Sixteen (1973) - full transcript
A teenage girl who lives with her brother falls in love for the first time when a traveling carnival comes to her small town, but things go badly.
(engine roaring)
(hooves clopping)
- You fixin' to take the
new road to town, Ma?
- Hell no!
We ain't got all day.
Giddap.
Let's go.
(pleasant music)
♪ Yesterday was easy to live
♪ You only took as much
as you could give ♪
♪ Never worried
♪ About tomorrow 'til it came
♪ And said goodbye
♪ But today
♪ You wonder why
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ Chances are slim
♪ Sometimes you come out even
♪ But this time
♪ You just can't win
♪ Hard times are
coming this way ♪
♪ Better gather up
all your pride ♪
♪ Like a crow on a june
bug there's a devil ♪
♪ Right by your side
♪ If you think you
got nothing to lose ♪
♪ Just wait until
♪ You don't have a
right to choose ♪
♪ Then the answer
♪ To the question never comes
♪ In time to show
♪ What you did
not want to know ♪
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ Chances are slim
♪ Sometimes you come out even
♪ But this time
♪ You just can't win
♪ Hard times are
coming this way ♪
♪ Better gather up
all your pride ♪
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ There's a devil
♪ Right by your side
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ Chances are slim
♪ Sometimes you come out even
♪ But this time
♪ You just can't win
♪ Just can't win
♪ Hard times are
coming this way ♪
♪ Better gather up
all your pride ♪
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ There's a devil
♪ Right by your side
- What in the hell are
they gonna do with $8,000?
Morning.
(scissors snipping)
Mr. and Mrs. Irtley,
this is Mr. Jenkins,
lawyer for the
highway department.
- Good morning.
Come in, come in please.
Deed reads Jesse Cato
Irtley and family.
- Well there's
three kids outside.
- Well let's get on with it.
I've got to be in court
in Valdosta at 11 o'clock.
- Mrs. Irtley, would you
bring them in here please?
- We thought it would be
best if they wait outside.
- Very well, we'll have
to have their names.
What are they please?
- There's Bruvver,
Naomi, and J.C.
- How do you spell Bruvver?
- Excuse me sir, I
don't think Bruvver
is his Christian name.
Mrs. Irtley, what is
Bruvver's real name?
- He was christened Lonnie.
- Then we named him
Yule for Mr. Brown
who gave us the land back,
but mostly we call him Bruvver.
- Lonnie Yule, and the girl?
- Naomi, right out of the Bible.
- Mhmm, and the other one?
- J.C.
- Another biblical reference?
- Huh?
- I say do the initials have
any religious connotation?
- Does J.C. have to
do with the Bible?
- Has to do with J.C Penney.
- J.C. Penney?
- Yes sir.
There was a sale the
week I birthed him.
- All right, all right J.C.
Now the aforementioned property
has been condemned by the county
due to the lack of cooperation
of the party of the first part.
- Again?
- [Man] We've merely taken
a piece of your property
for which you will be well paid.
And we're not coming any
closer to your house.
- However, party
of the first part
will be duly compensated
upon receipt of your
several signatures,
you will receive a remittance
for the aforementioned property
in the amount of $8,000.
- Say what?
- $8,000.
- [Jenkins] If you'll just
sign, I'll have a check for you.
- We don't want no check.
- Want folding money.
- Mrs. Irtley, a
check is legal tender.
- We don't want no legal.
- Want the money.
- Very well if you will
just endorse here please.
- Sign this and
he'll get the money.
- Right here?
- Yes, right here.
- No, I mean the
money right here.
- Yes yes.
- Inez Rose Fergie Irtley.
Pa.
(scissors snipping)
Bruvver!
You drive that thing over
here in front of the store.
- Ma give me a quarter
for a cold drink.
- Oh hush up.
- Thanks!
(gentle country music)
- Some of that shine.
- Sorry what's that?
- Shine.
(gentle country music)
(bell dings)
(ominous music)
- Good afternoon sister
Irtley, brother, youngins.
May God bless you and yours.
My name is Reverend Cole.
The Reverend Jeremiah Cole.
I'm from Florida.
I've been holding the
revival of the open door
over at Twin Rivers,
and it's my pleasure
to kindly just drop
by and say howdy
to the better folks in
this neck of the woods,
and make sure you knowed
about our meetings
and the wonderful work we
are doing in His name, amen.
- Amen.
- Amen.
- Pleased to meet you.
Bruvver get the wagon
around to the shed.
Naomi, you help me
unload the wagon.
- Well.
Well sister it seems the
Lord has smiled upon you
with good health
and good fortune.
Yea let the little children
come unto me and so forth, amen.
And how was your
journey, sister?
Fruitful, I hope.
The weather has been dry.
It parches a man's throat.
- Bless your heart, brother.
Brother Irtley, tell me
just what is it you've got
in that paper sack brother?
It couldn't be spirits of one
form or another, could it?
Well now suffer no
shame, suffer no shame.
The first time I seen you,
I thought you looked peaked,
and beyond any shadow
of doubt I'm sure
that whatever purchase you made,
you made for purely
medicinal purposes.
- That's the God's
truth, reverend.
(coughing)
- Don't worry about me.
Don't pay me no mind, it's
just my heart brother.
The Lord giveth and
the Lord taketh away.
(hacking)
Sustenance brother,
sustenance for my throat.
(gulping)
Do you feel anything?
Do you feel the
Lord working on you?
The Lord's been
mighty good to you,
but with all this
bounty he has also
placed a responsibility
upon your head,
and you've got to face up to it,
that is if you value your soul.
Do you value your soul?
Do you want to dwell
forevermore in Beulah Land,
or do you want to
spend all eternity
roasting in the fires of hell?
The decision is up to you,
because I said that Beelzebub
is fixing to claim you
for his fiery army.
Now it's up to you,
it's up to you,
what are you going to do?
Is it going to be
the golden streets
or to the fiery furnace?
- Oh golden streets
reverend, golden streets.
- And I'm glad to hear that.
Down on your knees,
down on your knees
and you beg for forgiveness!
Repent, repent,
hallelujah and amen!
(laughs)
Hold on brother, we
ain't near finished!
You been a sinner.
You've been away
from the church.
You've been away from the
church too many years.
The devil's got hold
of your coattails.
I'll tell you that if you
was to die right this minute,
old Satan would claim you
for his army of darkness.
You'd go to hell so damn fast
it'd make your head spin,
and I ain't kidding ya.
Nosiree, you been a drunkard,
you been a sinner
and a backslider.
Where'd you put it?
You've been in every kind of
hatefulness I can think of.
Well I'm telling you right now
you ain't gonna
get away with it.
There's only one way in
this whole world of sin
that you can wipe
clean that dirty slate.
Now you listen to me,
I tell you it's easier
for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle
than it is for a
rich man like you
to enter the kingdom of heaven.
I'll tell you it came to me
and in case you don't
understand, I'll tell you
it came to me in a cloud of
sulfur, brimstone, and hellfire.
The Lord wants your money.
I am his messenger,
and his servant,
and the Lord wants it right now,
do you hear what I'm saying?
- Well.
Here's two dollars.
- Two dollars!
Two dollars, that's what it
was the last time you paid
for anything, and
that's just the sin
I'm talking about, two dollars.
The Lord hates a
piker, and so do I.
Down on your knees you
penny pinching sinner!
Ain't you never heard it's
better to give than to receive?
- You are gonna get
out of our house
you beady-eyed flat
wooden-jawed old pronk!
You get out of here
with that talk!
- Calm yourself
woman, calm yourself!
- You take those lies and
hate out of our house!
You get yourself off this
land with your boozy breath
and your damnation talk.
- But I'm trying to
save all your souls.
You come into the
service of the Lord.
- Get off this land would ya?
- I'm going madam.
Calm yourself!
- [Ma] Take your fat behind
back to Twin Rivers--
- [Reverend] Calm yourself
woman, calm yourself!
- [Ma] Get going, move!
Go go go go go!
We know more about the Bible
than you ever dreamed of.
- [J.C.] Move, go off, my ma--
- Got nothing but dollar
signs in your big eyes.
(laughing)
(Naomi giggling)
(Naomi shrieks)
I still don't like it.
I still have the feeling
we're being punished.
- Punished, what for?
- Well that's just it,
we're being punished
and I don't know for what.
- Well the Lord will provide.
- Amen.
He works in mysterious ways.
All of a sudden out
of the blue, $8,000.
- The good book says the Lord
never sends us a
burden we cannot bear.
- Amen.
(pleasant music)
(organ music)
(chuckles)
(water splashing)
(sighs)
(gentle guitar music)
♪ Listen to the green
♪ And hear the cotton wool
♪ Promising some sunny days
♪ Look around the scene
♪ And thank the Lord
for country byways ♪
♪ How often we look
but fail to see ♪
♪ How simple things
are meant to be ♪
♪ The cycles will come
♪ The seasons go
♪ We're part of it
♪ We have to grow
♪ Notice how the fields are
filled with butterflies ♪
♪ Meadowlarks and
mixed bouquets ♪
♪ Smell the sweet perfume
♪ And feel the glow
of country byways ♪
(water splashing)
(laughing)
(gentle guitar music)
(splashing, shrieking)
(gentle guitar music)
- [Ada] Morning Naomi, Bruvver.
- Morning Aunt Ada.
- Good morning Aunt Ada.
- Knowed you'd be here.
Got some hot biscuits for ya.
Go on children.
(goat bleats)
- Hey.
(goat bleats)
- Folks was mighty surprised
to see you all in
town yesterday.
Aunt Ada's got a feeling,
strange things is happening.
Things ain't gonna
be the same no more.
God didn't mean no road ever
to come through these woods.
Gonna touch everybody.
- How do you mean, Aunt Ada?
- Gonna lay things open
where they best stood
dark and hidden.
Already the Lord done
made y'all go into town
where you never
would've went otherwise,
and that jake-leg
preacher was a-waiting,
ready to pounce on y'all
like a crow on a june bug.
(giggling)
Do you know how
much money $8,000 is
to folks what ain't
never had none?
- No ma'am.
- Child that's more
than folks like y'all
ever were supposed to see.
God done put this
together as a test.
Don't you see?
The serpents gonna
come forward now,
and that old preacher
the first one of 'em.
As long as we were safe in
these woods, weren't no harm
but that's all over now.
That road done brought
it right here to us.
Aunt Ada worried
about you children,
'cause you don't know
nothing about this world.
There's evil in it.
These charms will protect you.
And don't you ever
take 'em off, you hear?
All right, run on now.
(crows cawing)
- [Ma] Pa!
Are you ready?
- Yeah.
- [Ma] Ought to be
away from here by noon.
- Ha, go go yeah giddy up
horsie, giddy up, go go go!
- Get down!
- [Naomi] You get down
from there right now!
- Naomi, I never have any fun!
God.
God.
(pleasant music)
- Howdy there Irtley!
When you gonna
come in to see me?
I'll give you a mighty good
trade on that horse and wagon.
Y'all take care
of that money now!
(pleasant music)
- Ooh.
- Bruvver you take
the horse around,
tie him up over at that
tree under the shade.
Now you take all
these things here.
Too much.
- There we go, there we go.
- Morning.
- Good morning
ma'am, how you doing?
- I want five tickets
on the bus to Valdosta.
- Okay ma'am, round trip?
- And back.
- Yes ma'am.
- When is she due here?
- She'll be along
in a little bit.
She's due right now
ma'am, excuse me.
- Hey Ma, can I get a freezy?
- [Ma] Get us all a freezy.
(brakes hiss)
- Come on Ma let's get in
there so she won't leave.
- Here's the tickets, Pa.
Howdy.
- How are you?
Thank you.
- [Ma] We want to get
off at the fairgrounds.
- I'm sorry ma'am, we
don't stop out there.
- Well you go right past it.
Now you just pull this thing
to a halt when we get there
and you let us out.
We paid our money and
that's where we're gonna go.
- Yes ma'am.
- [Ma] J.C. did you
go to the bathroom?
(upbeat music)
(brakes hiss)
(carnival music)
- Here now.
Put this in your pockets,
and watch out for each other.
(carnival music)
(screaming)
(laughs)
Let's go on it.
- Roll the other nine, get
one, get one the other nine.
Keep it up hoot 'em in.
Yeah turn 'em over,
gotta watch the ball.
Okay the other nine,
turn 'em over nine.
Get 'em all, hoot
the other nine.
- [Woman] One two three.
- Step right up,
ladies and gentlemen
for a show the likes of which
you will never see again.
You're going to see Carmelita,
Carmelita and her
wild gypsy dancers
from Madrid, Spain
ladies and gentlemen.
For one dollar, one
George Washington,
1/5 of an Abraham Lincoln,
1/10 of an Alexander Hamilton--
- On the handlebars, he
then tries to decipher the
husband there on the side
of the laws of physics
we will get down to business.
And as soon as he stands all
the way up on the motorcycle,
still no hands, no feet, or any
ropes which you'll ever see.
He hits the knives and zigzags
from 45 feet in the air
all the way down to the floor.
You're gonna see it in
act three where we can--
(roaring, panting)
(carnival music)
(eerie music)
(hawker babbling)
- Come in now and
see her, Carmelita
and the world renowned
gypsy dancers.
Come here now, there
you go big boy.
Come here now, come
here now, Carmelita
direct from Madrid,
Spain, come here now.
Carmelita ladies and
gentlemen, come here now,
come heree now, come here now,
see the little lady
for only one dollar.
You've spilled more
than that tonight.
There is nothing in this show
to offend the fastidious.
Come here now and
see her, Carmelita
and the world famous
gypsy dancers.
Your granddaddy
loved Sally Rand.
You'll love Carmelita,
for one dollar!
(eerie music)
(yells)
(carnival music)
(eerie music)
(glass tinkling)
(screaming)
(shrieking)
- [Naomi] Bruvver!
- Carmelita from Madrid, Spain
and the world famous
bullfight ballet.
Carmelita, she
rolls on her belly
like a reptilian exvertebrate.
Carmelita, the world
famous bullfight ballet.
Things that your mama
never showed you at home.
Come in, come in now.
- Bruvver!
(eerie music)
(shrieking)
(crying)
- Quit crying, quit crying kid!
(screaming, sobbing)
Quit crying!
I'm coming to get ya!
(crying)
Quit crying baby.
You all right?
You all right?
People won't come in here if
they see you acting like that.
Come on I'll take
you out, come on.
(crying)
(men whistling)
(sultry music)
Come on.
(crying)
- What's the matter
baby, somebody hurt ya?
- No.
- You all right?
How old are you little baby?
- 16.
- Come on, smile.
Don't worry, everything's
gonna be all right.
Who'd you come out here with?
- My folks.
I don't know where they is.
They all done gone
off and left me.
- Well I tell ya, I gotta go on.
You come on in and watch my act.
Free.
And then you can go find them.
Okay?
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
(sultry music)
(cheering)
- [Announcer] Say a few
words about caution.
Please do not put your hands
on the inside of the wall,
on top of the wall.
(audience applauds)
Please do not put your hands
on the inside of the wall,
on top of the wall,
or under the wall.
Also please remove any objects
or type of apparel that
could possibly fall down.
Any minute now, be...
(carnival music)
(engine roaring)
(cheering)
(sultry music)
(cheering)
(engine roaring)
(audience applauds)
(carnival music)
- So how'd you like it baby?
- Oh I just loved it mister!
I really did I just loved it.
- Go on, call me Jake.
Pretty exciting huh?
I've got one more show to do,
so why don't you
just stick around
and then I'll show you
some real excitement.
Come on let's grab a beer.
Come on.
(men cheering)
- Good god, there's that
country cousin again.
Every show he gets
a little bit closer.
The next one he's gonna be
doing the grinds with us.
- Hey, that's one of that outfit
just come into plenty money.
He ain't bad looking.
- I wouldn't mind
getting a little of that.
- So what do you think
of your wild man, baby?
Your boy here's a rough rider.
Kind of like that kind
of talk, don't ya?
What's this here?
- It's a charm, to protect me.
- You don't need this
charm anymore, you got me.
- [Hawker] Come here now.
Carmelita, ladies and gentlemen,
come here now, come
here now, come here now.
See the little lady
for only one dollar.
You've spilled more
than that tonight.
There's nothing in the show to--
- Stay here, excuse me a minute.
- And see her, Carmelita
and the world famous
gypsy dancers.
Bullfight ballet, the
full show at burlesque,
come here now, come here now.
- [Jake] Jim we got a real sweet
one here tonight my friend.
- Come here now, come
here now, last chance.
(carnival music)
(cheering)
(sultry music)
- Did you find 'em,
did you see Bruvver?
- Or Naomi?
- Neither one.
One old guy said he saw a kid
that looked just like 'em.
He said they went out
the back gate and left.
I asked him twice.
I bet you they're waiting
back at Oceana at the wagon.
- Well, we can only wait
a few more minutes now.
That bus is due any minute,
and it's the last one.
(sighs)
(cheering)
(sultry music)
(cheering)
- Jake please don't.
Please don't.
Jake I'm afraid, please don't.
(crickets chirping)
- Oh you're still here?
You're the one that caught
my manty aren't you?
- You dropped your things, lady.
- Yes I know, thank you.
Hey, they're closing
up over there.
Why don't you leave
through the back?
(crickets chirping)
Where are you going now?
- Nowhere.
- Why don't you
wait while I change
and we'll go out
for a drink okay?
Okay.
Didn't you know it was a wig?
You're funny.
You like?
Come on, let's get going.
What's the matter,
you lost something?
- My sister.
- Oh, well come take a look.
Everybody's gone.
Maybe she went on home.
Let's go, come on.
Come on, get in.
You act like you've
never seen a car before.
(sultry music)
- There's only
the last bus left.
You all right?
- Ah.
(sultry music)
♪ Take my love
♪ Take my love
(brakes hiss)
(sultry music)
♪ Take my love
♪ Take my love
♪ Take my love
♪ Take my love
(upbeat rock music)
(cheering)
- What do you want
to drink, big boy?
Listen, give us a couple
bourbon on the rocks.
Make it gross okay?
Hey Mac!
Play something on
the jukebox huh?
How about something really hot?
- Yeah Carmelita baby, I'll
play it and you shake it!
- Yeah yeah yeah, give
me time all right?
I get paid for shaking it.
By the way baby,
what's your name?
- Bruvver.
- What?
- Bruvver, Bruvver Irtley.
- Oh, what the hell
kind of name is that?
Bruvver.
- I don't know, just Bruvver.
- You know you shouldn't even
hang around places like this.
- Don't know what else to do!
They done all gone off
and left me and I...
If I just knowed
where Bruvver was.
I ain't never been off by
myself before, without him.
- Now look you go into
my trailer and relax.
Look it'll take me
a minute to change
and I'll go see
if I can find him.
Okay.
- Two bucks please.
- Just keep a tab, we
ain't going nowhere.
You got money baby, don't ya?
Mm I'll take care of that okay?
Drink.
You like?
- Pretty good.
- Pretty good?
Yeah, well drink up and
we'll order another one.
- Drink up?
- Mhmm, drink up.
(upbeat music)
Hey you want to dance?
You wanna dance?
- I, I can't.
- You can't?
Well you just sit there and
I'll show you how it's done.
(upbeat music)
- How about a couple more?
You're gonna need 'em
before the night's over.
(upbeat music)
- How'd you like it?
Well damn it, say something.
Do you want to play
the pinball machine?
You can do that, can't you?
Okay come on, bring your drink.
Come on.
(upbeat music)
(engine revving)
(country music)
- Well you hooked that
country fish didn't you?
(pinball machine dings)
(country music)
Don't forget I get
a finder's fee.
- Bourbon on the rocks.
(country music)
Ah!
Oh Mr. Showbiz.
- [Jake] Who are you with?
- Country cousin.
(country music)
- He's pretty in luck.
You get yourself a new pitch?
- The oldest pitch
in the business,
the family's loaded.
- These long working hours
are gonna get you down baby.
- Don't worry.
(country music)
Hey come on.
Let's play the jukebox,
grab your drink.
Come on.
(laughs)
What's the matter?
- I don't know.
My head feels funny.
- Oh yeah baby, just hang
on and mama will help.
Ooh good a slow one.
Hey, come on.
Hang on and I'll do
the driving, come on.
(sultry music)
Well you ain't doing bad at all!
You show a lot of promise!
Yeah I think you're
gonna be all right.
Are you enjoying yourself?
- [Bruvver] Yeah.
- Yeah I thought
you'd like this.
You know with a little cash
we could sure see
a lot of places.
With money we could go anywhere.
You like Carmelita,
don't you baby?
- Yeah.
- [Carmelita] You've got
money, don't you baby?
- No.
- [Carmelita] Well I
heard you were loaded.
- Ma's got it.
- Oh, where?
- [Bruvver] Hid.
- [Carmelita] Hid where?
- In a jar.
- In a jar?
Around the place?
- Yeah.
She buried it around the house.
But I seen her.
- [Carmelita] Oh.
(upbeat music)
♪ Woman you drive me mad
♪ You got to have your way
♪ I wanna do my thing
♪ Is that all you've
ever had to say ♪
(shouting)
♪ You know how far you roam
♪ You got to be the
star of your show ♪
♪ Nothing's gonna stop me now
♪ 'Cause you're
coming on strong ♪
- You drunk.
Oh Jake help me get
him out of here.
Oh baby.
(upbeat music)
Come on.
♪ Now that you've got your way
- Get the door.
- Okay.
♪ Gonna do
♪ I think it's safe to say
♪ Gonna keep on
trying something new ♪
- See you back in town baby.
♪ And one of these days
leave it all behind ♪
♪ Something's gonna
- Carmelita.
Why don't you let
that country fish go?
You don't need him
or that lousy money.
- Oh well listen to
you, Mr. Showbiz.
I mean after you've
turned a pitch
with Daisy Mae you're gonna
come and preach to me?
- Come on, cut that crap.
We're two of a kind,
we're professionals.
- Professional?
You're a professional
makeout artist!
You do as you damn well please
and then you come yelling at me?
- Take that kid
back to the trailer.
Tomorrow we're taking them both
back to the woods
where they belong.
- You just get out
of here and shut up!
I'll do as I damn well please!
I take care of Carmelita.
You just take that
funny little tricycle
and get the hell out of here!
- Would you save that crap
for the audience baby,
this is Jake you're talking to,
not some stupid country bastard!
(engine revving)
You just get that
kid back tomorrow!
♪ You've got to have your way
(crickets chirping)
- Jake?
- Knock it off, kid.
Go to sleep.
(somber music)
(dog barking)
(cow mooing)
- Ready.
(cow moos)
If they catch the morning bus
they could be here
before midday.
- You were going at that
Bible pretty good last night.
Best get you a new one.
- Did you sleep?
- No ma'am, not hardly.
- Gonna lay down?
- Gonna get my hat.
Sun's up.
(cow moos)
- Hey sleeping prince,
will you get up?
Good morning.
Hi we're gonna go
for a little drive
in the country this morning.
Come on.
Oh you've got a bad head,
I'm sorry drink this.
It'll make you feel better.
You know generally it's
the other way around
when folks get married.
I mean generally the
husband's the one
that brings their
wife the coffee.
- Hm?
- Oh come on.
Don't you remember?
We got married last night.
I mean surely you don't think
that I would let you
share my bed otherwise.
Now come on, let's take me home
and meet mama and
see the plantation.
Hey which way to
home and hearth baby?
(pleasant harmonica music)
Well you sure don't
have much to say.
Well which way from here?
By the way, what did you
say your name was again?
- Bruvver Irtley.
Which way you wanna go, the
dirt road or the hard road?
- Well the hard road, baby.
There's not gonna be any more
dirt roads for Carmelita.
(pleasant harmonica music)
(dog barking)
- There's one of 'em!
It's Bruvver!
(dog barking)
Lord boy you've got
that dancing lady!
- Where's Naomi?
- I thought she come
home with y'all.
- Well she never.
We can't find her anywhere.
- Where's Naomi?
- Who the hell is that?
- Gosh look at this
car and trailer!
Geez I'd like to live in there.
- Well you can't.
Ain't none of you
getting in there but me.
- Where's Naomi?
- I don't even know who
you're talking about.
Who the hell is Naomi
and who are these people?
- Well who the hell are you?
- I'm his wife.
Damn it, will you say something?
- Bruvver, Naomi never
came home last night.
- [Pa] We waited for you.
- We were thinking
that she was with you.
- Well she wasn't.
He was with me all night.
Anyhow, we got married.
- Well there ain't
no room for you here.
- Well there is if
Naomi don't come back.
- Don't worry, we'll be
staying in my trailer.
Now, I'm his wife and
I'm entitled to mine.
- To your what?
- To anything I
might be entitled to.
- You get that big tin
bugle out of my yard.
- [Pa] Pull it over yonder.
J.C. come here.
(cow moos)
(dog barking)
- Is this your family?
No wonder you won't talk.
- Gosh this sure
is a pretty car.
Take me for a ride!
- Oh get off my car, idiot!
Bruvver, get out of the car.
I want to talk to
you immediately.
- Oh my god.
And I worried all night
believing they was together,
that Naomi was with him.
Now Pa don't take
on, we just pray
that Naomi's on that bus.
- Last night you promised
me that if I would marry you
we would come back here
and we'd get the money
and we'd go to Florida.
- [Bruvver] I don't, I--
- Oh come on!
You know you promised,
why try to lie out of it?
(air hissing)
(laughing)
I'm your wife.
I'm entitled to half of
everything, now where is it?
(laughing)
I mean if you think I'm
living in that pigsty
you've got another thing coming!
Hey!
What the hell's going on?
Hey hey!
- Ma Ma Ma she's hoping
to get that money!
- Get away from my trailer you
dirty little rotten
finking son of a...
Oh boy, ah!
Now you still love
Carmelita, don't ya baby?
I mean I'm still your helpless
little kitty like
you said last night.
Mm.
Oh.
Go sit down.
Now listen, we're
just going to have to
get out of here
and live a little.
I mean, they don't
need that money.
They wouldn't know what
to do with it and I do.
Now, I'm gonna leave
for a couple hours
and give you plenty of
time to find the money.
- Don't leave.
- Oh but baby, once I come back
I'll never have to leave
again, now come on.
- But why do you
have to go away?
- I told you baby, so
that you'll have, oh god!
(laughing)
- [J.C.] Woo whoa whoa!
- God did you see what
he's done to my car?
Listen, you better
have this money
when I get back or I'm
leaving, and I mean for good!
Jesus now you've gotta
be good for something,
so will you lift this thing
so I can unhook it?
- [Ma] Bruvver!
- Bruvver.
Come here.
- Ma?
Pa?
- I don't know you, boy.
Your Pa and me have been
sitting in the house
trying to understand.
But last night at the carnival,
you went off with your
sister by the hand.
Her hand has been in
yours for all her life.
- For 16 years.
She never came to no
harm, you've seen to that.
- You watched over
her, until last night
when you seen that woman.
- Whatever happened, you forgot
all about your little sister.
Is that how you grew up, boy?
- Is that the man you've become?
- Ma.
- I don't know you, boy.
- Pa?
(emotional music)
(crows cawing)
(upbeat synth music)
(ominous music)
Aunt Ada!
(goat bleats)
Ada!
(goat bleating)
I need your help!
(somber music)
(door creaks)
(screaming)
- Go go go, get out of here!
Get outta here kid!
Get!
Stop!
(shouting)
Get out of my trailer!
Get out of my,
get out of here!
(shouting)
You ever get near
my trailer again,
so help me god you
little son of a bitch,
I'll have your guts for dinner!
Do you hear me?
Jesus Christ!
Jesus!
Goddamn every one of you!
Every stinking blasted
dummy in this area!
And that goes for every stinking
one of you country dummies.
If you so much as lay one
hand on my damn trailer,
I'm gonna have your
guts for dinner,
do you hear me?
You damn, will you
leave me alone!
Leave me alone!
Goddamn.
Give me that!
(shouting)
(crying)
(somber music)
Oh god no!
No please!
No!
No!
No!
(crying)
Jesus.
- [Bruvver] Stop it!
- Oh no.
- Stop it!
Stop it Ma, I love her!
(panting)
- No, oh no.
- [Bruvver] Wait.
Don't leave.
- Get away from me!
(engine rumbling)
- Inez Rose.
- Oh Jake, get me out of here!
Please!
They're all crazy!
She tried to kill me!
Oh, oh Jake I'm so
glad to see you.
- Wait.
Here's the money, Carmelita!
Please take it.
Don't leave.
- Oh you damned dirt
kicker get away from me!
I don't want your
money, I don't want you,
I just want to get out of here!
(gun clicks)
- Now you get.
You get back to
wherever you belong.
(engine roars)
- Now you two,
get back on in the
house where you belong.
Children.
- Children!
Naomi!
- Bruvver!
Bruvver!
- Children?
(emotional music)
- Children.
♪ How often we look
but fail to see ♪
♪ How simple things
are meant to be ♪
♪ The cycles will come
♪ The seasons go
♪ We're part of it
♪ We have to go
♪ We have to go
(pleasant country music)
♪ Yesterday was easy to me
♪ You only took
♪ As much as you could give
♪ Never worried
♪ About tomorrow 'til it
came and said goodbye ♪
♪ But today
♪ You won goodbye
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ Chances are slim
♪ Sometimes you come out even
♪ But this time
♪ You just can't win
♪ Hard times are
coming this way ♪
♪ Better gather up
all your pride ♪
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ There's a devil
♪ Right by your side
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ Chances are slim
♪ Sometimes you come out even
♪ But this time
♪ You just can't win
♪ Hard times are
coming this way ♪
♪ Better gather up
all your pride ♪
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ There's a devil
right by your side ♪
(hooves clopping)
- You fixin' to take the
new road to town, Ma?
- Hell no!
We ain't got all day.
Giddap.
Let's go.
(pleasant music)
♪ Yesterday was easy to live
♪ You only took as much
as you could give ♪
♪ Never worried
♪ About tomorrow 'til it came
♪ And said goodbye
♪ But today
♪ You wonder why
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ Chances are slim
♪ Sometimes you come out even
♪ But this time
♪ You just can't win
♪ Hard times are
coming this way ♪
♪ Better gather up
all your pride ♪
♪ Like a crow on a june
bug there's a devil ♪
♪ Right by your side
♪ If you think you
got nothing to lose ♪
♪ Just wait until
♪ You don't have a
right to choose ♪
♪ Then the answer
♪ To the question never comes
♪ In time to show
♪ What you did
not want to know ♪
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ Chances are slim
♪ Sometimes you come out even
♪ But this time
♪ You just can't win
♪ Hard times are
coming this way ♪
♪ Better gather up
all your pride ♪
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ There's a devil
♪ Right by your side
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ Chances are slim
♪ Sometimes you come out even
♪ But this time
♪ You just can't win
♪ Just can't win
♪ Hard times are
coming this way ♪
♪ Better gather up
all your pride ♪
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ There's a devil
♪ Right by your side
- What in the hell are
they gonna do with $8,000?
Morning.
(scissors snipping)
Mr. and Mrs. Irtley,
this is Mr. Jenkins,
lawyer for the
highway department.
- Good morning.
Come in, come in please.
Deed reads Jesse Cato
Irtley and family.
- Well there's
three kids outside.
- Well let's get on with it.
I've got to be in court
in Valdosta at 11 o'clock.
- Mrs. Irtley, would you
bring them in here please?
- We thought it would be
best if they wait outside.
- Very well, we'll have
to have their names.
What are they please?
- There's Bruvver,
Naomi, and J.C.
- How do you spell Bruvver?
- Excuse me sir, I
don't think Bruvver
is his Christian name.
Mrs. Irtley, what is
Bruvver's real name?
- He was christened Lonnie.
- Then we named him
Yule for Mr. Brown
who gave us the land back,
but mostly we call him Bruvver.
- Lonnie Yule, and the girl?
- Naomi, right out of the Bible.
- Mhmm, and the other one?
- J.C.
- Another biblical reference?
- Huh?
- I say do the initials have
any religious connotation?
- Does J.C. have to
do with the Bible?
- Has to do with J.C Penney.
- J.C. Penney?
- Yes sir.
There was a sale the
week I birthed him.
- All right, all right J.C.
Now the aforementioned property
has been condemned by the county
due to the lack of cooperation
of the party of the first part.
- Again?
- [Man] We've merely taken
a piece of your property
for which you will be well paid.
And we're not coming any
closer to your house.
- However, party
of the first part
will be duly compensated
upon receipt of your
several signatures,
you will receive a remittance
for the aforementioned property
in the amount of $8,000.
- Say what?
- $8,000.
- [Jenkins] If you'll just
sign, I'll have a check for you.
- We don't want no check.
- Want folding money.
- Mrs. Irtley, a
check is legal tender.
- We don't want no legal.
- Want the money.
- Very well if you will
just endorse here please.
- Sign this and
he'll get the money.
- Right here?
- Yes, right here.
- No, I mean the
money right here.
- Yes yes.
- Inez Rose Fergie Irtley.
Pa.
(scissors snipping)
Bruvver!
You drive that thing over
here in front of the store.
- Ma give me a quarter
for a cold drink.
- Oh hush up.
- Thanks!
(gentle country music)
- Some of that shine.
- Sorry what's that?
- Shine.
(gentle country music)
(bell dings)
(ominous music)
- Good afternoon sister
Irtley, brother, youngins.
May God bless you and yours.
My name is Reverend Cole.
The Reverend Jeremiah Cole.
I'm from Florida.
I've been holding the
revival of the open door
over at Twin Rivers,
and it's my pleasure
to kindly just drop
by and say howdy
to the better folks in
this neck of the woods,
and make sure you knowed
about our meetings
and the wonderful work we
are doing in His name, amen.
- Amen.
- Amen.
- Pleased to meet you.
Bruvver get the wagon
around to the shed.
Naomi, you help me
unload the wagon.
- Well.
Well sister it seems the
Lord has smiled upon you
with good health
and good fortune.
Yea let the little children
come unto me and so forth, amen.
And how was your
journey, sister?
Fruitful, I hope.
The weather has been dry.
It parches a man's throat.
- Bless your heart, brother.
Brother Irtley, tell me
just what is it you've got
in that paper sack brother?
It couldn't be spirits of one
form or another, could it?
Well now suffer no
shame, suffer no shame.
The first time I seen you,
I thought you looked peaked,
and beyond any shadow
of doubt I'm sure
that whatever purchase you made,
you made for purely
medicinal purposes.
- That's the God's
truth, reverend.
(coughing)
- Don't worry about me.
Don't pay me no mind, it's
just my heart brother.
The Lord giveth and
the Lord taketh away.
(hacking)
Sustenance brother,
sustenance for my throat.
(gulping)
Do you feel anything?
Do you feel the
Lord working on you?
The Lord's been
mighty good to you,
but with all this
bounty he has also
placed a responsibility
upon your head,
and you've got to face up to it,
that is if you value your soul.
Do you value your soul?
Do you want to dwell
forevermore in Beulah Land,
or do you want to
spend all eternity
roasting in the fires of hell?
The decision is up to you,
because I said that Beelzebub
is fixing to claim you
for his fiery army.
Now it's up to you,
it's up to you,
what are you going to do?
Is it going to be
the golden streets
or to the fiery furnace?
- Oh golden streets
reverend, golden streets.
- And I'm glad to hear that.
Down on your knees,
down on your knees
and you beg for forgiveness!
Repent, repent,
hallelujah and amen!
(laughs)
Hold on brother, we
ain't near finished!
You been a sinner.
You've been away
from the church.
You've been away from the
church too many years.
The devil's got hold
of your coattails.
I'll tell you that if you
was to die right this minute,
old Satan would claim you
for his army of darkness.
You'd go to hell so damn fast
it'd make your head spin,
and I ain't kidding ya.
Nosiree, you been a drunkard,
you been a sinner
and a backslider.
Where'd you put it?
You've been in every kind of
hatefulness I can think of.
Well I'm telling you right now
you ain't gonna
get away with it.
There's only one way in
this whole world of sin
that you can wipe
clean that dirty slate.
Now you listen to me,
I tell you it's easier
for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle
than it is for a
rich man like you
to enter the kingdom of heaven.
I'll tell you it came to me
and in case you don't
understand, I'll tell you
it came to me in a cloud of
sulfur, brimstone, and hellfire.
The Lord wants your money.
I am his messenger,
and his servant,
and the Lord wants it right now,
do you hear what I'm saying?
- Well.
Here's two dollars.
- Two dollars!
Two dollars, that's what it
was the last time you paid
for anything, and
that's just the sin
I'm talking about, two dollars.
The Lord hates a
piker, and so do I.
Down on your knees you
penny pinching sinner!
Ain't you never heard it's
better to give than to receive?
- You are gonna get
out of our house
you beady-eyed flat
wooden-jawed old pronk!
You get out of here
with that talk!
- Calm yourself
woman, calm yourself!
- You take those lies and
hate out of our house!
You get yourself off this
land with your boozy breath
and your damnation talk.
- But I'm trying to
save all your souls.
You come into the
service of the Lord.
- Get off this land would ya?
- I'm going madam.
Calm yourself!
- [Ma] Take your fat behind
back to Twin Rivers--
- [Reverend] Calm yourself
woman, calm yourself!
- [Ma] Get going, move!
Go go go go go!
We know more about the Bible
than you ever dreamed of.
- [J.C.] Move, go off, my ma--
- Got nothing but dollar
signs in your big eyes.
(laughing)
(Naomi giggling)
(Naomi shrieks)
I still don't like it.
I still have the feeling
we're being punished.
- Punished, what for?
- Well that's just it,
we're being punished
and I don't know for what.
- Well the Lord will provide.
- Amen.
He works in mysterious ways.
All of a sudden out
of the blue, $8,000.
- The good book says the Lord
never sends us a
burden we cannot bear.
- Amen.
(pleasant music)
(organ music)
(chuckles)
(water splashing)
(sighs)
(gentle guitar music)
♪ Listen to the green
♪ And hear the cotton wool
♪ Promising some sunny days
♪ Look around the scene
♪ And thank the Lord
for country byways ♪
♪ How often we look
but fail to see ♪
♪ How simple things
are meant to be ♪
♪ The cycles will come
♪ The seasons go
♪ We're part of it
♪ We have to grow
♪ Notice how the fields are
filled with butterflies ♪
♪ Meadowlarks and
mixed bouquets ♪
♪ Smell the sweet perfume
♪ And feel the glow
of country byways ♪
(water splashing)
(laughing)
(gentle guitar music)
(splashing, shrieking)
(gentle guitar music)
- [Ada] Morning Naomi, Bruvver.
- Morning Aunt Ada.
- Good morning Aunt Ada.
- Knowed you'd be here.
Got some hot biscuits for ya.
Go on children.
(goat bleats)
- Hey.
(goat bleats)
- Folks was mighty surprised
to see you all in
town yesterday.
Aunt Ada's got a feeling,
strange things is happening.
Things ain't gonna
be the same no more.
God didn't mean no road ever
to come through these woods.
Gonna touch everybody.
- How do you mean, Aunt Ada?
- Gonna lay things open
where they best stood
dark and hidden.
Already the Lord done
made y'all go into town
where you never
would've went otherwise,
and that jake-leg
preacher was a-waiting,
ready to pounce on y'all
like a crow on a june bug.
(giggling)
Do you know how
much money $8,000 is
to folks what ain't
never had none?
- No ma'am.
- Child that's more
than folks like y'all
ever were supposed to see.
God done put this
together as a test.
Don't you see?
The serpents gonna
come forward now,
and that old preacher
the first one of 'em.
As long as we were safe in
these woods, weren't no harm
but that's all over now.
That road done brought
it right here to us.
Aunt Ada worried
about you children,
'cause you don't know
nothing about this world.
There's evil in it.
These charms will protect you.
And don't you ever
take 'em off, you hear?
All right, run on now.
(crows cawing)
- [Ma] Pa!
Are you ready?
- Yeah.
- [Ma] Ought to be
away from here by noon.
- Ha, go go yeah giddy up
horsie, giddy up, go go go!
- Get down!
- [Naomi] You get down
from there right now!
- Naomi, I never have any fun!
God.
God.
(pleasant music)
- Howdy there Irtley!
When you gonna
come in to see me?
I'll give you a mighty good
trade on that horse and wagon.
Y'all take care
of that money now!
(pleasant music)
- Ooh.
- Bruvver you take
the horse around,
tie him up over at that
tree under the shade.
Now you take all
these things here.
Too much.
- There we go, there we go.
- Morning.
- Good morning
ma'am, how you doing?
- I want five tickets
on the bus to Valdosta.
- Okay ma'am, round trip?
- And back.
- Yes ma'am.
- When is she due here?
- She'll be along
in a little bit.
She's due right now
ma'am, excuse me.
- Hey Ma, can I get a freezy?
- [Ma] Get us all a freezy.
(brakes hiss)
- Come on Ma let's get in
there so she won't leave.
- Here's the tickets, Pa.
Howdy.
- How are you?
Thank you.
- [Ma] We want to get
off at the fairgrounds.
- I'm sorry ma'am, we
don't stop out there.
- Well you go right past it.
Now you just pull this thing
to a halt when we get there
and you let us out.
We paid our money and
that's where we're gonna go.
- Yes ma'am.
- [Ma] J.C. did you
go to the bathroom?
(upbeat music)
(brakes hiss)
(carnival music)
- Here now.
Put this in your pockets,
and watch out for each other.
(carnival music)
(screaming)
(laughs)
Let's go on it.
- Roll the other nine, get
one, get one the other nine.
Keep it up hoot 'em in.
Yeah turn 'em over,
gotta watch the ball.
Okay the other nine,
turn 'em over nine.
Get 'em all, hoot
the other nine.
- [Woman] One two three.
- Step right up,
ladies and gentlemen
for a show the likes of which
you will never see again.
You're going to see Carmelita,
Carmelita and her
wild gypsy dancers
from Madrid, Spain
ladies and gentlemen.
For one dollar, one
George Washington,
1/5 of an Abraham Lincoln,
1/10 of an Alexander Hamilton--
- On the handlebars, he
then tries to decipher the
husband there on the side
of the laws of physics
we will get down to business.
And as soon as he stands all
the way up on the motorcycle,
still no hands, no feet, or any
ropes which you'll ever see.
He hits the knives and zigzags
from 45 feet in the air
all the way down to the floor.
You're gonna see it in
act three where we can--
(roaring, panting)
(carnival music)
(eerie music)
(hawker babbling)
- Come in now and
see her, Carmelita
and the world renowned
gypsy dancers.
Come here now, there
you go big boy.
Come here now, come
here now, Carmelita
direct from Madrid,
Spain, come here now.
Carmelita ladies and
gentlemen, come here now,
come heree now, come here now,
see the little lady
for only one dollar.
You've spilled more
than that tonight.
There is nothing in this show
to offend the fastidious.
Come here now and
see her, Carmelita
and the world famous
gypsy dancers.
Your granddaddy
loved Sally Rand.
You'll love Carmelita,
for one dollar!
(eerie music)
(yells)
(carnival music)
(eerie music)
(glass tinkling)
(screaming)
(shrieking)
- [Naomi] Bruvver!
- Carmelita from Madrid, Spain
and the world famous
bullfight ballet.
Carmelita, she
rolls on her belly
like a reptilian exvertebrate.
Carmelita, the world
famous bullfight ballet.
Things that your mama
never showed you at home.
Come in, come in now.
- Bruvver!
(eerie music)
(shrieking)
(crying)
- Quit crying, quit crying kid!
(screaming, sobbing)
Quit crying!
I'm coming to get ya!
(crying)
Quit crying baby.
You all right?
You all right?
People won't come in here if
they see you acting like that.
Come on I'll take
you out, come on.
(crying)
(men whistling)
(sultry music)
Come on.
(crying)
- What's the matter
baby, somebody hurt ya?
- No.
- You all right?
How old are you little baby?
- 16.
- Come on, smile.
Don't worry, everything's
gonna be all right.
Who'd you come out here with?
- My folks.
I don't know where they is.
They all done gone
off and left me.
- Well I tell ya, I gotta go on.
You come on in and watch my act.
Free.
And then you can go find them.
Okay?
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
(sultry music)
(cheering)
- [Announcer] Say a few
words about caution.
Please do not put your hands
on the inside of the wall,
on top of the wall.
(audience applauds)
Please do not put your hands
on the inside of the wall,
on top of the wall,
or under the wall.
Also please remove any objects
or type of apparel that
could possibly fall down.
Any minute now, be...
(carnival music)
(engine roaring)
(cheering)
(sultry music)
(cheering)
(engine roaring)
(audience applauds)
(carnival music)
- So how'd you like it baby?
- Oh I just loved it mister!
I really did I just loved it.
- Go on, call me Jake.
Pretty exciting huh?
I've got one more show to do,
so why don't you
just stick around
and then I'll show you
some real excitement.
Come on let's grab a beer.
Come on.
(men cheering)
- Good god, there's that
country cousin again.
Every show he gets
a little bit closer.
The next one he's gonna be
doing the grinds with us.
- Hey, that's one of that outfit
just come into plenty money.
He ain't bad looking.
- I wouldn't mind
getting a little of that.
- So what do you think
of your wild man, baby?
Your boy here's a rough rider.
Kind of like that kind
of talk, don't ya?
What's this here?
- It's a charm, to protect me.
- You don't need this
charm anymore, you got me.
- [Hawker] Come here now.
Carmelita, ladies and gentlemen,
come here now, come
here now, come here now.
See the little lady
for only one dollar.
You've spilled more
than that tonight.
There's nothing in the show to--
- Stay here, excuse me a minute.
- And see her, Carmelita
and the world famous
gypsy dancers.
Bullfight ballet, the
full show at burlesque,
come here now, come here now.
- [Jake] Jim we got a real sweet
one here tonight my friend.
- Come here now, come
here now, last chance.
(carnival music)
(cheering)
(sultry music)
- Did you find 'em,
did you see Bruvver?
- Or Naomi?
- Neither one.
One old guy said he saw a kid
that looked just like 'em.
He said they went out
the back gate and left.
I asked him twice.
I bet you they're waiting
back at Oceana at the wagon.
- Well, we can only wait
a few more minutes now.
That bus is due any minute,
and it's the last one.
(sighs)
(cheering)
(sultry music)
(cheering)
- Jake please don't.
Please don't.
Jake I'm afraid, please don't.
(crickets chirping)
- Oh you're still here?
You're the one that caught
my manty aren't you?
- You dropped your things, lady.
- Yes I know, thank you.
Hey, they're closing
up over there.
Why don't you leave
through the back?
(crickets chirping)
Where are you going now?
- Nowhere.
- Why don't you
wait while I change
and we'll go out
for a drink okay?
Okay.
Didn't you know it was a wig?
You're funny.
You like?
Come on, let's get going.
What's the matter,
you lost something?
- My sister.
- Oh, well come take a look.
Everybody's gone.
Maybe she went on home.
Let's go, come on.
Come on, get in.
You act like you've
never seen a car before.
(sultry music)
- There's only
the last bus left.
You all right?
- Ah.
(sultry music)
♪ Take my love
♪ Take my love
(brakes hiss)
(sultry music)
♪ Take my love
♪ Take my love
♪ Take my love
♪ Take my love
(upbeat rock music)
(cheering)
- What do you want
to drink, big boy?
Listen, give us a couple
bourbon on the rocks.
Make it gross okay?
Hey Mac!
Play something on
the jukebox huh?
How about something really hot?
- Yeah Carmelita baby, I'll
play it and you shake it!
- Yeah yeah yeah, give
me time all right?
I get paid for shaking it.
By the way baby,
what's your name?
- Bruvver.
- What?
- Bruvver, Bruvver Irtley.
- Oh, what the hell
kind of name is that?
Bruvver.
- I don't know, just Bruvver.
- You know you shouldn't even
hang around places like this.
- Don't know what else to do!
They done all gone off
and left me and I...
If I just knowed
where Bruvver was.
I ain't never been off by
myself before, without him.
- Now look you go into
my trailer and relax.
Look it'll take me
a minute to change
and I'll go see
if I can find him.
Okay.
- Two bucks please.
- Just keep a tab, we
ain't going nowhere.
You got money baby, don't ya?
Mm I'll take care of that okay?
Drink.
You like?
- Pretty good.
- Pretty good?
Yeah, well drink up and
we'll order another one.
- Drink up?
- Mhmm, drink up.
(upbeat music)
Hey you want to dance?
You wanna dance?
- I, I can't.
- You can't?
Well you just sit there and
I'll show you how it's done.
(upbeat music)
- How about a couple more?
You're gonna need 'em
before the night's over.
(upbeat music)
- How'd you like it?
Well damn it, say something.
Do you want to play
the pinball machine?
You can do that, can't you?
Okay come on, bring your drink.
Come on.
(upbeat music)
(engine revving)
(country music)
- Well you hooked that
country fish didn't you?
(pinball machine dings)
(country music)
Don't forget I get
a finder's fee.
- Bourbon on the rocks.
(country music)
Ah!
Oh Mr. Showbiz.
- [Jake] Who are you with?
- Country cousin.
(country music)
- He's pretty in luck.
You get yourself a new pitch?
- The oldest pitch
in the business,
the family's loaded.
- These long working hours
are gonna get you down baby.
- Don't worry.
(country music)
Hey come on.
Let's play the jukebox,
grab your drink.
Come on.
(laughs)
What's the matter?
- I don't know.
My head feels funny.
- Oh yeah baby, just hang
on and mama will help.
Ooh good a slow one.
Hey, come on.
Hang on and I'll do
the driving, come on.
(sultry music)
Well you ain't doing bad at all!
You show a lot of promise!
Yeah I think you're
gonna be all right.
Are you enjoying yourself?
- [Bruvver] Yeah.
- Yeah I thought
you'd like this.
You know with a little cash
we could sure see
a lot of places.
With money we could go anywhere.
You like Carmelita,
don't you baby?
- Yeah.
- [Carmelita] You've got
money, don't you baby?
- No.
- [Carmelita] Well I
heard you were loaded.
- Ma's got it.
- Oh, where?
- [Bruvver] Hid.
- [Carmelita] Hid where?
- In a jar.
- In a jar?
Around the place?
- Yeah.
She buried it around the house.
But I seen her.
- [Carmelita] Oh.
(upbeat music)
♪ Woman you drive me mad
♪ You got to have your way
♪ I wanna do my thing
♪ Is that all you've
ever had to say ♪
(shouting)
♪ You know how far you roam
♪ You got to be the
star of your show ♪
♪ Nothing's gonna stop me now
♪ 'Cause you're
coming on strong ♪
- You drunk.
Oh Jake help me get
him out of here.
Oh baby.
(upbeat music)
Come on.
♪ Now that you've got your way
- Get the door.
- Okay.
♪ Gonna do
♪ I think it's safe to say
♪ Gonna keep on
trying something new ♪
- See you back in town baby.
♪ And one of these days
leave it all behind ♪
♪ Something's gonna
- Carmelita.
Why don't you let
that country fish go?
You don't need him
or that lousy money.
- Oh well listen to
you, Mr. Showbiz.
I mean after you've
turned a pitch
with Daisy Mae you're gonna
come and preach to me?
- Come on, cut that crap.
We're two of a kind,
we're professionals.
- Professional?
You're a professional
makeout artist!
You do as you damn well please
and then you come yelling at me?
- Take that kid
back to the trailer.
Tomorrow we're taking them both
back to the woods
where they belong.
- You just get out
of here and shut up!
I'll do as I damn well please!
I take care of Carmelita.
You just take that
funny little tricycle
and get the hell out of here!
- Would you save that crap
for the audience baby,
this is Jake you're talking to,
not some stupid country bastard!
(engine revving)
You just get that
kid back tomorrow!
♪ You've got to have your way
(crickets chirping)
- Jake?
- Knock it off, kid.
Go to sleep.
(somber music)
(dog barking)
(cow mooing)
- Ready.
(cow moos)
If they catch the morning bus
they could be here
before midday.
- You were going at that
Bible pretty good last night.
Best get you a new one.
- Did you sleep?
- No ma'am, not hardly.
- Gonna lay down?
- Gonna get my hat.
Sun's up.
(cow moos)
- Hey sleeping prince,
will you get up?
Good morning.
Hi we're gonna go
for a little drive
in the country this morning.
Come on.
Oh you've got a bad head,
I'm sorry drink this.
It'll make you feel better.
You know generally it's
the other way around
when folks get married.
I mean generally the
husband's the one
that brings their
wife the coffee.
- Hm?
- Oh come on.
Don't you remember?
We got married last night.
I mean surely you don't think
that I would let you
share my bed otherwise.
Now come on, let's take me home
and meet mama and
see the plantation.
Hey which way to
home and hearth baby?
(pleasant harmonica music)
Well you sure don't
have much to say.
Well which way from here?
By the way, what did you
say your name was again?
- Bruvver Irtley.
Which way you wanna go, the
dirt road or the hard road?
- Well the hard road, baby.
There's not gonna be any more
dirt roads for Carmelita.
(pleasant harmonica music)
(dog barking)
- There's one of 'em!
It's Bruvver!
(dog barking)
Lord boy you've got
that dancing lady!
- Where's Naomi?
- I thought she come
home with y'all.
- Well she never.
We can't find her anywhere.
- Where's Naomi?
- Who the hell is that?
- Gosh look at this
car and trailer!
Geez I'd like to live in there.
- Well you can't.
Ain't none of you
getting in there but me.
- Where's Naomi?
- I don't even know who
you're talking about.
Who the hell is Naomi
and who are these people?
- Well who the hell are you?
- I'm his wife.
Damn it, will you say something?
- Bruvver, Naomi never
came home last night.
- [Pa] We waited for you.
- We were thinking
that she was with you.
- Well she wasn't.
He was with me all night.
Anyhow, we got married.
- Well there ain't
no room for you here.
- Well there is if
Naomi don't come back.
- Don't worry, we'll be
staying in my trailer.
Now, I'm his wife and
I'm entitled to mine.
- To your what?
- To anything I
might be entitled to.
- You get that big tin
bugle out of my yard.
- [Pa] Pull it over yonder.
J.C. come here.
(cow moos)
(dog barking)
- Is this your family?
No wonder you won't talk.
- Gosh this sure
is a pretty car.
Take me for a ride!
- Oh get off my car, idiot!
Bruvver, get out of the car.
I want to talk to
you immediately.
- Oh my god.
And I worried all night
believing they was together,
that Naomi was with him.
Now Pa don't take
on, we just pray
that Naomi's on that bus.
- Last night you promised
me that if I would marry you
we would come back here
and we'd get the money
and we'd go to Florida.
- [Bruvver] I don't, I--
- Oh come on!
You know you promised,
why try to lie out of it?
(air hissing)
(laughing)
I'm your wife.
I'm entitled to half of
everything, now where is it?
(laughing)
I mean if you think I'm
living in that pigsty
you've got another thing coming!
Hey!
What the hell's going on?
Hey hey!
- Ma Ma Ma she's hoping
to get that money!
- Get away from my trailer you
dirty little rotten
finking son of a...
Oh boy, ah!
Now you still love
Carmelita, don't ya baby?
I mean I'm still your helpless
little kitty like
you said last night.
Mm.
Oh.
Go sit down.
Now listen, we're
just going to have to
get out of here
and live a little.
I mean, they don't
need that money.
They wouldn't know what
to do with it and I do.
Now, I'm gonna leave
for a couple hours
and give you plenty of
time to find the money.
- Don't leave.
- Oh but baby, once I come back
I'll never have to leave
again, now come on.
- But why do you
have to go away?
- I told you baby, so
that you'll have, oh god!
(laughing)
- [J.C.] Woo whoa whoa!
- God did you see what
he's done to my car?
Listen, you better
have this money
when I get back or I'm
leaving, and I mean for good!
Jesus now you've gotta
be good for something,
so will you lift this thing
so I can unhook it?
- [Ma] Bruvver!
- Bruvver.
Come here.
- Ma?
Pa?
- I don't know you, boy.
Your Pa and me have been
sitting in the house
trying to understand.
But last night at the carnival,
you went off with your
sister by the hand.
Her hand has been in
yours for all her life.
- For 16 years.
She never came to no
harm, you've seen to that.
- You watched over
her, until last night
when you seen that woman.
- Whatever happened, you forgot
all about your little sister.
Is that how you grew up, boy?
- Is that the man you've become?
- Ma.
- I don't know you, boy.
- Pa?
(emotional music)
(crows cawing)
(upbeat synth music)
(ominous music)
Aunt Ada!
(goat bleats)
Ada!
(goat bleating)
I need your help!
(somber music)
(door creaks)
(screaming)
- Go go go, get out of here!
Get outta here kid!
Get!
Stop!
(shouting)
Get out of my trailer!
Get out of my,
get out of here!
(shouting)
You ever get near
my trailer again,
so help me god you
little son of a bitch,
I'll have your guts for dinner!
Do you hear me?
Jesus Christ!
Jesus!
Goddamn every one of you!
Every stinking blasted
dummy in this area!
And that goes for every stinking
one of you country dummies.
If you so much as lay one
hand on my damn trailer,
I'm gonna have your
guts for dinner,
do you hear me?
You damn, will you
leave me alone!
Leave me alone!
Goddamn.
Give me that!
(shouting)
(crying)
(somber music)
Oh god no!
No please!
No!
No!
No!
(crying)
Jesus.
- [Bruvver] Stop it!
- Oh no.
- Stop it!
Stop it Ma, I love her!
(panting)
- No, oh no.
- [Bruvver] Wait.
Don't leave.
- Get away from me!
(engine rumbling)
- Inez Rose.
- Oh Jake, get me out of here!
Please!
They're all crazy!
She tried to kill me!
Oh, oh Jake I'm so
glad to see you.
- Wait.
Here's the money, Carmelita!
Please take it.
Don't leave.
- Oh you damned dirt
kicker get away from me!
I don't want your
money, I don't want you,
I just want to get out of here!
(gun clicks)
- Now you get.
You get back to
wherever you belong.
(engine roars)
- Now you two,
get back on in the
house where you belong.
Children.
- Children!
Naomi!
- Bruvver!
Bruvver!
- Children?
(emotional music)
- Children.
♪ How often we look
but fail to see ♪
♪ How simple things
are meant to be ♪
♪ The cycles will come
♪ The seasons go
♪ We're part of it
♪ We have to go
♪ We have to go
(pleasant country music)
♪ Yesterday was easy to me
♪ You only took
♪ As much as you could give
♪ Never worried
♪ About tomorrow 'til it
came and said goodbye ♪
♪ But today
♪ You won goodbye
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ Chances are slim
♪ Sometimes you come out even
♪ But this time
♪ You just can't win
♪ Hard times are
coming this way ♪
♪ Better gather up
all your pride ♪
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ There's a devil
♪ Right by your side
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ Chances are slim
♪ Sometimes you come out even
♪ But this time
♪ You just can't win
♪ Hard times are
coming this way ♪
♪ Better gather up
all your pride ♪
♪ Like a crow on a june bug
♪ There's a devil
right by your side ♪