- Good morning. - Good morning, Mrs. Loomis.
♪ Walks in the park on a summer day ♪
♪ Lilac and lavender in sachet ♪
♪ Sunday's with your friends ♪
♪ Sweet ladyfingers and English tea ♪
♪ Lilacs embroidered in organdy ♪
♪ Day's of let's pretend ♪
♪ John Philip Sousa and parfait Junes ♪
♪ Phosphate and needlepoint afternoons ♪
♪ Sassafras Sunday's with all your friends ♪
♪ Horses and carriages coming soon ♪
♪ Guests in the parlor this afternoon ♪
♪ Ladies, gentlemen ♪
♪ Moments the calendar can't erase ♪
♪ Everything properly in its place ♪
♪ Sundays, please, don't end ♪
♪ John Philip Sousa and parfait Junes ♪
♪ Phosphate and needlepoint afternoons ♪
♪ Sassafras Sundays with all your friends ♪
Just wait right down on the sidewalk.
Just wait right there.
Can you move it along?
We're a little late.
There you go.
All right, now, everyone wait right here.
No, no, we haven't got time for that now, come on.
It's time to get on the bus.
Here we go.
We haven't time, dear.
On you go, come on.
I can't go.
Come on, we have a lovely room waiting for you
- in a nice, clean building. - I can't go!
- We told you all about it. - I can't go!
Mr. Higgins, it's time to go.
There, that's right.
You'll like it, I promise you.
It's me, Mattie.
Can't hear yourself think in here!
I saw them moving the people out down the street.
They'll come for us tomorrow.
You think just because I don't go out
that I don't know what's going on.
You're mistaken, I do.
They'll come for us tomorrow, won't they?
I don't want you to worry.
My father owned 14 buildings.
This is only one of 14 buildings
my father owned in this neighborhood.
He wouldn't let something like this happen.
That was a long time ago, of course.
Things were very different then.
People respected us.
We were very elegant here.
Well, not so very elegant, but it was nice.
Everyone with his own house, curtains at the windows,
and flowers in the back.
I remember how it was.
There's always dirt now.
That's a fine new building.
This neighborhood's looking up.
There'll be elegant people here again.
You like that noise?
No!
Mattie, what are we gonna do?
Hey, you got something for me, Granny?
Somebody call a doctor?
What for?
Better bring the sack.
I'm calling my men off!
You tell him!
We got nothing but trouble on this job!
And another thing, we're gonna have
a whole day off for the funeral.
Why isn't anyone working?
I've called them off.
Cable snapped.
Tomorrow, when your men come back, rig it double-strength.
I never heard of one of them cables
breaking like that, Mr. Crawford.
I never have, either.
You keep your mouth shut.
I want those men back.
I don't want any more delays on this job.
It's me, Mattie.
There's been an accident.
A man was killed.
I'd just given him some prunes.
It was his own fault.
He was riding up on one of those steel beams.
You're not supposed to do that.
I've watched them, they never do that.
They've stopped working.
Yeah, I know, isn't it wonderful?
Listen how quiet it is.
I think I'm gonna paint the trim out front, Mother.
What for?
The paint's beginning to flake.
I just noticed it today.
But why paint a building that's coming down next week?
Don't you know they stopped work over there?
Don't that mean anything to you?
Maybe they won't come here at all.
A man was killed today, Papa,
over where they're building the new skyscraper.
He fell.
I could hear him screaming from here.
I never heard anything like it.
It must be terrible knowing you're gonna die
in just another few seconds.
I don't suppose there was much left of him.
I'm sorry, I know that's no sort of conversation
for the table, but I thought you'd be interested.
You see, Papa, after the accident,
the other men refused to work any more.
They all went home.
And, oh, Papa, maybe we won't have to move
out of her home.
It's me Mattie.
Mind if I sit down?
Good to see you happy again.
I'm practically moved in here.
He said it would only be a temporary dislocation.
Those were his words, temporary dislocation.
A month or two, and out we go,
flying off to our dream castle in the sky.
Temporary dislocation?
That was 40 years ago.
All the times we planned on moving out of here,
always looking forward to getting out.
Now, all I wanna do is stay.
Are you Mrs. Loomis?
Yes.
That your husband outside?
Yes.
Doesn't he know you're moving out of here?
Yes, he knows.
What does he think he's doing?
It's hard for him, Miss.
He's been super here for so long,
it's like it was his own place.
He must've painted every inch at least 10 times over
in the past 30 years, and fixed all the pipes,
and changed the wires.
He won't have nothing to do if he has to go.
We've lived here so long.
You can't live here any longer.
The building's coming down.
This is your relocation notice.
Oh, hello, I'm glad to see you.
Please, come in.
I'm afraid things seem a little disorganized.
I'll fix a place for you.
Don't bother.
I said don't bother.
But I have to talk to you.
You see, I can't move away from here.
I'm afraid you don't have a choice.
What?
I said you don't have a choice.
You can't stay here.
But it's because of my wife, don't you see?
When she died 15 years ago, I wanted to die, too.
I loved her.
But, then, somehow, I got started on a project of mine.
A book that we'd always kidded each other I'd write.
And, now, you see, this is it.
For 15 years, I've been collecting all these things
and arranging them.
I know where everything is.
These are the makings of my book.
And now, now, I'm starting to put them together here.
I'm sorry, I really don't have time to listen.
No, Miss, please, listen.
You see, it's a book of our memoirs.
We were married for 55 years.
Well, I can't quit working on it now.
If I did that, I'd.
I'd feel I was living for nothing
now that the boss is gone.
The boss, that's what I call my wife.
You can keep on working in the new place.
All this stuff can be packed up and moved.
Packing's easy enough.
It's the unpacking that worries me.
It would take me another 15 years to do it,
and I don't have the time.
Don't you see?
It's not the same thing for me as it is for you.
I really don't have the time.
It's not my decision.
Here's your notice.
You can move out today.
Today?
That's what I said!
You've know the date for weeks.
Mr. Blakely?
Are you?
You have to read this.
I mean, you have to get someone to read it to you.
What is it?
It's your relocation notice.
Where do you expect me to relocate?
We found a place for you.
Yes, I imagine you have,
at double the rent, in a strange neighborhood
halfway across the city.
I've lived here for 38 years.
I know this building, the streets of this neighborhood.
They know me.
I'm too old to learn over again.
I don't want my tenants disturbed.
I'm superintendent here.
They are not your tenants.
No one's paid any rent for months.
We pay the rent.
They send it back.
That's right, they don't want your money,
they want you out of here.
But we've lived here so long.
It's no use, she won't answer.
Is she in there?
She's always in there.
You're wasting your time.
She won't open the door.
She hasn't left that room in 20 years.
I am not wasting my time.
That woman has to move out of here.
I have to talk to her.
I have to give her this.
I'll give it to her.
I have to give it to her myself.
Miss Wilkins?
- That's enough. - Let go of me.
- Leave her alone, then. - Not until she comes out.
She's not coming out.
She's not going.
Neither am I.
Of course you're going.
No, we won't go.
Won't go?
What about the other people on this street?
They went.
We moved out thousands of old people like you.
What makes you think you're any different?
Why should you be given special treatment?
I don't care what anybody else did.
We're not going.
I'll get a court order, I'll have you thrown out.
No, we won't let you do that.
You better not try.
Are you threatening me?
Who do you think you are?
I'm not afraid of you.
Maybe we better just go along.
No!
We're not going!
She's right, get outta here.
Leave us alone.
I'll help you down.
Hey, what's going on in there?
Listen to me, in another few days,
when they're finished putting the steel up over there,
they're going to come here,
and they're going to smash these old tenements down.
Now, if you're still here when they come,
they'll bring the police and drag you out,
and there is nothing you can do to stop them.
You're acting like children.
If you leave now, there won't be any trouble.
You're only hurting yourselves, you know.
Will you listen to me?
I am trying to help you!
Now, I want you to come out of there right now.
Will you listen to me?
Are everybody's lights out?
Yes, they've turned off the gas, too.
There's no water.
I have some candles!
You're all welcome!
I'll get some water down the street.
I got buckets in the cellar.
There's some scraps of wood where the buildings are down.
I'll get some and we can build a fire for the cooking.
I'll help you.
I'll come with you.
Wasn't everybody nice?
It was like a big family, with everyone helping each other.
Mrs. Loomis making a big pot of soup for all of us.
It was just like a time when,
this is really quite good.
Isn't the candlelight pretty?
I love eating by candlelight.
It reminds me of when I was younger.
I keep thinking about that man who was killed.
What?
I keep thinking about the man who was killed,
the one who fell.
Those people don't care about us.
That girl doesn't feel sorry for us.
There's no reason for us to worry
about what happens to them.
All right, lads, here we go,
bottom of the sixth inning.
I just don't like the job.
I mean, the cables are all worn out on the thing.
I mean, it's no good.
The whole job's a bum job, as far as I'm concerned.
You know what I mean, huh?
I don't care for a job like that.
If I could walk off tomorrow, I would, too.
Jesus!
Cut the power, somebody cut the power, cut the power!
- Cut the power! - Hey, I've had it
with his job, I've had it!
Cut the power!
Look out!
All three of them, fried like bacon.
Get me Crawford.
You tell him for me, my men are out.
No, I want Crawford, get me Crawford!
They're out, and they're gonna stay out.
You tell him that.
Would you get the hell off the line
and let me talk to the boss?
They're going home, I want him to know that.
I want him to know that my men are out.
Mr. Crawford, there's been another accident.
Tell him, tell him.
Three men are dead.
Tell him the men are out.
And your building's on fire.
I'm pulling my men, Mr. Crawford.
I'm pulling them right now!
We ain't gonna work here no more!
Our contract doesn't cover getting cooked.
Get me the names of the next of kin.
Yes, sir.
Charity isn't gonna make it right.
My men are out!
This job is closed till further notice.
I want to find out what's going on here.
Who is she?
What the hell are you doing here?
Get outta here!
Are you out of your minds letting an old woman
like that in here?
- Get her out! - Yes, sir.
It's me Mattie.
There's been another accident.
Three men were Killed.
They've stopped working again.
We'll be all right for a while.
Mr. Crawford, that elevator was inspected last week.
Everything was okay.
Nothing like this should have happened.
Mr. Crawford, do you think that maybe
it could be a case of sabotage?
Sabotage, what sabotage?
Everybody's happy on this job.
I got no enemies here.
No, of course not, I understand.
I got no labor problems!
No.
Everybody's been paid off!
What the hell do you think you're doing up there?
Don't you know these buildings are coming down?
Hey, can you hear me?
You got no business up there on that scaffold!
What are you painting this building for?
You live here, old man?
Don't you know everybody's supposed to be out of this block?
All right, I'll have you moved out in the morning.
= Who are you?
My name's Crawford, I own this building.
I own all of this.
Who are you?
My name's Loomis, I'm superintendent here.
Oh, is that so?
Well, you're a good worker, Loomis, I can see that.
If you weren't such an old man, I'd give you a job.
I got a job.
No, you haven't.
This building's coming down!
You're wasting your time here!
How many of you are there in this place?
Look, I got enough troubles without people like you
squatting on my property!
This is a $50 million project!
Tomorrow morning, you're out, all of you, out!
Tomorrow morning, out!
We'll just pack the things you need.
I'll pack.
You bring me the things you want.
What's the matter?
I need all my things.
I want them all.
What's the trouble?
I don't see any trouble here.
There are two more.
Mrs. Spencer.
Mrs. Spencer?
Somebody supposed to be here?
Uh huh.
Miss Wilkins?
Miss Wilkins.
Somebody's supposed to be in here, too?
Did any of you see Mrs. Spencer or Miss Wilkins leave?
I did, I heard them.
They left last night.
I recognized their footsteps.
See, they're gone.
Chances are you'll never see either one of them again.
All right, let's move it, let's get going.
Who is it?
You're lying.
You didn't hear them go out.
Is she dead?
I think so.
Who is she?
Is she the girl they sent from the city?
Yes.
She was coming for me.
Yes.
What if somebody finds out?
We've gotta hide her.
- Where? - I don't know.
The car.
If they find it, they'll come looking for her here.
What are we gonna do?
I suppose I'll have to drive it away.
Can you?
I don't know, I haven't driven a car in 40 years.
What about her?
I think you better come up.
It's all right, please, come in.
Holy Mother of God.
What is it?
Is there somebody dead?
Yes.
Who is it?
It's the girl from the city.
What happened to her?
I think she's been stabbed.
Oh my God.
Who stabbed her?
She came back.
She shouldn't have come back.
You mustn't blame Miss Emily.
She was frightened.
The girl was coming to take her away.
We mustn't let anyone take Miss Emily away.
What are we going to do?
What do we tell the police?
We won't tell the police anything, Mother.
The police will never find out.
We can't have the police here.
Got a lot of room there, Charlie.
It's time for your exercises.
Hey, wait a minute!
Come on.
She's completely paralyzed, ain't she?
Poor thing.
Is she family?
Her parents are dead, I guess.
Oh, it must be an awful burden to the two of you.
I know just how you feel.
Do you live close by?
I get on just fine with sick people.
Maybe I could come help!
I could read to her or just sit with her.
I got nothing to do, and I got plenty of time.
I just like to help people.
Do you really?
It's all right, we did it.
I saw the police outside.
I thought they were going to come in here.
I think they were looking for.
Don't worry, Mother.
No one will ever know what happened.
It's not right.
That poor girl was only trying to do her job.
You be still.
This had to be done.
It's not right!
I don't wanna talk about it, Mother.
Hello?
Hello, Marian?
Is that you, Mother?
Yes!
Oh, well, what do you want, Mother?
How are ya?
I'm all right.
That's nice.
Ernest has been sick a lot.
Nerves, I guess.
It's some kind of trouble at work.
I don't know what it is.
He won't tell me
Marian, there's something I've got to talk to you about.
I want to ask you something.
It's not about money, is it, Mother?
Because if it is, I'm afraid there's nothing
we can do right now.
We've had a lot of expenses we didn't expect and.
We don't need any money.
Then what is it?
There's the doorbell, Mother, what is it?
I gotta go.
Nothing.
I'm sorry I bothered you, Marian.
Don't talk like that, Mother.
It was great hearing your voice.
We gotta get together.
We'll come and see you real soon, okay?
That'll be nice.
You and Pop stay healthy.
- We will. - Bye.
Goodbye.
We can't stay here.
Why not?
Don't you remember what that girl said?
She said when they finish over there, they'll come here.
How can we stay here?
Well, they haven't come yet, Mother.
To the steel and concrete of the Crawford Center!
Father!
Who are you?
What do you want?
I wanna talk to you.
Go ahead, talk.
Not here.
Come with me.
Come where?
Not far.
You come with me.
You better come with me.
It's important.
In here.
Come on.
This way.
It's all right, come on.
It's important, come on.
Come on.
Oh, no, no!
Don't just stand there, let me down.
What do you think you're doing?
What do you want?
We want our building back.
This is my building!
It's our home.
I saw what you did.
Spent your time painting a condemned building.
What an idiot trick.
You mustn't talk that way to him.
What's the matter with you, old man?
You getting soft in the brain?
These old buildings are coming down.
There's nothing you can do about it.
Let me down, let me down!
All right, all right.
Let me down, and I'll find you a better place to live, okay?
In the new building, with built-ins, garbage disposals.
How about that?
No.
We want to live here.
Well, you can't do it!
Look, let me down, or I'll have the police on you!
I'll have you all in jail!
Jail?
I'm 79 years old.
Do you really think they'd put me in jail?
And, even if they did, what difference would it make to me?
He's right.
We really don't have much to lose.
All right, you can have your building.
You can stay here.
Let me down.
I give you my word.
I don't believe him.
Neither do I.
Goddamn you, let me down!
I don't give a damn how old you are,
you won't get away with this!
I won't give you a thing!
I'll get you all!
What right have you to get in my way?
You're nothing but a worthless bunch of senile, old fools.
Let me down.
I hope they put enough lime in it.
What's this?
- It won't go back. - Well, there's only
one thing to do.
Mr. Crawford?
Are you up here, Mr. Crawford?
Is there anything we can do for you, Mr. Crawford?
To the bricks and mortar of 522 South 24th Street,
and to the flesh and blood of those who call it home.
Forgive us our sins.
What good did it do, putting that poor man in the wall?
It didn't change anything at all.
They came just the same.
I'll never be able to forget his eyes,
and the sound he made when he.
Be quiet, Mother.
I'll never be able to forget it.
Have you lost your way home again, dearie?
She gets confused sometimes, Officer.
I'll see she gets home.
Come on, dearie, come on.
Everything's going to be all right.
What are you trying to do?
Don't you know what will happen to us if anyone finds out?
I don't care!
What about your husband?
Don't you care what happens to him?
If last night had never happened,
everything would be all right.
They'd forgive him for helping you hide that girl's body.
What about the other times?
It isn't just last night, you know.
Those accidents around the construction,
they weren't accidents at all.
We did them.
Your husband and Mr. Blakely and me.
There are six people dead,
and there'll be more if someone gets in the way.
Do you understand me?
Mother!
Where are you going?
I don't know, I've got to get away from here.
You told me no one else would get hurt.
It was an accident.
All we wanted was to stop it working.
Doesn't make sense.
Don't you see you can't stop them?
Do you really believe that they won't smash
this old building down like they have all the rest?
But they're not working now, Mother.
Listen.
We can stay here a little while longer.
No.
It's no good here any more.
Don't you see it'll never be the same again
after the things you've done?
I don't wanna stay here anymore.
I've got to get away from here.
Let me go, please.
I'm sorry.
Mother, Mother.
Greta, wait!
I'll go with ya!
Greta!
Mrs. Loomis!
Is Mrs. Loomis badly hurt?
She's alive.
Mrs. Loomis!
She should have a doctor.
No.
Mrs. Loomis!
If a doctor came, he'd take her away.
Why take her away now?
Mrs. Loomis!
It's me Mattie.
Let me in.
Is she dead?
Not yet, but she's dying.
I want to talk to Mr. Loomis.
Don't be crazy, you keep your mouth shut!
Miss Emily, may I speak with you?
Miss Emily, can you tell me what happened?
Mother.
I don't wanna leave you.
I'm sorry.
I don't want to go away and leave you alone.
I know what'll happen to you if you're left all alone.
I'm afraid.
I don't wanna go away.
I don't wanna leave you.
I wanna stay with.
What did you want to say to me, Miss Emily?
Did you kill my wife?
I saw you at the window.
Leave her alone, she's frightened.
I'll take care of her.
What?
What did you want to tell me, Miss Emily?
Hey, where do you think you're going?
What were you gonna tell Mr. Loomis?
What were you gonna tell him?
You were letting them blame me!
They would have forgiven you!
You killed her with Papa's ashes.
I was gonna tell him the truth.
I did it for you!
- No. - I did it for you!
Just like always, everything I've done has been for you!
How could you have lived all these years
if it hadn't been for me?
I never asked you to take care of me.
Someone had to take care of you.
You wouldn't go out of your flat!
You wouldn't let me go out.
That's not true!
Mr. Loomis!
Look out!
You killed my wife, didn't you?
You heard what the man said, keep moving.
She did it, didn't she?
She killed her with Papa's ashes.
I said keep moving!
What did she ever do to you?
Why did you do it, why?
What did she ever do to you?
Not to me, to us!
She was frightened, she was running away,
she would've told someone and spoiled everything!
I had to kill her!
It's not like she was the only one.
But she was one of us.
The others were different.
It doesn't make any sense if we start killing each other.
You had no right to kill Mrs. Loomis.
No!
You be careful.
I killed the old man, too.
I'll kill any of you if you don't let me alone.
The what?
- You're kidding. - No.
Coffee?
Hey, what's the idea?
What's the idea of sitting down at a table
if you don't want anything?
She was gonna tell somebody.
I had to kill her.
That's why I killed her because she was.
Why don't you watch where you're going?
Is she all right?
Can I help?
I think she's all right.
Nothing broken is there?
Nothing the matter?
We'll take care of her.
Get me out of here.
We need a place to stay.
You're wasting your time here.
I got plenty of space, but they're tearing
this building down in a couple of months.
Didn't you see the sign out there?
We've been condemned.
They're tearing all these flats down.
Gonna build big apartments for rich people.
We don't know where we're gonna go.
Why should we go anywhere?
Why do you let them push us around?
Why can't we fight back?
We've got as much right here as anyone else.
Oh, be quiet.
I'm sorry, you're wasting your time here.
We got our own troubles.
I think we'll move in for a while anyhow.
Maybe we can help.
It's me Mattie.
♪ Walks in the park on a summer day ♪
♪ Lilac and lavender in sachet ♪
♪ Sundays with your friends ♪
♪ Sweet ladyfingers and English tea ♪
♪ Lilacs embroidered in organdy ♪
♪ Days of let's pretend ♪
♪ John Philip Sousa and parfait Junes ♪
♪ Phosphates and needlepoint afternoons ♪
♪ Sassafras Sundays with all your friends ♪
♪ Spider-lace curtains and silk brocades ♪
♪ Parasol, pianos, and promenades ♪
♪ Fun days once again ♪
♪ Tiffany memories and spring bouquets ♪
♪ Neighbors you care about, friends you made ♪
♪ Days of innocence ♪
♪ John Philip Sousa and parfait Junes ♪
♪ Phosphate and needlepoint afternoons ♪
♪ Sassafras Sundays with all your friends ♪