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1994 Quest For Justice FULL HOT MOVIE [Full Movie] [Official Release]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.
00:02:22All right, you got that.
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.
00:03:03Come 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 Brannan.
00:03:16Honey, stay back.
00:03:17Oh.
00:03:18You all right, sweetheart?
00:03:24Where's the ambulance?
00:03:26Someone's way.
00:03:27Let's go.
00:03:27Stay 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.
00:04:34She 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
00:05:09Congratulations
00:05:09I've known Hazel since she was just a twinkle in her dad's eye
00:05:13I ate all over Europe
00:05:30Nothing came close to you, fried chicken
00:05:33I've been waiting 20 years to throw you a wedding and you go and eat little
00:05:36You're gonna love him
00:05:38One more person to cook for
00:05:40But no kitchen help?
00:05:44We're gonna get us our dream house
00:05:46We're gonna have lunches 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 gonna settle down
00:05:56I had time, too
00:05:58Be nice
00:05:59And I might give you the earbuds that 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
00:06:12And 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 flippity gibbis is talking about me now?
00:06:35We just love your hair, Hazel
00:06:38Is that one of those new perms?
00:06:40No, it just curled up like that
00:06:42After Smitty ravished me down the engine room
00:06:46How could you stand those two hypocrites kissing up like that?
00:06:49Oh, I think she envies them
00:06:50Those jealous old tongue-waggers?
00:06:53Sure
00:06:54Hazel pretends that she likes to be different
00:06:56But deep down, she just wants to belong
00:06:58Just 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
00:07:08Miss Hazel?
00:07:10I put the suitcases in your room
00:07:11Thanks, Riley
00:07:12Stop by the kitchen for your leave
00:07:14Ruth's fixed your plate
00:07:15Thank you
00:07:16I tell you, the storm is gathering
00:07:19And the time back 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 Negris
00:07:32Oh, Lyle
00:07:33This storm will blow over like all the rest
00:07:36I don't believe it will
00:07:37Well, everybody's got to believe in something
00:07:40And I believe I'll have another drink
00:07:44Is it supposed to be a party?
00:07:45Isn't that any good news?
00:07:46Well, you got the county printing contract
00:07:48Does that count?
00:07:52Can I can't link his whiskers?
00:08:01Come on, boys
00:08:02Let's kick up our shoes
00:08:03And tie her up some turf
00:08:06Come on, Lyle
00:08:07Come on
00:08:08Come on there, Lyle
00:08:09Get up there
00:08:12Well, that's some woman you married
00:08:13Hmm
00:08:14I mean, you must be some kind of man to tame Hazel Vannan
00:08:18Oh, I didn't tame her
00:08:19I hope I never do
00:08:22Isn't that Lyle?
00:08:23Dancing like a meal on Crushing
00:08:26Must be hard, huh?
00:08:28Giving everything up
00:08:29Moving to a strange place
00:08:33I'd follow that woman into hell itself
00:08:36Mississippi shouldn't be too bad
00:08:40That's been a while
00:08:41It was an awful fun party
00:09:04Thank you so much
00:09:05Nice to meet you
00:09:07Congratulations
00:09:07Y'all take care
00:09:08Nice to meet you, Smitty
00:09:08Nice to meet you finally, Ann
00:09:10Bye-bye
00:09:10Bye
00:09:39Bye-bye
00:09:45Hi, John
00:09:46Morning, Nathan
00:09:47Morning, Mary
00:09:49Looking good
00:09:50Thank you
00:10:00Steerish service for us
00:10:01Metal and bail
00:10:04Three years in the building court
00:10:07Why'd you run a paper route, Sam?
00:10:09I'm sure you can find something better than that
00:10:11No, ma'am, I can't
00:10:12I've been taking some odd jobs here and there
00:10:14But I've got a family to feed
00:10:17I need some steady work
00:10:18Well, it's a sorry state
00:10:20When 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
00:10:35I take it
00:10:37Good
00:10:37Well, have Raleigh give you directions
00:10:40I'll meet you there tomorrow
00:10:41Yes, ma'am
00:10:42Yes, ma'am
00:10:54I am
00:10:56Someone named Jackson wanted to run an ad
00:10:58You told him no?
00:10:59It's Jackson's barbecue stand
00:11:02Out on the highway
00:11:05Well, anyway
00:11:07Mr. Rollins, can I call you right back?
00:11:09Thank you
00:11:11Hazel, that ain't gonna sit well with our regular advertisers
00:11:15You know, Jackson's is colored
00:11:17Well, his money's green
00:11:20Besides, they do have the best ribs aside in Mississippi
00:11:24Oh, why, Lily, what a place of surprise
00:11:27Hazel, I have a favor to ask
00:11:29Well, come on in
00:11:31Come on, Lily
00:11:32How are you?
00:11:36Mr. 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
00:11:49Before the Fourth of July Gala
00:11:51I'd love to
00:11:53And in the meantime
00:11:56Why, Hazel
00:11:58You 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
00:12:15Well, they must be desperate for new blood
00:12:17I thought hell would freeze over if they'd let me join
00:12:20But you're married now
00:12:21There 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
00:12:33Bad reputation's so much easy 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
00:12:49Oh, her mama's gonna pick us up on her way home from work
00:12:59That is mighty fine printing, Selena
00:13:01You been practicing?
00:13:03Yes, ma'am
00:13:08Now, for a dime
00:13:10Who 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 will put this quarter right there
00:13:25And when you know the answer
00:13:26You can 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
00:13:53From Memorial Hospital's new administrator
00:13:55What?
00:13:56I am now gainfully employed
00:13:58Well, that's incredible
00:13:58I thought it's a little shot
00:14:00It's bad for my energy
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
00:14:06Not 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 until 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, Selina
00:14:29Say good night, Priscilla
00:14:31Good night
00:14:31Good night, Mrs. Smith
00:14:33Let's clean your phone
00:14:38You, uh
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
00:14:54I don't think you're in any immediate danger, Earl
00:14:57Someone should probably tell the Supreme Court
00:15:02Yankee intellectuals have never set foot south of the Mason-Dixon
00:15:05No fits
00:15:06Oh, don't worry
00:15:07No one ever accused me of being an intellectual
00:15:09They got the NAACP organized them in Atlanta
00:15:13Little Rock
00:15:14Now, here
00:15:16We need our own committee
00:15:18If we're going to fight them
00:15:20Well, if the hospital supply of white sheets suddenly dwindles
00:15:23You'll know where to find them
00:15:24I'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 wouldn'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
00:15:53Hmm?
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 here?
00:16:51I am happier than I have ever been in my whole life.
00:16:56No more wonderlust.
00:16:59Lost the wonder part.
00:17:18That was a lovely sermon this morning.
00:17:20Thank you again.
00:17:21Thank you, sir.
00:17:23Now, I realize it's the 4th 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.
00:17:38They'll always talk of Reds under the bed.
00:17:40I was starting to feel conspicuous in this dress.
00:17:44See you all at a picnic.
00:17:46Come on, ladies. Let's go home.
00:18:02Come on, ladies.
00:18:36Eudora, I can't get over the job the society's done over at the rest of the home.
00:18:40It's never a little better.
00:18:41It's due in large part to the generous donation you made.
00:18:45I thought it might help when the membership vote came up.
00:18:47Your social contributions account for a lot more than your monetary ones, Hazel.
00:18:51Well, 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, Eudora.
00:19:16A leopard doesn't change spots just because it's found a 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.
00:19:51It'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.
00:19:56There's no need to act ugly.
00:19:57Now, 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.
00:20:15I just want to go, Smitty.
00:21:07Look at that one.
00:21:15There you
00:21:31Don't try to cause an accident no
00:21:39Boys drunk, ain't you? Oh, so we're just celebrating a bit. That's all don't lie to me boy
00:21:45I heard you hollering half a block away. Just having a little fun. Well, I suggest you get your black
00:21:50butts out of here
00:21:51Before I have to haul them in
00:21:55Come on, man
00:21:56Just having a little fun like everybody else. What did you say?
00:21:59No, you're gonna shoot. You didn't know? No, man. I'm gonna go! Marsh! Marsh!
00:22:05No, man. No, man. You didn't have to shoot him
00:22:34Yeah, hi, maple four-four two eight, please. Thank you
00:22:39Hi, hi, it's me. Uh, no, no, I'm fine. Uh, could you come down here for a second?
00:22:46No, no, uh, there's just something that I would like you to see
00:22:51Okay, thank you
00:22:54What's the big secret, anyway? No secret. I just want you to see this for yourself
00:23:13Hey, Marsh. Feeling a little better?
00:23:18I want you to tell her exactly what you told me
00:23:22No, it's all right. She's my wife
00:23:34Not a bunch of animals
00:23:36There's just a lot of tension on the air right now
00:23:38You've been defending this town for the last ten minutes, Hazel. I 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
00:23:49Shard Cole just happens to lead the pack here
00:23:52Right, Norman
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
00:24:03Um, get, uh, Doc Cannon
00:24:06His hand is gone. This man's critical
00:24:08I said get Doc Cannon
00:24:10Oh, he's in the operating room
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
00:24:22I'd be right there
00:24:23And while you finish with your white patient
00:24:25That negro's gonna bleed to death
00:24:28Well, since I'm in charge of emergency
00:24:29Why 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 what I need
00:24:38Some newcomer
00:24:39He only got the job because of his wife
00:24:42Telling me how to handle emergency
00:24:46Thank you
00:24:50Hazel
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, we all heard about that incident yesterday
00:25:26He was resisting arrest
00:25:27That's a lie, Earl
00:25:29There was no crime, no charges made
00:25:32Sheriff Cole was just in a bad mood
00:25:34It 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 in the schools this week
00:25:49The Culleds are real cocky
00:25:50That's not the point
00:25:52You're one of us, Hazel
00:25:53They'll just spare us the liberal hogwash
00:25:57Is Sheriff Cole one of us?
00:25:58Cole said those boys are agitators
00:26:00Agitators
00:26:01N-A-C-P, probably
00:26:03You 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
00:26:29Talking
00:26:30Talking don't do no good, Earl
00:26:34Might as well try talking to a stump
00:26:39Don't underestimate them, buddy
00:26:40They were smart enough to join the NAACP
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
00:26:58You better believe that
00:27:02Wait a minute
00:27:03We can't fight integration
00:27:05With 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
00:27:15Get down, you fool
00:27:16For I have your bodily removed
00:27:18Now, listen
00:27:19I've got just as much right
00:27:20Appreciate it
00:27:21Why don't you sit down
00:27:27Now
00:27:28Does anybody have a more intelligent suggestion?
00:27:39You all know that I've always supported segregation
00:27:44But the time has come to face the facts
00:27:47The college have lousy schools
00:27:49Lousy wages
00:27:50And 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
00:27:58Equal protection under the law
00:28:00Or in some cases
00:28:01From 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
00:28:07And the first one should be
00:28:07The removal of
00:28:07That man
00:28:08From office
00:28:11Pete Cole and his deputies
00:28:12Is what stands
00:28:13Between them and us
00:28:15It's his job
00:28:16To uphold the law
00:28:17Well, what are they gonna think
00:28:18If we fire him?
00:28:19They'll think they won
00:28:23Sit down, buddy
00:28:24Let her talk
00:28:27Is this what we're becoming?
00:28:29Since Brown
00:28:30Versus the Board of Education
00:28:31There's been more than a hundred
00:28:33Racially motivated arsons
00:28:35And bombings in the South
00:28:37Decent, church-going citizens
00:28:39Have been driven from their homes
00:28:40In the middle of the night
00:28:41Their children terrorized
00:28:44Simply
00:28:46Because they're coming
00:28:48Well, if we don't speak out
00:28:49Against the trash doing this
00:28:50Then we're accomplices
00:28:53The ministers who fail to preach
00:28:55The teachers who fail to teach
00:28:57The lawmen and judges
00:28:59Who fail to uphold the law
00:29:02And the plain
00:29:03Informed citizens
00:29:05Who knows what's going on
00:29:06Is wrong
00:29:06But doesn't speak out
00:29:08We are all to blame
00:29:16This meeting is adjourned
00:29:33Hazel
00:29:35That was a idiotic thing to do
00:29:38I hope you're talking about
00:29:39The sheriff's actions
00:29:40Not mine
00:29:40You made a fool of me in there
00:29:42Well, I couldn't have done it
00:29:43Without you, Hale
00:29:44You're caught in the devil, Hazel
00:29:46I was thinking the same thing
00:29:47About you
00:29:48Don't you expect any support
00:29:49From the committee
00:29:51In fact, you can expect trouble
00:29:53We've already got trouble
00:29:54And most of it
00:29:56We're cooking up our sails
00:30:20Oh, Smitty
00:30:22I dreamed of this house
00:30:24That's how I was a little girl
00:30:25Come on, I'll show you
00:30:31Well, what do you think?
00:30:32Oh, thank you
00:30:33That's right
00:30:34I want you to say something
00:30:34Come on
00:30:39Hey, Sam
00:30:40Hey, Mr. Smith
00:30:41How you doing?
00:30:42Not you, Ms. Smith
00:30:44Hazel, this man is on time
00:30:45And under budget
00:30:46And he should be in Congress
00:30:47Well, I tell you
00:30:48Work just begun, Mr. Smith
00:30:49So it's too soon
00:30:50With 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 didn't be in school
00:30:57Well, it's summer, Ms. Smith
00:31:00Oh, my God
00:31:02Your daddy said
00:31:03He wanted to be a carpenter
00:31:05Oh, you give me the name
00:31:07Of 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
00:31:20And I'll give you a dollar
00:31:21Thanks, Ms. Smith
00:31:24Now listen
00:31:25I'm going to build you that closet upstairs
00:31:27And I'm going to line the whole thing in cedar
00:31:29I've 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
00:31:35Oh, I've got a truckload of flowers
00:31:38I need to have planted this weekend
00:31:39You know anyone needs to work?
00:31:41Well, now, Ms. Smith
00:31:41You 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
00:31:47In 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
00:31:51She can't stand on the first one
00:31:52Well, that's not so
00:31:54Well, it's just that I've got a husband now
00:31:56So 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
00:32:15Being held for the personal rights of all men
00:32:18White or black
00:32:21Well?
00:32:23I don't know, Ms. Hazel
00:32:25You've always been one for causes
00:32:27But 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
00:32:33But 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 flyers call
00:33:26If you want roses, there's going to be another $50
00:33:28Fine
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
00:33:42I don't deserve you
00:33:45You're right
00:33:46Hey!
00:34:14Not tonight
00:34:16Sheriff, even hussies are allowed in church
00:34:19Well, this is a private meeting
00:34:21Besides
00:34:22Your 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?
00:34:39I should have write it down
00:34:41You tell me about it
00:35:09You know, I'll find out a double-mine
00:35:10You know what to say?
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 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 a pack.
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.
00:36:46But in the meantime,
00:36:48your friends are spitting on my feet.
00:36:52Like I put you up to all of this.
00:36:53You want me to hush up, too?
00:36:57No.
00:36:58No way.
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 here, you cowards!
00:37:53No!
00:37:54Take care of your lord, Nikki!
00:37:56Take it, Lava!
00:38:00No!
00:38:01No!
00:38:02No!
00:38:03No!
00:38:03No!
00:38:03No!
00:38:05No!
00:38:06No!
00:38:07No!
00:38:08No!
00:38:08No!
00:38:10No!
00:38:10No!
00:38:12No!
00:38:14No!
00:38:15No!
00:38:24Hey, buddy!
00:38:28Hey, Mr. Cleaver!
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 out her way last night.
00:38:42Well, the boys will be boys.
00:38:44Yeah.
00:38:48You put him up to it?
00:38:51What if I did?
00:38:54Now, you let me make one thing perfectly clear.
00:38:58I don't cotton to vandals.
00:39:01I don't condone petty harassment, and I can't abide lawlessness.
00:39:05And by God, I won't tolerate it from any member of the Citizens Committee either.
00:39:11We supposed to sit around like a bunch of old ladies, huh?
00:39:14They had a meeting last week, too. Over 200 of them showed up.
00:39:16We'll devise an intelligent and effective strategy.
00:39:19We're not a mob.
00:39:22Now, you conform to the dictates of this committee, then you're out.
00:39:26Count me out.
00:39:39Well, you gotta do something, Hazel. They destroyed your property.
00:39:43What, call the police?
00:39:45How about if you call the marshal?
00:39:49This kind of conduct on the part of our highest elected peace officer
00:39:54has done serious injury to relations between the races.
00:40:03I just thank God we got men like him around here to keep them folks in line.
00:40:08Things are a waste of paper.
00:40:10Not really, Carl. I use mine to line the cat box.
00:40:17You'd think some people would be ashamed to show their face.
00:40:20Some people ought to keep their stupid opinions to themselves.
00:40:24Thanks for the free advice.
00:40:25I guess you get what you pay for.
00:40:30Maybe you should write an article about comedy trash.
00:40:33Reba, I see you finally developed a sense of humor.
00:40:36This is a private conversation.
00:40:38Oh, yeah?
00:40:38Well, it's just too bad that your IQ isn't as big as those falsies.
00:40:42I am.
00:40:43Don't go getting into a battle of wits with these women.
00:40:46They're not armed.
00:40:52The reign of terror must be stopped,
00:40:54along with the countless floggings, assaults, bombings, cross-burnings,
00:40:59and other acts of intimidation.
00:41:01It is not enough to remain aloof from the mob.
00:41:04We must create a climate of public opinion in which they cannot operate.
00:41:09What do you think?
00:41:10I'm not the one that you're convincing.
00:41:13Let it be, Miss Hazel.
00:41:15You ought to go on home.
00:41:18Your eyes look like two chairs in the snow.
00:41:21I'm almost done.
00:41:24Thanks, Riley.
00:41:26For everything.
00:41:46Let me reiterate, the man was critical,
00:41:49and in my opinion, Dr. Barnseer was misdirecting his energies.
00:41:56If this were the only incident...
00:41:58You keep mentioning other incidents, other complaints.
00:42:01Well, what were they, and who made them?
00:42:03Because certainly no one has confronted me directly.
00:42:07We're not at liberty to say.
00:42:09You are not at liberty to say.
00:42:12Then how am I supposed to answer these charges?
00:42:14You're not.
00:42:15Well, we have taken a vote and decided to terminate your position here.
00:42:22Effective immediately.
00:42:28God help the man who holds up a mirror to this town.
00:42:32You get two weeks' severance.
00:42:36It's ironic, isn't it?
00:42:38The greatest democracy in the history of mankind has produced this pathetic room full of bums.
00:42:45We all know what this is about.
00:42:46It has nothing to do with my performance.
00:42:49Now, if any of you had an ounce of guts,
00:42:51you would have called it like it was and spared me this silly little kangaroo court.
00:42:56Gentlemen.
00:43:14Hank.
00:43:16You scared the putting out of me.
00:43:19Sorry.
00:43:23Reggie's a cat.
00:43:25I've been hearing things all night.
00:43:29What'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 for a desk job anyway.
00:43:45Come on.
00:43:50Let's go home.
00:44:07Well, it's a blessing anyway.
00:44:11Now you can supervise the ventilation.
00:44:20Get down.
00:44:22Get down.
00:44:24Go, go.
00:44:25Go, go.
00:44:26Go.
00:44:29Go, go.
00:44:33Go.
00:44:38Go.
00:44:40Go.
00:44:43Go.
00:44:47Go.
00:44:48Go.
00:44:48Go.
00:44:50Go.
00:44:53Go.
00:44:55Do you want to go?
00:44:56it's just my daddy's desk
00:45:00he gave it to me when I got the loan
00:45:02to buy the paper
00:45:05that's all I had left of him
00:45:09thanks
00:45:11it's paper, glass, wood
00:45:13it's alright
00:45:14it's not alright
00:45:1520 years of your life was in that desk
00:45:18the last 20 years don't mean a thing
00:45:19you weren't part of it
00:45:27it's Hazel
00:45:31how's the printing equipment?
00:45:32I'm going to need a lot of new parts
00:45:33but I think I can save it
00:45:35Mr. Smith, could you loan me a hand
00:45:37at the back door, it's kind of stuck
00:45:44will you be okay?
00:45:56some mean folks in this world
00:45:59expect we ought to call the sheriff
00:46:02what for?
00:46:04he spent about 5 minutes
00:46:05on his investigation of our fire
00:46:07there'll get worse
00:46:08before getting it better
00:46:09yeah
00:46:11help me get this down before Hazel sees it
00:46:20I think that's a great idea
00:46:24look 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 daddy
00:46:33why don't you go down to Lucy's
00:46:35and pick up some burgers
00:46:36and some of the spray of the one
00:46:37and keep a dollar for yourself
00:46:42Ray?
00:46:43get some fries too
00:46:49well, well
00:46:51you here to help or just to gloat?
00:46:53just passing by
00:46:55how's the investigation coming?
00:46:57any new leads?
00:46:58still looking into
00:47:00of course
00:47:01you stop to think
00:47:03the property owner is always
00:47:04the prime suspect in any arson
00:47:06don't stop to think, sheriff
00:47:08he might never get started again
00:47:15but you've been advertising with us
00:47:16for 14 years, Della
00:47:19business is double
00:47:20you said so yourself
00:47:21I don't want to give him
00:47:22any excuse
00:47:23to shop in those new stores
00:47:24over in Jackson
00:47:25you're not just hurting
00:47:27Hazel, Della
00:47:27you're hurting everybody
00:47:28that works at the paper
00:47:29oh, Ann, honey
00:47:30I'm sorry
00:47:32the committee is organizing
00:47:34a boycott
00:47:34no one's gonna advertise
00:47:36no one's gonna subscribe
00:47:37I just can't go against my own husband
00:48:02committee's organized a boycott
00:48:04told us at least 60% of my advertising
00:48:07what kind of people are these?
00:48:09we sure do appreciate
00:48:10what you're doing for us, Miss Smith
00:48:11don't make me out of be so noble, Sam
00:48:13I would've done the same thing
00:48:14if Morris Jones had been white
00:48:15well, it wouldn't have happened
00:48:16if he had been white
00:48:17well, one bad apple
00:48:18didn't spoil the whole bunch
00:48:31what do you want, sheriff?
00:48:37got 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
00:48:53for a hundred thousand dollars
00:48:55I guess things can't get much worse
00:49:01yes, they can
00:49:03my sister's coming to visit
00:49:05oh, Smitty
00:49:16why, Lily
00:49:18what a surprise
00:49:19hello, Hazel
00:49:21I haven't seen you lately
00:49:22I hope you haven't come down
00:49:24with that flu that's been going around
00:49:26um, I was gonna call you
00:49:28but, um, I've just been real
00:49:31oh, that's alright
00:49:33seems I'm very difficult to reach lately
00:49:35yeah
00:49:35now, that flu's left you looking a bit peevish
00:49:38or is it the hair?
00:49:41yeah, it does start dragging the face down
00:49:43when you get older
00:49:43maybe you should consider wearing it up
00:49:46something a bit like this
00:49:48yes, that's lovely
00:49:49thank you, Hazel
00:49:50oh, by the way
00:49:51I'm afraid I'm gonna have to withdraw
00:49:53my membership of the Historical Society
00:49:55I'm sure everyone will be devastated
00:49:57oh, can't be helped
00:50:00apart with rebuilding the paper and all
00:50:02I just don't have a minute
00:50:04bye
00:50:32bye
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.
01:22:36Think of some really clever last words, okay?
01:22:46Smitty?
01:22:48Smitty?
01:22:49Smitty?
01:22:50Smitty?
01:22:51Smitty?
01:22:52Got you.
01:22:53Oh!
01:22:54You damn fool.
01:22:56You damn fool.
01:23:07Carol?
01:23:07Carol?
01:23:08Carol?
01:23:22Carol?
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 up a new plan, maybe write a new editorial.
01:23:59Do whatever you like.
01:24:03I got other plans for this afternoon.
01:24:21He will deal with courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, and open the door.
01:24:28For just as troubles and earthly suffering are over for our brother Walter,
01:24:58I came for Sneddy.
01:25:00No, Miss Hazel, they came for you.
01:25:18As surely as he gave us life, heaven awaits us after death.
01:25:24A place where hunger is fed and fear forgotten, hatred and time.
01:25:32And all God's children in peace, let us pray.
01:25:40My Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
01:25:45Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
01:25:50Give us this day our daily bread.
01:25:54Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
01:25:59Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
01:26:05For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever.
01:26:10Amen.
01:26:24In 1964, Hazel Brannon Smith became the first woman to receive the nation's highest honor in editorial writing,
01:26:33the Pulitzer Prize.
01:27:11The Pulitzer Prize is the first woman to receive the nation's highest honor in editorial writing,
01:27:28the Pulitzer Prize.
01:27:37The Pulitzer Prize is the first woman to receive the nation's highest honor in editorial writing,
01:27:40of the titleāthe Laune Salud, whose honor to receive the nation's highest honor in editorial writing.
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