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To find something, anything...
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... a great truth,
or a lost pair of glasses...
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... you must first believe there will be
some advantage in finding it.
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I found something a long time ago...
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... and have held on to it
for grim death ever since.
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I owe my success in life to it.
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It put me where I am today.
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This principle.
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What you don't know won't hurt you.
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They called it idealism
in a book I read.
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Get the gun.
Get the gun. Get the gun.
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Oh, my God.
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The judge won't scare easy.
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I don't count on him scaring easy.
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You think it's beneath my dignity?
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Well, you're governor, they tell me.
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Yeah, I'm governor.
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The trouble with governors is they
think they gotta keep their dignity.
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There's nothing worth doing
a man can do to keep his dignity.
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Human frame ain't built that way.
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When I'm not governor anymore
because I'm president...
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...I wanna meet somebody at midnight,
I'll do that then too.
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Hope you leave me
to get a night's sleep.
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No, Jack, you going with me
because that's what you want.
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Yeah, you and Sugar
with me in the White House.
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I'll give Sugar a pistol range
right out there in the garden.
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Brace of Republican senators
can set up his tin cans for him.
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And I'm gonna appoint
a special member to Cabinet for you:
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Secretary to the Bedchamber
of Mr. Jack Burden.
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Somebody to keep them
telephone numbers straight...
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...and return their little
pink silk articles that get left behind.
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But we gotta do this first.
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In the middle of the night when we
could just do it in town sometime.
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Sometime ain't never now.
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Bastard.
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Which way up there?
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Jack, tell Sugar
how to get to the house.
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It's your people live down here.
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Suppose he don't open up?
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Make him. What I pay you for?
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Hey, Jack.
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Mr. Duffy.
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This is Willie Stark
from up Mason City.
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- County treasurer.
- Glad to meet you.
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- Jack Burden.
- From The Chronicle.
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Good to meet you, Mr. Burden.
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Yeah, Willie's on business
for Mason City.
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Bond issue them got up there.
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Gonna build a schoolhouse.
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Yeah. Me and Willie
was in school together.
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Oh, you was in school, Alex.
I didn't know.
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Not the teacher's favourite,
I don't expect.
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No, sir, that's true.
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Willie was, though.
Still is, ain't you, Willie?
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Yeah, Willie married
a schoolteacher.
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Well, you know...
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...they tell me that schoolteachers
are made with it...
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...in the same place as the rest.
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Now, is that right or not, Mr. Stark?
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Yeah, that's right.
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Slade!
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Beers all around.
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Not for me, thanks.
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Oh, that little schoolteacher
don't like it when you drink?
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Well, she don't favour it, for a fact.
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Well, beers all around.
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Well, I sell beer
to those who want it.
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I don't make nobody drink them.
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Well, maybe you got some
orange pop for him.
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That's what he wants.
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Yeah, I think I'd like some orange pop.
Two straws.
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Jack, get up Mason City.
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See who's this fella
who thinks he's Jesus Christ...
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...come down off the cross to scourge
the moneychangers...
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...out of that shinplaster courthouse
they got them there.
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I know who he is.
Fella with a Christmas tie...
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...pushed a school bond through.
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- You know him?
- Met him.
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Watched him drink
a bottle of orange pop once...
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...through two straws on account
of a wife who don't favour drinking.
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She favour him
staying parish treasurer?
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Don't you know
how things are run up there?
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Run up there
like they're run down here.
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Yeah? Well, you leave down here
and run on up there.
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As a commissioner, as chairman,
I guess you're in a position...
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...to know the situation
regarding the schoolhouse contract.
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Ain't no situation.
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Maybe not, but maybe so.
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Ain't any situation.
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Board took a bid offer.
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A.J. Moore's bid, the fella's name...
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...schoolhouse gets built.
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This Moore fella's bid,
I take it, was the lowest?
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Now, you lookie here.
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Ain't nobody tells a board
what bid to take.
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Anybody can come along
put in a little pissant bid.
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Board doesn't have to take it.
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Board takes somebody
who can do the work right.
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Ain't nothing done but legal.
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Who was it
put in the little pissant bid?
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- Name of Jeffers, if I recollect.
- Jeffers Construction?
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- Yeah.
- Well, that's a real firm, a big firm.
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The board picks
who can do the work right.
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That's all I got to say.
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Don't you wanna tell mama...
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...you wanna see yourself
shining in the table? No?
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All right. I wish I could have
sold some to you.
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Be out of your way in a second here.
And no brushes, you sure?
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- I'm sure.
- All right.
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Thank you.
Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
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Mr. Stark.
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Why, Mr. Jack Burden,
how are you, sir?
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You know, people would think
parish treasurer paid well enough...
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...a man wouldn't have to sell
household fix-it kits door-to-door.
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- People would think.
- Doesn't in Mason City.
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Well, I'm maybe not so good
at mathematics...
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...as some other parish treasurers
you may've met.
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Or too good at it.
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How much they steal
on the schoolhouse contract?
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Well, let's see...
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Jeffers come in $142,000.
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Moore, $175,000.
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That's $33,000 split six ways,
5500 per commissioner.
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They done it so plain and pretty, well,
you'd almost have to admire them.
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Just point out Jeffers
uses nigra labourers...
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...skilled men, you know?
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Next thing, it's, " Lookie here, nigras
making more money than you men.
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Pushing wheelbarrows,
hauling dirt."
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And that's it. "Goodbye, Mr. Jeffers
and your low bid.
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You go build your nigra schoolhouse
somewhere else."
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Not that you didn't try and get people
to see what was going on.
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Oh, I yelled so long and loud about
these old boys lining they pockets...
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...I'm lucky to have
any job in Mason City:
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Government, door-to-door,
or any other variety.
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I stood out there
on that street corner...
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...pencil in one hand,
paper in the other...
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...trying to show people
the numbers.
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But you stop people out there
in that hot sun...
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...try to show them arithmetic...
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...well, they can't see it so clear...
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...through the sweat pouring in they
own eyes from they own hard labour.
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Especially if you put nigras
in the equation.
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- Why, you're likely to get beat up.
- Likely?
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Once or twice.
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You gonna run again in November?
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No, I'm done. A lame duck. Lucy too.
They got her fired from teaching.
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And I don't care. I don't want to teach
there just so they can steal money.
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That's right. You're looking at your
own private two-person leper colony.
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Sipping pop.
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So, what are you gonna do, then?
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I don't know. String my pa a fence,
slop some pigs, milk some cows.
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I'm gonna keep the faith, Mr. Burden,
that's what I'm gonna do.
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I'm gonna keep the faith
in the people, because you know why?
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Time...
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...brings all things to light.
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I trust it's so.
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Joe.
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Did you get a photograph of him?
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Who?
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The next mayor of this town.
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You know what people are saying?
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People are saying
that God himself had a hand...
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...in this schoolhouse business.
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That God stepped in
on Willie Stark's side.
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Yes, sir. He does work
in mysterious ways sometimes.
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Sometimes...
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...he has somebody else do it.
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Sends over a fat man in a striped suit
with a big car to do his will.
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Well, I have had
some worse employers, I admit that.
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What you want?
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Well, I wanna work for you,
Mr. Stark.
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And you wanna work for the people,
unless I been misinformed.
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People vote me,
I'd be privileged to serve them.
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- What, as the county treasurer?
- Yes, sir.
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Mr. Stark, you could run
for mayor of Mason City...
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...and you could win without climbing
out of bed in the morning.
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You just put the word out...
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...about Willie Stark, who tried to take
on the crooks single-handed...
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...Willie Stark,
who tried to warn us...
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...Willie Stark, who could have saved
our kids if we'd have just listened.
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Now, I'm not talking about Willie Stark
for the mayor of Mason City. No, sir.
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I'm talking about Willie Stark...
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...as the next governor
of the great state of Louisiana.
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Now, you saw a man
holding out a handful of cash to you...
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...and you said no.
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This is what I see.
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I see a man in a booth...
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...Iooking down at a ballot,
a working man.
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And he sees three names there:
Harrison, MacMurphy and Stark.
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Now, what this man really sees...
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...is that picture in the newspaper
of them three little coffins...
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...and the one man since
the great Governor Stanton died...
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...that had the guts to buck the powers
that killed them.
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Now, that man, that voting man,
he's got a pencil...
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...he checks a box,
you wake up governor.
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And that little lady lying
beside you...
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...the one that don't favour liquor...
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...she wakes up the governor's wife.
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That's what I see.
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Now, why don't you take a minute
with your orange pop...
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...see if you can't see it too...
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...governor.
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You got your speech?
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All right.
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Willie Stark!
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Thank you, folks.
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Thank you kindly.
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My name's Willie Stark
from Mason City yonder...
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...and I'm pleased to have a chance
to talk with you all here today.
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Now, friends...
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...what I wanna talk about is
something that's been troubling me.
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- Coffee, please.
- Yes, ma'am.
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Can I sit with you?
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Or anything else.
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No, thanks.
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- You don't like my looks?
- I don't care about anybody's looks...
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...but I can't recall
ever going for anyone...
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...who reminds me
of a box of spilled spaghetti.
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Miss Burke, I'm sitting here
having a cup of coffee.
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I'm almost through,
then you couldn't sit with me...
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...which is what you asked for.
- Sorry.
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00:18:11,447 --> 00:18:13,119
Not working
for Sen-Sen Puckett anymore.
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- Now, he wasn't a bad-Iooking fellow.
- Heel.
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Well, sure, politically and elsewise.
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Who didn't know that?
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I guess I'm slower on some things
than others.
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- Like you.
- Am I?
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- I think so.
- I think not.
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Not on this charade.
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That's the topic of the interview.
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Then tell me, if you're so smart.
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All right. Harrison's a city man,
MacMurphy's a cracker.
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Not a cracker precisely,
but enough of one to worry Harrison...
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...that crackers won't know
the difference.
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So Harrison looks for someone
to split the cracker vote.
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Hears about an honest man
up in Crackerville...
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...where some cracker kids go down
with a fire escape...
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...that was supposed to be stuck with
more than spit to their schoolhouse.
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Sends his man Tiny Duffy up there
to romance him...
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...and then Sadie Burke
to romance him some more.
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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!