Burden.
Hey, Jack Burden.
The boss wants to see you.
Jack, ever hear of a fellow called Willie Stark?
No, who'd he shoot?
lt'll be the other way around if he keeps it up.
He's got the boys in the Kanoma County courthouse worried.
Politician? What's he running for?
County treasurer or something like that.
What's so special about him?
They say he's an honest man.
l want you to hop into your car. - You promised me a vacation.
That can wait.
But there's a girl l know.
She can wait too.
The question is, can l?
And the answer is, get up there.
Right.
What did you say his name was?
The fellow's name.
Stark. Willie Stark.
I found him in Kanoma City.
A typicaI, hot, dusty, backwoods county seat.
lie in order to line their own dirty pockets with taxpayers' money.
When have Kanoma citizens ever witnessed a campaign like this?
Why is the opposition so anxious to defeat me?
Why have they used every dirty method to make sure l'm not elected treasurer?
l'll tell you why. They're afraid of the truth.
And the truth is this:
They're trying to steal your money.
Yeah, l said 'steal.'
The commissioners rejected the low bid on the schoolhouse.
Why?
They'll say that the job will be done better.
They would have you believe they're interested in public welfare.
They're interested in welfare, sure.
But it's their own.
Let's look at their reason in the light of the facts.
That factory's owned by a brother-in-law of a commissioner.
That same brick factory uses convict labor.
Sorry, Willie, you'll have to move on.
Why?
City Ordinance Number 1 05.
More than five people congregating is disturbing the peace.
lf you folks will read these handbills...
...my boy will pass them out among you.
There's an ordinance against that too.
Pass them out, Tom.
Let him alone. - Get that camera.
Willie, you're under arrest.
Where can l find Tiny Duffy?
Right over there, mister.
They told me l could get my camera back here.
Who told you that?
People. Can l?
You the reporter that's been snooping around town?
Are you Tiny Duffy?
What paper?
ChronicIe.
You come a long way to stick your nose into other people's business.
True, only my boss on the paper can't see that.
lt ain't any of his business either.
Whose business is it? - Them as that's tending to it.
County commissioners the voters of Kanoma elected...
...to tend their business and not take no butting in.
You a commissioner?
Name's Pillsbury. Dolph Pillsbury.
Me too. l'm a commissioner too.
Who isn't a commissioner?
He's the head man.
You're in a position to know--...
...ln a position to know nothing and to say nothing.
l thought you said he was head man?
He uses my head.
Tiny, you're a card.
Ain't he a card?
He's a card.
Who thought up ordinances about arresting someone for making a speech?
Who's arrested?
Ain't nobody arrested.
Hi, Willie.
Did you apologize to Willie?
l apologized to Willie.
Did you give him his handbills? - l gave them back.
And give him back his flag and his bag.
And give this man his camera.
l'll be on that street tomorrow, Mr. Duffy.
You go right ahead.
We all believe in free speech.
We got to.
lt's in the Constitution.
My boy is distributing those handbills now.
lt's a free country, Willie.
lf you can convince people to vote for you...
...you go right ahead.
What did you want to see me about?
l wanted you to meet a fella...
...that came all the way up from the state capital to meet you.
A reporter.
Wants to write you up.
Maybe put your picture in the paper.
l'm happy to know you.
Burden's my name. Jack Burden.
Can we go somewhere and talk?
That ain't polite.
Don't you want to hear both sides of the story?
l know your side.
Where's the slate your men took from my camera?
Must have dropped out.
Come on, fellas, let's relax.
lt's a hot day.
Hey, Sugar Boy.
Bring some cold beer for the boys.
None for me. Thank you kindly.
You know Willie don't drink, Tiny. His wife don't favor drinking.
And Willie's the teacher's pet, ain't you?
l'll have orange pop, if you don't mind.
Orange pop?
All right, Sugar Boy. Bring him some orange pop.
The pop, sir, is sold out.
Did you hear that, boys? 'The p-p-pop is sold out.'
Now ain't he a card?
He stutters, Mr. Duffy.
But you don't say anything.
Let's go, mister.
This is my wife, Lucy, Mr. Burden.
How do you do? - That's my pa.
Now we'll talk.
You've been talking for a long time.
Willie's got a lot to say.
You sleepy, Pappy? You want a nap?
l want to hear it.
l'm worried about Tom.
lt's getting dark. He should have been home.
He's a strong boy. He can take care of himself.
How old is the boy? - Fifteen.
How long have you been married?
Nine years.
He was a neighbor's boy.
They were poor folks. Both died.
l couldn't have any children so....
He's a good boy. - He's the best.
l couldn't love him more if he was my own flesh and blood.
And now you, Mrs. Stark.
There isn't very much to tell about me.
How did you meet?
l was teaching school. One day, a pupil walked in.
lt was Willie.
l couldn't have a man in class, and Willie wanted to learn badly...
...so l married him.
ls that the only reason?
Except that l loved him.
Get the coffee, Lucy.
When did they fire you, Mrs. Stark?
A couple of weeks ago.
l've been teaching a long time. Nobody ever said l wasn't all right.
But l don't care.
l won't teach in a schoolhouse built so somebody can steal some money.
Willie doesn't want to be treasurer either...
...if he has to associate with those dishonest people.
l'm going to run. They can't keep me from running.
lf you want the truth, you haven't much of a chance.
l'm going to run. They won't kick me around.
l don't care if Willie loses...
...just so he gets the truth to the people.
lsn't that true, Willie?
lsn't it?
Sure, that's right.
lf you lose, you can study your law books more.
Are you studying law too?
By myself, at night.
Willie's a smart boy.
lf l find time, l'll take a university course.
What happened, Tommy boy? What's the matter?
l gave out the handbills, Pa. - Speak up. Speak up.
Let him tell it in his own way.
Go on, Tommy.
They were waiting for me.
They took them, threw them in the dirt and beat me up.
l brought some of them back.
Good boy.
Have you eaten?
Let him wash up first. Why don't you lie down, Pappy?
l'm going to run.
You're not going to stop me.
l'm going to run even if l don't get a single vote.
Here you are.
The last of the Willie Stark articles.
Can l go?
Yes, you've earned your vacation.
You've been writing these like you really mean them.
l do.
I hadn't been home in a Iong time.
Home was Burden's Landing.
OnIy 130 miIes from Kanoma City.
It was separated from the mainIand by a body of water.
For the first time, I wondered if it wasn't separated by more.
Hello, Mother.
Floyd, Jack's home.
He looks fine. Doesn't he look fine?
How do l look, Jackie boy?
You look beautiful, Mother.
l've got so many things planned for you.
Parties and-- lt'll be like old times.
Let's have a drink.
Can't that wait till evening?
Floyd, my son's home.
How long are you staying?
Two or three weeks, if that's all right.
Your father-- - Stepfather.
Now, Jackie.
Here we are. Floyd.
Jackie.
Myself.
To the best time we've ever had together.
Yes, Mother.
Excuse me, l--
Dr. Stanton, l presume.
ls my shingle showing?
Good to see you, boy. - Good to see you, Judge.
How've you been? What've you been doing?
Just sitting here, waiting for all of you to come home.
When a man starts to get old, his eyes play funny tricks on him.
As l watched you in that boat...
...l saw a boy of 1 2 with a fishing rod.
And l was sure the first thing he'd say would be--
Mind if l kiss your niece?
To all the good times we've had at Burden's Landing.
And especially this one, because my son's home.
Thank you, Mother. Thank you very much.
Monty, we've been discussing Jack's career.
What do you think he should be? A lawyer?
Doctor?
We were discussing whether-- - l like what l do.
You do very well at it.
l read your articles about Willie Stark.
Very convincing. Too convincing for my tastes.
People like them.
People are fools.
Articles like that shouldn't be permitted.
They incite people.
Why are you afraid?
l thought they were very good. l was proud of you.
l was interested in Stark's ideas on health and medicine.
You know hospital conditions. They're intolerable.
l'd like to meet him. He sounds like an honest man.
Honest man?
This state is full of log-cabin Abe Lincolns with price tags on them.
The louder he yells, the higher his price.
You think you can buy anything.
Yes, don't you?
What do you think, Judge?
This state could stand a few changes. - l'll tell you what l think.
Please. Let's not talk politics.
Anne is right. l absolutely forbid any more of it.
l know what we need. We need another toast.
You propose it, Monty. You're so good at it.
To the young people.
To Anne, to Jack, to Adam. To what lies before them.
To the world they'll make, in spite of the mistakes we've made.
The mistakes you've made, not me.
You're all still pretty high and mighty, aren't you?
You think this state needs a change. You don't like how it's run.
Who's going to run it? Willie Stark, the Judge, you?
You can be bought too. ln fact, you have been.
And with my money.
That's a waste of good liquor, boy.
Your mother wouldn't approve.
You go back and apologize. - l'd rather die.
l've got to live with him. - You don't love him.
Don't spoil anything. He can help.
You need this house and the parties...
...the cars, the clothes, the lies. l don't.
lt's the truth, face it. For once in your life, face it.
Anne, please.
Make him understand.
Burden's Landing is a place on the moon.
lt isn't real. lt doesn't exist.
lt's me, pretending l live on what l earn.
lt's my mother, trying to keep herself young...
...and drinking herself old doing it.
lt's you and Adam living here as if your father were still alive.
lt's an old man like the Judge, dreaming of the past.
Anne, come away with me.
And do what?
Live in a shack and eat red beans. What do you want me to do?
You haven't been sure. You've gone from one thing to the other.
A year at law school, this job as a reporter.
Are you afraid l can't make a living? - No, it isn't that.
l don't care about the money.
lt's just that l want you to be something.
What is it you want me to be? - l don't know.
l want you to be, to do something important.
Like your father?
All right, l'll run for governor.
Anne, l'm sorry. l'm sorry l said that.
All right, Jack.
l'll go away with you.
l'll do anything you want me to.
l've wanted you to say that more than anything in the world.
And now that you have said it--...
...l guess you were right.
l'm not sure of anything, including myself.
l'm not sure l could live up to the--
Wait for me.
Please wait for me.
l'll wait for you.
Hello, Jack. Cut your vacation short, didn't you?
By the way, Jack...
...the fellow you wrote the articles about, Stark.
He lost.
l guess that's the end of Willie Stark.
The measure of the damages is caused by--
A breach.
- Of an agreement.
To sell personal property. - To sell....
Two years of this. - Go on, Willie.
'Willie Stark.
Bachelor of Law.'
lf you'll let me take your case...
...l'll wait for my fee just as long as you want me to.
They won't kick me around.
If you Iose, you can study your Iaw books more.
I'II be on that street tomorrow.
By aII means. Free speech, free country.
That factory's owned by a brother-in-Iaw of a commissioner.
The commissioners rejected the Iow bid on the schooIhouse.
All right, children, this is a fire drill.
Remember now, walk.
Quietly.
'Verily l say unto you...
...except ye turn and become as little children...
...ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven.'
Let us pray.
'The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ and the love of God...
...and the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore.'
Amen.
Lord, l'm punished for voting against an honest man.
God bless you.
lf we'd only listened. - We'll never forget.
You were right.
Let me shake your hand. - We should have listened.
You were right all the time.
'Voice in the wilderness.
A man named Willie Stark.'
How about that, Lucy? That's me.
Get up there fast. Willie's hotter than a firecracker.
And stay with him.
Before this Kanoma City business, we had this whole area tied up.
Now we're losing the hick vote.
Let's find a way to split that vote.
All l know is, the way it is now, it looks like l'm not going to win.
l know a way. Find a dummy.
Find a dummy.
That's what we got.
A guy from the sticks, strong enough to grab votes...
...and dumb enough not to ask questions.
lf you want to listen to a boy from the sticks...
...l know just the guy.
So it's no more politics?
l've worked too hard in my time to get there.
l'll just go on practicing law and making more money.
l'd like to ask...
...why all the speeches you're making around the countryside?
l wonder who that is.
l brought some people up from the capital just to meet you.
Folks, l want you to meet Willie Stark...
...the next governor of our state.
Bear patiently with me for a few minutes.
l'd like to tell you what this state needs.
lt needs a balanced tax program.
l'd like to give you the facts and the figures.
How did it sound?
Fine, fine.
l forgot to send a telegram to Lucy.
Conductor.
l'd like to add something about last year's taxes.
l wouldn't add a thing. Just give them the facts.
And the figures. - Great speech.
What this state needs is a balanced tax program.
Last year...
...the state claimed to have spent on roads....
We know figures don't lie, and facts are easy to understand.
Do you mind if l sit with you? - Stand, sit, whatever.
Thanks.
What are you on this merry-go-round for?
l take notes.
For whom? - For those 'whom' pay me.
Which is? - People.
Smart people?
Anybody that pays me is smart.
You don't have to be smart to frame Willie Stark.
No, you don't.
lsn't it a frame?
Why don't you give me a cigarette?
To split the vote, so Harrison can win.
lf you know, why you ask?
l just want to make sure.
Why don't you tell the boys to save their money?
Willie couldn't steal a vote...
...from Abe Lincoln in the cradle of the Confederacy.
l wish the poor had enough sense to have somebody give him...
...a greasing for the beating he's going to get.
All he gets out of it is the ride.
Those speeches. Ain't they awful?
Ain't they just plain awful?
Question to you:
lf somebody told him he was a sucker...
...you think he'd quit?
l don't know, Sadie.
l really don't know.
Did it sound all right? - Fine.
Now if you'll bear with me for a few minutes...
...l'll give you the figures.
What we need is a balanced tax program.
l need sleep.
Shut up. - Shut up yourself.
Try it on your feet.
My feet are killing me. Let me stay here.
Look, you tell them too much.
Tell them you'll soak the fat boys, and forget the tax stuff.
That's what l say.
But it's the way you say it. Make them cry or laugh.
Make them mad. Stir them up and they'll come back for more.
But for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.
A man don't have to be governor.
What?
A man don't have to be governor.
They haven't counted the votes yet. - l'll lose, l know that.
Don't try and fool me.
l won't lie to you. l wanted it.
l wanted it so badly, l stayed up nights thinking about it.
A man wants something so badly, he gets mixed up.
lt's something inside of you.
l'd have made a good governor. Better than those others.
Come in. - A great governor.
Give me a drink.
Build them highways....
Help yourself.
l'd build them schools. - What's up?
Nothing, except he says he's not going to be governor.
So you told him?
l don't tell anyone anything. l just listen.
Who told you?
Told me what?
That you won't be governor.
Jack, told me what?
That you've been framed, you poor sap.
Framed? - And how.
Oh, you decoy.
You woodenhead decoy.
And you let them.
You know what you are?
You're the goat.
The sacrificial goat. You are a sap because you let them.
That's enough. - Enough?
He didn't even get anything out of it.
They'd have paid you to take a rap like that.
But they didn't have to pay a sap like you.
You were full of yourself.
All you wanted was to stand up on your hind legs and make a speech.
'My friends....
My friends, this state needs a good five-cent cigar.
What this state needs is a--'
ls it true? - He wants to know if it's true.
ls it true?
That's what they tell me.
Here.
You're not used to it. - He's not used to a lot of things.
Why don't you lay off him?
Are you? Are you?
Things seem to have quieted down.
Yep, l quieted him down.
How was he? Noisy?
He reared some.
He's been telling me the things he'll do.
He's going to do big things. He's going to be president.
He's going to kill people with his bare hands.
l quieted him down.
Hey, who's Lucy?
His wife.
He talks like she's his mammy. She'll blow his nose for him.
l'll take him from here. They're waiting at the barbecue.
Give me a receipt for the body. l'll be on my way.
Come on, wake up.
Where is he?
There he is.
ls he drunk?
Never touches the stuff. Lucy doesn't favor drinking.
How'd you get him here? He was out stiff.
Hair of the dog that bit him.
He must have swallowed the dog.
Ladies and gentlemen.
lt gives me pleasure to introduce that true man of the people...
...the next governor of the state...
...Willie Stark.
My friends....
My friends, l have a speech here.
lt's a speech...
...about what this state needs.
There's no need in my telling you what this state needs.
You are the state and you know what you need.
You over there.
Look at your pants. Have they got holes in the knees?
Listen to your stomach.
Did you ever hear it rumble for hunger?
And you. Do your crops ever rot...
...because the road was too bad to get to market?
And you.
What about your kids?
Are they ignorant as dirt, like you, because there's no school?
l'm not going to read you any speech.
But l will tell you a story.
lt's a funny story.
What's he up to? - Shut up.
Get ready to bust your sides laughing because it's funny.
lt's about a hick.
A hick like you, if you please.
He grew up on the dirt roads in the gully washes of a farm.
He knew how to get up before dawn, get feed, slop and milk...
...then walk six miles to a one-room, slab-sided schoolhouse.
This hick knew what it was to be a hick.
He figured that to get anything done, he had to do it himself.
So he sat up nights and studied.
He studied law because he thought he could change things...
...for himself and for folks like him.
l'm not going to lie to you.
He didn't start off thinking about the hicks...
...and the things he'd do for them.
He started off thinking of number one.
But something came to him on the way.
He could do nothing for himself without the help of the people.
lt came with the force of God's lightning...
...when the school building collapsed because of politics' rotten brick.
lt killed and mangled a dozen kids. But you know that story.
The people were his friends because he fought it.
The politicians in the city knew that.
So they rode up to his house...
...and said they wanted him to run for governor.
He's wonderful.
And he swallowed it.
He thought in all humility how he'd like to try and change things.
He was a country boy who thought even a poor man can be governor...
...if his fellow citizens find he's got the stuff for the job.
Those fellows in the striped pants saw that hick and took him in.
What are you doing? - There's your Judas lscariot.
Lickspittle, nose-wiper.
Play. Play.
Play anything. - Harrison's dummy.
Look at him. - That's a lie.
Go get him, boys.
Now shut up. Shut up, all of you.
Listen to me.
They fooled you 1 000 times, just like they fooled me.
But this time, l'll fool somebody. l'll stay in this race.
l'm on my own and out for blood.
Listen to me, you hicks.
Lift up your eyes and look at God's blessed and unfly-blown truth.
This is the truth.
You're a hick.
Nobody ever helped a hick but a hick himself.
Listen to me, listen to me.
They were going to use me to split the vote.
But l'm standing here now on my hind legs.
Even a dog can learn to do that.
Are you standing on your hind legs? Have you learned that yet?
Here it is, you hicks.
Nail up anybody who stands in your way.
Nail up Joe Harrison.
Nail up McMurphy.
lf they don't deliver, give me the hammer and l'll do it.
l want his throat cut from ear to ear.
No use going any further. We're not printing them anymore.
l thought the ChronicIe line was-- - Divide and conquer.
Stark's getting big for his britches. The hicks are getting too smart.
We're now supporting Harrison.
How do you square that?
l work here.
l don't, not anymore.
You fool.
lf you had guts, you'd print this. - l take orders.
You've got a wife and three kids, and your boy goes to Princeton.
You won't find it easy to get another job.
l'm too rich to work.
We didn't do so good.
Double bourbon. - Same for me.
And a beer.
l hear you got fired from the paper.
You heard wrong. l quit.
You're smart.
Before l'm through, they won't have money...
...to pay the boy that cleans the spittoons.
How do you feel?
l feel fine.
You see, Jack, l learned something.
What?
How to win.
I didn't see WiIIie again untiI his second campaign...
...four years Iater.
I drifted from job to job.
That is, whenever I couId find one.
But aIways further and further away from Anne...
...and the Iife at Burden's Landing.
But WiIIie wasn't drifting. He knew where he was going.
He had his foot in the door and kept right on pushing.
He'd Iost the eIection but he'd won the state.
And he knew it. And the peopIe knew it.
They aII were hopping on his bandwagon, even Tiny Duffy.
WiIIie came back Iike he said he wouId.
You want to know what my platform is?
l'm going to soak the fat boys and spread it out thin.
WiIIie was right. He'd Iearned how to win.
He spent a Iot of money doing it. An awfuI Iot of money.
I was beginning to wonder where he got it from.
There were rumors...
...that WiIIie was making deaIs with aII kinds of peopIe.
Strange deaIs.
For WiIIie Stark.
The second time wasn't a campaign. It was a sIaughter.
It was Saturday night in a mining town.
WiIIie came back Iike he said he wouId.
He came back and he took me with him.
This is a friend of mine. He's going to live here.
Let these boys through, officers.
Duffy works for me. - Everybody does.
Not yet. l want him around.
He reminds me of something l never want to forget.
Come on.
These the boys? - The boys that can get the boys.
How many can you get? - Fifty.
How much? - Five dollars a head.
What do you think? They look like good boys?
They better be.
Get 1 00.
Go on, all of you. Blow. You too, Duffy, go on.
Handbill distributors.
lf they all look like them, l'd take one.
That's the object. Not like when they beat up my boy.
How is Tom? - He's fine.
He starts college in the fall. - And Lucy?
Fine.
l need a boy. Where's a boy?
Take that downstairs right away, on the double.
Double-space all of this. He can't read it.
Hi, how are you? - Sadie is my secretary now.
Fix your tie, Willie.
Hey, Sugar.
Keep everybody out. l want to talk to Jack and Sadie.
Now you'll work for me.
Doing what?
l don't know. Something will turn up.
We need a college man around.
For research.
How much they pay you on that newspaper?
Three hundred dollars a month.
l could buy you cheap, couldn't l?
For a bag of salt.
l don't play that way. l like you. l always have.
l tell you what l'll do.
l'll give you $400 a month and traveling expenses.
You throw money around like it was money.
Money.
l don't need money.
People give me things.
Why?
Because they believe in me.
I was going home again. But this time, it was different.
I had a feeIing that maybe the waiting was over.
For me and for Anne.
lt's a far cry from where l come from to this house.
Standing under the portrait of one of the greatest governors...
...and talking to you...
...it's an honor l never thought l'd have.
Are there any questions?
Mr. McAvoy?
l have no questions.
Judge?
A few, but it will hold. - l have a question.
Shoot.
A lot of people in this state say that you've been making deals.
Some of them with the groups you claim you're against.
ls that true?
You know how rumors start-- - Yes, that's true.
l have nothing to hide.
l'll deal with the devil if it'll help with my program.
But believe me...
...there are no strings attached.
You're sure about that?
Jack has been telling me how you feel about things.
You'd like the sick people given a break.
You'd like to see a new hospital built...
...a hospital that's the best that money can buy.
You want those things because you're a man who wants to do good.
l'd like to ask a question.
Shoot.
Do you know what good comes out of? - You tell me.
Out of bad, that's what.
Because you can't make it out of anything else.
Did you know that?
No, l didn't.
There's another question l'd like to ask you.
You say there's only bad to start with...
...and the good must come from the bad.
Who's to determine what's good and what's bad?
You?
Why not?
How?
Why, that's easy.
Make it up as you go along.
Folks.
There's a time to talk and there's a time to act.
l think the time to act is now.
With your support, l will win and do all of the things l promised.
l need your help. l need it badly.
But l won't beg for it.
ln the name of this state which we love...
...and the governor in whose house we meet, l demand it.
What do you say, sir? - You've got to say yes.
l'm an old bird. - But a game one.
l'll give you complete power as attorney general.
You can do anything you see fit. l'll clear your way.
ls that a deal? - lt's a deal.
We have to get back to town. A lot to do.
Good night.
l'm glad to have met you.
We want Willie. We want Willie.
This is not a time for speechmaking.
l should ask God for strength to carry out your will.
This much l swear to you.
These things you shall have:
l'm going to build a hospital.
The biggest that money can buy.
And it will belong to you.
That anyone who is sick or in pain can go through those doors...
...and know that everything will be done for them...
...to heal sickness, to ease pain.
Free. Not as a charity...
...but as a right.
And it is your right. Do you hear me?
lt's your right that every child have an education.
That all who produce can take things to market without paying toll.
And no poor man's land can be taxed or taken away from him.
lt is the right of the people that they shall not be deprived of hope.
Does he mean it, Jack?
That's his bribe.
What if it is his bribe?
He swept the oId gang out of office. They hoIIered Iike stuck pigs.
He jammed through biIIs, and the peopIe got what they wanted.
l demand that this bill be passed.
Nobody tells me how to run this state.
He started to buiId roads...
...schooIs, power dams...
...to change the state from one end to the other.
His methods? PoIitics is a dirty game.
And he pIayed it rough and dirty.
WiIIie's IittIe bIack book was a record of corruption.
And me, Jack Burden, I kept the book and added up the accounts.
'CIown, show-off, pIayboy,' they yeIIed out.
BuiIding stadiums.
FierceIy proud of his son who pIayed in them.
They said he was buiIding a private army.
But he was aIways buiIding.
PIaying up to the crowd, Ietting them trampIe on tradition.
WeII, tradition needed trampIing on.
The crowds Ioved it.
WiIIie Ioved it...
...and so did I.
You low-down, no-good redneck.
What goes on? - That's what Sadie wants to know.
The boss poses for too many pictures.
l'll kill him.
Why, Sadie.
l'm surprised at you.
l'll kill him.
l hate all women.
Was she pretty?
lf l met her on the street, l'd never recognize her.
l wasn't looking at her face.
lf it'll cause this grief, let him go.
Let him go? l'll kill him.
l'll drive him out of this state.
A guy sits with girls on his knees in public--
Public or private, l know him.
How about Chicago? That girl on skates.
And the time you both went to St. Louis?
There's a new invention, you know. Photography and newsreels.
Willie Stark in a nightclub. Willie with a blonde.
You could always bleach your hair. - l could also break his neck.
After all l've done for him, now he's two-timing me.
He's two-timing Lucy, so there's another kind of arithmetic for you.
Lucy's a fool.
lf she had her way, he'd be back slopping the hogs.
He knows what she'd do for him. She had her chance.
You think Lucy's out?
He'll ditch her. Give him time. - You ought to know.
You got the wrong guy. l'm not the hero of this piece.
Come on, both of you. Let's go, hurry it up.
Pillsbury got caught. l never did trust that guy.
Later, boys. - What about these charges?
Go get the Judge.
Get him over to my hotel as soon as you can.
l waited for you.
You promised we'd discuss my charity project, children's home.
l'm very sorry. Something very important came up.
You'll call me later, won't you? - Certainly.
We're late.
Look at you, Pillsbury. Fifty years old.
Gut sprung, teeth gone. Never had a dime.
lf the Almighty wanted you rich, He'd have done that long ago.
The idea of you being rich. That's blasphemy.
Ain't that a fact?
Answer me.
Don't mumble. Speak up. Say, 'lt's a blasphemous fact.'
lt's a blasphemous fact.
l see.
Dumond can't come. His wife is sick.
l don't care if she's dying. Get him and bring him over here.
You know what you're supposed to do?
You stay poor and take orders.
There'll be sweetening sometimes. Duffy'll take care of that.
Don't set up on your own again, understand?
Say 'l understand that.'
l understand that.
Give him a pen and paper.
See who that is.
Hello, Judge, sit down. l'll be with you soon.
Write what l tell you to write.
Dear Governor Stark:
l wish to resign as auditor due to ill health...
...to take effect as soon as you can relieve me.
Respectfully yours.
Did you sign it?
Well, sign it.
Don't date it. l'll fill it in.
Bring it to me.
Now get out.
The papers have the story. - l know.
They're talking about impeachment proceedings.
Against who? - This time, Pillsbury.
l got that 'this time.'
How true is it? - lt's too true.
This is it. Jeff Hopkins on the wire.
What have we got on Hopkins?
Hello, Jeff. About that Pillsbury business.
Here's what you do in the legislature.
Wait a minute. You listen to me.
You got a mortgage due on your place in five weeks.
You'd like to get it renewed, wouldn't you?
Tiny will talk to you in the morning.
Get going.
You haven't answered my question. Why are you saving Pillsbury?
Not Pillsbury. lt's something much more important than that.
lf McMurphy gets away with this, no telling where he'll stop.
Or where you will.
Pillsbury's guilty.
As attorney general, it's my job to prosecute.
Judge, you talks like Pillsbury was human.
He isn't. He's a thing.
You don't prosecute a machine that makes a mistake.
You fix it.
Well, l fixed him.
l'm not interested in Pillsbury. lt's something much bigger.
Yes, it is.
He's right. Can't you see that he's right?
Because you want him to be right.
You're afraid to admit you made a mistake.
Do it now, before it's too late.
l'm offering my resignation as attorney general.
You'll have it in writing in the morning.
Dated.
lt took you a long time to make up your mind.
What made you take so long?
l wasn't sure.
Now you are?
l'll tell you what you are. You're scared.