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Hotshot navy pilot Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery) has been known to tell a lot of tales about his war exploits, but no stories are greater exaggerations than those about his son, because Trumpet is childless. When he meets Jess Weaver (Tom Drake) at a ranch, Trumpet believes he could pass off the young man could as his son to his navy buddies. Even better, Jess is interested in flying. And when Jess decides to join the service, he heroically follows in his ace father figure's footsteps.
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02:29Right over your pretty little head
02:31Is the field clear?
02:33The field's clear
02:34Ground crew's standing by at North End
02:38Tell old gas bag to bring her in
02:41Trixie down there
02:42She says tell old gas bag to bring her in
02:44She better not let him hear that
02:45So he comes in from the tiger hunt
02:49And the little maharajah's papa gives me the elephant
02:53He says,
02:55Trumpet, you're a man after my own heart
02:58So the elephant is yours
02:59Of course, I ain't a man to talk about things
03:02And I don't generally speak about bunny
03:05Bunny, that's my elephant
03:07What do you want?
03:08Oh, uh, uh, Lakehurst report
03:10Ceiling zero, visibility zero
03:12Field clear
03:12Ground crew standing by at North End
03:14All right
03:15Give me full ridge
03:16Engines, full ridge
03:18Squire away on the beam
03:19I ain't one to brag
03:27You've heard of guys in this band, Stavey
03:29That own...
03:29Here we go again
03:30Always when I got things to do
03:34Alt gas bag keeps me waiting
03:36Does he know that that snapper engine needs work?
03:39He does
03:40And does he know that I am waiting?
03:43He does
03:43Does he care if I wait?
03:46He don't
03:46Deliberately, keep the ship aloft
03:49Till he finishes some story
03:51About a lot of things that never happened
03:52Oh, you ain't met the kid
03:54This is Tim
03:54Timothy Joseph, where she's Shannon
03:57Or the Brooklyn Shanners
03:58Meet Whisper and Joe Holdham
04:00Best chief rigger and lighter than the air
04:02Just drop by to say hello to Dad
04:04And if Tommy don't bring that ship in
04:06Tim will say hello and goodbye right here in the field
04:08This isn't exactly perfect flying weather, Dad
04:11King, 2-7 approaching field on runway 1
04:16King, 2-7 approaching field on runway 1
04:20All right, hold it down
04:24What's the delay?
04:30Advance party, take your mind
04:32All hands, meet the ship
04:41Hold it, osobe on runway 1
04:42Can't push them
04:57On the runway 1
05:00Look aliment
05:02Undecided
05:02Airlines
05:04Air
05:04Air
05:06Air
05:06Air
05:07Air
05:07Air
05:08Air
05:08Air
05:09Air
05:10Air
05:11Air
05:11Air
05:11Air
05:11Park Party in position.
05:14Hold her down.
05:17Stand by to put the ship on the van.
05:19Come on!
05:40Hey, Jimmy! You!
05:43Take a look at that starboard engine. Needs a little tuning. It's slow on the uptake.
05:46Of course, I wouldn't know nothing about that.
05:48I spent the best years of my life tuning them babies up till they twirl like kittens,
05:51and you take them upstairs and beat the barons out of them.
05:54Yes, but I'm talking about this engine.
05:57Look, gasbag, I don't care what you're talking about. I didn't want to hear it.
06:00If anybody else in this man's Navy was to call me that, I'd sock a...
06:03You distract me, Trumpet. I got work to do.
06:06I get nervous when I get distracted, and I got work to do.
06:11Hey. You ain't met the kid. This is Tim. Notice the resemblance?
06:15The eyes, the nose, the hair.
06:18Yeah, yeah, I noticed it. Well, I'm glad to know you.
06:21You must have been born just about the time I left the West Coast
06:24and went out to the China Station.
06:26Guys, I... I can remember telling your dad...
06:28Oh, boy, come here. I want you to meet the kid.
06:30Timothy Joseph Aloysius Shannon.
06:32I'm the Brooklyn Shannons.
06:33Bert Bland.
06:34How are you, Bert?
06:35The kid here plays hockey.
06:36Yeah, well, my kid plays baseball.
06:37Oh, yeah?
06:38Yeah.
06:39Swell.
06:40Nice-looking kid.
06:41Which only goes to prove that nature never makes the same mistake twice.
06:44I'll be back in a minute.
06:45My kid's got one of them tin cans down in the South Pacific.
06:47Destroyers, huh?
06:48Yeah.
06:49I figured I might take a crack out of myself once.
06:50No, no.
06:51You don't want to have anything to do with them, their tin cans.
06:52Why, you're a natural for LTA.
06:53Like I was telling my boy.
06:54I said to him, I said, either you are a natural-born flyer or you ain't.
06:56That's what I told him.
06:57Is he in lighter than air now?
06:58Well, not exactly yet, but I spotted him for a flyer before he was able to walk.
07:02You...
07:03You just follow the old man and I into LTA.
07:08That's it.
07:21That's the stop.
07:22That engine will have to go to the shop.
07:23Right.
07:24Come on Tim, let's get out of here.
07:25Nice to know you, Chief.
07:26I hope I get to know that son of yours some time.
07:27Yeah, yeah.
07:28You'll get to know him.
07:29I'll see you at the right time.
07:30Yeah, yeah, you'll get to know.
07:32What? What did you say?
07:34Chief was telling me about his boy, how he's a natural at flying.
07:47When have you got a boy?
07:49Since when? Since always.
07:51Oh, you got a boy since always, huh?
07:53How come you don't have a wife?
07:55Jimmy, I'm surprised at you.
07:57I got a wife as long as I got a boy, even longer.
08:01It's one of the things I don't like to talk about.
08:03It's one of the great sorrows of my life.
08:05Is she dead?
08:06Well, I guess you could say that.
08:08Could say it?
08:09Look, Trumpet, there's a subject about which a man has got to be specific.
08:13Either your wife is dead or she ain't.
08:15Jimmy, I don't like to talk about personal things like that.
08:20I've always got to listen to him bragging.
08:27Maharajas, elephants, the Shenandoah, an outside loop and a blimp.
08:32No matter what you got, Trumpet has got something bigger and better.
08:35Always he gets away with it.
08:37But now I got him.
08:39So you got a kid, huh?
08:42All right, boys, today you're going to learn about the wind and air currents.
08:52Each of you are going to fly a balloon and land it.
08:55The pickup car will return you to the base.
08:57Now you've got no elevator or runner or engines to push you around.
09:02All you've got is a balloon, that I'm sure of.
09:05Your knowledge of aerology I ain't so sure about.
09:08Let's go, shavow.
09:38Now, Raychak, you're traveling along with the wind so you don't feel no wind.
09:43It's just like being on a little star, and even us old timers are liable to get a little careless.
09:51You especially, Raychak.
09:53You...you get out of the way.
09:55And it's just like it's just like being on a little star.
09:57Hey, Raychak.
09:58I don't know I can't believe to you.
09:59It's just like being on a little star,
10:02and even us old-timers are liable to get a little careless.
10:06You especially, Raycheck, you get careless at times.
10:09Me?
10:10Yes, you.
10:12I was watching you yesterday during the boxing period,
10:15and you was careless.
10:17You let that there fellow Colin slip three lifts right on you
10:20because you was dreaming.
10:22Now, here, let me show you something about this.
10:24Put up your right hand like that.
10:29Tighten up on that fist. That's right.
10:32Now, watch.
10:33Now, I lead with the left, see, and cross with the right,
10:37and then you come quamble with that of yours.
10:39See what I mean?
10:40Now, get it up there.
10:42Like that.
10:43Now, here I go.
10:44Now, here I go.
11:14Which comes first, old gas bag or Raycheck?
11:16Well, Raycheck's gonna need help when he sets her down.
11:18We'll catch up with him first and get gas bag later.
11:20Okay.
11:21Great.
11:27He's gonna land in the pasture, Mom.
11:30Come on.
11:31Come on.
11:32Come on.
11:33Come on.
11:34Come on.
11:35Come on.
11:36Come on.
11:37Come on.
11:38Come on.
11:39Come on.
11:40Come on.
11:41Come on.
11:42Come on.
11:43That certainly was a beautiful jump.
11:59Must have been about 2,000 feet.
12:01Oh, that wasn't nothing.
12:03Them there little bitty jumps, I don't, don't even count them.
12:08You do that often?
12:10Well, once I hit the silk at about 300 feet.
12:14That was back in 1933 when Captain Settle and me,
12:19we were on one of them there stratosphere flights.
12:22That was really a jump to talk about.
12:25From the stratosphere?
12:25Yep.
12:26Yep.
12:27Yep.
12:28It was either me or the captain.
12:30He wanted to go first, but I said, Captain, according to the traditions of this man's navy,
12:37the captain's got to be the last to leave the ship.
12:40See, I had him on a technicality.
12:42How high up were you?
12:44Well, after I left, he went on to 61,000 feet, 12 miles high.
12:50He set a record for the navy.
12:5212 miles?
12:53Yeah.
12:54You ever been up?
12:55No, but I've always wanted to.
12:56Well, maybe we can fix that.
12:58Of course, we're kind of busy right now with this war going on,
13:01you know, with patrol work and escorting convoys and the like,
13:05but maybe I could slip you in for a quick little flight from one of my K-ships.
13:09You see them going over here to Lakehurst, ain't you?
13:12Oh, sure.
13:13I've seen them all.
13:14I've seen the big ones, too.
13:15I've seen the Macon, the Akron, the Shenandoah.
13:17The Shenandoah?
13:18That's my old ship.
13:20Really?
13:21Yes.
13:22Oh, she was a beauty.
13:23Ah, that was a real ship.
13:26Gosh, it won't be long before the sky will be filled with them big ridges.
13:30How would you like to leave Lakehurst in the morning?
13:32Follow the sun to California, then right straight out across the Pacific
13:36to the other side of the world without touching the ground once.
13:41Yeah, but I guess that's only for flyers.
13:43Well, you can fly the same as I do.
13:45I wasn't always a flyer.
13:47I was born on a farm out in Kansas.
13:49You were born on a farm, too?
13:51Sure.
13:52I used to ride horses when I was a kid, just like a wild Indian.
13:56Well, that's what I do.
13:57Rag away there.
13:58I used to ride him in all the fox hunts.
14:00Well, he's rated one of the top hunters in the state.
14:03Hunting foxes must be fun, but hunting subs is much better.
14:07Wait until you fly your first patrol.
14:10I'm afraid that's a long way off.
14:12No.
14:13I'll guarantee you I'll have you flying one of them Navy ships within six months.
14:17Of course, you ain't got much time to play because I'll have to toughen you up so you can...
14:22So I can fall out of a balloon?
14:24Oh, madam, you got it all wrong.
14:26I didn't fall out.
14:27I jumped.
14:28That's not the way I saw it.
14:30No, ma'am, you don't understand.
14:32It has to do with the theory of aerodynamics and such.
14:36I jumped.
14:38Come on up to the house and I'll fix you a cup of coffee.
14:41Cup of coffee?
14:42Well, there's nothing I would like better than a good homemade cup of coffee.
14:46As I always told Jimmy, I said, Jimmy, if I had it to do over again...
14:51I'm going to have a nice lovely home and a lovely little wife who can cook.
14:56Mr. Weaver had the same idea 20 odd years ago.
14:59And our Gambley's been a happy man ever since.
15:01Very happy for a while, but it didn't last.
15:04He's been dead since Jess was two.
15:06Oh, I'm sorry to know that.
15:09Come on, son.
15:11You and me got a lot of things to talk over.
15:14Um, Jess will be along in a little while.
15:16Yeah, yeah, I've got a few things to do first.
15:20Well...
15:21Well...
15:22I guess I'll have to take a rain check on that there cup of coffee.
15:28Thank you ever so much.
15:30The name is Weaver.
15:31Mort Weaver.
15:32Drop in again sometime.
15:34I will.
15:35Oh, uh...
15:36I...
15:37jumped.
15:38I jumped.
15:39He jumped.
15:40He jumped.
15:42He jumped.
15:43He jumped.
15:44He jumped.
15:45So long, son.
15:46I'll be seeing ya.
15:47Come on, grandson.
15:48Come on sometime.
15:49Stop us.
15:50Shh.
15:51So long, son.
15:52I'll be seeing ya.
15:53Come on again, son.
15:54Good stop us.
15:55Shh.
15:56Should I have told him long?
15:58He went and went and went and went and ran?
15:59Since he went and went and ran, sir.
16:01Well he went and ran and ran and ran and ran.
16:02time to stop us should i have told him long not if you didn't want to no no i didn't want to
16:26so here comes jess right over that there high fence on rag away his horse
16:31he was following them hounds right straight across the field just who just my boy that's who i was
16:39just telling him how he could ride oh so now he wins the kentucky derby come on we got to finish
16:44that night check on number 27 oh they ain't no hurry i'm just telling them how my boy can ride
16:50course you wouldn't know but those guys get on those horses and they chase them wild foxes right
16:56through pennsylvania and maryland and sometimes right dab square into virginia
17:07all right all right have it your own way of course when we talk about my boy why we're late see but
17:14if we was talking about young alocious shannon in place of young jess weaver why the ship could wait
17:21all night hey how come you got a son his name is waver that's a good name what's wrong with that
17:29nothing wrong with it but it ain't your name well you see jimmy jess's ma was awfully independent
17:37why even after we were married she wanted to keep her own name of course i don't like that sort of thing
17:42and between you and me that's kind of one of the reasons that we separated
17:48and then there was money troubles too you know her folks are awfully awfully rich and they could buy
17:56jess them horses to go chasing them foxes and inasmuch as jess was with lord and i was in the navy why
18:04i thought it would be best that way
18:17so
18:22mord wheeler
18:25mord wheeler
18:30hey trumpet yeah i've been with you over 20 years i don't remember no more weather
18:36was you with me in 21 in 21 i was on destroyers sure you were that's when me and maude got married
18:47oh then she's a hindu no she's no hindu why should you say that she's a hindu on account of in 21
18:55you was in the asiatic squadron you wrote me from calcutta all about them hindu gals yeah you think all
19:01the people in india are hindu's huh well you're crazy i've even seen people there from kansas maude
19:12was a missionary she used to teach all the little hindu's oh then that's where you met her huh sure
19:19that's when i met her i can see her now gosh sitting in that their little red schoolhouse knitting
19:30and the warm breezes of the ganges blowing through her hair and them temple bells are ringing in the
19:38distance it seemed like they wanted to say come you back you pretty soldier come you back come you
19:46but that ain't nice thing to do jimmy you know when you do things like that why i feel that you don't
19:54believe what i'm telling you so you got a son and his name is jess weaver this i have got to see
20:16it's
20:20it's
20:22it's
20:32it's
20:37it's
20:38Hi, Chief. What brings you all the way out here?
20:50Didn't I tell you I'd be coming back?
20:52Remember, you know, he was telling me about hunting them there foxes.
20:55Well, I thought you could chase them better if you had a pair of spurs.
21:03Gosh, they're just about the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
21:08But why should you want to give them to me?
21:10Oh, that's nothing.
21:12They've been kicking around my ditty box for years.
21:15A friend of mine down in India gave them to me.
21:18He was hunting pigs on horses.
21:21Well, thanks. I certainly do appreciate it.
21:26You say you were an Indian, Chief?
21:28Oh, sure. I've been in India and Africa and Egypt.
21:32Oh, you get around in this man's Navy.
21:35Of course, you miss a lot, too. You know, things like a home like this and a wife and a kid.
21:42Well, weren't you ever married?
21:44No, no. I never did get around to that. A lot of the other fellas did.
21:49I kind of missed out. But there was a gal.
21:53Only one?
21:54Well, yeah. Well, you know, one that would marry me.
21:58Ha, ha, ha, ha.
21:59She was a nice girl. I met her right after I got back in the last war down in Norfolk.
22:04And I guess if we'd been married, I might have a boy just about now, just about your age.
22:11Well, maybe you're lucky. You might have turned out like me.
22:14Oh, that would have been fine, fine.
22:18I'll let you in on a little secret.
22:20By just about long now, I'd be rooting for him to start his cadet training in LTA,
22:26because in a few months they won't be taking any more recruits. They'll be full up.
22:31Well, suppose, suppose he didn't want to join the LTA. I mean, if for some reason he couldn't fly.
22:38Well, if he was like you he could, that's the only kind of a kid I'd have.
22:42Well, I didn't join the LTA.
22:44No, of course not. That's because you didn't have no paw to tell you what it was all about.
22:50Gosh, ain't that funny? Now here's you and me and we both got exactly the same ideas
22:56and you ain't got no paw and I ain't got no son.
22:59I got an idea maybe, maybe you and me could make a deal.
23:05You know, I've been in this man's Navy a long, long time and I know some very important people.
23:11I'll bet you right now I could go up to your house and call that Admiral right on the phone and say,
23:17Admiral, this is Trumpet. I got a nice young fella down here.
23:22Oh, gosh, he's nice. He wants to join the LTA.
23:26I can say he's just like my own son. That is, if you didn't mind.
23:32Oh, it's not that I'd mind, Chief. It's, it's that...
23:36I bet you think that I don't know the Admiral well enough and he'd say no and I'd be embarrassed.
23:40Oh, no, no, I didn't say that, Chief.
23:42You think that it's just practically the same thing? Come on, I'll show you.
23:46No, I do believe you, Chief. Oh, no, you don't. So I'm going to prove it.
23:50Come on, let's go.
23:53Come on, let's get to go in here.
23:56Come on, come on, get up, let's go.
23:58Oh, gee whiz, Jess, I, I didn't know.
24:02Well, I didn't want you to know.
24:04Well, you don't think that would have made any difference to me or to us?
24:08Well, you wanted someone who could fly.
24:11I didn't want you to know.
24:13Well, you don't think that would have made any difference to me or to us.
24:16Well, you wanted someone who could fly.
24:26Well, I was only fooling, I was kidding.
24:29I was just saying, though, maybe you can still fly.
24:32Have you had that long?
24:33Three years.
24:34I was riding rag away. He picked a fence, fell and rolled on.
24:37Well, maybe that can be fixed.
24:39Have you, have you seen a doctor?
24:40I'm going to come.
24:41I'm going to come.
24:42Let's go.
24:43Go.
24:44fixed have you have you seen a doctor no there's nothing they can do we'll have you talk to one
24:50lately what's the sense in in kidding myself i tried four doctors they all gave me the same
24:56answer i know what i'm like oh you're never licked son i can remember when i was down there in
25:02singapore why i couldn't even heist a drink up i had that there malignant asiatic fever you know
25:09gets in all your bones everybody said i was finished but i stayed right in there and kept
25:13on pitching you're never lit you know and maybe things are different now i mean about the leg you
25:20know these these doctors have learned a lot of new things again since the war well i i wish i could
25:26believe that you gotta believe it that's the way that you make things come true first you believe
25:32it then you make it happen you see just think i'll i'll get them to make a short snorter out of you
25:43was that the belt you won the lee croft hunt yeah they gave it to me the last year i rode with
25:51them gee it sure is pretty i always wanted one of them things but i certainly don't want to have to
25:56chase foxes to get one it's yours no no you can't give that away you always keep them things unless you
26:03want to give it to some nice girl that you know i know a pretty girl in shanghai i think there's one
26:09more piece in the kitchen oh thanks maybe maybe it was in barcelona anyway she was a brunette
26:16i gave her my belt see and i was up to her house so i was going back to the ship walking down the
26:23street long comes a skipper and i toss off a snappy salute and my pants start to slip see so he says
26:29trumpet this ain't no time for formalities say listen do you like brunettes redhead redhead
26:36that's her just to a tee who the girl in town i've been telling her all about you
26:45she is a real redhead she's a regular carrot top and she weighs oh in the neighborhood of i would say
26:53uh 130 130 130 well maybe not maybe not 130 i would say uh in her bathing suit i would say about 110
27:05she's kind of a tall long slathery slathery well yeah well not exactly slathery she's she's just a big
27:17girl for her size you know if she was standing alongside of you i imagine she'd be just about
27:24that much shorter that about that much shorter you see her you'll black out
27:39that's not on the 60 cent lunch no i i was just looking for a friend of mine that's all take my
27:58word for it sailor he's not here i don't think that you understand this is a girl uh i'm looking for a
28:04particular kind of a girl you found one that'll be 60 cents please 60 cents
28:15that 20 the smallest you've got no i've got some singles
28:23get your 20. have i uh seen you somewhere before probably when i was pitching for the st louis browns
28:31you know i guess i got you mixed up with the other girl she was a nice girl too and and she was always
28:39doing kind things for people i guess that's why i got you mixed up well now that you're all untangled
28:44you're not happy don't forget your 20. yeah as i was saying before why
28:56you
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