Tomorrow

  • 6 months ago
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00:00:00 Your Honor, gentlemen of the jury, all of us in this country, the South, have been taught
00:00:21 from birth the few things which we hold above all else.
00:00:27 Now one of the first of these things is that only a life can pay for the life it takes.
00:00:34 [Gunshot]
00:00:36 [Gunshot]
00:00:38 [Silence]
00:01:07 Now I know there's not a man on this jury, or a man in Mississippi, that in his heart
00:01:16 can find my client Bookwright guilty for defending his daughter against a rascal like Buck Thorpe.
00:01:26 And that's what I'm talking about.
00:01:29 I'm talking about the dead man, character, or the morality of the act he was engaged in.
00:01:38 Not about self-defense, or whether or not the defendant was justified in the point of
00:01:44 taking life.
00:01:47 But about all of us who are not dead, human beings who at the bottom just want to do right,
00:01:58 human beings with all the complexities of human passion, instincts, beliefs.
00:02:10 Thank you, gentlemen.
00:02:14 Thank you, Your Honor.
00:02:16 Court recessed until jury returns.
00:02:22 Don't you agree he had the pistol in his hand when they found him?
00:02:25 Bookthorpe deserved what he got.
00:02:28 I wouldn't have waited for long if Bookwright didn't.
00:02:32 He was not only no good, but dangerous.
00:02:34 Right, right.
00:02:35 [Coughing]
00:02:39 And if it hadn't been Bookwright, someone sooner or later would have to kill him.
00:02:46 Yes.
00:02:48 Then what do you want?
00:02:50 What do you want?
00:02:54 I can't help it.
00:02:56 I ain't gonna load Bookwright free.
00:03:01 And so Jackson Fentree, cotton farmer, hung my jury.
00:03:07 Who was he?
00:03:09 I thought he'd farmed one place all his life.
00:03:12 But I discovered that 20 years ago he left for a job.
00:03:19 His neighbors told me.
00:03:23 You see, that was my first case, and I had to find out why I lost it.
00:03:35 Good luck to you, Fentree.
00:03:40 If any of us had known then what I know now, Jackson Fentree'd never been on that jury.
00:03:47 [Church singing]
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00:04:53 [Dog barking]
00:05:05 Hello.
00:05:09 Can I help you?
00:05:12 I'm looking for Mr. Chet Russell.
00:05:15 Well, he's not here right now.
00:05:18 I'm his son, I assume.
00:05:23 You the man my father hired as caretaker?
00:05:26 Yes, sir.
00:05:28 Come on in.
00:05:46 Last man we had left a month ago.
00:05:48 Got too lonely for him.
00:05:52 He's a drunk half the time anyway.
00:06:03 This is a sawmill.
00:06:05 Men don't come out here till spring.
00:06:10 Paul says you can stay on in the boiler room.
00:06:13 He'll leave the mule out here so you can get to the store and back.
00:06:18 If you still like it out here, we'll talk about building you a house.
00:06:24 There's a stove there you can cook on.
00:06:29 There's a well out there for water.
00:06:34 We'll get you some dishes.
00:06:38 If you need anything else, you come to the house and ask for me or Paul.
00:06:43 Yes, sir.
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00:08:24 Hey, Merry Christmas, Ventry.
00:08:27 Merry Christmas, I can.
00:08:31 Paul wanted to know if you'd be going home for Christmas.
00:08:35 I am. I'm leaving as soon as I can eat there.
00:08:41 How far is your farm?
00:08:44 Thirty miles.
00:08:49 How you gonna get there?
00:08:51 I'll walk it. I'll be home before supper time.
00:08:55 You want some?
00:08:57 Thank you.
00:09:03 When you be back?
00:09:06 Day after Christmas.
00:09:20 Don't you ever get lonesome by yourself out here this way?
00:09:30 Nope.
00:09:41 You ever go hunting?
00:09:44 I hunt small.
00:09:50 Maybe when you come back, we can go hunting together sometime.
00:09:58 All right.
00:10:10 Thank you.
00:10:21 [door opening]
00:10:34 [door closing]
00:10:37 [door opening]
00:10:41 [door closing]
00:10:51 [door opening]
00:11:11 [door closing]
00:11:30 Lady.
00:11:40 Lady.
00:11:47 Lady.
00:12:00 Where am I at?
00:12:03 You're at Chet Russell's Sawmill over in Frenchman's Bend.
00:12:08 I'm Jackson Fentley.
00:12:11 I'm the watchman out here in the wintertime when the mill shut down.
00:12:16 I heard you when I come out the door of the boiler room.
00:12:21 You sounded to me like you was in pain.
00:12:27 How long you been here?
00:12:29 I don't know.
00:12:32 I remember walking down the hill back yonder.
00:12:39 I knowed I was feeling dizzy.
00:12:42 I said to myself, "I hope I ain't gonna faint."
00:12:45 But I guess I did.
00:12:50 What day is it?
00:12:52 It's the morning before Christmas.
00:12:55 Then I haven't been here too long.
00:12:59 It wasn't light yet when I started out this way.
00:13:07 I think I better be getting on now.
00:13:10 Let me help you.
00:13:23 I'm sorry.
00:13:27 I guess I'll have to rest a while longer.
00:13:30 Haven't quite got my strength back yet.
00:13:35 Let me help you in here so you can rest by my fire.
00:13:38 It's a little raw and cold out here.
00:13:41 Thank you.
00:13:43 It has been a cold winter, hasn't it?
00:13:47 Yes.
00:13:53 I had ice this morning early when I left the house.
00:13:59 I seen it out in the ditches as I passed.
00:14:04 Yes.
00:14:09 I said to myself, "Jack Frost has been here."
00:14:14 He sure has.
00:14:19 Can you make it?
00:14:21 Yes, I.
00:14:23 I can make it.
00:14:34 I'll set you here, missus.
00:14:39 Thank you.
00:14:43 It is nice and warm in here.
00:14:48 I'll have a good fire in the stove.
00:14:56 I couldn't get it warmer than letting it die out because I was about to leave for my papa's farm for Christmas.
00:15:05 I don't want enough trouble for me.
00:15:11 I can't stay for more than a minute.
00:15:15 I need to get my strength back and to get some of the coldness out of my bones.
00:15:32 Thank you.
00:15:35 Can I get you anything to eat?
00:15:40 Oh, thank you.
00:15:54 I think I'd be hungry, wouldn't you?
00:15:57 Carrying a baby and all, but I don't have no appetite.
00:16:06 You live here all by yourself?
00:16:08 Yes.
00:16:11 Mr. Chet Russell's gonna build me a house next spring to live in, but he told me to stay on out here for the time being.
00:16:20 Warm and dry, it does for me.
00:16:31 Have you been here long?
00:16:34 No.
00:16:37 I was raised 30 miles from here on a cotton farm.
00:16:40 I worked with my daddy.
00:16:43 My mom's dead.
00:16:46 My daddy's on the farm all alone now.
00:16:53 You from around here?
00:16:59 I sort of.
00:17:02 Off and on, that is.
00:17:05 My husband never cared much for this county, and he was always trying to find work away from here, but...
00:17:16 we always had to come back.
00:17:20 You on your way home now?
00:17:23 No. No, sir.
00:17:28 Was you going to the store at Frenchman's Bend?
00:17:32 If you was, you sit right here. I'll go get whatever it was you wanted.
00:17:35 Oh, no, no, sir. I... I wasn't going to no store.
00:17:42 You going into Jefferson?
00:17:44 No.
00:17:47 No, sir, I wasn't going no place.
00:17:53 I was just going.
00:17:58 Just going?
00:18:07 Is your husband dead?
00:18:13 No, sir. He just disappeared about three months ago when he first heard about the baby coming.
00:18:27 Don't you have any people?
00:18:33 I got Papa.
00:18:36 Three brothers.
00:18:39 Can't you go home to them?
00:18:42 Yeah. They asked me to leave and never come back after I married my husband.
00:18:49 I don't intend ever to go back again.
00:18:52 My Papa, he's got his pride.
00:18:56 I got mine, too.
00:19:11 I don't care a whole lot for the wintertime, do you?
00:19:15 No, ma'am.
00:19:19 I always get sick every wintertime, it seems like to me.
00:19:24 A woman came over to where I was staying. She said, "You look poorly. You ought to get a doctor."
00:19:30 I said, "There ain't nothing wrong with me that sunshine couldn't fix," I said.
00:19:41 You want me to put some more wood on the fire?
00:19:44 No, it's just fine.
00:19:48 I love sunshine.
00:19:52 When I started out this morning, I said, "I'm going if my strength holds out until I come to where it's warm and the sun is shining."
00:20:04 My strength didn't hold out very long.
00:20:12 Listen to that wind.
00:20:17 I love to hear it when I'm inside and warm.
00:20:22 Ooh, that wind was cold, though.
00:20:28 Walking right into it the way I had to.
00:20:42 Lord, what's the matter with me?
00:20:48 You look at me tremble.
00:20:51 It's the thought of that wind and I begin to shake and tremble.
00:20:59 Why don't you rest over here on the bed?
00:21:03 Now, you can't rest good like that.
00:21:05 Oh, no, no. I can't stay.
00:21:19 Just for a minute.
00:21:30 Well, all right, then. Just for a minute.
00:21:53 This does feel good, Mr...
00:21:57 Fendry, Yates and Fendry.
00:22:00 And your missus?
00:22:01 Eubanks, Sarah Eubanks.
00:22:04 I was a thot, but I married a Eubanks.
00:22:12 If I have a girl, I'm gonna name her Vesta, after my mama.
00:22:21 If I have a boy, I wanted him named...
00:22:28 Well, I don't know now.
00:22:31 I was gonna name him after my husband, but...
00:22:36 I don't know now.
00:22:43 Listen to that wind whipping around outside again.
00:22:50 Sounds right friendly, don't it?
00:22:53 And inside, warm this way.
00:22:56 You're listening to it.
00:23:01 When I was a little girl at ten, my mama died.
00:23:06 They say I got everything mixed up that year 'cause I grieved so.
00:23:11 And I'd wake all winter long.
00:23:14 When the wind would blow around the house, I think it was my mama calling.
00:23:21 And I'd answer and call back to her.
00:23:26 I'd ask her where she was hiding.
00:23:33 I never grieved no more after that.
00:23:38 When I got over that, I vowed nothing would break my heart ever again.
00:23:46 And it didn't...
00:23:50 for the longest kind of time.
00:24:06 (bird squawking)
00:24:09 (dog barking)
00:24:34 (dog barking)
00:24:37 Mmm.
00:24:54 (dog barking)
00:24:57 - Oh, hello, Fentry. - Hello.
00:25:12 I thought you were going to your farm for Christmas.
00:25:15 - I changed my mind. - Well, where are you going?
00:25:19 No place.
00:25:22 - How much is that hard candy? - Well, it depends on how much you want to buy.
00:25:29 How much will four cents get me?
00:25:33 - I'd say this would do it. - Give me four cents' worth.
00:25:47 (paper rustling)
00:25:50 - Thank you. - Merry Christmas.
00:26:00 (dog howling)
00:26:15 - Mister? - Yes.
00:26:19 - How long I've been asleep? - About ten hours.
00:26:27 - Ten hours? - Yes.
00:26:31 Why didn't you wake me?
00:26:35 I figured asleep would be good for you.
00:26:40 My heavens.
00:26:44 (footsteps)
00:26:47 - It's still cold out yonder? - Yes, it is.
00:27:09 Why don't you stay on here the rest of the night?
00:27:14 Well...
00:27:16 I could make me a pellet on the floor here by the fire.
00:27:22 Well, thank you.
00:27:26 I wouldn't want to put you out, Eddie.
00:27:29 You wouldn't be putting me out.
00:27:34 (footsteps)
00:27:37 I went to the store and brought you this. I thought you might like it.
00:27:48 I sure do thank you.
00:27:58 (paper rustling)
00:28:01 It's hard candy.
00:28:06 Well...
00:28:09 I declare.
00:28:12 Merry Christmas.
00:28:15 Thank you.
00:28:17 And a Merry Christmas to you, too.
00:28:23 If I fixed you something to eat now, would you eat it?
00:28:27 No, I'm still not hungry.
00:28:30 I just have a taste of my Christmas.
00:28:34 (sobbing)
00:28:38 - What are you crying for, lady? - I don't know.
00:28:44 I'm just tired and nervous, I guess.
00:28:50 I've been crying a lot lately. Don't mean nothing. I quit soon as I start.
00:28:56 You see, I never used to cry before.
00:29:02 When I was a girl, everyone used to accuse me of being hard-hearted 'cause nothing could get me to cry.
00:29:08 My papa told me I had to leave home after I married my husband.
00:29:13 I didn't shed a tear. I just said, "That's how it has to be. That's how it has to be."
00:29:19 But lately, that's all changed.
00:29:22 Somebody come up to me, they say, "Good morning" or "Good evening," and I cry.
00:29:26 They'll ask me what time it is, and I cry.
00:29:30 Did you ever hear of anything like that?
00:29:36 I didn't used to talk this way, either.
00:29:42 I used to be able to go a whole day without saying a word.
00:29:48 Now I can't stand the silence, the quiet.
00:29:52 Oh, this is so good. Will you have some?
00:29:57 No, thank you.
00:30:01 Is it gonna be a clear night?
00:30:08 Yeah.
00:30:15 Stiles?
00:30:18 Yes.
00:30:21 Why don't you stay on that chair 'til after your baby is born?
00:30:34 I have enough to eat for the bowl.
00:30:38 Warm and dry here.
00:30:43 Well, Mr. Fincher, I don't think...
00:30:45 You don't have to answer me now.
00:30:48 You just think it over.
00:30:52 Yes, sir.
00:31:00 [hammering]
00:31:04 Mr. Fincher?
00:31:24 [hammering]
00:31:29 [hammering]
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00:32:08 [hammering]
00:32:12 [harmonica playing]
00:32:36 [hammering]
00:32:40 [hammering]
00:32:44 [hammering]
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00:33:16 [hammering]
00:33:20 [hammering]
00:33:42 [hammering]
00:33:46 [sigh]
00:33:58 [hammering]
00:34:02 Good morning.
00:34:18 Morning.
00:34:27 How do you feel?
00:34:29 Better, thank you.
00:34:32 It's still Christmas, ain't it?
00:34:35 Yes, ma'am.
00:34:37 I hoped I hadn't slept clear through Christmas.
00:34:40 It's a pretty day for Christmas.
00:34:44 I'm feeling stronger.
00:34:56 When do we finish doing that?
00:34:58 No, ma'am, you rest on today.
00:35:00 You can do it tomorrow.
00:35:04 [crunching]
00:35:08 [crunching]
00:35:12 [crunching]
00:35:16 [crunching]
00:35:30 [crunching]
00:35:34 [crunching]
00:35:38 [crunching]
00:36:05 Hungry?
00:36:08 No, not too hungry.
00:36:12 Bet you will be, though, once you're rested.
00:36:31 [thunder]
00:36:35 [thunder]
00:36:39 [thunder]
00:37:01 [thunder]
00:37:05 [thunder]
00:37:13 [thunder]
00:37:29 [thunder]
00:37:33 [thunder]
00:37:51 It's rained every blessed day for a month.
00:37:55 [rain]
00:37:59 When I was a girl, I had my own tub to catch rainwater.
00:38:09 I like to wash my hair in rainwater.
00:38:18 It made it soft.
00:38:22 [humming]
00:38:26 Can you swim?
00:38:36 No.
00:38:40 I can't either.
00:38:45 Good thing we don't live on the Delta.
00:38:49 I'm flooded.
00:38:53 Well, I don't think I care to travel by water.
00:38:58 I think I'll always want to be where I can feel the ground under my feet.
00:39:02 Jesus walked on water, they say. Do you believe that?
00:39:06 I knew a preacher once. He swore it was true, and he said he's going to do it, too.
00:39:12 A whole crowd of folks went down to watch him.
00:39:16 And he sang to the bottom.
00:39:20 They say God's going to destroy the world next time by fire, so...
00:39:25 I guess we don't have to worry about this rain being the end of the world.
00:39:30 I used to not sleep some nights, just worrying about what I'd do when the world would come to an end, and what it would be like.
00:39:38 I don't worry about that no more.
00:39:44 [birds chirping]
00:39:48 You're not getting colder, are you?
00:39:59 Oh, no. It's much warmer today.
00:40:03 It'll be spring before we know it.
00:40:07 [humming]
00:40:13 I'll have my baby by then.
00:40:17 I wonder where I'll be after it's spring.
00:40:21 I wonder if it's going to be a boy or a girl.
00:40:27 [humming]
00:40:30 Marry me, Sarah.
00:40:34 [birds chirping]
00:41:03 Well, I can't marry a Mr. Fantry.
00:41:07 I've got a husband.
00:41:10 It's against the law to marry until...
00:41:14 [birds chirping]
00:41:18 You gonna stay on here?
00:41:41 I hope to.
00:41:45 Mr. Russell say he gonna build me a house.
00:41:49 When you're strong, I'll show you the place I got picked out.
00:41:54 Is it far from here?
00:41:56 No.
00:42:00 I'd like to go and see it.
00:42:09 [birds chirping]
00:42:13 [birds chirping]
00:42:18 [birds chirping]
00:42:23 [birds chirping]
00:42:28 [birds chirping]
00:42:32 [birds chirping]
00:42:53 Oh.
00:42:57 What a pretty place for a house.
00:43:01 Did you ever build a house before?
00:43:05 No.
00:43:07 But how you gonna build this one?
00:43:10 Mr. Russell and his boy will help me.
00:43:14 There's a house in Jefferson.
00:43:18 We used to pass going into town every Saturday.
00:43:22 I used to like to think I'd like to live in a house like that someday.
00:43:27 What kind of house was it?
00:43:30 Oh, it was a fine house.
00:43:33 It was painted white.
00:43:35 It had a gallery all along the front and the side.
00:43:38 There were oak trees in the yard.
00:43:41 It always looked so peaceful when we passed by.
00:43:45 I never saw nobody going in or out.
00:43:49 I asked my papa, "What kind of people live in there?"
00:43:52 "No better than you," he said, and he hit me.
00:43:56 I never knew why he hit me.
00:44:03 It would be nice when you have your house,
00:44:09 if you had some of them trees in your yard.
00:44:12 My papa didn't have any trees in our yard.
00:44:16 There's no trees, no flowers, there's no grass.
00:44:21 There's nothing.
00:44:24 I love grass and flowers and trees.
00:44:29 I love a honeysuckle and forget-me-nots.
00:44:34 And roses, all kinds of roses.
00:44:38 One day we can ride into Jefferson.
00:44:43 See that high-hour?
00:44:46 Maybe.
00:44:49 [birds chirping]
00:45:16 I hate to see the sun go behind the clouds.
00:45:21 [birds chirping]
00:45:35 [leaves rustling]
00:45:44 Better be getting back.
00:45:47 [birds chirping]
00:45:55 [guitar music]
00:46:07 ♪ ♪
00:46:22 [tires screeching]
00:46:25 ♪ ♪
00:46:40 [door slams]
00:46:43 ♪ ♪
00:47:03 [door opens]
00:47:06 ♪ ♪
00:47:14 [door closes]
00:47:17 ♪ ♪
00:47:25 ♪ ♪
00:47:30 [chains rattling]
00:47:33 I was on the way to the store,
00:47:51 and Mr. Trent Russell asked me to do a favor for him while I was that way.
00:47:55 The fellow I had to see wasn't home, so I had to wait for him.
00:47:59 After how come I took so long?
00:48:03 You better get on back in the high-hour.
00:48:05 It's cold out today.
00:48:08 [birds chirping]
00:48:11 [door opens]
00:48:14 [footsteps]
00:48:17 [footsteps]
00:48:21 [footsteps]
00:48:24 [door opens]
00:48:27 [footsteps]
00:48:29 [door closes]
00:48:32 [footsteps]
00:48:37 You warmer in here?
00:48:39 Yes, sir.
00:48:41 [footsteps]
00:48:46 I don't think this winter's ever gonna end, do you?
00:48:50 Yes, ma'am, it'll end one day.
00:48:54 Hope I didn't cause you to worry.
00:48:56 Oh, I'll find a way to worry, I guess.
00:49:00 Nothing you can do about that.
00:49:03 I didn't know why you were gone so long.
00:49:07 "How far is that store?" I said.
00:49:10 I thought he's just tired of me being out here.
00:49:14 Maybe I'm too much trouble.
00:49:16 I'm down one day and I'm up the next.
00:49:20 But that's not like Mr. Fentry, I said.
00:49:24 [footsteps]
00:49:30 Then I thought, well, what if my time comes
00:49:34 and he ain't here yet?
00:49:36 I began to wonder what I'd do
00:49:39 if I had to have the baby out here all by myself.
00:49:44 You left me plenty of stow wood.
00:49:46 I saw that right away.
00:49:49 I didn't really think that you'd gone off.
00:49:51 It's just that it got so quiet here and I...
00:49:55 [footsteps]
00:50:04 Marry me, Sarah.
00:50:06 [sighs]
00:50:12 I can't marry you, I told you that.
00:50:17 I've got a husband somewhere.
00:50:19 He's deserted you.
00:50:21 I can't help that.
00:50:24 We're married inside of the law.
00:50:26 Hey, Fentry!
00:50:28 [footsteps]
00:50:34 I'm sorry, Fentry, I didn't know you had company.
00:50:37 [footsteps]
00:50:48 [footsteps]
00:50:52 Who's that?
00:50:54 She's my wife.
00:50:56 Since when? You didn't have no wife when I was out here Christmas Eve.
00:50:59 You didn't even say that.
00:51:00 She's my wife.
00:51:02 I want her to leave.
00:51:04 What do I want you to leave for?
00:51:07 I don't care what you do out here.
00:51:08 You can have 20 wives out here for all I care.
00:51:10 I didn't come out here to spy on you.
00:51:11 I just came to get you to go hunting.
00:51:13 Some other time.
00:51:15 All right.
00:51:21 Paul wanted me to ask you to pick out the site of where you want your house.
00:51:25 You and me can get started on it this spring.
00:51:27 I know where I want it to be.
00:51:31 Well, why don't you show me while I'm out here, and if we have a warm day anytime soon, I can get Papa to come out and look it over.
00:51:37 All right.
00:51:39 [footsteps]
00:51:53 [footsteps]
00:52:01 [thud]
00:52:02 [thud]
00:52:03 [gasp]
00:52:04 [sigh]
00:52:20 [sigh]
00:52:23 ♪ Mama, buy me a shiny doll. ♪
00:52:26 ♪ Mama, buy me a shiny doll. ♪
00:52:29 ♪ Mama, buy me a shiny doll. ♪
00:52:33 ♪ Do, Mama, do. ♪
00:52:36 ♪ But what will it take to buy it with? ♪
00:52:40 ♪ What will it take to buy it with? ♪
00:52:43 ♪ What will it take to buy it with? ♪
00:52:47 ♪ Do, Mama, do. ♪
00:52:50 [hammering]
00:52:52 [humming]
00:52:57 [humming]
00:53:01 [humming]
00:53:05 [birds chirping]
00:53:24 [heavy breathing]
00:53:29 [heavy breathing]
00:53:35 [gasping]
00:53:51 Fandry!
00:53:53 Fandry!
00:53:57 Fandry!
00:54:01 Fandry!
00:54:04 [knocking]
00:54:06 It's time.
00:54:08 We better get Mrs. Hughley.
00:54:10 I will.
00:54:12 You do a favor for me, I say.
00:54:13 Sure.
00:54:14 Will you ride over to Mrs. Hughley the midwife and tell her to come out to you right away?
00:54:18 I'll be glad to.
00:54:20 [footsteps]
00:54:25 I got Asham to go for me.
00:54:28 Who's he?
00:54:30 The fellow that come up just now. He's Paul. He saw me.
00:54:34 Was he surprised to see me here?
00:54:37 I reckon.
00:54:40 Did he ask who I was?
00:54:42 Yes.
00:54:44 What did you tell him?
00:54:47 I said you was my wife.
00:54:50 [heavy breathing]
00:55:02 Are you cold again?
00:55:04 Yes.
00:55:05 All of a sudden.
00:55:08 Is there some wood in the fire?
00:55:10 Yes, there is.
00:55:11 You want me to put some more in?
00:55:13 If you don't mind.
00:55:15 [door opening]
00:55:25 It's red hot now.
00:55:28 It'll have his room like an oven for too long.
00:55:34 Did you show him where you wanted your house?
00:55:38 Yes.
00:55:41 Did you think it was a nice place?
00:55:43 Yes.
00:55:45 [fire crackling]
00:55:56 I'm afraid.
00:55:58 What of?
00:56:01 I'm afraid I'm gonna die.
00:56:03 Childbirth. Now you won't die from that. You'll get up from here feeling just fine.
00:56:08 Now lots of women don't die.
00:56:10 I'm not afraid of childbirth.
00:56:13 Of what then?
00:56:15 I don't know.
00:56:17 I'm tired and I'm worn out.
00:56:20 My spirits are low.
00:56:22 Now you feel better afterwards. You'll see now carrying a baby has wore you out.
00:56:27 Vendry.
00:56:29 Vendry.
00:56:31 Vendry, I've had much in this life and that's truth.
00:56:34 Work and hunger and pain.
00:56:37 I'm afraid.
00:56:40 I'm afraid I'm gonna die.
00:56:43 I don't wanna die.
00:56:48 Now you're not gonna die. You hear me? You're not gonna die.
00:56:52 I won't let you. Now I promise you.
00:57:04 Are you warmer now?
00:57:07 Yes. Thank you.
00:57:11 Now you try and get some sleep till Miss Healy gets here.
00:57:20 All right.
00:57:42 Don't leave me.
00:57:45 I won't.
00:57:47 I ain't gonna never leave you unless you ask me to.
00:57:53 Never, never, never.
00:58:07 Move, move, move.
00:58:12 Miss Healy!
00:58:15 Miss Healy!
00:58:18 Miss Healy!
00:58:20 Miss Healy, there's a woman over at the sawmill about to have a baby. Can you come with me?
00:58:25 I'll be right there.
00:58:40 Move, move.
00:58:53 A Yashin buggy.
00:58:55 Move, move.
00:58:57 Tell him to hurry.
00:58:58 I will.
00:59:18 Sarah, Mrs. Healy is here.
00:59:21 Howdy, missus.
00:59:50 How is she?
01:00:17 You're gonna be all right.
01:00:38 Pantry? Pantry?
01:00:45 You need me for anything else now?
01:00:48 No, thank you.
01:00:53 Well, I'll be going on then.
01:01:13 Oh.
01:01:42 Mrs. Healy!
01:01:44 Mrs. Healy!
01:01:50 Mrs. Healy!
01:01:53 Mrs. Healy!
01:02:02 Mrs. Healy!
01:02:31 (sobbing)
01:02:36 (screaming)
01:02:46 (birds chirping)
01:03:04 The baby's come. It's a fine boy.
01:03:07 Thank you.
01:03:10 I made this for him to sleep in.
01:03:16 Pantry?
01:03:18 Yes.
01:03:21 Pantry?
01:03:24 Yes.
01:03:25 Um, uh, I'm worried about the mama.
01:03:33 She ain't doing too well.
01:03:37 I ain't gonna lie to you.
01:03:40 She ain't doing good at all.
01:03:45 She says she's afraid she's gonna die.
01:03:48 She'll never get up off that bed in there.
01:03:53 I hate to tell you this, but I don't think she will either.
01:03:59 What is it? Was it having the baby?
01:04:02 No. She's sick long before she had the baby.
01:04:08 She's, uh, just played out, seems to me.
01:04:12 Yes, ma'am.
01:04:14 I'll take care of her.
01:04:16 I'll make her rest.
01:04:18 And I'll nurse her.
01:04:20 (birds chirping)
01:04:33 (baby crying)
01:04:54 Ain't it small?
01:04:57 Yes, it is.
01:05:09 Hello, son.
01:05:11 Welcome.
01:05:19 Can I get you something to eat?
01:05:21 No.
01:05:22 Now, you gotta eat. You gotta keep your strength up.
01:05:25 I'm not hungry.
01:05:29 Can I hold the baby?
01:05:31 Sure.
01:05:35 (crunching)
01:05:55 (crunching)
01:06:07 Pantry?
01:06:10 Yes?
01:06:12 If anything happens to me,
01:06:16 will you promise to take care of the baby?
01:06:20 Ain't nothing gonna happen to you.
01:06:25 If it does.
01:06:27 Then you rest easy. I'll always take care of him.
01:06:33 The same as if it was yours?
01:06:37 The same as if it was mine.
01:06:40 Thank you.
01:06:44 Pantry?
01:06:46 Yes?
01:06:49 If you still want to marry me...
01:06:56 I'm willing now.
01:07:03 My husband might be dead for all I know.
01:07:07 And even if he's not, he's gone so far away I'll never find him again.
01:07:13 So I thought, "Why can't Pantry and I get married right now?"
01:07:23 If he still wants to marry me...
01:07:29 I want to marry you.
01:07:32 Can you get anybody to marry us right away?
01:07:35 Yes, sir.
01:07:37 That preacher Whitehead, he lives about seven miles from here.
01:07:41 Would you go get him now?
01:07:43 Yes, my will.
01:07:47 How far does he live?
01:07:51 About seven miles.
01:07:56 Thank you.
01:08:01 Will you hurry?
01:08:04 (chickens clucking)
01:08:07 (birds chirping)
01:08:12 (footsteps)
01:08:41 You know, I've placed you.
01:08:44 Weren't you a thorp?
01:08:46 Didn't you live with your papa and three brothers on a farm back here under?
01:08:54 Don't you think they should be sent for at a time like this?
01:08:59 I don't want them to know anything about me.
01:09:06 I've split some of these flower sacks in two for you.
01:09:09 When Mr. Pantry comes back, I'll show him how they can be used for diapers.
01:09:13 Thank you.
01:09:33 Have you picked a name for your baby?
01:09:36 No.
01:09:38 I thought I'd let my husband name him.
01:09:42 Your husband?
01:09:44 Mr. Pantry.
01:09:46 We're going to be married.
01:09:49 He's gone now to get the preacher.
01:09:54 That's nice.
01:09:58 Here, let me take the baby.
01:10:03 You try and get some sleep.
01:10:06 Thank you.
01:10:08 (baby crying)
01:10:14 (humming)
01:10:30 (door opening)
01:10:44 Sheila.
01:10:49 I hired a preacher here.
01:10:53 All right.
01:10:55 Howdy, preacher.
01:10:56 Hello, Miss Sheila.
01:11:04 Hello, miss.
01:11:06 Hello, preacher.
01:11:09 Preacher.
01:11:33 Dearly beloved, we're gathered here together in the sight of God.
01:11:40 Jackson Pantry, do you take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife?
01:11:46 Yes, sir.
01:11:48 Miss, uh...
01:11:52 Sarah Eubanks.
01:11:55 Sarah Eubanks, do you take this man to be your lawful wedded husband?
01:12:01 I do.
01:12:05 Then I pronounce you man and wife.
01:12:30 How's the fire, Pantry?
01:12:33 Are you cold?
01:12:36 I'm so cold.
01:12:43 I don't dare put no more wood in it.
01:12:45 It's red hot now.
01:12:59 I had a terrible dream that I was freezing to death.
01:13:07 I dream I kept saying I'm drowning in the cold, drowning in the snow.
01:13:17 I was calling for you to save me.
01:13:22 And I didn't save you.
01:13:26 I don't know.
01:13:28 I woke up when I was calling you.
01:13:33 And there you were, standing right by me.
01:13:43 When I brought the preacher here, I paid by the place where our house was going to be.
01:13:52 I don't reckon I'm going to be able to find him, one of you seen in Jefferson.
01:13:56 But I was going to have three rooms and a little porch for us to sit on.
01:14:03 Have some pretty trees all around it like you want.
01:14:07 Huckleberry tree and a chinaberry.
01:14:12 And there'll be some flowers in the yard if you want them.
01:14:21 Will you get me the baby?
01:14:24 Yes, ma'am.
01:14:28 Are you all right?
01:14:31 Yes.
01:14:35 Just get my baby, please.
01:14:53 [Baby cooing]
01:15:08 Sarah, I have the baby here for you.
01:15:17 Sarah?
01:15:21 Mrs. Hughley, preacher Whitehead.
01:15:40 She's dead, Fantry.
01:15:43 No, she's not going to die. She's going to be all right because I'm going to save her.
01:15:48 You can't save her. She's dead.
01:15:52 [Baby cooing]
01:16:21 [Door opens and closes]
01:16:42 I don't know why we met when we did.
01:16:47 I don't know why I found you when you was all wore out.
01:16:52 I couldn't save you no matter how bad I wanted to.
01:17:00 I don't know why you wanted me to raise this baby instead of your people.
01:17:07 I don't know what they done to you to make you turn so on now.
01:17:16 I don't care. I promised you I'd raise him.
01:17:22 Now we...like he was my own.
01:17:51 [Baby cooing]
01:18:20 [Baby cooing]
01:18:49 [Baby cooing]
01:19:08 Your mama's dead, son.
01:19:11 But I'm going to take care of you and feed to you.
01:19:15 And I'll be your mama and your papa.
01:19:19 You'll never want to be without.
01:19:22 I have a breath of life in my bone.
01:19:36 [Baby cooing]
01:20:05 [Birds chirping]
01:20:31 I'm going to take the baby and go back to my farm today.
01:20:38 Have you ever taken care of a baby before?
01:20:43 No.
01:20:46 Of course, you know you're going to have to find a way to feed it.
01:20:51 Cows expensive in the winter even if you had the money to buy one.
01:20:58 I think you ought to get a goat to feed your baby.
01:21:02 Yes, ma'am.
01:21:04 I got one. I'll sell you cheap.
01:21:07 I sure do thank you.
01:21:10 You know anything about goats?
01:21:13 No, ma'am.
01:21:15 Well, a goat ain't like a cow.
01:21:18 You got to milk it every two hours.
01:21:21 Yes.
01:21:22 And that's nights, too.
01:21:25 Yeah.
01:21:28 When do you want to be home?
01:21:31 Right away.
01:21:34 [Birds chirping]
01:21:54 [Birds chirping]
01:22:05 I am the resurrection and the life.
01:22:09 He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
01:22:14 And whosoever believeth and believeth in me shall never die.
01:22:23 Believest thou this. Amen.
01:22:34 [Goat bleating]
01:22:46 [Hooves clopping]
01:22:55 [Hooves clopping]
01:22:58 [Goat bleating]
01:23:01 [Hooves clopping]
01:23:05 [Goat bleating]
01:23:11 [Hooves clopping]
01:23:16 [Goat bleating]
01:23:21 [Hooves clopping]
01:23:24 [Goat bleating]
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01:23:33 [Hooves clopping]
01:23:36 [Goat bleating]
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01:23:47 [Hooves clopping]
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01:24:01 [Hooves clopping]
01:24:04 [Goat bleating]
01:24:07 [Hooves clopping]
01:24:10 [Goat bleating]
01:24:13 [Hooves clopping]
01:24:16 [Goat bleating]
01:24:19 [Hooves clopping]
01:24:20 Oh, Papa.
01:24:23 Hello, Pentry.
01:24:25 I'm home.
01:24:27 I see you are.
01:24:29 I'm home for good.
01:24:31 Is that so?
01:24:32 Yes, sir.
01:24:34 This is Isham Russell.
01:24:37 He and Daddy owned the sawmill I worked in.
01:24:40 Howdy, Mr. Pentry.
01:24:41 Howdy.
01:24:43 I was looking for you, Christmas Day, Pentry.
01:24:45 Yes, sir. I know I couldn't get you here Christmas Day.
01:24:50 Who's that belong to?
01:24:52 Me and my baby, Papa. I got married.
01:24:54 [Goat bleating]
01:24:56 Where's your wife?
01:24:58 She died.
01:25:03 What did you name it?
01:25:05 Well, I thought I'd name it after the two generals you served under, Jackson and Longstreet, if it's all right with you.
01:25:12 Fine with me.
01:25:14 Come on over here to me, Jackson and Longstreet.
01:25:16 Pentry?
01:25:30 You don't need me for nothing else, so I guess I'll be getting on back home.
01:25:34 I sure do. Thank you.
01:25:36 That's all right.
01:25:38 Good luck.
01:25:40 Good luck to you.
01:26:09 And Pentry raised that boy.
01:26:18 He did everything for Jackson and Longstreet himself.
01:26:30 Sometimes, his neighbor said, he seemed to begrudge the earth itself for what that boy had to eat to stay alive.
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01:28:47 Come on, I want to learn your hud.
01:28:49 Come on.
01:28:51 It's cold.
01:28:52 It ain't cold. Come on.
01:28:55 I found it cold.
01:28:59 Don't fall.
01:29:03 Hold her. I'll hold you.
01:29:05 See if I can catch a fish.
01:29:08 What kind do you want for a catch?
01:29:10 Catfish. A little one.
01:29:12 And cooking.
01:29:15 Watch me now.
01:29:18 I got one.
01:29:22 [Laughter]
01:29:31 Jackson and Longstreet, come out of them graves there.
01:29:38 No, no, no, no, no, no.
01:29:45 I told you to stay out of them graves.
01:29:49 What's in the graves?
01:29:51 Where you bury people.
01:29:56 What people?
01:29:58 My mama and her mama.
01:30:04 Where's my mama?
01:30:06 Someplace else.
01:30:09 I bet I can speak further than you can.
01:30:18 Look up there on the boy. Look, look up there.
01:30:20 You know what this is lying around?
01:30:22 That's a chicken house.
01:30:25 You know what they do?
01:30:27 Cats can kill your chicken if you got any.
01:30:30 Someday when you're big enough, I'm going to get you a gun and we're going to shoot chicken house together.
01:30:34 Okay.
01:30:39 You run on and play boy while your daddy finishes his work.
01:30:45 You stay here in the yard.
01:30:48 [Sound of running]
01:31:08 [Sound of running]
01:31:18 [Sound of running]
01:31:46 [Sound of running]
01:32:10 Howdy, pantry.
01:32:12 Howdy.
01:32:17 You remember me?
01:32:19 Yes, I do.
01:32:28 How you been?
01:32:30 Pretty fair how you been.
01:32:33 All right.
01:32:41 You a boy?
01:32:42 Yes, sir.
01:32:44 Hi, boy.
01:32:46 Say hello to Mr. Highjams' son.
01:32:48 Hello.
01:33:01 This here's your wife's brother, Bud and Wes and Billy Thorpe.
01:33:09 Howdy.
01:33:14 What can I do for you?
01:33:16 We come for the boy.
01:33:18 What boy?
01:33:19 That boy.
01:33:20 You can't have him. He's my boy.
01:33:23 We're going to have him.
01:33:24 He's my boy.
01:33:26 He's our sister's boy. Daddy give him to us.
01:33:29 He's our kin. He belong to us.
01:33:32 No.
01:33:33 You run boy, run in the field of your grandpa.
01:33:48 [Grunting]
01:33:58 Help! Help!
01:34:00 Run boy. Run boy.
01:34:02 Billy grab that boy.
01:34:04 Don't let that boy get away.
01:34:10 Daddy!
01:34:11 Take him to Longstreet.
01:34:13 Take him to Longstreet.
01:34:15 Take him to Longstreet.
01:34:17 Vintree.
01:34:18 Vintree, stop it.
01:34:20 There ain't nothing you can do for him.
01:34:21 Now they got the law on their side.
01:34:23 [Grunting]
01:34:44 They can take the boy, Vintree. It's the law.
01:34:47 Her husband, he's still alive and he gave the boy to them.
01:34:52 I didn't want to bring him here, Vintree, but the sheriff said if I didn't, he'd find you.
01:34:58 I knew it. I didn't expect that.
01:35:02 I reckon that's why I...
01:35:05 Took me so by surprise.
01:35:10 I'm gonna run now.
01:35:32 Well, you're sorry for it.
01:35:37 But he's our kin.
01:35:41 We want him home.
01:35:53 Here. There's some money for your trouble.
01:36:15 Get out of there.
01:36:33 They're gone.
01:36:51 The sheriff, he came with them to the sawmill, Vintree.
01:36:55 And a paper.
01:37:01 Look, Vintree, there's two sides to the law. We'll go into town, seek Colonel Douglas. My pa knows him.
01:37:07 Look, Vintree, I'll go with you. I'll ask him to take care of it for you.
01:37:30 Vintree?
01:37:38 My search was almost over when I found out they took the boy, left the county with him and raised him as a thaw.
01:37:48 And it seemed to me as if I'd never known before that this world isn't run like it ought to be run.
01:38:02 Vintree didn't hear any more of the boy.
01:38:06 And as far as I could learn, he never mentioned his name again.
01:38:13 Vintree's father died and he worked the place alone.
01:38:20 And then one day a young man named Buck Thorpe appeared in Frenchman's Bend.
01:38:29 When Thorpe tried to run away with H.T. Bookwright's dog, Bookwright warned him that he would protect him.
01:38:40 And he solved that problem in the best of his abilities and beliefs, asking the help of no man.
01:38:50 And then abode by his decision.
01:38:54 Buck Thorpe had been in a lot of trouble.
01:38:58 There was talk of his killing a man himself in Memphis.
01:39:04 We know he was a brawler.
01:39:09 He was a drinker and a cattle feed.
01:39:15 [Explosion]
01:39:18 [Indistinct talking]
01:39:25 He was not only no good, but dangerous.
01:39:28 Yes.
01:39:30 Then what do you want?
01:39:32 What do you want?
01:39:36 I can't help it.
01:39:38 I ain't gonna vote Bookwright free.
01:39:43 I declare a mistrial.
01:39:56 Of course, Vintree wasn't gonna vote Bookwright free.
01:40:01 Because somewhere in Buck Thorpe the adult, the man that Bookwright slew,
01:40:08 there still remained at least the memory of that little boy, that Jackson and Longstreet.
01:40:20 I could never have guessed Vintree's capacity for love.
01:40:28 I suppose I'd figured that coming from where he came from,
01:40:32 that even the comprehension of love had been lost out of him back down the generations,
01:40:39 where the first Vintree had to take his final choice between the pursuit of love
01:40:46 and the pursuit of keeping on breathing.
01:40:53 The lowly and the invincible of the earth.
01:40:59 To endure and endure and then endure.
01:41:10 Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
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