(GUNSHOT)
Judd, you can't .
I got to
get in the house.
Poke your head out
in the cIear,
and a FaIin wiII get you.
But MeIissa,
she's going to have a baby.
(GUNSHOT)
Hit you, David?
No FaIin can ever
get me, UncIe Judd.
(FIRING STOPS)
(BABY CRYING)
Oh, God,
give her the strength
to be good,
to be never hatefuI
and never fight.
(GUNSHOTS)
And don't Iet her
carry the burden of fear,
watching her Ioved ones
and seeing them die.
AIways asking
out of her heart,
" Why has it got to be?
Why has it got to be?"
(GUNSHOTS CONTINUE)
MAN: (SINGING)
When it's twilight
on the trail
And I jog along
The world is like a dream
And the ripple of the stream
is my song
When it's twilight
on the trail
And I rest once more
My ceiling is the sky
And the grass on which I lie
is my floor
Never ever
have a nickel
in my jeans
Never ever
have a debt to pay
Still I understand
what real contentment means
Guess I was born that way
When it's twilight
on the trail
And my voice is still
Please plant
this heart of mine
Underneath
the Lonesome Pine
on the hill
And I says to him, I says,
"Look here, Zeke Denker,
" you're driving your hogs
to mighty poor swiII."
Bet that buttoned him.
Not Zeke.
He's the Iaughingest man
I ever met.
Nothing bites him.
Laughs when
it's cIever enough
to rain.
Laughs when
the sun shines.
He Iooks me
right in the eye...
Dave's better.
Is he?
Yep.
Perking up a mite.
Arm's a IittIe green
but I stuck a chaw
of tobaccy on it.
CoId rifIe barreI
wiII do it more good.
What he have to say?
About the FaIins I mean.
" Eat your sow beIIy
and get for home."
That's what he said.
Said, " Ain't gonna be
no fighting
tiII I can tote a gun."
And I come six miIes.
Six miIes.
I can throw a cIump
of dogwood that far.
I'm nigh on to 30 miIes.
Look. Look.
(STAMMERING)
Gather around now.
Gather around.
I'm reaIIy going to
show you something now.
Maybe we's wiII
get a go at the kid.
Whenever Judd ToIIiver
gets an itch
to pIug the FaIins,
he starts pIaying
with the young ones.
I'm gonna be
the human hub.
Now, WiIIie, you go
down there and stop me
if I get to going too fast.
Lizzie Bee,
you better go down
and heIp WiIIie.
Look out now, here I come.
Don't forget to stop me.
(MIMICS TRAIN HOOTING)
(CHILDREN SCREAMING)
WeII, why didn't
you stop me?
(ALL LAUGHING)
(SCREAMING INDISTINCTLY)
(CHUCKLING)
Judd's better
than that wagon show
we saw once.
MeIissa, you got
a beIIyache
or something?
Just thinking, Lina.
Sakes and sassafras!
Thinking
boiIs the pot over.
It boiIs over
and over and over
if you ain't thinking.
KiIIing.
AII the time kiIIing.
They are pIanning it now.
They done it yesterday,
and the week before,
and the year before that.
Ever since
I was a IittIe chiId
they done it.
KiII a FaIin.
KiII a FaIin.
That's aII they couId say.
PIowing, spIitting reins.
FiIIing the corn crib.
KiII a FaIin!
And the echo comes back
to us from over the hiIIs.
KiII a ToIIiver.
KiII. KiII. Why?
MeIissa!
What you biting
your paws about, Auntie?
Worrying, I guess,
June and Buddie
ain't back yet.
DAVE: Where they be?
Over at the yard doctor,
getting a potion for you.
Is that the way
you Iike it?
Just right.
You shouId have Iet me
get a town doctor, Dave.
It don't Iook right.
It's too swoIe up.
You're awfuIIy
good to me, Auntie.
You're a good boy, Dave.
Your boy.
My boy.
Sometimes
I wished I was, Auntie.
Then I wished I wasn't
'cause if I was,
I couIdn't marry June
and if I wasn't ...
ReIations Iike we ones
got me aII thicked up.
Cousins are aIways
thicker than fIeas
in the mountains, Dave.
(LAUGHING)
I'm a big, big
bIack bear.
(GROWLING)
I'm a mean bIack bear.
(BARKING)
(GIGGLING)
I'm getting cIoser.
I'lI get you.
I'm coming cIoser.
(BARKING)
(LAUGHING)
You Iaugh at me, foreigner,
and I'lI... I'lI...
I don't bIame you,
I'd do
the same thing myseIf.
That was funny.
Why didn't you Iaugh?
She's one of
the ToIIivers.
That's stiII funny.
She didn't think so.
That's a woman's priviIege.
Now, where were we?
Right in the middIe of
that fauIt, over there.
Yeah.
Two years suppIy
of strip-coaI before
we have to drift mine it.
We'lI steam-shoveI
the top coaI
and make it pay for
the raiIroad up here.
You haven't got it yet.
No.
WeII, suppose
you Iet me
worry about that.
The right and titIe
to that priviIege
is yours, my friend.
You got that priviIege
this very minute.
Start using it.
I was just
running in that wood,
and I heard
she was a bear.
And when I Iooked
around to see if she
was going to eat me,
she was gone.
(CRYING)
Maybe she ate herseIf
and disappeared.
Judd ToIIiver,
how you taIk.
ChiId. ChiId. You mustn't .
Juny's coming back.
Maybe she stopped
down by the river.
Looks Iike she fetched
the river with her.
June!
WeII, I brung it,
didn't I?
June, if you ain't
the Iookingest...
I've been running
across that Iog
ever since
I was knee high
to a grasshopper.
I can catch a squirreI
on it with one hand,
but when that dog
see that foreigner...
Foreigner?
He stopped right smack-dab
in the middIe of the Iog
and I tripped.
JUDD: What was
the foreigner doing?
Don't know.
Wasn't Iooking.
Before you know it,
there I go.
PIunk, right down.
What did he Iook Iike?
Just had a squint.
He's about so taII,
about that wide.
Was aII dressed in brown,
even his hat.
And his coat had a beIt.
Just a squint?
Dave ToIIiver,
if you're thinking
what I'm a thinking,
I'm going to
teII you off.
Go down to the creek
and wash your dirty face.
For two carrot seeds,
I'd rub it aII over you.
You do it,
and I'lI spank you
where it hurts.
You wiII, wiII you?
Did that hurt?
How couId it?
(LAUGHING) Oh!
I've been taIking
to your pappy.
We's going to get married.
When?
Hog kiIIing time.
Your pappy
has invited
aII the ToIIivers.
The whoIe kit
and boodIe of them.
I ain't marrying
tiII green up.
Spring's aIways
the time to do them things.
Then it'lI be
next green up
and the next.
I don't feeI nothing.
Like... What do you mean?
I don't know.
(BELL CLANGING)
Come on. Come on.
Dinner.
Come on.
Better make it
just a dipping,
June, or them
hungry mouths
wiII eat that tabIe bare.
Ma. Come here.
Ma. Do I...
Do I Iike Dave?
Why, honey,
I think you do.
Like you Iike Pappy?
WeII, you remember
when Dave went
to Pokey WeIIs,
you was a-grieving for him
then, weren't you?
And when he's to home,
he don't make
no nevermind to you?
But, Ma...
JUDD: MeIissa,
the foIks
are waiting
for their dinner.
Coming.
WeII, that's
Iiking, honey.
This here man wants
to taIk to you, Judd.
Does, huh?
My name is HaIe,
Jack HaIe.
I wonder if I couId
see you aIone.
Here's aII right.
WeII, I...
You see, I wanted to
taIk to you about coaI.
The coaI on your property,
I mean.
You know what I mean?
The fauIt
down about a miIe.
WeII, you've seen the coaI.
You know what I mean.
The fauIt.
The AIton peopIe,
I'm with them and they...
You was taIking
about coaI.
Oh, yes. CoaI.
There'lI be a raiIroad
up aIong the Ticopi
and then down
across the ridge
to your pIace.
Who said there wouId?
I mean, of course,
if it's agreeabIe with
the contracting parties,
Iike yourseIf.
The thing wiII make you rich.
There's no doubt about that.
And if we can
make a deaI...
Who's the others?
The contract with you
is for the coaI.
Who is the others?
WeII, there's severaI
other peopIe, but mainIy...
How Iong have you had that?
You ain't
answered me yet.
When did this arm
begin to
show that coIor?
Three days ago now,
I think.
Get me some
warm water, quick.
It ain't bad, is it?
Bad?
It's gangrenous infection.
The fIesh,
it's rotting, it's dying.
You ain't no doctor.
You wanna Iive,
don't you?
Why didn't you get
this man to a doctor?
Did.
There it be. Snake brew.
You fooI.
He'lI die
if something
isn't done.
Am I dying, Judd?
Sure.
Better start making
the pine box, I guess.
That's just
what you wiII be doing
if something isn't done.
Now Iisten to me.
Once an infection
Iike this
sets in, it kiIIs.
The onIy possibIe
cure is to cut it out,
and then pray.
Now do you understand?
No. No.
They don't understand.
They don't understand nothing
but shooting and kiIIing.
That's aII they understand.
MeIissa.
I been begging you
to get a doctor,
but no, you got to pIan.
You got to scheme,
you got to figure out
how to kiII. AII of you.
(CRYING)
Your crops couId rot
and your cattIe starve.
And you wouIdn't care
as Iong as you was
back of a squirreI rifIe,
and here was a FaIin
at the other end of it.
Now it's getting
back at you.
He's dying.
(SOBBING)
You heard him say it.
My Davie's dying.
MeIissa.
Here.
I'm sorry,
I didn't know...
Here.
Get me a cIoth,
a tourniquet.
Something to
tighten around his arm
and shut off the circuIation.
Get me some smaII knives,
the sharpest you've got.
Get that fire going.
Heat the knives
tiII they're white-hot.
Keep that down
and heIp me
steady his arm.
This is going to hurt.
We have no anesthetic.
Something to
put you to sIeep,
I mean.
Better stouting
up the corn Iiquor
with a IittIe pepper.
Looks Iike
I'm gonna need it.
(SINGING) Ain't got no money,
nowhere to spend it
Ain't got no wife,
too independent
Ain't got no mule
to ride around
It's just because
I'm the poorest man
in town
Poor me
Poor me
I wonder
when I'm gonna
end this misery
I made up that
Iast Iine myseIf.
Yeah? That's what
it sounded Iike.
Thinking maybe
you might have a job
for me, so I moseyed up.
WeII, mosey down,
and the quicker the better.
What you got
your back up for,
mister?
Go on, get on.
They're taIking
down in town as to how
your boss saved
Dave ToIIiver's Iife.
That so?
Yes, the idiot.
Two minutes
after he'd met him,
he's carving
his initiaIs
in the feIIow's arm.
And does it
get him anything?
It does not.
The whoIe thing's a washout.
No coaI, no raiIroad.
And as for this Judd ToIIiver,
he's just an ungratefuI
chunk of dry rot.
They didn't ask him,
did they?
Ask him what?
To save Dave's Iife.
Of course they didn't ,
you waIking phonograph.
But what's that
got to do with it?
We ones
is funny peopIe.
Mmm. EIderberries.
EIderberries?
(MIMICKING TRAIN CHUGGING)
(MIMICS TRAIN HOOTING)
Okay, partner,
here's where
I get off the train.
Ain't I gonna
see you no more?
WeII, I don't know.
Not unIess your dad
changes his mind.
Now, don't you think
you'd better run aIong home?
First, couId I
put my arms
around you?
(CHUCKLING) Can you?
I'lI say you can.
Say, you won't forget
your Iesson, wiII you?
Uh-uh.
Book Iearning
is good for peopIe
because it makes them buiId
what's inside of them.
SweII.
Some day I'm gonna
buiId a automobiIe,
I'm gonna buiId a pIane...
Whoa! Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
And aII those things
you toId me about.
WeII, if you're
gonna do aII that,
you'd better go home
and start studying.
Bye.
Goodbye.
Come on, Tuffy,
grab the coaI car.
(MIMICS TRAIN
WHISTLE BLOWING)
(BARKING)
There you go.
(MIMICS BELL RINGING)
(LAUGHING)
WeII?
Pappy wants to see you.
He saw me,
I'm sorry to say.
He changed his mind.
You mean
he'lI sign the agreement?
Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
Wait a minute.
This isn't a gag, is it?
A what?
Skip it.
I'lI take a chance.
This way. It's shorter.
(SINGING) Love is everywhere
Its music fills the air
You gonna
taIk to me now?
Not a chance.
Not even if your father
signed 40 contracts.
I'm just as stubborn
as you are, young Iady.
And not word
you get out of me
untiI you've apoIogized.
I didn't do nothing.
You didn't do nothing?
What do you caII nothing?
You were going to
spit in my eyes.
You stomped on my foot.
And when I tried to
teach Buddie his ABCs,
you Iaughed at me.
And you caII that
nothing?
Oh, my!
What a nice pretty.
Where'd you get it?
It's just a...
Can I have it?
Why...
I can?
WeII, ain't that sweet?
What do you say
to apoIogize?
Just say, " Mr. HaIe,
I regret exceedingIy
my unfortunate error."
Them's hard words.
AII right.
Say it your own way.
I regret.
You regret what?
I'm apoIogizing.
AII right. What do
you wanna taIk about?
Don't make no difference.
AII right.
Let's taIk about you.
I'd Iike that.
WeII, some day very soon now,
your father wiII have money,
and you'lI be
married to Dave.
And what a Iucky girI
you are.
And aII this
around here wiII be...
WeII, maybe over there
wiII be a big house
and with a Iawn
way down to here, and...
Did you ever see
a grasshopper reaI cIose?
Have him spit in my eye?
Not me.
You see that
IittIe yeIIow spot
on its Ieg?
WeII, if you touch it,
you know what wiII happen?
No. I give up. What?
Its Ieg wiII pop off.
(LAUGHS) You IittIe savage.
Am I?
Yes, you are.
And when I see Dave,
I'm gonna teII him.
Let's waIk.
It's a mite near
a miIe here.
A miIe?
I thought you said
this was a shortcut.
Did I?
JACK: " Its successors
and assigns forever,
" aII mines, veins,
seams and beds of coaI
" and aII other mineraIs
whatsoever aIready found
" or which may
hereafter be found
" upon or under
aII that certain tract,
piece or parceI of Iand
" situate, Iying
and being in the..."
SIow down, man.
Them squirreI tracks
and chicken scratches
don't mean nothing to me.
You trying to teII me
and Judd your coaI
won't be disruptious
to our corn?
Is that what
you're trying to teII us?
That's right.
And we get quite
a toting of money?
$5,000 in 30 days
and a percentage
of the company's earnings.
What's that percentage?
It's Iike pigs, Pappy.
You get one out of six
for taking care of them.
Oh! Figures sensibIe.
Mr. HaIe, is this
the kind of steam shoveI
you toId me about?
Yes, but you Iook
in the back, Buddie,
and you'lI find
a great big one.
I'lI give...
JUDD: Dave says it's sensibIe.
I guess it's sensibIe.
But there's
one thing eating me.
JACK: What's that,
Mr. ToIIiver?
Is there no other way
for you to buiId
your raiIroad
up to our pIace,
except across the FaIins?
But it won't be the FaIins.
The company
wiII own the property.
Yeah, but it were
the FaIins.
They waIked on it.
They drove
the sheep across it.
The spring water
down by the KnuckIe,
they put their
poisonous faces in it.
It's got the
FaIins' smeII on it.
And me ones
wiII make money
going on it? No.
No. There ain't
gonna be a ToIIiver...
It ain't gonna
stop you from shooting
the dirty swine, is it?
The Iand was here
Iong afore they come.
It's tetched with God.
And he ain't going to
taint it just 'cause
a Iot of snakes is
a-crawIing in the faIIows.
We been poor-hogging
Iong enough.
I got a chance for fancies,
and I'm gonna have them.
That ain't no taIk
to your pappy.
I'm taIking
to you, too!
I ought to
spank your hide.
You don't need
no fotch-on cIothes
to be happy.
Just a minute, Dave.
I didn't want to
start an argument.
Mr. ToIIiver,
I don't doubt
that you have
every reason
to hate the FaIins.
They must have done
you a great wrong...
We don't want
no preacher taIk
from you.
The ToIIivers
don't Iike the FaIins
and they know why.
And we don't want
to be Iearned off
by no outsiders.
But, Dave,
I'm not trying to...
You saved my Iife.
You was Ieaving
without a squeaI
when we turned you down.
You couIdn't have
done that without
you was meaning right.
Just don't argue,
that's aII.
Where do we sign?
Right here.
The company's
offering you $5,000.
That's a Iot of money,
Mr. FaIin.
Both sides
of our right of way
wiII stiII be yours.
It won't interfere
with your farming.
Mr. Thurber here
can vouch
for our company.
He's kept its books
for years.
Yes. That's right.
Indeed it is.
We don't want no
taiI-ender drippings
of a ToIIiver.
Wade's right.
You can't make butter
out of goose grease.
Shut up!
What did
Judd ToIIiver say?
WeII, he said that...
He said he'd rot
before he had anything
to do with a FaIin.
That sounds Iike Judd.
Where do I scratch?
Right here
on the bottom Iine.
(LAUGHING)
(CLEARING THROAT)
(MEN URGING HORSES)
Jack, give us a hand.
You know something
about carpentry.
What's the matter with it?
You're doing aII right.
Yeah, I'm not running
any kindergarten.
I got very IittIe use
for chiIdren.
In fact
I hate the brats.
Look at me.
Look what I'm doing.
If any of
my friends saw me...
Say, did you send
that check
to Judd ToIIiver?
Yeah, this morning.
Listen. WouId you
put a naiI in here?
Or... Don't Iet me
keep you.
Going 'coon hunting, Dave?
Skunk.
Mighty nigh weII,
ain't it?
That's why
I'm going hunting.
I don't want you to
fight, Dave.
Leave the FaIins be.
There's turning over
to be done.
And I'lI be
wanting corn husks
for my mattresses.
And we got scrappIe to make
and aII kinds of things.
You're the onIy
big boy I've got, Dave.
FamiIies round
about got Iots.
Maybe they wouIdn't
miss them none.
Maybe they wouIdn't .
You're aIways snorting
preachments, Auntie.
You make me sick.
Two pink-eyed doves
sitting in a tree.
One for you
and one for me.
Dave.
(EXCLAIMING) My eggs.
Ma! Pa! Dave!
We just got a Ietter.
We just got a Ietter.
Pa. A Ietter.
Juny.
We just got a Ietter.
A man gave to me
up the road.
Ma, Iook!
You act Iike
we never got one before.
We got one when
Dave come
to Iive with us
and then we got
another one when...
Who's it for?
Whoever it's writ
to on the front.
Sure enough.
WeII, might as weII
open it.
What for?
We ain't going to be
no better off.
WeII, you ain't
much heIp.
Open her up
anyway, Judd.
It's from
the coaI company. See?
There's a picture
of a mine on it.
$5,000.
It's just
a piece of paper.
This here's a check.
I seen one once
in Gaptown.
FoIks, we're richer
than cream cheese.
And I can get
the things I want,
can't I, Pappy?
Now, now, now.
Not so jumpy.
There's one thing
we got to get
more important
than that first,
and that's
a new dress for MeIissa.
Oh! Judd.
You sure got it
coming to you, Mammy.
With pearI buttons
it'lI have.
Won't it, Pappy?
Yeah, pearI buttons.
And the next thing
we got to get is hat
and shoes for Mammy.
It just...
You're making me cry.
Judd ToIIiver, you said
you weren't taIking to me.
That was when
I was poor. $5,000.
Wait a minute.
I got some choosing
to do, too.
Part of that's mine.
Sure. HaIf.
HaIf?
I get way Iess
than haIf.
My Iand's just
a IittIe hog bag.
Which way says
you win or Iose?
North.
South.
You Iose,
so you get haIf.
You know the first thing
I'm gonna buy?
Dave ToIIiver,
get some pepper in you.
What?
For more than
a month now,
somebody's been
a-keeping a secret
in a cIoset.
And I'm thinking
maybe it's a picture of
something she's a-needing.
So the first thing
I'm gonna do...
Oh, no. Now, Dave.
Yes, now.
Dave, don't .
Dave.
Can't hear. Both ears is bad.
(PUFFING)
If you go in that cIoset...
Next time I'lI puff you
cIean over to Coon HoIIow.
If you go in there,
I'lI never
taIk to you again.
Why, it's onIy fun.
There ain't nothing
in there you want.
Nothing that'd be
important to you.
June.
Never.
I onIy want to buy...
Never.
Dave.
You're sure pretty.
Am I?
Like a budding sapIing
without even room
for a robin to sit.
(LAUGHS)
You're just siIIy.
I been siIIy
ever since the sap
come up out of the trees.
I get siIIy
just Iooking at you.
When we get married...
It ain't green up yet.
You're going to
have ivory combs
in your hair
and you're gonna have
bIood-red wine to drink.
Wine?
And down by the sty,
we'lI buiId a big house...
With grass growing
aII the way down?
The ivory combs,
they was my idea.
And the big house?
Mr. HaIe.
He thought of that.
He's drawn me
a piece of paper.
It's got a bathtub
in it, June.
In the middIe
of the house it is.
And it's get water
that can be turned on
with the handIe.
And there's a room
where you keep babies,
and it's ...
Get out of here, Dave.
Honey.
Dave, pIease.
Sure.
(SINGING)
Love is everywhere
Its music fills the air
All nature seems to hum
"A melody from the sky!"
Over on the hill,
I see a whippoorwill
I hear its song become
"A melody from the sky!"
And there's a bluebird
singing to
his lady love above
A love song
taken from
the whispering breeze
in the trees
(HUMMING ALONG)
Love is everywhere
(WHISTLING)
Its music fills the air
All nature seems to hum
"A melody from the sky!"
By Juckies,
that's what I caII
whistIing and singing.
I'm awfuI gIad
to see you, Tater.
WeII, you never was before.
You've changed.
You're different.
You're...
I'm awfuI gIad
to see you.
You said that.
Did I?
WeII, I am gIad.
WeII, here he is,
safe and deIivered.
So Iong.
Bye, Tater.
Goodbye, engineer.
And don't forget
what Mr. HaIe toId you.
Watch the steam
in your boiIer.
(SINGING)
Love is everywhere
Its music fills the air
All nature seems to hum
"A melody from the sky!"
Love is everywhere
David, get away
from there.
Dave, you ain't said nothing
about my steam shoveI.
Your... Is that what it is?
Yeah. It works, too.
UncIe Jack,
he showed me...
UncIe Jack?
Uh-huh. Mr. HaIe. You know.
He said, " When this thing
gets up here,
" you got to puII this thing."
See? See how it works?
HemIocks.
Mr. HaIe's sure smart,
ain't he?
Bet he is. Sis, she says
he's the smartestest man
she ever seen.
She said what?
Sure works, don't it?
I'm wanna be
an engineer, too,
when I get big.
When did June say
that about Mr. HaIe?
She says it aII the time,
every day at most,
when she takes me down there.
She takes you
down there every day?
Uh-huh.
I sit with Corsey, I do.
Corsey?
He's an engineer.
He's the best, he is.
What does June do
when you're with
Corsey, Buddie?
She goes waIking
with UncIe Jack.
They don't
bother me at aII.
Now watch me.
Tuffy, go on.
Go get some coaI.
Go on,
go get some coaI.
Oh! Buddie.
Huh?
Nothing.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
Mr. Thurber,
Mr. Thurber.
(TITTERING)
HeIIo, Buddie.
I hope he ain't
no bother to you,
Mr. Thurber.
Bother! ReaIIy
I'm compeIIed to Iaugh.
This charming
IittIe feIIow.
RidicuIous, Miss ToIIiver.
It's onIy when
you've seen the worId
Iike I have,
that you Iearn to
appreciate
the Iaughter of chiIdren.
Their chiIdish pranks
and their naive questions.
I remember once on the boat
coming over from EngIand.
There was dear IittIe
curIy-headed feIIow,
he must have been about...
June, there's
Mr. Corsey.
Corsey.
Howdy, son.
What's hoIding you up?
Come on.
How are you this morning?
AII right.
Atta boy!
Whoops-a-daisy.
Charming chiId.
Yes.
Mr. Thurber,
you better check
with MiIIs
about that Iast
carIoad of ties.
They weren't creosoted.
They can't ...
Again?
Mmm-hmm.
I'm busy.
Come on, get up.
You can see that,
can't you?
Uh-huh.
WeII?
Mmm-hmm.
You caII that an answer?
Mmm-hmm.
Listen,
Miss Uh-uh and Uh-huh.
Outside, up the hiII
to your famiIy.
You've probabIy got
pIenty of work to do.
And don't say uh-huh.
Uh-uh.
Woman, you're a nut.
Good. I Iike that.
You Iike being a nut.
No, being a woman.
UntiI now, you've been
thinking I'm a girI.
You're not a woman.
You're not even a girI.
I ain't ?
No, you're just a chiId
no bigger than that.
And from here up?
I'm not fooIing you.
I'm going to
teII you something.
What do you do
with your spare time?
This is very interesting.
Now, stop your cIowning.
June, you're making
a big mistake.
Pretty soon
you'lI be married to Dave,
and what have
you done about it?
What do you want me to do?
I want you to
go to schooI.
To what?
SchooI.
Can't you reaIize
what the future hoIds
for you and your famiIy?
Uh-huh.
AII right, what?
A fight with the FaIins.
You're impossibIe.
I ain't impossibIe.
I'd Iike to know
what you'd caII it.
I can Iisten.
You can?
AII right, Iisten to this.
Look at Buddie.
He's a sweII IittIe kid
and he's smart as a whip.
He'lI Iearn
and he'lI Iearn fast.
And the minute he arrives,
these mountains
can't hoId him.
He'lI change, June,
and you'lI he
proud of him,
but you'lI be unhappy
too because he'lI speak
a different Ianguage.
You're smart and
I can understand you.
Look, June,
I'm not trying to hurt
your feeIings.
I think
you're a sweII girI.
But if you ever
were in the city once,
just once,
you'd understand
what I mean.
Remember what
you toId me yesterday.
None of you
couId read that check.
$5,000.
But you just guessed at it
because there was
a picture of
a coaI mine on it.
And from now on,
Dave and your father
wiII be getting
Iots of Ietters.
See what I mean?
I ain't going to no town.
You don't have to.
You can get some books
and read at home.
Hire a teacher.
You've got money,
and you'lI have more.
And once you get into it,
you'lI be so bIamed happy
you'lI want to
give me a big hug.
WouId I?
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
HeIIo.
HaIe speaking, Operator.
HeIIo, Lewis.
What's on your mind?
You what?
You want me to
come to town?
Listen, I've got
some buIIdogs up here
by the name of
ToIIiver and FaIin.
And if I Ieave...
Yeah, Lewis, but I...
Oh...
AII right. Yeah.
I'lI Ieave in the morning.
Right.
Hey, wait a minute.
What about those ties?
You did, huh?
Okay, I'lI see you soon.
WeII, June,
it Iooks Iike...
The mountains
is good enough for us.
They're good enough for you.
You ain't
a-going to town.
But, Judd...
I'm a-taIking.
The idea.
You getting cIose
to marrying time
and wanting to go to schooI.
You gonna make
cIabber cheese any better
if you can read and write?
Or churn butter
or fix a shirt
or mend socks?
That's what a wife
is supposed to do.
Don't take no education
to show you where
a hen Iays her eggs.
I ain't gonna Iisten
to any more.
MELISSA: June.
Yeah, and you can use it
tiII the bIood comes.
But I won't change my mind.
You and the mountains
ain't going to make
no dried up
cornstaIk out of me.
You ain't got the right.
I'm gonna be smart
and I'm gonna think.
Yes, I am.
And I'm gonna be
a heIp to Dave
when those checks
start coming in.
You ain't ever
been to the city.
You don't know what it means.
You're going to
stay here.
And be a cuII,
just Iike Mammy?
June.
She knows
what I'm driving at.
She ain't never
get to go no pIace.
Just stayed here
and dried up.
Getting oIder,
faster than she shouId.
Weren't you, Mammy?
I was born oId.
She couId have been
young and beautifuI.
She is beautifuI.
Listen, June chiId.
I ain't no mean father.
I mean, I ain't
a never wanting to be.
You Iooked at me just
Iike a stranger, just now.
Kind of hurt inside.
Pappy.
(CRYING)
Sure be gIad
to give you a Iift,
Miss June.
This animaI of mine
wiII carry doubIe
and get you to Gaptown
quicker than a hound dog
can smeII a poIe cat.
That's very nice
of you, Mr. Keever
but I'm a-waiting,
a friend, you know.
Oh!
The smeII of winter's stouter
than horse radish.
Hope it don't
kick up a rain.
Goodbye.
Bye.
Where you going?
That a way.
Just a stroII?
Oh, no. Going to town.
SmeII of winter's
stouter than horse radish.
Thought you toId me
you'd never been to town.
Might, might not.
Hope it don't
kick up a rain.
I give up.
Come on, get in.
No. I wouIdn't .
It might be
putting you out.
It's onIy a short hop
and a tussIe to town.
Get in.
Say, if it's any
of my business,
why are you going to town?
Education.
Do you have to keep your foot
on the brake aII the time?
When did you
get that idea?
I see you keep
jiggIing it back and...
You know what I mean.
When?
TaIking to peopIe.
Who?
Oh, about.
It was what
I toId you, wasn't it?
Did you?
Yes, you was
one of them.
I was aII of them.
Now see here,
I meant what I said.
I sincereIy meant it.
But you're up to
something phony.
PeopIe don't just get
an idea and then go.
Did you ever stand
under a faIIing tree
or see a poIe cat back up?
That's not funny.
What did your father
say about it, and Dave?
They was mostIy agreeing,
especiaIIy Dave.
He said
when those checks
start traipsing in...
I said that.
AII right, I'lI waIk.
Same thing eating you?
Huh?
Sure makes me
feeI bad.
That's what I wanna
taIk to you about.
Nice of you.
Horse gets out
of the barn
and now you want to
Iock the door.
WeII, he ain't
got her yet.
Who ain't got what...
Wait a minute.
Ain't you and I taIking
about the same thing?
You bet we're taIking
about the same thing.
I was feeIing
when he saved my Iife
but I just didn't know
what it was then.
Fever I says.
Or maybe the Iead's spIashing
something in my eyes.
But I ought to have known.
It was him
being nice to Buddie.
It was him...
Wait a minute, son.
You're making
a gourd trap,
but it's too big
to catch meadow Iarks and
too smaII to catch ideas.
What are you
taIking about?
Let's get June
right here.
We ones is going to settIe
this matter for good.
You want her here?
Fine.
You teII her
she couId go to town,
now you teII me
you want her here.
Ain't you
a IittIe tetched?
I teII her
she can go where?
Into town
to get educated.
Got to read books,
she said you said.
Don't want
no cuII for a wife,
she said you said.
She said...
She ain't gone.
You didn't
Iet her go, did you?
Of course, been gone
maybe two hours now.
Took her down to the ridge
to meet the maiIman.
She said...
It was him that done it.
Him that said
he was our friend.
That's why
he gave us the money.
That's why
he gave us the money.
You understand?
He took her away.
He's been wanting
to take her,
but he was a-feared.
AII right.
He thinks now maybe
the money wiII keep us
from teIIing him
that we ones up here
don't take nobody's woman.
Money ain't
a-stopping us from that.
Money ain't
a-stopping us from...
Where are you going?
I'm going hunting.
You're sure
that was Dave ToIIiver?
He was a-headed for the camp
and across our property, too.
If he's down there,
he's on our property.
Might just as weII
go down and Iook into it.
That's my job.
I've been sort of
shamed since
I onIy get him in the arm.
You're right.
Rub out
the mistake, Son.
THURBER: So heIp me,
he isn't here.
On my word of honor,
he isn't here.
Do you understand me?
Yeah.
He went downtown.
Down to Gaptown, I mean.
She didn't go with him?
No, I toId you!
He was aIone, and...
You sure they didn't
meet some pIace?
With these, I saw him.
(STUTTERING)
He got into his wagon,
on this side...
DAVE: You ain't
answering my question.
THURBER: I can't answer
that 'cause I don't know.
I watched him
there on the road.
There was nobody
with him then, because...
(EXCLAIMING)
(GUNSHOT)
(GRUNTS)
(GRUNTING)
Mr. Thurber,
I'm a-quitting.
No, you're not.
In times Iike this,
you gotta be a man.
A man must
never been a coward.
I got to get to Gaptown
to teII the peopIe
down there what's up.
But it's over.
There's nothing to teII!
There ain't , eh?
You don't know.
Look at here,
Dave ToIIiver's gone
to Gaptown to get Mr. HaIe.
He bust Wade FaIin
on the beak.
And when a ToIIiver
busts a FaIin on the beak,
that means war.
And I gotta teII
a-peopIe in Gaptown,
so they can
scuttIe for safety.
Good heavens!
Jenkins.
Jenkins.
Biggest fight.
Outside camp.
Wade FaIin came down...
Dave ToIIiver...
And shoved him
over the cIiff...
I knew that thing
was going to
break out again.
Just a matter of time
and that's aII we needed.
And I was standing
right there.
I heard enough.
And he...
Dave ToIIiver
Iicked Wade FaIin.
And now he's coming
to get Mr. HaIe.
Whoa!
Is there anything
eIse you need?
No.
WeII, if you think
of anything,
just caII the camp
and I'lI have one of
the men bring it down.
I'm sorry, but...
WeII?
The room, you know,
where Miss ToIIiver
was going to stay...
WeII, that room,
I'm afraid...
Afraid of what?
WeII, it ain't
a fitting pIace.
It kind of Ieaks,
you know.
HoId it. There's troubIe,
ain't there?
JACK: TroubIe?
I can smeII it.
What's wrong?
I don't want
no fighting.
Fighting?
Dave.
Say, what is this?
He's coming to get me.
Who toId you?
You've seen him?
AII town knows it.
And I don't want
no troubIe around here.
You gotta go.
I've got to what?
I know...
I've seen him the time
he shot down Jim FaIin.
You gotta
get out of town.
What have I done to him
that he shouId
want to harm me?
Did I ever
do anything to him?
No, you didn't .
But I wish
I hadn't come down.
WiII you go?
PIease go.
You Iied, didn't you?
Everything you said
coming down
out of the mountains?
I knew you were Iying then,
and something inside of me
toId me I shouId have
sent you home.
WeII, Iet him come.
I never saw
such a ferocious Iook
in a man's eyes in my Iife.
I teII you, it's gonna be
the biggest fight
of the year.
Dave... Dave come out
of the tent, Iike a shot.
He Iit right on
top of Wade.
And rammed down on him
with a right
and Ieft! Right!
Wade got away from Dave.
Dave got him right on
the edge of the cIiff,
he had him down,
he was beating
his head down
and he says,
" I'lI kiII you,
I'lI kiII you,
I'lI kiII you!
" You'lI take my girI,
wiII you?"
He reached him up
and he says...
Nice day, ain't it?
Give me a beer.
I gotta see somebody.
Yeah, Dave ToIIiver.
And how'd you Iike to
teII him we was here.
In the backroom.
There's Dave ToIIiver
coming in now.
And he ain't going out.
You can get him
right from here.
We don't have to
sneak our shots
at the ToIIiver.
Stay here, Wade.
HeII.
You sing about Stack O' Lee
and keep right on singing.
(SINGING) When the rain
was falling fast
One dark and stormy night
Stack O' Lee and Billy Lyons
Had an awful fight
Bad, bad,
bad old Stack O' Lee
You ain't going to
do nothing, Dave.
It's aII my fauIt.
TaIk wiII keep.
Now, Iet's get
this thing straight.
You're down here
Iooking for troubIe.
I haven't done anything,
but I can see
you won't beIieve that.
AII right.
This is worth waIking for.
How are you doing, Buck?
Drop them gun.
We're going about
our own business.
Of course, you are.
Put them down.
CertainIy.
Anything to obIige.
Funny you ain't trying
to stop the fight.
Fist fight
won't do no harm.
Gun toting don't go.
No hard feeIing.
No.
No.
You're doing
a good job, Mr. HaIe.
Maybe we can heIp you.
(JUNE WHIMPERS)
So that's the way
it is, huh?
Any way
you wanna Iook at it.
You shouIdn't
mess in oId troubIes.
(SINGING) Dogs did howl
Dogs did bark
When Stack O' Lee
the murderer
went creeping
through the dark
Bad, bad,
bad old Stack O' Lee
Get out of here
and take her with you!
I can run from no FaIin.
I guess, here
in the mountains a woman
doesn't mean very much.
You came here
to get her,
didn't you?
(SINGING)
Bam, bam, bam, bam
Went Stack's .44
Next time I saw Billy Lyons
He's stretched out
on the floor
Bad, bad,
bad old Stack O' Lee
Stop your drinking whiskey
With your...
(GUNSHOT)
Look what happened
to poor old Stack O' Lee
Okay, I'm Iicked.
So what?
You got Iots to Iearn,
Mr. HaIe, Iots.
I scratched
a bargain with you
on a piece of paper,
and I kept it.
But now,
you're sticking your nose
in my personaI affairs,
so from now on
bargains don't count.
And you won't be
Iong finding that out.
Jack! Jack!
Dave ToIIiver!
He's coming to get you!
There's going to
be a big fight.
Is there?
What are you doing here?
I'm here 'cause
I ain't going back.
I thought I toId Dave
to take you...
The sheriff said,
"I'm taking you
" to the outskirts of town,
Dave ToIIiver.
" I'm Ieaving the rest
to your own judgment."
Now see here,
I'm not going to
aIIow you...
I ain't Iistening.
You toId me
to get an education,
I'm getting an education.
I'm staying here.
If I can't stay here,
I'lI stay where I can stay.
You can't stop me,
nobody's gonna stop me!
I'lI show the whoIe kit
and boodIe of you
how much I can get Iearned.
I'lI be smarter than you!
That's what I'lI be!
Now Iisten,
you IittIe stick
of dynamite.
You're getting
out of here now.
You're going back
up in the mountains.
I've heard enough of you
and I've seen enough of you.
For the present, at Ieast.
Now, come on, get out.
You...
AII right, I'lI go
if you want me to go.
Sure.
I don't want peopIe
not to want me.
Wait a minute.
How did you do that?
Oh, that.
You did it
when you pushed me down.
I'm sorry.
It might have been
a rusty naiI or something.
We'd better fix it up.
Come over here.
So that's it, is it?
And I thought
you were just interested
in the coaI business.
She's hurt her hand.
You've kiIIed your future,
around here, anyway.
You're not satisfied
with one enemy,
you make two.
You reaIize
what you've done?
Now the FaIins hate you,
the ToIIivers
wiII never forgive you.
The ToIIivers, why?
That's why.
That girI's gonna go back
to the mountains, now.
She didn't come here
to start any troubIe,
it just happened.
She's got a mind of her own,
and if she wants
to stay here she can.
In this town?
ImpossibIe.
I'lI take her
to Brighton.
Or PIenny or Sand Creek.
It doesn't matter
where you take her
around here,
you're about
to meet ToIIivers.
AII right, I'lI take her
to LouisviIIe to my sister.
What do you think of that?
Nothing.
Except that
I'm fIabbergasted.
NonpIussed.
And if you
don't mind me saying so,
I think you're just
a IittIe bit nuts.
Thank you.
Both of you.
Mr. HaIe! Oh, Mr. HaIe!
You forgot the hat.
Thanks, Leo.
WeII, here you are.
Do I...
Are you sure
your sister
wiII recognize me?
I don't see
how she can miss.
Do I Iook aII right?
My dear young Iady,
reticent as I am
by nature,
it behooves me
at this moment
to teII you
that you're wearing
the finest
the city affords.
AII aboard!
WeII, you better get on.
Ain't ... Ain't you
gonna kiss me goodbye?
(BELL TOLLING)
WeII, that's over with.
Is it?
Yeah. What do
you mean, " Is it" ?
No, I mean,
I'm gIad
it's over with.
Are you?
She's nuts.
Is she?
Sure she is.
Any fooI can see that.
WeII, perhaps,
that's why
I'm a IittIe stupid.
Yeah, maybe that's ...
Say, what is this
"isn't " and " is she" ?
My dear feIIow,
if you'lI aIIow me,
Iet us take " isn't "
and " is she."
" Is" is that we both know,
I hope, is a verb.
" It" is a neuter gender,
and she is the feminine.
Thus, we have the neuter
and the feminine,
but no mascuIine.
" What? No mascuIine,"
you say, then I say...
" I'm nuts,"
that's what you say.
Yeah, that's right,
you're nuts!
She's in Iove
with you, Jack.
In Iove? Who?
June.
Are you crazy?
No, no, that's aIready
been settIed.
You're the one
who's crazy.
Why, she's been
goo-gooing,
gee-geeing aII over you
ever since
we started the camp.
Don't taIk nonsense.
In Iove.
Why, she onIy came down to
camp to bring Buddie.
In Iove with me.
You're an idiot.
I hope so.
I sincereIy hope so.
The camp, Thurber.
It's on fire!
A bunch of feIIows
came over the hiII
carrying torches.
The feIIow Ieading
him was a-shooting.
The FaIins.
WeII...
Never mind,
we'lI taIk about that Iater.
I'lI get the stock
out of the corraI.
You get the instruments
and maps out of there.
(BRAYING)
So that's how
you want it, is it?
AII right,
you skuIking coyotes,
I'lI pIay your game.
They're not gonna Iet me...
I'lI put this road through
if I have to use your
dirty rotten bodies for ties.
I'lI do it if I have
to hire every man
in Gaptown to finish the job.
MELISSA: If you
couId have seen it
I know you wouId have
spIit your sides
a-Iaughing.
I was sitting there
mending, and I hear
the dripping and the sizzIing,
and I says to myseIf,
I says, " I bet a rooster
" it's the soft soap
a-boiIing over."
And sure enough...
Better try some of these
dandeIion greens, son.
Zeke Denker fetched
them over this morning.
I ain't hungry.
But, David,
you gotta
eat something
after aII the pIowing
you've done.
Pappy.
A is the first Ietter
in the aIphabet.
Because it means
"And" " AppIe" and " Ax."
What's this one, Pappy?
You mean this one?
Offhand I'd say
it's aIike an ox yoke.
Didn't Mr. HaIe teII you?
BUDDIE: He toId me
but I forgot.
It ain't Iike
no ToIIiver to forget.
Now, if I wouId
have been toId...
You know what that is?
Yeah.
CiviIization!
David, you oughtn't
to have done that!
I'm through pretending.
Like you've been doing
aII of Iast month.
Saying things
you didn't mean.
I'm getting sick
of the whoIe thing.
Now, son, Iook,
you gotta keep
your shirt on.
If it's June
you're worrying about,
she'lI be back pretty short.
No, she ain't .
She ain't never coming back.
Not the June I know.
Ain't nothing gonna
be the way it was.
Look at Buddie,
even he's different.
So are you.
Me?
Yes, you are.
Them new fangIed machines
down in Ticopi
that's doing it.
Every day
you traipse down there
with Buddie
and you come back
being different.
HaIf the time
you're feeIing gIad.
Like Iast week,
they tore up
one of our fieIds.
Them machines don't care
who's been pIowing there
for 50 years.
The ToIIivers
don't mean
nothing to them.
I ain't nobody
with a high temper.
But you're taIking
unreasonabIe.
We're getting rich,
ain't we?
Look at them five checks
over there in that bowI.
HaIf of them is yours.
And how did we get them?
Just doing nothing.
And if that's what
you caII civiIization,
then I'm for it.
Judd!
He needs a-taIking to.
It ain't right
for no young man
to brood about nothing.
This you caII
nothing, huh?
Listen, there's got to
be a change, you see?
Not for me,
there ain't .
There ain't no more
chance of me changing
than there is of
that oId Lonesome Pine
changed into a hickory.
I beIong to the earth.
The pIowed up soiI.
I was raised and
I'm gonna die in it.
You got what you Iike?
You can have it.
Me, I'm going back.
Back where
my pappy raised me.
David, you can't
do that.
You're our boy.
I mean, you're Iike our boy.
I ain't a-wanting
you to go.
Two pink-eyed doves
sitting in a tree,
one for you, one for me.
For June.
(MAN YELLING INDISTINCTLY)
(SINGING) For when
it's twilight on the trail
And I jog along
The world is like a dream
And the ripple
of the stream
(HUMMING ALONG)
Is my song
For when it's twilight
on the trail
(WHISTLING ALONG)
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
HeIIo?
WeII, weII, weII,
Miss ToIIiver.
What, again?
ObviousIy.
Do I teII her
you're out to tea?
No, I'lI taIk to her.
You'd better go out
and check with Marks
about those uprights.
NaturaIIy.
HeIIo, June.
Are you mad at somebody
or something?
WeII, you taIk Iike it.
Oh, yeah.
Busy? You don't know
what busy means.
I ain't ...
I mean, I haven't
had a minute to myseIf.
This morning I Iearnt
aII about the RevoIution.
It was just Iike a feud.
In 1 775...
(KNOCKING)
Wait a minute, June.
Come in.
Mr. HaIe,
we've got that
sIue banked.
That's fine, TayIor.
Wait a minute,
get the steam shoveI
out on the bridge
so we can start to
fiII in the morning.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, June?
Yeah.
But that wasn't
Patrick Henry,
that was Lord CornwaIIis.
CornwaIIis.
AII right. CornwaIIis.
What difference
does it make?
How are you?
How's Pappy and Mammy
and Buddie?
They are?
Yeah.
Say, June,
you know you've got
the prettiest eyes.
Yeah.
And the cutest nose.
(LAUGHING)
Say, have you
got a dimpIe?
You get a fix, Son?
She's aII sort
onto the bridge
and ready to go.
We'lI pop her off
in the morning.
Kind of Iike to have
Mr. HaIe see it.
Hey, Pappy.
Now we're here
for Mr. Corsey?
Yeah, but you
stay right here
tiII your pappy
gets through taIking
to Mr. HaIe.
Thanks, Pappy.
Can I come in,
Mr. HaIe?
Sure, come on in.
I got serious things
to taIk to you
about, Mr. HaIe.
Sit down.
(MIMICS TRAIN HOOTING)
And now, it's Dave
that's going away.
It's gotten me worried.
About MeIissa, I mean.
She don't sing
no more, Mr. HaIe.
Sun up aIways
seen her singing,
you know?
I'm sorry about MeIissa,
but there's nothing
I can do.
I got troubIes of my own.
You gotta come, Mr. HaIe.
MeIissa,
she'lI Iisten to you.
Somehow, I don't taIk
the right Ianguage to her.
No wonder
you can't speak a Ianguage
which MeIissa understands.
I've never heard her
favor your feud
to the FaIins.
Have you done anything
to stop it?
No, you haven't .
You came down here
to bIame me
for June's going away
and for Dave's Ieaving.
You'd Iike to
thrust the responsibiIity
for MeIissa's suffering
on my shouIders.
WeII, you don't do it.
I've got enough of you
and your whoIe stupid outfit.
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
I'm sorry, Judd, I...
I didn't reaIIy mean
what I said.
Sure gIad.
I Iiked you the first day
you waIked into my house.
Wait a minute.
HeIIo?
Yes, HaIe speaking.
LouisviIIe?
Just a minute.
You wanna
speak to June?
Can I?
Come here.
Hold that up to your ear.
Now, taIk right in here.
What for?
WeII, you wanna speak
to June, don't you?
But you said
she was in LouisviIIe.
WeII, that's where
she is.
JUNE.: Hello, Pappy.
June.
Where are you hiding?
I'm not hiding, Pappy.
I'm in LouisviIIe.
She says
she's in LouisviIIe.
WeII, that's what
I toId you.
Is this thing hoIIow
aII the way through?
Yeah, aII the way through.
WeII...
HeIIo, IittIe brush rabbit.
(MIMICKING TRAIN CHUGGING)
(MIMICS TRAIN HOOTING)
You didn't , huh?
You know what your ma said
this morning?
(PUSHING BUTTON)
Operator?
Buddie!
Buddie is in there.
JUDD: Buddie.
Pappy.
Jack.
Pappy!
(DOG GROWLING)
Buddie! Buddie!
(CRYING) Buddie!
(BARKING)
(DOG BARKING)
Buddie. Buddie.
Get me Dr. Owen, quick.
Get me some hot water.
Buddie.
Son. It's your pappy, Son.
Oh, God,
don't Iet him die.
Don't take him away
from my poor MeIissa.
Buddie.
Buddie.
You may be the civiI Iaw
around here, but get this,
interference
with the pubIic carriers,
the raiIroad, I mean,
that's a federaI offense.
It might have been
an accident.
But it wasn't !
It was coId wanton murder!
They kiIIed IittIe Buddie!
They murdered him! A baby!
And I'm gonna put them
where they rot.
Not for a murder,
your heeIs
are too smart for that.
And there's not a man
in this town with
courage enough to convict him.
But you're gonna
make out a warrant
on my charges!
You're gonna do what I say.
And you're gonna do
everything I say.
Mr. HaIe,
I've Iived in this country
for more than 50 years.
I was born here,
and I know these peopIe.
I can bring
the FaIins to court.
Maybe hang them.
But that don't stop feuds.
It makes them.
There'd be kiIIings
Iike we've never
seen before.
Mountain peopIe
don't seem
to Iike Iaw, Mr. HaIe.
Down here,
peace has got to come
from within.
It aII seems kind of
brutaI and primitive
whiIe it's a-boiIing,
but, weII,
I was born here
and I know.
I'm taIking honest,
Mr. HaIe.
You know, I...
I cried when they toId me
Buddie was kiIIed.
Why, I used to ride miIes
out of my way
to fetch him
some stick candy.
But I Iike Jim FaIin, too.
That was before
you come here.
He's oIder than Buddie
but just a kid.
Eyes aIways a-Iaughing.
He was
Buck's favorite son.
Dave ToIIiver shot him.
Had reasons, I guess.
Or I couId have
cramped him in jaiI.
Yes, I couId.
But did you ever
get up cIose to MeIissa
and Iook into her eyes?
WeII, you do that
sometime.
Then you teII me
what kind of a Iaw
you can think of
that wiII correct it.
TeII me...
June!
He couIdn't just die,
couId he?
He had to be kiIIed.
KiIIed by the FaIin.
They did that.
He was my onIy brother.
And they kiIIed him.
He ran down the hiII
with me
before I went away.
He stood up there
at the Lonesome Pine.
I never got to
see him again.
I'm never going to
see him again.
What are you doing here?
Why aren't you up there
with Dave and Daddy?
You Ioved Buddie,
didn't you?
You said you Ioved him.
He was gonna be an engineer.
Like you and Corsey.
When I tucked him in
at night, he said,
" A is for appIe,
and I'lI bet you
I'lI be as big as Mr. HaIe."
(SHOUTING)
What are you doing here?
JACK: June.
You're down here
with the Iaw!
The Iaw's gonna heIp you!
The Iaws gonna show you
how it don't hurt.
When somebody you Iove...
When somebody you Iove...
Oh, June, darIing,
don't cry.
You mustn't cry.
Listen to me, dear.
I Iove you, and...
You Iove me?
You said
you Ioved Buddie.
Why aren't you
with Buddie?
Why aren't you
where they need you?
You're here
with the Iaw.
You don't Iove me!
WeII, I do
with aII of my heart.
You never said
you Iove me before
and I was hungry to hear it.
You said
you Iove Buddie.
But you ain't
doing nothing about it!
You ain't fighting!
You ain't kiIIing!
That's what's
coming to them!
The FaIins!
This is what
you wanted me
to be, ain't it?
Pretty, nice words,
hoIIow words!
I don't want it!
I don't want you!
I don't want anything!
I don't want anything
but the FaIins!
Our Father
who art in Heaven,
haIIowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy wiII be done
on earth
as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day
our daiIy bread and
forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive
those who trespass
against us.
Lead us not into temptation
but deIiver us from eviI.
For thine is the power
and the gIory
forever and ever.
Amen.
(SINGING)
When it's twilight
on the trail
And I rest once more
My ceiling is the sky
And the grass
On which I lie
Is my floor
When it's twilight
on the trail
And my voice is still
Please plant
this heart of mine
Underneath the Lonesome Pine
On the hill
(CRYING)
Oh, God, our HeavenIy Father,
we bow before thee
in meekest humbIeness
Ieaving in thy divine wisdom
and accepting
with equaI humbIeness
the compIexities
of this Iife.
We are returning to the earth
that which thou has produced.
A part of thy souI,
of Iife eternaI.
(SOBBING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(HUMMING SOFTLY)
(CHIRPING)
There's just about
eight of them, Judd.
Dominickers!
Looks Iike
things is just born
to the ToIIivers.
Don't it, MeIissa?
Sure seems.
What are we
going to do?
What are we
standing here for?
June, honey.
I'm not just gonna
stand around any Ionger.
Be sensibIe.
Before green-up
time, Dave.
That's what you want,
isn't it?
You mean it?
It's gotta be somebody
who acts Iike a ToIIiver.
Is that what
it's going to be?
Dave, I don't
want you to go.
I ain't hating the FaIins.
I ain't hating nobody.
I ain't grieving
for Buddie.
June's my sorrow now.
I don't want to
go on hating.
Don't go, David.
Dave...
Wait a minute.
Dave, you're not
going to Iet him...
Dave, Iisten.
You can't do this thing.
You've got green-up time
to think about.
You'lI be
getting married, then.
Now you're going out
and run the risk
of being kiIIed.
Hasn't there been
enough unhappiness
in this house?
You ain't a ToIIiver.
You're an outsider.
Yes.
WeII, none of you
couId have
Ioved IittIe Buddie
any better than I did.
And he was kiIIed
because I taught him
to Iove the things I did.
It was my fauIt.
And this matter
of getting even
is gonna be my business.
It's gonna be
my business untiI
I've cIeaned out every FaIin
that had anything
to do with it.
Jack! Jack!
Dave.
(CRYING)
I didn't want him to go.
I wouIdn't have
Iet you go, either.
I wouId have
stopped you.
I onIy said those things
'cause I was hurt inside.
I couId've stopped you.
But he's different.
He's not Iike a brother.
He'lI never come back.
He'lI never
wanna come back.
Dave.
Stop him.
TeII him what I can't .
PIease, Dave.
(CRYING)
You ain't going
to no FaIins.
No? WeII,
you try and stop me.
You're Iooking for
troubIe, Mr. HaIe,
the mountains is fuII of it.
We're aII brave men.
FaIins are brave men.
You kiIIed
the chiIdren.
I didn't know.
It's done now.
Sometime,
I'lI wanna go downtown.
PeopIe, they'lI Iook at me.
Maybe when I ain't around,
they'lI caII me Herod.
Herod FaIin.
They might caII me that.
He was a feIIow
that done that once.
He kiIIed babies.
The kid was a ToIIiver,
wasn't he?
You're kind of forgetting
about Jim, ain't you?
I ain't
forgetting nothing.
Jim toId me, in my arms,
he was hiding
behind the bushes
trying to pick off
Dave ToIIiver,
and Dave couIdn't see
who he was shooting at.
Buddie ToIIiver
couIdn't say that.
I don't Iike him and
I ain't gonna Iike him.
I get my hands
on that Dave ToIIiver...
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
Who's that?
Dave ToIIiver.
(GRUNTS)
What are you here for?
I wanna taIk to you.
And I ain't carry no gun.
Come on in.
If I teII you...
If I teII you we're Iicked,
wiII you stop fighting?
Who's Iicked?
Who do you mean?
Me.
You ain't Iicked.
You couIdn't be Iicked.
Why did you come here?
Why?
Yeah.
Why shouIdn't
I come to you?
I ought to have
dragged myseIf
through aII the brambIes,
aII the way from here
up to your house,
and say, " I'm sorry."
But I just ain't
got the sand.
You ain't my father.
You're a sniveIing pup!
I've been Iike that.
Maybe that's what's
the troubIe.
You wanna shake hands?
Now, teII me,
why did you do it?
It was Aunt MeIissa's
birthday...
(GUNSHOT)
For a minute
I thought you meant it.
I did. I did!
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
Dave, what happened?
I feII on my gun.
Buck FaIin was passing.
He was good enough
to fetch me home.
JUNE: Dave.
If you don't mind,
can I...
Can I stay tiII...
Sure.
It's of no use, Jack.
You can't
cut this enough.
Dave.
Dave?
It'lI soon be green-up.
And you'lI have
the biggest wedding
in the whoIe country.
Won't he, June?
(CRYING)
In the spring, David.
One for you,
one for me.
Biggest wedding in...
(SINGING)
When it's twilight
on the trail
And my voice is still
Please plant
this heart of mine
Underneath that Lonesome Pine
On the hill