Winning

It's the Californian, Frank Capua,

car number 25, with more than one lap to go

seems to have this race in the bag.

About 150...

He's in trouble.

He seems to be out of gas. Heads for the pits.

What a tough break for Capua who has run this race...

Hey, Frank, get worried. You're going to blow $12,000 out there.

Go.

- Go? You mean out there? - Come on, move!

Turns as they go out on the bridge!

It's Capua by the narrowest of margins turning right behind number 83

with less than four miles of racing to go in this Redburne 200,

a $50,000 automobile race with 12,000 to win!

And Erding makes a bid for that 12,000 on the inside.

Now again on the outside!

You kept looking at my hat. I just wanted to say I'm not a fireman.

Well, you look like a fireman.

It's the hat.

I'm the guy who won the race today.

Well, I knew you didn't look like any fireman I knew.

I also won $12,000.

And a fireman's hat?

The fireman's hat was a gift.

And I always wanted one of these.

Beautiful.

- Elora? - Yes.

Started out as Ellen Sue until I was 14.

No, I'm not married.

- It looks like a wedding ring. - It started out to be one too.

I'm free and easy.

Say, listen, why don't I rent a car?

Because you're drunk.

Listen, if I wasn't drunk I wouldn't want to rent a car.

Well... So...

Because I are drunk and you ain't, why don't I...?

Why don't I rent it and you drive it?

I think you should. I don't think you should every day,

but considering the circumstances,

I don't think it would be wrong if you said yes today.

What's the matter?

Just exactly what circumstances did you have in mind?

'Cause I won the race.

Thank you.

Come on.

You know, I've got a son who's five-foot-six and a half inches tall.

- How long were you married? - Three years.

Summer vacation this lake is full of kids from morning until night.

In heat waves the whole town comes out here to breathe.

This where you always come?

With men?

I understood you.

- Where are you from? - Santa Monica, California.

- Is that a big place? - Yeah, it's big enough.

It touches Los Angeles.

Well, Redburne's a little place.

People in Redburne talk just to have something to do.

And I live in a house with my mother and my son.

So when they talk about me, it reflects on them.

I just wanted you to know I'm not easy.

OK.

I came out here because I like you,

and I just wanted the chance to tell you.

Ma?

Good morning.

I'm sorry I had to wake you up, but I didn't want you to worry about me.

Yes, I am.

Ma, will you stop scolding me, please. I'm not ten years old.

I don't know.

Listen, let's just don't argue about it. It doesn't get us any place.

Ma... Ma, listen. Charley has a dentist appointment on Thursday.

Would you make sure he gets there, please?

No, no, no. I'll talk to him later.

Mother, I am not leaving Avis in the lurch.

I was just putting off my vacation until Mildred got back.

Yes, I will... No, I... I will be in touch, I promise.

I love you too.

And don't forget about the dentist appointment...

Thinks I'm five years old.

Well, I'm all yours. At least for the time being.

Let's go visit an ocean.

- Atlantic or Pacific? - Pacific.

California, here we come.

- What is that? What? - It's a sand crab.

Now, that's a free way to live, isn't it?

I wish Charley could see that. He'd go out of his mind.

- Where'd you go? - What?

Sometimes I'm talking to you and you just disappear.

I have a feeling I'm talking to nobody.

Floyd used to do that.

He was the boy I was married to.

- Come on. - What?

I want to show you something.

- Well, what? - I grew up in that house.

- Really? - I had this bicycle.

They wouldn't let me ride in the street until I was eight, just to the corner.

Well, driving in the street is dangerous.

- Where are we? - Oh, help. No, no.

We are averaging 52.68 miles an hour,

and we are exactly 35 and a half miles from checkpoint A.

Thataway.

No?

Oh, dear. Well, back to the old drawing board.

What am I suppose to give him? Oh, the... Yeah.

You fellas are in the wrong place.

This lady says you'd be 35 miles back thataway.

Sorry. Oh, wait! You forgot the...

I love you.

Charley, I am not responsible to you for my comings and goings.

I will be home tonight.

Well, of course I miss you.

Would you please hug your grandmother for me and I'll see you both tonight.

You see? Here's why you walk it.

You hit one of these on a curve and...

They weren't here last year.

Why don't you bring him here,

instead of going home?

What I'm trying to say is

that, if I marry you, I think he ought to be here for the wedding.

I've been thinking about it.

Hey, Frank.

- Is that your lady? - That's her.

Lou Erding. Congratulations.

Beautiful.

How are you?

- I brought you my oldest and my best. - Your only.

My oldest and my best and my only.

- How are you? - Pleased to meet you.

OK.

You'll have a lovely weekend, be nice to each other.

And... I'll be out at the beach in case you need a referee.

OK, I'll have him back on Monday.

Goodbye, darling.

I lied about your age. I told them you were 18.

Eighteen?

He's OK.

- That your car? - That's it.

It's welded. You gotta get into it like this.

Go ahead.

- It's OK? - Yeah.

All right.

What do I call you?

I guess you call me Frank.

Charley.

Charley.

The pass has been made by Frank Capua, number 56,

for a narrow command, having passed up number 92,

the last leader, Jimmy McElreath.

Tremendous contention as they come around...

- You all right? - I'm OK, I'm OK.

Roll me back over.

Open the gas tank. Get it clear. Get some air in there!

- Come on, Frank. Let's get out of here - Get your hands off me!

Does it bother you for me to be here?

No, it's all right.

Why don't you go to sleep?

When I was about nine, or maybe ten,

for a couple of years I was scared of the dark, you know?

My grandmother used to get mad 'cause I slept with the light on all night.

So I finally got a flash light and turned it on under the covers.

What were you scared of?

I never really knew.

It went away, finally.

Just like the car lights.

They come in and go across the ceiling and down the wall...

...then they disappear.

Where's your father? Do you ever see him or hear from him?

No, he just took off when I was a kid.

When your mother and me get married, I want to adopt you legally.

It'll be a whole family, and you won't be left out belonging to somebody else.

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Congratulations, Mr and Mrs Capua.

- Capua. - Oh, no!

That's fine. I think you look great.

- Honey, honey! - Thank you very much.

Congratulations!

I want to kiss the bride!

- How are you? - Congratulations.

All yours.

Check me out?

Sport, you gotta learn to drive this thing by the seat of your pants.

Charley is as happy as a kid with a new dune buggy.

Yeah.

That was very generous of you, Frank. You are a very generous man.

Thank you.

- Thank you. - You're welcome.

I think this is the nicest one of my honeymoons.

Oh, I don't know.

On a honeymoon, the bride ought to get out of the kitchen.

Yes, but we'd have to take Charley's dentist with us.

What about what's-his-name, did he get you out?

- Who, Floyd? - Yeah.

Floyd took me to Milwaukee on our honeymoon for a week.

We spent the week touring breweries because they give you free samples

and Floyd thought I might acquire a taste for beer.

A hell of a rich taste to acquire on a honeymoon.

I never even acquired a taste for Floyd.

Oh, dear. Poor Floyd.

You know, if the worst problem in your whole life

is that you're alone in a bed in a house,