0:00:09 > 0:00:13'There's two things everybody got to find out for theyselves.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16'They got to find out about love,
0:00:16 > 0:00:19'and they got to find out about livin'.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38'Now, love is like the sea.
0:00:38 > 0:00:39'It's a movin' thing,
0:00:39 > 0:00:43'and it's different on every shore.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45'And livin'...
0:00:47 > 0:00:50'Well, I just come back from buryin' the dead.'
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Is that Miss Starks?
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Sure enough looks like Miss Starks' looksome features.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21Yes, 'cept Miss Starks wouldn't be wearin' no coveralls.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24That Tea Cake, he probably stole her money.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28See, that's what happens when you run off with a young fellow like Tea Cake.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Oh, you just mad cos she ain't run off with you!
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Ain't no way in the world that's Mrs Mayor Starks.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38- No way in the world.- Janie?!
0:01:38 > 0:01:42Lord, we been worried sick about you!
0:01:42 > 0:01:43Go to hell.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48- What did you say? - I said, "Afternoon, ladies."
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Jasper, run get Miss Phoeby,
0:01:51 > 0:01:53you tell her her friend Miss Janie come back.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Yes, ma'am.
0:02:04 > 0:02:09I told you she'd come runnin' back here, crawlin' back, didn't I?
0:02:54 > 0:02:56SHE PLAYS MINIMAL PIANO TUNE
0:03:29 > 0:03:33What's she doin' with long hair down her back like some young gal?
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Where's Tea Cake at, that's what I want to know.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Weren't she a widow woman, almost 40?
0:03:37 > 0:03:40That young boy weren't never gonna marry her.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01I covered up your furniture an' all.
0:04:02 > 0:04:03I thank you.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07You sure look good.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Shoot, you look like your own daughter.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24Girl, you talkin' like you think I brought you something.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29I ain't brought home nothing but myself.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33That's a gracious plenty.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Your friends wouldn't want nothing better.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43Girl, go on and bring me them rations you've brought in here.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48- Thank you.- Janie...
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Here you go.
0:04:55 > 0:05:02If that Tea Cake ever shows his behind in Eatonville again, he gonna wish he hadn't.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04He knew that you had just lost Joe,
0:05:04 > 0:05:08so he took advantage of you and your money.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10He ain't wasted none of my money.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12And if he was here, he'd tell everybody so too.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15But he gone?
0:05:15 > 0:05:16Ain't he?
0:05:18 > 0:05:23- He dragged you down to his level, and then...- Y'all think he did me wrong.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Janie, we all know he did you wrong.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Well, I ain't stunned what they think.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40You don't care what I think neither, do you?
0:05:42 > 0:05:44You left this town,
0:05:44 > 0:05:45running off with that no cowt...
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Me and Tea Cake had us a real love.
0:05:47 > 0:05:52You got the nerve to come back up in here with no shoes on your feet and nothing but overalls on your back,
0:05:52 > 0:05:55making everything we believed in just look like dirt!
0:05:55 > 0:05:57Me and Tea Cake had us a real love.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01- How could you do that?- Y'all couldn't see that.- I used to look up to you.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09Phoeby...
0:06:11 > 0:06:16The only way you, and this whole town, ever seen me
0:06:16 > 0:06:19was as Mrs Mayor Starks,
0:06:21 > 0:06:23sittin' out there on that porch,
0:06:25 > 0:06:28silk dresses on.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32All high an' mighty.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Just as ladylike as you please.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40That might have been the Janie y'all knew.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46But that wasn't the Janie I ever was.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55'You see, I ain't never known my poppa, or my ma.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57'My grandmomma raised me.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12'I was born sorta knowing things,
0:07:12 > 0:07:17'like how the trees and the wind talk.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20'I told the seeds when they was fallin',
0:07:20 > 0:07:23'"I sure hope y'all fall on soft ground."
0:07:23 > 0:07:24INSECTS BUZZ
0:07:29 > 0:07:31'That year,
0:07:31 > 0:07:33'something about me was different.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39'It's like my life was starting right at that moment.'
0:07:45 > 0:07:48- Hey, Johnny Taylor! - How you doin', Janie?
0:07:48 > 0:07:50I'm all right!
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Janie!
0:08:27 > 0:08:30How long you been lettin' Johnny Taylor kiss on you?
0:08:30 > 0:08:32What is wrong with you?
0:08:32 > 0:08:35Ain't nothing wrong with me, Nanny.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37- We was...- I seen what you was doin'.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41You was just lettin' that trashy boy, that breath an' britches, wipe his feet on you.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43He wasn't wipin' his feet on me.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46The woman is the mule of the world.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48I didn't mean no harm, Nanny.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50You don't even know...
0:08:50 > 0:08:53what harm is, girl.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Yeah, you gonna get married right away.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09- To Johnny Taylor?- No, child,
0:09:09 > 0:09:11I'd wanted you to school out,
0:09:11 > 0:09:14but that ain't your idea, I see.
0:09:14 > 0:09:18Why... Why, I ain't ready to get married.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Oh, so you don't want to marry a decent man.
0:09:21 > 0:09:27You want to be like your momma was, you want to run wild, break my heart.
0:09:27 > 0:09:31Someone good and decent's been asking after you for a while now.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Brother Logan Killicks.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Logan Killicks?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48That's what he been hangin' around here for?
0:09:53 > 0:09:57He look like...some old skull head in a graveyard.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03Brother Killicks got 60 acres and he's good and decent.
0:10:03 > 0:10:04I don't care what he got.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13'Nanny took the horizon and pinched it into a little bit of a thing.'
0:11:02 > 0:11:06Janie? Janie, what in the world are you doing?
0:11:06 > 0:11:09I'm watching God.
0:11:15 > 0:11:21Now, y'all want to make sure his dinner's always hot when he comes home,
0:11:21 > 0:11:23and the floor's swept clean in the morning,
0:11:23 > 0:11:26and be welcomin' to him.
0:11:29 > 0:11:30Here he comes.
0:11:31 > 0:11:32Whoa!
0:11:34 > 0:11:35Dry your eyes.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42How do,
0:11:44 > 0:11:45Miss Janie.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52'We got married, just like Nanny wanted.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56'It was true, Logan was good and decent.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02'I was a proper married woman.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06'But I was still waiting for love to begin.'
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Girl! Come on, now!
0:12:08 > 0:12:12MUSIC: "Beggin' The Blues" by Bessie Jones
0:13:13 > 0:13:16I'm goin' over Hamilton County, get us another plough.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23- Can I go with you? - You stay here, help me out some.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25That porch need cleanin'.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29Cut up them seed potatoes, don't spend all day daydreamin'.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Slaughter that runt and bleed 'im good.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34I want chops for dinner.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39So that's a no?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Next time.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04Move it!
0:14:19 > 0:14:20Go!
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Go, before you become ham hocks.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35- Put my pig down!- Not if you're givin' him to the foxes.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38I'm tryin' to let him go. Put him down!
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Go on, go on.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43You think you're bein' kind? He'll be dead before morning.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45I ain't kind in no kind of way.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52Your momma and poppa gonna give you hell for settin' them pigs free.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55They dead and I don't care what my husband thinks, neither.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Husband?
0:14:57 > 0:15:02Went to get a plough, so I can help in the fields.
0:15:02 > 0:15:07Lord, gal, you got no more business behind a plough than a hog got with a holiday.
0:15:12 > 0:15:17Pretty lady like you need to be treated like a lady every single day of your life.
0:15:23 > 0:15:27My name is Joe Starks, I'm from Georgia.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Where you headin', Mr, Starks?
0:15:35 > 0:15:40Down the road a ways, they got some coloured folks got together, made their own town.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42All-coloured town?
0:15:42 > 0:15:44- You... - Yeah, they called it Eatonville.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47I'm plannin' to get there while the town's still a baby.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52Seem like a tall tale to me.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55Maybe you need to come with me and see it.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04Can't...
0:16:13 > 0:16:17Guess you better get goin'.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30If you change your mind, tomorrow after the sun come up,
0:16:30 > 0:16:33I'm gonna be waitin' on you,
0:16:33 > 0:16:34right down that road.
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Mr Starks!
0:16:46 > 0:16:47Keep it.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08What would you do if I was to leave you?
0:17:10 > 0:17:12Leave me?
0:17:12 > 0:17:15You but 17 years old.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17You don't know nothing about the world.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19I know enough.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25You don't appreciate my good treatment, do you?
0:17:25 > 0:17:27No, it ain't that. You treat me good.
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Janie...
0:17:38 > 0:17:42I got 60 acres,
0:17:42 > 0:17:45and I ain't no young man, in no kind of way.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50When I pass,
0:17:52 > 0:17:56everything I got passes to you.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02But what if I was to leave you?
0:18:04 > 0:18:05What would you do?
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Do what you got to do.
0:18:19 > 0:18:20I'm goin' to sleep.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30'Joe Starks had spoke about change,
0:18:30 > 0:18:32'and chance.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50'And even if he wasn't there waiting for me,
0:18:51 > 0:18:55'the change was bound to do me good.'
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Hey, girl!
0:19:09 > 0:19:16'I thought I was gonna have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.
0:19:17 > 0:19:22'Joe bought me all kinds of pretty new clothes,
0:19:22 > 0:19:26'and I became Mrs Joe Starks.'
0:19:38 > 0:19:41Can you fellows tell us how far we at from Eatonville?
0:19:41 > 0:19:45We hopin' to get there by nightfall.
0:19:45 > 0:19:46Y'all in Eatonville now.
0:19:49 > 0:19:50This is it?
0:19:51 > 0:19:52This is it.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58This don't look like nothing but a raw place in the woods.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Well, we only been in town for about a year.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09Place is just getting started, got lots to look forward to.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Amen, she's right.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Y'all got a lot of opportunity here.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17Why don't you and your daughter join us for supper?
0:20:17 > 0:20:20I'm a really good cook and I'd be really happy to have you.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Amos Hicks is my name and I ain't got no wife as yet.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29And I ain't nowhere near old enough to have a daughter, Mr Hicks.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31This here's my wife.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36If you and your wife is thinkin' about settlin' here,
0:20:36 > 0:20:38you're welcome to stay with my family.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40Until we build our own house.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43We'd be happy to put you up as long as you need. Willy, tie up his horse.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45We thank you.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49I'm gonna get me a wife just like that.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52You ain't got but a fish sandwich to your name.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55You can't get the likes of her with no fish sandwich.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08How many acres y'all got now?
0:21:08 > 0:21:10'Bout 50.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12That ain't enough for no town.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16Well, we was real fortunate that Captain Eaton gave us the acres to get started.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19Captain Eaton own the sawmill we work in.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21He's a fairer man than most.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Y'all want this to be a town of significance, don't you?
0:21:23 > 0:21:27Sure, but Captain Eaton ain't gonna give us no more land now.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30Cap'n Eaton? He's generous, but he ain't stupid.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36He might not give you no more, but you can buy more.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Been a town a whole year.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47You would think they'd have more happening by now.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50They just need you to show 'em what to do.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55I pray to God they ain't a bunch of lazy no-counts.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59They need a leader, that's all.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Look to me like Joe Starks
0:22:02 > 0:22:04would be the perfect man for the job.
0:22:06 > 0:22:10Look at this face. Good-lookin' enough to be on a silver dollar.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14This chest,
0:22:14 > 0:22:16strong and broad,
0:22:16 > 0:22:21bet you got a big speech-making voice in there, don't you?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23These hands...
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Lord knows, these hands are made for counting money.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32We'll buy a hundred acres,
0:22:32 > 0:22:33and then we'll buy a hundred more.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36I'll sell the land we don't need to newcomers,
0:22:36 > 0:22:39and we'll put Eatonville right in the middle of the map.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43And with the money we make, we'll buy you your very own train guard
0:22:43 > 0:22:46and we gonna crisscross this country first class.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Call me Jody like you do sometimes.
0:22:49 > 0:22:50Call me Jody.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Jody.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02He ain't gonna buy nothing, I'm tellin' you. He all talk.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05I been tellin' y'all we needs to buy more land, ain't I?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Lord, I don't know.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10< I hope he can.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Now what?
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- Joe pullin' out his money.- He gonna buy more land, I told y'all!
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Captain Eaton's signin' the paper!
0:23:21 > 0:23:23- What you see?- Shh!
0:23:26 > 0:23:28And Joe done signed the paper too!
0:23:28 > 0:23:30CHEERING AND SCREAMING
0:23:36 > 0:23:40'The next day, we all voted Joe to be the mayor.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43'Wasn't nobody more proud of him than me.'
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Hold on!
0:23:55 > 0:24:01'He just strolled around, all wrapped up in his new dignity.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04'Thinkin', plannin' our future,
0:24:05 > 0:24:09'and I was right there with him, ready to help.'
0:24:11 > 0:24:13MUSIC: "See Aunt Dinah" by Bessie Jones
0:24:33 > 0:24:38'Some folks need thrones and ruling chairs to make their influence felt,
0:24:38 > 0:24:40'but not Joe.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43'He had a throne in the seat of his pants.
0:25:13 > 0:25:18'When the new families came, the land we bought made us a good profit,
0:25:18 > 0:25:21'and we reinvested the money back into Eatonville.'
0:25:33 > 0:25:35In the kitchen, thank you.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38Which way, Mrs Starks?
0:25:38 > 0:25:40That goes upstairs.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42JOE PLAYS PIANO NOTES
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Can't neither one of us play it.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48This ain't for playin', this is just for lookin' at.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Shoot, Jody!
0:25:57 > 0:26:01This is the life Nanny always dreamed of me havin'.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05We did it.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07She'd be so happy.
0:26:10 > 0:26:11Are you happy?
0:26:13 > 0:26:14Yeah.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47Mr Starks. Ma'am.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01- I got it.- Steady, steady...
0:27:07 > 0:27:09I hope they got my ribbon.
0:27:14 > 0:27:18Since I had my three children, I just ain't got the figure I used to.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21You know, you look like a young gal in that dress.
0:27:21 > 0:27:26Sam says the mayor of Orlando's comin' and someone from the governor's office, too.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30- Well, you know what that means, ladies.- What?
0:27:30 > 0:27:32We in the big house now!
0:27:34 > 0:27:36- Isn't it gorgeous? - We should go, see you later!
0:27:43 > 0:27:46It's pretty. You think Joe gonna like it?
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Course he'll like it.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Janie?
0:27:53 > 0:27:55You and Joe changed everythin'.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Just feels like anything's possible now.
0:28:21 > 0:28:22Lord, I done... I run over the mayor!
0:28:22 > 0:28:25Almost, Phoeby. Almost.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37I ordered it from the finest ladies' store in Orlando.
0:28:42 > 0:28:43Oh!
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Must have cost a lot.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53Look at this one, Jody. This is the one the ladies made me, ain't it pretty?
0:28:53 > 0:28:56Yeah, but it ain't befittin' of a mayor's wife.
0:28:56 > 0:28:57You're the bell cow.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59Those other women, they're your gang.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01No other wife,
0:29:01 > 0:29:04none of them should rank with you.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06I'm gonna show you the world.
0:29:08 > 0:29:10Remember?
0:29:28 > 0:29:32Try as he might, Frank Taylor can't seem to control that wife of his.
0:29:32 > 0:29:35Hell, if she was my wife, I'd kill her cemetery dead.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45Oh, come here! Where you goin' with them cookies?
0:29:45 > 0:29:46Come on, now.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49Oh, shoot! Gimme those cookies.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51Come here, boy.
0:29:55 > 0:29:57I'm tellin' you, in five years' time,
0:29:57 > 0:30:00Eatonville is gonna be the county seat.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03Well, all right, I hear what you say.
0:30:03 > 0:30:06Five years' time, Eatonville is gonna be the county seat right here.
0:30:06 > 0:30:08You hear what I say, you mark my words.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11Hard work, determination.
0:30:12 > 0:30:17- If we expect to move on, we got to stand up and do things right around here.- You're right about that.
0:30:17 > 0:30:20We got to organise...
0:30:20 > 0:30:22You see her paradin' round up there?
0:30:22 > 0:30:27I reckon the dress we done made ain't good enough for Mrs Mayor Starks.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29She up there with the men.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31Too good to help us out.
0:30:33 > 0:30:39I plan to make Eatonville become the coloured capital of the state of Florida, cos this town...
0:30:44 > 0:30:47..is full of union and love.
0:31:03 > 0:31:07I plans to put my hands to the plough and strain every nerve
0:31:07 > 0:31:11to make our town of Eatonville the metropolis of the state.
0:31:17 > 0:31:22And to that effect, let's get started tonight with a little surprise I got for you.
0:31:22 > 0:31:24Our incorporation,
0:31:26 > 0:31:28Eatonville, is now...
0:31:28 > 0:31:33the first coloured incorporated township in all of America.
0:31:51 > 0:31:56Let's have a few words of encouragement from Mrs Mayor Starks.
0:31:56 > 0:32:02- Come on, say something!- Mrs Mayor Starks. Come on, come on up!
0:32:02 > 0:32:04Thank you for your compliments.
0:32:04 > 0:32:07But Mrs Mayor Starks don't know nothing about no speech-makin'!
0:32:07 > 0:32:09I didn't marry her for nothing like that.
0:32:09 > 0:32:10Brother Pastor.
0:32:16 > 0:32:20As we touch this flame to this match wick,
0:32:20 > 0:32:25let the light shine into the hearts of all of you gathered here tonight.
0:32:25 > 0:32:28- Amen, Amen.- Let it shine,
0:32:28 > 0:32:32let it shine, let it shine!
0:32:32 > 0:32:37# This little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine
0:32:37 > 0:32:44# This little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine
0:32:44 > 0:32:50# This little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine
0:32:50 > 0:32:54# Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine... #
0:32:56 > 0:32:58How do you like being Mrs Mayor?
0:32:58 > 0:33:00It's all right, I reckon.
0:33:00 > 0:33:03All right?
0:33:03 > 0:33:06You ought to be glad.
0:33:06 > 0:33:10I think it keep us in a kinda strain.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14I'll be glad when it's over.
0:33:14 > 0:33:17Over?
0:33:17 > 0:33:20Girl, I ain't even got started good.
0:33:28 > 0:33:30I'm gonna be a big voice.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33And you ought to be glad.
0:33:33 > 0:33:35I'm gonna make a big woman out of you.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44- That's your move? - Oh, I don't know about that.- What?
0:33:44 > 0:33:46That looked like a good move to me.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48Yeah, it looked like a good move to me too.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50One, two, three.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56LAUGHTER
0:33:56 > 0:34:01Look like your husband need some new eyeballs for Christmas, Pheoby!
0:34:01 > 0:34:04My eyeballs is just fine, OK? You just cheatin', that's all.
0:34:16 > 0:34:17Janie!
0:34:17 > 0:34:20Janie, get in here,
0:34:20 > 0:34:22you got some work to do.
0:34:24 > 0:34:25Ma'am.
0:34:27 > 0:34:31What do you mean tipping your hat to her? She ain't the queen of England.
0:34:34 > 0:34:38Everybody can't be like you, Jody. Folks is bound to laugh and play.
0:34:38 > 0:34:40- Who don't want to laugh and have fun? - You make like you don't.
0:34:40 > 0:34:44If they'd laugh less and work more, maybe they'd have themselves something.
0:34:44 > 0:34:47But no, they want to work day in and day out like beasts of burden,
0:34:47 > 0:34:52and don't end up with nothin' but a full belly and somewhere to lie down afterwards.
0:34:52 > 0:34:54Do you expect me to be like that?
0:34:54 > 0:34:59No, but I don't wanna be classed off from my friends, and our neighbours.
0:34:59 > 0:35:00You don't like me being mayor,
0:35:02 > 0:35:03do you?
0:35:06 > 0:35:07Joe, we was going places.
0:35:07 > 0:35:11I ain't even got started good here yet, and you already wanna run off?
0:35:17 > 0:35:19Oh, she gone run off!
0:35:19 > 0:35:22Looks like big Mr Mayor and the missus done had a fallin' out.
0:35:24 > 0:35:25Here, you put this on.
0:35:26 > 0:35:29What, and wrap my head up like an old woman?
0:35:29 > 0:35:30How come?
0:35:30 > 0:35:33Cos I done told you to!
0:35:41 > 0:35:45You are the mayor's wife, remember?
0:36:02 > 0:36:04Janie, Janie!
0:36:04 > 0:36:05Janie...
0:36:06 > 0:36:08Whoo, the devil that got into them.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14What the hell you doing?
0:36:14 > 0:36:15What the hell you think?
0:36:15 > 0:36:18- Janie!- Can't live with you no more.
0:36:18 > 0:36:20Where you gonna go?
0:36:20 > 0:36:22Oh now, who the hell? Whatever happened?
0:36:22 > 0:36:27You had nothing when I met you, and you'll have less than nothing when you leave me.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30Janie, nobody would marry you!
0:36:30 > 0:36:32- Not now.- Get off me!
0:36:32 > 0:36:34I'll gonna let you go, but you gonna hear me!
0:36:34 > 0:36:37All you'll end up is as somebody's good-time gal,
0:36:37 > 0:36:41you know, the kind that men use for they pleasure and then toss in the ditch!
0:36:47 > 0:36:48Now, you go.
0:38:31 > 0:38:35MUSIC: "Sheep, Sheep, Don't You Know The Road" by Bessie Jones
0:38:40 > 0:38:44'Every morning I flung open the window to another day,
0:38:44 > 0:38:46'and every day had a store in it.
0:38:49 > 0:38:52'I wasn't petal open any more.
0:39:15 > 0:39:23'I had an inside and an outside now, and I knew how not to mix 'em.
0:39:26 > 0:39:31'Days seemed to just run together.
0:39:31 > 0:39:33'We had us a routine.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36'Breakfast at dawn,
0:39:36 > 0:39:38'lunch at noon,
0:39:38 > 0:39:40'and dinner by six.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52'20 years passed.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56'Eatonville had plenty to be proud of.
0:39:56 > 0:40:00'And while I was living a good life,
0:40:02 > 0:40:05'it was Joe's life, not mine.'
0:40:12 > 0:40:15Now if we can just stop this boy from cheating once in a while...
0:40:15 > 0:40:17You done have 20 years, lying about a cheater!
0:40:24 > 0:40:25JAR SMASHES
0:40:25 > 0:40:29Boy, what is wrong with you? You got a sandbag in your head where your brain should be?
0:40:29 > 0:40:34- No, sir.- Well here's the cut. If you gonna work here, you gonna have to use your brain then.
0:40:34 > 0:40:37- You can't mess up all my profit, droppin'...- Brother Mayor,
0:40:37 > 0:40:41- how 'bout cutting me a plug of that fine tobacco you got right there? - All right.
0:40:50 > 0:40:52I'll get that for you, Sam.
0:41:01 > 0:41:02Lord have mercy!
0:41:02 > 0:41:07Looky here, your wife done gone buck wild with that plug cutting.
0:41:07 > 0:41:12And you'll be round this store till you old as Methuselah, you still won't be learning how to do nothing.
0:41:13 > 0:41:18Don't be standing there studying me, with your pop eyes rolling and your little narrow behind.
0:41:18 > 0:41:21Quit mixing up my doings with my looks, then.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24You must be out your mind, talking to me like that. I'm the mayor of this town.
0:41:24 > 0:41:27You the one started it, talking underneath my clothes.
0:41:27 > 0:41:29Don't be insulted about your looks.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32You ain't gimme no children, now you're an old lady.
0:41:32 > 0:41:36- Nearly 40, ain't nobody looking at you, old as you is. - Well, I ain't 40, I'm only 38.
0:41:36 > 0:41:38You ways past 50, let's talk about that.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40And this big fat belly you got.
0:41:40 > 0:41:44You talk a whole lotta brag, Joe, but ain't nothing big about you but your voice.
0:41:44 > 0:41:49- Hell, you pull down your britches and it look like you done hit the change of life.- What you say to me?
0:41:49 > 0:41:51You heard her, you ain't blind.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53I'd rather be shot dead than hear that about my own self!
0:41:53 > 0:41:55Jane, what you say to me?!
0:42:30 > 0:42:31Janie!
0:42:44 > 0:42:46Joe gived you everything you could want.
0:42:46 > 0:42:49You're not happy because you expect too much.
0:42:56 > 0:43:01'Something fell off the shelf inside me.
0:43:01 > 0:43:05'It was Joe, tumbled down and shattered.'
0:43:35 > 0:43:38Doctor say that I'm dying.
0:43:40 > 0:43:42I guess you come to watch.
0:43:52 > 0:43:53HE WHEEZES
0:44:01 > 0:44:02Jody...
0:44:04 > 0:44:07Maybe I ain't been such a good wife to you.
0:44:10 > 0:44:17But you gave me everything a woman could ever dream of having.
0:44:18 > 0:44:20And I thank you.
0:44:24 > 0:44:28But Jody, you and me done been together now for 20 years,
0:44:28 > 0:44:31and you don't know me half at all.
0:44:33 > 0:44:34I know you.
0:44:34 > 0:44:38You changed from that Jody I run off down the road with.
0:44:40 > 0:44:43I wanted to keep a house with you in a wonderful way,
0:44:43 > 0:44:46but you wasn't really satisfied with me the way I was.
0:44:46 > 0:44:50I built a whole town for us.
0:44:52 > 0:44:54But that ain't good enough for you.
0:44:54 > 0:45:01It was just that my own feelings had to be squeezed and crowded out of me to make room for yours in me.
0:45:01 > 0:45:03Blame everything on me.
0:45:06 > 0:45:09I don't let you show me no feeling, huh?
0:45:09 > 0:45:11Janie, that's all I ever wanted.
0:45:11 > 0:45:16Ain't nobody trying to blame nothing on you, Joe, but all this bowing down and obedience,
0:45:16 > 0:45:20well, it just ain't what I run off down that road with you for.
0:45:20 > 0:45:23Shut up! Shut up.
0:45:26 > 0:45:29Even now, you've got to die
0:45:29 > 0:45:32with me being obedient,
0:45:32 > 0:45:35instead of lettin' me love you.
0:45:37 > 0:45:38I hope...
0:45:38 > 0:45:42that thunder and lightning...
0:45:42 > 0:45:44kill you.
0:45:48 > 0:45:50Get outta here,
0:45:50 > 0:45:52get lost!
0:45:52 > 0:45:54HE WHEEZES
0:45:54 > 0:45:55Jody?
0:46:08 > 0:46:09Poor Jody...
0:46:18 > 0:46:21Sitting in that ruling chair was hard for you too.
0:46:29 > 0:46:34'Whatever folks thought of Joe while he was living,
0:46:34 > 0:46:37'they turned out for his funeral, and cried over him.
0:46:38 > 0:46:42'Cos whether they liked him or not, they knew he had been a good man,
0:46:42 > 0:46:46'and that his passing was a great loss.
0:46:51 > 0:46:54'I felt the sadness too,
0:46:54 > 0:46:57'but alongside the sadness,
0:46:58 > 0:47:02'I was feeling something else.
0:47:02 > 0:47:05'I was feeling free.'
0:47:05 > 0:47:10MUSIC: "There's A New World Coming" by Bernice Johnson Reagon
0:48:23 > 0:48:25Sun feels so good, don't it?
0:48:28 > 0:48:33Joe's been dead almost a year, and Amos Hicks got a pretty good job now.
0:48:34 > 0:48:37I ain't thinking about no Amos!
0:48:37 > 0:48:41Shoot, I'm enjoying my freedom too much.
0:48:41 > 0:48:44Janie, don't let nobody hear you say that.
0:48:44 > 0:48:47Folks'll think you ain't sorry Joe's gone.
0:48:47 > 0:48:50I don't care what folks think.
0:48:50 > 0:48:52And to my thinking,
0:48:52 > 0:48:57mourning shouldn't last a second longer than the grief do.
0:49:05 > 0:49:09- Afternoon.- Can I get you something?
0:49:09 > 0:49:12Got any smoking tobacco?
0:49:23 > 0:49:24Sure do.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32Got a little piece of fire over there, lady?
0:49:35 > 0:49:36Mm-hm.
0:49:48 > 0:49:50So how come you ain't over there at the ball game?
0:49:50 > 0:49:53Everybody else in town is there.
0:49:59 > 0:50:02Well, not everybody.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05Lady just sold me some cigarettes.
0:50:07 > 0:50:12I only had train fare for part of the way, so I figured I'd catch me a ride with someone.
0:50:14 > 0:50:16Good luck,
0:50:16 > 0:50:18cos all the cars in Eatonville is gone.
0:50:23 > 0:50:25Guess I'll walk then.
0:50:29 > 0:50:31I got pretty good shoe leather.
0:50:42 > 0:50:45How about you playing me some checkers?
0:50:45 > 0:50:47You look hard to beat.
0:50:47 > 0:50:50I am, cos I keep playing late!
0:51:06 > 0:51:09You a wild one.
0:51:09 > 0:51:11Oh, man, girl!
0:51:22 > 0:51:23Wait!
0:51:26 > 0:51:27Not my king.
0:51:27 > 0:51:29But not my king, no!
0:51:29 > 0:51:31Take any one, but not my king!
0:51:31 > 0:51:36You gonna be a good player after a while.
0:51:36 > 0:51:37You think?
0:51:39 > 0:51:42I'll come and teach you some more another time.
0:51:45 > 0:51:48You could teach me,
0:51:48 > 0:51:50so long as you don't cheat me.
0:51:56 > 0:51:58How 'bout a cool drink?
0:52:07 > 0:52:09Why, thank you, Mr...
0:52:11 > 0:52:15You ain't even told me your name.
0:52:15 > 0:52:20My momma named me Vergible Woods, but most everybody call me Tea Cake.
0:52:22 > 0:52:25Tea Cake, huh?
0:52:25 > 0:52:27You as sweet as all that?
0:52:27 > 0:52:29Why don't you try me and see?
0:52:39 > 0:52:42You look scared.
0:52:42 > 0:52:44I ain't scared.
0:52:50 > 0:52:52Night, now.
0:53:00 > 0:53:04'You and the whole town had decided that I should get me a new husband,
0:53:04 > 0:53:09'and Amos Hicks was thinking he was the fellow with the best chance.
0:53:09 > 0:53:13'Shoot, in Amos's mind, me and him was already engaged.'
0:53:13 > 0:53:15Sure is hot.
0:53:15 > 0:53:17Yeah, I never did like the heat.
0:53:17 > 0:53:20I was much more of a cold weather kind of man.
0:53:20 > 0:53:22Boy, now I done heard everything.
0:53:22 > 0:53:24Yeah, but you know what I'm gonna do?
0:53:24 > 0:53:29I'm gonna marry Miss Janie, I'm gonna take her over to Chicago, and we gonna have a honeymoon there.
0:53:29 > 0:53:32- You gonna have to get up off our porch first. - LAUGHTER
0:53:51 > 0:53:53How you doing? Y'all mind if I join you?
0:53:53 > 0:53:55- What's your name, son? - They call me Tea Cake.
0:53:55 > 0:54:00You look like you need a drink. It's hot and sweaty.
0:54:00 > 0:54:04Why, thank you for the soda, and I'll square it with you.
0:54:04 > 0:54:06Take some time out, and sit there.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11I sure will, I sure will.
0:54:11 > 0:54:15Janie! Come on over here play checkers with us.
0:54:18 > 0:54:22I'm sorry, but you don't know Miss Mayor Starks, son.
0:54:22 > 0:54:25She don't play no checkers.
0:54:25 > 0:54:27She do now.
0:54:30 > 0:54:34- I ain't that good.- I'll teach you.
0:54:34 > 0:54:38No, no, son, I'm gonna coach her.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40Sit right here, Miss Starks.
0:54:40 > 0:54:42I appreciate that, Amos.
0:54:44 > 0:54:45Now, you gotta picture it like this.
0:54:45 > 0:54:48Here you are, you're a general, right?
0:54:48 > 0:54:50And this right here, these are your troops.
0:54:50 > 0:54:54- Amos, you're probably the best checkers player in the whole state. - Thanks, Phoeby.
0:54:54 > 0:54:59Now what you're trying to do, if you can get your pieces to move to the other side of the board,
0:54:59 > 0:55:02if you can get 'em there, you get to become a king, if...
0:55:13 > 0:55:15What?
0:55:34 > 0:55:35Good night, Hezekiah.
0:55:35 > 0:55:38It's late, Miss Starks.
0:55:38 > 0:55:40Ill walk you home.
0:55:40 > 0:55:42That's OK. I'll walk her.
0:55:58 > 0:56:00I'm hungry.
0:56:03 > 0:56:05Well, I got some pound cake.
0:56:09 > 0:56:11I got some lemonade.
0:56:20 > 0:56:22Taste.
0:56:22 > 0:56:23I done tasted a lemon before.
0:56:23 > 0:56:25SHE LAUGHS
0:56:36 > 0:56:38Shh!
0:56:38 > 0:56:39I hear a noise.
0:56:39 > 0:56:42THEY LAUGH
0:56:43 > 0:56:45There ain't nobody out there, Pearl.
0:56:45 > 0:56:48- Pearl, Pearl!- Like laughing.
0:56:49 > 0:56:51Laughing? From Mayor Starks' house?
0:56:51 > 0:56:54No, that can't be, can't be no laughing, come on.
0:56:54 > 0:56:57Guess I'm gonna put these old bones to bed.
0:56:57 > 0:56:59You ain't old in no kind of way.
0:56:59 > 0:57:03Besides, the night's too pretty for anybody to be sleeping it away.
0:57:09 > 0:57:10Wait, where you going?
0:57:14 > 0:57:16- Let's us go fishing!- Fishing?
0:57:16 > 0:57:18- Come on, fishing. - This time of night?
0:57:18 > 0:57:20Oh, yeah, best time, best time.
0:57:20 > 0:57:22- Come on, girl!- We can't go fishing!
0:57:22 > 0:57:24- Wait, wait...- You'll make me fall!
0:57:33 > 0:57:35HARMONICA PLAYS BLUES MUSIC
0:57:38 > 0:57:40- Ah! A fish! I got a fish! - Hold him now.
0:57:42 > 0:57:43Yeah!
0:57:45 > 0:57:47- TURNS VOLUME UP ON RADIO - Oh, yeah!
0:57:50 > 0:57:54# I remember one September on one Friday night
0:57:54 > 0:57:58# Stagger Lee and Billy Lyons had a great fight
0:57:58 > 0:58:01# When you lose your money, learn to lose
0:58:03 > 0:58:05# Billy Lyons shot six bits
0:58:05 > 0:58:07# Stagger Lee bet he'd pass
0:58:07 > 0:58:11# Stagger Lee out with his 45, said, "You done shot your last"
0:58:11 > 0:58:14# When you lose your money, learn to lose... #
0:58:14 > 0:58:17SHE GIGGLES
0:58:17 > 0:58:19Ah!
0:58:19 > 0:58:24# Lord, a woman come a-running, fell down on her knees
0:58:24 > 0:58:27# Crying "Oh, Mr Stagger Lee, don 't shoot my brother, please"... #
0:58:28 > 0:58:30PLAYS PIANO
0:58:44 > 0:58:46SHE HITS RANDOM NOTES ON PIANO
0:58:48 > 0:58:50- This one here.- Uh-huh.
0:58:50 > 0:58:54Right there. And this one right here, and spread 'em like that.
0:58:54 > 0:58:57That's the first one,
0:58:57 > 0:58:59all right? And now come this way.
0:59:00 > 0:59:02Let me try.
0:59:05 > 0:59:06Remember that.
0:59:18 > 0:59:20That's good.
0:59:32 > 0:59:34You're real pretty.
0:59:36 > 0:59:37I'm real old.
0:59:37 > 0:59:41Oh, you got the world in a jug, and you don't even know it.
0:59:42 > 0:59:44I'm glad to be the one to tell you.
0:59:44 > 0:59:48I'll bet you tell plenty of women that.
0:59:48 > 0:59:50I tells 'em and I shows 'em.
0:59:53 > 0:59:56Young man like you,
0:59:56 > 0:59:59I bet you're real popular, ain't you?
0:59:59 > 1:00:02Folks like me all right, if that's what you mean.
1:00:08 > 1:00:10SHE SIGHS
1:00:12 > 1:00:15Sitting here talking to you done made me real tired.
1:00:23 > 1:00:26Your heart just left here and went somewhere else.
1:00:26 > 1:00:30Where my heart is shouldn't make no difference to you.
1:00:30 > 1:00:32I ain't one of your lady friends.
1:00:35 > 1:00:39You sure ain't one of my lady friends, cos I don't got but one.
1:00:42 > 1:00:45What I'm saying is, well, you sorta got me at your mercy.
1:00:51 > 1:00:54I'm nearly 12 years older than you.
1:00:54 > 1:00:56I've thought all about that.
1:00:58 > 1:01:00Trying to make some kind of sense of it, but the thought
1:01:00 > 1:01:07of my youngness just don't...don't satisfy me like your presence do.
1:01:07 > 1:01:09Well, it'd make a whole heap of difference to most folks.
1:01:09 > 1:01:14Oh, Janie, things like that got everything to do with convenience, don't got nothing to do with love.
1:01:16 > 1:01:19Love, you don't know nothing about love.
1:01:19 > 1:01:23You're just saying that cos the fish and cornbread tasted real good, ain't you?
1:01:23 > 1:01:26Those ain't nothing but your night thoughts.
1:01:37 > 1:01:38Night, Miss Janie.
1:02:08 > 1:02:10What the hell I need some young fool?
1:02:43 > 1:02:45KNOCKING ON DOOR
1:02:55 > 1:02:57Did I wake you?
1:02:57 > 1:02:59No.
1:03:00 > 1:03:02Kinda early.
1:03:07 > 1:03:13I want to tell you my daytime thoughts, seeing as how you don't trust my night-time ones.
1:03:18 > 1:03:21You sounded like you needed telling and showing,
1:03:21 > 1:03:23so that's what I'm doing.
1:03:31 > 1:03:33I bet you hungry, ain't you?
1:03:33 > 1:03:35Come on, I'll make you some breakfast.
1:03:35 > 1:03:37No, I ain't got time now, I got a job over in Maitland.
1:03:37 > 1:03:42I got to be there by eight, OK? I'll see you later, tell you straight.
1:03:42 > 1:03:44Hey, your jacket.
1:03:53 > 1:03:56What a pretty mourning dress.
1:03:56 > 1:03:59What shade of black is that?
1:03:59 > 1:04:02- Same shade as yours. - CAR HORN HONKS
1:04:02 > 1:04:04Where you get this car?
1:04:04 > 1:04:05Won it off this guy.
1:04:10 > 1:04:13She said they was going on a picnic.
1:04:13 > 1:04:17She looks happy, sashaying off in that pink linen dress.
1:04:17 > 1:04:21All the men she can get, and she's stepping out with a guy like Tea Cake.
1:04:21 > 1:04:23Fire.
1:04:25 > 1:04:27All right, that's good, that's good.
1:04:27 > 1:04:30All right now. Get the next one. Ready?
1:04:36 > 1:04:38Hey, hey, hey now, hey now.
1:04:38 > 1:04:41Old Joe Starks must be turning over in his grave.
1:04:43 > 1:04:45Hey, don't pay them no mind, now.
1:04:45 > 1:04:47Get it right here in your shoulder.
1:04:47 > 1:04:51- Tea Biscuit!- Cock it, fire!
1:04:51 > 1:04:53Whoo!
1:05:03 > 1:05:08# There's one thing that thrills me so, I say, "Yes, please, honey"
1:05:08 > 1:05:12# Don't you know that I don't think I'll ever get enough... #
1:05:12 > 1:05:13Evening, Pearl.
1:05:13 > 1:05:18# Oh, it feels so good, so come on give me that stuff
1:05:20 > 1:05:23# You know I'm wild for what you got
1:05:23 > 1:05:26# However it comes, honey, cold or hot... #
1:05:26 > 1:05:29Mrs Mayor Starks and Tea Cake gone fishing.
1:05:31 > 1:05:33Fishing, huh?
1:05:33 > 1:05:38Miss Janie and Tea Cake gone to Orlando, to the picture show.
1:05:38 > 1:05:44Tea Cake walking Miss Janie home at nights, but don't walk hisself home till the mornin'.
1:05:44 > 1:05:46CAR HORN HONKS
1:05:48 > 1:05:52That tea Cake using her collection-plate money to buy gasoline with.
1:05:52 > 1:05:55Yeah, he just dragging her out of the church.
1:05:58 > 1:06:00I'm worried about you.
1:06:00 > 1:06:01SHE GIGGLES
1:06:01 > 1:06:04Don't be.
1:06:04 > 1:06:08Tea Cake is dragging you round to places you ain't used to.
1:06:08 > 1:06:11- Shooting and fishing and... - And what's so bad about all that?
1:06:11 > 1:06:13And picnics in the middle of the week!
1:06:13 > 1:06:17- You acting like it's against the law, Phoeby.- Janie...
1:06:17 > 1:06:19Girl!
1:06:24 > 1:06:27He's helping you spend your money, ain't he?
1:06:29 > 1:06:35He got you buying him clothes, and hats and whatnots.
1:06:35 > 1:06:37What's wrong with that?
1:06:41 > 1:06:44You know how it is when a woman runs off with a younger man.
1:06:44 > 1:06:47Tea Cake ain't like that.
1:06:47 > 1:06:49With him,
1:06:49 > 1:06:52I'm gonna utilise myself all over.
1:06:56 > 1:06:58He want me to be serious with him.
1:06:58 > 1:07:01He asked me to marry him.
1:07:01 > 1:07:03Janie!
1:07:03 > 1:07:08Don't worry, I said no. I ain't never getting married again, but I am gonna run off with him.
1:07:08 > 1:07:10You gonna end up like Annie Tyler!
1:07:12 > 1:07:14No, I ain't.
1:07:14 > 1:07:17Remember how we all sat on our porches, watching her?
1:07:17 > 1:07:18Remember?
1:07:18 > 1:07:20After she was a widow,
1:07:20 > 1:07:26when she ran off with her no-count good-time fellow, she was laughing and sure, just like you.
1:07:26 > 1:07:28RAGTIME MUSIC PLAYS
1:07:40 > 1:07:44That young fellow getting ready to snatch all of her money.
1:07:44 > 1:07:46Hmm!
1:07:46 > 1:07:47SHE CHUCKLES
1:07:54 > 1:07:56'But he was only after what he could get.
1:07:56 > 1:08:01'Stole her car, stole her money.
1:08:01 > 1:08:05'After that, he was gone, like turkey through the corn.'
1:08:08 > 1:08:10Well, I love Tea Cake,
1:08:10 > 1:08:12and I'm gonna be with him.
1:08:12 > 1:08:15He gonna make a fool out of you.
1:08:17 > 1:08:20I want to leave out early to get everything ready,
1:08:20 > 1:08:25so don't you go missing that bus or nothing, and leave me all high and dry, you hear?
1:08:25 > 1:08:28I won't.
1:08:28 > 1:08:31You wouldn't go making no false pretence with me, would you?
1:08:33 > 1:08:35Can't nobody hold a candle to you, Janie.
1:08:41 > 1:08:43You got the keys to the kingdom, girl.
1:08:50 > 1:08:52Miss Mayor Starks?
1:08:52 > 1:08:54Take care of things, won't you, Hezekiah?
1:08:54 > 1:08:56Yes, ma'am.
1:08:57 > 1:08:59Where's she off to, you think?
1:08:59 > 1:09:02Question ain't where to, it's who with.
1:09:02 > 1:09:06Well, you gotta hand it to her, she sure look good.
1:09:06 > 1:09:10RAGTIME MUSIC PLAYS
1:09:11 > 1:09:13T'ain't right!
1:09:14 > 1:09:19She gonna be back here before you know it, you mark my words.
1:09:44 > 1:09:46# If I gave you my love
1:09:49 > 1:09:54# Baby, I tell you what I would do
1:09:57 > 1:10:04# I'd expect a whole lot of love out of you
1:10:11 > 1:10:15# You got to be good to me
1:10:18 > 1:10:20# I'm gonna be good to you, yeah
1:10:25 > 1:10:32# There's a whole lotta things you and I could do
1:10:32 > 1:10:37# I can't stand back
1:10:39 > 1:10:43# What about the way you love me?
1:10:44 > 1:10:50# And the way you squeeze me
1:10:50 > 1:10:58# Yeah, simply beautiful
1:10:58 > 1:11:04# Yeah, yeah, beautiful, yeah
1:11:06 > 1:11:10# When you get right down to it
1:11:11 > 1:11:16# Oh, yeah
1:11:16 > 1:11:20# Oh! When you need me,
1:11:20 > 1:11:25# I was right there beside you, girl
1:11:25 > 1:11:28# Oh, beside you, girl
1:11:28 > 1:11:33# Yeah, yeah, beside you
1:11:35 > 1:11:38# Baby, baby
1:11:38 > 1:11:45# Baby, yeah, yeah
1:11:46 > 1:11:49# Oh, yeah
1:11:49 > 1:11:57# Little girl, sometimes the way you feeling
1:11:57 > 1:12:03# No, honey, all you got to do is call me
1:12:05 > 1:12:08# Simply beautiful, yeah
1:12:11 > 1:12:16# Yeah, simply beautiful
1:12:21 > 1:12:25# Yeah, simply beautiful. #
1:12:43 > 1:12:45Tea Cake?
1:12:48 > 1:12:50Where you at, honey?
1:13:00 > 1:13:02Tea Cake?
1:13:44 > 1:13:45What you want, honey?
1:13:45 > 1:13:47You want some breakfast?
1:13:55 > 1:13:58No, I'm fine.
1:14:23 > 1:14:25CAR HORN HONKS
1:14:25 > 1:14:30# What about the way you love me
1:14:33 > 1:14:37# And the way you squeeze me
1:14:41 > 1:14:49# Yeah, simply beautiful to me
1:14:52 > 1:14:55# Beautiful, simply... #
1:14:55 > 1:14:59'That young fellow getting ready to snatch all of her money.'
1:14:59 > 1:15:02# What about the way you hold me?
1:15:05 > 1:15:10# And the way you squeeze me
1:15:13 > 1:15:18# Ooh, ooh, ooh, simply beautiful
1:15:18 > 1:15:22# Simply, simply, simply beautiful. #
1:15:23 > 1:15:25Where the hell you been?
1:15:29 > 1:15:30It's good to see you too, baby.
1:15:34 > 1:15:36Good to see me, huh?
1:15:39 > 1:15:41Where the hell is my money?
1:15:46 > 1:15:48I lost it.
1:15:48 > 1:15:50You lost it?
1:15:50 > 1:15:53You lost it?! What do you mean, you lost it?
1:15:53 > 1:15:55- Listen to me!- You ain't gonna make no fool outta me!
1:15:55 > 1:15:57Listen, you knew I got a way with cards.
1:15:57 > 1:16:02Now y'all gonna walk out of here with a few hundred and walk back in here with a few grand.
1:16:04 > 1:16:08I was gonna take you to Orlando and buy you lots of pretty stuff!
1:16:09 > 1:16:14I must have been nervous or something, cos I couldn't, I couldn't...win a hand, Janie!
1:16:17 > 1:16:19You stole my money,
1:16:19 > 1:16:22- and you gambled it away?- Yeah.
1:16:25 > 1:16:27My car, too.
1:16:29 > 1:16:31Well, you a damn fool.
1:16:33 > 1:16:38And I ain't never gonna give you a chance to make no fool out of me.
1:16:38 > 1:16:44Never gonna let you leave me in no dirty hotel room.
1:16:44 > 1:16:47I made up my mind never,
1:16:47 > 1:16:49never let you see no commonness in me.
1:16:57 > 1:17:00You're hurt. What happened to you?
1:17:00 > 1:17:01I was gonna...
1:17:01 > 1:17:05- Why you hurt? - ..go out there and win the world for you...- You hurt yourself?
1:17:05 > 1:17:08- What happened to you?- ..so you can live with pretty things.
1:17:11 > 1:17:13I don't wanna drag you down.
1:17:17 > 1:17:23I don't wanna to drag you down no kind of way, no kind of way.
1:17:33 > 1:17:35You can't drag me down.
1:17:40 > 1:17:43All you got to give me is yourself.
1:17:50 > 1:17:52That's it.
1:17:54 > 1:17:57# Simply beautiful. #
1:18:07 > 1:18:10Want to go to the muck?
1:18:10 > 1:18:13To the muck?
1:18:13 > 1:18:15What's the muck?
1:18:15 > 1:18:17It's this place down in the Everglades.
1:18:17 > 1:18:20Oh, it's beautiful and wild.
1:18:20 > 1:18:23There's plenty of work and fun.
1:18:24 > 1:18:28We could make us some money and have a hell of a time, now what you say to that?
1:18:28 > 1:18:32No, we don't need no money, cos I got plenty of money in the bank.
1:18:32 > 1:18:36- We get us a new car... - No, no, no, no, see, your money gonna stay there.
1:18:36 > 1:18:38It's gonna stay in the bank.
1:18:39 > 1:18:43While you and me's together, we gonna eat whatever my money can buy, and wear the same.
1:18:45 > 1:18:49Now, if I ain't got nothing, you don't got nothing.
1:18:52 > 1:18:54Well, that's all right with me.
1:19:14 > 1:19:19Yeah, that's Lake Okeechobee, an awful big water.
1:19:20 > 1:19:2340 miles wide and 60 miles long.
1:19:23 > 1:19:27Yes, ma'am, that's a whole heap of water.
1:19:27 > 1:19:29HE CHUCKLES
1:19:39 > 1:19:46'I felt like I had been looking for this place my whole life.'
1:20:12 > 1:20:19'They came every spring, truckloads of 'em, from the east, west, north and south.
1:20:19 > 1:20:25'Wild people, hoping to change their fortunes with the picking season on the muck.
1:20:25 > 1:20:27'Drums, living
1:20:27 > 1:20:30three lifetimes in one.
1:20:30 > 1:20:34'Blues, made and used right there on the spot.'
1:20:53 > 1:20:56CHILDREN SINGING
1:20:58 > 1:21:00You watching?
1:21:33 > 1:21:34Hey, what's your name?
1:21:34 > 1:21:36- Janie. What's yours?- Nunkie.
1:22:00 > 1:22:02Sure look nice in them overalls.
1:22:04 > 1:22:06Now, you sure you want to pick these cucumbers?
1:22:06 > 1:22:09- Do I want to pick cucumbers?- Mm-hm.
1:22:09 > 1:22:11Yeah, I want to pick cucumbers!
1:22:11 > 1:22:14You miss me when you at work and I miss you when I'm at home.
1:22:14 > 1:22:18- It's hard work, though. - I think I can handle it!
1:22:18 > 1:22:21The lunch, the lunch!
1:22:21 > 1:22:24Yeah, yeah, get that, I'm hungry.
1:22:24 > 1:22:28PEOPLE CHATTER
1:22:48 > 1:22:51MUSICIANS PLAY TOGETHER
1:24:28 > 1:24:32'I felt for the very first time like I was living my life.
1:24:34 > 1:24:36'I had love,
1:24:36 > 1:24:38'and it was real.
1:24:38 > 1:24:41'Tea Cake gave me the whole world
1:24:41 > 1:24:43'every day.'
1:24:52 > 1:24:54Now, where y'all going?
1:24:54 > 1:24:56To high ground.
1:24:56 > 1:24:59Sawgrass bloomed, hurricane's coming.
1:24:59 > 1:25:01Oh, they all just scared.
1:25:01 > 1:25:04Oh, I been in the glade for years,
1:25:04 > 1:25:07ain't nothin' comin' but a little blow.
1:25:13 > 1:25:16Indians is leaving cos they say a storm coming.
1:25:16 > 1:25:21Well, if the Indians knew anything, they'd still own this land, now wouldn't they?
1:25:30 > 1:25:32WINDS INTENSIFY
1:25:32 > 1:25:34Come on now, we gotta git.
1:25:36 > 1:25:40Why don't you hold that fish up and let the wind blow them scales off?
1:25:45 > 1:25:46Like that?
1:25:53 > 1:25:55- Come on, y'all, hurry up.- Step up!
1:26:01 > 1:26:03How about after the harvest...
1:26:06 > 1:26:08..we go and take a look around Chicago?
1:26:09 > 1:26:11- Sounds good.- Mm-hmm.
1:26:14 > 1:26:17They crossing the road in broad daylight.
1:26:22 > 1:26:26Hey, the crows done flew up. They say that's a bad sign.
1:26:26 > 1:26:29I think I'm gonna go up north a few miles, be on the safe side.
1:26:29 > 1:26:31It ain't nothing but a little windy.
1:26:31 > 1:26:35They say this one here gonna be bad, I got some space in here if y'all two want to come.
1:26:37 > 1:26:40We go, we gonna lose two whole days' pay.
1:26:42 > 1:26:44Go ahead, we gonna wait it out.
1:26:44 > 1:26:46All right, now, suit yourself.
1:26:46 > 1:26:48THUNDER RUMBLES
1:26:57 > 1:27:01Don't worry, if it do rain, we gonna be safe in the house anyway.
1:27:12 > 1:27:16- What you doing, Janie? - I'm watching God.
1:27:30 > 1:27:32THUNDER RUMBLES, WINDS HOWL
1:27:46 > 1:27:48CRASHING
1:28:20 > 1:28:23- It's gonna be all right.- I know.
1:28:25 > 1:28:27WINDOW BURSTS OPEN, GLASS SHATTERS
1:28:46 > 1:28:51I reckon you wish you'd never left the big house and steered clear of these storms and such.
1:28:51 > 1:28:54No, this ain't nothing.
1:28:55 > 1:28:57- Hmm...- It ain't.
1:28:59 > 1:29:02Just with my man in the middle of a storm, that's all.
1:29:05 > 1:29:08Supposing we was to die now?
1:29:10 > 1:29:14Well, it don't matter, cos folks don't die till their time come no way.
1:29:17 > 1:29:24It's like if you can see the light of day, you really don't care if you die before dusk.
1:29:24 > 1:29:28- Mmm. - I was fumblin' around in the dark.
1:29:28 > 1:29:34God opened the door, and there you was.
1:29:36 > 1:29:39I never knew you were so satisfied with me like that.
1:29:55 > 1:29:57RUMBLING INTENSIFIES
1:30:28 > 1:30:30SHE COUGHS
1:30:31 > 1:30:32Tea Cake!
1:30:32 > 1:30:35Tea Cake!
1:31:01 > 1:31:03Tea Cake!
1:31:03 > 1:31:04Tea Cake!
1:31:13 > 1:31:15DOG BARKS FEROCIOUSLY
1:31:28 > 1:31:29Tea Cake!
1:31:29 > 1:31:32DOG HOWLS, TEA CAKE CRIES OUT
1:31:35 > 1:31:37Tea Cake?
1:31:37 > 1:31:39Tea Cake!
1:31:42 > 1:31:44Tea Cake!
1:31:51 > 1:31:53Tea Cake!
1:31:53 > 1:31:55Tea Cake! Tea Cake!
1:31:55 > 1:31:57Tea Cake, come on, come on.
1:31:57 > 1:31:59Come on, come on!
1:32:11 > 1:32:14He woulda torn me to pieces if it wasn't for you, honey.
1:32:15 > 1:32:16Come here.
1:32:19 > 1:32:22You don't have to say "if it wasn't for me," baby, cos I'm here.
1:32:26 > 1:32:30# Simply beautiful. #
1:32:45 > 1:32:49'A week later, the water had gone back between its banks, leavin'
1:32:49 > 1:32:54'the lake as calm and as peaceful as it was the first time I'd seen it.
1:32:55 > 1:33:00'Folks came back and pitched in, trying to make things right again.
1:33:00 > 1:33:06'All the while, Tea Cake rested, said he was tired, was all.'
1:33:08 > 1:33:10Brought you a whole bucketful of water.
1:33:19 > 1:33:21- What's wrong? - Water got something wrong with it.
1:33:21 > 1:33:25- Ain't nothing wrong with the water. - Why didn't you clean it?
1:33:44 > 1:33:48HE COUGHS
1:34:11 > 1:34:14Oh, there's nothing wrong with you, just a couple of little bites.
1:34:14 > 1:34:17You'll be fine.
1:34:17 > 1:34:19Just keep Janie out your bed for a while.
1:34:22 > 1:34:26Make sure he takes that medicine, and he's gonna be good as new before you know it.
1:34:32 > 1:34:35- I wish I'd gotten to him sooner. - I'll make sure he takes this medicine.
1:34:35 > 1:34:40- We gotta get him to the hospital where they can tie him down and look after him.- Tie him down?
1:34:40 > 1:34:43- It sounds like the dog that bit him gave him rabies. - I got plenty of money,
1:34:43 > 1:34:46- so whatever it'll cost to cure him, I got it.- He's liable to die.
1:34:47 > 1:34:50No, you don't know my Tea Cake. He's a little sick, that's all.
1:34:50 > 1:34:54- Some shots right afterwards coulda fixed him up, but he's liable to bite somebody.- No.
1:34:54 > 1:34:57Just tell me what to do, whatever it is, I'm gonna do it.
1:34:58 > 1:35:02Janie, it might be too late, but I'll go over to Palm Beach
1:35:02 > 1:35:04and I'll get him the medicine he shoulda had a week ago.
1:35:04 > 1:35:09- It's gonna take me a day or so to get back to you. That's the best I can do, darling.- OK.- All right.
1:35:23 > 1:35:25We gonna get you well.
1:35:26 > 1:35:31Good, good, cos you and me got things to do.
1:35:39 > 1:35:41We sure do.
1:35:43 > 1:35:46Since that first time I seen you,
1:35:46 > 1:35:50working in your store, I been trying...
1:35:52 > 1:35:54I been trying...
1:35:56 > 1:36:01I been trying to put my finger on what it is, what it is about you.
1:36:03 > 1:36:08I'm just some old gal wouldn't nobody want but you, that's it.
1:36:08 > 1:36:10No, no.
1:36:15 > 1:36:18You only sound old when you tell people when you was born.
1:36:21 > 1:36:23It's like you...
1:36:23 > 1:36:25It's like
1:36:25 > 1:36:28you spent all your old days first with somebody else,
1:36:28 > 1:36:32and you saved up all your young girl days to spend with me, you hear me?
1:36:36 > 1:36:40Oh, Janie, you're the kinda woman'd make a man forget to grow old,
1:36:42 > 1:36:43forget to die.
1:36:56 > 1:36:58Come here.
1:37:08 > 1:37:09I'm here.
1:37:15 > 1:37:18You really need to hush up all this sweet talk,
1:37:18 > 1:37:19just get better.
1:37:26 > 1:37:29Every time I see a patch of roses,
1:37:30 > 1:37:33over sporting theyselves, makin' out like they pretty.
1:37:36 > 1:37:38I say to 'em,
1:37:40 > 1:37:42"You ain't seen my Janie."
1:37:53 > 1:37:55You keep saying stuff like that,
1:37:56 > 1:37:59I just might have to believe you.
1:38:04 > 1:38:05What's the matter?
1:38:05 > 1:38:09- Something, something got after me... - You sure was straining with it.
1:38:09 > 1:38:11HE COUGHS
1:38:11 > 1:38:12This pillow's sopping wet.
1:38:12 > 1:38:14Trying to choke me to death.
1:38:23 > 1:38:27Here's money for gas. Get Doc Gordon, and tell him to come fast.
1:38:27 > 1:38:28Go as fast as you can.
1:38:28 > 1:38:30INDISTINCT
1:38:38 > 1:38:40What you doin'?
1:38:42 > 1:38:44Doc Gordon said you need your rest.
1:39:23 > 1:39:25Janie...
1:39:34 > 1:39:37How about we have us some lemonade?
1:39:39 > 1:39:44- How come you won't sleep with me no more?- I'll sleep with you.
1:39:45 > 1:39:47Come on, lie down, I'll sleep with you.
1:39:50 > 1:39:51See?
1:39:56 > 1:39:59Doc Gordon gonna be here, everything gonna be OK.
1:40:08 > 1:40:11CAR APPROACHES, HORN HONKS
1:40:11 > 1:40:13That's Doc Gordon.
1:40:18 > 1:40:20MAN LAUGHS
1:40:35 > 1:40:39- Where you heading?- No place.
1:40:39 > 1:40:42You's gonna run off with Motor Boat, ain't you? Tell the truth.
1:40:42 > 1:40:45You tired of waitin' on me, doin' for me.
1:40:45 > 1:40:48You gonna find yourself someone else, ain't you, huh?
1:40:48 > 1:40:50- Don't lie to me! - GUN CLICKS
1:40:55 > 1:40:59It's just the sickness, that's all it is.
1:40:59 > 1:41:03It's just the sickness, it's got a hold of your mind.
1:41:03 > 1:41:06You just can't think straight, that's all.
1:41:14 > 1:41:18It's just a sickness, just a sickness.
1:41:18 > 1:41:20It's just makin' you think crazy things.
1:41:20 > 1:41:22Don't touch me! I seen you with him!
1:41:26 > 1:41:29- GUN CLICKS - Ah!
1:41:31 > 1:41:34Fight it, fight.
1:41:34 > 1:41:36I know you can fight it.
1:41:43 > 1:41:45- GUN CLICKS - Ah!
1:41:48 > 1:41:50Cos if you don't fight it,
1:41:51 > 1:41:53they gonna tie you down,
1:41:54 > 1:41:58and I ain't gonna let nobody tie you down.
1:42:00 > 1:42:01Now put that gun down.
1:42:09 > 1:42:11Can you see me? Tea Cake?
1:42:13 > 1:42:15You see me?
1:42:15 > 1:42:19You see me, don't you? Can you see me?
1:42:20 > 1:42:21Can you see me?
1:42:24 > 1:42:27Can you see me?
1:42:27 > 1:42:31It's Janie,
1:42:31 > 1:42:33I know you love me.
1:42:44 > 1:42:46GUNSHOTS RING OUT
1:42:49 > 1:42:52JANIE SCREAMS AND SOBS
1:43:16 > 1:43:17Poor Tea Cake.
1:43:24 > 1:43:26Bless his heart.
1:43:28 > 1:43:33Tea Cake gonna always be alive,
1:43:33 > 1:43:39as long as I'm thinking and breathing and feeling.
1:43:47 > 1:43:50Ain't nobody gonna criticise you in my hearing.
1:43:50 > 1:43:52- Good.- All right.
1:43:54 > 1:43:56I just,
1:43:56 > 1:44:00I feel like I growed ten feet high just listenin' to you.
1:44:03 > 1:44:06Girl, all I did
1:44:06 > 1:44:08was find out about living
1:44:08 > 1:44:10for myself.
1:44:12 > 1:44:17I'm gonna get my Sam to take me fishing,
1:44:17 > 1:44:18right now.
1:44:18 > 1:44:21And I don't care how late it is!
1:44:21 > 1:44:23You go, go on, Phoeby.
1:44:56 > 1:44:59'Now, love is like the sea.
1:44:59 > 1:45:05'It's a moving thing, and it's different on every shore.'
1:45:32 > 1:45:34SHE LAUGHS
1:45:46 > 1:45:48SHE GASPS
1:45:52 > 1:45:54- TEA CAKE:- 'What you doing, Janie?'
1:45:56 > 1:45:59I'm watching God.
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