Just Before Dawn
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- Year:
- 1981
- 90 min
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Oh Lord, I wanna thank you for making me
such a damn good shot.
Leave me be will you Uncle Ty.
Now that buck would still be bleeding
if I didn't grab your
rifle and finish him off.
- Now don't you go
belittling your minister.
Lord, Lord they have all
deserted your old church but I,
am bringing back the holy spirits.
- Can't really blame
you for getting a little shaky
from all that blood though.
Hey ask the Lord above
if he minds us taking
a little souvenir.
Vachel.
Look.
Ah it's getting light already.
Vachel, something is up there.
Amen Uncle Ty, amen.
You got a beat on
another 12 part Uncle Ty?
This thing's really out here for keeps.
I know Barbara would
go nuts over it though.
She don't mind me going hunting
as long as I bring her something back.
Vachel you didn't pull the brake.
Vachel!
Vachel!
Vachel?
Vachel?
J1 Once had a love and it was a gas
J1 Soon turned out had a heart of glass
J1 Seemed like the real thing only to find
J1 Mutual mistrust loves gone behind
J1 Once had a love
More Gemini.
Wonder why there's so
Maybe something in the water.
- Or something to do with
making out with your sister.
Where we're going is no
summer camp, take a look.
- Have we ever gone up
anything quite this high?
I don't think so baby.
Woo would you look at that.
4000 feet of granite, water and wood.
You know in climbing the idea is to become
part of the mountain.
Try and find its soul.
' Stop!
you see the poor thing?
No I didn't see it, it just, I-
Maybe it's still alive.
I'll get out and take a look.
Ah sit tight, I'll do it.
Oh it must've been a
pretty tough little buck.
Took right off.
You saw him run away?
As good as new.
Hey Warren.
Yeah.
Maybe we could make some more noise
so the deers know we're coming, uh?
Come on and have a God damn outing here.
God damn outing!
- See one of the most
critical things in eye surgery
is to avoid shock.
Shock can upset nature's delicate balance
and ruin everything that
you're trying to do.
But in your case my dear Lucille,
your respiration is normal.
I'll be right back,
you stay right there.
Agatha!
Quiet up!
I got a good mind to
whup you till Tuesday.
What is the matter with you?
Don't you realize I'm involved
in delicate surgery in there.
You are out here fussing and-
Shut that thing off
you're scaring my plants
and my horse to boot.
. Sorry-
Ah that's better.
find your way out of here.
No sir we're doing just fine.
We're going up the mountain
to do some camping.
Only a fool would do that.
We got five of them in here.
But there's no campsite up there,
especially with ladies along.
Oh we don't have to worry
with the big strong forest
ranger to protect us do we.
Yeah.
Well I can't let you go up there.
Sir, hold on, hold on a second.
See the boy here's a land
bearer and we're going up
to look over the back 40.
That deed don't mean nothing.
That mountain can't read.
Any of you done any
serious climbing before?
Yeah, 10 years, it's okay.
I'll steer them away from the poison ivy.
Yeah.
It ain't just poison ivy
I'm talking about son.
At least tell me where you're going
so that when you don't come back
I'll know how to fill out the report.
Silverlake.
I ain'tjust singing a tune.
I warned you and I ain't coming after you.
You hear me?
- What's with Silverlake,
that's not on the property.
- I know what do you want,
Smoky the Bear coming around
showing us how to pee out our camp fires?
Warren stop a second.
Hawkeye, spot another deer?
I don't know.
What is it?
I don't know.
Hey Daniel, what's happening?
Ssh shh.
What?
I saw somebody.
Somebody?
Yeah somebody over there.
Just as we passed that tree.
- No maybe it was
a bear or something,
maybe it was bigfoot.
Could've been.
I saw somebody I swear,
just as we went past there.
Well where is he Danny?
I don't know.
- So what was
it an animal or what?
Ssh quiet.
Daniel what do you see?
Ssh.
What is it?
I don't know.
"Aah!
Let go.
Take it easy man, what happened?
Help me.
My nephew's still up there.
I couldn't save.
It's trying to get me too.
What is trying to get you man?
Come on, I can't read your mind.
What?
The mountain.
Get it away from me.
Get what away from you?
Demons.
You've got to take me with you.
Can we take him with us?
Oh ah, look look
mister, I'm sorry but we're on the way up.
- You've got to-
- No no we're.
Look just calm down okay, huh.
What do you think?
I agree I agree what are we gonna do?
We can't take him back down
we gotta pitch camp before
dark or we don't make it.
Okay let's go.
- If he just sticks to
the road he'll be fine.
Connie come here.
I'm sorry.
- Look just stay on the
road, you'll be all right.
I won't be all right.
Hey!
You can't leave me out
here with that thing.
Hey.
Would you let me in please?
Thing's gonna kill me.
Hey!
You wanna take him with us?
- We can't just leave
him here, he'll starve.
He won't starve.
He might die, but he won't starve.
Stop will you!
Please!
You gotta stop.
- Reminds me of the time I
downed five vodka martinis.
Talk about demons.
- Sure looks like he's
being chased by demons.
Hey come on I need that to drive.
Why there's no traffic up here?
No people either.
Who'd you expect to run into up there?
Oh I don't know, maybe some demons.
I hear some of them are kinda cute.
Whoa!
You okay?
Yeah I'm fine.
What was that?
That's it folks, end of the line.
We should be on the property
but we're gonna have to
hoof it from here.
Here Megan.
Oh thank you.
Here we go.
Johnny.
What?
That's mine.
Can't carry all this stuff,
we'll have to come back for some of it.
Forget my sunglasses.
Hurry up.
There's some big falls.
Should be about a mile from here.
Get your cameras ready.
You don't own something like this man
you just bow down to it.
My God, that is incredible.
Yeah, this is perfect.
This is the place huh?
. Yep-
Jonathan and I'll go back
for the rest of the stuff.
- We expect a nice warm
camp fire when we get back.
We'll work on it.
You can set up the tents huh?
No problem, where are they?
Right over here.
- Hey do you think you can
make it back before dark?
cub scout there on my back
but we'll make it.
Just put 'em right there.
Right.
- Give Daniel a hand with
the tents, all right.
Hey Warren.
Yeah.
Do you think you should go back
and tell that forest
ranger where we'll be?
Yeah it was a stupid thing to do.
We'll it's getting too late to do it now.
Yeah.
. HEY-
Nothing out there but
God's little creatures.
More scared of you than you are of them.
I know, I know.
But this time it's different.
What is?
I don't know.
- We just got off
to a bad start, that's all.
Yeah we sure did.
- Save the loving for the
moonlight, and let's go.
- Jonathan will
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