He grins at hem and wearily mutters as he walks around them: "Here we go again."In the hotel""s lobby, the townspeople speak about the "real cool guy" in town who isn""t flustered by their intimidating, cold reception.Earnshaw (Cecil Kellaway).Returning from a trip to the city of Liverpool, the congenial gentleman/farmer brought home a young, dirty-faced gypsy boy (Rex Downing as youth): "a gift of God, although it""s as dark as if it came from the devil.But then their romantic interlude was interrupted by Wade""s voice-over:Here""s the thing.Life is an endless series of rain wrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness.This had been the ultimate commercial break.Which meant it was ime to return to our regularly scheduled program.Wade suddenly collapsed when he passed out, and he awoke in a doctor""s office where a diagnosis of terminal, late-stage cancer was delivered to him by an oncologist.As a result of increased publicity for the parade due to the film, national TV coverage began for the parade in 1948, and it became a major national American institution.