All language subtitles for The Long Days of Summer (USA) (1980) (WEB-DL).English

- (SINGING) Oh beautiful,
for spacious skies,

for amber waves of grain.

For purple mountains majesty,
above the fruited plains.

America, America, God
shed his grace on thee.

- Bridgeport, Connecticut, where
we all started out together--

me, and Charlie Wilson, and
Howie Martin, and Dave Zimmer,

and Marty Albert, and of
course, my little sister Sarah.

It seems 1,000 summers have
come and gone since then,

yet the memories will
always remain and need only

be touched to return as clear
and as bright as yesterday.

And so it is that even now, when
I feel the softness of a summer

breeze, or see a familiar
pattern of shadows

play across the ground, or
hear a little girl's laugh,

I am easily transported back
to that time of innocence

and adventure, when
life was yet to be lived

and the days of our youth
would go on forever.

[KIDS CHEERING]

- Oh, look who's coming up, Joe.

Cooper!

He can't hit the side of a barn.

- All right, you got him,
you got him, you got him.

Swing!
[BAM]

[KIDS YELLING]

- Lucky hit, Cooper.

- You're a real sport, Landauer.

[KIDS JEERING]

- Hey, batter, swing!

- Yeah!

- Run, run, run!

- Come on, throw him out!
Hurry up!

Throw him out!
Hurry up, throw him out!

- I got it.

- Retired.

[KIDS QUIET DOWN]

- Hey, what gives?

- Come on, get him!

[KIDS YELLING]

[FIGHTING]

OK, OK.

- Go!

Let him go.

- Come on, that's enough.

That's enough.

- Aw, let him go, Mr. Dowd.

I won't hurt him too bad.
- Yeah, let us go.

He's got it coming.

- Hey, this is a baseball
game, not a boxing match.

You guys really want to fight?

Sign up for the Gloves.

It's you and your Golden Gloves.

I run the program
so I can see to it

that you and Freddy meet in the
first round of the tournament.

- That's just swell
with me, Mr. Dowd.

- Sure, I'll sign up.

- OK, OK.

Now, I got to go
back to the school.

You guys drop by later and
pick up your applications.

And the rest of you
guys, clear out.

Come on, scram.
It's all over.

All over!

- You still going to show
up Saturday night, Cooper?

- Sure, why not?

- Good, just bring the $5.

Come on, you guys.

- Get out of here.

- Boy, he's some creep.

- Hmm.

- Yeah.

Dan, you sure you know
what you're doin'?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

One, two, three.

- (SINGING) We are the
Merry Makers, happy and gay.

We try to help in every way.

We are not good cooks,
nor sewers, nor bakers.

We are just the Merry Makers.

- Sarah, there's your father.

- Hi, father.

- Hello, sweetheart.

It's good to see you.

- How come you're home so early?

- Well, even lawyers get
to play hooky now and then.

Well, I see the Merry Makers
are having their weekly meeting.

- Hi Mr. Cooper.

- Hi, Joyce, Norma
May, Margie, June.

- Oh, Mr. Cooper, Mrs. Cooper
would like you to bring up

the table in the front hall.

- OK, Clementine.

See you girls later.

- Oh, father.

Duane was painting
my picture again.

Guess he's going to
give it to you again

instead of the
rent, huh, father?

- Well, now, Sarah,
these are hard times,

and Duane is an artist.

Besides, you wait,
and you'll see.

I bet those pictures are
going to be worth a lot more

than a little rent.

[GIGGLES]

Say, hey, cupcakes.

- Sure, father.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

- Hiya.
- Hi, Francis.

- How are you?
- Fine, fine.

- You look terrific today.

- Oh, thank you.

- Duane, look.

It's a letter from Paris.
- Hello, Duane.

- Hi Ed.

Sarah's new painting is
coming along just fine.

- Oh, good, good.

It will be a nice addition
to our collection.

[MUTTERING TO HERSELF]

Three, three, three.

[MUMBLING]

- Hello, darling.

Did you have a good day?

- Yes, I had a very--

- If Grace Romby doesn't like
these, I'll eat the cake.

Aren't they just lovely?

- They're beautiful.

Millie, I got it.

- She has been driving me
crazy with accent pieces.

We don't even have
the painters yet.

Do you know where I found these?

- Sweetheart, I said I got it.

- Yes, I see it, darling.

It's all right, you can put it
down over there if you'd like.

I don't know, I think her...

[MUMBLING]

You got it?
You got it?!

Why didn't you tell me?
[LAUGHING]

- I've been trying!

You are looking at the
new outside legal counsel

for that giant of Bridgeport
industry, Wiggin and Wade.

- Oh, I'm so proud of you.

- Shall I pour the champagne?

- By all means.

There's something more.

I checked into the
availability of that, uh,

beachfront property.
Hm?

It's still there.

- Oh gosh, you wouldn't kid me?

- Would I kid you?

- Oh, Ed.

The beach.

- Mhm.
Salute.

- Cheers.

Anyways, she expected
me to do for them what

I did in the Kelly Lason case.

I said I'm not too sure
I can accomplish it.

- Oh, Dad, I signed up for the
Junior Golden Gloves today.

- Golden Gloves?

- You-- you did what?

- I signed up.

- Well, just unsign up.

[WATER POURING]

- Aw, mom, come on!

It's not exactly like fighting.

They have it every year.

It's like baseball,
or any sport.

- It is not like any sport.

It's like fighting.

Let's not discuss this now.

- Speaking of
fighting, Sam Wiggin

invited us to dinner
Saturday night at his house.

Hm, hm?

- Oh.

- We're going to listen to
the Louis-Schmeling fight.

- Who you think is
going to win it, Dad?

- The Brown Bomber!

You can bet your house on it.

- You bet money on Louis?

- Who, me?

Don't you know that a fool
and his money are soon parted?

- And only a fool wages
hard-earned money.

- Oh, guess what?

Our class is going to the
Bridgeport station in three

weeks to see
President Roosevelt.

And Mrs. Broderick says
that seeing the President

is like watching history
while it happens.

- President Roosevelt?

In Bridgeport, Connecticut?

- Mhm.

- Yeah, it's called, uh, um--

- A whistle stop.

- That's it!

How'd you know?

[CHUCKLES]

- Dinner on Louis and you hush.

- Who's for peach cobbler?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

- Hi.

- Hi.

Boy, you're really getting
quite a collection.

How old's this one?

- Since when are you
interested in my stamps?

- Can't a guy be interested
in his own sister's stamp

collection?

- All right, Daniel.

What do you want?

- Who me?

I don't want anything.

- Daniel.

- Oh right, I need a buck.

One lousy buck.

- A dollar?!
- A dollar.

- Where's your money?

You get more
allowance than I do.

- Well, look, it's just a loan.

I'll even sign an IOU.

- Like the last time,
and the time before that?

- What-- what if I promised to
give you back $1.50 Saturday

night?

- How are you going to do that?

- Cross my heart.

Loan me the dollar, and
Saturday night you'll

be a half a buck richer.

- Saturday night...

Daniel Cooper, you're betting
on the fight, aren't you?

Shh!
Not so loud, will you?

- You heard what mother said.

- I know, I know, but I
can't do anything about it.

- Why?

- Well, because Freddy Landauer
told to put up or shut up

today.

He didn't leave us any choice.

It's for five dollars.

- Five dollars?

- Shh.

- (QUIETER) Five dollars?

- Yeah.

See, we each put up a buck,
unless I have to chicken out

because I can't get the dough.

- All right, Daniel, but
this is the last time.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[CHANGE CLINKING]

- Thanks.

- Who are we betting on?

- Joe Louis.

But don't worry, he's a cinch.

You heard Clementine,
didn't you?

- Come on, Joe Louis.

- Well, my temper
had me in a jam.

I had to figure some way
to get mother and father

to let me box Freddy Landauer
but I didn't know how.

Anyway, it was Saturday night.

Joe Louis was going
to fight Max Schmeling

for the heavyweight
championship of the world,

and me and the guys were
either going to win or lose

an awful lot of money.

- Sarah, there's one
thing about your mother--

she's always worth waiting for.

- Sarah, I'll be in to see
you tonight when I come home.

Don't eat too many of
Clementine's cookies

you can't sleep.

Thank you, darling.

[SOMBER MUSIC]

- Can I help you?

- Oh, please, yes.

Is this the house of Mr. Haley?
- Yes.

Yes, he lives downstairs.
I'm Ed Cooper.

We live upstairs.

- My name is Josef Kaplan.

- Mr. Kaplan.

- I'm afraid I
took the wrong bus.

- This, uh, this is my daughter,
Sarah, and, uh, my wife,

Mrs. Cooper.

- How do you do.

- Josef Kaplan.

Sarah, why don't you show
Mr. Kaplan to the door.

- Sure, father.
Bye, mother.

- Bye, darling.

- Bye, father.

Come on, Mr. Kaplan.

We're going to listen to the
fight with Duane and Francis.

We are for Joe Louis.

- Ah, I see.

[GERMAN FOLK MUSIC]

- Maybe we shouldn't go in.

- Well, we're here,
and we're going in.

- What are you kids doing here?

[MUSIC GROWS LOUDER]

Herbert!

Heinrich!

- Well, if it isn't Cooper.

What do you know?

You showed up.

[CHATTER]

[CLINKING OF GLASS]

- A toast to Ed Cooper,
and a long and profitable

association.

- Here, here.

- Thank you, sir.

Thank you, thank you.

- So tell me, how do your
children like the school

they're going to?

- Oh, just fine.

Really fine, Tom.

- It's fight time.

We'll take our after dinner
drinks in the living room.

- I've been looking forward
to this fight for a long time.

- Who do you think
is going to win, Ed?

- Uh, check with
me in an hour, Sam.

- A Kraut or a Darky?

Heh, swell difference.

Oh, I'll tell you,
where's Dempsey now

that we need him, huh?

Ooh, have a cigar.

[RADIO TUNING]

- 15 rounds for the world's
heavyweight championship.

Weighing 193, wearing
purple trunks,

outstanding contender
for heavyweight honors,

the former heavyweight
title holder, Max Schmeling.

[CHEERING]

[FIGHT BELL RINGS]

Weighing 198 and 3/4,
wearing black trunks,

the famous Detroit Brown Bomber,
world's heavyweight champion,

Joe Louis.
[CHEERING]

- And now, ladies and gentlemen,
as referee, Arthur Donovan

calls both principals to
the far side of the ring

for final instructions.

This is Ed Farmerson
speaking, and we

give you now Clem McCarthy.

- And the old slogan of
boxing, may the best man win,

and she's about to start with
this Yankee Stadium packed

to the doors.

[FIGHT BELL RINGS]

- And there we are.
- Get him, Max.

- And they get up to
the ring right together

with Arthur Donovan
stepping around them,

and Joe Louis is in the center
of the ring, Max going around.

Joe Louis led quick with two
straight lefts to the chin,

and Louis hooks a
left to Max's head

quickly, and shoots over a
hard right to Max's head.

Louis--
- Stay away from him!

Stay away!
- A right to his head.

- Come on, Max!

- Max!

- Louis with the old one-two,
and there Max Schmeling caught

him with his--
- Yeah, Max!

[CHEERS]

[WHISTLES]

- Now, Max is backing
away against the ropes.

Louis is following him, and
watching for that chance.

He is prodding Schmeling.
- Watch the right.

Watch the right!
Watch the right!

- And missed the right.

Louis then cuts him with two
straight lefts to the face,

and brought over that
hard right to the head,

and Louis missed
with a left swing,

but in close brought
up a hard right

[CHEERING]

to the jaw, and again,
a right to the body.

A left hook.
- Come on, Louis!

- Right and left to the head.

A left to the jaw.

A right to the head.

A left hook to the jaw,
and Schmeling is down.

The count is five.

[KIDS CHEERING]

Six, seven, eight.

The men are in the ring.

The fight is over.

[CHEERING]

Max Schmeling is--

[BAM]

[CRASH]

[GLASS SHATTERS]

That nigger fought dirty!

You heard it!

The nigger fought dirty!

- Scram, Cooper, while
you're still in one piece.

- Where's the $5?

- You heard me, beat it!
- Come on, Dan.

Yeah, Dan.

Forget about the dough.

We had a bet.

- You bet on that fight?

- Yeah, pop, but I--

- Don't "yeah pop" me!

If you lose, you pay.

You hear me?!

If a Landauer loses, he pays.

Let this be a lesson to you.

All of you.

Never bet with a Jew.

Now, get out of here.

Go on.

- What's he yelling at us for?

How do you mean "Jews"?

- Yeah!

[MUSIC PLAYING]

- Sunday morning, and like
always, we were on our way home

from Katz's delicatessen
with breakfast and the paper.

We all felt good about the
fight, especially Sarah.

She just won her first $0.50.

- Hi, Ed.

- Hey, Duane.

- Can I see you for a minute?
- Sure.

Uh, tell your mother
I'll be up in a minute.

- Look, surely you
can see that this it

is very important for
the American people

to hear the truth.

- Hard to believe, isn't it, Ed?

The Nazis are actually
running a people

just because they're
Jews, and herding them

into concentration camps.

- No, no, death camps.

Death camps, and it
is not only Jews.

- This is just...

You know, y-you hear
whispers, you hear rumors,

an occasional
article is written,

but this is almost
impossible to comprehend.

- Compared to-- to this, the
Spanish Inquisition was--

was but the playing of children.

America is our last
hope, Mr. Cooper.

If your President
Roosevelt would speak out,

the world would listen.

Unfortunately, there
is not much time.

Every day, every
hour is precious.

[CLINKS]

- Do you think he knows
what he's talking about?

I mean, concentration
camps, people dying.

It's-- it's too incredible.

- Yeah, he knows.

He knows.

His wife died in a
concentration camp.

He-- he escaped.

That's the only
reason he's here.

His little girls are
still hiding in France.

[SIGHS]
He knows.

- I can't think about it.

It's too horrible
to think about.

- Yeah, I know.

I told him I'd make some calls.

- It is man's history,
and his tragedy, too.

There are too many times he
has stood by, saying nothing,

while watching a monster
that would destroy him.

- Well, father did
make some calls.

But the truth is,
no one really wanted

to hear what Josef had to say.

- Hitler and Mussolini.

Remember those names.

- Looking back now,
it's hard to believe,

but no one knew very much yet
about the Nazis or Hitler,

and I guess they didn't care.

One of the problems was that it
was all happening so far away,

and the other was
the Depression.

People had their own
troubles right here at home,

and that included me.

Anyway, after a while, it
seemed like everyone just

lost interest, even father.

But Josef kept speaking, and
we got on with our lives.

[KIDS ARGUING]

- Hey, it's my turn.

- Want the ball?
Come on, Iggy.

- Come on, Iggy.
Get the ball.

- Get the ball, Iggy.

- Come on, get it, Iggy.

- Uh-oh.

- You know the fight
is almost here.

- Yeah, so what?

- So how's about another bet?

Double or nothing, $10.

Only this time, it's you and me.

- What for?

You didn't want to
pay up the last time.

- That's cuz the
nigger fought dirty.

What's the matter, Cooper?

Chicken?

- Hey, why don't you
knock it off, Landauer.

We knew you almost won
the division last year.

- So what?

I thought Cooper here thought he
was some sort of a Barney Ross.

Ross was a real fightin' Jew.

- OK, Landauer, you got it.

- Start saving up
your dough, Cooper.

- You better.

- Come on, you guys,
let's get out of here.

This place stinks.

- Oh boy, Daniel.

You really got us
into it this time.

- But why not, mom?

A lot of the other
guys are in it.

- No, Daniel.
I gave you my reasons.

- But--

- Please, Daniel, I
don't want the people

that I love to fight other
people for no reason.

- Oh, mom.

- I, uh, didn't tell you about
the bar association dinner.

- We're still going, aren't we?
- Oh, yeah.

Yeah, but, uh, what
I wanted to say

was that they lost their
speaker and I suggested Josef.

- To speak?

- Sure, sure.

Then I called Bill Elliott.

You know Bill.

He runs a radio station.

He might broadcast the speech.

- You think that's a good idea?

- Hm?

- I mean, you getting
involved like that.

- Oh, I'm not involved.

I just thought it would
be a good chance for Josef

to be heard.

- Excuse me, but can
I say one more thing?

- I'm 13 years old, and I
think I should have something

to say about my life.

- I agree, Daniel.

But it's because you're only
13 that your mother and I have

to approve that application.

- But how am I supposed
to become a man when

I'm raised by girls' rules?

I should start wearing
a dress to school.

- I have the
perfect one for you.

You'd look wonderful.

[CHUCKLES]|

- Oh, sure.

Everyone laugh.

- Oh, come on now, Daniel.
- May I be excused?

- I guess you're going
to have to talk to him.

- Oh, I will.

[CHUCKLES]

- Where's Daniel?

- He's pouting.

[PAPER CRUMPLING]

- Daniel, what are you doing?

I brought you desert.

- I don't want it.

Now, go on, and close the door.

I told you to go on.

- You're going to get
into trouble, Daniel.

- I already am in trouble.

- Not like you're going to be
if you sign mother and father's

name to that application.

- I've been challenged,
Sarah, in front of everybody.

Either I fight Freddy
Landauer or I run away.

- Freddy Landauer?!

Daniel, he'll kill you!

- Oh, thanks a lot, Sarah.

That's just what
I needed to hear.

You're lucky, Sarah.

It's easier being a girl.

- Only sometimes.

Mostly, it's just different.

Lots of times, I wish I was you.

- Yeah?

Well, right now be
glad you're not.

[PAPER RUSTLING]

What are you doing?

- Mother doesn't
write like that.

She writes pretty, like this.

[CARS REVVING]

- In England, the Prime Minister
speaks of peace in our time.

And here in America, the most
powerful, and elegant voice

remains strangely silent.

Why has not President Roosevelt
told America and the world what

he must surely know?

Why has he not warned Adolf
Hitler to stop or else?

You may not wish to hear this,

[WOMAN LAUGHING]

but what is happening in Germany
can happen here tomorrow.

[CRICKETS]

[DOG BARKING]

[GLASS CRASHING]

- Sarah?

- Check the kids!

- Daniel?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

- Did you see anybody, Josef?

- No, no one.

They're cowards.

They run away.

- Be careful, there's
glass over there.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Ed, what happened?

- It's all right, Millie.

- Oh God, look at the window.
- It's all right.

- Where are they?

Sarah, don't go far.

- Thank you.

I think Josef
stirred up garbage.

- Those things on the wall...

Isn't that like what
you told me about?

You know, with the Truman Club?

[SHUSHES]

- Quiet, now.

Just forget everything
I told you, OK?

[WHIMSICAL MUSIC]

- Hey, it's Daniel's house.

- There's the cops.

They busted up the whole thing.

- Windows.

- Good morning, officer.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Hey, remember
when we saw them?

- I do.

I wish I didn't.

Boy.

- They destroyed
the whole place.

[WHISTLES]

I wonder who did that?

- How should I know?
Come on, let's go.

- Daniel, you know where
we saw the Swastika before.

- Yeah.

Hey, didn't you
tell your old man?

- What are you guys, crazy?

You want me to tell
him where we went,

and that we bet on the fight?

You want me to tell him that?

[BOYS AGREE]

And anyway, who
says it was them?

Maybe it was somebody else.
- That's true.

- Yeah.
Could have been.

Could have been a German spy.

- Maybe we should get a G-Man?

- Yeah, that's a good idea.

- Morning, Ed.

- Morning, Sam.
I got your message.

I guess it must be important.
- I think it is.

Tom will be along
in a few minutes.

Ed, we do business
all over Europe,

and Germany is one of
our biggest markets.

- And this Kaplan
fellow is speaking out

against the bonafide
government in Germany.

- With good reason,
wouldn't you say, Tom?

- Oh, Ed, we're not politicians.

We're business men.

- And unfortunately
you've been singled out

as Kaplan's sponsor, and
this reflects adversely

on the company.

- I'm no one's sponsor.
- You know, Ed.

Sam didn't want me
to bring this up,

but we had to fight like
hell to get the board

to approve your appointment.

- Oh?

- Well,

[CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY]

you know the board, Ed.

Everybody acts as though they
came over on the Mayflower.

- And there were no Jews aboard
the Mayflower, is that it?

- Ed, you're the
first Jewish executive

in the history of this company.

Now, that's a milestone,
a breakthrough,

and I don't want to see
you do anything to ruin it

for you or your family.

- Oh, hell, Ed.

We know why you're standing
up for this fellow.

[CHUCKLES]
I even admire you for it, but--

- Wait.

Wait just a minute.

You think I'm helping Josef
Kaplan because he's a Jew?

- Well, aren't you?

- No.

No, I'm not.

I'd help Josef Kaplan
no matter what he was.

I...

Look, maybe you don't
understand what's

happening in Germany today.

There are thousands of
innocent people, not just Jews.

Th-- they're being dragged
out of their homes,

packed into cattle cars, and
sent God only knows where.

They're never heard from again.

I'm not helping Josef
Kaplan because he's a Jew.

I'm helping him
because he's a man

and he's trying to fight
this thing all by himself.

- All right, let's
start over again.

Maybe what you say is true.

I don't know.

But what you're doing
is bad for business.

- Sam--

- Let me finish.

Whatever is going on over
there, is it really our problem?

Oh, Ed, you know how Tom
and I feel about you.

It's just a matter of time.

A spot on the board,
stock options,

bonuses, the whole ball of wax.

Isn't that right, Tom?

[CHUCKLES]

- Sure.

- Ed, do all of us a
favor, think about it.

- All right, Sam,
I'll think about it.

Well, I never thought I'd see
the day when I'd complained

about you two being too quiet.
Why the long faces?

- You feeling all right?

- I'm not sick.

- Something is
bothering you, isn't it?

- June Reilly can't be in
the Merry Makers anymore.

- Oh, why not?

- Because I'm a Jew.

- Did she tell you
that, sweetheart?

- Aw, so what?

I get that kind of
stuff all the time

from guys like Freddy Landauer.

- But June is my best friend.

- I know, sweetheart, and
I'm sure that you'll be back

playing together real soon.

People like Frank Reilly
ought to be horsewhipped.

I'm sorry, Ed.

I just haven't any
patience with parents

who poison their children.

- Do I have to be a Jew?

- Do you have to
have brown eyes?

- I was born with them.

- And you were born a Jew.

You know, being Jewish is a part
of you, Sarah, like your hair

or your eyes, your
wonderful personality.

You're very special, Sarah.

God only made one like you.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

- I'll get it.

- It's probably Mr. Haley.

Tell him I'll be right down.
- I'll walk you down.

Edward, you have to do
something about this.

It is one thing when
it happens to me,

but when it happens
to our children,

to innocent little Sarah,
that is something else.

- Wait a minute, wait a minute.
What happened to you?

What are you talking about?

- I had a wonderful
experience today

with the lovely Grace Brumby.

Millie, she says, Willis and
I are having second thoughts

about that Jewish man.

[SIGHS]

- Well, that makes it unanimous.

Sam Wiggin...

It seems Josef is
bad for business.

They don't want me involved.
[SCOFFS]

- No, did they say that?
- Oh, yes.

Yes, they said that.

- Oh, Ed, we can't
lose this opportunity.

It means too much to us.

- I know, I know, Millie.

If I backed out
now, I'm not sure

that I could look
myself in the mirror.

Come on.

Hey, hey.

- I'm scared.

I can't help it, Ed.

I've lived in this town
all my life, and now...

I don't know.

Everything is different
all of a sudden.

What's happening?

Why do I feel like an outsider?

- Come on.

Come on now, darling.

Look-- look, you
just, um, we'll talk

about this when I get home, OK?

I love you.

Give me a kiss.

[KISSES]

[SINGING IN HEBREW]

With pride and a great pleasure,
I will now introduce to you

a man of letters.

A man, a scholar.

A man who transcribed the
history of the humans.

There's no other
than Josef Kaplan.

- I am honored to
be here tonight.

I am honored to speak
in your synagogue.

[TIRES SCREECH]

- Form up!

Form up!

- I have escaped to tell the
story to the people of America.

You, who represent
our last hope.

Here in this land
of freedom, here--

[RIOTING OUTSIDE]

[YELLING AND RIOTING]

[SMASH]

All right, let's go.

They got the message.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

- The point is that this
was an organized attack.

- I understand that, Mr. Cooper.

How many of them were there?

- I don't know.

I-- I'd say maybe--

maybe 30.

- All right, did either
of you two gentlemen

recognize anybody either?

- Look, Lieutenant, I told
you that they wore hoods.

- Mr. Cooper, without
some kind of positive ID,

there's nothing I can do.

And what do you want me
to do, arrest everybody

in town who doesn't like Jews?

- That would be quite
a task, wouldn't it?

- Look, Mr. Cooper, I
don't like this either

for a lot of reasons, maybe
some of them same as yours.

I'm share of the Irish,
and I grew up in Boston.

I know the feeling.

Mick, kike, wop.

All swallow just as hard.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

- Millie--

- Oh my God, Ed.

- It looks a lot
worse than it is.

- But it's all down your face.

- Honey, it is up
in the scalp, and--

- What has happened?

- Millie, I'm going to
pour this glass of brandy

and I'm going to drink it.
- Oh, Ed.

- And then we'll talk, OK?

You want some?

- OK.

Oh.

- It's all right,
it's all right.

- And you don't
know who they were?

- I know what they were
but I don't know who.

- Sarah, Daniel, you are
supposed to be in bed.

- Father, we heard
you come in, and--

- Yes?

- And I know who they are.

- All right, you wait here.

Come in.

- Look, Lieutenant, I
know he was one of them.

He runs the German Bund.

Who else would attack a
synagogue, paint swastikas?

- He's got 20 witnesses
who will swear he never

left that club tonight.

Now, you're a
lawyer, Mr. Cooper...

- So that's it?

We let him walk out of
here free as a bird?

- We'll keep him and his
bunch under surveillance.

That's all I can do.

OK, Landauer, he can go.

I'm sorry, Mr. Cooper.

- Ed Cooper, huh?

You the same Cooper who's got
a boy over in Maplewood school?

- Yes, I have a
son in Maplewood.

- You know what's going to
happen to that kid of yours

when he gets in
the ring with mine?

You better start
praying, Cooper.

Well, that's what you people
are good at it, isn't it?

Praying?

Not fighting.

- How's your head?

- Oh, it's-- it's all right.

[SIGHS]

- Ed.

[LIQUID POURING]

We're going to have to
talk about this, you know.

It's going to be
all over the papers.

- I don't care about the papers!

I know what the papers
are going to say.

I know what Wiggins and
Wade are going to say.

Oh, Millie.

I'll tell you something, Millie.

I cannot get that man
downstairs out of my head.

- Ed, I didn't mean that
you shouldn't fight.

- I know, I know, I know.

He has to go.

He has to go.

I can't kid myself any longer.

You and the children come first.

It's just too dangerous
now, and this is America.

What time is it?

- Six.

- Well, I'll let Joseph
sleep a little while longer.

Don't hit my elbow.

- Duane's here.

He says he wants to talk to you.

- Tell him I'll be down
in about five minutes.

- We're going to have to
tell him to leave, aren't we?

- I'm afraid so.

- I don't know what's
going to happen to him.

He's here illegally, Ed.

- He entered this
country illegally?

Duane, why didn't
you tell me that?

He's in trouble
with immigration.

- I know I should
have told you before.

I kept meaning to.

I-- I was wrong.

I'm sorry, Ed.

- I mean, he can be
deported back to Germany.

He hasn't exactly been
inconspicuous, you know.

- I know.

- If he goes back, what
will they do to him?

- They'll hurt Josef,
won't they, Duane?

- No, sweetheart.

They won't hurt him.

- Will somebody please
tell me how I'm supposed

to ask Josef Kaplan to leave?

- Mr. Kaplan is here.

- Josef.
- Hello.

Please, please, do not get up.

I, uh, I have come
to say goodbye.

You have been very kind to me.

You've taken risks on my behalf.

Well, in Europe, when
you read about Americans,

it is about the Minutemen,
the pioneer, the cowboy.

Your courage comes from
a very long tradition.

Thank you seems so little to
say, but, uh, it is all I know.

- Josef, what are
you going to do?

- What I came here to do.

I will continue to speak out and
talk to any that will listen.

When the world is right
again, perhaps you

will come visit me, hm?

Ah, Daniel.

He has such heart, and
so full of the devil.

I expect to hear great
things of you one day.

- I'll walk you
to the bus, Josef.

- What about immigration?

- They know.

- I, uh, will do what I can.

Don't worry, I can
fight if I must.

- Josef?

You said you'd
know how to fight.

Well, if you want
to fight, you're

going to need a good lawyer.

I happen to be married to
the best fighting lawyer

in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Well, really, Ed?

What would you expect
him to fight alone?

- The first thing we're
going to do-- listen.

Listen, Josef.

The first thing
we're going to do

is go to immigration
before they come to us,

and get started on keeping
you in this country.

- Think you can do it, Ed?

- I don't know, but we've
got to buy some time.

What do you say, Josef?

- I-- I do not know what to say.

- Just say yes, Josef.

[CHUCKLING]

- Yeah.

- Clementine.

- Sit down.

- Bring another cup of coffee.

- Father and Josef
did go to immigration,

and much to everyone's
relief, it was good news.

They said it would
take a little time

but they thought it could be
worked out for Josef to stay.

But father still
had his problems.

- It's Mr. Cooper, sir.

- Ed, I was going to call you.
- I know, Sam.

I thought I'd save
you the trouble.

- Have you seen the paper?

- No, but I can guess.
- The front page!

It's all over the front page.

- Must be a slow news day.

- Is that your idea of a joke?

You've got a damn
queer sense of humor.

Tom and I have bent
over backwards for you.

I thought we had
an understanding.

- No, Sam, you and Tom
had the understanding.

- (ON PHONE): Just
what am I going

to tell the board of directors?

- Tell them I resigned.

- (ON PHONE): You what?

- Look, Sam, I appreciate
everything you've done,

I really do.

I'm sorry it didn't work
out, but you and Tom left me

with a choice and I've made it.

Guess I'll always wonder
why it took me so long.

[HANGS UP]

We'll have to wait a while
for the house at the beach.

- Those things are more
fun to dream about anyway.

[BELL DINGS]

- This is where we're going
to hold the matches, boys.

A lot of great champions
have trained here.

[RUSTLING AND THUMPING]

- Hi, Dad.

- Hi.

How you doing?

I wanted to talk to you
about this this morning

but I had a lot of
other things on my mind.

Sit down.
[PATS BED]

I was, uh, wondering if you
wanted to tell me anything.

- What do you mean?

Like what?

You know, don't you?

Did Sarah tell you?

- Has Sarah ever told on you?

No, it was Mr. Landauer.

It seems he's looking
forward to it.

- I don't want to fight
Freddy Landauer, Dad.

He's going to kill me,
but I've got to fight him.

I just got to!

If I can hit him with
one, just one, then I

don't care what he does to me.

Dad, I know what I did
was wrong, and I'm sorry.

I really am, but I'm not
sorry about why I did it.

- I'm not exactly Joe Louis,
but in my time, when I had to,

I can handle myself pretty good.

Hey, do me a favor,
don't look so surprised.

I wasn't always this old.

Maybe I can give you
a couple of pointers.

- You could?

Oh, Dad, do I need help!
But what about Mom?

- Your mother is going to raise
Cain, but she'll come around.

- You aren't mad at me?

- Daniel, I wish this world were
chock full of boys like you.

Been a long time since
I did this, Daniel.

All right, let's take
it real easy now.

Just keep your
hands up like this.

We'll just get the timing first.
Across, you see?

You don't have to do it hard.

Just do it slowly first
so you get the timing.

OK, you try it.

- Father was right.

Mother did come around.

Of course, it took
a little persuading.

And so my training began
with father and Duane

helping me as best they could.
- OK.

Wait a minute.

Keep that left up because
if Freddy would come across

with a right, you'd
block with your left,

you see, and come in
with a right cross.

Now, come on, just
try to get me.

Just spar around a little.

Oh, wait-- wait a minute.

- The fight was
only two weeks away

and I was wishing
it was two years.

Or never.

I remember wondering if Joe
Louis ever felt that way.

I figured he never did.

- Perhaps, sir, if I'd might
just make one small suggestion.

- Sure.

- Uh, I think, perhaps,
you go a little fast.

First was feet.

Keep your legs bent...

- Imagine our surprise
when we learned

that Josef had been quite
an amateur boxer in Germany,

good enough to win the
silver medal in the 1924

Olympic games.

Somehow, knowing
that made me feel

a little better
because believe me,

I needed all the
help I could get.

- That's good.

Excellent!

[LIVELY MUSIC]

- The fight was now
only a few days away.

I guess I had never worked so
hard at anything in my life.

Maybe I wasn't the
better boxer, but I sure

was a champion rope jumper.

- That's good, Daniel.

Now, cross your hands.

That's good.

[KIDS YELLING]

[CLAPPING]

[INAUDIBLE]

[HITTING]

- And then it was the
day before the fight,

and every time I thought about
it, I still got butterflies.

And in my mind, Freddy
Landauer got bigger and tougher

every day, but I felt
bigger and tougher, too.

[CHEERS]

[APPLAUSE]

- Ed, there's a
telephone call for you.

It's important.

[CLICKS]

- Ed?

- Immigration is coming
for Josef in the morning.

- I thought they said
they could work that out?

- It's a whole new
ballgame now, Millie.

He's no longer just
any illegal alien.

The German government
has filed charges.

High crimes against the state.

- What does that mean?

What can they do to him?

- He's being extradited.

The Brenneman sails for
Germany tomorrow at 5:00.

They want Josef aboard.

- Oh my God.

What can we do?

What can we do?

- As an officer
of the court, they

are holding me
personally responsible

for his whereabouts.

- That poor man.

Ed, we have to do something.

What can we do?

- He can't get on
that boat, Millie.

I'm going to tell
him to leave tonight.

- No, Edward, I cannot do that.

Not to you.

I will go back.

- Josef, you can't do that.

- No, my mind is made up.

If I must, I will go back.

I cannot harm the people
who have helped me so much.

- Oh, Josef, there's
a pot of fresh coffee.

- Uh, no thank you, Francis.

[CLEARS THROAT]

- I don't know what else to do.

I've called everyone
including the Attorney General

and the Lieutenant Governor.

If I knew how, I'd call
Franklin Roosevelt himself.

- Excuse us, Josef.

We have to go
outside for a while.

- Um, yeah, we got to go.

- Sarah, don't go far.

- All right, Sarah, what is it?

- Do you know who's coming
to Bridgeport today?

Who's going to be giving a
speech at the railroad station?

- No, who?

- Oh, Daniel, don't
you know anything?

President Roosevelt!

- And so, my friends, let me
say that as we here at home move

out of the shadows of
depression and hunger

and into the warm
light of a new age,

we must remember one thing:
despair is self defeating.

We do not recognize
despair in this country.

We must go forward.

- How are we going
to get past them?

- Or as the good book
says, where there is no--

- Wait here.

- -- vision, the people perish.

[CLAPPING]

And so, my good friends
and people of Bridgeport,

I want you to remember us
when you go to the polls.

And even if you
don't vote for us,

I do want you to cast
your vote because that's

what this country is all about.

[APPLAUSE]

[PRESIDENTIAL MUSIC]

- And that's why
he can't go back.

He just can't!

Father, he's a lawyer.

He called everyone he
knew to try to help Josef,

only he doesn't
know you, of course,

but you can help him, sir,
being the whole President

and everything.

- Sarah, child, even the
President must go by the rules.

Now, if Mr. Kaplan has
come to America illegally,

he has broken the law.

And now, as you say, the German
government wants him back.

Well, I'm afraid my
hands are just as

tied as all those other
fellows your daddy called.

- (CRYING): But don't you see?

If they take Josef away,
we'll never see him again.

They'll kill him!

I know they will!

- Oh, Sarah, Sarah, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I truly am.

Sarah.

- Come on, Sarah.

I told you it wouldn't work.

Thank you anyway, Mr. President.

- Ed, where on Earth
could the children be?

- Thank you, Ed.

- I'm sorry, Josef.

- I know.

You say goodbye to
the children for me.

And tonight, remember, tell
Daniel to keep up his right.

Now, now, Francis.

Who knows?

One day you may
look out the window

and there I will be,
smiling back at you.

[CRYING SOFTLY]

- I'm sorry, folks, but
we've got a boat to catch.

- (WHISPERING): Good luck.

- We have made a beginning.

Do not let it end here.

[MOURNFUL MUSIC]

- That night was the fight, and
I still wanted to whip Freddy,

but with Josef gone, somehow it
just wasn't the same anymore.

[FIGHT BELL DINGS]

- OK, boys.

- Come on, Dan.

- Yeah, come on!

- OK, you're scheduled for
three two-minute rounds.

So let's watch the low
blows, the kidney punches,

and rabbit punches.

In case of a knockdown, you
go to the corner I tell you to

and you stay there until
I tell you to come out.

You understand?

OK, go back to the corner
and wait for the bell.

- Remember what we talked about.

Keep moving, and at first, keep
that jab right in his face.

OK?
Just keep moving.

[FIGHT BELL DINGS]

- Get him, Daniel!

[CHEERING]

[PUNCHING]

[CROWD GROWS LOUDER]

- Atta-boy, son!
Now hit him.

That's it, son.

[WHISTLE]

- Right and left,
right and left.

[CHEERING]

Three, four.

[THUMP]

- Three, four, five, six.

- Keep it up.

Keep moving to your left.

[WHUP]

- Come on, Daniel, hit him!

[FIGHT BELL DINGS]

- Come here, come here.
Let me see your eyes.

Look at me.
You all right?

- Dig into the left.

Dig in with the
left, and you got it.

- Uh-huh.

- I want him down
and out this time.

- He won't get past this round.

- All right.

[BELL DINGS]

- Keep circling, and keep
that jab at his face.

Jab, jab, jab!

- I'm going to chop
you up now, Cooper.

[FIGHTING]

[CHEERING]

- Three, four, five.

- Daniel, move away.

Move away!

Come on, Daniel.

Keep your hands up.

[YELLING]

Come on!

[BELL DINGS]

- Oh.

- You OK, kid?

- I'll say one thing for him,
Pa, he can take a licking.

- I don't care about that!

I want you to take him down
for the 10 count this time,

do you understand me, boy?

- Yes, yes, all right.

- Daniel, you don't have
to go back in there.

- I'm not going to quit now.

It's the last round.

- There's no need to quit.

- Josef!

- I have been watching.

When he comes with the right,
he comes much too wide.

You must step inside.

Block, and counter
with an uppercut.

Then you have it, you see.

You keep moving.

You're doing very well.

- OK?

- OK.

- It's OK.
It's OK.

- Oh, I'm going to be sick.
It's all right.

- He's got a bloody nose.

It's OK.

- Look, mother, it's Josef!

- Josef!

[BELL RINGS]

[FIGHTING]

[WUMP]

[CHEERING]

- Three, four, five, six.

[CROWD GROWS RESTLESS]

- Stay down, Daniel.

- Two, three, four.

[THUMP]

- Circle, circle.

[CROWD CLAMOURING]

- Take him down, take him down.

[CHEERING]

[WHUP]

[EXCITED CHEERING]

- Three, four, five, six, seven.

He's out.

[BELL DINGS]

[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]

- You let a Jew boy beat you!

- Shut up!

Just shut up and leave me alone.

[APPLAUSE CONTINUES]

- You whipped me fair
and square, Cooper.

Put her there.

- I'd sure hate to have
to fight you again.

- I was as happy that night as
a fella could ever expect to be.

I won the fight but what I
remember like it was yesterday

is the feeling that ran through
me when I heard Josef's voice,

and none of us will ever
forget what happened next.

Father had a little victory
party in the backyard

and everyone was there,
even Sarah's friend, little

June Riley.

And of course, it was doubly
special because Josef was back,

but no one seemed
quite clear as to how

that particular
miracle had occurred,

not until the telephone call.

Father told us how
he had just gotten

a call from President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt himself,

and how it was the
President who had

intervened on Josef's behalf.

I don't have to tell you how our
family voted from that day on.

He even invited Sarah and me to
visit him in the White House.

But the war came, and
things changed, and we never

did see the President again.

After the war, Josef Kaplan's
children were able to join him,

and he became an
American citizen.

He always said that it was
the proudest day of his life.

[MUSIC PLAYING]