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CRY-BABY -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY

[ALLISON] [singing] My girlfriend, Betty
Tells me, he's lazy
But I know Betty
Loves him like crazy
He is the answer
To a teenage prayer
Yes, he's the answer

[siren alarm blaring]

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] All right, girls. What this is,

this is unfortunately a red alert.
So please take your duck and cover positions immediately.

It is only an air-raid drill.
There are no atom bombs actually being dropped.

[BALDWIN] You were incredible, honey.
Where did you learn to sing like that?

[ALLISON] Just practicing.

[BALDWIN] [kisses Allison]

[ALLISON] Baldwin.

[siren alarm recedes]

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] All right, boys and girls.
[sighs] That's the all-clear signal.
You can come out now.

Everyone is safe and sound.

[motorcycle engine idling]

[SQUARES] [gasping]

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] Stay in your places.
Stay in your places.

[SQUARES] [chattering]

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] Get back to your room.

[BOY 1] Is he here? Is he here?

[BOY 2] I can't see anything.

That's him. Cry-Baby Walker.

[ALLISON] [sighing]

[WADE] I'm sorry about this afternoon, Mrs. Vernon-Williams.
Is Allison home?
'Cause, uh, I'm gonna sing tonight
and I thought she might like to hear me.

[BALDWIN] [throws wine in Wade's face]

[WADE] [groans]

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] [to Baldwin] Mind your manners.

[BALDWIN] This is what we think of your kind of music.

 [kicks Wade in the stomach]

[WADE] [grunting]

[ALLISON] How dare you hit him! You don't own me, Baldwin.

I have the right to hear Cry-Baby sing.

[BALDWIN] Don't get all worked up, honey.
The punk got what he deserved.

[WADE] [punches Baldwin back]

[SQUARES] [gasping]

[WADE] Come on.

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] Allison.

[BOY] [To Baldwin]  Get up. Go! Go! Go!

[WADE] Hop on, honey.

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] Just one minute, young lady --

[WADE] I'll take good care of her, Mrs. Vernon-Williams. I promise.

And it's okay about my face.
It don't hurt much.

[ALLISON] Please.

It's not a school night and I have been a good girl.
Just one night of happiness, that's all I ask.

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] But what if you get your dress dirty?

[ALLISON] [sighs] Thank you, Grandmother.

***

[Pistol Packin' Mama by Al Dexter playing] Drinking beer in a cabaret and was I having fun
Until one night she caught me right.
And now I'm on the run
Lay that pistol down, babe
Lay that pistol down
Pistol packin' mama
Lay that pistol down

[Thunder clapping]

[Song playing] Drinking beer in a cabaret
And dancing with a blonde

Until one night she caught me right
And now I'm on the run
Lay that pistol down, babe
Lay that pistol down
Pistol packin' mama
Lay that pistol down

[BELVEDERE] [dancing]

[DRAPES] [cheering]

[Song playing] Pistol packin' mama
Lay that pistol down

[ALL] [cheering]

***

[I'm So Young by Students playing] I have a girlfriend
She says I'm her only one
We want to get married

But we're so young
So young

Can't marry no one

But we know our
heart's direction
So young
Can't marry no one

***

[WADE] You okay?
I didn't get no axle grease on you, did I?

[ALLISON] No. No. I'm fine.

[WADE] Been to Turkey Point before?

[ALLISON] My Grandmother wouldn't let me.
She calls it the Redneck Riviera.

[WADE] It's where I live. Beautiful, ain't it?

[ALLISON] It's really wild.
But I'm -- I'm afraid that I'm not going to fit in here.

You know, with your friends and stuff.

[WADE] You're cool, Allison. You just look Square.
Underneath it all, I think you're really hep.

[HATCHET-FACE] Well, what have we here?

[WANDA] First Square to ever set foot in Turkey Point.

[PEPPER] Hey, fine mama.
Welcome to the Jukebox Jamboree.

[WADE] These are the Cry-Baby girls. That's Wanda.

[WANDA] Dig it, babe. You need a new look.

[HATCHET-FACE] Don't you got tits?

Stick them out, for God's sake.

[WADE] That's Hatchet-Face. She don't mean no harm.

[PEPPER] First thing a Cry-Baby girl learns, our bazooms are our weapons.

[WADE] Now Pepper's pregnant. But she can fight like a man.

[WANDA] I wouldn't be caught dead in a full skirt.

[PEPPER] Hey, girls. What do you think?
Let's give Allison here a bad-girl beauty makeover.

Are you game?

[ALLISON] Sure.

Think I got what it takes?

[DRAPES] [whooping]

[WADE] You got it, Allison.

You got it raw.

***

[RAMONA] Hey, hey, hey!

Dig it, all you hep cats and cool chicks.
You know me. Ramona Rickettes!

[DRAPES] [applauding]

[RAMONA] Now let me introduce to you the Cry-Baby combo,
Milton, Pepper, Wanda, Hatchet-Face.

[DRAPES] [cheering]

[SNARE DRUM AND SUZIE-Q] Hi, Mom.

[band playing]

[RAMONA] And now, the baddest baby of them all,
the man you came here for,
the big boo-hoo,

the terrible teardrop,
ladies and gentlemen, my grandson, Cry-Baby!

[DRAPES] [cheering]

[King Cry-Baby Playing] [WADE] [singing] Well, one for all and all for one

And all we want is to have some fun

But Squares beware of our property
Yeah, if you're lookin' to rumble, you're looking at me

'Cause I'm the king

[DRAPES] [singing] King cry-baby

[WADE] [singing] 'Cause I'm the king

[DRAPES] [singing] King cry-baby

[WADE] [singing] Yeah, I'm the king

[DRAPES] [singing] King cry-baby

[WADE] A king cry-baby with a tear in my eye

[DRAPES] [cheering]

[WADE] [singing] Baby cry, baby cry
Oh baby cry, oh baby cry, oh baby cry, wow
Well, I was born on the wrong side of the tracks

In the backseat of a stolen Cadillac

I had my first cigarette before I could walk

And I was strummin' this guitar before I could talk
'Cause I'm the king

[DRAPES] [singing] King cry-baby

[WADE] [singing] Yeah I'm the king

[DRAPES] [singing] King cry-baby

[WADE] [singing] Oh, I'm the king

[DRAPES] [singing] King cry-baby

[WADE] A king cry-baby with a tear in my eye

[DRAPES] [cheering]

[WADE] [singing] If you mess with the king, you're gonna cry, oh baby cry
Oh baby cry, oh baby cry, oh baby cry

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