A Face in the Crowd

00:42:46,263 --> 00:42:49,323 - Hey, have you seen Lonesome? - You may find him in there. 599 00:42:49,499 --> 00:42:51,091 Where? Here? 600 00:42:53,103 --> 00:42:55,799 - Oh, you mean in here? - Wait a minute, sir... 601 00:42:55,972 --> 00:42:59,100 ...I wouldn't barge in there if I were you. - I'm not you. 602 00:42:59,276 --> 00:43:02,006 Hey, hey, Lonesome. Lonesome boy. Hey. 603 00:43:02,178 --> 00:43:03,509 Yeah, yeah, who is it? 604 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,877 It's destiny, that's who it is. It's your destiny. 605 00:43:07,050 --> 00:43:08,381 - Who is it? - Hi. 606 00:43:08,552 --> 00:43:11,851 - What the...? What...? What...? - Honey child, I sold your show. 607 00:43:12,489 --> 00:43:14,980 - To who? - To the big time. 608 00:43:16,126 --> 00:43:19,892 Ever hear of Browning, Schlagel and McNally? The advertising company. 609 00:43:20,063 --> 00:43:23,260 Boy, I got them bidding against the Cutner Agency, MCA... 610 00:43:23,433 --> 00:43:25,833 - MC who? - And a dozen others you won't know. 611 00:43:26,002 --> 00:43:28,835 Look, B.S. And M. Wants you for The Vida Jakes Hour. 612 00:43:29,005 --> 00:43:33,135 Eight o'clock, coast-to-coast. I told them we'd let them know at 1700 hours. 613 00:43:33,310 --> 00:43:36,177 - Boy, I tell you, we're on to New York. - We are? 614 00:43:36,346 --> 00:43:40,783 They asked if you had a New York agent. Like to meet your New York agent? 615 00:43:41,418 --> 00:43:46,515 A bum out of jail in Pickett, Arkansas and a Memphis office boy! Hey. 616 00:43:46,690 --> 00:43:49,921 I'm a roving gambler Ramble all around 617 00:43:50,093 --> 00:43:53,426 Whenever I see a deck of cards I lay my money down 618 00:43:53,597 --> 00:43:54,859 Go, baby! 619 00:43:55,031 --> 00:43:57,397 Whenever I see a deck of cards I lay my money down 620 00:43:57,567 --> 00:44:02,061 - I lay my money down - Here, will you sign this? Hey. 621 00:44:02,238 --> 00:44:03,432 Oh, yes, I'll sign 622 00:44:03,940 --> 00:44:05,498 Thank you. Oh, thank you. 623 00:44:05,675 --> 00:44:10,669 Now, in the last quarter, gentlemen, and Miss Valerie... 624 00:44:10,847 --> 00:44:15,284 ...we have spent over $300,000 of General Haynesworth's money... 625 00:44:15,452 --> 00:44:17,977 ...to make this country Vitajex-conscious. 626 00:44:18,154 --> 00:44:21,590 And all we've succeeded in doing... Next chart, please. 627 00:44:21,758 --> 00:44:25,125 - Is dropping from 10 percent of the market to 7. 628 00:44:25,295 --> 00:44:29,163 - Now, I... - I'm late for the dog-food meeting now. 629 00:44:29,332 --> 00:44:32,358 - Can I say my say and go? - Yes, doctor. 630 00:44:32,535 --> 00:44:33,797 Miss. 631 00:44:33,970 --> 00:44:38,202 Now, I've gone over this product pretty carefully in the lab. 632 00:44:38,375 --> 00:44:42,778 Vitajex has a few grains of aspirin. 633 00:44:42,946 --> 00:44:45,540 A little sugar that might give you some energy. 634 00:44:45,715 --> 00:44:51,176 But, well, frankly, general or no general, we have nothing to sell. 635 00:44:51,354 --> 00:44:54,619 Will you strike that from the transcript, Miss Murray? 636 00:44:55,091 --> 00:44:59,152 You know that General Haynesworth always reads the product group reports. 637 00:44:59,329 --> 00:45:02,230 I can't help it. I was hired as a research chemist. 638 00:45:02,399 --> 00:45:05,459 Dr. Wylie, there's nothing wrong with Vitajex, is there? 639 00:45:05,635 --> 00:45:08,399 It won't kill you, if that's what you mean. 640 00:45:08,772 --> 00:45:11,832 It's relatively harmless, like many old patent medicines. 641 00:45:12,008 --> 00:45:14,704 Thank you. Let's get this train back on the tracks. 642 00:45:14,878 --> 00:45:20,248 - Miss Mills. - With all due respect to our TV department. 643 00:45:21,451 --> 00:45:23,248 He hates our guts. 644 00:45:23,420 --> 00:45:29,017 And its sudden enthusiasm for Lonesome Rhodes. 645 00:45:29,192 --> 00:45:32,787 I think we need a... A dignified sell. 646 00:45:32,962 --> 00:45:37,865 I'd like to see a 15-minute participation on the Ed Murrow show. 647 00:45:39,102 --> 00:45:41,570 Mr. Rhodes is here, sir. 648 00:45:41,738 --> 00:45:47,370 Jim boy, don't you think it...? Well, I mean, it's irregular. 649 00:45:47,544 --> 00:45:51,036 Well, I just thought if you and the boys got a look at him, Mace... 650 00:45:51,214 --> 00:45:53,842 ...you'd see why the TV shop is sold on him. 651 00:45:54,017 --> 00:45:58,010 - Gentlemen, Lonesome Rhodes. - Hiya, folks. 652 00:45:59,222 --> 00:46:00,746 Howdy. 653 00:46:00,924 --> 00:46:05,156 I come to help you sell these little kidney pills, whatever the heck they are. 654 00:46:15,805 --> 00:46:20,435 Hey, what's the matter? Ain't you got no spittoons around here? 655 00:46:20,877 --> 00:46:25,576 Denise, would you bring the gentleman a spittoon? 65