WEBVTT 00:00:27.234 --> 00:00:34.319 - about this trip I took recently. I was driving through southern Indiana. The car started to act up. 00:00:34.319 --> 00:00:41.758 - That's news. I pulled it into a small town garage. The fella said, it'll be a couple hours. So I started 00:00:41.758 --> 00:00:48.984 - walking around the town. I came upon a small town library. In the back of the library, on a dusty old 00:00:48.984 --> 00:00:54.014 - shelf with a bunch of books that nobody ever checks out, I found this. 00:00:54.626 --> 00:01:01.251 - It's called the Book of Lost Pleasures. It's by a gentleman named Oscar Camden. It was written in 1937. 00:01:01.251 --> 00:01:07.621 - Basically, the book is about the small benefits of living that Mr. Camden was worried were going to 00:01:07.621 --> 00:01:13.992 - disappear with the change in tastes of progress. It's a nice little book. A very high percentage of 00:01:13.992 --> 00:01:20.362 - the things he mentions in this book are really lovely things to do. And, unfortunately, a very high 00:01:20.362 --> 00:01:22.910 - percentage of them have been forgotten. 00:01:23.170 --> 00:01:31.021 - just faded away with time. As an example, he mentions having a cup of coffee brewed with eggshells after 00:01:31.021 --> 00:01:38.723 - dinner with a nice piece of homemade blueberry pie. There are dozens of things like that in this book. 00:01:38.723 --> 00:01:46.200 - Makes for a good summer reading. Here's one about sitting in front of a fireplace. Here's one about 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:50.462 - writing a letter to a friend you haven't seen in a year. 00:01:57.154 --> 00:02:04.175 - As a little fella, my mom went to see a new movie at the now-defunct Strand Theater in Albany, New York. 00:02:04.175 --> 00:02:10.929 - When she got home, I remember asking her how she liked it. It was a good movie, she said, but it was 00:02:10.929 --> 00:02:17.749 - for adults. Presented with that forbidden fruit, it's amazing how it's taken me more than 20 years to 00:02:17.749 --> 00:02:22.430 - see Ship of Fools. But sometimes, temptations are best left that way. 00:02:23.746 --> 00:02:30.940 - Ship of Fools is one of those long dramatic epics with no real plot that was very common in the early 00:02:30.940 --> 00:02:38.274 - to mid-1960s. If you've ever squirmed through Inside Daisy Clover or This Property is Condemned, you've 00:02:38.274 --> 00:02:45.327 - got the idea. If you haven't, believe me, this is an idea you can get along fine without. These are 00:02:45.327 --> 00:02:50.334 - the facts. Ship of Fools was based on a novel by Katherine Ann Porter. 00:02:51.106 --> 00:02:58.640 - It's about a group of strangers who form various relationships while traveling across the ocean on a 00:02:58.640 --> 00:03:06.324 - cruise ship. A lot like the love boat actually, only considerably less funny and much longer. In fact, 00:03:06.324 --> 00:03:14.007 - at 149 minutes, it may be quicker to read the book. Ship of Fools was produced and directed by Stanley 00:03:14.007 --> 00:03:17.886 - Kramer, who also made Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. 00:03:19.170 --> 00:03:25.955 - I'm sure you know that was Spencer Tracy's last performance. Kramer must have specialized in swan songs. 00:03:25.955 --> 00:03:32.611 - Ship of Fools was the last picture Vivian Lee ever made. I'm not trying to draw any implications here. 00:03:32.611 --> 00:03:39.267 - Hell, just making a picture like this is enough weight for one life to carry. But like every film I've 00:03:39.267 --> 00:03:45.406 - ever seen, Ship of Fools does have something to recommend. For instance, Henry Calvin's in it. 00:03:46.018 --> 00:03:52.859 - He played Sergeant Garcia in the old Zaro TV series. He even has a few speaking parts. You know, Werner 00:03:52.859 --> 00:03:59.700 - Klempner, Colonel Klink in Hogan's Heroes, he gets to sing and dance with Vivian Lee in this film. Hey, 00:03:59.700 --> 00:04:06.343 - that's more than Clark Gable ever got out of Gone with the Wind. There's also one really great scene 00:04:06.343 --> 00:04:10.750 - in the film. Wouldn't you know, it would have to do with baseball. 00:04:17.090 --> 00:04:26.456 - could hit a curve ball on the outside corner. I beg your pardon? I never could hit a curve ball on the 00:04:26.456 --> 00:04:33.822 - outside corner. That's very interesting. What does it mean? You wouldn't know if 00:04:51.202 --> 00:05:01.547 - Now you're back. The bitcher, he's out there. He's winding up, and he turns her loose, and... Just as 00:05:01.547 --> 00:05:05.502 - it gets to you, it dips down and away. 00:05:31.042 --> 00:05:39.423 - No, you don't see. You don't see at all. You don't know what it's like to be out there, and the crowds 00:05:39.423 --> 00:05:47.722 - yellin' for you to deliver. And they start talkin'. Pitchers, they talkin'. You can't hit a curveball 00:05:47.722 --> 00:05:55.940 - on the outside corner. And from then on out, that's all you see is curveballs on the outside corner. 00:05:55.940 --> 00:05:58.462 - So you've had your big chance. 00:06:01.474 --> 00:06:23.934 - I can still hear my old man yelling at me from the stands even though he wasn't there. Big Will. 00:06:33.986 --> 00:07:00.670 - A bum, just like me. I think you're being a bit harsh on yourself there, Teddy. A bum. You know, I travel a lot. 00:07:03.842 --> 00:07:14.036 - My folks give me some money. Not much, but some. They are more comfortable when I'm not around. You 00:07:14.036 --> 00:07:24.331 - know what I find? I find the most amusing things about people are their guilts that they drum up for 00:07:24.331 --> 00:07:32.894 - themselves. For instance, I estimate that there must be at least 873 million people 00:07:33.218 --> 00:07:40.285 - in the world who don't even know what a curveball on the outside corner is. That's why I think it's 00:07:40.285 --> 00:07:47.352 - a bit excessive for you to think that you have muffed your whole life just because you couldn't hit 00:07:47.352 --> 00:07:52.158 - it. Paddle or no paddle. Do you understand what I mean, Herr Denny? 00:08:04.642 --> 00:08:33.086 - You know what I think? No. I think that you are a sod off intellectual. 00:08:39.682 --> 00:08:47.574 - Well, bottom's up, Shorty. Jack Spratt could eat no fat. His wife could eat no lean. This sort of situation 00:08:47.574 --> 00:08:54.955 - is very seldom seen. But I did a bit of research and now the secret's out. One had hypoglycemia, the 00:08:54.955 --> 00:09:02.482 - other had the gout. Well, I'd like to have my neighbor join me. This is Jim Mannion playing percussion 00:09:02.482 --> 00:09:09.278 - for me. This next song we're gonna do is a song I wrote about Mr. Greenjeans. He passed away 00:09:10.306 --> 00:09:15.983 - I guess a little over a year ago. And it wasn't until I saw the videotapes of him on television that 00:09:15.983 --> 00:09:21.660 - I realized just how much he had meant to me. He was a big part of my childhood. He was like somebody 00:09:21.660 --> 00:09:26.494 - that was always there that you could depend on. So this is called Slowly Missing You. 00:09:44.322 --> 00:10:07.934 - Why does it have to be so different from my childhood? If these old houses could talk, I know they would. 00:10:31.074 --> 00:10:47.663 - Are they keeping time? Mr. Green James died today. Dancing bears danced away. The captain is out searching 00:10:47.663 --> 00:10:54.174 - for his crew. Sunny simple chartered day. 00:11:09.986 --> 00:11:23.006 - trying to catch the fish with 00:17:05.154 --> 00:17:12.302 - over and run around to get the next fellow. Well, we always played 80 over when we went in the country. 00:17:12.302 --> 00:17:19.176 - And I don't know the ball. I thought we have a road, just play a little ball. I never was much of a 00:17:19.176 --> 00:17:26.255 - ball player. I did like to play 80 over though, but I never was much of a ball player. Oh, I will tell 00:17:26.255 --> 00:17:32.510 - you. I could do pretty good if it's on the ground, but I didn't want to play all the time. 00:17:35.266 --> 00:17:42.708 - I went to the eighth grade and I quit there. Dale Hughes was my last school teacher. He was a one-armed 00:17:42.708 --> 00:17:49.864 - man. Had his arm cut off? No, but his right arm. His arm was cut off right there. And I know I used 00:17:49.864 --> 00:17:57.306 - to have to write on the blackboard part because, you see, I had that left arm and he wasn't a very good 00:17:57.306 --> 00:18:03.102 - writer and I was a pretty good writer and I got to write his questions up there. 00:18:03.298 --> 00:18:10.431 - But I never forgot that. Man, I learned more in the history that way than I ever learned in my life. 00:18:10.431 --> 00:18:17.493 - Just like my own questions. Nah, don't worry. I'm not gonna make you watch Ship of Fools. Actually, 00:18:17.493 --> 00:18:25.120 - this is an exceptional film. Even Stanley Kramer would tell you that. Great actor, great director. Shortest 00:18:25.120 --> 00:18:28.510 - title in film history. M. Starring Peter Lorre. 00:29:43.746 --> 00:29:44.926 - the clean. 00:32:12.066 --> 00:32:27.379 - President, what in the world do you see for a number of years? So it was a fact. I mean, it's good. 00:32:27.379 --> 00:32:40.702 - I mean, it's good. I mean, it's good. I mean, it's good. I mean, it's good. It's good. 00:32:46.786 --> 00:33:14.302 - The broken script of one of the other letters is, in its contemporary form, 00:33:26.370 --> 00:33:26.750 - You know. 00:33:55.778 --> 00:34:21.662 - foreign foreign foreign foreign 00:34:28.962 --> 00:34:33.094 - But, gentlemen, gentlemen, you have to at least know what color the hat the little girl had that she 00:34:33.094 --> 00:34:37.185 - wanted to show you this afternoon. Of course, Comrade! The hat was red! Comrade, the hat was green! 00:34:37.185 --> 00:34:41.317 - The hat was red! The hat was green! Red! Green! Red! Green! Red! Green! Red! Green! Red! Green! Red! 00:34:41.317 --> 00:34:45.489 - Green! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! 00:34:45.489 --> 00:34:49.580 - Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! 00:34:49.580 --> 00:34:53.671 - Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! 00:34:53.671 --> 00:34:56.126 - Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! Red! 00:34:57.314 --> 00:35:09.693 - The police have... Yes, yes, yes, Mr. President, there is doubt that this is your duty. Your officials 00:35:09.693 --> 00:35:21.832 - too, of course. But the result, please. The result! Mr. Minister, my people haven't slept 12 hours a 00:35:21.832 --> 00:35:25.918 - week. There will be, for example, 00:35:26.818 --> 00:35:37.038 - Behind a fence, in a bush, a small, white, wrinkled paper bag was found. Apparently, it used to be filled 00:35:37.038 --> 00:35:46.968 - with cheap confectionery. On the outer surface, there are still tiny splinters of ruby and some little 00:35:46.968 --> 00:35:55.838 - holes of colorful sprinkles. We have in a radius of two kilometers, in every confectionery, 00:35:56.098 --> 00:36:07.145 - the smallest of colonial goods shops in the history of this physical Porsche. Otherwise, every day we 00:36:07.145 --> 00:36:18.192 - expand the driving area. But of course, no one can remember after such a long time that a trace could 00:36:18.192 --> 00:36:24.798 - be traced. Despite all these negative results, we are forced 00:36:25.378 --> 00:36:32.116 - to continue to research, to continue to erupt, always into the unknown, first of all without a view 00:36:32.116 --> 00:36:39.056 - to a single people who could bring us to the goal just by one step. Our people are almost useless with 00:36:39.056 --> 00:36:45.794 - this question. For the police, Mr. President, I know that you are not proud of it, but with that we 00:36:45.794 --> 00:36:52.666 - can get the facts out of the world that an unknown murderer terrorized four and a half million people 00:36:52.666 --> 00:36:54.014 - and that the police 00:36:55.074 --> 00:37:02.238 - research has shown the lowest result so far, just as little as the all-night rations in the distribution quarter. 00:46:33.122 --> 00:46:41.384 - But he wasn't among them. The best men in Berlin are like that. They've been looking for him for six 00:46:41.384 --> 00:46:46.046 - years. But they can't catch him. Too many dogs are dead. 00:47:43.618 --> 00:47:51.842 - that all the leaders of the ring organizations are guilty. I assume that you are fully aware of the 00:47:51.842 --> 00:48:00.148 - explanations for your organizations. Good. We don't need to stay long at the front line. We all know 00:48:00.148 --> 00:48:08.782 - why we are here. An outsider defamed us, the business and the aid. The measures of the police. The daily 00:48:08.782 --> 00:48:13.470 - plan with the rations for the arrest of child murderers. 00:48:13.698 --> 00:48:20.673 - It doesn't matter anymore that we are safe in no hotel, in no cafe, in no concert cafe and in no private 00:48:20.673 --> 00:48:27.382 - apartment anymore from an attack by the criminal police. Very right. Bravo! This situation must come 00:48:27.382 --> 00:48:34.158 - to an end. We have to get back the order of the hostages, otherwise we will suffer. The forces of our 00:48:34.158 --> 00:48:40.734 - organization are the most vulnerable. If we don't get the support for the women and our colleagues 00:48:43.330 --> 00:48:50.904 - I don't know where we can get the money we need for the preparation and execution of our plans. Besides, 00:48:50.904 --> 00:48:58.118 - the police are looking for the murderer in our district. Gentlemen, if I tell you about my job as a 00:48:58.118 --> 00:49:05.548 - criminal, you'll know which is the right one. And I know it too. If someone goes to jail for this job, 00:49:05.548 --> 00:49:10.814 - fine. But between the criminal police looking for us, there's a big gap. 00:49:10.946 --> 00:49:27.458 - My dear gentlemen, our members must be able to follow their laws in peace again, without being permanently 00:49:27.458 --> 00:49:38.878 - disturbed by the overriding nervousness of the criminal police. Please... 00:49:40.802 --> 00:49:48.207 - My Lord. Accuracy of the traffic control. The whole city is going through. Thank you. Always a new one. 00:49:48.207 --> 00:49:55.542 - Always a sharper one. Please. Please listen. We have to make the police understand that the police are 00:49:55.542 --> 00:50:02.662 - here. The women don't have to do anything to the bulls anymore. They ran away from us, just because 00:50:02.662 --> 00:50:09.854 - the man who slept with them took the polenta with him. Now you should always give the polenta to us. 00:50:10.274 --> 00:50:19.621 - Every owner of an apartment, every housekeeper, every one who has a foundation, must be obligated to 00:50:19.621 --> 00:50:29.061 - follow an embarrassing, thorough search of his presence, following the tracks of the world. Listen to 00:50:29.061 --> 00:50:38.686 - the work of the public. If I just think about it, I'll get a cold cut. Mr. President, I'm sorry, but... 00:50:39.906 --> 00:50:47.951 - I don't know if it's true. To hell with it. What have we had so far from the public? Mountains of letters 00:50:47.951 --> 00:50:56.148 - with the most ridiculous slander. Very right. Alarm of the murder commission. They call it John-Stein-Pegel 00:50:56.148 --> 00:51:03.890 - when you get up. Really? But if you really want to get rid of the people who are reasonable, then you 00:51:03.890 --> 00:51:09.886 - suddenly have nothing left. Then you can't think of anything else. The public. 00:51:10.370 --> 00:51:17.721 - What do you think? I think you're exaggerating, Mr. Lohmann. You're afraid that he won't be here, 00:51:17.721 --> 00:51:25.523 - aren't you? Yes, yes, Mr. President. The greatness of the public still stands at this point today. What 00:51:25.523 --> 00:51:33.249 - does that have to do with me? That every single person is responsible for his conscience, what's going 00:51:33.249 --> 00:51:37.150 - on with the poorest, strangest child on the street? 00:51:38.018 --> 00:51:49.608 - But the big mess hasn't gone away yet. Every square meter has to be under control. No child is allowed 00:51:49.608 --> 00:51:54.334 - to take a step outside the city. But how? 00:51:55.010 --> 00:52:02.732 - There must be people who can come anywhere without being caught. Who can follow everyone on the street 00:52:02.732 --> 00:52:10.304 - without being caught. Who can follow every child in every house without being caught. With one word, 00:52:10.304 --> 00:52:17.801 - people who can catch the murderer without being caught. Who? Who? But there are no such people. Who 00:52:17.801 --> 00:52:22.974 - can do that? Who? Who? The beggars. The organization of the beggars. 00:52:23.106 --> 00:52:32.788 - There may be another way. There is no doubt that the person who comes to mind about this person has 00:52:32.788 --> 00:52:43.438 - some kind of an interest in this person. He is certain that he has already been in touch with the authorities 00:52:43.438 --> 00:52:52.926 - once as a very powerful person. All care facilities, prisons, nerve clinics and mental facilities 00:52:53.282 --> 00:53:04.498 - especially about the people we have to get an explanation, who were released as harmless, who could 00:53:04.498 --> 00:53:12.350 - be identical with the murderer according to their entire arrangement. 01:53:54.786 --> 01:54:01.705 - story worthy of Peter Laurie, perhaps because it involves him. The hillside strangler who terrorized 01:54:01.705 --> 01:54:08.966 - Los Angeles some years back used to pose as a police officer to lure young women into his car. One night, 01:54:08.966 --> 01:54:16.022 - cruising the Sunset Strip, he targeted a potential victim. When he asked for her ID, his standards set 01:54:16.022 --> 01:54:21.502 - up, he found a picture in the woman's wallet of a little girl and Peter Laurie. 01:54:22.466 --> 01:54:30.306 - Turns out this woman was Peter Laurie's daughter. We know this story for only one reason. The hillside 01:54:30.306 --> 01:54:37.993 - strangler decided to let this victim go because he admired Laurie as an actor. The moral? Walk slow, 01:54:37.993 --> 01:54:41.342 - breathe deep, and treat yourself real good.