CARTER (as they go) Although I shouldn't wonder when you okay reverse charges on personal long distance calls.
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EXTERIOR STREET �� DAY MEDIUM LONG SHOT �� Uncle Billy is walking along the street, humming happily to himself. He sees some men decorating the Court House with banners and bunting �� there is a huge sign reading Welcome Home Harry Bailey.
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EXTERIOR OCEAN FROM DECK OF CARRIER �� NIGHT LONG SHOT �� A flaming plane crashes into the sea.
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EXTERIOR SKY �� DAY LONG SHOT �� Hundreds of planes, flying overhead, with parachutes dropping from them.
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INTERIOR FACTORY �� DAY CLOSE SHOT �� Potter is wheeled in toward a long table around which several men are seated.
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GEORGE'S VOICE I know what I'm going to do tomorrow and the next day and next year and the year after that. I'm shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet, and I'm going to see the world . . . And I'm going to build things. I'm going to build air fields. I'm going to build skyscrapers a hundred stories high. I'm going to build a bridge a mile long.
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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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EXTERIOR STREET �� NIGHT MEDIUM LONG SHOT �� George looks surprised at this.
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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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LONG SHOT �� full moon shining through the trees.
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MEDIUM LONG SHOT �� the old deserted house. Mary throws her rock, and once more we hear the SOUND of breaking glass.
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MEDIUM LONG SHOT �� old house. George hurls the rock at the house. We hear the SOUND of a window breaking.
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MEDIUM LONG SHOT �� old house. It is a weather-beaten, old- fashioned two-storied house that once was no doubt resplendent.
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