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Lux Radio Theatre - "Carbine Williams" (Old Time Radio, 1954) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan takes the role of Marsh Williams, with Gene
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Hagen as Maggie Williams and Wendell Corey as Captain H.T.
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  Speaker 2: Peoples.
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  Speaker 1: On March 22, 1954, Lux Radio Theater brought its 873rd
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  Speaker 1: broadcast to CBS, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptation, Carbine Williams. Based on
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  Speaker 1: the life of David Marshall Williams, the drama follows a
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  Speaker 1: fiercely independent North Carolinian whose involvement in illegal distilling leads
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  Speaker 1: to prison, where his mechanical ability comes to the attention
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: of Captain Peoples. Behind prison walls, Williams sets his mind
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  Speaker 1: to developing a lightweight rifle mechanism and rebuilding his future.
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  Speaker 1: Lux presents Carbine Williams. We now take you back to
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast, From Hollywood, the Hollywood Radio Theater.
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  Speaker 3: Starring Ronald Reagan, Wendell Corey, and Gene Hagan in Carbine Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Cummings. Greetings from Hollywood,
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  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: In tonight's play, besides telling the story of a wife's
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  Speaker 4: devotion to her husband, even under seemingly hopeless conditions, we
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  Speaker 4: will present an engrossing study taken from the lives of
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  Speaker 4: two men in Carbine Williams. One is an embittered prisoner.
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  Speaker 4: The other, an exacting officer of the law. But eventually,
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  Speaker 4: each has an unexpected influence upon the other. And as
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  Speaker 4: our stars of this inspiring drama for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, we have
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  Speaker 4: three outstanding artists. Ronald Reagan, Wendell Corey, and lovely Jean Hagen. Now,
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  Speaker 4: Act One of Carbine Williams, starring Ronald Reagan as David
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  Speaker 4: Marshall Williams, Wendell Corey as Captain Peoples, and Jean Hagen
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  Speaker 4: as Maggie Williams. The March 1951 issue of Reader's Digest
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  Speaker 4: published an article in its series, The Most Unforgettable Character
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  Speaker 4: I've Met. That character is David Marshall Williams. This is
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  Speaker 4: his story. It is told by a man named Captain People.
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  Speaker 2: A few years ago, a man suddenly left his work
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  Speaker 2: in the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in Connecticut and rushed home.
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  Speaker 2: Several hundred miles away to the small community of Godwin,
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: Marsh, oh, Marsh, it's.
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  Speaker 6: So good to have you home again.
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  Speaker 2: I've missed you, Maggie. Missed you terribly. Thanks for phoning me.
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  Speaker 2: Where is he? Where's David?
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  Speaker 6: Well, he went out.
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  Speaker 2: I see. Just didn't want to be around, huh?
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  Speaker 6: It's like I told you, dear.
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  Speaker 5: At the moment, it may not be anything too serious,
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  Speaker 5: but the kids at school are giving him a pretty
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  Speaker 5: bad time.
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  Speaker 6: I always felt we should have told him.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I know you did. I guess I made a mistake.
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  Speaker 6: And now it's up to us to undo it.
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  Speaker 2: I've started to tell him several times, Maggie, but I
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  Speaker 2: knew I'd give myself the best of it. That's no good.
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  Speaker 6: Marsh, do you want me to tell him?
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  Speaker 2: No. Before I left Connecticut, I called Captain Peoples. Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Cap will give it to David straight, without any frosting
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  Speaker 2: on it.
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  Speaker 6: He's coming here, Captain Peoples?
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  Speaker 2: No. It'll be better if David goes there. If he
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  Speaker 2: sees the prison. I'll take him there in the morning.
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  Speaker 6: Whatever you say, dear.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to be easy, Maggie. Not for any
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  Speaker 2: of us. But I guess it's the only way.
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  Speaker 5: Where are we going, Dad?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a fine day for hunting, son. I thought
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  Speaker 2: we'd hunt some quail. I mean, first we've got to
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  Speaker 2: make a stop.
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  Speaker 5: I don't feel much like hunting.
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  Speaker 2: I hear you lost a fight at school while I
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  Speaker 2: was up north.
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  Speaker 7: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: Can't win them all.
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  Speaker 2: No, you can't win them all. A little later, they
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  Speaker 2: were both in my office in Central Prison. The boy
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  Speaker 2: was puzzled and a little frightened. This is Captain Peoples, David.
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  Speaker 2: He's my best friend. Hello, David. This is a pleasure
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  Speaker 2: I've been waiting for for a long time. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: you'll excuse me, I think I'll have a look around.
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  Speaker 5: Where are you going?
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  Speaker 2: Now, don't worry, son. I'll be right outside. Captain Peoples
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  Speaker 2: wants to talk to you.
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  Speaker 5: About what?
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  Speaker 2: He'll tell you. David, come over here to the window
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  Speaker 2: and look out there.
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  Speaker 5: All those men, they're convicts, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all kinds of men, David. Murders, thieves, but They're
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  Speaker 2: not all bad men. Some are hardened criminals. Others have
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  Speaker 2: made only one mistake. My.
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  Speaker 5: my father?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Your father was in this prison before you were born.
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  Speaker 5: What for?
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  Speaker 2: He was convicted of killing a man. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: tell you the whole story, David, just the way it happened.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're old enough to judge for yourself. So
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if any boy can really know his father.
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  Speaker 5: I can try.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I wasn't thinking only of you, son. I was
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  Speaker 2: thinking of your dad when he was a boy. There
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  Speaker 2: were times, I think, when he didn't understand his father either.
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  Speaker 2: You see, your father was always a rugged individualist. You
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  Speaker 2: know what that is?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir. I think so.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's not an easy thing to be in a
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  Speaker 2: family of 11 children. He always wanted to stand alone
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  Speaker 2: on his own. And I guess he did. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he quit school and joined the Navy. But after a
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  Speaker 2: couple of hitches, he found out he wasn't for the Navy.
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  Speaker 2: And vice versa.
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  Speaker 8: It's right that you come back, son, and I'm glad.
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  Speaker 8: The Williamses belong on this land.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Papa, I changed my mind about the Navy,
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  Speaker 2: but I haven't changed my mind about Mary and Maggie.
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  Speaker 9: Well, that's in the future, Marsh.
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  Speaker 2: If you call next week the future, yes, I guess
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  Speaker 2: it is. We're going to set the date when I
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  Speaker 2: go over to see her in the morning.
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  Speaker 9: Next week? Well, Marsh, you can't even support yourself, let
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  Speaker 9: alone a wife.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you always said I'd be getting my share of
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  Speaker 2: the farm.
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  Speaker 9: You'll get your share when you've earned it.
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  Speaker 2: You said one-eighth of the farm is mine.
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  Speaker 8: You'll get your 400 acres, same as your brothers, by
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  Speaker 8: working for them.
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  Speaker 9: You're no better than they are, Marsh.
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  Speaker 2: I never said I was better. I said I was different.
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  Speaker 8: You're going to work a share for two years, Marsh.
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  Speaker 8: Then if all goes well, it's yours.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't going to wait around for two years to
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  Speaker 2: marry Maggie.
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  Speaker 9: Two years or you get no share.
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  Speaker 2: Then keep the share. Divide it up with the others.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want.
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  Speaker 5: It.
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  Speaker 2: The next morning, your dad went to call on his
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  Speaker 2: best girl. Took his rifle along. He loved hunting. Almost
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  Speaker 2: everywhere he went, he carried a rifle with him. So
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  Speaker 2: it was pretty logical that he'd take Maggie walking through
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  Speaker 2: the woods. I told you I'd hit her. Look here, see?
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  Speaker 2: You never see a nicer bird than this.
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  Speaker 5: Marsh, will you listen to me now? Will you put
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  Speaker 5: down that gun and listen to me?
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  Speaker 2: I'm listening, honey.
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  Speaker 5: Well, all I want to tell you is that before
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  Speaker 5: we go and get married, we have to be sure.
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  Speaker 2: You can't be sure of nothing unless you try.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody else is sure.
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  Speaker 5: About us, I mean. You're sure it won't work?
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  Speaker 2: Your folks, too, huh?
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  Speaker 6: They think you're irresponsible.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know me, Maggie. My own dad, he don't
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  Speaker 2: even know me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that doesn't matter. The important thing is, do we
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  Speaker 5: know each other?
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember when I didn't know you.
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  Speaker 5: That was his children.
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  Speaker 2: Marsh. Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: When does a person stop being a child?
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  Speaker 2: You mean me? Sometimes I wonder.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe you'll never stop. Did you ever think of that?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, I've thought of it. That's the reason I run
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  Speaker 2: away from home. I wanted to stay young inside, but
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  Speaker 2: they wouldn't let me. Go to school, chop cotton. Things
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  Speaker 2: like that can age a man.
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  Speaker 6: And, uh, hunting doesn't?
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  Speaker 2: Ah, no. Fishing neither.
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  Speaker 6: Sooner or later you have to grow up, though, and
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  Speaker 6: be somebody.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be yourself, Meg. A man's just like
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  Speaker 2: a stalk of corn. At a certain age, he tassels out,
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  Speaker 2: not before.
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  Speaker 6: Marsh, are you sure you want to get married?
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  Speaker 2: I told you we'd get married just as soon as
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  Speaker 2: I got home. I always keep my promise.
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  Speaker 5: If you say when.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't a promise unless you say when.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not holding you to it, Marsh.
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  Speaker 2: It'll make no difference. I'm holding you.
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  Speaker 5: Marsh, Marsh, there's another quail up there.
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  Speaker 2: Let him be. When it comes to kissing you or
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  Speaker 2: shooting a quail... Well, it ain't an easy decision, honey,
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  Speaker 2: but I sort of favor you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, come on now, let's get over to Fayetteville and
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  Speaker 5: get out that light.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they got married, David, and both families turned out
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  Speaker 2: in full force, forgetting their objections and wishing them well.
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  Speaker 2: Not long after, your dad went to work for the railroad,
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  Speaker 2: 40 cents an hour working on the tracks with a sledgehammer.
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  Speaker 2: One of the other laborers was a man named Stockton.
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  Speaker 2: One day after work, he took your dad to a
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  Speaker 2: remote spot near the woods. Well, here they are, Marsh,
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  Speaker 2: the fellows I've been telling you about. This is Redrick Carson,
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  Speaker 2: my brother-in-law, and this here is Sam Markley.
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  Speaker 9: Evening. Come on the barn.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to know you, Williams. Bill's been telling me you'd
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  Speaker 2: like to earn a little extra money. You got something
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: I can do? I hear you know a little about boilers.
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  Speaker 1: Boilers?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, I worked on boilers in the Navy. Boilers, guns, motors.
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  Speaker 2: I can handle most anything mechanical. It's a boiler over there, huh?
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  Speaker 2: What do you use it for? Ain't you got any suspicions, Moss?
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  Speaker 2: Kind of looks to me like a still. Why didn't
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: you say so? It ain't no secret, is it? Well,
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: making stills is considered illegal in some parts. What do
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  Speaker 2: you get for a kettle like that? Nothing compared to
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  Speaker 2: the dough they make out of them.
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  Speaker 7: They're getting 20 bucks a gallon down at Fort Bragg
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  Speaker 7: for creosote.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like you fellas are in the wrong end of
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  Speaker 2: the business. You wouldn't be aiming to get on the
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  Speaker 2: right side, would you? Well, if I ever do, I'll
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  Speaker 2: make the best corn whiskey in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: You, Marsh?
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  Speaker 7: Your daddy will never hold still for no son of
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  Speaker 7: his in the blockade whiskey business.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't nothing in the Bible against distilling whiskey. Your father's
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  Speaker 2: a law-abiding man. Moonshine is against the law. Well, you
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  Speaker 2: tell me what the difference is between distilling whiskey and
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  Speaker 2: making the boilers to distill it in. Well, that's a
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  Speaker 2: good question, Marsh. Yes, sir. That's a mighty good question.
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  Speaker 2: So they built a still out in the woods, David.
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  Speaker 2: According to your dad, they didn't make the most whiskey
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  Speaker 2: in North Carolina, but he sure tried to make the best.
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  Speaker 2: There was just one thing about it. He couldn't bring
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  Speaker 2: himself to tell your mother. Marsh? Sorry I'm so late, honey.
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: It's all right, Marsh. I'm getting used to it by now.
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  Speaker 6: I held supper.
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  Speaker 2: I got myself another raise, Maggie. Here, put this money
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  Speaker 2: in with the rest.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Marsh, that's wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it ain't so much.
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  Speaker 6: Not much.
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  Speaker 5: Your third raise in six months and you say that's
• 11:16
  Speaker 5: not much? Pretty soon you'll be president of that railroad.
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: Well, vice president, anyway.
• 11:22
  Speaker 6: Only, when are they going to take you off that section, gang?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty soon, I expect. Only... Only what, dear? Well, only
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: I don't figure I'm cut out for railroading, honey. I've
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: had my eye on that Doug Smith farm for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. Things keep up, first thing you know, we
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: can make a down payment on it.
• 11:37
  Speaker 5: I was hoping you'd say that, Marsh. You want it
• 11:40
  Speaker 5: very much, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's for you, too, Maggie.
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: I'm happy anywhere, as long as we're together.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: Living in a decent house ain't going to make us unhappy,
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  Speaker 2: is it?
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  Speaker 5: No, Marsh.
• 11:50
  Speaker 6: Only just don't rush things. This time.
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  Speaker 2: There's never enough time. You can have enough of everything else.
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  Speaker 2: Enough food, enough land, even enough money. But you can
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: never have enough time. Because that's the only thing you
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  Speaker 2: can't save.
• 12:03
  Speaker 5: You know, when I hear you talk like that.
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 12:07
  Speaker 6: It's from next door, the Gregory's.
• 12:08
  Speaker 7: It's Sue.
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  Speaker 5: No!
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: No!
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  Speaker 7: Sue?
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  Speaker 2: Sue? Oh, Martin.
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  Speaker 9: Frank, he's been killed.
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  Speaker 2: My dad.
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  Speaker 6: Martin, those men.
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  Speaker 2: You keep out of this, son.
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  Speaker 5: Put on your rifle.
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: Who are you?
• 12:24
  Speaker 9: Federal revenue agent.
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  Speaker 2: What happened to Frank Gregory? The same thing that's likely
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  Speaker 2: to happen to any moonshiner who takes a shot at
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  Speaker 2: a local deputy. Frank never hurt anybody. He was a
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: good man. I wasn't even on the raid, but I
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: know he operated a still. That was his first mistake.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: He pulled a gun on Venner here. That was his
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  Speaker 2: last mistake. Since when do they kill a man for
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: making moonshine? Since when do you carry a gun if
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: you don't intend to use it? You're on my property.
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  Speaker 2: Get off. Any deputy steps on my property looking for trouble,
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  Speaker 2: he's got to find it. Well, he better not find
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  Speaker 2: us still. It's a federal offense and you know it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, boys, let's go.
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  Speaker 6: Was he Marsh? Was Frank in the blockade whiskey business? I.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Maggie.
• 13:09
  Speaker 5: Sue, that poor girl.
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  Speaker 6: I'd better go and see what I can do.
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  Speaker 2: You think it's a good idea to run another still?
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  Speaker 9: That'll make the fifth.
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  Speaker 2: Five, six, seven, just as many as I can count.
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  Speaker 7: North Carolina's had prohibition for 150 years, Carson. Nobody ever
• 13:34
  Speaker 7: got hurt. Most could happen to get 30 to 60 days.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they better not come around here. This is my corn,
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  Speaker 2: my mash, my business. Just as long as I make
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  Speaker 2: good whiskey.
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  Speaker 8: Mars!
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  Speaker 9: Mars, you better get over here.
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  Speaker 2: Deputies?
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  Speaker 9: No, it's the still.
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  Speaker 6: Something's plugged up.
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  Speaker 9: It's going to explode.
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  Speaker 2: The still didn't explode, David. But in saving it, your
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: father got pretty badly burned. They brought him home. It
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: was then that your mother found out. I was going
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: to tell you, Maggie. Honest, I was. As soon as
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: I saved enough money for that down payment.
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  Speaker 5: How could you do it, Marsh? Didn't Frank Gregory getting
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: killed mean anything to you? Marsh, I didn't marry a criminal,
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: and I'm not staying married to one. You've got to
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: get out of it.
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  Speaker 2: All right. All right, I'll quit. When? Well, let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about it later. Honey, I'm tired.
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: Marsh, I'm going after a doctor.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: No, no, I'll be all right. Just let me sleep.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: I'll be all right. We'll be ready to run off
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: a sample in about ten minutes, Marsh. I said we...
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: I heard you. Your wife, mind you, running whiskey, Carson.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: I never asked. You having trouble at home? Maggie just
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: don't understand that there's a natural right to things and
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: there's a legal right. Well, the law says it ain't
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: natural to be thirsty. Well, I'm just saying I don't
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: make it so. They tell me that up in... What's
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: the matter? Don't turn around. There's men back there. Back
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: of the trees. Back up. You go first. Don't start running.
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  Speaker 9: Don't move, Williams.
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  Speaker 2: Get your hands up, all of you. You boys destroy
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: the still. Don't come no closer. This here boiler's private property.
• 15:26
  Speaker 9: You're under arrest, Williams, for violating the 18th Amendment.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: That's the warning, you rimmer.
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  Speaker 2: Get Williams. Williams, this is your last warning. Call your
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: men off and come out with your hands up. We're
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: taking you alive or dead. It's up to you. Who
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: is it? Stop or I'll fire.
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  Speaker 6: Marsh.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Maggie. God help me. I might have shot you.
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  Speaker 5: There's been enough shooting for one day.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: You heard about the raid?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm here. I'd have been here sooner. These woods.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: I got lost in the dark.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Anybody see you come?
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: Nobody ever knew about this place but us, Marsh. You
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: always came here when you were in trouble.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: I was hoping you'd remember.
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: There's nothing about us I could ever forget. Marsh, you
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: shouldn't have run away.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: You spent five or six weeks in jail? Not me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm staying in these woods till the thing blows over.
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  Speaker 6: Blows over? Don't you know?
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Know what?
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: The federal agent, Rimmer. He's dead. Dead?
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: No.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't know.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: Here, here, you take this.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Money? What for?
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: From your father. He asked me to bring it to you.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: He isn't against me?
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: He's for you, Marsh. He and your mother, they think
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: you ought to get out of the country right away.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: And what do you think?
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: What I think isn't important.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: It's what you feel.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: What I feel? The whole world never looks so good.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Things never seem so bright as when you're in bad trouble.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: If, if you give yourself up, Marsh, I'll stand by you. Always.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: You think Pop's wrong?
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: I think a man must face up to things.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: All right. I'll turn myself in.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Is that a promise?
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: It's a promise. You go on home, honey. You tell
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: my dad to get the high sheriff and meet me
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: behind the railroad depot at Godwin. I'll be there by
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: 11 o'clock tonight. I'll be there.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Marsh.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, Marsh.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Marsh.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: You'll be all right, honey. Now, no more trouble. I'll
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: give myself up.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Our servicemen in Europe have a wonderful opportunity to observe
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: new customs and traditions. And they're finding out that these
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: ideas of other people aren't so strange after all. For instance,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: in almost every country, France, Spain, Scotland, the Scandinavian countries, Germany, Greece, Austria,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: there are special celebrations on the 24th of June every year.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: This is known as Midsummer's Day, and it's marked by music, dancing,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: and bright costumes. At night, huge bonfires are built, and
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: the merriment continues. This same day is also celebrated in
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: North Africa and in Japan. Well, in our country, we
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: pay no special attention to the 24th of June... We
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: have more so-called holidays than any other country in the world.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Hardly a day in the year goes by without some
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: special attention to it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: In addition to the national.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Fourth of July, Labor Day, and so on,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: every state has its own founding day. We have a
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: day for fathers, mothers, and even mothers-in-law. We have a
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Be Kind to Animals Week and Eat.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: More Frankfurters Day. We plant trees on Arbor.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Day, send love notes on Valentine's Day, close the bars
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: on Election Day, and keep them open an hour longer
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: when daylight saving ends. We honor the birthdays of Washington
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: and Lincoln. We mourn the passing of our friends with
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: the Memorial Day. Yes, like all countries, we set aside
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: special days for special consideration.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: True enough, the way in which we celebrate them may be.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Different, but the ideals are the same. These things that
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: have become customary and traditional are important to the people
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: who follow them. And our servicemen are helping to maintain
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: goodwill by observing the customs of other people in other lands.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Now, our producer, Mr. Cummings.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Act II of Carbine Williams, starring Ronald Reagan as Marsh,
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Wendell Corey as Captain Peoples, and Gene Hagen as Maggie.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: The End.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: They charged your father with murder, David, and brought him
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: to trial. It was the local deputy who gave the
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: most damaging testimony when he told of the night in
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: front of Frank Gregory's house. Then Williams came over and
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: warned us. He was carrying a rifle. He said any
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: deputy ever steps on my property looking for trouble, he's
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: going to find it. When did you next see the defendant?
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: On July 23rd, the day he killed Jesse Rimmer.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Objection, Your Honor!
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Objection! There's been absolutely no proof! I always thought your
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: dad could have put up a better case for himself, David.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: But he never thought there was any real likelihood he'd
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: ever be convicted. Now then, William, you knew you were
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: violating the 18th Amendment, didn't you? I never considered the
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: 18th Amendment a law. When I look around at this
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: here room, Ed, I see I ain't the only one.
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: You heard your own friends, your own men, Carson, Stockton, Markley,
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: and all the others practically.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Accuse you of murder. Well, it could be just as
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: easy for me to turn right around and say that
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: one of them was guilty. You also heard Venner testify
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: that he saw you kill Rimmer. Why, with all that
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: shooting going on, I can't see how anyone can be
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: sure what gun any of the bullets was being fired from.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: You were the best shot there. Oh, I don't know
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: about that now, Ed. I remember you and me went
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: hunting last spring. You got eight birds. I didn't get
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: but three. And so it went. By the time the
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: trial ended, it appeared that the jury was just as
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: confused as everybody else. They finally told the judge they
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: were hopelessly deadlocked.
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: What's going on, Andrew?
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I don't rightly know, Mr.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Williams.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I just asked the prosecution to meet with us in
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: the conference room.
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: Come on, Marsh, Maggie.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk things over.
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: We got to have a second trial. This thing has
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: got to be settled somehow.
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: Now, look, Claude, you know that a second trial would
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: be a costly drain on the taxpayers' money. The government
• 21:47
  Speaker 10: will be satisfied with a plea of guilty to a
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: reduced charge of second-degree murder.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: No.
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: Nothing was ever said in that courtroom to prove my
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: boy was guilty.
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: We want a second trial.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: But Marsh did threaten Rimmer, and an eyewitness swore he
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: did the shooting. I couldn't shake either story.
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: They couldn't prove them either. They might in a retrial.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: At least second degree eliminates the possibility of the electric chair.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Where are we going to get the money to pay
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: for a second trial?
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: I'm selling a piece of the land, Marsh.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Selling your land? How stiff a sentence will I get
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: on second degree? Fifteen years. And with good behavior.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: Now, hold on.
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: You're taking your orders from me, Andrew. And I say
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: we have a second trial.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Marsh, don't let your pride stand in your way again.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Let your father do what he wants. It's only land.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: You can always pay back land. You'll wait. All of
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: us will be paying. We'll all be paying for years.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: It's my neck, Maggie, and my decision. Over your grandfather's protest,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: your dad pleaded guilty, David, to second-degree murder. The judge
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: set sentence for the following Monday morning. But when Monday
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: came around, a different judge was on the bench. What? What?
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: What's going on?
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Where's the judge? I just found out about it. Someone
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: else has taken his place.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: I'm lying.
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: No special reason, Claude.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Federal judges rotate assignments.
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: I know.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Hold on. He's going to speak.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: I understand that the defendant has made an amended plea
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: of guilty to murder in the second degree.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Is that agreed? Yes, Your Honor. The defendant? My client
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: requests to postpone it. No. No, Your Honor. I'm ready
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: for sentence. Step forward, please. In accordance with the laws
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: of the United States, I sentence you, David Marshall Williams,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: to imprisonment for a period of 30 years of hard labor. 30.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Not 15. 30 years of hard labor. The sheriff let
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: your dad come home for one last visit. They were
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: all waiting out in the front yard at your grandpa's place.
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: Well, Marsh, like I said, son, we all be.
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: It's hard to know what else to say when everything's
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: been said.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: You know how he feels, Marsh. How all of us feel.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Ma, you gotta stop thinking about me. All of you.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: It's my problem.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: We're your family, son. We'll never rest till you're back
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: here with us.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: It's me that's going, Ma. It ain't gonna be easy.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: But I gotta do it my own way. I don't
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: want any of you to write to me or try
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: to see me.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Marsh.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Maggie, let's not make things any tougher than they are.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I talked to the lawyer. He's going to arrange for
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: a divorce.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: A divorce? I'll never leave you.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: There isn't anything else to do. It's going to be
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: a long time.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: I'll wait, no matter how long it is. But, Marsh,
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: you've got to promise me something.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: You mustn't try to escape.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I'll do my time.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: You've got to promise me.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I promise. You've got to promise something, too. Anything. If
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: you change your mind, you go and see that lawyer, huh?
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: I thought you said we shouldn't make it any tougher
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: than it is.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Hold me, Marsh.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: You said you'd never stay married to a criminal. I'm
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: a convicted murderer, Maggie.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: You're my husband. That's all I know.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: 30 years.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: The first weeks in prison are the worst, David. When
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: a man realizes he's no longer free, that this is
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: his home. Steel bars and concrete walls and guards with guns.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: And from now on, this is his world. Every convict
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: takes prison differently. Each man fights it in his own way.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of men broken in prison. He
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: can break a man's body. He can break a man's spirit.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Or both. All right, shut up now! And stand at attention!
• 26:12
  Speaker 11: Now, in case some of you don't know, you're now
• 26:14
  Speaker 11: at the Caledonia prison farm. It's a lot better than
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: the chain gang, but it's no country club. You'll find
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: that out starting tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, the captain's got a
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: word for you.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: My name's Peoples. Captain Peoples. I'm the law here. Now
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: you behave yourselves and you'll be treated square. Get out
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: of line, try to escape, and you'll wish you never
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: heard of me. Your bunks are over there. Now get moving.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: And every day, Marsh, every day I wake up hoping
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: to hear from you. And when there's nothing, I come
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: out here to the woods where I found you that
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: night Here I.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: Feel close to you. Here I can forget and remember.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, but please, Marsh, please write, even if it's only
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: a few lines.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Well, boys, I called you together because I've got some
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: good news. The State Prison Commission has given us permission
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: to play a little baseball around here. Now, you do
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: an honest day's work and behave yourselves, and you'll be
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: allowed to play and watch the game. If you don't,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: you won't. There's another new directive. Once a year, a
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: trustee gets 24 hours outside with his wife. What if
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: he ain't got a wife? Well, you still get your
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: 24 hours to find one, I guess. Don't you worry
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: about it, Gavry. You're never going to make trusty. Now,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: don't get any ideas I'm turning this place into a
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: health resort. Whatever you've learned about discipline here still goes.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: And any time any of you boys want to trounce
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: your knives against us, we'll be very happy... Williams! I
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: didn't give you permission to leave the line. Well, I
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: figured you'd said everything you had on your mind. There's
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: room for only one self-minded man in this camp. That's me.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: You don't make a move around here unless I tell
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: you to. Now, you can stand right where you are
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: at attention all day. What's more, I notice you haven't
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: been shaving lately. From now on, shave. Clean. Every morning.
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: The rest of you, dismissed.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: I was told you wanted to see me, Captain. Come in.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Having trouble with your memory again, eh? Shaven, I can't
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: scrape them any finer. I'm talking about mail. I ordered
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: you months ago to write to your folks. I didn't
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: know that was a law. I didn't know that was
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: anybody's concern but my own. When they keep writing to
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: me wanting to know how you are, it gets to
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: be my concern, too. I've got enough to do without
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: answering your mail. Well, I ain't writing. You can't make me.
• 29:13
  Speaker 9: Excuse me, Captain, about your rifle.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I can't fix it, Captain. Here, let me
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: see it again. Well, take it over to the shop. Yes, sir.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: That rifle, do you mind if I look at it, Captain?
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: You're nuts, Williams. Go ahead. Give it to him. Thanks.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Okay if I use that screwdriver? Take it. Bolt's out
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: of place. All it needs is adjusting, I think. Let
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: me see. Yeah, it'll work now. Pretty hand with a rifle,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: aren't you? I always have been. Yeah, it'll get you
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: in a lot of trouble, too. Now, what about these? Letters? Yes, letters.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Letters from your wife. Letters you refuse to open. How
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: much longer are you going to fight this? I ain't fighting.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I'm resisting it. I told them to forget about me.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: They're worried. They got a right to hear from you.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: What'll I write about, Captain? About how nice it is
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: in here? Write what you want, but write. They'll never
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: get a letter from me with a prison postmark. They'll
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: get letters. Lots of them. Now get back to your work.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: And keep shave. I was impressed, David, with the ease
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: with which your father fixed my rifle. And some days later,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: I had reason to be grateful to him again. The
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: prisoners were working near a swamp, cleaning out brush. As
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: I walked past your father, he grabbed the revolver out
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: of my holster and fired. Stand back, Cap. Back off.
• 30:48
  Speaker 9: I got him covered.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Put your gun down, Mobley. Wasn't me, shot at. Rattlesnake.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Right in my path. Yeah, the big one, huh? Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Blew his head right off. Here. Here's your gun. Get
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: back to your work. All of you, come on back
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: to work. You're late, Williams. You want to eat, you
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: get here on time. All right, I won't eat. What
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: was it this time? I didn't know I was late,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: that's all. Forgetting again, huh, Williams? Well, you got to
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: know it's Kruger. He got sick. I helped him into
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: his bunk. He's got malaria. We'll get a doctor here.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: He was on the floor. Nobody was around. It wasn't
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: any of your business. Well, it was my business. That'll
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: cost you your B grade. I got my B grade
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: for saving a man from a rattlesnake. I lose it
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: for helping a sick man. No back, John. Well, I
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: ain't done nothing wrong. You fight every inch of the way,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: don't you? Stubborn and mean and sullen. You want a
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: stretch of solitary? I ain't done nothing wrong. You're asking
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: for it, Williams. All right, you think I got it coming.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, get it over with. You got me cornered.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: There's 200 convicts in back of me. If I give
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: it to you now, I might as well resign my job.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: It's you or me, isn't it? Mobley. Yes, sir. Throw
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: him in solitary. For how long, sir? Until he begs
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: to come out. Got a minute, Cap? I'd like to
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: see you. Sit down, Doc. How's Kruger? Oh, he'll be
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: all right in a day or two. I'm here about Williams.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: He's still in solitary, huh?
• 32:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: He's stubborn. Positive that he's right. Tough combination to break.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I'll break it. I've had tougher than him. But none
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: of them could take more than seven days in solitary.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Williams has been in there for 30. Doc, you take
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: care of the infirmary. Let me handle the discipline. You'll
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: be disciplining a corpse. He can't stay alive much longer.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Let him say so. You know he won't. I'll have
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: to go over your head, Captain. I'm not going to
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: be responsible. Doc, what makes a fellow like him tick?
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: It might be interesting to try and find out. If
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: you want to order his removal, I won't oppose it.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I think you're making a mistake. I know you do.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: I'll write out the order. Doc said you wanted to
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: see me. Yeah. Well, you learn anything in solitary? I
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: didn't know I was supposed to learn anything. I thought
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: I was put there because I helped Kruger. I put
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: you in there for back jawing in front of the man.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I got a right to my say. You haven't heard
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: my side of things, Captain. Go ahead, talk. I ain't
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: one of them. I ain't no criminal. You pleaded guilty
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: to murder. It was yours still, and you know it
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: was illegal. You're just as responsible for that murder if
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: you pulled the trigger one of your men did. I
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: don't go along with that. Besides, they didn't prove that
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: I did it. That's 30 years without proof, and that
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: ain't fair. You got strange ideas, Williams, about what's fair
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: and not fair. You see these? More letters. She says
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: it isn't fair, too. Your wife, and she's right. It
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: isn't fair the way you treat your family, refusing to
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: see them and not answering their letters. We've been all
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: over this before. You're a great man, Williams. 30 days
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: in solitary in bread and water. You set a new record. Yeah,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: you can take it physically, but that's all you can take.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: You think it's because I want it this way? It's
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: always what you want, your rights. Don't you think they've
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: got rights, too? You think I want my wife to
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: see me looking like this? She's not ashamed. I just
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: had a long talk with her. She's outside waiting. She's here?
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: You ought to see her, Williams. You know you should.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you 24 hours on the outside
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: without change. I ain't a trustee, Captain. Will you come
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: back after 24? Yeah. I'll come back. Wait here.
• 34:46
  Speaker 12: I'll see that you get some other clothes.
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: You remember this place, Marsh? This is where we came
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: that day you got out of the Navy.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: I never thought I'd see it again, Maggie. I never
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: thought I'd see you again.
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: Well, now, where was I?
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, about the family.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: Well, John's going into real estate, and Mary Ruth's expecting
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: in October, and Leon is serious about the Jennings girl.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: You remember little Sarah Jennings?
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: No, she hasn't asked me about my school yet. Aren't
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: you interested?
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm interested.
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: Only one more year of college and I'll have my
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: teaching certificate.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Why didn't you do what I told you? Why didn't
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: you get a divorce?
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: I took you until death do us part.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I'm the same as dead, Maggie. Under the law, a
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: man stays away from his wife for seven years. The
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: law counts him as dead. Well, the law put me
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: away for 30 years.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Please, Marsh, don't talk like that.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: It's no good, Maggie. You've got to be married, really married.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: I am married.
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: A woman's only half a person, Marsh.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: You're my other half.
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: I can't be complete without you.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Don't you understand? I'll be an old man by the
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: time I get out. If I ever get out. Don't.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: Don't push me away.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: I'm your wife.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Convicts don't have wives.
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: Don't you want me, Marsh?
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: For one day a year?
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: It's better than none.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: No, it's worse. It just helps keep you alive. It's
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: no good when you can't breathe fresh air. Better to
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: be dead than you can't want for nothing.
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: That's not true.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: You don't have to stop wanting or hoping. I'm in
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: prison too, Marsh, without you.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, Maggie, don't you see? If you want love, you've
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: got to have a husband, a full-time husband.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: I want a child, Marsh. I want to stay alive.
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: I'm so lonesome.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: No kid would pick a convict for a father, how
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: would he?
• 36:57
  Speaker 13: Always going to be a convict, if not forever, unless
• 37:01
  Speaker 13: you make it that way.
• 37:11
  Speaker 11: It's almost two o'clock, Captain.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: No sign of Williams. You want the alarm set up?
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: He's got ten more minutes. I'll bet you Bucky makes it.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: You gotta bet. Captain's office. Move it. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Well,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: there's your buck. He's walking in now.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: The Navy Enlisted Men's Club in Tokyo is a pretty
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: nice place where the men of the Navy can sit
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: around and talk, read or play cards on off-duty hours.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: It's a pretty nice place in another way, too. There's
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: a box on the bar for the spare change of
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: the sailors, and every penny that's dropped into it goes
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: for the support of their private orphanage called the Home
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: of Affection. Over 50 boys and girls of all ages
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: are fed, clothed, and educated there. The orphanage has formed
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: its own self-government, and the children are learning what it's
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: like to live by democratic rules.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: With the help of the.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Enlisted men of our Navy, they're meeting the world with
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: a new hope, a new dignity, and pride. Such acts
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: by you and your friends today are shaping our world
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: of tomorrow.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: We pause now for station identification.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: The curtain rises on Act Three of Carbine Williams, starring
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Ronald Reagan as Marsh, Wendell Corey as Captain Peoples, and
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Gene Hagen as Maggie.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, David? I was a much-relieved man when your dad
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: kept his word and returned to the prison. I sent
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: for him right away when he came in. I had
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: something to tell him. I want to thank you for
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: the pass, Captain. And I want to thank you. You
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: just made me a dollar. How's that? Never mind. I'm
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: hoping you'll be great again. That mean I'll get a
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: chance to work inside?
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: Maybe.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: How about the blacksmith shop? Why? Well, I used to
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: work in one. I got a hand for mechanics. Okay. Okay. Eh,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: just don't build any stills. No, sir. That's all, Williamson. Oh, uh,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: keep clean shaven. Oh, you looking for somebody, Captain? Yeah, you.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: This is leisure period. What are you doing in the bunkhouse? Nothing.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Nothing special. I just came from the post office. There
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: was an outgoing letter. Thanks. Thanks for writing. Is that
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: what you came to tell me? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, is
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: that you just put under the blanket? Another letter? No, sir.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Let me see it. It's personal. Nothing's personal in here.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Give it to me. Well, you're quite a draftsman, aren't you?
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: A detailed sketch of... of a rifle. Shooting your way
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: out of here, Williams, isn't as easy as shooting your
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: way in. I wasn't figuring on busting out. What were
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: you figuring? Well, I... I got the idea when I
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: was in solitary. After the sixth day, I thought I
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: was a goner. No light, no air, no room to
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: lay down. My back was killing me. I couldn't see
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: how anybody could stand it a week. Then I got
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: to thinking about them Hindus. You know, them people that
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: sleep on nails. What did they do? Well? Well, did
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: you ever try to think of two things at the
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: same time? You can't do it. It's impossible. There ain't
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: nobody can do that, Kevin. At first, I could only
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: not think about the pain in my back for maybe
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: two or three seconds at a time. But then it
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: got longer and longer. Pretty soon, I could think away
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: that pain for two or three, four hours at a time.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: It's on the level. You try it sometimes. You try
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: to think about two things at the same time. Now,
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: what I did, I tried to think about the good
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: days when I was a kid. In the woods, hunting
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: and fishing. When I wasn't shooting a gun, I was
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: making one. Well, that started me to thinking about guns again,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: and I kept thinking about them. The more I thought
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: about them, the less I thought about solitary. Now, guns
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: were all around, all over the place. On the ceiling
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: and the walls and the floor. I kept taking them apart,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: piece by piece. Then I'd put them together again. Then
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: pretty soon I started experimenting on new ways to make guns.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: And that's it. This here drawing. That's a new kind
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: of a gun there, Captain. Well, a drawing for a gun?
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: We can't have that in here. You can't keep me
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: from thinking about guns. What's the difference if I draw
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: a picture of one? None, I guess. As long as
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: you just make them on paper. Well, David... Your dad
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: kept on in our little blacksmith shop. We did a
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: lot of our repair work in there, and your dad
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: was a real expert. Among the other men in the
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: shop were two prisoners named Fetter and Kruger.
• 42:34
  Speaker 9: What's the matter, Marsh?
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: We scare you? You almost went right through the roof.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: What are you so nervous about? I didn't hear you
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: come in. It's free time. How come you're still working?
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: I just wanted to finish up. How come you're here?
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: He forgot his tobacco. Yeah. I left it on the bench.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Whose gun you working on? One of the guards. He
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: told me it was jamming. Just needs cleaning. You're a
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: pretty smart guy, Marsh. You're all right. What do you want?
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: We've been watching, that's all. We're fixing to break up.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe you can help us. No, you can't break up.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Didn't you learn nothing from what happened to the others
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: last year? It ain't gonna be like last year. We
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: got everything figured. Do what you want. I'm on my own.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: That's up to you. I'm not going. Suit yourself. Only
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: we're taking the guard's rifle. What good is it without bullets?
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Who says we don't have bullets? We got all we
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: need to.
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: Get us out of here.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Only two rifles are a lot better than just one rifle.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Put it back. That's my gun. Give me that gun.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: It ain't even finished. We've known about this for months.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: How you been working on every free second you can find.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: How you been hiding it all wrapped up in canvas
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: under them wall boards. Let go of it. Give me
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: my rifle. Hey, somebody's coming. It's Mobley. It's your last chance.
• 43:42
  Speaker 9: You with us or not?
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: No. Okay, let him have it. Now let's get out
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: of here. Keep the rifle covered up with that canvas.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: What are you men doing? I forgot my tobacco, sir.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: We came back to get it. Don't you know you're
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: not supposed to be... What's that you're carrying? Walk between us.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: I got a knife, Mobley. It's right up against your ribs.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Here's a rifle. Now keep walking toward the gate. Now
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: we're going to take you with us. And if anybody
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: tries to stop the guard in the tower... You all right, Mobley? Yeah. Yeah,
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: I'm all... No, it's a break! Shoot!
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Shoot!
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: I told you, Williams, that you could make a gun
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: out of paper. But you had to go by your
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: own rules again. Look what happened. My gun didn't have
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: nothing to do with a break. That Kruger was set
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: on busting out for a long time. You sure you
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: weren't in on it? You don't think I knocked myself
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: out with that wrench, do you? And I didn't get
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: the rifle away from me either. Captain, I've been working
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: on it for two years now. I got to finish it.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: You're finished with it right now. I can't let you
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: work in the smithy after this. Captain, please. Just look
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: at the rifle. This is something new. Entirely new. Every
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: automatic rifle has a piston that moves three and a
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: half inches. Well, I'm trying to get this chamber in
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: my rifle to move a tenth of an inch and
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: still throw out the shell and load in another. A
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: tenth of an inch? Well, that's not possible. Maybe not.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: But if I was to tell you that I took
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: part of a fence post and an old axle out
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: of a tractor and I made me a rifle with
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: no lathes, no machinery of any kind except a file
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: in my own hands, would you say that's possible? Please. Please,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: will you let me keep working on it? All right, Williams.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: I'll go along with you. Thank you. I won't let
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: you down. Work on it in your free time. Thank you. You, uh,
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: feeling all right, Captain? I was until you mentioned it.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Keep your eye on him, Mulvey.
• 45:41
  Speaker 8: Now, what about that letter, Maggie?
• 45:50
  Speaker 9: What's that you were telling us about? About Marsh and
• 45:53
  Speaker 9: a rifle?
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: The letter's not from Marsh, Dad Williams. It's from Captain Peoples.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: I'll read it to you.
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: Marsh is different, but I wonder if I have changed
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: him as much as he has changed me. If anyone
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: had told me yesterday that I'd ever turn my back
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: while a prisoner made a gun in here, I'd have
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: said they were crazy. Maybe I am crazy, but I'm
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: beginning to believe Marsh is going to invent a new
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: kind of gun.
• 46:18
  Speaker 9: A new kind of gun?
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Well, there's more.
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: Even if he doesn't, it will have served a useful purpose.
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: He has finally found something that interests him. For the
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: first time, I feel that Marsh, in his way, is
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: helping himself out.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: That gun became your dad's life, David. He stopped fighting
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: himself and the rest of the world. He didn't have time.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: He was fighting a piece of steel. He even mentioned
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: time by that rifle. He filed a notch on the butt.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: A notch for every year he'd been working on it.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Six notches. Six years. Now, that's a long time to
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: keep a story like that secret. It finally leaked out.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: And I was called before the prison commission. First of all, peoples,
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: how do you explain these newspaper headlines? Just look at this. Williams,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: chain gang murderer to shoot his own rifle in prison.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: And this. Warden approves gun making by convict. Yes, I
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: know about the headlines, sir. Despite efforts of warden peoples
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: to keep it a secret, this newspaper learns that his
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: pet prisoner, David Marshall Williams, serving a 30-year term for murder,
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: will test his gun with real bullets tomorrow at the
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: prison farm, now known as the Caledonia Skeeton Gun Club.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Why should I listen to this bunk? Most of it's
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: just lies and you know it. Why should any of
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: it be true? You've made this commission the laughingstock of
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: the country. Who's running Caledonia? Me or those funny papers?
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: From the looks of things, Williams is running it. As
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: long as I'm warden, I'll run things my way. You
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: gentlemen don't like it, you can get someone else. Because
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: of your record, Captain, we'll overlook this outburst of temper.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Let's have no more of this Williams nonsense. That's all, people.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: I let Williams make a gun because I honestly believe
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: he had something new. I said that was all. He's outside.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I brought him here. Williams here? I want you to
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: let him show you his gun. Absolutely not. What's the matter?
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Are you afraid he'll convince you, too? Well, I, for one,
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: would like to take a look at this handmade rifle.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: All right. If it's a show you want, bring him in.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Marsh, come in. You've been getting away with
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: murder down in Caledonia, Williams, but it's finished, understand? Well,
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: so is my gun finished, sir. I just want to
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: see whether it works. You don't think we're going to
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: let you loose inside a prison with a gun and
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: real bullets, do you? I was loose with a file
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: and a hacksaw for six years, sir. Won't you even
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: look at it? Here, you can check it any way
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: you want to. Hmm. That seems very light for a rifle.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: There are 25 parts in it. I made them all
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: by hand. And you're right, sir. It's the lightest. 35
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: ever made. This piece of steel here weighed 5 pounds
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: when it was an axle. Now it weighs a little
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: less than 12 ounces. I hand-filed every ounce. It's good work,
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: but that's not the question. There'll be no test. But
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: I found out how to make a gun five pounds
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: lighter than any other gun that's ever been made before.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: In time of war, that means a man could carry
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: five pounds more essential equipment than he does now. Peoples,
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: what guarantee is there that if this man is allowed
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: to fire his gun that he won't turn it on
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: you and your men? He had the choice and he didn't.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: That's no guarantee what he might do in the future.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: There's always the temptation of a break. Williams has served
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: eight years and two months. If he escapes, I'll serve
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: out his 30-year term. You realize what you're saying? I'll
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: put it in writing. The gun was tested on the
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: prison grounds, David. It did all your father said it would,
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: and a lot more. Among the men who watched the
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: test was a Mr. Joseph Mitchell of the Winchester Repeating
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Arms Company. Winchester, huh? That's a pretty big outfit. Well,
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: I read about you in the paper, Williams, and I
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: asked the captain if I could come down. I sure
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: hope you weren't disappointed. I saw enough to offer you
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: a contract. I got a contract, Mr. Mitchell. Twenty-two more
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: years to go. Do you mind if I examine the rifle? Sure.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: You're a short-stroke piston. Do you think you could use
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: this in other types of guns? Yes, sir. I think
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: I can. Well, I think you can, too. We'll take
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: a gamble. You may have discovered something that no one
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: else ever dreamed was possible. An automatic rifle with a
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: floating chamber. We'd like to be in on it. Well,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: you'll have to talk to Cap here. He's my manager.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Gun's that good, huh? Well, Captain, a man that could
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: make that with his two hands and nothing to go on,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: there's no telling what he could do if he keeps
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: working on it. Oh, I'll keep working on it. Yes, sir.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: I'll keep working. Your grandpa kept working, too, David, until
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: your father's case was reopened. The newspaper stories about the
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: gun test didn't hurt, and I sent pretty strong letters
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: to the governor myself. A few months later, your father
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: received a full pardon from the governor. You know, David,
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: it's a funny thing. The gun sent your father to prison,
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: the gun freed him.
• 51:07
  Speaker 9: Do you know how many.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Patents he's got now?
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: Lots of them, sir, but I don't know exactly.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: 68. He's got them on pistols, machine guns, all kinds
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: of things. His greatest was the contribution he made to
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: this gun right here, here in the case in the wall.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: This is the M1 carbine. That's the first carbine adopted
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: by the United States Army in 40 years. You know
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: how many of these went to war? Eight million. Well, David,
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: that's what I know about your father. I can only
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: tell you about him. I can't tell you how to feel.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: That's up to you.
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: My dad, where'd he go?
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: Where is he? Well, if you'll just walk out that door, David,
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you'll find him out there on the steps
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: waiting for you.
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you very.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Much. David, over here, son. You get along all right
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: with Captain Peoples? Yes, Dad. David, is there anything you
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: want to ask me? No, Dad.
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: Just give me your hand.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Now let's go home. Our stars will return in a moment.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: An Indiana soldier by the name of Birch Bay, yes,
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: that's his real name, carried a little excess equipment overseas
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  Speaker 3: with him to Germany for occupation duty. To be exact,
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  Speaker 3: he had $ 4 worth of vegetable garden seeds in his
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  Speaker 3: duffel bag. You see, Birch had been a star pupil
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  Speaker 3: in agricultural extension work and president of his 4-H club
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  Speaker 3: for two years. His military police company arrived for duty
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  Speaker 3: in the little German village of Hungen, Here, Birch sent
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  Speaker 3: out word to the children that he had a job
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  Speaker 3: for them. Ninety turned up, and they represented 45 different families.
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  Speaker 3: During his off-duty hours, Birch laid out a garden tract
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  Speaker 3: on the edge of town in 45 plots, each six
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  Speaker 3: by 20 feet. He parceled out the seeds and supervised
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  Speaker 3: the planting. An astonishing quantity of vegetables was raised. And
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  Speaker 3: something else was raised, too. The morale of all the
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  Speaker 3: people in the village who needed not only food for
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  Speaker 3: their stomachs, but sustenance for their spirits. Such acts by
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  Speaker 3: you and your friends today are shaping our world of tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Now, here's Mr. Cummings with our stars.
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  Speaker 4: And we invite them forward for a curtain call. Ronald Reagan,
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  Speaker 4: Wendell Corey, and Gene Aiken.
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  Speaker 2: Now what's the word for next week, Irving?
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  Speaker 4: A thrilling drama of suspense, Ronnie. The exciting story of
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: a man who falls in love with a charming, vivacious
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  Speaker 4: widow and then is forced to suspect her of murder.
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  Speaker 4: It's 20th Century Fox's absorbing A Blueprint for Murder. And
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  Speaker 4: as our stars, the lovely, talented Dorothy McGuire and that
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  Speaker 4: versatile actor, Dan Daly.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be listening. Good night. Good night.
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  Speaker 9: See you again soon, we hope.
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  Speaker 3: The Hollywood Radio Theater is produced by Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Irving Cummings. Our orchestra is under the direction of Rudy Schrager.
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  Speaker 3: This is Ken Carpenter inviting you to join us next
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  Speaker 3: week at this same time for another presentation of the.
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood Radio Theater.
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  Speaker 3: Hollywood Radio Theater is a presentation of the United States
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  Speaker 3: Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That brings us to the end of Lux Radio Theatre's
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  Speaker 1: Carbine Williams. Until our next visit with radio's enduring dramatic programs,
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  Speaker 1: good evening.