Mank

00:43:22,125 --> 00:43:24,666 -When was that? -Over the weekend. 749 00:43:24,750 --> 00:43:27,541 You were in D.C. I went to the pictures in Santa Barbara. 750 00:43:27,625 --> 00:43:30,541 -We have a fine screening room here. -[Mayer] Warner's picture? 751 00:43:30,625 --> 00:43:32,291 -Why waste money on that? -[all laugh] 752 00:43:32,375 --> 00:43:34,583 -Next time, I'll go with you. -[Marion] Of course. 753 00:43:34,666 --> 00:43:38,875 I am bonkers about Movietone News. I love Lowell Thomas's voice. 754 00:43:38,958 --> 00:43:41,416 -Oh, is he single? -[both laugh] 755 00:43:41,500 --> 00:43:43,916 I sat across from him at the Brown Derby once. 756 00:43:44,791 --> 00:43:46,250 -He bought me a drink. -He didn't! 757 00:43:46,333 --> 00:43:47,500 [actress] Not technically. 758 00:43:47,583 --> 00:43:50,375 But I made sure to run into him in the parking lot after. 759 00:43:50,458 --> 00:43:53,541 -I asked him, "Do you need a lift?" -You didn't! What did he say? 760 00:43:54,125 --> 00:43:56,916 -I'll never tell. -There's a point to this, dear? 761 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,666 Well, yes, they showed that Hitler giving a speech, kissing babies. 762 00:44:01,750 --> 00:44:03,166 He is creepers! 763 00:44:03,250 --> 00:44:06,250 Lederhosen and suspenders. Terrifying. 764 00:44:06,333 --> 00:44:08,708 -No, it's the mustache that's the horror. -[all laugh] 765 00:44:08,791 --> 00:44:11,458 [Hearst] Don't be alarmed, Marion. He won't be around for long. 766 00:44:11,541 --> 00:44:14,541 The Germans are a thoughtful, considerate people. 767 00:44:14,625 --> 00:44:16,333 Enough about Nazis. 768 00:44:16,416 --> 00:44:19,375 Irving, tell us about your travels. Where were you? 769 00:44:19,458 --> 00:44:22,333 -[inhales sharply] Uh… Berlin, in fact. -[all chuckle] 770 00:44:23,041 --> 00:44:24,333 But it was quite interesting. 771 00:44:24,416 --> 00:44:27,541 Thugs in brown shirts goose-stepping past our hotel all night, 772 00:44:27,625 --> 00:44:29,333 screaming anti-Semitic slogans. 773 00:44:29,916 --> 00:44:32,666 -I was terrified the whole time. -This Hitler sounds like an utter drip. 774 00:44:32,750 --> 00:44:35,416 Shouldn't the United States do something, Mr. Tugwell? 775 00:44:35,500 --> 00:44:37,125 We are weighing all options. 776 00:44:37,208 --> 00:44:40,041 Can't last. Who in the world takes a lunatic like that seriously? 777 00:44:40,125 --> 00:44:42,666 Well, the last time I looked, 40 million Germans. 778 00:44:42,750 --> 00:44:45,250 Mank! You're always so wonderfully contrary. 779 00:44:45,333 --> 00:44:47,583 "Chase & Sanborn's der coffee." 780 00:44:47,666 --> 00:44:50,125 [in German accent] "Can 40 million Nazis all be wrong?" 781 00:44:50,208 --> 00:44:53,333 I just read they've opened their first concentration camps 782 00:44:53,416 --> 00:44:54,916 and started burning books. 783 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,791 -What's next? Movies? -Enough. 784 00:44:57,875 --> 00:45:00,000 -Is that true, Irving? -Yes, L.B. 785 00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:02,250 Ah, Hitler, schmitler! 786 00:45:02,916 --> 00:45:05,000 You don't turn your back on a market as big as Germany. 787 00:45:05,083 --> 00:45:08,875 Please. It's upsetting enough Marion had to endure the man in newsreel. 788 00:45:08,958 --> 00:45:10,583 What's a concentration camp? 789 00:45:10,666 --> 00:45:12,958 It was fascinating. Those people adore him. 790 00:45:14,916 --> 00:45:18,541 -I'm probably talking nonsense. -You're the first tonight that isn't. 791 00:45:18,625 --> 00:45:21,125 [Selznick] Speaking of socialists, how about Upton Sinclair's book? 792 00:45:21,208 --> 00:45:22,041 No! 793 00:45:22,125 --> 00:45:24,250 He wants to turn private enterprise over to the state. 794 00:45:24,333 --> 00:45:26,125 There's one we won't be optioning. Eh, Irving? 795 00:45:26,208 --> 00:45:27,583 Well, it's selling like crazy. 796 00:45:27,666 --> 00:45:30,541 Walter Winchell says Sinclair may run for governor next election. 797 00:45:30,625 --> 00:45:33,666 That rat Bolshevik belongs right up there with Hitler 798 00:45:33,750 --> 00:45:36,583 on the list of people not to be taken seriously. 799 00:45:36,666 --> 00:45:39,041 There's a world of difference between communism and socialism. 800 00:45:39,125 --> 00:45:41,125 [Mayer] They both want something for nothing. 801 00:45:41,208 --> 00:45:42,666 Like a workforce for free? 802 00:45:42,750 --> 00:45:44,416 Half, and only in the interim. 803 00:45:44,500 --> 00:45:47,041 I think it's safe to assume none of us here would welcome 804 00:45:47,125 --> 00:45:50,125 a crusading socialist as California's political savior. 805 00:45:50,208 --> 00:45:52,666 Certainly not FDR. Am I right, Rex? 806 00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:55,375 Off the record, President says the man bears watching. 807 00:45:55,458 --> 00:45:58,916 Especially now that Republicans seem bent on running Frank Merriam again. 808 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,750 Sinclair's run twice before and got, w