
Strike Up the Band
- PASSED
- Year:
- 1940
- 120 min
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James Connors,
you are not Cab Calloway.
We are trying to play
"The National Emblem."
Not "My Heart Belongs to Daddy."
Yes, ma'am.
Well, I guess that's all we can do
for tonight.
Rehearsal's dismissed.
Turn your music in to Willie.
Willie. Here, Willie.
You know, Jimmy, I'm getting to hate
these rehearsals. The same thing...
...every time.
- Yeah.
Would you like to stick around
and play records?
I'd like to, but last time we did,
I didn't get home until 12.
and get home early.
- That's what you said last time.
- We were just practicing.
But my folks think
Anyway, Annie's waiting for me.
- Oh, you're dead.
- Yeah. Good night.
Booper, like to try
Can't do it. My family's out of sympathy
with these night sessions you been having.
- See you tomorrow, Jimmy.
- So long, Boop.
Is that you, Jimmy?
Yes, Mom.
What time is it, dear?
Gosh, Mom, I don't know.
It must be close to 11.
Good night, son.
Good night, Mom.
- How was I doing?
- Swell.
Say, I'm glad you're here, Mary.
I wanna talk to you.
- Okay.
- Well...
You know, I don't go around
steaming people up.
Oh, no, of course not.
Remember once I told you that someday
we might have our own dance orchestra?
- Yes.
- Well, the dog is barking.
- What do you mean?
- I've been thinking it over in my mind.
with a broken-down brass band anymore.
You know, the same:
He gets tired of that.
Instead of the school having a band
play a concert once a year...
...why, we could have our own
We've got everything right here.
We've got the brass, the piano,
the reeds and you and...
- Me?
- Sure. You could handle all the vocals.
Oh, that sounds wonderful, Jimmy.
It is. We could make
our own arrangements...
...and specialties
and play for all the dances.
We could put Riverwood High School
on the map.
Now, all we gotta do
is to get the school behind us.
Do you think we could sell the idea
to Mr. Judd?
- Mr. Judd, the principal?
- Yeah.
I thought the last time you saw him...
Well, I don't think
he'd hold my past against me.
This is something big.
Will you go down to see him with me?
- Maybe tonight?
- Sure, I'll go.
- It's a date.
- All right.
- Be right there, Jimmy.
- All right, Mary.
I won't be gone long.
- Hello.
- Hello, Mrs. Holden.
She thinks it's wonderful.
- You do?
- Of course. I think it's splendid.
Doesn't your mother think so too?
Yes, ma'am. She thinks it's great.
Well, I guess we'd better be going.
Good night, Mother.
Good night, Mrs. Holden.
- Good luck with Mr. Judd.
- Thanks.
That was a fib,
what you said about your mother.
- Yeah.
- Why'd you say it?
- I don't know.
- You didn't even tell your mother.
- No.
- Why?
Afraid to tell your mother?
Mary, it isn't as easy as you think.
It's not just telling her that we're gonna
have a band, lot of fun, lot of laughs.
You see, I've gotta tell her...
I've gotta tell her that this is it, music.
It's my future. It's the thing I want most.
- Maybe she'd understand.
- No, I don't think she would.
She wants me to be a doctor like Dad.
But, Mary, look at me.
Do I look like a doctor?
- No, I guess you don't.
- No, of course I don't.
But ever since I can remember,
she's always talked to me about it.
Well, I've agreed with her because it...
I saw that it made her happy.
But now I can't even do that.
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