Art Gilmore: Narrator
Quotes
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[first lines]
Narrator : Here we have, in the form of Joe McDoakes, a perfect figure of America's tiredest businessman. Joe has toiled faithfully at the office for fifty long weeks, and it's beginning to show on his face. As a matter of fact, it's beginning to show all over, for Joe's underpayed and overworked body has finally given out. And that's just what little Alice objects to.
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[last lines]
Narrator : [after Joe and Alice relocate to a campsite called 'The Last Resort', with the sign also reading 'Welcome'] At last, our little party has found the perfect retreat, and vacation happiness reigns supreme: the angler
[Cheetah is seen fishing]
Narrator : , the hunter
[Alice is seen shooting a bow and arrow]
Narrator : , and the athlete
[Joe is seen lying in a hammock and reading]
Narrator : . Joe has finally found the peace and solitude he deserves. Of course, he had to come nine hundred miles, it cost him almost a thousand dollars; but he got his hammock, his radio, and he's actually finishing "Anthony Adverse".
Joe McDoakes : [reading the last line of the book] 'And Anthony said to Angela, 'Bon sour, moyes petite femme'.'
[happily closes the book]
Joe McDoakes : What sentiment.
Radio Broadcaster : [Joe turns on radio] And for the grand prize on today's quiz program, the first listener who telephones us the last line of that classic novel "Anthony Adverse" will receive one thousand dollars! Go to your telephone now!
Joe McDoakes : [said with self-satisfaction] A thousand dollars? I got the last line right here.
[realizing his ironic predicament]
Joe McDoakes : I got it right here! I got it right here, and no phone! No phone!
[angrily looking at the camera]
Joe McDoakes : No telephone.
