On Moonlight Bay Page #3

Synopsis: The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time (setting is during W.W.I, but the war does not play a major part for most of the movie). His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president.
Director(s): Roy Del Ruth
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
APPROVED
Year:
1951
95 min
151 Views


You leave everything to me.

I guess I thought you were a southpaw.

I mean left-handed.

Excuse me, miss. I think you dropped this.

- I did?

- Yes.

Would you excuse me?

Pardon me, your girl dropped this.

...even better with your eyesight.

Flyball is a game of accuracy.

Hiya! Hiya! Hiya! Step right up, folks.

Everyone wins at Sunny Jim's,

the most popular game on the midway!

Won't you come back

for just one more dance, please?

William, I just want to go home.

I shouldn't have come in the first place.

It was all a horrible mistake.

Step right up, folks. it's an honest game.

You hear that? Come on, I'll win you a doll.

I love to lose, folks.

I'm really a retired millionaire.

And this is how I wile away the idle hours.

Here you are, son. Three balls for a nickel.

All I have to do is knock the bottles down?

Knock them off the shelf,

you win a coupon.

A coupon? Well, how do you win the doll?

Three coupons and it's all yours.

So simple a child could do it.

People win it everyday.

Can't keep them on the shelves.

Well, here goes.

That's one coupon.

I'm sorry, son.

You weren't paying attention.

I said, "Off the table."

All right.

Well, well, well, the first loser today.

You've got lead in the bottom

of those bottles.

Twenty-twenty vision, eh, son?

Step right up, folks.

Everybody wins at Sunny Jim's.

He's a fake. Just like everything else

in this world.

- Let's go.

- Just a minute, friend.

Just to show you

my heart's in the right place,

I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

I'll give three chances,

absolutely free, to the young lady.

- Oh, no, I...

- it's free.

Free! Free to the young lady!

Go ahead, Marjorie, it's probably

the first thing he has ever given away.

It's an honest game.

- It is an honest game!

- I won the doll.

Well, the young lady proved

it can be done.

Too bad she wasn't paying for her turn.

Now, wait a minute, what about that doll?

Come on, William, let's go home.

No! I'm not leaving here

till I get that doll.

Now, listen, move along, son.

You had your turn and you lost.

The young lady had

a couple of practice shots. That's all.

All right, here they are, folks.

Step right up there. Three for...

I don't like grafters or cheats

in high places or low.

Look, there's a soapbox

around the corner, kid. Beat it, will you?

We let men like you get away

with little things.

And before we know it, you've taken away

our lives, our liberty and our property.

Why, in you runs the blood

of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun!

When did they let you out, kid?

Here you are, friends, three for five.

Who's gonna have...

I'm not a man who believes in force,

but your type should be strung up

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