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The Judge of Harbor County (2021) is a heartfelt drama based on true events. The story follows a respected judge who navigates challenging legal cases while balancing integrity, compassion, and the demands of justice. As unexpected situations arise, the judge learns valuable lessons about fairness, responsibility, and the impact of personal choices on the community. With thoughtful performances and a focus on character-driven storytelling, The Judge of Harbor County (2021) highlights themes of honesty, dedication, and perseverance in the pursuit of justice. It’s an inspiring story that resonates with viewers seeking meaningful drama.
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00:00:30One night, I had a dream.
00:01:00The problem I got right now, some days I couldn't tell you if I ever woke up from that dream.
00:01:22See one day, I found a watch.
00:01:27Next to it was a U.S. Marshal badge.
00:01:34And a sign, Town needs a Marshal.
00:01:42Next to that sign was a hat.
00:01:44Yeah, I needed me a hat, but I couldn't take my eyes from that watch.
00:01:52Then I read the back of the sign.
00:01:58A lot of dead people around here.
00:02:03I could have told you that one for free.
00:02:06Look at things a different way.
00:02:09Hell, I'm one of them.
00:02:15My name was Clinton Butler.
00:02:18Whole town considered me dead.
00:02:22But the good Dr. Roth oversaw the documents of my official rebirth.
00:02:28And after a year, clawing my way back from the dead, Marshal James Jennings, I became.
00:02:39I don't know if this was my punishment.
00:02:43I don't know if this is my heaven or my hell.
00:02:49But it seems like I found that watch a thousand times over.
00:03:19I have to say that you're passing away by a thousand times over.
00:03:36So I'm an old man, and I have a kid in Jesus' heart, and I have a kid in a house...
00:03:41And I'm going nowhere.
00:03:41Okay.
00:03:43And this is the first thing I thought was my death.
00:05:47A few rough acres of woodland were described by their solitary inhabitant as Harbor County.
00:05:57Reports suggested a small homestead sat somewhere on the land.
00:06:02Those who found it and set foot in the property were considered to be the guests of U.S. Marshal James Jennings.
00:06:11Stories of the mysterious Marshal grew.
00:06:17He became infamous amongst outlaws who claimed they had killed him in the town of Goliad years previously.
00:06:25In the summer months, a crude rope lined the boundary of Harbor County.
00:06:35By the onset of winter, only a single sign to the residence would be found.
00:06:40Inside redemption, a man could attest or disprove his sins.
00:06:58Mr. Jennings, I'm not sure how long this one's gone.
00:07:10Looks to me like she's done for.
00:07:24Now, I'm not sure how long this is, but instead I knew that she was of a могут against the other one.
00:07:26It's a little bit harsh to me like that.
00:07:27So I'm not sure how long this is, I'm not sure how long this is.
00:07:29I'm not sure how long this is.
00:07:31So I'm not sure how long this is.
00:07:33I want to thank you for that.
00:07:35I'm not sure how long this is.
00:07:36He tried to take me.
00:08:06In the barn.
00:08:12I had been right.
00:08:14And he didn't believe me.
00:08:17And he...
00:08:18He...
00:08:19But take my word.
00:08:26I give you vengeance.
00:08:30And I make your husband swear.
00:08:32You're a good man, James.
00:08:37The sort of man I should have married.
00:08:42Make him suffer, Mr. Jennings.
00:08:45He's a bad man.
00:08:47So, you want to talk, my friend?
00:08:52And hell, you must be on fire down there.
00:08:57Now, I challenge any regular-speaking man to sit in that chair
00:09:01with untreated venereal disease of the highest order
00:09:05and not say a word.
00:09:09Please, show me the compassion you're famed for.
00:09:12We are not in the land of hospitality here.
00:09:17I know things, Mr. Cooper.
00:09:20What do you know?
00:09:21She took to whoring herself to get back at you.
00:09:25That's not true.
00:09:27I'll tell you...
00:09:28You accused those boys of raping her
00:09:30when they did nothing of the sort.
00:09:35They thought it was paid for.
00:09:37I'll never agree to that.
00:09:39They're making that up.
00:09:41Wait.
00:09:42There ain't nothing wrong with me, Mr. Jennings.
00:09:44Did you rape your wife?
00:09:46Are you playing mind games with me?
00:09:48Did the blade go in before?
00:09:52Or after?
00:09:54I'm an innocent man.
00:09:55That's the tragedy of death, I'm afraid.
00:10:00We had an argument a few days back,
00:10:01but I ain't seen much of her.
00:10:03When I got there,
00:10:05Susanna come around and, uh...
00:10:09I told her Dr. Roth would be a good couple of hours away,
00:10:13but we could, uh...
00:10:15cauterize the wound, all that,
00:10:17but she'd bled.
00:10:21She'd bled good.
00:10:25So she sat there
00:10:27and she said,
00:10:30find my husband.
00:10:34I won't die
00:10:36until you brought that bastard
00:10:39in front of me.
00:10:41Give her some honor and death.
00:10:44She's dead.
00:10:46Just acknowledge that you're probably behind it.
00:10:50I'll make a deal with you.
00:10:52I'll sit here like this,
00:10:53no pains, no crying,
00:10:55and you'll see there ain't nothing wrong with me,
00:10:58which will prove that I did not do what you claim.
00:11:00I'll give you eight days to think about this.
00:11:02Now, if you can sit there
00:11:04for eight days
00:11:05and not demonstrate
00:11:07a symptom of the disease
00:11:10that I know will be ravaging your body,
00:11:12then you are a free man
00:11:15and I am the devil
00:11:18for subjecting you
00:11:20to such a torture.
00:11:23Might be a good idea
00:11:25to shut your eyes for a little bit.
00:11:27Get some rest.
00:11:29I don't want you waking up with no fever.
00:11:33I don't want to get you well
00:11:34just to then watch you hang.
00:11:37You ain't never hanged a person in your life.
00:11:39Is that the compassion I'm famed for?
00:11:42That's what they say.
00:11:44You give people a chance to prove themselves.
00:11:47Stay alive long enough.
00:11:49You'll find out.
00:11:52Now your eight days,
00:11:54they begin now.
00:12:09And I get yougrund of what the disease
00:12:11you're doing.
00:12:12And you too.
00:12:12You tip...
00:12:13You tip...
00:12:13...
00:12:14...
00:12:16Yeah.
00:12:17So what you say...
00:12:18I don't want to get you.
00:12:19I don't mind.
00:12:19You're your fault?
00:12:20I don't want to get you.
00:12:23I'm sorry.
00:12:24I don't want you to do thatRIP1D.
00:12:26So the 엄마...
00:12:27You don't want to get you.
00:12:28I don't want you to have time for it.
00:12:33I don't want you to interact with many people.
00:12:34No I want you too.
00:12:35I don't want you to.
00:12:38And I want you to talk to 30ShowB2
00:14:09I don't know where Mr. Jennings gone.
00:14:15I didn't stab her.
00:14:17I don't know why people think that I would do that.
00:14:21She's my wife.
00:14:22I don't know why people think I was going to do that.
00:14:26Shut up.
00:14:26I don't know why everybody would have thought I would have done that, but it wasn't me.
00:14:32I mean, she's my wife.
00:14:34Shut up.
00:14:35Nobody wants to listen to me.
00:14:42I'm not even a dead man.
00:14:44Eight days.
00:14:55Why'd you put yourself through that, Mr. Cooper?
00:14:57Because I don't think a word about what they say about you is true.
00:15:01And now you know I am a man of my word.
00:15:07When am I going to hang, then?
00:15:09You're not going to hang, Coop.
00:15:11See, I challenged you.
00:15:13I said, any man that can sit there with venereal disease of the highest order for eight days and not show any symptoms can walk free.
00:15:29I don't like you.
00:15:33I don't enjoy the pleasure of your company.
00:15:37But two things happened before I pulled you in that you were unaware of.
00:15:43You have a house girl called Callie.
00:15:46Is that correct?
00:15:48What's she got to do with all this?
00:15:51Well, Callie has been the recipient of your desire for the past year, has she not?
00:16:00Yeah.
00:16:01Don't mind me saying, but she ain't exactly purdy.
00:16:05No.
00:16:06She's ugly as sin, but the only person who's laying with her is me.
00:16:12And Susanna caught you.
00:16:14Waited for you to clean up, then confronted you.
00:16:16I'll never rape Susanna.
00:16:18I never stabbed her.
00:16:20I've been here eight days.
00:16:22Do you not believe me?
00:16:25No, I believe you.
00:16:26It's the rest of the town that don't.
00:16:31You'd have been hanged a week ago if I hadn't pulled you in.
00:16:35You betrayed your wife.
00:16:37And she got back at you by opening her legs to the whole of the town.
00:16:47You're the man who's got to live with that.
00:16:50What'd I do next?
00:16:51We hanged William Cooper a week ago.
00:16:56I inspected your property.
00:16:59I found a will that you recently signed, leaving your estate to Callie Mitchell.
00:17:06But seizing all cash assets to deal with.
00:17:10Funeral, $20.
00:17:12Unpaid wages, $680.
00:17:14Unpaid bar tab, $16.
00:17:21General store payments in lieu, $410.
00:17:25And a clerk's fee for the remainder, approximately $3,400 for land holdings,
00:17:34identifications, and passage to a new world.
00:17:39You liquidated my business.
00:17:42No.
00:17:43We just paid up what you owed.
00:17:47And we got you a one-way ticket to not being annihilated by a being mob who were quite prepared
00:17:55to pull you to pieces.
00:17:57You're for real, aren't you?
00:17:59See this guy in front of me?
00:18:00I walked I don't know how long to find him.
00:18:06I dragged his sorry ass back here because rumor is this man is worth a hell of a lot of money.
00:18:18I was a rich man before I walked into this place.
00:18:21You're richer now.
00:18:23Believe me.
00:18:24Yeah, I'm starting to think that way.
00:18:28So...
00:18:29What next?
00:18:30Get yourself together.
00:18:32Have a look in that bag and understand why you came to redemption.
00:18:38My folks left England for a better life.
00:18:42William Cooper is leaving for a better life.
00:18:47One way he ain't dead.
00:18:50How'd you fix all this so quick?
00:18:52Wise up, Mr. Cooper.
00:18:55You're a healthy man.
00:18:56You start walking south and you'll hit the coastline in about three days if you get yourself down to what they now call in Corpus Christi.
00:19:06Go east, you'll hit Galveston.
00:19:09But that's about seven or eight days' walk.
00:19:13So maybe you want to pick up a horse.
00:19:17Let it loose on the outskirts when you get there.
00:19:20But don't be trading because you're a dead man walking.
00:19:25You got this all figured out, ain't ya?
00:19:27I got this figured out the same way for everybody.
00:19:30Hell, you're home free.
00:19:31Even if you jump a steamship that takes you to New York, that don't matter.
00:19:38You just find another one heading home to queen and country.
00:19:41Being dead has a price.
00:19:43That it does, Mr. Cooper.
00:19:45That it does.
00:19:46So, you're just gonna let me go?
00:19:49Yeah.
00:19:50We had our talk.
00:19:52Life has moved on.
00:19:55Now, you're dead to anyone who might have had a beef with you.
00:19:58You got a piece of paper that says you were somebody else.
00:20:01And you got a death certificate and documents that relate to a family friend.
00:20:08A week ago I had everything.
00:20:11Now, I've got nothing.
00:20:13You've been redeemed.
00:20:14Now, get out.
00:20:18Wait.
00:20:19You never bought me any shoes.
00:20:22Well, shoot.
00:20:24How am I?
00:20:26I can't help you with that, Cooper.
00:20:29Why don't you ask the dead man here if he'll lend you his?
00:20:33Oh, be reasonable.
00:20:35It's freezing out there.
00:20:36Well, then improvise.
00:20:38Or ask the dead man.
00:20:40Can I take your shoes?
00:20:48$20.
00:20:50I want a burial.
00:20:54Jennings can't pay that for me.
00:20:56$20.
00:21:00That boy is thinking ahead.
00:21:06That it?
00:21:07Can I go now?
00:21:09Pay him the $20.
00:21:11Put it in his hand or put it in his shirt pocket.
00:21:14Why?
00:21:14You're only going to take it off him.
00:21:18I want my shoes back.
00:21:21Man wants his shoes back, Coop.
00:21:24I want my shoes back.
00:21:30Look.
00:21:30I'm putting $50 in his hand.
00:21:37I don't care.
00:21:40I want my shoes back.
00:21:43$40 is not enough.
00:21:45$100.
00:21:51You're not $60 short, are you?
00:21:53No.
00:21:54Look.
00:21:55Look.
00:21:57Here's $100.
00:21:59For this man's shoes.
00:22:00Thank you, dead man.
00:22:04Next time.
00:22:06Just pull a dead man's shoes off his feet.
00:22:09I'll stop feeling my legs hours ago.
00:22:12What did he say?
00:22:14He said next time, just pull a dead man's shoes off his feet.
00:22:19He stopped feeling his legs hours ago.
00:22:22I want my $100 back.
00:22:24Nuh-uh.
00:22:27That man is next in that chair.
00:22:31Redemption has a price, Mr. Cooper.
00:22:34More money you have coming in,
00:22:37the better your chances are of getting out.
00:22:40Got it?
00:22:41Got it?
00:22:54I need water.
00:23:11Water.
00:23:12I can give you water.
00:23:22But we live in parts where they sell liquor by the keg
00:23:27because it's cheaper than the water.
00:23:31But I can give you water.
00:23:35So, what's your name?
00:23:43This...
00:23:44It's sewn in my shoes.
00:23:53What's your name?
00:23:54I thought you knew Layland.
00:23:58My name isn't important.
00:24:01You'll kill me if I tell you.
00:24:05But I know Layland.
00:24:07Prove it to me.
00:24:08Layland saw his father hanged.
00:24:15Look.
00:24:17There's gonna be a Confederate man coming for you.
00:24:22He's an imposter.
00:24:26Imposter?
00:24:27You know this imposter's name?
00:24:33It's Jacob Fulfer.
00:24:35Jacob Fulfer.
00:24:38So, your name...
00:24:39You know the name of the imposter,
00:24:41but you can't tell me yours.
00:24:46You'd kill me if I tell you.
00:24:53Well,
00:24:54I think she's done for, my friend.
00:24:57You know, my friend,
00:25:03that I have a gift,
00:25:05don't you?
00:25:07You know that I can hear you.
00:25:10I can translate your thoughts.
00:25:13And I think all you want to say
00:25:15is this.
00:25:19Why wouldn't you just let me die in peace?
00:25:23I wouldn't have lasted the night in that cold.
00:25:29But you bring me here with your vengeance
00:25:31and your talk of redemption?
00:25:34Hell, I am redeemed.
00:25:37I'm a bad man.
00:25:40But a bad man dies the same way he lives.
00:25:46In the gutter.
00:25:48I'm a bad man.
00:25:49I'm a bad man.
00:25:50I'm a bad man.
00:25:50I'm a bad man.
00:25:51I'm a bad man.
00:25:51I'm a bad man.
00:25:52I'm a bad man.
00:25:52I'm a bad man.
00:25:53I'm a bad man.
00:25:54I'm a bad man.
00:25:54I'm a bad man.
00:25:54I'm a bad man.
00:25:55I'm a bad man.
00:25:55I'm a bad man.
00:25:56I'm a bad man.
00:25:56I'm a bad man.
00:25:56I'm a bad man.
00:25:57I'm a bad man.
00:25:57I'm a bad man.
00:25:58I'm a bad man.
00:25:58I'm a bad man.
00:25:58I'm a bad man.
00:25:59I'm a bad man.
00:25:59I'm a bad man.
00:26:00I'm a bad man.
00:26:01I'm a bad man.
00:26:02I'm a bad man.
00:32:37I guess you better get yourself inside there.
00:34:45God bless you.
00:34:51I, you know, God, God.
00:34:55To a certain extent, I am a religious man.
00:35:01I am from Goliath County.
00:35:05But I fail to see what your connection with my land has to do with the massacre we may find ourselves the victims of.
00:35:18We won't be the victims of no massacre, Mr. Janins.
00:35:21We came here at a height.
00:35:25Well, good luck, Heidi.
00:35:27Can I go through to your private quarters?
00:35:30I only got two rooms in this place.
00:35:33I wouldn't call either one of them private.
00:35:37But you go right ahead.
00:35:39You go look.
00:35:55Can you hear me?
00:36:11Yeah, I wish you all.
00:36:12Mr. Janins, I'm right here.
00:36:15Can you not hear me?
00:36:17Mr. Janins, where did you just go?
00:36:31The ice store.
00:36:33You did know there's an ice store under here, didn't you?
00:36:38An ice store.
00:36:40Well, I know I got one now.
00:36:45You told me.
00:36:49How'd you get in it?
00:36:51Move the bed, lift the boards, and you can step on down into the abyss, Mr. Janins.
00:36:58Now, we'll be hiding on down there, and you can do your shooting up here.
00:37:02So, you came to hide in a part of my place that I didn't even know existed?
00:37:09Well, my daddy dug it out kind of a secret and all.
00:37:13The man you bought the land from, well, he's dead now, but he harassed my daddy for quite some time.
00:37:20He thought there was something of value in the ground around here.
00:37:25Oil, I think.
00:37:26There wasn't.
00:37:28Not here, but before daddy sold on, he satisfied his own curiosity.
00:37:34He spent two summers digging a hole.
00:37:37Big as a house and then bigger still.
00:37:40It's hard rock, so cool, too.
00:37:43Nice hideaway from the sun.
00:37:45But daddy didn't want no one knowing about the hole, and he was a good carpenter, so he laid up a new floor.
00:37:52You can't even tell there's anything under there.
00:37:55Why didn't you just tell me this before, Rosanna?
00:37:58Well, I didn't really know you, did I?
00:38:01I still don't.
00:38:02I never had no reason to tell you anything, but I never had no one chasing and beating up my family before.
00:38:10Never had no reason to hide, but now I do find myself with reason to hide.
00:38:14I will hide in the best place I know.
00:38:16Look, I got liquor, and I got cups.
00:38:22So why don't you take a seat, and we'll sit this one out.
00:38:29That chair is reserved for lawbreakers.
00:38:43It's a chair, Mr. Janins.
00:38:49You're going to make me sit on the floor?
00:38:50Now, weren't you going to attend to that corpse outside?
00:39:04I mean, if he's still alive, that is.
00:39:09I just got no use for him in here.
00:39:12Mr. Janins.
00:39:28I think he's dead.
00:39:30Oh, you think he's dead?
00:39:36Yeah, I thought he was dead.
00:39:39I mean, I was damn convinced he was dead.
00:39:43But if I didn't drag him a couple of hundred yards back to this place,
00:39:48then I could have been sleeping in my bed,
00:39:52and Jacob Fulford would have crept up on me
00:39:56and slit my throat whilst I slept.
00:40:00So the doctor definitely coming?
00:40:12Yes, Dr. Roth.
00:40:14From Golia County, like yourself.
00:40:17Oh, she don't like it around here.
00:40:19Says the injuries remind her of being on the battlefield.
00:40:24You know they started this new way of settling scores
00:40:27amongst the thieves in town?
00:40:28They tie a pair of them together with a buckskin at the arm.
00:40:37And they put a little one-inch blade into their hands.
00:40:42And the batting in the circle intensifies.
00:40:48Then the fight begins.
00:40:51And these fools, they slice in and cutting at each other.
00:40:56Because these little blades are only an inch thick.
00:41:00They can't really deliver the fatal blow.
00:41:03So these guys, hell, they're losing so much blood.
00:41:09Till eventually, one of them hits the ground.
00:41:13And the thing is, it's the collapse.
00:41:17It's the real killer.
00:41:17Because even if you deliver the death blow first,
00:41:22well, hell, that man's bringing you down with him.
00:41:25I've seen it.
00:41:32Well, that's why I'm a man of law.
00:41:35And a man of order.
00:41:37Well, we're better than that.
00:41:43We're not animals.
00:41:46We're not supposed to just cut each other to pieces.
00:41:50But that's what these men do.
00:41:53Look.
00:41:55Go see if we can drag that man back in here.
00:41:59Clean him up.
00:42:00Find out who he actually might be.
00:42:05Mr. Janins.
00:42:08The man is gone.
00:42:13Hmm.
00:42:15Well, on a night like tonight,
00:42:19that just don't surprise me.
00:42:30And.
00:42:50All right.
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