7th Heaven
1
For those who will
climb it, there is a
ladder leading from
the depths to the heights
- from the sewer to the
stars -- the ladder of
Courage.
2
In the slums of Paris -
under a street known
as The Hole in the
Sock --
3
"Look, Chico!"
4
"That's Monsieur Gobin,
the street-washer."
5
"That's what I should
be, Rat -- a street-
washer! Up there in
the sunshine - among
people --"
6
"After all, you know, I'm
a very remarkable fellow!"
7
"Stop bleating about
stolen goods - take
this and bring me
some absinthe!"
8
"You've come to the
wrong place to spout
religion!"
9
"I bring good news, my
child. After all these
years your aunt and
uncle have returned
from the South Seas -"
10
"- He is rich. They want
to take you and your
sister home."
11
"Dear Father Chevillon,
you have given me
new hope. We will be
ready tomorrow."
12
"My dear Colonel Brissac,
I am astonished to find
my nieces in such a
neighborhood!"
13
"How good you smell -
of sandalwood -- and
fresh linen -"
14
"- You smell of
home!"
15
"Tell me - have you
kept yourselves
clean and decent?"
16
"Oh, yes, Uncle! And
you don't know how
hard it's been - in a
place like this!"
17
"I want the truth -
from you, Diane!"
18
"- If you and Nana
haven't been good
girls, I don't want
you in my home!"
19
"Now we can discuss
this more calmly."
20
"Will you promise
not to abuse this
girl any more?"
21
"If I catch you at it
again, I'll cut out
your gizzard and
fry it!"
22
"You saved her
life, Chico."
23
"It wasn't worth saving,
Papa Boul. A creature
like that is better off
dead."
24
"Don't lie there like
a dead fish and spoil
our party!"
25
"Give me that violet!"
26
"The trouble with you
is you won't fight.
You're afraid!"
27
"Me! I'm not afraid of
anything! That's why
I'm a very remarkable
fellow!"
28
"You believe in God,
in a Bon Dieu who
watches over us -"
29
"Tell me, then! Did He
make this girl to be
beaten and strangled
in the gutter?"
30
"Did the Bon Dieu
make me?"
31
"And that?"
32
"Well - everybody
makes mistakes
sometimes."
33
"Religion - huh! I've
been all through
that. I gave God a
fair test - twice."
34
"First I chose the finest
church in Paris - spent
five francs for candles -"
35
"- I prayed God to take
me out of the sewer
and make me a street-
washer. Did He do it?"
36
"Then I gave him
another chance -
five francs more -"
37
"I prayed for a good
wife with yellow hair."
38
"Bah! The only thing
the Bon Dieu throws in
my way is a creature
like that!"
39
"That makes ten
francs totally
wasted."
40
"That's why I'm an
atheist - God owes
me ten francs!"
41
"I don't believe you're
as bad as you think,
my son."
42
"This is an appointment
as street-washer. It is
yours, Chico, and the
debt is somewhat paid."
43
"And now I am going
to ask you to keep
these -"
44
"Religious medals?"
45
"Don't scorn them,
Citizen Street-
Washer - they may
help you some day.
Who knows?"
46
"Let's have a drink to
celebrate!"
47
"Welcome, Comrade!"
48
"I thank you, Comrade."
49
"With MY knife!
I like that!"
50
"Why did you want
to take your life?"
51
"Because I cannot go
on living this way -
without hope."
52
"Well, if you don't
like what you are,
you're not bad."
53
"You know, I'm getting
sorry for you!"
54
"There I go again!
Always saying the
thing I don't mean
to say!"
55
"That's my sister!
She's no better
than I am. Take
her, too!"
56
"She's my wife!"
57
"Your address will be
investigated. If you're
lying, you'll get in
trouble."
58
"Now why did I do
that? Oh, I am
ruined!"
59
"They'll come to my
house and find I
have no wife. Then
I'll lose my job as
street-washer!"
60
"Couldn't I stay at your
house until the police
come? Then I'd go
away."
61
"You have a great
head!"
62
"You - you have a
great heart!"
63
"Crank up Eloise!"
64
"Optimist!"
65
"Allow me the honor
of presenting you to
Madame Chico, my
good wife!"
66
"Get in before Eloise
changes her mind!"
67
"Remember, you
mustn't take this
seriously. You're
not going to take
advantage of me?"
68
"Make a tour of the
boulevards -- then
home. Tonight I am
the Bank of France!"
69
"Not bad, eh? I work
in the sewer - but I
live near the stars!"
70
"It's wonderful!"
71
"It's Heaven!"
72
"You mustn't be afraid.
I'm never afraid."
73
"Never look down -"
74
"- Always look up!"
75
"I always look up.
That's why I'm a
very remarkable
fellow!"
76
"It's wonderful the
things I feel ---
sometimes I could
reach out and touch
a star!"
77
"Women are all alike -
they try to reach a
man through his
stomach -"
78
"But you can't get
around me. After
the police come,
you go!"
79
"Now that you've
climbed out of the
sewer, Comrade, I
can recognize you
as a neighbor --"
80
"-- Permit me to
escort you to the
hose."
81
"You forgot to kiss
your wife goodbye."
82
"I didn't mean it!
Don't think you
can stay!"
83
"I am a police
detective -"
84
"Is that your wife?"
85
"- if you want to
stay - you're not
in my way."
86
"Chico, I believe in the
Bon Dieu - I believe He
brought you to me."
87
"Don't bother your
head about such
big thoughts. Leave
them to me."
88
"It looks like a
wedding dress."
89
"Don't you want to
marry me?"
90
"But you never said -
you love me."
91
"Couldn't you say it -
just once?"
92
"I can't say it!
It's too silly."
93
"Well, this way then -"
94
"Chico -"
95
"- Diane -"
96
"- Heaven!"
97
"Say it again!"
98
"Say it again!"
99
"Are we going to be
married in church?"
100
"No - certainly not!"
101
"I am an atheist -
I walk alone!"
102
"No religious medals
can frighten me! It's
only a coincidence."
103
"Is it ready - the soup
for my wife?"
104
"I'm not afraid."
105
"I'll never be afraid
again!"
106
"I've said nothing to
the women, but --
it's come, Comrade,
the war!"
107
"Our regiment is on
the first list. We leave
within the hour."
108
"What of my wife -
and the child to
come?"
109
"You're right, Comrade!
We must defend our
homes --- and our
women!"
110
"Diane, I love you!"
111
"At last! You've said
it all by yourself!"
112
"I'm not used to
being happy -"
113
"- It's funny - it hurts!"
114
"Diane - I have terrible
news! Gobin and I
leave at once! War
has come!"
115
"I'm afraid!"
116
"Never look down -
always look up!"
117
"See what you've
made of me -"
118
"I, too, am a very
remarkable fellow!"
119
"How can I leave
you - and now we
haven't even time
for a wedding."
120
"I have it! We will
marry now - here!"
121
"I am an atheist -
but I'll give God
one more chance."
122
"Monsieur le Bon Dieu,
if there is any truth
in the idea of You,
please make this a
true marriage."
123
"I take you, Diane,
for my wife."
124
"I take you, Chico,
for my husband -
forever."
125
"Now we're married."
126
"Madame Chico!"
127
"Hurry, Comrade,
we must be at the
station in fifteen
minutes."
128
"Stand still - don't
move - I want to
see you this way
last --"
129
"- Let me fill my
eyes with you!"
130
"Every day at this
hour - eleven o'clock -
I shall come to you."
131
"Goodbye - Heaven!"
132
"I've been hiding in the
hall till your sewer
man left. So the war's
got him!"
133
"Chico! Chico! I am
brave!"
134
Invading armies --
gray-coated hordes
that stretched half-
way across Europe -
a tidal wave of death
rolling relentlessly down
upon Paris.
135
The enemy's outriders -
scouting ahead of the
advancing troops.
136
"Only thirty miles away
- sweeping down like
an avalanche! Paris is
doomed!"
137
"Sir, the enemy has
crossed the Marne -
our line is in danger!
General Joffre asks for
every man you can
send!"
138
"Commandeer all taxicabs,
private cars, omnibuses -
everything on wheels
with a motor -"
139
"- Order out the garrison
troops - get every soldier
in Paris and start them
to the Front!"
140
"Name of a dog! Get
out! Eloise is too old
to go to war!"
141
"Pigs! For two sous I
would let you walk
to the war!"
142
"It's the guns! They
rumble closer every day.
I pray my husband and
Chico are safe."
143
"They're on our heels!
The whole French
army - in taxicabs!"
144
"Run, fools! No army in
the world can beat the
taxi drivers of Paris!"
145
"My poor Eloise!
She gave her life
for France!"
146
"Colonel Brissac, I
wish you wouldn't
come here."
147
"Listen to me, Diane.
The world is upside
down - ideals, beliefs,
traditions, all in the
discard!"
148
"What do the old rules
matter now? Each day
may be our last. Let
me take care of you!"
149
"Chico fights at the
Front - I fight here in
a munitions factory -"
150
"- We are shoulder to
shoulder - that is all
that matters."
151
"If this war lasts
long enough, I'll
be a general!"
152
"Be quiet! He's talking
to his wife -- every
morning at eleven
it's the same."
153
"Chico -"
[dissolves to:]
"- Diane -"
[dissolves to:]
"- Heaven!"
154
Day after day - year
after year -
155
"We'll wash them down
- fight their fire with
fire! Gobin and I have
handled the hose before."
156
"Father Chevillon -
I borrowed the
General's watch -
please give it back
to him."
157
"Give this to Madame
Chico with my love. Tell
her I died looking up!"
158
"- Very - remarkable -
fellow -"
159
"Forgive me for this
intrusion. I must
talk to you -"
160
"Diane, I wish I could
spare you. I have very
bad news -"
161
"It isn't true - Chico
is alive! I know!"
162
"He promised to come
to me every morning
at eleven -- and he
has never failed me."
163
"I'm afraid it's true -
it's the Government
that says so."
164
"Father Chevillon, you
have news for me -
of Chico?"
165
"He sent you his love -
and he told me to tell
you that he died --
looking up."
166
"Then he didn't come
every day - he never
came at all -"
167
"I just imagined
it - it seems so
foolish now."
168
"They've signed the
armistice! The war
is over!"
169
"We must not question
God's will, my child."
170
"For four years I have
called this Heaven - I
prayed - I believed in
God --"
171
"-- I believed He
would bring Chico
back to me -"
172
"- And Chico is dead!"
173
"Diane, from now
on I'm going to
take care of you."
174
"-- I'm right back at
the beginning again."
175
"Diane!"
176
"DIANE!"
177
"DIANE!"
178
"Diane, I've been hit
by every shell that's
made! They thought
I was dead, but I'll
never die!"
179
"Diane, those big
thoughts I had
were the Bon Dieu
after all. He is
within me -"
180
"- Now that I am
blind, I see that."
181
"My eyes are still filled
with you."
182
"I will be your eyes."
183
"For a while, perhaps.
But nothing can keep
Chico blind for long!"
184
"I tell you, I'm a very
remarkable fellow!"
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