The Petrified Forest
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- 1936
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How about some water?
There it is. There's the can.
Help yourself.
The sign's right. Your last
chance. You better fill up.
Okay, fill her up.
Boze.
Hey, Boze!
Boze!
Boze!
- Man wants gas. Get going.
- Okay, boss.
Everybody's entitled to
their own way of thinking.
- You fellas want more coffee?
- Yeah.
I don't know why, Nick,
but you're always squawking.
I got a right to. What do I do?
I climb poles to put up wires so
that some broker in New York...
can call some guy in Los Angeles
and tell him he's been wiped out.
We're not pioneering.
We're repairing.
My friend, when you talk about pioneering,
you're talking about something...
- I can tell you a few things about.
- Shut up, Gramp.
- I don't want to shut up.
- Don't argue with the guests.
Listen, I can tell these boys some things
they'd like to hear, wouldn't you, boys?
- Sure.
- Go ahead. Change the subject.
Listen, I come down into
Come from Virginia City. You had to be
tough to cross this country in them days.
Why, I helped string the first wire
that run west out of Albuquerque.
Yes, sir.
Say, are you the fella that
took a shot at Billy the Kid?
I never took no shot
at Billy the Kid. No.
I had too darned much sense.
He took a couple of
shots at me, though.
I'm practically the
only man he ever missed.
Well, he was... He was only
fooling, so it couldn't hardly count.
Okay, pop!
Say, I wanted to tell you.
Do you know the first message
that was sent over that wire?
It said... It said,
"God save the republic."
You'd better send that message again,
pop. The republic's in bad need of saving.
That'll be 55 cents apiece.
got. Fine excuse for law and order.
You read about that gangster
massacre in Oklahoma City?
Now, there's an example. Our government's
nothing but a gangster's joke.
There's one remark I'll
pass to you, brother:
Be careful how you talk about
- Come on, Nick.
- Wait a minute.
- Let me get a load of this tinhorn patriot.
- You got your eats.
There's your change.
Now kindly get out.
Thought you said not to
argue with the guests.
- You better tend to your own business...
- My own business.
What business? Miserable little
service station on the edge of nowhere.
Well, maybe that's
all you're good for.
What chance have I ever
had to prove what I can do?
You had a war, didn't
you? The biggest war yet.
I bet you think I failed because
I didn't come home with any medals.
You didn't have to
drive behind the lines.
I enlisted where my mechanical
knowledge would do the most good.
- Paula's scared.
- Scared of what?
Duke Mantee and his
gang are headed this way.
Nobody will get
Mantee. He'll fool them.
You can't fool all the
people all the time.
- Watch things, Gabby. I gotta get dressed.
- What for?
The Black Horse Vigilante meeting.
Dad, aren't you ever gonna
Well, that bandit gang
better not head this way.
What'll you do, blow the bugle and turn
the whole potbellied troop loose on them?
I only hope someday my own daughter will
learn to respect the things I stand for.
There's the mail!
There's the mail.
Hello, Dick. How's everything?
Oh, not so good. They tell me Mantee
and his gang are around here someplace.
Yeah? What's he...?
Paula was right. The
postman just told me...
that Duke Mantee and his gang are
gallivanting around here someplace.
Cut it out.
- What's the matter? Don't you like me?
- No, not very much.
Well, I'll forgive you since I haven't
had much chance to go into my act.
But when I do, you're gonna
change your attitude plenty fast.
- What's that you're reading?
- Oh, you wouldn't like it.
Oh, poetry.
Say, that's pretty hot.
Well?
I've suspected all along all you
needed was a little encouragement.
- That's great poetry.
- Sure, it's great.
But I can think of
something a whole lot better.
- I'm not so terrible-looking, am I?
- You think a lot of yourself, don't you?
- It's easy to tell when a girl wants love.
- Is it?
Sure.
- How can you tell that, Boze?
- Well...
one way is when she calls you by
your whole name for the first time.
And another way is the way I feel.
It takes two to make a radio program.
The one that's sending and
the one that's receiving.
When I'm with a girl that's cute
and appealing with big, blue eyes...
and I feel electric waves
running through me...
I can be pretty sure she's the one doing
the sending, whether she knows it or not.
Have you a radio program
coming in right now?
It's like the hottest torch song that
was ever sung. Can't you hear it, honey?
You can call me a sap if you want
to, but I'm falling in love with you.
I'm getting to want you
more than is good for me.
- Boze, have you ever been in love before?
- No.
- Have you ever said you were?
- Sure, plenty of times.
- Did they believe you?
- Certainly, and I'll tell you why.
Because they're all dumb. That's
where you're different, Gabby.
- I couldn't fool you.
- I'm smart, am I?
Too smart for most men, you'd catch
onto them. But that's what I want.
The better you know me,
the more you'll like me.
You'd better look out if
you want to keep your job.
Dad doesn't like having the
hired help make passes at me.
You're gonna love me,
Gabby. Love me a lot.
Look out. Here's someone coming.
Good evening.
Could I...
order something to eat?
Why, certainly. Miss Maple will
be glad to take care of you.
Thank you.
Wait a minute. Is
your dad going to town?
Why, yes.
Okay.
Will you sit down, sir?
Thank you.
- Do you live around here?
- No. No, a tourist afoot.
My last host of the road
dropped me about 10 miles back.
Still, it's wonderful what progress
you can make just by doing this:
Thanks.
"Today's special."
Tell me, just what
is a "Bar-B-Q"?
Well, here it's a hamburger sandwich
with some vegetables on the side.
It's always today's special.
- It's pretty good.
- It is?
Unless we have a sandstorm.
Well, I'll have it. First of all, I'd
like some cream of corn soup, some beer...
- and I'll order the dessert later.
- Okay.
Thank... Oh, another
question. Where am I?
Well, this place is
called Black Mesa.
Black Mesa.
How intriguing.
Where are you planning to go?
My plans have been uncertain.
Oh, just hoboing along.
Call it "gypsy-ing."
I had a vague idea I'd like
to see the Pacific Ocean...
it. But that depends.
Where did you come from?
Quite a long way, Miss Maple.
- That is the name, isn't it?
- Yes, that's it.
- Are you English?
- No.
You might call me an
American once removed.
- But if you wouldn't mind...
- The soup will be in in a minute.
The washroom is through
that door if you want it.
Thank you.
- Oh, good evening.
- Good evening.
- Anyone take your order?
- Yes, a charming young lady.
That's my daughter.
- Gee willikers, ain't that great? Look.
- Ain't what great?
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