Road to Singapore

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Hi, Babe. Hello, Bill. Come on down.

Hurry up. Give me my money.

I've got a wife waiting'.

Thanks.

Hello, Bill.

Hi, Babe.

How you been? You look

pretty and smell pretty too.

Wait a minute.

You sure got that quick enough.

There you are, Josh.

That's married life for you.

Yeah, isn't

that beautiful?

If the world was run right,

only women would marry.

Yeah.

Hey, could they

do that?

Get a load of that!

You break your arm? I haven't

heard from you in 3 months!

I've been very busy. You've

been busy. I can imagine.

Dewey!

He got bigger.

What did you think

he'd get? Littler?

Mom, look. Here's Pop

squeezing a hula dancer.

Give me that.

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.

If they lined up all

those movie queens...

and let them wave those long

eyelashes at me, know what I'd do? Huh?

I'd throw rocks at them. Yes.

Toss them right

at them. Oh-ho-ho.

I can brush them off like flies. Oh, yes.

Which of you is Ace Lannigan? That's me.

- Know a gal named Cherry?

- Cherry?

No. Sure you do. That's

the little blonde...

Sure,

I know Cherry.

Brilliant

conversationalist.

How's she doing'?

She's getting' married.

Well, what do you know.

Great kid... Cherry.

So little Cherry's

getting' married!

Yeah, she wants you

to come to the wedding'.

If I'm around.

Who's she marrying?

- You!

- She couldn't have picked a...

Me?

Can I be an usher?

There must be some mistake. All

I did was take her to a movie.

Yeah, and kept her out

half the night!

Can I help it if there's

double features? Can he help...

Come on. You're going' with us. All right.

I'm going' with them. Oh,

you're going' with them.

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 of anything

more disgraceful in my life!

It's not as bad as that.

Take it easy, Skipper.

All right, O'Keefe.

Yes, sir.

You seem to think the world

is a three-ring circus...

and all you've got to do

is run around and have fun.

What's wrong with that? The world

won't let you, that's what's wrong.

You mean the Mallons won't

let me. Won't let you what?

What are we

keeping you from doing?

Skipper, you've been singing'

this song at me for years.

Eventually you're

going to trap me.

But you can't blame me for

holding out as long as I can.

Look here, Josh, I'd like

to sit on a coral reef...

and play a ukulele,

but we're Mallons.

It's taken nearly 200 years

to build up this business...

and it's my duty and yours

to carry on.

We've got stockholders, customers,

ships all over the world.

What's wrong with one of

the Mallons sailing on them?

You've dodged your

responsibilities long enough.

You're taking over the maintenance

department, office hours nine to five.

Oh, no. I'm not going to wind up

back of that desk like you,

pushing buttons, 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?

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.

The old captain... the fellow

that started the whole thing.

He was a man! Only had one

ship too! And we've got 80.

Let's sell 79, take the other,

sail around, have some laughs.

Don't be ridiculous.

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