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00:00:03Yeah, yeah, yeah, the port called order
00:00:30The End
00:01:00The End
00:01:30Your Honor, there is no doubt in the mind of the Commonwealth
00:01:50that this prisoner is a confirmed chicken thief.
00:01:56He has no place in this God-fearing community.
00:01:59He is a migrant.
00:02:02He cometh from no man knows whence.
00:02:06Since arriving in our midst, he has been known to do no honest work.
00:02:10The Commonwealth of Kentucky asks, yea, demands that he be a judge guilty
00:02:18and sentenced to six months on the chain gang.
00:02:21Sheriff, wake him up there.
00:02:33If anybody is going to sleep in this court, it will be me.
00:02:36Hey, wake up.
00:02:38Yes, sir.
00:02:39Come here, boy.
00:02:41Come on over here, right there.
00:02:43What's your name?
00:02:48Jeff Poindexter.
00:02:51Poindexter?
00:02:52Who gave you that?
00:02:54Mr. Ranney.
00:02:55Ranney?
00:02:56You mean Major Randolph Poindexter from down at Pine Bluff?
00:03:02Yeah, Pine Bluff.
00:03:08Well, looks like you Poindexters is always getting mixed up with some chicken somehow.
00:03:14Hey, Sergeant, it seems like I recollect you and Major Ranney having some connection with the flesh of the fowl at one time.
00:03:27You're good if we didn't.
00:03:28You know, Major Ranney was the fire-eaternest soldier that ever chased to yank up a tree.
00:03:34You know, Billy, you and me put in the stars that day when we went forging for a snack after the Battle of Chickamoggy.
00:03:41Chickamoggy?
00:03:41No, no, it was the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
00:03:48Don't say anything of it.
00:03:49Come on.
00:03:49Oh, you're both wrong.
00:03:51I'm not wrong.
00:03:51It was the summer of 63.
00:03:53And we were just outside of Nashville.
00:03:57No, Billy's right.
00:03:59I remember.
00:04:00For was I there, Richard?
00:04:02Your Honor, the Commonwealth subjects to this digression.
00:04:05Now, now, now, Senator, you know, now the, now the point is that, uh, that the Major, uh, he acted the part of the, of a gentleman and a soldier.
00:04:15And he removed the temptation from out of our path by eating up all the fat hens in the whole bunch and leaving us nothing but a lot of old skinny Dominic roosters.
00:04:28You remember, boys?
00:04:29Come to think of it, Billy, they were Plymouth Rocks.
00:04:32There was no such a thing that was Yankee kicking.
00:04:34There was Rhode Island rest.
00:04:35I know, of course, I could just go for it.
00:04:38Yankee!
00:04:38It was Rhode Island.
00:04:39Your Honor!
00:04:40Your Honor!
00:04:40Yankee!
00:04:41Your Honor!
00:04:42It was Dominic.
00:04:43Is this a court of law?
00:04:45I know.
00:04:45I ask you, is this a court of law?
00:04:49Now, now, now, Senator, I wouldn't, I, I, don't get on your high horse that way.
00:04:55You know, we ain't in a great big hurry, but, uh, incidentally, but, uh, what do you, what do you charge with there, boys?
00:05:01Nothing, Judge, but I wouldn't let them chickens show up, I, just fishing.
00:05:07Fishing?
00:05:08Where was you fishing?
00:05:09Down Sleepy River.
00:05:13Ain't no fishing Sleepy River yet.
00:05:15There are some.
00:05:16Ain't neither.
00:05:17Four catfish.
00:05:18Hey, Doc, sir.
00:05:19Right, Jimmy.
00:05:20Yeah?
00:05:20Sure, it's right, folks.
00:05:22I catch bull-ass catfish in there that long.
00:05:26There's your proof he's lying.
00:05:30Here, come in.
00:05:31What, what, what do you use for bait?
00:05:33Oh, I get a hunk of beef liver.
00:05:35Beef liver?
00:05:36Yeah, I take the beef liver and put it on there and chunk it out there, let them have the first piece for nothing, see, and then you put the beef liver,
00:05:45some more on that and chunk it out there, and then they think they're going to get there for nothing, and you just, you catch them longer, you got the liver.
00:05:53And I go out in there all the time, and I don't care nothing but that liver.
00:05:56I got to take down the judges' clothes, got to take them in the house.
00:06:25Yes, Lord, got to get out that old ironing boat, fix them up for the Jets to wear.
00:06:37Mmm, yes, Lord, that's what I was a-guine to do.
00:06:45Praise the Lord, Mr. Ome.
00:06:52Is you ahead or is you in?
00:06:53Hiya, Aunt Dilsey.
00:06:55How come you here?
00:06:56The judge said you up there at that college learned to be a lawyer, man.
00:06:59Aunt Dilsey, I got stomach trouble.
00:07:01Lord help you, white child.
00:07:03What them years he's been feeding you?
00:07:04Not a darn thing.
00:07:05That's a trouble.
00:07:06What have you got for supper?
00:07:07Mr. Ome, you stay here.
00:07:10Us is going to kill the high step in this loose in the yard, and a great big bowl of milk gravy and grits.
00:07:16Damn, Waffles.
00:07:17Don't you worry not, honey, you's home now.
00:07:20Mr. Ome's home, Mr. Ome's home, Mr. Ome's home, Mr. Ome's home, Mr. Ome's home, Mr. Ome's home, Mr. Ome's home.
00:07:24Hey, Uncle Billy!
00:07:25Get that baby and-
00:07:27How are you?
00:07:28Well, if it ain't Rome, well, salt me down.
00:07:33What happened up there?
00:07:34Did them Yankees kick you out of that law school?
00:07:36Sure they did, with a diploma.
00:07:39You're now looking at a full-fledged member of the bar.
00:07:43Let me look at you.
00:07:47Full-fledged, my goodness.
00:07:48You know, you better get your britches half-sold, because you're going to sit around a long time before you get your first client.
00:07:56Well, I don't mind, Uncle Billy.
00:07:58You know what happened to me before I got my first client, don't you?
00:08:01Lord, I-I set through two Republican administrations before I-
00:08:11Who are you playing?
00:08:13Oh, I'm just doing a little practicing here for the championship.
00:08:16I got Jeff here. He's doing the retrieving for me.
00:08:20Uh, me and Herman Felsberg is going to play against Jimmy Bagby and Doc Lake.
00:08:25Two of them balls down there, will you, Jeff?
00:08:27Two again?
00:08:28Remember the last time?
00:08:29Mm-hmm. I'm going to show you what had happened to Jimmy Bagby now, if he's, uh...
00:08:34I just want to show you how far than...
00:08:36Ooh, look at...
00:08:38Ha!
00:08:38Look at that Yankee shoe.
00:08:40You just got all that, Jeff.
00:08:41Look at that.
00:08:42Yes, I've never seen shoes with buttons on them before.
00:08:49I've seen pants, but...
00:08:51Ha, ha!
00:08:53Oh, say, that's fine.
00:08:57Oh, uh, just, uh, take your button shoes with you and just step that off and see just how far it is.
00:09:03Oh, I think that's about a record.
00:09:06One, two, three, four.
00:09:14Hello.
00:09:15Rose!
00:09:19Glad to see me?
00:09:20Why, I thought you were still up north.
00:09:22Oh, I got in this morning.
00:09:25How'd you know I was back here?
00:09:27Well, I didn't, but Uncle...
00:09:29My, you look pretty with those things.
00:09:34Isn't this a lovely spray?
00:09:35Mm-hmm.
00:09:36Now, young lady, I want to ask you a question.
00:09:41Please let me down, Rose.
00:09:42Miss Gillespie, will you please tell this court why you didn't answer my letters?
00:09:45I've got to go in.
00:09:46Really, I have.
00:09:47Now, tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you.
00:09:51You know why.
00:09:53All I know is that you've changed since I went away.
00:09:57Well, that isn't it, Rose.
00:09:59It's...
00:10:00It's just that we've grown up.
00:10:03You mean you don't like me anymore?
00:10:05Oh, Rome.
00:10:07Well, if my mother or anybody has said anything...
00:10:10Oh, Ellie, may I mean...
00:10:12Well, I'm old enough to choose my own friends.
00:10:14Please let me go.
00:10:15We've got to get this thing settled once and for all.
00:10:18I've got to go in. Really, I have.
00:10:20All right, then, I'm coming back tonight and find out what it's all about.
00:10:23You can. I have an engagement.
00:10:26Who with?
00:10:27Fleming Talley.
00:10:30Well, how about tomorrow night?
00:10:31Oh, Rome, it's no use.
00:10:33All right.
00:10:35That's the way you feel about it.
00:10:36You can sit right there and we understand each other.
00:10:41That's all right. That's all right.
00:10:42We don't need any more practice for them old men.
00:10:46Besides, that exertion calls for a jeweler.
00:10:49Yes, but you're going to wait for that young gentleman before you...
00:10:54Wait for him?
00:10:55Yes.
00:10:56Unless young folks has changed since I was skirmishing around.
00:11:00He won't be back for quite a while.
00:11:04Look at that goat.
00:11:06Ain't that a pretty sight?
00:11:08What, that goat?
00:11:09Ain't nothing pretty in the world than two young folks in love in the spring.
00:11:16What about that goat?
00:11:17Oh, goat. My lord.
00:11:18Ain't you got any sentiment?
00:11:19Ain't you got no girl?
00:11:20Ain't you ever in love?
00:11:22I was standing around here talking about a goat or something.
00:11:24About your mint?
00:11:25What about my mint?
00:11:26A goat in your mint bed.
00:11:28It's in my mint bed.
00:11:29A goat.
00:11:30A goat.
00:11:31A goat.
00:11:32A goat.
00:11:33A goat.
00:11:34A goat.
00:11:35A goat.
00:11:36A goat.
00:11:37A goat.
00:11:38A goat.
00:11:39A goat.
00:11:40What?
00:11:41Why, William Priest.
00:11:42Oh, hello, Carrie.
00:11:43This is a fine how-do-you-do.
00:11:45What will the neighbors say?
00:11:47I'm ashamed of you.
00:11:48What's ailing you now?
00:11:51That gum goat come in here and eat up my mint bed there.
00:11:55I bet he must have been the ruination of a million julep.
00:11:58julep. You and your precious mint juleps. A circuit court judge. Where is your dignity? Dignity?
00:12:06I don't reckon the priest family will ever have to worry about dignity as long as you
00:12:12alive and kicking. Well, it's a good thing somebody in this family has pride. I always
00:12:18told my brother when he married you that he saved the family neighbor. Well, if he were
00:12:22living, he wouldn't be fooling around the front yard with a goat. That's not what I
00:12:26came for. Have you seen Rome? Oh, Rome? Rome? Oh, uh, appears like I did see that, uh, son of
00:12:34yours around here a while ago. I expect he's downtown, though, now, uh, you know, strutting
00:12:39around, uh, showing off his butt and shoes. Now, don't you play possum with me, as if I
00:12:44didn't know you'd been encouraging that, that girl over there to set her cap for
00:12:50Rome. Carrie, Carrie, if I didn't know that you had the biggest heart of any woman in
00:12:55the world, I'd think he's the most suspicious creature that ever come down the pipe.
00:12:59Never mind that. You come up on the porch. I want to talk to you.
00:13:12But, uh, knowing that's the way you felt about it, I wouldn't have hurried home so fast.
00:13:16I'm sorry, Rome, but after all, you have your career, your family, and everything in the world
00:13:23that matters to you right here. I don't think you care what matters to me.
00:13:27That's not fair, Rome. After all, I'm... I'm only telling you of your own good.
00:13:36William, I'm not a woman to beat about the bush. This business of Rome and that girl next
00:13:41door has got to stop.
00:13:44What do you got against Ellie Mae? She's an awful sweet girl, seems to me. She's got gumption,
00:13:49and she teaches school, and supports herself. I don't want to be unkind. She may be a very
00:13:55nice girl and all that, but after all, Rome is one of the Kentucky priests, and the name
00:14:01of priest means something in Kentucky. Well, I've never heard that it meant intolerance. It
00:14:08means good stock and family pride. You know the kind of stock she comes from.
00:14:13Yeah, her, uh, her mom come to this town penniless and died giving birth to Ellie Mae. I remember
00:14:25the night. She was a frail little woman. Uh, wasn't any bigger than Ellie Mae is now, and
00:14:32just as pretty.
00:14:33But who was her father?
00:14:36Well, uh, nobody don't, uh, rightfully know.
00:14:40Well, a family may not mean anything to you, but it means a whole lot to me. I'm not going
00:14:47to have my grandchildren come into the world under a cloud.
00:14:51You, uh, haven't by any chance picked, uh, Hart Maydew as their grandpappy, have you?
00:14:56Oh, I know you've never liked Senator Maydew, but you can't say anything against his folks.
00:15:01They've got money, they're an old family, and Virginia's a lovely girl. She's always been
00:15:07crazy about Rome. He could do a lot worse.
00:15:12Well, I guess, uh, me and Rome, we ain't got anything to say about them.
00:15:17I knew you'd come around to my way.
00:15:22You're going to, uh, you're going to stay for supper, ain't you, Carrie?
00:15:24Not tonight, thank you, William. The daughters of the Confederacy are having a chicken supper at
00:15:29Cape Maydew's, and I'm late already.
00:15:32Looks like you daughters get more ferocious every year towards Yankees and, uh, fried chicken.
00:15:37Got your badge on now.
00:15:39Yes.
00:15:40Mighty pretty.
00:15:41Good night, William.
00:15:43Sometimes I, uh, I think you women got more badges and medals out of their soldiers, dear.
00:15:50Good night, Carrie.
00:15:51Listen, that old whipple, uh, calling his mate, him and his kin has been
00:16:04nesting around here for now and 30 years.
00:16:06It's a lonesome kind of sound, isn't it, Uncle Billy?
00:16:10Hmm, it is so.
00:16:13You know, the good lord never meant for nobody, either man or
00:16:17a bird to live by themselves.
00:16:22Uncle Billy, why didn't you come and live with us after Aunt Margaret died?
00:16:26Oh, I, I never could stand Jamal's cooking.
00:16:36All fine swing over there on that other porch.
00:16:41I wouldn't be surprised if they ain't a pretty girl sitting in it now.
00:16:45Uh, he's got another fella tonight.
00:16:51Hell, he may sure is pretty.
00:16:54Fella gets hurled, certainly have to do some prancing, ain't he, can't he?
00:16:58Sit around and look glum all the time.
00:17:03There he is now.
00:17:04Who?
00:17:05That phlegm tally.
00:17:07The barber?
00:17:07Yeah.
00:17:11Gives off a poor shave.
00:17:16Woo, woo, Bert.
00:17:27Here I am, honey.
00:17:33Here they have some news.
00:17:35Uh, son, uh, there ain't nothing will get your mind off women folks like work.
00:17:52Will you run back in my library there and get my old Kentucky coat of statues?
00:17:57It's, uh, it's an old calfskin book up on the top shelf there.
00:18:03Gets me, that's braying now.
00:18:06Long ears, I'm just gonna see if I can't stop them.
00:18:09Uh, Gabby Rives and Joe Harringer, you know, the boys that work for me down in my barber shop.
00:18:17Well, they comes to me tonight and wants me to go over to Old Town.
00:18:22Some high-flying gals over there.
00:18:25But I tells them no.
00:18:27I can have all the fun I want right here at home.
00:18:31Now, guess who I was talking about?
00:18:34Couldn't I?
00:18:35Couldn't I make you some lemonade?
00:18:37Lemonade?
00:18:38Sure, honey.
00:18:40And I got something to sweeten it with.
00:18:42Right out of the mountains and kick it like a mule.
00:18:56Jerry, oh, Jerry.
00:18:59You see anything about the, about the phlegm tally, the barber man around here?
00:19:05No, what'll he be doing around here?
00:19:09Huh?
00:19:10I don't know, Jerry, but, but they, they headed this way for him.
00:19:15What are you talking about?
00:19:17Who's there?
00:19:19Some lady's pappy, two barrels of shotgun.
00:19:24He said Mr. Talley's been messing around.
00:19:28He sure is in a killing mood.
00:19:31Well, you mean that, uh, he's going to annihilate him?
00:19:39Uh, uh, no, sir.
00:19:41He, he does, uh, he's going to shoot him, that, that's all.
00:19:46Well, there ain't a thing that I can do about it.
00:19:49Uh, my job don't stop until, uh, they've got him all, uh, laid out in the morgue.
00:19:56Uh, full of buckshot, cold and dead, and, uh, ready for burial.
00:20:03Then, then I steps in.
00:20:04Uh, but, but, uh, you, you, you judge, you, you, uh, the law.
00:20:11Oh, I can't do a thing about it, as I said before, until the shooting is over.
00:20:17And, uh, then I'll certainly see that the, uh, murderer gets a fair trial.
00:20:21Kill her! Kill her!
00:20:41Uncle Billy, I couldn't find that book anywhere.
00:20:43What book?
00:20:44That Kentucky law book.
00:20:48Maybe I didn't have one.
00:20:51Ellie Mae's waiting for you over there.
00:20:53What?
00:20:54I... I... I... How do you know? Are you sure?
00:20:57Now, don't be standing here like a jaybird gawking when I tell you she's waiting.
00:21:00Go on out of here and go.
00:21:21That dumb whippoorwill.
00:21:27Mighty poor company on a night like this.
00:21:32That dumb whippoorwill.
00:21:35Mighty poor company on a night like this.
00:21:39That dumb whippoorwill.
00:21:44Mighty poor company on a night like this.
00:21:50Good night, Jeff.
00:22:09Mighty poor company on a night like this.
00:22:30What's so long that my life, when the lights are low,
00:22:44feel the love of my life, when the lights are low,
00:22:59feel the love of my life, when the lights are low,
00:23:21It's been a long time, honey, since you and the babies.
00:23:30Went away.
00:23:34Oh, Rome came home tonight.
00:23:42Little Robert E. would have been...
00:23:47He would have been just the same age as Rome is now.
00:23:53I guess it's Rome coming home is what makes it seem more lonesome than ever around here.
00:24:08Honey, you know that... that fellow that enlarged that tin type?
00:24:21He... he sure did a... sure did a pretty job.
00:24:24I wish you could see it, honey.
00:24:28I wish you could see it, honey.
00:24:30Look...
00:24:31Say that... that fellow put that gill on there.
00:24:55Oh, that was a regular humbug.
00:25:02Got to get that fixed.
00:25:20Mmm, honey, it's sure always a pretty night.
00:25:25It's been an awful late spring.
00:25:28But I don't know when I've seen the flowers looking better this time of year.
00:25:42People are funny things.
00:25:45Always got their eyes set on something.
00:25:49Rome, he's got his eyes set on Ellie Mae and Carrie, she's got hers set on old Hod Maydew's daughter, Rome.
00:25:59Old Hod, he's got his eyes set on my job.
00:26:02Some of them are going to be disappointed.
00:26:09Them honeysuckles sure do smell sweet.
00:26:13Seems like I just can't get my nose full enough of them.
00:26:18Would that burn, honey?
00:26:21There's Bob Gillis over that grave.
00:26:24It's at Ellie Mae's mother's.
00:26:26Oh, shit you!
00:26:28You're pretty boy though!
00:26:29Would that burn, honey?
00:26:36There's Bob Gillis over that grave.
00:26:46It's at Ellie Mae's mother's.
00:26:49I'll cut you!
00:26:51You're a pretty boy, though.
00:26:53You're a pretty boy, though.
00:26:55There you is.
00:26:57Hi, Jimmy.
00:27:01Hello, Billy.
00:27:03What are you doing there?
00:27:05Thinking on getting called to the colors again?
00:27:09Hello, Gillis.
00:27:11Hello.
00:27:13We never know what them Yanks is going to do.
00:27:16We'll lick them once and I'm keeping old Jedi ready in case we...
00:27:20in case we're going to do it again.
00:27:22Say, uh...
00:27:24Better look at old, uh, General Forrest there.
00:27:27Think he's going to need a little shoeing pretty soon.
00:27:30Well, I'm...
00:27:31I'm mighty busy right now, Billy, shoeing them two horses over there.
00:27:34Hey, Bob.
00:27:35We better take a look at the judges' horses sometime.
00:27:38Hey, you're gonna for a shot.
00:27:49Have a sniff, sir?
00:27:51Good corn!
00:27:52You can smell the feet of the boys that clowned it.
00:27:54That breath of yours is like a hot mince pie.
00:28:03Where are you going?
00:28:04I'm fishing. Sleepy river.
00:28:06Sleepy river? Why don't you fish in the trough there?
00:28:10Need shooing?
00:28:11No. All right for a while yet.
00:28:14Say, bad scar you got there.
00:28:17Bullet?
00:28:18Yeah.
00:28:19Get that in the warm?
00:28:21No.
00:28:21Uh, folks, say, uh, you coming up north. Must have got that up there.
00:28:35We'll talk to Jeff first to find out anything.
00:28:40Hey, wake up here.
00:28:43Somebody come along and steal a horse and leave you sitting here holding on.
00:28:51All right, come on with that beef liver now.
00:29:01All right, there's a bait, there's a bait bag.
00:29:07All this cute little head.
00:29:10They're up now.
00:29:12And a liver.
00:29:12Oh, gee, don't tell, don't tell me you ain't got it.
00:29:19Doesn't happen.
00:29:20Looks like they're a liver that hasn't walked off by itself.
00:29:24Lord.
00:29:26I'm going to catch any catfish and ain't got no bait.
00:29:31Take this dime now and hurry on back to town and get me that beef liver.
00:29:35All right, sir.
00:29:36Hurry up now.
00:29:37Hurry up.
00:29:37I'm actually running now.
00:29:41Nothing's the way it is.
00:29:44You going to put your shoes on?
00:29:45I'm going to save them in case my feet go out.
00:29:50And then I'll have them.
00:29:53What's sitting around as you do?
00:29:55It won't be your feet that'll go out.
00:29:56Yes.
00:29:56Master Jesus wrote me a note.
00:30:11He wrote it on the wall.
00:30:16He told me to put on my Sunday clothes.
00:30:22Boy, he's coming to catch me soon.
00:30:28Master Jesus wrote me a note.
00:30:35He wrapped it in a star.
00:30:42Say, he gonna watch me wide and slow.
00:30:49Don't hide me as black as mine.
00:31:00Because I got a hand in this good old pretty vest hanging up in there doing nothing.
00:31:06Fine, Grant.
00:31:08Well, play take you.
00:31:09I thought I told you to stay away from that vest.
00:31:11Yeah, but Judge, it got hung up on my...
00:31:12Yeah, you got nothing going on there, too.
00:31:15Yes, but this old skunk coat...
00:31:17Skunk coat?
00:31:17I mean possum.
00:31:18What do you mean, possum?
00:31:19Uh, rabbit.
00:31:20Rabbit?
00:31:20Say, listen, every inch of that is raccoon.
00:31:23Better be raccoon.
00:31:24I took it off a rich Yankee.
00:31:25Now you get in there and put them things away from there.
00:31:28Better get on over at that festival there.
00:31:30Dilsie might be needing you, too.
00:31:36How are you, Judge?
00:31:37Just Oliver, ever.
00:31:38Just Oliver.
00:31:39I'm afraid it takes ice cream and cake to get you old soldiers out there, Judge.
00:31:42Yeah, if the Lord ever gets in a jam, why, uh, he knows who to call them.
00:31:48That's right.
00:31:50Going to church isn't everything there is to it.
00:31:53Evening, Senator.
00:31:53Good evening, Reverend.
00:31:55Good evening, Jack Spreeze.
00:31:57Good evening, Lord.
00:32:02As one of our best church doors...
00:32:03Yes, it's, uh, it's surprising, uh, how far some men will go to get a few votes.
00:32:12Too bad we, uh, we didn't get rid of him and get him off up to Congress, sir, after him spending that, uh, term in the state senate.
00:32:20I understand he thinks you deprived him of that honor.
00:32:24Me?
00:32:26Great Democratic Party and Thomas Jefferson.
00:32:29Evident of the senator doesn't see it that way.
00:32:32Tell me that his cases in your court have taken on the appearance of a personal feud.
00:32:38Now that he's a candidate for your job.
00:32:42Oh, I wouldn't say that, Ashby.
00:32:44But I am going to have to get out and do some mighty tall lectioneering, you know.
00:32:48Well, Art is, uh, he's a spellbinder and, uh, and a silver tongue from way back.
00:32:54I'm just, uh, yeah, an old country Jake who's kind of a baby kisser.
00:33:00I ain't got much to offer the boys in the, in the way of rhetoric.
00:33:05I understand he doesn't approve of your grammar.
00:33:08My grammar?
00:33:09First thing I learned in politics was when to say ain't.
00:33:18Hey, speaking of ice cream, did I have to tell you about Shiloh?
00:33:25Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, wait a minute, Doc.
00:33:27Wait a minute, how would you hear, then?
00:33:29Well, sir, come here, come on, come on back here.
00:33:30I want to hear this.
00:33:31It was the eve before Shiloh, and them orders had to get across the river to General Beauregard.
00:33:36What did I do?
00:33:37I took off my clothes and I stuffed the orders in my mouth and I plunged in.
00:33:42It was pitch dark.
00:33:43Well, sir, I was going...
00:33:45Good evening.
00:33:49Swimming again, Jimmy?
00:33:53Now, where was I? Where was I? Where was I?
00:33:55Right in the middle of the river.
00:33:57Yeah, yes, sir, there you are. Swimming and 12 miles to go, yet there I was.
00:34:00Swimming and swimming, diving under and around.
00:34:03Yankee gunboats, Yankee boots all around me.
00:34:06Surrounded by Yankee gunboats and me dodging, driving...
00:34:09Gunboats?
00:34:09Yes, sir.
00:34:10Putting them gunboats in there is a new tack, ain't it, Jimmy?
00:34:18Hello, Rome.
00:34:20Hello.
00:34:21Now, don't you young people think you have to entertain us, old folks?
00:34:24That's right. Run along now.
00:34:26They're getting ready for the candy pool.
00:34:28Perhaps Rome has other plans.
00:34:30Oh, no, he hasn't.
00:34:31I declare, Virginia gets prettier every time I see her.
00:34:41And I know you're happy to have Rome at home again.
00:34:44Oh, he's such a nice boy.
00:34:47Don't they look fine together?
00:34:48Look at them horrors.
00:34:49Ah, yes.
00:34:53You, beauty.
00:34:56I remember when I first crossed the threshold of my young manhood.
00:35:00And listened to the sweet murmurings of my heart.
00:35:03Oh, yes.
00:35:04Oh, yes.
00:35:05Oh, yes.
00:35:06Oh, yes.
00:35:07Oh, yes.
00:35:09Yes.
00:35:10Yes.
00:35:11Yes.
00:35:12Yes.
00:35:13Yes.
00:35:14Yes.
00:35:15Yes.
00:35:16Yes.
00:35:17Double portion, please.
00:35:18You have a full portion there.
00:35:20Oh, but we can pay for it.
00:35:22Can't we, Rome?
00:35:23Can't we, Rome?
00:35:38Gentlemen, I propose to conduct my campaign on a Daytonified basement.
00:35:43No personality.
00:35:45Others may send you the homespun manners of Judge Priest on the bench.
00:35:50Not I.
00:35:53Others may question the methods by which he has held political control of the county for a quarter of a century.
00:36:01Not I.
00:36:03Oh, gentlemen, merit alone will count in the forthcoming election.
00:36:13Where have you been keeping yourself, Rome?
00:36:15I think you've forgotten where I live.
00:36:18Nothing like that.
00:36:20Mother and Daddy are always teasing me about yours.
00:36:23I tell them you don't care anything about me.
00:36:26Bet you have a girl up north.
00:36:29Well, even if I did have, haven't you got every boy in town on your string?
00:36:32Oh, those stick in the mud.
00:36:35They make me tired.
00:36:37Besides,
00:36:39I've been waiting for somebody else.
00:36:41I've been waiting for somebody else.
00:36:42Mm-hmm.
00:36:48Attention!
00:36:52Say, what's the...
00:36:53What's the prettiest gal at the...
00:36:55At the festival here?
00:36:57Moping around back here by herself, huh?
00:37:00You want some taffy, Judge?
00:37:02I ain't much of a taffy-puller.
00:37:04I ain't much of a taffy-puller.
00:37:13On second thoughts, uh, you can give me a water of that, too.
00:37:16All right.
00:37:17Put the butter on your hands first.
00:37:18Oh.
00:37:34Hello, Uncle Billy.
00:37:36Oh, hold on.
00:37:38You ain't doing that, right?
00:37:40What's the matter with him?
00:37:41Here.
00:37:42Let me see your hand.
00:37:43I don't got no butter on there.
00:37:44No wonder.
00:37:46Here, here, let me show you.
00:37:47Put mine in here.
00:37:48Let me show you.
00:37:49There.
00:37:50Go on up there.
00:37:51Run on up there.
00:37:52Put some old stick on your hand there.
00:37:53Go on, right up there.
00:37:54All right, Uncle Billy.
00:37:55That's it.
00:37:56Now, here.
00:37:57Put that right over in there, now.
00:37:58Now, here.
00:37:59Here, here, here.
00:38:00Now, that's the thing.
00:38:01Candy-pulling.
00:38:02You got to keep your mind right on there.
00:38:03Right on there.
00:38:04See, look at this.
00:38:05That's how you're getting it all on your hand.
00:38:06Keep your mind on what you're doing there, now.
00:38:08Lord, you're pulling candy with the champion candy-puller of this neighborhood, now.
00:38:36I think this is your fault.
00:38:37The sun shines bright in my old Kentucky home.
00:38:43This summer be darky again.
00:38:44The sun shines bright in my old Kentucky home.
00:38:50This summer be darky again.
00:38:51The sun shines bright in my old Kentucky home.
00:38:57This summer be darky again.
00:38:59The sun shines bright in my old Kentucky home.
00:39:00This summer be darky again.
00:39:05The sun Talking cloud fly, and The необходимо In the blue.
00:39:12And the meadows in the blue While the birds make beauty of the bay
00:39:37Keep no more, my lady Oh, weep no more today
00:39:52We will sing one song Of my old Kentucky home
00:40:06Of my old Kentucky home
00:40:16Far away
00:40:31Good morning, everybody. Good morning, George. You next.
00:40:35Say, Flam, you've got the only lively spot in town.
00:40:39Here, Gabby, what's the latest news in the paper this morning?
00:40:45Hello, Lodge. Howdy, George.
00:40:50Say, you ain't been in lately, have you?
00:40:52Good morning, Mr. Hoyle.
00:40:56Good morning, Mr. Hoyle.
00:41:00Good morning, Mr. Hoyle.
00:41:04Good morning, Mr. Hoyle.
00:41:06Good morning, Mr. Hoyle.
00:41:08Good morning, Mr. Hoyle.
00:41:10Good morning, Mr. Hoyle.
00:41:17Oh, Flam, here she comes.
00:41:19And does she like her flippies?
00:41:22Hey, Flam, when are you two getting hitched?
00:41:25You ain't scared of no shotgun wedding, are you?
00:41:29Not as long as she ain't got no paw.
00:41:37Say, that fellow's gonna make himself mighty unpopular around here.
00:41:41That's right, Judge.
00:41:43Yeah.
00:41:45This guy's gonna make himself mighty unpopular around here.
00:41:49That's right, Judge.
00:41:51Yeah.
00:41:53There's about 2,000 male citizens here that's gonna be mighty sore at him.
00:41:58Yeah.
00:41:59When they find out that he punched you in the jaw before they could.
00:42:11Yes, he's gonna be awful unpopular around here.
00:42:23We're not nicked till the last shots fired.
00:42:25No.
00:42:26He ain't gonna have more than you, sir.
00:42:27I got the grounds.
00:42:28All right.
00:42:29Yeah.
00:42:30You choose upwards, Bill.
00:42:32There you go.
00:42:33Yes.
00:42:34One, two.
00:42:35Ha, ha.
00:42:36Yeah, ha, ha.
00:42:37Oh, your hands took it.
00:42:38Ha, ha, ha.
00:42:39Ha, ha, ha.
00:42:40Ha, ha, ha.
00:42:41Ha, ha, ha.
00:42:42Ha, ha, ha.
00:42:43Ha, ha, ha.
00:42:44Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:42:56Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:43:01My wife and I live all alone in my heavy cold our home.
00:43:07And let her free call our home.
00:43:11I ain't put enough in that desert judge like more than that.
00:43:18Yeah, I got a spare one of them.
00:43:21Desolate.
00:43:23Cure.
00:43:25I ain't trying to tell you what to do.
00:43:27I just, like, always there's somebody trying to...
00:43:32Hey! Cut them monkey shines!
00:43:35How do you expect a judge to win that croquet game...
00:43:38with no solace in his stomach?
00:43:44Hey, Desi, you done forgot the jug.
00:43:47There's a jug here.
00:43:50All right, you can.
00:43:52See, I never told you now.
00:43:54Leaving somebody here with all this stuff...
00:43:59I bet she gonna blame me for it.
00:44:05Don't see you around much.
00:44:08No.
00:44:09Try to keep to yourself, don't you?
00:44:11Yeah.
00:44:12You all get some more beer while I'm locked with that 14 barrels down there in the corner.
00:44:25I'll pay for it.
00:44:29Hey, Lamb, your horses out there.
00:44:31Yeah?
00:44:32Yes.
00:44:33Come on, let's get it.
00:44:34Don't hold your horses now.
00:44:35He'll be heading through you in a minute, going home.
00:44:37No.
00:44:38You fellas with me?
00:44:39Sure.
00:44:40Sure with you.
00:44:49Another?
00:44:50Nope.
00:44:51Hey, grape.
00:44:53You're a boy.
00:44:54He's got a knife.
00:44:55You got a knife.
00:44:56You got him.
00:44:57You got a gun.
00:44:58Get a doctor.
00:44:59Quick.
00:45:00Get him slam.
00:45:01What happened?
00:45:02He pulled a knife.
00:45:03He's got a knife.
00:45:04He's got a knife.
00:45:05He's got a knife.
00:45:06We saw him.
00:45:07With a knife.
00:45:08Yeah.
00:45:09Get a doctor! Quick! Get a slam!
00:45:14What happened? He pulled a knife!
00:45:17He cut a slam! We saw him!
00:45:20Was the knife? Yeah! We saw him too! Look at that!
00:45:23Get a dunk!
00:45:36Hey, Uncle Billy!
00:45:39Uncle Billy!
00:45:41Uncle Billy!
00:45:43You're dead on me!
00:45:45Oh, no!
00:45:46You're dead on me!
00:45:48Get out of here!
00:45:50Get out of here!
00:45:52Oh, no!
00:45:54Oh, no!
00:45:56Get away! Get away!
00:45:58He missed it! He missed it!
00:46:00Just a minute!
00:46:02Keep still!
00:46:04Keep still!
00:46:06Keep still!
00:46:08Oh!
00:46:09We're sensing!
00:46:11Let me talk to you!
00:46:13Golly, I don't see how the South ever lost the war with a guy that could argue like you did!
00:46:17Uncle Billy!
00:46:18What is the matter? You've already made me lose the game!
00:46:20Uncle Billy, I got a client!
00:46:22Oh, who is it? What's the matter with him?
00:46:24Gillis! You know, Mr. Bagby's man!
00:46:26What's that, Bob Gillis? What's he doing?
00:46:27He cut up Phlegm Talley!
00:46:28Yeah?
00:46:29Uh-huh! And right after he gave himself up, he sent for me!
00:46:32Well, I'll be kicked by a mule!
00:46:34Did you cut him bad?
00:46:35Well, I can't tell yet!
00:46:36Gee, Uncle Billy, he sent for me!
00:46:38It'll be the biggest case in your whole court session and I'll be defending him!
00:46:42Well, I wouldn't gloat too soon now!
00:46:45Oh, don't you worry!
00:46:47Hey, Ellie Mae!
00:46:48Yeah, I'm going to get down to that jail and see what that fella's got to say for himself!
00:46:53I'm going to see Talley!
00:46:55Darned, Robert, they robbed us out of that!
00:46:57Herman, now, you better get on down there with me because you'll liable to get a chance to go his bail!
00:47:04Ellie Mae!
00:47:06Ellie Mae, I got a client!
00:47:09Oh, Rome, I knew you would!
00:47:11Come on over!
00:47:12I want you to talk to Uncle Billy and tell you all about it!
00:47:14That's sort of novelty, Herman!
00:47:15The barber getting cut up!
00:47:17Whoever cut him up, couldn't have cut him much if he was the barber's razor!
00:47:23Where's Rose?
00:47:25I won't have it, that's all!
00:47:26He's getting mixed up with that kind of people!
00:47:29What's he done now?
00:47:31Well, he's done enough!
00:47:36Mother, what's the matter? Something wrong?
00:47:39If you're in the habit of discussing your affairs before strangers, I'm not!
00:47:43Well, Ellie Mae's not a stranger!
00:47:45Excuse me, Rome, I'll go!
00:47:46No, wait!
00:47:47All right, I have nothing to hide!
00:47:50Carrie, what's the matter? Have you been out in the sun too much?
00:47:54You shut up, William Priest!
00:47:55I hold you responsible for everything that's happened!
00:47:59Are you going to defend that man?
00:48:02Mr. Gillis?
00:48:03You bet I am!
00:48:04Oh, no, you're not!
00:48:05Mother, what do you mean I'm not?
00:48:07I suppose you know what's behind this drunken brawl?
00:48:10No?
00:48:11Well, then I'll tell you!
00:48:13They were fighting over that girl in a saloon!
00:48:16Mother, that's not so!
00:48:18Carrie, you can accumulate more misinformation in a shorter time than anybody who told you all this rigmarole!
00:48:26Virginia Medeal!
00:48:28Who?
00:48:29Virginia Medeal!
00:48:30Oh...
00:48:31She got it straight from her father!
00:48:33And brought it straight to you?
00:48:35She wanted to warn Rome!
00:48:38I know you can have a liking me, Mrs. Priest!
00:48:41I know you've tried to stop Rome from going with me!
00:48:43And I know you think I'm not good enough for him!
00:48:45Well, let me tell you something!
00:48:48If Rome were half as mean as you are, he wouldn't be good enough for me!
00:48:53Well, of all things!
00:48:58Carrie?
00:49:00Looks like you run sacking!
00:49:01Oh, no, I don't!
00:49:03If Rome's father were alive, he'd back me up!
00:49:06Rome's already got himself talked about all over town with this girl!
00:49:09And I'm not going to have him publicly defending her in court!
00:49:15Well, Rome...
00:49:17See how your mother feels about it, so...
00:49:20Looks like you lost your first climb!
00:49:24And it's certainly hard to get, too!
00:49:26No, Uncle Billy, I haven't lost anything!
00:49:28No!
00:49:29Mother, I think I'm old enough to know my own mind!
00:49:32I said I'd defend Mr. Gillis, and I'm going to go through with it!
00:49:45Right this way, Reverend!
00:49:47Have that chair there, please, sir!
00:49:50Hi, Gary!
00:49:51How are you?
00:49:52How are you?
00:49:53Well, hi.
00:49:54How are you?
00:49:55How are you?
00:49:56How are you?
00:49:57Good!
00:50:01How are you?
00:50:02How are you?
00:50:04How are you?
00:50:06How are you?
00:50:07How are you?
00:50:08Good.
00:50:09Here.
00:50:11Oh, good.
00:50:12Good...
00:50:14Good.
00:50:15Good.
00:50:16Good.
00:50:17Good.
00:50:18Good.
00:50:25Good.
00:50:27Good.
00:50:31Good.
00:51:03May it please the court.
00:51:20I would point out that for many years a political and personal difference has existed between
00:51:30your honor and myself, now that I am a candidate for the exalted office which you have held
00:51:36for so many years, those differences have reached a point where, for the protection of
00:51:43the people, I must demand an impartial trial judge.
00:51:49Perhaps I'm getting deaf, but the fact had never reached me before.
00:51:59Are you insinuating that you won't get full justice in this court?
00:52:02I maintain that my language was sufficiently plain for any comprehension, however obtuse.
00:52:07But I will make it even franker.
00:52:10I charge, in the presence of two witnesses, you took sides with the defendant Gillis in
00:52:15a prior attack upon this plaintiff.
00:52:17I've been sitting on this bench for nigh on twenty years.
00:52:24And nobody has ever asked me to step down.
00:52:28I'll file an affidavit of the prejudice.
00:52:30That won't hardly be necessary.
00:52:32Then I call upon you, Judge Priest, to vacate the bench during this trial and yield your place
00:52:38to a qualified judge.
00:52:53I, uh...
00:52:57I'm...
00:52:59I'm not denying, Senator, that you...
00:53:03Well, you kind of took my breath away.
00:53:07I guess I had, uh, just...
00:53:10sort of...
00:53:12got the habit that I was...
00:53:14took for granted here...
00:53:16on this bench.
00:53:20Gosh, I was...
00:53:22I was putting you a raise in this...
00:53:24in this courtroom.
00:53:27When I quit fighting...
00:53:30sixty-five...
00:53:37for what...
00:53:39we thought was right...
00:53:41and I kind of calmed down...
00:53:44found out I...
00:53:47I couldn't lick the whole...
00:53:49United States...
00:53:50I come back here...
00:53:53to my hometown...
00:53:55and I put up my shingle.
00:53:58it wasn't long...
00:54:00I was sitting on that bench.
00:54:05Maybe I did have a hankering...
00:54:07for the spirit...
00:54:10of the law...
00:54:11not the letter...
00:54:16but as far as I know...
00:54:19nobody ever found...
00:54:21cause to...
00:54:22complain...
00:54:24till now.
00:54:26Now, you, uh...
00:54:31you jury...
00:54:33you forget everything that I've said.
00:54:35and, uh...
00:54:39my feelings has, uh...
00:54:41no place...
00:54:42in the, uh...
00:54:44in the records of...
00:54:46of this trial.
00:54:48Now, if you will...
00:54:50excuse me...
00:54:52neither side...
00:54:53has...
00:54:54any objection...
00:54:56I'd like to...
00:54:58ask the...
00:54:59Honorable...
00:55:00Floyd...
00:55:01Fairley...
00:55:03if he won't...
00:55:04come up here...
00:55:08and take...
00:55:11take my...
00:55:14my place on...
00:55:15on the bench.
00:55:33well?
00:55:52What happened then?
00:55:55Mmm...
00:55:56Hmm...
00:56:00Gentlemen of the jury, in plain language.
00:56:04The defendant here burst in upon these three worthy citizens.
00:56:07I...
00:56:08I object, Your Honor.
00:56:09I deny that my client ever burst into any place or anything.
00:56:14Objection sustained.
00:56:16So be it, Your Honor.
00:56:19Nevertheless, I shall demonstrate that my young friend's client here...
00:56:23did burst into something.
00:56:24That armed with a lethal weapon, to wit a dirt, dagger...
00:56:28or knife of deadly length and deadly sharpness...
00:56:31he burst into Mr. Talley's quivering flesh.
00:56:35I object, Your Honor.
00:56:36Objection sustained.
00:56:39Your Honor's humble servant bows to Your Honor's August Rulet.
00:56:46In due time...
00:56:49Mr. Talley's scarred and mutilated person...
00:56:51will bespeak the verity of my claim...
00:56:54with a silent eloquence far exceeding the powers of my poor tongue.
00:56:58My poor tongue.
00:57:13We was playing bottle pool when he come in and attacked at me.
00:57:17Didn't you attack him with a billiard cue?
00:57:19Not until after he come at me.
00:57:21With a knife.
00:57:22Well, it's just like Flemm says.
00:57:27We wasn't paying him no mind and...
00:57:30to be come looking for Flemm.
00:57:32But weren't you three all armed with billiard cues?
00:57:35Well, never heard of nobody playing pool without him.
00:57:39It's just like Flemm and Joe says.
00:57:47He come in looking for trouble.
00:57:49You don't like the defendant, do you?
00:57:51Who does?
00:57:52Your Honor, the defense is through with the witness.
00:58:04I should think my young Leonard Collie...
00:58:10would be glad to be through with the witness.
00:58:16Your Honor, the prosecution reads.
00:58:34Before the defense proceeds...
00:58:41this court recesses for half an hour.
00:58:50I don't know why you did it, Mr. Gillis.
00:58:53The judge priest told me what happened in the barber shop.
00:58:56Oh, you've got to tell the jury.
00:58:58They'd never conviction a million years...
00:59:00if they knew you were defending a girl's name.
00:59:01Don't you see? You can't think of me now.
00:59:03You've got to think of yourself.
00:59:05Look, Mr. Gillis.
00:59:07I don't want to bring Ellie Mae's name...
00:59:09into this thing any more than you do.
00:59:11But she's right.
00:59:12They can give you ten years for assault.
00:59:14And the way Maydo's working on the jury...
00:59:16they'll give you the limit.
00:59:17Well, you've got to tell the truth, Mr. Gillis.
00:59:19Don't you see? You've got to.
00:59:21I ain't going to tell them anything.
00:59:28Yes, sir.
00:59:29Yes, sir. Talley lied all the way through.
00:59:31And Herringer and Gab Ride, they lied too.
00:59:34It was three against one in Billy Gaynor's back room...
00:59:36and it's three against one in this tier courtroom.
00:59:38Have you ever been in any other cutting scrape in town before?
00:59:42No, sir.
00:59:43That's all.
00:59:45One more.
00:59:47Where do you come from, Mr. Gillis?
00:59:57I ain't a saying.
00:59:58You aren't exactly what we Southerners...
01:00:01we're called a sociable person, are you?
01:00:03I mind my own business.
01:00:04Very nice.
01:00:05Except when you go looking for trouble.
01:00:07I don't go looking for trouble.
01:00:08But I ain't the one to run away from it.
01:00:10How long have you had a grievance against Mr. Talley?
01:00:14We had a run-in a few days before he jumped me.
01:00:17Oh, a run-in, eh?
01:00:19And what was this run-in about?
01:00:21Well, well, come on, tell the jury.
01:00:23What did you hate him for?
01:00:24I ain't a saying.
01:00:25Then you didn't have any reason for anything.
01:00:26I didn't say that.
01:00:27Well, make up your mind. Why did you hate him?
01:00:29I ain't a saying.
01:00:31Thank you, Your Honor.
01:00:33Thank you, Your Honor.
01:00:36Anything further?
01:00:38That's all, Your Honor. The defense rests.
01:00:48This court will adjourn till tomorrow morning.
01:00:51It is our hope that the summations will be brief...
01:00:55so that we may all attend the reunion ceremonies...
01:00:58which begin at noon.
01:01:01Well, well, Andy.
01:01:12Yes.
01:01:13Hey, this is a pleasure.
01:01:16Well, I don't get a chance to do this often.
01:01:20He certainly doesn't, Your Honor.
01:01:22Yes, yep.
01:01:23Make the Reverend comfortable at me.
01:01:26It looks like you kind of caught me red-handed.
01:01:35Well, could I...
01:01:40You know, kind of inveigle.
01:01:44Been a long, tiresome day, and it's mostly mint.
01:01:50No, thank you, William.
01:01:52I appreciate your subtlety.
01:01:54You know, I kind of thought that, uh...
01:01:57that you'd be working on your Memorial Day address, uh...
01:02:01tomorrow.
01:02:02Well, that'll take care of itself.
01:02:04What I'm worried about is this poor devil of a Gillis.
01:02:07You know Gillis?
01:02:08My trade takes me into queer quarters sometimes.
01:02:12Well, I feel just as sorry for that fellow Gillis as you do.
01:02:18But, uh...
01:02:20I'm...
01:02:21I'm plumb out of it.
01:02:22Hard got the best of me.
01:02:25He sure did.
01:02:26The case is closed.
01:02:28It's all settled.
01:02:29And I don't think Hard will, uh...
01:02:31He'll be fool enough to reopen the case for nobody or nothing.
01:02:41William, I have a duty to perform.
01:02:45A Christian's duty.
01:02:47I'm going to violate the sacred confidence of another.
01:02:51I'm going to break a pledge of secrecy.
01:02:54Because it's the only course that I see that lies before me.
01:02:59I'm listening, Ashby.
01:03:02Twenty-five years ago.
01:03:06The judges show been hard misery.
01:03:12Reckon folks ain't been acting just right.
01:03:17Maybe his stomach's been complaining.
01:03:22And he needs a toddy this night.
01:03:26Yes, Lord.
01:03:28Yes, Lord.
01:03:30Cause tomorrow he's got to be like Mr. Samson.
01:03:35Saving Daniel from the lion's den.
01:03:40Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.
01:03:44Saving Daniel from the lion's den.
01:03:49Yes, Lord.
01:03:51Yes, Lord.
01:03:53They just could do as I toddy right now.
01:03:57Yes, Jeff.
01:03:59Yes.
01:04:00They'll see.
01:04:01Soon as I catch me some men.
01:04:04Oh, Jeff.
01:04:05Jeff.
01:04:06Come on, come on.
01:04:08Hurry up here.
01:04:09Come on here when I'll holler at you.
01:04:10Where you been?
01:04:11Well, I was...
01:04:12Hey, listen.
01:04:13You want to earn that old coon-skin coat of money?
01:04:15I can have that coon coat, Judge.
01:04:18Wait a minute.
01:04:19Come back here.
01:04:20You can if you do everything I tell you to.
01:04:22Uh, do you know a gentleman by the name of Mr. Hart Maydew?
01:04:26Yes, that mean man.
01:04:27That coon coat.
01:04:28Yeah.
01:04:29Well, now you see that he gets out.
01:04:30But don't you let him know how he got there, see?
01:04:33That's all I got to do.
01:04:35Say, wait a minute.
01:04:36Can you play Dixie on that thing there?
01:04:38Well, I couldn't coat.
01:04:39Yes, I played Dixie.
01:04:41I was marching through Georgia.
01:04:43All the way ahead.
01:04:44Marching through Georgia.
01:04:45Yeah.
01:04:46I got you out of one lynching.
01:04:48Yes, but I couldn't coat.
01:04:50I know that I was going to get there.
01:04:51Get you playing marching through Georgia.
01:04:53I'll join the lynchers.
01:05:02Hello, children.
01:05:03Hi.
01:05:04How are you?
01:05:05What do you all got your best for?
01:05:07Jack's chicken.
01:05:08Chicken.
01:05:09Well, that's what I got.
01:05:10That's what the judge like, eh?
01:05:12Yeah.
01:05:13No.
01:05:21Hey, hey.
01:05:22Hey, hey.
01:05:23Hey, the jury's coming in.
01:05:24Hey, hey.
01:05:25Hey, the jury's coming in.
01:05:26Hey, hey.
01:05:27Come on, the jury's coming in.
01:05:28Hey, lad.
01:05:29Hey, come on, the jury's coming in.
01:05:30I'm telling you, sir, we've lost the bass drum.
01:05:33How could you lose a bass drum?
01:05:35Someone stole it.
01:05:36We need it for the parade.
01:05:38They're all right.
01:05:40They're on the parade.
01:05:41Don't get them right.
01:05:43Don't get them right.
01:05:44How could you lose a bass drum?
01:05:45Don't get the bass drum.
01:05:46You're right, sir.
01:05:47Don't get there.
01:05:48You're on the parade.
01:05:49Don't get it.
01:05:50Don't get the bass drum.
01:05:51Oh, I'm sorry.
01:05:52Don't get the bass drum, sir.
01:05:53Come in.
01:05:54That's bad.
01:05:57Don't get them.
01:05:59You're on the parade.
01:06:00You may begin your summation, Mr. Prosecutor.
01:06:27May it please, Your Honor.
01:06:30Since yesterday, certain information has come into the hands of the Commonwealth, which,
01:06:35in the interest of justice, impels me to reopen the case.
01:06:39The Commonwealth desires to recall the defendant, Gillis, for further cross-examination.
01:06:45Very well, Mr. Maydew.
01:06:46Proceed.
01:06:47Robert Gillis, take the stand.
01:07:00Your Honor, as I recollect our procedure, for the time being I'm an ordinary member of the
01:07:11bar.
01:07:12In good standing?
01:07:14Not ordinary, sir, but absolutely in good standing.
01:07:19Thank you, sir.
01:07:21Thank you, Conor.
01:07:23Then I have the, uh, honor of, uh, announcing myself as, uh, associate counsel for the defense.
01:07:35Seeing as the case has, uh, been, uh, reopened.
01:07:46Mr. Gillis, were you always a man of turbulent and violent nature?
01:07:51I always left them alone as left me alone.
01:07:55Is that so?
01:07:57What was the name of the man you once upon a time murdered?
01:08:02I, I never looked on it as no, no, it wasn't murdered.
01:08:07A man was killed, wasn't he?
01:08:08Yes.
01:08:09And they stuck you in jail, didn't they?
01:08:10Yes.
01:08:11And they charged you with murder, didn't they?
01:08:12Yes.
01:08:13And the jury found you guilty, didn't they?
01:08:14Yes.
01:08:15Were you sentenced to be hung?
01:08:16No, I, I went up for life.
01:08:19Did you escape or were you pardoned?
01:08:20I ain't a saying.
01:08:21And I won't tell you no more, no matter what you ask me.
01:08:23You don't need to.
01:08:25Judge Brees, your witness.
01:08:31Your witness.
01:08:33No questions, your honor.
01:08:35But Uncle Billy.
01:08:37Hasn't the defense any evidence to offer a rebuttal, Judge Priest?
01:08:43One character witness, your honor.
01:08:46Mr. Clerk, will you kindly call Reverend Ashby Branch?
01:08:49Run.
01:08:50You shall swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, in case there's not plenty in this court?
01:09:01I do.
01:09:10Reverend Graham, before you come to this town, what was your occupation?
01:09:14In my early manhood, before I took holy orders, I had the honor to be a captain of artillery in the late war.
01:09:23In the war of the rebellion?
01:09:26No, sir.
01:09:27The war for the southern confederacy.
01:09:30Yes, sir.
01:09:31Yes, sir.
01:09:32That's right.
01:09:33He's right.
01:09:34Yes, sir.
01:09:35My, my, my...
01:09:37One moment, please.
01:09:38Your honor.
01:09:39I yield to no man in love and everlasting devotion to that sacred lost cause for which my people fought and bled.
01:09:55But, though I cherish all those dear and everlasting memories, which even the bare mention of that great conflict must awaken in every true Kentuckian's bosom,
01:10:08I fail to see any possible connection between this reverend gentleman's military record and the guilt of this man, Gillis.
01:10:18Yes, sir.
01:10:19Thank you, sir.
01:10:20The
01:10:45will commit no grave legal error by allowing a minister of the gospel to
01:10:50tell his story in his own way.
01:10:57As many of you know, I am a Virginian. On the day my state seceded from the Union,
01:11:10I enlisted. I was a private in Penn's Virginia Battery. By the latter end of
01:11:19the third year, I was in command of that battery. All the officers ranking me had
01:11:26been killed or disabled. We lost heavily at Chancellorsville. At Fredericksburg, we
01:11:34were almost wiped out. We kept our field pieces. We kept our pieces until the end.
01:11:42But we had not sufficient men to man those guns, nor anywhere to turn for more men.
01:11:47There were no more men left to come in. The Confederacy in 64 was robbing both the
01:11:57cradle and the grave for cannon fodder. Well, sir, I got temporary leave.
01:12:03And went to Richmond to see our war governor. I said to him, sir, I've come to you to ask for men to serve my guns.
01:12:12He laughed and said, tell me where they are to be found. I said, among the chain gangs from the state penitentiary.
01:12:23He said, you've come too late, young man. I've freed every convict that might conceivably be trusted with freedom.
01:12:32There are left only the lifers, and I dare not turn them loose. They are working under
01:12:41guard, building defenses for you to fight behind. He opposed me, but I argued with him.
01:12:48Finally, I won. He gave me authorization, signed it, and with his own hand, affixed the seal of the sovereign state of Virginia.
01:13:01I wrote back to the line, sir, and I found my chain gang. I told them to drop their tools and line up before me.
01:13:10I told them, if you go with me, you go to face a hell of destruction and suffering and death.
01:13:20But I said, if you do go, you go as free men, as soldiers of the Confederacy.
01:13:29Your past will lie behind you. And your future, if you survive, is in your own hands.
01:13:38And I promise you this much. If you stand fast, if you do your duty, if bravely and honorably you acquit yourselves as men,
01:13:51then such of you as lived through to the end, and some of you will live, are not to come back to this.
01:13:59It's for you to decide. Those who remain behind, stand fast. Those who come with me, advance one pace.
01:14:14Gentlemen of the jury, I tell you, they came at me like a wave from the sea. Every one of them.
01:14:24And as time went on, they won for themselves the name of the Battalion from Hell.
01:14:48Those men, those felons, with the scars of their shekels still on their legs, they fought for the South like men. None better.
01:14:59And they died like men, most of them.
01:15:05I was one of those men of whom I wished to speak a special word of tribute.
01:15:10They stood out for his courage and his fidelity. For his worth as a soldier and a man. Most of all, for his invariable truthfulness under all circumstances.
01:15:29He was from the mountains of my own state. A man who spoke little, but did much.
01:15:36I saw him once go out under fire during a battle, to rescue at his own risk a wounded Union officer, who lay there helpless between the lines.
01:15:50Another time, our stars and bars were rested from our hands. We fought breast to breast that day.
01:16:00This man of whom I am speaking, threw himself on a riderless horse and rode into the thicket.
01:16:07And by the grace of God, came galloping back from the jaws of death. Our colors clutched in his hands.
01:16:24And another day, when every man who served his gun, excepting him, was down.
01:16:30I saw him when the Union infantry charged, sitting astraddle his useless gun. And with a rammer for his only weapon, waiting for the enemy to come within reach.
01:16:43The counter charge from our infantry saved him.
01:16:53But he had stood fast. And he was alone.
01:16:56After the surrender, I kept his secret. And kept it to this very hour.
01:17:05Though I've seen him daily at his work, watching over his daughter, providing for her education through me.
01:17:15And all unknown to LMA.
01:17:26Gentlemen, as a soldier, I knew that man as Roger Gillespie.
01:17:35You know him by the name he now wears.
01:17:40Robert Gillis.
01:17:41Robert Gillis.
01:17:42Hooray for Jeff Davis! The Southern Confederate State and Warpula!
01:17:58And wait! Get out of the way! Can't you see that poor helpless child needs a mother?
01:18:03That's fine! That's great, Kip! That's great! Keep on going! Keep going! You can have that white man!
01:18:24One. Come on! You can have that white man!
01:18:26What?
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