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Pearl gives up her music lessons because when she yodels, Elly's dogs storm her. Jed comes up with a plan to figure out how the dogs are coming in the house.
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00:00Come and listen to my story about a man named Jed, a poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed.
00:05And then one day he was shooting at some food, and up through the ground come a bubbling crude.
00:11Oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea.
00:16Well, the first thing you know, old Jed's a millionaire.
00:19The kinfolk said, Jed, move away from there.
00:22Said, California is the place you ought to be.
00:24So they loaded up a truck and they moved to Beverly Hills, that is.
00:29Swimming pools, movie stars.
00:32The Beverly Hillbilly.
01:04Hey, Ma, what do you want me to do with the sign?
01:06Oh, I don't care, Jeff, bro. You might as well burn it.
01:09Okay, Ma.
01:12In here, take it on outside.
01:15Okay. What's going on, Pearl? How come you're bringing your sign?
01:18Oh, Jed, I give up.
01:20How can I give music lessons when every time I open my mouth to sing or yodel, 15 dogs jump
01:26on me?
01:27That's right, Uncle Jed.
01:28Last night when I come in, they had my treat on top of the pie ante.
01:32That wasn't funny, Jeff.
01:34Well, it made Granny and May laugh.
01:36Well, it may give me her word that she'd keep them dogs outside, especially while you was performing.
01:40How are they getting in here?
01:42I don't know, but we'll find out.
01:43Now, Jethro, you stay here and watch the front door.
01:46I'll go watch the cellar door.
01:48You know he can't get in the back because Granny's in the kitchen.
01:51Pearl, you go on in the drawing room and cut loose.
02:12Don't get her, gang.
02:13I'm going in it for every one of them.
02:36Don't get your maw down off her perch.
02:40Dad, I can't get all I can stand for.
02:44Either you get rid of them dogs or I'm leaving.
02:47Yeah, Pearl, yeah.
02:48Now, calm down.
02:49Pa, you ain't going to get rid of my dog.
02:51Now, Ellie Mae, you let me handle them.
02:53Your Aunt Pearl been set upon by these dogs and we got to weed out the vicious ones.
02:58Jethro, you commence to hand them to me.
03:00Yes, sir, Uncle Jed.
03:01Pa, please.
03:02I'm going to handle this, Ellie Mae.
03:05Here's a mean looking one, Pearl.
03:07Oh, look at all.
03:13Well, I don't reckon he's one of the mean ones, Jed.
03:19You can keep that one, Ellie.
03:24Uh-oh, look what we got here.
03:26The ringleader.
03:30You see such a vicious looking face?
03:34He ain't exactly a ringleader.
03:37He just kind of went along with the mob.
03:45How about this mean looking varmint here, Pearl?
03:49Oh, let them all stay.
03:52Just keep them out of the house while some singing and yodeling.
03:57Well, how'd they get in, Ma?
03:58Well, they seem to come from that direction over there.
04:01Oh, I wish I was in Dixie.
04:04Hooray, hooray.
04:06In Dixieland, I'll take my stand to live in.
04:15Well, what's everybody staring at me for?
04:20I don't let them dogs in.
04:22Nobody said you did, Granny.
04:30My own kin has turned against me.
04:33Giving me the evil eye.
04:35You want to get shed of me because I'm old and ailing.
04:38And all crippled up with the rheumatism and the lumbago.
04:43Worn out in the service of my kin.
04:47Well, you don't have to put up with old Granny anymore.
04:52I'm going to throw myself in the cement pond and drown.
04:56Then I won't be no more trouble to you.
05:02Don't nobody try and stop me.
05:10Don't nobody try to stop me!
05:18Well, Pearl, uh, you heard her.
05:21Reckon you'd better take over the kitchen.
05:24All right, Jed, I'll get right out there.
05:29You keep out of my kitchen!
05:31Ooh!
05:35Ooh!
05:50Go get her, gang!
05:51There's a usual reward.
05:53Granny, close that door.
05:56Oh, Jed.
05:58I only opened the door to let in a little fresh air.
06:01Yeah, I'm a lot of dog.
06:03Well, I just can't take Pearl screeching any longer.
06:06Sounds like a pine knot and a saw meal.
06:09Ms. Drysdale's been complaining, too.
06:12Calls the police most every day.
06:13That ain't a bit neighborly, is it?
06:16Mr. Drysdale promised she wouldn't call no more.
06:19Now, Granny, you leave them dogs outside.
06:35Give me the police!
06:37Give me the police!
06:52Man, I thought that complaint would never come through.
06:54How can anyone complain about a thing as beautiful as Pearl's yodeling?
07:04Tide, you're not well.
07:06Jed, you let him in.
07:07I just know it's that nice policeman who's crazy about my yodeling.
07:11I don't think so this morning, Pearl.
07:13Oh, sure it is.
07:14Comes by Perkner every morning about now.
07:16Him and that young policeman.
07:19Oh, it is you.
07:20Come in.
07:21Thank you, Mr. Clavett.
07:22Morning, sir.
07:23Morning.
07:23Well, look who's here.
07:25Officer Dean.
07:27You can just call me Eddie, ma'am.
07:28F and you'll call me Pearl, Eddie.
07:31It'll be my pleasure, Pearl.
07:33I've got a brand new yodel to show you.
07:35Wonderful.
07:41Everybody can be friends if they just try.
07:44And you two is friends, and I am.
07:47Just remember, Ruddy, folks don't eat their friends.
07:50You two have a good ride, and go show Granny how y'all made up.
08:03That's the best batch of rheumatism medicine I ever did cook up.
08:13Yes, sir.
08:14That's first rate.
08:27I commenced to seeing birds riding horseback on cats.
08:31That's enough tasting.
08:35Hi, Granny.
08:37Oh, Ellie.
08:38Here, keep the fire going under my steel.
08:40I'm going up and rest a while.
08:42Well, Granny, you promised Pa you wouldn't run your steel no more.
08:46Just to make a little rheumatism medicine.
08:49In case I wake up one of these bitter cold nights and get a seizure.
08:54Granny, it don't get bitter cold out here.
08:56Jethro read in the newspaper where it's going to get 20 below tonight.
09:04Of course, that's in Alaska.
09:06But if I wake up and think about it, I might give a seizure.
09:13Ellie Mae.
09:14Down here by the fire.
09:19Ellie Mae, what are you doing?
09:20Now, this is illegal.
09:21You can get arrested for this.
09:23I can't?
09:23Well, absolutely.
09:24Open fires aren't allowed in this area.
09:27Here, I'll help you put it out.
09:34How are you doing?
09:39Just fine.
09:40You got the makings of a first-rate yodeler.
09:44Oh, say, I got to get back to the car and check in.
09:46Check in?
09:47On the radio.
09:48Come on, I'll show you.
09:49Oh, is it all right?
09:50Sure, come on.
09:55Well, I reckon I hadn't better resist an officer of the law.
09:59That's right.
09:59Just come along quietly.
10:01Remember, I've got a gun.
10:05Uncle Jed, Granny, come quick.
10:06What, Mr. General?
10:07That policeman arrested Ma.
10:09Arrested her?
10:10Yes, sir.
10:10He had her by the arm of dragging her out to his police car.
10:13I'll go see if he's going here.
10:16I wouldn't have called the police if I thought...
10:19Granny.
10:20You mean you set the police on Pearl?
10:23Your own kin?
10:24I reckon I did, Jed.
10:26I don't recollect it quite clear.
10:29I guess it's because I'm so old and sick and ailing and puny and frail and all crippled up with...
10:36All right, now, don't start that again.
10:37Granny, I just can't understand you turning on your own kin.
10:41Well, it was just...
10:42It was the hot California sun that done it.
10:46That's what done it.
10:47It softened my poor old brain.
10:51You ain't going to throw me out of the Klan area, Jed.
10:53Uncle Jed!
10:55He ain't took Ma away yet.
10:56They still out front.
10:58Maybe there's time to right the wrong you done.
11:00Oh, I will.
11:00I will.
11:01I'll do anything.
11:02Pearl!
11:03Pearl!
11:04I'm coming, Pearl!
11:05I'm coming!
11:06I sure wish I could invite you into the kitchen for some coffee and Bittles, but Granny is so mean
11:13and cantankerous when it comes to...
11:14Pearl!
11:15Oh, forgive me.
11:17Oh, I'm the one that set the law on you.
11:19Please forgive me, Pearl.
11:21I'm so ashamed.
11:23Forgive me, Pearl.
11:24Don't let Jed throw me out of the Klan.
11:27You set the law on me?
11:29Oh, I'm low, Pearl.
11:31Awful low and mean.
11:33Step on me, Pearl.
11:35Step on me.
11:37Step on me like you would a worm.
11:39Tromp on me.
11:41Grind your feet on me.
11:43Wake up out of the Klan, Pearl.
11:47Mr. Policeman, run over me.
11:50I don't deserve to live.
11:52Run over me and throw my poor old mean body to the buzzards.
11:59All right, Granny, now that's enough.
12:01But Pearl hasn't forgiven me yet.
12:04Mr. Policeman, give your gun to Pearl and let her shoot me.
12:08Oh, Granny, stop that.
12:10Put a curse on me, Pearl.
12:12I forgive you.
12:14I forgive you.
12:15But I deserve to be punished and punished bad.
12:18Sing to me, Pearl.
12:21Maybe Pearl done said she forgives you.
12:23Am I taken back to the Klan?
12:25Am I welcome to the bosom of my family?
12:28I reckon.
12:31Pearl, you are an angel.
12:33You can have anything I got any time.
12:35You can have any part of my kitchen.
12:38Throw me out of it.
12:39Set the dogs on me.
12:41Yes, sir.
12:41Take your Granny into the house, please.
12:43Sure, Ma.
12:44Did you want her?
12:45No, I didn't want her.
12:46Walk me, Pearl.
12:47Oh, gee, I'll take her in the house.
12:49Come on in the house and walk me, Pearl.
12:54I'm sorry, Mr. Policeman, but Granny, you know, she gets worked up every now and then.
12:58I understand.
12:59Now, I can invite you in the kitchen to have some vittles and coffee.
13:03Oh, no, thanks.
13:03I see my pardoning coming.
13:04We'd better get moving.
13:07Well, young fellow, you find anything missing?
13:09Oh, no, sir.
13:10She's got everything.
13:11I mean, everything was there, but that isn't around the pool.
13:15Well, you come back and see us here.
13:17We will.
13:17Just keep yodling.
13:19Bye, now.
13:19Bye.
13:20See you when the roads get better.
13:21Bye-bye.
13:24It's quite a family, isn't it, Pearl?
13:25As you young fellows would say, it's like, wow.
13:29You know, here they are with all these millions and this big, beautiful mansion, and guess how
13:33they heat the water for their swimming pool.
13:35How?
13:36Well, they got this big, round kind of copper boiler, see, and coming out of the top is
13:41this kind of spout, and attached to that is this corkscrew tubing that goes down and
13:45leads into a big jar.
13:46Right.
13:47And they keep this fire going under this big water.
13:49Officer Kelly.
13:50But imagine how long it would take you all...
13:52Sit here, boy.
13:53Yes, sir?
13:54You have just described the still.
13:57A what?
13:57The still.
13:59No wonder they got so much money.
14:01These people are moonshining.
14:09Pearl, is this bowl big enough?
14:11Cause if it ain't, you just say the word and I'll fetch another one.
14:14Ronnie, you don't have to fight some carry for me.
14:17It's my pleasure.
14:19It's an honor to be in the same kitchen with such a good cook as you are.
14:24Which bacon?
14:25The special sweet potato pie.
14:27Did you hear that, kid?
14:29Did you hear what this beautiful cousin of yours is making?
14:33Yeah, I heard, Granny.
14:34Pearl, before I go on to my reward, would you give me the receipt for that pie?
14:41I want to make it for the angels up yon.
14:44That is, if they'll take me in after the shameful thing I've done today.
14:49Like setting the law on my own kin.
14:53The devil got into me, Pearl.
14:56Granny, don't go to ballin'.
14:58T'was no harm done.
14:59But kinfolks should stick together.
15:02That's the truth.
15:02Blood's thicker than water.
15:04Did you hear what he said?
15:06Did you hear what Jed said?
15:08That's the wisest thing I ever heard in all my life.
15:12Blood is thicker than water.
15:17Granny, I didn't make it up.
15:19But nobody ever said it like you said it, Jed.
15:22It makes me proud to belong to your clan.
15:26I do belong.
15:28Don't I, Jed?
15:29Oh, bless you.
15:31Bless you both.
15:32I don't deserve such good kin.
15:35It's a pure pleasure to see you all getting along at last.
15:38Reckon it takes a storm to bring out the rainbow.
15:42Did you hear what I said?
15:45Pearl!
15:46Don't strain yourself reaching for anything like that here.
15:49Stand on me!
15:51Oh, Granny, get off.
15:54You don't have to wait on me.
15:56But I've got to make up for what I've done to you, Pearl.
15:59Order me!
16:00Command me!
16:03Well, all right.
16:04Let me have a couple of pie tins.
16:07What else, Pearl?
16:09Hand me the flour.
16:13Well, Granny, maybe you could help me later.
16:18Right now, I just would kind of like to be in the kitchen by myself.
16:21I understand.
16:23I've got some things outside I can tend to.
16:26It's just I want this potato pie to be special good for Eddie.
16:30Who?
16:31Officer Dean, good-looking policeman.
16:34Oh, I wouldn't get too sick with the law, Pearl.
16:38They can be awful nosy.
16:40Oh, Eddie and me's just jodlin' acquaintances.
16:44So far.
16:46It's a still, all right.
16:47There's no question about it.
16:49Well, that doesn't mean they're making moonshine.
16:51Maybe it's something harmless.
16:56I'll show you how harmless it is.
16:57Come on.
17:07Drag a match.
17:12Now toss the match in there.
17:14In the water?
17:15Toss it.
17:21Hey, Sarge.
17:23We're not going to arrest Ellie Mae for this, are we?
17:25I'm sure she's not responsible for it.
17:27I don't think Pearl is, either.
17:28Mr. Clampard seemed like such a wonderful man.
17:31It's probably Granny.
17:32Anybody who would lie down in front of a police car and say, run over me, has got to be
17:36gassed.
17:37Maybe Granny doesn't know what's wrong to make that stuff.
17:40That's possible.
17:41Pearl says she refuses to give up the customs of the hill.
17:44Well, looks like Pearl was right.
17:45Yeah, and there's Granny's old still to prove it.
17:52Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
17:59Say, Pearl, you seen that thing of them two policemen?
18:01Not since they left.
18:03Well, that's just it.
18:04They didn't.
18:05Their police car's still out front.
18:07Oh, that Eddie.
18:09Oh, I hope he's not so going on me that he's neglecting his duty.
18:14Oh, here's Granny.
18:15Back to help you, Pearl.
18:16Good.
18:17Granny, I need your rendering skillet.
18:20I'll see that you get it, Pearl.
18:23See, I was just telling Pearl, Granny, that police car's still out front.
18:28Aye, I can't figure it myself, but Pearl seems to understand.
18:31Uh-huh.
18:33Granny, did you find the skillet?
18:35Yeah, Pearl.
18:37Well, let me have it.
18:40Sure is heartwarming to see you, too.
18:44Granny!
18:46What was that loud ringing noise?
18:49Granny.
18:52Granny, why in the world did you...
18:54I heard the meal gong.
18:55It's Biddle's room.
18:57Ah!
18:57Don't touch her.
18:58She's tainted.
18:59Tainted?
19:00That sure is a fancy new meal gong in me and Skippy.
19:04What happened to I, Pearl?
19:06Granny whomped her, and I reckon she better tell me how come right now.
19:10Young'uns, you know the code of the hills.
19:13What is the lowest, meanest, traitorous thing a friend can do to his neighbor?
19:19Tell the revenueers he's got to steal.
19:22Here sits the traitor that done it.
19:24She's the one that ain't fit to belong to the clan.
19:27Granny, you promised me you wouldn't make no more moonshine.
19:30I'm making medicine.
19:32Do you want me all gnarled up and twisted in the grip of my rheumatist?
19:36Is that the thanks I get for working my poor old fingers to the bones?
19:40The honor comes the law.
19:41Two policemen.
19:43Barricade the door!
19:44I'll lift the table.
19:45They pour a body across it and we'll shoot from behind you.
19:48Whoa!
19:49Ellie, you get the flag!
19:51Jethro, you get the guns!
19:53And I'll throw knives at them till you get back!
19:58Nobody do nothing.
19:59We ain't gonna fight the law.
20:01We ain't gonna fight.
20:02Whatever we, a clan or a nest of mice!
20:05You heard me.
20:06Jethro, you and Ellie take some of that cold water.
20:08Bring you more or two.
20:08I'll take care of the law.
20:13Clabby, we'd like to talk to you about that still down by the swimming pool.
20:16Yes, sir.
20:16I feared you'd catch me sooner or later.
20:18Well, I'm ready to go with you.
20:20I'll make no trouble.
20:21Are you the one who's running it?
20:22Me and me only.
20:24Paul ain't running it.
20:26It's me.
20:26That's my still, ain't it, Jethro?
20:28No, sir.
20:29That's my still.
20:31Don't listen to these young'uns.
20:32It's my still.
20:33Now, come on.
20:34Arrest me.
20:34Let's get it over with.
20:35Well, that ain't true.
20:37If you want to know who that still belongs to, I'll tell you.
20:43It's me.
20:45Pearl.
20:46Put the handcuffs on me.
20:48Now, just a darn minute.
20:49Ain't nobody going to take credit for my work except me.
20:53And if it's again the law to make a little rheumatism medicine,
20:56then take me to the chain gang.
20:59Yeah, take me to the chain gang.
21:00That's mine.
21:02Here's like we's all going to the chain gang.
21:04Nobody will go anywhere.
21:06If Granny will promise to stop making rheumatism medicine.
21:11Well, I reckon what I made today will hold me through the winter.
21:15Well, I wouldn't count on that.
21:16You see, we accidentally spilled all the evidence into the swimming pool.
21:20Swimming pool?
21:21Oh, poor Charlie.
21:23Who's Charlie?
21:24My pet duck.
21:30Pick him.
21:54Well, now it's time to say goodbye to Jed and all his kin.
21:57And they would like to thank you folks for kindly dropping in.
22:01You're all invited back next week to this locality
22:04To have a heaping helping of their hospitality.
22:08Hillbilly, that is.
22:10Set a spell.
22:12Take your shoes off.
22:13You all come back now.
22:15Here?
22:16This has been a Filmways presentation.
22:18IL YOUR JOP
22:20STUNT
22:20JUST HAVE BEEN
22:23SUPPOSED
22:23BEREERE
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