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[ Chorus: Women, Children ]
j& Dream, little one j&
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j& Dream j&
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j& Dream, my little one j&
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j& Dream j&
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j& Though the hunter j&
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j& In the night j&
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j& Fills your childish heart j&
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j& With fright j&
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j& Fear is only j&
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j& A dream j&
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j& So dream, little one j&
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j& Dream j&j&
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Now, you remember, children,
how I told you last Sunday...
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about the good Lord going up into
the mountain and talking to the people...
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and how he said,
"Blessed are the pure in heart...
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for they shall see God"...
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and how he said
that King Solomon in all his glory...
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was not as beautiful
as the lilies of the field?
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And I know you won't forget,
"Judge not lest ye be judged"...
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because I explained that to you.
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And then the good Lord went on to say...
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"Beware of false prophets...
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"which come to you in sheep's clothing...
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"but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
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Ye shall know them by their fruits."
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[ Boy ] Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30,
35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60...
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65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100!
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Here I come, ready or not!
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What's wrong?
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Hey! Hey!
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[ Woman ]
"A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
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"Neither can a corrupt tree
bring forth good fruit.
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Wherefore, by their fruits
ye shall know them."
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Well, now, what's it to be, Lord?
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Another widow?
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How many has it been? Six?
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Twelve?
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I disremember.
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You say the word, Lord,
I'm on my way.
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You always send me money
to go forth and preach your word.
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A widow with a little wad of bills
hid away in a sugar bowl.
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[ Sighs ]
Lord, I am tired.
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Sometimes I wonder
if you really understand.
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Not that you mind the killings.
Your Book is full of killings.
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But there are things you do hate, Lord.
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Perfume-smellin' things...
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lacy things, things with curly hair.
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j&j& [ Band: Burlesque ]
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[ Snaps ]
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There are too many of them.
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You can't kill a world.
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You driving a touring car
with a Moundsville license?
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Harry Powell,
for the theft of that touring car...
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you will spend 30 days
in the Moundsville Penitentiary.
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Uh, Preacher arry Powell.
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A car thief,
picked up where you were -
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a man of God?
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Harry Powell.
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[ Bell Tolls ]
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[ Boy ]
Hold Miss Jenny still.
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[ Girl ]
Stand still, Miss Jenny!
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There. What's so hard about that?
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Daddy!
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- Where's your mom?
- Out shoppin'.
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- You're bleedin', Dad.
- Listen to me, John.
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This money here -
we gotta hide it before they get to me.
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- There's close to $10,000. Where?
- [ Siren Wailing ]
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Under a rock in the smokehouse?
No, no.
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Under the bricks in the grape arbor?
No, no. They'd dig for it.
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[ Siren Approaching ]
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Sure. That's the place.
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[ Siren Wailing ]
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- That's him.
- e probably still has that gun.
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- [ Siren Stops ]
- Listen to me, Son. You've gotta swear.
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Swear means promise.
First, swear you'll take care of little Pearl.
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- Guard her with your life, boy.
- [ Car Doors Closing ]
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Then swear you won't never tell
where the money's hid, not even your mom.
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- Yes, Dad.
- You understand?
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- Not even her?
- You got common sense. She ain't.
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- When you grow up, that money will belong to you.
- [ Siren Approaching ]
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Now stand up straight and look me in the eye.
Raise your right hand.
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Now swear -
"I'll guard Pearl with my life."
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I will guard Pearl with my life.
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- "And I won't never tell about the money."
- And I won't never tell about the money.
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- [ Siren Stops ]
- [ Car Doors Closing ]
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And you, Pearl - you swear too.
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Ben arper.
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I'm goin' now, children. Good-bye.
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Drop that gun, arper.
We don't want the kids hurt.
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Just mind what you swore, Son.
Mind, boy.
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Don't.
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Don't!
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Dad.
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[ Car Doors Close, Engines Start ]
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Ben Harper,
it is the sentence of this court...
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that for the murder
of Ed Smiley and Corey South...
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you be hanged by the neck
until you are dead.
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And may God have mercy on your soul.
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[ Bell Tolls ]
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[ Muttering ]
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[ Slurred ]
I got you all buffaloed.
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Ain't none of you gonna get it outta me.
None of you.
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[ Powell ]
Where, Ben? Where?
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- Where?
- "And a little child shall lead them."
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Now, come on, boy. Tell me.
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[ Grunts ]
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Ben, I'm a man of God.
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- Tryin' to make me talk about it in my sleep.
- No, Ben. No.
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What'd I say?
What? What? What? What?
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You was quotin' the Scripture, Ben.
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You said, "And a little child shall lead them."
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a!
[ Chuckles ]
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[ Exhales ]
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- You killed two men, Ben arper.
- That's right, Preacher.
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I robbed that bank
'cause I got tired of seein'...
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children roamin' the woodlands
without food...
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children roamin' the highways
in this here depression...
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children sleepin' in old abandoned car bodies
and junk heaps.
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And I promised myself I'd never see the day
when my young 'uns would want.
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With that $10,000,
I could build a tabernacle...
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make that Wheeling lsland tabernacle
look like a chicken house.
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[ Laughs ]
Will you have free candy for the kids, Preacher?
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Think of it, Ben -
with that cursed, bloodied gold.
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ow come you got that stick knife
hid up in your bed blankets, Preacher?
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The Lord blinded mine enemies
when they brought me in this evil place.
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I smuggled it in right under the noses
of them guards.
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- [ Scoffs ]
- I come not with peace...
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but with a sword.
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You, Preacher?
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This sword has served me through
many an evil time, Ben arper.
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What religion you profess, Preacher?
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The religion the Almighty and me
worked out betwixt us.
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I'll bet.
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Salvation is a last-minute business, boy.
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Keep talkin', Preacher.
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If you was to let that money
serve the Lord's purpose...
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he might feel kindly turned towards you.
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Keep talkin', Preacher.
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Now, don't you think the Lord
might change his mind if you was to -
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[ Bell Tolls ]
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[ Tolling Continues ]
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Lord...
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you sure knowed what you was doin'...
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when you put me in this very cell
at this very time.
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A man with $10,000 hid somewhere...
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and a widow in the makin'.
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[ Bell Clanging ]
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[ Clanging Continues ]
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- Any trouble?
- No.
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He was a cool one, that arper.
Never broke.
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He carried on some, kicked.
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They say he left a wife and two kids.
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I never heard.
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- e never told about the money?
- No.
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What do you figure he done with it?
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He took the secret with him
when I dropped him.
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- [ Door Closes ]
- That you, Bart? Supper's waitin'.
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[ Clanging Continues ]
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[ Clanging Stops ]
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Mother, sometimes I think it might
be better if I was to quit my job as guard.
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You're always this way
when there's a hangin'.
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You never have to be there.
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Sometimes I wish
I was back in the mine.
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And leave me a widow
after another blast like the one in '24?
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Not on your life, old mister.
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[ Children ]
j& Hing, hang, hung j&
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j& See what the hangman done j&
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j& Hing, hang, hing, hang
Hing, hang, hung j&
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j& See what the hangman done j&
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j& Hung, hang, hing j&
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j& See the robber swing j&
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j& ing, hang, hing, hang
Hing, hang, hing, hang j&
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j& Hing, hang, hung j&
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j& And now my song is done
Hing, hang, hung j&
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j& See what the hangman done j&
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j& Hung, hang, hing j&
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j& See the robber swing j&
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j& ing, hang, hing, hang
Hing, hang, hing, hang j&
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j& ing, hang, hung j&j&
[ Giggling ]
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[ Children Chattering, Shouting In Distance ]
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[ Pearl ]
Are you going to buy it, John?
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Aw!
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So your mommy's keepin' you
out of school these days.
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How is your poor, poor mother?
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She's at Spoon's ice cream parlor.
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Say, did they ever find out what your father
done with all that money he stole?
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Pearl and me, we have to go.
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j& Hing, hang, hung
Hing, hang, hung j&j&
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- You better not sing that song.
- Why?
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'Cause you're too little.
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[ Pearl ]
Can we get some candy?
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No.
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Willa Harper, there are certain
plain facts of life that adds up...
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just like two plus two makes four,
and one of them is this -
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No woman is able to raise
growin' youngsters alone.
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The Lord meant that job for two.
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Icey, I just don't want a husband.
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[ Whistle Blowing ]
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Ain't a question of wantin' or not wantin'.
You're no spring chicken.
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You're a grown woman
with two little young 'uns.
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It s a man you need in the house,
Willa Harper.
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Tell me a story, John.
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Well, once upon a time...
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there was a rich king...
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who had himself
a son and a daughter.
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They all lived in a castle over in Africa.
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Then one day this king
got taken away by some bad men.
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And before he got took off...
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he told his son to kill anyone
who tried to steal his gold.
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And before long,
the bad men came back and -
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[ Crickets Chirping ]
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j& Leaning j&
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- j& Leaning j&
- Just a man.
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Good night, Pearl. Sleep tight
and don't let the bedbugs bite.
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Good night, Miss Jenny.
Don't let the bedbugs bite.
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j& Leaning j&
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j& Leaning on j&
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j& The everlasting arms j&j&
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[ Horn Blowing ]
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She don't put in Cresap's Landin' no more,
but she still blows as she passes.
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Come on in
and have a cup of coffee, boy.
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Ain't nobody stole Dad's skiff.
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Ain't nobody gonna neither
as long as Uncle Birdie's around.
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First day my joints is limber enough,
I'll haul her out and give her a good caulkin'.
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Ain't seen ya in a coon's age, boy.
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I've been mindin' Pearl.
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Shucks. Ain't it a caution what a woman
will load onto a man's back...
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when he ain't lookin'?
[ Chuckles ]
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[ Chuckles ] Excuse me, cap, while I -
while I sweeten my coffee.
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[ Sighs ] Dead and gone these 25 year
and never takes her eyes off me.
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Man of my years needs a little snort
in the mornin' to heat the boilers.
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Yeah.
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I was talkin' to this stranger
up at the boardinghouse.
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- He knowed your dad.
- Where'd he know Dad?
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I'll not hide it from you, boy.
He knowed him in the Moundsville Penitentiary.
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I gotta go now, Uncle Birdie.
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Well, you just got here, boy.
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I told Mom
I'd be back to Spoon's for Pearl.
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"God works in a mysterious way,
his wonders to perform."
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00:18:46,959 -- 00:18:51,046
Yes, I was with brother arper
right up to the end.
241
00:18:51,130 -- 00:18:53,006
Now that I'm no longer employed
by the penitentiary...
242
00:18:53,090 -- 00:18:55,926
it is my joy to bring this small comfort
to his loved ones.
243
00:18:56,010 -- 00:18:58,553
It s a mighty good man
would go out of his way...
244
00:18:58,638 -- 00:19:01,681
to bring a word of cheer
to a grievin' widow.
245
00:19:01,766 -- 00:19:05,769
- [ Man ] So you ain't with the state no more?
- No, brother. I resigned only yesterday.
246
00:19:05,853 -- 00:19:09,397
The heartrendin' spectacle of them poor men
was just too much for me.
247
00:19:10,566 -- 00:19:13,068
Ah, little lad, you're starin' at my fingers.
248
00:19:13,152 -- 00:19:16,988
Would you like me to tell you
the little story of right hand, left hand...
249
00:19:17,073 -- 00:19:19,074
the story of good and evil?
250
00:19:20,076 -- 00:19:22,118
H-A-T-E.
251
00:19:22,203 -- 00:19:24,496
It was with this left hand
that old brother Cain...
252
00:19:24,580 -- 00:19:27,082
struck the blow
that laid his brother low.
253
00:19:27,166 -- 00:19:29,417
L-O-V-E.
254
00:19:29,502 -- 00:19:31,169
You see these fingers, dear hearts?
255
00:19:31,254 -- 00:19:34,172
These fingers has veins that run straight
to the soul of man.
256
00:19:34,257 -- 00:19:37,133
The right hand, friends -
the hand of love.
257
00:19:37,218 -- 00:19:39,177
Now watch and I'll show you
the story of life.
258
00:19:40,263 -- 00:19:44,266
These fingers, dear hearts, is always a-warrin'
and a-tuggin', one again' t'other.
259
00:19:44,350 -- 00:19:47,352
Now watch 'em.
260
00:19:47,436 -- 00:19:49,354
Old brother left hand.
261
00:19:49,438 -- 00:19:51,439
Left hand hate's a-fightin'.
262
00:19:51,524 -- 00:19:54,192
And it looks like love's a goner.
263
00:19:54,277 -- 00:19:57,028
But wait a minute. Wait a minute.
264
00:19:57,113 -- 00:19:59,489
Hot dog! Love's a-winnin'.
265
00:19:59,574 -- 00:20:01,867
Yes, sirree!
266
00:20:01,951 -- 00:20:03,869
It s love that won.
267
00:20:03,953 -- 00:20:07,122
And old left hand hate
is down for the count.
268
00:20:08,875 -- 00:20:11,918
I never heard it better told.
269
00:20:12,003 -- 00:20:15,714
I wish every soul in this community
could get the benefit.
270
00:20:15,798 -- 00:20:19,885
Oh, you've just got to stay
for our picnic Sunday.
271
00:20:19,969 -- 00:20:22,888
No, I must wend my way downriver
on the Lord's business.
272
00:20:22,972 -- 00:20:25,932
You ain't leaving' in no hurry
if we can help it.
273
00:20:26,017 -- 00:20:29,936
John, mind your manners.
Take that look off your face. Act nice.
274
00:20:30,980 -- 00:20:33,398
Why, he don't mean no impudence,
do you, boy?
275
00:20:33,482 -- 00:20:35,191
Do ya, boy?
276
00:20:36,319 -- 00:20:39,237
Ah, many's the time poor brother Ben
told me about these young 'uns.
277
00:20:39,322 -- 00:20:40,739
What'd he tell ya?
278
00:20:40,823 -- 00:20:44,367
Why, he told me what fine little lambs
you and your sister both was.
279
00:20:44,452 -- 00:20:45,994
Is that all?
280
00:20:46,078 -- 00:20:50,540
Why, no, boy.
He told me lots and lots of things.
281
00:20:50,625 -- 00:20:53,251
- Nice things, boy.
- Thank you.
282
00:20:53,336 -- 00:20:56,004
- [ Boiling ]
- [ Gasps, Chuckles ]
283
00:20:56,088 -- 00:20:58,340
My, that fudge smells yummy.
284
00:20:59,425 -- 00:21:01,343
It s for the picnic.
285
00:21:01,427 -- 00:21:06,181
And you don't get a smidgen of my fudge
unless you stay for the picnic.
286
00:21:06,265 -- 00:21:08,433
[ Chorus ]
j& Bringing in the sheaves j&
287
00:21:08,517 -- 00:21:10,644
j& Bringing in the sheaves j&
288
00:21:10,728 -- 00:21:15,023
j& We shall come rejoicing
bringing in the sheaves j&
289
00:21:15,107 -- 00:21:19,527
j& Sowing in the morning
Sowing seeds of kindness j&
290
00:21:19,612 -- 00:21:23,949
j& Sowing in the noontide
and the dewy eve j&
291
00:21:24,033 -- 00:21:28,411
j& Waiting for the harvest
and the time of reaping j&
292
00:21:28,496 -- 00:21:33,208
j& We shall come rejoicing
bringing in the sheaves j&
293
00:21:33,292 -- 00:21:36,628
j& Bringing in the sheaves
Bringing in the sheaves j&
294
00:21:36,712 -- 00:21:41,800
j& We shall come rejoicing
bringing in the sheaves j&
295
00:21:41,884 -- 00:21:46,179
j& Bringing in the sheaves
Bringing in the sheaves j&
296
00:21:46,263 -- 00:21:50,809
j& We shall come rejoicing
bringing in the sheaves j&
297
00:21:50,893 -- 00:21:53,478
- Don't he have the grandest singin' voice?
- j&j& [ Continues ]
298
00:21:53,562 -- 00:21:56,439
John! Pearl!
Run along and play, you two.
299
00:21:56,524 -- 00:21:58,483
- [ John ] Where?
- Down by the river! My goodness.
300
00:21:58,567 -- 00:22:01,069
j& Bringing in the sheaves j&j&
301
00:22:01,153 -- 00:22:03,989
That feller's just achin' to settle down
with some nice woman...
302
00:22:04,073 -- 00:22:05,991
and make a home for himself.
303
00:22:06,075 -- 00:22:08,535
Icey, it's awful soon after Ben's passing.
304
00:22:08,619 -- 00:22:11,871
If ever I saw a sign from heaven.
305
00:22:11,956 -- 00:22:15,125
- John don't like him much.
- Pearl dotes on him.
306
00:22:15,209 -- 00:22:17,585
The boy worries me.
307
00:22:17,670 -- 00:22:21,339
I know it's silly, but it's like there's
somethin' still between him and his dad.
308
00:22:21,424 -- 00:22:23,967
What he needs is a dose of salts.
309
00:22:24,051 -- 00:22:26,052
- No, there's somethin' else.
- What?
310
00:22:27,179 -- 00:22:29,723
- The money.
- I declare, Willa arper.
311
00:22:29,807 -- 00:22:32,434
You'll let that money haunt you
to your grave.
312
00:22:32,518 -- 00:22:34,811
Icey, I would love to be satisfied...
313
00:22:34,895 -- 00:22:37,522
that arry Powell don't think
I got that money hid somewhere.
314
00:22:37,606 -- 00:22:40,525
You come right out
and ask that man of God.
315
00:22:40,609 -- 00:22:44,696
Mr. Powell!
Clear that evil mud out of your soul.
316
00:22:44,780 -- 00:22:48,783
John! Pearl! Come along here
and get some fudge.
317
00:22:48,868 -- 00:22:51,369
- I don't want no fudge.
- You do what you're told!
318
00:22:51,454 -- 00:22:54,706
- You go set down by the river.
- Oh, Icey, I'm a sight.
319
00:22:54,790 -- 00:22:57,125
Get along with you.
[ Chuckling ]
320
00:23:01,547 -- 00:23:03,465
You!
321
00:23:05,051 -- 00:23:06,718
That young lady better look sharp...
322
00:23:06,802 -- 00:23:10,889
or some smart sister between here and Captina
is gonna snap him up right from under her nose.
323
00:23:10,973 -- 00:23:14,225
She's not the only fish in the river.
Now, you two stay put.
324
00:23:14,310 -- 00:23:16,227
Shilly-shallying around.
325
00:23:16,312 -- 00:23:18,396
[ Icey ] A husband's one piece
of store goods you never know...
326
00:23:18,481 -- 00:23:20,899
- till you get it home and take the paper off.
- [ Women Laugh ]
327
00:23:20,983 -- 00:23:25,904
Did Ben arper ever tell you
what he done with the money he stole?
328
00:23:25,988 -- 00:23:28,823
My dear child, don't you know?
329
00:23:30,159 -- 00:23:32,410
[ Icey ]
She's moonin' about Ben arper.
330
00:23:32,495 -- 00:23:34,829
That wasn't love.
That was just flapdoodle.
331
00:23:34,914 -- 00:23:37,248
Have some fudge, lambs.
332
00:23:37,333 -- 00:23:39,292
When you've been married
to a man 40 years...
333
00:23:39,376 -- 00:23:41,878
you know all that don't amount
to a hill of beans.
334
00:23:41,962 -- 00:23:43,963
I've been married to my Walt that long...
335
00:23:44,048 -- 00:23:49,010
and I swear, in all that time,
I just lie there thinkin' about my canning.
336
00:23:51,430 -- 00:23:55,850
John!
337
00:24:05,861 -- 00:24:09,114
A woman's a fool to marry for that.
That's somethin' for a man.
338
00:24:09,198 -- 00:24:11,866
The good Lord never meant
for a decent woman to want that.
339
00:24:11,951 -- 00:24:14,202
Not really want it.
340
00:24:14,286 -- 00:24:18,123
It s all just a fake and a pipe dream.
[ Chuckles ]
341
00:24:19,208 -- 00:24:21,960
John, Mr. Powell
has something to tell you.
342
00:24:24,713 -- 00:24:29,300
Well, John,
the night before your father died...
343
00:24:29,385 -- 00:24:31,886
he told me what he did
with that money.
344
00:24:33,472 -- 00:24:35,473
That money's at the bottom
of the river...
345
00:24:35,558 -- 00:24:37,976
wrapped around
a 12-pound cobblestone.
346
00:24:40,146 -- 00:24:41,813
Thank you, Harry.
347
00:24:41,897 -- 00:24:43,314
Shh.
348
00:24:43,399 -- 00:24:45,650
I feel clean now.
349
00:24:45,734 -- 00:24:48,403
My whole body's just a-quivering
with cleanness.
350
00:24:53,576 -- 00:24:55,660
John, come here.
351
00:24:55,744 -- 00:24:57,745
Your tie is crooked.
352
00:25:01,167 -- 00:25:03,334
[ Icey Laughing ]
353
00:25:05,629 -- 00:25:07,672
j&j& [ Banjo ]
354
00:25:07,756 -- 00:25:12,177
j& 'Twas down at Cresap's Landin' j&
355
00:25:12,261 -- 00:25:15,722
j& Along the river shore j&
356
00:25:15,806 -- 00:25:19,184
j& Birdie Steptoe was a pilot j&
357
00:25:19,268 -- 00:25:22,228
j& In the good old days of yore j&
358
00:25:22,313 -- 00:25:26,691
j& Now he sets in his old wharf boat j&
359
00:25:26,775 -- 00:25:29,444
j& All the big boats heave a sigh j&
360
00:25:29,528 -- 00:25:32,614
- When'll Dad's skiff be ready?
- Can't hear you, boy!
361
00:25:32,698 -- 00:25:36,075
j& They blow for Uncle Birdie j&
362
00:25:36,160 -- 00:25:38,912
j& And the times j&
363
00:25:38,996 -- 00:25:42,207
j& That ere gone by j&j&
364
00:25:42,291 -- 00:25:44,042
When'll the skiff be ready?
365
00:25:44,126 -- 00:25:47,086
Have her ready inside a week.
Then we'll go fishing.
366
00:25:47,171 -- 00:25:50,715
- ow's your ma?
- Oh, she's all right.
367
00:25:50,799 -- 00:25:52,884
- ow's your sister, Pearl?
- Just fine.
368
00:25:52,968 -- 00:25:56,054
- You leavin', boy?
- Yep. Gotta watch out for Pearl, Uncle Birdie.
369
00:25:56,138 -- 00:25:59,015
Well, good night, boy.
Come again anytime.
370
00:25:59,099 -- 00:26:01,059
[ Grunts ]
And mind, boy...
371
00:26:01,143 -- 00:26:04,229
I'll have your pa's skiff shipshape
inside a week.
372
00:26:05,231 -- 00:26:07,232
[ Crickets Chirping ]
373
00:26:23,666 -- 00:26:25,416
[ Icey Laughs ]
374
00:26:26,335 -- 00:26:28,336
[ No Audible Dialogue ]
375
00:26:33,676 -- 00:26:35,635
[ John ]
Somebody there?
376
00:26:45,729 -- 00:26:47,689
Anybody there?
377
00:26:50,985 -- 00:26:52,902
Anybody here?
378
00:26:52,987 -- 00:26:54,904
Good evenin', John.
379
00:26:57,116 -- 00:27:00,118
I had a little talk
with your mother tonight, John...
380
00:27:00,202 -- 00:27:04,539
and your mother decided it might be best
for me to let you know the news.
381
00:27:05,541 -- 00:27:10,253
Your mother told me she wanted me
to be a daddy to you and your sister.
382
00:27:10,337 -- 00:27:12,338
We're gonna get married, boy.
383
00:27:14,216 -- 00:27:16,634
Did you hear what I said, boy?
384
00:27:16,719 -- 00:27:18,553
- mm?
- Married.
385
00:27:18,637 -- 00:27:22,515
We're goin' to Sisterville tomorrow,
and when we get back -
386
00:27:22,599 -- 00:27:26,352
You ain't my dad.
You'll never be my dad.
387
00:27:26,437 -- 00:27:29,981
When we get back,
we're all going to be friends...
388
00:27:30,065 -- 00:27:32,942
and share our fortunes together, John.
389
00:27:33,027 -- 00:27:36,404
You think you can make me tell!
But I won't! I won't! I won't!
390
00:27:36,488 -- 00:27:38,406
[ Gasps ]
391
00:27:39,408 -- 00:27:42,869
- Tell me what, boy?
- Nothin'.
392
00:27:43,662 -- 00:27:46,414
We're not keeping secrets
from each other, are we, little lad?
393
00:27:46,498 -- 00:27:48,708
No, no.
394
00:27:48,792 -- 00:27:51,794
[ Chuckles ]
Well, no matter.
395
00:27:52,921 -- 00:27:55,423
We've got a long time together, boy.
396
00:28:02,264 -- 00:28:05,350
[ Icey ]
Wave your hands. Great sakes.
397
00:28:05,434 -- 00:28:08,269
Now, you wait here
while I get your night things.
398
00:28:12,733 -- 00:28:16,235
- Now can I tell?
- Hmm?
399
00:28:16,320 -- 00:28:19,489
When Mr. Powell's our daddy,
then can I tell him about -
400
00:28:19,573 -- 00:28:21,532
- You swore, Pearl.
- John, don't.
401
00:28:21,617 -- 00:28:23,701
You promised Dad you wouldn't tell.
402
00:28:23,786 -- 00:28:26,788
I love Mr. Powell lots and lots, John.
403
00:28:58,237 -- 00:29:00,154
Men.
404
00:29:12,876 -- 00:29:15,086
Harry?
405
00:29:16,880 -- 00:29:18,881
Fix that window shade.
406
00:29:22,761 -- 00:29:24,262
[ Window Closes ]
407
00:29:28,851 -- 00:29:31,352
- Harry?
- I was praying.
408
00:29:33,021 -- 00:29:37,275
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know.
I - I thought -
409
00:29:37,359 -- 00:29:40,319
You thought, Willa, that the moment
you walked in that door...
410
00:29:40,404 -- 00:29:43,573
I'd start to pawin' you
in that abominable way...
411
00:29:43,657 -- 00:29:46,242
that men are supposed to do
on their weddin' night.
412
00:29:46,326 -- 00:29:49,370
- Ain't that right now?
- No, no, no.
413
00:29:50,456 -- 00:29:53,499
I think it's time we made one thing
perfectly clear, Willa.
414
00:29:53,584 -- 00:29:57,920
Marriage to me represents a blending
of two spirits in the sight of heaven.
415
00:30:01,383 -- 00:30:03,176
[ Groaning ]
416
00:30:10,058 -- 00:30:11,726
Get up, Willa.
417
00:30:14,104 -- 00:30:16,063
- arry, what -
- Get up.
418
00:30:19,818 -- 00:30:22,487
Now, go look at yourself
yonder in that mirror.
419
00:30:24,656 -- 00:30:26,574
Do as I say.
420
00:30:39,588 -- 00:30:41,547
Look at yourself.
421
00:30:43,675 -- 00:30:46,427
What do you see, girl?
422
00:30:46,512 -- 00:30:48,721
You see the body of a woman -
423
00:30:48,805 -- 00:30:51,682
the temple of creation and motherhood.
424
00:30:51,767 -- 00:30:54,894
You see the flesh of Eve
that man since Adam has profaned.
425
00:30:55,896 -- 00:30:58,147
That body was meant
for begettin' children.
426
00:30:58,232 -- 00:31:00,942
It was not meant for the lust of men.
427
00:31:03,111 -- 00:31:05,196
Do you want more children, Willa?
428
00:31:05,280 -- 00:31:06,948
I -
429
00:31:07,032 -- 00:31:08,616
No.
430
00:31:08,700 -- 00:31:11,869
It s the business of this marriage
to mind those two you have now...
431
00:31:11,954 -- 00:31:13,913
not to beget more.
432
00:31:13,997 -- 00:31:15,498
Yes.
433
00:31:23,048 -- 00:31:26,801
All right, you can get in bed now
and stop shiverin'.
434
00:31:29,012 -- 00:31:31,305
Help me to get clean...
435
00:31:31,390 -- 00:31:34,559
so I can be what arry
wants me to be.
436
00:31:41,692 -- 00:31:44,860
Meanest, orneriest, sneakingest critter
in the whole river, boy.
437
00:31:44,945 -- 00:31:46,862
A gar.
438
00:31:47,906 -- 00:31:50,741
- ere are your can of hooks, Uncle Birdie.
- Pshaw, boy.
439
00:31:50,826 -- 00:31:54,370
Ain't a hook in the land
strong enough to land Mr. Gar.
440
00:31:54,454 -- 00:31:57,957
What a feller needs is mother wit
and a horsehair.
441
00:31:58,959 -- 00:32:01,335
Golly. Won't it bust it, Uncle Birdie?
442
00:32:01,420 -- 00:32:04,589
Nah, a horsehair will hold
a lumpin' whale.
443
00:32:04,673 -- 00:32:07,174
- You mind my cussin', boy?
- No.
444
00:32:07,259 -- 00:32:11,137
Well, the reason I ask,
your step-pa bein' a preacher and all -
445
00:32:14,391 -- 00:32:17,143
Never was much of a one
for preachers my own self.
446
00:32:18,186 -- 00:32:20,187
I don't know what's wrong
up at your house...
447
00:32:20,272 -- 00:32:23,024
but always remember, cap...
448
00:32:23,108 -- 00:32:25,693
if you're ever in trouble,
holler and come a-runnin'.
449
00:32:26,695 -- 00:32:28,696
Uncle Birdie's your friend.
450
00:32:33,702 -- 00:32:38,164
There! There, you slimy, snag-toothed,
bait-stealin' so-and-so!
451
00:32:38,248 -- 00:32:40,499
- [ Congregation ] Amen! Amen!
- Amen!
452
00:32:40,584 -- 00:32:42,084
[ Congregation ]
Amen!
453
00:32:42,169 -- 00:32:44,420
- You have all sinned.
- Yes! Yes!
454
00:32:44,504 -- 00:32:47,673
Which one of you can say,
as I can say...
455
00:32:48,675 -- 00:32:51,344
- that you drove a good man to murder?
- [ Gasping ]
456
00:32:51,428 -- 00:32:55,056
Because I kept a-houndin' him
for perfume...
457
00:32:55,140 -- 00:32:57,308
and clothes and face paint!
458
00:32:57,392 -- 00:33:01,312
- [ Gasping ]
- And he slew two human beings!
459
00:33:01,396 -- 00:33:04,857
- [ Exclaiming ]
- And he come to me, and he said...
460
00:33:04,941 -- 00:33:09,945
"Take this money and buy yourself
the clothes and the paint!"
461
00:33:10,030 -- 00:33:12,740
- [ Congregation ] Yes! Yes!
- But, brethren -
462
00:33:12,824 -- 00:33:16,786
Brethren,
that's where the Lord stepped in!
463
00:33:16,870 -- 00:33:20,456
- That's where the Lord stepped in!
- Yes!
464
00:33:20,540 -- 00:33:22,333
[ Exclaiming ]
465
00:33:22,417 -- 00:33:25,586
"Ye," said the Lord to that man...
466
00:33:25,671 -- 00:33:28,005
"you take that money...
467
00:33:28,090 -- 00:33:30,841
and you throw it in the river!"
468
00:33:30,926 -- 00:33:35,096
- In the river!
- In the river!
469
00:33:35,180 -- 00:33:37,181
[ Scissors Cutting ]
470
00:33:57,244 -- 00:34:00,037
Now, you're John, and you're Pearl.
471
00:34:00,122 -- 00:34:02,039
[ John ]
Pearl? Pearl?
472
00:34:02,124 -- 00:34:05,710
You'll get awful mad, John.
I done a sin.
473
00:34:05,794 -- 00:34:08,963
- Pearl!
- I didn't tell no one.
474
00:34:10,132 -- 00:34:13,426
Pearl, oh, Pearl.
475
00:34:13,510 -- 00:34:15,469
It s all here.
476
00:34:33,196 -- 00:34:35,740
- John.
- Oh - Yes?
477
00:34:35,824 -- 00:34:38,826
- What are you doing, boy?
- Gettin' Pearl to bed.
478
00:34:38,910 -- 00:34:41,912
- What's taking you so long about it?
- Nothing.
479
00:34:48,003 -- 00:34:49,920
What's that you're playin' with?
480
00:34:50,005 -- 00:34:54,759
Uh, Pearl's junk. Mom gets mad
when she plays out here and don't put it away.
481
00:34:54,843 -- 00:34:56,802
Come on, children.
482
00:34:59,639 -- 00:35:02,308
Off to bed with the both of you.
483
00:35:09,107 -- 00:35:11,025
Come here, John.
484
00:35:14,112 -- 00:35:16,739
Your mother tells me you tattled on me.
485
00:35:16,823 -- 00:35:19,283
She said you told her
I asked where that money was hid.
486
00:35:19,367 -- 00:35:21,744
[ Chuckles ]
487
00:35:21,828 -- 00:35:24,121
That wasn't very nice, boy.
488
00:35:24,206 -- 00:35:25,873
Have a heart.
489
00:35:25,957 -- 00:35:28,167
Yeah.
490
00:35:28,251 -- 00:35:31,962
Well, it doesn't matter.
It s your word against mine.
491
00:35:32,047 -- 00:35:34,256
It s me your mother believes.
492
00:35:39,554 -- 00:35:42,515
Were you impudent again
to Mr. Powell, John?
493
00:35:42,599 -- 00:35:44,600
Mom, I didn't mean it.
494
00:35:45,894 -- 00:35:48,521
What were you impudent about?
495
00:35:48,605 -- 00:35:50,940
He asked me about the money again, Mom.
496
00:35:51,942 -- 00:35:54,360
John, you always make up that lie.
497
00:35:54,444 -- 00:35:56,570
There is no money.
498
00:35:56,655 -- 00:35:59,615
Why can't you get that through your head?
499
00:35:59,699 -- 00:36:02,326
The boy's as stubborn
and as mulish as a sheep.
500
00:36:02,410 -- 00:36:04,537
- It s a shame.
- Good night, Icey.
501
00:36:04,621 -- 00:36:06,455
- Good night, honey.
- Good night, Walt.
502
00:36:06,540 -- 00:36:08,082
Good night, Willa.
503
00:36:10,126 -- 00:36:12,670
Plan on a longer visit next time.
504
00:36:12,754 -- 00:36:15,506
You hardly get settled
before you're frettin' to get home again.
505
00:36:15,590 -- 00:36:18,175
I'm needed to keep peace
and harmony betwixt them.
506
00:36:18,260 -- 00:36:21,095
It s my burden,
and I'm proud of it, Icey.
507
00:36:31,106 -- 00:36:34,692
- Where's the money hid?
- I don't know.
508
00:36:34,776 -- 00:36:37,570
She thinks that money's
at the bottom of the river.
509
00:36:37,654 -- 00:36:40,030
But you and me, we know better,
don't we, little lad?
510
00:36:40,115 -- 00:36:42,575
I don't know nothin'.
511
00:36:42,659 -- 00:36:46,120
Well, never mind, boy.
The summer's young yet.
512
00:36:46,204 -- 00:36:48,205
Pearl?
513
00:36:48,290 -- 00:36:49,957
Come here.
514
00:36:51,084 -- 00:36:53,043
[ Grunts ]
515
00:36:53,128 -- 00:36:56,046
John's a fella likes to keep secrets.
I ll tell you a secret.
516
00:36:56,131 -- 00:36:57,798
Yes?
517
00:36:57,883 -- 00:37:00,593
I knowed your daddy.
518
00:37:00,677 -- 00:37:03,470
And you know what your daddy told me?
519
00:37:03,555 -- 00:37:05,598
e said,
"You tell my little girl Pearl...
520
00:37:05,682 -- 00:37:08,183
that there's to be no secrets
between her and you."
521
00:37:08,268 -- 00:37:11,270
- Yes?
- All right. Now it's your turn.
522
00:37:12,606 -- 00:37:14,148
What secret shall I tell?
523
00:37:14,232 -- 00:37:16,692
Oh, uh, what's your name?
524
00:37:16,776 -- 00:37:18,402
[ Pearl Giggles ]
525
00:37:18,486 -- 00:37:21,196
You're just fooling.
My name's Pearl.
526
00:37:21,281 -- 00:37:24,825
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Well, I reckon I'll have to try again.
527
00:37:24,910 -- 00:37:26,827
Uh, where's the money hid?
528
00:37:26,912 -- 00:37:29,371
[ Gasps ]
529
00:37:30,332 -- 00:37:33,751
Pearl, you swore you wouldn't tell!
You swore! You swore! You swore!
530
00:37:33,835 -- 00:37:36,712
You hit Daddy with a hairbrush.
531
00:37:36,796 -- 00:37:38,589
Oh.
532
00:37:38,673 -- 00:37:42,134
Now, you see? We just can't have
anything to do with John.
533
00:37:42,218 -- 00:37:44,637
You and me are goin' down
to the parlor, Pearl.
534
00:38:01,696 -- 00:38:05,532
[ Powell ] John was just plumb bad
through and through.
535
00:38:05,617 -- 00:38:08,702
- [ Pearl ] John's bad.
- Yes, John's bad.
536
00:38:09,704 -- 00:38:12,289
[ Pearl ]
Tell me another secret about my dad.
537
00:38:12,374 -- 00:38:14,249
[ Powell ]
Oh, no. Your turn.
538
00:38:14,334 -- 00:38:17,628
[ Pearl ]
All right. What secret shall I tell?
539
00:38:17,712 -- 00:38:20,214
Mmm. Where's the money hid?
540
00:38:20,298 -- 00:38:23,258
- John's bad.
- Where's the money hid?
541
00:38:23,343 -- 00:38:27,137
You tell me, you little wretch,
or I ll tear your arm off!
542
00:38:27,222 -- 00:38:29,765
[ Screaming ]
543
00:38:39,693 -- 00:38:43,153
- Icey, I'm worried about Willa.
- How do you mean?
544
00:38:43,238 -- 00:38:45,864
Well, I'm figurin' how to say it
so as you won't get mad.
545
00:38:45,949 -- 00:38:47,866
Say what, Walt Spoon?
546
00:38:47,951 -- 00:38:50,327
- There's something wrong about it, Mother.
- About what?
547
00:38:50,412 -- 00:38:53,372
- About Mr. Powell, all of it.
- Walt!
548
00:38:53,456 -- 00:38:55,499
Now, Mother, a body's
got a right to their feelings.
549
00:38:55,583 -- 00:38:58,627
May the Lord have mercy on you,
Walt Spoon.
550
00:38:58,712 -- 00:39:00,170
Now, Mother, I was just -
551
00:39:00,255 -- 00:39:02,756
[ Willa Murmuring ]
552
00:39:04,259 -- 00:39:06,176
Amen.
553
00:39:07,595 -- 00:39:09,888
Are you through praying?
554
00:39:09,973 -- 00:39:11,974
I'm through, arry.
555
00:39:12,058 -- 00:39:14,685
You were listening
outside the parlor window.
556
00:39:14,769 -- 00:39:18,355
- It ain't in the river, is it, Harry?
- Answer me.
557
00:39:18,440 -- 00:39:21,275
Ben never told you he throwed it
in the river, did he?
558
00:39:32,287 -- 00:39:34,455
The children know where it's hid.
559
00:39:34,539 -- 00:39:37,041
John knows. Is that it, Harry?
560
00:39:42,130 -- 00:39:45,382
Then it's still here amongst us...
561
00:39:45,467 -- 00:39:47,384
tainting us.
562
00:39:50,513 -- 00:39:53,807
You must have known about it
all along, Harry.
563
00:39:53,892 -- 00:39:57,603
But that ain't the reason
why you married me.
564
00:39:57,687 -- 00:39:59,646
I know that much.
565
00:40:01,232 -- 00:40:03,817
Because the Lord just wouldn't let it be.
566
00:40:04,819 -- 00:40:08,072
He made you marry me...
567
00:40:08,156 -- 00:40:11,158
so you could show me
the way and the Iife...
568
00:40:12,660 -- 00:40:15,329
and the salvation of my soul.
569
00:40:16,331 -- 00:40:18,624
Ain't that so, Harry?
570
00:40:19,626 -- 00:40:23,420
So you might say that it was the money
that brung us together.
571
00:40:24,506 -- 00:40:27,174
The rest of it don't matter.
572
00:40:37,811 -- 00:40:41,814
[ Starter Cranking, Engine Sputtering ]
573
00:40:45,110 -- 00:40:47,444
[ Starter Cranking ]
574
00:40:53,868 -- 00:40:56,578
[ Engine Sputtering ]
575
00:41:01,167 -- 00:41:03,335
[ Engine Running ]
576
00:41:24,691 -- 00:41:26,316
Walt! Come quick!
577
00:41:26,401 -- 00:41:29,111
- What's wrong, Mother?
- Shh! He's in there.
578
00:41:29,195 -- 00:41:30,654
- Who?
- Mr. Powell.
579
00:41:30,738 -- 00:41:33,824
Willa has run away.
580
00:41:33,908 -- 00:41:35,576
I'll be switched. Just went?
581
00:41:35,660 -- 00:41:38,162
She took out some time in the night
in that old Model "T."
582
00:41:38,246 -- 00:41:40,706
- Oh, is he hit pretty bad?
- All to pieces.
583
00:41:40,790 -- 00:41:42,916
- There's a little peach brandy in here.
- Walt!
584
00:41:43,001 -- 00:41:45,836
- A man of the cloth?
- Well, just a sip.
585
00:41:46,838 -- 00:41:49,798
- Walt Spoon, that's for sickness in the house!
- [ Coughs ]
586
00:41:51,092 -- 00:41:54,511
- Well, what can we do, Mother?
- I thought if you went and talked to him -
you know, another man.
587
00:41:54,596 -- 00:41:57,264
- Oh, no, now, Mother, please.
No, I'm no good at -
- Get in there.
588
00:41:57,348 -- 00:42:00,184
[ Sobbing ]
589
00:42:00,268 -- 00:42:02,936
- Mr. Powell?
- A strange woman is a narrow pit.
590
00:42:03,021 -- 00:42:04,188
[ Icey ]
Amen. Amen.
591
00:42:04,272 -- 00:42:08,108
She lieth in wait as for prey
and increaseth the transgressors among men.
592
00:42:09,611 -- 00:42:12,571
Oh, my dear, dear friends,
whatever would I do without you?
593
00:42:12,655 -- 00:42:14,156
Mr. Powell!
594
00:42:14,240 -- 00:42:16,200
Well, if there's anything -
anything we can -
595
00:42:16,284 -- 00:42:19,578
No, it's my shame. It s my crown of thorns.
I must wear it bravely.
596
00:42:19,662 -- 00:42:21,622
What could have possessed that girl?
597
00:42:21,706 -- 00:42:23,207
- Satan.
- Ah!
598
00:42:23,291 -- 00:42:24,875
Didn't you have no inklin'?
599
00:42:24,959 -- 00:42:28,337
Yes, I did from the very first night.
600
00:42:28,421 -- 00:42:31,131
- First night?
- Our honeymoon.
601
00:42:31,216 -- 00:42:33,383
How's that?
602
00:42:33,468 -- 00:42:35,886
She turned me out of the bed.
603
00:42:35,970 -- 00:42:38,472
No.
604
00:42:38,556 -- 00:42:41,350
- WeIl, what do you figure to do?
- Do?
605
00:42:41,434 -- 00:42:44,603
Why, just stay right here
and take care of them kids.
606
00:42:44,687 -- 00:42:47,898
Maybe it was never meant for a woman
like Willa to taint their young lives.
607
00:42:47,982 -- 00:42:51,276
- Mmm. Mmm.
- It s mighty brave of you, Preacher.
608
00:42:51,361 -- 00:42:55,405
Oh, I reckon it was just ordained
that way, brother Spoon.
609
00:42:55,490 -- 00:42:58,075
Didn't - Didn't she leave no word?
610
00:42:59,160 -- 00:43:02,829
A scrawl on a notepaper on the bureau.
611
00:43:02,914 -- 00:43:05,249
I burned it.
612
00:43:05,333 -- 00:43:08,627
Tore it up and burned it.
It stank so strong of hellfire.
613
00:43:08,711 -- 00:43:10,504
Amen.
614
00:43:10,588 -- 00:43:13,757
The pitcher has went to the well
once too often, friends.
615
00:43:13,841 -- 00:43:16,593
Oh, she ll come draggin' her tail back home.
616
00:43:16,678 -- 00:43:20,597
She'll not be back.
I reckon I'm safe in promisin' you that.
617
00:43:20,682 -- 00:43:22,766
- Maybe she's just run off on a spree.
- No, no.
618
00:43:22,850 -- 00:43:26,061
- Well, there's no harm in hopin'.
- Ain't no sense in it neither.
619
00:43:27,188 -- 00:43:30,482
I figured somethin' like that was brewin'
when she went to bed last night.
620
00:43:30,566 -- 00:43:31,900
How?
621
00:43:33,361 -- 00:43:35,946
Well, she tarried around in the kitchen
after I'd gone up...
622
00:43:36,030 -- 00:43:38,282
and when I went downstairs
to see what was wrong -
623
00:43:38,366 -- 00:43:40,617
What?
624
00:43:40,702 -- 00:43:43,453
Well, she'd found this jar
of dandelion wine...
625
00:43:43,538 -- 00:43:47,040
that the husband - this Harper -
had hid somewheres in the cellar.
626
00:43:48,543 -- 00:43:51,753
- She was drinkin'.
- Oh!
627
00:43:51,838 -- 00:43:53,547
I tried to save her.
628
00:43:53,631 -- 00:43:57,217
I know you did, Mr. Powell.
I know how hard you tried.
629
00:43:57,302 -- 00:44:00,220
But the devil wins sometimes.
630
00:44:00,305 -- 00:44:03,557
Can't nobody say
I didn't do my best to save her.
631
00:45:02,784 -- 00:45:05,118
[ Powell ]
j& Leaning j&
632
00:45:05,203 -- 00:45:07,746
j& Leaning j&
633
00:45:07,830 -- 00:45:13,043
j& Safe and secure from all alarms j&
634
00:45:13,127 -- 00:45:18,382
j& Leaning j&
635
00:45:18,466 -- 00:45:23,804
j& Leaning on the everlasting arms j&j&
636
00:45:25,807 -- 00:45:27,724
Children!
637
00:45:28,851 -- 00:45:30,811
[ Singsongy ]
Children.
638
00:45:39,987 -- 00:45:41,905
Children.
639
00:45:41,989 -- 00:45:44,699
- [ Footsteps Departing ]
- Pearl?
640
00:45:47,829 -- 00:45:50,747
Careful. Here.
641
00:45:50,832 -- 00:45:53,125
Why do we have to hide, John?
642
00:45:53,209 -- 00:45:55,168
[ Powell ]
Children.
643
00:45:56,212 -- 00:45:58,713
- Where's Mom?
- She's gone to Moundsville.
644
00:45:58,798 -- 00:46:02,259
- To see Dad?
- Yes, I reckon that's it.
645
00:46:02,343 -- 00:46:03,844
[ Door Closes ]
646
00:46:10,017 -- 00:46:12,853
Now, listen to me, Pearl.
You and me is runnin' off tonight.
647
00:46:12,937 -- 00:46:14,271
- Why?
- [ Powell ] Children.
648
00:46:14,355 -- 00:46:17,774
If we stay here,
something awful will happen to us.
649
00:46:17,859 -- 00:46:21,111
- Won't Daddy Powell take care of us?
- No.
650
00:46:21,195 -- 00:46:23,989
- That's just it. No.
- [ Footsteps ]
651
00:46:31,372 -- 00:46:34,207
- Where are we going, John?
- Somewheres. I don't know yet.
652
00:46:34,292 -- 00:46:35,584
[ Jars Rattle ]
653
00:46:35,668 -- 00:46:37,252
I'm hungry, John.
654
00:46:37,336 -- 00:46:40,380
- We'll steal somethin' to eat.
- It'll spoil our suppers.
655
00:46:40,465 -- 00:46:41,965
[ Powell, Singsongy ]
Pearl.
656
00:46:46,804 -- 00:46:49,806
I can hear you whisperin', children,
so I know you're down there.
657
00:46:49,891 -- 00:46:52,601
I can feel myself gettin' awful mad.
658
00:46:56,481 -- 00:46:58,773
I'm out of patience, children.
659
00:46:58,858 -- 00:47:00,650
I'm coming to find you now.
660
00:47:00,735 -- 00:47:02,235
[ Icey ]
Yoo-hoo!
661
00:47:02,320 -- 00:47:04,988
Mr. Powell.
662
00:47:08,534 -- 00:47:11,495
Well, well, Mrs. Spoon.
663
00:47:11,579 -- 00:47:13,330
[ Icey ]
Where are the children?
664
00:47:13,414 -- 00:47:15,582
They're down there in that cellar
playin' games...
665
00:47:15,666 -- 00:47:17,792
and they won't mind me when I call them.
666
00:47:17,877 -- 00:47:19,753
I'm at my wit's end, Mrs. Spoon.
667
00:47:19,837 -- 00:47:23,423
[ Icey ]
Oh. Tsk, tsk. John? Pearl?
668
00:47:23,508 -- 00:47:25,217
[ Footsteps Approaching ]
669
00:47:25,301 -- 00:47:27,135
John! Pearl!
670
00:47:30,223 -- 00:47:32,265
Shake a leg.
671
00:47:37,855 -- 00:47:40,857
[ Powell ]
WelI, well, weIl. What's that?
672
00:47:40,942 -- 00:47:44,236
[ Icey ] Just a little hot supper
I fixed for you and the children.
673
00:47:44,320 -- 00:47:46,947
It seemed the Ieast we could do.
674
00:47:48,282 -- 00:47:51,076
I won't have you worrying
poor Mr. Powell another minute.
675
00:47:51,160 -- 00:47:54,329
Just look at you -
dust and filth from top to toe.
676
00:47:54,413 -- 00:47:57,040
Want me to take 'em up
and wash 'em good?
677
00:47:57,124 -- 00:47:59,668
No. No, thank you, dear Icey.
Thank you.
678
00:47:59,752 -- 00:48:01,711
I'll tend to them. Thank you.
679
00:48:01,796 -- 00:48:03,713
Don't be too hard on 'em, Preacher.
680
00:48:03,798 -- 00:48:06,049
Poor motherless children.
681
00:48:06,133 -- 00:48:10,303
Remember now, Mr. Powell,
don't be afraid to call on us.
682
00:48:14,934 -- 00:48:16,685
Good-bye.
683
00:48:16,769 -- 00:48:19,813
Good-bye, Miz Spoon,
and thanks again.
684
00:48:19,897 -- 00:48:21,731
[ Simpers ]
685
00:48:27,655 -- 00:48:31,575
Now, weren't you afraid, little lambs,
down there in all that dark?
686
00:48:31,659 -- 00:48:33,994
[ Ship Horn Blows ]
687
00:48:40,710 -- 00:48:44,004
[ Crickets Chirping ]
688
00:48:48,092 -- 00:48:50,760
They'll think it was me.
689
00:48:50,845 -- 00:48:53,805
They'll say it was poor old Uncle Birdie.
690
00:48:56,767 -- 00:48:59,519
Aw, if you could've seen it, Bess.
691
00:49:00,688 -- 00:49:02,981
Down there in the deep place...
692
00:49:03,899 -- 00:49:07,736
with her hair wavin' soft and lazy, like...
693
00:49:07,820 -- 00:49:10,238
meadow grass under floodwater.
694
00:49:11,365 -- 00:49:13,783
And that slit in her throat...
695
00:49:13,868 -- 00:49:16,161
like she had an extra mouth.
696
00:49:20,541 -- 00:49:24,461
You're the only human mortal
I can go to, Bess.
697
00:49:25,379 -- 00:49:28,298
If I go to the law...
698
00:49:28,382 -- 00:49:30,342
they'll hang it on me.
699
00:49:36,057 -- 00:49:39,601
Sweet heaven, save poor old Uncle Birdie.
700
00:49:45,399 -- 00:49:48,109
- I'm hungry.
- Sure.
701
00:49:48,194 -- 00:49:53,365
And there's fried chicken, sweet potatoes,
corn bread and apple cobbler.
702
00:49:54,325 -- 00:49:57,410
- Can I have my supper, please?
- Naturally.
703
00:49:57,495 -- 00:50:00,163
- Can I have milk too?
- Mm-hmm.
704
00:50:00,247 -- 00:50:03,375
But first, we'll have a little talk -
about our secrets.
705
00:50:03,459 -- 00:50:05,877
- No.
- And why not, pray tell?
706
00:50:05,961 -- 00:50:07,295
'Cause John said I mustn't.
707
00:50:07,380 -- 00:50:10,256
- [ Table Rattles ]
- Never mind what John said!
708
00:50:10,341 -- 00:50:12,384
- John's a meddler.
- [ Pearl Crying ]
709
00:50:12,468 -- 00:50:14,636
Now stop that sniveling.
710
00:50:14,720 -- 00:50:17,180
Look a-here.
You know what that is?
711
00:50:17,932 -- 00:50:19,891
Wanna see something cute?
712
00:50:19,975 -- 00:50:22,435
- Now looky.
- [ Switchblade Snaps Open ]
713
00:50:22,520 -- 00:50:25,271
How about that?
714
00:50:25,356 -- 00:50:28,108
This is what I use on meddlers.
715
00:50:28,192 -- 00:50:30,276
John might be a meddler.
716
00:50:30,361 -- 00:50:31,736
Eh-eh! No, no.
717
00:50:31,821 -- 00:50:33,697
No, no, little lamb. Don't touch it.
718
00:50:33,781 -- 00:50:35,907
Don't touch my knife.
That makes me mad.
719
00:50:35,991 -- 00:50:38,952
- Makes me very, very mad.
- [ Sniffles ]
720
00:50:39,036 -- 00:50:41,871
Now, just tell me.
Where's the money hid?
721
00:50:41,956 -- 00:50:44,249
But I swore.
I promised John I wouldn't tell.
722
00:50:44,333 -- 00:50:46,626
John doesn't matter!
723
00:50:47,670 -- 00:50:52,674
Can't I get that through your head,
you poor, silly, disgusting little wretch?
724
00:50:58,097 -- 00:51:00,432
There now. You made me lose my temper.
725
00:51:00,516 -- 00:51:02,308
[ Crying ]
726
00:51:02,393 -- 00:51:05,311
I'm sorry. I am real sorry.
727
00:51:06,272 -- 00:51:07,731
Now just tell me.
728
00:51:07,815 -- 00:51:09,983
- Where's it hid, honey?
- I'll tell.
729
00:51:10,067 -- 00:51:11,901
I thought I told you
to keep your mouth shut.
730
00:51:11,986 -- 00:51:14,612
It ain't fair to make Pearl tell
when she swore she wouldn't.
731
00:51:14,697 -- 00:51:16,197
I'll tell.
732
00:51:16,282 -- 00:51:18,116
Well, I declare.
733
00:51:18,200 -- 00:51:21,161
Sometimes I think poor old John
might make it to heaven yet.
734
00:51:22,163 -- 00:51:23,496
All right, boy, where's the money?
735
00:51:23,581 -- 00:51:26,666
In the cellar,
buried under a stone in the floor.
736
00:51:27,543 -- 00:51:29,836
It'll go hard if I find you're lyin', boy.
737
00:51:29,920 -- 00:51:32,380
I'm not lying. Go look for yourself.
738
00:51:32,465 -- 00:51:34,716
[ Clicks Tongue ]
739
00:51:34,800 -- 00:51:37,844
All right.
[ Sighs ]
740
00:51:46,645 -- 00:51:47,937
Come along.
741
00:51:48,022 -- 00:51:49,355
What?
742
00:51:52,026 -- 00:51:54,694
Go ahead of me, the both of you.
743
00:51:55,529 -- 00:51:57,530
Down those stairs.
744
00:52:01,744 -- 00:52:04,162
You don't reckon I'd leave you,
do you, boy?
745
00:52:04,246 -- 00:52:05,789
[ John ]
Well, don't you believe me?
746
00:52:05,873 -- 00:52:08,374
Why, sure, boy. Sure.
747
00:52:11,712 -- 00:52:14,297
All right. Where now?
Mind, no tricks now.
748
00:52:14,381 -- 00:52:16,674
I can't abide a liar.
749
00:52:16,759 -- 00:52:18,259
Yonder.
750
00:52:21,847 -- 00:52:23,181
Oh, no, you don't.
751
00:52:28,771 -- 00:52:31,689
- Now, where, boy? Where?
- Under the stone in the floor.
752
00:52:31,774 -- 00:52:32,857
[ Pearl Gasps ]
753
00:52:42,034 -- 00:52:44,160
This is concrete.
754
00:52:44,245 -- 00:52:47,038
John made a sin.
John told a lie.
755
00:52:49,416 -- 00:52:52,585
The Lord's a-talkin' to me now.
756
00:52:52,670 -- 00:52:54,337
He's a-sayin'...
757
00:52:54,421 -- 00:52:58,258
"A liar is an abomination
before mine eyes."
758
00:52:59,635 -- 00:53:01,094
Speak, boy. Where's it hid?
759
00:53:01,178 -- 00:53:04,347
- [ Whimpering ]
- Speak.
760
00:53:04,431 -- 00:53:06,391
Speak, or I'll cut your throat
and leave you to drip...
761
00:53:06,475 -- 00:53:08,852
like a hog hung up in butcherin' time.
762
00:53:08,936 -- 00:53:12,397
- [ Gasping ] Pearl, shut up. Pearl, you swore.
- [ Whimpering Continues ]
763
00:53:13,315 -- 00:53:15,233
You could save him, little bird.
764
00:53:15,317 -- 00:53:18,319
It s in my doll! It s in my doll!
765
00:53:18,404 -- 00:53:21,364
[ Pearl Crying ]
766
00:53:21,448 -- 00:53:24,450
The doll.
[ Laughing ]
767
00:53:25,494 -- 00:53:28,496
Why, sure.
768
00:53:28,581 -- 00:53:30,915
Last place anybody'd think to look.
769
00:53:31,000 -- 00:53:32,834
[ Laughing ]
770
00:53:34,587 -- 00:53:37,839
- [ Jars Shattering ]
- [ Groans ]
771
00:53:47,433 -- 00:53:48,349
[ Shrieks ]
772
00:53:50,269 -- 00:53:51,728
[ Lock Turns ]
773
00:53:51,812 -- 00:53:53,104
[ Powell Grunts ]
774
00:53:55,774 -- 00:53:58,484
[ Low Growl ]
775
00:53:58,569 -- 00:54:00,069
Uncle Birdie Steptoe.
776
00:54:00,154 -- 00:54:02,530
- [ Doorknob Rattling ]
- Open that door!
777
00:54:02,615 -- 00:54:05,450
You spawn of the devil s own strumpet!
778
00:54:05,534 -- 00:54:08,036
- [ Doorknob Rattling ]
- [ Pounding On Door ]
779
00:54:14,335 -- 00:54:16,753
[ Heavy Pounding On Door ]
780
00:54:23,344 -- 00:54:25,845
[ Door Crashing Down ]
781
00:54:33,187 -- 00:54:35,355
[ John ]
Uncle Birdie! Uncle Birdie!
782
00:54:38,067 -- 00:54:39,651
- Uncle Birdie.
- Don't.
783
00:54:39,735 -- 00:54:42,528
Hide us, Uncle Birdie.
He's a-comin' with his knife.
784
00:54:45,866 -- 00:54:48,993
It s me - John Harper and Pearl.
You told me to come.
785
00:54:49,078 -- 00:54:51,496
- Johnny?
- Uncle Birdie. Oh, please.
786
00:54:51,580 -- 00:54:53,498
Please! Wake up!
787
00:54:53,582 -- 00:54:57,168
I swear on - on the Book.
I never done it. I -
788
00:54:57,252 -- 00:54:59,462
I never -
789
00:54:59,546 -- 00:55:09,389
[ Snoring ]
790
00:55:12,559 -- 00:55:14,310
There's still the river.
791
00:55:22,611 -- 00:55:24,737
[ John ]
The skiff is under the willow.
792
00:55:42,256 -- 00:55:44,590
- [ Yawns ]
- [ Powell ] Children!
793
00:55:56,979 -- 00:55:58,479
Children!
794
00:56:49,948 -- 00:56:52,784
[ Moaning ]
795
00:56:52,868 -- 00:56:55,286
[ Screeching ]
796
00:57:26,819 -- 00:57:29,195
j& Once upon a time j&
797
00:57:29,279 -- 00:57:32,698
j& There was a pretty fly j&
798
00:57:32,783 -- 00:57:35,785
j& e had a pretty wife j&
799
00:57:35,869 -- 00:57:37,870
j& This pretty fly j&
800
00:57:38,872 -- 00:57:44,460
j& But one day
she flew away j&
801
00:57:44,545 -- 00:57:47,922
j& Flew away j&
802
00:57:48,632 -- 00:57:54,470
j& She had two pretty children j&
803
00:57:54,555 -- 00:57:56,514
j& But one night j&
804
00:57:56,598 -- 00:58:01,561
j& These two pretty children j&
805
00:58:01,645 -- 00:58:08,151
j& Flew away j&
806
00:58:08,235 -- 00:58:11,988
j& Into the sky j&
807
00:58:12,072 -- 00:58:18,244
j& Into the moon j&j&
808
00:58:19,538 -- 00:58:21,038
[ Frog Croaks ]
809
00:58:33,218 -- 00:58:34,844
"Dear Walt and Icey...
810
00:58:34,928 -- 00:58:38,598
"I bet you been worried
and gave us up for lost.
811
00:58:38,682 -- 00:58:43,269
"Took the kids down here with me
for a visit to my sister Elsie's farm.
812
00:58:44,271 -- 00:58:47,356
"Thought a little change of scenery
would do us all a world of good...
813
00:58:47,441 -- 00:58:50,610
- "after so much trouble and heartache.
- mm.
814
00:58:50,694 -- 00:58:53,196
"At least the kids will get
a-plenty of good home cookin'.
815
00:58:53,280 -- 00:58:54,614
[ Chuckling ]
816
00:58:54,698 -- 00:58:56,616
Your devoted Harry Powell."
817
00:58:56,700 -- 00:58:58,784
Now, ain't you relieved, Walt?
818
00:58:58,869 -- 00:59:01,287
Sure. But you was worried too, Mother.
819
00:59:01,371 -- 00:59:03,915
Takin' off with never a word of good-bye.
820
00:59:03,999 -- 00:59:07,543
You know, I got to figurin' maybe them Gypsies
busted in and done off with all three of 'em.
821
00:59:07,628 -- 00:59:10,171
You and your Gypsies.
They've been gone a week.
822
00:59:10,255 -- 00:59:14,300
Sure. But not before one of 'em
knifed a farmer and stole his horse.
823
00:59:14,384 -- 00:59:16,802
Never caught the Gypsy
nor the horse.
824
00:59:33,362 -- 00:59:36,489
[ Woman ]
Such times when young 'uns run the roads.
825
00:59:36,573 -- 00:59:38,324
Go away, children.
826
00:59:45,457 -- 00:59:47,208
Hungry, I suppose.
827
00:59:47,292 -- 00:59:50,169
- Well, I can't spare you
more than one potato apiece.
- [ Boy ] Come on.
828
00:59:51,255 -- 00:59:53,839
- Where're your folks?
- Ain't got none.
829
00:59:53,924 -- 00:59:56,592
Oh, go away. Go away.
830
01:00:05,227 -- 01:00:08,688
An ungrateful child
is an abomination before the eyes of God.
831
01:00:08,772 -- 01:00:13,192
The world is fast goin' to damnation because of
impudent young 'uns a-flyin' in the face of age.
832
01:00:13,277 -- 01:00:14,944
[ Spits ]
833
01:00:15,028 -- 01:00:16,988
[ Owl Hooting ]
834
01:00:27,666 -- 01:00:29,959
They make soup out of them...
835
01:00:30,043 -- 01:00:32,712
but I wouldn't know how
to go about gettin' 'em open.
836
01:01:09,124 -- 01:01:11,125
[ Sheep Bleating ]
837
01:01:26,558 -- 01:01:28,601
[ Bleating ]
838
01:01:30,187 -- 01:01:32,271
We're gonna spend the night on land.
839
01:01:59,549 -- 01:02:03,594
[ Woman ]
j& Hush, little one j&
840
01:02:03,678 -- 01:02:07,556
j& Hush j&
841
01:02:07,641 -- 01:02:12,019
j& Hush, my little one ?
842
01:02:12,104 -- 01:02:16,023
j& Hush j&
843
01:02:16,108 -- 01:02:18,692
j& Morning soon j&
844
01:02:18,777 -- 01:02:23,697
j& ShaII light your pillow j&
845
01:02:23,782 -- 01:02:26,617
j& Birds will sing j&
846
01:02:26,701 -- 01:02:31,622
j& In yonder willow j&
847
01:02:31,706 -- 01:02:35,543
j& Hush, my little one j&
848
01:02:35,627 -- 01:02:39,505
j& Hush j&
849
01:02:39,589 -- 01:02:42,258
- Are we going home now, John?
- j& Hush, little one j&
850
01:02:42,342 -- 01:02:44,093
Shh.
851
01:02:44,177 -- 01:02:47,096
j& Hush j&
852
01:02:52,519 -- 01:02:56,480
j& Rest, dearest one j&
853
01:02:56,565 -- 01:03:00,943
j& Rest j&
854
01:03:01,027 -- 01:03:08,659
j& Rest here on my breast j&
855
01:03:09,369 -- 01:03:11,954
j& Little child j&
856
01:03:12,038 -- 01:03:16,167
j& With heart so brave j&
857
01:03:16,251 -- 01:03:19,462
j& Angel hosts j&
858
01:03:19,546 -- 01:03:24,550
j& Will keep you safe j&
859
01:03:24,634 -- 01:03:29,221
j& Rest, my little one j&
860
01:03:29,306 -- 01:03:32,808
j& Rest j&
861
01:03:32,893 -- 01:03:37,313
j& Rest, little one j&
862
01:03:37,397 -- 01:03:41,150
j& Rest j&j&
863
01:03:42,444 -- 01:03:44,945
[ Bird Calling ]
864
01:04:04,424 -- 01:04:06,926
[ Dog Barking In Distance ]
865
01:04:09,513 -- 01:04:12,014
[ Barking Continues ]
866
01:04:15,936 -- 01:04:19,188
[ Agitated Barking ]
867
01:04:19,272 -- 01:04:21,899
[ Powell ]
j& Leaning j&
868
01:04:21,983 -- 01:04:25,110
j& Leaning j&
869
01:04:25,195 -- 01:04:27,321
j& Safe and secure j&
870
01:04:27,405 -- 01:04:30,950
j& From all alarms j&
871
01:04:31,868 -- 01:04:37,915
j& Leaning j&
872
01:04:37,999 -- 01:04:45,381
j& Leaning on the everlasting arms j&
873
01:04:45,465 -- 01:04:48,092
j& What a fellowship j&
874
01:04:48,176 -- 01:04:50,803
j& What a peace is mine j&
875
01:04:50,887 -- 01:04:53,138
j& Leaning on the everlasting arms j&
876
01:04:53,223 -- 01:04:56,225
Don't he never sleep?
877
01:04:56,309 -- 01:04:58,894
j& What a blessedness j&
878
01:04:58,979 -- 01:05:00,980
j& What a joy divine j&
879
01:05:01,064 -- 01:05:02,731
Pearl! Wake up!
880
01:05:02,816 -- 01:05:04,066
Come on! Pearl!
881
01:05:04,150 -- 01:05:07,111
j& ...on the everlasting arms j&
882
01:05:07,195 -- 01:05:12,908
j& Leaning j&
883
01:05:12,993 -- 01:05:14,910
j& Safe and secure j&
884
01:05:14,995 -- 01:05:18,163
[ Fading ]
j& From all alarms j&j&
885
01:06:15,388 -- 01:06:17,556
[ Animal Barks ]
886
01:07:34,634 -- 01:07:41,265
[ Rooster Crowing ]
887
01:07:42,308 -- 01:07:44,810
- [ Crowing ]
- [ Footsteps ]
888
01:07:47,313 -- 01:07:49,481
[ Woman ] You two youngsters
get up here to me this instant.
889
01:07:51,109 -- 01:07:52,401
Get on up to my house.
890
01:07:52,485 -- 01:07:55,446
Mind me now.
I ll get me a switch.
891
01:08:10,670 -- 01:08:12,421
- Don't you hurt her!
- urt her, nothing.
892
01:08:12,505 -- 01:08:14,006
Wash her is more like it.
893
01:08:14,924 -- 01:08:17,801
Ruby! Clary! Mary!
894
01:08:17,886 -- 01:08:19,303
[ Together ]
Yes, Miz Cooper!
895
01:08:19,387 -- 01:08:21,805
Bring your baskets.
896
01:08:26,394 -- 01:08:28,103
Nicely picked, Clary.
897
01:08:28,188 -- 01:08:30,439
Mary, put the big ones on top.
898
01:08:30,523 -- 01:08:33,400
Oh, Ruby. Most of them
ain't fit to go to market.
899
01:08:33,485 -- 01:08:35,110
Well, put your baskets down.
900
01:08:35,195 -- 01:08:39,198
Ruby, run to the house and fetch the tub
and put it by the pump.
901
01:08:39,282 -- 01:08:42,284
Clary, uh, Mary, run up
and fetch a bar of laundry soap.
902
01:08:42,368 -- 01:08:45,120
- [ Together ] Yes, Miz Cooper.
- And a scrub brush.
903
01:08:45,205 -- 01:08:46,955
Come on up to the house, children.
904
01:08:49,459 -- 01:08:52,419
Gracious! If you ain't a sight to beat all.
905
01:08:52,504 -- 01:08:54,087
Where you from?
906
01:08:55,715 -- 01:08:59,134
Where're your foIks?
Come on, speak up now.
907
01:09:00,220 -- 01:09:01,678
[ Clicks Tongue ]
908
01:09:01,763 -- 01:09:04,389
Gracious. So I've got
two more mouths to feed.
909
01:09:16,903 -- 01:09:19,154
[ Spanking ]
910
01:09:32,085 -- 01:09:34,127
owdy, Miz Cooper.
What happened to my milk supply?
911
01:09:34,212 -- 01:09:36,129
Price of milk what it is,
not on your life.
912
01:09:36,214 -- 01:09:38,841
Do better making butter with the cream,
sell it retail.
913
01:09:38,925 -- 01:09:41,218
Make smearcase for the children,
feed what's left to my hogs.
914
01:09:42,262 -- 01:09:44,972
- She talks to herself.
- All the time.
915
01:09:45,056 -- 01:09:47,224
- Your ma's funny.
- She ain't our ma.
916
01:09:47,308 -- 01:09:49,017
We just live at her house.
917
01:09:49,102 -- 01:09:51,186
- Where are your folks?
- Someplace.
918
01:09:51,271 -- 01:09:53,230
My daddy's in Detroit.
919
01:09:54,858 -- 01:09:56,358
[ Woman ]
Mary!
920
01:09:57,360 -- 01:10:00,320
oney.
Good morning, Miz Cooper.
921
01:10:00,405 -- 01:10:02,406
Guess what.
I'm saving up to buy you a charm bracelet.
922
01:10:02,490 -- 01:10:04,199
Never mind the gewgaws.
923
01:10:04,284 -- 01:10:06,827
Don't forget your visit this Sunday,
and come to church with us.
924
01:10:08,955 -- 01:10:10,706
See ya Sunday, love.
925
01:10:12,208 -- 01:10:14,126
Take your baskets in, children.
926
01:10:14,210 -- 01:10:16,545
Women is fools.
927
01:10:16,629 -- 01:10:18,130
All of 'em.
928
01:10:19,966 -- 01:10:22,009
Look a-there.
929
01:10:22,093 -- 01:10:24,845
She ll be losing her mind
to a tricky mouth and a fool moon.
930
01:10:24,929 -- 01:10:27,556
And like as not,
I'll be settled with the consequences.
931
01:10:29,309 -- 01:10:31,143
Here's what you owe me.
932
01:10:32,812 -- 01:10:36,565
One, two, three, four, five -
Where's the other basket?
933
01:10:36,649 -- 01:10:38,692
- Where's Ruby?
- She went.
934
01:10:38,776 -- 01:10:41,111
John, you go find Ruby.
935
01:10:41,195 -- 01:10:44,740
Big Ruby's my bothersome girl.
She can't get eggs without bustin' them.
936
01:10:44,824 -- 01:10:47,826
But she's got mother hands with the young 'uns,
so what are you to say?
937
01:10:47,911 -- 01:10:51,788
j&j& [ Wolf Whistle ]
How about tonight, Ruby?
938
01:10:51,873 -- 01:10:55,334
- What gives?
- The old lady's around.
939
01:10:55,418 -- 01:10:58,337
How about Thursday?
940
01:10:58,421 -- 01:11:01,965
The old gal thinks she comes in
for sewing lessons on Thursday.
941
01:11:02,050 -- 01:11:04,343
Miz Cooper wants you.
942
01:11:08,014 -- 01:11:11,099
And will you show me
your dolly, little lady?
943
01:11:11,184 -- 01:11:13,810
[ Chuckles ]
I see you got two more peeps in your brood.
944
01:11:13,895 -- 01:11:15,979
Yeah, and ornerier than the rest.
945
01:11:16,064 -- 01:11:17,773
How's your own boy, Miz Cooper?
946
01:11:17,857 -- 01:11:19,775
Haven't heard from Ralph
since last Christmas.
947
01:11:19,859 -- 01:11:21,860
Don't matter though.
I've got a new crop.
948
01:11:23,696 -- 01:11:27,032
I'm a strong tree
with branches for many birds.
949
01:11:27,116 -- 01:11:30,243
I'm good for somethin' in this old world,
and I know it too.
950
01:11:31,996 -- 01:11:35,332
[ Metal Clanging In Distance ]
951
01:11:53,601 -- 01:11:58,313
Now, old pharaoh,
he was king of Egypt land...
952
01:11:58,398 -- 01:12:00,107
and he had a daughter.
953
01:12:00,900 -- 01:12:03,235
And once upon a time...
954
01:12:04,779 -- 01:12:06,822
she was walkin' along by the riverbank...
955
01:12:06,906 -- 01:12:12,369
and she seen somethin' bumpin' and scrapin'
along on a sandbar down under the willows.
956
01:12:12,453 -- 01:12:15,622
- And you know what it was, children?
- [ Girls ] No.
957
01:12:15,707 -- 01:12:18,542
Now, it was a skiff, washed up on the bar.
958
01:12:19,627 -- 01:12:21,503
And who do you reckon was in it?
959
01:12:21,587 -- 01:12:23,255
[ Ruby ]
Pearl and John.
960
01:12:23,339 -- 01:12:25,298
[ Chuckles ]
Not this time.
961
01:12:25,383 -- 01:12:29,511
There was only one young 'un -
a little boy babe.
962
01:12:29,595 -- 01:12:32,597
- And you know who he was, children?
- [ Girls ] No.
963
01:12:34,350 -- 01:12:37,436
It was Moses - a king of men.
964
01:12:37,520 -- 01:12:39,438
Moses, children.
965
01:12:40,523 -- 01:12:42,274
Now off to bed with you.
966
01:12:43,067 -- 01:12:44,901
John, get me an apple.
967
01:13:02,045 -- 01:13:04,171
And get one for yourself too.
968
01:13:17,477 -- 01:13:19,895
John, where are your folks?
969
01:13:19,979 -- 01:13:22,064
- Dead.
- Dead?
970
01:13:23,900 -- 01:13:25,859
Where are you from?
971
01:13:25,943 -- 01:13:28,153
Upriver.
972
01:13:28,237 -- 01:13:33,617
Well, I didn't figure you'd rowed that skiff
all the way up from Parkersburg.
973
01:13:47,548 -- 01:13:50,008
Tell me that story again.
974
01:13:50,093 -- 01:13:52,636
Story? What story, honey?
975
01:13:53,429 -- 01:13:54,971
About them kings...
976
01:13:55,056 -- 01:13:59,059
and the queen found down on the sandbar
that time on the skiff.
977
01:13:59,143 -- 01:14:02,229
Kings? Why, there was only one king, honey.
978
01:14:03,523 -- 01:14:05,482
I mind you said there was two.
979
01:14:06,776 -- 01:14:09,736
Well, shoot now.
Maybe there was.
980
01:14:10,988 -- 01:14:13,406
Yes, come to think of it,
there was two.
981
01:14:23,042 -- 01:14:26,044
- j&j& [ Jukebox: Big Band, Slow Tempo ]
- [ People Chattering ]
982
01:14:40,059 -- 01:14:42,727
Must be Thursday.
Here comes Ruby.
983
01:14:50,027 -- 01:14:51,736
Here I go.
984
01:14:58,286 -- 01:15:00,662
Why, you're Ruby.
Ain't you, my child?
985
01:15:00,746 -- 01:15:02,873
- Can I have this?
- Surely.
986
01:15:02,957 -- 01:15:04,666
I'd like to talk to you, my dear.
987
01:15:04,750 -- 01:15:06,668
- Will you buy me an ice cream?
- Of course.
988
01:15:06,752 -- 01:15:09,004
- Watch out, Preacher.
- [ Kid ] Why, Preacher.
989
01:15:09,088 -- 01:15:11,047
Shut your dirty mouths.
990
01:15:15,845 -- 01:15:18,138
j&j& [ Continues ]
991
01:15:22,435 -- 01:15:23,894
Ain't I pretty?
992
01:15:23,978 -- 01:15:26,646
Why, you're the prettiest thing
I ever seen in all my wanderin'.
993
01:15:28,107 -- 01:15:30,859
Ain't nobody never toId you that, Ruby?
994
01:15:30,943 -- 01:15:32,569
No. No one never did.
995
01:15:33,529 -- 01:15:36,198
There's, uh, two new ones
out your place, ain't there?
996
01:15:36,282 -- 01:15:38,658
Uh-huh.
997
01:15:38,743 -- 01:15:40,994
- What's their names?
- Pearl and John.
998
01:15:41,078 -- 01:15:44,372
Ah, yeah. Is there a doll?
999
01:15:44,457 -- 01:15:46,583
Only they don't never
let me play with it.
1000
01:15:46,667 -- 01:15:47,834
Ah!
1001
01:15:54,508 -- 01:15:57,260
Did you ever see such pretty eyes
in all your born days?
1002
01:15:57,345 -- 01:15:59,721
- [ Cloth Rips ]
- Don't let him get away, sugar.
1003
01:15:59,805 -- 01:16:03,975
He ain't like you all. Next time, I won't
even ask him to buy me an ice cream.
1004
01:16:05,269 -- 01:16:06,436
[ Sighs ]
1005
01:16:12,944 -- 01:16:14,861
I've been bad.
1006
01:16:18,824 -- 01:16:20,909
Ruby, you didn't have money
to buy this.
1007
01:16:20,993 -- 01:16:23,828
- You'll whip me.
- When did I ever?
1008
01:16:23,913 -- 01:16:26,706
- This man at the drugstore, he gave me -
- The drugstore?
1009
01:16:28,417 -- 01:16:32,128
Miz Cooper, I never been
to sewin' lessons all them times.
1010
01:16:32,213 -- 01:16:34,047
What you been up to, Ruby?
1011
01:16:34,131 -- 01:16:36,466
[ Crying ]
I been out with men.
1012
01:16:38,177 -- 01:16:40,095
Child.
1013
01:16:40,179 -- 01:16:42,222
Oh, my God.
1014
01:16:44,600 -- 01:16:48,603
You were lookin' for love, Ruby,
in the only foolish way you knew how.
1015
01:16:53,109 -- 01:16:55,777
We all need love, Ruby.
1016
01:16:55,861 -- 01:16:58,154
I lost the love of my son.
1017
01:16:58,239 -- 01:17:00,407
I found it with you all.
1018
01:17:02,285 -- 01:17:05,620
You're gonna grow up
to be a strong, fine woman...
1019
01:17:05,705 -- 01:17:07,747
and I'm gonna see to it that you do.
1020
01:17:07,832 -- 01:17:09,624
This gentleman weren't like them.
1021
01:17:09,709 -- 01:17:12,460
e just give me a book
and buy me an ice cream.
1022
01:17:12,545 -- 01:17:15,797
- Now, who was this?
- e didn't ask me for nothin'.
1023
01:17:15,881 -- 01:17:17,549
What'd you talk about?
1024
01:17:17,633 -- 01:17:19,676
Pearl and John.
1025
01:17:19,760 -- 01:17:21,720
John and Pearl?
1026
01:17:21,804 -- 01:17:23,972
- Is he their pap?
- I don't know.
1027
01:17:25,808 -- 01:17:27,892
Wonder why he hasn't
been to the house.
1028
01:17:29,937 -- 01:17:31,938
[ Horse Whinnies ]
1029
01:17:35,776 -- 01:17:37,819
[ Chickens Clucking ]
1030
01:17:42,199 -- 01:17:44,367
[ Horse Whinnies ]
1031
01:17:46,245 -- 01:17:48,955
Oh, Miz Cooper! Miz Cooper!
1032
01:17:49,040 -- 01:17:51,499
- What?
- The man! The man!
1033
01:17:56,130 -- 01:17:57,922
Good mornin', ladies.
1034
01:17:58,007 -- 01:17:59,341
How do?
1035
01:17:59,425 -- 01:18:02,052
Why, you're Miz Cooper, I take it.
1036
01:18:02,136 -- 01:18:04,346
It s about that John and that Pearl?
1037
01:18:04,430 -- 01:18:06,514
Oh, them poor little lambs.
1038
01:18:06,599 -- 01:18:09,017
To think I never hoped
to see them again in this world.
1039
01:18:09,101 -- 01:18:13,521
Oh, dear madam, if you was to know
what a crown of thorns I've borne...
1040
01:18:13,606 -- 01:18:16,816
in my search for them stray chicks.
[ Gasps ]
1041
01:18:16,901 -- 01:18:19,194
Ruby, go fetch them kids.
1042
01:18:19,278 -- 01:18:20,612
[ Sniffles ]
1043
01:18:22,114 -- 01:18:25,408
Oh, madam,
I see you're lookin' at my hands.
1044
01:18:25,493 -- 01:18:28,495
Would you like me to tell you
the little story of left hand and right hand -
1045
01:18:28,579 -- 01:18:30,038
the tale of good and evil?
1046
01:18:30,122 -- 01:18:34,000
It was with this left hand that old brother Cain
struck the blow that laid his brother low -
1047
01:18:34,085 -- 01:18:35,710
Them kids is yours?
1048
01:18:35,795 -- 01:18:38,088
My own flesh and blood.
1049
01:18:38,172 -- 01:18:39,589
Where's your missus?
1050
01:18:39,673 -- 01:18:44,302
Uh, she run off with a drummer -
during prayer meetin'.
1051
01:18:44,387 -- 01:18:46,596
- Where's she at?
- Down the river somewheres.
1052
01:18:46,680 -- 01:18:50,225
Parkersburg maybe or Cincinnati -
one of them Sodoms on the Ohio River.
1053
01:18:50,309 -- 01:18:52,060
She took them kids with her?
1054
01:18:52,144 -- 01:18:55,063
Oh, heaven only knows
what unholy sights and sounds...
1055
01:18:55,147 -- 01:18:59,651
them innocent little babes has heard in
the dens of perdition where she dragged 'em.
1056
01:18:59,735 -- 01:19:03,571
Right funny, ain't it, how they rowed
all the way upriver in a 10-foot johnboat.
1057
01:19:05,324 -- 01:19:07,283
Are they well, Miz Cooper?
1058
01:19:07,368 -- 01:19:09,661
A sight better than they was.
1059
01:19:11,330 -- 01:19:15,041
Gracious, gracious.
You are a good woman, Miz Cooper.
1060
01:19:15,126 -- 01:19:17,710
How you figurin' to raise them two
without a woman?
1061
01:19:17,795 -- 01:19:19,921
The Lord will provide.
1062
01:19:20,005 -- 01:19:21,798
The Lord is merciful.
1063
01:19:21,882 -- 01:19:24,300
Oh, what a day this is.
1064
01:19:24,385 -- 01:19:26,594
And there's little John.
1065
01:19:26,679 -- 01:19:29,389
- What's wrong, John?
- Come to me, boy.
1066
01:19:29,473 -- 01:19:32,267
- What's wrong, John?
- Didn't you hear me, boy?
1067
01:19:32,351 -- 01:19:34,602
John, when your dad says come,
you should mind him.
1068
01:19:34,687 -- 01:19:36,688
He ain't my dad.
1069
01:19:40,025 -- 01:19:42,402
No. And he ain't no preacher neither.
1070
01:19:50,744 -- 01:19:53,621
Just march yourself yonder
to your horse, mister.
1071
01:19:56,667 -- 01:19:58,668
- [ Shotgun Cocks ]
- March, mister! I'm not foolin'!
1072
01:20:02,381 -- 01:20:06,050
All right, but you haven't heard
the last of Harry Powell yet.
1073
01:20:07,553 -- 01:20:10,555
The Lord God Jehovah
will guide my hand in vengeance.
1074
01:20:12,391 -- 01:20:14,058
You devils!
1075
01:20:16,020 -- 01:20:17,729
You Whores of Babylon!
1076
01:20:24,028 -- 01:20:26,237
I'll be back when it's dark!
1077
01:20:30,117 -- 01:20:32,619
[ Crickets Chirping ]
1078
01:20:35,623 -- 01:20:42,253
j& Leaning j&
1079
01:20:42,338 -- 01:20:44,589
j& Safe and secure j&
1080
01:20:44,673 -- 01:20:48,718
j& From all alarms j&
1081
01:20:49,678 -- 01:20:56,392
j& Leaning j&
1082
01:20:56,477 -- 01:21:04,317
j& Leaning on the everlasting arms j&
1083
01:21:04,401 -- 01:21:07,946
j& What a fellowship j&
1084
01:21:08,030 -- 01:21:11,115
j& What a joy divine j&
1085
01:21:11,200 -- 01:21:16,162
j& Leaning on the everlasting arms j&
1086
01:21:16,914 -- 01:21:19,374
j& What a blessedness j&
1087
01:21:19,458 -- 01:21:23,878
j& What a peace is mine j&
1088
01:21:23,963 -- 01:21:29,676
j& Leaning on the everlasting arms j&
1089
01:21:29,760 -- 01:21:36,391
- j& Leaning on Jesus j&
- j& Leaning j&
1090
01:21:36,475 -- 01:21:38,893
[ Together ]
j& Safe and secure j&
1091
01:21:38,978 -- 01:21:43,398
j& From all alarms j&
1092
01:21:43,482 -- 01:21:50,697
- j& Leaning on Jesus j&
- j& Leaning j&
1093
01:21:50,781 -- 01:21:53,366
j& Leaning on j&
1094
01:21:53,450 -- 01:21:59,330
j& The everlasting arms j&j&
1095
01:22:00,749 -- 01:22:02,458
[ ushed ]
Shame on you, Ruby...
1096
01:22:02,543 -- 01:22:05,378
mooning around the house
after that mad dog of a man.
1097
01:22:06,964 -- 01:22:09,048
Merciful heavens!
1098
01:22:10,009 -- 01:22:13,177
Ruby, go get the children out of bed
and bring them down here.
1099
01:22:14,346 -- 01:22:15,805
[ Footsteps Climbing Stairs ]
1100
01:22:15,889 -- 01:22:19,392
- Women are such durn fools.
- [ Owl Hoots ]
1101
01:22:34,033 -- 01:22:37,201
[ Rabbit Squealing ]
1102
01:22:37,286 -- 01:22:39,954
It s a hard world for little things.
1103
01:22:41,457 -- 01:22:44,751
[ Footsteps Pacing ]
1104
01:23:01,226 -- 01:23:05,229
Now, there was this sneakin',
no-account, ornery King erod.
1105
01:23:05,314 -- 01:23:07,565
And when he heard tell
of little Jesus growin' up...
1106
01:23:07,650 -- 01:23:11,319
he figured, "Well, shoot, there won't
be no room for the both of us.
1107
01:23:11,403 -- 01:23:13,321
I'll just nip this in the bud."
1108
01:23:13,405 -- 01:23:16,866
But he wasn't sure which of all them
babies in the land was King Jesus.
1109
01:23:16,950 -- 01:23:21,454
So that cruel old King erod figured
if he was to kill all the babies in the land...
1110
01:23:21,538 -- 01:23:23,206
he'd be sure and get little Jesus.
1111
01:23:23,999 -- 01:23:26,376
And when little King Jesus' ma and pa
heard about this plan...
1112
01:23:26,460 -- 01:23:28,002
what do you reckon
they went and done?
1113
01:23:28,087 -- 01:23:30,380
- They hid in a broom closet.
- They hid under the porch.
1114
01:23:30,464 -- 01:23:33,383
No. They went a-runnin'.
1115
01:23:33,467 -- 01:23:37,178
Well, now, John, you're right.
That's just what they done.
1116
01:23:37,262 -- 01:23:39,847
And little King Jesus' ma and pa
saddled a mule...
1117
01:23:39,932 -- 01:23:42,475
and they rode all the way down
into Egypt land.
1118
01:23:42,559 -- 01:23:45,895
Yeah. And that's where the queen
found 'im in the "billy rushes."
1119
01:23:45,979 -- 01:23:49,023
Oh, no. That wasn't the same story at all.
That was little King Moses.
1120
01:23:49,108 -- 01:23:53,027
But just the same, it did seem
like it was a plague time for little ones...
1121
01:23:53,112 -- 01:23:55,947
them olden days, them hard, hard times.
1122
01:23:56,031 -- 01:23:58,741
[ Clock Strikes 3:00 ]
1123
01:24:02,996 -- 01:24:04,997
[ Powell ]
Figured I was gone, huh?
1124
01:24:05,082 -- 01:24:08,126
Run! Hide in the staircase!
Run quick!
1125
01:24:08,210 -- 01:24:09,711
Ruby! Git!
1126
01:24:10,671 -- 01:24:13,506
- What do you want?
- I want them kids.
1127
01:24:13,590 -- 01:24:16,884
- What do you want them for?
- That's none of your business, madam.
1128
01:24:16,969 -- 01:24:18,678
I'm giving you to the count of three
to get out of here.
1129
01:24:18,762 -- 01:24:21,514
- Then I'm comin' across the kitchen shooting.
- [ Cat Screeches ]
1130
01:24:22,391 -- 01:24:24,934
[ Powell Yelping, Shrieking ]
1131
01:24:25,018 -- 01:24:27,603
[ Squealing, Yelping ]
1132
01:24:30,733 -- 01:24:33,317
- [ Squealing, Yelping Continue ]
- [ Phone Bell Ringing ]
1133
01:24:35,946 -- 01:24:38,072
Miz Booher? Rachel Cooper.
1134
01:24:38,157 -- 01:24:40,283
Get your state troopers out to my place.
1135
01:24:40,367 -- 01:24:42,493
I got somethin' trapped in my barn.
1136
01:24:52,171 -- 01:24:55,089
[ Yawns ]
I'll go see to Pearl.
1137
01:24:55,174 -- 01:24:56,924
I'll make coffee.
1138
01:25:06,310 -- 01:25:08,019
She's all right.
1139
01:25:10,189 -- 01:25:11,939
John, you know, when you're little...
1140
01:25:12,024 -- 01:25:15,359
you have more endurance
than God is ever to grant you again?
1141
01:25:15,444 -- 01:25:18,738
Children are man at his strongest.
They abide.
1142
01:25:18,822 -- 01:25:21,532
[ Sirens Approaching ]
1143
01:25:26,371 -- 01:25:28,873
[ Sirens Wailing ]
1144
01:25:33,045 -- 01:25:34,462
Why didn't you call us before now?
1145
01:25:34,546 -- 01:25:37,089
Didn't want your dirty shoes
trackin' up my clean floors.
1146
01:25:37,174 -- 01:25:39,008
- Is that him, ma'am?
- Yes.
1147
01:25:39,092 -- 01:25:41,135
Mind where you shoot, boys.
There are children here.
1148
01:25:41,220 -- 01:25:44,889
[ Officer ] arry Powell, you're under arrest
for the murder of Willa arper.
1149
01:25:47,017 -- 01:25:48,392
Drop that knife, Powell.
1150
01:25:50,854 -- 01:25:51,771
Don't.
1151
01:25:52,689 -- 01:25:56,108
Don't!
1152
01:25:56,193 -- 01:25:57,318
[ Crying ]
1153
01:25:57,402 -- 01:26:00,488
- Here! Here!
- John! John!
1154
01:26:00,572 -- 01:26:03,449
Take it back, Dad! Take it back!
I don't want it, Dad!
1155
01:26:03,534 -- 01:26:05,743
It s too much! ere!
1156
01:26:05,828 -- 01:26:06,953
Here!
1157
01:26:15,170 -- 01:26:16,504
[ Spectators Muttering ]
1158
01:26:16,588 -- 01:26:19,257
Lynch him! Lynch him!
1159
01:26:19,341 -- 01:26:21,133
Bluebeard!
1160
01:26:21,218 -- 01:26:24,136
- Twenty-five wives!
- And he killed every last one of 'em!
1161
01:26:24,221 -- 01:26:27,265
- The people of Marshall County -
- Bluebeard!
1162
01:26:27,349 -- 01:26:31,394
- [ Spectators Clamoring ]
- Lynch him! Lynch him!
1163
01:26:31,478 -- 01:26:32,895
[ Gavel Rapping ]
1164
01:26:32,980 -- 01:26:36,566
- [ Rapping Continues ]
- [ Man ] Will you identify the prisoner?
1165
01:26:36,650 -- 01:26:38,150
Please, little lad.
1166
01:26:38,235 -- 01:26:40,444
Won't you look yonder
and tell the court...
1167
01:26:40,529 -- 01:26:43,030
if that is the man
that killed your mother?
1168
01:26:43,115 -- 01:26:45,616
[ Spectators Murmuring ]
1169
01:26:50,622 -- 01:26:53,291
It s all right, Mrs. Cooper.
You can take the little fellow away.
1170
01:26:54,293 -- 01:26:56,627
Merry Christmas to you and yours,
Mrs. Cooper.
1171
01:26:56,712 -- 01:26:59,964
And what's Santa Claus going
to bring you for Christmas, little man?
1172
01:27:00,048 -- 01:27:01,048
Oh-ho.
1173
01:27:01,133 -- 01:27:03,634
[ Spectators Shouting ]
Bluebeard! Bluebeard! Bluebeard!
1174
01:27:03,719 -- 01:27:05,887
[ Spectators Clamoring ]
1175
01:27:06,847 -- 01:27:10,808
- [ Crowd Clamoring In Distance ]
- [ Man ] Bring out that bluebeard!
1176
01:27:10,893 -- 01:27:12,768
[ Icey Screams ]
There's Pearl!
1177
01:27:12,853 -- 01:27:14,562
Get your coats.
1178
01:27:14,646 -- 01:27:16,230
Them's her orphans!
1179
01:27:16,315 -- 01:27:18,441
- Where's Ruby?
- She went.
1180
01:27:18,525 -- 01:27:21,402
Them poor little lambs!
1181
01:27:21,486 -- 01:27:25,656
Them is the ones
he sinned against, my friends!
1182
01:27:25,741 -- 01:27:26,782
[ Cashier ]
Go out the back door.
1183
01:27:26,867 -- 01:27:29,702
[ Walt ] Don't just stand around. Come on.
They're bringing him out.
1184
01:27:31,663 -- 01:27:33,915
[ Clary ]
Ain't we goin' to the bus depot?
1185
01:27:35,626 -- 01:27:39,086
[ Icey ] Draggin' the name of the Lord
through the evil mud of his soul!
1186
01:27:39,171 -- 01:27:40,838
String that bluebeard
up to a pole!
1187
01:27:40,923 -- 01:27:43,424
He's Satan hidin' behind the cross!
1188
01:27:43,508 -- 01:27:46,010
- Come on!
- [ Crowd Clamoring ]
1189
01:28:16,959 -- 01:28:19,460
[ Clamoring ]
1190
01:28:30,389 -- 01:28:31,889
I love him.
1191
01:28:31,974 -- 01:28:34,016
You think he's like them others.
1192
01:28:37,187 -- 01:28:39,814
[ Crowd Clamoring In Distance ]
1193
01:28:39,898 -- 01:28:41,732
You were so mad, you shot him.
1194
01:28:46,113 -- 01:28:48,614
[ Clamoring Continues ]
1195
01:28:58,166 -- 01:28:59,667
- ey, Bart.
- Yeah?
1196
01:28:59,751 -- 01:29:01,585
We're savin' this bird up for you.
1197
01:29:01,670 -- 01:29:03,587
This time, it'll be a privilege.
1198
01:29:28,655 -- 01:29:30,698
I'm glad they didn't send me nothin'.
1199
01:29:30,782 -- 01:29:32,408
Whenever they do, it's nothin' I want...
1200
01:29:32,492 -- 01:29:35,995
but just something to show me how fancy
and smart they come up in the world.
1201
01:29:38,957 -- 01:29:42,126
Brrr! Brrr! Mmm!
1202
01:29:42,210 -- 01:29:44,795
Can we give you
your Christmas presents now?
1203
01:29:44,880 -- 01:29:47,631
Shoot. You don't mean to say
you got me a present?
1204
01:29:47,716 -- 01:29:49,759
- [ Mary Giggling ]
- Shoot now.
1205
01:29:56,016 -- 01:29:57,516
Ruby.
1206
01:29:57,601 -- 01:30:00,227
A potholder.
1207
01:30:00,312 -- 01:30:03,898
And it's much neater
than last year, Ruby.
1208
01:30:03,982 -- 01:30:05,483
Clary.
1209
01:30:06,985 -- 01:30:10,404
Another potholder.
Now, ain't that thoughtful?
1210
01:30:10,489 -- 01:30:12,615
I'm always burnin' my hands.
1211
01:30:14,826 -- 01:30:16,327
Oh, this doesn't look basted.
1212
01:30:16,411 -- 01:30:17,912
- This looks made.
- [ Girl Giggles ]
1213
01:30:17,996 -- 01:30:21,165
Oh, and you finished the edge
with a chain stitch.
1214
01:30:21,249 -- 01:30:25,336
- Oh, that's just dandy, Clary.
- [ Girl Laughing ]
1215
01:30:26,213 -- 01:30:30,007
- Another potholder?
- [ Girls Giggling ]
1216
01:30:33,512 -- 01:30:36,388
Oh, now, did you two
make this together?
1217
01:30:36,473 -- 01:30:37,973
You helped us some.
1218
01:30:47,192 -- 01:30:51,237
That's the richest gift
a body could have.
1219
01:30:51,321 -- 01:30:54,949
And your presents are in the cupboard
under the china closet.
1220
01:30:55,033 -- 01:30:57,660
- [ Children Exclaiming ]
- Ruby.
1221
01:31:00,247 -- 01:31:02,206
This is yours.
1222
01:31:04,209 -- 01:31:06,794
[ Children Chattering ]
1223
01:31:06,878 -- 01:31:08,379
[ Gasps ]
1224
01:31:15,554 -- 01:31:18,013
[ Girl ]
Oh, look what you've got!
1225
01:31:18,098 -- 01:31:20,850
Lord save little children.
1226
01:31:20,934 -- 01:31:24,645
You'd think the world would be ashamed to
name such a day as Christmas for one of them...
1227
01:31:24,729 -- 01:31:27,106
and then go on in the same old way.
1228
01:31:28,400 -- 01:31:32,903
My soul is humble when I see the way
little ones accept their lot.
1229
01:31:34,239 -- 01:31:36,490
Lord save little children.
1230
01:31:36,575 -- 01:31:38,993
The wind blows, and the rains are cold.
1231
01:31:40,036 -- 01:31:42,746
- Yet they abide.
- [ Footsteps Running ]
1232
01:32:01,892 -- 01:32:04,393
[ Watch Ticking ]
1233
01:32:10,400 -- 01:32:12,860
That watch sure is a fine loud ticker.
1234
01:32:14,529 -- 01:32:18,115
Be nice to have someone around the house
who can give me the right time of day.
1235
01:32:19,367 -- 01:32:22,661
This watch
is the nicest watch I ever had.
1236
01:32:22,746 -- 01:32:26,415
Well, a fella just can't go round
with rundown, busted watches.
1237
01:32:33,423 -- 01:32:35,925
They abide, and they endure.