Mark.Twain.And.Me.1991.720p.WEBRip.x264.AAC-[YTS.MX] Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:13,260 --> 00:00:18,180 When I met him, Mark Twain was already famous, recognized and loved by people 2 00:00:18,180 --> 00:00:19,180 all over the world. 3 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,640 I had read Life on the Mississippi, The Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's 4 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:28,200 Court, The Prince and the Pauper, and for the third time, Tom Sawyer. 5 00:00:29,020 --> 00:00:33,660 Mark Twain was soon to become the most important person in my life, but I 6 00:00:33,660 --> 00:00:36,640 realize at the time how much the friendship of an ordinary little girl 7 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:37,640 mean to him. 8 00:01:03,790 --> 00:01:05,870 We should never have come to London for our holiday. 9 00:01:06,330 --> 00:01:08,670 This weather is terrible for your bone cavity, Dorothy. 10 00:01:09,290 --> 00:01:10,570 Mother, I feel fine. 11 00:01:10,910 --> 00:01:13,690 I think I'll sit right here while I arrange for my food. 12 00:01:23,290 --> 00:01:24,290 How she is! 13 00:01:24,970 --> 00:01:26,110 My good man! 14 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,160 May I be of service, Mr. Twain? I hope so. 15 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:39,900 I ** baffled by this thing. 16 00:01:40,420 --> 00:01:41,660 What's it supposed to be? 17 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:43,780 An ashtray, sir. 18 00:01:44,380 --> 00:01:45,380 Is that right? 19 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,500 Well, that's a mathematical impossibility. 20 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:49,680 A fire hazard to boot. 21 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,380 I see the problem. 22 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,180 I shall have something else pent up right away, sir. Good. 23 00:01:57,700 --> 00:02:02,440 I make it a lifelong practice never to smoke when I'm asleep and never to 24 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:03,440 refrain when awake. 25 00:02:04,110 --> 00:02:05,330 Secret of my longevity. 26 00:02:09,750 --> 00:02:10,750 Dorothy? 27 00:02:11,890 --> 00:02:14,250 Do you know who that was? 28 00:02:19,490 --> 00:02:20,970 Oh, have you been out? 29 00:02:21,710 --> 00:02:22,790 96 seconds. 30 00:02:23,210 --> 00:02:27,410 If this is as good a hotel as it purports to be, they'll be up here 31 00:02:27,410 --> 00:02:28,410 three minutes. 32 00:02:30,970 --> 00:02:31,970 One minute. 33 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,400 42 seconds. 34 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,680 Albert, this is what I call a four -star hotel. 35 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:43,440 Here you are, Mr. Twain, sir. Hope this will suffice. 36 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:45,200 It will. 37 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,380 And I thought you might like the morning paper, sir. 38 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:48,880 You're the front page news. 39 00:02:49,180 --> 00:02:50,180 Oh, yeah? 40 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:51,520 What's the matter? 41 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,800 Don't you people have any wars or crimes or scandals over here? 42 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:57,280 No, sir. I mean, yes, sir. 43 00:02:58,980 --> 00:02:59,980 Here you are. 44 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,120 Thank you, sir. 45 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,860 If it isn't too much trouble, I'd rather shake the hand of Mark Twain. 46 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,160 Oh. 47 00:03:08,060 --> 00:03:09,059 What's your name? 48 00:03:09,060 --> 00:03:09,799 Monaghan, sir. 49 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:11,040 Patrick. Clemens. 50 00:03:11,340 --> 00:03:13,360 Sam. Glad to meet you. Thank you. 51 00:03:13,780 --> 00:03:15,720 Thank you, Mr. Clemens, sir. Thank you. 52 00:03:20,420 --> 00:03:21,800 Would you like to get some more work done? 53 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,560 Tell me about the steamship captain. 54 00:03:24,890 --> 00:03:26,290 That's great material for the biography. 55 00:03:26,510 --> 00:03:27,610 Look at that headline. 56 00:03:28,090 --> 00:03:31,610 Mark Twain arrives in England, ascot cuff stolen. 57 00:04:04,750 --> 00:04:07,890 7 .30, Mom. Oh, my goodness, I hadn't realized. 58 00:04:08,310 --> 00:04:11,950 I could go to bed, but play begins in half an hour. 59 00:04:12,430 --> 00:04:14,870 Mother, Mr. Twain just g***t here. 60 00:04:15,310 --> 00:04:18,370 Can I stay just a little longer? No, no, no, go on now. 61 00:04:18,750 --> 00:04:21,930 Bedtime is 8 o 'clock, and I must get to the theater on time. 62 00:04:28,490 --> 00:04:29,750 Good night, dear. 63 00:04:34,380 --> 00:04:35,380 What would you feel like? 64 00:04:36,780 --> 00:04:40,480 You know, Albert, my wife, Libby, used to sing this song to the children when 65 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:41,459 they were young. 66 00:04:41,460 --> 00:04:43,080 Such good times we had. 67 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,860 Sometimes we laughed so hard it'd hurt and we couldn't catch our breath. 68 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,000 Can't remember the last time I laughed that hard. 69 00:04:56,660 --> 00:04:58,060 Are you excited about tomorrow? 70 00:04:59,660 --> 00:05:03,880 Well, I'm just afraid that Oxford is going to realize the enormity of their 71 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:05,520 mistake and call the whole thing off. 72 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:16,360 I give you Dr. 73 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,200 Samuel Van Horn Clemens, Mark Wayne. 74 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,760 Most admirable and charming, sir. You shake the sides of the whole world with 75 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:33,760 your merriment. 76 00:05:34,020 --> 00:05:35,020 Thank you. 77 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,620 Well, I expect most of you read the headline in the newspaper yesterday. 78 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,720 Mark Twain arrives, ascot cup stolen. 79 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,360 No doubt many a person was misled by... 80 00:05:58,190 --> 00:06:02,270 Those sentences joined together in that unkind way. 81 00:06:03,350 --> 00:06:06,330 I can tell you here and now, I never saw that cup. 82 00:06:06,550 --> 00:06:09,650 Somebody else snatched it before I had a chance to. 83 00:06:10,910 --> 00:06:17,150 A few years ago, it pleased me beyond measure when Missouri University made me 84 00:06:17,150 --> 00:06:23,570 doctor of laws because I know absolutely nothing about laws except how to evade 85 00:06:23,570 --> 00:06:24,570 them and not get caught. 86 00:06:26,430 --> 00:06:30,030 Now today at Oxford I'm being made a doctor of letters. 87 00:06:30,990 --> 00:06:33,390 All pure profit. 88 00:06:34,430 --> 00:06:40,270 Because what I don't know about letters would make me a multimillionaire if I 89 00:06:40,270 --> 00:06:41,430 could turn it into cash. 90 00:06:49,630 --> 00:06:50,890 You look tired. 91 00:06:53,550 --> 00:06:56,630 No one should have to give so many speeches in one day. 92 00:06:59,450 --> 00:07:00,770 I'm getting old, Albert. 93 00:07:05,290 --> 00:07:11,410 The last time Libby and I were in England, in a room very much like this 94 00:07:11,470 --> 00:07:18,050 we g***t the cable that our dearest child 95 00:07:18,050 --> 00:07:21,890 Susie died suddenly at home. 96 00:07:22,730 --> 00:07:23,730 She was 24. 97 00:07:27,910 --> 00:07:29,350 Still amazes me. 98 00:07:31,050 --> 00:07:33,230 It's one of the mysteries of our natures. 99 00:07:35,810 --> 00:07:36,810 What is? 100 00:07:38,310 --> 00:07:45,050 That a man all unprepared could receive a thunder stroke like that and 101 00:07:45,050 --> 00:07:46,050 live. 102 00:07:48,550 --> 00:07:49,950 She was such a... 103 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:54,300 Fleet and serious little girl. 104 00:07:56,140 --> 00:08:01,740 How I wish I paid more attention to Susie, Clara, and Jean when they were 105 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,980 But we're always too busy for our children. 106 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:13,600 We lavish gifts upon them, praise them in their absence, but the most precious 107 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:19,440 gift are time and attention, which means so much to them. 108 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:27,820 We give grudgingly and then throw it away on others that don't really 109 00:08:27,820 --> 00:08:28,820 matter. 110 00:08:30,020 --> 00:08:36,400 Then one day, there comes a time when you want your child's company 111 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:42,900 more than anything in the world. 112 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:47,680 But it's too late. 113 00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:58,980 You get some sleep now. 114 00:08:59,940 --> 00:09:03,240 Things will seem brighter when we set sail for home in the morning. 115 00:09:04,860 --> 00:09:10,880 Albert, I'm going to give you two more years. Two years to finish your research 116 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:11,880 for my biography. 117 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:13,720 Why only two? 118 00:09:13,940 --> 00:09:14,980 You'll have to be a hundred. 119 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:16,560 No. 120 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:19,440 I came in with Haley's Comet in 1835. 121 00:09:19,780 --> 00:09:23,420 It's coming again in a couple of years, and I expect to go out with it. 122 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,740 It'd be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't. 123 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:57,420 I've hit upon the best way for you to compile your notes for my biography. 124 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,760 It came to me during the night. 125 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,900 It is the pen that makes things so difficult and time -consuming. 126 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:11,060 I plan to hire a secretary who can do this new shorthand writing, and she can 127 00:10:11,060 --> 00:10:14,020 write it down later, and you can edit it. Good idea. 128 00:10:14,220 --> 00:10:16,140 Yeah. I'm going to go below and do some work. 129 00:10:16,740 --> 00:10:19,440 Are you coming? Nah, you go on. I like the air. 130 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:21,680 All right. But if it turns cold... 131 00:10:22,350 --> 00:10:23,430 You come out of the wind. 132 00:10:24,470 --> 00:10:26,310 You're getting to be an old woman, Albert. 133 00:10:26,730 --> 00:10:27,730 Don't you worry. 134 00:10:28,150 --> 00:10:32,070 I'm too much of an egotist to die before you finish my biography. 135 00:11:25,870 --> 00:11:29,470 Excuse me, young lady, but I don't seem to remember your name....