💕 A controversial exploitation drama, Child Bride (1938) was marketed as an educational film exposing the dangers of child marriage in rural America. Though intended as a social issue picture, it became infamous for its sensationalist style, taboo subject matter, and shocking imagery.
📽️ Plot Summary:
In a remote Ozark community, schoolteacher Miss Carol (Diana Durrell) fights against the practice of child marriage, where young girls are forced into wedlock with much older men. Her efforts put her in direct conflict with Jake Bolby (Warner Richmond), a corrupt local determined to marry off a 12-year-old girl, Jennie Colton (Shirley Mills). The film presents a melodramatic — and often exploitative — struggle between reform and backwoods tradition.
🕰️ Year Released: 1938
🎭 Genre: Exploitation, Social Issue Drama
🎬 Directed by: Harry Revier
🎞️ Starring: Shirley Mills, Diana Durrell, Warner Richmond, Angelo Rossitto
🎯 Why Watch It?
✔️ A rare and controversial exploitation film from the 1930s
✔️ Marketed as “educational” but infamous for sensationalism
✔️ Features Shirley Mills (later in The Grapes of Wrath) in a central role
✔️ A startling time capsule of taboo subjects in early independent cinema
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💌⚠️ Shocking, controversial, and unforgettable — Child Bride (1938) remains one of the most infamous exploitation dramas of its era.
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📽️ Plot Summary:
In a remote Ozark community, schoolteacher Miss Carol (Diana Durrell) fights against the practice of child marriage, where young girls are forced into wedlock with much older men. Her efforts put her in direct conflict with Jake Bolby (Warner Richmond), a corrupt local determined to marry off a 12-year-old girl, Jennie Colton (Shirley Mills). The film presents a melodramatic — and often exploitative — struggle between reform and backwoods tradition.
🕰️ Year Released: 1938
🎭 Genre: Exploitation, Social Issue Drama
🎬 Directed by: Harry Revier
🎞️ Starring: Shirley Mills, Diana Durrell, Warner Richmond, Angelo Rossitto
🎯 Why Watch It?
✔️ A rare and controversial exploitation film from the 1930s
✔️ Marketed as “educational” but infamous for sensationalism
✔️ Features Shirley Mills (later in The Grapes of Wrath) in a central role
✔️ A startling time capsule of taboo subjects in early independent cinema
🔔 Don’t forget to LIKE 👍 | COMMENT 💬 | SUBSCRIBE 🔔 for more unusual, rare, and public domain films!
👇 Explore More Vintage Public Domain Rarities Here:
📺 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSxyPafGbnT7hNTlq29mZQJKn7wrNglY
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🎞️ #ChildBride #ExploitationCinema #PublicDomain #ClassicMovies #1930s #SocialDrama #FullMovie #ControversialFilm
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💌⚠️ Shocking, controversial, and unforgettable — Child Bride (1938) remains one of the most infamous exploitation dramas of its era.
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01:30Ira
01:54Ira, it's time to get out
01:56All right
01:58Ginny?
02:03Ginny?
02:08Ginny?
02:09Oh, Ginny
02:09Yes, Mommy?
02:11It's time for chores
02:12All right
02:14No, Ginny?
02:19No, Ginny?
02:22No!
02:23No!
02:24No!
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05:32Oh, no, no, no, no.
06:02Gee, Jenny, why don't you wear your hat?
06:11It's raining.
06:12Just a couple of drops.
06:14That'll be our time we get to school.
06:16Freddy?
06:17Yes, Jenny?
06:18Did you study your spelling lesson?
06:21No.
06:22No use.
06:23Anyway, my dad says that teacher don't know how to spell.
06:26Why, Freddy, naughty.
06:27My teacher knows all the words in all the books and all the words.
06:31I don't care what your dad says.
06:34My teacher says you have to learn how to spell.
06:46Was that a shot?
06:48Yeah, right down there.
07:01It looks like dad's.
07:13Daddy.
07:14Daddy.
07:15He's been shot.
07:16Jenny, go for help.
07:18Hurry.
07:18Hurry.
07:19Yes, Freddy.
07:21Daddy.
07:22Daddy.
07:25You all right?
07:26Daddy, speak to me.
07:29Why are you going this morning, Ira?
07:31I'm aiming to go up to the stairs.
07:35Mommy.
07:36Daddy.
07:37Mommy.
07:41Freddy's mother's been shot.
07:43Mike, shot.
07:44Where's he at?
07:45He's south in the woods.
07:46Come on.
07:46He's up there's trail, just out the road.
08:04He's over there.
08:09I think he's hurt bad, Ira.
08:11The bullet went clean through his shoulder.
08:19It's going to be all right, Mike.
08:20It's going to be all right.
08:22Oh, Freddy.
08:26Freddy, he's not bad, hurt.
08:28We'll take care of him.
08:30Now, you and Jenny go on to school, dear.
08:32I guess I was hit.
08:43You're going to be all right.
08:45I reckon so.
08:48Mike, tell me who shot you.
08:50And I'll follow him to his grave.
08:52No, Ira.
08:54It's my fight.
08:55I'll take care of that spunk when I'm up and about.
08:59Oh.
08:59Mike, we've got to get him home.
09:02Oh, easy.
09:05Please.
09:06Please, easy.
09:09Reading, writing, arithmetic.
09:13Learning in and rhyme.
09:17Jingle bells, jingle bells.
09:20Jingle all the way.
09:23When is school, oh, what fun.
09:27I'm studying and play.
09:30You see the children.
09:33Ginny Colton and Frederick Nolte, please come here.
09:44What excuse have you both for being late?
09:47My old man got hurt.
09:50Ginny here had to go for help.
09:52Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Frederick.
09:54Was it serious?
09:56No.
09:56I think he'll be all right.
09:58He should have a doctor, teacher.
10:00There's no doctor in his community now.
10:03Later, perhaps.
10:04Go on back to your seat.
10:23Quiet.
10:24Alex Cross, why did you do that?
10:26Teacher.
10:27It was a pigeon, and he dropped it on my book.
10:32Quiet.
10:33Alex, you come up here.
10:35Vonta, Lila, Bill, for your spelling lesson.
10:39Vonta, you spell the word butter.
10:46Better.
10:47Better.
10:48B-U-T-T-E-R.
10:50Correct.
10:51Lila, the word banish.
10:53B-I-N-H.
11:02That was a very good try, Lila.
11:04You try it, Bill.
11:05Banish.
11:06B-A-N-D-H-I-S-H.
11:12You'd better take your book home with you tonight.
11:15Alex, you try it.
11:16Banish.
11:17B-A-N-I-S-H.
11:18Correct.
11:19I'll go back to your seats.
11:22All right.
11:23Jenny Colton, Frederick Naughty, Jeanette, and Tom.
11:30All right, Tom, spell the word catalog.
11:34C-A-T-A-L-O-Q-E.
11:35C-A-T-A-L-O-Q-E.
11:36You didn't study a lesson, did you?
11:37Jeanette, the word mountain.
11:38C-A-T-A-L-O-Q-E.
11:41C-A-T-A-L-O-Q-E.
11:42You didn't study a lesson, did you?
11:45Jeanette, the word mountain.
11:47M-O-M-O-T-I-A-N.
11:53You better study a lesson more thoroughly next time.
11:56Jenny, the word automobile.
11:59Automobile.
12:00A-U-T-O-M-O-B-I-L-E.
12:02Correct.
12:03Freddie, the word milking.
12:06M-I-L-K-G-I-N-G.
12:10Freddie, you didn't study your spelling lesson last night, did you?
12:14I tried to make him, Miss Carol, but he wouldn't.
12:18See that you studied tonight, young man.
12:26Teacher.
12:27All right, George.
12:28Meet your teacher.
12:29All right, Cecil.
12:30Take out your Rippertick books.
12:31Hey, Cecil.
12:32This one's Ma.
12:33This is Pa.
12:34Charles.
12:35Stop.
12:36Stop.
12:37Stop.
12:38Stop.
12:39Stop.
12:40Stop.
12:41Stop.
12:42Stop.
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12:45Stop.
12:46Stop.
12:47Stop.
12:48Stop.
12:49Stop.
12:50Stop.
12:51Stop.
12:52Stop.
12:53Stop.
12:54Stop.
12:55Stop.
12:56Stop.
12:57Stop.
12:58Stop holding.
13:04Are you really glad to see me?
13:06Why didn't you tell me you were coming?
13:08I just couldn't stay another minute down there in the city with you up here in this god-forsaken country.
13:17You know why I stay here.
13:19But you promised that when I became established in my profession, you'd marry me.
13:23Yes.
13:24I know.
13:25Well, now I'm assistant district attorney.
13:28You, you can't stall me this time.
13:30Oh, I am proud of you, Charles.
13:33But I haven't accomplished what I set out to do.
13:36Now, you're wasting your time.
13:37No, dear, I'm not.
13:38Yes, you are.
13:41All right.
13:42Now, look here, Ivy.
13:44You can't change the customs of these people.
13:46Others before you have tried.
13:48But I was born here.
13:49They're my people.
13:51My blood.
13:52But you've been out in the world.
13:54You've gone to school.
13:55Yes, I was fortunate in obtaining an education.
13:57Now, it's my duty to help them.
14:00All the education in the world wouldn't help them.
14:04But you could help me.
14:06If you really love me.
14:08Of course I love you, but what could I do?
14:11You can do a lot, dearest.
14:14What, for instance?
14:15Just continue to love me.
14:18And be patient.
14:19Patient?
14:21I've been waiting patiently for the last five years.
14:24Suppose you want me to wait until I'm an old man.
14:27Charles, I'm going to fight for these people
14:29until the state realizes that child marriage must be stopped.
14:35Sometimes I wonder if you, if you really do love me, Ivy.
14:41The purest blood in our land flows in the veins of these mountain people.
14:56And yet the government does less for them than for any group within its boundaries.
15:02Government neglect is one cause.
15:04And as governor of this state, I beg of you to realize
15:08that this child marriage law will be a wedge to free these mountain people
15:12from adverse social and economic conditions.
15:19How do you do, Tyler?
15:23Lord, who's that Miss Carol?
15:25Sadie, how's the baby?
15:30Pretty good, Miss Carol.
15:32We're missing you at school.
15:33Well, my husband says there's nothing finer than a bunch of young'uns.
15:37But Sadie, don't you realize that at 25 you'll be an old woman?
15:44If that school mom don't quit preaching our women folks,
15:46she's fixing to get herself into a mess of trouble.
15:48I thought perhaps all the women of the village could get together and-
15:55We don't throw metal in enough foreigners' business.
15:58Why should you in ours?
16:00I'm not a foreigner.
16:02I'm as much a mountain person as any of you.
16:05And I'm fighting for the improvement of this community.
16:07Now listen, Mrs. Haggerty, your mother, you have seven children of your own.
16:21You can't jump from childhood to womanhood by saying I do.
16:27We got to marry them young.
16:28We're short of women.
16:30Well, isn't it better to have a woman for 30 years than a child for 15?
16:37What I'm trying to make you understand is that you can't fight nature's law.
16:47Bearing children is a woman's job.
16:50Child marriage must go.
16:55Your Excellency, this law must pass.
16:58Oh, I beg your Excellency to endorse Miss Carol's bill.
17:07Hey, Happy! Come on down!
17:17All right, Angelo.
17:18Hey, you! Did you get that corn up to the Higgins?
17:37Yeah.
17:38Well, where's the money?
17:40I'm giving the money to Ira.
17:42Well, Ira's my partner.
17:43It's as much mine as it is his.
17:45His isn't.
17:46I'm still giving the money to Ira.
17:47Don't give me any of your lip.
17:48Come on.
17:49Come on, give me that money.
17:50I won't do it.
17:51Why, you...
17:53Hey!
17:54Leave him alone!
17:58Leave him alone, I tell you!
17:59Oh, you poor simp!
18:04No, no, no!
18:05Now, then, I'll have that money.
18:08I won't do it.
18:09Give me your...
18:10Now, then, I'm gonna give you the same dough.
18:11Oh, Jake, don't...
18:12Jake!
18:13Put him down!
18:15Who do you think you're talking to?
18:16You, you slimy weasel.
18:18How many times must I tell you to leave him be?
18:21So, you wanna play?
18:22I've been waiting a long time for this chance.
18:24And now, I'm gonna cover you dirty stuff!
18:25I don't know what...
18:26I'm gonna play you.
18:27I'm gonna get it.
18:28No, Jake, don't.
18:29Jake!
18:30No!
18:31Jake, don't!
18:32Jake!
18:33Put him down!
18:34Who do you think you're talking to?
18:35You, you slimy weasel.
18:36How many times must I tell you to leave him be?
18:38So, you wanna play?
18:41I've been waiting a long time for this chance.
18:44Chance
19:14All right this time I lose, but there'll be a next time
19:44Fill up four down to a core and make it and take it over to Croup's farm
20:14I recorded someday. I'm going to kill you
20:44I
20:46Wonder what's gonna happen to Jake. You should have been here by now. Maybe he's down to school marms seeing whether
20:52She's out preaching against us marrying young'uns. Gosh darn her education anyway. Why don't she mind her own business?
20:58I'm for driving her out of town. Yeah
21:01Tarn feathers rescue business. Oh, you're getting yellow clump. I'd put her in boiling oil and watch her fry if it weren't
21:07She's one of our kind. Why she's the cause of me losing that kid Della Jensen
21:14Hey, your face looks like it's gone through a thrash machine. What happened?
21:26Oh, I had a run-in with a bunch of hijackers in the corn Valley
21:30Little bit too much for my asshole
21:32Is everybody here now? We're all here. Good. What do we do now?
21:37You, Ezra
21:38Lem
21:40Jeremiah and clump
21:41Go down through Bone Valley and meet us at the bear cave near the tunnel tree
21:46Take a mess along and be sure and bring the forces along too. All right, Jake
21:50Be careful now
21:59Okay, where's my mask? Oh, there it is put out this spot
22:05All right, let's go
22:11all right, let's go
22:19here
22:22All right, let's see
22:26I'll be here
22:32and
23:03Who's there?
23:14Who is it?
23:33Who is it?
23:46Get it!
23:48Get it!
23:50What have I done?
23:54What have I done?
24:06Oh!
24:07What have I done?
24:08Run!
24:09Run!
24:10Run!
24:11Run!
24:12Run!
24:13Run!
24:14Run!
24:15Run!
24:16Happy!
24:17Happy!
24:18You've favor this!
24:19I know who you are!
24:21Come on!
24:22Come on!
24:27Hey!
24:28Wait for me!
24:29I know who you are.
24:31Come on.
24:38Hey, wait for me.
24:59Come on.
25:01Get that off!
25:23Wait!
25:24Wait!
25:25I can't do it!
25:26No!
25:27No!
25:29Oh!
25:30Oh!
25:31What have I done?
25:38They're going towards Spooky Hollow.
25:40Come on, Happy.
25:59Come on, Happy.
26:00Come on, Happy.
26:01Come on!
26:02Come on, Happy.
26:03Come on!
26:04Rish!
26:05Shut up!
26:06Shut up!
26:07Shut up, Rish!
26:08Rich?
26:25They've taken a school, Mom, into the mountains.
26:27Well, who? Where? What for?
26:29Go fetch your dad.
26:31Mommy! Daddy! Mommy!
26:33What's the matter?
26:34They came to my school teacher.
26:35Who, Dad?
26:36I don't know.
26:37I was asleep.
26:38And her screams walked me up.
26:39Then Happy and I ran up to the pine node,
26:41and we saw a lot of rogue figures with torches.
26:44I left Happy to trail him,
26:45and he's to meet us at Devil's Rock.
27:01We'll take the sharp cut through Devil's Grouch.
27:07What are you going to do to me? What have I done?
27:08Well, we've given you plenty of warning not to meddle with our customs.
27:13And to stick to your own ABCs.
27:14I'd teach what is right.
27:15We have our own ideas about what's right.
27:16We've given you plenty of warning not to meddle with our customs.
27:20And to stick to your own ABCs.
27:21I'd teach what is right.
27:22We have our own ideas about what's right and what's wrong in this section.
27:29How dare you to bring me here.
27:30I'll have the law upon you.
27:31The law?
27:32We're the law in these mountains.
27:33And I'll show you.
27:34We have the law.
27:35We're the law in these mountains,
27:38and I'll show you.
28:01Come on, let's get this business over.
28:10Take your dirty hands off, Miss Carol. I'll plug all of you.
28:31You've been drinking again. Yeah.
28:51I embrace your low-down sneak.
28:53What have I done?
28:54You've been carrying out of my corner, Jake Foley.
28:57Right in front of my nose.
28:59What?
29:00I ain't, Ira.
29:01Not since I married you.
29:02You're a liar.
29:15I don't believe me, Ira.
29:16The Hout village is talking about her.
29:19It's a lie.
29:20I'm going to break every hole in your body.
29:28You hit me again, Ira.
29:29I'll kill you.
29:30Kill you.
29:50Kill you.
29:51Kill you.
29:52Kill you.
29:53Kill you.
29:54Kill you.
29:55Kill you.
29:56Kill you.
29:57Kill you.
29:58Kill you.
29:59Kill you.
30:00Kill you.
30:01Kill you.
30:03Kill you.
30:04Kill you.
30:05Kill you.
30:06Kill you.
30:07Kill you.
30:08Kill you.
30:09Kill you.
30:10Kill you.
30:11Kill you.
30:12Kill you.
30:13Kill you.
30:14Kill you.
30:15Kill you.
30:16Kill you.
30:17Kill you.
30:18Next time, you gotta let me go in swimming first.
30:46All right, but Mommy said I had to get home in time for supper tonight.
31:01Shame on you, Freddy.
31:03Well, heck, she's got all the fun we used to have.
31:06I hate her.
31:07Now, Freddy, the teacher is right.
31:11All right.
31:16Mommy!
31:18Mommy!
31:19Mommy!
31:20Oh, Mommy!
31:21Speak to me, Mommy!
31:37Speak to me!
31:40Are you hurt?
31:42Oh, Jenny.
31:44Is Daddy drunk again?
31:46Yeah.
31:48Something's riled.
31:50They took it out on me.
31:52Poor Mommy.
31:54Come on, Mommy.
32:07Mommy.
32:09Yes, Mommy?
32:13Go get him to bed.
32:15All right, Mommy.
32:30Come on, Daddy.
32:32Get to bed.
32:35Come on, Daddy.
32:39Come on, get to bed.
32:41Wake up, Daddy.
32:43It's your little Jenny.
32:45She wants you to come to bed.
32:47Oh, Daddy.
32:49Oh, Daddy, I can't lift you.
32:51Please wake up.
32:53Oh, Daddy.
32:55Oh, Daddy, I can't lift you.
32:57Please wake up.
32:59Oh, I suppose I'll have to dress you and put you to bed.
33:03Oh, Daddy.
33:05Oh, Daddy, I can't lift you.
33:07Please wake up.
33:09Oh, Daddy, I can't lift you.
33:11Please wake up.
33:13Oh, I suppose I'll have to dress you and put you to bed.
33:17Oh, I suppose I'll have to dress you and put you to bed.
33:21Oh, Daddy.
33:23Oh, Daddy.
33:25Oh, Daddy.
33:27What's happened?
33:29Oh, Mother.
33:31Oh, Daddy.
33:32Oh, Daddy.
33:33Oh, Daddy.
33:34Oh, Daddy.
33:35Oh, Daddy.
33:36Oh, Daddy.
33:37Oh, Daddy.
33:38What's happened?
33:40Oh, Mother.
33:41They think Daddy's dead.
33:43No.
33:44No.
33:45No.
33:46No, it can't be.
33:51Oh, Daddy.
33:57Oh.
33:58Oh.
33:59Oh.
34:00Well I see you croaked him at last I know you do it sooner or later and it sure looks
34:27like a good job no no Jake I didn't do it I believe my own eyes Flora I saw you do it I only scratched
34:36your side I thought no Jake it didn't it did it Jake God is my witness I didn't do it
34:48listen Laura we ain't got no time to lose before anyone gets rid of this I'd like to help you
34:54go higher up oh did he still takes his mummy did it you fool you don't understand this means a lot for you
35:10what do you want me to do but I didn't do it I tell you you're lying Flora you're lying and you know it
35:17but what's the use of squabbling we both know that he had it coming to him no he didn't
35:22we ain't got no more time to lose don't you understand
35:26Jenny you step outside and see that no one's watching when I bring your pappy out
35:32well what you're standing there gaping for you want your marry to hang go on go on get outside go on
35:43what are you going to do
35:44what are you going to do I'm taking him to spooky hollow I'll make it look like he fell over a cliff and
35:52the knife went into him that way
35:53feels like that you're hoping for someone else who
36:00and that we are going to do that
36:04could beãn
36:08so you ain't seen
36:18like
36:20Good-bye, Daddy.
36:30Good-bye.
36:50Good-bye.
37:20Good-bye.
37:50Oh, come on, Jess.
37:52It's only a wolf on a prowl after the rain.
37:59That's no wolf.
38:00It's a dog.
38:01Well, I bet you somebody's croaked.
38:03Holy Moses.
38:23Let's go down.
38:24Oh, come on.
38:32Oh, come on.
38:34It'll be easy for Jake to get the best of Flora now that Ira's gone.
38:48It'll be easy for Jake to get the best of Flora now that Ira's gone.
39:02Who's that killed him?
39:25I got my suspicions.
39:32It will go hard with Flora.
39:34I'm sorry for Ginny.
39:36Poor kid.
39:37And these last rites are for one Ira Colton, esteemed member of our community, healed by unknown hands.
39:57We of the Colton's clan are not worried about his soul going to heaven, but woe unto the guilty one whose hands are stained with Ira's blood.
40:13And as God said to Noah, for whosoever shithers man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
40:25Amen.
40:43Amen.
40:44Amen.
40:45Amen.
40:46Amen.
40:47Amen.
40:48Amen.
40:49Amen.
40:50Amen.
40:51Amen.
40:52Amen.
40:53Amen.
40:54Amen.
40:55Amen.
40:56Amen.
40:57Amen.
40:58Amen.
40:59Amen.
41:00Amen.
41:01Amen.
41:02Amen.
41:03Amen.
41:04Amen.
41:05Amen.
41:06Amen.
41:07Amen.
41:08Amen.
41:09Amen.
41:10Amen.
41:11Amen.
41:12Amen.
41:13What are you aiming at?
41:14Laura, I've decided to take myself a wife.
41:18Why do you come to me?
41:19Oh, don't get scared.
41:20I don't want you.
41:21I want to talk to you, though, about her.
41:24You mean Ginny?
41:26That's right.
41:38What's the matter, Ginny?
41:39Your face is all puckered up.
41:41Oh, nothing.
41:44That Jake Bowlby's in the cabin with Mother.
41:47I shouldn't leave her alone with him.
41:49Oh, come on.
41:49He won't bite her.
41:51We'll take a short swim and come right back.
41:56All right.
41:58All right.
41:59That's where it's going to be, then,
42:00because you're going to hang.
42:02And you look pretty with a rope around your neck.
42:07Now I know.
42:08Why do you blame me for killing Ira?
42:10Ira, Jane are going to get my Ginny.
42:13You ain't.
42:13No?
42:14Well, I'll testify that I saw you kill Ira.
42:17You lie.
42:17You know it.
42:18And everybody else will know it.
42:20Yeah, but they'll believe Lung and Esra and Jeremiah.
42:24I'm going to the county seat tomorrow.
42:26That'll give you plenty of time to make up your mind.
42:28And remember, it won't take them, Marshal, long.
42:36We're on the show.
42:56Howdy, boys.
42:57Hi, Jake.
43:00Well, how's it feel?
43:01We're caught in a pretty young'un in the community.
43:03I don't see how you do it.
43:04I thought you and the Coltons were on the outs.
43:06Not at all.
43:08Flora thinks that I'll make Ginny a right good husband.
43:10Well, Jake, you'd better be a hurrying,
43:12because a schoolmarm has a firm sweetheart
43:14fighting to pass a marriage law at the state capitol.
43:17Yeah, and if it does,
43:19you'll be courting Ginny for seven long years.
43:21Yeah?
43:22I'll take care of that.
43:23Ginny.
43:46Ginny.
43:46Ginny.
43:46Ginny.
43:46Ginny.
43:50Look what I brought here.
43:59Now, listen, Ginny.
44:01I'm going to be your husband.
44:04And you want to be nice to me,
44:05because if you don't,
44:06you know what'll happen to your mom.
44:10I'll try.
44:13Oh, and there's just one more thing.
44:15I don't want you to be seeing this pretty nutty no more.
44:20Do you understand?
44:22Yes.
44:23All right.
44:23Now take this.
44:25Go on.
44:26Go on.
44:26Take it.
44:26Take it.
44:26Take it.
44:27Don't forget what I told you.
44:55Yo, my heart.
45:07Hang on.
45:07No.
45:07Go on.
45:09Bye.
45:12Bye.
45:13Bye.
45:21Bye.
45:22Bye.
45:22Bye.
45:22Bye.
45:22Bye.
45:23Oh,
45:26Oh,
45:30Oh,
45:34Oh,
45:38Oh,
45:40Oh,
45:52Freddie. Jenny, I, I came to tell you that Jake told me if he catches me seeing you or speaking to you, he'll wring my neck. Yes, I know. But, but Freddie, I must marry him or my mommy will suffer. Well, why should your mother suffer? Oh, Freddie, don't ask me that. I can't tell you. Well, all right. You don't want to tell me.
46:22But ain't you gonna come to school no more? No. They won't let me. Oh, Freddie. Don't cry, Jenny.
46:34Don't cry, Jenny.
46:36Yeah.
46:50Well, Freddie, naughty. What brings you here? I, I came to tell you that Jake is gonna marry my Jenny. And I thought you could stop it. Yes. I heard about it. I went to see Mrs. Colton. But she's already given her consent. Well, gee, couldn't you do nothing? I couldn't make her change her mind. I'm sorry, Freddie. There's nothing else I can do.
47:20You mustn't say that. Perhaps we may still be able to stop this child marriage. I thought you could do it.
47:29If there is anyone here among you who knows of any reason why these two people should not be joined together in holy wedlock, let him speak now.
47:47or forever hold his peace.
48:02join hands, please.
48:25Do you, Jake Balby, take this, this girl child that you hold by the hand to be your lawful wedded wife, to love, honor, and cherish the rest of your life? Repeat after me. I do.
48:45I do. And you, Jenny Colton. Do you take this man that you hold by the hand to be your lawful wedded husband, to love, honor, and obey for the rest of your day? I do.
49:08And now I pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride.
49:38Jenny. Jenny.
50:05But one right there. All right.
50:08It puzzles me, Mr. Burry, why you have to post these notices at night.
50:12Well, I'll tell you, Marshal, I want to surprise the girl I'm engaged to.
50:17You know, I kind of thought there was a nigga in the woodpile around here somewhere.
50:20Give me one of those placards and that hammer. I'll show you how it's done.
50:23Yes, sir. Here's a nail.
50:24Fine.
50:29You wait here.
50:31All right.
50:32It's me, Charles.
50:39Charles.
50:40Darling.
50:43Darling, I put it over. Look. The law.
50:46Wait.
50:47When did the low pass?
50:48Three days ago, dear.
50:49Three days ago?
50:50Darling.
50:51Bye, Jeremiah.
50:52Hey, Jake.
50:54I hope you'll be happy.
50:55Well, I will, I guess.
50:56Lovely.
50:59Laura, I'll be taking My wife home, now.
51:12Oh, Mommy.
51:13Bye, Jeremiah.
51:16I hope you'll be happy.
51:17Well, I will, I guess.
51:19Love you.
51:23Laura, I'll be taking my wife home now.
51:28Oh, Mommy, I don't want to go.
51:31Jenny, you're my wife now, and it's time to go home.
51:37It's getting late.
51:43Oh, Mommy.
52:13Well, my job's done.
52:36And mine just starting.
52:39Darling, what do you mean?
52:40Well, I can't be a child bride, but...
52:45But what?
52:46I can't be a child.
52:51Jump in the bed, and I'll blow the lamp out.
53:13Can I say my prayers?
53:15Oh, all right, but make them short.
53:21And, dear God, take good care of my mummy and my daddy in heaven.
53:32Amen.
53:51Oh, Freddie.
54:19Oh, Freddie, I was so scared.
54:28It's all right now, Jenny.
54:30You don't have to be his wife.
54:32Later, you can be mine.
54:36Oh, Freddie.
54:37Freddie.
54:49You don't have to be his wife.
54:50You don't have to be his wife.
54:51You don't have to be his wife.
54:52You don't have to be his wife.
54:53You don't have to be his wife.
54:54You don't have to be his wife.
54:55You don't have to be his wife.
54:56You don't have to be his wife.
54:57You don't have to be his wife.
54:58You don't have to be his wife.
54:59You don't have to be his wife.
55:00You don't have to be his wife.
55:01You don't have to be his wife.
55:02You don't have to be his wife.
55:03You don't have to be his wife.
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55:05You don't have to be his wife.
55:06You don't have to be his wife.
55:07You don't have to be his wife.
55:08You don't have to be his wife.
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