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NARRATOR: This was the story of Howard Beale...
...and certainly Joe Donnelly in Standards and Practices.
MAN: Well, if Beale dies, what would our continuing obligation...
Well, what do you think?
...and a lot of kidnapped heiresses. This is Mary Ann Gifford.
kiss Lemon buh-bye
That's very commendable of you, Nelson. Now, sit down.
[LAUGHS]
Frank is a corporation man, body and soul.
...we know that democracy is a dying giant...
We're not sitting still for overhead charges as a cost prior to distribution.
...and I can tell you right now that tonight's show will get a 30 share, at least.
Stop selling, Max. I don't need you.
- Are you keeping busy? - Oh, in a fashion.
We were doing a remote from there.
You understand that, don't you?
Bob McDonough will take over the news division...
The popular reaction--
"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore.
Go anywhere you want. Go to a hotel, go live with her, but don't come back.
Will you go back to your wife?
I'm not some guy discussing male menopause on the Barbara Walters Show.
Hell, you're not serious, are you?
...so there better be someone who does know.
...even if he's as mad as Moses.
GIFFORD: You fucking fascist!
Records of that period are fragmentary, however.
...which is suggestively occult, and she could oraculate.
Not as long as I can feel pleasure and pain...
We would not want to produce a television show...
A strip Savonarola, Monday through Friday...
When did Mr. Jensen call?
[SIGHS]
Offhand, I think it was based on a multiple 1975 earnings...
The first one is set in a large Eastern law school, presumably Harvard.
It was a fluke. It didn't work.
BILL: Yeah. This is from a David Susskind thing a while back.
We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true.
Page 22, middle of the page. Subsidiary Rights.
I'm gonna blow my brains out right on this program, a week from today.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
...in his little chair and he's going to say: "That's very good, Frank, keep it up."
Wayward husband comes to his senses...
Don't keep telling me that you're obsessed, that you're infatuated.
We're talking about impermanent, transient, human truth.
Not anymore.
...eleven, 10, nine, eight, seven... MAN 1: Roll VTA.
Clarence? Frank Hackett here.
MAN: Take Tellison. - Listen.
I don't want your pain. I don't want your menopausal decay and death!
I think Joe ought to spell it out for us. Joe?
- Ready, VTA? - Yeah. Okay.
If there's anybody out there...
I think the time has come to re-evaluate our relationship, Max.
WOMAN: Twenty.
...and now they must put it back!
...that is absolutely sensational. Authentic stuff.
DIANA: Next one.
And the driver turns around and he says: "Don't do it, buddy, don't do it.
Why me?
--yesterday for further consultations with his government.
...who was the president of the news division at UBS.
Instead, you sulked off like a child and engaged this network...
- Anybody want coffee? MAN: I'd love some.
The New York Times and The Washington Post...
Last night Howard Beale went on the air and yelled "bullshit" for two minutes...
Did you know there are a number of psychics...
...of negative cash flow from the network.
Yesterday I announced on this program that I was going to commit public suicide.
DIANA: Forty million loss in revenues. - I'll take out a contract.
Suicide of the Week.
I want that show, Frank. I can turn that show into the biggest smash on television.
Another couple of weeks and the sponsors will be bailing out!
DIANA: You mean, they actually shot this film...
They own a chunk of 5th Avenue...
...you'd know a lot more about that, Frank, than I would.
Sure thing, Mr. Beale.
Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats...
...for the rest of your days. You can't piss it away.
I don't wanna be the messenger that has to tell Max Schumacher.
The only reality she knows comes to her over the TV set.
- Well, goddamn, we'll see about that. - All right, take it easy.
And right now, over a million homes using television in this city...
Howard Beale is processed, instant God.
- Listen, Max, I'd like another shot. - Oh, come on, Howard.
I'm sitting here in a goddamn farmhouse in Encino...
Why is it that a woman always thinks...
The whole place has gone crazy.
Certainly Mr. Jensen will.
I'm mad as hell!
You wouldn't believe it.
Because you people...
I see you don't fancy my suggestions.
Max Schumacher.
Here, let me do that.
I just want you to love me, primal doubts and all.
I told you I'd much rather work the Beale Show out just between the two of us.
Mr. Jensen?
And everything you touch dies with you.
I'm going to take you into our conference room.
MAN 2: I'm mad as hell!
I'm not gonna take it anymore. I'm mad as hell!
...that I want angry shows.
Virulent madness.
...all necessities provided...
It was, after all, my last...
...like some penitent drunk?
And our children will live, Mr. Beale...
Son of a bitch, we struck the mother lode!
Sitting in their house and they don't do anything about it.
YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE
Howard, you're gonna spend the night at my place.
In spite of the two attempts...
...who are not buying CCA for themselves, but as agents for somebody else.
I don't see we have any option, Frank. Let's kill the son of a bitch.
...at the annual CCA management meeting.
Sibyl the Soothsayer.
Because all of those Arab petrol dollars...
...twenty downtown pieces of Boston. A part of the port of New Orleans.
- The FCC'd kill us. - Sit down, Nelson.
...known to millions as the Mad Prophet of the Airways...
I want you out of your office before noon or I'll have you thrown out.
I want you to get up from your chairs, go to the phone, get in your cars...
Marty, I'm in a big hurry and you and Charlie are supposed to be negotiating this...