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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:32,393 --> 00:01:36,806 This is Tobacco Road today, but a hundred years ago... 2 00:01:36,981 --> 00:01:40,267 ... when the first Lesters came to Georgia, it was different. 3 00:01:41,027 --> 00:01:44,645 It run 15 miles down the ridge to the Savannah River... 4 00:01:44,822 --> 00:01:47,777 ... through the richest cotton and tobacco plantations... 5 00:01:47,951 --> 00:01:50,074 ... in the whole South... 6 00:01:50,286 --> 00:01:54,154 ... past fine big homes that the Lesters themselves built and lived in. 7 00:01:55,333 --> 00:01:57,409 But that was a hundred years ago. 8 00:01:57,627 --> 00:02:00,463 Come a time then when the land fell fallow... 9 00:02:00,672 --> 00:02:02,250 ... and worse and worse. 10 00:02:02,758 --> 00:02:07,052 But you think the Lesters would leave it? No, sir. 11 00:02:07,262 --> 00:02:09,421 They stayed on and on... 12 00:02:09,640 --> 00:02:13,091 ... but all that they had and all that they were... 13 00:02:13,268 --> 00:02:15,938 ... that's all gone with the wind and the dust. 14 00:02:16,856 --> 00:02:19,144 And this... 15 00:02:19,900 --> 00:02:24,609 This is Tobacco Road today. 16 00:02:46,303 --> 00:02:47,761 Whoa. 17 00:02:50,223 --> 00:02:52,797 Hi, Henry. How come? 18 00:02:52,976 --> 00:02:54,850 Can't complain, Jeeter. 19 00:02:55,062 --> 00:02:56,604 That's good. Hey, is it...? 20 00:02:56,813 --> 00:02:59,387 Is it true what I hear, that Bessie's back? 21 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:02,688 Yes, sir, last week. 22 00:03:02,861 --> 00:03:04,771 Buried her husband down at Statesboro. 23 00:03:04,947 --> 00:03:07,948 Wasn't hardly cold before she picked up and hiked home. 24 00:03:08,158 --> 00:03:10,732 Well, ain't that good? 25 00:03:10,953 --> 00:03:14,120 Say, is she...? Is she still full of spirit? 26 00:03:14,331 --> 00:03:16,324 Jeeter, it's worse and more of it. 27 00:03:16,542 --> 00:03:19,329 I do declare, it looks like my head's gonna split open... 28 00:03:19,545 --> 00:03:22,463 ...with all this singing and yelling and hallelujah-ing. 29 00:03:45,906 --> 00:03:49,026 Whoo! She sure got a powerful voice. 30 00:03:49,701 --> 00:03:51,824 Ain't been quiet since she got back. 31 00:03:52,037 --> 00:03:53,994 Yeah, well, so long, Henry. 32 00:03:54,206 --> 00:03:56,033 You know you got a blowout there? 33 00:03:56,917 --> 00:03:58,874 I can get home as long as I got one good one. 34 00:04:07,595 --> 00:04:10,596 I'm gonna trade this darned car in next year. 35 00:04:10,806 --> 00:04:12,301 Well, so long, Henry. 36 00:04:47,511 --> 00:04:49,634 What's the matter? 37 00:05:23,048 --> 00:05:26,499 - Supper ready? - Supper? Huh. 38 00:05:26,676 --> 00:05:28,005 What about that wood? 39 00:05:28,887 --> 00:05:30,844 Well, there it is, can't you see it? 40 00:05:31,056 --> 00:05:34,010 How come I can still see it? How come you didn't sell it? 41 00:05:34,226 --> 00:05:38,722 Well, you can't sell no wood if nobody wants to buy no wood, can you? 42 00:05:38,939 --> 00:05:41,893 You're the craziest old fool I guess I ever did see. 43 00:05:42,943 --> 00:05:45,861 That's the fourth time you've taken that same load to town... 44 00:05:46,030 --> 00:05:47,405 ...and brung it back. 45 00:05:47,615 --> 00:05:49,738 Ain't even had it out of the car. 46 00:05:49,950 --> 00:05:53,366 No, and I ain't gonna take it out of the car. 47 00:06:04,215 --> 00:06:06,338 Hey, here comes Lov. 48 00:06:06,509 --> 00:06:10,008 He's toting a croker sack. It's got something in it. 49 00:06:15,268 --> 00:06:17,557 Reckon it's turnips he's got in that sack. 50 00:06:17,771 --> 00:06:19,847 Turnips? Mm. 51 00:06:20,023 --> 00:06:22,775 I sure could use me some turnips right now. 52 00:06:22,984 --> 00:06:27,314 If it is, Lov sure will give his wife's poor old ma some of them turnips. 53 00:06:27,531 --> 00:06:29,274 He'll give me some... 54 00:06:29,491 --> 00:06:33,619 ...because Lov and me, we certainly think a whole heap of each other. 55 00:06:33,829 --> 00:06:36,450 Come on, get back. Pretend like you didn't see him. 56 00:06:36,665 --> 00:06:39,702 Come on, let's get back and just act natural-like. 57 00:06:55,226 --> 00:06:58,642 Hi, Lov! Ain't seen you in a long time. 58 00:06:58,855 --> 00:07:00,894 Say, you must be plumb worn out... 59 00:07:01,107 --> 00:07:04,558 ...toting whatever it is you got in that old croker sack. 60 00:07:04,777 --> 00:07:09,238 - I ain't tired. - How's Pearl, Lov? Is she all right? 61 00:07:09,449 --> 00:07:13,150 That's what I come for. I wanna talk to Jeeter about Pearl. 62 00:07:13,370 --> 00:07:18,328 Well, what's she done now? She been treating you mean again? 63 00:07:18,542 --> 00:07:20,581 Jeeter, you gotta say something to Pearl. 64 00:07:20,794 --> 00:07:23,166 I'm getting darned sick of the way she's acting. 65 00:07:23,380 --> 00:07:26,215 Well, are you treating her right? 66 00:07:26,425 --> 00:07:28,299 What's that gotta do with it? 67 00:07:28,510 --> 00:07:30,384 She's married to me, ain't she? 68 00:07:30,596 --> 00:07:32,553 Well, what's she done now? 69 00:07:32,765 --> 00:07:34,259 Well... 70 00:07:35,017 --> 00:07:37,010 ...one thing, she won't talk to me. 71 00:07:37,228 --> 00:07:40,644 - What do you want her to say to you? Anything, I don't care what. 72 00:07:42,525 --> 00:07:44,316 She could ask me is my back tired... 73 00:07:44,485 --> 00:07:47,320 ...when I come home from the coal chute, couldn't she? 74 00:07:48,197 --> 00:07:50,237 Or do I think it's gonna rain... 75 00:07:50,450 --> 00:07:53,285 ...or when is I gonna get my hair cut. 76 00:07:53,494 --> 00:07:55,653 There's a lot of things she could ask me... 77 00:07:55,872 --> 00:07:57,781 ...but she won't say one darn word. 78 00:07:57,999 --> 00:08:01,119 Well, maybe you don't go about it right. 79 00:08:01,336 --> 00:08:04,088 Why, I tried every way I know how. 80 00:08:04,339 --> 00:08:07,423 I kicked her and I poured water on her... 81 00:08:07,634 --> 00:08:09,792 ...and I chucked rocks and sticks at her... 82 00:08:10,011 --> 00:08:12,549 ...and all she does is bawl a lot when she's hurt. 83 00:08:12,764 --> 00:08:14,424 You can't call that talking. 84 00:08:14,641 --> 00:08:18,805 Well, her not talking ain't anything to get mad about. 85 00:08:19,021 --> 00:08:21,559 Why, Ada here never spoke a word to me... 86 00:08:21,773 --> 00:08:25,356 ...for the first 10 years we was married... 87 00:08:25,569 --> 00:08:29,318 ...and them was the happiest 10 years of my life. 88 00:08:29,531 --> 00:08:30,990 She runs away too. 89 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,358 I'm sick and tired of the whole business. 90 00:08:33,577 --> 00:08:37,326 Give her time, boy. She'll be all right. 91 00:08:37,540 --> 00:08:39,414 She ain't but 13, remember. 92 00:08:39,625 --> 00:08:41,203 You listen to me, Lov Bensey. 93 00:08:41,419 --> 00:08:44,336 If you don't like what she's doing, bring her back home. 94 00:08:44,505 --> 00:08:45,834 Get yourself another wife. 95 00:08:46,174 --> 00:08:47,502 You can have Ellie May. 96 00:08:47,717 --> 00:08:51,881 Oh, every time I say anything, y'all want me to marry Ellie May. 97 00:08:52,096 --> 00:08:54,884 Well, it ain't no use, that's all there is to it. 98 00:08:55,100 --> 00:09:00,556 I want a young wife. I ain't gonna take no 23-year-old woman for a wife... 99 00:09:00,772 --> 00:09:03,014 ...and have everybody laughing at me. 100 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,065 - Hey, Lov. - Hey, Ellie May. 101 00:09:07,279 --> 00:09:08,856 It's Pearl I'm talking about. 102 00:09:09,406 --> 00:09:13,071 Lov, will you tell me whatever it is you got in that croker sack? 103 00:09:13,285 --> 00:09:15,491 I been looking at it since you come here... 104 00:09:15,704 --> 00:09:18,029 ...and Lord knows I'm just dying to know. 105 00:09:18,248 --> 00:09:20,704 Turnips, by cracky. 106 00:09:21,126 --> 00:09:24,044 Turnips. I ain't... 107 00:09:24,213 --> 00:09:28,425 I ain't had me a good turnip since a year ago last spring... 108 00:09:28,634 --> 00:09:33,510 ...and, oh, the good Lord only knows how bad I've wanted one. 109 00:09:33,723 --> 00:09:36,843 Why, you know, I could eat me that whole croker sack full of... 110 00:09:37,018 --> 00:09:40,387 I could eat me a whole wagonload full of turnips... 111 00:09:40,563 --> 00:09:42,390 ...between now and sundown. 112 00:09:42,607 --> 00:09:45,145 Don't look for me to give you none, because I ain't. 113 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:50,947 Well, that's a whopping mean thing to say to Pearl's poor old pa. 114 00:09:51,157 --> 00:09:54,075 Ain't you gonna give me just a bite, Lov? 115 00:09:54,744 --> 00:09:56,155 No. 116 00:09:56,329 --> 00:09:57,954 I tell you what I'll do. 117 00:09:58,123 --> 00:10:00,329 I'll make you a trade for some of them there turnips. 118 00:10:00,542 --> 00:10:02,748 I ain't trading turnips with nobody. 119 00:10:02,961 --> 00:10:05,037 If you'll give me some of them turnips... 120 00:10:05,255 --> 00:10:08,090 ...I'll go to your house the first thing in the morning... 121 00:10:08,258 --> 00:10:10,002 ...and tell Pearl to behave herself. 122 00:10:10,219 --> 00:10:12,461 Tell her that ain't no way to treat a man... 123 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:14,921 ...who's gone to the bother of marrying her. 124 00:10:15,140 --> 00:10:18,474 And I'll tell her she's gotta stop hiding in them bushes... 125 00:10:18,686 --> 00:10:22,553 ...and ask if it's gonna rain. - And are you gonna get your hair cut. 126 00:10:22,773 --> 00:10:26,723 Well, what do you say, Lov? 127 00:10:26,944 --> 00:10:29,020 I don't gotta pay you for that. 128 00:10:29,238 --> 00:10:32,405 I already give you some quilts and two quarts of cylinder oil... 129 00:10:32,575 --> 00:10:35,244 ...and $ 7 to marry Pearl, and that's enough. 130 00:10:35,411 --> 00:10:37,487 You gotta make her behave for nothing. 131 00:10:38,039 --> 00:10:41,455 Just one little bitty bite, Lov? 132 00:10:44,212 --> 00:10:46,418 It ain't no use you niggling at me. 133 00:10:46,965 --> 00:10:48,874 Lov. 134 00:10:50,677 --> 00:10:53,133 Please, Lov. 135 00:10:56,141 --> 00:10:59,344 All my children all the time blaming me... 136 00:10:59,561 --> 00:11:04,556 ...because the old good Lord made me poverty-stricken. 137 00:11:04,775 --> 00:11:07,147 Them and their ma's all the time bawling me out... 138 00:11:07,361 --> 00:11:12,023 ...because they ain't got nothing to eat, as if I had anything to do with it. 139 00:11:12,241 --> 00:11:15,575 Yes, sometimes it looks to me... 140 00:11:17,079 --> 00:11:23,248 It looks to me like the good Lord's got it in good and plenty for a poor man. 141 00:11:23,461 --> 00:11:27,210 But I ain't complaining. No, sir, I ain't complaining. 142 00:11:27,966 --> 00:11:30,172 Ow! Ow! 143 00:11:30,343 --> 00:11:33,427 Hold him, Ellie May, hold him, hold him. 144 00:11:33,638 --> 00:11:35,963 Hold him, hold him, Ellie May. 145 00:11:36,182 --> 00:11:40,097 Hold him, Ellie May. Hold him, honey. 146 00:11:40,312 --> 00:11:44,261 Give me my turnips, you old fool. You old fool. 147 00:11:44,483 --> 00:11:46,440 Give me my turnips. Give me my turnips. 148 00:11:46,651 --> 00:11:48,728 Give me some of them turnips, you old fool. 149 00:11:48,945 --> 00:11:50,819 Let go my leg. 150 00:11:51,031 --> 00:11:53,403 Let go my leg, you fool dog. 151 00:11:54,034 --> 00:11:55,991 Let me out of here. 152 00:11:56,995 --> 00:12:00,744 Hold him, Ellie May. Hit him in the head. 153 00:12:01,417 --> 00:12:04,038 Hey, give me some of them turnips, you old fool. 154 00:12:04,253 --> 00:12:06,826 Give me some of them turnips. 155 00:12:09,592 --> 00:12:14,468 I wish I'd known what kind of family I married into. I wouldn't have done it. 156 00:12:27,986 --> 00:12:32,315 I hope Lov don't hold no hard feeling agin me. 157 00:12:58,434 --> 00:13:00,889 Whoo! - Hallelujah, Brother Jeeter. 158 00:13:01,145 --> 00:13:03,897 Hallelujah, Sister Bessie. Welcome home. 159 00:13:04,106 --> 00:13:06,265 Thank you, Brother Jeeter. 160 00:13:06,484 --> 00:13:10,019 Brother Jeeter, will you join me in a song? 161 00:13:10,238 --> 00:13:12,907 Sure, I'd like to. What'll we sing? 162 00:13:13,116 --> 00:13:17,410 - "It's the Old-Time Religion." - That's good enough for me. 163 00:13:34,388 --> 00:13:36,012 That's enough. 164 00:13:36,556 --> 00:13:40,601 That was all right. You know, I feel better already. 165 00:13:40,811 --> 00:13:42,186 - Jeeter Lester. - Yeah. 166 00:13:42,396 --> 00:13:44,056 You've sinned. 167 00:13:44,690 --> 00:13:46,149 - Who, me? - Yes, sir. 168 00:13:46,358 --> 00:13:49,941 This morning when I was laying abed thinking, a voice come to me and said: 169 00:13:50,112 --> 00:13:54,573 "Sister Bessie, get up and go down to Jeeter Lester, he's at it again." 170 00:13:54,784 --> 00:13:57,701 You sure you ain't got me mixed up with somebody else? 171 00:13:57,912 --> 00:14:01,862 - The voice said it was you. - I ain't done nothing, Sister Bessie. 172 00:14:02,083 --> 00:14:05,915 - Not one little sin? - Well, not one big sin. 173 00:14:06,129 --> 00:14:11,882 Maybe a little sinning in general, but nothing you could call a real sin. 174 00:14:12,093 --> 00:14:13,837 How come the voice say it was you? 175 00:14:14,053 --> 00:14:17,505 Oh, that's easy. The Lord knows what a powerful sinner I was. 176 00:14:17,724 --> 00:14:21,971 I guess I was about the most sinningest man in the whole world. 177 00:14:22,187 --> 00:14:25,473 - Nothing lately? - No, no, nothing lately, Sister Bessie. 178 00:14:25,690 --> 00:14:27,849 Well, I'm mighty glad to hear that, Jeeter... 179 00:14:28,068 --> 00:14:31,402 ...because I'm out this morning to run all the sin off Tobacco Road... 180 00:14:31,572 --> 00:14:32,982 ...and I got a good start. 181 00:14:33,198 --> 00:14:35,321 - How's your folks? - Oh, they're all right. 182 00:14:35,534 --> 00:14:37,942 They just... They ain't up yet. 183 00:14:38,162 --> 00:14:41,661 - This morning, they is just a little tired. Tell them I said hey. 184 00:14:41,874 --> 00:14:44,080 I sure will, Sister Bessie. 185 00:14:50,091 --> 00:14:51,633 Psst! 186 00:14:53,886 --> 00:14:55,380 Jeeter. 187 00:14:58,266 --> 00:14:59,843 What are you doing hiding here? 188 00:15:00,018 --> 00:15:04,098 - I near about run into her. - Well, is it nice here? 189 00:15:04,314 --> 00:15:06,935 Jeeter, Captain John's coming back. 190 00:15:07,150 --> 00:15:10,601 - Captain John's dead. - It's his son, Captain Tim. It's the same. 191 00:15:10,820 --> 00:15:12,480 He's coming back to Tobacco Road. 192 00:15:12,697 --> 00:15:16,232 - He's gonna give us farmers credit? - That's what everybody says. 193 00:15:16,451 --> 00:15:19,322 Ada. Ada. 194 00:15:20,205 --> 00:15:22,743 Praise the Lord, Captain John's coming back. 195 00:15:22,958 --> 00:15:25,793 - Why, I thought Captain John was dead. He is. 196 00:15:39,141 --> 00:15:42,178 Gonna get me a good mule and some seed cotton... 197 00:15:42,395 --> 00:15:44,802 ...and some guano, and I'm gonna... 198 00:15:45,022 --> 00:15:47,229 Who put this old plow down in the dirt? 199 00:15:47,441 --> 00:15:49,683 You did, seven years ago. 200 00:15:49,902 --> 00:15:55,110 First thing I'm gonna do is to burn off all this old broom-sedge... 201 00:15:55,325 --> 00:15:57,033 ...and clear my fields. 202 00:15:57,243 --> 00:15:59,995 And, Dude, see if you can find some harness. 203 00:16:00,205 --> 00:16:02,197 There used to be a bridle in the kitchen. 204 00:16:02,582 --> 00:16:04,373 Oh, I think Grandma ate it. 205 00:16:04,584 --> 00:16:07,455 Yes, sir. It looks to me like Dude and me... 206 00:16:07,671 --> 00:16:10,209 ...we is gonna raise us about a bale an acre... 207 00:16:10,423 --> 00:16:15,762 ...because the way I feel now, Ada, it's just like I used to feel every spring. 208 00:16:15,971 --> 00:16:19,554 Why, you can smell the smoke from the burning sedge... 209 00:16:19,766 --> 00:16:23,218 ...and the wind blowing from the fresh-plowed ground... 210 00:16:23,437 --> 00:16:26,106 ...it just gets down into your soul... 211 00:16:26,315 --> 00:16:29,648 ...and you just feel like you... 212 00:16:29,860 --> 00:16:34,487 Just feel like you gotta plant or bust. 213 00:16:35,074 --> 00:16:39,321 What ails you now? Spring come and gone already? 214 00:16:39,537 --> 00:16:42,906 Well, there ain't no use starting today. Look. 215 00:16:43,374 --> 00:16:45,581 What? I don't see nothing. 216 00:16:45,793 --> 00:16:48,498 Well, there ain't no use starting a fire... 217 00:16:48,713 --> 00:16:51,963 ...if a rain's gonna come up and put the fire out, is there? 218 00:16:52,175 --> 00:16:56,042 You ain't gonna have no crop no how, Jeeter Lester. 219 00:16:56,679 --> 00:17:00,214 Not if Mr. Tim was to come, give you a mule and some seed cotton... 220 00:17:00,392 --> 00:17:03,143 ...some guano and the sun would shine day and night... 221 00:17:03,311 --> 00:17:06,099 ...you still ain't gonna have no crop this year. 222 00:17:06,314 --> 00:17:08,521 What are you talking about? 223 00:17:08,734 --> 00:17:13,561 You ain't gonna have no crop because you got a sin on your soul. 224 00:17:13,780 --> 00:17:16,318 You stole them turnips from Lov... 225 00:17:16,533 --> 00:17:19,784 ...and it's the wrong time of the year for stealing. 226 00:17:20,579 --> 00:17:22,453 Lov is my son-in-law. 227 00:17:22,665 --> 00:17:29,166 You can't steal from your son-in-law because he's kinfolks. 228 00:17:29,380 --> 00:17:31,289 And right on top of that... 229 00:17:31,507 --> 00:17:34,674 ...you got to go and tell Sister Bessie, a religious woman... 230 00:17:34,886 --> 00:17:37,377 ...that you didn't steal no turnips. 231 00:17:37,597 --> 00:17:38,972 And I didn't, neither. 232 00:17:39,140 --> 00:17:42,390 The Lord don't hold with anybody that steals around planting time... 233 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,051 ...and he sure don't hold with anybody that steals... 234 00:17:45,230 --> 00:17:47,306 ...and then lies and says he didn't. 235 00:17:47,524 --> 00:17:50,275 You wait. You'll see. 236 00:17:50,485 --> 00:17:52,976 Well, I ain't scared. 237 00:17:53,780 --> 00:17:56,236 You just wait. 238 00:17:58,285 --> 00:18:00,361 Well, I ain't scared. 239 00:18:00,579 --> 00:18:05,407 No little old turnips is gonna scare me. 240 00:18:06,418 --> 00:18:08,660 No, sir, no... 241 00:18:09,213 --> 00:18:12,712 No use getting scared of a turnip. 242 00:18:17,388 --> 00:18:19,713 A little old turnip. 243 00:18:39,077 --> 00:18:44,913 Whoever heard tell of such a fuss over a few little old turnips. 244 00:18:50,630 --> 00:18:53,204 Jeeter, that one was pretty close. 245 00:18:53,425 --> 00:18:55,833 Ada, you know what I... 246 00:18:56,053 --> 00:19:01,723 What I done to Lov Bensey is sure beginning to bother my conscience. 247 00:19:32,382 --> 00:19:34,707 - Morning, Henry. - Hey, Jeeter. 248 00:19:34,926 --> 00:19:36,919 Is Sister Bessie home? 249 00:19:37,095 --> 00:19:38,969 Sister Bessie? Jeeter... 250 00:19:44,644 --> 00:19:46,720 Well, hallelujah, Brother Jeeter. 251 00:19:46,938 --> 00:19:49,227 - Hallelujah, Sister Bessie. - Well, Sister Ada... 252 00:19:49,441 --> 00:19:51,315 ...I am glad to see you looking so fine. 253 00:19:51,860 --> 00:19:53,687 Jeeter's got something to tell you. 254 00:19:53,904 --> 00:19:57,653 Yeah, Sister Bessie, I done made me a great big mistake yesterday... 255 00:19:57,825 --> 00:20:00,576 ...but it clean slipped my mind at the time. 256 00:20:00,786 --> 00:20:03,111 But the Old Nick got the upper hand of me... 257 00:20:03,330 --> 00:20:06,082 ...and I done taken some turnips from Lov Bensey. 258 00:20:06,292 --> 00:20:08,617 He stole them turnips. 259 00:20:08,836 --> 00:20:11,042 Yes, Sister Bessie, I stole them... 260 00:20:11,255 --> 00:20:14,920 ...and I'm sure needing prayer about as bad as any man you ever seen. 261 00:20:15,134 --> 00:20:17,293 I just gotta clear my soul... 262 00:20:17,512 --> 00:20:20,845 ...so nothing won't stand between me and a crop of cotton. 263 00:20:21,349 --> 00:20:24,018 Jeeter, where them turnips now? 264 00:20:24,227 --> 00:20:28,853 Well, to tell you the truth, Sister Bessie, we ate them. 265 00:20:29,983 --> 00:20:31,560 AII... 266 00:20:31,943 --> 00:20:35,395 Well, all excepting this one. 267 00:20:35,614 --> 00:20:37,820 Why, that's a summer turnip. 268 00:20:37,991 --> 00:20:40,612 Where on earth did Lov Bensey get summer turnips? 269 00:20:40,786 --> 00:20:43,324 That ain't no summer turnip. That's a winter turnip. 270 00:20:43,497 --> 00:20:46,166 - You don't suppose I told him... - That's a summer turnip. 271 00:20:46,333 --> 00:20:48,290 You sure? 272 00:20:48,794 --> 00:20:50,502 Let me taste it. 273 00:20:52,256 --> 00:20:55,672 - It tastes like it, all right. - Let me taste it. 274 00:20:57,553 --> 00:21:00,756 - Tastes like a summer turnip. - That's a summer turnip, all right. 275 00:21:00,973 --> 00:21:05,053 I'd go down there now if I wasn't afraid he wouldn't beat me with a stick. 276 00:21:05,227 --> 00:21:06,722 All right, now, get down. 277 00:21:07,188 --> 00:21:12,016 Get down on your knees. Oh, Lord, Jeeter Lester's at it again. 278 00:21:12,235 --> 00:21:15,485 He stole all of Lov Bensey's turnips and now he's ate them all up. 279 00:21:15,697 --> 00:21:17,855 It's too late to do anything about that now... 280 00:21:18,074 --> 00:21:20,280 ...but it seem to me like you never did see... 281 00:21:20,493 --> 00:21:23,198 ...such a stealing man in all my born days. 282 00:21:23,413 --> 00:21:25,536 - Amen! - Now, Lord, you gotta make him quit... 283 00:21:25,749 --> 00:21:28,121 ...right now for good and all. Amen. 284 00:21:28,335 --> 00:21:29,995 Does that clear me? 285 00:21:30,212 --> 00:21:33,462 It will if you don't do it no more. Anybody else? 286 00:21:33,673 --> 00:21:37,339 Well, while you're at it, you might... You might mention Dude... 287 00:21:37,552 --> 00:21:40,008 ...because he's the most sinningest in the family. 288 00:21:40,222 --> 00:21:42,049 Dude? Is this Dude? 289 00:21:42,266 --> 00:21:45,183 Come on here, Dude, Sister Bessie's gonna pray for you. 290 00:21:45,394 --> 00:21:48,763 Well, I do declare. If he ain't a grown-up man now. 291 00:21:48,981 --> 00:21:52,848 Why, when I went away, he weren't nothing but a skinny little old boy. 292 00:21:53,068 --> 00:21:55,738 Yeah. I guess he must be about 20 now, ain't he, Ada? 293 00:21:55,946 --> 00:21:57,654 Mm-hm. You know, I do wish... 294 00:21:57,823 --> 00:21:59,567 ...he had more sense, though. 295 00:21:59,784 --> 00:22:02,785 Well, I guess he's about got his growth, though. 296 00:22:03,079 --> 00:22:05,451 Oh, he's pretty too. 297 00:22:05,665 --> 00:22:08,701 - Kneel down, Dude. - I don't want nobody praying for me. 298 00:22:08,918 --> 00:22:11,623 - Kneel before I knock you down. - You lay a hand on me... 299 00:22:11,796 --> 00:22:13,872 ...I'll toss you over this house. - You see. 300 00:22:14,090 --> 00:22:17,424 That's what you gotta pray for. He ain't got no respect for his pa. 301 00:22:17,635 --> 00:22:20,043 Lord, save Brother Dude from the Old Nick... 302 00:22:20,221 --> 00:22:23,139 ...and make a place for him in heaven. That's all. Amen. 303 00:22:23,350 --> 00:22:26,434 Lord be prai...! Wait a minute, here. 304 00:22:26,645 --> 00:22:30,061 That seems to me like a darn short prayer for a sinner like Dude. 305 00:22:30,273 --> 00:22:31,649 Dude don't need no praying. 306 00:22:31,858 --> 00:22:34,266 He's just a boy. 307 00:22:34,486 --> 00:22:36,479 Hey, you! 308 00:22:46,874 --> 00:22:50,077 Look at the old scoundrel, still full of beans. 309 00:22:57,593 --> 00:22:58,922 How are you, Jeeter? 310 00:22:59,137 --> 00:23:02,671 - Captain Tim. - Praise the Lord. 311 00:23:03,308 --> 00:23:05,265 - Captain Tim. - Praise the Lord. 312 00:23:05,476 --> 00:23:07,101 Captain... 313 00:23:07,812 --> 00:23:09,852 Captain Tim. 314 00:23:10,690 --> 00:23:14,474 You look more like your pa every day. 315 00:23:14,694 --> 00:23:18,313 I sure am glad to see you, Captain Tim. 316 00:23:18,532 --> 00:23:22,481 - You remember Ada, don't you? - Why, sure. How are you, Mrs. Lester? 317 00:23:23,328 --> 00:23:25,036 And Dude. - Dude. 318 00:23:25,205 --> 00:23:27,875 - Don't you go there. - He might let me blow the horn. 319 00:23:28,083 --> 00:23:31,369 - How would you like to have a horn? - Nobody gonna give me no horn. 320 00:23:31,587 --> 00:23:34,837 Come sit down here beside me, and I'll give you a horn of your own. 321 00:23:35,049 --> 00:23:37,374 - How'd you like a nice big... - Let go of me. 322 00:23:37,551 --> 00:23:39,627 Toot-toot! Beep-beep! 323 00:23:39,804 --> 00:23:41,677 Toot-toot! Beep-beep! 324 00:23:41,847 --> 00:23:44,338 I sure do love an automobile horn. 325 00:23:44,517 --> 00:23:46,177 Toot-toot! Beep-beep! 326 00:23:46,686 --> 00:23:50,434 Dude. He can sound more like a horn than a horn can. 327 00:23:50,648 --> 00:23:54,397 He's the last of my boys, Dude is, and I sure am proud of him. 328 00:23:54,610 --> 00:23:58,026 - Tell me, how are the crops coming? - No crops, praise the Lord. 329 00:23:58,239 --> 00:24:00,398 No crops in the last seven years. 330 00:24:00,617 --> 00:24:02,490 Nobody got no money to grow any. 331 00:24:02,702 --> 00:24:06,367 That's why everybody's so glad to see you come to give them some. 332 00:24:06,581 --> 00:24:08,040 - What's that? - Well... 333 00:24:08,250 --> 00:24:11,085 ...all I need is a mule and some seed cotton, and guano... 334 00:24:11,294 --> 00:24:13,370 Now, wait a minute, Jeeter. 335 00:24:13,630 --> 00:24:15,955 I can't understand how that idea got around... 336 00:24:16,174 --> 00:24:18,879 ...but I'm sorry, but I won't be able to help you. 337 00:24:19,094 --> 00:24:22,261 Tell you the truth, I'm in pretty much the same fix you are. 338 00:24:22,931 --> 00:24:25,505 What do you mean, Captain Tim? 339 00:24:26,060 --> 00:24:30,009 You'd better tell him, Payne. - Well, you see, Mr. Lester... 340 00:24:30,231 --> 00:24:32,603 ...I'm from the bank in Augusta. 341 00:24:32,817 --> 00:24:35,189 We're down here to collect money, not to lend it. 342 00:24:35,736 --> 00:24:39,604 You mean I can't have me no credit to grow me no crop this year? 343 00:24:40,116 --> 00:24:43,699 - I'm afraid not. - Why, I just gotta have credit... 344 00:24:43,911 --> 00:24:47,779 ...because me and my folks, we're starving here on Tobacco Road. 345 00:24:48,499 --> 00:24:51,868 Mr. Lester, have you ever thought about getting away from here? 346 00:24:52,086 --> 00:24:54,209 And work in them darn mills? 347 00:24:54,422 --> 00:24:56,296 But if you're starving... 348 00:24:56,508 --> 00:24:59,378 That ain't got nothing to do with it. 349 00:24:59,594 --> 00:25:05,300 Why, Captain John told me I could stay on my place as long as I wanted to. 350 00:25:05,517 --> 00:25:09,431 He said he couldn't give me any more credit in the stores up at Fuller... 351 00:25:09,646 --> 00:25:13,146 ...but I could live here till I died. 352 00:25:13,358 --> 00:25:17,059 - You know that, Captain Tim. - Yeah, I know he did, Jeeter... 353 00:25:17,279 --> 00:25:20,066 ...but you see, that land doesn't belong to us anymore. 354 00:25:20,282 --> 00:25:24,494 The bank's taken it over. There's nothing I can do about it. 355 00:25:26,497 --> 00:25:30,281 Well, I can't understand that. 356 00:25:30,501 --> 00:25:35,578 Why, this was my daddy's place before me... 357 00:25:35,798 --> 00:25:38,170 ...and his daddy's place before him... 358 00:25:38,342 --> 00:25:40,715 ...and Lord knows how many Lesters before that. 359 00:25:40,928 --> 00:25:44,463 Why, there wasn't nothing here before they come. 360 00:25:44,682 --> 00:25:47,719 Why, they built this road hauling tobacco kegs... 361 00:25:47,936 --> 00:25:51,684 ...15 miles down the ridge to the river. 362 00:25:52,857 --> 00:25:57,733 And now I don't own it, and you don't own it. 363 00:25:58,155 --> 00:26:00,480 And the darned banks own it... 364 00:26:00,699 --> 00:26:02,822 ...and they never had nothing to do with it. 365 00:26:03,827 --> 00:26:07,243 We don't wanna be hard on you old farmers, Mr. Lester... 366 00:26:07,456 --> 00:26:11,536 ...but we're gonna put this entire section under scientific cultivation. 367 00:26:12,252 --> 00:26:14,162 There wouldn't be any place for you. 368 00:26:14,338 --> 00:26:17,209 If you're gonna grow crops on it, why can't I grow crops... 369 00:26:17,383 --> 00:26:19,459 ...just the same as I did for Captain John? 370 00:26:19,677 --> 00:26:22,002 Well, I'm afraid that's impossible. 371 00:26:24,515 --> 00:26:27,552 Please don't let him take me away, Captain Tim. 372 00:26:27,768 --> 00:26:30,390 I'm liable to go before long... 373 00:26:30,605 --> 00:26:35,397 ...and if they send me away, I'm liable to go long before my time. 374 00:26:35,860 --> 00:26:40,024 Please don't let them take me away, will you, Captain Tim? 375 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,909 What about it? Couldn't you do something for this man? 376 00:26:43,451 --> 00:26:45,989 I don't know how we could, Mr. Harmon. 377 00:26:46,204 --> 00:26:49,538 - If he could pay a little rent... - Rent? 378 00:26:49,833 --> 00:26:54,744 I can't even get enough money to buy anything to eat with. 379 00:26:55,213 --> 00:26:59,294 Well, what about your children, Jeeter? Haven't you got one that could help you? 380 00:26:59,509 --> 00:27:03,887 Why, we must've had... How many, Ada? 381 00:27:04,098 --> 00:27:07,716 Oh, about 17, 18 head. 382 00:27:07,935 --> 00:27:11,138 And there ain't one of them worth the powder to blow them up. 383 00:27:13,858 --> 00:27:16,313 How much rent would it be, Payne? 384 00:27:16,527 --> 00:27:19,232 Hundred dollars for the year. 385 00:27:19,447 --> 00:27:21,274 Hundred dollars? 386 00:27:21,866 --> 00:27:23,823 When will you have to have it? 387 00:27:24,035 --> 00:27:29,278 Well, coming back down here next Sunday afternoon. 388 00:27:32,252 --> 00:27:36,296 Well, I guess that's all I can do, Jeeter. It's not very much. 389 00:27:37,674 --> 00:27:42,419 Maybe you can dig it up before Sunday, from one of your children or somewhere. 390 00:27:44,181 --> 00:27:45,805 Oh, Jeeter... 391 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,384 ...here's a dozen new corn I was taking home, if you can use it. 392 00:27:52,564 --> 00:27:55,399 - Goodbye, Jeeter. - Goodbye, Captain Tim. 393 00:27:55,609 --> 00:27:58,610 Sometime Sunday afternoon, after dinner. 394 00:28:03,284 --> 00:28:05,323 Sometime Sunday. 395 00:28:08,539 --> 00:28:10,697 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 396 00:28:10,916 --> 00:28:14,001 Things have taken a turn for the better already. 397 00:28:14,170 --> 00:28:16,162 Let's get home and eat some of this corn... 398 00:28:16,380 --> 00:28:19,584 ...before Dude and Ellie May know anything about it. 399 00:28:43,450 --> 00:28:46,700 Where's my sweater? I'm going to Fuller. Where's my sweater? 400 00:28:46,912 --> 00:28:48,869 What are you going to Fuller for? 401 00:28:49,081 --> 00:28:51,786 Sister Bessie's gonna buy me a brand-new automobile... 402 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,373 ...with a big horn on it. Where's my sweater? 403 00:28:54,545 --> 00:28:56,584 Seems like I seen it in the bed, son. 404 00:28:57,172 --> 00:29:00,173 Don't be too long, Dude boy. 405 00:29:00,509 --> 00:29:04,210 Say, is that boy as crazy as we think he is? 406 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,350 - Hallelujah, Brother Jeeter. Hallelujah, Sister Bessie. 407 00:29:07,516 --> 00:29:10,008 - Hallelujah, Sister Ada. Hallelujah, Sister Bessie. 408 00:29:10,228 --> 00:29:12,683 Listen, Bessie, how come you tell Dude... 409 00:29:12,855 --> 00:29:15,477 ...that you're gonna buy him a brand-new automobile... 410 00:29:15,650 --> 00:29:17,441 ...with a great big horn on it? 411 00:29:17,610 --> 00:29:20,647 Dude and me's gonna need it to drive and do our preaching with. 412 00:29:21,239 --> 00:29:24,359 - Is you got that much money? - I ain't only got that much money... 413 00:29:24,534 --> 00:29:27,701 ...from my dead husband's insurance, but I got a bit more beside. 414 00:29:27,871 --> 00:29:31,619 Ada, Sister Bessie's got herself a whole mess of money. 415 00:29:32,083 --> 00:29:33,993 Come on, let's go get that automobile. 416 00:29:34,169 --> 00:29:38,997 Oh, Dude boy, you's as pretty as you can be. 417 00:29:39,216 --> 00:29:43,000 Wait a minute. How come Dude gotta go with you to get that automobile? 418 00:29:43,220 --> 00:29:45,177 How come I don't go instead of Dude? 419 00:29:45,389 --> 00:29:48,758 Why, Dude don't know nothing about no automobile excepting a horn. 420 00:29:49,351 --> 00:29:51,593 - Didn't he tell you? Tell me what? 421 00:29:51,812 --> 00:29:55,727 - Us is gonna get married. - Come on. Us ain't got no time to lose. 422 00:29:55,941 --> 00:29:58,515 Bessie, is you going out of your mind? 423 00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:02,071 Brother Jeeter... 424 00:30:02,323 --> 00:30:04,992 ...tonight the voice come to me again. 425 00:30:05,201 --> 00:30:09,993 And it said, "Marry yourself to a new husband, Sister Bessie. 426 00:30:10,206 --> 00:30:14,038 Because it ain't good for a lady like you not to be married to a good man... 427 00:30:14,210 --> 00:30:16,120 ...that you could turn into a preacher... 428 00:30:16,296 --> 00:30:19,546 ...and who could help you spread the good Word most everywhere." 429 00:30:19,758 --> 00:30:21,916 And it looks to me like Dude. 430 00:30:22,510 --> 00:30:25,962 Well, Dude ain't got sense enough to be a preacher. 431 00:30:26,181 --> 00:30:29,882 He wouldn't know what to talk about when it come time to get up to preach. 432 00:30:30,102 --> 00:30:32,225 - Leave that to me. What do you think, son? 433 00:30:32,437 --> 00:30:35,308 I don't care about it. We're gonna be very happy too. 434 00:30:35,482 --> 00:30:37,689 Come, let's go get that automobile. 435 00:30:54,043 --> 00:30:56,083 Dude boy. 436 00:30:56,754 --> 00:30:59,245 Gonna be a preacher. 437 00:31:05,638 --> 00:31:09,470 I wonder how much... 438 00:31:09,851 --> 00:31:13,896 How much money Sister Bessie's got. 439 00:31:16,858 --> 00:31:20,108 Well, now, I wonder if she'd lend me... 440 00:31:20,278 --> 00:31:24,442 ...about $ 100... 441 00:31:26,159 --> 00:31:27,784 ...so I... 442 00:31:29,746 --> 00:31:31,953 ...wouldn't have to move. 443 00:31:36,587 --> 00:31:38,663 Well, now... 444 00:31:39,465 --> 00:31:43,759 ...I wonder if she wouldn't... 445 00:31:44,887 --> 00:31:48,552 ...how I'd go about getting it away from her. 446 00:31:55,231 --> 00:32:00,818 Remind me tomorrow to think about that idea, will you? 447 00:32:12,207 --> 00:32:15,742 - I wanna get leave to marry Dude. - Fill that in. 448 00:32:15,961 --> 00:32:17,669 Will you do it? I can't write words. 449 00:32:17,838 --> 00:32:19,996 - Can you sign your name? - I can touch the pen. 450 00:32:20,173 --> 00:32:22,131 - What is your name? - Sister Bessie Rice. 451 00:32:22,301 --> 00:32:24,424 - Who are you gonna marry? - That's him. 452 00:32:24,636 --> 00:32:26,925 That kid? You ain't gonna marry him, are you? 453 00:32:27,097 --> 00:32:29,173 - That boy ain't hardly grown. - He's willing. 454 00:32:29,350 --> 00:32:31,923 - How old are you? - I don't have to tell that, do I? 455 00:32:32,144 --> 00:32:35,062 I can't give you a license if you won't state your age. 456 00:32:35,648 --> 00:32:38,103 Well, I was 38 not so long back. 457 00:32:38,317 --> 00:32:42,362 - How long back? - Well, I'm 39 now, but I don't show it. 458 00:32:42,572 --> 00:32:45,608 Look here, son. What do you mean to marry a woman that old? 459 00:32:45,825 --> 00:32:47,105 Marry a girl your own age. 460 00:32:47,285 --> 00:32:50,072 You try and talk him out of it, I'll start a service now. 461 00:32:50,246 --> 00:32:53,247 I don't know. Sister Bessie there, she sweet-talked me into it. 462 00:32:53,458 --> 00:32:56,210 - How's that boy gonna support you? The Lord will provide. 463 00:32:56,377 --> 00:32:59,544 That ain't gonna be soon. He ain't gonna get married here. 464 00:32:59,756 --> 00:33:02,591 - Now, don't you try and stop us. - What are you fixing to do? 465 00:33:02,801 --> 00:33:04,758 - You too, ma'am. - Look, Sister Bessie... 466 00:33:04,970 --> 00:33:08,054 "Sowing in the Morning." All right now, Dude boy. 467 00:34:15,167 --> 00:34:17,076 "Shall We Gather At The River." 468 00:35:15,438 --> 00:35:19,222 Cut that out! What's the idea of blowing them horns? Get out of them cars. 469 00:35:19,442 --> 00:35:21,351 - Get out of that. Us is gonna buy one. 470 00:35:21,527 --> 00:35:23,769 You ain't gonna buy one if you bust it up. 471 00:35:23,988 --> 00:35:26,609 Stop it, Dude boy, until it's ours. 472 00:35:26,824 --> 00:35:29,066 - You got any money? - Yeah. I got enough... 473 00:35:29,285 --> 00:35:31,444 ...if it don't cost more than $800. 474 00:35:31,663 --> 00:35:34,617 - Who is that, your kid? - That's Dude Lester from Tobacco Road. 475 00:35:34,833 --> 00:35:37,750 Him and me's gonna get married. It's in the bank at Augusta. 476 00:35:37,919 --> 00:35:39,579 You're gonna marry? How old is he? 477 00:35:39,754 --> 00:35:43,088 None of your business. All you gotta do is sell us this automobile. 478 00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:44,924 Get out of that car. 479 00:35:45,135 --> 00:35:46,926 Call the bank and check on that. 480 00:35:47,137 --> 00:35:51,514 I got a nice little jalopy right over here. I know you're gonna like it. 481 00:35:52,059 --> 00:35:55,143 I'll fill it up with gas and you can drive it out right now. 482 00:35:55,354 --> 00:35:58,687 You can use those tags until I get some from Atlanta. 483 00:35:58,899 --> 00:36:01,307 - Shut up! Shut up! - You like it, Dude boy? 484 00:36:01,527 --> 00:36:04,148 - Ain't nothing wrong with it so far. - We'll take it. 485 00:36:04,363 --> 00:36:06,071 - Here's the check. - That's fine. 486 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:08,696 - Now you sign right here. - I always make my mark. 487 00:36:08,868 --> 00:36:10,695 - What's your name? - Sister Bessie Rice. 488 00:36:10,870 --> 00:36:13,787 - Sister Bessie Rice, touch the pen. - Oh, no. Wait a minute. 489 00:36:13,998 --> 00:36:16,156 For a big thing, we always ask a blessing. 490 00:36:16,375 --> 00:36:18,249 - What? - First we sing a little hymn... 491 00:36:18,461 --> 00:36:20,252 ...then kneel down and have a prayer. 492 00:36:20,463 --> 00:36:24,792 Now, just a minute, Sister Bessie. Is all that necessary? I'm a religious man... 493 00:36:25,927 --> 00:36:28,216 "In the Sweet Bye and Bye," everybody. 494 00:37:23,987 --> 00:37:27,154 Ain't that a pretty automobile. He's driving it too. 495 00:37:27,365 --> 00:37:32,074 Oh, I wish all my children was here to see it and hear that pretty sound. 496 00:37:42,339 --> 00:37:46,289 He hit a tree. That's driving, Dude boy. 497 00:38:07,198 --> 00:38:09,107 How come you ain't got that out of there? 498 00:38:09,283 --> 00:38:10,992 Can't get this automobile through... 499 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,110 ...if you don't get that old one out. - Sure you can, Dude boy. Shove it. 500 00:38:15,290 --> 00:38:16,867 Just shove it out of your way. 501 00:38:17,083 --> 00:38:18,577 Yeah. 502 00:38:29,513 --> 00:38:32,004 I told you you could do it, Dude boy. 503 00:38:32,224 --> 00:38:36,138 Oh, ain't this a pretty automobile? 504 00:38:36,395 --> 00:38:39,016 Oh, I knew you could do it, Dude boy. 505 00:38:39,732 --> 00:38:41,274 I knew you could do it. 506 00:38:41,483 --> 00:38:45,066 If this ain't the prettiest thing I ever seen in all my life. 507 00:38:45,279 --> 00:38:47,402 Yes, sir. This is sure a fine automobile. 508 00:38:47,573 --> 00:38:49,400 Take your hands off there, you old fool. 509 00:38:49,575 --> 00:38:51,900 Yes, sirree. 510 00:38:52,286 --> 00:38:56,782 Here, give me... Let me fix that for you, Dude boy. 511 00:38:56,999 --> 00:39:01,745 You got it all upside down and every which way. 512 00:39:18,855 --> 00:39:20,480 Broke, all right. 513 00:39:20,690 --> 00:39:23,395 But say, that don't hurt the running of it none, does it? 514 00:39:23,610 --> 00:39:26,944 No, runs like it was brand-new yet. The horn wasn't hurt none at all. 515 00:39:27,114 --> 00:39:29,071 Sounds as pretty as it did this morning. 516 00:39:29,241 --> 00:39:32,527 Say, this is a great day for Tobacco Road. 517 00:39:32,745 --> 00:39:35,200 Bessie, is you...? 518 00:39:35,873 --> 00:39:39,289 Is you and Dude gonna get married... 519 00:39:39,502 --> 00:39:42,953 ...clear all the way or just by leave of the county? 520 00:39:43,172 --> 00:39:44,631 We is married already. 521 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,126 Hey, you touch my car, woman, and I'll hit you with a stick! 522 00:39:48,344 --> 00:39:51,131 Dude, you sure is a lucky boy. 523 00:39:51,347 --> 00:39:54,182 A brand-new automobile to run around in... 524 00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:57,309 ...and married all at the same time and on the same day. 525 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:02,266 Ain't many a man lucky enough to get a wife like Sister Bessie... 526 00:40:02,484 --> 00:40:04,772 ...as pretty as she is at her age. 527 00:40:04,986 --> 00:40:09,732 Why, yes, sir. You know, she'd make a great wife for any man. 528 00:40:09,950 --> 00:40:12,951 I don't care where you'd find him. 529 00:40:13,161 --> 00:40:15,450 Shut your mouth, Brother Jeeter. 530 00:40:15,664 --> 00:40:19,412 You know, Ada, why, Sister Bessie is just like... 531 00:40:19,585 --> 00:40:21,494 She's just like one of the family. 532 00:40:21,712 --> 00:40:24,796 Yeah. Just the same as if she was born in it. Yeah. 533 00:40:25,007 --> 00:40:28,921 Why, everything we got is half hers... 534 00:40:29,136 --> 00:40:32,173 ...and everything she's got is half ours. Yeah. 535 00:40:32,389 --> 00:40:34,631 She's just, you know, like blood relations. 536 00:40:34,850 --> 00:40:37,721 Oh, that's powerful nice of you, Brother Jeeter. 537 00:40:37,937 --> 00:40:41,353 You know, Bessie, Ada and me's... 538 00:40:41,566 --> 00:40:46,441 ...mighty proud of you and Dude and that automobile. 539 00:40:46,654 --> 00:40:49,739 I'm just wondering how much it cost you. 540 00:40:49,949 --> 00:40:54,825 Why, I paid $800 cash for that car, and look at it already. 541 00:40:55,205 --> 00:40:58,159 Eight hundred dollars. You know, Ada... 542 00:40:58,375 --> 00:41:00,866 ...$800 to a lot of poor folks... 543 00:41:01,044 --> 00:41:05,623 ...would be a whole heap of money, but not to Sister Bessie. 544 00:41:05,799 --> 00:41:08,716 After the money she got from her dead husband's insurance... 545 00:41:08,927 --> 00:41:12,510 ...why, it's just chicken feed. 546 00:41:12,681 --> 00:41:17,142 - You know, if I was to ask her... - Eight hundred dollars, that's all it was. 547 00:41:22,232 --> 00:41:23,561 What did you say? 548 00:41:23,776 --> 00:41:27,441 I said, that's all the money there was in the insurance. 549 00:41:27,655 --> 00:41:29,897 Of course, maybe I got 75 cents left over... 550 00:41:30,074 --> 00:41:32,647 ...but that's all the big money there was. 551 00:41:33,995 --> 00:41:38,075 You mean to tell me you ain't got no $ 100 to lend me... 552 00:41:38,249 --> 00:41:40,538 ...to keep me from being put off of this ground? 553 00:41:40,752 --> 00:41:42,495 Nobody gonna give you no money, fool. 554 00:41:42,712 --> 00:41:45,464 If Bessie had another $ 100, she'd give it to me. 555 00:41:45,673 --> 00:41:48,544 - But I ain't got no more $ 100. - But I was counting on it. 556 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,343 You ain't gonna get it, so shut up. - Oh, now, Dude boy... 557 00:41:52,555 --> 00:41:55,047 Then why don't he shut up about $ 100 if you got it? 558 00:41:55,225 --> 00:41:57,348 You'd give it your husband, wouldn't you? 559 00:41:57,561 --> 00:42:00,764 - Come on, let's ride somewhere. - But you don't understand. 560 00:42:00,939 --> 00:42:03,395 - You're gonna put me off of here. You're so old... 561 00:42:03,567 --> 00:42:05,643 ...you're gonna die soon anyhow. - Dude boy. 562 00:42:05,819 --> 00:42:08,393 If you don't, they're gonna put you on a poor farm. 563 00:42:08,614 --> 00:42:12,113 If you was a natural son, you wouldn't be saying that to your folks. 564 00:42:12,284 --> 00:42:14,111 You wouldn't be making things worse. 565 00:42:14,328 --> 00:42:15,608 Oh, shut up. 566 00:42:16,330 --> 00:42:18,903 Yes, but, Dude... Oh, Dude boy. Dude boy. 567 00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:22,620 Oh, Dude. Dude boy! 568 00:42:22,795 --> 00:42:26,840 Oh, don't go, Dude boy. 569 00:42:28,759 --> 00:42:34,715 Sometimes I feel like if I just had me a stylish dress to be buried in... 570 00:42:34,932 --> 00:42:38,384 ...I'd be ready to find me a nice place to lay myself down in and die. 571 00:42:39,771 --> 00:42:42,688 Get out of the way. You ain't never gonna get no new dress. 572 00:42:42,857 --> 00:42:44,316 Pa been promising you that... 573 00:42:44,526 --> 00:42:48,025 ...but you're gonna die and be buried in just what you've got on. 574 00:42:48,196 --> 00:42:50,901 - Don't say that to your poor ma. - Who's gonna stop me? 575 00:42:51,116 --> 00:42:52,610 She's gonna be buried in... 576 00:42:52,826 --> 00:42:55,032 - Don't say that. - Let go of me, you old fool. 577 00:42:55,245 --> 00:42:57,867 You got a nerve putting your hands on me. 578 00:43:24,734 --> 00:43:28,518 Gonna sit there on that cold ground all night? 579 00:43:31,074 --> 00:43:34,490 Looks like the Lord sends me... 580 00:43:34,702 --> 00:43:40,955 ...about every misery he can think of just to try my soul. 581 00:43:41,501 --> 00:43:47,622 Hey, you know, he must be gonna do something powerful big for me... 582 00:43:47,841 --> 00:43:51,008 ...or he wouldn't test me so hard. 583 00:43:51,345 --> 00:43:56,849 Well, hope he can see his way clear to doing it before Sunday. 584 00:43:58,435 --> 00:44:03,014 Yeah. You know, I bet if Tom was here he'd help us. 585 00:44:03,315 --> 00:44:07,443 Tom was just about the best of all the children, I reckon. 586 00:44:07,653 --> 00:44:11,354 Yeah. Lizzie and Clara Belle, they were the best of the... 587 00:44:11,574 --> 00:44:14,694 But Tom, Tom was... 588 00:44:14,911 --> 00:44:19,205 He was about the best of the boys. 589 00:44:19,957 --> 00:44:25,118 I guess Pearl was about the prettiest, with all that long, yellow hair. 590 00:44:25,296 --> 00:44:29,341 Yeah. Tom, he was even good to me. 591 00:44:30,260 --> 00:44:33,629 I used to hope some of them would write to me. 592 00:44:33,847 --> 00:44:36,552 About give up looking for them to come back to see me... 593 00:44:36,766 --> 00:44:40,136 ...but I did think maybe Lizzie Belle, anyway, would write. 594 00:44:40,353 --> 00:44:44,019 Well, maybe they did. How do you know? 595 00:44:44,524 --> 00:44:46,813 Didn't you never ask at the post office? 596 00:44:48,028 --> 00:44:52,073 Well, what was the use? I couldn't read what they said anyway. 597 00:44:55,119 --> 00:44:59,496 I must have a whole lot of grandchildren somewhere. 598 00:44:59,707 --> 00:45:02,743 Bound to have, with all of them boys and girls off from home. 599 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,498 Everybody says I have, anyhow. 600 00:45:06,589 --> 00:45:10,040 Sure don't know how other people know more about such things than I do. 601 00:45:10,259 --> 00:45:14,756 Looks to me like I ought to be the one that knows the most about my children. 602 00:45:15,807 --> 00:45:22,260 Yeah, it looks like all we know is Dude and Pearl and Ellie May. 603 00:45:24,858 --> 00:45:28,191 And five buried out there in the field. 604 00:45:29,279 --> 00:45:35,152 You know, I'll bet if Tom knowed the fix we was in, he'd give us the money. 605 00:45:35,535 --> 00:45:41,040 Well, it ain't no use wondering about it if you can't get to him in time. 606 00:45:41,625 --> 00:45:43,618 Sunday ain't but two days off. 607 00:45:43,836 --> 00:45:47,703 And if the Lord's figuring on doing anything for us, he had better hurry up... 608 00:45:47,881 --> 00:45:50,419 ...or else it's gonna be too late. 609 00:46:46,150 --> 00:46:49,104 Now, look, Lord, this time I ain't fooling. 610 00:46:49,278 --> 00:46:51,650 I'm in a powerful bad fix. 611 00:46:51,864 --> 00:46:57,107 You know, they're figuring on taking Ada and me to the poor farm. 612 00:46:57,328 --> 00:46:59,570 You know what a powerful sinner I've been. 613 00:46:59,789 --> 00:47:02,280 You know there ain't been no bigger sinner than me... 614 00:47:02,500 --> 00:47:04,409 ...between here and Savannah. 615 00:47:04,627 --> 00:47:09,918 And you know there's nobody been any sorrier for their sins than I have... 616 00:47:10,133 --> 00:47:12,209 ...once they was done. 617 00:47:12,594 --> 00:47:14,966 But what I'm here to tell you is... 618 00:47:15,180 --> 00:47:19,723 ...that you'd better watch out pretty close for me the next couple of days... 619 00:47:19,935 --> 00:47:24,561 ...because I wanna do what I gotta do without committing any real big sin... 620 00:47:24,773 --> 00:47:29,234 ...because I know how you feel about stealing. 621 00:47:29,444 --> 00:47:33,442 Now, I like Sister Bessie about as well as the next one... 622 00:47:33,657 --> 00:47:38,153 ...or I wouldn't give her new automobile a thought... 623 00:47:38,370 --> 00:47:41,656 ...but I'm here to tell you, Lord... 624 00:47:41,874 --> 00:47:47,461 ...you'd better step in and help me out pretty quick... 625 00:47:47,672 --> 00:47:52,500 ...or I'm afraid I'll have to take matters in my own hand. 626 00:48:01,644 --> 00:48:03,187 Amen. 627 00:48:17,661 --> 00:48:19,819 Sister Bessie! 628 00:48:50,111 --> 00:48:53,646 Sister Bessie, you sure are a fine-Iooking woman. 629 00:48:53,865 --> 00:48:56,949 - Yeah. Where's Dude? - He'll be back in a minute. 630 00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:00,280 - How you feeling, Jeeter? - Why, I... 631 00:49:01,706 --> 00:49:06,167 I sure spent me a heart-broke night. 632 00:49:07,045 --> 00:49:10,414 You know, Jeeter, I feel just about as sorry for what Dude done... 633 00:49:10,590 --> 00:49:14,920 ...as anything I ever seen in my life. - Why, he darn near broke my arm. 634 00:49:15,512 --> 00:49:17,304 Them yams smell good, don't they? 635 00:49:17,514 --> 00:49:19,507 - Yeah. - Can I get you a cup of chicory? 636 00:49:19,725 --> 00:49:21,349 Chicory? 637 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:23,719 Well, I wouldn't wanna be... 638 00:49:23,896 --> 00:49:26,517 Wouldn't wanna be putting you out... Aah! 639 00:49:26,732 --> 00:49:28,891 Oh, you ain't putting me out none. 640 00:49:29,568 --> 00:49:31,608 Just sit down. 641 00:49:32,488 --> 00:49:36,402 Yeah, this is the arm I do all my farming with. 642 00:49:36,617 --> 00:49:40,698 You know, I do all my good farming with this arm... 643 00:49:40,872 --> 00:49:43,789 ...and it's a sin and a shame, the way it's gonna hold me up. 644 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,408 That Dude ought to be ashamed of himself. 645 00:49:46,628 --> 00:49:48,288 Yeah, I knew you'd be sorry. 646 00:49:48,505 --> 00:49:50,912 If there was only something on earth I could do. 647 00:49:51,132 --> 00:49:55,545 - Well, maybe there is, Sister Bessie. - Well, what is it? 648 00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:59,172 Well, the matter of fact is... 649 00:49:59,391 --> 00:50:04,017 ...I've got a very important matter coming up with Captain Tim tomorrow... 650 00:50:04,229 --> 00:50:06,685 ...and after that I'll be all set for the year. 651 00:50:06,899 --> 00:50:09,853 But right now I just need a little change to get along on. 652 00:50:10,068 --> 00:50:12,606 - Yeah? - As I was coming up the road there... 653 00:50:12,821 --> 00:50:16,605 ...I seen a load of cut wood over in that field and I said to myself: 654 00:50:16,825 --> 00:50:21,286 "Wouldn't it be smart if I was to haul that wood to Augusta and sell it?" 655 00:50:21,497 --> 00:50:23,490 Why, that's Henry Peabody's wood, ain't it? 656 00:50:23,708 --> 00:50:27,373 - But he ain't here. - I know, but it don't seem just right. 657 00:50:27,587 --> 00:50:30,671 Wait a minute. I ain't stealing it. 658 00:50:30,882 --> 00:50:34,215 I'm just figuring on selling it and giving Henry half of that money. 659 00:50:34,427 --> 00:50:36,633 Why, he'll be mighty happy to get it... 660 00:50:36,846 --> 00:50:39,681 ...without the trouble of hauling it down to Augusta. 661 00:50:39,891 --> 00:50:41,599 Well, I reckon, in that case... 662 00:50:41,810 --> 00:50:44,217 No, sirree, Bob. I ain't forgot. 663 00:50:44,437 --> 00:50:46,513 - I'm sanctified. - Hallelujah. 664 00:50:46,731 --> 00:50:51,559 - Yeah. Would you lend me your car? - To haul wood in? 665 00:50:51,778 --> 00:50:55,443 Well, wait a minute. You know I wouldn't be asking you no favors... 666 00:50:55,657 --> 00:50:57,614 ...if it wasn't for my arm... 667 00:50:57,826 --> 00:50:59,949 It's near broken and I can't do no farming. 668 00:51:00,162 --> 00:51:02,783 Well, I'm just thinking what Dude would say. 669 00:51:02,998 --> 00:51:04,907 Dude? What's Dude got...? 670 00:51:05,125 --> 00:51:07,451 - You tell your husband everything? - No, no. 671 00:51:07,670 --> 00:51:09,413 - Well, wait... - It's only... 672 00:51:09,630 --> 00:51:14,837 Maybe... Can't tell.... I'll be back here by sundown maybe with a pretty for you. 673 00:51:15,052 --> 00:51:19,679 I guess it's all right. But I reckon you better get going before he gets back. 674 00:51:19,890 --> 00:51:23,260 Going? Sister Bessie, I'm gone. 675 00:51:24,020 --> 00:51:28,646 Top up, will you...? Get down there, top. I'll bust you. 676 00:51:28,858 --> 00:51:33,187 Why, you crazy top, I'll tear you. 677 00:51:36,116 --> 00:51:38,689 Dude boy, Dude. Dude. What are you doing? 678 00:51:38,910 --> 00:51:40,986 Why, this durn old top didn't wanna go down! 679 00:51:41,204 --> 00:51:43,660 - Did you hurt the car much? - Oh, not the running of it. 680 00:51:45,041 --> 00:51:47,579 - And the horn wasn't hurt none. - Say, Dude boy... 681 00:51:47,753 --> 00:51:50,588 ...Jeeter wants to take wood to Augusta and sell it. 682 00:51:50,797 --> 00:51:53,288 Clear to Augusta? Climb in and I'll drive you. 683 00:51:53,508 --> 00:51:57,127 Well, I wasn't exactly figuring on anybody going with me. 684 00:51:57,346 --> 00:51:59,552 I was figuring on going down there by myself. 685 00:51:59,765 --> 00:52:02,256 Ain't nobody in the world gonna drive this except me. 686 00:52:02,434 --> 00:52:04,094 I ain't gonna stay here by myself. 687 00:52:04,270 --> 00:52:08,054 - Let's get the wood in there. - I ain't never drove clear to Augusta! 688 00:52:09,692 --> 00:52:13,476 Come on, Jeeter, we'll just pull us a big one. 689 00:52:15,197 --> 00:52:16,858 Jeeter. 690 00:52:17,909 --> 00:52:23,069 Come on, let's get it all in there. Put in the wood. 691 00:53:02,538 --> 00:53:05,409 That's violation of city ordinance number 382. 692 00:53:05,624 --> 00:53:09,373 You get out and sell the wood. I'll be waiting here on the corner somewhere. 693 00:53:20,431 --> 00:53:22,554 You looking for somebody? 694 00:53:23,268 --> 00:53:26,518 Yes, sir, I wanna see the banker. 695 00:53:26,855 --> 00:53:29,428 Susie May, this gentleman wants to see the banker. 696 00:53:29,649 --> 00:53:32,734 May I ask your name? - Sure. 697 00:53:33,779 --> 00:53:36,400 - Well, what is it? - Jeeter. 698 00:53:36,615 --> 00:53:38,691 Jeeter Lester, from Tobacco Road. 699 00:53:38,909 --> 00:53:41,400 Oh, yes. Just a minute, Mr. Lester. 700 00:53:41,620 --> 00:53:44,491 Well, what kind of a year are you gonna have, Mr. Lester? 701 00:53:44,706 --> 00:53:47,577 Ain't gonna have no year at all unless we get some money. 702 00:53:47,793 --> 00:53:50,165 Will you come in, Mr. Lester? 703 00:53:59,847 --> 00:54:02,599 How do you do, Mr. Lester? Come right in. 704 00:54:07,021 --> 00:54:08,729 Well... 705 00:54:09,399 --> 00:54:12,316 ...say, is you the banker? 706 00:54:12,527 --> 00:54:13,807 Why, of course. 707 00:54:14,028 --> 00:54:16,317 We met the other day with young Tim Harmon. 708 00:54:16,531 --> 00:54:20,908 - I was hoping you'd drop in. - Well, I gotta be going now. 709 00:54:21,119 --> 00:54:23,657 What's the matter? Didn't you come to pay the money? 710 00:54:25,332 --> 00:54:28,582 No, I come to borrow it. 711 00:54:28,794 --> 00:54:30,870 Well, so long. 712 00:55:37,156 --> 00:55:39,362 A hundred dollars, huh? 713 00:55:49,126 --> 00:55:51,534 Ain't nobody gonna buy no wood. 714 00:55:51,754 --> 00:55:54,079 Maybe we better start back toward Fuller, huh? 715 00:55:54,257 --> 00:55:56,629 And not have nothing to eat? I'm hungry. 716 00:55:56,843 --> 00:55:59,168 Hey, wait, wait. Wait just a minute. 717 00:55:59,387 --> 00:56:04,927 You know, I been sitting there looking at that hotel and I got me an idea. 718 00:56:05,143 --> 00:56:10,054 The idea what I got, I never spent me all night in a hotel in my life... 719 00:56:10,273 --> 00:56:13,642 ...and the idea was maybe we could sell something... 720 00:56:13,819 --> 00:56:17,733 ...and all three of us stay all night in that hotel. 721 00:56:18,407 --> 00:56:22,321 Nobody ain't gonna sell my brand-new automobile, if that's what you're thinking. 722 00:56:22,494 --> 00:56:27,702 Well, everybody ought to spend them one night in their life in a hotel... 723 00:56:27,916 --> 00:56:30,752 ...so they have something to go home and tell folks about. 724 00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:32,663 What you figure on selling, old man? 725 00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:36,000 Come here, come here, come here. 726 00:56:36,634 --> 00:56:39,919 Look at there. See that spare tire? 727 00:56:40,137 --> 00:56:44,467 That ain't no good, you can only ride four of them at one time. 728 00:56:46,352 --> 00:56:48,392 - Hi, mister. - Good evening. 729 00:56:48,604 --> 00:56:53,563 We all wanna stay all night in your hotel. 730 00:56:53,776 --> 00:56:57,228 - Okay, sign right here. - You sign it. 731 00:56:57,447 --> 00:57:00,946 - All right, what's your name? - Jeeter. 732 00:57:01,159 --> 00:57:04,362 - Jeeter what? - Jeeter Lester, from Tobacco Road. 733 00:57:04,579 --> 00:57:06,371 All right. What's his name? 734 00:57:06,581 --> 00:57:08,870 - Dude's name is Dude. - Dude what? 735 00:57:09,084 --> 00:57:10,911 - Dude Lester. - All right. 736 00:57:11,128 --> 00:57:13,416 - And hers? - Hers is Mrs. Dude. 737 00:57:13,630 --> 00:57:16,999 - Him and me's married. - All right. Touch the pen. 738 00:57:17,217 --> 00:57:20,918 Come on, touch the pen. That'll be a dollar and a half. 739 00:57:28,729 --> 00:57:30,521 This way, please. 740 00:57:30,731 --> 00:57:35,310 I'll bet Ada wishes she could be us, so she could stay all night in a hotel. 741 00:57:35,486 --> 00:57:38,938 - Beep-beep! Toot-toot! - Shut up, will you. 742 00:57:41,492 --> 00:57:43,615 It sure is a fine place. - Here we are. 743 00:57:43,828 --> 00:57:48,075 You know, I never knowed hotels was such fine places as this before. 744 00:57:48,291 --> 00:57:52,787 I wish Lov Bensey could see me now. 745 00:57:56,299 --> 00:58:00,961 One of these days, I'm gonna spend me the rest of my life in one of these hot... 746 00:58:01,138 --> 00:58:03,011 Hey! 747 00:58:04,099 --> 00:58:08,227 - That ain't much of a bed for three. - This is theirs. You're sleeping in here. 748 00:58:08,437 --> 00:58:11,936 Well, what do you think of that? Different rooms for different people. 749 00:58:12,107 --> 00:58:14,433 - They gonna lock us in? - You know, I betcha... 750 00:58:14,610 --> 00:58:16,484 ...Ada won't believe me when I tell her. 751 00:58:16,695 --> 00:58:18,984 It's already 8:00. Let's go to bed. 752 00:58:19,198 --> 00:58:22,531 Look at that electric light. I'm gonna sit me up all night long... 753 00:58:22,701 --> 00:58:26,071 ...and look at that electric light. Well, good night, good night. 754 00:58:26,288 --> 00:58:28,032 Good night, Jeeter. 755 01:00:59,530 --> 01:01:02,531 Hey there, mister. Hey. Hello. 756 01:01:02,742 --> 01:01:04,533 Hi. 757 01:01:04,827 --> 01:01:06,535 - Morning. - Morning, captain. 758 01:01:06,746 --> 01:01:09,866 Hey, is this the poor farm? 759 01:01:10,082 --> 01:01:11,874 That's it. 760 01:01:14,504 --> 01:01:16,413 Yeah... 761 01:01:16,881 --> 01:01:18,506 ...I thought so. 762 01:01:23,138 --> 01:01:26,922 - What's that? - That's the bath bell. 763 01:01:27,142 --> 01:01:30,760 - The what? - The bath bell. 764 01:01:30,979 --> 01:01:35,356 You have to wash up all over or no dinner. 765 01:01:35,525 --> 01:01:37,601 - Oh, yeah. - Huh? 766 01:01:41,073 --> 01:01:44,572 All right, Lord, don't say I didn't tell you. 767 01:01:52,251 --> 01:01:53,414 Whoa! 768 01:01:56,088 --> 01:01:58,247 Hey, mister, mister. Come here, would you? 769 01:01:58,424 --> 01:02:00,417 - What is it? - Come here. 770 01:02:00,593 --> 01:02:05,302 Say, you wanna buy a brand-new automobile cheap? 771 01:02:05,515 --> 01:02:08,136 - This one? - Yeah, it's brand-new. 772 01:02:08,351 --> 01:02:10,842 It ain't been hardly broke in yet. 773 01:02:11,062 --> 01:02:14,396 - What are you breaking it in with, an ax? - Ax? Why, no. 774 01:02:14,607 --> 01:02:17,442 That don't hurt it none. Don't hurt the running of it none. 775 01:02:17,652 --> 01:02:20,439 Why, this car's brand-new. Cost $800 yesterday. 776 01:02:20,655 --> 01:02:22,648 Say, listen, I tell you what I'll do. 777 01:02:22,866 --> 01:02:27,611 I'll sell you this car right now today for $ 100 and I'll throw in the wood. 778 01:02:27,829 --> 01:02:29,489 - A hundred dollars, huh? - Yeah. 779 01:02:29,706 --> 01:02:33,574 And $ 100 I got to have me, and today. 780 01:02:33,794 --> 01:02:36,711 - What's the great rush? - Well, mister... 781 01:02:36,922 --> 01:02:41,335 ...there's only $ 100 stands between me and the poor farm. 782 01:02:42,094 --> 01:02:44,585 - Are you sure this car's yours? - Sure, it's mine. 783 01:02:44,805 --> 01:02:47,925 You don't suppose I'd be selling you somebody else's car, do you? 784 01:02:48,100 --> 01:02:51,018 - Well, I wouldn't know. How's she run? - Like a $40 mule. 785 01:02:51,228 --> 01:02:54,514 - Move over. Let me try her. - Yes, sir. 786 01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:02,107 - So long, chief. - So long. 787 01:03:03,658 --> 01:03:06,529 - Chief? - Yeah. 788 01:03:06,786 --> 01:03:09,906 - Of police? - Yep. 789 01:03:13,918 --> 01:03:17,667 You crazy fool. Where's my automobile? 790 01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:22,255 You shut up, Dude, and listen to me. 791 01:03:22,469 --> 01:03:24,462 - Your car is outside. - Is it hurt much? 792 01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:26,838 It looks like the Seaboard Air Line hit it. 793 01:03:27,057 --> 01:03:29,429 But what I ought to do is to lock you all up... 794 01:03:29,643 --> 01:03:32,893 ...for if ever there was a nuisance, it's you Tobacco Road folks. 795 01:03:33,105 --> 01:03:35,181 You ain't worth the expense to the county. 796 01:03:35,399 --> 01:03:39,349 You're just naturally trifling, and I reckon that's all there is to it. 797 01:03:48,246 --> 01:03:50,487 Hush that yowling. 798 01:03:50,873 --> 01:03:54,492 You made me late, and I ain't gonna put off my Sunday dinner any longer... 799 01:03:54,669 --> 01:03:57,623 ...messing around in a family squabble. So get out of here. 800 01:03:57,839 --> 01:04:01,124 Get in your car and go on down to Tobacco Road and stay there. 801 01:04:01,342 --> 01:04:03,252 You ain't gonna put him in a chain gang? 802 01:04:03,470 --> 01:04:06,257 If you don't get out of here, I'll put you in it. 803 01:04:06,473 --> 01:04:10,886 Why, he stole my overalls and he broke my automobile and threw... Aah! 804 01:04:28,954 --> 01:04:30,947 Now get out! 805 01:04:31,749 --> 01:04:35,248 Yes, and don't you never think about getting back in again neither. 806 01:04:35,461 --> 01:04:38,130 You mean you ain't gonna ride me to the poor farm? 807 01:04:38,339 --> 01:04:40,378 No, this here machine's mine and Bessie's. 808 01:04:40,591 --> 01:04:42,418 And you nearby ruined it already. 809 01:04:43,010 --> 01:04:44,920 If that's the way you feel about it... 810 01:04:45,096 --> 01:04:48,013 ...get out of here and get off of my land! 811 01:04:48,182 --> 01:04:51,386 It ain't gonna be your land long. They gonna throw you off it. 812 01:05:11,039 --> 01:05:12,913 What are we chucking rocks at them for? 813 01:05:13,125 --> 01:05:15,164 They made me mad. 814 01:05:21,467 --> 01:05:25,132 - Did the man come? - Not yet. 815 01:05:25,804 --> 01:05:28,971 Couldn't you even get me no snuff? 816 01:05:29,183 --> 01:05:31,756 I couldn't get you no nothing. 817 01:07:07,743 --> 01:07:11,444 Ain't nothing much worth taking anyway, I reckon. 818 01:07:14,500 --> 01:07:16,078 I'm sorry, Ada. 819 01:07:17,878 --> 01:07:19,456 I ain't blaming you. 820 01:07:19,672 --> 01:07:22,708 Well, maybe things will be better over there. 821 01:07:22,925 --> 01:07:26,544 - Maybe they'Il... - They sure couldn't be no worse. 822 01:07:27,597 --> 01:07:29,886 Jeeter. Oh, Jeeter. 823 01:07:30,099 --> 01:07:32,222 Jeeter, wait a minute. I ain't mad. 824 01:07:33,061 --> 01:07:37,474 Jeeter, wait. I gotta talk to you, Jeeter. Wait a minute. 825 01:07:38,316 --> 01:07:42,943 Jeeter, wait. I gotta talk to you. Jeeter, wait a minute. 826 01:07:43,154 --> 01:07:45,728 Wait a minute, Jeeter. I ain't mad at you no more. 827 01:07:45,949 --> 01:07:48,155 It's about Pearl. She's gone off again. 828 01:07:50,412 --> 01:07:52,072 You ain't gonna hit me with a rock? 829 01:07:52,289 --> 01:07:55,373 Don't you understand? Pearl's gone off to Augusta. 830 01:07:55,584 --> 01:07:56,995 What was you doing to her? 831 01:07:57,211 --> 01:08:00,580 I wasn't doing a thing to that girl except tying her up with some rope. 832 01:08:00,798 --> 01:08:03,336 She busted loose from me, and I ain't seen her since. 833 01:08:03,509 --> 01:08:05,751 How you know she ain't out in the woods hiding? 834 01:08:05,928 --> 01:08:08,004 I tell you, she's gone off to Augusta. 835 01:08:08,222 --> 01:08:11,306 Jones Peabody seen her and she told him she was going there. 836 01:08:11,517 --> 01:08:13,177 Thank the Lord. 837 01:08:13,394 --> 01:08:16,514 Jeeter, you gotta do something. 838 01:08:16,731 --> 01:08:19,732 That's the way they all went, Lov. Every darned one of them. 839 01:08:19,901 --> 01:08:21,229 Lizzie Belle and Clara and... 840 01:08:21,402 --> 01:08:23,395 I can't remember all their darned names... 841 01:08:23,571 --> 01:08:26,193 ...there was so many, but they all done the same thing. 842 01:08:26,407 --> 01:08:29,741 They up and run off down to the cotton mills in Augusta... 843 01:08:29,953 --> 01:08:33,820 ...so they'd have pretty clothes and a hat to wear. 844 01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:36,875 Maybe she'll come back by herself. You reckon she will, Jeeter? 845 01:08:37,043 --> 01:08:39,036 Well, I wouldn't trust none of them. 846 01:08:39,254 --> 01:08:42,457 No, they didn't like living on Tobacco Road. 847 01:08:42,674 --> 01:08:45,379 They didn't like the clothes their ma made for them... 848 01:08:45,594 --> 01:08:48,548 ...so they just all up and went and run off. 849 01:08:48,764 --> 01:08:51,681 I sure hate to lose her for some reason or other. 850 01:08:51,892 --> 01:08:54,015 She's pretty. 851 01:08:54,228 --> 01:08:59,056 I used to love to just sit out on the porch and watch her through the window... 852 01:08:59,275 --> 01:09:03,522 ...when she was combing and brushing her pretty yellow hair. 853 01:09:03,696 --> 01:09:07,480 You know, I was just thinking. Wouldn't it be a good idea for you... 854 01:09:07,658 --> 01:09:09,984 ...to have Ellie May come down to your house... 855 01:09:10,203 --> 01:09:14,117 ...and kind of look after the place and cook for you? 856 01:09:14,332 --> 01:09:17,915 I don't know of a prettier sight to see... 857 01:09:18,127 --> 01:09:22,125 ...than just to look into Pearl's pale blue eyes early in the morning. 858 01:09:22,340 --> 01:09:27,168 They is awful pretty any time of day, but I don't reckon I'll ever forget... 859 01:09:27,345 --> 01:09:30,382 ...how pretty they is just when the sun's coming up. 860 01:09:30,599 --> 01:09:33,054 Well, Ellie May's gotta get married somewhere... 861 01:09:33,268 --> 01:09:36,637 ...and if you don't take a fancy to her, I don't know where. 862 01:09:36,855 --> 01:09:39,428 Reckon if I was to go up to Augusta and find her... 863 01:09:39,608 --> 01:09:41,435 ...she'd let me bring her home? 864 01:09:41,652 --> 01:09:45,400 Who, Pearl? No, what's the use? She'd do the same thing over again. 865 01:09:45,614 --> 01:09:48,900 Now, with Ellie May, that'd be different. 866 01:09:53,747 --> 01:09:57,876 Ada and me is liable to be going away pretty soon... 867 01:09:58,085 --> 01:10:01,335 ...and there wouldn't be nobody here to look after Ellie May. 868 01:10:01,547 --> 01:10:04,085 You know, you just say the word... 869 01:10:04,258 --> 01:10:07,544 ...and I'll have her wash up and come down. 870 01:10:09,138 --> 01:10:12,839 Oh, she's mighty old for a wife. Well, you'll get used to that. 871 01:10:14,769 --> 01:10:16,928 What about what all I give you for Pearl? 872 01:10:17,147 --> 01:10:19,898 Well, with Ellie May, I'll give you the quilts back. 873 01:10:20,066 --> 01:10:22,474 And say, you can be sure of one thing... 874 01:10:22,694 --> 01:10:25,529 ...she won't be running off all the time. No, sir. 875 01:10:26,615 --> 01:10:28,192 Well... 876 01:10:28,784 --> 01:10:30,575 ...all right. 877 01:10:30,994 --> 01:10:34,944 Tell her to wash her up and come on down. 878 01:10:44,008 --> 01:10:48,136 Go get yourself washed up and go down to his house and fix up for him. 879 01:11:04,195 --> 01:11:09,616 Crazy fool! You... Look what you done to my automobile! 880 01:11:09,784 --> 01:11:13,118 I ought to put you in the chain gang. You damaged my car. 881 01:11:13,329 --> 01:11:15,369 You just about ruined it already! 882 01:11:15,582 --> 01:11:18,417 I'm gonna kill you, you crazy...! 883 01:11:43,527 --> 01:11:45,437 Pearl's gone. 884 01:12:16,228 --> 01:12:19,928 Ellie May, do you want to go? 885 01:12:22,067 --> 01:12:24,190 Yes, Ma. 886 01:12:33,996 --> 01:12:37,365 Hey, it's Mr. Payne. How are you, Mr. Payne? 887 01:12:37,583 --> 01:12:40,703 Go on, Ada, get him a drink of water. 888 01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:42,794 You've come for the money? 889 01:12:43,005 --> 01:12:46,754 How you gotta bust in talking business right away the minute the man comes? 890 01:12:46,968 --> 01:12:49,506 Get him a drink of water first. 891 01:12:50,221 --> 01:12:52,973 How are you, Mr. Payne? I'm sure glad to see you. 892 01:12:53,182 --> 01:12:57,097 Make yourself right at home. Ada, Ada, get Mr. Payne a glass of water. 893 01:12:57,312 --> 01:12:58,854 Come on. 894 01:12:59,022 --> 01:13:02,106 Well, I hope you've managed to get the money, Mr. Lester. 895 01:13:02,609 --> 01:13:06,144 Money. Money. 896 01:13:08,073 --> 01:13:11,774 No, sir, I ain't, and that's a fact. 897 01:13:12,703 --> 01:13:17,828 You know, it looks as though I'm in a whopping bad fix... 898 01:13:18,041 --> 01:13:19,833 ...and no fooling. 899 01:13:20,669 --> 01:13:26,589 You know, Mr. Payne, why, it looks like the good Lord... 900 01:13:26,759 --> 01:13:29,546 ...don't want us to grow things in the earth anymore. 901 01:13:29,762 --> 01:13:33,760 If he did, he'd be more careful about it. 902 01:13:33,975 --> 01:13:37,723 Yeah, he'd make the rich people loosen up... 903 01:13:37,937 --> 01:13:39,597 ...and lend us farmers some money. 904 01:13:39,981 --> 01:13:43,266 Mr. Payne don't care nothing about what you think about that. 905 01:13:44,235 --> 01:13:48,315 Mr. Lester, why don't you go on up to Augusta and get work in the mills? 906 01:13:48,781 --> 01:13:50,691 In the mills? 907 01:13:50,909 --> 01:13:53,910 Why, I wouldn't work in them darned mills. 908 01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:56,694 That's a place for women. 909 01:13:57,958 --> 01:14:02,038 Winding string on little spools and things like that. 910 01:14:02,254 --> 01:14:05,705 No, sir, not for me. I wouldn't... 911 01:14:05,882 --> 01:14:09,750 I wouldn't go up there if they'd give me $ 15 a week. 912 01:14:09,970 --> 01:14:13,173 No, no, I just simply couldn't... 913 01:14:13,390 --> 01:14:16,344 Well, I just simply couldn't live like that, that's all. 914 01:14:16,685 --> 01:14:19,805 I guess it'll be a whole lot better on the poor farm. 915 01:14:22,066 --> 01:14:26,443 Well, that's all right, Ada. You go on up there... 916 01:14:26,654 --> 01:14:30,652 ...and look for the rest of the children. I wouldn't stop you. 917 01:14:30,867 --> 01:14:35,825 No, I wouldn't do anything to stop you... 918 01:14:35,997 --> 01:14:37,657 ...but not for me. 919 01:14:37,832 --> 01:14:41,415 Me, it's different. I couldn't live in the city. 920 01:14:41,628 --> 01:14:44,379 The city don't like me and I don't like the city. 921 01:14:44,589 --> 01:14:48,753 I can't live propped up. I've got to be on the ground. 922 01:14:48,969 --> 01:14:53,595 And that's why I like the poor farm. 923 01:14:53,807 --> 01:14:57,556 It's on the ground and it's in the country. 924 01:15:00,147 --> 01:15:03,183 I better go where you go. 925 01:15:03,442 --> 01:15:06,811 Well, I don't know what else there is to say. 926 01:15:07,029 --> 01:15:09,650 I hate this about as much as anything in the world. 927 01:15:09,865 --> 01:15:13,780 But it's not my land and not my bank, and I haven't got any choice. 928 01:15:13,994 --> 01:15:16,568 Well, you can't blame you. 929 01:15:16,789 --> 01:15:18,663 - You don't... - Tomorrow's the 1 st. 930 01:15:18,874 --> 01:15:20,701 - Yeah, that's right. - I'm sorry. 931 01:15:20,918 --> 01:15:22,710 - So am I. - Goodbye. 932 01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:24,296 Goodbye. 933 01:16:02,711 --> 01:16:04,371 Well... 934 01:16:05,172 --> 01:16:09,799 ...if we start now, we ought to get there in time for supper. 935 01:17:24,963 --> 01:17:26,587 Want a lift? 936 01:17:29,092 --> 01:17:32,543 It's Captain Tim. Hi, Captain Tim. 937 01:17:32,762 --> 01:17:35,088 Hi, Ada. Come on, hop in. 938 01:17:35,307 --> 01:17:37,383 Come on, come on, Ada. Come on, come on. 939 01:17:37,601 --> 01:17:42,393 You're gonna get a ride after all. Yes. 940 01:17:42,981 --> 01:17:44,689 Which way? 941 01:17:45,692 --> 01:17:50,853 Well, we was just taking a walk over to Ludlow. 942 01:17:51,031 --> 01:17:54,317 It's such a nice day. 943 01:17:54,535 --> 01:17:56,658 To the poor farm? 944 01:17:57,371 --> 01:18:01,321 Well, that's about it, Captain Tim. 945 01:19:18,288 --> 01:19:20,197 We're here, Jeeter. 946 01:19:21,917 --> 01:19:24,538 Thank you, Captain Tim. 947 01:19:29,550 --> 01:19:34,840 Hey, wait a minute. This ain't no poor farm. 948 01:19:35,347 --> 01:19:37,921 You won't ever see no poorer farm. 949 01:19:38,142 --> 01:19:41,262 Why, you made a mistake. This is my place, boy. 950 01:19:42,229 --> 01:19:45,349 Maybe I did, but I had to do it. 951 01:19:45,524 --> 01:19:48,858 I don't mind telling you, Jeeter, I couldn't really afford it... 952 01:19:49,028 --> 01:19:50,736 ...but I had to do it. 953 01:19:50,905 --> 01:19:54,155 Well, the man's done been here and put us off... 954 01:19:54,367 --> 01:19:57,534 ...and if he comes back and finds us still here... 955 01:19:57,745 --> 01:19:59,987 ...he's liable to send us to the chain gang. 956 01:20:00,206 --> 01:20:03,160 He won't be back. I saw him down the road and fixed it... 957 01:20:03,376 --> 01:20:06,994 ...so you and Ada can stay here, for six months anyway. 958 01:20:07,213 --> 01:20:11,792 I'd like to have made it the whole year, but I just didn't have the money. 959 01:20:14,262 --> 01:20:17,382 You mean you paid him some rent? 960 01:20:18,308 --> 01:20:21,642 Yes, I gave him $50, Jeeter. 961 01:20:21,853 --> 01:20:25,057 And here's $ 10 for you to get yourself some seed and guano. 962 01:20:27,025 --> 01:20:30,311 What I'm really doing, I'm staking you for six months... 963 01:20:30,529 --> 01:20:33,364 ...to see if you can really grow yourself a crop this time. 964 01:20:33,532 --> 01:20:35,359 You think you can do it? 965 01:20:38,079 --> 01:20:41,163 Well, answer the man, can't you? 966 01:20:41,374 --> 01:20:45,418 You can do it, Jeeter. You did it for my dad, you can do it for me. 967 01:20:47,672 --> 01:20:52,298 The good Lord certainly looks out after the poor. 968 01:20:54,095 --> 01:20:57,844 You keep after him, Ada. He'll do it all right if you keep after him. 969 01:20:58,057 --> 01:21:03,135 You mind if he gets me some snuff out of that $ 10? 970 01:21:03,438 --> 01:21:07,222 If snuff's gonna help you get Jeeter to work, Ada, get all you want. 971 01:21:29,882 --> 01:21:32,918 Ada, Ada, you know what I'm gonna do? 972 01:21:34,762 --> 01:21:38,131 - Take a nap? - I'm gonna raise myself a bale an acre. 973 01:21:38,307 --> 01:21:40,929 I'm gonna... I know where I can borrow me a good mule... 974 01:21:41,102 --> 01:21:44,138 ...and I'm gonna buy myself $ 10 worth of seed-cotton... 975 01:21:44,355 --> 01:21:45,849 ...and guano and snuff. 976 01:21:46,024 --> 01:21:49,274 You see all that land there? 977 01:21:49,486 --> 01:21:51,644 I'm gonna burn off all that broom-sedge... 978 01:21:51,821 --> 01:21:54,312 ...and clear myself about a hundred acres. 979 01:21:54,532 --> 01:21:56,490 Then I'm gonna plow up that ground... 980 01:21:56,701 --> 01:21:59,323 ...and I'm gonna clear it as far as you can see. 981 01:21:59,538 --> 01:22:02,574 And look at that sky, Ada. 982 01:22:02,999 --> 01:22:06,949 Yeah, this is just about the best year for... 983 01:22:07,170 --> 01:22:10,705 For planting since the Lord knows when. 984 01:22:10,924 --> 01:22:14,708 Yeah, I can just tell the way it smells... 985 01:22:14,928 --> 01:22:20,765 ...that this is gonna be a great year for cotton, yeah. 986 01:22:22,061 --> 01:22:24,682 When you gonna do all these big things? 987 01:22:24,897 --> 01:22:28,977 Oh, pretty soon. 988 01:22:29,902 --> 01:22:32,025 Next week, maybe. 989 01:22:32,697 --> 01:22:36,647 With Dude and Ellie May gone... 990 01:22:36,826 --> 01:22:39,399 ...there's nobody left but us. 991 01:22:42,457 --> 01:22:43,785 Where's Grandma? 992 01:22:46,294 --> 01:22:48,666 Why, I ain't seen her since yesterday. 993 01:22:50,757 --> 01:22:56,630 Well, maybe she's gone up in the woods and couldn't get back. 994 01:22:56,930 --> 01:22:59,089 Maybe she even died up there. 995 01:22:59,725 --> 01:23:03,010 She never stayed away like that before. 996 01:23:04,188 --> 01:23:05,848 No. 997 01:23:06,940 --> 01:23:12,480 I'll go up there one of these days and look for her. 998 01:23:19,495 --> 01:23:22,496 I think this looks like... 999 01:23:22,665 --> 01:23:28,335 ...it's gonna be the best year I ever had. 83612

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