You and Me

Synopsis: An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
Director(s): Fritz Lang
Production: Paramount Pictures
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IMDB:
7.0
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Year:
1938
94 min
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You cannot get something for nothing.

And only a chump would try it.

Whatever you see that you really want...

you may have, provided you buy it.

You'd like to live a life of luxury

wearing ermine wraps,

a bracelet perhaps

or this sparkling gem.

Remember they cannot belong to you

until you pay for them.

You cannot get something for nothing

You've got to lay it on the line.

The cars we ride in

you have to pay for them.

The wines we thrive on

you have to pay for them.

The food we live on

you have to buy.

You must supply

The do-re-mi.

You speak of things that money

cannot buy

For instance, can you name a few?

Just try.

Beauty to attract the man you love.

You have to buy.

Gems of art to cultivate the mind

You have to buy.

Even vim and vigor and good health

you have to buy.

Sunny skies and mother nature's wealth

you have to buy.

Cheese and roses

Snow tubes and statues, perfumes and pistols

piccolos and dynamos,

garbage cans and feather fans

candy sticks and building bricks

silver chests and booby tests

aeroplanes and streamlined trains.

Let's see the color of your dough.

You cannot rearrange a plan

made by man

since the world began.

You cannot get something for nothing.

Only a chump thinks he can.

Put it back.

Put what back?

Come on, give.

I never did it before.

Honest.

Why did you do it this time?

Satin. I never had a satin blouse.

Are you going to turn me in?

Please don't.

You don't know what it is to want

something terribly.

To want it so much that...

Is something the matter, Miss Roberts?

Yes, there is.

Look, there's a sludge on the front.

You certainly have a right to complain.

If you come with me to the

adjustment desk...

Of course.

Miss Roberts will take care of you.

I hope you won't hold this against

the Morris store.

I'm sure we can straighten it out,

can't we?

Oh, yes.

And thank you.

Please.

You are a swell guy.

Yeah?

Now listen.

Just because I'm a pushover,

don't get the idea the next one will be.

Beat it.

And the next time you want a satin blouse

wait until you can pay for it.

Yes, mam.

Thanks.

Don't thank me. Thank Mr. Morris.

He hates having scenes in his store.

All of the little kiddies

like this here goosy gander rocker.

It's cute, ain't it?

But I think it's goofie-looking.

But most little kiddies like the

goosy gander rocker.

Look, honey. Look.

Well I don't like it and you're

a shiffless skunk.

Now, listen, sweetheart...

all the little kiddies like the

goosy gander rocker.

and you're gonna like the

goosy gander rocker

or I'm gonna wrap the goosy gander rocker

around your fat little neck, get me?

Yes, sir.

Okay, lady.

She'll take it.

Oh, pardon me.

Darling, are you sure you like it?

Oh, yes, mother, I just love it.

You have the real child psychology.

That's what I like about Morris's.

It's salesmen are so specialized.

Are you the man who sold me

this thing?

Yes, mam.

You told me it opened cans.

Lady, that ain't the half of it.

This little thing is one of the wonders

of the ages.

It's a screwdriver, a bottle opener,

a cheese slicer,

ice pick and vegetable parer.

If it had one more little gadget,

I'll bet it could cook.

It doesn't open cans.

Oh, yes it does.

Now you watch me.

Now first, you do like this.

That's to make the touch a little more sensitive.

then you grab it like this and turn it

to the right

then to the left, then you listen...

You act more like you're opening a safe

than a can.

Ain't that funny how them habits

hang on?

Jerome, I've never seen anything

so brazen in my life.

The man practically admitted

he was a safe-robber.

Well, he is... or was, I should say.

Now, who but an ex-safecracker could handle

one of those newfangled kitchen gadgets?

But you...

Say!

That gives me an idea.

George.

Yes, sir.

Make a note to put a safe in one

of the front windows

and have Patsy Mason open it with one

of those new can openers.

Jerome, don't you realize that I, your wife

come in contact with these people?

You know, sometimes

I think you've gone a little off.

Peopling, actually peopling a decent store

with convicts.

Ex-convicts, my dear,

who've been recommended

here through probation officers.

And the store isn't peopled with them.

There are 50 working here, perhaps.

Fifty out of 2500.

What's the difference?

If the public ever finds it out

your business won't be worth a nickel.

How are they going to find it out?

No one knows them,

very few of them even know each other.

You see...

You see, Mary, that's the idea.

They're not set apart.

They don't stand there like

sideshow freaks.

Just because they made one or two mistakes

that any of us might make.

Jerome!

Have you something in your past...

that you never told me?

No.

I'm sorry, Mary, nothing that romantic.

Then why?

Look, Mary...

Most people think

if they pay a few dollars to

community chests

and goodwill agencies and so on

they've done their duty

and they can shrug aside

all responsibility.

But you've got to do more than that.

Don't be ridiculous. What can

you do more than giving money?

In my case jobs.

You see, Mary...

no matter how good a person's record

has been in prison

they can't get out on parole

unless they have a job to come to.

Now, if somebody doesn't give

those poor guys a chance to go straight

how are they going to stop being criminals?

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Virginia Van Upp

Virginia Van Upp (January 13, 1902 – March 25, 1970) was an American film producer and screenwriter. more…

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