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[Whistle Blowing]
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[Birds Chirping]
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[Dog Barking]
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[Clucking]
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Good morning, ma'am.
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Sure is a fine day today, isn't it?
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Getting this washing up.
Should've had it up long ago too.
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If it's Aunt Dicey Johnson
you're lookin' for, ma'am, here I be.
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Pinky?
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- Pinky, child?
- Yes, Granny. It's... It's me.
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Pinky. My Pinky.
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Thank you, Lord,
for bringing my child back to me.
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She'd be such a far piece and long journey,
and this be the morning of her return.
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- Amen.
- Granny.
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No frettin', honey.
'Cause you're home safe and sound.
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Come on in and let Granny
scare you up a mite of breakfast.
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Come on.
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Come on, sugar. Come on.
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[Pots Clanking]
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Oh, me. It sure do me good
to see you standin' there.
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Just think. My Pinky baby all growed
up and come home to her old granny.
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- How did you know I'd come back?
- That's why I sent you away, sugar... so you'd come back.
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Come back and help the sick,
the halt and the needy.
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Remember what I say
the day I put you on the train?
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I said, "Pinky, baby,
no matter how far you go...
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"how much you learn, you
gotta bring it all back with you.
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"That's why I'm sending you.
Because the Bible say...
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A little leaven shall
leaven the whole lump."'
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Granny...
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Granny, did you ever think
I might wanna stay up north?
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There's some things
we gotta trust the Lord about, Pinky...
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some things we can't do ourself.
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- We gotta depend on him.
- [Object Clinking]
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Everything just like you left it, sugar.
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- What is it, Pinky?
- Oh, I wish you'd never sent me away.
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You mean, you wish you'd growed up
ignorant, no-account good-for-nothin'?
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You wish you'd never learned to read and
write and make your way in this world?
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Oh, no, but don't you see?
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Yes, Pinky, I do see.
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Let me say something
once and for all and never again.
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Why is it you write me
less and less as time go by?
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Why is it after you go to
the hospital, I get no letter at all?
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No. You don't need to say nothin'.
You think I don't know.
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You think poor old ignorant woman
like me livin' in a shack like this...
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don't know nothin',
but you're wrong, Pinky.
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I do know. And I know what you done.
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And you know I never told you
to pretend you is what you ain't.
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I didn't mean to, Granny.
It just happened.
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But that's a sin before God,
and you know it.
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It was a conductor on the train. He put
me back in another car... the white one.
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- But he knowed who you was. I put you where you belonged.
- No. No, no.
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It was after that,
when they changed conductors.
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- Then why you ain't tell the new conductor?
- Granny, I don't know.
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- I was only a child.
- Then what about school? What about that?
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Other children talk
about their kinfolks, don't they?
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What you say when they asked you about
your'ns? You tell 'em who your granny is?
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Oh, shame... shame be on you, Pinky.
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Denying yourself like Peter
denied the good Lord Jesus.
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- Here. Get down. Get down.
- [Crying]
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That's where you belong.
Now you tell the Lord what you done.
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Ask his forgiveness
on your immortal soul.
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Come on out and get your breakfast. I
don't wanna hear another word from you...
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- About what you done again as long as you live. - [Door Closes]
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[Sobbing]
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[Pinky's Voice]
Tom.
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- Tom.
- Tom, please.
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- Please, Tom.
- [Voice] Tom.
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Tom.
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- [Screams] Tom.!
- [Crickets Chirping Loudly]
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[Chirping Continues]
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[Chirping Quiets]
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[Rooster Crowing]
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- Good morning, honey. You up, I see.
- Yes, Granny.
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You do this much every day?
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Ain't missed a day 'cept the time I was
down sick with pneumonia three years ago.
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- Here. I'll help you.
- I ain't sent you away for you to come back and take in washing.
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Granny, I was awful glad
when you stopped sending me money.
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- What you mean?
- I didn't want you breaking your back for me forever.
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Stopped? I ain't never missed once.
I give Jake Waters that money...
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just like I been doin' every week
since his pa died.
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I gotta see Jake about that.
Kind of superstitious about him.
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I'll go see Jake.
I'll get it back for you.
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How much do you get
for a wash like this?
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- Oh, they don't count, far as money goes.
- You mean you're not paid for it?
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- Course not. They're Miss Em's.
- Yeah. I can see it's Miss Em's.
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- You mean to say she doesn't pay you for it?
- Not in cash money.
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Miss Em ain't got no cash money.
Besides, she's old now... old and sick.
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- She has a house full of valuable antiques, hasn't she?
- But they're family things.
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Can't sell them.
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Besides, why are you
so set agin Miss Em?
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- She ain't never hurt you.
- Look at her house.
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Slave-built, slave-run
and run-down ever since.
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I went through that gate in her garden
once, just once, when I was a little girl.
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She ordered me out,
and I'll never forget it.
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Oh, Miss Em ain't never liked
children traipsin' around in her garden.
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Why, when she had that boarding school,
she made them girls play...
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on the other side of the house.
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Guess I'll look in on her now like I do
every morning to see if she's all right.
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[Train Whistle Blows, Distant]
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[Pinky's Voice]
Tom. Tom.
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I'll send him a telegram. Western Union.
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I want to send a telegram.
Yes. Straight wire.
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"Dr. Thomas Adams.
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"St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Boston.
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"Darling. All a terrible mistake.
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"Returning by the first train.
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"Meet me at the station, please.
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I love you, love you,
love you, love you. '
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[Man] Get up there.
Come on, you lazy devil. Come on.
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- [Kids Chattering]
- Can you tell me where Jake Waters lives?
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- [Boy] Right down on the corner.
- Thank you.
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- Hi, Tommy.
- Hi.
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- This where Jake Waters lives?
- Uh-uh.
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- You're Jake Waters, aren't you?
- Uh, yes, ma'am, I am.
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- This is my house here.
- I'm Patricia Johnson.
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- Who?
- You know Mrs. Dicey Johnson, don't you? I'm her grandchild.
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Pinky?
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Well, what do you know?
Come right in, Miss Pinky.
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I'm mighty glad to see you.
Mighty glad. Yes.
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- I've come to get the money my grandmother gave you to send me.
- Oh, the money! Come on in.
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I've been tryin' to get over to see your
granny, but every time I start over there...
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something happens to stop me.
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Yes, sir.
Mighty busy these days. Mighty busy.
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This won't take long.
I shan't ask you...
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why you held back the money
so long as you return it.
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Oh, sure, sure.
Don't worry about it. Sit down.
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Oh. [Chuckles] You know,
you've been away a long time.
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- What about the money?
- You'll get it. You'll get it. Every cent of it.
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Sit down.
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Why'd you come back, Miss Pinky?
Never figured that you would.
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- Why shouldn't I? This is my home.
- Don't give me that, Miss Pinky.
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Jake's smart. He sees things.
Man most likely, huh?
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White man? Couldn't tell him
and couldn't not tell him, huh?
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- Look, Jake, I haven't got all...
- Of course. Didn't mean to be nosy, Miss Pinky.
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Jake's your friend.
He only wants to help you.
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Help me by giving me back
my grandmother's money.
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Oh, yes. The money. Well, I never
keep much cash money on me.
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- Keep it all in the bank, Miss Pinky.
- Is it far to the bank?
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Bank's closed today. Saturday.
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Very well. You can give me
whatever you have on hand...
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and I'll tell my grandmother
you'll pay her the rest on Monday.
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- Of course, I never keep much money around the house.
- Mind giving me what you have?
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Just a minute. I'll look around.
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[Jake] This every bit of money I got
in the house. A ten and a five makes $ 15.
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[Pinky] I'll tell my grandmother
you'll give her the rest on Monday.
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- [Jake] Monday. Sure.
- You be sure and come by Monday.
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- I'll be there, all right.
- Jake, what's she doin' with my money?
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- Rozelia, you know I didn't...
- What you doin' with my money?
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- Rozelia, you know who that is? Miss Pinky.
- I don't care.
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- Miss Pinky, that happens to be my money.
- Let go of me!
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Come high, don't you? Drop that. Why, you...
I'll split you open if you don't give me my money.
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[Officer]
Hey there. What's up?
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- What's goin' on here?
- Nothin' at all, Captain.
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- Everything's all right now.
- They been botherin' you, ma'am?
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Pull your dress up, girl.
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- Got a knife, Chief.
- [Chief] Okay. Get it.
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Well, I reckon it's just as well
we come up when we did.
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Uh, just what
was the trouble, ma'am?
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- I don't care to make any charges.
- Just a minute, if you please.
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I reckon you're a stranger in this part
of the country, but this fella Jake...
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- Did he molest you in any way, ma'am?
- No. No.
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And the girl.
What about her, ma'am?
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She even so much as thought of
threatening you, we wanna know about it...
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- Or if she give you any of her impudence.
- [Cackles]
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- Shut up, girl.
- Excuse me, sir, but why are you two white men "ma'am-ing" her?
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She's nothin' but
a low-down colored gal.
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- Tried to steal my man.
- Make him stop! Make him stop!
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You heard what she said. He's got
to slap her down, unless it's true.
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Yes, it's true. I'm colored.
My grandmother's Mrs. Dicey Johnson.
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Mrs. Dicey Johnson!
I oughta slap 'em both down, Chief.
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Nah. Hold it.
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- Why, I think I'll be going now.
- Go?
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- You ain't goin' anywhere till I tell you. Get in that car.
- I'm under arrest?
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- What do you think?
- On what charges are you holding me?
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You heard what I said.
Get in that car.
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Don't worry.
I'll fix it. I know the judge.
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Let me handle this.
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[Horn Honking]
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It looked like there was gonna
be some trouble, and I searched her.
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Then I took this knife off her,
Judge Walker. It was in her garter.
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So I just brought 'em all in.
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- Is this your knife?
- She's the one started trouble, comin' takin' my money.
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- That'll do. Find anything on the other one?
- Didn't search her.
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- Nothin' there, Judge.
- She had plenty time to throw it away.
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- Rozelia, I could send you up for this knife business.
- Yes, sir.
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And I will if I hear one more word about this
matter... about a knife or razor or any trouble.
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- Is that clear?
- Yes.
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- Now, go.
- Thank you, sir.
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- As for you, Jake...
- Yes, sir. I was just...
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You've been in this kind of
trouble before.
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- After this, keep your hands off other people's money.
- No, sir.
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Never touch a nickel
that ain't mine, sir.
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- I'm going to let you off this time.
- Thank you. Much obliged, Judge.
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- But next time will be the last.
- Yes, sir. Thank you.
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Now it's to you, Pinky. If Jake owes you
money and doesn't pay it, let me know.
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- I'll see that he does.
- Thank you.
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I remember years ago,
after your mother died.
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I remember when Dicey sent you away
to school. Aunt Dicey's a good woman.
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I've always thought highly of her, and I'd like
to be able to think well of her grandchildren.
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I've done nothing, Judge Walker,
and I'm telling you the truth.
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- I'm not saying you aren't, but...
- But because I'm colored, you don't believe me.
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You're not sure.
That's it, isn't it?
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How'd you make out up yonder?
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I graduated, then I took
three years' training as a nurse.
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Oh, I didn't know. You managed to do
all that on what Dicey could send?
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- Yes.
- Hmm.
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I won scholarships. I worked,
waited tables. I got along.
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Oh, that's good. That's very good.
All the more reason...
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you should keep on being a credit
and comfort to your grandmother.
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You've had advantages which are
denied to most members of your race...
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people like Jake
and Rozelia, for example.
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Just try to keep out of trouble.
That's all.
213
00:20:58,078 --> 00:21:00,818
Thank you, sir.
214
00:21:17,175 --> 00:21:19,109
- Pinky.
- Yes, Granny?
215
00:21:19,109 --> 00:21:21,736
Why don't you try and...
216
00:21:22,914 --> 00:21:26,247
- Going somewhere, honey?
- Just for a walk.
217
00:21:38,997 --> 00:21:41,989
- Evenin', Sister Johnson.
- Come in, Jake.
218
00:21:41,989 --> 00:21:45,001
Stop sneakin' in here
behind me like that too.
219
00:21:45,001 --> 00:21:48,539
I told Miss Pinky I'd drop around,
so here I is, man of my word.
220
00:21:48,539 --> 00:21:52,474
Good. Pinky give me the $15 you give her,
said you'd be here to give me the rest.
221
00:21:52,474 --> 00:21:55,444
I guess she was kind of riled
after that little run-in.
222
00:21:55,444 --> 00:21:59,176
- Run-in? What you mean, run-in?
- Oh, nothing.
223
00:21:59,176 --> 00:22:02,879
- You workin' mighty late, Sister Johnson.
- Oh, I reckon I'll die...
224
00:22:02,879 --> 00:22:07,254
with the shoes on my feet and that old
smoothin' iron in my hand, good Lord willing.
225
00:22:07,254 --> 00:22:10,624
You're a worker
from way back yonder. Yes, sir.
226
00:22:10,624 --> 00:22:14,358
- I always admire a good worker.
- Look who's talkin'.
227
00:22:14,358 --> 00:22:19,369
Well, there's work and then there's work.
My biggest work, I do with my brain.
228
00:22:19,369 --> 00:22:22,565
Liable to get top-heavy
overworking that brain, eh, Jake?
229
00:22:22,565 --> 00:22:27,475
That's the way to rise up in the world.
No more being the skim milk for Jake.
230
00:22:27,475 --> 00:22:32,539
- He's gonna be the cream on top.
- Cream gotta be cream first before it rise.
231
00:22:32,539 --> 00:22:36,018
- Where you goin', Sister?
- I gotta take this wash back to Miss Em's.
232
00:22:36,018 --> 00:22:36,768
Oh.
233
00:22:39,891 --> 00:22:42,382
- Give me that.
- Don't you want me to read it for ya?
234
00:22:42,382 --> 00:22:44,928
- Give it back, I say. It's mine.
- I can see... I can see that.
235
00:22:44,928 --> 00:22:48,193
Give me that letter!
236
00:22:49,601 --> 00:22:54,903
Not gonna read this letter
to nobody.
237
00:22:54,903 --> 00:22:59,409
Well, you burned it up, didn't you?
That ain't gonna stop nothin'.
238
00:22:59,409 --> 00:23:04,380
I got a feeling that a fast letter coming
like that is a shadow moving before.
239
00:23:04,380 --> 00:23:09,113
- Think so, Jake?
- Folks is coming, they come treadin' on their shadows.
240
00:23:09,113 --> 00:23:12,952
Course, I can stop him. Got his
name and address right here in my head.
241
00:23:12,952 --> 00:23:17,859
Didn't I tell you I worked with
my brain? I can write a letter to him.
242
00:23:17,859 --> 00:23:20,796
Say, I never seen
no colored man write like that.
243
00:23:20,796 --> 00:23:24,460
Two stamps on the letter and his name and
address in the corner with "M.D." after it.
244
00:23:24,460 --> 00:23:28,403
- That means doctor.
- You think you'd be doing right?
245
00:23:28,403 --> 00:23:33,945
You wanna keep Miss Pinky, don't you?
I'll send him a telegram.
246
00:23:33,945 --> 00:23:37,037
That'll stop him just like that.
247
00:23:37,037 --> 00:23:41,552
Don't you worry, Sister.
Jake's gonna take care of everything.
248
00:23:41,552 --> 00:23:47,523
Course, telegrams cost money, and I like
to do everything business-like.
249
00:23:48,794 --> 00:23:52,389
That'll be a deductible item
from what I owe you.
250
00:24:04,943 --> 00:24:08,379
[Train Whistle Blows, Distant]
251
00:24:35,974 --> 00:24:40,536
- Evenin', ma'am. Can we give you a lift?
- No, thank you.
252
00:24:40,536 --> 00:24:44,012
Excuse me, ma'am. You must be a stranger
around here. We can't let no white girl...
253
00:24:44,012 --> 00:24:46,481
walk by herself through
this here nigger section.
254
00:24:46,481 --> 00:24:48,553
- I live in this section.
- You what?
255
00:24:48,553 --> 00:24:52,919
- I said I live here. Now, just let me alone.
- Lives here? What do you know?
256
00:24:52,919 --> 00:24:55,652
Who'd ever figure that?
257
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,232
- That's the whitest dinge I ever saw.
- Look at that swamp rabbit go.
258
00:25:13,778 --> 00:25:17,339
- What do you say, let's go get her?
- Boy, let's go now.
259
00:25:36,902 --> 00:25:41,430
We ain't gonna hurt you, baby. Don't be
afraid, baby. We ain't gonna hurt you.
260
00:25:41,430 --> 00:25:44,941
- We just wanna have a little fun, baby.
- Take it easy.
261
00:25:44,941 --> 00:25:46,943
- [Cries Out]
- Come here, honey.
262
00:25:46,943 --> 00:25:48,979
No! No! Stop! Stop!
263
00:25:48,979 --> 00:25:54,780
- Please! Don't! Don't!
- What a build on her.
264
00:25:54,780 --> 00:25:57,878
Let's see your face, baby.
Hold up your face.
265
00:25:57,878 --> 00:26:01,220
Oh, you're pretty.
You're pretty. You're real pretty.
266
00:26:01,220 --> 00:26:05,126
- [Screams]
- What's the matter, baby? You want a drink?
267
00:26:05,126 --> 00:26:08,688
- Hey, Al, give me that bottle.
- [Grunts]
268
00:26:08,688 --> 00:26:12,463
- [Pinky Shrieking]
- Come back here, gal! Come on back here, gal!
269
00:26:12,463 --> 00:26:15,199
Ah, let her go.
270
00:26:18,677 --> 00:26:20,975
[Shrieks]
271
00:26:26,551 --> 00:26:29,247
[Shrieks]
272
00:26:44,269 --> 00:26:47,136
[Panting]
273
00:27:12,797 --> 00:27:16,324
[Knocking, Doorknob Rattling]
274
00:27:18,036 --> 00:27:18,470
- [Rattling Continues]
- [Aunt Dicey] Pinky? Pinky?
275
00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:21,837
- [Rattling Continues]
- [Aunt Dicey] Pinky? Pinky?
276
00:27:22,941 --> 00:27:25,034
- Pinky?
- Granny?
277
00:27:25,034 --> 00:27:26,034
Yes.
278
00:27:27,545 --> 00:27:31,276
- What you got the door locked for?
- Granny, what is it?
279
00:27:31,276 --> 00:27:35,911
- What's wrong? Tell me, Granny.
- It's Miss Em. Miss Em, honey.
280
00:27:35,911 --> 00:27:40,253
- What's the matter with her?
- Oh, Doc Joe say it's her heart again.
281
00:27:40,253 --> 00:27:44,886
Her heart give out. It happened while
I was puttin' the linen in the closet...
282
00:27:44,886 --> 00:27:47,396
talkin' to her
when she took her spell.
283
00:27:47,396 --> 00:27:51,560
So I run down to the corner fast
as I could, phoned Doc Joe.
284
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:56,107
- He picked me up on the way back. He come that fast.
- Her heart? How old is she?
285
00:27:56,107 --> 00:27:58,801
Oh, a year or two older
than me maybe.
286
00:27:58,801 --> 00:28:01,242
Course, she never
allow that to my face.
287
00:28:01,242 --> 00:28:05,146
Lord, I kinda hoped you'd take me
before you took Miss Em.
288
00:28:05,146 --> 00:28:08,742
I kinda hoped you would.
Thy will be done.
289
00:28:08,742 --> 00:28:12,983
- Everyone has to die, Granny.
- You're right, baby...
290
00:28:12,983 --> 00:28:16,060
but the least we can do
is ease their passin'.
291
00:28:16,060 --> 00:28:20,860
I'm so glad you're here. Seems like the
Lord sent you here out of pure goodness.
292
00:28:20,860 --> 00:28:25,527
- Me?
- I say, "Doc Joe..." I say, "Never you mind."
293
00:28:25,527 --> 00:28:28,834
And was I proud to say it.
I say, "Never you mind, sir.
294
00:28:28,834 --> 00:28:31,670
My Pinky's here,
and she's a good nurse."
295
00:28:31,670 --> 00:28:35,041
- So he's sittin' there waitin' for you right now.
- You told him I'd nurse her?
296
00:28:35,041 --> 00:28:39,105
Course, honey. Doc Joe say
everything depend on good nursing.
297
00:28:39,105 --> 00:28:43,711
He say she gotta have a trained nurse, and he
can't lay his hand on one for love or money...
298
00:28:43,711 --> 00:28:46,450
if Miss Em had the money,
which she ain't.
299
00:28:46,450 --> 00:28:48,719
Then tell him to keep right
on looking. I'm not interested.
300
00:28:48,719 --> 00:28:50,988
- But she'll die.
- Then let her die.
301
00:28:50,988 --> 00:28:54,497
- Pinky!
- I didn't mean that, but, Granny, try to understand my side.
302
00:28:54,497 --> 00:28:57,295
I only came back here because
I hadn't anywhere else to go.
303
00:28:57,295 --> 00:29:01,304
I'd forgotten what it was like. I've been away
a long time. I've known another kind of life.
304
00:29:01,304 --> 00:29:06,673
I've been treated like a human being.
Try to understand... like an equal.
305
00:29:06,673 --> 00:29:11,078
Don't you see I can't go back into that
house? Haven't I had enough without that?
306
00:29:11,078 --> 00:29:11,798
Pinky.
307
00:29:15,420 --> 00:29:19,720
I worked long
and hard to give you an education...
308
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,418
and if they done educated
the very heart out you...
309
00:29:22,418 --> 00:29:25,826
everything I've worked
and slaved so hard for is wrong.
310
00:29:25,826 --> 00:29:29,058
Now, hear me!
You're goin' up to Miss Em's!
311
00:29:29,058 --> 00:29:32,227
You're gonna take good care of her,
like the nurse you is...
312
00:29:32,227 --> 00:29:36,637
or I swear on the Holy Bible,
I'll rip the livin' daylights out you!
313
00:29:56,127 --> 00:30:00,564
Yes. I'm going away.
I should never have come back here.
314
00:30:09,774 --> 00:30:13,676
Here. Let me help you.
315
00:30:13,676 --> 00:30:18,078
Kind of wrinkled. Reckon
I'd better run the smoothin' iron...
316
00:30:18,078 --> 00:30:21,584
over it before you pack it.
317
00:30:21,584 --> 00:30:26,817
Kind of pretty too. Must take a heap
of studying, learning to be a nurse.
318
00:30:26,817 --> 00:30:30,383
The course is three years,
as you know.
319
00:30:30,383 --> 00:30:33,464
- Miss Em didn't have no training at all.
- Why should she?
320
00:30:33,464 --> 00:30:36,432
Her kind never
learns anything useful.
321
00:30:36,432 --> 00:30:40,470
Didn't stop her from nursing me, though, when
I was down sick with pneumonia, fixin' to die.
322
00:30:40,470 --> 00:30:44,872
Miss Em nursed you?
I'd like to see that.
323
00:30:44,872 --> 00:30:49,208
Where you been living, child? What
sort of stuff they teach you up yonder?
324
00:30:49,208 --> 00:30:54,718
Have I put in all my work on you for you to
turn out to be nothin' but low-down trash?
325
00:31:00,758 --> 00:31:04,319
Yes, Pinky.
Miss Em did nurse me.
326
00:31:04,319 --> 00:31:10,299
If you don't believe me, ask Doc Joe. Miss
Em stay here, sleep in your little room.
327
00:31:10,299 --> 00:31:15,429
She cook for me, feed me with a spoon,
wash my poor, tired body.
328
00:31:15,429 --> 00:31:18,839
Even emptied my slops
like she was my loving servant.
329
00:31:18,839 --> 00:31:21,878
Now she's fixin' to die...
330
00:31:21,878 --> 00:31:26,246
and my own grandchild
done hardened her heart agin her.
331
00:32:41,092 --> 00:32:45,529
- Doctor.
- Oh, yes. Glad you could come. She's at pretty low ebb.
332
00:32:45,529 --> 00:32:47,860
Under the hypo right now.
333
00:32:47,860 --> 00:32:50,958
No fear of disturbing her.
334
00:32:50,958 --> 00:32:56,063
Oh, yes. Pinky, isn't it?
A nurse. Of course.
335
00:32:56,063 --> 00:33:00,770
Your granny's talked a lot
about you, but I didn't realize that...
336
00:33:00,770 --> 00:33:05,679
Uh, some things
I've jotted down here for you.
337
00:33:05,679 --> 00:33:08,877
Really not very much
we can do right now.
338
00:33:08,877 --> 00:33:14,289
She's reached the age where
the mechanism begins to slow down.
339
00:33:14,289 --> 00:33:19,261
If she has another attack...
Have you ever given a hypo?
340
00:33:19,261 --> 00:33:23,425
- I'm a graduate nurse.
- Yes, yes, of course.
341
00:33:23,425 --> 00:33:28,801
Well, I'm very glad to leave
Miss Em with a graduate nurse.
342
00:33:28,801 --> 00:33:31,704
No phone in this house,
and I'm pretty hard to get hold of...
343
00:33:31,704 --> 00:33:34,073
so it'll be a matter
of using your own judgment.
344
00:33:34,073 --> 00:33:39,912
- I understand, Doctor. Your hat.
- Oh, no. Here.
345
00:33:39,912 --> 00:33:43,920
Yes. Thank you.
346
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:49,119
You know, of course, that Miss Em
can't afford to pay for a trained nurse.
347
00:33:49,119 --> 00:33:51,320
- Or do you?
- I know, Doctor.
348
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,956
Might be some of her old pupils could pay
you something. Most of them still live...
349
00:33:54,956 --> 00:33:59,264
No, Doctor. It isn't a question of money.
I'm doing it for my grandmother.
350
00:34:00,772 --> 00:34:04,902
- Well, I'll look in tomorrow afternoon.
- Good night, Doctor.
351
00:34:21,726 --> 00:34:24,820
[Clock Chiming]
352
00:34:57,395 --> 00:35:01,855
- Who are you?
- I'm your nurse.
353
00:35:03,167 --> 00:35:06,261
Dicey's girl, Pinky, aren't you?
354
00:35:07,872 --> 00:35:11,137
- Yes.
- Why didn't you say so?
355
00:35:11,137 --> 00:35:14,507
Come over here
and let me see you.
356
00:35:18,282 --> 00:35:22,685
You didn't call yourself Pinky
when you were off up yonder, did you?
357
00:35:22,685 --> 00:35:26,484
- No.
- Speak up. What name did you go by?
358
00:35:26,484 --> 00:35:28,718
Patricia.
359
00:35:30,995 --> 00:35:33,293
Pinky's better.
360
00:35:38,603 --> 00:35:41,504
- What are you doing there?
- Dr. McGill left some pills for you.
361
00:35:41,504 --> 00:35:45,633
You didn't think I'm gonna take
any more of Joe McGill's stupid dope?
362
00:35:45,633 --> 00:35:49,270
They'll relieve the pain,
Miss Em. You are in pain?
363
00:35:49,270 --> 00:35:54,477
Course I'm in pain. What do you think?
That you die in ease and ecstasy?
364
00:35:54,477 --> 00:35:58,578
- What's this thing on my feet?
- Hot water bottle.
365
00:35:58,578 --> 00:36:00,850
Take it away. I won't have it.
366
00:36:00,850 --> 00:36:05,622
Brick's much better.
Over there on the hearth.
367
00:36:05,622 --> 00:36:08,528
Put it in the embers.
368
00:36:09,734 --> 00:36:15,434
Go to the wardrobe.
Open the door.
369
00:36:15,434 --> 00:36:21,274
Look on the second shelf. You'll find
a bit of blanket to cover the brick.
370
00:36:21,274 --> 00:36:25,543
Take your hands out of there.
I said the second shelf.
371
00:36:25,543 --> 00:36:30,053
Miss Em, I'm not dishonest, if that's what
you're implying. Furthermore, I don't have to...
372
00:36:30,053 --> 00:36:32,554
Miss Em?
373
00:36:33,858 --> 00:36:36,190
Miss Em!
374
00:36:38,095 --> 00:36:39,055
Miss Em.
375
00:37:37,054 --> 00:37:40,717
[Train Whistle Blowing, Distant]
376
00:37:54,739 --> 00:37:56,707
[Aunt Dicey] Now, make tracks, y'all.
Don't wanna see hide nor hair of ya...
377
00:37:56,707 --> 00:37:59,708
till tomorrow.
378
00:38:02,580 --> 00:38:05,572
- That you, Pinky honey?
- Yes, Granny.
379
00:38:05,572 --> 00:38:07,583
Miss Em ain't...
380
00:38:07,583 --> 00:38:10,483
No. She's better.
381
00:38:10,483 --> 00:38:13,386
Praise the Lord.
382
00:38:16,894 --> 00:38:20,830
Dr. Joe's with her now. He said for me
to come on down and get some rest.
383
00:38:20,830 --> 00:38:23,195
You're supposed to sit with her
for the rest of the afternoon.
384
00:38:23,195 --> 00:38:27,101
- Then you get some sleep, honey.
- I don't feel like sleeping.
385
00:38:27,101 --> 00:38:29,331
What you doing
with my clothes?
386
00:38:29,331 --> 00:38:32,273
With you being so busy
and all, I reckoned I'd unpack for you.
387
00:38:32,273 --> 00:38:35,641
Put them back.
They can stay packed till I leave.
388
00:38:35,641 --> 00:38:38,840
It's only a matter
of a few days, at the most.
389
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,747
Doc Joe say that?
A few days?
390
00:38:41,747 --> 00:38:46,812
I can see for myself. Oh, for heaven's
sake, Granny, it's only a mean old woman.
391
00:38:46,812 --> 00:38:50,018
She's been driving me and nagging me
ever since she woke up this morning.
392
00:38:50,018 --> 00:38:52,891
She do that?
That's good.
393
00:38:52,891 --> 00:38:56,398
- What's good about it?
- Then she do feel better, sure enough.
394
00:38:56,398 --> 00:39:00,027
Miss Em start feelin' better,
the more "coniferous" she act.
395
00:39:00,027 --> 00:39:03,334
Pay no attention to her worrisome ways,
sugar. She don't mean nothin' by it.
396
00:39:03,334 --> 00:39:06,205
She means to put me
in my place and keep me there...
397
00:39:06,205 --> 00:39:08,676
just as she's kept you
all these years.
398
00:39:08,676 --> 00:39:14,342
Oh, Pinky child, when folks is real
friends, there ain't no such thing as place.
399
00:39:18,889 --> 00:39:21,983
[Man]
Hello? Anybody home?
400
00:39:21,983 --> 00:39:25,221
Miss Johnson?
401
00:39:27,565 --> 00:39:31,365
I beg your pardon.
You're Miss Pinky Johnson?
402
00:39:35,306 --> 00:39:39,333
Yes, sir.
You're looking for me?
403
00:39:39,333 --> 00:39:42,503
- I'm Dr. Canady from over in Leesburg.
- How do you do, Doctor?
404
00:39:42,503 --> 00:39:45,377
My wife and I heard you were here. We'd
like you to come over to the house to dinner.
405
00:39:45,377 --> 00:39:48,941
- Well, that's...
- If you'll just set the date... any night that's convenient.
406
00:39:48,941 --> 00:39:51,817
I'm on a case now,
and after that, I'm going away.
407
00:39:51,817 --> 00:39:55,881
When you come back then. Your being here
is the best news we had in a long time.
408
00:39:55,881 --> 00:39:58,621
We had some girls over in Leesburg,
high school graduates...
409
00:39:58,621 --> 00:40:00,822
with no chance
for regular training.
410
00:40:00,822 --> 00:40:04,731
- With your help, we can set up a real nursing school.
- It's out of the question.
411
00:40:04,731 --> 00:40:07,929
- You see. - Excuse me. How are you and your family these days?
412
00:40:07,929 --> 00:40:11,405
- Fine, thank you, Aunt Dicey.
- You see, I...
413
00:40:11,405 --> 00:40:15,104
I'm not planning
to come back.
414
00:40:17,681 --> 00:40:21,913
I see. I have never been north.
I took my M.D. at Meharry.
415
00:40:21,913 --> 00:40:25,682
I was tempted to go, of course,
but I felt my job was here.
416
00:40:25,682 --> 00:40:30,693
These girls I was telling you about, it's
gonna be kind of hard to disappoint them.
417
00:40:30,693 --> 00:40:34,663
I'm sorry, but my plans
are all made.
418
00:40:34,663 --> 00:40:37,962
Well, good luck
to you, Miss Johnson.
419
00:40:58,189 --> 00:41:01,317
[Miss Em]
Get the feet.
420
00:41:04,829 --> 00:41:07,423
Mind that candlestick.
421
00:41:07,423 --> 00:41:12,093
My great-grandfather bought that when
they sold Thomas Jefferson's things.
422
00:41:12,093 --> 00:41:17,163
Things. Hmm.
They last longer than people.
423
00:41:17,163 --> 00:41:19,742
This furniture was made
to present to Henry Clay...
424
00:41:19,742 --> 00:41:23,211
if he was elected,
but the voters thought different...
425
00:41:23,211 --> 00:41:26,750
and Grandfather bought it
at auction.
426
00:41:26,750 --> 00:41:30,981
Look what you've done.
My best brooch.
427
00:41:30,981 --> 00:41:34,387
Well, you've looked
at it long enough.
428
00:41:34,387 --> 00:41:38,087
- What do you think of it?
- It's very nice, Miss Em.
429
00:41:38,087 --> 00:41:40,254
Don't be evasive. I want the truth.
What do you think of it?
430
00:41:40,254 --> 00:41:44,858
It's one of those rather clever imitations
one can buy in the chain stores for a dollar.
431
00:41:44,858 --> 00:41:50,236
Ninety-eight cents.
Any fool would know that.
432
00:41:50,236 --> 00:41:53,538
Now, go dust that center table.
Bring me a pitcher of water.
433
00:41:53,538 --> 00:41:55,839
Miss Em, I've already done
those things, and you know it.
434
00:41:55,839 --> 00:41:58,176
- Don't be impudent.
- It isn't impudent to say what's true.
435
00:41:58,176 --> 00:42:01,877
I'm a trained nurse,
and I won't be spoken to like that.
436
00:42:04,455 --> 00:42:07,652
You don't like it here:
why did you come?
437
00:42:07,652 --> 00:42:10,852
Because my grandmother said she'd whip the
living daylights out of me if I didn't.
438
00:42:10,852 --> 00:42:14,761
[Chuckles] That Dicey. Nobody
like her. Did she really say that?
439
00:42:14,761 --> 00:42:19,165
- That's the sort of answer you want to hear, isn't it?
- No.
440
00:42:19,165 --> 00:42:22,296
I prefer the truth.
441
00:42:22,296 --> 00:42:25,432
You forgot that fire screen.
442
00:42:28,045 --> 00:42:31,537
Don't be so upset.
I'll be dead soon...
443
00:42:31,537 --> 00:42:34,482
and you'll be free
to go back north again.
444
00:42:34,482 --> 00:42:37,418
Going to give up your nursing
when you get back up yonder?
445
00:42:37,418 --> 00:42:41,924
Nursing's my profession. In certain
places, a nurse is treated with respect.
446
00:42:41,924 --> 00:42:46,429
Nobody deserves respect as long as
she pretends to be something she isn't.
447
00:42:46,429 --> 00:42:50,057
How I live my life
is my own business, Miss Em.
448
00:42:50,057 --> 00:42:55,070
Course it is. It isn't your husband's
business or your children's.
449
00:42:55,070 --> 00:42:58,164
You can go now, Pinky. I'll be all right
till your grandmother comes.
450
00:42:58,164 --> 00:43:02,871
You can't dismiss me as you did when I was
a child and you drove me out of your garden.
451
00:43:02,871 --> 00:43:05,471
Oh, you remember.
452
00:43:05,471 --> 00:43:08,677
Yes. Very clearly.
453
00:43:08,677 --> 00:43:12,313
What do you want me to do, stay here and
live this sort of life when I don't have to?
454
00:43:12,313 --> 00:43:15,324
Just prove you're addicted
to the truth, like you pretend.
455
00:43:15,324 --> 00:43:17,587
Wherever you are, be yourself.
456
00:43:17,587 --> 00:43:21,756
What am I then? You tell me. You're the
ones that set the standards, you whites.
457
00:43:21,756 --> 00:43:24,129
You're the ones that judge people
by the color of their skins.
458
00:43:24,129 --> 00:43:28,102
By your own standards, by the only ones
that matter to you, I'm as white as you are.
459
00:43:28,102 --> 00:43:32,642
That's why you all hate me. What should
I do? Dye my face? Grovel and shuffle?
460
00:43:32,642 --> 00:43:38,147
Say "yes'm" and "no'm"? Marry some man like
Jake Waters? Carry a razor in my stocking?
461
00:43:40,417 --> 00:43:44,183
Nobody hates you, Pinky.
462
00:43:44,183 --> 00:43:47,780
Don't just stand there.
When you leave the room, go quickly.
463
00:43:47,780 --> 00:43:50,621
I hate dawdling.
464
00:44:12,149 --> 00:44:13,149
Pat!
465
00:44:19,957 --> 00:44:23,654
- Oh, darling.
- Oh, if you only knew what I went through finding you.
466
00:44:26,497 --> 00:44:29,591
What's wrong? What got into you,
running off like that?
467
00:44:29,591 --> 00:44:33,067
- How did you find me?
- I got your old address from the nuns' school...
468
00:44:33,067 --> 00:44:37,163
and then that crazy telegram
came, signed Pinky Johnson.
469
00:44:37,163 --> 00:44:41,267
- Why "Pinky"?
- I didn't send you any wire.
470
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,877
Come on.
Come on up to the house.
471
00:44:45,877 --> 00:44:49,475
What's it all about, Pat?
I can see you're working, but why here?
472
00:44:49,475 --> 00:44:54,148
Why didn't you want me to know?
What are you doing, charity work?
473
00:44:54,148 --> 00:44:57,455
No. I live here.
474
00:45:05,769 --> 00:45:10,729
Is that it? Is it because you were ashamed
of telling me you lived in a place like this?
475
00:45:10,729 --> 00:45:13,708
I often wondered why you never
spoke about your home and family, but...
476
00:45:13,708 --> 00:45:17,076
Don't you know who lives
in this kind of house?
477
00:45:23,353 --> 00:45:26,288
Come on in.
478
00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:31,524
Come here, Tom.
479
00:45:34,331 --> 00:45:37,698
There's an old colored woman
who can't read or write...
480
00:45:37,698 --> 00:45:40,565
a washerwoman
people around here call Aunt Dicey.
481
00:45:40,565 --> 00:45:45,199
There's the basket she carries her
clothes in. There's the ironing board.
482
00:45:45,199 --> 00:45:49,973
And those are the heavy irons
she heats on that old wood stove.
483
00:45:49,973 --> 00:45:53,641
Year in and year out,
she's washed and ironed...
484
00:45:53,641 --> 00:45:56,720
and carried her clean clothes
to people's back doors...
485
00:45:56,720 --> 00:46:00,415
through rain and cold
and the heat of summer.
486
00:46:00,415 --> 00:46:04,483
And she saved her money and lived
on scraps white people gave her.
487
00:46:04,483 --> 00:46:08,793
Why? For me. So she could
send me off to school...
488
00:46:08,793 --> 00:46:11,595
so I could learn to be a nurse.
489
00:46:11,595 --> 00:46:16,401
So her granddaughter would be spared
the kind of life she's had to live.
490
00:46:19,610 --> 00:46:22,738
- Her granddaughter?
- Yes. Her granddaughter.
491
00:46:22,738 --> 00:46:23,488
Me.
492
00:46:25,015 --> 00:46:28,178
Now you understand.
493
00:46:32,156 --> 00:46:35,592
- Pat...
- My name is Pinky.
494
00:46:46,003 --> 00:46:49,029
She's coming.
Tom, please... please go.
495
00:46:49,029 --> 00:46:51,471
- I don't want her to find you here.
- I've got a car. We'll drive.
496
00:46:51,471 --> 00:46:55,136
- No. No.
- Not until you tell me the whole story. Come on, Pat.
497
00:47:29,179 --> 00:47:33,775
And then, that day at the hospital,
I met you for the first time.
498
00:47:33,775 --> 00:47:36,216
At first, I tried to keep you away,
even to the point of being rude.
499
00:47:36,216 --> 00:47:39,448
That's true,
isn't it? Remember?
500
00:47:39,448 --> 00:47:45,188
But you wouldn't give up. I thought I could
take the chance of seeing you, being with you.
501
00:47:46,997 --> 00:47:52,526
I'd never been in love. I never
dreamed it would ever be serious.
502
00:47:52,526 --> 00:47:58,336
When I found it was, a kind of daring
came over me, with your love.
503
00:47:58,336 --> 00:48:02,640
So I thought I could have everything.
For a few weeks I believed it...
504
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:06,341
until you wanted
to get married right away.
505
00:48:06,341 --> 00:48:10,352
Remember? You said I'd have
to make up my mind sometime.
506
00:48:11,722 --> 00:48:15,283
Then I realized what
my decision would have to be.
507
00:48:16,660 --> 00:48:17,740
So I ran.
508
00:48:19,796 --> 00:48:23,732
- Poor Pat...
- I'm not looking for pity, and don't tell me it doesn't matter.
509
00:48:23,732 --> 00:48:28,703
- I couldn't stand that.
- I won't lie to you. Of course it matters.
510
00:48:28,703 --> 00:48:33,139
It makes... makes problems,
important problems.
511
00:48:33,139 --> 00:48:37,236
- But let's try and face them like rational people.
- [Scoffs] Rational.
512
00:48:41,818 --> 00:48:44,981
What's rational about prejudice?
513
00:48:54,131 --> 00:48:57,464
I don't think I'm prejudiced. I'm a
doctor and I hope enough of a scientist...
514
00:48:57,464 --> 00:49:02,368
not to believe in the mythology
of superior and inferior races.
515
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,673
It is a tricky business, though.
516
00:49:06,673 --> 00:49:11,180
You never know what exists
deep down inside yourself.
517
00:49:11,180 --> 00:49:15,445
I want to be absolutely sure
nothing like that exists inside of me.
518
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,182
You'd be so easy to hurt, Pat.
519
00:49:19,182 --> 00:49:22,952
In this case, too much kindness
could easily be misunderstood...
520
00:49:22,952 --> 00:49:25,995
and hurt worse
than cruelty.
521
00:49:27,631 --> 00:49:30,600
A man should be able to lose
his temper and cuss out his wife...
522
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:34,432
once in a while without her
misunderstanding the reason.
523
00:49:34,432 --> 00:49:38,030
That's why I didn't give way
to my impulse when you first told me.
524
00:49:38,030 --> 00:49:40,609
I wanted to sort of hold myself
under a microscope a little bit longer...
525
00:49:40,609 --> 00:49:42,941
till I could be sure I was right.
526
00:49:42,941 --> 00:49:47,949
- What do you mean?
- I've got two reservations on the plane from Birmingham.
527
00:49:52,956 --> 00:49:54,947
I don't know.
528
00:49:57,027 --> 00:49:59,495
I don't know.
529
00:50:02,299 --> 00:50:04,699
- Come on, Pat. We've got an hour to catch our train.
- No, no. Wait. Wait.
530
00:50:04,699 --> 00:50:10,137
- Darling, I love you.
- Tom, we can't... Wait...
531
00:50:10,137 --> 00:50:14,040
- I couldn't help myself, even if I wanted to.
- I don't know. I don't...
532
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:16,738
That's the important thing. The rest
of it we can work out between ourselves.
533
00:50:16,738 --> 00:50:20,681
It'll be our secret.
Nobody else will ever know it.
534
00:50:29,026 --> 00:50:32,962
- [Crying]
- Here.
535
00:50:32,962 --> 00:50:37,056
- Come on. We'll stop at your house and pick up your things.
- Tom, I can't go with you now.
536
00:50:37,056 --> 00:50:39,067
- Why not?
- Not now. I'm on a case.
537
00:50:39,067 --> 00:50:41,399
- Let them get somebody else.
- This isn't just a case. It's a debt that has to be repaid.
538
00:50:41,399 --> 00:50:44,303
- That's the true reason?
- Oh, I swear it is. I'm through with running away.
539
00:50:44,303 --> 00:50:48,538
- You're being honest? You promise you'll come as soon as you can?
- I'll take the next train.
540
00:50:48,538 --> 00:50:52,843
- If you don't, I'll be here wanting to know why.
- Oh, I will!
541
00:51:07,998 --> 00:51:12,435
- [Woman] George, you still drive too fast.
- Yes, ma'am.
542
00:51:14,704 --> 00:51:17,764
Well, shut off the engine.
543
00:51:25,115 --> 00:51:26,315
[Knocking]
544
00:51:28,585 --> 00:51:33,955
About time.
Oh, so you're the one.
545
00:51:33,955 --> 00:51:39,518
I'd heard you were light, but I'd no idea
you were... Well, you're practically white.
546
00:51:42,232 --> 00:51:45,167
- What is it that you want, please, ma'am?
- I'm here to see Miss Emma.
547
00:51:45,167 --> 00:51:49,796
- I'm sorry. She's not supposed to receive visitors.
- I'm her cousin, Mrs. Wooley.
548
00:51:49,796 --> 00:51:53,535
Oh, yes, Mrs. Wooley. Well, if you'll wait
down here, I'll see if Miss Em can see you.
549
00:51:53,535 --> 00:51:58,273
- How is she?
- She's improving. Won't you have a chair, please?
550
00:52:13,363 --> 00:52:16,799
- Miss Em, I'm afraid...
- I know. Let her come up. But don't leave me alone with her.
551
00:52:16,799 --> 00:52:19,460
- She'll wanna be alone with you, Miss Em.
- Well, I don't.
552
00:52:19,460 --> 00:52:24,029
- [Mrs. Wooley] How is my dear Cousin Em today? - [Groans]
553
00:52:27,277 --> 00:52:30,041
Well, I'll find out.
554
00:52:30,041 --> 00:52:32,081
Sit in that chair.
555
00:52:32,081 --> 00:52:35,549
If I knock over the bell, tell her I have to
have an enema or something. Get rid of her.
556
00:52:35,549 --> 00:52:40,851
- But Miss Em, I've just started your luncheon.
- Do what you're told, honey.
557
00:52:42,526 --> 00:52:45,859
- Oh, Mrs. Wooley, Miss Em can see you now.
- I know. I can hear.
558
00:52:45,859 --> 00:52:48,726
Cousin Em, what do you mean,
gettin' sick like this?
559
00:52:48,726 --> 00:52:51,858
When you're 80 years old,
you expect to be sick. Sit down.
560
00:52:51,858 --> 00:52:55,904
Now, now. Naughty, naughty.
Eighty years young is what we say.
561
00:52:55,904 --> 00:52:59,703
I don't. It's old,
and I won't have it minimized.
562
00:52:59,703 --> 00:53:02,972
Takes a lot of livin' to get
there and pure, cursed endurance.
563
00:53:02,972 --> 00:53:06,776
- Eighty years young indeed!
- Yes, yes, Cousin Em. Of course.
564
00:53:06,776 --> 00:53:10,683
- That's all now. I'll be sitting here with Cousin Em.
- Stay there, Pinky.
565
00:53:10,683 --> 00:53:14,587
She's a trained nurse.
I want her there in case I have a spell.
566
00:53:14,587 --> 00:53:17,922
Oh. Now, tell me, dear.
Are you being taken care of?
567
00:53:17,922 --> 00:53:20,963
- What can I do for you?
- Nothing.
568
00:53:20,963 --> 00:53:24,966
Jeffers and I have been away on holiday,
and we didn't know a thing until yesterday.
569
00:53:24,966 --> 00:53:29,437
I said to Jeffers, "I'm gonna see
Cousin Em tomorrow no matter how busy I am.
570
00:53:29,437 --> 00:53:32,997
I just have to know whether she's
getting every single thing she needs. '
571
00:53:32,997 --> 00:53:36,010
And Jeffers said to me, "Melba, that's
just like you. You can never rest...
572
00:53:36,010 --> 00:53:38,080
"till you know
you've done your duty.
573
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:41,878
And if you can take a little sunshine into
the life of that poor old soul, you'll..."
574
00:53:45,188 --> 00:53:47,588
Cousin Em?
575
00:53:49,593 --> 00:53:52,221
She's nappin'.
576
00:53:55,832 --> 00:53:59,461
- Or is she doped?
- Just tired. She's been very ill.
577
00:54:01,805 --> 00:54:05,002
Well, I'll just
sit here till she wakes up.
578
00:54:05,002 --> 00:54:09,374
Oh, Pinky, I do believe I forgot to tell
George to put the brake on my car.
579
00:54:09,374 --> 00:54:12,710
Go down there
and make sure it's on.
580
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:21,115
- Cousin Em...
- I never nap, and I'm not doped.
581
00:54:21,115 --> 00:54:25,126
- My goodness, she's whiter than I am!
- Prettier too.
582
00:54:25,126 --> 00:54:27,526
Well, it just
gives me the creeps.
583
00:54:27,526 --> 00:54:29,997
Seriously, Cousin Em. I gotta
talk to you alone. It's important.
584
00:54:29,997 --> 00:54:33,866
I came in to warn you about this girl, Pinky.
My new maid, Rozelia, knows all about her.
585
00:54:33,866 --> 00:54:37,497
Now, Melba. I'm not gonna soil
my ears by listening to kitchen gossip.
586
00:54:37,497 --> 00:54:40,872
But for all you know, lyin' up here
in bed, she's stealin' you blind.
587
00:54:40,872 --> 00:54:43,571
Oh, Melba.
588
00:54:43,571 --> 00:54:46,945
I think I left my brooch
over there on the bureau.
589
00:54:46,945 --> 00:54:50,383
- See if it's still there.
- Well, I certainly will.
590
00:54:50,383 --> 00:54:54,184
I most certainly will.
That's just what I been talking about.
591
00:54:54,184 --> 00:54:58,387
- Oh, is this it?
- Yes.
592
00:54:58,387 --> 00:55:01,726
- [Mrs. Wooley] Well, thank goodness. It's still here. - Oh.
593
00:55:01,726 --> 00:55:05,323
Mrs. Wooley,
George says your brake is still on.
594
00:55:05,323 --> 00:55:08,893
- What do you think of the brooch?
- Hmm?
595
00:55:08,893 --> 00:55:14,204
Oh! Oh, it's lovely, Cousin Em.
Priceless. A real antique.
596
00:55:14,204 --> 00:55:18,042
- Why do you ask?
- Oh, I know you like jewelry.
597
00:55:18,042 --> 00:55:22,551
Just wanted to be sure.
I was thinkin' of makin' my will.
598
00:55:22,551 --> 00:55:25,849
Oh, Cousin Em,
you mustn't think of such a thing.
599
00:55:25,849 --> 00:55:30,392
Why, it isn't as if you had a lot of relatives.
Jeffers and I are the only two you got.
600
00:55:30,392 --> 00:55:34,691
And I know how strongly you feel
about keepin' things in the family.
601
00:55:34,691 --> 00:55:39,497
What an idea to make a will.
Why, you'll live years and years, dear!
602
00:55:39,497 --> 00:55:43,834
Pinky's a nurse. She graduated
from one of the best hospitals up yonder.
603
00:55:43,834 --> 00:55:47,706
Let's ask her.
Think I should be makin' my will?
604
00:55:47,706 --> 00:55:51,747
Well, if you were ever gonna make a will,
Miss Em, it's time you were getting it done.
605
00:55:51,747 --> 00:55:57,047
There, Melba. There's
a nurse's opinion. Very sensible...
606
00:55:57,047 --> 00:55:59,212
especially as it agrees
with my own.
607
00:55:59,212 --> 00:56:02,416
I'm sorry, Mrs. Wooley.
Miss Em must rest now.
608
00:56:02,416 --> 00:56:06,461
Well, she looks fine to me, and besides, we
haven't finished our little visit yet, have we?
609
00:56:06,461 --> 00:56:10,590
I do feel a little queer.
Maybe I have another fit comin' on.
610
00:56:10,590 --> 00:56:13,168
- Fit?
- That's the way they start.
611
00:56:13,168 --> 00:56:17,831
- Then I go clean out of my head.
- [Mrs. Wooley] Oh.
612
00:56:17,831 --> 00:56:21,377
Well, in that case,
I guess I had better be on my way.
613
00:56:21,377 --> 00:56:25,539
- Oh, you going? But you'll come back, won't you?
- Oh, yes, dear.
614
00:56:25,539 --> 00:56:29,846
I'll be in first thing next week.
I certainly will.
615
00:56:29,846 --> 00:56:33,354
And no more nonsense about
making a will, you naughty girl.
616
00:56:33,354 --> 00:56:36,391
No more nonsense!
617
00:56:38,728 --> 00:56:42,664
Stop that. I won't have
you laughing at my relatives.
618
00:56:42,664 --> 00:56:46,634
Sorry, Miss Em.
She's not a blood relative, is she?
619
00:56:46,634 --> 00:56:51,696
She married my cousin, Jeffers Wooley.
He's my first cousin, once removed.
620
00:56:51,696 --> 00:56:54,834
He nearly removed himself clean out
of the family when he married her.
621
00:56:54,834 --> 00:56:58,505
[Chuckles]
Jeffers never did have much sense.
622
00:56:58,505 --> 00:57:02,244
His father wanted him to study law.
Didn't have the brains for it.
623
00:57:02,244 --> 00:57:05,753
Took up insurance.
Tried to sell me a policy.
624
00:57:05,753 --> 00:57:08,323
Life insurance, he called it.
625
00:57:08,323 --> 00:57:12,361
I asked him if it would insure that I should
live one day longer that the Lord allows.
626
00:57:12,361 --> 00:57:15,397
He said it didn't, so I said,
"Well, call it death insurance.
627
00:57:15,397 --> 00:57:19,366
You oughta be ashamed mentioning
it to one of your own family."
628
00:57:23,807 --> 00:57:25,608
Why are you
standing there for?
629
00:57:25,608 --> 00:57:26,438
Why are you
standing there for?
630
00:57:26,438 --> 00:57:28,443
Do you want tea or milk
with your lunch?
631
00:57:28,443 --> 00:57:30,706
- Coffee.
- Miss Em, you know the doctor said...
632
00:57:30,706 --> 00:57:33,112
I said coffee,
and make it strong.
633
00:57:33,112 --> 00:57:35,548
Yes, Miss Em.
634
00:57:35,548 --> 00:57:38,246
And, Pinky,
when you bring my tray...
635
00:57:38,246 --> 00:57:40,515
bring me paper, pen and ink.
636
00:57:40,515 --> 00:57:44,184
When you've washed the dishes, you
can take the rest of the afternoon off.
637
00:57:44,184 --> 00:57:46,728
I don't like to leave
you alone, Miss Em.
638
00:57:46,728 --> 00:57:49,594
- Then send Dicey over.
- She can't stay long.
639
00:57:49,594 --> 00:57:52,998
- This is her afternoon to take the wash into town.
- Don't argue.
640
00:57:52,998 --> 00:57:56,367
Do as I say. Don't want you
back here till after 5:00.
641
00:57:56,367 --> 00:57:59,567
- Yes, Miss Em.
- Make that coffee strong.
642
00:57:59,567 --> 00:58:03,305
- I want the spoon to stand up in it.
- Yes, Miss Em.
643
00:58:10,653 --> 00:58:13,417
[Inhales, Exhales Wearily]
644
00:59:13,449 --> 00:59:16,282
[Door Opening, Closing]
645
00:59:18,788 --> 00:59:21,689
[Glass Shattering]
646
00:59:27,797 --> 00:59:29,697
Miss Em!
647
00:59:58,962 --> 01:00:02,261
- Miss Em! Miss Em.
- Why am I in bed for?
648
01:00:02,261 --> 01:00:05,027
- Thought I was sittin' in a chair.
- You've had another attack.
649
01:00:05,027 --> 01:00:07,193
You've been up
and doing too much.
650
01:00:07,193 --> 01:00:09,669
Whose business is it
if I do too much, I'd like to know?
651
01:00:09,669 --> 01:00:11,797
Nobody's at all
if you want to shorten your life.
652
01:00:11,797 --> 01:00:14,900
- Flat on her back.
- No. No. Prop me up.
653
01:00:14,900 --> 01:00:17,070
Give me some pillows.
654
01:00:17,070 --> 01:00:20,172
I'm not gonna lie flat
until I'm laid out.
655
01:00:20,172 --> 01:00:24,549
- Be soon enough now.
- Might as well let her have her own way.
656
01:00:24,549 --> 01:00:28,385
That's all I ever wanted...
to have my own way.
657
01:00:28,385 --> 01:00:31,255
Here.
Open your mouth.
658
01:00:31,255 --> 01:00:35,024
- What's that? Dope?
- Open your mouth.
659
01:00:40,269 --> 01:00:42,863
I want some fresh water.
It's stuck in my throat.
660
01:00:42,863 --> 01:00:45,668
- [Pouring]
- No, I said fresh water.
661
01:00:50,079 --> 01:00:53,446
Close the door behind you.
There's a draft in here.
662
01:00:55,084 --> 01:00:58,713
- [Door Closes] - I don't want that girl knowin' my business.
663
01:00:58,713 --> 01:01:01,790
Now, go over there and look
on the second shelf...
664
01:01:01,790 --> 01:01:03,984
in that book.
665
01:01:03,984 --> 01:01:06,220
No, no.
The other end. The other end.
666
01:01:06,220 --> 01:01:08,627
There. Now, open the book.
There's an envelope in it.
667
01:01:08,627 --> 01:01:13,828
Get the envelope.
Bring it here.
668
01:01:13,828 --> 01:01:18,305
- That's my will, and I want you to witness it.
- Of course. Surely.
669
01:01:18,305 --> 01:01:21,536
- No. You don't have to read it. I just want you to sign it.
- Mmm.
670
01:01:21,536 --> 01:01:25,375
Here. You'll have to sign it
again... in my presence.
671
01:01:25,375 --> 01:01:28,973
- You know my signature.
- Sign it again, please.
672
01:01:28,973 --> 01:01:31,383
These things
have to be done legally.
673
01:01:31,383 --> 01:01:36,447
Oh, lawyers have more fool
rigamarole than doctors.
674
01:01:37,627 --> 01:01:41,825
There. Now, put it back
in the envelope.
675
01:01:41,825 --> 01:01:44,229
Seal it up.
676
01:01:45,201 --> 01:01:47,692
Put it away.
677
01:01:48,971 --> 01:01:51,405
Who's your executor?
678
01:01:51,405 --> 01:01:53,668
- You are.
- Me?
679
01:01:53,668 --> 01:01:57,769
- Isn't Judge Walker your lawyer?
- He's retiring.
680
01:01:57,769 --> 01:01:59,780
Aren't you my friend?
681
01:02:06,556 --> 01:02:08,649
No.
Never mind that now.
682
01:02:08,649 --> 01:02:11,158
I don't need it.
It's gone down.
683
01:02:12,562 --> 01:02:15,759
You didn't think
I'm plannin' to die this minute?
684
01:02:15,759 --> 01:02:19,767
I'll be up to meet my classes
right after holidays.
685
01:02:19,767 --> 01:02:21,837
Mm-hmm.
686
01:02:23,206 --> 01:02:26,198
My school...
687
01:02:26,198 --> 01:02:30,405
What'll the girls be doin'
with me in bed?
688
01:02:30,405 --> 01:02:33,710
Don't you worry, now.
You'll be up and around in a few days.
689
01:02:33,710 --> 01:02:36,250
Try to get some sleep now.
690
01:03:21,030 --> 01:03:23,658
A fine woman.
One of the old school.
691
01:03:23,658 --> 01:03:28,100
Never afraid to speak her mind or take
a stand for what she thought was right.
692
01:03:28,100 --> 01:03:31,196
- How long, Doctor?
- Can't tell.
693
01:03:31,196 --> 01:03:36,370
Extraordinary vitality,
but the last attack...
694
01:03:36,370 --> 01:03:40,745
Perhaps a week.
Perhaps only a few hours.
695
01:03:40,745 --> 01:03:42,818
Isn't there anything...
696
01:03:44,253 --> 01:03:47,313
There, now.
You did a good job.
697
01:03:47,313 --> 01:03:50,358
I might even say a devoted job.
698
01:03:51,494 --> 01:03:55,624
Well, I'll stop in
first thing tomorrow.
699
01:03:55,624 --> 01:03:58,199
- Good night.
- Good night, Doctor.
700
01:04:48,985 --> 01:04:51,749
[Sobbing]
701
01:04:59,228 --> 01:05:02,163
[Sniffling, Sobbing]
702
01:05:41,904 --> 01:05:44,395
[Woman]
Twenty cents, please.
703
01:05:50,079 --> 01:05:53,071
- Somethin' for ya, ma'am?
- Yes. Do you have any mourning veils, please?
704
01:05:53,071 --> 01:05:55,412
Right this way, ma'am.
705
01:06:03,492 --> 01:06:07,360
This is our best quality, ma'am... 2.98...
706
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:10,159
and the last
we got in stock.
707
01:06:10,159 --> 01:06:13,030
Yes. That'll be fine.
I'll take it.
708
01:06:13,030 --> 01:06:15,831
I'll allow you're goin'
to Miss Em's funeral, ma'am.
709
01:06:15,831 --> 01:06:18,236
- They say she had a lot of friends.
- Miss Viola.
710
01:06:18,236 --> 01:06:21,037
- Come wait on me, please.
- Sorry, Ms. Wooley. Just a minute, please.
711
01:06:21,037 --> 01:06:23,338
- I'll be right with ya.
- Where's Mr. Goolby?
712
01:06:23,338 --> 01:06:27,348
- Excuse me, please, ma'am. I only meant I was waitin' on someone.
- Mr. Goolby!
713
01:06:27,348 --> 01:06:30,078
- I only have to wrap this and get the change. - Mr. Goolby.!
714
01:06:30,078 --> 01:06:32,677
Why, yes, Mrs. Wooley, what can
I do for you today, please, ma'am?
715
01:06:32,677 --> 01:06:36,690
Since when has it been your policy
to wait on nigras before white folks?
716
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:40,451
Why, I...
I'm sorry, Mrs. Wooley. I'm...
717
01:06:40,451 --> 01:06:43,327
I'm sure that Miss Viola just...
just didn't see you.
718
01:06:43,327 --> 01:06:46,492
- Miss-Miss Viola.
- Well, I'm... I'm sorry, Mrs. Wooley.
719
01:06:46,492 --> 01:06:50,299
I should think you would be. I'll repeat...
Since when has it been your policy...
720
01:06:50,299 --> 01:06:53,500
Now, just what would you be interested in
this morning? We have some nice broadcloth.
721
01:06:53,500 --> 01:06:55,509
- We also have some...
- What's that?
722
01:06:55,509 --> 01:06:59,945
Well, that's the money...
the money, ma'am, she gave me... $5.00.
723
01:07:02,785 --> 01:07:07,552
- Is that Miss Em's money?
- No, Mrs. Wooley.
724
01:07:10,426 --> 01:07:14,157
Would you mind tellin' me
where you did get it?
725
01:07:14,157 --> 01:07:16,959
I don't care to say
where I got it, Mrs. Wooley.
726
01:07:16,959 --> 01:07:20,126
Well, that's all you'll get away with.
You can rest assured of that.
727
01:07:20,126 --> 01:07:22,431
Charge this.
728
01:07:22,431 --> 01:07:25,473
[Woman]
What's going on?
729
01:07:25,473 --> 01:07:28,304
I'll take my veil now,
Mr. Goolby...
730
01:07:28,304 --> 01:07:30,641
unless you don't sell
to colored people.
731
01:07:30,641 --> 01:07:34,842
I'm in business to sell goods, and
your money's good if it's honest money.
732
01:07:34,842 --> 01:07:37,418
It's honest money.
My grandmother earned it...
733
01:07:37,418 --> 01:07:41,217
by harder work
than selling goods over a counter.
734
01:07:41,217 --> 01:07:45,020
Do you wish
to sell me the veil?
735
01:07:47,730 --> 01:07:48,980
4.98.
736
01:07:51,500 --> 01:07:55,334
Very well, Mr. Goolby.
My change, please.
737
01:07:57,139 --> 01:07:59,505
[Register Clatters]
738
01:08:13,556 --> 01:08:16,957
[Church Bell Tolling]
739
01:08:26,802 --> 01:08:29,532
When are you fixin'
to leave, honey?
740
01:08:29,532 --> 01:08:32,038
Oh, uh...
741
01:08:32,038 --> 01:08:34,735
in the morning.
742
01:08:34,735 --> 01:08:37,836
There's a train at 9:00.
743
01:08:37,836 --> 01:08:42,975
Then, in that case, I'm gonna fix ya
a nice, hot supper tonight.
744
01:08:42,975 --> 01:08:45,747
Oh, Granny,
please don't trouble yourself.
745
01:08:45,747 --> 01:08:47,755
I don't...
746
01:08:50,726 --> 01:08:52,819
- Oh.
- [Car Door Shuts]
747
01:08:52,819 --> 01:08:55,260
- Howdy, Aunt Dicey.
- [Aunt Dicey] Howdy, Doc Joe.
748
01:08:55,260 --> 01:08:57,696
- Howdy, Pinky.
- Here. Have a chair, Dr. Joe.
749
01:08:57,696 --> 01:09:00,200
- Somebody sick out this way?
- No. Nobody's sick.
750
01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:04,432
I... got some news for you, and I thought
the sooner you knew it, the better.
751
01:09:04,432 --> 01:09:07,509
- [Bell Continues Tolling]
- Copy of Miss Em's will.
752
01:09:07,509 --> 01:09:10,579
She left her pa's law books
to her cousin, Mr. Wooley.
753
01:09:10,579 --> 01:09:12,738
Family portraits too.
754
01:09:12,738 --> 01:09:14,748
And her jewelry to Mrs. Wooley.
755
01:09:14,748 --> 01:09:18,718
Good, 'cause Mrs. Wooley sure likes
all kinds of geegaws and fixin's.
756
01:09:18,718 --> 01:09:21,915
"To my faithful servant and
friend, Dicey Johnson, colored...
757
01:09:21,915 --> 01:09:25,357
I leave all personal clothing
of which I died possessed."
758
01:09:25,357 --> 01:09:28,897
Bless her heart. Sometimes I think
she always get her shoes extra big...
759
01:09:28,897 --> 01:09:32,331
'cause when these fit her just
right, they pinch my bunion.
760
01:09:32,331 --> 01:09:35,835
And I'm mighty proud
to have her clothes too.
761
01:09:35,835 --> 01:09:38,566
Miss Em left you the house,
Pinky, and everything in it.
762
01:09:38,566 --> 01:09:42,007
The land too... about 20 acres.
763
01:09:42,007 --> 01:09:44,409
"The remainder of my estate
I give and bequeath...
764
01:09:44,409 --> 01:09:47,414
"to the aforesaid
Dicey Johnson's granddaughter, Pinky.
765
01:09:47,414 --> 01:09:51,816
"This bequest being an expression
of my genuine regard for her...
766
01:09:51,816 --> 01:09:55,687
and my confidence in the use
to which she will put this property. '
767
01:09:55,687 --> 01:09:59,625
- That what the paper say?
- Here. Read it for yourself.
768
01:09:59,625 --> 01:10:01,889
It say it for a fact, Doc Joe?
769
01:10:01,889 --> 01:10:04,090
[Doc Joe]
That's the way she wrote it.
770
01:10:04,090 --> 01:10:07,397
But if I were you,
I wouldn't count on it just yet.
771
01:10:07,397 --> 01:10:09,733
You see, the Wooleys...
Mrs. Wooley in particular...
772
01:10:09,733 --> 01:10:11,806
figured on gettin' all that stuff.
773
01:10:11,806 --> 01:10:14,398
Hear they've already hired a lawyer.
774
01:10:14,398 --> 01:10:17,070
You mean, they're gonna contest it?
On what grounds?
775
01:10:17,070 --> 01:10:20,842
[Sighs]
Undue influence, I suppose...
776
01:10:20,842 --> 01:10:25,410
question Miss Em's sanity,
that sort of thing.
777
01:10:25,410 --> 01:10:27,716
There's already been some talk.
778
01:10:27,716 --> 01:10:30,986
So that's why Mrs. Wooley
and those men in town...
779
01:10:32,461 --> 01:10:34,588
Don't you think
Miss Em was sane?
780
01:10:34,588 --> 01:10:36,597
Far as I know, she was.
781
01:10:36,597 --> 01:10:39,167
That last night her mind
wandered a bit...
782
01:10:39,167 --> 01:10:41,668
but that's not unnatural.
783
01:10:41,668 --> 01:10:45,137
You just keep that if you want
to look it over some more.
784
01:10:45,137 --> 01:10:47,937
But I don't believe
I'd count on gettin' it.
785
01:10:47,937 --> 01:10:50,307
Better wait and see.
786
01:10:50,307 --> 01:10:54,576
I don't know how the folks
around here are gonna take this.
787
01:10:56,652 --> 01:11:01,021
[Tolling Continues]
788
01:11:09,698 --> 01:11:13,065
I wonder why she did it.
789
01:11:15,604 --> 01:11:17,834
Ain't you gonna finish
your fried chicken, honey?
790
01:11:17,834 --> 01:11:23,071
Oh, I'm sorry, Granny.
I wonder why she did it.
791
01:11:23,071 --> 01:11:26,272
Well, Miss Em had grown
powerful fond of you.
792
01:11:26,272 --> 01:11:28,509
But she should've known better.
793
01:11:28,509 --> 01:11:31,381
Pinky, I've lived
in this world a long time...
794
01:11:31,381 --> 01:11:35,287
long enough to know for sure if it's somethin'
white folks don't want you to have...
795
01:11:35,287 --> 01:11:37,382
or somethin' they
want for their self...
796
01:11:37,382 --> 01:11:39,518
you might as well
forget all about it.
797
01:11:39,518 --> 01:11:41,858
But she meant me to have it.
798
01:11:41,858 --> 01:11:44,228
"Expression
of my genuine regard for her...
799
01:11:44,228 --> 01:11:48,394
and my confidence in the use
to which she will put this property."
800
01:11:48,394 --> 01:11:51,803
- What did she mean?
- That don't mean nothin' where the white folks is concerned.
801
01:11:51,803 --> 01:11:56,503
- 'Sides, you goin' back up yonder, so why... - [Knocking]
802
01:12:06,488 --> 01:12:10,652
- Evenin', Sister Johnson. Evenin', Miss Pinky.
- Hello, Jake.
803
01:12:10,652 --> 01:12:15,219
Well, I just started uptown,
and I thought I'd stop by for a while.
804
01:12:15,219 --> 01:12:18,027
Well, Miss Pinky, I hear as how
you got some property comin' to ya.
805
01:12:18,027 --> 01:12:20,931
- What else have you heard?
- Well, the white folks are sayin'...
806
01:12:20,931 --> 01:12:23,368
you kept Miss Em
doped all the time.
807
01:12:23,368 --> 01:12:27,238
They say she must have been out of her head,
and you must've made her write that will.
808
01:12:27,238 --> 01:12:29,868
- It's nonsense, and they know it.
- Is or ain't, I don't know.
809
01:12:29,868 --> 01:12:32,811
But it sure spells
trouble for somebody.
810
01:12:32,811 --> 01:12:36,078
If I was you, Miss Pinky, I'd stick
close to the house for a while.
811
01:12:36,078 --> 01:12:38,779
- She's leavin' first thing in the morning.
- Goin' back up north?
812
01:12:38,779 --> 01:12:41,617
- Yes.
- That's good.
813
01:12:41,617 --> 01:12:43,988
That's mighty good.
814
01:12:43,988 --> 01:12:46,584
Then Ms. Wooley
get the property by default.
815
01:12:46,584 --> 01:12:50,256
- Everything's fine... no trouble for nobody.
- Is that the law?
816
01:12:50,256 --> 01:12:54,826
Default? Well, unless you get
a lawyer to file an answer.
817
01:12:54,826 --> 01:12:59,033
Of course, me, I've had considerable
dealings with the law, but I ain't licensed.
818
01:12:59,033 --> 01:13:02,736
But even if I was licensed,
I wouldn't touch your case...
819
01:13:02,736 --> 01:13:05,678
for a stack
of hundred dollar bills that high.
820
01:13:05,678 --> 01:13:10,081
I got a nice house
and no fire insurance.
821
01:13:12,688 --> 01:13:15,282
And I'm glad you decided
to be sensible about this thing.
822
01:13:15,282 --> 01:13:18,360
Because if you hadn't, I was gonna make
reservations across the state line...
823
01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:21,088
and go fishin'
for three or four weeks.
824
01:13:25,134 --> 01:13:28,069
Oh, what is it?
What is it, child?
825
01:13:39,148 --> 01:13:39,868
Pinky.
826
01:13:42,751 --> 01:13:46,653
Pinky, tell me.
What are you fixin' to do?
827
01:13:50,125 --> 01:13:54,994
I'll be staying on for a while,
till this business is settled.
828
01:13:54,994 --> 01:13:57,065
Miss Em meant me
to have the house...
829
01:13:57,065 --> 01:14:00,602
and I'm not gonna give it up
to please Mrs. Wooley...
830
01:14:00,602 --> 01:14:03,500
or anybody.
831
01:14:06,675 --> 01:14:08,575
Granny.
832
01:14:17,219 --> 01:14:20,188
Can't do it, Pinky.
You know that I'm retiring.
833
01:14:20,188 --> 01:14:23,087
As judge, yes, sir. But that
leaves you free to take my case.
834
01:14:23,087 --> 01:14:25,422
Frankly, I don't want to get
mixed up in this.
835
01:14:25,422 --> 01:14:28,257
There's too much feelin', too many tales
around about you and Miss Em.
836
01:14:28,257 --> 01:14:30,888
- They're not true, sir.
- Possibly they're not, but...
837
01:14:30,888 --> 01:14:34,059
Say, perhaps you could compromise...
settle it out of court.
838
01:14:34,059 --> 01:14:36,262
- I'm sure Mrs. Wooley would be generous.
- With my property?
839
01:14:36,262 --> 01:14:39,431
- Court'll decide whose it is.
- It won't even come up before the court...
840
01:14:39,431 --> 01:14:41,839
unless I can
induce a lawyer to act for me.
841
01:14:41,839 --> 01:14:46,278
But you don't want a lawyer who thinks
the will was ill-considered and a mistake.
842
01:14:47,716 --> 01:14:50,412
All right, sir.
Good-bye.
843
01:14:53,355 --> 01:14:55,880
Judge Walker, Miss Em
was your lifelong friend.
844
01:14:55,880 --> 01:15:00,519
Whether the will was a mistake or not, wouldn't
she expect you to help carry out her wishes?
845
01:15:06,735 --> 01:15:10,262
- I'll take your case.
- Thank you, sir. Of course, I'll pay the customary fees.
846
01:15:10,262 --> 01:15:13,273
Oh, no. There'll be expenses you'll have
to meet, but there won't be any fee.
847
01:15:13,273 --> 01:15:15,900
I'm a fool to take your case and
the only one who can win it for you...
848
01:15:15,900 --> 01:15:19,071
but if I'm gonna get into a fight,
it'll be on clean ground.
849
01:15:19,071 --> 01:15:22,048
Come see me tomorrow.
850
01:15:26,655 --> 01:15:29,488
[Doc] But it was Miss Em who owned the
property, and she wanted this girl to have it.
851
01:15:29,488 --> 01:15:31,491
- But that isn't the point. Doc.
- It's the principle.
852
01:15:31,491 --> 01:15:33,561
Dr. Joe?
853
01:15:35,964 --> 01:15:40,424
- Come on. See ya later, Doc.
- Be seein' ya, Doc.
854
01:15:40,424 --> 01:15:43,835
Dr. Joe, could you help me...
help me to find a job?
855
01:15:43,835 --> 01:15:47,340
I only need a few days...
to help cover the court expenses...
856
01:15:47,340 --> 01:15:49,342
and I can't ask Granny.
857
01:15:49,342 --> 01:15:52,607
She's been ill lately,
hasn't been able to work at all.
858
01:15:52,607 --> 01:15:54,909
Might as well face it, Pinky.
859
01:15:54,909 --> 01:15:57,144
I couldn't possibly
get you a job now.
860
01:15:57,144 --> 01:16:00,278
A lot of the folks even down
on my neck about this thing...
861
01:16:00,278 --> 01:16:03,552
blamin' me for puttin' you
over there in the first place.
862
01:16:03,552 --> 01:16:06,890
- If it isn't too much, I could...
- Oh, no, Doctor.
863
01:16:06,890 --> 01:16:09,589
Thank you. I'll find a way.
864
01:16:11,133 --> 01:16:14,102
[Nervous Chuckle]
Good-bye.
865
01:16:20,809 --> 01:16:24,677
##[Granny Humming]
866
01:16:41,463 --> 01:16:43,931
[Metal Clanging]
867
01:17:29,044 --> 01:17:29,764
Hello.
868
01:17:37,552 --> 01:17:38,272
Pinky?
869
01:17:41,623 --> 01:17:44,114
Yes, Granny?
870
01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:46,360
Tom.
871
01:17:53,435 --> 01:17:58,498
Darling, come here.
Granny.
872
01:17:58,498 --> 01:18:01,974
Granny, this is
Dr. Thomas Adams.
873
01:18:03,979 --> 01:18:07,779
- How do you do?
- Pleased to meet you, sir.
874
01:18:07,779 --> 01:18:11,876
I reckon you got things
to talk about.
875
01:18:33,875 --> 01:18:36,571
Why on earth
are you doing this?
876
01:18:36,571 --> 01:18:39,078
I needed some money.
Granny was sick.
877
01:18:39,078 --> 01:18:41,445
- Could've asked me for it.
- No, Tom.
878
01:18:41,445 --> 01:18:44,144
This is something
I have to do by myself.
879
01:18:44,144 --> 01:18:46,447
I still don't know
what it's all about, Pat...
880
01:18:46,447 --> 01:18:49,615
or why you think it's important
enough to change our plans.
881
01:18:49,615 --> 01:18:54,788
Quite a stir in the papers up north,
Negro papers in particular.
882
01:18:54,788 --> 01:18:57,160
Got a hold of some clippings for you.
883
01:18:57,160 --> 01:19:00,291
I read in one of'em
the trial was set for tomorrow.
884
01:19:02,938 --> 01:19:05,031
Read them.
885
01:19:09,544 --> 01:19:13,105
"Negro Heiress Defies Lynch Law."
886
01:19:13,105 --> 01:19:17,345
Yes, there... there was a reporter here,
but I didn't tell him anything.
887
01:19:21,456 --> 01:19:25,222
"Negro Girl Fights To Hold Her..."
888
01:19:25,222 --> 01:19:29,787
I had no idea
they'd make so much of it.
889
01:19:29,787 --> 01:19:33,026
Why go through with it? What for?
It isn't too late to back out.
890
01:19:33,026 --> 01:19:35,103
- The trial's tomorrow.
- Let it go by default.
891
01:19:35,103 --> 01:19:38,001
We don't need the house.
I got plenty for both of us.
892
01:19:38,001 --> 01:19:41,132
- Be sensible. Pack, and let's get out of here.
- I can't do that, Tom.
893
01:19:41,132 --> 01:19:46,613
- What are you fighting for, a run-down house and a few acres of worthless land?
- No.
894
01:19:46,613 --> 01:19:49,479
If I should back out now,
I'd be letting Miss Em down.
895
01:19:49,479 --> 01:19:52,144
I can't do that.
I can't let her down.
896
01:19:52,144 --> 01:19:55,815
I can't let myself down
or... my people.
897
01:19:55,815 --> 01:19:58,119
- They're not your people, Pat!
- What?
898
01:19:58,119 --> 01:20:00,456
Not really. There'll be
no Pinky Johnson after we're married.
899
01:20:00,456 --> 01:20:02,996
You'll be Mrs. Thomas Adams
for the rest of your life.
900
01:20:02,996 --> 01:20:08,866
Tom, you can change your name, but I wonder
if you can change what you really are inside.
901
01:20:12,274 --> 01:20:15,801
What's behind all this?
You haven't really told me.
902
01:20:17,279 --> 01:20:21,613
I don't know.
I'm not being heroic. I'd hate that.
903
01:20:21,613 --> 01:20:24,617
I just know I have
to go through with it to the end.
904
01:20:24,617 --> 01:20:26,914
You see, they're trying
to steal the property...
905
01:20:26,914 --> 01:20:29,957
steal it from Miss Em
as much as from me.
906
01:20:29,957 --> 01:20:32,788
They'll probably
get away with it.
907
01:20:32,788 --> 01:20:36,125
But I'm gonna make them
do it out in the open...
908
01:20:36,125 --> 01:20:39,997
right out in court
for everyone to see and hear.
909
01:20:42,304 --> 01:20:46,934
It won't be pleasant, Tom. They'll lie.
They'll try to humiliate me.
910
01:20:46,934 --> 01:20:49,306
They'll try
every trick of prejudice.
911
01:20:49,306 --> 01:20:51,311
But I just...
912
01:20:58,386 --> 01:21:02,846
All right, Pat.
I'll be there. I understand.
913
01:21:15,470 --> 01:21:15,904
We also propose to show, Your Honor,
that the defendant, Pinky Johnson...
914
01:21:15,904 --> 01:21:20,932
We also propose to show, Your Honor,
that the defendant, Pinky Johnson...
915
01:21:20,932 --> 01:21:24,637
colored... is of a violent nature...
916
01:21:24,637 --> 01:21:26,907
quarrelsome,
a troublemaker...
917
01:21:26,907 --> 01:21:30,644
that she is capable of executing
the scheme I have described to you...
918
01:21:30,644 --> 01:21:35,348
and that she had every
opportunity of doing so.
919
01:21:35,348 --> 01:21:37,857
The deceased
was unquestionably senile.
920
01:21:37,857 --> 01:21:41,451
The fact that she signed the will twice
is evidence of a confused mind.
921
01:21:41,451 --> 01:21:45,590
She was unduly influenced by
the defendant as I have outlined to you.
922
01:21:45,590 --> 01:21:49,067
And she was under
the influence of drugs...
923
01:21:49,067 --> 01:21:51,934
administered by the defendant.
924
01:21:51,934 --> 01:21:56,340
Furthermore, this will
was written at a time when...
925
01:21:56,340 --> 01:22:00,972
reliable witnesses will prove
she was of unsound mind.
926
01:22:00,972 --> 01:22:03,243
May I see that will again, please?
927
01:22:03,243 --> 01:22:06,377
In view of these things, we therefore
ask that the will be set aside...
928
01:22:06,377 --> 01:22:09,651
and the property inherited
by the next of kin.
929
01:22:11,359 --> 01:22:13,725
I yield to you, Judge Walker.
930
01:22:13,725 --> 01:22:16,854
[Crowd Murmuring]
931
01:22:16,854 --> 01:22:18,865
Your Honor.
932
01:22:21,169 --> 01:22:23,296
I agreed to act
for the defendant in this case...
933
01:22:23,296 --> 01:22:26,772
because I feared
an injustice was about to be done.
934
01:22:26,772 --> 01:22:30,572
Your Honor, apparently
my fears were well-founded.
935
01:22:30,572 --> 01:22:32,909
Counsel for the plaintiff
has made it perfectly clear...
936
01:22:32,909 --> 01:22:37,041
that my client in effect
is to be tried because she is a Negro...
937
01:22:37,041 --> 01:22:41,350
and because a Negro cannot be permitted
to inherit property in this community.
938
01:22:41,350 --> 01:22:43,856
- [Murmuring]
- [Gavel Pounds]
939
01:22:43,856 --> 01:22:47,326
[Judge Walker] That is
a harsh fact, but we must face it.
940
01:22:47,326 --> 01:22:49,989
Though many of us
may criticize this bequest...
941
01:22:49,989 --> 01:22:53,727
I do not believe any of us who knew Miss
Em... and most of us knew and loved her...
942
01:22:53,727 --> 01:22:57,202
can accept the contention
that she was insane.
943
01:22:57,202 --> 01:22:59,796
I do not believe counsel
for the plaintiff can prove...
944
01:22:59,796 --> 01:23:02,172
that undue influence
was exerted by my client.
945
01:23:02,172 --> 01:23:06,680
I think most of us know how difficult it
was to influence Miss Em in any respect.
946
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:10,308
We need not look too far
for a motive in making this bequest.
947
01:23:10,308 --> 01:23:13,512
She was a proud woman
who'd leave no debt unpaid.
948
01:23:13,512 --> 01:23:15,521
This was a real obligation.
949
01:23:15,521 --> 01:23:19,218
She took the only means open to her
of paying for my client's services...
950
01:23:19,218 --> 01:23:22,524
through the provisions
of her will.
951
01:23:22,524 --> 01:23:25,622
The expressed wishes of the dead
should not be set aside...
952
01:23:25,622 --> 01:23:29,261
to gratify the greed
or the prejudice of the living.
953
01:23:31,072 --> 01:23:34,508
Your Honor,
this is a small country town.
954
01:23:34,508 --> 01:23:38,739
We've always thought that what happened
here was our own private concern.
955
01:23:38,739 --> 01:23:40,906
This is no longer true...
956
01:23:40,906 --> 01:23:43,644
just as it is no longer true
that our country as a whole...
957
01:23:43,644 --> 01:23:46,550
can exist
entirely to itself.
958
01:23:46,550 --> 01:23:50,420
What is done in our courts
in cases such as this...
959
01:23:50,420 --> 01:23:53,756
has become a matter of moment
in the eyes of the world.
960
01:23:53,756 --> 01:23:58,026
Let us examine our conscience. Let us
look into our attitude and our tradition.
961
01:23:58,026 --> 01:24:00,601
Let us take care,
lest it be said of us that here...
962
01:24:00,601 --> 01:24:02,863
there is neither law
nor justice.
963
01:24:02,863 --> 01:24:07,237
Your Honor, we're all anxious to get to
the bottom of this as quickly as possible...
964
01:24:07,237 --> 01:24:10,334
before the temperature of this room
reaches the boiling point.
965
01:24:10,334 --> 01:24:13,175
Fortunately, there is one witness
who is qualified to testify...
966
01:24:13,175 --> 01:24:15,715
on the only matters
of pertinence to this hearing...
967
01:24:15,715 --> 01:24:20,015
the question of Miss Em's sanity
and the question of undue influence.
968
01:24:20,015 --> 01:24:23,613
Incidentally, he will be
the defense's only witness.
969
01:24:23,613 --> 01:24:27,388
He was Miss Em's physician, in constant
attendance during her last illness.
970
01:24:27,388 --> 01:24:30,464
He was also her confidant,
witnessed her will...
971
01:24:30,464 --> 01:24:34,968
and is the executor of her estate...
Dr. Joseph McGill.
972
01:24:34,968 --> 01:24:37,903
Your Honor, I disagree with
my esteemed opponent's notions...
973
01:24:37,903 --> 01:24:41,169
of what is or isn't
pertinent to this hearing.
974
01:24:41,169 --> 01:24:45,576
But I am perfectly willing to have
Dr. McGill take the stand at this point.
975
01:24:45,576 --> 01:24:48,342
- Very well. Call Dr. McGill.
- Do you think that's...
976
01:24:48,342 --> 01:24:52,250
Oh, let him put his witness
on first. We'll close with ours.
977
01:24:52,250 --> 01:24:54,719
Dr. Joe doesn't seem
to be here, Your Honor.
978
01:24:54,719 --> 01:24:56,848
Well, take a look in the corridor.
See if he's there.
979
01:24:56,848 --> 01:25:00,587
- He ain't out here, Your Honor.
- Well, that bein' the case...
980
01:25:00,587 --> 01:25:03,323
we'll have to proceed with
the plaintiff's witnesses.
981
01:25:03,323 --> 01:25:05,399
- Are you ready, Mr. Stanley?
- Yes, Your Honor.
982
01:25:05,399 --> 01:25:08,970
- Better find Dr. Joe and bring him here.
- Yes, Judge Walker.
983
01:25:09,237 --> 01:25:12,604
Money and a man, I believe,
is what caused the trouble.
984
01:25:12,604 --> 01:25:15,267
The usual thing.
985
01:25:15,267 --> 01:25:18,345
Well, we picked 'em both up, along
with the man they was fightin' over.
986
01:25:18,345 --> 01:25:21,813
Judge Walker heard the case.
That's all I know about it.
987
01:25:21,813 --> 01:25:24,441
Yeah, money and a man.
988
01:25:25,620 --> 01:25:28,282
Thank you. Your witness.
989
01:25:30,024 --> 01:25:35,690
Chief Anderson, what was the final
prison sentence imposed on my client?
990
01:25:35,690 --> 01:25:38,925
- Why, Judge Walker, you know there wasn't any.
- So she was cleared.
991
01:25:38,925 --> 01:25:41,627
Is that correct?
992
01:25:41,627 --> 01:25:45,297
- Well, I wouldn't exactly say that.
- You wouldn't?
993
01:25:45,297 --> 01:25:49,740
You generally always let 'em off with
a good talkin' to, like you give her.
994
01:25:49,740 --> 01:25:52,438
You know how it is.
[Chuckles]
995
01:25:52,438 --> 01:25:56,813
- If you put them niggers in jail every time somethin' happens...
- That'll do.
996
01:25:56,813 --> 01:26:00,217
Your Honor, this witness's testimony should
be ignored and stricken from the record...
997
01:26:00,217 --> 01:26:02,380
- As totally irrelevant to the hearing.
- Your Honor, I object.!
998
01:26:02,380 --> 01:26:07,154
Just a minute! The court is capable
of deciding any questions of relevancy.
999
01:26:07,154 --> 01:26:10,129
Motion denied.
Call the next witness.
1000
01:26:10,129 --> 01:26:12,426
Well, for one thing,
on my last visit...
1001
01:26:12,426 --> 01:26:15,128
this girl simply wouldn't
leave the room.
1002
01:26:15,128 --> 01:26:18,728
And I could see that Cousin Em
actually didn't dare to dismiss her.
1003
01:26:18,728 --> 01:26:22,037
Then Cousin Em began
to talk about makin' a will.
1004
01:26:22,037 --> 01:26:26,739
Well, I tried to cheer her up, but she turned
to this Pinky and said, "What do you think?"
1005
01:26:26,739 --> 01:26:29,681
as if... as if she didn't dare
to make up her mind alone...
1006
01:26:29,681 --> 01:26:32,150
which was never
like Cousin Em... never.
1007
01:26:32,150 --> 01:26:35,222
- What did the girl say?
- Oh, she spoke up, bold as you please...
1008
01:26:35,222 --> 01:26:38,952
and said Cousin Em had better
make a will if she was ever goin' to.
1009
01:26:38,952 --> 01:26:41,722
- That's the part I mentioned to you.
- Impudent, yes...
1010
01:26:41,722 --> 01:26:44,798
but the way she said it...
a threat too.
1011
01:26:44,798 --> 01:26:49,802
And I'm just glad that Cousin Em was
allowed to die a natural death in her bed.
1012
01:26:49,802 --> 01:26:54,864
I think everyone in this courtroom
understands what you mean, ma'am.
1013
01:26:54,864 --> 01:26:58,878
Did you notice anything peculiar
about her condition that day?
1014
01:26:58,878 --> 01:27:03,440
Oh, yes. She closed
her eyes while I was talkin'.
1015
01:27:03,440 --> 01:27:08,215
She kept droppin' off
in a stupor. She was doped!
1016
01:27:08,215 --> 01:27:11,156
And then she told me
she was subject to fits...
1017
01:27:11,156 --> 01:27:14,160
that half the time she was
clean out of her mind.
1018
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:17,595
Poor soul. Poor soul.
1019
01:27:17,595 --> 01:27:19,929
Thank you, Mrs. Wooley.
1020
01:27:19,929 --> 01:27:23,162
Your witness.
1021
01:27:23,162 --> 01:27:28,971
Mrs. Wooley, you have testified
that my client's tone was threatenin'.
1022
01:27:28,971 --> 01:27:33,013
Now, Miss Em must've made some
sort of reply if she was threatened.
1023
01:27:33,013 --> 01:27:36,572
- What were Miss Em's next words?
- I don't remember. She was doped.
1024
01:27:36,572 --> 01:27:40,950
Didn't she say Pinky's opinion was sensible
because that agreed with what she thought herself?
1025
01:27:40,950 --> 01:27:44,616
Were you there, Judge Walker, or are you
just bein' primed by that girl over there?
1026
01:27:44,616 --> 01:27:49,026
- Did you ever hear such...
- Uh, answer the question, please.
1027
01:27:49,026 --> 01:27:53,362
- Isn't that what Miss Em said?
- I'd certainly remember it if she had.
1028
01:27:53,362 --> 01:27:56,926
- Mrs. Wooley, do you know the penalty for perjury?
- I object!
1029
01:27:56,926 --> 01:27:59,302
Your Honor, I object to this attempt
to intimidate the witness!
1030
01:27:59,302 --> 01:28:01,568
She's answered the question.
She doesn't remember.
1031
01:28:01,568 --> 01:28:04,372
And now, if my opponent will stop
putting words in the mouth of the dead...
1032
01:28:04,372 --> 01:28:08,472
No personalities, gentlemen.
It's hot enough in here as it is.
1033
01:28:08,472 --> 01:28:11,518
- Will Your Honor please rule on my objection? - Objection sustained.
1034
01:28:11,518 --> 01:28:14,520
- Thank you!
- [All Laughing]
1035
01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:15,123
Didn't I tell you he's a good'n?
1036
01:28:15,123 --> 01:28:16,522
Didn't I tell you he's a good'n?
1037
01:28:16,522 --> 01:28:21,926
So, Aunt Dicey, you were there in
the room when she was writing her will.
1038
01:28:21,926 --> 01:28:24,157
Yes, sir.
Sittin' right there...
1039
01:28:24,157 --> 01:28:26,995
like I always done
when my Pinky's out.
1040
01:28:26,995 --> 01:28:31,162
And Miss Em was still writin'
when I left to take the wash uptown.
1041
01:28:31,162 --> 01:28:35,072
'Cause Judge Walker and some is mighty
particular when they gets their wash.
1042
01:28:35,072 --> 01:28:38,236
- [Spectators Laughing]
- I understand, Aunt Dicey.
1043
01:28:39,714 --> 01:28:44,174
- You know what a hypodermic is?
- Yes, sir.
1044
01:28:44,174 --> 01:28:48,346
Did you ever see your granddaughter
stick one of those things in Miss Em?
1045
01:28:48,346 --> 01:28:51,448
Yes, sir.
I see her do it twice.
1046
01:28:51,448 --> 01:28:57,191
- What happened?
- Miss Em... talked to herself for a while.
1047
01:28:57,191 --> 01:29:00,597
You mean raved?
1048
01:29:00,597 --> 01:29:02,602
[Aunt Dicey]
Kind of mumbled, like.
1049
01:29:02,602 --> 01:29:05,935
Then she go off to sleep
like she a little baby.
1050
01:29:07,175 --> 01:29:11,202
Now, just one more
question, Aunt Dicey.
1051
01:29:13,147 --> 01:29:18,210
What makes you think it was her will
that Miss Em was writing that day?
1052
01:29:18,210 --> 01:29:24,087
- I know it was, sir.
- Well, you see, Aunt Dicey, this is a court of law...
1053
01:29:24,087 --> 01:29:27,457
and you're sworn
to tell the truth before God.
1054
01:29:27,457 --> 01:29:30,998
Some of us think this will may have
been written at some other time...
1055
01:29:30,998 --> 01:29:33,693
while your granddaughter
was present.
1056
01:29:33,693 --> 01:29:38,067
Did Miss Em tell you
she was writing her will?
1057
01:29:38,067 --> 01:29:40,640
No, sir, Mr. Stanley.
1058
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:45,338
But you were sitting where you could see
the paper she was writing on, weren't you?
1059
01:29:45,338 --> 01:29:48,847
Yes, sir, Mr. Stanley.
1060
01:29:48,847 --> 01:29:52,579
Well, now, didn't you see
enough of it to know what it was?
1061
01:29:52,579 --> 01:29:55,713
He's going to trap her. He knows she
can't read, and she'll never admit it.
1062
01:29:55,713 --> 01:29:58,656
- [Whispers] From Dr. Joe.
- Come, now, Aunt Dicey.
1063
01:29:58,656 --> 01:30:00,853
Let's have an answer.
1064
01:30:03,398 --> 01:30:06,561
You know, sir,
as well as me it ain't manners...
1065
01:30:06,561 --> 01:30:09,329
readin' what ain't meant
for you to read.
1066
01:30:09,329 --> 01:30:11,405
- [Spectators Laughing]
- [Gavel Pounding]
1067
01:30:11,405 --> 01:30:14,270
[Shouting] Then how can you swear
before God you knew it was her will?
1068
01:30:14,270 --> 01:30:16,809
Now, Aunt Dicey,
you answer me the gospel truth!
1069
01:30:16,809 --> 01:30:19,539
Couldn't this will have been written at
some other time? Couldn't it? Couldn't it?
1070
01:30:19,539 --> 01:30:22,673
- Yes...
- Couldn't Pinky have helped Miss Em make a will when you weren't around?
1071
01:30:22,673 --> 01:30:25,753
- I reckon she could, sir.
- [Stanley] Your witness.!
1072
01:30:25,753 --> 01:30:29,254
[Spectators Laughing, Murmuring]
1073
01:30:29,254 --> 01:30:33,293
Your Honor, we'll waive
cross-examination of this witness.
1074
01:30:33,293 --> 01:30:36,192
All right, Aunt Dicey.
You can step down now.
1075
01:30:36,192 --> 01:30:39,698
I have here a note from Dr. Joe in which
he says he's going to be delayed.
1076
01:30:39,698 --> 01:30:43,168
Now, on the basis of this note,
I petition for a brief recess.
1077
01:30:43,168 --> 01:30:45,899
May I see this note, please?
1078
01:30:47,775 --> 01:30:51,472
- Do I have your permission to read this to the court?
- You certainly have.
1079
01:30:51,472 --> 01:30:53,945
"Sorry. Mary Picken's baby
jumped the gun.
1080
01:30:53,945 --> 01:30:56,073
"When it gets here,
I'll get there.
1081
01:30:56,073 --> 01:30:59,153
- Joe McGill."
- [Crowd Laughing]
1082
01:30:59,153 --> 01:31:02,017
Seriously, Your Honor,
I object to this petition...
1083
01:31:02,017 --> 01:31:06,526
or to any legal strategy intended solely
to drag out this unfortunate affair...
1084
01:31:06,526 --> 01:31:08,822
which should have never
seen the light of day anyway.
1085
01:31:08,822 --> 01:31:11,330
Judge Walker had as much time
as we did to summon witnesses...
1086
01:31:11,330 --> 01:31:13,423
and to make sure they'd be here.!
1087
01:31:13,423 --> 01:31:16,025
As for this note, it's easy
to read between the lines.
1088
01:31:16,025 --> 01:31:19,129
Naturally, Dr. Joe didn't want
to hurt his old friend's feelings here...
1089
01:31:19,129 --> 01:31:22,971
with a direct refusal to appear
as a witness in this unpleasant case.
1090
01:31:22,971 --> 01:31:26,843
It's obvious, however, that bountiful
nature and the ethics of his profession...
1091
01:31:26,843 --> 01:31:28,973
- Have come to his aid.
- [Crowd Laughing]
1092
01:31:28,973 --> 01:31:32,849
- [Gavel Pounds] - Oh, this is going to be a long confinement!
1093
01:31:32,849 --> 01:31:34,854
- [Laughter Continues]
- [Gavel Pounding]
1094
01:31:34,854 --> 01:31:38,687
He's not asking for a recess, Your Honor.
He's asking for a postponement!
1095
01:31:38,687 --> 01:31:41,387
[Laughter]
1096
01:31:41,387 --> 01:31:44,761
- Petition denied, Judge Walker.
- Thank you, Judge Shoreham.
1097
01:31:44,761 --> 01:31:47,266
[Cheering, Applause]
1098
01:31:47,266 --> 01:31:51,099
Any more of that,
and I'll have the room cleared.
1099
01:31:51,099 --> 01:31:54,572
- Have you any further witnesses?
- No more, Your Honor.
1100
01:31:54,572 --> 01:31:57,007
I agree with counsel for the plaintiff.
1101
01:31:57,007 --> 01:32:00,808
- There's no point in dragging this out any longer.
- Thank you.
1102
01:32:00,808 --> 01:32:04,043
The court has heard all the facts
and is ready to announce its finding.
1103
01:32:04,043 --> 01:32:06,585
Thank you, sir.
1104
01:32:06,585 --> 01:32:10,384
I do not intend to defend
the wisdom of this bequest...
1105
01:32:10,384 --> 01:32:15,053
nor do I intend to base my findings
on the conclusions of the witnesses...
1106
01:32:15,053 --> 01:32:18,563
nor on the hearsay evidence
admitted here today.
1107
01:32:18,563 --> 01:32:21,601
This will is a legal document.
1108
01:32:21,601 --> 01:32:25,399
I have examined it, and I see no reason
to doubt that it was written...
1109
01:32:25,399 --> 01:32:28,304
by a woman
in full possession of her faculties.
1110
01:32:28,304 --> 01:32:33,506
Moreover, plaintiffs have failed
to establish that any undue influence...
1111
01:32:33,506 --> 01:32:36,082
was exerted by the defendant.
1112
01:32:36,082 --> 01:32:39,550
The will is therefore
declared to be good and valid...
1113
01:32:39,550 --> 01:32:43,590
and the executor shall
carry out its terms as written.
1114
01:32:43,590 --> 01:32:45,659
- But Judge Shoreham!
- [Spectators Clamoring]
1115
01:32:45,659 --> 01:32:47,887
- [Gavel Pounding]
- I want it clearly understood...
1116
01:32:47,887 --> 01:32:51,260
any attempt to interfere with
the defendant or her property...
1117
01:32:51,260 --> 01:32:53,629
will be answerable to this court.
1118
01:32:53,629 --> 01:32:57,431
- Court is now adjourned.
- [Clamoring Continues]
1119
01:32:59,006 --> 01:33:02,407
[Bailiff Shouting]
Quiet.! Quiet, please.!
1120
01:33:02,407 --> 01:33:05,070
[Clamoring Continues]
1121
01:33:07,615 --> 01:33:11,517
Judge Walker,
I don't know how to thank you.
1122
01:33:13,120 --> 01:33:17,250
Well, Pinky, you won.
You got the house and the land.
1123
01:33:17,250 --> 01:33:19,622
And you got justice.
1124
01:33:19,622 --> 01:33:23,390
But I doubt if any other interests
of this community have been served.
1125
01:33:35,610 --> 01:33:38,841
[Spectators Grumbling]
1126
01:33:49,090 --> 01:33:51,456
[Crowd Quiets]
1127
01:34:04,672 --> 01:34:07,038
Come on, darling. Let's go.
1128
01:34:09,677 --> 01:34:12,168
All right, Tom. All right.
1129
01:34:47,848 --> 01:34:50,578
[Glass Tinkling]
1130
01:35:19,747 --> 01:35:23,012
Big old houses like this
are a drug on the market.
1131
01:35:23,012 --> 01:35:26,211
We'll find a good real estate man
and turn it over to him.
1132
01:35:28,989 --> 01:35:32,152
We'll auction off the furniture
and the silver separately.
1133
01:35:32,152 --> 01:35:35,285
You know, some of those pieces
down there look valuable.
1134
01:35:37,531 --> 01:35:40,364
We'll sell them all in your name,
so you'll be independent...
1135
01:35:40,364 --> 01:35:44,029
just in case you decide
to run away from me again.
1136
01:36:00,988 --> 01:36:02,888
[Glass Tinkling]
1137
01:36:10,998 --> 01:36:14,456
This is... is quite a room.
1138
01:36:17,271 --> 01:36:18,272
Yes.
1139
01:36:18,272 --> 01:36:19,239
Yes.
1140
01:36:21,475 --> 01:36:24,444
Oh, say, isn't this
a beautiful fire screen?
1141
01:36:24,444 --> 01:36:28,538
Miss Em was proud of that. Martha Washington
is supposed to have done the embroidery.
1142
01:36:28,538 --> 01:36:32,813
Oh, we can't let this get away from us.
We'll have it sent out to Denver.
1143
01:36:34,321 --> 01:36:36,289
Denver?
1144
01:36:38,859 --> 01:36:41,828
Didn't I tell you? I...
1145
01:36:41,828 --> 01:36:46,263
I've accepted a position
in a clinic there.
1146
01:36:46,263 --> 01:36:48,858
But all your ties are in Boston...
1147
01:36:48,858 --> 01:36:52,302
your family.
1148
01:36:52,302 --> 01:36:55,466
Oh. But the...
1149
01:36:58,479 --> 01:37:01,209
- The publicity.
- Oh, it's partly that...
1150
01:37:01,209 --> 01:37:03,545
but I've always thought
about moving out west.
1151
01:37:03,545 --> 01:37:07,246
Besides, too many people in Boston
know, or they might find out.
1152
01:37:09,056 --> 01:37:12,856
Pat, you'll love it in Denver. Some
friends of mine are starting this clinic.
1153
01:37:12,856 --> 01:37:15,428
They want me to go in with them.
1154
01:37:20,801 --> 01:37:25,067
I can't sell the house, Tom. That isn't
why she left it to me... to sell...
1155
01:37:25,067 --> 01:37:27,834
or why I went through
with the trial.
1156
01:37:27,834 --> 01:37:31,173
She said, with confidence in the use
to which I'd put the property.
1157
01:37:31,173 --> 01:37:33,542
Let's be practical. Her lawyer
had it straight when he said she was...
1158
01:37:33,542 --> 01:37:35,808
merely... merely trying
to pay off her debt to you.
1159
01:37:35,808 --> 01:37:38,043
- Now, if you'll let me...
- No, that wasn't her reason.
1160
01:37:38,043 --> 01:37:40,814
She'd have left it to Granny.
She owed her far more.
1161
01:37:40,814 --> 01:37:43,788
Miss Em accepted service as her due.
1162
01:37:43,788 --> 01:37:47,486
No, she had some purpose...
something she wanted me to do.
1163
01:37:47,486 --> 01:37:50,655
Come on now, Pat. I know she was
a wonderful old woman and all that...
1164
01:37:50,655 --> 01:37:53,824
and she made a deep impression
on you, but she's dead.
1165
01:37:53,824 --> 01:37:56,630
Your own life is much more important
than her purpose, if she had one.
1166
01:37:56,630 --> 01:37:58,637
It's my life she was thinking of.
1167
01:37:58,637 --> 01:38:01,503
She told me once
to be myself wherever I was.
1168
01:38:01,503 --> 01:38:03,941
- Well, that's pretty good advice, but...
- But you said yesterday...
1169
01:38:03,941 --> 01:38:07,571
there'd be no Pinky Johnson
after we were married.
1170
01:38:07,571 --> 01:38:11,014
- How can I be myself?
- It was only a figure of speech.
1171
01:38:11,014 --> 01:38:14,679
Now, let's get out of this place. You're
letting the trial get under your skin.
1172
01:38:14,679 --> 01:38:17,416
- Will you forget it?
- You mean run away from it, Tom.
1173
01:38:17,416 --> 01:38:21,153
This time to Denver,
running away for the rest of our lives.
1174
01:38:21,153 --> 01:38:23,822
- You're all confused.
- No. I'm just beginning to understand.
1175
01:38:23,822 --> 01:38:26,866
She didn't want me to go. She didn't
want me to pretend. We talked about it.
1176
01:38:26,866 --> 01:38:29,094
- Pat...
- That's why she wrote the will.
1177
01:38:29,094 --> 01:38:32,366
- She thought the house would keep me here.
- But she was wrong.
1178
01:38:32,366 --> 01:38:36,170
- That's why she wrote it.
- She was wrong, wasn't she?
1179
01:38:36,170 --> 01:38:38,177
Wasn't she?
1180
01:38:44,952 --> 01:38:47,921
I can't go with you.
1181
01:38:47,921 --> 01:38:52,152
I'm sick of lying, Tom.
We wouldn't be happy, either of us.
1182
01:38:52,152 --> 01:38:56,719
What do you expect to do, crawl into a
closet and live there the rest of your life?
1183
01:38:56,719 --> 01:38:59,264
Close the door and lock it...
lock everything?
1184
01:38:59,264 --> 01:39:01,300
Pat, look at me. Look at me!
1185
01:39:01,300 --> 01:39:04,200
Will you come to your senses? You've
got to make a break, get away from it!
1186
01:39:04,200 --> 01:39:07,069
I don't want to get away
from anything.
1187
01:39:07,069 --> 01:39:10,302
I'm a Negro.
I can't forget it, and I can't deny it.
1188
01:39:10,302 --> 01:39:14,973
I can't pretend to be anything else,
and I don't want to be anything else.
1189
01:39:14,973 --> 01:39:20,019
- Don't you see, Tom?
- No, I don't.
1190
01:39:20,019 --> 01:39:23,817
You can't live without pride.
1191
01:39:27,828 --> 01:39:30,490
I'm sorry, Tom.
1192
01:39:30,490 --> 01:39:33,566
I'll never forget you
or what you tried to do.
1193
01:39:35,202 --> 01:39:38,899
But please go now.
Don't say anything.
1194
01:39:38,899 --> 01:39:40,906
Just go.
1195
01:40:11,872 --> 01:40:15,171
What did you mean, Miss Em?
1196
01:40:15,171 --> 01:40:17,175
Tell me.
1197
01:40:19,580 --> 01:40:22,242
- [Chattering]
- [Woman] Come here a minute.
1198
01:40:22,242 --> 01:40:26,786
- [Chattering Continues]
- I'm sure you will.
1199
01:40:26,786 --> 01:40:30,152
- Miss Pinky, you have to do something about Aunt Dicey.
- What is it this time?
1200
01:40:30,152 --> 01:40:32,521
She's been at that
new sterilizer again.
1201
01:40:32,521 --> 01:40:35,789
Every time I sterilize the sheets, she puts
'em back. Says they ain't white enough.
1202
01:40:35,789 --> 01:40:39,354
I'll speak to her about it,
but I doubt if it'll do much good.
1203
01:40:39,354 --> 01:40:41,764
- Lunch is laid out.
- All right. I'll get them in.
1204
01:40:41,764 --> 01:40:43,837
- Good morning, Miss Pinky.
- Hello, Teejoe.
1205
01:40:43,837 --> 01:40:46,735
- Teejoe is gonna do a little flying. That right, Teejoe?
- Yes, Dr. Canady.
1206
01:40:46,735 --> 01:40:48,740
- Well, Pinky.
- Hello, Dr. Joe.
1207
01:40:48,740 --> 01:40:50,742
- Mornin', Doctor.
- Mornin', Doctor.
1208
01:40:50,742 --> 01:40:54,473
- Uh, thought I'd look in on the Freeman boy.
- He's in the dining room.
1209
01:40:54,473 --> 01:40:57,049
[Chattering]
1210
01:40:59,386 --> 01:41:02,753
- [Ringing]
- [Children Chattering, Laughing]
110779
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