Libeled Lady
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:06:00
Today, I get married!
:06:02
- Well, l...
- Didn't they say I wanted to see you?

:06:05
Say, what is this?
:06:07
Do I own a paper or a lunatic asylum?
:06:09
- You just took the words out of my mouth.
- Mr. Bane, my future wife.

:06:13
Nonsense! I'll be in my office!
:06:15
Get rid of this woman!
:06:17
Take it easy, that's the owner of the paper.
:06:19
I don't care who he is. Nobody talks
to me like a house detective.

:06:22
How do you know
how a house detective talks?

:06:24
Don't you think I read? Where are you...
No, you don't. If you think that you can...

:06:28
Gladdie, darling.
Now, you tell the preacher to wait...

:06:31
and I'll phone you just the minute I'm free,
and we'll get married today.

:06:35
Now, that's a promise.
:06:36
Tomorrow at this time,
you'll be a married woman.

:06:38
I swear to it. Joe, come here.
:06:40
Will you show Miss Benton to a taxi?
:06:43
And this is supposed to be
the happiest day of a girl's life.

:06:46
Yes, ma'am.
:06:50
Why doesn't London answer?
:06:52
I want J. B. Allenbury.
This is terrible, Haggerty.

:06:57
- A mistake like that can ruin...
- What do the lawyers say?

:06:59
An open-and-shut case. Pure libel
and slander. We haven't a leg to stand on.

:07:03
And now, I've got to get on my knees
to Jim Allenbury...

:07:06
a man I fought for 20 years,
never giving an inch.

:07:10
They're ready with London, Mr. Bane.
:07:13
Wait a minute. Let me talk to him.
:07:14
You know how he hates you.
I'll take all the blame.

:07:17
You know nothing,
not even that I'm phoning.

:07:19
- Then if I fail...
- You mustn't.

:07:20
Tell him it was just a mistake.
:07:22
Maybe he doesn't know anything about it.
Only 50 of those papers got away.

:07:26
Hello? Hello, London? Yeah, we're ready.
:07:28
Hello? Hello, Mr. Allenbury?
:07:31
This is Warren Haggerty
of the New York Evening Star.

:07:33
You know the Star?
:07:37
Well, I'm sorry you feel that way
about us, Mr. Allenbury.

:07:41
Yes. I realize that we've
fought in the past...

:07:43
but it's always been a good, clean fight.
:07:45
No. Nothing serious.
:07:47
But the early edition of the paper
carried a little item about your daughter.

:07:51
Not that the item was serious at all,
but I just thought I'd phone you...

:07:55
Yes. Yes, that's it, exactly.
The spirit of fair play.

:07:59
I appreciate that spirit of fair play,
Mr. Haggerty...


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