No Identity

Year Published: 1953

Country of Origin: United States

Description: 16mm Film - No Identity - USA 1953 Directed by: Robert Florey Written by: John Bagni and Gwen Bagni Cinematography by: George E. Diskant Music by: Leon Klatzkin Starring: Hugh Beaumont, Myra Marsh, David Niven, Frances Rafferty, Tommy Rettig, Mack Williams Mitch Carver (David Niven) befriends and eventually adopts an orphan boy (Tommy Rettig). Mitch's wife (Frances Rafferty) is pregnant with their first child, and she treats the boy as a threat to the natural family that she wants to have. (TV-series "Four Star Playhouse", Season 1, Episode 13, aired March 12th, 1953 in the USA)

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foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] you're playing possum down there why don't you go where they're biting I can't darling I got too much to do what but I got to cut the grass one thing I have Billy what's his name down the street do it I really should finish up cleaning out the closet okay very sloppy housekeeping your bath and bring home my dinner and you can leave them I can't I have too much to do but hold my hair and your mother's coming for dinner as far as I never did like the fish anyway no she told me what about all the time you spent fishing before we got married I had to catch you some way yeah pretty sneaky female you know that fun what did I ever do without you you fished of course foreign [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh Johanna father Ronaldo's boys please don't make me go back they mistreat you there I don't want to talk about it okay okay everyone but if you change your mind don't forget I'm a lawyer what could you do you gave her away she wasn't even two years old yet but he gave her away my baby [Music] I don't cry so I'm I'm crying yeah see did you ever see a fly like that one before believe it or not I call him eight pound tribe for that once honest I can try your luck with it sure well I've got a lot of interesting plays you might want to say I'm a I'm a fly collector come on I'll show you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] that's here about Ronaldo yeah oh Tom you're back travel and big ones too you better get them out to the kitchen get them clean but I haven't for supper aren't you gonna tell father something I was going around but he stopped me my name is Carter sit down hey I hope you don't mind my chicken fishing we don't have time to have what we like for the kids I enjoyed it probably more than he did where is it might be there is everything on the place where did you uh find Tom don't know the stream he seemed really broken another but he's just convenient adopted it uh it wasn't his sister Mr Carver it wasn't his assistant but he said I know his baby Poor Tom he lost so much to be part of a real fat oil I don't quite understand it it wasn't his sister what baby it is he's so upset about losing every time we got a baby in here Tom attaches himself to it I suppose the psychologist would say that he was trying to create a family for himself to compensate it's always the fat little deviled ones they want okay but he'll make the grade you're pretty keen on him aren't you I'm keen on all my kids but I feel that Tom belongs to me more than the others how do you mean what is the only child we have here at the mom who came to us with no identity you know identity you mean you don't know who he is or where he came from no no I didn't he was abandoned in a church it was Saint Michael's day so I named him Thomas Christopher Michael well I better get these peas out of the kitchen or the cook will be down my throat come see this again Mr Carver I will fly you bet I will but we've only been married a year what will people say they'll say the Carvers are crazy but who cares oh wait you're seeing them you eat your heart up but she's a funny looking little guy all eyes and you're kind of skin every mother you don't seem to understand darling I plan to have a family of my own I want my own children to have a dozen if you want to but this is different let me bring him home you'll see him he'll be crazy about you look couldn't we just help him why are you so sad on adopting him because he doesn't know who he is or where he came from oh that's it [Music] I know how the kid feels darling wondering who he is and what his folks were like I wonder the same thing about myself a million times still new once in a while who and why I was before 1918. please Mitch I don't know how to fight that kind of an argument but why I find it let me bring him home it's unfair of you to put me in a position your father was wonderful to you thinking you what the way he did but you must admit he took an awful chance what do you mean a chance well you turned out fine but how did he know when he picked you up what you turn out to be but he didn't but he found me he didn't ask me any questions just when I was three years old and starving she only took a chance he took a chance till the day he died it was the kind of guy he was more heart than sense I can't take this boy Mitch not even for you don't ask me I just can't well I guess you can't no one ever gave me the idea you could you had to have guarantees I'm afraid out a little early yeah [Music] [Applause] yeah my son beating you again I'm afraid I'm the heavy [Music] how are you well you're getting good study visitor I'm just looking for Tom I think he's outside of the barn the boy's just finishing up their outside Choice good thanks Mr Carver yes I was getting very attached to you it's mutual is it what do you mean every week Tom looks forward to seeing you with greater anticipation I don't know what's going on in your life but don't make a back street out of the boy if you're not going to adopt him don't torture him it's false fault you mean don't see him anymore or you've been taking fishing today he's coming on there but after that well we'll see [Music] [Music] just look up at the clouds yeah times you can count then kind of wonder where they're going and then you shut your eyes real time like this until you can't see them anymore you can still see it on the inside of your eyes that's what they call daydreaming time is that wrong oh no no but sometimes Dave being is getting misleading when you get to wanting things you can't have [Music] the yard gone Mitch I can still see you on the inside of my eyes image okay okay [Music] yes Tommy I've got a boy [Music] you want another one okay well that's Lynn Mitch Mitch the most wonderful thing happened so this is um this is Tom I just had to bring him along hello Tom hello this is Carter are you gonna finish that in the kitchen I'll see you in a minute Benny doesn't look too good right now I didn't have a chance to clean him up he shouldn't have done it much not today I know darling I should have talked it down with you but I thought you just saw him you'd change your mind Mitch I'm going to have a baby a baby some Darlings this wonderful win oh next February oh why didn't you tell me before well I wanted to be sure imagine you're glad glad to tell me about this he's crazy about babies the boy can't tell you how to take him back I can why can't you I just can't that's all explain it to her I just can't take him back and that's that you mean you won't all right then I won't who are you married to Tom and me I told you I didn't believe in adoption but I want my own children not somebody else's and you bring him home anyway I tell you I'm going to have a baby and what do you say you'd be I'm going to be your father you may be the happiest man in the world no you say Tom will be tickled pink foreign [Music] excuse me [Music] thank you I don't want to criticize because you try to make him feel more welcome I'm doing the best I can yes I guess you are what's the matter don't you feel well is that what it is I've always trying so hard to fit in I'm tired they called me over to the school again about it novel teacher says he doesn't do anything right he just doesn't concentrate he's got to get adjusted it all takes time he's been going there over two months so why did you sit down I don't care where the table I can do it done I do love you you know it's like the cutest pink wallpaper today it had little animals all over it pink are you expecting a girl I hope so then up here [Music] what's going on up here and another what are you doing with Thomas things I'm moving him downstairs into the den into the den you can't do that I'm gonna have that boy downstairs alone at night well I'm not going to have him sleeping in my baby's room okay you're not patient enough with that patient it's been six months oh she'll come around in time I don't know what to do I can't take it back to father and nowadays because I have to do something to him that can never be repaired on the other hand I can't raise him here in a family weighs not love oh I know son but you have to think of Lynn's point of view too I try to imagine talking about the baby is her baby not ours someone along the line we gotten off the track we're on different sides of the street and I thought she was more like you well that's just it she's exactly like me like you oh no like I was when I was her age I mean but you talked to me at once you were my stepmother but you never made me feel I didn't wanted the way she's making Tommy for you son I've never told this to anyone before not even your father he died never knowing never know he was and the only reason I'm telling you now is because perhaps it'll help you to understand Linda Mitch I didn't love you in the beginning not at first I have no need to take her past please Mitch it's true but try to look at it through my eyes I was in love with your father and to get him I had to take you and to well you weren't very much to look at you had two teeth out in front of me what clown is he had often but I was just a girl that's just a girl in love I didn't know anything about raising little boys you did a pretty good job for an amateur you don't believe me I don't know I've always believed everything you have done it before next turn around and look at me I just want to remind you that people are always saying that we look alike there's nothing very unusual about that Peter looks like I like you and I not really but when people live together for a long time it happens there's something inside them it gets to be alike they think alike they look alike no I didn't love you at first it took time but I couldn't love you anymore today if you were my own child I think you know that son don't you have the neck white mother you always couldn't put me straight yeah you drive up why don't you hungry mechanic all that stuff come on tell me give me a hand with a loop [Music] if I get too ambitious how do you feel dead you have no idea what 30 women can do to you let's go out for dinner tonight we're gonna be kind father Ronaldo's coming oh Mitch but don't worry about it Tommy and I got the whole dinner under control and let me see these biscuits don't you touch that thank you [Music] look at his hands they're filthy [Music] [Applause] thank you for the dinner I've had the atmosphere was rather strange family misunderstand it before you arrive Mr Carver I think you better bring the boy back to me I'm a father no he's not happy here and he's not wanted you can't break the family to make a family you bring your boy back before everything you have is destroyed let me take it out for a few days all right a few days goodbye good night [Music] are you awake yes and sorry about things I never meant to make you unhappy that's not your fault I shouldn't have tried to force him onto you I tried to like him all right I always get tried I'm gonna take him back when I don't know leading to San Francisco in the morning three or four days when I get back I guess have you told him no tell him in the morning no don't tell him in the morning if you're leaving tomorrow I couldn't face four days of knowing it was going back Mitch why don't we let him stay a little longer only make him more miserable maybe in time I get used to it I know what he means to your life that's not enough he doesn't mean the same to you are taking back [Applause] [Music] hurry up Tom where's Mitch he left early this morning for San Francisco I'll be back in a few days I'm sorry I forgot but I did hang up my towel that's fine but I cleaned behind my ears with my fingernails I'll talk about and put up your lunch hurry up but you won't have much time for breakfast don't you want me to carry that laundry downstairs for you oh I can do it [Music] I don't know [Music] [Music] well Dr Evan's office this is Tim Carver my mother just fell down the stairs he burst in the ambulance [Music] I lost the Carver's office this is Mr Carter's boy yeah Tom you better find my father right away and tell him to get back here you mustn't be scared mother there's nothing to be scared of just like I'm so over you're gonna have the baby and that'll be just wonderful yes Tommy just wonderful [Music] you'll see I'm going to take care of the both of you honest I will foreign [Music] I can't help it she was crying at her awful for Dr Evans she's all right Mr Carter both your girls are all right and they fall didn't no didn't really hurt her she'll have to stay in bed a little longer than usual maybe but she'll be all right he's fine weighed three pounds six ounces pretty big for a premium you might as well sit down be quite a while before you can see it thank you 20 pounds six ounces isn't that awful little no not to not reprinting oh yeah I was so worried about you when they called me I know I should have got you it's a little girl she's an incubator but she's all right I might have known you do things the hard way and that she was so wonderful yeah he's a good doctor oh I mean Tommy he was frightened but he acted so grown up he treated me as if I was a child where is he easy [Music] no time are you all right yeah okay Mrs Connor I'm sure glad what did you call me Mrs Carver that is what you called me when I fell down the stairs is it you know remember what you call it I called you mother that's right I love it don't you ever forget it okay don't you know so much about children why don't you get the nurse to show you a little sister because your mother and I don't know a damn thing gee gosh [Music] you sure you want it this way I'm sure you won't regret time I know it yeah it's done we'll have a built-in babysitter foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music]

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