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1994 Quest For Justice FULL HOT MOVIE [Full Movie] [Recommended]Full EP - Full
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00:00:00Although fictionalized, this film is inspired by three decades of the life and career of Hazel Brannan Smith.
00:00:42She's going to be awful tired.
00:00:44She stopped overnight in New York.
00:00:46New York? London and Paris and Rome? I'd give anything to see Rome.
00:00:52You expect Mr. Jones and Mr. Wiley going to show up?
00:00:55Hardly. I expect they're still off licking their wounds somewheres.
00:00:58That Clarence was a good catch, too.
00:01:02You know, Ruth's sake, Miss Brannan's been in more laps than a napkin.
00:01:05Oh, shut up.
00:01:11There she is.
00:01:17Honey, close your mouth for all the flies escape.
00:01:21Well, what you think?
00:01:23You look great.
00:01:25You sure do, Miss Brannan.
00:01:27Oh, Riley, I'm afraid you can't call me that anymore.
00:01:30I'm married now.
00:01:31What?
00:01:32And, Riley, I meet my husband, Walter Dias Smith.
00:01:36Hi. My friends call me Smitty.
00:01:38Well, hallelujah and amen, brother.
00:01:40I never thought I'd see the date.
00:01:42So you must be in, huh?
00:01:45It's very nice to meet you.
00:01:46Hazel says you're the next best thing since past your eyes note.
00:01:49Hush, Smitty. Next thing you know, she'll be asking for a raise.
00:01:52How did you do it?
00:01:53Every man in this county's been trying for near a decade.
00:01:56Well, I convinced her marriage was a noble institution and that she should be institutionalized.
00:02:00Don't start now, Smitty.
00:02:01No, I said, why suffer the attentions of so many men when you can have the inattention of just one?
00:02:06Besides, we're in love and there's only one cure for that, marriage.
00:02:09He stole all the lines.
00:02:11I said she wouldn't be complete until she was married.
00:02:13And now she's finished.
00:02:15Come on, kids.
00:02:17I want to get these pencil shortings off my feet and wiggle my toes in some Delta dirt.
00:02:21All right, you get that.
00:02:22Let's go.
00:02:53Accident up ahead.
00:02:54Looked like that truck took it head on.
00:02:56Oh, my Lord, it's a bad one.
00:02:59Start the car.
00:03:01Get out of here, boy.
00:03:04Come on, boy, move that car along.
00:03:06We ain't got company.
00:03:07Come on.
00:03:09Can you hear me?
00:03:11Yeah.
00:03:13Yeah, now.
00:03:14See you there, Miss Brannon.
00:03:16Stay back.
00:03:18You all right, sweetheart?
00:03:24Where's the ambulance?
00:03:26Someone's way.
00:03:27Let's go. Stay back, bro.
00:03:32That man's drunk.
00:03:35Ned says he's in the wrong lane.
00:03:37Well, any fool can see that's a lie.
00:03:39I'll take Ned's word over some poor white trash any day.
00:03:42I don't care.
00:03:43You're not going to arrest him?
00:03:45I'll conduct an investigation.
00:03:48How'd you sleep at night?
00:03:50With my eyes closed.
00:03:54I don't think you understand what I...
00:04:05Get that ambulance in here.
00:04:32She was here today.
00:04:44Wait, wait, wait.
00:04:47And here we go.
00:04:53Surprise!
00:04:57Well, it looks like the surprise is on us.
00:05:00Did we come at a wrong time?
00:05:02Everyone, meet my husband.
00:05:04Smitty.
00:05:08Well, congratulations.
00:05:10I've known Hazel since she was just a twinkle in her daddy's eye.
00:05:29I ate all over Europe.
00:05:30Nothing came close to you, friend.
00:05:32I ate you here.
00:05:33I've been waiting 20 years to throw you a wedding and you go and eat low.
00:05:37You're going to love him.
00:05:38One more person to cook for.
00:05:40But no kitchen, Hale?
00:05:44We're going to get us our dream house.
00:05:46We're going to have luncheons and barbecues and cocktail parties.
00:05:49I might even join the bridge club.
00:05:52I'm married now, Ruth.
00:05:54I'm going to settle down.
00:05:56I had time, too.
00:05:58Be nice.
00:05:59And I might give you the earbuds who bought you in Paris.
00:06:08He's six years younger than her.
00:06:09He was a porter, you know.
00:06:11He was a purser.
00:06:13And who cares?
00:06:14She's married now.
00:06:15Well, at least our men are finally safe.
00:06:18Phoebe, that is not fair.
00:06:20Hazel has never gone after a married man.
00:06:22She sure went after all the single ones, though.
00:06:24I wonder if it was a shotgun wedding.
00:06:26You are a big boss.
00:06:28Do you know that?
00:06:30My ears are burning.
00:06:32Which one of you flibbity gibbis is talking about me now?
00:06:35We just love your hair, Hazel.
00:06:38Is that one of those new perms?
00:06:41No, it just curled up like that after Smitty ravished me down in the engine room.
00:06:46How could you stand those two hypocrites kissing up like that?
00:06:49Oh, I think she envies them.
00:06:51Those jealous old tongue-waggers?
00:06:52Sure.
00:06:54Hazel pretends that she likes to be different, but deep down she just wants to belong, just like everybody else.
00:07:00Is this a party?
00:07:01Or is everybody posing for a portrait?
00:07:04Tell Ruth to spark the lemonade.
00:07:06If it gets any dinner, we'll have to hire an organ player.
00:07:09Miss Hazel?
00:07:09Hmm?
00:07:10I put the suitcases in your room.
00:07:12Thanks, Riley.
00:07:12Stop by the kitchen for your leave.
00:07:14Ruth's fixed you a plate.
00:07:16I tell you, the storm is gathering.
00:07:19The time to act is before it strikes.
00:07:21That's right.
00:07:22Is this the same storm that was gathering before I left town?
00:07:26I'd have thought you'd have taken care of it by now, Earl.
00:07:28My kids will stay home before I see them go to school with Negras.
00:07:32Oh, Lyle.
00:07:33This storm will blow over like all the rest.
00:07:35Hmm.
00:07:36I don't believe it will.
00:07:38Well, everybody's got to believe in something, and I believe I'll have another drink.
00:07:44Is it supposed to be a party and any good news?
00:07:46Well, you got the county printing contract.
00:07:49Does that count?
00:07:52Oh, I can't lick his whiskers.
00:08:01Come on, boys.
00:08:02Let's kick up our shoes and tie her up some horrible.
00:08:06Come on, Lyle.
00:08:08Come on.
00:08:08Come on, there, Lyle.
00:08:09Get up there.
00:08:12Well, that's some woman you marry.
00:08:14Hmm.
00:08:15I mean, you must be some kind of man to tame Hazel Vannan.
00:08:18Oh, I didn't say Merv.
00:08:20I hope I never do.
00:08:22Isn't that Lyle?
00:08:23Dancing like a meal on Crescent.
00:08:25Oh.
00:08:26Must be hard, huh?
00:08:28Giving everything up.
00:08:30Moving to a strange place.
00:08:32Hmm?
00:08:33I'd follow that woman into hell itself.
00:08:36Mississippi shouldn't be too bad.
00:08:39Woo!
00:08:40That's been a while.
00:08:42Come on, Lyle.
00:08:43Shake your ankle.
00:08:44Come on.
00:08:46Woo!
00:08:48Yeah!
00:08:51Woo!
00:09:01It was an awful fun party.
00:09:04Thank you so much.
00:09:05Not, Ian.
00:09:06Nice to meet you.
00:09:07Congratulations.
00:09:07Y'all take care.
00:09:08Nice to meet you, Smitty.
00:09:09Nice to meet you, finally, Ann.
00:09:10Bye-bye.
00:09:10Bye.
00:09:12Bye.
00:09:45Hi, John.
00:09:46Morning, Nathan.
00:09:47Morning, Mary.
00:09:49Looking good.
00:10:00Steerish service for us, metal and barrel?
00:10:04Three years in the building court?
00:10:07Why'd you run a paper route, Sam?
00:10:09Surely you can find something better than that.
00:10:11No, ma'am, I can't.
00:10:12Been taking some odd jobs here and there, but I got a family to feed.
00:10:17I need some steady work.
00:10:18Well, it's a sorry state when a war hero can't even find work.
00:10:25I'm doing renovation on the old Harbour Mansion.
00:10:28I'll give you minimum wage plus 10% to oversee it.
00:10:34Ma'am, I take it.
00:10:36I take it.
00:10:37Good.
00:10:38Well, have Raleigh give you directions.
00:10:40I'll meet you there tomorrow.
00:10:41Yes, ma'am.
00:10:42Yes, ma'am.
00:10:53Hi, ma'am.
00:10:56Hi, ma'am.
00:11:13I have regular advertisers.
00:11:15You know, Jackson's is colored.
00:11:17Well, his money's green.
00:11:19Hi.
00:11:20So, they do have the best ribs inside of Mississippi.
00:11:24Oh, why, Lily.
00:11:26What a pleasant surprise.
00:11:27Hazel, I have a favor to ask.
00:11:29Well, come on in.
00:11:33Mr. Jackson, this is Ann Sinclair at the Advertiser.
00:11:39We'd be happy to run that ad for you.
00:11:43So, if you can provide the ad space,
00:11:45we're hoping to be able to raise enough money
00:11:47to replant the Riverbanks Park before the Fourth of July Gala.
00:11:51I'd love to.
00:11:53In the meantime...
00:11:56Why, Hazel, you are too generous.
00:12:00Not at all.
00:12:01I love what the Historical Society's been doing.
00:12:10Can you keep a secret?
00:12:13You have been nominated for membership.
00:12:16Well, they must be desperate for new blood.
00:12:18I thought hell would freeze over if they'd let me join.
00:12:20But you're married now.
00:12:22There are a few detractors who think you're a little bit bohemian.
00:12:25But you're a dear friend,
00:12:27and I want to sponsor you personally.
00:12:30I guess I have to act respectable now.
00:12:33Damn.
00:12:34Bad reputation is so much easier to maintain.
00:12:42This roast is turning into jerky.
00:12:44I can't imagine what's keeping him.
00:12:47I'll clean up if you want to take Selena on home.
00:12:50Her mama's going to pick us up on her way home from work.
00:12:59That is mighty fine printing, Selena.
00:13:02You been practicing?
00:13:03Yes, ma'am.
00:13:08Now, for a dime, who was the first president?
00:13:11George Washington.
00:13:13That's too easy for someone so smart.
00:13:16Now, for a quarter,
00:13:18we invented the light bulb.
00:13:23Well, I'm going to put this quarter right there.
00:13:25And when you know the answer,
00:13:27you're going to have it.
00:13:41Honey, my new cherry.
00:13:43Earl got me a great deal.
00:13:44What do you think?
00:13:46It's beautiful.
00:13:49You smell like a brewery.
00:13:51Oh, just a couple of toast
00:13:53for Memorial Hospital's new administrator.
00:13:56What?
00:13:56I am now gainfully employed.
00:13:58Well, that's incredible.
00:13:59Without excellent shots,
00:14:00bad for my image.
00:14:01And I was worried you would end up drinking beer
00:14:03and chasing bar girls with all the old veterans.
00:14:05I still have my evenings free.
00:14:07Not while I'm around.
00:14:08I'll have Ruth set another place.
00:14:09Oh, no.
00:14:10I know for a fact
00:14:12that Lily is at the Historical Society tonight
00:14:15and you are not leaving
00:14:15until you've had something to eat.
00:14:17Well, all right.
00:14:20That was a mighty fine dinner, Hazel.
00:14:23My daughter's here.
00:14:26See you tomorrow.
00:14:27Good night, Ruth.
00:14:28Good night, Selena.
00:14:30Say good night, Pritch.
00:14:31Good night.
00:14:32Good night, Mrs. Smith.
00:14:33Let's clean your phone.
00:14:36Good night.
00:14:38You're welcome.
00:14:40Let her bring a little girl here
00:14:42while she works, huh?
00:14:44Her mother's working late tonight.
00:14:50Integration will never succeed.
00:14:53Not down here.
00:14:55I don't think you're in any immediate danger, Earl.
00:14:58Someone should probably tell the Supreme Court.
00:15:02Yankee intellectuals
00:15:03have never set foot south of the Mason-Dixon.
00:15:06No offense.
00:15:07Oh, don't worry.
00:15:07No one ever accused me of being an intellectual.
00:15:10They got the NAACP organizing them in Atlanta,
00:15:13Little Rock, now here.
00:15:17We need our own committee
00:15:18if we're going to fight them.
00:15:20Well, if the hospital supply of white sheets
00:15:22suddenly dwindles,
00:15:23you'll know where to find them.
00:15:24No, I'm not talking about marauding hooligans.
00:15:27I'm talking about concerned citizens
00:15:30trying to preserve this county.
00:15:31I think I'll leave local politics to you locals.
00:15:37Getting in on the ground floor
00:15:38wouldn't hurt your ambitions, Hazel.
00:15:42Well, if I attend,
00:15:44it would be in my capacity as a journalist.
00:15:48You come to the first meeting.
00:15:50Then you make your decision.
00:15:54Hmm?
00:15:55Good night.
00:15:57Good night.
00:16:09Good night.
00:16:20Good night.
00:16:23Beautiful night.
00:16:25Don't you dare go to sleep on me.
00:16:30Latitudes of lovely land.
00:16:33That is the only thing you will describe Mississippi.
00:16:37You can drip honey better than any man I ever knew.
00:16:40I have a feeling we're talking big numbers.
00:16:44It doesn't matter how many men you dance with.
00:16:46It's only who takes you home.
00:16:49Are you happy yet?
00:16:51I am happier than I have ever been in my whole life.
00:16:56No more wonderlust.
00:16:59I lost the wonder part.
00:17:18That was a lovely sermon this morning.
00:17:21Thank you, sir.
00:17:23Now, I realize it's the Fourth of July, but was that a sermon or a filibuster?
00:17:28Reverend Moffitt, it takes him a half hour to say hello.
00:17:31He's right, though.
00:17:33Communism's a threat to Christianity.
00:17:36Not as long as we've got Joe McCarthy.
00:17:38All this talk of Reds under the bed, I was starting to feel conspicuous in this dress.
00:17:44See you all at a picnic.
00:17:46Come on, ladies.
00:17:47Let's go home.
00:17:48Bye-bye.
00:18:00Bye-bye.
00:18:03Bye-bye.
00:18:06Bye-bye.
00:18:08Bye-bye.
00:18:10Bye-bye.
00:18:11Bye-bye.
00:18:11Bye-bye.
00:18:13Bye-bye.
00:18:15Bye-bye.
00:18:17Bye-bye.
00:18:17Bye-bye.
00:18:18Bye-bye.
00:18:18Bye-bye.
00:18:30Thanks.
00:18:35Eudora?
00:18:37I can't get on with a job that society's done over at the Rest Home.
00:18:40It's never looked better.
00:18:41It's due in large part to the generous donation.
00:18:44I thought it might help when the membership vault came on.
00:18:47Your social contributions will count for a lot more than your monetary ones, Hazel.
00:18:52Well, nobody's more social than me.
00:18:56I enjoyed your special Founding Father's Day edition, Hazel.
00:18:59Well, everybody's so full of ancestor worship around here, I knew couldn't lose.
00:19:02Hank thought you could have done just a tiny bit more on the Confederacy.
00:19:06Well, I remember next year.
00:19:08Don't forget my party now.
00:19:10Oh, of course.
00:19:11Bye-bye.
00:19:14I don't know you, Dora.
00:19:16A leopard doesn't change spots just because it's found on mate.
00:19:19She may be a little wild, but she's honest.
00:19:23I find that refreshing.
00:19:39Hi, Hazel.
00:19:40Isn't this fun?
00:19:42Hi.
00:19:43Fireworks in a few minutes.
00:19:45Hi.
00:19:47Oh, you're polishing more apples than a campaigner and politician.
00:19:51Oh, it's good for business.
00:19:52You know, bull.
00:19:53You'd wash their feet and drink the water to get in their silly club.
00:19:56Well, there's no need to act ugly.
00:19:58Now, wait.
00:19:58I just hate seeing you grovel to those women.
00:20:01I mean, hell, if they were fish, every one of them would have been thrown back in.
00:20:07They don't deserve you.
00:20:09I just want to belong, Smitty.
00:20:11Right.
00:20:12And then what?
00:20:14Maybe I'll run for office.
00:20:18I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if
00:20:26they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but
00:20:31I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if
00:20:34they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but
00:20:35I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if
00:20:35they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but
00:20:35I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if
00:20:35they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but
00:20:38I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I
00:21:08Oh, look at that one, look at that one, look at that one.
00:21:31Don't try to cause an accident.
00:21:32No, sir.
00:21:39The boy's drunk, ain't you?
00:21:41Oh, so we're just celebrating a bit, that's all.
00:21:43Don't lie to me, boy.
00:21:45I heard you hollerin' half a block away.
00:21:47You're just havin' a little fun.
00:21:48Well, I suggest you get your black butts outta here, before I have to haul them in.
00:21:55Calm, man.
00:21:56Calm, man, just havin' a little fun like everybody else.
00:21:58What did you say?
00:21:59You're gonna shoot.
00:22:00You didn't know-
00:22:01No, man!
00:22:02Marge!
00:22:03Marge!
00:22:05No, man!
00:22:07No, man, you didn't have to shoot him!
00:22:34Yeah, hi, Maple, 4-4-2-8, please.
00:22:39Hi, hi, it's me.
00:22:41Uh, no, no, I'm fine.
00:22:42Uh, could you come down here for a second?
00:22:46No, no, uh, there's just something that I would like you to see.
00:22:50Okay, thank you.
00:22:54What's the big secret, am I?
00:22:56No secret.
00:22:57I just want you to see this for yourself.
00:23:13Hey, Marge.
00:23:14Feeling a little better?
00:23:18I want you to tell her exactly what you told me.
00:23:22No, it's all right.
00:23:24She's my wife.
00:23:34Not a bunch of animals.
00:23:36There's just a lot of tension in the air right now.
00:23:38You've been defending this town for the last ten minutes, Hazel.
00:23:40I have not made one accusation, all right?
00:23:42I know what you're thinking.
00:23:43Well, excuse me for thinking so loud.
00:23:46There are a few hateful men in any town, Smitty.
00:23:49A shark hole just happens to lead the pack in here.
00:23:52Rotten firemen.
00:23:53Are you referring to him or me?
00:23:56No, it's him!
00:23:58Bring him in here.
00:23:59Watch this.
00:24:01You're going to be just fine.
00:24:04Um, get Doc Callen.
00:24:06His hand is gone.
00:24:07This man's critical.
00:24:08I said get Doc Callen.
00:24:10Oh, he's an operating runner.
00:24:12I'll be right there.
00:24:14Excuse me, Doctor.
00:24:17Maybe you didn't hear me?
00:24:21Didn't I just say I'd be right there?
00:24:23And while you finish with your white patient,
00:24:25that negro's going to bleed to death?
00:24:28Well, since I'm in charge of emergency,
00:24:30why not let me worry about that?
00:24:31Because I'm in charge of this hospital, Doctor.
00:24:33Now get over there.
00:24:37That's why I need some newcomer.
00:24:39He only got the job because of his wife
00:24:42telling me how to handle emergency.
00:24:51Hazel.
00:25:15Well, what a pleasure.
00:25:18I'm here about Sheriff Cole.
00:25:20I need your help, Earl.
00:25:22Yeah.
00:25:23Yeah.
00:25:24Yeah, we all heard about that incident yesterday.
00:25:26He, he was resumed.
00:25:27I need to resist an arrest.
00:25:28That's a lie, Earl.
00:25:29There was no crime, no charges made.
00:25:32Sheriff Cole was just in a bad mood
00:25:34and it wasn't the first time.
00:25:35He's been reprimanded.
00:25:37Warned to restrain himself in the future.
00:25:39That's it?
00:25:41That's his punishment?
00:25:42We got bigger fish to fry.
00:25:44Let me remind you,
00:25:45the Supreme Court outlawed segregation
00:25:47in the schools this week.
00:25:49The Cullens are real cocky.
00:25:51That's not the point.
00:25:52You're one of us, Hazel.
00:25:54They'll just spare us the liberal hogwash.
00:25:57Is Sheriff Cole one of us?
00:25:59Cole said those boys are agitators.
00:26:01N-A-C-P, probably.
00:26:03If you start defending them,
00:26:05you're gonna make some enemies.
00:26:06Damn it, Earl.
00:26:07That isn't you talking.
00:26:08He can't get away with this scot-free.
00:26:11We've known each other a long time, Hazel.
00:26:14But I can't help you.
00:26:17Not on this.
00:26:20I see you at the meeting.
00:26:30Talking!
00:26:31Talking don't do no good, Earl.
00:26:34Might as well try talking to a stump.
00:26:38Don't underestimate them, buddy.
00:26:40They were smart enough to join the N-A-A-C-P.
00:26:43I got three colored hands working my farm.
00:26:46If they try to send their kids to the white school,
00:26:49I'll fire them.
00:26:52Hey, I'll tell you another thing.
00:26:55Half my customers are colored.
00:26:56Now, if I cut off their credit,
00:26:58they'll come around.
00:26:59You better believe that.
00:27:02Wait a minute.
00:27:03We can't fight integration with more ranting.
00:27:08We need a plan.
00:27:09Well, I plan to stop it.
00:27:11With a bullet if I have to.
00:27:15Sit down, you fool,
00:27:17before I have your bodily removed.
00:27:18Now, listen, I got just as much...
00:27:20Appreciate it.
00:27:22Why don't you sit down?
00:27:28Now, does anybody have a more intelligent suggestion?
00:27:39Y'all know that I've always supported segregation.
00:27:44Time has come to face the facts.
00:27:47The college have lousy schools,
00:27:49lousy wages, and no opportunity.
00:27:51Well, they've accepted this so far.
00:27:54But they won't sit still
00:27:56if they can't even expect equal protection under the law.
00:28:00Or, in some cases, from the law itself.
00:28:03All hell's gonna break loose
00:28:04unless we start making some changes.
00:28:06And the first one should be the removal of
00:28:07that man from office.
00:28:11Pete Cole and his deputies
00:28:12is what stands between them and us.
00:28:15It's his job to uphold the law.
00:28:17Well, what are they gonna think if we fire him?
00:28:19They'll think they won!
00:28:23Sit down, buddy. Let her talk.
00:28:27Is this what we're becoming?
00:28:29Since Brown versus the Board of Education,
00:28:32there's been more than a hundred
00:28:33racially motivated arsons and bombings in the South.
00:28:37Decent, church-going citizens
00:28:39have been driven from their homes in the middle of the night.
00:28:42Their children terrorized.
00:28:45Simply because they're coming.
00:28:48Well, if we don't speak out against the trash doing this,
00:28:51then we're accomplices.
00:28:53The ministers who fail to preach.
00:28:55The teachers who fail to teach.
00:28:58The lawmen and judges who fail to uphold the law.
00:29:02And the plain informed citizens
00:29:05who knows what's going on is wrong,
00:29:06but doesn't speak out.
00:29:08We are all to blame!
00:29:15This meeting is adjourned.
00:29:33Hazel!
00:29:35That was a idiotic thing to do.
00:29:38I hope you're talking about the sheriff's actions, not mine.
00:29:40You made a fool of me in there.
00:29:42Well, I couldn't have done it without you, Hale.
00:29:44You're caught in the devil, Hazel.
00:29:46I was thinking the same thing about you.
00:29:48Don't you expect any support from the committee.
00:29:51In fact, you can expect trouble.
00:29:53We've already got trouble, Earl.
00:29:55And most of it, we're cooking up our sails.
00:30:20Oh, Smitty.
00:30:22I dreamed of this house as I was a little girl.
00:30:25Come on, I'll show you.
00:30:31Well, what do you think?
00:30:32Oh, I think it's right.
00:30:34I want you to say something. Come on.
00:30:39Hey, Sam.
00:30:40Hey, Mr. Smith, how you doing?
00:30:42Not you, Miss Smith.
00:30:44Hazel, this man is on time and under budget
00:30:46and he should be in Congress.
00:30:47Well, I tell you, work just begun, Mr. Smith,
00:30:50so it's too soon for anything to go wrong.
00:30:52This here is my oldest boy, Ray.
00:30:54He wants to be in carpentry.
00:30:55Oh, I hadn't been still.
00:30:57Well, it's summer, Miss Smith.
00:31:02Your daddy said you want to be a carpenter.
00:31:05Oh, you give me the name of one famous carpenter
00:31:09and I'll give you this corner.
00:31:16Jesus was a carpenter.
00:31:17Now, you come up with one other name
00:31:19before the next time I see you and I'll give you a dollar.
00:31:21Thanks, Miss Smith.
00:31:24Now, listen, I'm going to build you that closet upstairs
00:31:27and I'm going to line the whole thing in cedar.
00:31:29I hope she's got enough room for all those hats and shoes.
00:31:31Well, she do dress to kill now, don't she?
00:31:33Yeah, it cooks that way too.
00:31:37Oh, I got a truckload of flowers I need to have planted this weekend.
00:31:39You know anyone needs to work?
00:31:40Well, now, Miss Smith, you know I could use the extra money,
00:31:43but why do you want to do all that work uptown
00:31:45when you're going to be moving down here in a couple of months?
00:31:47I'm going to have a big party.
00:31:49She's trying to impress a bunch of old babies she can't stand on the first one.
00:31:53Well, that's not so.
00:31:54Well, it's just that I got a husband now, so I'm respectable.
00:31:57This is my coming out party.
00:32:00All right, see y'all.
00:32:04Okay, let me see here now.
00:32:07It's time Sheriff Cole learned we are all members of the same human race.
00:32:12Perhaps his removal will result in more serious consideration being held
00:32:16for the personal rights of all men, white or black.
00:32:21Well?
00:32:23I don't know, Miss Hazel.
00:32:25You've always been one for causes, but this is like poking at a bad tooth with a bobby pin.
00:32:30It's going to cost us advertisers.
00:32:32I know you're going to help, but it's just going to make things worse.
00:32:36I'm not doing this to help.
00:32:39This is the truth, isn't it?
00:32:42This is a newspaper, isn't it?
00:32:45Run it.
00:32:59She's biting off more than she can chew this time.
00:33:08Phone rang all day.
00:33:11You should have heard someone speak if you bet my language is bad.
00:33:14You're expecting a medal?
00:33:16Well, I wasn't expecting less.
00:33:18God, my mouth is dry as an old man's kiss.
00:33:24I've written tonight's meeting.
00:33:25The flowers call.
00:33:27If you want roses, it's going to be another $50.
00:33:29Fine.
00:33:31I want this party to be special.
00:33:32I want them to be thinking about it for months.
00:33:35I'll call them back.
00:33:43I don't deserve you.
00:33:45You're right.
00:33:46Hey!
00:33:47I want you to help her.
00:34:03I want you to go.
00:34:05You're right.
00:34:06You're right.
00:34:07I want you to go.
00:34:11I want you to go.
00:34:14Now I'm to knock.
00:34:15Good night.
00:34:16Sheriff, even hussies are allowed in church.
00:34:19Well, this is a private meeting.
00:34:22Besides, your name ain't on the list.
00:34:24I want to speak with Earl Claiborne.
00:34:26He's the one who gave the orders.
00:34:29Well, you tell Earl.
00:34:31The better men than him have tried to stop the press and failed.
00:34:37Do you think you can remember all that?
00:34:39Or should I write it down?
00:34:45Now?
00:35:11I'm going to write it down.
00:35:14I don't know.
00:35:14I don't know.
00:35:15I don't know.
00:35:23Darn that Lily Claiborne.
00:35:25She's responsible for this.
00:35:29I'm so sorry that Lyle couldn't have made it.
00:35:31He was coming down with the flu or something.
00:35:36I guess we should feel lucky the epidemic hasn't reached us yet.
00:35:43Why don't we get this all loaded up and send it on to the orphanage?
00:35:58You'd think you're helping, but you're only stirring things up.
00:36:02I didn't create the situation, Rose.
00:36:04You tell that to them decent folk who stood you up today.
00:36:07They're just scared.
00:36:09They'd rather face the devil they know and the devil they don't know.
00:36:12Scared?
00:36:13They've been trying to scare us for a hundred years.
00:36:17You don't know what it's like waiting for your man to come home at night,
00:36:22worried he'd be lynched or beat to death, shot in the back.
00:36:27That's not just scared.
00:36:29That's snakes in the pit of your stomach.
00:36:33What the sheriff did was wrong.
00:36:35Where you been?
00:36:37That isn't the first time a white man has done something like this.
00:36:41Well, what do you want me to do?
00:36:42You do what you want to do.
00:36:45Like always.
00:36:47But in the meantime,
00:36:48your friends are spitting on my feet.
00:36:52Like I put you up to all of this.
00:36:54You want me to hush up too?
00:36:56No.
00:37:03Times are changing, like it or not.
00:37:06And for the first time in my life,
00:37:09I got hope that maybe things will be better.
00:37:12If not for me,
00:37:15then maybe for my granddaughter.
00:37:35What on earth?
00:37:40Oh, no.
00:37:51Get back in, you cowards!
00:37:53No!
00:37:54Take care for more of it, Nikki!
00:37:56Take it, Lava!
00:37:57No!
00:38:00No!
00:38:02No!
00:38:02No!
00:38:03No!
00:38:03No!
00:38:04No!
00:38:04No!
00:38:07No!
00:38:09No!
00:38:10No!
00:38:24Hey, buddy!
00:38:28Hey, Miss Kleber!
00:38:30Woo!
00:38:31Kind of hot, huh?
00:38:33You bet!
00:38:35I hear that, um...
00:38:38Hazel had some trouble
00:38:40out her way last night.
00:38:42Well,
00:38:43boys will be boys.
00:38:44Yeah.
00:38:45Oh, ho, ho, ho.
00:38:48You put them up to it?
00:38:51What if I did?
00:38:54Now, you let me make one thing
00:38:56perfectly clear.
00:38:58I don't cotton to vandals.
00:39:01I don't condone petty harassment
00:39:03and I can't abide lawlessness.
00:39:05And by God,
00:39:06I won't tolerate it
00:39:07from any member
00:39:08of the Citizens Committee, either.
00:39:11We supposed to sit around
00:39:12like a bunch of old ladies, huh?
00:39:14They had a meeting last week, too.
00:39:15Over 200 of them showed up.
00:39:16We'll devise an intelligent
00:39:18and effective strategy.
00:39:19We're not a mob!
00:39:22Now, you conform to the dictates
00:39:23of this committee,
00:39:24or you're out.
00:39:26Count me out.
00:39:39Well, you got to do something,
00:39:40Hazel.
00:39:41They destroyed your property.
00:39:43What?
00:39:43Call the police?
00:39:45How about if you call
00:39:46the marshal?
00:39:49This kind of conduct
00:39:51on the part of our
00:39:52highest elected
00:39:53peace officer
00:39:55has done serious injury
00:39:57to relations
00:39:58between the races.
00:40:03I just thank God
00:40:04we got men like him
00:40:05around here
00:40:06to keep them folks
00:40:07in line.
00:40:08Things a waste of paper.
00:40:10Not really, Carl.
00:40:11I use mine
00:40:12to line the cat box.
00:40:17You'd think some people
00:40:18would be ashamed
00:40:19to show their face.
00:40:20Some people ought to keep
00:40:21their stupid opinions
00:40:22to themselves.
00:40:24Thanks for the free advice.
00:40:25I guess you get
00:40:26what you pay for.
00:40:30Maybe you should write
00:40:31an article about
00:40:32comedy trash.
00:40:33Reba, I see you finally
00:40:34developed a sense of humor.
00:40:36This is a private
00:40:37conversation.
00:40:38Oh, yeah?
00:40:38Well, it's just too bad
00:40:39that your IQ
00:40:40isn't as big as those
00:40:41falsies.
00:40:42I am.
00:40:43Don't go getting
00:40:44into a battle of wits
00:40:45with these women.
00:40:46They're not armed.
00:40:52The reign of terror
00:40:53must be stopped
00:40:54along with the countless
00:40:56floggings, assaults,
00:40:57bombings, cross-burnings,
00:40:59and other acts
00:40:59of intimidation.
00:41:01It is not enough
00:41:02to remain aloof
00:41:03from the mob.
00:41:04We must create
00:41:05a climate of public opinion
00:41:06in which they cannot operate.
00:41:09What do you think?
00:41:10I'm not the one
00:41:11that you're convincing.
00:41:13Let it be, Miss Hazel.
00:41:15You ought to go on home.
00:41:18Your eyes look like
00:41:19two chairs in the snow.
00:41:21I'm almost done.
00:41:24Thanks, Riley.
00:41:26For everything.
00:41:46Let me reiterate.
00:41:48The man was critical
00:41:49and, in my opinion,
00:41:51Dr. Barnseer
00:41:52was misdirecting
00:41:52his energies.
00:41:56If this were
00:41:57the only incident...
00:41:58You keep mentioning
00:41:59other incidents,
00:42:00other complaints.
00:42:01Well, what were they
00:42:01and who made them?
00:42:03Because certainly
00:42:04no one has confronted
00:42:05me directly.
00:42:07We're not at liberty
00:42:08to say...
00:42:09You are not at liberty
00:42:11to say.
00:42:12Then how am I supposed
00:42:13to answer these charges?
00:42:14You're not.
00:42:16We have taken a vote
00:42:18and decided to terminate
00:42:19your position here.
00:42:22Effective.
00:42:23Immediately.
00:42:28God help the man
00:42:30who holds up a mirror
00:42:31to this town.
00:42:32You get two weeks severance.
00:42:36It's ironic, isn't it?
00:42:39The greatest democracy
00:42:40in the history of mankind
00:42:41has produced this pathetic
00:42:42room full of bums.
00:42:44We all know
00:42:45what this is about.
00:42:46It has nothing to do
00:42:48with my performance.
00:42:49Now, if any of you
00:42:49had an ounce of guts,
00:42:51you would have called it
00:42:51like it was
00:42:52and spared me
00:42:53this silly little kangaroo court.
00:42:56Gentlemen.
00:43:14Hank.
00:43:16You scared the putting out of me.
00:43:19Sorry.
00:43:23I'm glad she's a cat.
00:43:25I've been hearing things
00:43:26all night.
00:43:28What's wrong?
00:43:31They fired me.
00:43:35It isn't about you, you know.
00:43:38Yeah, who the hell cares.
00:43:40I wasn't cut out
00:43:41for a desk job anyway.
00:43:45Come on.
00:43:50Let's go home.
00:44:07Well,
00:44:09it's a blessing anyway.
00:44:11Now you can supervise
00:44:13the ventilation.
00:44:20Get down!
00:44:22Geek!
00:44:24Go!
00:44:25Go!
00:44:27Oh, my God.
00:44:56This is my daddy's desk. He gave it to me when I got the loan to buy the paper. That's
00:45:05all I have left of him. Thanks, sweetie. This paper, glass, wood. It's all right.
00:45:14It's not all right. Twenty years of your life was in that desk. The last 20 years don't mean a
00:45:19thing. You weren't part of it.
00:45:20Oh, my God.
00:45:27Ms. Hazel?
00:45:31How's the printing equipment?
00:45:32I'm going to need a lot of new parts, but I think I can save it. Mr. Smith, could you
00:45:37loan me a hand at the back door? It's kind of stuck.
00:45:44We'll be okay.
00:45:56Some mean folks in this world. I expect we ought to call the sheriff.
00:46:02What for? He spent about five minutes on his investigation of our fire.
00:46:07It'll get worse before getting it better.
00:46:10Yeah.
00:46:11Help me get this down before he hasn't seen it.
00:46:20I think that's a great idea. Look what I found.
00:46:25Good.
00:46:27Hey, Ray.
00:46:28Do you think any more famous carpenters?
00:46:30Yes, ma'am.
00:46:31My bad.
00:46:33Why don't you go down to Lucy's and pick up some burgers and soda spray at all?
00:46:37And keep a dollar for yourself.
00:46:41Oh, Ray.
00:46:43Get some fries, too.
00:46:49Well, well.
00:46:51You here to help or just to clump?
00:46:53Just passing by.
00:46:55How's the investigation coming? Any new leads?
00:46:58Still looking into it.
00:47:00Of course, you stop to think.
00:47:03The property owner is always the prime suspect in any arson.
00:47:06Don't stop to think, Sheriff.
00:47:09You might never get started again.
00:47:15But you've been advertising with us for 14 years, Della.
00:47:19Business is double. You said so yourself.
00:47:21I don't want to give them any excuse to shop in those new stores over in Jackson.
00:47:25You're not just hurting Hazel, Della. You're hurting everybody that works at the paper.
00:47:29Oh, Ann, honey, I'm sorry.
00:47:32The committee is organizing a boycott.
00:47:35No one's going to advertise. No one's going to subscribe.
00:47:37I just can't go against my own husband.
00:47:43All right.
00:47:45Thank you, sir.
00:47:52Thank you, sir.
00:47:55All right.
00:47:56Thank you, sir.
00:47:57Thank you, sir.
00:48:00Thank you, sir.
00:48:02The committee's organized a boycott.
00:48:04They've lost at least 60% of my advertising.
00:48:06What kind of people are these?
00:48:09We sure do appreciate what you're doing for us, Miss Smith.
00:48:12Don't make me out of be so noble, Sam.
00:48:13I would have done the same thing if Morris Jones had been white.
00:48:16Well, it wouldn't have happened if he had been white.
00:48:17Well, one bad apple didn't spoil the whole bunch.
00:48:31What do you want, Sheriff?
00:48:37I got something for you, Hazel.
00:48:41Wanted to deliver it myself.
00:48:46Have a nice day.
00:48:51He just filed a liable suit against me for $100,000.
00:48:58I guess things can't get much worse.
00:49:01Yes, they can.
00:49:04My sister's coming to visit.
00:49:09Oh, Smitty.
00:49:16Why, Lily, what a surprise.
00:49:20Hello, Hazel.
00:49:21I haven't seen you lately.
00:49:23I hope you haven't come down with that flu that's been going around.
00:49:26Um, I was going to call you, but, um, I've just been real...
00:49:31Oh, that's all right.
00:49:33Seems I'm very difficult to reach lately.
00:49:35Yeah.
00:49:36Now, that flu's left you looking a bit peevish.
00:49:39Or is it the hair?
00:49:41Yeah, it does start dragging the face down when you get older.
00:49:44Maybe you should consider wearing it up, something a bit like this.
00:49:48Yes, that's lovely.
00:49:49Thank you, Hazel.
00:49:50Oh, by the way, I'm afraid I'm going to have to withdraw my membership of the Historical Society.
00:49:55I'm sure everyone will be devastated.
00:49:58Oh, can't be helped.
00:50:00But with rebuilding the paper and all, I just don't have a minute.
00:50:04Bye.
00:50:04Bye.
00:50:05Bye.
00:50:15Bye.
00:50:19Bye.
00:50:41be the jury
00:50:42fine for the plaintiff
00:50:44sheriff cove
00:50:45for libel
00:50:46damages awarded in the amount of 10,000
00:51:01justice
00:51:03that man needs to bully the way a flea needs a dog
00:51:06you're gonna appeal
00:51:07constitution guarantees freedom of the press
00:51:09doesn't it
00:51:10well i'd rather eat bugs than give that parasite a dime
00:51:16but everyone here would love to see me
00:51:17dragged over hot coals
00:51:19and i already owe you fortune and legal bills
00:51:26burn
00:51:27can i call you right back
00:51:31what's wrong
00:51:33sam's wife henry just called
00:51:35he was arrested this morning for stealing the saddle
00:51:39it's ludicrous
00:51:41sam's as honest as they come
00:51:45i'll arrange bail i'll get a lawyer
00:51:47it's too late miss hazel
00:51:49the man that had him arrested posted his bond about an hour ago
00:51:53what
00:51:55where's he now
00:51:56nobody's seen him since they let him go
00:51:58oh god
00:52:07i'll just hate it
00:52:09isn't it
00:52:09hey errol
00:52:10what can i do you for
00:52:12well
00:52:12you know uh
00:52:13you know uh
00:52:15i've been thinking of this by getting me a set of those white walls
00:52:18well now you can't buy a finer tiger
00:52:20huh
00:52:21yeah
00:52:22and then i'm gonna need me a new battery for my tractor
00:52:27the problem is lyle
00:52:30you're still advertising in hazel's paper
00:52:34i never thought you'd line up with them lyle
00:52:36well you know that ain't true
00:52:38it's just
00:52:39maybe you happen to forget i sell advertising for hazel's paper
00:52:42not much from what i hear
00:52:43you all certainly made sure of that haven't you sneaking around like rats
00:52:47nobody's sneaking around
00:52:48what we're doing is completely above board
00:52:51what is
00:52:53blackmailing people and forcing them to join you
00:52:55nobody's forcing you
00:52:56you don't want to join
00:52:58go ahead
00:53:00look errol
00:53:01i got to advertise
00:53:03whether i like it or not
00:53:04she's the only game in town
00:53:10it's your choice lyle
00:53:17no you're right lyle
00:53:20lexington needs an alternative to hazel smith
00:53:31sorry
00:53:34sorry
00:53:48this town can't sport one paper much less two
00:53:51they'll be back in a month looking for their jobs
00:53:55citizens chronicle
00:53:56who they think they're kidding
00:53:58they're scared
00:54:00they just want to make sure they have a job in another year
00:54:03and you're not
00:54:08i got no choice hazel
00:54:11if i don't take the new job they're gonna put lyle out of business
00:54:14save your breath i understand
00:54:16hazel you can't win
00:54:18spare me the lecture iron
00:54:20i've already heard it a dozen ways
00:54:25hazel
00:54:35i'll let you know
00:54:38you judas
00:54:50not you two
00:54:51no
00:54:52no never miss hazel
00:54:56they found sam's body in the river
00:55:00he was beaten to death
00:55:02oh no
00:55:04no
00:55:06thank you this biggest of me
00:55:09it's my fault
00:55:29this is just a hearing mrs burke what we want are just the facts
00:55:32now tell us what happened
00:55:36after mr dodd senior
00:55:38paid his bail
00:55:41sam called me
00:55:44and what did your husband say
00:55:51he said that mr dodd
00:55:55was getting him out
00:55:57so that he could settle things
00:56:00personally
00:56:01for stealing a saddle
00:56:05sam didn't take that saddle
00:56:09they found it on two kids
00:56:12a week later
00:56:14and you never
00:56:15saw or heard from your husband
00:56:17again
00:56:25not till i identified his body
00:56:34i want you to know your daddy didn't do nothing wrong
00:56:38pull your head up and be proud
00:56:40he was a good man
00:56:43hi ray
00:56:46on hazel smith
00:56:49i know
00:56:50i saw you at the funeral
00:56:53he was so brave of you to come
00:56:56i never got to tell you personally how sorry i am
00:57:00sam's a fine man
00:57:05you talking to this woman
00:57:06what if i am
00:57:08she's under a gag order that's what
00:57:10you're in contempt
00:57:12and you're coming with me
00:57:17for your information
00:57:19a gag order means you can't talk to a witness
00:57:22i was unaware that she was in the custody of the court
00:57:25i was talking to her as my friend
00:57:26even if i chose to believe you which i don't
00:57:29ignorance is no excuse
00:57:32therefore i find you in contempt of court and ordered you to pay a fifty dollar fine and serve fifteen
00:57:39days in the county jail
00:57:44sentence is suspended provided you behave yourself for the next two years
00:57:49miss smith
00:57:51i'm gonna be frank with you and speak my mind
00:57:53well why don't you got nothing to lose
00:57:59before you go trying to clean up somebody else's house you best look after your own
00:58:04there are so few pure of us left
00:58:18at least it's only fifteen days
00:58:20you have to take your shoes off to count me higher than that
00:58:22pompous idiot
00:58:23there isn't another court in the country that'll uphold it
00:58:27you're going to appeal this one too
00:58:28it's the supreme court if i have to
00:58:30hazel what do you think you're doing
00:58:31it's not gonna make any difference
00:58:33these people are so narrow-minded
00:58:35they do not want to change
00:58:36these people happen to be my people
00:58:38and this is still my home
00:58:40all right i'm on your side remember
00:58:42so is my pimmicks
00:58:43hazel wait wait
00:58:46i'm wrong you're right
00:58:47is that good enough
00:58:50hazel i cannot stand to see them hurt you like this
00:58:53i would much rather that they hurt me
00:58:57silver tongue devil
00:59:01can i buy you a drink
00:59:03drink
00:59:05hell buy me the bottle
00:59:09and until the white south refuses to tolerate the bombings the shootings the beatings and murders
00:59:16southerners will continue to be hailed in scorn as barbarians to the rest of the nation
00:59:21it's brilliant
00:59:22what do we have to lose
00:59:28what now
00:59:35they've cancelled our printing contracts
00:59:37all of them
00:59:47i don't know how much longer i could pay you ruth
00:59:51you should probably start looking for something else
00:59:53i don't want to look for nothing else
00:59:55i'm too old and too spoiled
00:59:58don't be stubborn
00:59:59how are you going to pay the rent
01:00:01i've been trying to tell you for twenty years but you don't listen
01:00:04the lord will provide
01:00:11don't you worry about a thing we're gonna make it
01:00:29oh hi and here she is
01:00:34i've been so looking forward to this smitty's told us such wonderful things about you
01:01:07it's not that he had to
01:01:07you don't have to do it
01:01:14you don't have to do it
01:01:16you don't have to do it
01:01:36until you end ignorance
01:01:38smitty
01:01:41i'm sorry if i embarrassed you
01:01:45john just doesn't know when to shut up
01:01:49i guess that makes two of us
01:01:52he'll get over it
01:01:56it's not bad it's the printing contract
01:02:03we'll figure something out
01:02:04what
01:02:06there's nothing left
01:02:08paper can't go on without money
01:02:12well we'll get a loan or sell the car
01:02:16maybe we should move on
01:02:18there's a paper for sale in arizona
01:02:21you've never run from a fight in your life
01:02:23well maybe it's time that i did
01:02:28it's not the fight i'm afraid of
01:02:32it's being shut out
01:02:34not having any friends
01:02:37always that smitty
01:02:39they're not gonna run us off hazel
01:02:42this is our home too
01:02:46he'll come around
01:02:47you'll see
01:02:50besides
01:02:51i just can't see you in that cowboy hat
01:03:00too bad we gotta go all the way to jackson for a loan
01:03:09mortgage to my health
01:03:10we still haven't finished the renovation yet
01:03:12that'll teach me to marry for money
01:03:14my name is davis franklin
01:03:17i called riley sims this morning
01:03:19he told me where i could find you
01:03:21why'd you want to find me
01:03:23uh the church is just down the way
01:03:25the pastor's letting us use it for a meeting place
01:03:28maybe we can talk there
01:03:29about what
01:03:30that's a group of us
01:03:32well
01:03:34we want to publish our own newspaper
01:03:36we got the financial backing only
01:03:39we can't find anyone to print it
01:03:42what makes you think i will
01:03:44riley said you're fair minded
01:03:47and you need the business
01:03:51that's right about that
01:03:57why not
01:03:59what makes you think i will
01:04:13i will
01:04:14i will
01:04:25i will
01:04:28In a better home awaiting
01:04:33In the sun, in the sky
01:04:50But if we think the present situation is serious,
01:04:53we should take a long, hard look at the future.
01:04:56It can and will get infinitely worse
01:04:59unless we find the character
01:05:01and guts to change things that need changing.
01:05:05No man, white or black,
01:05:08should live in fear
01:05:10or be compelled to sleep with a loaded gun by his bedside.
01:05:15That will raise some happiness.
01:05:18It's your paper.
01:05:20Say a word and I'll rewrite it.
01:05:27It's time to stand up and be counted.
01:05:29In the sky, oh my Lord, in the sky
01:05:32Sleep on mother, hope you trust my God you save
01:05:39I'm gonna meet you in the judgment
01:05:43When you leave your trust, be brave
01:05:47I'm in the circle, me and your kind
01:05:51Oh my Lord, in the sky
01:06:06Oh my Lord, in the sky
01:06:21I think Laura Stewart will be named debutante of the year.
01:06:26Lily's hired a band from New Orleans, too.
01:06:28Everyone will be there.
01:06:34Let's do something special, maybe up in Chignon.
01:06:38Chignon.
01:06:39Isn't that those little braids that the pickaninnies wear?
01:06:44That's enough.
01:06:45Look, I've always been proud to say I come from Mississippi.
01:06:52You make me ashamed.
01:07:00The silence in these times is just as ugly as their words.
01:07:04I apologize.
01:07:07I'd like for you and Smitty to come to the ball as my personal guest.
01:07:13Thank you, Eudora.
01:07:15But we already have another invitation for tonight.
01:07:20You have dignity and grace under pressure, Hazel.
01:07:25That's a quality very few ladies have these days.
01:07:48Hi, just a minute.
01:07:50Hey, I'm glad you made it.
01:07:51Follow me.
01:07:52Your baby looks good tonight.
01:07:54Watch out now.
01:07:55Hey, Elroy, don't hurt nobody now, all right?
01:07:59Oh, this is Ad Lane of the American Civil Liberties Union and Brewster Conway of the NAACP.
01:08:06Hazel and Walter Dyer Smith.
01:08:08Now, Smitty, please.
01:08:09Eugene, these two people, drive.
01:08:12Take a martini and a scotch up, please.
01:08:15So you're the one who's causing every cracker in the South for all of themselves.
01:08:19You look more like fraternity boys than revolutionaries to me.
01:08:22You hardly look the crusading editor.
01:08:25Well, I'm no crusader.
01:08:27That's someone that goes out looking for trouble.
01:08:29I can barely keep up with the trouble coming to my door.
01:08:31Well, we appreciate you printing our paper.
01:08:33No one else would touch it.
01:08:35Well, I'm being paid.
01:08:36Well, regardless of that, we are awfully glad you're on our team.
01:08:41I'm a journalist, boys.
01:08:43I don't take sides.
01:08:44Like it or not, I'd say you have.
01:08:49Gentlemen, if you will excuse us, I'm about to pull up on politics.
01:08:52I would like to cut loose and dance with my wife.
01:08:54Sugar, put it away.
01:08:57In the next couple hours, I want the carefree brat I'm married.
01:09:12Oh, forget those stuffed shirts back on, baby.
01:09:15This is living.
01:09:16Well, I know you think of chili.
01:09:17Oh.
01:09:32Read this.
01:09:50Before you put down payment on that lake house you've been eyeballing, you better listen to this.
01:09:55Today, the Mississippi State Supreme Court held that editor Hazel Smith's right to publish the truth with good motives and
01:10:04just ends is inherent in the Constitution.
01:10:07Looks like telling the truth falls under my First Amendment rights.
01:10:15Score one for the nigger lovers.
01:10:19Get used to it, baby.
01:10:26My brother sent this from Ohio.
01:10:29Now, they are printing Hazel's editorials in here.
01:10:33And that's not the only place.
01:10:36Baltimore, Wilmington.
01:10:37They're trying to make her high and mighty.
01:10:40And us look like a bunch of fools.
01:10:41That is right.
01:10:42Now, Earl, she's gone too far.
01:10:45Well, what do you suggest, Lyle?
01:10:48Her advertising's gone.
01:10:49She's got no subscriptions.
01:10:51The county contracts dried up six months ago.
01:10:53How does she keep printing, then?
01:10:55I don't know.
01:10:56I'm tired of waiting.
01:10:58If you've got a rotten tooth, pull it.
01:11:00Yeah, that's right.
01:11:01That's right.
01:11:03Wait a minute.
01:11:04Listen up here.
01:11:06I want Hazel Smith out of business as much as anybody.
01:11:09But you go to breaking the law, you're no better than those newspapers say you are.
01:11:13Earl's right.
01:11:14We're not hooligans.
01:11:18Now, let's just see if we can figure out how she's staying in bed in us.
01:11:25Wake up, sleepyhead.
01:11:32Hey.
01:11:33Hey.
01:11:33I sure do appreciate this.
01:11:36The truck had been fixed by tomorrow.
01:11:38That's no problem.
01:11:39We had to come up for a meeting with the bank anyway.
01:11:40Okay.
01:11:41Oh, come on.
01:11:50There you go.
01:11:54Isn't this something?
01:11:58Come on, boss.
01:11:59You know what to do.
01:12:00All right, Carol.
01:12:14What about the insurance?
01:12:16Won't they cover?
01:12:18Couldn't afford the premiums.
01:12:31They don't let up for one minute, do they?
01:12:34I would use a picture that makes my behind look as big as a truck.
01:12:37I'll get them for that.
01:12:40First, I'm going to get us a couple of beers.
01:12:42We're going to be here all night.
01:12:50Well, if I didn't, my dear friend Earl Clayton.
01:12:54Hazel, I...
01:12:57Oh, my God.
01:13:01Hazel, I want you to know I had absolutely nothing to do with this.
01:13:04You had everything to do with it.
01:13:06Hazel, I'm not a barbarian.
01:13:08I'd never be a party to anything like this.
01:13:11Of course not, Earl.
01:13:12That'll be the slimy tactics of the downtown clan.
01:13:15And everybody knows you're strictly uptown clan.
01:13:29How you doing, Earl?
01:13:32Hazel called you a brute and a bully.
01:13:36And this whole town stood up to defend you.
01:13:39I stood up to defend you.
01:13:42What the hell are you talking about?
01:13:44Last night, you proved her right.
01:13:49So, who cares?
01:13:50This whole town's going to care.
01:13:53I'm going to see to that.
01:13:55You nothing but a sniveling hypocrite.
01:13:57You and all your blue-nosed friends.
01:14:00That may be.
01:14:02But you shouldn't have made us so aware of it.
01:14:20You really gave them a run for your money, Miss Hazel.
01:14:23No one can ever say you went out without a fight.
01:14:25I'm not out, Riley.
01:14:28And I'm not about to give up the fight.
01:14:30We can't print without a press.
01:14:32And then I will beg, I will borrow, I will steal until I have enough money to buy a new
01:14:36one.
01:14:37They can burn, they can boycott, they can tear me down a hundred times.
01:14:41But if they want to stop me from telling the truth, they're going to have to kill me.
01:14:47Uh-huh.
01:14:48I'll sign a personal note.
01:14:49Well, the Atlanta Herald, New Orleans Times, Miami Troop, they're all running our editorials.
01:14:54Okay, well, how about Hazel on the 23rd, we'll arrange transportation.
01:14:58That's highway robbery.
01:14:59Right.
01:14:59Make it prime plus one percent.
01:15:02Done.
01:15:04That's 5,500 so far.
01:15:06Well, people must be reading your articles, because I've got eight speaking engagements lined up.
01:15:09That's at least, what, another 5,000?
01:15:11I hate this.
01:15:12I feel like I'm standing on a street corner with a cup in my hand.
01:15:19A congregation at my church took this up yesterday.
01:15:23Oh, Riley.
01:15:24$2,832.
01:15:29I won't cry.
01:15:32I promised I wouldn't cry.
01:15:35If this doesn't work, maybe the new boycott will.
01:15:37What's new about it?
01:15:39They'll be boycotting me for months.
01:15:40Not that boycott.
01:15:42We figured two could play at this game.
01:15:44Not a colored person in this town going to buy from anybody boycotting you.
01:15:48Well, those people will have to drive all the way to Jackson to shop.
01:15:51I expect they're doing what they think is right.
01:15:53Just like you.
01:16:11Even if we can't sell this house, it's just not enough.
01:16:14I'll find work.
01:16:16We've been through that.
01:16:17No one's going to hire you.
01:16:19Besides, I'll need your help.
01:16:20If we don't scrape together enough to rebuild.
01:16:23If?
01:16:24What happened to when?
01:16:26Well, there's just nothing left.
01:16:28That's right.
01:16:29You're out of place, too.
01:16:32What new horror makes me...
01:16:37Yes?
01:16:40Of course.
01:16:44Right.
01:16:46I know where that is.
01:16:49Half an hour.
01:17:02Who was that?
01:17:05I don't know.
01:17:06A man.
01:17:08What do you want?
01:17:10He said he wanted to help me.
01:17:15I'm going to meet him down at the old cotton mill in half an hour.
01:17:18You're going to what?
01:17:20He said he'd been following our story.
01:17:22Fine.
01:17:22I'll go with you.
01:17:22No.
01:17:23He said it had to be anonymous.
01:17:26I have to go alone.
01:17:27You're actually planning to go?
01:17:28He mentioned other journalists I know.
01:17:31People I've worked with.
01:17:32So what?
01:17:32He did his research.
01:17:33This could be one of the sheriff's thugs.
01:17:35This man is no thug.
01:17:37He was too intelligent.
01:17:38He was sincere.
01:17:39No way.
01:17:40I won't allow it.
01:17:41I was on my own for 20 years before I met you, mister,
01:17:44and I took care of myself just fine.
01:17:45Those were entirely different circumstances.
01:17:48Don't you walk out that door.
01:17:50I'm a big girl, Smitty.
01:17:51And I'm sick and tired of everyone telling me what to do.
01:17:57You are acting like a lunatic just to prove how tough you are.
01:18:00Get out of my way, Smitty.
01:18:01Don't make me prove how mean I am, too.
01:18:04I'm fine.
01:18:08It's going to be all right.
01:18:11Please, don't go.
01:18:13You'll be a trap.
01:18:14No, it's not.
01:18:16How can you know that?
01:18:19Female intuition.
01:18:23I have to.
01:18:40I have to.
01:18:45I have to.
01:18:47I have to.
01:19:12Who are you?
01:19:14A friend of your friends.
01:19:16I can count the friends I got left on one hand, and none of them knows you.
01:19:19Your friends are all over, Miss Smith.
01:19:21People you don't even know.
01:19:23I wish to God people would quit making me out to be some kind of crusader.
01:19:26I never wanted this damn battle in the first place.
01:19:37Where are you from?
01:19:38Why are you doing this?
01:19:40Let's just say I'm somebody who doesn't want the bad guys to win.
01:19:44What's with all the cloak and daggers, sir?
01:19:47Perhaps I just don't have the courage you do.
01:19:56You're a newspaper man.
01:20:01Good luck, Miss Smith.
01:20:08Good luck, Miss Smith.
01:20:32Oh, it's me, it's me, it's me.
01:20:35For God's sake, Miss Smith, what are you doing here?
01:20:38You followed me.
01:20:40Actually, I was just running into town for some bread.
01:20:44Well, don't bother.
01:20:47We got all the bread we need.
01:20:50He gave us thousands and thousands of dollars.
01:20:54What?
01:20:57Let's go.
01:21:01It's ready.
01:21:06Here goes nothing.
01:21:17Now we're ready for him.
01:21:44What's your whistling them Christmas songs?
01:21:47It ain't even Thanksgiving.
01:21:48I don't know any Thanksgiving songs, do you?
01:21:51Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble.
01:21:57How about a joke?
01:21:58How do you know when a politician's lying?
01:22:03Watch out.
01:22:04That's all right.
01:22:14Get the ambulance.
01:22:17Go!
01:22:19Go!
01:22:20I should be still.
01:22:21Oh, don't this just beat all.
01:22:25We've been bombed, burned, boycotted, and bankrupted.
01:22:29I might have to go and die in a ladder.
01:22:31Oh, if you think you're getting away from me that easy, you can forget it, mister.
01:22:37Think of some really clever last words, okay?
01:22:46Smitty, Smitty, Smitty, Smitty, Smitty.
01:22:52Smitty, Smitty, I got you.
01:22:53Oh, you damn fool.
01:22:57You damn fool.
01:23:04Smitty.
01:23:22Carol?
01:23:25Carol?
01:23:36There's supposed to be a picket line outside Hazel's paper.
01:23:42Should we cancel?
01:23:45What do you think?
01:23:48Jim Bob thinks we ought to have a meeting this afternoon instead.
01:23:52Think of a new plan, maybe write a new editorial.
01:23:59Do whatever you like.
01:24:03I got other plans for this afternoon.
01:24:21Feel the courage, and he shall strengthen your heart.
01:24:25Open the Lord.
01:24:27For just as troubles and earthly sufferin' are over for our brother Walter,
01:24:43For just as troubles and earthly sufferin' are over for our brother Walter,
01:24:59I came for Smitty.
01:25:00I came for Smitty.
01:25:00No, Miss Hazel, they came for you.
01:25:17As surely as he gave us life, heaven awaits us after death, a place where hunger is fed,
01:25:28fear forgotten, hatred and tired. And all God's children in peace. Let us pray.
01:25:40Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as
01:25:48it is in heaven.
01:25:50Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
01:25:59Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory,
01:26:09forever and ever. Amen.
01:26:24In 1964, Hazel Brannon Smith became the first woman to receive the nation's highest honor in editorial writing, the Pulitzer
01:26:34Prize.
01:26:46The Pulitzer Prize
01:26:46Here is the Pulitzer Prize
01:26:46Another Worry
01:26:48Chapter 1
01:26:48Is the Pulitzer Prize
01:26:50Number six
01:27:02The Pulitzer Prize
01:27:05The Pulitzer Prize
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