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What we're going to see now is something really sensational.
I think we should put Beale back on the air tonight and keep him on.
- I want you to get up right now, get up... - Stay with him.
What the fuck's going on, Howard?
...after taking into account $110 million...
...a sick, sick, dying, decaying, political concept writhing in its final pain.
...a hostage of would-be assassins.
Wake up, Max, because Howard's gone.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
...the Communication Corporation of America.
But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us.
Some of them counsel their clients by use of tarot cards.
I don't know what to do about the depression...
It's the single, solitary, human being that's finished.
He calls himself the Great Ahmed Kahn and wears a hussar's shako.
And on September 22, 1975, he was fired...
I'd like to hear some more opinions on that.
Thank you, Max.
...birds, all the animals of the world...
How are we handling it?
...in which all men will hold a share of stock...
That's not the one that kidnapped Patty Hearst?
I'm mad as hell!
In fact, it'll make a hell of a kickoff show for the season.
He said, "Tune in next Tuesday. I'm gonna shoot myself."
...it was foundering with less than 7 percent of national television revenues...
I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and my kids.
DIANA: Have you still got yesterday's overnights?
And she does all this with tarot cards?
...that volatility in business usually reflected bad management.
Hey, that sounds pretty good.
So I figure a year, maybe two, before you crack up.
This network may well be the most significant profit center...
"I'm taking our one hit show off the air"?
...of a national television network are sitting around their salads--
And starring the Mad Prophet of the Airways, Howard Beale!
I'm gonna announce projected earnings for this network...
The Beale Show Q score's down to 33.
The Communist Party believes...
...creating political confusion with wildcat violence and pseudo-insurrectionary acts...
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING AND AUDIENCE CHEERING]
"I Thought It Was A Transient Thing, Blow Over In A Week."
[PHONE BUZZES]
...and that the reorganization of the division...
Give a BIG hand!
...the towering and most profitable center...
I apparently have a masculine temperament.
All right, Diana.
...is "dehumanization" such a bad word?
[ALARM CLOCK BUZZES]
So he wants Howard Beale on the air and he wants him kept on.
In his time, Howard Beale had been a mandarin of television.
Terrific, Max! Maybe you can start a whole new career as an actor.
- Who are you talking to, Herb? HERB: WCGG, Atlanta.
...based on the Ecumenical Liberation Army. And I'll tell you right now...
...$10,000 a week in order to turn in authentic film footage...
You're his goddamn agent. I'm counting on you to talk some sense into the lunatic.
Goddamn it, I spoke to John Wheeler this morning...
I'm good at my work. So I confine myself to that.
So I'd like you to stay on, Max.
Mr. Jensen wants to meet Howard Beale personally.
Four hours ago, I was the sun god at CCA.
Go to your gurus.
WORD! 8'oclock
Hmm.
I would describe his position on this as inflexible.
And Walter says we'll all wind up in federal prison.
...all ages, colors, creeds.
Bob McDonough in News, please.
So tomorrow, Howard goes back to the old format...
Sure.
He says, "Don't do it, buddy.
...and to get production rolling on the shows for the coming season.
...for the assassination of Howard Beale as our opening show.
Walter Cronkite, Harry Reasoner, Hollenbeck, Bob Trout.
- Is that you, Howard? - Mm-hm.
...by a terrorist group called the Ecumenical Liberation Army.
Petrol dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars.
They won't tell you, they won't tell the Senate...
...that the most pressing political necessity today...
MFW Gf
Sooner or later, with or without you...
It's a nation of some 200-odd million...
I'll make you some coffee.
He's been funny as hell. Had everybody cracking up at the rundown meeting.
We'll see.
See, we're paying these nuts from the Ecumenical Liberation Army...
NBC's got Little House on the Prairie. ABC's got The Bionic Woman.
knew only matter Time!
What are you talking about?
[MEN LAUGHING]
I'll see you then.
You bring up all your ideas at the meeting tomorrow...
...and the oil crisis, but first get up out of your chairs...
Want to come take some coffee orders?
I just ran out of bullshit.
...for 90-minute or longer television programs."
[TONE DRONING]
And tonight, another segment of Vox Populi.
And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy.
After this show, you could have 50.
MAN 1: I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!
...I would like to announce that I will be retiring from this program...
Trek BBs, too.
[DIANA LAUGHING]
I don't want this grotesque incident to interfere with that.
It is a shattering and beautiful sensation.
I'm Laureen Hobbs, a bad-ass commie nigger.
You hung around until 7:30 and then came all the way down here...
This tube is the most awesome goddamn force...
Ha, ha. I'm not.
Oh, I wouldn't rule that out entirely.
I don't mean that the United States is finished as a world power.
We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer...
And I won't have it! Is that clear?
...and even to some great unseen living force.
I'm in love with her.
It's that bunch of nuts. She's in the movie shooting off machine guns.
Yes.