American Madness Page #2
- PASSED
- Year:
- 1932
- 75 min
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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)
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.
At the door, as Matt enters and goes directly to the burglar
alarm box to the left of the doorway. He leans over to
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