Baby Face

Hi, son. You go home and tell Mom I'll be home in a few minutes.

-Now, let's go up. -All right.

Come on, fellas.

All right, Eddie. I'll give you the 50 cents when I change the buck.

Sixty dames.

Come on, Nick, what do you say?

Come on, Nick, what do you say?

Hello, boys.

Hello. How's the old woman? Glad to see you.

-Come on in, Joe. -Glad to be here.

Yeah, sure. Have a good one.

-What did you do that for? -Why, I'll give it to you.

-Hey, Cliff. -Well, what are you gonna have?

-Beer, and hurry it up. -Right. Come on with that beer.

Hey, where's Lily?

Oh, I'll find her. Oh, Lily.

Where is she?

-Where'd she go? -I don't know.

Now look what you went and done. You're fired.

-You lazy, thieving little son of a-- -Hey.

-Easy with the whip. -You keep out of this.

-Go on, get out of my house. -If Chico goes, I go.

-What? -You heard me.

Don't you talk to me that way. I'm your father!

-That's my tough luck. -Listen--

Now get this. If I stay here, Chico stays too.

Take some beer out to the boys, will you, Lily?

Clean that up, Chico.

-Here's Lily! -Lily, how are you?

-Hello, Lily. -Thattagirl.

What's your hurry?

-Some beer here, Lily. -Ain't that funny?

-Come here, sweetheart. -Oh, lay off, you big ape.

Over here, honey. Give me a bottle of that stuff, will you? I missed you.

-Yeah? -Put a head on this, will you?

A couple of glasses. Here's looking, Lily.

How's things, baby?

Let's me and you take a little walk over by the quarry, huh?

Come on in, Cragg.

-Hey, cobbler, when do I get my shoes? -When you pay for them.

-What do you say, do we take a walk? -I can hardly wait.

-Hello, Mr. Cragg. -Sit down.

-Beer? -Yeah.

You ain't been in lately.

I don't care for the crowd here.

No.

They're pretty mangy.

How long are you going to stand it?

Why don't you get out before it is too late?

-Where would I go? -Out into the world.

You could make something of yourself. You have power.

Yeah. I'm a ball of fire, I am.

You don't realize your potentialities.

Come again?

Did you read that book I gave you?

Oh, I tried to, but I didn't understand it very good.

It's by Nietzsche, the greatest philosopher of all time.

Yeah. Well, I never did get much good out of books.

You are a fool.

You could learn a lot from that book.

But if you are content to stay here like a dumb animal...

...in this miserable life, then I wash my hands from you.

-Gee, Mr. Cragg, you ain't sore, are you? -Here.

-For the beer. -Oh, no, I couldn't take it. Not from you.

No, no. I accept no favors.

Oh, don't be like that. You ain't like a customer.

-Come in again tomorrow? -Well...

...we'll see.

-Did he pay you for it? -Yeah, but I gave it back to him.

-Say, what do you think we're running here? -It looks to me like a zoo.

Four. Four and a quarter.

Four-fifty, 4.75, 5.00.

Another cup of coffee, honey?

Hello.

Well, Ed, I'm glad to see you. Come on in.

-It's hot tonight. -Yeah, yeah.

Just make yourself comfortable, Ed.

-Good night, Nick. -Good night, boys.

-Good night, Joe. -See you tomorrow.

Yeah, come back tomorrow.

I wanna talk to you.

You fixed it with the big fella, didn't you? They ain't gonna make no trouble?

Yeah, that ain't what I wanna talk to you about.

He's a big politician, ain't he?

He's a big something, and it ain't a politician.

Honey, you makes me tickle.

Chico, go downstairs and watch the still while I'm out.

Come on, hurry up! Get a move on you.

Come on, old-timer, come on.

-You and I are gonna take a walk. -What's the matter?

Come on. Up.

What's the matter?

-What's the matter? -That's all right. Come on.

-How are you, Lily? -I was great up till now.

I don't often get to see you alone.

Oh, excuse me. My hand shakes so when I'm around you.

You haul your freight out of here.

-What, you getting particular? -Maybe I am.

-Did you ever take a good look at yourself? -Yeah, you're exclusive, you are.

The sweetheart of the night shift.

Come on, you're wasting my time. Everybody knows about you.

Yeah?

Well, you ain't going to.

-Ed. What's the matter? -No more protection for you.

I'll see that the police close up your joint.

Lily!

What did you do to him, huh?

Are you crazy?

Ed Sipple's kept my place open. Now he's going to the police, he's gonna close me up.

You done it! You never was any good.

Pulling a thing like this, I ought to kill you.

-What's stopping you? -I should've thrown you out years ago...

-...instead of raising you the way I did! -Yeah, the way you did.

-You're just like your mother! -She was lucky to get away from you.

Was she? Look what happened to her.

She's better dead than living with a thing like you.

-And I'm getting out too. -You little tramp, you!

Yeah, I'm a tramp, and who's to blame? My father. A swell start you gave me.

Ever since I was 14, what's it been? Nothing but men! Dirty, rotten men!

And you're lower than any of them! I'll hate you as long as I live!

Mr. Powers, there's something wrong with the still.

It's smoking something awful.

Can I do something for you, honey?

Your father's in there!

Poor Mr. Powers. What a terrible death.

-Nick Powers? -Yes.

Well, that's that.

I never go to funerals. A relic of barbarism.

So now what?

Well, the future looks very bright.

Just as I was leaving the cemetery, Ed Sipple made me a proposition.

And the manager of the Star and Garter Burlesque House...

...offered me a job in the chorus to do a strip act.

-A strip act? -Yeah, show my shape.

Well, that's a business in itself.

Oh, I guess I ain't much of a businesswoman.

What's going to become of you? It's up to you to decide.

If you stay in this town, you are lost.

Where would I go, Paris? I got 4 bucks.

That's what makes me mad with you. You're a coward. I mean it.

You let life defeat you. You don't fight back.

-What chance has a woman got? -More chance than men.

A woman, young, beautiful like you...

...can get anything she wants in the world because you have power over men.

But you must use men, not let them use you.

You must be a master, not a slave.

Look. Here. Nietzsche says:

"All life, no matter how we idealize it...

...is nothing more, nor less, than exploitation."

That's what I'm telling you.

Exploit yourself.

Go to some big city where you will find opportunities.

Use men. Be strong!

Defiant! Use men...

...to get the things you want!

Yeah.

Hey, this is okay. Give me a match.

-It's awfully dark in here. -Yeah.

Well, the darker the better till we pull out.

Well...

...the next station is New York.

Hey, you. Come on out of there.

Come on.

Well, I'm a--

Too many of you dames getting away with it these days.

-The cops in the yards will take care of you. -Oh, wait a minute.

-You wouldn't throw us off, would you? -Yeah, and you're gonna get 30 days for it.

-In jail? -Yes, in jail.

Now, why don't we sit down and talk this thing over.

That lady's dressed up.

And look at her automobile.

But what I wanna to find out is how did she get them?

I could use some of them pork chops.

It's all in your mind. You ate yesterday, didn't you?

Boy, I'll bet there's plenty of dough in this little shack.

Say, I'd like to work in there. Can you fix it for me?

You might try the Personnel Department around on 47th.

Thanks so much.

I'll be seeing you.

-Get me a taxi. -Yes, sir. Taxi!

-Is this where you ask for jobs? -Yeah, this is where you ask for them.

Wait here.

I have good references. If I could only see him.

You can wait if you want to, but he is out to lunch.

What part of the South are you from, Mr. Pratt?

Tallapoosa, Georgia.

I know some Pratts where I come from.

Where was that?

Oh, maybe I'll tell you someday when I know you better.

-Say, I like it here. How about a job? -Oh, we don't--

Oh, now, don't tell me in this great big building there ain't some place for me.

Have you had any experience?

Plenty.

I'd rather wait in there.

I hate crowds.

Don't you?

The boss won't be back for an hour.

Well, then why don't we go in and talk this over.

-Is that a permanent? -Yeah, they do it for 3.35...

...at Boin's Beauty Shop.