Lighthouses in a foggy world:
Henry Connell:Â You’re a nice guy John. I like you.
You’re gentle. I’ve always liked gentle people. Me,
I’m hard.
Yep, I’m hard, but you want to know something?
I’ve
got a weakness. Never guess that, would you?
Well, I have. Want to know what it is?
Star Spangled Banner. Screwy, huh?
Maybe it is, but play the Star Spangled Banner
and I’m a sucker for it.
Always gets me right here. You know what I mean?
John Willoughby:Â Yeah, gets me right back here.
Henry Connell:Â Oh, back there huh?
Well, every man to his own taste.
You weren’t old enough
for the World War, were you John?
No of course not. You must have been just a kid.
I was. I was just ripe and raring to go.
Know what my old man did when I joined up? He
joined up too.
Got to be a Sgt.
And here’s the kick for you.
We were
in the same outfit.
Funny huh?
He was killed John.
I saw him die.
I was right there and I saw it with my own eyes.
Me, I came out without a scratch.
That is, excepting my ulcers…
I should be drinking milk you know.
This stuff is poison.
Tommy?
Barkeep:Â Yes, Mr. Connell?
Henry Connell:Â What do you say, huh?
Barkeep:Â All right.
Henry Connell:Â Yep, I’m a sucker for this country.
I’m a sucker for the
Star Spangled Banner and I’m a sucker for this country.
I like what we got here. I like it.
A guy can say what he wants and do what he wants,
without having a bayonet shoved in his belly.
And that’s all right, isn’t it?
John Willoughby:Â You bet ya!
Henry Connell:Â And we don’t want anybody
coming around and changing that do we?
John Willoughby:Â No sir!
Henry Connell:Â When they do, I get mad. I get boiling mad.
Right now John, I’m sizzling.
I get mad for a lot of other guys, besides myself…
I get mad for a guy named Washington, and a guy
named Jefferson and Lincoln.
Lighthouses John. Lighthouses in a foggy world.
You know what I mean?
Meet John Doe (1941) screenplay
Me too. The actor speaking, James Gleason, fought in the Spanish American war and World War I. Lived patriotism.
Bonus:
Me too…
87,000 new IRS agents added to an existing force of 72,000 will do all they can to put a bayonet it our guts. At first financially, if we’re unlucky, for real. Tyranny always ends with people against a wall, in a ditch or much worse.
JFK,
As they have since FDR, they’ll use those 84,000 Treasury gestapo goons to go after conservative organizations’ tax exempt status.
The IRS has five million bullets.
We have one trillion bullets and 400 million guns.
I love my country.
My country is not the CCP-controlled juntas or Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, . . .
I love James Gleason………thanks!!
I had to look this up. Movies like this are not made any longer. That is a great pity. We are stupidified by popular entertainment instead of being edified by thought-provoking presentation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_John_Doe
PS, I did not recognize Barbara Stanwyck. 😞