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So, anyway... anyway,
this guy comes home, you see,
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and he finds his wife with his best friend.
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And the husband says
"Harry, how could you do this?"
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And the wife, she says "Why should you
complain? Harry didn't do it to you!"
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- What did I tell you? Isn't he a card?
- Class. Real class.
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With his gift of the gab
he could go places.
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Hey, pal, you oughta quit
that punk job of yours.
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- Why don't you join a sales outfit?
- It's no use, boys.
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Every time I'm in town, I ask him to go
on the road for our company. Right, pal?
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Sure, Ed, sure. Listen, fellas, listen.
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Two dames at a bar. One dame says to
another "If I don't get to bed pretty soon,
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I'm goin' home and go to sleep!"
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Would you make it a merry Christmas
for some poor orphan?
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Here you are, lady.
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That oughtn't to be allowed
in a place like this.
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- Religion don't belong in a speakeasy.
- I know it's Christmas, but...
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Mac, wait a minute. Excuse me,
Sister. Excuse me. Excuse me.
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Don't tell me we're gonna let
these angels of mercy
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go away from here
empty-handed on Christmas Eve.
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This joint is the home
of fine bourbon and fast women,
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and we need plenty of religion
to keep 'em both in line. So, come on.
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Get it up, now. Come on. Oh, come on.
A little action here. What's the matter?
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Oh.
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Hey!
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Hey, Lord? Can you hear me
up there, Jesus?
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You didn't think we'd forget
your birthday, did you?
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There you are, Jesus. And if I had
any more, you'd be welcome to it.
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Thank you, brother.
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The Bible says "Never let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing. "
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What's your beef, mister?
You ashamed of bein' a Christian?
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I see. You think religion is for suckers
and easy marks and mollycoddles, huh?
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You think Jesus was some kind
of a sissy, eh? Let me tell you,
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Jesus wouldn't be afraid to walk in here
or any speakeasy to preach the gospel.
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Jesus had guts! He wasn't afraid
of the whole Roman army.
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Think that quarterback's
hot stuff? Well, let me tell you,
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Jesus would have made the best little
all-American quarterback in history.
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Jesus was a real fighter. The best little
scrapper, pound for pound, you ever saw.
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And why, gentlemen? Love, gentlemen.
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Jesus had love in both fists.
And what is love?
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Love is the mornin' and the evenin' star
that shines on the cradle of the babe.
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Hey, sinners!
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Love is the inspiration
of poets and philosophers.
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Love is the voice of music.
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I'm talkin' about divine love,
not carnal love.
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That was a beautiful sermon, Parson.
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- Beautiful.
- Thank you, sister.
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- I gotta get home to the little woman.
- Here you are, Sister.
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Merry Christmas. Thank the Lord,
Sister. Thank the Lord.
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- Gotta go. Gotta catch a rattler.
- Me too.
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Time to take up a little female
companionship. Wait a minute.
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That's a swell preacher act you got, pal.
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I gotta catch a rattler myself. Ed,
we still got the whole night ahead of us.
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Whatever you do, never lose
that little black address book.
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Merry Christmas!
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Mr. Gantry?
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And a merry Christmas to you too, sir.
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You'll have to chalk it up.
The rest of these drinks, too.
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Charity.
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I oughta get myself a tambourine.
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That's the trouble with
this stinking world.
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Nobody loves nobody.
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Mac... the lady's glass is empty.
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OK.
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- Long-distance phone call.
- What time is it?
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The phone call you made
to Mrs. Gantry last night?
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Oh. Yeah, thanks.
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- Merry Christmas, Mr. Gantry.
- You too.
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And a happy New Year, Mr. Gantry.
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Well, I'll take...
I'll take care of you downstairs.
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Get my bags out now.
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Hello? Hello?
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Ready with your call, Mr. Gantry
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Hello? Oh, hello, Mom. Merry Christmas.
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Me, Elm!
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Just a sec, Mom.
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I just got back from church myself.
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I prayed for you too.
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How'd you like my present?
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You sure? Gee, that's funny.
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Well, maybe it got held up
in the holiday rush.
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I just called up to wish
you merry Christmas,
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that's all, to tell
you I love you.
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Don't start crying.
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Ma...
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I know I promised, but I couldn't get away.
I've been busy. Yeah, business.
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Guaranteed and delivered. I'll be home
next Easter. My absolute promise.
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Ma, don't cry.
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Ma, I gotta go. I really gotta go, Ma.
I gotta catch a train.
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Sure. Sure. I'll talk to you. Take care.
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Bye.
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# I'm on my way
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# Off to Canaan land
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# I'm on my way
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# Off to Canaan land
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# I'm on my way
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# Glory, hallelujah
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# I'm on my way
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# Well, I'm on my way
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# Off to Canaan land
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# I'm on my way
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# Off to Canaan land
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# I'm on my way
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# Off to Canaan land
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# I'm on my way
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# Glory, hallelujah
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# I'm on my way
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# Had a mighty hard time
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# But I'm on my way
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# Had a mighty hard time
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# But I'm on my way
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# It's a mighty hard climb
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# But I'm on my way
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# On my way
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# Glory, hallelujah
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# I'm on my way
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# All along the way
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# Satan lies a-waitin'
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# Every night and day
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# Satan lies a-waitin'
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# Hear me shout and say
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# Get behind me, Satan
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# I'm on my way
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# Glory, hallelujah
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# I'm on my way
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# Fight the devil and pray
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# Take another step higher
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# Fight the devil and pray
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# Lord, I want to climb higher
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# Chase the devil away
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# Lord, I'm caught in his fire
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# I'm on my way
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# Glory, hallelujah
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# I'm on my way
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# Lord, I'm on my way
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# Lord, I'm on my way
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# Lord, Lord
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# Lord, I'm on my way
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# I'm on my way
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You'd better get at this
while it's still hot.
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Thank you,
brother.
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Would you look at this filthy magazine,
Reverend? Shameful. Shameful.
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Burn, ye naked Jezebel, burn.
Like a blindin' flash.
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"Suddenly there shined round
about him a light from heaven,
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- and he heard a voice say unto him... "
- "Saul. Saul. "
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- "Why persecutest thou me?"
- Saul of Tarsus.
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Acts, chapter nine.
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"And straightaway he preached.
Christ is the son of God. "
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- "And all who heard him were amazed. "
- "Amazed. "
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Excuse me, but you sound
like a preacher.
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- Great black-eyed peas, Reverend. Great.
- If you'll be needing a place to sleep...
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Thank you kindly, but as soon as
I haul these ashes, I'll be on my way.
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- Well, God be with you, brother.
- Put in a good word for me, brother.
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- Back again, Mr. Gantry?
- Yes, indeed.
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Come spring, come the drummer man.
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Good morning, good morning,
good morning - and a hot morning it is.
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Sam, as the blind man said
to the elephant, long time no see.
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Last March.
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I got a great new item for you -
an electric toaster that pops.
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- No.
- An egg beater that's a lulu.
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No sale.
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This little devil's
gonna clean up America.
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You sold me nine of them
vacuum cleaners last year.
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There they are, all nine of 'em.
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Well, no harm done. How about
a free snort on the house?
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That's how you
stuck me the last time.
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Ever hear the one about the missionary,
the cannibal and the chorus girl?
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This Sister Sharon -
she any good at preachin'?
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I don't know. I don't go
to prayer meetings. I mean...
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unless business is bad
or I get sick. Times like that.
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Say, how about the missionary and
the cannibals and the chorus girl, hm?
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There she was in the wildest jungles
of Borneo, without a stitch on,
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except her dancin' shoes
and her pith helmet.
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Can I speak to Mrs. Wilson,
please? Thank you.
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Hello? Hello, Sally?
Me. Elmer. Who do you think?
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Swell, just swell. How's every
little thing with you, honey?
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Baby, I just got into town.
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Hold it a sec, Sal. Come in.
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- How did we do?
- Ran out of the money in both races.
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Sally? How about tonight, baby?
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What time does your husband get home?
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But, honey, I won't be here tomorrow.
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Well, look, can you come over
for an hour? A half an hour, huh?
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Oh.
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Sure, Sal. Sure I understand.
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Think nothin' of it, honey. I'll catch
you next time around. Bye, now.
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- Did you get the bottle?
- Nah.
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You know bootleggers.
They do a cash business.
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- Toss you. Double or nothin'.
- No. You're too lucky, Mr. Gantry.
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- Thank you. Anything else I can do?
- Thanks, kid.
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? Just now,
your doubting give o'er
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# Just now, reject Him no more
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# Just now, throw open the door
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# Let Jesus come into your heart
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# Lay we every burden down
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# Grace our spirits will deliver
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# And provide a robe and crown
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# Yes, we'll gather at the river
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# The beautiful, the beautiful river
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# Gather with the saints at the river
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# That flows by the throne of God
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# Yes, we'll gather at the river
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# The beautiful, the beautiful river
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# Gather with the saints at the river
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# That flows by the throne of God
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome.
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Welcome to the house of God.
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# Mine eyes have seen the glory
of the coming of the Lord
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# He is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are stored
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# He hath loosed the fateful lightning
of His terrible swift sword
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# His truth is marching on
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# Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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# Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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# Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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# His truth is marching on
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# Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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# Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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# Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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# His truth is marching on
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Oh, my dear, beautiful people.
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When I arrived here and I saw
your gracious countryside,
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I said to myself "I won't.
I just won't be cooped up
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with a lot of stodgy old ministers
discussing hell and damnation!"
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So I sneaked out,
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and I've been doing what most
of you have been doing - farming.
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Milking the cows, lying in the clover,
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and letting the joy of God's nature
flow into my heart.
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And here's the proof
there's a happy, joyful God,
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a bountiful God, a generous God.
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Milk!
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Here, Reverend. The Lord's nectar.
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And pass it along to those
dear newspaper reporters
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so they can wash out the taste of whisky.
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Tonight...
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tonight I feel gloriously happy,
and I want you to feel happy too.
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We're gonna sing together,
laugh together, rejoice together
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like carefree children of a happy God.
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We're going to rejoice that inside
of us lives the veritable spirit
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of the everlasting
redeeming Christ, Jesus.
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- Hallelujah!
- Praise the Lord!
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Bill, see how many of those dear people
can match God's bountiful gift
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with their own offerings.
242
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You darlings can't make milk,
and God just won't make money.
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# Stand up, stand up for Jesus
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# Ye soldiers of the cross
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# Lift high His royal banner
246
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No preaching tonight. No sermonising.
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No sad faces or tears, just happiness.
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Tomorrow...
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tomorrow is the last night
of our revival here,
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but when I leave,
you're going to carry on my work.
251
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You're all of you evangelists,
every blessed one of you.
252
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Shake hands with the person on your
right. Go on! Ask them if they're saved.
253
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Won't you shake hands for Jesus?
254
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Bless you, brother.
Sing, everybody! Sing his praises!
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- Sister Falconer!
- Won't you find happiness in Jesus?
256
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It's happiness to hear your wondrous
message. Can I have a moment?
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Excuse me, please. Excuse me.
258
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- Excuse me, please.
- Thank you, brother.
259
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Oh, uh, yes... Sorry. No change.
260
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Thank you.
261
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I picked some flowers for you.
262
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Sister, my son saw the Virgin Mother
on the roof last night after your sermon.
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Can you spare me an hour?
264
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I simply can't. Aren't our counsellors
taking care of you? Sister Rachel?
265
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Sister Rachel, see what you can do. Every
one of these lovely people is important.
266
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- May I have your names, please?
- I must congratulate you again.
267
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- Thank you.
- I'm a preacher.
268
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- I know how inspired you must've been.
- What church?
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What church? Well, uh, at present,
I don't exactly have a church, but...
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What is it this time, brother?
Booze or women?
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Why, Sister Falconer. Me?
272
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Whichever one it is,
you have my blessing. Jim?
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00:24:01,410 --> 00:24:04,328
- Uh, Sister, I, uh...
- Nice try, brother.
274
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- Will prayer cure diabetes?
- Would you give me your address?
275
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- Sister?
- Just a moment.
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- What denomination?
- I must talk to you.
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- If you'll just leave your name.
- I have an important message for you.
278
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A message? From Sister Falconer?
279
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- I heard you sing last night.
- Oh?
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00:24:27,937 --> 00:24:31,104
I know flattery don't mean much
to a talented person like you,
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but when you sang that
inspiring song "Beulah Land",
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it made me realise that music
is the voice of love.
283
00:24:36,946 --> 00:24:39,437
- Oh.
- And what is love?
284
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Love is the morning and the evening star.
285
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America. A land of great opportunity.
286
00:24:45,663 --> 00:24:49,116
Take me. I've been with the Central
States Appliance Company a year.
287
00:24:49,251 --> 00:24:53,628
I'm their crack salesman already. They
wanna make me a partner. It's a great life.
288
00:24:53,755 --> 00:24:58,962
Folks in 14 states know me by my
first name. Makes a fella feel humble.
289
00:24:59,095 --> 00:25:03,043
- Would you like to start with a cocktail?
- A cocktail in the middle of the day?
290
00:25:03,181 --> 00:25:07,725
Don't you know that drinkin' is sinful
and against the principles of Coolidge?
291
00:25:07,853 --> 00:25:09,134
I meant shrimp cocktail.
292
00:25:09,271 --> 00:25:12,058
Just bring us some of
Mother's apple pie and coffee.
293
00:25:12,190 --> 00:25:13,565
Yes, sir.
294
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I'm sorry.
295
00:25:17,987 --> 00:25:21,819
Tell me, when did you
first start servin' God?
296
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Two years ago. In Cato, Missouri. Sister
Sharon's gospel singer got hurt in a riot.
297
00:25:27,038 --> 00:25:30,573
A riot? In a Christian town like...
What was the name?
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Cato.
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Cato, Missouri. Yes,
some roughnecks started
300
00:25:34,293 --> 00:25:36,499
yellin' and screamin'
and hollerin'.
301
00:25:36,632 --> 00:25:38,043
During the services?
302
00:25:38,175 --> 00:25:43,417
Sister Sharon yelled to a farmer on our
side "Hit him one for the Lord, brother!"
303
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Apple pie. They ought to write
a song about apple pie.
304
00:25:46,808 --> 00:25:49,478
A gospel song. And you should sing it.
305
00:26:15,754 --> 00:26:17,995
All aboard!
306
00:26:28,391 --> 00:26:31,640
- Godspeed the good work, Sister!
- Good luck, Sister Sharon!
307
00:26:31,769 --> 00:26:34,639
Godspeed, Sister Sharon! Good luck!
308
00:26:49,995 --> 00:26:51,739
Shara?
309
00:26:51,872 --> 00:26:56,201
Our advance man in Lincoln, Nebraska,
got drunk, and he's disappeared.
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No more business tonight.
311
00:27:01,130 --> 00:27:05,425
- Thank heavens. When I didn't see you...
- Thinkin' about you every second.
312
00:27:05,552 --> 00:27:09,420
The fire department in Lincoln say
that we can't put up a tent our size.
313
00:27:09,556 --> 00:27:13,257
- The church committee are bickering...
- Please, Bill.
314
00:27:14,353 --> 00:27:16,677
The gentleman with Sister Falconer.
315
00:27:16,813 --> 00:27:18,473
- Mr. Morgan?
- Yes.
316
00:27:18,606 --> 00:27:22,902
Tell him Mr. Lefferts would like to see him
out back on the observation platform.
317
00:27:23,029 --> 00:27:25,069
Thank you, sir.
318
00:27:43,925 --> 00:27:46,545
Mr. Lefferts? My name is Gantry.
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Congratulations.
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00:27:49,471 --> 00:27:52,142
- Sorry I woke you up.
- Then why did you do it?
321
00:27:52,267 --> 00:27:54,094
Oh, I recognised you.
322
00:27:54,227 --> 00:27:58,011
I had to congratulate you on those
articles you wrote about evolution.
323
00:27:58,314 --> 00:28:02,229
Not only scarifyin' and sensational,
but very funny.
324
00:28:03,737 --> 00:28:08,778
Tell me somethin', Jim boy. I know
you got one of them Pulitzer prizes,
325
00:28:08,908 --> 00:28:12,658
but you don't really believe in
all that evolution junk, now do you?
326
00:28:12,788 --> 00:28:15,788
- Devoutly.
- Then you must believe
327
00:28:15,915 --> 00:28:20,328
- that God himself is a gorilla.
- How did you arrive at that conclusion?
328
00:28:20,462 --> 00:28:24,162
It says in the Bible
"God created man in his own image. "
329
00:28:36,310 --> 00:28:39,561
Sister Sharon -
she's pretty important news, eh?
330
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,811
What's your interest in her?
331
00:28:45,069 --> 00:28:47,441
- Can I be frank with you?
- Try.
332
00:28:47,822 --> 00:28:51,689
- She fascinates me.
- You'll have to get in line.
333
00:28:51,992 --> 00:28:56,157
You also have to get over
a hurdle first, name of Bill Morgan.
334
00:28:56,289 --> 00:29:00,750
Say, I almost forgot. He's comin' out
to see you, right about now.
335
00:29:00,877 --> 00:29:03,497
He's got some secret information.
336
00:29:09,511 --> 00:29:12,131
Thanks a lot, Jim boy. Thanks a lot.
337
00:29:20,478 --> 00:29:23,232
- You all right?
- Yes, fine. I was just wondering...
338
00:29:23,358 --> 00:29:25,600
Later, honey.
339
00:29:40,082 --> 00:29:42,408
I'm sorry, this seat is taken.
340
00:29:42,544 --> 00:29:44,951
Even the Lord never turned
his back on a sinner.
341
00:29:45,088 --> 00:29:48,954
I am not the Lord, but I am tired.
Now, will you please go away?
342
00:29:51,593 --> 00:29:56,470
You weren't so tired and all of life
two years ago in Cato, Missouri.
343
00:29:56,891 --> 00:30:00,426
- That's where we met.
- Met?
344
00:30:00,562 --> 00:30:03,727
Yes. On a Friday night, it was.
Remember? Remember the riot?
345
00:30:03,856 --> 00:30:08,315
Some roughnecks got to whoopin'
and hollerin' and fightin', and you yelled
346
00:30:08,443 --> 00:30:11,065
- "Hit him one for the Lord!"
- That's what I said.
347
00:30:11,196 --> 00:30:14,980
And that's exactly what I did.
I busted him one for the Lord.
348
00:30:15,117 --> 00:30:17,868
Oh, it was a lovely fight!
349
00:30:21,873 --> 00:30:25,918
When I saw you in Cato, I thought I was
seein' an angel, and you haven't changed.
350
00:30:26,045 --> 00:30:28,914
- A very tired angel.
- It's no wonder,
351
00:30:29,047 --> 00:30:33,295
givin' everybody else hope and courage,
nobody to lean on yourself.
352
00:30:33,427 --> 00:30:36,925
I suppose this is a generous offer
to let me lean on you.
353
00:30:38,264 --> 00:30:41,266
I wouldn't have the nerve, Sister.
354
00:30:41,393 --> 00:30:42,935
- Yesterday, Mr...
- Gantry.
355
00:30:43,062 --> 00:30:45,101
. . you said you were a preacher.
356
00:30:45,230 --> 00:30:50,105
Well, uh, practically, yes. Uh, you see,
the semester I was to be ordained...
357
00:30:50,234 --> 00:30:52,809
They kicked you out of college.
358
00:30:52,946 --> 00:30:56,362
Well, it was a... a tragedy, kind of.
359
00:30:56,492 --> 00:30:58,531
A girl.
360
00:30:59,453 --> 00:31:01,161
Yeah. A girl.
361
00:31:03,165 --> 00:31:04,624
A girl named Lulu Bains.
362
00:31:04,750 --> 00:31:08,498
- Does she work for you, or you for her?
- We work together.
363
00:31:08,629 --> 00:31:13,671
Would it be unethical to ask just what
you'll write about Sister Sharon?
364
00:31:13,802 --> 00:31:15,924
- It would.
- Oh?
365
00:31:16,053 --> 00:31:18,722
- I'm sorry.
- She's brilliant.
366
00:31:18,847 --> 00:31:21,220
"Inspired" is a more appropriate word.
367
00:31:21,350 --> 00:31:24,884
- It means "touched by the hand of God".
- Precisely.
368
00:31:25,020 --> 00:31:27,228
Now, get the picture.
369
00:31:27,357 --> 00:31:31,900
It's Christmas Eve. God's pure snow
driftin' down, and joy in the air.
370
00:31:32,028 --> 00:31:36,191
I enter the Schoenheim church
late at night to pray for guidance.
371
00:31:36,323 --> 00:31:39,359
And what do I find, right behind the altar?
372
00:31:39,492 --> 00:31:42,613
Lulu Bains, my betrothed, my bride-to-be,
373
00:31:42,746 --> 00:31:48,119
half-naked, locked in the arms of
her lover, a cardsharp from Chicago.
374
00:31:49,210 --> 00:31:53,836
A couple of years later he was bumped
off in a gang war, God rest his soul.
375
00:31:53,964 --> 00:31:57,381
Well, that's it, I guess.
I lost all interest in religion.
376
00:31:57,510 --> 00:32:00,001
But when I saw you,
it was like a call from beyond.
377
00:32:00,138 --> 00:32:02,511
Could I see you again?
Have breakfast with me?
378
00:32:02,641 --> 00:32:06,009
What's your hotel room number
in Lincoln, hm? Tell me.
379
00:32:06,144 --> 00:32:11,981
You're so completely... so outrageous.
I... I think I like you.
380
00:32:12,109 --> 00:32:15,062
I guess I've been around
sanctimonious folks too long.
381
00:32:15,194 --> 00:32:18,563
You're amusing,
and you smell like a real man.
382
00:32:20,659 --> 00:32:24,110
Yes, I'll meet you by my tent.
That's where I breakfast. Good night.
383
00:32:24,245 --> 00:32:27,081
- Oh, but, Sister...
- Oh, this time I mean it.
384
00:32:28,751 --> 00:32:30,790
Pleasant dreams.
385
00:32:34,839 --> 00:32:40,676
Evening, Brother Morgan. Oh, I wouldn't
bother her now. She's resting, poor child.
386
00:32:47,311 --> 00:32:53,229
The wind will come from there, so keep
the centre poles where you've got them.
387
00:32:53,358 --> 00:32:56,811
That way the canvas won't snap
and crackle all through the sermon.
388
00:32:56,946 --> 00:32:58,986
Here they come.
389
00:33:01,075 --> 00:33:03,910
Morning, Sister! Jim boy!
A lovely morning it is.
390
00:33:04,036 --> 00:33:06,242
- Good morning.
- I woke with a terrific idea.
391
00:33:06,372 --> 00:33:08,329
Later. Good morning, Captain.
392
00:33:08,457 --> 00:33:11,707
- You can't erect that tent here, ma'am.
- Why not?
393
00:33:11,836 --> 00:33:13,793
- Fire laws.
- Nonsense.
394
00:33:13,921 --> 00:33:16,293
No, ma'am. No nonsense
at all. No, ma'am.
395
00:33:16,423 --> 00:33:19,257
"Ma'am" is a contraction for "madam".
I am not a madam,
396
00:33:19,384 --> 00:33:22,883
a calibre of woman I'm sure you
know well and do business with.
397
00:33:23,012 --> 00:33:25,586
How many have been put out
of business by fire laws?
398
00:33:25,723 --> 00:33:29,592
- Your tent holds over 1,000 people...
- Captain, this is Mr. Lefferts,
399
00:33:29,728 --> 00:33:34,022
- a reporter for the Zenith Times-DisPatch
- Zenith? Welcome. This is Fire Chief...
400
00:33:34,149 --> 00:33:37,898
Isn't it a fact, Mr. Lefferts, that the
whisky big shots want me closed down?
401
00:33:38,028 --> 00:33:41,064
They certainly don't think
you do their business any good.
402
00:33:41,197 --> 00:33:46,109
Know why? I'm not afraid to fight whisky
and repeal with police help or without it.
403
00:33:46,245 --> 00:33:50,077
- If you're accusing me of not...
- I am. Do you enforce prohibition?
404
00:33:50,207 --> 00:33:51,452
I certainly do.
405
00:33:51,583 --> 00:33:54,999
How many speakeasies could you
take the captain to in his home town?
406
00:33:55,129 --> 00:33:58,794
- Without a membership card? 50.
- Fire laws!
407
00:33:58,924 --> 00:34:01,249
Do you see any of my workmen smoking?
408
00:34:01,385 --> 00:34:03,876
Do you mind? This might start a fire.
409
00:34:04,013 --> 00:34:07,547
- If they don't smoke inside...
- You're welcome to see tonight.
410
00:34:07,683 --> 00:34:11,099
A little bit of salvation
will do you both some good.
411
00:34:13,148 --> 00:34:18,058
Sister Sharon! Never did I ever see
anybody handle the cops the way you did.
412
00:34:18,193 --> 00:34:21,693
All right. What's this terrific idea
you woke up with?
413
00:34:21,822 --> 00:34:26,235
Yes, well... How would it be if I addressed
your meetin' as a saved businessman?
414
00:34:26,368 --> 00:34:29,702
I could talk on the hard,
practical dollars-and-cents value
415
00:34:29,830 --> 00:34:32,747
of Christ in commerce.
416
00:34:32,875 --> 00:34:35,117
Tom, slacken off that rope. It's too tight.
417
00:34:35,252 --> 00:34:38,121
By the way, what is
your business? Hold-ups?
418
00:34:38,253 --> 00:34:40,875
You're a card. I sell
for Central Appliances.
419
00:34:41,007 --> 00:34:44,424
- Don't you like your job?
- Why, sure. It's a great life.
420
00:34:44,553 --> 00:34:48,798
I'm their crack salesman. Only last month
they wanted to make me a junior partner.
421
00:34:48,930 --> 00:34:53,972
Would you believe that people in 14 states
call me by my first name? Elmer.
422
00:34:57,689 --> 00:35:01,355
No use kiddin' you, is there?
It's no life at all.
423
00:35:01,486 --> 00:35:04,818
Filthy, dreary hotel rooms.
Always chasin' trains.
424
00:35:06,073 --> 00:35:10,569
Always tellin' dirty stories
to keep the buyers laughin'.
425
00:35:10,702 --> 00:35:14,071
Always the pint bottle
to prove you're a sport.
426
00:35:14,206 --> 00:35:19,248
That kind of fella's no success at all.
He's just a tramp in a silk shirt.
427
00:35:19,379 --> 00:35:21,003
Well...
428
00:35:24,424 --> 00:35:29,218
I could tell the sinners
I'm a... I'm a salesman, just like that.
429
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,139
I come into one of them...
miserable hotel rooms.
430
00:35:35,228 --> 00:35:37,933
I'm discouraged.
I got no sales to chalk up.
431
00:35:38,064 --> 00:35:40,851
Nothin' to read. I'm lonely.
432
00:35:41,484 --> 00:35:46,644
I'm just dyin' for a drink. Some of them
salesmen drink somethin' terrible.
433
00:35:46,781 --> 00:35:51,777
And I reach my hand into
a dresser drawer... and what do I find?
434
00:35:52,870 --> 00:35:55,741
A Gideon Bible. That's what I find.
435
00:35:55,873 --> 00:35:58,543
Yes. Yes, go on.
436
00:35:59,753 --> 00:36:05,339
I reached my hand into a dresser drawer,
and I found a Gideon Bible.
437
00:36:05,466 --> 00:36:06,498
Louder!
438
00:36:06,634 --> 00:36:09,126
I found a Gideon Bible.
439
00:36:09,263 --> 00:36:12,631
I was so lonely and miserable,
I might as well have been in hell.
440
00:36:12,765 --> 00:36:16,266
I was in hell. I knew
all the salesman's tricks.
441
00:36:16,395 --> 00:36:19,396
Why wasn't I rich?
Why wasn't I successful?
442
00:36:19,523 --> 00:36:23,140
I opened the Bible,
and I read the 18th Psalm.
443
00:36:24,568 --> 00:36:27,274
"The Lord is my rock and my fortress. "
444
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,275
"The Lord is my fortress. "
Do you hear that? The Lord.
445
00:36:31,409 --> 00:36:33,947
- Praise the Lord!
- The Lord is my rock!
446
00:36:34,078 --> 00:36:36,616
The next mornin'
I walked into a general store.
447
00:36:36,748 --> 00:36:39,783
"What are you sellin' today?
Gold-plated vacuum cleaners?"
448
00:36:40,042 --> 00:36:43,577
"No, sir. You can get better vacuum
cleaners at Sears and Roebuck,
449
00:36:43,713 --> 00:36:47,759
and you can get 'em cheaper, but
you can't beat our electric toasters. "
450
00:36:47,885 --> 00:36:50,589
He sat down and wrote me
the biggest order of the year.
451
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:52,048
Hallelujah!
452
00:36:52,513 --> 00:36:55,763
Can you hear me, Lord? Thank you, Lord.
453
00:36:55,892 --> 00:36:59,307
I didn't make that sale, Lord.
You did. Thank you.
454
00:37:02,649 --> 00:37:04,689
Hallelujah!
455
00:37:05,652 --> 00:37:08,059
And when I told my pals...
456
00:37:08,196 --> 00:37:12,323
when I told my pals I was
comin' to Jesus, they laughed.
457
00:37:12,449 --> 00:37:14,987
But Sister Falconer didn't laugh.
458
00:37:15,118 --> 00:37:17,907
She said "Go ahead, brother.
Give 'em hell. "
459
00:37:18,039 --> 00:37:20,530
I'm going to give you
all the hell in the Bible,
460
00:37:20,667 --> 00:37:24,581
and if you don't like it, fix it up with
the Lord because the Lord put it there.
461
00:37:24,712 --> 00:37:26,456
Listen to me, sinners.
462
00:37:26,673 --> 00:37:28,545
Listen to me, sinners.
463
00:37:28,674 --> 00:37:33,586
You can't pray to kingdom come
and play bridge or poker. And, Mother,
464
00:37:33,721 --> 00:37:37,505
you can't say your psalms and look
at God through the bottom of a beer mug.
465
00:37:37,642 --> 00:37:38,673
And you, brother,
466
00:37:38,810 --> 00:37:43,436
you can't go to church on Sunday
and cheat at business on Monday.
467
00:37:43,564 --> 00:37:48,440
We're comin' back to you, God. We're
comin' back to the old-time religion!
468
00:37:52,657 --> 00:37:55,363
And what is religion?
469
00:37:55,494 --> 00:37:57,616
What is religion?
470
00:37:57,745 --> 00:37:59,867
Religion is love.
471
00:37:59,997 --> 00:38:02,833
And love is the morning
and the evening star.
472
00:38:02,959 --> 00:38:05,711
Love, the eternal glorious music-maker.
473
00:38:05,836 --> 00:38:09,121
Love! Not the carnal love,
but the divine love.
474
00:38:09,256 --> 00:38:14,049
And where does this great love
come from? It comes direct from God!
475
00:38:18,307 --> 00:38:21,225
I admit I'm not smart like some of them...
476
00:38:21,352 --> 00:38:25,396
some of them smart-alecky professors,
wise-guy writers and agitators.
477
00:38:25,522 --> 00:38:29,651
I know nothing of theosophy, philosophy,
psychology, ideology or any other ology.
478
00:38:29,777 --> 00:38:31,485
But I know this.
479
00:38:31,612 --> 00:38:36,773
With Christ, you're saved,
and without him, you're lost.
480
00:38:36,909 --> 00:38:39,198
And how do I know
there's a merciful God?
481
00:38:39,328 --> 00:38:42,448
Because I've seen the devil
plenty of times!
482
00:38:57,137 --> 00:38:59,806
Any punk ball player
can make a slide like that.
483
00:38:59,931 --> 00:39:03,467
But how many folks have got the guts
to play ball on God's team?
484
00:39:03,603 --> 00:39:09,024
And listen to this. The captain
of that team is Jesus Christ himself.
485
00:39:09,150 --> 00:39:11,190
So, come on, man, woman, child.
486
00:39:11,319 --> 00:39:14,769
Who'll be the first
to shake hands for Jesus?
487
00:39:15,405 --> 00:39:17,445
Come on, now! Everyone!
488
00:39:20,661 --> 00:39:24,991
Are you gonna make me beg and beg
when I'm offerin' you my Jesus?
489
00:39:26,209 --> 00:39:30,705
Did the Saviour die in vain?
Did he suffer on the cross for nothin'?
490
00:39:30,838 --> 00:39:33,792
Argh! My God, I can't stand it!
491
00:39:33,924 --> 00:39:36,249
Oh, my God, no! Not any more!
492
00:39:36,385 --> 00:39:40,597
Sinner, I'll fight you every day in the
week for God and twice on Sundays!
493
00:39:40,723 --> 00:39:44,056
Help me. Brother Gantry, save me.
I sin every day!
494
00:39:44,184 --> 00:39:47,351
Tell me what to do, please.
Tell me what to do!
495
00:39:48,313 --> 00:39:51,183
"Lifeline. "
496
00:39:52,066 --> 00:39:54,771
# Throw out the lifeline
497
00:39:54,902 --> 00:40:00,360
# Somebody's drifting away
498
00:40:00,491 --> 00:40:03,243
# Throw out the lifeline
499
00:40:03,452 --> 00:40:06,075
# Throw out the lifeline
500
00:40:07,332 --> 00:40:10,118
Bless you for bringing us
such a wonderful man.
501
00:40:10,251 --> 00:40:13,371
- Sister Sharon.
- Bless you, Brother Gantry.
502
00:40:13,504 --> 00:40:17,633
You've changed my whole life.
You're such a good man.
503
00:40:26,101 --> 00:40:28,806
- This light supposed to be kept burnin'?
- Yep.
504
00:40:28,937 --> 00:40:33,398
Sometimes folks come just to touch
where Sister Sharon stands.
505
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,065
Say, I heard you talk tonight.
506
00:40:37,196 --> 00:40:41,359
- How'd you like it?
- Mister, I've been converted five times.
507
00:40:41,491 --> 00:40:47,078
Billy Sunday, Reverend Biederwolf, Gypsy
Smith, and twice by Sister Falconer.
508
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,623
I get terrible drunk,
and then I get good and saved.
509
00:40:51,753 --> 00:40:56,461
Both of them done me a powerful lot
of good - gettin' drunk, and gettin' saved.
510
00:40:56,591 --> 00:40:58,629
Well, good night.
511
00:41:13,940 --> 00:41:16,610
Are you praying, or planning to take over?
512
00:41:16,735 --> 00:41:18,358
Shara!
513
00:41:19,695 --> 00:41:22,318
Did I do all right?
I mean, did I do all right for you?
514
00:41:22,449 --> 00:41:25,617
Yes, you were fine. Really fine.
I cried like everybody else.
515
00:41:25,745 --> 00:41:28,199
No, but... Tell me the truth, please.
516
00:41:28,330 --> 00:41:31,913
450 converts out of 1200 people?
517
00:41:32,042 --> 00:41:34,580
That's a truth of some kind.
518
00:41:36,296 --> 00:41:39,712
- Morgan thought you were vulgar.
- Do you?
519
00:41:39,841 --> 00:41:41,549
- Think I'm vulgar?
- Yes.
520
00:41:41,678 --> 00:41:43,088
- But you like me.
- Yes.
521
00:41:43,221 --> 00:41:45,463
- Very much.
- Not very much.
522
00:41:47,057 --> 00:41:48,681
Shara.
523
00:42:16,921 --> 00:42:18,119
Forgive me, Sharon.
524
00:42:18,256 --> 00:42:22,089
- You've got me plumb hypnotised.
- No, you're just hungry, that's all.
525
00:42:22,219 --> 00:42:25,219
But I can hypnotise, because
God chose me to do his work.
526
00:42:25,346 --> 00:42:27,670
- Sure, me too.
- No.
527
00:42:27,806 --> 00:42:32,100
I chose you. The big difference
between you and me is that I believe.
528
00:42:32,227 --> 00:42:34,266
I really believe.
529
00:42:36,566 --> 00:42:39,187
- You'd like to join us, wouldn't you?
- Oh, yes.
530
00:42:39,318 --> 00:42:43,267
- Report at nine. We'll discuss salaries...
- I got swell ideas for promotions.
531
00:42:43,405 --> 00:42:47,152
- Radio, the third ear of the human race...
- You smoke, don't you?
532
00:42:47,283 --> 00:42:48,979
Well...
533
00:42:48,992 --> 00:42:50,699
I can smell it. Will
you stop it altogether?
534
00:42:50,828 --> 00:42:52,738
- Well, yes...
- The drinking, too?
535
00:42:52,873 --> 00:42:55,790
- Oh, sure. If that's what you want, I...
- It is.
536
00:42:55,917 --> 00:42:57,957
Good night.
537
00:43:07,471 --> 00:43:09,713
Evening, Brother Gantry.
538
00:43:11,683 --> 00:43:16,226
Jim boy! Say, all the time Shara and me -
uh, Sister Falconer and me...
539
00:43:16,355 --> 00:43:18,975
Yep. Sitting right over there.
540
00:43:19,106 --> 00:43:24,397
- You're not gonna write about this?
- Boy kisses girl? Hell, that's not news.
541
00:43:24,528 --> 00:43:28,741
You're slipping, brother. You know,
when you first hooked me on that train,
542
00:43:28,867 --> 00:43:34,371
I thought you were a friendly,
likeable, self-respecting first-class bum.
543
00:43:34,497 --> 00:43:38,330
And now... now look at you.
Where'd you get your style?
544
00:43:40,003 --> 00:43:44,332
- Just let her rip, I guess.
- I've heard powerful Bible-wallopers,
545
00:43:44,465 --> 00:43:48,677
but you not only put the fear of God
into them, you scared the hell out of 'em.
546
00:43:48,804 --> 00:43:52,801
And the way you strung certain words
together - "America, home, mother".
547
00:43:52,933 --> 00:43:56,349
"Heaven, hell... Love, hate, sin".
548
00:43:56,478 --> 00:44:01,933
You know, it's a funny thing, Jim. I get
up here and I... I see them out there.
549
00:44:03,235 --> 00:44:06,651
Next thing you know,
I'm howlin', they're moanin'.
550
00:44:06,780 --> 00:44:09,318
It's like a mighty spirit
movin' inside of me.
551
00:44:09,449 --> 00:44:15,203
Words and ideas come pourin' out
like... like riled-up strangers.
552
00:44:15,330 --> 00:44:19,623
I feel so powerful and full of love,
I'm about to explode.
553
00:44:19,750 --> 00:44:21,790
I do explode.
554
00:44:21,919 --> 00:44:25,669
And then I just about love everybody
555
00:44:27,718 --> 00:44:29,958
Especially the girls.
556
00:44:32,847 --> 00:44:37,508
Yes, this is where I belong, all right.
Right here, in religion.
557
00:44:37,643 --> 00:44:39,684
Even if it is a tent.
558
00:44:39,813 --> 00:44:42,386
Every circus needs a clown,
Brother Gantry.
559
00:44:42,524 --> 00:44:48,110
And you might turn out to be the funniest
clown of 'em all. And the most successful.
560
00:44:49,196 --> 00:44:50,821
Clown!
561
00:44:51,824 --> 00:44:54,031
Jim boy, you're terrific. Terrific.
562
00:45:00,667 --> 00:45:04,250
Some of them smart-aleck college
professors are trying to prove
563
00:45:04,379 --> 00:45:07,414
that this here ape is your
great-great-grandfather.
564
00:45:07,547 --> 00:45:09,956
Come back here. Let folks see you.
565
00:45:10,092 --> 00:45:14,506
Well, he might be Darwin's uncle,
but he certainly ain't yours or mine.
566
00:45:14,639 --> 00:45:16,678
Right, Grandpop?
567
00:45:34,451 --> 00:45:37,617
Just a monkey, folks. Just a monkey.
568
00:45:38,871 --> 00:45:41,541
Would Jesus play poker?
569
00:45:41,667 --> 00:45:44,666
Would St. Paul play the stock market?
570
00:45:44,794 --> 00:45:48,495
What do you think will get you
into God's own glorious heaven?
571
00:45:48,632 --> 00:45:50,755
This ace of spades?
572
00:45:50,884 --> 00:45:52,841
Your bank book?
573
00:45:52,969 --> 00:45:55,839
Or this pledge to be a good Christian?
574
00:45:58,683 --> 00:46:01,637
Sin, sin, sin.
575
00:46:01,769 --> 00:46:05,897
You're all sinners!
You're all doomed to perdition.
576
00:46:07,108 --> 00:46:11,189
You're all goin' to
the painful, stinkin', scaldin',
577
00:46:11,321 --> 00:46:14,155
everlastin' tortures of a fiery hell,
578
00:46:14,281 --> 00:46:17,069
created by God for sinners, unless...
579
00:46:18,035 --> 00:46:19,743
unless...
580
00:46:19,870 --> 00:46:23,738
unless you repent!
Repent with Sister Falconer!
581
00:46:34,885 --> 00:46:37,555
Let that man alone! Let him alone!
582
00:46:38,389 --> 00:46:41,806
Go ahead and bark, brother.
Go right ahead and bark!
583
00:46:41,935 --> 00:46:45,933
There he is! The devil!
Bark that devil outta this tent!
584
00:47:03,582 --> 00:47:08,742
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
585
00:47:14,509 --> 00:47:17,962
. . the most disgusting display
of bad taste in my experience.
586
00:47:18,097 --> 00:47:21,845
A human barking dog.
A monkey in the pulpit.
587
00:47:21,975 --> 00:47:24,846
It's preposterous.
That's why it can't go on.
588
00:47:24,978 --> 00:47:29,889
And it's obvious to everyone - even
dangerous. Especially before Jim Lefferts.
589
00:47:30,025 --> 00:47:33,725
And our newspaper friend...
He's about as friendly as a rattlesnake.
590
00:47:33,862 --> 00:47:37,646
- Then you think it's wrong.
- Not wrong. Ridiculous.
591
00:47:37,782 --> 00:47:40,651
One minute you're preaching
a happy, perfumed heaven,
592
00:47:40,784 --> 00:47:44,284
the next, Gantry's damning everyone
to a scalding, stinking hell.
593
00:47:44,413 --> 00:47:47,781
- I'd say we make a pretty good team.
- Yes.
594
00:47:47,916 --> 00:47:51,119
Yes, like two cops
working over a criminal.
595
00:47:51,252 --> 00:47:55,499
Gantry scares him with the electric chair,
you save him if he confesses.
596
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,589
The point is, our sinner does confess,
and he is saved.
597
00:48:01,179 --> 00:48:05,093
- But it was ridiculous.
- Does the method really matter?
598
00:48:07,227 --> 00:48:12,269
Who is this, uh, this Elmer Gantry?
And what do you really know about him?
599
00:48:13,859 --> 00:48:16,185
His background, his reputation?
600
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:20,068
What does he want?
Money? My job? You? What?
601
00:48:20,198 --> 00:48:23,614
- Bill...
- In 1917, Mr. Gantry
602
00:48:23,743 --> 00:48:26,615
was expelled from
a theological seminary in Kansas
603
00:48:26,748 --> 00:48:29,499
for seducing
the deacon's daughter in the church
604
00:48:29,625 --> 00:48:33,539
where he had that day
delivered a Christmas sermon.
605
00:48:33,671 --> 00:48:36,244
And there's more. Do you wanna hear it?
606
00:48:36,381 --> 00:48:38,706
Ta-da!
607
00:48:39,634 --> 00:48:42,755
Ladies and gentlemen,
you see before you a magic carpet.
608
00:48:42,888 --> 00:48:47,052
A heavenly summons.
A ticket to the big time. Listen to this.
609
00:48:47,184 --> 00:48:50,684
"Would you consider meeting with
the church committee and myself
610
00:48:50,813 --> 00:48:53,215
about bringing your
revival to our fair city
611
00:48:53,228 --> 00:48:55,640
of Zenith, capital of
America's Midwest?"
612
00:48:55,775 --> 00:48:59,691
"Kindly telegraph reply immediately.
Signed, George F Babbitt, Secretary,
613
00:48:59,822 --> 00:49:03,358
Zenith Chamber of Commerce,
Chairman of the Church Board. "
614
00:49:03,493 --> 00:49:04,323
Zenith.
615
00:49:04,453 --> 00:49:07,368
- We're not ready for Zenith.
- Mr. Babbitt thinks we are.
616
00:49:07,495 --> 00:49:10,662
I know we are. Next stop, Zenith.
Then Chicago, New York, London.
617
00:49:10,790 --> 00:49:13,496
Straight to the top
on the Sharon Falconer Express!
618
00:49:13,627 --> 00:49:16,462
- In a tent? They'll laugh at us.
- Not at Shara.
619
00:49:16,588 --> 00:49:20,289
It's pitchman's talk. What do you know
about the background of our work?
620
00:49:20,426 --> 00:49:23,510
The nature of revivalism is rural.
It grew out of frontier life.
621
00:49:23,637 --> 00:49:27,005
- Big-city people are more cynical...
- They're more sinful, too.
622
00:49:27,140 --> 00:49:29,846
And more lonely
and more unhappy. And...
623
00:49:29,977 --> 00:49:32,599
And, Shara, they need you more.
624
00:49:35,357 --> 00:49:38,442
- I'm against this.
- Bill boy, you're an old sourpuss.
625
00:49:38,569 --> 00:49:42,519
- This is a passport to the Promised Land.
- Gantry, I am not your boy.
626
00:49:43,033 --> 00:49:46,448
You deluded her, but to me,
everything about you's offensive.
627
00:49:46,577 --> 00:49:51,784
You're a crude, vulgar show-off, and
your vocabulary belongs in an outhouse.
628
00:50:00,509 --> 00:50:01,919
Crude.
629
00:50:02,052 --> 00:50:03,675
Vulgar.
630
00:50:04,762 --> 00:50:09,922
Show-off, huh? You know something?
You're right, Bill. Let's put it this way.
631
00:50:10,226 --> 00:50:14,307
You're a five-dollar textbook.
Me, I'm a two-cent tabloid newspaper.
632
00:50:14,439 --> 00:50:16,515
You're too good for the people.
633
00:50:16,650 --> 00:50:20,648
I am the people. Sure, I'm common -
just like most people.
634
00:50:21,445 --> 00:50:24,861
The common people put Christianity
on the map in the first place.
635
00:50:25,157 --> 00:50:29,452
What are you saying, Shara?
That you want to go to Zenith? Now?
636
00:50:30,747 --> 00:50:33,747
I wonder what God wants.
637
00:50:35,001 --> 00:50:39,164
All right, Shara. All right.
Maybe you are ready for Zenith.
638
00:50:39,296 --> 00:50:43,624
- Thank you. I'll be with you in a minute.
- Just think of it, Shara. Zenith.
639
00:50:45,427 --> 00:50:48,345
I think the answer to Mr. Babbitt
ought to come from you.
640
00:50:48,472 --> 00:50:50,874
Tell 'em we're ready to talk,
but they gotta act fast.
641
00:50:50,887 --> 00:50:53,299
Only don't say it
as crude as that.
642
00:50:53,435 --> 00:50:58,310
No, no. I'll use some of my
sweet-smelling five-buck words, huh?
643
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:00,397
I knew we could work together.
644
00:51:00,525 --> 00:51:04,855
Gantry, uh... I just hope you don't
have any ideas about who's boss.
645
00:51:04,989 --> 00:51:06,613
Boss?
646
00:51:06,741 --> 00:51:10,025
Why, the boss is God.
I'm just his messenger boy.
647
00:51:11,453 --> 00:51:14,407
I'm sure God will be relieved.
648
00:51:14,540 --> 00:51:16,248
Yes.
649
00:51:16,375 --> 00:51:20,454
- Leave the money matters to me.
- If they get a guarantee, what do we get?
650
00:51:20,587 --> 00:51:22,877
- Why is cash necessary at all?
- Order!
651
00:51:23,007 --> 00:51:26,091
Gentlemen, without a guarantee,
a revival is impossible.
652
00:51:26,218 --> 00:51:26,965
Kee-rect!
653
00:51:27,094 --> 00:51:32,883
As chairman, I can say I want the revival,
but we're ministers, not financiers.
654
00:51:33,017 --> 00:51:35,722
- I agree. After all, $30,000...
- Will be raised.
655
00:51:35,853 --> 00:51:38,770
- How, Mr. Babbitt?
- By decent, respectable people
656
00:51:38,897 --> 00:51:41,436
- who want to see old-time religion...
- I agree.
657
00:51:41,567 --> 00:51:43,725
- Please let me finish.
- Of course, George.
658
00:51:43,861 --> 00:51:45,855
- Thank you, Charlie.
- OK, then.
659
00:51:45,989 --> 00:51:48,313
Everybody knows that I contribute more
660
00:51:48,449 --> 00:51:52,447
to charity and poverty and things
than anybody, hm?
661
00:51:52,578 --> 00:51:57,073
Hey, now, didn't my real-estate company
give you that corner lot rent-free
662
00:51:57,207 --> 00:52:02,368
for your church baseball team, huh? Hm?
And I'm not even a Methodist!
663
00:52:03,506 --> 00:52:09,092
All right, then. I always say, business
is business - that's the American way!
664
00:52:09,219 --> 00:52:12,588
- Now, if you boys...
- Why do you want a revival in Zenith?
665
00:52:12,722 --> 00:52:16,969
Oh, I know what you're gettin' at, Phil.
You don't fool me for a second.
666
00:52:17,102 --> 00:52:20,850
- We're aware of the financial problems.
- Are we aware, sir?
667
00:52:20,980 --> 00:52:24,266
- My church hasn't been painted for years.
- Whose fault is that?
668
00:52:24,401 --> 00:52:26,309
What about the gymnasium?
669
00:52:26,443 --> 00:52:29,646
In my area, getting milk for
the children is the problem.
670
00:52:29,780 --> 00:52:32,783
Your problem is
empty churches, gentlemen.
671
00:52:32,910 --> 00:52:34,701
That is a fact.
672
00:52:34,829 --> 00:52:38,244
The fact is that church attendance
is falling off everywhere.
673
00:52:38,373 --> 00:52:42,834
Sister Falconer can fill your churches.
That's why you're here in the first place.
674
00:52:42,961 --> 00:52:44,787
- Kee-rect!
- Tea, Mr. Babbitt?
675
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,843
I always say, if you're
sick, call a doctor.
676
00:52:46,856 --> 00:52:48,789
I agree.
677
00:52:48,925 --> 00:52:51,844
Now, uh, let's look at
the record, gentlemen.
678
00:52:51,971 --> 00:52:56,133
Sister Sharon has been in Lincoln -
this is going on the fifth week now.
679
00:52:56,266 --> 00:52:59,551
275 new church members,
680
00:52:59,686 --> 00:53:01,893
- in one church alone.
- My church.
681
00:53:02,023 --> 00:53:05,604
More than 2700
decisions for Christ, gentlemen.
682
00:53:05,734 --> 00:53:09,683
Actual converts who signed pledges.
Not our statistics,
683
00:53:09,821 --> 00:53:12,656
but printed in
your own Zenith newspaper.
684
00:53:12,782 --> 00:53:16,566
And written up by... by Jim Lefferts,
a Pulitzer prizewinner.
685
00:53:16,703 --> 00:53:21,116
Does the record show how long your
converts remain church members?
686
00:53:21,750 --> 00:53:25,450
Well, I always say,
when in doubt, take action.
687
00:53:26,129 --> 00:53:27,374
- Let's vote.
- Second.
688
00:53:27,505 --> 00:53:28,537
- All in favour?
- Aye.
689
00:53:28,673 --> 00:53:31,295
- Uh, just a moment, please.
- You're out of order.
690
00:53:31,426 --> 00:53:34,593
- There's a motion on the floor.
- May I say something, please?
691
00:53:34,721 --> 00:53:37,342
You have our...
undivided attention, Sister.
692
00:53:37,474 --> 00:53:42,633
Wouldn't it be a much happier world if
money was not the third arm of religion?
693
00:53:42,770 --> 00:53:45,855
He can't paint his church.
You can't have your gymnasium.
694
00:53:45,982 --> 00:53:48,308
No child should be without milk.
695
00:53:48,611 --> 00:53:52,737
And my expenses are high enough to run
a factory - I practically do run a factory.
696
00:53:52,863 --> 00:53:57,608
Who do you think pays for my staff? The
musicians, the men who put up the tent.
697
00:53:57,743 --> 00:54:02,821
Truck transportations, railroad fares,
food bills. Advertising and printing bills.
698
00:54:02,957 --> 00:54:06,706
Electric bills, insurance
bills, hotel bills.
699
00:54:06,836 --> 00:54:10,205
The church committees always
expect a contribution from me,
700
00:54:10,340 --> 00:54:16,128
and they always get it. And when I leave
town five weeks later, you get the benefit.
701
00:54:16,261 --> 00:54:19,964
You have the flock,
and I have to start all over again.
702
00:54:22,018 --> 00:54:25,352
No, gentlemen, you don't want a revival.
703
00:54:26,523 --> 00:54:29,393
And I'm afraid you don't want me, either.
704
00:54:39,370 --> 00:54:43,236
I think these gentlemen would like
a little privacy to kick things around.
705
00:54:43,373 --> 00:54:45,531
- Thank you, Mr. Gantry.
- Excuse me.
706
00:54:45,667 --> 00:54:48,503
I'm not ashamed to admit
our churches are half-empty.
707
00:54:48,629 --> 00:54:51,831
- The ball parks are full.
- So are the races.
708
00:54:52,215 --> 00:54:53,295
Let's vote.
709
00:54:53,426 --> 00:54:57,126
Vote to do what? Marry the Church
to a three-ring circus?
710
00:54:57,263 --> 00:54:59,800
To barkers who say
they're messengers of God?
711
00:54:59,931 --> 00:55:04,345
Who reduce frightened farmers to howling
dogs? All very entertaining, I'm sure.
712
00:55:04,478 --> 00:55:07,682
We are in competition
with the entertainment business.
713
00:55:07,815 --> 00:55:10,685
- I'm not.
- Then you ought to be. Huh?
714
00:55:11,777 --> 00:55:13,604
How about your bingo games?
715
00:55:13,738 --> 00:55:16,738
And how about your baseball games
and square dances?
716
00:55:16,866 --> 00:55:19,783
Now, ain't that entertainment?
What's the difference?
717
00:55:19,910 --> 00:55:23,991
It's up to us to make a success out of
Christianity, keep the churches full.
718
00:55:24,373 --> 00:55:27,954
What has religion
to do with filling churches?
719
00:55:28,083 --> 00:55:31,500
Once there were only
13 Christians in the entire world.
720
00:55:31,629 --> 00:55:35,046
Was Christianity a failure?
Did God go out of business?
721
00:55:35,176 --> 00:55:41,130
Kee-rect! Christianity is a going concern,
a successful international enterprise.
722
00:55:41,639 --> 00:55:44,261
If you boys don't get
young people back into church,
723
00:55:44,392 --> 00:55:47,061
if you don't keep the train on the tracks,
724
00:55:47,186 --> 00:55:50,887
your church boards are gonna
find somebody else who will.
725
00:55:51,024 --> 00:55:53,693
Isn't that clear, Reverend Garrison?
726
00:55:59,573 --> 00:56:03,786
Speaking for myself,
not my congregation or its church board,
727
00:56:03,912 --> 00:56:07,744
religion is not a business.
And revivalism is not religion.
728
00:56:07,874 --> 00:56:09,914
And my vote is no.
729
00:56:11,836 --> 00:56:14,588
- Good night, gentlemen.
- Phil!
730
00:56:14,963 --> 00:56:16,588
Harvard!
731
00:56:17,466 --> 00:56:22,674
Well, look around you, boys. Young folks
crying out they're the lost generation.
732
00:56:22,806 --> 00:56:28,143
Godless anarchists on every street
corner, and he walks out on a crisis.
733
00:56:28,268 --> 00:56:33,061
Do you realise that practically
every president of the United States
734
00:56:33,190 --> 00:56:35,099
was a Mason and a Protestant?
735
00:56:35,234 --> 00:56:37,903
And every session of Congress
opens with a word
736
00:56:38,028 --> 00:56:40,520
from the King James version of the Bible.
737
00:56:40,657 --> 00:56:45,532
And right now, in our enlightened age,
a Catholic is running for president.
738
00:56:45,661 --> 00:56:47,155
- Mr. Babbitt...
- And...
739
00:56:47,287 --> 00:56:48,698
Mr. Babbitt!
740
00:56:49,957 --> 00:56:52,200
Don't say another word.
741
00:56:56,881 --> 00:56:59,372
George, I agree with you.
742
00:57:00,510 --> 00:57:03,177
Please, John.
If revivalism can do the job...
743
00:57:03,302 --> 00:57:04,631
Paul.
744
00:57:04,762 --> 00:57:09,472
Zenith had a revival 40 years ago.
It saved everybody in sight for miles,
745
00:57:09,601 --> 00:57:12,223
but today we still have
the same problems.
746
00:57:12,353 --> 00:57:14,513
Please, John.
747
00:57:14,648 --> 00:57:15,811
Please.
748
00:57:15,899 --> 00:57:18,106
Order, order. Now, now, now.
749
00:57:18,235 --> 00:57:22,149
Gentlemen, if you'll only
leave the money matters to me.
750
00:57:24,450 --> 00:57:25,612
Kee-rect!
751
00:57:33,876 --> 00:57:37,709
- Welcome to Zenith, Sister.
- Congratulations. A wise decision.
752
00:57:37,839 --> 00:57:43,045
Gentlemen, all your churches will be
closed while the revival is in progress.
753
00:58:09,205 --> 00:58:13,118
- Great folks, aren't they?
- Swell, George, just swell.
754
00:58:24,177 --> 00:58:29,253
When Sister Falconer says "Shake hands
for Jesus", the chorus starts singing.
755
00:58:29,390 --> 00:58:33,683
- Brother Gantry...
- Just a sec. Ushers wear these badges.
756
00:58:33,811 --> 00:58:36,766
The minute folks start comin' in,
you go into action.
757
00:58:36,898 --> 00:58:41,225
Keep 'em movin'. Get pledge cards into
their hands, and don't forget the pencils.
758
00:58:41,359 --> 00:58:45,571
Now, you counsellors, you'll wear
these lapel pennants. Pretty, eh?
759
00:58:45,698 --> 00:58:49,362
German-speaking, hold up your hands.
Swedish-speaking? Fine.
760
00:58:49,492 --> 00:58:52,613
Ask if they're regular church
members. Also, what church.
761
00:58:52,746 --> 00:58:57,906
And it don't matter what church. Now,
some folks are gonna wanna cry. Let 'em.
762
00:59:00,129 --> 00:59:01,671
"God is love. "
763
00:59:01,797 --> 00:59:03,588
Jim-dandy, huh?
764
00:59:03,716 --> 00:59:07,665
Well, that's it, I guess.
Tonight's the big night.
765
00:59:07,803 --> 00:59:11,635
Are we gonna make a touchdown for
Jesus Christ? Any further questions?
766
00:59:11,765 --> 00:59:15,134
- Brother Gantry...
- OK, then. At 7. 30, we hit the line.
767
00:59:15,269 --> 00:59:19,017
God is love. Sister Sharon's sanctuary.
May I help you?
768
00:59:19,148 --> 00:59:22,232
Yes, sir, that's right.
Every evening at 8. 30.
769
00:59:22,359 --> 00:59:25,729
Yes, you may take a trolley car.
The line's 14th Street.
770
00:59:25,864 --> 00:59:29,812
Yes. Yes, I understand.
Well, if you're lonesome and restless,
771
00:59:29,950 --> 00:59:34,493
Sister Sharon recommends that
you read Psalm 23 or Psalm 27.
772
00:59:37,458 --> 00:59:40,744
Do you know of a better
product to sell than God?
773
00:59:42,505 --> 00:59:44,794
Uh, Sister, one more question.
774
00:59:44,924 --> 00:59:47,711
- I'm sorry, what was that question again?
- I said...
775
00:59:47,843 --> 00:59:50,714
Sister, in what branch
of the Church were you baptised?
776
00:59:50,846 --> 00:59:53,090
Hold it, Sister!
777
00:59:53,225 --> 00:59:57,008
Sister, I'm afraid you have a problem
with the fire department again.
778
00:59:57,145 --> 00:59:59,054
- The fire department?!
- Bill!
779
00:59:59,189 --> 01:00:02,106
- I've got the chief on the phone.
- Oh, Sister...
780
01:00:02,233 --> 01:00:04,984
- Excuse me.
- . . could I just ask one more question?
781
01:00:05,110 --> 01:00:08,397
What you'll be wearing
for the opening night?
782
01:00:10,618 --> 01:00:14,400
You looked as if you had about enough
of "who, what, when, where".
783
01:00:14,536 --> 01:00:16,576
Thank you.
784
01:00:18,248 --> 01:00:20,704
May I have some water, please?
785
01:00:24,254 --> 01:00:26,959
- You tired?
- Oh, these last two days.
786
01:00:30,512 --> 01:00:32,966
The aspirin age.
787
01:00:33,097 --> 01:00:35,967
Nervous about opening tomorrow night?
788
01:00:38,895 --> 01:00:42,144
- I don't know.
- What about Gantry?
789
01:00:44,107 --> 01:00:47,940
He's got all the nerve
in the world, but no nerves.
790
01:00:50,406 --> 01:00:55,744
You want to know the truth?
I'm scared to death of you city people.
791
01:00:55,869 --> 01:01:00,448
Don't be. The women will worship you,
and the men will love you.
792
01:01:01,458 --> 01:01:03,784
And you?
793
01:01:03,919 --> 01:01:06,041
I'll be there, too.
794
01:01:08,506 --> 01:01:10,915
Good night.
795
01:01:11,426 --> 01:01:12,950
Good night.
796
01:01:17,982 --> 01:01:22,892
Just as sure as God plagued the earth
with pestilence and locusts,
797
01:01:23,028 --> 01:01:25,649
you and I... to doom!
798
01:01:26,448 --> 01:01:31,903
I tell you, the end of the world is comin'.
It's coming this September 15th!
799
01:01:32,036 --> 01:01:36,743
- It says so in the Bible!
- Revivals are against organised labour!
800
01:01:59,308 --> 01:02:03,933
Hallelujah! The Lord's name be praised!
Stop it, you scallywags! Stop!
801
01:02:17,282 --> 01:02:20,650
Come on, boys.
All right, the locomotive. Here we go.
802
01:02:20,785 --> 01:02:22,777
Boom!
803
01:02:23,412 --> 01:02:25,451
Boom!
804
01:02:26,165 --> 01:02:29,450
- Sis-boom, Sister!
- Play Sister's introduction.
805
01:02:29,584 --> 01:02:31,458
Sis-boom, Sister!
806
01:02:33,964 --> 01:02:35,540
Captain Holt!
807
01:02:37,882 --> 01:02:40,207
Arrest them. Arrest all of them.
808
01:02:40,343 --> 01:02:45,005
I don't know who started the fuss inside.
The ones outside ain't breakin' any laws.
809
01:02:45,139 --> 01:02:48,590
- First arrest them. Then we'll find out...
- I wouldn't do that.
810
01:02:48,725 --> 01:02:50,682
You wanna start a riot?
811
01:02:50,811 --> 01:02:54,345
Folks have gotta have
stretchin' room for their feelings.
812
01:02:54,481 --> 01:02:58,941
Now, why don't you sit down
and get close to God? It'll be all right.
813
01:02:59,068 --> 01:02:59,850
It's OK.
814
01:02:59,986 --> 01:03:04,482
# Glory, glory, hallelujah
815
01:03:04,698 --> 01:03:08,646
# Glory, glory, hallelujah
816
01:03:08,784 --> 01:03:14,372
# His truth is marching on
817
01:03:14,499 --> 01:03:18,910
# Glory, glory, hallelujah
818
01:03:19,127 --> 01:03:23,789
# Glory, glory, hallelujah
819
01:03:26,298 --> 01:03:32,337
- They're ready for you, Shara.
- You certainly promoted us into Zenith.
820
01:03:32,471 --> 01:03:36,514
You certainly filled our tent,
didn't you? But with what?
821
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:40,638
You and your people.
Those aren't people. They're a mob.
822
01:03:40,769 --> 01:03:45,726
They're one big animal. I'm not letting
Shara go out there to be humiliated.
823
01:03:45,856 --> 01:03:49,936
And what's your plan? To run?
Where? Back to the sticks?
824
01:03:50,068 --> 01:03:54,112
If we don't win them over tonight,
there'll be no place to run.
825
01:03:54,238 --> 01:03:58,106
- Shara, you've got to face them.
- And do what? Blow them kisses?
826
01:03:58,242 --> 01:04:03,070
Tell them all to be nice little boys
and girls? No, Gantry. No. No.
827
01:04:03,205 --> 01:04:07,118
Zenith is your idea.
Those are your people. You face 'em.
828
01:04:14,381 --> 01:04:15,958
They want Shara.
829
01:04:17,967 --> 01:04:20,043
Listen to me, Shara.
830
01:04:20,178 --> 01:04:23,261
Big-city people have got
a coat of hard varnish,
831
01:04:23,388 --> 01:04:27,219
but underneath, they're just as sick
and scared as anybody else.
832
01:04:27,350 --> 01:04:32,724
People everywhere are the same
in one thing - they're all afraid to die.
833
01:04:32,855 --> 01:04:36,353
They hope you can save them.
And you can, Shara.
834
01:04:38,026 --> 01:04:40,065
You can.
835
01:04:40,820 --> 01:04:43,276
You can, Shara.
836
01:04:43,406 --> 01:04:45,695
You can.
837
01:04:45,825 --> 01:04:47,864
You can, Shara.
838
01:04:49,370 --> 01:04:51,408
You can.
839
01:04:55,249 --> 01:04:58,998
Hip, hip, hooray!
Hip, hip, hooray!
840
01:04:59,128 --> 01:05:01,367
Hip, hip, hooray!
841
01:05:51,379 --> 01:05:53,751
Some of you are troubled.
842
01:05:55,842 --> 01:05:57,798
Skeptical...
843
01:05:57,926 --> 01:05:59,966
of my motives.
844
01:06:01,555 --> 01:06:03,761
You want to know my credentials.
845
01:06:04,725 --> 01:06:06,267
Who am I?
846
01:06:06,893 --> 01:06:09,133
Who sent me?
847
01:06:09,728 --> 01:06:13,144
Some of you have come
to sit in judgement of me.
848
01:06:14,650 --> 01:06:19,891
But who among you is wise enough
to be a judge in the house of God?
849
01:06:21,989 --> 01:06:27,194
For even though you speak with the
tongue of an angel and have not charity,
850
01:06:27,326 --> 01:06:29,781
you are as sounding brass.
851
01:06:32,998 --> 01:06:35,036
If I have sinned...
852
01:06:36,666 --> 01:06:38,907
then God will punish me.
853
01:06:41,378 --> 01:06:44,747
If I am lost in the wilderness,
854
01:06:44,882 --> 01:06:47,752
then God will show me the way back.
855
01:06:50,428 --> 01:06:53,097
Will you pray with me for guidance?
856
01:06:54,849 --> 01:06:57,090
Will you?
857
01:06:59,143 --> 01:07:02,513
God won't mind if you get
a little dirt on your knees!
858
01:07:02,648 --> 01:07:05,220
I believe in you, Sister.
859
01:07:05,733 --> 01:07:09,350
- Oh, bless you, brother.
- I believe in you, Sister.
860
01:07:15,533 --> 01:07:17,692
No. No. No music.
861
01:07:18,286 --> 01:07:21,535
Please. Please, no singing, no music.
862
01:07:21,664 --> 01:07:23,703
Let us just pray.
863
01:07:24,999 --> 01:07:27,241
Will you pray with me?
864
01:07:51,815 --> 01:07:53,853
Dearest God...
865
01:08:01,282 --> 01:08:04,235
Are you too proud to kneel, Mr. Lefferts?
866
01:08:05,493 --> 01:08:08,494
You may not believe in God...
867
01:08:08,621 --> 01:08:11,075
but God believes in you.
868
01:08:35,768 --> 01:08:37,808
Dear God...
869
01:08:41,772 --> 01:08:45,106
I am set upon by enemies
and I know not why.
870
01:08:47,362 --> 01:08:52,603
The Lord has said "He that believeth
on me believeth not on me...
871
01:08:53,992 --> 01:08:56,234
but on him that sent me. "
872
01:08:58,663 --> 01:09:01,828
"And if any man hear my words
and believe not...
873
01:09:03,292 --> 01:09:08,249
I judge him not.
For I came not to judge the world,
874
01:09:08,796 --> 01:09:11,332
but to save the world. "
875
01:09:13,382 --> 01:09:15,624
Now is my soul troubled.
876
01:09:17,763 --> 01:09:19,968
But what shall I say?
877
01:09:21,430 --> 01:09:24,099
Shall I say "Father, save me"?
878
01:09:26,769 --> 01:09:31,725
But it is for this cause
that I came unto this hour.
879
01:09:38,445 --> 01:09:41,895
- Dearly beloved...
- Dearly beloved...
880
01:09:42,031 --> 01:09:45,364
. . avenge not yourselves,
for it is written...
881
01:09:45,492 --> 01:09:46,903
. . for it is written...
882
01:09:47,035 --> 01:09:50,155
- . . if thine enemy hunger...
- . . if thine enemy hunger...
883
01:09:50,288 --> 01:09:52,659
- . . feed him.
- . . feed him.
884
01:09:52,790 --> 01:09:55,411
- If he thirst...
- If he thirst...
885
01:09:55,542 --> 01:09:57,830
- . . give him drink.
- . . give him drink.
886
01:09:59,754 --> 01:10:04,250
- Be not overcome with evil...
- Be not overcome with evil...
887
01:10:04,384 --> 01:10:07,668
. . but overcome evil with good.
888
01:10:07,886 --> 01:10:11,302
. . but overcome evil with good.
889
01:10:11,430 --> 01:10:12,426
Amen.
890
01:10:12,557 --> 01:10:15,557
# Glory, glory, hallelujah
891
01:10:15,685 --> 01:10:19,517
# His truth is marching on
892
01:10:21,648 --> 01:10:23,687
Hallelujah!
893
01:10:27,778 --> 01:10:29,818
Hallelujah, Sister!
894
01:10:46,002 --> 01:10:47,875
- Brother Gantry...
- Sister Rachel.
895
01:10:51,884 --> 01:10:54,289
She'll be out in a moment.
896
01:10:54,426 --> 01:10:57,261
Didn't I tell you?
Didn't I spot her genius first?
897
01:10:57,387 --> 01:11:00,756
There's been nothing like her
since Joan of Arc! I always say -
898
01:11:00,891 --> 01:11:06,180
and you can quote me on this one, boys -
there's nothing succeeds like success.
899
01:11:06,312 --> 01:11:09,846
- Let's get 'em outta here.
- A triumph over doubt and dissension.
900
01:11:09,982 --> 01:11:13,231
- Biggest thing in Christianity.
- Can I have a picture?
901
01:11:13,358 --> 01:11:16,229
Not me, and Sister's had
a tryin' ordeal, but thank you.
902
01:11:16,361 --> 01:11:18,603
I was saying, if it doesn't get you here...
903
01:11:18,739 --> 01:11:22,321
The poor child's practically out
on her feet. Let's give her a break.
904
01:11:22,451 --> 01:11:26,529
Sure. Sure. Sure. Come on, boys, let's
give the little lady a break, shall we?
905
01:11:26,661 --> 01:11:31,204
Time to say good night. We appreciated
all of you. Thanks for your cooperation.
906
01:11:31,333 --> 01:11:32,991
Good night, Sister.
907
01:11:34,584 --> 01:11:36,328
- Good night, Mr. Morgan.
- Good night.
908
01:11:36,462 --> 01:11:38,170
- Good night, Bill.
- Mr. Babbitt.
909
01:11:38,297 --> 01:11:42,792
- Never have made it without you.
- Thanks, Elmer. Good night. Good night.
910
01:11:42,925 --> 01:11:44,882
- Brother Gantry...
- Sister Rachel.
911
01:11:45,010 --> 01:11:48,544
Here's a young lady who deserves
your attention - our maestro of music.
912
01:11:48,679 --> 01:11:51,350
Captain Holt - a real Trojan.
Thank you. Good night.
913
01:11:51,474 --> 01:11:54,427
- Thank you, sir.
- Bill, I'll see if she needs anything.
914
01:11:54,559 --> 01:11:56,931
Gantry... thank you.
915
01:11:57,771 --> 01:11:59,431
Bill boy.
916
01:11:59,564 --> 01:12:02,233
- Yes. Yes.
- Good night.
917
01:12:02,358 --> 01:12:04,065
Bill boy. Yes.
918
01:12:04,192 --> 01:12:06,435
- Good night.
- Good night.
919
01:12:22,251 --> 01:12:23,874
Shara?
920
01:12:25,419 --> 01:12:27,459
Are you decent?
921
01:13:03,910 --> 01:13:05,949
Zenith Times-Dispatch? Just a moment.
922
01:13:06,078 --> 01:13:08,996
Slug this "Lead all, article one. "
923
01:13:09,123 --> 01:13:11,958
Revivalism came to Zenith last night.
924
01:13:12,084 --> 01:13:17,208
After six years of backwoods success,
Sister Sharon Falconer -
925
01:13:17,338 --> 01:13:20,042
F-A-L-C-O-N-E-R -
926
01:13:20,173 --> 01:13:24,255
faced a fractious,
overflowing, metropolitan crowd.
927
01:13:24,387 --> 01:13:26,924
Paragraph.
928
01:13:27,054 --> 01:13:29,177
Jim Lefferts. Uh, later, please.
929
01:13:29,307 --> 01:13:31,679
- "Metropolitan crowd. "
- Um...
930
01:13:31,809 --> 01:13:34,217
Many came to jeer...
931
01:13:34,353 --> 01:13:36,808
but stayed to cheer.
932
01:13:36,938 --> 01:13:41,731
Sister Sharon tamed the Philistines
with a simple prayer.
933
01:13:42,985 --> 01:13:47,444
The big-city hicks swallowed the
chocolate-coated pill with hosannas.
934
01:13:47,571 --> 01:13:51,189
- Give me a start on that, would you?
- Yeah, yeah.
935
01:13:51,325 --> 01:13:52,950
But...
936
01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:58,246
if simple prayer was
the main attraction of revivalism...
937
01:14:01,626 --> 01:14:07,211
Sister's tent would soon be as empty
as the churches she claims she can fill.
938
01:14:08,298 --> 01:14:09,923
Paragraph.
939
01:14:13,845 --> 01:14:16,513
What... is a revival?
940
01:14:18,306 --> 01:14:21,640
Is it a church? Is it a religion?
941
01:14:24,354 --> 01:14:27,103
Or is it a circus sideshow
942
01:14:27,230 --> 01:14:30,396
complete with freaks, magic,
943
01:14:30,525 --> 01:14:32,730
and rabble-rousing?
944
01:14:36,611 --> 01:14:40,313
Why does a revival attract thousands?
945
01:14:40,449 --> 01:14:44,695
To see a miracle? To be saved from
a lifetime of sin in five minutes?
946
01:14:44,827 --> 01:14:49,156
To be entertained, cured, cuddled,
in quick, painless salvation?
947
01:14:49,289 --> 01:14:50,914
Paragraph.
948
01:14:52,167 --> 01:14:57,291
Zenith is the heart of the Bible Belt. This
is an age that likes noise and whoopee.
949
01:14:57,421 --> 01:14:59,959
We're a fertile land
for corn, beans, squash,
950
01:15:00,091 --> 01:15:04,918
rumble-seat sex, and revivalism.
Hallelujah, brother.
951
01:15:07,930 --> 01:15:13,137
What qualifies someone to be
a revivalist? Nothing Nothing at all
952
01:15:13,269 --> 01:15:15,842
There is not one law
in any state in the Union
953
01:15:15,980 --> 01:15:19,727
Protecting the public from the
hysterical onslaught of revivalists
954
01:15:19,858 --> 01:15:24,318
But the law does permit them
to invest in tax-free property,
955
01:15:24,445 --> 01:15:28,656
and collect money,
without accounting for how it is used
956
01:15:29,867 --> 01:15:32,535
What do you get for your money?
Can you get into heaven
957
01:15:32,660 --> 01:15:35,447
by contributing one buck or 50?
958
01:15:35,580 --> 01:15:39,743
Can you get life eternal by shaking hands
for Jesus with Elmer Gantry?
959
01:15:39,876 --> 01:15:42,448
"Continued on page three. "
960
01:15:43,420 --> 01:15:45,044
So...
961
01:15:45,172 --> 01:15:50,626
"I watched this unholy trinity - Falconer,
Gantry, Morgan - save Nebraska. "
962
01:15:50,758 --> 01:15:56,549
"Has sin in that state been washed away?
Is there less envy, lust or adultery?"
963
01:15:56,682 --> 01:15:58,223
- Ah.
- Gee, I hope not.
964
01:15:58,349 --> 01:15:59,920
Break it up. A party
of johns want action.
965
01:15:59,933 --> 01:16:01,515
Keep readin',
honey.
966
01:16:01,643 --> 01:16:04,313
- But, Lulu, they'll be right over.
- Drop dead!
967
01:16:04,438 --> 01:16:07,141
- Cigarette me, Pete, honey.
- Honey, read!
968
01:16:07,939 --> 01:16:14,274
"To Elmer Gantry, God is an all-American
football player with a long white beard,
969
01:16:14,404 --> 01:16:18,615
who carries lightning in one hand,
and a bag of tricks in the other. "
970
01:16:18,741 --> 01:16:22,654
"And Gantry has the high-pressure
style and personality to sell this God
971
01:16:22,785 --> 01:16:25,740
even to big-city slickers. "
972
01:16:26,540 --> 01:16:29,623
"He can make
innocent people feel guilty...
973
01:16:30,501 --> 01:16:33,205
and bad people feel good. "
974
01:16:33,337 --> 01:16:36,041
"Gantry has a voice made for promises. "
975
01:16:36,173 --> 01:16:39,088
- Can he save anybody?
- Can he?
976
01:16:42,178 --> 01:16:46,128
Can he? Anywhere, any time.
977
01:16:46,265 --> 01:16:50,641
In a tent, standin' up,
layin' down, or any other way.
978
01:16:50,768 --> 01:16:53,093
And he's got plenty of ways!
979
01:16:53,229 --> 01:16:56,433
Lulu? Was you saved
by him, Lulu, honey?
980
01:16:56,566 --> 01:17:01,107
Sister, I was saved by him
way back in Schoenheim, Kansas.
981
01:17:01,236 --> 01:17:05,731
"Love... love is the mornin'
and the evenin' star. "
982
01:17:05,864 --> 01:17:11,154
"And what is love?
Not the carnal, but the divine love!"
983
01:17:11,285 --> 01:17:14,820
Oh, he gave me special instructions
back of the pulpit Christmas Eve.
984
01:17:14,956 --> 01:17:17,706
He got to howlin' "Repent. Repent!"
985
01:17:17,833 --> 01:17:20,786
And I got to moanin' "Save me. Save me. "
986
01:17:20,918 --> 01:17:25,876
He rammed the fear of God into me so
fast I never heard my old man's footsteps.
987
01:17:26,006 --> 01:17:31,166
The next thing I knew, I was out in the
cold, hard snow in my bare little soul.
988
01:17:32,804 --> 01:17:35,673
Oh, Brother Gantry, save me!
989
01:17:46,273 --> 01:17:51,313
Don't do it, Shara. Don't get yourself
mixed up in an alley fight. Listen to me...
990
01:17:55,864 --> 01:17:57,822
Why, Georgie, hello!
991
01:17:57,950 --> 01:18:01,698
- You shut up. I am crucified to pieces.
- What's the matter?
992
01:18:01,828 --> 01:18:05,361
What's the matter? "Why did
George F Babbitt underwrite a guarantee
993
01:18:05,496 --> 01:18:07,821
of $30,000 to bring a revival to Zenith?"
994
01:18:07,957 --> 01:18:10,791
"Is Sister Sharon
preaching the word of Jesus
995
01:18:10,917 --> 01:18:14,369
or the gospel of Babbitt's
real-estate business?"
996
01:18:14,504 --> 01:18:17,589
For God's sakes! I don't want any trouble.
997
01:18:17,716 --> 01:18:21,463
I am in business.
I'm a 32nd-degree Mason.
998
01:18:21,594 --> 01:18:24,297
George boy, don't take
this thing so seriously!
999
01:18:24,429 --> 01:18:26,310
I just sure as hell
don't think it's a joke!
1000
01:18:26,323 --> 01:18:28,214
We'll lick
it, Georgie!
1001
01:18:28,350 --> 01:18:31,185
"Georgie!" My telephone
has not stopped ringing.
1002
01:18:31,311 --> 01:18:35,604
Everybody's mad at me or laughing at me.
Even my own family's turned against me.
1003
01:18:35,731 --> 01:18:37,355
As of right now,
1004
01:18:37,483 --> 01:18:41,979
I am canceling out on my support -
financial and every other way.
1005
01:18:42,112 --> 01:18:44,685
George, you've got to fight back!
1006
01:18:47,658 --> 01:18:49,568
- Fight the press?
- Yes.
1007
01:18:49,701 --> 01:18:52,701
Mister, do you know anybody
ever licked the newspapers?
1008
01:18:52,828 --> 01:18:55,153
Me and you.
1009
01:18:55,289 --> 01:18:59,751
Besides, I am for a free press,
and for free enterprise,
1010
01:18:59,877 --> 01:19:03,411
and for... whatever the hell
the other freedoms are!
1011
01:19:03,546 --> 01:19:05,835
But, Reverend, you invited us here.
1012
01:19:05,965 --> 01:19:10,342
If you withdraw your support now, you're
endorsing this vicious newspaper smear.
1013
01:19:10,469 --> 01:19:12,960
- These telegrams of protest...
- There's always a lunatic fringe...
1014
01:19:13,096 --> 01:19:17,971
These are from my parishioners. These
are complaints from my church board.
1015
01:19:18,100 --> 01:19:21,550
Even my national superior
telephoned me long-distance.
1016
01:19:21,685 --> 01:19:23,761
I'm sorry, Mr. Morgan.
1017
01:19:23,896 --> 01:19:26,980
- If you turn against us now...
- What I do doesn't matter.
1018
01:19:27,107 --> 01:19:30,475
Public opinion has turned against you.
That does matter.
1019
01:19:30,610 --> 01:19:34,228
Tell him it's Sister Sharon Falconer.
1020
01:19:34,364 --> 01:19:36,985
No, I'll wait.
1021
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:41,993
- Did you find Mr. Gantry?
- Nobody's seen him since he left.
1022
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:44,789
- His hotel room?
- Hasn't been there all day.
1023
01:19:45,873 --> 01:19:48,411
Yes? Mr. Eddington?
1024
01:19:49,459 --> 01:19:52,792
I want to see you. No, sir, at once.
1025
01:19:53,879 --> 01:19:58,626
No, your office will be fine.
Will you please have Mr. Lefferts there?
1026
01:19:59,385 --> 01:20:01,423
Thank you.
1027
01:20:02,846 --> 01:20:06,261
Maybe... something
happened to Mr. Gantry.
1028
01:20:06,391 --> 01:20:07,671
Forget Mr. Gantry.
1029
01:20:31,996 --> 01:20:34,950
- Evening, George.
- I'm busy.
1030
01:20:35,082 --> 01:20:39,577
I had a busy day myself.
736 Lombard Street, two-storey building.
1031
01:20:39,711 --> 01:20:42,664
George F Babbitt.
speakeasy.
1032
01:20:42,796 --> 01:20:47,173
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- Of course. 1121 Maple Street.
1033
01:20:47,301 --> 01:20:50,551
- Store front, apartment in rear.
- George F Babbitt.
1034
01:20:50,679 --> 01:20:52,504
Business...
1035
01:20:54,222 --> 01:20:57,424
- prostitution.
- On my property?
1036
01:20:57,558 --> 01:21:01,509
- Well, I'll have them evicted.
- Of course. Of course.
1037
01:21:01,646 --> 01:21:04,018
You've been victimised, George.
1038
01:21:04,148 --> 01:21:06,519
- Same as me.
- Yeah.
1039
01:21:07,901 --> 01:21:13,238
Evening, boys. Never bet into an open
pair... unless you've got the lock!
1040
01:21:14,449 --> 01:21:16,855
- Say good night, George.
- Oh, this?
1041
01:21:16,992 --> 01:21:21,571
Well, we're just playing for chips -
you know, sociable.
1042
01:21:21,705 --> 01:21:26,032
- You takin' me for a ride or somethin'?
- To the publisher of the Times-Dispatch
1043
01:21:26,166 --> 01:21:28,918
- You got somethin' on him, too?
- I got you.
1044
01:21:29,044 --> 01:21:31,915
- Yeah, sure, but...
- It's getting late, George.
1045
01:21:32,048 --> 01:21:35,331
The point is, why did he write this trash,
and why did you publish it?
1046
01:21:35,466 --> 01:21:38,420
- Are you suggesting censorship, Miss?
- Only fair play.
1047
01:21:38,552 --> 01:21:40,759
- This is muckraking!
- Is it true?
1048
01:21:40,888 --> 01:21:42,678
- No!
- Then sue us for libel.
1049
01:21:42,806 --> 01:21:47,099
Oh, you're much too clever for that.
It's what you imply - the veiled slurs.
1050
01:21:47,227 --> 01:21:50,512
- Hints that I misused collection money.
- I never said that.
1051
01:21:50,647 --> 01:21:54,642
Did I ever preach anything
but God's word? Well? Did I?
1052
01:21:54,774 --> 01:21:56,932
- Are you ordained?
- What?
1053
01:21:57,068 --> 01:22:00,936
Do you hold a degree from any
recognised theological seminary?
1054
01:22:01,073 --> 01:22:03,988
- Does Gantry?
- No.
1055
01:22:04,116 --> 01:22:07,319
Are you sanctioned
to preach by any church?
1056
01:22:07,452 --> 01:22:12,409
No, Mr. Lefferts, but... neither was Peter
or Paul or any of the other apostles.
1057
01:22:12,540 --> 01:22:16,205
Ah, but they said that they lived with
the Son of God, were taught by him,
1058
01:22:16,335 --> 01:22:18,743
were sanctified by him.
1059
01:22:18,879 --> 01:22:22,378
What gives you
the right to speak for God?
1060
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:30,298
I couldn't possibly be doing
God's work without his approval.
1061
01:22:30,429 --> 01:22:32,800
How did you get his approval?
1062
01:22:34,931 --> 01:22:37,552
Did God speak to you personally?
1063
01:22:39,769 --> 01:22:42,140
Did he send you a letter?
1064
01:22:43,188 --> 01:22:45,679
Did you have a visitation from God?
1065
01:22:45,816 --> 01:22:48,058
A burning bush, perhaps?
1066
01:22:50,112 --> 01:22:55,270
Where in the New Testament does it say
that God spoke to anyone except his son?
1067
01:22:58,160 --> 01:23:00,828
But it does say in the First Corinthians
1068
01:23:00,954 --> 01:23:04,369
"Let your women
keep silence in the churches. "
1069
01:23:04,498 --> 01:23:07,333
"It is a shame for women
to speak in the church. "
1070
01:23:07,460 --> 01:23:12,003
Congratulations, Jim boy. I see you're
a student of the Bible. I'm delighted.
1071
01:23:12,029 --> 01:23:16,089
What is it? Are you responsible for some
of these crackpot calls I've been getting?
1072
01:23:16,217 --> 01:23:19,420
- You want Mr. Lefferts fired, too?
- Fired?
1073
01:23:19,553 --> 01:23:22,554
Why, I'd give Jim a bonus
for boostin' circulation.
1074
01:23:22,681 --> 01:23:25,052
I thought you came to bury Caesar,
not to praise him.
1075
01:23:25,183 --> 01:23:30,176
Shakespeare. Ah, yes. A moment ago you
used the Bible... to whip Sister Sharon.
1076
01:23:30,312 --> 01:23:34,179
- I merely quoted it as a source.
- Of course. As a good newspaperman,
1077
01:23:34,316 --> 01:23:37,649
you wouldn't use information
unless it was fact, would you?
1078
01:23:37,778 --> 01:23:40,528
Tell me somethin', Jim.
1079
01:23:40,654 --> 01:23:42,647
Is the Bible fact?
1080
01:23:42,782 --> 01:23:44,062
Hm?
1081
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:47,734
Well, come on, Jim boy.
Did God create the universe in six days?
1082
01:23:47,870 --> 01:23:51,320
Did He make the sun stand still
to help Joshua lick the Amalekites?
1083
01:23:51,456 --> 01:23:52,998
No.
1084
01:23:53,124 --> 01:23:55,412
- You don't believe Moses parted the sea?
- No.
1085
01:23:55,542 --> 01:23:58,827
- God wrote the Ten Commandments?
- Nope.
1086
01:23:58,961 --> 01:24:01,713
Or that the dead were raised
and the blind cured?
1087
01:24:01,839 --> 01:24:05,373
And 5,000 people were fed
with five little fishes
1088
01:24:05,509 --> 01:24:07,833
and two little itty-bitty loaves of bread?
1089
01:24:07,968 --> 01:24:09,048
No.
1090
01:24:09,178 --> 01:24:12,594
You don't believe in any of the miracles
in the Holy Bible, do you?
1091
01:24:12,723 --> 01:24:17,633
No more than I believe that black cats or
spilt salt or broken mirrors are bad luck.
1092
01:24:17,769 --> 01:24:22,265
Or that God can be jealous
or bloodthirsty or vengeful.
1093
01:24:22,398 --> 01:24:26,525
Or that Jehovah sanctions bigamy
and stupidity and slavery.
1094
01:24:26,651 --> 01:24:29,901
In other words,
you don't believe in the Bible.
1095
01:24:31,114 --> 01:24:34,982
I believe that the Bible is a book
of beautiful poetry and wisdom...
1096
01:24:35,118 --> 01:24:37,156
But it's not fact.
1097
01:24:40,455 --> 01:24:41,700
And if it's not fact,
1098
01:24:41,832 --> 01:24:45,448
why would he use it as information,
except to destroy her character?
1099
01:24:45,583 --> 01:24:49,084
I heard you say it,
and you'll burn in hell for it.
1100
01:24:49,213 --> 01:24:52,499
No, Georgie.
You can't scare Jim that way.
1101
01:24:53,634 --> 01:24:56,581
You see, if you don't
believe in the Bible...
1102
01:24:56,594 --> 01:24:59,552
you don't believe
there's a real hell.
1103
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:00,878
Hey.
1104
01:25:01,014 --> 01:25:03,066
And it follows if there's
no real hell, there
1105
01:25:03,079 --> 01:25:05,142
can't be a real heaven.
Right, Jim boy?
1106
01:25:05,268 --> 01:25:08,303
Why don't you get to the point?
1107
01:25:08,437 --> 01:25:12,565
Do you believe Jesus Christ
can give us life everlasting?
1108
01:25:20,573 --> 01:25:24,700
Do you believe Jesus Christ
can give us life everlasting?
1109
01:25:27,202 --> 01:25:29,989
- I'd love to believe it.
- But you don't?
1110
01:25:31,039 --> 01:25:32,664
No.
1111
01:25:36,669 --> 01:25:40,369
Then you don't accept
Jesus Christ as divine, do you?
1112
01:25:51,432 --> 01:25:52,427
Well?
1113
01:25:55,769 --> 01:26:01,272
Jesus was a great, virtuous teacher.
His faith and courage changed the world.
1114
01:26:01,398 --> 01:26:04,435
Do you accept Jesus Christ as divine?
1115
01:26:08,571 --> 01:26:11,986
Let me say... I have doubts.
1116
01:26:12,115 --> 01:26:16,327
- That's blasphemy!
- Mr. Babbitt, to doubt is not blasphemy.
1117
01:26:16,453 --> 01:26:20,285
When you say "blasphemy", you mean
"Don't dare disagree. Don't think. "
1118
01:26:20,415 --> 01:26:22,573
"Don't doubt. "
1119
01:26:22,708 --> 01:26:28,164
But Tolstoy, Darwin, Jefferson, Lincoln -
they had the same doubts.
1120
01:26:28,296 --> 01:26:30,964
Then they'll burn in hell, too!
1121
01:26:31,882 --> 01:26:35,715
Mr. Eddington, in spite of
Mr. Lefferts' confessed bigotry,
1122
01:26:35,845 --> 01:26:39,509
I defend your right to publish these
articles. But give us equal rights.
1123
01:26:39,640 --> 01:26:43,766
- Your reply'll be published prominently.
- Mr. Eddington, I'm no writer.
1124
01:26:43,892 --> 01:26:47,141
Now, Jim is brilliant and witty.
Uses words like a stiletto.
1125
01:26:47,269 --> 01:26:50,888
He learned from Mencken, Ingersoll,
Sinclair Lewis, other atheists.
1126
01:26:51,023 --> 01:26:53,265
- Atheists!
- But you own a radio station.
1127
01:26:53,401 --> 01:26:56,355
Set the time. Half an hour.
Tonight? Tomorrow? Name it.
1128
01:26:56,487 --> 01:27:00,103
Every day for two weeks -
half-hour in the morning and evening.
1129
01:27:00,239 --> 01:27:04,949
- Just to answer this article?
- I don't intend to answer anything.
1130
01:27:05,078 --> 01:27:07,117
You don't debate the existence of God.
1131
01:27:07,247 --> 01:27:10,661
Jim, here, has spread
the poison of doubt and disbelief.
1132
01:27:10,790 --> 01:27:15,581
Just give me a chance to spread the gospel,
to raise the banner of Christianity,
1133
01:27:15,710 --> 01:27:18,579
to restore the faith he stole.
1134
01:27:18,712 --> 01:27:22,331
Now, sir, I realise time means money -
especially radio time.
1135
01:27:22,466 --> 01:27:24,340
Right.
1136
01:27:25,136 --> 01:27:27,377
So our good citizen, George F Babbitt,
1137
01:27:27,513 --> 01:27:32,506
has kindly consented to pay for every
minute of radio time. Right, George?
1138
01:27:32,641 --> 01:27:34,681
Georgie boy?
1139
01:27:37,354 --> 01:27:40,520
- Right.
- Thank you, sir. Good night.
1140
01:27:40,648 --> 01:27:42,273
Sister.
1141
01:27:43,401 --> 01:27:46,317
Good night, Mr. Eddington. Mr. Lefferts.
1142
01:27:46,445 --> 01:27:49,693
- Jim boy.
- Congratulations.
1143
01:27:49,821 --> 01:27:52,230
I bear you no malice. Mr. Babbitt.
1144
01:27:52,658 --> 01:27:56,358
Blasphemy! Good night, Mr. Eddington.
1145
01:27:56,494 --> 01:28:00,158
And you... you ought to be
ashamed of yourself.
1146
01:28:14,427 --> 01:28:17,546
Oh, it was... glorious.
1147
01:28:17,679 --> 01:28:20,928
Outrageously, blissfully glorious.
1148
01:28:22,017 --> 01:28:27,722
Oh, you really are an alley fighter.
You hit Brother Jim both sides of the belt!
1149
01:28:27,855 --> 01:28:31,021
You murdered 'em. You knocked
'em flat with a celestial bolt -
1150
01:28:31,149 --> 01:28:34,020
eight, nine, ten, and out! Oh, darling!
1151
01:28:40,407 --> 01:28:45,911
You didn't fight fair but you've seen
your duty and you've done it. Oh, darling!
1152
01:28:51,875 --> 01:28:55,872
Stop it. Stop it. I was crazy.
I was so happy you delivered me!
1153
01:28:56,003 --> 01:29:01,163
Can't you understand? God sent you
to me as his instrument, not as my lover.
1154
01:29:03,509 --> 01:29:08,931
No, I don't understand. You got me
half-crazy, talkin' to myself.
1155
01:29:09,057 --> 01:29:12,472
One minute you're a howling banshee,
the next, you're cold potatoes.
1156
01:29:12,601 --> 01:29:15,305
I don't understand anything,
but I worship you.
1157
01:29:16,396 --> 01:29:20,262
Well, then, stop treating me
like one of your tramps!
1158
01:29:20,399 --> 01:29:23,814
There's no such thing. There's
honest women and dishonest women.
1159
01:29:23,944 --> 01:29:26,435
And you want to make
an honest woman out of me. Men!
1160
01:29:26,571 --> 01:29:29,489
Don't knock 'em if you haven't tried 'em.
1161
01:29:29,616 --> 01:29:32,070
- Encyclopaedia sexualis
- I never read it.
1162
01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:36,447
You wrote it! You've just got to have
every woman - old, young, stupid. Even...
1163
01:29:37,415 --> 01:29:41,246
Even poor, starved Rachel
with her wet calf eyes.
1164
01:29:42,543 --> 01:29:45,746
- May God strike me dead...
- Be careful, or he'll strike you dead
1165
01:29:45,879 --> 01:29:50,587
for being the ungrateful liar that you are.
Can't you ever tell the truth?
1166
01:29:50,717 --> 01:29:55,793
You wouldn't know the truth if it bit you.
It's you I want, Shara. No one else.
1167
01:29:55,930 --> 01:29:58,848
I want you so bad,
I'm in pain half the time.
1168
01:29:58,975 --> 01:30:01,724
I'd tear your holy wings off,
make a woman out of you.
1169
01:30:01,851 --> 01:30:06,726
I'd show you what heaven is - no golden
stairways or harp music or silvery clouds.
1170
01:30:06,856 --> 01:30:09,644
Just ecstasy, comin' and goin'.
1171
01:30:11,109 --> 01:30:13,896
Do you really think I'd compete
for your glorious body?
1172
01:30:14,029 --> 01:30:18,737
Damn right. Every woman competes
with every other woman for every man.
1173
01:30:20,700 --> 01:30:25,242
It's the truth, Shara. You want it.
You want it as much as I do.
1174
01:30:25,370 --> 01:30:29,912
You want it with me. When are you
going to make up your mind to take it?
1175
01:30:38,048 --> 01:30:40,717
Get in the car. Go on, do as I say.
1176
01:30:58,398 --> 01:31:01,068
Turn on the lights, please.
1177
01:31:20,792 --> 01:31:22,415
There.
1178
01:31:23,919 --> 01:31:26,836
That's what I've been working for.
1179
01:31:26,963 --> 01:31:31,008
No more tents. No more
running around like a circus.
1180
01:31:31,134 --> 01:31:33,755
No more haggling with committees.
1181
01:31:34,470 --> 01:31:36,841
My own tabernacle.
1182
01:31:37,931 --> 01:31:42,925
A permanent home. A clinic for
sick bodies. A free soup kitchen.
1183
01:31:43,061 --> 01:31:46,892
A place of worship for
everybody of every faith.
1184
01:31:48,315 --> 01:31:50,308
That's my first love.
1185
01:31:55,530 --> 01:31:58,068
What have you got to match that?
1186
01:31:59,658 --> 01:32:02,195
Nothin'. Nothin' at all.
1187
01:32:03,160 --> 01:32:06,611
I'm just a hick from Kansas,
and you're real class, Shara.
1188
01:32:06,746 --> 01:32:10,994
The only class I've got is the name
Falconer. That's why I picked it.
1189
01:32:12,128 --> 01:32:15,080
I'm Katie Jones from shantytown.
1190
01:32:17,381 --> 01:32:20,548
That's right. Shantytown.
1191
01:32:20,676 --> 01:32:26,096
But does that make a liar out of me?
I am Sharon Falconer now. I've made her.
1192
01:32:26,222 --> 01:32:30,469
I've put her together piece by piece
till I've got a right to be her. I am her.
1193
01:32:31,019 --> 01:32:34,302
I started building this tabernacle
two years ago,
1194
01:32:34,437 --> 01:32:38,269
and when this revival is ended,
I'll have enough money to own it.
1195
01:32:38,649 --> 01:32:42,564
Do you think it was blind luck
that brought us to Zenith?
1196
01:32:46,948 --> 01:32:48,988
Do you?
1197
01:32:50,785 --> 01:32:52,942
Of course not.
1198
01:32:53,077 --> 01:32:56,328
- It was God's will.
- Of course.
1199
01:33:05,546 --> 01:33:09,081
- Now do you understand why we... ?
- Of course. Of course.
1200
01:33:09,216 --> 01:33:11,790
- Nothing's going to take it away from me.
- Nothing.
1201
01:33:11,927 --> 01:33:14,168
- Nobody must spoil it.
- Nobody.
1202
01:33:15,430 --> 01:33:17,886
- I've never...
- Of course.
1203
01:33:18,016 --> 01:33:20,055
- Never.
- Naturally.
1204
01:33:21,143 --> 01:33:23,183
Yes.
1205
01:33:26,065 --> 01:33:28,022
Sister Sharon?
1206
01:33:28,817 --> 01:33:30,015
Sister Sharon?
1207
01:33:39,158 --> 01:33:42,574
Jim Lefferts is an honorable man.
But so was Brutus.
1208
01:33:42,703 --> 01:33:47,115
And we all know that Brutus was
an anarchistic, alcoholic assassin.
1209
01:33:50,292 --> 01:33:56,412
Jim "Lucifer" Lefferts calls you good
People of Zenith suckers, slickers, saps
1210
01:33:56,548 --> 01:34:01,922
He attacks the way you worship I don't
notice him attackin' booze or prostitution
1211
01:34:03,638 --> 01:34:06,128
Lucifer Jim says he wants to save you
1212
01:34:06,264 --> 01:34:09,679
How? By stabbin' Jesus with dirty lies?
1213
01:34:10,726 --> 01:34:12,803
By assassinatin' God?
1214
01:34:14,271 --> 01:34:17,225
I have here in my pocket -
1215
01:34:17,358 --> 01:34:19,764
and thank heaven you can't see them -
1216
01:34:19,901 --> 01:34:22,688
lewd, dirty, obscene...
1217
01:34:23,780 --> 01:34:25,273
And I'm ashamed to say this.
1218
01:34:25,406 --> 01:34:27,446
. . French postcards.
1219
01:34:29,952 --> 01:34:34,032
They were sold to me, in front of
your own innocent high school,
1220
01:34:34,164 --> 01:34:38,160
by a man with a black beard. A foreigner!
1221
01:34:38,291 --> 01:34:40,617
- Shocking!
- And last night...
1222
01:34:40,752 --> 01:34:47,370
last night, right here on Main Street,
I was accosted by three painted women!
1223
01:34:47,508 --> 01:34:50,426
- The tramps.
- Your streets are made unsafe
1224
01:34:50,553 --> 01:34:52,960
by shameless, diseased hussies,
1225
01:34:53,097 --> 01:34:58,007
rapacious pickpockets,
and insidious opium-smokers
1226
01:34:58,143 --> 01:35:00,349
And Elmer Gantry.
1227
01:35:04,190 --> 01:35:09,146
This newspaper... this newspaper
says everybody's against me.
1228
01:35:09,277 --> 01:35:13,738
The mildewed Methodists, Episcopalians,
and Baptists are against me.
1229
01:35:13,865 --> 01:35:16,436
Even the ossified, petrified, horizontal,
1230
01:35:16,574 --> 01:35:19,409
perpendicular presbyterians
are against me!
1231
01:35:19,535 --> 01:35:21,943
But this newspaper lies!
1232
01:35:22,079 --> 01:35:24,487
Some of the preachers
might be against me.
1233
01:35:24,831 --> 01:35:29,159
Unitarianism, Russellism,
Spiritualism - they hate me!
1234
01:35:29,293 --> 01:35:32,294
And what hates me
most of all is Harvardism,
1235
01:35:32,421 --> 01:35:35,291
Yaleism, and Princetonism!
1236
01:35:36,298 --> 01:35:39,382
But you're some of God's best people.
1237
01:35:39,509 --> 01:35:42,214
- And you don't hate me, do you?
- No!
1238
01:35:42,346 --> 01:35:45,843
- Smack 'em down, preacher!
- Kill 'em! Murder 'em!
1239
01:35:51,811 --> 01:35:54,052
Can you hear me, Jesus?
1240
01:35:56,105 --> 01:36:01,017
I'd like you to save this
old friend of mine, Jim Lefferts,
1241
01:36:01,153 --> 01:36:06,193
who's been writin' all these dirty, black
lies about me. But I'll warn you, Jesus.
1242
01:36:06,323 --> 01:36:10,023
You better wear rubber gloves
and use a strong disinfectant.
1243
01:36:10,160 --> 01:36:13,861
But if you can save sinner Jim...
I'd like for you to do it.
1244
01:36:14,956 --> 01:36:17,625
What the hell's he trying to do?
1245
01:36:24,923 --> 01:36:28,291
Shara, they've played
your introduction twice now.
1246
01:36:28,425 --> 01:36:30,882
This is the biggest crowd we've ever had.
1247
01:36:34,139 --> 01:36:36,676
Please, Shara.
1248
01:36:36,808 --> 01:36:41,386
# Glory, glory, hallelujah
1249
01:36:41,604 --> 01:36:46,349
# Glory, glory, hallelujah
1250
01:36:48,985 --> 01:36:53,112
We're all sinners,
every blessed one of us
1251
01:36:59,536 --> 01:37:03,829
Booze! Booze put a bullet
through Lincoln and McKinley!
1252
01:37:05,582 --> 01:37:12,294
Booze is the way white slavers rob the
virtue of 60,000 American girls every year!
1253
01:37:15,758 --> 01:37:18,794
The bootleggers, the white slavers,
1254
01:37:18,927 --> 01:37:22,378
and that newspaper are tryin'
to scare me and Sister outta town!
1255
01:37:25,516 --> 01:37:28,302
But as long as I got a
foot, I'll kick booze!
1256
01:37:28,435 --> 01:37:31,186
As long as I got a fist, I'll punch it!
1257
01:37:31,313 --> 01:37:34,349
And as long as I've got
a tooth, I'll bite it!
1258
01:37:34,482 --> 01:37:38,064
And when I'm old and grey
and toothless and bootless,
1259
01:37:38,193 --> 01:37:43,531
I'll gum it, till I go to heaven,
and booze goes to hell!
1260
01:37:48,328 --> 01:37:50,948
That's a hell of a speech.
1261
01:37:51,079 --> 01:37:55,658
It's been eight days. It's been eight days
since I gave you the addresses
1262
01:37:55,792 --> 01:37:59,658
of 11 blind tigers, two cocaine peddlers,
1263
01:37:59,794 --> 01:38:02,465
and 16 brothels.
1264
01:38:02,590 --> 01:38:04,381
And what's been done about it?
1265
01:38:04,508 --> 01:38:06,964
Nothing, Captain.
1266
01:38:09,345 --> 01:38:12,796
We're gettin' sick and
tired of scoldin' sin.
1267
01:38:12,931 --> 01:38:15,220
We're gonna abolish it!
1268
01:38:15,351 --> 01:38:18,884
We'll show 'em how to clean up
this town tonight! Right now!
1269
01:38:19,020 --> 01:38:21,012
Charge!
1270
01:38:24,815 --> 01:38:26,607
Elmer, be careful.
1271
01:38:26,734 --> 01:38:28,523
Courage, Sister. Courage.
1272
01:38:42,413 --> 01:38:46,577
Brother Jim! Glad to see you
on the side of the angels.
1273
01:38:46,709 --> 01:38:50,872
Aren't you afraid some of these
desperate bootleggers carry guns?
1274
01:38:51,004 --> 01:38:55,216
- No bullet could pierce the Holy Bible.
- They might not aim at the Holy Bible.
1275
01:38:55,342 --> 01:38:57,583
Very good! Onward!
1276
01:39:15,775 --> 01:39:19,559
- Smash that speakeasy door!
- What for? Just knock. They'll open up.
1277
01:39:19,696 --> 01:39:21,902
Captain. My good man.
1278
01:39:23,366 --> 01:39:25,821
Hold it! All right, Reverend.
1279
01:39:35,001 --> 01:39:38,452
- Sinful woman!
- That's a dirty lie! We pay protection!
1280
01:39:38,587 --> 01:39:41,042
- Shame! Shame!
- Take 'em away, men!
1281
01:39:41,172 --> 01:39:44,375
- Whisky!
- Why didn't you give me a phone call?
1282
01:39:44,508 --> 01:39:46,998
Don't break the furniture!
1283
01:39:51,889 --> 01:39:57,048
- Should've seen what this one was doing.
- Harlot! You ought to be asha...
1284
01:39:59,894 --> 01:40:02,136
Arrest this woman!
1285
01:40:09,613 --> 01:40:13,822
#. . soldiers, marching as to war
1286
01:40:16,075 --> 01:40:20,453
Captain Holt, may I suggest you release
these poor unfortunate creatures?
1287
01:40:20,580 --> 01:40:22,488
- What? But you told me...
- I know.
1288
01:40:22,623 --> 01:40:25,659
But throwing a prostitute into jail
will not remove her sin.
1289
01:40:25,792 --> 01:40:30,500
And it certainly won't get rid of
prostitution. No pictures. No publicity.
1290
01:40:30,630 --> 01:40:35,007
Captain Holt, I want to compliment
you and your men on a fine, patriotic job.
1291
01:40:35,134 --> 01:40:37,625
Why, thank you, sir.
1292
01:40:37,762 --> 01:40:40,169
See these girls leave town. And quick.
1293
01:40:48,563 --> 01:40:50,803
Excuse me, Mr. Gantry.
1294
01:40:52,690 --> 01:40:55,893
That Mr. Gantry,
he's absolutely incredible.
1295
01:40:56,027 --> 01:40:59,727
The fabulous thing about Mr. Gantry
is, he's absolutely credible.
1296
01:41:01,864 --> 01:41:05,363
- Excuse me, please.
- She's here, Mr. Gantry.
1297
01:41:06,827 --> 01:41:10,278
- Oh, Mr. Gantry...
- Not now. Not now. Later. Later.
1298
01:41:10,413 --> 01:41:14,410
There you are. Sister'll see all of you
as soon as she's had a moment's rest.
1299
01:41:17,378 --> 01:41:20,912
Mayor, congressman, the governor,
and lookie here, Shara.
1300
01:41:21,047 --> 01:41:24,997
Offers... from England, Japan,
Australia, Madison Square Garden...
1301
01:41:25,134 --> 01:41:27,507
- From me to you.
- . . the circus.
1302
01:41:28,679 --> 01:41:31,086
Shara, you shouldn't have.
1303
01:41:31,222 --> 01:41:35,054
How about you sneaking away
with Katie Jones on a real fun picnic?
1304
01:41:35,184 --> 01:41:37,888
No telegrams,
no newspapers, no sermons.
1305
01:41:38,019 --> 01:41:41,020
The only business of the day will be us.
Just the two of us.
1306
01:41:41,147 --> 01:41:42,771
Oh, Shara.
1307
01:41:43,857 --> 01:41:46,479
- We can't.
- But why? I've got the escape planned.
1308
01:41:46,610 --> 01:41:51,319
The car's out front. We'll disappear
before they even know we've gone.
1309
01:41:51,447 --> 01:41:54,651
You're gonna cinch a contribution
from the ladies' committee.
1310
01:41:54,784 --> 01:41:58,234
At 11 o'clock, we dedicate your
Waters of the Jordan Tabernacle -
1311
01:41:58,370 --> 01:42:01,205
the mayor, fireworks,
the brass band, everything.
1312
01:42:01,331 --> 01:42:05,543
12. 30, lunch, Rosen's department store,
where you say grace for 200 salesmen.
1313
01:42:05,669 --> 01:42:09,997
- And at two o'clock...
- I'll be exhausted, irritable and hateful.
1314
01:42:10,923 --> 01:42:14,125
Shara... we'll celebrate tonight.
1315
01:42:14,467 --> 01:42:16,792
- Late.
- Tonight's a thousand years away.
1316
01:42:16,927 --> 01:42:18,967
Shara, baby...
1317
01:42:20,140 --> 01:42:26,093
Oh, very well. Bring in those smug
little ladies with their fat little hands,
1318
01:42:26,227 --> 01:42:29,009
fat little souls
and fat little...
1319
01:42:29,022 --> 01:42:31,814
Don't forget their fat
little chequebooks.
1320
01:42:35,235 --> 01:42:38,936
- Ladies. Dear ladies.
- Mr. Gantry? You're wanted on the phone.
1321
01:42:39,072 --> 01:42:43,780
Thank you. Bill. I'll take it right here.
Lovely morning, isn't it?
1322
01:42:43,910 --> 01:42:46,234
- Hello?
- Mr. Gantry, it's so nice meeting you.
1323
01:42:46,369 --> 01:42:49,406
- Sister joyously awaits you.
- Oh, Mr. Gantry.
1324
01:42:49,539 --> 01:42:54,330
Thank you very much. Hello? Yes,
this is Dr Gantry - uh, Mr. Gantry. Who?
1325
01:42:54,668 --> 01:42:57,871
Elmer, honey? It's Lulu.
1326
01:42:59,381 --> 01:43:01,623
- Who?
- I just called to say thanks
1327
01:43:01,759 --> 01:43:04,627
for gettin' me out of that jam last night.
1328
01:43:10,641 --> 01:43:13,390
What's the address?
1329
01:43:13,516 --> 01:43:17,680
Mr. Gantry, I just had to congratulate you.
You were marvelous last night.
1330
01:43:17,812 --> 01:43:20,482
Last night? Oh. Yes.
1331
01:43:26,278 --> 01:43:28,650
- Get hold of Benny.
- Now, wait a minute.
1332
01:43:28,781 --> 01:43:32,280
- This Gantry bum's a preacher.
- Get hold of Benny.
1333
01:43:37,747 --> 01:43:39,372
OK.
1334
01:43:53,592 --> 01:43:55,964
Are these pictures for
divorce or blackmail?
1335
01:43:56,095 --> 01:43:59,012
- Benny, come on!
- Remember, position is everything.
1336
01:43:59,139 --> 01:44:00,219
No!
1337
01:44:00,349 --> 01:44:04,843
Without any flash powder, you gotta get
this guy to freeze for a couple of seconds.
1338
01:44:04,977 --> 01:44:09,473
Time exposure takes time.
So keep him still... and quiet.
1339
01:44:09,606 --> 01:44:12,523
- But that's so dull!
- And keep the radio playin'.
1340
01:44:12,650 --> 01:44:15,650
So he don't hear this.
1341
01:44:15,777 --> 01:44:17,022
- OK?
- OK.
1342
01:44:17,153 --> 01:44:18,778
OK, OK. Let's go!
1343
01:44:22,993 --> 01:44:26,776
Hey, chick. This preacher fella.
You think you could get him into bed?
1344
01:44:26,912 --> 01:44:29,071
Are you kiddin'?
1345
01:44:29,206 --> 01:44:31,281
Hey, Benny. Come on!
1346
01:45:05,110 --> 01:45:07,483
- You look swell, kid.
- Likewise.
1347
01:45:07,614 --> 01:45:09,652
Just swell.
1348
01:45:19,164 --> 01:45:21,833
- Sorry about last night.
- Forget it.
1349
01:45:26,421 --> 01:45:28,408
If I'd known I'd run
into you, I'd have...
1350
01:45:28,421 --> 01:45:30,418
Oh, that's OK.
1351
01:45:42,101 --> 01:45:44,592
- What the hell's the big idea?
- Elmer, honey...
1352
01:45:44,729 --> 01:45:48,974
- You think I'll sit still for a shakedown?
- How could I put the squeeze on you?
1353
01:45:49,106 --> 01:45:53,188
- Who'll take the word of a hooker?
- The old badger game, huh?
1354
01:45:53,320 --> 01:45:56,319
- I only wanted to see you for...
- For what?
1355
01:45:56,446 --> 01:45:58,688
- Well, for...
- For what?
1356
01:45:59,824 --> 01:46:05,446
Gee, honey, look. Look, I'm almost
packed. The cops gave me notice.
1357
01:46:05,578 --> 01:46:08,248
I got a ticket on the midnight bus.
1358
01:46:21,551 --> 01:46:23,792
I got no beef against you.
1359
01:46:24,928 --> 01:46:27,881
I only wanted to see you once more,
1360
01:46:28,013 --> 01:46:32,141
kick around some old memories,
maybe have a few laughs.
1361
01:46:32,268 --> 01:46:34,306
Go on.
1362
01:46:39,232 --> 01:46:41,438
Who am I kiddin'?
1363
01:46:42,860 --> 01:46:47,355
When you first hit town, I figured
you could go to hell without my help.
1364
01:46:47,488 --> 01:46:51,356
When you came bustin' in last night
like God Almighty wearin' a tin star,
1365
01:46:51,492 --> 01:46:56,652
I got mad, boilin' mad. All I could think
of was how you took me and ditched me.
1366
01:46:56,788 --> 01:47:00,537
That's all I could think of.
Me, little Miss Lulu, the dumb pushover.
1367
01:47:00,667 --> 01:47:03,418
And when the cops said
"Get out of town in 24 hours",
1368
01:47:03,544 --> 01:47:05,869
all I wanted to do was spit in your eye,
1369
01:47:06,005 --> 01:47:09,539
blackmail you, a shakedown -
anything to hurt you.
1370
01:47:12,094 --> 01:47:13,718
But...
1371
01:47:15,346 --> 01:47:18,015
But when you walked in just now...
1372
01:47:20,267 --> 01:47:22,721
Gee, honey...
1373
01:47:22,852 --> 01:47:26,352
it was like the first time
between us all over again.
1374
01:47:27,940 --> 01:47:30,396
All goose pimples and...
1375
01:47:35,071 --> 01:47:37,193
You'd better beat it.
1376
01:47:39,241 --> 01:47:41,483
I'm sorry I phoned.
1377
01:47:42,494 --> 01:47:45,661
I won't make any trouble.
Not even if I could.
1378
01:47:49,209 --> 01:47:51,449
Please go now.
1379
01:47:55,589 --> 01:47:59,004
I did run out on you
back there in Kansas, didn't I?
1380
01:48:00,300 --> 01:48:04,001
It's nobody's fault.
Except maybe my old man's.
1381
01:48:04,137 --> 01:48:06,889
- Ever hear from him?
- Once, last Christmas.
1382
01:48:07,015 --> 01:48:12,353
The letter said "Daughter, read
1st Kings, Chapter 21, Verse 23. "
1383
01:48:12,478 --> 01:48:17,720
I looked it up. It said "And the dogs
in the street shall eat Jezebel. "
1384
01:48:19,566 --> 01:48:21,938
My old man and his Bible.
1385
01:48:23,570 --> 01:48:25,610
Tell me...
1386
01:48:26,449 --> 01:48:29,862
how is it some people can
only find hate in the Bible?
1387
01:48:34,371 --> 01:48:39,078
- Where will you be going to?
- I think I'll go tramping through Paris.
1388
01:48:39,207 --> 01:48:42,292
Can you use some cash?
Sort of tide you over?
1389
01:48:47,424 --> 01:48:50,174
Just... just kiss me goodbye.
1390
01:48:51,510 --> 01:48:53,384
Just once.
1391
01:49:36,922 --> 01:49:38,961
What's she doin'?
1392
01:49:49,141 --> 01:49:51,180
Stay awhile.
1393
01:49:53,353 --> 01:49:55,392
Talk to me.
1394
01:49:56,731 --> 01:49:59,518
Oh, don't go yet. Please don't go.
1395
01:50:02,278 --> 01:50:04,483
Tell me anything.
1396
01:50:04,613 --> 01:50:08,195
Tell me a good, strong lie
I can believe, but hold me.
1397
01:50:08,325 --> 01:50:11,278
Just hold me like you used to.
1398
01:50:11,410 --> 01:50:13,036
Please.
1399
01:50:27,675 --> 01:50:29,963
- No use, Lu.
- Why?
1400
01:50:30,093 --> 01:50:32,133
Because I...
1401
01:50:33,012 --> 01:50:37,259
- I don't know. I...
- Because of what? Because of her?
1402
01:50:37,391 --> 01:50:39,051
That Bible broad?
1403
01:50:57,033 --> 01:50:59,572
I'm sorry. No hard feelings.
1404
01:51:00,703 --> 01:51:03,905
- Please. Don't go yet.
- Lu, I...
1405
01:51:04,038 --> 01:51:08,415
You know, I... I could use
some of that cash after all.
1406
01:51:09,377 --> 01:51:15,496
Why, sure. Maybe I could send you some from
time to time. Till you get a job, or...
1407
01:51:15,632 --> 01:51:18,882
or maybe meet some nice
respectable man, huh?
1408
01:51:19,010 --> 01:51:21,879
I meet nice respectable men every night.
1409
01:51:27,100 --> 01:51:29,473
The best bank in America.
1410
01:51:36,608 --> 01:51:39,479
- Take care of yourself.
- Likewise, hon.
1411
01:51:43,320 --> 01:51:46,525
Class. She's got real class.
1412
01:52:02,337 --> 01:52:04,875
Wake up! Wake up, Miss Katie Jones!
1413
01:52:06,383 --> 01:52:11,423
You see before you the captain of the
SS Happiness, fishing boat extraordinary.
1414
01:52:11,553 --> 01:52:15,172
All aboard for a glorious,
carefree, happy cruise.
1415
01:52:15,308 --> 01:52:18,758
Fun, fish, frolic... and romance.
1416
01:52:19,478 --> 01:52:21,137
Guaranteed.
1417
01:52:44,874 --> 01:52:50,626
Bill! Not one word, not one, about legal
documents, tents, moneys or lost souls.
1418
01:52:50,753 --> 01:52:54,287
We're going on a picnic, see,
and if you squeal, we'll rub you out.
1419
01:52:54,422 --> 01:52:56,663
Do you think I'd rat on a couple of pals?
1420
01:52:56,798 --> 01:52:59,171
It will be all right,
won't it, for one day?
1421
01:52:59,301 --> 01:53:02,302
In that outfit, the fish'll jump
into the boat to look at you.
1422
01:53:02,429 --> 01:53:04,054
Yes.
1423
01:53:05,182 --> 01:53:08,135
We're going! We're going on a picnic!
1424
01:53:09,227 --> 01:53:12,310
I've been promising
to take her on a picnic.
1425
01:53:13,855 --> 01:53:16,809
You got that look, Bill. What's the matter?
1426
01:53:28,451 --> 01:53:31,619
Elmer the Great. Elmer the Grifter.
1427
01:53:31,747 --> 01:53:36,206
The con man conned with
the oldest badger game in the world.
1428
01:53:36,333 --> 01:53:38,954
- I don't want Shara to see these.
- She'll have to.
1429
01:53:39,086 --> 01:53:43,296
Bill, I'll do anything you say.
I'll... I'll quit. I...
1430
01:53:44,047 --> 01:53:46,586
- Don't let Shara see these.
- She's got to see them.
1431
01:53:46,926 --> 01:53:51,552
Darling, don't you think we ought
to take Bill on the picnic with us?
1432
01:54:31,337 --> 01:54:32,962
I...
1433
01:54:35,757 --> 01:54:39,292
- I suppose they're for sale?
- $25,000.
1434
01:54:41,637 --> 01:54:43,759
25,000.
1435
01:54:44,181 --> 01:54:47,551
Two o'clock today. Cash. In small bills.
1436
01:54:47,685 --> 01:54:51,978
And she wants Shara
to bring her the money, nobody else.
1437
01:54:57,067 --> 01:54:59,309
Her name is Lulu Bains.
1438
01:55:10,746 --> 01:55:12,785
Get the money.
1439
01:55:16,209 --> 01:55:20,158
One more thing. She wants you to bring
the money to 721 Lombard Street.
1440
01:55:20,296 --> 01:55:23,499
That's where she worked
before it was raided.
1441
01:55:35,100 --> 01:55:38,185
Sammy! Get out of the water!
1442
01:56:20,389 --> 01:56:22,927
Make yourself right at home, honey.
1443
01:56:43,617 --> 01:56:45,655
Be right there!
1444
01:57:20,606 --> 01:57:22,848
I've brought the money.
1445
01:57:25,150 --> 01:57:27,391
May I have the negatives, please?
1446
01:57:42,956 --> 01:57:44,996
Extra, Jack!
1447
01:57:47,460 --> 01:57:52,288
Yeah. Yeah, I read the story,
I saw the pictures.
1448
01:57:52,423 --> 01:57:55,294
- Thank you very much.
- Did you see this?
1449
01:57:56,676 --> 01:57:58,716
I saw it.
1450
01:57:59,346 --> 01:58:01,883
- Did you see this?
- Yeah.
1451
01:58:02,014 --> 01:58:05,301
Now, I understand she brought
these pictures to you first.
1452
01:58:05,435 --> 01:58:07,308
- Yeah.
- And you turned her down?
1453
01:58:07,436 --> 01:58:09,061
Mm-hm.
1454
01:58:13,024 --> 01:58:14,649
Why?
1455
01:58:15,693 --> 01:58:20,186
These pictures prove only one thing -
that Gantry's as human as anybody else.
1456
01:58:20,414 --> 01:58:22,569
It's the obligation of a
free press to print...
1457
01:58:22,699 --> 01:58:27,277
You're right, Mr. Eddington. A free press
can print anything, including lies.
1458
01:58:27,411 --> 01:58:32,037
And that's exactly what
that pornography is: blackmailing lies.
1459
01:58:47,929 --> 01:58:51,179
Why don't those men take off their hats?
1460
01:59:16,328 --> 01:59:19,162
First time I've seen
Reverend Pengilly up there.
1461
01:59:19,288 --> 01:59:22,408
First time they've ever
been in trouble up there.
1462
01:59:27,672 --> 01:59:30,873
Thank you for coming here tonight.
1463
01:59:31,799 --> 01:59:35,133
You have every right to an explanation.
1464
01:59:35,803 --> 01:59:38,340
I will try to give it to you.
1465
01:59:38,680 --> 01:59:40,968
Tell us about sin, Sister!
1466
01:59:41,098 --> 01:59:44,348
Antichrist! You Judas, you!
1467
01:59:44,477 --> 01:59:46,683
- You false prophet!
- You faker, you!
1468
01:59:46,811 --> 01:59:48,803
- Boo!
- Yeah!
1469
01:59:48,937 --> 01:59:54,395
- Liar! Damn your own soul, Mr. Gantry!
- You call yourself a preacher?
1470
01:59:58,821 --> 02:00:00,648
Come on, Rachel.
1471
02:00:06,536 --> 02:00:08,660
Rachel, you've gotta get outta here.
1472
02:00:52,659 --> 02:00:55,031
Hey, Mr. Gantry!
1473
02:01:48,957 --> 02:01:51,576
- Hello?
- My name is Mrs. Welmer
1474
02:01:51,708 --> 02:01:54,378
I go to church every Sunday
1475
02:01:55,838 --> 02:01:58,294
You tell that Sister Sharon
1476
02:02:10,891 --> 02:02:15,220
- Get outta town, preacher woman!
- Go home, Sister!
1477
02:02:15,353 --> 02:02:17,393
Poor Sister!
1478
02:02:25,779 --> 02:02:28,104
Oh my God...
1479
02:02:29,656 --> 02:02:31,897
why hast thou forsaken me?
1480
02:02:36,829 --> 02:02:39,035
We'll take you home.
1481
02:03:11,318 --> 02:03:13,440
Why'd you do it?
1482
02:03:14,529 --> 02:03:16,735
Did... did she show with the money?
1483
02:03:17,823 --> 02:03:19,447
Well?
1484
02:03:20,784 --> 02:03:22,407
Yes.
1485
02:03:24,787 --> 02:03:27,954
Why didn't you go through with it? Why?
1486
02:03:30,376 --> 02:03:32,617
You wouldn't understand.
1487
02:03:40,719 --> 02:03:44,336
I know. You took
the pictures to the paper
1488
02:03:44,471 --> 02:03:47,221
cos they were gonna pay you more, huh?
1489
02:03:47,347 --> 02:03:49,423
How much did you get for 'em?
1490
02:03:49,558 --> 02:03:51,266
Nothing.
1491
02:03:51,393 --> 02:03:53,431
I didn't sell them.
1492
02:03:57,022 --> 02:03:59,692
You were never gonna sell 'em...
1493
02:03:59,817 --> 02:04:02,770
not even to that Sister woman, were you?
1494
02:04:02,902 --> 02:04:05,855
You hate Gantry that much?
1495
02:04:05,988 --> 02:04:08,609
Or do you love him that much?
1496
02:04:12,995 --> 02:04:15,615
And you're no good to me.
1497
02:04:15,747 --> 02:04:18,072
Or yourself.
1498
02:04:18,207 --> 02:04:20,663
You're no good to anybody!
1499
02:04:34,095 --> 02:04:36,765
Don't you know that hurts?
1500
02:05:56,414 --> 02:05:58,988
I'm sorry, Lu.
1501
02:05:59,126 --> 02:06:01,497
I'm sorry for everything.
1502
02:06:58,549 --> 02:07:00,792
Brothers and sisters...
1503
02:07:02,637 --> 02:07:04,096
goodbye.
1504
02:07:04,222 --> 02:07:05,302
Amen.
1505
02:07:07,640 --> 02:07:08,755
Jim boy!
1506
02:07:08,892 --> 02:07:11,893
You look like a man
who could use a drink.
1507
02:07:12,020 --> 02:07:17,773
Booze. You know somethin', Jim?
There oughta be a law against drinkin'.
1508
02:07:17,900 --> 02:07:21,185
- There is. Prohibition.
- That's against sellin', not drinkin'.
1509
02:07:21,320 --> 02:07:22,731
Amen.
1510
02:07:23,572 --> 02:07:26,108
- Happy days!
- I'll drink to that.
1511
02:07:28,033 --> 02:07:30,073
God, that's good.
1512
02:07:32,622 --> 02:07:35,028
Would you look at this place, Jim?
1513
02:07:37,750 --> 02:07:40,999
What were they so mad about, anyhow?
1514
02:07:41,127 --> 02:07:44,627
The mob don't like
their gods to be human.
1515
02:07:44,756 --> 02:07:48,088
- They hurt you?
- Not as much as you hurt me.
1516
02:07:48,217 --> 02:07:50,790
Nothing personal.
1517
02:07:50,928 --> 02:07:53,679
What'll you do now?
1518
02:07:53,806 --> 02:07:58,015
Well, the way I got it figured, you're up,
you're down, you sin, you're saved.
1519
02:07:58,141 --> 02:08:01,642
You do the best you can,
and you leave the rest to the Lord.
1520
02:08:01,771 --> 02:08:04,475
You really do believe
in the Lord, don't you?
1521
02:08:04,606 --> 02:08:09,397
Damn right I do. It does a man good
to get down on his knees once in a while.
1522
02:08:09,527 --> 02:08:11,934
That's why people
come to a place like this,
1523
02:08:12,071 --> 02:08:16,898
because they're scared, or sick,
or... because they got no money,
1524
02:08:17,033 --> 02:08:20,734
or too much money.
Or before a war, or after a war.
1525
02:08:22,663 --> 02:08:26,790
Praying's the cheapest
first-rate medicine I know.
1526
02:08:26,916 --> 02:08:29,372
That's why Shara was so good for them.
1527
02:08:32,005 --> 02:08:34,245
She's a lotta woman.
1528
02:08:36,425 --> 02:08:38,048
Yeah.
1529
02:08:39,510 --> 02:08:41,834
You oughta marry her.
1530
02:08:41,970 --> 02:08:44,538
You believe in
holy matrimony?
1531
02:08:44,551 --> 02:08:47,130
I can recommend it,
never having tried it.
1532
02:08:48,226 --> 02:08:50,598
Too late now, Jim boy.
1533
02:08:51,603 --> 02:08:53,643
Maybe not.
1534
02:08:54,565 --> 02:08:58,561
Miss Bains was waiting for me
at the paper with that story.
1535
02:09:10,661 --> 02:09:13,579
- How'd you get her to do it?
- I didn't.
1536
02:09:16,084 --> 02:09:18,954
The Lord sure moves in mysterious ways.
1537
02:09:26,051 --> 02:09:30,592
Any minute now, you will hear
the voice of Sister Sharon Falconer,
1538
02:09:30,720 --> 02:09:33,129
but not that, I'm afraid, of Elmer Gantry.
1539
02:09:33,474 --> 02:09:37,008
For Mr. Gantry has completely vanished
since three nights ago.
1540
02:09:37,144 --> 02:09:40,392
I've checked the police,
hospitals, railroads, bus depots...
1541
02:09:40,520 --> 02:09:42,063
Where is he? Where?
1542
02:09:42,189 --> 02:09:47,315
Every wire service in the country's asking
the same question. He's page-one news.
1543
02:09:47,445 --> 02:09:50,527
If anything happened to him,
you'd know it.
1544
02:09:54,992 --> 02:09:56,617
Yes.
1545
02:09:57,745 --> 02:09:59,985
Yes, I would know it.
1546
02:10:02,374 --> 02:10:06,502
He'll be here, I'm... I'm sure of it.
We'll wait for him.
1547
02:10:06,628 --> 02:10:12,128
We can't wait. Some of those people
have been out there since early morning.
1548
02:10:12,254 --> 02:10:15,754
- I won't go on without him.
- Maybe he won't be back.
1549
02:10:18,260 --> 02:10:20,298
Just a feeling.
1550
02:10:24,682 --> 02:10:26,639
We'll wait for him.
1551
02:10:59,127 --> 02:11:00,751
Elmer?
1552
02:11:06,926 --> 02:11:08,670
Oh, darling!
1553
02:11:08,803 --> 02:11:10,545
Darling!
1554
02:11:12,389 --> 02:11:14,216
- Gantry's back.
- How do you know?
1555
02:11:14,349 --> 02:11:18,050
Somebody just saw him.
Where's a phone around here?
1556
02:11:18,729 --> 02:11:22,595
- What about your friend Gantry?
- Quite a guy! Son of a...
1557
02:11:27,068 --> 02:11:29,357
Let me look at you.
1558
02:11:29,487 --> 02:11:32,487
Three endless days without a word.
1559
02:11:32,614 --> 02:11:34,358
Why?
1560
02:11:34,491 --> 02:11:38,026
Don't you realise how much I need you?
1561
02:11:40,830 --> 02:11:43,663
Are you angry? With me?
1562
02:11:43,789 --> 02:11:47,075
- No, Shara.
- Don't ever leave me again. Ever.
1563
02:11:48,795 --> 02:11:50,752
Shara.
1564
02:11:50,880 --> 02:11:52,504
Yes?
1565
02:11:53,757 --> 02:11:56,129
What would happen if we chucked it all,
1566
02:11:56,259 --> 02:12:00,422
beat it across the state line,
get good and married, like most folks?
1567
02:12:00,554 --> 02:12:04,883
Have a bunch of kids, take 'em
to a ball game like most folks.
1568
02:12:05,017 --> 02:12:10,058
Go dancin'. We've never gone
dancin' together, not even once.
1569
02:12:10,188 --> 02:12:12,642
Let's do it, Shara. Tonight. Right now.
1570
02:12:12,773 --> 02:12:16,272
- But all those people...
- If they wanna pray...
1571
02:12:17,152 --> 02:12:19,726
let 'em go to church.
1572
02:12:19,864 --> 02:12:21,487
But...
1573
02:12:22,990 --> 02:12:25,232
this is their church.
1574
02:12:27,787 --> 02:12:29,744
Look!
1575
02:12:29,872 --> 02:12:32,076
Look! A shooting star!
1576
02:12:33,290 --> 02:12:34,951
It's a sign,
1577
02:12:35,085 --> 02:12:38,619
an omen for the glory that begins tonight.
1578
02:12:40,131 --> 02:12:42,003
Ready, Shara.
1579
02:12:42,131 --> 02:12:46,628
? Glory, glory, hallelujah
1580
02:12:46,844 --> 02:12:49,882
# Glory, glory, hallelujah
1581
02:12:50,015 --> 02:12:51,424
Wish me luck.
1582
02:12:51,556 --> 02:12:55,554
# Glory, glory, hallelujah
1583
02:12:55,686 --> 02:13:02,100
# His truth is marching on
1584
02:13:05,860 --> 02:13:08,861
If you believe in the faith
of your own Sister Sharon...
1585
02:13:08,989 --> 02:13:09,901
Yes!
1586
02:13:10,030 --> 02:13:12,651
. . if you believe in
the innocence of Elmer Gantry...
1587
02:13:12,782 --> 02:13:13,980
Yes!
1588
02:13:14,117 --> 02:13:17,651
- . . and if you believe in God Almighty...
- Yes!
1589
02:13:17,786 --> 02:13:21,072
. . reassure them with
a mighty "hallelujah"!
1590
02:13:41,764 --> 02:13:44,469
- Hallelujah, Sister!
- Hallelujah!
1591
02:14:02,907 --> 02:14:04,781
At this very moment,
1592
02:14:05,535 --> 02:14:09,829
the power of the Holy Ghost
has descended on this tabernacle.
1593
02:14:12,374 --> 02:14:14,414
He is here.
1594
02:14:15,336 --> 02:14:17,374
Here right now.
1595
02:14:17,670 --> 02:14:22,878
Just now, across the heavens,
towards the end of the world,
1596
02:14:23,384 --> 02:14:25,044
I saw an omen...
1597
02:14:25,553 --> 02:14:30,462
a fiery line written by the hand of God,
a glorious shooting star.
1598
02:14:31,432 --> 02:14:34,467
Thus, God has told us of his coming.
1599
02:14:35,185 --> 02:14:40,012
Have we lost God? Have we lost
contact with the supernatural?
1600
02:14:40,357 --> 02:14:44,649
Have we lost faith? Because
without faith, we are morally sick.
1601
02:14:44,984 --> 02:14:48,768
Faith... is the strongest
force in the world.
1602
02:14:48,905 --> 02:14:51,028
Faith can raise the dead.
1603
02:14:51,157 --> 02:14:54,441
Faith can heal. Faith is the...
1604
02:14:54,575 --> 02:14:57,066
Help me, Sister! Help me!
1605
02:14:58,037 --> 02:15:00,076
Help me.
1606
02:15:01,165 --> 02:15:03,702
He can't hear, Sister. He's deaf.
1607
02:15:05,334 --> 02:15:07,908
Let him alone, please.
1608
02:15:19,347 --> 02:15:22,017
Help me, Sister.
1609
02:15:22,142 --> 02:15:24,548
Heal me.
1610
02:15:24,685 --> 02:15:26,761
You should take him to a doctor.
1611
02:15:26,895 --> 02:15:29,517
God is the greatest healer of all.
1612
02:15:30,232 --> 02:15:32,023
Was he born deaf?
1613
02:15:32,150 --> 02:15:35,849
A storm woke him up one night. He
screamed he couldn't hear the thunder.
1614
02:15:35,986 --> 02:15:38,987
- He could feel it but he couldn't hear it.
- You're his wife?
1615
02:15:39,115 --> 02:15:42,197
Yes, Sister. I'm sorry to trouble you.
1616
02:15:54,668 --> 02:15:58,582
Do you believe in the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Ghost?
1617
02:16:02,508 --> 02:16:06,801
Do you believe that Jesus
could heal by the laying on of hands,
1618
02:16:07,137 --> 02:16:11,087
and that he passed
this gift on to his disciples?
1619
02:16:12,392 --> 02:16:14,597
Pray with me, everyone.
1620
02:16:14,727 --> 02:16:18,060
Please pray with me. I need your faith.
1621
02:16:21,399 --> 02:16:23,772
Oh Lord...
1622
02:16:23,902 --> 02:16:26,938
Oh God, be merciful.
1623
02:16:31,574 --> 02:16:32,985
Heal.
1624
02:16:33,826 --> 02:16:35,023
Heal.
1625
02:16:40,916 --> 02:16:43,371
Oh God, help us in our weakness.
1626
02:16:44,294 --> 02:16:47,792
Punish us for our sins,
but reward us for our faith.
1627
02:16:51,674 --> 02:16:52,753
Heal.
1628
02:16:53,969 --> 02:16:55,593
Heal.
1629
02:16:59,264 --> 02:17:03,013
Let thy spirit fill this tabernacle.
1630
02:17:03,644 --> 02:17:06,928
Let thy holiness bless this house,
1631
02:17:07,313 --> 02:17:10,065
created for thy glory,
1632
02:17:10,191 --> 02:17:12,860
and thine alone.
1633
02:17:17,530 --> 02:17:18,905
Heal!
1634
02:17:19,031 --> 02:17:21,273
Pray for God to heal!
1635
02:17:21,408 --> 02:17:22,571
Heal!
1636
02:17:24,829 --> 02:17:26,868
God...
1637
02:17:34,254 --> 02:17:36,707
Can you hear me?
1638
02:17:39,466 --> 02:17:41,506
God, I...
1639
02:17:42,261 --> 02:17:45,261
I... I think I...
1640
02:17:48,056 --> 02:17:52,267
- Repeat after me. Blessed is the Lord.
- Blessed is the Lord.
1641
02:17:52,394 --> 02:17:56,805
- We thank thee, Oh Lord, for thy mercy.
- We thank thee, Oh Lord.
1642
02:17:57,773 --> 02:17:59,813
I can hear.
1643
02:18:00,776 --> 02:18:04,109
Oh God... I can hear!
1644
02:18:04,237 --> 02:18:07,734
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
1645
02:18:41,310 --> 02:18:43,386
Please wait. Please wait.
1646
02:18:44,312 --> 02:18:46,766
Don't... don't... don't get excited.
1647
02:18:48,440 --> 02:18:50,563
Oh, my God.
1648
02:18:53,526 --> 02:18:57,191
- Are you all right?
- Yes. Take care of the others, please.
1649
02:18:57,322 --> 02:18:59,777
You're in the house of God!
1650
02:19:16,213 --> 02:19:20,293
Those who believe in God will be saved.
Trust in the Lord!
1651
02:19:20,425 --> 02:19:22,582
Oh! Oh!
1652
02:19:58,165 --> 02:20:01,118
Are you all right, Shara? Shara? Shara?
1653
02:20:08,340 --> 02:20:11,210
- No. No. No. No. No!
- Shara!
1654
02:20:15,472 --> 02:20:17,097
Help!
1655
02:20:18,224 --> 02:20:19,421
No, please wait.
1656
02:20:21,935 --> 02:20:24,473
No, wait! Please, wait!
1657
02:20:35,114 --> 02:20:37,735
Wait! You must have faith!
1658
02:20:37,866 --> 02:20:39,904
- Wait!
- Shara!
1659
02:20:42,287 --> 02:20:43,318
Shara!
1660
02:20:45,957 --> 02:20:47,665
Shara!
1661
02:20:48,250 --> 02:20:49,660
Shara!
1662
02:20:51,002 --> 02:20:53,041
Shara! Shara!
1663
02:20:55,298 --> 02:20:56,578
Shara! Shara!
1664
02:22:55,857 --> 02:22:58,098
It's hers.
1665
02:23:00,528 --> 02:23:02,769
It's all we could find.
1666
02:23:50,861 --> 02:23:56,234
People everywhere would appreciate a
word from you, Mr. Gantry. Anything at all.
1667
02:23:57,950 --> 02:24:00,821
Speak to us, Mr. Gantry.
1668
02:24:03,246 --> 02:24:05,784
Please ask Sister Sharon to forgive us.
1669
02:24:05,916 --> 02:24:09,330
There ain't nothin' to forgive.
It was mighty hot in there.
1670
02:24:09,460 --> 02:24:11,617
Hotter than the fires of damnation.
1671
02:24:11,753 --> 02:24:14,041
I ran. I was afraid.
1672
02:24:15,131 --> 02:24:17,918
Please ask Sister not to hate me.
1673
02:24:20,303 --> 02:24:22,591
Can you hear me up there, Sister?
1674
02:24:23,764 --> 02:24:26,005
Do you hate these folks?
1675
02:24:27,225 --> 02:24:30,260
She don't hate you. She loves you.
1676
02:24:30,393 --> 02:24:33,098
Praise the Lord and his love.
1677
02:24:33,230 --> 02:24:35,637
And what is love?
1678
02:24:35,774 --> 02:24:39,058
Love is the mornin' and the evenin' star.
1679
02:24:39,193 --> 02:24:42,312
Love is the voice of music. So sing.
1680
02:24:42,445 --> 02:24:44,817
Sing out the Lord's love.
1681
02:24:49,744 --> 02:24:52,863
# I'm on my way
1682
02:24:52,996 --> 02:24:56,162
# Up to Canaan land
1683
02:24:57,124 --> 02:25:00,375
# I'm on my way
1684
02:25:00,503 --> 02:25:03,539
# Up to Canaan land
1685
02:25:04,632 --> 02:25:07,798
# I'm on my way
1686
02:25:07,926 --> 02:25:12,006
# Up to Canaan land
1687
02:25:12,138 --> 02:25:13,715
# On my way
1688
02:25:13,848 --> 02:25:15,507
# Glory, hallelujah
1689
02:25:15,640 --> 02:25:18,310
# I'm on my way
1690
02:25:18,853 --> 02:25:22,304
# It's a mighty hard climb
1691
02:25:22,439 --> 02:25:25,853
# But I'm on my way
1692
02:25:25,983 --> 02:25:29,186
# It's a mighty hard climb
1693
02:25:29,319 --> 02:25:31,359
That was inspired.
1694
02:25:32,198 --> 02:25:35,399
- Think that was inspired, Jim boy?
- I think it was real friendly.
1695
02:25:35,533 --> 02:25:39,317
You know, Shara would...
want you to go on with her work.
1696
02:25:39,453 --> 02:25:42,538
We'll get a tent - a bigger one this time.
1697
02:25:43,874 --> 02:25:48,203
"When I was a child, I spake as a child.
I understood as a child. "
1698
02:25:49,087 --> 02:25:51,625
"When I became a man,
I put away childish things. "
1699
02:25:51,756 --> 02:25:55,040
St. Paul, First Corinthians, 13:11.
1700
02:25:58,219 --> 02:26:01,066
So long, Bill.
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