In this John Ford comedy, Will Rogers stars as Judge William Priest, an amiable Civil War veteran living in small-town Kentucky. While the widowed Judge Priest, a proud former Confederate, dispenses justice in his court, he also finds time to help his nephew, Jerome (Tom Brown), and woo Ellie May Gillespie (Anita Louise), the girl of his dreams. The easy-going Priest also memorably performs with the doting Aunt Dilsey (Hattie McDaniels), making for a rousing depiction of postwar Southern living.
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00:00:03Here, here, here.
00:00:06The port's called order.
00:00:30The port's called the port.
00:00:32The port's called the port.
00:00:43Here, here, here.
00:00:54Oh, my God.
00:01:46Your Honor, there is no doubt in the mind of the Commonwealth
00:01:50that this prisoner is a confirmed chicken thief.
00:01:55He has no place in this God-fearing community.
00:01:59He is a migrant.
00:02:01He cometh from no man knows whence.
00:02:06Since arriving in our midst,
00:02:07he has been known to do no honest work.
00:02:11The Commonwealth of Kentucky asks, yea, demands
00:02:16that he be a judge guilty
00:02:18and sentenced to six months on the chain gang.
00:02:27Hey, hey, boy, wake up there.
00:02:30Sheriff, wake him up there.
00:02:33If anybody's gonna sleep in this court, it'll be me.
00:02:36Hey, wake up.
00:02:38Yes, sir.
00:02:38Come here, boy.
00:02:41Come on over here, right there.
00:02:46What's your name?
00:02:49Dick Poindexter.
00:02:51Poindexter?
00:02:52Who gave you that?
00:02:54Mr. Ranney.
00:02:55Ranney?
00:02:57You mean Major Randolph Poindexter from down at Pine Bluff?
00:03:02Yeah, Pine Bluff.
00:03:07Well, looks like you Poindexters
00:03:11is always getting mixed up with some chicken somehow.
00:03:15Hey, Sergeant.
00:03:17It seems like I recollect
00:03:21you and Major Ranney
00:03:22having some connection
00:03:24with the flesh of the fowl at one time.
00:03:27You're good if we didn't.
00:03:28You know, Major Ranney was the fire-eaternest
00:03:31soldier that ever chased a yank up a tree.
00:03:34You know, Billy,
00:03:35you and me puttin' his staff that day
00:03:37when we went forgin' for a snack
00:03:39after the Battle of Chickamoggy.
00:03:41Chickamoggy?
00:03:43No, no.
00:03:44Oh, it was the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
00:03:47First, no!
00:03:48Set your finger with it!
00:03:49Kick him off!
00:03:49Oh, you're both wrong.
00:03:51I'm not wrong.
00:03:51It was the summer of 63.
00:03:53And we were just outside of Nashville.
00:03:56No, Billy's right.
00:03:58I remember.
00:04:00For wasn't I there, Mitchell?
00:04:02Your Honor, the commonwealth
00:04:03subjects to this digression.
00:04:05Now, now, now, Senator,
00:04:07you know, now the point is
00:04:09that the Major,
00:04:11he acted the part of a gentleman
00:04:14and a soldier
00:04:15and he removed the temptation
00:04:17from out of our path
00:04:19by eatin' up all the fat hens
00:04:23in the whole bunch
00:04:24and leavin' us nothin'
00:04:25but a lot of old skinny
00:04:27Domineck roosters.
00:04:28You remember, boys?
00:04:29Come to think of it, Billy,
00:04:30they were Plymouth Rocks.
00:04:32There was no such a thing.
00:04:33There were Yankee-ticking.
00:04:34There was Rhode Island Wrecks.
00:04:35I ain't no question.
00:04:36I could trust you.
00:04:37No, Plymouth Rocks.
00:04:39Go, Roma!
00:04:40Go, Roma!
00:04:43Is this a court of law?
00:04:45Yes, I know the law.
00:04:45I ask you,
00:04:47is this a court of law?
00:04:49Now, now, now, Senator,
00:04:51I wouldn't, I,
00:04:53don't get on your high horse
00:04:54that way.
00:04:55You know,
00:04:55we ain't in a great big hurry,
00:04:57but incidentally,
00:04:58but what do you,
00:04:59what do you charge with there, boss?
00:05:01Nothin', Judge,
00:05:02but I wouldn't let
00:05:03them chickens showin' up.
00:05:05I just fishin'.
00:05:07Fishin'?
00:05:08Where was you fishin'?
00:05:09Down Sleepy River.
00:05:13Ain't no big and sleepy river.
00:05:15There are some.
00:05:16Ain't either.
00:05:16Four catfish.
00:05:18Talks right, Jimmy.
00:05:20Yeah?
00:05:20Sure, it's white folks.
00:05:22I catch bull-ass catfish
00:05:24in there that long.
00:05:26There's your proof he's lying.
00:05:30Here, come in.
00:05:31What do you use for bait?
00:05:32Oh, I get a honk of beef liver.
00:05:35Beef liver?
00:05:36Yeah, I should take the beef liver
00:05:38and put it on the hook
00:05:39and chunk it out there.
00:05:41Let them have the first piece
00:05:42for nothin', see,
00:05:44and then you put some more
00:05:45on that and chunk it out there
00:05:47and then they think
00:05:48they gonna get that for nothin'
00:05:49and you catch them along
00:05:51cause you got the liver.
00:05:53And I could run there
00:05:54all the time and I don't care
00:05:55nothin' but that liver.
00:05:57Hey, why you gentlemen
00:05:58of Mr. Stewart
00:06:00and you're coming to all?
00:06:02Yeah, yeah, I remember.
00:06:16I got to take down the judges' clothes
00:06:21Got to take them in the house
00:06:25Yes, Lord
00:06:26Got to get out
00:06:29that old ironing boat
00:06:31fix em' up
00:06:33for the jets to wear
00:06:35Mmm
00:06:38Yes, Lord
00:06:41That's what I was going to do.
00:06:49Praise the Lord, Mr. Ome.
00:06:51Is you ahead or is you in?
00:06:53Hi, Aunt Dilsey.
00:06:54How come you here?
00:06:56Did judge say you up there at that college learned to be a lawyer man?
00:06:59Aunt Dilsey, I got stomach trouble.
00:07:01Lord help you, white child. What them years he's been feeding you?
00:07:04Not a darn thing. That's your trouble.
00:07:06What have you got for supper?
00:07:08Mr. Ome, you stay here.
00:07:09Us was going to kill the high step in this rooster in the yard
00:07:13and a great big bowl of milk gravy and grits.
00:07:16Damn waffles.
00:07:17Don't you worry not, honey. You was home now.
00:07:19Mr. Ome, Mr. Ome, Mr. Ome, Mr. Ome, Mr. Ome, Mr. Ome, Mr. Ome.
00:07:24Hey, Uncle Billy.
00:07:27How are you?
00:07:28Well, if it ain't Rome, well, salt be down.
00:07:33What happened up there? Did them Yankees kick you out of that law school?
00:07:36Sure they did, with a diploma.
00:07:39You're now looking at a full-fledged member of the bar.
00:07:43Let me look at you.
00:07:47Full-fledged, my goodness.
00:07:48Yes, lawyer.
00:07:49You know, you better get your britches half-sold,
00:07:52because you're going to sit around a long time before you get your first client.
00:07:55Well, I don't mind, Uncle Billy.
00:07:58You know what happened to me before I got my first client, don't you?
00:08:01Lord, I set through two Republican administrations before I...
00:08:11Who are you playing?
00:08:13Oh, I'm just doing a little practicing here for the championship.
00:08:16I got Jeff here.
00:08:18He's doing the retrieving for me.
00:08:20Me and Herman Felsberg is going to play against Jimmy Bagby and Doc Lake.
00:08:25Two of them balls down there, will you, Jeff?
00:08:27Two again?
00:08:28Remember the last time.
00:08:30I'm going to show you what had happened to Jimmy Bagby now.
00:08:32He's, uh...
00:08:34Just want to show you how far...
00:08:36Ooh, look at...
00:08:38Look at that Yankee shoe.
00:08:40You just got all that, Jeff.
00:08:41Look at that.
00:08:44Yes, I've never seen shoes with buttons on them before.
00:08:49I've seen pants, but...
00:08:53Oh, say, that's fine.
00:08:57Oh, uh...
00:08:58Just, uh...
00:08:58Take your button shoes with you and just step that off and see just how far it is.
00:09:03All right.
00:09:04I think that's about a record.
00:09:06One, two, three, four.
00:09:14Hello.
00:09:15Hello.
00:09:19Glad to see me?
00:09:21Why, I thought you were still up north.
00:09:23Uh, I didn't this morning.
00:09:26How'd you know I was back here?
00:09:28Well, I didn't, but Uncle...
00:09:32Why, you look pretty with those things.
00:09:35Isn't this the lovely spray?
00:09:36Mm-hmm.
00:09:39Now, young lady, I want to ask you a question.
00:09:41Please let me down, Rome.
00:09:42Miss Gillespie, will you please tell this court why you didn't answer my letters?
00:09:46I've got to go in.
00:09:47Really, I have.
00:09:47Now, tell the truth.
00:09:48The whole truth and nothing but the truth.
00:09:50So help you.
00:09:51You know why.
00:09:53Well, I know is that you've changed since I went away.
00:09:58Well, that isn't it, Rome.
00:09:59It's...
00:10:00It's just that we've grown up.
00:10:03You mean you don't like me anymore?
00:10:05Oh, Rome.
00:10:07Well, if my mother or anybody has said anything...
00:10:10Oh, Ellie, may I mean...
00:10:12Well, I'm old enough to choose my own friends.
00:10:15Please let me go.
00:10:16We've got to get this thing settled once and for all.
00:10:18I've got to go in.
00:10:19Really, I have.
00:10:20All right, then.
00:10:21I'm coming back tonight and find out what it's all about.
00:10:23You can.
00:10:24I have an engagement.
00:10:26Who with?
00:10:27Fleming Talley.
00:10:30Well, how about tomorrow night?
00:10:32Oh, Rome, it's no use.
00:10:34All right.
00:10:35That's the way you feel about it.
00:10:36You can sit right there and we understand each other.
00:10:41That's all right.
00:10:42That's all right.
00:10:42We don't need no more practice for them old men.
00:10:47Besides, that exertion calls for a jeweler.
00:10:50Yes, but you're going to wait for that young gentleman before you...
00:10:54Wait for him?
00:10:55Yes.
00:10:56Unless young folks have changed since I was skirmishing around.
00:11:00He won't be back in quite a while.
00:11:02What?
00:11:04Look at that goat.
00:11:06Ain't that a pretty sight?
00:11:08What, that goat?
00:11:10There ain't nothing pretty in the world.
00:11:12And two young folks in love in the spring.
00:11:16What about that goat?
00:11:17Oh, goat.
00:11:18My lord.
00:11:18Ain't you got any sentiment?
00:11:19Ain't you got no girl?
00:11:20Wasn't you ever in love?
00:11:22I'm standing around here talking about a goat or something.
00:11:24But your mint?
00:11:25What about my mint?
00:11:26A goat in your mint bed.
00:11:28It's in my mint bed.
00:11:29What?
00:11:29Here, what?
00:11:34And like you shuntled, I'll get you all with you.
00:11:40Why, William Priest?
00:11:42Oh, hello, Carrie.
00:11:43This is a fine how-do-you-do.
00:11:45What will the neighbors say?
00:11:47I'm ashamed of it.
00:11:49What's ailing you now?
00:11:51That gum goat come in here and eat up my mint bed there.
00:11:55I bet he must have been the ruination of a million julep.
00:11:59You and your precious mint juleps.
00:12:01A circuit court judge.
00:12:03Where's your dignity?
00:12:05Dignity?
00:12:07I don't reckon the priest family will ever have to worry about dignity
00:12:11as long as you're alive and kicking.
00:12:12Well, it's a good thing somebody in this family has pride.
00:12:17I always told my brother when he married you that he saved the family name.
00:12:21Well, if he were living, he wouldn't be fooling around the front yard with a goat.
00:12:25That's not what I came for.
00:12:27Have you seen Rome?
00:12:29Oh, Rome?
00:12:30Rome?
00:12:31Oh, it appears like I did see that son of yours around here a while ago.
00:12:35I expect he's downtown, though, now.
00:12:37You know, strutting around, showing off his butt and shoes.
00:12:41Now, don't you play possum with me.
00:12:43As if I didn't know you'd been encouraging that, that girl over there
00:12:48to set her cap for Rome.
00:12:50Carrie, Carrie.
00:12:52If I didn't know that you had the biggest heart of any woman in the world,
00:12:56I'd think he's the most suspicious creature that ever come down the pipe.
00:12:59Never mind that.
00:13:01You come up on the porch.
00:13:02I want to talk to you.
00:13:11But if I didn't know that's the way you felt about it, I wouldn't have hurried home so fast.
00:13:16I'm sorry, Rome.
00:13:18But after all, you have your career, and your family, and everything in the world that matters to you right
00:13:24here.
00:13:25I don't think you care what matters to me.
00:13:27That's not fair, Rome.
00:13:29After all, I'm only telling you for your own good.
00:13:36William, I'm not a woman to beat about the bush.
00:13:39This business of Rome and that girl next door has got to stop.
00:13:44What do you got against Ellie Mae?
00:13:46She's an awful sweet girl, seems to me.
00:13:48She's got gumption, and she teaches school, and supports herself.
00:13:52I don't want to be unkind.
00:13:54She may be a very nice girl and all that.
00:13:56But after all, Rome is one of the Kentucky priests, and the name of priest means something in Kentucky.
00:14:04Well, I've never heard that it meant intolerance.
00:14:08It means good stock and family pride.
00:14:11You know the kind of stock she comes from.
00:14:15Yeah, her, uh, her ma come to this town penless and died giving birth to Ellie Mae.
00:14:24I remember the night.
00:14:26She was a free little woman.
00:14:29Wasn't any bigger than Ellie Mae is now.
00:14:32And just as pretty.
00:14:33But who was her father?
00:14:36Well, uh, nobody don't, uh, rightfully know.
00:14:40A family may not mean anything to you, but it means a whole lot to me.
00:14:46I'm not going to have my grandchildren come into the world under a cloud.
00:14:51You, uh, haven't by any chance picked, uh, hard Maydew as their grandpappy, have you?
00:14:56Oh, I know you've never liked Senator Maeve, but you can't say anything against his folks.
00:15:01They've got money, they're an old family, and Virginia's a lovely girl.
00:15:06She's always been crazy about Rome.
00:15:09He could do a lot worse.
00:15:12Well, I guess, uh, me and Rome, we ain't got anything to say about them.
00:15:17I knew you'd come around to my way.
00:15:22You're going to, uh, you're going to stay for supper, ain't you, Carrie?
00:15:24Not tonight, thank you, William.
00:15:25The daughters of the Confederacy are having a chicken supper at Cape Maydew's, and I'm late already.
00:15:31Looks like you daughters get more ferocious every year towards Yankees and, uh, fried chicken.
00:15:37You got your badge on there.
00:15:39Yes.
00:15:40Mighty pretty.
00:15:41Good night, William.
00:15:43Sometimes I, uh, I think you women got more badges and medals out of the soldiers, dear.
00:15:50Good night, Carrie.
00:15:57Listen, that old Whipple, uh, calling his mate.
00:16:01Him and his kin has been...
00:16:03nesting around here for now and 30 years.
00:16:06It's a lonesome kind of sound, isn't it, Uncle Billy?
00:16:10Hmm, it is so.
00:16:13You know, the good Lord never meant for nobody, either man or...
00:16:18bird, uh, live by themselves.
00:16:21Uncle Billy, why didn't you come and live with us after Aunt Margaret died?
00:16:26Oh, well...
00:16:27I never could stand Jamal's cooking.
00:16:36Awful fine swing over there on that other porch.
00:16:41I wouldn't be surprised if they ain't a pretty girl.
00:16:44Sitting in it now.
00:16:46He's got another fella tonight.
00:16:51Hell, he may sure is pretty.
00:16:54Well, if he gets hurt, he'll certainly have to do some prancing, ain't he?
00:16:57Sit around and look glum all the time.
00:17:03There he is now.
00:17:04Who?
00:17:05That phlegm tally.
00:17:07The barber?
00:17:08Yeah.
00:17:11Gives off a poor shave.
00:17:16Whoa.
00:17:17Whoa, Bert.
00:17:27Yeah, I am, honey.
00:17:33Here they have the news.
00:17:45Uh, son, uh, there ain't nothing that'll get your mind off women folks like work.
00:17:52Will you run back into my library there and get my old Kentucky coat of statues?
00:17:57It's, uh, it's an old calfskin book up on the top shelf there.
00:18:01Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:18:03Gets me that brand there.
00:18:06Long years.
00:18:07I'm just gonna see if I can't stop him.
00:18:11Gabby Rives and Joe Harringer, you know, the boys that work for me down at my barber shop.
00:18:16Well, they comes to me tonight and wants me to go over to Old Town.
00:18:21Some high-flying gals over there.
00:18:24But I tells them no.
00:18:26I can have all the fun I want right here at home.
00:18:31Now, guess who I was talking about?
00:18:34Couldn't I... couldn't I make you some lemonade?
00:18:37Lemonade? Sure, honey.
00:18:40And I got something to sweeten it with.
00:18:42Right out of the mountains and kick it like a mule.
00:18:55Oh!
00:18:56Jack! Oh, Jack!
00:18:59You see anything, Mr...
00:19:01Mr. Slim Talley?
00:19:03The barber man around here?
00:19:06No, what'll he be doing around here?
00:19:09I... I don't know, Jack, but...
00:19:11but they... they're headed this way for him.
00:19:14What are you talking about?
00:19:17Who's there?
00:19:18Uh...
00:19:19Uh...
00:19:19Some lady's pappy.
00:19:21Two barrels of shotgun.
00:19:24He said Mr. Talley's been messing around.
00:19:28He sure isn't a killing mood.
00:19:32Uh...
00:19:33Uh...
00:19:33You mean that, uh...
00:19:34He's going to annihilate him?
00:19:38Uh...
00:19:39Uh...
00:19:40Uh...
00:19:41Uh...
00:19:41No, sir.
00:19:41He...
00:19:42He does...
00:19:42Uh...
00:19:43He's going to shoot him.
00:19:45That's all.
00:19:47Uh...
00:19:47Uh...
00:19:47There ain't a thing that I can do about it.
00:19:49Uh...
00:19:50Uh...
00:19:50My job don't stop.
00:19:52Until, uh...
00:19:53They've got him all, uh...
00:19:55laid out in the mall.
00:19:56Uh...
00:19:56Full of buckshot.
00:19:58Cold and dead.
00:20:01And, uh...
00:20:02Ready for burial.
00:20:03Then...
00:20:03Then I steps in.
00:20:05Uh...
00:20:05But, uh...
00:20:06You...
00:20:07You judge.
00:20:09You...
00:20:10Uh...
00:20:10The law.
00:20:11Oh...
00:20:12I can't do a thing about it, as I said before, until the shooting is over.
00:20:17And, uh...
00:20:17Then I'll certainly see that the, uh...
00:20:20Murderer gets a fair trial.
00:20:23Killer!
00:20:24Killer!
00:20:41Uncle Billy, I couldn't find that book anywhere.
00:20:43What book?
00:20:44That Kentucky law book.
00:20:47Oh...
00:20:48Maybe I didn't have one.
00:20:52Kelly May is waiting for you over there.
00:20:54What?
00:20:56I...
00:20:56I...
00:20:57How do you know?
00:20:57Are you sure?
00:20:58Now, don't be standing here like a jaybird gawking when I tell you she's waiting.
00:21:01Go on out of here and go.
00:21:14I've been waiting for you.
00:21:15I wish I could be a while.
00:21:16But...
00:21:16And then, uh...
00:21:18I think I could be waiting for you.
00:21:19...What's going on?
00:21:24...I don't have to do it.
00:21:25Your mom is pretty cool.
00:21:26Oh, no.
00:21:26No, no.
00:21:26It's not, oh, no.
00:21:27Oh, no.
00:21:29Oh, no.
00:21:39That dumb whippoorwill.
00:21:44Mighty poor company on a night like this.
00:21:51Good night, Dad.
00:22:10Good night, Dad.
00:22:13Good night.
00:22:14Good night.
00:22:18Good night.
00:22:27Good night.
00:22:32Good night.
00:22:36Good night, Dad.
00:22:39Good night!
00:22:42Good night!
00:22:46Good night!
00:22:53Good night!
00:22:54From the world far...
00:23:00From the world...
00:23:05From the world...
00:23:21It's been a long time, honey, since you and the baby went away.
00:23:34Oh, uh, uh, uh, Rome come home tonight.
00:23:43Little, little Robert E would have been, he would have been just the same age as, uh, as Rome is
00:23:52now.
00:23:58I guess Rome coming home is what makes it seem more lonesome than...
00:24:08ever around here.
00:24:16Funny you know that, that fellow that, uh, he enlarged that tin type.
00:24:22He, he sure did a, sure did a pretty job.
00:24:27I wish you could see it, honey.
00:24:50Oh, see, that... that fellow put that gill on there.
00:24:56That was a regular humbug.
00:25:01Got to get that fixed.
00:25:20Mmm, honey, it's sure always a pretty night.
00:25:25It's been an awful late spring.
00:25:28But I don't know when I've seen the flowers looking better this time of year.
00:25:42People are funny things.
00:25:46Always got their eyes set on something.
00:25:50Rome, he's got his eyes set on Kelly May.
00:25:53And Carrie, she's got hers set on old Hod Maydew's daughter.
00:25:58Her own.
00:25:59Old Hod, he's got his eyes set on my job.
00:26:05Some of them gonna be disappointed.
00:26:08Mm-hmm.
00:26:10Them honeysuckles sure do smell sweet.
00:26:13Mm-hmm.
00:26:14Seems like I just can't get my nose full enough of them.
00:26:35Would that burn, honey?
00:26:38There's Bob Gillis over that grave.
00:26:46It's at Ellie Mae's mother's.
00:26:50I'll shut you.
00:26:52You're a pretty boy, though.
00:26:55There you are.
00:27:01Hi, Jimmy.
00:27:02Hello, Billy.
00:27:04What are you doing there?
00:27:06Figuring on getting called to the colors again?
00:27:09Hello, Gillis.
00:27:12Hello.
00:27:14I never know what them Yanks is going to do.
00:27:17We'll lick them once and I'm keeping old Jedi ready in case we...
00:27:21in case we got to do it again.
00:27:24Say, uh...
00:27:25Better look at old, uh, General Forrest there.
00:27:28Think he's gonna need a little shoeing pretty soon.
00:27:31Well, I'm...
00:27:31I'm mighty busy right now, Billy, shoeing them two horses over there.
00:27:35Hey, Bob.
00:27:36We'd better take a look at the judges' horses.
00:27:38Some of them.
00:27:49Have a snifter?
00:27:51Good corn.
00:27:52You can smell the feet of the boy that plowed it.
00:27:54Hey.
00:28:00That breath of yours is like a hot mince pie.
00:28:03Where are you going?
00:28:04Going fishing.
00:28:05Sleepy river.
00:28:06Sleepy river?
00:28:07Why don't you fish in the trough there?
00:28:10Need shoeing?
00:28:11No.
00:28:11All right for a while yet.
00:28:14Say, bad scar you got there.
00:28:16Bullet?
00:28:18Yeah.
00:28:19Get that in the water?
00:28:21No.
00:28:24Uh, folks say, uh, you coming up north.
00:28:27Must have got that up there.
00:28:35We'll talk to Jeff before he's finding out anything.
00:28:40Hey, wake up here.
00:28:43Somebody will come along and steal a horse and leave you sitting here holding on.
00:28:59Come along.
00:29:00Come on with that beef liver now.
00:29:01Oh, the bait, that's in a bait bag.
00:29:06Oh, this keeps it in his head.
00:29:10Rudd up now.
00:29:11A liver.
00:29:14Oh, gee.
00:29:16Hey, don't tell me you ain't got it.
00:29:20Looks like that liver hasn't walked off by itself.
00:29:24Oh, Lord.
00:29:27I'm gonna catch any catfish and ain't got no bait.
00:29:31Take this dime now.
00:29:32Hurry on back to town and get me that beef liver.
00:29:35All right, sir.
00:29:36Hurry up now.
00:29:37All right.
00:29:38I'm actually running now.
00:29:43You gonna put your shoes on?
00:29:45I'm gonna save them in case my feet wear out.
00:29:50And then I have them.
00:29:53What's sitting around as you do?
00:29:55It won't be your feet that'll wear out.
00:30:07Master Jesus wrote me alone.
00:30:11He wrote it on the wall.
00:30:16He'd tell me to put on my Sunday clothes.
00:30:23Boy, he's coming.
00:30:25He'll catch me soon.
00:30:27Master Jesus wrote me a note.
00:30:35He dropped it in a star.
00:30:41Say, he gonna wash me white as snow.
00:30:48Don't I be as black as mine.
00:31:15Don't I be as black as mine.
00:31:18He's a green possum?
00:31:19A rabbit.
00:31:20A rabbit?
00:31:20Say, listen.
00:31:21Every inch of that is raccoon.
00:31:23Better be raccoon.
00:31:24I took it off a rich Yankee.
00:31:25Now, you get in there and put them things away from there.
00:31:28Better get on over at that festival there.
00:31:30Dillsy might be needing you, too.
00:31:36How are you, Judge?
00:31:37Just Oliver, ever.
00:31:38Just Oliver.
00:31:39I'm afraid it takes ice cream and cake to get you old soldiers out there, Judge.
00:31:43If the Lord ever gets in the jam, he knows who to call them.
00:31:48That's right.
00:31:49Going to church isn't everything there is to it.
00:31:52Evening, Senator.
00:31:53Good evening, Reverend.
00:31:55Good evening, Jack Spreeze.
00:31:57Good evening, Lord.
00:32:01Here's one of our best church doors.
00:32:05Yes, it's surprising how far some men will go to get a few votes.
00:32:11Too bad we didn't get rid of him and get him off up to Congress, sir,
00:32:16after him spending that term in the State Senate.
00:32:21I understand he thinks you deprived him of that honor.
00:32:24Me?
00:32:25Great Democratic Party and Thomas Jefferson.
00:32:29The President of the Senate doesn't see it that way.
00:32:32Tell me that his cases in your court have taken on the appearance of a personal fusion.
00:32:38Now that he's a candidate for your job.
00:32:41Oh, I wouldn't say that, Ashby.
00:32:44But I am going to have to get out and do some mighty tall lectioneering, you know.
00:32:48Hart is a spellbinder in a silver tongue from way back.
00:32:53I'm just an old country jank to kind of a baby kisser.
00:33:00I ain't got much to offer the boys in the way of rhetoric.
00:33:05I understand he doesn't approve of your grandma.
00:33:07My grandma?
00:33:09First thing I learned in politics was when to say ain't.
00:33:21Speaking of ice cream, did I have to tell you about Shiloh?
00:33:25Yeah.
00:33:26Wait a minute, Doc.
00:33:27Wait a minute.
00:33:27How much did he hear, then?
00:33:28Well, sir, come here.
00:33:30Come on.
00:33:30Come on back here.
00:33:31It was the eve before Shiloh.
00:33:33And them orders had to get across the river to General Beauregard.
00:33:36What did I do?
00:33:37I took off my clothes and I stuffed the orders in my mouth and I plunged in.
00:33:41Good pitch, Doc.
00:33:43Well, sir, I was going...
00:33:45Good evening.
00:33:49Swimming again, Jimmy?
00:33:53Where was I?
00:33:54Where was I?
00:33:55Right in the middle of the river.
00:33:56Yes, sir.
00:33:57There you are.
00:33:58Swimming and twelve miles to go.
00:33:59Yes, and there I was.
00:34:00Swimming and swimming.
00:34:01Diving under and around.
00:34:03Yankee gunboats.
00:34:04Yankee boots all around me.
00:34:05Surrounded by Yankee gunboats.
00:34:07And me dodging.
00:34:08Right in...
00:34:09Gunboats?
00:34:09Yes, sir.
00:34:11Putting them gunboats in there is a new touch, ain't it, Jimmy?
00:34:18Hello, Rome.
00:34:19Hello.
00:34:21Now, don't you young people think you have to entertain us, old folks?
00:34:24That's right.
00:34:25Run along now.
00:34:26They're getting ready for the candy pool.
00:34:28Perhaps Rome has other plans.
00:34:30Oh, no, he hasn't.
00:34:36I declare, Virginia gets prettier every time I see her.
00:34:41And I know you are happy to have Rome at home again.
00:34:44Oh, he's such a nice boy.
00:34:47Don't they look fine together?
00:34:48Look at them horrors.
00:34:51Oh, yes.
00:34:53Oh, yes.
00:34:53You, beauty.
00:34:56I remember when I first crossed the threshold of my young manhood and listened to the sweet murmurings of my
00:35:02heart.
00:35:03Oh, yes.
00:35:07No.
00:35:07Oh, yes!
00:35:12Yes!
00:35:14Yes!
00:35:15Yes!
00:35:22I'm here!
00:35:38I propose to conduct my campaign on a Daytonified basis. No personality. Others may send you the homespun manors of
00:35:48Judge Priest on the bench.
00:35:50Not I. Others may question the methods by which he has held political control of the county for a quarter
00:35:59of a century. Not I.
00:36:03Oh, gentlemen, merit alone will count in the forthcoming election.
00:36:12Where have you been keeping yourself from? I think you've forgotten where I live.
00:36:18Nothing like that. Mother and Daddy are always teasing me about you. I tell them you don't care anything about
00:36:25me. Bet you have a girl up north.
00:36:29Well, even if I did have, haven't you got every boy in town on your string?
00:36:33Oh, no, stick in the mud. They make me tired. Besides, I've been waiting for somebody else.
00:36:48Hey, what's the prettiest gal at the festival here moping around back here by herself, huh?
00:37:00You want some taffy, Judge? I ain't much of a taffy-puller.
00:37:13Well, on second thoughts, you can give me a water of that, too.
00:37:17Well, put the butter on your hands first.
00:37:34Oh.
00:37:34Hello, Uncle Belly.
00:37:36Oh, hello.
00:37:38You ain't doing that right.
00:37:40What's the matter with him? Here.
00:37:41Here. Let me see your hand.
00:37:44I don't got no butter on there. No wonder.
00:37:46Here. Here. Let me show you. Put mine in here. Let me show you.
00:37:49There.
00:37:50Go on up there. Run on up there and put some old stickum on your hand there.
00:37:53Go on. Right up there.
00:37:54All right, Uncle Belly.
00:37:55That's it. Now, here. Put that right over in there, now.
00:37:58Now, here. Here. Here. Now, that's the thing. Candy pulling.
00:38:02You got to keep your mind right on there. Right on there.
00:38:04See, look at this. That's how you're getting it all on your hand.
00:38:06Keep your mind on what you're doing there, now.
00:38:08I thought you were pulling candy with the champion candy puller of this neighborhood, now.
00:38:44I think this is your fault.
00:38:46The sun shines bright in my old Kentucky home.
00:39:00This summer, the darkies are gay.
00:39:12The corn top lies as all mellows in the blue.
00:39:25While the birds make beauty all the bay.
00:39:39Leave no more, my lady. Oh, weep no more today.
00:39:52We will sing one song of my old Kentucky home.
00:40:07Of my old Kentucky home.
00:40:14Of my old Kentucky home.
00:40:16Far away.
00:40:21Far away.
00:40:22Far away.
00:40:29Far away.
00:40:32Far away.
00:40:34Far away.
00:40:50Hey, Judge. You ain't been in lately, have you?
00:40:57Good morning, Mr...
00:40:59Morning.
00:41:08Nice day.
00:41:10Yeah.
00:41:10Oh, Glam.
00:41:11Here she comes.
00:41:18And does she like her, Flippi?
00:41:23Hey, Flippi.
00:41:24When you two getting hitched...
00:41:26Don't worry, I heard nobody talking about marriage.
00:41:31You ain't scared of no shotgun wedding, are you?
00:41:35Not as long as she ain't got no paw.
00:41:43Get up.
00:41:49Say, that fellow's gonna make himself mighty unpopular around here.
00:41:53That's right, Judge.
00:41:54Yeah.
00:41:55There's about 2,000 male citizens here that's gonna be mighty sore at him.
00:41:59Yeah.
00:42:00When they find out that he punched you in the jaw before they could.
00:42:11Yes, he's gonna be awful unpopular around here.
00:42:23We're not licking the last shots fired.
00:42:25No.
00:42:25He ain't gonna have no...
00:42:27I got the grounds.
00:42:28All right.
00:42:29Yeah.
00:42:30You, you choose that one.
00:42:32There you go.
00:42:33Yeah.
00:42:34One, two...
00:42:36Ha, ha.
00:42:36Yeah, ha, ha.
00:42:37All right.
00:42:38You have to be.
00:42:39Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:42:42Who starts having?
00:42:43Yes, sir.
00:43:03I love you halfway.
00:43:08Yeah.
00:43:10Here we go.
00:43:11No, no, no.
00:43:13I'm going to get that one.
00:43:13Yes, sir.
00:43:14I just like more than that.
00:43:18Yeah, I got a spare one of them.
00:43:22Desolate.
00:43:24Cure.
00:43:25I ain't trying to tell you what to do.
00:43:28I just say.
00:43:30Always there's somebody trying to...
00:43:32Hey!
00:43:33Cut them monkey shines!
00:43:35How do you expect a judge to win that croquet game with no solace in his stomach?
00:43:44Hey, Desi, you done forgot the jug.
00:43:48There's a jug here.
00:43:50All right, you can.
00:43:52See, I never told you now.
00:43:55Leaving somebody here with all this stuff.
00:43:59I bet she gonna blame me for it.
00:44:05Don't see you around much.
00:44:08No.
00:44:10Try to keep to yourself, don't you?
00:44:12Yeah.
00:44:21You all get some more beer while I'm locked with that 14 ball down there in the corner.
00:44:26I'll pay for it.
00:44:29Hey, Bill.
00:44:30You messes out there.
00:44:32Yeah?
00:44:32Yes.
00:44:33Come on, let's get it.
00:44:34Don't hold your horses now.
00:44:35You'll be heading through you in a minute, going home.
00:44:38Fellas with me?
00:44:39Sure.
00:44:40Sure with you.
00:44:48Another?
00:44:50No.
00:45:05Let's go.
00:45:06There's a gun.
00:45:07You got it.
00:45:07You got a knife!
00:45:09You got a knife!
00:45:10You got a knife!
00:45:11You got a knife!
00:45:12You got a knife!
00:45:13Get him, doctor!
00:45:13Quick!
00:45:14Get him, slam!
00:45:14What happened?
00:45:15Why?
00:45:16He pulled a knife and cut him!
00:45:17Hey!
00:45:17He cut slam! We show him!
00:45:20With a knife?
00:45:21Yeah! We show him to look at that!
00:45:23Hey!
00:45:23Come on!
00:45:25That works, Mr. Gold!
00:45:26We're not prepared, King.
00:45:27We'll get a duck at him.
00:45:36Hey, Uncle Billy!
00:45:39Uncle Billy!
00:45:40All right.
00:45:41Uncle Billy!
00:45:43You're dead on me!
00:45:44Oh, no!
00:45:45Oh, no!
00:45:46You missed that!
00:45:47You missed that!
00:45:48Get out of here!
00:45:49You're already out of here!
00:45:52Get out of here!
00:45:53Get out of here!
00:45:53Oh, no!
00:45:54Oh, no!
00:45:55Oh, no!
00:45:56Get away! Get away!
00:45:57Get away!
00:45:58I missed it!
00:45:59He missed it!
00:46:00He missed it!
00:46:00He missed it!
00:46:01Just a minute!
00:46:02Come on!
00:46:04Keep still!
00:46:05Keep still!
00:46:05Keep still!
00:46:06Keep still!
00:46:08Oh!
00:46:10We're censored!
00:46:11Come here!
00:46:12Let me talk to you!
00:46:13Oh, golly!
00:46:13I don't see how the South ever lost the war with a guy that could argue like you did!
00:46:18Uncle Billy!
00:46:19What is the matter?
00:46:19You've already made me lose the game!
00:46:21Uncle Billy!
00:46:22I got a client!
00:46:23Oh, well, who is it?
00:46:23What's the matter with him?
00:46:24Gillis!
00:46:25You know, Mr. Bagby's man!
00:46:26What's that, Bob Gillis?
00:46:27What's he doing?
00:46:28He cut up Phlegm Talley!
00:46:29Yeah?
00:46:30Uh-huh!
00:46:30And right after he gave himself up, he sent for me!
00:46:33Well, I'll be kicked by a mule!
00:46:34Did you cut him bad?
00:46:35Well, I can't tell yet!
00:46:37Gee, Uncle Billy, he sent for me!
00:46:39He'll be the biggest case in your whole court session and I'll be defending him!
00:46:43Well, I wouldn't gloat too soon now!
00:46:46Oh, don't you worry!
00:46:48Hey, Ellie Mae!
00:46:49See, yeah!
00:46:50I'm going to get down to the jail and see what that fellow's got to say for himself!
00:46:54I'm going to see Talley!
00:46:55Darned, Robert, they robbed us out of that!
00:46:58Herman, now, you better get on down there with me because you'll liable to get a chance to go his
00:47:04bail!
00:47:05Ellie Mae!
00:47:08Ellie Mae, I got a client!
00:47:10Oh, Rome, I knew you would!
00:47:12Come on over!
00:47:12I want you to talk to Uncle Billy and tell you all about it!
00:47:14That's sort of novelty, Herman!
00:47:16The barber getting cut up!
00:47:18Whoever cut him up, couldn't have cut him much if he was the barber's razor!
00:47:24Where's Rome?
00:47:25I won't have it, that's all!
00:47:27He's getting mixed up with that kind of people!
00:47:30What's he done now?
00:47:32Well, he's done enough!
00:47:37Mother, what's the matter?
00:47:38Something wrong?
00:47:39If you're in the habit of discussing your affairs before strangers, I'm not!
00:47:44Well, Ellie Mae's not a stranger!
00:47:45Excuse me, Rome, I'll go!
00:47:46No, wait!
00:47:47All right!
00:47:48I have nothing to hide!
00:47:50Carrie, what's the matter?
00:47:52Have you been out in the sun too much?
00:47:54You shut up, William Priest!
00:47:56I hold you responsible for everything that's happened!
00:47:59Are you going to defend that man?
00:48:01Mr. Gillis?
00:48:03You bet I am!
00:48:04Oh, no, you're not!
00:48:06Mother, what do you mean I'm not?
00:48:07I suppose you know what's behind this drunken brawl?
00:48:11No?
00:48:12Well, then I'll tell you!
00:48:13They were fighting over that girl in a saloon!
00:48:17Mother, that's not so!
00:48:19Carrie, you can accumulate more misinformation in a shorter time than anybody who told you all this rigmarole!
00:48:27Virginia made you!
00:48:28Who?
00:48:29Virginia made you!
00:48:30Oh!
00:48:31She got it straight from her father!
00:48:33And brought it straight to you?
00:48:35She wanted to warn Rome!
00:48:39I know you can have a life with me, Mrs. Priest!
00:48:41I know you've tried to stop Rome from going with me!
00:48:44And I know you think I'm not good enough for him!
00:48:46Well, let me tell you something!
00:48:48If Rome were half as mean as you are, he wouldn't be good enough for me!
00:48:54Well, of all things!
00:49:00Carrie, looks like you run second.
00:49:02Oh, no, I don't!
00:49:03If Rome's father were alive, he'd back me up!
00:49:06Rome's already got himself talked about all over town with this girl!
00:49:09And I'm not going to have him publicly defending her in court!
00:49:16Well, Rome...
00:49:17See how your mother feels about it, so...
00:49:20Looks like you lost your first client.
00:49:24It's certainly hard to get, too.
00:49:26No, Uncle Billy, I haven't lost anything.
00:49:29Rome!
00:49:30Mother, I think I'm old enough to know my own mind.
00:49:33I said I'd defend Mr. Gillis, and I'm going to go through with it.
00:49:42I'm glad he's here for now.
00:49:45I'm glad you're here.
00:49:45Practice where, Reverend...
00:49:47Have that chair there, please, sir!
00:49:50How are you, Harry?
00:49:51How are you?
00:49:52How are you?
00:49:53Good.
00:49:54Good.
00:49:55How are you?
00:49:56Good.
00:49:57Good.
00:49:57Good.
00:49:59Good.
00:51:18May it please the court.
00:51:22I would point out that for many years a political and personal difference has existed between
00:51:30your honor and myself.
00:51:32Now that I am a candidate for the exalted office which you have held for so many years, those
00:51:39differences have reached a point where, for the protection of the people, I must demand
00:51:47an impartial trial judge.
00:51:51Perhaps I'm getting deaf, but the fact had never reached me before.
00:51:58Are you insinuating that you won't get full justice in this court?
00:52:02I maintain that my language was sufficiently plain for any comprehension, however obtuse.
00:52:09But I will make it even franker.
00:52:11I charge, in the presence of two witnesses, you took sides with the defendant Gillis in
00:52:17a prior attack upon this pleading.
00:52:20I've been sitting on this bench for nigh on 20 years, and nobody has ever asked me to
00:52:28step down.
00:52:29I'll file an affidavit of prejudice.
00:52:31That won't hardly be necessary.
00:52:33Then I call upon you, Judge Priest, to vacate the bench during this trial and yield your
00:52:39place to a qualified judge.
00:52:54I, uh, I'm, I'm not denying, Senator, that you, well, you kind of took my breath away.
00:53:07I guess I had, uh, just sort of got the habit that I was, took for granted here on this
00:53:17bench.
00:53:21Gosh, I was, I was putting a raise in this, in this courtroom.
00:53:26Well, when I quit fighting, 65, for what we thought was right, I kind of calmed down, found
00:53:46out I, I couldn't lick the whole United States.
00:53:52I come back here, to my hometown, and I put up my shingle.
00:53:59It wasn't long before I was sitting on that bench.
00:54:05Maybe I did have a hankering for the spirit of the law, not the letter, but as far as I
00:54:19know, nobody ever found cause to complain.
00:54:25I mean, till now, now you, uh, you jury, you forget everything that I've said.
00:54:37And, uh, my feelings has, uh, no place in the, uh, in the records of, of this trial.
00:54:49Now, if you will excuse me, neither side has any objection.
00:54:57I'd like to ask the Honorable Floyd Fairley if he won't come up here and take, take my, my
00:55:15place on, on the bench.
00:55:51Well, what happened then?
00:55:59Gentlemen of the jury, in plain language, the defendant here burst in upon these three
00:56:06worthy citizens.
00:56:07I, I object, Your Honor.
00:56:09I deny that my client ever burst into any place or anything.
00:56:14Objection sustained.
00:56:16So be it, Your Honor.
00:56:19Nevertheless, I shall demonstrate that my young friend's client here did burst into
00:56:24something.
00:56:25And armed with a lethal weapon, to wit, a dirt, dagger, or knife of deadly length and deadly
00:56:30sharpness, he burst into Mr. Talley's quivering flesh.
00:56:35I object, Your Honor.
00:56:36Objection sustained.
00:56:39Your Honor's humble servant bows to Your Honor's August Rulay.
00:56:46In due time, Mr. Talley's scarred and mutilated person will bespeak the verity of my claim with
00:56:55the silent eloquence far exceeding the powers of my poor tongue.
00:57:14You do it either.
00:57:17You never go to your citron.
00:57:19Just, Your Honor.
00:57:20And you never go.
00:57:20I mean, my son, I do the wrong thing.
00:57:25That's what he thought, Isle.
00:57:27That's all right.
00:57:28You never go to your court.
00:57:29and to become looking for Flem.
00:57:32But weren't you three all armed with billiard cues?
00:57:36Well, never heard of nobody playing poo without them.
00:57:45It's just like Flem and Joe says.
00:57:47He come in looking for trouble.
00:57:49You don't like the defendant, do you?
00:57:51Who does?
00:58:00Your Honor, the defense is through with the witness.
00:58:06I should think my young Leonard colleague
00:58:09would be glad to be through with the witness.
00:58:15Your Honor, the prosecution reads.
00:58:38Before the defense proceeds, this court recesses for half an hour.
00:58:50I don't know why you did it, Mr. Gillis.
00:58:53The judge priest told me what happened in the barber shop.
00:58:56Oh, you've got to tell the jury.
00:58:58They'd never conviction a million years
00:59:00if they knew you were defending a girl's name.
00:59:02Don't you see? You can't think of me now.
00:59:04You've got to think of yourself.
00:59:06Look, Mr. Gillis.
00:59:08I don't want to bring Ellie Mae's name into this thing any more than you do.
00:59:11But she's right.
00:59:13They can give you ten years for assault.
00:59:15The way May do is working on the jury, they'll give you the limit.
00:59:18Well, you've got to tell the truth, Mr. Gillis.
00:59:20Don't you see? You've got to.
00:59:22I ain't going to tell them anything.
00:59:29Yes, sir. Talley lied all the way through.
00:59:32And Herringer and Gab Rides, they lied too.
00:59:35It was three against one in Billy Gaynor's back room.
00:59:37And it's three against one in this here courtroom.
00:59:40Have you ever been in any other cutting scrape in town before?
00:59:43No, sir.
00:59:45That's all.
00:59:46One moment.
00:59:55Where do you come from, Mr. Gillis?
00:59:58I ain't a saying.
01:00:00You aren't exactly what we southerners would call a sociable person, are you?
01:00:04I mind my own business.
01:00:05Precisely.
01:00:06Except when you go looking for crap.
01:00:08I don't go looking for trouble.
01:00:09But I ain't the one to run away from it.
01:00:12How long have you had a grievance against Mr. Talley?
01:00:15We had a run-in a few days before he jumped me.
01:00:18A run-in, eh?
01:00:19And what was this run-in about?
01:00:22Well, come on, tell the jury. What did you hate him for?
01:00:25I ain't a saying.
01:00:25Then you didn't have any reason for nighting.
01:00:27I didn't say that.
01:00:28Well, make up your mind. Why did you hate him?
01:00:30I ain't a saying.
01:00:33Your Honor.
01:00:37Anything, Father?
01:00:38That's all, Your Honor. The defense rests.
01:00:48This court will adjourn till tomorrow morning.
01:00:52It is our hope that the summations will be brief,
01:00:55so that we may all attend the reunion ceremonies,
01:00:59which begin at noon.
01:01:10Well, well, Andy.
01:01:12Yes.
01:01:14Say.
01:01:14This is a pleasure.
01:01:17Well, I don't get a chance to do this often.
01:01:20He certainly doesn't, Your Honor.
01:01:22Here, Jeff.
01:01:23You might, uh, make the Reverend comfortable at it.
01:01:31It, uh, looks like you, uh, kind of caught me red-handed there.
01:01:38Well, could I, uh, no, uh, kind of inveigle?
01:01:44Been a long, tiresome day, and, uh, it's, uh, mostly mint.
01:01:50No, thank you, William. I appreciate your subtlety.
01:01:54You know, I kind of thought that, uh, that, uh,
01:01:57that you'd be working on your Memorial Day address, uh, uh, for tomorrow.
01:02:02Well, that'll take care of itself.
01:02:04What I'm worried about is this poor devil of a Gillis.
01:02:07You know Gillis?
01:02:09My trade takes me into queer quarters sometimes.
01:02:14Well, I feel just as sorry for that fellow Gillis as you do, uh, uh,
01:02:18Well, I'm, I'm, I'm plumb out of it.
01:02:22Uh, Hod got the best of me. He sure did.
01:02:27The case is closed. It's all settled.
01:02:30And I don't think Hod'll, uh, he'd be fool enough to, uh, reopen the case for nobody or nothin'.
01:02:41William, I have a duty to perform.
01:02:45A Christian's duty.
01:02:48I'm going to violate the sacred confidence of another.
01:02:52I'm going to break a pledge of secrecy.
01:02:55Because it's the only course that I see that lies before me.
01:03:00I'm listening, Ashby.
01:03:03Twenty-five years ago.
01:03:07The judge has sure been hard misery.
01:03:13Reckon folks ain't been acting just right.
01:03:18Maybe his stomach's been complaining.
01:03:22And he needs a toddy this night.
01:03:27Yes, Lord.
01:03:29Yes, Lord.
01:03:31Cause tomorrow he's got to be like Mr. Sampson.
01:03:36Saving Daniel from the lion's den.
01:03:44Saving Daniel from the lion's den.
01:03:49Yes, Lord.
01:03:52Yes, Lord.
01:03:54Yes, Lord.
01:03:54The judge could do as I thought it right now.
01:03:57Yes, Jeff.
01:03:59Yes.
01:04:00They'll see soon as I catch me some men.
01:04:04Oh, Jeff.
01:04:06Jeff.
01:04:07Come on.
01:04:08Come on. Hurry up here.
01:04:09Come on here when I'll holler at you.
01:04:11Where you been?
01:04:11Well, I was...
01:04:12Hey, listen.
01:04:13You want to earn that old coon skin coat of money?
01:04:16I can have that coon coat, judge.
01:04:18Hey, wait a minute. Come back here.
01:04:20You can if you do everything I tell you to.
01:04:23Do you know a gentleman by the name of Mr. Hart Maydew?
01:04:26Yes, that mean man. That coon coat.
01:04:29Yeah.
01:04:29Well, now you see that he gets out.
01:04:31But don't you let him know how he got there.
01:04:33See?
01:04:33That's all I got to do.
01:04:35Say, wait a minute.
01:04:36Can you play Dixie on that thing there?
01:04:38Well, that coon coat.
01:04:40Yes, I play Dixie.
01:04:41With marching through Georgia.
01:04:43Oh, way ahead.
01:04:44Marching through Georgia.
01:04:45Yeah.
01:04:46I got you out of one lynching.
01:04:48Yes, but I couldn't coat.
01:04:50I know that I was going to get through.
01:04:52If you plan marching through Georgia, I'll join the lynchers.
01:04:59Oh, way ahead.
01:05:02Hello, Sheila.
01:05:04Hi, Lou.
01:05:05What you all got in your best or the shack?
01:05:08Chicken.
01:05:09Well, that's just what I got.
01:05:11That's what the judge likes.
01:05:12Yeah, well, here.
01:05:15Come on.
01:05:17Shut the fuck up,isy.
01:05:21That's what you're like.
01:05:21No, no, no, no, no.
01:05:21No, no, no, no.
01:05:25Hey, hey! Hey, the Johnny's coming in!
01:05:28Hey, come on, the Johnny's coming in!
01:05:31I'm telling you, Sheriff, we've lost the bass drum!
01:05:34How could you lose a bass drum?
01:05:36Someone stole it! We need it for the parade!
01:05:58The
01:05:59The
01:05:59The
01:05:59The
01:05:59The
01:05:59The
01:06:04The
01:06:24You may begin your summation, Mr. Prosecutor.
01:06:28May it please, Your Honor.
01:06:30Since a gentleman yesterday certain information has come into the hands of the Commonwealth,
01:06:34which, in the interest of justice, impels me to reopen the case.
01:06:39The Commonwealth is asked to recall the defendant Gillis for further cross-examination.
01:06:44Very well, Mr. Maydew. Proceed.
01:06:47Robert Gillis, take the stand.
01:07:03Your Honor, as I recollect our procedure, for the time being I'm an ordinary member of the bar. In good
01:07:12standing?
01:07:12Not ordinary, sir. But absolutely in good standing.
01:07:19Thank you, sir. Thank you, Conor.
01:07:24Then I have the honor of announcing myself as Associate Counsel for the Defense.
01:07:34Seeing as the case has been reopened.
01:07:46Mr. Gillis, were you always a man of turbulent and violent nature?
01:07:52I always left them alone as left me alone.
01:07:55Is that so?
01:07:57What was the name of the man you once upon a time murdered?
01:08:03I... I never looked on it as no...
01:08:05No, it wasn't murdered.
01:08:07A man was killed, wasn't he?
01:08:08Yes.
01:08:08And they stuck you in jail, didn't they?
01:08:10Yes.
01:08:11And they charged you with murder, didn't they?
01:08:12Yes.
01:08:13And the jury found you guilty, didn't they?
01:08:15Yes.
01:08:15Were you sentenced to be hung?
01:08:17No, I... I went up for life.
01:08:19Did you escape or were you pardoned?
01:08:21No, I ain't a saying.
01:08:22I won't tell you no more, no matter what you ask me.
01:08:24You don't need to.
01:08:29Judge Priest?
01:08:31Your witness?
01:08:33No questions, Your Honor.
01:08:36What Uncle Billy?
01:08:38Hasn't the defense any evidence to offer a rebuttal, Judge Priest?
01:08:44One character witness, Your Honor.
01:08:46Mr. Clerk, will you kindly call Reverend Ashby Brand?
01:08:50Mr. Brand.
01:08:58Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, in case not plenty in
01:09:01court?
01:09:01I do.
01:09:10Reverend Brand, before you come to this town, what was your occupation?
01:09:15In my early manhood, before I took holy orders,
01:09:19I had the honor to be a captain of artillery in the late war.
01:09:24In the war of the rebellion?
01:09:27No, sir.
01:09:29The war for the southern confederacy.
01:09:31Yes, sir.
01:09:33That's right.
01:09:37My error.
01:09:39One moment, please.
01:09:41Your Honor.
01:09:46I yield to no man in love and everlasting devotion to that sacred lost cause for which my people fought
01:09:54and bled.
01:09:56But, though I cherish all those dear and everlasting memories, which even the bare mention of that great conflict must
01:10:05awaken in every true Kentuckian's bosom,
01:10:08I fail to see any possible connection between this reverend gentleman's military record and the guilt of this man, Gillis.
01:10:19The man says,
01:10:20There is no Spotify, the government of equality atückt-line Elliot.
01:10:43I believe the Court will commit no grave legal errors by allowing your minister to be arrested in murder.
01:10:48of the Gospel, to tell his story in his own way.
01:11:02As many of you know,
01:11:04I am a Virginian.
01:11:07On the day my state seceded from the Union,
01:11:11I enlisted.
01:11:12I was a private in Penn's Virginia Battery.
01:11:17By the latter end of the third year,
01:11:20I was in command of that battery.
01:11:23All the officers ranking me had been killed or disabled.
01:11:28We lost heavily at Chancellorsville.
01:11:31And at Fredericksburg, we were almost wiped out.
01:11:36We kept our field pieces.
01:11:39We kept our pieces until the end.
01:11:42But we had not sufficient men to man those guns,
01:11:45nor anywhere to turn for more men.
01:11:47There were no more men left to come in.
01:11:52The Confederacy, in 64,
01:11:56was robbing both the cradle and the grave for cannon fodder.
01:12:00Well, sir, I got temporary leave
01:12:03and went to Richmond to see our war governor.
01:12:08I said to him,
01:12:09Sir, I've come to you to ask for men to serve my guns.
01:12:14He laughed and said,
01:12:15Tell me where they are to be found.
01:12:19I said,
01:12:21Among the chain gangs from the State Penitentiary.
01:12:26He said,
01:12:27You've come too late, young man.
01:12:29I've freed every convict
01:12:31that might conceivably be trusted with freedom.
01:12:34There are left only the lifers,
01:12:37and I dare not turn them loose.
01:12:40They are working under guard,
01:12:42building defenses for you to fight behind.
01:12:45He opposed me,
01:12:46but I argued with him.
01:12:49Finally, I won.
01:12:52He gave me authorization,
01:12:54signed it,
01:12:55and with his own hand,
01:12:58affixed the seal of the sovereign state of Virginia.
01:13:03I wrote back to the line, sir,
01:13:06and I found my chain gang.
01:13:07I told them to drop their tombs
01:13:10and line up before me.
01:13:12I told them,
01:13:14If you go with me,
01:13:16you go to face a hell
01:13:18of destruction and suffering and death.
01:13:22But I said,
01:13:23If you do go,
01:13:24you go as free men,
01:13:27as soldiers of the Confederacy.
01:13:31Your past will lie behind you,
01:13:33and your future,
01:13:35if you survive,
01:13:37is in your own hands.
01:13:39And I promise you this much.
01:13:42If you stand fast,
01:13:44if you do your duty,
01:13:48if bravely and honorably
01:13:49you acquit yourselves as men,
01:13:52then such of you
01:13:53as lived through to the end,
01:13:55and some of you will live,
01:13:58are not to come back to this.
01:14:01It's for you to decide.
01:14:04Those who remain behind,
01:14:07stand fast.
01:14:09Those who come with me,
01:14:11advance one pace.
01:14:15Gentlemen of the jury,
01:14:18I tell you,
01:14:19they came at me like a wave from the sea.
01:14:22Every one of them.
01:14:24And as time went on,
01:14:27they won for themselves the name
01:14:29of the Battalion from Hell.
01:14:31I tell you.
01:14:48Those men,
01:14:50those felons,
01:14:51with the scars of their shekels still on their legs,
01:14:55they fought for the South like men.
01:14:58None better.
01:15:00And they died like men.
01:15:02Most of them.
01:15:05I was one of those men
01:15:06of whom I wish to speak a special word of tribute.
01:15:11He stood out for his courage and his fidelity.
01:15:17For his worth as a soldier and a man.
01:15:21Most of all,
01:15:23for his invariable truthfulness
01:15:26under all circumstances.
01:15:29He was from the mountains of my own state.
01:15:32A man who spoke little,
01:15:35but did much.
01:15:37I saw him once go out under fire
01:15:40during a battle
01:15:42to rescue at his own risk
01:15:44a wounded Union officer
01:15:47who lay their helps between the lines.
01:15:51Another time,
01:15:53our stars and bars
01:15:55was wrested from our hands.
01:15:57We fought breast to breast that day.
01:16:01This man of whom I'm speaking
01:16:03threw himself on a riderless horse
01:16:06and rode into the thicket
01:16:08and by the grace of God
01:16:10came galloping back
01:16:12from the jaws of death.
01:16:14Our colors clutched in his hand.
01:16:24And another day,
01:16:25when every man who served his gun
01:16:28excepting him was down.
01:16:31I saw him
01:16:32when the Union infantry charged
01:16:34sending us cattle his useless gun
01:16:38and with a rammer for his only weapon
01:16:40waiting for the enemy to come within reach.
01:16:44The counter charge from our infantry saved him.
01:16:53But he had stood fast.
01:16:55And he was alone.
01:16:57After the surrender,
01:16:59I kept his secret.
01:17:01And kept it to this very hour.
01:17:05Though I've seen him daily at his work
01:17:09watching over his daughter
01:17:10providing for her education
01:17:13through me
01:17:15and all unknown
01:17:17to LMA.
01:17:29Gentlemen,
01:17:31as a soldier I knew that man
01:17:33as Roger Gillespie.
01:17:36You know him
01:17:37by the name he now wears.
01:17:41Robert Gillespie.
01:17:42Hooray!
01:17:43For just dammit!
01:17:45The southern can penetrate
01:17:47and warped you!
01:17:58I'm waiting!
01:17:59Get out of the way!
01:18:00Can't you see that poor helpless child needs a mother?
01:18:04Hooray!
01:18:06Hooray!
01:18:06Hooray!
01:18:08Hooray!
01:18:08Hooray!
01:18:10Hooray!
01:18:11Hooray!
01:18:12Hooray!
01:18:12Hooray!
01:18:14Hooray!
01:18:15Hooray!
01:18:17Hooray!
01:18:18Hooray!
01:18:18Hooray!
01:18:20Hooray!
01:18:21That's fine!
01:18:21That's great, Kiff!
01:18:22That's great!
01:18:23Keep on going!
01:18:24Keep going!
01:18:24You can have that white vest!
01:18:48Keep going!
01:18:49You can have step moving!
01:18:52Woooo!!
01:18:52I'm going!
01:18:54You can have that white vest!
01:18:57It's a big line!
01:19:00It's a big line!
01:19:01I'm going!
01:19:01I'm going!
01:19:03From the back starting to the wall!
01:19:06The next thing to the wall!
01:19:08The next thing to the wall!