Miss Carol is a rural school teacher who want to fight against child marriage in the Ozarks village.
Starring by:
Shirley Mills
Bob Bollinger
Warner Richmond
Starring by:
Shirley Mills
Bob Bollinger
Warner Richmond
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00:05:40Why don't you wear your hat? It's raining. Just a couple of drops. That will be our time
00:06:07Freddy? Yes, Jenny. Did you study your spelling lesson? No. No, you. Anyway, my dad says that
00:06:16teacher don't know how to spell. Why, Freddy Melty, my teacher knows all the words in all
00:06:21the books and all the words. I don't care what your dad says. My teacher says you have
00:06:26to learn how to spell.
00:06:38Was that a shot? Yeah, right down there.
00:06:56It, it looks like dad.
00:06:59Daddy, daddy. He's been shot. Jenny, go for help. Hurry, hurry. Yes, Freddy.
00:07:10Daddy, daddy. You all right? Daddy, speak to me.
00:07:19Why are you going this morning, Ira? I'm aiming to go up to the stairs.
00:07:25Hurry, daddy, hurry.
00:07:32Freddy's mother's been shot. Mike, Jack, where's he at? He's out in the woods. Come on.
00:07:47He's at the trail, just off the road.
00:07:55He's over there.
00:08:00I think he's hurt bad, Ira.
00:08:06The bullet went clean through his shoulder. Oh, it's going to be all right, Mike. It's
00:08:11going to be all right. Oh, Freddy.
00:08:17Freddy, he's not bad hurt. We'll take care of him. Now you and Jenny go on to school, dear.
00:08:25Yes.
00:08:30Father, I guess I was hit. You're going to be all right. I reckon so. Mike, tell me who
00:08:40shot you, and I'll follow him to his grave. No, Ira. It's my fight. I'll take care of
00:08:47that skunk when I'm up in the mountains. Oh. Mike, we've got to get him home. Oh, easy.
00:08:56Please, please, easy.
00:08:59Dreaming, hiding, rhythmic, learning in a rhyme. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all
00:09:12the way. We're in school, oh, what fun, studying and playing.
00:09:21This is it, children. Jenny Colton and Frederick Nelty, please come here.
00:09:35What excuse have you both for being late? My old man got hurt. Jenny here had to go
00:09:41for help. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Frederick. Was it serious? No, I think he'll be all right.
00:09:48He should have a doctor teacher. There's no doctor in this community now. Later, perhaps.
00:09:54Go on back to your seats.
00:09:56Quiet. Alex Cross, why did you do that? Teaching. He was a peasant, and he dropped it on my
00:10:25book. Quiet. Alex, you come up here. Vonta, Lila, Bill, for your spelling lesson. Vonta,
00:10:40you spell the word butter. Butter. B-U-T-T-E-R. Correct. Lila, the word banish. B-I-N-I-S-H.
00:10:56N-H. That was a very good try, Lila. You try it, Bill. Banish. B-A-N-D-H-I-S-H. You'd
00:11:09better take your book home with you tonight. Alex, you try it. Banish. B-A-N-I-S-H. Correct.
00:11:18Now go back to your seats. All right, Jenny Colton, Frederick Nolte, Jeanette, and Tom.
00:11:31All right, Tom, spell the word catalog. C-A-T-A-L-O-Q-E. You didn't spell your lesson, did you? No.
00:11:41Jeanette, the word mountain. M-O-T-I-A-N. You'd better study your lesson more thoroughly next time.
00:11:53Jenny, the word automobile. A-U-T-O-M-O-B-I-L-E. Correct. Freddie, the word milking. M-I-L-K-G-I-N-G.
00:12:07Freddie, you didn't study your spelling lesson last night, did you? I tried to make him, Miss Carol, but he wouldn't.
00:12:15See that you study it tonight, young man. Teacher. All right, George. Teacher, teacher. All right, Cecil.
00:12:33Take out your epitaph book. Hey, Cecil. This one's Ma. This is Pa.
00:12:49Charles! Starling! Are you really glad to see me? Why didn't you tell me you were coming?
00:13:04I just couldn't stay another minute down there in the city with you up here in this godforsaken country.
00:13:12You know why I stay here. But you promised that when I became established in my profession, you'd marry me.
00:13:19Yes, I know. Well, now I'm assistant district attorney. You can't stall me this time.
00:13:26Oh, I am proud of you, Charles. But I haven't accomplished what I set out to do.
00:13:31Now you're wasting your time. No, dear, I'm not. Yes, you are.
00:13:37Now look here, Ivy. You can't change the customs of these people. Others before you have tried.
00:13:43But I was born here. They're my people. My blood. But you've been out in the world. You've gone to school.
00:13:50Yes, I was fortunate in obtaining an education. Now it's my duty to help them.
00:13:55All the education in the world wouldn't help them. But you could help me if you really love me.
00:14:03Of course I love you. But what could I do? You can do a lot, dearest.
00:14:08What, for instance? Just continue to love me and be patient.
00:14:14Patient? I've been waiting patiently for the last five years. I suppose you want me to wait until I'm an old man.
00:14:21Charles, I'm going to fight for these people until they realize that child marriage must be stopped.
00:14:29Sometimes I wonder if you, if you really do love me, Ivy.
00:14:45The purest blood in our land flows in the veins of these mountain people.
00:14:50And yet the government does less for them than for any group within its boundaries.
00:14:55Government neglect is one cause.
00:14:58And as governor of this state, I beg of you to realize that this child marriage law will be a wedge to free these mountain people from adverse social and economic conditions.
00:15:12How do you do, Charles?
00:15:16Margo and Miss Carol.
00:15:19Sadie, how's the baby?
00:15:22Pretty good, Miss Carol. We're missing you at school.
00:15:26My husband says there's nothing finer than a bunch of young'uns.
00:15:30But Sadie, don't you realize that at 25 you'll be an old woman?
00:15:36If that school mom don't quit preaching to our women folks, she's preaching to get herself into a mess of trouble.
00:15:42I thought perhaps all the women of the village could get together and...
00:15:45We don't go meddling in no foreigner's business.
00:15:48Why should you in ours?
00:15:50I'm not a foreigner.
00:15:52I'm as much a mountain person as any of you.
00:15:55And I'm fighting for the improvement of this community.
00:15:59Now listen, Mrs. Haggerty.
00:16:01You're a mother.
00:16:02You have seven children of your own.
00:16:06You can't jump from childhood to womanhood by saying, I do.
00:16:11We got them, I am young. We're short of women.
00:16:14Look, isn't it better to have a woman for 30 years than a child for 15?
00:16:21What I'm trying to make you understand is that you can't fight nature's law.
00:16:26Bearing children is a woman's job.
00:16:29Child marriage must go.
00:16:33Your Excellency, this law must pass.
00:16:36I'm not a foreigner.
00:16:38I'm not a foreigner.
00:16:40I'm not a foreigner.
00:16:42I'm not a foreigner.
00:16:44I'm not a foreigner.
00:16:46I'm not a foreigner.
00:16:48Your Excellency, this law must pass.
00:16:50Oh, I beg Your Excellency to endorse Miss Carroll's bill.
00:17:05Hey, Happy!
00:17:07Come on down!
00:17:09All right, Angelo.
00:17:19Hey, you!
00:17:21Did you get that corn up to the Higgins?
00:17:23Yeah.
00:17:24Well, where's the money?
00:17:26I'm giving the money to Ira.
00:17:28Well, Ira's my partner.
00:17:30It's as much mine as it is his, isn't it?
00:17:32I'm still giving the money to Ira.
00:17:34Don't give me any earlier.
00:17:35Come on, come on, give me that money.
00:17:37I won't do it.
00:17:38Why you...
00:17:40Hey, leave him alone!
00:17:43Leave him alone, I tell you!
00:17:44Why, you poor simp!
00:17:49No, no!
00:17:55Now then, I'll have that money.
00:17:57I won't do it.
00:17:58Here you go.
00:18:04Now then, I'm going to give you the same deal.
00:18:06I won't do it.
00:18:08I won't do it.
00:18:10I won't do it.
00:18:12I'll give you the same deal.
00:18:13So, Jake, don't...
00:18:14Jake!
00:18:15Put him down!
00:18:19Who do you think you're talking to?
00:18:21You, you slimy weasel.
00:18:24How many times must I tell you to leave him be?
00:18:30So, you want to play?
00:18:33I've been waiting a long time for this chance.
00:18:37And now I'm going to call you dirty skunk!
00:18:43Jake!
00:18:51Jake!
00:18:52Jake, hang on!
00:18:54Jake!
00:18:55Jake!
00:19:21All right, all right.
00:19:23This time I lose.
00:19:25But there'll be a next time.
00:19:27There ain't gonna be no next time.
00:19:42Fill up four gallons of corn liquor.
00:19:44And take it over to the crook's farm.
00:19:54Fill up four gallons of corn liquor.
00:19:58Fill up four gallons of corn liquor.
00:20:19I recorded it.
00:20:21Someday I'm gonna kill you.
00:20:27I recorded it.
00:20:37I wonder what could have happened to Jake.
00:20:39He should have been here by now.
00:20:40Maybe he's down at the school, Marms.
00:20:42Seeing whether she's out preaching against us Marion young'uns.
00:20:45I spurn her education anyway.
00:20:47Why don't she mind her own business?
00:20:49I'm for driving her out of town.
00:20:51Yeah.
00:20:52Tarn feathers' risky business.
00:20:53Oh, you're getting yellow, clump.
00:20:55I'd put her in boiling oil and watch her fry.
00:20:57Weren't she one of our kind?
00:20:59Why, she's the cause of me losing that kid, Nellie Jensen.
00:21:06Jake, your face looks like it's gone through a thrash machine.
00:21:08What happened?
00:21:16Oh, I had a run-in with a bunch of hijackers in the corn valley.
00:21:20A little bit too much for me, that's all.
00:21:22Is everybody here now?
00:21:24We're all here.
00:21:25Good.
00:21:26What do we do now?
00:21:27You, Ezra.
00:21:29Lem.
00:21:30Jeremiah and clump.
00:21:32Go down through bone valley and meet us at the bear cave near the tunnel three.
00:21:36Take your mask along and be sure and bring your torches along too.
00:21:39All right, Jake.
00:21:41Be careful now.
00:21:49OK, where's my mask?
00:21:51Oh, there it is.
00:21:52Put out this fire.
00:21:55All right, let's go.
00:22:22Let's go.
00:22:47Who's there?
00:22:49I. Was it.
00:23:19A. Man.
00:23:42What.
00:23:49A. Happy happy.
00:24:02I think you'll find that. I know who you are.
00:24:07I'm on.
00:24:15A way for me.
00:24:37You're not you're not.
00:24:39I am.
00:25:05What.
00:25:09You. Want to watch Spooky Hollow come on happy.
00:25:31I.
00:25:39Read.
00:26:00It's taking
00:26:00a full mime into the mountains. But you can't.
00:26:07What's the matter. I don't know I was asleep and I was going to walk me up then
00:26:14happy and I ran up to the final and we saw a lot of road figures with torches I
00:26:19left happy to tell him that he's to meet us at Devils Rock.
00:26:30I. Will take
00:26:36a shortcut through Devils Grouse.
00:27:01I.
00:27:07We give you plenty of warning not to meddle with our customs and just stick to
00:27:10your own A.B.C.
00:27:13Right we have our own ideas about what's right and what's wrong in this section
00:27:18how dare you bring me here I'll have
00:27:20a laugh on you. We're the law in these mountains and I'll show you.
00:27:30I. Come on let's talk let's get this business over.
00:27:41I can't tell you how to open it up I don't want to.
00:27:48Get out the tree and help me. Step out and line up against
00:27:54the right. That you can shoot straight
00:28:02you try me I'm just itching to plug one guy I think down there. Make
00:28:08a false move and I'll let you have it.
00:28:14You take this gun.
00:28:20I still got you covered I'm
00:28:23coming.
00:28:39And I think I'm trying to stop. And you know my.
00:28:47Love my friend.
00:28:54I.
00:28:59And Jake my heart is not the school I'm going to come and go I thought I gave you
00:29:05enough the last time I'll finish it now.
00:29:16Jake did Colton pay you for the interest in that still he sent me forty dollars.
00:29:22Just what I put in. But you never can tell maybe later when I get settled I can get
00:29:29even I hear that school ma'am is still staying never scared her one bit yeah I hear
00:29:36she's preaching stronger than before well when we're on the prowl again I'll make
00:29:41certain.
00:29:51That.
00:29:58I'll be.
00:30:03Ready you ain't going to let me know why don't you take your clothes off I get
00:30:08teased no I'm not I mean it.
00:30:11We've always gone swimming together why not now.
00:30:17He says not to.
00:30:19All because because we're not what we used to be. You mean we're different.
00:30:26Now we're the same when you can't see me without my clothes on how come I know how
00:30:32you look without your clothes on I've seen you a lot of time haven't I yes I know.
00:30:36I put that idea into your head I'm sure I can't teach you no more of course you can
00:30:43really only with my clothes on all right but I was that teacher in mind your own
00:30:48business now so.
00:30:52Me and I'll watch for you.
00:31:07I.
00:31:15All right.
00:31:36You.
00:32:06You.
00:32:22Are.
00:32:27Not to let him look at me.
00:32:36Come on.
00:32:38Come on, Rick.
00:32:45Come on. Come here, Rick. Come on.
00:32:47Come on.
00:33:07Pretty ancient.
00:33:13Hey, Jenny, you better hide.
00:33:15Somebody's up in the ridge.
00:33:17Okay, I'll hide in the cave.
00:33:24Ah, what do you want?
00:33:26Nothing of you, you old scarecrow.
00:33:28I know what you're aiming at.
00:33:30Ah, hush your fuss.
00:33:36Come on.
00:33:47Betty, bring me my clothes.
00:33:49Oh, gee, you told me not to look.
00:33:51How can I?
00:33:53You can't look when I want my clothes.
00:33:55All right. All right.
00:34:07Come on.
00:34:26Let's walk by the still on our way home.
00:34:28Uh-uh. I'm cold.
00:34:31Besides, looks like the storm is blowing up.
00:34:34All right.
00:34:37All right. I'm dressed now, Betty.
00:34:43Come on, Eddie.
00:34:45What was on the ridge?
00:34:47I think it was Jake and Little Hawkins.
00:34:49Oh, it couldn't be Jake.
00:34:51This hill's on the other side of the river.
00:35:05Look, there comes Colton.
00:35:07Spiffy-eyed again.
00:35:14You'd be all liquored up, too,
00:35:16if your wife was fooling around with your partner.
00:35:19Ah, Jake ain't fooling around with Colton's wife no more.
00:35:23He said he's trapped with that young'un.
00:35:34Oh, gee.
00:35:53You're home early.
00:35:55I haven't ever made you a jiffy.
00:35:58You've been drinking again.
00:36:00Yeah, I have.
00:36:04Oh, no!
00:36:06Oh, I've spoiled it.
00:36:08I ought to fry in grease, you low-down sneak.
00:36:11What have I done?
00:36:12You've been carried out of my provider, Jake told me.
00:36:15Right in front of my door.
00:36:17Oh!
00:36:18Believe me, Ira, love is like marriage.
00:36:20You're a liar!
00:36:22You'll never believe me, Ira!
00:36:24The whole village is talking about you!
00:36:27It's a lie!
00:36:28I am going to break every bone in your body!
00:36:36If you hit me again, Ira,
00:36:38I'll kill you!
00:36:39Kill you!
00:36:44I'll kill you!
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00:38:17Shame on you, Freddy!
00:38:19Heck, she's brought all the fun we used to have.
00:38:23I hate her.
00:38:24Now, Freddy, the teacher is right.
00:38:27All right.
00:38:28Ha ha ha!
00:38:31Ha ha ha!
00:38:47Ow!
00:38:48Mommy!
00:38:49Mommy!
00:38:50Mommy!
00:38:52Oh, Mommy, speak to me, Mommy!
00:38:54Speak to me!
00:38:57Are you hurt?
00:38:59Oh, Jenny.
00:39:01Is Daddy drunk again?
00:39:03Yeah.
00:39:05Something's riled him.
00:39:07He took it out on me.
00:39:09Poor Mommy.
00:39:11Come on, Mommy.
00:39:17Mommy.
00:39:21Jenny.
00:39:22Yes, Mommy?
00:39:24Go get him to bed.
00:39:26All right, Mommy.
00:39:47Come on, Daddy.
00:39:49Get to bed.
00:40:04Did you catch it or just a coral laying there on the floor, Daddy?
00:40:08Come on.
00:40:09Get to bed.
00:40:12Wake up, Daddy.
00:40:13It's your little Jenny.
00:40:15She wants you to come to bed.
00:40:19Oh, Daddy.
00:40:28Oh, Daddy, I can't lift you.
00:40:31Please wake up.
00:40:36Oh, I suppose I'll have to undress you and put you to bed.
00:40:46Oh, Daddy!
00:40:48Jenny!
00:40:50What's happened?
00:40:52Oh, Mommy!
00:40:55I think Daddy's dead!
00:40:58No.
00:41:01No.
00:41:02No, it can't be.
00:41:08Oh, Daddy.
00:41:10Oh, Daddy.
00:41:12Oh, Daddy.
00:41:14Oh, Daddy.
00:41:17Oh, I'm scared.
00:41:22Well, I see you're coping at last.
00:41:39I knew you'd do it sooner or later.
00:41:41And it sure looks like a good job.
00:41:44No.
00:41:45No, Jake.
00:41:46I didn't do it.
00:41:47I believe my own eyes, Flora.
00:41:49I saw you do it.
00:41:51I only scratched your side, I thought.
00:41:53No, Jake.
00:41:54You didn't.
00:41:55You didn't.
00:41:56Jake, God is my witness.
00:41:58I didn't do it.
00:42:04Listen, Flora, we ain't got no time to lose.
00:42:07Before anyone gets wind of this, I'd like to help you.
00:42:10You'll hire us.
00:42:11Oh, Daddy!
00:42:12Bill, Jason, Mommy, Dennis!
00:42:14Flora, don't you understand?
00:42:16This means the world for you.
00:42:24All right, Jake.
00:42:26What do you want me to do?
00:42:29But I didn't do it, I tell you.
00:42:31You're lying, Flora.
00:42:32You're lying and you know it.
00:42:33But what's this squabbling?
00:42:34We both know that he had it coming to him.
00:42:36No, he didn't.
00:42:37We ain't got no more time to lose, don't you understand?
00:42:40Jenny.
00:42:42Jenny.
00:42:43You step outside and see that no one's watching you
00:42:45when I bring your pappy out.
00:42:48Well?
00:42:49What you standing there gaping for?
00:42:51You want your mammy to hang?
00:42:53Go on, go on, get outside.
00:42:55Go on!
00:42:56Jake!
00:42:57What are you going to do?
00:42:59I'm taking him to Scooby Hollow.
00:43:02I'll make it look like he fell over a cliff
00:43:04and the knife went into him that way.
00:43:07Go on, go on.
00:43:25Enjoy your seat.
00:43:38Goodbye, Daddy.
00:43:41Goodbye.
00:44:07Goodbye, Daddy.
00:44:37Goodbye, Daddy.
00:45:03Oh, come on, Jess.
00:45:04You gonna go find a prowl after the rain?
00:45:11That's no wolf, it's a dog.
00:45:13I bet you somebody's croaked.
00:45:15I'll be right back.
00:45:33Holy Moses.
00:45:34Let's go down.
00:45:45the.
00:46:10Easy but you hate to give the best of our now that I was gone.
00:46:15Who killed him?
00:46:37I got my suspicions.
00:46:38It will go hard with Laura.
00:46:46I'm sorry for Jimmy, poor kid.
00:46:58And these last rites are for one Ira Colton, esteemed member of our community, healed by
00:47:08unknown hands.
00:47:11We of the Colton's clan are not worried about his soul going to heaven, but woe unto the
00:47:19guilty one whose hands are stained with Ira's blood.
00:47:27And as God said to Noah, for whosoever shethered man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
00:48:07What are you aiming at?
00:48:26Laura, I've decided to take myself a wife.
00:48:30Why do you come to me?
00:48:31Oh, don't get scared.
00:48:32I don't want you.
00:48:33I want to talk to you, though, about her.
00:48:36You mean, Jenny?
00:48:37That's right.
00:48:38What's the matter, Jenny?
00:48:39Your face is all puckered up.
00:48:40Oh, nothing.
00:48:41That's Jake Bowlby.
00:48:42He's in the cabin with Mother.
00:48:43I shouldn't leave her alone with him.
00:48:44Oh, come on.
00:48:45He won't bite her.
00:48:46We'll take a short swim and come right back.
00:48:47Oh, come on.
00:48:48He won't bite her.
00:48:49We'll take a short swim and come right back.
00:48:50Oh, come on.
00:48:51He won't bite her.
00:48:52We'll take a short swim and come right back.
00:48:53Oh, come on.
00:48:54He won't bite her.
00:48:55He won't bite her.
00:48:56Oh, come on.
00:48:57He won't bite her.
00:48:58Oh, come on.
00:48:59He won't bite her.
00:49:00Oh, come on.
00:49:01He won't bite her.
00:49:02We'll take a short swim and come right back.
00:49:07All right.
00:49:10All right.
00:49:11That's the way it's going to be, then, because you're going to hang.
00:49:14And you look pretty with a rope around your neck.
00:49:18Now I know why you blamed me for killing Ira.
00:49:22Jay, they're going to get my Jenny.
00:49:24James!
00:49:25Well, I'll testify that I saw you kill Ira.
00:49:28You lie.
00:49:29You know it.
00:49:30And everybody else will know it.
00:49:31Yeah, but they'll believe Lum and Ezra and Jeremiah.
00:49:35I'm going to the county seat tomorrow.
00:49:37That'll give you plenty of time to make up your mind.
00:49:43And remember, it won't take the marshal long.
00:50:01Howdy, boys.
00:50:02Hi, Jake.
00:50:03Well, how does it feel to be courting a British young'un in the community?
00:50:06I don't see how you do it.
00:50:08I thought you and the Colton were on the out.
00:50:10Not at all.
00:50:11Well, I think that I'll make Jenny a right good husband.
00:50:14Well, Jake, you'd better be hurrying, because the schoolmarm has a fine sweetheart
00:50:18fighting to pass a marriage law at the state capitol.
00:50:21Yeah, and if it does, you'll be courting Jenny for the rest of your life.
00:50:25Well, I'll be courting her for the rest of my life.
00:50:28Yeah, and if it does, you'll be courting Jenny for seven long years.
00:50:32Yeah, I'll take care of that.
00:50:35Jenny.
00:50:57Jenny.
00:51:05Look what I brought you.
00:51:11Now, listen, Jenny.
00:51:13I'm going to be your husband.
00:51:15And you want to be nice to me because if you don't,
00:51:18you know what'll happen to your ma.
00:51:22I... I'll try.
00:51:24Oh, and there's just one more thing.
00:51:27I don't want you to be seeing this Freddy Nully no more.
00:51:31Do you understand?
00:51:33Yes.
00:51:34All right, now take this.
00:51:36Go on, go on, take it.
00:52:04Don't forget what I told you.
00:52:34Jenny.
00:52:49Jenny.
00:52:51Jenny.
00:53:02Oh, Freddy.
00:53:04Jenny, I...
00:53:06I came to tell you that Jake told me if he catches me seeing you,
00:53:09or speaking to you,
00:53:11he'll wring my neck.
00:53:13Yes, I know, but... but Freddy,
00:53:16I must marry him or my mommy will suffer.
00:53:19Why should your mother suffer?
00:53:21Oh, Freddy,
00:53:23don't ask me that.
00:53:25I can't tell you.
00:53:27Well, all right.
00:53:30You don't want to tell me.
00:53:35But ain't you gonna come to school no more?
00:53:38No.
00:53:40They won't let me.
00:53:42Oh, Freddy.
00:53:44Don't cry, Jenny.
00:53:49Mrs. Powell?
00:53:51Yes?
00:53:57Well, Freddy Nulty, what brings you here?
00:54:00I... I came to tell you that Jake is gonna marry my Jenny,
00:54:03and I thought you could stop it.
00:54:05Yes, I heard about it.
00:54:07I went to see Mrs. Colton,
00:54:09but she's already given her consent.
00:54:11Well, gee, good for you.
00:54:13Well, Mrs. Powell,
00:54:15I went to see Mrs. Colton,
00:54:17but she's already given her consent.
00:54:19Well, gee, couldn't you do nothing?
00:54:21I couldn't make her change her mind.
00:54:23I'm sorry, Freddy.
00:54:25There's nothing else I can do.
00:54:27If I was a little bigger, I'd kill him.
00:54:29Freddy!
00:54:31You mustn't say that.
00:54:34Perhaps we may still be able to stop this child marriage.
00:54:37I thought you could do it.
00:54:45If there is anyone here among you
00:54:47who knows of any reason
00:54:49why these two people
00:54:51should not be joined together
00:54:53in holy wedlock,
00:54:55let him speak now
00:54:57or forever
00:54:59hold his peace.
00:55:01These two people
00:55:03should not be joined together
00:55:05in holy wedlock.
00:55:07Let him speak now
00:55:09or forever
00:55:11hold his peace.
00:55:23Join hands, please.
00:55:31Do you, Jake Colby,
00:55:33take this
00:55:35this girl child
00:55:37that you hold by the hand
00:55:39to be your lawful wedded wife
00:55:41to love, honor,
00:55:43and cherish
00:55:45the rest of your life?
00:55:47Repeat after me.
00:55:49I do.
00:55:51I do.
00:55:53And you, Jenny Colton,
00:55:55do you take this man
00:55:57that you hold by the hand
00:55:59to be your lawful wedded husband
00:56:01to love, honor,
00:56:03and obey
00:56:05for the rest of your days?
00:56:11I do.
00:56:15And now
00:56:17I pronounce you
00:56:19man and wife.
00:56:21You may kiss the bride.
00:56:29You may kiss the bride.
00:56:49Jenny!
00:56:51Jenny!
00:56:59Jenny!
00:57:13Put one right there.
00:57:15All right.
00:57:17It puzzles me, Mr. Barrett, why you have to post
00:57:19these notices at night.
00:57:21Well, I'll tell you, Marshal,
00:57:23I want to surprise the girl I'm engaged to.
00:57:25You know, I kind of thought
00:57:28I'd find a file around here somewhere.
00:57:30Give me one of those placards and that hammer.
00:57:32I'll show you how it's done.
00:57:34Here's the nail.
00:57:38You wait here.
00:57:40All right.
00:57:46It's me, Charles.
00:57:48Charles!
00:57:52Darling, I put it over.
00:57:54Look, the law.
00:57:58Wait.
00:58:00When did the law pass?
00:58:02Three days ago, dear.
00:58:04Three days ago?
00:58:06Darling!
00:58:12Goodbye, Jeremiah.
00:58:14Thank you.
00:58:16I hope you'll be happy.
00:58:18Well, I will, I guess.
00:58:20Goodbye.
00:58:22Goodbye.
00:58:24Goodbye.
00:58:26I'll be taking my wife home now.
00:58:28Oh, Mommy,
00:58:30I don't want to go.
00:58:32Jenny,
00:58:34you're my wife now,
00:58:36and it's time to go home.
00:58:38It's getting late.
00:58:46Oh, Mommy.
00:58:48Oh, Mommy.
00:59:18Oh, Mommy.
00:59:40Well,
00:59:42my job's done.
00:59:44And mine's just starting.
00:59:46Darling, what do you mean?
00:59:48Well, I can't be a child bride,
00:59:50but...
00:59:52But what?
01:00:16Jump into bed, and I'll blow the lamp out.
01:00:20Can I say my prayers?
01:00:22Oh, all right, but make them short.
01:00:28And, dear God,
01:00:32take good care of my mommy
01:00:34and my daddy
01:00:36in heaven.
01:00:38Amen.
01:00:46Amen.
01:00:52Amen.
01:01:16Oh, Freddy.
01:01:26Oh, Freddy,
01:01:28I was so scared.
01:01:30It's all right now, Jenny.
01:01:32You don't have to be his wife.
01:01:34Later,
01:01:36you can be mine.
01:01:38Oh, Freddy.
01:01:40Oh, Freddy.