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♪ WOMAN: Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ It's good enough for me ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ It's good enough for me ♪
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♪ It was good for little David ♪
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♪ It was good for little David ♪
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♪ It was good for little David ♪
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♪ And it's good enough for me ♪
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♪ Oh, gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ It's good enough for me ♪
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♪ It was good for old Jonah ♪
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♪ It was good for old Jonah ♪
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♪ It was good for old Jonah ♪
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♪ And it's good enough for me ♪
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♪ It was good for the Hebrew children ♪
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♪ It was good for the Hebrew children ♪
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♪ It was good for the Hebrew children ♪
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♪ And it's good enough for me ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ It's good enough for me ♪
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- Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
- (DOOR OPENS)
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Good morning, visitors.
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For our science lesson for today,
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we will continue our discussion of
Darwin's theory of the descent of man.
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Darwin's theory tells us that man evolved
from a lower order of animals.
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From the first Wiggly protozoa here in
the sea, to the ape, and finally to man.
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Some of you are probably gonna say
that's why some of us act like monkeys.
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(LAUGHTER)
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But what Mr. Charles Darwin
was trying to tell us...
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Bertram T Cates?
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Come off it, Sam.
You've known me all my life.
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Bert, you're charged with
violation of public act 31428,
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volume 37, statute number 31428
of the state code,
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which makes it unlawful
for any public school teacher
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to teach any theory that denies
the creation of man as taught in the Bible
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and to teach instead that man has
descended from a lower order of animals.
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Bertram Cates,
I hereby place you under arrest.
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Monkey trial! Here's another one.
"Monkey Shines In Hillsboro."
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The whole world's laughing at us.
Look. From Chicago.
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"Heavenly Hillsboro. Does it have
a hole in its head or its head in a hole?"
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I'm telling you we've gone too far.
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Let 'em laugh. We fighting
the Lord's battle, ain't we?
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I'd rather have a heathen laughing at me
than have my sons laughing at my Bible.
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They mocked the Lord too.
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They smote him and spat upon him
and he turned his other cheek.
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Reverend, we don't want to smite 'em
back. We just want to make 'em stop.
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Tom, you're a prosecuting attorney.
What can we do?
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In view of my position, I hardly think
it ethical to express my opinion.
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You'd better go back to law school.
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What do we care what a bunch
of foreigners and city slickers think?
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- Ever had a Frenchman at your hotel?
- You're missing...
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How long since you sold a pound of grits
to some smart aleck from New York?
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Heaven has chosen us to light the road
back to the shepherd, back to the fold.
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- We're not sheep.
- I'd rather be a sheep than a Judas goat!
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Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
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As mayor, I stand to uphold
the laws of this community,
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no matter how
it may affect my political future.
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Now, I shall just ignore these slanders,
like water off a duck's back.
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You only got two months more as mayor
and you shouldn't have been elected.
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You've been a lousy mayor!
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(GLASS RINGS)
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My friends,
as you all know, I deal with figures:
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Accounts, cheques, balances.
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My bank operates on the principle
of practical reality and so do I.
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Are you aware that the great big
universities throughout the country
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will consider student applicants from
our state ineligible because of this law?
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I don't know whose idea it was to hang up
a shingle spelling "horse and buggy",
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but, as for me, I won't
invest in antiquity.
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I want my bank holding credit
with New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois.
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And I may want my son to go to Yale.
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Now, I believe,
just as much as anyone in this room,
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in a basic fundamentalist
interpretation of the Bible.
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But we can't close our eyes to all
progress, everything which represents...
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Wait a minute. Wait a minute!
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"Matthew Harrison Brady
volunteers to prosecute in monkey trial."
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Matthew Harrison Brady.
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- The Lord has sent us his right hand.
- And I'll be working with him.
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They'll pour out of the hills. This town
will fill up like a rain barrel in a flood.
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It'll be bigger than
the chautauqua at Chattanooga.
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People will have to have
someplace to stay.
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And they gotta eat.
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This will put Hillsboro
on the map of this country.
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Let us give thanks to the Lord.
Let us pray.
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You better start praying, son.
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Imagine, Matthew Harrison Brady
coming here.
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I voted for him for president. Twice.
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Once in 1900 and again in '08.
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I wasn't old enough to vote for him
the first time he run, but my pa did.
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I seen him once.
At a chautauqua meeting in Chattanooga.
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When he spoke, the tent poles shook.
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- Who's gonna be your lawyer?
- I don't know yet.
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I wrote to that newspaper in Baltimore.
They're sending somebody.
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Well, he'd better be loud.
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- (KNOCKING)
- Ah.
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Probably one of those newspaper
reporters. You're a popular fella.
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- Yeah.
- Oh, Bert.
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You don't mind, do you? Just for the
looks of it. Can't tell who it might be.
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Sure. Don't worry about it, Mort.
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(KNOCKING)
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(KNOCKING)
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All right.
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- Who is it?
- WOMAN: Mort?
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Rachel! Come on in.
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Ah, you got a present for Bert, huh?
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Mort, don't let my father know
I came here.
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The Reverend don't tell me his business.
I don't see why I should tell him mine.
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- Is Bert all right?
- Of course he's...
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The safest place in the world's in a jail.
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Come on in. Come on.
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Tell them you're sorry.
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Tell them it was all a mistake.
Please te...
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Tell them if they let my body out of jail
I'd lock up my mind?
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Could you stand that, Rachel?
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- At least we'd be together.
- It wouldn't be the...
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It wouldn't be the same.
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Rachel.
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Do you remember those warm dark nights
down by the river bank?
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Just watching the water.
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Wondering about the miracle of it.
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Wondering what the stars were for.
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What's on the other side of the moon.
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There'd be no more of that, Rach.
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- We could still have that.
- No, we couldn't.
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That'd be in the locked-off part.
For both of us.
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MAN: Well!
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So this is where the fate of learning
will be decided for the next 10,000 years.
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O tempora, o mores.
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Well, I see we have
both beauty and biology on our side.
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- Who are you?
- This your writing?
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- Yes.
- This is mine.
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Hornbeck. EK Hornbeck.
Baltimore Herald.
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- I've been waiting to hear from you.
- Read it.
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My typewriter's been singing a sweet
sad song about the Hillsboro heretic.
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B CATES: Latter-day Dreyfus,
Romeo with a biology book.
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Want a bite?
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Don't worry, I'm not the serpent.
This isn't from the tree of knowledge.
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Oh, no. You won't find one
growing in heavenly Hillsboro.
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A few ignorance bushes, perhaps,
but no tree of knowledge.
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Ask Adam.
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You make me sound like a martyr.
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You could be. Martyrs always have
a point to prove and so do you.
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But you haven't won your halo yet.
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That won't come until after they've
tossed you into the arena with the lion.
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- You mean Brady?
- I don't want Bert to be a martyr.
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- What are you trying to prove?
- I'm not trying to prove anything.
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All I wanna do is teach my students that
man wasn't planted here like a geranium.
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That life comes from a long miracle,
it didn't take seven days.
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But it's against the law.
A schoolteacher's a public servant.
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He should do what the law
and the school board want him to.
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Has the accused
anything to say in his defence?
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If not, I sentence you
to life as a public servant,
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a silent butler
in the service of your school board.
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Wastebaskets for ideas
on sale in the outer lobby.
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I don't see anything funny in this,
Mr. Hornbeck.
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- Objection sustained. Neither do I.
- Then why don't you leave us alone?
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You newspaper people have stirred up
enough trouble for Bert.
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What do you want anyway?
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I came to tell boy Socrates here
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that the Baltimore Herald is opposed
to hemlock and will provide a lawyer.
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- Who?
- Who? I don't know yet.
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What's the difference? A new lawyer with
old tricks, an old lawyer with new tricks.
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Wake up, Copernicus. The law's
still on the side of the lawmakers,
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and everything revolves
around their terra firma.
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Then why bother,
you and your newspaper?
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Because I know
that the sunrise is an optical illusion.
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My teacher told me so.
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You don't seem like the kind
who'd want to bother. You seem so...
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Cynical. True, true.
That's part of my fascination.
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I do hateful things
for which people love me,
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and I do lovable things
for which they hate me.
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I'm admired for my detestability.
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Now, don't worry, little Eva.
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I may be rancid butter,
but I'm on your side of the bread.
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ It's good enough for me ♪
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♪ It's good enough for me ♪
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♪ It was good for old Jonah ♪
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♪ It was good for old Jonah ♪
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♪ It was good for old Jonah ♪
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♪ And it's good enough for me ♪
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♪ It's good enough for me ♪
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♪ It was good for little David ♪
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♪ It was good for little David ♪
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♪ It was good for little David ♪
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♪ And it's good enough for me ♪
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♪ Oh, gimme that old-time religion ♪
♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ It's good enough for me ♪
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♪ It was good for little David ♪
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♪ It was good for little David ♪
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♪ It was good for little David ♪
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♪ And it's good enough for me ♪
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♪ Oh, gimme that old-time religion ♪
♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ It's good enough for me ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ It's good enough for me ♪
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♪ It was good for old Jonah ♪
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♪ It was good for old Jonah ♪
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♪ It was good for old Jonah ♪
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♪ It was good for old Jonah ♪
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♪ It was good for old Jonah ♪
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♪ And it's good enough for me ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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Matthew Harrison Brady,
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as mayor of Hillsboro
may I say that this municipality
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is proud to have within its city limits
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the warrior who has always fought
for us ordinary people.
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The ladyfolk of this town
would not have the vote
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if it hadn't been for you fighting
to give them all that suffrage.
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Mr. President Wilson would not have
got to the White House and won the war
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if it hadn't been for you supporting him
and being his secretary of state.
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In conclusion,
the governor of our glorious state
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has vested in me the authority
to confer upon you
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a commission as honorary colonel
in the state militia!
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(CHEERING)
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It is good enough for Brady...
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♪ It is good enough for Brady ♪
♪ And it's good enough for me ♪
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(CHEERING)
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"Colonel Brady."
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I like the sound of that.
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Friends,
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Mrs. Brady and I
are delighted to be among you.
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We all voted for you. Three times!
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I trust it was in three separate elections.
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(LAUGHTER)
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I can only wish for one thing:
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That you had not given us
quite so warm a welcome.
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- WOMAN: Mr. Brady?
- Yes.
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- Here you are.
- Oh, bless you.
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- And Mrs. Brady.
- Oh, thank you.
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Now, who, may I ask,
is the spiritual leader of the community?
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The Reverend Jeremiah Brown.
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How are you, Reverend? Will you stand
here at my side? Thank you.
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My friends of Hillsboro,
you know why I've come here.
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It is not merely
to prosecute a lawbreaker,
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a young man who has spoken out
against the revealed word.
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I have come here
because what has happened in your town
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has unloosed a wicked attack
from the big cities of the North.
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We did not seek this struggle.
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We are simple folk who seek only
to live in brotherhood and peace,
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to cherish our loved ones,
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to teach our children the ways
of righteousness and of the Lord.
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But what would they teach them,
these idolaters?
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These priests of evolution,
what would they have them do?
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Measure the distance between the stars
and forget him who holds the stars.
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They are lost, my friends.
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I tell you, if man believes he is descended
from the beasts, he must remain a beast.
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And as the young wolf turns upon the old,
these innocent ones,
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corrupted and despairing of salvation,
will turn upon their fathers,
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and our land will become
a land of Sodom and Gomorrah,
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of pestilence, of fire,
of hatred and of death.
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- I disagree.
- WOMAN: What a nerve!
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Who are you?
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Uh, Hornbeck.
EK Hornbeck of the Baltimore Herald.
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Oh, yes. Yes, I know your paper.
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And your writing, sir.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
my paper is happy to announce
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that it is sending two representatives
to heavenly Hillsboro.
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The most gifted reporter
in America today, myself,
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and the most agile legal mind
of the 20th century, Henry Drummond.
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- Henry Drummond?
- Who's Henry Drummond?
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- We'll send him back to hell!
- Ride him out on a rail!
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- Don't let him in the town!
- Keep him out! Keep him out!
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(SHOUTING)
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No, no, no!
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I believe we should
welcome Henry Drummond.
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If the enemy sends his Goliath into battle,
it magnifies our 'cause.
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Henry Drummond has stalked
the courtrooms of this land for 40 years.
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When he fights, headlines follow.
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The whole world will be watching
our victory over Drummond.
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If St George had killed a dragonfly instead
of a dragon, who would remember him?
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(LAUGHTER)
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We have not only the opportunity to slay
the devil's disciple but the devil himself!
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It is good enough for Brady...
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♪ It is good enough for Brady ♪
♪ It is good enough for Brady ♪
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♪ It is good enough for Brady ♪
♪ And it's good enough for me ♪
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♪ Oh, gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
♪ It's good enough for me ♪
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♪ Oh, gimme that old-time religion ♪
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♪ Gimme that old-time religion ♪
♪ Gimme that old-time... ♪
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You're the stranger, ain't you?
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Are you looking
for a nice clean place to stay?
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I had a nice clean place to stay, madam,
and I left it to come here.
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♪ It is good enough for Brady ♪
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♪ It is good enough for Brady ♪
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♪ It is good enough for Brady ♪
♪ And it's good enough for me ♪
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♪ Oh, gimme that old-time... ♪
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(PLAYS HYMN ON HARMONIUM)
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Rachel.
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I waited supper for you. It's on the table.
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Peace will come, my daughter.
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We must thank God
that the sinner stands naked and exposed.
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Stop preaching, Pa.
I have something to tell you.
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You're upset.
Eat and we'll talk in the morning.
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No. Now.
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I'm not leaving Bert.
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I don't understand.
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You heard what Mr. Brady said.
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I love him, Pa. I love him.
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No, no. That is the love of Judas.
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He has nothing to offer you but sin.
I told you that from the beginning.
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What's he done?
What's he done that's so terrible?
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Why do you hate him so?
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00:22:22,788 --> 00:22:27,130
Because I love God
and I hate his enemies.
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- Bert loves God.
- Then what is he doing with Drummond?
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Why is he bringing
him here to spew his
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atheistic filth into the
ears of our people?
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You're a schoolteacher.
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You know how easy it is to mould minds
for good or to twist them for evil.
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00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,523
- Bert didn't twist any minds.
- You're infected with his agnosticism!
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00:22:48,606 --> 00:22:51,952
- Get down and pray for forgiveness.
- Forgiveness for what?
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Because you have betrayed me
and your faith.
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I'm not betraying anybody.
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I'm glad your mother isn't here
to see what's become of you.
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- Pa, please listen.
- If she is looking down from heaven,
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I ask her to forgive you
and to forgive me.
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Pa, ever since I was a little girl,
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I'd wake up in the middle of the night
afraid of the dark,
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like the whole house was upside down
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and if I didn't hang on to the mattress,
I'd fall out into the sky.
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Forgive her, Mother.
Forgive her, dear God.
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I wanted to run to you
to have you tell me that I was safe,
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that everything was all right,
348
00:23:29,939 --> 00:23:33,118
but I was always more afraid of you
than of falling.
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- It's the same way now!
- I have failed. I have failed.
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Tell me what to do, dear Lord.
Guide my faltering...
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- Pa.
- I love my daughter.
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- How can I save her? Tell me what to do.
- Please get up!
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And I will sprinkle clean water upon you
and you shall be clean.
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00:23:53,462 --> 00:23:57,804
From all your filthiness
and from your idols will I cleanse you.
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00:23:57,884 --> 00:24:03,187
And a new heart also will I give you,
and a new spirit put within you.
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00:24:03,264 --> 00:24:08,021
And I will tear out the
stony heart of flesh,
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and I will give you a heart of flesh.
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- Hello, devil. Welcome to hell.
- Hello, Hornbeck.
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Hillsboro, heavenly Hillsboro,
the buckle on the Bible Belt.
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00:25:00,321 --> 00:25:02,741
Come on.
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00:25:02,824 --> 00:25:04,579
Where are we staying?
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We're sharing a room
at the Mansion House.
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00:25:07,161 --> 00:25:09,795
Like everything else in this town,
misnamed.
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Follow me and I shall point out
the unplumbed and plumbingless depths.
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00:25:14,126 --> 00:25:15,966
Bible? Bible?
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00:25:16,045 --> 00:25:18,465
Hot dogs. Here you are. Get your red-hot.
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00:25:18,548 --> 00:25:23,767
That poses a pretty problem.
Which is hungrier, my stomach or my soul?
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00:25:23,845 --> 00:25:25,932
- Hot dog.
- Yes, sir.
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00:25:26,013 --> 00:25:28,694
What do you think of
all these monkey kinds?
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00:25:28,766 --> 00:25:32,360
Got no opinion, sir.
Opinions are bad for business.
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00:25:32,436 --> 00:25:36,067
Are you an evolutionist,
an infidel, a sinner?
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The worst kind. I write for a newspaper.
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- Want a hot dog?
- No, thanks.
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00:25:41,779 --> 00:25:44,496
Then you, sir, you must be a man of God.
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00:25:44,574 --> 00:25:47,077
No, no, no. Ulcers.
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00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:57,760
Ladies and gentlemen, devolution
is not a theory but a proven fact.
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00:25:57,837 --> 00:26:02,974
My friends,
man did not evolve from the ape,
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00:26:03,050 --> 00:26:07,939
but the ape devolved from man.
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00:26:08,014 --> 00:26:10,564
Take a look at this creature sitting here.
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There before you
is an example of the ungrace
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to which man can fall
because of his own bestiality.
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00:26:18,649 --> 00:26:21,698
Look at those beetling brows.
Look at those shifty eyes.
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For as sure as the good Lord
cast out Satan from heavenly glory,
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so did he devolve
this poor beast from man.
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00:26:30,453 --> 00:26:32,921
Quit looking at me, will you, son?
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00:26:32,997 --> 00:26:36,010
These are the wages of sin, my friends.
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00:26:36,083 --> 00:26:40,046
You take a lesson. Look and beware.
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00:26:40,129 --> 00:26:45,302
I thank you. Your contributions
will be gratefully received.
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00:26:45,384 --> 00:26:48,481
Grandpa. Welcome to Hillsboro, sir.
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00:26:48,554 --> 00:26:53,026
Have you come to testify
for the prosecution or the defence?
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00:26:58,648 --> 00:27:00,487
You.
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00:27:00,566 --> 00:27:04,244
- Are you Henry Drummond?
- Yes, I am.
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00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,959
- I'm Royce McHenry, farmer hereabouts.
- Nice to know you.
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00:27:09,033 --> 00:27:12,711
I wanna tell you
we're just plain folk down here.
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00:27:12,787 --> 00:27:16,464
We don't need no outsiders
to tell us how or what to think.
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00:27:17,375 --> 00:27:20,388
That isn't my mission, Mr. McHenry.
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00:27:20,461 --> 00:27:24,933
Then why don't you go back
where you came from?
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00:27:25,007 --> 00:27:26,894
Hmm.
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00:27:29,262 --> 00:27:33,521
- Pretty hot, aren't they?
- Their messiah arrived yesterday.
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00:27:33,599 --> 00:27:37,277
Drummond, why don't you give
your ulcers a break and go home?
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00:27:37,353 --> 00:27:39,275
You'll win no victories here.
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00:27:39,355 --> 00:27:43,198
I've been a lawyer long enough
to know there are no total victories.
403
00:27:43,276 --> 00:27:47,037
There's only one man in this town
who thinks at all and he's in jail.
404
00:27:47,113 --> 00:27:49,332
That's why I'm here.
405
00:28:05,256 --> 00:28:09,052
Just plain folk, second generation.
406
00:28:20,646 --> 00:28:22,901
Mr. Drummond?
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00:28:22,982 --> 00:28:26,410
We're all members
of Mr. Cates' homeroom and biology class.
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00:28:26,486 --> 00:28:30,745
We all like Mr. Cates very much.
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00:28:30,823 --> 00:28:33,623
And we hope you do right by him.
410
00:28:33,701 --> 00:28:36,667
Well, so do I, son. So do I.
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00:28:50,635 --> 00:28:54,597
- Sarah!
- It's good to see you, Henry.
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00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,978
I only wish it were
under different circumstances.
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00:28:58,059 --> 00:29:00,479
Sarah, you look lovelier than ever.
414
00:29:01,145 --> 00:29:03,233
Oh, you know Mr. Hornbeck?
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00:29:03,314 --> 00:29:06,031
- How do you do, Mrs. Brady?
- How do you do?
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00:29:09,111 --> 00:29:10,832
Aha!
417
00:29:10,905 --> 00:29:12,992
Excuse me.
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00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:17,286
Henry! Henry Drummond!
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00:29:17,370 --> 00:29:20,335
- How are you, Henry?
- Hello, Matt.
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00:29:20,414 --> 00:29:22,799
See you've already made
some young friends.
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00:29:22,875 --> 00:29:26,755
- Youth appeals to me these days.
- Room 206, Mr. Drummond.
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00:29:26,838 --> 00:29:28,973
Neither of us is getting any younger.
423
00:29:29,048 --> 00:29:33,308
Matt, you know what the doctor said
about not overeating in this heat.
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00:29:33,386 --> 00:29:36,732
Don't worry, Mother.
We need strength for the fight ahead.
425
00:29:36,806 --> 00:29:39,191
- I'll take up your bags.
- Thank you.
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00:29:39,267 --> 00:29:41,984
Oh, it's you again, Mr. Hornbeck.
427
00:29:42,061 --> 00:29:46,570
I read your article yesterday.
Very biased reporting, I must say.
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00:29:46,649 --> 00:29:49,283
Mr. Brady, it's the duty of a newspaper
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00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,620
to comfort the afflicted
and afflict the comfortable.
430
00:29:55,825 --> 00:29:58,044
I don't like that fella. Oh!
431
00:29:58,119 --> 00:30:02,959
Henry, I'd like for you to meet some of the
people of Hillsboro. Mr. Carter, the mayor.
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00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,342
- Welcome to Hillsboro.
- Thank you.
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00:30:05,418 --> 00:30:09,973
Prosecuting attorney for this district,
Mr. Davenport. We'll be working together.
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00:30:10,047 --> 00:30:14,270
Mr. Drummond, let me assure you that
while we may not agree with your ideas,
435
00:30:14,343 --> 00:30:17,357
- we respect your right to voice them.
- Good boy.
436
00:30:17,430 --> 00:30:22,650
Drummond and I have worked side by
side in many battles for the common folk.
437
00:30:22,727 --> 00:30:25,859
Twice he campaigned for me
when I ran for president.
438
00:30:25,938 --> 00:30:27,030
That's right.
439
00:30:27,106 --> 00:30:32,456
After all these years we find ourselves
on the opposite side of an issue.
440
00:30:32,528 --> 00:30:36,870
Well, that's evolution for you.
Good day, gentlemen.
441
00:30:36,949 --> 00:30:40,912
Good day, young gentlemen,
and thank you. Sarah.
442
00:30:40,995 --> 00:30:43,083
Goodbye, Henry.
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00:30:48,961 --> 00:30:51,049
(CHEERING)
444
00:31:08,523 --> 00:31:10,610
(BOOING)
445
00:31:21,410 --> 00:31:27,793
I believe we can desist with the taking
of photographs for the time being.
446
00:31:27,875 --> 00:31:32,929
Mr. Drummond, is the defence ready
for the selection of the next juror?
447
00:31:33,005 --> 00:31:37,431
- The defence is ready, Your Honour.
- Colonel Brady, is the prosecution ready?
448
00:31:37,510 --> 00:31:39,313
The prosecution is ready.
449
00:31:39,387 --> 00:31:45,438
Mort, call a venireman to fill
the twelfth and last seat on the jury.
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00:31:46,644 --> 00:31:48,779
- Jesse H Dunlap.
- Here, sir.
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00:31:48,855 --> 00:31:51,820
- You're next, Jesse.
- (SHOUTING)
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00:31:51,899 --> 00:31:53,739
(JUDGE BANGS GAVEL)
453
00:31:53,818 --> 00:31:56,701
Order in the court!
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00:31:56,904 --> 00:31:59,206
Order in the court!
455
00:31:59,282 --> 00:32:05,214
I wanna warn the spectators that the court
will not tolerate any undue disturbance.
456
00:32:05,288 --> 00:32:06,841
The 11th juror...
457
00:32:06,914 --> 00:32:10,545
I thought I made myself plain.
I'm not gonna warn you again...
458
00:32:10,626 --> 00:32:13,046
11 down and one to go,
as John P Carmody...
459
00:32:13,129 --> 00:32:17,803
And you reporters have just one more
minute on those telephones.
460
00:32:17,884 --> 00:32:20,185
(REPORTERS TALKING)
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00:32:22,096 --> 00:32:25,228
As you know, for all last night and today
462
00:32:25,308 --> 00:32:30,314
the legion of the unwashed and holy have
been rivering out of the rustic backways
463
00:32:30,396 --> 00:32:34,074
to listen to their plump messiah
coo and bellow.
464
00:32:34,150 --> 00:32:38,575
The high priest of mumbo jumbo,
Matthew Harrison Brady,
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00:32:38,654 --> 00:32:42,036
has alternately been stuffing himself
with fried chicken
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00:32:42,116 --> 00:32:46,078
and belching platitudes
since his arrival here two days ago.
467
00:32:46,162 --> 00:32:47,289
(GAVEL)
468
00:32:47,371 --> 00:32:50,005
Can we continue, Colonel Brady?
469
00:32:50,082 --> 00:32:52,586
Your Honour, before we continue,
470
00:32:52,668 --> 00:32:56,548
will the court entertain a motion
on a matter of procedure?
471
00:32:56,631 --> 00:33:00,641
Will the learned prosecutor
state the motion?
472
00:33:00,718 --> 00:33:02,806
It has been called to my attention
473
00:33:02,887 --> 00:33:08,439
that the temperature in this courtroom
is now 97 degrees Fahrenheit.
474
00:33:08,518 --> 00:33:11,198
And it may get hotter.
475
00:33:11,270 --> 00:33:13,358
(LAUGHTER)
476
00:33:15,483 --> 00:33:18,496
I do not think
the dignity of this court will suffer
477
00:33:18,569 --> 00:33:23,078
if we remove
a few superfluous outer garments.
478
00:33:23,157 --> 00:33:28,247
Does the defence have any objection
to Colonel Brady's motion?
479
00:33:28,329 --> 00:33:33,584
I don't know if the dignity of this court
can be upheld with these galluses.
480
00:33:34,418 --> 00:33:38,381
We'll take that chance, Mr. Drummond.
481
00:33:38,464 --> 00:33:43,020
Those who wish to remove
their coats may do so.
482
00:33:48,975 --> 00:33:52,237
Is the counsel for the defence
483
00:33:52,311 --> 00:33:56,986
showing us the latest fashion from
the great metropolitan city of Chicago?
484
00:33:57,066 --> 00:33:59,071
(LAUGHTER)
485
00:33:59,152 --> 00:34:03,162
Glad you asked me that.
I brought these along special.
486
00:34:03,239 --> 00:34:06,371
I bought these in Peabody's general store,
487
00:34:06,450 --> 00:34:09,998
in your home town, Mr. Brady,
Weeping Water, Nebraska.
488
00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:13,461
(LAUGHTER)
489
00:34:15,251 --> 00:34:16,544
(GAVEL)
490
00:34:18,588 --> 00:34:23,179
Let us proceed with the selection
of the final juror. Mort.
491
00:34:23,259 --> 00:34:25,763
State your name and occupation, Jess.
492
00:34:25,845 --> 00:34:28,395
Jesse H Dunlap. Farmer.
493
00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:32,185
- Mr. Davenport.
- Right.
494
00:34:33,102 --> 00:34:36,151
Do you believe in the Bible, Mr. Dunlap?
495
00:34:37,190 --> 00:34:42,540
I believe in the holy word of God.
And I believe in Matthew Harrison Brady.
496
00:34:42,612 --> 00:34:44,617
Amen!
497
00:34:44,697 --> 00:34:46,619
Hallelujah, brother.
498
00:34:46,699 --> 00:34:49,285
(APPLAUSE FOLLOWED BY GAVEL)
499
00:34:49,368 --> 00:34:53,841
This man is acceptable
to the prosecution.
500
00:34:53,915 --> 00:34:57,378
- JUDGE: Mr. Drummond?
- No questions. Not acceptable.
501
00:35:00,588 --> 00:35:04,135
Does Mr. Drummond refuse
this man a place on the jury
502
00:35:04,217 --> 00:35:06,304
because he believes in the Bible?
503
00:35:06,385 --> 00:35:10,811
If you find an evolutionist in this town,
you can refuse him.
504
00:35:10,890 --> 00:35:15,031
I object to the defence attorney
rejecting a worthy citizen
505
00:35:15,102 --> 00:35:18,697
without so much as
asking him a question.
506
00:35:19,774 --> 00:35:22,408
All right, I'll ask him a question.
507
00:35:33,830 --> 00:35:35,585
How are you?
508
00:35:35,665 --> 00:35:38,215
Well, kinda hot.
509
00:35:38,292 --> 00:35:41,092
Me too. Excused.
510
00:35:41,170 --> 00:35:43,258
(LAUGHTER)
511
00:35:44,549 --> 00:35:46,636
(GAVEL)
512
00:35:50,513 --> 00:35:53,776
You are excused from jury duty, Jesse.
You may step down.
513
00:35:53,850 --> 00:35:55,937
Your Honour,
514
00:35:56,018 --> 00:36:02,745
I object to the note of levity which the
counsel for the defence is introducing.
515
00:36:02,817 --> 00:36:05,237
The court agrees with you, Colonel Brady.
516
00:36:05,319 --> 00:36:08,534
And I object to all this
"Colonel Brady" talk.
517
00:36:08,614 --> 00:36:12,375
I am not familiar
with Mr. Brady's military record.
518
00:36:12,451 --> 00:36:17,968
He was made honorary colonel
in our state militia the day he arrived.
519
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,303
The use of the title
prejudices the case of my client.
520
00:36:21,377 --> 00:36:25,518
It calls up a picture of the prosecution
astride a white horse
521
00:36:25,590 --> 00:36:28,520
ablaze in the uniform
of a military colonel,
522
00:36:28,593 --> 00:36:34,359
and with all the forces of right and
righteousness marshalled behind him.
523
00:36:36,517 --> 00:36:39,732
We want to give you
a fair hearing in this courtroom.
524
00:36:39,812 --> 00:36:43,110
We don't want anything prejudicial
to your client.
525
00:36:43,191 --> 00:36:45,741
What do you suggest we do, Counsellor?
526
00:36:45,818 --> 00:36:48,784
Break him. Make him a private.
527
00:36:48,863 --> 00:36:53,917
I have no serious objection
to the honorary title of Private Brady.
528
00:37:06,672 --> 00:37:10,136
You'd better do something about this,
Jason.
529
00:37:10,218 --> 00:37:13,931
- Get him up here.
- Oh, Mr. Drummond.
530
00:37:17,517 --> 00:37:19,604
- You know our mayor?
- Yes.
531
00:37:19,685 --> 00:37:21,940
I believe he has a suggestion to make.
532
00:37:22,021 --> 00:37:25,153
By authority of, uh...
533
00:37:26,192 --> 00:37:28,695
I'm sure the governor won't object.
534
00:37:28,778 --> 00:37:35,409
I hereby appoint you a temporary
honorary colonel in the state militia.
535
00:37:35,493 --> 00:37:39,040
Well! Well, gentlemen, what can I say?
536
00:37:40,122 --> 00:37:46,220
It is not every day that a man attains the
position of temporary honorary colonel.
537
00:37:46,295 --> 00:37:48,431
I thank you.
538
00:37:51,134 --> 00:37:55,440
Colonel Brady, Colonel Drummond,
you will examine the next venireman.
539
00:37:55,513 --> 00:37:57,600
Mort.
540
00:37:58,933 --> 00:38:01,187
George Sillers.
541
00:38:01,269 --> 00:38:03,356
You're next, George.
542
00:38:09,235 --> 00:38:11,703
State your name and occupation, George.
543
00:38:11,779 --> 00:38:15,955
George Sillers. I work at the feed store.
544
00:38:17,743 --> 00:38:21,504
Tell me, sir,
would you call yourself a religious man?
545
00:38:21,581 --> 00:38:23,716
I'm as religious as the next fella.
546
00:38:23,791 --> 00:38:26,472
In Hillsboro, sir, that means a great deal.
547
00:38:26,544 --> 00:38:28,679
(MURMURS OF AGREEMENT)
548
00:38:28,754 --> 00:38:32,101
Tell me, Mr. Sillers,
do you have any children?
549
00:38:32,842 --> 00:38:34,929
Not as I know of.
550
00:38:35,011 --> 00:38:37,146
(LAUGHTER)
551
00:38:37,221 --> 00:38:40,567
If you had a son, or a daughter,
what would you think
552
00:38:40,641 --> 00:38:45,197
if that sweet child came home from
school and told you a godless teacher...
553
00:38:45,271 --> 00:38:48,699
Objection! We're supposed
to be selecting jury members.
554
00:38:48,774 --> 00:38:53,864
The prosecution is denouncing the
defendant before the trial has even begun.
555
00:38:53,946 --> 00:38:56,711
Objection sustained.
556
00:38:57,658 --> 00:39:01,087
Do you have any personal opinions
with regard to the defendant
557
00:39:01,162 --> 00:39:04,424
that might prejudice you on his behalf?
558
00:39:04,499 --> 00:39:06,338
- Cates?
- Hm.
559
00:39:06,417 --> 00:39:08,921
I don't hardly know the man.
560
00:39:09,003 --> 00:39:13,393
He bought some peat marsh from me
one time. He paid his bill.
561
00:39:13,466 --> 00:39:18,472
Mr. Sillers impresses me as an honest,
God-fearing man. I accept him.
562
00:39:18,554 --> 00:39:21,651
Thank you, Colonel Brady.
Colonel Drummond?
563
00:39:29,065 --> 00:39:32,473
Mr. Sillers, you have
just said that you are
564
00:39:32,499 --> 00:39:35,603
a religious man. Do
you work at it hard?
565
00:39:35,655 --> 00:39:40,744
I'm pretty busy down at the feed store.
My wife tends the religion for both of us.
566
00:39:40,827 --> 00:39:43,330
Oh, I see. I see.
567
00:39:43,412 --> 00:39:46,876
You take care of this life
and she takes care of the next one?
568
00:39:46,958 --> 00:39:50,090
That is objected to
as immaterial and argumentative.
569
00:39:50,169 --> 00:39:53,135
JUDGE: Objection sustained.
570
00:39:53,214 --> 00:39:56,808
While your wife has been
taking care of the religion,
571
00:39:56,884 --> 00:40:00,182
have you ever heard of
a fella called Charles Darwin?
572
00:40:00,263 --> 00:40:04,106
- Not till recent.
- Tell me something.
573
00:40:04,183 --> 00:40:08,525
From what you've heard, is he the kind
of man you'd invite for Sunday dinner?
574
00:40:08,604 --> 00:40:14,406
My opponent from Chicago is cluttering
up the issue with hypothetical questions.
575
00:40:14,485 --> 00:40:18,875
I have established that Mr. Sillers
is not working very hard at religion.
576
00:40:18,948 --> 00:40:23,788
Now, for your sake, I'm trying to establish
that he is not working at evolution.
577
00:40:23,870 --> 00:40:26,088
I'm just working at the feed store.
578
00:40:26,164 --> 00:40:29,510
(LAUGHTER FOLLOWED BY GAVEL)
579
00:40:29,584 --> 00:40:34,887
- Mr. Sillers, do you think you can render...
- Objection. The prosecution's accepted...
580
00:40:34,964 --> 00:40:36,969
- All I want is a fair trial.
- So do I.
581
00:40:37,049 --> 00:40:41,012
Unless the state of mind of the members
of the jury conforms to the laws...
582
00:40:41,095 --> 00:40:43,017
Oh, conform, conform!
583
00:40:43,097 --> 00:40:47,487
Do you want to run the jury through
a meat grinder so they're all the same?
584
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,565
Take a box seat there, Mr. Sillers.
585
00:40:49,645 --> 00:40:52,030
Your Honour, this is ludicrous!
586
00:40:52,106 --> 00:40:54,407
Gentlemen, you are both out of order.
587
00:40:54,484 --> 00:40:59,205
The bench rules
that the jury has been selected.
588
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:04,500
Due to the excessive heat, court is
adjourned until ten tomorrow morning.
589
00:41:06,162 --> 00:41:09,590
One moment, please. One moment.
590
00:41:09,665 --> 00:41:12,050
Order in the court.
591
00:41:12,126 --> 00:41:14,178
Reverend Brown has asked me
to announce
592
00:41:14,253 --> 00:41:19,426
that there will be a prayer meeting tonight
to pray for justice and guidance.
593
00:41:19,509 --> 00:41:21,348
All are invited.
594
00:41:21,427 --> 00:41:25,520
Your Honour, I object to
that commercial announcement.
595
00:41:25,598 --> 00:41:29,145
- Commercial announcement?
- Of Reverend Brown's product.
596
00:41:29,227 --> 00:41:32,525
Why don't you announce there
will be an evolution meeting?
597
00:41:32,605 --> 00:41:36,781
- I have no knowledge of such a meeting.
- That's quite understandable.
598
00:41:36,859 --> 00:41:42,743
It isn't enough that everybody has to pass
under a sign that says "Read Your Bible".
599
00:41:42,824 --> 00:41:46,537
- I want that sign taken down.
- No! No!
600
00:41:46,619 --> 00:41:48,706
No! No!
601
00:41:48,788 --> 00:41:51,172
Or else I want another sign put up,
602
00:41:51,249 --> 00:41:55,211
just as big, with just as big letters,
which says "Read Your Darwin".
603
00:41:55,294 --> 00:41:58,592
(CHEERING FOLLOWED BY BOOING)
604
00:41:59,507 --> 00:42:01,761
That's what I mean about this man.
605
00:42:01,843 --> 00:42:04,179
- JUDGE: Order!
- Your Honour.
606
00:42:04,262 --> 00:42:09,695
We want the counsel from the North
to get every fairness and consideration.
607
00:42:09,767 --> 00:42:11,737
We must not forget he is our guest.
608
00:42:11,811 --> 00:42:14,148
Guest, hell! I'm a lawyer in a courtroom!
609
00:42:14,230 --> 00:42:18,739
Then behave like it! Stop using this court
as a platform for your obscene ideas,
610
00:42:18,818 --> 00:42:21,119
trying to dirty the minds of our young.
611
00:42:21,195 --> 00:42:24,410
You are both out of order.
The court is adjourned.
612
00:42:24,490 --> 00:42:28,334
My conduct is not under question,
and certainly not by you.
613
00:42:28,411 --> 00:42:32,468
- Your language is.
- I don't swear just for the hell of it.
614
00:42:32,540 --> 00:42:35,126
Language is a poor enough means
of communication.
615
00:42:35,209 --> 00:42:37,464
We should use all the words we've got.
616
00:42:37,545 --> 00:42:41,768
Besides, there are damn few words
that anybody understands.
617
00:42:45,970 --> 00:42:48,734
Henry Drummond, atheist!
618
00:42:48,806 --> 00:42:52,519
You, what are you gonna say
in your paper now?
619
00:42:52,602 --> 00:42:57,406
He that sups with the devil
must have a long spoon.
620
00:43:14,207 --> 00:43:18,383
We'll fix you, Cates.
We'll run you out of town.
621
00:43:20,505 --> 00:43:25,938
Well, anyway, the Baltimore Herald
is with you, right up to the lynching.
622
00:43:33,351 --> 00:43:35,985
Bert.
623
00:43:36,062 --> 00:43:38,565
You've got to call the whole thing off now.
624
00:43:38,648 --> 00:43:41,780
- Who are you?
- This is Rachel Brown. We're engaged.
625
00:43:41,859 --> 00:43:43,781
Reverend Brown's daughter?
626
00:43:43,861 --> 00:43:45,831
Don't you see what's happening?
627
00:43:45,905 --> 00:43:48,870
They're using you as a weapon
against your own people.
628
00:43:48,950 --> 00:43:53,589
What you think or believe isn't the point
any more. You're helping something bad.
629
00:43:53,663 --> 00:43:58,717
It's not as simple as all that.
Good or bad, black or white, day or night.
630
00:43:58,793 --> 00:44:02,554
Do you know that at the top of the world,
twilight is six months long?
631
00:44:02,630 --> 00:44:04,931
Bert and I don't live on top of the world.
632
00:44:05,007 --> 00:44:08,685
We live in Hillsboro,
and when the sun goes down, it's dark.
633
00:44:08,761 --> 00:44:11,347
Why do you come here
to make it different?
634
00:44:11,430 --> 00:44:15,856
I didn't come to make Hillsboro different.
I came to defend his right to be different.
635
00:44:15,935 --> 00:44:19,114
That's the point. How about it, boy?
636
00:44:19,188 --> 00:44:22,486
I don't know what the point is any more.
637
00:44:22,567 --> 00:44:25,247
I tried to open their kids' minds.
Their kids.
638
00:44:25,319 --> 00:44:30,325
To give them knowledge they could use.
They're using it, as a stranglehold on me.
639
00:44:30,408 --> 00:44:34,963
You're learning, Cates. Disillusionment
is what little heroes are made of.
640
00:44:35,037 --> 00:44:38,051
Do I finish with
a paper medal on my chest?
641
00:44:38,124 --> 00:44:41,885
"BERT CATES: World's biggest chump.
He died fighting." Let's face it.
642
00:44:41,961 --> 00:44:46,102
- To him I'm a headline. To you, a 'cause.
- And to yourself?
643
00:44:46,174 --> 00:44:50,515
All right, let's face it.
You chose to get into this by yourself.
644
00:44:50,595 --> 00:44:54,308
You didn't get into it
because of his headline or my 'cause,
645
00:44:54,390 --> 00:44:57,736
or maybe even because of their kids.
646
00:44:57,810 --> 00:45:01,986
You got into it because of
something you believed in for yourself.
647
00:45:02,064 --> 00:45:05,363
- I didn't believe it would happen this way.
- It can get worse.
648
00:45:05,443 --> 00:45:07,744
Those people are in
a lean and hungry mood.
649
00:45:07,820 --> 00:45:09,908
They look at me as if I was a murderer.
650
00:45:09,989 --> 00:45:14,165
In a way you are.
You killed one of their fairy-tale notions.
651
00:45:14,243 --> 00:45:19,712
They'll bring down the wrath of God,
Brady and the state legislature on you.
652
00:45:19,790 --> 00:45:24,180
- You make a joke out of everything.
- Young lady,
653
00:45:24,253 --> 00:45:28,429
I know what Bert is going through.
It's the loneliest feeling in the world.
654
00:45:28,508 --> 00:45:34,107
It's like walking down an empty street
listening to your own footsteps.
655
00:45:34,180 --> 00:45:37,727
But all you have to do is
to knock on any door and say:
656
00:45:37,809 --> 00:45:41,735
"If you'll let me in,
I'll live the way you want me to live,
657
00:45:41,813 --> 00:45:44,530
and I'll think the way
you want me to think."
658
00:45:44,607 --> 00:45:47,455
And all the blinds'll go up,
all the doors'll open,
659
00:45:47,527 --> 00:45:51,157
and you'll never be lonely ever again.
660
00:45:52,615 --> 00:45:57,586
It's up to you, Cates. You just say
the word and we'll change the plea.
661
00:45:57,662 --> 00:46:03,131
That is, of course, if you honestly believe
that the law is right and you're wrong.
662
00:46:03,209 --> 00:46:05,843
If that's the case,
tell me and I'll pack my bag
663
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,266
and go back to Chicago,
where it's a nice cool 100 in the shade.
664
00:46:09,340 --> 00:46:14,097
Bert, I've gone to my father's church
every Sunday as long as I can remember.
665
00:46:14,178 --> 00:46:18,438
This is where I live.
This is where my children'll be born.
666
00:46:18,516 --> 00:46:20,770
What kind of a life could we have?
667
00:46:22,812 --> 00:46:26,573
What kind of life could we have
if I gave up now?
668
00:46:26,649 --> 00:46:30,031
Your father's kind?
Hallelujah and ignorance here we come?
669
00:46:30,111 --> 00:46:36,374
What goes on here is not necessarily
the Christian religion everyplace else.
670
00:46:39,370 --> 00:46:42,917
Rach, I can't live the way you want me to.
671
00:46:42,999 --> 00:46:46,345
You're the one who's got to decide.
672
00:46:46,419 --> 00:46:49,883
It's his church or our house.
You can't live in both.
673
00:46:52,592 --> 00:46:56,472
Sorry, Bert. I have to take you back now.
674
00:47:16,157 --> 00:47:18,542
You ever been in love, Hornbeck?
675
00:47:18,618 --> 00:47:23,126
Only with the sound of my own words,
thank God.
676
00:47:24,248 --> 00:47:27,879
I have been to their cities
and I have seen the altars
677
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:33,643
upon which they sacrifice the futures
of their children to the gods of science.
678
00:47:33,716 --> 00:47:37,145
And what are their rewards?
Confusion and self-destruction.
679
00:47:37,220 --> 00:47:39,937
New ways to kill each other in wars.
680
00:47:40,014 --> 00:47:42,778
The way of scientism
is the way of darkness.
681
00:47:42,850 --> 00:47:45,899
Mr. Brady, do you believe seriously
682
00:47:45,978 --> 00:47:50,285
that the majority of the American people
hold with your views?
683
00:47:50,358 --> 00:47:53,952
Not just the views of
Matthew Harrison Brady, Mr. Hornbeck.
684
00:47:54,028 --> 00:47:57,825
There isn't one state where
the evolutionists are in the majority.
685
00:47:57,907 --> 00:48:00,837
It'll be the people themselves
who will speak.
686
00:48:00,910 --> 00:48:06,213
How do you account for the unfortunate
comment that your crusade has aroused?
687
00:48:06,290 --> 00:48:11,925
The attacks stem from a vociferous
minority which controls the press.
688
00:48:12,004 --> 00:48:17,888
I hope you gentlemen - madam - will not
be influenced by this same negative bias.
689
00:48:17,969 --> 00:48:20,223
Pardon me.
690
00:48:20,304 --> 00:48:25,560
Thank you, O Lord, dear Father, from
whom all blessings flow, for thy bounty.
691
00:48:25,643 --> 00:48:28,573
Make us worthy of thy grace. Amen.
692
00:48:28,646 --> 00:48:32,240
Go ahead, Henry. I said grace for you too.
693
00:48:32,316 --> 00:48:34,956
God may be a matter of
indifference to the
694
00:48:34,969 --> 00:48:37,620
evolutionists and the
life beyond hold no...
695
00:48:37,697 --> 00:48:41,374
- Sarah!
- But the mass of mankind will worship.
696
00:48:41,450 --> 00:48:43,004
Justice rests...
697
00:48:43,077 --> 00:48:46,708
Here, sit with me.
He'll be busy for a while.
698
00:48:47,832 --> 00:48:51,675
Where is it?
The hat with the little blue feather.
699
00:48:51,752 --> 00:48:53,639
Blue feather?
700
00:48:53,713 --> 00:48:58,850
You used to wear it to all the conventions.
And it was much too becoming.
701
00:48:58,926 --> 00:49:03,233
And whatever happened
to that skinny black tie you used to wear?
702
00:49:03,306 --> 00:49:07,149
Not very attractive. Like an old shoelace.
703
00:49:07,226 --> 00:49:09,481
It's back in the shoe.
704
00:49:09,562 --> 00:49:11,649
How are you, Sarah? How are you?
705
00:49:11,731 --> 00:49:16,121
- A little greyer, Henry. And you?
- A little grimmer.
706
00:49:16,194 --> 00:49:20,666
I don't believe it. I watched you in court.
You seemed to enjoy it as much as ever.
707
00:49:20,740 --> 00:49:24,168
That's Matt. He brings out the worst in me.
708
00:49:24,243 --> 00:49:26,545
We've missed you, Henry.
709
00:49:26,621 --> 00:49:29,255
You don't make many good friends
in a lifetime.
710
00:49:29,332 --> 00:49:34,255
I never dreamed
our ideas would separate us.
711
00:49:34,337 --> 00:49:38,809
BRADY: I have reason to be. I have
messages of encouragement from...
712
00:49:38,883 --> 00:49:43,688
- He still has a loud voice.
- He still has something to say, Henry.
713
00:49:43,763 --> 00:49:48,686
- About how everybody else should live?
- Oh, don't be cynical.
714
00:49:48,768 --> 00:49:54,451
I think every man longs to be his brother's
keeper and to be cared for in return.
715
00:49:55,316 --> 00:49:57,902
It sounds more convincing
coming from you.
716
00:49:57,985 --> 00:50:01,248
He doesn't have a blue feather in his hat,
that's all.
717
00:50:01,322 --> 00:50:07,005
You know, looking back, I don't think
Matt would have made a great president.
718
00:50:07,078 --> 00:50:11,799
But I would have voted for him for king
just to have you for queen.
719
00:50:12,333 --> 00:50:15,964
- What would you have been?
- Your Majesty's loyal opposition.
720
00:50:16,045 --> 00:50:18,346
BRADY: The written word of the Bible.
721
00:50:18,422 --> 00:50:21,851
I believe that Hillsboro... Pardon me.
722
00:50:21,926 --> 00:50:25,224
Will become the shrine
of all those millions upon millions
723
00:50:25,304 --> 00:50:30,310
who find a rallying point
for their expression of God's will.
724
00:50:30,393 --> 00:50:32,979
That's all for today, gentlemen.
725
00:50:34,063 --> 00:50:35,237
Hearken to the Word.
726
00:50:36,065 --> 00:50:38,236
Hearken to the Word!
727
00:50:38,317 --> 00:50:43,490
The Word tells us
that the world was created in six days.
728
00:50:43,573 --> 00:50:47,167
In the beginning
the earth was without form and void,
729
00:50:47,243 --> 00:50:50,007
and the Lord said "Let there be light."
730
00:50:50,079 --> 00:50:52,796
- (CROWD MURMURS)
- And there was light.
731
00:50:52,874 --> 00:50:54,345
(CROWD MURMURS)
732
00:50:54,417 --> 00:50:59,257
The Lord saw the light and the light saw
the Lord and it said "Am I good, Lord?"
733
00:50:59,338 --> 00:51:02,304
And the Lord said "Thou art good."
734
00:51:02,383 --> 00:51:03,854
Amen!
735
00:51:03,926 --> 00:51:07,224
MAN: And the evening and the morning
were the first day.
736
00:51:07,305 --> 00:51:12,193
The Lord said "Let there be a firmament."
And even as he spoke it was so.
737
00:51:12,268 --> 00:51:15,566
And the evening and the morning
were the second day.
738
00:51:15,646 --> 00:51:20,403
On the third day brought he forth the
dry land and the grass and the fruit tree.
739
00:51:20,485 --> 00:51:23,450
And on the fourth day
the sun, the moon and the stars,
740
00:51:23,529 --> 00:51:26,033
and he pronounced them good.
741
00:51:26,115 --> 00:51:28,666
The fifth day peopled he the sea with fish
742
00:51:28,743 --> 00:51:32,705
and the air with fowl
and made he the great whale.
743
00:51:32,788 --> 00:51:36,170
And he blessed them all.
744
00:51:36,250 --> 00:51:38,884
(CROWD SHOUTS)
745
00:51:38,961 --> 00:51:47,017
But... on the morning of the sixth day
the Lord rose,
746
00:51:47,094 --> 00:51:53,228
and his eye was dark
and a scowl lay across his face.
747
00:51:53,309 --> 00:51:55,813
Why? Why was the Lord troubled?
748
00:51:55,895 --> 00:51:58,860
- Why? Tell us!
- Tell us the troubles of the Lord!
749
00:51:58,940 --> 00:52:00,660
Tell us the troubles of the Lord!
750
00:52:00,733 --> 00:52:04,790
The Lord looked around at all
his handiwork, bowed down before him,
751
00:52:04,862 --> 00:52:10,830
and he said "it is not good.
It is not enough. It is not finished!"
752
00:52:10,910 --> 00:52:15,169
"I shall make me a man!"
753
00:52:15,248 --> 00:52:18,344
(ENTHUSIASTIC SHOUTING)
754
00:52:18,417 --> 00:52:20,636
- Do we believe?
- Yes.
755
00:52:20,711 --> 00:52:22,763
- Do we believe the Word?
- Yes.
756
00:52:22,839 --> 00:52:25,389
- Do we believe the truth of the Word?
- Yes.
757
00:52:25,466 --> 00:52:28,681
- Do we curse him who denies the Word?
- Yes.
758
00:52:28,761 --> 00:52:32,723
Do we call down hellfire on the man
who has sinned against the Word?
759
00:52:32,807 --> 00:52:33,981
Yes!
760
00:52:34,058 --> 00:52:36,359
Whatever happened to silent prayer?
761
00:52:36,435 --> 00:52:39,532
O Lord of the tempest and the thunder,
762
00:52:39,605 --> 00:52:42,654
strike down this sinner
763
00:52:42,733 --> 00:52:46,115
as thou did thine enemies of old
in the days of the Pharaohs.
764
00:52:46,195 --> 00:52:49,743
Let him know the terror of thy sword.
765
00:52:49,824 --> 00:52:57,547
Let his soul, for all eternity,
writhe in anguish and damnation!
766
00:52:57,623 --> 00:53:01,716
No! No, Pa! Don't pray to destroy Bert!
767
00:53:01,794 --> 00:53:07,560
Lord, we ask this same curse
for those who ask grace for this sinner,
768
00:53:07,633 --> 00:53:11,062
though they be blood of my blood
and flesh of my flesh!
769
00:53:11,137 --> 00:53:13,854
Reverend Brown. Reverend Brown.
770
00:53:13,931 --> 00:53:18,985
I know it's the great zeal of your faith
which makes you utter this prayer,
771
00:53:19,061 --> 00:53:21,316
but it is possible to be overzealous,
772
00:53:21,397 --> 00:53:26,321
to destroy that which you hope to save
so that nothing is left but emptiness.
773
00:53:26,402 --> 00:53:29,368
Remember the wisdom of Solomon
in the Book of Proverbs.
774
00:53:29,447 --> 00:53:36,257
"He that troubleth his own house
shall inherit the wind."
775
00:53:36,329 --> 00:53:39,793
The Bible also tells us
that God forgives his children.
776
00:53:39,874 --> 00:53:44,845
And we, as children of God,
should forgive each other.
777
00:53:44,921 --> 00:53:50,271
My good friends, return to your homes.
Go home.
778
00:53:50,343 --> 00:53:53,308
The blessings of the Lord be with you all.
779
00:54:10,071 --> 00:54:12,076
We'll take you home.
780
00:54:12,156 --> 00:54:16,961
- I can't go home. He hates me.
- He doesn't hate you.
781
00:54:17,036 --> 00:54:20,879
He damned me.
My own father damned me to hell.
782
00:54:20,957 --> 00:54:23,258
No man has the power to damn.
783
00:54:23,334 --> 00:54:28,684
He's always done it. He did it to Bert
and the little Stebbins boy.
784
00:54:28,756 --> 00:54:31,057
The Stebbins boy?
785
00:54:31,134 --> 00:54:33,814
That's how the whole thing started.
786
00:54:35,096 --> 00:54:38,145
The Stebbins boy
was just an innocent child.
787
00:54:38,224 --> 00:54:42,696
God has no wrath for the innocent,
my dear.
788
00:54:42,770 --> 00:54:45,404
That's what Bert said.
789
00:54:45,481 --> 00:54:49,075
He used to say that
when we were together.
790
00:54:50,736 --> 00:54:58,661
If I could just explain it clearly,
then you'd understand. Mr. Brady, please...
791
00:54:58,744 --> 00:55:03,217
We'll do all we can to help you.
Come. Now let's go home.
792
00:55:29,025 --> 00:55:32,287
- I'll be right up, Sarah.
- All right, Matt.
793
00:55:32,361 --> 00:55:35,291
- Good night, Henry.
- Good night.
794
00:55:46,375 --> 00:55:50,006
- You're up late.
- Too hot to sleep.
795
00:55:51,964 --> 00:55:54,812
No use trying to fool ourselves, Henry.
796
00:55:54,884 --> 00:55:58,396
We're just not the men we used to be.
797
00:55:59,430 --> 00:56:05,694
By the size of that meal you packed away,
I'd say you hadn't changed in 40 years.
798
00:56:13,945 --> 00:56:19,663
Funny how two people can start
from the same point and drift apart.
799
00:56:21,744 --> 00:56:25,375
It's the nature of the life process.
800
00:56:25,456 --> 00:56:29,003
There used to be
a mutuality of understanding
801
00:56:29,085 --> 00:56:32,347
and admiration between us, Henry.
802
00:56:33,381 --> 00:56:39,016
Why is it, my old friend,
that you've moved so far away from me?
803
00:56:39,095 --> 00:56:45,027
All motion is relative, Matt. Maybe it's
you who have moved away by standing still.
804
00:56:45,101 --> 00:56:47,900
Hm.
805
00:56:47,979 --> 00:56:53,496
If progress means abandoning God,
abandoning the faith of our fathers...
806
00:56:53,568 --> 00:56:57,364
I saw a demonstration of that faith.
It's a deadly instrument.
807
00:56:57,446 --> 00:57:02,417
You saw a reflection of the violence
and hate in the world around them.
808
00:57:02,493 --> 00:57:04,166
Your world.
809
00:57:04,245 --> 00:57:07,876
But they were driven to it
because their faith was challenged.
810
00:57:07,957 --> 00:57:10,840
These are simple people, Henry.
Poor people.
811
00:57:10,918 --> 00:57:17,182
They work hard and they need to believe
in something... something beautiful.
812
00:57:17,258 --> 00:57:20,473
They're seeking something
more perfect than what they have.
813
00:57:20,553 --> 00:57:22,273
Window-shopping for heaven.
814
00:57:22,346 --> 00:57:25,644
Why do you want to take it away
from them? It's all they have.
815
00:57:25,725 --> 00:57:28,690
Like a golden chalice of hope.
816
00:57:30,229 --> 00:57:31,819
Ah.
817
00:57:31,898 --> 00:57:34,401
Like my golden Dancer.
818
00:57:36,235 --> 00:57:40,079
- Your what?
- Golden Dancer.
819
00:57:40,156 --> 00:57:43,502
She stood in the side window
of the general store in Wakeman, Ohio.
820
00:57:43,576 --> 00:57:49,294
I used to say to myself "If I had Golden
Dancer I'd have everything I ever wanted."
821
00:57:49,373 --> 00:57:54,926
I was about seven years old at the time
and a great judge of rocking horses.
822
00:57:55,004 --> 00:57:58,101
Golden Dancer had
a bright red mane, blue eyes,
823
00:57:58,174 --> 00:58:00,974
and she was gold all over
with purple spots.
824
00:58:01,052 --> 00:58:05,975
And when the sun hit her stirrups
she was a dazzling sight to behold.
825
00:58:06,057 --> 00:58:10,399
But she was a week's wages
for my father.
826
00:58:10,478 --> 00:58:16,493
So Golden Dancer and I always had
a big plate glass window between us.
827
00:58:18,528 --> 00:58:20,864
And then...
828
00:58:20,947 --> 00:58:22,619
Let's see...
829
00:58:22,698 --> 00:58:27,337
Couldn't have been Christmas.
It must have been my birthday.
830
00:58:27,411 --> 00:58:31,718
I woke in the morning and there was
Golden Dancer at the foot of my bed.
831
00:58:31,791 --> 00:58:36,548
Mom had skimped on the groceries and
my father had worked nights for a month.
832
00:58:36,629 --> 00:58:40,509
I jumped into the saddle
and I started to rock.
833
00:58:41,634 --> 00:58:45,644
And it broke. Split in two.
The wood was rotten.
834
00:58:45,721 --> 00:58:50,526
The whole thing was put together
with spit and sealing wax.
835
00:58:50,601 --> 00:58:53,449
All shine and no substance.
836
00:58:53,521 --> 00:58:57,661
And that's how I feel about that
demonstration I saw tonight, Matt.
837
00:58:57,733 --> 00:59:00,451
All glitter.
You say you're giving the people hope.
838
00:59:00,528 --> 00:59:03,791
- I think you're stealing their hope.
- No, Henry.
839
00:59:03,865 --> 00:59:07,258
As long as the prerequisite
for that shining
840
00:59:07,271 --> 00:59:10,674
paradise is ignorance,
bigotry and hate,
841
00:59:10,746 --> 00:59:13,215
I say to hell with it.
842
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,311
To keep an open mind
on the origin of species.
843
00:59:27,638 --> 00:59:31,233
Very interesting, Howard. Very interesting.
844
00:59:31,309 --> 00:59:36,826
Now go on, Howard. Tell us what else
Mr. Cates told you in the classroom.
845
00:59:38,149 --> 00:59:41,743
He said first the earth was too hot
for any kind of life.
846
00:59:41,819 --> 00:59:45,616
Then it cooled off a mite
and cells and things began to grow.
847
00:59:45,698 --> 00:59:48,083
Cell...
848
00:59:48,159 --> 00:59:49,630
Oh.
849
00:59:49,702 --> 00:59:55,468
Mr. McKennon, Mr. Galbraith. I think
you know the rest of these gentlemen.
850
00:59:58,878 --> 01:00:01,179
(GAVEL)
851
01:00:05,968 --> 01:00:09,516
- Cells, Howard?
- Little bugs in the water.
852
01:00:09,597 --> 01:00:14,106
The little bugs got to be bigger bugs,
sprouted legs and crawled up on the land.
853
01:00:14,185 --> 01:00:16,688
How long did this take,
according to Mr. Cates?
854
01:00:16,771 --> 01:00:19,701
A couple of million years. Maybe longer.
855
01:00:20,441 --> 01:00:24,154
Then comes the fishes, and reptiles
and mammals. Man's a mammal.
856
01:00:24,237 --> 01:00:26,324
Along with the dogs.
857
01:00:26,405 --> 01:00:28,790
And the cattle in the fields.
858
01:00:28,866 --> 01:00:30,954
- Did he say that?
- Yes, sir.
859
01:00:33,204 --> 01:00:38,258
Now, Howard, how does man come out
of this slimy mess of bugs and serpents,
860
01:00:38,334 --> 01:00:41,098
according to your professor?
861
01:00:42,213 --> 01:00:46,722
Well, man has sort of evoluted
from the Old World monkeys.
862
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:49,848
Did you hear that, my friends?
863
01:00:49,929 --> 01:00:52,314
Old World monkeys! Ha!
864
01:00:52,390 --> 01:00:57,942
According to Mr. Cates, you and I aren't
even descended from American monkeys.
865
01:00:58,020 --> 01:00:59,693
Listen carefully.
866
01:00:59,772 --> 01:01:05,704
In all this talk of bugs and evolution,
of slime and ooze,
867
01:01:05,778 --> 01:01:10,120
did Mr. Cates ever make
any reference to God?
868
01:01:12,326 --> 01:01:17,499
- Not as I remember.
- Of the miracle he achieved in 7 days,
869
01:01:17,582 --> 01:01:20,547
as described in the beautiful
Book of Genesis?
870
01:01:20,626 --> 01:01:22,513
No, sir.
871
01:01:22,587 --> 01:01:25,933
- Ladies and gentlemen...
- Objection.
872
01:01:26,007 --> 01:01:30,064
I ask the court to remind the learned
counsel he is not in a chautauqua tent.
873
01:01:30,136 --> 01:01:33,979
He is submitting evidence to a jury.
There are no ladies on the jury.
874
01:01:34,056 --> 01:01:39,823
Your Honour,
I have no intention of making a speech.
875
01:01:39,896 --> 01:01:42,150
There is no need.
876
01:01:42,231 --> 01:01:45,031
I am sure that everyone on the jury,
877
01:01:45,109 --> 01:01:47,529
everyone within the sound
of this boy's voice,
878
01:01:47,612 --> 01:01:50,577
is moved by his tragic confusion.
879
01:01:50,656 --> 01:01:54,168
He has been taught
that he wriggled up like an animal
880
01:01:54,243 --> 01:01:56,711
from the filth and muck below.
881
01:01:56,787 --> 01:02:01,711
I say that these Bible-haters,
these evolutionists are brewers of poison.
882
01:02:01,792 --> 01:02:06,467
And the legislature of this sovereign state
has had the wisdom to demand
883
01:02:06,547 --> 01:02:09,596
that the pedlars of poison,
in bottles or in books,
884
01:02:09,675 --> 01:02:13,057
clearly label the product
they attempt to sell.
885
01:02:13,137 --> 01:02:17,360
I say that if this law is not upheld,
this boy will become one of a generation
886
01:02:17,433 --> 01:02:20,565
shorn of its faith
by the teachings of godless science.
887
01:02:20,645 --> 01:02:25,402
But if the full penalty of the law
is meted out to Bertram Cates,
888
01:02:25,483 --> 01:02:27,654
the faithful the whole world over,
889
01:02:27,735 --> 01:02:31,532
who are watching us here
and listening to our every word,
890
01:02:31,614 --> 01:02:36,205
will rise up
and call this courtroom blessed.
891
01:02:36,285 --> 01:02:38,504
Your witness, sir.
892
01:02:47,713 --> 01:02:51,059
I sure am glad
the colonel didn't make a speech.
893
01:02:52,927 --> 01:02:55,395
Now, Howard.
894
01:02:55,471 --> 01:02:58,650
I heard you say
that the world used to get pretty hot.
895
01:02:58,724 --> 01:03:00,979
That's what Mr. Cates said.
896
01:03:01,060 --> 01:03:04,109
Any hotter than it is right now,
do you think?
897
01:03:04,188 --> 01:03:08,329
I guess it must have been.
Mr. Cates read it to us from a book.
898
01:03:08,401 --> 01:03:11,165
This the book?
899
01:03:11,237 --> 01:03:15,662
Charles Darwin's Theory Of The Evolution
And The Descent Of Man.
900
01:03:15,741 --> 01:03:19,419
- Yes, sir.
- That's right, Howard.
901
01:03:19,495 --> 01:03:24,466
That's the very book
he read to you in your classroom.
902
01:03:24,542 --> 01:03:30,509
Now, Howard, tell me, do you think
there was anything wrong in there?
903
01:03:30,590 --> 01:03:32,974
Well, I don't know.
904
01:03:33,050 --> 01:03:35,138
Objection, Your Honour.
905
01:03:35,219 --> 01:03:40,225
The defence is asking that a 15-year-old
give an opinion on a question of morality.
906
01:03:40,308 --> 01:03:45,314
I am trying to establish that Howard
or Colonel Brady or Charles Darwin
907
01:03:45,396 --> 01:03:49,537
or anyone sitting in this courtroom,
or you, sir, has the right to think.
908
01:03:49,609 --> 01:03:53,535
Colonel Drummond,
the right to think is not on trial here.
909
01:03:54,947 --> 01:03:57,498
With all due respect to the court, sir,
910
01:03:57,575 --> 01:04:01,253
I think the right to think
is very much on trial here.
911
01:04:01,329 --> 01:04:04,543
And it is in danger
in the proceedings of this courtroom.
912
01:04:04,624 --> 01:04:08,764
- A man is on trial.
- A thinking man.
913
01:04:08,836 --> 01:04:14,887
He's faced with fine and imprisonment
because he speaks what he thinks.
914
01:04:14,967 --> 01:04:20,436
Colonel Drummond,
will you please rephrase your question?
915
01:04:20,515 --> 01:04:22,270
Let's put it this way, Howard.
916
01:04:22,350 --> 01:04:27,404
All this fuss and feathers about evolution,
do you think it hurt you any?
917
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,410
- Sir?
- Did it do you any harm?
918
01:04:30,483 --> 01:04:33,330
Still feel reasonably fit?
919
01:04:33,402 --> 01:04:38,871
What Mr. Cates told you,
did it hurt your baseball game any?
920
01:04:38,950 --> 01:04:41,536
Did it affect your pitching arm?
921
01:04:41,619 --> 01:04:44,632
No, sir. I'm a lefty.
922
01:04:44,705 --> 01:04:48,466
A southpaw, huh? Still honour
your father and your mother?
923
01:04:48,543 --> 01:04:51,307
- Sure.
- Haven't murdered anybody, have you?
924
01:04:51,379 --> 01:04:57,311
Objection.
This is an absurd piece of jactitation.
925
01:04:59,053 --> 01:05:01,141
(JUDGE CLEARS THROAT)
926
01:05:02,890 --> 01:05:07,197
Counsel uses a word
with which the bench is not familiar.
927
01:05:07,937 --> 01:05:11,568
JACTITATION: A specious or false premise.
928
01:05:11,649 --> 01:05:15,955
In this instance as to the murder
of known or unknown persons.
929
01:05:16,863 --> 01:05:20,125
Objection sustained.
930
01:05:20,199 --> 01:05:24,209
Ask him if his faith in the Holy Scriptures
has been shattered.
931
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:28,797
When I need your help, Colonel Brady,
932
01:05:28,875 --> 01:05:31,888
you may rest assured
I shall humbly ask for it.
933
01:05:32,587 --> 01:05:36,051
Any time, Colonel Drummond. Any time.
934
01:05:36,132 --> 01:05:41,305
He's the only man I know
who can strut sitting down.
935
01:05:42,263 --> 01:05:44,350
Now, Howard, tell me something.
936
01:05:44,432 --> 01:05:47,730
Did you believe
everything Mr. Cates told you?
937
01:05:47,810 --> 01:05:50,658
I'm not sure. I gotta think about it.
938
01:05:50,730 --> 01:05:53,613
Good for you. Good for you.
939
01:05:53,691 --> 01:05:57,618
- Now, your pa's a farmer, isn't he?
- Yes, sir.
940
01:05:57,695 --> 01:06:00,459
- Got a tractor?
- Brand-new one.
941
01:06:00,531 --> 01:06:04,838
You think there's anything sinful about
a tractor because it's not in the Bible?
942
01:06:04,911 --> 01:06:06,038
No.
943
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:08,754
You know,
Moses never made a phone call.
944
01:06:08,831 --> 01:06:13,470
Do you figure that makes the telephone
an instrument of the devil?
945
01:06:13,544 --> 01:06:17,257
- I never thought of it that way.
- Neither did anybody else.
946
01:06:17,340 --> 01:06:22,263
Your Honour, the defence makes
the same old error of all godless men.
947
01:06:22,345 --> 01:06:28,063
He confuses material things with
the spiritual value of the revealed word.
948
01:06:28,142 --> 01:06:30,230
Why do you bewilder this child?
949
01:06:30,311 --> 01:06:32,815
Does right have no meaning to you, sir?
950
01:06:32,897 --> 01:06:36,409
Realising that I may prejudice
the case of my client,
951
01:06:36,484 --> 01:06:40,494
I must tell you that
right has no meaning for me whatsoever.
952
01:06:40,571 --> 01:06:42,659
(MURMURING)
953
01:06:45,284 --> 01:06:48,381
But truth has meaning, as a direction.
954
01:06:50,122 --> 01:06:56,339
But it is one of
the peculiar imbecilities of our time
955
01:06:56,420 --> 01:07:00,264
that we place a grid of morality
upon human behaviour,
956
01:07:00,341 --> 01:07:02,761
so that the action of every man
957
01:07:02,844 --> 01:07:08,645
must be measured against an arbitrary
latitude of right and a longitude of wrong
958
01:07:08,724 --> 01:07:12,568
in exact minutes, degrees and seconds.
959
01:07:12,645 --> 01:07:14,116
So...
960
01:07:18,985 --> 01:07:22,947
Howard, do you know... Do you
understand what I'm talking about?
961
01:07:23,030 --> 01:07:25,118
No, sir.
962
01:07:26,159 --> 01:07:30,251
Maybe someday you will. That's all, son.
Thank you. You're excused.
963
01:07:30,329 --> 01:07:32,749
This boy may not understand, but I do.
964
01:07:32,832 --> 01:07:35,797
I've seen what you can do to a jury.
Twist them.
965
01:07:35,877 --> 01:07:40,598
In the Endicott case you made the jury
believe the obscenity was in their mind.
966
01:07:40,673 --> 01:07:44,516
It was immoral what you did to the jury.
Judgement by confusion.
967
01:07:44,594 --> 01:07:49,102
- You think you can get away with it here?
- I'm not trying to get away with anything.
968
01:07:49,182 --> 01:07:51,899
I am simply trying
to prevent the clock-stoppers
969
01:07:51,976 --> 01:07:56,448
from dumping a lot of medieval nonsense
into the United States Constitution.
970
01:07:56,772 --> 01:07:59,074
This is not a federal court.
971
01:07:59,150 --> 01:08:02,946
- You have to stop them somewhere!
- It's obvious what he's doing.
972
01:08:03,029 --> 01:08:06,706
He is trying to make us forget
the lawbreaker and put the law on trial.
973
01:08:06,782 --> 01:08:09,879
We have the answer for you
in our next witness.
974
01:08:09,952 --> 01:08:12,503
Call Miss Rachel Brown to the stand.
975
01:08:12,580 --> 01:08:17,800
MAN: Rachel Brown!
Rachel Brown come to the stand, please.
976
01:08:18,127 --> 01:08:20,844
Did you know about this?
977
01:08:20,922 --> 01:08:24,635
He didn't, but we should have.
978
01:08:25,009 --> 01:08:27,097
Rach?
979
01:08:29,055 --> 01:08:33,361
- Rach, what did you tell him?
- Take it easy, son.
980
01:08:39,941 --> 01:08:43,452
Sit down, Samson.
You're about to get a haircut.
981
01:08:43,528 --> 01:08:47,205
Rachel, do you solemnly swear
the testimony you're about to give
982
01:08:47,281 --> 01:08:51,338
is the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth, so help you God?
983
01:08:51,410 --> 01:08:53,498
I do.
984
01:08:53,579 --> 01:08:58,835
Now, my dear, I just want you to repeat
some of the things you told me last night.
985
01:08:58,918 --> 01:09:01,005
Please, Mr. Brady.
986
01:09:01,087 --> 01:09:04,266
You said you wanted people
to understand, didn't you?
987
01:09:04,340 --> 01:09:06,891
- Yes.
- Just answer my question.
988
01:09:06,968 --> 01:09:12,567
Now, Miss Brown, you are an old friend
of the defendant, Bertram Cates?
989
01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:14,859
We're engaged to be married.
990
01:09:14,934 --> 01:09:18,280
- Do you attend the same church?
- Yes.
991
01:09:18,354 --> 01:09:20,027
We did.
992
01:09:20,106 --> 01:09:22,787
- Do you now?
- What?
993
01:09:22,859 --> 01:09:25,029
Attend the same church.
994
01:09:26,070 --> 01:09:27,458
No.
995
01:09:27,530 --> 01:09:30,330
Did Mr. Cates leave the church?
996
01:09:30,408 --> 01:09:33,540
No. Not really. Not the spirit of it.
997
01:09:33,619 --> 01:09:35,790
But the body of it. Correct?
998
01:09:35,872 --> 01:09:41,305
Mr. Cates left the church
you and he once attended together?
999
01:09:41,377 --> 01:09:43,429
- Yes.
- Why?
1000
01:09:44,463 --> 01:09:47,892
- Because of the Stebbins boy.
- The Stebbins boy.
1001
01:09:47,967 --> 01:09:50,304
Would you tell us about that, please?
1002
01:09:50,386 --> 01:09:55,855
It was two summers ago.
The little Stebbins boy was 13 years old.
1003
01:09:55,933 --> 01:10:00,572
He was one of Bert's students. He lived
right next door to the boarding house,
1004
01:10:00,646 --> 01:10:04,075
and he used to come over
and look through Bert's microscope.
1005
01:10:04,609 --> 01:10:07,159
Bert said the boy had a bright mind
1006
01:10:07,236 --> 01:10:10,250
and he might even be a scientist
when he grew up.
1007
01:10:10,323 --> 01:10:13,040
Yes?
1008
01:10:13,117 --> 01:10:16,830
He went to the river with the other boys
and went swimming.
1009
01:10:17,747 --> 01:10:22,587
He... He got a cramp... and drowned.
1010
01:10:25,546 --> 01:10:27,433
Go on.
1011
01:10:28,549 --> 01:10:34,184
At the funeral, Pa preached
that Tommy didn't die in a state of grace
1012
01:10:34,263 --> 01:10:38,523
because his father wouldn't allow him
to be baptised.
1013
01:10:38,601 --> 01:10:42,943
Tell 'em what your father really said.
That Tommy's soul was damned.
1014
01:10:43,022 --> 01:10:45,870
Cates, you sinner!
1015
01:10:45,942 --> 01:10:51,031
Religion's supposed to comfort people,
not frighten 'em to death!
1016
01:10:51,113 --> 01:10:52,786
(GAVEL)
1017
01:10:52,865 --> 01:10:55,748
We will have order, please.
Now, sit down, Bert.
1018
01:10:55,827 --> 01:11:00,999
Don't you see? Bert thought it wasn't fair
that a little child couldn't go to heaven.
1019
01:11:01,082 --> 01:11:03,502
It wasn't God he abandoned,
only the church.
1020
01:11:03,584 --> 01:11:07,891
It is true, then, that because of
what happened to the Stebbins boy,
1021
01:11:07,964 --> 01:11:10,811
Bert Cates left the church?
1022
01:11:10,883 --> 01:11:14,976
You've said nothing wrong.
We are merely gaining some insight
1023
01:11:15,054 --> 01:11:18,685
into the experiences that
sometimes will lead a young man astray.
1024
01:11:18,766 --> 01:11:24,615
Objection. Whether my client went astray
is a matter of interpretation.
1025
01:11:24,689 --> 01:11:30,490
Objection sustained. The jury is directed
to disregard the remarks of counsel.
1026
01:11:30,570 --> 01:11:32,041
Very well.
1027
01:11:32,113 --> 01:11:38,376
Will you tell the jury some more of Mr.
Cates' opinions on the subject of religion?
1028
01:11:38,452 --> 01:11:42,593
Objection!
Hearsay evidence is not admissible.
1029
01:11:42,665 --> 01:11:47,137
The court sees no objection to this line
of questioning. Proceed, Colonel Brady.
1030
01:11:47,211 --> 01:11:51,637
Just repeat some of the conversations
you had with the defendant.
1031
01:11:51,716 --> 01:11:56,390
Rachel, you can't. The things I said to you
were questions you ask your own heart.
1032
01:11:56,471 --> 01:12:00,101
If you say them out loud,
you'll make them sound like answers.
1033
01:12:00,183 --> 01:12:02,353
- I can't.
- You won't hurt him.
1034
01:12:02,435 --> 01:12:05,733
This is for his good. Speak up.
1035
01:12:05,813 --> 01:12:10,784
- Mr. Brady, I confided in you...
- We're here to serve the truth, Rachel.
1036
01:12:10,860 --> 01:12:13,624
I can't remember.
1037
01:12:13,696 --> 01:12:16,330
Rachel, you are testifying under oath.
1038
01:12:16,407 --> 01:12:19,456
It is unlawful
to withhold pertinent information.
1039
01:12:19,535 --> 01:12:24,210
Describe to the court your innermost
feelings when Bert Cates said to you:
1040
01:12:24,290 --> 01:12:27,588
"God did not create man.
Man created God."
1041
01:12:27,668 --> 01:12:32,557
Bert didn't say that. He was just bitter
because of the little Stebbins boy.
1042
01:12:32,632 --> 01:12:37,436
He said man created a vengeful God
out of his own bigotry, and the devil...
1043
01:12:37,512 --> 01:12:43,527
When he was wondering about the moon,
did he mention the possibility of heaven?
1044
01:12:43,601 --> 01:12:48,322
Or did he say there was nothing but
a world of stars and moons and galaxies?
1045
01:12:48,397 --> 01:12:51,446
What did he say about
the holy state of matrimony?
1046
01:12:51,526 --> 01:12:55,536
- Did he compare it to animals breeding?
- Objection!
1047
01:12:55,613 --> 01:12:58,413
You want people to see
what happened to his brain
1048
01:12:58,491 --> 01:13:04,126
so they can bring him back to his senses,
don't you? Come on! Tell it! Tell it all!
1049
01:13:04,205 --> 01:13:06,091
Matt!
1050
01:13:06,165 --> 01:13:08,253
(RACHEL GROANS)
1051
01:13:12,922 --> 01:13:16,516
- Under the circumstances,
- (RACHEL SOBS)
1052
01:13:16,592 --> 01:13:20,519
I believe the witness should be excused.
1053
01:13:26,185 --> 01:13:28,190
Drummond, do you have any objection
1054
01:13:28,271 --> 01:13:32,233
to excusing the witness
from cross-examination at this time,
1055
01:13:32,316 --> 01:13:34,156
subject to later recall?
1056
01:13:34,235 --> 01:13:37,996
Your Honour, the defence must have
a chance to challenge the words
1057
01:13:38,072 --> 01:13:41,287
put into the mouth of the witness
by the prosecutor.
1058
01:13:41,367 --> 01:13:44,380
Don't plague her. Let her go.
1059
01:13:44,453 --> 01:13:47,134
May I have a moment, please?
1060
01:13:47,206 --> 01:13:51,086
Do you want every word he's put
into her mouth to go into the record?
1061
01:13:51,169 --> 01:13:53,387
- It's not that important.
- Not that...
1062
01:13:53,462 --> 01:13:55,717
They just pulled you apart.
1063
01:13:55,798 --> 01:13:59,855
- Please do as I say. You got to.
- I've got to what? Send you to jail?
1064
01:13:59,927 --> 01:14:02,775
- Let her go.
- You all-American idiot.
1065
01:14:02,847 --> 01:14:05,433
She handed them your head
on a silver platter...
1066
01:14:05,516 --> 01:14:08,779
Stay out of this!
It's none of your business.
1067
01:14:08,853 --> 01:14:12,116
Don't tie my hands, son.
1068
01:14:12,190 --> 01:14:15,867
Let her go or I'll change
my plea to guilty.
1069
01:14:22,366 --> 01:14:24,253
No questions.
1070
01:14:27,038 --> 01:14:31,546
For the time being,
the witness is excused.
1071
01:14:43,262 --> 01:14:45,398
May I have your autograph?
1072
01:14:49,268 --> 01:14:54,192
Does the prosecution
wish to call any further witnesses?
1073
01:14:54,273 --> 01:14:57,986
Not at the present time, Your Honour.
The prosecution rests.
1074
01:14:58,319 --> 01:15:02,542
We shall proceed with the case
for the defence, Colonel Drummond.
1075
01:15:02,615 --> 01:15:09,377
I'd like to call Dr Amos Keller, the head
of Zoology at the University of Chicago.
1076
01:15:09,455 --> 01:15:12,338
- Objection.
- On what grounds?
1077
01:15:12,416 --> 01:15:15,002
I wish to enquire what possible relevance
1078
01:15:15,086 --> 01:15:19,262
the testimony of a zoology professor
can have in this trial.
1079
01:15:19,340 --> 01:15:23,979
Why, it has every relevance. My client
is on trial for teaching evolution.
1080
01:15:24,053 --> 01:15:28,893
Any testimony relating to his so-called
infringement of the law must be admitted.
1081
01:15:28,975 --> 01:15:32,652
- Irrelevant. Immaterial. Inadmissible.
- But why?
1082
01:15:32,728 --> 01:15:35,065
If Bertram Cates were on trial for murder,
1083
01:15:35,148 --> 01:15:38,778
would it be irrelevant to call in witnesses
to examine the weapon?
1084
01:15:38,860 --> 01:15:44,293
Would it rule out testimony that the
weapon was incapable of firing a bullet?
1085
01:15:44,365 --> 01:15:47,663
I fail to grasp
the learned counsel's meaning.
1086
01:15:47,743 --> 01:15:50,329
Oh.
1087
01:15:50,413 --> 01:15:55,170
Well, Your Honour, the defence
wishes to place Dr Keller on the stand
1088
01:15:55,251 --> 01:15:58,597
so that he can explain
to the gentlemen of the jury
1089
01:15:58,671 --> 01:16:02,265
the exact meaning
of the theory of evolution.
1090
01:16:02,341 --> 01:16:05,141
How can they judge
if they don't know what it's about?
1091
01:16:05,219 --> 01:16:10,225
I hold that the very law we are here
to enforce excludes such testimony.
1092
01:16:10,308 --> 01:16:15,148
The people of this state have made it clear
that they do not want zoological hogwash
1093
01:16:15,229 --> 01:16:17,317
slobbered around the schoolrooms.
1094
01:16:17,398 --> 01:16:20,530
And I refuse to allow
these agnostic scientists
1095
01:16:20,610 --> 01:16:23,824
to employ this courtroom
as a sounding board,
1096
01:16:23,905 --> 01:16:30,631
as a platform from which they can shout
their heresies into the headlines.
1097
01:16:30,703 --> 01:16:36,053
Colonel Drummond, the bench rules
that zoology is irrelevant to the case.
1098
01:16:36,667 --> 01:16:39,467
Agnostic scientists!
1099
01:16:43,382 --> 01:16:44,854
(CLEARS THROAT)
1100
01:16:44,926 --> 01:16:49,600
I call Dr Allen Page,
deacon of the Congregational Church,
1101
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:52,694
and professor of geology
and archaeology.
1102
01:16:52,767 --> 01:16:56,361
- Objection.
- Objection sustained.
1103
01:16:56,437 --> 01:17:02,369
Does Your Honour deny the existence
of zoology, geology and archaeology?
1104
01:17:02,985 --> 01:17:06,118
We do not deny
the existence of these sciences,
1105
01:17:06,197 --> 01:17:08,997
but they do not relate
to this point of law.
1106
01:17:16,582 --> 01:17:20,972
I call Walter Aaronson,
anthropologist, philosopher, author,
1107
01:17:21,045 --> 01:17:24,427
and one of the most brilliant minds
in the world. Any objection?
1108
01:17:24,507 --> 01:17:26,642
- Objection.
- Your Honour,
1109
01:17:26,717 --> 01:17:32,400
the defence has brought, at great expense
and inconvenience, six noted scientists.
1110
01:17:32,473 --> 01:17:37,527
Their testimony is basic
to the defence of my client.
1111
01:17:37,603 --> 01:17:41,993
For I intend to show this court
that what Bertram Cates spoke quietly
1112
01:17:42,066 --> 01:17:45,744
one spring morning
in the Hillsboro high school is no crime.
1113
01:17:45,820 --> 01:17:51,040
It is incontrovertible as geometry
to any enlightened community of minds.
1114
01:17:51,117 --> 01:17:56,669
In this community, and in this sovereign
state, exactly the opposite is the case.
1115
01:17:56,747 --> 01:17:58,634
The language of the law is clear.
1116
01:17:58,708 --> 01:18:02,718
We do not need experts to question
the validity of a law already on the books.
1117
01:18:02,795 --> 01:18:06,093
What do you need?
A gallows to hang him from?
1118
01:18:06,174 --> 01:18:08,510
That remark
is an insult to this community.
1119
01:18:08,593 --> 01:18:11,476
And this community
is an insult to the world.
1120
01:18:11,554 --> 01:18:14,057
(MURMURING FOLLOWED BY GAVEL)
1121
01:18:14,140 --> 01:18:18,446
Your Honour, I request permission
to withdraw from this case.
1122
01:18:18,519 --> 01:18:22,695
- You can't quit now.
- You were ready to five minutes ago.
1123
01:18:23,524 --> 01:18:27,404
Colonel Drummond.
What reasons can you possibly have?
1124
01:18:27,487 --> 01:18:30,666
Well, there are 200 of 'em.
1125
01:18:30,740 --> 01:18:33,374
And if that's not enough, there's one more.
1126
01:18:33,451 --> 01:18:36,250
I think my client
has already been found guilty.
1127
01:18:37,371 --> 01:18:42,544
Is Mr. Drummond saying
that this expression of an honest emotion
1128
01:18:42,627 --> 01:18:46,719
will influence the court's
impartial administration of the law?
1129
01:18:46,797 --> 01:18:50,724
I say that you cannot administer
a wicked law impartially.
1130
01:18:50,802 --> 01:18:53,020
You can only destroy and punish.
1131
01:18:53,095 --> 01:18:58,730
And I warn you that a wicked law, like
cholera, destroys everyone it touches.
1132
01:18:58,810 --> 01:19:02,571
- Its upholders as well as its defiers.
- JUDGE: Colonel Drummond.
1133
01:19:02,647 --> 01:19:06,953
Can't you understand
that if you take a law like evolution
1134
01:19:07,026 --> 01:19:09,826
and make it a crime
to teach it in public schools,
1135
01:19:09,904 --> 01:19:13,285
tomorrow you could make it a crime
to teach it in private schools,
1136
01:19:13,366 --> 01:19:16,379
and tomorrow you may
make it a crime to read about it?
1137
01:19:16,452 --> 01:19:19,584
And soon you may
ban books and newspapers.
1138
01:19:19,664 --> 01:19:22,843
And then you may turn
Catholic against Protestant,
1139
01:19:22,917 --> 01:19:25,218
and Protestant against Protestant,
1140
01:19:25,294 --> 01:19:28,427
and try to foist your own religion
upon the mind of man.
1141
01:19:28,506 --> 01:19:30,593
If you can do one you can do the other,
1142
01:19:30,675 --> 01:19:37,105
because fanaticism and ignorance
is forever busy and needs feeding.
1143
01:19:37,723 --> 01:19:45,114
And soon, Your Honour, with
banners flying and with drums beating,
1144
01:19:45,189 --> 01:19:47,657
we'll be marching backward.
1145
01:19:47,733 --> 01:19:49,406
Backward!
1146
01:19:49,485 --> 01:19:53,282
Through the glorious ages
of that 16th century,
1147
01:19:53,364 --> 01:19:57,077
when bigots burned the man
who dared bring enlightenment
1148
01:19:57,160 --> 01:20:00,458
and intelligence to the human mind.
1149
01:20:02,206 --> 01:20:06,797
I hope counsel does not mean to imply
that this court is bigoted.
1150
01:20:06,878 --> 01:20:11,267
- Your Honour has the right to hope.
- I have the right to do more than that.
1151
01:20:11,340 --> 01:20:13,559
You have the power to do more than that.
1152
01:20:13,634 --> 01:20:15,805
And I exercise that power.
1153
01:20:15,887 --> 01:20:19,268
I order you to show 'cause
tomorrow morning at ten o'clock
1154
01:20:19,348 --> 01:20:21,982
why you should not
be held in contempt of court.
1155
01:20:22,059 --> 01:20:25,903
In the meanwhile, I order
that you be held in custody of the bailiff.
1156
01:20:25,980 --> 01:20:28,400
Bail is fixed at $2,000.
1157
01:20:28,483 --> 01:20:32,872
$2,000? Why don't you make it 4,000?
1158
01:20:33,779 --> 01:20:36,081
It's four, Colonel Drummond.
1159
01:20:36,157 --> 01:20:39,372
Your Honour, my paper will post the bond.
1160
01:20:39,452 --> 01:20:44,173
Can you prove legal authorisation to make
such a commitment for your employer?
1161
01:20:44,248 --> 01:20:47,428
- I'll wire my paper immediately.
- Fine.
1162
01:20:47,502 --> 01:20:52,093
Until then, Colonel Drummond can avail
himself of our municipal accommodation.
1163
01:20:52,173 --> 01:20:54,593
(MURMURING)
1164
01:20:57,053 --> 01:21:00,399
Your Honour. Your Honour, sir.
1165
01:21:00,473 --> 01:21:03,688
I'll put up my farm for Mr. Drummond.
1166
01:21:03,768 --> 01:21:07,114
We have no way of ascertaining
the value of your farm, sir.
1167
01:21:07,188 --> 01:21:09,275
It ought to be worth that much.
1168
01:21:09,357 --> 01:21:12,370
The law demands
that bond be posted in cash.
1169
01:21:13,277 --> 01:21:18,746
Your Honour, my bank will honour
the offer on the security of his farm.
1170
01:21:18,825 --> 01:21:22,004
He has considerably more equity
in it than that.
1171
01:21:24,789 --> 01:21:29,926
Very well. You can make arrangements
with the court clerk.
1172
01:21:31,128 --> 01:21:35,803
- Who are you?
- My name is John Stebbins.
1173
01:21:37,135 --> 01:21:42,058
JUDGE: The court will adjourn
and reconvene at 10am tomorrow.
1174
01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:52,904
♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪
♪ to a sour apple tree ♪
1175
01:21:53,109 --> 01:21:57,249
♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪
♪ to a sour apple tree ♪
1176
01:21:57,446 --> 01:22:02,038
♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪
♪ to a sour apple tree ♪
1177
01:22:02,118 --> 01:22:07,421
♪ Our God is marching on ♪
1178
01:22:07,498 --> 01:22:11,888
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1179
01:22:12,086 --> 01:22:15,930
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1180
01:22:18,426 --> 01:22:21,060
She'll sleep all right tonight.
1181
01:22:22,138 --> 01:22:26,397
Give her these pills tomorrow
and keep her in bed.
1182
01:22:28,102 --> 01:22:30,190
Thank you, John.
1183
01:22:34,358 --> 01:22:36,446
Rachel.
1184
01:22:38,154 --> 01:22:40,241
Rachel?
1185
01:22:44,702 --> 01:22:49,127
♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪
♪ to a sour apple tree ♪
1186
01:22:49,207 --> 01:22:54,344
♪ Our God is marching on ♪
1187
01:22:54,420 --> 01:22:58,892
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1188
01:22:59,091 --> 01:23:03,314
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1189
01:23:03,513 --> 01:23:07,570
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1190
01:23:07,642 --> 01:23:12,067
♪ His truth is marching on ♪
1191
01:23:12,146 --> 01:23:16,737
♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪
♪ to a sour apple tree ♪
1192
01:23:16,943 --> 01:23:21,451
♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪
♪ to a sour apple tree ♪
1193
01:23:21,656 --> 01:23:26,330
♪ We'll hang Bert Cates ♪
♪ to a sour apple tree ♪
1194
01:23:26,410 --> 01:23:31,049
♪ Our God is marching on ♪
1195
01:23:31,123 --> 01:23:35,632
♪ We'll hang Henry Drummond ♪
♪ to a sour apple tree ♪
1196
01:23:35,837 --> 01:23:40,392
♪ We'll hang Henry Drummond ♪
♪ to a sour apple tree ♪
1197
01:23:40,591 --> 01:23:45,266
♪ We'll hang Henry Drummond ♪
♪ to a sour apple tree ♪
1198
01:23:45,346 --> 01:23:48,359
♪ Our God is marching on ♪
1199
01:23:48,432 --> 01:23:50,687
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
1200
01:23:50,768 --> 01:23:55,240
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1201
01:23:55,439 --> 01:23:59,746
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1202
01:23:59,944 --> 01:24:04,665
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
♪ His truth... ♪
1203
01:24:04,740 --> 01:24:06,828
Grrr!
1204
01:24:07,994 --> 01:24:11,340
- Trick or treat?
- Oh, for...
1205
01:24:11,414 --> 01:24:14,178
Hooligans of the world unite!
1206
01:24:15,459 --> 01:24:18,758
You've got nothing to burn
but your intellectuals.
1207
01:24:18,838 --> 01:24:24,093
Well, those are the boobs that make
our laws. It's the democratic process.
1208
01:24:24,177 --> 01:24:26,810
I suppose you have
something better to suggest.
1209
01:24:26,888 --> 01:24:31,396
♪ We'll hang Henry Drummond ♪
♪ to a sour apple tree ♪
1210
01:24:31,476 --> 01:24:32,686
Hm.
1211
01:24:32,768 --> 01:24:36,945
Looks like you're going out
in a blaze of glory, Counsellor.
1212
01:24:38,024 --> 01:24:43,706
Well, you were pretty impressive
for a while there today, Henry.
1213
01:24:43,779 --> 01:24:48,418
"Your Honour, after a while
you'll be setting man against man,
1214
01:24:48,493 --> 01:24:53,048
"creed against creed, et cetera, et cetera.
Ad nauseam." Unquote.
1215
01:24:53,122 --> 01:24:57,678
Henry, why don't you wake up?
Darwin was wrong.
1216
01:24:57,752 --> 01:25:02,473
Man's still an ape
and his creed's still a totem pole.
1217
01:25:02,548 --> 01:25:06,179
When he first achieved the upright
position, he looked at the stars.
1218
01:25:06,260 --> 01:25:08,348
Thought they were something to eat.
1219
01:25:08,429 --> 01:25:14,231
He couldn't reach them, and he decided
they were groceries of a bigger creature.
1220
01:25:14,310 --> 01:25:16,529
That's how Jehovah was born.
1221
01:25:16,604 --> 01:25:21,859
I wish I had your worm's-eye view of
history. It would make things a lot easier.
1222
01:25:21,943 --> 01:25:26,949
Oh, no. Not for you. No.
You'd still be spending your time
1223
01:25:27,031 --> 01:25:31,836
trying to make sense out of what is
laughingly referred to as the human race.
1224
01:25:31,911 --> 01:25:34,296
Why don't you take your blinders off?
1225
01:25:34,372 --> 01:25:37,800
Don't you know
the future's already obsolete?
1226
01:25:37,875 --> 01:25:40,556
You think man still has a noble destiny.
1227
01:25:40,628 --> 01:25:44,555
Well, I tell you he's already started
on his backward march
1228
01:25:44,632 --> 01:25:47,597
to the salt and stupid sea
from which he came.
1229
01:25:47,677 --> 01:25:51,105
What about men like Bert Cates?
1230
01:25:51,180 --> 01:25:53,268
Cates?
1231
01:25:54,308 --> 01:25:57,026
A monkey who tried to fly.
1232
01:25:57,103 --> 01:26:02,109
Cates climbed to the top of the totem pole
but then he jumped.
1233
01:26:02,191 --> 01:26:05,952
And there was nobody there
to catch him. Not even you.
1234
01:26:06,028 --> 01:26:09,955
You were there.
You saw what they did to my witnesses.
1235
01:26:10,032 --> 01:26:13,959
- What you need's a drink.
- What I need is a miracle.
1236
01:26:14,036 --> 01:26:17,548
Miracle? Here's a whole bagful.
1237
01:26:19,041 --> 01:26:22,256
Courtesy of Matthew Harrison Brady.
1238
01:26:54,994 --> 01:26:57,082
Your Honour.
1239
01:27:04,128 --> 01:27:06,714
Your Honour, I feel I owe you an apology.
1240
01:27:06,797 --> 01:27:09,930
Any remarks leading up to
the contempt citation I regret.
1241
01:27:10,009 --> 01:27:13,770
I realise Your Honour is trying to be fair.
1242
01:27:13,846 --> 01:27:18,603
I'm very sorry for any remarks
that were made in the heat of the moment.
1243
01:27:20,102 --> 01:27:23,401
My friends, Colonel Drummond,
1244
01:27:23,481 --> 01:27:27,787
the man that I believe came
into the world to save mankind from sin
1245
01:27:27,860 --> 01:27:30,957
taught that it was godly to forgive.
1246
01:27:31,030 --> 01:27:35,336
I believe in those principles.
I accept Colonel Drummond's apology.
1247
01:27:35,409 --> 01:27:38,589
- I withdraw the contempt citation.
- Thank you.
1248
01:27:38,663 --> 01:27:41,593
I should like to add
that in the spirit of forgiveness
1249
01:27:41,666 --> 01:27:44,964
I feel no animosity
toward learned counsel from Chicago.
1250
01:27:45,044 --> 01:27:48,638
He is well known
to have ridden hobbyhorses before.
1251
01:27:48,714 --> 01:27:51,395
Perhaps he'll return home
having learned a lesson.
1252
01:27:51,467 --> 01:27:54,350
We commend him to learn
the words of him who said:
1253
01:27:54,428 --> 01:27:59,185
"If you thirst, come unto me
and I will give you life."
1254
01:27:59,267 --> 01:28:05,151
That's why he hasn't an enemy
in the world. Only his friends hate him.
1255
01:28:06,357 --> 01:28:07,780
(CLEARS THROAT)
1256
01:28:07,859 --> 01:28:12,580
Perhaps there is much to learn
from the counsel for the prosecution.
1257
01:28:12,655 --> 01:28:15,834
Your Honour, there were
some remarks I made yesterday,
1258
01:28:15,908 --> 01:28:18,245
namely, that I wish to withdraw.
1259
01:28:18,327 --> 01:28:23,251
I should like to withdraw my withdrawal
and continue as counsel for Cates.
1260
01:28:23,332 --> 01:28:27,923
I see no reason why Colonel Drummond
should not continue as defence counsel.
1261
01:28:28,004 --> 01:28:30,590
- Proceed, Colonel Drummond.
- Thank you.
1262
01:28:30,673 --> 01:28:33,805
Your Honour, the court
has ruled out any evidence
1263
01:28:33,885 --> 01:28:37,396
as to scientific knowledge
or the Darwinian theory.
1264
01:28:37,472 --> 01:28:41,694
Would the court admit evidence,
expert evidence,
1265
01:28:41,767 --> 01:28:44,448
on a book known as the Holy Bible?
1266
01:28:48,441 --> 01:28:51,822
Any objection, Colonel Brady?
1267
01:28:51,903 --> 01:28:55,165
If counsel can advance the case
for the defendant
1268
01:28:55,239 --> 01:28:59,961
through the use of the Holy Scriptures,
prosecution'll take no exception.
1269
01:29:00,036 --> 01:29:07,545
Good. I call one of the world's foremost
experts on the Bible and its teachings.
1270
01:29:07,627 --> 01:29:11,008
Matthew Harrison Brady.
1271
01:29:11,088 --> 01:29:13,176
Your Honour, this is preposterous!
1272
01:29:13,257 --> 01:29:15,975
Brother, let us pray.
1273
01:29:16,052 --> 01:29:19,682
Well, it's highly unorthodox.
1274
01:29:19,764 --> 01:29:25,067
I've never known the defence to call
the prosecuting attorney as a witness.
1275
01:29:25,144 --> 01:29:29,201
Your Honour,
this entire trial is unorthodox.
1276
01:29:30,233 --> 01:29:35,702
But if the interests of right and justice
will be served, I will take the stand.
1277
01:29:35,780 --> 01:29:38,745
- But, Colonel Brady...
- (MUTTERS)
1278
01:29:38,825 --> 01:29:41,755
The court will support you
if you wish to decline
1279
01:29:41,828 --> 01:29:44,592
to testify as a witness
against your own case.
1280
01:29:44,664 --> 01:29:49,219
Your Honour,
I shall not testify against anything.
1281
01:29:49,293 --> 01:29:51,974
I shall speak out, as I have all my life,
1282
01:29:52,046 --> 01:29:56,008
on behalf of the living truth
of the Holy Scriptures.
1283
01:30:00,096 --> 01:30:03,394
- Colonel Brady...
- It won't be necessary to swear him in.
1284
01:30:03,474 --> 01:30:08,065
I can make affirmation.
I've no objection to swearing to God.
1285
01:30:08,146 --> 01:30:10,731
I take it you will tell the truth.
1286
01:30:11,899 --> 01:30:18,080
Now, sir, I am right in calling upon you
as an authority on the Bible, am I not?
1287
01:30:19,323 --> 01:30:23,879
It is not boastful to say that I have
studied the Bible as much as any layman,
1288
01:30:23,953 --> 01:30:26,966
and I have tried to live
according to its precepts.
1289
01:30:27,039 --> 01:30:28,511
Bully for you.
1290
01:30:28,583 --> 01:30:32,509
I suppose you can quote me chapter
and verse in the King James Version.
1291
01:30:32,587 --> 01:30:37,391
There are many portions of the Holy Bible
that I have committed to memory.
1292
01:30:37,466 --> 01:30:42,223
I don't suppose you have committed
to memory The Origin Of The Species.
1293
01:30:42,305 --> 01:30:45,769
I am not interested in
the pagan hypotheses of that book.
1294
01:30:45,850 --> 01:30:47,653
- Never read it?
- I never will.
1295
01:30:47,727 --> 01:30:50,574
Then how in perdition
have you got the gall
1296
01:30:50,646 --> 01:30:54,241
to whoop up this holy war
about something you don't know about?
1297
01:30:54,317 --> 01:30:58,991
How can you be so cocksure
that the body of scientific knowledge
1298
01:30:59,071 --> 01:31:01,871
systematised
in the writings of Charles Darwin
1299
01:31:01,949 --> 01:31:07,253
is in any way irreconcilable
with the Book of Genesis?
1300
01:31:07,330 --> 01:31:11,043
Would you state that question again,
please?
1301
01:31:11,125 --> 01:31:14,388
Well now, let me put it this way.
1302
01:31:14,462 --> 01:31:18,342
On page ten of The Origin Of The Species,
Darwin states...
1303
01:31:18,424 --> 01:31:20,560
I object to this, Your Honour.
1304
01:31:20,635 --> 01:31:23,565
Colonel Brady was called
as an authority on the Bible.
1305
01:31:23,638 --> 01:31:28,027
The gentleman from Chicago is using
this opportunity to read into the record
1306
01:31:28,100 --> 01:31:32,490
scientific testimony which
you have previously ruled irrelevant.
1307
01:31:32,563 --> 01:31:36,443
If he's examining Colonel Brady on
the Bible, let him stick to the Bible -
1308
01:31:36,526 --> 01:31:39,409
the Holy Bible and only the Bible.
1309
01:31:40,404 --> 01:31:44,913
You will confine your questions
to the Bible.
1310
01:31:46,869 --> 01:31:49,289
All right. Forget it.
1311
01:31:52,583 --> 01:31:57,174
- We'll play in your ballpark, Colonel.
- (LAUGHTER)
1312
01:31:57,255 --> 01:32:00,102
Now, I'd like to get this part clear first.
1313
01:32:00,174 --> 01:32:04,931
This is the book
that you're an authority on, isn't it?
1314
01:32:05,012 --> 01:32:06,186
Correct.
1315
01:32:06,264 --> 01:32:10,570
You believe that every word written in
this book should be taken literally?
1316
01:32:10,643 --> 01:32:15,531
Everything in the Bible should be
accepted exactly as it is given there.
1317
01:32:15,606 --> 01:32:17,694
What about this part right here,
1318
01:32:17,775 --> 01:32:25,201
where it talks about Jonah
being swallowed by the whale?
1319
01:32:25,283 --> 01:32:27,169
You figure that really happened?
1320
01:32:27,243 --> 01:32:32,297
The Bible does not say a whale.
It says a big fish.
1321
01:32:33,958 --> 01:32:37,173
As a matter of fact, it says a great fish.
1322
01:32:37,253 --> 01:32:40,385
But I guess
one's pretty much the same as the other.
1323
01:32:40,464 --> 01:32:43,513
What do you think about that business?
1324
01:32:43,593 --> 01:32:47,057
I believe in a God who can make a whale
and who can make a man,
1325
01:32:47,138 --> 01:32:49,558
and make both do what he pleases.
1326
01:32:50,725 --> 01:32:53,987
God bless you, Matthew Harrison Brady.
1327
01:32:54,061 --> 01:32:56,612
CROWD: Amen!
1328
01:32:58,357 --> 01:33:01,240
I want those amens in the record.
1329
01:33:01,319 --> 01:33:05,708
Now I recollect a story about Joshua,
1330
01:33:05,781 --> 01:33:08,795
Joshua making the sun stand still.
1331
01:33:08,868 --> 01:33:14,835
As an expert, do you tell me
that's as right as the Jonah business?
1332
01:33:14,916 --> 01:33:18,012
That's a pretty neat trick.
1333
01:33:18,085 --> 01:33:23,554
I do not question or scoff at the miracles
of the Lord as do ye of little faith.
1334
01:33:23,633 --> 01:33:28,105
Have you pondered what would happen
to the earth if the sun stood still?
1335
01:33:28,179 --> 01:33:32,106
You can testify to that
if I get you on the stand.
1336
01:33:32,183 --> 01:33:34,402
If, as they say, the sun stood still,
1337
01:33:34,477 --> 01:33:38,569
they must have some kind of an idea
that the sun moved around the earth.
1338
01:33:38,648 --> 01:33:42,278
Do you think so, or don't you believe
the earth moves round the sun?
1339
01:33:42,360 --> 01:33:45,954
- I have faith in the Bible.
- But not much in the solar system.
1340
01:33:46,030 --> 01:33:48,331
- The sun stopped.
- Good.
1341
01:33:48,407 --> 01:33:51,622
Now, if what you say actually happened,
1342
01:33:51,702 --> 01:33:56,044
if Joshua stopped the sun in the sky,
1343
01:33:56,123 --> 01:33:58,888
the earth stopped spinning on its axis.
1344
01:33:58,960 --> 01:34:03,100
Continents toppled over one another,
mountains flew into space,
1345
01:34:03,172 --> 01:34:08,559
and the earth, shrivelled to a cinder,
crashed into the sun.
1346
01:34:10,596 --> 01:34:14,357
- How come they missed that bit of news?
- Because it didn't happen.
1347
01:34:14,433 --> 01:34:17,447
But it had to happen,
according to natural law.
1348
01:34:17,520 --> 01:34:19,857
Or don't you believe in natural law?
1349
01:34:19,939 --> 01:34:24,364
Would you ban Copernicus from
the classroom along with Charles Darwin?
1350
01:34:24,443 --> 01:34:28,240
Would you pass a law throwing out
all scientific knowledge
1351
01:34:28,322 --> 01:34:30,956
since Joshua, Revelations, period?
1352
01:34:31,033 --> 01:34:34,248
Natural law was born in the mind
of the heavenly Father.
1353
01:34:34,328 --> 01:34:36,748
He can change it, cancel it, as he pleases.
1354
01:34:36,831 --> 01:34:41,671
It constantly amazes me that you apostles
of science, for all your supposed wisdom,
1355
01:34:41,752 --> 01:34:44,517
fail to grasp this simple fact.
1356
01:34:49,469 --> 01:34:52,648
Now, listen to this.
1357
01:34:52,722 --> 01:34:55,819
This is Genesis, 4 to 16.
1358
01:34:57,059 --> 01:34:59,645
"And Cain went out
from the presence of the Lord
1359
01:34:59,729 --> 01:35:04,450
and dwelt in the Land of Nod,
on the east of Eden."
1360
01:35:04,525 --> 01:35:07,159
"And Cain knew his wife."
1361
01:35:08,279 --> 01:35:11,707
Now, where the hell did she come from?
1362
01:35:11,782 --> 01:35:15,460
- Who?
- Mrs. Cain. Cain's wife.
1363
01:35:15,536 --> 01:35:18,882
If in the beginning there were
Cain and Abel and Adam and Eve,
1364
01:35:18,956 --> 01:35:23,097
where did this extra woman come from?
Did you ever stop to think about that?
1365
01:35:23,169 --> 01:35:27,511
No, sir.
I leave the agnostics to hunt for her.
1366
01:35:27,590 --> 01:35:29,677
(LAUGHTER)
1367
01:35:32,220 --> 01:35:34,355
- Never bothered you?
- Never bothered me.
1368
01:35:34,430 --> 01:35:36,981
- Never tried to find out?
- No.
1369
01:35:37,058 --> 01:35:40,522
Somebody else pulled
another creation in the next county?
1370
01:35:40,603 --> 01:35:44,115
The Bible satisfies me. It is enough.
1371
01:35:46,734 --> 01:35:50,328
It frightens me to think
of the state of learning in the world
1372
01:35:50,404 --> 01:35:54,794
if everybody had your driving curiosity.
1373
01:35:55,535 --> 01:35:59,165
Now, this book goes into a lot of "begats".
1374
01:36:00,790 --> 01:36:04,467
"And Arphaxad begat Salah;
1375
01:36:04,544 --> 01:36:06,679
And Salah begat Eber."
1376
01:36:06,754 --> 01:36:09,340
And so on and so on and so on.
1377
01:36:09,423 --> 01:36:12,271
Are these pretty important people?
1378
01:36:12,343 --> 01:36:16,649
They are the generations
of the holy men and women of the Bible.
1379
01:36:16,722 --> 01:36:21,029
- How did they go about all this begatting?
- What do you mean?
1380
01:36:21,102 --> 01:36:28,659
I mean did they begat in much the same
way as folks get themselves begat today?
1381
01:36:28,734 --> 01:36:30,822
The process is about the same.
1382
01:36:30,903 --> 01:36:34,166
I don't think your scientists
have improved it any.
1383
01:36:34,240 --> 01:36:36,921
(LAUGHTER FOLLOWED BY GAVEL)
1384
01:36:38,995 --> 01:36:43,467
In other words, all of these folks
were conceived and brought forth
1385
01:36:43,541 --> 01:36:48,132
by the normal biological function
known as sex?
1386
01:36:50,798 --> 01:36:54,180
What do you think of sex, Colonel Brady?
1387
01:36:54,260 --> 01:36:56,514
In what spirit is this question asked?
1388
01:36:56,596 --> 01:37:00,522
Well, I'm not asking you what
you think of sex as a father,
1389
01:37:00,600 --> 01:37:03,483
as a husband or even as
a presidential candidate.
1390
01:37:03,561 --> 01:37:08,698
You're up here as an expert on the Bible.
What is the biblical evaluation of sex?
1391
01:37:08,774 --> 01:37:12,654
It is considered original sin.
1392
01:37:12,737 --> 01:37:18,289
And all these holy people got
themselves begat through original sin?
1393
01:37:18,367 --> 01:37:22,294
Well, all that sinning
make 'em any less holy?
1394
01:37:22,371 --> 01:37:27,509
Where is this leading us? What has it to
do with the State versus Bertram Cates?
1395
01:37:27,585 --> 01:37:33,469
The court must be satisfied that this
questioning has a bearing on the case.
1396
01:37:33,549 --> 01:37:35,554
You've ruled out my witnesses.
1397
01:37:35,635 --> 01:37:39,265
You must allow me to examine
my one witness in my own way.
1398
01:37:39,347 --> 01:37:42,526
Your Honour, I am willing to sit here
1399
01:37:42,600 --> 01:37:46,693
and endure Mr. Drummond's sneering
and his disrespect.
1400
01:37:46,771 --> 01:37:51,528
For he is pleading the prosecution's case
by his contempt for all that is holy.
1401
01:37:51,609 --> 01:37:54,029
I object, I object, I object!
1402
01:37:54,111 --> 01:37:55,914
On what grounds?
1403
01:37:55,988 --> 01:38:01,078
Is it possible that something is holy
to the celebrated agnostic?
1404
01:38:01,160 --> 01:38:03,248
Yes.
1405
01:38:03,329 --> 01:38:06,129
The individual human mind.
1406
01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:11,761
In a child's power
to master the multiplication table
1407
01:38:11,838 --> 01:38:16,014
there is more sanctity
than in all your shouted amens
1408
01:38:16,092 --> 01:38:19,189
and holy holies and hosannas.
1409
01:38:19,262 --> 01:38:23,734
An idea is a greater monument
than a cathedral.
1410
01:38:23,808 --> 01:38:27,023
And the advance of man's knowledge
is a greater miracle
1411
01:38:27,103 --> 01:38:30,864
than all the sticks turned to snakes
or the parting of the waters.
1412
01:38:30,940 --> 01:38:34,736
But now are we to forgo all this progress
1413
01:38:34,819 --> 01:38:39,291
because Mr.
Brady now frightens us with a fable?
1414
01:38:40,700 --> 01:38:45,873
Gentlemen, progress has never been
a bargain. You have to pay for it.
1415
01:38:45,955 --> 01:38:49,301
Sometimes I think there's a man
behind a counter who says:
1416
01:38:49,375 --> 01:38:55,058
"You can have a telephone but you lose
privacy and the charm of distance."
1417
01:38:55,131 --> 01:38:58,228
"Madam, you may vote, but at a price."
1418
01:38:58,301 --> 01:39:04,149
"You lose the right to retreat behind
the powder puff or your petticoat."
1419
01:39:04,223 --> 01:39:07,605
"Mister, you may conquer the air,
1420
01:39:07,685 --> 01:39:13,949
but the birds will lose their wonder
and the clouds will smell of gasoline."
1421
01:39:14,025 --> 01:39:17,702
Darwin took us forward to a hilltop,
1422
01:39:17,778 --> 01:39:20,827
from where we could see
the way from which we came.
1423
01:39:20,907 --> 01:39:24,086
But for this insight
and for this knowledge,
1424
01:39:24,160 --> 01:39:29,000
we must abandon our faith
in the pleasant poetry of Genesis.
1425
01:39:29,081 --> 01:39:33,720
We must not abandon faith!
Faith is the most important thing!
1426
01:39:33,794 --> 01:39:37,009
Then why did God plague us
with the power to think?
1427
01:39:37,089 --> 01:39:41,016
Mr. Brady,
why do you deny the one faculty of man
1428
01:39:41,093 --> 01:39:44,226
that raises him
above the other creatures of the earth?
1429
01:39:44,305 --> 01:39:48,896
The power of his brain to reason.
What other merit have we?
1430
01:39:48,976 --> 01:39:52,274
The elephant is larger.
The horse is swifter and stronger.
1431
01:39:52,355 --> 01:39:57,029
The butterfly is far more beautiful.
The mosquito is more prolific.
1432
01:39:57,109 --> 01:40:02,709
Even the simple sponge is more durable.
Or does a sponge think?
1433
01:40:02,782 --> 01:40:05,463
I don't know. I am a man, not a sponge.
1434
01:40:05,535 --> 01:40:07,587
(LAUGHTER)
1435
01:40:07,662 --> 01:40:09,881
Do you think a sponge thinks?
1436
01:40:09,956 --> 01:40:13,752
If the Lord wishes a sponge to think,
it thinks.
1437
01:40:15,002 --> 01:40:18,715
Do you think a man should have
the same privilege as a sponge?
1438
01:40:18,798 --> 01:40:20,269
Of course.
1439
01:40:20,341 --> 01:40:26,024
This man wishes to be accorded
the same privilege as a sponge.
1440
01:40:26,097 --> 01:40:29,194
He wishes to think.
1441
01:40:35,273 --> 01:40:36,744
(GAVEL)
1442
01:40:36,816 --> 01:40:41,537
But your client is wrong.
He is deluded. He has lost his way.
1443
01:40:41,612 --> 01:40:47,876
It's sad we don't all have your positive
knowledge of what is right and wrong.
1444
01:40:51,956 --> 01:40:55,088
How old do you think this rock is?
1445
01:40:55,168 --> 01:41:00,720
I am more interested in the rock of ages
than I am in the age of rocks.
1446
01:41:00,798 --> 01:41:05,105
Dr Page tells me this rock is
at least ten million years old.
1447
01:41:05,178 --> 01:41:08,025
Well, well. Colonel Drummond,
1448
01:41:08,097 --> 01:41:12,688
you managed to sneak in some of that
scientific testimony after all.
1449
01:41:12,768 --> 01:41:15,698
Look, Mr. Brady.
1450
01:41:15,771 --> 01:41:21,027
These are the fossil remains of a marine
prehistoric creature found in this county,
1451
01:41:21,110 --> 01:41:26,460
and which lived here millions of years ago
when these mountain were underwater.
1452
01:41:26,532 --> 01:41:29,166
I know. The Bible gives
a fine account of the Flood.
1453
01:41:29,243 --> 01:41:31,794
But your professor's
mixed up on his dates.
1454
01:41:31,871 --> 01:41:34,968
That rock is not more
than 6,000 years old.
1455
01:41:35,041 --> 01:41:36,512
How do you know?
1456
01:41:36,584 --> 01:41:39,218
A fine biblical scholar, Bishop Ussher,
1457
01:41:39,295 --> 01:41:43,091
has determined for us
the exact date and hour of the Creation.
1458
01:41:43,174 --> 01:41:46,935
It occurred in the year 4004 BC.
1459
01:41:49,096 --> 01:41:52,276
Well, that's Bishop Ussher's opinion.
1460
01:41:52,350 --> 01:41:57,487
It's not an opinion. It's a fact, which the
bishop arrived at through computation
1461
01:41:57,563 --> 01:42:01,360
of the ages of the prophets
as set down in the Old Testament.
1462
01:42:01,442 --> 01:42:08,334
In fact, he determined that the Lord began
the Creation on 23rd October, 4004 BC,
1463
01:42:08,407 --> 01:42:10,495
at 9am.
1464
01:42:14,330 --> 01:42:17,343
Is that Eastern Standard Time?
1465
01:42:17,416 --> 01:42:20,050
Or Rocky Mountain Time?
1466
01:42:20,127 --> 01:42:24,932
It wasn't Daylight Saving Time, the Lord
didn't make the sun until the fourth day.
1467
01:42:25,007 --> 01:42:26,265
That is correct.
1468
01:42:26,342 --> 01:42:29,806
That first day, what do you think it was?
24 hours long?
1469
01:42:29,887 --> 01:42:32,853
- The Bible says it was a day.
- There was no sun.
1470
01:42:32,932 --> 01:42:35,151
How do you know how long it was?
1471
01:42:35,226 --> 01:42:39,817
- The Bible says it was a day.
- A normal day, a literal day, 24-hour day?
1472
01:42:39,897 --> 01:42:43,610
- I don't know.
- What do you think?
1473
01:42:44,777 --> 01:42:48,371
I do not think
about things I do not think about.
1474
01:42:48,447 --> 01:42:51,876
Do you ever think about things
that you do think about?
1475
01:42:51,951 --> 01:42:55,048
Isn't it possible that
it could have been 25 hours?
1476
01:42:55,121 --> 01:42:58,004
There's no way to measure it,
no way to tell.
1477
01:42:58,082 --> 01:43:01,345
- Could it have been 25 hours?
- It's possible.
1478
01:43:01,419 --> 01:43:04,468
Then you interpret that the first day,
1479
01:43:04,547 --> 01:43:09,186
as recorded in the Book of Genesis, could
have been a day of indeterminate length?
1480
01:43:09,260 --> 01:43:14,148
I mean to state that
it is not necessarily a 24-hour day.
1481
01:43:14,223 --> 01:43:17,521
It could have been 3O hours.
Could have been a week.
1482
01:43:17,602 --> 01:43:21,030
Could have been a month.
Could have been a year, 100 years.
1483
01:43:21,105 --> 01:43:23,324
Or it could have been ten million years.
1484
01:43:23,399 --> 01:43:27,789
I protest! This is not only
irrelevant, immaterial, it is illegal!
1485
01:43:27,862 --> 01:43:31,208
I demand to know the purpose
of Mr. Drummond's examination.
1486
01:43:31,282 --> 01:43:37,582
He wants to destroy everybody's belief
in the Bible and in God.
1487
01:43:37,663 --> 01:43:40,249
That's not true and you know it.
1488
01:43:41,292 --> 01:43:44,555
The Bible is a book. It's a good book.
1489
01:43:44,629 --> 01:43:46,848
But it is not the only book.
1490
01:43:46,923 --> 01:43:52,475
It the revealed word of the Almighty God,
spake to the men who wrote the Bible.
1491
01:43:52,553 --> 01:43:55,353
How do you know
God didn't spake to Charles Darwin?
1492
01:43:55,431 --> 01:43:58,978
I know because God tells me
to oppose the evil teachings of that man.
1493
01:43:59,060 --> 01:44:03,699
God speaks to you? He tells you what
is right and wrong? You act accordingly?
1494
01:44:03,773 --> 01:44:08,447
So you, Matthew Harrison Brady,
through oratory or legislature or whatever,
1495
01:44:08,528 --> 01:44:12,289
you pass on God's orders
to the rest of the world!
1496
01:44:12,365 --> 01:44:16,422
Well, meet the prophet from Nebraska!
1497
01:44:16,494 --> 01:44:20,421
- I... Please!
- Is that the way of things?
1498
01:44:20,498 --> 01:44:23,179
God tells Brady what is good.
1499
01:44:23,251 --> 01:44:25,671
To be against Brady is to be against God.
1500
01:44:25,753 --> 01:44:28,090
No! Each man is a free agent.
1501
01:44:28,172 --> 01:44:31,387
Then what is Bertram Cates
doing in the Hillsboro jail?
1502
01:44:31,467 --> 01:44:34,979
Supposing Mr.
Cates had the influence and the lung power
1503
01:44:35,054 --> 01:44:37,474
to rail road through the state legislature
1504
01:44:37,557 --> 01:44:40,522
a law saying only Darwin
could be taught in school.
1505
01:44:40,601 --> 01:44:44,612
Ridiculous. Ridiculous.
There is only one great truth in the world.
1506
01:44:44,689 --> 01:44:48,746
The Gospel.
The Gospel according to Brady!
1507
01:44:48,818 --> 01:44:52,780
God speaks to Brady
and Brady tells the world!
1508
01:44:52,864 --> 01:44:57,170
- Brady, Brady, Brady Almighty!
- The Lord is my strength!
1509
01:44:57,243 --> 01:45:01,502
Suppose that a lesser human being,
suppose a Cates or a Darwin,
1510
01:45:01,581 --> 01:45:05,673
had the audacity to think
that God might whisper to him,
1511
01:45:05,751 --> 01:45:08,884
that an un-Brady thought
might still be holy.
1512
01:45:08,963 --> 01:45:13,305
Must a man go to prison because he
differs with the self-appointed prophet?
1513
01:45:13,384 --> 01:45:17,560
Extend the testaments.
Let us have a Book of Brady.
1514
01:45:17,638 --> 01:45:22,479
We shall hex the Pentateuch and slip you
in between Numbers and Deuteronomy.
1515
01:45:22,560 --> 01:45:27,199
- My friends, Your Honour...
- The witness is excused!
1516
01:45:27,273 --> 01:45:30,203
All of you know what I stand for,
what I believe.
1517
01:45:30,276 --> 01:45:33,870
I believe in the truth of the Book
of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
1518
01:45:33,946 --> 01:45:36,201
Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth,
1519
01:45:36,282 --> 01:45:39,414
First Samuel, Second Samuel,
First Kings, Second Kings,
1520
01:45:39,494 --> 01:45:42,922
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel...
1521
01:45:42,997 --> 01:45:46,425
Court is adjourned
until ten o'clock tomorrow morning.
1522
01:45:58,763 --> 01:46:02,440
Matt. Matt, dear.
1523
01:46:02,517 --> 01:46:04,937
Let's go home.
1524
01:46:05,019 --> 01:46:08,613
- Home?
- Back to the hotel.
1525
01:46:20,243 --> 01:46:22,082
(KNOCKING)
1526
01:46:30,586 --> 01:46:32,674
Who is it?
1527
01:46:35,466 --> 01:46:39,938
- Where is he? I've got to talk to him.
- Not now. He isn't feeling well.
1528
01:46:40,012 --> 01:46:44,817
- Now. He must tell Bert it wasn't my fault.
- Please be quiet. He's sleeping.
1529
01:46:44,892 --> 01:46:49,483
Why should I be quiet? I want the world
to know Matthew Harrison Brady is a fake.
1530
01:46:49,564 --> 01:46:51,651
Rachel!
1531
01:47:01,325 --> 01:47:03,413
I'm sorry.
1532
01:47:14,881 --> 01:47:20,813
I found myself in bed today,
in the middle of the day.
1533
01:47:20,887 --> 01:47:26,404
I was dreaming I was in the witness chair,
chained to it.
1534
01:47:26,476 --> 01:47:28,611
I kept begging him to let me go.
1535
01:47:28,686 --> 01:47:31,652
Rachel, it's been a nightmare for us all.
1536
01:47:31,731 --> 01:47:35,444
But mine was real.
I turned to your husband for help.
1537
01:47:35,526 --> 01:47:40,960
He encouraged me to open up my heart
to him and then he twisted my words.
1538
01:47:41,032 --> 01:47:44,544
He tricked me. Why? Why did he do it?
1539
01:47:44,619 --> 01:47:48,878
I don't know. I don't know why he did it.
1540
01:47:51,083 --> 01:47:56,434
Maybe it meant too much to him.
Maybe he was tired or afraid.
1541
01:47:56,506 --> 01:48:00,219
I taught my pupils that
Matthew Harrison Brady was a great man.
1542
01:48:00,301 --> 01:48:03,647
Next to God, almost.
What do you want me to teach them now?
1543
01:48:03,721 --> 01:48:06,307
- He's still the same man.
- No.
1544
01:48:06,390 --> 01:48:09,819
If he could do such an evil thing,
then he must be an evil man.
1545
01:48:09,894 --> 01:48:15,197
- And all he stands for must be evil too.
- Oh, stop it! Stop it!
1546
01:48:15,900 --> 01:48:20,824
Youth can be so pure.
What do you know of good or evil?
1547
01:48:20,905 --> 01:48:23,918
What do you understand
of the sum of a man's life?
1548
01:48:23,991 --> 01:48:27,040
- He betrayed me.
- You betrayed yourself.
1549
01:48:27,119 --> 01:48:29,705
You see my husband as a saint,
1550
01:48:29,789 --> 01:48:33,420
and so he must be right
in everything he says and does.
1551
01:48:33,501 --> 01:48:35,173
Then you see him as a devil,
1552
01:48:35,253 --> 01:48:38,218
and everything he says and does
must be wrong.
1553
01:48:38,297 --> 01:48:41,892
Well, my husband's
neither a saint nor a devil.
1554
01:48:42,426 --> 01:48:47,148
He's just a human being
and he makes mistakes.
1555
01:48:47,223 --> 01:48:51,316
- How can you defend him?
- It's not he I'm defending.
1556
01:48:51,394 --> 01:48:55,024
I'm defending the 40 years
I've lived with this man
1557
01:48:55,106 --> 01:48:57,905
and watched him
carry the burdens of people like you.
1558
01:48:57,984 --> 01:49:03,702
If he's been wrong, at least he stood
for something. What do you stand for?
1559
01:49:03,781 --> 01:49:07,163
Do you believe in Bertram Cates?
1560
01:49:07,243 --> 01:49:11,752
I believe in my husband.
What do you believe in?
1561
01:49:13,541 --> 01:49:14,964
Matt.
1562
01:49:15,042 --> 01:49:17,593
I was asleep, but...
1563
01:49:19,297 --> 01:49:22,262
What can I do for you, child?
1564
01:49:23,301 --> 01:49:26,931
I'm not your child any longer, Mr. Brady.
1565
01:49:27,013 --> 01:49:31,734
Yours... or anyone else's.
1566
01:49:40,067 --> 01:49:42,618
What...
1567
01:49:42,695 --> 01:49:45,281
What did she want, Sarah?
1568
01:49:48,534 --> 01:49:51,464
She's been hurt, Matt.
1569
01:49:52,830 --> 01:49:55,381
You hurt her.
1570
01:49:55,458 --> 01:50:00,132
Oh, Matt, you were always a good man.
1571
01:50:00,213 --> 01:50:03,345
That's why I loved you,
even from the very beginning.
1572
01:50:03,424 --> 01:50:07,684
People have said you made mistakes,
wrong decisions.
1573
01:50:07,762 --> 01:50:10,479
You could have been president
three times over.
1574
01:50:10,556 --> 01:50:12,941
But I never doubted you, Matt.
1575
01:50:13,017 --> 01:50:18,616
Because your decisions were honest. You
never sacrificed your principles to win.
1576
01:50:18,689 --> 01:50:20,576
I didn't mean to hurt her.
1577
01:50:20,650 --> 01:50:21,907
Sarah,
1578
01:50:21,984 --> 01:50:26,160
a victory here would be a monument
to God that would last 1,000 years.
1579
01:50:26,239 --> 01:50:29,537
But, Matt, every man
has to build his own monument.
1580
01:50:29,617 --> 01:50:31,704
You can't do it for them.
1581
01:50:31,786 --> 01:50:35,167
If you do,
it becomes your monument, not theirs.
1582
01:50:35,248 --> 01:50:39,922
And they'll topple it
the minute they find a flaw in it.
1583
01:50:40,002 --> 01:50:44,511
You mean a flaw in me, don't you, Sarah?
1584
01:50:48,386 --> 01:50:51,020
They turned away from you
this afternoon.
1585
01:50:51,097 --> 01:50:56,566
Oh, they didn't understand.
But I'll make them understand.
1586
01:50:56,644 --> 01:50:59,907
They'll have to understand.
My speech. Where's my speech?
1587
01:50:59,981 --> 01:51:02,152
Matt.
1588
01:51:02,233 --> 01:51:06,326
I'll make them listen. Where's my speech?
I'll make them understand.
1589
01:51:06,404 --> 01:51:10,117
- Please don't get excited.
- Here it is. I have it all down on paper.
1590
01:51:10,199 --> 01:51:14,921
Sarah, it isn't just this case.
It's God himself that's on trial.
1591
01:51:14,996 --> 01:51:17,416
They'll have to listen to me.
1592
01:51:17,498 --> 01:51:20,084
They will listen to me.
1593
01:51:23,921 --> 01:51:27,136
They'll listen, dear.
1594
01:51:29,177 --> 01:51:31,941
- Mother, they laughed at me.
- Shh, baby.
1595
01:51:32,013 --> 01:51:34,943
I can't stand it when they laugh at me.
1596
01:51:35,016 --> 01:51:38,693
It's all right, baby. It's all right.
1597
01:51:38,769 --> 01:51:42,151
- They laughed.
- Baby.
1598
01:51:42,231 --> 01:51:44,118
Baby.
1599
01:51:51,782 --> 01:51:53,336
(CLEARS THROAT)
1600
01:51:53,409 --> 01:51:56,707
Testing, testing. One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
1601
01:51:56,787 --> 01:52:01,094
Testing. Testing. One, two, three, four.
1602
01:52:01,167 --> 01:52:03,670
One, two, three, four.
1603
01:52:49,841 --> 01:52:52,973
You've brought me
some more clean shirts?
1604
01:52:53,052 --> 01:52:54,345
Bert,
1605
01:52:54,428 --> 01:52:56,516
I left my father.
1606
01:52:57,765 --> 01:53:02,025
I messed things up
pretty badly for us, didn't I?
1607
01:53:02,103 --> 01:53:04,867
It wasn't your fault.
Brady can twist things...
1608
01:53:04,939 --> 01:53:07,026
It wasn't his fault.
1609
01:53:07,108 --> 01:53:10,205
I should have done this
in the beginning. I want...
1610
01:53:10,278 --> 01:53:12,164
Rach.
1611
01:53:13,156 --> 01:53:15,955
You don't have to say it.
1612
01:53:16,033 --> 01:53:18,619
I'm just glad you're here.
1613
01:53:20,580 --> 01:53:22,964
Come on, you sit down.
1614
01:53:35,761 --> 01:53:39,688
Well. Welcome back to our side,
Miss Brown.
1615
01:53:46,481 --> 01:53:49,660
- What's that?
- Enunciator.
1616
01:53:49,734 --> 01:53:53,364
- Do you want to broadcast?
- We got a direct wire to WGN Chicago.
1617
01:53:53,446 --> 01:53:56,993
As soon as the jury returns,
we'll broadcast the verdict.
1618
01:53:57,074 --> 01:54:00,503
Radio. God, that's gonna
break down a lot of walls.
1619
01:54:00,578 --> 01:54:03,259
- You're not supposed to say "God".
- Why the hell not?
1620
01:54:03,331 --> 01:54:05,502
You're not supposed to say "hell".
1621
01:54:05,583 --> 01:54:10,257
This is going to be
a barren source of amusement.
1622
01:54:11,756 --> 01:54:14,520
Hello, Colonel.
1623
01:54:14,592 --> 01:54:18,353
There's a little toy you'll never
have any use for. Not with your lungs.
1624
01:54:18,429 --> 01:54:20,315
- What?
- The radio.
1625
01:54:20,389 --> 01:54:26,653
You whisper into it and it shouts
at a million people through loudspeakers.
1626
01:54:39,659 --> 01:54:41,995
Get rid of this.
1627
01:54:49,669 --> 01:54:54,675
What do you think?
Can you tell from their faces?
1628
01:54:59,178 --> 01:55:03,105
Everybody rise. Hear ye, hear ye!
1629
01:55:03,182 --> 01:55:07,062
Court will reconvene in the case of
the State versus Bertram Cates.
1630
01:55:11,274 --> 01:55:14,121
All right. Go ahead.
1631
01:55:14,193 --> 01:55:18,416
This is Harry Esterbrook, speaking to you
from the courthouse in Hillsboro,
1632
01:55:18,489 --> 01:55:22,712
where the jury has just returned in
the historic Hillsboro Monkey Trial case.
1633
01:55:22,785 --> 01:55:24,458
The judge has taken the bench.
1634
01:55:24,537 --> 01:55:28,250
Soon we will know whether Cates
will be found innocent or guilty.
1635
01:55:28,332 --> 01:55:31,630
I wish I could describe the tension
in this courtroom today.
1636
01:55:31,711 --> 01:55:34,428
- One moment, please.
- Please stand by.
1637
01:55:34,505 --> 01:55:38,183
I've been on the phone
with the lieutenant governor all morning.
1638
01:55:38,259 --> 01:55:40,809
The newspapers
haven't been very kind to us.
1639
01:55:40,887 --> 01:55:46,404
The boys at the Capitol think it wouldn't
do any harm if you let this simmer down.
1640
01:55:46,476 --> 01:55:49,904
Wait, Jason.
I have an obligation to the law.
1641
01:55:49,979 --> 01:55:56,243
Of course you have, Merle, but don't
forget... November's not too far off.
1642
01:56:01,949 --> 01:56:04,251
(CLEARS THROAT)
1643
01:56:04,327 --> 01:56:07,673
Gentlemen of the jury,
have you reached a verdict?
1644
01:56:07,747 --> 01:56:11,294
Yes, sir... Uh, Your Honour, we have.
1645
01:56:24,180 --> 01:56:26,861
The verdict of the jury is unanimous.
1646
01:56:26,933 --> 01:56:30,065
Bertram Cates is found guilty as charged.
1647
01:56:30,144 --> 01:56:34,285
You have heard the verdict of the jury
as read by presiding Judge Coffey.
1648
01:56:34,357 --> 01:56:39,956
Bertram Cates, defendant in one of
the greatest ethical contests known to us,
1649
01:56:40,029 --> 01:56:43,909
Bertram Cates has been found guilty.
The law has been satisfied.
1650
01:56:43,991 --> 01:56:48,582
But what repercussions of what happened
will be known only to the future.
1651
01:56:48,663 --> 01:56:51,131
- Quiet, please. Order.
- Stand by, please.
1652
01:56:51,207 --> 01:56:54,422
This court is still in session.
1653
01:56:54,502 --> 01:56:57,467
You remove that now, please.
1654
01:57:02,760 --> 01:57:07,766
The prisoner will rise
to hear the sentence of this court.
1655
01:57:12,061 --> 01:57:16,700
Bert, do you wish to make any statement
before sentence is passed?
1656
01:57:28,953 --> 01:57:31,587
Your Honour, I'm not a public speaker.
1657
01:57:33,124 --> 01:57:39,091
I do not have the eloquence of some of
the men you've heard in the last few days.
1658
01:57:39,172 --> 01:57:43,431
- I'm just a schoolteacher.
- Not any more, you ain't!
1659
01:57:43,509 --> 01:57:46,558
(BOOING FOLLOWED BY GAVEL)
1660
01:57:48,806 --> 01:57:51,606
I was a schoolteacher.
1661
01:57:54,061 --> 01:57:56,149
I feel that...
1662
01:57:57,523 --> 01:58:01,699
I've been convicted
of violating an unjust law.
1663
01:58:03,154 --> 01:58:07,663
I will continue in the future,
as I have in the past,
1664
01:58:07,742 --> 01:58:11,254
to oppose this law in any way I can.
1665
01:58:18,169 --> 01:58:23,852
Bertram Cates, this court has found you
guilty of violating public act volume 37,
1666
01:58:23,925 --> 01:58:27,057
statute 31428, as charged.
1667
01:58:27,136 --> 01:58:32,570
This violation is punishable
by fine and/or imprisonment.
1668
01:58:33,267 --> 01:58:38,191
But, since there has been
no previous violation of this statute,
1669
01:58:38,272 --> 01:58:43,576
there's no precedent
to guide the bench passing sentence.
1670
01:58:43,653 --> 01:58:46,500
The court deems it proper...
1671
01:58:49,992 --> 01:58:54,833
to sentence Bertram Cates
to pay a fine of... (CLEARS THROAT)
1672
01:58:54,914 --> 01:58:57,049
one hundred dollars.
1673
01:58:57,124 --> 01:58:59,212
(SHOUTING AND APPLAUSE)
1674
01:59:00,253 --> 01:59:03,467
But, uh... Uh, did, uh...
1675
01:59:03,548 --> 01:59:06,228
Did Your Honour say
one hundred dollars?
1676
01:59:06,300 --> 01:59:09,646
That is correct.
That seems to conclude the trial.
1677
01:59:09,720 --> 01:59:12,354
But the prosecution takes exception.
1678
01:59:12,431 --> 01:59:16,572
Where the issues are so titanic, the court
must mete out more drastic punishment.
1679
01:59:16,644 --> 01:59:19,657
- I object.
- To make an example of the transgressor.
1680
01:59:19,730 --> 01:59:22,151
- To show the world...
- Just a minute.
1681
01:59:22,233 --> 01:59:24,950
The amount of the fine
is of no concern to me.
1682
01:59:25,027 --> 01:59:28,575
Bertram Cates has no intention
of paying this or any other fine.
1683
01:59:28,656 --> 01:59:31,586
If it were one single dollar
he would not pay it.
1684
01:59:31,659 --> 01:59:35,539
We are going to appeal this decision
to the state supreme court.
1685
01:59:35,621 --> 01:59:39,133
Will the court grant us 3O days
in which to prepare the appeal?
1686
01:59:39,208 --> 01:59:42,921
Granted. Court fixes bond at $200.
1687
01:59:43,004 --> 01:59:47,678
I believe that concludes the business of
this trial. I declare this court adjourn...
1688
01:59:47,758 --> 01:59:50,095
Your Honour! With the court's permission,
1689
01:59:50,178 --> 01:59:53,725
I should like to read into the record
a few short remarks.
1690
01:59:53,806 --> 01:59:56,357
I object to that.
1691
01:59:56,434 --> 02:00:01,867
Mr. Brady is free to read any remarks
in a chautauqua or political campaign,
1692
02:00:01,939 --> 02:00:04,822
but our business
in Hillsboro is completed.
1693
02:00:04,901 --> 02:00:08,163
- The defence moves that we adjourn.
- But I have a few remarks.
1694
02:00:08,237 --> 02:00:10,955
JUDGE: And we are all anxious
to hear them, sir.
1695
02:00:11,032 --> 02:00:14,413
But Colonel Drummond's
point of procedure is well taken.
1696
02:00:14,494 --> 02:00:19,880
I'm sure everyone will wish to remain
after we adjourn to hear your address.
1697
02:00:19,957 --> 02:00:24,881
I hereby declare
this court is adjourned sine die.
1698
02:00:24,962 --> 02:00:27,596
My friends! My dear friends!
1699
02:00:27,673 --> 02:00:30,971
Your attention, please!
1700
02:00:31,052 --> 02:00:35,607
Fellow citizens
and friends of the unseen audience,
1701
02:00:35,681 --> 02:00:40,570
from the hallowed hills of sacred Sinai
in the days of antiquity came a law
1702
02:00:40,645 --> 02:00:43,742
which has been
our bulwark and our shield.
1703
02:00:43,815 --> 02:00:48,904
Age upon age, men have looked to
the law as they would to the mountains.
1704
02:00:48,986 --> 02:00:51,074
And here, here in this courtroom...
1705
02:00:51,155 --> 02:00:54,085
Here in this courtroom. Oh, no. No.
1706
02:00:54,158 --> 02:00:57,421
As they would look to the mountains
whence cometh our strength.
1707
02:00:57,495 --> 02:01:02,169
From time remembered, wherever man's
body has known hunger and oppression,
1708
02:01:02,250 --> 02:01:07,220
lost in darkness and despair, and here,
here in this courtroom living still,
1709
02:01:07,296 --> 02:01:10,262
in spite of dungeon, fire and sword...
1710
02:01:10,341 --> 02:01:13,935
Eskimo pies! Five cents, Eskimo pies.
1711
02:01:14,011 --> 02:01:15,399
When he set fire...
1712
02:01:15,471 --> 02:01:18,817
Eskimo pies, sweet as honey.
Here's where you bring your money.
1713
02:01:18,891 --> 02:01:21,228
Eskimo pies.
1714
02:01:21,310 --> 02:01:23,695
Lighting his way to everlasting salvation.
1715
02:01:23,771 --> 02:01:27,402
He would rob them of their creator
and their hope of heaven.
1716
02:01:27,483 --> 02:01:31,576
From the hallowed hills of sacred Sinai
in the days of antiquity came the law
1717
02:01:31,654 --> 02:01:33,493
which has been our bulwark and shield.
1718
02:01:33,573 --> 02:01:35,957
And here, here in this courtroom,
1719
02:01:36,033 --> 02:01:39,166
we have seen vindicated
the faith of our fathers,
1720
02:01:39,245 --> 02:01:42,508
living still in spite of
dungeon, fire and sword.
1721
02:01:42,582 --> 02:01:45,928
Our hearts beat high with joy
whenever we hear that glorious word.
1722
02:01:46,002 --> 02:01:49,882
Faith of our fathers, holy faith,
we will be true to thee...
1723
02:01:51,382 --> 02:01:53,553
till death.
1724
02:01:53,634 --> 02:01:56,683
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
1725
02:01:56,762 --> 02:01:59,313
Matt! Matt!
1726
02:02:00,725 --> 02:02:03,572
- Oh, dear God in heaven! Matt!
- Get back.
1727
02:02:03,644 --> 02:02:08,615
O Lord, pass us a miracle
and save our holy prophet!
1728
02:02:08,691 --> 02:02:11,028
MAN: Get a doctor!
1729
02:02:19,035 --> 02:02:23,377
DRUMMOND: I cannot imagine the world
without Matthew Harrison Brady.
1730
02:02:23,456 --> 02:02:25,543
Get me the Baltimore Herald.
1731
02:02:25,625 --> 02:02:30,381
- What did he die of? Did they say?
- He died of a busted belly.
1732
02:02:30,463 --> 02:02:33,891
There was much greatness in the man.
1733
02:02:33,966 --> 02:02:36,517
Can I quote you in the obituary?
1734
02:02:36,594 --> 02:02:39,394
Write anything you dare.
Write anything you please.
1735
02:02:39,472 --> 02:02:42,984
How do you write an obituary
for a man who's been dead 3O years?
1736
02:02:43,059 --> 02:02:45,146
Operator?
1737
02:02:46,395 --> 02:02:49,528
Say, what did he say to the minister?
1738
02:02:51,067 --> 02:02:55,243
You know, that fits.
He delivered his own obituary.
1739
02:02:55,321 --> 02:02:57,825
Where did you put that...
1740
02:02:57,907 --> 02:03:00,624
Ah, here it is.
1741
02:03:00,701 --> 02:03:02,623
His book.
1742
02:03:02,703 --> 02:03:05,421
It was Proverbs, wasn't it?
1743
02:03:06,833 --> 02:03:11,589
"He that troubleth his own house
shall inherit the wind."
1744
02:03:11,671 --> 02:03:16,179
"And the fool
shall be servant to the wise in heart."
1745
02:03:17,969 --> 02:03:20,686
Wow!
1746
02:03:20,763 --> 02:03:26,481
Well, Colonel Drummond, we're growing
an odd crop of agnostics this year.
1747
02:03:26,561 --> 02:03:29,609
You know, Hornbeck,
I'm getting damned sick of you.
1748
02:03:29,689 --> 02:03:30,982
Why?
1749
02:03:31,065 --> 02:03:34,992
You never pushed a noun against a verb
except to blow up something.
1750
02:03:35,069 --> 02:03:39,993
You know, that's a typical lawyer's trick,
accusing the accuser.
1751
02:03:40,074 --> 02:03:44,036
- What am I accused of?
- Contempt of conscience.
1752
02:03:44,120 --> 02:03:47,584
Sentimentality in the first degree.
1753
02:03:47,665 --> 02:03:51,129
Why? Because I refuse
to erase a man's lifetime?
1754
02:03:51,210 --> 02:03:54,722
No. You know what I thought of him
and I know what you thought,
1755
02:03:54,797 --> 02:03:59,020
so let's leave the lamentations
to the illiterate.
1756
02:03:59,093 --> 02:04:01,893
What is this? Be Kind To Bigots Week?
1757
02:04:01,971 --> 02:04:06,277
Why should we weep for him?
Because he's dead? Oh, no.
1758
02:04:06,350 --> 02:04:09,150
He cried enough for himself
during his lifetime.
1759
02:04:09,228 --> 02:04:13,535
The national tear duct
from Weeping Water, Nebraska.
1760
02:04:13,608 --> 02:04:17,700
He flooded the nation
like a one-man Mississippi.
1761
02:04:17,778 --> 02:04:22,500
You know what he was,
that Bible-beating bunko artist.
1762
02:04:22,575 --> 02:04:25,375
A giant once lived in that body.
1763
02:04:25,453 --> 02:04:31,800
But Matt Brady got lost because he looked
for God too high up and too far away.
1764
02:04:36,547 --> 02:04:40,807
Why, you hypocrite! You fraud!
1765
02:04:41,844 --> 02:04:44,941
The atheist who believes in God.
1766
02:04:45,014 --> 02:04:48,360
You're just as religious as he was.
1767
02:04:48,434 --> 02:04:51,317
Everything is grist for
your mill, isn't it?
1768
02:04:51,395 --> 02:04:56,117
Well, go ahead, grind it up -
Brady's past, Cates' future.
1769
02:04:56,192 --> 02:05:02,290
My God! Don't you understand the
meaning of what happened here today?
1770
02:05:02,365 --> 02:05:05,497
- It has no meaning.
- You have no meaning.
1771
02:05:05,576 --> 02:05:08,673
You're like a ghost
pointing an empty sleeve,
1772
02:05:08,746 --> 02:05:14,714
smirking at everything that
people feel or want or struggle for.
1773
02:05:16,045 --> 02:05:18,928
- I Pity you.
- You Pity me?
1774
02:05:19,006 --> 02:05:24,725
Isn't there anything?
What touches you? What warms you?
1775
02:05:24,804 --> 02:05:27,983
Every man has a dream.
What do you dream about?
1776
02:05:28,057 --> 02:05:30,525
What do you need?
1777
02:05:31,686 --> 02:05:33,940
You don't need anything, do you?
1778
02:05:34,021 --> 02:05:38,862
People, love, an idea just to cling to?
1779
02:05:40,444 --> 02:05:42,532
You poor slob.
1780
02:05:43,614 --> 02:05:45,750
You're all alone.
1781
02:05:47,118 --> 02:05:52,041
When you go to your grave there won't be
anybody to pull the grass over your head.
1782
02:05:52,123 --> 02:05:56,180
Nobody to mourn you,
nobody to give a damn.
1783
02:05:57,378 --> 02:06:00,095
You're all alone.
1784
02:06:10,266 --> 02:06:12,983
You're wrong, Henry.
1785
02:06:13,060 --> 02:06:15,611
You'll be there.
1786
02:06:15,688 --> 02:06:18,488
You're the type.
1787
02:06:18,566 --> 02:06:22,409
Who else would defend
my right to be lonely?
1788
02:06:48,596 --> 02:06:50,683
(SIGHS)
1789
02:07:01,859 --> 02:07:08,159
♪ My eyes have seen the glory ♪
♪ of the coming of the Lord ♪
1790
02:07:08,241 --> 02:07:14,125
♪ He is trampling out the vintage ♪
♪ where the grapes of wrath are stored ♪
1791
02:07:14,205 --> 02:07:20,220
♪ He has loosed the fateful lightning ♪
♪ of his terrible swift sword ♪
1792
02:07:20,294 --> 02:07:26,677
♪ His truth is marching on ♪
1793
02:07:26,759 --> 02:07:32,146
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1794
02:07:32,348 --> 02:07:37,651
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1795
02:07:37,854 --> 02:07:42,742
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
1796
02:07:42,817 --> 02:07:47,990
♪ His truth is marching on ♪
1797
02:07:48,090 --> 02:07:53,090
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