Road to Singapore

Hello, Bill. Come on down!

Hurry up. Give me my money.

I got a wife waiting.

Thanks.

Hello, Bill!

Hiya, Babe!

How ya been?

Gee, you sure look pretty. And smell pretty, too!

Hey, wait a minute. You sure got that quick enough.

There you are, Josh. That's married life for you.

Yeah. Isn't that beautiful?

You know, if the world was run right,

only women would get married.

Yeah.

Hey, could they do that?

Get a load of that.

What'd you do? Break your arm?

I haven't heard from you in three months.

I've been very busy.

Oh, you've been very busy. I can imagine.

Dewey, he got bigger.

What do ya think he'd get? Littler?

Hey, Mom, look it! Here's pop squeezin' a hula dancer.

Give me that.

So, 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.

Say, listen, if they lined up all those movie queens in Hollywood

and let 'em wave those long eyelashes at me,

- you know what I'd do? - Huh?

I'd throw rocks at 'em.

Yes.

Toss 'em right at 'em.

I can brush 'em off like flies.

Oh, yes!

Which of you two is Ace Lannigan?

That's me.

Know a gal named Cherry?

Cherry?

No.

Why, sure you do. That's the little blonde you told me...

Yeah, sure, I know Cherry.

Brilliant conversationalist.

How's she doin'?

She's gettin' married.

Oh! Well, what do you know.

- Great kid, Cherry! - Yeah.

So, little Cherry's gettin' married?

Yeah. She wants you to come to the weddin'.

Well, I don't know. If I'm around. Who's she marrying?

You.

Well, she couldn't have picked a better... Me?

Can I be an usher?

I... Hey...

Wait! There must be some mistake.

All I did was take her to a movie.

Yeah, and kept her out half the night.

Well, can I help it if there's double features?

Can he help it if there's...

Come on, you're goin' with us.

Yeah. Well, all right.

All right. I'm going with them.

Oh, you're going with them.

Yeah, 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.

I've never heard anything more disgraceful in my life!

Oh, it's not as bad as that.

Now, take it easy, Skipper.

- All right, O'Keefe. - Yes, sir.

You seem to think the world is just some sort of a three-ring circus

and all you've got to do is to run around and have fun.

What's wrong with that?

The world won't let you, that's what's wrong with that.

Yeah. You mean the Mallons won't let me.

Won't let you what?

What are we keeping you from doing?

Oh, gee, Skipper,

you've been singing this song at me for years!

I know eventually you're going to trap me,

but you can't blame me for holding out as long as I can.

Now, look here, Josh.

I'd like to sit on a coral reef

and play a ukulele myself.

But we are Mallons.

It's taken nearly 200 years to build up this business

and it's my duty and it's your duty to carry on.

We've got stockholders, customers, ships all over the world.

Well, then, what's wrong with one of the Mallons sailing on some of 'em?

You've dodged your responsibilities long enough.

Starting next Monday you're taking over the Maintenance Department.

Office hours, 9 to 5.

Oh, no. Oh, no.

I'm not going to wind-up back of that desk like you,

pushing buttons and 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. - Yeah.

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.

Yeah, there's the old Captain.

The fellow that started the whole thing.

He was a man. He only had one ship, too.

And we've got 80.

Well, let's sell 79,

and take the other and sail around and 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?

Well, you got me there, Skipper.

Mr. Mallon, Miss Gloria Wycott.

See, I told you it would be all right.

Josh, darling!

Well, hello. How are you?

- You look wonderful! - I feel good.

- You're as brown as a coconut. - Yeah?

I saw the headlines in the paper this morning,

"Waterfront Brawl" and I said, "Josh is back."

That was just a couple of guys got out of line...

I suppose you two big business men have settled everything.

No. As a matter of fact, we...

- What's he going to be? A vice president? - Who?

Please don't make him a vice president. Make him work!

Well, we hadn't progressed that far. As a matter of fact...

Josh, I found the sweetest apartment.

Sixteen stories, overlooking the sea.

That's good. Who for?

For us.

You can watch the ships come and go.

Well, I... I think I'll run along.

- Where are we going, Dad? - Are you going?

I'll leave him to you, Gloria.

Come on, Josh, sit down in that chair.

- Where? - Right there.

I want to see how you look in it.

Well, what for?

- Oh, you look wonderful there. - Yeah?

That's where you belong, Josh.

I don't feel so cozy.

Skipper looks all right back here, but...

- What's this? - Sketches for our apartment.

- I did them all myself. - Yeah?

Uh-huh.

- What's that? - The living room.

- The living room? - Uh-huh.

Very gay, fuchsia and blue.

- Blue and who? - Fuchsia and blue.

- Yeah? - Mmm-hmm.

Now look. That's the dining room.

- The dining room? - Yeah.

Look at that table. When it's open it'll seat 40.

Forty what?

Forty 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 there?

- That's the bed. - The bed?

Can you get 40 in there?

Oh, Josh!

I like those shelves, though. Those will be nice.

I can put my ship models on 'em, huh?

Oh, darling, no, not there!

Oh, I got some wonderful...

I got a little clipper in a bottle that I got from a fella...

Oh, honey, no. They're not smart anymore.

Oh.

I thought something delicate.

Porcelain. Perhaps, little Chinese men.

Yeah, we could have 'em do the laundry.

Oh, Josh!

Well, you'll like it when it's finished.

I hope so.

It's wonderful having you back.

Been a good boy, Josh?

Well, I... I got E for effort.

E for... Oh!

Thought about you a lot.

Missed you, dreadfully.

Yes.

You certainly got a pretty outfit on.

All for you, Josh.

After dinner we'll drive out into the country.

The nights have been divine.

The biggest, yellowest moon you ever saw.

Josh!