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CRY-BABY -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY

[MAN] Walker, Wade Walker, you have a visitor.

[whirring]

[ALL] [singing] Please, Mr. Jailer
let me out of this penitentiary
Let me out
Please, Mr. Jailer

don't you make no lifer out of me

Please, Mr. Jailer

[ALLISON] [singing] Won't you let my baby go free?

Ah, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa

Let my man go free

[WADE] [singing] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

Don't make no lifer out of me

[ALL] [singing] Please, Mr. Jailer

[WADE] [singing] Can't you see how much love she's got for me?

[snarling]

[ALLISON] [singing] Well, let him go, let him go

Let him go

Let my man go free

Ah, whoa, oh

[ALL] [singing] Please, Mr. Jailer

[WADE] [singing] Well, let me out

[ALL] [singing] Please, Mr. Jailer.

[WADE] [singing] Don't make me shout

[ALL] [singing] Please, Mr. Jailer

[WADE] Well, let me out [throws the telephone through the glass door]

[ALL] [clamoring]

[WADE & ALLISON] [kissing]

***

[JUDGE RELEASES CRY-BABY]

[ALL] [clamoring]

[MARYLAND TRAINING SCHOOL FOR BOYS]

[NO WEAPONS BEYOND THIS POINT]

[RING BUZZER FOR ENTRY]

[DRAPES] [applauding]

[BALDWIN] Criminal!

[JUDGE] Cry-Baby Walker, society has given you a second chance.

[DRAPES] [cheering]

[JUDGE] You're rehabilitated now.

Here is $3.50.
And a pair of clean underwear.

[SQUARES] [booing]

[BALDWIN] You think you're a big man, Cry-Baby.
But you're lower than your dead father.

Guess who pulled the switch on that jerk?

[SQUARES] [laughing]

[BALDWIN] My grandpappy, that's who.
And every Christmas since,
my whole family gathers together,
and he re-tells the story of the day
he electrocuted your daddy

and we just laugh.

[SQUARES] [laughing]

[HATCHET-FACE] Let me punch his ugly face.

[DRAPES] [agreeing]

[WADE] It's okay, Hatchet. You're beautiful, baby.

[DRAPES] [applauding]

[WADE] But I'll take care of this maggot.

Do you know how to play the automobile game called "chicken"?

[BALDWIN] Huh, sure, my car and your jalopy.

[SQUARES] [laughing]

[BALDWIN] We head toward one another at full speed.
First one to turn the wheel before we smash is a chicken.

[SQUARES] [clucking]

[JUDGE] Is that legal?

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] Stop this insanity.

[WADE] I got some new rules, sucker.

How about you and me on top of the car?

[DRAPES] [agreeing]

[BALDWIN] I'm man enough, you big cry-baby.

[SQUARES] [booing]

[WADE] That's Mr. Baby to you.

[SQUARES] [laughing]

[WADE] Fellows of the press,
this chicken race tonight is for my daddy.
And I'd like to sing something in his memory,
something hillbilly.

[DRAPES] [agreeing]

[WADE] Something colored.

[BALDWIN] [groaning]

[SQUARES] [booing]

[WADE] Something my daddy would've loved.

[DRAPES] [cheering]

***

[High School Hellcats playing] [guitar playing] [WADE] [singing] You call us hoods
and say we've gone mad

'Cause we feel so good when we're being bad
We're high school hellcats

[ALL] [singing]  On our own

[WADE] [singing] High school hellcats

[ALL] [singing] Almost grown

[WADE] [singing] Come on and pick a fight I wish you would
We love being bad

[ALL] [singing] 'Cause it sure feels good

[WADE] [singing] Oh!

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] Baldwin, please.
Be a gentleman and call off this race, it's too dangerous.

[BALDWIN] Mrs. Vernon-Williams, you were born a Square

and you're gonna die a Square. You're coming with me.

[BOY] Come on, lady! Get in the car!

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] No!

[ALLISON] [singing] Yeah, stand back, look out, we're renegade teens

Friends of the devil but twice as mean
We're looking for kicks, we want them now
We're gonna get them

[ALL] [singing] And we don't care how

[ALLISON] [singing] We're high school hellcats

[ALL] [singing] Almost grown

[WADE] [singing] High school hellcats

[ALL] [singing] Almost grown

[WADE] [singing] Come on, pick a fight, we wish you would
We love being bad

[ALL] [singing] 'Cause it sure feels good

[DRAPES] [whooping]

[ALL] [clamoring]

[tires squealing]

[WADE] [Singing] Come on!
Come on, Come on!

[ALL] [whooping]

[WADE] [singing] Well, you lock us up in your schools
But we weren't born to live by rules

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] Get down from there this minute.

[BALDWIN] Sit down, you traitor.

[WADE] [Singing] When you say stop, I say go, yeah, go!
We're high school hellcats

[ALL] [singing] On our own

[WADE] [singing] High school hellcats

[ALL] [singing] Almost grown

[WADE] Come on, pick a fight, we wish you would

[BALDWIN] Cry-Baby!

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] What are you doing?

[WADE] [singing] We love being bad

[PEPPER] [singing] 'Cause it feels so good

[MARRY ME PEPPER!]

[ALL] [yelling]

[PEPPER] Uh-huh. Yes.

[WADE] [singing] USA, the land of the free
We should be what we want to be
But everyone says we should be like them

[ALL] [singing] But we're high school hellcats

And we never fit in

[WADE] [singing] We're high school hellcats

[MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] Allison, help! Help me!

[WADE] [singing] Come on and pick a fight, we wish you would

We love being bad 'cause it sure feels good

We're high school hellcats
We're high school hellcats

[cloth ripping]

[Singing] Come on and pick a fight, we wish you would

We love being bad 'cause it sure feels good

[BALDWIN] [yelling]

[WADE] [Singing] We love being bad 'cause it sure feels good
We love being bad 'cause it sure feels good
We love being bad 'cause it sure feels good

[BALDWIN] Turn the wheel!

Chicken!

[tires squealing]

[WADE] Yay!
[whooping]

[ALL] [cheering]

[ALLISON] [flies through the air]

[screaming]

[ALL] [cheering]

[Bad Boy by The Jive Bombers playing]

[audience applauding]

I'm just a bad boy

***

Cry-Baby: JOHNNY DEPP
[ALLISON] AMY LOCANE
[RAMONA] SUSAN TYRRELL
[MRS. VERNON-WILLIAMS] POLLY BERGEN
[BELVEDERE] IGGY POP
[PEPPER] RICKI LAKE
[WANDA] TRACI LORDS
Hatchet-Face: KIM McGUIRE

All dressed up in fancy clothes

[MILTON] DARREN E. BURROWS
Baldwin: STEPHEN MAILER
[LENORA] KIM WEBB
Toe-Joe: ALAN J. WENDL
[HATCHET'S FATHER] TROY DONAHUE
[HATCHET'S MOTHER] MINK STOLE
Milton's Father: JOE DALLESANDRO
Milton's Mother: JOEY HEATHERTON

I'm takin' the trouble

Wanda's Father: DAVID NELSON
[MAGGIE]: PATRICIA HEARST
Hateful Guard: WILLEM DAFOE
Snare-Drum: JONATHAN BENYA
Susie-q: JESSICA RASKIN
Dupree: ROBERT TYREE
Dupree's Girlfriend: ANGIE LEVRONEY
Whiffle #1: DREW EBERSOLE
Whiffle #2: KENNY CURTIS
Whiffle #3: SCOTT NEILSON
[JUDGE] ROBERT WALSH
[INGA] JENI BLONG
Conk #1: CRAIG WALLACE
Conk #2: PHILLIP BROUSSARD
Conk #3: REGGIE DAVIS
Conk #4: NICK FLEMING
Conk #5: ROBBIE JONES
Mrs. Tadlock: VIVIENNE SHUB
Angelic Boyfriend: ROBERT MARBURY
Strip Poker #1: SKIP SPENCER
Strip Poker #2: HOLTER GRAHAM

The hot blazin' sun

Night Court Parent: SUSAN LOWE
Snake-Eyes Hood: DAN GRIFFITHS
Convict #1: KIRK McEWEN
Convict #2: ERIC LUCAS
Convict #3: FRANK MALDONADO
Convict #4: PATRICK MITCHELL
Picnic Mother: MARY VIVIAN PEARCE
Mean Guard: STEVE ARONSON
Pepper's Baby: KELLY GOLDBERG
Stunt Coordinator Jerry Hewitt
STUNTS
GEORGE AGUILAR
BILL ANAGNOS
RICK BARKER
DANA BERTOLETTE
DAN BRADLEY
LISA CAIN
SCOTT ALAN COOK
NORMAN DOUGLASS
JEFF HABBERSTAD
DON HEWITT
JENNIFER HUGGINS
BRETT A. JONES
SEAN KELLY
CANDI ORSINI
JANET ORCUTT
JANET PAPARAZZO
LORI PETITTI
DENNEY PIERCE
HAROLD T. WRIGHT, JR.
ERIK RONDELL

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