
Fancy Pants
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- 1950
- 92 min
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Hey, fancy pants!
No popcorn during my performance,
peasants.
January 6th, 1912.
William Howard Taft,
president of these United States,
signs an Enabling Act admitting
the territory of New Mexico
into the Union
as the 47th state.
From a far day in 1850,
the stubborn frontiersmen
of this great territory
asserted their rights to statehood.
This, then, is not the story
of how New Mexico won
its heartbreaking struggle
for admission.
Rather, it is an account of one of the
reasons the struggle took 62 years.
This, then, is the saga
of a lost cause
and one man who helped
to lose it.
His story begins
one summer's day in 1905
on a cricket field
just outside London.
The score is 76 for the gentlemen,
105 for the players.
Lynhaven makes ready
to deliver again to Mr. Fairwick.
A splendid blow.
Oh, I say, there.
- Aggie! Cut out that whistling.
- But Ma, he hit a homer.
Whistling ain't refined.
Now, you quit it
or I'll bang you over the head
with these.
Oh, I say, this is a bit thick, what?
Well, for my part, I find
the young lady rather intriguing.
Oh, you can't be serious,
Van-Basingwell.
Never seen anything quite so crude.
Dress, gaudy jewelry,
disgusting display of wealth.
Oh, indeed, yes.
And I made a point
of introducing myself.
- You don't say.
- Yes.
Name is Floud.
Mother is an American
nouveau riche,
determined to inflict culture
upon her daughter Agatha.
- Quite a pippin, huh, Twombley?
- Scarcely your cup of tea, George.
Oh, beyond a cup of tea, Twombley.
More substantial thinking needed
these impoverished days.
Beef and potatoes.
Oh, I say.
My word.
Indeed.
Look, Ma, we got ourselves
a souvenir.
You give them back their ball
this minute.
Hand it over.
I say!
- Is it broken?
- I don't think so.
- Can you continue?
- Of course.
- Stout fellow.
- Let's play.
- Now, keep out of the game, will you?
- The Flouds.
Oh, your lordship.
I'm glad to see you.
- Hi, earl.
- Hello. Mrs. Floud, Miss Floud,
allow me to introduce my friend
Lord Twombley.
- How's that?
- Twombley.
- Howdy, lordship.
- Charmed.
- Aggie.
- Glad to meet you.
- Charmed again.
- Well, earl, what do you know?
What do I know?
Well, not very much.
I stopped to ask if you couldn't drop in
at my country place for the weekend.
- Be glad to.
- Good, good.
I'd like you to meet my family.
- Delighted. Wouldn't we, Aggie?
- Oh, yeah, we're charmed.
Yes. Well, then
I'll send my carriage for you.
Be ready and waiting, your lordship.
- Good afternoon.
- So long.
Toodle-loo.
- Now we're getting somewhere.
- Yeah.
I wanna get somewhere
But George, you haven't got
a country place, nor a family.
- But Reggie has.
- Reggie?
Yes, Reggie, and he's in Africa.
And I know just where to dig up
a suitable family.
Tennis, anyone?
How can you think of tennis
at a time like this?
I say, what are we doing
at this beastly play?
I told you we needed suitable family
to impress the Americans.
Behold the mater.
Ring for Humphrey, Cyril.
Of course.
Did you ring, mum?
Why didn't you wait till I rang,
you idiot?
Tea, mum?
I slitched.
I am soaked again,
you monster! Stop!
This piece will dry out like new.
It's pumpernickel.
- Blundering American idiot.
- Ought to go back to his native land.
If we could solve the disappearance
of Alicia's necklace.
I'm still not satisfied with Humphrey's
explanation of his whereabouts
- during the time of the crime.
- But I've already explained.
I was in the village
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