GEORGE (cont'd) (on phone) Hello. Hello, Mrs. Welch? This is George Bailey. I'm Zuzu's father. Say, what kind of a teacher are you anyway? What do you mean sending her home like that, half-naked? Do you realize she'll probably end up with pneumonia on account of you?
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Harry's a genius at research. My father fell in love with him.
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RUTH (smiling) Well, I'll tell you. It's purely mercenary. My father offered him a job.
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DR. CAMPBELL That's the best part of it. They've appointed George here as executive secretary to take his father's place.
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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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George puts down his coat and comes around to the table, incensed by what Potter is saying about his father.
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CLOSE SHOT �� George and his father at the table.
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He stops, realizing that he has hurt his father.
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CLOSE SHOT �� George and his father, eating at the table. There is a great similarity and a great understanding between them.
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INTERIOR OUTER OFFICE BLDG. AND LOAN �� DAY CLOSE SHOT �� George and his father at the door.
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George proceeds toward the door, with his father's hand on his shoulder. As they go:
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George cannot listen any longer to such libel about his father.
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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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He enters a door marked WILLIAM BAILEY, PRIVATE. George stands irresolute a moment, aware of crisis in the affairs of the Bailey Building and Loan Association, but aware more keenly of his personal crisis. He opens the door of his father's office and enters.
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CLOSE SHOT �� Uncle Billy listening at the door. As George is about to enter his father's office, uncle Billy grabs him by the arm.
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Before a door marked: PETER BAILEY, PRIVATE, George's Uncle Billy stands, obviously trying to hear what is going on inside. He is a very good-humored man of about fifty, in shirt-sleeves. With him at the door, also listening, are Cousin Tilly Bailey, a waspish-looking woman, who is the telephone operator, and Cousin Eustace Bailey, the clerk. The office vibrates with an aura of crisis as George enters and proceeds directly toward his father's office.
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- Don't be rude, answer your father.
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