1 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,130 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen 2 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,290 and welcome to what we modestly call 3 00:00:33,330 --> 00:00:35,730 "The Greatest Show on Earth." 4 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,400 Becoming an animal trainer is not difficult at all. 5 00:00:39,430 --> 00:00:42,140 Anyone who has raised children 6 00:00:42,170 --> 00:00:45,270 already possesses the proper humility. 7 00:00:45,310 --> 00:00:48,310 Our star performer, Gordon, 8 00:00:48,340 --> 00:00:53,110 will now jump from this stool to this one. 9 00:00:53,150 --> 00:00:56,550 I think you will appreciate his performance more 10 00:00:56,580 --> 00:01:01,120 when you realize that Gordon is a flea. 11 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,060 He’s getting ready. By the way, Gordon 12 00:01:04,060 --> 00:01:06,660 is the one in the blue trunks. 13 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:10,570 -[knock, knock, knock] -There he goes. 14 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,100 -[knock] -Well done. 15 00:01:13,130 --> 00:01:15,070 As for those trunks, 16 00:01:15,070 --> 00:01:18,470 he can pick them up when he returns. 17 00:01:18,510 --> 00:01:20,410 Now, for a riddle: 18 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,080 What has no legs, 19 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,080 is a bit thick, 20 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,350 definitely does not fly 21 00:01:27,380 --> 00:01:29,520 and is one minute long? 22 00:01:29,550 --> 00:01:32,090 Here is the answer. 23 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,290 [engine stalling] 24 00:02:09,290 --> 00:02:11,230 Howdy. 25 00:02:11,260 --> 00:02:12,590 You got a sick car there. 26 00:02:14,260 --> 00:02:15,900 Don’t get out, leave the engine running. 27 00:02:15,930 --> 00:02:19,770 We’re 60 miles from a special meeting, and late. 28 00:02:24,310 --> 00:02:25,510 It’s the carburetor. 29 00:02:25,540 --> 00:02:26,880 You can shut it off now. 30 00:02:32,350 --> 00:02:35,920 Seems like it was just worked on but whoever did it, sure messed it up. 31 00:02:35,950 --> 00:02:38,890 How long will it take to fix? 32 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:40,520 I can do it while you wait. 33 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,520 How much will it cost? 34 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,760 Oh, about... $2 should do it. 35 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:48,400 $2? 36 00:02:48,430 --> 00:02:50,370 [mechanic] I hope I didn’t upset you. 37 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,270 It’s rare indeed to be upset by honesty. 38 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:54,700 $2 indeed! 39 00:02:54,740 --> 00:02:57,410 Why, most mechanics usually hit me for $8, $10. 40 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:59,470 Sure, because they don’t like their work. 41 00:02:59,510 --> 00:03:01,910 They gotta charge more. 42 00:03:01,940 --> 00:03:03,240 Me, I love engines. 43 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:04,750 Look in here now. 44 00:03:18,190 --> 00:03:20,260 -[groans] -What’s wrong? 45 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:21,400 Nothing. 46 00:03:21,430 --> 00:03:23,830 Least wise, nothing to be helped. 47 00:03:25,570 --> 00:03:26,430 [groans] 48 00:03:26,470 --> 00:03:28,640 It’s an ulcer. 49 00:03:28,670 --> 00:03:30,670 Ah! I’m on milk, potatoes 50 00:03:30,710 --> 00:03:32,610 and prayer to heal it, but... 51 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:35,640 I don’t believe you really know who I am, do you? 52 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,210 Otis Jones. 53 00:03:37,250 --> 00:03:39,280 Healer Jones, they call me. 54 00:03:39,310 --> 00:03:41,580 Two hundred radio and TV stations, 55 00:03:41,620 --> 00:03:43,450 Coast to Coast, carry my Faith Meetings. 56 00:03:43,490 --> 00:03:45,850 I don’t hold with radio and TV. 57 00:03:45,890 --> 00:03:48,160 From what I hear, there’s a load of sinful stuff on ’em. 58 00:03:48,190 --> 00:03:52,290 [groans] Drinking and killing, and sinful women. 59 00:03:52,330 --> 00:03:55,230 There is no sin or temptation on my show, 60 00:03:55,260 --> 00:03:56,400 just healing, brother. 61 00:03:56,430 --> 00:03:58,430 Do you have faith, brother? 62 00:03:58,470 --> 00:04:00,340 I’ve prayed, yes. 63 00:04:00,370 --> 00:04:02,240 I’ve prayed till my knees were skinned raw. 64 00:04:02,270 --> 00:04:05,040 Take my hand. Go on, take it. 65 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,650 Now let the power pour into you! 66 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,510 Let it pour! 67 00:04:15,180 --> 00:04:17,390 There. 68 00:04:17,420 --> 00:04:18,720 There. 69 00:04:20,290 --> 00:04:21,220 Well, I’ll be... 70 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:24,830 You’ve got faith, brother. 71 00:04:24,860 --> 00:04:27,160 You come to my meeting tonight 72 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,230 and I’ll turn all my power on you, 73 00:04:29,260 --> 00:04:32,170 and heal you from this day henceforth. 74 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,540 Daughter! The address, please. 75 00:04:38,870 --> 00:04:41,310 Emily Jones, this is... 76 00:04:41,340 --> 00:04:43,080 Aaron Menefee. 77 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:47,720 Aaron Menefee, 78 00:04:47,750 --> 00:04:49,580 come along, you hear? 79 00:04:51,250 --> 00:04:53,720 You’ve got to have faith, sister. 80 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,190 Oh, I do, I do. 81 00:04:56,220 --> 00:04:58,830 Turn around. 82 00:04:58,860 --> 00:05:02,530 Now let me soothe with the power of love. 83 00:05:03,770 --> 00:05:06,870 Now, hold your head high. 84 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:09,140 Hold it proud, sister, in faith. 85 00:05:09,170 --> 00:05:12,210 Now let me unbind 86 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,040 and set you free of this agony. 87 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,380 Do you feel power, sister? 88 00:05:20,420 --> 00:05:23,150 [woman] Oh, I do! 89 00:05:23,180 --> 00:05:25,490 Say: The power is in me. 90 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:28,160 [woman] The power is in me. 91 00:05:28,190 --> 00:05:30,230 [Jones] Say: I am healed. 92 00:05:32,330 --> 00:05:36,770 [woman sobbing] I... am... healed. 93 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,470 Walk tall, sister. 94 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:41,240 Show them your pain-cleansed face! 95 00:05:41,270 --> 00:05:43,240 Show them! Hallelujah! 96 00:05:43,270 --> 00:05:45,510 Hallelujah! 97 00:05:45,540 --> 00:05:46,740 [Jones] Sister, thank you. 98 00:05:46,780 --> 00:05:48,080 Next! 99 00:05:51,350 --> 00:05:54,320 Now, is brother Menefee in the house? 100 00:05:54,350 --> 00:05:55,920 Aaron Menefee? 101 00:05:55,950 --> 00:05:59,520 Aaron Menefee, that’s me! 102 00:05:59,550 --> 00:06:01,020 Come forward, brother. 103 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,760 Come, right along. 104 00:06:10,370 --> 00:06:12,300 What is your affliction? 105 00:06:12,330 --> 00:06:13,400 Ulcers. 106 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:14,570 Do you hear that? 107 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,400 This big, good-looking young man, 108 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,040 in the prime of life is being eaten away 109 00:06:19,070 --> 00:06:21,640 by a sickness that defies man’s medicine, 110 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,180 and yet he has the faith 111 00:06:24,210 --> 00:06:26,720 to come before me and seek deliverance. 112 00:06:26,750 --> 00:06:29,220 Do you believe he can be healed? 113 00:06:29,250 --> 00:06:31,620 Yes. 114 00:06:31,650 --> 00:06:33,190 Aaron Menefee, 115 00:06:33,220 --> 00:06:35,720 do you believe you can be healed? 116 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:37,060 I can be healed. 117 00:06:37,090 --> 00:06:40,300 Then bend your head. Bend your head 118 00:06:40,330 --> 00:06:44,200 and make sure that your faith is as strong as my power. 119 00:06:44,230 --> 00:06:46,470 Do you believe? 120 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:47,900 I believe. 121 00:06:47,940 --> 00:06:50,470 Then seize this hand, seize it! 122 00:06:50,510 --> 00:06:53,210 We will let the other hand descend 123 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,340 to drive the evil out! 124 00:06:55,380 --> 00:06:56,880 Drive it out! 125 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:03,180 [panting] I’m healed. 126 00:07:03,220 --> 00:07:05,020 I’m healed. 127 00:07:05,050 --> 00:07:07,190 Say it again, brother! 128 00:07:07,220 --> 00:07:09,120 Cry it aloud in your jubilation! 129 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,230 -It’s gone, it’s a miracle! -[murmurs] 130 00:07:12,260 --> 00:07:14,330 -Do you hear that! -I’m healed. 131 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,700 -I’m healed. -Do you hear that, brothers and sisters? 132 00:07:16,730 --> 00:07:18,400 -[chattering] -I’m really healed. 133 00:07:18,430 --> 00:07:20,640 Oh, sister, by the power of the Healer, 134 00:07:20,670 --> 00:07:23,440 my affliction is cured. It’s gone. 135 00:07:23,470 --> 00:07:25,310 My pain is gone. 136 00:07:25,340 --> 00:07:27,180 I’m healed. 137 00:07:27,210 --> 00:07:29,640 I’m healed, I’m really healed. 138 00:07:31,750 --> 00:07:33,450 [Jones] My, my! 139 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,550 All these faith offerings! 140 00:07:35,580 --> 00:07:37,950 Dump it, brother! Dump it. 141 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,360 -[chuckles] -Did you see him, Daddy? 142 00:07:45,390 --> 00:07:47,760 First time a healed person ever got so grateful 143 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,830 he just took the basket out of my hand 144 00:07:49,860 --> 00:07:52,770 and run through the audience asking for faith offerings! 145 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,240 Look! 146 00:07:54,270 --> 00:07:55,700 You’re really grateful, huh? 147 00:07:55,740 --> 00:07:57,170 I’m healed. 148 00:07:57,210 --> 00:07:59,910 So is my car! You did a fine job. 149 00:08:00,010 --> 00:08:03,110 How would you like to go to work for me? 150 00:08:03,140 --> 00:08:05,210 Be my chauffeur. 151 00:08:05,250 --> 00:08:07,350 You mean, really? All the time? 152 00:08:07,380 --> 00:08:09,350 All the time. 153 00:08:09,380 --> 00:08:12,520 I bet he’s the kind of young man would get back half his salary 154 00:08:12,550 --> 00:08:16,020 each week as a faith offering to help some sinner. 155 00:08:17,490 --> 00:08:19,860 Oh, I will! I will! 156 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:23,900 What kind of a life is that? 157 00:08:23,930 --> 00:08:26,900 An auto mechanic for a traveling tent show? 158 00:08:26,940 --> 00:08:29,040 -Chauffeur. -Mechanic. 159 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,140 Working day and night 160 00:08:31,170 --> 00:08:35,140 and for less money than Abe Nolan pays you at the gas station. 161 00:08:35,180 --> 00:08:38,210 Making a holy show of yourself at those meetings, 162 00:08:38,250 --> 00:08:40,920 and living with a bunch of swindling strangers! 163 00:08:40,950 --> 00:08:43,390 You’ll find out what it’s like, boy. 164 00:08:43,420 --> 00:08:45,490 Dr. Buckles, I’ve been called. 165 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,060 And I’m following the call. 166 00:08:48,060 --> 00:08:49,460 Called? 167 00:08:51,260 --> 00:08:53,760 You were called to rid yourself of lustful thoughts 168 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,300 by rolling around naked in the snow one night, 169 00:08:56,330 --> 00:08:59,430 so that I had to pull you through pneumonia. 170 00:08:59,470 --> 00:09:03,640 You were called to bust up Glenn Lyman’s rabbit traps every time he set them out. 171 00:09:03,670 --> 00:09:07,340 So you had to go to jail twice already for doing that. 172 00:09:07,380 --> 00:09:10,250 Seems like every time you’re "called" it means trouble for you, Aaron. 173 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,580 -My body was healed. -Bunk. 174 00:09:12,610 --> 00:09:14,280 You never had an ulcer! 175 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,550 And you ain’t got one now. 176 00:09:18,350 --> 00:09:21,160 Trouble is, ever since you were a kid, your dad’s filled you 177 00:09:21,190 --> 00:09:25,490 so full of his hellfire and speaking in strange tongues and fear of the devil 178 00:09:25,530 --> 00:09:28,160 that no wonder he’s got your stomach all tied up in knots. 179 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,600 This Otis Jones is no better than your pop. 180 00:09:30,630 --> 00:09:32,400 He can’t cure anything. 181 00:09:39,570 --> 00:09:41,240 Whatever I got, 182 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,750 could you ever cure it, Doc? 183 00:09:43,780 --> 00:09:45,650 [clicks tongue] 184 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:47,480 Good-bye, Aaron. 185 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:49,220 Good-bye, Doc. 186 00:09:49,250 --> 00:09:52,590 If I pass this way again, I’ll drop by and say hello. 187 00:09:54,860 --> 00:09:57,760 [Aaron] We moved along town by town, 188 00:09:57,790 --> 00:09:59,760 and the faith offerings kept pouring in 189 00:09:59,790 --> 00:10:02,160 like the great flood itself. 190 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,930 From people who wanted the Healer’s good work carried on. 191 00:10:05,970 --> 00:10:08,000 It was a fine time. 192 00:10:09,070 --> 00:10:11,770 But then, the trouble began. 193 00:10:11,810 --> 00:10:13,170 What trouble? 194 00:10:13,210 --> 00:10:15,880 Emily Jones, the Healer’s daughter. 195 00:10:15,910 --> 00:10:17,410 She was everywhere. 196 00:10:17,450 --> 00:10:21,220 The devil rose up terrible in my mind. 197 00:10:21,250 --> 00:10:23,220 I broke into sweats. 198 00:10:23,250 --> 00:10:27,190 I had to take cold baths to rid the devil from my mind. 199 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,360 Aaron Menefee, what are you doing? 200 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,370 That’s three times today you’ve been soaking! 201 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,870 Y-y-you keeping count? 202 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:42,870 [chuckles] Aaron, 203 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:46,240 you’ll catch your death a cold! Get out! 204 00:10:46,270 --> 00:10:47,740 Get out, you hear? 205 00:10:50,410 --> 00:10:52,310 It’s a fine afternoon. 206 00:10:52,350 --> 00:10:56,120 You’re gonna take me for a row in a boat. 207 00:10:56,150 --> 00:10:58,250 Or you’re fired. 208 00:10:58,290 --> 00:11:01,060 The Healer’s daughter, speaking. 209 00:11:01,090 --> 00:11:02,760 Fired, unless! 210 00:11:02,790 --> 00:11:05,460 Well? 211 00:11:05,490 --> 00:11:07,730 I’ll b-be right there. 212 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:09,060 [laughs] 213 00:11:16,970 --> 00:11:18,570 Miss Emily? 214 00:11:18,610 --> 00:11:20,940 The devil is in me. 215 00:11:20,980 --> 00:11:23,880 The devil’s in us all, Aaron. 216 00:11:23,910 --> 00:11:26,550 Yes, but he says to me 217 00:11:26,580 --> 00:11:29,280 "Feel that wind." 218 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:30,820 It’s a fine wind. 219 00:11:30,850 --> 00:11:33,320 "Listen to them birds." 220 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:34,760 Fine singing. 221 00:11:34,790 --> 00:11:36,730 Yes, but then he says, 222 00:11:38,390 --> 00:11:40,530 "Hold her hand, 223 00:11:41,660 --> 00:11:43,730 touch her hair." 224 00:11:47,870 --> 00:11:50,870 -I’ll help you, Aaron. -Oh, thank you. 225 00:11:55,380 --> 00:11:57,950 Miss Emily, that’s no help at all! 226 00:11:59,350 --> 00:12:00,550 The Good Book says 227 00:12:00,580 --> 00:12:04,590 "Arise my love, my fair one, and come with me!" 228 00:12:04,620 --> 00:12:07,590 There’s a legal and holy way of doing it. 229 00:12:07,620 --> 00:12:09,690 You mean get married? 230 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,290 Do you have any objections to matrimony, Aaron? 231 00:12:13,330 --> 00:12:15,500 I don’t guess I have. 232 00:12:15,530 --> 00:12:18,230 But, I never thought that I was ready for it. 233 00:12:18,270 --> 00:12:22,300 Aaron, you’re 25 and long overdue. 234 00:12:22,340 --> 00:12:25,070 That’s what those thoughts have been trying to tell you. 235 00:12:29,510 --> 00:12:32,510 Emily, what’s the Healer gonna think about this? 236 00:12:32,550 --> 00:12:34,320 Everything I am, I owe to him. 237 00:12:34,350 --> 00:12:36,220 We must ask his blessing. 238 00:12:36,250 --> 00:12:38,450 Aaron, I’m Pa’s only child. 239 00:12:38,490 --> 00:12:41,690 Let’s skip off first and get married and then ask for his blessing. 240 00:12:43,090 --> 00:12:45,360 No, that would be sharper than a serpent’s tooth. 241 00:12:45,390 --> 00:12:47,160 We can’t do it that way. 242 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,440 We can’t? 243 00:12:56,870 --> 00:12:58,670 No! 244 00:12:58,710 --> 00:13:01,410 Now it’s got to be done right or not at all. 245 00:13:04,750 --> 00:13:09,320 Testing! One, two, three. One, two. 246 00:13:09,350 --> 00:13:11,350 Isn’t that fine, Brother Fish? 247 00:13:11,390 --> 00:13:13,250 Fine new microphone! 248 00:13:13,290 --> 00:13:15,190 Brand spanking new loudspeakers. 249 00:13:18,190 --> 00:13:19,760 Brother Menefee! 250 00:13:19,790 --> 00:13:22,760 How do you like the new equipment? 251 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,130 You may-- You may leave, Brother Fish. 252 00:13:28,970 --> 00:13:30,640 Emily. 253 00:13:30,670 --> 00:13:31,640 Child, 254 00:13:31,670 --> 00:13:33,310 what have you two been up to? 255 00:13:33,340 --> 00:13:35,710 Sit down, Emily. 256 00:13:35,740 --> 00:13:37,780 You got something to say, brother? 257 00:13:37,810 --> 00:13:39,580 Sir, could we talk, private? 258 00:13:39,610 --> 00:13:42,520 I can hear you fine. 259 00:13:42,550 --> 00:13:45,290 Now, stay where you are. 260 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,090 Well? 261 00:13:47,090 --> 00:13:48,220 Well... 262 00:13:48,260 --> 00:13:50,360 The fact is we’re going to be married. 263 00:13:56,260 --> 00:13:57,500 No, sir. 264 00:13:57,530 --> 00:13:59,570 That is not a fact, that is a desire. 265 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,900 The fact is you want to get married. 266 00:14:01,940 --> 00:14:03,910 Well, y-yes. 267 00:14:03,940 --> 00:14:07,040 There is a lot of difference between wanting and having, brother. 268 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:10,310 Sir, I leave it up to you whether I’m worthy or not. 269 00:14:10,350 --> 00:14:15,050 Although I have hopes that you’ll see it in the way Miss Emily and I do. 270 00:14:15,050 --> 00:14:16,380 Brother Menefee, 271 00:14:16,420 --> 00:14:18,890 you are one of the worthiest souls that I know. 272 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,560 But there’s a lot more to it than that. 273 00:14:21,590 --> 00:14:24,290 Emily, my only begotten child, 274 00:14:24,330 --> 00:14:26,360 is heir to all that has come my way. 275 00:14:26,390 --> 00:14:27,930 And believe me, 276 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,070 a lot has come my way this past year. 277 00:14:30,070 --> 00:14:33,170 If you’re saying Aaron wants to marry me for my money, 278 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,700 you can take my word for it he doesn’t. 279 00:14:35,740 --> 00:14:38,310 I do not say that. 280 00:14:38,340 --> 00:14:42,280 What I do say is that I got a mighty big proposition on my hands here, 281 00:14:42,310 --> 00:14:44,480 a mighty big proposition. 282 00:14:44,510 --> 00:14:46,280 What with the offerings from the meetings, 283 00:14:46,310 --> 00:14:49,280 the national hookups and the book sales. 284 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,290 It will take a big man to step into my shoes. 285 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:53,860 If you’re talking about Charlie Fish, 286 00:14:53,890 --> 00:14:55,390 I wouldn’t marry him if he were the last man on earth! 287 00:14:55,420 --> 00:14:56,960 He makes my skin crawl! 288 00:14:56,990 --> 00:14:58,590 All right. 289 00:14:58,630 --> 00:15:01,460 All right, not Charlie Fish. 290 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:04,630 But someone with his talents. 291 00:15:07,170 --> 00:15:10,670 When the power came down to me, 292 00:15:10,710 --> 00:15:13,680 I reaped a mighty harvest. 293 00:15:13,710 --> 00:15:15,340 Tax-free. 294 00:15:15,380 --> 00:15:18,310 Now, some day, Emily, that will be yours. 295 00:15:18,350 --> 00:15:20,850 Worthy as Brother Menefee may be, 296 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,320 he is not the right man for your wedded mate and partner. 297 00:15:24,350 --> 00:15:26,390 I cannot give my blessing. 298 00:15:29,660 --> 00:15:33,190 I have faith in you, Healer, 299 00:15:33,230 --> 00:15:35,900 but it’s a tough row you’ve given me to hoe. 300 00:15:35,930 --> 00:15:38,730 No woman ever made me feel the way Miss Emily does. 301 00:15:45,470 --> 00:15:47,340 As long as I am on earth, 302 00:15:47,380 --> 00:15:49,440 I reign over Emily. 303 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:51,180 When I’m gone to glory, 304 00:15:51,210 --> 00:15:53,350 then she is free to walk her own path. 305 00:15:53,380 --> 00:15:56,220 But that won’t be for a long time, Brother, 306 00:15:56,250 --> 00:15:57,320 a long time. 307 00:15:57,350 --> 00:15:59,250 Not with the way my health is 308 00:15:59,290 --> 00:16:01,360 and the Power that is in me. 309 00:16:01,390 --> 00:16:02,790 So, I suggest 310 00:16:02,820 --> 00:16:05,130 that you hoe that long row, 311 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,800 and keep your eye peeled for another woman. 312 00:16:08,830 --> 00:16:11,070 Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have work to do. 313 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,670 [Jones] Brother Fish, come back in here, please! 314 00:16:16,710 --> 00:16:18,240 [murmuring] I believe in him. 315 00:16:18,270 --> 00:16:20,180 I believe, I do believe in him. 316 00:16:20,210 --> 00:16:22,710 I believe in him! 317 00:16:22,740 --> 00:16:23,880 I believe in him! 318 00:16:23,910 --> 00:16:25,780 I believe in him. 319 00:16:25,810 --> 00:16:28,320 Aaron, I’ll never marry anyone else. 320 00:16:28,350 --> 00:16:31,520 I’ll wait for you all my life if I have to. 321 00:16:31,550 --> 00:16:34,290 [Jones over speakers] Emily! 322 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,360 Come in here, Emily. 323 00:16:54,580 --> 00:16:57,380 [Aaron] So, we traveled the circuit. 324 00:16:57,410 --> 00:17:01,920 And at last came full around again to my old home town. 325 00:17:11,530 --> 00:17:13,830 Doc? 326 00:17:13,860 --> 00:17:16,870 -[Doc] Who is it? -Aaron Menefee. 327 00:17:16,900 --> 00:17:19,470 Oh, hello, Aaron. 328 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:22,600 [chuckles] What do you mean "Hello"? I come to visit. 329 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,410 Not tonight, Aaron. 330 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,240 "Not tonight"? 331 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:31,080 I-I’ve been away a long time, I come here special now. 332 00:17:32,380 --> 00:17:34,350 Doc, I got problems. 333 00:17:34,380 --> 00:17:36,380 [Doc] We all got problems. 334 00:17:38,350 --> 00:17:40,320 I don’t know what yours is, 335 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:42,060 but this is mine. 336 00:17:52,230 --> 00:17:53,940 Doc, what’s going on? 337 00:17:53,970 --> 00:17:57,510 You sure picked a fine time to come barging in, Aaron. 338 00:18:00,210 --> 00:18:03,010 [Aaron] Who’s he? 339 00:18:03,010 --> 00:18:04,210 What does he want here? 340 00:18:04,250 --> 00:18:06,310 He’s a friend, let him be. 341 00:18:06,350 --> 00:18:10,350 No good making trouble for everyone just because you’re messed up. 342 00:18:10,390 --> 00:18:12,150 I examined you. 343 00:18:12,190 --> 00:18:14,590 Told you God’s honest truth. 344 00:18:14,620 --> 00:18:16,290 Your legs are paralyzed. 345 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:19,160 -[man sobbing] Shut up! -Your legs are paralyzed 346 00:18:19,190 --> 00:18:21,130 and nothing can be done for it. 347 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:22,860 Not by me, nor anyone. 348 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:25,330 Is there another doctor in this jerk-water stop? 349 00:18:25,370 --> 00:18:28,240 -No. -[man] You lie! You lie! 350 00:18:28,270 --> 00:18:31,610 Mister, I wouldn’t risk my ever-lasting soul by one lie. 351 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,310 All right, all right! 352 00:18:33,340 --> 00:18:36,380 But who do you go to around here if you’re hurt bad? 353 00:18:36,410 --> 00:18:38,680 Don’t tell me everybody uses this old quack? 354 00:18:40,350 --> 00:18:41,720 You can’t walk? 355 00:18:41,750 --> 00:18:44,290 -You can’t-- -I can’t walk! I can’t! No! 356 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,220 You think I’d be sitting here if I could? I can’t! No! 357 00:18:47,260 --> 00:18:49,190 And you really want to? 358 00:18:49,220 --> 00:18:51,360 Want to? Want to! 359 00:18:51,390 --> 00:18:54,400 Oh, Doc... Doc, sometimes I think it’s fore-ordained. 360 00:18:54,430 --> 00:18:56,500 -What’s with him? -Oh, Aaron is just-- 361 00:18:56,530 --> 00:18:58,930 Excuse me, Doc. Oh, do excuse me. 362 00:18:58,970 --> 00:19:01,200 Brother, Doc is a good man 363 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,010 even if there are lots of things outside his powers. 364 00:19:04,010 --> 00:19:07,010 But I can take you to someone whose power has never failed. 365 00:19:07,010 --> 00:19:08,010 -[Doc] Aaron. -Shut up! 366 00:19:08,010 --> 00:19:09,540 He healed me when Doc couldn’t. 367 00:19:09,580 --> 00:19:11,180 I’m sorry, Doc. 368 00:19:11,210 --> 00:19:13,010 He heals all those who come to him, 369 00:19:13,010 --> 00:19:15,350 no matter what their affliction. 370 00:19:15,380 --> 00:19:17,550 -It’s true. -Do you realize who this is? 371 00:19:17,590 --> 00:19:20,720 This is Vern Byers! He’s been shot by the police, he’s a killer! 372 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,060 -Where is this guy, this friend of yours? -Five minutes away. 373 00:19:32,230 --> 00:19:34,070 Here’s $1,000. 374 00:19:37,210 --> 00:19:39,040 Pick it up. 375 00:19:42,540 --> 00:19:45,110 That’s to bring this doctor friend of yours here. 376 00:19:46,950 --> 00:19:49,920 Tell him there’s another thousand waiting for him when he gets here. 377 00:19:49,950 --> 00:19:51,490 All right? 378 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:55,290 Brother Byers, the Healer won’t take payment for his work. 379 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,230 But if this is a faith offering-- 380 00:19:57,260 --> 00:20:00,630 Well, call it what you want! Bring him here! 381 00:20:00,660 --> 00:20:04,330 Aaron, I told you. There’s nothing anyone can do to help. 382 00:20:04,370 --> 00:20:07,570 He can’t be cured! His spine’s been damaged! 383 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,610 You keep out of this, Aaron! And you keep this Healer friend of yours out of it, too. 384 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,040 Al! Lock this quack up! 385 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:16,710 Go on now! 386 00:20:18,410 --> 00:20:20,580 Wait a minute! 387 00:20:20,620 --> 00:20:24,290 Come here, shut the door. 388 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,460 -[door closes] -Now listen. 389 00:20:27,490 --> 00:20:32,330 I killed the doctor at Crescent City that operated to take the bullet out of me 390 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:33,860 and left me so I can’t walk. 391 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:38,630 Brother Byers, he heals all those who come to him. 392 00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:43,810 [Byers] Listen again. 393 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,810 I’ll kill any man 394 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:50,780 that takes my money and doesn’t put my legs right again. 395 00:20:50,810 --> 00:20:53,010 -Do you hear? -Have faith, brother. 396 00:21:02,690 --> 00:21:04,890 Healer? Healer Jones! 397 00:21:06,830 --> 00:21:08,600 Healer Jones. 398 00:21:08,630 --> 00:21:10,430 Oh, praise glory, you’re here! 399 00:21:10,470 --> 00:21:13,200 Healer, there’s a man who needs your help for a friend of his. 400 00:21:13,230 --> 00:21:15,570 At this hour? It must be mighty serious. 401 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,440 It is serious! Look at this faith offering! $1,000. 402 00:21:19,470 --> 00:21:21,380 And there’s more where that came from. 403 00:21:21,410 --> 00:21:22,880 Wow! 404 00:21:22,910 --> 00:21:26,480 -Brother Fish, add this to the tally. -Yes, Healer. 405 00:21:26,510 --> 00:21:29,280 I guess this is about the biggest single evening we’ve ever had! 406 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:31,420 -$1,000! -Now, where is this sinner? 407 00:21:31,450 --> 00:21:34,520 I’ve got the car. We’ll take you there, Healer, but you better hurry. 408 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,660 Yes, yes, I’ll hurry. Thank you, daughter. Thank you. 409 00:21:49,900 --> 00:21:51,610 -Healer? -Yes, yes? 410 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,310 There’s a worrisome thing about that sinner up there. 411 00:21:54,340 --> 00:21:56,810 Now, brother, you’re not gonna tell me my business, are you? 412 00:21:56,850 --> 00:21:58,910 Oh no, sir. It’s just this sinner. 413 00:21:58,950 --> 00:22:01,580 Though he needs your power, he’s short on faith. 414 00:22:01,620 --> 00:22:03,890 He smell of fire and brimstone, Healer. 415 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:05,620 He’s a fearful sinner all the way. 416 00:22:05,650 --> 00:22:07,260 Brother Menefee, you’re ignorant. 417 00:22:07,290 --> 00:22:09,760 Anyone who can make a faith offering like the one you just gave me 418 00:22:09,790 --> 00:22:12,230 is ready, ready for my power to enter him. 419 00:22:12,260 --> 00:22:13,600 [Emily] What Aaron means-- 420 00:22:17,630 --> 00:22:19,630 -Healer? -Oh, thank you, brother, 421 00:22:19,670 --> 00:22:23,070 but I don’t figure to need your company along this mission. 422 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,150 Well, well. 423 00:22:41,690 --> 00:22:44,860 Now, brother, just... 424 00:22:44,890 --> 00:22:47,160 What is your affliction? 425 00:23:08,220 --> 00:23:12,220 So much for life and death under the big top. 426 00:23:12,250 --> 00:23:16,390 By the way, the police finally caught up with Vern Byers 427 00:23:16,420 --> 00:23:19,960 but not before he had done in Otis Jones. 428 00:23:20,060 --> 00:23:22,960 My final appearance in a moment. 429 00:23:23,060 --> 00:23:28,270 But first, to convince the cynical that Gordon does exist, 430 00:23:28,300 --> 00:23:33,910 he will now jump through this hoop. 431 00:23:33,940 --> 00:23:35,480 -[pong, pang, pong] -[thud] 432 00:23:35,510 --> 00:23:37,180 [pong] 433 00:23:37,210 --> 00:23:38,950 This always happens. 434 00:23:38,980 --> 00:23:41,820 I must remember to use thinner paper 435 00:23:41,850 --> 00:23:44,990 but, as Gordon would say, that’s show business. 436 00:23:45,090 --> 00:23:48,090 Which reminds me, you have seen the show, 437 00:23:48,090 --> 00:23:50,430 now we give you the business. 438 00:23:52,290 --> 00:23:56,100 Good evening. Good to have you ring side again. 439 00:23:56,130 --> 00:23:59,700 Gordon was miffed as a result of the accident with the hoop, 440 00:23:59,730 --> 00:24:01,900 and has disappeared. 441 00:24:01,940 --> 00:24:04,770 He first changed into street clothes, however, 442 00:24:04,810 --> 00:24:07,740 so he will be much more difficult to find. 443 00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:11,150 He’s wearing a dark-gray flannel suit, 444 00:24:11,180 --> 00:24:13,350 pearl-gray felt hat, 445 00:24:13,380 --> 00:24:15,250 a blue neck tie 446 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,690 and three pairs of suede shoes. 447 00:24:20,260 --> 00:24:24,060 Now, until next week at the same time, 448 00:24:24,060 --> 00:24:26,230 goodnight.