1 00:00:26,764 --> 00:00:33,693 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 2 00:00:33,855 --> 00:00:39,822 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 3 00:00:40,027 --> 00:00:45,414 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 4 00:00:45,491 --> 00:00:51,507 ♪ It's good enough for me 5 00:00:53,374 --> 00:00:59,507 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 6 00:00:59,714 --> 00:01:04,554 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 7 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:10,016 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 8 00:01:10,099 --> 00:01:15,782 ♪ It's good enough for me 9 00:01:17,648 --> 00:01:22,121 ♪ It was good for little David 10 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:26,709 ♪ It was good for little David 11 00:01:26,908 --> 00:01:31,499 ♪ It was good for little David 12 00:01:31,579 --> 00:01:35,541 ♪ And it's good enough for me 13 00:01:35,625 --> 00:01:41,094 ♪ Oh, gimme that old-time religion 14 00:01:41,172 --> 00:01:45,562 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 15 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:51,063 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 16 00:01:51,140 --> 00:01:56,527 ♪ It's good enough for me 17 00:01:56,604 --> 00:02:01,113 ♪ It was good for old Jonah 18 00:02:01,317 --> 00:02:05,576 ♪ It was good for old Jonah 19 00:02:05,780 --> 00:02:10,668 ♪ It was good for old Jonah 20 00:02:10,743 --> 00:02:15,464 ♪ And it's good enough for me 21 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:20,012 ♪ It was good for the Hebrew children 22 00:02:20,211 --> 00:02:24,636 ♪ It was good for the Hebrew children 23 00:02:24,841 --> 00:02:29,597 ♪ It was good for the Hebrew children 24 00:02:29,679 --> 00:02:35,942 ♪ And it's good enough for me 25 00:02:36,018 --> 00:02:40,194 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 26 00:02:40,398 --> 00:02:44,823 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 27 00:02:45,027 --> 00:02:50,283 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 28 00:02:50,366 --> 00:02:58,125 ♪ It's good enough for me 29 00:03:05,715 --> 00:03:09,725 - Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. - 30 00:03:14,515 --> 00:03:16,983 Good morning, visitors. 31 00:03:24,358 --> 00:03:27,491 For our science lesson for today, 32 00:03:27,570 --> 00:03:33,917 we will continue our discussion of Darwin's theory of the descent of man. 33 00:03:35,036 --> 00:03:40,754 Darwin's theory tells us that man evolved from a lower order of animals. 34 00:03:40,833 --> 00:03:48,557 From the first Wiggly protozoa here in the sea, to the ape, and finally to man. 35 00:03:48,633 --> 00:03:52,892 Some of you are probably gonna say that's why some of us act like monkeys. 36 00:03:54,472 --> 00:03:57,521 But what Mr Charles Darwin was trying to tell us... 37 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,020 Bertram T Cates? 38 00:04:00,102 --> 00:04:03,068 Come off it, Sam. You've known me all my life. 39 00:04:03,147 --> 00:04:09,198 Bert, you're charged with violation of public act 31428, 40 00:04:09,278 --> 00:04:12,790 volume 37, statute number 31428 of the state code, 41 00:04:12,865 --> 00:04:15,583 which makes it unlawful for any public school teacher 42 00:04:15,660 --> 00:04:19,337 to teach any theory that denies the creation of man as taught in the Bible 43 00:04:19,413 --> 00:04:23,922 and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals. 44 00:04:24,961 --> 00:04:29,350 Bertram Cates, I hereby place you under arrest. 45 00:04:39,308 --> 00:04:44,197 Monkey trial! Here's another one. "Monkey Shines In Hillsboro. " 46 00:04:44,272 --> 00:04:48,068 The whole world's laughing at us. Look. From Chicago. 47 00:04:48,151 --> 00:04:53,157 "Heavenly Hillsboro. Does it have a hole in its head or its head in a hole?" 48 00:04:53,239 --> 00:04:55,659 I'm telling you we've gone too far. 49 00:04:55,741 --> 00:04:58,625 Let 'em laugh. We fighting the Lord's battle, ain't we? 50 00:04:58,703 --> 00:05:03,258 I'd rather have a heathen laughing at me than have my sons laughing at my Bible. 51 00:05:03,332 --> 00:05:04,922 They mocked the Lord too. 52 00:05:05,001 --> 00:05:08,548 They smote him and spat upon him and he turned his other cheek. 53 00:05:08,629 --> 00:05:13,434 Reverend, we don't want to smite 'em back. We just want to make 'em stop. 54 00:05:13,509 --> 00:05:16,143 Tom, you're a prosecuting attorney. What can we do? 55 00:05:16,220 --> 00:05:20,277 In view of my position, I hardly think it ethical to express my opinion. 56 00:05:20,349 --> 00:05:22,437 You'd better go back to law school. 57 00:05:22,518 --> 00:05:26,611 What do we care what a bunch of foreigners and city slickers think? 58 00:05:26,689 --> 00:05:29,738 - Ever had a Frenchman at your hotel? - You're missing... 59 00:05:29,817 --> 00:05:33,614 How long since you sold a pound of grits to some smart aleck from New York? 60 00:05:33,696 --> 00:05:39,414 Heaven has chosen us to light the road back to the shepherd, back to the fold. 61 00:05:39,494 --> 00:05:43,420 - We're not sheep. - I'd rather be a sheep than a Judas goat! 62 00:05:43,498 --> 00:05:46,511 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 63 00:05:46,584 --> 00:05:49,763 As mayor, I stand to uphold the laws of this community, 64 00:05:49,837 --> 00:05:52,471 no matter how it may affect my political future. 65 00:05:52,548 --> 00:05:57,020 Now, I shall just ignore these slanders, like water off a duck's back. 66 00:05:57,094 --> 00:06:01,769 You only got two months more as mayor and you shouldn't have been elected. 67 00:06:01,849 --> 00:06:04,150 You've been a lousy mayor! 68 00:06:06,479 --> 00:06:11,200 My friends, as you all know, I deal with figures: 69 00:06:11,275 --> 00:06:13,494 accounts, cheques, balances. 70 00:06:13,569 --> 00:06:18,160 My bank operates on the principle of practical reality and so do I. 71 00:06:18,241 --> 00:06:22,381 Are you aware that the great big universities throughout the country 72 00:06:22,453 --> 00:06:27,803 will consider student applicants from our state ineligible because of this law? 73 00:06:27,875 --> 00:06:33,309 I don't know whose idea it was to hang up a shingle spelling "horse and buggy", 74 00:06:33,381 --> 00:06:36,595 but, as for me, I won't invest in antiquity. 75 00:06:36,676 --> 00:06:42,477 I want my bank holding credit with New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois. 76 00:06:42,557 --> 00:06:45,938 And I may want my son to go to Yale. 77 00:06:46,018 --> 00:06:49,067 Now, I believe, just as much as anyone in this room, 78 00:06:49,147 --> 00:06:52,777 in a basic fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible. 79 00:06:52,859 --> 00:06:56,999 But we can't close our eyes to all progress, everything which represents... 80 00:06:57,071 --> 00:06:59,372 Wait a minute. Wait a minute! 81 00:06:59,949 --> 00:07:06,000 "Matthew Harrison Brady volunteers to prosecute in monkey trial. " 82 00:07:07,748 --> 00:07:10,003 Matthew Harrison Brady. 83 00:07:10,084 --> 00:07:13,631 - The Lord has sent us his right hand. - And I'll be working with him. 84 00:07:13,713 --> 00:07:18,019 They'll pour out of the hills. This town will fill up like a rain barrel in a flood. 85 00:07:18,092 --> 00:07:20,560 It'll be bigger than the chautauqua at Chattanooga. 86 00:07:20,636 --> 00:07:23,104 People will have to have someplace to stay. 87 00:07:23,181 --> 00:07:24,853 And they gotta eat. 88 00:07:24,932 --> 00:07:28,195 This will put Hillsboro on the map of this country. 89 00:07:28,269 --> 00:07:31,982 Let us give thanks to the Lord. Let us pray. 90 00:07:32,315 --> 00:07:34,651 You better start praying, son. 91 00:07:34,734 --> 00:07:38,411 Imagine, Matthew Harrison Brady coming here. 92 00:07:38,488 --> 00:07:41,335 I voted for him for president. Twice. 93 00:07:41,407 --> 00:07:45,168 Once in 1900 and again in '08. 94 00:07:45,244 --> 00:07:50,168 I wasn't old enough to vote for him the first time he run, but my pa did. 95 00:07:50,249 --> 00:07:54,010 I seen him once. At a chautauqua meeting in Chattanooga. 96 00:07:54,086 --> 00:07:57,550 When he spoke, the tent poles shook. 97 00:07:58,591 --> 00:08:01,439 - Who's gonna be your lawyer? - I don't know yet. 98 00:08:01,511 --> 00:08:05,022 I wrote to that newspaper in Baltimore. They're sending somebody. 99 00:08:05,097 --> 00:08:07,566 Well, he'd better be loud. 100 00:08:07,642 --> 00:08:11,023 - - Ah. 101 00:08:11,103 --> 00:08:16,359 Probably one of those newspaper reporters. You're a popular fella. 102 00:08:16,442 --> 00:08:19,123 - Yeah. - Oh, Bert. 103 00:08:19,195 --> 00:08:24,165 You don't mind, do you? Just for the looks of it. Can't tell who it might be. 104 00:08:24,242 --> 00:08:27,125 Sure. Don't worry about it, Mort. 105 00:08:46,097 --> 00:08:48,184 All right. 106 00:08:54,105 --> 00:08:56,786 - Who is it? - Mort? 107 00:08:57,817 --> 00:09:00,782 Rachel! Come on in. 108 00:09:00,862 --> 00:09:04,623 Ah, you got a present for Bert, huh? 109 00:09:04,699 --> 00:09:07,748 Mort, don't let my father know I came here. 110 00:09:07,827 --> 00:09:12,169 The Reverend don't tell me his business. I don't see why I should tell him mine. 111 00:09:12,248 --> 00:09:14,716 - Is Bert all right? - Of course he's... 112 00:09:14,792 --> 00:09:17,426 The safest place in the world's in a jail. 113 00:09:17,503 --> 00:09:20,469 Come on in. Come on. 114 00:09:30,933 --> 00:09:33,188 Tell them you're sorry. 115 00:09:33,269 --> 00:09:37,231 Tell them it was all a mistake. Please te... 116 00:09:38,816 --> 00:09:43,822 Tell them if they let my body out of jail I'd lock up my mind? 117 00:09:45,198 --> 00:09:47,534 Could you stand that, Rachel? 118 00:09:47,617 --> 00:09:51,460 - At least we'd be together. - It wouldn't be the... 119 00:09:52,497 --> 00:09:55,082 It wouldn't be the same. 120 00:10:04,175 --> 00:10:06,145 Rachel. 121 00:10:07,178 --> 00:10:12,944 Do you remember those warm dark nights down by the river bank? 122 00:10:13,017 --> 00:10:15,698 Just watching the water. 123 00:10:15,770 --> 00:10:19,483 Wondering about the miracle of it. 124 00:10:19,565 --> 00:10:21,950 Wondering what the stars were for. 125 00:10:22,026 --> 00:10:25,123 What's on the other side of the moon. 126 00:10:25,196 --> 00:10:27,616 There'd be no more of that, Rach. 127 00:10:27,698 --> 00:10:30,878 - We could still have that. - No, we couldn't. 128 00:10:30,952 --> 00:10:34,298 That'd be in the locked-off part. For both of us. 129 00:10:34,372 --> 00:10:35,962 Well! 130 00:10:40,419 --> 00:10:45,343 So this is where the fate of learning will be decided for the next 10,000 years. 131 00:10:45,424 --> 00:10:48,853 O tempora, o mores. 132 00:10:48,928 --> 00:10:54,694 Well, I see we have both beauty and biology on our side. 133 00:10:54,767 --> 00:10:57,318 - Who are you? - This your writing? 134 00:10:57,395 --> 00:10:59,696 - Yes. - This is mine. 135 00:10:59,772 --> 00:11:02,572 Hornbeck. EK Hornbeck. Baltimore Herald. 136 00:11:02,650 --> 00:11:05,663 - I've been waiting to hear from you. - Read it. 137 00:11:05,736 --> 00:11:10,660 My typewriter's been singing a sweet sad song about the Hillsboro heretic. 138 00:11:10,741 --> 00:11:16,757 B Cates: latter-day Dreyfus, Romeo with a biology book. 139 00:11:16,831 --> 00:11:18,918 Want a bite? 140 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,176 Don't worry, I'm not the serpent. This isn't from the tree of knowledge. 141 00:11:23,254 --> 00:11:28,178 Oh, no. You won't find one growing in heavenly Hillsboro. 142 00:11:28,259 --> 00:11:32,601 A few ignorance bushes, perhaps, but no tree of knowledge. 143 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:34,566 Ask Adam. 144 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,728 You make me sound like a martyr. 145 00:11:36,809 --> 00:11:41,234 You could be. Martyrs always have a point to prove and so do you. 146 00:11:41,314 --> 00:11:44,197 But you haven't won your halo yet. 147 00:11:44,275 --> 00:11:50,242 That won't come until after they've tossed you into the arena with the lion. 148 00:11:50,323 --> 00:11:53,455 - You mean Brady? - I don't want Bert to be a martyr. 149 00:11:53,534 --> 00:11:57,082 - What are you trying to prove? - I'm not trying to prove anything. 150 00:11:57,163 --> 00:12:02,881 All I wanna do is teach my students that man wasn't planted here like a geranium. 151 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,508 That life comes from a long miracle, it didn't take seven days. 152 00:12:06,589 --> 00:12:10,183 But it's against the law. A schoolteacher's a public servant. 153 00:12:10,259 --> 00:12:13,723 He should do what the law and the school board want him to. 154 00:12:13,805 --> 00:12:16,225 Has the accused anything to say in his defence? 155 00:12:16,307 --> 00:12:20,530 If not, I sentence you to life as a public servant, 156 00:12:20,603 --> 00:12:24,115 a silent butler in the service of your school board. 157 00:12:24,190 --> 00:12:27,702 Wastebaskets for ideas on sale in the outer lobby. 158 00:12:27,777 --> 00:12:30,826 I don't see anything funny in this, Mr Hornbeck. 159 00:12:30,905 --> 00:12:35,164 - Objection sustained. Neither do I. - Then why don't you leave us alone? 160 00:12:35,243 --> 00:12:38,541 You newspaper people have stirred up enough trouble for Bert. 161 00:12:38,621 --> 00:12:41,171 What do you want anyway? 162 00:12:41,249 --> 00:12:44,712 I came to tell boy Socrates here 163 00:12:44,794 --> 00:12:50,512 that the Baltimore Herald is opposed to hemlock and will provide a lawyer. 164 00:12:50,591 --> 00:12:53,724 - Who? - Who? I don't know yet. 165 00:12:53,803 --> 00:12:59,106 What's the difference? A new lawyer with old tricks, an old lawyer with new tricks. 166 00:12:59,976 --> 00:13:03,986 Wake up, Copernicus. The law's still on the side of the lawmakers, 167 00:13:04,063 --> 00:13:06,993 and everything revolves around their terra firma. 168 00:13:07,066 --> 00:13:10,281 Then why bother, you and your newspaper? 169 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:15,746 Because I know that the sunrise is an optical illusion. 170 00:13:15,825 --> 00:13:17,960 My teacher told me so. 171 00:13:18,035 --> 00:13:21,499 You don't seem like the kind who'd want to bother. You seem so... 172 00:13:21,581 --> 00:13:26,006 Cynical. True, true. That's part of my fascination. 173 00:13:26,085 --> 00:13:28,766 I do hateful things for which people love me, 174 00:13:28,838 --> 00:13:31,768 and I do lovable things for which they hate me. 175 00:13:31,841 --> 00:13:34,938 I'm admired for my detestability. 176 00:13:36,387 --> 00:13:39,151 Now, don't worry, little Eva. 177 00:13:39,223 --> 00:13:44,740 I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread. 178 00:13:54,447 --> 00:13:58,872 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion Gimme that old-time religion 179 00:13:58,951 --> 00:14:01,419 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 180 00:14:01,496 --> 00:14:03,382 ♪ It's good enough for me 181 00:14:03,456 --> 00:14:07,846 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion Gimme that old-time religion 182 00:14:07,919 --> 00:14:10,220 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 183 00:14:10,296 --> 00:14:12,384 ♪ It's good enough for me 184 00:14:12,465 --> 00:14:14,435 ♪ It was good for old Jonah 185 00:14:14,634 --> 00:14:16,555 ♪ It was good for old Jonah 186 00:14:16,761 --> 00:14:19,062 ♪ It was good for old Jonah 187 00:14:19,138 --> 00:14:21,274 ♪ And it's good enough for me 188 00:14:21,349 --> 00:14:25,525 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion Gimme that old-time religion 189 00:14:25,603 --> 00:14:28,071 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 190 00:14:28,147 --> 00:14:30,235 ♪ It's good enough for me 191 00:14:30,316 --> 00:14:32,321 ♪ It was good for little David 192 00:14:32,527 --> 00:14:34,532 ♪ It was good for little David 193 00:14:34,737 --> 00:14:36,825 ♪ It was good for little David 194 00:14:36,906 --> 00:14:38,993 ♪ And it's good enough for me 195 00:14:39,075 --> 00:14:43,583 ♪ Oh, gimme that old-time religion Gimme that old-time religion 196 00:14:43,663 --> 00:14:46,131 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 197 00:14:46,207 --> 00:14:47,963 ♪ It's good enough for me 198 00:14:48,042 --> 00:14:52,467 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion Gimme that old-time religion 199 00:14:52,547 --> 00:14:54,967 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 200 00:14:55,049 --> 00:14:56,935 ♪ It's good enough for me 201 00:14:57,009 --> 00:14:59,145 ♪ It was good for little David 202 00:14:59,345 --> 00:15:01,433 ♪ It was good for little David 203 00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:03,774 ♪ It was good for little David 204 00:15:03,850 --> 00:15:05,819 ♪ And it's good enough for me 205 00:15:05,893 --> 00:15:10,365 ♪ Oh, gimme that old-time religion Gimme that old-time religion 206 00:15:10,439 --> 00:15:12,943 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 207 00:15:13,025 --> 00:15:14,828 ♪ It's good enough for me 208 00:15:14,902 --> 00:15:19,374 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion Gimme that old-time religion 209 00:15:19,448 --> 00:15:21,785 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 210 00:15:21,868 --> 00:15:23,588 ♪ It's good enough for me 211 00:15:23,661 --> 00:15:25,998 ♪ It was good for old Jonah 212 00:15:26,205 --> 00:15:28,341 ♪ It was good for old Jonah 213 00:15:28,541 --> 00:15:30,712 ♪ It was good for old Jonah 214 00:15:30,793 --> 00:15:32,715 ♪ And it's good enough for me 215 00:15:32,795 --> 00:15:35,096 ♪ It was good for old Jonah 216 00:15:35,298 --> 00:15:37,303 ♪ It was good for old Jonah 217 00:15:37,508 --> 00:15:39,596 ♪ It was good for old Jonah 218 00:15:39,677 --> 00:15:41,682 ♪ And it's good enough for me 219 00:15:41,762 --> 00:15:46,318 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion Gimme that old-time religion 220 00:15:46,392 --> 00:15:48,646 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 221 00:15:48,728 --> 00:15:50,982 ♪ It's good enough for me 222 00:15:51,063 --> 00:15:54,409 Matthew Harrison Brady, 223 00:15:54,484 --> 00:15:57,865 as mayor of Hillsboro may I say that this municipality 224 00:15:57,945 --> 00:16:00,793 is proud to have within its city limits 225 00:16:00,865 --> 00:16:04,958 the warrior who has always fought for us ordinary people. 226 00:16:05,036 --> 00:16:07,456 The ladyfolk of this town would not have the vote 227 00:16:07,538 --> 00:16:11,880 if it hadn't been for you fighting to give them all that suffrage. 228 00:16:11,959 --> 00:16:15,756 Mr President Wilson would not have got to the White House and won the war 229 00:16:15,838 --> 00:16:21,141 if it hadn't been for you supporting him and being his secretary of state. 230 00:16:21,219 --> 00:16:25,395 In conclusion, the governor of our glorious state 231 00:16:25,473 --> 00:16:29,435 has vested in me the authority to confer upon you 232 00:16:29,519 --> 00:16:34,738 a commission as honorary colonel in the state militia! 233 00:16:36,567 --> 00:16:38,738 It is good enough for Brady... 234 00:16:38,820 --> 00:16:43,209 ♪ It is good enough for Brady And it's good enough for me 235 00:16:50,164 --> 00:16:52,668 "Colonel Brady. " 236 00:16:52,750 --> 00:16:55,431 I like the sound of that. 237 00:16:56,796 --> 00:16:58,682 Friends, 238 00:16:58,756 --> 00:17:03,181 Mrs Brady and I are delighted to be among you. 239 00:17:04,220 --> 00:17:06,901 We all voted for you. Three times! 240 00:17:07,849 --> 00:17:11,063 I trust it was in three separate elections. 241 00:17:13,104 --> 00:17:15,275 I can only wish for one thing: 242 00:17:15,356 --> 00:17:18,950 that you had not given us quite so warm a welcome. 243 00:17:19,026 --> 00:17:21,707 - Mr Brady? - Yes. 244 00:17:21,779 --> 00:17:24,247 - Here you are. - Oh, bless you. 245 00:17:24,323 --> 00:17:27,954 - And Mrs Brady. - Oh, thank you. 246 00:17:28,035 --> 00:17:33,422 Now, who, may I ask, is the spiritual leader of the community? 247 00:17:33,499 --> 00:17:36,762 The Reverend Jeremiah Brown. 248 00:17:36,836 --> 00:17:41,391 How are you, Reverend? Will you stand here at my side? Thank you. 249 00:17:42,425 --> 00:17:47,942 My friends of Hillsboro, you know why I've come here. 250 00:17:48,973 --> 00:17:52,070 It is not merely to prosecute a lawbreaker, 251 00:17:52,143 --> 00:17:55,904 a young man who has spoken out against the revealed word. 252 00:17:55,980 --> 00:17:59,159 I have come here because what has happened in your town 253 00:17:59,233 --> 00:18:02,531 has unloosed a wicked attack from the big cities of the North. 254 00:18:02,612 --> 00:18:05,495 We did not seek this struggle. 255 00:18:05,573 --> 00:18:10,746 We are simple folk who seek only to live in brotherhood and peace, 256 00:18:10,828 --> 00:18:13,129 to cherish our loved ones, 257 00:18:13,206 --> 00:18:16,753 to teach our children the ways of righteousness and of the Lord. 258 00:18:16,834 --> 00:18:20,428 But what would they teach them, these idolaters? 259 00:18:20,505 --> 00:18:24,681 These priests of evolution, what would they have them do? 260 00:18:24,759 --> 00:18:29,647 Measure the distance between the stars and forget him who holds the stars. 261 00:18:29,722 --> 00:18:31,810 They are lost, my friends. 262 00:18:31,891 --> 00:18:37,278 I tell you, if man believes he is descended from the beasts, he must remain a beast. 263 00:18:37,355 --> 00:18:41,365 And as the young wolf turns upon the old, these innocent ones, 264 00:18:41,442 --> 00:18:45,155 corrupted and despairing of salvation, will turn upon their fathers, 265 00:18:45,238 --> 00:18:47,788 and our land will become a land of Sodom and Gomorrah, 266 00:18:47,865 --> 00:18:50,629 of pestilence, of fire, of hatred and of death. 267 00:18:50,701 --> 00:18:53,881 - I disagree. - What a nerve! 268 00:18:53,955 --> 00:18:56,375 Who are you? 269 00:18:56,457 --> 00:19:01,013 Uh, Hornbeck. EK Hornbeck of the Baltimore Herald. 270 00:19:01,087 --> 00:19:04,515 Oh, yes. Yes, I know your paper. 271 00:19:05,716 --> 00:19:07,768 And your writing, sir. 272 00:19:07,844 --> 00:19:11,355 Ladies and gentlemen, my paper is happy to announce 273 00:19:11,430 --> 00:19:16,069 that it is sending two representatives to heavenly Hillsboro. 274 00:19:16,144 --> 00:19:20,023 The most gifted reporter in America today, myself, 275 00:19:20,106 --> 00:19:26,572 and the most agile legal mind of the 20th century, Henry Drummond. 276 00:19:26,654 --> 00:19:29,418 - Henry Drummond? - Who's Henry Drummond? 277 00:19:29,490 --> 00:19:33,500 - We'll send him back to hell! - Ride him out on a rail! 278 00:19:33,578 --> 00:19:38,217 - Don't let him in the town! - Keep him out! Keep him out! 279 00:19:43,421 --> 00:19:45,307 No, no, no! 280 00:19:45,381 --> 00:19:48,347 I believe we should welcome Henry Drummond. 281 00:19:48,426 --> 00:19:52,566 If the enemy sends his Goliath into battle, it magnifies our cause. 282 00:19:52,638 --> 00:19:56,779 Henry Drummond has stalked the courtrooms of this land for 40 years. 283 00:19:56,851 --> 00:19:59,319 When he fights, headlines follow. 284 00:19:59,395 --> 00:20:03,322 The whole world will be watching our victory over Drummond. 285 00:20:03,399 --> 00:20:07,659 If St George had killed a dragonfly instead of a dragon, who would remember him? 286 00:20:09,405 --> 00:20:15,538 We have not only the opportunity to slay the devil's disciple but the devil himself! 287 00:20:15,620 --> 00:20:17,707 It is good enough for Brady... 288 00:20:17,788 --> 00:20:22,677 ♪ It is good enough for Brady It is good enough for Brady 289 00:20:22,752 --> 00:20:26,595 ♪ It is good enough for Brady And it's good enough for me 290 00:20:26,672 --> 00:20:29,176 ♪ Oh, gimme that old-time religion 291 00:20:29,258 --> 00:20:31,477 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion 292 00:20:31,552 --> 00:20:35,479 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion It's good enough for me 293 00:20:35,556 --> 00:20:37,976 ♪ Oh, gimme that old-time religion 294 00:20:38,059 --> 00:20:41,606 ♪ Gimme that old-time religion Gimme that old-time... 295 00:20:41,687 --> 00:20:43,858 You're the stranger, ain't you? 296 00:20:43,940 --> 00:20:47,451 Are you looking for a nice clean place to stay? 297 00:20:47,527 --> 00:20:53,044 I had a nice clean place to stay, madam, and I left it to come here. 298 00:20:53,115 --> 00:20:55,085 ♪ It is good enough for Brady 299 00:20:55,284 --> 00:20:57,372 ♪ It is good enough for Brady 300 00:20:57,620 --> 00:21:01,381 ♪ It is good enough for Brady And it's good enough for me 301 00:21:01,457 --> 00:21:04,138 ♪ Oh, gimme that old-time... 302 00:21:24,021 --> 00:21:26,109 Rachel. 303 00:21:31,779 --> 00:21:35,410 I waited supper for you. It's on the table. 304 00:21:45,168 --> 00:21:47,967 Peace will come, my daughter. 305 00:21:48,045 --> 00:21:51,640 We must thank God that the sinner stands naked and exposed. 306 00:21:51,716 --> 00:21:54,646 Stop preaching, Pa. I have something to tell you. 307 00:21:54,719 --> 00:21:57,436 You're upset. Eat and we'll talk in the morning. 308 00:21:57,513 --> 00:21:59,684 No. Now. 309 00:21:59,765 --> 00:22:02,399 I'm not leaving Bert. 310 00:22:03,436 --> 00:22:05,986 I don't understand. 311 00:22:06,063 --> 00:22:08,069 You heard what Mr Brady said. 312 00:22:08,149 --> 00:22:10,368 I love him, Pa. I love him. 313 00:22:10,443 --> 00:22:12,946 No, no. That is the love of Judas. 314 00:22:13,029 --> 00:22:16,909 He has nothing to offer you but sin. I told you that from the beginning. 315 00:22:17,033 --> 00:22:20,082 What's he done? What's he done that's so terrible? 316 00:22:20,161 --> 00:22:22,711 Why do you hate him so? 317 00:22:22,788 --> 00:22:27,130 Because I love God and I hate his enemies. 318 00:22:27,210 --> 00:22:31,136 - Bert loves God. - Then what is he doing with Drummond? 319 00:22:31,214 --> 00:22:37,264 Why is he bringing him here to spew his atheistic filth into the ears of our people? 320 00:22:37,970 --> 00:22:39,643 You're a schoolteacher. 321 00:22:39,722 --> 00:22:44,479 You know how easy it is to mould minds for good or to twist them for evil. 322 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,523 - Bert didn't twist any minds. - You're infected with his agnosticism! 323 00:22:48,606 --> 00:22:51,952 - Get down and pray for forgiveness. - Forgiveness for what? 324 00:22:52,026 --> 00:22:54,612 Because you have betrayed me and your faith. 325 00:22:54,695 --> 00:22:57,875 I'm not betraying anybody. 326 00:22:57,949 --> 00:23:01,045 I'm glad your mother isn't here to see what's become of you. 327 00:23:01,118 --> 00:23:04,547 - Pa, please listen. - If she is looking down from heaven, 328 00:23:04,622 --> 00:23:08,845 I ask her to forgive you and to forgive me. 329 00:23:08,918 --> 00:23:11,635 Pa, ever since I was a little girl, 330 00:23:11,712 --> 00:23:14,809 I'd wake up in the middle of the night afraid of the dark, 331 00:23:14,882 --> 00:23:17,053 like the whole house was upside down 332 00:23:17,135 --> 00:23:21,311 and if I didn't hang on to the mattress, I'd fall out into the sky. 333 00:23:21,389 --> 00:23:24,236 Forgive her, Mother. Forgive her, dear God. 334 00:23:24,308 --> 00:23:27,903 I wanted to run to you to have you tell me that I was safe, 335 00:23:27,979 --> 00:23:29,865 that everything was all right, 336 00:23:29,939 --> 00:23:33,118 but I was always more afraid of you than of falling. 337 00:23:33,192 --> 00:23:37,748 - It's the same way now! - I have failed. I have failed. 338 00:23:39,824 --> 00:23:42,921 Tell me what to do, dear Lord. Guide my faltering... 339 00:23:42,994 --> 00:23:45,580 - Pa. - I love my daughter. 340 00:23:45,663 --> 00:23:48,842 - How can I save her? Tell me what to do. - Please get up! 341 00:23:48,916 --> 00:23:53,388 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean. 342 00:23:53,462 --> 00:23:57,804 From all your filthiness and from your idols will I cleanse you. 343 00:23:57,884 --> 00:24:03,187 And a new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit put within you. 344 00:24:03,264 --> 00:24:08,021 And I will tear out the stony heart of flesh, 345 00:24:08,102 --> 00:24:12,325 and I will give you a heart of flesh. 346 00:24:52,688 --> 00:24:56,319 - Hello, devil. Welcome to hell. - Hello, Hornbeck. 347 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,244 Hillsboro, heavenly Hillsboro, the buckle on the Bible Belt. 348 00:25:00,321 --> 00:25:02,741 Come on. 349 00:25:02,824 --> 00:25:04,579 Where are we staying? 350 00:25:04,659 --> 00:25:07,079 We're sharing a room at the Mansion House. 351 00:25:07,161 --> 00:25:09,795 Like everything else in this town, misnamed. 352 00:25:09,872 --> 00:25:14,048 Follow me and I shall point out the unplumbed and plumbingless depths. 353 00:25:14,126 --> 00:25:15,966 Bible? Bible? 354 00:25:16,045 --> 00:25:18,465 Hot dogs. Here you are. Get your red-hot. 355 00:25:18,548 --> 00:25:23,767 That poses a pretty problem. Which is hungrier, my stomach or my soul? 356 00:25:23,845 --> 00:25:25,932 - Hot dog. - Yes, sir. 357 00:25:26,013 --> 00:25:28,694 What do you think of all these monkey kinds? 358 00:25:28,766 --> 00:25:32,360 Got no opinion, sir. Opinions are bad for business. 359 00:25:32,436 --> 00:25:36,067 Are you an evolutionist, an infidel, a sinner? 360 00:25:36,149 --> 00:25:38,913 The worst kind. I write for a newspaper. 361 00:25:38,985 --> 00:25:41,702 - Want a hot dog? - No, thanks. 362 00:25:41,779 --> 00:25:44,496 Then you, sir, you must be a man of God. 363 00:25:44,574 --> 00:25:47,077 No, no, no. Ulcers. 364 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:57,760 Ladies and gentlemen, devolution is not a theory but a proven fact. 365 00:25:57,837 --> 00:26:02,974 My friends, man did not evolve from the ape, 366 00:26:03,050 --> 00:26:07,939 but the ape devolved from man. 367 00:26:08,014 --> 00:26:10,564 Take a look at this creature sitting here. 368 00:26:10,641 --> 00:26:14,521 There before you is an example of the ungrace 369 00:26:14,604 --> 00:26:18,566 to which man can fall because of his own bestiality. 370 00:26:18,649 --> 00:26:21,698 Look at those beetling brows. Look at those shifty eyes. 371 00:26:21,777 --> 00:26:26,167 For as sure as the good Lord cast out Satan from heavenly glory, 372 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:30,381 so did he devolve this poor beast from man. 373 00:26:30,453 --> 00:26:32,921 Quit looking at me, will you, son? 374 00:26:32,997 --> 00:26:36,010 These are the wages of sin, my friends. 375 00:26:36,083 --> 00:26:40,046 You take a lesson. Look and beware. 376 00:26:40,129 --> 00:26:45,302 I thank you. Your contributions will be gratefully received. 377 00:26:45,384 --> 00:26:48,481 Grandpa. Welcome to Hillsboro, sir. 378 00:26:48,554 --> 00:26:53,026 Have you come to testify for the prosecution or the defence? 379 00:26:58,648 --> 00:27:00,487 You. 380 00:27:00,566 --> 00:27:04,244 - Are you Henry Drummond? - Yes, I am. 381 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,959 - I'm Royce McHenry, farmer hereabouts. - Nice to know you. 382 00:27:09,033 --> 00:27:12,711 I wanna tell you we're just plain folk down here. 383 00:27:12,787 --> 00:27:16,464 We don't need no outsiders to tell us how or what to think. 384 00:27:17,375 --> 00:27:20,388 That isn't my mission, Mr McHenry. 385 00:27:20,461 --> 00:27:24,933 Then why don't you go back where you came from? 386 00:27:25,007 --> 00:27:26,894 Hmm. 387 00:27:29,262 --> 00:27:33,521 - Pretty hot, aren't they? - Their messiah arrived yesterday. 388 00:27:33,599 --> 00:27:37,277 Drummond, why don't you give your ulcers a break and go home? 389 00:27:37,353 --> 00:27:39,275 You'll win no victories here. 390 00:27:39,355 --> 00:27:43,198 I've been a lawyer long enough to know there are no total victories. 391 00:27:43,276 --> 00:27:47,037 There's only one man in this town who thinks at all and he's in jail. 392 00:27:47,113 --> 00:27:49,332 That's why I'm here. 393 00:28:05,256 --> 00:28:09,052 Just plain folk, second generation. 394 00:28:20,646 --> 00:28:22,901 Mr Drummond? 395 00:28:22,982 --> 00:28:26,410 We're all members of Mr Cates' homeroom and biology class. 396 00:28:26,486 --> 00:28:30,745 We all like Mr Cates very much. 397 00:28:30,823 --> 00:28:33,623 And we hope you do right by him. 398 00:28:33,701 --> 00:28:36,667 Well, so do I, son. So do I. 399 00:28:50,635 --> 00:28:54,597 - Sarah! - It's good to see you, Henry. 400 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,978 I only wish it were under different circumstances. 401 00:28:58,059 --> 00:29:00,479 Sarah, you look lovelier than ever. 402 00:29:01,145 --> 00:29:03,233 Oh, you know Mr Hornbeck? 403 00:29:03,314 --> 00:29:06,031 - How do you do, Mrs Brady? - How do you do? 404 00:29:09,111 --> 00:29:10,832 Aha! 405 00:29:10,905 --> 00:29:12,992 Excuse me. 406 00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:17,286 Henry! Henry Drummond! 407 00:29:17,370 --> 00:29:20,335 - How are you, Henry? - Hello, Matt. 408 00:29:20,414 --> 00:29:22,799 See you've already made some young friends. 409 00:29:22,875 --> 00:29:26,755 - Youth appeals to me these days. - Room 206, Mr Drummond. 410 00:29:26,838 --> 00:29:28,973 Neither of us is getting any younger. 411 00:29:29,048 --> 00:29:33,308 Matt, you know what the doctor said about not overeating in this heat. 412 00:29:33,386 --> 00:29:36,732 Don't worry, Mother. We need strength for the fight ahead. 413 00:29:36,806 --> 00:29:39,191 - I'll take up your bags. - Thank you. 414 00:29:39,267 --> 00:29:41,984 Oh, it's you again, Mr Hornbeck. 415 00:29:42,061 --> 00:29:46,570 I read your article yesterday. Very biased reporting, I must say. 416 00:29:46,649 --> 00:29:49,283 Mr Brady, it's the duty of a newspaper 417 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,620 to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. 418 00:29:55,825 --> 00:29:58,044 I don't like that fella. Oh! 419 00:29:58,119 --> 00:30:02,959 Henry, I'd like for you to meet some of the people of Hillsboro. Mr Carter, the mayor. 420 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,342 - Welcome to Hillsboro. - Thank you. 421 00:30:05,418 --> 00:30:09,973 Prosecuting attorney for this district, Mr Davenport. We'll be working together. 422 00:30:10,047 --> 00:30:14,270 Mr Drummond, let me assure you that while we may not agree with your ideas, 423 00:30:14,343 --> 00:30:17,357 - we respect your right to voice them. - Good boy. 424 00:30:17,430 --> 00:30:22,650 Drummond and I have worked side by side in many battles for the common folk. 425 00:30:22,727 --> 00:30:25,859 Twice he campaigned for me when I ran for president. 426 00:30:25,938 --> 00:30:27,030 That's right. 427 00:30:27,106 --> 00:30:32,456 After all these years we find ourselves on the opposite side of an issue. 428 00:30:32,528 --> 00:30:36,870 Well, that's evolution for you. Good day, gentlemen. 429 00:30:36,949 --> 00:30:40,912 Good day, young gentlemen, and thank you. Sarah. 430 00:30:40,995 --> 00:30:43,083 Goodbye, Henry. 431 00:31:21,410 --> 00:31:27,793 I believe we can desist with the taking of photographs for the time being. 432 00:31:27,875 --> 00:31:32,929 Mr Drummond, is the defence ready for the selection of the next juror? 433 00:31:33,005 --> 00:31:37,431 - The defence is ready, Your Honour. - Colonel Brady, is the prosecution ready? 434 00:31:37,510 --> 00:31:39,313 The prosecution is ready. 435 00:31:39,387 --> 00:31:45,438 Mort, call a venireman to fill the twelfth and last seat on the jury. 436 00:31:46,644 --> 00:31:48,779 - Jesse H Dunlap. - Here, sir. 437 00:31:48,855 --> 00:31:51,820 - You're next, Jesse. - 438 00:31:53,818 --> 00:31:56,701 Order in the court! 439 00:31:56,904 --> 00:31:59,206 Order in the court! 440 00:31:59,282 --> 00:32:05,214 I wanna warn the spectators that the court will not tolerate any undue disturbance. 441 00:32:05,288 --> 00:32:06,841 The 11th juror... 442 00:32:06,914 --> 00:32:10,545 I thought I made myself plain. I'm not gonna warn you again... 443 00:32:10,626 --> 00:32:13,046 11 down and one to go, as John P Carmody... 444 00:32:13,129 --> 00:32:17,803 And you reporters have just one more minute on those telephones. 445 00:32:22,096 --> 00:32:25,228 As you know, for all last night and today 446 00:32:25,308 --> 00:32:30,314 the legion of the unwashed and holy have been rivering out of the rustic backways 447 00:32:30,396 --> 00:32:34,074 to listen to their plump messiah coo and bellow. 448 00:32:34,150 --> 00:32:38,575 The high priest of mumbo jumbo, Matthew Harrison Brady, 449 00:32:38,654 --> 00:32:42,036 has alternately been stuffing himself with fried chicken 450 00:32:42,116 --> 00:32:46,078 and belching platitudes since his arrival here two days ago. 451 00:32:47,371 --> 00:32:50,005 Can we continue, Colonel Brady? 452 00:32:50,082 --> 00:32:52,586 Your Honour, before we continue, 453 00:32:52,668 --> 00:32:56,548 will the court entertain a motion on a matter of procedure? 454 00:32:56,631 --> 00:33:00,641 Will the learned prosecutor state the motion? 455 00:33:00,718 --> 00:33:02,806 It has been called to my attention 456 00:33:02,887 --> 00:33:08,439 that the temperature in this courtroom is now 97 degrees Fahrenheit. 457 00:33:08,518 --> 00:33:11,198 And it may get hotter. 458 00:33:15,483 --> 00:33:18,496 I do not think the dignity of this court will suffer 459 00:33:18,569 --> 00:33:23,078 if we remove a few superfluous outer garments. 460 00:33:23,157 --> 00:33:28,247 Does the defence have any objection to Colonel Brady's motion? 461 00:33:28,329 --> 00:33:33,584 I don't know if the dignity of this court can be upheld with these galluses. 462 00:33:34,418 --> 00:33:38,381 We'll take that chance, Mr Drummond. 463 00:33:38,464 --> 00:33:43,020 Those who wish to remove their coats may do so. 464 00:33:48,975 --> 00:33:52,237 Is the counsel for the defence 465 00:33:52,311 --> 00:33:56,986 showing us the latest fashion from the great metropolitan city of Chicago? 466 00:33:59,152 --> 00:34:03,162 Glad you asked me that. I brought these along special. 467 00:34:03,239 --> 00:34:06,371 I bought these in Peabody's general store, 468 00:34:06,450 --> 00:34:09,998 in your home town, Mr Brady, Weeping Water, Nebraska. 469 00:34:18,588 --> 00:34:23,179 Let us proceed with the selection of the final juror. Mort. 470 00:34:23,259 --> 00:34:25,763 State your name and occupation, Jess. 471 00:34:25,845 --> 00:34:28,395 Jesse H Dunlap. Farmer. 472 00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:32,185 - Mr Davenport. - Right. 473 00:34:33,102 --> 00:34:36,151 Do you believe in the Bible, Mr Dunlap? 474 00:34:37,190 --> 00:34:42,540 I believe in the holy word of God. And I believe in Matthew Harrison Brady. 475 00:34:42,612 --> 00:34:44,617 Amen! 476 00:34:44,697 --> 00:34:46,619 Hallelujah, brother. 477 00:34:49,368 --> 00:34:53,841 This man is acceptable to the prosecution. 478 00:34:53,915 --> 00:34:57,378 - Mr Drummond? - No questions. Not acceptable. 479 00:35:00,588 --> 00:35:04,135 Does Mr Drummond refuse this man a place on the jury 480 00:35:04,217 --> 00:35:06,304 because he believes in the Bible? 481 00:35:06,385 --> 00:35:10,811 If you find an evolutionist in this town, you can refuse him. 482 00:35:10,890 --> 00:35:15,031 I object to the defence attorney rejecting a worthy citizen 483 00:35:15,102 --> 00:35:18,697 without so much as asking him a question. 484 00:35:19,774 --> 00:35:22,408 All right, I'll ask him a question. 485 00:35:33,830 --> 00:35:35,585 How are you? 486 00:35:35,665 --> 00:35:38,215 Well, kinda hot. 487 00:35:38,292 --> 00:35:41,092 Me too. Excused. 488 00:35:50,513 --> 00:35:53,776 You are excused from jury duty, Jesse. You may step down. 489 00:35:53,850 --> 00:35:55,937 Your Honour, 490 00:35:56,018 --> 00:36:02,745 I object to the note of levity which the counsel for the defence is introducing. 491 00:36:02,817 --> 00:36:05,237 The court agrees with you, Colonel Brady. 492 00:36:05,319 --> 00:36:08,534 And I object to all this "Colonel Brady" talk. 493 00:36:08,614 --> 00:36:12,375 I am not familiar with Mr Brady's military record. 494 00:36:12,451 --> 00:36:17,968 He was made honorary colonel in our state militia the day he arrived. 495 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,303 The use of the title prejudices the case of my client. 496 00:36:21,377 --> 00:36:25,518 It calls up a picture of the prosecution astride a white horse 497 00:36:25,590 --> 00:36:28,520 ablaze in the uniform of a military colonel, 498 00:36:28,593 --> 00:36:34,359 and with all the forces of right and righteousness marshalled behind him. 499 00:36:36,517 --> 00:36:39,732 We want to give you a fair hearing in this courtroom. 500 00:36:39,812 --> 00:36:43,110 We don't want anything prejudicial to your client. 501 00:36:43,191 --> 00:36:45,741 What do you suggest we do, Counsellor? 502 00:36:45,818 --> 00:36:48,784 Break him. Make him a private. 503 00:36:48,863 --> 00:36:53,917 I have no serious objection to the honorary title of Private Brady. 504 00:37:06,672 --> 00:37:10,136 You'd better do something about this, Jason. 505 00:37:10,218 --> 00:37:13,931 - Get him up here. - Oh, Mr Drummond. 506 00:37:17,517 --> 00:37:19,604 - You know our mayor? - Yes. 507 00:37:19,685 --> 00:37:21,940 I believe he has a suggestion to make. 508 00:37:22,021 --> 00:37:25,153 By authority of, uh... 509 00:37:26,192 --> 00:37:28,695 I'm sure the governor won't object. 510 00:37:28,778 --> 00:37:35,409 I hereby appoint you a temporary honorary colonel in the state militia. 511 00:37:35,493 --> 00:37:39,040 Well! Well, gentlemen, what can I say? 512 00:37:40,122 --> 00:37:46,220 It is not every day that a man attains the position of temporary honorary colonel. 513 00:37:46,295 --> 00:37:48,431 I thank you. 514 00:37:51,134 --> 00:37:55,440 Colonel Brady, Colonel Drummond, you will examine the next venireman. 515 00:37:55,513 --> 00:37:57,600 Mort. 516 00:37:58,933 --> 00:38:01,187 George Sillers. 517 00:38:01,269 --> 00:38:03,356 You're next, George. 518 00:38:09,235 --> 00:38:11,703 State your name and occupation, George. 519 00:38:11,779 --> 00:38:15,955 George Sillers. I work at the feed store. 520 00:38:17,743 --> 00:38:21,504 Tell me, sir, would you call yourself a religious man? 521 00:38:21,581 --> 00:38:23,716 I'm as religious as the next fella. 522 00:38:23,791 --> 00:38:26,472 In Hillsboro, sir, that means a great deal. 523 00:38:28,754 --> 00:38:32,101 Tell me, Mr Sillers, do you have any children? 524 00:38:32,842 --> 00:38:34,929 Not as I know of. 525 00:38:37,221 --> 00:38:40,567 If you had a son, or a daughter, what would you think 526 00:38:40,641 --> 00:38:45,197 if that sweet child came home from school and told you a godless teacher... 527 00:38:45,271 --> 00:38:48,699 Objection! We're supposed to be selecting jury members. 528 00:38:48,774 --> 00:38:53,864 The prosecution is denouncing the defendant before the trial has even begun. 529 00:38:53,946 --> 00:38:56,711 Objection sustained. 530 00:38:57,658 --> 00:39:01,087 Do you have any personal opinions with regard to the defendant 531 00:39:01,162 --> 00:39:04,424 that might prejudice you on his behalf? 532 00:39:04,499 --> 00:39:06,338 - Cates? - Hm. 533 00:39:06,417 --> 00:39:08,921 I don't hardly know the man. 534 00:39:09,003 --> 00:39:13,393 He bought some peat marsh from me one time. He paid his bill. 535 00:39:13,466 --> 00:39:18,472 Mr Sillers impresses me as an honest, God-fearing man. I accept him. 536 00:39:18,554 --> 00:39:21,651 Thank you, Colonel Brady. Colonel Drummond? 537 00:39:29,065 --> 00:39:35,578 Mr Sillers, you have just said that you are a religious man. Do you work at it hard? 538 00:39:35,655 --> 00:39:40,744 I'm pretty busy down at the feed store. My wife tends the religion for both of us. 539 00:39:40,827 --> 00:39:43,330 Oh, I see. I see. 540 00:39:43,412 --> 00:39:46,876 You take care of this life and she takes care of the next one? 541 00:39:46,958 --> 00:39:50,090 That is objected to as immaterial and argumentative. 542 00:39:50,169 --> 00:39:53,135 Objection sustained. 543 00:39:53,214 --> 00:39:56,808 While your wife has been taking care of the religion, 544 00:39:56,884 --> 00:40:00,182 have you ever heard of a fella called Charles Darwin? 545 00:40:00,263 --> 00:40:04,106 - Not till recent. - Tell me something. 546 00:40:04,183 --> 00:40:08,525 From what you've heard, is he the kind of man you'd invite for Sunday dinner? 547 00:40:08,604 --> 00:40:14,406 My opponent from Chicago is cluttering up the issue with hypothetical questions. 548 00:40:14,485 --> 00:40:18,875 I have established that Mr Sillers is not working very hard at religion. 549 00:40:18,948 --> 00:40:23,788 Now, for your sake, I'm trying to establish that he is not working at evolution. 550 00:40:23,870 --> 00:40:26,088 I'm just working at the feed store. 551 00:40:29,584 --> 00:40:34,887 - Mr Sillers, do you think you can render... - Objection. The prosecution's accepted... 552 00:40:34,964 --> 00:40:36,969 - All I want is a fair trial. - So do I. 553 00:40:37,049 --> 00:40:41,012 Unless the state of mind of the members of the jury conforms to the laws... 554 00:40:41,095 --> 00:40:43,017 Oh, conform, conform! 555 00:40:43,097 --> 00:40:47,487 Do you want to run the jury through a meat grinder so they're all the same? 556 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,565 Take a box seat there, Mr Sillers. 557 00:40:49,645 --> 00:40:52,030 Your Honour, this is ludicrous! 558 00:40:52,106 --> 00:40:54,407 Gentlemen, you are both out of order. 559 00:40:54,484 --> 00:40:59,205 The bench rules that the jury has been selected. 560 00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:04,500 Due to the excessive heat, court is adjourned until ten tomorrow morning. 561 00:41:06,162 --> 00:41:09,590 One moment, please. One moment. 562 00:41:09,665 --> 00:41:12,050 Order in the court. 563 00:41:12,126 --> 00:41:14,178 Reverend Brown has asked me to announce 564 00:41:14,253 --> 00:41:19,426 that there will be a prayer meeting tonight to pray for justice and guidance. 565 00:41:19,509 --> 00:41:21,348 All are invited. 566 00:41:21,427 --> 00:41:25,520 Your Honour, I object to that commercial announcement. 567 00:41:25,598 --> 00:41:29,145 - Commercial announcement? - Of Reverend Brown's product. 568 00:41:29,227 --> 00:41:32,525 Why don't you announce there will be an evolution meeting? 569 00:41:32,605 --> 00:41:36,781 - I have no knowledge of such a meeting. - That's quite understandable. 570 00:41:36,859 --> 00:41:42,743 It isn't enough that everybody has to pass under a sign that says "Read Your Bible". 571 00:41:42,824 --> 00:41:46,537 - I want that sign taken down. - No! No! 572 00:41:46,619 --> 00:41:48,706 No! No! 573 00:41:48,788 --> 00:41:51,172 Or else I want another sign put up, 574 00:41:51,249 --> 00:41:55,211 just as big, with just as big letters, which says "Read Your Darwin". 575 00:41:59,507 --> 00:42:01,761 That's what I mean about this man. 576 00:42:01,843 --> 00:42:04,179 - Order! - Your Honour. 577 00:42:04,262 --> 00:42:09,695 We want the counsel from the North to get every fairness and consideration. 578 00:42:09,767 --> 00:42:11,737 We must not forget he is our guest. 579 00:42:11,811 --> 00:42:14,148 Guest, hell! I'm a lawyer in a courtroom! 580 00:42:14,230 --> 00:42:18,739 Then behave like it! Stop using this court as a platform for your obscene ideas, 581 00:42:18,818 --> 00:42:21,119 trying to dirty the minds of our young. 582 00:42:21,195 --> 00:42:24,410 You are both out of order. The court is adjourned. 583 00:42:24,490 --> 00:42:28,334 My conduct is not under question, and certainly not by you. 584 00:42:28,411 --> 00:42:32,468 - Your language is. - I don't swear just for the hell of it. 585 00:42:32,540 --> 00:42:35,126 Language is a poor enough means of communication. 586 00:42:35,209 --> 00:42:37,464 We should use all the words we've got. 587 00:42:37,545 --> 00:42:41,768 Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands. 588 00:42:45,970 --> 00:42:48,734 Henry Drummond, atheist! 589 00:42:48,806 --> 00:42:52,519 You, what are you gonna say in your paper now? 590 00:42:52,602 --> 00:42:57,406 He that sups with the devil must have a long spoon. 591 00:43:14,207 --> 00:43:18,383 We'll fix you, Cates. We'll run you out of town. 592 00:43:20,505 --> 00:43:25,938 Well, anyway, the Baltimore Herald is with you, right up to the lynching. 593 00:43:33,351 --> 00:43:35,985 Bert. 594 00:43:36,062 --> 00:43:38,565 You've got to call the whole thing off now. 595 00:43:38,648 --> 00:43:41,780 - Who are you? - This is Rachel Brown. We're engaged. 596 00:43:41,859 --> 00:43:43,781 Reverend Brown's daughter? 597 00:43:43,861 --> 00:43:45,831 Don't you see what's happening? 598 00:43:45,905 --> 00:43:48,870 They're using you as a weapon against your own people. 599 00:43:48,950 --> 00:43:53,589 What you think or believe isn't the point any more. You're helping something bad. 600 00:43:53,663 --> 00:43:58,717 It's not as simple as all that. Good or bad, black or white, day or night. 601 00:43:58,793 --> 00:44:02,554 Do you know that at the top of the world, twilight is six months long? 602 00:44:02,630 --> 00:44:04,931 Bert and I don't live on top of the world. 603 00:44:05,007 --> 00:44:08,685 We live in Hillsboro, and when the sun goes down, it's dark. 604 00:44:08,761 --> 00:44:11,347 Why do you come here to make it different? 605 00:44:11,430 --> 00:44:15,856 I didn't come to make Hillsboro different. I came to defend his right to be different. 606 00:44:15,935 --> 00:44:19,114 That's the point. How about it, boy? 607 00:44:19,188 --> 00:44:22,486 I don't know what the point is any more. 608 00:44:22,567 --> 00:44:25,247 I tried to open their kids' minds. Their kids. 609 00:44:25,319 --> 00:44:30,325 To give them knowledge they could use. They're using it, as a stranglehold on me. 610 00:44:30,408 --> 00:44:34,963 You're learning, Cates. Disillusionment is what little heroes are made of. 611 00:44:35,037 --> 00:44:38,051 Do I finish with a paper medal on my chest? 612 00:44:38,124 --> 00:44:41,885 "Bert Cates: world's biggest chump. He died fighting. " Let's face it. 613 00:44:41,961 --> 00:44:46,102 - To him I'm a headline. To you, a cause. - And to yourself? 614 00:44:46,174 --> 00:44:50,515 All right, let's face it. You chose to get into this by yourself. 615 00:44:50,595 --> 00:44:54,308 You didn't get into it because of his headline or my cause, 616 00:44:54,390 --> 00:44:57,736 or maybe even because of their kids. 617 00:44:57,810 --> 00:45:01,986 You got into it because of something you believed in for yourself. 618 00:45:02,064 --> 00:45:05,363 - I didn't believe it would happen this way. - It can get worse. 619 00:45:05,443 --> 00:45:07,744 Those people are in a lean and hungry mood. 620 00:45:07,820 --> 00:45:09,908 They look at me as if I was a murderer. 621 00:45:09,989 --> 00:45:14,165 In a way you are. You killed one of their fairy-tale notions. 622 00:45:14,243 --> 00:45:19,712 They'll bring down the wrath of God, Brady and the state legislature on you. 623 00:45:19,790 --> 00:45:24,180 - You make a joke out of everything. - Young lady, 624 00:45:24,253 --> 00:45:28,429 I know what Bert is going through. It's the loneliest feeling in the world. 625 00:45:28,508 --> 00:45:34,107 It's like walking down an empty street listening to your own footsteps. 626 00:45:34,180 --> 00:45:37,727 But all you have to do is to knock on any door and say: 627 00:45:37,809 --> 00:45:41,735 "if you'll let me in, I'll live the way you want me to live, 628 00:45:41,813 --> 00:45:44,530 and I'll think the way you want me to think. " 629 00:45:44,607 --> 00:45:47,455 And all the blinds'll go up, all the doors'll open, 630 00:45:47,527 --> 00:45:51,157 and you'll never be lonely ever again. 631 00:45:52,615 --> 00:45:57,586 It's up to you, Cates. You just say the word and we'll change the plea. 632 00:45:57,662 --> 00:46:03,131 That is, of course, if you honestly believe that the law is right and you're wrong. 633 00:46:03,209 --> 00:46:05,843 If that's the case, tell me and I'll pack my bag 634 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,266 and go back to Chicago, where it's a nice cool 100 in the shade. 635 00:46:09,340 --> 00:46:14,097 Bert, I've gone to my father's church every Sunday as long as I can remember. 636 00:46:14,178 --> 00:46:18,438 This is where I live. This is where my children'll be born. 637 00:46:18,516 --> 00:46:20,770 What kind of a life could we have? 638 00:46:22,812 --> 00:46:26,573 What kind of life could we have if I gave up now? 639 00:46:26,649 --> 00:46:30,031 Your father's kind? Hallelujah and ignorance here we come? 640 00:46:30,111 --> 00:46:36,374 What goes on here is not necessarily the Christian religion everyplace else. 641 00:46:39,370 --> 00:46:42,917 Rach, I can't live the way you want me to. 642 00:46:42,999 --> 00:46:46,345 You're the one who's got to decide. 643 00:46:46,419 --> 00:46:49,883 It's his church or our house. You can't live in both. 644 00:46:52,592 --> 00:46:56,472 Sorry, Bert. I have to take you back now. 645 00:47:16,157 --> 00:47:18,542 You ever been in love, Hornbeck? 646 00:47:18,618 --> 00:47:23,126 Only with the sound of my own words, thank God. 647 00:47:24,248 --> 00:47:27,879 I have been to their cities and I have seen the altars 648 00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:33,643 upon which they sacrifice the futures of their children to the gods of science. 649 00:47:33,716 --> 00:47:37,145 And what are their rewards? Confusion and self-destruction. 650 00:47:37,220 --> 00:47:39,937 New ways to kill each other in wars. 651 00:47:40,014 --> 00:47:42,778 The way of scientism is the way of darkness. 652 00:47:42,850 --> 00:47:45,899 Mr Brady, do you believe seriously 653 00:47:45,978 --> 00:47:50,285 that the majority of the American people hold with your views? 654 00:47:50,358 --> 00:47:53,952 Not just the views of Matthew Harrison Brady, Mr Hornbeck. 655 00:47:54,028 --> 00:47:57,825 There isn't one state where the evolutionists are in the majority. 656 00:47:57,907 --> 00:48:00,837 It'll be the people themselves who will speak. 657 00:48:00,910 --> 00:48:06,213 How do you account for the unfortunate comment that your crusade has aroused? 658 00:48:06,290 --> 00:48:11,925 The attacks stem from a vociferous minority which controls the press. 659 00:48:12,004 --> 00:48:17,888 I hope you gentlemen - madam - will not be influenced by this same negative bias. 660 00:48:17,969 --> 00:48:20,223 Pardon me. 661 00:48:20,304 --> 00:48:25,560 Thank you, O Lord, dear Father, from whom all blessings flow, for thy bounty. 662 00:48:25,643 --> 00:48:28,573 Make us worthy of thy grace. Amen. 663 00:48:28,646 --> 00:48:32,240 Go ahead, Henry. I said grace for you too. 664 00:48:32,316 --> 00:48:37,620 God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists and the life beyond hold no... 665 00:48:37,697 --> 00:48:41,374 - Sarah! - But the mass of mankind will worship. 666 00:48:41,450 --> 00:48:43,004 Justice rests... 667 00:48:43,077 --> 00:48:46,708 Here, sit with me. He'll be busy for a while. 668 00:48:47,832 --> 00:48:51,675 Where is it? The hat with the little blue feather. 669 00:48:51,752 --> 00:48:53,639 Blue feather? 670 00:48:53,713 --> 00:48:58,850 You used to wear it to all the conventions. And it was much too becoming. 671 00:48:58,926 --> 00:49:03,233 And whatever happened to that skinny black tie you used to wear? 672 00:49:03,306 --> 00:49:07,149 Not very attractive. Like an old shoelace. 673 00:49:07,226 --> 00:49:09,481 It's back in the shoe. 674 00:49:09,562 --> 00:49:11,649 How are you, Sarah? How are you? 675 00:49:11,731 --> 00:49:16,121 - A little greyer, Henry. And you? - A little grimmer. 676 00:49:16,194 --> 00:49:20,666 I don't believe it. I watched you in court. You seemed to enjoy it as much as ever. 677 00:49:20,740 --> 00:49:24,168 That's Matt. He brings out the worst in me. 678 00:49:24,243 --> 00:49:26,545 We've missed you, Henry. 679 00:49:26,621 --> 00:49:29,255 You don't make many good friends in a lifetime. 680 00:49:29,332 --> 00:49:34,255 I never dreamed our ideas would separate us. 681 00:49:34,337 --> 00:49:38,809 I have reason to be. I have messages of encouragement from... 682 00:49:38,883 --> 00:49:43,688 - He still has a loud voice. - He still has something to say, Henry. 683 00:49:43,763 --> 00:49:48,686 - About how everybody else should live? - Oh, don't be cynical. 684 00:49:48,768 --> 00:49:54,451 I think every man longs to be his brother's keeper and to be cared for in return. 685 00:49:55,316 --> 00:49:57,902 It sounds more convincing coming from you. 686 00:49:57,985 --> 00:50:01,248 He doesn't have a blue feather in his hat, that's all. 687 00:50:01,322 --> 00:50:07,005 You know, looking back, I don't think Matt would have made a great president. 688 00:50:07,078 --> 00:50:11,799 But I would have voted for him for king just to have you for queen. 689 00:50:12,333 --> 00:50:15,964 - What would you have been? - Your Majesty's loyal opposition. 690 00:50:16,045 --> 00:50:18,346 . . the written word of the Bible. 691 00:50:18,422 --> 00:50:21,851 I believe that Hillsboro... Pardon me. 692 00:50:21,926 --> 00:50:25,224 Will become the shrine of all those millions upon millions 693 00:50:25,304 --> 00:50:30,310 who find a rallying point for their expression of God's will. 694 00:50:30,393 --> 00:50:32,979 That's all for today, gentlemen. 695 00:50:34,063 --> 00:50:35,237 Hearken to the Word. 696 00:50:36,065 --> 00:50:38,236 Hearken to the Word! 697 00:50:38,317 --> 00:50:43,490 The Word tells us that the world was created in six days. 698 00:50:43,573 --> 00:50:47,167 In the beginning the earth was without form and void, 699 00:50:47,243 --> 00:50:50,007 and the Lord said "Let there be light. " 700 00:50:50,079 --> 00:50:52,796 - - And there was light. 701 00:50:54,417 --> 00:50:59,257 The Lord saw the light and the light saw the Lord and it said "Am I good, Lord?" 702 00:50:59,338 --> 00:51:02,304 And the Lord said "Thou art good. " 703 00:51:02,383 --> 00:51:03,854 Amen! 704 00:51:03,926 --> 00:51:07,224 And the evening and the morning were the first day. 705 00:51:07,305 --> 00:51:12,193 The Lord said "Let there be a firmament. " And even as he spoke it was so. 706 00:51:12,268 --> 00:51:15,566 And the evening and the morning were the second day. 707 00:51:15,646 --> 00:51:20,403 On the third day brought he forth the dry land and the grass and the fruit tree. 708 00:51:20,485 --> 00:51:23,450 And on the fourth day the sun, the moon and the stars, 709 00:51:23,529 --> 00:51:26,033 and he pronounced them good. 710 00:51:26,115 --> 00:51:28,666 The fifth day peopled he the sea with fish 711 00:51:28,743 --> 00:51:32,705 and the air with fowl and made he the great whale. 712 00:51:32,788 --> 00:51:36,170 And he blessed them all. 713 00:51:38,961 --> 00:51:47,017 But... on the morning of the sixth day the Lord rose, 714 00:51:47,094 --> 00:51:53,228 and his eye was dark and a scowl lay across his face. 715 00:51:53,309 --> 00:51:55,813 Why? Why was the Lord troubled? 716 00:51:55,895 --> 00:51:58,860 - Why? Tell us! - Tell us the troubles of the Lord! 717 00:51:58,940 --> 00:52:00,660 Tell us the troubles of the Lord! 718 00:52:00,733 --> 00:52:04,790 The Lord looked around at all his handiwork, bowed down before him, 719 00:52:04,862 --> 00:52:10,830 and he said "it is not good. It is not enough. It is not finished!" 720 00:52:10,910 --> 00:52:15,169 "I shall make me a man!" 721 00:52:18,417 --> 00:52:20,636 - Do we believe? - Yes. 722 00:52:20,711 --> 00:52:22,763 - Do we believe the Word? - Yes. 723 00:52:22,839 --> 00:52:25,389 - Do we believe the truth of the Word? - Yes. 724 00:52:25,466 --> 00:52:28,681 - Do we curse him who denies the Word? - Yes. 725 00:52:28,761 --> 00:52:32,723 Do we call down hellfire on the man who has sinned against the Word? 726 00:52:32,807 --> 00:52:33,981 Yes! 727 00:52:34,058 --> 00:52:36,359 Whatever happened to silent prayer? 728 00:52:36,435 --> 00:52:39,532 O Lord of the tempest and the thunder, 729 00:52:39,605 --> 00:52:42,654 strike down this sinner 730 00:52:42,733 --> 00:52:46,115 as thou did thine enemies of old in the days of the Pharaohs. 731 00:52:46,195 --> 00:52:49,743 Let him know the terror of thy sword. 732 00:52:49,824 --> 00:52:57,547 Let his soul, for all eternity, writhe in anguish and damnation! 733 00:52:57,623 --> 00:53:01,716 No! No, Pa! Don't pray to destroy Bert! 734 00:53:01,794 --> 00:53:07,560 Lord, we ask this same curse for those who ask grace for this sinner, 735 00:53:07,633 --> 00:53:11,062 though they be blood of my blood and flesh of my flesh! 736 00:53:11,137 --> 00:53:13,854 Reverend Brown. Reverend Brown. 737 00:53:13,931 --> 00:53:18,985 I know it's the great zeal of your faith which makes you utter this prayer, 738 00:53:19,061 --> 00:53:21,316 but it is possible to be overzealous, 739 00:53:21,397 --> 00:53:26,321 to destroy that which you hope to save so that nothing is left but emptiness. 740 00:53:26,402 --> 00:53:29,368 Remember the wisdom of Solomon in the Book of Proverbs. 741 00:53:29,447 --> 00:53:36,257 "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind. " 742 00:53:36,329 --> 00:53:39,793 The Bible also tells us that God forgives his children. 743 00:53:39,874 --> 00:53:44,845 And we, as children of God, should forgive each other. 744 00:53:44,921 --> 00:53:50,271 My good friends, return to your homes. Go home. 745 00:53:50,343 --> 00:53:53,308 The blessings of the Lord be with you all. 746 00:54:10,071 --> 00:54:12,076 We'll take you home. 747 00:54:12,156 --> 00:54:16,961 - I can't go home. He hates me. - He doesn't hate you. 748 00:54:17,036 --> 00:54:20,879 He damned me. My own father damned me to hell. 749 00:54:20,957 --> 00:54:23,258 No man has the power to damn. 750 00:54:23,334 --> 00:54:28,684 He's always done it. He did it to Bert and the little Stebbins boy. 751 00:54:28,756 --> 00:54:31,057 The Stebbins boy? 752 00:54:31,134 --> 00:54:33,814 That's how the whole thing started. 753 00:54:35,096 --> 00:54:38,145 The Stebbins boy was just an innocent child. 754 00:54:38,224 --> 00:54:42,696 God has no wrath for the innocent, my dear. 755 00:54:42,770 --> 00:54:45,404 That's what Bert said. 756 00:54:45,481 --> 00:54:49,075 He used to say that when we were together. 757 00:54:50,736 --> 00:54:58,661 If I could just explain it clearly, then you'd understand. Mr Brady, please... 758 00:54:58,744 --> 00:55:03,217 We'll do all we can to help you. Come. Now let's go home. 759 00:55:29,025 --> 00:55:32,287 - I'll be right up, Sarah. - All right, Matt. 760 00:55:32,361 --> 00:55:35,291 - Good night, Henry. - Good night. 761 00:55:46,375 --> 00:55:50,006 - You're up late. - Too hot to sleep. 762 00:55:51,964 --> 00:55:54,812 No use trying to fool ourselves, Henry. 763 00:55:54,884 --> 00:55:58,396 We're just not the men we used to be. 764 00:55:59,430 --> 00:56:05,694 By the size of that meal you packed away, I'd say you hadn't changed in 40 years. 765 00:56:13,945 --> 00:56:19,663 Funny how two people can start from the same point and drift apart. 766 00:56:21,744 --> 00:56:25,375 It's the nature of the life process. 767 00:56:25,456 --> 00:56:29,003 There used to be a mutuality of understanding 768 00:56:29,085 --> 00:56:32,347 and admiration between us, Henry. 769 00:56:33,381 --> 00:56:39,016 Why is it, my old friend, that you've moved so far away from me? 770 00:56:39,095 --> 00:56:45,027 All motion is relative, Matt. Maybe it's you who have moved away by standing still. 771 00:56:45,101 --> 00:56:47,900 Hm. 772 00:56:47,979 --> 00:56:53,496 If progress means abandoning God, abandoning the faith of our fathers... 773 00:56:53,568 --> 00:56:57,364 I saw a demonstration of that faith. It's a deadly instrument. 774 00:56:57,446 --> 00:57:02,417 You saw a reflection of the violence and hate in the world around them. 775 00:57:02,493 --> 00:57:04,166 Your world. 776 00:57:04,245 --> 00:57:07,876 But they were driven to it because their faith was challenged. 777 00:57:07,957 --> 00:57:10,840 These are simple people, Henry. Poor people. 778 00:57:10,918 --> 00:57:17,182 They work hard and they need to believe in something... something beautiful. 779 00:57:17,258 --> 00:57:20,473 They're seeking something more perfect than what they have. 780 00:57:20,553 --> 00:57:22,273 Window-shopping for heaven. 781 00:57:22,346 --> 00:57:25,644 Why do you want to take it away from them? It's all they have. 782 00:57:25,725 --> 00:57:28,690 Like a golden chalice of hope. 783 00:57:30,229 --> 00:57:31,819 Ah. 784 00:57:31,898 --> 00:57:34,401 Like my golden Dancer. 785 00:57:36,235 --> 00:57:40,079 - Your what? - Golden Dancer. 786 00:57:40,156 --> 00:57:43,502 She stood in the side window of the general store in Wakeman, Ohio. 787 00:57:43,576 --> 00:57:49,294 I used to say to myself "If I had Golden Dancer I'd have everything I ever wanted. " 788 00:57:49,373 --> 00:57:54,926 I was about seven years old at the time and a great judge of rocking horses. 789 00:57:55,004 --> 00:57:58,101 Golden Dancer had a bright red mane, blue eyes, 790 00:57:58,174 --> 00:58:00,974 and she was gold all over with purple spots. 791 00:58:01,052 --> 00:58:05,975 And when the sun hit her stirrups she was a dazzling sight to behold. 792 00:58:06,057 --> 00:58:10,399 But she was a week's wages for my father. 793 00:58:10,478 --> 00:58:16,493 So Golden Dancer and I always had a big plate glass window between us. 794 00:58:18,528 --> 00:58:20,864 And then... 795 00:58:20,947 --> 00:58:22,619 Let's see... 796 00:58:22,698 --> 00:58:27,337 Couldn't have been Christmas. It must have been my birthday. 797 00:58:27,411 --> 00:58:31,718 I woke in the morning and there was Golden Dancer at the foot of my bed. 798 00:58:31,791 --> 00:58:36,548 Mom had skimped on the groceries and my father had worked nights for a month. 799 00:58:36,629 --> 00:58:40,509 I jumped into the saddle and I started to rock. 800 00:58:41,634 --> 00:58:45,644 And it broke. Split in two. The wood was rotten. 801 00:58:45,721 --> 00:58:50,526 The whole thing was put together with spit and sealing wax. 802 00:58:50,601 --> 00:58:53,449 All shine and no substance. 803 00:58:53,521 --> 00:58:57,661 And that's how I feel about that demonstration I saw tonight, Matt. 804 00:58:57,733 --> 00:59:00,451 All glitter. You say you're giving the people hope. 805 00:59:00,528 --> 00:59:03,791 - I think you're stealing their hope. - No, Henry. 806 00:59:03,865 --> 00:59:10,674 As long as the prerequisite for that shining paradise is ignorance, bigotry and hate, 807 00:59:10,746 --> 00:59:13,215 I say to hell with it. 808 00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,311 ... to keep an open mind on the origin of species. 809 00:59:27,638 --> 00:59:31,233 Very interesting, Howard. Very interesting. 810 00:59:31,309 --> 00:59:36,826 Now go on, Howard. Tell us what else Mr Cates told you in the classroom. 811 00:59:38,149 --> 00:59:41,743 He said first the earth was too hot for any kind of life. 812 00:59:41,819 --> 00:59:45,616 Then it cooled off a mite and cells and things began to grow. 813 00:59:45,698 --> 00:59:48,083 Cell... 814 00:59:48,159 --> 00:59:49,630 Oh. 815 00:59:49,702 --> 00:59:55,468 Mr McKennon, Mr Galbraith. I think you know the rest of these gentlemen. 816 01:00:05,968 --> 01:00:09,516 - Cells, Howard? - Little bugs in the water. 817 01:00:09,597 --> 01:00:14,106 The little bugs got to be bigger bugs, sprouted legs and crawled up on the land. 818 01:00:14,185 --> 01:00:16,688 How long did this take, according to Mr Cates? 819 01:00:16,771 --> 01:00:19,701 A couple of million years. Maybe longer. 820 01:00:20,441 --> 01:00:24,154 Then comes the fishes, and reptiles and mammals. Man's a mammal. 821 01:00:24,237 --> 01:00:26,324 Along with the dogs. 822 01:00:26,405 --> 01:00:28,790 And the cattle in the fields. 823 01:00:28,866 --> 01:00:30,954 - Did he say that? - Yes, sir. 824 01:00:33,204 --> 01:00:38,258 Now, Howard, how does man come out of this slimy mess of bugs and serpents, 825 01:00:38,334 --> 01:00:41,098 according to your professor? 826 01:00:42,213 --> 01:00:46,722 Well, man has sort of evoluted from the Old World monkeys. 827 01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:49,848 Did you hear that, my friends? 828 01:00:49,929 --> 01:00:52,314 Old World monkeys! Ha! 829 01:00:52,390 --> 01:00:57,942 According to Mr Cates, you and I aren't even descended from American monkeys. 830 01:00:58,020 --> 01:00:59,693 Listen carefully. 831 01:00:59,772 --> 01:01:05,704 In all this talk of bugs and evolution, of slime and ooze, 832 01:01:05,778 --> 01:01:10,120 did Mr Cates ever make any reference to God? 833 01:01:12,326 --> 01:01:17,499 - Not as I remember. - Of the miracle he achieved in 7 days, 834 01:01:17,582 --> 01:01:20,547 as described in the beautiful Book of Genesis? 835 01:01:20,626 --> 01:01:22,513 No, sir. 836 01:01:22,587 --> 01:01:25,933 - Ladies and gentlemen... - Objection. 837 01:01:26,007 --> 01:01:30,064 I ask the court to remind the learned counsel he is not in a chautauqua tent. 838 01:01:30,136 --> 01:01:33,979 He is submitting evidence to a jury. There are no ladies on the jury. 839 01:01:34,056 --> 01:01:39,823 Your Honour, I have no intention of making a speech. 840 01:01:39,896 --> 01:01:42,150 There is no need. 841 01:01:42,231 --> 01:01:45,031 I am sure that everyone on the jury, 842 01:01:45,109 --> 01:01:47,529 everyone within the sound of this boy's voice, 843 01:01:47,612 --> 01:01:50,577 is moved by his tragic confusion. 844 01:01:50,656 --> 01:01:54,168 He has been taught that he wriggled up like an animal 845 01:01:54,243 --> 01:01:56,711 from the filth and muck below. 846 01:01:56,787 --> 01:02:01,711 I say that these Bible-haters, these evolutionists are brewers of poison. 847 01:02:01,792 --> 01:02:06,467 And the legislature of this sovereign state has had the wisdom to demand 848 01:02:06,547 --> 01:02:09,596 that the pedlars of poison, in bottles or in books, 849 01:02:09,675 --> 01:02:13,057 clearly label the product they attempt to sell. 850 01:02:13,137 --> 01:02:17,360 I say that if this law is not upheld, this boy will become one of a generation 851 01:02:17,433 --> 01:02:20,565 shorn of its faith by the teachings of godless science. 852 01:02:20,645 --> 01:02:25,402 But if the full penalty of the law is meted out to Bertram Cates, 853 01:02:25,483 --> 01:02:27,654 the faithful the whole world over, 854 01:02:27,735 --> 01:02:31,532 who are watching us here and listening to our every word, 855 01:02:31,614 --> 01:02:36,205 will rise up and call this courtroom blessed. 856 01:02:36,285 --> 01:02:38,504 Your witness, sir. 857 01:02:47,713 --> 01:02:51,059 I sure am glad the colonel didn't make a speech. 858 01:02:52,927 --> 01:02:55,395 Now, Howard. 859 01:02:55,471 --> 01:02:58,650 I heard you say that the world used to get pretty hot. 860 01:02:58,724 --> 01:03:00,979 That's what Mr Cates said. 861 01:03:01,060 --> 01:03:04,109 Any hotter than it is right now, do you think? 862 01:03:04,188 --> 01:03:08,329 I guess it must have been. Mr Cates read it to us from a book. 863 01:03:08,401 --> 01:03:11,165 This the book? 864 01:03:11,237 --> 01:03:15,662 Charles Darwin's Theory Of The Evolution And The Descent Of Man. 865 01:03:15,741 --> 01:03:19,419 - Yes, sir. - That's right, Howard. 866 01:03:19,495 --> 01:03:24,466 That's the very book he read to you in your classroom. 867 01:03:24,542 --> 01:03:30,509 Now, Howard, tell me, do you think there was anything wrong in there? 868 01:03:30,590 --> 01:03:32,974 Well, I don't know. 869 01:03:33,050 --> 01:03:35,138 Objection, Your Honour. 870 01:03:35,219 --> 01:03:40,225 The defence is asking that a 15-year-old give an opinion on a question of morality. 871 01:03:40,308 --> 01:03:45,314 I am trying to establish that Howard or Colonel Brady or Charles Darwin 872 01:03:45,396 --> 01:03:49,537 or anyone sitting in this courtroom, or you, sir, has the right to think. 873 01:03:49,609 --> 01:03:53,535 Colonel Drummond, the right to think is not on trial here. 874 01:03:54,947 --> 01:03:57,498 With all due respect to the court, sir, 875 01:03:57,575 --> 01:04:01,253 I think the right to think is very much on trial here. 876 01:04:01,329 --> 01:04:04,543 And it is in danger in the proceedings of this courtroom. 877 01:04:04,624 --> 01:04:08,764 - A man is on trial. - A thinking man. 878 01:04:08,836 --> 01:04:14,887 He's faced with fine and imprisonment because he speaks what he thinks. 879 01:04:14,967 --> 01:04:20,436 Colonel Drummond, will you please rephrase your question? 880 01:04:20,515 --> 01:04:22,270 Let's put it this way, Howard. 881 01:04:22,350 --> 01:04:27,404 All this fuss and feathers about evolution, do you think it hurt you any? 882 01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,410 - Sir? - Did it do you any harm? 883 01:04:30,483 --> 01:04:33,330 Still feel reasonably fit? 884 01:04:33,402 --> 01:04:38,871 What Mr Cates told you, did it hurt your baseball game any? 885 01:04:38,950 --> 01:04:41,536 Did it affect your pitching arm? 886 01:04:41,619 --> 01:04:44,632 No, sir. I'm a lefty. 887 01:04:44,705 --> 01:04:48,466 A southpaw, huh? Still honour your father and your mother? 888 01:04:48,543 --> 01:04:51,307 - Sure. - Haven't murdered anybody, have you? 889 01:04:51,379 --> 01:04:57,311 Objection. This is an absurd piece of jactitation. 890 01:05:02,890 --> 01:05:07,197 Counsel uses a word with which the bench is not familiar. 891 01:05:07,937 --> 01:05:11,568 Jactitation: a specious or false premise. 892 01:05:11,649 --> 01:05:15,955 In this instance as to the murder of known or unknown persons. 893 01:05:16,863 --> 01:05:20,125 Objection sustained. 894 01:05:20,199 --> 01:05:24,209 Ask him if his faith in the Holy Scriptures has been shattered. 895 01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:28,797 When I need your help, Colonel Brady, 896 01:05:28,875 --> 01:05:31,888 you may rest assured I shall humbly ask for it. 897 01:05:32,587 --> 01:05:36,051 Any time, Colonel Drummond. Any time. 898 01:05:36,132 --> 01:05:41,305 He's the only man I know who can strut sitting down. 899 01:05:42,263 --> 01:05:44,350 Now, Howard, tell me something. 900 01:05:44,432 --> 01:05:47,730 Did you believe everything Mr Cates told you? 901 01:05:47,810 --> 01:05:50,658 I'm not sure. I gotta think about it. 902 01:05:50,730 --> 01:05:53,613 Good for you. Good for you. 903 01:05:53,691 --> 01:05:57,618 - Now, your pa's a farmer, isn't he? - Yes, sir. 904 01:05:57,695 --> 01:06:00,459 - Got a tractor? - Brand-new one. 905 01:06:00,531 --> 01:06:04,838 You think there's anything sinful about a tractor because it's not in the Bible? 906 01:06:04,911 --> 01:06:06,038 No. 907 01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:08,754 You know, Moses never made a phone call. 908 01:06:08,831 --> 01:06:13,470 Do you figure that makes the telephone an instrument of the devil? 909 01:06:13,544 --> 01:06:17,257 - I never thought of it that way. - Neither did anybody else. 910 01:06:17,340 --> 01:06:22,263 Your Honour, the defence makes the same old error of all godless men. 911 01:06:22,345 --> 01:06:28,063 He confuses material things with the spiritual value of the revealed word. 912 01:06:28,142 --> 01:06:30,230 Why do you bewilder this child? 913 01:06:30,311 --> 01:06:32,815 Does right have no meaning to you, sir? 914 01:06:32,897 --> 01:06:36,409 Realising that I may prejudice the case of my client, 915 01:06:36,484 --> 01:06:40,494 I must tell you that right has no meaning for me whatsoever. 916 01:06:45,284 --> 01:06:48,381 But truth has meaning, as a direction. 917 01:06:50,122 --> 01:06:56,339 But it is one of the peculiar imbecilities of our time 918 01:06:56,420 --> 01:07:00,264 that we place a grid of morality upon human behaviour, 919 01:07:00,341 --> 01:07:02,761 so that the action of every man 920 01:07:02,844 --> 01:07:08,645 must be measured against an arbitrary latitude of right and a longitude of wrong 921 01:07:08,724 --> 01:07:12,568 in exact minutes, degrees and seconds. 922 01:07:12,645 --> 01:07:14,116 So... 923 01:07:18,985 --> 01:07:22,947 Howard, do you know... Do you understand what I'm talking about? 924 01:07:23,030 --> 01:07:25,118 No, sir. 925 01:07:26,159 --> 01:07:30,251 Maybe someday you will. That's all, son. Thank you. You're excused. 926 01:07:30,329 --> 01:07:32,749 This boy may not understand, but I do. 927 01:07:32,832 --> 01:07:35,797 I've seen what you can do to a jury. Twist them. 928 01:07:35,877 --> 01:07:40,598 In the Endicott case you made the jury believe the obscenity was in their mind. 929 01:07:40,673 --> 01:07:44,516 It was immoral what you did to the jury. Judgement by confusion. 930 01:07:44,594 --> 01:07:49,102 - You think you can get away with it here? - I'm not trying to get away with anything. 931 01:07:49,182 --> 01:07:51,899 I am simply trying to prevent the clock-stoppers 932 01:07:51,976 --> 01:07:56,448 from dumping a lot of medieval nonsense into the United States Constitution. 933 01:07:56,772 --> 01:07:59,074 This is not a federal court. 934 01:07:59,150 --> 01:08:02,946 - You have to stop them somewhere! - It's obvious what he's doing. 935 01:08:03,029 --> 01:08:06,706 He is trying to make us forget the lawbreaker and put the law on trial. 936 01:08:06,782 --> 01:08:09,879 We have the answer for you in our next witness. 937 01:08:09,952 --> 01:08:12,503 Call Miss Rachel Brown to the stand. 938 01:08:12,580 --> 01:08:17,800 Rachel Brown! Rachel Brown come to the stand, please. 939 01:08:18,127 --> 01:08:20,844 Did you know about this? 940 01:08:20,922 --> 01:08:24,635 He didn't, but we should have. 941 01:08:25,009 --> 01:08:27,097 Rach? 942 01:08:29,055 --> 01:08:33,361 - Rach, what did you tell him? - Take it easy, son. 943 01:08:39,941 --> 01:08:43,452 Sit down, Samson. You're about to get a haircut. 944 01:08:43,528 --> 01:08:47,205 Rachel, do you solemnly swear the testimony you're about to give 945 01:08:47,281 --> 01:08:51,338 is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God? 946 01:08:51,410 --> 01:08:53,498 I do. 947 01:08:53,579 --> 01:08:58,835 Now, my dear, I just want you to repeat some of the things you told me last night. 948 01:08:58,918 --> 01:09:01,005 Please, Mr Brady. 949 01:09:01,087 --> 01:09:04,266 You said you wanted people to understand, didn't you? 950 01:09:04,340 --> 01:09:06,891 - Yes. - Just answer my question. 951 01:09:06,968 --> 01:09:12,567 Now, Miss Brown, you are an old friend of the defendant, Bertram Cates? 952 01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:14,859 We're engaged to be married. 953 01:09:14,934 --> 01:09:18,280 - Do you attend the same church? - Yes. 954 01:09:18,354 --> 01:09:20,027 We did. 955 01:09:20,106 --> 01:09:22,787 - Do you now? - What? 956 01:09:22,859 --> 01:09:25,029 Attend the same church. 957 01:09:26,070 --> 01:09:27,458 No. 958 01:09:27,530 --> 01:09:30,330 Did Mr Cates leave the church? 959 01:09:30,408 --> 01:09:33,540 No. Not really. Not the spirit of it. 960 01:09:33,619 --> 01:09:35,790 But the body of it. Correct? 961 01:09:35,872 --> 01:09:41,305 Mr Cates left the church you and he once attended together? 962 01:09:41,377 --> 01:09:43,429 - Yes. - Why? 963 01:09:44,463 --> 01:09:47,892 - Because of the Stebbins boy. - The Stebbins boy. 964 01:09:47,967 --> 01:09:50,304 Would you tell us about that, please? 965 01:09:50,386 --> 01:09:55,855 It was two summers ago. The little Stebbins boy was 13 years old. 966 01:09:55,933 --> 01:10:00,572 He was one of Bert's students. He lived right next door to the boarding house, 967 01:10:00,646 --> 01:10:04,075 and he used to come over and look through Bert's microscope. 968 01:10:04,609 --> 01:10:07,159 Bert said the boy had a bright mind 969 01:10:07,236 --> 01:10:10,250 and he might even be a scientist when he grew up. 970 01:10:10,323 --> 01:10:13,040 Yes? 971 01:10:13,117 --> 01:10:16,830 He went to the river with the other boys and went swimming. 972 01:10:17,747 --> 01:10:22,587 He... He got a cramp... and drowned. 973 01:10:25,546 --> 01:10:27,433 Go on. 974 01:10:28,549 --> 01:10:34,184 At the funeral, Pa preached that Tommy didn't die in a state of grace 975 01:10:34,263 --> 01:10:38,523 because his father wouldn't allow him to be baptised. 976 01:10:38,601 --> 01:10:42,943 Tell 'em what your father really said. That Tommy's soul was damned. 977 01:10:43,022 --> 01:10:45,870 Cates, you sinner! 978 01:10:45,942 --> 01:10:51,031 Religion's supposed to comfort people, not frighten 'em to death! 979 01:10:52,865 --> 01:10:55,748 We will have order, please. Now, sit down, Bert. 980 01:10:55,827 --> 01:11:00,999 Don't you see? Bert thought it wasn't fair that a little child couldn't go to heaven. 981 01:11:01,082 --> 01:11:03,502 It wasn't God he abandoned, only the church. 982 01:11:03,584 --> 01:11:07,891 It is true, then, that because of what happened to the Stebbins boy, 983 01:11:07,964 --> 01:11:10,811 Bert Cates left the church? 984 01:11:10,883 --> 01:11:14,976 You've said nothing wrong. We are merely gaining some insight 985 01:11:15,054 --> 01:11:18,685 into the experiences that sometimes will lead a young man astray. 986 01:11:18,766 --> 01:11:24,615 Objection. Whether my client went astray is a matter of interpretation. 987 01:11:24,689 --> 01:11:30,490 Objection sustained. The jury is directed to disregard the remarks of counsel. 988 01:11:30,570 --> 01:11:32,041 Very well. 989 01:11:32,113 --> 01:11:38,376 Will you tell the jury some more of Mr Cates' opinions on the subject of religion? 990 01:11:38,452 --> 01:11:42,593 Objection! Hearsay evidence is not admissible. 991 01:11:42,665 --> 01:11:47,137 The court sees no objection to this line of questioning. Proceed, Colonel Brady. 992 01:11:47,211 --> 01:11:51,637 Just repeat some of the conversations you had with the defendant. 993 01:11:51,716 --> 01:11:56,390 Rachel, you can't. The things I said to you were questions you ask your own heart. 994 01:11:56,471 --> 01:12:00,101 If you say them out loud, you'll make them sound like answers. 995 01:12:00,183 --> 01:12:02,353 - I can't. - You won't hurt him. 996 01:12:02,435 --> 01:12:05,733 This is for his good. Speak up. 997 01:12:05,813 --> 01:12:10,784 - Mr Brady, I confided in you... - We're here to serve the truth, Rachel. 998 01:12:10,860 --> 01:12:13,624 I can't remember. 999 01:12:13,696 --> 01:12:16,330 Rachel, you are testifying under oath. 1000 01:12:16,407 --> 01:12:19,456 It is unlawful to withhold pertinent information. 1001 01:12:19,535 --> 01:12:24,210 Describe to the court your innermost feelings when Bert Cates said to you: 1002 01:12:24,290 --> 01:12:27,588 "God did not create man. Man created God. " 1003 01:12:27,668 --> 01:12:32,557 Bert didn't say that. He was just bitter because of the little Stebbins boy. 1004 01:12:32,632 --> 01:12:37,436 He said man created a vengeful God out of his own bigotry, and the devil... 1005 01:12:37,512 --> 01:12:43,527 When he was wondering about the moon, did he mention the possibility of heaven? 1006 01:12:43,601 --> 01:12:48,322 Or did he say there was nothing but a world of stars and moons and galaxies? 1007 01:12:48,397 --> 01:12:51,446 What did he say about the holy state of matrimony? 1008 01:12:51,526 --> 01:12:55,536 - Did he compare it to animals breeding? - Objection! 1009 01:12:55,613 --> 01:12:58,413 You want people to see what happened to his brain 1010 01:12:58,491 --> 01:13:04,126 so they can bring him back to his senses, don't you? Come on! Tell it! Tell it all! 1011 01:13:04,205 --> 01:13:06,091 Matt! 1012 01:13:12,922 --> 01:13:16,516 - Under the circumstances, - 1013 01:13:16,592 --> 01:13:20,519 I believe the witness should be excused. 1014 01:13:26,185 --> 01:13:28,190 Drummond, do you have any objection 1015 01:13:28,271 --> 01:13:32,233 to excusing the witness from cross-examination at this time, 1016 01:13:32,316 --> 01:13:34,156 subject to later recall? 1017 01:13:34,235 --> 01:13:37,996 Your Honour, the defence must have a chance to challenge the words 1018 01:13:38,072 --> 01:13:41,287 put into the mouth of the witness by the prosecutor. 1019 01:13:41,367 --> 01:13:44,380 Don't plague her. Let her go. 1020 01:13:44,453 --> 01:13:47,134 May I have a moment, please? 1021 01:13:47,206 --> 01:13:51,086 Do you want every word he's put into her mouth to go into the record? 1022 01:13:51,169 --> 01:13:53,387 - It's not that important. - Not that... 1023 01:13:53,462 --> 01:13:55,717 They just pulled you apart. 1024 01:13:55,798 --> 01:13:59,855 - Please do as I say. You got to. - I've got to what? Send you to jail? 1025 01:13:59,927 --> 01:14:02,775 - Let her go. - You all-American idiot. 1026 01:14:02,847 --> 01:14:05,433 She handed them your head on a silver platter... 1027 01:14:05,516 --> 01:14:08,779 Stay out of this! It's none of your business. 1028 01:14:08,853 --> 01:14:12,116 Don't tie my hands, son. 1029 01:14:12,190 --> 01:14:15,867 Let her go or I'll change my plea to guilty. 1030 01:14:22,366 --> 01:14:24,253 No questions. 1031 01:14:27,038 --> 01:14:31,546 For the time being, the witness is excused. 1032 01:14:43,262 --> 01:14:45,398 May I have your autograph? 1033 01:14:49,268 --> 01:14:54,192 Does the prosecution wish to call any further witnesses? 1034 01:14:54,273 --> 01:14:57,986 Not at the present time, Your Honour. The prosecution rests. 1035 01:14:58,319 --> 01:15:02,542 We shall proceed with the case for the defence, Colonel Drummond. 1036 01:15:02,615 --> 01:15:09,377 I'd like to call Dr Amos Keller, the head of Zoology at the University of Chicago. 1037 01:15:09,455 --> 01:15:12,338 - Objection. - On what grounds? 1038 01:15:12,416 --> 01:15:15,002 I wish to enquire what possible relevance 1039 01:15:15,086 --> 01:15:19,262 the testimony of a zoology professor can have in this trial. 1040 01:15:19,340 --> 01:15:23,979 Why, it has every relevance. My client is on trial for teaching evolution. 1041 01:15:24,053 --> 01:15:28,893 Any testimony relating to his so-called infringement of the law must be admitted. 1042 01:15:28,975 --> 01:15:32,652 - Irrelevant. Immaterial. Inadmissible. - But why? 1043 01:15:32,728 --> 01:15:35,065 If Bertram Cates were on trial for murder, 1044 01:15:35,148 --> 01:15:38,778 would it be irrelevant to call in witnesses to examine the weapon? 1045 01:15:38,860 --> 01:15:44,293 Would it rule out testimony that the weapon was incapable of firing a bullet? 1046 01:15:44,365 --> 01:15:47,663 I fail to grasp the learned counsel's meaning. 1047 01:15:47,743 --> 01:15:50,329 Oh. 1048 01:15:50,413 --> 01:15:55,170 Well, Your Honour, the defence wishes to place Dr Keller on the stand 1049 01:15:55,251 --> 01:15:58,597 so that he can explain to the gentlemen of the jury 1050 01:15:58,671 --> 01:16:02,265 the exact meaning of the theory of evolution. 1051 01:16:02,341 --> 01:16:05,141 How can they judge if they don't know what it's about? 1052 01:16:05,219 --> 01:16:10,225 I hold that the very law we are here to enforce excludes such testimony. 1053 01:16:10,308 --> 01:16:15,148 The people of this state have made it clear that they do not want zoological hogwash 1054 01:16:15,229 --> 01:16:17,317 slobbered around the schoolrooms. 1055 01:16:17,398 --> 01:16:20,530 And I refuse to allow these agnostic scientists 1056 01:16:20,610 --> 01:16:23,824 to employ this courtroom as a sounding board, 1057 01:16:23,905 --> 01:16:30,631 as a platform from which they can shout their heresies into the headlines. 1058 01:16:30,703 --> 01:16:36,053 Colonel Drummond, the bench rules that zoology is irrelevant to the case. 1059 01:16:36,667 --> 01:16:39,467 Agnostic scientists! 1060 01:16:44,926 --> 01:16:49,600 I call Dr Allen Page, deacon of the Congregational Church, 1061 01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:52,694 and professor of geology and archaeology. 1062 01:16:52,767 --> 01:16:56,361 - Objection. - Objection sustained. 1063 01:16:56,437 --> 01:17:02,369 Does Your Honour deny the existence of zoology, geology and archaeology? 1064 01:17:02,985 --> 01:17:06,118 We do not deny the existence of these sciences, 1065 01:17:06,197 --> 01:17:08,997 but they do not relate to this point of law. 1066 01:17:16,582 --> 01:17:20,972 I call Walter Aaronson, anthropologist, philosopher, author, 1067 01:17:21,045 --> 01:17:24,427 and one of the most brilliant minds in the world. Any objection? 1068 01:17:24,507 --> 01:17:26,642 - Objection. - Your Honour, 1069 01:17:26,717 --> 01:17:32,400 the defence has brought, at great expense and inconvenience, six noted scientists. 1070 01:17:32,473 --> 01:17:37,527 Their testimony is basic to the defence of my client. 1071 01:17:37,603 --> 01:17:41,993 For I intend to show this court that what Bertram Cates spoke quietly 1072 01:17:42,066 --> 01:17:45,744 one spring morning in the Hillsboro high school is no crime. 1073 01:17:45,820 --> 01:17:51,040 It is incontrovertible as geometry to any enlightened community of minds. 1074 01:17:51,117 --> 01:17:56,669 In this community, and in this sovereign state, exactly the opposite is the case. 1075 01:17:56,747 --> 01:17:58,634 The language of the law is clear. 1076 01:17:58,708 --> 01:18:02,718 We do not need experts to question the validity of a law already on the books. 1077 01:18:02,795 --> 01:18:06,093 What do you need? A gallows to hang him from? 1078 01:18:06,174 --> 01:18:08,510 That remark is an insult to this community. 1079 01:18:08,593 --> 01:18:11,476 And this community is an insult to the world. 1080 01:18:14,140 --> 01:18:18,446 Your Honour, I request permission to withdraw from this case. 1081 01:18:18,519 --> 01:18:22,695 - You can't quit now. - You were ready to five minutes ago. 1082 01:18:23,524 --> 01:18:27,404 Colonel Drummond. What reasons can you possibly have? 1083 01:18:27,487 --> 01:18:30,666 Well, there are 200 of 'em. 1084 01:18:30,740 --> 01:18:33,374 And if that's not enough, there's one more. 1085 01:18:33,451 --> 01:18:36,250 I think my client has already been found guilty. 1086 01:18:37,371 --> 01:18:42,544 Is Mr Drummond saying that this expression of an honest emotion 1087 01:18:42,627 --> 01:18:46,719 will influence the court's impartial administration of the law? 1088 01:18:46,797 --> 01:18:50,724 I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. 1089 01:18:50,802 --> 01:18:53,020 You can only destroy and punish. 1090 01:18:53,095 --> 01:18:58,730 And I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches. 1091 01:18:58,810 --> 01:19:02,571 - Its upholders as well as its defiers. - Colonel Drummond. 1092 01:19:02,647 --> 01:19:06,953 Can't you understand that if you take a law like evolution 1093 01:19:07,026 --> 01:19:09,826 and make it a crime to teach it in public schools, 1094 01:19:09,904 --> 01:19:13,285 tomorrow you could make it a crime to teach it in private schools, 1095 01:19:13,366 --> 01:19:16,379 and tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it? 1096 01:19:16,452 --> 01:19:19,584 And soon you may ban books and newspapers. 1097 01:19:19,664 --> 01:19:22,843 And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, 1098 01:19:22,917 --> 01:19:25,218 and Protestant against Protestant, 1099 01:19:25,294 --> 01:19:28,427 and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. 1100 01:19:28,506 --> 01:19:30,593 If you can do one you can do the other, 1101 01:19:30,675 --> 01:19:37,105 because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding. 1102 01:19:37,723 --> 01:19:45,114 And soon, Your Honour, with banners flying and with drums beating, 1103 01:19:45,189 --> 01:19:47,657 we'll be marching backward. 1104 01:19:47,733 --> 01:19:49,406 Backward! 1105 01:19:49,485 --> 01:19:53,282 Through the glorious ages of that 16th century, 1106 01:19:53,364 --> 01:19:57,077 when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment 1107 01:19:57,160 --> 01:20:00,458 and intelligence to the human mind. 1108 01:20:02,206 --> 01:20:06,797 I hope counsel does not mean to imply that this court is bigoted. 1109 01:20:06,878 --> 01:20:11,267 - Your Honour has the right to hope. - I have the right to do more than that. 1110 01:20:11,340 --> 01:20:13,559 You have the power to do more than that. 1111 01:20:13,634 --> 01:20:15,805 And I exercise that power. 1112 01:20:15,887 --> 01:20:19,268 I order you to show cause tomorrow morning at ten o'clock 1113 01:20:19,348 --> 01:20:21,982 why you should not be held in contempt of court. 1114 01:20:22,059 --> 01:20:25,903 In the meanwhile, I order that you be held in custody of the bailiff. 1115 01:20:25,980 --> 01:20:28,400 Bail is fixed at $2,000. 1116 01:20:28,483 --> 01:20:32,872 $2,000? Why don't you make it 4,000? 1117 01:20:33,779 --> 01:20:36,081 It's four, Colonel Drummond. 1118 01:20:36,157 --> 01:20:39,372 Your Honour, my paper will post the bond. 1119 01:20:39,452 --> 01:20:44,173 Can you prove legal authorisation to make such a commitment for your employer? 1120 01:20:44,248 --> 01:20:47,428 - I'll wire my paper immediately. - Fine. 1121 01:20:47,502 --> 01:20:52,093 Until then, Colonel Drummond can avail himself of our municipal accommodation. 1122 01:20:57,053 --> 01:21:00,399 Your Honour. Your Honour, sir. 1123 01:21:00,473 --> 01:21:03,688 I'll put up my farm for Mr Drummond. 1124 01:21:03,768 --> 01:21:07,114 We have no way of ascertaining the value of your farm, sir. 1125 01:21:07,188 --> 01:21:09,275 It ought to be worth that much. 1126 01:21:09,357 --> 01:21:12,370 The law demands that bond be posted in cash. 1127 01:21:13,277 --> 01:21:18,746 Your Honour, my bank will honour the offer on the security of his farm. 1128 01:21:18,825 --> 01:21:22,004 He has considerably more equity in it than that. 1129 01:21:24,789 --> 01:21:29,926 Very well. You can make arrangements with the court clerk. 1130 01:21:31,128 --> 01:21:35,803 - Who are you? - My name is John Stebbins. 1131 01:21:37,135 --> 01:21:42,058 The court will adjourn and reconvene at 10am tomorrow. 1132 01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:52,904 ♪ We'll hang Bert Cates to a sour apple tree 1133 01:21:53,109 --> 01:21:57,249 ♪ We'll hang Bert Cates to a sour apple tree 1134 01:21:57,446 --> 01:22:02,038 ♪ We'll hang Bert Cates to a sour apple tree 1135 01:22:02,118 --> 01:22:07,421 ♪ Our God is marching on 1136 01:22:07,498 --> 01:22:11,888 ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah 1137 01:22:12,086 --> 01:22:15,930 ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah 1138 01:22:18,426 --> 01:22:21,060 She'll sleep all right tonight. 1139 01:22:22,138 --> 01:22:26,397 Give her these pills tomorrow and keep her in bed. 1140 01:22:28,102 --> 01:22:30,190 Thank you, John. 1141 01:22:34,358 --> 01:22:36,446 Rachel. 1142 01:22:38,154 --> 01:22:40,241 Rachel? 1143 01:22:44,702 --> 01:22:49,127 ♪ We'll hang Bert Cates to a sour apple tree 1144 01:22:49,207 --> 01:22:54,344 ♪ Our God is marching on 1145 01:22:54,420 --> 01:22:58,892 ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah 1146 01:22:59,091 --> 01:23:03,314 ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah 1147 01:23:03,513 --> 01:23:07,570 ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah 1148 01:23:07,642 --> 01:23:12,067 ♪ His truth is marching on 1149 01:23:12,146 --> 01:23:16,737 ♪ We'll hang Bert Cates to a sour apple tree 1150 01:23:16,943 --> 01:23:21,451 ♪ We'll hang Bert Cates to a sour apple tree 1151 01:23:21,656 --> 01:23:26,330 ♪ We'll hang Bert Cates to a sour apple tree 1152 01:23:26,410 --> 01:23:31,049 ♪ Our God is marching on 1153 01:23:31,123 --> 01:23:35,632 ♪ We'll hang Henry Drummond to a sour apple tree 1154 01:23:35,837 --> 01:23:40,392 ♪ We'll hang Henry Drummond to a sour apple tree 1155 01:23:40,591 --> 01:23:45,266 ♪ We'll hang Henry Drummond to a sour apple tree 1156 01:23:45,346 --> 01:23:48,359 ♪ Our God is marching on 1157 01:23:50,768 --> 01:23:55,240 ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah 1158 01:23:55,439 --> 01:23:59,746 ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah 1159 01:23:59,944 --> 01:24:04,665 ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah His truth... 1160 01:24:04,740 --> 01:24:06,828 Grrr! 1161 01:24:07,994 --> 01:24:11,340 - Trick or treat? - Oh, for... 1162 01:24:11,414 --> 01:24:14,178 Hooligans of the world unite! 1163 01:24:15,459 --> 01:24:18,758 You've got nothing to burn but your intellectuals. 1164 01:24:18,838 --> 01:24:24,093 Well, those are the boobs that make our laws. It's the democratic process. 1165 01:24:24,177 --> 01:24:26,810 I suppose you have something better to suggest. 1166 01:24:26,888 --> 01:24:31,396 ♪ We'll hang Henry Drummond to a sour apple tree 1167 01:24:31,476 --> 01:24:32,686 Hm. 1168 01:24:32,768 --> 01:24:36,945 Looks like you're going out in a blaze of glory, Counsellor. 1169 01:24:38,024 --> 01:24:43,706 Well, you were pretty impressive for a while there today, Henry. 1170 01:24:43,779 --> 01:24:48,418 "Your Honour, after a while you'll be setting man against man, 1171 01:24:48,493 --> 01:24:53,048 creed against creed, et cetera, et cetera. Ad nauseam. " Unquote. 1172 01:24:53,122 --> 01:24:57,678 Henry, why don't you wake up? Darwin was wrong. 1173 01:24:57,752 --> 01:25:02,473 Man's still an ape and his creed's still a totem pole. 1174 01:25:02,548 --> 01:25:06,179 When he first achieved the upright position, he looked at the stars. 1175 01:25:06,260 --> 01:25:08,348 Thought they were something to eat. 1176 01:25:08,429 --> 01:25:14,231 He couldn't reach them, and he decided they were groceries of a bigger creature. 1177 01:25:14,310 --> 01:25:16,529 That's how Jehovah was born. 1178 01:25:16,604 --> 01:25:21,859 I wish I had your worm's-eye view of history. It would make things a lot easier. 1179 01:25:21,943 --> 01:25:26,949 Oh, no. Not for you. No. You'd still be spending your time 1180 01:25:27,031 --> 01:25:31,836 trying to make sense out of what is laughingly referred to as the human race. 1181 01:25:31,911 --> 01:25:34,296 Why don't you take your blinders off? 1182 01:25:34,372 --> 01:25:37,800 Don't you know the future's already obsolete? 1183 01:25:37,875 --> 01:25:40,556 You think man still has a noble destiny. 1184 01:25:40,628 --> 01:25:44,555 Well, I tell you he's already started on his backward march 1185 01:25:44,632 --> 01:25:47,597 to the salt and stupid sea from which he came. 1186 01:25:47,677 --> 01:25:51,105 What about men like Bert Cates? 1187 01:25:51,180 --> 01:25:53,268 Cates? 1188 01:25:54,308 --> 01:25:57,026 A monkey who tried to fly. 1189 01:25:57,103 --> 01:26:02,109 Cates climbed to the top of the totem pole but then he jumped. 1190 01:26:02,191 --> 01:26:05,952 And there was nobody there to catch him. Not even you. 1191 01:26:06,028 --> 01:26:09,955 You were there. You saw what they did to my witnesses. 1192 01:26:10,032 --> 01:26:13,959 - What you need's a drink. - What I need is a miracle. 1193 01:26:14,036 --> 01:26:17,548 Miracle? Here's a whole bagful. 1194 01:26:19,041 --> 01:26:22,256 Courtesy of Matthew Harrison Brady. 1195 01:26:54,994 --> 01:26:57,082 Your Honour. 1196 01:27:04,128 --> 01:27:06,714 Your Honour, I feel I owe you an apology. 1197 01:27:06,797 --> 01:27:09,930 Any remarks leading up to the contempt citation I regret. 1198 01:27:10,009 --> 01:27:13,770 I realise Your Honour is trying to be fair. 1199 01:27:13,846 --> 01:27:18,603 I'm very sorry for any remarks that were made in the heat of the moment. 1200 01:27:20,102 --> 01:27:23,401 My friends, Colonel Drummond, 1201 01:27:23,481 --> 01:27:27,787 the man that I believe came into the world to save mankind from sin 1202 01:27:27,860 --> 01:27:30,957 taught that it was godly to forgive. 1203 01:27:31,030 --> 01:27:35,336 I believe in those principles. I accept Colonel Drummond's apology. 1204 01:27:35,409 --> 01:27:38,589 - I withdraw the contempt citation. - Thank you. 1205 01:27:38,663 --> 01:27:41,593 I should like to add that in the spirit of forgiveness 1206 01:27:41,666 --> 01:27:44,964 I feel no animosity toward learned counsel from Chicago. 1207 01:27:45,044 --> 01:27:48,638 He is well known to have ridden hobbyhorses before. 1208 01:27:48,714 --> 01:27:51,395 Perhaps he'll return home having learned a lesson. 1209 01:27:51,467 --> 01:27:54,350 We commend him to learn the words of him who said: 1210 01:27:54,428 --> 01:27:59,185 "if you thirst, come unto me and I will give you life. " 1211 01:27:59,267 --> 01:28:05,151 That's why he hasn't an enemy in the world. Only his friends hate him. 1212 01:28:07,859 --> 01:28:12,580 Perhaps there is much to learn from the counsel for the prosecution. 1213 01:28:12,655 --> 01:28:15,834 Your Honour, there were some remarks I made yesterday, 1214 01:28:15,908 --> 01:28:18,245 namely, that I wish to withdraw. 1215 01:28:18,327 --> 01:28:23,251 I should like to withdraw my withdrawal and continue as counsel for Cates. 1216 01:28:23,332 --> 01:28:27,923 I see no reason why Colonel Drummond should not continue as defence counsel. 1217 01:28:28,004 --> 01:28:30,590 - Proceed, Colonel Drummond. - Thank you. 1218 01:28:30,673 --> 01:28:33,805 Your Honour, the court has ruled out any evidence 1219 01:28:33,885 --> 01:28:37,396 as to scientific knowledge or the Darwinian theory. 1220 01:28:37,472 --> 01:28:41,694 Would the court admit evidence, expert evidence, 1221 01:28:41,767 --> 01:28:44,448 on a book known as the Holy Bible? 1222 01:28:48,441 --> 01:28:51,822 Any objection, Colonel Brady? 1223 01:28:51,903 --> 01:28:55,165 If counsel can advance the case for the defendant 1224 01:28:55,239 --> 01:28:59,961 through the use of the Holy Scriptures, prosecution'll take no exception. 1225 01:29:00,036 --> 01:29:07,545 Good. I call one of the world's foremost experts on the Bible and its teachings. 1226 01:29:07,627 --> 01:29:11,008 Matthew Harrison Brady. 1227 01:29:11,088 --> 01:29:13,176 Your Honour, this is preposterous! 1228 01:29:13,257 --> 01:29:15,975 Brother, let us pray. 1229 01:29:16,052 --> 01:29:19,682 Well, it's highly unorthodox. 1230 01:29:19,764 --> 01:29:25,067 I've never known the defence to call the prosecuting attorney as a witness. 1231 01:29:25,144 --> 01:29:29,201 Your Honour, this entire trial is unorthodox. 1232 01:29:30,233 --> 01:29:35,702 But if the interests of right and justice will be served, I will take the stand. 1233 01:29:35,780 --> 01:29:38,745 - But, Colonel Brady... - 1234 01:29:38,825 --> 01:29:41,755 The court will support you if you wish to decline 1235 01:29:41,828 --> 01:29:44,592 to testify as a witness against your own case. 1236 01:29:44,664 --> 01:29:49,219 Your Honour, I shall not testify against anything. 1237 01:29:49,293 --> 01:29:51,974 I shall speak out, as I have all my life, 1238 01:29:52,046 --> 01:29:56,008 on behalf of the living truth of the Holy Scriptures. 1239 01:30:00,096 --> 01:30:03,394 - Colonel Brady... - It won't be necessary to swear him in. 1240 01:30:03,474 --> 01:30:08,065 I can make affirmation. I've no objection to swearing to God. 1241 01:30:08,146 --> 01:30:10,731 I take it you will tell the truth. 1242 01:30:11,899 --> 01:30:18,080 Now, sir, I am right in calling upon you as an authority on the Bible, am I not? 1243 01:30:19,323 --> 01:30:23,879 It is not boastful to say that I have studied the Bible as much as any layman, 1244 01:30:23,953 --> 01:30:26,966 and I have tried to live according to its precepts. 1245 01:30:27,039 --> 01:30:28,511 Bully for you. 1246 01:30:28,583 --> 01:30:32,509 I suppose you can quote me chapter and verse in the King James Version. 1247 01:30:32,587 --> 01:30:37,391 There are many portions of the Holy Bible that I have committed to memory. 1248 01:30:37,466 --> 01:30:42,223 I don't suppose you have committed to memory The Origin Of The Species. 1249 01:30:42,305 --> 01:30:45,769 I am not interested in the pagan hypotheses of that book. 1250 01:30:45,850 --> 01:30:47,653 - Never read it? - I never will. 1251 01:30:47,727 --> 01:30:50,574 Then how in perdition have you got the gall 1252 01:30:50,646 --> 01:30:54,241 to whoop up this holy war about something you don't know about? 1253 01:30:54,317 --> 01:30:58,991 How can you be so cocksure that the body of scientific knowledge 1254 01:30:59,071 --> 01:31:01,871 systematised in the writings of Charles Darwin 1255 01:31:01,949 --> 01:31:07,253 is in any way irreconcilable with the Book of Genesis? 1256 01:31:07,330 --> 01:31:11,043 Would you state that question again, please? 1257 01:31:11,125 --> 01:31:14,388 Well now, let me put it this way. 1258 01:31:14,462 --> 01:31:18,342 On page ten of The Origin Of The Species, Darwin states... 1259 01:31:18,424 --> 01:31:20,560 I object to this, Your Honour. 1260 01:31:20,635 --> 01:31:23,565 Colonel Brady was called as an authority on the Bible. 1261 01:31:23,638 --> 01:31:28,027 The gentleman from Chicago is using this opportunity to read into the record 1262 01:31:28,100 --> 01:31:32,490 scientific testimony which you have previously ruled irrelevant. 1263 01:31:32,563 --> 01:31:36,443 If he's examining Colonel Brady on the Bible, let him stick to the Bible - 1264 01:31:36,526 --> 01:31:39,409 the Holy Bible and only the Bible. 1265 01:31:40,404 --> 01:31:44,913 You will confine your questions to the Bible. 1266 01:31:46,869 --> 01:31:49,289 All right. Forget it. 1267 01:31:52,583 --> 01:31:57,174 - We'll play in your ballpark, Colonel. - 1268 01:31:57,255 --> 01:32:00,102 Now, I'd like to get this part clear first. 1269 01:32:00,174 --> 01:32:04,931 This is the book that you're an authority on, isn't it? 1270 01:32:05,012 --> 01:32:06,186 Correct. 1271 01:32:06,264 --> 01:32:10,570 You believe that every word written in this book should be taken literally? 1272 01:32:10,643 --> 01:32:15,531 Everything in the Bible should be accepted exactly as it is given there. 1273 01:32:15,606 --> 01:32:17,694 What about this part right here, 1274 01:32:17,775 --> 01:32:25,201 where it talks about Jonah being swallowed by the whale? 1275 01:32:25,283 --> 01:32:27,169 You figure that really happened? 1276 01:32:27,243 --> 01:32:32,297 The Bible does not say a whale. It says a big fish. 1277 01:32:33,958 --> 01:32:37,173 As a matter of fact, it says a great fish. 1278 01:32:37,253 --> 01:32:40,385 But I guess one's pretty much the same as the other. 1279 01:32:40,464 --> 01:32:43,513 What do you think about that business? 1280 01:32:43,593 --> 01:32:47,057 I believe in a God who can make a whale and who can make a man, 1281 01:32:47,138 --> 01:32:49,558 and make both do what he pleases. 1282 01:32:50,725 --> 01:32:53,987 God bless you, Matthew Harrison Brady. 1283 01:32:54,061 --> 01:32:56,612 Amen! 1284 01:32:58,357 --> 01:33:01,240 I want those amens in the record. 1285 01:33:01,319 --> 01:33:05,708 Now I recollect a story about Joshua, 1286 01:33:05,781 --> 01:33:08,795 Joshua making the sun stand still. 1287 01:33:08,868 --> 01:33:14,835 As an expert, do you tell me that's as right as the Jonah business? 1288 01:33:14,916 --> 01:33:18,012 That's a pretty neat trick. 1289 01:33:18,085 --> 01:33:23,554 I do not question or scoff at the miracles of the Lord as do ye of little faith. 1290 01:33:23,633 --> 01:33:28,105 Have you pondered what would happen to the earth if the sun stood still? 1291 01:33:28,179 --> 01:33:32,106 You can testify to that if I get you on the stand. 1292 01:33:32,183 --> 01:33:34,402 If, as they say, the sun stood still, 1293 01:33:34,477 --> 01:33:38,569 they must have some kind of an idea that the sun moved around the earth. 1294 01:33:38,648 --> 01:33:42,278 Do you think so, or don't you believe the earth moves round the sun? 1295 01:33:42,360 --> 01:33:45,954 - I have faith in the Bible. - But not much in the solar system. 1296 01:33:46,030 --> 01:33:48,331 - The sun stopped. - Good. 1297 01:33:48,407 --> 01:33:51,622 Now, if what you say actually happened, 1298 01:33:51,702 --> 01:33:56,044 if Joshua stopped the sun in the sky, 1299 01:33:56,123 --> 01:33:58,888 the earth stopped spinning on its axis. 1300 01:33:58,960 --> 01:34:03,100 Continents toppled over one another, mountains flew into space, 1301 01:34:03,172 --> 01:34:08,559 and the earth, shrivelled to a cinder, crashed into the sun. 1302 01:34:10,596 --> 01:34:14,357 - How come they missed that bit of news? - Because it didn't happen. 1303 01:34:14,433 --> 01:34:17,447 But it had to happen, according to natural law. 1304 01:34:17,520 --> 01:34:19,857 Or don't you believe in natural law? 1305 01:34:19,939 --> 01:34:24,364 Would you ban Copernicus from the classroom along with Charles Darwin? 1306 01:34:24,443 --> 01:34:28,240 Would you pass a law throwing out all scientific knowledge 1307 01:34:28,322 --> 01:34:30,956 since Joshua, Revelations, period? 1308 01:34:31,033 --> 01:34:34,248 Natural law was born in the mind of the heavenly Father. 1309 01:34:34,328 --> 01:34:36,748 He can change it, cancel it, as he pleases. 1310 01:34:36,831 --> 01:34:41,671 It constantly amazes me that you apostles of science, for all your supposed wisdom, 1311 01:34:41,752 --> 01:34:44,517 fail to grasp this simple fact. 1312 01:34:49,469 --> 01:34:52,648 Now, listen to this. 1313 01:34:52,722 --> 01:34:55,819 This is Genesis, 4 to 16. 1314 01:34:57,059 --> 01:34:59,645 "And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord 1315 01:34:59,729 --> 01:35:04,450 and dwelt in the Land of Nod, on the east of Eden. " 1316 01:35:04,525 --> 01:35:07,159 "And Cain knew his wife. " 1317 01:35:08,279 --> 01:35:11,707 Now, where the hell did she come from? 1318 01:35:11,782 --> 01:35:15,460 - Who? - Mrs Cain. Cain's wife. 1319 01:35:15,536 --> 01:35:18,882 If in the beginning there were Cain and Abel and Adam and Eve, 1320 01:35:18,956 --> 01:35:23,097 where did this extra woman come from? Did you ever stop to think about that? 1321 01:35:23,169 --> 01:35:27,511 No, sir. I leave the agnostics to hunt for her. 1322 01:35:32,220 --> 01:35:34,355 - Never bothered you? - Never bothered me. 1323 01:35:34,430 --> 01:35:36,981 - Never tried to find out? - No. 1324 01:35:37,058 --> 01:35:40,522 Somebody else pulled another creation in the next county? 1325 01:35:40,603 --> 01:35:44,115 The Bible satisfies me. It is enough. 1326 01:35:46,734 --> 01:35:50,328 It frightens me to think of the state of learning in the world 1327 01:35:50,404 --> 01:35:54,794 if everybody had your driving curiosity. 1328 01:35:55,535 --> 01:35:59,165 Now, this book goes into a lot of "begats". 1329 01:36:00,790 --> 01:36:04,467 "And Arphaxad begat Salah; 1330 01:36:04,544 --> 01:36:06,679 and Salah begat Eber. " 1331 01:36:06,754 --> 01:36:09,340 And so on and so on and so on. 1332 01:36:09,423 --> 01:36:12,271 Are these pretty important people? 1333 01:36:12,343 --> 01:36:16,649 They are the generations of the holy men and women of the Bible. 1334 01:36:16,722 --> 01:36:21,029 - How did they go about all this begatting? - What do you mean? 1335 01:36:21,102 --> 01:36:28,659 I mean did they begat in much the same way as folks get themselves begat today? 1336 01:36:28,734 --> 01:36:30,822 The process is about the same. 1337 01:36:30,903 --> 01:36:34,166 I don't think your scientists have improved it any. 1338 01:36:38,995 --> 01:36:43,467 In other words, all of these folks were conceived and brought forth 1339 01:36:43,541 --> 01:36:48,132 by the normal biological function known as sex? 1340 01:36:50,798 --> 01:36:54,180 What do you think of sex, Colonel Brady? 1341 01:36:54,260 --> 01:36:56,514 In what spirit is this question asked? 1342 01:36:56,596 --> 01:37:00,522 Well, I'm not asking you what you think of sex as a father, 1343 01:37:00,600 --> 01:37:03,483 as a husband or even as a presidential candidate. 1344 01:37:03,561 --> 01:37:08,698 You're up here as an expert on the Bible. What is the biblical evaluation of sex? 1345 01:37:08,774 --> 01:37:12,654 It is considered original sin. 1346 01:37:12,737 --> 01:37:18,289 And all these holy people got themselves begat through original sin? 1347 01:37:18,367 --> 01:37:22,294 Well, all that sinning make 'em any less holy? 1348 01:37:22,371 --> 01:37:27,509 Where is this leading us? What has it to do with the State versus Bertram Cates? 1349 01:37:27,585 --> 01:37:33,469 The court must be satisfied that this questioning has a bearing on the case. 1350 01:37:33,549 --> 01:37:35,554 You've ruled out my witnesses. 1351 01:37:35,635 --> 01:37:39,265 You must allow me to examine my one witness in my own way. 1352 01:37:39,347 --> 01:37:42,526 Your Honour, I am willing to sit here 1353 01:37:42,600 --> 01:37:46,693 and endure Mr Drummond's sneering and his disrespect. 1354 01:37:46,771 --> 01:37:51,528 For he is pleading the prosecution's case by his contempt for all that is holy. 1355 01:37:51,609 --> 01:37:54,029 I object, I object, I object! 1356 01:37:54,111 --> 01:37:55,914 On what grounds? 1357 01:37:55,988 --> 01:38:01,078 Is it possible that something is holy to the celebrated agnostic? 1358 01:38:01,160 --> 01:38:03,248 Yes. 1359 01:38:03,329 --> 01:38:06,129 The individual human mind. 1360 01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:11,761 In a child's power to master the multiplication table 1361 01:38:11,838 --> 01:38:16,014 there is more sanctity than in all your shouted amens 1362 01:38:16,092 --> 01:38:19,189 and holy holies and hosannas. 1363 01:38:19,262 --> 01:38:23,734 An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. 1364 01:38:23,808 --> 01:38:27,023 And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle 1365 01:38:27,103 --> 01:38:30,864 than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters. 1366 01:38:30,940 --> 01:38:34,736 But now are we to forgo all this progress 1367 01:38:34,819 --> 01:38:39,291 because Mr Brady now frightens us with a fable? 1368 01:38:40,700 --> 01:38:45,873 Gentlemen, progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. 1369 01:38:45,955 --> 01:38:49,301 Sometimes I think there's a man behind a counter who says: 1370 01:38:49,375 --> 01:38:55,058 "You can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. " 1371 01:38:55,131 --> 01:38:58,228 "Madam, you may vote, but at a price. " 1372 01:38:58,301 --> 01:39:04,149 "You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. " 1373 01:39:04,223 --> 01:39:07,605 "Mister, you may conquer the air, 1374 01:39:07,685 --> 01:39:13,949 but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline. " 1375 01:39:14,025 --> 01:39:17,702 Darwin took us forward to a hilltop, 1376 01:39:17,778 --> 01:39:20,827 from where we could see the way from which we came. 1377 01:39:20,907 --> 01:39:24,086 But for this insight and for this knowledge, 1378 01:39:24,160 --> 01:39:29,000 we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis. 1379 01:39:29,081 --> 01:39:33,720 We must not abandon faith! Faith is the most important thing! 1380 01:39:33,794 --> 01:39:37,009 Then why did God plague us with the power to think? 1381 01:39:37,089 --> 01:39:41,016 Mr Brady, why do you deny the one faculty of man 1382 01:39:41,093 --> 01:39:44,226 that raises him above the other creatures of the earth? 1383 01:39:44,305 --> 01:39:48,896 The power of his brain to reason. What other merit have we? 1384 01:39:48,976 --> 01:39:52,274 The elephant is larger. The horse is swifter and stronger. 1385 01:39:52,355 --> 01:39:57,029 The butterfly is far more beautiful. The mosquito is more prolific. 1386 01:39:57,109 --> 01:40:02,709 Even the simple sponge is more durable. Or does a sponge think? 1387 01:40:02,782 --> 01:40:05,463 I don't know. I am a man, not a sponge. 1388 01:40:07,662 --> 01:40:09,881 Do you think a sponge thinks? 1389 01:40:09,956 --> 01:40:13,752 If the Lord wishes a sponge to think, it thinks. 1390 01:40:15,002 --> 01:40:18,715 Do you think a man should have the same privilege as a sponge? 1391 01:40:18,798 --> 01:40:20,269 Of course. 1392 01:40:20,341 --> 01:40:26,024 This man wishes to be accorded the same privilege as a sponge. 1393 01:40:26,097 --> 01:40:29,194 He wishes to think. 1394 01:40:36,816 --> 01:40:41,537 But your client is wrong. He is deluded. He has lost his way. 1395 01:40:41,612 --> 01:40:47,876 It's sad we don't all have your positive knowledge of what is right and wrong. 1396 01:40:51,956 --> 01:40:55,088 How old do you think this rock is? 1397 01:40:55,168 --> 01:41:00,720 I am more interested in the rock of ages than I am in the age of rocks. 1398 01:41:00,798 --> 01:41:05,105 Dr Page tells me this rock is at least ten million years old. 1399 01:41:05,178 --> 01:41:08,025 Well, well. Colonel Drummond, 1400 01:41:08,097 --> 01:41:12,688 you managed to sneak in some of that scientific testimony after all. 1401 01:41:12,768 --> 01:41:15,698 Look, Mr Brady. 1402 01:41:15,771 --> 01:41:21,027 These are the fossil remains of a marine prehistoric creature found in this county, 1403 01:41:21,110 --> 01:41:26,460 and which lived here millions of years ago when these mountain were underwater. 1404 01:41:26,532 --> 01:41:29,166 I know. The Bible gives a fine account of the Flood. 1405 01:41:29,243 --> 01:41:31,794 But your professor's mixed up on his dates. 1406 01:41:31,871 --> 01:41:34,968 That rock is not more than 6,000 years old. 1407 01:41:35,041 --> 01:41:36,512 How do you know? 1408 01:41:36,584 --> 01:41:39,218 A fine biblical scholar, Bishop Ussher, 1409 01:41:39,295 --> 01:41:43,091 has determined for us the exact date and hour of the Creation. 1410 01:41:43,174 --> 01:41:46,935 It occurred in the year 4004 BC. 1411 01:41:49,096 --> 01:41:52,276 Well, that's Bishop Ussher's opinion. 1412 01:41:52,350 --> 01:41:57,487 It's not an opinion. It's a fact, which the bishop arrived at through computation 1413 01:41:57,563 --> 01:42:01,360 of the ages of the prophets as set down in the Old Testament. 1414 01:42:01,442 --> 01:42:08,334 In fact, he determined that the Lord began the Creation on 23rd October, 4004 BC, 1415 01:42:08,407 --> 01:42:10,495 at 9am. 1416 01:42:14,330 --> 01:42:17,343 Is that Eastern Standard Time? 1417 01:42:17,416 --> 01:42:20,050 Or Rocky Mountain Time? 1418 01:42:20,127 --> 01:42:24,932 It wasn't Daylight Saving Time, the Lord didn't make the sun until the fourth day. 1419 01:42:25,007 --> 01:42:26,265 That is correct. 1420 01:42:26,342 --> 01:42:29,806 That first day, what do you think it was? 24 hours long? 1421 01:42:29,887 --> 01:42:32,853 - The Bible says it was a day. - There was no sun. 1422 01:42:32,932 --> 01:42:35,151 How do you know how long it was? 1423 01:42:35,226 --> 01:42:39,817 - The Bible says it was a day. - A normal day, a literal day, 24-hour day? 1424 01:42:39,897 --> 01:42:43,610 - I don't know. - What do you think? 1425 01:42:44,777 --> 01:42:48,371 I do not think about things I do not think about. 1426 01:42:48,447 --> 01:42:51,876 Do you ever think about things that you do think about? 1427 01:42:51,951 --> 01:42:55,048 Isn't it possible that it could have been 25 hours? 1428 01:42:55,121 --> 01:42:58,004 There's no way to measure it, no way to tell. 1429 01:42:58,082 --> 01:43:01,345 - Could it have been 25 hours? - It's possible. 1430 01:43:01,419 --> 01:43:04,468 Then you interpret that the first day, 1431 01:43:04,547 --> 01:43:09,186 as recorded in the Book of Genesis, could have been a day of indeterminate length? 1432 01:43:09,260 --> 01:43:14,148 I mean to state that it is not necessarily a 24-hour day. 1433 01:43:14,223 --> 01:43:17,521 It could have been 3O hours. Could have been a week. 1434 01:43:17,602 --> 01:43:21,030 Could have been a month. Could have been a year, 100 years. 1435 01:43:21,105 --> 01:43:23,324 Or it could have been ten million years. 1436 01:43:23,399 --> 01:43:27,789 I protest! This is not only irrelevant, immaterial, it is illegal! 1437 01:43:27,862 --> 01:43:31,208 I demand to know the purpose of Mr Drummond's examination. 1438 01:43:31,282 --> 01:43:37,582 He wants to destroy everybody's belief in the Bible and in God. 1439 01:43:37,663 --> 01:43:40,249 That's not true and you know it. 1440 01:43:41,292 --> 01:43:44,555 The Bible is a book. It's a good book. 1441 01:43:44,629 --> 01:43:46,848 But it is not the only book. 1442 01:43:46,923 --> 01:43:52,475 It the revealed word of the Almighty God, spake to the men who wrote the Bible. 1443 01:43:52,553 --> 01:43:55,353 How do you know God didn't spake to Charles Darwin? 1444 01:43:55,431 --> 01:43:58,978 I know because God tells me to oppose the evil teachings of that man. 1445 01:43:59,060 --> 01:44:03,699 God speaks to you? He tells you what is right and wrong? You act accordingly? 1446 01:44:03,773 --> 01:44:08,447 So you, Matthew Harrison Brady, through oratory or legislature or whatever, 1447 01:44:08,528 --> 01:44:12,289 you pass on God's orders to the rest of the world! 1448 01:44:12,365 --> 01:44:16,422 Well, meet the prophet from Nebraska! 1449 01:44:16,494 --> 01:44:20,421 - I... Please! - Is that the way of things? 1450 01:44:20,498 --> 01:44:23,179 God tells Brady what is good. 1451 01:44:23,251 --> 01:44:25,671 To be against Brady is to be against God. 1452 01:44:25,753 --> 01:44:28,090 No! Each man is a free agent. 1453 01:44:28,172 --> 01:44:31,387 Then what is Bertram Cates doing in the Hillsboro jail? 1454 01:44:31,467 --> 01:44:34,979 Supposing Mr Cates had the influence and the lung power 1455 01:44:35,054 --> 01:44:37,474 to railroad through the state legislature 1456 01:44:37,557 --> 01:44:40,522 a law saying only Darwin could be taught in school. 1457 01:44:40,601 --> 01:44:44,612 Ridiculous. Ridiculous. There is only one great truth in the world. 1458 01:44:44,689 --> 01:44:48,746 The Gospel. The Gospel according to Brady! 1459 01:44:48,818 --> 01:44:52,780 God speaks to Brady and Brady tells the world! 1460 01:44:52,864 --> 01:44:57,170 - Brady, Brady, Brady Almighty! - The Lord is my strength! 1461 01:44:57,243 --> 01:45:01,502 Suppose that a lesser human being, suppose a Cates or a Darwin, 1462 01:45:01,581 --> 01:45:05,673 had the audacity to think that God might whisper to him, 1463 01:45:05,751 --> 01:45:08,884 that an un-Brady thought might still be holy. 1464 01:45:08,963 --> 01:45:13,305 Must a man go to prison because he differs with the self-appointed prophet? 1465 01:45:13,384 --> 01:45:17,560 Extend the testaments. Let us have a Book of Brady. 1466 01:45:17,638 --> 01:45:22,479 We shall hex the Pentateuch and slip you in between Numbers and Deuteronomy. 1467 01:45:22,560 --> 01:45:27,199 - My friends, Your Honour... - The witness is excused! 1468 01:45:27,273 --> 01:45:30,203 All of you know what I stand for, what I believe. 1469 01:45:30,276 --> 01:45:33,870 I believe in the truth of the Book of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, 1470 01:45:33,946 --> 01:45:36,201 Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1471 01:45:36,282 --> 01:45:39,414 First Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, Second Kings, 1472 01:45:39,494 --> 01:45:42,922 Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel... 1473 01:45:42,997 --> 01:45:46,425 Court is adjourned until ten o'clock tomorrow morning. 1474 01:45:58,763 --> 01:46:02,440 Matt. Matt, dear. 1475 01:46:02,517 --> 01:46:04,937 Let's go home. 1476 01:46:05,019 --> 01:46:08,613 - Home? - Back to the hotel. 1477 01:46:30,586 --> 01:46:32,674 Who is it? 1478 01:46:35,466 --> 01:46:39,938 - Where is he? I've got to talk to him. - Not now. He isn't feeling well. 1479 01:46:40,012 --> 01:46:44,817 - Now. He must tell Bert it wasn't my fault. - Please be quiet. He's sleeping. 1480 01:46:44,892 --> 01:46:49,483 Why should I be quiet? I want the world to know Matthew Harrison Brady is a fake. 1481 01:46:49,564 --> 01:46:51,651 Rachel! 1482 01:47:01,325 --> 01:47:03,413 I'm sorry. 1483 01:47:14,881 --> 01:47:20,813 I found myself in bed today, in the middle of the day. 1484 01:47:20,887 --> 01:47:26,404 I was dreaming I was in the witness chair, chained to it. 1485 01:47:26,476 --> 01:47:28,611 I kept begging him to let me go. 1486 01:47:28,686 --> 01:47:31,652 Rachel, it's been a nightmare for us all. 1487 01:47:31,731 --> 01:47:35,444 But mine was real. I turned to your husband for help. 1488 01:47:35,526 --> 01:47:40,960 He encouraged me to open up my heart to him and then he twisted my words. 1489 01:47:41,032 --> 01:47:44,544 He tricked me. Why? Why did he do it? 1490 01:47:44,619 --> 01:47:48,878 I don't know. I don't know why he did it. 1491 01:47:51,083 --> 01:47:56,434 Maybe it meant too much to him. Maybe he was tired or afraid. 1492 01:47:56,506 --> 01:48:00,219 I taught my pupils that Matthew Harrison Brady was a great man. 1493 01:48:00,301 --> 01:48:03,647 Next to God, almost. What do you want me to teach them now? 1494 01:48:03,721 --> 01:48:06,307 - He's still the same man. - No. 1495 01:48:06,390 --> 01:48:09,819 If he could do such an evil thing, then he must be an evil man. 1496 01:48:09,894 --> 01:48:15,197 - And all he stands for must be evil too. - Oh, stop it! Stop it! 1497 01:48:15,900 --> 01:48:20,824 Youth can be so pure. What do you know of good or evil? 1498 01:48:20,905 --> 01:48:23,918 What do you understand of the sum of a man's life? 1499 01:48:23,991 --> 01:48:27,040 - He betrayed me. - You betrayed yourself. 1500 01:48:27,119 --> 01:48:29,705 You see my husband as a saint, 1501 01:48:29,789 --> 01:48:33,420 and so he must be right in everything he says and does. 1502 01:48:33,501 --> 01:48:35,173 Then you see him as a devil, 1503 01:48:35,253 --> 01:48:38,218 and everything he says and does must be wrong. 1504 01:48:38,297 --> 01:48:41,892 Well, my husband's neither a saint nor a devil. 1505 01:48:42,426 --> 01:48:47,148 He's just a human being and he makes mistakes. 1506 01:48:47,223 --> 01:48:51,316 - How can you defend him? - It's not he I'm defending. 1507 01:48:51,394 --> 01:48:55,024 I'm defending the 40 years I've lived with this man 1508 01:48:55,106 --> 01:48:57,905 and watched him carry the burdens of people like you. 1509 01:48:57,984 --> 01:49:03,702 If he's been wrong, at least he stood for something. What do you stand for? 1510 01:49:03,781 --> 01:49:07,163 Do you believe in Bertram Cates? 1511 01:49:07,243 --> 01:49:11,752 I believe in my husband. What do you believe in? 1512 01:49:13,541 --> 01:49:14,964 Matt. 1513 01:49:15,042 --> 01:49:17,593 I was asleep, but... 1514 01:49:19,297 --> 01:49:22,262 What can I do for you, child? 1515 01:49:23,301 --> 01:49:26,931 I'm not your child any longer, Mr Brady. 1516 01:49:27,013 --> 01:49:31,734 Yours... or anyone else's. 1517 01:49:40,067 --> 01:49:42,618 What... 1518 01:49:42,695 --> 01:49:45,281 What did she want, Sarah? 1519 01:49:48,534 --> 01:49:51,464 She's been hurt, Matt. 1520 01:49:52,830 --> 01:49:55,381 You hurt her. 1521 01:49:55,458 --> 01:50:00,132 Oh, Matt, you were always a good man. 1522 01:50:00,213 --> 01:50:03,345 That's why I loved you, even from the very beginning. 1523 01:50:03,424 --> 01:50:07,684 People have said you made mistakes, wrong decisions. 1524 01:50:07,762 --> 01:50:10,479 You could have been president three times over. 1525 01:50:10,556 --> 01:50:12,941 But I never doubted you, Matt. 1526 01:50:13,017 --> 01:50:18,616 Because your decisions were honest. You never sacrificed your principles to win. 1527 01:50:18,689 --> 01:50:20,576 I didn't mean to hurt her. 1528 01:50:20,650 --> 01:50:21,907 Sarah, 1529 01:50:21,984 --> 01:50:26,160 a victory here would be a monument to God that would last 1,000 years. 1530 01:50:26,239 --> 01:50:29,537 But, Matt, every man has to build his own monument. 1531 01:50:29,617 --> 01:50:31,704 You can't do it for them. 1532 01:50:31,786 --> 01:50:35,167 If you do, it becomes your monument, not theirs. 1533 01:50:35,248 --> 01:50:39,922 And they'll topple it the minute they find a flaw in it. 1534 01:50:40,002 --> 01:50:44,511 You mean a flaw in me, don't you, Sarah? 1535 01:50:48,386 --> 01:50:51,020 They turned away from you this afternoon. 1536 01:50:51,097 --> 01:50:56,566 Oh, they didn't understand. But I'll make them understand. 1537 01:50:56,644 --> 01:50:59,907 They'll have to understand. My speech. Where's my speech? 1538 01:50:59,981 --> 01:51:02,152 Matt. 1539 01:51:02,233 --> 01:51:06,326 I'll make them listen. Where's my speech? I'll make them understand. 1540 01:51:06,404 --> 01:51:10,117 - Please don't get excited. - Here it is. I have it all down on paper. 1541 01:51:10,199 --> 01:51:14,921 Sarah, it isn't just this case. It's God himself that's on trial. 1542 01:51:14,996 --> 01:51:17,416 They'll have to listen to me. 1543 01:51:17,498 --> 01:51:20,084 They will listen to me. 1544 01:51:23,921 --> 01:51:27,136 They'll listen, dear. 1545 01:51:29,177 --> 01:51:31,941 - Mother, they laughed at me. - Shh, baby. 1546 01:51:32,013 --> 01:51:34,943 I can't stand it when they laugh at me. 1547 01:51:35,016 --> 01:51:38,693 It's all right, baby. It's all right. 1548 01:51:38,769 --> 01:51:42,151 - They laughed. - Baby. 1549 01:51:42,231 --> 01:51:44,118 Baby. 1550 01:51:53,409 --> 01:51:56,707 Testing, testing. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. 1551 01:51:56,787 --> 01:52:01,094 Testing. Testing. One, two, three, four. 1552 01:52:01,167 --> 01:52:03,670 One, two, three, four. 1553 01:52:49,841 --> 01:52:52,973 You've brought me some more clean shirts? 1554 01:52:53,052 --> 01:52:54,345 Bert, 1555 01:52:54,428 --> 01:52:56,516 I left my father. 1556 01:52:57,765 --> 01:53:02,025 I messed things up pretty badly for us, didn't I? 1557 01:53:02,103 --> 01:53:04,867 It wasn't your fault. Brady can twist things... 1558 01:53:04,939 --> 01:53:07,026 It wasn't his fault. 1559 01:53:07,108 --> 01:53:10,205 I should have done this in the beginning. I want... 1560 01:53:10,278 --> 01:53:12,164 Rach. 1561 01:53:13,156 --> 01:53:15,955 You don't have to say it. 1562 01:53:16,033 --> 01:53:18,619 I'm just glad you're here. 1563 01:53:20,580 --> 01:53:22,964 Come on, you sit down. 1564 01:53:35,761 --> 01:53:39,688 Well. Welcome back to our side, Miss Brown. 1565 01:53:46,481 --> 01:53:49,660 - What's that? - Enunciator. 1566 01:53:49,734 --> 01:53:53,364 - Do you want to broadcast? - We got a direct wire to WGN Chicago. 1567 01:53:53,446 --> 01:53:56,993 As soon as the jury returns, we'll broadcast the verdict. 1568 01:53:57,074 --> 01:54:00,503 Radio. God, that's gonna break down a lot of walls. 1569 01:54:00,578 --> 01:54:03,259 - You're not supposed to say "God". - Why the hell not? 1570 01:54:03,331 --> 01:54:05,502 You're not supposed to say "hell". 1571 01:54:05,583 --> 01:54:10,257 This is going to be a barren source of amusement. 1572 01:54:11,756 --> 01:54:14,520 Hello, Colonel. 1573 01:54:14,592 --> 01:54:18,353 There's a little toy you'll never have any use for. Not with your lungs. 1574 01:54:18,429 --> 01:54:20,315 - What? - The radio. 1575 01:54:20,389 --> 01:54:26,653 You whisper into it and it shouts at a million people through loudspeakers. 1576 01:54:39,659 --> 01:54:41,995 Get rid of this. 1577 01:54:49,669 --> 01:54:54,675 What do you think? Can you tell from their faces? 1578 01:54:59,178 --> 01:55:03,105 Everybody rise. Hear ye, hear ye! 1579 01:55:03,182 --> 01:55:07,062 Court will reconvene in the case of the State versus Bertram Cates. 1580 01:55:11,274 --> 01:55:14,121 All right. Go ahead. 1581 01:55:14,193 --> 01:55:18,416 This is Harry Esterbrook, speaking to you from the courthouse in Hillsboro, 1582 01:55:18,489 --> 01:55:22,712 where the jury has just returned in the historic Hillsboro Monkey Trial case. 1583 01:55:22,785 --> 01:55:24,458 The judge has taken the bench. 1584 01:55:24,537 --> 01:55:28,250 Soon we will know whether Cates will be found innocent or guilty. 1585 01:55:28,332 --> 01:55:31,630 I wish I could describe the tension in this courtroom today. 1586 01:55:31,711 --> 01:55:34,428 - One moment, please. - Please stand by. 1587 01:55:34,505 --> 01:55:38,183 I've been on the phone with the lieutenant governor all morning. 1588 01:55:38,259 --> 01:55:40,809 The newspapers haven't been very kind to us. 1589 01:55:40,887 --> 01:55:46,404 The boys at the Capitol think it wouldn't do any harm if you let this simmer down. 1590 01:55:46,476 --> 01:55:49,904 Wait, Jason. I have an obligation to the law. 1591 01:55:49,979 --> 01:55:56,243 Of course you have, Merle, but don't forget... November's not too far off. 1592 01:56:04,327 --> 01:56:07,673 Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict? 1593 01:56:07,747 --> 01:56:11,294 Yes, sir... Uh, Your Honour, we have. 1594 01:56:24,180 --> 01:56:26,861 The verdict of the jury is unanimous. 1595 01:56:26,933 --> 01:56:30,065 Bertram Cates is found guilty as charged. 1596 01:56:30,144 --> 01:56:34,285 You have heard the verdict of the jury as read by presiding Judge Coffey. 1597 01:56:34,357 --> 01:56:39,956 Bertram Cates, defendant in one of the greatest ethical contests known to us, 1598 01:56:40,029 --> 01:56:43,909 Bertram Cates has been found guilty. The law has been satisfied. 1599 01:56:43,991 --> 01:56:48,582 But what repercussions of what happened will be known only to the future. 1600 01:56:48,663 --> 01:56:51,131 - Quiet, please. Order. - Stand by, please. 1601 01:56:51,207 --> 01:56:54,422 This court is still in session. 1602 01:56:54,502 --> 01:56:57,467 You remove that now, please. 1603 01:57:02,760 --> 01:57:07,766 The prisoner will rise to hear the sentence of this court. 1604 01:57:12,061 --> 01:57:16,700 Bert, do you wish to make any statement before sentence is passed? 1605 01:57:28,953 --> 01:57:31,587 Your Honour, I'm not a public speaker. 1606 01:57:33,124 --> 01:57:39,091 I do not have the eloquence of some of the men you've heard in the last few days. 1607 01:57:39,172 --> 01:57:43,431 - I'm just a schoolteacher. - Not any more, you ain't! 1608 01:57:48,806 --> 01:57:51,606 I was a schoolteacher. 1609 01:57:54,061 --> 01:57:56,149 I feel that... 1610 01:57:57,523 --> 01:58:01,699 I've been convicted of violating an unjust law. 1611 01:58:03,154 --> 01:58:07,663 I will continue in the future, as I have in the past, 1612 01:58:07,742 --> 01:58:11,254 to oppose this law in any way I can. 1613 01:58:18,169 --> 01:58:23,852 Bertram Cates, this court has found you guilty of violating public act volume 37, 1614 01:58:23,925 --> 01:58:27,057 statute 31428, as charged. 1615 01:58:27,136 --> 01:58:32,570 This violation is punishable by fine and/or imprisonment. 1616 01:58:33,267 --> 01:58:38,191 But, since there has been no previous violation of this statute, 1617 01:58:38,272 --> 01:58:43,576 there's no precedent to guide the bench passing sentence. 1618 01:58:43,653 --> 01:58:46,500 The court deems it proper... 1619 01:58:49,992 --> 01:58:54,833 to sentence Bertram Cates to pay a fine of... 1620 01:58:54,914 --> 01:58:57,049 one hundred dollars. 1621 01:59:00,253 --> 01:59:03,467 But, uh... Uh, did, uh... 1622 01:59:03,548 --> 01:59:06,228 Did Your Honour say one hundred dollars? 1623 01:59:06,300 --> 01:59:09,646 That is correct. That seems to conclude the trial. 1624 01:59:09,720 --> 01:59:12,354 But the prosecution takes exception. 1625 01:59:12,431 --> 01:59:16,572 Where the issues are so titanic, the court must mete out more drastic punishment. 1626 01:59:16,644 --> 01:59:19,657 - I object. - To make an example of the transgressor. 1627 01:59:19,730 --> 01:59:22,151 - To show the world... - Just a minute. 1628 01:59:22,233 --> 01:59:24,950 The amount of the fine is of no concern to me. 1629 01:59:25,027 --> 01:59:28,575 Bertram Cates has no intention of paying this or any other fine. 1630 01:59:28,656 --> 01:59:31,586 If it were one single dollar he would not pay it. 1631 01:59:31,659 --> 01:59:35,539 We are going to appeal this decision to the state supreme court. 1632 01:59:35,621 --> 01:59:39,133 Will the court grant us 3O days in which to prepare the appeal? 1633 01:59:39,208 --> 01:59:42,921 Granted. Court fixes bond at $200. 1634 01:59:43,004 --> 01:59:47,678 I believe that concludes the business of this trial. I declare this court adjourn... 1635 01:59:47,758 --> 01:59:50,095 Your Honour! With the court's permission, 1636 01:59:50,178 --> 01:59:53,725 I should like to read into the record a few short remarks. 1637 01:59:53,806 --> 01:59:56,357 I object to that. 1638 01:59:56,434 --> 02:00:01,867 Mr Brady is free to read any remarks in a chautauqua or political campaign, 1639 02:00:01,939 --> 02:00:04,822 but our business in Hillsboro is completed. 1640 02:00:04,901 --> 02:00:08,163 - The defence moves that we adjourn. - But I have a few remarks. 1641 02:00:08,237 --> 02:00:10,955 And we are all anxious to hear them, sir. 1642 02:00:11,032 --> 02:00:14,413 But Colonel Drummond's point of procedure is well taken. 1643 02:00:14,494 --> 02:00:19,880 I'm sure everyone will wish to remain after we adjourn to hear your address. 1644 02:00:19,957 --> 02:00:24,881 I hereby declare this court is adjourned sine die. 1645 02:00:24,962 --> 02:00:27,596 My friends! My dear friends! 1646 02:00:27,673 --> 02:00:30,971 Your attention, please! 1647 02:00:31,052 --> 02:00:35,607 Fellow citizens and friends of the unseen audience, 1648 02:00:35,681 --> 02:00:40,570 from the hallowed hills of sacred Sinai in the days of antiquity came a law 1649 02:00:40,645 --> 02:00:43,742 which has been our bulwark and our shield. 1650 02:00:43,815 --> 02:00:48,904 Age upon age, men have looked to the law as they would to the mountains. 1651 02:00:48,986 --> 02:00:51,074 And here, here in this courtroom... 1652 02:00:51,155 --> 02:00:54,085 Here in this courtroom. Oh, no. No. 1653 02:00:54,158 --> 02:00:57,421 ... as they would look to the mountains whence cometh our strength. 1654 02:00:57,495 --> 02:01:02,169 From time remembered, wherever man's body has known hunger and oppression, 1655 02:01:02,250 --> 02:01:07,220 lost in darkness and despair, and here, here in this courtroom living still, 1656 02:01:07,296 --> 02:01:10,262 in spite of dungeon, fire and sword... 1657 02:01:10,341 --> 02:01:13,935 Eskimo pies! Five cents, Eskimo pies. 1658 02:01:14,011 --> 02:01:15,399 When he set fire... 1659 02:01:15,471 --> 02:01:18,817 Eskimo pies, sweet as honey. Here's where you bring your money. 1660 02:01:18,891 --> 02:01:21,228 Eskimo pies. 1661 02:01:21,310 --> 02:01:23,695 ... lighting his way to everlasting salvation. 1662 02:01:23,771 --> 02:01:27,402 He would rob them of their creator and their hope of heaven. 1663 02:01:27,483 --> 02:01:31,576 From the hallowed hills of sacred Sinai in the days of antiquity came the law 1664 02:01:31,654 --> 02:01:33,493 which has been our bulwark and shield. 1665 02:01:33,573 --> 02:01:35,957 And here, here in this courtroom, 1666 02:01:36,033 --> 02:01:39,166 we have seen vindicated the faith of our fathers, 1667 02:01:39,245 --> 02:01:42,508 living still in spite of dungeon, fire and sword. 1668 02:01:42,582 --> 02:01:45,928 Our hearts beat high with joy whenever we hear that glorious word. 1669 02:01:46,002 --> 02:01:49,882 Faith of our fathers, holy faith, we will be true to thee... 1670 02:01:51,382 --> 02:01:53,553 till death. 1671 02:01:56,762 --> 02:01:59,313 Matt! Matt! 1672 02:02:00,725 --> 02:02:03,572 - Oh, dear God in heaven! Matt! - Get back. 1673 02:02:03,644 --> 02:02:08,615 O Lord, pass us a miracle and save our holy prophet! 1674 02:02:08,691 --> 02:02:11,028 Get a doctor! 1675 02:02:19,035 --> 02:02:23,377 I cannot imagine the world without Matthew Harrison Brady. 1676 02:02:23,456 --> 02:02:25,543 Get me the Baltimore Herald. 1677 02:02:25,625 --> 02:02:30,381 - What did he die of? Did they say? - He died of a busted belly. 1678 02:02:30,463 --> 02:02:33,891 There was much greatness in the man. 1679 02:02:33,966 --> 02:02:36,517 Can I quote you in the obituary? 1680 02:02:36,594 --> 02:02:39,394 Write anything you dare. Write anything you please. 1681 02:02:39,472 --> 02:02:42,984 How do you write an obituary for a man who's been dead 3O years? 1682 02:02:43,059 --> 02:02:45,146 Operator? 1683 02:02:46,395 --> 02:02:49,528 Say, what did he say to the minister? 1684 02:02:51,067 --> 02:02:55,243 You know, that fits. He delivered his own obituary. 1685 02:02:55,321 --> 02:02:57,825 Where did you put that... 1686 02:02:57,907 --> 02:03:00,624 Ah, here it is. 1687 02:03:00,701 --> 02:03:02,623 His book. 1688 02:03:02,703 --> 02:03:05,421 It was Proverbs, wasn't it? 1689 02:03:06,833 --> 02:03:11,589 "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind. " 1690 02:03:11,671 --> 02:03:16,179 "And the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart. " 1691 02:03:17,969 --> 02:03:20,686 Wow! 1692 02:03:20,763 --> 02:03:26,481 Well, Colonel Drummond, we're growing an odd crop of agnostics this year. 1693 02:03:26,561 --> 02:03:29,609 You know, Hornbeck, I'm getting damned sick of you. 1694 02:03:29,689 --> 02:03:30,982 Why? 1695 02:03:31,065 --> 02:03:34,992 You never pushed a noun against a verb except to blow up something. 1696 02:03:35,069 --> 02:03:39,993 You know, that's a typical lawyer's trick, accusing the accuser. 1697 02:03:40,074 --> 02:03:44,036 - What am I accused of? - Contempt of conscience. 1698 02:03:44,120 --> 02:03:47,584 Sentimentality in the first degree. 1699 02:03:47,665 --> 02:03:51,129 Why? Because I refuse to erase a man's lifetime? 1700 02:03:51,210 --> 02:03:54,722 No. You know what I thought of him and I know what you thought, 1701 02:03:54,797 --> 02:03:59,020 so let's leave the lamentations to the illiterate. 1702 02:03:59,093 --> 02:04:01,893 What is this? Be Kind To Bigots Week? 1703 02:04:01,971 --> 02:04:06,277 Why should we weep for him? Because he's dead? Oh, no. 1704 02:04:06,350 --> 02:04:09,150 He cried enough for himself during his lifetime. 1705 02:04:09,228 --> 02:04:13,535 The national tear duct from Weeping Water, Nebraska. 1706 02:04:13,608 --> 02:04:17,700 He flooded the nation like a one-man Mississippi. 1707 02:04:17,778 --> 02:04:22,500 You know what he was, that Bible-beating bunko artist. 1708 02:04:22,575 --> 02:04:25,375 A giant once lived in that body. 1709 02:04:25,453 --> 02:04:31,800 But Matt Brady got lost because he looked for God too high up and too far away. 1710 02:04:36,547 --> 02:04:40,807 Why, you hypocrite! You fraud! 1711 02:04:41,844 --> 02:04:44,941 The atheist who believes in God. 1712 02:04:45,014 --> 02:04:48,360 You're just as religious as he was. 1713 02:04:48,434 --> 02:04:51,317 Everything is grist for your mill, isn't it? 1714 02:04:51,395 --> 02:04:56,117 Well, go ahead, grind it up - Brady's past, Cates' future. 1715 02:04:56,192 --> 02:05:02,290 My God! Don't you understand the meaning of what happened here today? 1716 02:05:02,365 --> 02:05:05,497 - It has no meaning. - You have no meaning. 1717 02:05:05,576 --> 02:05:08,673 You're like a ghost pointing an empty sleeve, 1718 02:05:08,746 --> 02:05:14,714 smirking at everything that people feel or want or struggle for. 1719 02:05:16,045 --> 02:05:18,928 - I Pity you. - You Pity me? 1720 02:05:19,006 --> 02:05:24,725 Isn't there anything? What touches you? What warms you? 1721 02:05:24,804 --> 02:05:27,983 Every man has a dream. What do you dream about? 1722 02:05:28,057 --> 02:05:30,525 What do you need? 1723 02:05:31,686 --> 02:05:33,940 You don't need anything, do you? 1724 02:05:34,021 --> 02:05:38,862 People, love, an idea just to cling to? 1725 02:05:40,444 --> 02:05:42,532 You poor slob. 1726 02:05:43,614 --> 02:05:45,750 You're all alone. 1727 02:05:47,118 --> 02:05:52,041 When you go to your grave there won't be anybody to pull the grass over your head. 1728 02:05:52,123 --> 02:05:56,180 Nobody to mourn you, nobody to give a damn. 1729 02:05:57,378 --> 02:06:00,095 You're all alone. 1730 02:06:10,266 --> 02:06:12,983 You're wrong, Henry. 1731 02:06:13,060 --> 02:06:15,611 You'll be there. 1732 02:06:15,688 --> 02:06:18,488 You're the type. 1733 02:06:18,566 --> 02:06:22,409 Who else would defend my right to be lonely? 1734 02:07:01,859 --> 02:07:08,159 ♪ My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord 1735 02:07:08,241 --> 02:07:14,125 ♪ He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored 1736 02:07:14,205 --> 02:07:20,220 ♪ He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword 1737 02:07:20,294 --> 02:07:26,677 ♪ His truth is marching on 1738 02:07:26,759 --> 02:07:32,146 ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah 1739 02:07:32,348 --> 02:07:37,651 ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah 1740 02:07:37,854 --> 02:07:42,742 ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah 1741 02:07:42,817 --> 02:07:47,990 ♪ His truth is marching on