- 7 months ago
A Southern belle (Mary Pickford in an Oscar winning role) loves a poor doctor (Johnny Mack Brown), regardless of her father's violent disapproval. Directed by Sam Taylor.
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00:00:00THE END
00:01:38Oh, Eliza, little Eliza Jane.
00:01:42Oh, Eliza, little Eliza Jane.
00:01:46Oh, Eliza, little Eliza Jane.
00:01:50Oh, Eliza, little Eliza Jane.
00:01:54Oh, Eliza, little Eliza Jane.
00:01:58Hey, hurry up with that coffee.
00:02:00You know Dad and I can't enjoy our after dinner smoke without a cup of coffee.
00:02:04Go on, child, I'm coming.
00:02:06Oh, Jiminy.
00:02:09Julia, you aggravate me.
00:02:16Well, shake a leg, will ya?
00:02:18Shake my leg.
00:02:20I shakes my leg for nobody.
00:02:22No stuff.
00:02:24Oh, it's no use trying to stir her up, Annie.
00:02:26You need a stick of dynamite.
00:02:28Geez, Dad.
00:02:30I wish you'd let me smoke more than one of these a day.
00:02:33You know how a man...
00:02:38enjoys a good smoke.
00:02:40Well, you're too young to smoke regularly, James.
00:02:43But you are growing up.
00:02:45And it makes me proud to enjoy my after dinner coffee with my own son.
00:02:50Go on, child.
00:02:52You know yours is the one with the milk.
00:02:56Jiminy.
00:02:58More flowers for Norma.
00:03:01Your sister's cultivated quite a taste for flowers lately.
00:03:05And her friends are certainly encouraging her.
00:03:09You know Dad...
00:03:11I think we oughta talk to Norma.
00:03:14Why, James?
00:03:15Well, I was talking to some of the fellas on our baseball team.
00:03:19I'm the assistant treasurer, you know.
00:03:21And we've been noticing how she flits about from one fella to another like...
00:03:27Uh...
00:03:28Almost like a butterfly.
00:03:31Yes.
00:03:32Now, personally, I don't approve of that kind of girl.
00:03:38Oh, I don't mind him acting silly sometimes.
00:03:40And sort of raising the dickens and all that.
00:03:43But...
00:03:44I like a girl that out in the canoe in the moonlight can discuss life seriously.
00:03:51Well, I guess that's Stanley calling for Norm already.
00:03:55He's always ahead of time.
00:03:58Hello, Stan.
00:03:59Hello, Tim.
00:04:00Guess I better be getting dressed myself.
00:04:02I'll tell Norma you're here.
00:04:04Evening, Dr. Vassar.
00:04:05Evening, Stanley.
00:04:06Oh, uh...
00:04:07I'm a cigarette, Stan.
00:04:08Thanks.
00:04:09You're taking Norma to the summer dance at the country club, aren't you?
00:04:13You bet I am.
00:04:14I put in my bid early in the spring.
00:04:16Last year, I didn't ask her until a week ahead of time.
00:04:19And they were 15 ahead of me.
00:04:21No, 14.
00:04:22I'm a bit worried about Norma.
00:04:25Oh, I reckon I'm old fashioned.
00:04:27But...
00:04:28Sometimes I wish she weren't quite so popular.
00:04:31Yes.
00:04:32Sometimes I wish the same thing myself.
00:04:34Well, anyway, I feel perfectly safe when she's with you, Stan.
00:04:38Thank you, sir.
00:04:39Oh, Stan!
00:04:40Hey!
00:04:41Did you hear about our team beating water, Tom?
00:04:43I took in $10.15 at the gate.
00:04:46And we only had to pay $10 for the use of the field.
00:04:49And then I went on to sell your own bus.
00:04:52Gee, I...
00:04:53You know, I've made money.
00:04:54But I've made money.
00:04:55I...
00:04:56I...
00:04:57You know, I've made money.
00:04:58But I've made money.
00:04:59I have a lot of money.
00:05:00I don't know how many...
00:05:01I've made money.
00:05:02We must be in trouble.
00:05:03I...
00:05:04I've made money.
00:05:05All the money.
00:05:06Yeah.
00:05:07All the money.
00:05:08I don't know.
00:05:09Hmm? My, what a surprise.
00:05:12I do so love flowers.
00:05:14Thank you so much, darling. Where are they?
00:05:17I don't know. I...
00:05:18There they are.
00:05:19I just can't imagine who ever sent me flowers.
00:05:22They get flowers about twice a day,
00:05:24and every time they come, she put in here throws a fist.
00:05:27Oh, aren't they just adorable?
00:05:31Who's they from?
00:05:32I love the roses, baby, and love it.
00:05:34Ah-ha!
00:05:34Fresh, give me that card.
00:05:35I hope you like these flowers, Michael.
00:05:37Oh, Jeffrey.
00:05:39Michael, dear.
00:05:40Look, she's all fun.
00:05:42The reason he wrote that was I practically asked him for the flowers.
00:05:45That's the reason.
00:05:46You asked for them?
00:05:48Well, I didn't mean to, but he thought I did.
00:05:50I said I hated a man who sent a girl a conglomeration of flowers,
00:05:55when just plain roses were so much sweeter.
00:05:59But I never dreamed of sending them.
00:06:01Oh, no.
00:06:04Oh, my honey, you said that same thing to me a year ago.
00:06:07Ha-ha!
00:06:08Go to bed, you infant.
00:06:09Michael Jeffrey.
00:06:11Well, isn't he that young fellow from the hills
00:06:15that has been hanging around town again lately?
00:06:17Oh, now, honey precious.
00:06:20How can you say such horrible things about poor Michael?
00:06:23Well, Norma, I gathered that he was just an ordinary loafer.
00:06:27A quarrelsome young fellow who was doing a lot of drinking and gambling.
00:06:31Oh, no, honey precious.
00:06:33He may have sort of a quick temper, but he's really a, a diamond in the rough.
00:06:39Isn't he funny?
00:06:41Oh, yes.
00:06:42Uh, yes, indeed.
00:06:43Uh, very rough.
00:06:44Ann Lee, uh, wasn't he one of the boys that was mixed up in that shooting down at the
00:06:51garage last night?
00:06:52No, he wasn't.
00:06:53No, no, no.
00:06:54He told me all about that.
00:06:55He really didn't have anything to do with it.
00:06:57Anyhow, I don't see why you all should be so office about a shooting in our family.
00:07:02Why, you thought it was perfectly fine when Uncle Avery shot Mr. Mortimer.
00:07:06Well, now, Norma, you suddenly realize the difference between an affair that kind of...
00:07:10Oh, yes, I know.
00:07:11When a relative of ours kills somebody, he's a fine gentleman defending the honor of womanhood.
00:07:15Well, I don't like the way you talk.
00:07:16Well, Danny, he...
00:07:17Hello, everybody.
00:07:18Hello, Mr. Wentworth.
00:07:19Howdy, Bob.
00:07:20Hello, Norma.
00:07:21Hello, son.
00:07:22Might have known I'd find you here.
00:07:24I'll be right back, Stanley.
00:07:25I want to talk to you about something.
00:07:27All right, Hallie.
00:07:28I'm a little matter on my mind that isn't exactly a lawyer's business, John.
00:07:32Could I have a private chat with you?
00:07:34Why, certainly, Bob.
00:07:35Come into my office.
00:07:40It's about Norma, John.
00:07:42It doesn't really amount to anything.
00:07:44But it seems her name got mixed up in a street fight at the post office this afternoon.
00:07:49Young Michael Kip.
00:07:54Stanley, don't you just get told, Rosa?
00:07:57What did you want to talk to me about?
00:07:59Well, I'll tell you what it is.
00:08:01I just want to find out how much you really and truly do love me.
00:08:04Considering the fact that I've told you I love you 4,572 times, I'm afraid that remarks
00:08:10are known when are bad news.
00:08:12No, Stanley.
00:08:13Do you love me enough to forgive me if I've gone and done a terribly foolish thing?
00:08:18My gracious, Stanley.
00:08:19After that, you'd have to forgive me for murder.
00:08:27Yes, that's the trouble.
00:08:28What do you want me to forgive?
00:08:30No, say you'll forgive first.
00:08:31I'll forgive.
00:08:32Oh, I don't reckon we're so terribly much anyhow.
00:08:35I sort of got things twisted.
00:08:37But I was wondering, did we have a date to go to the dance tonight?
00:08:42Why, I thought I...
00:08:43That's just what I thought, too, Stanley.
00:08:45But it was so long ago I kind of forgot.
00:08:47Yeah, one does forget, I suppose.
00:08:49It was just the funniest thing.
00:08:51But you see, I kind of forgot.
00:08:53You remember I was over at Mary Ann's couple weeks ago and I...
00:08:57I met Michael.
00:08:59Oh.
00:09:00Well, I see where I take another ride in the rumble seat.
00:09:04Oh, Stanley, it was just too stupid of me.
00:09:07So Michael's going to be the latest crush.
00:09:09Is that it?
00:09:10Oh, don't be mad at me, Stanley, dear.
00:09:12I'll tell you what I'll do.
00:09:14I'll give you every other dance tonight
00:09:16and I'll break my date with Richard Wells for the party next week
00:09:19and let you take me instead.
00:09:21Although it's very much against my principles
00:09:23to break a date with anybody.
00:09:25Oh, yeah?
00:09:27Oh, Stanley, you're so good looking when you smile.
00:09:32All right, save me the second dance.
00:09:38Stanley, I think you're just adorable.
00:09:42Miss Norma?
00:09:44Mr. Jufford to see you.
00:09:47Oh.
00:09:48Stanley, I think you're just adorable.
00:09:50Oh, hello, Michael.
00:09:54Well, you know Mr. Wentworth, don't you, Michael?
00:09:57Yes, I think I do.
00:09:58Glad to see you.
00:09:59Yes, it's glad to see you.
00:10:01Miss Norma tells me you're taking her to the dance tonight.
00:10:05Yeah, I sort of told him.
00:10:07Well, you aren't leaving, are you, Stanley?
00:10:09Well, yes, I seem to be.
00:10:12Good night.
00:10:13I hope you all have a right good time.
00:10:15Oh, leave the door open, won't you?
00:10:16I'd just love to hear you and your friends hairnade with her.
00:10:20It's so romantic.
00:10:21Yeah.
00:10:22Now we can talk a while.
00:10:23It was too sweet of you to come early.
00:10:24I just seem to say that I, I can't go to the dance.
00:10:29Oh, why not?
00:10:30I just found out it was for me.
00:10:31I don't own a dress suit.
00:10:32I can't afford to buy one.
00:10:33But, Michael...
00:10:34I reckon you can't understand how a fella can keep alive without a dress suit.
00:10:38I thought I'd tell you in time so he can come from me.
00:10:39How did you ride a ride?
00:10:40Yes, so romantic.
00:10:41I see you.
00:10:42I'll be right back.
00:10:43I'm sorry.
00:10:44Yeah.
00:10:45Now we can talk a while.
00:10:46It was too sweet of you to come early.
00:10:48Oh, why not?
00:10:49I just found out it was formal.
00:10:51I don't own a dress suit, and I can't afford to buy one.
00:10:53But, Michael...
00:10:54I reckon you can't understand how a fella can keep alive without a dress suit.
00:10:58I thought I'd tell you in time so he'd get someone else to take you.
00:11:01I don't suppose you'll have much trouble in doing that.
00:11:04Oh, Michael, don't be silly.
00:11:06Why, you go just the way you are now.
00:11:10I'll tell you something.
00:11:11I never told any other man ever.
00:11:14Just the way you are now, you'll be the best-looking man there.
00:11:21Now will you come?
00:11:22No.
00:11:24Well, you're the first man I ever told that to.
00:11:26He just didn't naturally melt away.
00:11:28I reckon I'm different from the other men.
00:11:31I mean, you've never told that to.
00:11:37Well, Mr. Desperate, I see it's your way of making it clear
00:11:41that you just don't want to be seen with me.
00:11:43Well, you know that isn't so.
00:11:44Well, excuse me, but that's the only way I can see it.
00:11:47And I'm very sorry that I've forgotten my pride so far
00:11:50that I'd throw myself at a man who...
00:11:54What are you laughing at?
00:11:55You're just carrying on, aren't you?
00:11:58Carrying on?
00:11:59You know you don't mean a word of that.
00:12:02Well, Mr. Jeffrey, I think it's about time for you to say goodnight.
00:12:06I will in a minute.
00:12:08I don't belong to that crowd at the country club.
00:12:10They look down on me, I know.
00:12:12But I don't mind that.
00:12:13If I could go there and show them that I could behave as well as any of the rest of them...
00:12:16Why, this way, I'd...
00:12:18I'd feel out of place.
00:12:23You'd like to go some other place with me sometime.
00:12:29Well, I guess I'd better say goodnight.
00:12:31Michael, you don't have to rush away like that because you're turning me down.
00:12:41That's the first time that's ever happened to me.
00:12:45And I don't know who would have sort of interest in me.
00:12:49You're stubborn, aren't you?
00:12:52I'm sorry, honey.
00:12:54Michael, I heard about your fight at the post office this afternoon.
00:13:00It was about me, wasn't it?
00:13:02Why, no, I...
00:13:03Oh, yes, it was.
00:13:05May Brandon call me up and tell me all about it.
00:13:08You gasped and said I was nothing but a...
00:13:10a silly little coquette, didn't they?
00:13:14And you thrashed him for it.
00:13:17Well, I...
00:13:18Oh, Michael, I think it was just...
00:13:22adorable of you.
00:13:24Ever since I heard it, I've been sort of wondering if it isn't true.
00:13:46Oh, bother, who's that?
00:13:48Don't go yet, Michael.
00:13:49Well, there's something else.
00:13:53Hello, Stanley.
00:13:55I just wondered.
00:13:56I know you all didn't have a car,
00:13:58and I thought I might drive you over to dance.
00:14:03I sort of decided not to go to the dance.
00:14:07Not going?
00:14:09No, I sort of got a headache a little while back and...
00:14:13Oh, I see.
00:14:15Good night.
00:14:21Why didn't you go?
00:14:23I just didn't want to.
00:14:26You, uh...
00:14:27You don't have to rush away so all of a sudden unless you want to.
00:14:33I know.
00:14:33I'd like to stay.
00:14:36I forgot to thank you for the flowers.
00:14:39I just love them.
00:14:48Let's sit down and talk a while, Michael.
00:14:54We just naturally seem to have a lot to say to one another, don't we?
00:14:59I always did think you were interesting.
00:15:03Why, you haven't known me but about two weeks.
00:15:05Oh, maybe I knew you long before that.
00:15:09What do you mean?
00:15:10Well, you know, you used to be in town on and off when I was in high school.
00:15:15Oh, you can't remember me then.
00:15:17Oh, yes, I do.
00:15:19One day in the post office, you came rushing by me and almost knocked me down.
00:15:25Can you remember that?
00:15:26Uh-huh.
00:15:27I remember it, too.
00:15:29I thought you were an awful pretty little thing.
00:15:31And I thought you were awfully rude.
00:15:35I reckon I was.
00:15:38I reckon I still am.
00:15:40I saw it in nature to say the wrong thing.
00:15:43I passed you in the street dozens of times after that.
00:15:47And every time I had the strangest feeling that you were turning around to look at me.
00:15:53Maybe I was.
00:15:54Oh, of course, other men have done that.
00:15:56But with you, it was different.
00:15:59Why?
00:16:00Well, I sort of felt that you weren't just trying to flirt, but that you really wanted
00:16:05to know me and be my friend.
00:16:08You're dead right.
00:16:10And I felt the same way about you.
00:16:13I always wanted to really know you, but I never dreamed I would.
00:16:19You always seemed so far away.
00:16:23Oh, but I'm not far away.
00:16:27I'm right close.
00:16:31Well, so long, John.
00:16:33I'll take the shortcut out the back way.
00:16:35Good night, Bob.
00:16:36And thanks for warning me about that young fellow.
00:16:39Oh, Daddy.
00:16:40Oh, all alone, dear?
00:16:43Why, didn't you all go to the dance?
00:16:46How do you do?
00:16:55Good evening, sir.
00:16:57Norma, I'd like to talk to Mr. Jeffrey alone for a few minutes.
00:17:02But, Daddy...
00:17:03If you please, Norma.
00:17:05I don't know that you and I have anything private to talk about.
00:17:11I reckon you do.
00:17:15I shall have to ask you to just continue seeing my daughter.
00:17:18Why?
00:17:19Because you're not the kind of a young man I want my daughter to associate with.
00:17:22You don't know so very much about me.
00:17:24I know enough.
00:17:25This afternoon, you engaged in a street fight in which my daughter's name was mentioned.
00:17:29Did you find out why?
00:17:30Yes, sir, I did.
00:17:32My friend, Mr. Wentworth, was an eyewitness.
00:17:34I appreciate your motive, sir, but I want you to understand that if my daughter's name
00:17:40needs defending, there are men in her own family perfectly capable of doing it.
00:17:44I suppose you want me to.
00:17:45I'm told that you made a public statement to the effect that you were going to marry my daughter.
00:17:51Did you?
00:17:53Well, did you or did you not, sir?
00:17:55I reckon I must tell.
00:17:57Then all I can say, sir, is you are most presumptuous.
00:18:00I didn't have an intention.
00:18:01I don't care what the devil your intention was.
00:18:03Let me explain, will you?
00:18:04You gave to me some dirty remorse about my being, about my paying attention to Norm.
00:18:08When I gave him what was coming to him, then I began to say things without thinking.
00:18:12I said I wasn't used to being played with by any girl.
00:18:14If Normy stepped in my attention, it was only because she cared for me.
00:18:17If she cared for me, I'd marry her regardless of what a crowd might think of me.
00:18:20Did you actually boast that you were going to marry her?
00:18:22I don't know.
00:18:27Maybe I did.
00:18:28I said a lot without thinking.
00:18:29I'm waiting for your apology, sir.
00:18:33I shouldn't have said it.
00:18:34I'm sorry.
00:18:36If you'll accept that for an apology.
00:18:37I shall ask you not to see Norm again.
00:18:40Why not?
00:18:40Because, Mr. Jeffrey, you're not the kind of a young man my daughter could ever think of marrying.
00:18:45Why not?
00:18:45Why, you're too wild and unsteady in your habits.
00:18:48What do you know about my...
00:18:49You haven't held a steady job since you've been back here.
00:18:51And you haven't any prospects that would warn her.
00:18:53What are you looking for?
00:18:54A meal ticket?
00:18:56In the first place, sir, I'm looking for a gentleman.
00:19:01Yes, I know what that means.
00:19:02Daddy!
00:19:03Daddy!
00:19:03Daddy, Mrs. Carey just called up and says her baby's much worse.
00:19:05She wants you to go right away.
00:19:07She did?
00:19:07Yes.
00:19:08She's terribly worried.
00:19:09Well, that's too bad, doesn't she?
00:19:11Michael, go right away, Daddy.
00:19:12Don't worry.
00:19:14We understand each other, do we, young man?
00:19:16And before I go, I must ask you to give him your word you'll make no attempt to see Norma again.
00:19:22I'll give you my word, Daddy, and I'll give you my purse, too.
00:19:27I'll make him go right away, honey, precious.
00:19:29I promise.
00:19:30I lied about Mrs. Carey, but I don't care long as you two don't get to fighting.
00:19:54I don't suppose he'll ever really trust me again.
00:19:58And he's just the most adorable old daddy.
00:20:02I reckon you must think that was a rotten thing for me to say.
00:20:05What?
00:20:06About my going to marry you.
00:20:09I said that because I love you.
00:20:17Well, you've given your word to your father not to see me again, so I guess I'd better move on.
00:20:22Don't go yet, Michael.
00:20:24What's that to keep me here?
00:20:39Do you care at all about me, Norma?
00:20:41Because if I thought you cared for me, I'd settle down and go to work and really make something to myself.
00:20:45And I'd show your father that I could qualify as your husband as well as any other man.
00:20:49Only I mean, Norma, really care for me, really love me.
00:20:52Not play around with me.
00:20:53That's what I mean.
00:20:54Why don't you say something, Norma?
00:20:56If you don't care for me, just say so and I'll beat it and you won't see me around this town again.
00:21:00Oh, don't do that, Michael.
00:21:04It scares me so, Michael.
00:21:06What?
00:21:08The way I feel about you.
00:21:12I love you.
00:21:14I love you more than anybody in the world.
00:21:17I love you even more than my daddy.
00:21:20You do love me, Norma?
00:21:22Yes.
00:21:22That's all I want to know.
00:21:25I'll show you, Father.
00:21:27People think I'm too lazy to work.
00:21:29But it's just that I can't breathe when I'm shut up.
00:21:32Oh, no.
00:21:32But I can stand anything for you, Norma.
00:21:34I can get a job surveying up in the hills.
00:21:36And I'm going up there tomorrow.
00:21:37And, Norma, this is what I'll do.
00:21:39I'll stay up there for six months.
00:21:41You tell him that, Norma.
00:21:42And tell him that I'm coming back at the end of six months to marry you.
00:21:45Six months?
00:21:46It'll seem six hundred years.
00:21:50Goodbye, Norma.
00:21:52Michael.
00:21:57I'm not going to kiss you.
00:21:59I've seen all the others doing that.
00:22:02I won't kiss you until I come back to marry you.
00:22:05And that'll be worth waiting for.
00:22:10Well, this isn't getting us into place.
00:22:12Good night.
00:22:16Goodbye, Michael.
00:22:25I'll be waiting.
00:22:46Goodbye, Michael.
00:22:55Goodbye, Michael.
00:22:57Goodbye, Michael.
00:22:58Goodbye, Michael.
00:22:59Goodbye, Michael.
00:22:59Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:00Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:01Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:02Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:03Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:04Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:05Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:06Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:07Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:08Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:09Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:10Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:11Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:12Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:13Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:14Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:15Goodbye, Michael.
00:23:16And I was under the heat for almost 14 minutes.
00:23:30The next time they operate on me, I'm going to take gas.
00:23:34That's a good idea.
00:23:35Because gas, you know, doesn't, as it were, repudiate one.
00:23:40You understand what I mean?
00:23:46You understand what I mean?
00:24:16Oh, that's my athletic training.
00:24:21I'm the treasurer of the baseball team, you know.
00:24:24Oh, it must be just wonderful to be a man.
00:24:28Oh, come on, Jimmy.
00:24:29Give somebody else a chance.
00:24:31Jimmy, you're here.
00:24:33Boy, you're parted.
00:24:36Yeah, but she's not exactly my type of girl.
00:24:39Why do I need to get her?
00:24:40She's around, well, I need to move her.
00:24:42I like a girl who's out of the shoes, who's right.
00:24:47She was.
00:24:49Say, Mrs. She was, who else is?
00:24:51She's a man who came tonight, Nova.
00:24:54She's a man who's not a dancer, but she must go.
00:24:56She never did show up.
00:24:58I never gave me that time.
00:25:00You don't dare be steady.
00:25:01Hey, darling.
00:25:02Give me your break around here with you, Homer.
00:25:04Oh, come on now, go to the break.
00:25:06I'll be sure.
00:25:07I'll be sure.
00:25:08I'll be sure.
00:25:09I'll be sure what she's living on a tree or die.
00:25:11And the doctor, who I love her to love.
00:25:14The kind I care when I can offer this is not the main tiger.
00:25:19Oh, wasn't that just wonderful?
00:25:23Yes, what's this?
00:25:25Let's go out and get some fresh air, darling.
00:25:28I need it.
00:25:29Pardon me, Miss Jenkins.
00:25:30I'm talking about your operations very much.
00:25:32Oh, thank you.
00:25:35If I have to hear that story once more,
00:25:37I'll be operating on Miss Jenkins in my sleep.
00:25:42Let's stay out here a while.
00:25:44I'm tired of dancing.
00:25:47Good.
00:25:48Let's sit down.
00:25:51You sure look pretty tonight, Norma.
00:25:54Do I really?
00:25:56Maybe it's because of the way I feel.
00:25:59You know, for the past three months,
00:26:01I've been feeling sort of,
00:26:04oh, you know, sort of real.
00:26:07Now, doesn't that sound silly?
00:26:10I don't know just what I mean.
00:26:12I used to want to dance all the time,
00:26:14and now I just at least sort of sit around and dream.
00:26:19I love you that way.
00:26:22Why don't you marry me, Norma?
00:26:24Stanley, you're dear.
00:26:25Oh, I know you've heard it so often
00:26:27it's beginning to sound like a neck-off.
00:26:30But I do so mean it.
00:26:32I know you do, Stanley.
00:26:34And you're just adorable about it.
00:26:45But I...
00:26:45I can't ever marry you.
00:26:50If you like, I'll tell you why.
00:26:52Stanley, I mean love.
00:26:58Oh, I'm terribly in love.
00:27:00Really, I mean it.
00:27:02You never know what it means
00:27:04not to have the one you love close to.
00:27:07Well, I can't sleep at night.
00:27:10Sometimes I can hardly breathe.
00:27:12And I jump out of bed and run to the window
00:27:15and feel the breeze from the air.
00:27:18And that makes me feel so good
00:27:20because I know he's out there
00:27:22thinking of me and wanting so much to come back.
00:27:27It's all kind of funny and hard to understand, isn't it?
00:27:31No, I can understand perfectly.
00:27:34It'll be three months more before he comes back.
00:27:37But I'll be waiting.
00:27:39Hey, Norma!
00:27:42And let's walk while the walking's good, baby.
00:27:44That old moon's on his job anytime for a little neck-in.
00:27:47But these musicians are paid by the hour.
00:27:49Boy, you can sit when you're old and great.
00:27:51Use your feet while they're young, baby.
00:27:52Use them while they're young.
00:27:56Oh, Mr. Wentworth.
00:28:01Should I speak to you for a moment?
00:28:02Oh, hello.
00:28:07Hello, Jeffrey.
00:28:13I'm looking for Norma.
00:28:15They told me she was here today.
00:28:17Yes, she's here.
00:28:18I don't want to butt in.
00:28:20And I can't go in there,
00:28:21but I would like to see her for a little while.
00:28:23I've got to be back on the job tomorrow.
00:28:26I reckon she'll be glad to see you.
00:28:29I'll send her out if you like.
00:28:31Thanks.
00:28:32That's all right.
00:28:44Come on, Joe.
00:28:45You can't expect to dance with Norma all night.
00:28:48Oh, gee, are you cutting it again?
00:28:49You bet I am.
00:28:51Now, what can you get ahead of me with Norma?
00:28:52All right, Romeo.
00:28:54Headed right for that old moon again.
00:28:56How do you all want to be rescued?
00:28:58Oh, I...
00:28:59I just wanted one more dance with Norma.
00:29:02Oh, honey.
00:29:03Oh, honey.
00:29:03Oh.
00:29:04Hey, Stanley, you're no flatterer.
00:29:24Am I dreaming?
00:29:26No, honey.
00:29:28I'll see you later.
00:30:02Michael!
00:30:04Michael!
00:30:06Oh, Michael!
00:30:09Darling!
00:30:11Oh, oh, darling.
00:30:17My darling.
00:30:19Is it really, really you?
00:30:23Why, you weren't going away.
00:30:25Yes, I shouldn't have come back.
00:30:27Oh, but I'm glad you came.
00:30:30I said I wouldn't be back for six months.
00:30:32And here I am.
00:30:33I fail again.
00:30:35I always fail.
00:30:36Oh, let's not talk of failure, Michael.
00:30:39Let's just be happy.
00:30:41I couldn't stand it.
00:30:42I've seen you for a little while.
00:30:44I've been saying to myself for all these months,
00:30:46I've been saying, I won't see you,
00:30:48and I'll work hard, and I won't see you.
00:30:50Yes, it up in the hills, I got so desperate and lonesome fear.
00:30:53I thought I'd come back and have just one look at you, darling,
00:30:56and then go back.
00:30:57And I will go back right away.
00:30:59I shouldn't have come.
00:31:00Oh, Michael, if you only knew how glad I am to see you.
00:31:05Oh, please stay and talk to me just a little while.
00:31:09I've been going crazy without you.
00:31:13It seems that I...
00:31:15I can't breathe unless you...
00:31:18Oh, I love you, Mama.
00:31:25I love you.
00:31:27But that's why I've got to go back and work for you
00:31:30so that we can be married.
00:31:31Oh, but just a little while.
00:31:34It can't be in your arms.
00:31:37I...
00:31:39Oh, dear.
00:31:41You've been with me every minute in my dreams.
00:31:45But this is so...
00:31:47so real.
00:31:49Don't ever let me go.
00:31:52Fool me.
00:31:54Close.
00:31:55Forever.
00:31:56Oh, boy.
00:31:58Oh, boy.
00:31:59What if we're anywhere?
00:32:01They're looking for you, honey.
00:32:02You'd better go.
00:32:03No.
00:32:04Goodbye, darling.
00:32:05No, no, no.
00:32:06I won't let you go.
00:32:07Do you think I can go back there and dance and laugh?
00:32:08Oh, please stay with me just a little while longer.
00:32:11Oh, no, Mama.
00:32:13Watch out, honey.
00:32:14They'll find us out here.
00:32:15Then...
00:32:16Then let's go away from here.
00:32:17Anywhere so we can be together.
00:32:19Oh, let's stay out in the moonlight and...
00:32:22and be so terribly happy.
00:32:25Oh, no, no.
00:32:26Mama.
00:32:27Say, she sure can disappear, can't she?
00:32:30Hey, Norma.
00:32:31Oh, Norma.
00:32:32Can you beat that girl?
00:32:34Say, Dan, next time you take her to a dance, you'd better handcuff her.
00:32:38Oh, she's all right.
00:32:39Why don't you all go inside and get some ice cream?
00:32:42That sounds good to me.
00:32:43No, sir.
00:32:44She's too young to be out under a moon like that without one of her family within snooping distance.
00:32:49I'm going to find her.
00:32:50Come on, bloodhounds.
00:32:51Let's help her.
00:32:52All right.
00:32:53Oh, listen.
00:32:54She's all right.
00:32:55Hey, Norma.
00:32:56Where are you?
00:32:57Hey, Norma, Norma, Norma, Norma.
00:32:59Isn't she just too clever?
00:33:00Say, I just can't imagine where she went.
00:33:02Hey, Norma, Norma, Norma, Norma.
00:33:04Nice little girl.
00:33:05Oh, forget it.
00:33:06I'll bet she's slipped in the side door and eaten up all the ice cream while we're out here starving.
00:33:11Ah, that's the clue.
00:33:12Maybe she's hiding in the ice cream prison.
00:33:15Let's go see, Jimmy.
00:33:16Well, we'll look on the side porch on the way.
00:33:18Hey, Norma.
00:33:20Come on, girl.
00:33:21Hey, Norma.
00:33:22Hey, Norma.
00:33:23Come on.
00:33:24Come on.
00:33:25Come on.
00:33:27Go on.
00:33:28Come on.
00:33:29Come on.
00:33:35Come on.
00:34:06Good morning, Dad.
00:34:15Morning, son.
00:34:16Julia said you wanted to see me.
00:34:17Yes, I do.
00:34:19Jim and I, am I in for a lecture?
00:34:21I'm afraid so.
00:34:22Honest, Dad, I don't remember...
00:34:24You remember coming home from the dance at 4 o'clock this morning, don't you?
00:34:274 o'clock this morning?
00:34:28I wasn't sleeping very well.
00:34:30I heard the town clock strike the hour, and then I heard you come in.
00:34:34You heard me come in?
00:34:36What were you doing up until that hour?
00:34:40Oh, I don't know.
00:34:41Just fooling around, I guess.
00:34:43What do you mean by fooling around?
00:34:46Oh, just fooling around.
00:34:49James, you're acting very strangely about this.
00:34:53Now, you want to...
00:34:55Very well, son.
00:34:59You're getting to be a man, and I reckon it's about time I respected your product.
00:35:05Thank you, sir.
00:35:06James, I'm very proud of my children.
00:35:11Don't do anything that'll make me ashamed of you.
00:35:13Oh, don't do anything that'll make you ashamed of yourself, will you?
00:35:18No, sir.
00:35:19Honest, Dad, I haven't...
00:35:20It's all right.
00:35:21It's all right.
00:35:21Well, you're fine when you are.
00:35:41What time did you get in last night?
00:35:42Did Daddy act?
00:35:44Oh, fuck, that's all.
00:35:45It makes me get the blame for it.
00:35:48Oh, Jimmy, you are a dear.
00:35:51Jiminy, you must have been making overtime.
00:35:54Believe me, I'd never marry a girl like that.
00:35:57Oh, I don't mind him acting silly now and then and clowning around a bit, but...
00:36:03I like a girl that opts me to...
00:36:05In a canoe in the moonlight can discuss lies seriously.
00:36:08I know.
00:36:09Oh, Norma.
00:36:11Can I come in this way?
00:36:13Michael Jeffrey.
00:36:14Why, surely, Michael.
00:36:15So it was him.
00:36:17Jimmy, he, not him.
00:36:18All right, he, not him.
00:36:20Jiminy, has Dad ever found that out?
00:36:22Oh, howdy, Mr. Jeffrey.
00:36:26Do you mind if I speak to Norma alone?
00:36:29Why, sure.
00:36:36Dad's in his office.
00:36:38He's liable to come out any minute.
00:36:39That's fine.
00:36:40I want to see him.
00:36:44Michael, I thought you'd gone back to the hills.
00:36:46You really shouldn't have come here if Daddy saw you.
00:36:49I came to see him, Norma.
00:36:49I came to see you.
00:36:51I've been thinking over last night.
00:36:53I ought to kill myself for what I...
00:36:55Oh, no, Michael.
00:36:56Norma?
00:36:56We've got to get married right away.
00:36:59Right away?
00:37:00Yes.
00:37:02I was just making for the hills this morning
00:37:04when I heard some gossip in town.
00:37:06New guest and Jack Gray were coming home
00:37:07from a hunting trip at 4 o'clock this morning.
00:37:09And they saw us come out of my mother's cabin.
00:37:11They knew that my mother was over in Watertown
00:37:13at her cousin.
00:37:14And that we were in the cabin alone.
00:37:20They couldn't get back to town fast enough
00:37:22to spread the news.
00:37:23You know what they're saying.
00:37:24I don't care what they're saying.
00:37:27As long as you love me, Michael, I'm glad.
00:37:30I'm glad.
00:37:31Norma.
00:37:32It was my fault as much as yours.
00:37:34You told me your mother was out of town,
00:37:36and I'm glad we were there, alone.
00:37:39It's going to be all right, honey.
00:37:41I'll tell your father we'll get married right away.
00:37:43Oh, no, no, you mustn't do that.
00:37:46Oh, you don't know my daddy.
00:37:47He's so terribly stubborn.
00:37:48If you go against him,
00:37:49he'd do most anything.
00:37:52No, let me ask him.
00:37:54It's my job to ask him, honey.
00:37:55I won't lose my temper.
00:37:57He'd be furious.
00:37:57He'd never let us.
00:37:58Then we'll go to Watertown
00:37:59and get married anyhow.
00:38:00Why, you can live at my cousin's
00:38:02until I make enough money
00:38:03to buy that little place I told you about.
00:38:05I'm going to make good, honey.
00:38:06Honest, I will.
00:38:08I know you will, Michael.
00:38:10And I'm going to be so good to you.
00:38:12I'll keep house, and I'll cook,
00:38:14and I'll scrub, and I'll take care of you.
00:38:17And if things don't go right,
00:38:18I won't mind, because I'll have you.
00:38:22Do be so careful when you speak to daddy.
00:38:25I'm so afraid.
00:38:28Tell him that you worship a good woman, Michael.
00:38:31You might as well say the things he likes.
00:38:33Tell him that the passing of the Old South
00:38:36distresses you.
00:38:37Oh, it won't do any harm to say that, will it?
00:38:40Don't worry, honey.
00:38:41I'll eat mud if I have to.
00:38:44Do you think it would help
00:38:45if I prayed for you, Michael?
00:38:47Oh, I love you so much, dearest.
00:38:49Hold me tight for just a moment.
00:38:52I love you more than all the men and women
00:38:54and houses and everything.
00:38:56Can't you feel how much I love you?
00:39:03Oh, it's, uh, it's daddy.
00:39:23Daddy always pretends to be so busy
00:39:25in that old office of his.
00:39:26Sometimes I think he's just flirting
00:39:30with his laden patients.
00:39:36I'd like a word with you, Dr. Besson.
00:39:47Daddy.
00:39:48Daddy.
00:39:49Daddy just pretends to be strict
00:39:54when we have company.
00:39:56But he's really the most adorable old daddy.
00:39:59Norma, you both gave me your word
00:40:02not to see each other again.
00:40:04I wouldn't expect him to keep his word,
00:40:06but you...
00:40:06It was my fault.
00:40:07I beg your pardon, sir,
00:40:09while I'm addressing my daughter.
00:40:10But, Daddy, he just happened...
00:40:11Norma, do you want this lover
00:40:13dragging your name in the gutter again?
00:40:15I beg your pardon.
00:40:16Stay quiet, sir.
00:40:18It's about time I opened my daughter's eyes
00:40:21to the character of a blackguard like you.
00:40:22Now, don't think that...
00:40:23I'm my father, sir.
00:40:25And it's my intention
00:40:26to safeguard my daughter's innocence.
00:40:28If you'll allow me...
00:40:29I'll allow you to leave my house, Mr. Jeffrey.
00:40:30Yes, sir, but if you'll just...
00:40:31I don't want you
00:40:32and the likes of you
00:40:33hanging around here.
00:40:35I hope I make myself
00:40:36perfectly plain this time
00:40:37so you won't come sneaking around
00:40:39when the moment you think
00:40:40my back is turned.
00:40:41In the first place,
00:40:42I didn't come sneaking.
00:40:43That's the word I apply
00:40:44to your conduct, sir.
00:40:46And unless you wish me
00:40:47to apply a stronger one,
00:40:49you'd better take your hat and leave.
00:40:50Sure, I'll leave.
00:40:51Ah, thank you, sir.
00:40:52But it seems to me
00:40:53with all this chivalry
00:40:54that's being created around here,
00:40:56you might at least
00:40:56let me explain my side of the story.
00:40:58I've never stood for
00:40:59so much abuse from anybody.
00:41:00If I didn't consider it
00:41:01unbecoming my ears,
00:41:02you'd stand up
00:41:03built up a different kind.
00:41:04No, sir, I wouldn't.
00:41:06If it wasn't for you years,
00:41:07you never would get away
00:41:07with what you've already said.
00:41:09Michael, you go now
00:41:10and let me talk to him.
00:41:11If he doesn't go,
00:41:12I'll put him out.
00:41:13Daddy.
00:41:13Norma, I'm not holding you blameless,
00:41:16but you haven't the slightest idea
00:41:18what's in this fellow's mind.
00:41:19And you can thank God
00:41:20you're my father to protect you.
00:41:21You won't need to protect her
00:41:22when we're married.
00:41:23Michael.
00:41:24My daughter will never marry you
00:41:26nor any trash like you.
00:41:29Now, the sooner you get that
00:41:29through your head
00:41:30and get out of here,
00:41:31the better it's going to be
00:41:32for everyone concerned.
00:41:33Daddy, please.
00:41:34We'll make you think something.
00:41:34You get out of the room now.
00:41:35You don't understand.
00:41:36She understands more than you do.
00:41:38I was going to ask you
00:41:39to let us marry,
00:41:40but I see there's no use of that,
00:41:41so I'll tell him you understand.
00:41:43Hold your tongue, sir.
00:41:44Daddy.
00:41:45Get out of my way.
00:41:47Now, you old imp,
00:41:48you dumb scumple.
00:41:50Get out of this town.
00:41:52Oh, so you're in the town, too, do you?
00:41:54Well, I'll get out of this town
00:41:55when I please
00:41:56and I'll take her with me.
00:41:58I'll get my things, Norma,
00:41:59and come back for you.
00:42:00We'll go to my cousin's.
00:42:00If there was anything
00:42:01as a gentleman about you, sir.
00:42:02Oh, shut up, you damn,
00:42:03you little hypocrite, sir.
00:42:05I'll kill him up good enough
00:42:07standing around beating your head
00:42:08when I'm trying to do what's right.
00:42:09Get out.
00:42:10Get out.
00:42:11Listen.
00:42:12If you would shut your mouth
00:42:13for a while
00:42:14and try to find out
00:42:15what happened last night,
00:42:16you wouldn't be so damned afraid
00:42:17I'd marry her.
00:42:18Michael, stop.
00:42:19Where do you suppose she was
00:42:19until 4 o'clock this morning?
00:42:21Where do you suppose
00:42:22she spent the night
00:42:22in my cabin,
00:42:24alone with me,
00:42:24and the whole town knows about it?
00:42:26Why, you old fools,
00:42:27you ought to be begging me
00:42:28to marry her.
00:42:30I've been trying
00:42:30to do the right thing,
00:42:31trying to protect
00:42:32your daughter's name,
00:42:33but you won't let me,
00:42:35so I'll marry her
00:42:36and protect her
00:42:36in spite of you.
00:42:38I'll come back
00:42:39this afternoon for you, Norma.
00:42:41Oh, Daddy did.
00:42:45He didn't know
00:42:46he lost his hand.
00:42:48Be quiet.
00:42:51Julia.
00:42:53Daddy, what?
00:42:54Of course,
00:42:54I don't have to be told
00:42:57what he said
00:42:58about last night
00:42:59isn't true.
00:43:03No, Daddy, no.
00:43:07Julia,
00:43:07I want you to take
00:43:09Miss Norma
00:43:10to her room
00:43:11and keep her there.
00:43:14I won't go!
00:43:17Stanley!
00:43:19Jimmy!
00:43:19I heard Norma
00:43:22called as I was coming up.
00:43:23Is there anything wrong?
00:43:24Yes, Stanley,
00:43:24something damnably wrong.
00:43:26But I'm going to rectify it.
00:43:27Dr. Bassant,
00:43:28you'll not decide.
00:43:29Mrs. Michael.
00:43:29Come decide, sir.
00:43:32I won't go to my room,
00:43:33I won't.
00:43:34I'm too old to be locked up.
00:43:35Stanley, where's Daddy?
00:43:36What's he going to do?
00:43:37It's nothing, honey.
00:43:37What's he going to do?
00:43:38It's all right, dear.
00:43:39Just wait here a minute.
00:43:41Jimmy, is Stanley what?
00:43:42Don't like the devil.
00:43:43The shortcut to Michael's cabin.
00:43:44Tell him to keep out of sight.
00:43:45Michael?
00:43:45Your father will kill him
00:43:46if you don't.
00:43:47Hurry!
00:43:48Stanley, stop acting this way!
00:43:50What's happened?
00:43:50Where's Daddy?
00:43:51Now, listen, honey,
00:43:52he's a little upset about something
00:43:53and, uh, well,
00:43:55he went over to our house
00:43:56to ask Dad's advice.
00:43:57Asked his advice?
00:43:58Yes, Dad, he's loyal, you know.
00:44:00I'll go and find out
00:44:01what it's all about.
00:44:01Stanley!
00:44:06Junior!
00:44:07What does he mean,
00:44:08ask his advice?
00:44:09Now, now,
00:44:09don't you worry, honey, child.
00:44:10Your Daddy's just upset a little.
00:44:12Oh, Junior,
00:44:13he was so mad.
00:44:16You don't suppose
00:44:16he'd hurt Michael?
00:44:18No, no, honey, child.
00:44:19Now, calm yourself.
00:44:21I don't know.
00:44:22Now, you just come
00:44:23and tell your lady
00:44:24and Mammy all about it.
00:44:29Julia,
00:44:30I love them so much
00:44:32they don't understand.
00:44:34No, Mammy understands
00:44:35just like I always did
00:44:38because you're still my baby.
00:44:41My little honey baby.
00:44:45Julia, I'm different.
00:44:47I'm not going to be a coquette anymore.
00:44:51I'm going to be married.
00:44:55He came back last night.
00:44:58I was just starving to see him.
00:45:01We couldn't stay there with all that crowd.
00:45:04So we went to his mother's cabin where we could be alone.
00:45:08Talk over those long months of separation.
00:45:12It was just like heaven, that little cabin of his.
00:45:16So snug and cozy and warm.
00:45:20Michael built a fire while I made some coffee.
00:45:24It was good coffee, too, Julia.
00:45:27Michael said he never tasted better.
00:45:30We sort of talked and dreamed and planned a little home of our own.
00:45:36Michael knows a place we can buy cheaply and make some money.
00:45:41A little house in the valley.
00:45:44Very tiny, you know.
00:45:46But plenty big enough for us.
00:45:48There were flowers all around it and big trees.
00:45:52Michael told me all about it.
00:45:55Oh, he was so sweet, Julia.
00:45:58I was cuddled up on his lap, just like I'm sitting here now.
00:46:04And he was sort of whispering and watching the future together.
00:46:10Oh, I was so happy I just wanted to hug him to death.
00:46:15But Michael was funny.
00:46:17He said he couldn't trust himself.
00:46:21He said he was afraid.
00:46:23He reckoned I had better go home and not see him again until he came back to marry me.
00:46:30And when he said goodnight, he wouldn't even kiss me.
00:46:34He kept saying he was afraid.
00:46:36Then he brought me home.
00:46:40And then I began to wonder if it had all really happened.
00:46:46If Michael had really come back or if it was just a dream.
00:46:50Maybe it was a dream, Julia.
00:46:52Maybe it was a dream, Julia.
00:46:54I don't believe there could be so much happiness in real life.
00:46:58Oh!
00:46:59What's the matter, honey?
00:47:01Oh!
00:47:02I don't know.
00:47:04I feel terrible.
00:47:06I reckon I must be all excited.
00:47:09I felt exactly as if...
00:47:13I don't know.
00:47:15As if I'd been shot.
00:47:17Now, now, honey.
00:47:18You're just upset.
00:47:19Come and sit down.
00:47:20Shot.
00:47:21Michael.
00:47:22Daddy.
00:47:23Oh!
00:47:24Julia!
00:47:25Julia!
00:47:26What's the matter, honey?
00:47:27This is gone!
00:47:28Why, your old daddy ain't kept his sister there this long?
00:47:30He has!
00:47:31You know he has!
00:47:32Daddy!
00:47:33Daddy!
00:47:34Oh!
00:47:35Oh!
00:47:36I've been shot!
00:47:37I've been shot!
00:47:38Now, now, honey.
00:47:39You're just upset.
00:47:40Come and sit down.
00:47:41Shot.
00:47:42Michael!
00:47:43Michael!
00:47:44Daddy!
00:47:45Daddy!
00:47:46Just saw him on the state road.
00:47:48He seemed to be going someplace.
00:47:49Did you see Michael?
00:47:50Didn't know he's back in town.
00:47:51Look, Norma.
00:47:52We can't assure you our cup.
00:47:53Yeah, we won the dancing contest after you left last night.
00:47:56He has this pretty, but are you sure you didn't...
00:47:57We were doing the new steps.
00:47:58The rabbit rambles.
00:47:59It's the newest thing I've looked.
00:48:00Isn't that great?
00:48:01Isn't that fine?
00:48:02I'll wait for it.
00:48:03I'll teach you, Norma.
00:48:04You really should know it.
00:48:05It shouldn't have changed.
00:48:06You see, it's sort of a varsity drag all tangled out at the black bottom.
00:48:10I'll show you.
00:48:11No, not now, Joe.
00:48:12Come on, you have a little minute.
00:48:13Just watch my feet.
00:48:14Oh, Joe!
00:48:15Don't look.
00:48:16Watch my feet.
00:48:17No, no.
00:48:18It's like this.
00:48:19Do I rather not?
00:48:20Get off, Norma.
00:48:21Get off.
00:48:22Come on, Norma.
00:48:23Oh, hello, Stan.
00:48:24Howdy, Stan.
00:48:25Joe, will you and Betsy step outside a moment?
00:48:28Oh, we were teaching Norma how to do the...
00:48:30Please.
00:48:31Well, see you all later, Norma.
00:48:32Goodbye, Norma.
00:48:33Stanley, you're a nymphie.
00:48:34Just practice that step with it with Stanley and you'll get it.
00:48:47Stanley, what is it?
00:48:49It's not Norma, honey.
00:48:50Stanley, there is something.
00:48:51Now, dear, let's sit down.
00:48:52Stanley, what is it?
00:48:53What's happened?
00:48:54Now, dear, come.
00:48:55Sit down.
00:48:56Let me talk to you more.
00:48:57Oh, why'd he act this way?
00:48:58Oh, why'd he act this way?
00:48:59I might as well be frank, dear, and tell you that there's been a little something gone
00:49:02wrong.
00:49:03He did take that pistol.
00:49:04All it is, dear.
00:49:05All there is to it.
00:49:06Now, you've got to be very brave and not lose control of yourself.
00:49:07Oh, stop it.
00:49:08Stanley, what is it?
00:49:09Stanley, what is it?
00:49:10Stanley, what is it?
00:49:11It's not the norma, honey.
00:49:12Stanley, there is something.
00:49:13Now, dear, let's sit down.
00:49:14Stanley, what is it?
00:49:15What is it?
00:49:16Stanley, what is it?
00:49:17What is it?
00:49:18What is it?
00:49:19What is it?
00:49:20Stanley, what is it?
00:49:21What is it?
00:49:22What is it?
00:49:23What is it?
00:49:24What is it?
00:49:25What is it?
00:49:26You've got to control yourself.
00:49:27Oh, stop it.
00:49:28Tell me what's happened.
00:49:29Your father and Michael had quarrels.
00:49:33He did shoot him.
00:49:34He did shoot him.
00:49:35I know it.
00:49:36Alma, Alma, now, honey.
00:49:38Stanley, you drive me crazy.
00:49:40You've got to tell me everything.
00:49:42Alma.
00:49:43Someone was hurt.
00:49:49Michael?
00:49:50Yes?
00:49:51Well, is it bad?
00:49:54I reckon it is, dear.
00:49:55Well?
00:49:56You've promised me that it is.
00:49:58Please tell me everything.
00:50:01Your father followed Michael to his cabin.
00:50:05And Michael was shot.
00:50:07Oh, my God.
00:50:08Didn't kill him.
00:50:13Michael's not dead.
00:50:17No, dear.
00:50:18But I'm afraid the wound is fatal.
00:50:41What did you say?
00:50:42He can't live, dear.
00:50:44Who?
00:50:45Michael, honey.
00:50:46Michael can't live.
00:50:52My Michael can't live.
00:50:56He will live, I tell you.
00:50:57He will live.
00:50:58How dare you say he won't live?
00:51:00I'm almost sorry, dear.
00:51:02Let go of me.
00:51:03Let go, I say.
00:51:05Michael.
00:51:06Michael!
00:51:07Michael!
00:51:08Michael!
00:51:26Norma.
00:51:28Norma.
00:51:31Michael!
00:51:34Michael!
00:51:35I'm here, Michael.
00:51:36I'm here.
00:51:37Everything's all right, honey.
00:51:38Everything's all right.
00:51:40Norma!
00:51:46Michael!
00:51:50Michael!
00:51:53I'm here, Michael. I'm here.
00:51:56Everything's all right, honey. Everything's all right.
00:52:01Michael, it's Norma.
00:52:04It's Norma, honey. You know it's Norma.
00:52:10Why don't you know me?
00:52:20Oh, please leave me, Michael. Please.
00:52:27You're going to be all right soon.
00:52:31I'll make you some coffee.
00:52:34You know, you said it was so good.
00:52:40Norma.
00:52:42Yes, darling.
00:52:47I'm here.
00:52:49Norma.
00:52:50Yes, dear.
00:52:54I'll make some money.
00:52:56And there's a little, a little house in the valley.
00:53:00I know, darling.
00:53:02With flowers all around us.
00:53:05And big trees.
00:53:07Oh, we're going to be so happy.
00:53:11Michael.
00:53:13Michael.
00:53:15Norma.
00:53:16Norma.
00:53:17Yes, darling.
00:53:20Norma.
00:53:22I love you, Norma.
00:53:25And I'll love you.
00:53:28More than my life.
00:53:30Norma.
00:53:32Yes, dear.
00:53:34I want to kiss you.
00:53:36Yes, darling.
00:53:37Yes, darling.
00:53:50You're just adorable, Michael.
00:53:54Just adorable.
00:53:58Don't close your eyes.
00:54:13Look at me.
00:54:15Look at me and smile.
00:54:18Just smile once again, Michael, please.
00:54:22Open your eyes.
00:54:24Open your eyes so that you can see me.
00:54:26Why, Michael, you look almost like, like you were dead.
00:54:52Oh, no.
00:54:53It can't be dead.
00:54:54Oh, no.
00:54:56It isn't true.
00:54:58It isn't true.
00:55:00Oh, don't you understand, Michael?
00:55:03Maybe.
00:55:04Maybe only sleeping.
00:55:06Wake up, Michael.
00:55:08Wake up.
00:55:10Oh, Michael, don't leave me.
00:55:13Don't leave me, Michael.
00:55:15Can't you hear?
00:55:17Michael.
00:55:18Michael, wake up, Michael.
00:55:19Wake up.
00:55:20Wake up, Michael.
00:55:21Wake up, darling.
00:55:22Wake up.
00:55:25He's gone.
00:55:29He's gone.
00:55:33No, Michael's gone.
00:55:35Oh, I kissed him.
00:55:36Mama, honey.
00:55:37I kissed him.
00:55:38I kissed him.
00:55:39Mama, honey.
00:55:43Stanley, you do something, please.
00:55:47Oh, somebody do something.
00:55:51Oh, we gotta do something, you know.
00:55:55Darling.
00:55:56Well, you don't understand, Stanley.
00:55:57I told him I was going to take care of him, and I gotta help him.
00:56:02Honey, there's nothing you can do.
00:56:04Oh, but I will do something.
00:56:05I will.
00:56:07Don't you see he's hurt?
00:56:08No, Michael is dead.
00:56:09Don't keep saying that.
00:56:11Do you hear Stanley, you must say that again.
00:56:13Honey, I'd do something if I possibly could, but you know there's nothing.
00:56:16Oh, what am I going to do?
00:56:17Honey, everything's going to be alright.
00:56:18What am I going to do?
00:56:19Give me, honey.
00:56:21Why didn't you stop, Daddy?
00:56:23Why didn't somebody stop him?
00:56:25Why didn't somebody stop him?
00:56:27Oh, what am I going to do?
00:56:28Honey, everything's going to be alright.
00:56:30What am I going to do?
00:56:31Give me, honey, we...
00:56:33Why didn't you stop, Daddy?
00:56:35Why did somebody stop him?
00:56:36Why didn't somebody stop him?
00:56:38We tried to, but...
00:56:40Oh, you didn't want to.
00:56:41Nobody did.
00:56:43I don't care.
00:56:44I don't care about anything.
00:56:47I wish I would get you.
00:56:48Stanley, try to disperse that crowd out there, and above all, don't talk.
00:56:54I must speak to Norma if one.
00:56:56Julia, take her into the other room.
00:56:58Where's Dad?
00:56:59He's on the way to the courthouse to give himself up.
00:57:01The man is in the hands of the authorities now.
00:57:04Alright, Julia.
00:57:06Now, Norma, I want to speak to you.
00:57:08Wait outside and shut that door.
00:57:10Norma, you've got to listen to me.
00:57:12You must put yourself together.
00:57:14Oh, what does it matter what I do?
00:57:17Oh, Michael.
00:57:19Norma.
00:57:21Norma, you must listen.
00:57:23I know it seems cruel and heartless, but I've got to talk to you before anybody comes.
00:57:27I want you to save your father's life.
00:57:30The only life I ever wanted, they've taken from me.
00:57:34Michael's gone.
00:57:36You can't get him back no matter what you do.
00:57:38But I'm asking you to control yourself now and do what you can to save your father from prison.
00:57:43Or even worse.
00:57:45Yes?
00:57:47A death sentence.
00:57:48It's going to be a fight, a hard fight to save him.
00:57:52You've got to help.
00:57:54Leave me alone.
00:57:56I wish I'd run away with Michael.
00:57:59That's what I wish.
00:58:01Norma, our only chance to save your father is based on the unwritten law.
00:58:05The plea that he killed a man who had ruined his daughter's good name.
00:58:09You understand?
00:58:10You've got to say that he has a very wrong.
00:58:13That Michael was a beast.
00:58:19Beast.
00:58:24Why, Michael.
00:58:26A beast.
00:58:28Norma, darling.
00:58:30I know you're innocent and that your father was mistaken.
00:58:31But don't you see if he was mistaken, he has killed an innocent man?
00:58:36And to save his life, you must say he was justified in killing Michael.
00:58:41And you're proud of him.
00:58:45Proud of him?
00:58:49I wish I'd never seen him.
00:58:52Norma.
00:58:53I hate him.
00:58:54Norma.
00:58:55I hate him.
00:58:56He killed the only thing in life I love.
00:59:00He did that to me and I don't care what happens to him now.
00:59:06Let him put him in prison.
00:59:09I don't care.
00:59:11Norma, I'm warning you.
00:59:13Do you realize he may hang?
00:59:18I don't care.
00:59:23I'd be glad to see him hang.
00:59:27I don't care what they do to him.
00:59:31I'm not going to help him.
00:59:34Norma, will you listen?
00:59:35Leave me alone, I tell you.
00:59:39Oh.
00:59:41Oh, why don't you leave me alone?
00:59:56Nobody knows the trouble I've had.
01:00:13Glory, hallelujah.
01:00:18I reckon they don't let Dad have his after-dinner coffee at the jail, eh Norma?
01:00:28I reckon not, Jimmy.
01:00:31Funny, these past three months the house seems kind of empty without him.
01:00:34Remember how he used to sit here with his evening paper every night and puff at that old cigar and sort of look so contented-like?
01:00:45I remember.
01:00:46Jiminy I like, Dad.
01:00:50He used to say it made him feel so proud to enjoy his after-dinner of smoke with me.
01:00:58Say, are you crying again?
01:01:00No, Jimmy.
01:01:01I stopped crying long ago.
01:01:05Norma, why do you and Dad stay so mad at each other?
01:01:09I'm not mad at him, Jimmy.
01:01:11Well, you don't hardly speak to each other.
01:01:14I try to, but he just doesn't want to speak to me.
01:01:19He sits there in that courtroom without looking at me.
01:01:22I think you ought to tell him well.
01:01:24You know, as Mr. Wentworth says, he did what he thought was right.
01:01:28I've forgiven him.
01:01:30I've forgiven him a long time ago.
01:01:32But he just won't forgive me.
01:01:34Oh, why not?
01:01:35It wasn't your fault.
01:01:37Yes, it was, Jimmy.
01:01:39I broke my promise to Danny.
01:01:42If I'd let Micah go away that night as a dance like he wanted to.
01:01:47Oh, but why talk about that now?
01:01:49You've got to do some work on your eligible, you know.
01:01:53I'll help you if you like.
01:01:55The trial's been going pretty much against Dad, hasn't it?
01:01:59I reckon it has.
01:02:01They've certainly made it look like he had no reason to kill Michael.
01:02:05I guess Michael must have been a mighty decent fellow,
01:02:08from what the prosecution witnesses have testified.
01:02:11That pal of his, Ben Wilson,
01:02:13said he'd been working hard as a dickens up in the hills
01:02:16to make enough money to marry her.
01:02:17And he used to show him your picture.
01:02:21And once he saw him kiss her.
01:02:23And how that old doctor described the way he died in your arms.
01:02:28Jiminy had almost made people cry.
01:02:31Jimmy, please!
01:02:33Oh, gee, I'm sorry, Norma.
01:02:37I was just thinking of poor old Dad.
01:02:40He didn't prove Dad.
01:02:43He hasn't much chance, I reckon,
01:02:45if they proved there was really nothing wrong.
01:02:49Well, Dad says he doesn't mind anymore if I smoke more than one of these a day.
01:02:55He says I can use my own judgment,
01:02:59because I'm a man now.
01:03:01He said I'd soon be the man of the family.
01:03:04No, Jimmy.
01:03:06They're putting me on the witness stand tomorrow, you know, and...
01:03:08Well, don't worry.
01:03:10Now I want you to compose yourself and answer my questions as briefly and clearly as possible.
01:03:25Yes, sir.
01:03:27What's your name?
01:03:29Norma Besant.
01:03:31You are related to Dr. Besant, the defendant in this case?
01:03:34Yes, sir, he's my father.
01:03:36Your mother is dead, is she not?
01:03:39Yes, sir, she's been dead over 12 years.
01:03:42You have lived then for the past 12 years with your father?
01:03:46Yes, sir, and with my brother, Jimmy.
01:03:48Miss Besant, do you remember the events of the evening of September 18th?
01:04:12Ah, Sid, do you remember the events of the evening of September 18th?
01:04:17Yes, sir.
01:04:18Where were you that evening?
01:04:20At the dance of Sunnydale Country Club.
01:04:23Did Michael Jeffrey appear at that dance?
01:04:27Yes.
01:04:28Had you been expecting him?
01:04:30No.
01:04:31Did he stay at the dance?
01:04:33No.
01:04:34What did he do?
01:04:37He asked me to leave the dance and go to his mother's cabin.
01:04:41Did you go?
01:04:43Yes.
01:04:44Did you know you would be alone with him in the cabin?
01:04:48No, he said his mother was there.
01:04:51When you found his mother was not there, did you attempt to leave?
01:04:56Yes.
01:04:57Why didn't you?
01:04:59He made me stay.
01:05:02Did Michael Jeffrey make love to you there?
01:05:05Yes.
01:05:06Did you resist him?
01:05:07Yes.
01:05:08But he forced his attention?
01:05:09Yes.
01:05:10And you could not resist his love making?
01:05:13No.
01:05:14And he made you yield?
01:05:15Yes.
01:05:16He made you yield to an extreme?
01:05:21Yes.
01:05:22Then he did what would justify any father in killing him.
01:05:25Yes.
01:05:26I object and move that act to be stricken out.
01:05:29The girl is not the judge of whether her father was justified.
01:05:33Objection sustained.
01:05:35Very well.
01:05:37I think that's all the jury needs to know.
01:05:41Just a minute.
01:05:42I have one or two questions to ask this witness.
01:05:56Would you be good enough to take your place on the stand?
01:05:58Miss Bezant, I believe you were in love with Michael Jeffrey, were you not?
01:06:18No.
01:06:19You weren't?
01:06:21No.
01:06:22Then why did you tell him after he was shot that you loved him more than life itself?
01:06:25What?
01:06:27He was dying.
01:06:28I pitied him.
01:06:30You were very tender to him.
01:06:34He was dying.
01:06:35You kissed him.
01:06:37He was dying.
01:06:38I'm tender.
01:06:39You cried as though your heart were broken.
01:06:44I cried once when my doll was broken.
01:06:49He spoke of a little house in the valley.
01:06:53He...
01:06:55He was delirious.
01:06:56Hadn't he gone up into the hills to work diligently in order that he might buy that little house for you?
01:07:01No.
01:07:02Then why did he go up into the hills?
01:07:04Because...
01:07:05Because he was...
01:07:07He was angry, I reckon.
01:07:09Angry? Why?
01:07:11Because he...
01:07:13He...
01:07:14Couldn't have me then.
01:07:15Why, he carried your picture.
01:07:17He cherished it.
01:07:19He...
01:07:20He probably had pictures of lots of girls.
01:07:24And do you really think that Michael Jeffrey had affairs with other women?
01:07:30No.
01:07:31That is...
01:07:33Not myself.
01:07:35I don't know about the hill people.
01:07:38Didn't Michael Jeffrey want to marry you?
01:07:41Yes.
01:07:43If he had to, I reckon.
01:07:44Didn't you discuss your marriage that night in the cabin?
01:07:48No.
01:07:49Then what did you discuss?
01:07:51I...
01:07:52I don't remember.
01:07:54You can't remember anything he said?
01:07:56No.
01:07:58Did he tell you that he loved you?
01:08:00No.
01:08:01Yes.
01:08:02Of course he did.
01:08:03I want you to tell me exactly what happened.
01:08:06Well, I told you.
01:08:08I told you he...
01:08:09He made love to me.
01:08:10Yes.
01:08:11And he was gentle and tender.
01:08:13No, no, no.
01:08:14Are you sure?
01:08:15No.
01:08:16It...
01:08:17It wasn't that kind of love.
01:08:18How do you know?
01:08:19I don't know.
01:08:20Then how can you say it wasn't?
01:08:21Well, it wasn't.
01:08:22He was just a...
01:08:24A beast.
01:08:25A beast?
01:08:27The man you held close in your arms while his eyes were closed forever by death?
01:08:31Yes, yes.
01:08:32The man you said you loved more than life itself?
01:08:34Yes, and I'll tell you.
01:08:35Yes, and I'll tell you.
01:08:36The man whose last words were, I love you.
01:08:38No, no, no.
01:08:39Don't keep saying that.
01:08:40I told you.
01:08:41I told you everything.
01:08:42Don't ask me anything.
01:08:43Danny!
01:08:44Danny!
01:08:45No, no, no.
01:08:46Try and compose yourself, mister.
01:08:48There's no occasion for all this excitement.
01:08:50I can't keep telling over and over.
01:08:52I told you.
01:08:53I told you.
01:08:54I think the district attorney is going too far.
01:08:57Now, don't get excited.
01:08:58She's just a little nervous.
01:08:59That's all right.
01:09:00Daddy.
01:09:05Oh, Daddy.
01:09:06Oh, Daddy.
01:09:15Norma.
01:09:17Daddy.
01:09:21I'm all right.
01:09:23Don't worry, Daddy.
01:09:24I'll go on with it.
01:09:25Norma.
01:09:28I'm ready now, sir.
01:09:30Are there any more questions you want to ask me?
01:09:31Norma.
01:09:33You haven't been telling the truth.
01:09:36I have, Daddy.
01:09:37I have.
01:09:39Every word of it.
01:09:40Norma, my child.
01:09:42You...
01:09:43Daddy, you mustn't.
01:09:45It's all true.
01:09:47Don't you understand?
01:09:48Norma.
01:09:49Norma.
01:09:51Look me in the eye.
01:09:53No, Daddy.
01:09:55Norma.
01:09:59Have you been telling the truth about that night?
01:10:04Oh, Daddy.
01:10:05Daddy.
01:10:11My little darling.
01:10:14My own good girl.
01:10:17My Norma, my child.
01:10:19That's all that matters.
01:10:21Don't you realize that to know that you're still my baby means more to me than my life?
01:10:28I tried.
01:10:30I tried so hard, Daddy.
01:10:32Why, your daddy's life weren't worth that sacrifice.
01:10:36I was just a blind, headstrong fool.
01:10:40And I'll ruin the happiness of one I love most in all the world.
01:10:45I've taken an innocent life and I'm ready to pay the pay.
01:10:57I was just a blind man.
01:11:01Uh, Norma, darling.
01:11:04Will you...
01:11:06Will you do one thing more for your daddy?
01:11:10Just for a moment.
01:11:12Let's be such good friends.
01:11:15Like we always were.
01:11:17Say you forgive me, Norma.
01:11:20Put your arms around me.
01:11:23And kiss me like you used to.
01:11:27My old dear daddy.
01:11:34You're all I have left now.
01:11:37And I love you more than anything in the whole wide world.
01:11:41Everything's all right now.
01:11:45My baby.
01:11:47My baby.
01:11:49And you're...
01:11:53You made me...
01:11:55Very...
01:11:57Very happy.
01:12:07Your honor.
01:12:09My daughter wishes to retract all of her testimony.
01:12:11What she told you about herself and Michael Jeffrey...
01:12:16Was a sacrifice on her part to save my life.
01:12:19And I cannot accept that sacrifice.
01:12:22My daughter's an innocent girl.
01:12:25And I killed a man who was guilty of no wrong.
01:12:28I'm aware that I owe my life to the state.
01:12:30As a southern gentleman, sir.
01:12:32I have never failed to pay my debts.
01:12:34And I stand ready now.
01:12:36To offer my life for one I care.
01:12:38Stop it, Chris.
01:12:40Captain!
01:12:42Bill!
01:12:44Bill!
01:12:45Bill!
01:12:46Bill!
01:12:48Bill!
01:12:49Bill!
01:12:50Bill!
01:12:51Bill!
01:12:53Bill!
01:12:55Bill!
01:12:57Bill!
01:12:59Don't anybody come out this way here.
01:13:02Go on, go on, the other way.
01:13:24No, please.
01:13:26I'm all right, really.
01:13:28And thank you all so much.
01:13:38Hello, Stanley.
01:13:40Honey, I reckon I know how you feel.
01:13:42Oh, that's all right.
01:13:44I'm...
01:13:46I'm right proud of my daddy.
01:13:50May I take your call now, honey?
01:13:54No, thank you.
01:13:56If you don't mind, I'd rather be alone.
01:13:58It's normal.
01:14:00There's one thing I want to tell you.
01:14:02I reckon it's going to take a long, long time to forget.
01:14:04But no matter how long it takes, honey, I'll be waiting.
01:14:10Stanley.
01:14:12You always were.
01:14:14Adorable.
01:14:16It's horrible.
01:14:20Well...
01:14:22I must hurry along home now.
01:14:24I've got to help Jimmy with his algebra.
01:14:28I've got to help you.
01:14:30I'm sorry.
01:14:32I'm sorry.
01:14:34I'm sorry.
01:14:36I'm sorry.
01:14:38I'm sorry.
01:14:40I'm sorry.
01:14:42You won't to be alone at home.
01:14:44You'll be alone.
01:14:45I'm sorry.
01:14:46You've got to help him.
01:14:48Absolutely.
01:14:50Ok, thanks so much.
01:14:51Christ!
01:14:52He's so nice.
01:14:53Have to get him.
01:14:54Wow...
01:14:56I know how long he's gone,
01:14:57I've been reading your log.
01:14:59Come.
01:15:00I know.
01:15:02He's just radical.
01:15:03I'm sorry, you know?
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