In this Georgia family kinship means anything goes! | God's Little Acre (1958)

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[00:02:22]Why in the blue perfect hell... Did that dirt had to get loose up there just when we getting deep?

[00:02:31]Ain't that something?

[00:02:34]Hey, Pa... I'm getting kinda tired digging this hole.

[00:02:40]Can't we start a new one?

[00:02:42]What for?

[00:02:44]What do you mean, what for?

[00:02:46]We've been digging in this one for two months already, Pa.

[00:02:49]We ain't struck nothing yet but a lot of hard work.

[00:02:52]Son, I've been digging in this land for close to 15 years and I'm aiming to dig 15 more, if need be.

[00:02:58]Trouble with you boys is that you ain't found the patience that I've got.

[00:03:02]We don't need no patience. What we need is a diviner!

[00:03:07]There you go again, talking superstition.

[00:03:10]All you talk about is diviners and conjurers and stuff like that.

[00:03:13]Son, that ain't a thing in the world but superstition.

[00:03:16]Now you take me... I'm scientific.

[00:03:21]If you're so scientific, Pa, Why don't you get us a digging machine and get the job done.

[00:03:25]I ain't gonna buy nothing that costs money. I can't afford it.

[00:03:29]Where you going, son?

[00:03:31]Oh, I'm quitting for today, Pa.

[00:03:34]I'm gonna wash up and go to town.

[00:03:36]Never get rich that way.

[00:03:40]Oh, Pa, I don't aim to get rich.

[00:03:42]I'm too young.

[00:03:47]I'm worried about that boy.

[00:03:50]Who's he gonna see in town?

[00:03:52]Oh, he ain't particular. Anything with skirts on.

[00:03:56]He ain't used to women yet, they can do him harm!

[00:03:58]He won't know about it until it's too late to stop the clock.

[00:04:04]Hey! I brought you men some nice cool lemonade.

[00:04:07]Why I thank you, daughter in law!

[00:04:17]What you got for dinner, honey?

[00:04:18]Same as yesterday, Buck. Bacon fat and grits.

[00:04:21]I'd like me some fried chicken.

[00:04:23]When a man has a wife like Griselda, I don't know how he can keep his mind on food all the time.

[00:04:32]Now quit your teasing, Ty Ty.

[00:04:34]Now if the good Lord seen fit to put a beauty like you in our house, I'm gonna take my fill of looking while I can.

[00:04:41]Son, you don't know how lucky you are!

[00:04:44]How am I lucky?

[00:04:45]Cause I got a wife who don't love me?

[00:04:51]What you two lovebirds got to argue about?

[00:04:54]I never argue with Buck... No, she hardly talks to me anymore.

[00:04:57]Too busy daydreaming about Will Thompson.

[00:05:00]If you'd quit throwing his name up to me, maybe I'd get a chance to forget him!

[00:05:03]All Will has to do is snap his fingers and you go running!

[00:05:06]You keep on this way, Buck, and you'll wake up some fine morning all by your lonesome!

[00:05:11]You don't mean that, Griselda.

[00:05:15]You tell Buck you don't mean that.

[00:05:16]You tell him I don't wanna hear him mention Will Thompson again!

[00:05:29]Sure don't know how to talk to a woman.

[00:05:33]Griselda ain't just another woman. She's seen fit to marry you.

[00:05:38]And you think that's all you had to do to keep her happy forever.

[00:05:41]I know what the trouble is. She's still thinking of Will.

[00:06:10]- Good morning, Pluto. - Good morning, Miss Griselda.

[00:06:13]Hey, howdy, Charlie. Good morning to you too.

[00:06:17]He's a cute little fella, ain't he? Where's Ty Ty at?

[00:06:20]He's right down there, in that big hole.

[00:06:22]Thank you. Sure is hot, huh?

[00:06:26]Ty Ty!

[00:06:46]Which one of these holes you in?

[00:06:50]Right here, Pluto!

[00:07:06]Hell, that ain't much of a neighborly greeting.

[00:07:14]Hey, how you boys making out? You strike anything lately?

[00:07:17]No, nothing much, Pluto.

[00:07:20]We will pretty soon.

[00:07:22]I just know it. I feel it in my bones.

[00:07:26]Oh... so do I.

[00:07:28]What you folks looking for?

[00:07:45]You been comin' here nearly a year and you seen me digging and you didn't know what I was digging for?!

[00:07:53]I figured you're looking for water.

[00:07:56]Water!

[00:07:59]Pluto, you... you think I've gone clean out of my head?

[00:08:03]I'm digging for gold!

[00:08:05]Gold? In the state of Georgia?

[00:08:07]Bright yellow gold!

[00:08:10]Gold coins... big around as a biscuit. Thousands of them!

[00:08:15]Is that a fact?

[00:08:17]Yeah, gold spoons, gold plates... gold forks, and... and... gold thunder mugs I shouldn't be surprised.

[00:08:24]You've seen them? For a fact?

[00:08:27]- Almost... - Where?

[00:08:34]Don't know exactly... Can't find these things.

[00:08:41]They're there... They're there... My grandpa told me about it.

[00:08:50]He willed it to me the very day he died.

[00:09:05]Maybe he might've been mistaken.

[00:09:11]Making my dead grandpa out to be a liar!

[00:09:14]Oh no, I wouldn't do nothing like that!

[00:09:15]If there's anything in the world I can't stand, it's a liar!

[00:09:18]You gotta admit you ain't found no gold yet.

[00:09:20]What you folks need is a albino to help you out.

[00:09:23]Why they tell me a man ain't got as much chance as a snowball in hell without an albino to help him find something.

[00:09:30]A what?

[00:09:31]A albino!

[00:09:34]What in the blue perfect hell is that, Pluto?

[00:09:37]It's one of these all-white men.

[00:09:40]Looks like they made out of chalk. White as cotton.

[00:09:43]Got white hair, white skin. White eyeballs even.

[00:09:48]You fellas need one. Need him bad!

[00:09:56]Now Pluto, I'm scientific all the way through.

[00:09:59]I wouldn't have nothing to do with conjure.

[00:10:02]But I ain't talking about no conjure, Ty Ty.

[00:10:04]I'm talking about a albino!

[00:10:07]Why, they got a secret power.

[00:10:09]They can see right through the ground!

[00:10:11]Like it was a glass of water.

[00:10:16]Strictly scientific.

[00:10:24]You got me convinced... You got me convinced! Where's he at?

[00:10:30]Well, where do you expect him to be? Down by the swamp.

[00:10:32]Well let's go! Come on!

[00:10:34]A real honest to God albino?

[00:10:36]Real as the day is long!

[00:10:38]You think we can catch him?

[00:10:39]Don't you worry none about that!

[00:10:41]If we can't hold him we'll let a plough line do the trick.

[00:10:43]Now don't forget. This albino is a citizen and a voter.

[00:10:47]You tie him up, be sure you don't do nothing to break the law.

[00:10:50]But if you do, mention me out.

[00:10:52]Because as the future sheriff of this county.. Just how big a man is he?

[00:10:56]Well it's not how big he is that counts.

[00:10:58]It's the whiteness of him! His blood is white.

[00:11:01]The wax in his ears is white!

[00:11:03]By God, I'm gonna get that old white man if I have to bust a gut getting him.

[00:11:08]Buck, you get up in the house. Fix the automobile for a little trip.

[00:11:12]Make sure the tires is pumped up hard and tight and there's plenty of water in the radiator.

[00:11:17]It's gonna be ten-twelve hours before we get back.

[00:11:23]Sure grateful to you for that scientific suggestion about the albino.

[00:11:28]I'm growing mighty tired of diggin' in weather like this.

[00:11:32]I sure am grateful you came by today, Pluto. Yes, sir!

[00:11:37]You opened my eyes to what I've been missing.

[00:11:40]An albino to show me exactly where that gold is buried!

[00:11:42]White-haired boy can do it, can't he? Just like you said?

[00:11:45]Why, sure he can!

[00:11:46]An albino, I reckon, can find most anything!

[00:11:50]Why, he might just walk out into that field right there... look right down through the ground and see where all that gold is buried.

[00:12:03]Right there?

[00:12:04]Anywhere.

[00:12:12]Ty Ty! What the devil you doing?

[00:12:15]Is that where your grandpa's buried?

[00:12:17]No, it's God's little acre!

[00:12:20]Put this cross here to mark the spot.

[00:12:24]Been here 27 years.

[00:12:27]Must be grown into the... into the ground.

[00:12:38]God's little acre?

[00:12:40]That's right.

[00:12:42]The day I was married, I promised this piece of land to the holiness church.

[00:12:46]Everything that grows here, they can have.

[00:12:48]Cotton, corn... anything else.

[00:12:59]Well, if that ground's so sacred, why did you take the cross out for?

[00:13:03]Cause it just occurred to me, Pluto... I never had dug a hole in God's little acre.

[00:13:08]Not in all these years.

[00:13:10]But suppose like you said, that albino walks out on my farm and points to that land there.

[00:13:16]Suppose the gold's buried right in that lot?

[00:13:18]Been there all the time... I'd be compelled by my conscience to give that gold away to the preacher.

[00:13:25]Or worse yet, maybe I wouldn't give nothing.

[00:13:27]You never can tell.

[00:13:30]I'm a religious man, but... I wouldn't stand for that.

[00:13:39]Well, what are you gonna do with it?

[00:13:41]I'm gonna move God's little acre to a spot where it don't stand out in the open as a sin and a temptation.

[00:14:36]God, please forgive me.

[00:14:41]I had to move your little acre.

[00:14:43]Just had to.

[00:14:46]Put myself out of temptation.

[00:14:49]If I'd found gold way up there, I'd... been sorely tempted not to turn it over to you.

[00:14:58]You wouldn't want me in temptation, I know that.

[00:15:03]I don't mean to cheat you none.

[00:15:06]Oh no, I don't.

[00:15:08]You can have anything that grows on this piece of ground.

[00:15:11]Flowers or honey... anything else.

[00:15:18]Daughter in law, is that watermelon cool and ripe... and ready to eat?

[00:15:27]Sure is, Pa.

[00:15:38]Boys, let's all go in the house and get some of that nice cool watermelon.

[00:15:44]Come on, Pluto.

[00:15:46]I can't, Ty Ty.

[00:15:47]There's a whole mess of votes between here and the crossroads, I just gotta get them counted before sundown.

[00:15:51]You're gonna kill yourself running for sheriff, Pluto.

[00:15:54]It ain't worth it. Come on!

[00:16:02]Ty Ty, there's something I wanna talk to you about, been pressing on my mind.

[00:16:07]Just what did you want to talk to me about, Pluto?

[00:16:10]Well, it's about your girl, sir.

[00:16:12]Which one?

[00:16:14]I got three. All beautiful.

[00:16:17]The glory of the world!

[00:16:19]Oh, I agree to that, sir.

[00:16:20]Pluto Swint, you know something?

[00:16:23]Your eyes look just like watermelon seeds.

[00:16:25]Now, is this so?

[00:16:26]I can't help it, Mr. Swint.

[00:16:28]Your eyes are so small and your face is so red, that you do, you look exactly like a watermelon with two seeds showing.

[00:16:39]Now, Pluto, about my girl... Rosamond.

[00:16:46]She lives in Peace Tree Valley.

[00:16:49]It's too far away to do you any good.

[00:16:51]And she's married, besides, to Will Thompson.

[00:16:54]Then there's Griselda.

[00:16:56]Course she's married too.

[00:17:01]I sometimes wonder if Buck is a right and proper husband for a girl as beautiful as Griselda.

[00:17:10]Even if he is my own flesh and blood.

[00:17:15]So... that leaves my baby, Darling Jill.

[00:17:21]But she's too young to go courtin'.

[00:17:24]I don't wanna court her... I wanna marry her.

[00:17:33]You would, Pluto?

[00:17:36]You mean it?

[00:17:39]I'd cut off my right arm to marry her.

[00:17:43]You taking a liking to her, Pluto?

[00:17:47]I sure to God have, and that's a fact.

[00:17:49]Only there's... one thing that kinda bothers me.

[00:17:55]What's that?

[00:17:56]Well, I heard... she been teasing and fooling around with a lot of men.

[00:18:02]I heard... Why I'm tickled to death to hear that!

[00:18:14]Darling Jill is the baby of the family and she's grown up at last!

[00:18:20]She sure has... It's a pity God can't make a woman like Darling Jill and leave off before He goes too far.

[00:18:27]He just didn't know when he made enough of a good thing and just kept on, and on... And now, look at her!

[00:18:36]Pay it no mind, Pluto.

[00:18:39]Darling Jill likes to tease some, that's only natural.

[00:18:44]The way I see it, a woman's got to tease some before they settle down to bed and babies.

[00:18:49]It's a lot better they do it now than after they get married.

[00:18:52]She'll change, Pluto. And it's up to you to satisfy her and make her so happy, that she'll leave off with everybody but you!

[00:19:01]Hey, Pa. You know, the car's all ready. Why don't we just go, Pa?

[00:19:05]We're waiting for Darling Jill.

[00:19:07]Oh, Pa, Darling Jill won't get back until she rides old Pluto's truck in some ditch.

[00:19:13]It's 12 hours to that swamp and back. What I'd like to do is, get that albino, and get back here so I could go to town.

[00:19:21]Son, I'm mighty proud to hear you say you wanna be up and doin'.

[00:19:25]Too many people in this world just wanna sit around on their butts and wait for the corn to grow.

[00:19:30]Well not me, and not my sons.

[00:19:33]We're in a hurry to get rich.

[00:19:35]Get in the car, Shaw.

[00:19:41]Pluto, I wanna ask you a favor.

[00:19:43]Why, I can't do no favors without my car.

[00:19:46]Darling Jill is gonna bring your car back, you know that.

[00:19:48]And when she does, I want you to drive her to Peach Tree Valley.

[00:19:53]What about me, Pa?

[00:19:56]I wanna go too.

[00:20:01]I don't wanna hang around here everlastingly, waiting for something to happen.

[00:20:07]You stay here.

[00:20:11]I'll go if I please to go.

[00:20:13]Can't wait to see Will again, can ya?

[00:20:14]What'd I just get through telling you, Bud?

[00:20:16]She goes to see Will Thompson over my dead body!

[00:20:29]I want you to stay here, Griselda and cook us a mess of food and wait for us to come back.

[00:20:35]You tell Darling Jill to go to Peach Tree Valley and get Rosamond and her husband Will and come back to the farm where she was born.

[00:20:44]I want my whole family together when we turn that albino loose and locate my grandpa's gold and make us all rich again.

[00:20:53]Will you help me, Pluto?

[00:20:55]I reckon I can, if you'll let me be your son in law.

[00:20:57]That ain't up to me, Pluto. That ain't even up to Darling Jill.

[00:21:00]That's up to you.

[00:21:02]Get the car going, Buck.

[00:21:04]I'm not going til she promises to stay here!

[00:21:06]I'm not promising anything!

[00:21:09]Now, Buck... Why don't you use your charm, and... ask her nicely.

[00:21:18]Ask her! It won't hurt ya.

[00:21:22]I'm asking you to stay, Griselda.

[00:21:24]You askin' me or tellin' me?

[00:21:28]He's asking you.

[00:21:30]Let him say it!

[00:21:40]I'm asking you, Griselda.

[00:21:44]Alright.

[00:21:46]I'll stay.

[00:21:50]Let's go, Pa.

[00:22:00]Don't forget to tell Darling Jill what I told ya!

[00:22:36]Pluto!

[00:22:37]Pluto darling!

[00:22:48]Hey, you big horse head!

[00:22:50]Come here!

[00:22:51]Yes, Darling Jill. I'm coming, Darling Jill.

[00:22:57]Stop!

[00:23:00]Now close your eyes.

[00:23:02]Well.. What do I have to do that for, Darling Jill?

[00:23:06]Cause I say so, you big horse head!

[00:23:11]Alright... Now, come straight ahead.

[00:23:22]Over there.

[00:23:24]That's it.

[00:23:26]Straight ahead.

[00:23:27]Your pa been digging any of those holes around here?

[00:23:30]No, I'm watching you. Don't worry about it.

[00:23:33]Okay, come on. Come on, come on, come on.

[00:23:39]Stop! Stop!

[00:23:41]Now turn left.

[00:23:45]Left, left, you big horse head! Come on.

[00:23:49]Now right.

[00:23:51]Now, come on. Straight ahead.

[00:23:55]Can I look a little bit?

[00:23:56]No, now keep your eyes closed and come on.

[00:23:58]I'm right over here.

[00:23:59]It's awfully dark.

[00:24:04]Turn left.

[00:24:06]Now right!

[00:24:07]Now, come straight ahead.

[00:24:12]That's not me, Pluto. That's the pump.

[00:24:15]Yeah, that's the pump.

[00:24:17]Grab it and pump me some nice, cool water.

[00:24:26]Oh, that's nice! Oh, yes, that's very nice!

[00:24:30]Is that going all over you, Darling Jill?

[00:24:43]Oh, darn my socks! Darn my socks!

[00:24:52]Oh, darn my socks!

[00:24:54]That really works.

[00:24:56]Next time you darn your socks before you come a-courtin' me.

[00:25:02]You're missin' it!

[00:25:52]Darling Jill, I don't even know what I'm doing here.

[00:25:55]This ain't even the right state for me to get elected, let alone the right county.

[00:26:00]And it's hot!

[00:26:11]Darling Jill! Listen! That's no place to keep keys!

[00:26:14]Now, listen to me, will you please!

[00:26:17]I don't hear Will anyway.

[00:26:19]Good, let's go home. I'll count some votes.

[00:26:22]Will's the kind of man that he's anywhere around, you should take notice of him.

[00:26:45]Rosamond! What in the world is the matter with you?

[00:26:55]Jill! Darling Jill!

[00:26:58]I wasn't expecting you.

[00:27:04]What's wrong?

[00:27:09]Glad you came. I thought I was gonna die.

[00:27:15]Must've been outta my head a little.

[00:27:18]What'd Will do to ya? Where is he?

[00:27:24]Hello, Pluto.

[00:27:27]I sure am glad to see you too.

[00:27:33]Here, let me take the clothes off this chair.

[00:27:35]You can sit down. Make yourself to home for.

[00:27:37]I've gotta go right home, that's a fact.

[00:27:40]Shut up and sit down!

[00:27:41]Now, Rosamond, tell me what happened.

[00:27:43]You can talk in front of Pluto. Big horse head... Now, where's Will?

[00:27:48]He's been drunk all week.

[00:27:51]Drinks whenever he can.

[00:27:54]I wouldn't mind that so much.

[00:27:57]It's just that he won't stay home with me no more.

[00:28:00]Sleeps all day, goes out at night.

[00:28:05]Oh, it ain't his fault. It's the mill.

[00:28:07]It's been closed down now for six months.

[00:28:10]He's got nothing in the world to do.

[00:28:12]Well, ain't it ever gonna open again?

[00:28:15]No, I reckon not.

[00:28:16]They say it don't pay a dividend no more.

[00:28:19]It's bankrupt.

[00:28:20]This whole town is bankrupt.

[00:28:22]We ought to all just pack up and move away right now.

[00:28:25]All of us.

[00:28:27]But we don't... Everybody looks up to Will. He won't move.

[00:28:32]He says he's gonna open the mill again somehow.

[00:28:37]Only he don't know how.

[00:28:39]Well I'm glad I came.

[00:28:41]Pa wants you and Will to come home and help him dig.

[00:28:44]He's got a sure way to find grandpa's gold this time!

[00:28:50]Darling Jill! There ain't no gold on that place.

[00:28:55]If there was, don't you think they would've found it long before now?

[00:29:00]Why can't Pa quit digging that land full of holes and try to raise corn, or cotton, or peanuts, like everybody else does.

[00:29:08]Well I don't know about that, but Pa wants you and Will to come home, Rosamond.

[00:29:13]Will?

[00:29:15]Will won't dig on no farm. He's not a farm boy.

[00:29:20]Pa would know that by this time.

[00:29:23]Besides, I don't even know if Will's coming home tonight.

[00:29:27]Well then, we'll just sit here and wait for him.

[00:29:29]We'll spend the night.

[00:29:31]That's a mighty fine idea! We'll spend the night!

[00:29:35]Not quite so fine as all that.

[00:29:38]I'm gonna sleep here on the bed with Rosamond.

[00:29:41]And you can make yourself a pallet on the floor.

[00:30:20]Darling Jill, you here?

[00:30:22]Stand up, let me look at you in the light!

[00:30:26]Well, well, the baby's a full grown woman.

[00:30:31]Plump as a peach on the branch, ripe and ready to pluck!

[00:30:35]Will! Don't take on that way!

[00:30:37]We got company.

[00:30:39]Pluto! How you doing, man?

[00:30:42]Lookin' bigger and better than ever!

[00:30:44]How you, Mr. Thompson?

[00:30:45]You sure look like every little thing is just fine with you.

[00:30:48]Well, it ain't!

[00:31:12]Where you goin'?

[00:31:15]Trying to slip away, were ya?

[00:31:18]Ain't that a sneaky thing to do.

[00:31:20]Come back here, all of you, and keep me company.

[00:31:30]How's Griselda?

[00:31:33]She's still married.

[00:31:36]You know, Pluto, I bought Griselda the first pair of high heeled shoes she ever wore.

[00:31:42]Will, the bed's made. Why don't you go to sleep?

[00:31:47]When Griselda was working in the mill and she walked around in them high heeled shoes, there wasn't a man got a full day's work done.

[00:31:55]Will, please don't talk about it now.

[00:31:58]That girl, Griselda. Pluto, we almost got married.

[00:32:02]She wanted me to go root and grub on a farm.

[00:32:06]I wouldn't do it.

[00:32:09]I'm a town boy.

[00:32:11]I gotta be where I can hear a factory whistle blow three times a day.

[00:32:16]And watch those crowds of girls running out of the company gate, laughing, an' screaming, raising Cain, with faces like flowers.

[00:32:30]Will, you gotta realize something, once and for all.

[00:32:33]That mill ain't never gonna open again!

[00:32:37]And Griselda's married.

[00:32:39]You can't do nothin' about it.

[00:32:42]Now come on. Get to bed.

[00:32:50]What's done is done.

[00:32:53]Now go to sleep.

[00:32:54]I can't sleep.

[00:32:57]Well you can rest.

[00:33:01]Turn out the light so it won't hurt your eyes.

[00:33:43]- Hiya, Harry. - Hiya, Will.

[00:33:45]Who's that come in a car to your house, Will?

[00:33:47]Rosamond's people.

[00:33:49]What they come for?

[00:33:51]Just... just for a visit.

[00:33:54]They ain't come to take you away, have they, Will?

[00:33:56]I promised ya I wouldn't leave Peach Tree Valley until they started the cotton mill again, didn't I?

[00:34:01]Yeah, well I know it's easy for you and Rosamond to pull up stakes.

[00:34:04]You've got just the two of ya. Most of us got big families.

[00:34:08]We ain't got the money to find jobs and houses somewhere else.

[00:34:11]You don't have to tell me, Harry.

[00:34:14]I know, Will, but we got a little worried while we were waitin' for ya.

[00:34:22]He ain't gonna leave us, boys.

[00:34:24]He's gonna stay right in town, like he said.

[00:34:31]Claude!

[00:34:33]Claude!

[00:34:38]Where are ya, Claude?

[00:34:43]- Is that you, Will Thompson? - Who else?

[00:34:45]You drinkin' again?

[00:34:46]I wanna get in!

[00:34:48]- Why you always comin' here for? - I wanna get in!

[00:34:50]There ain't nothin' here but a closed down cotton mill.

[00:34:52]Now what are you looking for?

[00:34:53]You know what I'm looking for, Claude. I'm looking for the day when the light shine through all those windows.

[00:34:59]That day is gone, Will.

[00:35:00]The mill ain't never gonna open up again.

[00:35:02]The spindles are still threaded.

[00:35:04]The power's still connected.

[00:35:05]All it takes is for somebody to pull the switch on.

[00:35:08]That's crazy talk, Will.

[00:35:09]Now why don't ya go home before your wife has to come lookin' for you again.

[00:35:14]Don't tell me what to do.

[00:35:17]I know what I have to do.

[00:35:19]What do you say you go down to Ned's bar and get yourself a drink?

[00:35:23]Here, have it on me.

[00:36:44]- Felix. - Yes, sir.

[00:36:46]How's my albino?

[00:36:49]He's sleeping like a baby, Mr. Ty Ty.

[00:37:17]Mornin', Dave.

[00:37:19]You sleep well?

[00:37:23]Where am I?

[00:37:25]You with friends.

[00:37:29]We went to a lot of... fuss and bother to get you.

[00:37:33]Sure hope that you appreciate it.

[00:37:40]I'm hungry.

[00:37:41]You'll get your breakfast in due time, but... first, you got work to do.

[00:37:48]What kind of work?

[00:37:49]It's easy. I'll show you.

[00:37:51]You take this... this willow fork and you hold it like... like that.

[00:38:01]Til she... pulls you down... - scientifically speaking - right down to where the gold is surely located!

[00:38:13]Gold?

[00:38:15]You lookin' for gold?

[00:38:20]Why do you think we come clean down to Swamp Corner to lasso you?

[00:38:25]I still don't know.

[00:38:29]You're a genuine albino, ain't you?

[00:38:32]Yeah, I reckon I am.

[00:38:36]What would I be doin' with an albino except to find gold?

[00:38:41]I ain't gonna do it.

[00:38:45]Why not, son?

[00:38:47]Cause I don't know how!

[00:38:48]You don't know how?!

[00:38:51]You're a genuine albino and you don't even know... Let him go, Mr. Ty Ty.

[00:38:55]Let him loose, Mr. Ty Ty.

[00:38:58]Now you listen to me, son.

[00:38:59]If you don't know how to find gold, you better start learning right now!

[00:39:03]Or all these nice folks are gonna be pretty mad at you and we won't get no vittles this winter.

[00:39:08]I just can't! I can't!

[00:39:17]I'm sorry I got angry, son.

[00:39:22]But I... I been diggin' for gold for 15 years and I ain't gonna give up.

[00:39:32]I don't know what to do.

[00:39:35]Well, it's easy now.

[00:39:37]I'll show ya.

[00:39:41]You take this willow stick.

[00:39:43]That's it.

[00:39:45]Turn your wrists up.

[00:39:46]That's right.

[00:39:48]Pull it out in front of ya.

[00:40:01]You can do it! You can do it!

[00:40:04]Open the barn door! Give the boy room!

[00:40:15]It's pulling you towards the gold!

[00:40:24]Give 'im room!

[00:40:34]Hurry to find my grandpappy's gold!

[00:40:37]I don't think I can stand it much longer!

[00:40:52]That where my grandpa's gold is?!

[00:40:55]Come on, Dave! Come on!

[00:41:00]Feel it, Dave!

[00:41:04]Feel it, Dave!

[00:41:44]Come on, Dave. Follow it, follow it good!

[00:41:50]Follow it, boy!

[00:42:04]Oh, my grandpappy's gold!

[00:42:07]Hidden away down there!

[00:42:09]Deep in the ground, would you believe it!

[00:42:11]Under my house all the time!

[00:42:14]Buried a hundred years!

[00:42:17]Longer than a man can live!

[00:42:21]Now I'm about to find it!

[00:42:25]Touch it!

[00:42:27]Feel it!

[00:42:30]Bite into it, if I want to!

[00:42:38]Praise the Lord!

[00:42:41]Amen.

[00:42:45]Now, maybe, Mr. Ty Ty, you'll stop diggin' and start farmin'.

[00:42:50]Now wait a minute!

[00:42:54]This is still God's little acre, ain't it?

[00:42:56]And so is the gold.

[00:42:57]No, Buck, no.

[00:43:00]I can't honestly say it is.

[00:43:03]A minute before Dave found the gold something came over me.

[00:43:08]And I decided to change the location of God's little acre.

[00:43:13]Just about in time, I reckon.

[00:43:17]Where's it now, Pa?

[00:43:20]The Lord ain't told me yet.

[00:43:22]- Well tell him to hurry. - Now, Buck, don't you talk like that.

[00:43:24]The good Lord and your pa, we're old fashioned.

[00:43:29]We got to take our time.

[00:44:07]Now, God, I don't aim to cheat you none. I swear, I don't.

[00:44:14]But what with this unseasonable weather and all I believe you didn't mind if I have your acre in a cooler spot.

[00:44:23]If you don't like this, if you don't approve of what I'm doing, Lord, then strike me down dead right here where I stand.

[00:44:47]Thank you, Lord.

[00:44:49]Glory be. Amen.

[00:45:36]Are we home, Pluto?

[00:45:38]No, but we ain't but a mile away.

[00:45:41]What are we stoppin' for?

[00:45:42]Darling Jill, I just gotta have an answer.

[00:45:47]Take the pins outta my hair... Will ya?

[00:46:03]Oh God almighty, Darling Jill! I just gotta know!

[00:46:06]Don't shout so! You'll wake Will and Rosamond!

[00:46:09]They can't hear nothin'... I don't know if I'm ready to get married to anybody yet, Pluto.

[00:46:16]Least of all you.

[00:46:18]You don't have to be ready, I'm ready.

[00:46:21]I'm ready enough for both of us.

[00:46:24]I'd marry you anytime. Daytime, nighttime, anytime.

[00:46:27]I'm so crazy about you, that's a fact.

[00:46:32]Your belly's too big.

[00:46:34]Oh, Darling Jill, you don't want a little thing like that come between us.

[00:46:37]Pluto, if your belly weren't so big, you couldn't be sheriff.

[00:46:41]And if you weren't gonna be sheriff, I don't know if I'd even look at you. And that's a fact.

[00:46:47]Darling Jill, you haven't oughta tease me like that.

[00:46:51]Just because I'm so crazy in love with you, I can't hardly see nothin' else is no reason that someday I just don't get so riled up and so provoked that I just gonna take my two hands and... and just... And what? What would you do, Pluto?

[00:47:05]I'd tan your hide! I'd tan your hide!

[00:47:08]You scared the tar outta me!

[00:47:10]For a minute I thought you was gonna darn your socks again!

[00:47:14]I'd tan your hide!

[00:47:54]Pa! Where are ya?

[00:47:57]Right here!

[00:47:59]Oh my goodness! That's the biggest hole you dug! Did you find anything?

[00:48:04]Great Scott! We're digging like all get out!

[00:48:07]We've sunk a hole twenty feet since this morning!

[00:48:10]Fastest diggin' in 15 years!

[00:48:15]Welcome home, Rosamond! Will!

[00:48:17]Oh, I'm mighty proud you're here to celebrate our good luck!

[00:48:20]Boys, it's Rosamond!

[00:48:22]- Hiya, Rosamond. - Hiya, Rosamond, our sister.

[00:48:24]- Hello Buck and Shaw. - Griselda!

[00:48:27]Griselda! The family's here!

[00:48:30]Well did you find any of that gold?

[00:48:35]Hello, Will.

[00:48:37]Hello, Griselda.

[00:48:39]It's been a long time.

[00:48:41]Real long time.

[00:48:44]It's good to see ya.

[00:48:46]You look like you just stepped outta the calendar.

[00:48:49]You look like hell, Will, what you been doing to yourself?

[00:48:52]Doin' absolutely nothing, boys. Absolutely nothing.

[00:48:55]Same old lint-head.

[00:49:09]What Will needs, Rosamund, is to... occupy himself with something useful.

[00:49:16]You know, Will, there's nothin' better for a man's body and spirit than diggin' down in God's good earth.

[00:49:23]Rosamond, you go into the house and help Griselda warm up the eats.

[00:49:27]Poor Pluto here, he's just about starvin'.

[00:49:30]I sure am! And that's a fact!

[00:49:33]Well come on into the house, Pluto.

[00:49:35]You know, nothin' makes a man hungrier than having his whole family around.

[00:49:40]That sure is a tremendous hole you dug!

[00:49:45]What's that?

[00:49:48]Can it vote?

[00:49:50]Dave?

[00:49:52]Why that's the old white man you put me on.

[00:49:55]Great guns, Pluto!

[00:49:57]That's the albino we roped from the swamp!

[00:50:01]Did it divine for ya?

[00:50:02]Just like 4 and 4 makes 8!

[00:50:05]Now you go in the house with Rosamond.

[00:50:07]Ty Ty, this is absolutely crazy!

[00:50:09]You're digging right beside the house, it's gonna topple over into that hole.

[00:50:12]It won't fall down.

[00:50:13]We kinda prop it up as we go along. House falls down, won't matter much.

[00:50:18]We strike gold, we'll be rich enough to build a house 3 times its size.

[00:50:28]What are you lookin' at, Darling Jill?

[00:50:30]Well I'm lookin' to see that albino man.

[00:50:32]I never seen one before in my life.

[00:50:34]Daughter, he's just the same as you and me.

[00:50:38]Can he talk?

[00:50:40]He'll talk your arm off, if you give him half a chance.

[00:50:44]I wanna see him just once, call him up here.

[00:50:45]I don't aim to have nobody fool with him.

[00:50:48]You can just walk off and call crows if that's what you got in mind.

[00:50:51]He's got to stay in the job for me all the time.

[00:50:53]Now you come on into the house.

[00:50:55]I'm comin', Pa.

[00:51:08]Hello there, albino fella.

[00:51:14]My name's Dave Dawson.

[00:51:18]I sure am pleased to meet ya.

[00:51:21]They sure didn't tell any lies about your color!

[00:51:27]Just white, that's for sure.

[00:51:32]It's a pretty color too.

[00:51:35]I like it.

[00:51:39]Thank you, ma'am.

[00:51:42]It's the first kind words I've heard since your pa kidnapped me with a string of lies and a leather plowline.

[00:51:51]Now that I got such a good look at you, wouldn't you like to come up here and get a good look at me?

[00:52:00]I don't mind.

[00:52:10]Well... what do you say?

[00:52:17]Why... you're beautiful!

[00:52:22]Won't you come on up here and say that again.

[00:52:36]That'll get him shy and scared, Miss Darling Jill.

[00:52:39]He might run away.

[00:52:41]I don't feel like chasing him with my shotgun.

[00:52:45]Oh, he won't run away, Uncle Felix. I promise you that.

[00:52:48]Come on, Dave. Come on!

[00:52:51]Besides, we're only gonna go watch the moonrise over the pond.

[00:52:55]Come on, Dave. Come on, boy.

[00:53:04]Don't you like me?

[00:53:08]Why... Gosh almighty... I just didn't know there was a girl as pretty as you in the whole country.

[00:53:17]I mean, I mean, you're the prettiest girl I've ever seen.

[00:53:24]And you're so soft... And you talk like a bird song... And you smell good, too.

[00:53:37]I just love the way you talk!

[00:53:41]Talk to me some more!

[00:53:44]What do you want me to say?

[00:53:47]How come you so white all over?

[00:53:50]I don... I dunno.

[00:53:52]Some people say it's cause I was made in the light of the moon.

[00:53:56]Oh, I just think you're wonderful looking!

[00:53:58]I'm glad you're so different.

[00:54:00]I get so tired of the same looking people every day of my life.

[00:54:04]Would you like to kiss me?

[00:54:10]I would, if you let me... I reckon I just couldn't help myself!

[00:54:33]Will you marry me?

[00:54:35]Now, I only said you could kiss me once.

[00:54:37]It was mean of Pa to wrap you up in that plowline and bring you here.

[00:54:42]I'm awfully glad that he did.

[00:54:45]I reckon I am too.

[00:54:48]You wanna kiss me again?

[00:54:50]You bet I do.

[00:55:03]How come they call ya Darling Jill?

[00:55:05]Well, my name's Jill.

[00:55:07]And when I was little, everybody said that I was darling.

[00:55:12]So they called me Darling Jill.

[00:55:16]That's the perfect name for you, too.

[00:55:18]I couldn't think of a better name for you.

[00:55:35]Pluto! What's the matter, Pluto?

[00:55:37]You left all them good hominy grits on the table!

[00:55:40]I'm worried, Ty Ty. Where's Darling Jill?

[00:55:44]She was right here a minute... Gone?

[00:55:59]My albino's gone!

[00:56:02]Uncle Felix is gone!

[00:56:04]Now you got me worried!

[00:56:07]Where do you think she is, Ty Ty? Think she fell into one of these holes?

[00:56:12]Don't worry. We'll find her.

[00:56:17]I can't help it.

[00:56:20]They been gone more than half an hour.

[00:56:25]Oh, an awful lot can happen in a half an hour!

[00:56:29]Just like what?

[00:56:30]Well, like one thing... I dunno... And another thing, maybe they just took off to another county and got married.

[00:56:40]Now ya got me really worried.

[00:56:42]That Darling Jill is crazy enough to do anything.

[00:56:45]Darling Jill!

[00:56:46]Darling Jill, come home!

[00:56:48]Supper's waitin'!

[00:56:50]I'm waitin'! Aah!

[00:56:56]Ty Ty, help!

[00:56:58]Where are ya?

[00:56:58]I'm down in a hole!

[00:57:00]Which hole you in?

[00:57:02]This very deep one!

[00:57:10]- You got me, Ty Ty? - I got you, Pluto. Come on!

[00:57:15]Ty Ty, why must you make these holes so deep?

[00:57:21]Darling Jill!

[00:57:32]Dave!

[00:57:34]Where are ya?

[00:57:38]I knew it!

[00:57:40]Just knew it!

[00:57:42]My white haired boy's gone!

[00:57:47]Took off and went lickety-split to home!

[00:57:50]Darling Jill, don't run away to that swamp!

[00:58:08]Well dog my cats... Did you find them? Well? Did you?

[00:58:18]Well, Pluto, in this pale moonlight ya can't see a thing.

[00:59:09]Seems to me like these boys would have more sense than to let Ty Ty egg 'em into digging empty holes in the ground.

[00:59:15]- You're nothing but a lousy lint-head! - Yeah, a lousy lint-head!

[00:59:18]There ain't no more gold in that ground than there is in the toes of my socks.

[00:59:22]Why don't you boys wise up and go to Atlanta or Augusta somewhere, and get yourself a job that pays somethin' Saturday night.

[00:59:28]Why don't ya soak your head in a gin bottle!

[00:59:31]Now stop it, Buck!

[00:59:32]You too, Will!

[00:59:35]Why don't ya go back where ya come from, ya lint-head!

[00:59:38]I'll go back when I'm good an' ready.

[00:59:41]Why don't ya try and make me go?

[00:59:43]- We'll make ya! - We'll make ya, lint-head!

[00:59:49]Ty Ty!

[00:59:50]Drop that shovel, Buck!

[00:59:52]You too, Shaw!

[00:59:59]All you lousy farm boys think you're tough, huh?

[01:00:19]What in the blue perfect hell is going on down there?!

[01:00:23]Stop that! Stop that fightin', you hear me?

[01:00:27]I won't have no fightin' on my land!

[01:00:30]Stop it!

[01:00:31]By God!

[01:00:35]Stop that!

[01:00:39]Stop that fightin'!

[01:00:41]What's the matter with you two?

[01:00:46]What in the blue perfect hell you two got to fight about?

[01:00:49]I told ya there's gonna be plenty of gold for all of us.

[01:00:51]Pa, we wasn't fightin' about the gold!

[01:00:54]It's the way he acts and talks like he's better than we are!

[01:00:57]Every time he comes over here, that lint-head invites a beatin'.

[01:01:00]Boys, it's a shame we can't keep a peaceful family.

[01:01:04]That's what I've been aimin' all my life to have.

[01:01:07]And if I can't have it, I swear I'm gonna leave that gold where it is and go back to grubbin' cotton.

[01:01:12]And you tell him to stop tom-cattin' around my wife!

[01:01:16]Griselda in this?

[01:01:18]I didn't say a word about her.

[01:01:19]No, he don't say nothin'.

[01:01:21]He just looks.

[01:01:23]And that's plenty.

[01:01:24]Looks don't hurt anybody, Buck.

[01:01:27]He's gettin' ready to start something, I know that much.

[01:01:30]You bet I am!

[01:01:31]Griselda! You get in the house.

[01:01:35]Now, Buck, that's just your imagination.

[01:01:39]Will ain't after Griselda.

[01:01:41]Are you, Will?

[01:01:42]I ain't made up my mind about that yet.

[01:01:44]I'll kill him!

[01:01:49]You're not gonna kill nobody!

[01:01:51]Not on my land or anyplace else!

[01:01:54]Now you get up on the ground and cool off!

[01:01:57]Get all heated up down in this hole takes fresh air to get it out of ya!

[01:02:01]Now go on! Go on up to the house! Go on, Shaw!

[01:02:10]Tell him to go home!

[01:02:11]Yeah, Pa, tell him to go home.

[01:02:24]That Buck's right, I oughta go home.

[01:02:26]I hope you don't mean that, Will.

[01:02:28]Now I found the right spot, I'm gonna need all the help I can get.

[01:02:31]Right spot! The house's gonna topple right into this hole if you dig anymore.

[01:02:40]I gotta go home. I gotta get that mill started.

[01:02:47]That ain't what you're thinking about.

[01:02:49]You're thinking about Griselda.

[01:02:51]It ain't no sin to think.

[01:02:53]Will! You're gonna kill yourself if you go on that way.

[01:05:00]Hot night... Yeah, it's hot.

[01:05:06]I couldn't sleep.

[01:05:08]I couldn't sleep either.

[01:06:00]Guess we did the right thing... busting up.

[01:06:11]I guess so.

[01:06:17]Oh no, don't come any closer!

[01:06:18]I just wanted to touch you, Griselda.

[01:06:21]Just feel the touch of you.

[01:06:23]It won't stop there... I just know it won't.

[01:07:24]Are you sure you divined the gold in just the right place?

[01:07:29]Well, you saw the willow pointing down, didn't you?

[01:07:32]That's right.

[01:07:40]Willow don't lie... Why should it?

[01:07:45]Pure scientific.

[01:07:52]Mr. Ty Ty, you oughta be out raising cotton.

[01:07:56]You a good farmer. That is, you used to be.

[01:07:59]Now Mr. Ty Ty, you can raise more cotton on this land in one season than you can find gold in a whole lifetime.

[01:08:06]It's a waste of everything, Mr. Ty Ty, digging them holes all over the place.

[01:08:10]I wish I had spent a little more time with the cotton, for sure.

[01:08:14]If I had 20 or 30 bales to tide me over the fall and winter, I could devote all the rest of my time to diggin'!

[01:08:21]But Mr. Ty Ty, where we gonna get enough grub to carry us through another winter?

[01:08:25]We use my credit, like I did last winter!

[01:08:28]The store man says you ain't got enough credit left to grease the end of your nose.

[01:08:32]Felix, I'm sorry about that. But there's nothing I can do!

[01:08:35]I just got to go on diggin'!

[01:08:38]I got the fever! You can't stop the fever!

[01:08:42]Well, Mr. Ty Ty, if it's as bad as all that, why don't ya go to Augusta and borrow some money from your son, Jim Leslie?

[01:08:50]Oh, there wouldn't be no sense in that!

[01:08:52]Why not, Mr. Ty Ty? I hear tell he's rich.

[01:08:55]Anyhow, I ain't never heard of a cotton broker who's poor.

[01:08:58]All the same, he wouldn't help me none, Felix.

[01:09:00]My son, Jim Leslie, won't speak to me on the street!

[01:09:04]And if he won't speak to me on the street, I know darn well he won't lend me money!

[01:09:10]You're his pappy, ain't you, Mr. Ty Ty?

[01:09:14]I reckon so.

[01:09:17]Jim Leslie ain't been a bad man.

[01:09:20]He been a good one.

[01:09:23]In fact, he's practically a stranger.

[01:09:26]And that's wrong!

[01:09:27]I oughta go see him just to keep the family ties together!

[01:09:31]But I can't, Felix!

[01:09:33]But Mr. Ty Ty, you just gotta get some money real quick.

[01:09:36]Or else how you gonna keep us all on the farm?

[01:09:39]Why we'll all have to go someplace else to work to make a living.

[01:09:55]- Felix? - Yes, Mr. Ty Ty?

[01:09:58]I just got a wonderful idea.

[01:10:03]I'm gonna call on Jim Leslie.

[01:10:07]You know, he's my son.

[01:10:09]He's a rich man!

[01:10:11]He's a cotton broker!

[01:10:13]And no son of mine's gonna stand by and let his kin go hungry!

[01:10:20]Felix, now you watch good over Dave. Ya hear me?

[01:10:23]I hear you, Mr. Ty Ty!

[01:10:27]Buck!

[01:10:28]Shaw!

[01:10:29]Get the car ready!

[01:10:36]We're going to Atlanta! Hurry up!

[01:11:05]Hey, now, what are you doing?

[01:11:07]Now you don't reckon I'm gonna run away from here... I never been so happy in all my born days!

[01:11:12]Now, son, you get up from there and get going.

[01:11:16]I don't have to do what you say.

[01:11:17]It ain't me that's talkin', boy. It's this gun.

[01:11:22]Now you get up and get going. And head straight for your home.

[01:11:25]Back to the swamp!

[01:11:30]Hey, now, you ain't gonna shoot me, are you, now?

[01:11:32]I ain't gonna shoot nobody, son. But this gun might.

[01:11:36]But Felix, I don't wanna go!

[01:11:38]I'm sorry, son, but you gotta go.

[01:11:40]It's the only way I know how to save this farm.

[01:11:43]Now you, get goin'!

[01:12:00]That's Jim Leslie's alright!

[01:12:03]Sure as God made little apples.

[01:12:38]Well, we're inside.

[01:12:40]He can't throw us out now, before I tell him what we're after.

[01:12:45]Did you ever see such pretty things in all your life, Griselda?

[01:12:50]Don't touch anything, Darling Jill.

[01:12:54]Everything looks so shiny!

[01:12:59]Looks like it's got goose grease on it somehow.

[01:13:02]So clean!

[01:13:03]Just clean and clean, everything... Jim Leslie lives in fine style, alright.

[01:13:14]I'm mighty proud of the way my boy has made his way in the world.

[01:13:41]Oh, that's purty!

[01:13:47]Big as a window sash!

[01:13:52]Almost as beautiful as them new Coca Cola signs they're putting on the highway coming into Georgia.

[01:13:58]Oh brother, the time and patience it must'a took to do that!

[01:14:06]Look at those leaves on the trees... Almost like real!

[01:14:09]I dunno. What do they need a picture for?

[01:14:14]Spend a half dollar in gasoline, drive into the woods and see the real thing now couldn't you?

[01:14:25]Now you done it.

[01:14:28]Probably worth more money than we were gonna borrow!

[01:14:31]Suppose Jim Leslie gets here... Evenin', son.

[01:14:46]What are you doing here?

[01:14:50]Well, now, son, you know you're pleased to see us.

[01:14:56]Don't put on that you're not.

[01:14:59]Funny, I didn't hear any... doorbell.

[01:15:03]We don't ring no bells in my family.

[01:15:06]We just walk in.

[01:15:09]That's the way we do it in my family. We're never gonna do any different.

[01:15:13]Nobody has to knock on my door, or ring no fancy bells to get in the house.

[01:15:21]Pa, why'd you come here for?

[01:15:26]Well... it's important, son.

[01:15:28]Money, I suppose?

[01:15:30]Well, why don't ya dig it out of the ground?

[01:15:34]Is that a nice way to talk to your only dad?

[01:15:38]Well that's what you came here for, isn't it - money? Well, isn't it?

[01:15:42]No.

[01:15:45]No, not at all... All I need is a way to buy feed and seed for my sharecroppers.

[01:15:56]So's I can dig down another twenty feet and locate my grandpa's gold.

[01:16:01]Well there's no gold there!

[01:16:03]You know that! You know it as well as I do!

[01:16:06]You ought to! You've been digging for 15 years!

[01:16:09]You'll be digging holes on the day you die!

[01:16:45]Alright, there's the money. Now take it and go on home!

[01:17:01]Somethin' got into you, Jim Leslie... at an early age.

[01:17:09]You're different from the rest of us.

[01:17:11]I don't know why.

[01:17:15]You act like you're ashamed of me.

[01:17:18]Why, I don't see how that can be because I'm your father.

[01:17:22]Why, you take on like you don't know who I am or where you're from.

[01:17:29]Well I'm sorry for you, son.

[01:17:34]You married a widow... not because you loved her, just had to have her.

[01:17:41]Not because you got caught with the bases loaded by her pa.

[01:17:45]No, you got married just to get you a house and a fortune!

[01:17:49]Well your wife's dead now.

[01:17:53]And all you got left is a... house full of... breakable dishes!

[01:18:42]Well, son, I guess we better be going.

[01:18:52]Pa, why don't ya... fix yourself a drink.

[01:18:58]I don't take a drink, son.

[01:19:03]Well there's some fresh fruit in the dining room.

[01:19:05]Why don't you go on and help yourself.

[01:19:08]I don't mind if I do.

[01:19:12]Well, you too, Darling Jill, Griselda. Go on in.

[01:19:21]Is that the dining room, way down there?

[01:19:23]That's right, Pa. Right down there.

[01:19:25]I'm hungry!

[01:19:27]Griselda, sometime when you're in town, come up to see me.

[01:19:31]Here's my office number, I want you to call me.

[01:19:34]I wouldn't do that.

[01:19:36]Why not?

[01:19:38]Because it isn't right, that's why.

[01:19:40]I'm gonna be looking for you just the same, Griselda.

[01:19:43]You gonna come up and see me.

[01:19:45]No, I'm not.

[01:19:47]I bet that's your only pair of shoes.

[01:19:49]You come up and see Jim Leslie, he'll buy you the whole shoe store.

[01:19:54]If you don't come see me, I'm gonna come out there and get you, you hear?

[01:19:57]I'm gonna come out to that pig belly farm and bring you right back to this house.

[01:20:02]You don't love Buck.

[01:20:04]If you did, you'd have four kids by him now.

[01:20:06]That pawing Griselda's gotta stop.

[01:20:11]I gotta apologize for Jim Leslie, Griselda.

[01:20:14]My family ain't known for their politeness to women.

[01:20:18]They're headstrong that way. Come on.

[01:20:23]I'll be coming out there and get you one of these days, Griselda.

[01:20:31]Thanks for the money, son. Consider it a loan.

[01:20:48]- Did you get it, Pa? - Did you get it?

[01:20:50]I reckon I did! Just look a this big wad of greenbacks!

[01:20:53]Hey, Pa, you know what I'd like to get now?

[01:20:56]I'd like to get me... a raincoat.

[01:21:00]What for?

[01:21:01]Well, it's fixin' to rain, Pa.

[01:21:04]It can't rain now. I don't want it to rain yet a while.

[01:21:06]I got diggin' that hole and I can't dig underwater any too well.

[01:21:09]Yeah, but Pa, suppose it does rain.

[01:21:11]I'd like to put me on a raincoat and wear it.

[01:21:13]Son, if it starts to rain, you just peel off your clothes and let your skin take care of the rest.

[01:21:17]Got never made a finer raincoat than a man's skin anyhow!

[01:21:20]Let's go.

[01:21:22]Ty Ty, I'm kinda thirsty... Think we can stop in town and get a quick beer?

[01:21:29]Well, I don't think it'd be showin' a proper respect for Jim Leslie's money to spend it in a saloon.

[01:21:35]Just one beer, Pa.

[01:21:37]One beer, Pa.

[01:21:39]I ain't been in a saloon in my life and I ain't gonna start now.

[01:21:42]Well... you can wait in the car, Pa.

[01:22:23]Hey there, good lookin'! Yeah, you in the fancy hat!

[01:22:28]- Oh, big man! - Oh, man!

[01:22:31]Oh big man, you honkin' for me?

[01:22:34]Hello, grandpa!

[01:22:37]Hey grandpa, wanna dance with me?

[01:22:41]Come on! Come on!

[01:22:44]Now you get the others and get this car rollin'!

[01:22:46]We're in the street of sin and shame!

[01:22:48]Oh, go on up there Pa and come back and tell us about it!

[01:22:51]Darling Jill! You do what I told you!

[01:22:53]You girls stop teasin' and go fetch the boys outta that saloon!

[01:22:57]Hey, grandpa, come on, buy me a drink.

[01:23:02]Come on, grandpa.

[01:23:04]Oh, I know what's wrong with you. You're bashful!

[01:23:09]You leave me be. Griselda, get me out of this!

[01:23:12]- Hey, leave our pa alone. - Your pa?!

[01:23:15]Well who'd you think it was?

[01:23:17]Well now, what do you mean, honkin' your horn under my window?

[01:23:22]I apologize, ma'am.

[01:23:23]But I was only trying to get my family out of that saloon.

[01:23:26]You made me come all the way down here for nothin'.

[01:23:29]I'll voodoo you, you tight-fisted miser!

[01:23:40]You girls fetch those boys outta that saloon right now!

[01:23:44]I'm alright! Leave me alone!

[01:23:46]I know you're alright.

[01:23:51]I'm just fine! Leave me alone!

[01:23:54]I feel fine.

[01:24:00]How'd this happen, Shaw?

[01:24:02]Well, Pa, he tried to drink Will under the table, Pa.

[01:24:05]And I guess he lost.

[01:24:07]What a saloon can do to a man... - Yeah, Pa, I stuck to beer. - It's all the devil's brew!

[01:24:12]There's drinkin' water right in our own backyard.

[01:24:14]All my health and long life, just plain well water.

[01:24:17]Now you get Will and Rosamond and we'll be on our way.

[01:24:22]Will Thompson!

[01:24:25]Hey, Rosamond.

[01:24:28]Come on, Will. Rosamond, come on.

[01:24:33]Give me the power!

[01:24:35]I'll turn on the power!

[01:24:37]Give me the everlastin' light of life!

[01:24:41]The power!

[01:24:44]How you, beautiful girl?

[01:24:46]Now wait a minute, now you keep your hands off her!

[01:24:49]I'll kiss my girl all I want!

[01:24:51]Keep your hands off her!

[01:25:10]I'm sorry I had to do that, son in law.

[01:25:15]Rosamond, you and Will have to go back to Peach Tree Valley.

[01:25:18]I don't seem to be able to keep my family together.

[01:25:30]There you are, Darling Jill!

[01:25:32]I've been lookin' all over for you folks!

[01:25:34]Uncle Felix told me you went to Jim Leslie's house and I went there, seen Jim Leslie. He said, "Go to the first bar come to and they'll be there drinkin' up his money".

[01:25:42]I like this Jim Leslie fella! I got his vote!

[01:25:45]Oh, you everlastin' horse head.

[01:25:47]Jim Leslie don't even live in the right county to make his vote count!

[01:25:51]Is that a fact?

[01:25:53]Pluto, I couldn't be happier to see ya.

[01:25:56]Is that a fact?

[01:25:57]Yeah, you come at just about the right time.

[01:25:59]I did?

[01:26:00]You and Darling Jill are gonna drive Will and Rosamond back to Peach Tree Valley.

[01:26:04]Oh... no... not again!

[01:26:07]Come on, honey waffle!

[01:26:11]Come on, Will. Let's get up and do it.

[01:26:16]Ty Ty, I'm gonna pull the switch and light up the whole world tonight!

[01:26:21]Yes, Will, yes! You can do it, honey. Everything's gonna be alright.

[01:26:25]Don't "yes" me like I'm a baby.

[01:26:27]Oh no, honey.

[01:26:28]I'm gonna pull a switch and light up the whole world... Leave me alone!

[01:26:33]I'm gonna pull a switch and light up the whole world, Ty Ty!

[01:26:38]I'm telling ya!

[01:26:52]Pa, I'm afraid to go back home.

[01:26:54]Will's not hisself. He's never been this wild!

[01:26:59]He's gonna do something, I know it.

[01:27:01]For six months now, I've just been livin' from day to day, hopin' that tomorrow'll change him.

[01:27:06]But I've gotta have help now, I can't do it alone.

[01:27:11]Griselda, you're the only one he might listen to.

[01:27:16]Now, Rosamond, honey. Now Griselda she can't go, honey.

[01:27:20]Pa, please, make Griselda listen to me!

[01:27:24]I'd ask for you, daughter, but Griselda has to make up her own mind.

[01:27:32]- Griselda... - Don't ask me.

[01:27:34]Who can I ask?

[01:27:36]Buck hates Will.

[01:27:38]- You hate him too? - No.

[01:27:42]You know I don't.

[01:27:45]You love him. Same's I do.

[01:27:48]That's why you got to help him, Griselda.

[01:27:50]Please, I'm begging you. Please!

[01:27:58]Alright, I'll go with you til he sobers up.

[01:28:03]Thank you, Griselda. Thank you.

[01:28:35]Tell your pa I'll take care of everything, Shaw!

[01:29:04]He's still sleeping, thank goodness.

[01:29:09]Here it is, dark. I wasted another day.

[01:29:11]Haven't counted a single vote.

[01:29:13]I've gotta be gettin' home.

[01:29:17]Besides, this ice cream is gettin' too cold to eat.

[01:29:20]Wait just a little while longer, til he wakes up.

[01:29:24]He's mighty fond of peach ice cream.

[01:29:26]I gotta go too, Rosamond. Buck's gonna be wild!

[01:29:28]Stay a while.

[01:29:30]I don't wanna be here alone with him.

[01:29:34]Are you scared of Will?

[01:29:37]Your own husband?

[01:29:41]I reckon I am... the way he's been acting lately... Waited til I woke up, didn't you?

[01:29:54]Yes, Will.

[01:29:59]I'm turning on the power tonight.

[01:30:01]Will, wouldn't you like some peach ice cream?

[01:30:04]Never worked in the cotton mill, did you, Pluto?

[01:30:07]No, sir.

[01:30:09]I've gotta be gettin' home.

[01:30:11]I've gotta get elected. It's mighty important, Will.

[01:30:15]You know what it's like in a company town when there's no work?

[01:30:18]No, sir.

[01:30:20]Well I'll tell ya.

[01:30:22]You ever shoot a rabbit and go and pick him up and when you lifted him up in your hand, felt his heart poundin' like... like... I dunno what.

[01:30:34]Have ya?

[01:30:38]Well I have.

[01:30:42]I have!

[01:30:44]Will, where're ya goin'?

[01:30:45]To turn the power on!

[01:30:50]Stop him! Somebody, please!

[01:31:30]Hiya, Will. What ya gonna do?

[01:31:32]I'm gonna break open the gates and turn on the power.

[01:31:54]You mustn't do this, Will. You're gonna get in trouble!

[01:31:57]I'm gonna open the mill. I promised the whole valley.

[01:32:00]Don't you understand? You can't do this alone! You're gonna get killed!

[01:32:04]- Do you care? - Of course I care!

[01:32:06]I waited for you, Will.

[01:32:08]If you would only ask, I would've waited for you all my life!

[01:32:14]All my life is now.

[01:32:18]Don't shut me out, Griselda.

[01:32:20]I won't shut you out.

[01:33:12]It's been a long time since we've seen the inside of these buildings.

[01:33:16]There's nothing here anymore, Will.

[01:33:19]It's all here, the same as the day I left.

[01:33:22]Waste... Nothing but waste.

[01:33:30]Griselda, when the power's on, the valley hums.

[01:33:34]There's meat and potatoes on every table.

[01:33:37]People... they remember funny things to laugh at.

[01:33:42]When the power's off... they valley's dead.

[01:33:48]You see what I mean, Griselda?

[01:33:52]You see why... why... I gotta turn on the power?

[01:33:58]I've been talkin' about it too long.

[01:34:01]Takes a man to turn on the power, not just a talker.

[01:34:06]Just lookin' at you makes me feel like a man again.

[01:34:11]How can I help you, Will.

[01:34:13]Look at me.

[01:34:15]Just keep lookin' at me.

[01:34:17]- No, Will, no. - You sound like Rosamond.

[01:34:19]We both love you, Will.

[01:34:21]Then help me, Griselda. If I don't do it now, I'll never do it.

[01:34:23]I'll do anything you want, Will, only let's get outta here.

[01:34:25]I've never been this close before.

[01:34:27]Don't think about it, Will. Think of me.

[01:35:57]You gotta go back to the house, Griselda.

[01:35:59]I'm not going without you, Will.

[01:36:36]It's the mill.

[01:36:38]Rosamond, he turned the mill on. Will turned the power on!

[01:37:35]You get down from there!

[01:37:58]I didn't mean to hurt you, Buck.

[01:38:04]What'd I do? What'd I do?!

[01:38:15]It's my job, Will!

[01:38:17]Who's gonna give an old man a job?

[01:38:21]Don't you see?

[01:38:23]Who's gonna give him a job?

[01:38:26]Damn you, Will Thompson!

[01:38:28]Why'd you have to go and do a thing like this?

[01:38:49]It's Will Thompson!

[01:41:17]I know!

[01:42:01]Shaw, you get everybody a nice cool glass of water, ya hear?

[01:42:22]Rosamond, why don't ya just sit on the porch and rest a little?

[01:43:10]What's the matter with you?

[01:43:12]I wanna know what's the matter with you!

[01:43:13]Nothin'!

[01:43:14]Act as if they just buried your husband instead of that lint-head.

[01:43:17]Please, Buck!

[01:43:18]Please what?

[01:43:20]Don't want me to talk about it, huh?

[01:43:22]There's nothing to talk about!

[01:43:24]Anyway, you gotta have some regard for Rosamond.

[01:43:26]What you care about Rosamond?

[01:43:28]Why did you have to chase after him?

[01:43:29]Griselda, we have to cook dinner.

[01:43:31]No one's eating in this house til I get an answer from her!

[01:43:35]I asked ya a question, can't ya talk?

[01:43:37]Sure, I can talk. But this isn't the time for it!

[01:43:40]It's a shame you can't kill a man but once!

[01:43:42]Otherwise I'd be gunnin' for him right now!

[01:43:45]I'da liked to kill him myself!

[01:43:47]Now look what you've done. You oughta be ashamed of yourself, Buck.

[01:43:50]You, shut up!

[01:43:52]You don't look ashamed for anything.

[01:43:54]You're both alike! A pair of loose fillies!

[01:43:56]If you ain't man enough to hold on to your wife, I'd be ashamed to admit it.

[01:44:00]I'd just go hide my face some place!

[01:44:02]- What did you say to me? - Buck!

[01:44:04]Will's dead! Ain't that enough punishment?

[01:44:07]We're going at it like this all the time and we're getting further and further away from the happy life!

[01:44:13]Pa.

[01:44:15]Hey, Pa.

[01:44:17]I have the water here, Pa.

[01:44:27]All of us ought to... set down and think a little... about living.

[01:44:36]And how to do it.

[01:44:40]God didn't put us here to scrap and fight each other all the time.

[01:44:44]I don't wanna hear no more about God.

[01:44:47]We don't have a little more love for each other, there's gonna be a real sorrow in your house, son.

[01:44:51]I've tried all my life to keep a peaceful family under my roof.

[01:44:55]If you'd just stop fightin'... learn to smile and laugh just a little.

[01:45:00]You talk like an old fool.

[01:45:05]Maybe that sounds that way to you.

[01:45:10]If you got the feeling of God in your heart, you just can't fight.

[01:45:16]God! God! God! What did God ever do for you?!

[01:45:18]I don't feel exactly the way Buck does but we ain't got a penny outta God's little acre yet.

[01:45:25]You boys don't seem to catch on.

[01:45:28]It's not important that I get money out of God's little acre.

[01:45:31]The fact I can walk on it, and stand on it, and feel God is there.

[01:45:35]What's all this gotta do with me and Griselda?

[01:45:39]All you boys seem to think about is things you can see and touch.

[01:45:43]Well that ain't livin'.

[01:45:45]It's the things you feel down inside you.

[01:45:48]That's what's living's for.

[01:45:50]If you felt more how Griselda feels inside her, no other man could touch her.

[01:45:54]That's just what I was gettin' at before you shot your fool mouth off!

[01:45:58]What went on between you and Will before he died?

[01:46:01]How's it gonna make you feel any better to have her tell you that?

[01:46:04]I wanna hear it from her. I got a right to that, haven't I?

[01:46:06]- I'm not afraid to tell him, Pa. - No, don't tell him anything!

[01:46:08]You stay out of this!

[01:46:10]If I was you, when I went to bed tonight, I'd get down on my knees in the dark and try talkin' to God a little.

[01:46:17]He can tell you things nobody else can!

[01:46:20]And maybe He'd tell ya how you oughta act with Griselda.

[01:46:23]He'd tell ya, if you only took the time and trouble to listen.

[01:46:27]Cause if there's anything in the world He's crazy about, it's seein' a man and a woman in love with each other.

[01:46:34]And to forgive is part of lovin'.

[01:46:38]When He sees that, He knows the world is runnin' along as slick as grease.

[01:46:52]Buck'll come along alright when he gets a little older.

[01:46:55]You just try and be patient with him til he lives a little longer.

[01:46:57]It takes some people almost a lifetime to learn some things and Buck is real young.

[01:47:02]I'm afraid he'll never learn, Pa.

[01:47:03]What's there to learn?

[01:47:05]Will wasn't any bigger than I am.

[01:47:07]He wasn't any stronger either.

[01:47:09]I could throw him any morning before breakfast.

[01:47:11]It wasn't the way he looked that made him different, Buck.

[01:47:14]It was the way he was made, inside.

[01:47:17]He could feel things! And you can't!

[01:47:20]You can't suck me in with that kinda talk!

[01:47:23]I wanna know what you and Will did behind my back!

[01:47:27]Pluto, you were there. What happened?

[01:47:31]- Nothin' much. - What do you mean by "nothin' much"?

[01:47:35]Nothin' much just means nothin' much, that's all.

[01:47:38]Did you go deaf, dumb and blind the day you went to Peach Tree Valley?

[01:47:42]Listen, Buck. I was in that house the whole time we were there.

[01:47:46]I didn't see nothing more exciting than coffee and cake and peach ice cream.

[01:47:51]When that siren blew, we all knew that Will was dead.

[01:47:55]That's a fact.

[01:48:12]Now, that's settled.

[01:48:15]Let's go in and get some supper.

[01:48:17]Come on, Rosamond.

[01:48:22]We'll all get a good night's rest, and tomorrow things will look a lot different.

[01:48:28]Well I'm going back to Augusta.

[01:48:31]Care for a lift, Griselda?

[01:48:33]I got a big empty house.

[01:48:35]Oh, plenty of room for you too, Rosamond.

[01:48:37]Now look here, son.

[01:48:39]You're welcome to stay for supper, but... if you're so all fired on gettin' back to Augusta, you go on.

[01:48:45]Don't be temptin' the girls, they're staying here.

[01:48:47]You know, it looks like all of you learned your lesson by now.

[01:48:50]All you raised on this land is piles of dirt and empty holes.

[01:48:54]I aim to strike a load soon.

[01:48:56]You been sayin' the same thing for years.

[01:48:58]Age didn't bring you any more sense.

[01:49:01]I got sense you don't know about, son.

[01:49:04]I hate the smell of this place.

[01:49:06]I hated it since the day I was born.

[01:49:11]You can come live with me in Augusta, Griselda.

[01:49:14]You can have some new clothes, a new car, plenty of spendin' money.

[01:49:23]Get in the house, Griselda.

[01:49:26]You can come live with me, Griselda.

[01:49:27]You take your hands off her! I'll kill you!

[01:50:02]Feels like... like the end of the world has struck me.

[01:50:08]Feels like... the bottom's dropped off from under me.

[01:50:15]I feel like I'm sinking, - I can't help myself. - No, Pa, don't talk like that!

[01:50:22]No, it's all my fault, Shaw!

[01:50:26]Digging for gold!

[01:50:29]Digging for gold!

[01:50:31]Never giving heed to my sons, til they got big enough to kill each other!

[01:50:38]Oh, God!

[01:50:40]God, give me strength!

[01:51:09]Let go of my arm.

[01:51:10]I don't want any woman I can't hold on my own.

[01:51:13]Go with Jim Leslie if you wanna I'd like to be around when you decide to get yourself a husband.

[01:51:18]You get outta here.

[01:51:22]You get in your car, Jim Leslie.

[01:51:26]And go back to Augusta where you belong.

[01:51:29]If you ever show your face here again, son of mine or no son of mine... We'll go in the house, get some supper, and have a good night's sleep.

[01:52:26]Maybe... tomorrow'll be a good day.

[01:53:09]God... Give me strength to spread out my arms to the end of my fields.

[01:53:22]Let me fill up the holes.

[01:53:24]Make the land smooth.

[01:53:27]You spared my sons.

[01:53:31]I'll never dig another hole again, except to... to plant seeds for things to grow.

[01:54:12]Why, you big horse head of a sheriff!

[01:54:15]And you big horse head of a sheriff's wife-to-be!

[01:54:31]You're plantin' well, Shaw.

[01:54:35]Well I'm plantin'.

[01:54:45]What do we got for dinner, honey?

[01:54:47]Same as yesterday, Buck.

[01:54:48]Bacon fat and grits.

[01:54:51]I don't care... I just wanna be waited on by a beautiful woman.

[01:55:12]What's the matter, Mr. Ty Ty?

[01:55:14]The plow's struck somethin' mean and hard!

[01:55:18]It ain't nothin' but a rock, Mr. Ty Ty.

[01:55:20]Oh, it ain't!

[01:55:21]It sounded like metal! I swear it to you!

[01:55:23]What'd you find, Pa?

[01:55:24]I can feel it! I can feel it!

[01:55:28]Give me room!

[01:55:32]Oh, it's nothing but an old shovel, Mr. Ty Ty.

[01:55:36]Just look at this shovel.

[01:55:41]I bet ya it's a hundred years old.

[01:55:48]I bet ya my grandpa used this shovel to bury the gold.

[01:55:55]It's a sign from the Lord.

[01:55:58]Mr. Ty Ty, if we're gonna have a crop this year, we got a whole lot more plowin' to do yet.

[01:56:08]I don't reckon there'd be much time lost if I took this day to give my grandpa one more chance, huh, Griselda?

[01:56:21]Come on, mule.