:04:02
That car better be here by noon
tomorrow or there'll be fireworks.
:04:07
You say the cutest things.
:04:20
I needed about $290 and I needed
it real quick, or I'd lose my car.
:04:26
It wasn't in Palm Springs,
and it wasn't in the garage.
:04:30
I was way ahead
of the finance company.
:04:33
I knew they'd come
and I wasn't taking chances.
:04:37
So I kept it across the street
behind Rudy's shoeshine parlour.
:04:42
Rudy never asked any questions
about your finances,
:04:45
he'd just look at your heels
and know the score.
:04:53
I had an original story
kicking around Paramount.
:04:56
My agent said it was dead,
but I knew a bigshot who liked me.
:05:02
The time had come to take advantage
of it. His name was Sheldrake.
:05:07
He was a smart producer
with a set of ulcers to prove it.
:05:13
You've got five minutes.
What's your story about?
:05:16
A baseball player, a rookie shortstop
that's batting 347, once did a hold-up,
:05:21
but he's trying to go straight,
except some gamblers won't let him.
:05:25
They tell him
he's got to throw the World Series?
:05:28
More or less. I've got a gimmick.
:05:31
- Got a title?
- "Bases Loaded". There's an outline.
:05:34
Call readers department, find out
what they have on "Bases Loaded".
:05:39
They're pretty hot about it
at Twentieth, except Zanuck's all wet.
:05:42
Can you see
Ty Power as the shortstop?
:05:45
You've got the best man, Alan Ladd.
:05:47
It'd be a change of pace for Ladd.
And simple to shoot.
:05:51
Lots of outdoors stuff. I bet you
could make it for under a million.
:05:56
- Excuse me.
- There's a great part for Bill Demarest.
:05:58
An old trainer got beaned,
goes out of his head sometimes.