WEBVTT FILE 1 00:01:12.862 --> 00:01:14.625 I'm gone to the market, Idella. 2 00:01:18.868 --> 00:01:22.133 Pepsodent's new improved formula cleans teeth whiter than ever. 3 00:02:31.307 --> 00:02:33.468 Are you all right, Miss Daisy? 4 00:02:54.564 --> 00:02:55.895 That's good! 5 00:03:22.525 --> 00:03:24.356 You two get back to work. 6 00:04:04.567 --> 00:04:06.558 - Mama! - No! 7 00:04:07.069 --> 00:04:11.563 It's a miracle you're not laying at Emory Hospital or the funeral parlor. 8 00:04:13.743 --> 00:04:15.802 Cucumbers are pretty this summer. 9 00:04:16.078 --> 00:04:18.410 You didn't even break your glasses. 10 00:04:18.648 --> 00:04:20.479 It was the car's fault! 11 00:04:20.750 --> 00:04:23.913 - You had the car in the wrong gear. - I did not! 12 00:04:24.320 --> 00:04:26.151 Idella, want a pickle with lunch? 13 00:04:26.422 --> 00:04:27.582 Not me. 14 00:04:27.924 --> 00:04:30.916 I'm putting up a jar for you to take home to William. 15 00:04:32.762 --> 00:04:35.322 You backed the car into the Pollack's yard. 16 00:04:35.598 --> 00:04:39.762 You should have let me keep my Lasalle. It wouldn't have behaved this way. 17 00:04:40.102 --> 00:04:43.435 Mama, cars don't behave. They are behaved upon. 18 00:04:43.773 --> 00:04:46.105 You demolished that Chrysler by yourself. 19 00:04:46.342 --> 00:04:48.333 Think what you want. I know the truth. 20 00:04:48.778 --> 00:04:52.111 The truth is you just cost the insurance company $2,700. 21 00:04:52.448 --> 00:04:54.109 You are a terrible risk. 22 00:04:54.350 --> 00:04:56.341 Nobody will issue you a policy now. 23 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:58.851 You're just saying that to be hateful. 24 00:04:59.455 --> 00:05:02.947 Okay. Yes, I am! I am making it all up. 25 00:05:03.526 --> 00:05:05.118 Look out on the driveway! 26 00:05:05.795 --> 00:05:08.457 Every insurance company in America is out there... 27 00:05:08.698 --> 00:05:11.189 ...waving their pens to get you to sign up. 28 00:05:11.467 --> 00:05:16.131 If you're going to stand in my pantry and lie like a rug, go somewhere else. 29 00:05:18.975 --> 00:05:20.966 I better get back to the office. 30 00:05:21.877 --> 00:05:25.210 Florine will have a fit if I don't get home on time tonight. 31 00:05:25.481 --> 00:05:27.312 You all must have plans tonight. 32 00:05:27.550 --> 00:05:29.211 The Ansleys' dinner party. 33 00:05:29.485 --> 00:05:31.817 This is her idea of heaven on earth. 34 00:05:32.154 --> 00:05:33.052 What? 35 00:05:33.322 --> 00:05:35.813 Socializing with Episcopalians. 36 00:05:40.229 --> 00:05:41.890 You are a doodle, Mama! 37 00:05:42.398 --> 00:05:44.059 I'll stop by tomorrow evening. 38 00:05:44.333 --> 00:05:46.733 How do you know I'll be here? 39 00:05:47.003 --> 00:05:48.834 I'm not dependent on you for company. 40 00:05:49.171 --> 00:05:51.162 Fine, I'll call first. 41 00:05:51.574 --> 00:05:54.907 But you know, we have got some real serious talking to do. 42 00:05:55.177 --> 00:05:56.166 No! 43 00:06:34.383 --> 00:06:38.217 I need you now. I have to be at the beauty shop in half an hour. 44 00:06:40.122 --> 00:06:44.957 No, I most certainly did not know you had to call a minimum of 2 hours ahead. 45 00:06:45.294 --> 00:06:49.788 Why call yourself a taxicab company if you can't provide taxicabs? 46 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:53.960 Why don't you call your son? He'd send someone to carry you. 47 00:06:54.236 --> 00:06:55.897 That won't be necessary. 48 00:06:56.238 --> 00:06:59.230 I'll cancel the appointment and fix my own hair. 49 00:06:59.575 --> 00:07:03.909 Sometimes I think you ain't got the sense God gave a lemon. 50 00:07:06.315 --> 00:07:08.647 Two dots. I want that! 51 00:07:10.486 --> 00:07:11.976 And a five bamboo. 52 00:07:12.254 --> 00:07:15.246 Well, this is not my day for mah-jongg. 53 00:07:15.491 --> 00:07:16.480 Nine bam! 54 00:07:16.659 --> 00:07:21.323 Thank you all for coming here again. I am a real pariah without my car. 55 00:07:21.597 --> 00:07:23.087 Oh, nonsense! 56 00:07:23.666 --> 00:07:25.156 When do you get the new one? 57 00:07:25.334 --> 00:07:28.497 I don't know! Boolie's being real pokey about it. 58 00:07:28.771 --> 00:07:31.171 I'll come after you for temple tomorrow. 59 00:07:31.440 --> 00:07:33.431 That's sweet of you, honey. 60 00:07:37.179 --> 00:07:38.510 Mama, you there? 61 00:07:39.281 --> 00:07:40.612 It's just us! 62 00:07:40.783 --> 00:07:42.273 Why didn't you call? 63 00:07:42.518 --> 00:07:43.610 We can't stay. 64 00:07:43.853 --> 00:07:45.184 So I gather. 65 00:07:45.454 --> 00:07:47.285 The Millers are giving a hay ride. 66 00:07:47.456 --> 00:07:50.789 I had these made. Doesn't your baby look cute? 67 00:07:51.026 --> 00:07:53.859 Well, it's not exactly the word I'd pick. 68 00:07:55.464 --> 00:07:58.297 New Graham Greene? I been wanting to read that. 69 00:07:58.634 --> 00:08:01.797 Sorry, but it's due back at the library tomorrow. 70 00:08:02.037 --> 00:08:04.198 - Want me to return it for you? - No, thank you. 71 00:08:04.473 --> 00:08:07.135 I'll go to the library on the streetcar. 72 00:08:07.877 --> 00:08:12.371 Damn it, Mama! Quit being so stubborn. You know perfectly well... 73 00:08:12.815 --> 00:08:15.716 Go on! Don't keep the horses waiting. 74 00:08:16.485 --> 00:08:17.645 Bye! 75 00:08:31.167 --> 00:08:33.158 Is that door making contact? 76 00:08:39.241 --> 00:08:40.230 Oscar? 77 00:08:40.409 --> 00:08:41.398 I'm here. 78 00:08:41.577 --> 00:08:44.239 - Are you all right? - No, sir, I'm stuck. 79 00:08:44.513 --> 00:08:46.674 I know. Fiddle with the lever. 80 00:08:46.849 --> 00:08:49.409 It fiddled out. I done all I know how. 81 00:08:51.420 --> 00:08:53.183 Call Bell Elevator. 82 00:08:53.422 --> 00:08:56.755 I already did. They're backed up until around 1:00. 83 00:08:57.092 --> 00:08:58.753 Did you tell them it's an emergency! 84 00:08:59.028 --> 00:09:01.428 You don't have to holler, Mr. Werthan. 85 00:09:01.697 --> 00:09:03.927 I did not break the elevator. 86 00:09:04.700 --> 00:09:06.691 Got that stuff for Davis & Paxon? 87 00:09:06.936 --> 00:09:08.597 Wrapped and ready to go! 88 00:09:08.771 --> 00:09:11.433 I promised it for today. Call Bell again. 89 00:09:17.780 --> 00:09:19.111 I hear you. 90 00:09:19.882 --> 00:09:24.376 Look up where the gate is supposed to close. See a do-hickey? 91 00:09:24.553 --> 00:09:25.884 Wait a minute. 92 00:09:27.289 --> 00:09:28.278 Right here! 93 00:09:28.457 --> 00:09:31.722 Reach up and mash it up until it catches. 94 00:09:33.796 --> 00:09:35.627 I done it. Now what? 95 00:09:36.065 --> 00:09:37.555 Operate the lever. 96 00:09:49.812 --> 00:09:51.143 Do you work here? 97 00:09:51.313 --> 00:09:52.974 No, sir. This here Hoke. 98 00:09:53.249 --> 00:09:54.580 Hoke Colburn, sir. 99 00:09:54.917 --> 00:09:56.248 How'd you know about the elevator? 100 00:09:56.418 --> 00:09:58.750 I used to drive for a dairy, sir. 101 00:09:59.154 --> 00:10:01.816 Their elevator was worse than this one. 102 00:10:02.024 --> 00:10:04.151 Hoke the one I told you about. 103 00:10:04.426 --> 00:10:05.484 Of course. 104 00:10:17.606 --> 00:10:18.937 Excuse me, sir. 105 00:10:19.275 --> 00:10:21.266 Y'all people's Jewish, ain't you? 106 00:10:21.443 --> 00:10:22.842 Yeah, we are. Why? 107 00:10:23.112 --> 00:10:25.273 I'd rather work for Jews. 108 00:10:25.614 --> 00:10:28.344 I know folks say they stingy and cheap. 109 00:10:28.617 --> 00:10:30.847 But don't say none of that around me! 110 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:32.781 Good to know you feel that way. 111 00:10:55.144 --> 00:10:56.577 What was your last job? 112 00:10:56.745 --> 00:11:00.977 I worked for Judge Harold Stone, a Jewish gentleman. 113 00:11:01.250 --> 00:11:02.649 You worked for Judge Stone? 114 00:11:02.918 --> 00:11:06.911 Seven years. I'd still be there if he didn't up and die. 115 00:11:07.256 --> 00:11:10.089 Mrs. Stone asked me to move to Savannah with her. 116 00:11:10.326 --> 00:11:12.760 Of course, my wife was dead by then. 117 00:11:12.995 --> 00:11:15.156 But I said, "No, thank you, ma'am." 118 00:11:15.431 --> 00:11:18.093 I didn't want to be too far from my grandbabies. 119 00:11:18.267 --> 00:11:19.928 Judge Stone was my father's friend. 120 00:11:20.169 --> 00:11:21.500 You don't say? 121 00:11:21.770 --> 00:11:22.600 Sit. 122 00:11:23.505 --> 00:11:25.496 Later, Miss McClatchey. 123 00:11:28.677 --> 00:11:31.840 Oscar said you needed somebody to drive for your family. 124 00:11:32.114 --> 00:11:34.674 Will I be taking your children to school... 125 00:11:34.950 --> 00:11:36.941 ...and your wife to the beauty parlor? 126 00:11:37.286 --> 00:11:39.948 I don't have any children. What I need... 127 00:11:40.622 --> 00:11:43.614 You're still a young man. Don't worry too much. 128 00:11:44.460 --> 00:11:46.121 Thank you. I won't. 129 00:11:46.628 --> 00:11:49.620 Hoke, I need somebody to drive my mother around. 130 00:11:50.966 --> 00:11:54.800 Yes. Well, if you don't mind my asking, sir... 131 00:11:55.137 --> 00:11:57.628 ...why ain't she hiring for herself? 132 00:12:00.142 --> 00:12:02.133 It's a difficult situation. 133 00:12:02.978 --> 00:12:05.469 She done gone around the bend a little. 134 00:12:05.714 --> 00:12:07.875 That will happen as they get on. 135 00:12:08.150 --> 00:12:09.640 No, she's all there! 136 00:12:10.152 --> 00:12:11.983 Too much there is the problem! 137 00:12:15.057 --> 00:12:17.218 I want you to understand something. 138 00:12:17.659 --> 00:12:20.560 My mother is a little high strung. 139 00:12:22.164 --> 00:12:25.156 The fact is, you would be working for me. 140 00:12:25.401 --> 00:12:27.733 She can say anything she likes... 141 00:12:28.003 --> 00:12:30.995 ...but she can't fire you. Understand? 142 00:12:32.007 --> 00:12:33.338 Yes, sir. 143 00:12:34.843 --> 00:12:36.504 Yes, sir, I sure do. 144 00:12:36.745 --> 00:12:38.508 Don't worry, Mr. Werthan. 145 00:12:38.914 --> 00:12:41.576 I'll hold on no matter which way she run me. 146 00:12:41.850 --> 00:12:46.014 I was a little boy back on the farm above Macon where I come from. 147 00:12:46.355 --> 00:12:49.188 I wrestled hogs to the ground during killing time. 148 00:12:49.525 --> 00:12:53.017 Well, sir, there ain't a hog got away from me yet! 149 00:13:41.143 --> 00:13:42.804 How are you, Idella? 150 00:13:43.078 --> 00:13:44.238 Living. 151 00:13:44.580 --> 00:13:47.743 - Where's the new vacuum cleaner? - In the closet. 152 00:13:47.983 --> 00:13:49.143 She won't touch it. 153 00:13:49.418 --> 00:13:52.080 It gives me a shock every time I'm near it. 154 00:13:52.254 --> 00:13:53.585 It works for me. 155 00:13:53.755 --> 00:13:57.748 Good! Then you clean and I'll go down and run your office. 156 00:13:58.494 --> 00:13:59.825 Where's Mama? 157 00:14:00.095 --> 00:14:01.426 Up yonder. 158 00:14:01.763 --> 00:14:03.594 I guess you know who this is. 159 00:14:05.834 --> 00:14:07.426 I'll be right back. 160 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:13.831 I wouldn't be in your shoes... 161 00:14:13.909 --> 00:14:18.005 ...if the sweet Lord Jesus came down and asked me Himself. 162 00:14:27.623 --> 00:14:28.783 Good morning, Mama. 163 00:14:38.967 --> 00:14:41.197 Just come down and say hello. 164 00:14:41.470 --> 00:14:42.960 You listen here. 165 00:14:43.205 --> 00:14:47.039 Unless they rewrote the Constitution and didn't tell me, I still have rights! 166 00:14:47.309 --> 00:14:48.298 Of course. 167 00:14:48.544 --> 00:14:53.140 What I do not want, and absolutely will not have, is... 168 00:14:53.482 --> 00:14:57.714 ...some chauffeur sitting in my kitchen, gobbling my food, using my phone. 169 00:14:57.986 --> 00:14:59.647 I hate that in my house. 170 00:14:59.888 --> 00:15:00.980 You have Idella. 171 00:15:01.156 --> 00:15:04.216 Idella's different! She's been coming to me for years. 172 00:15:04.493 --> 00:15:06.723 We stay out of each other's way. 173 00:15:06.995 --> 00:15:10.328 Even so, there are chips in my wedding china. 174 00:15:10.566 --> 00:15:13.899 You think Idella has a vendetta against your wedding china? 175 00:15:14.169 --> 00:15:15.500 Don't be sassy. 176 00:15:15.904 --> 00:15:18.896 When we couldn't afford them, we did for ourselves. 177 00:15:19.074 --> 00:15:20.735 That's still the best way. 178 00:15:21.009 --> 00:15:25.173 "Them?" "Afford them?" You sound like Governor Talmadge. 179 00:15:25.414 --> 00:15:28.406 What a thing to say! I'm not prejudiced! 180 00:15:28.750 --> 00:15:30.411 Aren't you ashamed?! 181 00:15:31.520 --> 00:15:33.750 You might as well make the best of it. 182 00:16:35.484 --> 00:16:38.976 I knew a Miss Idella once. Back down in Macon. 183 00:16:39.254 --> 00:16:40.744 You don't say? 184 00:16:41.423 --> 00:16:42.412 She sang! 185 00:16:42.758 --> 00:16:44.919 What are you talking about? 186 00:16:45.160 --> 00:16:47.492 I'm talking about this woman had some lungs! 187 00:16:47.763 --> 00:16:50.755 She'd be a whole church choir by herself! 188 00:16:50.999 --> 00:16:52.159 I declare! 189 00:16:52.501 --> 00:16:53.763 Fat, too! 190 00:16:53.935 --> 00:16:55.766 She was as big as that stove! 191 00:16:58.707 --> 00:17:01.870 Don't talk to Idella! She has work to do. 192 00:17:14.790 --> 00:17:16.451 What are you doing? 193 00:17:16.792 --> 00:17:19.124 Dusting the bulbs, Miss Daisy. 194 00:17:19.294 --> 00:17:21.785 That's the silliest thing I ever saw. 195 00:17:22.030 --> 00:17:24.191 Who cares if lamp bulbs are dusty? 196 00:17:24.366 --> 00:17:25.856 Get down from there! 197 00:17:26.868 --> 00:17:29.530 Put that ladder away before somebody trips. 198 00:17:34.509 --> 00:17:35.976 I'm gone, Miss Daisy. 199 00:17:36.211 --> 00:17:38.543 All right, Idella. See you tomorrow. 200 00:17:39.314 --> 00:17:42.477 - I'm going too, Miss Daisy. - Good. 201 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:02.663 Good morning, Miss Daisy. Thought I'd see after your zinnias. 202 00:18:02.904 --> 00:18:05.168 Leave me flower bed alone. 203 00:18:06.508 --> 00:18:11.172 You got a nice piece of ground behind the garage that ain't doing nothing. 204 00:18:11.413 --> 00:18:12.937 I could put in tomatoes... 205 00:18:13.749 --> 00:18:17.412 If I want a vegetable garden, I'll plant it myself. 206 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:52.279 What are you doing? 207 00:18:53.889 --> 00:18:57.381 I just love a house with pictures, Miss Daisy. 208 00:18:57.626 --> 00:18:59.116 It do make a home. 209 00:18:59.394 --> 00:19:02.557 I don't want you nosing through my things. 210 00:19:14.075 --> 00:19:15.736 Good morning, Miss Daisy. 211 00:19:17.145 --> 00:19:19.477 It was right cold in the night. 212 00:19:19.748 --> 00:19:22.080 I wouldn't know. I was asleep. 213 00:19:26.154 --> 00:19:28.714 Idella says we're running short on coffee... 214 00:19:28.824 --> 00:19:30.257 ...and Dutch cleanser. 215 00:19:30.926 --> 00:19:31.915 We are? 216 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:33.149 Yes, ma'am. 217 00:19:33.328 --> 00:19:35.660 We're low on silver polish, too. 218 00:19:36.832 --> 00:19:38.322 I know. 219 00:19:39.601 --> 00:19:42.593 I'm fixing to go to the Piggly Wiggly on the trolley. 220 00:19:42.938 --> 00:19:46.601 On the trolley! Why don't you let me carry you? 221 00:19:46.842 --> 00:19:48.002 No, thank you. 222 00:19:48.210 --> 00:19:50.371 Ain't that why Mr. Werthan hired me? 223 00:19:50.545 --> 00:19:52.206 That's his problem. 224 00:19:52.781 --> 00:19:56.615 All right. But I'm going to find something to do here. 225 00:19:56.785 --> 00:19:58.616 You leave my things alone! 226 00:19:59.788 --> 00:20:02.120 I'm gone to the market, Idella. 227 00:20:03.792 --> 00:20:05.453 Miss Daisy, it's a shame. 228 00:20:05.794 --> 00:20:09.457 You have this fine Hudson automobile out there in the garage. 229 00:20:09.698 --> 00:20:13.691 It hasn't moved an inch from when Mr. Werthan drove it here. 230 00:20:14.135 --> 00:20:17.696 That insurance company gave you a brand new car for nothing. 231 00:20:17.973 --> 00:20:19.235 That's your opinion. 232 00:20:20.642 --> 00:20:24.976 My other opinion is that a fine rich, Jewish lady like yourself... 233 00:20:25.213 --> 00:20:30.048 ...has no business dragging herself onto a trolley carrying grocery bags. 234 00:20:30.552 --> 00:20:32.213 I'll carry them for you. 235 00:20:32.487 --> 00:20:33.818 I don't need you! 236 00:20:34.155 --> 00:20:37.249 I don't want you! And don't say I'm rich! 237 00:20:37.525 --> 00:20:40.358 - I won't say it no more. - Is that what you and Idella talk about? 238 00:20:41.496 --> 00:20:44.556 I hate being discussed behind my back in my own house! 239 00:20:45.901 --> 00:20:48.062 I was born on Forsyth Street. 240 00:20:48.336 --> 00:20:50.497 Believe me. I know the value of a penny! 241 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:53.171 My brother brought home a white cat once. 242 00:20:53.408 --> 00:20:56.502 We couldn't keep it because we couldn't afford to feed it! 243 00:20:56.912 --> 00:20:58.504 My sister saved up money... 244 00:20:58.580 --> 00:21:01.913 ...so I could become a teacher! We had nothing! 245 00:21:03.018 --> 00:21:05.350 But you're doing all right now! 246 00:21:28.576 --> 00:21:30.066 What are you doing?! 247 00:21:30.345 --> 00:21:32.836 I'm trying to drive you to the store! 248 00:21:39.020 --> 00:21:42.251 Where are you off to this morning, Miss Werthan? 249 00:21:42.524 --> 00:21:44.185 Just a little shopping. 250 00:21:45.360 --> 00:21:48.693 Go away! I've ridden the trolley with the groceries plenty of times! 251 00:21:48.930 --> 00:21:53.765 But I can't keep taking Mr. Werthan's money for doing nothing. 252 00:21:54.102 --> 00:21:55.763 How much he pay you? 253 00:21:56.204 --> 00:21:58.866 Miss Daisy, that's between him and me. 254 00:21:59.107 --> 00:22:03.441 Anything over $7 a week is highway robbery! 255 00:22:03.712 --> 00:22:05.771 You sure are right about that! 256 00:22:06.047 --> 00:22:07.981 Especially since I don't do nothing... 257 00:22:08.049 --> 00:22:10.176 ...but sit on a stool all day. 258 00:22:12.287 --> 00:22:13.447 All right! 259 00:22:14.723 --> 00:22:16.054 Piggly Wiggly. 260 00:22:16.624 --> 00:22:19.286 Then home. Nowhere else. 261 00:22:34.743 --> 00:22:37.906 Oh, I just love the smell of a new car. 262 00:22:38.146 --> 00:22:39.977 Don't you, Miss Daisy? 263 00:22:43.651 --> 00:22:45.642 I am nobody's fool, Hoke. 264 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:47.251 I know! 265 00:22:47.489 --> 00:22:49.923 My husband taught me to run a car. 266 00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:53.091 I remember everything he said. 267 00:22:53.328 --> 00:22:55.990 So don't think even for a second you... 268 00:22:56.264 --> 00:22:58.164 Wait. You're speeding. 269 00:22:58.333 --> 00:22:59.664 I can see it! 270 00:23:00.001 --> 00:23:02.492 We only going 19 miles an hour. 271 00:23:02.771 --> 00:23:05.103 I like to go under the speed limit. 272 00:23:05.607 --> 00:23:07.598 But the speed limit is 35 here. 273 00:23:07.842 --> 00:23:10.504 The slower you go the more gas you save. 274 00:23:10.779 --> 00:23:12.940 My husband taught me that! 275 00:23:14.949 --> 00:23:17.679 Ain't hardly moving. Might as well walk... 276 00:23:18.019 --> 00:23:19.509 ...to Piggly Wiggly. 277 00:23:20.121 --> 00:23:21.748 Is this your car? 278 00:23:23.625 --> 00:23:24.284 No. 279 00:23:24.526 --> 00:23:26.118 Do you pay for the gas? 280 00:23:28.196 --> 00:23:30.130 - No. - All right, then! 281 00:23:30.465 --> 00:23:32.797 My son thinks I'm losing my abilities... 282 00:23:33.034 --> 00:23:36.367 ...but I am still in control of what goes on in my car! 283 00:23:39.974 --> 00:23:41.464 Where are you going? 284 00:23:42.477 --> 00:23:44.468 To the store, like you said. 285 00:23:44.712 --> 00:23:46.703 Why didn't you turn on Highland? 286 00:23:46.981 --> 00:23:48.972 Piggly Wiggly ain't on Highland. 287 00:23:49.150 --> 00:23:52.483 I know where it is! Now take Highland Avenue. 288 00:23:52.654 --> 00:23:55.555 - That's 3 blocks out of the way. - Go back this minute! 289 00:23:55.824 --> 00:23:58.622 - I can't turn now. - I've been driving to Piggly Wiggly... 290 00:23:58.827 --> 00:24:02.490 ...since it opened for business. This isn't the way! 291 00:24:02.897 --> 00:24:04.387 Go back this minute! 292 00:24:04.566 --> 00:24:08.058 Miss Daisy, look. Yonder is the Piggly Wiggly. See? 293 00:24:10.738 --> 00:24:12.399 Get ready to turn. 294 00:24:19.914 --> 00:24:21.745 Careful. There's a little girl. 295 00:24:22.016 --> 00:24:23.643 Yes, I see her. 296 00:24:23.918 --> 00:24:25.408 Pull in here. 297 00:24:34.262 --> 00:24:35.422 Wait. 298 00:24:35.930 --> 00:24:37.363 Give me the keys. 299 00:24:43.438 --> 00:24:45.599 Stay right here by the car. 300 00:24:45.940 --> 00:24:48.602 And don't tell everyone my business. 301 00:25:13.234 --> 00:25:14.565 Mr. Werthan? 302 00:25:16.404 --> 00:25:19.567 Yes, sir, it's me! Guess where I'm at. 303 00:25:20.408 --> 00:25:22.899 I just drove your mama to the store! 304 00:25:23.578 --> 00:25:28.413 You know, she flapped around some, but she's all right. She's in the store. 305 00:25:30.151 --> 00:25:33.746 Oh, Lord, she just looked out the window and seen me. 306 00:25:33.988 --> 00:25:37.480 She'll probably throw a fit right there at the check-out counter. 307 00:25:38.493 --> 00:25:42.827 Yes, sir. You are right about that. It only took me 6 days. 308 00:25:43.097 --> 00:25:46.089 Same time it took the Lord to make the world. 309 00:25:46.601 --> 00:25:48.933 Yes, sir. All right. 'Bye. 310 00:26:00.114 --> 00:26:03.447 Hey Oscar, Junior. How you old boys doing today? 311 00:26:03.751 --> 00:26:05.616 How the lady been treating you? 312 00:26:05.954 --> 00:26:09.617 I'll tell you one thing; she knows how to throw a fit. 313 00:26:10.959 --> 00:26:12.119 What's so funny? 314 00:26:14.362 --> 00:26:17.297 Nothing, Miss Daisy. We just carrying on. 315 00:26:17.532 --> 00:26:21.696 Oscar and Junior been doing cleaning here for 15 years. Never carried on before! 316 00:26:22.704 --> 00:26:24.035 Leave them alone. 317 00:26:24.973 --> 00:26:26.463 Put your coat on. We're late. 318 00:26:28.309 --> 00:26:30.641 Idella, I'm gone now. 319 00:26:31.646 --> 00:26:33.637 I'm right behind her. 320 00:26:41.155 --> 00:26:45.819 Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 321 00:27:30.705 --> 00:27:34.698 Such a nice man. And such a good, short sermon, wasn't it? 322 00:27:43.117 --> 00:27:44.778 I can get it myself! 323 00:27:45.053 --> 00:27:46.543 Hurry out of here! 324 00:28:03.471 --> 00:28:05.735 Is something wrong, Miss Daisy? 325 00:28:07.241 --> 00:28:08.731 Something I done? 326 00:28:11.813 --> 00:28:12.973 Yes. 327 00:28:13.748 --> 00:28:15.238 I haven't done anything. 328 00:28:15.483 --> 00:28:20.318 You parked the car right in front of the temple, like I was the Queen of Romania. 329 00:28:20.588 --> 00:28:22.249 Everybody saw you! 330 00:28:22.657 --> 00:28:24.488 I said to wait for me in back. 331 00:28:24.759 --> 00:28:27.751 Yes, Ma'am, but I was just trying to... 332 00:28:28.096 --> 00:28:30.587 There were two chauffeurs right behind me. 333 00:28:30.932 --> 00:28:33.992 You made me look like a fool. A g.d. fool! 334 00:28:34.268 --> 00:28:38.432 Oh, Miss Daisy, Lord knows you ain't no fool! 335 00:28:38.840 --> 00:28:40.171 Slow down! 336 00:28:42.110 --> 00:28:46.444 Miriam and Beulah, I could see what they were thinking when we came out. 337 00:28:46.681 --> 00:28:48.012 What's that? 338 00:28:48.783 --> 00:28:50.944 That I was pretending to be rich! 339 00:28:51.185 --> 00:28:53.517 - You is rich. - No, I'm not! 340 00:28:53.788 --> 00:28:55.949 Nobody can say I put on airs. 341 00:28:56.190 --> 00:28:59.785 On Forsyth Street we made many meals of grits and gravy. 342 00:29:00.027 --> 00:29:02.188 I have done without plenty of times. 343 00:29:02.463 --> 00:29:06.456 Miss Daisy, if I was to ever get my hands on what you got... 344 00:29:06.968 --> 00:29:10.961 ...shoot, I'd shake it around for everyone in the world to see. 345 00:29:11.205 --> 00:29:13.867 That's vulgar! Don't talk to me! 346 00:29:16.043 --> 00:29:18.705 Never understand some white folks. 347 00:29:19.046 --> 00:29:20.877 What was that?! I heard that! 348 00:29:21.215 --> 00:29:24.707 Now, Miss Daisy... you needs a chauffeur... 349 00:29:25.386 --> 00:29:27.217 ...and Lord knows I need a job. 350 00:29:27.488 --> 00:29:30.480 So why don't we just leave it at that? 351 00:30:26.280 --> 00:30:28.771 Good morning, Mama. What's the matter? 352 00:30:30.551 --> 00:30:33.884 No, I don't always think something's wrong when you call. 353 00:30:34.121 --> 00:30:36.453 Just when you call so early. 354 00:30:37.892 --> 00:30:39.018 What?! 355 00:30:40.728 --> 00:30:44.721 All right. I'll be there as soon as I can. 356 00:30:49.070 --> 00:30:51.231 I better get on over there. 357 00:30:51.572 --> 00:30:52.732 'Bye. 358 00:30:53.574 --> 00:30:54.563 Come on. 359 00:30:54.642 --> 00:30:57.736 It's not healthy to rush like this. 360 00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:00.240 I eat too much, anyway. 361 00:31:00.815 --> 00:31:03.750 Besides, it sounds like she needs me. 362 00:31:03.985 --> 00:31:07.250 When doesn't it? Give Mother Werthan my love. 363 00:31:13.494 --> 00:31:15.155 Coffee, Katie Bell! 364 00:31:27.241 --> 00:31:29.402 I didn't expect to find you in one piece. 365 00:31:29.644 --> 00:31:32.272 I wanted you to be here when he comes. 366 00:31:32.380 --> 00:31:33.904 I wanted you to hear it for yourself. 367 00:31:34.081 --> 00:31:35.742 What is going on? 368 00:31:35.983 --> 00:31:38.144 He's stealing from me. 369 00:31:38.819 --> 00:31:40.650 Hoke? Are you sure? 370 00:31:40.922 --> 00:31:43.914 I don't make empty accusations. I have proof! 371 00:31:44.825 --> 00:31:49.319 This! I found it hidden in the garbage under some coffee grounds. 372 00:31:49.931 --> 00:31:53.332 - He stole a can of salmon? - Here it is! 373 00:31:53.601 --> 00:31:56.092 I knew there was something funny. 374 00:31:56.337 --> 00:31:59.932 They all take things, you know. So I counted. 375 00:32:00.841 --> 00:32:02.502 The silverware first. 376 00:32:02.777 --> 00:32:06.178 Then the linen napkins. And then I went into the pantry. 377 00:32:07.448 --> 00:32:11.612 And the first thing that caught my eye was a hole... 378 00:32:11.852 --> 00:32:13.513 ...behind the lima beans. 379 00:32:13.854 --> 00:32:15.947 And I knew right away. 380 00:32:17.792 --> 00:32:20.693 There are only 8 cans of salmon. I had 9! 381 00:32:20.861 --> 00:32:22.351 3 for $1 on sale. 382 00:32:22.630 --> 00:32:24.291 Very clever, Mama. 383 00:32:24.632 --> 00:32:27.294 I missed my breakfast and I'm late to a meeting... 384 00:32:27.535 --> 00:32:29.799 ...for a 33c can of salmon? 385 00:32:30.137 --> 00:32:32.128 You want 33c? Here's $1! 386 00:32:32.306 --> 00:32:35.298 Here's $10! Buy yourself a pantry full of salmon! 387 00:32:35.476 --> 00:32:37.137 Why, Boolie, the idea! 388 00:32:37.311 --> 00:32:39.472 Waving money at me like that! 389 00:32:39.714 --> 00:32:42.148 I don't want money. I want my things! 390 00:32:42.483 --> 00:32:45.816 - One can of salmon? - Well, it was mine! 391 00:32:46.654 --> 00:32:49.316 I leave him plenty of food every day. 392 00:32:49.657 --> 00:32:52.148 I tell him exactly what it is. 393 00:32:52.393 --> 00:32:55.988 Like children. If they want something, they just take it! 394 00:32:56.330 --> 00:32:57.888 He'll never admit this. 395 00:32:58.065 --> 00:33:01.228 "No," he'll say, "I don't know nothing about that!" 396 00:33:01.502 --> 00:33:05.336 I don't like it! I don't like living with no privacy. 397 00:33:07.575 --> 00:33:11.011 Go ahead, defend him. You always do! 398 00:33:11.412 --> 00:33:15.746 I give up! You want to drive again, arrange your own insurance. 399 00:33:16.017 --> 00:33:17.177 Take the trolley. 400 00:33:17.518 --> 00:33:20.351 Buy yourself a taxicab! Anything you want! 401 00:33:20.688 --> 00:33:22.849 Just leave me out of it! 402 00:33:23.090 --> 00:33:24.751 Why, Boolie! 403 00:33:29.864 --> 00:33:33.356 What's he doing here this time of morning? 404 00:33:33.701 --> 00:33:36.363 Can't be good, I promise you that! 405 00:33:50.117 --> 00:33:53.052 I think it's fixing to clear up out there! 406 00:33:53.888 --> 00:33:56.550 Excuse me, Mr. Werthan. Y'all busy? 407 00:33:57.224 --> 00:33:59.784 We have to have a little talk, Hoke. 408 00:34:01.896 --> 00:34:05.059 All right, just let me get out of my coat. 409 00:34:12.807 --> 00:34:16.299 Yesterday, while you were out, I ate a can of your salmon. 410 00:34:16.577 --> 00:34:20.911 Now I know you said to eat the leftover pork chops. 411 00:34:21.649 --> 00:34:23.480 Well, they were kind of stiff. 412 00:34:23.818 --> 00:34:27.310 So, I stopped by the Piggly Wiggly and got you another can. 413 00:34:27.588 --> 00:34:29.647 Do you want me to put it on the shelf? 414 00:34:31.425 --> 00:34:33.586 Yes, thank you, Hoke. 415 00:34:34.095 --> 00:34:35.756 Be right with you, Mr. Werthan. 416 00:34:38.265 --> 00:34:41.428 Well, I got to get dressed now. 417 00:34:42.269 --> 00:34:43.930 Good-bye, son. 418 00:36:23.771 --> 00:36:27.434 You know, Miss Daisy, I was just thinking. 419 00:36:28.275 --> 00:36:31.608 We been out to this cemetery 3 times this month already. 420 00:36:31.779 --> 00:36:33.371 It ain't even the 20th yet. 421 00:36:33.614 --> 00:36:35.275 It's good to come in nice weather. 422 00:36:35.549 --> 00:36:39.041 Yes, ma'am. You sure right about that. Sure is. 423 00:36:41.288 --> 00:36:44.621 Mr. Sig's grave is mighty well tended. 424 00:36:45.059 --> 00:36:48.551 I think you're the best widow in the State of Georgia. 425 00:36:48.896 --> 00:36:52.889 Boolie's always pestering me to have the staff here tend to this plot. 426 00:36:53.234 --> 00:36:55.566 "Perpetual care," they call it. 427 00:36:55.970 --> 00:36:57.961 Well, don't you do it! 428 00:36:58.305 --> 00:37:01.968 It's right to have member of the family looking after you. 429 00:37:02.243 --> 00:37:06.907 I'll never have that! Boolie will have me in perpetual care before I'm cold. 430 00:37:08.415 --> 00:37:11.907 Miss Daisy, you ought to go on away from here! 431 00:37:14.255 --> 00:37:17.088 Put that azalea on Leo Bauer's grave. 432 00:37:17.758 --> 00:37:21.751 Leo Bauer. Is that Miss Rose Bauer's husband? 433 00:37:22.263 --> 00:37:24.754 She asked me to bring it out here. 434 00:37:26.934 --> 00:37:29.095 Where is his grave at, Miss Daisy? 435 00:37:29.670 --> 00:37:34.334 I'm not exactly sure. I know it's two rows over that way. 436 00:37:35.175 --> 00:37:37.507 You'll see the headstone, "Bauer." 437 00:37:41.348 --> 00:37:42.610 What's wrong? 438 00:37:42.783 --> 00:37:45.946 Nothing wrong. Nothing the matter at all. 439 00:37:53.460 --> 00:37:54.791 Now, you say... 440 00:37:54.962 --> 00:37:59.296 I told you it's two rows over that way. It says "Bauer" on the headstone. 441 00:38:01.502 --> 00:38:03.163 What that look like? 442 00:38:03.637 --> 00:38:05.036 What are you talking about? 443 00:38:06.140 --> 00:38:09.371 I'm talking about I can't read, ma'am. 444 00:38:10.644 --> 00:38:11.406 What?! 445 00:38:11.745 --> 00:38:13.610 I can't read, Miss Daisy. 446 00:38:13.981 --> 00:38:16.211 You look at the paper all the time. 447 00:38:16.483 --> 00:38:20.146 Well, that's just it. I just be looking! 448 00:38:20.487 --> 00:38:22.819 I try to dope out what's going on... 449 00:38:23.057 --> 00:38:24.388 ...from the pictures. 450 00:38:24.658 --> 00:38:26.148 You know your letters? 451 00:38:26.393 --> 00:38:29.988 Yes, ma'am. I know my ABC's. I just can't read. 452 00:38:30.431 --> 00:38:32.524 Stop saying that! You're making me mad! 453 00:38:33.500 --> 00:38:35.991 If you know letters, then you can read. 454 00:38:36.403 --> 00:38:38.234 You just don't know you can read. 455 00:38:39.173 --> 00:38:42.836 I taught some of the stupidest children God ever put on this earth. 456 00:38:43.077 --> 00:38:46.240 And they all could read enough to find a name on a tombstone. 457 00:38:47.081 --> 00:38:49.174 The name is "Bauer." 458 00:38:53.420 --> 00:38:56.583 "Bauer!" What does that "buh" letter sound like? 459 00:38:58.525 --> 00:39:00.686 - B? - Of course! 460 00:39:03.864 --> 00:39:06.355 "Er." That is the last part. "Bauer!" 461 00:39:06.600 --> 00:39:08.261 What letter sounds like "er"? 462 00:39:10.704 --> 00:39:11.693 R! 463 00:39:11.872 --> 00:39:14.067 - So the first letter is... - B! 464 00:39:14.241 --> 00:39:15.572 And the last letter? 465 00:39:15.809 --> 00:39:16.798 R! 466 00:39:17.211 --> 00:39:19.042 B-R. Brr. 467 00:39:19.279 --> 00:39:21.941 It even sounds like Bauer, doesn't it? 468 00:39:22.383 --> 00:39:26.444 It sure do, Miss Daisy! It sure do! 469 00:39:30.290 --> 00:39:32.281 - That it? - That's it. 470 00:39:33.560 --> 00:39:37.052 - What about the middle? - Not right now. 471 00:39:37.297 --> 00:39:40.232 This will be enough for you to find it. 472 00:40:03.424 --> 00:40:05.255 B at the beginning. 473 00:40:06.260 --> 00:40:07.921 R at the end. 474 00:40:15.102 --> 00:40:17.263 B... R. 475 00:40:18.439 --> 00:40:19.770 That's it. 476 00:40:20.941 --> 00:40:22.602 That's all right! 477 00:40:39.526 --> 00:40:41.517 I sure do appreciate this! 478 00:40:41.695 --> 00:40:43.959 Don't be ridiculous! 479 00:40:44.798 --> 00:40:49.132 Let's get all this back in the car. I'm burning up. 480 00:41:13.193 --> 00:41:15.024 Of course I told you! 481 00:41:15.729 --> 00:41:17.720 Of course I told you! 482 00:41:18.732 --> 00:41:22.725 How can I be expected to buy it if you don't write it down?! 483 00:41:23.003 --> 00:41:24.834 I'm sorry, Miss Florine. 484 00:41:30.344 --> 00:41:31.834 I need you. 485 00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:33.842 I'll be right there. 486 00:41:34.081 --> 00:41:37.915 Do you have any idea what it takes to give a Christmas reception? 487 00:41:38.252 --> 00:41:40.243 It takes an eye for detail. 488 00:41:41.355 --> 00:41:44.847 I told you a million times, Katie Bell, write it down! 489 00:41:45.192 --> 00:41:47.183 More I cannot do! 490 00:41:47.861 --> 00:41:49.522 We are out of coconut. 491 00:41:49.763 --> 00:41:51.594 I'm sure we can manage. 492 00:41:51.765 --> 00:41:54.859 - I told her. - You didn't write it down! 493 00:41:55.269 --> 00:41:59.103 I don't need to stand and listen to excuses on Christmas. 494 00:41:59.540 --> 00:42:04.204 You figure out how to serve ambrosia to 50 people without coconut. I give up! 495 00:42:09.616 --> 00:42:13.052 Don't worry, Katie Bell. It's not quite the end of the world. 496 00:42:24.565 --> 00:42:28.399 Everybody's giving the Georgia Power Company a merry Christmas. 497 00:42:29.069 --> 00:42:33.472 Bet Miss Florine beat them all, especially with the new house. 498 00:42:33.740 --> 00:42:34.729 Absurd! 499 00:42:34.975 --> 00:42:39.810 If I had a nose like Florine, I wouldn't say, "Merry Christmas" to anybody. 500 00:42:43.750 --> 00:42:47.584 I enjoy Christmas at their house. 501 00:42:48.889 --> 00:42:50.754 No wonder. You're the only Christian in the place. 502 00:42:50.991 --> 00:42:52.822 They got that new cook. 503 00:42:53.093 --> 00:42:57.757 Florine never could keep help. Of course, it's none of my affair. 504 00:42:58.265 --> 00:43:01.996 Too much running around. The Garden Club this... 505 00:43:02.169 --> 00:43:05.502 ...the Junior League that. As if they'd give her the time of day. 506 00:43:05.772 --> 00:43:10.436 She'd die before she'd fix a glass of iced tea for the Temple Sisterhood. 507 00:43:12.012 --> 00:43:16.346 I hope she doesn't take it into her head to sing this year. 508 00:43:21.188 --> 00:43:24.680 Lord have mercy! Look what Miss Florine done. 509 00:43:24.958 --> 00:43:28.621 If her grandfather, old man Frietag, could see this. 510 00:43:28.962 --> 00:43:30.452 What is it you say? 511 00:43:30.697 --> 00:43:35.031 I bet he'd jump out of his grave and snatch her baldheaded. 512 00:43:44.311 --> 00:43:46.973 Jump up and snatch her baldheaded. 513 00:43:48.548 --> 00:43:51.881 Oh, Miss Daisy, you go on away from here. 514 00:44:00.894 --> 00:44:02.225 Wait a minute. 515 00:44:02.729 --> 00:44:04.720 This isn't a Christmas present. 516 00:44:05.832 --> 00:44:08.323 You know I don't give Christmas presents. 517 00:44:09.569 --> 00:44:11.230 I happened to run across it this morning. 518 00:44:12.172 --> 00:44:14.003 Well, go on, open it. 519 00:44:21.848 --> 00:44:23.179 Look at that. 520 00:44:23.417 --> 00:44:26.580 Ain't nobody never gave me no book before. 521 00:44:28.522 --> 00:44:31.013 "Zaner Method Writing." 522 00:44:31.358 --> 00:44:34.418 I always taught out of these. I saved a few. 523 00:44:35.595 --> 00:44:37.927 It's faded, but it works. 524 00:44:38.265 --> 00:44:40.597 If you practice, you'll write nicely. 525 00:44:40.867 --> 00:44:42.425 But you have to practice. 526 00:44:43.870 --> 00:44:47.203 I taught Mayor Hartsfield out of the same book. 527 00:44:47.441 --> 00:44:48.999 I sure do thank you. 528 00:44:49.209 --> 00:44:50.870 It's not a Christmas present. 529 00:44:51.111 --> 00:44:54.103 Jews have no business giving Christmas presents. 530 00:44:54.448 --> 00:44:57.884 You don't have to go yapping about this to Boolie or Florine. 531 00:44:58.118 --> 00:44:59.949 This is between you and me. 532 00:45:01.555 --> 00:45:03.386 Merry Christmas, Mother Werthan. 533 00:45:03.724 --> 00:45:05.885 I hope I don't spit up. 534 00:45:06.226 --> 00:45:08.217 Merry Christmas, Mama. Hoke. 535 00:45:52.272 --> 00:45:54.604 She fought me on this one. 536 00:45:55.108 --> 00:45:57.440 But it is time for a trade. 537 00:45:58.845 --> 00:46:01.006 I'll bet you'll miss the old one. 538 00:46:01.281 --> 00:46:04.273 No, sir, I don't expect I'll miss it that much. 539 00:46:04.618 --> 00:46:08.281 Come on, you're the only one who's driven it all this time. 540 00:46:09.089 --> 00:46:10.522 Won't you be a little sorry to see it go? 541 00:46:10.690 --> 00:46:13.682 It ain't going nowhere. I done bought it. 542 00:46:14.027 --> 00:46:15.016 You didn't. 543 00:46:15.295 --> 00:46:18.628 I sure did. Already made the deal with Mr. Red Mitchell. 544 00:46:18.965 --> 00:46:20.296 How much? 545 00:46:20.634 --> 00:46:23.296 That is for him and me to know. 546 00:46:23.637 --> 00:46:24.797 Hey, Boolie! 547 00:46:25.005 --> 00:46:26.700 Got a gem here. 548 00:46:27.674 --> 00:46:28.197 Got that paper, Hoke? 549 00:46:29.376 --> 00:46:30.536 I got it right here. 550 00:46:30.744 --> 00:46:31.938 Be right there. 551 00:46:32.646 --> 00:46:35.809 Why didn't you buy it from Mama? Would have saved money. 552 00:46:36.049 --> 00:46:39.485 No, sir. Your mama is in my business enough as it is. 553 00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:42.711 I ain't studying about making monthly payments to her. 554 00:46:44.324 --> 00:46:45.382 She is mine the regular way. 555 00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:47.654 The Hudson's a good car. 556 00:46:47.994 --> 00:46:49.825 Nobody knows that better than you. 557 00:46:50.230 --> 00:46:52.391 Best that ever come off the line. 558 00:46:52.666 --> 00:46:57.000 And this here new one, if Miss Daisy don't take to it... 559 00:46:57.404 --> 00:46:59.838 ...l'll let her ride in this one. 560 00:47:00.240 --> 00:47:01.571 Mighty nice of you. 561 00:47:02.676 --> 00:47:04.507 We do what we can. 562 00:48:08.975 --> 00:48:10.806 It is three after seven. 563 00:48:11.144 --> 00:48:14.807 Yes, Ma'am. You said we were leaving at fifteen to eight. 564 00:48:15.081 --> 00:48:17.072 At the latest, I said. 565 00:48:18.752 --> 00:48:23.246 What business you got dragging this mess out of the house by yourself? 566 00:48:23.490 --> 00:48:25.151 Who was here to help me? 567 00:48:25.659 --> 00:48:27.251 Lord have mercy! 568 00:48:27.494 --> 00:48:30.657 It don't take more than 5 minutes to load this car. 569 00:48:30.931 --> 00:48:35.425 You're fixing to break your arms and your legs before we even leave the manor. 570 00:48:35.669 --> 00:48:37.261 You're taking on too much. 571 00:48:37.437 --> 00:48:39.098 I hate doing things at the last minute. 572 00:48:39.439 --> 00:48:43.000 What you talking about? Been ready to go for a week and a half. 573 00:48:43.276 --> 00:48:45.938 - Give me that package. - No, don't touch that. 574 00:48:46.112 --> 00:48:49.275 It sure is pretty. Is that Mr. Walter's present? 575 00:48:49.516 --> 00:48:52.451 Yes. It's fragile. I'll put it on the seat. 576 00:48:54.287 --> 00:48:55.948 You nearly missed us. 577 00:48:56.189 --> 00:48:57.679 You were leaving at quarter of. 578 00:48:57.958 --> 00:49:00.358 - She's taking on. - Be still! 579 00:49:01.361 --> 00:49:03.522 Florine bought this for Uncle Walter. 580 00:49:03.964 --> 00:49:05.795 Mama, it's not a snake! 581 00:49:06.032 --> 00:49:07.624 I think it's notepaper. 582 00:49:07.867 --> 00:49:11.030 How appropriate. Uncle Walter can't see. 583 00:49:11.304 --> 00:49:12.532 Maybe it's soap. 584 00:49:12.706 --> 00:49:16.699 How nice that you take an interest in your uncle's 90th birthday. 585 00:49:17.844 --> 00:49:19.141 Don't start up with me, mama... 586 00:49:19.279 --> 00:49:21.110 ...I can't go to Mobile with you. 587 00:49:21.247 --> 00:49:22.646 I have to go to New York for a convention. 588 00:49:22.882 --> 00:49:24.713 The convention starts Monday. 589 00:49:24.985 --> 00:49:26.976 And I know what else I know. 590 00:49:27.220 --> 00:49:30.986 Leave Florine out of this. She ordered those tickets 8 months ago. 591 00:49:31.157 --> 00:49:34.490 I'm sure "My Fair Lady" is more important than your relatives. 592 00:49:34.995 --> 00:49:37.657 Those Christians will be impressed. 593 00:49:37.998 --> 00:49:40.228 I can't talk to you when you're like this. 594 00:49:42.402 --> 00:49:45.633 - We're expected in Mobile for supper. - You'll be there. 595 00:49:47.007 --> 00:49:51.171 - How will you stand her all day? - They'll fix crab. All that trouble. 596 00:49:52.379 --> 00:49:53.869 She's just worked up. 597 00:49:54.047 --> 00:49:56.538 Here's $50 in case you have trouble. 598 00:49:56.950 --> 00:49:58.611 Don't show it to Mama! 599 00:49:59.285 --> 00:50:02.550 - Have you got a map? - She's got it in the back seat. 600 00:50:03.790 --> 00:50:05.621 It's 7:16! 601 00:50:06.459 --> 00:50:09.394 You should have a job on the radio announcing the time. 602 00:50:09.629 --> 00:50:11.722 - I want to miss rush hour. - You will. 603 00:50:11.898 --> 00:50:15.459 Congratulate Uncle Walter for me and kiss everybody in Mobile. 604 00:50:16.803 --> 00:50:18.134 The air conditioning... 605 00:50:18.405 --> 00:50:20.566 ...did you check it, like I said? 606 00:50:21.141 --> 00:50:23.132 I got the air conditioning checked. 607 00:50:23.476 --> 00:50:26.639 I don't know why. You never let me turn it on! 608 00:50:26.813 --> 00:50:27.973 Hush up! 609 00:50:33.486 --> 00:50:34.976 Good luck! 610 00:50:35.922 --> 00:50:37.412 Good God! 611 00:50:57.010 --> 00:50:58.341 Turn left. 612 00:50:59.512 --> 00:51:01.844 No, right! Turn right! 613 00:51:44.491 --> 00:51:47.824 Did I ever tell you about the first time I left Georgia? 614 00:51:48.061 --> 00:51:49.392 When was that? 615 00:51:50.163 --> 00:51:51.562 A few minutes back! 616 00:51:51.831 --> 00:51:53.162 Go on! 617 00:51:54.234 --> 00:51:55.394 My daughter... 618 00:51:55.668 --> 00:51:58.159 ...is married to a Pullman porter. 619 00:51:58.671 --> 00:52:00.832 She is always on the go. 620 00:52:01.241 --> 00:52:05.075 New York, Detroit, St. Lois. 621 00:52:06.679 --> 00:52:09.580 I say, "That's all well and good, Tommie Lee... 622 00:52:09.916 --> 00:52:12.407 ...but I don't feel the need for it." 623 00:52:13.253 --> 00:52:14.914 So here it is. 624 00:52:15.421 --> 00:52:16.911 The first time. 625 00:52:17.924 --> 00:52:19.915 And I might tell you, Miss Daisy... 626 00:52:20.927 --> 00:52:23.691 ...Alabama is not looking like much so far! 627 00:52:56.629 --> 00:52:59.291 Idella sure does stuff eggs good! 628 00:52:59.566 --> 00:53:01.727 You stuff yourself good. 629 00:53:12.078 --> 00:53:15.411 I was thinking about the first time I went to Mobile. 630 00:53:16.082 --> 00:53:19.643 It was Walter's wedding: 1888. 631 00:53:19.986 --> 00:53:24.252 1888! You were nothing but a little bitty thing. 632 00:53:24.490 --> 00:53:26.151 I was 12. 633 00:53:26.759 --> 00:53:28.750 We went on the train. 634 00:53:29.095 --> 00:53:31.256 Oh, I was so excited. 635 00:53:32.599 --> 00:53:34.829 I'd never been in a wedding party. 636 00:53:35.168 --> 00:53:37.329 I had never seen the ocean. 637 00:53:39.339 --> 00:53:44.174 Papa said it was the Gulf of Mexico, not the ocean, but it was all the same to me. 638 00:53:47.013 --> 00:53:51.848 I asked Papa if it was all right for me to dip my hand in the water. 639 00:53:53.186 --> 00:53:56.349 And he laughed because I was so timid. 640 00:53:59.525 --> 00:54:03.188 And then I tasted the salt water on my fingers. 641 00:54:07.867 --> 00:54:10.700 Isn't that a silly thing to remember? 642 00:54:11.537 --> 00:54:13.732 No sillier than most of what folks remember. 643 00:54:15.308 --> 00:54:16.468 Boy! 644 00:54:19.212 --> 00:54:21.373 What are you doing with this car? 645 00:54:21.981 --> 00:54:23.642 This is my car, officer. 646 00:54:24.217 --> 00:54:28.813 Can I see your registration, please, and your license, boy. 647 00:54:40.333 --> 00:54:42.665 What's this name? Wertheran? 648 00:54:43.002 --> 00:54:44.162 Werthan. 649 00:54:44.904 --> 00:54:47.236 Never heard that one. What is it? 650 00:54:47.507 --> 00:54:49.498 It is of German derivation. 651 00:54:50.410 --> 00:54:52.071 German derivation. 652 00:55:08.294 --> 00:55:09.522 Thank you, ma'am. 653 00:55:45.631 --> 00:55:49.965 An old nigger and an old Jew woman riding down the road together. 654 00:55:50.403 --> 00:55:52.564 Now that is one sorry sight. 655 00:56:03.483 --> 00:56:04.643 Oh, my God! 656 00:56:04.984 --> 00:56:07.475 The sign says Phenix City 30 miles. 657 00:56:07.754 --> 00:56:11.246 We're not supposed to go to Phenix City! Oh, my God! 658 00:56:11.491 --> 00:56:12.822 Maybe you read it wrong. 659 00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:16.993 I didn't. Stop the car. Stop the car! 660 00:56:17.330 --> 00:56:19.161 Lord have mercy. 661 00:56:29.175 --> 00:56:33.111 Here. You took the wrong turn at Opelika. 662 00:56:33.346 --> 00:56:37.009 You took it with me, Miss Daisy. And you got the map. 663 00:56:37.350 --> 00:56:40.342 I was getting the lunch! Go on back. My God! 664 00:56:40.620 --> 00:56:43.783 It aint' more than 30 minutes since we turned. 665 00:57:25.398 --> 00:57:27.559 They fixed crab for me. 666 00:57:28.067 --> 00:57:31.400 Minnie always fixes crab. They go to so much trouble. 667 00:57:31.671 --> 00:57:33.502 It's all ruined by now. 668 00:57:36.242 --> 00:57:38.233 We going to have to pull over. 669 00:57:38.444 --> 00:57:40.036 What's wrong with the car? 670 00:57:40.413 --> 00:57:42.404 There ain't nothing wrong with the car. 671 00:57:42.682 --> 00:57:44.673 I got to be excused. 672 00:57:46.686 --> 00:57:48.586 I got to go make water. 673 00:57:49.522 --> 00:57:52.252 You should have thought of that at the service station. 674 00:57:52.525 --> 00:57:57.189 You know colored can't use the toilet at any service station, Miss Daisy. 675 00:57:57.430 --> 00:58:01.264 There's no time to stop. We'll be in Mobile soon. You can wait. 676 00:58:07.373 --> 00:58:08.362 No, ma'am. 677 00:58:11.210 --> 00:58:14.373 - I told you to wait! - I heard what you said. 678 00:58:17.049 --> 00:58:21.042 How do you think I feel having to ask you can I go make water... 679 00:58:21.220 --> 00:58:22.881 ...like I am some child. 680 00:58:23.556 --> 00:58:24.887 I'd be ashamed. 681 00:58:25.124 --> 00:58:27.285 I ain't no child, Miss Daisy. 682 00:58:27.793 --> 00:58:32.560 And I ain't just a back of the neck you look at while you go where you got to go. 683 00:58:32.965 --> 00:58:37.402 I am a man. I'm near 70 years old. And I know when my bladder's full. 684 00:58:39.071 --> 00:58:41.130 Now I'm going to get out of this car... 685 00:58:41.307 --> 00:58:44.140 ...and go over there and do what I got to do. 686 00:58:44.911 --> 00:58:48.904 And I'm taking the key with me, too. Now that's all there is to it! 687 00:59:15.942 --> 00:59:17.102 Hoke! 688 00:59:26.519 --> 00:59:27.451 Hoke! 689 00:59:33.292 --> 00:59:34.281 Hoke? 690 00:59:48.641 --> 00:59:50.370 You all right, Miss Daisy? 691 00:59:51.377 --> 00:59:52.867 Of course I am. 692 00:59:57.283 --> 01:00:01.276 Is that you, Slick? It's Boolie. How you doing? 693 01:00:01.520 --> 01:00:04.114 Congratulations on your dad's big day. 694 01:00:04.523 --> 01:00:07.492 Thank you, Boolie. Thank you. Aunt Daisy! 695 01:00:12.531 --> 01:00:14.123 It's Boolie on the phone. 696 01:00:17.803 --> 01:00:19.293 Hey, son! 697 01:00:19.805 --> 01:00:22.365 Uncle Walter appreciates your call. 698 01:00:22.642 --> 01:00:25.042 I don't think he can come to the phone. 699 01:00:25.311 --> 01:00:26.972 Fine. How's Hoke? 700 01:00:27.146 --> 01:00:29.137 What do you mean? How should he be? 701 01:00:30.216 --> 01:00:32.047 Happy birthday, Uncle Walter. 702 01:00:32.318 --> 01:00:34.149 I got to hang up now, Boolie. 703 01:00:34.654 --> 01:00:36.144 Yeah, I'll tell him. 704 01:00:38.391 --> 01:00:41.224 For he's a jolly good fellow. 705 01:00:41.560 --> 01:00:44.552 Which nobody can deny! 706 01:01:21.934 --> 01:01:23.265 Morning, Miss McClatchey. 707 01:01:24.937 --> 01:01:26.928 Well, good morning to you. 708 01:01:28.874 --> 01:01:29.932 Can I see him? 709 01:01:30.776 --> 01:01:32.767 It's Mr. Sinclair Harris, sir. 710 01:01:33.112 --> 01:01:34.704 My cousin Sinclair? 711 01:01:34.947 --> 01:01:38.610 His wife... The one that talk funny. 712 01:01:38.951 --> 01:01:40.942 She's from Canton, Ohio. 713 01:01:42.288 --> 01:01:43.778 She's trying to hire me. 714 01:01:45.558 --> 01:01:48.049 - What?! - Yes, sir. She said: 715 01:01:48.294 --> 01:01:50.455 "How they treating you down there, Hoke?" 716 01:01:50.730 --> 01:01:53.563 You know how she sound, like her nose stuffed up. 717 01:01:53.799 --> 01:01:57.132 So I said, "Fine, Mrs. Harris, just fine, thank you." 718 01:01:57.403 --> 01:02:01.396 She said, "Well, you looking for a change, you know who to call." 719 01:02:01.807 --> 01:02:03.468 I'll be damned! 720 01:02:03.809 --> 01:02:06.141 I thought you ought to know about it. 721 01:02:06.746 --> 01:02:08.407 I'll be goddamned. 722 01:02:08.647 --> 01:02:10.308 Ain't she a mess? 723 01:02:11.250 --> 01:02:13.582 Said, "Name your own salary." 724 01:02:16.322 --> 01:02:19.655 I see. And did you? 725 01:02:21.494 --> 01:02:22.483 Did I what? 726 01:02:22.762 --> 01:02:26.596 - Name your own salary? - Go away. What you think I am? 727 01:02:26.832 --> 01:02:30.996 I ain't studying working for no trashy something like her. 728 01:02:32.338 --> 01:02:35.000 But she got you thinking, didn't she? 729 01:02:35.274 --> 01:02:37.936 Well, sir, you might say that. 730 01:02:40.446 --> 01:02:42.107 Name your salary. 731 01:02:42.782 --> 01:02:44.613 That's exactly what she said. 732 01:02:46.619 --> 01:02:50.111 Well, how does $65 a week sound? 733 01:02:51.624 --> 01:02:53.455 Sounds pretty good, sir. 734 01:02:54.193 --> 01:02:57.685 Course, $75 sounds better. 735 01:02:59.198 --> 01:03:00.790 It sure does! 736 01:03:04.036 --> 01:03:05.526 Beginning this week. 737 01:03:08.541 --> 01:03:10.532 That's mighty nice of you. 738 01:03:10.810 --> 01:03:12.971 I sure appreciate this. Thank you. 739 01:03:17.383 --> 01:03:19.374 You ever have folks fighting over you? 740 01:03:20.653 --> 01:03:21.813 No. 741 01:03:23.322 --> 01:03:25.051 It sure feels good. 742 01:03:33.232 --> 01:03:34.563 One dot. 743 01:03:39.905 --> 01:03:41.236 Nine dot. 744 01:03:44.243 --> 01:03:45.232 Two dot. 745 01:03:45.845 --> 01:03:46.903 Mah jongg. 746 01:03:47.246 --> 01:03:49.737 You are the luckiest thing, Beulah! 747 01:03:52.184 --> 01:03:53.173 Excuse me. 748 01:04:06.699 --> 01:04:09.190 I don't know how you can look at that. 749 01:04:11.370 --> 01:04:14.032 See it a few times, you get in it. 750 01:04:14.874 --> 01:04:17.707 Both your brains are fixing to evaporate. 751 01:04:18.944 --> 01:04:20.935 You can bring the cake now, Hoke. 752 01:04:21.714 --> 01:04:23.875 Don't make a mess with those peas. 753 01:04:24.116 --> 01:04:25.777 Do I ever? 754 01:04:26.785 --> 01:04:30.277 Lord have mercy, look at that. Ain't she got a lot of hair? 755 01:04:30.623 --> 01:04:32.386 How she get it so shiny? 756 01:04:32.625 --> 01:04:34.388 Washes it in mayonnaise. 757 01:04:35.227 --> 01:04:38.060 - Go on away from here, Idella! - Yes, she did. 758 01:04:38.297 --> 01:04:40.288 I read it in Life magazine. 759 01:04:41.967 --> 01:04:43.798 Don't seem human, does it? 760 01:04:44.403 --> 01:04:47.133 He will tear you to shreds! 761 01:04:47.473 --> 01:04:51.136 I am not going into that court. And I'm not giving in! 762 01:04:51.410 --> 01:04:53.901 You are at the end of your rope. 763 01:04:54.146 --> 01:04:56.637 You murdered Carlson. You have to pay! 764 01:04:56.916 --> 01:05:01.751 Either choose the easy way out, or you go into the courtroom... 765 01:05:01.987 --> 01:05:04.820 ...and let them carve you into pathetic little bits. 766 01:05:05.157 --> 01:05:07.990 You have a minute to make up your mind. 767 01:05:11.830 --> 01:05:14.822 What happened? She up to something, ain't she? 768 01:06:55.934 --> 01:06:58.767 - You fixing to ruin it. - What are you talking about? 769 01:06:59.038 --> 01:07:02.872 You got the chicken too close together and the fire is too high. 770 01:07:03.042 --> 01:07:04.600 Mind your business. 771 01:07:05.444 --> 01:07:07.776 It's your chicken. 772 01:07:29.735 --> 01:07:31.066 Thank you, Hoke. 773 01:07:31.470 --> 01:07:33.461 Now you enjoy it. 774 01:07:52.758 --> 01:07:54.089 Amen. 775 01:09:29.922 --> 01:09:31.082 Who is it? 776 01:09:31.356 --> 01:09:33.187 Morning, Miss Daisy. 777 01:09:35.527 --> 01:09:37.688 What in the world...? 778 01:09:39.932 --> 01:09:44.426 I learned how to drive on ice when I delivered milk for the dairy. 779 01:09:45.037 --> 01:09:46.698 Ain't nothing to it. 780 01:09:47.372 --> 01:09:51.536 Other folks are banging into each other like they're in the funny papers. 781 01:09:53.378 --> 01:09:57.712 I figured your stove was out, so I stopped by the Krispy Kreme. 782 01:09:57.916 --> 01:10:00.749 I know you got to have coffee in the morning. 783 01:10:01.353 --> 01:10:03.344 How sweet of you, Hoke. 784 01:10:05.924 --> 01:10:10.020 We ain't had any good coffee around here since Idella passed. 785 01:10:10.762 --> 01:10:12.753 I can fix her biscuits. 786 01:10:13.098 --> 01:10:15.589 We both can make her fried chicken. 787 01:10:16.034 --> 01:10:17.763 But nobody can make Idella's coffee. 788 01:10:18.270 --> 01:10:20.101 Ain't that the truth? 789 01:10:25.944 --> 01:10:27.775 Idella was lucky. 790 01:10:33.785 --> 01:10:35.616 I expect she was. 791 01:10:50.636 --> 01:10:52.126 Where are you going? 792 01:10:53.071 --> 01:10:55.471 I'm just going to take these things off. 793 01:10:55.974 --> 01:10:59.466 I don't know what you can do here today, except keep me company. 794 01:11:01.813 --> 01:11:04.145 Then I'll see if I can make us a fire. 795 01:11:06.251 --> 01:11:08.742 Eat anything you want out of the ice box. 796 01:11:09.254 --> 01:11:11.415 It will all spoil, anyway. 797 01:11:12.658 --> 01:11:16.492 And wipe up what you tracked onto my floor. 798 01:11:16.762 --> 01:11:19.424 What do you think I am, a mess? 799 01:11:23.001 --> 01:11:24.491 Mama, I'll be right out... 800 01:11:24.670 --> 01:11:27.104 ...when I can get down my own driveway. 801 01:11:27.339 --> 01:11:30.001 Stay home, Boolie. Hoke is here with me. 802 01:11:30.275 --> 01:11:31.765 How'd he manage that? 803 01:11:32.010 --> 01:11:36.174 He's very handy. I'm fine. I don't need a thing in the world. 804 01:11:36.448 --> 01:11:40.509 Hello? I have the wrong number. Mama's saying loving things about Hoke. 805 01:11:41.453 --> 01:11:44.616 I didn't say I love him. I said he was handy. 806 01:11:45.290 --> 01:11:50.125 Honestly! Are you trying to irritate me in the middle of an ice storm? 807 01:11:55.701 --> 01:11:57.191 Thank you, Wellborn. 808 01:11:57.869 --> 01:11:59.200 Thank you all. 809 01:12:00.138 --> 01:12:04.131 I am deeply grateful to be chosen 1966 Man of the Year... 810 01:12:04.376 --> 01:12:06.537 ...by the Atlanta Business Council. 811 01:12:06.878 --> 01:12:09.711 An honor I've seen bestowed on mighty fine fellows. 812 01:12:09.982 --> 01:12:12.644 And one I never expected would come to me. 813 01:12:13.552 --> 01:12:16.544 I'm afraid that my loss up here... 814 01:12:16.888 --> 01:12:19.049 ...and my gain down here... 815 01:12:19.224 --> 01:12:22.557 ...have given me an air of competence that I don't possess. 816 01:12:23.495 --> 01:12:27.659 I will tell you that I wish my father and grandfather could see this. 817 01:12:27.899 --> 01:12:32.233 About 72 years ago, they leased an old mill up on Decatur Road... 818 01:12:32.571 --> 01:12:35.233 ...with I believe 25 looms in operation. 819 01:12:35.574 --> 01:12:37.735 They managed to grow with Atlanta. 820 01:12:38.010 --> 01:12:42.674 And Werthan Industries believes that what we want is what Atlanta wants. 821 01:12:43.081 --> 01:12:47.074 And this award proves that we were right. 822 01:12:47.352 --> 01:12:48.683 I thank you. 823 01:13:19.284 --> 01:13:20.444 Well? 824 01:13:21.787 --> 01:13:24.449 What is it? What took you so long? 825 01:13:25.290 --> 01:13:29.124 I couldn't help it. There's a big mess up yonder. 826 01:13:29.394 --> 01:13:33.728 What's the matter? I might as well not go to temple at all! 827 01:13:33.965 --> 01:13:38.459 No, ma'am, you ain't going to get to the temple this morning, Miss Daisy. 828 01:13:38.770 --> 01:13:41.432 Why not? What's the matter with you? 829 01:13:43.475 --> 01:13:45.739 Somebody has bombed the temple. 830 01:13:46.311 --> 01:13:49.303 What? Bombed the temple? 831 01:13:50.482 --> 01:13:52.814 That's how come we stuck here so long. 832 01:13:53.085 --> 01:13:54.746 I don't believe it! 833 01:13:55.087 --> 01:13:57.317 That's what the policeman just said. 834 01:14:00.826 --> 01:14:04.819 Oh, my God. Was anybody there? Were people hurt? 835 01:14:05.097 --> 01:14:07.497 I don't know. He didn't say. 836 01:14:07.833 --> 01:14:09.994 Who would do such a thing? 837 01:14:11.002 --> 01:14:15.837 You know good as me, Miss Daisy. It always be the same ones. 838 01:14:37.696 --> 01:14:40.688 I remember one time back down there in Macon. 839 01:14:41.032 --> 01:14:45.366 Lord, I couldn't've been more than 10 or 11 years old, I reckon. 840 01:14:45.871 --> 01:14:48.203 I had this friend named Porter. 841 01:14:48.807 --> 01:14:52.470 One day there his daddy was hanging from a tree. 842 01:14:52.711 --> 01:14:57.148 Now just the day before, we'd all been pitching horseshoes. 843 01:14:57.482 --> 01:15:01.976 Laughing and carrying on and talking about how me and Porter... 844 01:15:02.220 --> 01:15:05.553 ...was going to have strong right arms, just like him. 845 01:15:06.725 --> 01:15:10.661 Lord, there he was. Hanging up yonder in the tree. 846 01:15:10.896 --> 01:15:15.390 Had his hand tied behind him. Flies was all over him. 847 01:15:15.901 --> 01:15:19.064 I tell you, I threw up where I was standing. 848 01:15:21.239 --> 01:15:22.831 You go on and cry. 849 01:15:24.676 --> 01:15:26.234 I'm not crying. 850 01:15:28.513 --> 01:15:30.504 Why did you tell me that story? 851 01:15:31.416 --> 01:15:33.748 Lord, I don't know, Miss Daisy. 852 01:15:34.085 --> 01:15:37.418 That mess back there put me in mind of it. 853 01:15:37.689 --> 01:15:40.749 Ridiculous! The temple has nothing to do with it! 854 01:15:41.026 --> 01:15:42.516 Yes, ma'am, if you say so. 855 01:15:42.761 --> 01:15:46.720 We don't know. Maybe that policeman wasn't telling the truth. 856 01:15:46.932 --> 01:15:50.265 Why would he go and lie about a thing like that? 857 01:15:50.702 --> 01:15:52.533 You never get things right! 858 01:15:52.704 --> 01:15:56.367 Miss Daisy, somebody done bombed that temple and you know it! 859 01:15:56.575 --> 01:15:58.975 I don't want to hear anymore about it! 860 01:16:01.279 --> 01:16:04.271 - You the boss. - Don't talk to me! 861 01:16:25.804 --> 01:16:28.466 - Where are you? - Up here! 862 01:16:37.649 --> 01:16:40.311 Hello, Mama. How are you feeling? 863 01:16:40.652 --> 01:16:44.144 Not a good question to ask somebody nearly 90! 864 01:16:44.656 --> 01:16:46.317 Well, you look fine. 865 01:16:46.591 --> 01:16:48.821 It's my ageless appeal! 866 01:16:50.495 --> 01:16:52.588 Miss McClatchey gave me your message. 867 01:16:52.831 --> 01:16:54.822 Florine is invited, too. 868 01:16:55.166 --> 01:16:56.155 Thank you. 869 01:16:56.434 --> 01:16:59.767 I guess Hoke should drive us. There'll be a crowd. 870 01:17:00.438 --> 01:17:02.668 Mama, we have to talk about this. 871 01:17:02.941 --> 01:17:04.431 About what? 872 01:17:04.676 --> 01:17:06.837 About the feasibility of all this. 873 01:17:07.112 --> 01:17:11.105 I believe Martin Luther King has done some mighty fine things. 874 01:17:11.449 --> 01:17:14.941 If you don't want to go, why don't you just say so? 875 01:17:15.120 --> 01:17:18.283 I want to go! You know how I feel about him. 876 01:17:18.456 --> 01:17:20.117 Of course, but Florine... 877 01:17:20.358 --> 01:17:24.351 Florine has nothing to do with it. I still have to do business here. 878 01:17:24.629 --> 01:17:29.464 I see. Werthan Bag will go out of business if you attend the King dinner. 879 01:17:29.701 --> 01:17:34.638 Not exactly. But a lot of men I do business with would not like it! 880 01:17:35.040 --> 01:17:36.371 They might... 881 01:17:37.375 --> 01:17:39.036 ...snicker a little. 882 01:17:40.145 --> 01:17:43.308 Call me Martin Luther Werthan behind my back. 883 01:17:46.651 --> 01:17:49.984 Maybe I wouldn't hear about meetings at the Club. 884 01:17:50.555 --> 01:17:55.219 Old Jack Raphael at Ideal Mills, he's a New York Jew instead of a Georgia Jew. 885 01:17:55.660 --> 01:17:58.823 All the really smart ones come from New York, don't they? 886 01:17:59.397 --> 01:18:04.164 Some might throw their business to Jack instead of old Martin Luther Werthan. 887 01:18:05.503 --> 01:18:08.904 I don't know. Maybe it wouldn't happen. 888 01:18:09.507 --> 01:18:12.169 And sometimes that's the way things work. 889 01:18:13.511 --> 01:18:17.174 Anyway, if we don't use those seats, somebody else will. 890 01:18:17.582 --> 01:18:21.348 If we do not use those seats? I'm not supposed to go, either? 891 01:18:21.686 --> 01:18:23.347 You can do whatever you want. 892 01:18:23.588 --> 01:18:25.579 Thanks for your permission. 893 01:18:26.424 --> 01:18:28.016 Can I ask you something? 894 01:18:28.360 --> 01:18:33.195 When did you get so fired up about Martin Luther King? 895 01:18:33.531 --> 01:18:34.691 Why, Boolie! 896 01:18:34.933 --> 01:18:38.425 I've never been prejudiced in my life and you know it. 897 01:18:39.938 --> 01:18:42.099 Then ask Hoke to go with you. 898 01:18:42.941 --> 01:18:45.102 Don't be ridiculous. He wouldn't go. 899 01:18:46.778 --> 01:18:48.370 Ask him and see. 900 01:19:04.129 --> 01:19:05.460 All right! 901 01:19:47.572 --> 01:19:50.564 Boolie said the silliest thing the other day. 902 01:19:53.645 --> 01:19:55.010 What did he say? 903 01:19:55.513 --> 01:19:58.141 He was talking about Martin Luther Ling. 904 01:19:58.750 --> 01:20:00.809 I guess you know him, don't you? 905 01:20:01.019 --> 01:20:03.317 King? No, ma'am. I don't know him. 906 01:20:03.655 --> 01:20:05.520 I was sure you did. 907 01:20:05.824 --> 01:20:07.519 But you've heard him preach? 908 01:20:07.759 --> 01:20:12.253 Yes, Ma'am, same way you have. On the TV. 909 01:20:12.831 --> 01:20:14.822 I think he's wonderful. 910 01:20:20.171 --> 01:20:23.038 - What you getting at? - It's so silly. 911 01:20:23.274 --> 01:20:27.836 Boolie says you wanted to go with me to this dinner. Did you tell him that? 912 01:20:28.613 --> 01:20:29.602 No, I didn't. 913 01:20:29.781 --> 01:20:34.548 I didn't think so. What'd be the point? You can hear him whenever you want. 914 01:20:36.054 --> 01:20:39.353 I think it's wonderful the way things are changing. 915 01:20:59.477 --> 01:21:02.640 Now what you think I am, Miss Daisy? 916 01:21:02.814 --> 01:21:03.940 What do you mean? 917 01:21:04.148 --> 01:21:05.979 The invitation to this dinner... 918 01:21:06.084 --> 01:21:07.813 ...came in the mail a month ago. 919 01:21:08.152 --> 01:21:11.986 Now, if did be you wanted me to go with you... 920 01:21:12.323 --> 01:21:16.316 ...how come you wait 'till we in the car on the way before you asked me? 921 01:21:16.494 --> 01:21:20.487 What? All I said was Boolie said you wanted to go. 922 01:21:21.232 --> 01:21:25.225 Next time you want me to go somewhere ask me regular. 923 01:21:25.503 --> 01:21:27.494 You don't have to carry on so much. 924 01:21:27.739 --> 01:21:30.003 Let's just leave it alone. 925 01:21:30.341 --> 01:21:31.501 Honestly! 926 01:21:35.747 --> 01:21:39.740 Talk about things changing. They ain't changed all that much. 927 01:21:47.125 --> 01:21:48.422 I'll help you. 928 01:21:48.693 --> 01:21:51.685 Thank you, Hoke, I can help myself. 929 01:22:00.939 --> 01:22:04.272 ...can see that the South has marvelous possibilities. 930 01:22:05.443 --> 01:22:07.877 Yet in spite of these assets... 931 01:22:08.212 --> 01:22:10.703 ...segregation has placed the South... 932 01:22:10.949 --> 01:22:15.784 ...socially, educationally, and economically behind the rest of the nation. 933 01:22:16.454 --> 01:22:21.153 Yet there are in the white South millions of people of good will... 934 01:22:21.659 --> 01:22:24.457 ...whose voices are yet unheard... 935 01:22:25.163 --> 01:22:27.791 ...whose course is yet unclear... 936 01:22:28.466 --> 01:22:31.458 ...and whose courageous acts are yet unseen. 937 01:22:32.170 --> 01:22:34.968 These millions are called upon... 938 01:22:35.573 --> 01:22:38.736 ...to gird their courage, to speak out... 939 01:22:39.410 --> 01:22:42.243 ...to offer leadership that is needed. 940 01:22:42.313 --> 01:22:44.474 History will have to record... 941 01:22:44.749 --> 01:22:48.241 ...that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition... 942 01:22:48.586 --> 01:22:53.421 ...was not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people... 943 01:22:53.992 --> 01:22:58.486 ...but the appalling silence and indifference of the good people. 944 01:22:58.830 --> 01:23:01.196 And our generation will have to repent... 945 01:23:01.432 --> 01:23:04.924 ...not only for the words and acts of the children of darkness... 946 01:23:05.269 --> 01:23:10.104 ...but also for the fears and apathy of the children of light. 947 01:23:38.236 --> 01:23:40.033 Morning, Miss Daisy. 948 01:24:10.535 --> 01:24:11.524 Miss Daisy? 949 01:24:16.674 --> 01:24:18.835 Hoke, is that Hoke? 950 01:24:19.277 --> 01:24:21.404 It's me. You all right? 951 01:24:22.413 --> 01:24:25.507 Hoke, what did I do with my papers? 952 01:24:26.084 --> 01:24:29.576 My papers! I had them all corrected last night... 953 01:24:30.021 --> 01:24:33.354 ...and I put them where I wouldn't forget them on my way to school. 954 01:24:33.591 --> 01:24:34.785 What did you do with them? 955 01:24:34.926 --> 01:24:36.587 What are you talking about? 956 01:24:36.861 --> 01:24:40.695 The children will be disappointed if I don't give them their homework. 957 01:24:40.932 --> 01:24:43.924 I always give it back the next day. 958 01:24:44.302 --> 01:24:45.929 That's why they like me. 959 01:24:46.104 --> 01:24:47.594 You talking out your head. 960 01:24:47.805 --> 01:24:49.602 Why aren't you helping me? 961 01:24:50.108 --> 01:24:51.700 What'll I do? 962 01:24:51.943 --> 01:24:54.309 Find those papers. I told you. 963 01:24:55.713 --> 01:24:58.876 It's all right if you moved them. I won't be mad. 964 01:24:59.117 --> 01:25:02.314 But I've got to get to school. I'll be late. 965 01:25:02.620 --> 01:25:07.319 Who will take care of my class? They'll be all alone. Oh, God! 966 01:25:07.558 --> 01:25:09.219 I do everything wrong! 967 01:25:09.460 --> 01:25:13.123 Now set down in here. You're going to fall and hurt yourself. 968 01:25:14.232 --> 01:25:18.726 I'm so sorry. It's all my fault. I didn't do right. 969 01:25:20.138 --> 01:25:21.628 It's so awful! 970 01:25:21.906 --> 01:25:25.069 Ain't nothing awful except the way you carrying on. 971 01:25:25.243 --> 01:25:26.904 It's all my fault. 972 01:25:27.145 --> 01:25:29.841 I can't find the papers. The children are waiting. 973 01:25:30.081 --> 01:25:33.414 There ain't nobody waiting on you. You ain't a teacher. 974 01:25:33.651 --> 01:25:35.642 It doesn't make any difference. 975 01:25:35.987 --> 01:25:38.922 Now listen, there ain't nothing wrong with you! 976 01:25:39.157 --> 01:25:40.351 You don't know. 977 01:25:57.141 --> 01:25:58.472 This Hoke here. 978 01:25:59.477 --> 01:26:00.307 What can I do for you? 979 01:26:00.378 --> 01:26:01.675 It's your mama. 980 01:26:01.879 --> 01:26:02.937 What's wrong? 981 01:26:03.181 --> 01:26:05.012 She's taking on something awful. 982 01:26:05.616 --> 01:26:07.880 Why's today different from any other day? 983 01:26:08.519 --> 01:26:10.384 No, sir. It's not the same. 984 01:26:12.089 --> 01:26:13.579 I'll be right there. 985 01:26:17.528 --> 01:26:21.521 Miss Daisy, now there ain't nothing wrong with you! 986 01:26:21.899 --> 01:26:24.390 Your mind done took a turn this morning. 987 01:26:24.635 --> 01:26:27.035 You'll snap back if you let yourself. 988 01:26:27.305 --> 01:26:29.466 I can't! I can't! 989 01:26:30.308 --> 01:26:32.208 You're a lucky old woman. 990 01:26:32.410 --> 01:26:36.904 No! It's all a mess now, and I can't do anything about it. 991 01:26:37.215 --> 01:26:41.208 Now look at you. You rich, you well for your time. 992 01:26:41.652 --> 01:26:44.485 You got folks who care what happens to you. 993 01:26:44.722 --> 01:26:48.214 I am being trouble. I don't want to be trouble to anybody. 994 01:26:48.492 --> 01:26:51.825 You want something to cry about, I'll run you to the state home... 995 01:26:52.063 --> 01:26:54.429 ...let you see what's laying out there. 996 01:26:54.732 --> 01:26:58.498 I bet there ain't one of them carrying on the way you doing. 997 01:26:58.736 --> 01:27:01.933 I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Those poor children. 998 01:27:02.506 --> 01:27:07.068 You keep this up and Mr. Werthan's going to call that doctor on you. 999 01:27:07.178 --> 01:27:12.081 Just as sure as you born, that doctor is going to have you out in that asylum. 1000 01:27:12.583 --> 01:27:15.575 Now is that the way you want it to be? 1001 01:27:23.027 --> 01:27:25.359 Do you still have that Hudson? 1002 01:27:27.365 --> 01:27:30.266 You talking about from when I first come here? 1003 01:27:31.769 --> 01:27:33.100 No, Miss Daisy. 1004 01:27:33.371 --> 01:27:38.035 That thing been in the junkyard now... more than 15 years. 1005 01:27:38.709 --> 01:27:42.543 I'm driving your next to last car now. 1006 01:27:43.047 --> 01:27:45.379 1965 Cadillac. 1007 01:27:45.716 --> 01:27:48.207 It's running fine as wine, too. 1008 01:27:50.388 --> 01:27:54.381 You ought not to be driving anything the way you see. 1009 01:27:54.692 --> 01:27:59.527 Now, how you know how I can see 'less'n you can look out my eyes. 1010 01:28:08.639 --> 01:28:10.300 You're my best friend. 1011 01:28:10.508 --> 01:28:12.999 - Go on now, Miss Daisy. - No, really. 1012 01:28:13.744 --> 01:28:15.075 You are. 1013 01:28:20.251 --> 01:28:21.582 You are. 1014 01:30:12.129 --> 01:30:14.290 Well, Hoke, good to see you! 1015 01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:19.634 - You didn't drive yourself here? - No, sir. I don't drive now. 1016 01:30:19.870 --> 01:30:21.804 My granddaughter drove me. 1017 01:30:22.039 --> 01:30:24.530 My Lord, is she old enough to drive? 1018 01:30:24.875 --> 01:30:27.810 Michelle is nigh on 37 years old now. 1019 01:30:28.312 --> 01:30:32.476 She's teaching biology at yonder Spelman College. 1020 01:30:32.750 --> 01:30:34.047 I never knew that. 1021 01:30:39.824 --> 01:30:44.158 Seems mighty funny to sell the house while Mama's still alive. 1022 01:30:44.662 --> 01:30:47.153 Yes, sir, I imagine it do. 1023 01:30:47.998 --> 01:30:51.490 But she hasn't been inside the door for two years. 1024 01:30:51.902 --> 01:30:53.267 I know. 1025 01:30:54.171 --> 01:30:56.662 I suppose you don't see her very much. 1026 01:30:56.907 --> 01:30:58.898 No, sir, I don't. 1027 01:30:59.577 --> 01:31:02.910 It's hard, not driving, Mr. Werthan. 1028 01:31:03.347 --> 01:31:06.077 There's no bus that goes out yonder. 1029 01:31:06.417 --> 01:31:10.786 Course, I take a taxicab as often as I can. 1030 01:31:11.355 --> 01:31:13.016 I' m sure she appreciates it. 1031 01:31:15.526 --> 01:31:18.859 Some days she's better than others. 1032 01:31:20.698 --> 01:31:22.859 But then, who ain't? 1033 01:32:08.412 --> 01:32:10.073 Happy Thanksgiving, Mama! 1034 01:32:11.415 --> 01:32:13.076 Look who I brought! 1035 01:32:14.151 --> 01:32:15.982 Morning, Miss Daisy. 1036 01:32:17.922 --> 01:32:20.413 You been keeping yourself busy? 1037 01:32:22.092 --> 01:32:25.425 She certainly has. She goes to jewelry making... 1038 01:32:25.663 --> 01:32:27.358 How many times a week? 1039 01:32:28.165 --> 01:32:30.861 She makes all kinds of things. Pins, bracelets... 1040 01:32:31.769 --> 01:32:33.259 She's a regular Tiffany's. 1041 01:32:33.504 --> 01:32:35.369 Isn't that something! 1042 01:32:40.611 --> 01:32:42.272 Are you all right, Mama? 1043 01:32:47.284 --> 01:32:50.117 Hoke, I thought of you the other day. 1044 01:32:51.288 --> 01:32:54.018 - I saw an Avondale milk truck. - Is that right? 1045 01:32:54.291 --> 01:32:57.692 A big monster of a thing. Must've had 16 wheels. 1046 01:32:57.962 --> 01:32:59.452 Go on away from here. 1047 01:32:59.697 --> 01:33:02.894 I wondered how you'd have liked driving that around. 1048 01:33:04.134 --> 01:33:06.967 Hoke came to see me, not you. 1049 01:33:09.506 --> 01:33:11.667 This is one of her good days. 1050 01:33:13.043 --> 01:33:17.980 Mama, Florine said to wish you a happy Thanksgiving. She's in Washington. 1051 01:33:19.316 --> 01:33:22.308 She's a Republican National Committeewoman now. 1052 01:33:22.653 --> 01:33:24.052 Good God! 1053 01:33:30.995 --> 01:33:33.327 Go charm the nurses! 1054 01:33:36.667 --> 01:33:38.828 She wants you all to herself. 1055 01:33:40.337 --> 01:33:41.929 You are a doodle, Mama. 1056 01:34:02.026 --> 01:34:04.017 Boolie paying you still? 1057 01:34:05.362 --> 01:34:06.693 Every week. 1058 01:34:06.864 --> 01:34:08.195 How much? 1059 01:34:08.465 --> 01:34:11.263 Now that's between him and me. 1060 01:34:11.869 --> 01:34:13.860 Highway robbery! 1061 01:34:16.707 --> 01:34:18.368 It sure is. 1062 01:34:21.612 --> 01:34:23.273 It sure is. 1063 01:34:27.384 --> 01:34:28.874 How are you? 1064 01:34:31.889 --> 01:34:34.050 I'm doing the best I can. 1065 01:34:36.493 --> 01:34:37.790 Me, too. 1066 01:34:40.497 --> 01:34:44.297 Well, that's about all there is to it then. 1067 01:34:53.744 --> 01:34:55.075 Look it here. 1068 01:34:55.913 --> 01:34:58.905 You didn't eat your Thanksgiving pie. 1069 01:35:02.319 --> 01:35:03.650 Go on now. 1070 01:35:06.924 --> 01:35:09.085 Here, let me help you. 1071 01:35:25.275 --> 01:35:26.435 Is it good? 1072 01:35:32.116 --> 01:35:33.777 Here comes some more.