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00:00:00Here, here, here, port's called order.
00:00:30Here, here, here, port's called.
00:01:00Here, here, here, port's called.
00:01:30Here, here, here, port's called.
00:01:42Here, here, here, port's called.
00:01:54Here, here, here, there, port's called.
00:01:56He has no place in this God-fearing community.
00:01:59He is a vagrant.
00:02:01He cometh from no man knows whence.
00:02:05Since arriving in our midst, he has been known to do no honest work.
00:02:11The Commonwealth of Kentucky asks, yea, demands...
00:02:16...that he be adjudged guilty and sentenced to six months on the chain-gag.
00:02:22Hey! Hey, boy! Wake up there!
00:02:30Sheriff! Wake him up there.
00:02:33If anybody's gonna sleep in this court, it'll be me.
00:02:36Hey! Wake up!
00:02:38Come here, boy.
00:02:40Here. Come on over here, right there.
00:02:45What's your name?
00:02:47Poindexter.
00:02:50Poindexter? Who give you that?
00:02:53Mr. Ranney.
00:02:55Ranney?
00:02:56You mean Major Randolph Poindexter from down at Pine Bluff?
00:03:01Yeah, Pine Bluff.
00:03:07Well...
00:03:09Looks like you, uh, Poindexters is always getting mixed up with some chicken somehow, uh...
00:03:15Hey, Sergeant?
00:03:17Seems like, uh, I recollect, uh, you and Major Ranney having some, uh, connection with the flesh of the fowl at one time.
00:03:26You're good if we didn't!
00:03:28You know, Major Ranney was the fire-eaternest soldier that ever chased a yank up a tree!
00:03:33You know, Billy, you and me puttin' his stard that day when we went forgin' for a snack after the Battle of Chickamauggy.
00:03:39Chickamauggy?
00:03:41No, no, it was, uh, it was the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain!
00:03:47To have no such a thing of it! Chickamauggy!
00:03:49Oh, you're both wrong!
00:03:50I'm not wrong!
00:03:51It was the summer of 63!
00:03:53But we were just outside of Glassville!
00:03:56No, Billy's right!
00:03:58I remember!
00:03:59For wasn't I there, Richard?
00:04:01Yes!
00:04:02Your Honor of the Commonwealth objects to this digression!
00:04:05Now, now, now, Senator, you know, now, now, the point is that, uh, that the Major, uh, he acted the part of, uh, of a gentleman and a soldier.
00:04:15And he removed the temptation from out of our path by eatin' up all the fat hens in the whole bunch
00:04:24and leavin' us nothin' but a lot of ol' skinny Domineck Roosters, you remember, boys?
00:04:29Come to think of it, Billy, they were Plymouth Rocks!
00:04:31There was no such a thing! They were Yankee Dickens!
00:04:33They were Rhode Island Wraps!
00:04:35I ain't no question I could let you go!
00:04:37No, Plymouth Rocks!
00:04:38Your Honor!
00:04:39Your Honor!
00:04:40Your Honor!
00:04:41Your Honor!
00:04:42Your Honor!
00:04:43Is this a court of law?
00:04:45Yes, I know them!
00:04:46I ask you, is this a court of law?
00:04:49Oh, now, now, now, Senator, I wouldn't, I, I...
00:04:52Don't get on your high horse that way.
00:04:55You know, we ain't in a great big hurry.
00:04:57But, uh, incidentally, but, uh, what do you, what do you charge with there, boy?
00:05:00Nothin', Judge, but I wouldn't let them chickens showin' up, I...
00:05:05Just fishin'.
00:05:06Fishin'?
00:05:07Why was you fishin'?
00:05:09Down in Sleepy River.
00:05:11He, he, he!
00:05:12Ain't no fishin' Sleepy River!
00:05:14No, sir!
00:05:15Ain't neither!
00:05:16Full of catfish!
00:05:17Talks right to me!
00:05:19Yeah?
00:05:20Sure is why I focus.
00:05:22I catch bull-ass catfishin' there that long!
00:05:25There's your proof he's lying!
00:05:29Here, come here.
00:05:30What, what, what do you use for bait?
00:05:32Oh, I get a hunk of beef liver.
00:05:35Beef liver?
00:05:36Yeah, I take the beef liver, put it on the hook, and chunk it out there.
00:05:40Let them have the first piece for nothin', see?
00:05:43And then you put some more on that and chunk it out there.
00:05:47And then they think they gonna get there for nothin', and then you catch them along as you got the liver.
00:05:53And I go out there all the time, and I don't care nothin' but that liver.
00:05:57Hey, right, you gentlemen, you still in the corner now?
00:06:02Yeah, yeah, I remember.
00:06:05Oh, down there.
00:06:07How about my bed I'm on?
00:06:09Yes, sir!
00:06:10I'm so nervous!
00:06:12I got to take down the judge's clothes, got to take them in the house, yes, Lord!
00:06:27Got to get out that old ironing boat, fix them up for the judge to wear.
00:06:36Mmm, yes, Lord!
00:06:41That's what I was a-guine to do!
00:06:48Praise the Lord, Mr. Room!
00:06:51Is you ahead or is you ain't?
00:06:53Hiya, Aunt Dilsey!
00:06:54How come you here?
00:06:55The judge say you up there at that college learned to be a lawyer, man.
00:06:58Aunt Dilsey, I got stomach trouble.
00:07:00Law help you, White Charles.
00:07:02What them years he's been feedin' you?
00:07:04Not a droin' thing, that's the trouble.
00:07:06What have you got for supper?
00:07:07Mr. Room, you stay here.
00:07:09Us was goin' to kill the high steppin' this rooster in the yard,
00:07:12and a great big bowl of milk gravy and griff!
00:07:15And waffles?
00:07:16Don't you worry, Aunt Dilsey, you was home now.
00:07:19Miss Roan's home, Miss Roan's home, Miss Roan's home, Miss Roan's home, Miss Roan's home, Miss Roan's home.
00:07:24Hey, Uncle Billy!
00:07:25Get that gravy and-
00:07:26How are you?
00:07:27Well, if it ain't Roan, well, salt be down.
00:07:32What happened up there? Did, uh, them Yankees kick you out of that law school, huh?
00:07:36Sure they did, with a diploma.
00:07:38You're now lookin' at a full-fledged member of the bar.
00:07:41Let me look at you.
00:07:44Oh, full-fledged, my gizzard.
00:07:48Yeah, I know you.
00:07:49You know, you better get your britches half-sold,
00:07:51cause you're gonna sit around a long time before you get your first client.
00:07:55Well, I don't mind, Uncle Billy.
00:07:57You know what happened to me before I got my first client, don't you?
00:08:01Lord, I-I-I sat through two Republican administrations before I-
00:08:11Who are you playin'?
00:08:12Oh, I'm just doin' a little practicing here for the championship.
00:08:16I got Jeff here. He's doin' the retrievin' for me.
00:08:19Uh, me and, uh, Herman Feldsburg is gonna play against Jimmy Bagby and Doc Lake.
00:08:24Two of them balls down there, will ya, Jeff?
00:08:26Two again?
00:08:27Mm-hmm.
00:08:28Remember the last time?
00:08:29Mm-hmm.
00:08:30I didn't wanna show you what had happened to Jimmy Bagby now.
00:08:32He's, uh...
00:08:34Just wanna show you how far than...
00:08:36Ooh, look here.
00:08:37Ha!
00:08:38Look at them Yankee shoes.
00:08:39You got all that, Jeff.
00:08:40Look at that.
00:08:41Yeah.
00:08:42Yes, I've never seen shoes with buttons on them before.
00:08:48I seen pants, but...
00:08:50Ha!
00:08:51Ha!
00:08:52Ha!
00:08:53Oh, say, that's fine.
00:08:55Uh, uh, just, uh, take your button shoes with ya and just step that off and see just how far it is.
00:09:02Come on!
00:09:03I think that's about a record.
00:09:05One, two, three, four.
00:09:13Hello!
00:09:14Ron!
00:09:19Glad to see me?
00:09:20Why, I thought you were still up north.
00:09:22Uh, I got in this morning.
00:09:25How'd you know I was back here?
00:09:27Well, I didn't, but Uncle...
00:09:29My, you look pretty with those things.
00:09:34Isn't this a lovely spray?
00:09:36Mm-hmm.
00:09:37Now, young lady, I want to ask you a question.
00:09:40Please let me down, Ron.
00:09:42Miss Gillespie, will you please tell this court why you didn't answer my letters?
00:09:45I've got to go in.
00:09:46Really, I have.
00:09:47Now tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you.
00:09:50You know why.
00:09:52All I know is that you've changed since I went away.
00:09:56Well, that isn't it, Ron.
00:09:58It's...
00:09:59It's just that we've grown up.
00:10:02You mean you don't like me anymore?
00:10:05Oh, Ron.
00:10:06Well, if my mother or anybody has said anything...
00:10:09Oh, Ellie, me, I mean...
00:10:11Well, I'm old enough to choose my own friends.
00:10:14Please let me go.
00:10:15We've got to get this thing settled once and for all.
00:10:17I've got to go in.
00:10:18Really, I have.
00:10:19All right, then.
00:10:20I'm coming back tonight and find out what it's all about.
00:10:22You can.
00:10:23I have an engagement.
00:10:24Who with?
00:10:25Fleming Talley.
00:10:26Well, how about tomorrow night?
00:10:27Oh, Ron, it's no use.
00:10:28All right.
00:10:29That's the way you feel about it?
00:10:30You can sit right there and we understand each other.
00:10:32That's all right.
00:10:33That's all right.
00:10:34That's all right.
00:10:35That's all right.
00:10:36We don't need any more practice for them old men.
00:10:39Besides, that exertion calls for a jewel.
00:10:42Yes, but you're gonna wait for that young gentleman before you...
00:10:54Wait for him?
00:10:55Yes.
00:10:56Unless young folks has changed since I was skirmishin' around.
00:10:59He won't be back in quite a while.
00:11:01Well, look at that goat.
00:11:05Ain't that a pretty sight?
00:11:07What, that goat?
00:11:09Ain't nothin' pretty in the world than two young folks in love in the spring.
00:11:15What about that goat?
00:11:16Oh, goat.
00:11:17My lord.
00:11:18Ain't you got any sentiment?
00:11:19Ain't you got no girl?
00:11:20Wasn't you ever in love?
00:11:21I was standing around here talkin' about a goat or somethin'.
00:11:24But your mint?
00:11:25What about my mint?
00:11:26A goat in your mint, baby.
00:11:27It's in my mint, baby.
00:11:28Yeah.
00:11:29Yeah.
00:11:30Yeah.
00:11:31I was standing around here.
00:11:32Get down.
00:11:33Get down.
00:11:34Get down.
00:11:35Ain't like you sit down.
00:11:36It's you always.
00:11:37Shoot.
00:11:38Don't look.
00:11:39Why, William Priest!
00:11:41Oh, hello, Carrie.
00:11:42This is a fine how do you do.
00:11:44What will the neighbors say?
00:11:46I'm ashamed of you.
00:11:48What's ailing you now?
00:11:50That gum goat come in here and eat up my mint bed there.
00:11:55I'll bet he must have been the ruination of a million juleps.
00:11:59You and your precious mint juleps.
00:12:01A circuit court judge.
00:12:04Where is your dignity?
00:12:05Dignity?
00:12:07I don't reckon the priest family will ever have to worry about dignity...
00:12:11as long as you're alive and kicking it.
00:12:13Well, it's a good thing somebody in this family has pride.
00:12:17I always told my brother when he married you that he saved the family name.
00:12:21Well, if he were living, he wouldn't be fooling around the front yard with a goat.
00:12:26That's not what I came for.
00:12:27Have you seen Rome?
00:12:29Oh, Rome? Rome?
00:12:31Oh, it appears like I did see that son of yours around here a while ago.
00:12:35I expect he's downtown, though, now.
00:12:38You know, strutting around, showing off his button shoes.
00:12:41Now, don't you play possum with me.
00:12:43As if I didn't know you'd been encouraging that...
00:12:47that girl over there to set her cap for Rome.
00:12:50Carrie, Carrie.
00:12:52If I didn't know that you'd had the biggest heart of any woman in the world...
00:12:56I'd think you's the most suspicious creature that ever come down the pipe.
00:12:59Never mind that.
00:13:01You come up on the porch.
00:13:03I want to talk to you.
00:13:12If I hadn't known that's the way you felt about it...
00:13:14I wouldn't have hurried home so fast.
00:13:16I'm sorry, Rome, but...
00:13:18after all, you have your career...
00:13:20and your family...
00:13:21and everything in the world that matters to you right here.
00:13:25I don't think you care what matters to me.
00:13:27That's not fair, Rome.
00:13:28After all, I'm...
00:13:30I'm only telling you for your own good.
00:13:32William, I'm not a woman to beat about the bush.
00:13:35This business of Rome and that girl next door has got to stop.
00:13:40What do you got against Ellie Mae?
00:13:42She's an awful sweet girl, seems to me.
00:13:44She's got gumption and she teaches school and supports herself.
00:13:48I don't want to be unkind.
00:13:49She may be a very nice girl and all that.
00:13:51But after all, Rome is one of the Kentucky priests.
00:13:55And the name of priest means something in Kentucky.
00:13:59Well, I've...
00:14:01I've never heard that it meant intolerance.
00:14:03It means good stock and family pride.
00:14:06You know the kind of stock she comes from.
00:14:09Yeah.
00:14:10Her, uh...
00:14:11Her ma come to this town penless and died giving birth to Ellie Mae.
00:14:23I remember the night.
00:14:25She was a frail little woman.
00:14:27Wasn't any bigger than Ellie Mae is now.
00:14:30And just as pretty.
00:14:32But who was her father?
00:14:34Well, nobody don't rightfully know.
00:14:39Well, a family may not mean anything to you.
00:14:42But it means a whole lot to me.
00:14:45I'm not going to have my grandchildren come into the world under a cloud.
00:14:50You haven't by any chance picked Hart Maydew as a grandpappy, have you?
00:14:55Oh, I know you've never liked Senator Maydew.
00:14:58But you can't say anything against his folks.
00:15:00They've got money, they're an old family, and Virginia's a lovely girl.
00:15:05She's always been crazy about Rome.
00:15:08He could do a lot worse.
00:15:11Well, I guess, uh, me and Rome, we ain't got anything to say about them.
00:15:17I knew you'd come around to my way.
00:15:20You gonna, uh, you gonna stay for supper, ain't you, Karen?
00:15:24Not tonight, thank you, William.
00:15:25The daughters of the Confederacy are having a chicken supper at Cape Maydew's.
00:15:29And I'm late already.
00:15:31Looks like you daughters get more ferocious every year towards Yankees and fried chicken.
00:15:36You got your badge on there.
00:15:39Yes.
00:15:40Mighty pretty.
00:15:41Good night, William.
00:15:42Sometimes I, uh, I think you women got more badges and medals out of the soldiers, dear.
00:15:49Good night, Karen.
00:15:51Good night, Karen.
00:15:57Listen, that old whipple, uh, calling his mate.
00:16:00Him and his kin has been...
00:16:02...nesting around here for nigh on 30 years.
00:16:06A lonesome kind of sound, isn't it, Uncle Billy?
00:16:10Hmm?
00:16:11Tis so.
00:16:13You know, the good Lord never meant for nobody, either man or bird to live by the self.
00:16:21Uncle Billy, why didn't you come and live with us after Aunt Margaret died?
00:16:25Oh, I...
00:16:27...I never could stand Jamal's cooking.
00:16:30Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:16:36Awful fine...
00:16:38...swing over there on that other porch.
00:16:40I wouldn't be surprised if there ain't a pretty girl...
00:16:43...settin' in it now.
00:16:45He's got another fella tonight.
00:16:47Well, he made sure he's putty.
00:16:50Fella gets hurled, certainly have to do some prancing, ain't he, can't he?
00:16:55Sit around and look glum all the time.
00:16:59There he is now.
00:17:01Who?
00:17:02That flim tally.
00:17:04The barber?
00:17:05Yeah.
00:17:07Gives off a poor shave, that son.
00:17:11Whoa!
00:17:14Whoa!
00:17:16Whoa, Bert.
00:17:27Here I am, homie!
00:17:33Here we have the mule.
00:17:44Uh, son, uh, there ain't nothin' that'll get your mind off women folks like work.
00:17:51Will you run back in my library there and get my old Kentucky coat of statues?
00:17:56It's, uh, it's an old calfskin book up on the top shelf there.
00:18:01Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:18:03That gets me, that's brilliant, now.
00:18:06Long years, and just gonna see if I can't stop them.
00:18:11Gabby Rives and Joe Harringer, you know, the boys that work for me down in my barber shop.
00:18:17Well, they comes to me tonight and wants me to go over to Old Town.
00:18:21Some high-flying gals over there.
00:18:24But I tells them no.
00:18:26I can have all the fun I want right here at home.
00:18:30Now, guess who I was talking about?
00:18:33Couldn't I...
00:18:35Couldn't I make you some lemonade?
00:18:37Lemonade? Sure, honey.
00:18:39And I've got something to sweeten it with.
00:18:41Right out of the mountains and kick it like a mule.
00:18:54Jack! Oh, Jack!
00:18:58You see anything about...
00:19:01Mr. Slim Talley, his barber man around here?
00:19:06No. What'll he be doing around here?
00:19:09I... I don't know, Jack, but...
00:19:11But they... they're headed this way for him.
00:19:15What are you talking about? Who's there?
00:19:18Uh, uh, some lady's pappy, uh, two barrels of shotgun.
00:19:24He said Mr. Talley's been messing around.
00:19:28He sure has been a killing mood.
00:19:32Well, you mean that, uh, he's going to annihilate him?
00:19:37Uh...
00:19:39Uh...
00:19:40No, I'll say he... he just, uh, is going to shoot him.
00:19:44That's all.
00:19:46Well, there ain't a thing that I can do about it.
00:19:49Uh...
00:19:50My job don't stop.
00:19:52Until, uh, they've got him all, uh, laid out in the morgue.
00:19:56Full of buckshot.
00:19:58Cold and dead.
00:20:01And, uh, ready for burial.
00:20:03Then, then I steps in.
00:20:05Uh, but, uh, you, you, judge, you, uh, the law.
00:20:11Oh, I can't do a thing about it, as I said before...
00:20:14until the shooting is over.
00:20:16And, uh, then I'll certainly see that the, uh, murderer gets a fair trial.
00:20:21Get her!
00:20:22Get her!
00:20:23Get her!
00:20:24Uncle Billy, I couldn't find that book anywhere.
00:20:26What book?
00:20:27That Kentucky law book.
00:20:28Oh.
00:20:29Maybe I didn't have one.
00:20:31Kelly May is waiting for you over there.
00:20:32What?
00:20:33I, I, I, I... how do you know? Are you sure?
00:20:34Now, don't be standing here like a jaybird gawking...
00:20:36when I tell you she's waiting.
00:20:38Go on out of here and go.
00:20:39Uncle Billy, I couldn't find that book anywhere.
00:20:41What book?
00:20:43That Kentucky law book.
00:20:45Oh.
00:20:47Maybe I didn't have one.
00:20:51Ellie Mae's waiting for you over there.
00:20:53What?
00:20:55I... I... How do you know? Are you sure?
00:20:57Now, don't be standing here like a jaybird gawking when I tell you she's waiting.
00:21:01Go on out of here and go.
00:21:09Oh.
00:21:15Oh.
00:21:19Oh.
00:21:31Oh.
00:21:33Oh.
00:21:35Mary.
00:21:39Yes, young Whippoorwill.
00:21:44Mighty poor company on a night like this.
00:21:51Good night, dear.
00:22:09Good night, dear.
00:22:30Good night, dear.
00:22:42Good night, dear.
00:22:47Good night, dear.
00:22:55Good night, dear.
00:23:00Good night, dear.
00:23:06It's been a long time, honey, since you and the babies on the way.
00:23:32Oh, uh, uh, Rome come home tonight.
00:23:42Little, little Robert E. would have been...
00:23:48He'd have been just the same age as, uh, as Rome is now.
00:23:58I guess it's Rome coming home is what makes it seem more lonesome than ever around here.
00:24:16Honey, you know that, that fellow that, uh, he enlarged that tin type?
00:24:22He, he sure did a, sure did a pretty job.
00:24:26I wish you could see it, honey.
00:24:30Oh, say, that, that fellow put that guilt on there.
00:24:44It was a regular humbug.
00:25:00Got to get that fixed.
00:25:06Mmm, honey, it's sure always a pretty night.
00:25:24Been an awful late spring.
00:25:28Well, I don't know when I've seen the flowers looking better this time of year.
00:25:42People are funny things.
00:25:45Always got their eyes set on something.
00:25:50Rome, he's got his eyes set on Ellie Mae.
00:25:53And Carrie, she's got hers set on old Hod Maydew's daughter, Rome.
00:25:59And old Hod, he's got his eyes set on my job.
00:26:04Some of them's gonna be disappointed.
00:26:09Mm-hmm.
00:26:10Them honeysuckles sure do smell sweet.
00:26:14Seems like l just can't get my nose full enough of them.
00:26:34But that burned, honey.
00:26:37There's Bob Gillis over that grave.
00:26:47It's at Ellie Mae's mother's.
00:26:50I'll cut you.
00:26:52You look like you're a pretty boy, though.
00:26:54Uh-huh.
00:26:55There you is.
00:27:01Hi, Jimmy.
00:27:02Hello, Billy.
00:27:03Howdy.
00:27:04What are you doing there?
00:27:06Figuring on getting called to the colors again?
00:27:09Hello, Gillis.
00:27:11Hello.
00:27:12I never know what them yanks is gonna do.
00:27:16We'll lick them once and I'm keeping old Jedi ready in case we...
00:27:20in case we gotta do it again.
00:27:22Say, uh...
00:27:24Better look at old, uh, General Forrest there.
00:27:27Think he's gonna need a little shoeing pretty soon.
00:27:30Well, I'm...
00:27:32I'm mighty busy right now, Billy, shoeing them two horses over there.
00:27:35Hey, Bob.
00:27:36We better take a look at the Judge's horses, some of them.
00:27:39Come on.
00:27:49Have a snifter?
00:27:51Good corn.
00:27:52You can smell the feet of the boys that cloud it.
00:27:54That breath of yours is like a hot mince pie.
00:27:59Where you going?
00:28:00Going fishing.
00:28:01Sleepy river.
00:28:02Sleepy river?
00:28:03Why don't you fish in the trough there?
00:28:04Need shooing?
00:28:05No.
00:28:06All right for a while yet.
00:28:07Say.
00:28:08Bad scar you got there.
00:28:09Bullet?
00:28:10Yeah.
00:28:11Get that in the warm?
00:28:12No.
00:28:13Uh, folks say, uh, you come from up north.
00:28:14Must've got that up there.
00:28:15You will talk to Jim.
00:28:16Jim.
00:28:17Jim.
00:28:18Jim.
00:28:19Jim.
00:28:20Jim.
00:28:21Jim.
00:28:22Jim.
00:28:23Jim.
00:28:24Jim.
00:28:25Jim.
00:28:26Jim.
00:28:27Jim.
00:28:28Jim.
00:28:29Jim.
00:28:30Jim.
00:28:31Jim.
00:28:32Jim.
00:28:33Jim.
00:28:34Jim.
00:28:35Jim.
00:28:36Jim.
00:28:37Jim.
00:28:38Jim.
00:28:39Jim.
00:28:40Jim.
00:28:41Jim.
00:28:42Jim.
00:28:43Jim.
00:28:44Jim.
00:28:45Jim.
00:28:46Jim.
00:28:47Jim.
00:28:48Jim.
00:28:49Jim.
00:28:50Jim.
00:28:51Jim.
00:28:52Jim.
00:28:53Jim.
00:28:54All right, come on with that beef liver now.
00:29:01Oh, there's a bait bag.
00:29:06Oh, there's a cute little head.
00:29:09They're up now.
00:29:11And a liver.
00:29:13Oh, gee, don't tell me you ain't got it.
00:29:18Looks like that liver hasn't walked off by itself.
00:29:23Oh, Lord.
00:29:26I'm gonna catch any catfish and ain't got no bait.
00:29:30Take this dime now.
00:29:32Hurry on back to town and get me that beef liver.
00:29:35All right, sir.
00:29:36Hurry up now.
00:29:37All right.
00:29:38I'm actually running now.
00:29:44You gonna put your shoes on?
00:29:46Look, I'm saving in case my feet go out.
00:29:50And then I have them.
00:29:52What's sitting around as you do?
00:29:55It won't be your feet that'll wear out.
00:29:57And now we're gonna catch a sense now.
00:30:06Ma'am, sir, Jesus wrote me alone.
00:30:11He wrote it on the wall.
00:30:16He'd tell me to put on my Sunday clothes.
00:30:22Boy, he's coming to catch me soon.
00:30:29Master Jesus broke me a note.
00:30:35He wrapped it in a star.
00:30:41Say he gonna wash me white as snow.
00:30:49Don't I be as black as I.
00:30:59Because I got a hand in this good old witty vest hanging up in there doing nothing.
00:31:06Fine grass.
00:31:08Will plague take you?
00:31:09I thought I told you to stay away from that vest.
00:31:11Yes, but Judge, it got hung up on my...
00:31:13Yes, you got my coat on there, too.
00:31:14Yes, but this old skunk coat...
00:31:16Skunk coat?
00:31:17I mean possum.
00:31:18What do you mean, possum?
00:31:19Uh, rabbit.
00:31:20Rabbit?
00:31:21Say, listen, every inch of that is raccoon.
00:31:23Better be raccoon.
00:31:24I took it off a rich Yankee.
00:31:25Now you get in there and put them things away from there.
00:31:27Better get on over at that festival there.
00:31:29Dilsey might be needing you, too.
00:31:31How are you, Judge?
00:31:36Just out of the river, just out of the river.
00:31:38I'm afraid it takes ice cream and cake to get you old soldiers out of the church.
00:31:42Yeah, if the Lord ever gets in the jam, why, he knows who to call on.
00:31:48That's right.
00:31:49Going to church isn't everything there is to it.
00:31:51Evening, Senator.
00:31:52Good evening, Reverend.
00:31:54Good evening, Jack Spreeze.
00:31:56Good evening, Lord.
00:31:58How much?
00:31:59He's one of our best churchgoers.
00:32:00Yes.
00:32:01It's surprising, uh, how far some men'll go to get a few votes.
00:32:09Too bad we, uh, we didn't get rid of him and get him off up to Congress there after him
00:32:17spending that, uh, term in the state senate.
00:32:21I understand he thinks you deprived him of that honor.
00:32:24Me?
00:32:25The Great Democratic Party, and Thomas Jefferson.
00:32:29The Reverend of the Senator doesn't see it that way.
00:32:32Tell me that his cases in your court...
00:32:35have taken on the appearance of a personal fusion...
00:32:38now that he's a candidate for your job.
00:32:41Oh, I wouldn't say that, Ashby.
00:32:44But I am gonna have to get out and do some mighty tall lectioneering, you know.
00:32:49Hart is a spellbinder in a silver tongue from way back.
00:32:54I'm just an old country jink to kind of a baby kisser.
00:33:00I ain't got much to offer the boys in the way of rhetoric.
00:33:05I understand he doesn't approve of your grammar.
00:33:08My grammar?
00:33:10First thing I learned in politics was when to say ain't.
00:33:15Well, sir, I was going...
00:33:21Speak of the ice cream.
00:33:23Did I have to tell you about Shiloh?
00:33:25Yes.
00:33:26Wait a minute, Doc.
00:33:27Wait a minute.
00:33:28I want you to hear this.
00:33:29Well, sir, come here.
00:33:30Come on.
00:33:31Come on back here.
00:33:32I want you to hear this.
00:33:33I want you to hear this.
00:33:34Well, sir, I am a little more...
00:33:35from a high-level barrel.
00:33:36Them orders had to get across the river to General Beauregard.
00:33:38What did I do?
00:33:39I took off my clothes and stuffed orders in my mouth...
00:33:40and I plunged in to a pitch star.
00:33:42Well, sir, I was going...
00:33:44Good evening.
00:33:46Good evening.
00:33:49Swimming again, Jimmy?
00:33:53Where was I? Where was I? Where was I?
00:33:55Right in the middle of the river.
00:33:57Yes, sir. There you are. Swimming and 12 miles to go.
00:33:59Yes, and there I was. Swimming and swimming.
00:34:01Diving under and around.
00:34:03Yankee gunboats. Yankee boats all around me.
00:34:05Surrounded by Yankee gunboats.
00:34:07And me dodging, driving.
00:34:09Gunboats? Yes, sir.
00:34:11Putting them gunboats in there is a new touch, ain't it, Jimmy?
00:34:16Hello, Rome.
00:34:19Hello.
00:34:20Now, don't you young people think you have to entertain us old folks?
00:34:24That's right. Run along now. They're getting ready for the candy pool.
00:34:28Perhaps Rome has other plans.
00:34:30Oh, no, he hasn't.
00:34:36I declare, Virginia gets prettier every time I see her.
00:34:41And I know you're happy to have Rome at home again.
00:34:44Oh, he's such a nice boy.
00:34:46Don't they look fine together?
00:34:48Look at them horrors.
00:34:50Ah, yes.
00:34:52You, beauty.
00:34:54Why, I remember when I first crossed the threshold of my young manhood.
00:34:59And listened to the sweet murmurings of my heart.
00:35:03Oh.
00:35:04Oh.
00:35:05Oh.
00:35:06Oh.
00:35:07Oh.
00:35:08Oh.
00:35:09Oh.
00:35:10Yes.
00:35:11Yes.
00:35:12Yes.
00:35:13Yes.
00:35:14Yes.
00:35:15Yes.
00:35:16Yes.
00:35:17Yes.
00:35:18Double portion, please.
00:35:19You have a full portion there.
00:35:21Oh, but we can pay for it.
00:35:23Can't we, Rose?
00:35:24Can't we, Rose?
00:35:39Gentlemen, I propose to conduct my campaign on a date in a five basis.
00:35:43No personality.
00:35:44Others may censure the homespun manners of Judge Priest on the bench.
00:35:49Not I.
00:35:50Others may question the methods by which he has held political control of the county for a quarter of a century.
00:36:00Not I.
00:36:02Oh, gentlemen, merit alone will count in the forthcoming election.
00:36:13Where have you been keeping yourself, Rose?
00:36:15I think you've forgotten where I live.
00:36:17Nothing like that.
00:36:19Mother and Daddy are always teasing me about you.
00:36:23I tell them you don't care anything about me.
00:36:26Bet you have a girl up north.
00:36:29Well, even if I did have, haven't you got every boy in town on your string?
00:36:33Oh, no stick in the mud.
00:36:35They make me tired.
00:36:38Besides, I've been waiting for somebody else.
00:36:49Attention!
00:36:52Say, what's the...
00:36:54What's the prettiest gal at the...
00:36:56festival here?
00:36:57Moping around back here by herself, huh?
00:37:00You want some taffy, Judge?
00:37:04I ain't much of a taffy puller.
00:37:14On second thoughts, you can give me a water of that, too.
00:37:17Come on, put the butter on your hands first.
00:37:19Oh, Mom, I'm getting my hands first.
00:37:33H ν, Uncle Billy.
00:37:35HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
00:37:39You ain't doin' that, right?
00:37:41What's the matter with him?
00:37:42Here.
00:37:43Let me see your hand.
00:37:44How's the butter on there? No wonder.
00:37:46Here, here, let me show you.
00:37:48Put mine in here. Let me show you.
00:37:50There. Go on up there. Run on up there.
00:37:52Put some old stickum on your hand there.
00:37:54Go on, right up there.
00:37:55All right, Uncle Billy.
00:37:56That's it. Now, here.
00:37:57Put that right over in there, now.
00:37:59Now, here, here, here.
00:38:00Now, that's the thing. Candy pulling.
00:38:02You got to keep your mind right on there.
00:38:04Right on there.
00:38:05See, look at this. That's how you're getting it all on your hand.
00:38:07Keep your mind on what you're doing there, now.
00:38:09You're pulling candy with the champion candy puller
00:38:12of this neighborhood, now.
00:38:16Bye.
00:38:19Bye.
00:38:21Bye...
00:38:23Bye.
00:38:24Oh,
00:38:25I'll see you next Friday.
00:38:27Hey!
00:38:29Bye!
00:38:41Bye.
00:38:42I think this is your fault.
00:39:12The corn top lies at the meadows in the blue,
00:39:26while the birds make music all the day.
00:39:40Weep no more, my lady.
00:39:47Oh, weep no more today.
00:39:54We will sing one song of my old Kentucky home,
00:40:08of my old Kentucky home, far away.
00:40:25Good morning, everybody.
00:40:32Good morning, Judge.
00:40:34You next.
00:40:35Hey, Flynn, you've got the only lively spot in town.
00:40:40Here, Gabby, what's the latest news in the paper this morning?
00:40:47Hello, Lodge.
00:40:49Howdy, Judge.
00:40:50Say, you ain't been in lately, have you?
00:40:53Good morning, Mr...
00:40:58Good morning.
00:40:59Good morning.
00:41:00Good morning.
00:41:05Nice day.
00:41:06Yeah.
00:41:07Oh, Flynn.
00:41:08Here she comes.
00:41:12And does she like her flippies?
00:41:15Hey, Flynn.
00:41:16When are you two getting hitched?
00:41:17Don't know if I heard nobody talking about marriage.
00:41:29You ain't scared of no shotgun wedding, are you?
00:41:32Not as long as she ain't got no paw.
00:41:35Say, that fellow's gonna make himself mighty unpopular around here.
00:41:39That's right, Judge.
00:41:40Yeah.
00:41:41There's about 2,000 male citizens here that's gonna be mighty sore at him.
00:41:45Yeah.
00:41:46When they find out that he punched you in the jaw before they could.
00:42:04Yes, he's gonna be awful unpopular around here.
00:42:09Yes, he's gonna be awful unpopular around here.
00:42:23We're not licking the last shots fired.
00:42:25No.
00:42:26You ain't gonna have more.
00:42:27I got the grounds.
00:42:28All right.
00:42:29Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:42:30You choose upwards, Bill.
00:42:32There you go.
00:42:33Yeah.
00:42:34One, two.
00:42:36Oh, your hands took me.
00:42:39There we go.
00:42:40There we go.
00:42:41I got the grounds for.
00:42:42What?
00:42:43Who's that?
00:42:44Chairman?
00:42:45Yes, sir.
00:42:46Well, it's my wife and I live all alone in the heavy cold our home.
00:42:58We ain't put enough in that desert just like mother and dad.
00:43:08And I had three calls at home.
00:43:12I ain't put enough in that desert judge, like more than that.
00:43:19Yeah, and I got a spare one of them deserts.
00:43:24Cure.
00:43:26I ain't trying to take it with the desert.
00:43:29I just...
00:43:31Always there's somebody trying to...
00:43:33Hey! Cut them monkey shines!
00:43:36Why you expect a judge to win that croquet game...
00:43:39with no solace in his stomach?
00:43:45Hey, Dusty, you done forgot the jug.
00:43:48The jughead.
00:43:51All right, you can't say. I never told you now.
00:43:55Leaving somebody here with all this stuff...
00:44:00I bet she gonna blame me for it.
00:44:06Don't see you around much.
00:44:08No.
00:44:09Try to keep to yourself, don't you?
00:44:12Yeah.
00:44:13You all get some more beer...
00:44:15while I'm locked with that 14 ball...
00:44:16down there in the corner.
00:44:17I'll pay for it.
00:44:18Hey, Lem.
00:44:19Give us this out there.
00:44:20Yeah?
00:44:21Yes.
00:44:22Come on, let's get it.
00:44:23Don't hold your horses now.
00:44:24You'll be heading through you in a minute...
00:44:25going home.
00:44:26Fellas with me?
00:44:27Sure.
00:44:28Sure.
00:44:29Sure with you.
00:44:30Another?
00:44:31No.
00:44:32Another?
00:44:33No.
00:44:34No.
00:44:35No.
00:44:36No.
00:44:37Hey, you got it!
00:44:38Hey, jehovah!
00:44:40Hey.
00:44:41Hey!
00:44:42Hey!
00:44:43Hey, you are this.
00:44:44I'm going home.
00:44:46Fellas with me?
00:44:47Sure.
00:44:48Sure with you.
00:44:50Nope.
00:45:05Hey, Cal!
00:45:06He's got a knife!
00:45:09Cal!
00:45:10He's got a knife!
00:45:11He's got a knife!
00:45:12Get a doctor!
00:45:13Quick!
00:45:14That's where?
00:45:15What happened?
00:45:16Why?
00:45:17He pulled a knife!
00:45:18He's got a knife!
00:45:19He cut slam!
00:45:20We saw him!
00:45:21With a knife?
00:45:22Yeah!
00:45:23We saw him too!
00:45:24Look at that!
00:45:25Hey, boy!
00:45:26Come on!
00:45:27That black missile!
00:45:28We're all prepared, King!
00:45:29Get a doctor!
00:45:37Hey, Uncle Billy!
00:45:39Uncle Billy!
00:45:40Uncle Billy!
00:45:41Uncle Billy!
00:45:42I got this report!
00:45:44You're dead on me!
00:45:45Oh, no!
00:45:46Oh, no!
00:45:47Get out of here!
00:45:48Get out of here!
00:45:49You are already out of here!
00:45:50Get out of here!
00:45:51Get out of here!
00:45:52Oh, no!
00:45:53Oh, no!
00:45:54Oh, no!
00:45:55Get away!
00:45:56Get away!
00:45:57Get away!
00:45:58Uncle Billy!
00:45:59He missed it!
00:46:00He missed it!
00:46:01He missed it!
00:46:02Just a minute!
00:46:03Come on, please!
00:46:04Wait a minute!
00:46:05Wait a minute!
00:46:06This is an important thing here now!
00:46:07Keep still!
00:46:08Keep still!
00:46:09Oh!
00:46:10We're censored!
00:46:11Let me talk to you!
00:46:12Golly!
00:46:13I don't see how the South ever lost the war with a guy that could argue like you did!
00:46:18Uncle Billy!
00:46:19What is the matter?
00:46:20You've already made me lose the game!
00:46:21Uncle Billy!
00:46:22I got a client!
00:46:23Oh, well, who is it?
00:46:24What's the matter with him?
00:46:25Gillis!
00:46:26You know, Mr. Bagby's man!
00:46:27What's that, Bob?
00:46:28What's he doing?
00:46:29He cut up Phlegm Talley!
00:46:30Yeah?
00:46:31Uh-huh!
00:46:32And right after he gave himself up, he sent for me!
00:46:33Well, I'll be kicked by a mule!
00:46:35Did you cut him bad?
00:46:36Well, I can't tell yet!
00:46:37Gee, Uncle Billy, he sent for me!
00:46:39It'll be the biggest case in your whole court session, and I'll be defending him!
00:46:43Well, I wouldn't gloat too soon now!
00:46:46Oh, don't you worry!
00:46:48Hey, Ellie Mae!
00:46:49Yeah, I'm going to get down to that jail and see what that fella's going to say for
00:46:54himself!
00:46:55I'm going to see Talley!
00:46:56Darned, Roberts, they robbed us out of that!
00:46:58Herman, now, you better get on down there with me, because you'll liable to get a chance
00:47:03to go his bail!
00:47:05Ellie Mae!
00:47:07Ellie Mae, I got a client!
00:47:10Oh, Rome, I knew you would!
00:47:12Come on over!
00:47:13I want you to talk to Uncle Billy and tell you all about it!
00:47:15That's sort of novelty, Herman!
00:47:16The barber getting cut up!
00:47:18Whoever cut him up, couldn't have cut him much if he used the barber's razor!
00:47:24Where's Rome?
00:47:26I won't have it, that's all!
00:47:27He's getting mixed up with that kind of people!
00:47:30Oh, what's he done now?
00:47:32Well, he's done enough!
00:47:34Mother, what's the matter?
00:47:38Is something wrong?
00:47:39If you're in the habit of discussing your affairs before strangers, I'm not!
00:47:43Well, Ellie Mae's not a stranger!
00:47:45Excuse me, Rome, I'll go!
00:47:46No, wait!
00:47:47All right, I have nothing to hide!
00:47:49Carrie, what's the matter?
00:47:52Have you been out in the sun too much?
00:47:54You shut up, William Priest!
00:47:56I hold you responsible for everything that's happened!
00:47:59Are you going to defend that man?
00:48:02Mr. Gillis?
00:48:03You bet I am!
00:48:04Oh, no, you're not!
00:48:06Mother, what do you mean I'm not?
00:48:08I suppose you know what's behind this drunken brawl?
00:48:11No?
00:48:12Well, then I'll tell you!
00:48:13They were fighting over that girl in a saloon!
00:48:17Mother, that's not so!
00:48:19Carrie, you can accumulate more misinformation in a shorter time than anybody who told you all this rigmarole!
00:48:26Virginia made you!
00:48:28Who?
00:48:29Virginia made you!
00:48:30She got it straight from her father!
00:48:33And brought it straight to you?
00:48:35She wanted to warn Rome!
00:48:38I know you can have a liking me, Mrs. Priest!
00:48:41I know you've tried to stop Rome from going with me!
00:48:44And I know you think I'm not good enough for him!
00:48:46Well, let me tell you something!
00:48:48If Rome were half as mean as you are, he wouldn't be good enough for me!
00:48:53Well, of all things!
00:48:59Carrie, looks like you run second!
00:49:02Oh, no, I don't!
00:49:03If Rome's father were alive, he'd back me up!
00:49:06Rome's already got himself talked about all over town with this girl!
00:49:10And I'm not going to have him publicly defending her in court!
00:49:13Well, Rome, see how your mother feels about it!
00:49:19So, looks like you lost your first client!
00:49:22And it's certainly hard to get, too!
00:49:26No, Uncle Billy, I haven't lost anything!
00:49:28No!
00:49:29Mother, I think I'm old enough to know my own mind!
00:49:32I said I'd defend Mr. Gillis, and I'm going to go through with it!
00:49:35I'm going to go through with it!
00:49:45Practice where, Reverend?
00:49:47Have that chair there, please, sir!
00:49:49Hiya, Harry!
00:49:51Hiya, Luke!
00:49:52How are you?
00:49:53How are you?
00:49:54How are you?
00:49:55How are you?
00:49:56How are you?
00:49:57How are you?
00:49:58How are you?
00:49:59How are you?
00:50:00How are you?
00:50:01How are you?
00:50:06How are you?
00:50:10How are you?
00:50:11How are you?
00:50:12How are you?
00:50:13How are you?
00:50:16How are you?
00:50:17How are you?
00:50:19Come on, Mr. Gillis...
00:50:22He's a little for thedes.
00:50:24He's a little man.
00:50:26He's a little too.
00:50:59May it please the court.
00:51:20I would point out that for many years,
00:51:26a political and personal difference
00:51:29has existed between your honor and myself.
00:51:33Now that I am a candidate for the exalted office
00:51:35which you have held for so many years,
00:51:39those differences have reached a point
00:51:41where, for the protection of the people,
00:51:46I must demand an impartial trial judge.
00:51:48Perhaps I'm getting deaf,
00:51:54but the fact had never reached me before.
00:51:58Are you insinuating that you won't get full justice in this court?
00:52:03I maintain that my language was sufficiently plain for any comprehension,
00:52:07however obtuse.
00:52:09But I will make it even franker.
00:52:11I charge, in the presence of two witnesses,
00:52:14you took sides with the defendant Gillis
00:52:16in a prior attack upon this pleated.
00:52:21I've been sitting on this bench
00:52:23for now on 20 years,
00:52:26and nobody has ever asked me to step down.
00:52:29I'll file an affidavit with a prejudice.
00:52:31That won't hardly be necessary.
00:52:34Then I call upon you, Judge Priest,
00:52:36to vacate the bench during this trial
00:52:37and yield your place to a qualified judge.
00:52:41I, uh...
00:52:56I'm...
00:52:59I'm not denying, Senator,
00:53:01that you...
00:53:04Well, you kind of took my breath away.
00:53:06I guess I had, uh, just sort of got the habit
00:53:14that I was took for granted here on this bench.
00:53:21Gosh, I was...
00:53:23I was putting you a raise in this courtroom.
00:53:28When I quit fighting,
00:53:2965...
00:53:32for what...
00:53:40we thought was right,
00:53:41and I kind of calmed down,
00:53:44found out I...
00:53:47I couldn't lick the whole United States,
00:53:51I come back here
00:53:53to my hometown,
00:53:56and I put up my shingle.
00:53:58It wasn't long...
00:54:00I was sitting on that bench.
00:54:06Maybe I did have a hankering...
00:54:08for the spirit of the law...
00:54:15not the letter...
00:54:17but as far as I know...
00:54:20nobody ever found cause to complain...
00:54:24until now.
00:54:31Now, you, uh...
00:54:32you jury...
00:54:34you forget everything that I've said.
00:54:38And, uh...
00:54:39my feelings has, uh...
00:54:42no place...
00:54:43in the, uh...
00:54:44in the records of...
00:54:46of this trial.
00:54:48Now, if you'll excuse me...
00:54:51neither side...
00:54:53has...
00:54:54any objection...
00:54:56I'd like to...
00:54:58ask the...
00:54:59Honorable...
00:55:00Floyd Fairley...
00:55:02if he won't...
00:55:04come up here...
00:55:06and take...
00:55:09take my...
00:55:12my place on...
00:55:14on the bench.
00:55:16What do you think?
00:55:26All right.
00:55:28What are you...
00:55:28the final Energy?
00:55:30Well, we had...
00:55:32let me go...
00:55:34everyone's...
00:55:36we had...
00:55:36what's...
00:55:39in favor?
00:55:41I'd like it for us...
00:55:43Excuse me...
00:55:43in favor...
00:55:45Well, what happened then?
00:55:55Gentlemen of the jury, in plain language.
00:56:01The defendant here burst in upon these three worthy citizens.
00:56:06I object, Your Honor.
00:56:08I deny that my client ever burst into any place or anything.
00:56:12Objection sustained.
00:56:15So be it, Your Honor.
00:56:18Nevertheless, I shall demonstrate that my young friend's client here...
00:56:22did burst into something.
00:56:24That armed with a lethal weapon, to wit a dirt dagger...
00:56:28or knife of deadly length and deadly sharpness...
00:56:31he burst into Mr. Talley's quivering flesh.
00:56:35I object, Your Honor.
00:56:36Objection sustained.
00:56:38Your Honor's humble servant bows to Your Honor's August Rulet.
00:56:47In due time, Mr. Talley's scarred and mutilated person...
00:56:52will bespeak the verity of my claim...
00:56:54for the silent eloquence far exceeding the powers of my poor tongue.
00:56:59Whip was playing bottle pool when he come in and attacked at me.
00:57:16Didn't you attack him with a billiard cue?
00:57:18Not until after he come at me...
00:57:20with a knife.
00:57:22Well, it's just like Phlegm says.
00:57:27We wasn't paying him no mind...
00:57:29and...
00:57:30to be come looking for Phlegm.
00:57:32But weren't you three all armed with billiard cues?
00:57:35Well, never heard of nobody playing pool without him.
00:57:45It's just like Phlegm and Joe says.
00:57:47He come in looking for trouble.
00:57:49You don't like the defendant, do you?
00:57:51Who does?
00:58:01Your Honor, the defense is through with the witness.
00:58:07I should think my young learned colleague...
00:58:10would be glad to be through with the witness.
00:58:12There.
00:58:13Your Honor.
00:58:14The prosecution rests.
00:58:15Before the defense proceeds...
00:58:17this court recesses for half an hour.
00:58:18The prosecution rests.
00:58:19The prosecution rests.
00:58:22Before the defense proceeds...
00:58:24this court recesses for half an hour.
00:58:26Before the defense proceeds, this court recesses for half an hour.
00:58:48I don't know why you did it, Mr. Gillard.
00:58:52Mr. Gillard, the judge priest told me what happened in the barber shop.
00:58:56Oh, you've got to tell the jury.
00:58:58They'd never conviction a million years if they knew you were defending a girl's name.
00:59:01Don't you see? You can't think of me now. You've got to think of yourself.
00:59:05Look, Mr. Gillard, I don't want to bring Ellie Mae's name into this thing any more than you do.
00:59:11But she's right. They can give you ten years for assault.
00:59:15And the way Maydo's working on the jury, they'll give you the limit.
00:59:18Oh, you've got to tell the truth, Mr. Gillard. Don't you see? You've got to.
00:59:21I ain't going to tell them anything.
00:59:29Yes, sir. Talley lied all the way through.
00:59:32And Herringer and Gab Ride, they lied too.
00:59:34It was three against one in Billy Gaynor's back room.
00:59:37And it's three against one in this tier courtroom.
00:59:40Have you ever been in any other cutting scrape in town before?
00:59:43No, sir.
00:59:45That's all.
00:59:46One moment.
00:59:55Where do you come from, Mr. Gillard?
00:59:57I ain't a saying.
00:59:58You aren't exactly what we southerners would call a sociable person, are you?
01:00:03I mind my own business.
01:00:05Very slight.
01:00:06Except when you go looking for trouble.
01:00:07I don't go looking for trouble.
01:00:09But I ain't the one to run away from it.
01:00:12How long have you had a grievance against, Mr. Talley?
01:00:15We had a run-in a few days before he jumped me.
01:00:17Oh, a run-in, eh?
01:00:19And what was this run-in about?
01:00:22Well, well, come on. Tell the jury. What did you hate him for?
01:00:24I ain't a saying.
01:00:25Then you didn't have any reason for nighting.
01:00:26I didn't say that.
01:00:27Well, make up your mind.
01:00:28Why can't you hate him?
01:00:29I ain't a saying.
01:00:31I don't know.
01:00:32Mr. Holder, Your Honor.
01:00:37Anything further?
01:00:38That's all, Your Honor.
01:00:39The defense rests.
01:00:48This court will adjourn till tomorrow morning.
01:00:51It is our hope that the summations will be brief,
01:00:55so that we may all attend the reunion ceremonies,
01:00:58which begin at noon.
01:01:09Well, well, Andy.
01:01:12Yes.
01:01:13Hey, this is a pleasure.
01:01:16Well, I don't get a chance to do this often.
01:01:19He certainly does an honor.
01:01:21Here, Zip.
01:01:22Make the rebel comfortable, that.
01:01:30It looks like you kind of caught me red-handed there.
01:01:38Well, could I, you know, kind of in vain,
01:01:43in vain, uh, been a long, tiresome day,
01:01:46and, uh, it's, uh, mostly mint.
01:01:50No, thank you, William.
01:01:51I appreciate your sedity.
01:01:54You know, I kind of thought that, uh,
01:01:56that, uh, that you'd be working on your Memorial Day address,
01:02:00uh, uh, for tomorrow.
01:02:02Well, that'll take care of itself.
01:02:04What I'm worried about is this poor devil of a Gillis.
01:02:06You know Gillis?
01:02:07My trade takes me into queer quarters sometimes.
01:02:11Well, I feel just as sorry for that fellow Gillis as you do,
01:02:16but, uh, I'm, I'm, I'm plumb out of it.
01:02:21And, uh, Hod got the best of me.
01:02:24He sure did.
01:02:25The case is closed.
01:02:28It's all settled.
01:02:29And I don't think Hod will, uh,
01:02:31he'd be fool enough to, uh, reopen the case
01:02:34for nobody or nothing.
01:02:41William, I have a duty to perform.
01:02:45A Christian's duty.
01:02:47I'm going to violate the sacred confidence of another.
01:02:51I'm going to break a pledge of secrecy.
01:02:54Because it's the only course that I see that lies before me.
01:03:01I'm listening, Ashby.
01:03:04Twenty-five years ago.
01:03:07The judges show been hard misery
01:03:13Reckon folks ain't been acting just right
01:03:17Maybe his stomach's been complaining
01:03:22And he needs a toddy this night
01:03:26Yes, Lord.
01:03:28Yes, Lord.
01:03:29Because tomorrow he's got to be like Mr. Samson
01:03:35Saving Daniel from the lion's den
01:03:40Saving Daniel from the lion's den
01:03:45Saving Daniel from the lion's den
01:03:48Yes, Lord.
01:03:50Yes, Lord.
01:03:52The judges could do with a toddy right now
01:03:57Yes, Jeff.
01:03:59Yes, they'll see soon as I catch me some men
01:04:04Oh, Jeff!
01:04:05Jeff!
01:04:06Come on.
01:04:07Come on.
01:04:08Hurry up here.
01:04:09Come on here when I'm all at you.
01:04:10Where you been?
01:04:11Well, I was...
01:04:12Hey, listen.
01:04:13You want to earn that old coon skin coat of mine?
01:04:15I can have that coon coat, Judge.
01:04:18Wait a minute.
01:04:19Come back here.
01:04:20You can if you do everything I tell you to.
01:04:22Do you know a gentleman by the name of Mr. Hart Maydew?
01:04:26Yes, that mean man.
01:04:27That coon coat.
01:04:28Yeah.
01:04:29Well, now you see that he gets out.
01:04:30But don't you let him know how he got there.
01:04:33See?
01:04:34That's all I got to do, Chief.
01:04:36Say, wait a minute, kid.
01:04:37Can you play Dixie on that thing, man?
01:04:39Well, I couldn't coat.
01:04:40Yes, I played Dixie with marching through Georgia.
01:04:43Oh, well, hey.
01:04:44Marching through Georgia.
01:04:45Yeah.
01:04:46I got you out of one lynching.
01:04:48Yes, but I couldn't coat.
01:04:50I know how to go get...
01:04:52If you play marching through Georgia, I'll join the lynchers.
01:04:55Time to play.
01:04:58Is that the Vatican?
01:04:59Yeah, I wanted to take it.
01:05:00I wanted to take it to Georgia.
01:05:01I wanted to say, like, did I do that?
01:05:03Oh, I want to take it.
01:05:04Come on, chiller.
01:05:05How are you?
01:05:06What do you all got, you guys?
01:05:07Oh, the Jack's chicken.
01:05:08Chicken?
01:05:09Well, that's just what I got.
01:05:11That's what you judge like.
01:05:12Eh?
01:05:13I want to take it.
01:05:25Hey, hey! Hey, the Johnny's coming in!
01:05:28Hey, there! Come on, the Johnny's coming in!
01:05:31I'm telling you, sir, we've lost the bass drum!
01:05:34How could you lose a bass drum?
01:05:36Someone stole it! We need it for the parade!
01:05:55...
01:05:58...
01:06:03...
01:06:05...
01:06:16...
01:06:21You may begin your summation, Mr. Prosecutor.
01:06:27May it please, Your Honor.
01:06:30Since the gentleman yesterday, certain information has come into the hands of the Commonwealth...
01:06:34...which, in the interest of justice, impels me to reopen the case.
01:06:38The Commonwealth desires to recall the defendant, Gillis...
01:06:42...for further cross-examination.
01:06:44Very well, Mr. Maydew. Proceed.
01:06:46Robert Gillis, take the stand.
01:06:51Your Honor, as I recollect our procedure...
01:07:08...for the time being, I'm an ordinary member of the bar. In good standing?
01:07:13Not ordinary, sir, but absolutely in good standing.
01:07:19Thank you, sir. Thank you, Conor.
01:07:23Then I have the, uh, honor...
01:07:26...of, uh, announcing myself as, uh, associate counsel...
01:07:30...for the defense.
01:07:34Seeing as the...
01:07:36...case has, uh...
01:07:39...been, uh, reopened...
01:07:42...for the defense.
01:07:43Mr. Gillis, were you always a man of turbulent and violent nature?
01:07:52I always left them alone as left me alone.
01:07:55Is that so?
01:07:57What was the name of the man...
01:08:00...you once upon a time murdered?
01:08:03I... I never looked on it as no...
01:08:05...no, it wasn't murdered.
01:08:07A man was killed, wasn't he?
01:08:08Yes.
01:08:09And they stuck you in jail, didn't they?
01:08:10Yes.
01:08:11And they charged you with murder, didn't they?
01:08:12Yes.
01:08:13And the jury found you guilty, didn't they?
01:08:14Yes.
01:08:15Were you sentenced to be hung?
01:08:16No, I...
01:08:17...I went up for life.
01:08:19Did you escape or were you pardoned?
01:08:20I ain't a saying.
01:08:21And I won't tell you no more, no matter what you ask me.
01:08:24You don't need to.
01:08:29Judge Priest?
01:08:30Your witness?
01:08:32No questions, Your Honor.
01:08:35What Uncle Billy?
01:08:37Hasn't the defense any evidence to offer in rebuttal, Judge Priest?
01:08:43One character witness, Your Honor.
01:08:46Mr. Clerk, will you kindly call Reverend Ashby Brand?
01:08:50Pardon.
01:08:58Do you seldom swear to tell the truth, the whole truth...
01:09:00...and nothing but the truth in case there's not plenty in this court?
01:09:02I do.
01:09:10Reverend Brand, before you come to this town...
01:09:13...what was your occupation?
01:09:15In my early manhood, before I took holy orders...
01:09:18...I had the honor to be a captain of artillery...
01:09:21...in the late war.
01:09:24In the war of the...
01:09:25...rebellion?
01:09:27No, sir.
01:09:28The war for the southern confederacy.
01:09:31Yes, sir.
01:09:32You're right, sir.
01:09:33That's right.
01:09:34He's right.
01:09:37My, my...
01:09:38One wound, please.
01:09:40Your Honor.
01:09:45I yield to no man in love and everlasting devotion...
01:09:50...to that sacred lost cause...
01:09:52...for which my people fought and bled.
01:09:56But though I cherish all those dear and everlasting memories...
01:10:01...which even the bare mention of that great conflict...
01:10:04...must awaken in every true Kentuckian's bosom...
01:10:09...I fail to see any possible connection...
01:10:12...between this reverend gentleman's military record...
01:10:15...and the guilt of this man, Gillis.
01:10:18Well, I think the court...
01:10:30...will commit no grave, legal error...
01:10:32...by allowing...
01:10:33...illusion to know it..
01:10:34I think the court will commit no grave legal error by allowing a minister of the gospel
01:10:49to tell his story in his own way.
01:10:51As many of you know, I am a Virginian.
01:11:06On the day my state seceded from the Union, I enlisted.
01:11:12I was a private in Penn's Virginia Battery.
01:11:16By the latter end of the third year, I was in command of that battery.
01:11:23All the officers ranking me had been killed or disabled.
01:11:29We lost heavily at Chancellorsville, and at Fredericksburg, we were almost wiped out.
01:11:37We kept our field pieces.
01:11:40We kept our pieces until the end.
01:11:43But we had not sufficient men to man those guns, nor anywhere to turn for more men.
01:11:48There were no more men left to come in.
01:11:52The Confederacy in 64 was robbing both the cradle and the grave for cannon fodder.
01:12:01Well, sir, I got temporary leave and went to Richmond to see our war governor.
01:12:08I said to him, sir, I've come to you to ask for men to serve my guns.
01:12:14He laughed and said, tell me where they are to be found.
01:12:19I said, among the chain gangs from the state penitentiary.
01:12:27He said, you've come too late, young man.
01:12:29I've freed every convict that might conceivably be trusted with freedom.
01:12:35There are left only the lifers, and I dare not turn them loose.
01:12:41They are working under guard, building defenses for you to fight behind.
01:12:46He opposed me, but I argued with him.
01:12:49Finally, I won.
01:12:53He gave me authorization, signed it, and with his own hand affixed the seal of the sovereign state of Virginia.
01:13:04I rode back to the line, sir, and I found my chain gang.
01:13:08I told them to drop their tools and line up before me.
01:13:13I told them, if you go with me, you go to face a hell of destruction and suffering and death.
01:13:23But I said, if you do go, you go as free men, as soldiers of the Confederacy.
01:13:31Your past will lie behind you, and your future, if you survive, is in your own hands.
01:13:40And I promise you this much.
01:13:43If you stand fast, if you do your duty, if bravely and honorably you acquit yourselves as men,
01:13:52then such of you as live through to the end, and some of you will live, are not to come back to this.
01:14:01It's for you to decide.
01:14:03Those who remain behind, stand fast.
01:14:08Those who come with me, advance one pace.
01:14:13Gentlemen of the jury, I tell you, they came at me like a wave from the sea.
01:14:22Every one of them.
01:14:24And as time went on, they won for themselves the name of the Battalion from Hell.
01:14:31Those men, those felons, with the scars of their shackles still on their legs, they fought for the South like men, none better.
01:14:46And they died like men, most of them.
01:15:01I was one of those men of whom I wished to speak a special word of tribute.
01:15:07He stood out for his courage and his fidelity.
01:15:14For his worth as a soldier and a man.
01:15:19Most of all, for his invariable truthfulness under all circumstances.
01:15:26He was from the mountains of my own state, a man who spoke little but did much.
01:15:37I saw him once go out under fire during a battle to rescue at his own risk a wounded Union officer who lay their helpers between the lines.
01:15:49Another time, our stars and bars were wrested from our hands.
01:15:57We fought breast to breast that day.
01:16:00This man of whom I am speaking, threw himself on a riderless horse and rode into the thicket.
01:16:08And by the grace of God, came galloping back from the jaws of death.
01:16:14Our colors clutched in his hand.
01:16:23And another day, when every man who served his gun, excepting him, was down.
01:16:30I saw him when the Union infantry charged, sitting astrattle his useless gun.
01:16:37And with a rammer for his only weapon, waiting for the enemy to come within reach.
01:16:43The counter charge from our infantry saved him.
01:16:52But he had stood fast.
01:16:54And he was alone.
01:16:56After the surrender, I kept his secret.
01:17:00And kept it to this very hour.
01:17:04Though I've seen him daily at his work.
01:17:07Watching over his daughter.
01:17:10Providing for her education.
01:17:13Through me.
01:17:14And all unknown.
01:17:17To LMA.
01:17:19To LMA.
01:17:20To LMA.
01:17:21To LMA.
01:17:22To LMA.
01:17:23To LMA.
01:17:24I knew that man as Roger Gillespie.
01:17:25You knew him by the name he now wears.
01:17:28Robert Gillis.
01:17:29Gentlemen, as a soldier, I knew that man as Roger Gillespie.
01:17:35You know him by the name he now wears.
01:17:40Robert Gillis.
01:17:42Hooray, my goddammit!
01:17:44The southern good family safe and warped you!
01:17:48I'm waiting! Get out of the way!
01:18:00Can't you see that poor helpless child needs a mother?
01:18:18That's fine. That's great, Jeff. That's great.
01:18:23Keep on going. Keep going. You can have that white man.
01:18:48You can have that white man.
01:18:54You can have that white man.
01:18:56I'm waiting!
01:18:59I'm waiting!
01:19:05You can have that white man.
01:19:10That's a soldier.
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