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Murder in Mississippi (1965)
84 min | Action, Drama | October 1965 (USA)
White dilettante Carol Lee Byrd and her two friends are arrested by mean racist Sheriff Engstrom in the deep south for trying to encourage local browbeaten black citizens to become registered voters. After her friends are both killed, Byrd gets abducted by two sleazy rednecks who keep her in a secluded cabin so they can use her as their own personal sex slave.
Director: Joseph P. Mawra (as J.P. Mawra)
Writer: Herbert S. Altman
Stars: Sheila Britt, Sam Stewart, Derek Crane
84 min | Action, Drama | October 1965 (USA)
White dilettante Carol Lee Byrd and her two friends are arrested by mean racist Sheriff Engstrom in the deep south for trying to encourage local browbeaten black citizens to become registered voters. After her friends are both killed, Byrd gets abducted by two sleazy rednecks who keep her in a secluded cabin so they can use her as their own personal sex slave.
Director: Joseph P. Mawra (as J.P. Mawra)
Writer: Herbert S. Altman
Stars: Sheila Britt, Sam Stewart, Derek Crane
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00:04:34And tell Slim to get some hot coffee for me too.
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00:04:59Okay, come on.
00:05:06What are you down here for?
00:05:08This is not going to be a picnic, and I'll tell you that right now.
00:05:14Now, this is home.
00:05:17Now, this is home, at least until the police make us move.
00:05:21Now, it's not going to be a picnic.
00:05:23And if you've come down here with any false ideas, forget them.
00:05:26It's rough.
00:05:29Now, we have been trying to register voters in this area for God knows how long.
00:05:35And we haven't been very successful.
00:05:37Why?
00:05:40Well, first of all, we have to locate the place of registration,
00:05:44which is changed as often as a floating crap game.
00:05:49And then we have to find out what time it's open,
00:05:52which might be at four o'clock in the morning.
00:05:56And in this county, you have to be vouched for by a registered voter.
00:06:00Well, now, that's real cute.
00:06:03I'd hate to be that brave white soul that vouches for that first Negro voter.
00:06:08Well, that is just about what we're going to have to do.
00:06:11It's a stack deck. What's the point of us knocking ourselves out?
00:06:15So you're knocking yourself out. So what?
00:06:18Win or lose, the important fact is that you've helped a few Negroes realize that they do have a few rights.
00:06:25Now, their self-respect must be restored so they can have some pride and ambition.
00:06:30Or you will be harassed by local white toughs, Klansmen, and God knows what else.
00:06:35They will try to bait you in every possible way.
00:06:38Now, don't give them any reason to take offense.
00:06:41If they call you nigger, ignore it.
00:06:45If they spit in your face, ignore it.
00:06:48And you answer every question with, sir.
00:06:52And don't show anger.
00:06:55And don't show anger.
00:06:58Now, these are some of the ground rules. The rest you'll learn as you go along.
00:07:03And remember, at all times, you're down here to register voters, not to be martyrs.
00:07:11Okay, that's all for now.
00:07:16Hey.
00:07:19Remember, keep smiling.
00:07:25They'll be all right.
00:07:45Wow.
00:08:15Hey.
00:08:29Hey.
00:08:32Hey.
00:08:43Oh, what do we have here, boys?
00:08:46I'm telling you about Neil.
00:08:48Uh-huh. They give you any trouble?
00:08:50Hell, no.
00:08:51I wish they would have.
00:08:53Who told you to sit down? Get up, boy.
00:08:56Ooh, I'd sure like to lay into this one.
00:08:59Okay, Phil, hold off on that kind of talk.
00:09:02Now you can all sit down.
00:09:05I'd like to make a phone call.
00:09:08Is that a fact?
00:09:10Yes.
00:09:11We're entitled to one phone call.
00:09:13Nigger, don't you know how to say sir?
00:09:15Phil, I'm still running this show.
00:09:22Sit down.
00:09:24I said sit down, boy.
00:09:30I have some advice you should learn to take, boy.
00:09:33Learn how to say sir.
00:09:38Boys, I'll tell you what we've done.
00:09:41We've gone and caught ourselves a couple of highfalutin' negroes.
00:09:47And some communists.
00:09:48That's what we've done.
00:09:52Where are you from, boy?
00:09:54Philadelphia.
00:09:56Philadelphia.
00:09:58You're a long way from home, ain't you?
00:10:00Yes, sir.
00:10:04You.
00:10:09New York City.
00:10:12Sir.
00:10:13Sir.
00:10:18Where you hail from, little lady? New York too?
00:10:21No, I'm from Richmond.
00:10:23Oh, my, my. Real Southern belle.
00:10:30What's your name, boy?
00:10:31Bernard Samuelson.
00:10:33Boynard Samuelson.
00:10:36You're from New York, Boynard.
00:10:39Yes.
00:10:45What am I gonna do with you people?
00:10:48Can't let you walk around like you own our town.
00:10:52Making speeches, inciting riots.
00:10:56First thing you know, some hothead will get all riled up.
00:11:00I couldn't blame him.
00:11:03He lose his head, don't tell him what might happen.
00:11:09Now, for your own good, you gotta go take your trouble making someplace else.
00:11:17This is a peaceful Baptist community.
00:11:20I aim to keep it that way.
00:11:22Let's stop all this yakking and just run them out.
00:11:25I'm getting tired of always checking what them niggers are doing.
00:11:28I'm gonna give these folks a fair chance.
00:11:32Bob, neither of these people get in their car and get out of town.
00:11:37We only...
00:11:38Fuck you. You stay.
00:11:42But we're only doing what the law allows us to do.
00:11:45Come on, belle.
00:11:47You too.
00:11:51You, sit here.
00:11:54Come on, boy, move.
00:11:56Do what the law tells you to do.
00:12:08Boy, if I let you go,
00:12:12you go up north where you belong and stay there?
00:12:16Sheriff, I have a job to do.
00:12:19I have to stay.
00:12:24You can have this nigger now.
00:12:27But don't hurt him too bad.
00:12:29Just show him we're not playing.
00:12:31Come on, Andy. You heard what Neil said.
00:12:50Come on.
00:13:06I don't want you people around here.
00:13:11Now you know what I'm talking about.
00:13:13It's not as funny as you thought, is it?
00:13:16You okay?
00:13:18Yeah, I'm okay.
00:13:22I can't believe it really happened.
00:13:24Like the sheriff said, this was just a sample.
00:13:27Those people are sick. Sick.
00:13:30Well, we're gonna be right out there tomorrow doing what we came down here to do.
00:13:33Oh, Paul, I don't think that sheriff was fooling.
00:13:36Man, he wasn't.
00:13:40Look, if anything happens tomorrow, just give me a call.
00:13:44I'll put through a call to New York.
00:13:46Won't necessarily help, but at least they'll be apprised of the situation.
00:13:51But isn't there anything we can do about the beating they gave Luther?
00:13:56Carol, this is a different world.
00:13:59And remember, we're the intruders.
00:14:02Luther, are you all right?
00:14:04Just a little headache, that's all.
00:14:06I wish I could get my hands on one of them deputies.
00:14:09And what are you gonna do?
00:14:11Man, if I get my hands on...
00:14:13Man, if you...
00:14:15You were scared to death.
00:14:17I was not.
00:14:18Yeah? Well, maybe it would have been better if you'd been a little scared.
00:14:22Then maybe you wouldn't have had to take that beating.
00:14:25Look, like you said, I didn't come down here to be no martyr.
00:14:32Well, if you don't change your attitude, that's just what you're going to be.
00:14:37Now, this is our operating plan.
00:14:41Luther and Sally work here.
00:14:44Carol, Bernie, Tyrone, right through here.
00:14:50And remember to call in.
00:14:53Because if you are late, we must assume the worst.
00:14:57Neil, they didn't leave town like you said,
00:15:00so I figured you'd want to see them again.
00:15:04Hello, Samuelson.
00:15:08Now, look, I gave you people fair warning.
00:15:12I pleaded with you.
00:15:15I said, if you don't change your attitude,
00:15:18that's just what you're going to be.
00:15:22I pleaded with you.
00:15:25One thing is for sure.
00:15:27I ain't going to let no bunch of communist Yankees run our town for us.
00:15:31Neil, you too damn easy on them.
00:15:33We got to keep them down and aim for one way to do it.
00:15:36You notice that big buck ain't here.
00:15:39I put the fear of God in that black boy.
00:15:47All right, set yourselves down.
00:15:50Now, what's your name again, boy?
00:15:52Tyrone Carver, sir.
00:15:55Where are you from?
00:15:56612 North Kelly Street, Philadelphia, sir.
00:16:01And where do you work?
00:16:03I attend Temple University, sir.
00:16:06Yeah, student.
00:16:08That figures.
00:16:11What do you do to make a living, boy?
00:16:13I'm a student at CCNY.
00:16:15What kind of communist organization is that?
00:16:18The initials stand for City College of New York.
00:16:21Don't get uppity, boy.
00:16:26What's your name, young lady, huh?
00:16:29Miss Nigger Lover?
00:16:31My name is Carol Lee Bird.
00:16:34I attend Smith College. I'm from Richmond, Virginia.
00:16:37And if you want to know...
00:16:38Don't tell me what I want to know.
00:16:40I don't want to know.
00:16:42Don't tell me what I want to know.
00:16:44I know what I want to know.
00:16:46What I want to know is what are you doing with these niggers, these communists?
00:16:51You must be sick.
00:16:53What kind of a family you come from?
00:16:56No, I'm not sick.
00:16:57I come from a fine old southern family that I'm very proud of.
00:17:01My father was Judge Oscar Bird of Richmond.
00:17:03And Michael Joe Morrison is the Virginia State Attorney.
00:17:07Your father would turn over in his grave.
00:17:10What you need is a good horse weapon.
00:17:13Oh, I'd sure like to give her a weapon.
00:17:19She don't want you.
00:17:21She likes dark meat.
00:17:23A girl like that.
00:17:25Messing around with niggers and what all.
00:17:30Why are you down here agitating our colored folks?
00:17:33You just naturally like to be with niggers?
00:17:36Yes, I like negroes.
00:17:38Yes, I like negroes.
00:17:39They're people.
00:17:40People?
00:17:41Yes, people, not animals.
00:17:42And they're entitled to dignity.
00:17:44As a southerner, I'm sick and tired of apologizing for my southern brethren.
00:17:48Don't you apologize for me.
00:17:50You apologize for yourself.
00:17:52You may come from a southern family, but you ain't no southerner.
00:17:58I'd sooner die before I'd live to take sass from any ignorant nigger.
00:18:05Now listen here.
00:18:06I don't give a damn what you people do.
00:18:09Bob.
00:18:12Is this the boy that stole that portable typewriter from the stationery store?
00:18:15Yeah, Neil.
00:18:17Bob, type up like I say.
00:18:19This town doesn't even have a stationery store.
00:18:21I hereby confess to stealing one portable typewriter.
00:18:26Date it today.
00:18:28Now, Bernard.
00:18:31You just sign that confession.
00:18:33I'll lock it up in my safe.
00:18:35Forget all about it.
00:18:37Providing you get out of here and get up north where you belong.
00:18:47Neil, are you honest around here?
00:18:49Yeah.
00:18:50You go feed Montgomery.
00:18:55What's your name again, boy?
00:18:57Tyrone Carver.
00:18:59Bob, type up.
00:19:01I, Tyrone Carver,
00:19:04do hereby confess
00:19:07to cohabitating with Miss Carol Byrne, a white woman.
00:19:12That's a lie!
00:19:14Type it up like I say. Leave the date open.
00:19:16No! No, just a second.
00:19:18Don't type that.
00:19:21Here, boy.
00:19:23Just sign this.
00:19:26Now, here's what we're gonna do.
00:19:29You, Miss High-Flying Bird,
00:19:31you're gonna get in your car and you're gonna drive up north.
00:19:34And you...
00:19:38I don't hold you, though, George.
00:19:41You think you're helping your people,
00:19:43but you're hurting them.
00:19:46A lot of wrong ideas from these crackpots.
00:19:50The niggers in this town like it just the way it is.
00:19:55They don't like people coming down here
00:19:57raising a ruckus any more than we do.
00:19:59We get along just fine.
00:20:04Now, I'm gonna be real easy on you.
00:20:08I don't wanna hurt nobody.
00:20:12A few weeks on the county work farm
00:20:14will do you a world of good.
00:20:17From September 1st,
00:20:19I'll let you out so that you can attend your classes
00:20:21at Temple University.
00:20:24Just don't get to thinking you're white.
00:20:28You sign your name.
00:20:30Sir, if I can't sign a blank piece of paper...
00:20:34Oh, you'll sign. You'll sign.
00:20:39Did that hurt you, boy?
00:20:41Oh, you're doing this to yourself.
00:20:44Now, let me know when you're ready to sign.
00:20:55You'll do as you're told.
00:20:57We didn't get out of your skin yet.
00:21:01Are you ready?
00:21:04You used that confession to hurt our movement, sir.
00:21:08I...
00:21:12Now, come!
00:21:13Sit down, you Jew boy, and keep quiet.
00:21:15I don't need quiet, you Nazi bastard.
00:21:17Where's your swastikas?
00:21:19I lost this leg fighting Nazis.
00:21:21For you Jews.
00:21:23You sit down, boy, or I'm going to blow your head off.
00:21:32Bernie! Bernie!
00:21:34Oh, no!
00:21:35Carol,
00:21:37what are you crying for?
00:21:39Huh?
00:21:42What are you crying for?
00:21:48Bernie's dead, Tyrone! Bernie's dead!
00:21:51I hated him!
00:21:53I wish all you white devils were dead!
00:21:59Tyrone, what are you saying?
00:22:01Bernie died for you!
00:22:02No! Bernie didn't die for me!
00:22:06He died for himself.
00:22:08He was a glory seeker.
00:22:11Who are you going to die for, Carol?
00:22:14Are you going to die for me, too?
00:22:18Are you going to die because all these white butchers are going to kill you?
00:22:27You're here because you thought it was interesting.
00:22:31You're not here because you wanted to help a bunch of ignorant niggers.
00:22:36You feel the same as they do, that we're niggers!
00:22:40No, Tyrone!
00:22:43This is too big for you to live with.
00:22:45You don't have to sign anything. I'll sign it! Your death warrant!
00:22:50Here!
00:23:15Andy! Phil!
00:23:18Take them two out to the gravel pit.
00:23:21And bury them deep.
00:23:45I'm tired of digging.
00:23:47Let's throw the bodies in the pit.
00:23:49The sheriff said to bury them.
00:23:51I don't care what the sheriff said. Let's throw them in the pit.
00:24:16Let me go! Please let me go!
00:24:24Come on, get up.
00:24:26I knew you'd try running.
00:24:28I had one eye on you all the time.
00:24:33I knew you'd try running.
00:24:35I had one eye on you all the time.
00:24:38I knew you'd try running.
00:24:40I had one eye on you all the time.
00:24:44I knew you'd try running.
00:24:46I had one eye on you all the time.
00:24:54I'm glad you tried.
00:24:56Come on, baby, we'll do some more.
00:24:58Come on.
00:25:02Listen, you boys didn't kill or hurt anybody.
00:25:06If you kill me, you're really going to be in trouble.
00:25:09Think about that.
00:25:11You're guilty of murder.
00:25:15Why, the sheriff killed Tyrone.
00:25:17You didn't have anything to do with that.
00:25:22And Bernie?
00:25:24He was shot accidentally.
00:25:29But if you kill me,
00:25:31they'll hang you for sure.
00:25:37You know who my father was?
00:25:40And I know you know my brother, Dick Bird, the movie star.
00:25:44Well, I'm his sister.
00:25:47And he'll find out what happens.
00:25:49You wait and see.
00:25:53Oh, you guys are only doing the sheriff's dirty work.
00:25:59I wouldn't want to cross up Sheriff Engstrom.
00:26:01He'd be a mighty sore cracker.
00:26:03There's no telling what he's liable to do to us.
00:26:07I bet if you were to call my brother right now,
00:26:10he'd come right down and give each of you
00:26:13$5,000 for getting me out of this trouble.
00:26:17$5,000 each?
00:26:27Yes.
00:26:29$5,000 each.
00:26:31With $10,000, we could move to California
00:26:33and we wouldn't have no more trouble with old Engstrom.
00:26:36Besides, this little old gal's a sight too cute
00:26:39for that dead, dirty old pit.
00:26:41Anyhow, I think she goes for me.
00:26:44I wouldn't want to cross up old Engstrom.
00:26:46Never mind Engstrom.
00:26:48You get the other body. I'll take care of this one.
00:26:51Now let's find out about that Mr. Dickie Bird and $10,000.
00:26:55With $10,000, we can cut for California
00:26:58and never see old Engstrom.
00:27:00Phil, I ain't never heard of no Dickie Bird.
00:27:03Well, I got news for you, Andy, old boy.
00:27:06You ain't never heard of nothing.
00:27:31Hello, Mr. Bird?
00:27:33Dick Bird, the movie star?
00:27:35Do you have a sister?
00:27:37How old is she? Brunette, ain't she?
00:27:40Oh, well, maybe she dyed her hair.
00:27:42Well, she wants to talk with you.
00:27:47Dick, this is Carol.
00:27:50Oh, Dick, I've done a very foolish thing.
00:27:53I came down here with a silver right hand
00:27:56and now I'm in terrible, terrible trouble.
00:27:59Oh, Dick, you've got to do exactly as these men tell you.
00:28:02They are going to kill me. I mean it.
00:28:05Oh, Dick, you've got to help me.
00:28:09Mr. Bird, if you want to see your sister again,
00:28:12you'll come down to the Lovenboro Hotel tomorrow afternoon
00:28:15and bring $10,000 with you.
00:28:17Stay in room 3B and make sure you keep your mouth shut.
00:28:21Paul Petticoat, Quofo Headquarters in New York,
00:28:24if we hadn't heard by now.
00:28:29Hello, operator?
00:28:31Person to person, please.
00:28:33Collect to Mr. Murray Abel at Waverly 71901.
00:28:39Erico 212.
00:28:41Yes, sir.
00:28:43I'd like to speak to Mr. Murray Abel.
00:28:46Yes, sir.
00:28:48Erico 212.
00:28:50Paul said he'd find out what's wrong.
00:28:53He's got ways.
00:28:55Well, Paul knows about everything.
00:29:04Where's Paul Jackson?
00:29:06I got word he's had trouble with some Yankees.
00:29:08I got a warrant for his arrest.
00:29:10Who are you?
00:29:12Robert Montgomery, sir.
00:29:14Mr. Jackson's assistant, sir.
00:29:16You'll assist him in jail.
00:29:18Lock him up, Bob.
00:29:20We'll put out a flyer to pick up that smart aleck
00:29:22rabble-rouser Paul Jackson.
00:29:24What are you arresting him for, sir?
00:29:27Ain't you had enough?
00:29:30Just one more question and you'll find out in jail.
00:29:35Why can't you Yankee niggers stay up north?
00:29:46Call Murray.
00:29:48He'll call the FBI.
00:29:56Headphones are rehashed.
00:29:58What's the use anyway?
00:30:00Federal law hasn't got any jurisdiction down here.
00:30:03I ain't gonna do no good sitting on my fat butt.
00:30:06I guess I better go do the work I came down here for.
00:30:11You're right, but I've got to call Murray
00:30:13and I've got to get to C4.
00:30:16Good.
00:30:17Go to him and tell him
00:30:20that he can count on me
00:30:22and you can, too.
00:30:32Hello.
00:30:34Operator.
00:30:35Person, person, please.
00:30:37Collect to Mr. Murray Abel.
00:30:41I found it.
00:30:43Whatever it is.
00:30:46Paradise Hotel.
00:30:49The return of the native.
00:30:55About that time.
00:31:00Room service, please.
00:31:03Room service, this is B3, Dick Bird.
00:31:06Could you send up a bottle of Hagen-Hagen Pinch?
00:31:10You don't?
00:31:11Well, what have you got?
00:31:13Well, all right, send that up,
00:31:15but make sure there's plenty of ice.
00:31:17And look,
00:31:18if you could arrange for a thick, rare sirloin steak,
00:31:21I'd be much obliged.
00:31:23Oh, do you have any baked potatoes?
00:31:25You do?
00:31:27Excellent.
00:31:28Send the two skins from the baked potato.
00:31:31That's right, skins only.
00:31:42They sure picked the right guy for the job, didn't they?
00:31:45Take it easy, Paul.
00:31:47Sure, take it easy.
00:31:49Well, you're not going to do them any good
00:31:51by tearing yourself apart.
00:31:53Yeah, and I'm not going to do them any good
00:31:55by being cooped up in this room, either.
00:31:57Well, you've done your best.
00:31:58Oh, I haven't done anything.
00:32:00I got three kids lost out there somewhere.
00:32:02I haven't heard from them in over 25 years.
00:32:05Well, you're not going to do them any good
00:32:07by tearing yourself apart.
00:32:09I haven't heard from them in over 24 hours.
00:32:11No call, no word, nothing.
00:32:16Well, they must be all right,
00:32:18or we would have heard something by now.
00:32:20Oh, come on, Sally.
00:32:21You know better than that.
00:32:24Oh, I called COFO headquarters
00:32:26and told Mr. Abel everything about it.
00:32:28Yeah.
00:32:29And did you tell him I did it again?
00:32:31That the great Paul Jackson
00:32:33lost three hotshot, certified civil rights workers?
00:32:36Well, what's the matter, Paul?
00:32:38It's not your fault.
00:32:39It is my fault.
00:32:40It's my job to get these kids back home safely.
00:32:43It's my job to teach them how to live down here.
00:32:46Oh, yeah, they come down here
00:32:48with a bunch of crazy ideas
00:32:49about helping the oppressed Negroes,
00:32:51but there's more to it than that.
00:32:53They don't even know that you can't even breathe
00:32:55in that town unless the sheriff says so.
00:32:57He can lock you up for anything he can think of,
00:33:00and you can't do a damn thing about it.
00:33:06I'm sorry.
00:33:07I'm sorry.
00:33:08I'm sorry.
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00:39:23How have you been?
00:39:24Oh, I'm pretty good.
00:39:26I don't know.
00:39:28I guess I'm all right.
00:39:30I do hope you've looked over those questions that I left for you last time.
00:39:34Yes, I looked over them.
00:39:36Very good.
00:39:37Now,
00:39:38I suppose I can count on you to come down and register to vote?
00:39:41Now why have I got to go down there?
00:39:43Why can't they come up here to me?
00:39:45You know all the trouble we've had.
00:39:48We have lost some of our family.
00:39:50They have killed them.
00:39:51They have killed them.
00:39:52But Mrs. Moore, that's the whole point.
00:39:54Your vote will change all this.
00:39:56Don't you understand?
00:39:57And what will my vote do?
00:39:59Your vote?
00:40:00About my children.
00:40:01Mrs. Moore, these are your...
00:40:02And my grandchildren.
00:40:04These are your grandchildren?
00:40:05That's right.
00:40:05Fine.
00:40:06Do you know that your vote can change things
00:40:08so that your grandchildren won't have to do
00:40:10what you've had to do all your life?
00:40:11Will it take those people out of office?
00:40:14It certainly will.
00:40:15You sure?
00:40:16That's the whole thing we're working towards.
00:40:17So they won't come if it doesn't.
00:40:18Oh, that's exactly what we're aiming for.
00:40:20Okay.
00:40:21Now, did you look over the questions?
00:40:23Yes, I looked over them and I kind of think
00:40:25I remember them a little bit.
00:40:26Oh, fine.
00:40:26Then suppose, suppose I ask you...
00:40:28But you just go kind of slow.
00:40:29All right.
00:40:30And I'll see if I can remember.
00:40:32Fine, I'll do that.
00:40:33Let's go.
00:40:33Now, under the Constitution,
00:40:35what specific powers are reserved
00:40:38for the federal government?
00:40:40Coinage of money.
00:40:42Oh, now let me see.
00:40:45Coinage of money.
00:40:47And, uh...
00:40:50Now the disposition of custom duty.
00:40:54Right.
00:40:55Yes.
00:40:55One more.
00:40:56Oh, one more.
00:40:57And declaration of war.
00:40:59Very good.
00:40:59Right.
00:41:00That's right.
00:41:00Very good.
00:41:01Now, in the case of the death of the President
00:41:05and the Vice President,
00:41:06who becomes President under the Constitution?
00:41:09Now, that isn't provided for at this point.
00:41:14Correct answer.
00:41:15One more.
00:41:17How many amendments are there to the Constitution?
00:41:19Oh, that one's easy.
00:41:21Twenty-four.
00:41:22Oh, very good, Mrs. Moore.
00:41:23I'm so proud of you.
00:41:25And boy, I really feel encouraged
00:41:27by your having learned them.
00:41:28Now, let me tell you.
00:41:31You keep your word, and I'll keep mine.
00:41:34Well, now the job is up to you.
00:41:36From now on, it's up to you.
00:41:37We've got to count on you now.
00:41:39Get to those registration booths
00:41:41and register so you can vote.
00:41:44Hello.
00:41:44Hi, Sally.
00:41:45Hi, Luther.
00:41:46Wow.
00:41:47How did it go?
00:41:48Oh, pretty good.
00:41:48Mrs. Moore knew all the answers to the questions.
00:41:50I'm very proud of her.
00:41:51Good.
00:41:53Dick is in town.
00:41:54You know, Carol's brother?
00:41:57I met him.
00:41:58I'll go find out if he knows anything about it.
00:42:00Good, good.
00:42:01See you later.
00:42:01Now, don't you forget to pass for me tomorrow.
00:42:04I will.
00:42:04I'll come back.
00:42:05I'll be ready.
00:42:06By the way, take this along with you, OK?
00:42:08OK.
00:42:09Keep it for me.
00:42:09So long.
00:42:10Bye-bye.
00:42:11Andy thinks I'm going to have to rape you to get you.
00:42:14Hell, you'll be begging.
00:42:18Want some?
00:42:22Not with your hands.
00:42:25Give me some chicken.
00:42:27You be nice to me, and I'll be nice to you.
00:42:31But I'm hungry.
00:42:33You be nice to me first.
00:42:35Please.
00:42:35Please.
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00:42:40I can't hear you.
00:42:43Please.
00:42:47Please.
00:42:48Please.
00:42:50You ain't hungry enough.
00:42:51I'm hungry.
00:42:57Oh, please.
00:42:58Please.
00:43:10Oh!
00:43:24Uh, connect me with the mayor's office please.
00:43:28May I please speak to the mayor?
00:43:30Uh, Mayor, this is Dick Byrd, the actor.
00:43:33I've got a problem.
00:43:35Well, yes, it is a police matter, but confidential.
00:43:40But yes, thank you very much.
00:43:44Sheriff Engstrom?
00:43:46Sheriff, this is Dick Byrd. I've just been talking to the mayor.
00:43:49He said I could rely on you.
00:43:51It's about my sister, Carol.
00:43:54Well, I've had a very disturbing phone call.
00:43:57Well, no, I'd rather not discuss it on the phone.
00:44:00Well, I can't do that either.
00:44:02They said they'd contact me here at the hotel.
00:44:04A B3.
00:44:06Well, yes, thank you, Sheriff. I'd be much obliged.
00:44:14Hello, Mr. Byrd. Do you remember me?
00:44:16I'm Sally Jones, a friend of Carol's.
00:44:20Carol brought me to meet you when you played in Boston.
00:44:23In the Rage of Paris!
00:44:26That's the first role I ever sang.
00:44:28Yes, I remember you, Sally.
00:44:30We had dinner in a little restaurant called The Cane.
00:44:34That's the night they asked me to get up and sing the title number from the show.
00:44:39Hey, Sally, why in the world did you and Carol come to this godforsaken country?
00:44:44And where is she?
00:44:45Well, we don't know for sure.
00:44:47We haven't heard anything since they were arrested.
00:44:50Arrested? What for?
00:44:53Well, don't you know what's going on?
00:44:55Well, no, I just got here.
00:44:58Well, I just came to tell you that we're doing all we can to find her,
00:45:01and that if you should hear anything or need me, call me at that number.
00:45:05I think you should call the FBI.
00:45:07Well, that wouldn't be necessary. The Sheriff will be here in a minute, and he'll help.
00:45:11Oh, my God, you didn't call the Sheriff!
00:45:14Now, look, Sally, I know they're down on your people here,
00:45:18but don't worry, he won't stand for kidnapping a white girl.
00:45:23I'm afraid you don't begin to understand the situation.
00:45:27Goodbye, Mr. Bird.
00:45:35You again?
00:45:38I hope this is the last time I've seen you, gal.
00:45:42You know what I mean.
00:45:44Don't you, gal?
00:45:50Well, I'm mighty pleased to meet you, Mr. Bird. How are you?
00:45:53You too, Sheriff. Fine.
00:45:54Good. Now, just what kind of a phone call did you get?
00:45:56Well, a standard kidnapping phone call, I imagine.
00:45:59Pay the money, et cetera, et cetera.
00:46:01Now, look, Sheriff, I can't stay down here too long.
00:46:04I'm rehearsing a very important part.
00:46:06Now, do you think we should call the FBI?
00:46:09Mr. Bird, I'll cooperate and give you all the help I can,
00:46:13but if you call the FBI, my hands are tied and there isn't anything I can do for you.
00:46:17Now, who called you?
00:46:19He didn't say.
00:46:21What did he tell you to do?
00:46:22Wait till I'm contacted, I guess.
00:46:24Pay the money, then they'll release Carol.
00:46:28How do you know she's okay?
00:46:30Well, I just spoke to her on the phone last night.
00:46:32She sounded scared, but she said she was all right.
00:46:35Now, look, Sheriff, you don't think that hurt her, do you?
00:46:38Mr. Bird, kidnappers are desperate men.
00:46:42The best thing to do is to rely on me.
00:46:45And I think I'd better get started in doing that right now.
00:46:48If you need anything, let me know.
00:46:50Anything, Mr. Bird.
00:46:52Thank you, Sheriff.
00:47:10The boy that killed the big, big giant?
00:47:12Yes, yes, tell me.
00:47:14Well, he was a little boy, and his name was David.
00:47:17The same as yours.
00:47:18He lived way up on the mountain,
00:47:21and he saw a big, big tree.
00:47:24Hello, Mrs. Taylor.
00:47:25Hi, David.
00:47:26Oh, it's you again.
00:47:28I'd like to talk to you and Mr. Taylor
00:47:29about the voting registration that we once discussed.
00:47:35Henry?
00:47:36Yes?
00:47:37Here's that man again.
00:47:41Hello, Mr. Taylor.
00:47:42Good morning, how are you?
00:47:44Could we discuss the voting registration?
00:47:46Well, I guess so.
00:47:48What's your name?
00:47:49My name is Luther, sir.
00:47:50Ah, yes, sir.
00:47:51My wife told me what you said,
00:47:54but I don't know.
00:47:55I haven't made any decision about it yet.
00:47:57I've been thinking about it,
00:48:00but I'm not sure.
00:48:02Mr. Taylor, why don't you come down to our headquarters?
00:48:04Maybe then you'll understand.
00:48:06I don't know that it'd do any good.
00:48:08You know, they tried to register voters here once before.
00:48:11Didn't turn out well.
00:48:13Wasn't so nice for us people.
00:48:16They done burnt down some houses,
00:48:18killed a few people.
00:48:20I'm not for it.
00:48:22I don't know that I can afford to take a chance.
00:48:24You see, this is my home.
00:48:27I was born here.
00:48:28My father was born here.
00:48:30My wife was born close by.
00:48:32My children were born right here.
00:48:35This little two-acre farm is mine.
00:48:37It's our home.
00:48:38Can't afford to take a chance.
00:48:40But sir, everyone is taking a chance.
00:48:42It's important that you vote.
00:48:44You have to vote.
00:48:45Without the vote, you're nothing, sir.
00:48:47You're nothing.
00:48:48You're a child.
00:48:49You're grandkids.
00:48:50You're a wife.
00:48:51You.
00:48:52What anyone else does is not my concern.
00:48:54I have to look after my wife and my children.
00:48:56I can't afford to take that kind of chance.
00:48:58Mr. Taylor, is there anything we can do
00:49:01to get you to come down to headquarters?
00:49:03I know your cause is right,
00:49:05but I can't afford to take a chance.
00:49:08I know your cause is right,
00:49:10and I have no question with you.
00:49:12I know that things have been bad down here
00:49:14and that they're not right.
00:49:16But we gotta stay here.
00:49:18We gotta live here.
00:49:19This is our home.
00:49:21Henry?
00:49:22Emma, let me talk to the man.
00:49:24Have you forgotten what happened to people in your family
00:49:27down here when they tried this?
00:49:29Well, then keep still and let me talk to him.
00:49:32I've been here a long time,
00:49:34and if I take care of my family,
00:49:35farm my land, tend to my business,
00:49:37stay in my place,
00:49:38the white folks tend to their business,
00:49:40I have no trouble at all.
00:49:41But, sir, you'll have trouble till the day you die,
00:49:44until you vote.
00:49:45Mr. Taylor, don't you realize
00:49:47how many people are coming down here
00:49:49risking their lives to vote with you,
00:49:51both colored and white?
00:49:53I don't know how many people you got coming down here,
00:49:56but it don't make it right,
00:49:57all them white folks and colored folks coming down here,
00:50:00stirring up our people down here
00:50:01and making trouble for us.
00:50:03Well, I don't doubt that it's a good cause,
00:50:06but you people come down here
00:50:07and you make trouble for us,
00:50:09and then you go on about your business.
00:50:11We gotta stay here.
00:50:12We're not gonna do this.
00:50:13We're gonna stay right here with you.
00:50:14We're gonna see this thing through with you,
00:50:16but you must help us.
00:50:17Mrs. Taylor, you think you're playing it safe.
00:50:21You're playing it safe at his expense.
00:50:23Don't talk to her.
00:50:25Talk to me.
00:50:26This is my home.
00:50:28I've gotta think about it.
00:50:29You gotta give me time to make up my mind.
00:50:31Come on in, Emma.
00:50:32Come on in the house.
00:51:02Come on in.
00:51:27One minute.
00:51:32Hi, baby.
00:51:35Well, well.
00:51:36What have we got here?
00:51:38Sheriff told me to come up here and take care of you.
00:51:41He did, huh?
00:51:42That's real Southern hospitality.
00:51:45Well, come on in.
00:51:48Would you like a drink?
00:51:51No, thank you.
00:51:52I don't drink.
00:51:53What's your name?
00:51:54Wilma.
00:51:56Wilma, let me ask you something.
00:51:59What kind of a town is this?
00:52:02I don't know what you mean.
00:52:04Oh, I mean, what kind of a guy is the Sheriff Engstrom?
00:52:07I don't know anything about the Sheriff.
00:52:09He just told me to come up here and entertain you.
00:52:11That's all.
00:52:12Oh, do you do everything Sheriff Engstrom tells you?
00:52:15Mm-hmm.
00:52:16I do everything every white man tells me to do.
00:52:24Hey.
00:52:25Hey, what?
00:52:26You're a big movie star.
00:52:27Are you as good as you are in the movies?
00:52:29Well, I'll tell you what we'd do.
00:52:32Why don't we try a few scenes and find out?
00:52:34Sure.
00:52:36I'll try any scene, any time with you, baby.
00:52:58Who is it?
00:53:00Mr. Byrd?
00:53:01I don't want to talk to you about money.
00:53:04Yeah, one minute.
00:53:07You, Mr. Byrd?
00:53:08Yeah, I'm Mr. Byrd.
00:53:11Just one second.
00:53:14What is it?
00:53:16I need to talk to you.
00:53:18Oh, I didn't even ask you.
00:53:19What do you want to talk about?
00:53:21What?
00:53:23I want to talk to you.
00:53:24What is it?
00:53:25I want to talk to you.
00:53:27What do you want to talk to me about?
00:53:29I'm not going to talk to you.
00:53:31I'm not going to talk to you.
00:53:33I'm not going to talk to you.
00:53:35$10,000 now where's Carol she's all right
00:53:50Thank You mr. Burke she'll be at the corner of highway 1 and route 41 at 6 a.m.
00:53:59she'll be waiting you make sure Thank You mr. Burke
00:54:29$10,000
00:55:00$10,000
00:55:05That chicken's pretty good, huh?
00:55:07$10,000
00:55:24Come on baby relax don't make things so hard you'll enjoy it again
00:55:30I'm about to best that answer
00:55:32Why, you little hellcat!
00:56:02You're all alone! All alone! All alone!
00:57:02You stupid son of a...
00:57:04Make him hurry! Do exactly as I tell you to do!
00:57:07Now, come on!
00:57:09Now, let the dog outside.
00:57:32Come on!
00:58:02Come on!
00:58:32Come on!
00:59:03Help me!
00:59:05Help me!
00:59:07Go away!
00:59:09Go away!
00:59:11Help me!
00:59:19Help!
00:59:20Help me!
00:59:33Help!
01:00:11Oh
01:00:41Oh
01:01:11Oh
01:01:41Oh
01:02:11Oh
01:02:41Oh
01:03:11Oh
01:03:41Oh
01:04:11Oh
01:04:41Oh
01:04:46Come on trio get him
01:05:11Oh get it hold them down. Yeah, I got him right here. I got him
01:05:16Come on let's get at it
01:05:35Hold him in strip
01:05:41I
01:05:49Want to fix this one, so don't mess with no women no more no color
01:06:11Oh
01:06:41Oh
01:06:54We took care of him now, what are we gonna do with the girl?
01:06:57I don't know I've had my belly full of killing must be another way out of this
01:07:07Who are you I'm agent Han of the FBI
01:07:11Can I do for you? What can you tell me about the disappearance of the two civil rights workers Tyrone Carver and Bernard Samuelson?
01:07:20You saw them didn't you
01:07:22Well five of them here last night. Give him a warning to behave themselves and let him go
01:07:29You are Carol bird, aren't you?
01:07:33What can you tell me about Tyrone Carver and Bernard Samuelson I
01:07:39Don't know anything
01:07:41You're not being intimidated. Are you I'll look here. This young lady has just been raped by one of your Yankee niggers
01:07:46Let her be leave the girl alone. Can't you see what she's been through?
01:07:50I intend to pursue this matter until I have fully documented all the facts
01:07:55We'll take this up with the Federal Commissioner
01:07:59You'll be hearing from us
01:08:11The bills are marked
01:08:14That's state's evidence. You were trying to bribe a deputy sheriff
01:08:19Besides, I've got pictures of you and that gal Wilma
01:08:23Now sure
01:08:25You know
01:08:27There's to me that that federal agent is gonna try and make trouble for me
01:08:32Think you could keep your sister from telling stories and lies like you just did. I think so
01:08:40Can you drop charges
01:08:43Let's talk money
01:08:46Mr. Bird, I
01:08:49Think I'm beginning to like you
01:09:09Hello, mr. Samuelson, where's Bernie? I don't know
01:09:39All
01:09:55Right, mr. United States attorney, what have you got?
01:10:00We're going to show I'm not interested in what you're going to show Jenkins. What do you got? I
01:10:06Have a conspiracy to intimidate citizens and the free exercise of their constitutional right section are you talking about?
01:10:13Well, I think it's clear. We have a section two. I'm not interested in what you think Jenkins. Let's see the evidence
01:10:20Are you sure you mean 241 and not 242?
01:10:24Madam Commissioner, I firmly urge you to consider this as a section 241
01:10:30Conspiracy you're trying to use 241 because it carries imprisonment up to 10 years
01:10:35But 242 has only one year. Is that what you're driving at?
01:10:39No, madam. Commissioner. We firmly believe that the actions of the defendants in this case are
01:10:45specifically those referred to by Congress in section 241
01:10:49namely
01:10:50That this was an act of conspiracy to injure threaten or press. I can read mr. Jenkins and honest
01:10:57I can the one thing I don't need you for is to read to me
01:11:01So stop reading and let's get on with your evidence I
01:11:07Call to testify miss Carol bird
01:11:20Put your hand on the Bible
01:11:23Swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help you God
01:11:28Yes, I do
01:11:30Now Carol, please state your name address and occupation
01:11:39My name is Carol bird
01:11:42By
01:11:44RD
01:11:46I'm a student at Smith College a little louder. Please miss bird and I live at
01:11:53401 Washington Street, Richmond, Virginia
01:11:56Now Carol, please tell the commissioner what you saw sheriff angstrom do
01:12:00To Tyrone Carver and Bernard Samuelson that is if you saw them do anything
01:12:09Carol the truth Carol is all we want
01:12:26I
01:12:29Saw the sheriff kicking Tyrone Carver in an attempt to get him to sign a fake concession that he was having an affair with me
01:12:41When he refused he began to beat him and when Bernie Samuelson came to help angstrom shot and
01:12:48Killed him
01:12:54Now sounds to me like you're giving me a lot of theoretical state crimes
01:12:59Now, mr. Jenkins, you know, this is a federal court
01:13:04We do not try state crimes in this court
01:13:09But your honor I
01:13:11I'm well aware of that. If you'll just give me a moment. I'll shortly demonstrate that the purpose of the killings and the castration
01:13:17Now damn it, wait a minute
01:13:19There you go testifying instead of presenting evidence
01:13:22Now there's no evidence before me of any castration. I don't think the federal statute on civil rights your honor
01:13:29The consular I told you to hold it
01:13:34I'm trying to see if there's anything in this damn statute about castration
01:13:40No, sir, II I read the whole thing there isn't one thing in it about castration
01:13:46Besides from the looks of things. I think you got more miscegenation than castration
01:13:52You better forget both of them, but madam commissioner
01:13:56castration castration is certainly one method of injury and the statute provides that any
01:14:01I told you before counselor I can read
01:14:05Maybe better than you
01:14:08Maybe better than you even though you're a lawyer and I'm not I
01:14:14Don't want you to read to me
01:14:17Jenkins
01:14:19You have any evidence that there was a conspiracy here. Can you show that these people got together and planned anything?
01:14:28if not
01:14:30I'm gonna dismiss this whole case and you can take it over to the state courts and see if they've got a law that
01:14:36covers it
01:14:38On the federal side. We certainly don't have any your honor
01:14:42We have ample evidence that the purpose of the killing the castration. There you go again counselor
01:14:47I think you've got a castration
01:14:50complex
01:14:55Haven't heard any evidence of castration and I don't think it's relevant anyway, so just please leave it out
01:15:03At any rate your honor the evidence here will show if I'm given opportunity to present it
01:15:08That sheriff thanks for meant his deputies were engaged in a conspiracy to intimidate several citizens while those citizens were
01:15:15Engaged in exercising their cousins. All you're doing is parroting the words of the law
01:15:21and
01:15:23Saying that the sheriff and his deputies were doing something that the law says they shouldn't do
01:15:29But I haven't heard one word of evidence to support that contention all I've heard but your honor
01:15:35You won't give me a chance to present my evidence
01:15:37counselor
01:15:39Just a minute. You'll have your chance
01:15:43As I was saying
01:15:46All I've heard is a lot of allegations that certain crimes
01:15:50Were committed against the peace and the dignity of the sovereign state of Mississippi
01:15:56Now you ought to know that the punishment of those who violate Mississippi laws is not conducted in federal courts
01:16:04If they didn't teach it to you in law school, you might as well learn right now
01:16:10That in the federal courts, we confine ourselves to the punishment of those who violate laws enacted by Congress
01:16:17There are three people in this court who witnessed the murder and castration of Luther Barnes
01:16:23Well, even if you have murder
01:16:26And I'll throw in your old
01:16:29castration complex to
01:16:32These are federal crimes unless committed on federal lands like a National Park or Federal Reservation
01:16:40Now I may not be a lawyer
01:16:42But I certainly know the basics of my job
01:16:46And all I'm supposed to do is to see if you have a prima facie case
01:16:51That a federal offense has been committed and you just don't have it
01:16:57Well as far as I'm concerned
01:16:59This case is dismissed
01:17:07Jenkins
01:17:09Why don't you take the whole kit and caboodle over to the local district attorney and see if he can find a state crime?
01:17:16And this mess of pottage you brought me in the name of God
01:17:21Is this what you people call justice now listen young lady you keep a respectful tone in your head
01:17:27I'll show you the meaning of justice
01:17:30case dismissed
01:17:39As long as we stick together we'll be okay, you know
01:17:42We need men like you Neal's got courage to fight for what's right and we've got to take a stand someplace
01:17:47Or we'll be in those shacks ourselves. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but we got a lot of work to do
01:17:52Well, I imagine congratulations are in order sheriff
01:17:55You gave a fine performance
01:18:02Carol
01:18:07You've got a good family Carol you're a very lucky girl
01:18:12And I think this experience today taught you to stay with your own kind
01:18:18Now I'm forgetting about all those lies you told about me today, but you got to leave with your brother
01:18:26You're free to go Thank You sheriff. I'm much obliged. Come on Carol. I've got to get back to New York
01:18:33Dick I'm not going with you. What did you say? I'm not going. Are you crazy after what they did to you and your friends?
01:18:42I know
01:18:45When I first came down here, it wasn't out of real feelings our conviction. What did you come down for kicks curiosity?
01:18:53Yes, really. I was a bystander not a participant. I was a witness
01:18:58I was a bystander not a participant. I
01:19:03Wasn't involved but now I am involved. Why are you involved? Isn't the government taking care of the Negroes down here?
01:19:13Sure, the government is helping the Negro now now but after how many bombings killings and burnings
01:19:20Bernie's dead
01:19:22Tyrone's dead
01:19:24Oh
01:19:27Oh
01:19:28Dick if we give up this fight now, so will the government know all the gain that has been
01:19:34Paid for in blood will be lost
01:19:37You really believe it, don't you?
01:19:41Yes, I do
01:19:43Dick you can't be neutral
01:19:46Either you're on his side or ours. I
01:19:50Don't think you're going to win sheriff. You don't win living either we all die
01:19:57You just hang on as long as you can
01:20:02Neil the mayor says for you to sign this permit for some of those civil rights people so they can have parade. I
01:20:09Can't sign this
01:20:12You'll sign sheriff you'll sign
01:20:15What are you gonna do well, I'm thinking
01:20:19The mayor talked with a big man himself, huh? And he says you sign or resign and that ain't all
01:20:25Some lousy white renegade vouch for one of our niggerest to be a registered voter
01:20:31That's dirty politics sheriff
01:20:34That's dirty politics sheriff
01:20:51What are you doing Neil hanging on
01:21:04I
01:21:35You
01:21:37It's not just Negroes, but really it's all of us
01:21:43who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and
01:21:50injustice and
01:21:53We shall overcome
01:22:01You
01:22:04You
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