Michael AudleyMARK OF THE HAWK
| Drama | Year |
Plot:
The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam's motives are questioned by his own people, in particular his brother Kanda. With the help of his wife Renee and missionary Bruce Craig, will he be able to get things under control before the country self-destructs?
Crew:
• Directed by: Michael Audley
• Written by: Lloyd Young (Original story), H. Kenn Carmichael (Screenplay) and
Lloyd Young (Screenplay)
• Starring: Eartha Kitt, Sidney Poitier, Juano Hernandez, John McIntire, Helen Horton
• Produced by: W. Burton Martin (Executive producer), Lloyd Young (Producer)
• Music by: Matyas Seiber
• Cinematography: Erwin Hillier
• Edited by: Edward B. Jarvis
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| Drama | Year |
Plot:
The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam's motives are questioned by his own people, in particular his brother Kanda. With the help of his wife Renee and missionary Bruce Craig, will he be able to get things under control before the country self-destructs?
Crew:
• Directed by: Michael Audley
• Written by: Lloyd Young (Original story), H. Kenn Carmichael (Screenplay) and
Lloyd Young (Screenplay)
• Starring: Eartha Kitt, Sidney Poitier, Juano Hernandez, John McIntire, Helen Horton
• Produced by: W. Burton Martin (Executive producer), Lloyd Young (Producer)
• Music by: Matyas Seiber
• Cinematography: Erwin Hillier
• Edited by: Edward B. Jarvis
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00:03:24Many, but they're all political, thank goodness.
00:03:30Just do not wear the handkerchief tonight.
00:03:43But that's a political matter.
00:03:46You are more than a leader of labor
00:03:47now, my darling.
00:03:49From tonight on, you represent all the people.
00:03:54You cannot show partiality.
00:03:56Renee, you are innocent.
00:04:02Who elected me to the legislative council?
00:04:04The workers.
00:04:05Therefore, whom do I represent?
00:04:06The workers.
00:04:07And the hawk is their symbol.
00:04:09And who has stolen the symbol to exploit your influence
00:04:13with the workers?
00:04:15The terrorists will stop at nothing,
00:04:18either to win you over or to crucify you.
00:04:22They may woo me, but they won't win me.
00:04:27Promise me that.
00:04:36I'm done.
00:04:40What are you up to now?
00:04:42What are you up to now?
00:04:43Does my brother invite me to come in?
00:04:45They won't admit me without the proper door.
00:04:48Come in.
00:04:50I apologize to the not quite African wife
00:04:53of the new council member.
00:04:54Kanda, listen.
00:04:55Who also is not quite so African as he likes to think.
00:04:58You come here to be thrown out of my house.
00:05:00I've been thrown out of the white man's school.
00:05:02If this is a white man's house, I expect to be thrown out.
00:05:04Kanda, work with your brother, not against him.
00:05:07Let him work with us.
00:05:09Tonight, you go to the white man's government house
00:05:11because you've accepted a white man's job.
00:05:13What are you?
00:05:14An Uncle Tom?
00:05:15He was elected by Africans.
00:05:17He's elected by a handful of Africans
00:05:19who qualify for the vote because they're property owners.
00:05:22You think you represent the people?
00:05:24Well, we're the people, and we didn't elect you.
00:05:26If you want to stand with Africa, stand with us.
00:05:31Listen.
00:05:36We're meeting again tonight,
00:05:37and I've been asked to bring them your answer.
00:05:39Will you stand with us?
00:05:40Will you fight with us?
00:05:41Get out of my house.
00:05:42Still no answer, my brother.
00:05:44My friends are growing impatient.
00:05:46Don't delay too long.
00:05:47There's very little time.
00:05:49Get out of my house, boy.
00:05:50Very little time.
00:05:51Very little time.
00:06:06You will not reach him with anger.
00:06:08Don't tell me I shall reach him with love.
00:06:15Some nights I wake from a bad dream.
00:06:19You're alone.
00:06:21They've all deserted you.
00:06:25And I remember again the words of the proverb.
00:06:29You're walking alone as a stranger.
00:06:32Where then are your brothers?
00:06:36My eyes are wet.
00:06:38And I know I have been crying in my sleep.
00:06:41For it seems that you have turned even from me.
00:06:46I will never turn from you, Renée.
00:06:50And then my anger and then my impatience do not turn from me.
00:07:00You must go. The governor is always prompt.
00:07:08Renée, I think that this embroidery is a little frivolous for a newcomer.
00:07:15A council member?
00:07:17No.
00:07:22Yes.
00:07:30Madame.
00:07:37The governor's house.
00:07:38Yes, sir.
00:07:45THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE
00:08:02Barbara.
00:08:03Yes, dear.
00:08:10I think it has something to do with the shape of my neck.
00:08:15Do you remember Suby?
00:08:17Yes, I do.
00:08:19Oh my God, it must have been 20 years ago.
00:08:22Shanghai.
00:08:24She was embarrassed all one evening because your tie went straight up and down.
00:08:30You were younger then.
00:08:31Went in for bow ties.
00:08:33But you never could tie them.
00:08:38You must have a jacket of your own made right away.
00:08:40Not keep putting it off.
00:08:42Yes.
00:08:43Neither a borrower nor a lender be...
00:08:50Barbara.
00:08:55I suppose you didn't bother to try it on.
00:08:57Matter of fact, I didn't.
00:08:59Inspector looked to be about my size.
00:09:01Well, you'll have to wear your white suit.
00:09:03You know, some of the fellows around here wear nothing but pajamas. I've seen them.
00:09:07Well, I can think of no better way for the newest member of the colony to endear himself
00:09:11than to appear at the governor's reception in pajamas.
00:09:15Why didn't I think of that?
00:09:18Remember the pair I was wearing the night they arrested us?
00:09:22Kind of fond of that color. Chartreuse, I think.
00:09:25Aqua.
00:09:27Did you lock the back door?
00:09:28No, Bengal will tend to it.
00:09:31Aqua?
00:09:33I thought...
00:09:34Anyway, the Chinese guards were extremely envious.
00:09:37Bruce, I hope you'll make it a point to speak to Obam tonight.
00:09:42Matthew seems to be quite worried about him.
00:09:44Well, Matthew will be there too. He'll see to it with me.
00:09:49Well, do I pass?
00:09:51Bruce, do me a favor.
00:09:54Promise me you won't say anything drastic tonight.
00:09:57I shall be good.
00:09:59If you don't have a dinner jacket, at least wear your best company manners.
00:10:03They'll learn soon enough they've got a rebel on their hands.
00:10:07Well, we might just make it.
00:10:08Obenga!
00:10:10The affair's scheduled at 8.25 for 8.30.
00:10:12It means the governor will be there in the half hour of the second.
00:10:19Oh, just some celebration, most likely.
00:10:24Good evening.
00:10:25Evening, Obenga.
00:10:26Please be sure everything's locked, eh?
00:10:28Okay.
00:10:46Sorry, darling.
00:10:56What does it mean, Obenga?
00:10:59The hawk.
00:11:01It is not right.
00:11:03Well, never mind. Get rid of it and say nothing about it.
00:11:10What does it mean, Bruce?
00:11:12I'll find out tonight, if anyone knows.
00:11:15Something that Obenga said.
00:11:18That's it.
00:11:20The name Obam, that's the African word for hawk.
00:11:23So it is.
00:11:25You knew it all along.
00:11:26Now, let's forget about it, hm?
00:11:28Oh, Bob, that's why Matthew's so worried about him.
00:11:31Now, we're in no position to make judgments, Barbara.
00:11:34We're newcomers here, remember that?
00:11:37That sounds strange coming from you.
00:11:39Well, I do feel a bit strange in my company manners.
00:11:41May I take them off?
00:11:43I never really expected you to put them on.
00:11:50Thank you, Obenga.
00:11:51Good night.
00:11:52Good night, sir.
00:11:53Good night, sir.
00:12:15After all, they were here first.
00:12:17You can't blame them entirely.
00:12:18It's the only home they've ever known.
00:12:20That's all well and good.
00:12:21But look how they lived before we came here.
00:12:23Wait till you've been here longer.
00:12:25The whole trouble is they don't appreciate what's been done for them.
00:12:40A lot of nerve, this being here.
00:12:46One of these days, he'll turn his savages loose and slit our throats.
00:12:52Right on the second.
00:12:54Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to welcome all of you,
00:12:58and especially our honored guests,
00:13:00the newest members of our Legislative Council.
00:13:04Please.
00:13:11I suppose, Administrator, that it would be too conservative, might it?
00:13:14For the...
00:13:16Oh, good Lord!
00:13:18Please.
00:13:21Good evening, Mr. Gregory.
00:13:22Good evening.
00:13:23I say, Gregory, that must be the new American missionary over there.
00:13:25What's his name?
00:13:26Craig.
00:13:27Yes, that's Craig, all right.
00:13:29But he didn't have sense enough to stay home.
00:13:31We've got enough do-gooders in this colony.
00:13:33Oh?
00:13:34If Craig and his kind hadn't taught these Africans how to read
00:13:37and put ideas in their heads, we wouldn't be having this trouble.
00:13:40Oh, come off it, Gregory.
00:13:41People get ideas one way or another.
00:13:43What do you say, Inspector?
00:13:45I beg your pardon, Tom?
00:13:46What do I say about what?
00:13:47Gregory here thinks it's dangerous to educate the Africans.
00:13:50Much more dangerous not to.
00:13:52But then we don't see eye to eye about several matters.
00:13:54Now, someday you fellows will wake up to the fact
00:13:56the most dangerous ideas these Africans have, they got from the Church.
00:14:00Equality of men before God, brotherhood of races.
00:14:03Rubbish.
00:14:04The Church doesn't believe them itself.
00:14:06One man's point of view.
00:14:07Now, look what happened to Orban.
00:14:09He was the pride and joy of the Church.
00:14:11And then he got too vocal about some of their... their pat ideas.
00:14:14And what happened?
00:14:16They kicked him out.
00:14:17Excuse me.
00:14:20I don't think he was impressed, Gregory.
00:14:23It's just that being new to the colony, Your Excellency,
00:14:25I'm apt to be considered an ignoramus.
00:14:28Mr. Craig, human speech can encircle the earth in a few seconds.
00:14:32Yet no one can determine the truth of a political situation
00:14:35only a few hundred yards away.
00:14:37You may speak freely.
00:14:39Well, what I was trying to say is
00:14:41that my Church has taught the African Christians
00:14:43to hope for social justice
00:14:45while my white Western world is kept from them.
00:14:48I see.
00:14:50Of course, it's a much simpler matter to preach progress
00:14:53than to implement it.
00:14:54As a clergyman, you hardly need to be reminded of that.
00:14:57Touché.
00:14:59I take it you expect the Church
00:15:01to stand on the side of African independence, come what may.
00:15:05Short of revolution?
00:15:07I certainly wouldn't advocate violence.
00:15:09But in its beginnings, Your Excellency,
00:15:11the Church was nothing if not revolutionary.
00:15:14After today, it's considered in some quarters
00:15:16as a defender of the status quo. It's unfortunate.
00:15:19I shall leave it to the Inspector to give you assurance
00:15:22that my government at least does not endeavor to use the Church.
00:15:26This has been most interesting, Mr. Craig,
00:15:28and welcome to Africa.
00:15:29Thank you, Your Excellency.
00:15:34I believe you left the Governor guessing.
00:15:36Do him good.
00:15:38What about a coffee?
00:15:39Oh, thank you.
00:15:44What was wrong with the dinner jacket?
00:15:46Oh, I think I could have got into it ten years ago.
00:15:49Thank you for the try, anyway.
00:15:51I'm sorry it didn't fit.
00:15:54Inspector, the Governor said something about revolution.
00:15:57Things that serious?
00:15:58Well, put it this way.
00:16:00In the past month, there have been two raids
00:16:02on plantations north of here by the terrorists.
00:16:05And someone in this district's been decorating
00:16:07the houses of the whites with dead oaks.
00:16:12What about the Governor?
00:16:13I'll say this for him.
00:16:14He leans over backwards, to be fair.
00:16:16We have curfew, but no martial law.
00:16:18He supports the vote for Africans,
00:16:20but he knows the danger of moving too fast.
00:16:22Why, let either the Africans or the Gregory's
00:16:24take the law into their own hands.
00:16:26And while he thinks Oba needs watching,
00:16:28for so far, at least better give him all the rope he wants.
00:16:34You know the man with him?
00:16:35Paso Mogo?
00:16:37Oh, no. Not well, it isn't.
00:16:39I first met him at a conference in Switzerland.
00:16:41One of the finest minds in Africa.
00:16:44I realize that my congratulations
00:16:46on your election come a little late.
00:16:48I called at your home yesterday.
00:16:50I'm sorry I wasn't there.
00:16:51I've been wanting to hear your explanation
00:16:53of my brother's dismissal from the mission school.
00:16:55It may be that the principal acted hastily,
00:16:59but you know as well as I that the boy
00:17:01has been using the school as a center
00:17:03for political agitation.
00:17:05I hope I'm not intruding.
00:17:07Of course not.
00:17:08Oba, allow me to present Bruce B.
00:17:10Good evening.
00:17:11I've been looking forward to this, sir.
00:17:14I believe I am intruding.
00:17:16Hold on.
00:17:17Mr. Craig has come from America
00:17:19at the invitation of the African church.
00:17:21You will look far to find a more sympathetic listener.
00:17:25Perhaps then you'll enjoy hearing my explanation
00:17:28of why my brother was expelled
00:17:30from the school of your church.
00:17:31Oh, I hadn't heard of this, Matthew.
00:17:33It happened shortly before you came.
00:17:35My brother Kander is associated
00:17:37with Africa's independence movement.
00:17:39He's not what the church considers
00:17:41politically agreeable.
00:17:42Accordingly, he was expelled from its school
00:17:44for the same reason I was asked to leave the church.
00:17:47I've been wanting to hear your side of the story.
00:17:50The truth has but one face, Mr. Craig.
00:17:53I happen to believe that.
00:17:55But I also believe that one must look behind
00:17:58the face of truth to find the truth itself.
00:18:01Fear can make men act thoughtlessly and foolishly.
00:18:05I've been afraid.
00:18:06Doubtless, you too have been afraid.
00:18:08I can assure you churches often have been afraid.
00:18:10A church that would claim my loyalty
00:18:12must not itself be claimed by fear.
00:18:14With that, too, I can agree.
00:18:16This will be news to you, Matthew.
00:18:18When Mrs. Craig and I stepped out of the house this evening,
00:18:21we were greeted by a freshly killed hawk.
00:18:24Now, the truth there, of course, is that I'm a white man.
00:18:27But I'm more concerned about what lies
00:18:29behind the face of that truth.
00:18:32I give you my word, Mr. Craig.
00:18:34I had nothing to do with this unfortunate occurrence.
00:18:37I hope you believe me.
00:18:38I do.
00:18:39And I didn't mean to imply that you were
00:18:41associated with the incident.
00:18:43My opinion of you, sir, is based solely
00:18:45upon the esteem in which Pastor Amugo holds you.
00:18:50I am sorry to interrupt, but I'm afraid
00:18:53His Excellency would like to see my husband.
00:18:55Mr. Craig, my wife.
00:18:56How do you do?
00:18:57Pleasure.
00:18:58Welcome to Africa.
00:18:59I'm looking forward to meeting Madam Craig.
00:19:01She'll be happy to know that.
00:19:03Obama?
00:19:04Excuse us.
00:19:08I believe I owe you an apology.
00:19:12I doubt that, Matthew.
00:19:14Can we talk out there?
00:19:22I should have told you about Obama's brother.
00:19:26Does not help matters any that Obama himself
00:19:29was asked to leave the church.
00:19:31Are the communists really supporting his union?
00:19:34They certainly are.
00:19:35Are they really supporting his union?
00:19:37They support any cause that will serve their purpose.
00:19:40Obama has denied personal connections,
00:19:42but still they campaign for him.
00:19:46It was solely on that basis that the elders of our church
00:19:49asked him to leave.
00:19:50But you're not happy about it, are you?
00:19:52No.
00:19:53We were wrong in dismissing him.
00:19:55As long as he was in the fellowship,
00:19:57there was a chance the church could influence him.
00:20:01What do they mean, Matthew?
00:20:03I do not know.
00:20:05It has been happening more frequently.
00:20:08About the dead hawk, this is not the first time.
00:20:12The terrorists seem to be using it as a kind of warning.
00:20:16Not so far.
00:20:17There has been no violence around here.
00:20:20But the word for hawk is Oba.
00:20:22Yes.
00:20:23It is the official emblem of his party.
00:20:25The terrorists are a radical element
00:20:27The terrorists are a radical element within the party,
00:20:30and they want to make it appear that Obama
00:20:32is in sympathy with them.
00:20:58It was shrewd of you to come, my dear.
00:21:00Now that you've seen the inside of government house,
00:21:02you'll be able to plan the changes
00:21:04you will so surely want to make.
00:21:07I'm certain, Madame Gregory, that no one can grace an occasion
00:21:11such as this one beautifully than does the governess lady.
00:21:16I'm certain, Madame Gregory, that no one can grace an occasion
00:21:20such as this one beautifully than does the governess lady.
00:21:25Tomorrow's meeting of the legislative council
00:21:27will begin promptly, gentlemen.
00:21:29The agenda's unusually full.
00:21:30I've only got one proposal to make myself,
00:21:32Your Excellency.
00:21:33Mobilization of the colony's manpower, I imagine?
00:21:35Yes, sir.
00:21:36It's already on the agenda,
00:21:37but I doubt that we'll get around to it.
00:21:40Well, gentlemen.
00:21:42Oba.
00:21:44Inspector Hall tells me you're planning
00:21:46one of your public meetings for the day after tomorrow.
00:21:49Yes, sir.
00:21:50Inspector Hall tells me you're planning
00:21:52one of your public meetings for the day after tomorrow.
00:21:54That is so, Your Excellency.
00:21:56Some of your meetings have gone out of hand.
00:21:58The police are afraid of an outbreak.
00:22:00All I have to say, Your Excellency,
00:22:02I shall say before the council tomorrow.
00:22:04I assume I have the privilege of the floor.
00:22:06Oba, you know perfectly well
00:22:09I don't question the right of free speech.
00:22:12But the last thing I want to see in this colony is martial law.
00:22:16Some are already demanding it.
00:22:18I don't want to have any hotheads
00:22:20taking the law into their own hands.
00:22:23Am I to infer, then,
00:22:24that I shall not be granted the floor tomorrow?
00:22:26You are to infer nothing of the kind.
00:22:29I'm sorry, I can no longer talk frankly,
00:22:32but as you wish.
00:22:34Tomorrow then, at 10 o'clock, Your Excellency.
00:22:38Oba's election to the council
00:22:40is quite an achievement, Renée.
00:22:42I know he's a university graduate,
00:22:44but still, it's quite a triumph for an African.
00:22:47Don't you agree?
00:22:49I must remind you, Mr. Gregory,
00:22:51that I am African, too.
00:22:53Are you?
00:22:54I'm aware of the notion
00:22:56that African blood is thicker than French,
00:22:58but, well, I've never put much stock in it.
00:23:01Certainly not in your blood.
00:23:03Well, I've never put much stock in it.
00:23:06Certainly not in your case.
00:23:08You're making this rather difficult.
00:23:10Well, you'll see why.
00:23:12Personally, frankly, this could make
00:23:14a lot of things easier.
00:23:16Yes, ma'am.
00:23:29Thank you for the pleasant influence, Renée.
00:23:31Oba, we were talking about your election.
00:23:33I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say tomorrow.
00:23:36You'll hear it, Mr. Gregory.
00:23:38And you'll hear it from me, not my wife.
00:23:41A raid has just been reported, Your Excellency.
00:24:01To Collier, please.
00:24:11To Collier, please.
00:24:12To Collier.
00:24:13To Collier.
00:24:14To Collier.
00:24:15To Collier.
00:24:16To Collier.
00:24:17To Collier.
00:24:18To Collier.
00:24:19To Collier.
00:24:20To Collier.
00:24:21To Collier.
00:24:22To Collier.
00:24:23To Collier.
00:24:24To Collier.
00:24:25To Collier.
00:24:26To Collier.
00:24:27To Collier.
00:24:28To Collier.
00:24:29To Collier.
00:24:30To Collier.
00:24:31To Collier.
00:24:32To Collier.
00:24:33To Collier.
00:24:34To Collier.
00:24:35To Collier.
00:24:36To Collier.
00:24:37To Collier.
00:24:38To Collier.
00:24:39To Collier.
00:24:40To Collier.
00:24:41To Collier.
00:24:42To Collier.
00:24:43To Collier.
00:24:44To Collier.
00:24:45This council must face the fact that lawless violence is no longer an academic matter.
00:24:48Last night's raid on the Collier estate ended in brutal murder.
00:24:51Coming on top of two recent acts of terrorism in the North, it compels us to frame a program
00:24:57of immediate action.
00:24:58Your Excellency!
00:24:59Mr. Party President.
00:25:00Are you asking for a program of action?
00:25:02I'm asking for a program of action.
00:25:03Now if I knew the men responsible for this outbreak I would name them.
00:25:05In that case, our line of action would be perfectly clear.
00:25:09I suggest, Your Excellency, ask Obam to tell us who they are.
00:25:13I must answer you directly, Mr. Gregory. I do not know.
00:25:16You mean that statement in spite of the fact your brother Kanda
00:25:19is identified with radical elements of the progressive movement?
00:25:23I do, Your Excellency.
00:25:25I'm not responsible for the actions of anyone but myself, political or otherwise.
00:25:29What about the actions of your labor unions?
00:25:31Are none of them political?
00:25:33Or do you no longer represent them?
00:25:35I represent them, Mr. Gregory, but I do not compel them.
00:25:40Your Excellency, may I have the floor?
00:25:42You may, sir.
00:25:45Gentlemen, believe me, I do not know the men responsible for these acts of violence.
00:25:50My own effort thus far on behalf of the workers
00:25:53has been a call for political action and not for force.
00:25:55Thus far? When will you turn to force?
00:25:58Let your labor unions renounce the hawk and you'll be more convincing.
00:26:02Mr. Gregory, you are new on this council,
00:26:05but I hardly thought you'd need tutoring in parliamentary conduct.
00:26:09Your Excellency, let the colonial government grant but three things,
00:26:13and the teeth will be pulled from the jaws of terrors.
00:26:16First, broaden the franchise.
00:26:19Second, place this entire legislative council on an elective basis.
00:26:23Third, abolish the curfew.
00:26:25Accept in localities where flagrant lawlessness has occurred.
00:26:28You asked for a program of action. Here it is.
00:26:31Adopt it, not as a concession,
00:26:33but as a step toward the self-government which will come,
00:26:36which must come to my people.
00:26:38Adopt it, and you will be unable to number your friends,
00:26:41for they will be legion.
00:26:44Reject it, and your government will face a general strike
00:26:46that will paralyze this country.
00:26:48Your Excellency, I resent these strong-arm tactics,
00:26:52and I speak for the majority of this council
00:26:54and every decent, civilized member of the colony when I say...
00:26:56Mr. Gregory, you are out of order.
00:26:59This council will not be used as a sounding board for partisan interests,
00:27:04and that applies equally to every member.
00:27:09Obama, I was not born in Africa,
00:27:13but I have been close to her for over 30 years,
00:27:16longer than the length of your life,
00:27:19and I believe I love Africa as much as you do.
00:27:24Let me remind you as you nurse your grievances
00:27:27that we have education, health, and a standard of living
00:27:31that were unknown in this part of the world before we came.
00:27:35You talk of freedom and justice.
00:27:37We have given you civilized methods of justice,
00:27:41and the freedom your people have today is a far cry
00:27:44from their old bondage to tribal superstitions.
00:27:48Until the present emergency,
00:27:50they were free to go and come as they pleased.
00:27:55Your Excellency,
00:27:58it is not that my people want merely to be treated freely
00:28:02or to move freely.
00:28:05My people want to be free.
00:28:08The history of their captivity, whatever its incidental benefits, burns deep.
00:28:14Only name a date for freedom.
00:28:16Give us a timetable for independence.
00:28:18Set a date, any date at all,
00:28:21and we will work together toward the day when this country shall again be free.
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00:29:49Good morning.
00:29:51We haven't met, but I want to say that I wish your husband well in his new position.
00:29:55I'm sorry.
00:29:56This is Sundar Lal from the church in India.
00:29:59He's come at the request of the African church to work with us.
00:30:02Not here at the hospital, I'm sorry to say.
00:30:04I wouldn't be of much use here.
00:30:06I work at the mine, which accounts for the way I'm dressed.
00:30:09I had hoped to see Mr. Craig. He wasn't at the house.
00:30:11He's visiting one or two of the schools.
00:30:13That usually means he's away for the day. Can it wait?
00:30:16It may be important.
00:30:18We can get word to him.
00:30:20Goodbye.
00:30:21Goodbye.
00:30:22Oh, Martha.
00:30:23Reni, this is Martha Okubo.
00:30:25She'll handle the tricky cases.
00:30:27I shall do the best I can.
00:30:29If you want anything, just call on Martha.
00:30:33Quedo.
00:30:34What are you doing here so early in the morning?
00:30:37Nothing, nothing.
00:30:38You're tired.
00:30:39What have you been up to?
00:30:42Nothing.
00:30:43Nothing.
00:30:44What are you going to do?
00:30:45Sleep?
00:30:46What am I supposed to do?
00:30:47I don't know.
00:30:48I don't know.
00:30:49What have you been doing?
00:30:50What have you been up to?
00:30:51I've brought some stuff.
00:30:52What is that?
00:30:54That's what I'm going to do.
00:30:57Thanks.
00:30:58Thank you so much.
00:31:00Bye-bye.
00:31:01Have a nice day.
00:31:02I don't know what to say to him.
00:31:05I don't know what to say to him.
00:31:08I know.
00:31:33They've taken your land.
00:31:35They've taken your wealth.
00:31:37And what have they given you in return?
00:31:39Do you have more land?
00:31:41Those of you who once plowed your own fields
00:31:43now work the land of the white platter.
00:31:46For what?
00:31:48For a white man's salary?
00:31:51Do you have more wealth?
00:31:54Those of you who once plowed your own fields
00:31:56now work the land of the white platter.
00:31:59Do you have more wealth?
00:32:01Those of you who work in a white man's mine,
00:32:03what is your wealth?
00:32:05Is it the few coins you receive at the end of a week's hard labor?
00:32:08Is this your wealth?
00:32:10If you are Africans, listen to me.
00:32:13If this is your country, listen to me.
00:32:15If this is your land, listen to me.
00:32:18Yesterday I sat on the white man's council.
00:32:21Yesterday I asked for three small words.
00:32:24I asked that men be allowed to vote who have no land.
00:32:29I asked that you be allowed to elect the men who govern you.
00:32:35I asked that the curfew be ended
00:32:38so that we may walk in this land of ours at night as free men walk.
00:32:44If these requests had been granted,
00:32:46there would be no need for a general strike.
00:32:50He did not grant those requests.
00:32:53To every one of them he said no.
00:32:56To you he said no!
00:32:59No! No!
00:33:01What then shall we think of the white man?
00:33:04Shall we believe that he wants us to have our land?
00:33:06No! No! No!
00:33:09Shall we believe when he promises wealth?
00:33:11No! No!
00:33:13Shall we believe that he intends to set us free?
00:33:17No!
00:33:19Wait, my friends. Wait.
00:33:21You must listen to me. There's another side to this.
00:33:24Africa! Africa! Drive the white man out!
00:33:26I got your way! I got your way!
00:33:29May I speak to them?
00:33:31Naduna Joe! Naduna Joe!
00:33:37Listen to me, my people.
00:33:41Much of what Obama has told you is true.
00:33:45Some of the white men have taken our land,
00:33:48but others have built our schools.
00:33:53Some have stolen our country's wealth,
00:33:57but others have helped us fight the tsetse fly.
00:34:02They have given us hospitals and healed our bodies.
00:34:06It's true that some would deny freedom to us,
00:34:10but others have given us the word of God
00:34:15that we may be freed from the jungle swamps of fear and sin.
00:34:22Obama has spoken truth, but it is hot truth.
00:34:28Be careful, my people.
00:34:30Lest for hot truth you give yourselves to violence,
00:34:34as some have already done.
00:34:37For those who achieve in violence
00:34:40are fit only for rule by force.
00:34:46Obama, we must not become the kind of men we condemn.
00:34:51How do we justify ourselves if hated because we are not white?
00:34:55We return that hatred simply because others are not black.
00:34:59We are working for a better tomorrow than that.
00:35:03We are working for a better tomorrow than that.
00:35:06We are working for a better tomorrow than that.
00:35:09We are working for a better tomorrow than that.
00:35:12We are working for a better tomorrow than that.
00:35:15Adieu!
00:35:17Today, some of our children, many of them,
00:35:20are being trained for that tomorrow.
00:35:23And they are being trained in schools that were founded by white men
00:35:27and are maintained largely by white men.
00:35:32Hello.
00:35:35Where did you get your dreams?
00:35:37Where did you learn to hope?
00:35:40Come with me. I must go to town.
00:35:42Good. It's on your way.
00:35:57You have a strong, clear voice.
00:36:00Now I want you to listen to some voices to which you have closed your ears.
00:36:04Mother!
00:36:08Mother, this is Obam, my friend.
00:36:13Mother.
00:36:22It is easy to be impatient, but remember this.
00:36:26When the first missionary came to this part of Africa,
00:36:29my mother was already a young girl.
00:36:31Is it not so, Mother?
00:36:33When the white missionary came, you were standing tall?
00:36:37Look at this picture.
00:36:39What do you see?
00:36:41A cross.
00:36:43What else?
00:36:49Hands are holding it.
00:36:51They are lifting it up.
00:36:53Brown, black, yellow, white, the hands of all men.
00:36:57This is a fantasy.
00:36:59It is reality, my son.
00:37:01This thing is happening on every continent.
00:37:04Every continent.
00:37:06And you do not know it.
00:37:08You have been as one who sleeps.
00:37:10Not all of us have kept pace with the changes about us.
00:37:13That is our tragedy.
00:37:15It's not that we lack vision, but that our vision outstrips our daring.
00:37:19Always we drag one foot in the past.
00:37:22You speak for the old way of violence and hate.
00:37:25And you think you talk of revolution.
00:37:28I tell you that a greater and more profound revolution has already taken place.
00:37:33In spite of the faltering of his church,
00:37:35Christ has taught our people that they are equal with others before God.
00:37:39Whether the world likes it or not,
00:37:41people are on the march here in Africa and all across Asia.
00:37:45And they will not be stopped.
00:37:47But the direction they take will be determined by men who lead.
00:37:53I pray that they be men of God.
00:37:58And where are such men to be found?
00:38:00In such places as this, my son.
00:38:02Obam, the church to which I give my loyalty is not this small group of men
00:38:07who have turned their backs on you and your brother.
00:38:10I should not still be serving the church if I deserted because of short-sighted men in her midst.
00:38:16My church is a great company of 700 million Christians across the earth.
00:38:24The living church of which you and I are a living part.
00:38:29Shall we, whose measure is the measure of man and not of the beast,
00:38:33return to the law of the beast?
00:38:37Our times call for men of noble vision and the courage to make the dream come true.
00:38:50Stay well.
00:39:00Naba.
00:39:01Nuno.
00:39:29Naba.
00:39:30Naba.
00:39:59Gregory, what is this I hear about you chaps taking the law into your own hands?
00:40:29Well, Inspector, a few of us out here with our lives and investments at stake
00:40:34decided to protect them.
00:40:36You boys always arrive a bit too late.
00:40:38You can tell your friends the first one to try anything will be shipped home on the next boat.
00:40:42You mean if you have anything to say about it, which you don't.
00:40:46Look what happened to Jim Collier.
00:40:47Police cars roaring through the hills, sirens wide open.
00:40:51A big show.
00:40:52The trouble was, Inspector, Jim's throat was already slit.
00:40:56You've got a constitution in this colony and we're going to see you abide by it.
00:41:00Keep that in mind.
00:41:01Save your heroics.
00:41:02And your skins.
00:41:05Zundelau.
00:41:13What is it?
00:41:14Barbara sent me the message.
00:41:16Can you get in touch with Obam?
00:41:18Why?
00:41:19I'm afraid there's going to be more trouble.
00:41:21At my place?
00:41:22I don't think so.
00:41:24What do you want me to do?
00:41:26The talk involves Obam and I'm afraid for him.
00:41:28They are certain he's gone over to the terrorists.
00:41:32I'll have a talk with Obam.
00:41:34When are they planning to do this, Zundelau?
00:41:37This weekend, perhaps tomorrow night.
00:41:41Hurry him up.
00:41:54I don't know what you're talking about.
00:42:00Kanda, listen to me.
00:42:02You are far beyond all this.
00:42:05In my country, there are 10 million Christians who share a faith that is greater than this faith.
00:42:10And a stronger bond than race or country.
00:42:13You will see.
00:42:16This pattern of superstition and fear belongs to Africa's past.
00:42:21What are you creating for her future?
00:42:25If you ever need help, let me know.
00:42:28I mean it.
00:42:30No matter what the circumstances, please call on me.
00:42:33I want to be your friend.
00:42:35Try me.
00:42:37Try me.
00:42:45That's awful.
00:42:57What's the story, Fred?
00:42:58Ben here got it from one of his boys.
00:43:00My foreman lives near Obam's brother, so he did some listening around.
00:43:03It was the terrorists, all right.
00:43:05Young Kanda's been bragging they're gonna pull off another raid this weekend.
00:43:07Any idea where?
00:43:08No, but it's sure to be away from town. They aren't taking any chances.
00:43:10What's this all about?
00:43:11We're heading for more trouble.
00:43:12The police know about it?
00:43:13We'll keep the police out of this.
00:43:15Better check the search.
00:43:16I did. There's no one around.
00:43:17Think there's a chance you can learn anything more by tomorrow.
00:43:20Just a chance.
00:43:21We'll see what you can do.
00:43:22Fred, get word to some of the others.
00:43:23The rest of you, round up guns, ammunition, and stand by.
00:43:26Taking a lot for granted, aren't you, Steve?
00:43:28I'm through taking things for granted.
00:43:30Jim Collier took them for granted, and the other day he got his.
00:43:33And they hung another hawk last night at Ben's place.
00:43:35I go along with Steve. We gotta do what we can.
00:43:37Look, this is a job for the police.
00:43:39Steve, suppose they do pull another raid.
00:43:41What good will personal revenge do except pile vengeance on vengeance
00:43:44and give the poor devil's cause for new revenge?
00:43:46You can't break a cycle of injustice that way.
00:43:49Courage, boy.
00:43:50I think you're afraid.
00:43:51Or maybe we all are.
00:43:53I'm scared and I admit it.
00:43:55What in the name of heaven have we ever done that we should expect them to lick our boots?
00:43:59God knows we've got good reason to be scared.
00:44:01But God also knows that your answer is no answer at all.
00:44:04It's a retreat into the dark ages.
00:44:06Finished!
00:44:08You can go back to your books.
00:44:10Right, you men, get going.
00:44:12Listen!
00:44:37Did you speak at the mine?
00:45:02I spoke.
00:45:05I spoke.
00:45:23You are most alone, my darling, when you're troubled.
00:45:27Let me share your loneliness.
00:45:29Go back to your book, Renee.
00:45:33There are happier thoughts there than those I have to share with you.
00:45:41Then I have been reading the wrong book.
00:45:46Diagnosis and Treatment of the Tropical Diseases of the Eye.
00:45:49I have been reading about the granulation of the eyelid characteristic of trachoma.
00:45:55What's that got to do with you?
00:45:57I volunteered my services at the clinic.
00:46:00There's much I have forgotten.
00:46:02It's a white man's hospital.
00:46:04The patients were African.
00:46:05So was the doctor.
00:46:08I must do something, old bum.
00:46:09I'm good for very little.
00:46:11How long must we wait?
00:46:14They will do nothing at any cost to themselves.
00:46:16And they intend to give us nothing unless we force it from them.
00:46:21You cannot be sure there's strength to force them.
00:46:23They are more afraid of a single raid than all the talk of a strike.
00:46:27If we could only organize our strength.
00:46:29Who knows what friends will come and stand with us.
00:46:31You're talking more and more like your brother.
00:46:34My brother may be close to the truth, Renee.
00:46:37A great man has said,
00:46:39there is one thing mightier than all the forces of Earth.
00:46:42An idea whose time has come.
00:46:44And the time for Africa's freedom has long since come.
00:46:47Must we endure another century of humiliation?
00:46:51Is there no voice to cry this shame before the throne of heaven?
00:46:54Is there no voice at all?
00:46:59No.
00:47:25The witch doctor said the raid must be tonight.
00:47:28You're wrong.
00:47:30All of you.
00:47:32You put too much faith in magic.
00:47:34Call it magic, superstition, or juju. It's necessary.
00:47:36It is foolishness.
00:47:37You were convincing at the mine.
00:47:39You were beginning to sound like an African again.
00:47:41An African, yes. But not a bush African.
00:47:43You've attended too many schools and sat at too many conference tables.
00:47:45The foreigners are stupid.
00:47:47They taught me just enough to know that they're my enemy.
00:47:49But they couldn't make me forget Africa.
00:47:52Do you know that you need an army?
00:47:54An army to drive them out.
00:47:56Not the mumbo-jumbo of a witch doctor.
00:47:58You'll have an army in time.
00:47:59But you won't have a good one without juju.
00:48:01Everything else has failed you.
00:48:03So revive in our people their ancient faith.
00:48:05Give them back their tribal religions and nothing will stop them.
00:48:08All we're waiting for is a leader.
00:48:10Come with us tonight and our country can be reborn.
00:48:18Oh, I'll join you later.
00:48:20Don't disappoint us again, my brother.
00:48:27Who is it, Beakley?
00:48:29On your nook, huh?
00:48:33I'm glad you're here.
00:48:35If Pastor Mugu sent you, you're wasting your time.
00:48:37That was my own idea.
00:48:39Why'd you come to Africa, Mr. Craig?
00:48:41They didn't want you in China and you're not welcome here.
00:48:43Obama, the word's around there'll be violence tonight.
00:48:46What's violence got to do with me?
00:48:48That's exactly the question I came here to ask you.
00:48:50Very well.
00:48:52I once put my faith in reason and calm to liberation.
00:48:55My country's not free.
00:48:57I put my trust in the peaceful sanction of the boycott
00:48:59and the strike and freedom's as far away as ever.
00:49:01I put my faith in the church,
00:49:03and the church has failed to support my people's claim to freedom.
00:49:06There's little choice left, Mr. Craig.
00:49:09I see.
00:49:11You see.
00:49:13You see.
00:49:15You see.
00:49:17I see.
00:49:19You see.
00:49:21You see only what you're conditioned to see.
00:49:24You see with the eyes of a foreigner.
00:49:26I see only with the eyes of an African.
00:49:28And we can never have the same vision.
00:49:31I wonder.
00:49:33Men like ourselves have shared the same vision,
00:49:35are sharing it, in fact, in many corners of the earth.
00:49:38And it's a vision that knows no color or race.
00:49:41I believe you had it once.
00:49:43You ask me why I'm here.
00:49:45It's part of it.
00:49:47I don't want to see repeated the same mistakes we made in China.
00:49:50You have nothing to offer me.
00:49:52I think I have, because you've walked straight out of my past.
00:49:56You remind me of my son,
00:49:58and what I learned from him, that much I have to offer you.
00:50:04My son's name was Ming Dao.
00:50:07And when I first saw my son, he was already 10 years old.
00:50:11My associate in the church on the mission compound found him.
00:50:15He was dying in an epidemic that had already killed hundreds of Chinese,
00:50:19including the boy's parents.
00:50:22His mother and father had been members of our little congregation.
00:50:26So when the boy came under our roof, we decided to take care of him.
00:50:31We had no children, and in a few weeks, we adopted him.
00:50:36Ming Dao accepted me readily as a father,
00:50:39and I loved him as my own son.
00:50:45Ming Dao grew up in the mission church,
00:50:48but it was never really his church.
00:50:51Dr. Lin knew what was happening long before I did.
00:50:55I was a foreigner representing an American church,
00:50:58and I was number one man.
00:51:01Three years later, great political changes were taking place in China.
00:51:15More of the leaflets.
00:51:17What does this mean, Father?
00:51:19The new day has come.
00:51:21China for the Chinese.
00:51:23The foreigners must go home.
00:51:26Why, Father, you're a foreigner, aren't you?
00:51:29Why, Father, you're a foreigner, aren't you?
00:51:32Let me see it, son.
00:51:34In the weeks that followed,
00:51:36the people were torn between their old loyalties
00:51:39and the bright promises of the new prophets.
00:51:53I felt the greatest danger was that when the communists came,
00:51:56and it was certain they would come,
00:51:58the Chinese Christians would be cut off from their brothers abroad.
00:52:04They came before we expected them.
00:52:07They came noisily, but their coming was orderly.
00:52:28There was no need to be afraid.
00:52:31New China was finally born.
00:52:59I didn't realize how much closer those quarters were to be.
00:53:03Our first inkling of the new turn in events
00:53:06came when my position was canceled.
00:53:08I was ordered back to the mission and confined to the compound.
00:53:11We sent Mingdao to live with friends
00:53:13until we could be sure of where we stood with the government.
00:53:16It was the last I was to see of him for some time.
00:53:29Yes? Who is it?
00:53:31We are police! Open up!
00:53:34Barbara! Get dressed! Chang!
00:53:37Do not make a disturbance, Mr. Craig. You are under arrest!
00:53:40You won't need those.
00:53:42Quiet! Stay where you are!
00:53:44You, Mrs. Craig, remain silent!
00:53:46Is Mrs. Craig under arrest, too?
00:53:48Certainly!
00:53:50Try not to worry, Barbara. I'll be in touch with you.
00:53:52If you just let me get properly dressed.
00:53:54That will be taken care of.
00:53:57Chang, when we've gone, please get word to Mingdao.
00:53:59That'll be quite impossible.
00:54:05I told you, there's enough light in here for a good picture.
00:54:08We do not need your advice.
00:54:15After a year or so,
00:54:17the affair became less like a comic opera
00:54:20and more like a bad dream.
00:54:22A dream you can't awake from.
00:54:24I was completely cut off from the outside.
00:54:27I didn't know at the time that others were undergoing similar treatment.
00:54:30A daily minimum of exercise and food.
00:54:33Whatever sleep one could manage under the circumstances.
00:54:39There were endless nights of questionings.
00:54:42My first examination lasted for 40 nights.
00:54:46And some nights I was questioned two or three times
00:54:49for hours at a stretch.
00:54:51Listen carefully, please.
00:54:53You will write everything you remember
00:54:55about your colleague, Dr. John Maitland.
00:54:58Every conversation you've had.
00:55:00Everything you knew or heard others say about him.
00:55:04In particular, recall the details of his proposal
00:55:07for a two-way radio.
00:55:10And your subsequent contacts with the American consulate in Hong Kong.
00:55:15And your activities in that connection for the FBI.
00:55:18The FBI?
00:55:20How many times must I repeat, sir?
00:55:23I came to China solely on behalf of my church.
00:55:27Mr. Craig, we feel you're being exceptionally cooperative.
00:55:31But now you're suffering from fatigue.
00:55:34We shall provide you with a transcript of Dr. Maitland's testimony.
00:55:38Study it and prepare your statement.
00:55:41When you have rested, we shall talk again.
00:55:45When you have rested, we shall talk again.
00:55:49Shall we say in approximately three hours?
00:55:54Were you released after that examination?
00:55:57No, apparently I hadn't given them what they wanted.
00:56:00Some weeks later there was another examination.
00:56:02That one lasted for 35 days.
00:56:04I have misjudged you.
00:56:06That's a heavy price to pay for your faith.
00:56:12No price is too great.
00:56:16I still had no word from the outside from Mrs. Craig or Ming Tao.
00:56:23It was many months later that I learned something of what had happened.
00:56:30I hadn't been seriously ill, but I was mentally confused.
00:56:35At times I was unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy.
00:56:39My dreams blended with my waking hours,
00:56:42so that it was often difficult to tell the one from the other.
00:56:46I tried to discipline my mind by recalling the faces of my questioners and the soldiers in the room.
00:56:53A new face was a new experience and helped stimulate my senses.
00:56:58There was a new one that day.
00:57:04It was my son, Ming Tao.
00:57:07The change in him was incredible.
00:57:10There was something more than just the years of our separation.
00:57:14I tried to convince myself that this was part of the fantasy,
00:57:18but that night I knew it was real.
00:57:24My son.
00:57:27You became my father.
00:57:29That perhaps is my trouble.
00:57:31I've been unable to forget.
00:57:34I was told you had fled and deserted me.
00:57:37Yes, they would have to tell you that.
00:57:41Did you want to forget?
00:57:43I must rid my mind of any thought which weakens my devotion to duty.
00:57:47Yes.
00:57:48I can bear but one supreme allegiance.
00:57:50To God.
00:57:51To my country.
00:57:58You must confess. The judges are impatient.
00:58:01Will you confess?
00:58:03No.
00:58:04Why?
00:58:05Why will you not confess?
00:58:07Because, my son, the charges are not the truth.
00:58:10What do the details matter?
00:58:12Of course they're not all true.
00:58:14Even in this matter of the wireless, I know the testimony is false.
00:58:17But there is truth in some of the charges.
00:58:20Ming Tao, if they promise to set me free tomorrow, I shall tell the truth.
00:58:24And if they promise to kill me tomorrow, I'll still tell the truth.
00:58:28You cannot deny that. You've always been an agent for them.
00:58:31Of course I deny that.
00:58:33I've tried to be a Christian.
00:58:35I failed often, but I failed because I was human,
00:58:38not because I was an agent for any imperialism.
00:58:40You believe that?
00:58:42You do not know that you've never prayed a prayer or preached a sermon
00:58:45or greeted a Chinese friend except from a mountain of implied superiority?
00:58:49Always you and your white brothers have come to China
00:58:52to speak of a god and saviour whose face was white.
00:58:55You're lying.
00:58:57Always you and your white brothers have come to China
00:59:00to speak of a god and saviour whose face was white.
00:59:03Ming Tao, God knows no colour, neither does his church.
00:59:07What's happened, my son? Who's taught you this?
00:59:10Together with the people of our village, you built a church
00:59:13in whom was legal title vested.
00:59:15Funds were received and collections taken.
00:59:17Who administered the money?
00:59:19Appointments were made to places of authority in the church.
00:59:22Who made them? You called in a Chinese home.
00:59:25Who occupied the seat of honour and why?
00:59:28Because you were a finer, better man than the Chinese guest who was also there?
00:59:33No, because you're of a white face, the gift of a white god.
00:59:38My son, I failed you,
00:59:44but remember, Christ has not failed you.
00:59:48I came tonight to help you.
00:59:51I'm here against orders,
00:59:53but I thought I could save you by persuading you to confess.
00:59:59Always I've lost the people I've loved.
01:00:02My parents, you, Missy Barbara.
01:00:10I...
01:00:11Son, you've lost none of us.
01:00:15I...
01:00:16Son, you've lost none of us, and you've not lost Christ.
01:00:20I love my country, but I cannot help her.
01:00:25Much of what I've done in these past few years
01:00:28is in deep conflict with what I believe as a Christian.
01:00:32I can no longer put faith in the bright promises of the people's government.
01:00:37I've seen too much violence,
01:00:40too much oppression,
01:00:43too much bloodshed.
01:00:45It's rarely easy to bear witness to the truth.
01:00:49For you, Ming Tao, it will be hard,
01:00:52but you're not alone, my son.
01:00:55Whatever comes, you're never alone.
01:01:12Ah!
01:01:18Ming Tao,
01:01:21we are more than conquerors.
01:01:23Through him that loved us.
01:01:32Gunshot
01:01:43Through him that loved us.
01:01:48It's been five years since my release,
01:01:51and I've tried to keep paramount in my life
01:01:54the lesson I learned from my son.
01:01:57It's this.
01:01:59The greatest gift one man can give another
01:02:03is Christ.
01:02:04But the giving is not enough.
01:02:06The Chinese Christian, the African church
01:02:09must know that Christ is theirs.
01:02:12The gift is their very own
01:02:14to hold and to give again.
01:02:19Because I didn't understand, I failed, my son.
01:02:22By God's grace, I'll not fail you.
01:02:28More than conquerors.
01:02:40Obama,
01:02:42thank God you didn't let go.
01:02:46Renee, I'm no longer alone.
01:02:51Obama!
01:02:58I'm very much afraid for him.
01:03:01Something is terribly wrong.
01:03:03Where will it happen, Renee?
01:03:06If you know, tell me, I'll do what I can.
01:03:15I've gone to the Blaisdell plantation.
01:03:18It is too late.
01:03:37Please let me see Mr. Gregory.
01:03:39Please, I must talk to him.
01:03:40Mrs. Carter.
01:03:41Mr. Gregory, you must let us get out of here
01:03:42before it's too late.
01:03:43Mrs. Carter, you must get upstairs and keep quiet.
01:03:45Obama, get them out of there, and quickly.
01:03:46All right, come on.
01:03:47Hold your back in the room.
01:03:48You'll be quite safe if you stay there.
01:03:53Obama!
01:03:54I told them you'd come.
01:03:56You fools!
01:03:57Do you know what you're doing?
01:03:58Get out of here before it's too late.
01:04:00What are you talking about?
01:04:01I told them you'd come.
01:04:02I told them you'd come.
01:04:03I told them you'd come.
01:04:04Get out of here before it's too late.
01:04:05What are you talking about?
01:04:07Carter, take me to Yolini.
01:04:08He must stop them.
01:04:09Don't listen to him.
01:04:10Carter.
01:04:11This man is not our friend.
01:04:12He has betrayed us.
01:04:13He is no longer my brother, Obama.
01:04:16Carter!
01:04:17Wait!
01:04:18Here's a spare for you, Ben.
01:04:19I'll fix it.
01:04:20Jeff, you load for him.
01:04:21Right.
01:04:22Now remember, the second I throw the switch
01:04:24and the floodlights go on, let them have it.
01:04:27George, get upstairs.
01:04:28Cover the balcony.
01:04:29Right, Steve.
01:04:31Look, Steve.
01:04:32The women are terribly frightened.
01:04:33You should have sent them into town.
01:04:34So the wogs can call it off and come back some other night
01:04:36when we're not so lucky to know about it?
01:04:39How about the servants?
01:04:40They've all run away.
01:04:41I think you're dead wrong, Steve.
01:04:43What would you do about it?
01:04:44Maybe 50, 100 bloodthirsty Africans out there
01:04:47ready to sack this place.
01:04:49Exactly what would you do?
01:04:50You should have notified the police.
01:04:51There may still be time.
01:04:52Any other suggestions, Overholt?
01:04:56Preacher, get away from that door.
01:05:00Get away from that door.
01:05:14Operator, give me the police.
01:05:20Steve, you won't solve anything by taking
01:05:22the law into your own hands.
01:05:24You're deliberately baiting the Africans.
01:05:26This is a vicious trap.
01:05:29Let's go.
01:05:48Steve, they're here.
01:05:50Let me know the moment they're all in the open.
01:05:52Very well, Gregory.
01:05:53You leave me no choice.
01:05:55Mr. Krause.
01:05:59Get back.
01:06:00It's a trap.
01:06:05It's Mr. Krause.
01:06:06Don't shoot.
01:06:07He's a friend.
01:06:08Overholt.
01:06:29Shoot.
01:06:59It's great.
01:07:04Through him, they loved.
01:07:14Through him, they loved us.
01:07:29Double the guard on him.
01:07:52Get him to the hospital where the others are.
01:07:54Yes, sir.
01:07:59Get the others and then head back for the compound.
01:08:02Well, that's taught the devils a lesson they won't forget.
01:08:06Just a little bit too late again, now, Inspector.
01:08:09Go away, Gregory.
01:08:11You've done enough damage for one night.
01:08:14I don't think I like that remark, Inspector.
01:08:17No.
01:08:18I don't suppose you do.
01:08:21How do you like that?
01:08:25I want all of you men at headquarters tomorrow
01:08:28Why don't you learn to use one of these things?
01:08:33Gregory, take it easy, boy.
01:08:34Easy.
01:08:57No matter what the circumstances, please call on me.
01:09:11I want to be your friend.
01:09:13Try me.
01:09:14Try me.
01:09:27Try me.
01:09:28Try me.
01:09:57What do you want?
01:10:03What do you want?
01:10:28My people, our church invited Bruce Craig to come to Africa
01:10:36to join hands with us and to share with us his rich experience
01:10:43in another land.
01:10:46Now, we have killed him.
01:10:50Yes, we have taken his life.
01:10:54Our impatience, our hatred, and our blind, unreasoning prejudice
01:11:01have killed him.
01:11:04Is the cause for which he lived also dead?
01:11:24Put down your gun.
01:11:54Because some of us were impatient, we are today farther from freedom than ever.
01:12:07Because certain lawless men permitted prejudice to blind them,
01:12:12this country stands on the brink of riot and unrest.
01:12:17Our country cannot be made free by hatred and bloodshed.
01:12:23We shall only become slaves to hatred, our own, and the hatred of others.
01:12:29We know we must have freedom.
01:12:32And when we take this great desire of ours to Jesus,
01:12:37and we ask him, is this desire good?
01:12:41We hear him answer, yes, my children, it is good.
01:12:48One day freedom may come to this land, but it will not come easily.
01:12:55Our malice and our sin have already cost us dearly.
01:13:01Jesus Christ, in his own sacrifice, has shown us the way.
01:13:08And we must learn to follow in that way
01:13:13before we can call ourselves truly free.
01:13:23Obon! Obon!
01:13:37The charges are not true, René, but whether they find me guilty or not,
01:13:42I know that you will always believe me.
01:13:45And remember, my darling, I am no longer alone.
01:13:49All my love, always. Obon.
01:14:13This man is mine
01:14:19And though he's far from me
01:14:25His love will always be
01:14:31His love will always be
01:14:37His love will always be
01:14:42My guiding star above
01:14:47This man is mine
01:14:52No force can tear apart
01:14:57Two lives that share one heart
01:15:02One eternal love
01:15:16I can hear his heartbeat say
01:15:20Where you stay, I will stay
01:15:24And my heartbeat answers low
01:15:28Where you go, I will go
01:15:32I will follow faithfully
01:15:36That where you are, I may be
01:15:40And heaven above will guide my love to me
01:15:52Our hands will meet
01:15:57And in his eyes will shine
01:16:02My secret dreams and I will know
01:16:07This man is mine
01:16:28Obon's been given a separate hearing.
01:16:30The governor's leading up a banquet, to be fair.
01:16:32I hope he's not making a mistake.
01:16:34Is it true that Obon's brother is going to testify against him?
01:16:37Yes.
01:16:38Why?
01:16:39To save his own neck. It's as simple as that.
01:16:50The court wishes to remind the prosecutor that this is not a trial.
01:16:55We are here to determine whether there is any just cause in bringing a formal charge against the accused.
01:17:01That is our sole purpose.
01:17:04And the court cannot permit any action designed to prejudice the case of the defendant.
01:17:09The prosecutor will accordingly refrain from further leading of the witness.
01:17:13He may proceed with his questioning.
01:17:16Now, Inspector.
01:17:18Permit me to summarize your testimony.
01:17:21The court will correct me if I'm in error.
01:17:24You arrived at the house on the Blaisdell plantation shortly after 10 o'clock last Friday evening,
01:17:30accompanied by a number of the police.
01:17:33At the time of your arrival, there was intensive firing which originated from several parts of the house
01:17:38and was directed toward a large number of armed African men.
01:17:42These men were trespassing, apparently trespassing,
01:17:46on the Blaisdell property with many of them endeavoring to escape.
01:17:49Further, you have testified that two of the police apprehended the defendant at the scene
01:17:54and you ordered him taken in custody.
01:17:57Now, Inspector, in the light of the facts to which you have testified,
01:18:03can you tell the court whether the defendant was a party to the act of violence as charged?
01:18:11No, I cannot.
01:18:14No further questions.
01:18:20If it please the court, I wish to call one more witness.
01:18:26A witness whose testimony will be conclusive.
01:18:30I call the brother of the defendant.
01:18:50I swear by Almighty God that the evidence I shall give to the court shall be the truth,
01:18:56the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
01:19:09I have testified that the defendant was a party to the act of violence as charged.
01:19:16What is your name?
01:19:18Kondo, son of Eva.
01:19:21Do you know this man?
01:19:24Yes.
01:19:25Tell the court the relationship between you and the defendant.
01:19:30He was my brother.
01:19:32Is he not still your brother?
01:19:35Yes.
01:19:36Yes.
01:19:37Now tell the court where you were last Friday evening at 10 o'clock.
01:19:41Yes.
01:19:42Now tell the court where you were last Friday evening at 10 o'clock.
01:19:46I was with my friends.
01:19:47And how were you and your friends dressed?
01:19:51In ordinary clothes.
01:19:54Do you recognize this emblem?
01:19:59Yes.
01:20:00Tell the court what the emblem represents.
01:20:03A hawk.
01:20:04What is your brother's name?
01:20:08Obon.
01:20:10Were you and your friends on the evening we are talking about wearing emblems similar to this?
01:20:16We were all wearing them.
01:20:17Tell the court where you and your friends were last Friday evening at approximately 10 o'clock.
01:20:22The name of the place.
01:20:25We were on a blaze devastation.
01:20:26And what was your intent and that of your friends?
01:20:30We...
01:20:31Tell the court the truth.
01:20:33We planned to kill the white residents and burn the buildings.
01:20:36Now, is it true that prior to that evening you had stated publicly that your brother was capable of organizing the workers of this district into an army?
01:20:48Answer yes or no.
01:20:50Yes.
01:20:51And is it also true that you had declared your brother was at the head of a nationalist movement committed to violence?
01:20:57I believe that.
01:20:58Yes.
01:20:59Now, think carefully before you answer.
01:21:04Was your brother who is called the Hawk, the man who not only planned the raid on the Blaisdell estate, but was himself the leader of the men?
01:21:26No.
01:21:27My brother had nothing to do with it.
01:21:31I was mistaken.
01:21:33He has never been one of us.
01:21:35He came to the Blaisdell estate because he is my brother.
01:21:52If it please the court.
01:21:54You may speak.
01:21:55But I must warn you that whatever you say may be given in evidence upon your trial.
01:22:02Your Honor, Conda is indeed my brother.
01:22:10And I know now that Bruce Craig was my brother too.
01:22:13Had I learned this earlier, Bruce Craig would be alive today.
01:22:19I cannot judge this boy and his companions.
01:22:22But just as Conda is guilty under the law, before God, I too am guilty, as guilty as he.
01:22:30I'm guilty, Your Honor, not so much because I was tempted to violence, but because I had already yielded to hatred.
01:22:38I was impatient and proud.
01:22:42Shouting when I should have reasoned.
01:22:45Making threats.
01:22:47When I should have sought understanding.
01:22:50I wanted freedom for my people.
01:22:54I gave them only the desire to destroy.
01:22:59I have failed my brother by being less than the man I would like him to be.
01:23:06But there are others I have failed.
01:23:10A company of Christians in whose fellowship I have been.
01:23:14A company of Christians in whose fellowship I once found a place.
01:23:18Matthew Imugu belongs to that company.
01:23:21So does Thunder Lowell, and Inspector Hall, and Mrs. Bruce Craig.
01:23:27And countless numbers whom I will never meet or know.
01:23:32God grant that I will work with them toward our country's freedom and love and understanding.
01:23:38It is possible for a man to walk as a stranger in this land, alone.
01:23:46And the African will ask of such a man, where then are your brothers?
01:23:51They will not ask this of me again.
01:23:55For I am no longer alone.
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