The Long, Long Trailer
- Year:
- 1953
- 339 Views
Tacy! Tacy, open the door!
Tacy! It's me, Nicky! Are you here?
Tacy!
Tacy!
Tacy! Ta...
Are you the manager?
- Why, no. The manager...
- Where is he? Do you know?
Well, that's hard to say.
It seems a little girl in one of the trailers
lost her cat.
He's out trying to find it.
- No, I'm looking for some people.
- You'd better wait inside.
You won't miss anyone.
They've all got to pass right here.
It's real rainy, isn't it?
Yeah.
Like this to read? I get a great kick
out of these trailer magazines.
- Don't let me disturb you.
- Oh, that's all right.
You a trailerite?
- Yeah.
- Looks like I'm gonna be one too.
I had a time persuading my wife.
She was dead set against it.
Says it's too late in life
for us to start being gypsies.
But we've been looking
at one tonight.
And I think it's done the trick.
The two of them
are back at the house now...
...measuring will the Deepfreeze fit in.
You know, my wife won't move
without that Deepfreeze.
Say, what kind of a motor
is the New Moon?
- Would you know?
- Rig.
You want to sound like an old-timer,
you call it a rig.
- Rig?
- The New Moon's fine.
Well, this one's practically new.
The young lady said it's only gone
some 7000 miles.
- Is that so?
- She feels terrible about selling it...
...but her plans changed.
She has to go back to her family.
- You been married long?
- Thirty-one years.
You get along all right?
No fights? No battles?
- Why, no.
- Then don't buy a trailer.
I'm telling you, don't buy a trailer.
That young lady with the trailer,
that's my wife.
My wife! I've been looking for her
for three days.
I've been to the police,
I've been to the highway patrol.
I must've gone to a hundred trailer
parks. Everything I own is in that trailer.
I haven't got a clean shirt.
I haven't got a change of clothes.
That's what can happen
when you buy a trailer.
I'm telling you, it's a fine thing...
...when you come home to your home,
and your home is gone.
If you told me two months ago
that I'd be fool enough to buy a trailer...
...I would have told you
you were crazy.
Absolutely out of your mind.
They were a joke to me.
A great big joke!
A trailer!
Oh, Tacy.
Oh, that's very funny, honey.
The Collinis are home.
Please drop in for cocktails.
You'll find us someplace
along the Lincoln Highway.
Or better yet, stay where you are.
Hey, you know, you could get a
tambourine and I'll get a dancing bear...
Honey, you're crying.
Did I say something wrong?
Did I say something to offend you?
No. I don't blame you for laughing.
It's a ridiculous idea.
But then I guess
I'm pretty ridiculous myself.
Thank heaven you found it out...
...before you made
the horrible mistake of marrying me.
Oh, honey, what on earth
are you talking about?
I'm just a figure of fun, a clown.
Oh, now, sweetheart, let's get this thing
straightened out right now.
Now, look at me, Tacy.
I wouldn't make fun of you, ever.
I'm the fellow who loves you, remember?
What is this about a trailer?
You mean,
you were seriously thinking of...
All I was thinking of
was making a home for my husband.
A little place we could call our own
where I could take care of him...
...cook for him
and make him comfortable.
If that's a horrible offense...
...if that makes me a criminal,
then I'm terribly sorry.
I apologize. I withdraw the whole idea.
Honey, can we talk this over calmly?
We'll have a home, darling.
What kind of a home when
your work takes you all those places?
- Colorado, Montana, Idaho...
- All right, then.
All right, we won't go to Colorado.
I'll get another job.
Oh, no. I didn't mean that.
This is a wonderful chance for you.
Anyway, it'll always
be something like that.
If it isn't a tunnel in Colorado...
...it'll be a bridge in Alaska...
...or a dam across the Pacific.
- Something off somewhere.
- I didn't know you felt...
We'll always be living out of suitcases
and using other people's things.
Living in some stale little hotel
or some grubby furnished room.
But don't you see? If we had a trailer...
I could make a home for you.
When the job was over, we could hitch
up our house and go on to the next.
Now, look, honey.
Now let's get down to facts.
First of all, the kind of a trailer
that you're thinking about...
...probably costs a fortune.
Now, you know what our budget
is for the first year.
"Travel, honeymoon..."
Here it is, rent.
I know, $ 1700. All right.
Now, for only $ 100 more,
do you know what we could have?
Have you any conception?
We could have this beautiful home.
Only $ 1800, and that's complete,
mind you.
Everything is included. All this furniture.
Chairs, sofa, bed, stove, refrigerator,
shower bath, everything.
Absolutely everything,
right down to coat hangers in the closet.
You don't have to buy a thing.
Did you ever see anything as beautiful?
Well, it's kind of roomy at that.
- Where?
That's the living room.
Oh. Well, it's convenient.
Everything is right there within easy...
You know, Nicky...
...what I was thinking about most of all
was our honeymoon.
Can't you just imagine
what it would be like?
Some of the most
beautiful country in the world...
...is between here and Colorado.
The whole trip
would be just like a dream.
We'd go where we pleased
when we pleased.
If we saw a beautiful spot
beside a brook or a mountain lake...
...a lovely wood, we'd stop there
and we'd be all alone.
It'd all be for us.
The moonlight and the sunsets...
...and the sound
of the tree toads far off...
The night the trailer show opened,
there was no holding Tacy.
Pardon me, but could you tell me
where the Bungalette trailer is?
Bungalette.
Oh, this is it, right here.
Thank you.
It's all right.
You know, we could put
some built-in gun racks right here.
Yeah.
- Both sides.
- I don't know. What's this business here?
Oh, excuse me, chum.
I thought my cap might...
Excuse me, l...
Pardon me. I want to get my cap
over here, lady, please.
- Excuse me. I'm so sorry.
- It's all right.
Pardon me, please. Pardon me.
But you know, it's pretty compact.
Oh, I'm so disappointed I could cry.
It looked enormous in the ads.
It was such a wonderful idea.
Well, don't worry, sweetheart.
We'll have a home.
We'll just have to wait a while,
that's all.
And then we saw it.
- Isn't it a beauty?
- Yeah, it's big, all right.
Let's look inside, just for fun.
Now, Tacy, that thing
must cost $ 1 million, at least.
Oh, I didn't mean
I know we could never do that.
But as long as we're here,
let's just look inside. Come on, darling.
What happened, darling?
Nothing, I just cracked my skull,
that's all.
Isn't it lovely?
So new and fresh and pretty.
Oh, look, glass in the oven
so you don't have to open it to look in.
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