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A Midwestern woman (Edith Yorke) and her daughter (Marguerite Churchill) think a condemned killer (Paul Muni) is their long-lost son and brother. Directed by William K. Howard. Oscar nominated for Best Actor (Muni) and Best Screenplay.
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00:03:10What's the idea of parking up against that fire flood?
00:03:14I'm sorry, Officer.
00:03:16Come on, let's see your license.
00:03:18Certainly not.
00:03:22Oh, I beg your pardon, Father.
00:03:24Now that's all right, Father.
00:03:26That's all right, Father.
00:03:28Come on, Father, get right in here.
00:03:30Thank you, Father.
00:03:32Thank you, Father.
00:03:34And you wonder what's going on here?
00:03:36Thank you, Father.
00:03:38I am not.
00:03:40And you want to watch out for that cop on the next corner?
00:03:42He's not one of us.
00:03:44Oh, I think I'll go with you and drive through the traffic.
00:03:46See that you get through all right.
00:04:00How about today's robbery?
00:04:02How about today's robbery?
00:04:06How about today's robbery?
00:04:08How about today's robbery?
00:04:10How about today's robbery?
00:04:12How about today's robbery?
00:04:14How about today's robbery?
00:04:16How about today's robbery?
00:04:18How about today's robbery?
00:04:20How about today's robbery?
00:04:22How about today's robbery?
00:04:24How about today's robbery?
00:04:26How about today's robbery?
00:04:28How about today's robbery?
00:04:30Come on, come on, come on.
00:05:00Come on, come on, come on.
00:05:06The girl said she was married.
00:05:08Married? And what did you say?
00:05:10I told her she was mistaken.
00:05:22Well, what's on your mind?
00:05:24I've killed a man.
00:05:26You killed a man?
00:05:30Yes.
00:05:31At 191 East 8th Street.
00:05:45How did you kill him?
00:05:49I shot him.
00:05:52With this.
00:05:57Why?
00:06:00He deserved to die.
00:06:03Who was he?
00:06:04His name was John Harris.
00:06:07Search him.
00:06:12Go to this address and report to me.
00:06:14Yes, sir.
00:06:16What's your name?
00:06:20What's your name?
00:06:22Dike.
00:06:36James Dike.
00:06:45Anything to identify him?
00:06:46All the marks have been torn out.
00:06:50Why are you giving yourself up?
00:06:52It was the only thing to do.
00:06:55Where do you live?
00:06:57I have no address.
00:06:58Where were you born?
00:07:00It doesn't matter.
00:07:02Oh, that's how it is.
00:07:05Yes.
00:07:07You fully realize what you are saying.
00:07:11Lock him up.
00:07:16Get my headquarters.
00:07:46You fully realize what you are saying.
00:07:52Prisoner, stand up.
00:07:53Before passing sentence upon you, the court would like once more to remind you of the duty and obligation you owe your fellow men.
00:08:09You have assumed a fictitious name and in every way attempted to keep your real identity a secret.
00:08:26I am not quite certain what your purpose is, but it should be evident to you that such conduct may bring grave apprehension and fear to many homes throughout the land.
00:08:44Homes now plunged in sorrow because of the absence of a husband or son or brother and the fear that you might be that missing one.
00:09:00Who are you?
00:09:03Who are you?
00:09:12Don't you feel that you owe anything to those others?
00:09:16Have you nothing to say before sentence is passed upon you?
00:09:29Only this, Your Honor.
00:09:32I killed a man and I'm not sorry.
00:09:36I'm not sorry.
00:09:37That is, I'm not sorry I killed that particular man.
00:09:43I never struck anybody in anger in all my life.
00:09:49But when I knew what he had done, I had to kill him.
00:09:54And if I've got to be judged by God Almighty for the crime of murder, I'm not afraid.
00:10:05Because that other man will certainly be there too.
00:10:11And when God hears the whole story, both sides of it, a story you and the jury never heard,
00:10:22by then I'm willing to take my chances with the other fellow.
00:10:30Is there anything else?
00:10:33Nothing else.
00:10:35Then it is the duty of this court to sentence you to be executed at the state's prison
00:10:43during the week of August 17th.
00:10:46And may God have mercy on your soul.
00:11:17Oh, here.
00:11:19Here, come on back here.
00:11:21You stay right here with your mother.
00:11:24Here, come on back here, laddie.
00:11:27We have a very important engagement.
00:11:29We have a big surprise ready for you.
00:11:32Come on.
00:11:33Good morning, Mrs. Douglas.
00:11:34Oh, good morning, Robert.
00:11:35My, you look charming.
00:11:37Some day, isn't it?
00:11:38Yes, it is.
00:11:40It was on just such a day that my boy Joe left home.
00:11:43And I'm always hoping he'll come back again on a day like this.
00:11:47I hope so, too, Mrs. Douglas.
00:11:49Well, here's your Columbus paper.
00:11:51Oh, thanks.
00:11:53I hope so, too, Mrs. Douglas.
00:11:55Well, here's your Columbus paper.
00:11:56Oh, thanks.
00:11:57Looking for Mary?
00:11:58Well, is she around?
00:12:00You find her in the garden.
00:12:02Do you think she'll be glad to see me?
00:12:04Well, I think she will.
00:12:06Well, I think she will.
00:12:08Ha ha ha.
00:12:10Ha ha ha.
00:12:13Ha ha ha.
00:12:15Ha ha ha ha.
00:12:17Ha ha ha.
00:12:18Ha ha ha.
00:12:19Ha ha ha.
00:12:20Ha ha ha.
00:12:21Ha ha ha.
00:12:22Ha ha ha.
00:12:23Ha ha ha.
00:12:24Ha ha ha ha.
00:12:25Ha ha ha.
00:12:26Ha ha.
00:12:27That's it, laddie.
00:12:30Just a minute now, old fellow.
00:12:32Hello, Mary.
00:12:34Oh, hello, Bob.
00:12:35Will you help me with him, please?
00:12:36Hold still, laddie, laddie.
00:12:38Hold still.
00:12:39Here, now.
00:12:40Just a minute here.
00:12:41Don't you know this is for your own good?
00:12:42That's right, laddie.
00:12:43The less you like a thing, the better it is for you, boy.
00:12:45We'll soon have it over with now.
00:12:47Here, now.
00:12:48Just a minute now.
00:12:49Sit down.
00:12:50Here.
00:12:51Hold still a minute now.
00:12:52Get the water and we'll rinse him off.
00:12:53Here we go.
00:12:54Hold still, laddie.
00:12:55Hold still now.
00:12:56Hold still.
00:12:57Hold still.
00:12:58Hold still.
00:12:59Oh, there he goes, Bob.
00:13:00Oh, get him.
00:13:01Come here, laddie.
00:13:02Come here, laddie.
00:13:03Come here, laddie.
00:13:04Come here, laddie.
00:13:05Come here, laddie.
00:13:06Here, laddie.
00:13:07Here, laddie.
00:13:08Oh, he's gone.
00:13:10You aren't hurt, are you?
00:13:11Oh, no.
00:13:13Oh, Bob.
00:13:26I love you, honey.
00:13:28Bob.
00:13:29Do you love me?
00:13:32I...
00:13:33I suppose so.
00:13:34You'll never be sorry.
00:13:35I hope you won't be, Bob.
00:13:36Not a chance.
00:13:37Melvin.
00:13:38Melvin.
00:13:39Melvin.
00:13:40Yes, mother.
00:13:41Come here, dear, will you?
00:13:42What is it, darling?
00:13:43I'm sorry.
00:13:44You'll never be sorry.
00:13:45I hope you won't be, Bob.
00:13:46Not a chance.
00:13:47Melvin.
00:13:48Melvin.
00:13:49Yes, mother.
00:13:50Come here, dear, will you?
00:13:52Come here, dear, will you?
00:14:05What is it, darling?
00:14:07Look at this picture, Mary.
00:14:09Does it remind you of anyone?
00:14:24Why, no.
00:14:25Who is it?
00:14:26Oh, that poor man in prison that won't tell who he is.
00:14:30Well, there's something about his expression that...
00:14:33Oh, he does look like my Joe.
00:14:36Oh, now, mother.
00:14:37But he does.
00:14:38Mrs. Douglas, it's just your imagination.
00:14:40Oh, yes, dear.
00:14:41You're getting to see Joe in every newspaper photograph.
00:14:45Listen, dear.
00:14:46If Joe's alive after all these years, he couldn't be this man.
00:14:50Not our Joe.
00:14:52Why, certainly not Mrs. Douglas.
00:14:54Oh, I suppose you're right.
00:14:56It isn't possible that Joe could be what this man is.
00:15:00But still, I...
00:15:02Now, darling.
00:15:04Please forget about this unfortunate man and listen to what Bob has to tell you.
00:15:11Well, go on, tell her, Bob.
00:15:14Tell her.
00:15:15Mrs. Douglas, I have the honor to ask you for your daughter's hand in marriage.
00:15:21Marriage.
00:15:22I hope you'll give your consent.
00:15:23Why, my dear boy, of course.
00:15:24It's what I've always hoped for.
00:15:25I know you and Mary will be very happy making your own home.
00:15:27Oh, but we won't leave you, mother, will we, Bob?
00:15:28Well, certainly not.
00:15:29We're all going to live together.
00:15:30You and Bob and I.
00:15:31Won't that be wonderful?
00:15:32Yes.
00:15:33Why, my dear boy.
00:15:34No, my dear boy.
00:15:35I know you and Mary will be very happy making your own home.
00:15:36Oh, but we won't leave you, mother, will we, Bob?
00:15:38Well, certainly not.
00:15:39We're all going to live together, you and Bob and I.
00:15:43Won't that be wonderful?
00:15:44Yes, sir.
00:16:03Let's go.
00:16:33Let's go.
00:17:03Now, it's all up to you, my man.
00:17:21You have been committed to this prison until the sentence pronounced upon you by the court has been carried out.
00:17:30If you behave yourself, you will have no reason to complain of your treatment.
00:17:34Now, is there anyone you wish to communicate with?
00:17:40No.
00:17:41No?
00:17:42No, no one.
00:17:44I'd like to make that clear to you, Warden.
00:17:49I haven't any mother or father or sister or wife or sweetheart.
00:17:53And my name is Dyke.
00:17:59James Dyke.
00:18:03Very well.
00:18:06Dyke.
00:18:07All right, Bill.
00:18:10I didn't know you had music.
00:18:25I didn't know you had music.
00:18:26Here.
00:18:27Here.
00:18:29I had music.
00:18:30Let's go.
00:18:30Let's go.
00:19:00Hey, Tom, hurry up.
00:19:20Let's go eat.
00:19:20No, I'm on a diet.
00:19:30Looks like it's all up with that fellow's diet.
00:19:35Believe me, it'll be a relief to get that guy off the front page.
00:19:40I wonder who he is.
00:19:43Yeah, you and a million others wonder who he is.
00:19:47He writes pretty good for a pound breaker.
00:19:51They say he gets plenty of dough for these articles he's writing in the paper.
00:19:54The boss told me he gets $2,500.
00:19:58Yeah?
00:19:59Well, I wonder what he does with all this money.
00:20:02I don't know.
00:20:02I hear that he buys Liberty Bonds with it.
00:20:07Started kind of late, didn't he?
00:20:10Oh, he's got some idea in the back of the nuts.
00:20:13He'll do something with it before he dies, I suppose.
00:20:16Hello, Joey.
00:20:32Hello.
00:20:33Hello, Mary.
00:20:34What kept you so late?
00:20:36I've been waiting and waiting for you.
00:20:39Well, I'm sorry.
00:20:41But what do you think, Mary?
00:20:44They've put me in a Shakespeare play.
00:20:47In a Shakespeare play?
00:20:48Yes, at school.
00:20:50And it's all about kings and queens and witches.
00:20:56Are they bad witches?
00:20:59Oh, they're terrible witches.
00:21:02Why, one of them has teeth like...
00:21:07But you won't let them get me, will you?
00:21:11Oh, no, Mary.
00:21:12It's only in the play.
00:21:19Tell me some more, Joey.
00:21:22Tell me some more about the terrible witches.
00:21:26No, Mary.
00:21:27I'll tell you the rest tonight when you go to bed.
00:21:30And that was the end of all the bad witches.
00:21:43And so the beautiful princess and the brave prince
00:21:47were married and lived happily ever afterward.
00:21:50Is that all of the story?
00:21:52Yes, that's all of the story.
00:21:54Now we must say good night.
00:21:56Good night, Joey.
00:21:58No, that isn't the way I taught you to say good night.
00:22:05Good night.
00:22:07Good night.
00:22:09Parting is such sweet sorrow
00:22:12that I should say good night till it's tomorrow.
00:22:16Sleep well upon thine eyes.
00:22:25Peace in thy breast.
00:22:28Would I were sleep and peace.
00:22:32So sweet to rest.
00:22:33Good night.
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00:22:57Good night.
00:22:58Good night.
00:22:59Good night.
00:23:00Good night.
00:23:01Good night.
00:23:02Come to paradise, where the angels pray.
00:23:08Come to heaven, come to heaven, sing forever today.
00:23:21Mom, how does it feel to be engaged?
00:23:23It feels great to me.
00:23:24Don't I look happy?
00:23:25Yes, but wait till you're married.
00:23:29Oh, let's go see how Mother is.
00:23:30Good.
00:23:32Mother, don't you want to come and watch the dancing?
00:23:40What is it, dear?
00:23:43Mary, I'm going east.
00:23:45I've got to see this man.
00:23:47Mother.
00:23:48I've got to make sure he's not my boy.
00:23:51But, dear, don't you know he's not?
00:23:55No, I don't.
00:23:57These newspaper photographs.
00:23:59I've studied and studied them until I'm almost blind.
00:24:03Some of them look like these pictures of my boy.
00:24:07Others don't.
00:24:10I must meet this man, Mary.
00:24:12I'll never rest until I do.
00:24:14I must go to him.
00:24:16But, dear, you can't go to him in prison.
00:24:18Oh, yes, I can.
00:24:20It's out of the question, Mrs. Douglas.
00:24:24You're not strong enough.
00:24:27I'll find strength to go.
00:24:29Oh, now, Mother, dear, please be sensible.
00:24:32Why, Mother, a trip like that would kill you.
00:24:37This uncertainty is killing me.
00:24:39But this man can't be your son.
00:24:42It's impossible.
00:24:45I tell myself that.
00:24:49But night and day I can't get away from the thought
00:24:52that he might be my boy.
00:24:55And if he is, if he is...
00:24:59Oh, don't you see?
00:25:02I'm his mother.
00:25:03I've got to go to him.
00:25:06I've got to.
00:25:09Oh, if you feel this way.
00:25:12If nothing else will satisfy you, what?
00:25:15I'll go.
00:25:17I'll go tomorrow.
00:25:19Oh, would you?
00:25:20Of course I would.
00:25:22If it'll make you any happier.
00:25:24Oh, it would.
00:25:25It would make me happier to know.
00:25:28And I'll go along with her, Mrs. Douglas,
00:25:30so you needn't worry.
00:25:33But you were just a little girl when he left home.
00:25:36You can't remember, Joe.
00:25:38Oh, I haven't forgotten him entirely.
00:25:40Then he should remember me.
00:25:43But it's so many years, Mary.
00:25:45You've grown into a young woman.
00:25:49No.
00:25:50No, he'd never recognize you.
00:25:52Oh, yes, he will.
00:25:55I know how I can recall myself to him.
00:25:59If it is, Joe.
00:26:00Now you leave everything to me.
00:26:03Promise, darling.
00:26:04Promise?
00:26:06Very well.
00:26:07I promise.
00:26:12I think it's somebody's bedtime.
00:26:15Yes, dear.
00:26:16You've been up pretty late for you.
00:26:19Now you go with Mrs. Smith.
00:26:21I'll come up and kiss you goodnight.
00:26:23All right, dear.
00:26:25Goodnight, Robert.
00:26:26Goodnight, Mrs. Douglas.
00:26:27Goodnight.
00:26:35Oh, Bob.
00:26:39Mother has almost made me believe that...
00:26:42that this man might be Joe.
00:26:56Oh, Bob.
00:26:59Have your tickets ready, please.
00:27:04How much longer, Bob?
00:27:07We're due there an hour.
00:27:14Conductor, the train is stopping, isn't it?
00:27:18Yes, madam, it is.
00:27:19Conductor, are those mountains?
00:27:21What do they look like, madam?
00:27:23They look like mountains.
00:27:24Then they must be mountains.
00:27:26Hello.
00:27:27Hello.
00:27:28Oh, come up here.
00:27:30See my doll.
00:27:31Oh, isn't she lovely?
00:27:32What's her name?
00:27:33Patsy Sue.
00:27:34What's your name?
00:27:36Sue Ann.
00:27:38Have you got a little girl like me?
00:27:40No, I haven't.
00:27:42Well, well, little lady.
00:27:44Having a little girl like me,
00:27:46I'm not sure.
00:27:48I'm not sure.
00:27:50I'm not sure.
00:27:52I'm not sure.
00:27:54I'm not sure.
00:27:56I'm not sure.
00:27:58I'm not sure.
00:28:00Well, well, little lady.
00:28:02Having a nice trip?
00:28:05Yes, ma'am.
00:28:08That's right.
00:28:09Give mama a big hug.
00:28:12Not my mama.
00:28:13My mama's over there.
00:28:19Oh, excuse me.
00:28:22Come, come, Suzanne.
00:28:23Come to mother.
00:28:24Bye.
00:28:29I'll miss you.
00:28:30Bye.
00:28:36No!
00:28:39The lawn!
00:28:41Bob,
00:28:45have you thought what this trip means?
00:28:49Not only to mother, but to you and me.
00:28:54It's our happiness that's at stake.
00:28:57It's our happiness?
00:28:58Yes, if this man in prison should be my brother, what?
00:29:05I couldn't marry you.
00:29:09Oh, nonsense, honey, nonsense.
00:29:11It wouldn't be fair to you.
00:29:13Oh, don't you see, Bob?
00:29:16People are cruel.
00:29:18They'd never let you forget that your wife's brother was a...
00:29:25Oh, I couldn't marry you, darling.
00:29:27I just couldn't.
00:29:29Oh, don't be silly, honey.
00:29:31Oh, maybe I am silly, but that's the way I feel.
00:29:57Hello?
00:29:59Hello?
00:30:01All right, send her in.
00:30:03The young lady the governor phoned about.
00:30:05He wants me to let her see Dyke.
00:30:09She thinks he might be her brother.
00:30:10Sit down, Dyke.
00:30:11Sit down, Dyke.
00:30:12Come on.
00:30:13Come on.
00:30:14Come on.
00:30:15Come on.
00:30:16Come on.
00:30:17Hello?
00:30:18Hello?
00:30:19All right, send her in.
00:30:20The young lady the governor phoned about.
00:30:22He wants me to let her see Dyke.
00:30:24She thinks he might be her brother.
00:30:28Sit down, Dyke.
00:30:41Dyke, you've been in my charge now for nearly four months.
00:30:45And I want to say that from first to last you behaved like a gentleman.
00:30:49Well, why should I make you any trouble?
00:30:51You haven't made me any trouble.
00:30:53And I've tried to show you how I feel about it.
00:30:56I've made you every bit as comfortable as the law would let me.
00:30:59You've been very kind, warden.
00:31:01And you too, chaplain.
00:31:05If I haven't shown any appreciation for what you've done, I'm sorry.
00:31:12Will you smoke?
00:31:13Cigar or cigarette?
00:31:15Cigarette, if you don't mind.
00:31:21Thanks.
00:31:35A Dyke about these Liberty Bonds.
00:31:38Twenty five hundred dollars in real money.
00:31:42Good-looking, aren't they?
00:31:46What'll I do with them?
00:31:48Okay.
00:31:50Who do you want me to send them to?
00:31:57Must be someone.
00:31:59Why, yes, there is.
00:32:02I guess I...
00:32:03I can't very well without...
00:32:07Without giving away who you are.
00:32:09Is that what you're afraid of?
00:32:11Oh, let's forget about him.
00:32:13Well, that's just what I can't do.
00:32:15I can't give them away, and I can't keep them here.
00:32:17What'll I do with them?
00:32:19I'll think of something to do with them.
00:32:22What is it?
00:32:23The young lady, Chief.
00:32:25Send her in, in a minute.
00:32:28Yes, Chief.
00:32:30Dyke, I want you to see this young lady.
00:32:34Governor's instructions.
00:32:36She believes you're her brother.
00:32:38She's wrong.
00:32:39I'm not her brother.
00:32:41Well, will you tell her that, or shall I?
00:32:42Well, you might as well tell her.
00:32:44She's come a thousand miles to see you, Dyke.
00:32:47She's going to fool Darren.
00:32:48She's...
00:32:49She's come a thousand miles, did you say?
00:32:57Yeah.
00:32:57It wouldn't take you two minutes to see her, my boy.
00:33:01Don't you think you should, after she's made that long journey?
00:33:06But where can I talk with her?
00:33:07Here?
00:33:08Yes.
00:33:10Alone?
00:33:10Why, you needn't be afraid.
00:33:16I wouldn't cheat the state for anything in the world.
00:33:21Not even to please a young lady.
00:33:23Well, it's a little unusual.
00:33:30But if I put you on your honor.
00:33:33My honor.
00:33:37Thanks.
00:33:38Chaplain, you take Dyke into the deputy's room.
00:33:41I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:44Certainly.
00:33:45Come, my boy.
00:33:46I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:47I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:48I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:49I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:50I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:51I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:52I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:53I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:54I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:55I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:56I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:57I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:58I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:33:59I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:34:00I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:34:01I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:34:02I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:34:03I want to talk to this young lady first.
00:34:04You are Miss Douglas?
00:34:18Yes, sir.
00:34:20Just had an interview with the governor, I believe.
00:34:23Yes, sir.
00:34:25You think there's a possibility that this dyke might be your brother?
00:34:30A possibility?
00:34:31Yes, sir.
00:34:32Oh, I'm not too late, am I?
00:34:35No, you're not too late.
00:34:37But I want to have a little talk with you beforehand.
00:34:41Now, now, I just want to make it easy for you.
00:34:46Sit down.
00:34:55Where do you live?
00:34:57Pennington, Ohio.
00:35:00Pennington, eh?
00:35:02I see.
00:35:05With your father and mother?
00:35:06No, sir, just my mother.
00:35:08My father died when I was a baby.
00:35:12Why didn't your mother come herself?
00:35:14She's not well.
00:35:17Oh, I see.
00:35:19Have you any brothers or sisters?
00:35:21Just one brother, sir.
00:35:22This one, if...
00:35:23Oh, we were very fond of each other.
00:35:28He was much older than you.
00:35:30Oh, yes, sir.
00:35:30Ten years older.
00:35:32Why did he leave home?
00:35:35Well, I...
00:35:35I don't really know, sir, except that...
00:35:39Well, he just wanted to be in the city.
00:35:42Pennington's pretty small.
00:35:44How long since you've seen him?
00:35:46It's 15 years.
00:35:48And we haven't heard from him in all that time.
00:35:51Don't you think you'd recognize him if you did see him?
00:35:54Oh, of course, I think so, but...
00:35:57Maybe I couldn't.
00:35:59You see, I was just a little girl when he went away.
00:36:02Oh, he wasn't a bad boy.
00:36:05I don't believe he ever could be really bad.
00:36:10But...
00:36:11If this is my brother, why...
00:36:14He's been in a great deal of trouble.
00:36:17And you know, trouble makes people look different.
00:36:21Yes, it does.
00:36:24Too bad your mother couldn't have come herself.
00:36:28She'd have known him, even if he had changed.
00:36:31How are you going to tell him?
00:36:43How?
00:36:45What do you mean?
00:36:46Why, you say that maybe you wouldn't know him, even if you saw him.
00:36:50And I'll guarantee this man Dyke won't help you out very much.
00:36:55Suppose he doesn't want to be recognized by you or anybody else.
00:36:59Suppose he's so ashamed of...
00:37:02Oh, I thought of that.
00:37:04You see, I'm just going to talk to him.
00:37:07Ask him questions about things he and I used to do together.
00:37:12I'll watch his face.
00:37:14And if it is my brother, oh, I'm sure I can tell.
00:37:18Well, what did you and your brother used to do that might help you out now?
00:37:22Well, he used to play games with me when I was a little girl and teach me verses.
00:37:29Oh, that's what I'm counting on mostly.
00:37:32The verses.
00:37:34Verses?
00:37:35Yes, we used to call them our, our good night verses.
00:37:42Every evening, when I'd be sent off to bed, Joe and I had, had a little Romeo and Juliet good night of our very own.
00:37:53I'd say to him, I'd say to him, I'd say to him, good night, good night.
00:38:00Parting is such sweet sorrow that I should say good night till it be morrow.
00:38:09And then Joe would answer.
00:38:13Sleep, dwell upon thine eyes.
00:38:18Peace in thy breath.
00:38:23Would I, with sleep, and peace, so sweet to rest.
00:38:32Oh, if it is, Joe, he'll remember.
00:38:43Well, I'll have him in anyway.
00:38:45If he turns out to be your brother, you can have, say, one hour with him.
00:38:54If not, you'll oblige me by cutting it as short as you can.
00:38:57You see, I've got to tell Mother something definite.
00:39:01She's worried about Joe so long and, oh, now the suspense is terrible for her.
00:39:06Yes, I can understand that.
00:39:09You're a brave girl.
00:39:11Of course, it would be awful for us if this is Joe.
00:39:15Oh, even that would be better than for Mother just to wonder and wonder and never know what became of him.
00:39:45All right.
00:40:16Yes, sir.
00:40:18I've decided that you can talk with her here alone.
00:40:23Thanks.
00:40:24It won't take long.
00:40:26The chaplain and I will be in the deputy's room.
00:40:29We'll leave the door open.
00:40:31Wilson.
00:40:32You stay in the ante room with that door open.
00:40:36I hope you'll remember what I said about the time.
00:40:43Come, chaplain.
00:40:45Come, chaplain.
00:40:56Mother sent me to see you.
00:40:59Yes?
00:41:01You see...
00:41:03Well...
00:41:05We haven't seen or heard of my brother Joe in ever so long.
00:41:11Mother thought after what we read in the papers that...
00:41:13I might be your brother Joe?
00:41:15Yes, that's it.
00:41:18Well...
00:41:20You can easily see that I'm not your brother, can't you?
00:41:25I'm not sure.
00:41:26You know, you look a little like him, just as the picture did in the paper, but...
00:41:37Oh, then again, it's...
00:41:39It's been so long.
00:41:40I've thought of Joe so differently.
00:41:46As a matter of fact, I couldn't be your brother or anybody else's brother, because I never had a sister.
00:41:58So that rather settles it.
00:42:00Honestly?
00:42:02Honestly?
00:42:03What's your real name?
00:42:09Dyke.
00:42:10James Dyke.
00:42:12That's sure enough your name?
00:42:15Sure enough?
00:42:17You don't think I'd tell a lie at this stage of the game, do you?
00:42:21No, I...
00:42:23I don't believe you would, but...
00:42:25Where do you come from?
00:42:28I mean, where were you born?
00:42:31Canada.
00:42:33But...
00:42:34I've lived all over.
00:42:35Didn't you ever live in Ohio?
00:42:37No.
00:42:39Never.
00:42:43Well, what kind of work did you do?
00:42:45I mean, what was your business?
00:42:47Oh, I...
00:42:50I'm sort of jack-of-all-trades.
00:42:52I've been everything a man could be, except a success.
00:43:07Do you like books?
00:43:09Books?
00:43:10Yes, books to read.
00:43:13I don't read if there's anything better to do.
00:43:16I read a lot here.
00:43:17Oh, I hope you don't mind my asking so many questions, but...
00:43:22Oh, I...
00:43:23Oh, go ahead.
00:43:24If it'll relieve your mind any.
00:43:26Well, you went to school somewhere, high school?
00:43:31No, I...
00:43:33Never got that far.
00:43:37Do you know any poetry?
00:43:41Not to speak of.
00:43:42Not to speak of.
00:43:45Don't you remember this?
00:43:49Good night.
00:43:51Good night.
00:43:54Parting is such sweet sorrow.
00:43:57That I should say good night.
00:44:00Till it be morrow.
00:44:01Tomorrow.
00:44:07What comes next?
00:44:09Good Lord, I don't know.
00:44:12Sounds kind of silly to me.
00:44:32Good night.
00:44:34Good night.
00:44:37You're not Joe, are you?
00:44:42I just have to come and find out, though.
00:44:46I hope I've not made you too unhappy.
00:45:01You're going back to your mother?
00:45:09Yes.
00:45:12I'm surprised that she sent a girl like you on such a sorry errand as this.
00:45:16Instead of...
00:45:17She's very sick.
00:45:26That's too bad.
00:45:27No.
00:45:29Mother isn't at all well.
00:45:31Most of it's from worrying about Joe.
00:45:36But...
00:45:38But still, if you tell her that her son isn't a murderer,
00:45:42at least that he isn't this one,
00:45:45that'll comfort her a good deal, won't it?
00:45:48Yes.
00:45:50I guess maybe it will, only...
00:45:52Only what?
00:45:53I don't think Mother will ever be really well again
00:45:56until she finds out for certain where Joe is
00:45:59and what's become of him.
00:46:03Mothers oughtn't be treated like that.
00:46:09I wish I'd treated mine better.
00:46:16By the way,
00:46:18you haven't told me what your name is.
00:46:21Mary Douglas.
00:46:23Douglas?
00:46:27Wait a minute.
00:46:31I knew a fellow named Douglas.
00:46:34But...
00:46:35Again, I guess there are a lot of fellows named Douglas.
00:46:41And...
00:46:42Your brother's name was Joseph?
00:46:44Why, yes.
00:46:45I used to call him Joey.
00:46:48That's funny, isn't it?
00:46:50Well, I don't think that's so funny.
00:46:51I rather like it.
00:46:53What was that fellow's name?
00:46:56Joseph...
00:46:58Joseph...
00:46:59Wait a minute.
00:47:00Wait a minute.
00:47:01I'll get it.
00:47:02I'll get it.
00:47:04Joseph...
00:47:06Douglas.
00:47:08Joseph...
00:47:09Anthony...
00:47:10Douglas.
00:47:12That's it.
00:47:14Why, that's his name.
00:47:16That's Joe.
00:47:18Why, how did you ever...
00:47:20Tell me, wait a minute.
00:47:21Now wait.
00:47:22Listen carefully to what I say.
00:47:23And don't interrupt me.
00:47:25Because...
00:47:26We've only got a minute.
00:47:27And I want you to get this all straight so...
00:47:29So that you can tell your mother.
00:47:32When the war came along, I enlisted and went overseas for four years with the Canadians.
00:47:36Well...
00:47:38Early one morning, we staged a big trench raid.
00:47:41And there was an officer who had been wounded coming back and he was lying out there in a shell hole under fire.
00:47:46Well, all of a sudden...
00:47:48A young fellow dashed out of a trench and went for the officer.
00:47:52He had to go through a curtain of shells.
00:47:54And more than that, they opened on him with rifles and machine guns.
00:47:58The chances were about a million to one against him.
00:48:01And he must have known it.
00:48:02Well, he went out just the same.
00:48:04He got the officer in his arms and started back.
00:48:08But...
00:48:10He'd only gone a few yards.
00:48:14When a 5.9...
00:48:17Landed right on top of the two of them.
00:48:23Afterwards...
00:48:24We got what was left.
00:48:28The identification tag was still there.
00:48:33And that was the name.
00:48:37Joseph Anthony Douglas.
00:48:40If that was your brother's name, you can tell your mother that he died like a brave man and a soldier.
00:48:58Joe.
00:49:01My brother, Joe.
00:49:06Is dead.
00:49:10Yeah, but...
00:49:11Well, many of us fellows would have liked to die just that way.
00:49:15If an officer had seen it, there would have been a decoration for your mother to keep and remember him by.
00:49:21And you were there?
00:49:24And saw it?
00:49:25Well, certainly. I was there and saw it.
00:49:28That's why you and your mother haven't heard from him for such a long time.
00:49:31If you don't believe what I've said, why, you write up to Ottawa and get the official record.
00:49:37Of course, those records are in terribly poor shape, but at least they can tell you in what battalion he fought with and when he went overseas.
00:49:44But you shouldn't be surprised, no matter what they say, whether he was killed in action or died of wounds or is missing or even went through the whole war with his outfit and was honorably discharged.
00:49:56They really don't know what happened to half the men.
00:49:58But what I told you is the truth.
00:50:01And it sure ought to make your mother happy to know that her son died a soldier.
00:50:09And not a criminal.
00:50:13Oh, yes, it will.
00:50:17And does it make you happy, too?
00:50:21It does.
00:50:22After what we were both afraid of.
00:50:29I can't even cry yet.
00:50:37It won't exactly make mother happy, but...
00:50:41Oh, I know she'll be so proud of Joey.
00:50:49Just a minute.
00:50:52I want you to give this to your mother.
00:51:06From me.
00:51:10Tell her it's from a man who was at Vimy Ridge
00:51:14and saw your brother die.
00:51:17It's like a memorial for her.
00:51:22Don't you open it.
00:51:28Let her do it.
00:51:30What is it? Can't I know?
00:51:32No, just give it to her.
00:51:35It's nothing.
00:51:37It's all I got in the world.
00:51:39And it's too late now for me to do anything else with it.
00:51:42And...
00:51:45Have your mother...
00:51:47buy a little gold star...
00:51:51to wear for her boy.
00:51:58And you get one, too.
00:52:03And wear it here.
00:52:05Will you?
00:52:08Yes, I will.
00:52:13Somehow...
00:52:15I'll almost feel that I'm wearing it for you, too.
00:52:19No.
00:52:21You must never do that.
00:52:23Why...
00:52:25I'm not fit to be mentioned in the same breath with a boy like your brother.
00:52:29Well, I...
00:52:43I guess it is time for you to go.
00:52:46I'm sorry, but you're better.
00:52:48I'm glad you came before it was too late, though.
00:53:00Goodbye.
00:53:03You've done more for Mother and me than I can ever tell you.
00:53:09And I'm so sorry for you.
00:53:13So truly sorry.
00:53:16If there was only something I could do to make you a little bit happier,
00:53:20is there anything?
00:53:24Well...
00:53:26Yes, there is.
00:53:27What is it?
00:53:29No.
00:53:31No, I can't tell you.
00:53:32I shouldn't have mentioned it.
00:53:34Oh, please tell me.
00:53:35I want you to.
00:53:37For Joe's sake.
00:53:40Tell me what I can do.
00:53:44Well...
00:53:47In all the months that I've been in this hideous place,
00:53:50you're the first girl that I've seen.
00:53:53I didn't ever expect to see one again.
00:53:56I've forgotten...
00:53:58I've forgotten...
00:54:00how much like angels...
00:54:02women look.
00:54:04You see, it's been terribly lonesome, tonight especially.
00:54:10And if you really do want to do something for me...
00:54:16for your brother's sake.
00:54:21You see, I haven't any sister of my own, or anybody else that could say goodbye to me.
00:54:30So...
00:54:32if you...
00:54:34could really...
00:54:36say goodbye.
00:54:37You...
00:54:38could really...
00:54:40say goodbye.
00:54:41Goodbye.
00:55:06Goodbye.
00:55:08Goodbye.
00:55:10Goodbye.
00:55:11Goodbye.
00:55:16Goodbye.
00:55:18Goodbye.
00:55:20Goodbye.
00:55:22And...
00:55:24goodbye.
00:55:26Goodbye.
00:55:28Goodbye.
00:55:30Goodbye.
00:55:32I was thinking what I used to say.
00:55:34Oh, I was thinking what I used to say to my brother for goodnight.
00:55:44If I could only have said it to him just once more.
00:55:51For goodbye.
00:55:54What was it?
00:55:58I told it to you once and you said it was silly.
00:56:04Say it again.
00:56:10Good night.
00:56:14Good night.
00:56:18Parting is such a sweet sorrow.
00:56:23I should say good night.
00:56:28Till it is tomorrow.
00:56:34Sleep, dwell upon thine eyes.
00:56:50Peace in thy breast.
00:56:54Would I was sleep.
00:56:57And peace.
00:56:59So sweet to rest.
00:57:01I'm glad you let me see that girl, Warden.
00:57:07I'm glad you let me see that girl, Warden.
00:57:11Why, I...
00:57:13I mean that...
00:57:14She showed me how lucky I was...
00:57:16Not to have a sister or a mother.
00:57:18I'm glad you let me see that girl, Warden.
00:57:21I'm glad you let me see that girl, Warden.
00:57:24Why, I...
00:57:26I mean that...
00:57:27She showed me how lucky I was...
00:57:32Not to have a sister or a mother.
00:57:37I committed a crime...
00:57:39And I'm going to pay.
00:57:43That's fair enough.
00:57:44It will soon be all over for me.
00:57:50But if I had a family...
00:57:53It would never be over for them.
00:57:58They'd have to go on living...
00:58:02And suffering.
00:58:04A fellow ought to think of that...
00:58:10Before doing what I did.
00:58:17Only...
00:58:19Only I didn't have to.
00:58:22Because...
00:58:23I hadn't anyone.
00:58:31My son.
00:58:34Dike.
00:58:36Dike.
00:59:00All right.
00:59:03Let's go.
00:59:26Baba...
00:59:28I'm so glad we made that trip.
00:59:31Yes, dear.
00:59:33Now your mother is satisfied...
00:59:35About Joe.
00:59:37Yes.
00:59:39Now she knows.
00:59:44And she's so proud of her hero boy.
00:59:47So very proud.
01:00:00She's so proud of her.
01:00:23Mother dear.
01:00:24It's getting chilly.
01:00:25Hadn't you better come in?
01:00:54It's getting chilly.
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