In small communities, personal secrets and scandals can create immense social pressure, but genuine love and honesty can ultimately overcome judgment and prejudice. The film demonstrates that despite the intense scrutiny and gossip in a tight-knit Irish village, Tara's determination to protect her child and her love for the traveling actor Tom allow them to find happiness despite the obstacles of social judgment, revealing that authentic human connection transcends societal expectations.
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[music] [music] [music] [crying] >> Tara!
Marry me.
I'm your man.
30 flooded acres.
Go away and leave us alone. I'm talking to Tara. Go away, Mick. Who else will have you now?
Huh? Oh, no.
Sleep it off.
How are they?
Fine, thank you, Sergeant.
It's Mick and the Sergeant at it again.
Like tomcats.
They'll only come near me at night.
>> At least we have a man on our side from now on.
>> [laughter] >> Aren't you the lucky lad, Jimmy?
This dump is going to be all yours one day if you're not careful. Oh, Tara.
I couldn't bear to touch it, the poor wee thing.
Oh, Mrs. Ryan.
I'm only here cuz I feel sorry for you.
You can spare your sorrow for yourself.
What can we do for you?
A button. A fairly big one that's fairly small with four holes as opposed to two.
And making beneath the dress she's emigrating.
Lucky [ __ ] What about this?
It's the latest fashion, you know. She's my niece, not a trollop.
>> [crying] >> What is two?
Sixpence. Huh.
God love us.
Poor wee bastard. Shut your gob.
Who's the father?
There'll be no luck about this place until you own up.
If everyone around here owned up to their sins, there'd be a queue at the confession box a mile long.
Ah!
>> Holy God, why me?
Since you gave up the drink, has it been any easier?
Worse.
Far worse.
Drink's an anesthetic.
Takes away the feelings for a while.
The pain.
And the joy.
I can't remember.
God sees your suffering and understands.
Why can't she?
You're not the only man who wants to marry her.
Is it Mickey you're talking about?
If he so much as lays a finger on her, I'll strangle him with me >> Don't commit murder in your heart, man.
May God forgive me, Father, but that's the way I feel sometimes.
>> Mickey has blown his brains out. Come on.
The Ranger has gone crazy.
Why? Cuz his cows were dying.
He had no wife, that's why.
Come on, give us a hand, you two.
You should have seized the gun off the sergeant. The state he was in, revoke his license. And they may be.
Scandal is a contagion.
And one sinner can infect an entire community.
Harold Maguire, name the man who wronged you.
Or the hoardmaster will bring down yet more corruption and disaster on the heads OF US ALL.
>> [crying] >> HAROLD!
HAROLD!
HAROLD, MY DEAR CHILD, trust in your neighbors and your friends and in the Lord.
She's not a leper.
You're flying in the face of the parish and mixed suicide was the last straw.
>> That's one mortal sin they can't nail on me.
I wish to God I was in Dublin or London.
Oh, with a baby tucked under your arms, you wouldn't last 5 minutes.
Leave it there.
Don't be stupid.
>> [crying] >> Own up.
Whose baby is it?
Ask your husbands.
He's my baby.
Mine.
>> [screaming] >> Walk the way you came back.
You can say "Fuck off."
Order in the red barn. Will there be guns in it or not? Is it a cowboy?
There's guns in it, all right.
And an axe.
And a boy and a cow.
I wonder what the nun story will be about.
It's about a nun.
>> [laughter] >> What do you get if you win the raffle?
Well, the first prize is a pound of butter and a packet of tea. We have a double bed.
Could sleep three easy. That's right.
The crappy boy. The crappy boy. Come here to me, you.
You didn't wash behind your ears this morning, what? Huh?
>> [laughter] >> And what is 6 pence?
For you, treasons. Only for you, though.
>> [laughter] >> Beth of Slaws of Tara.
Key.
Just like all the other men in this place.
Scared to death of the priest.
Scared to death of you more like.
I could have gone to the ecclesiastical outfitters in Dublin Tara, but uh I'd rather you had the money.
You're not too proud to take it, that is. What's your entire life, Father?
Huh?
>> [snorts] >> Yeah.
I don't understand your question.
Here, hold this.
Up higher.
That's it.
You're still angry at me.
You read me from the pulpit, and I'll never forgive you.
But I need your money.
>> [crying] >> Hey, looks like a top week customer right now.
I'll have something for you within the week. Now, do you want the same color?
>> That's exactly the same, if you please.
Change is a dangerous thing.
Change of fashion, change of heart, of mind, change of religion, >> [crying] >> all a sign of these shallow times.
Mick's death could have been avoided, Tara.
He killed himself over bad money and rotten land, not for my sake. The sergeant, now there's a man could be relied on by anyone. Indeed.
He's just the person to set you on the straight and narrow. Huh? What do you say?
I'll be needing half the cash in advance, by the way.
Tara, don't drive another soul to drink and despair.
What the hell are you doing?
Woodwork, sir.
It's me happy.
I wish I had the time for woodwork.
Well, and if ever you do, sir, I'll lend you me tools.
Let me smell your breath.
Get out on patrol.
Now.
You're supposed to be a policeman, not a carpenter.
Up to your old tricks again, huh?
What do you think?
Once a smuggler, always a smuggler. It's food, that's all.
And a suit for Father Malone.
Ah, well, it's time we changed out of sackcloth matches anyway.
Will you look at the two of us?
The lawbreaker and the lawmaker.
I'm earning a bit extra for me and the baby.
You trying to make life more difficult for us?
There's nothing I want less.
Let me go then.
What's happened to your hand?
Oh, just a little nick.
Cleaning the bicycle.
Marry me.
Or I'll go mad.
I'd go mad if I did.
Mhm.
Let me look after the two of you.
We don't need looking after. You will.
>> Splendid. Splendid.
You know, I can smell money.
Bunny, dream's over. Back to reality.
Oh, yes. Here's our welcome. Here's our welcome here, too. Thank you, Shamus.
Thank you, Jerry.
I've got a piano. So have I.
You can give them all the Shakespeare you want here, Freddy. They won't know the difference.
You coming to the show? Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
Fun for the children. Fun.
Looks like the last place God made.
Isn't that what you said about the place we were last week?
Well, I was wrong.
You shouldn't have come, Bunny.
You're always browsing.
Well, let's get the show off the road.
I got first dibs on her.
You can have the sister.
Uh with a bit of luck, man.
Have a great time, huh?
If uh If they stand a chance on the green, cuz you any trouble, you've only to say the word. They're only trying to scrape a living.
Same as the rest of us.
Ah, sergeant, complimentary tickets for yourself and your family. They'll be there every night.
On duty.
>> [laughter] >> What do you think you're doing? Oh, hello. I'm Tom Casey.
I'm from the Department of Agriculture.
We're uh investigating these chickens for the old epidemic and I can see you don't believe a word I'm saying, eh?
I used uh I was stealing one of your chickens.
Right.
Well, I better call Sergeant Hagerty then. No, no, no, no. Wait a minute.
I'll pay you for it. 10 bob.
What?
You must be joking. It's not worth two bob.
Sergeant!
Sergeant! Wait a minute, will you? Hold your horses here. Wait.
Let me see what I have for you here now.
Five bob do you want?
No.
For now.
Look, I'll owe you the rest.
I'll give it to you after the show tonight, right?
I want the five bob you owe me before the show.
You must think I'm a terrible idiot. Oh, no, no, no.
I can see you or not.
Good.
Hope you taste better than you look.
You've got a bloody chance. We don't want more trouble.
He flew right under me, jacket. I'm telling you.
Now you behave yourself this year, or I'll tell Nidge. You can talk.
At least you'll bring a bit of custom into the shop.
Well, we made five bob already.
Would you?
I would.
My mother she said, "Put your shorts back on.
It's not decent half naked."
Tell her to come over here herself, will you?
One two three What's the new sergeant like here?
He's nice. He's after Tara Maguire.
Isn't he back, Grace?
Who's after the sister?
Black Spit. So you're out of luck there as well.
>> A woman's driving.
I hate hanging around at these jobs.
This place is crawling with customs men.
Relax, Richie.
They'd put you in jail Jail would be a cake Do you know what this is? Sure. Wireless with pictures.
It's more cloth for his holiness.
It is. Let's hope he gets another year in purgatory for saying mass in smuggled clothes.
Come on, Tara.
Just put on your things.
I've one extra.
For a man named Cassidy.
Who'll be passing your way.
What is it? Secondhand false teeth?
Razor blades.
Here you are, manny, the sergeant.
Good move, Tara. Where'd you hear that?
Oh, I found them alone.
All the wife's sisters, aren't they?
Well, if you believe all you hear, you leave all you see.
Smuggling with a baby.
Now, that's a new one.
Best to start them young.
Like gamecocks.
>> [snorts] >> You coming to the show tonight? Didn't we see it last year?
No, I'm even better this year.
That wouldn't be hard.
Jesus.
There's not another one of mine, is there?
Sure has neat tattoos all over his bum.
Your razor blades.
Ah.
Thanks.
They're cheaper in the north, eh?
I use them in an act.
Razor blades, my foot.
>> [snorts] >> Oh, we'll definitely have to go tonight.
See the electric chair up on the stage?
You're always following me around.
Because you're as slippery as an eel.
And remember, I know what happened to you in Dublin. Nobody knows what happened in Dublin, so shut YOUR GOB.
HE DOESN'T LIKE TO BE HATED IN FACT.
JUST HAVE A LOOK.
What you your All right.
You got it.
Hey.
Good man. Hey, good man. Go on, then. I know this is not the first time he's stolen an ostrich.
I'd be lost without you, Tom.
Ben Jackson.
>> You're Ben Jackson with me, Freddy.
So, what's the difference? HE DIED. I'M LEFT THE DEAD.
ROMEO!
ROMEO, WHEREFORE ART THOU, ROMEO? IS THIS A pantomime that I see before me?
How are you, Freddy?
Good [laughter] to see you. How long you here for this time? Oh, a week or two, depending on the box office. Grand, grand. I'll announce it from the pulpit.
They'll pack out, Freddy. We'll make the usual donation. Grand.
Uh one thing mind legs.
No unseemly display of flesh.
Is that clear?
Of course, Father.
>> [snorts] >> Grand.
I prefer the weather. Are we leaving today? Not a chance. You can't stop me now, ladies.
Sixpence, sixpence. Thank you.
Come on, boys.
I've got you, boy.
Lucky you.
Poor weather, anyway.
Down by [singing] the Sally Gardens, my love and I did meet.
We never had anything to do with insurrection. We're a law-abiding family, sir, and always have been. Well, I'm honest to God, sir.
You can't believe a word coming out of that lying lip. Oh, no. No, no, you can't, sir. I told me son that if he ever wants us to fight for his country, it was no use in him coming to me for the algon. I have as well hidden, sir, in the thatch of a hums worth.
WELL, CAN'T YOU SPEAK SOMEWHAT SLOWER, MAN?
Can hardly understand a word the damn fool says. You shut up, you idiot.
If I hear any man preaching about the rising of the moon, it would be the first thing I do is let you know, and that's God's truth, sir. I have to believe that, sir. I have to believe that's God's truth, sir. Only once in my life have I bore arms, and that was me first born, you know yourself. We were young a while back, we were young AS WELL, SIR.
OH, HE'S HE'S A BIT SOFT IN THE HEAD, SIR. He's from me old kicked him. That's why he rambles on. I think we can proceed, sir. I have searched the premises thoroughly. The only thing to be caught in this godforsaken hole is the cold. Ah, you'd catch more than that if you knew where to look.
What did he say? I've no idea, sir.
>> [laughter] >> You're next. Our hearts are broke with the murder, mayhem, and general debauch.
Rebellion is a hanging offense, Uh nonetheless, I compliment you on your choice of armchair.
Fit for the king himself.
Uh Captain Williams, uh let us proceed.
Where is the damn boy?
>> I saw him going out that way, sir.
Maybe to join his regiment of friends.
God bless him.
I was in without paying. I caught you.
Or even so. I'm you wouldn't lend me you wouldn't lend me a few pounds, would you?
I'll give it back to you before Christmas.
Are you appreciate? You wouldn't have the time.
Come on, to baby.
Ah, Christ of all the luck.
I have a sworn TO CAPTURE EVERY COPY BOY THAT DARES SHOW HIS FACE AT THE REST.
I'LL HUNT DOWN RIGHT BOXES. And furthermore, there will be scout holes on every hill from here to Sligo.
Ah, the battalion has returned.
It's raining buckets, Captain.
Ah.
Tara.
Tara, it's me, Brendan.
Can I touch?
For good?
Come back tomorrow night. The show's always different.
That tire is as bald as an egg.
Shouldn't be on the road.
Dear, oh dear.
I just simply hadn't noticed.
Uh oh, Tom.
Enjoying the show, Sarge?
Do you have all the insurance documents for these vehicles? Oh, we do, of course. We have the death certificates, birth certificates, dog license. The lot.
Right away, showman.
Actor.
If you don't mind.
This isn't a circus. It's matters, damn it. Oh, my dear sergeant.
Let's be Christian about this.
Bear with me while I take off my tatters and grease paints and we'll have a drink together to celebrate a successful first night.
I'm not a drinking man.
Oh.
You surprise me.
I want those documents now.
I'll post them to you first thing in the morning. You'll have them by the end of the month.
I won't be joking, sergeant.
Tar, it's Sergeant Keeler. Did you want me?
You're looking grand, Tar.
Lovely.
What's that you brought with you?
It's a It's a crib.
I made it for you and uh and the baby.
I can't take it.
I only wanted him to sleep in my crib, that's all. No.
Please, try to understand.
I can't put him in there.
Why?
You look at it, won't you?
It's beautiful.
You know why.
I don't like what you're trying to do.
Mona Lisa It's wood.
It's solid as Please.
What?
Leave us alone.
No.
>> [crying] >> It's only wood.
I can wait.
At least I can keep him warm for an hour.
>> [crying] >> Seven?
Dusty?
Here, boy.
Thank you so much.
How about a little princess?
Bravo!
Thomas!
Well earned. Well earned.
Here we are. Thank you so much indeed.
And thank you for a lovely performance last night.
There we are then.
And what about Timi?
>> It's my job.
That last pile is my son's.
Well, he doesn't qualify yet for his share.
I was 10 years in the row before I got a penny. And you did it all on a one-wheeled bicycle. Will you play fair, Freddy? Play fair?
This time last year, you were in the gutter, lad.
>> Well, this time this year, we're all in the gutter. And where's the croaker gold that's yours from the fair month?
>> It's like getting blood out of a turnip.
But just think.
I mean, the the the the price of petrol, running repairs in the tent, income tax.
>> Income tax?
That's the best one yet.
>> Well, you do all right, Rachel.
No one asked you to share YOUR PERKS.
HOLD [screaming] FIRE!
AND HALF OF IT YOU TOOK FROM YOUR POCKET.
HOLY GOD, EVERY WEEK THE SAME.
We're all in the same leaky boat. I'm warning you, Freddy. I'm about ready to jump overboard.
ALL OF MY YEARS, NEVER.
In rates, I could have gone to England, made a fortune, BUT I STAYED HERE TO PRESERVE the genius OF OUR IRISH THEATER.
I PROMISED TO MAKE STARS OF YOU.
We're not peasants in the fields, dead souls IN FACTORIES.
WE ARE ACTORS.
TOM.
I realized years ago there's no pot of gold in this life. There's just two magic hours up here every night. Ah, Freddy.
We're only dreaming.
Give up that dream, Tom, and you're finished.
Maybe we're finished anyway.
Tom, when I retire, all of this can be yours.
I'd better go get a needle and thread then.
Hello.
Hey.
How you doing?
Listen, I'm truly sorry I put me foot in it yesterday.
I hadn't a notion you were married.
Since when?
I didn't want no old husband. I just wanted a baby.
Liar.
You You want a baby till the started wanting you.
There's no fool that baby.
Look, I'm only here for a week.
What are you doing for the rest of the day, huh?
Get off you bog eejit.
Hey, this is me Sunday shirt. Give us a break, will you? I'll break your head, that's what.
Hey.
Are you mad the police Get out.
You're the eejit.
I'll see you in the front row tonight.
Heads in for half price if you're lucky.
Are you stone mad entirely? WILL YOU LEAVE ME ALONE? NEVER.
I'm staying here all day and all night until you come out for a walk with me. Go away and take a run and jump for yourself.
>> [laughter] >> Stop that.
You'll be sorry.
Where's the man that's going to stop [laughter] me? Can you with you?
I'm sure this is not the first time you've seen a man without his trousers, huh?
How are they from behind?
Jerk. jacket.
That's grand.
Grand.
That's it.
A nice lipstick you're wearing, Tara.
Unusual. Huh.
>> [crying] >> How are you, Jimmy? Huh.
>> [laughter] >> HOW ARE YOU?
IT'S GREAT. LOVELY. THAT'S £5 YOU OWE ME.
>> [crying] >> IF YOU'RE NOT GETTING MARRIED, THAT CHILD OUGHT TO GO TO ST. George's Orphanage in Dublin.
The nuns there look after him, body and soul, better than you can, Tara. I could bury him alive. How would that suit you?
You can't fly in the face of God, my girl.
Sergeant Hegarty, you could redeem that man. We can only redeem ourselves.
What is it you're after?
I heard about the daddy.
What did you hear?
Hardy kill himself after the baby was born.
Lord God, that must have been terrible for you, daughter.
What are you collecting the feathers for?
Hat making. Oh.
Going somewhere special?
Look at that hat on her.
>> [screaming] >> What's this?
Stop.
What?
I I distinctly requested that no shorts were to be worn. Yes, I but the flesh is well covered. There'll be some Shakespeare after the interval, Father.
Will there?
Weak minds are easily twisted by wanton imaginings. Why do you think God gave actresses legs in the first place? Keep God out of this, showman.
Does anyone think we're dancing naked?
You're worse than tinkers.
Into the wild!
YOU CAN DO ALL YOUR FIGHTING OUTSIDE OF THE TEMPLE.
>> BUT THIS is better THAN THE SHOW!
FATHER, I'VE GOT I'VE GOT A LOVELY JOB lined up in the evening.
Come on, move on. Come on.
Come on.
Oh, hello.
I didn't think you'd come.
Are you enjoying it? Mhm.
It's great gas so far. Oh.
Uh Oh.
What's this?
Ah.
Tell me, are you long at this? No.
No, believe it or not, it's my first time on the road.
>> Mhm. Thought as much.
>> [laughter] >> Well, it'll be me last time and all.
Mhm.
The way I'm thinking.
Soon as this season's over, I'm going back to America.
America? Yeah.
Now, excuse me, my dear.
That's a splendid hat. Oh, I made it myself.
You sing as well.
Thomas, Othello tonight. Othello? We must keep the Vatican happy.
I'll see >> you later. I don't even know the lines yet. Don't worry, I'll prompt you.
What's all this?
Play actors, sir.
The IRA exploded a bomb this evening.
Nobody here from this district, sir. The boys around here couldn't blow up a balloon. And I've had reports of a rush of smuggling going on. The border is miles long.
You might as well try and stop the wind from crossing over and back.
This is your last chance, Haggerty. Next time it won't be a transfer.
You'll be cashiered.
It's a waste of time, sergeant.
There's not an IRA man from miles.
To hell with all men and women.
Taking other proofs that do demonstrate things I'll tear her all to pieces. Tell me but this, have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand? Huh?
I gave her such a one.
It was my first gift.
I know not that, but such a handkerchief I'm sure 'twas your wife's did I today see Cassio wipe his beard with.
>> [music] >> No! no, forever.
Farewell the tranquil mind.
Farewell content.
Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars that make ambition virtue. Oh, farewell the spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, and all quality, pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. Farewell.
All fellows' OCCUPATIONS GONE.
>> [applause] [applause] [applause] >> What are you going to do when you grow up, huh?
What am I going to do when I grow up?
If I grow up.
There you are now.
There you are now. We can tell your mommy you're on the wireless.
Ah, there's the smile.
There's the smile.
Give us a kiss. No, put him down before you drop him.
Ah, he's square.
Well, are you coming or not?
Why should I?
Ah, come on. Make hay while the sun shines.
Will you look at this?
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
>> [laughter] >> My own first cousin that did me betray, [singing] and for one very nice war my life away.
As I was mounted on the platform high, my >> [singing] >> hated father was standing by. My hated father [singing] did me deny, and the name he gave me was the grubby vice.
I stand in the snow listening to The voice that I could have, you should be somewhere else.
>> [laughter] >> Didn't he go around America last year?
Oh, well, halfway around, yeah. Halfway around. What happened, I wonder? Did your bicycle get a puncture?
>> [laughter] >> Well, I was in a nightclub there, and I drank a drink they have there called uh a screwdriver.
By God, it'd make [ __ ] and James like holy water.
And that was in Philadelphia and I woke up the next day I was in San Francisco.
I'm telling you that's the only way to travel.
That settles it. I'm going myself next year.
I wish you would.
>> [laughter] >> Come on.
While the day is in it.
I nearly burst out laughing when he let you and Jimmy up the hayfield on that donkey.
>> [laughter] >> The Blessed Virgin was in it.
The maddest fellow ever I met, I tell you.
And best of all, he's been to America.
What would you say if your little sister ended up in Boston?
Tara, easy now.
You don't know who he is or where he comes from.
You're a terrible woman for galloping ahead of yourself.
I'm leaving. I'm leaving.
Oh, here.
Who are you waiting on?
What's it to do with you? It's everything to do with me.
Steer clear of my She's spoken for.
Is that right?
She said nothing to me about it.
I'm sure of it.
She's frightened.
Frightened of you? Mhm.
>> [clears throat] >> Frightened of the truth.
What truth?
The baby's mine.
Ask her.
Please, go ahead. You're waking the dead. I'm waking your boss.
And what are you doing here?
Sitting on the dog.
What's eating you, man?
He was seated back of his dump.
Oh, did her ladyship stand you up? I tell you, you're better counting on resources than on women.
I left your wife in Tralee uh 30 years ago.
Never regretted it.
A woman, a baby, and a mystery man for a father.
It's dynamite. They say the Parable blew his head off with a shotgun.
Well, maybe she drove him to it.
She won't leave me, I'm telling you.
Where the hell are we next week?
Tullyvean. Sure, the crack will be mighty, eh? Oh, the crack will be mighty. How many times have I heard that before the crack will be mighty?
Will you look at us?
We're nothing but a bunch of cut-price tinkers, married to the road and a bottle of booze.
Tell me now.
Packing this.
You need to go careful in this life.
You give up one kind of magic if you want to need another. Rather a waste.
I was hoping you'd bring the girl along.
There's bags of sewing to be done.
And if she can sing as well, I could sack Foni.
Ara.
Brendan.
We've told him the truth.
You're lying.
Why?
Why do you think, woman? If you won't have me, you'll have nobody.
Let me go. I'll never let you go. You're destroying my life, Brendan.
I love you.
I love you.
It's over.
Now, what did Is a liar.
Which is it?
Tara.
You're out of your depth here, man.
Clear out.
>> I'm not asking you.
I'm asking her.
Tom.
Brendan, you're crucifying me.
We lay together not 50 yards from here.
You offered yourself to me.
Show me the man that could have refused.
I've kept your secret from that night on because you begged me to.
>> [gasps] >> It was a beautiful summer's evening.
I was walking in the orchard.
When he first came here from Dublin, he was the most powerful I'd ever seen.
I didn't know then the way drink had nearly ruined him.
Nor the danger burning in him.
I was nervous of him.
But flattered.
So I lay down with him on the grass.
A few weeks later I knew I was pregnant.
I was in turmoil.
When I told him, he begged me to marry him.
I couldn't.
He promised he'd keep the secret.
Then just before the baby was born he started coming to me.
Always in the dead of night.
Like a hunter.
Then you should marry him, Sol.
I don't love him.
How could I spend my life locked up in that barracks?
You of all people.
To hell with that.
To hell with you then.
>> [music] [music] >> You know it's our last night here and tomorrow night.
Where are you heading?
To Levene and on to Dublin.
Could you give me a lift to Dublin?
If I got you as far as Dublin, you'd never get rid of me.
You've never been married?
No.
Sure, who'd have me?
Maybe some poor soft idiot with another man's child. Don't know.
But you know, kids don't scare me.
And sure, if he's lonely, I know how to get him a brother or sister to keep him company.
Ah, this is heaven.
And I never thought I'd make it.
It's not bad on a good day, but it's no good on a bad day.
California, now that's the place for us.
The sun shines there 24 hours a day.
Dreamer.
It's a lucky woman who catches a dreamer. [music] Why did you come back here, Tom?
From America?
Fate, I suppose.
>> What is it?
Oh.
The car WAS SINKING. OH.
>> [screaming] >> LET'S GO.
I'M FRIGHTENED. ALL RIGHT.
COME HERE, CHILD. NO, we mustn't be caught together, Tom.
Down by the gate.
Then into the hair with them.
Naked to the world.
All right?
Her hair spread out.
Her hair spread out.
>> Higher.
Higher, man.
Up in the air, where the pictures are.
A point and a smaller one. Huh?
Don't make a song and dance about it.
There.
Look at that. Holy God. Didn't I tell you so?
What?
Make a hound dog out of it. Yeah.
Can you hear me, creature of the darkness? Yes, master.
Raise the needle.
Approach the subjects.
Flesh to flesh. You powers of light and dark, invest this vestal creature with a gift that raises mind above base matter.
For you, there can be no rest until you have sewn flesh into flesh.
Begin.
No, creature, sew.
It's a fake.
It's candle wax or putty. I wouldn't count on it. No blood.
Light and light will dark AND DARK SHALL BE DEFEATED.
>> [groaning and screaming] >> I CAN SEE.
I can see.
That man is a miracle worker. I can see.
Nonsense, it's only a trick.
Sergeant, what do you do? I'm going to save him. Keep order, man.
Thank you, sir.
Bless you.
I'd reward you forever.
That'll be queues at the box office for weeks to come. He might have a cure for the lumbago.
>> [screaming] >> HERE WE GO. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.
I'M GOING TO SHAKE HIS HAND. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FITZ JOHN AS SEEN ON SCREEN AND RADIO.
BRENDA, DID YOU FIND ME OTHER SHOES?
ARE YOU COMING TO SEE US ON official business?
It's mine.
Give it back.
>> It's evidence.
I've committed no crime. You're a playboy, huh?
Last winter he served three months in Mountjoy jail. Liar. Last winter he was in America.
He's a liar.
I telephoned Dublin Castle today.
Checked up on him.
Three months for bigamy and desertion.
You'll be going nowhere, girl.
I'll be my child. Your child? Marry me.
We'll put him for adoption. We'll go set [crying] up house in Dublin if that's what you want.
>> Please leave us alone. I can see the fright in your eyes, but believe me, you're not half [screaming] as afraid of me as I am myself.
>> Brendan.
>> [crying] >> I have no feelings for you.
You don't have to love me. I love you.
Can't you see? [clears throat] >> [crying] >> I just I just need you about the place.
I can't let you escape.
Not with that fellow.
Are you blind, woman? He's a criminal.
A foul, dirty criminal.
>> Get out of my house.
God forgive me for telling you, but you must be saved.
There is a rational explanation for everything on this earth, unless God and the church declare otherwise.
What happened, Mrs. Smith, last night is was the it was the cataracts on her eyes fallen off.
And the artist has a kind of power for good or ill.
But God's power is paramount.
There will be an immediate procession of the Blessed Sacrament throughout the village.
The hour of the playboys is past.
Henceforth, dear brethren, frequent not dens of iniquity nor palaces of sin.
>> [screaming] >> What the hell are you planning there?
Don't move, you two.
You put the high explosive. I Where did you get the explosives?
Could have got yourselves killed, the two of you. The peddler by the stall.
We took it out of the caravan WHEN HE WASN'T LOOKING.
>> WHICH ONE?
WHICH ONE?
YOU'RE A LIAR. HUH? You've never been to America in your entire life. Last winter you were in jail in Dublin for bigamy.
What?
Who told you that? Who do you think?
Tom, if you think I'm going to gamble away my future and my baby's future on a chancer like you, you're mad.
I picked the wrong man once before. I'm not making the same mistake again. Wait.
Wait till you hear wait, wait, wait.
Wait till I give you the truth of it.
It was me brother who committed the bigamy. I just took the blame for him.
Why? Well, so he could go back to the wife and the kids. The ones he left behind in America. Tom, you're full of [ __ ] and bull. Tara, all you have to do is ask anyone in Dublin. I'm not in Dublin.
Is it your Cassidy you're after?
No.
The other book.
>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Hold it.
Hold it there.
You're under arrest, man. What's he done? Possession of explosives, offenses against the state. Oh god, what?
Have you and the whole parish gone mad entirely? March.
I know why you're doing this. Oh, yeah?
Out with it, then.
Come on, man.
You have the guts? No one knows better than yourself, Sergeant. Don't you know?
It's about time you owned up.
There's your secret.
Move, you.
Your day is a numbered, boy.
You'll be locked up for 10 years.
Conspiring to cause an explosion.
Membership of an illegal organization.
Endangering the lives of innocent children.
Here's your baby, Sergeant.
You're not fit to touch the hem of a garment.
You and the other fellow are not wanted in me house anymore. It's too risky altogether.
Go away, you, you dirty dog.
What are we going to do without Tom?
We're banjaxed.
He isn't an IRA man, is he?
Well, he's no more an IRA man than I am.
This afternoon, the entire company will visit the nearest picture house.
Good thinking, Freddy. We're not beat yet.
Now, you listen to me, Tara.
My only concern is for the salvation of that child's soul.
You must marry the sergeant.
He's the natural father.
Do you know what I'm going to tell you?
You still owe me two quid on that suit.
That's my way.
>> [clears throat] [snorts] >> AH!
>> [snorts] [snorts and panting] >> COME ON.
OH.
BEAUTIFUL.
OH, DEAR. I wish I could see it all over again. Well, you will tonight when you're in it.
Will we get away with it, I wonder? No civil war in this neck of the woods.
It'll go like a bomb.
>> [laughter] >> Annie, Bonnie must play Scarlett O'Hara.
Rachel shall take the part of the long-suffering Melanie.
In the regrettable absence of poor Tom, I myself will portray Rhett Butler.
Ready?
You're too old.
Uh, Cassidy will portray the part of Rhett Butler.
I myself will play as cast.
She's a little beauty, Tara.
If she ever left, this place would be as dead as a doornail.
What the hell?
>> Did he fetch enough over the border to pay our way to America? Huh?
You hold your horses. You and me aren't through customs yet. If you get caught, you'd rather I take the rap.
Wait a minute now. It's the god's truth I told you.
He was desperate to see his wife and his kids in America. I had to help him out.
Besides that, he slipped me 200 foot for me pains.
YOU LYING BIGAMIST.
TWO NIGHTS ONLY!
THE WORLD-FAMOUS PHILANDERER OF GONE WITH THE WIND PERFORMED IN PERSON, LIVE ON STAGE, WITH THE PLAYBOYS.
AND THAT'S ALL.
WOW!
ROMANCE.
DID YOU SEE THAT?
WHAT'S CASSIDY doing in the priest's car? That's the least of our worries.
When did you last see the truck?
This is the customs patrol.
We're Van Jacks.
We're Van Jacks.
Okay, let me do the talking. Let me do the talking.
Customs.
Anything >> to declare? Detective Constable Freddy Fitzgerald, Enniskillen.
We're transporting a load of pigs.
Let me see your identification.
Rats.
>> [snorts] >> Your place is crawling with them.
It's not.
>> [music] [music] >> Spontaneous, can't you? Improvise.
Oh, thank god. Casti's disappeared.
There's half a packed house waiting out here. What are they waiting for?
>> Gone with the wind. Here, quick. You're playing Clark Gable. I can't play everything myself, can I? But I haven't even seen the film. It's the same as Othello. Boy meets girl with a war going on. If in doubt, pretend to be wounded.
Where's that bastard Cassidy? IRA business, I expect. He is an idiot.
We'll soon be on the road and their little squabble is long forgot. Come on, get dressed. Read those clothes quickly.
Ashley.
Ashley.
I'm going to marry Melanie.
Kiss me, Ashley.
>> [laughter] >> You are not a gentleman, anyway.
And you're not a lady, either.
Lordy, lordy, lordy.
Lordy, lordy, is you warm enough, Miss Scarlett?
Why is all of them fighting all the time?
>> They are fighting for our freedom.
The freedom to be slaves?
I can't yet.
He's speaking now, but you may as well trot across.
>> [laughter] >> I wasn't doing anything.
Jesus, I thought it was me, Mommy.
Sergeant.
You want me? [crying] Without you, me bio.
FOR GOD'S SAKE, MAN, WHAT YOU DOING?
NO, GO AWAY.
GO AWAY. GO [screaming] AWAY.
>> [music and singing] [music] [singing] >> TO BE QUITE HONEST, HONEY, I don't give a tuppenny damn.
>> [laughter] [applause] >> HE'S STOLEN THE BABY.
SERGEANT HAGGERTY, HE'S STOLEN THE BABY.
There he is, Sergeant.
>> [crying and screaming] >> Sergeant.
Hand him over. Come on, man.
Move an inch and you'll be sorry.
Hand him over, or I'll be sorry.
You'll be sorry most of all, though.
I love you.
Please.
Please. Brendan, whosoever [crying] harms one of my little ones shall be cast into everlasting fire.
>> [screaming] >> If the passion of the people could be bottled, we could all of us sail to the moon.
Brendan, stop it.
>> [crying] [crying] >> If I was sober, you'd be dead.
You'd be dead if I was drunk.
Give it up, sergeant.
>> [cheering] >> That's what she deserves.
Listen, somebody stop them.
I don't know what they're going to do.
IT'S THE RED MAN.
>> [screaming] >> NOBODY HERE.
>> [crying] [crying and laughter] [crying] >> WE CAME LIGHT-HEARTED.
LIGHT-HEARTED.
We shall depart.
Allow me.
A lady, you're in the way.
Oh.
>> [crying] >> I'm only going as far as Dublin mine.
That's what I said when I joined.
Bye.
See you soon.
Bye.
>> Mhm.
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