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Full House Page #6
- Year:
- 1952
- 118 min
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We need money. We have all that little bonanza
gold mine stock you had printed...
and we can't sell it
without a nugget.
Now, Joe Collins has a nugget
that's as big as a cobblestone.
We've gotta raise enough money
to buy that nugget.
- Will he trust ya?
- Not again.
You insist that kidnapping
is the only solution.
William, for a quick,
safe return on your investment...
you simply cannot
beat kidnapping.
I regard it as even a sounder proposition than
swindling widows and orphans.
And that is particularly true down here
in this Peruna-and-chitlins country...
for the natives down here
share one outstanding weakness.
- They love their children.
- It's too risky.
Suppose you kidnap an orphan?
Who pays to get him back?
William, don't be
so pessimistic.
- You know anything about children?
- Only one thing.
Children have to do what
grown-ups tell them to do...
because we're bigger
than they are.
- I don't like it.
- William, we're procrastinating.
Let's finish unloading this stuff and get
into town and find our victim.
- Mornin', folks.
- Mornin'.
We'd like to get
- Sure.
- And some information, please.
Pete'll get you the water.
What do you wanna know, mister?
Say, mighty nice country
you got around here.
- Sure is pretty.
- Is it?
If a person wanted to buy some of this land,
who'd he have to see?
Why do you wanna
buy the land for?
- What do you wanna raise?
- It ain't good for much.
You want bottom land
or, uh, hill country?
Uh, which is better?
Well, it depends upon
what you want it for.
- Bottom land.
- Reckon Eb Dorset could fix you up.
He's foreclosed on about as much land
as anybody else.
But why do you wanna
buy the land for?
Eb Dorset?
Which Dorset is that?
Well, there ain't only one
Dorset, and that's Eb.
Yeah, he married
the Yarborough girl.
Why do you wanna
buy the land for?
Married the Yarborough girl.
Say, I seem to remember that.
Uh, was that union blessed
with any issue?
Uh-
- What did you say?
You know, those little objects people get
after they're married.
Yeah. Well, I reckon
you could say they have in a way.
- Yeah.
- May I ask what you mean by that foggy response?
Well, I reckon you could callJ.B. A child,
if you wanted to.
- J. B?
- J. B?
- That's what they call him.
- Oh, it's a boy.
- I reckon you might, uh, call him a boy.
- Yeah.
How old is he?
J.B. Is nigh
on to 10 now.
What a lovable age in a boy.
Where did you say
- Didn't say.
- Down the road a piece.
with broken windows.
You ain't told us why did you wanna
buy the land for.
You know, I find your conversation rather
limited, but very stimulating.
- Thank you.
- Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot, fellas.
- Hope to see more of ya later.
- See you later.
Thanks, son.
Sally Mae, you better lock yourself up in
your room until them Yankees get outta town.
Aw, Pa.
What did he say
that place was?
with broken windows.
Oh, yeah.
Dinner ready?
Unlessen you wanna wait
forJ.B.
He's late again.
When'd he go out?
Night 'fore last.
Oughta be gettin' hungry
by now.
I'd better set
a place for him.
Yep, he's home now.
Ebenezer, two men just drove up
in a motorcar.
They did?
Well, I'll be.
Now they're puttin' a sack
overJ.B.'s head.
No.
Now they're totin' him away.
They must be strangers.
More than likely.
Set him down over here.
Are you all right,J. B?
If we untie you, will you promise to behave
yourself and not run away?
Did you hear me?
l said, did you hear me?
Are you frightened?
Hmm.
Well, all right,
if you wanna stay tied up.
Now, listen,J.B.
You are in the hands of two desperate men,
and you must behave yourself.
- Is that right, William?
- Yeah, you better behave yourself.
Yes, you've got-
Put that knife away. Put it away.
- William, take that knife away from J.B.
- I'd rather you did it.
J.B., William and I have decided
you may keep the knife.
- Does that make you happy?
- I don't like you.
- I said, I don't like you.
- J.B., you mustn't be afraid of us.
- We're your friends.
I'm going back downtown and leave a ransom
note in your father's mailbox.
And if he pays the little sum
we're asking for you...
you will be returned home
immediately, safe and sound.
Do you understand?
Excuse us a minute,J.B.
How much you gonna ask for him?
with a bid of 2,000.
Two thousand? I think you're
overestimating this kid's charm.
The trouble with you is
you don't understand human nature.
The blacker the sheep,
the quicker they bail 'em out.
And if I'm any judge
of black sheep...
we have come up
with a collector's item.
Anybody who'd pay $2,000
for him's out of his mind.
I heard what you said.
I don't like ya,
but you're not dumb.
Thank you,J.B.
Thank you.
Money isn't everything.
I'm convinced 2,000's too much.
Perhaps you're right. I'll cut it to 1,500.
I'd better get along.
I'll drop a note in the Dorset mailbox
the minute it gets dark.
- How long will you be gone?
- Good heavens!
Don't tell me you're afraid
to stay here with this child.
Slick, why don't you stay
and let William go?
- Very practical idea.
- No, it's too late,J.B. Our plans are all made.
Don't you think it'd be better
if we tied him up again, and we'll both go?
Look, you just build a fire,
giveJ.B. Something to eat...
and make friends with him.
Make friends with him?
Just hurry back.
- Eb?
- Huh?
A man's puttin' somethin'
in the mailbox.
Thought he would.
You want I should
go out and fetch it?
Never mind.
Morning's soon enough.
[Vehicle Backfiring,
Departing]
[Vehicle Approaching,
Backfiring]
William, the ransom note
has been delivered.
There's nothing to do
but await results.
How have you and J.B.
Been getting along?
Slick, stay where you are.
Don't make any sudden moves.
What's the trouble, William?
If the light were better, you could see that in
his left hand,J.B.'s holding my good watch...
and in his right hand, a large rock
capable of enormous destruction.
Please don't do anything rash.
Now,J.B., is that any way to act?
I ask you-
It won't do any good to talk.
Yes,J.B.
How did he
get the watch?
We were having dinner, and suddenly he put
a red-hot boiled potato down my back...
and mashed it
with his foot.
- Why?
- We had a slight difference of opinion.
- He wanted me to call him Red Chief.
- Red Chief?
Yeah. He wanted to play Indian,
and I didn't want to.
I see no reason why you couldn't oblige
the little fella, William.
Except that he
wanted to scalp me.
Surely,J.B., there must be another way
to play Indian.
to reservation.
Warn his people
palefaces comin'.
Red Chief need horse.
Oh, no, not that.
If William is your horse,
will you give him his watch back?
After paleface horse.
I won't do it.
I refuse.
I'll speak to him
in Indian,J.B.
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