Child Bride (1938) is an American drama directed by Harry Revier, produced as a social‑issue film intended to condemn the practice of child marriage in isolated rural communities. Set in the Ozarks, the story follows schoolteacher Miss Carol, who arrives in a remote mountain town and discovers that local men routinely marry underage girls. When a predatory older man targets a 12‑year‑old girl named Jennie, Carol fights to protect her and challenge the community’s harmful traditions.
The film is widely remembered today for its exploitation‑style marketing and for including scenes that are deeply inappropriate by modern standards, despite its stated reformist message.
Film Details
Year: 1938
Genre: Drama / Social‑Issue Film
Director: Harry Revier
Writer: Harry Revier
Produced by: Kroger Babb (roadshow distribution)
Starring: Shirley Mills, Angelo Rossitto, Bob Bollinger, Dorothy Carrol
Cinematography: Jack Greenhalgh
Edited by: Charles Henkel Jr.
Studio: Empire Pictures
Distributed by: Roadshow circuits (various)
Release Date: 1938
Runtime: 68 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
#ChildBride1938 #SocialIssueFilm #HarryRevier #ShirleyMills #OzarkDrama #1930sCinema #ExploitationFilm #PublicDomain #ClassicDrama #FilmHistory
The film is widely remembered today for its exploitation‑style marketing and for including scenes that are deeply inappropriate by modern standards, despite its stated reformist message.
Film Details
Year: 1938
Genre: Drama / Social‑Issue Film
Director: Harry Revier
Writer: Harry Revier
Produced by: Kroger Babb (roadshow distribution)
Starring: Shirley Mills, Angelo Rossitto, Bob Bollinger, Dorothy Carrol
Cinematography: Jack Greenhalgh
Edited by: Charles Henkel Jr.
Studio: Empire Pictures
Distributed by: Roadshow circuits (various)
Release Date: 1938
Runtime: 68 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
#ChildBride1938 #SocialIssueFilm #HarryRevier #ShirleyMills #OzarkDrama #1930sCinema #ExploitationFilm #PublicDomain #ClassicDrama #FilmHistory
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00:00:00THE END
00:00:38THE END
00:01:05THE END
00:01:48Ira, Ira, it's time to get out
00:01:49All right
00:01:51Ginny
00:01:56Ginny
00:02:01Ginny, oh Ginny
00:02:03Yes, Mommy?
00:02:05It's time for chores
00:02:06All right
00:02:13Give Mason
00:02:15Help!
00:02:22It's time for
00:02:24It's time to get out of the way
00:03:01Come on, Ed.
00:03:13Come on, Ed.
00:03:22Ready.
00:03:29You forgot those go-down things.
00:03:31She sure would have bawled me out.
00:03:32Listen, son.
00:03:34Don't you let that archie to put anything over on you.
00:03:36I sure don't.
00:03:37I'd put over on her.
00:03:39Freddie, you want to go up the road with me a piece?
00:03:41Where are you going?
00:03:43And it looks like it's going to shower,
00:03:44and I want to cover that new corn if there's still.
00:03:48Gee, I was going to go after Jenny.
00:03:52All right.
00:03:53Go on.
00:03:54All right, Dad.
00:03:55All right.
00:03:56All right.
00:03:57All right.
00:03:58All right.
00:03:59All right.
00:03:59All right.
00:04:03All right.
00:04:05All right.
00:04:15Oh, my poor little kid.
00:04:20I'm a-coming, Jenny.
00:04:22Oh, Freddie.
00:04:29Jesus.
00:04:30She's mean.
00:04:33Gosh, but you look funny.
00:04:35Oh, Freddie.
00:04:37Don't be mad, Jenny.
00:04:45Jenny, you know better than to get in there with that old sow.
00:04:49But, Daddy, the little pig was stuck in the mud, and he was drowning.
00:04:53Next time you call me.
00:04:55Get to the barrel and wash yourself.
00:05:00Wait a minute, Jenny.
00:05:01And I'm funny.
00:05:02Well, no, but you didn't look kind of silly in there with all those pigs.
00:05:07Anyway, you ought to know better.
00:05:09You can't drown a pig in mud.
00:05:11Well, maybe you can't.
00:05:13But, Daddy says that in this country, the pig was a gentleman that pays a rent.
00:05:17And I wasn't going to take any chances.
00:05:20Hey, wait a minute.
00:05:23Hey, wait a minute.
00:05:27Hey.
00:05:28Hey, wait a minute.
00:06:01Gee, Jenny, why don't you wear your hat? It's raining.
00:06:04It's a couple of drops. That'll be our time we get to school.
00:06:08Freddy?
00:06:09Yes, Jenny? Did you study your spelling lesson?
00:06:13No. It's no use.
00:06:15Anyway, my dad says that teacher don't know how to spell.
00:06:18Why, Freddy, naughty. My teacher knows all the words in all the books and all the words.
00:06:23I don't care what your dad says. My teacher says you have to learn how to spell.
00:06:38Was that a shot?
00:06:39Yeah. Right down there.
00:06:55It looks like Dad.
00:07:04Daddy! Daddy!
00:07:06She's been shot. Jenny, go for help. Hurry! Hurry!
00:07:10Yes, Freddy!
00:07:12Daddy! Daddy!
00:07:16You all right?
00:07:17Daddy, speak to me.
00:07:20Where are you going this morning, Ira?
00:07:22I'm aiming to go up to the stair.
00:07:26Mommy! Daddy! Mommy!
00:07:32Daddy's mother's been shot.
00:07:34Mike, shot?
00:07:35Where's he at?
00:07:36He's south in the woods. Come on.
00:07:47He's after his trail. Just across the road.
00:07:55He's over there.
00:08:00I think he's hurt bad, Ira.
00:08:06The bullet went clean through his shoulder.
00:08:10It's going to be all right, Mike. It's going to be all right.
00:08:13Oh, Freddy.
00:08:17Freddy, he's not bad, heard?
00:08:19We'll take care of him.
00:08:21Now, you and Ginny go on to school, dear.
00:08:32I guess I was hit.
00:08:34You're going to be all right.
00:08:36I reckon so.
00:08:38Mike, tell me who shot you.
00:08:41And I'll follow him to his grave.
00:08:43Now, Ira, it's my fight.
00:08:46I'll take care of that skunk when I'm up and about.
00:08:51Mike, we've got to get him home.
00:08:53Oh, easy.
00:08:56Please.
00:08:57Please, easy.
00:09:01Dreaming, hiding, Rhythmatic.
00:09:04Learning in your mind.
00:09:07Jingle bells, jingle bells.
00:09:11Jingle all the way.
00:09:14We're in school, oh, what fun.
00:09:18I'm studying and playing.
00:09:21You see the children?
00:09:24Ginny Colton and Frederick Nauti, please come here.
00:09:35What excuse have you both for being late?
00:09:38My old man got hurt.
00:09:40Ginny here had to go for help.
00:09:42Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Frederick.
00:09:44Was it serious?
00:09:46No, I think he'll be all right.
00:09:49He should have a doctor, teacher.
00:09:51There's no doctor in this community now.
00:09:53Later, perhaps.
00:09:54Go on back to your seat.
00:10:19Alex Cross, why did you do that?
00:10:22Teacher, it was a pigeon, and he dropped it on my book.
00:10:28Quiet.
00:10:30Alex, you come up here.
00:10:31Bonta, Lila, Bill, bring a spelling lesson.
00:10:40Bonta, you spell the word butter.
00:10:43Bacter.
00:10:44B-U-T-T-E-R.
00:10:47Correct.
00:10:48Lila, the word banish.
00:10:50B-I-N-H.
00:10:58That was a very good try, Lila.
00:11:00You try it, Bill.
00:11:02Banish, B-A-N-D-H-I-S-H.
00:11:09You'd better take your book home with you tonight.
00:11:11Alex, you try it.
00:11:13Banish.
00:11:14B-A-N-I-S-H.
00:11:17Correct.
00:11:18Now go back to your seats.
00:11:21All right, Jenny Colton, Frederick Naughty, Jeanette, and Tom.
00:11:31All right, Tom, spell the word catalog.
00:11:34C-A-T-A-L-O-Q-E.
00:11:37You didn't study your lesson, did you?
00:11:40No.
00:11:41Jeanette, the word mountain.
00:11:43M-O-M-O-T-I-A-N.
00:11:49You better study your lesson more thoroughly next time.
00:11:53Jenny, the word automobile.
00:11:56A-U-T-O-M-O-B-I-L-E.
00:11:58Correct.
00:11:59Freddie, the word milking.
00:12:02M-I-L-K-G-I-N-G.
00:12:07Freddie, you didn't study your spelling lesson last night, did you?
00:12:11I tried to make it, Miss Carol.
00:12:13But he wouldn't.
00:12:14See that you studied tonight, young man.
00:12:22Teacher.
00:12:23All right, George.
00:12:26Teacher, teacher.
00:12:27All right, Cecil.
00:12:33So take out your arithmetic books.
00:12:37Hey, Cecil.
00:12:39This one's Ma.
00:12:41This is Pa.
00:12:50Charles!
00:12:53Darling!
00:13:00Are you really glad to see me?
00:13:02Why didn't you tell me you were coming?
00:13:04I just couldn't stay another minute down there in the city with you up here in this godforsaken country.
00:13:12You know why I stay here?
00:13:15But you promised that when I became established in my profession, you'd marry me.
00:13:19Yes, I know.
00:13:21Well, now I'm assistant district attorney.
00:13:24You can't stall me this time.
00:13:26Oh, I am proud of you, Charles.
00:13:28But I haven't accomplished what I set out to do.
00:13:31Now, you're wasting your time.
00:13:33No, dear, I'm not.
00:13:34Yes, you are.
00:13:36All right.
00:13:37Now, look here, Ivy.
00:13:39You can't change the customs of these people.
00:13:41Others before you have tried.
00:13:43But I was born here.
00:13:45They're my people.
00:13:46My blood.
00:13:48But you've been out in the world.
00:13:49You've gone to school.
00:13:50Yes, I was fortunate in taking an education.
00:13:53No, it's my duty to help them.
00:13:55All the education in the world wouldn't help them.
00:13:59But you could help him if you really love me.
00:14:03Well, of course I love you.
00:14:04But what could I do?
00:14:06You can do a lot, dearest.
00:14:09What, for instance?
00:14:10Just continue to love me and be patient.
00:14:15Patient?
00:14:16I've been waiting patiently for the last five years.
00:14:19I suppose you want me to wait until I'm an old man.
00:14:22Charles, I'm going to fight for these people
00:14:24until the state realizes that child marriage must be stopped.
00:14:29Sometimes I wonder if you, if you really do love me, Ivy.
00:14:45The purest blood in our land
00:14:47flows in the veins of these mountain people.
00:14:50And yet the government does less for them
00:14:52and for any group within its boundaries.
00:14:55Government neglect is one cause.
00:14:58And as governor of this state,
00:15:00I beg of you to realize
00:15:01that this child marriage law will be a wedge
00:15:04to free these mountain people
00:15:05from adverse social and economic conditions.
00:15:12How do you do, Albert?
00:15:16Laura goes out of Miss Carol.
00:15:22Sadie, how's the baby?
00:15:23Pretty good, Miss Carol.
00:15:25We're missing you at school.
00:15:27Well, my husband says there's nothing finer
00:15:29than a bunch of young'uns.
00:15:30But, Sadie,
00:15:32don't you realize
00:15:33that at 25
00:15:35you'll be an old woman?
00:15:37If that school mom don't quit preaching our women folks,
00:15:39she's fixing to get herself into a mess of trouble.
00:15:45I thought perhaps all the women of the village
00:15:48could get together and...
00:15:49We don't throw men in the no-faringer's business.
00:15:51Why should you in ours?
00:15:53I'm not a foreigner.
00:15:55I'm as much a mountain person as any of you.
00:15:58And I'm fighting for the improvement of this community.
00:16:02Now listen, Mrs. Haggerty.
00:16:04You're a mother.
00:16:05You have seven children of your own.
00:16:14You can't jump from childhood to womanhood
00:16:18by saying I do.
00:16:20We got to marry them, young.
00:16:21We're short of women.
00:16:23Look, isn't it better to have a woman for 30 years
00:16:26than a child for 15?
00:16:34What I'm trying to make you understand
00:16:37is that you can't fight nature's law.
00:16:40Burying children is a woman's job.
00:16:43Child marriage must go.
00:16:47Your Excellency, this law must pass.
00:16:50Oh, I beg Your Excellency
00:16:51to endorse Miss Carol's bill.
00:17:05Hey, Happy!
00:17:07Come on down!
00:17:09All right, Angelo.
00:17:11Angelo.
00:17:14Angelo.
00:17:26Hey, you!
00:17:27Did you get that corn up to the Higgins?
00:17:29Yeah.
00:17:30Well, where's the money?
00:17:32I'm giving the money to Ira.
00:17:34Well, Ira's my partner.
00:17:36It's as much mine as it is his, isn't it?
00:17:38I'm still giving the money to Ira.
00:17:40Don't give me any of your lip.
00:17:41Come on.
00:17:41Come on, give me that money.
00:17:42I won't do it.
00:17:43Why, you...
00:17:46Hey, leave him alone!
00:17:50Leave him alone, I tell you.
00:17:52Why, you poor simp!
00:17:56No, no, no!
00:18:02Now then, I'll have that money.
00:18:04I won't do it.
00:18:05Give me your...
00:18:11Now then, I'm going to give you the same dough.
00:18:13No, Jake, don't...
00:18:14Jake!
00:18:15Put him down!
00:18:19Who do you think you're talking to?
00:18:20You, you slimy weasel.
00:18:24How many times must I tell you to leave him be?
00:18:30So, you want to play?
00:18:33I've been waiting a long time for this chance.
00:18:37And now I'm a coward, you dirty junk!
00:18:39Why, you dirty junk!
00:18:52Hey, you dirty junk!
00:19:21All right, Ira.
00:19:23This time I lose.
00:19:24But there'll be a next time.
00:19:27They ain't gonna fade off next time.
00:19:42They'll have to pour down their corn liquor.
00:19:44And take it over to the coop's farm.
00:20:14Here we go.
00:20:19Hey, Ira Colton.
00:20:21Someday I'm gonna kill you.
00:20:37I wonder what could have happened to Jake.
00:20:39He should have been here by now.
00:20:40Maybe he's down at the school, Marms, seeing whether she's out preaching against us marrying young'uns.
00:20:44Gosh darn her education anyway.
00:20:47Why don't she mind her own business?
00:20:48I'm for driving her out of town.
00:20:50Yeah.
00:20:51Tarn feathers rescue business.
00:20:53Oh, you're getting yellow, Clem.
00:20:55I'd put her in boiling oil and watch her fry if it weren't she one of our kind.
00:20:59Why, she's the cause of me losing that kid, Nellie Jensen.
00:21:06Jake.
00:21:07Your face looks like it's gone through a thrash machine.
00:21:08What happened?
00:21:16Oh, I had a run-in with a bunch of hijackers in the corn valley.
00:21:20A little bit too much for me, that's all.
00:21:23Is everybody here now?
00:21:24We're all there.
00:21:25Good.
00:21:25What do we do now?
00:21:27You, Ezra.
00:21:29Lem, Jeremiah, and Clump.
00:21:31Go down through Bone Valley and meet us at the Bear Cave near the Tunnel 3.
00:21:36Take your masks along and be sure and bring those forces along, too.
00:21:39All right, Jake.
00:21:40Be careful now.
00:21:49Okay, where's my mask?
00:21:51Oh, there it is.
00:21:52Put off this fire.
00:21:55All right, let's go.
00:22:46Who's there?
00:22:51Who is it?
00:23:15Who is it?
00:23:22No!
00:23:23Get it! Get it!
00:23:33Stop!
00:23:41What have I done?
00:23:47Happy!
00:23:52Happy!
00:24:01All right, Jake, Bobby!
00:24:03You'll play for this!
00:24:05I know who you are!
00:24:06Come on!
00:24:07Come on!
00:24:14Hey, wait for me!
00:24:16No!
00:24:37You're not on him!
00:24:38You're not on him!
00:24:40What?
00:24:40Oh, gee-
00:24:42Uh-
00:25:01Oh!
00:25:05Oh, what have I done?
00:25:12They're going towards Spooky Hollow.
00:25:14Come on, Hattie.
00:25:39Rich, shut up.
00:25:42Shut up, Rich.
00:25:56Daddy.
00:25:59They've taken a spoon, Mom, into the mountains.
00:26:02Well, who? What for?
00:26:04Go fetch it, Dad.
00:26:05Mommy, Daddy, Mommy.
00:26:07What's the matter?
00:26:08They came to my schoolteacher.
00:26:10Who had?
00:26:10I don't know.
00:26:11I was asleep.
00:26:12Her screens woke me up.
00:26:14Then Happy and I ran up to the pine mule,
00:26:16and we saw a lot of rogue figures with torches.
00:26:18I left Happy to trail him,
00:26:20and he's to meet us at Devil's Rock.
00:26:28Hurt!
00:26:29Hurt!
00:26:30Hurt!
00:26:35We'll take the shark cut through Devil's Grouse.
00:27:04What have you done to me?
00:27:05What have I done?
00:27:06Well, we've given you plenty of warning not to meddle with our customs and to stick to your own ABCs.
00:27:12I teach what is right.
00:27:14We have our own ideas about what's right and what's wrong in this fiction.
00:27:18How dare you bring me here? I'll have a law upon you.
00:27:21A law? We're the law in these here mountains, and I'll show you.
00:27:26Bring it over here.
00:27:34Come on with it, Tom. Let's get this business over.
00:27:36Oh, no, no!
00:27:40Take your dirty hands off, Miss Carol, or I'll puzzle all of you!
00:27:47Get down the tree and help Miss Carol.
00:27:50Yes, I...
00:27:52Step out and line up against the light.
00:28:00Think you can shoot straight?
00:28:01You try me.
00:28:03I'm just itching to plug one guy I thinks down there.
00:28:07Make a false move, and I'll let you have it.
00:28:13You take this gun.
00:28:20I've still got you covered, and I'm a coward.
00:28:38If it ain't Clump, Prince Scalke and Jeremiah.
00:28:46Lum, my friend.
00:28:58And Jake, my partner.
00:29:01No, listen, I...
00:29:02The school mom had it coming to her.
00:29:03I thought I gave you enough the last time.
00:29:05I'll finish it now.
00:29:16Jake, did Colton pay you for the interest in that still?
00:29:19He sent me $40.
00:29:22Just what I put in.
00:29:24But you never can tell.
00:29:26Maybe later, when I get settled, I can get even.
00:29:30I hear the school mom is still staying.
00:29:33Never scared her one bit.
00:29:35Yeah, I hear she's preaching stronger than before.
00:29:38Well, when we're on the prowl again, I'll make certain.
00:29:57I'll beat you undressed, Jenny.
00:30:02Freddy, you ain't going swimming with me no more.
00:30:05So don't you take your clothes off.
00:30:08Ah, you're teasing.
00:30:09No, I'm not.
00:30:10I mean it.
00:30:14We've always gone and swimming together.
00:30:17Why not now?
00:30:19Teacher says not to.
00:30:20Why?
00:30:21Well, because...
00:30:22Because we're not what we used to be.
00:30:25You mean we're different?
00:30:27How?
00:30:29No, we're the same.
00:30:31And you can't see me without my clothes on.
00:30:33How come?
00:30:33I know how you look without your clothes on.
00:30:36I've seen you lots of times.
00:30:37Haven't I?
00:30:38Yes, I know.
00:30:39But now we're going up.
00:30:40Darren, he says I'm putting that idea into your head.
00:30:44Oh, sure.
00:30:46But I can't kiss you no more.
00:30:47Of course you can, silly.
00:30:49Only with my clothes on.
00:30:51All right.
00:30:52But I wish that teacher would mind her own business.
00:30:54Now, don't make.
00:30:57I mean, look how mad I'll watch for you.
00:31:14We're going in.
00:31:15All right.
00:31:17All right.
00:31:32All right.
00:32:03All right.
00:32:56All right.
00:33:08Pretty, ain't she?
00:33:14Hey, Jenny, you better hide.
00:33:16Somebody's up in the ridge.
00:33:17Okay, I'll hide in the cave.
00:33:25Ah, what do you want?
00:33:26Nothing of you, you old scarecrow.
00:33:28Oh, I know what you're aiming at.
00:33:30Ah, I sure have a fuss.
00:33:47Betty, bring me my clothes.
00:33:49Oh, gee, you told me not to look.
00:33:51How can I?
00:33:53You can't look, but I want my clothes.
00:33:55All right, all right.
00:34:26Let's walk by the still on our way home.
00:34:28Uh-uh, I'm cold.
00:34:31Besides, looks like the storm is blowing up.
00:34:35All right.
00:34:38All right, I guess now, Freddy.
00:34:42Yee, yee, yee.
00:34:46What is that, bitch?
00:34:47I bet it was Jake and you to Hoffman.
00:34:49Oh, it couldn't be Jake.
00:34:51Jake, his bill's on the other side of the river.
00:35:08Look, there comes Colton.
00:35:10It's 50-night again.
00:35:17You'd be all liquored up, too, if your wife was fooling around with your partner.
00:35:23Ah, Jake ain't fooling around with Colton's wife no more.
00:35:26He said he's trapped with that young'un.
00:35:52You're home early.
00:35:55I'll ask her for maybe the jiffy.
00:35:58You've been drinking again.
00:36:00Yeah.
00:36:01I have.
00:36:04Ow!
00:36:05Ow!
00:36:06Oh, I'm stronger!
00:36:07I have a fire in Greece, you low-down sneak.
00:36:11What have I done?
00:36:12You've been carrying out of my fire, Jake Colby.
00:36:15Right in front of my nose.
00:36:17Ow!
00:36:18I need Ira.
00:36:19Not this time, Mary.
00:36:20You're a liar.
00:36:32You'll never believe me, Ira.
00:36:34How village is talking about you?
00:36:37It's a lie.
00:36:38I am going to wreck every fool in your body.
00:36:42Oh, I'm here.
00:36:45Did you hit me again, Ira?
00:36:47I'll kill you.
00:36:48Kill you!
00:36:49Kill you!
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00:37:26Kill you!
00:37:27Kill you!
00:37:28Kill you!
00:37:29Kill you!
00:37:30Kill you!
00:37:30Kill you!
00:37:31Kill you!
00:37:31Kill you!
00:37:32Kill you!
00:37:41Let's go.
00:37:41Let's go.
00:38:12Let's go.
00:38:18Shame on you, Freddy.
00:38:20Well, heck, she's got all the fun we used to have.
00:38:23I hate her.
00:38:24Now, Freddy, the teacher is right.
00:38:28All right.
00:38:29Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:31Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:48Mommy!
00:38:49Mommy!
00:38:49Mommy!
00:38:52Mommy!
00:38:53Oh, Mommy, speak to me, Mommy!
00:38:54Speak to me!
00:38:56Are you hurt?
00:38:59Oh, Jenny.
00:39:01Is Daddy drunk again?
00:39:03Yeah.
00:39:05Something riled.
00:39:07They took it out on me.
00:39:09Mommy!
00:39:10Oh, Mommy.
00:39:11Come on, Mommy.
00:39:13Mommy.
00:39:13Come on, Mommy.
00:39:15Come on.
00:39:16Come on.
00:39:28Jenny.
00:39:29Yes, Mommy?
00:39:31Go get him to bed
00:39:32All right, Mommy
00:39:48Come on, Daddy
00:39:49Get to bed
00:40:05I've been catching her just a coral land on the floor, Daddy
00:40:08Come on, get to bed
00:40:12Wake up, Daddy
00:40:14It's your little jimmy
00:40:15She wants you to come to bed
00:40:19Oh, Daddy
00:40:29Oh, Daddy, I can't lift you
00:40:31Please wake up
00:40:36Oh, I suppose I'll have to undress you and put you to bed
00:40:53But, Daddy
00:40:55Jenny
00:40:56What's happened?
00:41:00Oh, Mother
00:41:01I think Daddy's dead
00:41:04No
00:41:07No, no, it can't be
00:41:12Oh, I'm scared
00:41:22Well
00:41:24I see you croaked him at last
00:41:38I knew you'd do it sooner or later
00:41:41And it sure looks like a good job
00:41:43No
00:41:44No, Jake
00:41:45I didn't do it
00:41:46I believe my own eyes, Flora
00:41:49I saw you do it
00:41:50I only scratched your side, I thought
00:41:52No, Jake
00:41:54It didn't
00:41:55It didn't
00:41:55Jake
00:41:56God is my witness
00:41:58I didn't do it
00:42:03Listen, Flora
00:42:05We ain't got no time to lose
00:42:07Before anyone gets rid of this
00:42:08I'd like to help you
00:42:09Oh, Hira
00:42:10Oh, Daddy
00:42:12Tell Jake that Mommy did it
00:42:14You fool, don't you understand
00:42:15This means the law for you
00:42:23All right, Jake
00:42:26What do you want me to do?
00:42:28But I didn't do it, I tell you
00:42:30You're lying, Flora
00:42:31You're lying and you know it
00:42:32But, what's this?
00:42:33It's a squabbling
00:42:34We both know that he had it coming to him
00:42:35No, he didn't
00:42:37We ain't got no more time to lose
00:42:38Don't you understand?
00:42:40Jenny
00:42:41Jenny
00:42:42Oh
00:42:43Let's step outside
00:42:44And see that no one's watching you
00:42:45When I bring your puppy out
00:42:48Well
00:42:49What you stand there taking for?
00:42:51You want your Mary to hang?
00:42:53Go on, go on
00:42:54Get outside
00:42:55Go on
00:42:56Jake
00:42:57What are you going to do?
00:42:59Taking him to Spooky Hollow
00:43:02I'll make it look like he fell over a cliff
00:43:04And the knife went into him that way
00:43:24You sure you ain't seen him?
00:43:30I'll make it look like he fell over a cliff
00:43:35I'll make it look like he fell over a cliff
00:43:39Goodbye, Daddy
00:43:41Goodbye
00:43:43Goodbye
00:43:44I don't know.
00:44:27I don't know.
00:45:00I don't know.
00:45:03I don't know.
00:45:10I don't know.
00:45:33Holy Moses.
00:45:34Let's go down.
00:45:42I don't know.
00:45:44I don't know.
00:45:44I don't know.
00:46:12I don't know.
00:46:13I don't know.
00:46:43I don't know.
00:46:45I don't know.
00:46:47I don't know.
00:46:47I don't know.
00:47:06I don't know.
00:47:11I don't know.
00:47:16I don't know.
00:47:25I don't know.
00:47:33I don't know.
00:47:38I don't know.
00:47:39I don't know.
00:47:51I don't know.
00:47:54I don't know.
00:47:56I don't know.
00:48:02I don't know.
00:48:24What are you aiming at?
00:48:26Laura, I've decided to take myself a wife.
00:48:29Why do you come to me?
00:48:30Oh, don't get scared.
00:48:31I don't want you.
00:48:33I want to talk to you, though, about her.
00:48:35You mean, Ginny?
00:48:37That's right.
00:48:49What's the matter, Ginny?
00:48:51Your face is all puckered up.
00:48:53Oh, nothing.
00:48:55That Jake Bowlby's in the cabin with Mother.
00:48:58And I shouldn't leave her alone with him.
00:49:00Oh, come on.
00:49:01He won't bite her.
00:49:02We'll take a short swim and come right back.
00:49:07All right.
00:49:10All right.
00:49:11That's the way it's going to be, then, because you're going to hang.
00:49:13And you look pretty with a rope around your neck.
00:49:18Now I know.
00:49:19Why, you blamed me for killing Ira.
00:49:22Jay, they're going to get my Ginny.
00:49:24You ain't.
00:49:25Oh?
00:49:26Well, I'll testify that I saw you kill Ira.
00:49:28You lie.
00:49:29You know it.
00:49:30And everybody else will know it.
00:49:31Yeah.
00:49:31But they'll believe Lum and Ezra and Jeremiah.
00:49:35I'm going to the county seat tomorrow.
00:49:37And that'll give you plenty of time to make up your mind.
00:49:43And remember,
00:49:45it won't take the marshal long.
00:50:04We're in a still.
00:50:07Howdy, boys.
00:50:11Well, how does it feel?
00:50:12You're courting the prettiest youngin' in the community.
00:50:14I don't see how you do it.
00:50:15I thought you and the Colton were on the oats.
00:50:18Not at all.
00:50:19Laura thinks that I'll make Ginny a right good husband.
00:50:21Well, Jake, you'd better be to her in,
00:50:23because the school mom has a firm sweetheart
00:50:25fighting to pass a marriage law at the state capitol.
00:50:28Yeah, and if it does,
00:50:30you'll be courting Ginny for seven long years.
00:50:32Yeah?
00:50:33I'll take care of that.
00:50:56Ginny.
00:51:04Look what I brought you.
00:51:10Now, listen, Ginny.
00:51:12I'm going to be your husband.
00:51:14And you want to be nice to me because if you don't,
00:51:17you know what'll happen to your mom.
00:51:22I, I'll try.
00:51:23Oh, and there's just one more thing.
00:51:26I don't want you to be seeing this pretty nutty no more.
00:51:31Do you understand?
00:51:32Yes.
00:51:33All right.
00:51:34Now take this.
00:51:36Go on, go on, take it.
00:52:04Don't forget what I told you.
00:52:06Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on,
00:52:23go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on,
00:52:26go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on,
00:52:26go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on,
00:52:26go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on,
00:52:26go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on,
00:52:26go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on,
00:52:27go on, go on, go on, go on
00:52:47Oh, Jenny!
00:52:49Jenny!
00:52:59Oh, Freddy!
00:53:03Jenny, I came to tell you that Jake told me if he catches me seeing you or speaking to you,
00:53:11he'll wring my neck.
00:53:12Yes, I know, but, but, Freddy, I must marry him or my mommy will suffer.
00:53:19Why should your mother suffer?
00:53:21Oh, Freddy, don't ask me that.
00:53:25I can't tell you.
00:53:27Well, all right.
00:53:30You don't want to tell me.
00:53:35But, ain't you going to come to school no more?
00:53:39No.
00:53:40They won't let me.
00:53:42Oh, Freddy!
00:53:44Don't cry, Jenny.
00:53:56Miss Carol?
00:53:58Yes?
00:54:03Well, Freddy Nottie, what brings you here?
00:54:06I, I came to tell you that Jake is going to marry my Jenny, and I thought you could stop
00:54:11it.
00:54:12Yes, I heard about it.
00:54:14I went to see Mrs. Colton, but she'd already given her consent.
00:54:18Well, gee, couldn't you do nothing?
00:54:20I couldn't make her change her mind.
00:54:22I'm sorry, Freddy.
00:54:24There's nothing else I can do.
00:54:26If I was a little bigger, I'd kill him.
00:54:28Freddy!
00:54:31You mustn't say that.
00:54:34Perhaps we may still be able to stop this child marriage.
00:54:37I thought you could do it.
00:54:56If there is anyone here among you
00:54:58who knows of any reason why these two people
00:55:02should not be joined together in holy wedlock,
00:55:06let him speak now
00:55:08or forever hold his peace.
00:55:22Join hands, please.
00:55:33Do you, Jake Balby,
00:55:36take this,
00:55:38this girl child
00:55:40that you hold by the hand
00:55:42to be your lawful wedded wife,
00:55:45to love,
00:55:46honor,
00:55:47and cherish
00:55:48the rest of your life?
00:55:51Repeat after me.
00:55:53I do.
00:55:54I do.
00:55:55And you, Jenny Coulton,
00:55:58do you take this man
00:56:00that you hold by the hand
00:56:01to be your lawful wedded husband,
00:56:04to love,
00:56:05honor,
00:56:06and obey
00:56:07for the rest of your day?
00:56:14I do.
00:56:17And now,
00:56:18I pronounce you
00:56:20man and wife.
00:56:22you may kiss
00:56:24the bride.
00:56:49You may kiss the bride.
00:56:51Jenny.
00:57:13Put one right there.
00:57:14All right.
00:57:16It puzzles me, Mr. Barrett, why you have to close these notices at night.
00:57:20Well, I'll tell you, Marshal, I want to surprise the girl I'm engaged to.
00:57:25You know, I kind of thought there was a nigger in the woodpile around here somewhere.
00:57:29Give me one of those placards and that, Admiral. I'll show you how to start.
00:57:32Here's a nail.
00:57:33Fine.
00:57:38You wait here.
00:57:39All right.
00:57:46It's me, Charles.
00:57:48Charles!
00:57:49Darling.
00:57:51Darling, I'll put it over.
00:57:53Look.
00:57:53The law.
00:58:07Wait.
00:58:09When did the law pass?
00:58:10Three days ago, dear.
00:58:13Three days ago?
00:58:15Darling.
00:58:21Bye, Jeremiah.
00:58:22Bye, Jerry, Jake.
00:58:24I'm very happy.
00:58:25Well, I will, I guess.
00:58:26Love you.
00:58:27Bye-bye.
00:58:31Laura?
00:58:32I'll be taking my wife home now.
00:58:35Oh, Mommy.
00:58:36I don't want to go.
00:58:39Jenny.
00:58:40You're my wife now, and it's time to go home.
00:58:45It's getting late.
00:58:53Oh, Mommy.
00:58:55I don't want to go.
00:59:08She's coming.
00:59:12Hey.
00:59:14Yeah.
00:59:18Bye-bye.
00:59:21Bye-bye.
00:59:39Well, my job's done.
00:59:43And mine just starting.
00:59:46Darling, what do you mean?
00:59:47Well, I can't be a child bride, but...
00:59:52But what?
00:59:54Well, I can't be a child bride.
01:00:24I can't be a child bride.
01:00:54I can't be a child bride.
01:01:24Oh, Freddy.
01:01:29Oh, Freddy, I was so scared.
01:01:33It's all right now, Jenny.
01:01:35You don't have to be his wife.
01:01:38Later, you can be mine.
01:01:40Oh, Freddy.
01:01:45Oh, Freddy.
01:01:51Oh, Freddy.
01:01:58Oh, he...
01:01:59Oh, my God.
01:02:00Oh, my God.
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