George comes in with an assumed cheerful manner. The people look at him silently, half shamefaced, but grimly determined on their rights. In their hearts there is panic and fear.
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EXTERIOR BUILDING AND LOAN �� DAY CLOSE SHOT �� sidewalk. An iron grill blocks the street entrance to the Building and Loan. It has been locked. A crowd of men and women are waiting around the grill. They are simply-dressed people, to whom their savings are a matter of life and death.
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LONG SHOT �� scurrying people under umbrellas, swarming around the bank doors. Panic is in the air. Attendants are trying to close down. Several people come running past the cab.
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The cab passes the bank, and Ernie sees a crowd of people around the door. He stops the cab.
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People are crowded into the rooms family, friends, neighbors. There is a din of conversation. Mary and George appear at the top of the stairs in traveling clothes, with Mrs. Hatch, red-eyed, behind them.
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(to the Board) Well, I've said too much. I . . . You're the Board here. You do what you want with this thing. Just one thing more, though. This town needs this measly one-horse institution if only to have some place where people can come without crawling to Potter. Come on, Uncle Billy!
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Why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry to school, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter. And what's wrong with that? Why . . . Here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You . . . you said . . . What'd you say just a minute ago? . . . They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait! Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken-down that they . . . Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about . . . they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you'll ever be!
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INTERIOR BAILEY'S PRIVATE OFFICE �� DAY MEDIUM SHOT �� George's father is seated behind his desk, nervously drawing swirls on a pad. He looks tired and worried. He is a gentle man in his forties, an idealist, stubborn only for other people's rights.
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WIDER ANGLE �� Violet Bick enters the drugstore and sits on one of the stools at the fountain. She is the same height as Mary and the same age, but she is infinitely older in her approach to people.
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CLARENCE'S VOICE Sir . . . If I should accomplish this mission �� I mean �� might I perhaps win my wings? I've been waiting for over two hundred years now, sir �� and people are beginning to talk.
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JOSEPH'S VOICE Looks like we'll have to send someone down �� a lot of people are asking for help for a man named George Bailey.
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I'm not a shoo-in. There could be 20 other people up for this.
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My reasons being that women are very high-strung and emotional people.
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You're a better person than I am.
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- Smart people know their budget.
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Gambling is good to help your income, my dear, but not as an income itself. One day people may grow tired of gambling, and then where will we be?
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Being young and broke is better than being old and rich. Most old rich people would give everything they have to be young and without a dime. That’s because time, not money, is the most precious resource we have.
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