1 00:00:01,568 --> 00:00:04,571 (lively jazz music) 2 00:00:33,066 --> 00:00:34,701 - Hiya! 3 00:00:34,701 --> 00:00:35,769 - [Delgado] Hey, hi. 4 00:00:35,769 --> 00:00:36,669 Quick, come. 5 00:00:36,669 --> 00:00:37,570 Quick, children. 6 00:00:37,570 --> 00:00:38,405 Hurry! 7 00:00:40,707 --> 00:00:42,308 Come on, that's it. 8 00:00:44,778 --> 00:00:48,715 (speaking in foreign language) 9 00:00:51,051 --> 00:00:53,453 Put it under the brake, quick. 10 00:00:53,453 --> 00:00:54,387 Aye. 11 00:00:54,387 --> 00:00:55,422 Here, Tino. 12 00:00:55,422 --> 00:00:56,956 Quick, under the wheel, huh? 13 00:00:56,956 --> 00:00:58,992 (speaking in foreign language) 14 00:00:58,992 --> 00:01:00,493 Take care. 15 00:01:00,493 --> 00:01:04,197 It's only necessary for you to appear to be crushed, okay? 16 00:01:11,838 --> 00:01:12,672 Now, hey. 17 00:01:14,774 --> 00:01:17,444 Ah, is that the face of anguish? 18 00:01:19,145 --> 00:01:19,979 There. 19 00:01:25,552 --> 00:01:28,288 (group shouting) 20 00:01:31,291 --> 00:01:33,860 That's not the face of anguish. 21 00:01:43,803 --> 00:01:44,804 Lift, lift. 22 00:01:44,804 --> 00:01:47,540 (group shouting) 23 00:01:48,508 --> 00:01:50,143 Life, lift. 24 00:01:50,143 --> 00:01:51,044 - Good heavens! 25 00:01:51,044 --> 00:01:52,011 - Here, come here. 26 00:01:52,011 --> 00:01:53,646 You lift, I will pull. 27 00:01:53,646 --> 00:01:54,848 - Yeah. 28 00:01:54,848 --> 00:01:56,749 - Wait, wait, wait, wait. 29 00:01:56,749 --> 00:01:59,486 (group grunting) 30 00:02:13,199 --> 00:02:14,200 - It's heavier than it looks. 31 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:15,568 - Aye, indeed. 32 00:02:15,568 --> 00:02:18,872 (speaking foreign language) 33 00:02:18,872 --> 00:02:20,373 - What's he saying? 34 00:02:20,373 --> 00:02:23,376 - Ah, he said bend down low he would whisper to you. 35 00:02:23,376 --> 00:02:24,210 - Yeah. 36 00:02:25,712 --> 00:02:26,946 What? 37 00:02:26,946 --> 00:02:31,050 - Why do cats see better at night than we can? 38 00:02:31,050 --> 00:02:33,453 - Poor thing, he's delirious. 39 00:02:35,188 --> 00:02:36,589 - You don't know? 40 00:02:37,757 --> 00:02:38,892 - We got to get him out of there. 41 00:02:38,892 --> 00:02:40,393 - Oh, no please. 42 00:02:40,393 --> 00:02:42,562 Try to answer the question, just one simple question. 43 00:02:42,562 --> 00:02:45,064 Tino, give him another chance. 44 00:02:49,235 --> 00:02:51,671 - How do clouds stay in the air? 45 00:02:51,671 --> 00:02:53,473 What causes thunder? 46 00:02:53,473 --> 00:02:55,608 Where do insects go in the fall? 47 00:02:55,608 --> 00:02:57,343 What causes a mirage? 48 00:02:59,913 --> 00:03:04,384 - Poor little fellow, he doesn't even know what he's saying. 49 00:03:04,384 --> 00:03:06,452 - Don't you know anything? 50 00:03:06,452 --> 00:03:08,821 Don't you have any education? 51 00:03:08,821 --> 00:03:10,623 - What's going on here? 52 00:03:10,623 --> 00:03:12,392 - Aye, Tino. 53 00:03:12,392 --> 00:03:13,660 This one is not the man. 54 00:03:13,660 --> 00:03:15,094 Get up off the ground. 55 00:03:15,094 --> 00:03:17,697 Hey, Chico, go back to your station, we try again. 56 00:03:17,697 --> 00:03:19,532 We keep on trying. 57 00:03:19,532 --> 00:03:22,869 - Look, fellow, what's this all about? 58 00:03:22,869 --> 00:03:25,038 - To a man who cannot answer the simple question of a hungry 59 00:03:25,038 --> 00:03:26,706 mind, there is no explanation. 60 00:03:26,706 --> 00:03:28,875 I have nothing to say. 61 00:03:28,875 --> 00:03:30,376 Adios, Senor. 62 00:03:30,376 --> 00:03:31,878 - Well! 63 00:03:31,878 --> 00:03:34,147 - Well, that's what you get when you try to help somebody. 64 00:03:34,147 --> 00:03:36,182 - Well, that's the craziest thing I ever ran up against. 65 00:03:36,182 --> 00:03:37,884 - [Woman] That's the truth. 66 00:03:37,884 --> 00:03:41,721 (fluttering orchestral music) 67 00:03:55,201 --> 00:03:57,637 (speaking foreign language) 68 00:03:57,637 --> 00:03:59,239 - Hey, quick, come! 69 00:04:02,375 --> 00:04:04,143 All right, all right! 70 00:04:22,195 --> 00:04:24,931 (group shouting) 71 00:04:26,733 --> 00:04:27,934 Please, please. 72 00:04:27,934 --> 00:04:30,903 One of you, quickly, comfort the boy! 73 00:04:41,147 --> 00:04:42,348 - There's something wrong, it's not budging. 74 00:04:42,348 --> 00:04:43,616 Give me a hand. 75 00:04:45,952 --> 00:04:48,521 (men grunting) 76 00:04:52,525 --> 00:04:55,962 - Juan's mother wants one and a half cherry pies. 77 00:04:55,962 --> 00:04:59,065 Maria's mother had two and one quarter, 78 00:04:59,065 --> 00:05:01,534 how many cherry pies did they both have? 79 00:05:01,534 --> 00:05:04,604 - (grunts) Three and three quarters. 80 00:05:04,604 --> 00:05:05,438 - Come on, give me a hand. 81 00:05:05,438 --> 00:05:06,272 Push. 82 00:05:08,341 --> 00:05:10,276 What are you doing, you're pushing against us? 83 00:05:10,276 --> 00:05:12,045 - Oh, it's the excitement, Senor. 84 00:05:12,045 --> 00:05:13,212 - Excitement? 85 00:05:13,212 --> 00:05:14,981 - [Delgado] Excitement. 86 00:05:14,981 --> 00:05:15,815 - Senor? 87 00:05:17,383 --> 00:05:21,387 Please tell me the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? 88 00:05:21,387 --> 00:05:23,489 - The Great Pyramid of Khufu, 89 00:05:23,489 --> 00:05:27,527 the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Rhodes, 90 00:05:27,527 --> 00:05:30,096 the Olympian Zeus, Pausanias... 91 00:05:32,665 --> 00:05:35,401 (group cheering) 92 00:05:41,874 --> 00:05:43,209 - That poor boy. 93 00:05:46,779 --> 00:05:50,950 It will reflect badly on me if the boy should die. 94 00:05:53,786 --> 00:05:55,888 You seem an educated man. 95 00:05:56,789 --> 00:05:58,157 College? 96 00:05:58,157 --> 00:05:59,792 - Look, this boy's half out of his mind, 97 00:05:59,792 --> 00:06:01,427 cherry pies and the seven wonders. 98 00:06:01,427 --> 00:06:02,862 This is no time to stand around-- 99 00:06:02,862 --> 00:06:06,032 (speaking in foreign language) 100 00:06:06,032 --> 00:06:07,734 - You drive the car, Senor. 101 00:06:07,734 --> 00:06:09,702 With the others, you follow in the wagon. 102 00:06:09,702 --> 00:06:10,903 - Follow where? 103 00:06:10,903 --> 00:06:12,472 To Cordova. 104 00:06:12,472 --> 00:06:13,306 - Cordova? 105 00:06:15,174 --> 00:06:17,610 - It's not on the map, Senor. 106 00:06:19,812 --> 00:06:21,914 - Okay, come on, get in the wagon. 107 00:06:21,914 --> 00:06:24,817 (orchestral music) 108 00:06:52,412 --> 00:06:56,349 (speaking in foreign language) 109 00:06:57,817 --> 00:07:00,686 (orchestral music) 110 00:07:31,651 --> 00:07:34,320 (kids cheering) 111 00:08:01,314 --> 00:08:05,251 (speaking in foreign language) 112 00:08:07,854 --> 00:08:09,355 - I am most sorry. 113 00:08:09,355 --> 00:08:11,891 You have broken the law and you must be sentenced. 114 00:08:11,891 --> 00:08:13,493 The tribunal, come. 115 00:08:14,460 --> 00:08:15,995 - Broken what law? 116 00:08:15,995 --> 00:08:19,131 - Well, it is a pity, but in a way it is partly my fault. 117 00:08:19,131 --> 00:08:20,533 I should have warned you. 118 00:08:20,533 --> 00:08:23,202 No vehicles are permitted in the town plaza. 119 00:08:23,202 --> 00:08:25,071 - What's that? 120 00:08:25,071 --> 00:08:26,205 - [Delgado] A vehicle. 121 00:08:26,205 --> 00:08:27,373 - So? 122 00:08:27,373 --> 00:08:29,175 - That vehicle belongs to Pedro Otero. 123 00:08:29,175 --> 00:08:30,943 He has a permit. 124 00:08:30,943 --> 00:08:33,679 You, have you a permit? 125 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,448 - Look, um, I'll see you around. 126 00:08:36,448 --> 00:08:37,282 - Hey! 127 00:08:43,688 --> 00:08:46,893 As you see, in Cordova, justice is available at the snap 128 00:08:46,893 --> 00:08:47,894 of a finger. 129 00:08:57,169 --> 00:08:59,705 Will the defendant please come forward? 130 00:08:59,705 --> 00:09:01,474 - You've got to be kidding? 131 00:09:01,474 --> 00:09:04,744 - Please, Senor Delgado has called you. 132 00:09:07,146 --> 00:09:10,883 - [Delgado] It will be returned to you later. 133 00:09:13,352 --> 00:09:15,521 - What do you mean, later? 134 00:09:19,659 --> 00:09:22,328 I said, what do you mean, later? 135 00:09:22,328 --> 00:09:23,930 - Where did you go to college? 136 00:09:23,930 --> 00:09:27,333 - Yale, now give me my key, and I'll be on my way. 137 00:09:27,333 --> 00:09:30,236 - He says he went to a placed called Yale. 138 00:09:30,236 --> 00:09:32,338 Who knows this school? 139 00:09:32,338 --> 00:09:34,373 Is truly a college? 140 00:09:34,373 --> 00:09:35,942 - Si, Senor Delgado. 141 00:09:35,942 --> 00:09:37,376 I have read about it. 142 00:09:37,376 --> 00:09:39,845 It's a place of much learning, and much good sense. 143 00:09:39,845 --> 00:09:40,980 - Aye, fine! 144 00:09:40,980 --> 00:09:42,148 Bueno, bueno. 145 00:09:42,148 --> 00:09:44,817 (town cheering) 146 00:09:48,654 --> 00:09:50,156 Aye, bueno, bueno. 147 00:10:02,401 --> 00:10:05,371 - (sighs) All right, all right, you've had your fun. 148 00:10:05,371 --> 00:10:07,940 Now give me my keys, and I'll get out of here. 149 00:10:07,940 --> 00:10:12,111 - Yes, uh, may I see your driver's license, please? 150 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,951 - Ah, says you are not married, that you live in New York. 151 00:10:18,951 --> 00:10:20,319 - I used to. 152 00:10:20,319 --> 00:10:21,587 - [Delgado] Occupation? 153 00:10:21,587 --> 00:10:23,422 - Between jobs. 154 00:10:23,422 --> 00:10:24,957 - Mother, father? 155 00:10:24,957 --> 00:10:26,225 - [Tod] No. 156 00:10:26,225 --> 00:10:27,560 - No relatives? 157 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:29,629 - Look, what has that go to do with this? 158 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:31,931 - At first I had thought that for such a terrible thing 159 00:10:31,931 --> 00:10:35,968 as you have done, oh a month would be a punishment 160 00:10:35,968 --> 00:10:37,737 to fit the crime. 161 00:10:37,737 --> 00:10:40,573 But, now that you, yourself tell me that you have no job, 162 00:10:40,573 --> 00:10:45,411 no home, no mother, no father, it seem to me that, uh 163 00:10:45,411 --> 00:10:48,781 a full year would be much better. 164 00:10:48,781 --> 00:10:49,949 - A year for what? 165 00:10:49,949 --> 00:10:51,784 Just for driving in here? 166 00:10:51,784 --> 00:10:53,619 Look, you know there are laws against false arrest 167 00:10:53,619 --> 00:10:56,856 and false imprisonment, and trumped up charges! 168 00:10:56,856 --> 00:10:59,659 - We may be a poor village, Senor, and what they call 169 00:10:59,659 --> 00:11:03,229 unincorporated, but we do have a law of our own, 170 00:11:03,229 --> 00:11:05,331 and we make it fit any situation. 171 00:11:05,331 --> 00:11:07,566 - Look, if this is some kind of a racket to rob the tourists 172 00:11:07,566 --> 00:11:10,369 under the pretense of violating some cooked up local 173 00:11:10,369 --> 00:11:13,305 ordinance, if this town's treasury is that poor 174 00:11:13,305 --> 00:11:14,540 okay, tell me what the fine is, 175 00:11:14,540 --> 00:11:16,475 and I'll pay it and get out of here. 176 00:11:16,475 --> 00:11:19,378 - I think we will put you and your friend at the Oteros', 177 00:11:19,378 --> 00:11:20,746 that's Tino's mother and father, 178 00:11:20,746 --> 00:11:22,648 they have a fine guest room. 179 00:11:22,648 --> 00:11:26,318 Of course, we cannot pay you, but we will feed you, 180 00:11:26,318 --> 00:11:30,723 and Senora Otero, when you savor her empanadas, 181 00:11:30,723 --> 00:11:34,894 and her beef conchitas, hey they buenos! (laughs) 182 00:11:36,128 --> 00:11:37,263 - All right, all right. 183 00:11:37,263 --> 00:11:39,565 Look, I've been pretty patient 184 00:11:39,565 --> 00:11:41,634 about his whole thing haven't I? 185 00:11:41,634 --> 00:11:43,869 I mean, I saw what looked like an accident on the highway, 186 00:11:43,869 --> 00:11:45,571 and I stopped, right? 187 00:11:45,571 --> 00:11:48,207 Like the Bible says, like a good Samaritan, I stopped. 188 00:11:48,207 --> 00:11:51,310 - A man who would not stop, we do not want. 189 00:11:51,310 --> 00:11:52,845 - Then I drove miles up, 190 00:11:52,845 --> 00:11:55,247 up roads mountain goats couldn't use, 191 00:11:55,247 --> 00:11:58,050 and my friend, he's still coming up that road, 192 00:11:58,050 --> 00:12:00,853 little knowing that the reward for his charity 193 00:12:00,853 --> 00:12:02,922 is going to be treachery. 194 00:12:04,356 --> 00:12:08,294 Now, if this is a Christian place, and I think it is, 195 00:12:09,595 --> 00:12:13,566 then where, where my friends, is the Christianity? 196 00:12:16,936 --> 00:12:17,770 - Wait! 197 00:12:25,144 --> 00:12:29,782 Ha-ha, my friend, Saint Nicholas himself has sent you to us. 198 00:12:29,782 --> 00:12:30,616 - Saint Nicholas? 199 00:12:30,616 --> 00:12:31,550 - Yes. 200 00:12:31,550 --> 00:12:32,752 He gives gifts to the children. 201 00:12:32,752 --> 00:12:35,254 He aids the poor and the needy. 202 00:12:35,254 --> 00:12:38,924 Hey, you will conceal the car, in case our friend here 203 00:12:38,924 --> 00:12:42,561 has any idea that he would like to leave us. 204 00:12:42,561 --> 00:12:46,232 (exciting orchestral music) 205 00:13:26,071 --> 00:13:27,306 - How do you want to work this? 206 00:13:27,306 --> 00:13:29,842 Quarterback sneak, or right around, right in? 207 00:13:29,842 --> 00:13:32,178 - Forget it, these people are flipped, 208 00:13:32,178 --> 00:13:33,913 you can't fight shadows. 209 00:13:33,913 --> 00:13:35,414 - Are you kidding? 210 00:13:38,083 --> 00:13:40,386 - Your friend is disturbed by some information 211 00:13:40,386 --> 00:13:42,054 I have just given him. 212 00:13:42,054 --> 00:13:45,124 It is a fine for a traffic violation. 213 00:13:46,659 --> 00:13:49,862 He thinks for us to sentence a man so, we must by locos. 214 00:13:49,862 --> 00:13:52,364 But I ask you, what else could we do? 215 00:13:52,364 --> 00:13:55,601 We have many children here in need of teaching 216 00:13:55,601 --> 00:13:57,269 and your friend is an educated man. 217 00:13:57,269 --> 00:13:58,804 None of us, is. 218 00:13:58,804 --> 00:14:02,007 I ask you again, what else could we do? 219 00:14:04,043 --> 00:14:05,477 - This guy's a kook. 220 00:14:05,477 --> 00:14:07,379 He thinks you can kidnap somebody off the state highway 221 00:14:07,379 --> 00:14:09,615 and hold him up here in the mountains to teach school, 222 00:14:09,615 --> 00:14:10,983 for a year. 223 00:14:10,983 --> 00:14:11,817 - A year? 224 00:14:12,718 --> 00:14:15,554 - Is a year so much to give? 225 00:14:15,554 --> 00:14:18,123 (string music) 226 00:14:35,307 --> 00:14:37,509 - They touch nothing. 227 00:14:37,509 --> 00:14:40,246 Not even the empanadas that I bake for them. 228 00:14:40,246 --> 00:14:41,914 - Have you done as I instructed? 229 00:14:41,914 --> 00:14:43,415 (speaking in foreign language) 230 00:14:43,415 --> 00:14:46,118 I even fanned the scent of the cinnamon and the pinons 231 00:14:46,118 --> 00:14:49,788 through the window towards their room, while I cook. 232 00:14:49,788 --> 00:14:51,390 They touch nothing. 233 00:14:52,558 --> 00:14:54,960 The blonde one, he say to tell you, 234 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,796 they will eat nothing and they will stay in their room 235 00:14:57,796 --> 00:15:00,132 until you give them the key and the machine, 236 00:15:00,132 --> 00:15:02,568 and let them go back into the valley. 237 00:15:02,568 --> 00:15:04,169 - How can I do that, Maria? 238 00:15:04,169 --> 00:15:08,173 With school opening tomorrow, how can I do that? 239 00:15:09,775 --> 00:15:12,778 (soft string music) 240 00:15:26,225 --> 00:15:27,459 - Look, is there any reason 241 00:15:27,459 --> 00:15:29,628 why I have to support your hunger strike? 242 00:15:29,628 --> 00:15:30,729 - Go ahead, eat. 243 00:15:30,729 --> 00:15:31,563 Be a fink. 244 00:15:35,901 --> 00:15:38,570 No man is an island entire of itself. 245 00:15:38,570 --> 00:15:41,674 Each man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. 246 00:15:41,674 --> 00:15:43,509 Any man's death diminishes me, 247 00:15:43,509 --> 00:15:46,011 because I am involved in mankind. 248 00:15:46,011 --> 00:15:47,880 - Okay, so I'll eat for both of us. 249 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,316 - You still seem to think this whole thing is very funny. 250 00:15:50,316 --> 00:15:51,817 - It is, admit it. 251 00:15:51,817 --> 00:15:53,319 - Well, let me tell you something. 252 00:15:53,319 --> 00:15:55,087 We're prisoners, just as surely as if they'd locked 253 00:15:55,087 --> 00:15:56,422 a steel door behind us. 254 00:15:56,422 --> 00:15:57,923 - Uh-Oh, you're a prisoner not me, 255 00:15:57,923 --> 00:15:59,692 you're the boy they want, teach. 256 00:15:59,692 --> 00:16:00,826 - That's tonight. 257 00:16:00,826 --> 00:16:02,061 Who knows what they'll want tomorrow, 258 00:16:02,061 --> 00:16:03,629 maybe a scarecrow for one of their fields. 259 00:16:03,629 --> 00:16:05,631 Maybe the scarecrow will be you. 260 00:16:05,631 --> 00:16:07,399 Anyway, aren't you the guy who's always saying, 261 00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:09,268 you gotta bust out and never get cemented in? 262 00:16:09,268 --> 00:16:10,569 Walk away from it cold? 263 00:16:10,569 --> 00:16:11,837 - Yeah, that's me. 264 00:16:11,837 --> 00:16:13,305 - Well, I'm gonna tell you something, buddy. 265 00:16:13,305 --> 00:16:15,474 We're cemented in 32 miles from the main highway, 266 00:16:15,474 --> 00:16:16,942 and no car. 267 00:16:16,942 --> 00:16:18,610 A dozen husky farm boys just waiting outside to flex 268 00:16:18,610 --> 00:16:21,347 their muscles in case we try to fight our way out. 269 00:16:21,347 --> 00:16:23,048 - Look, will you relax and sit down, and eat? 270 00:16:23,048 --> 00:16:24,350 You're giving me indigestion. 271 00:16:24,350 --> 00:16:25,751 We'll bust out. 272 00:16:25,751 --> 00:16:26,852 But, why do we have to do it tonight 273 00:16:26,852 --> 00:16:28,454 when the whole town is lookin'? 274 00:16:28,454 --> 00:16:31,090 Just move with it awhile, find out what it's all about, 275 00:16:31,090 --> 00:16:33,726 and then we find a hole, we'll, we'll break the walls down. 276 00:16:33,726 --> 00:16:34,560 All right? 277 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,095 We'll go. 278 00:16:36,095 --> 00:16:37,863 Look, when we go, why don't we take the senora with us, huh? 279 00:16:37,863 --> 00:16:38,697 Wait till you taste that. 280 00:16:38,697 --> 00:16:39,531 Come on. 281 00:16:39,531 --> 00:16:40,366 - Ugh. 282 00:16:49,408 --> 00:16:51,977 (bell ringing) 283 00:17:05,290 --> 00:17:06,458 - Buenos dias. 284 00:17:10,095 --> 00:17:12,765 (door knocking) 285 00:17:17,102 --> 00:17:18,737 - Do not worry, Senor Delgado. 286 00:17:18,737 --> 00:17:20,305 They go no place. 287 00:17:20,305 --> 00:17:21,140 - Ah. 288 00:17:34,586 --> 00:17:35,554 Senor Stiles? 289 00:17:35,554 --> 00:17:36,755 - Mm? 290 00:17:36,755 --> 00:17:37,990 - Senor Stiles! 291 00:17:39,591 --> 00:17:41,593 - It's only six o'clock. 292 00:17:43,028 --> 00:17:45,164 - Today is the end of summer, the first new day of school. 293 00:17:45,164 --> 00:17:46,899 There is much to do. 294 00:17:46,899 --> 00:17:49,802 And as we say, today is filled with God's sunshine 295 00:17:49,802 --> 00:17:51,970 tomorrow may never come. 296 00:17:51,970 --> 00:17:53,772 - What time does school open? 297 00:17:53,772 --> 00:17:55,841 - [Delgado] At seven. (speaking in spanish) 298 00:17:55,841 --> 00:17:58,710 - Mm, seven, why so early? 299 00:17:58,710 --> 00:18:01,814 - There are special problems today. 300 00:18:01,814 --> 00:18:04,249 It is good he sleeps the sleep of the innocent. 301 00:18:04,249 --> 00:18:06,985 - Well, Mr Delgado, just between us, 302 00:18:06,985 --> 00:18:09,321 us guilty ones are insomniacs. 303 00:18:09,321 --> 00:18:11,223 I mean, what's the real score around here? 304 00:18:11,223 --> 00:18:12,658 I mean, last night, and yesterday, 305 00:18:12,658 --> 00:18:14,460 okay we went along with the gag, but, you know 306 00:18:14,460 --> 00:18:16,128 the Earth is turning on its axis, 307 00:18:16,128 --> 00:18:19,031 and the planets are moving in the heavens so, uh, 308 00:18:19,031 --> 00:18:20,499 why don't we hear a new sound this morning? 309 00:18:20,499 --> 00:18:22,868 I mean, something more, a little bit reliable 310 00:18:22,868 --> 00:18:24,736 than the voice of the turtle. 311 00:18:24,736 --> 00:18:27,339 - I suggest you rise and wake your friend. 312 00:18:27,339 --> 00:18:29,842 He has to address himself to the agile minds of the third, 313 00:18:29,842 --> 00:18:32,044 fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. 314 00:18:32,044 --> 00:18:35,214 You, I am assigning to the first and second grades. 315 00:18:35,214 --> 00:18:38,851 In the hope that neither will prove beyond your capacities. 316 00:18:38,851 --> 00:18:40,385 - Me? 317 00:18:40,385 --> 00:18:41,753 Oh wait a minute, you can't do that, hey, wait a minute 318 00:18:41,753 --> 00:18:43,689 I'm just here because you trapped my buddy. 319 00:18:43,689 --> 00:18:46,058 I mean, I didn't break any law. 320 00:18:46,058 --> 00:18:49,161 - I shall expect both of you within the next 30 minutes. 321 00:18:49,161 --> 00:18:51,396 Otherwise, I shall have to send for you. 322 00:18:51,396 --> 00:18:53,132 And it will look bad in front of the children 323 00:18:53,132 --> 00:18:55,434 for you to be carried into school. 324 00:18:55,434 --> 00:18:58,504 Our law fits any situation, even you. 325 00:19:02,841 --> 00:19:06,011 - Good morning Mr. Scarecrow, what did I tell ya? 326 00:19:06,011 --> 00:19:09,047 - I gotta be still sleeping, I don't get it. 327 00:19:09,047 --> 00:19:10,282 I mean, why us? 328 00:19:12,050 --> 00:19:15,220 What happened to their regular teachers? 329 00:19:15,220 --> 00:19:16,421 I'm not qualified to teach. 330 00:19:16,421 --> 00:19:17,890 I don't have a diploma or anything. 331 00:19:17,890 --> 00:19:20,125 And even you with your, with your college education, 332 00:19:20,125 --> 00:19:23,662 you gotta have a, a paper or something, don't ya? 333 00:19:23,662 --> 00:19:27,466 - A certificate, they call it certification. 334 00:19:27,466 --> 00:19:29,134 - Well, who's been certified? 335 00:19:29,134 --> 00:19:31,370 - Go along with it, get inside of it. 336 00:19:31,370 --> 00:19:33,805 That way when you're ready, the walls come down. 337 00:19:33,805 --> 00:19:36,175 The walls come down all right, right on your head. 338 00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:38,744 (bell ringing) 339 00:19:45,017 --> 00:19:48,187 (children chattering) 340 00:19:50,289 --> 00:19:51,690 (speaking foreign language) 341 00:19:51,690 --> 00:19:52,925 - I'm happy to see you. 342 00:19:52,925 --> 00:19:54,426 - Cut the glad talk, Mr. Puppeteer, 343 00:19:54,426 --> 00:19:57,896 and just pull the strings for now. 344 00:19:57,896 --> 00:20:00,132 - Your friend is not very cheerful this morning. 345 00:20:00,132 --> 00:20:04,269 - Well, I'm not exactly what you might call overjoyed. 346 00:20:04,269 --> 00:20:08,807 - When one has a ritual of life, he is no longer uneasy. 347 00:20:08,807 --> 00:20:11,076 And what ritual is more important than to excite 348 00:20:11,076 --> 00:20:12,978 the minds of the young? 349 00:20:14,379 --> 00:20:16,448 There is a passion for understanding, 350 00:20:16,448 --> 00:20:19,685 just as there are other passions and appetites. 351 00:20:19,685 --> 00:20:22,788 But this passion is found only in children. 352 00:20:22,788 --> 00:20:26,258 All too soon it fades, and then goes forever when the child 353 00:20:26,258 --> 00:20:30,295 grows into a man, unless, he is well taught while the mind 354 00:20:30,295 --> 00:20:32,097 is still open. 355 00:20:32,097 --> 00:20:34,967 - You know, Mr. Delgado, every since we had the misfortune 356 00:20:34,967 --> 00:20:37,736 of falling into your little trap on the highway, yesterday, 357 00:20:37,736 --> 00:20:41,173 you've been coming out with some pretty perceptive thinking. 358 00:20:41,173 --> 00:20:43,342 Real cracker barrel ringers. 359 00:20:43,342 --> 00:20:45,410 Seems to me, you oughta be teaching these kids. 360 00:20:45,410 --> 00:20:46,745 - Oh, but I do! 361 00:20:46,745 --> 00:20:48,213 We all do. 362 00:20:48,213 --> 00:20:51,083 Every man and every woman in Cordova teaches. 363 00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:54,152 We teach the worship of God, love for America, 364 00:20:54,152 --> 00:20:58,590 respect for parents, the traditions we bring from Spain, 365 00:20:58,590 --> 00:21:00,559 but we cannot teach what is in the books. 366 00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:03,228 We do not read or write. 367 00:21:03,228 --> 00:21:04,863 - Well, there must have been teachers here before, 368 00:21:04,863 --> 00:21:06,131 where are they? 369 00:21:07,332 --> 00:21:09,334 - It is a matter of money. 370 00:21:09,334 --> 00:21:13,071 We have none to spare, or else we would pay. 371 00:21:13,071 --> 00:21:14,973 - What about the state and the county? 372 00:21:14,973 --> 00:21:18,010 And don't tell me they just forgot about these kids. 373 00:21:18,010 --> 00:21:21,113 - Do not talk to me about the county. 374 00:21:22,114 --> 00:21:23,849 Ah, Senor, por favor. 375 00:21:25,784 --> 00:21:28,387 (horn beeping) 376 00:21:31,890 --> 00:21:35,560 Please, you start the classes, I will join you soon. 377 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,330 Your grades always begin with the Pledge of Allegiance, 378 00:21:38,330 --> 00:21:40,699 your grades, we let sing first. 379 00:21:40,699 --> 00:21:44,202 It helps bring the words to their tongues. 380 00:21:51,677 --> 00:21:54,279 (men shouting) 381 00:22:02,487 --> 00:22:03,655 - Let me ask you something. 382 00:22:03,655 --> 00:22:04,856 - Yeah? 383 00:22:04,856 --> 00:22:06,358 - How come we're just standing here? 384 00:22:06,358 --> 00:22:08,160 How come we just don't get on that bus and get out 385 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:09,795 of this town? 386 00:22:09,795 --> 00:22:11,363 - Let me ask you one. 387 00:22:11,363 --> 00:22:13,398 How come somebody sent a school bus for these kids 388 00:22:13,398 --> 00:22:15,701 and Delgado chases it away? 389 00:22:15,701 --> 00:22:19,371 (dramatic orchestral music) 390 00:22:26,611 --> 00:22:29,715 - Come, we keep the children waiting. 391 00:22:51,536 --> 00:22:56,308 Children, this is your new teacher, Senor Stiles. 392 00:22:56,308 --> 00:22:57,809 Senor, the pledge. 393 00:23:04,649 --> 00:23:07,352 - [Class] I pledge allegiance to the flag 394 00:23:07,352 --> 00:23:09,988 of the United States of America. 395 00:23:09,988 --> 00:23:12,724 And to the republic for which it stands, 396 00:23:12,724 --> 00:23:16,461 one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty 397 00:23:16,461 --> 00:23:18,130 and justice for all. 398 00:23:19,531 --> 00:23:21,032 - I will leave you now, Senor. 399 00:23:21,032 --> 00:23:21,867 Adios. 400 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,782 - Hi. 401 00:23:36,782 --> 00:23:37,883 - [Class] Hi. 402 00:23:41,386 --> 00:23:45,757 - I remember how I felt the first day of school. 403 00:23:45,757 --> 00:23:46,591 Terrible. 404 00:23:48,527 --> 00:23:50,128 You too, huh? 405 00:23:50,128 --> 00:23:51,730 - [Class] Yes, Sir. 406 00:23:53,365 --> 00:23:55,634 - Well, I guess we oughta find out, who's who, 407 00:23:55,634 --> 00:23:59,204 even if I don't know, what's what. 408 00:23:59,204 --> 00:24:00,839 I tell you how we'll do it. 409 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:03,775 I'll put my name on the blackboard and each of you 410 00:24:03,775 --> 00:24:07,546 can come up, one, by one and write your name underneath it. 411 00:24:07,546 --> 00:24:08,380 Okay? 412 00:24:20,392 --> 00:24:23,395 What's the matter, forget your name? 413 00:24:25,464 --> 00:24:27,065 - She is my sister. 414 00:24:31,803 --> 00:24:33,905 She has not yet learned how to write, 415 00:24:33,905 --> 00:24:37,242 but you will teach her, won't you Senor? 416 00:24:42,214 --> 00:24:43,715 - We'll see, Tino. 417 00:24:46,952 --> 00:24:48,954 ♪ The farmer in the dell 418 00:24:48,954 --> 00:24:51,256 ♪ The farmer in the dell 419 00:24:51,256 --> 00:24:53,158 ♪ Hi-ho, the derry-o 420 00:24:53,158 --> 00:24:55,527 ♪ The farmer in the dell 421 00:24:55,527 --> 00:24:57,762 ♪ The farmer takes a wife 422 00:24:57,762 --> 00:24:59,865 ♪ The farmer takes a wife 423 00:24:59,865 --> 00:25:01,800 ♪ Hi-ho, the derry-o 424 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,135 ♪ The farmer takes a wife 425 00:25:04,135 --> 00:25:06,238 ♪ The wife takes the child 426 00:25:06,238 --> 00:25:08,440 ♪ The wife takes the child 427 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,275 ♪ Hi-ho, the derry-o 428 00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:12,644 ♪ The wife takes the child 429 00:25:12,644 --> 00:25:14,813 ♪ The child takes the herd 430 00:25:14,813 --> 00:25:16,948 ♪ The child takes the herd 431 00:25:16,948 --> 00:25:19,017 ♪ Hi-ho, the derry-o 432 00:25:19,017 --> 00:25:21,953 ♪ The child takes the herd 433 00:25:21,953 --> 00:25:24,623 (phone ringing) 434 00:25:27,125 --> 00:25:29,661 - Sheriff's Office, Canfield. 435 00:25:29,661 --> 00:25:31,429 Oh, hello Mr. Martin. 436 00:25:35,834 --> 00:25:38,803 Well, you can't say he didn't warn us. 437 00:25:38,803 --> 00:25:42,908 He camped on your doorstep all summer about it. 438 00:25:42,908 --> 00:25:45,243 No, of course I'm not taking his side. 439 00:25:45,243 --> 00:25:48,680 He's breaking the law, and I'll nail him. 440 00:25:49,548 --> 00:25:50,382 Okay. 441 00:25:51,950 --> 00:25:52,784 Okay, Mr. 442 00:25:54,052 --> 00:25:55,921 Okay, Mr. Martin, just relax now. 443 00:25:55,921 --> 00:25:58,156 I'll straighten it all out. 444 00:26:00,392 --> 00:26:03,828 (upbeat orchestral music) 445 00:26:19,044 --> 00:26:20,312 - We end the recess now. 446 00:26:20,312 --> 00:26:24,282 Please, ring the bell to get the children inside. 447 00:26:29,521 --> 00:26:32,090 (bell ringing) 448 00:26:37,162 --> 00:26:40,298 - What you're doing is all wrong, Miguel. 449 00:26:40,298 --> 00:26:43,001 Not only a violation of the law, but morally wrong. 450 00:26:43,001 --> 00:26:44,703 And you know it. 451 00:26:44,703 --> 00:26:48,607 - No man can tell Miguel Delgado, what is morally wrong. 452 00:26:48,607 --> 00:26:50,709 Except Father Montoyez. 453 00:26:50,709 --> 00:26:53,578 - Yeah, and I'll bet ya he doesn't know about this. 454 00:26:53,578 --> 00:26:55,780 - He has many parishes to tend. 455 00:26:55,780 --> 00:26:58,516 This is one of the least of them. 456 00:27:03,355 --> 00:27:07,058 - Look Miguel, I'm gonna take the long view about all this. 457 00:27:07,058 --> 00:27:09,594 I'm gonna forget that you, personally caused some 50 458 00:27:09,594 --> 00:27:11,796 children to miss the opening day of school. 459 00:27:11,796 --> 00:27:13,331 - How can you say that? 460 00:27:13,331 --> 00:27:17,435 Look for yourself, do they not answer to the bell? 461 00:27:17,435 --> 00:27:19,237 Are they not being taught? 462 00:27:19,237 --> 00:27:22,974 - Would you mind telling me, just who's teaching them? 463 00:27:22,974 --> 00:27:25,043 - A graduate of the Yale. 464 00:27:30,649 --> 00:27:32,617 - We'll get to him, in a few minutes. 465 00:27:32,617 --> 00:27:35,253 Now look, whether you approve it or not, 466 00:27:35,253 --> 00:27:37,422 these kids have got to go to the new school 467 00:27:37,422 --> 00:27:40,025 and you can't give me one legitimate reason, why not. 468 00:27:40,025 --> 00:27:42,460 - Three hours a day, that's why not. 469 00:27:42,460 --> 00:27:45,997 That's 15 hours a week, on a bus. 470 00:27:45,997 --> 00:27:49,401 Enough time to prune the trees, to water the stock, 471 00:27:49,401 --> 00:27:51,803 to help in the fields, to study at home, 472 00:27:51,803 --> 00:27:53,638 to pray in the church. 473 00:27:55,373 --> 00:27:58,343 - Miguel uh, now I could say some things that, 474 00:27:58,343 --> 00:27:59,811 well that would hurt you. 475 00:27:59,811 --> 00:28:02,213 Argue some arguments right out of your own life, 476 00:28:02,213 --> 00:28:04,683 but I'm not gonna do that. 477 00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:05,950 - Anita? 478 00:28:05,950 --> 00:28:08,019 She proves nothing. 479 00:28:08,019 --> 00:28:11,623 I do not speak to her, nor of her. 480 00:28:11,623 --> 00:28:14,893 - Look, let's face it, do you really expect to attract 481 00:28:14,893 --> 00:28:16,661 teachers way up here? 482 00:28:16,661 --> 00:28:19,998 Why, your own daughter, turned you down. 483 00:28:22,767 --> 00:28:27,005 About the only way I know to get them, is to kidnap 'em. 484 00:28:27,005 --> 00:28:27,839 Fellas. 485 00:28:33,611 --> 00:28:35,280 Where did he dig you two up? 486 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,215 - Oh, we're from out of state. 487 00:28:37,215 --> 00:28:38,049 - Oh? 488 00:28:39,350 --> 00:28:41,653 Names and certificate numbers, please. 489 00:28:41,653 --> 00:28:44,389 That is, if you have certificate numbers. 490 00:28:44,389 --> 00:28:45,490 - Tod Stiles. 491 00:28:47,092 --> 00:28:47,926 - Murdock. 492 00:28:51,596 --> 00:28:53,064 - Numbers? 493 00:28:53,064 --> 00:28:55,734 - They're being shipped. 494 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:57,902 In the, in the trunk with the rest of our papers. 495 00:28:57,902 --> 00:28:59,104 - Yeah, we sort of, you know, 496 00:28:59,104 --> 00:29:02,173 rushed in here the last minute, you know. 497 00:29:02,173 --> 00:29:06,978 - Well, I'll check it out with the border supervisors. 498 00:29:06,978 --> 00:29:09,247 Stiles, Murdock, right? 499 00:29:09,247 --> 00:29:10,849 - Spelled with a K. 500 00:29:14,052 --> 00:29:16,154 - Miguel, for the record, it won't make any difference 501 00:29:16,154 --> 00:29:18,323 to you if they're both PhD's. 502 00:29:18,323 --> 00:29:21,392 This school is closed, and the children of Cordova 503 00:29:21,392 --> 00:29:23,728 are assigned to the Las Cruces district. 504 00:29:23,728 --> 00:29:26,097 Now, either they are to report to class in the morning, 505 00:29:26,097 --> 00:29:27,832 or they'll be considered truants. 506 00:29:27,832 --> 00:29:31,302 And I'm holding every parent in this town accountable. 507 00:29:31,302 --> 00:29:35,106 Even if it means jailing a few of ya, to set an example. 508 00:29:35,106 --> 00:29:38,376 Now, I want those kids on that bus, in the morning. 509 00:29:38,376 --> 00:29:39,878 If not, in you go. 510 00:29:41,346 --> 00:29:42,180 Clear? 511 00:29:43,281 --> 00:29:46,951 (dramatic orchestral music) 512 00:30:16,247 --> 00:30:18,082 - Thank you for coming. 513 00:30:18,082 --> 00:30:20,285 To many of us, Cordova has been more than 514 00:30:20,285 --> 00:30:22,487 just a little place in the mountains. 515 00:30:22,487 --> 00:30:25,256 It is, a manner of life. 516 00:30:25,256 --> 00:30:29,460 Rich in old values, poor in such things, as money. 517 00:30:29,460 --> 00:30:31,563 Still, we have never permitted our poverty, 518 00:30:31,563 --> 00:30:34,399 to destroy our dignity, until now. 519 00:30:35,834 --> 00:30:38,303 Now, we are too poor to pay enough taxes to support 520 00:30:38,303 --> 00:30:41,673 our school and too proud to let our children 521 00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:42,841 go to another. 522 00:30:44,042 --> 00:30:46,978 It reflects badly on us, does it not? 523 00:30:46,978 --> 00:30:50,715 Today, when you lied to Senor Canfield for us, 524 00:30:50,715 --> 00:30:54,052 I was proud for you, but ashamed for me. 525 00:30:55,486 --> 00:30:59,057 I was ashamed that I had tricked you and made you stay here. 526 00:30:59,057 --> 00:31:02,160 One man cannot stamp down another man. 527 00:31:03,294 --> 00:31:05,230 Anymore than you can tramp down the fragrance 528 00:31:05,230 --> 00:31:09,400 of the fields without it rising from beneath the boot. 529 00:31:14,205 --> 00:31:17,041 I have had your car brought back from the place 530 00:31:17,041 --> 00:31:18,710 where it was hidden. 531 00:31:24,382 --> 00:31:26,784 - Well, Senor Delgado, 532 00:31:26,784 --> 00:31:30,355 we're not exactly in demand any place so... 533 00:31:31,456 --> 00:31:33,524 - Ah, gracias Senor's. 534 00:31:33,524 --> 00:31:35,093 Gracias! - De nada. 535 00:31:35,093 --> 00:31:36,427 - Course we're gonna have to do something 536 00:31:36,427 --> 00:31:38,363 about those certificate numbers. 537 00:31:38,363 --> 00:31:39,964 - Oh, we ignore. 538 00:31:39,964 --> 00:31:42,166 We claim the records are wrong, incomplete. 539 00:31:42,166 --> 00:31:43,268 We fight! 540 00:31:43,268 --> 00:31:44,535 - What about the Sheriff, 541 00:31:44,535 --> 00:31:46,137 when they send the bus in the morning? 542 00:31:46,137 --> 00:31:49,107 - Sheriff Canfield would never dare to put Miguel in the, 543 00:31:49,107 --> 00:31:52,310 (speaking in foreign language) 544 00:31:52,310 --> 00:31:55,246 - Papa, when are you going to stop? 545 00:31:57,415 --> 00:32:00,151 When are you ever going to learn? 546 00:32:03,087 --> 00:32:05,123 - There are saints on all sides of us. 547 00:32:05,123 --> 00:32:07,659 You have not much respect for me, I know, 548 00:32:07,659 --> 00:32:11,629 but please do not offend the holiness around us. 549 00:32:11,629 --> 00:32:13,698 - Would you mind, please? 550 00:32:14,866 --> 00:32:17,435 - I will not be left alone with her. 551 00:32:17,435 --> 00:32:21,039 - Papa, I drove all the way up here to try to talk 552 00:32:21,039 --> 00:32:22,674 some sense into you. 553 00:32:22,674 --> 00:32:24,475 Now, if you want to humiliate us both 554 00:32:24,475 --> 00:32:26,911 in front of these strangers, you go right ahead. 555 00:32:26,911 --> 00:32:29,614 You are already the laughing stock of Santa Fe. 556 00:32:29,614 --> 00:32:30,882 - You watch your tongue, girl. 557 00:32:30,882 --> 00:32:34,352 - Papa, please let these young men go before you 558 00:32:34,352 --> 00:32:36,120 get into real trouble. 559 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,389 - Who is holding them? 560 00:32:38,389 --> 00:32:40,058 Let her see the key. 561 00:32:41,192 --> 00:32:43,628 They will leave anytime they choose. 562 00:32:43,628 --> 00:32:45,930 - Then go, right now. 563 00:32:45,930 --> 00:32:49,600 Before he talks you into throwing away the keys and staying. 564 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,136 - Well, we don't have any place particular to go. 565 00:32:52,136 --> 00:32:55,373 Not tonight anyway, and not even tomorrow. 566 00:32:55,373 --> 00:32:59,744 - Besides, we kinda like what your father's trying to do. 567 00:32:59,744 --> 00:33:02,780 - Do you know what he is trying to do? 568 00:33:02,780 --> 00:33:05,950 He is trying to hold on, to yesterday. 569 00:33:07,385 --> 00:33:09,921 He is trying to bring up the children of this town, 570 00:33:09,921 --> 00:33:12,623 for a life that no longer exists. 571 00:33:12,623 --> 00:33:15,059 He will not face facts, and he won't allow anyone 572 00:33:15,059 --> 00:33:19,430 else in Cordova to face facts, but it won't work. 573 00:33:19,430 --> 00:33:22,767 He can't do it, the world doesn't care about places like, 574 00:33:22,767 --> 00:33:24,502 like Cordova anymore. 575 00:33:25,837 --> 00:33:27,705 Believe me, Papa. 576 00:33:27,705 --> 00:33:30,975 Please, believe me, because it is true. 577 00:33:32,577 --> 00:33:34,345 Why can't you see it? 578 00:33:36,414 --> 00:33:40,318 - When you went away to college, that day I carved a saint 579 00:33:40,318 --> 00:33:43,755 for you, to watch over you, and bring you back to Cordova, 580 00:33:43,755 --> 00:33:44,822 as a teacher. 581 00:33:46,724 --> 00:33:49,160 Oh, I carved badly, that day. 582 00:33:51,162 --> 00:33:54,265 - Please, let the children go tomorrow. 583 00:33:54,265 --> 00:33:55,533 If you don't care about yourself, 584 00:33:55,533 --> 00:33:58,269 care about them and set them free. 585 00:33:58,269 --> 00:33:59,370 Please, Papa! 586 00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:04,709 (dramatic orchestral music) 587 00:34:35,306 --> 00:34:37,375 (bell ringing) 588 00:34:37,375 --> 00:34:39,944 (horn honking) 589 00:34:53,424 --> 00:34:56,561 - Quickly, get those children inside and keep them there! 590 00:34:56,561 --> 00:34:57,395 - Okay, let's go. 591 00:34:57,395 --> 00:34:58,229 - Come, quickly. 592 00:34:58,229 --> 00:35:00,198 - Come on, kids. 593 00:35:00,198 --> 00:35:01,833 All right, let's go. 594 00:35:08,806 --> 00:35:10,241 Come on, come on. 595 00:35:10,241 --> 00:35:11,476 - Come on, let's go. 596 00:35:11,476 --> 00:35:12,777 - Come on, the last one inside is asleep. 597 00:35:12,777 --> 00:35:14,378 - Come on, come on. 598 00:35:17,215 --> 00:35:19,617 (door slams) 599 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,423 - Well, you've shown everybody how defiant you can be. 600 00:35:25,423 --> 00:35:28,659 Now, show them that you also have some common sense. 601 00:35:28,659 --> 00:35:30,628 - Let us see, your sense. 602 00:35:30,628 --> 00:35:32,396 - Let us see you take this bus, 603 00:35:32,396 --> 00:35:34,532 this big shiny air-conditioned bus, 604 00:35:34,532 --> 00:35:37,201 back down the valley and leave us alone! 605 00:35:37,201 --> 00:35:39,437 - Oh, I'll leave all right, 606 00:35:39,437 --> 00:35:40,538 but with you! 607 00:35:46,477 --> 00:35:49,480 - A gem cannot be polished, but with friction. 608 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,783 A man cannot be perfected, without trials. 609 00:35:52,783 --> 00:35:54,752 - Look, do you want everybody to see you cuffed 610 00:35:54,752 --> 00:35:58,489 and taken out of here like a common criminal? 611 00:36:02,660 --> 00:36:05,429 You two, clear out of here, tonight! 612 00:36:05,429 --> 00:36:07,331 If I find you around here tomorrow, 613 00:36:07,331 --> 00:36:09,500 I'll throw the book at ya. 614 00:36:13,871 --> 00:36:14,705 Let's go. 615 00:36:20,278 --> 00:36:25,082 Tomorrow morning, if your children are not on that bus, 616 00:36:25,082 --> 00:36:28,753 you will really see some arrests being made. 617 00:36:33,558 --> 00:36:37,128 ♪ This old man he played one 618 00:36:37,128 --> 00:36:40,765 ♪ He played nick nack on my thumb 619 00:36:40,765 --> 00:36:43,234 ♪ With a nick nack paddy whack 620 00:36:43,234 --> 00:36:45,002 ♪ Give a dog a bone 621 00:36:45,002 --> 00:36:48,773 ♪ This old man came rolling home 622 00:36:48,773 --> 00:36:52,243 ♪ This old man he played two 623 00:36:52,243 --> 00:36:56,147 ♪ He played nick nack on my shoe 624 00:36:56,147 --> 00:36:58,349 ♪ With a nick nack paddy whack 625 00:36:58,349 --> 00:36:59,717 ♪ Give a dog a bone 626 00:36:59,717 --> 00:37:00,685 - Oh, Sheriff? 627 00:37:00,685 --> 00:37:02,787 ♪ This old man came rolling home 628 00:37:02,787 --> 00:37:04,121 - What am I supposed to do now? 629 00:37:04,121 --> 00:37:07,391 ♪ This old man he played two 630 00:37:07,391 --> 00:37:11,095 - Why don't you just turn off the air-conditioner? 631 00:37:11,095 --> 00:37:12,997 ♪ With a nick nack paddy whack 632 00:37:12,997 --> 00:37:14,865 ♪ Give a dog a bone 633 00:37:14,865 --> 00:37:18,636 ♪ This old man came rolling home 634 00:37:18,636 --> 00:37:22,073 ♪ This old man he played four 635 00:37:22,073 --> 00:37:25,743 ♪ He played nick nack on my floor 636 00:37:25,743 --> 00:37:27,712 ♪ With a nick nack paddy whack 637 00:37:27,712 --> 00:37:29,480 ♪ Give a dog a bone 638 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,551 ♪ This old man came rolling home 639 00:37:36,220 --> 00:37:37,722 - Aurora borealis. 640 00:37:40,591 --> 00:37:43,027 Now, just the 6th graders. 641 00:37:43,027 --> 00:37:45,196 - [Class] Aurora borealis. 642 00:37:46,330 --> 00:37:47,164 - Good. 643 00:37:53,971 --> 00:37:56,073 - [Cameraman] Mr. Stiles. 644 00:37:57,074 --> 00:37:57,908 Thanks. 645 00:38:04,915 --> 00:38:07,184 - Now, did ya understand anything of what I've told ya? 646 00:38:07,184 --> 00:38:09,086 You see what you'll have to learn is that everything you see 647 00:38:09,086 --> 00:38:11,222 is all hooked up to everything else. 648 00:38:11,222 --> 00:38:12,456 If ya wanna get a clear picture, 649 00:38:12,456 --> 00:38:15,192 you have to look at all the parts. 650 00:38:17,228 --> 00:38:20,097 But, it's all hooked up like, take for instance, the sun. 651 00:38:20,097 --> 00:38:22,066 Now, can you take a piece out of the sun? 652 00:38:22,066 --> 00:38:23,401 - Mr. Murdock. 653 00:38:23,401 --> 00:38:24,502 (camera click) 654 00:38:24,502 --> 00:38:25,503 Thanks, pal. 655 00:38:28,773 --> 00:38:30,408 - He just did. 656 00:38:30,408 --> 00:38:31,709 - Did what? 657 00:38:31,709 --> 00:38:33,944 - Take a piece off the sun. 658 00:38:35,079 --> 00:38:38,549 - Listen, who's the teacher here, me or you? 659 00:38:39,984 --> 00:38:41,552 Now, let's get back where we, where was I talking, 660 00:38:41,552 --> 00:38:44,422 oh the sun, that's right. 661 00:38:44,422 --> 00:38:46,490 - For millions of years, the changes on the Earth 662 00:38:46,490 --> 00:38:47,992 have been going on. 663 00:38:47,992 --> 00:38:50,227 Some species of plants and animals have survived-- 664 00:38:50,227 --> 00:38:51,762 - Senor Stiles! 665 00:38:51,762 --> 00:38:55,499 Senor Stiles, he is for you on the telephone, long distance! 666 00:38:55,499 --> 00:38:57,034 - For me? 667 00:38:57,034 --> 00:39:00,738 - It is Fabian Chavez from the capitan from Santa Fe, Senor! 668 00:39:00,738 --> 00:39:01,939 - Chavez? 669 00:39:01,939 --> 00:39:05,943 - Senator Chavez, he say it's very important! 670 00:39:05,943 --> 00:39:07,144 - Just keep working on that chapter. 671 00:39:07,144 --> 00:39:10,348 (speaking in foreign language) 672 00:39:10,348 --> 00:39:13,784 (grand orchestral music) 673 00:39:34,305 --> 00:39:35,573 - Look, why don't you look at it this way? 674 00:39:35,573 --> 00:39:37,441 If mister uh, what's his name, Mr. Smith 675 00:39:37,441 --> 00:39:39,977 can go to Washington, why can't you come to Santa Fe? 676 00:39:39,977 --> 00:39:42,179 - Then, why don't you make the speech to the Senate, then? 677 00:39:42,179 --> 00:39:44,382 - Oh no, I only teach the 1st and 2nd graders, 678 00:39:44,382 --> 00:39:46,384 what can I teach a politician? 679 00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:49,520 - Ya know, the thing that bugs me, is all this destiny jazz. 680 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,655 I mean, four days ago, we're driving down the road 681 00:39:51,655 --> 00:39:54,125 trying to decide whether to go north or south. 682 00:39:54,125 --> 00:39:56,761 And that's the big problem, north or south. 683 00:39:56,761 --> 00:39:57,995 Now, all of a sudden, 684 00:39:57,995 --> 00:39:59,697 we're in the middle of a political issue. 685 00:39:59,697 --> 00:40:02,333 Miguel's in jail, 50 kids are playing hookey, 686 00:40:02,333 --> 00:40:04,135 and I've got to address the legislature 687 00:40:04,135 --> 00:40:06,070 of the sovereign state of New Mexico. 688 00:40:06,070 --> 00:40:09,340 - That's okay, my money's still on you. 689 00:40:14,745 --> 00:40:17,748 - I went to the jail, I saw my father 690 00:40:17,748 --> 00:40:20,651 and I spoke with Sheriff Canfield. 691 00:40:20,651 --> 00:40:23,421 And he says that if you would just leave, 692 00:40:23,421 --> 00:40:26,824 he will drop all of the charges against my father, 693 00:40:26,824 --> 00:40:29,994 and all of the children will be free to uh, 694 00:40:29,994 --> 00:40:31,929 to go to the new school. 695 00:40:31,929 --> 00:40:34,131 Papa is stubborn, but I'm sure that once he sees 696 00:40:34,131 --> 00:40:37,435 it is best for everybody, he will forget all this. 697 00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:41,105 - Do you really believe that, Anita? 698 00:40:41,105 --> 00:40:43,107 - I don't know. 699 00:40:43,107 --> 00:40:45,810 I don't know what to believe anymore. 700 00:40:45,810 --> 00:40:47,311 I just don't want my father 701 00:40:47,311 --> 00:40:51,515 and my town made to seem anymore, ridiculous. 702 00:40:51,515 --> 00:40:55,686 I mean the center of a, of a public debate. 703 00:40:55,686 --> 00:40:57,822 - Well, it's too late to stop now. 704 00:40:57,822 --> 00:40:59,356 - Even if it wasn't, I mean, 705 00:40:59,356 --> 00:41:01,692 we've got ourselves all wrapped up into this too. 706 00:41:01,692 --> 00:41:03,194 And whenever that happens, 707 00:41:03,194 --> 00:41:06,864 you gotta go with it right to the center of things, right? 708 00:41:07,731 --> 00:41:11,068 (soft orchestral music) 709 00:41:23,614 --> 00:41:26,350 (hammer banging) 710 00:41:27,451 --> 00:41:30,654 - Senate will please come to order. 711 00:41:30,654 --> 00:41:31,956 - Mr. President. 712 00:41:31,956 --> 00:41:33,791 - Gentlemen from Santa Fe. 713 00:41:33,791 --> 00:41:36,060 - Because of a special situation's arose just yesterday 714 00:41:36,060 --> 00:41:37,995 and because there are certain interested parties that would 715 00:41:37,995 --> 00:41:40,264 like to be heard before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent 716 00:41:40,264 --> 00:41:41,966 that the Senate will resolve itself 717 00:41:41,966 --> 00:41:44,401 into a committee of the whole. 718 00:41:44,401 --> 00:41:47,037 - If there's no objection, the Senate will resolve itself, 719 00:41:47,037 --> 00:41:48,305 into a committee of the whole. 720 00:41:48,305 --> 00:41:49,940 (hammer bangs) 721 00:41:49,940 --> 00:41:53,277 - Mr. Chairman, Senator Chavez, and members of the Senate, 722 00:41:53,277 --> 00:41:55,279 it was brought to my attention yesterday, 723 00:41:55,279 --> 00:41:57,014 that because of the circumstances of which come about 724 00:41:57,014 --> 00:41:59,383 from the consolidation of school districts, 725 00:41:59,383 --> 00:42:02,453 and the consolidation of schools within districts, 726 00:42:02,453 --> 00:42:04,355 that the Department of Education has directed a small 727 00:42:04,355 --> 00:42:07,258 village to send its children to another school. 728 00:42:07,258 --> 00:42:09,727 Now, while generally speaking, the legislature 729 00:42:09,727 --> 00:42:12,029 does not direct executive departments concerning certain 730 00:42:12,029 --> 00:42:14,131 actions or policies, 731 00:42:14,131 --> 00:42:16,600 I feel that in this case we should listen to the issues, 732 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,470 then take whatever action is necessary. 733 00:42:19,470 --> 00:42:21,171 I have directed the legislative council 734 00:42:21,171 --> 00:42:23,140 to give me certain data and information, 735 00:42:23,140 --> 00:42:25,709 which I will present to the Senate at a later time. 736 00:42:25,709 --> 00:42:29,880 At this time, I would like to present, Mr Tod Stiles. 737 00:42:43,627 --> 00:42:45,796 - When Senator Chavez called me yesterday, 738 00:42:45,796 --> 00:42:49,600 and invited me to speak to you about the town of Cordova, 739 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,870 I asked him which side was he on. 740 00:42:52,870 --> 00:42:57,508 He said he reserved the right to answer that question later. 741 00:42:57,508 --> 00:43:01,178 He told me there were a lot of little towns like Cordova. 742 00:43:01,178 --> 00:43:04,214 Towns that are growing smaller and smaller, 743 00:43:04,214 --> 00:43:07,217 some of them are already gone, forever. 744 00:43:07,217 --> 00:43:10,888 He explained to me about district zoning, school bonds, 745 00:43:10,888 --> 00:43:13,791 and ad valorem taxes, a lot of other things that, 746 00:43:13,791 --> 00:43:16,694 I don't pretend to understand. 747 00:43:16,694 --> 00:43:18,629 But, then he added, when all was said and done, 748 00:43:18,629 --> 00:43:21,899 that you gentlemen here were as interested in the human side 749 00:43:21,899 --> 00:43:26,136 of this issue as you are in the financial side. 750 00:43:26,136 --> 00:43:30,207 I'd like to speak to you on that level, if I may. 751 00:43:33,277 --> 00:43:36,313 My friend and I, we got into this thing, 752 00:43:36,313 --> 00:43:38,315 pretty much by accident. 753 00:43:39,750 --> 00:43:43,354 We came into a little town we didn't even know existed. 754 00:43:44,521 --> 00:43:46,991 There's nothing in Cordova, really. 755 00:43:46,991 --> 00:43:47,992 Just people. 756 00:43:49,326 --> 00:43:53,564 Well, they have some livestock and some orchards, 757 00:43:53,564 --> 00:43:56,000 they grow their own food, they weave a few blankets 758 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,937 for the tourists, and they carve a few statues, 759 00:43:59,937 --> 00:44:02,573 but there's no big industry there. 760 00:44:02,573 --> 00:44:05,309 The place isn't going anywhere. 761 00:44:05,309 --> 00:44:08,512 Actually, there's no justification for Cordova at all, 762 00:44:08,512 --> 00:44:11,649 on the basis of economics, but it exists. 763 00:44:11,649 --> 00:44:12,583 It's there. 764 00:44:13,684 --> 00:44:16,220 And it's been there, a long time. 765 00:44:17,488 --> 00:44:18,922 The only thing they, 766 00:44:18,922 --> 00:44:22,292 they really have in Cordova is their children. 767 00:44:22,292 --> 00:44:23,727 You might say their children 768 00:44:23,727 --> 00:44:27,431 are their only natural resource, their only future. 769 00:44:30,167 --> 00:44:32,169 Now, the issue of the school and Cordova, 770 00:44:32,169 --> 00:44:34,872 whether it's right or wrong for the kids to be kept there 771 00:44:34,872 --> 00:44:37,307 or sent to a new school, is another issue, I think. 772 00:44:37,307 --> 00:44:41,345 It's, it's a question of what's more important, 773 00:44:41,345 --> 00:44:42,846 today or tomorrow. 774 00:44:43,847 --> 00:44:46,517 In Cordova, they live for today. 775 00:44:47,918 --> 00:44:51,955 Like Senor Delgado said, "today the sky is filled with God's 776 00:44:53,123 --> 00:44:55,959 sunshine, tomorrow may never come". 777 00:45:01,265 --> 00:45:02,733 They don't wanna think ahead in Cordova, 778 00:45:02,733 --> 00:45:05,369 they don't want to be pushed into progress. 779 00:45:05,369 --> 00:45:09,406 Okay, maybe that's wrong but, but maybe it's not, either. 780 00:45:09,406 --> 00:45:11,775 I think people have the right to choose. 781 00:45:11,775 --> 00:45:13,444 They found something up in Cordova, 782 00:45:13,444 --> 00:45:17,614 something to believe in, something that works for them. 783 00:45:19,917 --> 00:45:22,319 Well, maybe it would be better for the state 784 00:45:22,319 --> 00:45:25,856 and the county to take the children away from Cordova 785 00:45:25,856 --> 00:45:27,591 and send 'em to a, a new school 786 00:45:27,591 --> 00:45:30,260 with the teachers from the city. 787 00:45:31,695 --> 00:45:34,798 But is the, the new school really that much better 788 00:45:34,798 --> 00:45:36,700 than the one they have? 789 00:45:37,868 --> 00:45:39,670 Would it really cost that much more to pay 790 00:45:39,670 --> 00:45:43,307 a couple of teachers to live up there with them? 791 00:45:43,307 --> 00:45:46,243 I don't know the economics of the thing. 792 00:45:46,243 --> 00:45:47,745 I don't know if you gentlemen 793 00:45:47,745 --> 00:45:51,849 could do anything about it now, even if you wanted to. 794 00:45:51,849 --> 00:45:54,852 I guess all I'm really saying is that the world's 795 00:45:54,852 --> 00:45:57,654 already moving fast enough. 796 00:45:57,654 --> 00:45:59,823 Do we have to take all the little towns 797 00:45:59,823 --> 00:46:01,592 and speed them up too? 798 00:46:02,726 --> 00:46:05,529 If Cordova's going to die, 799 00:46:05,529 --> 00:46:09,199 let it die a natural death, in its own time. 800 00:46:10,701 --> 00:46:14,772 Meanwhile, let them live their own way, in peace. 801 00:46:17,508 --> 00:46:19,743 Then, maybe they won't die. 802 00:46:22,746 --> 00:46:26,250 You know, they just might out live us all. 803 00:46:31,955 --> 00:46:33,590 Thank you. 804 00:46:33,590 --> 00:46:36,827 (group applauding) 805 00:46:36,827 --> 00:46:40,330 (lively orchestral music) 806 00:47:19,670 --> 00:47:23,106 (townspeople chattering) 807 00:47:29,346 --> 00:47:30,581 I thought we might get some action, 808 00:47:30,581 --> 00:47:33,884 but I didn't think it would be this quick. 809 00:47:41,325 --> 00:47:43,894 (bell ringing) 810 00:47:51,401 --> 00:47:52,236 Hey Tino! 811 00:47:57,541 --> 00:47:58,842 What's going on here? 812 00:47:58,842 --> 00:48:00,110 - Anita's back! 813 00:48:01,511 --> 00:48:04,181 Oh, I do not mean that we don't want you, Senor. 814 00:48:04,181 --> 00:48:06,617 But, Anita, she is one of us. 815 00:48:08,385 --> 00:48:11,488 Pardon me, I do not wish to be tardy. 816 00:48:19,329 --> 00:48:22,165 - Thank you, for bringing me home. 817 00:48:23,567 --> 00:48:25,636 (horn honks) 818 00:48:25,636 --> 00:48:28,639 (slow guitar music) 819 00:48:56,133 --> 00:49:00,304 - Hey, no, no, no. (speaking in foreign language) 820 00:49:03,273 --> 00:49:05,642 - Well, you're quite a spellbinder, they say, 821 00:49:05,642 --> 00:49:07,177 the governor himself called, 822 00:49:07,177 --> 00:49:10,747 suggested that Miguel go on home and the legislature, 823 00:49:10,747 --> 00:49:13,650 I heard they passed a special appropriation for Cordova. 824 00:49:13,650 --> 00:49:15,852 - Well, when they move in New Mexico, they really move. 825 00:49:15,852 --> 00:49:20,023 It's only been a couple hours since we left Santa Fe and... 826 00:49:21,425 --> 00:49:23,694 - Oh that, well uh, you see they're putting in a new school 827 00:49:23,694 --> 00:49:25,963 down county and since they don't open till next year, 828 00:49:25,963 --> 00:49:27,764 I figure we could uh, 829 00:49:27,764 --> 00:49:30,701 borrow the equipment earmarked for them. 830 00:49:30,701 --> 00:49:32,402 If I get into trouble on account of it, 831 00:49:32,402 --> 00:49:33,737 I just may have to send you 832 00:49:33,737 --> 00:49:35,839 back to Santa Fe to make a speech for me. 833 00:49:35,839 --> 00:49:36,740 (group laughs) 834 00:49:36,740 --> 00:49:38,675 - Ah, Senors! (laughs) 835 00:49:38,675 --> 00:49:41,478 (speaking in foreign language) 836 00:49:41,478 --> 00:49:45,649 Senor, come here, God bless! (laughs) 837 00:49:48,452 --> 00:49:51,188 (dramatic music) 838 00:50:04,101 --> 00:50:06,636 But, why do you wait out here? 839 00:50:06,636 --> 00:50:09,039 There is need inside, 840 00:50:09,039 --> 00:50:11,541 and many hungry minds to feed. 841 00:50:24,388 --> 00:50:25,989 Hey, muchacho, hey! 842 00:50:28,225 --> 00:50:31,728 (lively orchestral music) 843 00:51:17,674 --> 00:51:20,110 This has been a Screen Gems Film Presentation, 844 00:51:20,110 --> 00:51:21,611 from Columbia Pictures, 845 00:51:21,611 --> 00:51:24,881 Herbert B. Leonard, Executive Producer.