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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:46,421 --> 00:00:48,757 Long ago, when I was a young man, 2 00:00:49,424 --> 00:00:53,678 my father said to me, "Norman, you like to write stories." 3 00:00:53,970 --> 00:00:55,930 And I said, "Yes, I do." 4 00:00:57,390 --> 00:01:00,101 Then he said, "Someday, when you're ready, 5 00:01:00,602 --> 00:01:02,937 "you might tell our family story. 6 00:01:03,521 --> 00:01:07,442 "Only then will you understand what happened and why." 7 00:01:25,168 --> 00:01:27,295 In our family there was no clear line 8 00:01:27,379 --> 00:01:29,714 between religion and fly-fishing. 9 00:01:37,972 --> 00:01:41,684 We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in Missoula, Montana, 10 00:01:41,976 --> 00:01:43,978 where Indians still appeared out of the wilderness 11 00:01:44,312 --> 00:01:47,649 to walk the honky-tonks and brothels of Front Street. 12 00:03:24,746 --> 00:03:27,415 My father was a Presbyterian minister 13 00:03:27,499 --> 00:03:29,209 and a fly-fisherman. 14 00:03:32,670 --> 00:03:34,422 And though it is true that one day a week 15 00:03:34,506 --> 00:03:36,841 was given over wholly to religion, 16 00:03:37,258 --> 00:03:40,595 even then he told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen. 17 00:03:41,471 --> 00:03:44,891 And we were left to assume, as my younger brother, Paul, and I did, 18 00:03:45,558 --> 00:03:48,019 that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee 19 00:03:48,102 --> 00:03:49,604 were fly-fishermen 20 00:03:49,687 --> 00:03:51,773 and that John, the favorite, 21 00:03:51,898 --> 00:03:53,775 was a dry fly-fisherman. 22 00:03:53,858 --> 00:03:55,777 The poor without Christ 23 00:03:55,985 --> 00:03:58,404 are of all men the most miserable. 24 00:03:59,822 --> 00:04:01,783 But the poor with Christ 25 00:04:02,492 --> 00:04:05,119 are princes and kings of the earth. 26 00:04:07,288 --> 00:04:09,123 In the afternoon, we would walk with him 27 00:04:09,207 --> 00:04:11,626 while he unwound between services. 28 00:04:12,126 --> 00:04:15,046 He almost always chose a path along the Big Blackfoot, 29 00:04:15,129 --> 00:04:17,674 which we considered our family river. 30 00:04:18,091 --> 00:04:20,635 And it was there he felt his soul restored 31 00:04:20,718 --> 00:04:22,845 and his imagination stirred. 32 00:04:24,138 --> 00:04:27,642 Long ago, rain fell on mud and became rock. 33 00:04:27,725 --> 00:04:29,727 Half a billion years ago. 34 00:04:31,688 --> 00:04:34,482 But even before that, beneath the rocks, 35 00:04:36,818 --> 00:04:38,736 are the words of God. 36 00:04:39,028 --> 00:04:40,697 Listen. 37 00:04:46,911 --> 00:04:50,373 And if Paul and I listened very carefully all our lives, 38 00:04:51,666 --> 00:04:53,668 we might hear those words. 39 00:04:59,299 --> 00:05:01,384 Even so, Paul and I probably received 40 00:05:01,467 --> 00:05:03,886 as many hours of instruction in fly-fishing 41 00:05:03,970 --> 00:05:06,681 as we did in all other spiritual matters. 42 00:05:08,516 --> 00:05:10,768 As a Presbyterian, my father believed 43 00:05:10,852 --> 00:05:13,354 that man by nature was a damned mess 44 00:05:14,063 --> 00:05:16,441 and that only by picking up God's rhythms 45 00:05:16,524 --> 00:05:18,901 were we able to regain power and beauty. 46 00:05:18,985 --> 00:05:20,612 Ten and two. 47 00:05:20,695 --> 00:05:22,572 To him, all good things, 48 00:05:22,655 --> 00:05:24,782 trout as well as eternal salvation, 49 00:05:24,866 --> 00:05:26,200 come by grace, 50 00:05:26,284 --> 00:05:28,161 and grace comes by art, 51 00:05:28,369 --> 00:05:30,455 and art does not come easy. 52 00:05:30,580 --> 00:05:31,789 Norman. 53 00:05:37,670 --> 00:05:40,798 So, my brother and I learned to cast Presbyterian style. 54 00:05:40,882 --> 00:05:42,425 On a metronome. 55 00:05:46,387 --> 00:05:48,640 He began each session with the same instruction. 56 00:05:49,223 --> 00:05:52,435 Casting is an art that is performed on a four-count rhythm 57 00:05:52,518 --> 00:05:54,729 between 10:00 and 2:00. 58 00:05:59,233 --> 00:06:00,360 If he had had his way, 59 00:06:00,443 --> 00:06:02,612 nobody who did not know how to catch a fish 60 00:06:02,695 --> 00:06:05,281 would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching it. 61 00:06:13,331 --> 00:06:16,167 So it was with my formal education, as well. 62 00:06:17,418 --> 00:06:20,880 Each weekday, while my father worked on his Sunday sermon, 63 00:06:20,963 --> 00:06:23,966 I attended the school of the Reverend Maclean. 64 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,845 He taught nothing but reading and writing 65 00:06:27,929 --> 00:06:32,767 and, being a Scot, believed that the art of writing lay in thrift. 66 00:06:44,278 --> 00:06:45,738 Half as long. 67 00:06:52,203 --> 00:06:55,415 So while my friends spent their days at Missoula Elementary, 68 00:06:55,498 --> 00:06:59,085 I stayed home and learned to write the American language. 69 00:07:10,138 --> 00:07:12,765 Again. Half as long. 70 00:07:41,210 --> 00:07:43,463 Good. Now throw it away. 71 00:07:59,020 --> 00:08:01,731 Norman! Norman! 72 00:08:02,565 --> 00:08:04,442 Wait for your brother! 73 00:08:12,450 --> 00:08:15,703 However, there was a balance to my father's system. 74 00:08:16,704 --> 00:08:19,332 Every afternoon, I was set free, 75 00:08:19,415 --> 00:08:21,834 untutored and untouched till supper, 76 00:08:21,918 --> 00:08:25,213 to learn on my own the natural side of God's order. 77 00:08:35,139 --> 00:08:38,726 And there could be no better place to learn than the Montana of my youth. 78 00:08:41,562 --> 00:08:44,023 It was a world with dew still on it, 79 00:08:45,399 --> 00:08:47,860 more touched by wonder and possibility 80 00:08:47,944 --> 00:08:50,071 than any I have since known. 81 00:09:25,481 --> 00:09:27,692 God damn it, open up the door! 82 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,320 Hey, what the hell is going on? 83 00:09:31,404 --> 00:09:33,072 Hey, where are you guys going? 84 00:09:33,155 --> 00:09:34,448 Chicken! 85 00:09:43,165 --> 00:09:45,293 Come on, move out of the way. 86 00:10:14,405 --> 00:10:16,032 But it was a tough world, too. 87 00:10:16,115 --> 00:10:19,702 Even as children, we understood that and admired it. 88 00:10:23,456 --> 00:10:25,791 And, of course, we had to test it. 89 00:10:27,418 --> 00:10:30,212 I knew I was tough, because I had been bloodied in battle. 90 00:10:30,296 --> 00:10:31,589 Get him, get him! 91 00:10:31,672 --> 00:10:32,798 Give him a shiner! 92 00:10:32,882 --> 00:10:34,550 Don't be a sissy! 93 00:10:35,009 --> 00:10:36,260 Come on! 94 00:10:36,886 --> 00:10:39,305 Yeah, come on! Let's see some blood here! 95 00:10:39,472 --> 00:10:40,473 Go on! 96 00:10:40,556 --> 00:10:42,266 Lots of blood. 97 00:10:42,892 --> 00:10:44,560 Paul was different. 98 00:10:44,644 --> 00:10:47,563 His toughness came from some secret place inside of him. 99 00:10:48,105 --> 00:10:51,192 He simply knew he was tougher than anyone alive. 100 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,696 Grace will not be said until that bowl is clean. 101 00:11:09,877 --> 00:11:14,256 Man has been eating God's oats for 1,000 years. 102 00:11:14,382 --> 00:11:18,219 It's not the place of an 8-year-old boy to change that tradition. 103 00:12:21,782 --> 00:12:22,950 Grace. 104 00:12:32,418 --> 00:12:33,627 Oh, God, 105 00:12:34,462 --> 00:12:35,963 who art rich in forgiveness, 106 00:12:36,047 --> 00:12:38,883 grant that we may hold fast 107 00:12:38,966 --> 00:12:41,093 the good things we receive from thee 108 00:12:41,177 --> 00:12:43,012 and as often as we've fallen to sin 109 00:12:43,095 --> 00:12:47,016 be lifted by repentance through thy grace. Amen. 110 00:12:50,394 --> 00:12:53,397 Norm, what do you want to be when you grow up? 111 00:12:54,398 --> 00:12:55,983 Minister, I guess. 112 00:12:58,235 --> 00:13:00,196 Or a professional boxer. 113 00:13:00,529 --> 00:13:03,157 You think you could beat Jack Johnson? 114 00:13:03,991 --> 00:13:04,992 I don't know. 115 00:13:06,243 --> 00:13:07,912 I think you could. 116 00:13:08,162 --> 00:13:09,914 I'd lay a bet on it. 117 00:13:11,332 --> 00:13:12,708 What are you going to be? 118 00:13:13,542 --> 00:13:15,419 Professional fly-fisherman. 119 00:13:16,295 --> 00:13:17,838 There's no such thing. 120 00:13:17,963 --> 00:13:19,256 There isn't? 121 00:13:19,340 --> 00:13:20,341 No. 122 00:13:22,927 --> 00:13:24,136 Hmm. 123 00:13:28,516 --> 00:13:30,226 I guess a boxer. 124 00:13:32,186 --> 00:13:33,729 Not a minister? 125 00:13:44,490 --> 00:13:47,868 In 1917, World War I came to Missoula, 126 00:13:48,744 --> 00:13:51,580 taking with it every able-bodied lumberjack, 127 00:13:51,705 --> 00:13:54,333 leaving the woods to old men and boys. 128 00:13:56,544 --> 00:13:58,462 So at 16 I did my duty 129 00:13:59,046 --> 00:14:02,133 and started working for the U.S. Forest Service. 130 00:14:04,510 --> 00:14:06,804 It was a life of timber and toil 131 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:10,266 with men as tough as their ax handles 132 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:13,894 and more mountains in all directions 133 00:14:13,978 --> 00:14:16,105 than I would ever see again. 134 00:14:18,607 --> 00:14:20,276 Being too young to join me, 135 00:14:20,359 --> 00:14:23,487 Paul took a job as lifeguard at the municipal swimming pool 136 00:14:23,571 --> 00:14:26,115 so that during the day he could look over the girls 137 00:14:26,198 --> 00:14:29,034 and in the evenings he could pursue his other purpose in life. 138 00:14:29,577 --> 00:14:30,578 Fishing. 139 00:14:30,911 --> 00:14:33,873 ♪ Be thou my vision 140 00:14:33,956 --> 00:14:38,002 ♪ Oh, Lord of my heart 141 00:14:38,419 --> 00:14:41,922 ♪ Naught be all else to me 142 00:14:42,006 --> 00:14:45,009 ♪ Save that thou art 143 00:14:45,843 --> 00:14:48,971 ♪ Thou my best thought 144 00:14:49,054 --> 00:14:53,350 ♪ By day or by night 145 00:14:54,101 --> 00:14:57,313 ♪ Waking or sleeping 146 00:14:57,438 --> 00:15:01,901 ♪ Thy presence my light ♪ 147 00:15:05,487 --> 00:15:06,614 Whoo! 148 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,187 Preacher, come on. 149 00:15:44,985 --> 00:15:47,029 Preacher! Come on, Preacher! 150 00:15:47,655 --> 00:15:48,989 Shut up. 151 00:16:04,755 --> 00:16:06,632 Did I ever tell you guys what a forest fire sounds like 152 00:16:06,715 --> 00:16:07,925 coming down a mountain at 60 miles an hour? 153 00:16:08,008 --> 00:16:11,470 Oh, shut up! Again with the forest fires! 154 00:16:11,553 --> 00:16:13,764 I've got a great idea. 155 00:16:14,181 --> 00:16:15,683 I know how we can go down in history. 156 00:16:16,016 --> 00:16:17,226 How's that? 157 00:16:17,309 --> 00:16:19,311 We borrow old man Seifert's rowboat, 158 00:16:19,395 --> 00:16:20,771 and we shoot the chutes. 159 00:16:20,854 --> 00:16:22,940 You can't shoot the chutes, Pauly. 160 00:16:23,023 --> 00:16:25,150 - You can try. - You can die trying. 161 00:16:25,234 --> 00:16:26,777 They'd bury you with full honors. 162 00:16:26,860 --> 00:16:28,404 Tell him, Norm. 163 00:16:29,530 --> 00:16:31,240 Well, we would be the kings of Missoula. 164 00:16:31,323 --> 00:16:33,284 Yeah, kings. And we'd be famous. 165 00:16:33,367 --> 00:16:36,370 And all of you would get your photographs in the paper. 166 00:16:36,704 --> 00:16:38,163 I'm doing it. 167 00:16:38,914 --> 00:16:41,417 - I am. - You'll die. 168 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:42,710 No. 169 00:16:44,378 --> 00:16:46,422 Let's do it. Come on. 170 00:16:46,505 --> 00:16:47,798 - I'm with you. - Let's do it! 171 00:16:47,881 --> 00:16:48,882 Let's go! 172 00:16:49,550 --> 00:16:50,551 - What? - All right. 173 00:16:50,634 --> 00:16:52,303 Whoo! Yeah! 174 00:16:53,762 --> 00:16:55,180 All right. 175 00:16:56,098 --> 00:16:59,018 ♪ Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream ♪ 176 00:16:59,101 --> 00:17:00,561 Let's go! 177 00:17:05,399 --> 00:17:07,234 I got the oars. 178 00:17:09,403 --> 00:17:11,363 Whose idea was this, anyway? 179 00:17:11,447 --> 00:17:12,740 Where we going, Pauly? 180 00:17:12,823 --> 00:17:13,907 This way! 181 00:17:17,453 --> 00:17:18,954 Don't work too hard, Chub. 182 00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:20,664 ♪ Row your boat ♪ 183 00:17:20,831 --> 00:17:23,584 Goddamn rowboat! I need a woman! 184 00:17:41,685 --> 00:17:43,645 Jesus, Mary and Joseph. 185 00:17:47,775 --> 00:17:50,152 Okay, we'll put in upstream. 186 00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:57,159 Okay. 187 00:17:58,744 --> 00:18:00,162 Flip it. 188 00:18:06,043 --> 00:18:07,920 Okay, hop in. 189 00:18:13,258 --> 00:18:14,802 Come on, we can all fit. 190 00:18:15,177 --> 00:18:16,637 I don't think so. 191 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:18,097 No, I... 192 00:18:23,602 --> 00:18:24,686 Hey. 193 00:18:25,312 --> 00:18:26,563 All right. 194 00:18:26,647 --> 00:18:28,148 Just me, Norm and Chub. 195 00:18:29,191 --> 00:18:30,692 Jeez, Pauly... 196 00:18:31,610 --> 00:18:32,694 Okay. 197 00:18:34,029 --> 00:18:36,532 Then I guess it's just the Macleans. 198 00:19:01,974 --> 00:19:03,892 You guys be careful! 199 00:19:14,361 --> 00:19:16,530 You ain't going over, Pauly! 200 00:19:17,531 --> 00:19:19,116 They'll pull to shore. 201 00:19:19,199 --> 00:19:20,325 See you in heaven! 202 00:19:20,409 --> 00:19:22,786 Hey, come back here a second. I got to tell you something. 203 00:19:22,870 --> 00:19:24,371 Come on, guys! 204 00:19:37,426 --> 00:19:39,219 See you later, boys! 205 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:47,436 Otter on the right! 206 00:19:55,944 --> 00:19:58,363 On your right, watch the right! 207 00:20:27,142 --> 00:20:28,310 Right. 208 00:20:30,312 --> 00:20:31,480 Watch it. 209 00:20:31,772 --> 00:20:34,233 On your right, on your right! 210 00:20:39,988 --> 00:20:41,323 Right! 211 00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:50,791 Hang on! 212 00:21:12,688 --> 00:21:13,981 Oh, jeez. 213 00:21:18,318 --> 00:21:19,653 - Maclean! - Hey! 214 00:21:24,491 --> 00:21:25,909 Maclean! 215 00:21:34,251 --> 00:21:36,253 Pauly! 216 00:21:36,336 --> 00:21:38,171 Hey, Chub! 217 00:21:51,810 --> 00:21:53,020 Maclean! 218 00:21:57,774 --> 00:21:59,276 What the hell? 219 00:22:08,535 --> 00:22:10,037 Son of a... 220 00:22:11,371 --> 00:22:12,372 Jesus Christ! 221 00:22:13,999 --> 00:22:15,626 Crazy son of a bitch! 222 00:22:18,879 --> 00:22:20,130 You guys okay? 223 00:22:20,213 --> 00:22:21,632 Where's... 224 00:22:26,511 --> 00:22:28,138 Preach, you okay? 225 00:22:29,222 --> 00:22:30,307 Sure. 226 00:22:51,328 --> 00:22:52,663 You will go to church this day 227 00:22:52,746 --> 00:22:54,748 and pray for forgiveness. 228 00:22:58,293 --> 00:23:00,671 Your mother spent the night sick with worry. 229 00:23:00,754 --> 00:23:02,798 Did you give any thought to her feelings? 230 00:23:02,881 --> 00:23:05,300 Mrs. Campbell called. 231 00:23:08,303 --> 00:23:10,180 Who gave you the boat? 232 00:23:10,347 --> 00:23:11,932 - We... - Borrowed it. 233 00:23:13,433 --> 00:23:14,726 Borrowed? 234 00:23:18,522 --> 00:23:20,524 Boys, what have you done? 235 00:23:26,738 --> 00:23:30,158 Well, you will work off every cent of its value. 236 00:23:31,493 --> 00:23:32,786 Yes, sir. 237 00:23:33,453 --> 00:23:36,123 I'll work it off, Father. It was my idea. 238 00:23:49,594 --> 00:23:50,679 Whoo! 239 00:23:52,055 --> 00:23:53,640 What you making? 240 00:23:55,308 --> 00:23:56,768 Know what you need on that? 241 00:23:56,852 --> 00:23:59,146 Ham, cheese and sardines. Delicious! 242 00:23:59,229 --> 00:24:01,732 - I don't want sardines. - I'll show you. 243 00:24:01,815 --> 00:24:03,442 Boy, can you believe those guys? 244 00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:06,194 They'll be telling everyone the class of '19 did it. 245 00:24:07,988 --> 00:24:09,740 I should write an article. 246 00:24:09,906 --> 00:24:11,074 "Macleans conquer chutes." 247 00:24:11,158 --> 00:24:12,576 - That'd show 'em. - I don't like sardines. 248 00:24:12,659 --> 00:24:14,536 And you could get it in the school paper, I bet. 249 00:24:15,996 --> 00:24:17,456 Chub. 250 00:24:17,539 --> 00:24:19,249 "Jeez, Pauly." 251 00:24:20,125 --> 00:24:21,168 What a skeezicks. 252 00:24:21,251 --> 00:24:23,837 I don't want any goddamn sardines! 253 00:24:48,779 --> 00:24:51,114 No, stop it! 254 00:24:51,531 --> 00:24:53,325 Stop it! Stop it! 255 00:24:53,533 --> 00:24:54,785 Stop it! 256 00:24:56,745 --> 00:24:58,497 You hit her, you son of a bitch! 257 00:24:58,872 --> 00:25:00,832 You knocked her down, you bastard! 258 00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:02,501 Son of a bitch. 259 00:25:02,584 --> 00:25:05,295 Please, I slipped, I slipped, I slipped! 260 00:25:13,512 --> 00:25:16,223 I just slipped. That's all. 261 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:38,286 That was the only time we ever fought. 262 00:25:38,912 --> 00:25:42,123 Perhaps we wondered afterwards which one of us was tougher. 263 00:25:42,415 --> 00:25:45,836 But if boyhood questions aren't answered before a certain point, 264 00:25:46,002 --> 00:25:48,088 they can't be raised again. 265 00:25:48,296 --> 00:25:50,757 So we returned to being gracious to one another 266 00:25:51,049 --> 00:25:53,260 as the church wall suggested. 267 00:26:31,298 --> 00:26:33,717 I then saw something remarkable. 268 00:26:35,552 --> 00:26:36,678 For the first time, 269 00:26:36,761 --> 00:26:39,639 Paul broke free of our father's instruction 270 00:26:39,973 --> 00:26:41,975 into a rhythm all his own. 271 00:26:54,529 --> 00:26:55,655 Okay. 272 00:27:06,207 --> 00:27:07,417 Okay. 273 00:27:14,007 --> 00:27:15,884 They're both marvelous. 274 00:27:24,893 --> 00:27:27,479 I'd say the Lord has blessed us all today. 275 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,450 It's just that he's been particularly good to me. 276 00:27:51,044 --> 00:27:54,422 The year ended with my acceptance into Dartmouth College. 277 00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:57,300 Sometime before, Father had told me that I was allowed to attend 278 00:27:57,384 --> 00:28:00,220 any college in the world I could get into. 279 00:28:00,387 --> 00:28:03,098 I knew he earned no more than $1,800 a year, 280 00:28:03,181 --> 00:28:06,351 so his offer meant more to me than anything in my life. 281 00:28:06,559 --> 00:28:08,812 Well, do your best. 282 00:28:09,229 --> 00:28:10,355 I will. 283 00:28:11,648 --> 00:28:13,191 All aboard! 284 00:28:24,411 --> 00:28:26,162 Hey, Norman! Norm! 285 00:28:48,101 --> 00:28:52,522 So in the autumn of 1919, I boarded the Northern Pacific 286 00:28:52,605 --> 00:28:55,775 for a 3,000-mile trip east to the unknown. 287 00:29:00,822 --> 00:29:02,407 To the son of a Montana minister, 288 00:29:02,490 --> 00:29:04,534 Dartmouth was more than an education. 289 00:29:04,617 --> 00:29:06,119 It was a revelation 290 00:29:06,202 --> 00:29:09,122 exposing me to a world I had only guessed at. 291 00:29:16,546 --> 00:29:17,756 As part of my degree, 292 00:29:17,839 --> 00:29:19,799 I was required to enlighten incoming freshmen 293 00:29:19,883 --> 00:29:22,385 on the wonders of the Romantic poets, 294 00:29:23,386 --> 00:29:27,223 and although I was unaware of it then, teaching fit me. 295 00:29:28,016 --> 00:29:31,186 But most of the time, I sat in the card room of my fraternity house, 296 00:29:31,269 --> 00:29:34,981 giving my bluenose brothers a lesson in Front Street poker. 297 00:29:37,358 --> 00:29:39,611 In all, I spent six years at Dartmouth, 298 00:29:39,903 --> 00:29:42,405 away from home nearly all that time. 299 00:29:45,116 --> 00:29:47,786 On the other hand, Paul stayed home for college, 300 00:29:47,869 --> 00:29:51,081 unwilling to leave the fish he had not yet caught. 301 00:29:56,044 --> 00:30:00,048 After graduation, he took a job as a reporter for a Helena newspaper 302 00:30:00,131 --> 00:30:02,092 and moved to that town, 303 00:30:03,176 --> 00:30:06,846 his connection with the family growing as slight as my own. 304 00:30:15,939 --> 00:30:18,608 It was not until the spring of 1926 305 00:30:18,691 --> 00:30:20,860 that I finally did come home. 306 00:31:05,697 --> 00:31:07,198 Dinner is in half an hour. 307 00:31:07,282 --> 00:31:08,992 So, you have time for a bath. 308 00:31:10,910 --> 00:31:12,495 Do I look thin, Mother? 309 00:31:16,207 --> 00:31:18,084 Do I look old, Norman? 310 00:31:20,587 --> 00:31:23,381 No, you look... 311 00:31:24,299 --> 00:31:26,593 Wish Paul could have been here tonight. 312 00:31:26,926 --> 00:31:28,595 He's working late. 313 00:31:32,473 --> 00:31:33,683 Norman? 314 00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:35,810 Would you come in? 315 00:31:42,650 --> 00:31:44,652 I'm sorry Paul won't be here. 316 00:31:44,736 --> 00:31:46,779 The life of a newspaperman. 317 00:31:48,865 --> 00:31:51,284 Well, you know how Paul likes to... 318 00:31:52,243 --> 00:31:53,328 I do. 319 00:31:54,204 --> 00:31:55,288 Sit. 320 00:32:01,461 --> 00:32:03,338 I also hear that he... 321 00:32:05,798 --> 00:32:07,926 Well, I hear everything, don't I? 322 00:32:08,009 --> 00:32:10,511 Lord forbid my flock keep me in ignorance. 323 00:32:14,307 --> 00:32:18,436 Yes, you can bet that everyone from here to Helena 324 00:32:18,519 --> 00:32:21,189 knows the details of your education, Norman. 325 00:32:21,731 --> 00:32:23,608 It is an achievement. 326 00:32:24,108 --> 00:32:27,362 So, to what use shall you put this achievement? 327 00:32:32,325 --> 00:32:35,370 Well, I've been considering the Forest Service. 328 00:32:35,828 --> 00:32:37,163 As a career? 329 00:32:37,747 --> 00:32:38,790 No. 330 00:32:41,709 --> 00:32:43,461 No, for the summer. 331 00:32:43,795 --> 00:32:45,046 Ah. 332 00:32:45,588 --> 00:32:46,965 As a break. 333 00:32:47,340 --> 00:32:49,342 Well, that's a good idea. 334 00:32:50,051 --> 00:32:51,636 The body fuels the mind. 335 00:32:51,719 --> 00:32:52,804 Yes, that's what I was thinking. 336 00:32:52,887 --> 00:32:53,888 And after? 337 00:32:55,848 --> 00:32:57,684 I'm not absolutely sure yet. 338 00:32:59,352 --> 00:33:02,522 Well, you've had six years to become sure, Norman. 339 00:33:13,116 --> 00:33:15,743 Have you considered an advanced degree? 340 00:33:17,203 --> 00:33:18,413 The law? 341 00:33:18,579 --> 00:33:19,872 - Medicine? - No. 342 00:33:20,873 --> 00:33:22,333 The ministry? 343 00:33:25,336 --> 00:33:27,672 I've applied for several teaching positions and... 344 00:33:27,755 --> 00:33:28,965 Have you? 345 00:33:29,048 --> 00:33:31,301 Yes, college level, but I haven't heard anything yet. 346 00:33:31,384 --> 00:33:33,219 No, it's early, but... 347 00:33:35,096 --> 00:33:37,682 Now you have taught classes already, haven't you? 348 00:33:38,057 --> 00:33:39,392 Yes. 349 00:33:40,059 --> 00:33:42,603 And did you find that experience rewarding? 350 00:33:42,687 --> 00:33:44,188 That is to say, 351 00:33:44,397 --> 00:33:47,066 do you feel this could be your calling? 352 00:33:48,484 --> 00:33:49,861 My calling? 353 00:33:51,738 --> 00:33:54,032 Dinner, gentlemen. 354 00:34:11,257 --> 00:34:13,176 If it's so damn funny, how come I'm not laughing? 355 00:34:13,259 --> 00:34:14,677 Yes, pee in their pants. 356 00:34:14,761 --> 00:34:16,471 Well, that's a good story, but I got a better one. 357 00:34:16,554 --> 00:34:18,348 - Paul Maclean? - In there. 358 00:34:18,431 --> 00:34:21,934 The rules in Anaconda Mine say no breaks, not even for the john, 359 00:34:22,018 --> 00:34:24,354 so the poor bastards have to stand there and pee in their pants. 360 00:34:24,437 --> 00:34:26,689 - What about the late... - George Masterson! 361 00:34:26,773 --> 00:34:27,899 Oh, I'll take that one. 362 00:34:27,982 --> 00:34:29,901 Yeah, she's 23 and built like a brick shit house. 363 00:34:29,984 --> 00:34:32,362 I'll take it! You take the Anaconda. 364 00:34:32,445 --> 00:34:33,446 I'll interview the grieving widow. 365 00:34:33,529 --> 00:34:35,740 But I'm the boss, Maclean. 366 00:34:37,950 --> 00:34:39,202 Fine by me, boss. 367 00:34:39,285 --> 00:34:40,536 Brother! 368 00:34:43,706 --> 00:34:45,124 Well, look at you. 369 00:34:47,460 --> 00:34:50,213 Boys, this is my big brother, the professor. 370 00:34:50,380 --> 00:34:51,672 - Gentlemen. - Hi! 371 00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:52,965 Come on. 372 00:34:54,801 --> 00:34:56,677 - We go with it. - Sit. 373 00:34:58,221 --> 00:34:59,680 Thanks for coming to see me last night. 374 00:34:59,764 --> 00:35:01,849 Yeah, damn. I am sorry about that. 375 00:35:01,933 --> 00:35:03,643 Wanted to be there. 376 00:35:03,768 --> 00:35:04,852 Wanted to hear the old man say, 377 00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:07,397 "Norman, could you come into my study, please?" 378 00:35:15,446 --> 00:35:17,198 Jeez, the professor. 379 00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:22,453 We should celebrate. 380 00:35:29,836 --> 00:35:30,962 Yeah. 381 00:35:32,338 --> 00:35:34,215 A little early for me. 382 00:35:34,882 --> 00:35:38,010 Oh, the East is making you soft. 383 00:35:40,179 --> 00:35:41,681 Is that right? 384 00:35:58,656 --> 00:36:00,324 Do much fishing out East? 385 00:36:01,617 --> 00:36:02,702 None. 386 00:36:03,411 --> 00:36:04,537 None? 387 00:36:04,996 --> 00:36:06,581 Well, what do you say? 388 00:36:06,664 --> 00:36:08,166 Big Blackfoot. 389 00:36:34,692 --> 00:36:35,902 You set? 390 00:36:36,569 --> 00:36:37,653 Yeah. 391 00:36:45,495 --> 00:36:46,662 Why don't you take this hole? It's a good hole. 392 00:36:46,746 --> 00:36:47,747 No, that's all right. 393 00:36:47,830 --> 00:36:49,790 No, no, no, no. It's a good hole. 394 00:37:11,437 --> 00:37:13,940 Too tight! Try a roll cast! 395 00:37:30,998 --> 00:37:32,959 The fish are out further! 396 00:37:34,961 --> 00:37:36,963 Just a little further. 397 00:37:38,839 --> 00:37:40,299 Cast your line into the current. 398 00:37:40,383 --> 00:37:42,260 It'll give you a better base. 399 00:37:42,343 --> 00:37:43,970 Add some distance. 400 00:37:44,053 --> 00:37:46,264 You're just rusty, that's all. 401 00:39:46,092 --> 00:39:48,219 He called it shadow casting, 402 00:39:48,302 --> 00:39:51,389 keeping his line above water long enough and low enough 403 00:39:51,472 --> 00:39:53,391 to make a rainbow rise. 404 00:39:55,851 --> 00:39:58,938 And I realized that in the time I was away, 405 00:39:59,271 --> 00:40:01,607 my brother had become an artist. 406 00:40:02,942 --> 00:40:04,985 And one day my coach comes up to me and says, 407 00:40:05,069 --> 00:40:07,655 "Mac, how'd you like to meet John L. Sullivan?" 408 00:40:07,738 --> 00:40:09,532 John L. Sullivan? 409 00:40:09,615 --> 00:40:11,659 Yes, the John L. Sullivan! 410 00:40:11,742 --> 00:40:13,035 The last bare-knuckle champion of the world. 411 00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:15,746 It was then I knew I was home, 412 00:40:15,955 --> 00:40:18,791 standing on the steps of the Missoula library once again, 413 00:40:19,917 --> 00:40:21,377 late at night, 414 00:40:22,044 --> 00:40:25,131 telling stories to the same boys who had sat on those steps 415 00:40:25,214 --> 00:40:27,717 and listened 100 times before 416 00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:31,762 and who had, in my absence, become men. 417 00:40:31,846 --> 00:40:35,015 It just goes to show you, the world is full of bastards. 418 00:40:35,099 --> 00:40:37,059 "The number increasing rapidly 419 00:40:37,143 --> 00:40:39,562 "the further one gets from Missoula, Montana. 420 00:40:39,645 --> 00:40:40,938 "Amen." 421 00:40:41,021 --> 00:40:44,233 See, professor, that's why you need to stick around here from now on. 422 00:40:44,316 --> 00:40:46,444 Hey, where's the gargle? 423 00:40:46,527 --> 00:40:48,487 Yes, pass this way. 424 00:40:48,821 --> 00:40:50,656 I'm gonna take you to the 4th of July dance. 425 00:40:50,740 --> 00:40:53,534 Every girl you need to know will be there. 426 00:40:54,034 --> 00:40:55,494 Without Mama. 427 00:40:57,455 --> 00:40:59,665 Find you a little sheba. 428 00:41:00,750 --> 00:41:02,501 Well, gentlemen, it's been swell. 429 00:41:02,585 --> 00:41:04,503 Don't say no. 430 00:41:04,587 --> 00:41:06,088 Where you going? 431 00:41:06,172 --> 00:41:07,923 - Heavy date, Paul? - Where you going, Pauly? 432 00:41:08,007 --> 00:41:09,550 With a poker table. 433 00:41:09,633 --> 00:41:12,636 Hey, you see they got them new signs on the way down, Pauly? 434 00:41:12,887 --> 00:41:14,638 "Does your husband misbehave, 435 00:41:14,722 --> 00:41:16,807 "grunt and grumble, rant and rave? 436 00:41:16,891 --> 00:41:19,935 "Well, shoot that brute some Burma Shave." 437 00:41:22,855 --> 00:41:24,482 The road to where? 438 00:41:24,565 --> 00:41:25,691 Lolo. 439 00:41:25,775 --> 00:41:27,193 Little hot spring! 440 00:41:38,204 --> 00:41:42,041 Being back in my father's church seemed to complete my return. 441 00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:44,794 More than anything else, I realized it was my father's words 442 00:41:44,877 --> 00:41:46,754 that made me feel most at home. 443 00:41:46,837 --> 00:41:48,672 And in the glow of awakened memories, 444 00:41:48,756 --> 00:41:53,135 when the deepest feelings of the heart are all astir, 445 00:41:54,678 --> 00:41:57,223 we are reminded of the poet who sings, 446 00:41:58,599 --> 00:42:02,353 "Backward, turn backward Oh, time in your flight 447 00:42:02,436 --> 00:42:06,899 "Make me a child again, just for tonight" 448 00:42:38,764 --> 00:42:39,849 Whoo! 449 00:42:49,066 --> 00:42:50,734 Recognize anybody? 450 00:42:51,277 --> 00:42:52,695 Well... 451 00:42:52,778 --> 00:42:54,321 Oh, you been gone too long, son. 452 00:42:54,405 --> 00:42:55,948 Jessie! 453 00:42:58,784 --> 00:43:00,119 Who's that? 454 00:43:01,328 --> 00:43:02,413 Who? 455 00:43:02,788 --> 00:43:04,039 There. 456 00:43:07,167 --> 00:43:08,294 Yeah? 457 00:43:10,379 --> 00:43:12,256 Little infatuation? 458 00:43:13,465 --> 00:43:15,134 Chub, who is that? 459 00:43:16,260 --> 00:43:17,761 Jessie Burns. 460 00:43:18,637 --> 00:43:20,222 From Wolf Creek. 461 00:43:20,306 --> 00:43:22,433 She got a brother who went to Hollywood. 462 00:43:22,516 --> 00:43:24,018 Jessie Burns. 463 00:43:32,776 --> 00:43:34,403 Excuse me, would you like to dance? 464 00:43:34,486 --> 00:43:36,238 Oh, God, would you be a dar 465 00:43:36,322 --> 00:43:37,948 and get us a drink? 466 00:43:38,032 --> 00:43:39,742 Jessie, who's that? 467 00:44:02,681 --> 00:44:04,350 Here you are. 468 00:44:08,729 --> 00:44:10,064 Here you go. 469 00:44:10,147 --> 00:44:11,482 Oh, great. 470 00:44:11,565 --> 00:44:13,317 Lifesaver. 471 00:44:13,484 --> 00:44:14,818 Whoops. 472 00:44:14,985 --> 00:44:16,445 How ladylike. 473 00:44:19,949 --> 00:44:21,033 I have to be careful 474 00:44:21,116 --> 00:44:22,660 or I'll wipe off all the powder. 475 00:44:23,369 --> 00:44:25,871 Phantom of the Opera. 476 00:44:34,380 --> 00:44:36,924 ♪ Pack up all my care and woe 477 00:44:37,007 --> 00:44:39,301 ♪ Here I go, singing low 478 00:44:39,385 --> 00:44:43,472 ♪ Bye-bye, Blackbird 479 00:44:44,181 --> 00:44:48,018 You know, I heard Louis Armstrong sing this song once 480 00:44:48,102 --> 00:44:50,729 in a little speak in Greenwich Village, New York. 481 00:44:51,313 --> 00:44:52,523 Really? 482 00:44:52,940 --> 00:44:54,400 Best jazz in the world. 483 00:44:54,483 --> 00:44:56,402 Colored jazz, you know? The real McCoy. 484 00:44:56,485 --> 00:45:00,948 Not like Paul Whiteman or the Clicquot Club Eskimos. 485 00:45:01,573 --> 00:45:04,410 My mother loves the Clicquot Club Eskimos. 486 00:45:07,037 --> 00:45:08,372 Does she? 487 00:45:10,457 --> 00:45:14,086 ♪ Blackbird, bye-bye ♪ 488 00:45:27,099 --> 00:45:28,434 Dance? 489 00:45:31,729 --> 00:45:32,813 Yeah. 490 00:45:32,938 --> 00:45:37,693 Yowsa, yowsa, yowsa! Let the fireworks begin! 491 00:45:39,570 --> 00:45:40,696 Guys, come on. 492 00:45:40,779 --> 00:45:42,364 Jessie, come on. 493 00:45:42,448 --> 00:45:43,741 Jessie, come on. Jessie. 494 00:45:45,743 --> 00:45:47,286 Look at that! 495 00:45:47,995 --> 00:45:49,163 Wow! 496 00:45:55,502 --> 00:45:57,796 What a wonderful idea. 497 00:45:58,088 --> 00:45:59,757 What better lesson for those girls 498 00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,051 than a trip to the reservation 499 00:46:02,134 --> 00:46:05,220 to learn a real Christian lesson of giving? 500 00:46:05,304 --> 00:46:06,555 Don't you think? 501 00:46:06,638 --> 00:46:08,807 I'll organize it. Don't lift a finger. 502 00:46:09,224 --> 00:46:10,726 Oh, thank you, Eva. 503 00:46:10,809 --> 00:46:13,979 This is the most charitable idea I've heard in years. 504 00:46:15,397 --> 00:46:16,899 Do you know those Indian children 505 00:46:16,982 --> 00:46:18,567 don't even have shoes, Norman? 506 00:46:18,650 --> 00:46:19,651 Hmm. 507 00:46:19,735 --> 00:46:21,028 You waiting for the phone? 508 00:46:21,111 --> 00:46:22,154 No. I don't have to. 509 00:46:22,237 --> 00:46:23,697 No, no. You go ahead. 510 00:46:23,989 --> 00:46:25,074 Okay. 511 00:46:25,783 --> 00:46:26,867 If you need to use it... 512 00:46:26,950 --> 00:46:29,036 No, no, no. I have work to do. 513 00:46:29,244 --> 00:46:30,370 Okay. 514 00:46:41,340 --> 00:46:43,092 Hello, Mrs. Hatcher. 515 00:46:47,221 --> 00:46:49,431 Hello, Mrs. Hatcher, I'd like... 516 00:46:49,515 --> 00:46:51,058 Oh, she's fine. 517 00:46:51,475 --> 00:46:52,851 I'd like... 518 00:46:53,018 --> 00:46:54,978 Yes, they're fine. Everybody's fine. 519 00:46:55,062 --> 00:46:56,605 They're all fine, Mrs. Hatcher. 520 00:46:56,688 --> 00:46:59,983 I'd like the Burns residence in Wolf Creek, please. 521 00:47:01,985 --> 00:47:04,905 Yes, Mrs. Hatcher, I know it's long distance. 522 00:47:05,572 --> 00:47:06,907 Thank you. 523 00:47:10,244 --> 00:47:11,286 Hello. 524 00:47:12,579 --> 00:47:14,206 Is Jessie there? 525 00:47:15,707 --> 00:47:18,377 Oh, this is Norman Maclean, but I don't think she... 526 00:47:22,589 --> 00:47:23,757 Hello. 527 00:47:27,344 --> 00:47:30,556 No, I'm the one who brought you the drink. 528 00:47:31,723 --> 00:47:32,891 Mmm-hmm. 529 00:47:34,393 --> 00:47:36,353 No, we didn't get a chance. 530 00:47:36,436 --> 00:47:38,939 The fireworks started and, well... 531 00:47:40,566 --> 00:47:42,401 We talked about music. 532 00:47:44,987 --> 00:47:49,867 And I said I heard Louis Armstrong sing the... 533 00:47:51,869 --> 00:47:53,453 Yeah, that's me. 534 00:47:54,746 --> 00:47:57,040 - Yeah, I was just a little nervous. - Hmm? 535 00:47:57,666 --> 00:48:02,462 Well, because you were so je ne sais quoi. 536 00:48:08,218 --> 00:48:10,220 And I thought maybe I could come over 537 00:48:10,304 --> 00:48:12,973 and listen to the Clicquot Club Eskimos with your mother. 538 00:48:15,601 --> 00:48:16,685 Yes. 539 00:48:18,729 --> 00:48:19,938 Uh-huh. 540 00:48:20,898 --> 00:48:23,567 Well, actually, I called because I wanted to see you again. 541 00:48:24,026 --> 00:48:25,027 Mmm-hmm. 542 00:48:27,446 --> 00:48:30,699 Well, how about Saturday or... 543 00:48:32,659 --> 00:48:33,952 8:00? 544 00:48:36,288 --> 00:48:37,372 Okay. 545 00:48:41,126 --> 00:48:42,252 Okay. 546 00:48:43,420 --> 00:48:45,297 Then I'll see you then. 547 00:48:46,465 --> 00:48:47,507 Bye. 548 00:49:01,688 --> 00:49:02,814 That was a good meal! 549 00:49:02,898 --> 00:49:04,191 I'd like to do that again! 550 00:49:06,026 --> 00:49:07,819 Hey, here they are. 551 00:49:11,198 --> 00:49:12,449 Brother. 552 00:49:13,742 --> 00:49:15,577 - Hi. - Hi. 553 00:49:15,661 --> 00:49:18,163 Jessie, this is my baby brother, Paul. 554 00:49:18,664 --> 00:49:20,666 And this is Monasita. 555 00:49:21,166 --> 00:49:22,334 Mabel. 556 00:49:23,502 --> 00:49:24,503 Hi. 557 00:49:25,963 --> 00:49:27,214 Shall we? 558 00:49:32,552 --> 00:49:33,804 What do you say, Pauly? 559 00:49:33,929 --> 00:49:35,555 - Hey, Pauly. - Murph. 560 00:49:36,223 --> 00:49:37,266 Preacher. 561 00:49:37,349 --> 00:49:38,684 Preacher? 562 00:49:38,850 --> 00:49:40,227 How are you, Murph? 563 00:49:40,310 --> 00:49:41,812 Long time, long time. 564 00:49:41,895 --> 00:49:43,522 Good to see you. 565 00:49:45,691 --> 00:49:48,735 You know the house rules as good as I do, Paul. 566 00:49:49,695 --> 00:49:51,697 No Injuns. Period. 567 00:49:53,073 --> 00:49:56,076 I just flat don't like the house rules, Murph. 568 00:49:56,493 --> 00:49:57,869 Me neither. 569 00:50:01,999 --> 00:50:04,626 What are you going to make me do here, Pauly? 570 00:50:04,710 --> 00:50:06,878 Just get us a table for four. 571 00:50:17,764 --> 00:50:18,974 Last time, Paul. 572 00:50:19,057 --> 00:50:20,726 - Hello, Judge. - Paul. 573 00:50:22,102 --> 00:50:23,478 You can get him back. 574 00:50:23,562 --> 00:50:25,230 Get drunk and dance naked on his table. 575 00:50:25,397 --> 00:50:27,733 Yeah, and beat hell out of the son of a bitch. 576 00:50:34,740 --> 00:50:35,824 Molly, my darling. 577 00:50:35,907 --> 00:50:37,200 Hi, Paul. 578 00:50:40,912 --> 00:50:42,289 They've got some swell hooch here. 579 00:50:42,372 --> 00:50:44,458 They even wash the glasses. 580 00:50:59,431 --> 00:51:01,016 Drink? 581 00:51:01,099 --> 00:51:03,352 What'll it be... Jessie? Jessie. 582 00:51:03,685 --> 00:51:05,604 I'll have a martini, Paul. 583 00:51:05,687 --> 00:51:07,064 It is Paul? 584 00:51:08,774 --> 00:51:09,941 Righty-o. 585 00:51:10,025 --> 00:51:12,736 The usual for Norm, gin and prune juice. 586 00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,072 Make that a double. 587 00:51:15,155 --> 00:51:16,782 Excuse me? 588 00:51:17,366 --> 00:51:19,576 I'd like to order a drink, too. 589 00:51:19,701 --> 00:51:21,828 Whiskey. Double. 590 00:51:28,043 --> 00:51:30,754 So, what are you doing now, Mabel? 591 00:51:32,381 --> 00:51:33,799 I sell bait. 592 00:51:37,803 --> 00:51:40,639 You know, you have the most beautiful hair I've ever seen. 593 00:51:43,225 --> 00:51:44,726 You think I should get it bobbed? 594 00:51:44,810 --> 00:51:47,062 No, no, not in a million years. 595 00:51:52,109 --> 00:51:54,361 Ah! Well. 596 00:51:54,444 --> 00:51:56,655 "The candle burns at both ends 597 00:51:56,947 --> 00:51:59,032 "It will not last the night 598 00:51:59,616 --> 00:52:02,202 "But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends 599 00:52:02,494 --> 00:52:04,496 "It gives a lovely light" 600 00:52:06,456 --> 00:52:07,833 That's nice. 601 00:52:22,681 --> 00:52:24,766 How about to my editor, the old... 602 00:52:24,850 --> 00:52:27,018 The old curmudgeon. Excuse me. 603 00:52:27,102 --> 00:52:29,771 He took me off the Anaconda story today. 604 00:52:29,855 --> 00:52:30,939 I'm a reporter at The Bee. 605 00:52:31,022 --> 00:52:32,107 I know. 606 00:52:32,190 --> 00:52:33,650 How do you know? 607 00:52:33,733 --> 00:52:34,818 Oh, I'm famous. 608 00:52:34,943 --> 00:52:36,278 Fishing newspaperman. 609 00:52:36,361 --> 00:52:37,529 You know he fishes, too? 610 00:52:37,612 --> 00:52:39,156 I thought everybody knew. 611 00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,700 Brother, you been away a long time. 612 00:52:42,033 --> 00:52:43,368 I'd say so. 613 00:52:43,577 --> 00:52:45,036 Anyway, it seems my editor... 614 00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:46,121 The old curmudgeon. 615 00:52:46,204 --> 00:52:48,165 Yes, exactly, 616 00:52:48,373 --> 00:52:50,917 has been getting calls. No names, just threats. 617 00:52:51,543 --> 00:52:53,170 Real threats? 618 00:52:53,295 --> 00:52:56,173 Well, it's nice to know you're touching a nerve button. 619 00:52:57,090 --> 00:52:58,884 Well, what did they say? 620 00:52:59,050 --> 00:53:01,011 - Hmm? - What did they say? 621 00:53:01,303 --> 00:53:02,304 Hmm? 622 00:53:02,387 --> 00:53:03,597 What did they say? 623 00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,557 You'll have to cut it out of him. 624 00:53:05,891 --> 00:53:07,100 The usual. 625 00:53:07,184 --> 00:53:08,560 Some of the boys gonna have to come down 626 00:53:08,643 --> 00:53:10,187 and pay me a little visit. 627 00:53:10,270 --> 00:53:13,190 Fit you with a pair of concrete galoshes, see? 628 00:53:13,273 --> 00:53:14,566 Exactly. 629 00:53:16,776 --> 00:53:18,403 I have to dance. 630 00:53:30,457 --> 00:53:32,042 Hey, hey. 631 00:53:33,835 --> 00:53:35,253 Watch out. 632 00:53:36,171 --> 00:53:37,339 Wow. 633 00:54:07,244 --> 00:54:09,621 And now the Muskrat Ramble. 634 00:54:54,916 --> 00:54:57,752 I'm nowhere near as good as my brother, 635 00:54:57,836 --> 00:54:59,212 but would you do me the honor? 636 00:54:59,379 --> 00:55:00,922 I'd love to. 637 00:55:41,379 --> 00:55:43,131 "Dear Jessie, 638 00:55:43,423 --> 00:55:46,134 "As the moon lingers a moment over the bitterroots 639 00:55:46,217 --> 00:55:48,803 "before its descent into the invisible, 640 00:55:49,554 --> 00:55:51,765 "my mind is filled with song. 641 00:55:52,641 --> 00:55:54,768 "I find I am humming, softly, 642 00:55:55,268 --> 00:55:57,979 "not to the music, but something else. 643 00:55:59,230 --> 00:56:00,899 "Someplace else. 644 00:56:02,484 --> 00:56:04,361 "A place remembered. 645 00:56:04,569 --> 00:56:07,739 "A field of grass where no one seemed to have been 646 00:56:07,947 --> 00:56:09,574 "except the deer, 647 00:56:09,908 --> 00:56:12,827 "and the memory is strengthened by the feeling of you 648 00:56:13,161 --> 00:56:15,288 "dancing in my awkward arms. 649 00:56:16,373 --> 00:56:17,582 "Norman." 650 00:56:34,015 --> 00:56:35,100 Yes? 651 00:56:37,310 --> 00:56:38,436 What's wrong? 652 00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:39,771 Norman? 653 00:56:40,772 --> 00:56:42,440 It's okay, Mother. 654 00:56:42,607 --> 00:56:43,775 Who is this? 655 00:56:59,708 --> 00:57:01,751 I'm Norman Maclean. 656 00:57:01,835 --> 00:57:04,254 No, he doesn't have to post bond. 657 00:57:04,421 --> 00:57:06,214 He covers the police beat and has friends here. 658 00:57:06,297 --> 00:57:09,592 All you have to do is look at him and take him home. 659 00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:12,220 What did he do? 660 00:57:12,303 --> 00:57:14,764 He hit a guy and the guy's missing a couple teeth. 661 00:57:16,141 --> 00:57:17,892 Why did he hit him? 662 00:57:18,643 --> 00:57:21,521 It says here a remark was passed concerning 663 00:57:21,604 --> 00:57:24,065 the Indian woman he was with. 664 00:57:24,190 --> 00:57:25,984 Well, then the guy deserved it. 665 00:57:28,069 --> 00:57:30,488 We're picking your brother up too much lately. 666 00:57:33,616 --> 00:57:35,118 Is that right? 667 00:57:35,660 --> 00:57:39,080 Besides, he's behind in the big stud poker game at Lolo. 668 00:57:39,164 --> 00:57:41,791 It's not healthy to get behind on that big game at Lolo. 669 00:57:44,919 --> 00:57:46,296 Is he hurt? 670 00:57:46,671 --> 00:57:48,715 No, he's not hurt. He's just sick. 671 00:57:48,798 --> 00:57:50,508 He drinks too much. 672 00:57:50,842 --> 00:57:52,260 Down at Lolo 673 00:57:52,677 --> 00:57:54,679 they don't drink too much. 674 00:57:59,893 --> 00:58:02,020 You better go in and get your brother. 675 00:58:37,514 --> 00:58:40,975 ♪ I'm tired and I want to go to bed 676 00:58:41,893 --> 00:58:45,396 ♪ I just had a drink about an hour ago 677 00:58:46,648 --> 00:58:48,775 ♪ It went right through my head 678 00:58:49,901 --> 00:58:52,737 ♪ No matter where I go 679 00:58:53,196 --> 00:58:55,990 ♪ By land or sea or boat 680 00:58:56,533 --> 00:59:00,537 ♪ You can always hear me singing this song 681 00:59:01,246 --> 00:59:04,165 ♪ Show me the way to go home ♪ 682 01:00:00,889 --> 01:00:02,974 If you need any money, Paul, 683 01:00:04,350 --> 01:00:06,603 or anything else, I want you to know that... 684 01:00:06,686 --> 01:00:09,564 She lives past the slaughterhouse. 685 01:00:14,152 --> 01:00:15,528 I can help. 686 01:00:19,699 --> 01:00:21,367 Turn here. 687 01:00:49,062 --> 01:00:51,564 Come here, Jeannie! Come here! 688 01:00:54,651 --> 01:00:56,694 I got it. Whoa, whoa, whoa! 689 01:01:16,673 --> 01:01:19,008 Oh! Look at that! 690 01:01:19,092 --> 01:01:23,554 Well, chickens haven't come home to roost yet, Al. 691 01:01:29,310 --> 01:01:31,187 Not bad. 692 01:01:33,690 --> 01:01:34,983 Are you all right, Norman? 693 01:01:35,066 --> 01:01:37,402 Clara, was that your jelly? 694 01:01:37,485 --> 01:01:38,861 Yes, it was, Ethel. 695 01:01:38,945 --> 01:01:40,154 - It was wonderful. - Well, thank you so much. 696 01:01:40,238 --> 01:01:42,573 - And is this Norman? - Yes, it is. 697 01:01:42,657 --> 01:01:45,326 - My goodness. - We're very proud of him. 698 01:01:45,410 --> 01:01:46,869 Nice to have you back. 699 01:01:46,953 --> 01:01:47,954 Thank you. 700 01:01:48,246 --> 01:01:50,623 Her daughter's turned into quite a beauty. 701 01:01:51,249 --> 01:01:52,875 There she is, over there. 702 01:01:52,959 --> 01:01:54,043 Twenty only a week ago. 703 01:01:54,127 --> 01:01:56,087 She's bright as a light, Norman. 704 01:01:56,754 --> 01:01:57,839 Mother. 705 01:01:57,922 --> 01:02:00,591 Mr. Murchison, how are you? 706 01:02:02,468 --> 01:02:04,262 How are you? 707 01:02:04,429 --> 01:02:05,847 How are you? 708 01:02:05,930 --> 01:02:07,223 Quite well, thank you. 709 01:02:07,306 --> 01:02:08,683 Good, good. 710 01:02:10,309 --> 01:02:11,686 And this is Paul? 711 01:02:11,769 --> 01:02:13,563 No, this is Norman. 712 01:02:13,646 --> 01:02:15,023 Norman. 713 01:02:15,106 --> 01:02:16,274 Oh, Norman. 714 01:02:17,275 --> 01:02:18,401 You're looking good. 715 01:02:18,484 --> 01:02:19,694 Yes, hasn't he grown up? 716 01:02:19,777 --> 01:02:21,195 Oh, yes. 717 01:02:23,197 --> 01:02:25,074 Paul's here. Come on. 718 01:02:26,325 --> 01:02:29,746 I'm sorry, Mother, I can't. I have to meet Jessie Burns' family at the station. 719 01:02:29,829 --> 01:02:31,622 Her brother Neal's coming in from California. 720 01:02:31,706 --> 01:02:33,291 Oh, well, now. 721 01:02:33,374 --> 01:02:34,834 So I'm late. 722 01:02:34,917 --> 01:02:37,211 Should we have this girl over to dinner, Norman? 723 01:02:37,295 --> 01:02:38,921 Perhaps, Mother. 724 01:02:54,187 --> 01:02:55,938 - Hello. - Howdy. 725 01:02:56,022 --> 01:02:57,231 Mother. 726 01:03:03,196 --> 01:03:04,280 Come on. 727 01:03:04,363 --> 01:03:05,406 Hi, Paul! 728 01:03:05,490 --> 01:03:07,784 - Well, well. - Hey, Maclean! 729 01:03:07,950 --> 01:03:09,160 Hello, Paul. 730 01:03:09,243 --> 01:03:11,037 Hi, Sam. Let me borrow those a moment. 731 01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:12,163 Sure, why not? 732 01:03:12,246 --> 01:03:13,748 - Hello, Father. - Son. 733 01:03:21,339 --> 01:03:22,924 That's a humdinger! 734 01:03:23,841 --> 01:03:26,094 First shot and he bangs it right up there. 735 01:03:36,979 --> 01:03:40,483 The Burns family ran a general store in a one-store town 736 01:03:40,566 --> 01:03:42,819 and still managed to do badly. 737 01:03:44,570 --> 01:03:45,613 This is Norman. 738 01:03:45,696 --> 01:03:46,989 They were Methodists, 739 01:03:47,073 --> 01:03:49,867 a denomination my father always referred to as 740 01:03:49,951 --> 01:03:51,327 Baptists who could read. 741 01:03:51,410 --> 01:03:52,578 Pop. 742 01:03:52,662 --> 01:03:54,330 - It's a pleasure. - My mother. 743 01:03:54,789 --> 01:03:56,624 It's really a pleasure to meet you, Norman. 744 01:03:56,707 --> 01:03:58,251 Jessie tells me that you're a poet. 745 01:03:58,376 --> 01:04:01,629 - Are you related to the fishing newspaperman? - That's my brother. 746 01:04:01,712 --> 01:04:04,632 Jessie says you just got your degree. - Yes. 747 01:04:04,715 --> 01:04:06,884 Jessie, you know was at the university. She was majoring in... 748 01:04:06,968 --> 01:04:08,052 Flapperism. 749 01:04:09,470 --> 01:04:11,514 Science, I believe. Wasn't it? 750 01:04:11,722 --> 01:04:12,974 But she dropped out. 751 01:04:13,057 --> 01:04:14,392 Aunt Sally! 752 01:04:14,851 --> 01:04:17,228 She could learn from you. Stick-to-it-tivity. 753 01:04:17,311 --> 01:04:20,606 Now, now, just let the young man breathe. He's not used to all this. 754 01:04:20,690 --> 01:04:22,441 He's a Presbyterian. 755 01:04:25,236 --> 01:04:26,404 Oh, Neal! 756 01:04:26,487 --> 01:04:28,239 He's here, he's here! 757 01:04:29,657 --> 01:04:30,908 Let's go. 758 01:04:44,964 --> 01:04:47,758 Jessie's brother, Neal, stepped off the train trying to remember 759 01:04:47,842 --> 01:04:50,303 what a Davis Cup tennis player looked like. 760 01:04:50,386 --> 01:04:53,306 - You look so good. - He looks a little thin to me. 761 01:04:53,389 --> 01:04:55,600 How you doing? You look great! 762 01:04:56,934 --> 01:04:58,477 Oh, Neal, this is Norman. 763 01:04:58,561 --> 01:05:00,271 Norman, my brother Neal. 764 01:05:00,855 --> 01:05:02,106 Hello, boy. 765 01:05:03,566 --> 01:05:05,359 Did you sit up all night on that thing? 766 01:05:05,443 --> 01:05:06,819 I met some nice people on that train. 767 01:05:06,903 --> 01:05:08,654 - Did you get my card from Yellowstone? - I did. I got it. 768 01:05:08,738 --> 01:05:10,323 What do you think about this tie? 769 01:05:10,406 --> 01:05:12,658 Come on, guys. Come on, let him breathe now. He just got here. 770 01:05:12,742 --> 01:05:14,243 Let's go eat. 771 01:05:14,327 --> 01:05:15,328 Good idea. 772 01:05:15,411 --> 01:05:17,330 I've got some chicken salad sandwiches in the car, 773 01:05:17,413 --> 01:05:19,957 and I've got baking chickens at home. 774 01:05:20,041 --> 01:05:23,044 Now Mrs. Miller has given us some cherries. I can make your favorite pie. 775 01:05:23,127 --> 01:05:25,338 Mrs. Miller's still alive? 776 01:05:28,382 --> 01:05:29,926 Oh, not the homemade beer. 777 01:05:30,009 --> 01:05:31,344 Boy, it was a good year. 778 01:05:33,054 --> 01:05:34,722 Over the lips, past the gums, 779 01:05:34,805 --> 01:05:37,141 look out stomach, here she comes. 780 01:05:38,726 --> 01:05:41,354 What's the first station out there now? 781 01:05:41,437 --> 01:05:44,899 When I traveled that way, San Berdoo was there. 782 01:05:44,982 --> 01:05:48,069 San Berdoo and a lot of sand 783 01:05:48,152 --> 01:05:51,405 and a lot of desert, a hell of a lot of desert. 784 01:05:51,489 --> 01:05:53,699 We came back to Salt Lake City 785 01:05:53,783 --> 01:05:56,160 and had to change at Salt Lake City. 786 01:05:57,286 --> 01:05:59,413 There was a hotel that... 787 01:05:59,497 --> 01:06:00,581 Served oysters. 788 01:06:00,665 --> 01:06:02,250 Served oysters. 789 01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:04,043 Yeah. 790 01:06:04,126 --> 01:06:05,920 Norman, do you drink? Does he drink? 791 01:06:06,003 --> 01:06:07,505 A little bit. 792 01:06:08,256 --> 01:06:10,049 Well, here's to the ole fam-damn-ily. 793 01:06:10,132 --> 01:06:12,426 The fam-damn-ily. 794 01:06:12,510 --> 01:06:14,262 Hear, hear. 795 01:06:14,345 --> 01:06:15,471 Down the trenches. 796 01:06:17,974 --> 01:06:20,268 He's fine, Aunt Sally. He's just tired. It was a long trip. 797 01:06:20,351 --> 01:06:23,354 At least he still has his appetite! Thank God! 798 01:06:31,487 --> 01:06:34,115 So how long do you plan to stay, Neal? 799 01:06:35,324 --> 01:06:37,702 Sport. Sport, come here. 800 01:06:39,704 --> 01:06:42,957 I don't know. I miss the ocean. 801 01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:44,292 What's it like? 802 01:06:44,375 --> 01:06:46,377 It's big and it's blue. 803 01:06:46,460 --> 01:06:49,839 People ride on the waves. I tell you, I was getting pretty good at it. 804 01:06:50,047 --> 01:06:52,133 Damn it! 805 01:06:52,216 --> 01:06:54,010 Bad dog! Bad! 806 01:06:54,093 --> 01:06:55,261 Jeez, Ma. 807 01:06:55,845 --> 01:06:58,389 Well, you get him so excited. Sport. 808 01:07:00,224 --> 01:07:02,435 Anywho, what was I talking about? 809 01:07:02,518 --> 01:07:04,395 - The water. - The ocean. 810 01:07:04,478 --> 01:07:05,813 Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. 811 01:07:05,896 --> 01:07:08,065 We'd ride those waves all day long. All the boys. 812 01:07:08,149 --> 01:07:09,900 Ramon, me, Ronnie Colman. 813 01:07:11,068 --> 01:07:12,695 Ronald Colman? 814 01:07:12,778 --> 01:07:14,447 Ronald Colman? 815 01:07:14,530 --> 01:07:16,157 I love Ronald Colman. 816 01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:18,576 You know, people have told me I look like Ronald Colman. 817 01:07:20,161 --> 01:07:21,287 Yeah. 818 01:07:21,370 --> 01:07:24,915 I can't picture Ronald Colman riding on waves. 819 01:07:30,755 --> 01:07:32,006 Some Kodak, huh? 820 01:07:34,133 --> 01:07:35,718 Well, Ma. 821 01:07:37,178 --> 01:07:39,055 It's been a long trip. 822 01:07:43,392 --> 01:07:46,520 Maybe you could go fishing with Norman sometime. 823 01:07:47,146 --> 01:07:48,272 Hmm? 824 01:07:48,356 --> 01:07:50,399 Yeah, that's a good idea. 825 01:07:53,694 --> 01:07:54,779 Yeah. 826 01:07:55,780 --> 01:07:57,490 Wonderful, wouldn't it be? 827 01:07:57,656 --> 01:07:58,908 Fishing. 828 01:07:59,116 --> 01:08:00,659 You do fish? 829 01:08:00,910 --> 01:08:02,203 Of course he does! 830 01:08:02,286 --> 01:08:03,662 He has a pole and everything. 831 01:08:03,788 --> 01:08:05,539 - Oh, yes, everybody does. - Oh, yeah. 832 01:08:05,623 --> 01:08:06,957 You betcha. 833 01:08:07,583 --> 01:08:09,293 When would be a good time for you, Norman? 834 01:08:10,127 --> 01:08:11,212 Friday. 835 01:08:11,295 --> 01:08:13,172 Friday's good. Friday's good. 836 01:08:13,255 --> 01:08:15,132 Yeah, that's... What time? 837 01:08:16,300 --> 01:08:17,635 6:00. 838 01:08:18,135 --> 01:08:19,512 a.m.? 839 01:08:23,432 --> 01:08:26,685 Yes, he'll be there. Won't you, honey? 840 01:08:26,936 --> 01:08:28,604 Thank you, Norman. That's very kind of you. 841 01:08:28,687 --> 01:08:29,897 My pleasure. 842 01:08:29,980 --> 01:08:32,191 Maybe Paul could come too? 843 01:08:32,274 --> 01:08:34,610 That would be nice. 844 01:08:34,693 --> 01:08:37,947 Well, I'm sure Paul would love to go fishing with us. 845 01:08:38,030 --> 01:08:39,115 Can I come? 846 01:08:39,198 --> 01:08:40,241 Not this time, honey. 847 01:08:40,324 --> 01:08:41,409 Next time, okay? 848 01:08:41,492 --> 01:08:43,077 You got chores to do. 849 01:08:54,672 --> 01:08:56,924 Why don't you go with Neal, Norman? 850 01:08:57,007 --> 01:08:58,008 Hmm? 851 01:08:58,092 --> 01:09:00,344 You know, make your plans. 852 01:09:00,428 --> 01:09:02,054 Oh, yeah. 853 01:09:07,059 --> 01:09:08,602 The only plan Neal had in mind 854 01:09:08,686 --> 01:09:11,147 was a trip to Black Jack's bar, 855 01:09:11,230 --> 01:09:13,899 which was simply an old freight car set in the woods, 856 01:09:13,983 --> 01:09:17,278 where any honest policeman would be unlikely to find it. 857 01:09:18,028 --> 01:09:20,948 So, it was this otter and her pups. 858 01:09:21,031 --> 01:09:23,784 Now, I had a hell of a time tracking them 859 01:09:23,868 --> 01:09:25,536 because they turn white in the winter. 860 01:09:25,619 --> 01:09:27,872 After a few shots of the especially vile whiskey 861 01:09:27,955 --> 01:09:29,623 brewed by Black Jack himself, 862 01:09:29,707 --> 01:09:31,876 Neal began to hold forth. 863 01:09:32,042 --> 01:09:34,462 He'd chosen Montana subjects to spin his lies 864 01:09:34,545 --> 01:09:36,714 about shooting, hiking, trapping. 865 01:09:36,797 --> 01:09:39,717 Probably, I figured, to impress the only other client at the bar, 866 01:09:40,676 --> 01:09:42,761 a ploy that was beginning to pay off. 867 01:09:43,137 --> 01:09:47,808 Anywho, she tried to lose me again and again... 868 01:09:47,892 --> 01:09:50,269 She went by the name of Old Rawhide. 869 01:09:50,352 --> 01:09:54,315 About 10 years before, she'd been elected beauty queen of Wolf Creek. 870 01:09:54,398 --> 01:09:59,153 She had ridden bareback, standing up through the 100 inhabitants, mostly male. 871 01:09:59,236 --> 01:10:01,989 Her skirts flew high, and she won the contest. 872 01:10:04,241 --> 01:10:05,493 I couldn't feel my hands. 873 01:10:05,576 --> 01:10:08,329 I'm thinking about my dog, Sport, that's with me. 874 01:10:08,412 --> 01:10:10,247 I'm thinking if it gets any colder, 875 01:10:10,331 --> 01:10:13,000 I may have to slit him open and stick my hands in 876 01:10:13,083 --> 01:10:14,335 to keep them from freezing. 877 01:10:14,418 --> 01:10:17,546 It would have been a tough thing to do. 878 01:10:17,630 --> 01:10:20,132 Hell, I did it before up at the Yukon. 879 01:10:20,216 --> 01:10:22,343 God knows I love that damn dog... 880 01:10:22,426 --> 01:10:25,513 She still wore the divided skirts of a horsewoman, 881 01:10:25,596 --> 01:10:28,432 although they must have been a hardship in her new profession. 882 01:10:28,516 --> 01:10:31,060 And there on a branch, 883 01:10:31,143 --> 01:10:33,020 waiting to jump on their first deer, 884 01:10:33,103 --> 01:10:35,856 is the goddamn otter. 885 01:10:36,982 --> 01:10:38,275 Hey, buster. 886 01:10:39,527 --> 01:10:43,322 What's an otter doing on the top of Rogers Pass? 887 01:10:43,781 --> 01:10:46,325 I thought they swam down in the cricks. 888 01:10:48,202 --> 01:10:49,245 Jack, 889 01:10:49,328 --> 01:10:51,080 why don't you bring this lady a whiskey? 890 01:10:52,206 --> 01:10:54,208 Well, I got to shove off. 891 01:10:55,834 --> 01:10:59,296 And don't forget, old boy. Friday, fishing. 892 01:10:59,547 --> 01:11:00,631 What? 893 01:11:29,243 --> 01:11:30,619 What say? 894 01:11:30,703 --> 01:11:32,997 They said I'd find you at your other office. 895 01:11:33,622 --> 01:11:35,249 Yeah. Deadline. 896 01:11:35,332 --> 01:11:36,417 Can't work there. 897 01:11:36,500 --> 01:11:37,543 Hmm. 898 01:11:39,378 --> 01:11:41,171 You come for a drink? 899 01:11:43,757 --> 01:11:45,342 A favor. 900 01:11:46,427 --> 01:11:47,595 Uh-oh. 901 01:11:51,307 --> 01:11:53,017 Go fishing with me? 902 01:11:57,688 --> 01:11:58,814 Sure. 903 01:12:00,274 --> 01:12:01,734 Well, that's marvy, 904 01:12:01,817 --> 01:12:05,195 because Jessie's got a brother who's in from California and... 905 01:12:05,279 --> 01:12:06,780 Oh. 906 01:12:06,864 --> 01:12:09,742 I'm not gonna lie to you. He's a world champion peckerwood. 907 01:12:09,992 --> 01:12:11,076 Bait fisherman? 908 01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:12,369 He didn't say. 909 01:12:12,453 --> 01:12:15,122 Good Lord. George! 910 01:12:15,331 --> 01:12:17,791 He's gonna show up with a coffee can full of worms. 911 01:12:17,875 --> 01:12:19,293 Red can, Hills Brothers. 912 01:12:19,376 --> 01:12:21,170 I'd lay a bet on it. 913 01:12:23,339 --> 01:12:25,007 I promised Jessie. 914 01:12:28,886 --> 01:12:30,721 Are you getting serious? 915 01:12:30,804 --> 01:12:32,931 - What? - You son of a bitch, you're getting serious. 916 01:12:33,098 --> 01:12:34,683 You and Jessie. 917 01:12:38,687 --> 01:12:39,855 Well? 918 01:12:40,064 --> 01:12:41,732 I don't know. 919 01:12:46,779 --> 01:12:48,364 Then I guess we got to do it. 920 01:13:16,433 --> 01:13:18,060 Whoa, whoa, whoa! 921 01:13:24,274 --> 01:13:26,360 As I live and breathe. 922 01:13:26,443 --> 01:13:28,654 Buster here wants to fish. 923 01:13:37,621 --> 01:13:39,123 You're late, Neal. 924 01:13:40,916 --> 01:13:44,211 Yeah, I didn't get in till late. 925 01:13:44,294 --> 01:13:46,880 I didn't get in at all, but I was here. 926 01:13:46,964 --> 01:13:49,091 - Neal, Paul. - Paul, Neal. 927 01:13:49,299 --> 01:13:52,261 Neal, in Montana, there are three things we're never late for. 928 01:13:52,344 --> 01:13:54,805 Church, work and fishing. 929 01:13:55,222 --> 01:13:56,974 Righty-o. 930 01:13:57,141 --> 01:13:59,101 Anywho, this is... 931 01:13:59,518 --> 01:14:01,311 - We've met. - We've met. 932 01:14:05,482 --> 01:14:06,984 Don't go away. 933 01:14:18,495 --> 01:14:21,915 Watch the first step. It's a lulu. 934 01:14:30,716 --> 01:14:32,176 So, you ready to... 935 01:14:33,343 --> 01:14:34,678 Neal. 936 01:14:36,346 --> 01:14:38,015 - Neal! - What? 937 01:14:39,433 --> 01:14:40,684 Fishing. 938 01:14:46,815 --> 01:14:48,859 Buster wants to fish. 939 01:14:56,033 --> 01:14:58,577 Oh, Neal, what about the bait? 940 01:15:00,871 --> 01:15:02,206 Dumb Dora. 941 01:15:15,052 --> 01:15:18,430 We're not going to catch anything anyway. It's too damn hot. 942 01:15:18,514 --> 01:15:21,225 May he catch three doses of clap. 943 01:15:21,517 --> 01:15:24,269 Sure glad I didn't go home and get some sleep. 944 01:15:28,941 --> 01:15:30,359 Where is he? 945 01:15:33,529 --> 01:15:35,072 - Oh, God. - Jeez. 946 01:15:39,284 --> 01:15:40,786 I'll catch up. 947 01:15:41,495 --> 01:15:42,579 Yeah. 948 01:16:13,610 --> 01:16:15,362 I know, you got 20. 949 01:16:26,123 --> 01:16:28,083 Couldn't you find him? 950 01:16:28,166 --> 01:16:29,710 The hell with him. 951 01:16:30,127 --> 01:16:32,170 Well, I thought we were supposed to help him. 952 01:16:32,754 --> 01:16:34,798 How the hell do you help that son of a bitch? 953 01:16:37,342 --> 01:16:39,219 By taking him fishing. 954 01:16:40,679 --> 01:16:42,723 He doesn't like fishing. 955 01:16:42,806 --> 01:16:45,559 Doesn't like Montana. Sure as hell doesn't like me. 956 01:16:45,642 --> 01:16:46,810 Yeah. 957 01:16:47,311 --> 01:16:52,316 Well, maybe what he likes is somebody trying to help him. 958 01:17:08,165 --> 01:17:10,250 You've sank the beer, yeah? 959 01:17:11,209 --> 01:17:12,878 You bet your life. 960 01:17:13,503 --> 01:17:14,588 Yeah. 961 01:17:16,131 --> 01:17:17,674 Okay, let's go. 962 01:17:25,557 --> 01:17:27,517 Oh, jeez, I can taste it. 963 01:17:33,398 --> 01:17:34,900 Should we kill him? 964 01:17:35,692 --> 01:17:37,194 Shit. 965 01:17:42,324 --> 01:17:43,283 Damn it. 966 01:17:45,994 --> 01:17:47,371 Holy Christ. 967 01:18:02,052 --> 01:18:04,554 This is not good. 968 01:18:04,638 --> 01:18:06,390 Well, she's got a tattoo. 969 01:18:09,351 --> 01:18:10,477 Initials? 970 01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:11,937 No. 971 01:18:12,270 --> 01:18:13,480 "Love." 972 01:18:20,904 --> 01:18:24,658 - I can get in myself. - I don't need help. 973 01:18:29,037 --> 01:18:31,915 Hey, you got anything to drink, buster? 974 01:18:32,332 --> 01:18:34,126 Buster's the one with the red ass. 975 01:18:47,431 --> 01:18:49,182 I'm in deep trouble. 976 01:18:49,599 --> 01:18:52,102 Yeah. You want me to come and protect you? 977 01:18:52,185 --> 01:18:54,813 Yeah, I'm sure Mrs. Burns would love to meet the girlfriend. 978 01:18:54,896 --> 01:18:56,690 I ain't burned. 979 01:18:56,857 --> 01:18:58,817 The sun don't bother me. 980 01:19:01,361 --> 01:19:02,529 Yeah. 981 01:19:03,530 --> 01:19:07,242 Hey, Norm, what do you think about me spending the night with you and the folks? 982 01:19:07,325 --> 01:19:11,163 We come back here tomorrow, wipe this day off the books. 983 01:19:11,246 --> 01:19:12,831 It's a deal. 984 01:19:13,081 --> 01:19:14,249 Come on, buster. 985 01:19:14,332 --> 01:19:16,168 I'm as dry as dirt. 986 01:19:17,169 --> 01:19:19,171 Hark, fair Juliet speaks. 987 01:19:22,424 --> 01:19:23,759 Good luck. 988 01:19:44,112 --> 01:19:45,113 Shh! 989 01:19:48,742 --> 01:19:50,243 Sweet Jesus! 990 01:19:52,287 --> 01:19:54,081 What have you done to my boy? 991 01:19:54,247 --> 01:19:55,832 Don't! 992 01:19:58,335 --> 01:19:59,920 He fell asleep in the sun. 993 01:20:04,758 --> 01:20:06,593 My Lord in heaven. 994 01:20:07,219 --> 01:20:09,096 It's all right. It's all right, honey. 995 01:20:09,179 --> 01:20:10,680 We'll fix it. We'll fix it. 996 01:20:18,688 --> 01:20:20,524 You left him alone, Norman? 997 01:20:21,066 --> 01:20:23,527 He was... He brought someone, and... 998 01:20:25,153 --> 01:20:27,239 I think you better go home. 999 01:20:46,049 --> 01:20:47,759 I need a ride home. 1000 01:21:15,453 --> 01:21:16,997 Better hang on. 1001 01:21:17,747 --> 01:21:19,082 What are you doing? 1002 01:21:45,150 --> 01:21:47,235 I don't think you... 1003 01:21:47,777 --> 01:21:50,530 They send trains down here all the time, you know, 1004 01:21:50,614 --> 01:21:52,032 without a schedule. 1005 01:21:52,782 --> 01:21:54,201 You're not... 1006 01:21:57,454 --> 01:21:59,497 I don't think they can see us in here. 1007 01:23:09,985 --> 01:23:12,112 Well, thanks for the flight. 1008 01:23:16,449 --> 01:23:18,368 You know, you're funny. 1009 01:23:19,244 --> 01:23:21,037 Oh, how am I funny? 1010 01:23:22,497 --> 01:23:25,333 You don't like my brother, do you? 1011 01:23:30,672 --> 01:23:32,757 No, I do not like your brother. 1012 01:23:36,928 --> 01:23:39,306 Look, I don't know any card tricks, Jess, 1013 01:23:39,389 --> 01:23:41,182 but I like you. 1014 01:23:42,267 --> 01:23:43,977 And I want to see you again. 1015 01:23:53,069 --> 01:23:54,487 Hey! 1016 01:23:54,571 --> 01:23:56,114 Hello, Jess. 1017 01:23:56,406 --> 01:23:57,907 Hey, Paul. 1018 01:23:58,366 --> 01:23:59,826 How's your brother? 1019 01:23:59,909 --> 01:24:02,245 You both left him alone. 1020 01:24:02,412 --> 01:24:04,748 Well, I'm sorry about that. That was my fault. 1021 01:24:05,498 --> 01:24:07,208 Well, you're not forgiven. 1022 01:24:08,251 --> 01:24:09,961 Well, is Norman forgiven? 1023 01:24:10,587 --> 01:24:12,297 Norman's not funny. 1024 01:24:17,969 --> 01:24:19,054 Ooh. 1025 01:24:27,604 --> 01:24:30,398 And I hung fresh towels on the washstand for you. 1026 01:24:31,024 --> 01:24:32,817 Did you remember to powder my toothbrush, Mother? 1027 01:24:32,901 --> 01:24:34,611 No! 1028 01:24:34,694 --> 01:24:37,030 Now, let Paul tell his latest story. 1029 01:24:37,113 --> 01:24:40,533 Oh, yes. Which one? The murder, the wreck, or the fire? 1030 01:24:40,617 --> 01:24:43,495 I think they should put you on the church beat. 1031 01:24:43,578 --> 01:24:45,205 I agree. I agree. 1032 01:24:45,288 --> 01:24:46,790 Quote, "The Reverend Maclean 1033 01:24:46,873 --> 01:24:49,626 "had a nice roast while dining with his family. 1034 01:24:49,709 --> 01:24:53,171 "All except for the poor, elder son 1035 01:24:53,254 --> 01:24:54,714 "enjoyed it immensely." 1036 01:24:56,132 --> 01:24:57,717 Norman, what's the matter? 1037 01:24:57,801 --> 01:24:58,968 He's not funny. 1038 01:24:59,052 --> 01:25:00,136 Pardon me? 1039 01:25:00,345 --> 01:25:01,554 He's not funny. 1040 01:25:03,973 --> 01:25:06,893 Well, there are more important accomplishments, Norman. 1041 01:25:06,976 --> 01:25:09,479 Mmm-hmm. It's all right if you're dull, Norman. 1042 01:25:10,063 --> 01:25:11,314 No. 1043 01:25:11,398 --> 01:25:13,358 We're very proud of you. 1044 01:25:15,193 --> 01:25:16,945 - Yes. - Well, I do have one story. 1045 01:25:17,070 --> 01:25:18,446 No murder, no mayhem. 1046 01:25:19,406 --> 01:25:21,491 I interviewed the President. 1047 01:25:24,285 --> 01:25:25,620 - Calvin Coolidge? - The President? 1048 01:25:25,703 --> 01:25:26,746 Yeah, Calvin Coolidge. 1049 01:25:26,830 --> 01:25:28,581 - Mr. Coolidge? - Yeah. Uh-huh. 1050 01:25:28,665 --> 01:25:29,916 - When? - A few days ago. 1051 01:25:29,999 --> 01:25:32,585 He was in Dakota, fly-fishing. 1052 01:25:32,836 --> 01:25:34,129 Fly-fishing! 1053 01:25:34,212 --> 01:25:37,507 Fly-fishing in a suit and tie, white gloves and patent leather shoes. 1054 01:25:39,175 --> 01:25:43,012 So I asked him... I went right up to him. I said, "Excuse me, sir, 1055 01:25:43,096 --> 01:25:44,472 "can you tell me what they're biting on?" 1056 01:25:44,556 --> 01:25:47,183 He turns around, looks at me and says, "The end of my line." 1057 01:25:49,519 --> 01:25:51,354 "The end of my line." 1058 01:25:54,274 --> 01:25:56,025 Then a bunch of the locals came running over, 1059 01:25:56,109 --> 01:25:58,695 tied on some new-fangled fly the size of a chicken. 1060 01:25:58,778 --> 01:26:01,030 Old Cal, he heaves it out there. 1061 01:26:01,322 --> 01:26:04,993 Figured if he can't catch a trout, by God, he's gonna scare one to death. 1062 01:26:08,705 --> 01:26:09,706 Did you get a picture? 1063 01:26:09,789 --> 01:26:11,708 Oh, yeah. Be in the Sunday paper. 1064 01:26:11,791 --> 01:26:14,377 "Closed-mouth Cal communes with the crappies." 1065 01:26:23,845 --> 01:26:25,555 Mother, that was amazing. 1066 01:26:25,722 --> 01:26:28,057 He usually only eats what he can hit on the road. 1067 01:26:29,100 --> 01:26:30,852 Now that was funny. 1068 01:26:31,269 --> 01:26:34,022 - You know, I do worry about you, Paul. - I'm going to run over to... 1069 01:26:34,105 --> 01:26:35,148 Hmm? 1070 01:26:35,231 --> 01:26:36,316 What? 1071 01:26:37,817 --> 01:26:39,068 What? 1072 01:26:40,111 --> 01:26:42,322 Oh, I was just going to say, 1073 01:26:43,406 --> 01:26:47,160 thought I'd go out and meet some of the old pals, being in town and all. 1074 01:26:51,664 --> 01:26:53,249 Don't you wait up. 1075 01:26:53,333 --> 01:26:56,211 I plan on eating the rest of this when nobody's looking. 1076 01:27:27,700 --> 01:27:30,370 I understand he's changed the spelling of our name. 1077 01:27:32,413 --> 01:27:34,541 MacLean, with a capital L. 1078 01:27:37,585 --> 01:27:40,463 Now everyone will think we're Lowland Scots. 1079 01:27:56,145 --> 01:27:57,647 Howdy, Norman. 1080 01:27:59,983 --> 01:28:01,651 Hi there, Mr. Sweeney. 1081 01:28:02,527 --> 01:28:05,697 Who do you know at the University of Chicago? 1082 01:28:08,324 --> 01:28:11,286 Chicken in a car, car won't go. 1083 01:28:11,369 --> 01:28:13,496 That's how you spell Chicago. 1084 01:28:32,640 --> 01:28:34,475 "...not in entire forgetfulness 1085 01:28:34,559 --> 01:28:36,853 "and not in utter nakedness, 1086 01:28:37,687 --> 01:28:40,898 "but trailing clouds of glory do we come 1087 01:28:40,982 --> 01:28:43,318 "from God, who is our home." 1088 01:28:43,401 --> 01:28:45,278 "Though nothing can bring back the hour 1089 01:28:45,361 --> 01:28:46,988 "of splendor in the grass, 1090 01:28:47,864 --> 01:28:50,408 "of glory in the flower, we will grieve not. 1091 01:28:50,491 --> 01:28:53,953 "Rather find strength in what remains behind." 1092 01:28:54,912 --> 01:28:58,416 "In the primal sympathy which having been must ever be." 1093 01:28:58,499 --> 01:29:02,003 "In the soothing thoughts that spring out of human suffering." 1094 01:29:02,211 --> 01:29:04,756 "In the faith that looks through death." 1095 01:29:04,839 --> 01:29:07,884 "Thanks to the human heart by which we live. 1096 01:29:08,051 --> 01:29:11,554 "Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, its fears. 1097 01:29:12,847 --> 01:29:16,059 "To me the meanest flower that blows..." 1098 01:29:16,893 --> 01:29:17,977 "Can give thoughts 1099 01:29:18,061 --> 01:29:20,813 "that do often lie too deep for tears." 1100 01:29:26,611 --> 01:29:29,364 Good luck, Son. We'll be rooting for you. 1101 01:29:29,447 --> 01:29:30,782 There's sandwiches in here. 1102 01:29:30,865 --> 01:29:34,452 It was one week exactly before I spoke to Jessie again. 1103 01:29:34,577 --> 01:29:37,664 She called to tell me that Neal was going back to California 1104 01:29:37,747 --> 01:29:39,916 and that he would appreciate me seeing him off. 1105 01:29:40,041 --> 01:29:41,334 We love you, dear. We love you. 1106 01:29:41,417 --> 01:29:43,711 We love you. Good luck. 1107 01:29:44,587 --> 01:29:46,339 Though I was surprised by the invitation, 1108 01:29:46,422 --> 01:29:48,591 I asked only one question of Jessie. 1109 01:29:48,675 --> 01:29:50,343 Did she want me to come? 1110 01:29:50,426 --> 01:29:51,928 And she answered yes. 1111 01:29:52,679 --> 01:29:55,098 I love you. Don't forget to write. 1112 01:30:35,263 --> 01:30:38,349 If he came back next summer, would you try and help him? 1113 01:30:38,433 --> 01:30:40,810 If you wanted me to, I would try. 1114 01:30:41,477 --> 01:30:43,646 Well, he's not coming back. 1115 01:30:44,230 --> 01:30:46,649 At least he's got friends out there. 1116 01:30:47,108 --> 01:30:48,818 Who, Ronald Colman? 1117 01:30:58,411 --> 01:31:01,456 Why is it the people who need the most help 1118 01:31:02,457 --> 01:31:03,958 won't take it? 1119 01:31:06,377 --> 01:31:08,129 I don't know, Jess. 1120 01:31:14,051 --> 01:31:15,678 God. 1121 01:31:16,471 --> 01:31:17,764 I don't... 1122 01:31:17,847 --> 01:31:19,640 I don't cry, Norman. 1123 01:31:36,282 --> 01:31:37,825 Can I show you something? 1124 01:31:38,785 --> 01:31:40,328 Only if it's something good. 1125 01:31:46,709 --> 01:31:47,835 Read. 1126 01:31:58,054 --> 01:31:59,806 So what do you think? 1127 01:31:59,889 --> 01:32:03,184 What do I think? I think it's the berries! 1128 01:32:03,267 --> 01:32:04,268 You do? 1129 01:32:04,352 --> 01:32:06,729 Yeah, to get away! Chicago! 1130 01:32:07,063 --> 01:32:08,981 God, it's heaven. 1131 01:32:09,065 --> 01:32:11,609 - Have you ever been? - No, no. Not anywhere. 1132 01:32:11,692 --> 01:32:12,693 Helena. 1133 01:32:15,613 --> 01:32:18,241 God. Congratulations, Norman. 1134 01:32:20,284 --> 01:32:22,453 Truth is, I'm not sure I want to leave. 1135 01:32:23,579 --> 01:32:27,250 Montana? Why? It'll always be here. 1136 01:32:27,375 --> 01:32:29,001 Not Montana. 1137 01:32:29,085 --> 01:32:30,419 Then what? 1138 01:32:32,380 --> 01:32:34,257 What? 1139 01:32:35,550 --> 01:32:37,593 I'm not sure I want to leave you. 1140 01:32:59,615 --> 01:33:02,076 They keep closing this place, right? 1141 01:33:02,159 --> 01:33:03,870 Little do they know, I just come from there. 1142 01:33:03,953 --> 01:33:06,372 Dining my liquid lunch. You gotta watch it, Fred. 1143 01:33:06,455 --> 01:33:07,582 I'm telling you, they're after you. 1144 01:33:07,665 --> 01:33:08,916 You got it right... 1145 01:33:11,627 --> 01:33:12,962 Well, now. 1146 01:33:17,425 --> 01:33:19,677 Give us a couple boilermakers, Fred. 1147 01:33:25,474 --> 01:33:26,893 Two up. 1148 01:33:34,942 --> 01:33:38,696 Well, here's to the heart, God damn it. 1149 01:33:38,779 --> 01:33:40,114 Oh, Lordy. 1150 01:33:51,751 --> 01:33:53,044 Mmm. 1151 01:33:58,758 --> 01:34:01,302 I'm in love with Jessie Burns. 1152 01:34:03,888 --> 01:34:05,973 Jesus Christ, Norm. 1153 01:34:06,057 --> 01:34:08,100 With all the fish in the river? 1154 01:34:08,351 --> 01:34:10,019 Not like her. 1155 01:34:10,686 --> 01:34:11,896 Oh, right. 1156 01:34:13,356 --> 01:34:14,857 Not like her. 1157 01:34:17,777 --> 01:34:18,861 Congratulations. 1158 01:34:20,863 --> 01:34:22,531 I'm real happy for you. 1159 01:34:25,910 --> 01:34:29,205 Well, God damn it, let's get the hell out of here and go celebrate. 1160 01:34:30,247 --> 01:34:31,374 Done. 1161 01:34:31,624 --> 01:34:34,126 ♪ Bananas today 1162 01:34:34,293 --> 01:34:36,128 ♪ We've got homegrown potatoes 1163 01:34:36,212 --> 01:34:37,713 ♪ And vine-ripened tomatoes ♪ 1164 01:34:37,797 --> 01:34:39,298 It's a stinker. 1165 01:34:39,382 --> 01:34:40,716 What? 1166 01:34:40,883 --> 01:34:42,218 It stinks. 1167 01:34:42,593 --> 01:34:44,720 What do you mean? It's a classic! 1168 01:34:44,804 --> 01:34:46,389 Oh, really? 1169 01:34:49,600 --> 01:34:50,643 Yes. 1170 01:34:50,726 --> 01:34:53,270 ♪ We have no bananas 1171 01:34:53,354 --> 01:34:56,148 ♪ We have no bananas today ♪ 1172 01:34:59,276 --> 01:35:01,028 Where are we? 1173 01:35:02,196 --> 01:35:03,906 Where we going? 1174 01:35:09,078 --> 01:35:10,121 Lolo. 1175 01:35:10,204 --> 01:35:11,622 Yup. 1176 01:35:15,960 --> 01:35:17,086 No. 1177 01:35:22,550 --> 01:35:24,927 Figured you felt lucky tonight. 1178 01:35:25,011 --> 01:35:27,138 I could use some of the luck. 1179 01:35:34,437 --> 01:35:36,897 Jesus Christ. Don't. No, don't. 1180 01:35:36,981 --> 01:35:38,774 Don't be the professor tonight. 1181 01:35:40,151 --> 01:35:41,569 Norm. 1182 01:35:42,194 --> 01:35:43,446 Preacher. 1183 01:36:30,076 --> 01:36:31,327 Hello, Frank. 1184 01:36:32,661 --> 01:36:34,330 Well, my gal Sal. 1185 01:37:02,775 --> 01:37:04,527 Sal! Hey, Sal? 1186 01:37:06,821 --> 01:37:08,614 Get a drink for my brother. 1187 01:37:09,031 --> 01:37:10,282 Bourbon. 1188 01:37:11,158 --> 01:37:14,078 In fact, how about a round on me? 1189 01:37:14,912 --> 01:37:16,372 He's in love. 1190 01:37:27,216 --> 01:37:28,509 Hang on. 1191 01:37:29,802 --> 01:37:31,595 Take care of him, Sal. 1192 01:37:39,478 --> 01:37:41,355 Not a good idea, Paul. 1193 01:37:45,025 --> 01:37:47,653 Fellas, got a chair for me? 1194 01:37:47,736 --> 01:37:48,654 Not for you, Paul. 1195 01:37:48,737 --> 01:37:50,906 Now you know I'm good for it. 1196 01:37:55,119 --> 01:37:56,704 What do you want? 1197 01:37:57,538 --> 01:37:58,831 What? 1198 01:37:59,623 --> 01:38:01,876 Cards? What? 1199 01:38:04,628 --> 01:38:06,255 What do you want? 1200 01:38:07,590 --> 01:38:08,799 Nothing. 1201 01:38:10,801 --> 01:38:13,721 A buck. I know Paul says he's paying, but... 1202 01:38:13,804 --> 01:38:15,139 Okay! 1203 01:38:17,933 --> 01:38:19,435 Okay, okay. 1204 01:38:20,436 --> 01:38:21,896 No, no. 1205 01:38:22,188 --> 01:38:23,772 No. Just games. 1206 01:38:24,857 --> 01:38:25,900 Only games. 1207 01:38:25,983 --> 01:38:28,652 Let's go. Now. 1208 01:38:29,737 --> 01:38:31,655 Come on, we're getting out of here. 1209 01:38:31,780 --> 01:38:33,407 Righty-o, oh, oh. 1210 01:38:40,623 --> 01:38:42,333 Bye-bye, sonny. 1211 01:38:55,763 --> 01:38:57,348 I'm not leaving. 1212 01:38:58,140 --> 01:38:59,475 What? 1213 01:38:59,892 --> 01:39:02,645 These hands are hot, Norm. I can feel it. 1214 01:39:02,853 --> 01:39:05,147 What are you talking about? You can't go back in there. 1215 01:39:06,065 --> 01:39:08,567 Norm, it's fine. I'll be fine. 1216 01:39:08,817 --> 01:39:10,736 They won't even let you play. 1217 01:39:10,819 --> 01:39:12,947 Oh, yes, they will. 1218 01:39:13,030 --> 01:39:15,908 With what? You are in debt up to your goddamn neck! 1219 01:39:16,700 --> 01:39:18,452 Norm, it's my debt. 1220 01:39:20,663 --> 01:39:22,373 Okay? It's my debt. 1221 01:39:26,377 --> 01:39:27,836 Jesus Christ. 1222 01:39:48,524 --> 01:39:49,566 Norm! 1223 01:39:50,109 --> 01:39:51,652 Hey, Norm! 1224 01:39:52,194 --> 01:39:53,320 Norm. 1225 01:39:55,823 --> 01:39:57,533 Hey. 1226 01:39:58,117 --> 01:40:00,619 I was thinking. We never got to go fishing again. 1227 01:40:00,703 --> 01:40:02,871 Maybe we could go tomorrow. 1228 01:40:02,955 --> 01:40:05,207 And we could get Dad to come along. 1229 01:40:05,708 --> 01:40:07,418 Okay? 1230 01:40:08,544 --> 01:40:09,920 You ask him. 1231 01:40:13,132 --> 01:40:14,216 Okay. 1232 01:40:16,552 --> 01:40:17,636 6:30. 1233 01:41:10,773 --> 01:41:12,691 Boy, something smells good out there. 1234 01:41:12,775 --> 01:41:13,817 Morning, everybody. 1235 01:41:13,901 --> 01:41:15,527 It's the muffins. 1236 01:41:15,611 --> 01:41:16,612 Perfect! 1237 01:41:17,780 --> 01:41:21,033 We're so glad you could make it, what with work and everything. 1238 01:41:21,116 --> 01:41:22,159 I wouldn't miss it. 1239 01:41:22,242 --> 01:41:24,703 What are you working on? Do you have any new stories to tell us? 1240 01:41:24,787 --> 01:41:26,455 A story? Mmm. 1241 01:41:26,538 --> 01:41:27,915 All righty. 1242 01:41:28,999 --> 01:41:30,292 Oh, jeez. 1243 01:41:33,128 --> 01:41:34,463 I have one. 1244 01:41:38,092 --> 01:41:39,176 What? 1245 01:41:40,511 --> 01:41:43,680 I've been offered a job at the University of Chicago. 1246 01:41:44,306 --> 01:41:45,349 Yes? 1247 01:41:46,558 --> 01:41:48,477 Teaching literature. 1248 01:41:49,561 --> 01:41:50,813 What? 1249 01:41:50,896 --> 01:41:52,564 Starting fall term. 1250 01:41:56,944 --> 01:41:58,821 I'm going to take it. 1251 01:42:00,322 --> 01:42:02,074 Norman. 1252 01:42:07,204 --> 01:42:08,664 I am pleased. 1253 01:42:10,916 --> 01:42:13,669 Yes, I am pleased. 1254 01:42:15,879 --> 01:42:17,089 Well. 1255 01:42:18,173 --> 01:42:19,591 A professor. 1256 01:42:23,804 --> 01:42:24,930 A real professor. 1257 01:42:26,473 --> 01:42:27,808 Damnation. 1258 01:42:32,438 --> 01:42:33,981 I'm proud of you. 1259 01:42:48,120 --> 01:42:49,872 Now, you be sure to take pictures. 1260 01:42:53,125 --> 01:42:54,793 We're gonna catch some big fish. 1261 01:42:54,877 --> 01:42:55,878 Yes, we are. 1262 01:42:55,961 --> 01:42:57,212 Let's go! 1263 01:43:08,056 --> 01:43:10,225 Remember those rocks we used to build our fireplace? 1264 01:43:10,309 --> 01:43:11,810 They had holes in them. 1265 01:43:11,894 --> 01:43:13,228 Those were big rocks. 1266 01:43:13,312 --> 01:43:15,647 Yeah. Nearly a billion years old. 1267 01:43:15,898 --> 01:43:17,733 Half a billion, Norman. 1268 01:43:18,233 --> 01:43:19,485 Come on. 1269 01:43:22,654 --> 01:43:24,156 Well, 1270 01:43:25,073 --> 01:43:28,452 I believe the high road will suit me better. 1271 01:43:30,496 --> 01:43:31,538 Oh. 1272 01:43:32,164 --> 01:43:33,248 True. 1273 01:43:35,792 --> 01:43:37,419 There was a time. 1274 01:43:38,295 --> 01:43:40,172 You'll make a killing. 1275 01:43:44,343 --> 01:43:45,844 He'll make a killing. 1276 01:43:47,513 --> 01:43:49,181 Let's fish together today. 1277 01:43:49,264 --> 01:43:50,390 Good. 1278 01:45:52,220 --> 01:45:53,972 What are they biting on? 1279 01:45:54,056 --> 01:45:55,182 What? 1280 01:45:56,558 --> 01:45:58,644 What are they biting on? 1281 01:45:58,727 --> 01:45:59,895 Louder! 1282 01:46:01,521 --> 01:46:03,231 I said... 1283 01:46:05,692 --> 01:46:07,069 Bunyan Bugs! 1284 01:46:10,947 --> 01:46:12,908 Want me to bring you one? 1285 01:46:13,033 --> 01:46:15,869 No, I'll come and get it. 1286 01:46:30,384 --> 01:46:33,053 Bunyan Bug, stonefly number two. 1287 01:46:33,762 --> 01:46:37,265 Thank you, O merciful professor of poetry and trout. 1288 01:47:04,876 --> 01:47:07,462 I'm going to ask Jessie to marry me. 1289 01:47:10,173 --> 01:47:11,883 Yes. 1290 01:47:14,344 --> 01:47:15,762 Quite a day. 1291 01:47:25,689 --> 01:47:27,816 Why don't you come with us to Chicago? 1292 01:47:34,156 --> 01:47:35,615 It's 2,000 miles away. 1293 01:47:35,699 --> 01:47:38,034 They've gotta have more than a dozen papers there. 1294 01:47:39,911 --> 01:47:42,581 You'd be right in the middle of things. 1295 01:47:43,331 --> 01:47:44,916 What do you say? 1296 01:47:46,334 --> 01:47:47,794 Come with us. 1297 01:47:51,381 --> 01:47:54,009 Oh, I'll never leave Montana, Brother. 1298 01:49:44,953 --> 01:49:46,121 There! 1299 01:51:16,419 --> 01:51:18,296 Oh, me. Oh, my. 1300 01:51:18,922 --> 01:51:20,924 Look at that fish! 1301 01:51:22,467 --> 01:51:24,344 Oh, my. 1302 01:51:26,096 --> 01:51:27,847 Unbelievable. 1303 01:51:29,015 --> 01:51:32,894 At that moment, I knew, surely and clearly, 1304 01:51:33,103 --> 01:51:35,438 that I was witnessing perfection. 1305 01:51:37,357 --> 01:51:38,733 You... 1306 01:51:38,817 --> 01:51:40,485 You are a fine fisherman. 1307 01:51:41,945 --> 01:51:44,990 Only need three more years before I can think like a fish. 1308 01:51:45,073 --> 01:51:46,574 You're already thinking like a dead stonefly. 1309 01:51:46,658 --> 01:51:49,577 - Here, pictures. - Mother's pictures. 1310 01:51:50,078 --> 01:51:52,038 - Hurry up. - One. 1311 01:51:53,581 --> 01:51:54,624 Two. 1312 01:51:54,833 --> 01:51:58,503 My brother stood before us, not on a bank of the Big Blackfoot River, 1313 01:51:58,586 --> 01:52:00,880 but suspended above the earth, 1314 01:52:00,964 --> 01:52:04,300 free from all its laws like a work of art. 1315 01:52:05,510 --> 01:52:06,678 Three. 1316 01:52:20,567 --> 01:52:23,486 And I knew just as surely and just as clearly 1317 01:52:23,570 --> 01:52:25,613 that life is not a work of art 1318 01:52:26,406 --> 01:52:28,825 and that the moment could not last. 1319 01:52:44,883 --> 01:52:47,260 And so when the police sergeant awakened me one morning 1320 01:52:47,343 --> 01:52:49,304 just before Jessie and I left for Chicago, 1321 01:52:49,387 --> 01:52:51,639 I rose and asked no questions. 1322 01:53:22,420 --> 01:53:25,423 He drove me back home down the length of the river 1323 01:53:26,132 --> 01:53:28,259 so that I could tell my father and mother 1324 01:53:28,343 --> 01:53:31,596 that Paul had been beaten to death by the butt of a revolver 1325 01:53:31,679 --> 01:53:34,015 and his body dumped in an alley. 1326 01:54:16,349 --> 01:54:18,977 Is there anything else you can tell me? 1327 01:54:24,065 --> 01:54:26,985 Nearly all the bones in his hand were broken. 1328 01:54:46,337 --> 01:54:48,173 Which hand? 1329 01:54:50,925 --> 01:54:52,927 His right hand. 1330 01:55:27,545 --> 01:55:31,341 As time passed, my father struggled for more to hold onto, 1331 01:55:31,424 --> 01:55:34,594 asking me again and again had I told him everything. 1332 01:55:35,470 --> 01:55:37,222 And finally I said to him, 1333 01:55:37,305 --> 01:55:39,974 "Maybe all I really know about Paul 1334 01:55:40,183 --> 01:55:41,809 "is that he was a fine fisherman." 1335 01:55:43,061 --> 01:55:45,313 "You know more than that," my father said. 1336 01:55:46,147 --> 01:55:47,982 "He was beautiful." 1337 01:55:49,400 --> 01:55:52,820 And that was the last time we ever spoke of my brother's death. 1338 01:56:04,290 --> 01:56:08,169 Indirectly, though, Paul was always present in my father's thoughts. 1339 01:56:08,878 --> 01:56:12,507 I remember the last sermon I heard him give, not long before his own death. 1340 01:56:13,549 --> 01:56:18,471 Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives 1341 01:56:18,554 --> 01:56:23,351 look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question. 1342 01:56:24,269 --> 01:56:29,315 "We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed?" 1343 01:56:31,109 --> 01:56:34,654 For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. 1344 01:56:34,737 --> 01:56:37,740 Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give, 1345 01:56:37,824 --> 01:56:41,077 or, more often than not, the part we have to give 1346 01:56:42,161 --> 01:56:43,663 is not wanted. 1347 01:56:45,331 --> 01:56:48,001 And so it is those we live with and should know 1348 01:56:48,084 --> 01:56:49,711 who elude us, 1349 01:56:52,714 --> 01:56:54,841 but we can still love them. 1350 01:56:56,217 --> 01:56:58,052 We can love completely 1351 01:56:58,678 --> 01:57:00,888 without complete understanding. 1352 01:57:40,428 --> 01:57:45,141 Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand in my youth are dead, 1353 01:57:45,224 --> 01:57:47,101 even Jessie. 1354 01:57:47,393 --> 01:57:49,604 But I still reach out to them. 1355 01:58:01,282 --> 01:58:04,410 Of course, now I'm too old to be much of a fisherman, 1356 01:58:05,036 --> 01:58:07,663 and now I usually fish the big waters alone, 1357 01:58:07,747 --> 01:58:10,458 although some friends think I shouldn't. 1358 01:58:18,508 --> 01:58:21,761 But when I am alone in the half-light of the canyon, 1359 01:58:22,261 --> 01:58:26,974 all existence seems to fade to a being with my soul and memories, 1360 01:58:27,350 --> 01:58:29,685 and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River, 1361 01:58:29,769 --> 01:58:31,729 and a four-count rhythm 1362 01:58:31,813 --> 01:58:34,273 and the hope that a fish will rise. 1363 01:58:47,829 --> 01:58:51,416 Eventually, all things merge into one, 1364 01:58:54,168 --> 01:58:56,337 and a river runs through it. 1365 01:59:02,885 --> 01:59:05,847 The river was cut by the world's great flood 1366 01:59:05,930 --> 01:59:08,891 and runs over rocks from the basement of time. 1367 01:59:10,017 --> 01:59:12,937 On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. 1368 01:59:14,397 --> 01:59:16,441 Under the rocks are the words, 1369 01:59:17,400 --> 01:59:19,735 and some of the words are theirs. 1370 01:59:29,745 --> 01:59:31,664 I am haunted by waters. 89949

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