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Butch Minds the Baby
Screen Directors Playhouse · May 12, 1950 · 29 min · 4,382 words
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RCA Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television, proudly presents... The Hollywood Screen Directors present a Broadway lullaby. Damon Runyon's classic motion picture story, which mines the baby, starring Academy Award winner Broderick Crawford.
Tonight Mr. Crawford re-creates his original, inimitable role of Big Butch. Rodway, guys and dolls, cops and robbers, Damon Runyon, Damon Runyon. He sang it song in the language all at dawn.
Tough guys with soft hearts, and soft guys with tough faces. And what was it? Why it was the biggest game of cops and robbers in the world. What of the robbers was Big Butch? Big Butch.
Hot out of sing-sing on parole. Tell me, cop. It's the position of this garbage can, please you. It pleases me, Butch. pleases me to see you're such a good janitor for this apartment house. Yeah.
Because as soon as you stop being a good janitor, no more parole for keeps. Cop, you talk very tough. And my name is in cop. It's Officer Dennis Devlin. Speak louder. I'm a little deep.
Yeah, you're deep, all right. Speak faster too, I'm busy. Bunch, why don't you give yourself a break. Speak funny or cop I ain't laughing. Hey, what are you looking at, cop? Huh? Oh, that girl.
What's it to you what I'm looking at? That girl wheeling the baby buggy is Miss Susie O'Neill. Nice to look at, ain't she? Yeah, she certainly is. Lives in my apartment house. I take her garbage out.
No, good. Bye-bye, hi. I just had Michael out for a walk. such a beautiful day I wanted to see it all just once. That's a funny thing to say. This Susie O'Neill is a very unhappy dog.
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