Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

- I'll take my chances. - No, no, honey. Wait, wait.

...that flying lumberyard, that spruce goose.

You tell me you're leaving me, and you have the nerve to expect graciousness?

Call UCLA. Get me the best meteorologist they got.

I won't sell TWA!

Mr. Hughes, did you receive...

Did you go to mechanic school to learn all this airplane guff?

I got a call from Houston. They're getting nervous.

...if you hadn't put the red-hot iron in my side...

Think about it. What does 20,000 feet give you?

I need to sleep.

Call it 15 million.

I'm glad for you, Kate.

The situation here revolves around Miss Russell's mammaries.

You're a fine bunch of bullies, aren't you?

- Hello, Howard. - Roland.

They're gonna give me drag. Do something about that.

That's you. Always pinching pennies.

Strap yourself in right there. You ought to be able to see just great.

Yeah. Run reel 10 again. I think we're duplicating a shot here.

A lighter shade. I don't want to look like Boris Karloff.

"Bill S-987 to amend the Civil Aeronautics Act."

...or you want some kind of meeting? - We want a meeting, don't we?

Yeah, you can come in.

Ava, what do you think about Trans World Airlines?

...acquired from Mr. John Meyer. Mr. Meyer works for you, does he not?

- Gross weight? - 86,000, wing loading of 41 pounds.

- Sit down. - On the day TWA first challenged...

Power lines have to be cut as it starts the trip from Culver City...

See, I wonder what gives a beautiful woman like you pleasure.

We gotta get into it. Jets are the way of the future.

This has been a great ride.

Love what you've done with the place.

She's just a friend.

Can't you eat ice cream from a bowl like everyone else in the world?

Well, a car picks me up every morning at 8, and off I go.

Hi! Son of a gun.

- A 550 Wasp engine. - One-hundred-octane fuel.

- Well, I didn't. - You must! It's your sacred franchise.

While brave men were dying on the beaches of Normandy...

- Howard! - How did we do?

Yeah. Bob, you got something on your suit.

Now if we move to Mammary Exhibit...

Come on, come on, come on. We both know I'm not gonna sell TWA.

- My legal counsel is on the way... - Federal warrant.

- No, Howard. - Well, why not, for heaven's sake?

We are looking through one of the side windows in the cockpit.

... ends up costing as much as the real war?

The war is gonna be over by the time she's done.

- What's that on the steering wheel? - Cellophane.

...which the Air Force doesn't even want anymore.

- Howard. - Show me all the blueprints.

You ever go to a Communist Party meeting, Roland?

Ladies and gentlemen, I must insist that we maintain quiet during these proceedings.

Who says we need a top wing?

I should be cross with you. You stole Ray Loewy from us.

Trade journals. On engineering. Aviation.

Nervous how the flick will fly?

Give me the largest Scotch you got.

Don't tell me it can't be done.

Shit, no. Maybe it's a little bit naughty.

Now, honestly, did you ever think you'd actually finish the damn thing?

You're like a different person in there.

It is the largest plane ever built.

All right, boys, let's fire it up.

You ever cheat on your wife, Roland?

Needless to say, The Hercules was a monumental undertaking.

Those men decide whether to fund the plane, so I need them happy.

I'm gonna attempt to be honest here.

Take out all the bugs, huh?

I have duties that take me all over the world, Mr. Hughes.

- Please leave. - No. I wasn't.

Was that meant for me?

...crazy ideas about...

He's been making big contributions on both sides of the aisle.

... the world's largest aircraft. This is the sky giant...

- Come in with the milk. - Repeated...

I just read the transcripts, that's all.

He's queer as a bedbug.

There's only one thing you've gotta know.

There's no decency to it.

...$43 million to manufacture 100 XF-11 spy planes for the United States Air Force?

There are 45,000 cars here, making it the greatest traffic jam ever seen.

Are you recording this conversation?

- Why do you say that? - Well, your range is 3000 miles.

Now, did you..? Did you actually get to see any llamas?

Goddamn, what the hell are you doing?

You know, I think... I think we've got them all...

There's too much Howard Hughes in Howard Hughes.

Howard, are you there?

- What do you want me to do? - What Trippe does.

- Yes, well, a mere trifle, darling. - I remember the painting!

... he might even make a profit.

When my brother killed himself...

...the generally accepted theory that only Juan Trippe's great Pan American Airways...

- You with me? - Yeah.

...you have received $56 million...

- You don't think you got it with 24? - No. No, sir.

Did you receive $13 million to manufacture...

...Miss Russell's mammaries are no more prominent...

Well, blow me down.

Now, you understand that you'd be under contract to me? Personally.

All I'm thinking about are the interests, the needs of the American passenger.

We got no sense of relative motion.

- Jesus. The damn wheel? - Yeah.

Thank you, thank you so much.

Let me get you cleaned up.

Spies in my midst, Jack.

Well, really lovely room. It's nicely decorated.

I did not. And I have asked you to submit your questions in writing.

Are you trying to be more famous than Lindbergh?

Isn't that too far?

Have Simon and Pete get back to me on the assemblies. We need a secondary system.

Howard, I never knew you were such a good dancer.

Can't look away. Can't munch popcorn. That would be rude.

...can offer lower rates because they don't have to compete.

All right, flight controls are active. She's all yours.

You can't have fornication in a Western. It isn't done.

It's not fresh from the kitchen, so I...

I can't, sweetie.

- Then how did you make all that money? - We don't care about money here.

- Absolutely. - Do you?

Attention, please. This is Howard.

kiss both sides of my ass

That bill passes, and you bought these for nothing.

...and you're not gonna have any more oil money.

Pan Am will have a monopoly on international travel.

A twin-engine plane with some...

I need two more. Desperately. You think MGM could help me out?

Yeah. And you know what it's about? S-E-X.

- Slow down. - We'll need terminals in Ireland and France.

You're the one that said that all men are predators.

Spotless. No wiggle on the wheel or throttle.

Will you marry me?

Two hundred and twenty feet long, it towers higher than a five-story building.

Lockheed worked on the F-80. Let's get Bob Gross and see if he can help us out.

I'm terribly sorry.

The way of the future. The way of the future.

I was wondering if I could have a moment.

Do you solemnly swear that in the matter now pending before this committee...