Drama (1978) 94 minutes ~ Color
Bufford Pusser is the Sheriff of a Tennessee County who must go against a former friend, and a group of women who use an old blue law to segregate a recently freed prostitute. To fight them he uses other old laws that aren't relevant today. Is he ready to face opposition, or will there be any?
Director: Lou Antonio
Writers: Mort Briskin (characters), Samuel A. Peeples
Stars: Brian Dennehy, Forrest Tucker, Brian Kerwin
Bufford Pusser is the Sheriff of a Tennessee County who must go against a former friend, and a group of women who use an old blue law to segregate a recently freed prostitute. To fight them he uses other old laws that aren't relevant today. Is he ready to face opposition, or will there be any?
Director: Lou Antonio
Writers: Mort Briskin (characters), Samuel A. Peeples
Stars: Brian Dennehy, Forrest Tucker, Brian Kerwin
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00:00:00The wrong kind of people have had their say for too long, and I want to remind them that
00:00:08somewhere in this world there is a little law and order left to let them know in the
00:00:12only way their kind understands that they can't bribe or threaten their way, and that
00:00:18they will damn well pay dearly for every crime they commit.
00:00:23The ordinary gentleman with many scars upon his back, he lives the only way he can to
00:00:38prove the courage we all lack.
00:00:44He has to care while we don't dare.
00:00:54He will not bow, he will not kneel or say the things he doesn't feel.
00:01:14If we could follow the dream he follows, then soon we'd all be walking tall.
00:01:35504, this is 502.
00:01:37I'll take this, that sounds like Grady.
00:01:39All right, let's go pretty girl.
00:01:43Ah, that's it, let's go pretty girl.
00:01:46Take him out up there, going up that little rise.
00:01:49This is Grady, I've got a chaser going.
00:01:52Do you read me Sheriff?
00:01:53Come in 501.
00:01:54Yeah, I read you Grady, what you got?
00:01:55I've got a suit up there with a load of kids, and they're drunk as a bunch of hootowls and
00:01:59they're going like a bat.
00:02:00Where are you Grady?
00:02:01I'm north on Highway 19, approximately 10 miles south of the junction of County Road
00:02:05103.
00:02:06Well, how fast do you reckon that bat's traveling, huh?
00:02:08At least a hundred.
00:02:10It's that Mick Rogers again.
00:02:11504, Sheriff, I'm on Dooley Road, I can cut him right behind him.
00:02:14I can take him easy.
00:02:15That's a negative Till, don't try it.
00:02:18All right, now listen up both of you.
00:02:20Stay behind that van.
00:02:22Keep your lights and sirens going, but don't close in, I repeat, don't close in.
00:02:26Now, you hear me?
00:02:27I read you Buford.
00:02:28Sheriff, I can take that van.
00:02:30But you won't Till.
00:02:31Now, if Mick crashes that van, we're going to have a world of trouble.
00:02:34I'll cut him off at the junction of 103.
00:02:36Out.
00:02:38I got to go now, I'll see you all later.
00:02:40All right.
00:03:10All right.
00:03:40All right.
00:03:41All right.
00:04:10All right.
00:04:41All right.
00:04:58Oh, God.
00:04:59Come on, Mick.
00:05:00Come on.
00:05:01You all right?
00:05:04Buford, that was some right way.
00:05:06You're all right.
00:05:07Come on, take care.
00:05:08Let's get out of here.
00:05:09You all right back here, Grady?
00:05:10Yeah, I'm fine.
00:05:11All right, Don.
00:05:12Come on, wake up.
00:05:13That's it.
00:05:14All right, easy now, easy.
00:05:15I got it, Richard.
00:05:16Okay.
00:05:17That's it, come on.
00:05:18I think they're all right, Grady.
00:05:19Come on, Don.
00:05:20Wake up now.
00:05:21Come on.
00:05:24Grady, get an ambulance out here.
00:05:25Fast.
00:05:26Go on, move it now.
00:05:30I came over as soon as I heard, Buford.
00:05:33I'm sorry to interrupt your lunch, Debbie.
00:05:35I need you to take down statements from the kids.
00:05:37Those that can talk.
00:05:39I heard.
00:05:40Terrible thing.
00:05:44It's bad, Buford.
00:05:46Bad liquor?
00:05:47Yeah.
00:05:48Redistilled alcohol.
00:05:49It's always risky, and this time...
00:05:51Mountain Moon's bad enough, but this is pure poison.
00:05:54How about the kids?
00:05:55Two dead.
00:05:59Mick and Jody are okay.
00:06:00They'll recover.
00:06:03How about the other two girls?
00:06:05They're blind.
00:06:10Any chance they'll recover their sight?
00:06:11Not much.
00:06:13Damn!
00:06:19Can I talk to Mick now?
00:06:20Sure.
00:06:21You can go home anytime now.
00:06:26Don't hassle me, Buford.
00:06:27All right now, Mick.
00:06:28You know what's happened here, and you know who's to blame.
00:06:30You can tell me about it.
00:06:32Where'd you get the liquor, boy?
00:06:33You think I'm some kind of fink?
00:06:34I think you're a stupid fool.
00:06:37Where'd you get that whiskey?
00:06:38I don't remember.
00:06:39You can get that stuff anyplace.
00:06:42All right, Mick.
00:06:43All right.
00:06:45That's all you got to say?
00:06:46Yes, sir.
00:06:47Can I go now?
00:06:48No, no, wait a minute.
00:06:49Wait a minute, Mick.
00:06:50Don't you want to see your friends first?
00:06:52No, I'll see them later.
00:06:53No, Mick, you're going to see them now.
00:07:04Say goodbye to them, Mick.
00:07:06They're friends of yours.
00:07:33Be where I can.
00:08:04The man that sold you that boy the liquor
00:08:07isn't found and stopped.
00:08:11There's going to be more kids stretched out just like these.
00:08:17All I was doing was
00:08:22have a little fun.
00:08:24I know that, I know.
00:08:28Where'd you get the liquor, boy?
00:08:30Where'd you get the liquor, boy?
00:08:41I got it at Danny's Disco.
00:08:44All right, all right.
00:08:46All right, you can go now.
00:08:56I'll tighten this up for you, beautiful.
00:08:59You won't stand up in court, Sheriff.
00:09:00You're obtained under duress.
00:09:03You want statements from the other kids, huh?
00:09:05Later.
00:09:07Are you coming back to the office?
00:09:08I said later!
00:09:12What's he going to do?
00:09:13Bust up Danny Old Mitchell's erection.
00:09:15He can't do that.
00:09:16Well, you just go tell him that, Till.
00:09:18Sheriff!
00:09:22Legally, there's nothing he can do.
00:09:48All right.
00:10:07Danny.
00:10:09What?
00:10:11Yeah, yeah, I'm here.
00:10:14All right, I appreciate it.
00:10:15I'll call you later.
00:10:17Forget it, Bunga. Get rid of that hooch and do it now.
00:10:32Tobe, get rid of this stuff. You know where the stash is.
00:10:35I won't take it away. I'll dump it. I'll move it.
00:10:42All of it?
00:10:43Yeah, all of it. Some kid got a bad bottle last night.
00:10:46Good Danny boy.
00:10:48This bootleg don't run true. This batch might be okay.
00:10:50And it may not be. We ain't taking any more chances than we have to be.
00:10:53Dump it all.
00:10:54Tobe, you heard?
00:10:55Mumps, Ruby, get in here.
00:10:56Get rid of it.
00:10:57Ruby, you help haul all this stuff out of here with Bunga.
00:10:59Tobe, Mumps, you get the lookout from inside. We're about to have company.
00:11:08Hey, I paid for that whiskey.
00:11:09Forget it, kid.
00:11:16All right, settle down, everybody.
00:11:18Here, turn off that thing here.
00:11:20Now listen up, everybody. The law's going to pay us a little visit.
00:11:23Well, it don't make no difference.
00:11:24The only thing is that we can't have any booze in here for a while.
00:11:27But we're going to make it all up to you.
00:11:29You can all relax because the beer's on the house.
00:11:32All right, sweethearts.
00:11:59Look at Mr. Pusser himself.
00:12:01Mr. Pusser himself.
00:12:19We don't need to run off, kids. Sheriff's just paying us a friendly visit.
00:12:22Can I help you?
00:12:50Two kids dead.
00:12:52Two kids blinded for life.
00:12:58All right.
00:13:03There's a poison rat gut hooch.
00:13:05This place stinks to me.
00:13:07Now, Buford, you can't take a smell of the court.
00:13:09There ain't nobody in here under 18.
00:13:10Why don't you forget it?
00:13:11You and me have a drink full time.
00:13:14No, I want no trouble here.
00:13:26You make it awful hard for an old friend to stay friendly here.
00:13:43Grady, you came in just a little bit too early.
00:13:47All right, take him in.
00:13:48Take him in and book him.
00:13:49What's the charge?
00:13:52Bootlegging, manslaughter, spitting on the sidewalk.
00:13:55I don't care.
00:13:56Just book him.
00:14:01You're wasting time, Buford.
00:14:03You ain't got nothing on me.
00:14:12All right, put a chain on this place and lock it up, too.
00:14:14Danny boy's right, Buford.
00:14:15Taking him in this way isn't gonna get the job done.
00:14:17You just lock it up.
00:14:40Come on, come on.
00:14:59It don't make no difference to me.
00:15:01Hey, Roger, man, I'm glad to see you.
00:15:03Don't say anything, Danny.
00:15:04You been giving your rights?
00:15:05I've been giving nothing but a hard time.
00:15:07Sheriff, my name's Mo.
00:15:09And I have here a bail release signed by Judge Marlowe.
00:15:12No hard feelings, Buford.
00:15:17All right, turn him loose.
00:15:19Perhaps now you'll learn, Sheriff,
00:15:20you just can't go around smashing up private businesses
00:15:22and roughing up innocent people.
00:15:25All right, now you get out of here, lawyer Mo,
00:15:28and you take this garbage with you.
00:15:31You can't talk to me like that.
00:15:32Shut up, Roger.
00:15:33Let it go.
00:15:37Some other time, Buford.
00:15:45Best we get back on the road, Sheriff.
00:15:59Mr. Conway?
00:16:15No, bro.
00:16:19Well, good afternoon, Miles.
00:16:22I wonder what could bring you here.
00:16:24Buford, what in the devil do you think you're doing?
00:16:28Sometimes I wonder myself.
00:16:30It isn't funny.
00:16:33Arresting citizens without a warrant.
00:16:35Breaking up legitimate business premises.
00:16:38And you didn't even read them their rights.
00:16:41Now, Buford, as a county prosecutor,
00:16:43if I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times,
00:16:46you cannot take the law into your own hands.
00:16:50Do you know those kids, Miles?
00:16:52Do you know them?
00:16:53You watch them growing up?
00:16:58You best save that for the judge.
00:17:00There's going to be a hearing into what you've done in 30 minutes.
00:17:04You'll be there.
00:17:22In a free and democratic society,
00:17:24elected officials are sworn to uphold the law.
00:17:27And vigilante justice has no place in...
00:17:29I must protest counsel's choice of words.
00:17:31That's enough.
00:17:32This isn't a trial.
00:17:33I'll remind you both it is a preliminary hearing and nothing more.
00:17:37Yes, Your Honor.
00:17:38But I only wish to point out...
00:17:41Prosecutor, are you prepared to present charges against Mr. Mitchell at this time?
00:17:45No, Your Honor.
00:17:46Unfortunately, Sheriff Pusser acted somewhat hastily.
00:17:49Hastily?
00:17:50Destruction of private property, illegal arrest and detention.
00:17:55Sheriff Pusser, the court will hear your explanation now.
00:18:04Mick Rogers' name, Mitchell, is the man that had sold him poison bootlegs.
00:18:08I object.
00:18:09Unsubstantiated hearsay is not admissible evidence in a court of law.
00:18:12Mr. Mull, if you don't keep quiet, I'll have you removed from this court.
00:18:18Go on, Sheriff.
00:18:20Well, when I got to Mitchell's place,
00:18:23there was a stank of rotgut hooch.
00:18:27But he'd been tipped off by somebody.
00:18:30Had he gotten rid of the stuff before I arrived.
00:18:33And you damaged Mr. Mitchell's place of business and placed him under arrest.
00:18:36Does that sum it up?
00:18:39Yeah, well, all it leaves out is two dead boys,
00:18:42two girls blinded for life.
00:18:44The law makes no provisions for acting upon unproven assumptions based upon hearsay.
00:18:49You have made an illegal search and arrest.
00:18:52If you'd acted properly by obtaining a warrant,
00:18:54then and only then would physical evidence be admitted in court.
00:18:59You leave me no choice but to find no evidence to support probable cause
00:19:03and to dismiss this case.
00:19:05Your actions may entitle Mr. Mitchell to legal redress from the county of McNary.
00:19:09Forget it, Your Honor.
00:19:11Buford just went off half-cocked.
00:19:13We all do that now and then.
00:19:16This hearing is dismissed.
00:19:19Hope this teaches you a lesson, Buford.
00:19:21Yeah, well, you can count on that, Miles.
00:19:27Sheriff Fosser.
00:19:43Buford.
00:19:45We've been friends for a long time.
00:19:48I've tried to understand your motivation,
00:19:50your need to help others,
00:19:52to act against injustice and crime in your own way.
00:19:56But each time you make it more difficult for me.
00:20:00Well, Sabrina, I'm sorry if you think I'm taking advantage of our friendship.
00:20:07But men like Mitchell are walking around free,
00:20:10killing kids and getting away with it.
00:20:12Because the law protects them.
00:20:14It's your fault Danny Mitchell walked out of here a free man.
00:20:18The law protects everyone equally when it's properly applied.
00:20:22Buford, you must learn to respect it.
00:20:25And that means enforcing it to the letter and nothing more.
00:20:31I'm sorry, Buford.
00:20:33But if you appear before this court again under similar circumstances,
00:20:37I warn you now the consequences will be severe.
00:20:42Your problem, Buford, is that you place your emotions above your common sense.
00:20:48You have a wonder, Sabrina,
00:20:50if you don't do the same thing with your law books.
00:21:08How are you doing today?
00:21:10Buford?
00:21:12Good morning, Amelia. How are you?
00:21:14I'm fine. Which is more than I can say for the affairs of Selma.
00:21:17Yeah, well, right now I'm inclined to agree with you, Amelia.
00:21:20It isn't funny, Buford. And we demand that it be stopped. Now.
00:21:25Amelia, supposing you come into my office and we'll find out what's bothering you, all right?
00:21:29That's exactly what we intend to do.
00:21:32I'm sure.
00:21:35I'm sure.
00:21:49This ain't funny, Oprah.
00:21:53All right, Amelia. What's the problem?
00:21:58Carrie Todd. That's a problem.
00:22:01It is. What's she done?
00:22:03That woman.
00:22:12That woman was released from the state penitentiary
00:22:15after serving seven years for killing her pimp.
00:22:18Now she's back.
00:22:20Profane in the house of God with her presence.
00:22:23Walk in the streets, unashamed.
00:22:25For some decent women to step aside to award meetin' her.
00:22:29All right, Amelia.
00:22:31She's gone to church.
00:22:33She's been seen on the streets of Selma. Is that all?
00:22:35Isn't that enough?
00:22:37She has no right walking these streets.
00:22:39Carrie Todd has served her time in the penitentiary.
00:22:42Now she has every right in the world to do just exactly as she pleases.
00:22:45She has not.
00:22:47The county prosecutor tells us there's a law against people like her.
00:22:50What law, Amelia?
00:22:51I've got it right here.
00:22:52County Ordinance, Section 301, Paragraph 93B, October 12, 1878.
00:22:59That women of ill repute shall remain below the deadline of South River Street.
00:23:05Amelia, that old deadline blue law was passed a hundred years ago
00:23:09when Selma was just a frontier timber town.
00:23:12I don't care when it was passed.
00:23:14It's the law and we demand that it be enforced.
00:23:18Morning.
00:23:19Hey, Spielberg.
00:23:20Look, there's a law on the books.
00:23:22It's the old deadline blue law.
00:23:24I...
00:23:25You know that.
00:23:29Mr. Biggins has been to see you this morning, too.
00:23:33Yeah.
00:23:34Okay.
00:23:38I'll be back in a minute.
00:23:40All right.
00:23:41Good-bye.
00:23:42Good-bye.
00:23:43Good-bye.
00:23:44Hey.
00:23:49Now, will you do something about it?
00:23:52Yes, Amelia, yes.
00:23:53I'll talk to Carrie Dunn.
00:23:55Now?
00:23:56Today?
00:23:59Yes, Amelia.
00:24:01Today.
00:24:02Well, good.
00:24:04Thank you, Sheriff.
00:24:06Come on, ladies.
00:24:07We've done our duty.
00:24:14Come on.
00:24:32First time I've had the book thrown at me in some time, Gifford.
00:24:36Lord,
00:24:37ever feel strangled by the law you're trying to serve?
00:24:40Oh, every law you had.
00:24:42My office walls are dented with hard-thrown law books, too.
00:24:46Only consolation is, it'd be a lot worse off without the law.
00:24:49Messed up as they may be.
00:24:50Sometimes I wonder about that.
00:24:52Ah, from what I hear, you know, that little thing's like, uh,
00:24:55the galaxy's body image.
00:24:58You heard about Danny Boy, huh?
00:25:00Yeah, that's a funny thing.
00:25:01I always sort of liked him.
00:25:03I understand you did, too.
00:25:05And everything changes.
00:25:09Lord, how many laws you reckon there are?
00:25:12Thousands.
00:25:14Too many.
00:25:15Some of those old laws should have been repealed years ago.
00:25:20All those crazy old laws.
00:25:23They're still valid.
00:25:24You want my legal opinion, Gifford?
00:25:26Cost you money.
00:25:29I'm gonna build a county.
00:25:31How about it?
00:25:33You serious?
00:25:34Yeah.
00:25:36I suppose they are.
00:25:38No, I know they are.
00:25:40See, technically, any law, statute, or ordinance
00:25:44legally adopted
00:25:45and not amended, repealed, or revoked
00:25:48is enforceable.
00:25:51You just brought a little light
00:25:53to a very dismal day.
00:25:55Now, look, Gifford.
00:25:56What I said is true.
00:25:58Some of those old laws would still stand up in court, I suppose,
00:26:00but most of them wouldn't.
00:26:02If you try to use those against somebody,
00:26:04well, that could be construed as police harassment.
00:26:08You pick on one man, that's harassment, right?
00:26:10Yeah.
00:26:11I understand Judge Marlowe warned you.
00:26:13Against taking the law into my own hands, Lord.
00:26:15I got no intention of doing that.
00:26:18Oh, I'm glad to hear that, Buford.
00:26:21Look, why don't you take a little break?
00:26:23You had your lunch yet?
00:26:24Well, let's make it another time, all right, Lord?
00:26:26I got some reading I want to do here.
00:26:29I hope you know what you're doing, Buford.
00:26:33Hey, look, I'm counting on seeing you at the dance Saturday night.
00:26:35It'll be a lot of food, drink, music and dancing.
00:26:38It's the kind of get-together we don't have much anymore.
00:26:40And don't come alone.
00:26:43All right, I'll try to make it, Lord.
00:26:44Hey, listen, thanks very much.
00:26:45Yeah.
00:26:48Oh, yeah.
00:27:01Hey, Buford.
00:27:02Hey, Buford.
00:27:03We ought to come back and see you sometime, yeah?
00:27:09Sure, Danny boy.
00:27:32Yeah.
00:27:48Gary, long time.
00:27:51What's chewing on you, Sheriff?
00:27:54You know, when I was a kid,
00:27:56my folks used to say the Todd place had the best water in McNary County.
00:28:00Yeah?
00:28:02Well, help yourself.
00:28:03At least the water hasn't gone to ruin.
00:28:05Which is more than I can say for everything else.
00:28:33Easy, easy now, let me try, let me try.
00:28:35Come on, get down.
00:28:36Take a rest.
00:28:48What brings you back to McNary County, Gary?
00:28:50I mean, you must have known it was going to be tough.
00:28:53You must have known there were going to be some people who were going to resent you.
00:28:57Well, I was born here, you know.
00:28:58I grew up here.
00:28:59My folks are dead and gone.
00:29:00I got nothing else, no place to go.
00:29:02I did my time, you know.
00:29:03I got a right to pick up the pieces for myself if I can.
00:29:08Sure you have.
00:29:14But it depends upon the way you do it, you know?
00:29:21Oh, I get it.
00:29:25Somebody's worried I'm going to be the way I was
00:29:26till I got news for you, Sheriff.
00:29:28There is no future in the business for a tired lady of the evening.
00:29:35It's going to be tough.
00:29:37This place needs a lot of work.
00:29:39Did they teach you a trade?
00:29:41Five years nursing in a prison hospital.
00:29:46Are you going to try to find some work like that here in Selma?
00:29:49Think about it.
00:29:53I wish you luck.
00:29:56Thanks for the water.
00:29:57Thanks for the help.
00:29:59Anytime.
00:30:02Is that it?
00:30:07Carrie, you know Amelia Biggins?
00:30:11Do me a favor, will you?
00:30:12Stay out of her way for a while.
00:30:14Amelia, huh?
00:30:16I knew it.
00:30:18I figured she and her holier-than-thou ladies league
00:30:20would raise cain about my showing up in church on Sunday.
00:30:24She's real big in church.
00:30:26And church throws a lot of weight around McNair County.
00:30:29Well, so does its boss.
00:30:34Nice talking to you, Carrie.
00:30:36Good luck.
00:30:57502, this is base.
00:30:58Grady, just got a complaint.
00:31:00Breaking at Mentis Pole too far out on Oakville Road.
00:31:04501, Debbie.
00:31:06I know where that is.
00:31:07Tell Grady I'll meet him there.
00:31:27Honk, honk, honk.
00:31:45Yes, sir.
00:31:46I'm Buford Pusser from the sheriff's office.
00:31:50You know, blue light, come in here spinning and turning.
00:31:53Well, what's the nature of your complaint, sir?
00:31:55Oh, well, I sure did complain.
00:31:57Now, look, my name is Deedree F. Jones.
00:31:59Well, at least I thought it was.
00:32:00There was a little piece of paper that said Dietrich.
00:32:02Do you know how you spell that?
00:32:03Capital D-I-E-D-R-I-C.
00:32:06And when you know it, it's a little O-H.
00:32:09Yeah.
00:32:10What exactly is your complaint, Mr. Jones?
00:32:12My name is Deedree F. Jones, and I've been snuckered.
00:32:17You've been snuckered?
00:32:18Uh, look here, sheriff.
00:32:20Are you, uh, Mike Deeth?
00:32:22What is your complaint, please, Mr. Jones?
00:32:25Well, I told you I've been snuckered.
00:32:26I said if you come in here and you want a sheriff rambling,
00:32:28then you're going to find that old culprit's going to be Deed Miller,
00:32:30who's, uh, snuckering on his folk.
00:32:33You going to do something about that, sir?
00:32:35Oh, yes, sir, Mr. Jones.
00:32:36I'll tell you, you just stay right here.
00:32:37We're going to take care of it.
00:32:38We're going to fix you right up.
00:32:39Now, don't move. Stay right here.
00:32:40Stay right here.
00:32:49Grady, I haven't got an idea in the world what this man is talking about.
00:32:51I want you to go over there and talk to him, all right?
00:32:53Okay.
00:32:58Yes, sir? Can I help you?
00:32:59Well, I told the sheriff here that, uh,
00:33:00old Deed Miller, he come in here, he snuckered me in.
00:33:02Look what I have now, chickens.
00:33:03Uh, just a minute, okay?
00:33:10What did he say?
00:33:11Well, it's just as plain as the nose on your face.
00:33:15What's just as plain as the nose on my face?
00:33:17He's been snuckered.
00:33:20Oh, he's been snuckered?
00:33:21Yeah.
00:33:22Snuckered?
00:33:23Yeah.
00:33:24Oh, I see.
00:33:25I'll tell you what, Grady.
00:33:26Why don't you go over there and you unsnucker him, all right?
00:33:30I'll meet you back at the office.
00:33:38This here your truck?
00:33:40This here your chickens?
00:33:41Yes.
00:33:42Do you have any help?
00:33:43Nope.
00:33:44Well, let's get them picked up.
00:34:10Huh?
00:34:11Oh, well, you'll never guess what Mike's doing.
00:34:13He's shaving.
00:34:14You hear that? He's screaming.
00:34:15You prefer him with a beard?
00:34:17Two whiskers and some pitch fuzz like a beard.
00:34:19You gotta see him.
00:34:20I'll just go see him.
00:34:23Now that's it.
00:34:24Now you work that lather in good.
00:34:25You see, boy, that'll lubricate the skin
00:34:27and soften up them tough, wiry whiskers of yours.
00:34:31This ain't a free show.
00:34:32I don't need an audience.
00:34:33Don't say I ain't.
00:34:35Get away.
00:34:36Uh, uh, hey, sorry, Dad.
00:34:39He just probably needs a shave for a special occasion.
00:34:43No, no, wait a minute.
00:34:44You ain't gonna gouge nobody with that, boy.
00:34:46You see, you've got to take it gently like this
00:34:48and just a smooth, slow, easy scrape down there like that, huh?
00:34:52Yeah, that's it.
00:34:53Uh-huh.
00:34:54It's all right.
00:34:55We got the step-stick right handy here.
00:34:57You can always get some stitches if you need them.
00:34:59Watch your mouth, boy.
00:35:00I remember you nicked yourself a time or two, huh?
00:35:06Uh, tell me, Mike,
00:35:07are you shaving just to be shaven
00:35:09or you got something on for tonight?
00:35:11He's got a thing on with Ginny Cooper.
00:35:13Warner!
00:35:14Well, he has.
00:35:15Gonna take her to Lloyd Tatum's barn dance Saturday night.
00:35:18Gonna be a hayride
00:35:19and he's counting on messing with Ginny in the hay.
00:35:21Warner!
00:35:23Here's what I'll tell you.
00:35:24The way that girl talks sometimes...
00:35:25Hey, Mama.
00:35:27You mean you're home for dinner?
00:35:28It's not even cold yet.
00:35:30I try.
00:35:32Well, I'm glad.
00:35:33It's on the table.
00:35:34Come and get it.
00:35:35Carl?
00:35:36I'll be right along, Mother Suzie.
00:35:37Stench is full of blood here.
00:35:40Here.
00:35:41Ah.
00:35:42You get a little...
00:35:45Yeah, that's good.
00:35:46This is fine.
00:35:47Yeah.
00:35:48I never went to that thing
00:35:49and put it on them nicks there, boy.
00:35:51You get lucky,
00:35:52you'll get cut up worse than that
00:35:53Saturday night on that hayride.
00:36:02It's good.
00:36:03Good meat.
00:36:07Whoa.
00:36:08Whoa.
00:36:09The princess wants to be seated, too.
00:36:12All right.
00:36:13You just act like that all the time, Warner.
00:36:20Carl, say grace.
00:36:22Heavenly Father,
00:36:23we ask you to bless this food to us.
00:36:25And thank you for the blessings and happiness
00:36:27that you've showed us in the past.
00:36:28Amen.
00:36:33The terrible thing about what happened,
00:36:35Buford,
00:36:36are you sure Danny Mitchell is involved in that?
00:36:38He seems like such a nice boy
00:36:40and he used to be a friend of yours.
00:36:43He's not the way he used to know me.
00:36:45I saw him just last week.
00:36:47I was in shopping,
00:36:48had my bag of groceries,
00:36:49and he came up nice as you please,
00:36:51said he remembered me,
00:36:53took the groceries from me,
00:36:55opened the car door.
00:36:57Are you sure he's responsible
00:36:58for what happened to those kids?
00:37:00Well, he, uh,
00:37:02he hadn't been convicted.
00:37:03Not yet.
00:37:05What about Carrie Todd?
00:37:07She's paid her price
00:37:08for the mistakes she made
00:37:09and has a right to whatever happiness
00:37:10she can find in this cold, cruel world.
00:37:13Carrie Todd?
00:37:14That isn't the...
00:37:15A scarlet woman who shot a...
00:37:16Mmm, Warner.
00:37:19Where'd you hear about Carrie Todd?
00:37:21It's all over school.
00:37:22Miss Salkom's daughter, Ruthie,
00:37:24told everybody Amelia Biggins
00:37:25is going to run for Carrie Todd out of town
00:37:27and that she's not fit to associate
00:37:29with decent people.
00:37:30Warner.
00:37:31But I think Miss Biggins
00:37:32is just an old fuddy-duddy.
00:37:33Warner.
00:37:35Sounds like too much
00:37:36late afternoon soap opera TV to me.
00:37:39Don't you watch the soap opera?
00:37:41Oh, I'm not mature enough
00:37:42for that at all, son.
00:37:43If there aren't any cowboys on,
00:37:44Grandpa doesn't watch TV.
00:38:02Hey, Buford.
00:38:04Want a cooler?
00:38:05Oh, yeah, thanks.
00:38:09Nice night, huh?
00:38:11Yeah.
00:38:12Kind of warm.
00:38:17You know, Pa,
00:38:19I hope things are okay out here.
00:38:22I'm sorry I don't get to spend
00:38:23as much time with you as I'd like.
00:38:25All right, all right.
00:38:29Something's on your mind.
00:38:32You bought it
00:38:33because you can't do anything
00:38:34about this Danny Boy Mitchell, right?
00:38:37No, I'm gonna do something
00:38:38about Danny Boy Mitchell.
00:38:42You know, Pop,
00:38:45men like Mitchell,
00:38:48they use the law
00:38:50to hide behind it.
00:38:51They use the law to protect themselves.
00:38:55Well, maybe I can use it, too.
00:38:59Maybe I can use the law
00:39:00to build a fire.
00:39:02Under Mr. Mitchell.
00:39:05To smoke him out.
00:39:07Make him so hot,
00:39:08he'll do something stupid.
00:39:11Something he can't cover up.
00:39:15Like...
00:39:17maybe try to kill you.
00:39:21Well, if it comes to that.
00:39:26Hey, Pop.
00:39:29This is something I got to do.
00:39:33People need somebody
00:39:34to stand up for them.
00:39:35Somebody to face up
00:39:36to men like Mitchell
00:39:37on even terms.
00:39:42Somebody else
00:39:43to take the risks for them, right?
00:39:46Yeah.
00:39:47Yeah, that's it.
00:39:53I don't know.
00:39:54Maybe I'm just fooling myself.
00:39:56Maybe I'm just trying
00:39:57to justify what I'm gonna do.
00:39:58Makes no difference, Pop.
00:40:01I got to do it.
00:40:23All right, let's go.
00:40:24Let's go.
00:40:25My truck, Chief.
00:40:27All right, let's go.
00:40:28Go get him, Tiger.
00:40:30What do you say?
00:40:35Hey, how you doing, George?
00:40:37Kind of warm today, isn't it?
00:40:41Hey, say, Humko,
00:40:42you gonna ride today?
00:40:48Morning.
00:40:50Oh, morning, Sheriff.
00:40:51I thought Grady
00:40:52was checking up here this morning.
00:40:53Oh, yeah, he is.
00:40:55But I'm not on duty
00:40:56for another hour,
00:40:57so I just thought I'd...
00:40:58Guess what I just did?
00:41:00I don't know.
00:41:01I just washed my car.
00:41:03You did?
00:41:04Yeah.
00:41:05Well, you know how it is
00:41:06to deal with county taxpayers.
00:41:07You know, they like to be sure
00:41:08that their equipment
00:41:09is being taken care of
00:41:10with all that tax money and so forth.
00:41:11Yes, sir.
00:41:12And, you know,
00:41:13this question of image.
00:41:14You know, we are police officers
00:41:15and so forth.
00:41:16I'll wash your car, Buford.
00:41:17Well, I think that's a great idea.
00:41:18I'm glad you took my little hint.
00:41:19Hint.
00:41:20Y'all have a nice day, then.
00:41:21You, too.
00:41:26Why is a dirty car bad?
00:41:28Well, it's not just...
00:41:29It's not a dirty car.
00:41:30It's maintaining county property
00:41:32that's important.
00:41:38All right, clear.
00:41:39Medal for Grady.
00:41:41Come on.
00:41:42We gotta get going.
00:41:51Dig it out there.
00:41:52Come on, let's go.
00:41:53Come on.
00:41:54Come on.
00:42:08That's it. Come on.
00:42:09That's it. Turn it.
00:42:10That's it.
00:42:24Come on.
00:42:25Come on.
00:42:26Come on, Mike.
00:42:27Come on.
00:42:30Come on, boy.
00:42:31Come on.
00:42:32Dig it out.
00:42:33Dig, dig, dig.
00:42:45Congratulations,
00:42:46Mike, on first place.
00:42:47All right.
00:42:48Come on.
00:42:49All right.
00:42:50How about that?
00:42:51Let's see what you get.
00:42:53There you go.
00:43:09Oh, Jerry.
00:43:10What the heck?
00:43:12What's the matter with you, Jerry?
00:43:14Yeah, like you need some lovin'.
00:43:15Lovin' all the years in the slum.
00:43:17Not from you.
00:43:18Oh, you're getting choosy, ain't you?
00:43:20Yeah, I was messing with you,
00:43:21and you didn't care.
00:43:22Well, show me the memory,
00:43:23because that's all you've got.
00:43:28Oh, Charlie, no.
00:43:30Charlie, now look,
00:43:31we can do this all day long.
00:43:34I ain't doing nothing wrong, pupil.
00:43:36You know Carrie Todd, what she is.
00:43:38Yeah.
00:43:39She's a taxpayer,
00:43:40just the same as you.
00:43:41Well, she's a...
00:43:42No, Charlie, you got a bad mouth.
00:43:43Okay.
00:43:45Okay.
00:43:46But ask her what she's doing
00:43:47coming around here now
00:43:48before opening and asking me
00:43:49to let her in.
00:43:50What else does she want?
00:43:51I wanted to buy some groceries.
00:43:53She's told I wasn't welcome
00:43:54here in town,
00:43:55so I come early to stay
00:43:56out of people's way.
00:43:57Buy your lousy groceries
00:43:58someplace else.
00:44:04Sorry about that.
00:44:06There are other stores.
00:44:08It's just Charlie used to
00:44:09give me credit
00:44:10when I was broke.
00:44:13Guess maybe I have
00:44:14more assets then.
00:44:16It seemed to me
00:44:17he was pretty anxious
00:44:18to reopen the account.
00:44:21Well, anyway,
00:44:22it's not your problem.
00:44:23Thanks for everything,
00:44:24future.
00:44:25Carrie.
00:44:27Why don't you try
00:44:28Harvey Kettleman
00:44:29out on South Grove?
00:44:30He's a friend of mine.
00:44:31I get my things there.
00:44:33I'll give him a call.
00:44:35He'll be okay.
00:44:37Okay?
00:44:41Okay.
00:44:49Okay.
00:45:13Well, that's it.
00:45:14But that's harassment.
00:45:15Trust me.
00:45:16The law isn't supposed
00:45:17to be partisan.
00:45:18Not if it's gonna work at all.
00:45:19Did you learn that
00:45:20at that police academy, Till?
00:45:21Look, Guilford,
00:45:22I know you don't believe
00:45:23in going by the book,
00:45:24but I do.
00:45:25It's the only way.
00:45:26Even if it doesn't
00:45:27get the job done?
00:45:28Well, there's no
00:45:29easy answer to that.
00:45:30Well, welcome
00:45:31to the club, boy.
00:45:33All right.
00:45:34Starting today,
00:45:35we enforce the law
00:45:36to the letter.
00:45:37Just for Danny Boy Mitchell?
00:45:38Everybody.
00:45:39Well, most everybody.
00:45:41McNary County.
00:45:43We're gonna have
00:45:44some unhappy taxpayers.
00:45:45You know something, Till?
00:45:46You may just be right.
00:46:17Who's that?
00:46:43Hey, Guilford,
00:46:44you got a problem, man?
00:46:46It's you, Danny boy.
00:46:49Can I see your driver's license, please?
00:46:51What for?
00:46:53I'm gonna ask you just one more time.
00:46:55Can I see your driver's license, please?
00:46:57You're holding me up, Buford.
00:46:58Get out of the truck, put your hands on the roof and spread them.
00:47:00Move!
00:47:02She ain't got no right.
00:47:05Section 913, State Police Code,
00:47:08authorizes a physical search for weapons of any known criminal or associates thereof
00:47:13if there exists probable cause.
00:47:15Misdemeanor witnessed by an arresting officer constitutes such a probable cause.
00:47:19All right, Danny boy, you're clean.
00:47:21Misdemeanor? I ain't done nothing.
00:47:23Violation of Article 1173-7, dated 1907.
00:47:271907? Are you out of your gourd, Buford?
00:47:30Every motor-driven vehicle operating within the city limits of Selma, Tennessee
00:47:34must be preceded by a man walking and carrying a red flag.
00:47:46Move!
00:47:48Yeah, all right, Buford, I'll go along with your fun and games.
00:47:50Now, you write out the ticket and I'll be on my way.
00:47:53Danny boy, I don't see no man with a red flag.
00:47:56And until I do, this vehicle's gonna stay right where it is.
00:47:58Look, I thought there'd be an ice cream in the back. It's gonna melt all over the street.
00:48:01I can't do nothing about that.
00:48:02Yeah, I got it. Until somebody's got a red flag...
00:48:06Why don't you go get me a red flag?
00:48:07Huh? Where?
00:48:10I don't know. You just find one. Move it!
00:48:16Carrying a passenger in the back of a commercial truck...
00:48:19It's a violation of safety regulations.
00:48:22That's an overloaded vehicle.
00:48:25Carrying perishable commodities without a commercial license...
00:48:28Buford, what is it you think you're doing?
00:48:31I'm just doing my sworn duty, Danny boy.
00:48:35Watch this.
00:48:38Hey, come on, Buford, that stuff's gotta stay cold. I got to be on ice cream back there.
00:48:42Do you have a permit for transporting dangerous chemicals through McNary County?
00:48:46We ain't no dangerous chemicals. That's just...
00:48:50Okay, Buford, I'm got a permit.
00:48:53You happy?
00:48:56Beer and ice cream, huh?
00:48:58Yeah, it's kind of hot today, Danny boy.
00:49:00You know what you ought to do?
00:49:02You ought to rotate these kegs. Make sure they all stay cool.
00:49:05Oh, no!
00:49:07Get it back up over the rocks!
00:49:09Come on!
00:49:10You get it high on the side, come on!
00:49:12Wait, no!
00:49:15It's a legend, isn't it?
00:49:17Well, that's illegal dumping.
00:49:19Oh, hey now, Ruby, don't throw it on him!
00:49:24Littering a public place?
00:49:27Well, do something!
00:49:29Hey, hey, hey!
00:49:31Hey, hey, hey!
00:49:32Hey, hey, hey!
00:49:33Hey, hey, hey!
00:49:34Well, do...
00:49:35Well, do something!
00:49:37We'll help him, but...
00:49:45Come on now, throw it on him.
00:49:46Throw it on him.
00:49:55Now, you stand there.
00:49:58Now, you stand there.
00:49:59Now, you stand there.
00:50:04I'm sorry.
00:50:08Okay, okay.
00:50:16Can I go now?
00:50:18Why, sure.
00:50:30Come on!
00:50:56Come on, come on!
00:50:58Yes!
00:51:04Under N, 36.
00:51:06Under N, 36.
00:51:12Under O, 70.
00:51:14Number 70, under O.
00:51:20Under B, 14.
00:51:23Number 14, under B.
00:51:28Under I, 27.
00:51:31Number 27, under I.
00:51:33Again, under B, number 3.
00:51:36Number 3, under B.
00:51:38Slow down!
00:51:44Under I, 19.
00:51:46Number 19, under I.
00:51:51Under B, number 5.
00:51:53Number 5, under B.
00:51:57Sheriff, how's that?
00:51:58Nice to see you.
00:52:00The cards are 25 cents and the grand prize is 435 dollars.
00:52:04I'm sorry, ma'am.
00:52:05I'm here on business.
00:52:06I'm sure it can wait until after we've had one winner.
00:52:09Good afternoon, ladies.
00:52:12You're all under arrest.
00:52:13What?
00:52:14You're all under arrest.
00:52:20City Orbits, 11, 586.
00:52:23Prohibits gambling within the city limits of Selma.
00:52:27Now, you will each be cited individually and you'll be released on your own recognizance.
00:52:36If this is some sort of joke, it isn't funny.
00:52:39The Ladies League has held weekly bingo games to raise funds for years.
00:52:44And breaking the law all that time, I mean.
00:52:48You can't do this.
00:52:49Well, I gotta give my dolly.
00:52:50We do can't.
00:52:51We've been doing this for 20 years.
00:52:53You can't give a person a ticket and say 65.
00:52:56Oh, no, you can't.
00:53:10Well, we'll just see what Judge Marlowe has to say about this.
00:53:22Hey!
00:53:35Sheriff Pusser, would you please explain to me what you're doing?
00:53:38I'm just enforcing the law, ma'am.
00:53:40This is a clear case of police harassment of my client.
00:53:45Police harassment is a serious charge, Sheriff.
00:53:48Yes, ma'am.
00:53:49But issuing citations for violations of the law is not harassment.
00:53:54Your Honor, citations for violation of obsolete, unenforced laws...
00:54:12Sheriff Pusser, did you...
00:54:13Did you...
00:54:16My car has been tagged in my own parking space, assigned to me.
00:54:21Yes, ma'am.
00:54:23Your Honor.
00:54:25Why?
00:54:27Well, Section 213 of Paragraph 11B, County Ordinance, dated February 4th of 1888.
00:54:34All carriages parked outside the courthouse must be tethered to hitch rails.
00:54:40My car?
00:54:41Well, as a matter of fact, ma'am, I didn't find one of those carriages out there properly hitched.
00:54:46So I gave them all tickets.
00:54:50Buford, these are automobiles, not horse-drawn vehicles.
00:54:55Well, I'm sorry, ma'am. Your Honor.
00:54:59But Statute 1411, dated February 13th of 1906,
00:55:04officially defines all motor vehicles as horseless carriages.
00:55:08Horseless carriages.
00:55:13I see, Sheriff Pusser.
00:55:15And why are you suddenly so concerned about the enforcement of our antique laws?
00:55:20Every one of those laws remains on the books.
00:55:24Now I'm sworn to enforce the laws.
00:55:26All of them.
00:55:28Against everyone.
00:55:31And that is not police harassment.
00:55:32Yeah.
00:55:35This court finds the charge of police harassment to be unfounded. It is dismissed.
00:55:40An appearance date is printed on your citations. Under law, you must appear at that time and date.
00:55:48This hearing is dismissed.
00:55:53Hey, you tell me something.
00:55:55Does this mean Buford can ride my tail from here on,
00:55:58burning me for every two-bit law I bust, hassling me every place I go?
00:56:00Well, I wouldn't say that, Danny.
00:56:02Well, what would you say, Mom?
00:56:04I pay you a lot of money to keep guys like Buford off my back.
00:56:06I know that, Danny, but...
00:56:08That's it! There ain't nothing you can do about Buford at all.
00:56:11Legally, I...
00:56:13I'll tell you something, Roger.
00:56:15Nobody gonna get away with hassling me.
00:56:17Danny, you can't. Danny, there's nothing I can do to protect you.
00:56:26Knowing you, Buford, you're not doing all this just for fun and games.
00:56:29No, ma'am.
00:56:31Your honor.
00:56:33Hearing's over, and we're friends.
00:56:35Well, I certainly hope so, Sabrina.
00:56:37You're after Mitchell.
00:56:39Any way I can get him.
00:56:42Tell me, Sabrina, where do you stand?
00:56:45Where I belong, administering the law,
00:56:47good, bad, or otherwise, to the best of my ability.
00:56:52Well, that makes two of us.
00:56:59I'm sorry.
00:57:20I'm sorry I couldn't get to you any sooner to warn you what Buford was gonna do.
00:57:23Well, hey, twerp, my knowing about it wouldn't have stopped him.
00:57:29You kiss me like that, it just makes me go weak all over.
00:57:32Yeah, we're gonna have to do something about that, huh?
00:57:34Anything you say, you know that.
00:57:36Anything, huh?
00:57:38Look, I'm risking a lot just being seen with you.
00:57:40Okay, okay, poor little rich girl.
00:57:42Daddy owns half of McNary County.
00:57:45Sometimes I think you're just using me.
00:57:48Me working at the sheriff's office and all.
00:57:58You love me?
00:58:02What kind of question is that?
00:58:04I wanna know.
00:58:08I love you.
00:58:11Any way you want it to be.
00:58:15I love you, too.
00:58:18Care to prove it?
00:58:20Haven't I? I do everything you say.
00:58:23Everything?
00:58:24Everything.
00:58:28I wanna settle with Buford Pusser.
00:58:31You wanna help me do that little thing?
00:58:34I don't know.
00:58:36What do you want me to do?
00:58:39You make up your mind, baby, me or him.
00:58:44Danny, you know it.
00:58:59Carriage, princess.
00:59:05How you doing, kids?
00:59:08Gee, Daddy, I'm glad to pick this up today.
00:59:10Didn't want to miss the edge of darkness.
00:59:12What's so special about today's edge of darkness?
00:59:14Well, Annie shot Mr. Roper,
00:59:16and Joe Young, the district attorney who loves her,
00:59:18has to prosecute her,
00:59:20even though it's breaking his heart to do it.
00:59:22How do we do it?
00:59:24Some ways are doing better than the other way.
00:59:26Long mouth, princess.
00:59:28Dignity, I'll make it up.
00:59:30Famous last words.
00:59:32Oh, are we doing so well on our spelling
00:59:34that we can afford to talk here, princess?
00:59:36Like the man said, I'll make it up.
00:59:39Well, if that's a promise,
00:59:41I just might spring for a couple of triple dippers.
00:59:43I don't know. Coach says sugar gives you pebbles.
00:59:45And Jenny Cooper doesn't make out with prickly boys.
00:59:47Shut up, Duana.
00:59:49Don't talk to your sister that way, Mike.
00:59:51Shut up, Duana.
00:59:53All right, get down on the floor.
00:59:55Get down on the floor. Get down.
00:59:57Cover your heads.
00:59:59Get down.
01:00:19Mike, Duana, you all right?
01:00:20All right, now stay down until I get back.
01:00:22Stay down there.
01:00:30Mike, you all right?
01:00:32Just shook up real good.
01:00:34All right, get up.
01:00:36Come on.
01:00:38It's all right.
01:00:40It's all right.
01:00:42I'm fine, Daddy.
01:00:44Remind me to take the bus home next time.
01:00:46Who was that?
01:00:48I'm sorry.
01:00:50I learned how to be a taxpayer.
01:00:58I understand how you feel.
01:01:00You've got to understand,
01:01:02as long as those laws are on the books,
01:01:04technically there's nothing I can do.
01:01:11Are we supposed to stay in here?
01:01:13Excuse me.
01:01:20All right.
01:01:41What happened?
01:01:43All right.
01:01:45I know a lot of you folks are unhappy with me.
01:01:48I don't like bearing down on you the way I have.
01:01:51But I have to do it.
01:01:54The only way I've been able to figure out
01:01:57to get to a man that needs to be brought to justice,
01:02:01I'm asking all of you
01:02:03to go along with what I'm trying to do.
01:02:05I'm asking all of you to trust me.
01:02:08Please trust me.
01:02:12I brought my car here with me
01:02:15to show you that what I'm trying to do
01:02:17seems to be working.
01:02:19Seems to be working.
01:02:22The man that I'm after
01:02:24was worried enough he tried to kill me today.
01:02:28My kids,
01:02:30Juana and Mike,
01:02:32they were in the car with me.
01:02:37Well, I don't think that our complaints matter that much.
01:02:40This meeting is adjourned.
01:02:48Buford.
01:02:49Miles.
01:02:51I started this.
01:02:53I'm going to finish it.
01:03:04Are you okay?
01:03:05Yeah.
01:03:06Mike and Juana were in the car with him, too.
01:03:08Are they okay?
01:03:11Only a mad dog could do something like that.
01:03:14Buford, this isn't about you.
01:03:15It's about the man.
01:03:17Buford, this car is going to take some fixing.
01:03:19You better take Till's car
01:03:20and he can use the backup unit.
01:03:21All right, Over. Where is he?
01:03:24He's at the lake.
01:03:25All right, Till.
01:03:27Till, you get this wrecked out of the shop.
01:03:29I got something to do.
01:03:31Sheriff,
01:03:32when you settle this,
01:03:33I want in on it.
01:03:35Might not be by the book, Till.
01:03:37To hell with the book.
01:04:16Hey, what's up, Buford?
01:04:17Think you can beat me?
01:04:21Your boys didn't get the job done, Mitchell.
01:04:25My kids were with me in that car.
01:04:29You know me better than that, Buford.
01:04:31We may have our differences,
01:04:32but they ain't all that heavy.
01:04:33I don't pick on a man's family.
01:04:34You're a liar.
01:04:36You ain't got the guts to take me on yourself.
01:04:41Yeah, I'll take you on.
01:04:43I always wondered if I could take you, Buford.
01:05:04Get up, you ain't through.
01:05:08Come on.
01:05:09Get up.
01:05:13That's enough, Buford.
01:05:15Come on.
01:05:16Stop it!
01:05:17Stop it, Buford.
01:05:18That's enough.
01:05:19Come on.
01:05:21Buford, stop.
01:05:22Come on!
01:05:26All right.
01:05:27All right, that's enough.
01:05:28Now, Danny boy.
01:05:31That's enough.
01:05:42That's enough.
01:06:12See you later, Grandpa.
01:06:13All right.
01:06:27Evening, Pop.
01:06:28Hey, Buford.
01:06:30Finally fixing that old thing, huh?
01:06:32Well, I'll get it figured out sooner or later.
01:06:35Say, Mike and Donna told me what happened today.
01:06:38You're lucky they didn't get hurt.
01:06:41You know, it could happen again.
01:06:44I don't think so, Pop.
01:06:45I hope not.
01:06:47Yeah, but you can't be sure, Buford.
01:06:49I wish I could be.
01:06:52I came out to pick up some clothes.
01:06:53I'm gonna spend a few days in town.
01:06:55It should make things better out here.
01:06:58Buford, maybe it's time...
01:06:59Oh, you don't have to say it.
01:07:00Well, maybe it has to be said, Buford.
01:07:03I mean, it could happen again.
01:07:06Pop, it happened.
01:07:08I'm doing my best to make sure it never happens again.
01:07:13Talking about it isn't gonna change anything.
01:07:18All right, son.
01:07:37All right.
01:08:04This is really shaping up, Gary.
01:08:07Quiet, Amelia.
01:08:10I suppose if it was Amelia to call him Buford, huh?
01:08:14So what brings you out here this time, Sheriff?
01:08:16You got more marching orders for me?
01:08:18No.
01:08:20Can I get myself a drink of water?
01:08:32Well, so much for having a dog for protection.
01:08:36That's good water.
01:08:38Just so good that you had to drive ten miles out here just to get another drink of it, huh?
01:08:43No.
01:08:44Got something on your mind?
01:08:47You might say so.
01:08:49Any luck with the nursing job?
01:08:51Well, it seems there's no great demand for ex-con nurses.
01:08:56Sorry.
01:08:59Look...
01:09:01You've done me a favor getting Harvey Gellman to give me credit.
01:09:05But have you got any funny ideas?
01:09:07You might consider it funny at that.
01:09:11Let's hear it.
01:09:12Lloyd Tatum is having a dance tonight.
01:09:15Oh, so I heard.
01:09:17But I haven't gotten my invitation yet.
01:09:19Well, now you have.
01:09:23What'd you say?
01:09:25I'm asking you to do the dance.
01:09:30You mean with you?
01:09:32If you'll do me the honor, ma'am.
01:09:37Well...
01:09:39If you're not funny, then you're crazy because you know what you'd be letting yourself in for.
01:09:44I know the kind of guts it takes to try to do what you're doing.
01:09:48And I know it'll take guts to go to that dance tonight.
01:09:53Well, I... I admire what you're trying to do.
01:09:56And if you'd like to go to that dance with me tonight, well...
01:10:00I'd be proud to take you.
01:10:04I won't go deeper.
01:10:06Well, I don't blame you. If I were you, I'd be scared too.
01:10:10I'm not scared of anything.
01:10:12Good.
01:10:14I'll pick you up at 7.30.
01:10:30What's the matter?
01:10:31Oh, here's the nursery. Bottles and formula in the steamer on the stove.
01:10:37Honey, what is it, Ruthie?
01:10:38We want to watch the square dancing inside.
01:10:40Yes, just go and do it. And stay out of the way.
01:11:00You all sure do look like you're having a good time. I'm glad.
01:11:04Good to see you. Will you all excuse me?
01:11:07I'm so glad you made it, Judge Marlow.
01:11:09Just Sabrina tonight.
01:11:11Oh, this looks like such fun.
01:11:14Fun's the word.
01:11:16Evening, Buford.
01:11:19Carrie?
01:11:21How are you, Lloyd?
01:11:22Fine, just fine.
01:11:24Carrie Todd, Sabrina Marlow.
01:11:29I'm delighted to meet you, Carrie.
01:11:32My pleasure.
01:11:34Nice to see you, Sabrina.
01:11:36Excuse us.
01:11:42Thanks, Sabrina.
01:11:50See, there's nothing to it.
01:11:52I'm still scared of you.
01:11:53You sure you want to go through with it?
01:11:55Absolutely sure.
01:11:56Let's finish this dance, all right?
01:11:57Two-step is the only dance in the world I can do, and none too good at that.
01:12:07You see, I told you.
01:12:10Hi, Debbie. How's it going?
01:12:17Amelia?
01:12:20Freddy, I just want you to stop for just a minute.
01:12:26All right.
01:12:31Damn.
01:12:37Carrie.
01:12:39Carrie.
01:12:40Look, running away isn't going to change anything.
01:12:42I'm leaving, Buford.
01:12:43No, you're not.
01:12:45Are you going to give me time to make this thing work?
01:12:48It'll work.
01:12:50Do I get a chance to try?
01:12:54Look, I'll be back in a minute. Will you wait?
01:12:57That's the way you want it.
01:13:10Here comes that big daddy of yours.
01:13:12Hey, Buford.
01:13:13Nice to see you.
01:13:16You're not going to get a dance with my princess tonight, huh?
01:13:18No.
01:13:19Good.
01:13:20I missed you not being at home, Daddy.
01:13:21I know, I missed you too.
01:13:22Sweetheart, a little lip-a-tooth, two-slip-clap-tooth.
01:13:24How about that, huh?
01:13:26I'm coming in to see my girlfriend.
01:13:28I thought your cart was filled.
01:13:29I suppose it was.
01:13:30Yeah, let's go.
01:13:31Get in there and shake her legs, boy.
01:13:57That corner by the right.
01:13:59We'll park to the left.
01:14:00You got an alamand.
01:14:01Sweep in and a backward star.
01:14:02Back along now, but not too far.
01:14:05Slip the clutch to an alamand.
01:14:06Left with your left hand.
01:14:07And come on back.
01:14:08A right and a left grand.
01:14:10Left you go.
01:14:11Just find a girl and promenade.
01:14:13Promenade.
01:14:14Go two by two.
01:14:15Take that pretty girl home with you.
01:14:16Well, all right.
01:14:17Back home.
01:14:18That's what you do.
01:14:19Ladies center.
01:14:20Then back to the bar.
01:14:21Head them into the middle.
01:14:22Make a right-hand star.
01:14:23Hey, star by the right.
01:14:24And around you go.
01:14:25Now back to the left.
01:14:26But don't you be slow.
01:14:27We'll take old partner.
01:14:28With an arm around, star, promenade.
01:14:30But don't slow down.
01:14:32Now the inside out.
01:14:33The outside in.
01:14:34Gents back up.
01:14:35Put the ladies in.
01:14:36You're going to phone this star with a pretty voice in.
01:14:37Star, promenade.
01:14:38And around you go.
01:14:39Now bring her home.
01:14:40Break that thing.
01:14:41Swing that gal.
01:14:42One time around.
01:14:43Go on.
01:14:47Go get her.
01:14:49Keep joking.
01:14:50Get out of me.
01:14:52Don't you touch her.
01:14:55You all right?
01:14:56Huh?
01:14:57Yes, you are.
01:14:58That hurt a lot, doesn't it?
01:14:59Good thing you were here, Carrie.
01:15:01You learn how to do that.
01:15:03Well, you learn a lot in prison.
01:15:06You all right, Lucy?
01:15:10Carrie, don't go, please.
01:15:14I want to thank you.
01:15:20Damn it.
01:15:21I'm sorry.
01:15:25I'm sorry.
01:15:30Okay, we got a lot of dancing to do.
01:15:32Now let's get at it, huh?
01:15:34Dance with her, Daddy.
01:15:37You want to take this up where we left it off?
01:15:39No.
01:15:40Is this a two-step?
01:15:56Hey, Hope, are you there?
01:15:58I read you two.
01:16:00It's quiet.
01:16:02Everybody's at the barn dance.
01:16:04Wish I was.
01:16:06Policeman's lot is not a happy one.
01:16:09Just don't sing it.
01:16:10I read you two.
01:16:11It's quiet.
01:16:12Everybody's at the barn dance.
01:16:14Wish I was.
01:16:16Policeman's lot is not a happy one.
01:16:18Just don't sing it.
01:16:40Wish I was.
01:17:11Hubert.
01:17:13There's a call for you up at the main house.
01:17:15Ober couldn't reach you on the radio.
01:17:17There's been a shooting out in the lumberyard.
01:17:19Any more detail?
01:17:20Uh-uh.
01:17:22Well, you feel like taking a ride?
01:17:24We'll be back in a little bit.
01:17:41501 to base.
01:17:45501 to base.
01:17:46Ober coming.
01:17:49Ober?
01:17:51The radio's dead.
01:17:53Trouble?
01:17:54I don't know.
01:17:55Debbie, get on up to Lloyd Tatum's place and get over on the phone.
01:17:59Tell him I need Grady and Till to back me up at the lumberyard, all right?
01:18:11Look!
01:18:23I know I told Debbie.
01:18:24Just get Grady and tell him to back me up fast.
01:18:38Ober!
01:18:39Yeah, you gotta get me through to Till and Grady fast.
01:19:09Okay.
01:19:39Okay.
01:20:09Okay.
01:20:10Okay.
01:20:40Buford!
01:20:45You got him!
01:20:47I seen him take it, Danny boy.
01:20:49Mumps!
01:21:10You got him, Danny boy!
01:21:12You hit him!
01:21:40You hit him!
01:22:01I want to get him!
01:22:02You go around the other side.
01:22:09I want to get him!
01:22:35You bunker, you seen anything?
01:22:36Nothing, I ain't seen nothing.
01:22:37Well, either he lost his firepower or he's playing possum because there ain't nothing coming back at us.
01:22:41I want him.
01:22:42Why don't you get in there?
01:22:44Mumps, you go around the other side.
01:22:46Ober, you follow me.
01:22:58Sit right there, pusser.
01:23:00Get them hands up where I can see them.
01:23:05Hey, Danny, I got him!
01:23:07I got him!
01:23:28Hey, he coming?
01:23:29Yeah, he's on his way.
01:23:30Let's go.
01:23:37Let's go.
01:24:08I'm getting out of here.
01:24:14Mumps, come back here!
01:24:34Pusser!
01:24:37Pusser!
01:25:08Pusser!
01:25:21Shoot! Shoot!
01:25:26Okay, I got him.
01:25:27Gilbert, you all right?
01:25:29I'm okay, Danny.
01:25:31Let me get this thing finished up.
01:25:34You read him his rights still?
01:25:35You knew this was a set-up, didn't you?
01:25:37Yeah, it was the same person that tipped off old Danny boy before.
01:25:40I'm taking your car, Grady.
01:25:42Okay.
01:25:43You clean up this mess now, yeah?
01:26:06Come on.
01:26:19Why'd you do it, Debbie?
01:26:23Why? What do you mean?
01:26:26It was you who tipped off Danny about that raid on his disco.
01:26:32You set me up tonight.
01:26:36I just want to know why you did it.
01:26:41Where's Danny?
01:26:45He's dead, Debbie.
01:26:48No, that's not true.
01:26:50That's not true.
01:27:05I loved him.
01:27:07That's why I did it.
01:27:12Can you understand that?
01:27:24I'm going on over.
01:27:29There's one thing I don't understand.
01:27:31You knew it was a set-up.
01:27:32Why'd you just walk in with Danny boy's trap?
01:27:36Do you have a handcoil?
01:27:40No, but you gotta flush him before you can shoot him.
01:28:06You ever hire a new girl yet?
01:28:08Not yet.
01:28:10You gotta see the one that's in there now.
01:28:17Shut up, I'll get the job, Sheriff, even though I can't tie for anything.
01:28:21Excuse me.
01:28:35She the one, Sheriff?
01:28:36Boy, she'd be good.
01:28:38I don't know, fellas.
01:28:39You know, hiring a girl who looks like that and working in a county office.
01:28:43Oh, come on, Buford, give the girl a chance.
01:28:45You can't hold her looks against her.
01:29:06He lives the only way he can
01:29:11To prove the courage we all lack
01:29:16He has to care
01:29:21While we don't dare
01:29:26If we could follow
01:29:31The dream he fought
01:29:36Then soon we'd all
01:29:41Be walking tall