1 00:02:49,967 --> 00:02:53,198 To find something, anything... 2 00:02:53,367 --> 00:02:57,645 ... a great truth, or a lost pair of glasses... 3 00:02:58,127 --> 00:03:02,325 ... you must first believe there will be some advantage in finding it. 4 00:03:03,487 --> 00:03:05,842 I found something a long time ago... 5 00:03:06,007 --> 00:03:09,477 ... and have held on to it for grim death ever since. 6 00:03:09,647 --> 00:03:12,525 I owe my success in life to it. 7 00:03:12,687 --> 00:03:15,042 It put me where I am today. 8 00:03:15,207 --> 00:03:17,163 This principle. 9 00:03:18,607 --> 00:03:22,759 What you don't know won't hurt you. 10 00:03:25,807 --> 00:03:30,437 They called it idealism in a book I read. 11 00:04:38,607 --> 00:04:41,485 Get the gun. Get the gun. Get the gun. 12 00:04:45,687 --> 00:04:47,439 Oh, my God. 13 00:05:13,807 --> 00:05:15,160 The judge won't scare easy. 14 00:05:17,447 --> 00:05:20,439 I don't count on him scaring easy. 15 00:05:24,127 --> 00:05:26,402 You think it's beneath my dignity? 16 00:05:26,567 --> 00:05:28,239 Well, you're governor, they tell me. 17 00:05:28,407 --> 00:05:30,796 Yeah, I'm governor. 18 00:05:30,967 --> 00:05:34,004 The trouble with governors is they think they gotta keep their dignity. 19 00:05:34,167 --> 00:05:36,761 There's nothing worth doing a man can do to keep his dignity. 20 00:05:36,927 --> 00:05:38,406 Human frame ain't built that way. 21 00:05:40,207 --> 00:05:42,482 When I'm not governor anymore because I'm president... 22 00:05:42,647 --> 00:05:45,115 ...I wanna meet somebody at midnight, I'll do that then too. 23 00:05:45,807 --> 00:05:48,196 Hope you leave me to get a night's sleep. 24 00:05:48,367 --> 00:05:50,881 No, Jack, you going with me because that's what you want. 25 00:05:51,367 --> 00:05:53,403 Yeah, you and Sugar with me in the White House. 26 00:05:53,567 --> 00:05:56,286 I'll give Sugar a pistol range right out there in the garden. 27 00:05:56,967 --> 00:05:59,640 Brace of Republican senators can set up his tin cans for him. 28 00:05:59,807 --> 00:06:02,275 And I'm gonna appoint a special member to Cabinet for you: 29 00:06:02,447 --> 00:06:06,042 Secretary to the Bedchamber of Mr. Jack Burden. 30 00:06:07,007 --> 00:06:09,157 Somebody to keep them telephone numbers straight... 31 00:06:09,327 --> 00:06:12,683 ...and return their little pink silk articles that get left behind. 32 00:06:14,407 --> 00:06:16,284 But we gotta do this first. 33 00:06:16,447 --> 00:06:19,405 In the middle of the night when we could just do it in town sometime. 34 00:06:19,567 --> 00:06:22,365 Sometime ain't never now. 35 00:06:23,807 --> 00:06:25,798 Bastard. 36 00:06:26,807 --> 00:06:28,001 Which way up there? 37 00:06:30,327 --> 00:06:33,160 Jack, tell Sugar how to get to the house. 38 00:06:33,687 --> 00:06:36,281 It's your people live down here. 39 00:06:52,527 --> 00:06:54,199 Suppose he don't open up? 40 00:06:55,887 --> 00:06:58,355 Make him. What I pay you for? 41 00:07:31,287 --> 00:07:33,118 Hey, Jack. 42 00:07:33,287 --> 00:07:35,164 Mr. Duffy. 43 00:07:36,127 --> 00:07:38,402 This is Willie Stark from up Mason City. 44 00:07:38,567 --> 00:07:40,444 - County treasurer. - Glad to meet you. 45 00:07:41,367 --> 00:07:43,642 - Jack Burden. - From The Chronicle. 46 00:07:43,807 --> 00:07:45,240 Good to meet you, Mr. Burden. 47 00:07:45,407 --> 00:07:47,716 Yeah, Willie's on business for Mason City. 48 00:07:47,887 --> 00:07:49,161 Bond issue them got up there. 49 00:07:49,327 --> 00:07:51,363 Gonna build a schoolhouse. 50 00:07:51,527 --> 00:07:55,076 Yeah. Me and Willie was in school together. 51 00:07:55,247 --> 00:07:59,001 Oh, you was in school, Alex. I didn't know. 52 00:07:59,167 --> 00:08:01,158 Not the teacher's favourite, I don't expect. 53 00:08:01,327 --> 00:08:03,522 No, sir, that's true. 54 00:08:03,687 --> 00:08:06,759 Willie was, though. Still is, ain't you, Willie? 55 00:08:06,927 --> 00:08:09,157 Yeah, Willie married a schoolteacher. 56 00:08:10,207 --> 00:08:11,401 Well, you know... 57 00:08:11,567 --> 00:08:14,798 ...they tell me that schoolteachers are made with it... 58 00:08:14,967 --> 00:08:16,764 ...in the same place as the rest. 59 00:08:17,407 --> 00:08:19,967 Now, is that right or not, Mr. Stark? 60 00:08:24,127 --> 00:08:26,118 Yeah, that's right. 61 00:08:28,927 --> 00:08:30,326 Slade! 62 00:08:30,487 --> 00:08:32,364 Beers all around. 63 00:08:32,527 --> 00:08:33,926 Not for me, thanks. 64 00:08:34,087 --> 00:08:36,726 Oh, that little schoolteacher don't like it when you drink? 65 00:08:36,887 --> 00:08:39,401 Well, she don't favour it, for a fact. 66 00:08:42,087 --> 00:08:44,123 Well, beers all around. 67 00:08:44,727 --> 00:08:46,683 Well, I sell beer to those who want it. 68 00:08:47,167 --> 00:08:49,601 I don't make nobody drink them. 69 00:08:50,287 --> 00:08:53,404 Well, maybe you got some orange pop for him. 70 00:08:53,567 --> 00:08:54,761 That's what he wants. 71 00:08:56,127 --> 00:09:00,006 Yeah, I think I'd like some orange pop. Two straws. 72 00:09:05,047 --> 00:09:07,242 Jack, get up Mason City. 73 00:09:07,407 --> 00:09:09,637 See who's this fella who thinks he's Jesus Christ... 74 00:09:09,847 --> 00:09:12,520 ...come down off the cross to scourge the moneychangers... 75 00:09:12,687 --> 00:09:15,155 ...out of that shinplaster courthouse they got them there. 76 00:09:15,327 --> 00:09:17,966 I know who he is. Fella with a Christmas tie... 77 00:09:18,127 --> 00:09:19,480 ...pushed a school bond through. 78 00:09:19,927 --> 00:09:22,043 - You know him? - Met him. 79 00:09:22,207 --> 00:09:24,243 Watched him drink a bottle of orange pop once... 80 00:09:24,407 --> 00:09:27,444 ...through two straws on account of a wife who don't favour drinking. 81 00:09:27,607 --> 00:09:29,677 She favour him staying parish treasurer? 82 00:09:29,847 --> 00:09:31,644 Don't you know how things are run up there? 83 00:09:31,807 --> 00:09:33,957 Run up there like they're run down here. 84 00:09:34,127 --> 00:09:38,837 Yeah? Well, you leave down here and run on up there. 85 00:09:46,447 --> 00:09:49,325 As a commissioner, as chairman, I guess you're in a position... 86 00:09:49,487 --> 00:09:52,047 ...to know the situation regarding the schoolhouse contract. 87 00:09:52,207 --> 00:09:53,401 Ain't no situation. 88 00:09:53,567 --> 00:09:55,319 Maybe not, but maybe so. 89 00:09:55,487 --> 00:09:57,159 Ain't any situation. 90 00:09:57,647 --> 00:09:58,875 Board took a bid offer. 91 00:09:59,047 --> 00:10:01,038 A.J. Moore's bid, the fella's name... 92 00:10:01,207 --> 00:10:03,243 ...schoolhouse gets built. 93 00:10:03,407 --> 00:10:05,637 This Moore fella's bid, I take it, was the lowest? 94 00:10:06,127 --> 00:10:07,765 Now, you lookie here. 95 00:10:07,927 --> 00:10:10,805 Ain't nobody tells a board what bid to take. 96 00:10:10,967 --> 00:10:13,800 Anybody can come along put in a little pissant bid. 97 00:10:13,967 --> 00:10:15,241 Board doesn't have to take it. 98 00:10:15,407 --> 00:10:17,443 Board takes somebody who can do the work right. 99 00:10:17,607 --> 00:10:19,086 Ain't nothing done but legal. 100 00:10:19,247 --> 00:10:21,886 Who was it put in the little pissant bid? 101 00:10:22,047 --> 00:10:24,845 - Name of Jeffers, if I recollect. - Jeffers Construction? 102 00:10:25,007 --> 00:10:27,680 - Yeah. - Well, that's a real firm, a big firm. 103 00:10:28,527 --> 00:10:31,485 The board picks who can do the work right. 104 00:10:31,647 --> 00:10:34,081 That's all I got to say. 105 00:10:34,687 --> 00:10:35,881 Don't you wanna tell mama... 106 00:10:36,047 --> 00:10:38,720 ...you wanna see yourself shining in the table? No? 107 00:10:38,887 --> 00:10:42,243 All right. I wish I could have sold some to you. 108 00:10:42,407 --> 00:10:45,046 Be out of your way in a second here. And no brushes, you sure? 109 00:10:45,207 --> 00:10:46,435 - I'm sure. - All right. 110 00:10:46,607 --> 00:10:48,996 Thank you. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye. 111 00:10:49,167 --> 00:10:50,361 Mr. Stark. 112 00:10:52,887 --> 00:10:56,596 Why, Mr. Jack Burden, how are you, sir? 113 00:10:56,767 --> 00:10:59,964 You know, people would think parish treasurer paid well enough... 114 00:11:00,127 --> 00:11:03,085 ...a man wouldn't have to sell household fix-it kits door-to-door. 115 00:11:03,247 --> 00:11:06,045 - People would think. - Doesn't in Mason City. 116 00:11:06,207 --> 00:11:09,119 Well, I'm maybe not so good at mathematics... 117 00:11:09,287 --> 00:11:11,403 ...as some other parish treasurers you may've met. 118 00:11:11,567 --> 00:11:13,603 Or too good at it. 119 00:11:14,207 --> 00:11:16,721 How much they steal on the schoolhouse contract? 120 00:11:16,887 --> 00:11:18,525 Well, let's see... 121 00:11:19,087 --> 00:11:21,806 Jeffers come in $142,000. 122 00:11:21,967 --> 00:11:24,197 Moore, $175,000. 123 00:11:24,367 --> 00:11:28,326 That's $33,000 split six ways, 5500 per commissioner. 124 00:11:28,487 --> 00:11:32,526 They done it so plain and pretty, well, you'd almost have to admire them. 125 00:11:32,687 --> 00:11:35,247 Just point out Jeffers uses nigra labourers... 126 00:11:35,407 --> 00:11:38,126 ...skilled men, you know? 127 00:11:38,287 --> 00:11:41,836 Next thing, it's, " Lookie here, nigras making more money than you men. 128 00:11:42,007 --> 00:11:43,884 Pushing wheelbarrows, hauling dirt." 129 00:11:44,807 --> 00:11:48,163 And that's it. "Goodbye, Mr. Jeffers and your low bid. 130 00:11:48,327 --> 00:11:51,080 You go build your nigra schoolhouse somewhere else." 131 00:11:51,247 --> 00:11:54,045 Not that you didn't try and get people to see what was going on. 132 00:11:54,207 --> 00:11:58,439 Oh, I yelled so long and loud about these old boys lining they pockets... 133 00:11:58,607 --> 00:12:00,837 ...I'm lucky to have any job in Mason City: 134 00:12:01,007 --> 00:12:02,998 Government, door-to-door, or any other variety. 135 00:12:03,167 --> 00:12:04,919 I stood out there on that street corner... 136 00:12:05,087 --> 00:12:06,998 ...pencil in one hand, paper in the other... 137 00:12:07,167 --> 00:12:09,078 ...trying to show people the numbers. 138 00:12:09,247 --> 00:12:11,841 But you stop people out there in that hot sun... 139 00:12:12,007 --> 00:12:14,123 ...try to show them arithmetic... 140 00:12:14,287 --> 00:12:16,357 ...well, they can't see it so clear... 141 00:12:16,527 --> 00:12:19,758 ...through the sweat pouring in they own eyes from they own hard labour. 142 00:12:19,927 --> 00:12:22,646 Especially if you put nigras in the equation. 143 00:12:22,807 --> 00:12:25,526 - Why, you're likely to get beat up. - Likely? 144 00:12:25,687 --> 00:12:27,723 Once or twice. 145 00:12:28,527 --> 00:12:29,880 You gonna run again in November? 146 00:12:30,047 --> 00:12:34,677 No, I'm done. A lame duck. Lucy too. They got her fired from teaching. 147 00:12:34,847 --> 00:12:38,522 And I don't care. I don't want to teach there just so they can steal money. 148 00:12:38,687 --> 00:12:41,963 That's right. You're looking at your own private two-person leper colony. 149 00:12:42,127 --> 00:12:43,719 Sipping pop. 150 00:12:44,287 --> 00:12:46,118 So, what are you gonna do, then? 151 00:12:46,287 --> 00:12:51,236 I don't know. String my pa a fence, slop some pigs, milk some cows. 152 00:12:54,567 --> 00:12:58,560 I'm gonna keep the faith, Mr. Burden, that's what I'm gonna do. 153 00:12:59,087 --> 00:13:03,160 I'm gonna keep the faith in the people, because you know why? 154 00:13:04,887 --> 00:13:06,923 Time... 155 00:13:07,087 --> 00:13:10,318 ...brings all things to light. 156 00:13:10,927 --> 00:13:13,202 I trust it's so. 157 00:13:45,647 --> 00:13:46,966 Joe. 158 00:13:47,127 --> 00:13:49,083 Did you get a photograph of him? 159 00:13:49,247 --> 00:13:50,680 Who? 160 00:13:53,807 --> 00:13:56,196 The next mayor of this town. 161 00:14:07,367 --> 00:14:09,801 You know what people are saying? 162 00:14:10,607 --> 00:14:13,121 People are saying that God himself had a hand... 163 00:14:13,287 --> 00:14:16,165 ...in this schoolhouse business. 164 00:14:16,327 --> 00:14:20,843 That God stepped in on Willie Stark's side. 165 00:14:21,367 --> 00:14:25,679 Yes, sir. He does work in mysterious ways sometimes. 166 00:14:25,847 --> 00:14:27,678 Sometimes... 167 00:14:27,847 --> 00:14:30,566 ...he has somebody else do it. 168 00:14:30,727 --> 00:14:35,403 Sends over a fat man in a striped suit with a big car to do his will. 169 00:14:35,567 --> 00:14:38,843 Well, I have had some worse employers, I admit that. 170 00:14:39,927 --> 00:14:41,679 What you want? 171 00:14:42,127 --> 00:14:45,005 Well, I wanna work for you, Mr. Stark. 172 00:14:45,167 --> 00:14:48,443 And you wanna work for the people, unless I been misinformed. 173 00:14:48,607 --> 00:14:50,757 People vote me, I'd be privileged to serve them. 174 00:14:50,927 --> 00:14:54,761 - What, as the county treasurer? - Yes, sir. 175 00:14:56,247 --> 00:14:58,636 Mr. Stark, you could run for mayor of Mason City... 176 00:14:58,807 --> 00:15:02,197 ...and you could win without climbing out of bed in the morning. 177 00:15:02,367 --> 00:15:04,039 You just put the word out... 178 00:15:04,447 --> 00:15:08,156 ...about Willie Stark, who tried to take on the crooks single-handed... 179 00:15:08,327 --> 00:15:10,557 ...Willie Stark, who tried to warn us... 180 00:15:10,727 --> 00:15:15,323 ...Willie Stark, who could have saved our kids if we'd have just listened. 181 00:15:16,207 --> 00:15:21,486 Now, I'm not talking about Willie Stark for the mayor of Mason City. No, sir. 182 00:15:21,647 --> 00:15:24,036 I'm talking about Willie Stark... 183 00:15:24,207 --> 00:15:28,837 ...as the next governor of the great state of Louisiana. 184 00:15:30,447 --> 00:15:33,803 Now, you saw a man holding out a handful of cash to you... 185 00:15:33,967 --> 00:15:35,764 ...and you said no. 186 00:15:35,927 --> 00:15:37,485 This is what I see. 187 00:15:37,647 --> 00:15:40,002 I see a man in a booth... 188 00:15:40,167 --> 00:15:42,965 ...Iooking down at a ballot, a working man. 189 00:15:43,127 --> 00:15:48,042 And he sees three names there: Harrison, MacMurphy and Stark. 190 00:15:48,447 --> 00:15:50,119 Now, what this man really sees... 191 00:15:50,287 --> 00:15:53,120 ...is that picture in the newspaper of them three little coffins... 192 00:15:53,527 --> 00:15:56,519 ...and the one man since the great Governor Stanton died... 193 00:15:56,687 --> 00:16:00,157 ...that had the guts to buck the powers that killed them. 194 00:16:01,407 --> 00:16:03,602 Now, that man, that voting man, he's got a pencil... 195 00:16:03,767 --> 00:16:05,803 ...he checks a box, you wake up governor. 196 00:16:06,167 --> 00:16:08,681 And that little lady lying beside you... 197 00:16:08,847 --> 00:16:12,965 ...the one that don't favour liquor... 198 00:16:13,367 --> 00:16:16,165 ...she wakes up the governor's wife. 199 00:16:21,087 --> 00:16:22,600 That's what I see. 200 00:16:24,007 --> 00:16:28,125 Now, why don't you take a minute with your orange pop... 201 00:16:29,527 --> 00:16:31,722 ...see if you can't see it too... 202 00:16:33,287 --> 00:16:34,925 ...governor. 203 00:17:03,367 --> 00:17:05,119 You got your speech? 204 00:17:05,327 --> 00:17:06,999 All right. 205 00:17:10,447 --> 00:17:12,244 Willie Stark! 206 00:17:17,487 --> 00:17:19,284 Thank you, folks. 207 00:17:21,127 --> 00:17:22,606 Thank you kindly. 208 00:17:24,367 --> 00:17:26,597 My name's Willie Stark from Mason City yonder... 209 00:17:28,007 --> 00:17:31,397 ...and I'm pleased to have a chance to talk with you all here today. 210 00:17:31,567 --> 00:17:33,478 Now, friends... 211 00:17:34,287 --> 00:17:37,836 ...what I wanna talk about is something that's been troubling me. 212 00:17:38,007 --> 00:17:40,680 - Coffee, please. - Yes, ma'am. 213 00:17:44,847 --> 00:17:47,042 Can I sit with you? 214 00:17:47,207 --> 00:17:48,686 Or anything else. 215 00:17:49,967 --> 00:17:51,559 No, thanks. 216 00:17:52,207 --> 00:17:55,085 - You don't like my looks? - I don't care about anybody's looks... 217 00:17:55,247 --> 00:17:57,158 ...but I can't recall ever going for anyone... 218 00:17:57,327 --> 00:17:59,761 ...who reminds me of a box of spilled spaghetti. 219 00:18:00,287 --> 00:18:03,324 Miss Burke, I'm sitting here having a cup of coffee. 220 00:18:03,487 --> 00:18:05,682 I'm almost through, then you couldn't sit with me... 221 00:18:05,847 --> 00:18:08,680 ...which is what you asked for. - Sorry. 222 00:18:11,447 --> 00:18:13,119 Not working for Sen-Sen Puckett anymore. 223 00:18:13,647 --> 00:18:16,684 - Now, he wasn't a bad-Iooking fellow. - Heel. 224 00:18:16,847 --> 00:18:18,997 Well, sure, politically and elsewise. 225 00:18:19,167 --> 00:18:20,919 Who didn't know that? 226 00:18:21,087 --> 00:18:23,237 I guess I'm slower on some things than others. 227 00:18:23,407 --> 00:18:25,204 - Like you. - Am I? 228 00:18:25,367 --> 00:18:27,403 - I think so. - I think not. 229 00:18:27,567 --> 00:18:28,795 Not on this charade. 230 00:18:30,167 --> 00:18:32,681 That's the topic of the interview. 231 00:18:32,847 --> 00:18:35,486 Then tell me, if you're so smart. 232 00:18:35,647 --> 00:18:39,356 All right. Harrison's a city man, MacMurphy's a cracker. 233 00:18:39,527 --> 00:18:42,200 Not a cracker precisely, but enough of one to worry Harrison... 234 00:18:42,367 --> 00:18:43,686 ...that crackers won't know the difference. 235 00:18:43,847 --> 00:18:47,237 So Harrison looks for someone to split the cracker vote. 236 00:18:47,407 --> 00:18:50,001 Hears about an honest man up in Crackerville... 237 00:18:50,167 --> 00:18:52,522 ...where some cracker kids go down with a fire escape... 238 00:18:52,687 --> 00:18:55,440 ...that was supposed to be stuck with more than spit to their schoolhouse. 239 00:18:55,607 --> 00:18:58,121 Sends his man Tiny Duffy up there to romance him... 240 00:18:58,287 --> 00:19:01,438 ...and then Sadie Burke to romance him some more. 241 00:19:01,607 --> 00:19:03,165 Both telling him how good he is... 242 00:19:03,327 --> 00:19:06,558 ...how he has better than a chance in hell to change things in this state... 243 00:19:06,727 --> 00:19:08,206 ...where nothing will ever change. 244 00:19:08,367 --> 00:19:10,119 Because you and Tiny and the rest of them... 245 00:19:10,287 --> 00:19:13,279 ...don't care how much of a fool you make a man. 246 00:19:13,447 --> 00:19:15,677 And you do care, I suppose? 247 00:19:15,847 --> 00:19:17,963 I didn't say that. I don't care. 248 00:19:18,127 --> 00:19:21,005 If I did, I'd do something about it, wouldn't I? 249 00:19:21,167 --> 00:19:24,159 No, I'd rather watch from here. 250 00:19:25,327 --> 00:19:27,841 Like passing a car crash. 251 00:19:28,367 --> 00:19:31,165 I know you all can't see this from all the way back there... 252 00:19:31,327 --> 00:19:33,966 ...but I've got a pie chart representing it. 253 00:19:34,287 --> 00:19:37,723 And you can see here where public welfare and hospitals end up. 254 00:19:53,767 --> 00:19:57,362 They should be the same. 255 00:19:57,967 --> 00:20:00,845 Rather, the ratio... 256 00:20:18,127 --> 00:20:20,038 We should go. 257 00:20:21,167 --> 00:20:22,919 Not yet. 258 00:20:23,087 --> 00:20:25,043 Let's go in again. 259 00:20:38,167 --> 00:20:39,885 You don't wanna swim? 260 00:20:58,127 --> 00:21:00,516 How you think we doing? 261 00:21:01,407 --> 00:21:02,760 Fine, I guess. 262 00:21:03,927 --> 00:21:05,121 You think? 263 00:21:05,727 --> 00:21:08,082 That how you reporting it? 264 00:21:08,527 --> 00:21:09,755 Sure. 265 00:21:11,247 --> 00:21:15,957 Seems to me they listen less and less the further I get from home. 266 00:21:16,127 --> 00:21:18,687 Well, that makes sense, don't you think? 267 00:21:22,327 --> 00:21:23,965 Maybe... 268 00:21:25,407 --> 00:21:26,886 ...you trying to say too much. 269 00:21:28,607 --> 00:21:30,438 I'm telling them what they need to know: 270 00:21:30,607 --> 00:21:32,245 Taxes, wages, highways. 271 00:21:32,407 --> 00:21:34,125 Well, maybe it's how you're telling them. 272 00:21:34,287 --> 00:21:37,006 Maybe if you told them the way you tell Lucy or Tiny or me... 273 00:21:37,167 --> 00:21:39,237 ...or anyone face to face, they'd listen better. 274 00:21:39,727 --> 00:21:41,080 I don't know how that is. 275 00:21:41,247 --> 00:21:43,397 Hard to know how you sound to somebody else. 276 00:21:43,567 --> 00:21:46,718 Mad, fed up, like you mean business is how you sound. 277 00:21:46,887 --> 00:21:48,957 But not on the platform. You climb three steps... 278 00:21:49,127 --> 00:21:53,040 ...you sound like the rest of them. Like a man who wants to win an election. 279 00:21:56,207 --> 00:21:58,084 Willie... 280 00:21:59,167 --> 00:22:00,680 Yeah? 281 00:22:01,687 --> 00:22:02,881 What? 282 00:22:06,887 --> 00:22:08,366 Nothing. 283 00:22:09,487 --> 00:22:13,036 Well, a man don't have to be governor. 284 00:22:14,367 --> 00:22:16,198 I don't deny wanting it. 285 00:22:16,367 --> 00:22:20,406 I won't lie to you, I lie awake wanting it. 286 00:22:20,567 --> 00:22:25,038 But sometimes a man can want something so bad... 287 00:22:25,407 --> 00:22:28,285 ...be so full of want... 288 00:22:29,327 --> 00:22:33,479 ...he plain forget what it is he want. 289 00:22:35,607 --> 00:22:38,201 I could have been a good governor. 290 00:22:38,447 --> 00:22:41,359 A lot better than them other fellas. 291 00:22:44,367 --> 00:22:47,086 But I ain't gonna be governor. 292 00:22:53,087 --> 00:22:54,281 Hi. 293 00:22:54,447 --> 00:22:56,358 Come on in. Why not? 294 00:22:57,167 --> 00:22:59,397 Oh, Mr. Stark. 295 00:23:01,367 --> 00:23:02,766 Sadie. 296 00:23:06,407 --> 00:23:07,635 What's up? 297 00:23:07,807 --> 00:23:10,560 Willie here was just telling me how he's not gonna be governor. 298 00:23:12,447 --> 00:23:13,641 You told him? 299 00:23:17,007 --> 00:23:19,475 No, I didn't, as a matter of fact, no. 300 00:23:21,967 --> 00:23:23,525 Told me what? 301 00:23:28,647 --> 00:23:32,117 Told me what? 302 00:23:43,767 --> 00:23:46,725 Oh, yeah, well, that makes sense. 303 00:23:46,887 --> 00:23:48,878 I see. 304 00:23:52,367 --> 00:23:55,245 So that's true? I'm being used. 305 00:23:55,407 --> 00:23:57,602 So they tell me. 306 00:23:59,047 --> 00:24:03,086 I saw it in his eyes the first time he come to see me, Tiny. 307 00:24:04,327 --> 00:24:07,399 But I just pushed it out of my head. 308 00:24:08,847 --> 00:24:11,281 Pushed it clean out. 309 00:24:14,807 --> 00:24:16,479 I should've known better. 310 00:24:40,207 --> 00:24:42,198 Mr. Stark? 311 00:24:42,687 --> 00:24:43,881 Mr. Stark? 312 00:24:53,807 --> 00:24:56,765 You thought you were the little white lamb of God, didn't you? 313 00:24:57,847 --> 00:25:01,806 Just waiting for the chance to stand on your hind legs and make a speech. 314 00:25:03,327 --> 00:25:06,763 They would have paid you to play the part. They pay me. 315 00:25:07,007 --> 00:25:09,965 But you were too stupid to see even that. 316 00:25:10,607 --> 00:25:12,723 You did it for free. 317 00:25:14,487 --> 00:25:19,163 You're just their dumb sacrificial sap and I'm... 318 00:25:24,127 --> 00:25:26,595 I'm sorry I let them. 319 00:25:49,607 --> 00:25:52,679 Your stomachaches, your colics, your bloats, your diarrhoea. 320 00:26:06,087 --> 00:26:07,998 You're looking a little peaked. 321 00:26:09,447 --> 00:26:11,403 I can't imagine. 322 00:26:11,567 --> 00:26:13,159 Slept like a baby. 323 00:26:15,447 --> 00:26:16,675 Got your speech? 324 00:26:19,447 --> 00:26:21,722 All right, then. Let's go. It's time. 325 00:26:22,807 --> 00:26:25,002 "Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here." 326 00:26:26,287 --> 00:26:27,561 What? 327 00:26:28,047 --> 00:26:29,878 The song. 328 00:26:31,447 --> 00:26:34,757 Yeah. That's what it is. 329 00:26:59,287 --> 00:27:01,243 Hello. Hello. 330 00:27:01,727 --> 00:27:03,524 How are you? 331 00:27:03,687 --> 00:27:06,520 Here's that speech you was just asking about. 332 00:27:09,167 --> 00:27:13,399 My name is Willie Stark from Mason City yonder. 333 00:27:14,487 --> 00:27:15,886 I had a speech... 334 00:27:16,287 --> 00:27:18,847 ...about this state and what it needs. 335 00:27:19,687 --> 00:27:22,281 There's no use in me telling you about it, you are the state. 336 00:27:22,447 --> 00:27:24,199 You know what you need. 337 00:27:24,367 --> 00:27:27,359 Look at the knees of your pants. 338 00:27:27,807 --> 00:27:29,877 Look at your crops. 339 00:27:30,047 --> 00:27:31,321 Look at your kids. 340 00:27:31,487 --> 00:27:34,365 You got holes and rot... 341 00:27:34,527 --> 00:27:37,564 ...and ignorant offspring on account of this state. 342 00:27:39,167 --> 00:27:42,716 Well, I had a speech, but I ain't got it no more. 343 00:27:42,887 --> 00:27:46,277 Mr. Duffy got it now in his fat little hands. 344 00:27:46,447 --> 00:27:47,641 Don't you, Tiny? 345 00:27:47,807 --> 00:27:51,004 Go ahead, show the people. Hold it up. 346 00:27:52,647 --> 00:27:55,207 Well, since he got it... 347 00:27:55,367 --> 00:27:57,801 ...I'm gonna have to say something else. 348 00:27:58,407 --> 00:28:00,363 It's all right. 349 00:28:00,847 --> 00:28:03,725 Because I got something else to say. 350 00:28:04,207 --> 00:28:08,325 I got a story about a redneck hick. 351 00:28:08,487 --> 00:28:10,762 He's like yourselves, if you please. 352 00:28:11,247 --> 00:28:16,401 Well, this fella, a while back, this hick... 353 00:28:17,327 --> 00:28:20,637 ...started thinking about all the other hicks... 354 00:28:20,807 --> 00:28:23,082 ...what he could do for them. 355 00:28:24,167 --> 00:28:26,044 Well, one day... 356 00:28:26,207 --> 00:28:30,917 ...it came down with the powerful force... 357 00:28:31,087 --> 00:28:33,647 ...of God's own hand... 358 00:28:34,207 --> 00:28:38,564 ...when the only brick schoolhouse ever built in his parish... 359 00:28:38,727 --> 00:28:43,960 ...collapsed on account of it was built with politics-rotted brick. 360 00:28:44,127 --> 00:28:49,645 And it killed and mangled a batch of poor, young scholars. 361 00:28:51,447 --> 00:28:53,836 Oh, you know this story. 362 00:28:54,007 --> 00:28:55,645 You heard it. 363 00:28:55,807 --> 00:28:58,116 He fought the politics that built that schoolhouse... 364 00:28:58,287 --> 00:29:00,482 ...with rotten brick and bolts. 365 00:29:01,927 --> 00:29:03,724 But he lost. 366 00:29:03,887 --> 00:29:05,559 He lost. 367 00:29:05,967 --> 00:29:07,844 And it fell. 368 00:29:08,327 --> 00:29:09,521 It fell. 369 00:29:11,847 --> 00:29:14,884 Well, it wasn't long... 370 00:29:15,047 --> 00:29:19,563 ...before some public officials from the city... 371 00:29:19,727 --> 00:29:22,560 ...rode out in their big fine car... 372 00:29:22,727 --> 00:29:27,562 ...and told this hick how they wanted him to run for governor. 373 00:29:28,487 --> 00:29:30,762 Them in them striped pants, they told me... 374 00:29:30,927 --> 00:29:33,646 ...MacMurphy was a limberback... 375 00:29:33,807 --> 00:29:37,800 ...Joe Harrison, he was just a tool of the city machine. 376 00:29:37,967 --> 00:29:43,087 And they wanted this nobody, do-gooder hick... 377 00:29:43,247 --> 00:29:45,283 ...to step in, give them some honest government. 378 00:29:45,447 --> 00:29:47,165 You know who they were? 379 00:29:48,207 --> 00:29:50,323 In that big fine car? 380 00:29:54,007 --> 00:29:57,966 They was Joe Harrison's own lickspittles... 381 00:29:58,127 --> 00:30:01,324 ...coming in to split MacMurphy's hick vote! 382 00:30:01,487 --> 00:30:03,876 That's right! Your hick vote! 383 00:30:04,047 --> 00:30:05,878 There he is! 384 00:30:06,047 --> 00:30:07,241 There he is right there. 385 00:30:07,407 --> 00:30:12,925 There's the Judas Iscariot lickspittle nose-wiper from the city, right there. 386 00:30:13,087 --> 00:30:16,602 Come on, Tiny. Look at him. Joe Harrison's dummy. 387 00:30:16,767 --> 00:30:19,725 Come on, take a bow. Come on. No, come on now, people wanna see you. 388 00:30:19,887 --> 00:30:22,765 Take a bow, come on. There he goes. 389 00:30:23,407 --> 00:30:25,967 No! No, let him lie! Let him lie! 390 00:30:26,127 --> 00:30:29,164 Let that hog lie in his own filth! 391 00:30:29,327 --> 00:30:31,682 Let him lie, but listen to me, you hicks. 392 00:30:31,847 --> 00:30:35,317 That's right, I'm not the only one here. You hicks too. 393 00:30:35,487 --> 00:30:40,003 They fooled you, too, just like they fooled me a thousand times. 394 00:30:40,167 --> 00:30:42,601 But it's time I fooled somebody. 395 00:30:42,767 --> 00:30:45,156 It's time I fooled them. 396 00:30:45,327 --> 00:30:49,002 Them big-city, striped-pants lickspittle hick-haters. 397 00:30:49,167 --> 00:30:51,886 I'm running for governor on my own. 398 00:30:52,047 --> 00:30:56,199 I'm coming for them and I'm coming for blood! 399 00:31:01,727 --> 00:31:03,843 First thing I'm gonna do is build me a road out... 400 00:31:04,007 --> 00:31:07,716 ...across the swamps and alligators and anything else that gets in my way. 401 00:31:07,887 --> 00:31:10,640 A thousand miles of concrete, if that's what it takes... 402 00:31:10,807 --> 00:31:14,516 ...so I can come out here and visit with my fellow hicks on a regular basis. 403 00:31:14,687 --> 00:31:17,645 Then I'm gonna build me a bridge across that mighty Mississippi. 404 00:31:17,807 --> 00:31:20,480 Name it after myself because I'm the one who built it. 405 00:31:20,647 --> 00:31:22,603 Then I'm gonna build you all new schools. 406 00:31:22,767 --> 00:31:26,396 Send your kids home with free tablets and pencils and books... 407 00:31:26,567 --> 00:31:30,276 ...to study and learn on the way to the new university I'm gonna build... 408 00:31:30,447 --> 00:31:33,007 ...where every one of them can go. 409 00:31:33,167 --> 00:31:34,680 Same as rich folks' kids. 410 00:31:35,287 --> 00:31:38,757 Now, I hope you're listening, you hicks. 411 00:31:38,927 --> 00:31:42,442 Because I don't wanna drive all the way back home... 412 00:31:42,607 --> 00:31:46,282 ...just to drive back out here next week to tell you again. 413 00:31:46,447 --> 00:31:47,721 And this is it: 414 00:31:49,447 --> 00:31:51,802 If you don't vote... 415 00:31:51,967 --> 00:31:54,117 ...you don't matter. You don't matter! 416 00:31:54,287 --> 00:31:55,959 You don't matter! 417 00:31:56,127 --> 00:31:59,199 And then you're just as ignorant as them in the city say you are... 418 00:31:59,367 --> 00:32:01,278 ...while they stealing food off your table... 419 00:32:01,447 --> 00:32:03,836 ...and every nickel out your pocket, saying, "Thank you." 420 00:32:04,007 --> 00:32:08,956 Because then you are just a bunch of ignorant hicks who got nothing... 421 00:32:09,127 --> 00:32:11,038 ...because you deserve nothing. 422 00:32:11,407 --> 00:32:13,079 So listen to me. 423 00:32:13,247 --> 00:32:14,760 Listen here. 424 00:32:14,927 --> 00:32:16,485 Lift your eyes... 425 00:32:16,647 --> 00:32:21,243 ...and look on the God's blessed and unflyblown truth: 426 00:32:21,407 --> 00:32:26,606 You are a hick and ain't nobody never helped a hick but a hick hisself. 427 00:32:26,767 --> 00:32:31,557 It's up to you to nail these parasites up. 428 00:32:31,727 --> 00:32:35,800 - Up to you and me and God. - Amen! 429 00:32:35,967 --> 00:32:39,084 - Nail up Joe Harrison! - Nail him up! 430 00:32:39,247 --> 00:32:41,841 - Nail up MacMurphy! - Nail him up! 431 00:32:42,007 --> 00:32:45,124 And nail up any bastard that gets between you... 432 00:32:45,287 --> 00:32:47,403 ...and the roads and the bridges and schools... 433 00:32:47,567 --> 00:32:49,000 ...and the food you need. 434 00:32:49,167 --> 00:32:51,476 You give me the hammer and I'll do it. 435 00:32:51,647 --> 00:32:54,115 I'll nail their hides to the barn door. 436 00:32:54,287 --> 00:32:56,039 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 437 00:32:56,207 --> 00:32:57,799 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 438 00:32:57,967 --> 00:32:59,559 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 439 00:32:59,727 --> 00:33:01,479 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 440 00:33:01,647 --> 00:33:03,319 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 441 00:33:03,487 --> 00:33:05,159 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 442 00:33:05,327 --> 00:33:06,999 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 443 00:33:07,167 --> 00:33:08,759 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 444 00:33:08,927 --> 00:33:10,599 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 445 00:33:10,767 --> 00:33:12,280 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 446 00:33:12,447 --> 00:33:14,199 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 447 00:33:14,367 --> 00:33:15,959 - Nail them up! - Nail them up! 448 00:33:43,887 --> 00:33:45,923 More about Stark? 449 00:33:46,087 --> 00:33:48,078 He's colourful. Makes it easy. 450 00:33:48,247 --> 00:33:51,080 You know me, always looking for easy. 451 00:34:02,447 --> 00:34:05,644 Jack. You know what The Chronicle line is on the election. 452 00:34:05,967 --> 00:34:09,880 Sure. MacMurphy again because of his brilliant record as an administrator... 453 00:34:10,047 --> 00:34:12,197 ...and high integrity as a statesman. 454 00:34:12,367 --> 00:34:16,042 Why can't you put that in your column, a little less of Stark's raving madness? 455 00:34:20,407 --> 00:34:23,001 Listen, Jack. I know Stark's a friend of yours but... 456 00:34:23,167 --> 00:34:26,000 He's not a friend of mine. Personally, I don't care who's governor. 457 00:34:26,167 --> 00:34:27,998 Are you telling me what to write, or am I mistaken? 458 00:34:28,167 --> 00:34:30,886 - You know The Chronicle line. - All right. 459 00:34:32,487 --> 00:34:35,160 What do you mean, "All right"? 460 00:34:39,567 --> 00:34:41,762 I mean it the way I said it. 461 00:34:52,847 --> 00:34:56,442 I, Willie Stark, do solemnly swear... 462 00:34:56,607 --> 00:35:00,839 ...that I will support the constitution and laws of the state of Louisiana. 463 00:35:01,007 --> 00:35:04,283 Willie didn't need me to get himself elected. 464 00:35:04,447 --> 00:35:06,403 He won by a landslide. 465 00:35:07,007 --> 00:35:10,397 By the biggest margin in the history of the state. 466 00:35:10,567 --> 00:35:14,606 - All the duties incumbent upon me as governor so help me God. 467 00:35:15,367 --> 00:35:17,676 Which isn't to say everyone v oted for him. 468 00:35:17,847 --> 00:35:19,838 Jack, get up Mason City. 469 00:35:20,007 --> 00:35:21,520 My editor didn't v ote for him. 470 00:35:21,687 --> 00:35:24,042 - Thinks he's Jesus Christ come down off the cross... 471 00:35:25,527 --> 00:35:27,563 The publisher of this paper didn't v ote for him. 472 00:35:28,967 --> 00:35:32,164 These men didn't v ote for him. 473 00:35:33,487 --> 00:35:35,159 Or these. 474 00:35:35,327 --> 00:35:38,160 The governor's education bill does not pass. 475 00:35:38,327 --> 00:35:43,242 Or the old boys in the Senate who were in the pock ets of the oilmen. 476 00:35:48,007 --> 00:35:50,601 My mother didn't v ote for him. 477 00:35:52,847 --> 00:35:55,441 This is my mother. 478 00:35:56,527 --> 00:35:58,757 She doesn't v ote. 479 00:36:00,287 --> 00:36:04,803 Over there, on her dressing table... 480 00:36:04,967 --> 00:36:07,561 ... that's her with her first husband. 481 00:36:07,727 --> 00:36:11,686 First of four, if I recollect. 482 00:36:11,847 --> 00:36:16,398 And that's my godfather on the right, the best man. 483 00:36:16,567 --> 00:36:19,240 He didn't v ote for Willie either. 484 00:36:19,927 --> 00:36:21,326 In fact... 485 00:36:21,487 --> 00:36:25,605 ... I think it's safe to say nobody from where I'm from v oted for Willie Stark. 486 00:36:26,447 --> 00:36:28,836 And why should they? 487 00:36:29,007 --> 00:36:30,759 His promises to the poor... 488 00:36:30,927 --> 00:36:32,918 ... to build roads and bridges and schools... 489 00:36:33,367 --> 00:36:36,677 ... were a declaration of war on the rich. 490 00:36:39,167 --> 00:36:41,283 They wanted him out. 491 00:36:55,247 --> 00:36:56,521 You Jack Burden? 492 00:37:00,927 --> 00:37:03,566 I've come at the behest of the boss. 493 00:37:03,887 --> 00:37:05,161 Who? 494 00:37:05,327 --> 00:37:07,522 The boss? The governor? 495 00:37:15,607 --> 00:37:18,440 Governor, let me put it in simple words so you understand: 496 00:37:18,607 --> 00:37:21,883 There's no money for all these things you wanna do for the poor. 497 00:37:22,047 --> 00:37:23,560 Oh, there's money, senator. 498 00:37:23,727 --> 00:37:26,082 You're wrong there. There's plenty of money. 499 00:37:26,327 --> 00:37:29,637 Every kilowatt comes out of the river, every barrel of oil from the ground. 500 00:37:29,807 --> 00:37:32,196 But that doesn't belong to you, sir. 501 00:37:32,367 --> 00:37:36,042 That's right. Don't belong to you either or them. Belongs to the state. 502 00:37:36,847 --> 00:37:41,079 How about the state don't tax just 5% to build my roads, we take it all? 503 00:37:41,247 --> 00:37:44,205 These are some powerful companies you talking about taking money from. 504 00:37:44,367 --> 00:37:46,676 - They ain't gonna stand for it. - They ain't the power. 505 00:37:46,847 --> 00:37:48,758 The power's in the hands of the powerless... 506 00:37:48,927 --> 00:37:50,883 ...and those hands have handed it to me. 507 00:37:56,847 --> 00:37:59,566 Realistically, they'll approve half the money, maybe. 508 00:37:59,727 --> 00:38:01,319 And that's after we beat them up. 509 00:38:01,487 --> 00:38:03,603 So we build them half a highway. 510 00:38:03,767 --> 00:38:06,565 Mile of concrete, mile of dirt, mile of concrete, mile of dirt... 511 00:38:06,727 --> 00:38:08,160 ...all the way to Shreveport. 512 00:38:08,327 --> 00:38:10,682 Now, how's anybody gonna drive on that? 513 00:38:10,847 --> 00:38:12,519 People ain't gonna stand for that. 514 00:38:12,687 --> 00:38:14,405 They like their roads finished. 515 00:38:14,567 --> 00:38:15,761 That's right. 516 00:38:16,567 --> 00:38:18,080 What's right? 517 00:38:18,407 --> 00:38:21,001 Hey, Jack. Sadie, take Tiny out of here, explain it to him. 518 00:38:21,167 --> 00:38:23,397 - He just said it and he don't get it. - Come on, Tiny. 519 00:38:23,567 --> 00:38:25,319 - You want something to eat? - No, thank you. 520 00:38:25,487 --> 00:38:26,886 - Well, sit down. - Hi, Sadie. 521 00:38:27,047 --> 00:38:28,321 Hey. 522 00:38:31,687 --> 00:38:33,006 I heard you got fired. 523 00:38:33,167 --> 00:38:35,635 Oh, you heard wrong. I quit. 524 00:38:35,807 --> 00:38:39,402 That's smart. When I get done with that outfit, they won't be able to pay you... 525 00:38:39,567 --> 00:38:42,286 ...nor the nigra who sweeps the floor. 526 00:38:42,447 --> 00:38:45,041 - You want a job? - Working for whom? 527 00:38:45,207 --> 00:38:48,119 - The state? - Hell, no. 528 00:38:48,527 --> 00:38:49,755 Me. 529 00:38:49,927 --> 00:38:51,838 You, me, Sadie, Tiny. 530 00:38:52,007 --> 00:38:55,238 Tiny? I was surprised to hear Tiny was back. 531 00:38:56,207 --> 00:38:58,767 Well, somebody gotta be lieutenant governor. 532 00:38:59,047 --> 00:39:00,924 Yeah, sure. 533 00:39:03,207 --> 00:39:05,437 I keep Tiny around... 534 00:39:05,647 --> 00:39:08,957 ...to remind me of something I never wanna forget. 535 00:39:09,647 --> 00:39:11,319 And that is? 536 00:39:11,767 --> 00:39:16,238 When they come around sweet-talking, don't listen. 537 00:39:16,767 --> 00:39:18,325 Never again. 538 00:39:21,527 --> 00:39:24,405 What would I be doing for you? 539 00:39:27,247 --> 00:39:29,283 Sweet-talking. 540 00:39:35,927 --> 00:39:37,918 All right, everybody. 541 00:39:38,087 --> 00:39:39,725 What on earth is that? 542 00:39:39,887 --> 00:39:42,037 - This is a ballista. - A what? 543 00:39:42,207 --> 00:39:45,882 Jack will tell you all about it. Jack, come on. Tell them. 544 00:39:46,047 --> 00:39:49,960 It's a pre-gunpowder weapon fired with the tension of animal sinew. 545 00:39:50,127 --> 00:39:51,606 Oh, my God. 546 00:40:05,447 --> 00:40:06,641 Jack? 547 00:40:08,727 --> 00:40:12,037 Right. See the eagle on top of the clock? 548 00:40:13,807 --> 00:40:15,240 One... 549 00:40:16,167 --> 00:40:17,361 ...two... 550 00:40:31,327 --> 00:40:34,000 They say you're in politics, Mr. Burden? 551 00:40:34,167 --> 00:40:36,476 It must be fascinating to be in politics. 552 00:40:37,007 --> 00:40:40,158 It's not, I assure you. 553 00:40:40,327 --> 00:40:42,761 Well, they say you're very influential. 554 00:40:42,927 --> 00:40:45,805 It must be fascinating to be very influential. 555 00:40:45,967 --> 00:40:47,241 I honestly wouldn't know. 556 00:40:47,407 --> 00:40:51,923 Don't let him kid you, Miss DuMonde. My godson Jack is very influential. 557 00:40:52,087 --> 00:40:53,918 Like when he was a newspaperman. 558 00:40:54,087 --> 00:40:55,725 All right, then, yes, I'm influential. 559 00:40:55,887 --> 00:40:58,924 Any pals in the pen anyone wants pardoned, I'll put in the word. 560 00:40:59,087 --> 00:41:01,396 Well, there is gonna be somebody in the pen. 561 00:41:01,567 --> 00:41:04,127 Before it's over, what's going on there? 562 00:41:04,287 --> 00:41:06,198 All these wild goings-on. 563 00:41:07,247 --> 00:41:11,206 Fella giving away the state. Free this, free that, free the other. 564 00:41:11,367 --> 00:41:15,076 Every wool-hat jackass thinking the world is free. 565 00:41:15,487 --> 00:41:17,478 Who's gonna pay? That's what I wanna know. 566 00:41:18,127 --> 00:41:19,685 Who's he think's gonna pay? 567 00:41:19,847 --> 00:41:22,281 Standard Oil and the utility companies, I imagine. 568 00:41:22,447 --> 00:41:24,836 And anyone else that can afford to pay their share. 569 00:41:25,007 --> 00:41:27,077 You and me, George. We'll pay. 570 00:41:27,247 --> 00:41:28,999 Government's committed these days... 571 00:41:29,167 --> 00:41:32,716 ...giving services we never heard of back when. 572 00:41:32,887 --> 00:41:37,085 And he's gonna tax this state to death. Drive business right out. 573 00:41:37,247 --> 00:41:39,238 You don't think it boils down to this: 574 00:41:39,407 --> 00:41:41,363 If the government, for quite a long time now... 575 00:41:41,527 --> 00:41:43,245 ...had done anything for the people... 576 00:41:43,407 --> 00:41:46,126 ...they wouldn't have got fed up and elected Mr. Stark. 577 00:41:47,047 --> 00:41:50,676 Well, you ask him this next time you see him: 578 00:41:50,847 --> 00:41:55,045 Ask him how much grabbing there is, all that money flowing. 579 00:41:56,047 --> 00:41:59,084 Then you ask him what's he gonna do when they impeach him. 580 00:41:59,847 --> 00:42:02,122 There's a constitution in this state... 581 00:42:02,287 --> 00:42:05,438 ...or was, before he blew it to hell. 582 00:42:06,287 --> 00:42:09,563 - I'll be sure to ask him. - You do that. 583 00:42:09,727 --> 00:42:13,003 Jack, Miss DuMonde plays the piano. 584 00:42:13,807 --> 00:42:15,525 That's nice. 585 00:42:19,567 --> 00:42:23,480 You weren't like yourself today, son, like you used to be. 586 00:42:23,647 --> 00:42:27,560 Mother, if I'm ever like I used to be, do me a favour and shoot me. 587 00:42:30,127 --> 00:42:31,480 Who was that at lunch anyway? 588 00:42:31,647 --> 00:42:33,842 Mr. Peyton. You've known him all your life. 589 00:42:34,007 --> 00:42:36,362 He builds electrical plants or some such. 590 00:42:36,527 --> 00:42:38,324 The girl, Mother. Miss DuMonde. 591 00:42:38,487 --> 00:42:43,277 That's Mr. Orton's sister's child and she will inherit his money. 592 00:42:43,447 --> 00:42:46,245 Somebody ought to wait until she inherits it, then marry her... 593 00:42:46,407 --> 00:42:49,001 ...and drown her in her bathtub. 594 00:42:49,687 --> 00:42:52,599 Oh, don't worry, I'd like to drown her but I won't. 595 00:42:53,607 --> 00:42:55,837 Was Mr. Peyton saying those people you're with... 596 00:42:56,007 --> 00:42:58,760 ...are mixed up in some sort of graft? 597 00:42:58,927 --> 00:43:00,997 Graft's what you call it when who's doing it... 598 00:43:01,167 --> 00:43:04,000 ...doesn't know which fork to use. - Well, whatever you call it. 599 00:43:04,167 --> 00:43:06,203 - Because I worry to think that... - I don't know. 600 00:43:06,367 --> 00:43:09,325 How would I, careful as I am not to know what anybody anywhere... 601 00:43:09,487 --> 00:43:11,478 ...is doing at any time? 602 00:43:25,087 --> 00:43:26,440 Oh, Jack, make a note. 603 00:43:26,607 --> 00:43:29,246 Find out where they got Senator Tucson's boy locked up. 604 00:43:29,407 --> 00:43:32,604 - What's his name? - The boy? Hell, I don't remember. 605 00:43:32,767 --> 00:43:35,076 Find out when's the trial, get a lawyer down there. 606 00:43:36,607 --> 00:43:39,599 - Who? Evans? - Not Evans. 607 00:43:39,767 --> 00:43:41,917 Find somebody with less oil in his hair... 608 00:43:42,087 --> 00:43:43,839 ...and don't look like he sing with a band. 609 00:43:44,007 --> 00:43:45,440 Put one of your pals on it. 610 00:43:47,247 --> 00:43:48,965 You any idea who it was got cut? 611 00:43:49,127 --> 00:43:52,836 I don't care if it was the sainted aunt of the Apostle Paul. 612 00:43:53,007 --> 00:43:55,077 Well, I just happen to know. 613 00:43:55,247 --> 00:43:57,363 Fella's son of a doctor, paper said. 614 00:43:57,527 --> 00:44:00,599 They're pretty important around here, you know, a doctor in the country. 615 00:44:00,767 --> 00:44:03,076 They think they're somebody. 616 00:44:03,247 --> 00:44:06,159 And maybe it gets out you're trying to fix it to get the boy off. 617 00:44:06,327 --> 00:44:08,204 Wouldn't do you any good. 618 00:44:08,567 --> 00:44:11,525 - Now, it appears to me, maybe... - You don't know a goddamn thing. 619 00:44:12,247 --> 00:44:13,919 Had you been listening... 620 00:44:14,087 --> 00:44:16,601 ...I told Jack to prime the lawyer through a pal. 621 00:44:16,767 --> 00:44:19,406 Find somebody who don't need to see his name in lights. 622 00:44:19,567 --> 00:44:22,604 That way, nobody knows who picked him wasn't me. 623 00:44:23,567 --> 00:44:27,685 Might as well been the pope himself far as anybody knows. 624 00:44:28,207 --> 00:44:29,435 All right. 625 00:44:30,447 --> 00:44:32,005 I get you. 626 00:44:32,167 --> 00:44:34,078 Yeah, just barely. 627 00:44:51,047 --> 00:44:52,844 - Hey, there, Pop. - How you doing, son? 628 00:44:53,487 --> 00:44:56,877 - How you making out? - Oh, I'm getting along. 629 00:44:57,047 --> 00:44:59,322 - Good to see you. - You looking good. 630 00:45:00,687 --> 00:45:04,316 - I brought the infantry here. - How are you? 631 00:45:04,487 --> 00:45:07,285 - More prettier than ever. - Hey, Grandpa. 632 00:45:07,607 --> 00:45:09,165 How you doing, buddy? How's the arm? 633 00:45:09,327 --> 00:45:12,046 - He gonna be all-American. - I know he is. I know he is. 634 00:45:14,167 --> 00:45:19,287 All right, governor, sir, here we go. One, two... 635 00:45:44,207 --> 00:45:45,686 Bastard. 636 00:45:50,767 --> 00:45:52,405 Give me a slug. 637 00:45:55,727 --> 00:45:58,116 Pa don't favour drinking. 638 00:45:58,287 --> 00:46:00,676 Used to be Lucy didn't favour it. 639 00:46:02,927 --> 00:46:06,124 I don't know what she do or don't favour no more. 640 00:46:06,447 --> 00:46:08,358 Not that it matters. 641 00:46:11,567 --> 00:46:16,163 Yeah, I must have poured 10,000 gallons of swill in them troughs. 642 00:46:17,007 --> 00:46:19,726 Still doing it. Pouring swill. 643 00:46:19,887 --> 00:46:22,162 Some things never change. 644 00:46:26,167 --> 00:46:27,156 Hey. 645 00:46:29,967 --> 00:46:32,435 - What's up? - Judge Irwin. 646 00:46:34,847 --> 00:46:36,405 Judge Irwin what? 647 00:46:37,327 --> 00:46:39,477 - Spill it. - I'll spill it when I have my breath. 648 00:46:39,647 --> 00:46:41,842 You're using it up explaining you don't have it. 649 00:46:42,007 --> 00:46:44,521 You think it's funny? You won't when I tell you. 650 00:46:44,847 --> 00:46:47,520 - You tell me later. - Byram rang up. 651 00:46:48,127 --> 00:46:50,595 He said the afternoon papers have got the judge saying... 652 00:46:50,767 --> 00:46:53,964 ...the allegations warrant a full-on investigation. 653 00:46:54,847 --> 00:46:56,041 Two-timing bastard. 654 00:46:57,527 --> 00:46:59,882 That two-timing bastard. 655 00:47:01,967 --> 00:47:03,161 Clear them out. 656 00:47:03,327 --> 00:47:05,158 Tiny was figuring on having supper up here. 657 00:47:05,327 --> 00:47:06,999 Clear them all out. 658 00:47:23,967 --> 00:47:25,320 Which way up there? 659 00:47:27,247 --> 00:47:29,966 Jack, tell Sugar how to get to the house. 660 00:47:30,927 --> 00:47:33,441 It's your people live down here. 661 00:47:49,567 --> 00:47:51,000 Suppose he don't open up? 662 00:47:52,767 --> 00:47:55,156 Make him. What I pay you for? 663 00:48:07,007 --> 00:48:10,124 - Yeah, who is it? - It's Jack. 664 00:48:11,727 --> 00:48:13,285 Jack? 665 00:48:13,447 --> 00:48:14,721 Well, I'll be. 666 00:48:15,367 --> 00:48:17,119 Hey, come on in. 667 00:48:19,287 --> 00:48:20,959 You're not in any trouble, are you? 668 00:48:22,607 --> 00:48:24,757 No, Jack's not in any trouble. 669 00:48:24,927 --> 00:48:28,044 Matter of fact, he doing all right, all things considered. 670 00:48:33,447 --> 00:48:37,076 I trust you don't mind if Jack pours me a slug. 671 00:48:37,447 --> 00:48:39,756 I didn't know his duties ran to those of manservant... 672 00:48:39,927 --> 00:48:42,282 ...but if I'm mistaken, I'm sorry. - Oh, hell. 673 00:48:42,447 --> 00:48:45,359 Sometimes Jack pours me a drink, sometimes I pour him one. 674 00:48:45,527 --> 00:48:47,995 Sometimes I pour myself one. 675 00:48:48,487 --> 00:48:50,079 I could pour you one. 676 00:48:50,247 --> 00:48:51,885 No, thank you. 677 00:48:56,567 --> 00:48:58,159 This today's? 678 00:48:58,327 --> 00:49:01,444 Yeah, I don't get much time to read the papers... 679 00:49:01,607 --> 00:49:04,280 ...rushing around the state doing the good work. 680 00:49:04,647 --> 00:49:07,161 Well, perhaps, I can relieve your curiosity on one point. 681 00:49:07,327 --> 00:49:09,238 Somewhere in there's my opinion on the severity... 682 00:49:09,407 --> 00:49:11,841 ...of the allegations against you, if that's of interest. 683 00:49:12,007 --> 00:49:14,043 Somebody told me that. 684 00:49:14,687 --> 00:49:17,520 But you know how rumour hath a thousand tongues. 685 00:49:17,687 --> 00:49:21,157 And how them newspaper boys, they can exaggerate some. 686 00:49:21,607 --> 00:49:23,165 It's no exaggeration. 687 00:49:24,247 --> 00:49:25,760 Yeah, I see. 688 00:49:27,127 --> 00:49:29,038 If you're clear on that and finished with your drink... 689 00:49:29,207 --> 00:49:31,084 ...I'd appreciate it if you'd just get out. 690 00:49:31,247 --> 00:49:34,045 Hey, thank you, judge, I think I will have just one more spot. 691 00:49:36,807 --> 00:49:40,117 So I see it there in the paper, and I hear you say it... 692 00:49:40,287 --> 00:49:43,085 ...but are you sure you took it to the Lord in prayer? 693 00:49:43,767 --> 00:49:45,564 I settled it in my mind. 694 00:49:45,727 --> 00:49:49,037 See, that's unsettling. 695 00:49:49,207 --> 00:49:51,562 Because if I recollect right, I recollect that... 696 00:49:51,727 --> 00:49:54,036 ...when we had our conversation in town that time... 697 00:49:54,207 --> 00:49:57,643 ...you sort of felt like what MacMurphy and his boys were saying about me... 698 00:49:57,887 --> 00:49:59,081 ...was beneath contempt. 699 00:49:59,247 --> 00:50:01,841 I made no commitment to you or to them, only to my conscience. 700 00:50:02,007 --> 00:50:04,999 - I beg your pardon, your what? - I beg yours. 701 00:50:09,047 --> 00:50:12,278 You been toiling around politics too long to use a word like conscience... 702 00:50:12,447 --> 00:50:13,926 ...so easily. 703 00:50:14,087 --> 00:50:17,762 No, my change of conscience came when certain features of your... 704 00:50:18,127 --> 00:50:20,800 ...public services, shall we say, came to my attention. 705 00:50:20,967 --> 00:50:23,720 Somebody dug something up for you? In the dirt? 706 00:50:23,887 --> 00:50:26,720 Yeah, not just one thing and not very deep. 707 00:50:27,247 --> 00:50:28,441 Well, dirt's a funny thing. 708 00:50:28,607 --> 00:50:33,044 Ain't nothing but dirt on God's green earth except what's under the water. 709 00:50:33,207 --> 00:50:35,926 And that's dirt too, come to think of it. 710 00:50:36,487 --> 00:50:38,079 Dirt makes the grass green... 711 00:50:38,607 --> 00:50:40,086 ...let it breathe. 712 00:50:40,247 --> 00:50:44,126 The diamond on my wife's finger ain't nothing but dirt got awful hot. 713 00:50:44,287 --> 00:50:47,120 What are we, but dirt blowed off the hands of God almighty? 714 00:50:47,287 --> 00:50:50,199 You and me and George Washington. 715 00:50:52,047 --> 00:50:53,400 And Jack there. 716 00:50:56,287 --> 00:50:57,515 Still doesn't alter the fact. 717 00:50:57,687 --> 00:51:01,396 I'm not trying to alter anything, just illuminate it. 718 00:51:02,887 --> 00:51:04,036 Yeah. 719 00:51:04,207 --> 00:51:07,438 You saying MacMurphy and his bunch, yelling for my impeachment... 720 00:51:07,607 --> 00:51:10,280 ...they're responsible, law-abiding men? 721 00:51:10,567 --> 00:51:13,684 Yeah, they're responsible all right, to Alta Power and oil companies... 722 00:51:13,847 --> 00:51:15,246 ...and the rest of them thieves. 723 00:51:15,407 --> 00:51:16,601 I wouldn't know about that. 724 00:51:16,767 --> 00:51:20,362 Only way to not know is to not wanna know. 725 00:51:22,087 --> 00:51:25,636 I'm retired, Mr. Stark. A reporter asked my opinion and I gave it. 726 00:51:25,807 --> 00:51:28,924 If you was retired, no reporter would wanna ask you anything. 727 00:51:29,967 --> 00:51:32,037 What you say matters. 728 00:51:32,327 --> 00:51:34,887 A lot more than you pretend it don't. 729 00:51:36,647 --> 00:51:38,558 So I'm asking you... 730 00:51:39,407 --> 00:51:41,284 ...call off the dogs. 731 00:51:42,327 --> 00:51:47,003 Asking is different than telling and that sounded like telling to me. 732 00:51:47,727 --> 00:51:49,638 Didn't it to you, Jack? 733 00:51:53,847 --> 00:51:56,042 You been a judge a long time. 734 00:51:56,207 --> 00:51:57,799 Yes, I have. 735 00:51:59,767 --> 00:52:02,122 How would it feel, do you think... 736 00:52:03,327 --> 00:52:05,761 ...to not be one no more? 737 00:52:08,887 --> 00:52:12,038 No man has ever been able to intimidate me. 738 00:52:12,207 --> 00:52:15,836 I said what I said and I see no reason to say or think anything different. 739 00:52:16,607 --> 00:52:20,361 Despite your expositions on laws and men, sir. 740 00:52:22,847 --> 00:52:24,041 Suit yourself. 741 00:52:25,247 --> 00:52:28,842 You're right, Jack. He don't scare easy. 742 00:52:31,087 --> 00:52:36,161 Judge, it's more in pain than wrath I go. 743 00:52:36,687 --> 00:52:39,724 Let's go. It's past Sugar Boy's bedtime. 744 00:52:40,847 --> 00:52:42,758 Your employer is calling you, Jack. 745 00:52:43,567 --> 00:52:46,400 I wouldn't go around advertising this visit to anyone. 746 00:52:46,567 --> 00:52:48,285 In case you change your mind. 747 00:52:58,327 --> 00:52:59,999 Bastard. 748 00:53:00,847 --> 00:53:04,317 Well, Jackie, you got a job cut out for you. 749 00:53:04,887 --> 00:53:08,197 - MacMurphy. - No, the judge. 750 00:53:09,607 --> 00:53:11,484 You bring down the lion... 751 00:53:11,647 --> 00:53:15,356 ...the rest of the jungle will quake in fear and they'll all fall into line. 752 00:53:15,927 --> 00:53:19,044 - I won't find anything. - Oh, yes, you will. 753 00:53:19,247 --> 00:53:23,718 A man is conceived in sin and born in corruption... 754 00:53:23,887 --> 00:53:27,197 ...and passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. 755 00:53:29,167 --> 00:53:30,964 You'll find something. 756 00:53:31,767 --> 00:53:33,280 And make it stick. 757 00:53:41,527 --> 00:53:45,122 Apart from pleasing the boss, I could see little advantage... 758 00:53:45,287 --> 00:53:50,805 ... in finding anything beyond what was already known about Judge Irwin. 759 00:53:53,367 --> 00:53:56,404 What was known was that he was kind to you... 760 00:53:56,567 --> 00:54:00,162 ... when your father left you and your mother without saying why. 761 00:54:02,567 --> 00:54:04,364 What was known was that he taught you... 762 00:54:04,527 --> 00:54:06,882 .... the things your father should have. 763 00:54:07,887 --> 00:54:09,957 How to be a gentleman. 764 00:54:10,127 --> 00:54:12,641 How to firmly shak e a hand. 765 00:54:13,127 --> 00:54:16,676 How to safely load a shotgun and lead a duck if you wanted to hit it. 766 00:54:20,327 --> 00:54:22,158 What was known... 767 00:54:22,647 --> 00:54:26,356 ... was that he was more of a father to you than your real father... 768 00:54:28,447 --> 00:54:30,756 ... who you didn't know at all. 769 00:55:53,207 --> 00:55:55,084 Hold it, please. 770 00:55:55,607 --> 00:55:57,802 Governor's penthouse. 771 00:56:02,487 --> 00:56:05,445 How you doing digging something up on Judge Irwin? 772 00:56:05,807 --> 00:56:07,240 Nothing. 773 00:56:07,407 --> 00:56:09,557 Nothing. Found nothing or done nothing? 774 00:56:09,727 --> 00:56:13,606 There was nothing to find. I could dig to China, wouldn't find anything. 775 00:56:13,767 --> 00:56:15,519 - And I'm not framing him. - Framing? 776 00:56:15,687 --> 00:56:17,643 Ain't nobody talking about framing. 777 00:56:17,807 --> 00:56:19,081 That's never necessary. 778 00:56:19,247 --> 00:56:22,125 The truth is always sufficient. You just find the truth. 779 00:56:22,527 --> 00:56:24,006 It's a waste of time and money. 780 00:56:24,167 --> 00:56:26,522 Jesus, doesn't anybody listen to what I say anymore? 781 00:56:26,687 --> 00:56:30,123 You don't wanna do it, don't do it. Or are you just looking for a raise? 782 00:56:30,767 --> 00:56:33,565 I'm gonna give you $100 raise whether you want it or not. 783 00:56:33,727 --> 00:56:35,240 If I wanted more money, I'd make it. 784 00:56:37,167 --> 00:56:39,078 You gonna tell me you work for me for love? 785 00:56:39,247 --> 00:56:42,045 I don't know why I work for you, but it ain't for love or money. 786 00:56:42,207 --> 00:56:43,560 Well, that's right, it's not. 787 00:56:44,407 --> 00:56:46,557 And you don't know why. 788 00:56:48,487 --> 00:56:49,806 But I do. 789 00:56:51,167 --> 00:56:52,520 Why? 790 00:56:52,847 --> 00:56:57,443 Boy, you work for me because I'm the way I am... 791 00:56:57,607 --> 00:56:59,882 ...and you the way you are... 792 00:57:00,047 --> 00:57:03,835 ...and that's just an arrangement founded in the natural order of things. 793 00:57:11,327 --> 00:57:13,602 She sure could skate. 794 00:57:17,127 --> 00:57:18,765 Right now... 795 00:57:19,287 --> 00:57:21,482 ...hidden away in chambers... 796 00:57:21,927 --> 00:57:24,919 ...not out here in the open like you and me... 797 00:57:26,047 --> 00:57:29,323 ...there's a legislature full of hyena-headed... 798 00:57:29,487 --> 00:57:32,763 ...belly-dragging sons of bitches... 799 00:57:33,007 --> 00:57:36,477 ...setting around trying to figure out how to impeach me. 800 00:57:37,967 --> 00:57:40,959 Now, they say it's because I got crooks on the payroll. 801 00:57:41,127 --> 00:57:42,924 I say, "Is that all?" 802 00:57:44,007 --> 00:57:46,840 Of course I got them. I got a can of oil in the garage too... 803 00:57:47,007 --> 00:57:48,679 ...because there ain't a machine made by man... 804 00:57:48,847 --> 00:57:53,079 ...don't need a squirt of that from time to time just to keep running! 805 00:57:55,727 --> 00:57:57,877 But my crooks... 806 00:57:59,047 --> 00:58:01,163 ...unlike theirs... 807 00:58:01,327 --> 00:58:04,080 ...are all atremble... 808 00:58:04,327 --> 00:58:06,602 ...to be too crooked. 809 00:58:07,407 --> 00:58:11,002 They're itty-bitty compared to their crooks in there. 810 00:58:11,167 --> 00:58:13,522 The Standard Oil and the power companies. 811 00:58:13,687 --> 00:58:15,803 Besides, I got my eye on mine. 812 00:58:15,967 --> 00:58:18,481 Ain't nobody watching over these crooks. 813 00:58:19,087 --> 00:58:21,965 Ain't nobody got their eye on them... 814 00:58:22,127 --> 00:58:26,325 ...while they rob the resources of this state! 815 00:58:27,727 --> 00:58:30,400 Who made that son of a bitch what he is? Who made him governor? 816 00:58:30,567 --> 00:58:32,876 And he goes and two-times me? I'll kill him. 817 00:58:33,327 --> 00:58:35,921 No, he's two-timing Lucy. 818 00:58:36,087 --> 00:58:39,159 You need some other kind of arithmetic for what he's doing to you. 819 00:58:39,327 --> 00:58:42,285 Lucy, she's a fool. She's... 820 00:58:43,207 --> 00:58:45,641 - I don't know what. - His wife. 821 00:58:46,767 --> 00:58:50,442 A hick with a college degree from some Baptist hole in the ground. 822 00:58:52,847 --> 00:58:54,565 What was she like? 823 00:58:55,487 --> 00:58:58,445 - I didn't know Lucy any further back... - The slut on skates. 824 00:58:59,687 --> 00:59:01,917 I don't know, I was looking at her skates. 825 00:59:02,087 --> 00:59:03,998 Sure you were. 826 00:59:06,287 --> 00:59:09,324 - Was she pretty? - Look, just forget it. 827 00:59:10,687 --> 00:59:12,518 How young was she? 828 00:59:13,367 --> 00:59:16,040 - Who cares? - Look at me. 829 00:59:30,607 --> 00:59:34,725 He'll be back. The world is full of sluts on skates. 830 00:59:36,487 --> 00:59:40,685 Skates, grass skirts, geisha outfits. 831 00:59:46,247 --> 00:59:48,203 Contortionists. 832 00:59:51,287 --> 00:59:55,405 Every man a king Every man a king 833 00:59:55,567 --> 00:59:59,560 For you can be a millionaire 834 00:59:59,727 --> 01:00:03,561 But there's something Belonging to others 835 01:00:03,727 --> 01:00:07,356 Well, there's enough For all people to share 836 01:00:07,767 --> 01:00:11,965 When it's sunny June Or December too 837 01:00:12,127 --> 01:00:15,403 In the wintertime or spring 838 01:00:16,047 --> 01:00:18,038 Well, there'll be peace without end 839 01:00:18,207 --> 01:00:20,437 Every neighbour a friend 840 01:00:20,607 --> 01:00:24,122 With every man a king 841 01:00:31,047 --> 01:00:34,403 The judge married money. Savannah money. 842 01:00:34,567 --> 01:00:37,081 The daughter of an industrialist out there. 843 01:00:37,247 --> 01:00:39,124 He's clean, Willie. He's washed in the blood. 844 01:00:41,447 --> 01:00:44,837 - You call yourself a detective. - I'm most certainly not... 845 01:00:45,007 --> 01:00:47,680 The son of a bitch is washed in whitewash!