i don't know.
i'll clean that up in a minute.
i'm taking five bucks from your drawer.
a guy in my office is getting married, and i got clipped four bucks for his wedding present.
arnold. i told you about him. the guy with the sick mother.
the rest of the guys are giving him a bachelor party tonight.
i got class tonight.
yes.
no, these bachelor parties get kind of wild sometimes. the whole philosophy is: it's the groom's last night of freedom. so it gets kind of wild sometimes.
well, a bunch of guys get together, they like to tear up the town a little.
i'm not upset about the baby.
i'm not upset about the baby.
well, give me a couple of days to get used to the idea. i'll be all right.
i don't want to go to this bachelor party.
i'm sorry i yelled.
i better get going. kenny's probably waiting for me now. i'm sorry i yelled like that.
i don't think so, kennie.
i got two classes tonight.
these bachelor parties get kind of wild sometimes. eddie watkins is making all the arrangements. he's probably got us lined up with a bunch of chorus girls.
you know eddie.
no, i didn't know willie too well.
helen's pregnant now.
yeah.
when was this?
oh, yeah.
and the cop came over .
frankie, he was funny.
yeah, they were.
boy, i'm bushed today. i was up till two o'clock last night on this thing here. i'm getting to be a nervous wreck. i snarled at helen this morning. i think this whole night school business is getting me down.
neither do i. i thought i was through with it. the plan was for me to quit work and go to college full time and cram through in a year or so. but now we got this kid coming, and helen's going to have to quit her job, and that sets me back where i started from. another five years of this, summers included.
oh, what am i griping about? this is the life i picked out for myself. but it's a grind, boy, i tell you.
hiya, walter.
arnold in yet?
it looks like nobody's going to arnold's bachelor party.
no, i'm not going.
i told eddie last week i couldn't make it. i've got school. eddie's a bachelor. it's all right for him to go rooting around town, picking up girls.
i didn't say that. i just said that if i knew eddie, we'd probably wind up with some of his crazy girl friends.
he's late again.
this isn't for me -- it's for you.
i gave you four bucks yesterday.
i don't think so, eddie.
hey, eddie .
count me in.
what do you want, eddie?
what?
what ? oh, it's a bachelor party -- this guy's getting married.
hey, arnold, enjoying yourself?
i'm with you, walter.
hey, eddie, you should have bought him an ice pack for after tonight.
come on, walter, sit down.
arnold, you're getting married sunday, did you forget?
arnold'll be all right. have a drink, arnold.
walter, what ever happened when you and that tech sergeant from the motor pool got loaded on vanilla extract?
walter, you're crocked. open up the presents -- see what you got.
what?
excuse me. my friend down there wants to know who you are.
indiana. isn't that right, fellers? we're from indiana, right?
we're from the hoosier state, ma'am.
we're from terre haute, and we've come to the big city looking for a good time, and we just don't know what to do with ourselves, ma'am.
we've just come off the ranch there, honey, and we're just raring. is that right, men? are we raring?
we're down here in greenwich village looking for some wild bohemians. do you happen to know any wild bohemians?
i'm something of a poet myself, ma'am. many's the long night in the bunkhouse where i sat by myself and wrote by the flickering light of a kerosene lamp. could i read you some of my poems, ma'am? i know they ain't much, but they're from the heart, ma'am.
i'm sorry, miss. a friend of ours is getting married here, and we're just horsing around.
come on, eddie. i thought you had some movies you want to show us.
eddie, we're married men here.
i'll take a bottle.
hey, you know, you've got a nice place here.
arnold, you're funny.
oh, for crying out loud.
says he -- putting on his glasses.
yeah, it does look like arnold.
arnold, you've got a great career ahead of you.
actor. you could play that part pretty easy yourself.
i don't know -- i think the first one was all right.
what time's it about, anybody know?
okay with me.
well, that's what i wanted to call you about, honey. i think a couple of the guys are cutting out now. i think kennie's going home. but i was wondering if you wanted me home for any special reason.
the party breaking up?
yeah, i think so.
you love your wife, kennie?
i don't feel like going home. are you going? hang around, kennie. it's only about nine thirty, ten.
yeah.  i should have gone to class tonight. i'm paying twenty bucks a credit. the least i can do is go to class.
i take one night off, i can't even enjoy myself. did you know eddie went back to europe?
he was telling me he lived in paris for three months. i'd like to do that!
i'm going to quit. what am i killing myself for?
quit night school. tonight was the first laughs i've had in years. i can't remember the last time i had so much fun. look what i'm missing. i'm making a pretty good living. i can support a wife and baby on what i make. i'm going to quit! i mean it. i'm going to quit. boy, what a time to have a baby.
you ought to meet some of these guys. they're just grinding their lives away. it's an obsession with some of these guys. i mean, what's the point? so i'll go five more years to night school. so i'll get my degree. so i'll get a job as a junior accountant for three years at seventy-five bucks a week. i'm making better than that now. and then it just starts. the cpa exams. by the time i'm fifty, i can start living. at this point, i get a heart attack and an ulcer, and they bury me in the ground, and they say: "that was charlie samson, the man who didn't see a movie in fifty years." why go through all that? i'll quit. i feel so mad right now, you better keep an eye on me, kennie, because i'm going to wind up punching somebody.
what do i want to go home for?
it'd be a profit.
what does that mean?
i'm not looking for another woman.
i'm not looking for any woman.
you're a nice guy, kennie.
wait a minute.  what are you, a wise guy?
i'm just about drunk enough right now to bust somebody right in the nose.
no, i'll stick around another hour or so.
 what for? sit around talking to my sister julie? .
let's go someplace .  let's go to a nightclub.
come on, ken.
 no, i'll kill another hour.  come on, kennie.
okay, i'll see you.
what did you say, arnold?
well, arnold, everybody feels that way before they get married.
no, you didn't, arnold.
sure.
i can't see much in this light, but she looks like a nice pretty girl.
what do you mean, arnold?
well, arnold, even if i knew the girl, i wouldn't answer that question. i may not like her, but she may be fine for you.
it's kind of late for that, isn't it?
what are you scared about?
most of the time, arnold, you don't even see her. you're away working. you come home, she fixes you supper. then one of you washes the dishes. then if you're not tired, you can go to the movies or visit somebody. or you watch teevee.
i don't know what there is to marriage. i suppose it's to have kids.
arnold, i can't answer that!
what's the matter?
ah, leave him alone! he doesn't want to.
ah, leave him alone.
you all right, arnold?
no, arnold.
you want me to? all right. i'll go up with you.
i'll go up with him. moral support.
hey, arnold, you don't have to go through with this.
i'll wait out here for you, okay?
let's go. what's the trouble?
go back inside.  all right, all right.
what happened, arnold?
yeah, i don't blame you, i'd be scared too like this. i don't know why we dragged you up here in the first place. it's a barbaric custom. come on.
no i won't, arnold.
all right, arnold.
it's nothing to be ashamed of.
i won't tell anybody.
no. no. nothing wrong.
cut it out.
lay off.
cut it out, eddie. you keep punching me, i swear i'm going to belt you one.
i don't want to see any other women!
well, don't poke me.
you mess around with other women, it kills your wife and it kills your marriage.
yeah.
what do you say, arnold? you want to go?
come on, walter.
walter, why don't you just quit the job and pack your bags and get out of here?
easy, walter.
yeah.
what did you say, walter?
walter, where are you going? come here .
walter, stay there, we'll come back on the next train. stay there.
walter! .
walter! grab a cab if you're going home!
that's me in fifteen years.
that's where i live.
in the back there. you can't see it from here.
it looks like a prison.
i'm going home.
all right, if you want to walk me to the house, i'll get you ten bucks.
i'll be right out.
i'm taking ten bucks. a couple of the guys are waiting outside. i promised them i'd loan them ten bucks.
tomorrow's payday. i'll get it back tomorrow.
i don't know.
i know. i know.
i don't know what's the matter with me, i keep getting so depressed. i'm going to quit night school, helen. my nerves are shot.
those guys are waiting outside. i better give them their money.
what do you mean? .
isn't that dangerous? .  well, i don't know .  maybe .  well, you brought it up.
i decided i'd quit school and .
i decided i'd quit school and come home in the evenings like everybody else and live a normal life.
i don't care what i do either.
here.
i'll see you.
wait a minute. i'll go with you.
boy, do you get invited to a party like this or do you get committed?
let's get out of here, eddie.
she's over there talking to that old guy with the glasses.
i didn't like her. she's one of these real greenwich village phonies. if i added up all the guys she told me about, she must have had her first boy friend when she was two years old. where are you going, eddie. stick around a minute.
how are you making out?
hang around. let's talk a bit.
where's arnold?
hey arnold-- you okay, arnold?
you have an apartment around here somewheres? what's up there? what kind of rooms are up there?
come on, let's go.
what?
what's the matter?
come on.
come on.
i love you! i love you!
yes, i know.
hey, eddie .
eddie, i'm cutting out.
i don't want to take you away from your girl, eddie.
where's arnold? still in the kitchen?
yeah. i guess so.
yeah.
i think he's just called his girl, broke his engagement.
wake up, kid. help me get him up, eddie.
we better get him home.
it's three o'clock in the morning, for pete's sake.
what a bachelor party. we start out celebrating the guy's wedding; we wind up breaking his engagement. what do we owe you here? eddie, pay it, will you? i gave you the ten bucks.
it's going to take us an hour to get him home. he lives in queens somewheres. by the time i get back to fourteenth street, it'll be daybreak. what are you going to do, stay up all night? don't you want to go home sometimes?
well, go to sleep then.
what? stand around this bar and argue about the yankees and the dodgers? wind up with some miserable, lonely girl who begs you to say, "i love you"? go home, eddie. go to bed. you got to go home sometimes. i'll take arnold home. come on, arnold, kid. i'm going to take you home.
are you all right, arnold?
would you like to go back in and sit down?
what subway do you take, arnold, the bmt? can you make it?
come on, arnold, i'll take you home.
yeah, he's all right. look, i've got to take my friend home.
you all right?
no, i don't think so.
well, you just go in and explain to them that you were drunk, and you're sorry, and you'll call your girl the first thing in the morning because she must really be upset about this.
who?
well, be nice to her, arnold. remember, you woke her up in the middle of the night and probably scared her to death.
i don't know, arnold. what do you feel like saying to her? do you really love this girl? do you want to marry her? are you marrying this girl because your family wants you to marry her, or why?
well, tell her what you told me, arnold. tell her you're scared, and that you don't think you'll make a good husband. if she's a halfway decent girl, she'll try to understand how you feel, and, if she loves you, she's going to make it her job to make you happy. that's what love is, arnold, when you have somebody else in the world you want to be happy. my wife, arnold, i don't know what i'd do without her. arnold, i've got a tough grind ahead of me. work all day, i'll go to night school at night. but my wife knows that i need this to be happy, and she does everything she knows to help me. and we've got a baby coming. but if you love that baby and you love your wife, then it's easy. everything seems so easy to me now -- i don't know why i even thought of quitting. arnold, i want my wife so much right now. i want her to be happy. i want to just go home and hold her and tell her how much she means to me. i mean, even walter, he's going to die, but don't you think he'll be in tomorrow morning, same old walter, jokes and laughs? he's got somebody to live for. he's even got somebody to die for. i mean, how rich can a man be? and poor eddie -- i used to be so jealous of him. i used to think he was so free. free from what? from loving a woman, from really wanting a woman. arnold, what i'm trying to tell you is life is nothing if you don't love somebody but life is wonderful if you do love somebody. arnold, i want my wife so much right now .
arnold, i want to get home so much to my wife right now i'm going to bust.
good-bye, arnold, have a nice honeymoon. i'll see you when you get back.
i love you, helen.
i love you.