The Strange Woman (1946) [Film Noir] [Drama]
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The Strange Woman (1946) [Film Noir] [Drama]
Woman" is an American film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Hedy Lamarr, and released by United Artists. An unscrupulous 19th-century woman will stop at nothing to control the men in her life.
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Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, produced by Jack Chertok (producer), Hedy Lamarr (executive producer), Eugen Schüfftan (producer) and Hunt Stromberg (executive producer), written by Ben Ames Williams (novel), Herb Meadow (screenplay), Hunt Stromberg (writer) and Edgar G. Ulmer (writer), starring Hedy Lamarr as Jenny Hager, George Sanders as John Evered, Louis Hayward as Ephraim Poster, Hillary Brooke as Meg Saladine and Gene Lockhart as Isaiah Poster.
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The Strange Woman (1946) [Film Noir] [Drama]
Woman" is an American film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Hedy Lamarr, and released by United Artists. An unscrupulous 19th-century woman will stop at nothing to control the men in her life.
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Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, produced by Jack Chertok (producer), Hedy Lamarr (executive producer), Eugen Schüfftan (producer) and Hunt Stromberg (executive producer), written by Ben Ames Williams (novel), Herb Meadow (screenplay), Hunt Stromberg (writer) and Edgar G. Ulmer (writer), starring Hedy Lamarr as Jenny Hager, George Sanders as John Evered, Louis Hayward as Ephraim Poster, Hillary Brooke as Meg Saladine and Gene Lockhart as Isaiah Poster.
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00:01:31Whiskey.
00:01:32Ah, Tim Hager. Two scrubbing brushes.
00:01:35Another pint.
00:01:36Where's your money?
00:01:37Well, I...
00:01:38Two chimneys.
00:01:40Poster, would you deny drink to a dying man?
00:01:43A man should spend his money on food for his family.
00:01:45Mrs. Coggins, would you come over here?
00:01:47I want to show you a new piece of material.
00:01:49It's fresh off the Boston packet.
00:01:50Isn't that a fine quality? Now feel it.
00:01:52It'll be a wonderful dress for your little girl.
00:01:54Don't you think so?
00:01:55It's money, money, money, will you, Poster?
00:01:57Nothing but money.
00:01:59I've been sorry for him ever since his wife ran off with that lieutenant.
00:02:03If he'd spent less on whiskey, he wouldn't have lost his wife.
00:02:05Let me show you another piece.
00:02:07Drunk or sober, Ma would have left him anyhow.
00:02:10She was that kind.
00:02:11How do you like that for quality, huh?
00:02:13Let him have it.
00:02:17Very well, Tim Hager.
00:02:18You'll have your whiskey.
00:02:21But this is the last time...
00:02:22All right, all right, Poster. No preaching.
00:02:24It's his little girl I feel sorry for.
00:02:28Poor little Jenny Hager.
00:02:30Faster, faster!
00:02:32Can't you swim any faster?
00:02:39You're not even plying.
00:02:41Faster, faster, faster!
00:02:43Faster, faster!
00:02:46Come on, faster!
00:02:55She's never finished!
00:02:57Jenny Hager, you make me lose!
00:02:59You always blame it on something.
00:03:01I hate losers.
00:03:03Come on, Ephraim. Get ready and I'll race you.
00:03:05But Jenny, I can't swim.
00:03:07You'll never learn till you get out in deep water.
00:03:09But I'm not cold.
00:03:11You're scared of the water.
00:03:13Oh, why don't you go help your father in the store?
00:03:15Measure out coffee and count Wormy now.
00:03:20You're no good down here.
00:03:22You're no good down here.
00:03:24Come on, Ephraim.
00:03:25You can't swim till you try.
00:03:26Go ahead, Ephraim.
00:03:31You'll drown.
00:03:31I don't care.
00:03:32Let's put him out.
00:03:33No.
00:03:34No.
00:03:36He's scared to death.
00:03:40Jenny, you'll drown.
00:03:42Who cares?
00:03:43What's all that racking about?
00:03:45It's just fun!
00:03:46Just run for it.
00:03:49Poor Ephraim.
00:03:50Poor, poor Ephraim.
00:03:52I'll take him.
00:03:54Come on.
00:03:57Hey, what's going on here?
00:03:59Good gracious.
00:04:01It's Ephraim Pulser.
00:04:02What's he doing in the river?
00:04:04He can't swim, Jenny.
00:04:06What happened, Jenny?
00:04:07The golf ball, he's pushed it in.
00:04:10Poor Ephraim.
00:04:11Nearly murdered, that's what it is.
00:04:13If it hadn't been for you, Jenny, he'd have drowned.
00:04:16If it hadn't been for you, Jenny, he'd have drowned.
00:04:18You all right, Ephraim?
00:04:19The boy didn't do it.
00:04:26There we are.
00:04:28Ah, Tim, just in time.
00:04:29This little girl of yours is just...
00:04:32Tim Hager.
00:04:34Stumbling drunk in the middle of the day.
00:04:35You ought to be looking after your Jenny,
00:04:37not going from tavern to tavern like...
00:04:38Jenny, I have no wife to care for either of us now.
00:04:42It takes money to bring up a fine lass, your Honor.
00:04:44You mean it takes money to keep yourself drunk?
00:04:47Papa, let Jenny come to boarding school with me.
00:04:50Would you like to come to boarding school with me, Jenny?
00:04:53Would you?
00:04:54Boarding school?
00:04:56Yes, I'd like that.
00:04:59I can't send you to boarding school,
00:05:00but you could come live at the house and earn your keep, I guess.
00:05:03Help in the kitchen and run errands for Mrs. Salvador.
00:05:06No.
00:05:07If I can't go to boarding school with Meg,
00:05:09I'll stay with my father.
00:05:11All right.
00:05:12He is your father, at least in the eyes of the law.
00:05:16Now you look after that girl of yours, Tim Hager,
00:05:18and stop being a disgraced abandoner.
00:05:21Thank you, Your Honor.
00:05:23Drive on.
00:05:25Now, young toaster, we'll take you to your father's store.
00:05:27That tight-fisted, sour-blooded old scamp, huh?
00:05:32You might be better off with Mr. Saladine, Jenny.
00:05:35Not in Mr. Saladine's kitchen.
00:05:37I've no money to bring you up properly.
00:05:40Never mind.
00:05:42Before long, we'll have everything.
00:05:44Houses and carriages, horses and kitchen maids.
00:05:48All those things, my lass.
00:05:50You're a wee bit young.
00:05:52Just as soon as I grow up, we'll have everything we want.
00:05:56Because I'm going to be beautiful.
00:06:00Tim, beautiful.
00:06:11What can I do for the drunkard's savior?
00:06:16What can I do for the drunkard's savior?
00:06:23I am the bones, and I am, I am the bones.
00:06:39High up she rises, oh, high up she rises, high, high up she rises.
00:06:44Lena!
00:06:45Lena!
00:06:48How do I look?
00:06:50Nice, nice.
00:06:52Enough ribbon?
00:06:53Not for me, but the real ladies have different ideas.
00:06:57Get some more color in your cheeks.
00:07:00And, uh, bite your lips whenever no one's looking.
00:07:06Men love red lips.
00:07:08Go down and meet the packet.
00:07:09Why should I?
00:07:10The sailors will all come up here anyway.
00:07:11Oh, but the best ones get picked off down at the dock.
00:07:14Listen, honey, with your looks, you don't have to worry.
00:07:17Why, you can get the youngest and the best-looking men on the river.
00:07:20I don't want the youngest.
00:07:21I want the richest.
00:07:23Jenny, that's a recipe for trouble.
00:07:25Don't worry about me.
00:07:27I can handle trouble.
00:07:29I know you can.
00:07:36Whiskey.
00:07:37All right, Mr. Hager, but you needn't holler.
00:07:40Someone might hear you out in the street.
00:07:42Who, for instance?
00:07:44Jenny, for instance.
00:07:46Jenny.
00:07:55Put some life into those men.
00:07:57Come on.
00:07:58Heave!
00:07:59Away!
00:08:00Heave!
00:08:01Yo-ho!
00:08:02Heave!
00:08:03Away!
00:08:04Heave!
00:08:05Heave!
00:08:06Yo-ho!
00:08:07Well, Jenny, come down and see the cargo?
00:08:10It's exciting.
00:08:11We get used to it after a time.
00:08:14I suppose I import more stuff than any other man in the state of Maine.
00:08:18How many vessels do you think I own, counting the lumber barges?
00:08:22Fifty-six.
00:08:24Who told you?
00:08:26Somebody.
00:08:27Here, have some tea.
00:08:29Got a handkerchief?
00:08:31Oh, I don't need one.
00:08:33Take a good handful of it there.
00:08:35It's a present.
00:08:36Heave!
00:08:37Heave!
00:08:38Away!
00:08:39Away!
00:08:41The work was hard and the voyage was long.
00:08:48The seas were high and the gales were strong.
00:08:54So heave!
00:08:56Heave!
00:08:58Some haul away together.
00:09:02The sails are firm.
00:09:04Our work is done.
00:09:06Yo-ho!
00:09:08I thought I heard the skipper say,
00:09:10Leave her, John, leave her.
00:09:12Tomorrow you'll get your pay.
00:09:14Most people think it's easy to get to be a rich man.
00:09:17But believe me, it's hard.
00:09:19When I first came to this town over thirty years ago
00:09:22with nothing but a peddler's pack on my back, I...
00:09:26Hey, you!
00:09:27You!
00:09:28Get away from that girl!
00:09:31Hey, you!
00:09:32Wait!
00:09:34I thought I heard the skipper say,
00:09:38Leave her, John, leave her.
00:09:41Tomorrow you'll get your pay.
00:09:45Well, I was just thinking to myself,
00:09:50I bet my good old friend Tim Hager is sitting right this very minute
00:09:55in the purple whale
00:09:57My good old friend Tim Hager is sitting right this very minute in the purple whale
00:10:01and wouldn't mind passing the time of day with me.
00:10:03Lena.
00:10:04What do you want?
00:10:05A glass of whiskey for Mr. Hager.
00:10:07Sure.
00:10:08Go on, Tim.
00:10:09Drink up.
00:10:10The next one's on me.
00:10:11You'll not tell Jenny?
00:10:12No, of course not.
00:10:13I promised her not to touch it.
00:10:15You're Jenny.
00:10:16You know, she's getting so she wants to boss everything and everybody.
00:10:20She's grown too beautiful for her own good.
00:10:23Why do you always wish to be talking about Jenny?
00:10:26I don't think I like why you always want to be talking about Jenny.
00:10:29Oh, now wait, Tim.
00:10:30Give him a rum and whiskey.
00:10:31We're not bringing him a Jenny.
00:10:32I know what you're up to.
00:10:33I?
00:10:34Oh, why, I'm just a dried up old herring.
00:10:35She's too young and beautiful.
00:10:36So's your lad.
00:10:37And you sent him to Cambridge to keep him away from her.
00:10:38He from?
00:10:39Why, he's too shy and scared of her.
00:10:40She's full of spirit.
00:10:41She's for somebody like that first mate.
00:10:42I don't think I like why you always want to be talking about Jenny.
00:10:43Oh, now wait, Tim.
00:10:44Give him a rum and whiskey.
00:10:45We're not bringing him a Jenny.
00:10:46I know what you're up to.
00:10:47I?
00:10:48Oh, why, I'm just a dried up old herring.
00:10:50Why, he's too shy and scared of her.
00:10:52She's full of spirit.
00:10:53She's for somebody like that first mate.
00:10:56What first mate?
00:10:57Why, uh...
00:10:58What first mate?
00:10:59Why, Louis, why, first aboard the gadfly.
00:11:00He's as handsome as the old Nick, that boy.
00:11:01When I saw him and your Jenny walking away just now, I said to myself, there's a youngster
00:11:11who knows his way about with the women.
00:11:15Where are you going?
00:11:19Home.
00:11:20Good night.
00:11:21Oh, once I loved a pretty girl and I called Jenny mine.
00:11:45You're like your mother.
00:11:49A woman.
00:11:50That's what you are.
00:11:51Just like your mother.
00:11:52You'd like to keep me here forever, wouldn't you?
00:11:53Well, you couldn't hold mother and you won't hold me.
00:11:54Aye, but I will, Jenny.
00:11:55No.
00:11:56This isn't the life I was born for.
00:11:57Men like me.
00:11:58And it's the men who have the money in this world.
00:11:59When a proper man comes along, he's a man.
00:12:00And I'm a woman.
00:12:01I'm a woman.
00:12:02I'm a woman.
00:12:03I'm a woman.
00:12:04I'm a woman.
00:12:05I'm a woman.
00:12:06I'm a woman.
00:12:07I'm a woman.
00:12:08I'm a woman.
00:12:09I'm a woman.
00:12:10I'm a woman.
00:12:11I'm a woman.
00:12:12I'm a woman.
00:12:13I'm a woman.
00:12:14I'm not afraid of anything.
00:12:15You take him walking in the dark and kill him, most likely.
00:12:18I know you don't want any man ever to look at me.
00:12:22But they do.
00:12:23You only lead them on, Jenny.
00:12:25It's so easy for you to turn a man's head.
00:12:28Not with you at my elbow all the time.
00:12:30There have been dozens of proper men ready to take me out
00:12:33of this trap.
00:12:34But will you ever let me go?
00:12:40I know Mr. Foster wants me.
00:12:41I made him want me. What do you think of that?
00:12:44There's a devil in it, isn't there?
00:12:47A devil straight from the bad place.
00:12:51And I'm going to whip him out of here.
00:12:53You're going to beat him.
00:12:55This is one beating you're not like.
00:13:11Get him!
00:13:31Get him!
00:13:41Get him!
00:13:43Get him!
00:14:09Mr. Poster!
00:14:11Let me in, Mr. Poster.
00:14:13All right. All right.
00:14:22Don't let him in. Don't let him get me.
00:14:24He'll kill me, Mr. Poster.
00:14:26What is it, Jenny girl? Who's after you?
00:14:29Father took after me with a whip.
00:14:31Land of promise, Mr. Poster.
00:14:33Come help her, Mrs. Hollis.
00:14:35There now, Jenny. Don't worry. Everything's going to be all right.
00:14:38You bathe her and rub some butter on them bruises and put her in my bed.
00:14:41Oh, that Tim Hager, he ought to be birched.
00:14:43That would take six men to do it.
00:14:45He's big, Mrs. Hollis, but no bigger than righteousness.
00:14:48If the town don't birch him, he'll be birched by the Lord.
00:14:51You showed good sense, Jenny, in coming to me.
00:14:54I'll do this. You stay outside.
00:14:58Oh, there now.
00:15:00If you keep on crying, your face will be all swollen up tomorrow.
00:15:03And that's no way for a pretty face to be.
00:15:07He held me with one hand so that I couldn't move.
00:15:10And then he beat me and beat me until I thought I...
00:15:17Look. Look at my back.
00:15:23I can't go back there. I can't.
00:15:26He's going to kill me.
00:15:28You're not going anywhere until you're healed and sound again.
00:15:31Now you get out of these things while I heat up some water.
00:15:34I'll be as good as new and just...
00:15:38Yes, Mr. Poster.
00:15:40Something you wanted?
00:15:59Drove her out into the night like a dog that wouldn't obey.
00:16:02Reverend, it's the rum that does it.
00:16:04We ought to scourge every tavernkeeper out of town and into the river.
00:16:08If I had my way...
00:16:09We ought to be deciding about the girl, Deacon Adams.
00:16:11There's been enough scourging for one night.
00:16:13One thing is decided.
00:16:15The girl mustn't go back to her father.
00:16:17No. Someone must take her in.
00:16:19I would. Only my daughter Mary doesn't like the poor girl.
00:16:23Then she's not for your house, Reverend.
00:16:26Make a bad situation worse.
00:16:28I guess we could use her to clean and maybe help in the kitchen.
00:16:31But a young girl eats like a man.
00:16:33It's more than vitals, Deacon Adams.
00:16:35Your wife has all the understanding in her heart that a man could ask.
00:16:39But Jenny's of marriageable age.
00:16:42Yes, that's bad.
00:16:44And yet we can't turn her loose on the town's charity.
00:16:48She needs a home.
00:16:50Well, yours is fairly empty.
00:16:52Leave me out of it.
00:16:54It wouldn't be suitable for me to take her into my house.
00:16:57I have no wife.
00:16:59You have a housekeeper, a very respectable woman.
00:17:02But she might leave me, and I'm not able to get another.
00:17:06We'd have a scandal in the town.
00:17:08Aye.
00:17:09No, marriage is the only answer.
00:17:12And the answer to that is a younger man.
00:17:14What about your son Ephraim?
00:17:16They used to be so much together.
00:17:18Oh, he's a schoolboy,
00:17:20frittering away his time at college.
00:17:22She needs a responsible man.
00:17:24Well, there must be someone.
00:17:26A pretty girl always has a lot of friends.
00:17:28But her friends, most of them no older than her.
00:17:31It's our duty to find her a good home,
00:17:34an honorable name, regardless of the man's age.
00:17:37And it should be somebody with money.
00:17:39And by that description, Mr. Poster,
00:17:41you've named yourself.
00:17:45Oh.
00:17:47Oh, no.
00:17:49She turned first of all to you, Isaiah.
00:17:52Besides, I know you're not a man
00:17:54to thrust a suffering lamb back into the wilderness.
00:18:00Maybe she won't have me.
00:18:02She'll marry you, Isaiah.
00:18:04She's a sensible girl.
00:18:06And in the meantime...
00:18:11Mary!
00:18:14Mary.
00:18:16Bring me one of your dresses.
00:18:18Anything, only not too expensive.
00:18:24It'd be good to you, Jenny, if you married me.
00:18:27Like a father.
00:18:29A good father.
00:18:31And he ought to know how with a son your age.
00:18:33You can go back to sleep now, Mrs. Hollis.
00:18:35You've done all you can for tonight.
00:18:37I'll make up Mr. Ephraim's bed for you, Mr. Poster.
00:18:40It ain't as warm there, but you'll be comfortable.
00:18:45Your father couldn't come after you, Jenny,
00:18:47if you married Mr. Poster.
00:18:49You'd be free.
00:18:52An intelligent girl thinks of the future
00:18:54when she chooses a husband.
00:18:57I could marry you to each other right now, Jenny.
00:19:01And you'd be a rich woman.
00:19:05It's for you to decide.
00:19:21I'm sorry.
00:19:43And when my father died, I turned to the only friend I had,
00:19:47Mr. Poster.
00:19:49And I began taking him into his home
00:19:51and giving you a nice young mother.
00:19:54Think of all that means, Ephraim.
00:19:56You must learn to say yes, ma'am,
00:19:58like a proper son,
00:20:00because I shall demand obedience and love.
00:20:03And if you refuse, my dear son,
00:20:05I shall punish you by not kissing you goodnight.
00:20:09Now, Ephraim, do come home
00:20:11and see what a fine parent I can be.
00:20:14I do think families should be close, don't you?
00:20:20Jenny?
00:20:22Why, Meg, Saladine, come in.
00:20:24Oh, if you're busy, Jenny, I can...
00:20:26No, don't go away.
00:20:28I, um...
00:20:29I was just ordering something from Boston.
00:20:32Something to brighten up the house.
00:20:34How nice. Mr. Poster's a very lucky man.
00:20:37This has been a very lonely house for him.
00:20:39Oh, I'm going to make a lot of changes.
00:20:42Meg?
00:20:43Yes?
00:20:44Will you help me?
00:20:45Of course, Jenny, of course.
00:20:48The water glass always here.
00:20:50And the wine glass here.
00:20:52And...
00:20:53Oh, Jenny, you'll have to get rings for the napkins.
00:20:56Now, the biggest plate here.
00:20:58Oh, money changes everything.
00:21:01All I ever needed before was a knife and a spoon.
00:21:04But you want to be a lady.
00:21:06Give dinner parties and entertain your husband's friends.
00:21:08I'm sure Cleopatra never bothered about napkin rings.
00:21:11She didn't live in Bangkok.
00:21:12Oh, that wouldn't have stopped her.
00:21:14It wasn't by knowing how to set a table that Cleopatra got along.
00:21:18Oh, Jenny.
00:21:20Every time I say something true about men and women, you say Jenny.
00:21:24Why does a proper lady have to be embarrassed about plain talk?
00:21:28It isn't honest.
00:21:29And it makes old maids.
00:21:35Doesn't anyone here care about church?
00:21:37Judge Saladine and Mr. Poster are waiting outside.
00:21:40And I'm in the ladies' choir.
00:21:43Didn't apply to me, that remark about old maids.
00:21:45I've already met my very special gentleman.
00:21:47He's not anyone in Bangkok.
00:21:49His name's John Everett. He's the woods boss for your husband.
00:21:51And he's a very educated man.
00:21:54Is he young?
00:21:55A little older than I am.
00:21:57Good-looking?
00:21:58He's beautiful.
00:22:06Why don't you marry him?
00:22:12He won't. He has no money.
00:22:14Oh, that's nonsense.
00:22:16Does he love you?
00:22:17Yes.
00:22:18And you love him? Then make him marry you.
00:22:20Oh, Jenny, I wish I knew how.
00:22:22He's not like the others. He...
00:22:24He thinks things out.
00:22:26I'd know how.
00:22:34I wouldn't give him a chance to think.
00:22:42Not what we wish, but what we want.
00:22:46Oh, let thy grace supply.
00:22:52Jenny Hager.
00:22:54Jenny Poster.
00:23:02Before me sit the wealthiest families in Bangor.
00:23:05I've seen them before in the privacy of their homes.
00:23:08When I came to them to ask for money to enlarge this church,
00:23:11they gave me not enough to erect a temple of branches on a hillside.
00:23:15And so again today, in the house of God,
00:23:18as they sit here with their consciences,
00:23:20I ask them now to pledge funds to enlarge this church.
00:23:25I cannot ask of the poor,
00:23:28but I can ask the wealthy.
00:23:30And the poor, I ask of the rich.
00:23:33I cannot ask of the poor,
00:23:35but I can ask the wealthy.
00:23:38And the poor shall know the names of those who do not give.
00:23:44Mr. Poster.
00:23:55Judge Saladine.
00:23:58Mr. Burroughs.
00:24:00Mr. Bailey.
00:24:03Mr. Clayton.
00:24:05This is intolerable.
00:24:07If you have no feeling for your fellow men,
00:24:09at least take some interest in the welfare of your own children.
00:24:12Grug shops and low houses cover every inch of our waterfront.
00:24:17Our wealth is poured into Devil's Half Acre.
00:24:20And our young men, your sons, have nowhere else to go.
00:24:25Give me a bigger church, and I'll keep them here.
00:24:30Will no one pledge to the church
00:24:33more than just enough to save his face?
00:24:39Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Poster will contribute $1,000.
00:24:46$1,000.
00:24:54If the men of Bangor won't give to the church,
00:24:58the women will.
00:25:03Mr. and Mrs. Partridge pledge $500.
00:25:08Judge Saladine will pledge $1,000.
00:25:15Jenny, I want you to go on working for the church.
00:25:18A church can endure only upon deeds, and not lip service.
00:25:22I'd say her lips have done you enough service.
00:25:24$1,000. If you think I have so much money, you ought to...
00:25:27Stop it, Isaiah. You're the luckiest man in Bangor.
00:25:31Oh, Mrs. Poster.
00:25:33You're the luckiest man in Bangor.
00:25:35Oh, Mrs. Poster.
00:25:37I'm so glad to see the younger members taking an interest in the church,
00:25:40and I must apologize for not calling on you directly after you were married.
00:25:43That was a wonderful contribution, Jenny.
00:25:46He's a wonderful husband who let me make it.
00:25:50Good morning.
00:25:51Good day, Reverend.
00:25:52Good day, Reverend.
00:25:53Good morning.
00:25:54Good morning.
00:25:55Good morning.
00:25:57It ain't the money of mine, but I'd like to know what you're doing with it before you do it.
00:26:00I gave the money because I hate rock shops and what they do to people.
00:26:23How are you, Father?
00:26:27Hello, Mother.
00:26:29My name's still Jenny.
00:26:37You came home, did you?
00:26:39I thought you'd be on your way to England by now.
00:26:41Oh, England is full of architects.
00:26:43I knew you'd come home.
00:26:45Isaiah told me he sent you money to travel for a while, but I didn't think he would.
00:26:50I came close to it.
00:26:52I didn't know whether to mind your letter or mind his and go away.
00:26:57It's easy to see which one you thought more of.
00:27:00Now, why do we stand here? Let's go in around.
00:27:11And let me do the writing to my son.
00:27:14Mr. Ephraim.
00:27:16My Mr. Ephraim.
00:27:18Why, you've grown as much as you ever will, haven't you?
00:27:21Oh, I'm stunted.
00:27:22They don't know how to bake an apple pie in Cambridge.
00:27:24You'll have one every day if only you'll stay here.
00:27:27He'll stay.
00:27:55You'll find little to keep you in Bangor, Ephraim.
00:27:58After your fine ways in Cambridge, you'll be hard to please in this town.
00:28:02I thought I'd come home and go to work, sir.
00:28:04Work?
00:28:05Yes.
00:28:06What's your time worth to anybody?
00:28:08What did you ever do but waste it?
00:28:10It wasn't wasted.
00:28:12He's an architect.
00:28:13And a good one, too.
00:28:15How do you know?
00:28:16The same way you know he ain't.
00:28:18He's a good architect.
00:28:21The same way you know he ain't.
00:28:25You heed my advice and you'll go someplace more suitable to a gentleman.
00:28:30Bangor's a boom town.
00:28:31Loud, rough.
00:28:33Growing faster than law and order.
00:28:36Takes a strong, stubborn man to make his way here.
00:28:39We need gentlemen, too.
00:28:40For what?
00:28:43To tell you the kind of bonnets and doodads the Boston ladies are wearing?
00:28:48Yes.
00:28:50A young man of fashion would be very popular in Bangor.
00:29:04I'll join you later.
00:29:06Well?
00:29:08Yes, father.
00:29:12But you said yourself that Bangor was a boom town.
00:29:15Fortunes are made every day.
00:29:17Rich people want fine houses.
00:29:21No fool in this town would waste his money on you.
00:29:23You heed what I said in my letter.
00:29:25Travel a bit.
00:29:26What makes you so angry with me?
00:29:28All I did was to come home.
00:29:30I get angry at you because of your ways.
00:29:33You think I don't know how you've been spending my money.
00:29:37Hard drink and easy women.
00:29:39I know your kind.
00:29:40Isaiah.
00:29:42You shouldn't upset your father.
00:29:46I'm sorry.
00:29:49All right, father, I'll go away.
00:29:51If you really want me to.
00:29:53I don't think he does.
00:29:55You want your son to live at home, don't you, Isaiah?
00:30:03I've got a headache from all this talk.
00:30:06I'll lock up.
00:30:09It's time we all got some sleep.
00:30:16Good night.
00:30:39Shall I light your way?
00:30:41Thank you.
00:30:47It's been a long time, Ephraim, hasn't it?
00:30:50A long time and a lot of changes.
00:30:56Did you really like that kind of woman?
00:30:58That kind he spoke about?
00:31:02I'd rather not talk about it, Jenny.
00:31:05I don't want to.
00:31:08I don't want to talk about it.
00:31:11I don't want to talk about it.
00:31:14I'd rather not talk about it, Jenny.
00:31:16I used to see them near our house before I came here.
00:31:19I used to watch them and wonder about them.
00:31:26I can see how women would be attracted to you.
00:31:30All kinds of women.
00:31:40Good night, Ephraim.
00:31:44Good night.
00:32:00Got everything?
00:32:01Yes, all the groceries.
00:32:02But no spectacles.
00:32:03They're hard to find.
00:32:04I'll tell Dr. Mason to bring you a pair when he comes by tomorrow.
00:32:07All right?
00:32:08Oh, please.
00:32:09Not Dr. Mason.
00:32:10He's a very good doctor, but he won't wait for his money.
00:32:14You're not to worry about money.
00:32:16Your husband worked for mine for a long time,
00:32:19and if Mr. Poster wants to send you a doctor and a pair of spectacles,
00:32:23it's his privilege.
00:32:25Mr. Poster?
00:32:29I'll be by in a few days, and in the meantime,
00:32:32if you need anything, send one of your children.
00:32:35Thank you.
00:32:41That's the way to hold your place in the town, Ephraim.
00:32:45And the people love you for it, Jenny.
00:32:47And I do want my husband and my son to be proud of me.
00:32:51Well, I wanted to see how you spend your days.
00:32:53Thanks for showing me.
00:32:55You've grown, Jenny.
00:32:57My father's wife's a great lady.
00:33:00I think behind Mrs. Isaiah Poster you'll still find Jenny Hager.
00:33:05Do you remember Jenny Hager?
00:33:08Oh, that little ruffian.
00:33:09Why, she pushed me in the river right here.
00:33:11That isn't true.
00:33:13The others pushed you in.
00:33:14I pulled you out.
00:33:15Oh, that's right.
00:33:16You did.
00:33:17Of course I did.
00:33:18Didn't we always stick together?
00:33:20Ephraim and Jenny, side by side against the world.
00:33:24Oh, we had good times here, didn't we?
00:33:28Better than we knew.
00:33:31Shall I tell you something?
00:33:34I always think of this as our place.
00:33:36Yours and mine.
00:33:38This is where we first thought we were in love.
00:33:43Yes.
00:33:45Silly, wasn't it?
00:33:49This is where you came to tell me your father was going to send you off to college.
00:33:53Yes.
00:33:55And I said it was because of me.
00:33:57And I said he'd never separate us by sending me away.
00:34:03Oh, Jenny, the things I said.
00:34:06Of course, if you'd been home the night I came to your house,
00:34:10I would have been married to you now.
00:34:16Let's go, huh?
00:34:33Thank you.
00:34:43Come into the store and wait for me the way you used to.
00:34:47Another time, Jenny.
00:34:49I want to go out and talk to father.
00:35:02Hello, father.
00:35:05Be with you.
00:35:11What you been doing all day, hmm?
00:35:14I was driving Jenny around.
00:35:18Mighty popular in Bangor, isn't she?
00:35:21She does a lot of good.
00:35:24Spends a lot of money, you mean.
00:35:26If you really mind it, you could put a stop to it.
00:35:29You're very happy with her, aren't you?
00:35:32Yes.
00:35:34Father, I'm going to take your advice. Bangor's no place for me.
00:35:45When will you be leaving?
00:35:47Right away, before the river freezes.
00:35:49I thought I'd spend the winter in Boston and then go off to Europe in the spring.
00:35:52I think your father needs you here.
00:35:55Why, Jenny, you feet like a bird. I didn't hear a sound.
00:35:58You want him to stay, don't you, Isaiah?
00:36:01Why don't you tell him you want him to stay?
00:36:04Can't you be honest with your own son?
00:36:07I'm honest with everybody.
00:36:13You might be of some small use to me if you stay on.
00:36:16But if you don't like it here, get out.
00:36:19Only don't come back.
00:36:22But if you don't like it here, get out.
00:36:25Only don't come back again. If you go, I'm through with you.
00:36:30I'll take you home.
00:36:36Don't work too hard, Isaiah.
00:36:40Surprise.
00:36:43When Bangor's Lady of Mercy goes out to deliver her packages,
00:36:46her sleigh should fit the season.
00:36:49That's a confession you've been thinking of me.
00:36:52Of course I think of you.
00:36:55Yet you've been avoiding me.
00:36:58Careful. Paint.
00:37:01Put it down.
00:37:10You leave the house early and you come home late.
00:37:13You never walk into a room where I am unless someone else is there.
00:37:16You never walk into a room where I am unless someone else is there.
00:37:19Why?
00:37:22Jenny, we shouldn't be standing out here like this.
00:37:25We might just as well be out on Main Street. Anyone could pass by.
00:37:28They wouldn't think anything wrong of it. You wouldn't.
00:37:31If you weren't thinking of me as you do.
00:37:34Jenny, you're married to my father.
00:37:37And his son loves me.
00:37:40He's been so good to both of us.
00:37:43His son has always loved me.
00:37:46I should have gone away.
00:37:49But you couldn't, because you love me.
00:37:52Yes, yes, I've loved you since before I knew the meaning of the word.
00:37:55The day I came home, the time you kissed me.
00:37:58The moment I said I'd stay here, I've loved you and loved you and loved you.
00:38:01Jenny! Jenny!
00:38:08Jenny! Father's very ill. Send for a doctor.
00:38:33Jenny.
00:38:37Yes, Isaiah. I'm here.
00:39:00You keep this up and you'll fall in your tracks.
00:39:03Go to bed, child. Get some rest.
00:39:06I'm strong. Stronger than you think.
00:39:09I'll be all right.
00:39:23How is he? Just the same, sir.
00:39:26Is there any possibility of speaking with him, Jenny?
00:39:32There's trouble in town.
00:39:36Dr. Mason says warm weather might bring him around.
00:39:39But that's alone where you are.
00:39:46We're to talk with Send.
00:39:49There are too many people in town. Too much idleness.
00:39:52Did you hear the shooting last night?
00:39:59That's the sort of thing we're not against.
00:40:02Lumberjacks coming to town between jobs.
00:40:05There's a problem among women on their minds.
00:40:09He told us two years ago we should have a police force.
00:40:12We should have listened to him.
00:40:16Well, Jenny, take care of yourself.
00:40:19Meg sends you her love.
00:40:35Why can't they be quiet?
00:40:38Don't they know a man is dying?
00:41:05I hope they burn to the ground.
00:41:08The taverns and the houses and the people in them.
00:41:17Judge. Judge Saladine.
00:41:20There you are.
00:41:23I want you to write to your father's No. 3 camp.
00:41:26Tell him we're having a riot.
00:41:29I can't leave the house.
00:41:32And the drunken fools are firing every tavern in Devil's Have-A-Gun.
00:41:35I can't go now. Didn't Dr. Mason tell you about Father?
00:41:38Your father's only one man, Ephraim.
00:41:41We're trying to save the life of the town itself.
00:41:44What do I care about the town? Maybe it needs a good fire to clean it up.
00:41:47He'll go. I'll stay with your father, Ephraim.
00:41:50Hurry, Ephraim. We need those men.
00:42:03Come on.
00:42:28Help. Help.
00:42:31Jenny. Jenny.
00:42:34Let me go. Let me go.
00:42:37Help.
00:42:40Help.
00:42:43Smoked you out, didn't he? Where's my money?
00:42:46I didn't take it. I didn't take it.
00:42:49Where's my money? Let's give her a band.
00:42:52Keep out of this, ma'am. People are getting hurt.
00:42:55I didn't steal his money. He was drunk in the back room.
00:42:58Oh, my goodness. Anyone might have been there before me.
00:43:01It'll have to be my fast to get in a man's pockets before you.
00:43:04$100 a hole, winter's work. I say, dip her in the river.
00:43:07Come on. What you do with it? Oh, Jenny. Let her go.
00:43:10I'll give you the money. You're Mrs. Postman. Yes.
00:43:13It's nice to meet you, gentry man, but I'm not so sure I'll be happy just to get my money back.
00:43:17We want to know what's going to happen to her.
00:43:20Since I'm giving you the money, it's my right to decide that.
00:43:23Why don't we give a damn about it? There's the girl, there's the river. Let's give her a band.
00:43:26We'll be waiting for your shore to open in the morning.
00:43:28The money isn't there.
00:43:30We're coming up here to collect it.
00:43:51They're crazy with drink, Jenny.
00:43:54Burning and shooting and stabbing.
00:43:57I didn't take that money.
00:43:59Why, the town's so full of thieves and pickpockets.
00:44:02It could have been anyone.
00:44:04They were going to tar and feather me.
00:44:06Get upstairs under the rafters.
00:44:08Burn the place to the ground.
00:44:16If I'm to go up to Camp 3, I better leave now.
00:44:18I want to be back in the morning.
00:44:25Oh, Jenny, what am I going to do now?
00:44:27I've no place to live, no place to go.
00:44:30It isn't right, Jenny, to be smoked out in the streets like an animal.
00:44:34I don't want you to worry about it, Lena.
00:44:36I want you to rest.
00:44:38Lena, do you remember the house I used to live in?
00:44:42Well, I want you to stay here for the night.
00:44:45And tomorrow, you move in there.
00:44:47It won't cost you a cent.
00:44:49And if anyone should bother you, you come to me.
00:44:52Oh, you're good, Jenny.
00:44:54That's why you come up in the world.
00:44:57That's what I tell everybody about you.
00:45:14Jenny, you're wonderful.
00:45:22You're wonderful.
00:45:53Are you going to take the carriage or the brown mare?
00:45:57I thought the mare would be better.
00:46:00You'll be careful, won't you?
00:46:03I don't want anything to happen to you.
00:46:16Mrs. Poster? Oh, Mrs. Poster!
00:46:19Mrs. Poster? Oh, Mrs. Poster!
00:46:35Yes?
00:46:36The fever's broke. He's breathing better.
00:46:39He's going to get well.
00:46:50Yes.
00:46:57Jenny, my poor child.
00:46:59You've been so brave.
00:47:01But you mustn't break down now.
00:47:03You mustn't.
00:47:19Has Mrs. Poster gone to bed?
00:47:21Does she ever go to bed, the poor child nursing and tending her husband?
00:47:24Tell her to come to the Saladine house.
00:47:26The girl will need her.
00:47:27What's the matter?
00:47:28Judge Saladine got into the fight.
00:47:30Hurt?
00:47:32Dead.
00:47:33Ask Mrs. Poster to come with us.
00:47:35It needs a woman to tell the girl.
00:47:37Mrs. Poster's been under a great strain.
00:47:39She's gone through enough.
00:47:41You'd better get someone else.
00:47:42Wait.
00:47:50Pack my things and send them to the Saladine house.
00:47:53I'll be spending the night with Meg.
00:48:16What's the matter?
00:48:17You squeamish?
00:48:20They're still fighting.
00:48:23Can't someone ask for permission to bury the dead?
00:48:26I did.
00:48:27So, we all sit about and wait for the liquor barrels to run dry.
00:48:30The loafers and drunkards have taken over the town.
00:48:33And for three days, a man like Judge Henry Saladine can't be carried to his resting place.
00:48:38There's a fine victory for rum.
00:48:40Don't talk like a fool.
00:48:42When those woodsmen come in from all over the town,
00:48:44they're going to have a good time.
00:48:46Don't talk like a fool.
00:48:47When those woodsmen come in from the timber,
00:48:49they want some excitement after the winter's work.
00:48:51You take away their pleasures, they'll go to work in another part of the country.
00:48:54It only proves that we've got to have a police force.
00:48:56Some sort of city government, that's all.
00:48:58You've been too tolerant a man, Isaiah Poster.
00:49:00Too interested in lining your pocket.
00:49:03When my lumberjacks come down from the hills,
00:49:05they'll patrol the town till we get him decently buried.
00:49:08Why don't you lie down for a while?
00:49:12You worried about me, Jenny?
00:49:14That you'd found out what kind of a tough old tamarack married.
00:49:31Well, we can start the funeral.
00:49:35What I said still goes.
00:49:37Get a little law and order in the town,
00:49:39and the grog shops can stay.
00:49:41It's good for business.
00:49:42Where are you going?
00:49:44Those are my boys.
00:49:45Going to give them orders.
00:49:52Look.
00:49:55Oh, Isaiah.
00:49:56Isaiah, are you hurt?
00:50:01You all right, Mr. Poster?
00:50:02Yes, yes, yes.
00:50:04Now, John, I want you to take some of your men ahead of the funeral procession.
00:50:07Put some alongside and some at the rear.
00:50:09Keep it all as quiet as you can.
00:50:11The funeral should seem peaceful.
00:50:13Jenny, this is John Everett, my wife.
00:50:18You are Mrs. Poster?
00:50:20She sure is.
00:50:22How do you do?
00:50:23John.
00:50:26I thought I heard your voice.
00:50:28Meg.
00:50:29Darling, I'm glad you're here.
00:50:32It's terrible about your father.
00:50:35I hated your being alone when it happened.
00:50:37I pretended to myself that you were with me.
00:50:40Gave me strength.
00:50:43But if we don't have the funeral soon, I'm afraid I'm going to break down.
00:50:47Reverend, we can start now.
00:50:49I'll tell the others.
00:50:50There'll be no more trouble.
00:50:52Now John's here.
00:50:55Meg, you'll come to our house this evening.
00:50:59You'll be with us, won't you?
00:51:01Thank you.
00:51:02Thank you.
00:51:12No, no.
00:51:13Those aren't my after-dinner pills.
00:51:15These are from my spleen.
00:51:17Let me look again.
00:51:18I'll find them in a minute.
00:51:19And bring a glass of tepid water.
00:51:21Yes, Mr. Poster.
00:51:23Shall we...
00:51:24Shall we go into the parlor?
00:51:25No, Jenny.
00:51:26Leave them alone.
00:51:28You know how young folks are.
00:51:30John has to go back to the camp in the morning.
00:51:33Go back?
00:51:34Yes, of course.
00:51:39Tommy.
00:51:47Our lovebirds have closed the door.
00:51:50The pills, Mr. Poster.
00:51:52And the tepid water.
00:51:54Thank you.
00:51:57Huh?
00:51:59Why must you send him back
00:52:00when he's the only man who can keep order?
00:52:02Because I need him up at the camp.
00:52:03He's a woods boss, not a policeman.
00:52:05Of course, if your business means more to you
00:52:07than the safety of your home and family...
00:52:09Jenny, he's got to get that timber cut.
00:52:11That's all there is to it.
00:52:12I'm sorry we were so long, Jenny.
00:52:13I thought you and Mr. Poster would come in.
00:52:15I wanted you to be alone.
00:52:18Surely you can stay in Bangor a few days.
00:52:21I'd like to.
00:52:22She needs you.
00:52:23Well, I'm afraid I'll have to be away for a little while.
00:52:28She won't be alone.
00:52:30I'll take care of her.
00:52:33Till you come back.
00:52:35Thank you.
00:52:36That's very good of you.
00:52:40I don't want your father to trade these for whiskey.
00:52:43They're for you and your sisters.
00:52:45Mother said to say thank you and God bless you.
00:52:47I think you ought to go around to the kitchen
00:52:49and thank Mrs. Hollis.
00:52:51After all, she feeds the chickens.
00:52:53And there's room in the basket for a slice of pie.
00:52:56Would you like a ride in my carriage, Jacob?
00:52:58I can drop you off on the way home.
00:53:00As soon as I get the pie.
00:53:06Isn't it a beautiful morning?
00:53:08Jenny, I've been wanting to speak to you.
00:53:09You have?
00:53:10What about?
00:53:11We're not here.
00:53:12Let's walk down to the river.
00:53:13But not now, Ephraim.
00:53:14I've so many things to do.
00:53:16Jenny, why isn't it possible for me to have a minute alone with you?
00:53:19But we're alone now.
00:53:20It's not my idea of privacy.
00:53:22Mrs. Hollis in the kitchen, father home every day,
00:53:24what's she following you about?
00:53:26I'm sorry.
00:53:28That's a very short answer, Jenny.
00:53:30What is it?
00:53:32Have you seen somebody else?
00:53:45They stole nearly 10,000 feet of first run pine.
00:53:48Where?
00:53:49Up a big bend.
00:53:50And there's not a trace of who did it.
00:53:52You can't go through unless you get the law to step in.
00:53:54There won't be a choice tree left in that whole section.
00:53:57Law.
00:53:58I own that land, and I'll make my own laws.
00:54:02I've got to make a trip up to the hill country.
00:54:04Timber pirates.
00:54:06I want you to come with me.
00:54:08Me?
00:54:09It's time you saw what pine on the stump looks like.
00:54:11It's my business, and you ought to learn it.
00:54:13Come along.
00:54:14I'll get you something to eat.
00:54:15Thank you, sir.
00:54:23Jenny, I...
00:54:25What are you waiting for?
00:54:52Come on.
00:55:22I can't see why he insists on my going.
00:55:41I'll be dead useless, weight, and afraid of the water besides.
00:55:47Boats would be bad enough.
00:55:49These would be canoes, flimsy Indian canoes made of birch bark.
00:55:58Jenny, I can't admit to him that I'm frightened.
00:56:00Tell him not to take me along and not to go at all.
00:56:04I told him I wasn't cut out for that sort of life,
00:56:06that I'd be more of a burden than a help,
00:56:08but he's so stubborn, Jenny.
00:56:11How long must he live, Ephraim?
00:56:26How long must he live between us?
00:56:30Jenny, don't talk like that.
00:56:33I want you to do something for us.
00:56:37You're afraid.
00:56:39I could promise you so many things,
00:56:42and yet you're afraid.
00:56:46He's my father.
00:56:49As long as he's alive.
00:56:54Why does everything frighten you?
00:56:57You're going to make me very angry,
00:57:00and if I get angry and go on wanting you the way I do,
00:57:04I might tell him what happened between us.
00:57:08Nothing has happened between us.
00:57:10No.
00:57:12But which of us will he believe?
00:57:16Jenny, you couldn't.
00:57:18You know what that would do.
00:57:20He lived a full and useful life.
00:57:23It would be a pity to see him die,
00:57:26but a greater pity to see his life ruined.
00:57:29With a lie.
00:57:31We've been living a lie, Ephraim,
00:57:33and I want to be done with it.
00:57:36I want you to return alone.
00:58:01Sit down.
00:58:31Let go!
00:58:42Let go!
00:58:44Let go of me!
00:58:46Let go!
00:58:49Look out!
00:58:57Let go!
00:59:01You had to think you'd never get here.
00:59:10Where's old man?
00:59:13Where's your father?
00:59:15What happened?
00:59:18What happened?
00:59:19He make old man die.
00:59:22Now, we go through swift water.
00:59:26He afraid.
00:59:28He stand up in canoe.
00:59:33And the canoe turned over.
00:59:35Mr. Poster was too weak to swim.
00:59:38They fought to see which one would get that bailing bucket.
00:59:41I guess you can see who won.
00:59:44He...
00:59:47He's dead?
00:59:49I guess he is, ma'am.
00:59:54Where's his body?
00:59:56Must have settled in the quiet water further down.
00:59:59I'm sorry, but we hunted all we could.
01:00:02I'm sure you did.
01:00:05That's the whole of it.
01:00:07Except what Mr. Poster here can tell you.
01:00:10If they hear of anything, they'll let you know.
01:00:12Thank you.
01:00:15Jenny, believe me, it wasn't my fault.
01:00:17I was afraid.
01:00:18Do you know how afraid I am of the water?
01:00:23You can't come into this house, you wretched coward.
01:00:27You killed your father.
01:00:53My husband was a fine businessman.
01:01:19But it never occurred to him to provide for the handling of his fortune
01:01:22after his passing.
01:01:25Well, there'll be no cold, unfriendly bang
01:01:28telling my woods bosses what to do.
01:01:30No disrespect intended, Mrs. Poster,
01:01:32but it's a man's world we live in up in the woods,
01:01:34and we don't rightly see how a woman fits in.
01:01:37Duncan's right.
01:01:39You'll go right on living in your world without interference.
01:01:43I'll own the properties,
01:01:45but you'll take your orders from your superintendent,
01:01:49John Everett.
01:01:50That's fine, that's fine.
01:01:53That's a great honor, Mrs. Poster, but I...
01:01:55My husband would have selected you,
01:01:58so I'll do it in his place.
01:02:01Thank you for helping me, gentlemen.
01:02:04Must be the first time I've worked for a woman.
01:02:13Until this meeting, I...
01:02:15I thought I was very much alone in this world.
01:02:18Mr. Poster was a fine man.
01:02:20It'll be an honor working for his lady.
01:02:23We won't give you any trouble, Mrs. Poster.
01:02:25Good day, ma'am.
01:02:35This is a wonderful thing you've done for me, Mrs. Poster.
01:02:39Have you any objections to working for a woman?
01:02:42That depends on the woman.
01:02:44It'll be like managing a kingdom.
01:02:46Mr. Poster used to think of whole townships
01:02:48as other men think of acres.
01:02:50It really is a kingdom he built up.
01:02:52It's too bad.
01:02:53Too bad there's no heir to take the throne?
01:02:56Yes.
01:02:58Poor Ephraim.
01:03:02I never gave him a chance to explain.
01:03:05I accused him without proof.
01:03:07What more could you need? They saw him do it.
01:03:09I didn't.
01:03:11And I know he loved his father.
01:03:13You've got to stop brooding over it, Mrs. Poster.
01:03:15You'll only harm yourself, and it won't help Ephraim.
01:03:18I saw him on the street last week.
01:03:20He was drunk.
01:03:21And Deacon Adams was shouting,
01:03:23You've chosen your damnation,
01:03:25And eternally damned you'll be.
01:03:29There wasn't anything you could do to save him.
01:03:34You're very tired, Mrs. Poster.
01:03:38I won't be after today.
01:03:41I've placed my troubles on your shoulders.
01:03:45Please carry them well for me.
01:03:56Meg, Jenny spent all morning getting them in order.
01:04:01Don't, Meg. You'll only mix them up more.
01:04:04I was only trying to help.
01:04:07Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to shout.
01:04:13You're tired.
01:04:15In every bone, driving timber was nothing to this.
01:04:19You might as well have remained in the woods for all we see of each other.
01:04:22I'm doing my best, Meg, but the work takes up all of my time.
01:04:26I know. I wasn't criticizing.
01:04:30I was just wishing that...
01:04:31That what?
01:04:33John.
01:04:34Yes?
01:04:36I'm lonesome.
01:04:38John?
01:04:40I'll see you tonight.
01:04:41Dinner?
01:04:42That's a promise.
01:04:45Meg, I haven't seen you for days.
01:04:49Food for a hardworking man.
01:04:50Ah, that's nice.
01:04:52And a cup of tea for both of us.
01:04:53You'll have some, Meg, won't you?
01:04:55If there isn't enough for the three, I'll give up mine.
01:04:58The accounts receivable are all mixed up.
01:05:00I had them in order, but then the wind came in.
01:05:02Oh, later, later. You haven't eaten since morning.
01:05:05Meg, your man doesn't take care of himself.
01:05:08You better do it for him, or there won't be anything left of him to marry.
01:05:15John, there's a rumor that a company is being formed to build steamboats.
01:05:20Is that going to affect us?
01:05:21Not while water freezes, because then steam's no better than sails.
01:05:24But steam trains, Jenny.
01:05:26Just think.
01:05:28There'll be one to Old Town, and one maybe to Holton.
01:05:32And definitely one coming this way from Augusta.
01:05:34And we can load our wood right on our own trains and get into market weeks before the ice breaks.
01:05:38We'll outsmart everyone in the business.
01:05:40There'll be no stopping us once we get started.
01:05:42Jenny, you'll be the richest woman in New England.
01:05:46Then we'll have to make you the richest man.
01:05:51What's happened to Meg?
01:05:52Meg!
01:05:53Meg?
01:06:03I ought to be kicked all the way up and down Main Street for the way I treat her.
01:06:06She's more understanding than you think.
01:06:13I'll be with the Temperance League all afternoon, so...
01:06:16if there's anything important you want to discuss with me now...
01:06:19Nothing that can't wait.
01:06:23It's Mrs. Hollis in the store.
01:06:25Tearing it apart?
01:06:27No, she wants me to drive her home.
01:06:31Working again tonight?
01:06:33I'm having dinner with Meg.
01:06:35Good.
01:06:37Take better care of her, John.
01:06:39You do neglect her.
01:06:42Goodbye.
01:06:43Goodbye.
01:06:50Camp 3.
01:06:51Thank you.
01:06:54She's a wonderful woman.
01:06:56Someday I'm going to pull a bottle out of his hand and bash his head in.
01:07:00Who are you talking about?
01:07:01Young Poster.
01:07:02You should hear the things he says about her.
01:07:04Has he been talking about her?
01:07:06Why, that drunken little...
01:07:08I've seen her nearly sick with worry over what he's doing to himself.
01:07:13Find out where he stays. I want to see him.
01:07:19Poster, are you in there?
01:07:23Come in.
01:07:30I must be making trouble.
01:07:32Much more than you're worth.
01:07:33I'm worth very little.
01:07:35What happens to me now?
01:07:36Do you beat me up yourself or are some of the boys outside?
01:07:39Come in, come in. Drinks for everybody.
01:07:43No one out there. We're alone.
01:07:45That's much better.
01:07:47No witnesses.
01:07:49I had witnesses when I killed my father.
01:07:51That made her very angry.
01:07:53Where did you last eat?
01:07:56I have my food.
01:08:00How do you like your new job?
01:08:01I like it.
01:08:04She hasn't got you hooked already, has she?
01:08:07You'll kill yourself drinking all this stuff without any food inside you.
01:08:12Come on, let's get something to eat.
01:08:13You're doing me out of my dinner.
01:08:18She doesn't know I'm here and she didn't tell me anything.
01:08:20That's a lie.
01:08:21No one does anything unless she's back of it.
01:08:24I knew what was going to happen.
01:08:26I was afraid of her. I wanted to leave.
01:08:29She didn't have to worry about that. I wasn't man enough to run away.
01:08:34Are you in love with her?
01:08:37I happen to be engaged to someone else.
01:08:40What difference does that make?
01:08:41Jenny was married to my father.
01:08:43She told me one night she'd marry me if he died.
01:08:46You don't believe a word I say, do you?
01:08:48Like everybody, no one will believe me.
01:08:51Go on talking.
01:08:53The night before we were due to start,
01:08:55she made love to me till I was nearly crazy.
01:08:59You don't believe that either, but it's the truth.
01:09:03I've always been scared of the water.
01:09:06Even when I was a little boy, Jenny knew that.
01:09:11I was scared in the canoe on the trip and I couldn't eat or sleep anyway from thinking of her.
01:09:16I only remember being in the water with a bailing bucket holding me up
01:09:19and somebody grabbed for it.
01:09:22I beat him off till he sank and drowned.
01:09:26I didn't know who he was.
01:09:36She's so rotten.
01:09:38You've got to believe me. She's not even a human being.
01:09:40Maybe I did know who he was.
01:09:43I guess I did.
01:09:45She put the thought in my heart.
01:09:47If I hadn't done it then, I know I would have later.
01:09:57I don't know what you're talking about.
01:10:00You didn't make him love you?
01:10:02But of course I did.
01:10:04He was my husband's son. I wanted him to be my son.
01:10:07Of course I did. He was my husband's son. I wanted him to love me.
01:10:11That isn't what he meant.
01:10:14Was he sober when he told you that?
01:10:17Jenny, don't you think I know when a man is lying?
01:10:20Before he talks very much more, you better prove that you had nothing to do with him.
01:10:26Prove? To whom?
01:10:28To the town.
01:10:31The town?
01:10:33Is that what you want?
01:10:35Come back with me to his shack. I want you to face him. Now.
01:10:43But...
01:10:48The rain.
01:10:50You know what happens to the roads in the rain.
01:10:54Yes.
01:10:56They get very muddy.
01:10:58But they don't change their direction.
01:11:01Good night.
01:11:02Oh no. It isn't that I'm afraid.
01:11:05You mustn't believe him.
01:11:07Please.
01:11:12All right.
01:11:14I'll go.
01:11:32I'll go.
01:11:50He can't have gone far in this rain.
01:11:53We'll wait for him.
01:11:55I'll put the horses in the shed, if you'll light the way.
01:12:03See if the shelter is clear.
01:12:12What's the matter, Jenny?
01:12:29Don't look, Jenny.
01:12:30Don't look, Jenny.
01:12:34I did that.
01:12:36I drove him out.
01:12:38Jenny.
01:12:40Don't say I didn't do it.
01:12:42If I would have said one word to defend him, others would have listened.
01:12:47I killed him.
01:12:50Didn't I?
01:12:52Jenny, please.
01:13:01Go inside and sit down. You're shaking.
01:13:19What was it? What happened?
01:13:22They... they were frightened.
01:13:30They were frightened.
01:13:44We're ten miles from town and we'll have to walk.
01:14:01I can't understand how Ephraim could have done a thing like that.
01:14:06It isn't atonement. It's running away.
01:14:09And you can't run away from the hereafter.
01:14:12It's not Ephraim who's upsetting you.
01:14:15It's because you're here with me.
01:14:18Well, aren't you worried about your reputation?
01:14:22It's a small thing to worry about.
01:14:25It's a small thing to worry about.
01:14:28It's a small thing to worry about.
01:14:31After... that.
01:14:35You'd better try to sleep.
01:14:57You'd better try to sleep.
01:15:27All right.
01:15:58No!
01:16:14They were about two miles down the road, standing under a tree and waiting for me.
01:16:18And the... the carriage?
01:16:21Just a broken axle. I can fix it in an hour.
01:16:28Jenny, what about Meg?
01:16:30She won't try to hold you.
01:16:32I know, but to stand up to her and tell her that I love someone else.
01:16:36You won't tell her.
01:16:38The big clumsies, they're like you.
01:16:41It's a woman's job.
01:16:43Oh, no.
01:16:45But she's a friend of mine. I can make her understand.
01:16:48I'll tell her myself.
01:16:50I'll tell her myself.
01:16:52I'll tell her myself.
01:16:54I'll tell her myself.
01:16:55She'll understand.
01:16:56I'll tell her myself.
01:16:58But, John...
01:17:04I'll tell her myself, Jenny.
01:17:13It must have been the storm.
01:17:15That's the only way I can explain it.
01:17:19The storm and the excitement and the lightning struck us.
01:17:25What more can I say?
01:17:27It's nice that we're such friends.
01:17:30Makes it easy to talk this over.
01:17:33There's nothing to talk about.
01:17:35I love him.
01:17:38But...
01:17:40If you still want him, he's yours.
01:17:43You know that.
01:17:45You know I'd give him back to you if...
01:17:48If you ask me to.
01:17:49I suppose I'm a fool.
01:17:52Why?
01:17:54I should have realized that when he said he loved me,
01:17:57he must have said the same thing to you just the day before.
01:18:01No, he didn't.
01:18:03He never said those words to me.
01:18:05I thought it was because he was shy.
01:18:20Hello, Meg.
01:18:22Come in.
01:18:26I...
01:18:29Just wanted to explain why I didn't come to dinner last night.
01:18:33Right after you left the office, Alex Duncan came in.
01:18:41Jenny...
01:18:43I told you I want to explain this to her myself.
01:18:46I didn't think you should.
01:18:48I'll be waiting for you outside.
01:19:02I didn't want it to happen like this, Meg.
01:19:05I wanted to be the one to tell you.
01:19:07I don't see what difference it would make.
01:19:09It's the same story, isn't it?
01:19:12I suppose so.
01:19:13When will you be married?
01:19:15Right away.
01:19:17In Bangor?
01:19:19I don't know.
01:19:21Jenny will take care of the details.
01:19:24I saw this happening a long time ago.
01:19:27There was nothing I could do about it.
01:19:33She's waiting for you.
01:19:35She's waiting for you.
01:19:55Jenny, how could you do something like that?
01:19:59I thought if you came here alone, you...
01:20:01You wouldn't come back to me.
01:20:15My dear son,
01:20:17I wanted to be with you this Christmas,
01:20:20to see you again and to meet your wife.
01:20:24But all your brothers are bringing their families here,
01:20:27so I can only send you my best wishes.
01:20:29It was given to me by your grandmother
01:20:32to be passed on to the wife of my eldest son,
01:20:35and I know Jenny will care enough
01:20:37about it to do the same.
01:20:39Will you?
01:20:41What if we only have daughters?
01:20:43We'll have sons.
01:20:45I've made up my mind.
01:20:47What else does your mother say?
01:20:49She talks about my brothers and how deep the snow is,
01:20:53and she says,
01:20:55a Merry Christmas to you both.
01:20:56The Lord bless you, Jenny,
01:20:58and make you fruitful.
01:21:00My arms ache for John's first boy.
01:21:05Your mother must be a wonderful woman.
01:21:08I hope that someday you'll say I'm just like her.
01:21:12That won't be easy.
01:21:14Your mother had nine sons.
01:21:18What a lot of boys running about the house.
01:21:22Must have been very busy.
01:21:23No reason why this should happen to you.
01:21:26No reason why it should happen to anyone.
01:21:29Quite often nature seems to fumble, Mrs. Everett,
01:21:33and doesn't make a person complete.
01:21:36We can't even hope in a year or two, or ever.
01:21:43Not in my opinion.
01:21:45Of course you're free to consult with another doctor,
01:21:48but I don't think it's a good idea.
01:21:50Of course you're free to consult with another doctor.
01:21:53I can give you the name of a very fine one in Boston,
01:21:56and I know of another in Philadelphia.
01:21:58I believe you.
01:22:00You mustn't decide, my dear, that the future is altogether dark and empty.
01:22:03You can adopt a child, you know.
01:22:05It should give some release to your normal womanly emotions.
01:22:10I want a child of my own.
01:22:15You won't talk to my husband, will you?
01:22:17I'll tell him myself when I think it's the right time.
01:22:20Of course.
01:22:22You see, he wants children.
01:22:25He's very fond of them.
01:22:48I never knew what love was before you.
01:22:51I know now.
01:22:53I was never married to Isaiah at all.
01:22:55Jenny, I want you to forget Isaiah.
01:22:57I want you to forget your whole life before I came into it.
01:23:03You know, a lot of new furniture isn't going to change that house.
01:23:06Why do you want to go on living in it?
01:23:08It's a good house, John.
01:23:10It'll stand for a long time.
01:23:12It's a good house.
01:23:14It'll stand for a long time.
01:23:15It'll stand for a long time.
01:23:17At least someday we'll know just where to build another.
01:23:20I'm not finicky about where it'll be.
01:23:22I just think you want to go on living in that old tomb.
01:23:25What do you say, Jenny? Should we start building our own house?
01:23:28But that is our house.
01:23:30It belongs to Isaiah Poster. Let him keep it.
01:23:33But he's dead and he left it to me.
01:23:35It belongs to him and his son and it's full to the roof with sorrows.
01:23:39I want to get out of it.
01:23:41I want new rooms and more of them.
01:23:42And for the sake of our children, I want light and air.
01:23:46There are enough rooms now.
01:23:48Which isn't the right house, Jenny.
01:23:50It's too close to Devil's Half Acre.
01:23:52It isn't the place to bring up children.
01:23:58There won't be any children.
01:24:01Nonsense.
01:24:03Is it?
01:24:05Ask Dr. Bailey. He'll tell you.
01:24:13Seems there are some things we haven't talked about.
01:24:17When did you learn this?
01:24:20Some time ago.
01:24:23What exactly did Bailey say?
01:24:27I don't remember.
01:24:30Makes a lot of difference, doesn't it?
01:24:32How do you mean?
01:24:34Between us.
01:24:38Doesn't make any difference at all.
01:24:40There are many things a husband and wife can live for.
01:24:46That's very sensible, but...
01:24:48I wonder what you'll think in a few years from now.
01:24:52I'll think that you're more beautiful than ever.
01:24:55And that I love you very much.
01:25:02What?
01:25:05I don't know.
01:25:06What?
01:25:37It's a tongue that will accuse you on the judgment day.
01:25:42There is a hand that is terrible in its strength.
01:25:47What is so beautiful as a pure woman?
01:25:51What is so vile as an evil one?
01:25:55The good women of Bangor.
01:25:57Such loud amends and nodding of heads.
01:26:00Because I spend my fury upon her.
01:26:03And not on you.
01:26:06I'll cut her up.
01:26:08I'll cut her up.
01:26:10How sweet are the ladies of Sodom and Gomorrah.
01:26:14Secrets are among you.
01:26:16Who is named vanity?
01:26:20And who is lust?
01:26:24What woman has put away her husband?
01:26:29Which of you has taken a man from her sister?
01:26:36For this is your sister.
01:26:38Come forward and sit with her.
01:26:40And be counted.
01:26:42You cannot hide behind your beauty.
01:26:46Your beauty has made you evil.
01:26:49And evil destroys itself.
01:26:51Your soul will become naked.
01:26:53The truth will be revealed.
01:26:55Confess now while there is yet time.
01:26:58You can never escape.
01:27:03There will be no sons to mourn for you.
01:27:06No daughters to weep for you.
01:27:10Evil does not propagate itself.
01:27:13It withers in its own fire.
01:27:16And is consumed.
01:27:21The lips of a strange woman drip honey.
01:27:25And her mouth is smoother than oil.
01:27:31But her end is bitter as wormwood.
01:27:37Sharp as a two-edged sword.
01:28:04What's the matter, Jenny?
01:28:06I want light.
01:28:08It's so dark.
01:28:14Why do you go to those meetings?
01:28:16It's not like ordinary church going.
01:28:18You come home exhausted and afraid.
01:28:20He was talking to me.
01:28:22Straight to me.
01:28:24What is it?
01:28:26The pit he talks about isn't down below.
01:28:29It's up here.
01:28:31I don't know why I listen to him.
01:28:33He tries to trap people.
01:28:34Tries to make them admit things that aren't true.
01:28:38He's not any better than the people he talks about.
01:28:42No, he's right.
01:28:44The town is becoming a sinkhole.
01:28:46That horrible man.
01:28:48To say to me what he did.
01:28:50He wasn't talking to you.
01:28:52He was talking to people like Lena.
01:28:54Jenny, I've come to a decision.
01:28:56We're going to put Lena out of your house.
01:28:59No.
01:29:01I don't care what she meant to you when you were a child.
01:29:02I'm talking about what she is now.
01:29:04I don't want you to be connected with her.
01:29:08Why not?
01:29:10In what way is she different from us?
01:29:12Except that she's more honest.
01:29:14She goes out of your house tomorrow.
01:29:16I don't want her sins on your hands.
01:29:19You good, righteous man.
01:29:22You hypocrite.
01:29:24Telling others what they must and must not do.
01:29:27While you live in this house with me.
01:29:29Do you know what went on?
01:29:30Do you know what went on in this room
01:29:32before Ephraim killed his father?
01:29:34Jenny.
01:29:36Do you remember the things he said about me?
01:29:38You said he was drunk and afraid.
01:29:40Of course he was afraid.
01:29:42We're all afraid.
01:29:44There's hell opening under our feet.
01:29:47Jenny.
01:29:49This is where he sat.
01:29:51Sit down, John.
01:29:53And I'll show you how I made him kill his father.
01:29:55Sit down and I'll kiss you the way I kissed him.
01:29:57Why do you look at me like that?
01:29:59Why do you pretend everything he told you was true
01:30:01and you knew it?
01:30:03You knew it!
01:30:09Oh.
01:30:11I don't know what I'm saying.
01:30:13Oh.
01:30:15I'm sorry.
01:30:17I'm sorry.
01:30:22Go to bed, Jenny.
01:30:24Go to bed, Jenny.
01:30:28Please go to bed.
01:30:53John.
01:31:08John.
01:31:10Is Mrs. Hollis back from church?
01:31:18John.
01:31:20It's time for bed.
01:31:23It's time for bed.
01:31:54John.
01:32:08John.
01:32:10Please forget what I said.
01:32:12You know I couldn't have done it.
01:32:14I never believed it.
01:32:16I tried not to believe it.
01:32:18Because you love me.
01:32:20You still do.
01:32:22Darling, don't be unhappy.
01:32:24We know each other now and that's good.
01:32:26There'll be no more misunderstandings.
01:32:28No more quarrels.
01:32:30Oh, darling, there'll be just the two of us.
01:32:33No, there won't.
01:32:35There'll be three.
01:32:37There'll always be Ephraim.
01:32:45John!
01:32:47John!
01:32:49John!
01:33:11Oh, come in.
01:33:13Mary, I'm looking for Mr. Everett.
01:33:14I thought he might be with Reverend Thatcher.
01:33:16Father isn't here right now,
01:33:18but if you'd like to wait...
01:33:20Oh, no, thank you.
01:33:22I have no time.
01:33:37Good morning.
01:33:39Is Miss Allard home?
01:33:41No, Mrs. Everett, she went out.
01:33:43Has...
01:33:45Has Mr. Everett been here?
01:33:47Oh, no, I haven't seen him.
01:33:49Thank you.
01:33:58Oh, I thought it was Mr. Everett.
01:34:00Do you know where he is?
01:34:02He didn't come in here, ma'am.
01:34:04I slept here last night on account of the rain
01:34:06and you're the first one in.
01:34:09Mr. Everett tells me
01:34:10you're sending a schoolteacher up to every camp
01:34:12with more than two families.
01:34:14That's a handsome thing to do, ma'am.
01:34:16I guess you're mighty fond of children.
01:34:20Duncan, who did sleep here last night?
01:34:22Was it you, Miss Everett?
01:34:24Ma'am, I told you.
01:34:28Oh, that's just another one he has.
01:34:30He sometimes...
01:34:32He wore this hat when he brought me home
01:34:34from church last night
01:34:36and he wore it again when he went out for a walk.
01:34:38Now, why aren't you supposed to tell me where he is?
01:34:41You put me in an awful fix, ma'am.
01:34:43I promised him...
01:34:45Duncan, he isn't well. Couldn't you see that?
01:34:47What good is a promise to a sick man
01:34:49when he keeps his wife from helping him?
01:34:51Is that the trouble with him?
01:34:53I kind of thought he looked funny around the eyes.
01:34:56Where is he?
01:34:58Well, I'm not telling you, mind you,
01:35:00but that'd be the wrong kind of hat
01:35:02to wear up in the pine country.
01:35:04Where in the pine country?
01:35:06Fire Watch's cabin.
01:35:08Indian Hill.
01:35:11When will he be back?
01:35:13I don't know.
01:35:15Two, three days, I guess.
01:35:17He said he wanted to go up there and think a while.
01:35:19Oh, I got a loose mouth.
01:35:21That's my trouble.
01:35:23Makes two people I told where he is.
01:35:26Who is the other?
01:35:28Miss Saladine.
01:35:31Miss Saladine.
01:35:33Came in here about an hour ago
01:35:35and dug it out of me just like you did.
01:35:37Said she saw him last night alone.
01:35:38Acted like something was wrong.
01:35:40Next time he trusts me with anything, it'll...
01:35:45It was very good of you to come up here, Meg.
01:35:48But there's really nothing you can do to help me.
01:35:51No one can help me but myself.
01:35:55My whole life with Jenny has been the act of running away.
01:35:59I ran away from the woods where I belong.
01:36:03And again, I ran away from the truth
01:36:05when Ephraim tried to tell it to me.
01:36:06I forced myself not to believe him.
01:36:08I understand.
01:36:11If you had, you never would have married Jenny.
01:36:14No.
01:36:17At this time, I'm not running away.
01:36:21Right or wrong, my place is with Jenny.
01:36:24I love her, and I'm going back to her.
01:36:27John, I'm glad.
01:36:30Because I believe that her love for you
01:36:32has made her as good as everyone always thought she was.
01:36:34Shall we go now?
01:36:41Jenny will be anxious.
01:36:42It's Jenny!
01:37:13Jenny!
01:37:15Don't!
01:37:17Don't move me.
01:37:19John.
01:37:21Don't talk now.
01:37:23Meg, hurry up and get a doctor.
01:37:25To camp three.
01:37:28I...
01:37:30I saw you with Meg.
01:37:33I saw you with her.
01:37:35I saw you with her.
01:37:37I saw you with her.
01:37:39I saw you with her.
01:37:40I saw you with Meg, and...
01:37:42I know.
01:37:44I tried to hurt you.
01:37:47I wanted to hurt you.
01:37:49Don't, Jenny.
01:37:51Lie still.
01:37:53You don't know how I loved you so much.
01:38:00I'm afraid.
01:38:02Oh, John.
01:38:04Where will they bury me?
01:38:07Jenny, don't talk about dying.
01:38:10Don't let them bury me with Posty.
01:38:13Or Ephraim.
01:38:15Don't let them.
01:38:16Jenny, you're going to be all right.
01:38:18There'll be a doctor along, and we'll take you home.
01:38:20I know.
01:38:22They'll bury me with Ephraim.
01:38:24They'll bury me in that house
01:38:26with Ephraim.
01:38:28Oh, Jenny, darling, listen to me.
01:38:30Nothing's going to happen to you,
01:38:32not now or ever,
01:38:34as long as I'm with you.
01:38:36And I'll always be with you.
01:38:38I never went away.
01:38:41I love you more than ever.
01:38:43I wanted so many things.
01:38:46I wanted the whole world.
01:38:50But it was really only you.
01:38:55Jenny.
01:38:57Jenny!
01:39:10I love you.