American Madness Page #2

He turns, expecting their laugh, but is confronted by stone

faces.

MATT:

Sympathy! You know, the right one

had more sympathy than the other

one!

1ST TELLER

What's the matter? Can't you get

this thing open?

Matt stares in disbelief, then gets the joke.

MATT:

(contemptuously)

Six reasons why banks fail!

This cracks them all up, as a uniformed officer, who has

been standing by, works a lever attached to the floor,

which lowers a section of the floor, directly in front of

the vault. This permits the vault door, which is sunk below

the floor level, to swing open.

TELLERS:

(ad-libbing)

I love your jokes, Matt! They're

so entertaining! A very funny man!

8. MED. SHOT

Matt opens the inside door, made up of perpendicular steel

bars. The tellers scurry into the cavernous-looking

interior. Someone

8. MED. SHOT

snaps on a light. CAMERA TRUCKS UP TO VAULT.

The back walls of the vault are lined with steel cabinets

divided into many small compartments. On one side is a

wall safe which is also opened by a combination and which

contains the surplus cash carried by the bank. Matt is in

charge of this. All around the room are numerous hand trucks -

one for every teller. These trucks contain the cash in the

charge of the individual tellers. While the tellers in the

b.g. obtain their keys and open the drawers of their trucks,

Matt examines the time clock which is attached to the inside

of the vault door.

INT. VAULT - MED. CLOSE SHOT

At the door, as Matt enters and goes directly to the burglar

alarm box to the left of the doorway. He leans over to

throw off the burglar alarm switch.

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