:11:00
and Billy Curtis, the small fellow.
:11:03
The whole thing sounds
like a pack of lies.
:11:06
And Anita Bolster,
who played the bearded lady.
:11:10
And this is Esmeralda, our bearded lady.
:11:13
Naturally, we're very proud
to have her as a member of our group.
:11:16
Oh, did we wake you, honey?
That's too bad.
:11:18
Oh, I was awake.
:11:19
You had Hitch's enjoyment
of playing these extreme characters.
:11:24
- Get em off.
- Oh, Major, honey.
:11:26
Don't 'honey' me!
:11:27
The most touching character...
fascinating,
:11:32
was played by Vaughan Glaser,
:11:35
the blind man that Bob Cummings,
:11:38
as he's running,
:11:40
comes upon in this house.
:11:42
Seems to be in the woods, as l recall.
:11:44
Hello.
:11:46
I got caught in the storm.
I'm pretty wet, I'm afraid.
:11:48
Maybe you'd like to come inside
and get dry.
:11:51
l have always suspected this was
a sequence written by Dorothy Parker.
:11:56
Suddenly, the picture went
into a kind of
:11:59
literary quality.
:12:01
I don't mean this
in a negative way at all.
:12:03
I don't mean it was 'anti-film.'
:12:06
But suddenly
the writing took on a richness.
:12:10
I compose a little,
:12:11
and there's nobody to tell me that
the results are anything but brilliant.
:12:16
So, I live in a comfortable glow
of self-appreciation.
:12:21
Also, it has a certain ...
:12:23
in a very generalised sense ...
political value.
:12:27
Uncle Philip, it's your duty
as an American citizen.
:12:29
It is my duty as an American citizen
:12:31
to believe a man innocent
until he's been proved guilty.
:12:35
Don't tell me about my duty.
lt makes you sound so stuffy.
:12:40
Besides, l have my own ideas
about my duties as a citizen.
:12:43
They sometimes involve
disregarding the law.
:12:46
(Lloyd) Hitch was not a political man,
:12:48
and he didn't like things
that had a social value,
:12:52
but he had a certain fundamental
reaction to evil in the world,
:12:57
and he expressed these things
very beautifully in this character.