Frisco
Boston is England
New Orleans is France
New York is anyone
for ten cents a dance
But this great big town
by the Golden Gate
ls America's first
and Americans make
San Francisco
She was one of those new kids,
a little nervous, you know.
So l coached her a little bit,
if you excuse the expression.
She was singin' all those ballads
and that draggy jazz.
One day when the fleet landed...
she wanted to know from me
what would please the sailors most.
So l told her.
Things were never
the same between us again.
- Linda English, Joey Evans.
- Hi.
Yeah, she was quite a doll, that little
redheaded girl of yours in San Diego.
Mine? lt was your redheaded girl.
lf you want to get technical
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