The Intruder HD (1962)
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00:01:27 - There you go.
00:01:41 - Thank you.
00:01:47 What do you say to the nice young man?
00:01:49 - Aren't you gonna say something?
00:01:53 Shake?
00:01:54 - Howdy, girl.
00:01:55 - That's fine.
00:01:56 - Bye, hon.
00:01:59 (laughs)
00:02:01 (train rumbling)
00:02:28 - Now let me tell you people,
00:02:30 the good Lord, he don't care what we do.
00:02:32 We can go out and drink and we can sing
00:02:34 and we can carry on the devil's work,
00:02:37 but it don't matter none to the Lord
00:02:39 because we're the ones who have got to pay for it.
00:02:41 And he showed us the way, people.
00:02:43 He showed me and he showed you.
00:02:45 Praise God and praise his words.
00:02:48 The road to redemption leads before us.
00:02:51 - All right, all right, I'm a-comin'.
00:02:54 What can I do for you, young man?
00:02:56 - I'm looking for a room.
00:02:57 - Overnight?
00:02:58 - No, it'll be at least a week, maybe two or three.
00:03:01 - Billy Lee?
00:03:02 Charge will be 250.
00:03:04 We always make a reduction for our permanent temporary guests.
00:03:08 - Well, that's very nice of you.
00:03:09 - Put your name and address here.
00:03:11 Billy Lee?
00:03:13 Billy Lee, you wake up!
00:03:18 - I was just harassed, dear.
00:03:21 - Well, I thought you'd taken root.
00:03:25 Go on up to 104 and get it aired out
00:03:28 and see if Mabel's dusting, too.
00:03:30 Move!
00:03:33 I swear I believe that boy's got nigger blood
00:03:37 in him somewhere.
00:03:38 - You don't have to go to all this trouble.
00:03:40 - It won't take a minute.
00:03:41 I suppose you're a salesman.
00:03:44 - You might say I'm in social work.
00:03:46 I've come to do what I can for the town.
00:03:48 The integration problem.
00:03:51 - Oh, that.
00:03:53 But that's all over.
00:03:54 - I mean, they've got 10 niggers enrolled
00:03:56 already in the schools.
00:03:58 And they're starting Monday.
00:04:00 - Yes, I know.
00:04:01 Do you think it's right?
00:04:02 - No, I sure don't.
00:04:05 Neither does nobody.
00:04:06 But it's the law.
00:04:07 - Who's law?
00:04:09 - It's okay, come up now.
00:04:13 - You want Billy Lee to tote your bags?
00:04:16 - Oh, no, it's not that.
00:04:17 - Suit yourself.
00:04:18 - Bums, bums, bums!
00:04:23 - Well, the Lord warned us we'd be swept away today.
00:04:26 - Right this way.
00:04:27 - Now, come on, baby, we're fine.
00:04:30 - Sam, stop it, you're gonna tear my robe.
00:04:32 Oh, honey, for heaven's sake, please.
00:04:35 Sam, stop it, put it down, come on.
00:04:38 Anything you want, just let me know.
00:04:41 - Thank you very much.
00:04:42 Oh, there is one thing.
00:04:43 - What's that?
00:04:44 - Privacy.
00:04:46 I'd like to take care of the room myself, if you don't mind.
00:04:48 - I guess we can arrange that.
00:04:49 - Good.
00:04:53 We're gonna be friends, aren't we?
00:04:55 - Don't say any reason why not.
00:04:56 - No, I ain't gonna get rid of her.
00:05:01 No, I know, no, that ain't fair, honey, no!
00:05:03 Bye!
00:05:04 - Now, you stop that carrying on right this instant.
00:05:08 You hear me now.
00:05:09 - Well, lookie here, peepin' Tom.
00:05:13 - Why, Sam Griffin, you haven't got the modesty of a hog.
00:05:16 - I have to.
00:05:18 You gonna talk to me that way, honey?
00:05:19 - Oh, shut up.
00:05:20 - She's mad 'cause I won't give her a kiss.
00:05:21 - Now, you listen, Sam.
00:05:23 I got a new guest right down the hall,
00:05:26 and he's a gentleman.
00:05:27 - Well, so am I.
00:05:28 I just got this terrible case of sex appeal.
00:05:30 Anything I can do.
00:05:31 - Sam, I'm sorry, Mrs. Humphrey,
00:05:34 but you're gonna cause him a lot of trouble.
00:05:36 Sam, I'm gonna kill him.
00:05:37 (Sam screaming)
00:05:41 - Sam, that's a big ape, Tom.
00:05:42 I gotta get dressed.
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00:06:01 - Mr. Russell, I am sorry to interrupt your meditation,
00:06:08 but your root beer is ready.
00:06:11 - Man, you're mean.
00:06:13 - Hi.
00:06:14 - Hi.
00:06:16 - You authorized to make business transactions?
00:06:19 - Sir?
00:06:20 - I give you $2 bills, you give me a cup of coffee
00:06:22 and 19 dimes for the telephone.
00:06:24 - All right.
00:06:25 - I flip you double or nothing.
00:06:30 - Just for 10 cents on the counter.
00:06:33 - Boy, you're the meanest girl on the face of the earth.
00:06:36 Be careful, mister, she's liable to bite your head off.
00:06:39 - Thank you very much.
00:06:41 - See you at school.
00:06:42 - Are you really the meanest girl
00:06:43 on the face of the earth?
00:06:45 - That's what people tell me.
00:06:46 - Oh, they're wrong, you don't look mean at all.
00:06:49 Thank you.
00:06:54 You go to school around here?
00:06:55 - Uh-huh.
00:06:57 - I didn't know they had a college in Caxton.
00:06:59 - Oh, they don't.
00:06:59 - You don't go to high school, do you?
00:07:03 - Mm-hmm.
00:07:04 - My, my, they do grow things fast here, don't they?
00:07:08 You know, miss, I've heard an awful lot
00:07:10 about Southern hospitality.
00:07:11 The question is, does it really exist?
00:07:13 - Well, sure, I guess so.
00:07:15 - No, I mean, really.
00:07:16 See, here's the thing, I've just moved into Caxton,
00:07:18 and I'm anxious to meet some young people here,
00:07:20 but I don't have any contacts.
00:07:22 Isn't that a sad story?
00:07:24 (bell ringing)
00:07:26 - Oh, hi, Dad.
00:07:28 - I'll check you later.
00:07:29 - Late again.
00:07:30 - Sorry, Al.
00:07:31 - That's okay, Dad.
00:07:33 - How's it going, Tom?
00:07:34 - Oh, all right, I guess.
00:07:36 Kind of surprised, though.
00:07:38 Looks like the school's gonna open without any trouble.
00:07:40 - Well, I hope so.
00:07:41 - Goodbye, Mr. Hayes, and thanks.
00:07:44 - Goodbye, honey.
00:07:45 Nice having you work for me.
00:07:46 - See you later, Ted.
00:07:48 - Do you think it's all right for a girl my age
00:07:49 to go out with older men?
00:07:51 - Hmm?
00:07:52 - Nevermind.
00:07:54 Hi, Mom.
00:07:59 - Sorry, honey.
00:08:03 - Well, you could have called.
00:08:05 I had a lovely roast.
00:08:06 - I know.
00:08:09 I'm a terrible husband.
00:08:10 - Oh, sit down.
00:08:11 I'll fix you something.
00:08:12 - What's wrong?
00:08:17 - Well, it isn't anything, actually,
00:08:20 but I had a kind of funny phone call a few minutes ago,
00:08:23 and it upset me.
00:08:26 - A voice in the cellar?
00:08:27 - No.
00:08:30 Somebody making a survey or something.
00:08:32 - Well?
00:08:35 - Well.
00:08:37 He wanted to know what I thought of my daughter
00:08:39 sitting in a classroom with a bunch of Negroes.
00:08:41 - What'd you say?
00:08:46 - Well, I didn't exactly know what to say,
00:08:47 but, well, I told him the truth, that I didn't like it.
00:08:51 - Did you give a name?
00:08:53 - I don't remember.
00:08:54 - Kramer.
00:08:56 That's his name, Adam Kramer.
00:08:58 Makes sense, too.
00:08:59 The best sense I've heard in a year.
00:09:00 Where's the coffee?
00:09:01 - Sit down, Dad.
00:09:02 I'll get you some.
00:09:03 - This thing you get around this house,
00:09:05 you gotta ask for it.
00:09:07 What's the matter with you?
00:09:08 Mad 'cause you got somebody in town with a little gumption?
00:09:11 Afraid you're gonna get showed up?
00:09:13 - Look, I'm tired.
00:09:14 - From what?
00:09:16 Sitting around on your dead rump all day?
00:09:18 - Oh, Dad.
00:09:19 - It's the truth.
00:09:21 Everybody knows it.
00:09:22 River could bust loose and flood the whole damn town,
00:09:24 and what do you think he'd do?
00:09:26 Write editorials.
00:09:28 It takes work and muscles, boy, to stop a flood,
00:09:31 and that's what we got on our hands,
00:09:32 a great big black flood.
00:09:34 - Cut out that kind of talking front, Ella.
00:09:38 - Well, I guess that's what happens
00:09:42 when you get old and sick.
00:09:43 People treat you like dirt, spit on you,
00:09:46 waiting around for you to die.
00:09:49 - All right, let's forget it.
00:09:51 - Ruth, get my medicine.
00:09:53 Your husband's doing his best to give me a heart attack.
00:09:58 What about you, Ella?
00:09:59 What do you think about sitting in a room
00:10:01 with a bunch of big buck niggers?
00:10:03 - Ella thinks the same way I do.
00:10:05 She doesn't like it, but it's a law.
00:10:08 Can't you get that through your thick skull?
00:10:10 A law!
00:10:11 - Well, what has he got his back up about?
00:10:16 - Good morning.
00:10:20 - Morning.
00:10:21 How's your social work coming along?
00:10:23 - We're off to a fine start.
00:10:24 - Thank you.
00:10:25 - Good morning, good morning, mother.
00:10:26 - Good morning.
00:10:27 - I bet you're looking just as pretty
00:10:28 as ever this morning.
00:10:28 Give me a little kiss.
00:10:29 - Oh, my.
00:10:30 - Get that out now.
00:10:31 - Oh, there.
00:10:32 - Is that the gentleman you were telling us about?
00:10:33 - Mr. Adam Kramer, Mr. and Mrs. Griffin.
00:10:36 - Happy to know you, Adam.
00:10:37 - Pleased to meet you.
00:10:38 - Hope we didn't disturb you any last night.
00:10:40 - Oh, no, no, not a bit.
00:10:42 - Had your breakfast yet?
00:10:43 - No, I haven't.
00:10:44 - Well, neither are we.
00:10:44 We're just headed down to the palace.
00:10:45 If you'd care to join us, you're welcome, isn't he, honey?
00:10:47 - Yeah, sure.
00:10:50 - Come on, treats on Sam Griffin.
00:10:52 - You'll convince me.
00:10:53 - Ooh-wee, going to be another scorcher.
00:11:00 - Just down the street here, Adam.
00:11:02 Not much to look at, but the food, terrible.
00:11:05 Didn't make too many demands on you last night, did I?
00:11:07 - Oh, Sam.
00:11:09 - Right in here.
00:11:10 How you doing there?
00:11:16 Good morning, good evening.
00:11:16 Let's have three orders of primers lamb
00:11:18 covered with porter's oil
00:11:19 and a little sumos down the side.
00:11:20 All right.
00:11:25 Scrambled eggs and coffee.
00:11:26 How about you, Adam?
00:11:27 - Sam, I--
00:11:27 - Make it three.
00:11:28 Don't forget the porter's oil.
00:11:30 It's for every time.
00:11:32 Where are you from, Adam?
00:11:34 - Los Angeles.
00:11:35 - L.A., no kidding.
00:11:36 Well, that's Vi's hometown.
00:11:38 - Small world.
00:11:39 - How about that, honey?
00:11:40 Say, you two ought to be thick as thieves.
00:11:42 I was in California once, Pomona, the fairgrounds.
00:11:44 - Oh, yeah.
00:11:45 - I was pushing pens, same as I'm doing here.
00:11:47 Made 300 bucks a day.
00:11:49 - I take it you're a salesman.
00:11:50 - Oh, that's a fancy way of putting it.
00:11:52 Pitch man would be more like it.
00:11:54 Say, I'm working a dime store over in Farragut today.
00:11:55 Why don't you come on over?
00:11:56 It's only 40 miles.
00:11:58 - I'd like to.
00:11:58 Your work sounds fascinating.
00:12:00 - What's your line, Mr. Kramer?
00:12:02 - Social reform.
00:12:05 - Been in town long?
00:12:07 - Quite a while, yes.
00:12:09 You?
00:12:10 - Oh, all summer.
00:12:11 We like it here, don't we, honey?
00:12:13 - Sure, Sam.
00:12:15 - Jackson's a fine place.
00:12:17 Real fine people.
00:12:18 Something wrong, Vi?
00:12:21 - No, Sam, I got a headache.
00:12:23 I think I'll go back to the room and lie down.
00:12:25 - I'll go with you, baby.
00:12:26 - No, please, no, no.
00:12:27 It's all right.
00:12:28 Don't get up.
00:12:29 It's a pleasure to have met you, Mrs. Griffin.
00:12:31 We're going to be friends, aren't we?
00:12:34 - Why, heck, you're friends now.
00:12:35 - I'll be all right, Sam.
00:12:38 - Good.
00:12:39 - She's something, ain't she?
00:12:43 - Very attractive.
00:12:44 - Wonderful woman, Adam.
00:12:46 Really wonderful.
00:12:47 Hate to leave her alone so much of the time.
00:12:50 She kind of gets bored.
00:12:52 - Well, if there's anything I can do, just--
00:12:54 - Oh, no.
00:12:55 Farragut's only a one-night deal.
00:12:57 That's the kind of absence that makes a hard-grown farmer
00:12:59 if you get what I mean.
00:13:00 Where are them eggs?
00:13:03 (horn honking)
00:13:07 - Hi. - Hi, man.
00:13:11 - Are you the driver?
00:13:12 - Sure am.
00:13:12 - Do you know where Nickertown is?
00:13:13 - Yes, sir.
00:13:14 - Can you take me there?
00:13:15 (car door slams)
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00:14:03 (children shouting)
00:14:21 (children shouting)
00:14:24 - Take me to 22 Myrtlewood Lane.
00:14:34 - Are you through here?
00:14:36 - For the moment.
00:14:38 (dramatic music)
00:14:40 (car door slams)
00:14:45 (dramatic music)
00:14:48 - Well, all right, please go in.
00:14:59 - Don't you always?
00:15:00 Beautiful horse.
00:15:02 - Who are you?
00:15:05 - My name's Adam Kramer.
00:15:06 Your housekeeper said this would be a good time
00:15:08 for us to talk.
00:15:09 - Well, what's on your mind?
00:15:11 - Quite a bit, sir.
00:15:12 I think you'll be interested.
00:15:13 - Well, you tell me all about
00:15:14 whatever it is you're selling in a letter.
00:15:17 Keep on working him, right?
00:15:18 - Yes, sir.
00:15:19 Oh, Mr. Shipman.
00:15:22 I'm not selling anything.
00:15:26 - Then what are you after?
00:15:28 - A little courtesy for one thing.
00:15:31 Mr. Shipman, I've traveled all the way
00:15:32 from Washington, D.C. to talk to you.
00:15:34 - Washington, huh?
00:15:36 - Yes, sir, D.C.
00:15:38 - Well, let's go over here in the shade.
00:15:40 - Good.
00:15:41 Lovely place you have.
00:15:43 - Thank you, thank you.
00:15:44 Well, now, what is it you want to know?
00:15:47 - Well, sir, you see,
00:15:49 I represent the Patrick Henry Society.
00:15:51 And what we'd like to know is just this,
00:15:53 how you stand, whether you're for integration
00:15:54 or against it.
00:15:55 - Well, that's a stupid question, young man.
00:15:57 I'm a southerner.
00:15:58 Sit down, sit down.
00:16:00 - Thank you.
00:16:01 - See, I was born and raised in these parts.
00:16:03 So were my folks.
00:16:04 - That is, you're against it.
00:16:07 - Well, of course I'm against it.
00:16:08 What's the matter with you?
00:16:10 - Well, I'd just like to get it straight.
00:16:11 You see, sir, our organization agrees with you.
00:16:14 We believe this ruling to be one of the greatest wrongs
00:16:17 the government has ever perpetrated.
00:16:18 - Yeah, it's a shame, all right, but what can we do?
00:16:22 - Fight.
00:16:26 - We did.
00:16:27 We lost.
00:16:28 It's a law now.
00:16:31 - Whose law?
00:16:32 I thought this was a democracy,
00:16:34 and I thought a democracy was based
00:16:36 on the collective will of the people.
00:16:38 - Sure, of course, sure.
00:16:40 And is it the collective will of the people
00:16:43 that Negroes should be allowed to mix with whites
00:16:45 right under the same roof?
00:16:47 Study with them, eat with them, maybe even sleep with them?
00:16:50 Is it the collective will of the people
00:16:54 that Negroes should be allowed to take over the whole world?
00:16:56 Because that's what's going to happen, Mr. Shipman.
00:17:00 - You think it can be stopped?
00:17:04 - With your help, I'm sure of it.
00:17:07 - Legally.
00:17:08 Start talking, my boy.
00:17:11 (children shouting)
00:17:15 - Come on, everyone.
00:17:29 Use the bathroom.
00:17:30 (upbeat music)
00:17:36 - Here, I'll have a...
00:17:38 How many times you gonna iron that shirt?
00:17:44 - Well, you wanna look nice, don't you?
00:17:46 Hey, man, Dick, integration, black and white,
00:17:53 how about that?
00:17:54 - Why don't you shut up and turn that junk off?
00:17:57 - What you talking about junk?
00:17:59 That's music, man.
00:18:00 - I said turn it off.
00:18:02 - Joey.
00:18:04 - I'm sorry, Ma, I'm just bushed.
00:18:07 - Hey, you really gonna make him go
00:18:08 to the white school tomorrow?
00:18:10 - Why, I'm not making him go.
00:18:12 - Am I, Joey?
00:18:14 - No, Ma.
00:18:15 - Well, it's too bad I ain't old enough.
00:18:17 I wouldn't be scared, that's all.
00:18:19 - Who's scared?
00:18:20 - You are.
00:18:21 Man, you know what you ought to do?
00:18:23 I'll tell you what you ought to do.
00:18:25 Get yourself a gun.
00:18:26 Play it cool, see?
00:18:28 First grade stud looks at you sideways.
00:18:31 Blam!
00:18:32 Blam, blam, blam, blam, blam, blam, blam.
00:18:35 You're just stalled.
00:18:42 I don't think Daddy would approve
00:18:49 of this kind of thing going on.
00:18:51 I know Mr. Shipman wouldn't approve
00:18:59 of this kind of thing going on in his car.
00:19:03 (somber music)
00:19:05 (bell ringing)
00:19:23 - Good morning.
00:19:24 - Good morning.
00:19:25 - Will the children step forward, please?
00:19:29 (footsteps)
00:19:32 I'm not going to bore you with the long sermon.
00:19:34 I just want to let you know that I know how you feel,
00:19:36 every one of you.
00:19:38 I know because I can see it in your faces.
00:19:41 Be strong, children.
00:19:43 Not muscle and pride strong, man strong.
00:19:47 Let your strength be shown in meekness,
00:19:49 and you'll win this fight.
00:19:51 Not only for yourself, but for all our people.
00:19:55 Let us pray.
00:19:57 Oh Lord, in thy mercy, protect these 10 lambs.
00:20:01 When they walk in the valley off the shadow,
00:20:06 comfort them.
00:20:07 And when they falter, give them strength.
00:20:11 When they despair, give them hope.
00:20:14 And let them do thy will.
00:20:18 Amen.
00:20:25 (bell ringing)
00:20:28 (somber music)
00:20:30 - You niggers gonna cause so much niggers to get killed.
00:20:44 - What'd you say, Uncle Rowan?
00:20:46 - I said you niggers gonna cause so much niggers
00:20:49 to get killed.
00:20:51 (somber music)
00:20:54 - God Almighty.
00:21:05 (somber music)
00:21:08 (somber music)
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00:21:13 (somber music)
00:21:15 (somber music)
00:21:31 (somber music)
00:22:00 - Hey Tom, come here.
00:22:02 There's your invaders.
00:22:08 Not much of an army, is it?
00:22:11 (somber music)
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00:22:25 (somber music)
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00:22:44 - Hey nigger, why don't you go on home?
00:23:00 - Stay out of that school's smokes.
00:23:03 (men chattering)
00:23:11 - This is a white school, for white people.
00:23:13 - Yeah, you dirty lousy coon.
00:23:16 - What's the trouble here?
00:23:22 - Well, just what do you think?
00:23:24 (somber music)
00:23:28 (somber music)
00:23:31 (explosion booms)
00:23:50 - I'll tell you something, right here and now,
00:23:58 it may be hot tonight, but it's gonna get hotter
00:24:00 for a whole lot of people.
00:24:02 This here little town's gonna burn.
00:24:04 What I mean, it's gonna burn the conscience of the country
00:24:08 and put forth a light that everyone
00:24:11 and everybody's gonna see and feel.
00:24:13 This town I'm talking about, Caxton.
00:24:15 (crowd cheering)
00:24:18 People, something happened today.
00:24:25 10 Negroes went into the Caxton High School
00:24:29 and sat with the white children there.
00:24:32 Nobody stopped them, nobody turned them out.
00:24:35 And you know what they're saying that means?
00:24:40 They're saying that you all don't give a darn
00:24:44 whether the whites mix with the blacks
00:24:46 because you didn't fight against it.
00:24:49 Well, I say, how can somebody fight what he doesn't see?
00:24:53 They've kept the facts away from you.
00:24:57 They've cheated and deceived every one of you.
00:25:01 They've filled your heads with filthy lies
00:25:05 and kept you in the dark
00:25:07 so that when you finally do wake up,
00:25:11 why, we're sorry, but it's just too late.
00:25:16 (crowd cheering)
00:25:19 All right.
00:25:21 (crowd cheering)
00:25:24 Now, I'm associated with the Patrick Henry Society,
00:25:28 which is an organization dedicated
00:25:34 to giving the people the truth.
00:25:36 What I'm gonna tell you is gonna make your blood boil
00:25:41 because I'm gonna show you
00:25:43 that the way this country's gonna go
00:25:46 depends entirely and wholly and completely
00:25:50 and completely on you.
00:25:52 (crowd cheering)
00:25:55 Now, you all know that there was peace and quiet
00:26:05 in the South before the NAACP started stirring up trouble.
00:26:16 But what you don't know is that this so-called advancement
00:26:20 of colored people is now
00:26:22 and has always been nothing but a communist front
00:26:30 headed by a Jew who hates America
00:26:33 and doesn't make any bones about it either.
00:26:37 Well, the commies didn't waste a second.
00:26:40 They knew only too well, friends,
00:26:43 that the quickest way to cripple a country
00:26:47 is to mongrelize it.
00:26:48 So they poured all the millions of dollars
00:26:53 the Jews could get for them into this one thing,
00:26:57 desegregation.
00:26:58 They went to the courts.
00:27:01 Now, Judge Silver, who is a Jew
00:27:04 and is known to have leftist leanings.
00:27:11 Who says so?
00:27:13 The record says so.
00:27:16 Look it up.
00:27:17 Abraham Silver, for one thing,
00:27:20 belongs to the Quillen Pen Society,
00:27:23 which receives its funds indirectly from Moscow.
00:27:27 So what did the judge do?
00:27:31 Went right ahead and ordered integration
00:27:34 for the Caxton High School.
00:27:37 Your mayor and the governor
00:27:40 could have stopped it, but they didn't have the guts.
00:27:43 (audience cheering)
00:27:46 All right.
00:27:49 Now, you may think the problem
00:27:56 is simply whether we're going to allow
00:27:57 10 Negroes to go to our schools.
00:28:00 That's only a small part of it.
00:28:02 I'm in a position to know
00:28:05 because the Patrick Henry Society
00:28:08 has studied the whole thing.
00:28:09 The real problem, whether you like it or not,
00:28:12 is whether you're going to sit back
00:28:14 and let desegregation spread throughout the entire South.
00:28:19 And it's an indisputable fact
00:28:21 that there could be no other result.
00:28:23 The Negroes will literally,
00:28:26 and I do mean literally,
00:28:28 control the South.
00:28:30 The vote will be theirs.
00:28:32 You'll have black mayors and black policemen
00:28:34 the way they do in Chicago and New York already.
00:28:37 Like is not a black governor.
00:28:39 And black doctors to deliver your babies.
00:28:41 If they find time, that is.
00:28:44 And that's the way it'll be.
00:28:46 Did you ever stop to think about that
00:28:52 when you let those 10 enter your school, did you?
00:28:55 (audience cheering)
00:28:58 Now, let me ask you.
00:29:02 Do you people want niggers taken over?
00:29:06 (audience cheering)
00:29:09 And are you willing to fight this thing down to the last ditch
00:29:14 and keep fighting until it's over?
00:29:16 (audience cheering)
00:29:19 Then I'm willing to fight with you.
00:29:22 Why, Mr. Kramer?
00:29:24 Why?
00:29:28 Because I'm an American, sir, and I love my country.
00:29:36 And I'm willing to give my life, if that be necessary,
00:29:39 to see that my country stays free,
00:29:43 white,
00:29:46 and American!
00:29:47 (audience cheering)
00:29:51 (bell ringing)
00:29:53 - Hell of a speech, boy!
00:30:16 (audience cheering)
00:30:20 (people chattering)
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00:30:41 (people chattering)
00:30:56 (bell ringing)
00:30:58 - Hey, look at that! - What is that?
00:31:01 - I don't know.
00:31:03 - Junior, what is it? - I don't know.
00:31:06 - Come on, let's go! - Yeah, let's go!
00:31:08 - Let's get out of here, quick!
00:31:11 (tires screeching)
00:31:14 - Take it easy, nigger, you're not going anywhere!
00:31:16 - What's the trouble? - No trouble,
00:31:16 you looking for trouble?
00:31:17 - No, no, no, sir, we on our way to house.
00:31:19 - We're on our way to house.
00:31:21 - Please don't do it, we haven't done anything.
00:31:22 - Who can either of us ride the taxi, nigger?
00:31:24 - We're on our way to house. - Yes, I know there is, but--
00:31:26 - Well, if you know there is, how can you not
00:31:27 have streeted it and all that stuff?
00:31:28 - What's the matter with you folks, we haven't done anything.
00:31:30 - You're doing it up our streets!
00:31:32 - Look at the monkeys in the back!
00:31:34 - Junior, please, please, please.
00:31:37 - All right, I'm sorry, we're gone.
00:31:46 - That's what you say, I figured you were lying, nigger.
00:31:49 - I don't lie to nobody.
00:31:53 - Come on, come on, come on.
00:31:56 - Come on, come on, come on.
00:31:58 - Come on, kill yourself.
00:31:59 - One step, one move.
00:32:01 - Why?
00:32:16 - All right, break it up, break it up, who's there?
00:32:22 - I say, you miserable little toad.
00:32:26 - Enough, the rest of you people don't want to spend this night in jail,
00:32:28 you get out of here, now.
00:32:29 In that car and get out of here as fast as you can.
00:32:33 - All right, all right, what's going on here?
00:32:36 - Oh, nothing, Sheriff.
00:32:38 The good citizens was just having a little fun, that's all.
00:32:41 - What kind of fun?
00:32:43 - The best kind.
00:32:44 - Attacking Negroes.
00:32:46 - He's lying, Sheriff, we didn't attack anybody.
00:32:48 - Oh, I know.
00:32:50 - There seems to be a difference of opinion here.
00:32:52 - Opinion's got nothing to do with it, Sheriff.
00:32:54 - The fact is, a family was terrorized on the streets of Caxton.
00:32:58 - Hell, it was just a bunch of coons, Sheriff.
00:33:01 - Who did this here terrorizing?
00:33:05 - Do you want me to arrest everybody, Tom?
00:33:11 - All right, it's all over, let's go home.
00:33:20 (indistinct chatter)
00:33:22 - Hi, Tom, how you making it, boy?
00:33:35 - Hello, Vern. - You met the...
00:33:36 - Yes, yes, I've had the pleasure.
00:33:39 - How are you?
00:33:41 - What do you want? - Nothing, this isn't the way of business.
00:33:48 - You do run ads, don't you?
00:33:49 - They meet our standards.
00:33:51 - By God, Tom, you're still the crankiest man of a morning I ever did see.
00:33:55 - Well, sir, it doesn't meet our standards.
00:33:59 - I'd suggest that you... - I suggest you get the hell out of this office, Kramer.
00:34:02 - No, just a minute. - No, no, it's all right, Vern.
00:34:05 - Mr. McDangle's upset about what happened last night, he holds me responsible.
00:34:08 - You are responsible.
00:34:10 - I'm sorry you feel that way about it, sir.
00:34:12 - Because you and I are fighting on the same side.
00:34:16 - I'll meet you later, Vern.
00:34:18 - He's taken in, has he?
00:34:23 - Now look, Tom, Kramer may be young and he may be an outsider and all that,
00:34:28 but by damn, you gotta admit he's on the right track.
00:34:31 - You heard his speech last night? - Yes, I heard it.
00:34:34 - I saw what happened afterwards, too.
00:34:36 - Well, don't prove a thing. Probably that that negro was up at it.
00:34:39 - That negro wasn't up at it.
00:34:41 - He was just passing through town, which is his legal right.
00:34:44 - Oh, now, come on, Tom, come on.
00:34:49 You're just mad 'cause it took somebody from out of town to show us how we've been falling down on our job.
00:34:53 Well, I was mad in the beginning, too.
00:34:55 But there's no two ways about it.
00:34:57 This here thing has gotta be stopped. And it's gotta be stopped right now.
00:35:01 - How? By attacking negroes in the streets?
00:35:05 - If that's what it takes, yes.
00:35:07 - All right.
00:35:10 Do you know what you're saying?
00:35:12 - Yes, I know what I'm saying, but I don't think you do.
00:35:15 I'm saying that we fought this thing fair and above board, and it didn't get us anywhere.
00:35:20 Now we're gonna have to fight it their way.
00:35:22 - There's nothing to fight anymore, Vern.
00:35:25 The law says we've gotta have integration.
00:35:27 I believe in obeying the law.
00:35:30 Kramer apparently doesn't.
00:35:32 I don't like him. I don't trust him.
00:35:36 And I'm certainly not gonna run his stinking ad.
00:35:40 - Doggone...
00:35:42 Ain't you forgetting something, Tom?
00:35:44 - What's that?
00:35:45 - Well, I own the controlling stock in the messenger.
00:35:49 You're working for me.
00:35:52 - That's the way it is?
00:35:55 - That's the way it is.
00:35:57 - Doggone it.
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00:38:29 [knocking]
00:38:37 [knocking]
00:38:41 - Who is it?
00:38:42 - Adam Kramer, your neighbor.
00:38:45 - What do you want?
00:38:48 - A cup of coffee, a little conversation maybe.
00:38:52 - Just a minute.
00:38:54 - Hi.
00:38:59 - Hello.
00:39:00 - Sam said I should drop in, I...
00:39:02 - Oh?
00:39:03 - Said he was spending the night in Farragut, thought maybe you could use a little company.
00:39:08 Well, if not, I'll go on back to my room.
00:39:11 - I think that'd be a pretty good idea.
00:39:13 - Is that what you want me to do?
00:39:15 - Yes.
00:39:17 - Why?
00:39:19 - Well, look, I'm getting ready for bed. I...
00:39:21 - 10.50? I thought you were a night owl.
00:39:24 - Come on, please.
00:39:25 - Oh, come on.
00:39:27 Sam would be very put out with you if he heard you weren't hospitable to a friend.
00:39:31 - I don't consider you a friend, Mr. Kramer.
00:39:35 - Unkind, definitely unkind.
00:39:37 Just want a little old cup of coffee.
00:39:39 - Okay.
00:39:45 - Okay.
00:39:47 - Why'd you say that?
00:39:55 - Say what?
00:39:57 - That I wasn't a friend.
00:40:01 - I don't know. Look, I...
00:40:03 I'm tired, it's hot, I... I told you.
00:40:06 - The way you act, you're not afraid of me, are you?
00:40:09 - No.
00:40:12 - Don't have to bite my head off.
00:40:14 How do you stand it, anyway?
00:40:22 - I don't know what you're talking about.
00:40:24 - Well, you know, this town.
00:40:26 I should think you'd get awfully lonely,
00:40:28 especially with Sam leaving you half the time.
00:40:31 - I stand it just fine, Mr. Kramer.
00:40:37 - You were born with that chip on your shoulder, didn't somebody put it there?
00:40:42 Look, if you don't like my personality, you don't have to subject yourself to it.
00:40:46 What are you after, anyway?
00:40:48 - A cup of coffee.
00:40:50 - Afterwards, you'll have to go.
00:40:56 - Thank you.
00:40:58 - Oh, thank you.
00:41:24 - Mr. Kramer, I didn't know you were a...
00:41:27 religious man.
00:41:28 - You have to admit, it's dramatic.
00:41:30 - So is a lynching.
00:41:32 - That's old-fashioned.
00:41:35 - Otherwise, you wouldn't mind?
00:41:37 - Mrs. Griffin, that's a terrible thing to say.
00:41:40 These people like me.
00:41:43 I'm here to save lives, not to take them.
00:41:46 - I'm the Empress of China.
00:41:49 - I'm the Empress of China.
00:41:51 - I know what you're doing here, but...
00:41:58 why?
00:41:59 - Who can say? Great times call forth great men.
00:42:02 - You're a great man?
00:42:07 - Not yet.
00:42:09 - You don't want to talk politics, do you?
00:42:17 - I told you all you need to know about me.
00:42:19 You despise me, but you're attracted to me, isn't that right?
00:42:24 Isn't it?
00:42:27 Isn't it?
00:42:29 If you don't mind, I'm going to take off my coat.
00:42:33 It's getting awfully hot in here.
00:42:35 Aren't you hot?
00:42:39 I hope you know these bulbs are giving off a lot of heat.
00:42:45 Look at the difference.
00:42:47 See?
00:42:50 We're down five degrees, I'll bet.
00:42:54 You're not very comfortable, are you?
00:43:00 It does get lonely for you, doesn't it, Fyne?
00:43:06 - I know it does. I feel that way myself a lot of the time.
00:43:12 I feel crazy sometimes because there isn't anybody who feels things the way I do.
00:43:15 I think how wonderful it would be to meet a person like that and be with that person.
00:43:24 Not for long.
00:43:27 Just a little while.
00:43:30 Just a little while.
00:43:31 - I don't know.
00:43:33 Adam, please.
00:43:34 - Please. Please, please, what?
00:43:36 You want me to leave? You want me to leave?
00:43:38 - Adam!
00:43:39 - You want me to leave?
00:43:41 You want it. You know you want it.
00:43:43 Well, that settles it.
00:43:57 We're taking Ella out of school tomorrow.
00:44:01 We're doing nothing of the kind.
00:44:04 Well, Tom, what's got into you?
00:44:07 I don't know what you're thinking anymore.
00:44:10 I'm not sure I do.
00:44:12 Ruth, tell me something.
00:44:14 How do you feel about this question?
00:44:16 Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean.
00:44:20 About integration.
00:44:22 Well, I think it's a terrible thing.
00:44:25 Why?
00:44:27 Why?
00:44:28 Because it just isn't right, that's why.
00:44:32 Tom, are you in favor of it?
00:44:39 Yes.
00:44:41 - Well, why didn't you... - Because I didn't know.
00:44:44 I don't think I knew really till now.
00:44:47 One thing Adam Kramer's done for us,
00:44:51 he's made us face ourselves.
00:44:53 Well, what are you gonna do?
00:44:55 I don't know.
00:44:57 I'm not sure.
00:45:03 I'm not sure of anything.
00:45:05 Except this is right.
00:45:07 And we've got to face up to it.
00:45:10 Come on, come on.
00:45:22 Yeah.
00:45:24 Come on, come on.
00:45:25 Yeah.
00:45:27 (Glass shattering)
00:45:29 (Groaning)
00:45:54 (Groaning)
00:45:56 What'd you pull him in for, Rudy?
00:46:05 He's smarty-off, hasn't been daring to take him to jail.
00:46:08 Yeah, but you know he didn't have anything to do with that bombing.
00:46:12 Maybe you know.
00:46:13 I don't.
00:46:15 How are you, Vern?
00:46:21 I might as well tell you right off the bat I don't cotton to any of this.
00:46:24 I strung along with you because I figured you were smart,
00:46:26 but smart people don't end up here.
00:46:28 I'm not ending up here, Vern.
00:46:30 This is just the beginning.
00:46:32 Never underestimate the value of a jail sentence.
00:46:36 Remember Socrates, Lenin, Hitler.
00:46:40 The bail is $10,000.
00:46:43 What if I don't put up the money?
00:46:45 Forget it, Vern. I don't want your money yet.
00:46:49 Haven't I told you that?
00:46:51 Where are you going to get it?
00:46:54 (Applause)
00:47:10 Thank you, thank you very much.
00:47:13 I want to thank the Reverend Neeson, Mr. Carey, Mr. Dongen for what they've done for me.
00:47:18 Our friend Vern Shipman offered to get me out of jail.
00:47:21 I told him no.
00:47:23 I told him, "Looky here, the people will see to it."
00:47:28 (Applause)
00:47:30 Now listen, he's a good man, but he didn't believe me.
00:47:36 I want you to know I'm mighty glad to show him I was right.
00:47:41 He knows for sure now the people of Caxton won't stand still for no injustice.
00:47:46 (Applause)
00:47:48 What the sheriff thought was that I was responsible for the dynamite and up in the badlands.
00:47:57 Why, I couldn't hardly believe he was serious.
00:47:59 I said to him, "Sheriff, I said whoever planted that bomb, it wasn't nobody in the Patrick Henry Society.
00:48:07 We got brains enough to know that killing a nigger preacher and blowing up a church can do us nothing but harm.
00:48:14 Throwing a scare into the niggers is good, but we got to be very, very careful.
00:48:21 Right?"
00:48:22 "Yeah, that's right."
00:48:23 Now I ain't condemning anybody.
00:48:26 Whoever planted that bomb was doing what he thought was right.
00:48:31 But he was wrong.
00:48:35 I hope you all see that now and go on acting according to the orders of the society.
00:48:41 Well, I don't know anything about that, but I know one thing.
00:48:45 Ain't going to be one solitary nigger going to have enough guts to step into our school now.
00:48:50 It's all over.
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00:49:17 Hello, Adam.
00:49:19 Sam, how are things?
00:49:22 Okay, I guess.
00:49:24 Good.
00:49:25 How did you do in Farragut?
00:49:28 Sell many, what is it, pens?
00:49:31 Well, I'm glad to hear it.
00:49:34 Is there something you want to see me about, Sam?
00:49:37 I'll tell you what, I'm kind of pooped.
00:49:39 Look, Adam, I know this ain't none of your business and I got no right bothering you with it,
00:49:42 but I got to talk to somebody. I just got to. I'll go crazy if I don't.
00:49:45 What is it, Sam? What's the matter?
00:49:47 She's gone.
00:49:48 Who?
00:49:49 Vi, she's gone. Let me run out.
00:49:52 What happened?
00:49:53 I don't know. I got back from Farragut about two o'clock.
00:49:57 I didn't have a present for her.
00:49:59 I got up to the room, she was gone.
00:50:01 Just a note saying she'd love me but was no good for me. I should forget her.
00:50:05 Oh, I'm really very, very sorry.
00:50:08 Do you have any idea why she'd do a thing like that?
00:50:11 Yeah, I think maybe I can guess part of the reason.
00:50:14 Oh.
00:50:15 I never told anyone this, but...
00:50:17 I consider you a friend, Adam.
00:50:20 Before I met Vi, she...
00:50:22 Well, she knew a lot of men. It was like a disease with her.
00:50:25 Doctors got a name for it, but they can't cure it alone.
00:50:28 When I met Vi, I fell in love with her. I knew she was a good woman.
00:50:31 I thought maybe I could help her.
00:50:33 Five years we've been happy.
00:50:35 Now this.
00:50:37 I figure she got in some trouble.
00:50:40 What sort of trouble?
00:50:41 Man trouble.
00:50:43 Maybe some fella come along, caught her a weak moment, she...
00:50:47 What do you think, Adam? You think that could be it?
00:50:50 Well, it's possible, I guess, but I...
00:50:53 I just can't bring myself to believe it.
00:50:55 If Mrs. Griffin, she doesn't seem the type, you know what I mean?
00:50:57 It was a man.
00:50:59 But who?
00:51:00 You!
00:51:02 Oh, son.
00:51:07 Don't bother thinking up a lot of lies. I know what happened.
00:51:09 This is an old hotel. The walls are thin. Mrs. Lambert heard you.
00:51:12 I wasn't going to deny it, Sam.
00:51:16 The reason I didn't tell you before was...
00:51:19 was because I didn't want to hurt you any more than you've been hurt already. Really, honest. That's the truth.
00:51:24 Blame me if you want to, but... Sam, I'm going to level with you.
00:51:28 It was a lot my fault. Now, sure, I won't pretend that it wasn't.
00:51:30 I went to your room just to say goodnight.
00:51:33 And we were talking, you know, just talking.
00:51:35 And I don't know, suddenly everything started to go wrong.
00:51:38 Can you understand?
00:51:40 I understand.
00:51:41 So I slept with her. Okay, I admit it.
00:51:44 But you've got to know this.
00:51:46 No matter how much you blame me...
00:51:48 and hate me and want to shoot me...
00:51:51 it wasn't all my fault.
00:51:53 And there's another thing.
00:51:55 Mrs. Griffin said I wasn't the first.
00:51:57 I mean, since you've been married, she's slept with plenty of others.
00:52:00 And she said she knew it didn't matter because you'd never catch on.
00:52:03 Sam, I'm forcing myself to tell you this. It's the truth.
00:52:06 Liar!
00:52:08 Sam, I'm telling the truth. I'm not lying.
00:52:11 Oh, you missed your calling, boy.
00:52:15 You'd have made a fine pitchman.
00:52:17 You knew just the right way to work on people's weak spots.
00:52:19 But you know something?
00:52:21 I'm going to find her and I'm going to get her back.
00:52:23 And when I do, we'll be closer than ever.
00:52:25 So in a way, you've really done us a big favor, friend.
00:52:29 Friend?
00:52:31 You know something?
00:52:40 We're in the same line, you and me.
00:52:42 We're both selling something.
00:52:44 But I've been at it longer. I can see where you're making mistakes.
00:52:47 And right now, those mistakes are beginning to pile up on you.
00:52:50 And a little while ago, they're going to smother you.
00:52:52 Get out of here.
00:52:54 I've been studying your pitch. It's not bad. You've got technique.
00:52:57 But you know what's wrong?
00:52:59 You're too clever, Adam. You've got no room in your head for intelligence.
00:53:03 Because if you were intelligent, you'd be able to see that you started something you can't control.
00:53:07 You think you're the boss now?
00:53:09 Wake up, boy. That mob's the boss.
00:53:11 What do you know, you big boob?
00:53:14 Did you tell them to blow up the church?
00:53:17 I'm sick of listening to your rave.
00:53:35 Now get out of here before I pull a trigger.
00:53:38 Oh, people are wonderful.
00:53:41 You couldn't pull that trigger if your life depended on it.
00:53:45 Because deep down inside, you're gutless, Adam. You know you're gutless.
00:53:49 That's why you're doing this, to prove to yourself that you're not.
00:53:54 I'll give you five.
00:53:56 If you're not out of here by then, I'll pull the trigger.
00:54:00 One.
00:54:02 Two.
00:54:06 Three.
00:54:11 Four.
00:54:14 Five.
00:54:16 See what I mean, boy?
00:54:21 Of course, you never want to be too sure of anything, either.
00:54:24 Rule of the trade.
00:54:31 Get away from me.
00:54:37 Get away from me.
00:54:39 No, boy. I don't think I'll do that.
00:54:42 I think I'll stick around for a while.
00:54:44 You won't see me likely, but I'll be here.
00:54:46 I always did like fireworks.
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00:55:19 Miss Green?
00:55:20 That's right.
00:55:21 My name is McDaniel.
00:55:23 I think we've met once. I'm the editor of the newspaper.
00:55:25 You come here to vote, mister.
00:55:27 Tell them back in town. Put it in the paper.
00:55:29 Let's niggas give up. You won't have to kill any more of us.
00:55:31 Bob!
00:55:32 Mister Green, I know you have no reason to trust me, and I have no right to expect you to.
00:55:37 But I'm on your side.
00:55:38 Yeah.
00:55:39 Please.
00:55:40 Please believe me.
00:55:42 I understand how you feel.
00:55:44 I know it's hard.
00:55:45 And I can't promise you that nobody else will get hurt.
00:55:48 Maybe they will. I don't know.
00:55:50 But you mustn't give up now.
00:55:52 Your boy here and the other children have got to go to school this morning.
00:55:55 It means everything.
00:55:56 That's easy to say, but what have you got to lose right now?
00:55:59 My job.
00:56:01 My home.
00:56:02 Maybe my family.
00:56:04 Is that enough for you?
00:56:06 Joy, don't try to stop me. Pop, you know he's right, and so do I.
00:56:12 We can't give up now.
00:56:14 We'd better hurry.
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00:57:12 This will be okay. Thank you very much.
00:57:15 Come on.
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00:57:40 McDaniel. Yes?
00:57:42 You got anything to say? About what?
00:57:44 You know what. We've seen you, McDaniel, and we want an explanation.
00:57:48 Now we're waiting.
00:57:50 Please, get out of my way.
00:57:52 Hold it!
00:57:55 What do you want? Like the man said, an explanation.
00:57:59 Yeah, you tell us, McDaniel.
00:58:00 How come you walked that bunch of black niggers to our white school?
00:58:03 I don't see anything I do as any business of yours.
00:58:06 We figured you was against all this.
00:58:08 When we seen you taking them jigs to school, we got kind of a surprise, see?
00:58:12 That's why we figured you ought to do some talking.
00:58:14 Yeah, what do you got to say for yourself now?
00:58:17 Which one of them niggers paid you off?
00:58:19 It ain't polite not to answer a civil question.
00:58:23 Ebner here wants to know who paid you to betray your people.
00:58:26 Yeah, let's teach him a lesson now.
00:58:29 Why don't you get 15 or 20 more people, Carrie?
00:58:37 Then you'll feel really safe.
00:58:39 Teach him, Bart!
00:58:40 You shut your mouth, nigger lover.
00:58:41 You're awful good with the questions. How are you with the answers?
00:58:44 Where were you when that preacher was killed, Carrie?
00:58:46 Shut up, or you're gonna get the same thing.
00:58:47 Where were you?
00:58:49 I'll show you.
00:58:50 Teach him!
00:58:52 How does it feel?
00:58:54 Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!
00:59:06 I'm sorry, honey.
00:59:14 I guess I just wasn't cut out to be a hero.
00:59:21 Am I gonna lose the eye?
00:59:24 No, don't go get them yet.
00:59:30 I want to know.
00:59:33 You've already lost it, Tom.
00:59:40 They did a pretty good job, didn't they?
00:59:48 Father!
00:59:51 Father!
00:59:55 I'm all right. It's all right.
00:59:59 You better go home, honey. It's late.
01:00:03 We mustn't upset your father.
01:00:08 He's gonna be all right.
01:00:11 I'll be long in a little while.
01:00:16 I'll be home soon.
01:00:19 I'm sorry, honey.
01:00:26 Don't be.
01:00:28 I'm not.
01:00:30 Not in the least.
01:00:33 It's the best thing you've ever done, and I'm proud of you.
01:00:38 I wish I could tell you that I know why you did what you did...
01:00:43 but I can't lie to you, Tom.
01:00:47 I don't believe in integration.
01:00:52 But I believe in you.
01:00:55 And if this means so much to you, that you're willing to risk everything,
01:01:00 even your own life for it, then I know it must be right.
01:01:05 So I'm gonna try to understand.
01:01:08 I'm gonna try very hard, darling.
01:01:12 I only ask you to give me a little time.
01:01:16 I love you, honey.
01:01:19 Tell me it's not too late for us.
01:01:23 It isn't.
01:01:25 It never is.
01:01:28 Wait. Maybe you'd better get the doctor now.
01:01:40 Well, see, you know, that kind of injury, it always slows the place down.
01:01:45 Well, how is he?
01:01:47 I think I'm just about to...
01:01:49 Haven't you gone deaf to ask you a question?
01:01:52 Well?
01:01:54 He has four broken ribs and...
01:01:57 And what?
01:01:59 Internal injuries and he lost his eye.
01:02:02 He was lucky.
01:02:04 Lucky?
01:02:05 Yes, and my day to strangle a man up for doing what he done.
01:02:08 He might have been on the end of the rope, too.
01:02:10 What's the matter with him anyhow?
01:02:12 How am I gonna face my friends?
01:02:14 I've never been so embarrassed in my life.
01:02:16 Oh, shut your filthy, stinky mouth!
01:02:20 If you're interested in saving your father's life, you'd better listen and listen carefully.
01:02:33 I'm gonna have to say some things I don't want to say.
01:02:38 The men who beat up Mr. McDaniel this morning are desperate.
01:02:42 You understand? Desperate.
01:02:44 You saw what they did. Now, the reason for that...
01:02:46 No, it's not a name.
01:02:49 Never mind the reason.
01:02:52 Just understand this. They'll kill your father if we don't do something.
01:02:56 They'll go right into that hospital.
01:02:58 And there'll be so many of them.
01:03:00 The sheriff won't know what to do. They'll blow his head off.
01:03:06 So listen carefully.
01:03:08 If you want to save your father's life, this is what you're gonna have to do.
01:03:17 Man, the world is shaking today.
01:03:24 She wants us to study frogs, man. I don't know.
01:03:26 Oh, you're just afraid to touch them, that's all.
01:03:33 I don't know about you, but I can't tell them apart.
01:03:37 Get out.
01:03:39 Excuse me. Are you Joy Green?
01:03:51 That's right.
01:03:53 Well, I'm Ella McDaniel, Tom McDaniel's daughter.
01:03:57 Oh, I heard about what happened yesterday. I hope he's better. Is he?
01:04:03 Yes, he's a lot better.
01:04:05 I wish you'd thank him for us, miss. He did a real fine thing.
01:04:09 He's a fine man.
01:04:11 I know.
01:04:13 Well, better get going. The bell's about to ring.
01:04:17 Oh, wait a second, I...
01:04:20 I wonder if you'd do me a favor.
01:04:23 Sure, if I can.
01:04:25 Well, it isn't much.
01:04:27 Well, you see, I'm working down in the storage room, and I've got to get some things.
01:04:31 Well, I could use a little help.
01:04:33 Well, I'll have to ask Miss Hainoff. Wait right here.
01:04:35 Oh, I spoke to her. Oh, she doesn't mind. It'll just take a few minutes.
01:04:39 I just want you to kind of help me with some things.
01:04:42 Well, okay.
01:04:44 Well, come on.
01:04:46 Let's go.
01:04:51 Come on.
01:04:58 Wait here a second until I put the other light on.
01:05:01 Okay.
01:05:03 All right.
01:05:16 Over here.
01:05:23 Up here. It's these two buttons, not us.
01:05:26 Okay.
01:05:47 Miss McDaniel?
01:05:49 Miss McDaniel?
01:05:51 Miss McDaniel?
01:05:57 Yeah, that does it.
01:06:03 What's the matter, McJohn? Want to get hit for beating?
01:06:06 What happened?
01:06:10 What happened?
01:06:11 Sandy, we don't know what you're talking about. Tell us. What happened?
01:06:14 Nigger, tried to rape a white girl.
01:06:16 Nigger, you know the one they call Joe Green?
01:06:18 Happened 20 minutes ago.
01:06:20 You know her. The fellow who's in the hospital's daughter.
01:06:22 I knew it would happen.
01:06:24 Who is that fellow?
01:06:26 Principal's office. They got him locked up there.
01:06:28 Well, this is precisely what we've been afraid of.
01:06:31 Are we going to do something about it?
01:06:33 All right. Go and get everybody in the society you can find.
01:06:37 Right now.
01:06:38 Tell them to meet here as quickly as they can. Right now.
01:06:41 Tell them what happened at the school and they'll come.
01:06:44 They'll come.
01:06:46 They'll come.
01:06:48 Danny, you go on back. Round up as many kids as you can.
01:06:52 Buck ahead. Guarantee.
01:06:54 This better work.
01:06:59 It will.
01:07:00 Keep your mouth shut if you don't start thinking on your own anymore.
01:07:03 McDaniel's going to talk. I know it.
01:07:05 Probably so, after what you did to him, you idiot.
01:07:08 What are you going to do?
01:07:10 End this thing.
01:07:12 How?
01:07:13 This is the last question I want to hear from you.
01:07:16 From now on, I'll do all the thinking. Understood?
01:07:18 Understood?
01:07:19 Now, get out of here and get up some people fast.
01:07:22 Hello, Vern?
01:07:31 Adam.
01:07:33 I've got some news for you.
01:07:35 Tom Layala, tell us once again exactly what happened.
01:07:41 Now, I know it's hard for you to talk, but this is a very serious charge you've made.
01:07:45 We've got to get our facts straight.
01:07:47 You understand that, don't you?
01:07:49 Ella, please.
01:07:50 I told you.
01:07:52 Ella, why did you want those pads at that particular time?
01:07:56 Because we were out.
01:07:58 I understand that, but why didn't you have Miss Siegfried get one of the boys to do it for you?
01:08:01 I don't know.
01:08:03 I'd like to be excused now if you don't mind.
01:08:06 Very well, Miss Siegfried, you're excused.
01:08:09 Wait a minute.
01:08:11 Ella, is there any more you want to tell us?
01:08:17 All right, you can go.
01:08:20 I called your house, but your mother isn't there.
01:08:22 You want me to call her at the hospital?
01:08:24 Perhaps in that case, Miss Siegfried will drive you home.
01:08:28 I don't believe it. I don't believe any part of it. Do you?
01:08:37 I don't know what to think.
01:08:39 Could have been any other girl.
01:08:41 Say she was lying.
01:08:43 But Tom McDaniel's daughter?
01:08:45 Oh, I don't care whose daughter.
01:08:47 We both know Joey Green is too smart to do anything so stupid.
01:08:50 Ella is lying.
01:08:52 Well, it doesn't much matter now.
01:08:54 It's her story. Convince any jury.
01:08:56 Humble boy said he saw Green sneak down after her.
01:08:59 I'm afraid we're beaten.
01:09:02 Up on three, fast!
01:09:04 Hello, give me the sheriff. Right away.
01:09:14 Go get Joey Green.
01:09:17 Hello, Rudy. Rudy, this is Harley Pabst.
01:09:20 Now listen carefully.
01:09:21 I want you to get as many men together as you can to get over to the school right away.
01:09:24 We've got trouble with one of the students.
01:09:26 Yes, Rudy, one of the colored students. Hurry!
01:09:29 Rudy, we've got a mob outside!
01:09:31 Lock the door.
01:09:39 And don't be frightened. I just talked to Sheriff Parkhouse. He'll be here in a minute.
01:09:42 There's nothing to worry about.
01:09:44 I didn't do it, Mr. Patton.
01:09:46 I know you didn't, Joey.
01:09:48 Give us him, Patton!
01:09:50 What do you want?
01:09:54 You know what we want!
01:09:56 Yeah!
01:09:58 We want the nigger that raped the white guy in the school!
01:10:01 We know you can do it!
01:10:03 Come on!
01:10:05 We're paying justice!
01:10:07 Exactly five minutes. If that nigger ain't out here by then, we're coming in to get him.
01:10:16 Ain't that right?
01:10:26 Joey, how would you explain it?
01:10:28 I think somebody must have put her up to it.
01:10:31 It's the only thing I can think of.
01:10:33 Adam Kramer.
01:10:35 You're on our side, aren't you, Mr. Patton?
01:10:40 Yes, Joey, I am.
01:10:44 Only you figure we whip now.
01:10:46 One minute, Patton!
01:10:48 Remember, no violence.
01:10:51 We gave Sheriff Parkhouse our promise to bring him to jail. We're not a mob, we're a citizens' committee.
01:10:56 You tell him, Gary.
01:11:06 Remember, no violence.
01:11:13 There isn't any need for it.
01:11:15 Don't worry. They'll see what the cause is, see how we take care of it.
01:11:19 Come on, let's go get that nigger!
01:11:21 I wouldn't bother with that, Mr. Patton.
01:11:26 I think Sheriff Parkhouse is going to be a little late.
01:11:28 Joey, you come with me. My car's in the back. I'll drive you to Paragate.
01:11:31 No, that's what they want.
01:11:33 Joey.
01:11:36 Joey!
01:11:40 Joey!
01:11:41 I never wanted to be like this.
01:11:44 I never...
01:11:45 Did you people want to talk to me?
01:12:05 No.
01:12:06 You're Joseph Green?
01:12:12 That's right.
01:12:13 You admit you tried to rape one of our white girls today?
01:12:16 No, I don't.
01:12:19 What do you mean, "No, you don't"?
01:12:22 I mean I didn't try to rape anyone.
01:12:24 You're lying, nigger!
01:12:25 Now you be still.
01:12:27 We're going to listen to what this boy has to say for himself.
01:12:31 So, you claim you're innocent, is that right?
01:12:34 That's right.
01:12:36 Didn't anybody ever teach you to address a white man as "sir"?
01:12:40 Now let that be your first lesson.
01:12:46 You got blood on your mouth, boy.
01:12:50 Wipe it off.
01:12:51 What do you say?
01:12:54 Thank you.
01:12:57 Thank you what?
01:13:00 Thank you, sir.
01:13:01 Now I'm going to ask you just one more time, boy.
01:13:09 And I want you to think before you answer.
01:13:14 You think real hard.
01:13:17 Because if you tell us the truth, you got nothing to be afraid of.
01:13:21 But if you lie to us...
01:13:23 You're going to be in more trouble than you ever dreamed of.
01:13:29 Were you in that basement?
01:13:31 I was in the basement.
01:13:34 With a white girl?
01:13:36 Yes, sir.
01:13:38 I think we're going to take him to jail now.
01:13:42 Oh.
01:13:46 You were alone with a white girl in the basement of the school.
01:13:52 But you didn't tell us the truth.
01:13:54 You were alone with a white girl in the basement of the school.
01:13:59 But you didn't try to do anything.
01:14:02 Is that what you're saying?
01:14:04 Is that what you expect us to believe, nigger?
01:14:07 Well, spit it out!
01:14:08 Here comes the nigger, let me know.
01:14:14 There's the Palestine Indian.
01:14:16 Only a coward would hit a defenseless boy.
01:14:23 Yes, that's exactly what I'm calling you.
01:14:25 You're a miserable, yellow coward, Mr. Shipman.
01:14:28 Just like every cheap bully in the world.
01:14:30 And that goes for you too, Mr. Adam Kramer.
01:14:33 For every one of you here.
01:14:35 Now, do I make myself perfectly clear?
01:14:37 Remain in my office until the Farragut police arrive.
01:14:46 If you want to avoid a jail sentence, I would advise all of you people to leave at once.
01:14:50 You admit it?
01:14:57 That's too bad, you give us no choice.
01:15:01 Hey, what do you think you're doing, nigger?
01:15:08 Later on, maybe you'll change.
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01:15:14 Nigger, man!
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01:16:26 Wow!
01:16:28 Hold on there a minute.
01:16:34 Hello, Adam.
01:16:40 Ella.
01:16:43 Like I said, you never want to be too sure of anything.
01:16:46 Who are you?
01:16:47 The name is Griffin, Sam Griffin.
01:16:49 Well, what do you want?
01:16:50 Nothing, no.
01:16:52 Then move aside.
01:16:55 We got important business to attend to.
01:16:58 What kind of business, Mr. Shipman?
01:17:00 You folks aiming to do something to this boy?
01:17:02 Look, Griffin, I don't know who you think you are, and I don't know why you brought this girl here.
01:17:06 Because if you do, I think maybe there's something you ought to hear.
01:17:08 It just might affect this business you're on.
01:17:11 Tell him, Miss McDaniel.
01:17:12 Tell him what you told me.
01:17:15 It was a lie.
01:17:16 What's that? What are you talking about?
01:17:18 It was a lie.
01:17:20 Everything.
01:17:21 Everything I said about Joey.
01:17:23 All of it.
01:17:25 What the devil do you mean?
01:17:26 She means her father told her to cover up for the nigger, that's what she's doing.
01:17:29 Hell, yes, that's it.
01:17:30 We're wasting time.
01:17:32 Girl, you listen here to me.
01:17:35 Why would a girl go ahead and tell a story like that if it wasn't the truth?
01:17:38 The fact is she was put up to it by our friend, Mr. Kramer, here.
01:17:41 Ain't that right, Adam?
01:17:42 And this guy is crazy.
01:17:43 Shut up!
01:17:44 You go on.
01:17:45 Your boy was getting desperate, Mr. Shipman.
01:17:47 He was on the verge of losing everything he'd built up.
01:17:49 So he threatened the girl.
01:17:51 Told her he'd kill her father.
01:17:52 Vern, don't listen to him.
01:17:53 This man is crazy, I tell you.
01:17:55 Is that right, girl?
01:17:57 He promised me there wouldn't be any trouble.
01:17:59 He said nothing would happen to the boy except he might be expelled.
01:18:04 I'm sorry.
01:18:06 I'm so sorry.
01:18:07 I didn't mean for this to happen.
01:18:10 All right, you go on back to the car.
01:18:11 I'll be all right.
01:18:17 Ella.
01:18:23 Hold up.
01:18:51 Right now, you good people are probably telling yourselves you were going to take this boy down to jail and see a little justice done.
01:18:59 But that ain't the truth.
01:19:00 You were going to kill this boy.
01:19:02 You know it and I know it.
01:19:03 You know it all the rest of your lives.
01:19:08 And you.
01:19:10 You're thinking everything would have been just fine if you and me hadn't had our little personal difficulties.
01:19:14 That ain't the truth either.
01:19:15 You began losing your grip on these people the second you got it.
01:19:18 Because nobody, nobody can have the kind of power you thought you had, Mr. Kramer.
01:19:23 Lies.
01:19:27 Lies!
01:19:29 I swear to God this man's lying to you!
01:19:42 Are you all crazy?
01:19:48 Tell them the truth.
01:19:49 Come on, tell them the truth.
01:19:51 What about your Jew wife?
01:19:52 Maybe they'd like to hear about that, eh?
01:19:56 Tell them about the nigger woman you kissed in the mouth.
01:19:58 You did?
01:19:59 I got proof.
01:20:00 Proof, you hear me?
01:20:01 You hear what I'm saying?
01:20:08 Griffin, you don't think for a minute you're fooling these people, do you?
01:20:12 Because if you do, you're wrong.
01:20:13 They're too smart for you and your filth.
01:20:16 Believe me, I know them.
01:20:17 I know they're too smart.
01:20:18 They're with me, Griffin.
01:20:21 They're with me, Griffin!
01:20:22 With me!
01:20:25 They'll laugh at you because you're nothing.
01:20:27 Nothing!
01:20:33 Folks, they think they've got us scared.
01:20:36 But they haven't.
01:20:37 We aren't going to give up now.
01:20:39 Not now.
01:20:41 No sir, not ever.
01:20:43 You hear that, Griffin?
01:20:45 Patton, you hear what I'm saying?
01:20:49 You hear what I'm saying?
01:20:52 Vern, you talk to them.
01:20:54 They'll listen to you, Vern.
01:20:57 Say, Vern, a meeting tonight at the Palace Cafe, 7.30.
01:21:03 Patton, you and your nigger better listen to this.
01:21:08 We're going to show you you can't stop justice and right no matter what you do.
01:21:12 This is just the beginning.
01:21:14 Only the beginning!
01:21:16 Adam Kramer.
01:21:20 Oh!
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01:21:53 Boy, you're going to get grass stains all over those trousers you don't get up.
01:22:01 Come on.
01:22:04 That's better.
01:22:07 I figure your work in this town is about over.
01:22:09 If you hurry, you can catch the bus to Farragut.
01:22:11 They've got trains there.
01:22:12 If you had a little light on traveling money, I'd be proud to...
01:22:15 You're sure now?
01:22:19 Oh, I almost forgot.
01:22:24 These belong to you.
01:22:28 I wouldn't want a steal from you, boy.
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