It Happened on Fifth Avenue

[The King's Men singing "It's A Wonderful Wonderful Feeling”]

Oh it is a wonderful wonderful feeling

I've never felt this way before

Lady luck is going to come my way

Something may have been stored

With the blue sky above for a ceiling

My feet hardly touching the floor

I feel so happy the whole day long

Feel like bursting right out in song

There's a rainbow around my heart

And it fits me like a glove

Feel so marvelous feel so wonderful

All the world all the world &

All the world all the world is one

And here, folks, are some of the most famous homes

shops and hotels in New York City.

Fifth Avenue, the street

where the original 400 built their homes

making it the most celebrated richest avenue in the world.

'See it for yourself

'the famous homes of New York's Fifth Avenue.'

'That magnificent marble dwelling'

'that we are now approaching is the Guggenhoff Mansion.'

'He was the copper king.'

'And there on your right, that big brownstone mansion'

'that's all boarded up, that is the townhouse'

'of the great industrial wizard, Michael J. O'Connor'

'the second-richest man in the world.'

'Leaders of society, business and politics'

'built their homes upon this avenue'

'palatial homes worth millions. See for yourself.'

'The famous homes of New York's Fifth Avenue.'

'The wealthiest and most fashionable avenue'

'in the world's largest city.'

'To your left is the internationally known'

'Museum Of Science And History.'

'Look ahead and you will see at 90th Street'

'Andrew Carnegie's fabulous residence..

Well, Sammy, everything looks just the same as usual.

It's certainly nice to be back again, ain't it?

Come on. Let's go up and clean up a bit.

- Well, is everything out? - Yup.

Everything but the tenant in 4-G. He refuses to be evicted.

Refuses? Did you tell him the place is being torn down?

And that Michael O'Connor is putting up

an 80-storey building?

Yup. I told him.

He said if an 80-storey building goes up, he's going up with it.

The manager's up arguing with the guy now.

But, Mr. Bullock, you had ample notice.

Please put on your pants and vacate at once.

I've got rights, constitutional rights

and that's what I'm standing, sitting on.

Besides, Section 40, Article 27 of the Housing Code

"No discharged veteran can be evicted."

- There's no such regulation. - There isn't?

- 'No.' - Well, there should be.

I refuse to be evicted because a wealthy Croesus

named Michael O'Connor wishes to perpetuate his name

with an 80-storey steel monument.

Mr. Bullock, I'm terribly sorry.

Oh-ho! So it's you again.

Well, if you came back to apologize, you can.

Mr. Bullock, don't you realize

this building is being torn down?

Every tenant has vacated but you.

Listen, chum, I've hunted three months for this foxhole

and I'm not leaving this bed.

'Will you vacate quietly or must I... '

Call your Cossacks, I'll fight it out on this front

if it takes all winter!

Alright, boys.

'Take him out.'

- Come on! - There you are.

Do your worst.

I captured these handcuffs from a Japanese MP.

Little did I know that this souvenir of war

would become the instrument of resisting tyranny!

Go ahead. Let's see you move me now. Hah!

I'll fight this outrageous intrusion of human rights.

I'll sue Michael O'Connor. He can't get away with this.

Just because I'm in bed, it's no sign I'm taking this lying down.

Michael O'Connor is an octopus! A human oc.. Ah-ah!

Slowly strangling civilization with his tentacles.

Sam, stop that.

Come on up there. Come on. Up.

- Is that your dog? - Sir, I'm terribly sorry.

I suppose my dog and I are somewhat responsible.

Why don't you keep him on a leash?

Well, he's not afraid I'll run away.

Are you, Sam? Ha!

Say, you better go home and change.

- Where do you live? - Right here.

You're practically standing in the middle of my living room.

- Oh-ho.. - Draw up a chair and sit down.

Uh-uh! Careful of those cigar ashes on the rug.

Oh, terrible thing, isn't it, the housing problem?

I'd settle for an upholstered steam-heated gutter.

Well, fortunately, I solved my residential problem

years ago.

Say, he likes you.

And when Sam likes a stranger, that's good enough for me.

I, uh, feel somewhat obligated.

'Care to be my guest for the night?'

No. I don't wanna trouble you. Thanks, anyway.

Oh, it's no trouble at all.

As it happens, I live alone.

'I'd be delighted to have you.'

Well, you're sure it would be alright with Sam?

Do you, uh, do you always..

Only when the house is boarded up.

"Only when the house is boarded up."

Yeah. Come on. Come on, Sam.

"" Michael O'Connor. Winner. Champion Class-B Sloop. 1937.'

'Newport Races."'

Michael O'Connor?

Ah, here you are, my boy. Try this.

Well, isn't this just dandy?

The great Michael O'Connor in person.

I've always wanted to see a walking cash register...

- No, I'm... - Listen, moneybags.

While guys like you are living here in Oriental splendor

guys like me are being thrown out of $40-a-month apartments.

Are you so wrapped up in yacht races

you've forgotten there's a human race?

My boy, much to my regret

you've forced me to divulge a secret.

I am not Mr. O'Connor.

My name is McKeever.

Aloysius T. McKeever.

You mean, you're not..

Yeah, but isn't this.. I mean, don't you..

Well, let us say that I'm a guest of Mr. O'Connor.

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought maybe..

You mean you live here all alone?

- Uh-huh. - 'Where's O'Connor?'

In Virginia.

A place called Bubbling Springs.

Oh, it's quite beautiful there.

"" Evicted tenant calls O'Connor octopus.™

Hah! What do you think of that?

Well, couldn't you've kept this sort of thing

out of the newspapers?

Publicity like this doesn't do me

or the project any good, you know?

Well, I was on the way down here.

Picked up the paper at the airport.

Octopus. Hah!

Well, let's get on.

Gentlemen, you're wondering why I called this conference.

The building we're constructing in New York

as you're well aware of, is merely the first link

in our postwar plans.

Our new headquarters, in fact.

Link number two is right there.

Take a good look, gentlemen.

This is the main terminal of our newest and greatest venture.

'An air cargo network that will span the globe.'

'And with the proper facilities, as you see here'

"vast quantities of industrial cargo can be moved by air'

a dozen times as rapidly

as present land and water transportation.

Well, gentlemen, what do you think of it?

It's inspired, Michael.

But you're not going to build all this in New York, are you?

It's an ambitious undertaking.

Where are you gonna get sufficient property?

Tell them, Farrow.

Well, believe it or not, gentlemen

we're getting it from the government.

- 'From the government?' - Exactly.

The government owns Camp Kilson, over 300 acres

just outside the city.

It's to be sold one month from today.

And they will accept any reasonable offer.

Farrow here is flying to Washington tonight

to find out what they consider reasonable.

- Your pills, Mr. O'Connor. - Oh, mm.

- Ah! And now, gentlemen... - Ah, excuse me.

There's a long-distance call