 And Arturo de Cordova with J. Carol Nash and Michaela Zummi in a medal for Benny. Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. Irving Tito. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. A good story is timeless, so it may take time to be appreciated. The incident behind tonight's play occurred after the First World War. But Jack Wagner, the writer who tried to sell the play to Hollywood, had no success. A few years ago, he happened to repeat the story to his friend John Steinbeck, whose enthusiasm whipped it up to date and led to Paramount's unusual and moving drama, A Medal for Benny, starring Dorothy Lamour and Arturo de Cordova with J. Carol Nash and Michaela Zummi in their original screen roles. I had the privilege of directing A Medal for Benny, and we filmed most of the action in a picturesque community a few miles from this stage. If you should visit it, you'd be impressed as I was, not only by its atmosphere, but also by the colorful costumes of its women, the bright, gay fabrics that decorate even the humblest of its dwellings, so spotlessly clean. It's curtain time, and here's the first act of a medal for Benny, starring Dorothy Lamour as Lolita and Arturo de Cordova as Joe, with J. Carol Nash as Charlie and Michaela Zummi as Raphael. The song the California chose is the town of Pantera. The new part of town is like any other small community, but the old part belongs to the Paesanos. Americans have mixed Indian and Spanish blood, the simple, friendly people who are, in reality, the original California settlers. One of these Paesanos is a young fellow named Joe Morales. Lolita! Lolita, Joe! Oh, a great thing has happened! Open the door! I told you not to bother me. Lolita, I gotta come in. Go away, I'm getting dressed. Then I will kick the door down a little. Hello, Chito. Look, Joe, would you like some advice? No. It's about her. What? For advice about my sister, Benny Martín always paid me five cents. For you, ten cents. Okay. Here's a ten cents. Now the advice. It's simple. Stop hanging around Lolita. Give me back my ten cents. You will get your money's worth. Look, Joe, ever since Benny Martín went away, you've been trying to steal his girl. Hey, what talk is this? And what have you got from her? Nothing but slaps. And all you will get is more slaps. He leaves me. I understand women. Maybe so, but not Lolita. Lolita best of all. I have lived with her for nine years. Well, what do you want? Look, Chito, you come with me quick. Be good. I have to go to work at Mrs. Kelly's house. Oh, but Lolita, I am the fish business with Benny's father, old Charlie Martín. Lolita, my love, I tell you this is money in the bank. All right, Joe Morales, but remember, keep your hands to yourself. Oh, then you'll go? Yes, where to? Hurry my life to the ocean. The ocean? The salt? Mine and old Charlie Martín. Jump on. Let me show you. Look, show you see a bell. And over here, fishing net, even an engine. An engine of great power. Does it work? Oh, does it work? Joe, how much did you pay for it? Sixty dollars? Sixty dollars. Where did you get that money? Never mind. Look, I will start the engine. Oh, listen to that. Hold on, Lolita. Here we go. Oh, what a wonderful thing it is to walk with an engine. You're a little... How do I do it? How useful I can hold the steering wheel. And now there's... Joe Morales, you wash your hands. Lolita. Joe, get away. Get... No. But it's wrong with one little kid. Only with you it is wrong. With who then? You know well enough. Ah, that's Benny. That crook. That's no account. I am promised to Benny. And when he comes back... When he comes back? Do you ever hear from him? I got a postcard. Eight months ago, one cheap little postcard with not even a picture on it. And Benny's father, that nice old Charlie does Benny ever send him as much as a dollar? No, nothing. So that is why you bring me out in the middle of the bay to take me away from Benny. It is like all of your dirty schemes. Sure dirty schemes. For you I would lie. I would steal. I would... Sure. For me. But for a house. But trust for kids and a paycheck on Saturday nights. No. All right. Marry Benny. Marry anybody. It makes no difference. Joe. Joe, the engine. Look. What? It's coming apart. The engine. Do something. The water is ready. No, Joe. The robot or the boy. The boy's gone. The robot? All my lovely pearls. Drinking beneath my feet. Hurry up, Joe. We'll flip the robot. Yes, Lo Lisa, yes. Well, there goes the fish business. All is gone. Nothing but the ocean. Not even a souvenir I could take home for Charlie Martin. And what are you going to tell that poor man? I'll think of something. I must go to him right away. Lo Lisa, myself. Please, Ro a little faster. It's a very fine and formal party, Charlie. Oh, thank you, Affair. Boy, he's only a little red wine. Charlie, what's the occasion? Benny comes home? No, no Benny yet. The occasion Affair is up pretty soon. I am a rich millionaire. If you are rich millionaire, Charlie, why is that Mr. Alviso, the landlord, so angry with you? Mr. Alviso. Six months rent money he wants. He's a crazy fellow. But, Charlie, six months rent. You own Mr. Alviso. And he will get his money because I am now in the fish business with Joe Morales. Oh. So I told Mr. Alviso, soon I'm going to buy this house to keep my goat in. Oh, Joe Morales. The fish business. Well, if it was not for this wonderful fellow, Joe, my $60 rent money would now be in the pocket of that blood squeezed by Mr. Alviso. Come in, come in. Joe, Lolita. Well, just in time, our dear neighbors celebrate our good fortune. Quick, Joe, tell him about our wonderful boat. Lolita already knows. By golly, she is something, huh? Charlie, you gave Joe your rent money to buy that boat. Oh, you bet you. Lazy was my rent money. Tell him, Joe. Look, Charlie, I, uh, I have a little something to tell you. You and I, we have encountered an act of garden this fish business. Oh, an act of what? Well, Daddy, find Joe. No, Charlie, listen, do you, do you remember the engine? Oh, I remember. Why golly, Lolita, you saw it, huh? Yes, I saw it. Well, the bottom of the boat fell out a little and the engine sank into the ocean. Oh, well, Daddy, it's not good. No, Daddy, it's bad. Charlie, soon Danny will be home and all your troubles will be over. When he was here, there was always a gallon of wine and a big fat chicken and the little animals, how they used to love Danny. The little chickens, the little ducks, how they used to follow him home. Ah, and the dogs, too, all the way from town. The only expensive dog to follow him, never less than $10 reward. There are some people that say Danny was too wild. You know, like the time for his big trouble, you remember? Well, Danny got so many big troubles, which one? Last 4th of July at the theater. His big fight. Ah, that one. Who can ever forget? Mr. Migos, I have traveled. I have seen the world. I have been from San Diego to the, to the Oregon border. I have seen fights, many fights, but I swear that never, never have I seen such a fight like that, boy. There he was. Policeman and sheriff on all sides. That, like tigers, they string at him. That, there is wings. He clenches. He bears. The air is filled with little pieces of policemen. More policemen from the left, more policemen from the right. Policemen, policemen, policemen. And they got him. Now, now he's inside the jail door, with the blood running down his noble face. Calan, go the doors behind him. The chief of police pulls a gun, but Benetates the gun away, and with his beautiful strong feet, he bites the barrel off and swallows the whole world like a tootie-roll. This is Catalina. Boy, I exaggerate. Everywhere is fruit. And that George, the cruel man to throw Benet out of town for a whole year, they could have put him in jail just a little, like all the other times. No, Lisa, you have to come in, Spenny. You must be very proud. Joe, where are you going? Benet, Benet. I come to drink a little wine and talk a little, and all I hear is, Benet, where am I going? I'm going to church to pray to St. Benet. What a fine young man. You heard, huh? Such a religious fellow. Good morning, Jake. Hello, Charlie. Jake, I come here to your saloon with a chicken. Maybe you're going to take the chicken for a gallon of wine, huh? Some chicken. What did I have? Well... Okay, Charlie, a gallon of wine. Thank you, Jake. Hey, a friend of yours over there. Oh, Joe Morales. Good morning, Charlie. Well, Joe, you look so sad. If it is about our peace business... No, that is sadness enough. But somebody shoved a knife in my heart. I do not feel good. Oh, a woman? Yes. Oh, poor, poor boy. With your permission, I will suffer with you. Joe, this morning I got a letter pleased to read it for me. I am a man of not much education. I will read it to you. Charlie, there's money in the letter. Look! 25 dollars! What if it comes from Benny? No, no, no, listen. Dear Charlie, I take pen and hands to say hello. Hello? And to tell you how sorry I was to leave town without paying you for the fine reactor you made me. Anyway, here is the money. Your old friend Oscar Espinosa. Oscar Espinosa? What an honest man. Charlie, there's money. What will you do with it? I'm going to give it to Mr. Alvizo for some of his rent. You know, many times I lay awake all night just thinking of the nice things you have done for me. And I say to myself, Joe, I say, be patient. The time will come when you can do something for poor old Charlie. Well, the time has come. Charlie, give me your money. I will be your bank. No, no, no, the fish business. No, please. All right, all right. One day you will be sorry. I can see you now. Starving to death on the steps of Mr. Alvizo's beautiful home, writing for some coupons. Does he give me some? No, he kicks you into the street like a bundle of old rag. What a barbarian. And people will say that his poor hungry Charlie wouldn't let his good friend Joe Morales be his bank and pay him good interest on his money. Well, Joe, you'll be my bank. And now see, you're already some interest. Not one dollar like the Pantera Bank, but five dollars. Take it, Charlie. It's for you, in advance. But price, Charlie, Joe, you are the best bank in California. Now what do you want? Lolita, I have come to see you. All right, you have seen me. Oh, but I have brought you a present here. Open the box. A dress. And look, ticket for the bank tonight. If you come with me, it will be... No, Joe. I'm sorry, but... Somebody else will be sorry, too. You're a saint of the mother who is in heaven. My mother? Yes, last night I had a dream. She came to kneel by my bed. Joe Morales, she said, I am very unhappy here in heaven because my little girl is sad and lonely. Mr. Morales, she said, why don't you buy her a nice new dress and take it to the bank? Ah, that is a lot of potatoes, Joe, such lies. Oh, hello, Joe. Hello, Chito. I want to talk to you. Let Joe alone. Hey, Lolita, my wife, why don't you come? Show me one good reason. Benny is the reason. When people are promised to each other, they are true to each other. And you think Benny's true to you, huh? Look at me, Joe Morales. And look at me plenty. If you were Benny Marqueen, would you be true to me? Yes. All right then. Hey, Joe! No, I don't want to suffer. But Charlie says to sell Joe that he wants a $20 back! Oh, no. No, not again. Don't tell me you've robbed poor old Charlie again. Mr. Robert, he should borrow a man's money and pay him good interest. This dress and the tickets. You take them back to you here. Get Charlie's money and give it back to him. Now, get out, get out! Lolita, lolita! Hey, Jake, has old Charlie been hearing this a loon tonight? Joe you know what he said he's taking Benny's girl to the dance. I think I said here for a while ago. Hello hello. Don't remember me I'm. From Santa Marta I remember like to find a drink. My heart is so heavy that's not enough wine in California to float it I know fun I was spending my team was in town. You know I used to see him all the time. Oh you did see this rain and he gave it to me so I know that you know to do already I feel better how would you like to go to the dance with me I'm driving back to Santa Marta in a little while and besides I haven't got a party there maybe I'll find you a drink after all day a little line. I'm just so glad to see you come with me to the dance and I'll get you a party dress what do you think of that. If I wasn't so afraid of you Joe I'd say it's hope you go ahead what's hope to get it. To Benny and to Benny's girl. I'm so good dancer by golly I bet you were nearly as good as. Joe Joe Morales good evening Charlie also all my friends here's a young lady I should want you to meet. What a young lady Joe with such pretty legs she ought to walk on her hand Miss Tuttle Castro this is Benny's father. Thank you so much and Miss Lolita Sierra hello Miss Catalina takes hands with Tuttle Castro she's a good friend of Benny anyone who is a friend of Benny she's a friend of any one thank you so much Mr. Rafael Renga Mrs. Rosa Perez and Mrs. Pancho Dominguez Miss Tuttle somewhere have I seen your picture sure her picture was in the papers. Oh yes I remember now she was Miss Santa Marta of nineteen forty one sure the vegetable cream down here share the little skirt made from powdery here fast lips and here the art is short and Miss Castro you have known my Benny long time to know that man for five minutes is to know him forever. That Benny he's a lively one you're telling me that is a pretty good looking ring you have there may I look at it. That was Benny's ring. Say how do you know it was Bernie because I gave it to him that was my father's wedding ring wedding ring huh well maybe I should wear it on my last hand or maybe I should leave that where it is tell me what do you mean feel a little now look here Miss vegetable with all your parts in it this fine young woman is the one Benny will marry when it comes home alone come on Joe sure it's it'll pay my toll here you're about to park it somewhere wait a minute huh that dress she's got on that is the dress you bought for me my life look you told me you did not want the dress well I have changed my mind I wanted right now make her take it off and if you don't I will I'm warning you I'll go clean a fish let's freeze Joe miss Castro watch this all right sister you ask for it let go of my hair scratch her eyes out come watch the ladies fight keep away from the refreshments ready keep away from the refreshments well either look out she's got the ball of Joe I should say I am sorry I beat up on this fool Castro but that is not what I'm sorry about the fool I've made of myself all over with chili my face my hair I have been in the ocean watching it all I'm thinking now drowning myself laugh like all the rest of them you laugh Joe listen maybe the fight was lucky how can a horrible thing like that be lucky Joe when you bring that that miss pie snip to the dance I was mad but when you got in the way of the chili beans I felt sort of sad and silly like a woman in love that's when I thought you're good you you did sure oh Joe do you love me though I love you look my life you think all this time I have been talking deaf and dumb oh come here I think now even my grandmother who's been dead for 40 years now Joe you better tell Charlie the Charlie we'll have to tell him I owe him so much money and now I take away his Benny's girl oh but clearly must go now maybe if you called on Charlie alone by yourself huh no you too how can a man be so happy as I am and so unhappy we sell Charlie in just a moment our stars will return an act two of a medal for Benny Irving Mitchell returns to the microphone act two of a medal for Benny starring Dorothy Lamour as Lolita and Arturo de Cordova as Joe with J. Carol Nash as Charlie and Mikhail Razumni as Rafael following morning and while Joe Morales and Lolita searched for Charlie Martín to break the news to him of their betrothal the old man is ambling down the dusty road to town under each arm is a crate of chickens and in front of him is small flock of goats half way to town he meets his friend Rafael they're not moving away moving away from the friends that I love Rafael no to leave this place I think I would die then Charlie whether you take the little animal well this I'm going to tell you Mr. Alviso comes early this morning all you piece pairs out these days and he put a sign on the fence for rent house oh Charlie Mr. Alviso cannot do this that is what I tell him how a house can be for rent when I am living in it but just the same he hammers up the sign oh I see but the little animal charge oh these I take to the bank you know Miguel the janitor of the bank he told me the things you borrow the money with is collateral okay you know what is it you want please Mr. I would like with your permission to borrow $60 brother you'll have to see Mr. Mibb the president of the bank I leave my collateral in the back my chickens and goats please where is this Mr. Mead you see that sign there I I think I forget my eyes last a little today is Thursday see the sign says lunch and meeting pantera pepsis every Thursday club rooms above bank come up and shake hands all right I shake hands no not you Mr. Mibb's is president of the pepsis too come back at two o'clock please Mr. Wally's pepsis it's a club see a club to post a town and if you'll just all go on I'm busy let's put our shoulders to the wheel let's sing every sinew and bend every effort to make time to the biggest little town in california thank you thank you Mr. Mibb I'm here all the boys here well uh hey for Pete's sake what's going to work it down there oh some old geezer with a bunch of chickens and goats in the banks of my bank building in the parking lot and now Zach relax we've got some mighty important things get a discuss what are important things well we're going to be here and where is he your camera to the program committee why hasn't he showed up sorry I'm late boys but wait till I tell you what's happened the biggest thing in the history of pantera mr chairman can I have the floor I got it already what's this all about this telegram boys has anybody here ever heard of a fella named Benny Martin Benny Martin no I don't think so nobody here has ever heard of Benny Martin what about you Edgar you're a publicity man you claim to know everybody well that's fine that's just dandy nobody even heard of them I'm what so what well I'll tell you so what this Benny Martin this fella from our own hometown is america's number one hero that's all yeah it's from the united press it says the president has just awarded this Benny Martin the congressional medal of honor for your boy oh boy what's this Benny's done yeah what's he doing well what do you get the medal for killing jabs this Benny single-handed killed pretty near a hundred jabs couldn't he be having a fella from our own hometown hey do you get that mr mayor hey do you get it mr maybe no a local boy that's the guy go on a water tire can't you just be in pantera all of america's number one hero while plastered all over the country radio newspapers newsreels oh boy oh boy oh boy what a break what we need is to get to a telephone right away somebody must know who Benny is okay Sam Edgar Walter come on down to my office this meeting's adjourned oh telephone calls and nobody's even heard of the martin family pantera the biggest nest of dim-witted from meals west of the rocky mountains now's now's that and that includes you suppose this martin family's left out why mr midter has to put a family leaf and tell is two years owner one moved in in 20 mr mayor what is it somebody here to see about a $60 loan been here since known uh mr maybe we are permission i want to borrow a $60 from me buy go away go away can't you see i'm busy you know like what he said but i have outside the collateral that you don't say what you don't say you don't say what don't he say okay clem goodbye who was it it was a telegraph office clem says they're burning up the wires clem says it's all right but what who do we pay this news agency from the down here in the town of the good old usa what a collection of turkey heads suddenly we've got a hero and in a town the size of a gopher hole nobody's ever heard of him if anybody finds this other fine bunch of rummies we're going to look like hello less hey follows less there's some martin's over in baker's bell baker's why you poor cookie if bakersville claims this boy that's the finish hello less never mind why we just as well pack up this community and move it over there i mean mr mitz just to get out oh what a day a simple little thing like i thought i told you oh herb come in oh mr mitz mr mitz i i just got a line on him this martin's seller they got his whole record at the police station police station yeah yeah he's a guy they run out of town banny martin oh we get a hero and we find he's a guy we ran out of town we got a million dollar break for the merchants of pantheon and for heaven's sake what's going on here adam adam don't take him in the back of him mr mitz he insisted on bringing them in and this is the big thing but not we're just close to my office please mr mitz for lagerers oh did you find him did you find trolley no not yet you know not all day but pretty soon we find him huh y'all why the big smile oh kiddo i'm so rich i'm sick of my stomach look 60 dollars as soon as i find carly i give it all to him y'all you didn't know no you remember pantera jack the one i bought that boat from well i sold the boat back to him but the boat is at the bottom of the bay he doesn't know he does know he felt so bad about it he is now in the hospital a little sure if it is all the same let me have the money for charlie sure kiddo you give it to him i'm no more steam no more lolita then i can tell you for sure that for me you are the only one because like this there is never been anyone not even banny not even a bear oh joe we have got to tell charlie about it sure it will be bad news for him he has always been crazy for me to marry benny but when we give him back at 60 dollars he will not feel so bad huh hey lolita i got a big surprise please joe i know your big surprise no not this one you don't i got a job you i went to see mr gonzalez a big contractor he says joe come to work oh you'll give me a you better kiddo now come on maybe by now charlie is home again charlie is going lolita oh i i think maybe it is mr alviso charlie all gave me looked for you well i i have been in the town tomorrow night i will not even have a roof to put my head under oh i wish benny was here at charlie and we have two important matters to discuss with you well joe you know you i got no money that is what you think here is matter number one sixty dollars from joe my left money joe you are a wonderful fellow charlie charlie the second matter you you may not be so happy about it's about lolita charlie uh lolita and i you see hey that noise policemen siren out the window look so many automobiles they are coming to this house police and charlie when you go to town today you kill mr alviso maybe no no joe my goats i think they smell of the bank a little but but with so many cops it must be benny and all the neighborhood probably they are all coming here don't open the door don't open the door mr martin this is man smiley if mr alviso is saying you i got the rent money uh please won't you let us in mr martin no no lolita these are not angry men with benny they always kick down the door a little it's about your son mr martin you see uh benny bin doors charlie it's new you open the door oh this is very bad what is it what do you want uh hey boys keep them out of here close that door no no please these are only my friends uh good evening mrs katalina and pamphilio come in rafael come in all right just a few but no more please now then speaking for all panthera i want to tell you how proud we are of your son proud proud of my benny please what he has done you mean you don't know you haven't heard from the war department please mr what for the the war department one who talks to me but mr martin your son's a hero i'll say he is he killed more than a hundred you have to all by himself benny benny they told you he sure wasn't picking spinach but by carly i i bet he's a good one has you and the president has awarded him the nation's highest tribute the congressional medal of honor hey everybody why do you think my benny is a hero from the president of the united states of america he got a great big gold medal by carly i think we all got to have a drink on that have you got any pictures of any pictures no no no wait wait wait come here here see on the wall my sainted wife there in her face is my benny for you oh what a one just to look at him makes you feel good all day long yes i'm i'm sure it does oh and this young lady this is miss lolita sierra the one benny is going to marry by carly lolita with his medal all the girls in town he is going to be after that soldier boy uh i missed that mr mayor when is my benny going to bring this medal home huh the mr martin charlie i well we all sort of figured that you would have heard about it you see the medal was awarded post humorous that all right all right i don't i don't care how we got it but but when he's coming home charlie denny is not coming uh why not he's in jail again then he is dead no hey he's dead i think we better be leaving our boys charlie we'll be back with a cameraman or two later you know to get some informal shots i i am home benny okay everybody let's clear up oh about that loan mr martin i am sorry to bother you mr me bother why was my soul is no bother i i got my money you'll give it to me well good night mr martin good night everybody is gone now charlie is alone maybe this is gonna happen and charlie has had enough for one night i think i miss you a lot what does he matter to me he says benny who is always in trouble his girl i can take from him but a hero's girl hero who is dead even from the grave he comes between us how can i marry you now you'll we'll present acts free of a medal for benny in a moment dorothy lemura's elita and arturo de corteva as joe with j carol nash as charlie and mckels as only as rafael for 24 hours the hometown of a great hero has wallowed ecstatically in the lush pastures of nationwide publicity the name of panthera suddenly has become known from coast to coast and business booms as reporters and visitors flock to the precincts of valour in the panthera bank surrounded by his wild-eyed cohort mr mitz is on the telephone yes senator of course senator do i know the martins oh yes oh they call it uh martin fine old california family spanish land grants and everything uh why senator only yesterday benny's father was doing business like here in this bank yes sir and pillar of the community no not at all sir good bye one at a time all right mayor what about sacramento just you listen to this the governor and an army general are coming to panthera what day after tomorrow they're going to present the medals with any family just enough time for us to do it upright all right edger better those pictures hey officer they taste the pictures of house oh no that's awful that's the heck of a place to take the governor and the general well don't stand there with your mouths open what are we gonna do well while they're here why not take charlie to another house hey that's a good idea all right short that's it waltz how about that house of yours huh well okay chief but it isn't burning okay herb you'll take care of that for me furniture well what are you in the furniture business for oh yeah but i but no but this thing's got your nose hasn't it you get the place fixed up get the old man into it fast and red as soon as he's in you grab your camera and get and knock off some pictures okay boy oh boy oh boy charlie now we get a picture of you standing right uh right over there here mr love that's it that's the idea oh hold that camera a second red uh charlie yeah let's take off the skimmer what is this skimmer you mean your hat charlie oh yeah just relax charlie you know sort of not too much huh well think of it this way look out over this whole country side and just imagine that your ancestors owned all of them they did hey i got it just a thing red where's that sombrero right here again please as a favor no why what's the matter it looks fine maybe it does to you but if charlie's friends saw him in that they would laugh they would throw rocks at me drink one okay take it off go ahead red cute of that is all the place i got it that's all charlie thanks well come on red we gotta get back to headquarter charlie come in the house and i will fix your stuff but such a big no beautiful house to have suffering no later you are not going to be lonely no i i don't get so i got so many rooms pretty soon no leader for the little animals and the goat i gotta fix the place charlie listen automobiles you need me and the police no no i know this automobiles by carly lolita is our friend come and come to share your apartment it's so good please to go inside you're so kind everybody please to come in charlie everybody i want everybody to tell me truthfully tell me do i look like an imbecile well rafael to me you look the same as always then please do not ask me to tell you the same i have seen with mr midd and these people please do not ask me or you will say my brains are crumbled like a dish of old eggs well what is it no it's impossible please i just say okay i will for two days now like jonah in the belly of the whale i have been enclosed in the chamber of commerce they give me a job just imagine to yourself thy pride is making noises like a million woodpeckers the telephone saring the link along the link along hello new york mr middleton the link along the link along hello hello sacramento this is mr midd hello mr governor of the state of california please to meet you yes yes very well all right come back us link along hello this is mr lobkin hello mr general support the army of the united states sure with all your bullets in your tank please to meet you sure and with all your bands and all for you charlie and by golly for you to volito charlie please to give me your hand my hand chocolate i'm honored to shake hands with a fine old california family and the pillar of the community it's a great honor to know men with so many fine spanish grand who says that mr midd what is spanish grand that i do not know come into the party all day i've walked in the road on the beach but everywhere it is the same thing the grass the trees the sea they all keep saying yo morales you're going to lose your woman what does the matter with you yo my arm you're hurting me we gotta get away from here far away where nobody knows her now before it's too late yo you don't know what you are saying look there in the house is that old man do you want to break his heart what do you want to do break ours but joe this will not last forever it will be forgotten in a little while we will be together so a little while even tomorrow it may be too late i feel it here i tell you the world the outside is taking you away from me for you joe with me a hundred years will not be too late now come into and be patient and wait like i tell you come on lolita and joe come in look look who has just come to see us mr love kid yes indeed he's back again lolita just checking up on charlie old boy it's something wrong no sir i just dropped around to give charlie a schedule we just this minute got a set now get this charlie tomorrow the big doings where they give you the medal is at the ballpark 11 30 sharp means be being here with a car for you at 11 you'll be ready with your charlie you know all shades shines and slicked up uh lolita uh you won't let him leave without a necktie will you wait a minute mr lovekin tomorrow you will not have to be ashamed of charlie no not of his friends either at a girl i mean charlie after the ceremony good night charlie i am glad i came but i got to go now so soon i i hope you're gonna come and see me many more time what about charlie and thank you so much for the lovely chair oh it is nothing oh this wonderful chair i shall not have to put new legs every time my old woman sit down charlie for god's sake you can't get in that chair why can't it it belongs to charlie doesn't it oh what it matters if i give a friend a little chair i got so many no well you see charlie this house all these things they are charlie's aren't they well it's just like i told charlie answer me i guess not then why did you bring charlie up here well that well you uh you take what you folks live you know i mean pictures other places all over the country well it might look kind of funny you know the father of a hero folks might get the wrong impression please mr lovekin give to it no important lolita and joe think a little where i ever would find the money to pay the taxes and search a place like this i'm mr lovekin please to mr maib give my remembrance and from our heart thanks for the honor he has done for us and and my son oh forget it charlie forget it it weighs both ways by tomorrow there'll be five thousand outsiders here in pantera every one of them good for three bucks a lot of nickels for hot dogs and hamburgers that's just chicken feed this medal for benny is going to do for pantera just what the quintuplets did for canada no sir charlie you don't owe us a thing you get the glory we get the gravy oh wait mr lovekin benny was a wild boy but even benny would not think to do a thing like this never he would use the bravery and the beautiful medal to sell a lot of hot dogs in real estate no even benny would not do that come lolita everybody now we will go home but charlie you can't leave please there's a fail but there'll be five thousand outsiders here tomorrow mr lovekin say yes go away oh hello edgar yes mr maib edgar where are you i'm only from the big house mr maib edgar maybe you don't know but for 45 minutes the governor of this state and the lieutenant general have been standing on the steps of the city hall and for 45 minutes we've been listening to that lousy band now where is charlie martin it's a maybe steady thing in his house oh if you've jimmied this thing up i'll nail your ears to that fish house door i've missed a man you'd grab her mouth they'd be shooting off your face last night what's done this well mr maib where is he where is charlie when i very much afraid charlie isn't coming what do you mean it's been coming well you see general there seems to have been some misunderstanding why we even had a special car to bring you here to the city hall and take you to the ball park ball park my where does the man live well you see where does he live in flutown general well let's go to flutown i just can't go there and what about the parade and all those troops who brought the pound of the tank why can't i go to flutown general it's nothing but a bunch of shacks it is eh where you should have seen where i came from come on we're going to flutown what the parade the parade goes to flutown too lolita come here look soldiers hundreds and hundreds of soldiers charlie the army they are coming to you i think now it is all right uh yes please uh but the whole army mr martin the president of the united states has directed me to present to you in the name of the congress of the united states the medal of honor awarded to your son benjamin martin for services rendered in battle above and beyond the call of duty now i can say something yes mr martin i i i don't talk too good benny came from this house and benny is the hero i know there can be heroes from all kinds of houses too because a man is only what he grows out of his family his friends and his house maybe there is a good thing for the whole country maybe it is good she must depend for the life on all kinds of people and boys like my son and and women like their mothers their wives and and their sweethearts like this girl here lolita benny he's not dead he is a life in her heart mine too we're always thank you have a command pass and review yes lolita as soon as it is over rafia says we must go to the railroad station the railroad station yes because joe is there joe wants to see us joe is going someplace i don't know oh charlie please come with me oh lolita and that good job i got with mr gonzalez yesterday i quit joe i got another job lolita jolly everybody i'm now in the arms joe even before you're drafted but why joe why well joe and i know why to get revenge for benny and the other fellas well you think uh-huh joe look kiddo all that money that old charlie will get for benny's insurance put it in a good bank for him it is too bad that my bank is now busted go on lolita give the soldier a big who sure kiss him for good luck oh you bet you my life hey hey too much luck is plenty look my life i was always twice as good as that thing i'll come back with two medals oh sure you will do sure you will goodbye kiddo goodbye charlie goodbye the fans goodbye joe oh he's such a wonderful fellow charlie he's got to come here sure he's got to well he will come sure lolita and you know what i think someday you and joe maybe uh yes lolita i think that would be very good the presentation of the armed forces radio service