Sullivan`s Travels Page #3

think of poverty in the negative,

as the lack of riches...

as disease might be called

the lack of health.

But it isn't, sir.

Poverty is not the lack of anything,

but a positive plague,

virulent in itself,

contagious as cholera,

with filth, criminality,

vice and despair as only

a few of its symptoms.

It is to be stayed away from,

even for purposes of study.

It is to be shunned.

You seem to have made

quite a study of it.

Quite unwillingly, sir.

Will that be all, sir?

- Thanks.

- Very good, sir.

He gets a little bit gruesome

every once in a while.

Yeah.

Always reading books, sir.

- Oh.

- As a matter of fact, sir,

I don't like the idea of a gentleman

of your inexperience...

leaving with only ten cents

in his pockets,

so I took

the extreme liberty, sir,

of having a studio

identification card...

sewed into the sole

of each of your boots.

You'd think I was a child.

The whole purpose of this expedition...

All right, all right, all right.

Before you all get started,

I just want to tell you one thing...

- My mind is made up.

- Nobody's here to argue, Sully.

- I know.

- You know that your slightest wish...

We talked it all over,

and there's something to the idea.

- There's a great deal to it.

- Stupendous.

Cassy has it all worked out. It's safe

as a church, big as a cathedral.

Bigger!

It's the story of the year.

It'll make the front page

of every newspaper in the country.

- I'm sending five of my boys...

- With me in charge.

An advance agent in front

and a follow-up behind.

- A cook and a still man.

- I want lots of 8x10's.

- Now, listen...

- I'm revamping that lovely land yacht...

that Demille used

in Northwest Mounted.

- It follows at a discreet dis...

- Hot coffee, sandwiches, and a bar in back.

It's connected to the studio

by shortwave, and it also carries...

- A hot shower and a secretary.

- And a physician.

Look, I'm trying

to find trouble,

but I won't find it with six acts

of vaudeville on my tail...

at least, not the kind

I'm looking for.

- Be reasonable, Sully.

- I'm reupholstering it from stem to stern.

- Wait till you see.

- I tell you, I've made up my mind.

- Definitely?

- Definitely.

- In that case, there's nothing else to do...

- You said it.

but to serve you with this summons

to appear and show cause...

why you should not be restrained from jeopardizing

your unique and extraordinary services...

- by willfully, recklessly and unnecessarily...

- Will you please wait a minute!

We have all day, Sully,

but you must realize...

we also have minds,

also made up.

Thus begins this

remarkable expedition...

- into the valley of the shadow of adversity.

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