The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935) Full Movie - Victor Fleming (Dir) | Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda - video Dailymotion

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Synopsis: A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm. Genre: Comedy, Romance Director: Victor Fleming Top cast: Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Slim Summerville, Andy Devine, Jane Withers, Margaret Hamilton

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00:01:08Now, here is Germany, and here is France, and over here is England.

00:01:15Oh, I know all about England.

00:01:18That's where Queen Victoria lives.

00:01:20That's right, Victoria, Queen of England, a very gracious lady.

00:01:24Now, you see, Della, ships come from these countries loaded with goods and people and cross over here.

00:01:30This is the Atlantic Ocean.

00:01:31And what are them, Franz?

00:01:34To tell you the truth, I don't know whether they're islands or fly specks.

00:01:40Fly specks.

00:01:41First time I ever knew they had flies on the Atlantic Ocean.

00:01:44Well, anyway, goods and people are landed here.

00:01:48This is New York City, and they're put on canal boats and towed up the Hudson River here.

00:01:52They start out along the Erie Canal here,

00:01:55and tomorrow when the season opens, you'll see boats going west,

00:01:58taking out goods and settlers, Germans, Irish, Scots, and English,

00:02:02way out through the Indian country, maybe all the way to the Pacific Coast,

00:02:06men who will start farms and build new cities.

00:02:09Then in time, other boats will come back, loaded with wheat and grain

00:02:13and things they'll build in those towns, right along here down to New York.

00:02:18Then they'll be put on bigger boats and sent over to Europe again.

00:02:21Sort of an endless chain it is, just a-comin' and a-goin', a-comin' and a-goin'.

00:02:26And the most important link in that chain is the Erie Canal that runs right along,

00:02:31well, right outside your door here.

00:02:34Now, isn't that a pretty story?

00:02:37Well, I'd rather look at pictures in a book.

00:02:41Yes, they're nice too.

00:02:44Can you show me the bar on that map for me?

00:02:47I'll let you show me that, Mr. Weaver.

00:02:50All right, come on. I never feel so good as when the canal opens.

00:02:53Nice meeting old friends.

00:02:55Yeah. What's that?

00:02:57You poke teeth with it. I wanted gambling from a dentist in Albany.

00:03:00I already got a job to extract the lady's molar.

00:03:03You ain't a dentist, are you?

00:03:05Indirectly. When I used to sell notions up Black River Way,

00:03:08I always included tooth powder in my stock.

00:03:11Who's the woman?

00:03:13City lady from Durhamville.

00:03:15The hot way is gettin' her drunk.

00:03:17It'll deaden the dread of anticipation and lessen the subsequent agony.

00:03:21You're her coach.

00:03:22Might call me a man of many parts.

00:03:24Yes, Elmer?

00:03:25Well, I'd like to have you look at her now and see if she's had enough.

00:03:29Indeed I will.

00:03:30Thank you.

00:03:46Not enough.

00:03:48The whiskey's already cost me a dollar and sixty cents.

00:03:51Our agreement was you were to get her in condition.

00:03:53Besides, I'm only charging you half rate.

00:03:55Yeah, but you don't lay claim to bein' one half a dentist.

00:03:58Well, you get her a little number and I'll go to work on it.

00:04:01I'll be in the bar.

00:04:03I mean, you sure you got a toothache?

00:04:06You ain't gettin' drunk just to get drunk, are ya?

00:04:09Mm-hmm.

00:04:12Two whiskeys, Lou.

00:04:13The best.

00:04:14That's five cent grand.

00:04:15Yes, sir.

00:04:25That's a pretty tune.

00:04:27Haven't you heard it before?

00:04:29No, I haven't.

00:04:30Well, it's a pretty tune.

00:04:32It's a pretty tune.

00:04:34It's a pretty tune.

00:04:36It's a pretty tune.

00:04:38It's a pretty tune.

00:04:40Haven't you heard it before?

00:04:41Been out a couple of years.

00:04:42All the rage in New York.

00:04:43Say, Sam, did you know that the government in Washington

00:04:46is aiming to build a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

00:04:49For what?

00:04:50Who wants railroads?

00:04:51Yeah, me.

00:04:52They got a train on the Roman water town.

00:04:53Goes 22 miles an hour.

00:04:54And do you think folks are gonna risk their lives ridin' in it?

00:04:57Railroads.

00:04:59You'll never see the day they'd even compete with the Erie.

00:05:02The canal is the greatest thing this country's ever done.

00:05:04Ever will do.

00:05:05I'll drink to that, Samson.

00:05:06I'll join you there, Mr. Friendly.

00:05:08To the Erie.

00:05:09Fire in the hole, men.

00:05:10Everybody down.

00:05:12The old bridge.

00:05:14We're comin' through it now.

00:05:16You'll always know you never.

00:05:18You'll always know you have.

00:05:19If you've never navigated on the Erie Canal.

00:05:24Drop a tear for Bigfoot Sal.

00:05:27The next great coach got the Erie Canal.

00:05:31She aimed for heaven, did this poor old gal.

00:05:3515 years on the Erie Canal.

00:05:38The missionary said she died in sin.

00:05:41But Henry said it was too much gin.

00:05:45But there weren't no bar where she hadn't been.

00:05:48From Albany to Buffalo.

00:05:53Oh, the old bridge.

00:05:57Everybody down.

00:05:59The old bridge.

00:06:01We're comin' through it now.

00:06:03You'll always know you never.

00:06:04You'll always know you have.

00:06:07Gosh, Jotham, you can just feel spring in the air, can't you?

00:06:10Yeah.

00:06:12Look, there's a fight.

00:06:14Come on.

00:06:17Oh, ain't the canal grand.

00:06:19The season ain't even open yet and already there's a fight.

00:06:22You call that a fight?

00:06:25I don't want nothing to do with you.

00:06:33I don't want nothing to do with you.

00:06:42Oh, he's being stopped.

00:06:45If I hit him again, I'll kill him.

00:06:47I'll be ashamed, old man like you.

00:06:48Nobody can speak bad of my kin.

00:06:50What'd he say?

00:06:51Well, he said my brother was a conductor on a railroad train.

00:06:53It's an insult to me mother.

00:06:55I never said it.

00:06:56My kin workin' on a railroad.

00:06:58Why, I helped dig the Erie Canal 25 years ago.

00:07:01So did me brother.

00:07:02It's old man Riley.

00:07:03Bet he was fightin' about the railroads again.

00:07:06You'd think the railroads is here to stay the way folks argue about them.

00:07:10There's Lucy Gurgit and her boater.

00:07:12Hi, Lucy.

00:07:14Hello, Molly.

00:07:15Hi, Jotham.

00:07:16Hi, Toe.

00:07:17Hi, Mr. Fisher.

00:07:19You have a good winter?

00:07:20Pretty good.

00:07:21Saved Miss Peterson a little fall.

00:07:23How is he?

00:07:24Just middling.

00:07:25He's got the rheumatism and another baby.

00:07:27Either one would be enough.

00:07:30Hey, boater.

00:07:31Keep out.

00:07:32I'm a-pullin' in the air.

00:07:33What do you think I'm a-doin'?

00:07:37Pull up to his bow so I can get aboard him.

00:07:40Oh, goody, goody.

00:07:41Look.

00:07:42There's going to be another fight.

00:07:46Mr. Finley, there's going to be a fight.

00:07:48Oh, man, just say I asked Jotham Clure.

00:07:51Fortune, you can't go.

00:07:52That two's half out and half in.

00:07:54Well, the half that's out won't go back in,

00:07:56and the half that's in won't come out till I get back.

00:07:58Yeah, but she's liable to sober up, and I'll have to get her drunk all over again.

00:08:02Tell you what I'll do.

00:08:03I'll go watch the fight and come back and tell you how it's goin'.

00:08:07Daddy, there's going to be a fight.

00:08:08Jotham Clure just got in town.

00:08:11Daddy!

00:08:12Jotham!

00:08:17You go back in the hotel now.

00:08:20Can't I see just the beginning of it?

00:08:22Fights ain't nice for little girls.

00:08:24Go on, now.

00:08:25Go on.

00:08:26Go on.

00:08:36Howdy-do.

00:08:37I'm Jotham Clure.

00:08:39It's generally understood up and down this ditch

00:08:41that if you want to make a landin', I make it.

00:08:43Irregardless.

00:08:45I'm Walt Lansing,

00:08:46and the same is considered about me up the Black River Canal.

00:08:49This is the Erie.

00:08:54He can't swim.

00:08:58Given me sass and he can't even take care of himself in the water.

00:09:02If I'd done right, I'd let him drown.

00:09:08Weren't much.

00:09:09Doesn't last long.

00:09:14Excuse me, sir, but who is that lady?

00:09:17Her?

00:09:19That's Molly Larkins.

00:09:21The best cook on the Erie.

00:09:23She works for Jotham Clure.

00:09:25He is the bully of the whole canal.

00:09:29Goodbye.

00:09:32It was over in a jiffy.

00:09:35I'm afraid we had a slight misfortune during your absence.

00:09:38Ivy said I took out the wrong tooth.

00:09:40The wrong tooth?

00:09:41She pointed to it herself.

00:09:43Well, I can't waste all day here.

00:09:44I gotta go see the freight agent about my cargo for tomorrow.

00:09:47Well, you go ahead, and I'll just start from the beginning again.

00:09:51Fortune, that's awful, you pulling out the wrong tooth.

00:09:54It's not right.

00:09:55You should have seen the fight I had on Albany.

00:09:58I licked five men.

00:09:59It was astonishing.

00:10:01I was surprised myself that one person could do it.

00:10:04Go and get those wet clothes off before you catch cold.

00:10:06And hurry, because I want to go shopping.

00:10:07I've got a special fine supper planned.

00:10:11I'll see you later.

00:10:14All right.

00:10:15Cargo, wheels, and wagon parts to Buffalo.

00:10:18Must be making up a heap of them covered wagons.

00:10:21They expect a lot of settlers to start west this summer.

00:10:24Them covered wagons is about the only way they can get their families across the plain.

00:10:28Second time I've hauled a boat full of them.

00:10:31Got a load from my boat, Mr. Fisher?

00:10:34Got a fine cargo of hogs to Albany.

00:10:37Well, Mr. Fisher, I'm getting sick of hauling hogs.

00:10:40What else is your boat fit for?

00:10:42Well, I never will be fit for anything else.

00:10:43If I keep hauling hogs, my cook says it's the worst smell she ever got into.

00:10:47And why did you have a contract for them?

00:10:49You talk me into it.

00:10:50Now, last year, I remember saying to you, says I, won't hogs smell?

00:10:54And you says, there's hogs in hogs.

00:10:56Well, I carried them in hot weather, and when it comes to smelling, there ain't hogs in hogs.

00:11:01There's just hogs.

00:11:02You ain't got any idea what it's like riding with a pit load of them in the end of June,

00:11:06going down to Hudson to cut us out of tow and put us at the end,

00:11:09and buy jeepers that wind change and they put us up front again.

00:11:12And I was a laughing stock.

00:11:14Folks wouldn't even let me come near them.

00:11:16You got a hog boat?

00:11:17No, I ain't got a hog boat.

00:11:19I spent all winter cleaning it up, and it smells decent now.

00:11:22Well, you don't smell any hog about me.

00:11:26No, I don't.

00:11:28I'm as clean a smelling man as there is on the canal now.

00:11:31Why, everybody's noticed it.

00:11:33I might go smell your boat.

00:11:35Oh, honest, Mr. Fisher, it'll do you good.

00:11:37It smells just like new moon hay.

00:11:40I'll come over later.

00:11:41Well, thank you kindly, Mr. Fisher.

00:11:45Is Mr. Sampson Weaver here?

00:11:48He was.

00:11:49Reckon he's back at the hotel now.

00:11:51Thank you.

00:11:53You got a load for me, Mr. Fisher?

00:11:54Thank you, Mr. Fisher.

00:12:00Do they still have passenger boats on the Erie?

00:12:03Not as many as they used to.

00:12:05The play actors still travel by them, though.

00:12:07Show coming here next month.

00:12:11Junius Brutus Booth.

00:12:13Jeepers creepers, I read about him.

00:12:15Had a good show here last month.

00:12:17Had a first false step or a trap for revenge.

00:12:20Did you see that?

00:12:21No.

00:12:22Gosh, I hope I can see Junius Brutus Booth, though.

00:12:25Well, Ivy, that's the best job I ever did.

00:12:28Feels like I ain't got no teeth at all now.

00:12:31You'll be all right, Ivy.

00:12:33Just don't eat anything for two or three days.

00:12:36And you might rub a little of that gargling oil on it.

00:12:40Molly!

00:12:41Hello, Fortune.

00:12:43How are you?

00:12:44Fine, now that the canal's opening.

00:12:46Heard you were gambling all winter in Albany.

00:12:48Won an outfit from a dentist.

00:12:50My first patient.

00:12:51Fortune.

00:12:52Hmm?

00:12:53Did you get it out?

00:12:55I don't feel like this side of my face is here anymore.

00:12:58Well, it's there. You can see it.

00:13:00Oh, she'll be all right in a few days.

00:13:02Probably.

00:13:03Uh, one dollar?

00:13:05Two dollars. Dollar a tooth.

00:13:06Oh, but one tooth was a mistake.

00:13:09Was just as hard to take out as the other, Elmer.

00:13:11Oh, I don't know.

00:13:13We'll let Molly decide.

00:13:16Well, if you get one dollar for taking out the right tooth,

00:13:20it seems to me you ought to give a dollar for taking out the wrong one.

00:13:25Well, now, there's a fair enough transaction.

00:13:28That makes you and me even-steven.

00:13:30Come on, Ivy.

00:13:35Now, wait a minute, Elmer.

00:13:36No, sir. Molly's word is law.

00:13:38Now, let's talk this over, Elmer.

00:13:40Now, wait a minute.

00:13:41Did you have to put on your Sunday clothes to go shopping?

00:13:44I don't aim to eat on the boat tonight.

00:13:47The night before the opening of the season?

00:13:49Some of the fellas want me to go out with them and fancy dandy around.

00:13:52There ain't nobody in this town can cook a better meal than I can.

00:13:54There's other things in life besides biddles.

00:13:57Are you insulting my cooking?

00:13:59No.

00:14:00You're a good cook, Molly.

00:14:01But you get notional about it.

00:14:03Besides, I'm Jotham Cloy.

00:14:06You gotta treat me with more respect.

00:14:08Give me orders in front of them other men.

00:14:15Hello, Molly.

00:14:16What's the matter?

00:14:17I'm just poppin' open mad, that's all.

00:14:19Why?

00:14:20My, Boulder.

00:14:21Here I fix a special nice supper tonight, and he says he ain't gonna eat on the boat.

00:14:25Oh, don't worry about it.

00:14:26Says I'm bossy.

00:14:28You might think I was his wife instead of his cook.

00:14:30Come on.

00:14:31Come on inside and sit down.

00:14:33Eatin' in town the very night before the opening of the season.

00:14:36Well, it looks as though we didn't carry a thing on the boat.

00:14:38Well, it looks as though we didn't carry a thing on the boat.

00:14:42Well, it looks as though we didn't carry a thing about the canal.

00:14:45Jotham don't feel things the way we do, Molly.

00:14:48You were born on the canal.

00:14:49It's in your blood like it's in mine.

00:14:51It's awful important to you, ain't it, when the Grand Canal opens?

00:14:54It's the most exciting time of the whole year.

00:14:58Pa used to give me a hair ribbon on opening day.

00:15:01When I was little, I liked it dyed.

00:15:04You're going to marry Jotham, ain't you?

00:15:07That was my plan.

00:15:09Now I don't know.

00:15:11He's the best fighter on the canal.

00:15:13Yes, that's in his favor.

00:15:15But he can't tell good cooking from bad, and I hold that against him.

00:15:18You know how I love to cook.

00:15:20Oh, you stay here and cool off, Molly.

00:15:22I got a new driver boy chasing me around somewhere.

00:15:25If he comes in, pull him.

00:15:26I'll be right back.

00:15:28All right, Mr. Weaver.

00:15:32You're a fair-minded man, Elmer.

00:15:34And if you didn't pay me, you'd only worry about it later on.

00:15:36And I don't want you to have it on your conscience.

00:15:38Oh, I'll pay you.

00:15:40Thanks.

00:15:41I'll frame these bills as the first money ever earned in my new career.

00:15:44I'll keep them for luck.

00:15:46Oh, Elmer.

00:15:48If you ever want to make Ivy a nice present,

00:15:50I could put a pair of gold teeth in there rather cheap.

00:15:53It'd be mighty pretty.

00:15:56Fortune, buy any tickets for the Ohio Lottery?

00:16:00Grand prize, $15,000.

00:16:03$15,000?

00:16:25Excuse me, ma'am.

00:16:47Is Mr. Samson Weaver here?

00:16:49You the driver he's expecting?

00:16:51Yes, ma'am.

00:16:52He said for you to wait.

00:16:53Thank you, ma'am.

00:17:16You're new on the gun, ain't you?

00:17:18Boonville of Black River.

00:17:22Pleased to meet you.

00:17:23Pleased too, ma'am.

00:17:24No.

00:17:25How?

00:17:26I asked.

00:17:28Oh.

00:17:29You're the best cooker.

00:17:31That's right.

00:17:33Yes, ma'am.

00:17:49Have you been on the canal long, Miss Larkins?

00:17:51All my life.

00:17:52My wages are $12 a month, if you'd like to know.

00:17:56Gosh, I ain't got a boat.

00:17:59If I ever get one, I'll remember you.

00:18:01Thanks.

00:18:02I've got a job.

00:18:04Yes, ma'am.

00:18:05I know.

00:18:06How do you know?

00:18:07I asked.

00:18:08Maybe you know who I work for.

00:18:11Chatham Clore.

00:18:13How did you find that out?

00:18:15A man told me.

00:18:17You're the fellow that stopped the fight.

00:18:20Yes, ma'am.

00:18:21Don't you like fights?

00:18:24I can't say I relish them.

00:18:27Well, you'll have to if you want to stay on the canal.

00:18:30I don't aim to stay.

00:18:32I don't even know I'll like the canal.

00:18:36You don't know that you'll like the canal?

00:18:38No, ma'am.

00:18:40The canal?

00:18:41Yes, ma'am.

00:18:43Well, I guess that's going to be awful.

00:18:48It'll just about break the poor old canal's heart.

00:18:51Well, well.

00:18:53Fine thing the whole world has ever seen,

00:18:56and you don't know whether you're going to like it.

00:18:58My, ain't that too bad now.

00:19:01What do you mean, ma'am?

00:19:02If you don't like the canal, what are you going to work on it for?

00:19:04So as I can go east and make some money till I get settled.

00:19:08I aim to get me a farm.

00:19:10I was born on one.

00:19:12Are you any good with horses?

00:19:14Yes, ma'am.

00:19:16Mostly, though, I admire cows.

00:19:20Cows?

00:19:21Yes, ma'am.

00:19:23Well, I couldn't stand a farm.

00:19:25I've always got to be on the up and go.

00:19:28I wouldn't exchange the canal for anything.

00:19:31You sure like it, don't you?

00:19:33I love it.

00:19:35I guess that's the way I feel about a farm.

00:19:39Must be fine to have land all your own.

00:19:42The canal's all our own.

00:19:45You've got a deed.

00:19:47My part's mine.

00:19:49I'd like to see anybody try to take it away from me.

00:19:52What about the railroads?

00:19:54What about them?

00:19:56Some say they'll put the canal out of business.

00:19:59Anyways, it ain't the whole of life.

00:20:01To me, it is the whole of life.

00:20:04Things happen on the canal.

00:20:06There's boats coming and there's boats going,

00:20:08passing you all the while.

00:20:10And like as not, there's a fight at every lock.

00:20:12There's excitement all the time in speed.

00:20:14Why, once last year, I was in four different cities in only two days.

00:20:19Naturally, though, you wouldn't like it

00:20:21if you took such a frenzy for a farm.

00:20:26There's some things I like about it.

00:20:32Well, you're like Samson Weaver.

00:20:35Hope you get the job.

00:20:37Thank you, ma'am.

00:20:39Maybe the canal will grow on you.

00:20:45Oh, Mr. Weaver.

00:20:46Oh.

00:20:47Here's your driver.

00:20:49Oh.

00:20:50His name is Daniel Harrell.

00:20:52Harrell?

00:20:53You ain't seen the Henry Harrell, are you?

00:20:55Well, my pa's name was Henry Harrell.

00:20:57Well, by holy dang, of course.

00:20:59You're the smitten image, idiot.

00:21:01Hmm.

00:21:02Your father had the Golden City.

00:21:03Yes, sir.

00:21:04His father was a canaler.

00:21:05His father made the record run on the Eries.

00:21:07Connected it to Buffalo in three days, 11 hours, and 37 minutes.

00:21:11Dang side better than four miles an hour on his father's journey.

00:21:15And with a father like that,

00:21:17and you don't know whether you're gonna like the canal.

00:21:20No, ma'am.

00:21:21Whatever became of your pa?

00:21:24He died five years ago.

00:21:25Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

00:21:27Well, son, you get the job.

00:21:30Thank you, Mr. Weaver.

00:21:33Guess I'll be running along.

00:21:34Well, goodbye, Miss Larkins.

00:21:36I hope I ain't seen the last of you, ma'am.

00:21:38Oh, see you along the big ditch.

00:21:40Our boat's called the Emma.

00:21:41I don't know the name of ours.

00:21:43The Sergeant Sal, and I hope you like her, lad.

00:21:46I'm beginning to think I will.

00:21:49We start east tomorrow.

00:21:50Where are you and Clore hauling, Molly?

00:21:52We're going east in Little Falls Wednesday.

00:21:54So are we.

00:21:55We'll see you there.

00:21:56All right.

00:21:57We'll be there.

00:22:01Hey, Molly.

00:22:06Changed my mind.

00:22:07Gonna eat on the boat.

00:22:08All right, Jotham.

00:22:09You know, aside of being bossy, I like you.

00:22:12I don't want to punish you too much.

00:22:18You got a load for Little Falls, ain't you?

00:22:20I give it up.

00:22:21Won't pay to go east this trip.

00:22:23Gonna get me a cargo for Rochester.

00:22:25Going west?

00:22:26Yes.

00:22:29Jotham.

00:22:30Yep.

00:22:31What did you think of the man who didn't relish a fight?

00:22:34You can't blame a man much for not relishing a fight with me.

00:22:37Not with you.

00:22:38With anybody.

00:22:39You mean not relishing a fight?

00:22:41As a fight?

00:22:42Yeah.

00:22:43I never heard of anybody like that.

00:22:45Did you?

00:22:46No.

00:22:47What did you ask for then?

00:22:49Oh, I was just thinking about it.

00:22:50That's all.

00:22:53All right.

00:22:54You can pick that up at Schindler's early in the morning.

00:22:56Yeah.

00:22:57How you been hibernating, Sal?

00:22:58Fine.

00:22:59Mr. Fisher, I heard there's a full cargo of grain for Rochester.

00:23:02I'm settling that now with Mr. Tinker.

00:23:04I've got that load.

00:23:05You wouldn't mind letting me handle that cargo, Sal?

00:23:07But it's already fixed.

00:23:08You can easy get another load.

00:23:10Papers is already made out.

00:23:12A little extra handwriting ain't gonna send you into a decline.

00:23:15I'll be back in 20 minutes to sign for it.

00:23:21I'd give $5 of my own money to see somebody whip that fella.

00:23:25We'll get along fine, Daniel.

00:23:27Yes, sir.

00:23:28I've got no cook, but I can boil as good an egg as you can find a long meal.

00:23:32And shake is easy pie.

00:23:34Well, anything else for us to settle?

00:23:36The wages.

00:23:37Regular wages.

00:23:38Starts you right at the top.

00:23:40$12 a month.

00:23:41Thank you, Mr. Weaver.

00:23:42Let's go down to the blacksmith.

00:23:43I've got my horses being chewed.

00:23:51Oh, Samson.

00:23:52Yes.

00:23:55Would you like to purchase a ticket for the Ohio?

00:23:58I aim to buy one, yes.

00:24:00There you are.

00:24:01$1.

00:24:02I made $2 and spent it on these tickets, but upon reflection I decided it wasn't the lucky thing to do.

00:24:07I should retain one of the bills as a keepsake.

00:24:10There you are.

00:24:11Of course, this is not the same bill.

00:24:13No.

00:24:14But it'll answer the purpose.

00:24:15Thank you, Samson.

00:24:16Not at all, Fortune.

00:24:46I'm glad to see you again, ma'am, because I can't remember whether I told you I was pleased to meet you.

00:25:02You told me.

00:25:04Well, I'll see you the day after tomorrow in Little Falls.

00:25:08No, you won't.

00:25:09We're going to Rochester.

00:25:11Oh.

00:25:14Then it's goodbye, ma'am.

00:25:16Oh, we might meet again.

00:25:18Anything can happen on the canal.

00:25:21I hope it does.

00:25:24Oh, goodbye, ma'am.

00:25:26Goodbye.

00:25:34Who's that fellow?

00:25:36Samson Weaver's new driver boy.

00:25:46It might not be so terrible a fact for a fellow not to relish a fight.

00:25:51What are you talking about?

00:25:53Nothing, I was just thinking.

00:25:55You can do more public thinking than anyone I ever see.

00:26:06All jammed up at the lock.

00:26:10Guess it's going to have a little delay.

00:26:13Don't seem no time at all since the season started.

00:26:16Just think, from Rome to Rochester, then to Albany, and now almost back to Utica again.

00:26:21Things sure move on the canal.

00:26:24I wonder where Samson Weaver's boat is at.

00:26:27Why?

00:26:29I was just wondering.

00:26:31We ought to know who won the Ohio tonight in Utica.

00:26:34What's that contraption?

00:26:35It's a foot driller.

00:26:36Won it from that same dentist in Albany the day before it came to work for you.

00:26:40Yes, and that fellow in Hook, I must say that when you pulled his tooth, you dang near broke his jaw.

00:26:44Oh, his face was very brittle.

00:26:48Maybe I can get some work to do on this packet boat ahead.

00:26:51By jeepers, look.

00:26:52You see that tall fellow?

00:26:56You know who that is?

00:26:57Oh, sure.

00:26:58By jeepers, it's Junius Brutus Booth.

00:27:00The play actor.

00:27:01Johnson took me to see him in Rochester.

00:27:03Was the show where he done a takeoff on a king or was all hunchbacked?

00:27:06Richard III.

00:27:07That's it.

00:27:08I saw him play it in Philadelphia.

00:27:09I remember one of his sayings.

00:27:10Yes?

00:27:11A horse!

00:27:12A horse!

00:27:13My kingdom for a horse!

00:27:16You must have been to the theater, young man.

00:27:18I was.

00:27:19That's a good show you got.

00:27:21I didn't understand it, but it was fine.

00:27:23Really shouldn't be so very difficult to understand.

00:27:25It was written by a great poet.

00:27:27Shakespeare.

00:27:28Mr. Booth, I've been an admirer of yours for years.

00:27:32Thank you, sir.

00:27:33I wonder if you'd do me an unusual honor.

00:27:35If I can, I should be very happy to.

00:27:37Would you let me take out one of your teeth?

00:27:39That is provided, of course, they should come out.

00:27:42You see, I'm sort of a dentist.

00:27:44My teeth are quite sound.

00:27:46Thank you.

00:27:47Father, may I go on the canal boat and steer it?

00:27:49Sure.

00:27:50Come on, son.

00:27:51Well, just for a few moments, my boy.

00:27:52Be very careful.

00:27:53You'll be all right.

00:27:58That's Mr. Booth's young son.

00:27:59How do you do, ma'am?

00:28:00Pleased to meet you.

00:28:01And he wants to steer the boat.

00:28:03Sure.

00:28:04Well, lad, are you going to be a great actor too when you grow up?

00:28:06Yes, sir.

00:28:07Is there anything in that paper about my father?

00:28:09No, this paper comes from a long ways off.

00:28:11Springfield, Illinois.

00:28:12A fella going east on a packet boat gave it to me this morning.

00:28:15He comes from there.

00:28:16You want it?

00:28:17Yes, sir.

00:28:18I like to read about politics in the newspaper.

00:28:19Well, there's a piece about politics in there.

00:28:21Man out west, don't want any more slave states.

00:28:23There's his picture.

00:28:25Let's see, what's his name again?

00:28:27Abraham Lincoln.

00:28:29Lincoln?

00:28:30Abraham Lincoln?

00:28:31I heard him deliver a speech in Washington a couple of years ago.

00:28:34He was a congressman then, a great man.

00:28:36I never heard of him.

00:28:37Well, you will, because unless I miss my guess, Mr. Lincoln is destined to be very famous.

00:28:42I bet he'll hear me when I grow up.

00:28:43I'm going to be famous too.

00:28:45What's your name, son?

00:28:46John Wilkes Boone.

00:29:06Here's the saucy sow.

00:29:07That's the weaver's goat.

00:29:09Let's tie off here.

00:29:11All right, Fortune.

00:29:12Tie her off there.

00:29:16In case there's nobody aboard.

00:29:18Or else they're all asleep.

00:29:21She's fast here.

00:29:24Whoa!

00:29:25Whoa!

00:29:26What's the matter with you?

00:29:27You're going to pull the whole canal over here.

00:29:31You going visiting around the boats?

00:29:33No, sir.

00:29:34I'm tired.

00:29:35I'm going to bed.

00:29:36Well, I think I'll go over to the Edna house and get me a couple of snorters.

00:29:40Take care of yourself, Jockham.

00:29:42Don't get into any fights and don't drink too much.

00:29:44There ain't that much.

00:29:46Well, I'll be back for breakfast before I go to bed.

00:29:48Good night.

00:29:49See you in the morning.

00:30:14Good night.

00:30:44Good night.

00:31:15Mmm.

00:31:38So, Mr. Harrow, are you up yet?

00:31:41I've been up half an hour.

00:31:43You don't only want to run it black, don't you?

00:31:46I'll come up and take a look at it.

00:32:13Just clean out the back anchor and leave the bars be.

00:32:15You don't want the bars trimmed?

00:32:17Of course not.

00:32:19Oh, Mr. Butterfield always sends me his best trotters and I trim the bars for him.

00:32:23Yeah, but this ain't a trotter.

00:32:25When a horse is hauling a boat or a plow, you got to let the heel of the hoof spread.

00:32:29Well, I don't know.

00:32:31I do.

00:32:32Gosh, I was born and bred with horses.

00:32:34I've got to admit, you've got a nice pair here.

00:32:37Could be mighty fine on a farm.

00:32:39You bet they would.

00:32:44Hello, Molly.

00:32:46Hello there, how are you?

00:32:48Who is it?

00:32:49Me, Elmer Otway.

00:32:51I just left Jotam Quar up the Epney house.

00:32:55Put away more liquor last night than any man in the history of the whole canal.

00:32:59Is he drunk?

00:33:01Well, yes and no, but you ought to be proud of him.

00:33:04He broke the record.

00:33:14Hello, Miss Larkin.

00:33:16Hello there.

00:33:17Well, goodness grief, what are you doing here?

00:33:20Oh, this is our boat.

00:33:22This is your boat?

00:33:24Yes, ma'am.

00:33:25That we're tied up to?

00:33:27Yes, ma'am.

00:33:28Who'd have thought?

00:33:30You must have been asleep when we pulled in last night.

00:33:33Yes, ma'am, I go to bed early.

00:33:35It's on account of you being a farmer, I suppose.

00:33:39I suppose so.

00:33:40If you're going to live like a farmer, why do you keep working on the canal?

00:33:44Well, to save money and get in the day when I can buy a farm.

00:33:48You mean after being a month on the Erie, you're still thinking about buying a farm?

00:33:53Yes, ma'am.

00:33:54By jeepers, that makes me mad.

00:33:57Well, it ain't my resolve to make you unhappy, ma'am.

00:34:00Why, I often think about you, where you are and what you're doing,

00:34:05and this morning when I seen your boat there, I...

00:34:10Well, it gave me a start, ma'am.

00:34:13I was that glad I was going to see you again.

00:34:16Here's the black.

00:34:17You can have the other one in ten minutes.

00:34:19Oh, thanks.

00:34:22Did you get a cook yet?

00:34:24No, ma'am.

00:34:25Mr. Weaver and me takes turns.

00:34:31Can you cook?

00:34:33I've been frying a lot of steaks.

00:34:35Would you like me to fix some breakfast for you?

00:34:37No, I ate already.

00:34:39What did you have?

00:34:40Steak.

00:34:42I got up early because Mr. Butterfield says he could see me in Rome at nine o'clock.

00:34:47He may give me a job on his farm at the fire combines.

00:34:51I just can't understand why you don't like the canal.

00:34:56I like the people on it.

00:34:59Of course, it's nice now with spring coming on.

00:35:02Oh, it was pretty yesterday morning coming up from Little Falls.

00:35:06I saw the birds going north.

00:35:08Do you like flowers?

00:35:10I like them fine, ma'am.

00:35:12There certainly is a mess of violets and patty cutters this side of Rome.

00:35:15I had the urge to get off and get some.

00:35:19You ought to pick some of them elderberry blossoms and make some wine.

00:35:22Wine? For a canaler?

00:35:25For a canaler?

00:35:27I guess you're right, ma'am.

00:35:29Gosh, take Mr. Weaver. He can certainly drink hard liquor.

00:35:32He can drink more than any two men on the canal.

00:35:36Except one.

00:35:38You never met my boater.

00:35:40No.

00:35:41He can drink more than any two men on the canal, plus Mr. Weaver.

00:35:45Low bridge, everybody down.

00:35:49Low bridge, we're coming to town.

00:35:56You always know your neighbor.

00:36:00You always know your pal.

00:36:03If you've ever navigated on the Erie Canal.

00:36:08Good morning, Mr. Clower.

00:36:17This is Mr. Harrow, Jossam.

00:36:21Mr. Harrow, Jossam.

00:36:24Ain't you going to say how do you...

00:36:27You're going about the fog.

00:36:32Only the first prize was won by a female in buffalo.

00:36:38I could have said a buffalo female.

00:36:41That would have been the same thing.

00:36:44But I couldn't have said a female buffalo because that would have been something different.

00:36:49You're inclined to be a little drunk, ain't you?

00:36:52Just a slight inclination.

00:36:54Elmer Otway says you busted all the records for drinking.

00:36:57I got a dozen witnesses.

00:37:00They couldn't believe their eyes.

00:37:02They were dumbfounded.

00:37:03He said you were drunk more than anybody ever in the history of the canal.

00:37:08That was only up to 3 o'clock.

00:37:10By 4.30, they was all willing to include the Great Lakes.

00:37:16Who's that fellow?

00:37:18I just introduced you to him.

00:37:21What's his name?

00:37:22Mr. Harrow.

00:37:24I don't like him.

00:37:26Now, you don't know Mr. Harrow.

00:37:28You got to be polite.

00:37:30Is he a caneller?

00:37:31He works on Samson Weaver's boat.

00:37:33Go on now because you got to get some sleep.

00:37:35Oh, so that's why you made me tie up here last night.

00:37:39You said at Samson Weaver's boat.

00:37:42Don't pay no notice to him.

00:37:44Didn't you say that?

00:37:45No.

00:37:46Go on now, Jotham, and go and get your last drink.

00:37:49I hate a liar.

00:37:51The record's sort of gone to his head.

00:37:54Why'd you keep her from cooking my breakfast?

00:37:57I ain't stopped her.

00:38:00Get on that boat.

00:38:02Don't you talk to me like that.

00:38:06Maybe the time has come for me to give you a good licking.

00:38:09That time ain't never going to come, Cloran.

00:38:12Don't you forget it.

00:38:13I'm sick and tired of humoring you.

00:38:15Now you get on that boat and get your breakfast.

00:38:28Danged if I like that.

00:38:31Did you know it was our boat last night?

00:38:34That ain't the point.

00:38:35When a lady says a thing, a gentleman's got to believe her.

00:38:39It was his going out of his way to be so mean.

00:38:42It ain't that I blame him when he gets mad

00:38:44because I get mad too.

00:38:46Are you mad now?

00:38:48By jeepers, I'm getting to be.

00:38:51Well, if you get mad enough,

00:38:53why don't you transfer to Mr. Weaver's boat?

00:38:55He needs a cook.

00:38:57Oh, I could get a job easy enough.

00:39:00It's just that his boat's so handy.

00:39:04I ain't worked up enough yet.

00:39:07Maybe Cloran was just showing off in front of you.

00:39:10Well, I suppose I have to make his breakfast.

00:39:13See you in the foglet.

00:39:15I hope so, but maybe I won't.

00:39:18Why?

00:39:19I may hire out to Mr. Butterfield.

00:39:21Today?

00:39:23If he gives me the job.

00:39:25Oh.

00:39:27I just can't understand it.

00:39:29A big, strong fellow like you,

00:39:31hankering for a farm.

00:39:41Here.

00:39:42Here.

00:39:43You can't sleep here.

00:39:44Go in your own cabin.

00:39:47I want my breakfast.

00:39:49You'll get your breakfast.

00:39:51I want eggs.

00:39:52You'll get eggs.

00:39:54Oh.

00:39:55You think you can tell me what I'm going to eat, do you?

00:39:59Well, I won't eat eggs.

00:40:02What do you want?

00:40:04I want eggs.

00:40:07But I want them different.

00:40:10I'm sick of your eggs.

00:40:12Boiled eggs and fried eggs.

00:40:15I want some boiled fried eggs.

00:40:18That's what I want.

00:40:20Now listen, Cloran.

00:40:21You're drunk now.

00:40:22Why don't you go in and get some sleep

00:40:23so we can get out of here this afternoon?

00:40:29I ain't got a taste for this town anymore.

00:40:33There you are, Mr. Harrell.

00:40:35Thanks.

00:40:37Morning, Ben.

00:40:38Morning, Miss Gurgis.

00:40:39Did you know Molly got in last night?

00:40:41Yes, ma'am.

00:40:42She's tied up to our boat.

00:40:45Hey, look out.

00:40:46Now wait a minute.

00:40:47Molly, be careful.

00:40:48Hey, don't throw those eggs.

00:40:50Hey.

00:40:53Strike fun, you will.

00:40:55What's the matter, Molly?

00:40:57It's this here Cloran.

00:40:59He's gone and gotten me pretty mad.

00:41:01I've stood just about enough of him.

00:41:03He ain't going to give me no lacing,

00:41:05and I ain't wiping no egg off of his face.

00:41:08What's the egg doing there?

00:41:10I put it there.

00:41:12I ought to have thrown the whole dozen at him.

00:41:15Excuse me for making you all witness.

00:41:17If I was you, I'd up and leave him.

00:41:19That's just what I'm going to do.

00:41:21I ain't never been ashamed of myself,

00:41:23and I ain't going to be ashamed of anybody I work for.

00:41:26Get your things and come on to Rome with us.

00:41:27I'll see you later in the hotel.

00:41:30Well, now that you've quit Clore,

00:41:32why don't you sign up on our boat?

00:41:34You're going on a farm.

00:41:38Will the cooking be good on a farm?

00:41:41I guess not.

00:41:43Do you like chicken pie?

00:41:45Yes, ma'am, I do.

00:41:47Well, I ain't boastful, Mr. Harrell,

00:41:49but I don't know where you could get a better chicken pie maker than I am.

00:41:54And griddle cakes on mornings like this?

00:41:56I do like griddle cakes.

00:41:58Then why don't you stay on with Mr. Weaver a while longer?

00:42:04I'd like to eat your cooking, ma'am,

00:42:06but I don't think the canal is ever going to amount to anything.

00:42:09What?

00:42:10No, ma'am, I don't.

00:42:11Not with the railroads coming in like they are.

00:42:13You're for the railroads, too?

00:42:15Wait a minute, ma'am.

00:42:16Don't get your dander up again.

00:42:17You're for the railroads.

00:42:18No, ma'am, I ain't,

00:42:19but they're building railroads all over now.

00:42:22The people and goods from Europe

00:42:24can go out west quicker on the railroads

00:42:26than they can on the canal.

00:42:28That's the way they're building up the country.

00:42:30Now, don't get your dander up.

00:42:32I ain't.

00:42:33I'll never get anywhere on the canal.

00:42:36I know a lot about a farm.

00:42:39Maybe if you had some good canal cooking,

00:42:41you'd feel different.

00:42:43No, ma'am, I wouldn't.

00:42:47Well, there's no need of me going on Mr. Weaver's boat then.

00:42:51He'll get another driver.

00:42:53I don't know whether I'd like him or not.

00:42:56Well, I gotta get my things.

00:43:26Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:27Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:28Come out tonight.

00:43:29Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:30Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:31Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:32Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:33Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:34Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:35Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:36Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:37Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:38Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:39Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:40Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:41Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:42Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:43Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:44Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:45Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:46Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:47Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:48Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:49Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:50Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:51Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:52Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:53Come out tonight, baby.

00:43:56Wait a minute, boys.

00:43:57Say, Dan, I just won $5,000 in the Ohio State Lottery.

00:44:03You brung me luck.

00:44:04From today on, you're the captain of the Sarsi Sal.

00:44:07We'll divide what she makes, even Steven.

00:44:12Scotland, that's a fine present, Mr. Weaver.

00:44:14You're half owner now.

00:44:16Gosh, I don't know what to say.

00:44:18Well, the first thing to say is that you'll never haul hogs.

00:44:23Think it over.

00:44:24If you still want a farm, you can buy yourself one then.

00:44:29Excuse me.

00:44:37Miss Larkins, will you marry me?

00:44:46What?

00:44:47It's about getting married.

00:44:53You like me, don't you?

00:44:56Yes, ma'am.

00:44:57I've got to say I do.

00:45:00Well, I liked you the first time I seen you.

00:45:04Mr. Weaver's given me a half interest in the boat.

00:45:08Oh, then now you're going to stay on the canal.

00:45:11I would if I knew at the end of it I could buy us a farm you'd like.

00:45:16Well, what if you find out you like the Erie more than a farm?

00:45:21Then I'll stay.

00:45:25I'll come and cook for you.

00:45:27You don't want to get married now?

00:45:30Not till we're sure of ourselves.

00:45:33Let's make a promise.

00:45:34I'll promise never to talk about the canal and you promise never to talk about a farm.

00:45:39We'll see how it works out.

00:45:41I promise.

00:45:43I promise too.

00:45:45Then I'll get my things, Mr. Harrell.

00:45:49I guess I can call you Dan now, Mr. Harrell.

00:45:51Yes, ma'am, Molly.

00:45:55Can I help you pack?

00:46:04Well, the Goshen fortune, what's the matter with you?

00:46:06He had a nervous shock.

00:46:08Sam Weaver won $5,000 in the Ohio.

00:46:11Why should that give you a shock?

00:46:13The winning ticket was mine.

00:46:15Then how did Sam get it?

00:46:16I bought the ticket and then sold it to Sam in a moment of financial misjudgment.

00:46:20Oh, not that I begrudge him.

00:46:22But when fate does a thing like that to you, one wonders what else will happen.

00:46:29Got all your things?

00:46:30Yeah.

00:46:31Clore never even moved.

00:46:33He's going to be mad, I suppose.

00:46:36You ain't afraid, are you, Dan?

00:46:38No.

00:46:39We'll give Fortune Friendly a job.

00:46:40He can drive.

00:46:41He can start west in an hour.

00:46:42I'm already loaded.

00:46:43Oh, wait a minute, Dan.

00:46:45Put it forward on the bowings.

00:46:47Why?

00:46:48I want to keep my eyes open for elderberry blossoms.

00:47:00Four o'clock.

00:47:01Yes, sir.

00:47:02Molly and Dan ought to be just sailing past the riskery now.

00:47:12Oh, Clore's awake.

00:47:16The minute he hears Molly skipped, he'll want to fight the first fella he sees.

00:47:23I just happen to think I've got to see Ivy.

00:47:26Sit down.

00:47:28Might be a good idea if Clore did get in a fight.

00:47:31Save trouble for Molly and Dan.

00:47:33If he wants to know where Molly went, send him over to the agent.

00:47:37I'll go with you, Mr. Weaver.

00:47:39You'll stay right here, Sol.

00:47:42Ain't none of you got no gristle on your belly where Clore's concerned.

00:47:46Oh, hello, Sheriff.

00:47:48Hello, Samson.

00:47:50Your brother's a boat builder, ain't he?

00:47:51And a good one.

00:47:52I'm buying a new boat.

00:47:54Say, Sheriff, we might talk about that.

00:47:56Will you be here in ten minutes?

00:47:57I'll wait for you.

00:47:58I'll be right back.

00:48:01Have you seen Molly?

00:48:02Tell him, Elmer.

00:48:04Where is she?

00:48:05Oh, now, the agent knows.

00:48:08Agent knows what?

00:48:09Now, what did you ask again, Jonathan?

00:48:11I asked where Molly was.

00:48:13No, well, that's it.

00:48:14The agent knows what.

00:48:15What?

00:48:16Well, that's what you asked, ain't it?

00:48:18What?

00:48:19What's all the hemming and hawing about?

00:48:21I want to know where my cook is at.

00:48:23Molly's quit you, if that's what you're asking.

00:48:25What?

00:48:26That's it, what?

00:48:28Quit me?

00:48:29That's right.

00:48:32Where is she?

00:48:33She got another job.

00:48:34Only the agent knows whether she went east or west.

00:48:36And he allows us how he ain't gonna tell you.

00:48:39Oh, he ain't, ain't he?

00:48:41Yes, sir.

00:48:42He said you'd tell him where she went or he'd wipe up the place with you.

00:48:45Oh, he did, huh?

00:48:47Hey, Fred.

00:48:48Clore's coming here to wipe up the place.

00:48:51Harry, send Joe in here.

00:48:53I wouldn't want to see no trouble.

00:48:55Goodbye.

00:48:56Keepers, if Clore starts a fight, the sheriff ought to put him in the lockup.

00:48:59Well, if he wants fight, he'll get it.

00:49:01Well, I just thought maybe I ought to tell you.

00:49:04Joe, Clore's coming here.

00:49:10Hello, gentlemen.

00:49:18Yes, sir.

00:49:19Sheriff, I figure on a 96-foot boat.

00:49:22About 150 tons.

00:49:24Yeah.

00:49:35Is that a fight?

00:49:36It wouldn't surprise me.

00:49:38It doesn't surprise me.

00:49:55Peaceful, ain't it, Dan?

00:49:58It's mighty nice just seeing you sitting there.

00:50:05Hello, Marlene.

00:50:06Hello, Mr. Vernoy.

00:50:07Clore got a new boat?

00:50:09Working for Mr. Harrow now.

00:50:11Where's Jotham?

00:50:13As far as I know, he's at peace with the world he's in.

00:50:17Put the law on him, Sheriff.

00:50:20I'll get that driver of yours, Mr. Weaver.

00:50:23But you'll spend 90 days in the lockup first.

00:50:25I think it was wrong to get in the fight, Jotham.

00:50:33Oh, look.

00:50:36Jeepers Creepers.

00:50:43Oh, look at father. Here's another boat.

00:50:45Hello.

00:50:50They must be the people Samson Weaver was telling us.

00:50:53Where are they going?

00:50:54Missouri first. They'll spend the winter there.

00:50:57In the spring, they'll meet up with a lot more wagons from all parts of the country.

00:51:00Then they'll start out across the prairies all the way out to California.

00:51:04What for?

00:51:05Some of them after gold, I guess.

00:51:07Others just to make new homes.

00:51:11It's exciting just to think of it, ain't it?

00:51:13They'll have to fight Indians and wild animals.

00:51:16It'll be dangerous.

00:51:17They'll have to work hard and there'll be hardships for them to face.

00:51:22A man will suffer a mighty heap to get land he can call his own.

00:51:27Angus.

00:51:28Aye?

00:51:29A ha'penny for your thoughts?

00:51:30Oh, there weren't much more than that.

00:51:32I was thinking of bonny Scotland.

00:51:34Man, we've come a long way from home, Harry.

00:51:36The further we get from the old home, the nearer we get to the new.

00:51:39Now, there'll always be Scotland for you to go back to.

00:51:42And for me, there'll always be Yorkshire.

00:51:44But first, there's a new home to make.

00:51:46And it's a great country we're going to make it in.

00:51:48So don't be downhearted, Angus.

00:51:50If we're rich, we can go back if we still have the heart for it.

00:51:53And you'll take the high road.

00:51:56And I'll take the low road.

00:51:58And I'll be in Scotland afore ye.

00:52:02And me and my true love will never meet again.

00:52:07♪

00:52:2549 logs waiting for a haul.

00:52:29Take one away from them all.

00:52:3348 logs waiting for a haul.

00:52:3748 logs waiting for a haul.

00:52:4148 logs waiting for a haul.

00:52:45Take one away from them all.

00:52:49I think we can get along very well without your help.

00:52:55Very, very sorry about this.

00:52:57Me, me, me, me.

00:52:59Welcome, Lordy.

00:53:01Me, me, me, me.

00:53:03Lordy, Lordy.

00:53:05Me, me.

00:53:07Me, me.

00:53:10Me, me.

00:53:24There now, get some fresh air.

00:53:26Maybe I better take a look at that kitten's teeth.

00:53:28You keep away from her teeth.

00:53:30She's all right.

00:53:31And look at the way she's growing.

00:53:33Can you realize it's three months since I come with Dan?

00:53:36I ain't never been so happy.

00:53:38I wonder if Jonathan Clore got out of jail yet.

00:53:41Do you think there'll be trouble when him and Dan meet?

00:53:43Well, it's just as well, maybe, that they didn't meet.

00:53:46That's the funny thing about Dan.

00:53:48He don't like to fight.

00:53:50Of course, some women would mind that.

00:53:53I don't.

00:53:54I don't even mind him not cussing.

00:53:58Oh, Fortune, I am in love with him.

00:54:01That's why you're putting up all those preserves for the Whitesboro fair, eh?

00:54:05Well, Lucy said that only farm people sent their cooking.

00:54:08So I thought if I could win a prize with my preserves,

00:54:11it'd prove to Dan that canal folk can do things, too.

00:54:14Oh, the grand passion, as the French call it, is a strange thing.

00:54:18Weren't you ever in love, Fortune?

00:54:20When I was young, she was a charming lady.

00:54:24She was a snake charmer with a carnival.

00:54:26We were awfully fond of each other.

00:54:28In fact, she told me she loved me more than she did her snakes.

00:54:31But I sort of resented being the rival to reptiles and just let the matter drop.

00:54:36Hey, Molly, I'll get to the fair a day before you do.

00:54:39I'd better take your preserves on our board in time.

00:54:41I'd take that very kindly, Lucy.

00:54:43That's a good idea.

00:54:44I'll get them ready for you right now.

00:54:47I'd like to see Dan and her leave town as quick as they can.

00:54:50Clore?

00:54:51He got out of jail three days ago.

00:54:52He's coming west.

00:54:57Do you smell anything?

00:54:58We're coming into Rome.

00:55:00I've never been to Rome before.

00:55:01When did you get out of jail, Jonathan?

00:55:03Wednesday.

00:55:04What are you hauling?

00:55:05Got a cargo of rifles and bullets going out west of Fort Laramie.

00:55:09I guess the Indians are on the warpath again.

00:55:12Hey, you put up quite a fight yourself in Utica.

00:55:15Say, did I?

00:55:16It was astonishing.

00:55:17Took seven men to put me in jail.

00:55:19Where are you hauling?

00:55:20Syracuse.

00:55:21Then I'm coming back to the Alnati Fair.

00:55:24Why, it jeepers there's something smelling around here.

00:55:38Hey, Oddway.

00:55:39You smelling up there?

00:55:43Well, it ain't what you'd call a smelly smell.

00:55:46Pull over to shore.

00:55:47I'm going by you.

00:55:48Oh, please, Mr. Clore.

00:55:50You heard me, didn't you?

00:55:53And don't give me none of your lip.

00:55:55You don't need a boat for them hogs.

00:55:57You can float them out of Syracuse in their own smell.

00:56:01Hi, Mr. Roberts.

00:56:02Hi, Mr. Pajeros.

00:56:03Boat on your way east?

00:56:05They were loading yesterday in Oneida.

00:56:07Short hauling wick.

00:56:09Don't forget now.

00:56:10If you hear of anybody who wants some gold teeth, tell them about me.

00:56:12I'll tell them.

00:56:15Here you are, Lucy.

00:56:17Man's sake, you must have fixed about 15 kinds.

00:56:20Say, if they're only half the kind you make,

00:56:22the prize is already yours.

00:56:24Oh, shucks.

00:56:25You're just saying that.

00:56:28Are we loaded yet?

00:56:29Just about.

00:56:30Where you been?

00:56:31Mr. Butterfield's.

00:56:33On business.

00:56:34About the boat?

00:56:35Well, in a way.

00:56:38We ought to get out of here in about a half hour.

00:56:41I have the urge to ride the horses with Fortune.

00:56:44Well, I reckon Fortune won't object to that.

00:56:49I don't like the idea of hauling that lumber for them railroads.

00:56:53Pays well.

00:56:54I hate doing anything for them.

00:56:56The canal ain't going to be whipped, is it, Fortune?

00:56:59It's a funny age.

00:57:00Not like when I was young.

00:57:01Everybody's crazy for speed today.

00:57:03Things faster and get there quicker.

00:57:05The railroads will give them more speed, all right,

00:57:07but they'll make the people forget how fine the world could go at four miles an hour.

00:57:11The railroads will never lick the canal.

00:57:14I just ain't going to think about it.

00:57:16I wouldn't be to those locks where Dan always takes you walking.

00:57:19If I was you, I'd only think of that.

00:57:21You know, Fortune, I think Dan's getting to like the canal.

00:57:30Pretty, ain't it?

00:57:33The nicest sight I ever see is the canal in the early morning with the mist rising.

00:57:38Gosh, I never noticed how pretty the canal is when you're on the boat.

00:57:42Why?

00:57:44Because you're so dang sweet looking yourself.

00:57:47You are.

00:57:50Gosh, Molly, I ain't never been so happy.

00:57:53I told that to Fortune myself.

00:57:56Just today.

00:58:03Oh, you.

00:58:07I was forgetting I got news.

00:58:09What?

00:58:10Come on, sit down.

00:58:13I added up my books this morning.

00:58:14We need a lot more than I figured we would.

00:58:16Oh, Dan.

00:58:18Maybe we could get married now.

00:58:20All right, and you can buy the other half of the boat, can't you,

00:58:23because you'll never want to leave the canal now.

00:58:26Oh.

00:58:30I thought...

00:58:31I'm sorry I broke my promise, Dan.

00:58:33It's nothing.

00:58:35Do you want to talk some more about getting married?

00:58:39Maybe it'd be better if we didn't now, huh?

00:58:43All right.

00:58:45Dan, you'll get your hands all dirty.

00:58:47This is soil.

00:58:49It's dirt.

00:58:50Yeah, but soil ain't dirty.

00:58:53It's clean and sweet smelling.

00:58:56My pa used to say if it wasn't for the soil there wouldn't be any world.

00:59:00It gives us life.

00:59:02Grows things for us to live by.

00:59:04Grows grass for the cattle to graze on so we can have meat to eat.

00:59:08Trees and flowers that are pretty to look at.

00:59:12I reckon, Molly, nobody'd be alive if it wasn't for soil.

00:59:15Yes, but you need water to live by, too.

00:59:17You get water from soil, dig a well.

00:59:20You ain't setting to talk about a farm, are you?

00:59:24No.

00:59:25There was a funny look on your face just now when you were asking about getting married.

00:59:30Don't get your dander out.

00:59:31Yes, I thought...

00:59:32We got to get back.

00:59:34You know, Molly, if we get unloaded by tomorrow, we'll get to the fair by Thursday.

00:59:56Hello, Miss Larkin.

00:59:58Hello, Della.

00:59:59Where are you going with that cow?

01:00:01Oh, she's going to win the prize for having the most milk.

01:00:03I'm taking her to the fair.

01:00:04It's Mr. Butterfield.

01:00:06You're taking her?

01:00:07Well, you're helping me, but I'm a-taking her.

01:00:10How much milk does she give?

01:00:12She don't give any.

01:00:14You have to squeeze her.

01:00:16Bye!

01:00:34What are you doing, Fortune?

01:00:36Nothing.

01:00:38Well, stop it.

01:00:40If I don't get a dental case pretty soon, I'm going to take out some of my own teeth.

01:00:44Maybe you'll get some cases at the fair.

01:00:47Molly, that gives me an idea.

01:00:50If my cooking should win a prize, I'd be the happiest girl in the world, just for Dan's sake.

01:00:56Gosh, Molly, the fair is wonderful.

01:00:58What, Dan books?

01:01:00And a present for you, so you can see how pretty you look.

01:01:06It's lovely, but it's so big.

01:01:11Oh, it sort of took my fancy at the store.

01:01:14Put your new dress on.

01:01:16All right.

01:01:17We want to get to the grounds right away.

01:01:20Say, Molly, it's lively there as all get out.

01:01:26Creepers, creepers, what a cake.

01:01:30That's a champagne.

01:01:32You bet some like it.

01:01:34I just made the frosting thicker.

01:01:36I ain't seen anything as nice as that since my ma was alive.

01:01:40Molly ain't got the reputation for being the best cook on the canal for nothing.

01:01:44It's just a crazy old cake.

01:01:45We're going to take it to the fair with it.

01:01:47You know, Dan, you bought such a big oven.

01:01:49I have to use it for something.

01:01:54Fortune, what are you doing?

01:02:21Fair.

01:02:26You're about as pretty as anything I ever see.

01:02:29My, my.

01:02:30I'm going to be so dang proud of you at the fair.

01:02:32You like fairs, don't you, Dan?

01:02:34Oh, country folk think there's nothing so fine as a fair.

01:02:37The canal has its celebrations, too.

01:02:39They say there was nothing ever so fine as the one when the Erie opened.

01:02:43You were their fortune.

01:02:44Tell us about it.

01:02:45Oh, I've told you.

01:02:46I want Dan to hear.

01:02:48Well, all right.

01:02:51It was in 1825.

01:02:53There was cannons strung out with an earshot of each other all along the canal.

01:02:58The minute it was opened and the water came in from Lake Erie first muddy and slow like a little creek,

01:03:04the guns went off one after another all the way to New York.

01:03:07They had the news there 80 minutes later.

01:03:10Then the guns started firing all the way back again.

01:03:13In about an hour, we knew that New York knew all about it.

01:03:16When the canal was filled, the first boat to move on it was Governor Clinton.

01:03:20She was painted all red and white and drawn by four matched greys.

01:03:26But what everybody was looking at was a beautiful keg standing in the middle of her deck.

01:03:30It had the American Eagle painted on it and the Star Spangled Banner wrapped over it.

01:03:35It was a barrel of water from Lake Erie to be emptied in New York Bay.

01:03:39It was quite a sight to see.

01:03:43Wasn't that wonderful, Dan?

01:03:45I bet it was.

01:03:47Come on, I can't wait to get back to the fair.

01:03:50I'll wrap up the cake.

01:03:51Oh, sure, but let's hurry.

01:03:52Molly, you've never seen such a fair for livestock.

01:03:54There's every kind of breed of cattle.

01:03:56First Holsteins I've ever seen in New York State.

01:03:59It'll make history.

01:04:00And they say the Governor himself is going to be there

01:04:02and that rich Mr. Vanderbilt from New York is going to make a speech.

01:04:05You mean that railroad fellow?

01:04:07Well, they call him Commodore Vanderbilt.

01:04:09He owns a fleet of ferry boats in the Hudson.

01:04:11I'll be up on deck.

01:04:12You'll find big stallions passing by here.

01:04:38Farming and cattle raising.

01:04:43Come on up, Molly.

01:04:44Jeepers, creepers, there's about a million Indians coming.

01:05:13Hello.

01:05:26You come fair?

01:05:29We go Washington to speak great white father.

01:05:33Smoke him five piece.

01:05:35Old treaty, end.

01:05:38New treaty, come.

01:05:40You're going to Washington to make a new treaty with the government.

01:05:44Make big talk with great white father.

01:05:47Live now in peace.

01:05:49Twenty winters with white brother.

01:05:51Live in peace more.

01:05:53New treaty.

01:05:54Did he say new treaty?

01:05:56New treaty.

01:05:57Oh, I thought he said he wanted some new treaty.

01:06:00That's my profession.

01:06:01Me fix some bad treaty.

01:06:02Now, if any of your boys should want me to fix it.

01:06:06No, no.

01:06:10Guess my luck.

01:06:11If I'd have got here sooner, I might have got some business.

01:06:13It's the best cologne you can buy, my boy.

01:06:15Straight from Paris.

01:06:16Every bottle genuine French cologne.

01:06:18There it is right on the label.

01:06:19Made in France.

01:06:20Well, what's this one?

01:06:22That's his Flowers of Cupid.

01:06:23It's 40 cents.

01:06:28See, I can't make up my mind what I like best.

01:06:31Flowers of Cupid or Love's Passion.

01:06:34I'm going to take Love's Passion.

01:06:36Ah, Love's Passion.

01:06:37The gentleman picks Love's Passion at 55 cents.

01:06:39Step right up in here and avail yourself of an opportunity of a lifetime.

01:06:41Get this fragrant odor of France.

01:06:43Hushed in the flowers of famous France.

01:06:45Buy for yourself a bottle for your wife, your sweetheart, or your mother.

01:06:47This famous French perfume.

01:06:48This famous genuine French cologne.

01:06:50Step right up.

01:06:51Get this fragrant odor of France.

01:06:52Hushed in the flowers of famous France.

01:06:54Buy for yourself a bottle for your wife, your sweetheart, or your mother.

01:06:56Hello, Lucy.

01:06:58Say, what have you got on you?

01:07:00Love's Passion.

01:07:01What's that?

01:07:02Well, it's the finest cologne water made in France.

01:07:05And I just paid 35 cents for it.

01:07:08Well, I'd rather smell the hogs than they eat no geraniums.

01:07:14From an open book, your fortune told 50 cents today.

01:07:18She tells you all about yourself.

01:07:20Jotham Claude gives his fortune told.

01:07:23Daniel Harrell's here too.

01:07:25Ah, within one, I see one, one day, one week, one year, you will be in a terrible fight.

01:07:33You don't have to be a glass looker to tell me that.

01:07:36I'm Jotham Claude.

01:07:37Ah, I see a terrific struggle.

01:07:41You exchange blows.

01:07:43Your body is pitted against another body.

01:07:46There is blood.

01:07:47Who's going to win?

01:07:48The crystal does not say who will.

01:07:50You mean you can't see me winning in there?

01:07:52I can't see anything.

01:07:53You're a liar.

01:07:54Ah, my dear sir.

01:07:56The crystal does not show everything for 50 cents.

01:07:59It shows me winning in there.

01:08:00You look again and see it.

01:08:02I can't see.

01:08:03Look good.

01:08:04Am I winning?

01:08:05Yes, yes.

01:08:06You all-eyed faker, you're trying to lie to me.

01:08:08No, I was, I was...

01:08:09How much am I going to pay you?

01:08:10Can you see that in there?

01:08:12Ah, I see here the sum of 50 cents.

01:08:15That proves you're a liar, because I ain't going to give you nothing.

01:08:20So hold, seize hold.

01:08:21Tell me you can't see.

01:08:22Okay, Jotham.

01:08:23They got one of those new railroad cars down here a-beatin'.

01:08:26I ain't interested.

01:08:27Only one thing on my mind, and that's your partner, Daniel Harrell.

01:08:31I aim to meet him around here sometime today.

01:08:33Yeah, but this here car was put there just to insult the canal.

01:08:37Who's insulting the canal?

01:08:39Them railroad people.

01:08:40That's why the car is there, so they'd have the laugh on it.

01:08:43Where is it?

01:08:44Come on.

01:08:45Come on.

01:08:46I do hope we get the cake in before the contest closes.

01:08:50I'm thematic as fight a dog.

01:08:51What's thematic?

01:08:52They wouldn't take your preserves.

01:08:54Good grief, are they as bad as that?

01:08:56It's all on account that you ain't a resident of Oneida County.

01:09:00When the fella told me that, I just started a blister.

01:09:02I says, what kind of way is this to run a contest, you wart?

01:09:05This ain't a fair.

01:09:06It's an unfair.

01:09:07It ain't got nothing to do with your cooking.

01:09:09Why, there was never anybody could cook like you, Molly.

01:09:11I'd feel terrible if it was because my cooking was bad.

01:09:14No.

01:09:15I went to see the man in charge of everything.

01:09:16I told him the same thing.

01:09:17I said, do you realize canalers have been supporting this fair since before you was calved?

01:09:21It made no impression.

01:09:23I could have slapped his face.

01:09:25Oh, Mr. Harrell.

01:09:26Oh, hello, Mr. Butterfield.

01:09:27Could I see you a moment?

01:09:29Oh, excuse me, please.

01:09:32Molly, there's something more important than pickles.

01:09:35Clore's at the fair and he's looking for a fight.

01:09:38Dan ain't afraid of him.

01:09:39If he wants trouble, Dan will give him plenty.

01:09:42I'll bet my voter will be glad that he's around.

01:09:45I happened to see you here and I thought I might as well tell you myself.

01:09:48Oh, thank you kindly, Mr. Butterfield.

01:09:49I sure appreciate it.

01:09:50Now, get out as quick as you can now.

01:09:52Yes, sir.

01:09:53I will.

01:09:54I'll see you in Utica then.

01:09:55Yes, sir.

01:09:57There ain't a cowardly bone in Dan's whole body.

01:10:00Molly, would you mind if we went back to the boat,

01:10:02because I'd like to pull out for Utica.

01:10:03Why?

01:10:04Well, it's kind of important that I be back there in the morning.

01:10:07But we just got here today.

01:10:09Well, you see, I can get a full load out of Utica for Buffalo.

01:10:13You mean you want to leave the fair now?

01:10:16Well, if you don't mind.

01:10:18Did Mr. Butterfield tell you about Clore being here?

01:10:21He happened to mention it.

01:10:23All right.

01:10:24We'll go back to the boat.

01:10:26I'll take the basket.

01:10:27See you after supper, Lucy.

01:10:29Yes.

01:10:45Well, that's one of the things that's going to put the canal out of business, huh?

01:10:48Yeah.

01:10:49They're going to have some kind of a special doings with it this afternoon.

01:10:51Get me some stone.

01:10:52Get some stone for Mr. Clore.

01:10:54Hang on, Mr. Corley.

01:10:56It won't happen after that one.

01:10:58Try this one, Gotham.

01:11:03Come on, boys, all together.

01:11:14There.

01:11:15Now, if they want to put her on exhibition,

01:11:17there's something for people to look at.

01:11:19I've just seen Don O'Hara.

01:11:21Where?

01:11:22Him and Molly was heading for their boat.

01:11:24Wait a minute, Gotham.

01:11:25There's a railroad locomotive down yonder.

01:11:27We ought to do something about that, too.

01:11:29I got some real work to do now.

01:11:31But, Gotham.

01:11:35I don't see why you won't talk, Molly.

01:11:48Are you scared of Clore?

01:11:50Well, put that in your head.

01:11:52A while ago, you was all perked up and crazy to go to the fair.

01:11:55Then, all of a sudden, you want to get out of here and go back to Utica.

01:11:59Well, I might get a load in Utica.

01:12:01Did you know Clore was here?

01:12:03I was told this morning.

01:12:04Why didn't you tell me?

01:12:06I didn't want to worry you, none.

01:12:08Don't you think it would worry me a lot more to know my voter was a coward?

01:12:12How am I a coward?

01:12:14You're running away.

01:12:15Well, I... I got to be in Utica tomorrow.

01:12:19To get away from Clore.

01:12:21No, it's something else.

01:12:24What?

01:12:26It's something we said we wouldn't talk about.

01:12:30About a farm?

01:12:32Now, listen, Molly. We've been mighty happy all summer.

01:12:34Don't let's spoil it now.

01:12:36Damn.

01:12:37Did you go and buy a farm?

01:12:40Yes, I did.

01:12:42I offered Mr. Butterfield a price last week, and he said he'd think about it.

01:12:47Today, he said he'd take it.

01:12:49That's why I want to go back to Utica to see his agent.

01:12:52I said that about a load on account of Lucy being there.

01:12:55Then all the time you was on the canal.

01:12:58All the time the voters was being neighborly and friendly.

01:13:01The only thing in your mind was you was buying a farm.

01:13:05I said from the beginning I didn't think I could stay on the canal.

01:13:08You never gave the canal a chance.

01:13:10You never bothered to notice how beautiful it is.

01:13:12You never noticed you've been happier here than you ever been in your life.

01:13:16That's because I've been in love with you.

01:13:18No, it ain't.

01:13:19It's because you can't play fair.

01:13:21This proves it.

01:13:23All them things you've been buying for the boat.

01:13:26Things that was too big for the boat.

01:13:28That looking glass.

01:13:29That kitchen oven.

01:13:30You knew all the time you was buying them for a dirty old farm.

01:13:35Even this dress.

01:13:37I bet you bought this to go to church in.

01:13:40I thought maybe you'd get married in it.

01:13:44I'll never marry you now.

01:13:46I just think you're acting crazy.

01:13:49Molly, you ought to know there ain't anything in the world I wouldn't do for you except this.

01:13:53And it's just because I can't do it.

01:13:55Will you come and let me show you the farm?

01:13:58Me at a farm?

01:13:59Do you think I'm a traitor?

01:14:01Even Clore would not ask me to do that.

01:14:03I thought he was mean.

01:14:05But he's nothing as compared to you.

01:14:07You're just saying that because you're mad.

01:14:09He never lied to me.

01:14:10I never lied to you.

01:14:12In your heart you did.

01:14:13You were saying one thing and all the time thinking another.

01:14:16At least Clore was honest.

01:14:19Maybe you never should have left him.

01:14:20Maybe I shouldn't.

01:14:24That's the way you feel.

01:14:25There's nothing going to stop you from going back to him.

01:14:28Jeepers, I can get my dander up too.

01:14:32What are you going to do?

01:14:33I got something more important.

01:14:34I want to show you why I ain't so mean.

01:14:36From now on my half of the boat is yours.

01:14:37I won't take it.

01:14:40Where's Daniel Harrow's boat?

01:14:42Over the bridge.

01:14:45The boat was only mine if I stayed on the canal.

01:14:47Well, I'm going, so now it's yours.

01:14:50Whether you marry me or not, I don't think you'll be hauling many seasons more.

01:14:53What do you mean?

01:14:54You think people are going to travel four miles an hour when they can go 20?

01:14:57Times have changed.

01:14:58But you're so blinded by the canal you can't see it.

01:15:00Things ain't like they was 25 years ago.

01:15:02In another 25 years they won't be like they are now.

01:15:05That's progress.

01:15:06And that's what'll lick the eerie.

01:15:07Nothing can lick the eerie.

01:15:08I may miss you.

01:15:09But year after year I'll see the eerie growing even more wonderful.

01:15:12Hauling things east and hauling things west.

01:15:14And I'll be on my boat seeing it all happen.

01:15:16That's more than you'll be.

01:15:18You're so sure of everything.

01:15:20I'm sure of one thing.

01:15:21I'll be on my farm growing things for the trains to haul.

01:15:24The soil won't change.

01:15:25That's as it was and always will be.

01:15:27Because life comes from the soil and life will always be the same.

01:15:30Jeepers, that's the most I ever talked in my life.

01:15:35You don't deserve to be on the eerie.

01:15:39If you ever want me, I'll be waiting for you at the place where I asked you to marry me.

01:15:43That's the farm I bought, Molly.

01:15:44The farm you wouldn't even come to see.

01:15:47That's the train.

01:15:48I gotta hurry.

01:15:49Running away.

01:15:50That's what you are.

01:15:51Just like a coward.

01:15:52That's all I could expect from a man that didn't like the eerie.

01:15:57It is the most wonderful thing in the world.

01:16:01Why couldn't he see that?

01:16:07That Daniel Harrell that just left here?

01:16:08Yes.

01:16:09But you can't catch him.

01:16:10He got on that train.

01:16:12I'll bet he did that just to insult the canal.

01:16:15Running away from a fight, eh?

01:16:19Funny fellow you'd pick for a boater, Molly.

01:16:21You ain't much like your pa.

01:16:23You'd never let a coward work for him.

01:16:38Say, boss, what would you like me to eat tonight for supper?

01:16:55What have you got?

01:16:57Steak.

01:16:58Guess I like to like steak.

01:17:08They smell good, Molly.

01:17:10I don't seem to take any comfort in cooking anymore.

01:17:13I guess maybe it's a good thing the season is over tomorrow.

01:17:16And now it's closing.

01:17:18You're tired.

01:17:19Of course, Dan leaving, that'd put a lot of work on your shoulder.

01:17:23I'm used to work.

01:17:25It ain't that.

01:17:26It's the fact that I could ever be in love with a coward.

01:17:30After all, Molly, you don't really know that Dan is a coward.

01:17:33He ran away, didn't he?

01:17:35He went away.

01:17:36He went away?

01:17:37He run away.

01:17:39That's what I can't forgive him.

01:17:41Maybe in time I could have got used to his wanting a farm.

01:17:44But being a coward, it's just again my nature.

01:17:48And anyway, I ain't unhappy over him.

01:17:50No.

01:17:51No.

01:17:52No.

01:17:53Like you said, I'm just tuckered out, that's all.

01:17:58That's it.

01:18:00When you get to Rome tomorrow, you can take a good rest.

01:18:02What are you going to do, Fortune?

01:18:04For me?

01:18:05I got some business to attend to.

01:18:07I'll have to take a little trip, I guess.

01:18:13Whoa.

01:18:27Hello, Fortune.

01:18:28How are you, Dan?

01:18:29Doing your fall plowing?

01:18:30Yeah.

01:18:33I saw my buggy coming along and I thought maybe...

01:18:36It was somebody else?

01:18:37Yeah.

01:18:38Molly?

01:18:39She's in Rome.

01:18:40I had some business up the road a piece and thought I'd see you.

01:18:42How is she?

01:18:43Oh, and might say in one way she is and another way she ain't.

01:18:47Sort of a yes and no proposition.

01:18:49She ain't sick?

01:18:50Worried.

01:18:51About what?

01:18:52Oh, Molly's a proud little thing and it kind of hurts her to see people sneering, I guess.

01:18:57Who's sneering at her?

01:18:59Canal folk.

01:19:00Why?

01:19:01Oh, they'll forget about it in time.

01:19:02People don't remember.

01:19:03Forget what?

01:19:04Oh, I shouldn't have spoken about it in the first place.

01:19:07What are you driving at?

01:19:09Well, you see, they're all sort of sticking their noses up at Molly.

01:19:12Some of them won't even speak to her at all.

01:19:15I heard Saul tinker myself and salt the girl right to her face.

01:19:18Insult Molly?

01:19:19Yes.

01:19:20About what?

01:19:22Canalers haven't any use for anyone that ever worked for a coward.

01:19:28They think I run away.

01:19:30And Molly has to bear the brunt of it.

01:19:32You see, Molly's pa was a fighter and so was Clore.

01:19:35Then after what happened with you, why, they say that Molly ain't good enough anymore to work for a real man.

01:19:42I mean, a man on the canal is good enough for Molly, that's what.

01:19:45That's what I think.

01:19:47But it's hard for a girl to lose the respect of her friends even though there ain't no cause for it.

01:19:52About the only one that pays any notice to her at all is Clore.

01:19:56Clore?

01:19:57Yes.

01:19:58He's got a big smile for her, but maybe he's only gloating.

01:20:01He never can tell.

01:20:03And she's being insulted just because I didn't fight him.

01:20:07Now, how did I ever get on this subject?

01:20:10I'm just an old fussbudget, I guess, and never should have mentioned it.

01:20:17Is Clore in Rome?

01:20:18Yes.

01:20:19He stops at Molly's boat real often.

01:20:21Well, I must get on.

01:20:23I'm going to be in Rome myself tomorrow.

01:20:25No, are you, Dan?

01:20:28By and Mr. Weaver's horses.

01:20:30Well, I'll see you.

01:20:31Yeah.

01:20:32So long.

01:20:33Get up.

01:20:57All right.

01:21:16All right.

01:21:17Now, are we all here?

01:21:19Play and leave in ten minutes.

01:21:28Where are they going?

01:21:30To work on the railroad.

01:21:32Canalers, and they're going to spend the winter working on the railroad.

01:21:35What's the world coming to?

01:21:37Seems like the poor old canal's getting licked every way these days.

01:21:40My jeepers, I'm going to tell them fellows off.

01:21:45Hello, Molly.

01:21:47Hello, Jockham.

01:21:48Where are you staying this winter?

01:21:50Here in Rome.

01:21:51Who are you going with next season?

01:21:53I ain't made up my mind yet.

01:21:55I'd like mighty fine to have you come back on my boat.

01:21:58I'll think about it.

01:22:00Then I'll stay in Rome, too.

01:22:02I'm going down to the freight agent's office now.

01:22:04I was thinking maybe you'd like to invite me to supper tonight.

01:22:07I don't get much comfort out of cooking anymore.

01:22:10That's because you ain't got a good eater around.

01:22:12I've been drinking more than I used to, so I eat more.

01:22:15Do your heart good to see me eat, Molly.

01:22:17Expect me for supper.

01:22:20By the fathers of summer, you built the eatery.

01:22:23And now you're just sticking a knife in its back by helping to build a railroad.

01:22:27Ain't you got no respect for yourself?

01:22:30Why don't you join up with us, Sam?

01:22:32The pay is good.

01:22:33Me work for a railroad? I'd rather be dead.

01:22:36Come on, boys. You'd better get to the train.

01:22:54Jeepers Creeper.

01:23:09Mr. Weaver.

01:23:16Anybody home?

01:23:20Yes.

01:23:23Can I come down?

01:23:25Yes.

01:23:40Hello, Molly.

01:23:42Hello.

01:23:44How have you been?

01:23:46Oh, fine.

01:23:48How...

01:23:50How are you getting along with the Canallers?

01:23:54Just like I always did.

01:23:55They like me and I like them.

01:23:58What do you mean?

01:24:00They ain't insulting you?

01:24:01Me?

01:24:02Yeah.

01:24:03Nobody ever insulted me.

01:24:05Leastways, hardly nobody.

01:24:09I guess I did feel a little mean at the fair when you ran away.

01:24:13I didn't run away. I...

01:24:15I had to go see about my farm.

01:24:17I don't want to hear about the farm.

01:24:19Gosh, Molly, I wish you could just see it.

01:24:22It's got the best soil...

01:24:23You didn't come here to talk about that.

01:24:25No, I didn't, but...

01:24:27now that I'm seeing you again, I can't help talking about it.

01:24:31It's all I've thought of ever since I've been on it,

01:24:33just how fine it'd be if you was up there.

01:24:36I'll never be there.

01:24:38Even if you could come for the winter, Molly,

01:24:41if you still like the Canal, you can come back when it opens up.

01:24:45I couldn't go with a man I didn't respect.

01:24:48I ain't done anything...

01:24:49You ran away.

01:24:51That's what hurt me so.

01:24:53Not that you was leaving the Canal.

01:24:55I could have gotten used to that in time.

01:24:57But in front of everybody, you ran away.

01:25:00And everybody knew how I felt about you.

01:25:05Ben!

01:25:06Themdy just told Clore you're in town.

01:25:08He's looking for you.

01:25:10That's all right. I wanted him to know.

01:25:12You're going to meet him?

01:25:14Fortune said folks were sneering at you,

01:25:16because what I'd done.

01:25:18I'd come back to fight him.

01:25:20You want to fight him?

01:25:22I don't want to, but I don't want you held up to scorn either.

01:25:24Oh.

01:25:26Maybe it'd be just as well if you didn't fight him.

01:25:29It'd be better.

01:25:31Dan.

01:25:33I don't want you to fight him.

01:25:39Dan!

01:25:42How's that, Mr. Weaver?

01:25:44Fine. Fine.

01:25:47Clore, this is going to be a fair fight.

01:25:50The first man that fights Fowler, I'm going to bring him with him.

01:25:54Here comes Daniel Harrell.

01:25:56Don't go down there, Dan. Please.

01:25:58That's what I come for, to meet Clore.

01:25:59I don't want you to get hurt.

01:26:01I guess I can take care of myself, all right?

01:26:03But not with Clore. He's been fighting all his life.

01:26:05Nobody's ever licked him. It ain't a match.

01:26:07I ain't no weakling either.

01:26:09I got a acres of woodland all by myself in one month, and I planted it, too.

01:26:12Gosh, Molly, the country's beautiful in the fall.

01:26:15There, it smells so sweet.

01:26:16Oh, but Clore's terrible when he's mad.

01:26:18I'm getting me some apple trees, too.

01:26:20Dan, maybe you'll be killed.

01:26:22I got the south field all sown with red bush clover and a cover crop of oats.

01:26:25Oh, don't fight, Dan. Please don't.

01:26:27How about when I get finished, there won't be a farm in this part of the state

01:26:30that can hold a candle to mine?

01:26:31Stand back there now. Give him room.

01:26:33Get back. Make it square.

01:26:35And nobody lays a hand on Daniel Harrell.

01:26:37It's going to be a fair fight.

01:26:43I guess you're looking for me. I'm Dan O'Hara.

01:26:45That's right. You ready?

01:26:47Let her come.

01:27:08Come on.

01:27:13Come on, Molly. You don't want to stay around here.

01:27:15Oh, Lucy, I begged him not to fight.

01:27:18All aboard!

01:27:20Hey! Hey!

01:27:22Mr. Clore's fighting Dan O'Hara in front of Hennessey's Hotel.

01:27:25Who's fighting Dan O'Hara?

01:27:26Get up there. Come on.

01:27:28Sit right there, Molly.

01:27:31Come on. Come on.

01:27:34I'll leave you five to three on Clore.

01:27:36That's agreeable. I'll take six dollars on that.

01:27:41He didn't lose any teeth, did he?

01:27:42Can you see what's happening?

01:27:44He's nip and tuck.

01:27:46Bands on his feet. Yes.

01:27:49Damn it.

01:27:55Don't get him, Daniel.

01:28:18Come on. Come on.

01:28:29It's over.

01:28:30Dan knocked him in the calf.

01:28:33Come on, boys. Hurry it up.

01:28:35Fight or no fight, I can't hold that train. Now, come on.

01:28:42Well, thank you for those ten dollars, Mr. Lucas.

01:28:46Thank you.

01:28:57Well, took a better man than me to lick me.

01:29:03That's all I got to say.

01:29:06I'm astonished.

01:29:09I'm astounded.

01:29:12You licked him.

01:29:13Will you come back with me now, Molly?

01:29:15You whipped Clore.

01:29:16The farm is over.

01:29:17Oh, you don't want to go back to the farm now, Dan.

01:29:19Don't you realize? You whipped Clore.

01:29:22You're the new champion, like my pa used to be, like Clore was.

01:29:26Every man on the canal will be talking about you.

01:29:28You'll be famous, Dan. You can't give up the canal now.

01:29:31I don't care anything about the canal. You ought to know that.

01:29:34I told you often enough.

01:29:35I don't care anything about being a bully or the new champion.

01:29:38I came down here to fight Clore, hoping you'd come back with me.

01:29:41Now I can see you wouldn't have sense enough to see how fine my farm is.

01:29:45So I don't want you to come now.

01:29:47Goodbye.

01:29:58Come on. Get out now.

01:30:00Come on. Get out now.

01:30:06Whoa. Whoa.

01:30:10Jeepers.

01:30:21Molly.

01:30:24Is this your old farm?

01:30:26Yeah.

01:30:27Yeah.

01:30:30All mine.

01:30:32Well, come on.

01:30:35Where's your kitchen?

01:30:37Oh, Molly.

The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935) Full Movie - Victor Fleming (Dir) | Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda

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