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The Honour of Judge Priest follows the warm-hearted and humorous story of a wise small-town judge who uses fairness, compassion, and wit to resolve conflicts in his community. Blending light comedy with heartfelt drama, this classic film showcases moral lessons, charming characters, and touching moments that reflect the spirit of traditional American storytelling.
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00:00:00Here, here, here, fourth court order.
00:00:30Here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
00:01:00Here, here, here, here, here.
00:01:30Here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
00:01:45Your Honor, there is no doubt in the mind of the Commonwealth that this prisoner is a confirmed
00:01:52chicken thief.
00:01:53thief. He has no place in this God-fearing community. He is a migrant. He cometh from
00:02:01no man knows whence. Since arriving in our midst, he has been known to do no honest work.
00:02:10The Commonwealth of Kentucky asks, yea, demands that he be a judge guilty and sentenced to
00:02:18six months on the chain-gag.
00:02:29Hey, hey boy, wake up there. Wake him up there. If anybody is going to sleep in this court,
00:02:34it will be me. Hey, wake up. Come here, boy. Come on over here, right there. What's your name?
00:02:47Jeff Poindexter. Poindexter? Who gave you that? Mr. Ranney. Ranney? You mean Major Randolph
00:02:59Poindexter from down at Pine Bluff? Yeah, Pine Bluff. Well, looks like you Poindexters is
00:03:11always getting mixed up with some chicken somehow. Hey, Sergeant? It seems like I recollect you and
00:03:21Major Ranney having some connection with the flesh of the fowls at one time.
00:03:27You're good if we didn't. You know, Major Ranney was the fathenest soldier that ever chased
00:03:32to yank up a tree. You know, Billy, you and me puttin' your stars that day when we went
00:03:37forgin' for a snack after the Battle of Chickamoggy. Chickamoggy? No, no, it was a... it was the Battle of
00:03:45Kennesaw Mountain. There's no such a thing of a Chickamoggy. Oh, you're both wrong. I'm not wrong. It was the summer of 63. But we were just outside of
00:03:55Lashville. No, Phil is right. I remember. For was by their ritual? Your Honour of the Common
00:04:03will subject to this digression. Now, now, now, Senator, you know, now, now the point is that, uh, that the Major,
00:04:11uh, he acted the part of the, of a gentleman and a soldier, and he removed the temptation from out of our path by
00:04:19by eatin' up all the fat hens in the whole bunch and leavin' us nothin' but a lot of old skinny
00:04:27Domineck roosters. You remember, boy? Come to think of it, Billy, they were Plymouth Rocks. There was no such a thing
00:04:33Yankee chicken. There was Rhode Island Red. But I knew what I could do. No, Billy, bro. Your Honour.
00:04:39Your Honour. Your Honour. Is this a court of law? I know that. I ask you, is this a court of law?
00:04:49Now, now, now, Senator, I wouldn't, I, I, don't get on your high horse that way. You know, we ain't in a great big hurry,
00:04:57but, uh, incident about, uh, what are you, what are you charged with there, boy? Nothing, Judge, but I wasn't there
00:05:03them chickens showing up. I was just fishin'. Fishin'? Why was you fishin'? Dying... Sleepy River.
00:05:12He, he, he, he. Ain't no fishin' Sleepy River, is it? Well, I saw. Hey, neither. Full of catfish.
00:05:18Hey. Talks right to me. Yeah? So, this is why I thought, cause I catch bull-ass catfish in there, I know.
00:05:26There's your proof he's lying. Here, come in. What, what, what do you use for bait?
00:05:32Oh, I got a honk of beef liver. Beef liver? Yeah, I just take the beef liver, put it on there,
00:05:39and chunk it out there, let them out of the first piece for nothing, see, and then you put some more
00:05:45on that and chunk it out there, and then they think they gonna get there for nothing, and you just touch,
00:05:50you catch them longer, you got some liver. And I go around there all the time, and I don't
00:05:55care nothing with that little. And I don't care nothing with that little.
00:05:57And I don't care what the children are doing in the town in the hall. Yeah, I remember.
00:06:05Oh, down there. I bet much better I'm on. You know, sir, sir, I'm so nervous in the
00:06:12night. I got to take down the judges clothes. Got to take them in the house. Yes, Lord. Got to get out of the
00:06:24line and board. Fix them up for the Jeds to wear. Yes, Lord. That's what I was going to do.
00:06:41Praise the Lord, Mr. Room. Is you ahead or ain't you ain't? Hi, Aunt Dilsey. How come you here? The judge said you up there at that college, learn to be a lawyer man. Aunt Dilsey, I got stomach trouble.
00:06:57Long help you, white child. What them ages been feeding you? Not a darn thing. That's the trouble. What have we got for supper? Mr. Room, you stay here. Us is going to kill the high
00:07:07step in the loose in the yard and a great big bowl of milk gravy and grits. And waffles. Don't you worry
00:07:14now, honey. You's home now. Miss Rome's home. Miss Rome's home. Miss Rome's home. Miss Rome's home. Miss Rome's home. Hey, Uncle Billy.
00:07:21Get that, baby. How are you? Well, if it ain't wrong. Well, salt me down. What happened up there? Did them Yankees kick you out of that law school? Sure they did. With a diploma. You're now looking at a full-fledged member of the bar.
00:07:35You're now looking at a full-fledged member of the bar. Now, let me look at you. Hmm. Full-fledged, my given. Yeah, lawyer. You know, you better get your britches half sold,
00:07:48because you're going to sit around a long time before you get your first client. Well, I don't mind, Uncle Billy. You know what
00:07:55happened to me before I got my first client, don't you? Lord, I sat through two Republican administrations before I...
00:08:05Who are you playing? Oh, I'm just doing a little practicing here for the championship. I got Jeff here. He's doing the retrieving for me. Uh, me and Herman Felsberg is going to play against Jimmy Bagby and Doc Lake. Two of them balls down there, will you, Jeff?
00:08:22Two of them. Mm-hmm. Remember the last time? Mm-hmm. I'm going to show you what had happened to Jimmy Bagby now. He's, uh...
00:08:29Just want to show you how far... Ooh, look at... Ha! Look at that Yankees shoe. Look at all that, Jeff. Look at that.
00:08:37I've never seen shoes with buttons on them before. I've seen pants but...
00:08:44Yeah, ha! Oh, say, that's fine. Uh... Uh, just, uh, take your button shoes with you and just step that off and see just how fur it is.
00:08:57and see just how full it is.
00:08:59I think that's about a record.
00:09:02One, two, three, four.
00:09:09Hello.
00:09:11Hello.
00:09:15Glad to see me?
00:09:17Why, I thought you were still up north.
00:09:19Uh-uh. I got in this morning.
00:09:22How'd you know I was back here?
00:09:24Well, I didn't, but Uncle...
00:09:27Why, you look pretty with those things.
00:09:31Isn't this a lovely spray?
00:09:32Uh-huh.
00:09:35Now, young lady, I want to ask you a question.
00:09:37Please let me down, Rome.
00:09:38Miss Gillespie, will you please tell this court
00:09:40why you didn't answer my letters?
00:09:42I've got to go in. Really, I have.
00:09:43Now, tell the truth, the whole truth,
00:09:45and nothing but the truth, so help you...
00:09:47You know why.
00:09:49All I know is that you've changed since I went away.
00:09:53Well, that isn't it, Rome.
00:09:54It's just that we've grown up.
00:09:59You mean you don't like me anymore?
00:10:01Oh, Rome.
00:10:03Well, if my mother or anybody has said anything...
00:10:06Oh, Ellie, me. I mean...
00:10:08Well, I'm old enough to choose my own friends.
00:10:10Please let me go.
00:10:11We've got to get this thing settled once and for all.
00:10:14I've got to go in real or have.
00:10:16All right, then.
00:10:16I'm coming back tonight and find out what it's all about.
00:10:19You can.
00:10:19I have an engagement.
00:10:22Who with?
00:10:23Fleming Talley.
00:10:25Hmm.
00:10:26Well, how about tomorrow night?
00:10:27Oh, Rome, it's no use.
00:10:30All right.
00:10:31That's the way you feel about it?
00:10:32You can sit right there till we understand each other.
00:10:37That's all right. That's all right.
00:10:38We don't need no more practice for them old men, no.
00:10:42Besides, that exertion calls for a jeweler.
00:10:45Yes, but you're going to wait for that young gentleman before you...
00:10:50Wait for him?
00:10:51Yes.
00:10:52Unless young folks has changed since I was skirmishing around.
00:10:56He won't be back in quite a while.
00:10:59No.
00:11:00Look at that goat.
00:11:02Ain't that a pretty sight?
00:11:04What, that goat?
00:11:06There ain't nothing pretty in the world than two young folks in love in the spring.
00:11:11What do you do about that goat?
00:11:13Oh, goat. My lord, ain't you got any sentiment?
00:11:15Ain't you got no girl?
00:11:16Ain't you ever in love?
00:11:18I was standing around here talking about a goat or something.
00:11:20But your mint.
00:11:21What about my mint?
00:11:22A goat in your mint bed.
00:11:24Then my mint bed.
00:11:25A goat.
00:11:26Yeah.
00:11:26Ah!
00:11:28A goat.
00:11:30Acting like you.
00:11:31Ah!
00:11:32I bet you always.
00:11:34Don't look.
00:11:36Why, brilliant freak.
00:11:38Oh, hello, Carrie.
00:11:39This is a fine how do you do.
00:11:41What will the neighbors say?
00:11:43I'm ashamed of you.
00:11:45What's ailing you now?
00:11:47That gum goat come in here and eat up my mint bed there.
00:11:51I bet he must have been the ruination of a million juleps.
00:11:55You and your precious mint juleps.
00:11:57A circuit court judge.
00:11:59Where's your dignity?
00:12:01Dignity?
00:12:02I don't reckon the priest family will ever have to worry about dignity, Carrie.
00:12:07Not as long as you're alive and kicking.
00:12:09Well, it's a good thing somebody in this family has pride.
00:12:12I always told my brother when he married you that he saved the family name.
00:12:18Well, if he were living, he wouldn't be fooling around the front yard with a goat.
00:12:22That's not what I came for.
00:12:24Have you seen Rome?
00:12:26Oh, Rome?
00:12:27Rome?
00:12:28Oh, it appears like I did see that son of yours around here a while ago.
00:12:32I expect he's downtown, though, now.
00:12:34You know, strutting around, showing off his button shoes.
00:12:38Now, don't you play possum with me.
00:12:40As if I didn't know you'd been encouraging that, that girl over there to set her cap for Rome.
00:12:47Carrie, Carrie.
00:12:49If I didn't know that you had the biggest heart of any woman in the world,
00:12:52I'd think there's the most suspicious creature that's ever come down the pipe.
00:12:56Never mind that.
00:12:58You come up on the porch.
00:12:59I want to talk to you.
00:13:05If I didn't know that's the way you felt about it, I wouldn't have hurried home so fast.
00:13:10I'm sorry, Rome.
00:13:12After all, you had your career, your family,
00:13:15everything in the world that matters to you right here.
00:13:18I don't think you care what matters to me.
00:13:20That's not fair, Rome.
00:13:22After all, I'm only telling you for your own good.
00:13:29William, I'm not a woman to beat about the bush.
00:13:33This business of Rome and that girl next door has got to stop.
00:13:38What do you got against Ellie Mae?
00:13:40She's an awful sweet girl, it seems to me.
00:13:42She's got gumption and she teaches school and supports herself.
00:13:46I don't want to be unkind.
00:13:48She may be a very nice girl and all that.
00:13:50But after all, Rome is one of the Kentucky priests.
00:13:53And the name of priest means something in Kentucky.
00:13:58Well, I've never heard that it meant intolerance.
00:14:02It means good stock and family pride.
00:14:05You know the kind of stock she comes from.
00:14:07Yeah, her, uh, her ma come to this town, Fennelly's,
00:14:14and died giving birth to Ellie Mae.
00:14:18I remember the night.
00:14:20She was a free little woman.
00:14:22It wasn't any bigger than Ellie Mae is now.
00:14:25And just as pretty.
00:14:27But who was her father?
00:14:29Well, uh, nobody don't, uh, rightfully know.
00:14:34Well, a family may not mean anything to you.
00:14:37But it means a whole lot to me.
00:14:39I'm not going to have my grandchildren
00:14:41come into the world under a cloud.
00:14:45You, uh, haven't by any chance picked, uh,
00:14:47Hart Maydew as a grandpappy, have you?
00:14:50Oh, I know you've never liked Senator Maydew.
00:14:52But you can't say anything against his folks.
00:14:55They've got money, they're an old family,
00:14:57and Virginia's a lovely girl.
00:15:00She's always been crazy about Rome.
00:15:02He could do a lot worse.
00:15:05Well, I guess, uh, me and Rome,
00:15:08we ain't got anything to say about it.
00:15:11I knew you'd come around to my way.
00:15:15You gonna, uh, you gonna stay for supper, ain't you, Carrie?
00:15:18Not tonight, thank you, William.
00:15:19The daughters of the Confederacy
00:15:20are having a chicken supper at Cape Maydew.
00:15:23And I'm late already.
00:15:25Looks like you daughters get more ferocious every year
00:15:28towards Yankees and, uh, fried chicken.
00:15:30You got your badge on there.
00:15:32Yes.
00:15:33Mighty pretty.
00:15:34Good night, William.
00:15:36Sometimes I, uh,
00:15:38I think you women got more badges
00:15:40and medals out of the soldiers, dear.
00:15:43Good night, Carrie.
00:15:47Listen to that old whoopper,
00:15:48you're calling his mate.
00:15:51Him and his kin has been
00:15:52nesting around here for now and 30 years.
00:15:56It's a lonesome kind of sound, isn't it, Uncle Billy?
00:16:00Hmm, it is so.
00:16:03You know, the good Lord
00:16:04never meant for nobody,
00:16:06either man or bird
00:16:09to live by themselves.
00:16:12Uncle Billy,
00:16:12why didn't you come and live with us
00:16:14after Aunt Margaret died?
00:16:16Oh, I...
00:16:17I never could stand him all's cooking.
00:16:20Oh, it's a fine
00:16:27sling over there
00:16:29on that old porch.
00:16:31I wouldn't be surprised
00:16:32if there ain't
00:16:32a pretty girl
00:16:34sitting in it now.
00:16:35He's got another fella tonight.
00:16:41Hell, he may sure he's pretty.
00:16:44Well, if it gets hurled,
00:16:45certainly have to do some prancing,
00:16:46ain't it, Karen?
00:16:47Sit around and look glum, old man.
00:16:52There he is now.
00:16:54Who?
00:16:55That phlegm tally.
00:16:56The barber?
00:16:57Yeah.
00:17:01Gives off a poor shade next time.
00:17:05Whoa.
00:17:06Whoa, Bert.
00:17:17Yeah, I have them, honey.
00:17:23Hear me, hear the good news.
00:17:37Son, there ain't nothing to get your mind off women folks like work.
00:17:41Will you run back in my library there and get my old Kentucky coat of statues?
00:17:46It's an old calfskin book up on the top shelf there.
00:17:53It gets me that brain there.
00:17:56Long years.
00:17:57I'm just going to see if I can't stop them.
00:18:01Gabby arrives and Joe Harringer.
00:18:03You know, the boys that work for me down at my barber shop.
00:18:06Well, they comes to me tonight and wants me to go over to Old Town.
00:18:11Some high-flying gal over there.
00:18:14But I tell them no.
00:18:16I can have all the fun I want right here at home.
00:18:20Now, guess who I was talking about?
00:18:24Couldn't I?
00:18:25Couldn't I make you some lemonade?
00:18:27Lemonade?
00:18:28Sure, honey.
00:18:29And I got something to sweeten it with.
00:18:31Right out of the mountains and kick it like a mule.
00:18:35He-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he-he.
00:18:42Jack!
00:18:43Oh, Jack!
00:18:44You see anything on Mrs. Slim Talley?
00:18:48The barber man around here?
00:18:50There's a Slim Talley, the barber man around here.
00:18:56No, what'll he be doing around here?
00:18:59I don't know, Judge, but they're headed this way for him.
00:19:05What are you talking about? Who's there?
00:19:08Some lady's papi and two-bar shotgun.
00:19:14He said Mr. Talley's been messing around.
00:19:17He sure isn't in a killing mood.
00:19:22Well, you mean that he's going to annihilate him?
00:19:30No, he's going to shoot him, that's all.
00:19:36Well, ain't a thing that I can do about it.
00:19:39My job don't stop until they've got him all laid out in the mall.
00:19:46Full of buckshot, cold and dead, and ready for burial.
00:19:53Then I steps in.
00:19:55But you, Judge, you have the law.
00:20:01Oh, I can't do a thing about it, as I said before, until the shooting is over.
00:20:06Oh, and then I'll certainly see that the murderer gets a fair trial.
00:20:11Uncle Billy, I couldn't find that book anywhere.
00:20:31What book?
00:20:32That Kentucky law book.
00:20:33Oh.
00:20:34Maybe I didn't have one.
00:20:40Ellie May is waiting for you over there.
00:20:42What?
00:20:42Oh.
00:20:51Oh.
00:20:51Oh.
00:20:53I'm
00:21:02on
00:21:05on
00:21:08on
00:21:11on
00:21:14on
00:21:17on
00:21:18well
00:21:22How'd it pull company on a night like this?
00:21:29Good night, Jack.
00:21:52Good night, Jack.
00:21:54Good night.
00:21:58Good night, Jack.
00:22:03Just a moment my life
00:22:15When the lights are low
00:22:20It was a twilight
00:22:29When the lights are low
00:22:36When the lights are low
00:22:47It's been a long time, honey, since you and the babies
00:23:07It's been a long way
00:23:19Mmm, honey, it sure is a pretty night
00:23:24Been an awful late spring
00:23:27But I don't know when I've seen the flowers looking better
00:23:30This time of year
00:23:47People are funny things
00:23:50Always got the eye set on something
00:23:55Rome, he's got his eye set on Ellie Mae
00:23:59And Carrie, she's got her set on O'Hard Maydo's daughter, Rome
00:24:05O'Hard, he's got his eye set on my job
00:24:09Some of them's gonna be disappointed
00:24:13Mmm, them honeysuckles sure do smell sweet
00:24:20Seems like I just can't get my nose full enough of them
00:24:26Would that burn, honey?
00:24:44There's Bob Gillis over that grave
00:24:47It's at Ellie Mae's mother's
00:24:57You look good, you're a pretty boy, though
00:24:59I just say, you is
00:25:02Hi, Jimmy
00:25:06Hello, Billy
00:25:08What are you doing there?
00:25:10Figuring on getting called to the colors again?
00:25:13Hello, Gillis
00:25:16Well
00:25:18You never know what them yanks is going to do
00:25:21We'll lick them once and I'm keeping old
00:25:23Dead Eye ready in case we
00:25:25In case we gotta do it again
00:25:27Say, uh
00:25:29Better look at old General Forrest there
00:25:32Think he's gonna need a little shoeing pretty soon
00:25:35Well, I'm
00:25:36I'm mighty busy right now, Billy
00:25:38Shoeing them two horses over there
00:25:39Hey, Bob
00:25:40We better take a look at the judge's horses
00:25:43Come on
00:25:44Have a sniffing?
00:25:53Good corn
00:25:55You can smell the feet of the boys and cloud it
00:25:58That breath of yours is like a hot mince pie
00:26:07Where you going?
00:26:08I'm fishing
00:26:09Sleepy river
00:26:10Sleepy river?
00:26:11Why don't you fish in the trough there?
00:26:13Need shoeing?
00:26:14No
00:26:15All right for a while yet
00:26:17Hey
00:26:18Bad scar you got there?
00:26:20Bullet?
00:26:21Yeah
00:26:22Get that in the wall?
00:26:24Nope
00:26:25Uh
00:26:28Folks say, uh
00:26:30You coming up north
00:26:31Must have got that up there
00:26:39We'll talk to Jeff before he find out anything
00:26:44Hey
00:26:45Wake up here
00:26:46Somebody come along and steal a horse
00:26:48Leave you sitting here holding on
00:27:03All right, come on with that beef liver now
00:27:05Oh, the bait bag
00:27:10All those cute little cabs
00:27:13Where have now?
00:27:15Have a little
00:27:16Oh
00:27:18Oh, the bait
00:27:19Don't tell
00:27:20Don't tell me you ain't got it
00:27:22Well, I don't know
00:27:23It looks like they had a little
00:27:25And the wall's gone by itself
00:27:27Oh, Lord
00:27:28I don't want to steal
00:27:31I don't want to steal
00:27:32I'm going to catch any catfish
00:27:33And ain't got no bait
00:27:34Take this dime now
00:27:35And hurry on back to town
00:27:37And get me that beef liver
00:27:38All right, sir
00:27:39Hurry up now
00:27:40All right
00:27:41I'm actually running now
00:27:43That's the way it is
00:27:46You going to put your shoes on?
00:27:49I'll let them
00:27:50Save them in case my feet wear out
00:27:53And then I'll have them
00:27:55How much sitting around as you do
00:27:58It won't be your feet that'll wear out
00:28:00Master Jesus wrote me a note
00:28:14He wrote me on the wall
00:28:19He's helped me to put on my thumb below
00:28:25Going from him to set me through
00:28:32Master Jesus broke me a note
00:28:38He walked in a star
00:28:44Say he gonna watch me
00:28:48Wide as low
00:28:52I told you
00:28:55I got out of hand
00:28:56And this good old pretty vest
00:28:58Hanging up in there
00:28:59Doing nothing
00:29:00I sure
00:29:01Fine, Grant
00:29:02Will plague take you
00:29:03I thought I told you
00:29:04To stay away from that vest
00:29:05Yeah, but Jazzy got hung up on my
00:29:07Yeah, you got my coat on there too
00:29:08Yes, but this old skunk coat
00:29:10Skunk coat?
00:29:11I mean possum
00:29:12What do you mean possum?
00:29:13Uh, rabbit
00:29:14Rabbit?
00:29:15Say, listen, every inch of that is raccoon
00:29:17Better be raccoon
00:29:18I took it off a rich Yankee
00:29:19Now you get in there and put them things away from there
00:29:21Better get on over to that festival there
00:29:23Dilsie might be needing you too
00:29:29How are you, Judge?
00:29:30Just out of the way, just out of the way
00:29:32I'm afraid it takes ice cream and cake
00:29:34To get you old soldiers out of the church
00:29:36If the Lord ever gets in the jam
00:29:38Why, uh, he knows who to call on
00:29:41That's right
00:29:42Going to church isn't everything there is to it
00:29:44Evening, Senator
00:29:46Good evening, Reverend
00:29:47Good evening, Judge Brees
00:29:49Good evening, Rod
00:29:54As one of our best churchgoers
00:29:56Yes, it's surprising
00:29:59How far some men will go to get a few votes
00:30:03Too bad we didn't get rid of him
00:30:06And get him off up to Congress there
00:30:08After him spending that term in the State Senate
00:30:12I understand he thinks you deprived him of that honor
00:30:17Me?
00:30:18Great Democratic Party and Thomas Jefferson
00:30:21Revenant of the Senator doesn't see it that way
00:30:24Tell me that his cases in your court
00:30:27Have taken on the appearance of a personal feud
00:30:30Now that he's a candidate for your job
00:30:33Oh, I wouldn't say that, Ashby
00:30:36But I am going to have to get out
00:30:38And do some mighty tall lectioneering, you know
00:30:41He's a spellbinder in a silver tongue
00:30:45From way back
00:30:46I'm just an old country jeep
00:30:49Kind of a baby kisser
00:30:51I ain't got much to offer the boys
00:30:55In the way of rhetoric
00:30:57Understand he doesn't approve of your grammar
00:30:59My grammar
00:31:00First thing I learned in politics
00:31:03When you say ain't
00:31:13Speaking of ice cream
00:31:14Did I have to tell you about Shiloh?
00:31:16Yeah
00:31:17Yeah
00:31:18Wait a minute Doc
00:31:19Wait a minute, I want you to hear this
00:31:21Well, come here
00:31:22Come on, come on back here
00:31:23I want you to hear this
00:31:24It was the eve before Shiloh
00:31:25And them orders had to get across the river
00:31:27To General Beauregard
00:31:28What'd I do?
00:31:29I took off my clothes
00:31:30And I stuffed the orders in my mouth
00:31:32And I plunged in
00:31:33To a pitch dog
00:31:34Well, sir
00:31:35I recorded
00:31:36Good evening
00:31:38You're swimming again, Jimmy?
00:31:42Yes
00:31:45Where was I?
00:31:46Where was I?
00:31:47Where was I?
00:31:48Right in the middle of the river
00:31:49Yes, yes sir
00:31:50There you're swimming
00:31:51Twelve miles to go
00:31:52And there I was
00:31:53Swimming and swimming
00:31:54Diving under
00:31:55And around
00:31:56Yankee gun boots
00:31:57All around me
00:31:58Surrounded by Yankee gun boots
00:31:59And mean guards
00:32:00Right in
00:32:01Gun boots
00:32:02Yes, sir
00:32:03Putting them gun boots in there
00:32:05Is a new tack, ain't it, Jimmy?
00:32:11Hello, Rome
00:32:12Hello
00:32:13Now, don't you young people
00:32:14Think you have to entertain us old folks?
00:32:16That's right
00:32:17Run them now
00:32:18They're getting ready for the candy pool
00:32:20Perhaps Rome has other plans
00:32:22Oh, no, he hasn't
00:32:27I declare
00:32:29Virginia gets prettier
00:32:31Every time I see her
00:32:33And I know you're happy
00:32:34To have Rome at home again
00:32:36Oh, he's such a nice boy
00:32:38Don't they look fine together?
00:32:40Look at them horrors
00:32:42Ah, yes
00:32:45Youth, beauty
00:32:47Why, I remember when I first crossed the threshold of my young manhood
00:32:52And listened to the sweet murmurings of my heart
00:32:55Double portion, please
00:33:10You have a full portion there
00:33:13Oh, but we can pay for it
00:33:15Can't we, Rome?
00:33:16Can't we, Rome?
00:33:31Gentlemen
00:33:32I propose to conduct my campaign on a dignified basis
00:33:36No personality
00:33:38Others may censure the homespun manners of Judge Priest on the bench
00:33:43Not I
00:33:46Others may question the methods by which he has held
00:33:49Polity can control of the county for a quarter of a century
00:33:53Not I
00:33:56Oh, gentlemen
00:33:57Merit alone
00:33:59Will count in the forthcoming election
00:34:05Where have you been keeping yourself, Rome?
00:34:07I think you've forgotten where I live
00:34:10Nothing like that
00:34:12Mother and Daddy are always teasing me about you
00:34:16I tell them you don't care anything about me
00:34:19Bet you have a girl up north
00:34:21Well, even if I did have, haven't you got every boy in town on your string?
00:34:25Oh, those stick in the mud
00:34:27They make me tired
00:34:30Besides
00:34:32I've been waiting for somebody else
00:34:34Mm-hmm
00:34:35Mm-hmm
00:34:41Attention!
00:34:44Say, what's the...
00:34:46What's the prettiest gal at the...
00:34:48At the festival here
00:34:50Mooping around back here by herself, huh?
00:34:53You want some taffy, Judge?
00:34:55Oh, boy
00:34:57I ain't much of a taffy-puller
00:35:06On second thoughts, uh...
00:35:08You can give me a water, that too
00:35:10All right, put the butter on your hands first
00:35:11Oh, no
00:35:12You ain't doin' that right?
00:35:13What's the matter with him?
00:35:14Here
00:35:15Let me see your hands
00:35:17I ain't much of a taffy-puller
00:35:19I ain't much of a taffy-puller
00:35:20You ain't much of a taffy-puller
00:35:21I ain't much of a taffy-puller
00:35:22I ain't much of a taffy-puller
00:35:24What's the matter with him?
00:35:25Here
00:35:26Let me see your hands
00:35:27What's the matter with him?
00:35:28Here.
00:35:29Let me see your hand.
00:35:30I ain't got no butter on there.
00:35:31No wonder.
00:35:32Here.
00:35:33Here.
00:35:34Let me show you.
00:35:35Here.
00:35:36Let me show you.
00:35:37Put mine in here.
00:35:38Let me show you.
00:35:39Here.
00:35:40Go on up there.
00:35:41Run on up there and put some old stick em on your hand there.
00:35:44Go on right up there.
00:35:45All right, Uncle Belly.
00:35:46That's it.
00:35:47Now here.
00:35:48Put that right over in there now.
00:35:49Now here.
00:35:50Here.
00:35:51Here.
00:35:52Here.
00:35:53Now that's the thing.
00:35:54Candy pulling.
00:35:55You got to keep your mind right on there.
00:35:56Right on there.
00:35:57That's how you're getting it all on your hand.
00:35:59Keep your mind on what you're doing there now.
00:36:01Oh, you pulling candy with the champion candy puller of this neighborhood now.
00:36:27I think this is your fault.
00:36:28I think this is your fault.
00:36:29The sunshine bright in my old Kentucky home.
00:36:34This summer be darky again.
00:36:35I think this is your fault.
00:36:36The sunshine bright in my old Kentucky home.
00:36:41The sunshine bright in my old Kentucky home.
00:36:48This summer be darky again.
00:36:50The sunshine bright in my old Kentucky home.
00:36:54And the sunshine bright in my old Kentucky home.
00:37:04The thorns of life
00:37:10And the metals in the blue
00:37:18While the birds make music
00:37:25All the day
00:37:31Leave no more, my lady
00:37:38Oh, leave no more today
00:37:45We will sing one song
00:37:51Of my old Kentucky home
00:37:59Of my old Kentucky home
00:38:09Far away
00:38:17Good morning, everybody
00:38:22Good morning, Judge
00:38:23You next
00:38:25Hey, Flynn, you've got the only lively spot in town
00:38:29Here, Gabby, what's the latest news in the paper this morning?
00:38:35Sure does, I'm sure
00:38:37Hello, Lodge
00:38:38How are you, Judge?
00:38:39Say, you ain't been in lately, have you?
00:38:42Good morning, Mr.
00:38:47Morning
00:38:48Nice day
00:38:58Yeah
00:38:59Oh, Flynn
00:39:00Here she comes
00:39:01And does she like her flimmies?
00:39:11Hey, Flynn
00:39:12When are you two getting hitched?
00:39:14Don't know if I heard nobody talking about marriage
00:39:18You ain't scared of no shotgun wedding, are you?
00:39:22Not as long as she ain't got no power
00:39:25Say, that fellow's gonna make himself mighty unpopular around here
00:39:41That's right, Judge
00:39:42Yeah
00:39:43There's about 2,000 male citizens here that's gonna be mighty sore at him
00:39:47Yeah
00:39:48When they find out that he punched you in the jaw before they could
00:40:00Yes, he's gonna be awful unpopular around here
00:40:03Don't see you around much
00:40:10No
00:40:11Try to keep to yourself, don't you?
00:40:13Yeah
00:40:24Y'all get some more beer while I unlocks with that 14 ball down there in the corner
00:40:28I'll pay you third
00:40:29Hey, Flynn
00:40:32Your ass is out there
00:40:34Yeah?
00:40:35Yes
00:40:36Come on, let's get it
00:40:37Don't hold your horses now
00:40:38He'll be heading through you in a minute, going home
00:40:40You fellas with me?
00:40:41Sure
00:40:42Sure with you
00:40:51Another?
00:40:52No
00:40:59Angel
00:41:20I got a knife
00:41:21Saw him
00:41:22Look at his
00:41:23We saw him
00:41:24Look at that
00:41:25Hey, boy!
00:41:26That's what they call!
00:41:28Well, I'm going to play a thing.
00:41:29You should get a dog gather.
00:41:30Hey, Uncle Billy!
00:41:31Uncle Billy!
00:41:32Uncle Billy!
00:41:33Uncle Billy!
00:41:34Look out, look out!
00:41:35You're dead on me!
00:41:36Oh no, no, no!
00:41:37You're dead on me!
00:41:38Can you get out of here?
00:41:42You're already out of here.
00:41:43Get out of here!
00:41:46Get out of here!
00:41:47Get out of here!
00:41:48Get out of here!
00:41:50Get out of here!
00:41:51Get out of here!
00:41:52Get out of here!
00:41:53Get away, get away, get away, get away, get away.
00:42:00He missed it, he missed it, he missed it, he missed it.
00:42:04Rome, please, will you?
00:42:06This is an important game here now.
00:42:08Keep still, keep still, keep still.
00:42:11We're centered.
00:42:13Let me talk to you.
00:42:15Golly, I don't see how the South ever lost the war with a guy that could argue like you did.
00:42:20What is the matter?
00:42:21You've already made me lose a game.
00:42:23Uncle Billy, I got a client.
00:42:25Who is it? What's the matter with him?
00:42:26Gillis, you know, Mr. Bagby's man.
00:42:28What's that, Bob? What's he doing?
00:42:30He cut up Phlegm Talley.
00:42:31Yeah?
00:42:32Uh-huh, and right after he gave himself up, he sent for me.
00:42:34Well, I'll be kicked by a mule. Did you cut him bad?
00:42:37Well, I can't tell yet.
00:42:39Gee, Uncle Billy, he sent for me.
00:42:41It'll be the biggest case in your whole court session and I'll be defending him.
00:42:45Well, I wouldn't gloat too soon now.
00:42:48Oh, don't you worry.
00:42:50Hey, Ellie Mae.
00:42:51Gee, yeah.
00:42:52I'm going to get down to that jail and see what that fella's got to say for yourself.
00:42:56I'm going to see Talley.
00:42:57Darned, Robert, they robbed us out of that.
00:43:00Herman, now, uh, you better get on down there with me because, uh, you'll liable to get a chance to, uh, go his baby.
00:43:07Ellie Mae.
00:43:09Yeah.
00:43:10Ellie Mae, I got a client.
00:43:12Oh, no, I knew you would.
00:43:13Come on over.
00:43:14I want you to talk to Uncle Billy and tell you all about it.
00:43:16That's sort of novelty, Herman.
00:43:17The barber getting cut up.
00:43:18If you ever cut him up, couldn't have cut him much if he used the barber's razor.
00:43:23Where are you?
00:43:24Where's Rome?
00:43:25I won't have it, that's all.
00:43:26He's getting mixed up with that kind of people.
00:43:27Oh, what's he done now?
00:43:28Well, he's done enough.
00:43:29Mother, what's the matter?
00:43:30Something wrong?
00:43:31If you're in the habit of discussing your affairs before strangers, I'm not.
00:43:32Well, Ellie Mae's not a stranger.
00:43:33Excuse me, Rome, I'll go.
00:43:34No, wait.
00:43:35All right.
00:43:36I have nothing to hide.
00:43:37Carrie.
00:43:38What's the matter?
00:43:39Have you, have you been out in the sun too much?
00:43:40You shut up, William Priest.
00:43:41I hold you responsible for everything that's happened.
00:43:42Are you going to defend that man?
00:43:43What's he done now?
00:43:44Well, he's done enough.
00:43:45Well, he's done enough.
00:43:46Mother, what's the matter?
00:43:47Something wrong?
00:43:48If you're in the habit of discussing your affairs before strangers, I'm not.
00:43:50Well, Ellie Mae's not a stranger.
00:43:51Excuse me, Rome.
00:43:52I'll go.
00:43:53No, wait.
00:43:54All right.
00:43:55I have nothing to hide.
00:43:56Carrie, what's the matter?
00:43:57Have you, have you been out in the sun too much?
00:43:59You shut up, William Priest.
00:44:03Mr. Gillis?
00:44:04You bet I am.
00:44:05Oh, no, you're not.
00:44:06Mother, what do you mean I'm not?
00:44:09I suppose you know what's behind this drunken brawl?
00:44:12No?
00:44:13Well, then I'll tell you.
00:44:14They were fighting over that girl in a saloon.
00:44:18Mother, that's not so.
00:44:20Carrie, you can accumulate more misinformation in a shorter time than anybody who told you all
00:44:27this rigmarole.
00:44:28Virginia Maydew.
00:44:29Who?
00:44:30Virginia Maydew.
00:44:31Oh.
00:44:32She got it straight from her father.
00:44:35And brought it straight to you?
00:44:37She wanted to warn Rome.
00:44:41I know you've never liked me, Mrs. Priest.
00:44:43I know you've tried to stop Rome from going with me.
00:44:46And I know you think I'm not good enough for him.
00:44:48Well, let me tell you something.
00:44:50If Rome were half as mean as you are, he wouldn't be good enough for me.
00:44:54Well, on all things.
00:44:58Cat, looks like you run second.
00:45:03Oh, no, I don't.
00:45:04If Rome's father were alive, he'd back me up.
00:45:07Rome's already got himself talked about all over town with this girl.
00:45:11And I'm not going to have him publicly defending her in court.
00:45:17Well, Rome.
00:45:19See how your mother feels about it.
00:45:20So, looks like you lost your first client.
00:45:26Certainly hard to get, too.
00:45:28No, Uncle Billy.
00:45:29I haven't lost anything.
00:45:30Rome!
00:45:31Oh!
00:45:32Mother, I think I'm old enough to know my own mind.
00:45:34I said I'd defend, Mr. Gillis, and I'm going to go through with it.
00:45:57Court's now called order.
00:45:58May it please the court.
00:46:10I would point out that for many years, a political and personal difference has existed between your honor and myself.
00:46:20Now that I am a candidate for the exalted office which you have held for so many years,
00:46:25those differences have reached a point where, for the protection of the people,
00:46:32I must demand an impartial trial judge.
00:46:38Perhaps I'm getting deaf.
00:46:41But the fact had never reached me before.
00:46:44Are you insinuating that you won't get full justice in this court?
00:46:51I maintain that my language was sufficiently plain for any comprehension.
00:46:55However obtuse.
00:46:56And I will make it even franker.
00:46:59Our charge, in the presence of two witnesses, you took sides with the defendant Gillis in a prior attack upon this plaintiff.
00:47:06I've been sittin' on this bench for nigh on twenty years.
00:47:13And nobody has ever asked me to step down.
00:47:16I'll file an affidavit with a prejudice.
00:47:20That won't hardly be necessary.
00:47:22Then I call upon you, Judge Priest, to vacate the bench during this trial
00:47:26and yield your place to a qualified judge.
00:47:28Qualified judge!
00:47:42I, uh...
00:47:46I'm...
00:47:48I'm not denying, Senator, that you...
00:47:51Well, you kinda took my breath away.
00:47:54I guess I had, uh...
00:47:57Just...
00:47:59Sort of...
00:48:01Got the habit that I was...
00:48:03Took for granted here...
00:48:05On this bench.
00:48:09Gosh, I was...
00:48:11Not putting your raise in this...
00:48:13In this courtroom.
00:48:16When I quit fighting...
00:48:19Sixty-five...
00:48:25For what...
00:48:28We thought was right.
00:48:30And I kinda calmed down.
00:48:34Found out I...
00:48:36I couldn't lick the whole United States.
00:48:40Come back here.
00:48:42To my hometown.
00:48:45And I put up my shingle.
00:48:47It wasn't long...
00:48:49Before I was sittin' on that bench.
00:48:51Maybe I did have a hanker...
00:48:55For the spirit...
00:48:57Of the law.
00:49:00Not the letter.
00:49:04But as far as I know...
00:49:07Nobody ever found...
00:49:09Cause to...
00:49:11Complain.
00:49:13Till now.
00:49:14Now...
00:49:18Now you, uh...
00:49:20You jury.
00:49:22You forget everything that I've said.
00:49:26And, uh...
00:49:28My feelings has, uh...
00:49:30No place...
00:49:32In the, uh...
00:49:33In the records of...
00:49:35Of this trial.
00:49:37Now if you'll...
00:49:39Excuse me.
00:49:40Inside...
00:49:41Has...
00:49:42Any objection...
00:49:44I'd like to...
00:49:45Ask the...
00:49:46Honorable...
00:49:47Floyd...
00:49:48Fairley...
00:49:50If he won't...
00:49:52Come up here...
00:49:55And take...
00:49:58Take my...
00:50:01My place on...
00:50:02On the bench.
00:50:10Ahem...
00:50:11Well...
00:50:13What happened then?
00:50:18Ummm...
00:50:20Gentlemen of the jury...
00:50:22In plain language...
00:50:24Well, what happened then?
00:50:34Gentlemen of the jury, in plain language,
00:50:37the defendant here burst in upon these three worthy citizens.
00:50:41I object, Your Honor.
00:50:43I do not have my client ever burst into any place or anything.
00:50:47Objection sustained.
00:50:50So be it, Your Honor.
00:50:53Nevertheless, I shall demonstrate that my young friend's client here
00:50:57did burst into something.
00:50:59And armed with a lethal weapon, to wit, a dark dagger
00:51:03or a knife of deadly length and deadly sharpness,
00:51:06he burst into Mr. Talley's quivering flesh.
00:51:10I object, Your Honor.
00:51:11Objection sustained.
00:51:14Your Honor's humble servant bows to Your Honor's august roulette.
00:51:19In due time, Mr. Talley's scarred and mutilated person
00:51:26will bespeak the verity of my claim
00:51:29with a silent eloquence far exceeding the powers of my poor tongue.
00:51:33My poor tongue.
00:51:48We was playing bottle pool when he come in and attacked at me.
00:51:51Didn't you attack him with a billiard cue?
00:51:53Not until after he come at me.
00:51:55But a knife.
00:51:59Well, it's just like Phlegm says.
00:52:01We wasn't paying him no mind and...
00:52:04till he come looking for Phlegm.
00:52:06But weren't you three all armed with billiard cues?
00:52:09Well, never heard of nobody playing poo without him.
00:52:19It's just like Phlegm and Joe says.
00:52:21He come in looking for trouble.
00:52:23You don't like the defendant, do you?
00:52:25Who does?
00:52:26Your Honor, the defense is through with the witness.
00:52:38I should think my young Leonard colleague
00:52:43would be glad to be through with the witness.
00:52:50Your Honor, the prosecution reads.
00:52:53Before the defense proceeds, this court recesses for half an hour.
00:53:05I don't know why you did it, Mr. Gillis.
00:53:06The judge priest told me what happened in the barber shop.
00:53:07Oh, you've got to tell the jury.
00:53:08They'd never conviction a million years if they knew you would do it.
00:53:09I don't know why you did it, Mr. Gillis.
00:53:10Don't you see?
00:53:11You can think of me now.
00:53:12You've got to think of yourself.
00:53:13I don't know why you did it, Mr. Gillis.
00:53:14The judge priest told me what happened in the barber shop.
00:53:16Oh, you've got to tell the jury.
00:53:17They'd never conviction a million years if they knew you were defending a girl's name.
00:53:19Don't you see?
00:53:20You can think of me now.
00:53:21You've got to think of yourself.
00:53:22Look, Mr. Gillis.
00:53:23I don't want to bring Ellie Mae's name into this thing any more than you do.
00:53:24But she's right.
00:53:25They can give you ten years for assault.
00:53:26The way Mae do is working on the jury, they'll give you the limit.
00:53:27I don't know why you did it, Mr. Gillis.
00:53:28The judge priest told me what happened in the barber shop.
00:53:31Oh, you've got to tell the jury.
00:53:32They'd never conviction a million years if they knew you were defending a girl's name.
00:53:36Don't you see?
00:53:37You can think of me now.
00:53:38You've got to think of yourself.
00:53:39Look, Mr. Gillis.
00:53:42I don't want to bring Ellie Mae's name into this thing any more than you do.
00:53:46But she's right.
00:53:47They can give you ten years for assault.
00:53:49The way Mae do is working on the jury, they'll give you the limit.
00:53:52Well, you've got to tell the truth, Mr. Gillis.
00:53:54Don't you see?
00:53:55You've got to.
00:53:56I ain't going to tell them anything.
00:54:03Yes, sir.
00:54:04Talley lied all the way through.
00:54:06And Herringer and Gab Rives, they lied too.
00:54:09It was three against one in Billy Gaynor's back room.
00:54:11And it's three against one in this here courtroom.
00:54:14Have you ever been in any other cutting scrape in town before?
00:54:17No, sir.
00:54:19That's all.
00:54:21One more.
00:54:30Where do you come from, Mr. Gillis?
00:54:32I ain't a saying.
00:54:34You aren't exactly what we southerners would call a sociable person, are you?
00:54:38I mind my own business.
00:54:39Very nice.
00:54:40Except when you go looking for trouble.
00:54:42I don't go looking for trouble.
00:54:43But I ain't the one to run away from it.
00:54:45How long have you had a grievance against Mr. Talley?
00:54:49We had a run-in a few days before he jumped me.
00:54:52A run-in, eh?
00:54:53And what was this run-in about?
00:54:55Well, well, come on.
00:54:56Tell the jury.
00:54:57What did you hate him for?
00:54:58I had a saying.
00:54:59Then you didn't have any reason for nighting.
00:55:00I didn't say that.
00:55:01Well, make up your mind.
00:55:02Why did you hate him?
00:55:03I had a saying.
00:55:04Pardon me, Your Honor.
00:55:05I told you, Your Honor.
00:55:07Anything further?
00:55:08That's all, Your Honor.
00:55:09The defense rests.
00:55:10This court will adjourn till tomorrow morning.
00:55:13It is our hope that the summations will be brief, so that we may all attend the reunion ceremonies, which begin at noon.
00:55:34Well.
00:55:35Well, then.
00:55:36Hey.
00:55:37This is a pleasure.
00:55:38Well, I don't get a chance to do this, Alton.
00:55:39You certainly don't, Your Honor.
00:55:40Here, Zip.
00:55:41Make the revels comfortable there.
00:55:43It looks like you kind of caught me ready.
00:55:44I'm ready.
00:55:45I'm ready.
00:55:46I'm ready.
00:55:47I'm ready.
00:55:48I'm ready.
00:55:49I'm ready.
00:55:50I'm ready.
00:55:51I'm ready.
00:55:52You may want to step up, make the revels comfortable there.
00:55:59It looks like you kind of caught me red-handed.
00:56:06Could I, you know, kind of an admirable?
00:56:13Been a long, tiresome day,
00:56:16and it's mostly mint.
00:56:19No, thank you, William. I appreciate your subtlety.
00:56:23You know, I kind of thought that you'd be working on
00:56:27your Memorial Day address for tomorrow.
00:56:31Well, that'll take care of itself. What I'm worried about
00:56:35is this poor devil of Gillis. You know Gillis?
00:56:39My trade takes me into queer quarters sometimes.
00:56:43I feel just as sorry for that fellow Gillis as you do.
00:56:47I'm plumb out of it.
00:56:51Hard got the best of me.
00:56:55He sure did. Case is closed. It's all settled.
00:56:59I don't think Hard will be fool enough
00:57:03to reopen the case for nobody or nothing.
00:57:11William, I have a duty to perform.
00:57:15It's Christian's duty.
00:57:17I'm going to violate the sacred confidence of another.
00:57:21I'm going to break a pledge of secrecy.
00:57:23Because it's the only course that I see that lies before me.
00:57:27I'm listening, Ashby.
00:57:31I'm listening, Ashby.
00:57:33Twenty-five years ago.
00:57:37The judges sure been hard misery.
00:57:43Reckon folks ain't been acting just right.
00:57:47Maybe his stomach's been complaining.
00:57:53And he needs a toddy this night.
00:57:57Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
00:58:01Because tomorrow he's got to be like Mr. Samson.
00:58:05Saving Daniel from the lion's den.
00:58:07Saving Daniel from the lion's den.
00:58:13Saving Daniel from the lion's den.
00:58:17Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
00:58:19Yes, Lord.
00:58:21The judge should do as I toddy right now.
00:58:27Yes, Jeff. Yes, they'll see soon as I catch me some men.
00:58:33Oh, Jeff.
00:58:35Jeff?
00:58:37Come on. Come on. Hurry up here.
00:58:39Come on here when I'll holler at you. Where you been?
00:58:41Well, I was...
00:58:42Say, listen. You want to earn that old coon skin coat of mine?
00:58:45I have that coon coat, Judge. Thank you, Lord.
00:58:48Yeah, yeah. Wait a minute. Come back here.
00:58:50You can if you do everything I tell you to.
00:58:52Do you know a gentleman by the name of Mr. Hart Maydew?
00:58:56Yeah, that mean man, that coat, huh?
00:58:58Yeah. Well, now you see that he gets out.
00:59:00But don't you let him know how he got there, see?
00:59:03That's all I got to do, sir. Thank you.
00:59:05Say, wait a minute. Can you play Dixie on that thing there?
00:59:08Well, I couldn't coat. Yes, I played Dixie.
00:59:11I was marching through Georgia.
00:59:13Well, marching through Georgia.
00:59:15Yeah. I got you out of one lynching.
00:59:18Yes, but I couldn't coat. I didn't know what I was going to get out of.
00:59:21If you're playing marching through Georgia, I'll join the lynchers.
00:59:30Hey, hey! Hey! You're dirty coming in!
00:59:31What? Hey, you're here.
00:59:32Come on, there. Come on, you dirty coming in.
00:59:33What? Hey, you're here.
00:59:36I'm here.
00:59:37You're here.
00:59:38What do you all got in your van for?
00:59:39Bobbi?
00:59:40Chicken?
00:59:41Chicken?
00:59:42Well, that's what I got. That's what the judge like.
00:59:43Hey, hey! You're dirty coming in!
00:59:45Hey, hey!
00:59:56Hey, you're doing it coming in!
00:59:58What?
00:59:58Hey, there!
00:59:59Come on, you're doing it coming in!
01:00:01I'm telling you, sir, we've lost the bass drum!
01:00:04How could you lose a bass drum?
01:00:06Someone stole it!
01:00:07We need it for the parade!
01:00:15Thank you!
01:00:45You may begin your summation, Mr. Prosecutor.
01:00:58May it please, Your Honor.
01:01:01Since adjournment yesterday, certain information has come into the hands of the Commonwealth,
01:01:05which, in the interest of justice, impels me to reopen the case.
01:01:09The Commonwealth is asked to recall the defendant Gillis for further cross-examination.
01:01:14Very well, Mr. Maydew.
01:01:16Proceed.
01:01:17Dr. Gillis, take the stand.
01:01:18Your Honor, as I recollect our procedure, for the time being, I'm an ordinary member of the bar.
01:01:42In good standing?
01:01:42Not ordinary, sir, but absolutely in good standing.
01:01:50Thank you, sir.
01:01:51Thank you, Conor.
01:01:52Then I have the, uh, honor of, uh, announcing myself as, uh, associate counsel for the defense.
01:02:05Seeing as the case has, uh, been, uh, reopened.
01:02:11Thank you, Mr. Gillis.
01:02:17Were you always a man of turbulent and violent nature?
01:02:22I always left them alone as left me alone.
01:02:25Is that so?
01:02:27What was the name of the man you once upon a time murdered?
01:02:33I, I never looked on it as no, no, it wasn't murdered.
01:02:37The man was killed, wasn't he?
01:02:38Yes.
01:02:39And they stuck you in jail, didn't they?
01:02:40Yes.
01:02:41And they charged you with murder, didn't they?
01:02:42Yes.
01:02:43And the jury found you guilty, didn't they?
01:02:45Yes.
01:02:45Were you sentenced to be hung?
01:02:47No, I, I went up for life.
01:02:49Did you escape or were you pardoned?
01:02:51I ain't a saying.
01:02:52And I won't tell you no more, no matter what you ask me.
01:02:54You don't need to.
01:02:59Judge Priest?
01:03:01Your witness?
01:03:03No questions, Your Honor.
01:03:06But Uncle Billy,
01:03:07hasn't the defense any evidence to offer in rebuttal, Judge Priest?
01:03:13One character witness, Your Honor.
01:03:16Mr. Clerk, will you kindly call Reverend Ashby Brand?
01:03:20Run.
01:03:27Do you seldom swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,
01:03:29nothing worth the truth in case there's not plenty in this court?
01:03:30I do.
01:03:39Reverend Brand, before you come to this town,
01:03:41what was your occupation?
01:03:44In my early manhood, before I took holy orders,
01:03:47I had the honor to be a captain of artillery in the late war.
01:03:52In the war of the rebellion?
01:03:56No, sir.
01:03:57The war for the southern confederacy.
01:04:00Yes, sir.
01:04:01You're right, sir.
01:04:02That's right.
01:04:03He's right.
01:04:06My, my error, my error.
01:04:07One moment, please.
01:04:09Your Honor.
01:04:15I yield to no man in love and everlasting devotion
01:04:18to that sacred lost cause
01:04:21for which my people fought and bled.
01:04:25But though I cherish all those dear and everlasting memories
01:04:29which even the bare mention of that great conflict
01:04:33must awaken in every true Kentuckian's bosom,
01:04:36I fail to see any possible connection
01:04:40between this reverend gentleman's military record
01:04:43and the guilt of this man, Gillis.
01:04:47I think the court will commit no grave legal error
01:05:01by allowing a minister of the gospel
01:05:04to tell his story in his own way.
01:05:18As many of you know, I am a Virginian.
01:05:32On the day my state seceded from the Union,
01:05:36I enlisted.
01:05:37I was a private in Penn's Virginia Battery.
01:05:42By the latter end of the third year,
01:05:45I was in command of that battery.
01:05:48All the officers ranking me
01:05:50had been killed or disabled.
01:05:53We lost heavily at Chancellorsville.
01:05:57At Fredericksburg,
01:05:59we were almost wiped out.
01:06:00We kept our field pieces.
01:06:04We kept our pieces until the end.
01:06:07But we had not sufficient men to man those guns.
01:06:11No anywhere to turn for more men.
01:06:14There were no more men left to come in.
01:06:18The Confederacy,
01:06:20in 64,
01:06:23was robbing both the cradle and the grave
01:06:25for cannon fodder.
01:06:27Well, sir,
01:06:29I got temporary leave
01:06:30and went to Richmond
01:06:32to see our war governor.
01:06:34I said to him,
01:06:36Sir,
01:06:37I've come to you to ask for men
01:06:39to serve my guns.
01:06:41He laughed and said,
01:06:43Tell me where they're to be found.
01:06:46I said,
01:06:48Among the chain gangs
01:06:49from the state penitentiary.
01:06:54He said,
01:06:55You've come too late, young man.
01:06:57I freed every convict
01:06:58that might conceivably
01:06:59be trusted with freedom.
01:07:02There are left only the lifers.
01:07:05And I dare not turn the loose.
01:07:08They are working under guard,
01:07:09building defenses for you to fight behind.
01:07:13He opposed me,
01:07:15but I argued with him.
01:07:17And finally,
01:07:18I won.
01:07:20He gave me authorization,
01:07:22signed it,
01:07:23and with his own hand,
01:07:26affixed the seal
01:07:27of the sovereign state of Virginia.
01:07:31I rode back to the line, sir,
01:07:33and I found my chain gang.
01:07:36I told them to drop that tube
01:07:38and line up before me.
01:07:39I told them,
01:07:42if you go with me,
01:07:44you go to face a hell
01:07:45of destruction and suffering and death.
01:07:50But I said,
01:07:51if you do go,
01:07:53you go as free men,
01:07:55as soldiers of the Confederacy.
01:07:57your past will lie behind you.
01:08:02And your future,
01:08:03if you survive,
01:08:05is in your own hands.
01:08:07And I promise you this much.
01:08:10If you stand fast,
01:08:12if you do your duty,
01:08:16if bravely and honorably
01:08:17you acquit yourselves as men,
01:08:20then such of you
01:08:21as live through to the end,
01:08:23and some of you will live,
01:08:26are not to come back to this.
01:08:29It's for you to decide.
01:08:32Those who remain behind,
01:08:35stand fast.
01:08:37Those who come with me,
01:08:39advance one pace.
01:08:43Gentlemen of the jury,
01:08:46I tell you,
01:08:47they came at me
01:08:48like a wave from the sea.
01:08:51Every one of them.
01:08:53And as time went on,
01:08:55they won for themselves
01:08:57the name
01:08:57of the Battalion from Hell.
01:09:16Those men,
01:09:18those fellows,
01:09:20with the scars of their shekels
01:09:22were still on their legs,
01:09:24they fought for the South
01:09:25like men.
01:09:27None better.
01:09:28And they died like men.
01:09:31Most of them.
01:09:33I was one of those men
01:09:35of whom I wish to speak
01:09:37a special word of tribute.
01:09:39He stood out
01:09:41for his courage
01:09:42and his fidelity.
01:09:43for his worth as a soldier
01:09:47and a man.
01:09:48Most of all,
01:09:51for his invariable truthfulness
01:09:54under all circumstances.
01:09:56He was from the mountains
01:09:59of my own state,
01:10:00a man who spoke little
01:10:02but did much.
01:10:06I saw him once
01:10:07go out under fire
01:10:08during a battle
01:10:10to rescue at his own risk
01:10:12a wounded Union officer
01:10:14who lay there helpless
01:10:16between the lines.
01:10:19Another time,
01:10:21our stars and bars
01:10:23was wrested from our hands.
01:10:26We fought breast to breast
01:10:28that day.
01:10:30This man of whom I'm speaking
01:10:31threw himself on a riderless horse
01:10:34and rode into the thicket
01:10:36and by the grace of God
01:10:38came galloping back
01:10:40from the jaws of death.
01:10:43Our colors
01:10:44clutched in his hand.
01:10:47And another day
01:10:53when every man
01:10:55who served his gun
01:10:56excepting him
01:10:58was down.
01:10:59I saw him
01:11:00when the Union infantry
01:11:02charged
01:11:03setting a scantle
01:11:04his useless gun
01:11:05and with a rammer
01:11:07for his only weapon
01:11:08waiting for the enemy
01:11:10to come within reach.
01:11:12The counter charge
01:11:13from our infantry
01:11:14saved him.
01:11:15But he had stood fast
01:11:23and he was alone.
01:11:26After the surrender
01:11:27I kept his secret
01:11:29and kept it
01:11:31to this very hour.
01:11:34Though I've seen him
01:11:35daily at his work
01:11:36watching over his daughter
01:11:39providing for her education
01:11:41through me.
01:11:43and all unknown
01:11:45to LMA.
01:11:57Gentlemen,
01:11:59as a soldier
01:12:00I knew that man
01:12:02as Roger Gillespie.
01:12:04You know him
01:12:05by the name
01:12:07he now wears
01:12:08Robert Gillespie.
01:12:10Hooray, my Jeff David!
01:12:13The Southern
01:12:13good family
01:12:14safe
01:12:15and warm
01:12:16pure!
01:12:26Get out of the way!
01:12:29Can't you see
01:12:29that poor helpless child
01:12:31needs a mother?
01:12:32Hooray!
01:12:32Hooray!
01:12:33Hooray!
01:12:33Hooray!
01:12:34Hooray!
01:12:34Hooray!
01:12:35Hooray!
01:12:35Hooray!
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01:12:36Hooray!
01:12:37Hooray!
01:12:37Hooray!
01:12:38Hooray!
01:12:38Hooray!
01:12:39Hooray!
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01:12:40Hooray!
01:12:41Hooray!
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01:12:47Hooray!
01:12:48That's fine!
01:12:49That's fine!
01:12:50That's great, Jeff!
01:12:51That's great!
01:12:52Keep on going!
01:12:53Keep going!
01:12:54You can have that white bed!
01:12:55It's fine!
01:12:56You can have...
01:12:57You can have that white bed!
01:13:00I love you!
01:13:01Thanks!
01:13:02You can have that white bed!
01:13:05That's fine!
01:13:06You can pick a blue bed!
01:13:07You can have it!
01:13:08You can have that white bed!
01:13:09We can have that white bed!
01:13:11That's fine!
01:13:12We can have it.
01:13:14I'm sure you want to paint looks completely!
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