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Wish me red roses
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And yellow balloons
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Black sequins whirling
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To gay dancing tunes
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I want all these treasures
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The most you can give
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So wish me a rainbow
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As long as I live
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All my tomorrows depend on your love
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So wish me a rainbow above
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Hey! You seen a kite?
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Don't talk to me till I fall off. Here,
come here! Hurry, will you? Run, stupid!
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Here, take my crazy doll, will you?
I don't want to break her when I fall.
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I don't think I can stay on much longer.
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This is the furthest I've ever gone
without once falling off.
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- Hurt yourself?
- Skinned my knee.
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Good thing I didn't put
my silk stockings on.
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- Spit on it. That takes the sting away.
- OK.
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- Hey, are you OK?
- Yeah, I guess so.
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Principal damage was done
to my bracelet. Knocked out a diamond.
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- It wasn't a genuine diamond.
- How do you know?
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If it was, you wouldn't be out
walking railroad tracks.
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Not with a banged-up doll
and a piece of a rotten banana.
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I forgot to ask. What's your name?
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- Tom.
- Mine's Willie.
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- How did that happen?
- I was expected to be a boy, but I wasn't.
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They already had one girl,
Alva. That was my sister.
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- Why ain't you in school?
- I thought it was gonna be windy.
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- So I could fly my kite.
- What made you think that?
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'Cause the sky's so white.
Hey... why ain't you in school?
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I quituated. They started on algebra.
I didn't care what X stood for, so I quit.
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You ain't gonna get an education
walking a railroad track.
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You ain't from flying a kite neither.
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Besides, what a girl needs
to get along is social training.
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I learned that from Alva. She was
mighty popular with the railroad men.
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- Train engineers?
- Engineers!
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Engineers, firemen, brakemen,
conductors, the freight superintendent,
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every one of them after Alva.
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She was, I guess you might say,
the main attraction.
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Beautiful? Jeez!
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Boy, you see that house over yonder?
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- We had some high old times in there.
- I'll bet you did.
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Musical instruments going all the time.
Piano, victrola, Hawaiian steel guitar...
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Everybody playing on something.
It's awful quiet now, though.
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- Is it empty?
- Except for me.
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They got a big sign stuck up.
"This property is condemned".
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- You ain't still living there?
- I'm not supposed to be, but I am.
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Property's condemned,
but there ain't nothing wrong with it.
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Some welfare worker came yesterday.
I recognised her by the shape of her hat.
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It was something, all right.
You wouldn't believe it.
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Sure is empty now, though.
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- Boy, see these clothes I got on?
- Yeah.
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They're Alva's. Inherited from her.
Everything that was Alva's is mine.
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She was always singing around
that house. This is her favourite song.
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Wish me a rainbow and wish me a star
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All this you can give meWherever you are
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And dreams for my pillowAnd stars for my eyes
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And a masquerade ballWhere our love wins first prize
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All my tomorrows depend on your love
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So wish me a rainbow above
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OK, here she is. Dodson.
Get ready to hit the ground running.
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Mind if I asked you a question?
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Doing the things that you do,
how do you sleep?
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On my stomach.
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My mama in here?
We got a problem on our hands.
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She went back this way, Willie.
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You seen my mama?
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You shouldn't be out here alone,
sporting a big diamond like that.
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You scared me!
And it ain't a real diamond.
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- Sparkles like one to me.
- No. It's a firefly. Gotta...
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- Willie, where's your ma?
- I don't know.
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- Gotta snip off its tail... when it's lighted.
- Do you belong to that boarding house?
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That's the Starr Boarding House.
I'm Willie Starr.
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Well, how do you do, Willie?
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You railroad?
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- Why do you ask?
- We get mostly railroad men.
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Mama will put you up some place...
soon as I find that old thing!
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Mama? That you, Mama?
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Willie, quit that hollering!
Leave them alone!
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Come on.
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- Where've you been?
- Down to Jake's to see if Alva's there.
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- Who are you, honey?
- He wants a room.
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- You ain't a vagrant?
- No.
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- Lay-off?
- No.
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Well, my rooms are two a night...
Where are you going? I got the beer!
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- Happy birthday!
- Two a night, ten bucks a week.
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Two meals included. Cash in advance.
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- How long you fixing to stay?
- Five... A week... Ten. About a week.
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Only a week? Well, a buck is a buck.
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If you're lucky.
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Hey, where's the beer?
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It ain't usually so noisy.
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Some old fool got hold of it's my birthday.
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- Happy birthday!
- Damn fool! What's your name, honey?
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- Owen Legate. Happy birthday.
- What room?
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- No, you can't go yet! I just got the beer!
- What room?
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- Better put him in Papa's room.
- I forgot to say. There's gonna be a fight.
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Jimmy Bell done got drunk and
Charlie Steinkamp's gonna lay him out!
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Hey, wait a minute.
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You knew it was firefly, didn't you?
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Hey...
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Come on in, honey. You wanna meet
anybody, you just introduce yourself.
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- Ain't she back?
- I haven't seen her.
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She don't come soon,
I got an awful early run.
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Your change, Mr Johnson.
I got a dozen. Should be enough.
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I don't see how you can stand still
with all that music going.
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I know you'd prefer to dance with Alva,
but today is my birthday.
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- What about Mr...?
- I can only please one at a time!
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You can take Mr what's-his-name
upstairs and settle him in. Excuse me.
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Show him the bathroom. We got an
indoor toilet, modern bathing equipment.
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It isn't complicated once Alva and I show
you how. Give him something to eat.
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Then you come and join the party. Oh!
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- JJ, you scared the life out of me!
- I been waiting for you in the car.
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He works in the shop
when he ain't with Mama.
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- Are all these people railroad?
- All except for the guy on the guitar.
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He's the sheriff. Come on.
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- Hey, Max.
- Hey, Willie.
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This is Papa's room. He painted those.
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It's not the best in the house.
He tried to paint it.
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I like it.
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Okey-doke?
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Okey-doke.
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Hey, Alva! Get your hot stuff out here!
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- Lindsay! Lindsay Tate! I'll be back.
- We don't want you. We want Alva!
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We want Alva!
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We want Alva! We want Alva!
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Get out of here! Get out of here,
Lindsay Tate, before I call my mama.
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You just do that. Tell your mama
if Alva ain't here, we'll take her instead.
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- Why, you little snip!
- Mama! Mama!
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- Mama!
- What the hell are you doing?
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Fire up the engines, boys! Let's go!
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You stay away from those older boys
or I'll whip you!
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- Willie, where you going?
- Let me go!
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- Stop it!
- Alva!
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- Hey, Willie. Sidney!
- What's the matter with Sidney?
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Nothing that sticking his head
under the faucet won't solve.
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Come on!
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Alva! What you doing in the kitchen?
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- We've been waiting for you.
- Bye!
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- How's the party?
- Alva, where you been?
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Alva, honey! Why don't you come over
here and swap words with Mr Johnson.
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Hey, Mr Johnson!
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Hey, JJ.
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- Let me go, JJ.
- Just relax.
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JJ!
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- All right, baby!
- My, what a handsome couple!
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Go to Mr Johnson. He's been
pestering me all night about you.
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He did pay for this party as a surprise.
Mr Johnson! Here's my bad little girl.
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She wants to sit beside you
and cheer you up.
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- Hey, Alva, where y'all been?
- Hey! Oh, out dancing.
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- A beer, Miss Alva?
- No, thanks.
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I told you before, lay off Alva.
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It was real nice of you
to give Mama this lovely party.
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Well, I didn't do it for her.
Alva, I asked your Mama.
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She says it's OK for you to go with me
to the Moonlight Casino tomorrow.
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- Well, let me think about it.
- They got a real good band.
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A new one, Odel Otis,
and Kansas City Steaks.
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Well, I really don't know. Sidney! Hi!
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- I've got to know, so that...
- Did you see Sidney? Sidney!
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Thank Mr Johnson for the lovely party.
Have you had a chance to talk?
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- Who turned out the lights?
- Hey, turn the lights on!
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Happy birthday to you
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- JJ!
- Happy birthday to you
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Happy birthday, dear Hazel
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Happy birthday to you
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- Make a wish!
- Shhh!
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- I can't!
- You've gotta make a wish!
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You wish. You make a wish, Alva.
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Oh, Sal! Sally, it's my birthday!
I'm 43 years old!
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It's a damn shame, Haze. Have a beer.
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What slob remembered, anyway?
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- Come on, Alva, it's your turn!
- Make a wish, Alva.
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- Wish it up, Alva!
- OK.
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- Hey, Alva, how about a birthday kiss?
- Oh, hey!
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That's enough for you, Hank, boy!
How about one for me?
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- Here's one to grow on!
- Here comes old Sidney, wandering in.
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Wouldn't you like a piece of cake?
I'd just love some.
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- What kind of work will you do here?
- Who was that blowing out the candles?
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Oh, that's my sister Alva.
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She's the main attraction.
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You say you do or didn't work
with the railroad?
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Well, I didn't say. Okey-doke?
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Okey-doke.
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It's hot out there!
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It's just practically like breathing fire.
Just been dying for a piece of ice.
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Oh! My, that's cooling!
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If not the railroad, what do you do?
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Willie! Let the gentleman
eat his supper in peace.
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Who's stopping him?
You don't even know him.
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- My name is Owen Legate, ma'am.
- My name's Alva Starr.
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Two R's in Starr.
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- He's from New Orleans.
- Oh!
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- I've been to New Orleans.
- When?
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- As a child.
- First I heard of it.
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- Wonderful party, Alva. Much obliged.
- We're just delighted.
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- Bye now. See you later.
- Here's your cake, Alva.
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Thank you, Sidney.
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- Your mama said to fill up the beer tub.
- It's in the icebox.
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OK.
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- You're the new boarder, huh?
- Yeah.
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You gonna be looking for work
around here? We ain't got none.
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That's all right, I'm not looking.
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- We ain't got no work.
- He ain't looking. He just told you.
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- I want him to know there ain't none.
- He knows.
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See you later.
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If you're not looking for work,
what are you doing here?
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Now, I said stop asking questions
and let him eat his dinner in peace.
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OK.
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- Thank you.
- That's all right. They're all so nosy!
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What are you doing here?
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Mama says what are you doing
back here and Mr Johnson's leaving.
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You tell your mama that after all
the dancing I done tonight with Sidney,
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I am resting and unavailable.
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Sidney took you dancing? Where to?
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Oh, no place much.
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- Just the Peabody Hotel.
- The Peabody Hotel!
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Sidney took you all the way
to the Peabody Hotel in Memphis? Wow!
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- Did he buy you dinner?
- Willie, you don't start with dinner.
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They have cocktails or highballs.
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Or French champagne,
which is sweet and exceedingly bubbly.
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And when you drink it and start dancing,
the whole place,
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with its diamond-crystal chandeliers
and the waiters in the red jackets
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and the menus with tassels on them,
all get dizzy and shaky,
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like it'll all come down on you.
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But you have to hide it and so you say,
"Tipsy? I'm not the slightest bit tipsy.
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"It is just your magnificent dancing
makes me breathless!"
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Then he stops and holds your blushing,
soft face in his hands and he says:
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"Miss Starr, Miss Willie Starr,
229
00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,193
"surely you are the most beautiful
creature I have ever seen."
230
00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:29,116
That the same Peabody Hotel
in Memphis
231
00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:33,472
where they have the alligators and ducks
swimming in that pond in the lobby?
232
00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:35,875
Yes, the very same one.
233
00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:40,198
Yeah, I'd like to see that.
Thank you for the supper, Willie.
234
00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,870
I'd like to see how they stop the alligators
eating the ducks
235
00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,117
in that little pond that they all swim in.
236
00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,596
Makes you think... doesn't it?
237
00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,229
Smart Alec!
238
00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,670
Hey, Alva.
239
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,235
What you so grumpy about?
240
00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,317
Nothing. I just need some air.
241
00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,672
Hey, Max.
242
00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,474
Max! You taking me home?
243
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,399
I can't. I got an early run tomorrow.
244
00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,036
My goodness, there isn't any breeze
out here, either.
245
00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,629
Just like Papa used to say,
246
00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:42,277
if the breeze does not come
from the river, it just is not a breeze.
247
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,357
Hey, Alva...
248
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,835
- Goodnight, Alva.
- Thanks for the party.
249
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:48,917
Goodnight.
250
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:03,837
Hey, Alva...
251
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,155
That's the Hummingbird Express.
252
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,548
It surely is a long train.
253
00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:24,994
What?
254
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,875
It's a long train. And an empty one.
255
00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,270
You know, that train is going
to New Orleans.
256
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:40,355
God, I'd like to get out of here
and see a place like New Orleans.
257
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,395
Alva, maybe you could.
258
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:52,518
I think more than any place
in the whole world, I'd like to go there.
259
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,393
Get out of this place,
260
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,716
this sad old house.
261
00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,354
It's gonna fall apart anyway.
262
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:05,588
And go to New Orleans.
Maybe when it's Mardi gras.
263
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:10,078
I just wish sometimes that old express
would jump off those old tracks,
264
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,431
right up here, right through the grass,
right through me
265
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,677
and carry me off to points unknown.
266
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,599
I'd better go on in now, Sidney.
267
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:43,270
Are you all right?
268
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,040
I'm all right.
269
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:51,394
I just can't find a cool place.
It's just as hot outside as it is in here.
270
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,868
I'm going to bed.
271
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,317
Willie...
272
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:05,233
...how come you've put Mr Legate
in Papa's room?
273
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,510
Mama told me to.
274
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,517
Goodnight.
275
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,397
Goodnight.
276
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:55,797
Willie, you in there?
277
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,877
Willie!
278
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:04,598
- I don't think Willie's here.
- Excuse me. I thought she might be.
279
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,877
Nope.
280
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,274
Well, goodnight.
281
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,158
Goodnight.
282
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,393
I've never been to the Peabody Hotel.
283
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,437
- Neither have I.
- They do have ducks in the lobby.
284
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,950
So I'm told, but no alligators.
285
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,948
Certain times they do run the ducks
up and down the halls.
286
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:42,153
I know that to be a fact. And the menus
do have a tassel on them.
287
00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:45,272
There was a man brought me one once.
288
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,359
Besides, I felt like I was there
and that's just as good as being there.
289
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,437
Not exactly.
290
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:57,150
Do you know there was a cat once
who fell asleep in the sun
291
00:24:57,360 --> 00:25:01,751
and dreamt that he was a man
who fell asleep and dreamt he was a cat.
292
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:06,511
When he woke up, he didn't know
whether he was a man or a cat.
293
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:15,031
Goodness! I don't know how you'll sleep
with that streetlight shining in your eyes.
294
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:19,313
I'd better tell Mama to get
a new shade in the morning.
295
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,638
Thank you.
296
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:25,116
You know,
if you concentrate on this thing,
297
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,632
you can just about think it's February
and it won't be so hot.
298
00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:34,796
When my Papa was here,
hot summer nights,
299
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,357
we used to sit together
and pretend we got inside there.
300
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:43,269
I'd practically have to get out
my fur-lined gloves.
301
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,317
You wanna try?
302
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,077
You got an extra pair?
303
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:03,079
- And some flannel underwear?
- You made a rhyme! Give me a dime.
304
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,639
Well, that tells a lot about you,
that you have a poetic nature.
305
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,912
- I have a poetic nature, too.
- I noticed that.
306
00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:18,237
What else have you noticed about me,
Mr Legate?
307
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,234
You don't have to answer.
I'm not interested in compliments.
308
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:29,515
What else? You know, I am a very
important person in Dodson, Mississippi.
309
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,996
- Is that so?
- Plus, I have been to Biloxi.
310
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,829
- I'm even famous in my own way.
- I don't doubt that.
311
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,191
- Lots of men think I'm beautiful.
- Listen, Miss Starr...
312
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,233
...l've been travelling
since six this morning.
313
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,876
Gotta get up early tomorrow
and do some work.
314
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:51,471
If you come with the room, and with
the two meals, then let's get on with it.
315
00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:56,717
- Let's not play around.
- What do you think I am?
316
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,398
What do you think you are?
317
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,349
I hope you suffocate!
318
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,795
Hey, Alva. Goodnight now.
319
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,555
- What's the matter?
- Don't turn the light on, honey.
320
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:29,634
Crazy doll's hair needs washing.
I'm scared to do it, though.
321
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:35,191
Head might come unglued where she got
that compound fracture of the skull.
322
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,871
I think most of her brains fell out.
323
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,550
- Come on, Hazel.
- You never stop. My birthday's over.
324
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,911
Go along to my room. I'll be right there.
325
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:53,113
Mama, don't turn the light on.
It just makes it hotter.
326
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,914
You been crying?
327
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,828
You just go and take your dress off
and I'll cool you down.
328
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:15,957
There.
329
00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:23,396
Now, you lay still.
330
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:36,592
Mr Johnson speak to you
about tomorrow night?
331
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,070
Feel that evaporating?
Doesn't that feel good?
332
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,233
Were you nice to Mr Johnson, honey?
333
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:49,474
Yes, Mama.
334
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:54,231
I wouldn't like it if he got dissatisfied
and moved out right now.
335
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,592
Nobody but a conductor can afford to pay
what he does for that big old north room.
336
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,229
I wanna go away, Mama.
337
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,678
- Maybe to New Orleans.
- I know you do, honey.
338
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,075
We all do, and we're going to.
339
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,316
But not right now.
340
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:19,758
You can't tell what those old fools'll do
if they're sweet on a pretty girl like you.
341
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:24,431
Maybe you'll get off with a Packard car!
Wouldn't that be something else?
342
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,428
I'd just love to drive up in a Packard car
and see that Sally.
343
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:33,634
I'd say, Miss Snotty, you were so damn
cute about your Chevrolet roadster.
344
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,072
What do you think about my little car?
I can just see Sally's face now.
345
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,032
Plop!
346
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,028
All those bags would just drop
right into that double chin. Plop!
347
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:55,029
- You feeling better, honey?
- I'm feeling better, Mama.
348
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,152
Well... sleep tight...
349
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,834
...and don't let the bed bugs bite.
350
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,990
Willie, you just stop playing possum
and go to sleep.
351
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,236
I am asleep, Mama.
352
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,477
Alva...
353
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,755
...what does Mardi gras mean?
354
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,154
Mardi gras means carnival.
355
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:35,032
I'm gonna go next year,
even if I have to ride the rails.
356
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,516
I'm gonna design my own costume...
357
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,393
...out of black shiny sequins,
358
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:48,913
so that my skin'll look white against it
and I'll glitter when I walk,
359
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,908
sparkle when I dance
with all those men in masks.
360
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,750
And I'll never know who they are.
361
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,191
And they'll never know who I am.
362
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:06,916
And I'll dance and dance and dance.
363
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:17,953
When people die in New Orleans,
they bury them above the ground.
364
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,515
Did you know that, Willie?
365
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:25,674
Willie?
366
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,071
- Hey! How are you?
- Are you going down to the yards?
367
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,953
- Yes.
- Well, I can sneak you in.
368
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:02,119
- No. No, I can manage, thank you.
- Well, I'm a good guy to know.
369
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:07,348
- What about Vacation Bible School?
- What about it? The refreshments stink.
370
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,030
Anyway, boy, have I got a hangover!
371
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:16,519
You didn't see me last night,
but I drank the whole of Alva's beer.
372
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,679
- You're headed for ruin, you know?
- Oh, I know.
373
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,791
Know what the Orientals say?
374
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:28,711
"A man takes a drink, the drink takes
a drink, the drink takes the man."
375
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,152
Could be. Took my Papa all right,
right out of Dodson.
376
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,193
Maybe it'll do the same for me.
377
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:42,114
- I gotta get some cigarettes.
- Oh, OK. I'll wait.
378
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,790
- Can I help you, sir?
- Luckies and two strawberry cones.
379
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,637
Miss Starr! Where's that sister
of yours this fine day?
380
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,229
- Get away from me.
- You ask Alva.
381
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,273
What'll she do with that hot stuff
once the line closes?
382
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,836
Alva's got better things to do
than waste her time on you!
383
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,315
Look what I got! Listen, Miss Uppity!
384
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,069
Once that line shuts down,
she'll have to start looking for somebody.
385
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,794
And I'll tell you, she'll have to crawl!
386
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,549
You'll never get Alva
and that line ain't never closing!
387
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,719
You hear that, Tiny?
She really tells a story!
388
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,754
- Who are you?
- A friend of Willie's.
389
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,349
You're drumming up trade for Alva now?
390
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:31,554
Yeah, I guess that's what
the ice-cream cones are for.
391
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,351
Go and wash up, boy. Your face is dirty.
392
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:44,993
Just you wait, mister! I'll get you!
What are you laughing about?
393
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,754
Old Lindsay Tate just standing there!
394
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:55,239
- I hear strawberry's good for hangovers.
- Boy! He's just a plain damn mess!
395
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,715
- You sure are tough.
- I sure am.
396
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,832
If you hadn't come out,
I'd have killed him.
397
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,873
- Not afraid of nothing, are you?
- Nope.
398
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,114
What if everything was to change?
399
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:13,030
I mean, say something happened
and Dodson changed overnight.
400
00:34:13,240 --> 00:34:16,789
- Dodson ain't never gonna change.
- No, but what if it did?
401
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,833
How did you know strawberry
was my favourite?
402
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,759
You look like a strawberry girl to me.
403
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,748
What do you think of my sister Alva?
She hates strawberry.
404
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,270
I suspect your sister's
a mighty potent force.
405
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,268
She don't think much of you, neither.
She says you're a smart Alec.
406
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,075
See you later. I gotta work.
407
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:39,998
Oh, OK... Hey!
408
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,877
- Thanks for the ice-cream cone.
- You bet.
409
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,077
Step on a crack,
break your mother's back.
410
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,317
Step on a crack,
break your mother's back.
411
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,557
- Mr Knopke?
- Yes.
412
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:58,754
- My name is Legate.
- I was hoping you'd be somebody else.
413
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:01,719
Sit down.
414
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,276
Hey, JJ, what do you think?
415
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,357
Well...
416
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,794
...I just don't know.
417
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,798
Come on, pump that thing.
418
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:22,674
We always done what was asked. You
can't trace no breakdowns to Dodson.
419
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:27,556
To the bale, here's what we were
railroading through here in '30.
420
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:32,231
- This is what's going through here now.
- How about this year's crop?
421
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,718
Who'll pick them, Mr Knopke? You?
Thirty-five cents a hundred pounds?
422
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,270
- How many trains they taking off?
- We'll start at three.
423
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,552
- How many men?
- 15. Maybe more.
424
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:52,114
I'm gonna want a list of the names,
the dates that they came on
425
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,756
and I'd like to know who's married
and who has kids.
426
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,153
You won't be popular
at the Starr Boarding House.
427
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,237
I know.
428
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,512
I've been not very popular before.
429
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,836
Southern Pacific, CB & O, C & E...
430
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,157
- Hey!
- Hi.
431
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,148
- Where are you going?
- Mama said I gotta make the beds.
432
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,557
Willie!
433
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,357
He made it himself.
434
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,672
- You skipped Vacation Bible School.
- He bought me an ice cream.
435
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,757
Strawberry?
436
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,037
Did he... make any mention of me?
437
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:22,957
No, not much.
438
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:25,838
Nothing?
439
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,953
Well, not after I told him
you thought he was a smart Alec.
440
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,958
- Willie, you didn't!
- You said he was.
441
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,993
I don't care!
You tell him different, you hear?
442
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,875
OK, OK. You stuck on him, Alva?
443
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:41,399
No.
444
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:46,594
Well, I don't think you should be.
Not after what he said about you.
445
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,473
Why? What did he say about me?
446
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,950
He said he suspects
you're a mighty potent force.
447
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,071
- He did?
- You mean it could be good?
448
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:02,075
Well, it could be.
449
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,999
Alva, how many times have you done it?
450
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:11,599
Willie Starr!
451
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,514
Five? Ten maybe?
452
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:21,639
- Whoever said I done it at all?
- Lindsay Tate.
453
00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:27,109
- Well, I never did it with Lindsay Tate!
- That's probably why he's so sore.
454
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,633
Afterward, do they love you?
455
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,554
I guess they're supposed to.
456
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,758
Does it look like Lindsay Tate loves me,
screeching my name all over town?
457
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,837
No.
458
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,948
- I bet you Owen Legate...
- I'm gonna knock your teeth in!
459
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:59,233
Actually, Mr Owen Legate
doesn't mean a thing in my life.
460
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,671
Just a nothing dream
I won't remember after I'm married.
461
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,668
- You gonna get married?
- Well, some day.
462
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:13,394
- To Mr Johnson?
- No, dummy!
463
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,353
Willie, I haven't met him yet.
464
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,074
When I do, he'll say to me:
465
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:23,751
"Miss Starr, Miss Alva Starr,
I love you and I'm gonna carry you away
466
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:28,636
"and build a house lined in white satin
for you to rest in between our dancing."
467
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:32,628
You didn't have to make up
your own bed, Mr Legate.
468
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,310
It's force of habit, Willie.
Besides, I like to.
469
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,509
Well, I gotta finish making up the beds.
470
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,754
Willie's got a crush on you.
471
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,236
- Must be the strawberry ice cream.
- I don't like strawberry.
472
00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:01,837
I know.
473
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,000
Excuse me. I've got a million things to do.
474
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:09,553
Miss Starr...
475
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,433
...I thought the paperweight
belonged to my room.
476
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,995
It's Papa's room.
477
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,760
She in her room?
478
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,555
I'll take a look if you want me to,
Mr Johnson.
479
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,548
And would you be kind enough
to see that she gets this?
480
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,478
Sure, Mr Johnson.
481
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,114
- Tell her I'm waiting here.
- OK.
482
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:54,552
- You'll look so pretty. Which ring?
- I don't want either. I'm not going.
483
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,752
- Of course you are!
- Present for Alva from Mr Johnson.
484
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,793
- Let's see what this is.
- Mama, it's for me!
485
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,389
It's exciting.
486
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:08,879
I told you Mr Johnson would come
across with something good! 24 carats!
487
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,514
That's not what I meant, or what I want.
488
00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:16,999
Willie, run and tell him your sister's
rushing and will be down momentarily.
489
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,111
I am not! Willie, please!
490
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:24,713
I know you want other things,
nice things. And you'll get them. Stand.
491
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:29,948
Enriching travel... And your mama's
gonna see that you get them, too.
492
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:36,633
- Please don't make me go!
- Memphis, New Orleans, New York...
493
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,593
Think of the people you'll meet, the men.
494
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:46,114
Right now, we gotta think of the practical
aspect, the way things are looking now.
495
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,993
Gotta make use of the things at hand.
496
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,591
And one of the things at hand
is Mr Johnson. Sit down.
497
00:42:55,600 --> 00:43:00,674
All I'm asking is a little bit of niceness
to him for the time being.
498
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:04,839
- But, Mama...!
- Now, that ain't gonna hurt you... is it?
499
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,588
- Can your sister still be getting dressed?
- Guess so, Mr Johnson.
500
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,791
You'd better go upstairs
and tell her it's getting late.
501
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,117
I just came down
from telling her it was getting late!
502
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,911
Let me by, JJ.
503
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,670
- Here I am!
- You shouldn't have hurried.
504
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,917
- You look just fine.
- Do you mind?
505
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:55,635
That light attracts all kind of things.
Moths, bugs, bats...
506
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,473
I haven't finished my hair.
Funny about my hair.
507
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,116
I just pile it up
and it all comes crumbling down.
508
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,676
- Willie, why not sing for Mr Johnson?
- I already did.
509
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,713
Besides, I wanna go catch some fireflies.
510
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:17,472
- Alva, did you like the bracelet?
- Oh, yes. It's just lovely.
511
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,592
It's too lovely for you to give to me.
512
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,951
- Did you get it in New Orleans?
- Marshall Field's in Chicago.
513
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,913
A gift of gold is a gift of seriousness.
514
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:30,317
A gift of gold is for your wife,
Mr Johnson.
515
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:35,071
Perhaps I should explain about my wife.
My wife is an invalid.
516
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:41,071
I see her maybe once in a month. She's
in a nursing home near Baton Rouge.
517
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:45,478
Mr Johnson, I'd love a Coke with
lots of ice in it. Would you be an angel?
518
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,194
Yeah, sure, Alva, sure.
519
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:54,430
What did you put in the mailbox?
Something for me?
520
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:58,189
- Or is it none of my business?
- That's right.
521
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,598
Hey... did you ever see a scarecrow
with red hair?
522
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,877
- No.
- Come on.
523
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,116
I travel a lot, too.
524
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,478
- You didn't lie.
- I don't lie.
525
00:45:28,720 --> 00:45:30,676
What is it?
526
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:37,790
I don't know. I just... Sometimes
I have trouble catching my breath.
527
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,788
Maybe when God breathed life into all
of us, he didn't breathe enough into me.
528
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,993
Or maybe it's running around in the night
without your shoes.
529
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:51,513
Oh, the ground is warm. Don't you know
there's a fire in the centre of the earth?
530
00:45:51,720 --> 00:45:53,995
It burns for all eternity.
531
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:59,069
And up there it's so cold
it's 100,000 degrees below zero.
532
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:05,628
Look! There's a falling star!
Quick! Make a wish!
533
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:26,119
- Aren't you gonna ask what I wished?
- They don't come true if you tell.
534
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,075
Did you make a wish?
535
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:30,633
No.
536
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:33,678
Bye-bye to a rare chance.
537
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:41,755
My papa made him. This used to be
his garden. It's a ghost garden now.
538
00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:49,268
- What... what did he do? Just leave?
- He's gone to find a greener pasture.
539
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:53,268
Mama says it's a laugh, unless they give
land to the man with the reddest hair.
540
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,358
You ever hear from him?
541
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,916
No. He's coming back, though.
542
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:04,516
'Cause if he loves us,
he surely will come back.
543
00:47:04,720 --> 00:47:07,280
Supposing he doesn't?
544
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:12,998
He will. He could be on any train,
with the deed to greener pastures.
545
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,112
Is that what you're waiting for, Alva?
546
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,834
Alva.
547
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:26,751
Owen, do you know that's the first time
you have used my familiar name?
548
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,549
- Here's your Coke!
- Don't let him know where we are!
549
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,637
- Alva!
- Get down, get down!
550
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,354
Your ice is melting!
551
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:42,437
Alva, where are you?
552
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,794
- Why not tell him to leave you alone?
- Well, Mama says...
553
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,514
- He's a kind man.
- He's an old man.
554
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:54,597
We'll be late.
555
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:58,998
He's a very lonely old man whose wife
isn't well. I hate to hurt his feelings.
556
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,509
- It wouldn't be grateful.
- Or good business.
557
00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:03,915
Where are you?
558
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,999
You are in a cruel, teasing mood
and I don't understand.
559
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:12,716
I'm talking about thanks and niceness,
common politeness.
560
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:14,478
Common politeness?
561
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:19,276
That old man, as you call him, happens
to be a gentleman who appreciates me.
562
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:24,190
Tonight, he gave me a solid gold bracelet
from a very expensive store in Chicago.
563
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,551
What did you give
this kind old man in return?
564
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:32,356
My company and my kindness!
Those are the bare uninteresting facts.
565
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:36,269
- It makes him very happy.
- What does it make you?
566
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,916
People thinking I'm beautiful
doesn't mean I'm their property!
567
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,156
If you really thought you were beautiful,
you'd be your own girl.
568
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,193
I am my own girl, Mr Legate.
569
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:52,029
I don't need some smart Alec
to point out the error of my ways!
570
00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:56,028
I go out with him because I want to
and because he treats me like a lady.
571
00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:58,595
- Because your mama tells you to.
- I enjoy it!
572
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:03,476
I'm not a cat dreaming I'm a man.
That happens to be the truth!
573
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:07,753
Then why are you hiding
out here in the dark?
574
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,388
Alva, where are you?
575
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:20,829
There you are. I thought you'd gone on
without me. The ice has melted.
576
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:24,828
Thank you, Mr Johnson, and thank you
for the solid gold charm bracelet!
577
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:28,919
- You're gonna keep it?
- I accept your gift with gratitude.
578
00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:33,235
Where are your shoes? What time
was that reservation for, Mr Johnson?
579
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,000
- They've held the table since seven.
- You hear?
580
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,636
They've held your table since seven.
You've got to get ready!
581
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,070
You two'll have a high old time.
582
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:45,795
All right, Mama.
We'll all have ourselves a high old time.
583
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,834
I'm not getting dressed and going
to the casino. I've changed my mind.
584
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:54,192
I'm getting undressed and going to the
railroad hole. Who wants to skinny dip?
585
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:58,029
- Yeah!
- You're probably not coming, right?
586
00:49:58,240 --> 00:50:00,071
No, thank you.
587
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,795
What's the matter?
Scared to take your clothes off?
588
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,390
Owen! I've been waiting to tell you.
I got it wrong before.
589
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,115
- Alva didn't call you no smart Alec.
- The hell I didn't!
590
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,756
- Alva's going... Let's all go!
- You can never tell what she'll do.
591
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:18,748
It's a good idea, though, ain't it,
Mr Johnson? Come on!
592
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,437
Last one in is a skinny old maid!
593
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,953
Come on, Alva!
594
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:46,029
Take your clothes off, Mr Johnson.
Come on in. Nobody's gonna look.
595
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:47,593
Can't swim.
596
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:15,634
Wish me a rainbowWish me a star
597
00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:20,118
Why aren't you with the rest of them?
598
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:22,515
I'm right where I wanna be.
599
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,197
Well, let me go.
600
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:34,116
- I know what you want. I know you.
- I'll scream for Mama!
601
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:36,997
Go ahead.
602
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:53,832
What's the matter with you?
You saving up for that spotter?
603
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:58,591
- What are you talking about?
- Your friend, who's here to lay us all off.
604
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:02,918
- I don't believe you.
- He's got a pocket full of pink slips.
605
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:06,749
- Are you saving it all up for him?
- That's not true!
606
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:08,837
Why don't you ask him?
607
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:22,198
- Willie isn't here.
- You were wrong before, Mr Legate.
608
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,278
What you put in the mailbox
is my business!
609
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:27,474
Come on in.
610
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:31,559
You come here lying, flying false colours,
tricking this whole house!
611
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:37,156
- What is it you think you know?
- I know you! Liar!
612
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:40,193
- That I'm laying men off?
- For good! No more money coming in!
613
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,277
- There's a depression.
- I hear!
614
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:46,109
- The railroad's cutting back.
- Don't just blame it on them!
615
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:50,199
- I don't whip myself. It's not my idea.
- But you do it!
616
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:55,155
What do you care about lay-offs? Isn't
this what you want? To get out of here?
617
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:58,750
There are others concerned.
Willie and my mama!
618
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:02,111
- Your mama can take care of herself.
- That's not your business!
619
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:07,678
- You must've wanted to tell me off bad.
- I did! You need telling off!
620
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,031
- Anxious to get back now, aren't you?
- Yes, I am!
621
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:13,834
And I'm going! I meant every word I said!
622
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,110
- False colours? Tricking you?
- Yes! Yes!
623
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,595
- Liar?
- Yes! Yes!
624
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:21,798
Liar!
625
00:53:59,920 --> 00:54:02,036
You get yours, Sid?
626
00:54:02,240 --> 00:54:03,798
Yeah.
627
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,956
Me, too.
628
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,838
Any idea what
you're gonna do now, boy?
629
00:54:13,720 --> 00:54:16,792
I'll sleep late in the morning.
630
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,070
Sidney? Sidney!
631
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,315
You like your job, mister?
632
00:55:05,720 --> 00:55:08,792
There's a man with a trucking line
out of Mobile.
633
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:13,471
Anybody that's interested, I could talk
to him. He's taking on some new men.
634
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:17,912
And in answer to your question,
no, mister, I don't like my job.
635
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:39,957
Being a fink is thirsty work.
636
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,916
How much, operator?
637
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:56,114
And I thought he was so swell.
But he is a fink, isn't he?
638
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,111
I don't know, Willie.
639
00:56:04,240 --> 00:56:06,800
I just don't know.
640
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,153
- This the last of it?
- For now. You want some lunch?
641
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:20,276
Not with you.
642
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:26,793
All right. We'll finish this this afternoon.
Then I'll be out of here tomorrow.
643
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:03,519
- Y'all having lunch?
- No.
644
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:06,193
Fresh air.
645
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:13,356
- You oughtn't to be here.
- That's what I kept telling myself.
646
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,233
- I don't think those men will like...
- I know.
647
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:33,158
Hey!
648
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:42,593
- Ooh! They call this fainting weather.
- What?
649
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:46,839
When it's heavy and close like this,
only some call it hurricane weather.
650
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,195
You leaving tomorrow?
651
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:54,033
Why did you come down here today?
652
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,433
I don't know. I just wanted to see you.
653
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,317
- And besides...
- Watch it.
654
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:03,556
...l've something to show you.
655
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,593
I mean, something special. Just ahead.
656
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:12,190
- What time are you leaving tomorrow?
- 10.20.
657
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:15,715
To New Orleans?
658
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:18,195
That's right.
659
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:24,999
Hey... is it really true they bury people
above the ground in New Orleans?
660
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,156
If they didn't, the graves would flood.
661
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:34,915
I suppose the worst part of being buried
underground is being unable to breathe.
662
00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:42,434
I don't suppose you ever had that
feeling... not being able to breathe.
663
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:46,037
- No.
- How could you?
664
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,391
You've never been stuck any place.
Hey, look!
665
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:56,957
Come on!
666
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,871
See that star
right underneath the seven?
667
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:12,915
- That's my papa's signature.
- That's quite a signature.
668
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,390
- Did he paint all of these cars like this?
- Oh, no.
669
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:21,798
He used to dream pretty big,
my papa, and make big promises.
670
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,355
He never kept them, except once.
671
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:29,994
Come on.
672
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:32,877
Come on!
673
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:51,477
All for me.
674
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:54,592
With a gift card, even, saying:
675
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:58,349
"Hail, my heart's delight, and farewell."
676
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:03,550
Sit down. The train'll be leaving soon.
677
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:10,072
The porter must have known
we were coming
678
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:13,238
and dusted our seats with talcum,
lilac talcum.
679
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:22,349
Do you feel bad? About the men, I mean.
680
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:25,234
No.
681
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:31,192
- Don't you?
- No. I can't let myself feel bad.
682
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:35,989
I do this in every city that I go into.
It's my job.
683
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:38,589
But you do feel bad.
684
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:49,556
You have to smile on the Honeydew
Express or the wheels won't turn.
685
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:51,239
Oh! Excuse me.
686
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:56,275
I think they ought to have some system
to warn ladies when they're pulling out.
687
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:05,315
What are you looking at?
There's nothing there... only me.
688
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:12,388
- You don't have to pretend...
- Look how white the sky is!
689
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:17,833
It's perfectly white. Just as white
as a clean piece of paper.
690
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:22,395
Listen to the wind.
691
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:26,470
It scares me.
692
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:33,992
My papa gave me those.
I never take them off.
693
01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:36,079
Alva, listen...
694
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:40,751
- When a train goes, know what it says?
- "Bromo-seltzer, bromo-seltzer..."
695
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:47,078
You are staring straight into my eyes,
which is impolite.
696
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,029
I leave tomorrow, Alva.
697
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:54,157
"Bromo-seltzer, bromo-seltzer..."
698
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:55,634
Listen...
699
01:01:55,840 --> 01:02:00,391
Nights at Starr's have little to do
with the days. Meals are included...
700
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:02,750
- Stop it!
...and modern facilities...
701
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:06,509
Do you know, if you pinch your elbow
you can't even feel it?
702
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:09,553
Alva, do you understand
what I'm telling you?
703
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:14,111
Yes, I know. You're leaving.
704
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:21,551
Alva, the sky is not white, it's blue.
705
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:25,469
If you pinch your elbow hard enough,
it hurts like hell.
706
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:29,950
This is not lilac talcum on these seats,
this is dust!
707
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:35,918
There is no wind in this car.
As a matter of fact, it's hot.
708
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:39,078
Because this car
has been sitting here for years.
709
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,350
- I don't care.
- Why do you do that?
710
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:46,791
Why are you so fanciful? Why do you
make everything seem so special?
711
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:48,319
Because it is.
712
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:50,918
No.
713
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:55,316
Well, lots is. You are, what you do...
714
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:58,080
No. No, I'm not.
715
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:01,556
My job, it's not always lay-offs,
716
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:05,514
but it's somehow always the same.
717
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:09,910
- But you travel.
- Between cities that are the same.
718
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:13,957
But you live in New Orleans,
on Bourbon Street.
719
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:16,993
That's your dream. It's not mine.
720
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:21,908
Then, what is yours?
721
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:24,233
I have no dream.
722
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:28,390
How terrible for you.
723
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:33,397
Maybe.
724
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:35,955
Are you cold?
725
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:37,991
No.
726
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,755
No, it's... like the snowstorm.
727
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:46,553
What?
728
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:49,354
You know, in the glass ball.
729
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:56,718
- Well, isn't it almost? It is.
- You're never gonna change.
730
01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:01,510
I don't wanna think about you leaving.
I don't care if it's true.
731
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:04,837
- But I am. It is true.
- I'd rather pretend you're not leaving.
732
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:06,917
- But you...
- Please!
733
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:12,831
Let's pretend, just for tonight,
that you're not leaving.
734
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:23,836
- Cry-baby.
- But it was so sad.
735
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:28,958
You know, sometimes when I see
a sad movie, I want to see the end again,
736
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:32,391
just hoping it'll all come out better
the second time.
737
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:36,513
No use. No matter how many times
they show it, she dies in the end.
738
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:39,518
Wouldn't it be wonderful if she didn't?
739
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:43,315
What if you went to see it again
and the end was totally different?
740
01:04:43,520 --> 01:04:48,230
I mean, like if his folks did like her
and she didn't die.
741
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:53,195
Yeah, but think how unhappy you'd be,
though. You couldn't cry in the end.
742
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:05,988
When you get back to New Orleans,
how long will you be there?
743
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:08,475
Open your mouth.
744
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:12,157
How long?
745
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:19,192
Until they send me out again.
A month maybe, a week, couple of days.
746
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,750
- I don't think...
- Well, I...
747
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:29,753
- Well, I just...
- I didn't really think...
748
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:35,077
JJ!
749
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:37,191
What are you doing?
750
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:56,030
- Stop pulling my hair out!
- Stop it!
751
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:59,710
- Stop it! You're gonna kill him!
- Get out of here!
752
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:03,070
Quit it!
753
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:08,833
I said, quit it! You hear me?
754
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:11,395
- Stop it!
- Quit it!
755
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:15,314
- Stop it!
- I said, quit it!
756
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:18,916
You bastards!
757
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:28,355
No! I'm fine.
758
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:35,592
No.
759
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,875
- No!
- Can't you let me help you?
760
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:42,957
Let me...
761
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:07,756
- Damn!
- Shhh!
762
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:13,997
Don't go.
763
01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:23,350
Do you know how far it is
to New Orleans?
764
01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:27,194
It's 247 railroad miles.
765
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:31,797
That doesn't sound too far, does it?
766
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:35,595
Hop and a skip.
767
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,717
And a jump over mama.
768
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,115
Mama?
769
01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:44,515
I could go.
770
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:47,875
I could go.
771
01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:55,872
Still you're here in Dodson.
772
01:07:58,040 --> 01:08:01,316
If you don't believe me,
who in the world will?
773
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:09,637
You're staring again.
774
01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:13,157
I...
775
01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:17,157
What?
776
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:19,237
What?
777
01:08:20,480 --> 01:08:22,357
What?
778
01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:25,237
Tell me.
779
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:30,877
Tell me.
780
01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:36,237
Tell me.
781
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:39,397
Tell me.
782
01:08:56,560 --> 01:09:00,838
Alva, you in there?I know you're in there! Open up!
783
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:13,717
My God! You didn't even have sense
enough to lock the door, you and that rat.
784
01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:16,195
- Where is he?
- At the station.
785
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:18,550
Thank God.
786
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:22,116
He's coming back. To say goodbye.
787
01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:25,517
- Where are you going?
- What is it, Mama?
788
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:29,952
I don't think it's got through to you yet
what's going on around here.
789
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:35,188
I had a long, serious, satisfying
conversation with Mr Johnson yesterday.
790
01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:38,915
- We are leaving.
- Who's leaving?
791
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:41,156
You, Willie and me!
792
01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:46,438
We're going to Memphis
and I don't want any worries.
793
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:50,910
I am in no mood for worries.
794
01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:56,711
We're setting up in Memphis on
a little loan Mr Johnson advanced to us.
795
01:09:56,920 --> 01:10:00,515
You are going and that is final!
796
01:10:01,440 --> 01:10:04,034
I am not going!
797
01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:07,198
Alva! Now, you listen to me!
798
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:10,710
You been living like a damn princess
while I ran this place!
799
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:13,753
Did nothing while I took care
of everything!
800
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:16,633
The boat has docked
and you're gonna show me
801
01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:21,630
that you're not just the spoiled, lazy,
moody princess your papa left me with.
802
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:26,436
Mama, you can talk and talk,
but I'm not gonna go.
803
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:32,988
You don't seem to understand me.
Our one chance to survive is this loan.
804
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:36,909
If we have to stand on our heads
to get it, we'll do it smiling!
805
01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:39,793
- Is that clear?
- Yes, Mama.
806
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:47,229
If there's one thing I loathe, it's that
innocent virgin look you put on your face!
807
01:10:47,440 --> 01:10:49,396
I'm not going!
808
01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:07,196
And just what the hell
do you think on doing?
809
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:10,358
I don't know.
I'll get out of here and get a job.
810
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:12,755
- Not that old stuff again.
- I'm getting out here!
811
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:16,509
Alva, I am sick to death
of your nonsense!
812
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:21,191
Let's face facts. For years, I've watched
you fool with every man and boy...
813
01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:24,551
- Mama, please!
...who pleased you and I said nothing.
814
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:28,469
Now, when I ask you to do me
one tiny favour, you play innocent.
815
01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:34,471
- Tiny! What are you saying?
- You are selfish! Selfish, selfish, selfish!
816
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:39,549
Your papa saw where you were headed.
Think you fooled him? Not for a minute!
817
01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:43,719
- He knew you were selfish and vicious!
- What are you talking about?
818
01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:47,515
He used to say, "She'll turn on you,
leave you and let you down!
819
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:52,350
"You just wait and see, Hazel.
That ungrateful girl will break your heart!"
820
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:57,634
- He never said that! He never said that!
- Don't break my heart! Help me, Alva!
821
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:02,516
What about Willie? If you don't care
about me, what about Willie?
822
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:07,077
- God, Mama!
- It wouldn't be forever with Mr Johnson.
823
01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:11,751
I am asking you to give him a few short,
tiny weeks out of your life,
824
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:15,589
till I get the house in Memphis straight
so he can't pull out.
825
01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:19,475
Nobody's gonna know.
Alva, please, look at me!
826
01:12:19,680 --> 01:12:21,875
I am begging you!
827
01:12:22,080 --> 01:12:24,833
Get up, please! Please! Just get up!
828
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:29,795
Oh, honey, you're not gonna regret it.
I promise you. You're not gonna...
829
01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:48,195
Hey, Owen! Wait a minute!
830
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:55,710
- Hi, old Willie. What is it?
- You leaving?
831
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:59,708
Yeah, as soon as I pick up
my bag from the house.
832
01:13:02,440 --> 01:13:04,317
Bye.
833
01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:08,117
Goodbye.
834
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:13,756
You won't worry about me, will you?
835
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:18,473
- Some, maybe.
- Okey-doke.
836
01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:21,274
- Okey-doke.
- Bye.
837
01:13:21,480 --> 01:13:22,913
Bye.
838
01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:38,231
Mr Legate.
839
01:13:38,440 --> 01:13:40,954
One way, New Orleans.
840
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:49,234
Why get a ticket? You got your pass.
841
01:13:49,440 --> 01:13:51,317
That's right.
842
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:56,639
Sure I do, Sal,
843
01:13:56,840 --> 01:13:59,400
sure I feel bad about it.
844
01:14:00,640 --> 01:14:04,792
You know, Sally, they can lay off
the whole of Dodson for all I care,
845
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:06,911
including the sheriff.
846
01:14:07,120 --> 01:14:13,639
I swear, I'll never again set foot in a town
with less than 100,000 population.
847
01:14:13,840 --> 01:14:19,312
I got the feeling that I and Memphis
are gonna get along just fine... Who?
848
01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:29,478
Sure Alva's going to Memphis.
She's just wild to go, just like I told you.
849
01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:34,913
Well, of course I'm happy.
And Mr Johnson's happy and JJ's happy.
850
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,553
I think we'll all have ourselves a ball.
851
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:42,991
Thanks, Sal. I knew you would. See you!
852
01:14:46,240 --> 01:14:48,595
Morning.
853
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:14,034
- You really are a liar.
- What is it?
854
01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:16,834
- No. No damn games!
- What games?
855
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:19,554
- You really like to play with it!
- What is it?
856
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:22,991
- What's happened?
- Ask mama what's happened!
857
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:27,398
- Telling dreams. It's how you make love.
- What are you talking about?
858
01:15:27,600 --> 01:15:30,831
It's what makes Alva different
than the other tramps!
859
01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:34,828
- Don't... don't say what can't be fixed.
- Let me ask you a question.
860
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:39,079
How much does a ticket
to New Orleans cost?
861
01:15:46,440 --> 01:15:48,829
Turn it in for one to Memphis.
862
01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:52,999
You wonder about other things, other
ways to live, you wonder and dream,
863
01:15:53,200 --> 01:15:55,760
but you go on doing what you do.
864
01:15:55,960 --> 01:16:00,750
That railroad carriage is enough for you.
That snowstorm. Fake!
865
01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:06,352
But it's enough for you
because you're a fake, Alva!
866
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:12,112
You're not unique. You're not
even special. You're just... peculiar.
867
01:16:16,960 --> 01:16:21,636
What in hell did I think
was so magical or fanciful...
868
01:16:23,120 --> 01:16:26,430
...about a little whore
who is just a little bit peculiar?
869
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:43,389
How about a big hand for Odel Otis
and his Kansas City Steaks,
870
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:48,549
playing for your dancing enjoyment
at the Moonlake Casino.
871
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:52,435
I used to wonder if I was annoying you
by always asking you out.
872
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:55,552
Oh, God, no! I love to go out.
873
01:16:55,760 --> 01:17:00,675
Alva, your mama said I'd see a lot of you
in Memphis. You gonna mind?
874
01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:04,670
Why should I mind, Mr Johnson?
That's ridiculous.
875
01:17:05,440 --> 01:17:09,956
Well, you know I'm married, Alva,
but I'm a lonesome man.
876
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:13,948
It makes me feel good to have someone
so young, so pretty as you around.
877
01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:17,470
- Oh, I know it.
- I don't expect anything lasting.
878
01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:21,713
I could get you a place of your own
in Memphis,
879
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:25,629
an allowance, so you'd only have to do
what you felt like.
880
01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:29,799
Lawdy, Miss Glawdy!
You two look nice and cosy.
881
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:34,949
- Is that hard liquor you're drinking, Alva?
- Yeah, that's hard corn liquor, Mama.
882
01:17:35,160 --> 01:17:39,551
- Just about as hard as your heart.
- You certainly are celebrating, honey.
883
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:43,116
Yeah. Sit down. We'll have a toast
and I'll make it.
884
01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:47,313
- Alva, you are loaded.
- Yeah! I'm loaded like a pistol.
885
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:51,399
Y'all fill your glasses, hear?
Alva's gonna make a toast.
886
01:17:51,600 --> 01:17:57,675
Now, the occasion of this toast
is the matter of getting out of here!
887
01:17:59,440 --> 01:18:02,637
I'll drink to that!
Memphis, here we come!
888
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:06,598
- Isn't that funny, Mama?
- What?
889
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:11,954
I was just thinking maybe I wouldn't get
settled down with you in Memphis at all.
890
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:18,911
'Cause Mr Johnson here, has just
made me this very attractive proposal.
891
01:18:19,120 --> 01:18:23,750
Well, it's not exactly a proposal, is it,
Mr Johnson? But it's very attractive.
892
01:18:23,960 --> 01:18:28,351
'Cause he's gonna take care of me.
Set me up in my own little apartment.
893
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:34,271
- Isn't that nice, Mama?
- Behave yourself. You'll make me blush.
894
01:18:34,480 --> 01:18:37,995
- Mr Johnson, shame on you!
- What's the matter, Mama?
895
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:43,354
Scared if I get away there'll be no more
men around to have a good time with?
896
01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:48,429
- I don't think we wanna talk about that.
- JJ, you sticking around when I'm gone?
897
01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:52,633
You gonna stick around with her
if you don't have me to look at?
898
01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:57,789
She's drunk. Our little arrangement
about the house is what she wants.
899
01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:00,594
She'd tell you if she wasn't drunk. Wait!
900
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:03,394
- I'll dance with you, JJ.
- You just...
901
01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:08,674
Wanna dance with me?
Or with Mama? Who do you want, JJ?
902
01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:14,876
Who would you rather have?
Tell her who you'd rather dance with, JJ.
903
01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:21,155
- You been feeding her too much booze.
- Tell her how bad you want me, JJ!
904
01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:26,434
Now, you just cut that out!
That fellow Owen's got you all upset.
905
01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:33,312
He was gonna take me away with him.
906
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:37,559
Oh, Mama, I don't know
what I'm gonna do.
907
01:19:38,640 --> 01:19:41,438
I'll take care of you, Alva.
908
01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:43,517
Oh, shut up!
909
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:50,231
Mama knows you want me, Mr Johnson,
but she didn't know about JJ, did you?
910
01:19:50,440 --> 01:19:53,193
Do you still want me, JJ? Do you?
911
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:55,960
What about that fellow Owen?
912
01:19:57,240 --> 01:20:00,073
- He's gone, ain't he, Mama?
- Yeah, he's gone.
913
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:03,636
He's just gone! He went away.
914
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:08,389
What do you want?
915
01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:12,073
I wanna go away.
916
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:15,231
- I'll take you.
- What?
917
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:18,959
- You mean it?
- I'll take you.
918
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:23,590
- But, Alva...
- No, that isn't enough.
919
01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:28,634
You gotta marry me, JJ.
920
01:20:32,040 --> 01:20:34,952
- I'll marry you.
- JJ, you crazy?
921
01:20:35,160 --> 01:20:37,037
You shut up.
922
01:20:38,360 --> 01:20:43,070
- I'll marry you, Alva.
- No! I mean right now!
923
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:47,790
I mean tonight, right now!
924
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:51,394
Sure, Alva, I'll marry you.
925
01:30:02,160 --> 01:30:05,516
You have that habit... of staring.
926
01:30:28,560 --> 01:30:30,437
I'm sorry.
927
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:40,358
I missed you, Alva. I didn't know I would.
928
01:30:40,560 --> 01:30:42,118
New Orleans is not a place
929
01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:47,348
where a person needs to feel
the pain of separation for long.
930
01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:50,996
You, Miss Starr, were a missed person.
931
01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:56,277
I was?
932
01:30:58,400 --> 01:31:00,277
Deeply missed.
933
01:31:07,680 --> 01:31:09,557
And you'll stay...
934
01:31:10,560 --> 01:31:12,437
...and you'll stay...
935
01:31:16,080 --> 01:31:19,152
...because of all you give me.
936
01:31:19,360 --> 01:31:21,237
Do I?
937
01:31:22,840 --> 01:31:25,638
Thoughts I never had.
938
01:31:26,800 --> 01:31:28,677
And things...
939
01:31:30,160 --> 01:31:32,390
...such things.
940
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:52,673
What are you gonna do all day?
941
01:31:52,880 --> 01:31:55,553
Wait for you to come home.
942
01:31:57,840 --> 01:31:59,717
Owen.
943
01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:02,193
I'll have supper ready in just a second.
944
01:34:14,480 --> 01:34:17,472
- They're golden!
- Well, almost.
945
01:34:22,760 --> 01:34:26,548
By the way, my section chief Macferson
told me something of no interest.
946
01:34:26,760 --> 01:34:29,593
What? Even though I'm not interested.
947
01:34:31,280 --> 01:34:35,592
He said that there was a job opening
for some dull young man.
948
01:34:36,520 --> 01:34:40,035
Too bad we don't know any.
Is it a travelling job?
949
01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:43,038
No, no. It's a stay-put job.
950
01:34:44,400 --> 01:34:48,234
- Chicago.
- Well, did he offer it?
951
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:53,319
- Well, they call it a feeler.
- What did you say?
952
01:34:53,520 --> 01:34:56,159
Well, I said I'd have to ask my wife.
953
01:35:06,040 --> 01:35:07,917
What's the matter?
954
01:35:17,200 --> 01:35:19,953
I am asking my wife.
955
01:35:33,120 --> 01:35:35,156
I thought I saw Willie today.
956
01:35:40,280 --> 01:35:42,953
- Where?
- In the street.
957
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:49,959
Just a flash. Dumb hair all over her face.
Wearing one of my old dresses.
958
01:35:50,160 --> 01:35:54,836
It was crazy...
It was just another dumb little kid.
959
01:35:56,480 --> 01:36:01,156
- Where do you think Willie is? Dodson?
- She could be anywhere.
960
01:36:01,360 --> 01:36:06,070
- Wherever Mama is.
- Well, I can find out.
961
01:36:06,280 --> 01:36:09,113
I can write to Knopke. He's still on.
962
01:36:13,840 --> 01:36:16,354
We can send for Willie.
963
01:36:17,520 --> 01:36:22,594
We could take her with us to Chicago.
Would that please you, Alva?
964
01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:26,677
Oh, dear!
965
01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:34,315
I'd love to see Willie take Chicago.
966
01:38:06,640 --> 01:38:11,077
- For a girl who's afraid of the thunder...
- Well, I was just passing by.
967
01:38:40,080 --> 01:38:42,753
Come on in, honey.
968
01:38:43,920 --> 01:38:46,798
- Mama!
- Oh, you come right in.
969
01:38:47,000 --> 01:38:52,199
You are soaked to the bone. I hope you
don't mind my making myself at home.
970
01:38:52,400 --> 01:38:56,029
You never did know when to lock up.
971
01:38:57,200 --> 01:39:00,192
Take off that wet coat.
You'll catch your death.
972
01:39:01,840 --> 01:39:06,356
- How did you find us?
- Willie showed me Alva's postcard.
973
01:39:06,560 --> 01:39:09,313
You look cold, too. I made some coffee.
974
01:39:17,040 --> 01:39:19,998
- Please don't tell him!
- Grab me those cups.
975
01:39:20,200 --> 01:39:24,159
- I don't know what he'll do if you tell him.
- I don't know what you mean.
976
01:39:24,360 --> 01:39:26,555
- Please!
- Where's the sugar?
977
01:39:26,760 --> 01:39:29,479
Mama, I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!
978
01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:34,834
- Believe me I am!
- It's all right, honey. Now we need milk.
979
01:39:35,040 --> 01:39:39,750
Mama, if you tell Owen,
it'll just kill him, I swear it!
980
01:39:40,400 --> 01:39:44,279
You haven't even asked me how
I'm feeling. Don't you care about me?
981
01:39:44,480 --> 01:39:46,755
He wants to marry me.
982
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:52,116
This coffee's getting cold.
983
01:39:53,640 --> 01:39:55,517
In we go.
984
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:06,758
Nice little place here, honey.
Did you help him fix it up?
985
01:40:06,960 --> 01:40:12,239
- Did you come here to pour coffee?
- I hear you're thinking of marrying Alva.
986
01:40:13,680 --> 01:40:16,956
- That's right.
- You weren't going to tell me about it?
987
01:40:17,160 --> 01:40:19,720
- It's between Alva and me.
- I thought so.
988
01:40:19,920 --> 01:40:24,038
I had an idea you weren't a man
who'd want his wife's mama helping out.
989
01:40:24,240 --> 01:40:26,117
You got it right.
990
01:40:27,240 --> 01:40:30,596
- How's the coffee?
- It's fine...
991
01:40:30,800 --> 01:40:33,109
...just fine.
992
01:40:33,320 --> 01:40:38,553
You drink it up and put your coat on.
We got things to do, places to go.
993
01:40:38,760 --> 01:40:41,149
- What?
- I'm not licked yet.
994
01:40:41,360 --> 01:40:46,434
Mr Johnson finally turned sour. I've got
one or two schemes up my sleeve.
995
01:40:46,640 --> 01:40:49,234
She's not going anywhere.
996
01:40:50,800 --> 01:40:54,634
- Oh, no?
- No. Not unless it's with me.
997
01:40:56,320 --> 01:41:00,393
You have nothing to say about it.
She's not yours. Didn't you tell him?
998
01:41:01,400 --> 01:41:04,597
- Get out!
- It must have slipped her mind.
999
01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:08,509
That little girl's all wrapped up.
She and JJ got married.
1000
01:41:09,680 --> 01:41:14,276
The next morning, she went through
his pockets and rolled him.
1001
01:41:16,160 --> 01:41:18,515
You never quite give up, do you?
1002
01:41:18,720 --> 01:41:20,597
Tell him, Alva!
1003
01:41:28,960 --> 01:41:32,077
- Oh, my God...
- What?
1004
01:41:34,280 --> 01:41:36,191
Oh, my God!
1005
01:41:36,400 --> 01:41:39,073
Alva! Alva!
1006
01:42:21,440 --> 01:42:27,231
Mama ran off with a man named Sam
and they went somewhere in Arkansas.
1007
01:42:29,080 --> 01:42:31,913
Papa, he never did come back.
1008
01:42:33,520 --> 01:42:35,875
You know where Alva is now?
1009
01:42:36,080 --> 01:42:38,833
- New Orleans?
- No.
1010
01:42:39,040 --> 01:42:41,600
- Chicago?
- No.
1011
01:42:42,560 --> 01:42:45,916
- Memphis?
- You'll never guess.
1012
01:42:46,120 --> 01:42:48,190
Where is she, then?
1013
01:42:49,400 --> 01:42:52,198
- She's in the bone orchard.
- What?
1014
01:42:52,400 --> 01:42:57,030
Bone orchard, cemetery, graveyard!
Don't you understand English?
1015
01:42:57,240 --> 01:43:00,755
- That's pretty tough.
- You don't know the half of it, buddy.
1016
01:43:05,320 --> 01:43:11,873
Her lungs got affected. Did you see that
movie at the Delta Brilliant last fall?
1017
01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:17,992
Which is what Alva died of.
Lung affection.
1018
01:43:19,720 --> 01:43:24,316
Only, the way she had it in the movie,
it was very beautiful.
1019
01:43:24,520 --> 01:43:30,550
You know, violins playing, all her lovers
come back in a beautiful scene.
1020
01:43:33,160 --> 01:43:35,674
Wish me a rainbow
1021
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:39,714
Wish me a star
1022
01:43:42,360 --> 01:43:44,237
I'm going back now.
1023
01:43:47,120 --> 01:43:50,430
I'm gonna live for a long, long time,
1024
01:43:50,640 --> 01:43:52,551
like my sister.
1025
01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:58,838
When my lungs get affected,
I'm gonna die like she did,
1026
01:43:59,040 --> 01:44:04,160
with all my rings and my gold
charm bracelet from Marshall Field's.
1027
01:44:04,360 --> 01:44:08,069
And then, I guess, somebody else'll
inherit all my beaux.
1028
01:44:09,360 --> 01:44:12,158
The sky sure is white.
1029
01:44:13,320 --> 01:44:16,437
- Well, so long.
- So long.
1030
01:44:17,160 --> 01:44:22,837
Wish me a rainbow and wish me a star
1031
01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:28,831
All this you can give meWherever you are
1032
01:44:29,040 --> 01:44:35,036
And dreams for my pillowAnd stars for my eyes
1033
01:44:35,240 --> 01:44:41,475
And a masquerade ballWhere our love wins first prize
1034
01:44:41,680 --> 01:44:44,399
Wish me red roses
1035
01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:47,637
And yellow balloons
1036
01:44:47,840 --> 01:44:50,593
Black sequins whirling
1037
01:44:50,800 --> 01:44:53,712
To gay dancing tunes
1038
01:44:53,920 --> 01:44:56,753
I want all these treasures
1039
01:44:56,960 --> 01:44:59,394
The most you can give
1040
01:44:59,600 --> 01:45:02,512
So wish me a rainbow
1041
01:45:02,720 --> 01:45:05,553
As long as I live
86615
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