Thunder Bay

Wait a minute, wait.

Hold it.

Another shell?

Yeah.

lf you hadn't blown our mustering-out

pay on this hare-brained idea,

you might've had

a new pair of shoes.

Me, too.

Two million dollars. Can't

be done for a penny less.

lf you can promote one

Confederate two-bit piece,

l'll kiss you

in Yankee Stadium.

You really think

your man will show?

He said he would.

Well, if he does,

he'll miss us.

We're not gonna walk

any 20 miles in one hour.

Yeah? We'll run, then.

Where you going?

Only one place you can go

on this road, Port Felicity.

Good. We're late

for an appointment.

Do you think you could

speed this thing up,

or should we get

somebody else?

Please.

Thanks, my friend.

l'd appreciate the lift.

lt's worth $5 to us if you

can get us to town by 2:00.

Okay? Thank you.

$5 to go 20 miles

in one hour.

Foreigners.

Entertainment. Can you

juggle or anything like that?

We might pick up

a few bucks.

l can imitate

a movie star.

l'd rather go hungry.

Now, you go rent a boat.

Take good care of the jewels. Give

me that. See you in a few minutes.

Nice, clean boat

you got, skipper.

She's good to me

and l'm good to her.

Yours, huh?

For a long time.

How is the shrimp haul

this season?

Some years is good,

some years is bad.

This year, terrible.

That's too bad. Would you

like to rent your boat?

Rent my boat? For what?

A partner of mine is in town.

Wants to look around, maybe

take a spin on the Gulf.

We'll give you $50

for the day.

This partner of yours

give $50 just to look around?

Oh, he's a big money man.

He's interested in making

an investment around here.

Oh, but there's nothing here

but fish.

What kind of an investment?

A fish cannery?

That all depends upon

how he reacts to the place.

We have no fish cannery here.

lt would be a good thing.

lt would save me

lot of time and money,

hauling my fish and shrimp

to New Orleans.

l would like to

meet this man.

Well, that's fine, skipper.

That's fine.

Now,

have you got some deck chairs

we can put out here?

Deck chairs?

Yeah.

Dress the place up a little

bit. Make a good impression.

But there's no room for

chairs on a shrimp boat.

Skip it.

Well! Mr. Martin!

Come aboard! Come aboard!

See if you approve!

This is your partner?

Yeah.

This is Mr. Steven Martin. l

don't believe l got your name.

l am Dominique Rigaud.

Mr. Rigaud.

Well, it's a pleasure.

Yes, sir, l'm very glad all

of us ran into each other.

You know, this just might be

the most important day

in the history

of Port Felicity.

Smaller places than this

have been put on the map

just because some very shrewd

investor comes in and, and...

And...

Ah, Stella!

This is my daughter, my beautiful

girl and the best sailor in Port.

This is Mr. Martin.

How do you do?

l didn't get your name.

Johnny Gambi.

What's all this about, Dad?

l have rented the boat to

them. $50 just for today.

And this one wants to

make an investment.

Where is the $50?

Hmm?

Well, miss, we...

We haven't got to talk

about the money yet, Stella.

With his kind, you don't talk

about money, you ask to see it.

You don't talk about investments,

you check Dun & Bradstreet.

That's my daughter.

She's got her head

on her shoulders, for sure.

She spent three years

in Chicago.

Oh.

Where is the $50?

Why, miss, are you suggesting

we're not good for it?

Yes.

Uh-huh.

Well...

Do you hear that?

Yeah.

Right on time. Come on.

Here he comes.

There he is.

He did come.

There's our investor.

And just in time, too.

Yeah.

You think this a lie?

Could be loaded

with them.

We'll cast off the lines.

You get underway.

Think you can remember how to

handle a stern line, boatswain?

l'm more at home on light

cruisers but l'll try.

Yeah.

Where did you get

all your man-training, pigeon?

ln the hardest school

there is, professor.

So stop trying

to thrill me.

Hey, give me a lift out

to that seaplane, will you?

Got to meet your fellow.

Gambi, take her downriver,

l'll bring him aboard!

All clear, aft. Let's go!

Hey, foreigner.

Where is that $5?

Nobody around here makes

a promise to Teche Bossier

and don't live up to it.

Where is the $5?

Where is the $5?

When you come ashore, l'll

take $10 out of your hide!

What did he say?

Oh, he was just

wishing us luck.

Mr. MacDonald?

Yeah.

l'm Steve Martin.

Glad to see you.

How are you? Climb aboard.

Mr. Rawlings.

Mr. Rawlings, how are you?

Yes. How do you do?

Where do l meet you?

Why don't

you anchor right here?

We're going for a boat ride.

Be back in a few hours.

Okay.

All right.

Over to that boat there.

This is my partner, Johnny

Gambi. Hello, Johnny.

Hello, Mr. MacDonald.

Mr. Rawlings,

my private secretary.

Come aboard,

Mr. Rawlings.

He protects my interests.

Uh-huh.

Skipper, head for the Gulf.

Well, Mr. Martin, your persistence

has won out. Here we are.

Now, what is this you couldn't

discuss on the telephone?

Well, Mr. MacDonald, l know your

company is in a lot of trouble,

and l think

we can help you.

Oh, you think that,

do you?

l know that

MacDonald lndustries

has invested $400,000

in an offshore oil lease,

and in three months you're gonna

have to put $200,000 more into it,

or you're gonna lose

the lease.

l also know that

you've invested $500,000

in a converted LST to be

used as a drilling barge.

You've got two air-sea

rescue boats and a tug,

and they're all going to

waste up in New Orleans.

Did you let me

do all that?

Why, Mr. MacDonald,

l've been trying to tell you,

l mean, this is precisely

what the board of directors

has been complaining about.

How much did all this

confidential information

cost you, Mr. Martin?

All of our

mustering-out pay.

Get the jewel box.

Now, so far,

nobody's been able to come

up with a drilling platform

that'll pass the specifications

of the insurance company.

Well, we've got

one right here.

Now, let's...

Let's say that this

is the floor of the Gulf.

Now here is the platform that

will do the trick for you.

Prefabricated templates,

built ashore

and brought out

to sea by barge,

and put on

the floor of the Gulf.

Now we anchor them

by these permanent pilings,

driven right down through

these verticals, like this.

Drive them down 10, 20,

30, 35 feet,

into the floor of the gulf,

makes it solid as a rock.

Now the insurance companies

have a big worry in this thing.

Storm damage.

Where's that history?

Here.

Here's a history of the Gulf's

storms from 1899 to 1945.

Now my platform

and the rig,

they're built to stand

the worst of these storms.

Not the average, the worst

of any of these storms.

And the insurance companies

have okayed the plans.

You collected

all these figures?

You sort of took a lease on a

dream of mine, Mr. MacDonald.

l know that that Gulf

out there is hiding enough oil

to make an inland field

dry up in shame.

Johnny Gambi and l

can get it out for you,

if you'll just give us

the go-ahead.

What do you think, Rawlings?

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