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The Great OMalley
Screen Guild Theater · July 8, 1946 · 28 min · 4,672 words
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players in Warner Brothers heartwarming story The Great O'Malley. It stars William Vendix as O'Malley, Anita Louise as Judy, Charles Irwin as Captain Cromwell, and Norma Jean-Nilsen as Barbara.
The Lady Esther Screen Guild Players in The Great O'Malley. In all the years I've been a captain of police, I've never known a man like Jim O'Malley. You've heard of having the book thrown at you. Well, when O'Malley tossed it, you'd be able to feel it.
Chapter and version you that hooked my heart. But when... I'm going to do anything about it, Mr. Policeman. Just to have some bells on my push-a-cart, that's all. Six bells? And all you're allowed is three. That's a city ordinance. Article 12, Section 134.
Och, but that unincosts so much, officer. And I'm not hurting anybody, huh? Drop warnings must be at least six feet above the ground. Yours is only five foot ten. That's a violation of the city code.
And why shouldn't I be shaking out my tablecloth so then poor little sparrows can have some crumbs? Not out the window. It's against the law. Gully, Mommy, you could be arrested. Oh, I talked to the lad lots of times.
I tried to beat some sense into a skull. Tried to make him see that the law was fine. But you had to enforce it with a little heart. Yes, and you can just about imagine what his answer would be.
I'm only doing my duty, Captain Cromwell. My record's okay. Listen, the papers are sniping at us right now. The kind of stuff you pull just gives a mammunition. That's all. I took an oath to enforce the law, sir.
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