- Title: F-8186
- Summary: FRAMING FATHER: LEON ERROL, FRANCES CARSON, WALTER REED, CHARLIE HALL, DICK MARTIN. LEON'S SON IS SEEN WITH A TORCH SINGER BUT WORD GETS AROUND THAT IT'S DAD SHE'S SEEING. A REMAKE OF THE 1936 FORD STERLING COMEDY OF THE SAME NAME
- Description:01:11:53 - 1940s CONVERTIBLE CAR PULLS UP TO HOUSE, DRUNK MAN CLIMBS OUT OF CAR, FALLING, LAUGHING, TEETERING, TALKING TO THE WIND. LOUD, TELLS HIMSELF TO SSSHHH. DRUNK STAGGERS UP TO FRONT DOOR, CAN'T GET THE DOOR OPEN. DRUNK SEARCHING HIS POCKETS FOR HOUSE KEY 01:12:55 - DRUNK PATTING HIMSELF, LOOKING FOR KEY, FINDS KEY STUCK IN POCKET LINING, DRUNK TRYING TO COORDINATE BODY MOVEMENT WITH LITTLE SUCCESS 01:13:26 - DRUNK GOES TO SIT ON FLOWER BOX LEDGE, MISCALCULATES & FALLS ON THE GROUND STILL CLUTCHING HIS JACKET. PULLS OUT LIGHTER, SETS JACKET ON FIRE. DRUNK BURNING HIS JACKET 01:14:11 - WIFE IN BED WAITING FOR HER HUSBAND, ANXIOUS, TURNS ON NIGHT TABLE LIGHT, GETS OUT OF BED 01:14:20 - DRUNK DOUSING BURNING JACKET WITH SPRINKLER CAN FINDS HOUSE KEY, STUMBLES TO FRONT DOOR 01:14:40 - BOSSY WIFE OPENS DOOR AS DRUNK HUSBAND TRIES TO GET IN. WIFE ARMS AKIMBO, SLAMS THE DOOR ON HER HUSBAND. DRUNK STUMBLES INTO BUSHES 01:15:14 - SON COMES HOME IN TAXI, DRUNK FATHER STUMBLES INTO TAXI DRIVER, THINKS HE FORGOT TO PAY CAB FARE, SON LAUGHING AT FATHER. DRUNK FATHER TRYING TO BE THE DISCIPLINARY, CHANGES HIS MIND BECAUSE SON HAS A KEY TO THE HOUSE 01:16:04 - SON LETS DRUNK FATHER INTO HOUSE, HE STUMBLES IN SON SAYS GOODNIGHT 01:16:14 - CU DOOR TO ERROL HOSIERY COMPANY AD DEPT. 01:16:20 - IRIS IN NEWSPAPER COLUMN "TOWN GOSSIP" GOSSIP COLUMN INVOLVING DRUNK'S SON & BEAUTIFUL NIGHTCLUB SINGER 01:16:30 - SON READING GOSSIP COLUMN WITH WOMAN HE WAS SEEN WITH IN NIGHTCLUB. COUPLE KISSES JUST AS OFFICE WORKER WALKS IN, EYES POPPING. MAKES THROAT CLEARING SOUND TO ALERT THEM OF HIS PRESENCE 01:16:56 - SON'S BOSSY MOTHER ENTERS FAMILY OFFICE 01:17:09 - CU MAN WITH A HANGOVER, HOT WATER BOTTLE ON HIS HEAD. FLANKED BY TWO MANNEQUIN LEGS. HANGOVER CLICHE "NEVER AGAIN". RUBS HIS TEMPLES 01:17:20 - BOSSY WIFE STANDING IN FRONT OF HIS DESK, ACCUSING HIM OF CHEATING, HAVING AN AFFAIR CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY, SON WAS SEEN WITH TORCH SINGER, NOT FATHER. CAN'T CONVINCE WIFE OF THAT 01:18:16 - AD MAN LOOKING OVER MODELS PHOTOGRAPHS. PLACES PHOTOGRAPH OF WOMAN'S LEGS ON AD BOARD. LEANS OVER DESK LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHS 01:18:36 - HUSBAND READING GOSSIP COLUMN REALIZES HIS SON HAS BEEN GOING TO NIGHTCLUB. WIFE, ARMS AKIMBO, DOESN'T BELIEVE HIM. WIFE FINGER POINTING IN HUSBAND'S FACE. THREATENS HUSBAND WITH DIVORCE 01:19:08 - HUSBAND UPSET AT CONVERSATION WALKS INTO WALL 01:19:16 - FATHER CONFRONTING SON ABOUT ARTICLE IN PAPER, TELLS SON TO COME IN HIS OFFICE. SON & GIRLFRIEND CROSS FINGERS IN GOOD LUCK GESTURE 01:19:59 - WOMAN EAVESDROPPING ON CONVERSATION, TURNS & WRITES SON NOTE ON HER PHOTOGRAPH & LEAVES 01:20:24 - SON COMES OUT OF FATHER'S OFFICE, CHASES AFTER GIRLFRIEND 01:20:37 - REPORTER INTERVIEWING ANGRY FATHER WHO DENIES ANY AFFAIR. TELLS REPORTER TO GET OUT WITH SWEEP OF HIS HAND JUST AS WIFE ENTERS OFFICE, SLAPS HER IN THE FACE. WIFE MAKE INCRIMINATING STATEMENT, REPORTER WRITES IT DOWN IN NOTEBOOK 01:21:13 - HUSBAND REALIZES FAUX PAS, CHASES AFTER REPORTER WHO ESCAPES 01:21:18 - WIFE IN HUSBAND'S OFFICE SEES PHOTOGRAPH WITH LOVE NOTE TO HER SON THINKS LOVE NOTE IS TO HER HUSBAND. HE TRIES TO EXPLAIN, WIFE WALKS OUT ON HUSBAND 01:22:18 - EXT/NIGHT: CAR PULLING UP TO NIGHTCLUB. CU SIGN "SILVER SLIPPER CLUB" 01:22:25 - 1940s NIGHTCLUB, COUPLES DANCING, TORCH SINGER 01:22:38 - PANS TO MOTHER & SON AT TABLE, SON LOOKING FOR MOTHER'S APPROVAL IN SINGER GIRLFRIEND. MOTHER APPROVES 01:22:46 - CUSTOMER CHECKING HIS HAT AT COAT CHECK IN NIGHT CLUB. HAT CHECK GIRL. COAT CHECK GIRL. 01:22:57 - TORCH SINGER FINISHES SONG, JOINS BEAU & HIS MOTHER 01:23:18 - MAN ACTING NERVOUS IN NIGHTCLUB, WHISPERS IN WAITER'S EAR. WAITER WITH WRONG IMPRESSION THINKS OLD MAN IS A LECH 01:23:38 - WAITER GOES TO SINGER'S TABLE, SAYS "THAT GENTLEMAN AT THE FAR TABLE WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU". ALL THREE LOOK & SEE HUSBAND / FATHER AT TABLE 01:23:53 - SINGER CONFRONTS BOYFRIEND'S FATHER, PLAYING COY, DOESN'T LET ON SHE'S THE GIRLFRIEND. MAKES BLANKET STATEMENT "NO ENTERTAINER COULD BE NICE" 01:24:43 - MAN DASHES OVER TO PHONE BOOTH, INTERRUPTS REPORTER ON TELEPHONE, PLAYS TRICK ON HIS FATHER 01:24:54 - REPORTER TAKES PHOTOGRAPH OF TORCH SINGER & OLD MAN, MAN GETS UP TO HIT REPORTER WITH A CHAIR PUTS CHAIR OVER HIS OWN HEAD, REPORTER RUNS OUT 01:25:24 - CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINE, PHOTOGRAPH OF MAN WITH CHAIR OVER HIS HEAD & YOUNG TORCH SINGER 01:25:34 - MAN IN PHOTOGRAPH READING ARTICLE ABOUT HIMSELF, SIGHS, PUTS DOWN PAPER, RUBS HIS HEAD 01:25:38 - SON & MOTHER PLAYING TRICK ON FATHER / HUSBAND PAINT BLACK EYE ON TORCH SINGER, LAUGHING 01:25:53 - WIFE PRETENDING TO BE ANGRY AT HUSBAND SAYS SHE'S DIVORCING HIM "THIS IS THE LAST STRAW, GOODBYE". HUSBAND BEGGING WIFE. WIFE SLAMS DOOR IN HIS FACE 01:26:02 - SINGER WITH BLACK EYE PLAYING TRICK ON BOYFRIEND'S FATHER, MAKES HIM THINK SHE HAS JEALOUS HUSBAND, SCARES HIM INTO THINKING HER HUSBAND IS GOING TO NEAT HIM UP 01:26:39 - TELEPHONE RINGS, MAN'S VOICE RISES IN FRIGHT, SON DISGUISING HIS VOICE PLAYING TRICK ON HIS FATHER 01:27:17 - MAN FRIGHTENED FOR HIS LIFE PACING, RUBBING HIS HEAD 01:27:18 - MOTHER & SON SPYING EAVESDROPPING AT DOOR, EAR TO THE DOOR 01:27:22 - WHISTLING SON ENTERS FATHER'S OFFICE, FATHER SITTING HEAD IN HAND. SON HITS FATHER ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD, TALKING TO HIS FATHER IN HIS OFFICE 01:28:14 - SON BRINGS HIS MOTHER & GIRLFRIEND IN, REVEAL TRICK THEY PLAYED ON HIM, FATHER BECOMES ANGRY, GOES TO PUNCH SON, REPORTER WALKS IN. MAN GOES TO PUNCH REPORTER, REPORTER DUCKS, MAN SLAPS HIS WIFE IN THE FACE, SHE SCREAMS, HE GRABS HIS WIFE APOLOGIZING PROFUSELY 01:29:00 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1942
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: F-8186