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Hear, hear. Hear.
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Court's called to order.
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Your honor, there is no doubt in the mind
of the Commonwealth...
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...that this prisoner
is a confirmed chicken thief.
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He has no place in this
God-fearing community.
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He is a vagrant.
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He cometh from no man knows whence.
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Since arriving in our midst...
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...he has been known to do no honest work.
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The Commonwealth of Kentucky asks-...
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...nay, demands-...
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...that he be adjudged guilty...
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...and sentenced to six months
on the chain gang.
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Hey. Hey, boy. Wake up there.
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Sheriff, wake him up there.
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If anybody's gonna sleep
in this court, it'll be me.
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Hey, wake up.
- Huh?
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Come here, boy.
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Here. Come on over here.
Right there.
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What's your name?
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Uh, Jeff Poindexter.
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Poindexter?
- Yeah.
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Who gave you that?
- Mr. Ranny.
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Ranny?
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You mean Major Randolph Poindexter
from down at-at-at Pine Bluff?
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Yes, Pine Bluff.
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Yeah. Looks like you, uh, Poindexters...
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...is always gettin' mixed up
with some chicken somehow.
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Hey, Sergeant...
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...it seems like I recollect,
uh, you and Major Ranny...
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...havin' some, uh, connection
with the flesh of fowl at one time.
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Doggoned if we didn't.
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You know, Major Ranny was
the fire-eatin'est soldier...
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...that ever chased a Yank up a tree.
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You know, Billy, you and me
pretty near starved that day...
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...when we went foraging for a snack
after the Battle of 'Chickamaugy.'
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'Chickamaugy'?
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No, no. It was the-
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It-It was the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
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'Twas no such a thing.
It was 'Chickamaugy'.
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No, you're both wrong.
- I'm not wrong.
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It was the summer of'63,
and we were just outside of Nashville.
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No, Billy's right.
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I remember.
For wasn�t I there with you?
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Your Honor, the Commonwealth
objects to this digression.
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Now, now, now, Senator,
uh, you know-
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Now the- Now the point is that,
uh-that the major-...
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...uh, he acted the part
of a gentleman and a soldier.
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And he removed the temptation
from out of our path...
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...by eatin' up all the fat hens
i-i-in the whole bunch...
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...and leavin' us nothing but a lot
of old skinny dominick roosters.
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You remember, boys?
- Come to think of it, Billy,
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They were no such a thing.
They were Yankee chickens.
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They were Rhode Island Reds.
I know 'cause l-...
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Your Honor.
- Dominick.
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Your Honor.
- It was dominicks.
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Is this a court of law?
- I know this.
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I ask you, is this a court of law?
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Now, now, now, Senator.
I wouldn't- I would, uh-
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Don't get on your high horse that way.
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You know we ain't in any great big hurry,
but, uh, incidentally...
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...what are you-what are you
charged with there, boy?
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Nothing, Judge, but I wasn't
near them chickens, sure enough.
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I just fishin'.
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Fishin'?
Where was you fishin'?
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Down Sleepy River.
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Ain't no fish in Sleepy River.
- There are so.
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Ain't neither.
- Full of catfish.
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Doc's right, Jimmy.
- Yeah?
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Sure enough.
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I catch catfish in there that long.
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There's your proof he�s lying.
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Here. Come here.
What-What-What do you use for bait?
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Oh, I get a hunk of beef liver.
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Beef liver?
That's good, huh?
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Yes. I take the beef liver and put it
on the hook and chuck it out there.
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Let 'em have a first piece for nothin', see?
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And then you put some more on
there and chuck it out there.
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And then they think they
gonna get that for nothin'.
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And you catch 'em as long
as you got the liver.
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Yeah?
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And I go down there all the time,
and I don't carry nothin' but that liver.
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Y-Yeah. I remember.
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Oh, down there. I bet it must have
been that long, you know?
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Sure, sir. Sure enough.
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I've got to take down the judge's clothes
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Got to take 'em in the house
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Yes, Lord
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Got to get out that old ironin' board
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Fix 'em up for the judge to wear
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Yes, Lord
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That's what I is a goin' to do
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Praise the Lord. Mr. Rome.
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Is you here or is you ain't?
- Hi, Aunt Dilsey.
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How come you here? The
judge say you up there...
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...at that college learnin' to be a lawyer man.
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Aunt Dilsey, I got stomach trouble.
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Lord help you, white child.
What them Yankees been feedin' you?
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Not a darn thing.
That's the trouble.
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What have you got for supper?
- Mr. Rome, you stay here.
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Us is gonna kill the high-steppin'est
rooster in the yard.
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And a great big bowl of
milk gravy and grits.
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And waffles?
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Don't you worry none, honey.
You is home now.
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Mr. Rome's home Mr. Rome's home
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Mr. Rome's home Mr. Rome's home
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Hey, Uncle Billy.
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Hiya.
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Well, if it ain't Rome.
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Well, salt me down.
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What happened up there?
Did them Yankees...
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...kick you out of that law school, huh?
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Sure, they did...
with a diploma.
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You're now lookin' at
a full-fledged member of the bar.
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Let me look at you. Hmm.
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Full-fledged, my gizzard-a lawyer.
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You know, you better
get your britches half-soled...
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'cause you're gonna sit around
a long time before you get your first client.
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Well, I don't mind, Uncle Billy.
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You know what happened to me
before I got my first client, don't you?
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Lord, l- I sat through
two Republican administrations before l-
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Who are you playing?
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Oh, I'm just doin' a little practicing
here for the championship.
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I got Jeff here. He's doin'
the retrievin' for me.
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Oh.
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Uh, me and Herman Felsberg is gonna
play against Jimmy Bagby and Doc Lake.
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Put two of them balls
down there, will you, Jeff?
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Two again?
- Mm-hmm.
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Remember the last time.
- Mm-hmm.
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I'm gonna show you what would happen
to Jimmy Bagby now if he�s, uh-
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I just wanna show you how far I can-
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Ooh, look here.
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Look at them Yankee shoes
he's got on there, Jeff.
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Look at that.
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Yes, sir, I never seen shoes
with buttons on 'em before.
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I seen pants with buttons.
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Judge, l-
- Oh, say, that's fine.
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Oh, uh, just, uh, take
your button shoes with you...
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...and just step that off
and see just how far it is.
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All right, Uncle Billy.
- Think that's about a record.
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One, two, three, four.
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Hello.
- Rome.
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Glad to see me?
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Why, I thought you were still up north.
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Uh-uh. I got in this morning.
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How'd you know I was back here?
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Well, I didn't, but Uncle B-
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My, you-you look pretty with those things.
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Isn't this a lovely spray?
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Mm-hmm.
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Now, young lady, I want
to ask you a question.
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Oh, please let me down, Rome.
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Miss Gillespie, will you please tell this court
why you didn't answer my letters?
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I've got to go in. Really, I have.
- Now tell the truth...
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...the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, so help you-
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You know why.
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All I know is that you've
changed since I went away.
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Well, that isn't it, Rome.
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It's- It's just that we've grown up.
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You mean you don't like me anymore?
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Oh, Rome.
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Well, if my mother or
anybody has said anything-
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Oh, Ellie May, I mean-...
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Well, I'm old enough to
choose my own friends.
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Please let me go.
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We've gotta get this thing
settled once and for all.
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I've got to go in.
Really, I have.
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All right, then I'm comin' back tonight
and find out what it's all about.
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You can't. I have an engagement.
- Who with?
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Fleming Talley.
- Oh.
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Well, how about tomorrow night?
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Oh, Rome, it's no use.
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All right. If that's the way you feel about it...
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...you can sit right there
till we understand each other.
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That's all right.
That's all right.
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We don't need any more practice
for them old men.
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Besides, that, uh, exertion calls for a julep.
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Yes, but you gonna wait
for that young gentleman before you-...
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Wait for him?
- Uh-
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Unless young folks has changed
since I was skirmishin' around...
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...he won't be back for quite a while.
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Hey, Judge, look at that goat.
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Ain't that a pretty sight?
- What? That goat?
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Ain't nothin' prettier in the world
than two young folks in love in the spring.
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Uh, Judge, what you
gonna do about that goat?
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Oh, goat. My Lord,
ain't you got any sentiment?
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Ain't you got no girl?
Wasn't you ever in love?
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Standing around here talkin'
about a goat or something.
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But your mint.
- What about my mint?
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That's goat's in your mint bed.
- It's in my mint bed.
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Get out of there.
- Get.
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Get on out of here.
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Acting like you was starved.
Get you home with you. Shoo.
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Why, William Priest.
- Oh, hello, Carrie.
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This is a fine how do you do.
What will the neighbors say?
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I'm ashamed of you.
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What's ailing you now?
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Dadgum goat come in here
and eat up my mint bed there.
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I'll bet he must have
been the ruination of a million juleps.
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You and your precious mint juleps-
a circuit court judge.
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Where is your dignity?
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Dignity?
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I don't reckon the Priest family...
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...will ever have to worry about dignity
as long as you're alive and kickin'.
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Well, it's a good thing somebody
in this family has pride.
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I always told my brother
when he married you...
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...that he saved the family name.
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Well, if he were living, he wouldn't be
fooling around the front yard with a goat.
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That's not what I came for.
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Have you seen Rome?
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Oh, Rome?
Rome?
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Oh, appears like I did see that, uh,
son of yours around here a while ago.
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I expect he's downtown though now,
uh, you know...
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...struttin' around,
showin' off his button shoes.
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Now don't you play possum with me.
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As if I didn't know
you've been encouraging that-...
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...that girl over there
to set her cap for Rome.
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Carrie, Carrie...
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...if I didn't know that
you had the biggest heart...
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...of any woman in the world...
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I'd think you was the most
suspicious creature...
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...that ever come down the pike.
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Never mind that.
You come up on the porch.
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I want to talk to you.
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If I'd have known that's the way you felt...
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...about it, I wouldn't
have hurried home so fast.
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I'm sorry, Rome.
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After all, you have your career...
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...and your family and
everything in the world...
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...that matters to you right here.
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I don't think you care what matters to me.
- That's not fair, Rome.
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After all, I'm- I'm only telling you
for your own good.
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William, I'm not a woman
to beat about the bush.
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This business of Rome
and that girl next door has got to stop.
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What do you got against Ellie May?
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She's an awful sweet girl,
it seems to me.
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She's got gumption,
238
00:13:43,393 --> 00:13:45,883
and she teaches school
and supports herself.
239
00:13:45,983 --> 00:13:49,787
I don't want to be unkind.
She may be a very nice girl and all that...
240
00:13:49,887 --> 00:13:53,657
...but, after all, Rome is
one of the Kentucky Priests.
241
00:13:53,757 --> 00:13:58,007
And the name of Priest
means something in Kentucky.
242
00:13:58,228 --> 00:14:01,632
Well, uh, I've never heard
that it meant intolerance.
243
00:14:01,732 --> 00:14:05,168
It means good stock and family pride.
244
00:14:05,235 --> 00:14:08,720
You know the kind of stock
she comes from.
245
00:14:09,473 --> 00:14:12,203
Yep. Her, uh-
246
00:14:12,276 --> 00:14:17,948
Her ma come to this town penniless
and died givin' birth to Ellie May.
247
00:14:18,048 --> 00:14:20,073
I remember the night.
248
00:14:20,150 --> 00:14:22,519
She was a frail little woman-...
249
00:14:22,619 --> 00:14:26,523
...uh, wasn't any bigger than
Ellie May is now-and just as pretty.
250
00:14:26,623 --> 00:14:28,623
But who was her father?
251
00:14:29,528 --> 00:14:33,827
Well, uh, nobody don't,
uh, rightfully know.
252
00:14:33,899 --> 00:14:36,869
Well, family may not
mean anything to you...
253
00:14:36,969 --> 00:14:39,605
...but it means a whole lot to me.
254
00:14:39,705 --> 00:14:44,610
I'm not going to have my grandchildren
come into the world under a cloud.
255
00:14:44,710 --> 00:14:49,816
You, uh, haven't, by any chance, picked
Hod Maydew as a grandpappy, have you?
256
00:14:49,916 --> 00:14:52,485
Oh, I know you've never
liked Senator Maydew...
257
00:14:52,585 --> 00:14:54,687
...but you can't say anything
against his folks.
258
00:14:54,787 --> 00:14:57,523
They've got money,
they're an old family...
259
00:14:57,623 --> 00:14:59,926
...and Virginia's a lovely girl.
260
00:15:00,026 --> 00:15:02,695
She's always been crazy about Rome.
261
00:15:02,795 --> 00:15:05,662
He could do a lot worse.
262
00:15:05,731 --> 00:15:08,666
Well, I guess, uh, me and Rome...
263
00:15:08,734 --> 00:15:11,003
...we ain't got anything to say about it.
264
00:15:11,103 --> 00:15:14,078
I knew you'd come around to my way.
265
00:15:15,241 --> 00:15:17,476
You're gonna-You're gonna
stay for supper, ain't ya, Carrie?
266
00:15:17,576 --> 00:15:19,478
Not tonight, thank you, William.
267
00:15:19,578 --> 00:15:21,210
The Daughters of the Confederacy are...
268
00:15:21,310 --> 00:15:23,115
...having a chicken supper
at Kate Maydew's...
269
00:15:23,215 --> 00:15:25,117
...and I'm late already.
270
00:15:25,217 --> 00:15:27,920
Looks like you Daughters
get more ferocious every year...
271
00:15:28,020 --> 00:15:31,123
...towards Yankees and, uh, fried chicken.
272
00:15:31,223 --> 00:15:33,559
Got your badge on there.
- Yes.
273
00:15:33,659 --> 00:15:36,596
Mighty pretty.
- Good night, William.
274
00:15:36,696 --> 00:15:38,696
Sometimes, I, uh-
275
00:15:38,698 --> 00:15:41,467
I think you women got
more badges and medals...
276
00:15:41,567 --> 00:15:43,736
...out of the war than the soldiers did.
277
00:15:43,836 --> 00:15:46,533
Good night, Carrie.
278
00:15:47,977 --> 00:15:51,647
Listen to that old whip-poor-will
callin' his mate.
279
00:15:51,747 --> 00:15:56,986
Him and his kin has been nestin'
around here for nigh on 30 years.
280
00:15:57,086 --> 00:16:00,289
A lonesome kind of sound,
isn't it, Uncle Billy?
281
00:16:00,389 --> 00:16:02,389
Mmm, 'tis so.
282
00:16:03,759 --> 00:16:06,829
You know, the good Lord
never meant for nobody-...
283
00:16:06,929 --> 00:16:11,764
...either man or bird- to live by theirself.
284
00:16:11,834 --> 00:16:16,405
Uncle Billy, why didn't you come
live with us after Aunt Margaret died?
285
00:16:16,505 --> 00:16:18,505
Oh, l-
286
00:16:18,539 --> 00:16:21,769
I never could stand your ma's cookin'.
287
00:16:26,782 --> 00:16:31,446
Awful fine swing over there
on that other porch.
288
00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:36,158
I wouldn't be surprised if there
ain't a pretty girl sittin' in it now.
289
00:16:36,258 --> 00:16:38,978
She's got another fella tonight.
290
00:16:41,830 --> 00:16:44,297
Ellie May sure is pretty.
291
00:16:44,366 --> 00:16:46,969
The fella who gets her
will certainly have to do some prancin'.
292
00:16:47,069 --> 00:16:51,402
He can't sit around
and look glum all the time.
293
00:16:53,409 --> 00:16:55,434
There he is now.
- Who?
294
00:16:55,511 --> 00:16:57,511
That Flem Talley.
295
00:16:57,579 --> 00:16:59,706
The barber?
- Yeah.
296
00:17:02,051 --> 00:17:05,248
Gives an awful poor shave,
that fella.
297
00:17:06,355 --> 00:17:08,949
Whoa. Whoa, babe.
298
00:17:18,067 --> 00:17:23,061
Here I am, honey.
Hee, hee, hee.
299
00:17:24,073 --> 00:17:28,840
Ellie May, here's good news.
Hee, hee.
300
00:17:30,813 --> 00:17:34,613
Hee, hee, hee, hee.
301
00:17:36,485 --> 00:17:42,156
Uh, son, uh, there ain't nothing'll
get your mind off womenfolks like work.
302
00:17:42,256 --> 00:17:47,196
Will you run back in my library there
and get my old Kentucky Code of Statutes?
303
00:17:47,296 --> 00:17:51,333
It's, uh- It's an old calfskin book
up on the top shelf there.
304
00:17:51,433 --> 00:17:53,924
Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee.
305
00:17:54,002 --> 00:17:56,869
That gets me, that braying there.
306
00:17:56,939 --> 00:18:01,104
Long ears. I'm just
gonna see if I can't stop him.
307
00:18:02,044 --> 00:18:03,946
Gabby Rives and Joe Herringer-...
308
00:18:04,046 --> 00:18:07,349
...you know, the boys that work
for me down at my barbershop-...
309
00:18:07,449 --> 00:18:12,021
...well, they comes to me tonight
and wants me to go over to old town.
310
00:18:12,121 --> 00:18:15,181
Some high-flying gals over there.
311
00:18:15,257 --> 00:18:17,257
But I tells 'em no.
312
00:18:17,326 --> 00:18:21,297
I can have all the fun I want
right here at home.
313
00:18:21,397 --> 00:18:24,389
Now, guess who I was talkin' about.
314
00:18:24,466 --> 00:18:27,835
Couldn't l-
Couldn't I make you some lemonade?
315
00:18:27,935 --> 00:18:30,530
Lemonade? Sure, honey.
316
00:18:30,606 --> 00:18:32,574
And I got something to sweeten it with...
317
00:18:32,674 --> 00:18:36,178
...right out of the mountains
and kickin' like a mule.
318
00:18:36,278 --> 00:18:38,906
Hee, hee, hee.
319
00:18:46,522 --> 00:18:48,717
Judge. Oh, Judge.
320
00:18:48,791 --> 00:18:51,419
Y-Y-You seen anything of Mr. -
321
00:18:51,493 --> 00:18:56,396
Mr. Flem Talley,
the barber man, around here?
322
00:18:56,465 --> 00:18:59,298
No. What he be doin' around here?
323
00:18:59,368 --> 00:19:01,637
Uh, I don't know, Judge, but-...
324
00:19:01,737 --> 00:19:05,174
...but they's- they's
headed this way for him.
325
00:19:05,274 --> 00:19:07,276
What are you- What are you talkin' about?
326
00:19:07,376 --> 00:19:09,376
Who's they?
327
00:19:09,445 --> 00:19:14,974
Uh, some lady's pappy with
a two-barrel shotgun.
328
00:19:15,050 --> 00:19:18,577
He says Mr. Talley's been messin' around.
329
00:19:18,654 --> 00:19:22,351
He sure is in a killin' mood.
330
00:19:22,424 --> 00:19:27,020
What? You mean that,
uh, he's going to annihilate him?
331
00:19:28,430 --> 00:19:31,957
Uh- Uh, no, sir.
332
00:19:32,034 --> 00:19:36,199
He- He just-just gonna shoot him.
That-That's all.
333
00:19:36,205 --> 00:19:40,539
Oh, there ain't a thing that I can do about it.
334
00:19:40,609 --> 00:19:43,635
My job don't start until, uh...
335
00:19:43,712 --> 00:19:46,882
...they've got him all, uh,
laid out in the morgue...
336
00:19:46,982 --> 00:19:51,351
...full of buckshot, cold and dead...
337
00:19:51,420 --> 00:19:53,389
...and, uh, ready for burial.
338
00:19:53,489 --> 00:19:55,489
And then I steps in.
339
00:19:55,491 --> 00:19:59,052
Uh, b-but, uh, y-you-you, Judge-...
340
00:19:59,127 --> 00:20:01,721
...y-y-you is the law.
341
00:20:01,797 --> 00:20:05,067
Oh, I can't do a thing about
it, as I said before...
342
00:20:05,167 --> 00:20:07,069
...until the shooting is over.
343
00:20:07,169 --> 00:20:13,374
And, uh, then I'll certainly
see that the, uh, murderer gets a fair trial.
344
00:20:14,076 --> 00:20:16,076
Giddap. Giddap.
345
00:20:29,927 --> 00:20:32,162
Uncle Billy, I couldn't
find that book anywhere.
346
00:20:32,262 --> 00:20:34,264
What book?
- That Kentucky law book.
347
00:20:34,364 --> 00:20:38,391
Oh. Maybe I didn't have one.
348
00:20:41,238 --> 00:20:44,108
Ellie May is waitin' for you over there.
- What?
349
00:20:44,208 --> 00:20:46,577
Well, l-l-l- How do you know?
Are you sure?
350
00:20:46,677 --> 00:20:49,780
Now don't be standin' here like a jaybird
gawkin' when I tell you she's waitin'.
351
00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,041
Go on out of here and go.
352
00:21:18,084 --> 00:21:20,452
That dumb whip-poor-will.
353
00:21:22,423 --> 00:21:26,120
Mighty poor company on a night like this.
354
00:21:29,197 --> 00:21:31,197
Good night, Jeff.
355
00:22:58,754 --> 00:23:01,723
Been a long time, honey, since...
356
00:23:01,790 --> 00:23:04,987
...you and the babies...
357
00:23:07,629 --> 00:23:09,629
...went away.
358
00:23:19,839 --> 00:23:23,069
Mmm, honey, it sure is a pretty night.
359
00:23:24,844 --> 00:23:27,813
Been an awful late spring.
360
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:34,340
But I don't know when I've seen the flowers
lookin' better this time of year.
361
00:23:48,261 --> 00:23:51,059
People are funny things-...
362
00:23:51,130 --> 00:23:56,329
...always got their eye set on something.
363
00:23:56,402 --> 00:23:59,439
Rome, he's got his eye set on Ellie May.
364
00:23:59,539 --> 00:24:05,319
And Carrie, she's got hers set on
old Hod Maydew's daughter for Rome.
365
00:24:05,978 --> 00:24:09,379
Old Hod, he's got his eye set on my job.
366
00:24:10,983 --> 00:24:14,383
And some of 'em's gonna be disappointed.
367
00:24:15,021 --> 00:24:19,355
Mmm, them honeysuckles
sure do smell sweet.
368
00:24:20,660 --> 00:24:25,688
Seems like I just can't get
my nose full enough of 'em.
369
00:24:43,013 --> 00:24:45,675
Why, dad-burn, honey.
370
00:24:45,749 --> 00:24:49,234
There's Bob Gillis over there at a grave.
371
00:24:54,825 --> 00:24:57,521
It's at Ellie May's mother's.
372
00:25:06,706 --> 00:25:09,573
Hi, Jimmy.
- Hello, Billy.
373
00:25:09,642 --> 00:25:11,845
What are you- What are you doin' there?
374
00:25:11,945 --> 00:25:13,947
Figurin' on gettin' called
to the colors again?
375
00:25:14,047 --> 00:25:16,047
Hello, Gillis.
376
00:25:17,017 --> 00:25:19,110
Hello.
377
00:25:19,185 --> 00:25:22,840
You never know what
them Yanks is gonna do.
378
00:25:22,889 --> 00:25:25,358
We licked 'em once,
and I'm keepin' old Dead-eye ready...
379
00:25:25,458 --> 00:25:28,895
...in case we- in case we gotta do it again.
380
00:25:28,995 --> 00:25:33,591
Say, uh, better look
at old General Forrest there.
381
00:25:33,666 --> 00:25:35,769
Think he's gonna need
a little shoein' pretty soon.
382
00:25:35,869 --> 00:25:38,939
Well, I'm- I'm mighty busy right now, Billy...
383
00:25:39,039 --> 00:25:40,941
...shoein' them two horses over there.
384
00:25:41,041 --> 00:25:43,910
Hey, Bob, we better take a look
at the judge's horse.
385
00:25:44,010 --> 00:25:46,570
There's somethin' wrong.
386
00:25:54,687 --> 00:25:57,713
Have a snifter? Good corn.
387
00:25:57,791 --> 00:26:01,956
You can smell the feet of
the boy that plowed it.
388
00:26:05,532 --> 00:26:07,768
That breath of yours is like a hot mince pie.
389
00:26:07,868 --> 00:26:11,405
Where you goin'?
- Goin' fishin'. Sleepy River.
390
00:26:11,505 --> 00:26:15,241
Sleepy River?
Why don't you fish in the trough there?
391
00:26:15,341 --> 00:26:18,912
Need shoein'?
- Nope. All right for a while yet.
392
00:26:19,012 --> 00:26:23,312
Say, bad scar you got there.
Bullet?
393
00:26:23,383 --> 00:26:26,113
Yeah.
- Get that in the war?
394
00:26:26,186 --> 00:26:28,186
Nope.
395
00:26:29,423 --> 00:26:32,824
Uh, folks say you come from up north.
396
00:26:32,893 --> 00:26:35,273
Must have got that up there.
397
00:26:40,767 --> 00:26:45,102
As well talk to Jeff
as far as finding out anything.
398
00:26:45,806 --> 00:26:46,937
Hey, wake up here.
399
00:26:47,037 --> 00:26:49,743
Somebody come along
and steal the horse...
400
00:26:49,843 --> 00:26:53,923
...and leave you sittin' here holdin' the lines.
401
00:27:04,057 --> 00:27:06,693
All right. Come on with that beef liver now.
402
00:27:06,793 --> 00:27:11,594
The bait is in the bait bag.
403
00:27:11,664 --> 00:27:14,498
I always keep it in here.
404
00:27:15,935 --> 00:27:19,064
Hurry up now.
- Uh, liver, uh-
405
00:27:19,139 --> 00:27:24,878
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Don't tell- Don't tell me you ain't got it.
406
00:27:24,978 --> 00:27:29,228
It looks like that liver
done walked off by itself.
407
00:27:29,549 --> 00:27:31,549
Lord.
408
00:27:31,551 --> 00:27:36,023
Here. How am I gonna catch any catfish
when I ain't got no bait?
409
00:27:36,123 --> 00:27:40,193
Take this dime now and hurry on
back to town and get me that beef liver.
410
00:27:40,293 --> 00:27:42,195
All right, sir.
- Hurry up now.
411
00:27:42,295 --> 00:27:45,856
All right.
I'm practically runnin' now.
412
00:27:48,835 --> 00:27:50,804
Ain't you gonna put your shoes on?
413
00:27:50,904 --> 00:27:54,729
Well, I'm savin' 'em
in case my feet wear out.
414
00:27:54,775 --> 00:27:56,775
And then I'll have 'em.
415
00:27:56,777 --> 00:27:58,777
Mm-hmm.
416
00:27:58,779 --> 00:28:05,069
As much sittin' around as you do,
it won't be your feet that will wear out.
417
00:28:11,158 --> 00:28:16,596
Massa Jesus wrote me a note
418
00:28:16,663 --> 00:28:21,398
He wrote it on the moon
419
00:28:21,532 --> 00:28:27,368
He tells me to put on my Sunday clothes
420
00:28:27,437 --> 00:28:34,309
For he's coming to fetch me soon
421
00:28:34,377 --> 00:28:37,176
Massa Jesus
422
00:28:37,247 --> 00:28:40,307
Wrote me a note
423
00:28:40,383 --> 00:28:46,345
He dropped it in a star
424
00:28:46,423 --> 00:28:52,956
Say he gonna wash me white as snow
425
00:28:54,808 --> 00:28:57,641
A coat. I got on a hat...
426
00:28:57,711 --> 00:29:01,381
...and this good old pretty vest
hangin' up in there doin' nothing.
427
00:29:01,481 --> 00:29:03,972
By grabs.
Plague take you.
428
00:29:04,050 --> 00:29:06,253
I thought I told you
to stay away from that vest.
429
00:29:06,353 --> 00:29:09,823
But, Judge, it got hung up on my-
- You got my coat on there too.
430
00:29:09,923 --> 00:29:12,459
Yes, but this old skunk coat-
- Skunk coat?
431
00:29:12,559 --> 00:29:14,527
I mean possum-
- What do you mean, possum?
432
00:29:14,627 --> 00:29:15,627
Uh, rabbit-
433
00:29:15,727 --> 00:29:18,398
Rabbit? Say, listen. Every
inch of that is raccoon.
434
00:29:18,498 --> 00:29:20,500
Better be raccoon.
I took it off a rich Yank.
435
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,303
And now you get in there and put
them things away from there.
436
00:29:23,403 --> 00:29:25,305
Better get on over to that festival there.
437
00:29:25,405 --> 00:29:28,125
Dilsey might be needin' you too.
438
00:29:31,111 --> 00:29:33,947
How are you, Judge?
- Just tolerable, Reverend. Just tolerable.
439
00:29:34,047 --> 00:29:37,417
I'm afraid it takes ice cream and cake
to get you old soldiers out to church.
440
00:29:37,517 --> 00:29:38,419
Yeah.
441
00:29:38,519 --> 00:29:42,924
If the Lord ever gets in a jam,
why, uh, he knows who to call.
442
00:29:43,024 --> 00:29:46,594
That's right. Going to church
isn't everything there is to it.
443
00:29:46,694 --> 00:29:49,830
Evening, Senator.
- Good evening, Reverend.
444
00:29:49,930 --> 00:29:53,925
Good evening, Judge Priest.
- Good evening, Hod.
445
00:29:55,903 --> 00:29:58,506
There's one of our best churchgoers.
446
00:29:58,606 --> 00:30:03,373
Yes, it's- it's surprisin'
how far some men will go...
447
00:30:03,444 --> 00:30:05,935
...to, uh, get a few votes.
448
00:30:06,013 --> 00:30:10,351
To bad we, uh-we didn't get rid of him
and get him off up to Congress there...
449
00:30:10,451 --> 00:30:15,211
...after him spendin' that,
uh, term in the state senate.
450
00:30:15,790 --> 00:30:18,493
I understand he thinks you
deprived him of that honor.
451
00:30:18,593 --> 00:30:23,326
Me? Hmm. Great Democratic party
and Thomas Jefferson.
452
00:30:23,397 --> 00:30:26,233
Evidently, the senator
doesn't see it that way.
453
00:30:26,333 --> 00:30:28,970
They tell me that his cases in your court...
454
00:30:29,070 --> 00:30:32,407
...have taken on the appearance
of a personal feud...
455
00:30:32,507 --> 00:30:35,710
...now that he's a candidate for your job.
456
00:30:35,810 --> 00:30:38,643
Oh, I wouldn't say that, Ashby.
457
00:30:38,713 --> 00:30:42,984
But I am gonna have to get out and do
some mighty tall electioneering, you know.
458
00:30:43,084 --> 00:30:45,386
Hod is a- He's a spellbinder and a-...
459
00:30:45,486 --> 00:30:48,055
...and a silver-tongue from way back.
460
00:30:48,155 --> 00:30:53,510
I'm just a-well, an old country jake
who- kind of a baby kisser.
461
00:30:55,162 --> 00:30:58,600
I ain't got much to offer the boys
in the- in the way of rhetoric.
462
00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:00,569
I understand he doesn't
approve of your grammar.
463
00:31:00,669 --> 00:31:02,669
My grammar?
464
00:31:02,671 --> 00:31:07,516
First thing I learned in politics
was when to say 'ain't.'
465
00:31:14,483 --> 00:31:17,720
Speakin' of ice cream, did I
ever tell you about Shiloh?
466
00:31:17,820 --> 00:31:19,722
Yes.
- Didn't I? Didn't I?
467
00:31:19,822 --> 00:31:21,991
Wait a minute, Doc.
I want you to hear this.
468
00:31:22,091 --> 00:31:25,728
Come here. Come on over here. I want you
to hear this.'Twas the eve before Shiloh...
469
00:31:25,828 --> 00:31:28,797
...and them orders had to get across
the river to General Beauregard.
470
00:31:28,897 --> 00:31:31,500
What did I do?
I took off my clothes...
471
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,403
...and I stuffed the orders in my mouth,
and I plunged in.
472
00:31:34,503 --> 00:31:38,166
It was pitch dark.
Well, sir, I was going-
473
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,936
Good evening.
474
00:31:41,010 --> 00:31:43,706
Are you swimming again, Jimmy?
475
00:31:44,947 --> 00:31:46,947
Now where was I?
476
00:31:46,949 --> 00:31:49,285
Where was I?
- Right in the middle of the river, Jimmy.
477
00:31:49,385 --> 00:31:51,987
Yes. Yes, sir. There you are.
Swimming, and 12 miles to go yet.
478
00:31:52,087 --> 00:31:54,123
And there I was,
swimmin' and swimmin'...
479
00:31:54,223 --> 00:31:56,492
...divin' under and
around Yankee gunboats.
480
00:31:56,592 --> 00:31:58,494
Yankee boats all around me.
481
00:31:58,594 --> 00:32:01,197
Surrounded by Yankee gunboats,
and me dodgin' 'em.
482
00:32:01,297 --> 00:32:03,297
Gunboats?
- Yes, sir.
483
00:32:03,299 --> 00:32:08,569
Puttin' them gunboats in there
is a new touch, ain't it, Jimmy?
484
00:32:11,106 --> 00:32:13,506
Hello, Rome.
- Hello.
485
00:32:13,576 --> 00:32:16,812
Now don't you young people
think you have to entertain us old folks.
486
00:32:16,912 --> 00:32:18,814
That's right. Uh, run along now.
487
00:32:18,914 --> 00:32:21,050
They're getting ready for the candy pull.
488
00:32:21,150 --> 00:32:23,052
Perhaps Rome has other plans.
489
00:32:23,152 --> 00:32:25,152
Oh, no, he hasn't.
490
00:32:29,425 --> 00:32:33,596
I declare, Virginia gets
prettier every time I see her.
491
00:32:33,696 --> 00:32:37,032
And I know you're happy
to have Rome home again.
492
00:32:37,132 --> 00:32:39,725
Oh, he's such a nice boy.
493
00:32:39,802 --> 00:32:44,137
Don't they look fine together?
Look at them, Horace.
494
00:32:44,340 --> 00:32:48,674
Ah, yes.
Youth, beauty.
495
00:32:48,744 --> 00:32:53,082
I remember when I first crossed
the threshold of my young manhood...
496
00:32:53,182 --> 00:32:57,517
...and listened to the sweet
murmurings of my heart.
497
00:33:10,032 --> 00:33:12,032
Double portion, please.
498
00:33:12,034 --> 00:33:14,584
You have a full portion there.
499
00:33:15,037 --> 00:33:18,522
Oh, but we can pay for it,
can't we, Rome?
500
00:33:30,986 --> 00:33:32,986
Gentlemen-
501
00:33:32,988 --> 00:33:36,258
I propose to conduct my campaign
on a dignified basis.
502
00:33:36,358 --> 00:33:38,358
No personalities.
503
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:42,665
Others may censure the homespun
manners of Judge Priest on the bench.
504
00:33:42,765 --> 00:33:44,765
Not I.
505
00:33:46,535 --> 00:33:49,805
Others may question the methods
by which he has held...
506
00:33:49,905 --> 00:33:53,976
...political control of the county
for a quarter of a century.
507
00:33:54,076 --> 00:33:56,601
Not I.
508
00:33:56,679 --> 00:34:02,289
For, gentlemen, merit alone will count
in the forthcoming election.
509
00:34:05,988 --> 00:34:08,090
Where have you been
keeping yourself, Rome?
510
00:34:08,190 --> 00:34:10,626
I think you've forgotten where I live.
511
00:34:10,726 --> 00:34:12,956
Nothing like that.
512
00:34:13,028 --> 00:34:15,998
Mother and Daddy are always
teasing me about you.
513
00:34:16,098 --> 00:34:19,201
I tell them you don't
care anything about me.
514
00:34:19,301 --> 00:34:22,065
Bet you have a girl up north.
515
00:34:22,137 --> 00:34:25,874
Well, even if I did have, haven't you got
every boy in town on your string?
516
00:34:25,974 --> 00:34:28,010
Oh, those stick-in-the-muds...
517
00:34:28,110 --> 00:34:30,340
...they make me tired.
518
00:34:30,412 --> 00:34:35,509
Besides, I've been waiting
for somebody else.
519
00:34:41,256 --> 00:34:43,256
Attention.
520
00:34:44,393 --> 00:34:46,453
Say, what's the-...
521
00:34:46,527 --> 00:34:50,132
...what's the prettiest gal
at the-at the festival here...
522
00:34:50,232 --> 00:34:53,002
...moping around back here
by herself for, huh?
523
00:34:53,102 --> 00:34:55,204
You want some taffy, Judge?
524
00:34:55,304 --> 00:34:57,304
Oh.
525
00:34:57,306 --> 00:34:59,941
I ain't much of a taffy puller.
526
00:35:06,315 --> 00:35:10,319
On second thoughts, uh,
you can give me a wad of that too.
527
00:35:10,419 --> 00:35:14,754
All right. Put the butter on your hands first.
- Oh.
528
00:35:27,002 --> 00:35:29,002
Hello, Uncle Billy.
529
00:35:29,004 --> 00:35:31,199
Oh, hello.
530
00:35:31,273 --> 00:35:33,976
You ain't doin' that right.
- What's the matter with it?
531
00:35:34,076 --> 00:35:36,601
Here. Let me see your hands.
532
00:35:36,678 --> 00:35:38,847
You ain't got no butter on there.
No wonder.
533
00:35:38,947 --> 00:35:42,284
Here. Here, let me show you.
Put mine in here. Let me show you.
534
00:35:42,384 --> 00:35:44,388
There. Go on up there. Run on up there and...
535
00:35:44,488 --> 00:35:46,355
...put some more stickum
on your hands there.
536
00:35:46,455 --> 00:35:48,424
Go on, right up there.
- All right, Uncle Billy.
537
00:35:48,524 --> 00:35:51,460
That's it. Now here.
Put that right over in there now.
538
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,929
Now here- Here, here, here.
There's one-That's the thing.
539
00:35:54,029 --> 00:35:57,066
Candy pullin', you got to keep
your mind right on it. Right on it.
540
00:35:57,166 --> 00:35:59,435
Look, that's how you're
gettin' it all on your hands.
541
00:35:59,535 --> 00:36:01,704
Keep your mind on what
you're doin' there now.
542
00:36:01,804 --> 00:36:05,608
Lord, you're pullin'
candy with the champion...
543
00:36:05,708 --> 00:36:09,193
...candy puller of this neighborhood now.
544
00:36:37,538 --> 00:36:39,440
I think this is your fault.
545
00:36:39,540 --> 00:36:45,411
The sun shines bright
546
00:36:45,481 --> 00:36:52,853
In my old Kentucky home...
547
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,755
'Tis summer
548
00:36:56,826 --> 00:37:03,957
The darkies are gay
549
00:37:05,033 --> 00:37:10,801
The corn top's ripe
550
00:37:10,873 --> 00:37:18,712
And the meadow's in the bloom
551
00:37:18,780 --> 00:37:22,682
While the birds
552
00:37:22,751 --> 00:37:31,921
Make music all the day
553
00:37:31,994 --> 00:37:35,691
Weep no more...
554
00:37:35,764 --> 00:37:39,632
My lady
555
00:37:39,701 --> 00:37:46,902
Oh, weep no more today
556
00:37:46,975 --> 00:37:52,504
We will sing one song
557
00:37:52,581 --> 00:38:00,647
Of my old Kentucky home
558
00:38:00,722 --> 00:38:09,994
Of my old Kentucky home
559
00:38:10,065 --> 00:38:18,302
Far away...
560
00:38:21,780 --> 00:38:26,084
Mornin', everybody.
- Good mornin', Judge. You're next.
561
00:38:26,184 --> 00:38:29,120
Say, Flem, you've got the only
lively spot in town.
562
00:38:29,220 --> 00:38:31,220
Hee, hee, hee.
563
00:38:32,590 --> 00:38:37,775
Here, Gabby, what's the latest news
in the paper this morning?
564
00:38:38,997 --> 00:38:41,032
Hello, Lige.
- Howdy, Judge.
565
00:38:41,132 --> 00:38:45,000
Say, you ain't been in lately, have you?
566
00:38:47,705 --> 00:38:50,595
Good mornin', Mr. -
- Good mornin'.
567
00:38:58,750 --> 00:39:00,750
Nice day.
- Yeah.
568
00:39:00,752 --> 00:39:03,277
Oh, Flem, here she comes.
569
00:39:08,853 --> 00:39:13,290
And does she like her Flemmie.
Hee, hee, hee.
570
00:39:13,358 --> 00:39:16,194
Hey, Flem, when you two gettin' hitched?
571
00:39:16,294 --> 00:39:20,629
Don't know as I heard
nobody talkin' about marriage.
572
00:39:21,466 --> 00:39:24,102
You ain't scared
of no shotgun wedding, are you?
573
00:39:24,202 --> 00:39:27,694
Not as long as she ain't got no pa.
574
00:39:38,351 --> 00:39:42,154
Say, that fella's gonna make himself
mighty unpopular around here.
575
00:39:42,254 --> 00:39:44,156
That's right, Judge.
- Yeah.
576
00:39:44,256 --> 00:39:47,460
There's about 2,000 male citizens here
that's gonna be mighty sore at him-
577
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,028
Yeah.
578
00:39:49,128 --> 00:39:54,823
When they find out that he punched you
in the jaw before they could.
579
00:40:00,339 --> 00:40:04,249
Yes, he's gonna be
awful unpopular around here.
580
00:40:09,052 --> 00:40:10,922
Don't see you around much.
581
00:40:11,022 --> 00:40:13,022
Nope.
582
00:40:24,636 --> 00:40:28,440
Joe, get some more beer while I knocks me
that 14 ball down there in the corner.
583
00:40:28,540 --> 00:40:30,735
I'll pay for it.
584
00:40:32,343 --> 00:40:35,213
Hey, Flem, Gillis is out there.
- Yeah?
585
00:40:35,313 --> 00:40:37,215
Yes.
- Come on. Let's get him.
586
00:40:37,315 --> 00:40:41,019
No. Hold your horses now. He'll be headin'
through here in a minute goin' home.
587
00:40:41,119 --> 00:40:43,021
You fellas with me?
- Sure.
588
00:40:43,121 --> 00:40:45,121
Sure, we're with ya.
589
00:40:51,930 --> 00:40:54,057
Another?
- Nope.
590
00:41:07,612 --> 00:41:11,012
Get him, Joe. A knife. He's got a knife.
591
00:41:12,851 --> 00:41:15,843
I got him. Oh, he cut me.
592
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,189
Get a doctor, quick.
- What happened?
593
00:41:18,289 --> 00:41:20,924
Why, he pulled a knife on Flem and cut 'im.
594
00:41:21,024 --> 00:41:23,118
He cut Flem. We saw 'im.
595
00:41:23,194 --> 00:41:27,104
With a knife?
- Yeah. We saw 'im. Look at that.
596
00:41:39,711 --> 00:41:42,236
Hey, Uncle Billy.
597
00:41:42,313 --> 00:41:45,083
Uncle Billy. Uncle Billy.
- All right.
598
00:41:45,183 --> 00:41:48,053
Look out. Look out. In a minute.
- This is important.
599
00:41:48,153 --> 00:41:51,884
Oh, no. No, no.
- Will you get outta here?
600
00:41:51,956 --> 00:41:54,925
You're already out of the game.
601
00:41:54,993 --> 00:41:56,895
Git. Get outta here.
- Oh, no. Oh.
602
00:41:56,995 --> 00:41:58,897
Oh, no.
- Go ahead and hit it.
603
00:41:58,997 --> 00:42:00,899
Get away. Get away. Get away. Get away.
- Uncle Billy.
604
00:42:00,999 --> 00:42:03,368
Ah, he missed it.
He missed it. He missed it.
605
00:42:03,468 --> 00:42:05,837
He missed it.
- Rome, please. Will you?
606
00:42:05,937 --> 00:42:08,706
Wait. This is an important game.
- Keep still. Keep still now.
607
00:42:08,806 --> 00:42:11,240
Keep still. Keep still.
608
00:42:11,309 --> 00:42:13,309
Yippee. Yippee.
609
00:42:13,311 --> 00:42:15,311
We're champions.
610
00:42:15,313 --> 00:42:17,215
Uncle Billy, lemme talk to you.
- Golly.
611
00:42:17,315 --> 00:42:20,985
I don't see how the South lost the war
with a guy in it could argue like you.
612
00:42:21,085 --> 00:42:23,955
Uncle Billy-
- What is the matter? You've...
613
00:42:24,055 --> 00:42:25,238
Uncle Billy, I got a client.
614
00:42:25,338 --> 00:42:27,225
Well, who is it? What's the matter with 'im?
615
00:42:27,325 --> 00:42:29,227
Gillis. You know, Mr. Bagby's man.
616
00:42:29,327 --> 00:42:30,862
What's that? Bob Gillis?
What's he done?
617
00:42:30,962 --> 00:42:32,864
He cut up Flem Talley.
- Yeah?
618
00:42:32,964 --> 00:42:35,533
Uh-huh, and right after
he gave himself up, he sent for me.
619
00:42:35,633 --> 00:42:37,535
Well, I'll be kicked by a mule.
620
00:42:37,635 --> 00:42:40,071
Did he cut him bad?
- Well, can't tell yet.
621
00:42:40,171 --> 00:42:42,073
Gee, Uncle Billy, he sent for me.
622
00:42:42,173 --> 00:42:46,244
It'll be the biggest case in your whole
court session, and I'll be defendin' 'im.
623
00:42:46,344 --> 00:42:49,114
Well, I wouldn't gloat too soon now.
624
00:42:49,214 --> 00:42:51,816
Oh, don't you worry.
Hey. Ellie May.
625
00:42:51,916 --> 00:42:54,819
See here-
I'm going to get down to that jail...
626
00:42:54,919 --> 00:42:56,988
...and see what that fella's
got to say for himself.
627
00:42:57,088 --> 00:42:58,990
I'm going to see Talley.
- Them darned robbers.
628
00:42:59,090 --> 00:43:01,359
They robbed us out of that, Herman.
629
00:43:01,459 --> 00:43:03,728
Now, uh, you better
get on down there with me...
630
00:43:03,828 --> 00:43:08,666
...because, uh, you're liable
to get a chance to, uh, go as bailiff.
631
00:43:08,766 --> 00:43:10,859
Ellie May.
632
00:43:10,935 --> 00:43:14,206
Ellie May, I got a client.
- Oh, Rome, I knew you would.
633
00:43:14,306 --> 00:43:17,307
Come on over. I want to talk
to Uncle Billy and tell you about it.
634
00:43:17,407 --> 00:43:20,745
That's sort of novelty,
Herman, the barber getting cut up.
635
00:43:20,845 --> 00:43:23,291
Whoever cut him up couldn't have...
636
00:43:23,391 --> 00:43:26,551
...cut him much if they
used the barber's razor.
637
00:43:26,651 --> 00:43:28,651
Where's Rome?
638
00:43:28,653 --> 00:43:32,857
I won't have it. That's all. His getting
mixed up with that kind of people.
639
00:43:32,957 --> 00:43:37,087
Oh, what's he done now?
- Well, he's done enough.
640
00:43:39,864 --> 00:43:41,965
Mother, what's the matter?
Is something wrong?
641
00:43:42,065 --> 00:43:46,704
If you're in the habit of discussing
your affairs before strangers, I'm not.
642
00:43:46,804 --> 00:43:49,440
Well, Ellie May's not a stranger.
- Excuse me, Rome, I'll go.
643
00:43:49,540 --> 00:43:53,365
No, wait.
- All right. I have nothing to hide.
644
00:43:53,511 --> 00:43:55,747
Carrie, what's the matter?
Have you-...
645
00:43:55,847 --> 00:43:59,150
Have you been out in the sun too much?
- You shut up, William Priest.
646
00:43:59,250 --> 00:44:02,120
I hold you responsible
for everything that's happened.
647
00:44:02,220 --> 00:44:04,189
Are you going to defend that man?
648
00:44:04,289 --> 00:44:07,224
Mr. Gillis?
You bet I am.
649
00:44:07,292 --> 00:44:10,061
Oh, no, you're not.
- Mother, what do you mean, I'm not?
650
00:44:10,161 --> 00:44:13,698
I suppose you know
what's behind this drunken brawl.
651
00:44:13,798 --> 00:44:16,358
No? Well, then, I'll tell you.
652
00:44:16,434 --> 00:44:20,266
They were fighting over
that girl in a saloon.
653
00:44:20,366 --> 00:44:22,173
Mother, that's not so.
654
00:44:22,273 --> 00:44:25,743
Carrie, you can accumulate
more misinformation...
655
00:44:25,843 --> 00:44:27,744
...in a shorter time than anybody-...
656
00:44:27,844 --> 00:44:30,782
Who told you all this rigamarole?
- Virginia Maydew.
657
00:44:30,882 --> 00:44:33,350
Who?
- Virginia Maydew.
658
00:44:33,418 --> 00:44:36,020
Oh.
- She got it straight from her father.
659
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,456
A-And brought it straight to you.
660
00:44:38,556 --> 00:44:40,683
She wanted to warn Rome.
661
00:44:42,125 --> 00:44:44,563
I know you've never liked me, Mrs. Priest.
662
00:44:44,663 --> 00:44:46,864
I know you've tried to stop Rome
from going with me.
663
00:44:46,964 --> 00:44:48,967
I know you think
I'm not good enough for him.
664
00:44:49,067 --> 00:44:51,302
Well, let me tell you something.
665
00:44:51,402 --> 00:44:56,908
If Rome were half as mean as you are,
he wouldn't be good enough for me.
666
00:44:57,008 --> 00:44:59,738
Well, of all things.
667
00:45:01,979 --> 00:45:04,716
Carrie- Looks like you run second.
668
00:45:04,816 --> 00:45:09,254
Oh, no, I don't. If Rome's father
were alive, he'd back me up.
669
00:45:09,354 --> 00:45:12,557
Rome's already got himself
talked about all over town with this girl.
670
00:45:12,657 --> 00:45:17,842
And I'm not going to have him
publicly defending her in court.
671
00:45:18,396 --> 00:45:21,833
Well, Rome, you see how
your mother feels about it...
672
00:45:21,933 --> 00:45:25,767
...so, looks like you lost your first client.
673
00:45:27,238 --> 00:45:29,439
They're certainly hard to get too.
674
00:45:29,539 --> 00:45:32,844
No, Uncle Billy, I haven't lost anything.
- Rome.
675
00:45:32,944 --> 00:45:35,747
Mother, I think I'm old enough
to know my own mind.
676
00:45:35,847 --> 00:45:41,372
I said I'd defend Mr. Gillis,
and I'm going to go through with it.
677
00:45:57,813 --> 00:46:00,680
Court now called to order.
678
00:46:00,749 --> 00:46:04,234
We're going to have a long session today.
679
00:46:06,955 --> 00:46:09,165
May it please the court...
680
00:46:11,158 --> 00:46:14,856
I would point out that for many years...
681
00:46:14,930 --> 00:46:21,603
...a political and personal difference has
existed between Your Honor and myself.
682
00:46:21,703 --> 00:46:24,106
Now that I am a candidate
for the exalted office...
683
00:46:24,206 --> 00:46:27,142
...which you have held for so many years...
684
00:46:27,242 --> 00:46:30,145
...those differences have reached a point...
685
00:46:30,245 --> 00:46:33,985
...where for the protection of the people...
686
00:46:34,382 --> 00:46:37,749
I must demand an impartial trial judge.
687
00:46:37,818 --> 00:46:42,381
Uh, per-perhaps I'm-I'm gettin' deaf...
688
00:46:42,458 --> 00:46:46,826
...but, uh, the fact
had never reached me before.
689
00:46:46,895 --> 00:46:51,700
Are you insinuating that you
won't get full justice in this court?
690
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:55,504
I maintain that my language was
sufficiently plain for any comprehension...
691
00:46:55,604 --> 00:46:57,731
...however obtuse.
692
00:46:57,806 --> 00:46:59,875
And I will make it even franker.
693
00:46:59,975 --> 00:47:02,644
I charge in the presence of two witnesses...
694
00:47:02,744 --> 00:47:05,280
...you took sides with the defendant Gillis...
695
00:47:05,380 --> 00:47:08,865
...in a prior attack upon this plaintiff.
696
00:47:09,684 --> 00:47:14,348
I been sittin' on this bench
for nigh on 20 years.
697
00:47:14,422 --> 00:47:17,693
And nobody
has ever asked me to step down.
698
00:47:17,793 --> 00:47:19,461
I'll file an affidavit of prejudice.
699
00:47:19,561 --> 00:47:22,758
That won't hardly be necessary.
700
00:47:22,831 --> 00:47:25,934
Then, I call upon you, Judge Priest,
to vacate the bench during this trial...
701
00:47:26,034 --> 00:47:29,859
...and yield your place to a qualified judge.
702
00:47:42,883 --> 00:47:44,883
I, uh-
703
00:47:46,789 --> 00:47:52,488
I'm- I'm not denying,
Senator, that you-
704
00:47:52,561 --> 00:47:55,791
Well, you kind of took my breath away.
705
00:47:56,231 --> 00:48:01,669
I guess I had, uh, just sort of...
706
00:48:01,736 --> 00:48:07,106
...got the habit that I was
took for granted here on this bench.
707
00:48:09,911 --> 00:48:15,351
Gosh, I was- I was pretty near raised
in this- in this courtroom.
708
00:48:16,918 --> 00:48:21,446
When I quit fighting in '65...
709
00:48:27,762 --> 00:48:30,737
...for what we thought was right...
710
00:48:31,633 --> 00:48:34,796
I kind of calmed down...
711
00:48:34,870 --> 00:48:39,637
...found out l- I couldn't lick
the whole United States.
712
00:48:41,076 --> 00:48:45,809
I come back here to my hometown.
713
00:48:45,881 --> 00:48:48,076
And I put up my shingle.
714
00:48:48,149 --> 00:48:52,552
It wasn't long before
I was sittin' on that bench.
715
00:48:54,823 --> 00:49:00,784
Maybe I did have a hankering
for the spirit of the law-
716
00:49:02,264 --> 00:49:05,756
And not the letter...
717
00:49:07,335 --> 00:49:13,171
...but as far as I know,
nobody ever found cause to complain...
718
00:49:14,910 --> 00:49:17,242
...till now.
719
00:49:19,014 --> 00:49:22,643
Now, you, uh-you jury...
720
00:49:22,717 --> 00:49:26,117
...you forget everything that I've said.
721
00:49:26,655 --> 00:49:31,752
And, uh, my feelings has no place...
722
00:49:31,826 --> 00:49:36,593
...in the, uh- in the records of-of this trial.
723
00:49:38,233 --> 00:49:41,031
Now, if you'll excuse me...
724
00:49:41,102 --> 00:49:44,902
...and neither side has any objection...
725
00:49:46,141 --> 00:49:50,874
I'd like to ask
the Honorable Floyd Fairleigh...
726
00:49:52,514 --> 00:49:55,347
...if he won't come up here...
727
00:49:57,085 --> 00:50:00,452
...and take-...
728
00:50:00,522 --> 00:50:05,754
...take my- my place on-on the bench.
729
00:50:14,602 --> 00:50:16,797
Uh-huh.
730
00:50:26,294 --> 00:50:26,728
Well, what happened then?
731
00:50:26,828 --> 00:50:29,820
Well, what happened then?
732
00:50:34,903 --> 00:50:39,032
Gentlemen of the jury,
in plain language...
733
00:50:39,106 --> 00:50:42,210
...the defendant here
burst in upon these three worthy citizens.
734
00:50:42,310 --> 00:50:44,801
L- I object, Your Honor.
735
00:50:44,879 --> 00:50:47,616
I deny that my client ever
burst into any place or anything.
736
00:50:47,716 --> 00:50:50,411
Objection sustained.
737
00:50:50,485 --> 00:50:52,485
So be it, Your Honor.
738
00:50:54,122 --> 00:50:57,826
Nevertheless, I shall demonstrate that
my young friend's client here...
739
00:50:57,926 --> 00:51:00,195
...did burst into something.
740
00:51:00,295 --> 00:51:02,764
That armed with a lethal weapon, to wit...
741
00:51:02,864 --> 00:51:06,835
...a dirk, dagger or knife
of deadly length and deadly sharpness...
742
00:51:06,935 --> 00:51:10,845
...he burst into Mr. Talley's quivering flesh.
743
00:51:10,872 --> 00:51:14,527
I object, Your Honor.
- Objection sustained.
744
00:51:15,377 --> 00:51:20,647
Your Honor's humble servant
bows to Your Honor's august ruling.
745
00:51:22,484 --> 00:51:27,581
In due time, Mr. Talley's scarred
and mutilated person...
746
00:51:27,656 --> 00:51:30,058
...will bespeak the verity of my claim...
747
00:51:30,158 --> 00:51:36,023
...with a silent eloquence far exceeding
the powers of my poor tongue.
748
00:51:48,710 --> 00:51:51,880
We was playing bottle pool
when he come in and attacked at me.
749
00:51:51,980 --> 00:51:54,616
Didn't you attack him with a billiard cue?
750
00:51:54,716 --> 00:51:58,371
Not until after he come at me with a knife.
751
00:52:00,255 --> 00:52:02,157
Well, it-it's just like Flem says.
752
00:52:02,257 --> 00:52:07,490
We wasn't paying him no mind
until he come lookin' for Flem.
753
00:52:07,561 --> 00:52:11,366
But weren't you three all
armed with billiard cues?
754
00:52:11,466 --> 00:52:15,886
Well, never heard of nobody
playing pool without 'em.
755
00:52:20,709 --> 00:52:24,211
It's just like Flem and Joe says.
He come in lookin' for trouble.
756
00:52:24,311 --> 00:52:28,391
You don't like the defendant, do you?
- Who does?
757
00:52:36,291 --> 00:52:40,626
Your Honor, the defense is through
with the witness.
758
00:52:42,330 --> 00:52:44,966
I should think
my young learned colleague...
759
00:52:45,066 --> 00:52:49,061
...would be glad to be through
with the witness.
760
00:52:51,005 --> 00:52:54,463
Your Honor, the prosecution rests.
761
00:53:13,794 --> 00:53:19,319
Before the defense proceeds,
this court recesses for half an hour.
762
00:53:21,136 --> 00:53:25,129
Sure told him something.
763
00:53:25,206 --> 00:53:28,834
I don't know why you did it,
Mr. Gillis...
764
00:53:28,910 --> 00:53:31,546
...but Judge Priest told me
what happened in the barber shop.
765
00:53:31,646 --> 00:53:33,548
Oh, you've got to tell the jury.
766
00:53:33,648 --> 00:53:35,350
They'd never convict you in a million years...
767
00:53:35,450 --> 00:53:37,152
...if they knew you were
defending a girl's name.
768
00:53:37,252 --> 00:53:41,088
Don't you see? You can't think of me now.
You've got to think of yourself.
769
00:53:41,188 --> 00:53:44,025
Look, Mr. Gillis, I don't
want to bring Ellie May's...
770
00:53:44,125 --> 00:53:46,428
...name into this thing
any more than you do...
771
00:53:46,528 --> 00:53:48,528
...but she's right.
772
00:53:48,530 --> 00:53:50,432
They can give you 10 years for assault...
773
00:53:50,532 --> 00:53:53,269
...and the way Maydew's working
on the jury, they'll give you the limit.
774
00:53:53,369 --> 00:53:57,205
Oh, you've got to tell the truth, Mr Gillis.
Don't you see? You've got to.
775
00:53:57,305 --> 00:54:00,025
I ain't gonna tell 'em anything.
776
00:54:04,579 --> 00:54:07,283
Yes, sir, Talley lied all the way through.
777
00:54:07,383 --> 00:54:10,051
And Herringer and Gab Rive,
they lied too.
778
00:54:10,151 --> 00:54:12,587
It was three against one
in Billy Gaynor's back room.
779
00:54:12,687 --> 00:54:15,290
And it's three against one
in this here courtroom.
780
00:54:15,390 --> 00:54:18,326
Have you ever been in any other
cutting scrape in town before?
781
00:54:18,426 --> 00:54:20,917
No, sir.
- That's all.
782
00:54:22,030 --> 00:54:24,030
One moment.
783
00:54:30,672 --> 00:54:33,141
Where do you come from, Mr. Gillis?
784
00:54:33,241 --> 00:54:35,241
I ain't a-sayin'.
785
00:54:35,310 --> 00:54:38,913
You aren't exactly what we Southerners
would call a sociable person, are you?
786
00:54:39,013 --> 00:54:40,915
I mind my own business.
- Precisely.
787
00:54:41,015 --> 00:54:44,586
Except when you go looking for trouble.
- I don't go looking for trouble.
788
00:54:44,686 --> 00:54:47,856
But I ain't the one to run away from it.
789
00:54:47,956 --> 00:54:50,558
How long have you had
a grievance against Mr. Talley?
790
00:54:50,658 --> 00:54:53,094
Mmm, we had a run-in
a few days before he jumped me.
791
00:54:53,194 --> 00:54:57,132
Oh, a run-in, eh?
And what was this run-in about?
792
00:54:57,232 --> 00:54:59,834
Well, well, come on. Tell the jury.
What did you hate him for?
793
00:54:59,934 --> 00:55:00,523
I ain't a-sayin'.
794
00:55:00,623 --> 00:55:02,376
Then you didn't have any
reason for knifing him?
795
00:55:02,476 --> 00:55:03,161
I didn't say that.
796
00:55:03,261 --> 00:55:04,845
Make up your mind. Why did you hate him?
797
00:55:04,945 --> 00:55:08,210
I ain't a-sayin'.
798
00:55:08,281 --> 00:55:11,249
That's all, Your Honor.
799
00:55:12,319 --> 00:55:14,319
Anything further?
800
00:55:14,321 --> 00:55:17,891
That's all, Your Honor. The defense rests.
801
00:55:23,597 --> 00:55:27,422
This court will adjourn
till tomorrow morning.
802
00:55:27,567 --> 00:55:31,038
It is our hope
that the summations will be brief...
803
00:55:31,138 --> 00:55:37,598
...so that we may all attend the reunion
ceremonies which will begin at noon.
804
00:55:39,485 --> 00:55:42,113
Well, Reverend Ashby.
805
00:55:42,187 --> 00:55:47,682
Say, this is a pleasure...
to welcome you.
806
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:51,796
L-I don't get the chance to do this often.
It certainly does me honor.
807
00:55:51,896 --> 00:55:56,231
Here, Jeff. Uh, make the reverend
comfortable there.
808
00:56:00,672 --> 00:56:05,942
It, uh, looks like you, uh, kind
of caught me red-handed there.
809
00:56:08,913 --> 00:56:13,874
Well, could I, you know, kind of inveigle-
810
00:56:13,952 --> 00:56:19,913
Been a long, tiresome day,
and, uh, it's mostly mint.
811
00:56:19,992 --> 00:56:24,129
No, thank you, William.
I appreciate your subtlety.
812
00:56:24,229 --> 00:56:26,999
You know, I kind of thought
that, uh-that, uh-...
813
00:56:27,099 --> 00:56:31,670
...that you'd be working on
your Memorial Day address for tomorrow.
814
00:56:31,770 --> 00:56:34,206
Oh, that'll take care of itself.
815
00:56:34,306 --> 00:56:36,875
What I'm worried about
is this poor devil of a Gillis.
816
00:56:36,975 --> 00:56:39,034
You know Gillis?
817
00:56:39,111 --> 00:56:43,106
My trade takes me
into queer quarters sometimes.
818
00:56:43,115 --> 00:56:47,086
Well, you know, I feel just as sorry
for that fellow Gillis as you do...
819
00:56:47,186 --> 00:56:51,850
...but, uh, I'm, well- I'm plumb out of it.
820
00:56:52,858 --> 00:56:56,760
Hod got the best of me.
He sure did.
821
00:56:56,829 --> 00:57:00,161
Case is closed.
It's all settled...
822
00:57:00,232 --> 00:57:02,201
...and I don't think Hod'll, uh-...
823
00:57:02,301 --> 00:57:07,741
...he'll be fool enough to reopen the case
for nobody or nothing.
824
00:57:11,543 --> 00:57:15,604
William, I have a duty to perform-...
825
00:57:15,681 --> 00:57:17,978
...the Christian's duty.
826
00:57:18,050 --> 00:57:21,987
I'm going to violate
the sacred confidence of another.
827
00:57:22,087 --> 00:57:24,623
I'm going to break a pledge of secrecy...
828
00:57:24,723 --> 00:57:29,993
...because it's the only course
that I see that lies before me.
829
00:57:30,863 --> 00:57:33,423
I'm listening, Ashby.
830
00:57:34,433 --> 00:57:36,799
Twenty-five years ago-
831
00:57:37,870 --> 00:57:40,532
The judge is sure been
832
00:57:40,606 --> 00:57:43,097
In misery
833
00:57:43,175 --> 00:57:47,578
Reckon folks ain't been acting just right
834
00:57:47,646 --> 00:57:52,276
Maybe his stomach's been complaining
835
00:57:52,351 --> 00:57:56,219
And he needs a toddy this night
836
00:57:56,288 --> 00:58:00,725
Yes, Lord Yes, Lord...
837
00:58:00,792 --> 00:58:06,059
'Cause tomorrow
he's got to be like Mr. Samson
838
00:58:06,131 --> 00:58:10,158
Saving Daniel from the lion's den
839
00:58:14,439 --> 00:58:18,899
Saving Daniel from the lion's den
840
00:58:18,977 --> 00:58:23,346
Yes, Lord Yes, Lord
841
00:58:23,415 --> 00:58:27,155
The judge could do with
a toddy right now...
842
00:58:27,219 --> 00:58:31,280
Yes, Judge
- Yes, Dilsey...
843
00:58:31,356 --> 00:58:34,359
Soon as I gets me some mint
- Soon as you gets me some mint
844
00:58:34,459 --> 00:58:36,791
Oh, Jeff. Jeff.
845
00:58:36,861 --> 00:58:38,831
Yes, sir.
- Come on. Hurry up here.
846
00:58:38,931 --> 00:58:40,833
Come on here when I holler at you.
847
00:58:40,933 --> 00:58:42,835
Where you been?
- Yes, sir. I was-
848
00:58:42,935 --> 00:58:45,470
Say, listen. You want to earn that
old coonskin coat of mine?
849
00:58:45,570 --> 00:58:48,473
I can have that coon coat, Judge?
Thank you, Judge.
850
00:58:48,573 --> 00:58:50,475
Wait a minute.
Come back here.
851
00:58:50,575 --> 00:58:52,510
You can if you do everything I tell you to.
852
00:58:52,610 --> 00:58:55,981
Uh, do you know a gentleman
by the name of Mr. Hod Maydew?
853
00:58:56,081 --> 00:58:58,450
Yes, that mean man in that courthouse?
854
00:58:58,550 --> 00:59:00,452
Yeah. Well, you see that he gets that.
855
00:59:00,552 --> 00:59:02,754
But don't you let him know how it got there.
856
00:59:02,854 --> 00:59:05,090
That's all I got to do, Judge?
Thank you.
857
00:59:05,190 --> 00:59:07,993
Say, wait a minute. C-C-Can you
play 'Dixie' on that thing there?
858
00:59:08,093 --> 00:59:12,865
For that coon coat? Yes, sir, I play �Dixie,'
'Marching Through Georgia'-
859
00:59:12,965 --> 00:59:15,066
Wait. Hey.
'Marching Through Georgia'?
860
00:59:15,166 --> 00:59:18,398
Yeah. I got you out of one lynching.
861
00:59:18,470 --> 00:59:21,268
Yes, but for that coon coat-
862
00:59:21,340 --> 00:59:26,610
If you play 'Marching Through Georgia',
I'll join the lynchers.
863
00:59:32,250 --> 00:59:35,447
Hello, childrens.
- Hi.
864
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:37,422
What do you all got in your baskets?
865
00:59:37,522 --> 00:59:39,580
Fried chicken.
- Chicken.
866
00:59:39,658 --> 00:59:44,843
That's just what I got.
That's what the judge likes, you hear?
867
00:59:55,073 --> 00:59:57,676
Hey, Les. Hey, Les,
the jury's comin' in.
868
00:59:57,776 --> 01:00:00,112
Hey. Come on.
The jury's comin' in.
869
01:00:00,212 --> 01:00:03,315
I'm tellin' you, sir.
We've lost the bass drum.
870
01:00:03,415 --> 01:00:05,684
How could you lose a bass drum?
871
01:00:05,784 --> 01:00:09,439
Someone stole it.
We need it for the parade.
872
01:00:54,366 --> 01:00:57,869
You may begin
your summation, Mr. Prosecutor.
873
01:00:57,969 --> 01:01:00,437
May it please Your Honor...
874
01:01:00,505 --> 01:01:02,349
...since adjournment yesterday,
certain information...
875
01:01:02,449 --> 01:01:03,942
...has come to the hands
of the Commonwealth...
876
01:01:04,042 --> 01:01:09,014
...which in the interests of justice,
impels me to reopen the case.
877
01:01:09,114 --> 01:01:11,607
The Commonwealth desires
to recall the defendant
878
01:01:11,707 --> 01:01:13,618
Gillis for further cross-examination.
879
01:01:13,718 --> 01:01:16,482
Very well, Mr. Maydew.
Proceed.
880
01:01:16,555 --> 01:01:19,353
Robert Gillis, take the stand.
881
01:01:33,038 --> 01:01:37,873
Your Honor, as I recollect our procedure...
882
01:01:37,942 --> 01:01:40,780
...for the time being,
I'm an ordinary member...
883
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:42,514
...of the bar in good standing?
884
01:01:42,614 --> 01:01:45,481
Not ordinary, sir...
885
01:01:45,550 --> 01:01:48,420
...but absolutely in good standing.
886
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:52,616
Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you kindly.
887
01:01:52,691 --> 01:01:57,526
Then I have the, uh,
honor of announcing myself...
888
01:01:57,596 --> 01:02:01,498
...as associate counsel for the defense...
889
01:02:04,836 --> 01:02:09,398
...seeing as the case has, uh...
890
01:02:09,474 --> 01:02:11,635
...been... reopened.
891
01:02:16,414 --> 01:02:21,939
Mr. Gillis, were you always
a man of turbulent and violent nature?
892
01:02:22,621 --> 01:02:25,424
I always left them alone as left me alone.
893
01:02:25,524 --> 01:02:27,524
Is that so?
894
01:02:27,525 --> 01:02:32,589
What was the name of the man
you once upon a time murdered?
895
01:02:32,664 --> 01:02:35,565
L-I never looked on it as no-...
896
01:02:35,634 --> 01:02:38,103
No, it wasn't murder.
- A man was killed, wasn't he?
897
01:02:38,203 --> 01:02:40,105
Yes.
- And they stuck you in jail, didn't they?
898
01:02:40,205 --> 01:02:40,313
Yes.
899
01:02:40,413 --> 01:02:42,174
And they charged you with
murder, didn't they?
900
01:02:42,274 --> 01:02:44,476
Yes.
- And the jury found you guilty, didn't they?
901
01:02:44,576 --> 01:02:46,778
Yes.
- Were you sentenced to be hung?
902
01:02:46,878 --> 01:02:50,281
No, l- I went up for life.
- Did you escape, or were you pardoned?
903
01:02:50,381 --> 01:02:54,219
I ain't a-sayin'. I won't tell you no more
no matter what you ask me.
904
01:02:54,319 --> 01:02:56,319
You don't need to.
905
01:02:58,857 --> 01:03:02,452
Judge Priest, your witness.
906
01:03:02,527 --> 01:03:04,926
No questions, Your Honor.
907
01:03:04,996 --> 01:03:06,798
But Uncle Billy-
908
01:03:06,898 --> 01:03:12,508
Hasn't the defense any evidence
to offer in rebuttal, Judge Priest?
909
01:03:14,039 --> 01:03:16,441
One character witness, Your Honor.
910
01:03:16,541 --> 01:03:20,961
Mr. Clerk, will you kindly call
Reverend Ashby Brand?
911
01:03:27,285 --> 01:03:30,488
Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth...
912
01:03:30,588 --> 01:03:34,668
...in the case now pending in this court?
- I do.
913
01:03:39,898 --> 01:03:43,173
Reverend Brand, before
you come to this town,
914
01:03:43,273 --> 01:03:45,070
what was your occupation?
915
01:03:45,170 --> 01:03:48,874
In my early manhood,
before I took holy orders...
916
01:03:48,974 --> 01:03:53,945
I had the honor to be
a captain of artillery in the late war.
917
01:03:54,045 --> 01:03:56,181
In the War of the Rebellion?
918
01:03:56,281 --> 01:04:00,377
No, sir. The war for
the Southern Confederacy.
919
01:04:00,452 --> 01:04:03,478
Yes, sir.
That's right.
920
01:04:03,555 --> 01:04:05,988
He's right.
- Yes, sir.
921
01:04:07,058 --> 01:04:08,694
My- My error.
922
01:04:08,794 --> 01:04:11,819
One moment please, Your Honor.
923
01:04:15,801 --> 01:04:19,538
I yield to no man in love
and everlasting devotion...
924
01:04:19,638 --> 01:04:25,078
...to that sacred lost cause
for which my people fought and bled.
925
01:04:25,745 --> 01:04:29,749
But though I cherish all those dear
and everlasting memories...
926
01:04:29,849 --> 01:04:33,352
...which even the bare mention
of that great conflict...
927
01:04:33,452 --> 01:04:37,786
...must awaken in every
true Kentuckian's bosom...
928
01:04:37,857 --> 01:04:40,593
I fail to see any possible connection...
929
01:04:40,693 --> 01:04:44,463
...between this reverend
gentleman's military record...
930
01:04:44,563 --> 01:04:47,623
...and the guilt of this man Gillis.
931
01:05:08,721 --> 01:05:10,721
Hee, hee, hee, hee.
932
01:05:12,725 --> 01:05:15,393
I think the court
will commit no grave legal error...
933
01:05:15,493 --> 01:05:21,613
...by allowing a minister of the gospel
to tell his story in his own way.
934
01:05:24,905 --> 01:05:27,455
Meander along, Reverend Brand.
935
01:05:28,044 --> 01:05:31,445
As many of you know,
I am a Virginian.
936
01:05:33,149 --> 01:05:37,739
On the day my state
seceded from the Union, I enlisted.
937
01:05:38,621 --> 01:05:43,149
I was a private in Penn's Virginia Battery.
938
01:05:43,225 --> 01:05:48,763
By the latter end of the third year,
I was in command of that battery.
939
01:05:48,863 --> 01:05:53,538
All the officers ranking me
had been killed or disabled.
940
01:05:54,370 --> 01:05:57,567
We lost heavily at Chancellorsville.
941
01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:01,295
At Fredericksburg,
we were almost wiped out.
942
01:06:02,645 --> 01:06:04,806
We kept our field pieces.
943
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:07,450
We kept our pieces until the end.
944
01:06:07,550 --> 01:06:10,553
But we'd not sufficient men
to man those guns...
945
01:06:10,653 --> 01:06:13,798
...nor anywhere to turn for more men.
946
01:06:14,689 --> 01:06:18,004
There were no more men left to come in.
947
01:06:18,993 --> 01:06:22,554
The Confederacy in '64...
948
01:06:22,630 --> 01:06:26,968
...was robbing both the cradle
and the grave... for cannon fodder.
949
01:06:27,068 --> 01:06:31,060
Well, sir, I got temporary leave...
950
01:06:31,138 --> 01:06:34,909
...and went to Richmond
to see our war governor.
951
01:06:35,009 --> 01:06:40,959
I said to him, 'Sir, I've come to you
to ask for men to serve my guns.'
952
01:06:41,314 --> 01:06:46,074
He laughed and said,
'Tell me where they're to be found.'
953
01:06:46,152 --> 01:06:51,522
I said, 'Among the chain gangs
from the state penitentiary.'
954
01:06:53,661 --> 01:06:56,030
He said, 'You've come too late, young man.
955
01:06:56,130 --> 01:07:01,335
'I've freed every convict that might
conceivably be trusted with freedom.
956
01:07:01,435 --> 01:07:04,370
'There are left only the lifers...
957
01:07:04,437 --> 01:07:06,674
'and I dare not turn them loose.
958
01:07:06,774 --> 01:07:11,913
They're working under guard
building defenses for you to fight behind.'
959
01:07:12,013 --> 01:07:16,211
He opposed me,
but I argued with him.
960
01:07:16,284 --> 01:07:19,219
Finally, I won.
961
01:07:19,287 --> 01:07:25,055
He gave me authorization,
signed it, and with his own hand...
962
01:07:25,126 --> 01:07:29,716
...affixed the seal
of the sovereign State of Virginia.
963
01:07:30,463 --> 01:07:34,669
I rode back to the lines, sir,
and I found my chain gang.
964
01:07:34,769 --> 01:07:39,274
I told them to drop their tools
and line up before me.
965
01:07:39,940 --> 01:07:44,105
I told them,
'If you go with me, you go to face...
966
01:07:44,145 --> 01:07:49,208
'a hell of destruction
and suffering and death...
967
01:07:49,282 --> 01:07:53,532
'but,' I said, 'if you do go,
you go as free men...
968
01:07:54,922 --> 01:07:58,119
'as soldiers of the Confederacy.
969
01:07:58,192 --> 01:08:00,888
'Your past will lie behind you.
970
01:08:00,962 --> 01:08:06,730
'And your future, if you survive,
is in your own hands.
971
01:08:06,801 --> 01:08:09,634
'And I promise you this much.
972
01:08:09,704 --> 01:08:13,265
'If you stand fast,
if you do your duty...
973
01:08:15,242 --> 01:08:19,280
'if bravely and honorably,
you acquit yourselves as men...
974
01:08:19,380 --> 01:08:22,416
'than such of you
as live through to the end-...
975
01:08:22,516 --> 01:08:24,719
'and some of you will live-...
976
01:08:24,819 --> 01:08:27,369
'are not to come back to this.
977
01:08:28,556 --> 01:08:30,751
'It's for you to decide.
978
01:08:31,892 --> 01:08:35,987
'Those who remain behind, stand fast.
979
01:08:36,062 --> 01:08:40,625
Those who come with me,
advance one pace.'
980
01:08:42,303 --> 01:08:45,568
Gentlemen of the jury...
981
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:49,410
I tell you they came at me
like a wave from the sea...
982
01:08:49,510 --> 01:08:52,104
...every one of them.
983
01:08:52,179 --> 01:08:54,179
And as time went on...
984
01:08:54,249 --> 01:08:59,689
...they won for themselves the name
of 'The Battalion from Hell.'
985
01:09:17,151 --> 01:09:21,087
Those men, those felons...
986
01:09:21,155 --> 01:09:24,224
...with the scars of their shackles
still on their legs...
987
01:09:24,324 --> 01:09:27,361
...they fought for the South like men.
988
01:09:27,461 --> 01:09:31,989
None better.
And they died like men, most of them.
989
01:09:34,468 --> 01:09:40,507
There was one of those men of whom
I wish to speak a special word of tribute.
990
01:09:40,607 --> 01:09:44,805
He stood out for his courage
and his fidelity.
991
01:09:46,647 --> 01:09:50,174
For his worth as a soldier and a man.
992
01:09:50,250 --> 01:09:54,744
Most of all, for his invariable truthfulness...
993
01:09:54,823 --> 01:09:58,087
...under all circumstances.
994
01:09:58,158 --> 01:10:01,924
He was from the mountains
of my own state-...
995
01:10:01,995 --> 01:10:06,125
...a man who spoke little but did much.
996
01:10:07,134 --> 01:10:09,870
I saw him once go out under fire...
997
01:10:09,970 --> 01:10:16,090
...during a battle to rescue,
at his own risk, a wounded Union officer...
998
01:10:16,276 --> 01:10:20,016
...who lay there helpless between the lines.
999
01:10:20,514 --> 01:10:26,419
Another time, our stars and bars
was wrested from our hands.
1000
01:10:26,487 --> 01:10:29,784
We fought breast to breast that day.
1001
01:10:31,858 --> 01:10:34,728
This man of whom I'm speaking
threw himself on a riderless horse...
1002
01:10:34,828 --> 01:10:37,264
...and rode into the thick of it...
1003
01:10:37,364 --> 01:10:43,399
...and by the grace of God came
galloping back from the jaws of death...
1004
01:10:43,970 --> 01:10:47,737
...our colors clutched in his hand.
1005
01:10:52,446 --> 01:10:54,936
And another day...
1006
01:10:55,015 --> 01:11:00,054
...when every man who served his gun
excepting him was down...
1007
01:11:00,154 --> 01:11:04,385
I saw him,
when the Union Infantry charged...
1008
01:11:04,458 --> 01:11:07,127
...sitting astraddle his useless gun...
1009
01:11:07,227 --> 01:11:09,796
...and with a rammer for his only weapon...
1010
01:11:09,896 --> 01:11:12,966
...waiting for the enemy
to come within reach.
1011
01:11:13,066 --> 01:11:17,230
A countercharge from
our infantry saved him.
1012
01:11:22,276 --> 01:11:26,473
But he had stood fast,
and he was alone.
1013
01:11:26,546 --> 01:11:29,811
After the surrender,
I kept his secret.
1014
01:11:30,984 --> 01:11:34,852
I've kept it to this very hour.
1015
01:11:34,921 --> 01:11:38,092
Though I've seen him daily at his work...
1016
01:11:38,192 --> 01:11:40,327
...watching over his daughter...
1017
01:11:40,427 --> 01:11:43,997
...providing for her education through me.
1018
01:11:45,165 --> 01:11:48,726
And all unknown to Ellie May.
1019
01:11:58,378 --> 01:12:03,873
Gentlemen, as a soldier,
I knew that man as Roger Gillespie.
1020
01:12:05,152 --> 01:12:09,646
You know him by the name he now wears...
1021
01:12:09,723 --> 01:12:11,191
Robert Gillis.
1022
01:12:11,291 --> 01:12:17,093
Hooray for Jeff Davis,
the Southern Confederacy and Bob Gillis.
1023
01:12:27,741 --> 01:12:29,643
Well, get out of the way.
1024
01:12:29,743 --> 01:12:34,333
Can't you see that poor,
helpless child needs a mother?
1025
01:12:49,996 --> 01:12:52,232
That's fine. That's great, Jeff.
That's great.
1026
01:12:52,332 --> 01:12:57,007
Keep on goin'. Keep goin',
you can have that white vest.
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