Pocketful of Miracles Page #2

but I know better: I kiss the iron doors.

But it was too good to last.

Suddenly the law pulls the rug out

from under us bootleggers.

- Another dollar?

- Stop squawkin', stop squawkin'.

I only raised you one buck.

Tonight you can afford it.

Liquor's legal.

The whole town's on a binge.

- Baby, baby, baby

- Baby, baby, baby

- Baby, baby, baby

- Baby, baby, baby

- I love you

- I love you

Hope you love me too

Ooh!

All right, you wonderful

bunch of ex-lawbreakers.

This is the last night, the last song,

and the last bottle's on the house!

Hurray!

Does that mean we'll be playin', Dude?

- You are a genius. You are a genius!

- I know. Now tell me what happened.

- The big man is here.

- I told you so, huh?

- And he's waitin' for you.

- Let him wait.

- What man?

- I told you to find Apple Annie.

I spread the word with the BBC -

Beggars' Broadcast...

- Move it!

- Yes, sir.

What are you gonna do? Wait around for

some apple? What's the matter with you?

Listen, Dave. The big man don't wait easy.

He could get very nasty.

- He could put on them dark cheaters.

- I'm not leaving here until I get my apple.

All right. OK.

I'll go look in a few gutters myself.

Herbie!

Shh!

- Did you get it?

- Don't I always?

- Classiest stationery in the house.

- God bless you, Herbie.

A blind man could read that.

"Hotel Marberry."

- Give it to me.

- When are you expecting another letter?

The mail boat comes in tomorrow.

You know, I could get fired

for stealing your letters.

Herbie, you mustn't get fired.

Please don't get fired.

Who keeps writing you

from Spain, anyway?

None of your business.

A heavy lover, eh, Annie?

Yeah. King Alfonso.

But keep it quiet.

The queen gets very jealous.

Well!

It's been two years I've been waiting

for one like that. Come here, you.

Oh, Queenie.

Mmm...

- Dude...

- Mmm? What?

The doorknob's killing me.

The doorknob, huh?

You gorgeous stack of cupcakes.

Come here.

- Now, Dude...

- Come on now, Queenie. You started this.

I was trying to thank you for everything.

That's the way to kill a man,

not thank him. Come here.

- What's this? A party?

- It's the Fourth of July.

- In December?

- It's freedom day for both of us.

- You're through selling liquor.

- Now it's legal, it's no fun.

- I sold the club today.

- You did?

Did you bring 'em? Papa's IOUs?

I brought 'em.

There you are.

The last of Papa's debts.

Now we put them in the Easter fire

and we burn the past.

- Now you can make it Christmas, Dude.

- Happy New Year. How?

By saying you meant it

when you asked me to marry you.

Honey, I'll marry you.

I'll fight Dempsey, kiss a cop, anything.

Let's get started. Two years is a long wait.

Saturday, darling.

10am Saturday we get married. It's all set.

You're kidding. Really married? Us?

The real us. No more Dude and

no more Queenie. To David and Elizabeth.

Mr and Mrs Conway of Silver Springs,

Maryland, and their flock of children.

- Maryland?

- Yeah.

You know the house I was born in?

I bought it for us a year ago.

- You keep a secret real good.

- Honey, I want to be married there,

in Mama's wedding dress

by the preacher who married them.

Maybe I should go out and get my violin.

It's sappy, I know. But let me be sappy.

I'm sick of being Queenie Martin.

Reverend Morgan's still down there.

He's 81 years old and he's still

conducting Sunday services.

Dude, when I located him on the phone,

he cried. Can you imagine?

I cried too. It was the wettest

long-distance call...

Are you crying? I've never seen you cry.

When I'm happy -

when I'm really happy - I'm a Niagara.

OK, Elizabeth. To us.

To the wedding in your mother's wedding

dress... by the 81-year-old preacher.

- Oh, Dude, Niagara's coming!

- Watch it. This stuff burns holes, baby.

- I'm sorry.

- That's all right.

Oh, Queenie...

Dude, Annie's here. Let's go.

- Annie?

- I'll be right out!

What do you need an apple for?

What more luck do we need?

You just gave me a wedding present -

the place in Maryland.

I'm gonna give you one.

An all-year house on a silver platter.

- The whole city of New York.

- I don't want New York.

I want a little town in Maryland

where I can play the wife-and-mother bit.

You can shake this.

You didn't want it in the first place.

- But I'm a man who needs a little action.

- Action?

Prohibition's over.

Hey, Dude, the man is waitin'.

- All right, all right.

- What man? Who are you seeing tonight?

I'm making a meet with our future,

sweetheart. Mr Big himself.

- Not Darcey?

- You're right. Darcey.

Dude, no. You're not going to Chicago?

No. The mountain is coming to the Dude.

I'm not going to Chicago.

Darcey in New York?

The police said they'd never let him in.

They didn't let him in. I did.

Please, not Darcey. He's an animal.

He's a murderer. He's Public Enemy No. 1.

- It's all headlines.

- Dude, will you move it? Let's go.

Your car's outside. We can be in Maryland

by morning. We can make it legal.

If you love me,

don't depend on some witch's apples.

- Let's get away. We'll be real people.

- Simmer down, sweetheart. Come on.

We go out into the sticks,

what kind of work am I gonna do?

You're young.

You can make a name, money...

What's money? I started at the bottom in

this town and I'm going right up to the top.

I can outsmart those monkeys.

I've been doing it all my life.

Ever since I escaped from that orphanage.

And why? Because I'm good

and because I'm lucky.

I'm gonna be somebody,

and you're gonna be somebody with me.

I'm coming.

Dude, if you shack up with Darcey

you can forget the wedding.

Isn't she gorgeous?

- Heads.

- Oh...!

- What's grabbin' her?

- It's nothing. She just wants a lot of kids.

Kids? Boy, they're mean

when they get on that kick.

Annie, where you been?

Playing Chase Me Charlie?

And where were you Saturday?

I couldn't beat a race.

God bless you, Dude.

I wasn't feelin' so hot Saturday.

- Ginned up again?

- No, Dude. Honest, I'm off the stuff.

About time. Dr Michel says

your kidneys are shot.

Aw, pooh. My kidneys are

as good as new - better.

You think we could postpone

this discussion of Annie's kidneys?

Lots of luck, Dude.

Save a lot of trouble

if you bought the whole basket at once.

I gotta buy these apples

one at a time just before I need 'em.

We were both bums

until we found that out.

Let's go. Pick-up point, the warehouse.

God bless Dave the Dude.

God bless all my friends.

That's the boss.

- Dude's here. Set?

- Set.

- He's got his dark cheaters on, boss.

- Uh-oh.

You're late.

Late for what?

Late for what? For 48 hours I've been

knocking around in this cage

all the way from Chicago.

I'm seasick.

Don't any of you guys ever inhale?

Like being in solitary, only it moves.

Fine thing, some two-bit operator

sends for me in his upholstered boxcar

and first thing you know, I'm being hauled

all over the country like a side of beef.

- This your layout?

- Yeah. I built it.

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