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00:00:00 [Music]
00:00:16 Me and Blue Boy was waiters before we come to El Dorado.
00:00:19 Traveling waiters.
00:00:21 We waited on tables all over Dixie.
00:00:23 We waited on so many tables that every night my neck used to ache from all that bowing.
00:00:28 Yassir this and yassir that and thank you sir and thank you ma'am.
00:00:32 My head was like a yo-yo.
00:00:34 But we wasn't no ordinary nigger waiters.
00:00:37 We had plans.
00:00:39 Blue Boy had his heart set on making us numbers kings.
00:00:42 That's what we come to El Dorado for.
00:00:44 To set up a numbers bank.
00:00:46 The numbers bank was Blue Boy's idea.
00:00:49 'Cause what I know about numbers wouldn't have half filled a gnat's brain.
00:00:53 Right now I'm sorry I ever come here.
00:00:56 [Music]
00:00:58 I walk with the Lord every step of the way.
00:01:06 And we walk hand in hand to his kingdom.
00:01:13 My trust in him has kept me strong.
00:01:21 Through troubled years he loved me.
00:01:28 Yes I know the good times come and go.
00:01:36 Jesus seems to understand them all.
00:01:42 And when my time on earth is done.
00:01:51 To him I give my soul.
00:01:59 I see the Lord and he's touching me.
00:02:08 I feel him calling softly.
00:02:15 Goodbye, goodbye to earthly woe.
00:02:23 He's come to take me home.
00:02:30 Yes I know the good times come and go.
00:02:38 Jesus seems to understand them all.
00:02:46 And when my time on earth is done.
00:02:53 To him I give my soul.
00:03:01 [Music]
00:03:16 Blue Boy, Blue Boy, how's your luck?
00:03:20 Good enough to make a buck.
00:03:24 And a big buck can bring us more.
00:03:28 Keeps you from locking on the white man's door.
00:03:33 Blue Boy, I say Blue Boy.
00:03:37 Blue Boy, I say Blue Boy.
00:03:42 Me and Blue Boy commenced to save in every penny we could rake and scrape.
00:03:46 And for too long we had saved a thousand dollars.
00:03:50 One thousand smackaroos.
00:03:52 Shit, we was nigger rich.
00:03:55 The minute we had laid away a thousand, we was on the bus to El Dorado.
00:04:00 I don't know how Blue Boy could sleep.
00:04:02 I was so scared I was shaking worse than a dog shitting on a peach seed.
00:04:11 Blue kept making me nervous, saying how he was going to tell the folks in El Dorado that I was some big time New York numbers man.
00:04:18 I'd never even seen a picture of New York, much less set foot in it.
00:04:22 I asked Blue if those people couldn't tell just by looking at me that I wasn't from New York.
00:04:28 Blue said, "Can a fat hog sit on a flagpole on a rainy day and see his ass reflected in a mud puddle?"
00:04:36 Blue had this funny kind of way of talking.
00:04:39 But I still wasn't set on telling folks I was from New York.
00:04:49 Scared as I was, I was still glad to stop being a waiter.
00:04:53 I took my waiter's jacket and throwed it out the window as far as I could throw it.
00:04:57 The jacket's probably still flying now.
00:05:01 Blue Boy, I say Blue Boy. Blue Boy, I say Blue Boy.
00:05:09 Blue Boy, Blue Boy, show his line.
00:05:13 Number 10, they get you high.
00:05:17 But a bit now the folks should show.
00:05:21 The M.O.U. has got to go.
00:05:26 Blue Boy, what you say? Blue Boy, I say.
00:05:32 Sister, here come the bus.
00:05:34 Sister Carter, I hope I can get me a youngster that don't drink and don't smoke.
00:05:38 Well, I suppose near done.
00:05:40 If I just want a young one, then help me pay my bills.
00:05:42 Or this cracker won't take my paper shag.
00:05:45 El Dorado looked like the promised land when I first seated.
00:05:48 Blue Boy had his own little welcoming party at the bus station.
00:05:52 And like me, I had two old sisters looking for a boy.
00:05:57 Blue Boy, oh Blue Boy.
00:06:00 Hey, hey, hey.
00:06:03 Oh, Blue Boy.
00:06:06 Blue Boy.
00:06:08 Child, I got your message, but I didn't think you would come in.
00:06:11 Well, now, honey, you know I ain't strong enough to stay with the finest pair of legs on earth.
00:06:15 Oh, you know I'm getting fat.
00:06:17 Oh, girl, now you shut that nonsense up.
00:06:19 Every one of your curves is winking at me right now.
00:06:22 And if they don't stop, I'm going to do something terrible, nice to them.
00:06:27 You ain't changed a bit, have you?
00:06:29 That's right, that's right.
00:06:30 Blue!
00:06:32 Let me go get this crazy boy.
00:06:33 Okay.
00:06:34 [Indistinct chatter]
00:06:37 Come on, baby.
00:06:38 You got to put this to the head.
00:06:39 Wait there.
00:06:40 Little man can't go to the bus station.
00:06:42 We miss that.
00:06:44 [Indistinct chatter]
00:06:46 Taxi.
00:06:47 Oh, Blue, what about the trunks?
00:06:49 Oh, I'll make these, pick them up.
00:06:50 Don't worry about it.
00:06:51 Now, Pigmeat, this is Dave Green, my protege and partner.
00:06:55 A number's mad from the yard.
00:06:58 My pleasure, Mr. Green.
00:06:59 Mine, too, Miss Pigmeat.
00:07:02 Oh, boy, get in there.
00:07:04 [Indistinct chatter]
00:07:07 [Music]
00:07:15 Oh, Lord have mercy, Pigmeat.
00:07:18 How's the hair-prying business?
00:07:19 Same.
00:07:20 No matter what, folks will always get their hair done.
00:07:23 Where to, sir?
00:07:24 The one place we had them.
00:07:26 Bookers on Vestige Creek.
00:07:27 That's where we shall be.
00:07:29 See who'll play.
00:07:30 Blue Boy told Pigmeat how we was going to set up a numbers bank.
00:07:34 While they was talking, I was looking.
00:07:37 To me, behind every door was somebody just rearing to play the numbers.
00:07:42 Pigmeat said that there were 30,000 spooks in El Dorado.
00:07:46 I was just counting that money, for we was even in El Dorado five minutes.
00:07:50 [Music]
00:08:19 [Music]
00:08:38 I know your plan this meal, you know that?
00:08:40 They think you can't cook pretty, Huey.
00:08:43 No, I can't cook that. I don't want anybody to know.
00:08:45 [Groaning]
00:08:50 You got this whole thing figured out, don't you?
00:08:52 Honey, we've been planning and saving together for the last three years.
00:08:56 Daddy, piss folks out to Blue Boy.
00:08:58 Yeah, get him on down.
00:08:59 You know we've been waiting on tables everywhere the horse and the springs is.
00:09:02 Springs?
00:09:03 Hey, what springs got to do with it?
00:09:05 Oh, man.
00:09:06 Hot water springs, cold water springs, sulfur springs, piss water springs.
00:09:11 [Laughter]
00:09:13 Man, wherever there's a springs, wherever there's a racetrack,
00:09:17 you're always going to find some rich white folks.
00:09:19 That's right.
00:09:20 You know, Blue Boy, you ain't never right.
00:09:22 'Cause them white folks are scared of dying.
00:09:24 If they hear about some kind of mysterious water somewhere,
00:09:27 they're going to be there trying to lap it up for us niggas.
00:09:29 Can you get that and get some of it?
00:09:31 [Laughter]
00:09:34 George!
00:09:35 George!
00:09:36 [Screaming]
00:09:38 No more!
00:09:39 George!
00:09:40 Look at him.
00:09:41 Ain't he pretty?
00:09:42 Oh, Blue Boy, you look so good.
00:09:44 I just--
00:09:45 [Screaming]
00:09:46 Oh, Blue Boy.
00:09:47 Wait a minute.
00:09:49 What you got here?
00:09:52 Three of the best.
00:09:54 All right.
00:09:55 Now, you all go on upstairs.
00:09:56 Yeah, you all go right on upstairs.
00:09:58 Ah, ah, ah.
00:09:59 Oh, ah, ah.
00:10:00 [Laughter]
00:10:01 Come on, Booker, can I have some of this chicken?
00:10:03 Come on, George, sit down there.
00:10:04 Sit down there.
00:10:05 Sit down there.
00:10:07 Yes, sir.
00:10:08 You're looking mighty fine, Mama.
00:10:10 Blue Boy, you sure look good.
00:10:13 I want to talk to you sometime.
00:10:15 About what?
00:10:16 The operation?
00:10:18 Yeah.
00:10:19 I want to show you my scarf.
00:10:21 [Laughter]
00:10:24 All right.
00:10:25 And where's the nearest numbers bank from here?
00:10:27 Gaines got one over in J.C.
00:10:29 Now, that's about 25 miles, you mean?
00:10:31 Yes, that's right.
00:10:32 But Gaines has been talking about moving his number bank right here.
00:10:36 Oh, now, Gaines has been talking about that for a long time.
00:10:39 You remember Mr. Booker?
00:10:40 Yeah.
00:10:41 Even for the first time I come here.
00:10:42 Yeah, well, has he done anything about it?
00:10:44 Not a damn thing.
00:10:45 Ever fish got fleas?
00:10:47 [Laughter]
00:10:49 Well, whoever gets here first gets the bacon.
00:10:52 That's what I would say.
00:10:53 Oh, that old fat nigger's gonna scream.
00:10:55 Yeah, but what about Antone?
00:10:57 Ant what?
00:10:58 Antone.
00:10:59 Yeah, well, who's he?
00:11:00 Cracker boss of the white man's organization.
00:11:02 Yeah, well, has he got a greasy palm?
00:11:04 Greasy?
00:11:05 Why isn't that cracker so greasy if you give him a little, he gonna want it all?
00:11:09 Well, then, now, the first rule of our organization is that the peck of woods get nothing.
00:11:32 That was some scar.
00:11:35 [Laughter]
00:11:44 Come on, we gotta go meet Blue Boy at the shop.
00:11:46 We?
00:11:47 Yeah.
00:11:48 I ain't got nothing to do but lay here and try to poop myself together.
00:11:50 Look, not if you're working for me and Blue Boy, you know.
00:11:53 You know anything about the numbers?
00:11:56 No, but I'm willing to learn.
00:12:00 [Laughter]
00:12:05 I bet you are.
00:12:06 How you feeling this morning?
00:12:07 I'm feeling fine.
00:12:08 How about you?
00:12:09 Not so good.
00:12:10 I've been doing some thinking.
00:12:11 I mean, Blue, you gonna mess up sure as hell.
00:12:15 How am I gonna make them think that I'm some big numbers banker from New York,
00:12:19 when I ain't never been no further north than Nashville?
00:12:21 Now, Dave, I told you to stop worrying.
00:12:23 Ain't none of them been there either.
00:12:25 I will tell you one thing, they're gonna take a shot at you,
00:12:27 knowing that you a number man from the Big Apple.
00:12:30 As long as you don't act like you know everything.
00:12:33 Let me tell you something, son.
00:12:34 There's one thing that our Yorker likes best, and that's helping us sit and stick.
00:12:39 Yeah, but--
00:12:40 Hold it.
00:12:44 No, but just keep walking.
00:12:51 Keep walking.
00:12:53 Now hold it right here.
00:12:55 Now don't turn around.
00:12:59 Now take a look, I think we got a little company.
00:13:03 You mean them?
00:13:04 See what I mean?
00:13:05 Come on.
00:13:08 I wonder why they following us.
00:13:10 As soon as we get to this window, why don't we stop and find out?
00:13:19 Now when I say get, you get.
00:13:22 Ready?
00:13:23 Yeah.
00:13:24 Go.
00:13:32 Hey, what the hell y'all following us for?
00:13:34 Talk fast, 'cause we ain't playing.
00:13:36 No, we don't mean you no harm.
00:13:38 We knowed you two the first time we spotted you.
00:13:40 Don't nothing go on in this town we don't hear about.
00:13:43 Especially the arrival of big time bankers.
00:13:46 Boy, your name Flack or something like that, it's Flick, blue boy.
00:13:50 Davy, this here is Kid Flick.
00:13:52 I don't know the rest of your friends.
00:13:54 Why, this here?
00:13:55 This here is Blip Blip, and this here is Billy Bolegs.
00:13:57 Y'all don't mind if we walk with you if it's all right.
00:14:00 We don't mean you no trouble.
00:14:02 I tell you what, we ain't doing nothing, we just jiving around.
00:14:05 Why don't you all come out over to the wagon and have a little of that cool watermelon with us.
00:14:09 All right, Spodeone.
00:14:13 All right, half a burger sure looks good.
00:14:18 Now, what have you boys been up to?
00:14:21 Nothing happening, things just the same as always were.
00:14:24 But you sure looking fine.
00:14:27 I bet you all been traveling.
00:14:29 Oh, yeah, that's true.
00:14:30 Been working and saving.
00:14:32 As a matter of fact, that's where I met Davy, waiting table.
00:14:36 That's when we decided to go into the banking business together, right here in Arkansas.
00:14:40 Yeah, we're going to open up a numbers bank right here in the ward.
00:14:44 So what else is new?
00:14:46 That's what I tell you.
00:14:47 Hey, well, you boys want a job?
00:14:49 Yeah, we got one.
00:14:51 You're going to truth well out.
00:14:53 We set up business in the back of Fig Meats Beauty Parlor.
00:14:57 Scratch started coming in from everywhere.
00:15:00 And when them folks found they could win themselves 600 to 1, no matter how much they bet, they started betting.
00:15:08 And we was doing so good, we even had a mascot.
00:15:12 His name was Junebug.
00:15:14 He just hung around.
00:15:15 Said he wanted to learn something about the business.
00:15:17 Now, ain't that a bitch?
00:15:19 He had a little side business, selling ice water to them women getting their hair hot cold.
00:15:24 Now, who would have thought you could sell water?
00:15:27 While Junebug was selling ice water and sandwiches, me and Blue was explaining the numbers to our employees in the back room.
00:15:36 Now, here's your numbers, pal.
00:15:38 You got three different colored sheets, pink, white, and yellow.
00:15:41 Give the pink one to the flame, save the yellow one for me, and leave the white one in the book.
00:15:47 This is the heart of the operation.
00:15:49 It's the nerve center, so it's the most important part.
00:15:52 Now, most of you guys are going to be pick up men.
00:15:54 Your job is going to be to collect money and slip from everybody in your territory.
00:15:58 When you're finished, bring all the money to the house to Blue Boy and get a receipt.
00:16:01 Now, make sure you get a receipt.
00:16:04 Bring all the bet slips here to the house.
00:16:07 How you do?
00:16:09 Now, make peace.
00:16:11 Now, make peace is going to be the boss of the counter house.
00:16:13 Now, I run the bank, but it's make peace who decides who gets paid.
00:16:18 Now, it's going to be as easy as pie.
00:16:21 Oh, by the way, David and me, our words is law.
00:16:26 Now, and one more thing.
00:16:28 Don't grumble and stay.
00:16:30 You all just grumble and be on your goddamn way.
00:16:33 [Music]
00:16:44 In no time flat, our bank was rolling.
00:16:47 Ooh, that money was coming in hand over fist.
00:16:51 I don't know where them folks was getting it from,
00:16:53 but I never seen the likes of it in all my natural born life.
00:16:57 [Music]
00:17:01 In six months, me and Blue Boy had made so much money that we up and bought us a house
00:17:05 and plunked down the hard, cold cash, all down and nothing a week.
00:17:12 Blue Boy said that he'd been to three world fairs and five goat droppings
00:17:16 and had never seen the likes of it before.
00:17:18 [Music]
00:17:29 It ain't pretty till that old polecat cracker Antoine sent his nigger Gaines a snip around.
00:17:35 What the hell wrong with you, nigger?
00:17:37 You got bumbers on your ass or something?
00:17:39 That's going to cost you.
00:17:41 Yeah.
00:17:42 Oh, come on.
00:17:44 I'm sorry.
00:17:45 I just wanted to give you the chance of your lifetime.
00:17:48 Oh, yeah? And what's that?
00:17:49 Numbers. Gaines.
00:17:51 You ever hear of them?
00:17:55 Numbers?
00:17:57 Who told you the right numbers, boy?
00:17:59 You don't know them. They ain't from El Dorado.
00:18:01 Look, what numbers you want, I got the gold.
00:18:04 How much them white folks paying you, boy?
00:18:07 Why they got to be white folks?
00:18:09 Ain't this a bitch? Crackers ain't got no monopoly on brains.
00:18:13 Punk, let me go.
00:18:15 Let's go, man. Let's go.
00:18:18 Oh, what do you know about me?
00:18:41 He's my joy, he's my hope, he's my home.
00:18:48 Oh, what do you know about me, brother?
00:18:55 He's a great counselor.
00:19:01 He's a mighty good doctor.
00:19:13 Oh, he's all right.
00:19:26 He's a mighty good lawyer.
00:19:38 He's my joy and sorrow.
00:19:41 He's my hope and sorrow.
00:19:44 He's my friend when I'm hungry.
00:19:47 He's my friend when I'm lonely.
00:19:50 Oh, what do you know about me, brother?
00:20:05 Exodus tells us a story about God's people.
00:20:12 God's people here were carried in captivity down in Egypt.
00:20:17 As they were carried down there, they were placed on the hard task belt.
00:20:22 Here we have a people sold to God's blessing.
00:20:26 One day God brought some people to America.
00:20:30 They were sold here in captivity.
00:20:33 As they were sold in captivity, they were brought here to our blessing.
00:20:39 Oh, when God's people bowed down, called on his name,
00:20:44 we know how God turned it to a blessing.
00:20:47 We know how they took the Camarilles.
00:20:50 We know how the voices were took.
00:20:53 We know how the white man nicked us up.
00:20:58 God made us all justified.
00:21:01 I know a talking about my name.
00:21:04 So let's endure it, shall we?
00:21:06 We say good names today.
00:21:09 We sing God praises.
00:21:12 We sing God praises.
00:21:14 Clap your hands.
00:21:16 Clap your feet.
00:21:19 We will all know it's a God.
00:21:22 He's holy as his name.
00:21:24 He's paid the churn of Israel.
00:21:26 He's blessed the churn of Israel.
00:21:29 He's blessed us.
00:21:31 For another day, bless us in the soup line.
00:21:36 Let us turn to Psalms 132.
00:21:40 [applause]
00:21:42 Brothers and sisters.
00:21:44 Boy, that preacher scared the daylights out of us when he called out 132nd Psalm.
00:21:49 Hell, everybody in that church played 132.
00:21:52 [music]
00:22:17 Big Needle, honey, where are you?
00:22:19 Listen, Billy, get away from me, will you please?
00:22:22 Wait.
00:22:23 [laughter]
00:22:25 Now, you all know I'm the answer to all poor girls' prayers.
00:22:28 [laughter]
00:22:29 White girls too.
00:22:30 Boy, sit down.
00:22:31 Let me tell you something.
00:22:32 There ain't no such thing as a poor white guy.
00:22:35 A color is a fortune.
00:22:37 [laughter]
00:22:38 That's true.
00:22:40 Hey, all we got is company.
00:22:43 [music]
00:22:54 Blue boy, green.
00:22:55 Right.
00:22:56 Why don't you all come on and sit down and have a taste of this?
00:22:58 No thanks.
00:22:59 My stomach's been troubling me some.
00:23:00 Oh, got the aggravation.
00:23:02 Yeah.
00:23:03 Oh, I knew it was about that aggravation.
00:23:04 I remember when I was a little boy, my mama used to say to me, "Now, son, when your stomach gets all tied up in them little old knots, for the bestest thing--"
00:23:11 Look, blue boy, I didn't come here to bullshit.
00:23:13 We ain't interested.
00:23:15 You ain't got no sense, nigger.
00:23:17 I've got plenty of sense.
00:23:19 I've got some money too.
00:23:21 I want you to understand, partner.
00:23:23 We don't need no more partners.
00:23:26 Besides, you all got a nice hunk of pie right there in Gator City.
00:23:31 Never you mind what I got in Gator City.
00:23:33 That's what I'm getting here in El Dorado that I'm talking about.
00:23:35 Hey, look, you ain't getting doo-doo squat.
00:23:37 Is that your answer too, blue boy?
00:23:39 Yeah, that's right.
00:23:40 He's my partner.
00:23:41 You know, you dudes had a chance to make a big pile of change, but you fucked up, and now I'm taking it.
00:23:47 Hey, bubble butt.
00:23:48 Bubble butt.
00:23:50 I'm peeing in my pants.
00:23:52 Let's go.
00:23:58 Hoo-wee, that's a tough motherfucker.
00:24:02 Oh, he ain't so tough.
00:24:04 He's just big, that's all.
00:24:06 I'll tell you one thing.
00:24:08 I got me a feeling.
00:24:09 Meaning what?
00:24:11 I smell something burning.
00:24:13 And where there's smoke, there's a peck of wood.
00:24:17 Please don't give me any of that crap.
00:24:20 There's no such thing as a nigger not playing ball.
00:24:22 But them two is different.
00:24:24 Bullshit.
00:24:25 Believe me, I tried, Mr. Antoine.
00:24:26 Give me a rope.
00:24:28 You just didn't get across to them, that's all.
00:24:30 I tried, Mr. Antoine.
00:24:31 Sure you did.
00:24:33 They're just a little smarter than you, that's all.
00:24:35 But Mr. Antoine, I really--
00:24:36 You shut up and you listen to me.
00:24:38 And you listen good.
00:24:39 Yes, sir.
00:24:40 I come down from New York, I got orders.
00:24:41 Yes, sir.
00:24:42 Well, that means you got orders too.
00:24:44 Now, their operation is already running smoother than anyone else's in the territory, including yours.
00:24:49 Now, I want to know why.
00:24:51 What do you want me to do, boss?
00:24:55 What I want you to do, I want you to keep your eye on them.
00:24:58 Maybe lean on them a little now and then.
00:25:00 Or let them grow.
00:25:01 Because I want their bank to be nice and fat when we move in on them, you know what I mean?
00:25:07 When they're going to be, boss?
00:25:10 Why?
00:25:11 You want a piece?
00:25:13 Listen, Gaines, you're part of my organization, see?
00:25:16 Yes, sir.
00:25:17 You're with me because you're smarter than them other niggers, but you're letting me down.
00:25:22 Now, I want you to whip them jigs into line, one way or another.
00:25:27 You understand me, Gaines?
00:25:28 Yes, sir.
00:25:29 Now, what the hell are you standing there for?
00:25:33 Go do something about it.
00:25:35 Yes, sir.
00:25:37 [gunshots]
00:26:03 Boy, does your mama know you're out here this late evening.
00:26:06 [gunshots]
00:26:09 [gunshots]
00:26:36 Sam, you is going to be our friend for life.
00:26:39 Who sent you?
00:26:42 I said, who the hell sent you?
00:26:44 God damn it, who sent you?
00:26:45 Gaines did.
00:26:46 It was Gaines.
00:26:47 Listen, sonny, you tell Gaines he or any of his gorillas ever step foot in Arkansas,
00:26:52 then I am personally going to find him and kick his fat ass hole through his teeth.
00:26:56 You remember that?
00:26:57 I remember.
00:26:58 All right, then you remember this too, here.
00:27:00 Now, move!
00:27:05 Business as usual?
00:27:07 Business as usual.
00:27:09 [singing]
00:27:16 Yes.
00:27:20 [singing]
00:27:23 All right, that's all right.
00:27:34 [singing]
00:27:38 That's all right.
00:27:39 [singing]
00:27:43 You got a bird?
00:27:45 [singing]
00:27:48 [singing]
00:27:51 [singing]
00:28:01 [singing]
00:28:12 [singing]
00:28:15 Glory, glory, hallelujah.
00:28:23 Please, I lay my burden down.
00:28:26 Can I get a witness?
00:28:28 Can I get another witness?
00:28:30 Can I get another witness?
00:28:33 [screaming]
00:28:38 Glory, glory, hallelujah.
00:28:41 Now, sometimes it made us feel real good when somebody hit big.
00:28:46 And it was good for business too.
00:28:48 Now, after old sister Clara hit, the money came in even faster.
00:28:53 [music]
00:28:57 [music]
00:29:25 It's the police, man.
00:29:27 Yes, sir.
00:29:34 You got you some heavy feet there, boy.
00:29:37 You're right, sir. I'm sorry.
00:29:39 You think one of these tickets might lighten your feet up a little?
00:29:43 If you say so, sir.
00:29:45 Let me see your license.
00:29:47 Yes, sir.
00:29:53 I thought I had it here somewhere, sir.
00:29:56 You know what I'm going to do for you, boy?
00:29:58 Yes, sir.
00:29:59 You seem like you're a good neighbor.
00:30:00 Thank you, sir.
00:30:02 You work for Blue Boy Greeny?
00:30:03 That does, yes, sir.
00:30:04 I'm going to take care of this ticket myself.
00:30:07 Thank you, sir.
00:30:09 How much?
00:30:11 All of it.
00:30:12 Yes, sir.
00:30:14 You know, sir, you is a spitting image of what I thought a policeman was.
00:30:20 Ain't it make peace?
00:30:21 My pleasure, boy, my pleasure.
00:30:23 Thank you, sir.
00:30:24 Now beat it.
00:30:25 Yes, sir.
00:30:26 Braddock in the center of the ring, and Lewis led there with a left and missed.
00:30:30 Braddock was back out of the way.
00:30:31 Braddock led with a left and came up over the right that was a little short.
00:30:35 And then Lewis missed with a left, and so did Braddock.
00:30:37 And there Braddock came up with a right uppercut that missed.
00:30:40 Lewis was back out of the way in time.
00:30:42 Now Braddock's in the center of the ring, and Lewis beats him.
00:30:44 There, Braddock is down.
00:30:46 [applause]
00:30:56 [music]
00:31:10 The fact is, I ain't the only stud in the world, 'cause even I was in a bit of a hell of a situation.
00:31:18 [music]
00:31:37 Hey, you know the way I hear it, if you go to most of them up there colored churches, if you're my color, you have to sit in the last row.
00:31:45 And if you're red with knobby hair, well, you're sitting a pew in front of me.
00:31:49 And them yellow ones, well, they sit in the next.
00:31:53 And the light-haired ones with blue eyes, well, they sit right up front there with God.
00:32:01 Hey, Luke, if you have me in two years, I'll be just like Joe Lewis.
00:32:06 No, you won't either, man.
00:32:07 [laughter]
00:32:10 And here I am on the back seat of the bus, you know, sitting with my grandmother.
00:32:13 And she took this grand big box of fried chicken and some light bread.
00:32:17 [music]
00:32:22 Fried chicken.
00:32:24 [grunting]
00:32:26 Kelly really an eyeful, ain't she?
00:32:27 You know her?
00:32:28 Yeah.
00:32:29 She's a high-yeller, campus chick studying science or something like that.
00:32:34 They say she's got a real nice future.
00:32:37 Now that she's colored, she don't.
00:32:39 Hey, well, who does she go with, huh?
00:32:41 Nobody.
00:32:42 She don't have no time for no dumb street niggers.
00:32:45 Hey, well, I ain't a dumb street nigger.
00:32:48 [explosion]
00:32:50 Look out.
00:32:51 That's what I call shooting.
00:32:53 If I hadn't have seen that with my own eyes, you know I wouldn't have believed it.
00:32:56 I wouldn't have believed it.
00:32:58 Now hold on, boy.
00:33:00 Hold on.
00:33:01 My daddy taught me how to shoot just in case situations like this.
00:33:05 Kelly.
00:33:07 Hey, baby.
00:33:08 Are you happy?
00:33:10 David, of course I'm happy.
00:33:12 Why do you ask?
00:33:13 I don't know.
00:33:14 I mean, a high-class colored gal like you coming down here in the war, it just seems strange.
00:33:21 It seems like you're searching for something.
00:33:24 I used to see you around once in a while out driving.
00:33:28 I'd come down Vassie Street just to see you strutting about.
00:33:31 [laughs]
00:33:33 It's true.
00:33:34 Right from the first, you looked like you had such a definite place to go.
00:33:38 And I just wanted to go a little bit of the way with you.
00:33:41 Well, why not all the way?
00:33:44 [music]
00:34:14 Once in your lifetime is lucky
00:34:20 When you can give your heart to share
00:34:29 What a wonder I do believe
00:34:37 Baby, I'm so glad, baby, I'm so glad I found you
00:34:44 Baby, I'm so glad to know you're in my life
00:34:51 Baby, I'm so glad, baby, I'm so glad I found you
00:34:58 Baby, I'm so glad to know you're in my life
00:35:05 Baby, I'm so glad, baby, I'm so glad I found you
00:35:12 Baby, I'm so glad to know you're in my life
00:35:19 Baby, I'm so glad, baby, I'm so glad I found you
00:35:26 Baby, I'm so glad to know you're in my life
00:35:33 Baby, baby, baby
00:35:38 Hey, I thought you were asleep.
00:35:41 Why'd you come here last night?
00:35:49 To be with you.
00:35:51 Why didn't you introduce yourself sooner?
00:35:54 I wasn't sure you were the man I was looking for.
00:36:02 Well, when did you decide?
00:36:05 When I saw what you were doing in the ward.
00:36:09 You mean the money?
00:36:11 Hell no, I mean what you've done with the numbers here in the ward.
00:36:15 Well, I'm in it for a reason.
00:36:20 What?
00:36:22 So I can have something to show.
00:36:25 Something I sure as hell can't have working for no cracker.
00:36:29 (whimpering)
00:36:31 Wake up.
00:36:36 (laughing)
00:36:38 Things was going so good, I knew something had to happen.
00:36:43 That cracker Antoine wasn't gonna sit on his ass forever.
00:36:46 Then one night, everybody was gone except Junebug, Aki, and Sam
00:36:50 when Antoine's men struck.
00:36:52 Junebug, go get help. Get out of here.
00:36:56 Junebug!
00:36:58 No!
00:37:03 I know trouble was coming, but not like it come.
00:37:24 Poor little Junebug never hurt a soul.
00:37:27 Selling a little ice water.
00:37:29 No one knew where he came from, and we never asked.
00:37:32 But we all loved him just like he was our own.
00:37:35 The killings made me more determined than ever to make it.
00:37:39 But setting up a numbers bank down here is dangerous
00:37:42 on account of them crazy crackers.
00:37:44 Man, they can't stand to see anybody with nothing.
00:37:47 Especially something that's gonna make us some money.
00:37:50 Next thing you know, they be done sick the Klan or somebody on us.
00:37:54 But me and Blueboy, we gonna stand up to 'em even if it killed us.
00:37:58 I called Blue and told him what happened.
00:38:08 He took it real bad.
00:38:11 I know one thing. If I'd have been there, I'd have killed at least one of 'em.
00:38:15 Look, look, y'all.
00:38:17 It's gonna take at least a month to get some new pads printed.
00:38:20 They gotta be printed and shipped in from Chicago.
00:38:23 What supplies left, Makepeace?
00:38:25 We got just about enough for one week.
00:38:27 Jesus, we gotta do something about that and quick.
00:38:30 Now, Makepeace, you always talking about Gaines Joint and Gator City?
00:38:35 You really know where it's at?
00:38:37 - You wanna know it? - Yeah.
00:38:38 I lived over there for three years.
00:38:41 Good.
00:38:42 What are you planning, Davey?
00:38:45 Me? Nothing.
00:38:48 I just think we ought to gather the boys together and have a little talk, that's all.
00:38:53 [music]
00:39:19 We hooked 'em real good anyway, didn't we, Chief?
00:39:21 Yeah, it's too bad Green and Woodward wasn't there.
00:39:23 I sure would have gotten off knowing they got their black asses rode in.
00:39:26 Yeah, but next time, Mr. Green, next time we really gonna fix 'em.
00:39:29 We gonna fix 'em real good.
00:39:31 Yeah.
00:39:34 Hey, them cleaners is out here.
00:39:36 Come on, let's take a look at this.
00:39:38 Let's get the hell out of here.
00:39:46 Yeah, get a load.
00:39:48 [music]
00:39:58 Hurry up.
00:40:00 [music]
00:40:29 [music]
00:40:57 Move!
00:41:00 What the hell they doing?
00:41:02 Looks like the KKK is going to the numbers game, boss.
00:41:05 They can't do that. Numbers is nigger business.
00:41:08 You gonna tell 'em that, boss?
00:41:10 [music]
00:41:25 All right, look, y'all destroy the place, yeah?
00:41:28 Hell no.
00:41:30 Let's go.
00:41:32 Destroy!
00:41:34 All right, get a move on.
00:41:36 Evening, y'all.
00:41:50 We didn't know you was having a little party tonight till we seen the cross.
00:41:54 Man, we know it.
00:41:56 This is Nick Gaines' place, ain't it?
00:41:59 Always wanted to give me that damn jiggle bird.
00:42:01 Where he at?
00:42:03 Have you done him yet?
00:42:06 What's the matter?
00:42:07 Don't you want to talk much?
00:42:09 Hell, that's all right.
00:42:10 He just wants to remain anonymous.
00:42:14 Hell, that don't make sense.
00:42:16 We're all friends, ain't we?
00:42:18 Good Christian fighters in that same crusade.
00:42:21 Good.
00:42:23 Ain't nothing better than skinning a goddamn nigger every day.
00:42:26 Hey, I know it.
00:42:28 I know it all along.
00:42:29 I know who you are.
00:42:30 I recognize them boots.
00:42:32 Well, hell yeah, that's old Cliff Hainesworth's nephew.
00:42:35 I'll bet you that is him.
00:42:36 Come on now, fess up, ain't you?
00:42:38 Ain't you? Come on now.
00:42:39 Ain't you?
00:42:40 Oh, I know it.
00:42:41 I know it sure as shit.
00:42:43 Fellers, this here is Cliff Hainesworth's nephew.
00:42:47 Now, he's been spending some time in the poky for cutting off some nigger's bones.
00:42:52 [laughter]
00:42:54 Pa, I want to get some coons balls one of these days.
00:42:57 Well, hell yeah, old belly, it might make a man of you.
00:43:00 Now, come on.
00:43:02 Come on.
00:43:03 We know who you are.
00:43:04 Come on now.
00:43:05 Come on now.
00:43:06 Fess up.
00:43:08 He's a nigger.
00:43:10 Goddamn, he is a nigger.
00:43:13 Yeah, badass nigger!
00:43:16 [fighting]
00:43:39 Come on now.
00:43:40 Hold that cliff.
00:43:42 Cliff, hold that.
00:43:44 [fighting]
00:43:57 What they shout nigger for?
00:43:59 'Cause, holy shit, that's just what they is, boys, they niggers.
00:44:04 Those are blue boy and green boy.
00:44:06 [music]
00:44:14 Now, who'd have thought the damn Klan would have showed up?
00:44:17 Boy, that old grand dragon must have shit in his pants when he see Blink Blip behind that Klan's hood.
00:44:23 I sure would have liked to see it up close, but them Klans is crazy.
00:44:27 They'd rather die than see a nigger get away with something.
00:44:30 [fighting]
00:44:54 All right, then.
00:44:55 Don't read my ass.
00:44:57 Here they come.
00:44:58 [fighting]
00:45:08 Here's the dice.
00:45:10 [fighting]
00:45:39 You silly son of a bitch!
00:45:41 [fighting]
00:46:10 [music]
00:46:19 Where'd you get your fucking driver's license anyway?
00:46:22 Sears and Roebuck?
00:46:24 [music]
00:46:37 [fighting]
00:46:53 Where's your daddy?
00:46:54 [fighting]
00:47:04 Jesus!
00:47:08 Hey, watch them goddamn cars!
00:47:10 Jesus!
00:47:12 [music]
00:47:25 Hey, hey, hey, hold it, hold it, hold it.
00:47:27 We didn't stop them.
00:47:28 We just slowed them down.
00:47:29 Yeah, and I'm out of ammo, too.
00:47:31 Goddamn it, you're hitting everything in the fucking road!
00:47:34 I missed the goddamn mule!
00:47:36 [music]
00:47:43 What you doing?
00:47:44 They ought to be coming over that hill any second now.
00:47:46 I'm tired of playing games.
00:47:47 [music]
00:47:51 Whoa!
00:47:52 [music]
00:48:03 [laughing]
00:48:06 That must have been a lot of screams.
00:48:08 [laughing]
00:48:11 Real funny, huh?
00:48:12 Hey, that's funny to watch the Johnny Cappers with the white shirt on.
00:48:16 [laughing]
00:48:17 Watching all them niggers running around in them clothes.
00:48:19 [laughing]
00:48:21 You should have me wearing them for a while, Mr. Dandruff.
00:48:24 Thanks a lot.
00:48:25 [inaudible]
00:48:28 Sit down.
00:48:29 [inaudible]
00:48:30 Have a drink.
00:48:31 Sit down.
00:48:32 [laughing]
00:48:35 That's out of my mind.
00:48:37 [laughing]
00:48:40 Oh!
00:48:43 Real funny, huh?
00:48:44 Yeah, yeah, it was real funny.
00:48:46 Yeah.
00:48:47 You really think that was funny, huh?
00:48:50 All them niggers walking around in them robes.
00:48:53 It was a hell of a lot more than just funny, Joe.
00:48:56 Yeah.
00:48:57 Yeah, that it was.
00:48:58 Yeah, that it was.
00:48:59 It was expensive for me, and for you too.
00:49:02 Expensive?
00:49:04 I don't understand.
00:49:06 You will.
00:49:07 You will.
00:49:10 [music playing]
00:49:36 Boss, it's not my fault.
00:49:38 Well, I'll make it up to you.
00:49:39 I swear, I'll make it up to you.
00:49:41 What's the matter?
00:49:42 There's nothing to be scared about.
00:49:44 Is there, Collins?
00:49:45 That's right.
00:49:46 Hey, why don't you two go out and take a little ride,
00:49:48 get a little fresh air?
00:49:49 It'll help to relax you.
00:49:51 Please, boss, I'll fix everything.
00:49:52 Give me some more time, please.
00:49:54 Come on, Joe.
00:49:55 You have plenty of time already.
00:49:57 You just couldn't make it, that's all.
00:49:58 Could he, Collins?
00:49:59 No, I just couldn't make it.
00:50:02 Joe, there's nothing personal.
00:50:04 Them other guys are just a little smarter than you,
00:50:06 that's all.
00:50:07 Hey, jeez, that's too bad.
00:50:09 I was just beginning to enjoy dealing with you.
00:50:13 Come on, Dean.
00:50:14 Let's go out for a little ride.
00:50:17 Mr. Antwine, please.
00:50:19 Please give me another break.
00:50:21 I said let's go.
00:50:22 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:50:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:50:28 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:50:31 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:50:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:50:39 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:51:07 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:51:11 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:51:14 [GUNSHOTS]
00:51:31 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:51:34 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:51:37 [GUNSHOTS]
00:51:53 [GUNSHOTS]
00:52:01 [GUNSHOTS]
00:52:04 I'm going to tell you one thing.
00:52:13 Them crackers ain't playing, and that's for sure.
00:52:17 Gaines got exactly what was coming to him.
00:52:20 Hey, but to do that to a man, any man.
00:52:24 Swear to God, have you forgotten so soon?
00:52:27 The color of the white, Gaines was out to get us.
00:52:30 He would have liked to have seen us done in.
00:52:32 And who said we won't be?
00:52:34 Well, I ain't scared.
00:52:35 We built that bank from start to finish.
00:52:37 Remember, the bank is ours.
00:52:39 Oh, come on now, Davey.
00:52:40 We got all the cash we need.
00:52:41 We can start again any time.
00:52:43 I ain't leaving, Blue.
00:52:44 I mean, I was a poor, scared nigger long enough.
00:52:48 And another thing, I'm not asking you to stay either,
00:52:52 because if I gotta, I'll fight for that bank by myself.
00:52:55 [silence]
00:52:58 Hey, Blue, where you going?
00:53:13 I'm going to get a little fresh air.
00:53:15 I got some thinking to do.
00:53:17 [silence]
00:53:21 [silence]
00:53:24 Come upstairs.
00:53:36 Dave.
00:53:38 Dave, I want to talk to you.
00:53:39 Just for a moment.
00:53:40 Now, listen, baby.
00:53:41 It's not the money.
00:53:42 I mean, what me and Blue Boy got here,
00:53:43 we made all by ourselves, without having to crawl
00:53:46 to any cracker to beg his favor to do it.
00:53:48 We just went on ahead and did it.
00:53:50 And damn it, now that that bank stands for something,
00:53:52 I ain't going to let nobody else run it or my life,
00:53:55 because their skin happens to be white.
00:53:58 Dave, they're still running your life,
00:54:00 allowing you to live only until they want you dead.
00:54:03 Then bam, you're dead.
00:54:05 Oh, baby, that's just a chance I'm going to have to take.
00:54:09 Why?
00:54:10 So you can end up dead like Gaines?
00:54:13 Or shot up like Aggie and Sam and that poor little Junebug?
00:54:17 You're fighting for a principal?
00:54:20 What the hell with principal?
00:54:21 I'm fighting for you.
00:54:23 And where would matters?
00:54:25 Not some numbers bank.
00:54:28 Kelly, Blue Boy and me.
00:54:30 Blue Boy?
00:54:32 Have you looked at Blue Boy lately?
00:54:35 Have you looked at him?
00:54:37 That ain't the same Blue Boy that used to go strutting.
00:54:40 I mean, strutting down Vessie Street,
00:54:42 tipping his hat, smiling at everyone he passes.
00:54:46 He's whipped.
00:54:48 And the bank has whipped him.
00:54:50 And now it's going to kill you.
00:54:52 Oh, baby, what do you want me to do about it?
00:54:58 Get out, lover.
00:55:00 With or without me, just get out while you're still breathing.
00:55:04 You got all the money you need.
00:55:06 Oh, money don't mean shit.
00:55:08 Don't you know crackers can make money in Valor tomorrow?
00:55:10 They say niggers got to use seashells,
00:55:12 and niggers won't have no seashells.
00:55:16 I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
00:55:18 Baby, with all my money, do you think I can sit down here
00:55:20 and be the owner of a legitimate business?
00:55:22 Well, I can't, because to the white man,
00:55:24 we are all niggers.
00:55:26 And it takes real money like I got to find it out,
00:55:28 so I'm staying.
00:55:31 Well, stay, goddammit!
00:55:39 Things started to go from bad to shit.
00:55:42 I mean, if it wasn't one thing, it was another.
00:55:45 Like the police ups and raids the counton house
00:55:48 and caught Blue Boy red-handed counting money.
00:55:51 I was lucky enough to be out with Kelly.
00:56:03 Holly!
00:56:05 Blue Boy!
00:56:16 Will you fucking close this door?
00:56:21 Here, take it.
00:56:25 You get a hold of Booker,
00:56:26 tell him to get down here with some bail money.
00:56:33 Hold it, hold it. You got the wrong gal.
00:56:36 You're picking on George over here.
00:56:38 Come on, let's go.
00:56:40 Let's turn around.
00:56:41 You ain't too good to know, buddy.
00:56:42 Come on.
00:56:44 All right, now that's the wrong gal.
00:56:45 Let's go.
00:56:49 Hold it right there.
00:56:50 Wow, look at all that money.
00:56:52 Jesus, look at the money.
00:56:54 Gentlemen, go right on, help yourself.
00:56:55 Go ahead.
00:56:58 What the hell is going on here anyway?
00:57:00 We're just handcuffed from the prisoners, chief.
00:57:02 Damn fool, I don't see no prisoners
00:57:03 laying on that there table.
00:57:05 Well, hang on, sirs, we're just gathering evidence.
00:57:07 Well, I tell you what,
00:57:08 you be damn sure you save some of that evidence for me,
00:57:10 you understand?
00:57:11 Yes, sir.
00:57:12 Now move your lazy asses out of here.
00:57:13 I want these boys put to sleep, Fox.
00:57:25 I seen this here money ain't coming, Evans.
00:57:28 I got to find me something that is.
00:57:34 This here sure looks interesting.
00:57:37 I bet it's some kind of international
00:57:39 gambling code or something.
00:57:42 Jesse, get an axe and chop down this wall.
00:57:45 We are taking it in as evidence.
00:57:48 Move it back, move it back.
00:57:49 Come on, come on.
00:57:50 Back, come on.
00:57:51 Move it back, right in there.
00:57:52 Come on.
00:57:53 Clear out, come on.
00:57:55 Come on.
00:57:56 Get in there.
00:57:57 Come on.
00:57:58 Come on.
00:57:59 Get in there, back.
00:58:00 Get in there, back.
00:58:01 Get in there.
00:58:02 Get in there.
00:58:03 Get in there.
00:58:04 Get in there.
00:58:05 Get in there.
00:58:06 Get in there.
00:58:07 Get in there.
00:58:08 Get in there.
00:58:09 Come on.
00:58:10 Come on.
00:58:11 Come on.
00:58:12 Come on.
00:58:13 Oh, Lord have mercy.
00:58:14 White folks so damn lucky, they pissing money.
00:58:15 [laughter]
00:58:35 We in America know that our own democratic institutions
00:58:39 can be preserved and made to work.
00:58:43 But in order to preserve them, we need to act together
00:58:47 to meet the problems of the nation boldly.
00:58:50 Lord have mercy, child.
00:58:52 Like the damn near scared me to death.
00:58:55 Is equal to the task of protecting the security of the people.
00:58:58 What do you think you're doing?
00:59:00 Just a present for you.
00:59:03 For me?
00:59:04 Well, I sure ain't done nothing to deserve it.
00:59:07 That's true, but, well, I don't mind.
00:59:10 Now what are you doing listening to this for?
00:59:14 Say, where's Davey boy?
00:59:16 Still at the bank, I guess.
00:59:18 You know something?
00:59:19 That boy seems able to run that business now without me.
00:59:23 That's good.
00:59:24 Miss Kelly, I'm thinking about permanent retirement.
00:59:28 No, Davey needs you too much.
00:59:30 In two weeks, your trial will be over,
00:59:32 and you'll be back at the bank crazier than ever.
00:59:35 Crazy?
00:59:36 Come here, girl.
00:59:39 You still mad at Dave?
00:59:41 No.
00:59:43 But I am intending to leave him.
00:59:45 Oh, my.
00:59:46 I don't understand that.
00:59:48 I thought you two were making the biggest blaze since Adam and Eve.
00:59:51 Maybe we were, but--
00:59:52 Look, Kelly.
00:59:54 Don't leave Dave.
00:59:56 And if you do, take him with you.
00:59:59 What?
01:00:00 You heard me.
01:00:01 You take him with you.
01:00:03 Because in a few weeks, our whole operation ain't gonna be worth a damn.
01:00:06 Once them crackers get a nose full of how big we really is.
01:00:09 But Blue Boy...
01:00:12 You heard him.
01:00:14 The numbers is Dave's whole life.
01:00:16 He's gonna defend it till they kill him.
01:00:19 I can't sit by and watch that happen.
01:00:22 Then don't.
01:00:24 You're both young enough,
01:00:26 and the Lord knows you're enough woman for any man.
01:00:29 Get married.
01:00:30 Have some kids.
01:00:32 Oh, Kelly, there's a whole world waiting out there for you.
01:00:36 You really do love us, don't you, Blue?
01:00:39 Kelly,
01:00:42 God didn't see fit for me to have children of my own flesh and blood.
01:00:46 But there ain't no man on Earth
01:00:48 that loves his children more than I do you and Dave.
01:00:51 You and Dave
01:00:55 are my children.
01:00:57 And I, for one,
01:00:59 am mighty proud.
01:01:01 Mighty proud.
01:01:02 But what about you, Blue?
01:01:04 Oh, honey, don't you worry about old Blue Boy.
01:01:07 I'm just gonna sit back and relax.
01:01:10 And take it easy.
01:01:13 You see, Kelly,
01:01:15 I'm a little tired now.
01:01:17 I just ain't got the strength to fight the world no more.
01:01:21 God damn it, Blue, I don't care what you say.
01:01:30 I'm gonna hire you a lawyer.
01:01:32 Come on, Davey Boy.
01:01:34 Why don't you just sit on down here and relax?
01:01:36 You gotta learn how to take it easy.
01:01:38 Your head is as hard as a damn hickory nut.
01:01:40 Besides, ain't your trial no-how.
01:01:42 Don't make no such kind of sense,
01:01:44 you going out here hiring a whole bunch of lawyers.
01:01:46 Blue, it's our bank that's on trial.
01:01:48 All of us gotta go free.
01:01:50 Davey, you gonna let me take care of this.
01:01:52 What we is charged with ain't no worse than a back alley crap game.
01:01:56 Well, if you really wanna make it worse,
01:01:58 you just go strutting into that court with a bunch of fancy lawyers,
01:02:02 and that judge will really know we got something to hide showing up.
01:02:05 So you think that you gonna go strutting in there without a lawyer and go scot-free?
01:02:08 Shit, I'd like to see that.
01:02:10 You will, son.
01:02:13 You surely will.
01:02:15 Ellen Harris, Mr. Jones, make peace Johnson.
01:02:19 He's leading her down the path of righteousness.
01:02:22 Until he's sent.
01:02:24 Hey, come on, come on.
01:02:26 Hey, hey, the world is a valley of darkness.
01:02:34 You marvel at fear, know you.
01:02:37 No, he's...
01:02:39 God and staff will comfort you.
01:02:41 Comfort, comfort.
01:02:43 Oh, you know it's my head.
01:02:45 Yes, you know it's mine.
01:02:47 I'm knowing you, head.
01:02:49 I'm gonna cover run up the...
01:02:51 I can cover run up the...
01:02:53 (sobbing)
01:02:55 Order.
01:03:02 Order in the courtroom.
01:03:04 Order.
01:03:06 Order in this here courtroom.
01:03:08 I'll have order.
01:03:10 Order.
01:03:12 Order. Order.
01:03:15 You're damn sure they're New York gangsters.
01:03:19 Information I got.
01:03:21 (indistinct chatter)
01:03:23 Hudson.
01:03:29 What is this?
01:03:33 Where's all these international gamblers like it says here in this complaint?
01:03:37 Well, your honor, there has been a plot owned down in the ward.
01:03:42 A bunch of New York gangsters come down here...
01:03:45 and swindle these here colored boys into playing the nigger poof.
01:03:49 (indistinct chatter)
01:03:51 Nigger poof, huh?
01:03:52 Yes, sir.
01:03:53 Well, where is all these New York gangsters you've been telling us about?
01:03:58 Well, sir, as a matter of fact, we nipped it right in the bud.
01:04:02 Yes, exactly what we did. As a matter of fact...
01:04:04 I'll never give 'em a chance.
01:04:06 No, sir.
01:04:07 Uh, they got away.
01:04:09 I'm sorry to say, with all the cash evidence...
01:04:12 but they left these here colored boys holding the bags...
01:04:15 (indistinct chatter)
01:04:17 and not one of them is guilty of a slew of offenses.
01:04:20 (indistinct chatter)
01:04:22 All the cash evidence?
01:04:26 Yes, sir.
01:04:29 Well, what kind of evidence do you have?
01:04:32 Well...
01:04:33 Yeah, what kind of evidence do you have?
01:04:35 Uh, your honor, just one second, please, if I may.
01:04:38 Gentlemen, please.
01:04:40 What... what is that?
01:04:45 What in the hell is that?
01:04:48 Well, your honor...
01:04:55 Uh, that's a wall.
01:04:58 A wall?
01:05:00 Uh, you...
01:05:01 Judge, do you see all of that writing on it?
01:05:04 Every bit of that, sir...
01:05:07 is nigger poo code.
01:05:10 What does it mean?
01:05:12 Well, now, we haven't rightly been able to figure that out.
01:05:15 You can't figure it out, huh?
01:05:17 Well, can anybody figure it out?
01:05:19 What did the defendant say it were?
01:05:21 Nothing.
01:05:22 (indistinct chatter)
01:05:24 Well, your honor...
01:05:27 they all said that it was writing on the wall.
01:05:31 (indistinct chatter)
01:05:33 Hudson...
01:05:38 I don't like this worth a damn, understand?
01:05:41 It looks to me like somebody's cooking up a stew
01:05:43 to make my nigger boys here look a little bit silly, and I...
01:05:46 But, your honor...
01:05:47 Quiet!
01:05:48 I'll not have this court intimidated by any so-called public servant.
01:05:52 Is that clear?
01:05:54 Yes, sir.
01:05:57 Further, long as our niggers continue to behave themselves,
01:06:00 mind their own business, and don't cause no trouble for no one,
01:06:04 I don't want to see two damn fools like you
01:06:08 picking on 'em.
01:06:10 Is that clear?
01:06:12 Yes, sir.
01:06:13 Good.
01:06:14 If I catch any white man, local or foreign,
01:06:17 messing in this nigger pool business,
01:06:19 I am personally gonna see they is run out of town
01:06:22 after they does time.
01:06:24 Is that clear?
01:06:26 Yes, sir.
01:06:28 Good.
01:06:29 Case dismissed. Courts adjourned.
01:06:32 (cheers and applause)
01:06:34 (cheers and applause)
01:06:36 Anoint his head, child.
01:06:54 Anoint his head, child.
01:06:56 I don't know about the rest of them getting dressed.
01:06:59 I haven't yet seen...
01:07:01 Baby!
01:07:02 Ha!
01:07:03 Hey, son, what's wrong?
01:07:05 Listen, you won the case.
01:07:07 You tired, tired handkerchief-head old man.
01:07:11 You made me sick.
01:07:14 Bowing and scraping and crawling on your knees,
01:07:18 begging them for mercy like they was your masters.
01:07:21 You made 'em think we ain't nothing more than a bunch of ignorant, no-count niggers.
01:07:26 Son, what they think don't matter.
01:07:29 Don't you know having a crack at respect
01:07:31 don't mean that we are one bit less niggers to them?
01:07:33 Yeah, but it still didn't give you the right to go crawling on the floor like you did.
01:07:37 Lord have mercy.
01:07:39 Amen, Jesus.
01:07:40 You made me sick.
01:07:42 Baby, I did what I thought was best for us.
01:07:45 For you.
01:07:46 The best way I know how.
01:07:48 Yeah, but there were other ways. I swear there were other ways.
01:07:51 Sure.
01:07:52 I could have gone into that court in my fine blue serge suit,
01:07:56 traded behind a bunch of fancy lawyers you ain't gonna hire,
01:08:00 flashed a big bankroll.
01:08:02 But none of that, none of that would have brought a nigger justice.
01:08:06 Oh, Davey White folks is crazy.
01:08:09 They believes all that shit their grandmammy tell 'em about niggers.
01:08:13 They spew it out, and their children lap it up.
01:08:17 And just as long as they believe it,
01:08:20 it makes it easy for us to fool 'em.
01:08:28 You call being reduced to nothing fooling 'em?
01:08:32 Crackers ain't that crazy.
01:08:34 Now I can see fighting 'em and losing 'em, but doing what you done?
01:08:37 Davey, do you think I'm proud of what I done?
01:08:41 You think I've been proud all my life having to bow my head and tongue?
01:08:48 Just so that I could survive.
01:08:54 Son, I did what I done today for you.
01:09:01 For you young'uns.
01:09:04 'Cause you young'uns got to carry on the good fight.
01:09:16 Me?
01:09:17 My kind.
01:09:19 We're finished.
01:09:20 But you can't do it behind bars.
01:09:24 Now, son, we walked out of that courtroom free.
01:09:30 Not lynched, not penniless, but free.
01:09:35 But even freedom ain't worth crawling on your goddamn knees.
01:09:40 You don't understand.
01:09:44 (SCREAMING)
01:09:46 Davey!
01:09:47 Davey!
01:09:48 (SIGHS)
01:09:50 (FOOTSTEPS)
01:09:53 (FOOTSTEPS)
01:09:55 (DOOR CLOSES)
01:10:24 (MUSIC PLAYING)
01:10:26 Hey, Blue.
01:10:33 She's all through.
01:10:36 What you gonna do now?
01:10:42 Say, Blue, all the numbers fly away.
01:10:52 What you gonna do now?
01:10:55 What you gonna do?
01:10:58 She's all through.
01:11:00 Hey, Blue.
01:11:03 What you gonna do now?
01:11:07 There's nothing left.
01:11:11 Ain't no fun.
01:11:13 Ain't no loving left.
01:11:15 Young Fox went and got his tailwind.
01:11:19 Blue?
01:11:21 Hey, Blue.
01:11:23 What you gonna do now?
01:11:27 What you gonna do?
01:11:30 Hey, Blue.
01:11:33 Blue.
01:11:36 Hey, Blue.
01:11:39 What you gonna do now?
01:11:47 (ALL CHANTING)
01:11:49 Hey, Blue.
01:11:51 Hey, Blue.
01:11:53 (ALL CHEERING)
01:11:55 Hey, Blue.
01:12:00 Hey, Blue.
01:12:02 Wow.
01:12:04 Hey, Blue.
01:12:06 Blue?
01:12:10 What you gonna do now?
01:12:15 Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue.
01:12:17 Hey, Blue.
01:12:19 (ALL CHEERING)
01:12:21 Hey, Blue.
01:12:23 Hey, Blue.
01:12:25 Hey, Blue.
01:12:27 They don't.
01:12:33 I don't understand.
01:12:35 I know you don't understand.
01:12:37 That's why I'm leaving.
01:12:41 (SIREN WAILING)
01:12:43 At least let me drive you to the station.
01:12:50 No, we can say goodbye right here.
01:12:54 (SIREN WAILING)
01:12:56 (SCREAMING)
01:13:20 Hi there.
01:13:22 Easy, easy. Take it easy.
01:13:25 You wouldn't want to get hurt now, would you?
01:13:27 Take it easy.
01:13:29 That's it.
01:13:31 Maybe we can all have a little fun at this party.
01:13:34 What do you say? Huh?
01:13:36 Oh.
01:13:38 Me and you are gonna get along just fine.
01:13:40 I can feel it.
01:13:42 We're gonna get along just fine.
01:13:46 Go upstairs and get green down here.
01:13:48 And if he gives you any trouble,
01:13:51 shoot him.
01:13:53 Now hold it right there, sunshine.
01:14:15 Put your hands up.
01:14:18 Get your hands up, boy.
01:14:20 Now you and me gonna take a little trip downstairs, huh?
01:14:27 -Dash! -Shh!
01:14:29 I wouldn't want to have to ugly up that pretty little black face of yours.
01:14:33 Understand?
01:14:35 Move, nigga, move!
01:14:39 (SCREAMING)
01:14:46 (THUDDING)
01:14:48 -Kill him! -Nigga, pull the green!
01:14:52 I swear I'll kill this bitch!
01:14:56 Now drop the gun.
01:15:02 Drop it.
01:15:07 (THUDDING)
01:15:09 Hey, look, if it's the money you want,
01:15:19 you can have it all.
01:15:21 Just let my woman go.
01:15:23 He don't want your money, nigga.
01:15:25 -He wants you. -Who wants me?
01:15:27 Me.
01:15:29 Louis Antoine.
01:15:31 I want you.
01:15:33 And I usually get what I want.
01:15:35 Well, there ain't nothing here belongs to you.
01:15:37 And that's where you're wrong.
01:15:39 It all belongs to me now.
01:15:41 -Where's his pot? -Ain't nowhere in the house, boss.
01:15:44 Well, that's okay.
01:15:46 We got plenty of time.
01:15:48 We'll just sit around and wait for him to come home.
01:15:50 And when he comes home, we'll give him a little party, huh? Huh?
01:15:53 (CHUCKLING)
01:15:55 And you, get something good and strong to tie this one up good and tight.
01:15:59 What about the dame, boss?
01:16:01 Why, Carlos.
01:16:03 You want her?
01:16:05 Yeah, why not?
01:16:07 Hey, you want to change your luck a little, huh?
01:16:09 Why the hell not? Go ahead, take her upstairs.
01:16:11 You son of a...
01:16:13 -David! -You don't even touch him, bitch!
01:16:16 You already said I'd kill him!
01:16:18 (GROANING)
01:16:20 The only way you're gonna have me, Cracker,
01:16:24 is if you kill me first, understand?
01:16:27 This one's mine.
01:16:29 You...
01:16:31 ...stupid...
01:16:33 ...nigger whore.
01:16:36 I'm gonna teach you a lesson you ain't gonna forget
01:16:39 till your dying day!
01:16:41 Boy, you ain't gonna teach nobody nothing.
01:16:46 Up on your feet.
01:16:48 (GRUNTING)
01:16:50 (GUNSHOTS)
01:16:56 (GUNSHOTS)
01:16:58 Easy.
01:17:17 Easy, son. Come on now, easy.
01:17:19 All right, see if we can get him up.
01:17:21 (GROANING)
01:17:24 -I'm all right. -Now, how you doing?
01:17:26 (GUNSHOT)
01:17:28 (SCREAMING)
01:17:30 (GUNSHOT)
01:17:34 Don't touch him!
01:17:39 Oh...
01:17:45 Oh...
01:17:47 I didn't mean to hit you, Blue.
01:17:54 Forgive me, please.
01:17:56 Forgive me.
01:17:58 Forgive me!
01:18:01 Get your things and go.
01:18:20 Blue, is what?
01:18:22 Ain't nothing here but death.
01:18:24 No, I'm staying.
01:18:26 Blue Boy used to say you...
01:18:36 You never miss the water till the well runs dry.
01:18:39 Well, I sure miss Blue.
01:18:41 You know, next to Kelly, I guess I ain't never loved nobody
01:18:44 as much as I loved old Blue Boy.
01:18:46 I just wish now that I'd have showed it when he could have seen it.
01:18:50 I was so busy trying to be a big-time numbers man,
01:18:53 I couldn't see for looking.
01:18:55 I never know how much Blue cared for me and Kelly.
01:18:58 I never understood what Blue was trying to knock into my thick skull.
01:19:03 To Blue Boy, the important thing was to pass it on.
01:19:07 Like... Like them foot races where one runner passes a stick-on to another runner
01:19:13 and keeps on running and running until it's time for him to pass it on.
01:19:18 Blue Boy passed it on to me and I...
01:19:20 I guess it's my turn now.
01:19:22 Blue Boy took it just... just as far as he could go.
01:19:26 And if us niggers keep passing it on,
01:19:29 maybe someday, just... just maybe someday,
01:19:33 we'll pull up alongside them crackers and maybe...
01:19:36 maybe even pull ahead.
01:19:38 The Lord knows I'd love to see that day.
01:19:41 My trial's coming up next week.
01:19:44 Kelly wants me to get a big-time lawyer,
01:19:47 but I reckon I don't need one.
01:19:49 I gotta pass on more than I got from Blue Boy,
01:19:54 just as he pass on more than he got.
01:19:56 Them dumb fucking crackers,
01:20:01 they'll fall for it again.
01:20:03 Sometimes... sometimes they just dumber than mules.
01:20:08 [music]
01:20:27 I see the Lord,
01:20:30 He's touching me.
01:20:35 I feel Him calling, softly.
01:20:40 Goodbye, goodbye,
01:20:45 to earthly woe.
01:20:49 He's come to take me home.
01:20:55 Yeah, He's come to take me home.
01:21:03 [music]
01:21:07 [BLANK_AUDIO]