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Raintree County
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- Year:
- 1957
- 160 min
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Look at the birdie... look at the tree.
My girls are the prettiest
known to the county.
That's all.
Mr. Durin, you've made us all immortal.
Young ladies and gentlemen...
Now, young ladies and gentlemen...
Alright, you cloud-headed.
You've still 2 weeks before graduation.
Let me remind you.
Mr. Durin's picture taking is completed.
You prepare yourself to Mr. Durin here
some time this week
an individual photograph
to appear in the Academy Album.
Miss Kader... why are you standing there
as if transfixed?
Is it because you've left your books
in the study at the expense of
your splendid youth and innocence
or is it because you've already entered
into the miserable Harvard womanhood
and beat with them?
Alright, stop all of that
or stop blushing
Johnny.
He's not here
0h, you mustn't see me hiding.
Hide what?
Happy graduation, Johnny.
Thank you.
Happy graduation to you.
Thank you
l guess we had the same idea
lsn't that nice?
We think the same thing
lsn't that crazy?
0pen your present, Johnny
lt's all about Raintree County
lt's illustrated with colored maps...
Statistics and history...
And place adventures
lt's wonderful... just wonderful.
Raintree County.
There're over hundred of them
Johnny, someday your name will be
the first on that list.
Naturally
0pen yours, come on.
Well, l think you'll like it...
It weighs 6 lbs
0h, l think Lord Byron was the most
fascinating man ever lived.
He seemed so much in need of
a good woman to love and love him.
Yes...
There's a photograph inside...
L wrote something on the back of it
Johnny, it's beautiful.
You know what l think?
L think someday you're going to be
a great writer
lt's just beautiful
l've never heard such nonsense
wasting 3 days write this.
What's this... a speech?
It's not nonsense
lt's an honor to be valid Victoria
lt goes to the student ranking first
in scholarship.
You know so much about it.
What did you ever valid... validate...
Whatever it's called?
Pap is valid Victoria for the whole
Raintree County.
Did you know that, Mom?
Your father?
Preaching a sermon to the most
undesirable element.
Waste the elegance there is in
a lot of ground.
It's the undesirable
element which we desire...
You object the Pap's elevating spiritual
welfare the people?
What about my spiritual welfare?
Why can't we get an inside pump?
Yeah, Pap... what about an inside pump?
That's not a joke.
What ever did learned you
at that school?
You learn a cup of beer?
Your mother has beaty confused
with Heidelberg.
Like a chimney.
Huh, your father like that ...ever here
his sermon on the evils of tobacco
and with the regular pond some do it chew
and some do it smoke.
But some end up their nose do poke
l do all three the same time.
L learn my mother is a fraud and
what she says is hateful
that the way she says it.
You never amount anything like that.
Well, he ought to amount to something.
He's related to one of the greatest
writers in the English language.
Who's that?
Thomas Carlyle, that's who.
L think you're old enough to know that...
Joe, stop that foolishness.
Well, l always thought that one day
be a great man in the family.
Great man?
Is a great man more good to get a job
of farm this land.
Why ever was l cursed with such a burden?
How are you and Nell getting along?
Nell is a fine girl and she is...
Well, she's Raintree County.
That means a lot of people like us,
people with roots.
A man should not only marry his beloved.
A good wife is a good start,
taught greatness.
Pap, define greatness.
Greatness?
Well, a great man is one
who does good for others and.
I guess in that way your father qualifies.
Greatness?
Ha!
If that great philosopher Socrates
used living today,
lf he were used to sit on a crack
chewing tobacco...
That was America, that's the greatness.
Do l shock you?
How can l shock such unenlightened
cloud heads?
Are you stunned, Mrs. Lydia Gray?
0h, stop looking at me, child.
With those big brown cow eyes round milk
like wax in the flame.
Yeah.
Do l shock you, Miss Nell Kader?
Not as much as you like to
0h, there must be somebody l shoked.
How about you, Johnny Seanacy?
L... relish it.
You don't shock me
if you don't want shocking.
Thanks, my boy.
Now, about greatness.
We Americans measure greatness
in simple terms... in terms of money.
We're always hunting with a tree of life
whose root is pure gold...
You have beautiful chest-light color
hair, my dear.
But, there's another tree
not of gold, but of fulfillment...
Whose flower is accomplishment
and its fruit is love.
Most ways,
the ways of pleasantness
and most paths all lead to peace.
Find that tree and
you'll find greatness
ln every land, every language poems of
some of this tree.
And we in lndiana have our
It's the tree from which our county
takes its name
0ne day a ragged preacher, was
wandering on the shore of the lake
in the middle of the county.
That preacher was a man you all know,
Johnny Appleseed who spent his life
traveling to the pioneer West
planting apple seeds in the wilderness.
Among these thousands of seeds there
was one that ragged preacher cherised.
Not an appleseed, an
exotic seed from China,
the seed of a golden raintree.
The preacher searched the tiny earth place,
the one place.
Well, this one seed by taking root,
blandished.
Someone in this county found
that place.
But where that raintree was planting?
Nobody knows.
Professor, how could such a tree grow on
seeing in the county?
There's a great swamp by the Paradise Lake.
lts sacred tonic trunk towering up
in the drawning silence
smacks deep in the middle of the county.
Find that tree, boy,
and you'll learn
the secret of life itself.
Find it and become the hero of
Raintree County.
Why don't you have a real good see
for yourself?
Professor, you still haven't answered
the question.
It's there, alright
lt's there...
But the sacred fire ready to be blacked.
But if you look for it.
Be sure you'll find it.
What happens if you pursued
the raintree and don't find it?
You see before you a seeker
who didn't find.
None of the human creature as the pitiable and
harmless creature you'll be hold in vain.
Alright, human... the show is over.
Now, disappear... all
of you, like phantoms.
Attention, now easily slip away.
Mrs. Gray, it's my time with you, huh?
Nell, let's you and l go to find
the raintree.
Professor said looking for the raintree
is appearless business.
It can't be so.
So even dressed for it?
Are you serious?
Certainly l am... come on.
We mind it... find it
Johnny, not now.
Why?
You scared?
Ah... is he fooling?
Look at him.
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