Synopsis: A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Top cast: Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere, Ed Begley, Leona Powers, Mae Marsh, Will Geer
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry King
Top cast: Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere, Ed Begley, Leona Powers, Mae Marsh, Will Geer
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00:01:36Ann, wait.
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00:02:08Miss Ann, look at that little head of scorn.
00:02:11She's just like the one Uncle Mike used to have.
00:02:13Yes, Donnie.
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00:02:18You like balls, Miss Ann?
00:02:20No.
00:02:22Well, yes, some of them, Donnie.
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00:02:45It's Ann Freeman, Miss McKay.
00:02:47Oh, yes, Ann. Been expecting you. Come in.
00:02:50It's Ann Freeman, Miss McKay.
00:02:52Oh, yes, Ann. Been expecting you. Come in.
00:02:54Uh, this is Donnie Mitchell.
00:02:56Donnie, this is Miss McKay.
00:02:57Come in.
00:02:58How do, ma'am?
00:03:00Well, come in, come in.
00:03:02Can't stand out there all day.
00:03:14How old are you, Donnie?
00:03:16Going on 13.
00:03:18Pretty small for your age, aren't you?
00:03:20No.
00:03:21Uh, I have here the reports of the places he's lived lately.
00:03:28After his father was drowned at sea,
00:03:30he lived with his next of kin,
00:03:32an uncle, Captain My Mitchell of Port Clyde.
00:03:34Captain Mitchell was lost in the big storm of March three years ago.
00:03:38Since then, he's been a ward of the state.
00:03:41Quite a record he's made for himself.
00:03:43Run away three times. Why?
00:03:44Well, I think I can explain.
00:03:46Wilkins Farm, Waldo County, eight months.
00:03:49What'd you run away for?
00:03:51Didn't like the farm.
00:03:53Mm-hmm.
00:03:55Carnage to Manuel Santos, storekeeper, Waterville, six months, ran away.
00:03:59Why? Didn't like him neither?
00:04:01No.
00:04:03Maybe you won't like it here.
00:04:05Oh, I think he will. It's different.
00:04:06Let him answer it for himself.
00:04:08Well?
00:04:10I don't know.
00:04:12Guess I will.
00:04:13Will what? Run away?
00:04:15No.
00:04:16No, ma'am.
00:04:17Can you cut wood?
00:04:19Yes, ma'am.
00:04:21He's a good boy, Mrs. McKay.
00:04:23He wants to learn, and he needs your guidance.
00:04:31Want to see your room, darling?
00:04:33Yes, ma'am.
00:04:39Up there.
00:04:42Door on the right, the top of the stairs.
00:04:54Ann, it's got to be clearly understood I'm only taking the boy on probation.
00:04:58If he's a good boy, I'll keep him.
00:05:00If not, back he goes.
00:05:02I can't help it if he's a state kid and an orphan.
00:05:04All I want is someone to do the chores.
00:05:06Well, Mrs. McKay, I know you're going to like him.
00:05:08He's a fine boy.
00:05:10What you doing up there, snooping?
00:05:12One thing I care to buy is eavesdropping.
00:05:14Want to hear something? Come down and listen.
00:05:20I don't think he really meant to eavesdrop, Mrs. McKay.
00:05:24You see, he's had sort of a rough time.
00:05:27He wouldn't tell us, but we've had information that this Santos,
00:05:31the Portuguese storekeeper in Waterville whom Donny was apprenticed to,
00:05:34treated him badly.
00:05:36Our board's investigating it now.
00:05:40Poor little devil.
00:05:43That's why I brought him to you.
00:05:50You raise kids of your own.
00:05:52Not going to raise any more. Got no affection left to pour out on anybody.
00:05:55Sure.
00:05:56As far as I'm concerned, he's just a boy who'd do the chores.
00:05:58Of course.
00:05:59Say hello to your ma. I haven't seen her lately.
00:06:01I will. Bye.
00:06:09Come in.
00:06:18Like your room?
00:06:20Yes, ma'am.
00:06:23Come on down. Let's have a look at you.
00:06:25Now, look, Donny, we're not going to get anywhere acting like a couple of strange dogs.
00:06:28I ain't no dog.
00:06:31Nobody said you were.
00:06:33You're acting like I was going to chain you up.
00:06:35Nobody's trying to put anything over on you.
00:06:37Just you do your work around here and I'll do my part for you.
00:06:40And anything you don't like, say so, because I will.
00:06:43Understand?
00:06:44I'll do my part.
00:06:45I'll do my part.
00:06:46I'll do my part.
00:06:47I'll do my part.
00:06:48I'll do my part.
00:06:49I'll do my part.
00:06:50I'll do my part.
00:06:51I'll do my part.
00:06:52And anything you don't like, say so, because I will.
00:06:54Understand?
00:06:56Yes, ma'am.
00:07:01You didn't mean to jump here first once you got here.
00:07:04Now get yourself washed up and we'll have some supper.
00:07:10Okay.
00:07:23Oh, the place looks lovely, ma'am.
00:07:25I hate to think of you in a furnished room in Belfort.
00:07:29It's not bad.
00:07:31If you like furnished rooms.
00:07:36You know, next time...
00:07:37I'm your dad!
00:07:39Catch!
00:07:43Out on second!
00:07:46Out on second!
00:07:48Out on second!
00:07:50Out on second!
00:07:51Out on second!
00:07:55There's a rate for running.
00:07:59Cheer up, dear.
00:08:00It'll turn out all right.
00:08:04Thanks, ma'am.
00:08:09I'll try to be over on Saturday.
00:08:19Anne!
00:08:22Anne Freeman!
00:08:26Good morning, Mrs. Thatcher.
00:08:31Are you going by the dock?
00:08:33Why, yes, Mrs. Thatcher. Get in.
00:08:47Beautiful morning, isn't it?
00:08:49Oh.
00:08:51Yes, I guess.
00:08:55What did you say, Anne?
00:08:56Oh.
00:08:57I haven't slept all night.
00:09:01It's Tom.
00:09:05I'm nearly crazy.
00:09:08He's more than a day overdue now.
00:09:12And that squall died before last.
00:09:14Oh, I tell you, I...
00:09:17Now, Mrs. Thatcher.
00:09:18You shouldn't cross the bridge before you get to it.
00:09:21It's not as bad as you think.
00:09:24Probably everything's all right.
00:09:27They go out in them boats and they say they'll be back.
00:09:30And you wait and you watch.
00:09:34There ain't a woman in this town that ain't lost a husband, a boy or someone.
00:09:39Oh.
00:09:40Mr. Thatcher's an experienced lobsterman.
00:09:43And it takes more than a little blow to bother a lobster boat.
00:09:46Oh, yes, but I...
00:09:48No.
00:09:49Your husband's a smart seaman.
00:09:51Maybe he ran out the squall and put into Nova Scotia.
00:09:54Dad used to do that.
00:09:56And a lot of them do, you know.
00:09:57I suppose.
00:09:59Yes, Anne, I guess.
00:10:00Yes.
00:10:01I never thought of that.
00:10:06I'm sorry, Anne.
00:10:07I got so upset.
00:10:12You be in, Mrs. Thatcher.
00:10:13You will see.
00:10:14Thank you, Anne.
00:10:15Thank you so much.
00:10:27Joe Sanger.
00:10:29Joe Sanger.
00:10:32Here's your farm magazine.
00:10:33Oh, thanks.
00:10:36Joe Sanger.
00:10:38Joe Sanger.
00:10:40Mr. Joe Sanger.
00:10:41Mr. Joe Sanger.
00:10:43Joe Sanger, Esquire.
00:10:45That's me, too.
00:10:48At least I got a bill.
00:10:49Holy smoke, who have I got for a partner anyway?
00:10:51Me.
00:10:52Who do you think?
00:10:53Hey, Hart, look at this.
00:10:56I raised my family on walnuts.
00:10:58Say, Leroy Helton.
00:11:00On nuts, huh?
00:11:01No, walnuts.
00:11:03Some thing, huh?
00:11:04That's swell.
00:11:05I thought you were a turkey man, Joe.
00:11:07Ah, turkeys you got to feed.
00:11:08These days, you got to feed.
00:11:09Ah, turkeys you got to feed.
00:11:10These things, they just drop off and you're rich.
00:11:13Well, just like that, huh?
00:11:14A dime in every walnut?
00:11:15Yeah, sure.
00:11:17No, no.
00:11:18These things you got to feed.
00:11:19I hate to disturb a millionaire, Joe, but we still got to eat.
00:11:21Huh?
00:11:22The groceries.
00:11:23Oh, sure.
00:11:24I almost forget.
00:11:25I get them.
00:11:26I'll see you down at the dock, Joe.
00:11:27I got a few things to do.
00:11:28Okay.
00:11:29Go on.
00:11:30Oh, Anne.
00:11:31Hello, Maud.
00:11:34Well.
00:11:35Wait a minute.
00:11:36Breaking an engagement's not going to start a feud, is it?
00:11:40Well, I don't see why it should.
00:11:41Still friends?
00:11:43Still friends, Hod.
00:11:45You still got that date tonight, huh?
00:11:46Date?
00:11:47Well, this is Friday, remember?
00:11:48We're going to dinner.
00:11:49No, Hod.
00:11:50I have to work tomorrow.
00:11:52Did you change your job?
00:11:54Well, no.
00:11:55Why?
00:11:56Nothing.
00:11:57Only when you made the date originally, you had to work.
00:11:59Just to say.
00:12:02All right.
00:12:03We've got a date.
00:12:04But just as friends.
00:12:05Nothing more.
00:12:06Promise?
00:12:07Absolutely.
00:12:08Talk about nothing but the wedding.
00:12:10And local gossip.
00:12:11Give you my word.
00:12:12I'll be around about 7 o'clock.
00:12:35You still got that ring?
00:12:37Hod.
00:12:40I wasn't thinking about that, really.
00:12:43But this fella won't take it back.
00:12:45Guess I'm stuck with it.
00:12:47Unless I find somebody else.
00:12:50Oh.
00:12:52What?
00:12:53Nothing.
00:12:56I'm going to go to bed.
00:12:58Good night.
00:12:59Good night.
00:13:00Good night.
00:13:01Good night.
00:13:02Good night.
00:13:03Good night.
00:13:14Haven't changed your mind, have you?
00:13:16Have you changed yours?
00:13:20You know I wouldn't be any good with a job in town.
00:13:24I'm just a lobsterman.
00:13:26I'll never be anything else.
00:13:28You know that.
00:13:30Hod, you could be anything you want.
00:13:33I'm sorry.
00:13:38All right, Ann.
00:13:40I'll do it.
00:13:41What?
00:13:42I'll take that job in Bangor.
00:13:44It might be a little rough for a while,
00:13:46but I think we can work it out, don't you?
00:13:48No, Hod.
00:13:50It wouldn't work.
00:13:53And it was unfair of me to ever ask you.
00:13:56Ann.
00:13:57One minute you say one thing,
00:13:59and I try to do what you want me to do and then...
00:14:00I know.
00:14:01I'm sorry, Hod.
00:14:02But you wouldn't be happy.
00:14:05And after a while I guess
00:14:07I wouldn't be happy either.
00:14:09Oh, look, Ann, don't talk like that.
00:14:11We'd have each other.
00:14:13We could work anything out that way.
00:14:15No, Hod.
00:14:17Marriage is something that has to last.
00:14:19It's...
00:14:21I love you, Ann.
00:14:23And you love me.
00:14:26Don't you?
00:14:27You know you do.
00:14:29Hod, this isn't fair.
00:14:30This isn't fair.
00:14:32It's...
00:14:34Hod, you'll have to give me a chance to think.
00:14:37Okay.
00:15:00I love you.
00:15:31That's tough luck.
00:15:35I knew someone scared them.
00:15:38Don't hang it on me.
00:15:40They were just feeding out.
00:15:43That's a pretty good job of hunting, though.
00:15:47Maybe they'll come back.
00:15:49That lot are good at doing.
00:15:51These are the only shells I had.
00:15:53Aren't you the new fellow up at Mary McKay's?
00:15:56Yeah.
00:15:57A state kid, an orphan.
00:16:01I'm Hod Stilwell.
00:16:07How'd you get over here?
00:16:09Rode out in a skiff.
00:16:12You on this island?
00:16:14Yeah.
00:16:19Well, that's okay, though.
00:16:21You can come over any time.
00:16:23I'm not going to be long.
00:16:24Well, that's okay, though.
00:16:26You can come over any time.
00:16:28How'd you learn to handle a gun like that?
00:16:30My Uncle My taught me.
00:16:31He used to take me gunning.
00:16:33Uncle My.
00:16:35That wouldn't be Captain My Mitchell
00:16:37used to be down at Fort Clyde, would it?
00:16:39What's it to you?
00:16:43Nothing.
00:16:45I just mentioned it.
00:16:48My name's Mitchell, too.
00:16:49Donnie Mitchell.
00:16:51Well, I thought there might be a connection.
00:16:54You know, I went to the banks
00:16:56a couple of seasons with Captain My.
00:16:58You did?
00:16:59Yeah.
00:17:00Oh, some years ago.
00:17:02I knew your Pa, too.
00:17:04Say, he was a pretty good man with a gun, wasn't he?
00:17:07Uncle My said he was one of the finest shots in the county.
00:17:10Tried to tell old Farmer Elkins that, but...
00:17:14Guess nobody recollects my Pa no more.
00:17:16Now, where did you get an idea like that?
00:17:19There are plenty of people around here
00:17:21who remember your Pa.
00:17:23You want to talk to my partner, Joe Sanger?
00:17:25He and your Pa were shipmates a couple of years.
00:17:27Sanger?
00:17:31He's a Portuguese, ain't he?
00:17:33Yeah, why?
00:17:35I don't like Portuguese.
00:17:37Now, listen, son.
00:17:39Your Pa or your Uncle My, either.
00:17:41I wouldn't let anybody tell them about a fellow.
00:17:43They always went and found out for themselves.
00:17:44Yeah.
00:17:46I got to be going.
00:17:48I got some chores to do.
00:17:50By the time you get back to the mainland,
00:17:52it's going to be kind of late for chores, isn't it?
00:17:54Chores can wait.
00:17:56I ain't no horse.
00:17:58Hey, look here.
00:18:01I got a couple of nice birds here.
00:18:03If you can use them.
00:18:04See?
00:18:08What do you want from them?
00:18:10Oh, nothing.
00:18:12I just thought maybe Mrs. McKay
00:18:14wouldn't worry so much about the chores
00:18:16if we had a couple of nice birds
00:18:18or a couple of nice birds.
00:18:21Yeah.
00:18:23Well, I'll be seeing you.
00:18:25See you later.
00:18:27See you later.
00:18:29See you later.
00:18:31See you later.
00:18:32I'll be seeing you.
00:18:49Thanks.
00:18:58Come back again sometime.
00:19:00We'll talk about your Pa and your Uncle My.
00:19:03Sure.
00:19:06Thanks again.
00:19:21Thank goodness you've come.
00:19:23I wasn't in the office when your message came.
00:19:25I got here as fast as I could.
00:19:27What's the trouble?
00:19:29Trouble? It's Donnie.
00:19:30He hasn't eaten since this morning.
00:19:32Here he is an hour past supper time.
00:19:34Well, didn't he say anything or do anything?
00:19:36Oh, I scolded him for dilly-dallying with the wood this morning.
00:19:38Then when I went out to call him for dinner,
00:19:40there was the saw broke clean and two and him gone.
00:19:42You don't suppose something's happened?
00:19:44I suppose. I suppose everything.
00:19:46When he didn't come in for dinner,
00:19:48I thought sure he'd be in by supper.
00:19:50I don't know what to do.
00:19:52Hey, Hal.
00:19:54That's the gift my Aunt left tonight.
00:19:59Yeah.
00:20:01Must have drifted out from the mainland with the tide.
00:20:04Pick it up with a gift, Joe.
00:20:22What on earth happened?
00:20:24I don't know.
00:20:29Let it go.
00:20:31We'll pick it up after we unload.
00:20:33There's two lobster in it, still alive.
00:20:35We'll take it into the mainland
00:20:37the first time we go away
00:20:39and find out who it belongs to.
00:20:41I don't think so.
00:20:43I don't think so either.
00:20:45I don't think so either.
00:20:47I don't think so either.
00:20:49I don't think so either.
00:20:51I don't think so either.
00:21:21Got you.
00:21:24Johnny.
00:21:26Yeah, John, he's one of the way this time.
00:21:30It's a good thing those lobsters are plugged.
00:21:32We could have hauled you out in pieces.
00:21:34What were you doing in there?
00:21:36I only want a couple of lobsters.
00:21:41Oh, I see.
00:21:44Look, Johnny.
00:21:46In this country, lobsters are a man's living.
00:21:48You don't rob his pots
00:21:49and you don't rob his lobster car.
00:21:51I didn't know it was yours.
00:21:53That only makes it worse.
00:21:55A man looks out for his enemies, but he's friends.
00:21:57A man doing that would be sent to jail
00:21:59if he were lucky.
00:22:01A kid like you would be sent to reform school.
00:22:03What would your Uncle Mai have done
00:22:05if he'd caught you doing this?
00:22:07He'd have wailed tarnation out of me, I guess.
00:22:09That's what you need, a good thrashing.
00:22:14You can whip me if you want.
00:22:16Oh, I wouldn't lay a hand on you.
00:22:19But I'm going to do the next best thing.
00:22:21Get on the boat.
00:22:23Go on, get aboard, go on!
00:22:30Hello?
00:22:32Is Sergeant Wilson there?
00:22:37Johnny!
00:22:39Where have you been?
00:22:41He's been with me.
00:22:43Well, that's small comfort. Come in here.
00:22:45Another two minutes, we'll have the police looking for you.
00:22:47Johnny, you're soaking wet.
00:22:49Is that Todd?
00:22:51Yes, he's wet. He had a little accident.
00:22:53He fell in the water.
00:22:55That's a sure way to get wet.
00:22:57Well, now, kite yourself upstairs
00:22:59and get out of those wet clothes
00:23:01before you catch pneumonia.
00:23:03Skedaddle!
00:23:05A lot of problems to raising a child, aren't they, Mary?
00:23:07A child? He's got the brain of a giant.
00:23:09He can think of more ways to devil a person.
00:23:11He wasn't trying to devil you, Mary.
00:23:13He was afraid.
00:23:15Afraid of what?
00:23:17Afraid of you.
00:23:19I believe he did.
00:23:21He stayed away because he was just plain afraid
00:23:23to face up and tell you about it.
00:23:25It was only a saw.
00:23:27I know, but I guess it seemed a lot bigger to him.
00:23:30He's pretty sensitive.
00:23:32He hasn't had things very easy.
00:23:34It takes patience with a kid like that.
00:23:36Patience ain't my long suit.
00:23:38Kids either want to hit him or lick her.
00:23:40Arms are on him.
00:23:42Still hasn't had any suffering.
00:23:44That reminds me, Mary, neither have I.
00:23:46No more trouble for two than for one.
00:23:47Mrs. McKay?
00:23:49Yes?
00:23:51Now that everything's turned out all right,
00:23:53I think I'll be getting back to Belport.
00:23:55Sorry you had to come all the way for nothing, Ann, but thanks.
00:23:57Night.
00:23:59Night.
00:24:01Oh, Ann, you have to go right away?
00:24:03Well...
00:24:06It's a long drive,
00:24:08and I want to get in before too late.
00:24:18I'll walk out the car with you.
00:24:21Are you a man of honor?
00:24:48Well, that was quick.
00:24:50Mm-hmm.
00:24:52Looks like it was successful, though.
00:24:57When's the wedding?
00:24:59Nothing like asking, is there?
00:25:01No.
00:25:03I'm afraid not.
00:25:05I'm afraid not.
00:25:07I'm afraid not.
00:25:09I'm afraid not.
00:25:11I'm afraid not.
00:25:13I'm afraid not.
00:25:15I'm afraid not.
00:25:17I'm afraid not.
00:25:19I suppose she's not going to be one.
00:25:22Why not?
00:25:24Oh, I don't know.
00:25:26Quite.
00:25:29I guess maybe she just doesn't want to marry a lobster man.
00:25:34Smart girl.
00:25:36Maybe.
00:25:37What are you looking for?
00:25:44Dandelion wine.
00:25:45Did you make any this year?
00:25:47Of course not.
00:25:48Get out of there.
00:25:49Okay.
00:25:50I'd let a man come in out of a cold night and I'd give him anything.
00:25:54All right, all right.
00:25:55It's on the other side.
00:25:58Don't pour me any, though.
00:25:59Of course not.
00:26:00You don't think I want the ladies to eat after me?
00:26:07Oh, Mary, you're not letting Donnie worry you, are you?
00:26:13Oh, of course not.
00:26:15He's just as nice and quiet as a two-year-old bull.
00:26:18He takes a lot of handling.
00:26:21That boy's had a pretty tough road to hoe.
00:26:25So has everybody else.
00:26:30There's no clambake.
00:26:31Maybe.
00:26:32You know, I could use that boy on my boat Saturdays, Mary.
00:26:38Pay him two bits an hour.
00:26:41Smart, aren't you?
00:26:42You and him cook this up?
00:26:45No, I just thought of it.
00:26:47Not a bad idea, either.
00:26:50I'd make enough to pay for that saw.
00:26:53Who said anything about paying for a saw?
00:26:56Donnie?
00:26:57Donnie?
00:26:58Yes, ma'am?
00:26:59Why don't now?
00:27:00The supper's about ready.
00:27:01He's going with us Saturday.
00:27:02You'll have to get him up early, Mary.
00:27:03We leave around five.
00:27:04All right, all right.
00:27:05He'll be on time.
00:27:06Hey, wait a minute.
00:27:07Don't waste it.
00:27:09Mark!
00:27:10Wait for me!
00:27:11Mark!
00:27:12Mark!
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00:27:58Mary!
00:27:59Oh, you're all right.
00:28:00I'm all right.
00:28:01Go ahead and eat.
00:28:02Eat, afterwards.
00:28:03Hey, don't eat all the supper.
00:28:04Go on, dig right back into it.
00:28:05Let's go to the byline, Joe.
00:28:10Donna, you cast off the stern.
00:28:12Yes, sir.
00:28:35Let's go.
00:29:05Mr. Whitmore?
00:29:07Isn't that Mrs. Thatcher?
00:29:09That's right, Miss Freeman.
00:29:11Mr. Thatcher's boat was wrecked in a storm off Hazlitt's Rocky.
00:29:14His body was found last Friday.
00:29:16Oh.
00:29:35Oh, no.
00:30:06Think you'll be able to go with us next week, Donnie?
00:30:10Sure.
00:30:12Got a lot of chores to do for Miss McCain.
00:30:15I'll do them. Every one of them.
00:30:18A lot of wood to chop.
00:30:21I'll cut it.
00:30:23Honest, I will.
00:30:25Might be a little tough.
00:30:27Just with an axe. Not that you broke the saw.
00:30:30Yeah.
00:30:32But I'll do it.
00:30:35Hiya, Hans. What do you think?
00:30:37What?
00:30:39Look, one of these days I'll plant an acre of potatoes in one day.
00:30:42Maybe I'll get two. Do the whole thing in half a day.
00:30:45Who wants to plant potatoes?
00:30:47Hey, what do you think?
00:30:55Pretty good.
00:30:58How many?
00:31:00Six.
00:31:02That's a big one.
00:31:12Phew.
00:31:14I gotta get me a farm so far away from the ocean I never smell bait again.
00:31:19I go to Connecticut.
00:31:21Doesn't it smell in Connecticut?
00:31:23No. Nobody smell in Connecticut.
00:31:33Fish! Fish!
00:31:39Hey, where you go? Stay on the boat.
00:31:42Hey, Hans. He got something. Maybe a whale.
00:31:49Hold on to him, Donnie.
00:31:51Bring him in.
00:31:53Keep him coming. Keep him coming.
00:31:55Don't let him get any slack in your line now.
00:31:57That's a boy.
00:31:59Hey, he really has got something.
00:32:01You okay?
00:32:03Yeah.
00:32:04Any help?
00:32:05No. Can I get him?
00:32:07What do you think, Hans? Shark, maybe?
00:32:10No, I don't think so. Doesn't fight like a shark.
00:32:12More like a halibut.
00:32:16It won't give.
00:32:18Come on. Keep him coming.
00:32:20You got him, Donnie.
00:32:22Bring him in.
00:32:25Can you see it?
00:32:27There he is. Holy smoke!
00:32:30It is a halibut. Big as hell. It's a rock.
00:32:33Santa Maria. Son of a gun. What a fish.
00:32:37Halibut.
00:32:39K7.
00:32:42Lobsters.
00:32:46Here comes...
00:32:48Here comes 5780.
00:32:51Yeah, that's a pretty good day.
00:32:53Not bad.
00:32:55Mighty fine halibut.
00:32:57Here's biting.
00:32:59That depends on who's fishing for him, Nick.
00:33:02Do you haul him in?
00:33:04No.
00:33:05Joe get him?
00:33:07No. My new partner, Donnie Mitchell, he got him.
00:33:09Well, say, son, that's some fish.
00:33:12Mitchell, huh?
00:33:14You don't have to be no relation to old Captain My Mitchell or Johnny Mitchell now, would you?
00:33:18Captain My was my uncle.
00:33:20John was my father.
00:33:22Well, Donnie, there's your share.
00:33:24Two bits an hour, one and a quarter.
00:33:26Fifty-fifty. That makes $5.75.
00:33:29There you are. Cash on the barrel head.
00:33:32Gosh, I never earned that much.
00:33:35I had too good of a time.
00:33:37A lot of money, son. What you aim to buy with it?
00:33:41I'm gonna get me a brand new...
00:33:45Saw.
00:33:47Miss Anne!
00:33:49Hurry, Miss Anne! Hurry!
00:33:50Hello, Donnie.
00:33:51Look at the fish I caught.
00:33:53Hello, Ed.
00:33:54Joe.
00:33:55Say, that is really some fish, isn't it?
00:33:58Did you catch it, Donnie?
00:33:59Sure.
00:34:00All by himself. We don't give him no help. Not even one little bit.
00:34:03It's a halibut. Weighs 53 pounds. And look at the money.
00:34:06$5.75.
00:34:08Say, that's a lot of money. I think I should take up fishing.
00:34:11It's not a bad idea. You can ship with us.
00:34:13I could use another hand aboard. Providing you can cook.
00:34:16Well, that won't guarantee it.
00:34:18No, no fishing, Miss Anne. Buy yourself a farm. I raise potatoes.
00:34:21Will you go fishing with us?
00:34:23I'll think about it, Donnie.
00:34:24Look, you go up on the dock and get in my car and wait for me.
00:34:27But I gotta help Joe wash down the deck.
00:34:30I think Joe can do it alone.
00:34:31Oh, I'm not so sure.
00:34:33Look, I want to talk to Harvey. You go and wait for me.
00:34:37Yes?
00:34:45Anne, I wish you hadn't done that.
00:34:47What?
00:34:48Boy just had the biggest time of his life. You took some of the edge off it for him.
00:34:52I'm sorry, but that's what I wanted to talk to you about.
00:34:55You shouldn't have taken him out with you.
00:34:57What could happen to him, going out with me?
00:35:00On a boat in the open sea, a lot of things.
00:35:03If you want to look at it like that, he could fall down in the backyard and break his neck.
00:35:07Just going out on the boat...
00:35:09Oh, no, Hod.
00:35:10I was brought up here, too. And I know.
00:35:13Half the people in this town have lost somebody at sea.
00:35:16I know, Anne, but...
00:35:17You know.
00:35:18But do you really know?
00:35:21You go out there, but ask the women that have to sit at home and wait and watch and pray.
00:35:26Ask them if there's any danger on the open sea.
00:35:31Anne, are you talking about Donnie or about yourself?
00:35:35I'm talking about my responsibility.
00:35:37If something happened to Donnie, I'd never forgive myself.
00:35:42Suppose he wants to go, and I want to take him.
00:35:46Then you'll force me to move him somewhere else.
00:35:50I'm sorry, Anne, but that's the way it's got to be.
00:36:01Hi, Hod. We stay here all night?
00:36:09I'm hungry.
00:36:15Let's go.
00:36:28Oh, pretty blue ocean.
00:36:42Hello, kids. How are you?
00:36:44Good.
00:36:45Hey, what you doing out here?
00:36:47How come you're not in church, huh?
00:36:49How come you ain't?
00:36:50Me?
00:36:52Six o'clock I am there. Don't you worry about Joe.
00:36:55Church don't start till ten.
00:36:57What you mean?
00:36:58We got six o'clock mass, seven o'clock mass, eight o'clock mass. We got plenty mass.
00:37:04Oh, the other church, huh?
00:37:07What you doing?
00:37:08What you doing?
00:37:09Ah, heading up the traps. All the time, heading up the traps.
00:37:15You take my advice, kid. You want to be fisherman? Don't do it.
00:37:18You'll get yourself a nice farm.
00:37:22Hey, kid. Come here. I'll show you something.
00:37:27Look.
00:37:29Mink.
00:37:31Find fortune in fabulous furs.
00:37:35Something, huh?
00:37:37I'd rather fish.
00:37:38Wait, you don't see the whole thing.
00:37:40Now, this fella, he sell you Mama Mink and Papa Mink for $100.
00:37:46I like fishing better.
00:37:48Okay, well, okay. Now, look.
00:37:50When baby mink, they grow up.
00:37:52Don't like girls.
00:37:53Don't look at the girl. Look at the coat.
00:37:56You know how much that coat cost?
00:37:58$10,000. Think of that.
00:38:01Gee, that's more than a lobster bowl.
00:38:03Yeah, you betcha.
00:38:05Joe.
00:38:08Hi, Howard.
00:38:09Hi, Donnie. How the traps coming?
00:38:11Sure, sure. They coming. Pretty soon, they all fixed.
00:38:15That's a mighty fine house you got there.
00:38:17Yeah.
00:38:18Hey, Joe.
00:38:19Better head to the parlor. Too small on this one.
00:38:21Okay, I get him.
00:38:22Howard, I got something to ask you.
00:38:24What's that, Donnie?
00:38:25Well, I figured, well, I just...
00:38:28Well, look.
00:38:29With you and Joe living here alone, I figured...
00:38:31You figured what?
00:38:32Well, if I was here every day, I could do the chores for you and wait for you on the boat every day.
00:38:36You mean move in with me?
00:38:37Yeah, sure.
00:38:39Well, I'm sorry, Donnie.
00:38:40I don't think I can do that.
00:38:42I don't think I can do that.
00:38:44I don't think I can do that.
00:38:47Well, I'm sorry, Donnie. I couldn't do that.
00:38:50Miss McKay wouldn't mind. I paid her for the saw.
00:38:54Well, I'm sorry. I couldn't do it.
00:38:56I don't think the...
00:38:57School's out in a couple of weeks. Could I work steady for you all summer?
00:39:00Hey, Howard, that's a good idea.
00:39:02The kid, maybe he could...
00:39:03Never mind the idea.
00:39:04Let's go, Joe. We're going out. I'm sorry, Donnie.
00:39:07We go out?
00:39:08Yeah.
00:39:10Wasn't I all right yesterday?
00:39:12Yesterday you said I was your partner.
00:39:18That's right, Donnie. I did say that yesterday.
00:39:21But something's happened.
00:39:22We'll have to break that partnership.
00:39:26Fishing's not so good right now, and I...
00:39:28I'll bet that, Miss Sam. I'll bet you.
00:39:30She had nothing to do with it. Shove her off, Joe.
00:39:33I'll bet that, Miss Sam. I'll bet you.
00:39:35She had nothing to do with it. Shove her off, Joe.
00:40:03I'll bet you.
00:40:33I'll bet you.
00:41:04There.
00:41:05It's beautiful.
00:41:06Where will you put it so Donnie won't see it when he comes in?
00:41:09Put it in the pantry.
00:41:11Martin should be sending the ice cream over any minute now.
00:41:14I hope Donnie doesn't see him.
00:41:16I took care of that.
00:41:17I sent him down to the shoemakers to pick up a pair of shoes I'm having healed.
00:41:20I told the shoemaker to keep him there around five o'clock.
00:41:23Does he suspect anything?
00:41:25Oh, no, I don't think so.
00:41:27Oh, I want this to be a surprise.
00:41:29The poor little type probably hasn't had a birthday party since his uncle died.
00:41:57Help you?
00:42:00Nope.
00:42:01Figuring on taking the trip?
00:42:05Uh-uh.
00:42:06Say, ain't you the fellow up to Mary McKay's?
00:42:09Yeah.
00:42:10Say hello to Mary for me, will you?
00:42:12Tell her Dan, the taxi man.
00:42:56It's me.
00:43:00It's me.
00:43:26It's me.
00:43:46Looks like it's new to me.
00:43:49I ain't ever used it, honey.
00:43:52Why do you want to trade for it?
00:43:54I want to sell it.
00:43:56$7.50.
00:44:00Gonna do something special you want that much money for?
00:44:03Mm-hmm.
00:44:06I'll give you $4 for it.
00:44:10I gotta have $7.50.
00:44:13Couldn't come out on it at that price.
00:44:20I'll take $4.
00:44:27I'll take $4.
00:44:38Honey?
00:44:40Is that you?
00:44:43Yes.
00:44:47Did you get my shoes?
00:44:49No. My man said they wouldn't be ready till 5.
00:44:53Well, all right. We'll get them later.
00:44:54Go up to your room and stay there till I call you for supper.
00:44:56I don't want you going out anymore.
00:45:02Rats that shoemaker. He hasn't got the gumption to pull water out of a boot.
00:45:0625, 31, 2, 3, 4, 5, 35.
00:45:31Mrs. McKay. Mrs. McKay.
00:45:36Mrs. McKay. Who is it?
00:45:38It's Martin from the drugstore. Can I see you a minute?
00:45:45Shhh. Come in. He's upstairs now.
00:45:48Well, would it be all right if I put him in containers and bring it over after they sit down to supper?
00:45:52Yes, yes. Only if I haven't seen he's gone out for a seizure and suspects something.
00:45:55I'll be back in plenty of time.
00:46:06Donny.
00:46:37Donny?
00:46:43You hiding, Donny?
00:46:57Ann?
00:47:00Ann?
00:47:01Ann?
00:47:05He isn't up there.
00:47:07Isn't there?
00:47:09I'll bet he went back after your shoes.
00:47:13I told him to stay in his room.
00:47:19Looks like she's gonna blow some hot.
00:47:21Not much. A little rain squall over by Hazlitt's Rock probably won't come in this far.
00:47:27Let's put the boat on the mooring.
00:47:31All right.
00:48:02All right.
00:48:27Hey, here come Nick Driver. What he want?
00:48:30Must be Nick Driver. He's gone to Portland.
00:48:32It's his boat.
00:48:35Hey!
00:48:42Hey, Hans.
00:48:44Huh?
00:48:45It's the kid. It's Donny.
00:48:46Oh, no. What did he be doing out here?
00:48:48It's him, all right. When I wave, he see us and turn.
00:48:55So, boys, he's looking for us?
00:48:57He's taking a joy ride. That kid is crazy about boats.
00:49:05Hey, he's headed out to sea.
00:49:07He's a funny kid.
00:49:08I don't like this, Joe.
00:49:09He don't like me.
00:49:11Let go that mooring.
00:49:13Let go? I just tie her up.
00:49:14Let her go again.
00:49:28Oh, no.
00:49:30Oh, no.
00:49:56The kid not come this far.
00:50:00Hey!
00:50:08Hey, what's that?
00:50:11I thought I see something.
00:50:21There he is.
00:50:22Son of a gun, that kid.
00:50:25Hey!
00:50:27Donny!
00:50:29Donny!
00:50:32Donny!
00:50:33Donny!
00:50:57Look, he caught signs. He caught signs.
00:50:59All right, get a line, quick.
00:51:09He's too dead.
00:51:10Take the wheel.
00:51:15Swing his turn around as close to him as you can.
00:51:18Don't let the sea take you into the rocks.
00:51:27Better start your turn now.
00:51:45Put your arms in starboard.
00:51:47Come in broadside.
00:51:50Donny!
00:51:51Donny!
00:51:54Donny, listen.
00:51:55I'm gonna throw you a line.
00:51:58Here she comes.
00:52:05Donny.
00:52:07Get hold with both hands.
00:52:10Both hands, tight.
00:52:16No.
00:52:17Donny.
00:52:18Get hold with both hands.
00:52:21Both hands, tight.
00:52:29Take it ahead, but lift it on the rocks.
00:52:33Give it more power.
00:52:39Swing it around the starboard, Joe.
00:52:48That's the boy.
00:52:49I'll be here in a minute.
00:53:02We're going to the right, Joe.
00:53:04Look out, she swallows.
00:53:34Look out, she swallows.
00:54:05We're going to the left.
00:54:25Santa Maria, how we do that?
00:54:29I don't know.
00:54:30Have you sawed him?
00:54:59No.
00:55:04He certainly takes the surprise out of the surprise party, doesn't he?
00:55:08He couldn't keep the kids waiting any longer. They were starving.
00:55:14Do you suppose he could have gone back after your shoes?
00:55:16Oh, fiddlesticks, he could have done that in 30 minutes.
00:55:18We should have told him about the party.
00:55:20Oh, that would have spoiled everything.
00:55:22I wanted to see the expression on his face.
00:55:24That's trouble. We were having too much fun ourselves.
00:55:33Donnie, the party was with you.
00:55:36Yeah, again.
00:55:38Donnie.
00:55:41And wet.
00:55:42Yeah, he fell in the water again. Every time you do that, you get wet.
00:55:45Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
00:55:51Where have you been, Donnie?
00:56:05Donnie, get upstairs now and get out of those wet clothes before you get any longer. Hurry now. Hurry!
00:56:18I forgot his new suit.
00:56:30This is quite a setting to walk into after what's happened.
00:56:33That's what I want to know. What has happened?
00:56:34Come on, I'll tell you.
00:56:37Look here. Donnie stole Nick Driver's outboard and capsized off Hazlett's Rock. It's just a miracle he's here.
00:56:45He was trying to run away.
00:56:47Run away? Where?
00:56:49Oh, I don't know. Boston, out of the state. What difference does that make?
00:56:53The important thing is he'll keep right on doing it unless something's done.
00:56:56But I don't understand.
00:56:58Look, Ann. Donnie's a fisherman's kid. He's got fishing in his blood.
00:57:02You bring him to a fishing town where all he sees is boats and you put up a sign, keep off.
00:57:06What do you expect him to do?
00:57:08I've told you, Hart. The welfare board holds me responsible. It's my duty.
00:57:13I know. You told me that.
00:57:15You told me lots of things.
00:57:17There's one thing you didn't tell me or I was too stupid to see it.
00:57:20You're afraid, Ann. You're afraid of the sea.
00:57:23You're scared to death of it.
00:57:25All right. Suppose I am.
00:57:30I'm sorry. I'm sorry to have to say it.
00:57:33It's a terrible thing for you to fight, but it's affecting other people's lives, Ann.
00:57:36It's affecting Donnie's life.
00:57:38That's not fair.
00:57:41The boy can go good or he can go bad.
00:57:44It's up to you to make the decision.
00:58:15What's the matter with you?
00:58:17Why you don't do what it say in the book?
00:58:20Hey, Hart. Come here.
00:58:24What's up, family?
00:58:26No, that's the trouble.
00:58:28You think maybe Papa don't like Mama and Mama don't like Papa?
00:58:31Maybe they're both named Charlie.
00:58:33Oh, no. This one's name is Charlie.
00:58:35That's the trouble.
00:58:37You think maybe Papa don't like Mama and Mama don't like Papa?
00:58:40Maybe they're both named Charlie.
00:58:42Oh, no. This one's name is...
00:58:44Hart! Hart!
00:59:02Hiya, Donnie.
00:59:04Mr. Key said it was all right for me to come down and see you after school today.
00:59:08I'm glad to hear that, Donnie.
00:59:10You mean he'll let me work for you again?
00:59:14Well, there's just one thing we've got to get settled.
00:59:16What's that, Hart?
00:59:18Nick Driver's boat.
00:59:21We're going to pay for that.
00:59:23That's okay. Mr. McKay, he already paid it.
00:59:28Donnie.
00:59:30Donnie.
00:59:32Donnie.
00:59:34Donnie.
00:59:37Donnie.
00:59:40Do you think it's right for somebody else to pay for your mistakes?
00:59:44Nick Driver put a lot of store by that boat.
00:59:47If he'd reported to the police that you took it, you might have been sent to reform school.
00:59:53Well, if he'll take me on your boat and let me work...
00:59:56Mm-mm.
00:59:58Would you want a partner that didn't pay his debts?
01:00:01That's what I mean.
01:00:03If you let me work Saturdays till school's over,
01:00:06then I can work for you every day and pay back every cent of it.
01:00:09Honest, I will, Hart.
01:00:11Well, that sounds reasonable.
01:00:13I'll work hard, and I'll do all my chores.
01:00:16Every one of them. I will, Hart.
01:00:21Well...
01:00:23Start Saturday morning at 5.30.
01:00:26Oh, thanks, Hart.
01:00:28Gee, thanks. I ain't been home.
01:00:31I gotta tell Miss McGay!
01:00:34That's terrible.
01:00:36That's terrible.
01:00:38What's eating you?
01:00:40You're right, Hart. They're both named Charlie.
01:00:48Nothing to do but wait, I guess.
01:01:02Here he comes.
01:01:04You be sure he's the boy now before you accuse him of anything.
01:01:08Miss McGay!
01:01:15He's the boy, all right.
01:01:20Donnie, come here.
01:01:26Donnie, come here.
01:01:32Come here.
01:01:45This is Mr. Harris from the sheriff's office.
01:01:47This is Mr. Hopkins. He says you sold him a camera, did you, Donnie?
01:01:51Tell me the truth.
01:01:54Yes.
01:01:56Where did you get it, Donnie?
01:01:59At the bookstore.
01:02:01Did Mr. Martin give it to you?
01:02:04No.
01:02:06Then you just took the camera when no one was looking...
01:02:09and went and sold it to Mr. Hopkins here for $4.
01:02:12Is that correct?
01:02:15Yes, sir.
01:02:17Oh, Donnie.
01:02:19Mrs. McGay, I'll have to take him to Belport...
01:02:21and turn him over to the juvenile authorities.
01:02:30Donnie, I won't tell you not to take this hard.
01:02:34It's bitter hard.
01:02:37Just as we were beginning to understand each other.
01:02:42Donnie, I'll do all that I can to help you.
01:02:48Don't tell Hart.
01:02:50But Hart will want to help us.
01:02:52Don't tell him.
01:02:54Please, promise you won't tell Hart.
01:02:59I promise.
01:03:06We won't tell Hart, Donnie.
01:03:08I promise.
01:03:1114 and a half.
01:03:13Put it on the doctor's list, Larry.
01:03:15Okay, boss.
01:03:19Did you find him, Joe?
01:03:21No.
01:03:23Nobody home.
01:03:25The house is all closed up.
01:03:27I'll take care of it.
01:03:29I'll take care of it.
01:03:31I'll take care of it.
01:03:33I'll take care of it.
01:03:35I'll take care of it.
01:03:37I'll take care of it.
01:03:39The house is all closed up.
01:03:41Closed up?
01:03:43Miss McGillicuddy at the post office said Mary McCabe moved to Portland.
01:03:46She's gonna stay with her brother.
01:03:48Portland?
01:03:50That's funny.
01:03:52The kid didn't say anything about going away.
01:03:54Well, maybe he forgot.
01:03:56I'll pick up the mail.
01:03:58Let's go.
01:04:09Let's go.
01:04:27Joe.
01:04:29Take over.
01:04:32Reynolds Silver Fox Farm.
01:04:35Is that yours?
01:04:37Oh, yeah.
01:05:01Hey, Joe.
01:05:03I got a letter from the kid.
01:05:05Donnie?
01:05:07Yeah, he's in Ferris.
01:05:09What'd he say, hon?
01:05:11He's riding what looks more like chicken tracks.
01:05:13He says the state shifted him to a farm in Ferris.
01:05:16Oh, a farm. That's cool.
01:05:18Maybe he'll get a job for me.
01:05:20He says, I wanted you to know why I couldn't be there on Saturday.
01:05:26I wanted you to know why I couldn't be there on Saturday.
01:05:32It's kind of lonesome here on the farm.
01:05:37You don't get to go out much.
01:05:40Tell Joe hello.
01:05:42Tell Joe hello, huh? That's good.
01:05:44Hey, the kid is okay, huh?
01:05:46I don't know.
01:05:51You know, it's funny Mary McCabe would leave like that.
01:05:56Fox 317 Ferrison.
01:05:59Doesn't say who he's with.
01:06:01He's a kid. He don't think.
01:06:06Fox 317 Ferrison.
01:06:10Any farm in Ferrison would be out on an RFD.
01:06:14Ferrison.
01:06:17Hope it's a good farm.
01:06:19Hey, what'd they grow on farm in Ferrison?
01:06:21Fox 317.
01:06:23No RFD.
01:06:26You don't get to go out much.
01:06:31Hey, Joe.
01:06:33Stay to the westward of Little Spoon Island. Let's head for Belport.
01:06:36Belport? Why we do that?
01:06:38I want to find out something.
01:06:57Oh, I'm sorry.
01:06:59It's all right.
01:07:09Ann?
01:07:11Oh, hello, Hod.
01:07:13I got a letter from Donnie this morning.
01:07:16Oh?
01:07:18How was he?
01:07:20He didn't seem very happy.
01:07:22Where is he?
01:07:23Didn't he tell you?
01:07:25He said he was on a farm outside Ferrison.
01:07:28But he gave a box number in town.
01:07:30Oh.
01:07:31Well, is that right?
01:07:33Yes.
01:07:35The farm. Not far from Ferrison.
01:07:38What's the name of these people Donnie's staying with?
01:07:41I'd like to see him.
01:07:44Well, you ought to know.
01:07:46You're responsible for him. You put him there.
01:07:49Where is he?
01:07:51I can't tell you that.
01:07:53You can't or you won't?
01:07:57I promised that I wouldn't.
01:07:59Promised who?
01:08:02I thought when you decided to let Donnie come and work on my boat,
01:08:05that you'd beaten this fear of yours.
01:08:07But I guess you haven't.
01:08:09All right. You said you'd take him away, so now you have.
01:08:12Hod, I didn't.
01:08:14Please, you've got to believe me. That had nothing to do with it.
01:08:17Where is he?
01:08:19I just can't tell you.
01:08:21All right. I'll have to find out my own way.
01:08:23Hod, wait a minute.
01:08:28I know you don't believe me, but I've told you everything I can.
01:08:32Now I'm warning you.
01:08:34If you keep on, you're only going to hurt the boy.
01:08:39Hod!
01:08:51Hod!
01:09:21Hod!
01:09:37Holy smoke.
01:09:39He ain't in.
01:09:41What is it?
01:09:43What do you think, porpoise?
01:09:45I'll porpoise you.
01:09:48Hello, Josh.
01:09:50Well, come in.
01:09:52Sit down in the chair.
01:09:54Now, ain't that nourishing?
01:09:56I ain't seen you fellas in a dog's age.
01:09:58Wonder you wouldn't come and see a man sometime.
01:10:00Well, if you don't cork yourself from that chair once in a while...
01:10:02What you hiding there, huh?
01:10:04Oh, you know, sitting at a desk all the time.
01:10:06Sure. Big millionaire, counting your money.
01:10:08Millionaire? Listen, with taxes what they are,
01:10:10and working hours in the day getting fewer all the time.
01:10:13All right, all right. You fellas need something.
01:10:16This is something else.
01:10:18You're quite a political figure around here.
01:10:20Figure? National committeeman?
01:10:22State delegate? Honorary fire chief?
01:10:24Candidate for select man?
01:10:26Ain't it amazing the titles and badges a fella assumes
01:10:29for the good of the community?
01:10:31We don't tell nobody, Josh.
01:10:33Why, you Cape Verde sardine fisherman,
01:10:36I thought you was going to go to farming.
01:10:38Pretty quick now, you see.
01:10:40I want to ask you something, Josh. Shoot.
01:10:42Do you suppose you could use your connections
01:10:44at 317 in Ferriston?
01:10:46Ferriston? Sure. 317.
01:10:49Didn't fall for one of them matrimonial ads, did you?
01:10:52Jenny, get me a post office in Ferriston.
01:10:55Bill, uh, Bill Murray.
01:10:57Ah, here.
01:10:59Nowhere.
01:11:01Good ones. No obligation to vote.
01:11:03Hello?
01:11:05Hello, Bill.
01:11:07Uh, Josh Hoovey.
01:11:09Great. Yeah.
01:11:11Yeah.
01:11:13You better will.
01:11:15Say, Bill, you know offhand who rents Box 317?
01:11:19One-seven.
01:11:22What?
01:11:26No. No. Just for a friend.
01:11:29Yeah. Well, thanks, Bill.
01:11:32Sure do. Yeah.
01:11:36Box 317.
01:11:38That's the state reform school.
01:11:41The what?
01:11:43Oh.
01:11:47Josh, do you remember Johnny Mitchell?
01:11:50Johnny? Sure.
01:11:52We shipped with him, didn't we, Joe,
01:11:54on old Maya Mitchell's schooner, the, uh, Emily T, wasn't it?
01:11:57Sure. I forget. The Emily T. That's the one.
01:12:00Johnny's boy.
01:12:02He's in this reform school at Ferriston.
01:12:05I want you to help me get him out.
01:12:09That's a tall order from reform school.
01:12:13What could you do with him, even if you got him out?
01:12:16Adopt him.
01:12:18Adopt him?
01:12:20Yeah. You want to help me?
01:12:23Todd, you can have the boot yard if you want it.
01:12:26As a matter of fact, I'll take it on one condition,
01:12:29if that chair goes with it.
01:12:31I already made the arrangements to be buried in it.
01:12:34I'll do what I can.
01:12:36Couldn't ask any more, Josh. Thanks very much.
01:12:38Oh, it's nice to see you. Nice to see you, too.
01:12:40You bet I will. Yes.
01:12:42Goodbye, Joe. Bye-bye, Joe.
01:12:44Hey, it's a good politic cigar, Josh.
01:12:46Don't forget to drop in again now, boys.
01:12:58Jenny, get me Hank Wilson in Ferriston.
01:13:01I want to talk to him.
01:13:03Oh, no, better yet, get me Claude Lutz in Bellport.
01:13:07The county courthouse, I think. Yes.
01:13:17Okay, Charlie.
01:13:24You got a pen?
01:13:26You got him a house.
01:13:28Now, do what the books say.
01:13:34HORN BLOWS
01:13:40Josh, hold it.
01:13:59Hello, Josh. Hello.
01:14:01Hello, Joe. Hey, it's a nice boat.
01:14:03Yeah.
01:14:06Well, Hod, it took time, like I told you.
01:14:09And I may have to vote for Judge Tate next year.
01:14:11But I got your hearing.
01:14:13For when?
01:14:15Tuesday. That's the 10th, ain't it?
01:14:17Courthouse in Bellport.
01:14:19It's not gonna be easy, Hod.
01:14:21That kid was arrested for stealing.
01:14:23Stole a camera and sold it.
01:14:26Oh. He's a warden of the state.
01:14:28And not too good a record.
01:14:30If you take my advice, Hod, you'll get all the people you can on your side.
01:14:33You'll need plenty of help.
01:14:35I got in all the licks I could.
01:14:37Tate's a tough old customer.
01:14:39But he's honest.
01:14:42Thanks, Josh.
01:14:44I guess the best we can do is try.
01:14:47Like your place.
01:14:49Always did envy the fellow who had an island.
01:14:54Wanna sail?
01:14:56Not a chance. You better stick to this.
01:14:58This is for sale.
01:15:00You don't think I'd own it, do you?
01:15:02Well, I guess I better be moving on back.
01:15:04Shove off, boys.
01:15:07Hey, Josh. How much that cost?
01:15:09The boat?
01:15:10No. Who want that?
01:15:12The whistle.
01:15:14So long, Josh. Thanks again.
01:15:16Goodbye, Josh.
01:15:17Goodbye.
01:15:29What a way Joe is.
01:15:33He was supposed to meet us here.
01:15:35If he had to wait, he probably went inside, where he could sit down.
01:15:41Hod, what about this Ann Freeman?
01:15:43Is she in line?
01:15:45I don't know.
01:15:47I don't see how she could stand in the way of an adoption, but...
01:15:51You know, I don't know.
01:15:54I don't see how she could stand in the way of an adoption, but...
01:15:58I just don't know, Josh.
01:16:23Good morning.
01:16:40Good morning, Judge.
01:16:41Well, Howie, how are you?
01:16:43Fine. I want you to meet a friend of mine, a fine fellow.
01:16:46Mr. Stilwell, this is Judge Tate.
01:16:48How do you do, sir?
01:16:49How do you do? Sit down.
01:16:51Mr. Freeman, I'm Judge Tate. Sit down, please.
01:16:58As this is more or less of a family affair, I don't think we need to be so formal.
01:17:05Miss Freeman, will you sit here?
01:17:07Mr. Stilwell, why don't you move in a little closer?
01:17:09I'm sure she won't mind.
01:17:12I usually handle these matters in my chambers, but I have the boy in there,
01:17:16and I don't want to arouse any false hopes of him.
01:17:22This is Mr. Stilwell's petition to adopt Donald Mitchell,
01:17:25a ward of the State of Maine,
01:17:27sentenced to the State Reform School on June 3rd of this year.
01:17:32Now, Mr. Stilwell, since you're a single man,
01:17:36and it's rather unusual for you to be here,
01:17:38Mr. Stilwell, since you're a single man,
01:17:40and it's rather unusual for a bachelor to adopt a child,
01:17:43I wonder if you'd start by giving me some of your reasons.
01:17:48Well, I know this boy very well.
01:17:51I knew his father and his uncle.
01:17:55And I'm sure that I can give him more advantages than the State Reform School.
01:17:59We won't go into a discussion of our state institutions, sir,
01:18:02which have a remarkably fine record,
01:18:04and whose problems I feel certain you are in no position to discuss.
01:18:08I beg your pardon?
01:18:11Are you financially able and prepared to care for the boy?
01:18:16I... I think so.
01:18:18I'm a lobsterman.
01:18:20I own my own home,
01:18:22my own boat,
01:18:24and, of course, I haven't got any big bank balance,
01:18:28but I make a pretty good living.
01:18:30Why too late?
01:18:31Madam, this is a private hearing.
01:18:33If you are not an interested party, I...
01:18:35I'd like to know who's more interested than I am.
01:18:37Johnny Mitchell lived in my house.
01:18:40Mary McCain.
01:18:42I didn't recognize you.
01:18:43Hello, Walter.
01:18:45Come around here, Mary.
01:18:46I didn't mean to disturb your court, sir.
01:18:48Oh, we're just discussing a matter.
01:18:50Mr. Stilwell here has requested the State to permit him to adopt young Mitchell.
01:18:54Well, why shouldn't he?
01:18:55It's the best thing that could happen to him.
01:18:57It's about time somebody took an interest in that boy.
01:18:59He's been moved around from pillar to post...
01:19:01Now, wait a minute, Mary.
01:19:02Wait a minute? Nothing.
01:19:03That boy's gonna get a square deal if I have to set fire to the courthouse,
01:19:06and you're not gonna stop me.
01:19:07Mary, if you'll just sit in with us and listen...
01:19:09Now, Walter, I've known you since you were knee-high to a grasshopper,
01:19:11and I've always liked you, but I'm warning you.
01:19:13If you stand in the way of this boy getting into a good home
01:19:15with a boy that understands him, I'll...
01:19:18Mary, the court can only listen to both sides
01:19:21and try and decide what's best for the boy's welfare.
01:19:24I'm not opposed to the adoption.
01:19:27You mean I came all the way from Portland for nothing?
01:19:30Why'd you send for me for?
01:19:33Will you please sit down?
01:19:41We still have no expression of opinion from the welfare board on the subject.
01:19:45Miss Freeman?
01:19:48Your Honor,
01:19:50the welfare board felt that it was better to raise Donnie Mitchell
01:19:53for some inland occupation,
01:19:55so we sent him to several inland homes and farms.
01:19:59We were wrong.
01:20:01Every attempt we made to distract him from the sea
01:20:04resulted in some insubordination.
01:20:08Yes, go on.
01:20:12There just seemed to be something so deep-rooted,
01:20:16so strong and compelling about this...
01:20:19this calling for the sea,
01:20:22that it was useless to fight against it.
01:20:26I've tried...
01:20:28and failed.
01:20:34Donnie needs love,
01:20:36guidance
01:20:38from someone he trusts.
01:20:41He needs it especially now, after what he's been through.
01:20:45I'm sure, if given these things,
01:20:48he can be raised to be a good citizen
01:20:51in a useful and honorable trade.
01:20:56The board recommends the petition be granted.
01:21:00Well, Your Honor...
01:21:01Let us not jump to any conclusions.
01:21:04I am in complete sympathy with your views,
01:21:07but I have a very grave responsibility in a case like this.
01:21:11Before I can make any decision,
01:21:13I must know what the boy's feelings are.
01:21:21Come on. Come on.
01:21:37Nothing to be frightened of, Donnie.
01:21:39These are all old friends.
01:21:41You know Mr. Stilwell, Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. McKay.
01:21:44Now, Donnie,
01:21:46Mr. Stilwell wants you to come and live with him.
01:21:49He wants to adopt you.
01:21:51Make you a son.
01:21:53Don't you like that?
01:21:56No.
01:22:02Donnie.
01:22:06Don't you want to come and live with Joe and me?
01:22:09Work on the boat every day? Be my partner?
01:22:12No.
01:22:15Why?
01:22:17I got reasons.
01:22:22Excuse me, Mr. Judge.
01:22:24Is okay if I talk?
01:22:26Yes.
01:22:28Donnie, you come to live with Hart and Joe,
01:22:31and Joe, he no buy the farm.
01:22:34He no raise minks.
01:22:36He stay with you.
01:22:38We fish every day.
01:22:40Every day.
01:22:46Okay, Donnie?
01:22:48No.
01:22:51Donnie.
01:22:53Come here.
01:22:56Come here. I want to talk to you.
01:23:02Don't you like Hart anymore?
01:23:04Yes.
01:23:06Then why don't you want to go and live with him and be on his boat again?
01:23:10Because I went to reform school, that's why.
01:23:13Because I stole a camera.
01:23:16I knew that, son.
01:23:20You did?
01:23:21Sure.
01:23:22And you didn't care?
01:23:24Of course not.
01:23:25But I done it when you told me never to, Hart.
01:23:28I know, Donnie.
01:23:30You made a mistake.
01:23:32But you paid for it.
01:23:34We all make mistakes sometimes.
01:23:37The important thing is not to make them again.
01:23:55That's all, Joe.
01:23:56Okay.
01:24:03Donnie, take us home.
01:24:06Yes, sir.
01:24:08Start the steer, Joe.
01:24:11Okay, skipper.
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