Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

- Last year's deficit? - 770,000.
It matches your eyes.
Men can't be friends with women.
After two years, Hell's Angels has finally finished filming.
That's much better.
Anyway, that's the vulgar press, I'm sure. Do you read much, Mr. Hughes?
Thank you, Howard, and you take care of that cold.
You have called me a liar and a thief and a war profiteer!
Would you, now?
...Mammary Exhibit Number One.
- Where are we going, by the way? - Do you feel like a little adventure?
Buttons.
Will you try to have him return?
No, no. My wife just liked the painting.
You ought to hear about what's going on with DeMille.
Actresses are cheap in this town, darling.
My left pocket.
And something momentarily cuts out. I believe we are airborne.
TWA is starting up flights to Europe.
I asked for silence! I asked for quiet in this room...
I have a personal friendship with...
The first 40 planes off the assembly line.
If they're giving aluminum to Boeing, they can give some to Hughes Aircraft.
I'd like to spare you that.
- Pass the goddamn butter, I beg you. - You read flying magazines?
I have them make it here so... So I can see.
And I've lost millions, senator, and I'll go on losing millions. It's just...
Well, I'm out to meet with Douglas about the DC-4.
The Hercules, ladies and gentlemen.
He's shooting his Bible picture. He's gotta do a crucifixion in Fresno.
You're too crazy for me.
- How much? - Not for sale.
Movies are movies, Howard. Not life.
Thank you.
You remember that goddamn shot from reel 10?
show me all the beverages. I'm serious now, show me all the beverages.
So I figure we gotta reshoot Hell's Angels for sound.
No. I don't remember anything from reel 10.
Howard, welcome.
I'll get into it.
Everybody works for you Howard Everybody…
A true pioneer of the world's airways.
Okay, what do you got for me?
I want a date with Theda Bara. That ain't gonna happen.
- Some kind of a yak? - No, that's a llama.
...to Ireland.
She's just working the room. It's her job, baby.
...decided to fly to Europe? On the day that TWA first invaded Juan Trippe's territory!
- He's getting blood transfusions now, but... - Whose blood?
...and it will go bankrupt too.
I don't think the Air Corps men will have trouble scoring.
Show me all the blueprints.
Right over here. Come on. Give us a smile. It won't kill you.
If you had any idea of the crap that people carry around on their hands.
A monopoly? No, no, no. Oh, no.
Would you like me to tell you, senator?
- I have an eye for talent. Isn't that right? - You ought to give up prancing in tights...
- Howard! - Right over here. This way, over to the left.
"It's the way of the future."
Then Juan Trippe buys us cheap.
Christ almighty, you've seen 8000 goddamn wheels. Choose one, please.
- What do they use to make boats? - Oak.
Are you recording this conversation?
There it is. Now we both know the sordid truth.
Yeah, she's my Buck Rogers ship.
Holy Mother of God.
It just isn't fair. He owns Pan Am, he owns Congress.
To hell with it.
...for the opportunity he gave me. Thank you.
Goddamn it, yes. I can promise you.
Lots of cameras and newsmen.
Don't you see how this demeans me?
You'll be working four times as hard. I just got you at half price.
347.
Now, this entire bill was written by Pan Am executives...
- You've made your point, Mr. Hughes. - One second. I have one more thing...
You know the typhus?
- You do what it takes. - You betcha, boss.
Yeah, I crashed in a beet field.
Well, excuse me for asking, Mr. Hughes...
TWA, right?
The birds don't care for it much, but the bats do.
Howard Hughes has just alerted us.
Start them up!
Luddie built a birdhouse once. You remember that, dear?
They... They attract aphids.
- The way of the future. - Let's take a walk, Howard.
Every time there's a picture of you with another woman, it's a slap in the face.
- What was that? - Oh, he's a little deaf.
- Wind resistance on rivets? - I want her slippery.
And then you crash and you die. Give her easy flying.
Sir, the FBI are at the house.
- The way of the future. - Howard?
Mr. Breen feels that they are too prominent, yes?
- Nonsense! Picasso is sacred. - I'm a urologist.
- Heavens, what is this? Electrical tape? - Yeah. Odie just sort of slammed it on there.
Right here. How many more records are you gonna set?
Marry one of your bungalow girls.
- You are such a shy creature, aren't you? - Perhaps it was a very large dog.
We are about 5 feet in back of Mr. Hughes.
We must understand that technologies like these are the way of the future.
Someone more appropriate. To me, I mean.
I hope so. The American people deserve something for their $13 million.
No, I don't think so.
On the committee or chairman?
Now, all these shots, save for Miss Russell, were enlarged from pictures...
You want to go to war with me?
My investigators have turned up a lot of dirt.
You may be directing this movie, but what you're asking, we can't do.
- I haven't shaved. - Well, neither have I.
- This is Faith Domergue. - Sit down.
See, wining and dining Air Force dignitaries is common in our business.
I wonder if you even know anymore.
Show me all the blueprints.
Nothing like tonight has ever been seen before, and I can say...
- Sixty. - More throttle. It's 60.
What do you want, Owen?
I'll be back in a second, but don't you go anywhere, now. I mean it.
You must all come sailing with me. Catalina. What do you say?
You write all of them?
Mr. Hughes, do you have a statement?
All the negatives. And I want you to kill the story.
Well, it went into the planes, senator. And a lot more.
Good. Okay. Come on, let's go have some lunch.
- Clouds in Oakland. - All right, don't get all jittery now.
You have him start buying.
It's a Kashmiri sapphire.
Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints...
And it will fly, goddamn it!
- Understood. Lower it 15 degrees of flaps. - Lowering 15 degrees of flaps.
...R...
That's more than a city block.
- Emma, you can start up lunch now. - Yes, sir.
We're gonna need about 24,000 horsepower.
A plane, a boat, a flying city.
Het, mama. Rock me.
Thanks.
...be a talent scout. - That prancing paid for my new yacht.