1 00:01:17,387 --> 00:01:20,754 To find something, anything... 2 00:01:20,924 --> 00:01:25,384 ...a great truth, or a lost pair of glasses... 3 00:01:25,862 --> 00:01:30,265 ...you must first believe there will be some advantage in finding it. 4 00:01:31,467 --> 00:01:33,935 I found something a long time ago... 5 00:01:34,103 --> 00:01:37,698 ...and have held on to it for grim death ever since. 6 00:01:37,874 --> 00:01:40,866 I owe my success in life to it. 7 00:01:41,044 --> 00:01:43,512 It put me where I am today. 8 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:45,739 This principle: 9 00:01:47,250 --> 00:01:51,584 What you don't know won't hurt you. 10 00:01:54,724 --> 00:01:59,593 They called it idealism in a book I read. 11 00:03:10,667 --> 00:03:13,659 Get the gun. Get the gun. Get the gun. 12 00:03:18,041 --> 00:03:19,872 Oh, my God. 13 00:03:47,370 --> 00:03:48,769 The judge won't scare easy. 14 00:03:51,140 --> 00:03:54,268 I don't count on him scaring easy. 15 00:03:58,114 --> 00:04:00,480 You think it's beneath my dignity? 16 00:04:00,650 --> 00:04:02,413 Well, you're governor, they tell me. 17 00:04:02,585 --> 00:04:05,076 Yeah, I'm governor. 18 00:04:05,254 --> 00:04:08,417 The trouble with governors is they think they gotta keep their dignity. 19 00:04:08,591 --> 00:04:11,287 There's nothing worth doing a man can do to keep his dignity. 20 00:04:11,461 --> 00:04:12,985 Human frame ain't built that way. 21 00:04:14,864 --> 00:04:17,264 When I'm not governor anymore because I'm president... 22 00:04:17,433 --> 00:04:19,993 ...I wanna meet somebody at midnight, I'll do that then too. 23 00:04:20,737 --> 00:04:23,228 Hope you leave me to get a night's sleep. 24 00:04:23,406 --> 00:04:26,000 No, Jack, you going with me because that's what you want. 25 00:04:26,509 --> 00:04:28,636 Yeah, you and Sugar with me in the White House. 26 00:04:28,811 --> 00:04:31,644 I'll give Sugar a pistol range right out there in the garden. 27 00:04:32,348 --> 00:04:35,146 Brace of Republican senators can set up his tin cans for him. 28 00:04:35,318 --> 00:04:37,878 And I'm gonna appoint a special member to Cabinet for you: 29 00:04:38,054 --> 00:04:41,820 Secretary to the Bedchamber of Mr. Jack Burden. 30 00:04:42,825 --> 00:04:45,089 Somebody to keep them telephone numbers straight... 31 00:04:45,261 --> 00:04:48,753 ...and return their little pink silk articles that get left behind. 32 00:04:50,533 --> 00:04:52,501 But we gotta do this first. 33 00:04:52,668 --> 00:04:55,762 In the middle of the night when we could just do it in town sometime. 34 00:04:55,938 --> 00:04:58,839 Sometime ain't never now. 35 00:05:00,343 --> 00:05:02,436 Bastard. 36 00:05:03,479 --> 00:05:04,707 Which way up there? 37 00:05:07,150 --> 00:05:10,119 Jack, tell Sugar how to get to the house. 38 00:05:10,653 --> 00:05:13,349 It's your people live down here. 39 00:05:30,306 --> 00:05:32,035 Suppose he don't open up? 40 00:05:33,810 --> 00:05:36,370 Make him. What I pay you for? 41 00:06:10,713 --> 00:06:12,613 Hey, Jack. 42 00:06:12,782 --> 00:06:14,750 Mr. Duffy. 43 00:06:15,751 --> 00:06:18,117 This is Willie Stark from up Mason City. 44 00:06:18,287 --> 00:06:20,255 - County treasurer. - Glad to meet you. 45 00:06:21,224 --> 00:06:23,590 - Jack Burden. - From The Chronicle. 46 00:06:23,759 --> 00:06:25,249 Good to meet you, Mr. Burden. 47 00:06:25,428 --> 00:06:27,828 Yeah, Willie's on business for Mason City. 48 00:06:27,997 --> 00:06:29,328 Bond issue them got up there. 49 00:06:29,499 --> 00:06:31,626 Gonna build a schoolhouse. 50 00:06:31,801 --> 00:06:35,532 Yeah. Me and Willie was in school together. 51 00:06:35,705 --> 00:06:39,607 Oh, you was in school, Alex. I didn't know. 52 00:06:39,775 --> 00:06:41,868 Not the teacher's favorite, I don't expect. 53 00:06:42,044 --> 00:06:44,308 No, sir, that's true. 54 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,711 Willie was, though. Still is, ain't you, Willie? 55 00:06:47,884 --> 00:06:50,216 Yeah, Willie married a schoolteacher. 56 00:06:51,287 --> 00:06:52,515 Well, you know... 57 00:06:52,688 --> 00:06:56,089 ...they tell me that schoolteachers are made with it... 58 00:06:56,259 --> 00:06:58,124 ...in the same place as the rest. 59 00:06:58,794 --> 00:07:01,456 Now, is that right or not, Mr. Stark? 60 00:07:05,801 --> 00:07:07,860 Yeah, that's right. 61 00:07:10,806 --> 00:07:12,273 Slade! 62 00:07:12,441 --> 00:07:14,375 Beers all around. 63 00:07:14,544 --> 00:07:16,011 Not for me, thanks. 64 00:07:16,178 --> 00:07:18,942 Oh, that little schoolteacher don't like it when you drink? 65 00:07:19,115 --> 00:07:21,743 Well, she don't favor it, for a fact. 66 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:26,647 Well, beers all around. 67 00:07:27,290 --> 00:07:29,315 Well, I sell beer to those who want it. 68 00:07:29,825 --> 00:07:32,350 I don't make nobody drink them. 69 00:07:33,095 --> 00:07:36,326 Well, maybe you got some orange pop for him. 70 00:07:36,499 --> 00:07:37,727 That's what he wants. 71 00:07:39,168 --> 00:07:43,195 Yeah, I think I'd like some orange pop. Two straws. 72 00:07:48,477 --> 00:07:50,775 Jack, get up Mason City. 73 00:07:50,947 --> 00:07:53,279 See who's this fella who thinks he's Jesus Christ... 74 00:07:53,616 --> 00:07:56,278 ...come down off the cross to scourge the moneychangers... 75 00:07:56,452 --> 00:07:59,012 ...out of that shinplaster courthouse they got them there. 76 00:07:59,188 --> 00:08:01,918 I know who he is. Fella with a Christmas tie... 77 00:08:02,091 --> 00:08:03,524 ...pushed a school bond through. 78 00:08:03,993 --> 00:08:06,188 - You know him? - Met him. 79 00:08:06,362 --> 00:08:08,489 Watched him drink a bottle of orange pop once... 80 00:08:08,664 --> 00:08:11,827 ...through two straws on account of a wife who don't favor drinking. 81 00:08:12,001 --> 00:08:14,162 She favor him staying parish treasurer? 82 00:08:14,337 --> 00:08:16,202 Don't you know how things are run up there? 83 00:08:16,372 --> 00:08:18,636 Run up there like they're run down here. 84 00:08:18,808 --> 00:08:23,711 Yeah? Well, you leave down here and run on up there. 85 00:08:31,621 --> 00:08:34,647 As a commissioner, as chairman, I guess you're in a position... 86 00:08:34,824 --> 00:08:37,486 ...to know the situation regarding the schoolhouse contract. 87 00:08:37,660 --> 00:08:38,888 Ain't no situation. 88 00:08:39,061 --> 00:08:40,892 Maybe not, but maybe so. 89 00:08:41,063 --> 00:08:42,826 Ain't any situation. 90 00:08:43,332 --> 00:08:44,594 Board took a bid offer. 91 00:08:44,767 --> 00:08:46,860 A.J. Moore's bid, the fella's name... 92 00:08:47,036 --> 00:08:49,129 ...schoolhouse gets built. 93 00:08:49,305 --> 00:08:51,637 This Moore fella's bid, I take it, was the lowest? 94 00:08:52,141 --> 00:08:53,870 Now, you lookie here. 95 00:08:54,043 --> 00:08:57,035 Ain't nobody tells a board what bid to take. 96 00:08:57,213 --> 00:09:00,148 Anybody can come along put in a little pissant bid. 97 00:09:00,316 --> 00:09:01,647 Board doesn't have to take it. 98 00:09:01,817 --> 00:09:03,944 Board takes somebody who can do the work right. 99 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:05,644 Ain't nothing done but legal. 100 00:09:05,821 --> 00:09:08,585 Who was it put in the little pissant bid? 101 00:09:08,758 --> 00:09:11,659 - Name of Jeffers, if I recollect. - Jeffers Construction? 102 00:09:11,827 --> 00:09:14,625 - Yeah. - Well, that's a real firm, a big firm. 103 00:09:15,498 --> 00:09:18,592 The board picks who can do the work right. 104 00:09:18,768 --> 00:09:21,293 That's all I got to say. 105 00:09:21,937 --> 00:09:23,165 Don't you wanna tell mama... 106 00:09:23,339 --> 00:09:26,137 ...you wanna see yourself shining in the table? No? 107 00:09:26,308 --> 00:09:29,800 All right. I wish I could have sold some to you. 108 00:09:29,979 --> 00:09:32,743 Be out of your way in a second here. And no brushes, you sure? 109 00:09:32,915 --> 00:09:34,212 - I'm sure. - All right. 110 00:09:34,383 --> 00:09:36,874 Thank you. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye. 111 00:09:37,053 --> 00:09:38,281 Mr. Stark. 112 00:09:40,923 --> 00:09:44,791 Why, Mr. Jack Burden, how are you, sir? 113 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,293 You know, people would think parish treasurer paid well enough... 114 00:09:48,464 --> 00:09:51,558 ...a man wouldn't have to sell household fix-it kits door-to-door. 115 00:09:51,734 --> 00:09:54,635 - People would think. - Doesn't in Mason City. 116 00:09:54,804 --> 00:09:57,830 Well, I'm maybe not so good at mathematics... 117 00:09:58,007 --> 00:10:00,202 ...as some other parish treasurers you may've met. 118 00:10:00,376 --> 00:10:02,503 Or too good at it. 119 00:10:03,145 --> 00:10:05,773 How much they steal on the schoolhouse contract? 120 00:10:05,948 --> 00:10:07,643 Well, let's see... 121 00:10:08,250 --> 00:10:11,083 Jeffers come in $142,000. 122 00:10:11,253 --> 00:10:13,551 Moore, $175,000. 123 00:10:13,723 --> 00:10:17,853 That's $33,000 split six ways, 5500 per commissioner. 124 00:10:18,027 --> 00:10:22,225 They done it so plain and pretty, well, you'd almost have to admire them. 125 00:10:22,398 --> 00:10:25,060 Just point out Jeffers uses nigra laborers... 126 00:10:25,234 --> 00:10:28,101 ...skilled men, you know? 127 00:10:28,270 --> 00:10:31,967 Next thing, it's, "Lookie here, nigras making more money than you men. 128 00:10:32,141 --> 00:10:34,075 Pushing wheelbarrows, hauling dirt." 129 00:10:35,044 --> 00:10:38,536 And that's it. "Goodbye, Mr. Jeffers and your low bid. 130 00:10:38,714 --> 00:10:41,615 You go build your nigra schoolhouse somewhere else." 131 00:10:41,784 --> 00:10:44,685 Not that you didn't try and get people to see what was going on. 132 00:10:44,854 --> 00:10:49,291 Oh, I yelled so long and loud about these old boys lining they pockets... 133 00:10:49,458 --> 00:10:51,756 ...I'm lucky to have any job in Mason City: 134 00:10:51,927 --> 00:10:54,020 Government, door-to-door, or any other variety. 135 00:10:54,196 --> 00:10:56,027 I stood out there on that street corner... 136 00:10:56,198 --> 00:10:58,189 ...pencil in one hand, paper in the other... 137 00:10:58,367 --> 00:11:00,358 ...trying to show people the numbers. 138 00:11:00,536 --> 00:11:03,232 But you stop people out there in that hot sun... 139 00:11:03,405 --> 00:11:05,635 ...try to show them arithmetic... 140 00:11:05,808 --> 00:11:07,969 ...well, they can't see it so clear... 141 00:11:08,144 --> 00:11:11,511 ...through the sweat pouring in they own eyes from they own hard labor. 142 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:14,513 Especially if you put nigras in the equation. 143 00:11:14,683 --> 00:11:17,516 - Why, you're likely to get beat up. - Likely? 144 00:11:17,686 --> 00:11:19,779 Once or twice. 145 00:11:20,623 --> 00:11:22,056 You gonna run again in November? 146 00:11:22,224 --> 00:11:27,059 No, I'm done. A lame duck. Lucy too. They got her fired from teaching. 147 00:11:27,229 --> 00:11:31,063 And I don't care. I don't want to teach there just so they can steal money. 148 00:11:31,233 --> 00:11:34,669 That's right. You're looking at your own private two-person leper colony. 149 00:11:34,837 --> 00:11:36,464 Sipping pop. 150 00:11:37,072 --> 00:11:39,006 So, what are you gonna do, then? 151 00:11:39,175 --> 00:11:44,340 I don't know. String my pa a fence, slop some pigs, milk some cows. 152 00:11:47,783 --> 00:11:51,947 I'm gonna keep the faith, Mr. Burden, that's what I'm gonna do. 153 00:11:52,488 --> 00:11:56,754 I'm gonna keep the faith in the people, because you know why? 154 00:11:58,561 --> 00:12:00,688 Time... 155 00:12:00,863 --> 00:12:04,230 ...brings all things to light. 156 00:12:04,834 --> 00:12:07,234 I trust it's so. 157 00:12:41,070 --> 00:12:42,435 Joe. 158 00:12:42,605 --> 00:12:44,630 Did you get a photograph of him? 159 00:12:44,807 --> 00:12:46,297 Who? 160 00:12:49,545 --> 00:12:52,036 The next mayor of this town. 161 00:13:03,692 --> 00:13:06,217 You know what people are saying? 162 00:13:07,096 --> 00:13:09,690 People are saying that God himself had a hand... 163 00:13:09,865 --> 00:13:12,857 ...in this schoolhouse business. 164 00:13:13,035 --> 00:13:17,768 That God stepped in on Willie Stark's side. 165 00:13:18,307 --> 00:13:22,801 Yes, sir. He does work in mysterious ways sometimes. 166 00:13:22,978 --> 00:13:24,878 Sometimes... 167 00:13:25,047 --> 00:13:27,880 ...he has somebody else do it. 168 00:13:28,050 --> 00:13:32,919 Sends over a fat man in a striped suit with a big car to do his will. 169 00:13:33,088 --> 00:13:36,524 Well, I have had some worse employers, I admit that. 170 00:13:37,660 --> 00:13:39,491 What you want? 171 00:13:39,929 --> 00:13:42,921 Well, I wanna work for you, Mr. Stark. 172 00:13:43,098 --> 00:13:46,534 And you wanna work for the people, unless I been misinformed. 173 00:13:46,702 --> 00:13:48,966 People vote me, I'd be privileged to serve them. 174 00:13:49,138 --> 00:13:53,097 - What, as the county treasurer? - Yes, sir. 175 00:13:54,677 --> 00:13:57,168 Mr. Stark, you could run for mayor of Mason City... 176 00:13:57,346 --> 00:14:00,873 ...and you could win without climbing out of bed in the morning. 177 00:14:01,050 --> 00:14:02,779 You just put the word out... 178 00:14:03,218 --> 00:14:07,086 ...about Willie Stark, who tried to take on the crooks single-handed... 179 00:14:07,256 --> 00:14:09,588 ...Willie Stark, who tried to warn us... 180 00:14:09,758 --> 00:14:14,559 ...Willie Stark, who could have saved our kids if we'd have just listened. 181 00:14:15,464 --> 00:14:20,993 Now, I'm not talking about Willie Stark for the mayor of Mason City. No, sir. 182 00:14:21,170 --> 00:14:23,661 I'm talking about Willie Stark... 183 00:14:23,839 --> 00:14:28,640 ...as the next governor of the great state of Louisiana. 184 00:14:30,312 --> 00:14:33,804 Now, you saw a man holding out a handful of cash to you... 185 00:14:33,983 --> 00:14:35,883 ...and you said no. 186 00:14:36,051 --> 00:14:37,643 This is what I see. 187 00:14:37,820 --> 00:14:40,288 I see a man in a booth... 188 00:14:40,456 --> 00:14:43,391 ...looking down at a ballot, a working man. 189 00:14:43,559 --> 00:14:48,690 And he sees three names there: Harrison, MacMurphy and Stark. 190 00:14:49,098 --> 00:14:50,827 Now, what this man really sees... 191 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,969 ...is that picture in the newspaper of them three little coffins... 192 00:14:54,403 --> 00:14:57,497 ...and the one man since the great Governor Stanton died... 193 00:14:57,673 --> 00:15:01,302 ...that had the guts to buck the powers that killed them. 194 00:15:02,611 --> 00:15:04,909 Now, that man, that voting man, he's got a pencil... 195 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,207 ...he checks a box, you wake up governor. 196 00:15:07,583 --> 00:15:10,177 And that little lady lying beside you... 197 00:15:10,352 --> 00:15:14,652 ...the one that don't favor liquor... 198 00:15:15,090 --> 00:15:17,991 ...she wakes up the governor's wife. 199 00:15:23,132 --> 00:15:24,690 That's what I see. 200 00:15:26,168 --> 00:15:30,468 Now, why don't you take a minute with your orange pop... 201 00:15:31,940 --> 00:15:34,238 ...see if you can't see it too... 202 00:15:35,844 --> 00:15:37,539 ...governor. 203 00:16:07,209 --> 00:16:09,040 You got your speech? 204 00:16:09,278 --> 00:16:11,007 All right. 205 00:16:14,583 --> 00:16:16,483 Willie Stark! 206 00:16:21,924 --> 00:16:23,824 Thank you, folks. 207 00:16:25,727 --> 00:16:27,285 Thank you kindly. 208 00:16:29,098 --> 00:16:31,464 My name's Willie Stark from Mason City yonder... 209 00:16:32,901 --> 00:16:36,462 ...and I'm pleased to have a chance to talk with you all here today. 210 00:16:36,638 --> 00:16:38,606 Now, friends... 211 00:16:39,441 --> 00:16:43,172 ...what I wanna talk about is something that's been troubling me. 212 00:16:43,345 --> 00:16:46,143 - Coffee, please. - Yes, ma'am. 213 00:16:50,486 --> 00:16:52,750 Can I sit with you? 214 00:16:52,921 --> 00:16:54,479 Or anything else. 215 00:16:55,824 --> 00:16:57,485 No, thanks. 216 00:16:58,127 --> 00:17:01,153 - You don't like my looks? - I don't care about anybody's looks... 217 00:17:01,330 --> 00:17:03,321 ...but I can't recall ever going for anyone... 218 00:17:03,499 --> 00:17:06,024 ...who reminds me of a box of spilled spaghetti. 219 00:17:06,568 --> 00:17:09,731 Miss Burke, I'm sitting here having a cup of coffee. 220 00:17:09,905 --> 00:17:12,203 I'm almost through, then you couldn't sit with me... 221 00:17:12,374 --> 00:17:15,309 ...which is what you asked for. - Sorry. 222 00:17:18,213 --> 00:17:19,942 Not working for Sen-Sen Puckett anymore. 223 00:17:20,516 --> 00:17:23,679 - Now, he wasn't a bad-looking fellow. - Heel. 224 00:17:23,852 --> 00:17:26,082 Well, sure, politically and elsewise. 225 00:17:26,255 --> 00:17:28,086 Who didn't know that? 226 00:17:28,257 --> 00:17:30,487 I guess I'm slower on some things than others. 227 00:17:30,659 --> 00:17:32,559 - Like you. - Am I? 228 00:17:32,728 --> 00:17:34,855 - I think so. - I think not. 229 00:17:35,030 --> 00:17:36,292 Not on this charade. 230 00:17:37,733 --> 00:17:40,361 That's the topic of the interview. 231 00:17:40,536 --> 00:17:43,266 Then tell me, if you're so smart. 232 00:17:43,438 --> 00:17:47,306 All right. Harrison's a city man, MacMurphy's a cracker. 233 00:17:47,476 --> 00:17:50,274 Not a cracker precisely, but enough of one to worry Harrison... 234 00:17:50,445 --> 00:17:51,810 ...that crackers won't know the difference. 235 00:17:51,980 --> 00:17:55,541 So Harrison looks for someone to split the cracker vote. 236 00:17:55,717 --> 00:17:58,413 Hears about an honest man up in Crackerville... 237 00:17:58,587 --> 00:18:01,055 ...where some cracker kids go down with a fire escape... 238 00:18:01,223 --> 00:18:04,090 ...that was supposed to be stuck with more than spit to their schoolhouse. 239 00:18:04,259 --> 00:18:06,887 Sends his man Tiny Duffy up there to romance him... 240 00:18:07,062 --> 00:18:10,327 ...and then Sadie Burke to romance him some more. 241 00:18:10,499 --> 00:18:12,126 Both telling him how good he is... 242 00:18:12,301 --> 00:18:15,668 ...how he has better than a chance in hell to change things in this state... 243 00:18:15,837 --> 00:18:17,361 ...where nothing will ever change. 244 00:18:17,539 --> 00:18:19,404 Because you and Tiny and the rest of them... 245 00:18:19,575 --> 00:18:22,669 ...don't care how much of a fool you make a man. 246 00:18:22,844 --> 00:18:25,176 And you do care, I suppose? 247 00:18:25,347 --> 00:18:27,577 I didn't say that. I don't care. 248 00:18:27,749 --> 00:18:30,741 If I did, I'd do something about it, wouldn't I? 249 00:18:30,919 --> 00:18:34,013 No, I'd rather watch from here. 250 00:18:35,224 --> 00:18:37,852 Like passing a car crash. 251 00:18:38,393 --> 00:18:41,328 I know you all can't see this from all the way back there... 252 00:18:41,496 --> 00:18:44,226 ...but I've got a pie chart representing it. 253 00:18:44,566 --> 00:18:48,161 And you can see here where public welfare and hospitals end up. 254 00:19:04,886 --> 00:19:08,652 They should be the same. 255 00:19:09,291 --> 00:19:12,260 Rather, the ratio... 256 00:19:30,312 --> 00:19:32,280 We should go. 257 00:19:33,482 --> 00:19:35,279 Not yet. 258 00:19:35,450 --> 00:19:37,509 Let's go in again. 259 00:19:51,199 --> 00:19:52,996 You don't wanna swim? 260 00:20:12,020 --> 00:20:14,511 How you think we doing? 261 00:20:15,424 --> 00:20:16,823 Fine, I guess. 262 00:20:18,060 --> 00:20:19,288 You think? 263 00:20:19,928 --> 00:20:22,396 That how you reporting it? 264 00:20:22,831 --> 00:20:24,128 Sure. 265 00:20:25,701 --> 00:20:30,604 Seems to me they listen less and less the further I get from home. 266 00:20:30,772 --> 00:20:33,434 Well, that makes sense, don't you think? 267 00:20:37,245 --> 00:20:38,940 Maybe... 268 00:20:40,449 --> 00:20:41,973 ...you trying to say too much. 269 00:20:43,785 --> 00:20:45,685 I'm telling them what they need to know: 270 00:20:45,854 --> 00:20:47,583 Taxes, wages, highways. 271 00:20:47,756 --> 00:20:49,553 Well, maybe it's how you're telling them. 272 00:20:49,725 --> 00:20:52,523 Maybe if you told them the way you tell Lucy or Tiny or me... 273 00:20:52,694 --> 00:20:54,855 ...or anyone face to face, they'd listen better. 274 00:20:55,364 --> 00:20:56,797 I don't know how that is. 275 00:20:56,965 --> 00:20:59,229 Hard to know how you sound to somebody else. 276 00:20:59,401 --> 00:21:02,666 Mad, fed up, like you mean business is how you sound. 277 00:21:02,838 --> 00:21:04,999 But not on the platform. You climb three steps... 278 00:21:05,173 --> 00:21:09,269 ...you sound like the rest of them. Like a man who wants to win an election. 279 00:21:12,581 --> 00:21:14,515 Willie... 280 00:21:15,650 --> 00:21:17,208 Yeah? 281 00:21:18,286 --> 00:21:19,514 What? 282 00:21:23,692 --> 00:21:25,216 Nothing. 283 00:21:26,428 --> 00:21:30,125 Well, a man don't have to be governor. 284 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:33,434 I don't deny wanting it. 285 00:21:33,602 --> 00:21:37,800 I won't lie to you, I lie awake wanting it. 286 00:21:37,973 --> 00:21:42,637 But sometimes a man can want something so bad... 287 00:21:43,011 --> 00:21:46,003 ...be so full of want... 288 00:21:47,115 --> 00:21:51,449 ...he plain forget what it is he want. 289 00:21:53,655 --> 00:21:56,351 I could have been a good governor. 290 00:21:56,591 --> 00:21:59,651 A lot better than them other fellas. 291 00:22:02,764 --> 00:22:05,597 But I ain't gonna be governor. 292 00:22:11,907 --> 00:22:13,135 Hi. 293 00:22:13,308 --> 00:22:15,299 Come on in. Why not? 294 00:22:16,144 --> 00:22:18,476 Oh, Mr. Stark. 295 00:22:20,515 --> 00:22:21,948 Sadie. 296 00:22:25,754 --> 00:22:27,051 What's up? 297 00:22:27,222 --> 00:22:30,089 Willie here was just telling me how he's not gonna be governor. 298 00:22:32,060 --> 00:22:33,288 You told him? 299 00:22:36,832 --> 00:22:39,392 No, I didn't, as a matter of fact, no. 300 00:22:41,970 --> 00:22:43,597 Told me what? 301 00:22:48,944 --> 00:22:52,573 Told me what? 302 00:23:04,726 --> 00:23:07,786 Oh, yeah, well, that makes sense. 303 00:23:07,963 --> 00:23:10,056 I see. 304 00:23:13,702 --> 00:23:16,671 So that's true? I'm being used. 305 00:23:16,838 --> 00:23:19,136 So they tell me. 306 00:23:20,642 --> 00:23:24,840 I saw it in his eyes the first time he come to see me, Tiny. 307 00:23:26,147 --> 00:23:29,344 But I just pushed it out of my head. 308 00:23:30,852 --> 00:23:33,412 Pushed it clean out. 309 00:23:37,092 --> 00:23:38,821 I should've known better. 310 00:24:03,585 --> 00:24:05,644 Mr. Stark? 311 00:24:06,154 --> 00:24:07,382 Mr. Stark? 312 00:24:17,766 --> 00:24:20,826 You thought you were the little white lamb of God, didn't you? 313 00:24:21,970 --> 00:24:26,066 Just waiting for the chance to stand on your hind legs and make a speech. 314 00:24:27,676 --> 00:24:31,237 They would have paid you to play the part. They pay me. 315 00:24:31,513 --> 00:24:34,607 But you were too stupid to see even that. 316 00:24:35,283 --> 00:24:37,478 You did it for free. 317 00:24:39,321 --> 00:24:44,190 You're just their dumb sacrificial sap and I'm... 318 00:24:49,364 --> 00:24:51,924 I'm sorry I let them. 319 00:25:15,924 --> 00:25:19,121 Your stomachaches, your colics, your bloats, your diarrhea. 320 00:25:33,108 --> 00:25:35,099 You're looking a little peaked. 321 00:25:36,611 --> 00:25:38,670 I can't imagine. 322 00:25:38,847 --> 00:25:40,474 Slept like a baby. 323 00:25:42,884 --> 00:25:44,146 Got your speech? 324 00:25:47,055 --> 00:25:49,421 All right, then. Let's go. It's time. 325 00:25:50,558 --> 00:25:52,822 "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here." 326 00:25:54,162 --> 00:25:55,527 What? 327 00:25:55,997 --> 00:25:57,931 The song. 328 00:25:59,567 --> 00:26:03,003 Yeah. That's what it is. 329 00:26:28,596 --> 00:26:30,621 Hello. Hello. 330 00:26:31,132 --> 00:26:32,997 How are you? 331 00:26:33,168 --> 00:26:36,137 Here's that speech you was just asking about. 332 00:26:38,907 --> 00:26:43,310 My name is Willie Stark from Mason City yonder. 333 00:26:44,446 --> 00:26:45,913 I had a speech... 334 00:26:46,314 --> 00:26:48,976 ...about this state and what it needs. 335 00:26:49,851 --> 00:26:52,547 There's no use in me telling you about it, you are the state. 336 00:26:52,721 --> 00:26:54,586 You know what you need. 337 00:26:54,756 --> 00:26:57,850 Look at the knees of your pants. 338 00:26:58,326 --> 00:27:00,487 Look at your crops. 339 00:27:00,662 --> 00:27:01,993 Look at your kids. 340 00:27:02,163 --> 00:27:05,155 You got holes and rot... 341 00:27:05,333 --> 00:27:08,496 ...and ignorant offspring on account of this state. 342 00:27:10,171 --> 00:27:13,868 Well, I had a speech, but I ain't got it no more. 343 00:27:14,042 --> 00:27:17,569 Mr. Duffy got it now in his fat little hands. 344 00:27:17,746 --> 00:27:18,974 Don't you, Tiny? 345 00:27:19,147 --> 00:27:22,514 Go ahead, show the people. Hold it up. 346 00:27:24,219 --> 00:27:26,881 Well, since he got it... 347 00:27:27,055 --> 00:27:29,615 ...I'm gonna have to say something else. 348 00:27:30,225 --> 00:27:32,284 It's all right. 349 00:27:32,761 --> 00:27:35,787 Because I got something else to say. 350 00:27:36,264 --> 00:27:40,564 I got a story about a redneck hick. 351 00:27:40,735 --> 00:27:43,135 He's like yourselves, if you please. 352 00:27:43,605 --> 00:27:49,009 Well, this fella, a while back, this hick... 353 00:27:49,978 --> 00:27:53,414 ...started thinking about all the other hicks... 354 00:27:53,581 --> 00:27:55,947 ...what he could do for them. 355 00:27:57,085 --> 00:27:59,053 Well, one day... 356 00:27:59,220 --> 00:28:04,157 ...it came down with the powerful force... 357 00:28:04,325 --> 00:28:06,953 ...of God's own hand... 358 00:28:07,562 --> 00:28:12,090 ...when the only brick schoolhouse ever built in his parish... 359 00:28:12,267 --> 00:28:17,728 ...collapsed on account of it was built with politics-rotted brick. 360 00:28:17,906 --> 00:28:23,640 And it killed and mangled a batch of poor, young scholars. 361 00:28:25,547 --> 00:28:28,038 Oh, you know this story. 362 00:28:28,216 --> 00:28:29,911 You heard it. 363 00:28:30,084 --> 00:28:32,484 He fought the politics that built that schoolhouse... 364 00:28:32,654 --> 00:28:34,952 ...with rotten brick and bolts. 365 00:28:36,457 --> 00:28:38,322 But he lost. 366 00:28:38,493 --> 00:28:40,256 He lost. 367 00:28:40,695 --> 00:28:42,629 And it fell. 368 00:28:43,131 --> 00:28:44,359 It fell. 369 00:28:46,801 --> 00:28:49,964 Well, it wasn't long... 370 00:28:50,138 --> 00:28:54,837 ...before some public officials from the city... 371 00:28:55,009 --> 00:28:57,978 ...rode out in their big fine car... 372 00:28:58,146 --> 00:29:03,174 ...and told this hick how they wanted him to run for governor. 373 00:29:04,152 --> 00:29:06,518 Them in them striped pants, they told me... 374 00:29:06,688 --> 00:29:09,521 ...MacMurphy was a limberback... 375 00:29:09,691 --> 00:29:13,889 ...Joe Harrison, he was just a tool of the city machine. 376 00:29:14,062 --> 00:29:19,364 And they wanted this nobody, do-gooder hick... 377 00:29:19,534 --> 00:29:21,661 ...to step in, give them some honest government. 378 00:29:21,836 --> 00:29:23,633 You know who they were? 379 00:29:24,706 --> 00:29:26,936 In that big fine car? 380 00:29:30,778 --> 00:29:34,874 They was Joe Harrison's own lickspittles... 381 00:29:35,049 --> 00:29:38,416 ...coming in to split MacMurphy's hick vote! 382 00:29:38,586 --> 00:29:41,054 That's right! Your hick vote! 383 00:29:41,222 --> 00:29:43,156 There he is! 384 00:29:43,324 --> 00:29:44,586 There he is right there. 385 00:29:44,759 --> 00:29:50,493 There's the Judas Iscariot lickspittle nose-wiper from the city, right there. 386 00:29:50,665 --> 00:29:54,328 Come on, Tiny. Look at him. Joe Harrison's dummy. 387 00:29:54,502 --> 00:29:57,562 Come on, take a bow. Come on. No, come on now, people wanna see you. 388 00:29:57,739 --> 00:30:00,731 Take a bow, come on. There he goes. 389 00:30:01,442 --> 00:30:04,104 No! No, let him lie! Let him lie! 390 00:30:04,279 --> 00:30:07,407 Let that hog lie in his own filth! 391 00:30:07,582 --> 00:30:10,050 Let him lie, but listen to me, you hicks. 392 00:30:10,218 --> 00:30:13,847 That's right, I'm not the only one here. You hicks too. 393 00:30:14,022 --> 00:30:18,721 They fooled you, too, just like they fooled me a thousand times. 394 00:30:18,893 --> 00:30:21,453 But it's time I fooled somebody. 395 00:30:21,629 --> 00:30:24,120 It's time I fooled them. 396 00:30:24,299 --> 00:30:28,099 Them big-city, striped-pants lickspittle hick-haters. 397 00:30:28,269 --> 00:30:31,136 I'm running for governor on my own. 398 00:30:31,306 --> 00:30:35,640 I'm coming for them and I'm coming for blood! 399 00:30:41,382 --> 00:30:43,577 First thing I'm gonna do is build me a road out... 400 00:30:43,751 --> 00:30:47,619 ...across the swamps and alligators and anything else that gets in my way. 401 00:30:47,789 --> 00:30:50,690 A thousand miles of concrete, if that's what it takes... 402 00:30:50,858 --> 00:30:54,726 ...so I can come out here and visit with my fellow hicks on a regular basis. 403 00:30:54,896 --> 00:30:57,956 Then I'm gonna build me a bridge across that mighty Mississippi. 404 00:30:58,132 --> 00:31:00,930 Name it after myself because I'm the one who built it. 405 00:31:01,102 --> 00:31:03,127 Then I'm gonna build you all new schools. 406 00:31:03,304 --> 00:31:07,104 Send your kids home with free tablets and pencils and books... 407 00:31:07,275 --> 00:31:11,177 ...to study and learn on the way to the new university I'm gonna build... 408 00:31:11,346 --> 00:31:13,974 ...where every one of them can go. 409 00:31:14,148 --> 00:31:15,740 Same as rich folks' kids. 410 00:31:16,384 --> 00:31:19,979 Now, I hope you're listening, you hicks. 411 00:31:20,154 --> 00:31:23,851 Because I don't wanna drive all the way back home... 412 00:31:24,025 --> 00:31:27,825 ...just to drive back out here next week to tell you again. 413 00:31:27,996 --> 00:31:29,361 And this is it: 414 00:31:31,132 --> 00:31:33,600 If you don't vote... 415 00:31:33,768 --> 00:31:35,998 ...you don't matter. You don't matter! 416 00:31:36,170 --> 00:31:37,933 You don't matter! 417 00:31:38,106 --> 00:31:41,303 And then you're just as ignorant as them in the city say you are... 418 00:31:41,476 --> 00:31:43,467 ...while they stealing food off your table... 419 00:31:43,644 --> 00:31:46,135 ...and every nickel out your pocket, saying, "Thank you." 420 00:31:46,314 --> 00:31:51,479 Because then you are just a bunch of ignorant hicks who got nothing... 421 00:31:51,652 --> 00:31:53,643 ...because you deserve nothing. 422 00:31:54,022 --> 00:31:55,785 So listen to me. 423 00:31:55,957 --> 00:31:57,549 Listen here. 424 00:31:57,725 --> 00:31:59,317 Lift your eyes... 425 00:31:59,494 --> 00:32:04,295 ...and look on the God's blessed and unflyblown truth: 426 00:32:04,465 --> 00:32:09,869 You are a hick and ain't nobody never helped a hick but a hick hisself. 427 00:32:10,038 --> 00:32:15,032 It's up to you to nail these parasites up. 428 00:32:15,209 --> 00:32:19,475 - Up to you and me and God. - Amen! 429 00:32:19,647 --> 00:32:22,912 - Nail up Joe Harrison! - Nail him up! 430 00:32:23,084 --> 00:32:25,780 - Nail up MacMurphy! - Nail him up! 431 00:32:25,953 --> 00:32:29,184 And nail up any bastard that gets between you... 432 00:32:29,357 --> 00:32:31,552 ...and the roads and the bridges and schools... 433 00:32:31,726 --> 00:32:33,216 ...and the food you need. 434 00:32:33,394 --> 00:32:35,828 You give me the hammer and I'll do it. 435 00:32:35,997 --> 00:32:38,557 I'll nail their hides to the barn door. 436 00:32:38,733 --> 00:32:40,564 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 437 00:32:40,735 --> 00:32:42,396 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 438 00:32:42,570 --> 00:32:44,265 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 439 00:32:44,439 --> 00:32:46,270 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 440 00:32:46,441 --> 00:32:48,170 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 441 00:32:48,342 --> 00:32:50,071 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 442 00:32:50,244 --> 00:32:52,007 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 443 00:32:52,180 --> 00:32:53,841 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 444 00:32:54,015 --> 00:32:55,744 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 445 00:32:55,917 --> 00:32:57,509 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 446 00:32:57,685 --> 00:32:59,516 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 447 00:32:59,687 --> 00:33:01,348 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 448 00:33:30,451 --> 00:33:32,578 More about Stark? 449 00:33:32,753 --> 00:33:34,846 He's colorful. Makes it easy. 450 00:33:35,022 --> 00:33:37,957 You know me, always looking for easy. 451 00:33:49,837 --> 00:33:53,136 Jack. You know what The Chronicle line is on the election. 452 00:33:53,474 --> 00:33:57,570 Sure. MacMurphy again because of his brilliant record as an administrator... 453 00:33:57,745 --> 00:33:59,975 ...and high integrity as a statesman. 454 00:34:00,148 --> 00:34:03,982 Why can't you put that in your column, a little less of Stark's raving madness? 455 00:34:08,556 --> 00:34:11,252 Listen, Jack. I know Stark's a friend of yours but... 456 00:34:11,425 --> 00:34:14,394 He's not a friend of mine. Personally, I don't care who's governor. 457 00:34:14,562 --> 00:34:16,462 Are you telling me what to write, or am I mistaken? 458 00:34:16,631 --> 00:34:19,464 - You know The Chronicle line. - All right. 459 00:34:21,135 --> 00:34:23,933 What do you mean, "All right"? 460 00:34:28,543 --> 00:34:30,807 I mean it the way I said it. 461 00:34:42,356 --> 00:34:46,122 I, Willie Stark, do solemnly swear... 462 00:34:46,294 --> 00:34:50,697 ...that I will support the constitution and laws of the state of Louisiana. 463 00:34:50,865 --> 00:34:54,301 Willie didn't need me to get himself elected. 464 00:34:54,468 --> 00:34:56,493 He won by a landslide. 465 00:34:57,138 --> 00:35:00,665 By the biggest margin in the history of the state. 466 00:35:00,841 --> 00:35:05,039 - all the duties incumbent upon me as governor so help me God. 467 00:35:05,846 --> 00:35:08,280 Which isn't to say everyone voted for him. 468 00:35:08,449 --> 00:35:10,508 Jack, get up Mason City. 469 00:35:10,685 --> 00:35:12,277 My editor didn't vote for him. 470 00:35:12,453 --> 00:35:14,887 - thinks he's Jesus Christ come down off the cross... 471 00:35:16,457 --> 00:35:18,584 The publisher of this paper didn't vote for him. 472 00:35:20,027 --> 00:35:23,360 These men didn't vote for him. 473 00:35:24,765 --> 00:35:26,494 Or these. 474 00:35:26,667 --> 00:35:29,636 The governor's education bill does not pass. 475 00:35:29,804 --> 00:35:34,935 Or the old boys in the Senate who were in the pockets of the oilmen. 476 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,576 My mother didn't vote for him. 477 00:35:44,952 --> 00:35:47,648 This is my mother. 478 00:35:48,789 --> 00:35:51,087 She doesn't vote. 479 00:35:52,693 --> 00:35:57,392 Over there, on her dressing table... 480 00:35:57,565 --> 00:36:00,261 ...that's her with her first husband. 481 00:36:00,434 --> 00:36:04,564 First of four, if I recollect. 482 00:36:04,739 --> 00:36:09,506 And that's my godfather on the right, the best man. 483 00:36:09,677 --> 00:36:12,475 He didn't vote for Willie either. 484 00:36:13,180 --> 00:36:14,613 In fact... 485 00:36:14,782 --> 00:36:19,082 ...I think it's safe to say nobody from where I'm from voted for Willie Stark. 486 00:36:19,987 --> 00:36:22,455 And why should they? 487 00:36:22,623 --> 00:36:24,454 His promises to the poor... 488 00:36:24,625 --> 00:36:26,718 ...to build roads and bridges and schools... 489 00:36:27,194 --> 00:36:30,652 ...were a declaration of war on the rich. 490 00:36:33,234 --> 00:36:35,429 They wanted him out. 491 00:36:50,017 --> 00:36:51,348 You Jack Burden? 492 00:36:55,923 --> 00:36:58,687 I've come at the behest of the boss. 493 00:36:59,026 --> 00:37:00,323 Who? 494 00:37:00,494 --> 00:37:02,792 The boss? The governor? 495 00:37:11,238 --> 00:37:14,173 Governor, let me put it in simple words so you understand: 496 00:37:14,342 --> 00:37:17,778 There's no money for all these things you wanna do for the poor. 497 00:37:17,945 --> 00:37:19,537 Oh, there's money, senator. 498 00:37:19,714 --> 00:37:22,148 You're wrong there. There's plenty of money. 499 00:37:22,416 --> 00:37:25,874 Every kilowatt comes out of the river, every barrel of oil from the ground. 500 00:37:26,053 --> 00:37:28,544 But that doesn't belong to you, sir. 501 00:37:28,723 --> 00:37:32,523 That's right. Don't belong to you either or them. Belongs to the state. 502 00:37:33,361 --> 00:37:37,798 How about the state don't tax just 5% to build my roads, we take it all? 503 00:37:37,965 --> 00:37:41,059 These are some powerful companies you talking about taking money from. 504 00:37:41,235 --> 00:37:43,635 - They ain't gonna stand for it. - They ain't the power. 505 00:37:43,804 --> 00:37:45,795 The power's in the hands of the powerless... 506 00:37:45,973 --> 00:37:47,998 ...and those hands have handed it to me. 507 00:37:54,215 --> 00:37:57,048 Realistically, they'll approve half the money, maybe. 508 00:37:57,218 --> 00:37:58,879 And that's after we beat them up. 509 00:37:59,053 --> 00:38:01,283 So we build them half a highway. 510 00:38:01,455 --> 00:38:04,356 Mile of concrete, mile of dirt, mile of concrete, mile of dirt... 511 00:38:04,525 --> 00:38:06,015 ...all the way to Shreveport. 512 00:38:06,193 --> 00:38:08,661 Now, how's anybody gonna drive on that? 513 00:38:08,829 --> 00:38:10,558 People ain't gonna stand for that. 514 00:38:10,731 --> 00:38:12,528 They like their roads finished. 515 00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:13,928 That's right. 516 00:38:14,802 --> 00:38:16,360 What's right? 517 00:38:16,704 --> 00:38:19,400 Hey, Jack. Sadie, take Tiny out of here, explain it to him. 518 00:38:19,573 --> 00:38:21,905 - He just said it and he don't get it. - Come on, Tiny. 519 00:38:22,076 --> 00:38:23,941 - You want something to eat? - No, thank you. 520 00:38:24,111 --> 00:38:25,544 - Well, sit down. - Hi, Sadie. 521 00:38:25,713 --> 00:38:27,044 Hey. 522 00:38:30,551 --> 00:38:31,950 I heard you got fired. 523 00:38:32,119 --> 00:38:34,679 Oh, you heard wrong. I quit. 524 00:38:34,855 --> 00:38:38,621 That's smart. When I get done with that outfit, they won't be able to pay you... 525 00:38:38,793 --> 00:38:41,591 ...nor the nigra who sweeps the floor. 526 00:38:41,762 --> 00:38:44,492 - You want a job? - Working for whom? 527 00:38:44,665 --> 00:38:47,691 - The state? - Hell, no. 528 00:38:48,102 --> 00:38:49,399 Me. 529 00:38:49,570 --> 00:38:51,561 You, me, Sadie, Tiny. 530 00:38:51,739 --> 00:38:55,106 Tiny? I was surprised to hear Tiny was back. 531 00:38:56,110 --> 00:38:58,806 Well, somebody gotta be lieutenant governor. 532 00:38:59,079 --> 00:39:01,047 Yeah, sure. 533 00:39:03,417 --> 00:39:05,749 I keep Tiny around... 534 00:39:05,953 --> 00:39:09,411 ...to remind me of something I never wanna forget. 535 00:39:10,157 --> 00:39:11,886 And that is? 536 00:39:12,359 --> 00:39:17,023 When they come around sweet-talking, don't listen. 537 00:39:17,565 --> 00:39:19,192 Never again. 538 00:39:22,536 --> 00:39:25,528 What would I be doing for you? 539 00:39:28,509 --> 00:39:30,602 Sweet-talking. 540 00:39:37,551 --> 00:39:39,610 All right, everybody. 541 00:39:39,787 --> 00:39:41,482 What on earth is that? 542 00:39:41,655 --> 00:39:43,919 - This is a ballista. - A what? 543 00:39:44,091 --> 00:39:47,925 Jack will tell you all about it. Jack, come on. Tell them. 544 00:39:48,095 --> 00:39:52,156 It's a pre-gunpowder weapon fired with the tension of animal sinew. 545 00:39:52,333 --> 00:39:53,891 Oh, my God. 546 00:40:08,315 --> 00:40:09,543 Jack? 547 00:40:11,785 --> 00:40:15,221 Right. See the eagle on top of the clock? 548 00:40:17,024 --> 00:40:18,514 One... 549 00:40:19,493 --> 00:40:20,721 ...two... 550 00:40:35,309 --> 00:40:38,107 They say you're in politics, Mr. Burden? 551 00:40:38,279 --> 00:40:40,679 It must be fascinating to be in politics. 552 00:40:41,248 --> 00:40:44,513 It's not, I assure you. 553 00:40:44,685 --> 00:40:47,210 Well, they say you're very influential. 554 00:40:47,388 --> 00:40:50,414 It must be fascinating to be very influential. 555 00:40:50,591 --> 00:40:51,888 I honestly wouldn't know. 556 00:40:52,059 --> 00:40:56,792 Don't let him kid you, Miss DuMonde. My godson Jack is very influential. 557 00:40:56,964 --> 00:40:58,864 Like when he was a newspaperman. 558 00:40:59,033 --> 00:41:00,728 All right, then, yes, I'm influential. 559 00:41:00,901 --> 00:41:04,064 Any pals in the pen anyone wants pardoned, I'll put in the word. 560 00:41:04,238 --> 00:41:06,672 Well, there is gonna be somebody in the pen. 561 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,502 Before it's over, what's going on there? 562 00:41:09,677 --> 00:41:11,668 All these wild goings-on. 563 00:41:12,780 --> 00:41:16,876 Fella giving away the state. Free this, free that, free the other. 564 00:41:17,051 --> 00:41:20,953 Every wool-hat jackass thinking the world is free. 565 00:41:21,355 --> 00:41:23,448 Who's gonna pay? That's what I wanna know. 566 00:41:24,124 --> 00:41:25,716 Who's he think's gonna pay? 567 00:41:25,893 --> 00:41:28,453 Standard Oil and the utility companies, I imagine. 568 00:41:28,629 --> 00:41:31,097 And anyone else that can afford to pay their share. 569 00:41:31,265 --> 00:41:33,460 You and me, George. We'll pay. 570 00:41:33,634 --> 00:41:35,465 Government's committed these days... 571 00:41:35,636 --> 00:41:39,333 ...giving services we never heard of back when. 572 00:41:39,506 --> 00:41:43,875 And he's gonna tax this state to death. Drive business right out. 573 00:41:44,044 --> 00:41:46,103 You don't think it boils down to this: 574 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,339 If the government, for quite a long time now... 575 00:41:48,515 --> 00:41:50,278 ...had done anything for the people... 576 00:41:50,451 --> 00:41:53,284 ...they wouldn't have got fed up and elected Mr. Stark. 577 00:41:54,254 --> 00:41:58,054 Well, you ask him this next time you see him: 578 00:41:58,225 --> 00:42:02,594 Ask him how much grabbing there is, all that money flowing. 579 00:42:03,631 --> 00:42:06,828 Then you ask him what's he gonna do when they impeach him. 580 00:42:07,601 --> 00:42:10,001 There's a constitution in this state... 581 00:42:10,170 --> 00:42:13,435 ...or was, before he blew it to hell. 582 00:42:14,308 --> 00:42:17,744 - I'll be sure to ask him. - You do that. 583 00:42:17,911 --> 00:42:21,347 Jack, Miss DuMonde plays the piano. 584 00:42:22,149 --> 00:42:23,946 That's nice. 585 00:42:28,155 --> 00:42:32,251 You weren't like yourself today, son, like you used to be. 586 00:42:32,426 --> 00:42:36,522 Mother, if I'm ever like I used to be, do me a favor and shoot me. 587 00:42:39,166 --> 00:42:40,599 Who was that at lunch anyway? 588 00:42:40,768 --> 00:42:43,066 Mr. Peyton. You've known him all your life. 589 00:42:43,237 --> 00:42:45,671 He builds electrical plants or some such. 590 00:42:45,839 --> 00:42:47,739 The girl, Mother. Miss DuMonde. 591 00:42:47,908 --> 00:42:52,902 That's Mr. Orton's sister's child and she will inherit his money. 592 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,981 Somebody ought to wait until she inherits it, then marry her... 593 00:42:56,150 --> 00:42:58,846 ...and drown her in her bathtub. 594 00:42:59,586 --> 00:43:02,612 Oh, don't worry, I'd like to drown her but I won't. 595 00:43:03,657 --> 00:43:05,989 Was Mr. Peyton saying those people you're with... 596 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,061 ...are mixed up in some sort of graft? 597 00:43:09,229 --> 00:43:11,390 Graft's what you call it when who's doing it... 598 00:43:11,565 --> 00:43:14,500 ...doesn't know which fork to use. - Well, whatever you call it. 599 00:43:14,668 --> 00:43:16,795 - Because I worry to think that... - I don't know. 600 00:43:16,970 --> 00:43:20,030 How would I, careful as I am not to know what anybody anywhere... 601 00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:22,299 ...is doing at any time? 602 00:43:36,490 --> 00:43:37,889 Oh, Jack, make a note. 603 00:43:38,058 --> 00:43:40,822 Find out where they got Senator Tucson's boy locked up. 604 00:43:40,994 --> 00:43:44,327 - What's his name? - The boy? Hell, I don't remember. 605 00:43:44,498 --> 00:43:46,932 Find out when's the trial, get a lawyer down there. 606 00:43:48,502 --> 00:43:51,630 - Who? Evans? - Not Evans. 607 00:43:51,805 --> 00:43:54,035 Find somebody with less oil in his hair... 608 00:43:54,208 --> 00:43:56,039 ...and don't look like he sing with a band. 609 00:43:56,210 --> 00:43:58,576 Put one of your pals on it. 610 00:43:59,580 --> 00:44:01,377 You have any idea who it was got cut? 611 00:44:01,548 --> 00:44:05,416 I don't care if it was the sainted aunt of the Apostle Paul. 612 00:44:05,586 --> 00:44:07,747 Well, I just happen to know. 613 00:44:07,921 --> 00:44:10,151 Fella's son of a doctor, paper said. 614 00:44:10,324 --> 00:44:13,521 They're pretty important around here, you know, a doctor in the country. 615 00:44:13,694 --> 00:44:16,128 They think they're somebody. 616 00:44:16,296 --> 00:44:19,322 And maybe it gets out you're trying to fix it to get the boy off. 617 00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:21,434 Wouldn't do you any good. 618 00:44:21,835 --> 00:44:24,895 - Now, it appears to me, maybe... - You don't know a goddamn thing. 619 00:44:25,672 --> 00:44:27,401 Had you been listening... 620 00:44:27,574 --> 00:44:30,202 ...I told Jack to prime the lawyer through a pal. 621 00:44:30,377 --> 00:44:33,141 Find somebody who don't need to see his name in lights. 622 00:44:33,313 --> 00:44:36,441 That way, nobody knows who picked him wasn't me. 623 00:44:37,484 --> 00:44:41,750 Might as well been the pope himself far as anybody knows. 624 00:44:42,322 --> 00:44:43,584 All right. 625 00:44:44,625 --> 00:44:46,252 I get you. 626 00:44:46,426 --> 00:44:48,417 Yeah, just barely. 627 00:45:06,113 --> 00:45:08,013 - Hey, there, Pop. - How you doing, son? 628 00:45:08,682 --> 00:45:12,209 - How you making out? - Oh, I'm getting along. 629 00:45:12,386 --> 00:45:14,752 Good to see you. You looking good. 630 00:45:16,156 --> 00:45:19,956 - I brought the infantry here. - How are you? 631 00:45:20,127 --> 00:45:23,062 - More prettier than ever. - Hey, Grandpa. 632 00:45:23,397 --> 00:45:24,989 How you doing, buddy? How's the arm? 633 00:45:25,165 --> 00:45:27,998 - He gonna be all-American. - I know he is. I know he is. 634 00:45:30,237 --> 00:45:35,573 All right, governor, sir, here we go. One, two... 635 00:46:01,568 --> 00:46:03,092 Bastard. 636 00:46:08,408 --> 00:46:10,103 Give me a slug. 637 00:46:13,547 --> 00:46:16,038 Pa don't favor drinking. 638 00:46:16,216 --> 00:46:18,741 Used to be Lucy didn't favor it. 639 00:46:21,088 --> 00:46:24,421 I don't know what she do or don't favor no more. 640 00:46:24,758 --> 00:46:26,726 Not that it matters. 641 00:46:30,097 --> 00:46:34,864 Yeah, I must have poured 10,000 gallons of swill in them troughs. 642 00:46:35,769 --> 00:46:38,567 Still doing it. Pouring swill. 643 00:46:38,739 --> 00:46:41,139 Some things never change. 644 00:46:45,345 --> 00:46:46,334 Hey. 645 00:46:49,249 --> 00:46:51,843 - What's up? - Judge Irwin. 646 00:46:54,354 --> 00:46:55,981 Judge Irwin what? 647 00:46:56,924 --> 00:46:59,188 - Spill it. - I'll spill it when I have my breath. 648 00:46:59,359 --> 00:47:01,657 You're using it up explaining you don't have it. 649 00:47:01,828 --> 00:47:04,456 You think it's funny? You won't when I tell you. 650 00:47:04,765 --> 00:47:07,563 - You tell me later. - Byram rang up. 651 00:47:08,201 --> 00:47:10,795 He said the afternoon papers have got the judge saying... 652 00:47:10,971 --> 00:47:14,304 ...the allegations warrant a full-on investigation. 653 00:47:15,208 --> 00:47:16,436 Two-timing bastard. 654 00:47:18,011 --> 00:47:20,479 That two-timing bastard. 655 00:47:22,649 --> 00:47:23,877 Clear them out. 656 00:47:24,051 --> 00:47:25,985 Tiny was figuring on having supper up here. 657 00:47:26,153 --> 00:47:27,882 Clear them all out. 658 00:47:45,572 --> 00:47:47,005 Which way up there? 659 00:47:48,976 --> 00:47:51,843 Jack, tell Sugar how to get to the house. 660 00:47:52,846 --> 00:47:55,440 It's your people live down here. 661 00:48:12,265 --> 00:48:13,755 Suppose he don't open up? 662 00:48:15,602 --> 00:48:18,093 Make him. What I pay you for? 663 00:48:30,450 --> 00:48:33,681 - Yeah, who is it? - It's Jack. 664 00:48:35,355 --> 00:48:36,982 Jack? 665 00:48:37,157 --> 00:48:38,488 Well, I'll be. 666 00:48:39,159 --> 00:48:40,990 Hey, come on in. 667 00:48:43,263 --> 00:48:44,992 You're not in any trouble, are you? 668 00:48:46,700 --> 00:48:48,964 No, Jack's not in any trouble. 669 00:48:49,136 --> 00:48:52,367 Matter of fact, he doing all right, all things considered. 670 00:48:58,011 --> 00:49:01,811 I trust you don't mind if Jack pours me a slug. 671 00:49:02,182 --> 00:49:04,616 I didn't know his duties ran to those of manservant... 672 00:49:04,785 --> 00:49:07,219 ...but if I'm mistaken, I'm sorry. - Oh, hell. 673 00:49:07,387 --> 00:49:10,447 Sometimes Jack pours me a drink, sometimes I pour him one. 674 00:49:10,624 --> 00:49:13,184 Sometimes I pour myself one. 675 00:49:13,693 --> 00:49:15,354 I could pour you one. 676 00:49:15,529 --> 00:49:17,224 No, thank you. 677 00:49:22,135 --> 00:49:23,796 This today's? 678 00:49:23,970 --> 00:49:27,201 Yeah, I don't get much time to read the papers... 679 00:49:27,374 --> 00:49:30,172 ...rushing around the state doing the good work. 680 00:49:30,544 --> 00:49:33,172 Well, perhaps, I can relieve your curiosity on one point. 681 00:49:33,346 --> 00:49:35,337 Somewhere in there's my opinion on the severity... 682 00:49:35,515 --> 00:49:38,040 ...of the allegations against you, if that's of interest. 683 00:49:38,218 --> 00:49:40,345 Somebody told me that. 684 00:49:41,021 --> 00:49:43,990 But you know how rumor hath a thousand tongues. 685 00:49:44,157 --> 00:49:47,786 And how them newspaper boys, they can exaggerate some. 686 00:49:48,228 --> 00:49:49,855 It's no exaggeration. 687 00:49:50,997 --> 00:49:52,658 Yeah, I see. 688 00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:55,991 If you're clear on that and finished with your drink... 689 00:49:56,169 --> 00:49:58,103 ...I'd appreciate it if you'd just get out. 690 00:49:58,271 --> 00:50:01,206 Hey, thank you, judge, I think I will have just one more spot. 691 00:50:04,077 --> 00:50:07,535 So I see it there in the paper, and I hear you say it... 692 00:50:07,714 --> 00:50:10,649 ...but are you sure you took it to the Lord in prayer? 693 00:50:11,351 --> 00:50:13,216 I settled it in my mind. 694 00:50:13,386 --> 00:50:16,844 See, that's unsettling. 695 00:50:17,023 --> 00:50:19,491 Because if I recollect right, I recollect that... 696 00:50:19,659 --> 00:50:22,059 ...when we had our conversation in town that time... 697 00:50:22,229 --> 00:50:25,790 ...you sort of felt like what MacMurphy and his boys were saying about me... 698 00:50:26,066 --> 00:50:27,328 ...was beneath contempt. 699 00:50:27,501 --> 00:50:30,299 I made no commitment to you or to them, only to my conscience. 700 00:50:30,470 --> 00:50:33,496 - I beg your pardon, your what? - I beg yours. 701 00:50:37,711 --> 00:50:41,078 You been toiling around politics too long to use a word like conscience... 702 00:50:41,248 --> 00:50:42,772 ...so easily. 703 00:50:42,949 --> 00:50:46,783 No, my change of conscience came when certain features of your... 704 00:50:47,154 --> 00:50:49,952 ...public services, shall we say, came to my attention. 705 00:50:50,123 --> 00:50:53,024 Somebody dug something up for you? In the dirt? 706 00:50:53,193 --> 00:50:56,128 Yeah, not just one thing and not very deep. 707 00:50:56,696 --> 00:50:57,924 Well, dirt's a funny thing. 708 00:50:58,098 --> 00:51:02,728 Ain't nothing but dirt on God's green earth except what's under the water. 709 00:51:02,903 --> 00:51:05,736 And that's dirt too, come to think of it. 710 00:51:06,306 --> 00:51:07,967 Dirt makes the grass green... 711 00:51:08,508 --> 00:51:10,066 ...let it breathe. 712 00:51:10,243 --> 00:51:14,270 The diamond on my wife's finger ain't nothing but dirt got awful hot. 713 00:51:14,447 --> 00:51:17,416 What are we, but dirt blowed off the hands of God almighty? 714 00:51:17,584 --> 00:51:20,610 You and me and George Washington. 715 00:51:22,522 --> 00:51:23,955 And Jack there. 716 00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:28,257 Still doesn't alter the fact. 717 00:51:28,428 --> 00:51:32,296 I'm not trying to alter anything, just illuminate it. 718 00:51:33,833 --> 00:51:35,061 Yeah. 719 00:51:35,235 --> 00:51:38,602 You saying MacMurphy and his bunch, yelling for my impeachment... 720 00:51:38,772 --> 00:51:41,570 ...they're responsible, law-abiding men? 721 00:51:41,841 --> 00:51:45,106 Yeah, they're responsible all right, to Alta Power and oil companies... 722 00:51:45,278 --> 00:51:46,745 ...and the rest of them thieves. 723 00:51:46,913 --> 00:51:48,141 I wouldn't know about that. 724 00:51:48,315 --> 00:51:52,081 Only way to not know is to not wanna know. 725 00:51:53,853 --> 00:51:57,584 I'm retired, Mr. Stark. A reporter asked my opinion and I gave it. 726 00:51:57,757 --> 00:52:00,988 If you was retired, no reporter would wanna ask you anything. 727 00:52:02,095 --> 00:52:04,222 What you say matters. 728 00:52:04,531 --> 00:52:07,193 A lot more than you pretend it don't. 729 00:52:09,035 --> 00:52:11,026 So I'm asking you... 730 00:52:11,938 --> 00:52:13,872 ...call off the dogs. 731 00:52:14,975 --> 00:52:19,844 Asking is different than telling and that sounded like telling to me. 732 00:52:20,580 --> 00:52:22,605 Didn't it to you, Jack? 733 00:52:26,987 --> 00:52:29,285 You been a judge a long time. 734 00:52:29,456 --> 00:52:31,083 Yes, I have. 735 00:52:33,159 --> 00:52:35,627 How would it feel, do you think... 736 00:52:36,863 --> 00:52:39,388 ...to not be one no more? 737 00:52:42,669 --> 00:52:45,934 No man has ever been able to intimidate me. 738 00:52:46,106 --> 00:52:49,906 I said what I said and I see no reason to say or think anything different. 739 00:52:50,710 --> 00:52:54,612 Despite your expositions on laws and men, sir. 740 00:52:57,217 --> 00:52:58,445 Suit yourself. 741 00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:03,450 You're right, Jack. He don't scare easy. 742 00:53:05,825 --> 00:53:11,092 Judge, it's more in pain than wrath I go. 743 00:53:11,665 --> 00:53:14,828 Let's go. It's past Sugar Boy's bedtime. 744 00:53:16,002 --> 00:53:17,970 Your employer is calling you, Jack. 745 00:53:18,805 --> 00:53:21,774 I wouldn't go around advertising this visit to anyone. 746 00:53:21,941 --> 00:53:23,738 In case you change your mind. 747 00:53:34,220 --> 00:53:35,949 Bastard. 748 00:53:36,856 --> 00:53:40,451 Well, Jackie, you got a job cut out for you. 749 00:53:41,061 --> 00:53:44,497 - MacMurphy. - No, the judge. 750 00:53:45,965 --> 00:53:47,933 You bring down the lion... 751 00:53:48,101 --> 00:53:51,969 ...the rest of the jungle will quake in fear and they'll all fall into line. 752 00:53:52,572 --> 00:53:55,803 - I won't find anything. - Oh, yes, you will. 753 00:53:56,009 --> 00:54:00,673 A man is conceived in sin and born in corruption... 754 00:54:00,847 --> 00:54:04,305 ...and passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. 755 00:54:06,386 --> 00:54:08,251 You'll find something. 756 00:54:09,089 --> 00:54:10,647 And make it stick. 757 00:54:19,265 --> 00:54:22,996 Apart from pleasing the boss, I could see little advantage... 758 00:54:23,169 --> 00:54:28,835 ...in finding anything beyond what was already known about Judge Irwin. 759 00:54:31,611 --> 00:54:34,774 What was known was that he was kind to you... 760 00:54:34,948 --> 00:54:38,679 ...when your father left you and your mother without saying why. 761 00:54:41,187 --> 00:54:43,052 What was known was that he taught you... 762 00:54:43,223 --> 00:54:45,691 ....the things your father should have: 763 00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:48,887 How to be a gentleman. 764 00:54:49,095 --> 00:54:51,689 How to firmly shake a hand. 765 00:54:52,198 --> 00:54:55,895 How to safely load a shotgun and lead a duck if you wanted to hit it. 766 00:54:59,706 --> 00:55:01,640 What was known... 767 00:55:02,142 --> 00:55:06,010 ...was that he was more of a father to you than your real father... 768 00:55:08,181 --> 00:55:10,615 ...who you didn't know at all. 769 00:56:36,569 --> 00:56:38,537 Hold it, please. 770 00:56:39,072 --> 00:56:41,336 Governor's penthouse. 771 00:56:46,246 --> 00:56:49,306 How you doing digging something up on Judge Irwin? 772 00:56:49,682 --> 00:56:51,172 Nothing. 773 00:56:51,384 --> 00:56:53,614 Nothing. Found nothing or done nothing? 774 00:56:53,786 --> 00:56:57,813 There was nothing to find. I could dig to China, wouldn't find anything. 775 00:56:57,991 --> 00:56:59,822 - And I'm not framing him. - Framing? 776 00:56:59,993 --> 00:57:02,018 Ain't nobody talking about framing. 777 00:57:02,195 --> 00:57:03,560 That's never necessary. 778 00:57:03,730 --> 00:57:06,722 The truth is always sufficient. You just find the truth. 779 00:57:07,133 --> 00:57:08,657 It's a waste of time and money. 780 00:57:08,835 --> 00:57:11,303 Jesus, doesn't anybody listen to what I say anymore? 781 00:57:11,471 --> 00:57:15,032 You don't wanna do it, don't do it. Or are you just looking for a raise? 782 00:57:15,742 --> 00:57:18,643 I'm gonna give you $100 raise whether you want it or not. 783 00:57:18,811 --> 00:57:20,403 If I wanted more money, I'd make it. 784 00:57:22,382 --> 00:57:24,407 You gonna tell me you work for me for love? 785 00:57:24,584 --> 00:57:27,485 I don't know why I work for you, but it ain't for love or money. 786 00:57:27,654 --> 00:57:29,053 Well, that's right, it's not. 787 00:57:29,956 --> 00:57:32,186 And you don't know why. 788 00:57:34,193 --> 00:57:35,592 But I do. 789 00:57:36,996 --> 00:57:38,395 Why? 790 00:57:38,731 --> 00:57:43,532 Boy, you work for me because I'm the way I am... 791 00:57:43,703 --> 00:57:46,069 ...and you the way you are... 792 00:57:46,239 --> 00:57:50,198 ...and that's just an arrangement founded in the natural order of things. 793 00:57:58,017 --> 00:58:00,383 She sure could skate. 794 00:58:04,057 --> 00:58:05,786 Right now... 795 00:58:06,326 --> 00:58:08,590 ...hidden away in chambers... 796 00:58:09,062 --> 00:58:12,190 ...not out here in the open like you and me... 797 00:58:13,366 --> 00:58:16,767 ...there's a legislature full of hyena-headed... 798 00:58:16,936 --> 00:58:20,372 ...belly-dragging sons of bitches... 799 00:58:20,607 --> 00:58:24,236 ...setting around trying to figure out how to impeach me. 800 00:58:25,778 --> 00:58:28,941 Now, they say it's because I got crooks on the payroll. 801 00:58:29,115 --> 00:58:30,980 I say, "Is that all?" 802 00:58:32,085 --> 00:58:35,054 Of course I got them. I got a can of oil in the garage too... 803 00:58:35,221 --> 00:58:36,984 ...because there ain't a machine made by man... 804 00:58:37,156 --> 00:58:41,559 ...don't need a squirt of that from time to time just to keep running! 805 00:58:44,330 --> 00:58:46,560 But my crooks... 806 00:58:47,767 --> 00:58:49,962 ...unlike theirs... 807 00:58:50,136 --> 00:58:53,037 ...are all atremble... 808 00:58:53,272 --> 00:58:55,638 ...to be too crooked. 809 00:58:56,509 --> 00:59:00,240 They're itty-bitty compared to their crooks in there. 810 00:59:00,413 --> 00:59:02,881 The Standard Oil and the power companies. 811 00:59:03,049 --> 00:59:05,244 Besides, I got my eye on mine. 812 00:59:05,418 --> 00:59:08,046 Ain't nobody watching over these crooks. 813 00:59:08,655 --> 00:59:11,681 Ain't nobody got their eye on them... 814 00:59:11,858 --> 00:59:16,227 ...while they rob the resources of this state! 815 00:59:17,664 --> 00:59:20,462 Who made that son of a bitch what he is? Who made him governor? 816 00:59:20,633 --> 00:59:23,067 And he goes and two-times me? I'll kill him. 817 00:59:23,536 --> 00:59:26,232 No, he's two-timing Lucy. 818 00:59:26,406 --> 00:59:29,603 You need some other kind of arithmetic for what he's doing to you. 819 00:59:29,776 --> 00:59:32,836 Lucy, she's a fool. She's... 820 00:59:33,813 --> 00:59:36,373 - I don't know what. - His wife. 821 00:59:37,517 --> 00:59:41,385 A hick with a college degree from some Baptist hole in the ground. 822 00:59:43,856 --> 00:59:45,653 What was she like? 823 00:59:46,626 --> 00:59:49,686 - I didn't know Lucy any further back... - The slut on skates. 824 00:59:50,997 --> 00:59:53,329 I don't know, I was looking at her skates. 825 00:59:53,499 --> 00:59:55,490 Sure you were. 826 00:59:57,870 --> 01:00:01,033 - Was she pretty? - Look, just forget it. 827 01:00:02,475 --> 01:00:04,375 How young was she? 828 01:00:05,278 --> 01:00:08,042 - Who cares? - Look at me. 829 01:00:23,229 --> 01:00:27,529 He'll be back. The world is full of sluts on skates. 830 01:00:29,368 --> 01:00:33,771 Skates, grass skirts, geisha outfits. 831 01:00:39,545 --> 01:00:41,570 Contortionists. 832 01:00:44,817 --> 01:00:49,083 Every man a king Every man a king 833 01:00:49,255 --> 01:00:53,419 For you can be a millionaire 834 01:00:53,593 --> 01:00:57,586 But there's something Belonging to others 835 01:00:57,764 --> 01:01:01,564 Well, there's enough For all people to share 836 01:01:02,001 --> 01:01:06,370 When it's sunny June Or December too 837 01:01:06,539 --> 01:01:09,940 In the wintertime or spring 838 01:01:10,610 --> 01:01:12,703 Well, there'll be peace without end 839 01:01:12,879 --> 01:01:15,211 Every neighbor a friend 840 01:01:15,381 --> 01:01:19,044 With every man a king 841 01:01:26,259 --> 01:01:29,751 The judge married money. Savannah money. 842 01:01:29,929 --> 01:01:32,557 The daughter of an industrialist out there. 843 01:01:32,732 --> 01:01:34,700 He's clean, Willie. He's washed in the blood. 844 01:01:37,103 --> 01:01:40,664 - You call yourself a detective. - I'm most certainly not... 845 01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,604 The son of a bitch is washed in whitewash! 846 01:01:43,776 --> 01:01:45,437 - Wanting it isn't the same as being it. - I know! 847 01:01:45,611 --> 01:01:48,102 - I can feel it. - That isn't the same either. 848 01:01:48,281 --> 01:01:50,146 Where did you find this itty-bitty out? 849 01:01:50,316 --> 01:01:52,181 Hall of Records. It's all there. 850 01:01:52,351 --> 01:01:54,649 Marriage licenses, property deeds, public record. 851 01:01:54,821 --> 01:01:58,587 The public record is for the public, not us. That's why it's called that. 852 01:01:58,758 --> 01:02:00,487 You ain't gonna find nothing there! 853 01:02:01,427 --> 01:02:03,987 Now, I told you to dig, not scuff your shoe a little bit.