Road to Singapore
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- 1940
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Hi, Babe. Hello, Bill. Come on down.
Hurry up. Give me my money.
I've got a wife waiting'.
Thanks.
Hello, Bill.
Hi, Babe.
How you been? You look
pretty and smell pretty too.
Wait a minute.
You sure got that quick enough.
There you are, Josh.
That's married life for you.
Yeah, isn't
that beautiful?
If the world was run right,
only women would marry.
Yeah.
Hey, could they
do that?
Get a load of that!
You break your arm? I haven't
heard from you in 3 months!
I've been very busy. You've
been busy. I can imagine.
Dewey!
He got bigger.
What did you think
he'd get? Littler?
Mom, look. Here's Pop
squeezing a hula dancer.
Give me that.
You were busy, huh?
Wait till I get you home.
Come on, push Dewey.
Ow!
Well, Mr. Ace Lannigan,
let that be a lesson to you.
A lesson to me?
Yeah.
If they lined up all
those movie queens...
and let them wave those long
eyelashes at me, know what I'd do? Huh?
I'd throw rocks at them. Yes.
Toss them right
at them. Oh-ho-ho.
I can brush them off like flies. Oh, yes.
Which of you is Ace Lannigan? That's me.
- Know a gal named Cherry?
- Cherry?
No. Sure you do. That's
the little blonde...
Sure,
I know Cherry.
Brilliant
conversationalist.
How's she doing'?
She's getting' married.
Well, what do you know.
Great kid... Cherry.
So little Cherry's
getting' married!
Yeah, she wants you
to come to the wedding'.
If I'm around.
Who's she marrying?
- You!
- She couldn't have picked a...
Me?
Can I be an usher?
There must be some mistake. All
I did was take her to a movie.
Yeah, and kept her out
half the night!
Can I help it if there's
double features? Can he help...
Come on. You're going' with us. All right.
I'm going' with them. Oh,
you're going' with them.
I'm going' with them.
Oh.
Patty-cake, patty-cake,
baker's man.
Bake a cake
as fast as you can.
This sort of thing
has got to stop...
Spreading the Mallon name
all over the newspapers!
Getting yourself mixed up
in a waterfront brawl!
more disgraceful in my life!
It's not as bad as that.
Take it easy, Skipper.
All right, O'Keefe.
Yes, sir.
You seem to think the world
is a three-ring circus...
and all you've got to do
is run around and have fun.
What's wrong with that? The world
won't let you, that's what's wrong.
You mean the Mallons won't
let me. Won't let you what?
What are we
keeping you from doing?
Skipper, you've been singing'
this song at me for years.
Eventually you're
going to trap me.
But you can't blame me for
holding out as long as I can.
Look here, Josh, I'd like
to sit on a coral reef...
and play a ukulele,
but we're Mallons.
to build up this business...
and it's my duty and yours
to carry on.
We've got stockholders, customers,
ships all over the world.
What's wrong with one of
You've dodged your
responsibilities long enough.
You're taking over the maintenance
department, office hours nine to five.
Oh, no. I'm not going to wind up
back of that desk like you,
pushing buttons, growling
and barking at everybody.
That's not for me, Dad.
I want to be one of the boys.
I want to be a regular guy. A regular guy?
The poor house is
full of regular guys!
You're going to accept
your responsibility...
just like I did
from my father,
and just like he did
from his father.
The old captain... the fellow
He was a man! Only had one
ship too! And we've got 80.
Let's sell 79, take the other,
sail around, have some laughs.
Don't be ridiculous.
What about Gloria?
When I was your age,
I was married and had you.
Suppose I'd gone vagabonding
around the world?
Where would you
be now?
You got me there,
Skipper.
Mr. Mallon,
Miss Gloria Wycott.
I told you
it would be all right.
Josh, darling!
Hello. How are you? You look
wonderful... brown as a coconut!
I saw the headlines,
"Waterfront Brawl," and I said...
"Josh is back. "
Couple of guys...
I suppose you businessmen have
settled everything? No, we...
What's he going to be? A vice president? Who?
Don't make him a vice president.
Make him work. We hadn't progressed...
I've found the sweetest apartment
on a hill overlooking the sea.
Who for?
Look, I...
For us. You can watch
the ships come and go.
I think I'll run along.
Where we going', Dad?
I leave him
to you, Gloria.
Come on, Josh. Sit in that chair. Where?
Right there. I want to see
how you look in it. What for?
You look wonderful there. Yeah?
That's where you belong.
I don't feel so cozy.
Skipper looks all right
back here, but...
What's this? Sketches for our
apartment. I did them myself.
What's that?
Living room.
Living room!
Very gay... fuchsia and blue. Blue and who?
Fuchsia and blue.
Yeah?
And look. That's the dining
room. The dining room!
Look at the table.
When it's open it'll seat 40.
40 what? 40 people, silly!
I'll have to get on a scooter
to pass you the salt!
Oh, Josh, you're mad.
Look, that's your room.
Looks like
a drive-in.
What's that big affair
in the middle?
That's the bed. The bed.
Can you get 40 in there?
Oh, Josh. I like those shelves, though.
I can put my
ship models on them.
Oh, darling.
No, not there.
I got a clipper
in a bottle that...
Oh, honey, no. They're
not smart anymore. Oh.
I thought something
delicate... porcelain...
little Chinese men. We could
have them do the laundry.
Oh, Josh. You'll like it
when it's finished. I hope so.
It's wonderful having you back.
Been a good boy?
Well, I got "E"
for effort.
"E" for...
thought about you a lot.
Missed you...
dreadfully.
Yes. You got a
pretty outfit on.
All for you, Josh.
After dinner,
we'll drive out to the country.
The nights have been divine;
the biggest, yellowest moon
you ever saw.
Josh...
Mm, you sailors! Well...
Hi, Ace.
Hi, Josh.
What's been doing'
on the firing line?
You better stay
right where you are.
The Cherry family's looking'
for the whites of your eyes.
They won't find
any whites in my eyes.
I've been washing them out
with Mercurochrome.
the paper. Take the pole.
Say, that's fine.
What? No caviar?
No caviar.
What are you doing'
with that monkey suit on?
Big doings on the yacht
tonight. Big doings?
What kind of doings? They're
announcing my engagement to Gloria.
Yeah, well that's...
Your engagement?
Yeah.
Why you double-crossing',
moonstruck pushover.
Gloria hits you with billing' and
cooing'... and bang, you're a dead pigeon!
I wouldn't talk, with that Cherry
family parading up and down.
Don't worry about me.
I'm the Rock of Gibraltar.
How'd they hook you? They
dangled a little thing...
called family tradition
in front of me.
Seems the world can't get along
without a long line of Mallons.
What happens when
you get to 100? Bingo?
Hey, I got a strike.
Give me that pole.
I've been waiting two years.
Run the boat!
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