What's a helot? You've ever been broke, sonny? Sure, mostly often. you get license fees...
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Beany: What's a helot?
The Colonel: You've ever been broke, sonny?
Beany: Sure, mostly often.
The Colonel: All right. You're walking along, not a nickel in your jeans, you're free as the wind, nobody bothers ya. Hundreds of people pass you by in every line of business: shoes, hats, automobiles, radios, everything, and they're all nice lovable people and they lets you alone, is that right? Then you get a hold of some dough and what happens, all those nice sweet lovable people become helots, a lotta heels. They begin to creep up on ya, trying to sell ya something: they get long claws and they get a stranglehold on ya, and you squirm and you duck and you holler and you try to push them away but you haven't got the chance. They gots ya. First thing ya know you own things, a car for instance, now your whole life is messed up with alot more stuff: you get license fees and number plates and gas and oil and taxes and insurance and identification cards and letters and bills and flat tires and dents and traffic tickets and motorcycle cops and tickets and courtrooms and lawers and fines and... a million and one other things. What happens? You're not the free and happy guy you used to be. You need to have money to pay for all those things, so you go after what the other fellas got. There you are, you're a helot yourself
The Colonel: You've ever been broke, sonny?
Beany: Sure, mostly often.
The Colonel: All right. You're walking along, not a nickel in your jeans, you're free as the wind, nobody bothers ya. Hundreds of people pass you by in every line of business: shoes, hats, automobiles, radios, everything, and they're all nice lovable people and they lets you alone, is that right? Then you get a hold of some dough and what happens, all those nice sweet lovable people become helots, a lotta heels. They begin to creep up on ya, trying to sell ya something: they get long claws and they get a stranglehold on ya, and you squirm and you duck and you holler and you try to push them away but you haven't got the chance. They gots ya. First thing ya know you own things, a car for instance, now your whole life is messed up with alot more stuff: you get license fees and number plates and gas and oil and taxes and insurance and identification cards and letters and bills and flat tires and dents and traffic tickets and motorcycle cops and tickets and courtrooms and lawers and fines and... a million and one other things. What happens? You're not the free and happy guy you used to be. You need to have money to pay for all those things, so you go after what the other fellas got. There you are, you're a helot yourself
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Who's got him
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The heelots
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Who
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Hey there's the City Hall tower
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I'm supposed to jump off of
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It's even higher than this
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Who's got him
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The heelots
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John Doe Woo
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Hey wait a minute
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You're not supposed to jump till Christmas Eve
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Do you wanna get me in a jam
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If it's gonna get you in a jam I'll do you a favor
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I won't jump
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And when they got you
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you got no more chance than a road rabbit
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Hey who'd you say was gonna get him
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Say is this one of those places
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where you ring if you want something
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Yeah yeah just use the phone
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Boy I've always wanted to do this
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Hey Doc look
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Look Doc
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Gimme that again will ya
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Who's gonna get him
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The heelots
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Who are they
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Listen sucker you ever been broke
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Sure mostly often All right
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You're walking along not a nickel in your jeans
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you're free as the wind nobody bothers you
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Hundreds of people pass you by in every line of business
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shoes hats automobiles radios furniture everything
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They're all nice lovable people and they let you alone
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Is that right
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Then you get ahold of some dough and what happens
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All those nice sweet lovable people become heelots
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A lotta heels
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They begin creeping up on you trying to sell you something
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They got long claws and they get a stranglehold on you
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And you squirm and you duck and you holler
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and you try to push 'em away
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but you haven't got a chance they've got you
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First thing you know you own things
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A car for instance
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Now your whole life is messed up
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with a lot more stuff
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You got license fees and number plates
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and gas and oil and taxes and insurance
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and identification cards and letters
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and bills and flat tires and dents and traffic tickets
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and motorcycle cops and courtrooms and lawyers and fines
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and a million and one other things
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Then what happens
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You're not the free and happy guy you used to be
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You gotta have money to pay for all those things
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So you go after what the other fella's got
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And there you are you're a heelot yourself
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Movie Summary
A penniless drifter (Gary Cooper) is recruited by an ambitious columnist (Barbara Stanwyck) to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
