A heartfelt western drama set across the rugged frontier landscapes of the American West. Prairie Hearts of the West (1940) tells a story of courage, love, sacrifice, and survival during difficult times. Filled with emotional moments, classic cowboy action, and beautiful vintage cinematography, this timeless film captures the spirit of old Hollywood western adventures.
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00:00:00THE END
00:00:37THE END
00:01:06We the People now presents Dr. William Thorpe, head of the International Medical Association.
00:01:13Dr. Thorpe.
00:01:17I speak for the Association's Committee for Refugee Doctors.
00:01:21Our purpose is to find professional openings in this country for those physicians and surgeons who have been driven from
00:01:27their own countries.
00:01:29However, these gentlemen have no wish to compete with our own doctors in the medically well-serviced metropolitan areas.
00:01:37But there are hundreds of towns and communities throughout rural America entirely without medical service.
00:01:43It is to such towns and hamlets that I am expressing this message.
00:01:48These men, grateful for the sanctuary that America has afforded them in their hour of need, are prepared to accept
00:01:54posts in just these places and ask nothing beyond their actual living needs and the chance to be of service.
00:02:02The next voice you hear will be Dr. Rudolf Preussner, formerly of Prague.
00:02:09Dr. Preussner.
00:02:13You people out there want two things to know.
00:02:18First, what kind of a doctor is this whose voice we hear?
00:02:24And second, is he a good doctor?
00:02:27Dr. Rudolf Preussner.
00:02:27The first question I answer quickly, I am a specialist in obstet- obstetrics.
00:02:34Uh, eight years, I do nothing but this.
00:02:37And, uh, very good success with a stork.
00:02:42And the second question, is he a good doctor?
00:02:46Can I answer that?
00:02:48Yes.
00:02:49Since I have great pride in my profession, I can.
00:02:53Yes.
00:02:55I am a good doctor.
00:02:57I hope you will, somewhere, let me prove that I do not boast.
00:03:10Thank you, Dr. Preussner.
00:03:12Now, I present to you a most eminent specialist.
00:03:16Dr. Carl Brown of Vienna.
00:03:19Dr. Brown.
00:03:24There's so much I'd like to tell you about Dr. Brown that I, uh, I honestly don't know where to
00:03:29begin.
00:03:30Perhaps I'd better just sum it all up by saying that twenty years ago, like many other American doctors,
00:03:35I journeyed to Vienna for the express purpose of taking post-graduate work under him in his famous clinic there.
00:03:43Dr. Brown.
00:03:44Well, ladies and gentlemen, I am more used to the stethoscope and ether cone than I am to the microphone.
00:03:54But it is not ethical that I expect you to buy me like a cat in a bag.
00:03:59Yes?
00:04:00No.
00:04:01So, I tell you about myself.
00:04:06I am over sixty.
00:04:09That is not very young.
00:04:11But it is not too old.
00:04:13Only last week, I had a complete examination, which everyone should have at least twice a year.
00:04:20And they tell me I am sound yet in the more important parts.
00:04:25If one can believe doctors.
00:04:30For many years in Vienna, I conducted an orthopedic clinic.
00:04:35Diseases of the bone.
00:04:36And I worked most successfully with children.
00:04:40It has been my privilege to help many little cripples to walk again.
00:04:45Oh yes, I forget.
00:04:46I am a fine father.
00:04:49I must warn you, there are two of us.
00:04:52That means two expenses if you send for me.
00:04:57Naturally, we cannot separate my daughter Leni and I.
00:05:01After all we have gone through together.
00:05:03In Vienna, she was very gay.
00:05:06When Vienna was gay.
00:05:08But now she settles down to work by my side.
00:05:12She is studying to be a nurse.
00:05:14And learning very fast.
00:05:17And such a musician.
00:05:19You should hear her once play a Brahms concerto.
00:05:24Every note is like a kiss.
00:05:49What a beautiful country, Papa.
00:05:51So lovely.
00:05:53We are lucky.
00:05:54Two thousand miles we travel.
00:05:57No soldiers do we see.
00:05:59No frontiers do we cross.
00:06:00No custom house.
00:06:02No guards.
00:06:04America.
00:06:06Yes, and we are lucky too that we go to such a small village.
00:06:09Large dirty cities I don't like.
00:06:12The long lane turns at last, Lynchin.
00:06:15Here at last we find peace.
00:06:18Yes.
00:06:22How are you doing, folks?
00:06:24Fine.
00:06:25Fine.
00:06:26Beautiful scenery.
00:06:28What hour do we arrive at Asheville, folks?
00:06:31Still 9.40.
00:06:33Then I have time to take a little nap, yes?
00:06:35Sure.
00:06:36Loads of it.
00:06:37We may not be on time anyway.
00:06:39I thought in America everything is on time.
00:06:41This is not the super cheap, buddy.
00:06:43This is just a branch line.
00:06:46Take one.
00:06:47Thanks.
00:06:49No, not without little gin on the side.
00:06:55You put your feet up here.
00:06:57I'll just put this over you.
00:07:00Like a little brown hen you cross over your old Papa.
00:07:05Until it gets dark, I study a little with my books.
00:07:08That is good.
00:07:08That chapter about the post-operative technique.
00:07:12Mm-hmm.
00:07:14But it's hard to study when such a wonderful country runs past the window.
00:07:18Nicht wahr?
00:07:22That is not good, Lynchin.
00:07:25I knew.
00:07:27He is gone.
00:07:28The world you knew together is gone.
00:07:32It is better not to look back.
00:07:34Look instead ahead.
00:07:37The eyes, yes, but always the heart looks back.
00:07:41If only he could know how all through my life I loved him.
00:07:46Never do I forget his sacrifice for us.
00:07:49Except for that we would not be here.
00:07:52And he wouldn't be dead.
00:07:54We have each other, Lynchin.
00:07:57Our life begins again in a happy land with happy people.
00:08:02Try to remember that also.
00:08:32It's a nice, cozy night to open strangers.
00:08:33If you're going to like it here, I bet you $10 it don't stay a week.
00:08:40Not that I got $10 or anybody else in this dog's gasket.
00:08:43Shut up.
00:08:44Remember the last one?
00:08:46I'll just get a good night's sleep, gentlemen, and start my rounds in the morning.
00:08:51Comes in the morning, where is he?
00:08:53Over the hills and far away.
00:08:56I gotta stay. There's a lot of sick people.
00:09:02And you keep your traps shut when they get here, understand?
00:09:05None of your belly aching.
00:09:0830 years I've been tending this community.
00:09:10All of a sudden I'm not good enough.
00:09:13No, indeed.
00:09:14Got to send for some foreign pill dispenser with an MD, PDQNO, back of his name.
00:09:21You're a vet, Nock, and you're okay with cows and horses and ordinary human ills.
00:09:26Things have been piling up around here that need real doctrine.
00:09:30Dust pneumonia, fracture cases.
00:09:33My little girl at a piano.
00:09:35Sit down and play drums like a kiss.
00:09:40You call that doctoring, eh?
00:09:42All right now, never mind.
00:09:45Here comes the train.
00:09:48Now remember, keep your mouth shut and let me handle this.
00:09:50Go right ahead, Bob. It's your picnic.
00:09:53Well, aren't you gonna help me?
00:09:54Sure, sure.
00:09:56Well, then go on out there and crank up the jalopy.
00:10:09I'm John Phillips.
00:10:10I sent the telegram.
00:10:25Well, not a very pleasant night. Bit of a storm.
00:10:29I bet. I think it is a whole big storm.
00:10:32Is it like this all the time?
00:10:34No, this is very unusual weather.
00:10:36I hope so.
00:10:37Oh, this is my daughter, Lynn.
00:10:40How do you do?
00:10:43She's a morning, son.
00:10:45Okay, Nock.
00:10:47I'm Dr. Atterbury.
00:10:48He's a local vet.
00:10:52So, may I call you my colleague?
00:10:55Yes?
00:10:57Kelly?
00:10:58Oh, yeah.
00:11:00I've been called worse than that in my time.
00:11:02Well, come on, folks.
00:11:03You better get your hanker chairs.
00:11:13The whole town planned to turn out to give you a welcome.
00:11:16But the insulency kept him home.
00:11:20Insulency?
00:11:21Are there many cases?
00:11:23Only an epidemic.
00:11:26Oh, uh, we fixed up the house.
00:11:29Hope you'll like it.
00:11:35On the way is the Stebbins place.
00:11:38He and his missus and two kids are laid up.
00:11:42I thought that...
00:11:44Of course.
00:11:51The children should be taken out of the bed.
00:11:53Kelly and cheesecloth, Joe.
00:11:55In the kitchen.
00:12:03Doctor, how are we here?
00:12:05Pneumonia.
00:12:06The dust.
00:12:07There's hot bricks on the stove.
00:12:09Oh.
00:12:11Doctor.
00:12:14Don't...
00:12:16Don't bother with me.
00:12:19My little girl.
00:12:20The best thing I can do for her is get her mama well.
00:12:24Yeah?
00:12:25Yeah.
00:12:46Spine.
00:12:46A very serious dislocation.
00:12:48But we fix that.
00:12:49Oh.
00:12:49Come.
00:12:50We put you on the table.
00:12:51No, no, no, no, no.
00:12:52You must not move.
00:12:53We fix it.
00:12:57Another table, please.
00:12:58Up here.
00:12:58What do you want another table for?
00:13:00He ain't that long.
00:13:01I'll lose him.
00:13:08Then...
00:13:15Now you take us home.
00:13:16Please.
00:13:17He can't stand any more.
00:13:19Just one more stop.
00:13:20So you have stayed at every house you go to.
00:13:23Well, I haven't heard him complain.
00:13:24He knows these are all emergency cases.
00:13:26He is one old man, not a whole hospital staff.
00:13:31He'll never complain.
00:13:32He's a doctor.
00:13:33He can't say no.
00:13:35But his daughter can.
00:13:36And I'm ordering you to take us home.
00:13:38Baba Lainey.
00:13:41Lainey.
00:14:04No, no, this is too much.
00:14:08Each house you take us to is dirtier and badder than the last.
00:14:11Don't get excited, Lainey.
00:14:14Who lives here?
00:14:16You do, brother.
00:14:17This is your house.
00:14:21Dirtier and badder than the last.
00:14:23Who does she think she is?
00:14:24Is the Empress of Rouxham?
00:14:45Not much of a house, I'll admit.
00:14:47We tried to fix it up for you.
00:14:54What's she talking about?
00:14:56Excuse me, please.
00:14:57She's very tired.
00:14:59I know you're both all in.
00:15:00We'll just show you what's what, and then we'll leave you.
00:15:04Now get the stuff out of the car.
00:15:05Put it away.
00:15:06She's put right now, son.
00:15:08I'm not gonna break my arm cranking her up again.
00:15:12You live near here, too?
00:15:14We live here?
00:15:15This is my house.
00:15:17Don't worry, we've moved upstairs.
00:15:18Got our own private entrance and everything.
00:15:21Won't bother you a bit.
00:15:22This is all yours.
00:15:24Here, I'll show you the layout.
00:15:27The beds are made up all nice and fresh.
00:15:29There's plenty of clean towels in the bathroom, lady.
00:15:32And the women folk fixed up some food and stuff.
00:15:35It, uh...
00:15:39A little dusty.
00:15:41Yeah.
00:15:43But milk.
00:15:44That's one thing we have.
00:15:45Nothing else out here.
00:15:47It's good milk.
00:15:47How'd you like a nice glass?
00:15:51Uh...
00:15:52Sour.
00:15:55Well, anyway, we got good running water.
00:16:02Of course, uh...
00:16:04Have to strain it through a towel or something.
00:16:06That's...
00:16:06That's what we do.
00:16:08Be all right in a couple of days.
00:16:11I'll show you how this stove works.
00:16:13Oh, no.
00:16:14No, please.
00:16:14Not tonight.
00:16:16I've seen too much already.
00:16:20Don't gas it!
00:16:22He, at my age.
00:16:23A bellhop for foreigners.
00:16:26All right, nunc.
00:16:27Hit the hay.
00:16:28You're darn tootin'.
00:16:29So long, folks.
00:16:34Before I turn in, there's something I'd like to say.
00:16:37It's been a tough night for you, and...
00:16:39You were both swell.
00:16:41I'm mighty thankful.
00:16:42You can see what we're up against, Doc.
00:16:45Yes, yes.
00:16:46Things are very bad.
00:16:51Oh, this is horrible.
00:16:54How can people live in such filth?
00:16:58Oh, you're gonna be all right when we get this dust cleared away.
00:17:01It isn't gonna be as hard as you think.
00:17:03I guess we don't notice it so much.
00:17:05We're kinda used to it.
00:17:07You'll feel better after a night's rest.
00:17:09Sleep works wonders, doesn't it, Doc?
00:17:11Oh, God.
00:17:12It's villain, Papa.
00:17:14It's all done.
00:17:15It's all done.
00:17:16It's all done.
00:17:17It's all done.
00:17:17It's all done.
00:17:20What did she say?
00:17:21Forgive her, please.
00:17:23She's very tired.
00:17:25Her nerves, you understand.
00:17:27We'll speak about it tomorrow, yes?
00:17:29I know she's had a tough night, but...
00:17:30No, no, no.
00:17:31You've been very, very kind and thoughtful.
00:17:34Good night.
00:17:37Good night, Doc.
00:17:49Who are you listening for enough?
00:17:50Santa Claus?
00:17:51Well, what did I tell you?
00:17:54They're gonna pull out tomorrow.
00:17:56I tell you I heard them say so.
00:17:58They're down there chewing the fat now.
00:18:00Shh.
00:18:01Oh, come away from there.
00:18:04It's mostly to that foreign double-talk, anyway.
00:18:06But now and then they slip in the word of being leashed.
00:18:09They'll be gone tomorrow.
00:18:10Well, my name ain't Atterbury.
00:18:14The old Jesus is willing to give it a go,
00:18:16but the Empress of Ruchal said,
00:18:18Don't die.
00:18:43Warm up the jalopy, Nunc.
00:18:45I'll see if they're ready for church.
00:18:46They ain't listening for no church bells, son.
00:18:49They're getting ready for the choo-choo.
00:19:00Good morning.
00:19:01Wait a moment.
00:19:02Good morning.
00:19:04Ready for church?
00:19:06I'm sorry, Mr. Phillips,
00:19:07but we think it more better that we do not even go to church with you.
00:19:11Oh, but everybody's waiting to meet you.
00:19:13The whole town's turned out to see the new doctor.
00:19:16I know.
00:19:18Don't think too bad of us,
00:19:20but we are not going to stay.
00:19:21We cannot.
00:19:22I will answer.
00:19:22Today we go.
00:19:24Oh, but doctor,
00:19:25it's hardly fair to judge us by last night.
00:19:27You know, it won't always be like that.
00:19:28Oh, please, Mr. Phillips,
00:19:30do not plead with him.
00:19:31He would gladly kill himself for others,
00:19:33but I will not let him.
00:19:36We would like to do what is right, but...
00:19:42Well, we can't chain you here.
00:19:47It's a free country.
00:19:48It's a free country.
00:19:56He is right, Lenny.
00:19:58It is well we should remember that.
00:20:08Well, come on, son.
00:20:14Let you and I listen to the sermon.
00:20:16After the death storm,
00:20:17the minister always preaches a rip snorter.
00:20:20It is settled.
00:20:21After all, it is just courtesy.
00:20:23Yeah, we go to church,
00:20:24and we try to explain to the good people here
00:20:27why we cannot remain.
00:20:32In his inscrutable wisdom,
00:20:35the Lord has seen fit
00:20:37to smite us with terrible storm.
00:20:40It is not for us to complain.
00:20:43He moves in mysterious ways
00:20:45his wonders to perform.
00:20:47The Lord may have set this tribulation upon us
00:20:50to test your faith,
00:20:51and there are some among us
00:20:54who feel that we had a superabundance
00:20:57of his testing
00:20:58that after what we went through last year...
00:21:01Be that as it may,
00:21:03faith alone will not dig us out of it.
00:21:06We will need courage in our hearts
00:21:08and shovels in our hands.
00:21:11Today on this blared Sabbath,
00:21:13God's sun is shining
00:21:15for the storm has blown itself out.
00:21:18Let us pray that we likewise
00:21:21may have the bitterness and sorrow
00:21:23from our hearts, blue-noir.
00:21:26Last night,
00:21:28they came into our midst a stranger,
00:21:30and if we need an example
00:21:32of true courage and helpfulness,
00:21:34it has already been set by him.
00:21:37Aye, brethren,
00:21:39the Lord heard her prayers.
00:21:41We asked for a doctor,
00:21:43and he sent us not only a doctor,
00:21:45but a man.
00:21:47Last night,
00:21:47when the storm was holding,
00:21:49he came into our midst,
00:21:50tired and worn out
00:21:52by a trip across the continent,
00:21:54and we out waiting even
00:21:55for a dish of tea,
00:21:57he promptly gave succor
00:21:59to those who were sore beset.
00:22:01I speak of Dr. Carl Braun,
00:22:03who sits among ye,
00:22:05and whom, when services have over,
00:22:07ye were all welcome in person.
00:22:09We give thanks to the Lord
00:22:12that he sent us such a man
00:22:13and his fine young doctor
00:22:15to help us.
00:22:17May they remain with us always,
00:22:19honored by all,
00:22:21and blessed by God.
00:22:23Amen.
00:22:24Amen.
00:22:27When the minister is alone,
00:22:29you tell him yes?
00:22:29Please, Janey,
00:22:30listen to me.
00:22:31Papa,
00:22:32do you want me to tell him?
00:22:46Reverend,
00:22:47you sure we're hitting
00:22:48on all cylinders today?
00:22:53Dr. Brown.
00:22:54Oh, good morning.
00:22:56Dr. Brown, I heard you
00:22:58was a great surgeon.
00:22:59If you could just take a look
00:23:01at my boy.
00:23:02Don't want no more
00:23:03doctors looking at me no more.
00:23:05Hey, Nunk, wait for me!
00:23:07Hey, Nunky!
00:23:09What is it, old-timer?
00:23:11He don't have to limp like that
00:23:12all his life, doctor.
00:23:13He could be made to walk good again.
00:23:16I would have to examine him first.
00:23:18It is possible that an operation could...
00:23:21It is possible, doctor, I know.
00:23:23I had him to a clinic once,
00:23:24and the fellow said that he could be cured
00:23:26by an operation.
00:23:27Then why didn't you take...
00:23:28Oh, we didn't have no money for the hospitals, doctor.
00:23:31We ain't got none now.
00:23:33But you could look at him,
00:23:34and you could do it.
00:23:35You said over the radio that you was pretty near always successful
00:23:38with children.
00:23:39When I found you was coming here,
00:23:41I felt it was an answer to my prayers.
00:23:44I already told Billy that you could fix him up.
00:23:46But I haven't even examined him yet.
00:23:49But you will, doctor.
00:23:51Oh, the poor little fella.
00:23:54He's scared of doctors.
00:23:56There's been a couple of them that fooled around and hurt him
00:24:00and didn't do no good.
00:24:02But I told him you was a great surgeon,
00:24:04come all the way from Vienna just to make him well.
00:24:07But I...
00:24:07But you could operate on him, doctor.
00:24:09You could make him walk good again.
00:24:11You could do it easy.
00:24:13Please.
00:24:13Oh, please, doctor.
00:24:15Please.
00:24:15All right, all right, all right.
00:24:17I will look him over.
00:24:20Thank you, doctor.
00:24:26Can nothing be done about this terrible dust?
00:24:30No.
00:24:31Just wait till the wind lets up,
00:24:33and then dig ourselves out,
00:24:35like they're all doing.
00:24:39Are we ready to go now?
00:24:41I'll have a look at the boy.
00:24:42It'll only take an hour.
00:24:44Oh, but you said...
00:24:45What can I do?
00:24:46The mother begged me.
00:24:47I'll only be an hour.
00:24:48All right.
00:24:50Shall I wait here?
00:24:51No.
00:24:52Perhaps you'll drive Lenny home.
00:24:54Sure. Glad to.
00:24:55Thank you very much.
00:24:59Fine old man here, father.
00:25:02Like to have me drive you around a bit?
00:25:04Sort of get your bearings?
00:25:05I'm afraid there wouldn't be time.
00:25:07I still have some packing to do.
00:25:11Haven't changed your mind, huh?
00:25:14No.
00:25:15Hear what the minister said about your father?
00:25:17Yes.
00:25:19That didn't cut any ice either, eh?
00:25:22Ice?
00:25:24I don't know what you mean.
00:25:26I mean, that didn't make any difference.
00:25:28I'm sorry, it's no use really.
00:25:30We're going.
00:25:33What was the name of that radio program you were on?
00:25:36Oh, you mean we the people?
00:25:38Yeah.
00:25:39We the people.
00:25:41I left holding the bag.
00:25:43Bag?
00:25:44Skip it.
00:25:48You are angry with us.
00:25:50Disappointed.
00:25:51Oh, I don't blame you, but...
00:25:53Look, let's not talk about it, shall we?
00:25:55But I want that you shall understand.
00:25:57You need here a younger man than my father.
00:26:00There was a younger man on the air just ahead of you.
00:26:04A lot of folks around here figured we ought to send for him.
00:26:08But I said send for the older man with his daughter.
00:26:13Figured you might be some help.
00:26:15Oh, but I...
00:26:16Forget it.
00:26:17I'm not going to try and sales talk you on staying.
00:26:21I'll even help you pack.
00:26:29What kind of a car is this?
00:26:32Chalope.
00:26:33Chalope, an Italian car.
00:26:36Yeah.
00:26:37First cousin to an Asaro Francini.
00:26:39Well, that is the kind of automobile we have in Vienna.
00:26:43Poor Anschluss.
00:26:44Can you drive?
00:26:46Oh, no, we have a chauffeur.
00:26:48Oh.
00:26:49Ritzy, huh?
00:26:50No.
00:26:52His name was Fritz.
00:27:00I say something funny.
00:27:02Yes?
00:27:03Yeah, you slay me.
00:27:08Oh, I'm almost packed.
00:27:11I wish that my father would not be late.
00:27:14Just can't wait to beat it, can you?
00:27:16Beat it?
00:27:17If you're going to stick around, I'll teach you the American language.
00:27:20But what's the use?
00:27:21You're going to scram anyway.
00:27:24If you could only take it like the old gent.
00:27:26Take?
00:27:27Yeah.
00:27:29See that?
00:27:34But she's sweet.
00:27:35Who is she?
00:27:37My grandmother.
00:27:38She came out here in 61, by covered wagon.
00:27:42There were Indians to fight then, and dangers and famine to meet.
00:27:45Little dust couldn't run her out.
00:27:47She could take it.
00:27:48She was a pioneer.
00:27:50Yes, but when you are a refugee, it is different.
00:27:53The pioneers have everything to gain.
00:27:55We have lost everything.
00:27:57Boy, I figured you'd stop being a refugee when you came through Ellis Island.
00:28:01There's no reason why you can't start being a pioneer now.
00:28:04Even in a dust bowl.
00:28:07That used to be top soil.
00:28:10Good, rich earth.
00:28:11Fine stuff to have your roots in.
00:28:14If you had any roots.
00:28:20Oh.
00:28:22I'm sorry.
00:28:24I know how you must feel.
00:28:26I don't altogether blame you for wanting to pull out.
00:28:29But I wish you'd give it a try for maybe a week or ten days.
00:28:32You've no idea.
00:28:33No, not a week.
00:28:34Not ten days.
00:28:35Not even one day we go.
00:28:37If you'd only...
00:28:38It is no use to argue.
00:28:45Now, if you're asking me...
00:28:47But I'm not asking you.
00:28:48You see, my friend.
00:28:49The surgery is very simple.
00:28:52But underlying the paralysis, there's a definite secosis.
00:28:56You don't say...
00:28:57Crocious?
00:28:58Now, where would a kid pick up a foreign disease like that?
00:29:01Papa, you are ready to go now, yes?
00:29:03Please, Lynchard. One moment.
00:29:05Now, Dr. Arterbury.
00:29:06I will need all the things on this list by eight o'clock tomorrow morning.
00:29:11Today's Sunday, brother.
00:29:13Drug stores are shut like a clam.
00:29:15I am certain all doors will be open to you, Dr. Arterbury.
00:29:19Well, if that's the way you feel about it, colleague, leave it to me.
00:29:26It is a very interesting case, that little crippled boy.
00:29:29I have a case exactly like him in 23.
00:29:32The prognosis is identical.
00:29:34It is a partial paralysis.
00:29:36All right, Papa. You tell me all about it on the train.
00:29:38Yes, yes. You see?
00:29:40What train?
00:29:41Papa, we're leaving today.
00:29:43No, Lynchard. We're not leaving today.
00:29:45I promised the mother I operate tomorrow.
00:29:47But that means we have to stay.
00:29:49For how long?
00:29:50Oh, perhaps a week, ten days.
00:29:52Oh, but Papa!
00:29:52It is no use to argue.
00:29:55I said something funny, perhaps.
00:29:58No, Doc.
00:29:59Must be an echo in this room.
00:30:02Echo?
00:30:02Yes, that's all.
00:30:03That's all.
00:30:06Jesus.
00:30:29That's all.
00:30:35Easy now, Doctor. Easy.
00:30:39Here we are.
00:30:41Way over.
00:30:42And sit.
00:30:54No, don't worry. He came through fine.
00:30:58Keep him well covered.
00:31:02He may be a foreigner, but he sure knows his onions.
00:31:07You help me like a nurse of ten years' experience.
00:31:13He will walk again, yes?
00:31:15Of course. I do this many times.
00:31:18He will walk again soon and without a brace.
00:31:22I'd like to see that.
00:31:25Well, perhaps as Mr. Phillips says, we stick around.
00:31:29And maybe we see him walk, yes?
00:31:37And there are ways of licking this thing, men.
00:31:41Irrigation ditches, wind breaks, contour plowing.
00:31:44Others have done it and saved their land, and so can we.
00:31:47And there's no guesswork about it.
00:31:48It's all right here in black and white from the Department of Agriculture.
00:31:51Listen, John, I ain't got nothing to get all them pamphlets.
00:31:54But what I want to know is this.
00:31:56Can the Department of Agriculture bring us maybe six inches of rain?
00:31:59I wish they could.
00:32:01But if we did what they told us, we might learn how to use what little rain we do get.
00:32:06These plans have been drawn up by experts.
00:32:08They know our problems.
00:32:09There ain't no college professor gonna teach me how to farm my land.
00:32:13Shut up. Listen.
00:32:14How much land you got left that hasn't blown away?
00:32:20Look, men.
00:32:22Let's quit arguing and kidding ourselves.
00:32:24We're all in the same boat.
00:32:25And we're all gonna sink.
00:32:26Unless we stick together.
00:32:29Every one of us has been served with a dispossessed notice.
00:32:31Not by Uncle Sam or a bank or some mortgage company.
00:32:35But by a little old gal we've been kicking in the teeth.
00:32:38Mother Nature.
00:32:40We've had enough talk.
00:32:41How about getting some work done?
00:32:43Are you gonna pitch in and help?
00:32:45Well, we can try it.
00:32:47All right.
00:32:47Count me in, Pooh.
00:32:50Let me know.
00:32:52Let me know.
00:32:52Let me know.
00:32:53Let me know.
00:33:14I'm first.
00:33:15I'm first.
00:33:18Mary, we're all digging ditches, like he said.
00:33:22But I'd feel better if it'd cloud up some.
00:33:25We'll have rain. We've got to have rain.
00:33:53Take a year to plow this, Nunder, unless we can borrow some tractors.
00:33:58Well, what do you think I'm going to Harrisburg for, to see the movies?
00:34:00Don't let the heat get down your collar, bud.
00:34:04Attaboy, Nunk. Every little drop helps.
00:34:06Tell the Department of Agriculture not to send us any more bulletin or no more bull.
00:34:10Get in!
00:34:11Them panthers are raining on us. They ain't got no moisture.
00:34:16Good morning.
00:34:17Good morning, Lainey.
00:34:20Gosh, you're up kind of early, aren't you?
00:34:22Oh, look up!
00:34:23What's that?
00:34:25Well, you have a long drive ahead of you, so I fixed you something to eat on the way.
00:34:28Oh, that's very nice of you. Thanks.
00:34:32Today will be another, how do you say it, escort you?
00:34:36Yeah.
00:34:38Afraid so.
00:34:40There is the God of Rain, so I'll try and pray to him.
00:34:44Send it Spatial Delivery, will you, Lainey?
00:34:46Thank you, Lainey.
00:35:03Here's what we tried on the side of that hill, and you're...
00:35:05Yes, I know. I got a report on it from one of our field men.
00:35:08Yeah, but according to your pamphlets, we figured...
00:35:10Now, look, Phillips, the trouble with you farmers is that you're always too late.
00:35:13I'd say, in your case, about 20 years too late.
00:35:16Well...
00:35:16Now, I don't doubt that you've all been sweating blood, but all this isn't going to help.
00:35:21Look, mister, our land means a lot to us.
00:35:23Your land is located in this sector, which the government considers doomed.
00:35:28Right in here. Not even worth saving.
00:35:31Doomed? What do you mean?
00:35:33Well, doomed, man. Doomed. That's plain English, isn't it?
00:35:36I mean, it's worn out, worked out, barren.
00:35:39The next dust storm will blow whatever topsoil there is left,
00:35:42even on the best of these farms clear out of the country.
00:35:44That's what you think?
00:35:45It's the considered opinion of our experts.
00:35:48There's just one thing that you fellas can do, if you're smart.
00:35:52What, for instance?
00:35:53Quit breaking your backs and your hearts trying to hold back a desert.
00:35:55Move off the land. Look here.
00:35:57There's an enormous dam being built right here.
00:36:00There are great tracts of fertile soil just waiting for settlers.
00:36:02There'll be cheap power...
00:36:04Yeah, I know all about the dam, but that's in Oregon.
00:36:06We're 1,500 miles from there.
00:36:08We'll help you. We'll see that you...
00:36:10Are you crazy, mister?
00:36:11Do you think you're talking to a sharecropper?
00:36:13We're farmers. We own our own land.
00:36:16Like our fathers and our grandfathers.
00:36:18You can't shove us around to match pretty pins on your maps.
00:36:23We're not swivel chair farmers.
00:36:25And we're not a licked jet.
00:36:30Same thing.
00:36:33You're from Nashville Forks, ain't you?
00:36:36Oh, it must have hit you fellas pretty bad down there.
00:36:39Yeah.
00:36:42All right, fellas.
00:36:45Wind's blowing up again, eh?
00:36:50Uh, you ain't aiming to drive back to your farm tonight, mister, are you?
00:36:53Sure.
00:36:54Making about two hours.
00:36:56Why not?
00:36:59Same time for staying put.
00:37:00Letting the wind blow your farm back to you.
00:37:11Anybody else think it's funny?
00:37:12I'm sorry.
00:37:34Did you hurt yourself?
00:37:42Oh, I'm all right.
00:37:44But the bond...
00:37:46Make it that much easier for the wind to blow down.
00:38:00If you want to see my father, he's out with Mr. Atterbury.
00:38:07See?
00:38:09I made curtains for the kitchen.
00:38:12Don't be a sucker.
00:38:14Don't waste your time.
00:38:17Why don't you pack your things and clear out?
00:38:20You and your old man had the right hunch when you first got here.
00:38:24You wanted to pull out the same day.
00:38:26Well, I'm sorry I ever talked you into staying.
00:38:29I will make you some very hot and very strong and very black coffee.
00:38:33I'm not so drunk. I don't know what I'm saying.
00:38:36They showed me maps and charts of our land today.
00:38:39It isn't worth saving, see?
00:38:43I do not believe that.
00:38:45Well, I do. I know when I'm licked.
00:38:48Move off the land, the fella says. It's dead.
00:38:51And it is dead.
00:38:53We're all dying on our feet and haven't got sense enough to know it.
00:38:59Well, why don't you clear out while the clearing's good?
00:39:03We'll be following you pretty soon anyway.
00:39:05It is you who talk like a refugee now.
00:39:08That's right. That's what they want us to be.
00:39:10They want to move us to Oregon.
00:39:11You are ordered to go. It is a law.
00:39:14No, we could stay here and starve, I guess.
00:39:17And can you not stay and go on fighting for your land like you've been doing?
00:39:23I haven't seen you like this before.
00:39:26You didn't talk like this when you told me about the pioneers.
00:39:30I was giving you a pep talk. Do you know what that means?
00:39:33Yes, I have learned that.
00:39:35And I give you one now and it is better for you even than black coffee.
00:39:39You are the leader here.
00:39:41All these farmers, they look to you.
00:39:43They do what you say. They feel what you feel.
00:39:46Now, if there is no law which makes you move...
00:39:49Our law is written by the wind, the dust.
00:40:00It's rain.
00:40:04It's rain.
00:40:07It's rain landing on us to God, rain. Feel it?
00:40:13I don't waste the colors off their stupid charts.
00:40:17It feels like rain. It's wet and cool like rain.
00:40:20Listen, Lenny, you can almost hear the earth drinking it up.
00:40:22I don't hear anything but my heart beating.
00:40:26Oh, you're getting dressed. You better go in.
00:40:28It feels good. I like it.
00:40:30So do I.
00:40:31Who is that rain god, Lenny?
00:40:34Jupiter Pluvius.
00:40:36Yeah, that's the fella.
00:40:38Keep her going, Jupe, old boy. Keep her going.
00:40:41It will be all right now.
00:40:43This will save our land.
00:40:47Our land?
00:40:49As you say, I have begun to take root.
00:41:03Dolly, I've done some sparking in my time.
00:41:05But gosh darn it, I always had sense enough to come in out of the rain.
00:41:09Yeah.
00:41:13Isn't it wonderful?
00:41:15What, the rain or the foolishness?
00:41:17The boat. And it isn't foolishness, is it?
00:41:20I guess I'm gonna find out what happens to a fella when he's kissed a girl right under her father's
00:41:25nose.
00:41:26Better find out what happens when you kiss the girl under her own nose.
00:41:34You were surprised to see us kissing in the rain?
00:41:38Kissing? No. In the rain? Yes.
00:41:42You want to start out with pneumonia?
00:41:45You don't think he'll catch cold?
00:41:48If I know anything about my colleague, Dr. Otterberry,
00:41:52he has by now prescribed for him a large, er, what is it?
00:41:56Oh, yes. A large slug of rye.
00:42:00Oh, Papa, he's so... he's so...
00:42:04Yes, yes, I know. He is so wonderful.
00:42:07You are so wonderful. It is all so wonderful.
00:42:11And now I tell you my wonderful news.
00:42:16It is from one of the greatest clinics in America.
00:42:19They want me to join their staff.
00:42:21But this came a week ago. I remember it.
00:42:25Why didn't you tell me?
00:42:26Because then I was not certain if you want to leave here.
00:42:31Now I am certain you want to remain.
00:42:35But you are not going to refuse such a splendid chance.
00:42:38No, no. But there is no hurry.
00:42:42They give me 90 days to consider.
00:42:45So I wait until you are married, yes?
00:42:52All right.
00:42:55Just listen to that rain. Nothing could sound so beautiful.
00:42:59What say, come again?
00:43:02The rain, hear it?
00:43:03Symphony Orchestra couldn't make sweeter music than that.
00:43:06What? What say?
00:43:08I said the rain on the roof is lovely to hear.
00:43:12Can't hear a word to say on account of the ding-busted rain.
00:43:18Oh!
00:43:20Oh, I am glad I am not in love.
00:43:26Good morning.
00:43:32Good day, Doctor. How are you?
00:43:34Good morning.
00:43:40Billy!
00:43:54Don't worry. I ran 15 balls 40 years ago.
00:43:58Oh, yeah?
00:43:58Yes, sir.
00:43:59Hiya, Doc.
00:44:01Hello!
00:44:02How are you?
00:44:03Doc, glad to see you. Have a glass of beer.
00:44:06Yeah, that sounds good.
00:44:07Hey, Nock, your shot.
00:44:09Hold your horses, will ya?
00:44:11Doc, come on over here.
00:44:14Draw up a chair and learn something.
00:44:17Yes, sir.
00:44:18Ain't lame so pretty for you, Nock.
00:44:20Oh, there's nothing to it.
00:44:27Nock.
00:44:27Uh-uh.
00:44:28Huh?
00:44:32Oh.
00:44:35Why not make both balls?
00:44:38Both balls?
00:44:40Well, maybe Doc thinks he can make it.
00:44:44All right, there you are. It's all yours, brother.
00:44:47Well, I try.
00:44:50Here, here, you don't hold a cue right. You'll never make it that way. You never...
00:44:55Well...
00:44:57I'll be done.
00:44:59Please.
00:45:08Well, Doc.
00:45:09All right.
00:45:10All right.
00:45:11You know about that.
00:45:19Well, Doc.
00:45:21I didn't blow.
00:45:22I didn't blow.
00:45:27Put it in, Doc.
00:45:28Come on, Doc.
00:45:28I'm sorry.
00:45:29Oh, boy!
00:45:30I haven't played in several years.
00:45:33Doc, when did you ever find time to study medicine?
00:45:36Well, Doc, when's the wedding gonna be?
00:45:38Two weeks from Sunday.
00:45:40Your daughter's got a fine young fella.
00:45:42They don't come any better than John.
00:45:43We are very happy about it.
00:45:46Hi, boys.
00:45:48Well, howdy, Doc.
00:45:49Oh, good day.
00:45:49So save me a trip.
00:45:50Got a letter for you.
00:45:51Oh, thank you.
00:45:52Lots of foreign stamps on it, too.
00:45:54If I could have them, maybe from my kid, he'd collect it.
00:45:56Not much of a hobby, to my way of thinking, but if it's good enough for Roosevelt, it's good enough
00:46:00for my kid.
00:46:07Hey, Doc, it's your shot.
00:46:09Will you finish for me, please?
00:46:11I have to go home.
00:46:21I have to go home.
00:46:21But how can we be sure that it's true?
00:46:24They told us Eric was killed.
00:46:26But it is true, legend.
00:46:28You read in the letter, Dr. Taubo saw him in Russia.
00:46:32He escaped, thank God.
00:46:34We owe him our lives, legend.
00:46:37I know.
00:46:39I, too, say thank God.
00:46:42But I feel wicked and horrible, for in my heart, I cannot be happy.
00:46:46You should.
00:46:51What shall I do, Papa?
00:46:54How shall I tell John?
00:46:57He knows.
00:46:59He knows.
00:46:59I told him.
00:47:01He understands.
00:47:03But you don't understand.
00:47:05But, Lynchin, you love Harry.
00:47:08You were to have been married.
00:47:11I know, but that was two years ago in another life.
00:47:16In another world.
00:47:18I know how you feel, Lynchin.
00:47:20It is not easy to know where loyalty ends and love begins.
00:47:25It's like someone who returns from the grave.
00:47:29I cannot help you.
00:47:31Perhaps, when Harry comes to America, he will understand.
00:47:36No.
00:47:39He risked everything for us.
00:47:41We owe him our lives.
00:47:45I will always remember that.
00:47:48And try not to forget.
00:48:16And try not to forget.
00:48:34That is worthy.
00:48:34And try not to診 in.
00:48:35My life is becoming a god.
00:48:37My freeìš© flexibt.
00:48:37Alright, let's see.
00:48:39In the day, I don't know how you think about my rest.
00:48:42There is only a point in each other while racing isaction.
00:49:03Don't do that, Lenny.
00:49:06Don't cry.
00:49:14I've been sitting up in my room for hours trying to figure this thing out.
00:49:18It still seems all wrong.
00:49:21I know, but try to understand.
00:49:25We'd be a lot better off, you and I, Lenny, without so much understanding.
00:49:30We get all tangled up in other people's feelings, with duties and obligations.
00:49:34We know where our happiness lies.
00:49:36Why don't we take it?
00:49:38Perhaps because we know that it's not altogether ours.
00:49:43It's just something I could fight, but I can't.
00:49:47It's like that storm outside.
00:49:50How long before he gets here?
00:49:52His boat gets to San Francisco next month.
00:49:56Send him a cable.
00:49:58Tell him you've changed your mind.
00:49:59Tell him it's too late.
00:50:00Tell him we're already married.
00:50:02Tell him anything.
00:50:02How can I?
00:50:03Go ahead, Lenny.
00:50:04You want to.
00:50:05He'll never know.
00:50:06No, John, but we would.
00:50:12Please go, Lenny.
00:50:14Please don't stay anymore.
00:50:16Anything else?
00:50:38Come here, Lenny.
00:50:43You've got to know.
00:50:44You're not a man.
00:50:44Leave him alone.
00:50:44I'm calling him.
00:50:45You're not a man.
00:50:45No.
00:50:45I begged you to go.
00:50:47I only wanted to.
00:50:48Oh, you want to comfort me, I know.
00:50:50But you cannot.
00:50:51We only make each other more unhappy.
00:50:55Oh, darling, please.
00:50:57Please go.
00:50:59I make no secret that I love you.
00:51:01And I cannot fight against you any more than you can fight against him or the wind.
00:51:09I think we're both crazy to let a ghost come between us.
00:51:12He's not a ghost.
00:51:14Look, this is Eric.
00:51:16He's alive.
00:51:18Would it comfort you to hear that I hate him?
00:51:21It would be a lie.
00:51:22He's my fiancé.
00:51:23I loved him.
00:51:24He's fine and brave.
00:51:25And without him, my father and I would have been dead.
00:51:31You win.
00:51:34You're a lucky guy.
00:51:43You win.
00:51:47You win.
00:51:50I love you.
00:51:53You win.
00:52:20Ladies and gentlemen, this is coming to you directly from the very heart of the stricken area.
00:52:24I'm looking down the main street of Asheville Forks, where the storm hit the hardest.
00:52:27And believe me, it looks like an earthquake hit this place rather than just a dust storm.
00:52:31In a few moments, I'll let you hear some of the actual voices of the people who lived through these
00:52:35past few days of devastation.
00:52:37You will hear history in the making.
00:52:39Asheville Forks is packing up lock, stock and barrel and is moving on up into Oregon.
00:52:43How about you, sir?
00:52:45Will you say a few words to our listening audience about this great trek that you're contemplating?
00:52:49I ain't no Charlie McCarty. I ain't got time.
00:52:51It'll only take a moment. Just tell us in your own words about your experiences during this calamity.
00:52:57In my own words?
00:52:58Yes.
00:52:58All right. You asked for it, brother.
00:53:01Well, the wind was howling like a...
00:53:05Thank you. Thank you very much.
00:53:08Very graphic, indeed.
00:53:09I call them as I see them, brother.
00:53:11Yes, I see you.
00:53:14Quiet!
00:53:15What if we don't feel like hitting the trail for Oregon? What if we figure our land here is still
00:53:20good?
00:53:22Look at it, Higgins.
00:53:25What do you aim to grow on it? Seaweed?
00:53:27Well, we can... we can always stay here and go on relief.
00:53:31Why not? Other people are doing it.
00:53:33That's right. You can do that. There's no compulsion in this.
00:53:37But as long as we have to move off the land, let's move like an army and not like rabble.
00:53:42Let's make it an advance and not a retreat.
00:53:44I don't want to go any more than the rest of you.
00:53:47Only a few months ago, it was I that argued that we stay here and fight.
00:53:51Well, we fought and lost.
00:53:56That patch on the map is Oregon.
00:53:58That's 1,500 miles from here.
00:54:00That's a long haul in any man's country.
00:54:02But it's new land.
00:54:04And if we go together, stick together and work together and pool our monies and supplies, we can make it.
00:54:10That's fine, John. But what about our livestock?
00:54:12What are we gonna put tractors when we get up to Oregon?
00:54:14And how much land did they give us and what are we gonna use for money?
00:54:17So we gotta take your word for it, John, that this here Oregon is a land flowing with milk and
00:54:22honey, huh?
00:54:23There's no land anywhere worth a hoot till it's flowed with good honest sweat.
00:54:28That's telling him, bub.
00:54:30I would like to say a few words if you will permit me.
00:54:34Go ahead, Doc.
00:54:35I'm speaking as one who knows what it means to be a refugee.
00:54:39Ain't no fur nor gonna tell me where to go.
00:54:41Clem Higgins, you got a short memory.
00:54:44You didn't talk that way the night you come over to the house cause your kid's appendix bursted.
00:54:48Right.
00:54:49No, sir.
00:54:50It was please then.
00:54:53Won't you come, Doc?
00:54:54And he did come in the middle of the night.
00:54:56Please, please.
00:54:58I do not know your farm problem so well as John.
00:55:02But I do know that he is right.
00:55:04I think it is wiser for you to argue less and start packing.
00:55:09There's no skin off his nose. He ain't going.
00:55:12Out of my way, colleague. Let me spit these eyes.
00:55:14You're gonna spit poos off.
00:55:16You're a big blubbermouth.
00:55:18Know everything, don't you?
00:55:20Ain't no secret, nunc.
00:55:22We all knows he's joining up with a big clinic back east.
00:55:25He is in a pig's eye.
00:55:26Before that storm hit us, he was gonna take that job.
00:55:30But now he says no soap.
00:55:32He's willing to go with us folks to Wattigan.
00:55:34That don't sound like any foreigner to me.
00:55:38All those in favor of going to Oregon, say aye.
00:55:41Aye!
00:55:42Oregon it is!
00:55:52You're gonna have milk with your coffee, eh, Joe?
00:56:17All mighty God, Father of all mercies, we beseech thee to bless and guide this caravan of thy people setting
00:56:28out on a long journey to a promised land.
00:56:32Thou knowest, Lord, that many of the cars are in a deplorable condition.
00:56:37Afflict not thy people further with blowouts, burnt bearings, or broken axles.
00:56:44Prosper them, O Lord, on their new lands.
00:56:47There ere long they may send for us who are remaining here, fending thy good will.
00:56:54Amen.
00:56:55Amen.
00:56:57Amen.
00:57:03Here comes our brave leader.
00:57:05I hope he knows what he's doing.
00:57:06They called us refugees when we were leaving Vienna.
00:57:10But our future was greater.
00:57:12We were coming to America.
00:57:15For these people there must be a more tragic word than refugees.
00:57:19gone through a bit while.
00:57:27All right.
00:57:32What a matter.
00:57:34None at the time.
00:57:40Não esteems aÃ.
00:57:42Noucht ue!
00:58:05Take a look at that line of cars and trucks, will you?
00:58:09This is the day number one exodus, brother.
00:58:11That Moses himself couldn't have done no better.
00:58:14Did he have to worry about tow cars, spare tires, gasoline?
00:58:18No, sir. He had a cinch compared to John.
00:58:21He's doing a fine job. He's carrying a great load on his shoulders.
00:58:25Yep. Needs all the help he can get, too.
00:58:28Eating his heart out about, well, something out of my business.
00:58:31Please, no.
00:58:33Oh, I was thinking of another young fella.
00:58:35He had a big job. Threw it up.
00:58:37Said he couldn't make the grade without the help of the woman he loved.
00:58:40Sure hope John don't have to, Kate.
00:58:42Leave this outfit in a heck of a shape.
00:58:44Are you going to ride with us most of the way now?
00:58:47I can take ahead, sister.
00:58:49Drop me off the next stop. I'll ride in one of the other cars.
00:58:58Well, sir, I started in a subtitle-like way.
00:59:01I gave her a wink.
00:59:03And I said, let me drive the bus, Lenny.
00:59:05Why don't you go forward and ride with John for a while?
00:59:08She never batted an eyelash.
00:59:10Then I started to warm up.
00:59:12And I gave her a great sales talk about you.
00:59:15A Lollapalooza.
00:59:16But still no dice.
00:59:19Why don't you mind your own business?
00:59:21Leave her alone, can't you?
00:59:23I can take her a lever.
00:59:24But can you?
00:59:26Ain't no female worth grieving over.
00:59:29Well, who's grieving over her? Shut up.
00:59:32Don't you think of anything else to talk about?
00:59:34Yes, plenty.
00:59:35I was riding with Higgins in his outfit today.
00:59:39That fellow's doing a lot of talking.
00:59:41What's eating him now?
00:59:43Same old thing.
00:59:44California.
00:59:45The land of the golden sunshine.
00:59:47He's telling them all we ought to head west instead of north.
00:59:50Well, he's welcome to go and good riddance.
00:59:53Yep.
00:59:53But the trouble is, he ain't aiming to go by himself.
00:59:56He's trying to split up this outfit.
00:59:59Do you know what I said to him?
01:00:01I said you'll have to reckon with my nephew, John Furst.
01:00:04He's kicked the prune juice out of bigger weasels than you.
01:00:07That held him.
01:00:37That held him.
01:00:39Fire!
01:00:40if not, it won't go down, I'm gonna get into it.
01:00:47That held him.
01:00:52Fire!
01:00:53Fire!
01:00:54Fire!
01:00:55Fire!
01:00:57Fire!
01:01:00Fire!
01:01:00Fire!
01:01:01Clear!
01:01:02Fire!
01:01:14I heard you wanted to talk to me.
01:01:16Yep.
01:01:18I wanted to ask you to quit making trouble.
01:01:21Listen, mister.
01:01:22Just because you're in the lead car don't prove you're running the whole shebang.
01:01:26There's a lot of fellas think the way I do.
01:01:28Now, what do you know about that?
01:01:29I know the one rotten apple can spoil a barrel.
01:01:32Now, just stay in line and quit shooting off your mouth.
01:01:36When we make camp tonight, if you've got anything to say, I'll listen to you.
01:01:40I don't have to take orders from you.
01:01:42You're a fool, Higgins.
01:01:44This isn't my show. It's ours.
01:01:47I didn't ask to run it.
01:01:49But as long as I am running it, you're going to take orders from me and like it.
01:02:10Anyways, in California, they don't freeze to death.
01:02:12There's sunshine out there.
01:02:14And miles of orchards and orange groves and plenty of work picking fruit.
01:02:18His wife's cousin sent him a crate of oranges once.
01:02:21And ever since that, he's been yapping, California, California.
01:02:23Oh, what do you know about it, Nunc?
01:02:26You ain't never been there.
01:02:27No, but I have.
01:02:30Sure, there's miles of groves and orchards.
01:02:34But there's also about 200,000 or 300,000 migratory workers there.
01:02:38There isn't enough fruit for them to pick to make a living wage.
01:02:41Sure, we can go to California.
01:02:44But what good will it do us?
01:02:45We'll just become migrants, too, drifting up and down the state, following the crops.
01:02:49We're not fruit pickers, men.
01:02:51We're farmers.
01:02:53And up in Oregon, where we're heading for, there's land for us.
01:02:56Land that we can own and farm.
01:03:00There's a road due west from here, Higgins.
01:03:04To your oranges and sunshine, take it any time you want to.
01:03:08But quit stirring these people up.
01:03:10You ain't going to bulldoze me with that high and mighty talk.
01:03:13We're getting out of here.
01:03:15But not before you hand over that dough we chipped in.
01:03:18Now, one dime, Higgins.
01:03:20You know what that money's for.
01:03:22I suppose it wouldn't be for that little furring dish that's strutting around your back.
01:03:30A bull's eye!
01:03:34That was a puke right on his kisser.
01:03:41Stubborn, stupid fools.
01:03:43Come, my petuous young horses.
01:03:47Moses, if you know your Bible, you will remember that the children of Israel had trouble in the wilderness 40
01:03:54centuries ago.
01:03:56Then they worshipped a golden calf.
01:03:59Now they worship a golden orange or a golden marage.
01:04:03Well, if I remember correctly, Doc, Moses got good and sore at them, too.
01:04:08Yes, and he was punished.
01:04:12He was allowed to see the promised land, but he never set foot in it.
01:04:17Well, that'll be okay with me, too, Doc.
01:04:20My heart won't be in it.
01:04:49Well, that's a big one.
01:04:49That's a big one.
01:04:51You're welcome.
01:04:57One minute, a guy freezes, and another minute, he fries.
01:05:02Nature's very generous to California.
01:05:04You know what I think? I think nature's cockeyed.
01:05:07They got all that snow up there in the hills where they don't need it.
01:05:10Why don't they chuck some down here in the desert,
01:05:13where they'd be as welcome as gravy and potatoes.
01:05:38Oh, this is the worst stretch yet.
01:05:41After today, there'll be a lot more men ready to listen to you.
01:05:45There better be.
01:05:59We want our money, and we ain't going no further.
01:06:07We got a right to stay here.
01:06:09We're going to settle this right now, Mr. Phillips.
01:06:11No stalling.
01:06:13We want our dough and our supplies, and we don't want no part of Oregon.
01:06:17We sure don't.
01:06:18How about it, men?
01:06:21Listen, men.
01:06:23We've driven all day through a furnace.
01:06:25We've only just made camp.
01:06:27You're hot and tired and hungry.
01:06:30Go on back to your tents and let the women feed you.
01:06:33Take a swim. Cool off. We can get...
01:06:38All right, Higgins. You win.
01:06:42You lead them.
01:06:43Lead them where they're not wanted. Lead them where they'll starve.
01:06:46Lead them into the middle of Death Valley and let them rot for all I care.
01:06:49Where's our dough?
01:06:50You'll get it.
01:06:53Keep your hands off of that.
01:06:55It ain't all yours.
01:06:56You're not going to give this to them, son.
01:06:58You're not going to quit us now.
01:07:00I've taken all I can stomach.
01:07:02That's the money. Do what you like with it.
01:07:08John, what's the matter?
01:07:10What is happening?
01:07:11That promised land is on the fritz, Doc.
01:07:14And I don't want to see it.
01:07:20This money belongs to all of us, Higgins.
01:07:21And everybody will get the sheriff and give me a chance.
01:07:24There you are.
01:07:26There's not somebody you're going to bring on to this, Joe.
01:07:29Bill, get them trucks.
01:07:31Say, buddy, it's going to take us a couple of hours to sort this stuff.
01:07:34We ain't going to sort it. We'll take it the way it is.
01:07:36Hold on a minute.
01:07:37This ain't all ours. We can't do that.
01:07:43I'm running this outfit, brother.
01:07:44If anybody here doesn't like it, just let me know.
01:07:58Is anything wrong?
01:08:00No, everything's just dandy.
01:08:04I was just taking a walk.
01:08:06And I was just taking a powder.
01:08:08Small world, isn't it?
01:08:10I don't know what you mean.
01:08:12I mean, I'm clearing out.
01:08:14I'm quitting.
01:08:16I'm through.
01:08:17Is that clear?
01:08:21Yes, but...
01:08:23Where are you going?
01:08:25What difference does that make?
01:08:26We don't take the same road.
01:08:30San Francisco's less than 200 miles from here.
01:08:33It's a clear day, Lenny.
01:08:35Maybe you can see the Golden Gate.
01:08:37It's not a clear day for me, John.
01:08:40I'm seeing things through a mist.
01:08:48What are we kidding ourselves for?
01:08:50Why don't you quit, too?
01:08:51There's a lot of things stronger than duty.
01:08:53And we're both crazy if we don't realize it.
01:08:56I want to run away, John, but I can't any more than you.
01:08:59It's easy to run away.
01:09:00I just found that out.
01:09:02And it'll be easy for you, too.
01:09:04It's time we started thinking about ourselves for a change and not others.
01:09:07Grab this chance to be free, Lenny.
01:09:09It'll never come again.
01:09:20Turn that car back, you yellow liver coot.
01:09:23Higgins are turning the camp wide open.
01:09:25That's okay with me and the lady.
01:09:27Let them stew in their own juice.
01:09:29We're calling it a day.
01:09:30You let him talk like this, Lenny?
01:09:33Answer me.
01:09:35Perhaps it is you who make him act and talk so.
01:09:37You're all wrong, Doc.
01:09:39It's the other way around.
01:09:40I'm trying to sell her a bill of goods.
01:09:42And how about your people, John?
01:09:43They don't mean a thing to me.
01:09:45You have no right to say that, John.
01:09:46Back there are 200 men, women, and children...
01:09:50...whose lives are just as much your sacred responsibility...
01:09:53...as a patient on the operating table.
01:09:56Maybe the patient isn't worth saving.
01:09:58That is not true, John.
01:09:59But even if it were, doctors don't tell their patients there is no hope.
01:10:03No, a doctor does not throw away his cap out and say, I am tired.
01:10:07I will call it a day.
01:10:10He does not quit.
01:10:11He fights.
01:10:12That's telling him, colleague.
01:10:13Yes, you could run away.
01:10:15But you could not escape.
01:10:17You could shout, I am free.
01:10:19But even the echoes would know you were lying.
01:10:23Lenny knows that.
01:10:25Look at her, John.
01:10:26She knows that duty is sometimes bitter and hard and cruel.
01:10:31She knows that better than you, John.
01:10:35Look into her eyes.
01:10:37You have a job to finish, John.
01:10:40So has Lenny.
01:11:05Come on, let's go out of there, John.
01:11:07Come on, let's go out of there, John.
01:11:08Come on, let's go out of there, John.
01:11:08Hey, stop it!
01:11:10It's all right.
01:11:11I'm going to catch him, John.
01:11:13Catch him.
01:11:14You just seen that sock he gave me the kissing.
01:11:16Did it stop you talking?
01:11:29That looks like Phillip's car.
01:11:53Don't coordinator.
01:11:53It's all right.
01:12:03I'm going to catch him.
01:12:10You just seen it.
01:12:10I had a look.
01:12:11You just seen it.
01:12:36Don't look back, son. She's just...
01:12:38There's plenty to look ahead for. Beyond them hills lies Oregon.
01:12:43Auf Wiedersehen! Auf Wiedersehen!
01:12:55Well, here we are. St. George Hotel.
01:13:00Do you think this is the right place, Papa?
01:13:03Well, that's what the council said.
01:13:05But I didn't expect to find Erichs in such affluence.
01:13:09Good afternoon.
01:13:11Good afternoon, Herr Doctor. Good afternoon, Herr Fräulein.
01:13:20Is this Dr. Erich von Scherer's apartment?
01:13:22Yeah, yeah, that's right. Bitte sehr.
01:13:30Where is Dr. von Scherer?
01:13:32I will tell him that you are here.
01:13:41Good afternoon, Herr Fräulein.
01:13:43Erich!
01:13:44Herr Dr.
01:13:45Hi.
01:13:46It's so good to see you. You haven't changed a bit.
01:13:48Nor you.
01:13:50It's good to see you, Erich.
01:13:52Thank you, Herr Fräulein.
01:13:54Thank you, Herr Fräulein.
01:13:55Oh, uh, permit me to present my assistant, Herr Schmidt.
01:14:03Well, uh, do sit down, Erich, and tell us about your escape.
01:14:08But I didn't escape, Lenchen.
01:14:10But we heard that you had escaped to Russia.
01:14:13I, uh, was in Russia, yes.
01:14:15On a mission for the state.
01:14:19Dr. Torber said in his letter that you...
01:14:21I regret to say that Dr. Torber is a traitor.
01:14:24He will write no more letters.
01:14:26But, Erich, Dr. Torber was one of our oldest friends.
01:14:31How is he a traitor?
01:14:32To the Reich, Herr Doctor.
01:14:34Of which I am now an official servant.
01:14:36But you risked your life that we could escape.
01:14:38I...
01:14:38Two years ago, I, too, had soft and sentimental ideas,
01:14:42as you will remember, Herr Doctor.
01:14:43Now I have learned a different ideology.
01:14:45I hardly know you, Erich.
01:14:48I have important business here for two weeks.
01:14:50Then I return to Berlin.
01:14:52The Reich is acquiring new territory, Herr Doctor.
01:14:54There's work for us to do.
01:14:55I've made arrangements for you and Lainey.
01:14:58Us?
01:14:59Oh, have no fear.
01:15:00I have influence in the party.
01:15:01I've arranged that this little difficulty of yours is forgotten.
01:15:04And then, uh, we will return to the Reich.
01:15:09No, Erich.
01:15:11You are mistaken.
01:15:13Our home is now in America.
01:15:16Ridiculous!
01:15:17Does the fatherland mean nothing to you?
01:15:19The fatherland, yes.
01:15:20But your Reich, no.
01:15:22It is incredible, Erich.
01:15:24You look so perfectly healthy.
01:15:26And yet you have become infected with the disease more horrible and malignant than cancer.
01:15:31The disease that will be fatal to you and millions of your countrymen.
01:15:37And to the whole Reich.
01:15:40Don't waste your sympathy on the Reich, Herr Doctor.
01:15:44For a doomed patient, we are not doing so badly.
01:15:47How many times have you sat by your sickbed, Erich,
01:15:51and seen such an outburst of energy just before the death rattle?
01:15:58Come, Lainey.
01:15:59We will go on to Oregon.
01:16:06Lainey!
01:16:10You cannot leave like this.
01:16:12We have traveled half across the world to meet here.
01:16:15Yes, Erich.
01:16:16And now that we meet, we do not even speak the same language.
01:16:57All mighty God.
01:16:59In the shelter of this thy tree, O temporary temple, we ask thy blessing and thy mercy.
01:17:07We ain't no had time yet to build a church, Lord.
01:17:11Thou understandest it was mere important to build by the church, Lord.
01:17:14We are in silos and homes.
01:17:16But in our hearts, our grateful hearts, is thy eternal temple.
01:17:21We thank thee for this rich soil to which thou hast led us.
01:17:25And for the strong and willing arms and sinews with which it shall be made fruitful and productive.
01:17:33And now, O Lord, to stand before thee two of thy servants, this man and this woman,
01:17:41who in thy sight and in the presence of this congregation desire to enter into the sacred bond of Matrimon.
01:17:51We pray, O Lord, that this young man may be a blessing in thy home,
01:17:56that every nation we pray in the truth,
01:17:59that the children of our hearts will come to the heart and be in the heart.
01:18:04And now, O Lord, that this was all.
01:18:10And now, O Lord, that this young man works with this young man,
01:18:14the young brother of Tamal Nase,
01:18:14that this Krish and Joe hate it.
01:18:14And now, O Lord Sonenta and his children.
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