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00:00Before there were the people, or even the idea of people, there was the land, and the
00:11creek that crossed it.
00:12The way I look at it is, if an attractive woman wants to hide herself out here in the
00:18middle of nowhere, it is her business.
00:22The woman was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who searched for solitude, and found instead an
00:31undiscovered universe of humanity, which was immortalized in the Pulitzer award-winning
00:36classic, The Yearling.
00:37My Pa don't believe in keeping pets, but Flank's special.
00:38He's real smart.
00:39You're not even afraid of gators, are you?
00:40Ever been bit by one?
00:41Not recently.
00:42Somebody shot my pig.
00:55That is just the way I am.
00:58I go along quietly for a while, and then out of the clear blue sky, I don't know what happens
01:03to me, I just pick up a gun, I shoot whatever makes me angry.
01:06I'm so afraid one day it just might be a person.
01:10I've been watching how you do it, but you're a woman, and you live by yourself, and don't
01:15nobody take advantage of you.
01:16That's something I learned out for you.
01:20And it was in Cross Creek that she fell in love.
01:23Flank!
01:24Flank!
01:25She's not human, not a critter.
01:28She loves that animal.
01:29It's gonna have to be shot.
01:31This is my world, Cross Creek.
01:37People here are richer than my imaginary governesses.
01:42Baba, no!
01:43Stop it, Baba!
01:44Baba, please, I promise!
01:45I'll make it up to you.
01:46Baba, please listen to me!
01:47If I can't write my own honest thoughts and feelings, then I'm no author.
01:56Producer Robert Radnitz and director Martin Ritt present Academy Award winning actress
02:02Mary Steenburgen.
02:05In a motion picture experience to be treasured forever.
02:08Miss Rollins, we did good.
02:13We did magnificently.