Cellmates Page #7

Synopsis: Leroy Lowe, grand dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan confronts everything he's been taught to hate when he's sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm, where Warden Merville, dead set on rehabilitating Leroy, chooses Emilio, a Hispanic field worker imprisoned for fighting for labor rights, to be his cell-mate. Leroy, confined in a small cell with the enemy, far from the KKK comrades who deserted him, finds the chatty Emilio slowly chipping away at his anger and prejudice. His weekly rehabilitation meetings with the warden, barely tolerable as the man drones on about farm labor and field crops, take on a different meaning when Madalena, a beautiful Mexican maid is hired to clean the warden's office. An unconventional love story develops that opens Leroy's eyes to the possibility of a different life. And a man who was a born and bred racist finds himself heading down a completely different path to salvation.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Jesse Baget
Production: Cavu Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
20
Rotten Tomatoes:
47%
TV-14
Year:
2011
85 min
Website
136 Views


And all other sorts of "isms,"

When I roused the great crowds of hundreds

Under the glow of a burnin' cross.

Memories came back to me like a flood,

Like the Rio Grande when it break out its banks

And invades the East Texas plains

With wondrous force.

And when the flood of memories placated,

I could see clear as day. The cause that laid in front of me.

The cause that laid in front of me.

I started to write. Fire and brimstone,

Like I used toback in the heydays.

I wrote the United States Justice Department,

The labor unions, Members of the senate subcommittee on labor,

The Governor of Texas, local papers,National publications, and even a few

Of the liberal elements up in Washington.

I wrote on behalf of every fence hopper,

Wetback, and four footer serving time at Low Lee,

Each and every one of them

Who was ever arrested by a corrupt law enforcement,

Wrongfully convicted of a crime by a crooked justice system,

Who was ever imprisoned by a two-Faced,

Profiteering warden driven by greed.

I wrote on behalf of them slandered, degraded,

Beaten down,

unjustly imprisoned souls

Who had not given up on America.

I wrote until I used up every word I ever knew.

===ryanon==

Well, if it ain't Leroy Lowe.

Have a seat.

These? Aphids.

Aphids infiltrated my fields and destroyed my entire crop.

But let's move on to a different topic, shall we?

You may be interested to know that the Justice Department

Has just announced..

a full scale civil-Rights

investigation here at Low Lee.

Into farm labor practices.

They speculate that I violated

The Civil Rights of farm workers working in this institution!

How do you like them beans?!

Me, Merve Merville,

upstanding civil servant,

Accused of violating Civil Rights.

Ain't that somethin'? Yeah.

I've also been informed that the labor unions are planning a march on Austin

To demand the release of certain inmates here at Low Lee.

And the Governor just called me and demanded my head on a plate!

The liberal media has decided to take a break

From the coverage of the Gubernatorial Election

To find out all they can about these so-Called

Civil Rights Violations!

And do you know who they quote as being the source

of these slanderous rumors?

A certain individual

by the name of Leroy Lowe,

Inmate number 24994

of Low Lee Tuna prison!

- Oh, that.

- Yes, you son of a b*tch, that!

- I was just doin' what you instructed me to do.

- You what?!

If I remember correctly, it was you who told me

I should become a contributing member of our society.

And i figured what better place

To start contributing than right here.

You filthy, feculent piece of scum!

You have destroyed my reputation and squandered my name!

And i'm gonna make damn sure that you spend every last moment

of your time here...

in hell!!

Before warden Merville was dragged to court

To face charges of unsavory business practices,

He made sure I toiled in that potato field

Every day for the remainder of my sentence.

I tasted that bitter dirt on my tongue

And felt the sting of the desert sun on my back.

And for the first time in my life,

I felt like a true, bona fide White Knight./i

It was like I finally earned that name

I was given so long ago.

And even though I didn't understand

A single darn word she wrote me,

I saved that blessed correspondence

And each and every other one I received

from that day on

Like they was a treasure made of gold.

The last letter I wrote, was to the Grand Kleagle

To announce the White Knight

Had found a new cause and moved on,

And that I sure hoped Ratt Sloan had found happiness

Down in Paraguay with miss Loretta Gale.

And on a hot August day in 1979,

I walked out of Low Lee as free man.

That day, I walked away from Low Lee,

Away from the klan,

Away from everything I ever knew,/i

But it didn't scare me one bit.

Because I knew my way...

South,.

to the other side of the Rio Grande,

To a small border town called Deseo.

Lah abis, kumpuan pitih sibu surang!!! XD

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