1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 iSubDB.com - fast, modern, simple Subtitles search by drag & drop 2 00:00:35,668 --> 00:00:40,401 Long ago, when I was a young man, my father said to me... 3 00:00:40,507 --> 00:00:43,169 "Norman, you like to write stories." 4 00:00:43,276 --> 00:00:45,471 And I said, "Yes, I do." 5 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:49,739 Then he said, "Someday, when you're ready... 6 00:00:49,849 --> 00:00:52,682 you might tell our family story. 7 00:00:52,786 --> 00:00:57,416 Only then will you understand what happened and why." 8 00:01:14,474 --> 00:01:19,036 In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing. 9 00:01:27,287 --> 00:01:31,121 We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in Missoula, Montana... 10 00:01:31,224 --> 00:01:33,385 where Indians still appeared out of the wilderness... 11 00:01:33,526 --> 00:01:36,324 to walk the honky-tonks and brothels of Front Street. 12 00:03:14,093 --> 00:03:16,721 My father was a Presbyterian minister... 13 00:03:16,863 --> 00:03:18,797 and a fly-fisherman. 14 00:03:21,935 --> 00:03:26,372 Though it is true that one day a week was given over wholly to religion... 15 00:03:26,472 --> 00:03:30,670 even then he told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen. 16 00:03:30,777 --> 00:03:34,645 And we were left to assume, as my younger brother Paul and I did... 17 00:03:34,747 --> 00:03:39,081 that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly-fishermen... 18 00:03:39,185 --> 00:03:42,951 and that John, the favorite, was a dry fly-fisherman. 19 00:03:43,056 --> 00:03:47,652 The poor without Christ are of all men the most miserable. 20 00:03:49,329 --> 00:03:51,490 But the poor with Christ... 21 00:03:51,631 --> 00:03:55,123 are princes and kings of the earth. 22 00:03:56,536 --> 00:03:58,436 In the afternoon, we would walk with him... 23 00:03:58,538 --> 00:04:01,371 while he unwound between services. 24 00:04:01,474 --> 00:04:04,602 He almost always chose a path along the Big Blackfoot... 25 00:04:04,711 --> 00:04:07,339 which we considered our family river. 26 00:04:07,447 --> 00:04:12,009 It was there he felt his soul restored and his imagination stirred. 27 00:04:13,453 --> 00:04:16,650 Long ago rain fell on mud and became rock. 28 00:04:16,756 --> 00:04:19,224 Halt a billion years ago. 29 00:04:21,027 --> 00:04:23,962 But even before that, beneath the rocks... 30 00:04:26,065 --> 00:04:28,033 are the words of God. 31 00:04:28,167 --> 00:04:30,226 Listen. 32 00:04:36,209 --> 00:04:39,645 And if Paul and I listened very carefully all our lives... 33 00:04:41,014 --> 00:04:43,414 we might hear those words. 34 00:04:48,588 --> 00:04:53,184 Even so, Paul and I received as many hours of instruction in fly-fishing... 35 00:04:53,326 --> 00:04:55,726 as we did in all other spiritual matters. 36 00:04:57,930 --> 00:05:00,160 As a Presbyterian, my father believed... 37 00:05:00,266 --> 00:05:03,292 that man, by nature, was a damn mess... 38 00:05:03,403 --> 00:05:05,769 and that only by picking up God's rhythms... 39 00:05:05,872 --> 00:05:08,136 were we able to regain power and beauty. 40 00:05:10,043 --> 00:05:15,242 To him, all good things, trout as well as eternal salvation, come by grace. 41 00:05:15,348 --> 00:05:19,580 And grace comes by art, and art does not come easy. 42 00:05:19,686 --> 00:05:21,586 Norman. 43 00:05:27,026 --> 00:05:30,291 So my brother and I learned to cast Presbyterian style: 44 00:05:30,396 --> 00:05:32,796 on a metronome. 45 00:05:35,868 --> 00:05:38,701 He began each session with the same instruction: 46 00:05:38,805 --> 00:05:41,774 Casting is an art that is performed on a four-count rhythm... 47 00:05:41,874 --> 00:05:44,934 between 10:00 and 2:00. 48 00:05:48,548 --> 00:05:51,949 If he had had his way, nobody who did not know how to catch a fish... 49 00:05:52,051 --> 00:05:54,645 would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching it. 50 00:06:02,829 --> 00:06:06,526 So it was with my formal education as well. 51 00:06:06,632 --> 00:06:10,193 Each weekday, while my father worked on his Sunday sermon... 52 00:06:10,303 --> 00:06:12,863 I attended the school of the Reverend Maclean. 53 00:06:15,174 --> 00:06:19,008 He taught nothing but reading and writing. And being a Scot... 54 00:06:19,112 --> 00:06:21,672 believed that the art of writing lay in thrift. 55 00:06:33,326 --> 00:06:34,850 Half as long. 56 00:06:41,601 --> 00:06:44,661 So while my friends spent their days at Missoula Elementary... 57 00:06:44,771 --> 00:06:48,263 I stayed home and learned to write the American language. 58 00:06:59,452 --> 00:07:01,852 Again, halt as long. 59 00:07:30,483 --> 00:07:32,610 Good. Now throw it away. 60 00:07:48,568 --> 00:07:50,832 Norman! Norman! 61 00:07:52,004 --> 00:07:53,995 Wait for your brother! 62 00:08:01,814 --> 00:08:04,942 However, there was a balance to my father's system. 63 00:08:06,052 --> 00:08:08,714 Every afternoon I was set free... 64 00:08:08,821 --> 00:08:10,812 untutored and untouched till supper... 65 00:08:10,923 --> 00:08:14,450 to learn on my own the natural side of God's order. 66 00:08:24,470 --> 00:08:27,735 And there could be no better place to learn than the Montana of my youth. 67 00:08:30,943 --> 00:08:33,207 It was a world with dew still on it... 68 00:08:34,847 --> 00:08:38,783 more touched by wonder and possibility than any I have since known. 69 00:09:14,954 --> 00:09:17,081 Goddamn it, open up the door! 70 00:09:17,990 --> 00:09:20,288 What the hell is goin' on? 71 00:09:20,426 --> 00:09:23,554 - Where are you guys going? - Chickens! 72 00:09:32,572 --> 00:09:35,507 Move out of the way. Get. 73 00:10:03,803 --> 00:10:06,237 But it was a tough world, too. Even as children... 74 00:10:06,339 --> 00:10:09,137 we understood that and admired it. 75 00:10:13,045 --> 00:10:15,741 And of course, we had to test it. 76 00:10:16,949 --> 00:10:20,214 I knew I was tough because I had been bloodied in battle. 77 00:10:20,319 --> 00:10:22,116 Get him! 78 00:10:22,221 --> 00:10:25,588 Don't be a sissy! Come on! 79 00:10:25,691 --> 00:10:28,023 Yeah, come on. Let's see some blood here. 80 00:10:32,131 --> 00:10:34,065 Paul was different. 81 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,363 His toughness came from some secret place inside of him. 82 00:10:37,470 --> 00:10:40,268 He simply knew he was tougher than anyone alive. 83 00:10:41,907 --> 00:10:45,308 Grace will not be said until that bowl is clean. 84 00:10:58,891 --> 00:11:03,419 Man has been eating God's oats for a thousand years. 85 00:11:03,562 --> 00:11:07,692 It's not the place of an 8-year-old boy to change that tradition. 86 00:12:11,063 --> 00:12:12,462 Grace. 87 00:12:21,774 --> 00:12:23,935 Oh, God... 88 00:12:24,043 --> 00:12:26,705 rich in forgiveness, grant that we... 89 00:12:26,812 --> 00:12:30,646 may hold fast the good things we receive from Thee. 90 00:12:30,750 --> 00:12:34,686 And as often as we tall into sin, be lifted by repentance through Thy grace. 91 00:12:34,787 --> 00:12:36,186 Amen. 92 00:12:39,825 --> 00:12:42,316 Norm, what do you want to be when you grow up? 93 00:12:43,662 --> 00:12:45,562 A minister, I guess. 94 00:12:47,533 --> 00:12:49,433 Or a professional boxer. 95 00:12:49,535 --> 00:12:52,197 You think you could beat Jack Johnson? 96 00:12:55,574 --> 00:12:59,374 I think you could. I'd bet on it. 97 00:13:00,613 --> 00:13:04,947 - What are you gonna be? - A professional fly-fisherman. 98 00:13:05,050 --> 00:13:08,679 - There's no such thing. - There isn't? 99 00:13:17,863 --> 00:13:20,491 I guess a boxer. 100 00:13:21,567 --> 00:13:23,694 Not a minister? 101 00:13:33,879 --> 00:13:37,212 In 1917, World War I came to Missoula... 102 00:13:37,316 --> 00:13:40,911 taking with it every able-bodied lumberjack... 103 00:13:41,020 --> 00:13:43,989 leaving the woods to old men and boys. 104 00:13:45,925 --> 00:13:48,291 So at 16, I did my duty... 105 00:13:48,427 --> 00:13:50,987 and started working for the U.S. Forest Service. 106 00:13:53,933 --> 00:13:56,868 It was a life of timber and toil... 107 00:13:56,969 --> 00:13:59,164 with men as tough as their ax handles... 108 00:14:00,906 --> 00:14:03,204 and more mountains in all directions... 109 00:14:03,309 --> 00:14:05,800 than I would ever see again. 110 00:14:07,713 --> 00:14:09,613 Being too young to join me... 111 00:14:09,682 --> 00:14:12,845 Paul took a job as lifeguard at the municipal swimming pool... 112 00:14:12,952 --> 00:14:15,420 so that during the day he could look over the girls... 113 00:14:15,521 --> 00:14:19,924 and in the evenings he could pursue his other purpose in life: fishing. 114 00:14:20,025 --> 00:14:23,188 Be Thou my vision 115 00:14:23,329 --> 00:14:27,663 O Lord of my heart 116 00:14:27,766 --> 00:14:31,167 Naught be all else to me 117 00:14:31,270 --> 00:14:35,070 Save that Thou art 118 00:14:35,174 --> 00:14:38,166 Thou might press on 119 00:14:38,277 --> 00:14:43,340 By day or by night 120 00:14:43,449 --> 00:14:46,680 Waking or sleeping 121 00:14:46,785 --> 00:14:51,154 Thy presence my light 122 00:15:25,858 --> 00:15:27,792 Preacher, come on. 123 00:15:34,433 --> 00:15:36,867 Preacher, come on. 124 00:15:37,002 --> 00:15:38,401 Shut up! 125 00:15:54,053 --> 00:15:58,456 Have I told you what a fire sounds like coming down a mountain 6o miles an hour? 126 00:15:58,557 --> 00:16:00,923 Him and his forest fires. 127 00:16:01,060 --> 00:16:03,392 I've got a great idea. 128 00:16:03,495 --> 00:16:06,055 - I know how we can go down in history. - How? 129 00:16:06,198 --> 00:16:10,100 We borrow old man Seitert's rowboat and we shoot the chutes. 130 00:16:10,202 --> 00:16:13,228 - You can't shoot the chutes. - You can try. 131 00:16:13,339 --> 00:16:17,002 - You can die trying. - They'd bury us with honors. Tell him. 132 00:16:18,811 --> 00:16:22,269 - We would be the kings of Missoula. - We'd be famous. 133 00:16:22,381 --> 00:16:25,839 All of you would get your photographs in the paper. 134 00:16:25,951 --> 00:16:28,886 I'm doing it. I am. 135 00:16:28,988 --> 00:16:31,548 You'll die. No. 136 00:16:33,892 --> 00:16:36,986 - Let's do it. Come on. - I'm with you. 137 00:16:43,102 --> 00:16:44,535 All right. 138 00:16:48,073 --> 00:16:49,506 Let's go! 139 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,745 I'll get the oars. 140 00:16:58,817 --> 00:17:00,876 Whose idea was this? 141 00:17:00,986 --> 00:17:03,546 - Which way we goin', Pauly? - This way. 142 00:17:11,163 --> 00:17:13,290 I need a woman! 143 00:17:31,083 --> 00:17:33,051 Jesus, Mary and Joseph! 144 00:17:36,989 --> 00:17:39,514 Okay, we'll put in upstream. 145 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:49,699 Flip it. 146 00:17:55,474 --> 00:17:57,374 Okay, hop in. 147 00:18:02,514 --> 00:18:04,414 Come on. We can all tit. 148 00:18:04,516 --> 00:18:07,041 I don't think so. 149 00:18:14,660 --> 00:18:17,458 All right. Just me, Norm and Chub. 150 00:18:18,764 --> 00:18:20,629 Geez, Pauly. 151 00:18:23,602 --> 00:18:26,469 I guess it's just the Macleans. 152 00:18:51,497 --> 00:18:53,192 Be careful! 153 00:19:04,076 --> 00:19:06,135 You ain't goin' over, Pauly. 154 00:19:07,246 --> 00:19:09,714 - They'll pull to shore. - See you in heaven! 155 00:19:09,815 --> 00:19:13,080 Come back a second. I gotta tell you something. 156 00:19:26,765 --> 00:19:29,233 See you later, boys! 157 00:19:35,007 --> 00:19:36,975 Rudder on the right. 158 00:19:45,083 --> 00:19:47,176 On your right. Watch your right. 159 00:20:14,446 --> 00:20:17,506 - Steer around. - Right! 160 00:20:19,885 --> 00:20:22,479 Watch it! On your right. 161 00:20:38,337 --> 00:20:39,736 Hang on! 162 00:21:01,526 --> 00:21:02,925 Oh, geez. 163 00:21:07,633 --> 00:21:09,032 Maclean! 164 00:21:23,582 --> 00:21:25,573 Pauly! 165 00:21:25,684 --> 00:21:27,117 Hey, Chub. 166 00:21:47,172 --> 00:21:49,072 What the hell! 167 00:22:03,422 --> 00:22:05,481 You crazy son of a bitch! 168 00:22:08,327 --> 00:22:10,454 - You guys okay? - Where's-- 169 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,259 Preach, you okay? 170 00:22:18,670 --> 00:22:20,535 Sure. 171 00:22:40,792 --> 00:22:43,522 You will go to church this day and pray for forgiveness. 172 00:22:47,632 --> 00:22:51,625 Your mother spent the night sick with worry. Did you think of her feelings? 173 00:22:51,737 --> 00:22:54,035 Mrs. Campbell called. 174 00:22:57,609 --> 00:23:01,238 - Who gave you the boat? - We borrowed it. 175 00:23:02,781 --> 00:23:04,146 Borrowed? 176 00:23:07,986 --> 00:23:09,920 Boys, what have you done? 177 00:23:16,061 --> 00:23:19,656 You will work off every cent of its value. 178 00:23:20,866 --> 00:23:22,697 Yes, sir. 179 00:23:22,801 --> 00:23:25,235 I'll work it oft. It was my idea. 180 00:23:41,753 --> 00:23:44,017 What're you making? 181 00:23:44,122 --> 00:23:48,684 Know what you need? Ham, cheese and sardines. Delicious. 182 00:23:48,827 --> 00:23:51,261 - I don't want sardines. - I'll show you. 183 00:23:51,396 --> 00:23:55,526 Those guys will tell everyone the class of '19 did it. 184 00:23:57,068 --> 00:23:58,968 I should write an article. 185 00:23:59,070 --> 00:24:02,039 - "Macleans conquer chutes." - I don't like sardines. 186 00:24:02,140 --> 00:24:04,540 You could get it in the school paper. 187 00:24:05,377 --> 00:24:06,776 Chub! 188 00:24:06,878 --> 00:24:09,210 "Geez, Pauly!" 189 00:24:09,314 --> 00:24:13,182 - What a skeezicks! - I don't want any goddamn sardines! 190 00:24:38,543 --> 00:24:41,910 No! Stop it! Stop it! 191 00:24:45,851 --> 00:24:48,046 You hit her, you son of a bitch! 192 00:24:48,153 --> 00:24:50,417 You knocked her down, you bastard! 193 00:24:50,522 --> 00:24:54,151 - Son of a bitch! - Please, I slipped! 194 00:25:03,001 --> 00:25:05,663 I just slipped. That's all. 195 00:25:24,089 --> 00:25:25,989 That was the only time... 196 00:25:26,091 --> 00:25:28,082 we ever fought. 197 00:25:28,226 --> 00:25:31,684 Perhaps we wondered afterwards which one of us was tougher. 198 00:25:31,830 --> 00:25:35,459 But if boyhood questions aren't answered before a certain point... 199 00:25:35,567 --> 00:25:37,592 they can't be raised again. 200 00:25:37,702 --> 00:25:40,296 So we returned to being gracious to one another... 201 00:25:40,405 --> 00:25:42,464 as the church wall suggested. 202 00:26:20,712 --> 00:26:22,976 I then saw something remarkable. 203 00:26:24,983 --> 00:26:28,749 For the first time, Paul broke free of our father's instruction... 204 00:26:28,853 --> 00:26:31,754 into a rhythm all his own. 205 00:27:03,421 --> 00:27:05,821 They're both marvelous. 206 00:27:14,366 --> 00:27:17,301 I'd say the Lord has blessed us all today. 207 00:27:26,811 --> 00:27:30,110 It's just that He's been particularly good to me. 208 00:27:40,525 --> 00:27:43,722 The year ended with my acceptance into Dartmouth College. 209 00:27:43,862 --> 00:27:48,697 Father had told me I could attend any college in the world I could get into. 210 00:27:49,768 --> 00:27:52,430 I knew he earned no more than $1,800 a year... 211 00:27:52,537 --> 00:27:55,802 so his offer meant more to me than anything in my life. 212 00:27:55,907 --> 00:27:58,102 Do your best. 213 00:27:58,209 --> 00:27:59,699 I will. 214 00:28:01,046 --> 00:28:02,911 All aboard! 215 00:28:13,525 --> 00:28:14,924 Norman! 216 00:28:37,148 --> 00:28:41,676 So in the autumn of 1919 I boarded the Northern Pacific... 217 00:28:41,786 --> 00:28:45,381 for a 3,000-mile trip east to the unknown. 218 00:28:50,261 --> 00:28:53,958 To the son of a Montana minister, Dartmouth was more than an education. 219 00:28:54,065 --> 00:28:58,729 It was a revelation, exposing me to a world I'd only guessed at. 220 00:29:06,010 --> 00:29:09,309 As part of my degree, I was required to enlighten incoming freshman... 221 00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:12,577 on the wonders of the Romantic poets. 222 00:29:12,684 --> 00:29:14,879 And although I was unaware of it then... 223 00:29:14,986 --> 00:29:17,250 teaching fit me. 224 00:29:17,355 --> 00:29:20,552 But most of the time I sat in the card room of my fraternity house... 225 00:29:20,658 --> 00:29:23,991 giving my bluenose brothers a lesson in Front Street poker. 226 00:29:26,798 --> 00:29:29,232 In all, I spent six years at Dartmouth... 227 00:29:29,334 --> 00:29:31,666 away from home nearly all that time. 228 00:29:34,539 --> 00:29:37,133 On the other hand, Paul stayed home for college... 229 00:29:37,242 --> 00:29:40,336 unwilling to leave the fish he had not yet caught. 230 00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:49,386 After graduation, he took a job as a reporter for a Helena newspaper... 231 00:29:49,487 --> 00:29:52,422 and moved to that town... 232 00:29:52,524 --> 00:29:55,823 his connection with the family growing as slight as my own. 233 00:30:05,436 --> 00:30:07,734 It was not until the spring of 1926... 234 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:10,330 that I finally did come home. 235 00:30:55,053 --> 00:30:57,851 Dinner is in half an hour, so you have time for a bath. 236 00:31:00,124 --> 00:31:01,853 Do I look thin? 237 00:31:05,630 --> 00:31:07,621 Do I look old? 238 00:31:10,001 --> 00:31:12,868 No, you look-- 239 00:31:12,971 --> 00:31:17,738 I wish Paul could've been here tonight. He's working late. 240 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,713 Norman, would you come in? 241 00:31:32,023 --> 00:31:34,184 I'm sorry Paul won't be here. 242 00:31:34,325 --> 00:31:36,953 The life of a newspaperman. 243 00:31:38,263 --> 00:31:41,061 You know how Paul likes to-- 244 00:31:41,165 --> 00:31:42,860 I do. 245 00:31:42,967 --> 00:31:44,730 Sit. 246 00:31:50,675 --> 00:31:53,075 I also hear that he-- 247 00:31:55,179 --> 00:31:59,582 I hear everything, don't l? God forbid my flock keep me in ignorance. 248 00:32:03,655 --> 00:32:05,919 Yes. 249 00:32:06,024 --> 00:32:10,222 You can bet everyone from here to Helena knows the details of your education. 250 00:32:11,396 --> 00:32:14,092 It is an achievement. 251 00:32:14,198 --> 00:32:16,860 To what use shall you put this achievement? 252 00:32:21,506 --> 00:32:26,466 - I'm considering the Forest Service. - As a career? 253 00:32:30,782 --> 00:32:32,682 No. For the summer. 254 00:32:34,886 --> 00:32:36,786 As a break. 255 00:32:36,888 --> 00:32:41,154 That's a good idea. The body fuels the mind. 256 00:32:41,292 --> 00:32:43,283 - That's what I was thinking. - And after? 257 00:32:45,163 --> 00:32:47,063 I'm not sure yet. 258 00:32:48,933 --> 00:32:52,300 You've had six years to become sure. 259 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,244 Have you considered an advanced degree? 260 00:33:06,517 --> 00:33:08,712 The law? Medicine? 261 00:33:09,988 --> 00:33:11,387 The ministry? 262 00:33:14,625 --> 00:33:17,219 I've applied for several teaching positions. 263 00:33:17,362 --> 00:33:20,695 - Have you? - College level. I haven't heard yet. 264 00:33:20,798 --> 00:33:22,561 No, it's early. 265 00:33:24,502 --> 00:33:27,096 You have taught classes already, haven't you? 266 00:33:27,205 --> 00:33:29,105 Yes. 267 00:33:29,207 --> 00:33:31,971 Did you find that rewarding? 268 00:33:32,076 --> 00:33:36,979 That is to say, do you feel this could be your calling? 269 00:33:37,982 --> 00:33:39,381 My calling? 270 00:33:41,252 --> 00:33:43,516 Dinner, gentlemen. 271 00:34:00,538 --> 00:34:04,065 If it's so tunny, how come I'm not laughing? Yes, pee in their pants. 272 00:34:05,943 --> 00:34:08,070 - Paul Maclean? - In there. 273 00:34:08,179 --> 00:34:10,272 The Anaconda Mine rules say no breaks... 274 00:34:10,381 --> 00:34:13,839 not even for the john, so they stand there and pee in their pants. 275 00:34:13,951 --> 00:34:16,078 - What about the late-- - George Masterson. 276 00:34:16,187 --> 00:34:19,714 I'll take that widow. She's 23 and built like-- 277 00:34:19,824 --> 00:34:23,055 - You take the Anaconda. - I'll interview the grieving widow. 278 00:34:23,194 --> 00:34:26,129 But I'm the boss, Maclean. 279 00:34:27,432 --> 00:34:30,162 Fine by me, boss. Brother! 280 00:34:32,870 --> 00:34:34,428 Look at you. 281 00:34:36,274 --> 00:34:39,766 Boys, this is my big brother, the professor. 282 00:34:39,877 --> 00:34:41,276 Gentlemen. 283 00:34:44,482 --> 00:34:45,881 Sit. 284 00:34:47,652 --> 00:34:49,950 - Thanks for visiting me last night. - Yeah, damn. 285 00:34:50,054 --> 00:34:52,318 I am sorry. Wanted to be there. 286 00:34:53,324 --> 00:34:57,124 Wanted to hear the old man say, "Norman, could you come into my study, please?" 287 00:35:04,869 --> 00:35:06,928 Geez, the professor. 288 00:35:10,141 --> 00:35:12,075 We should celebrate. 289 00:35:21,752 --> 00:35:23,720 A little early for me. 290 00:35:25,756 --> 00:35:28,589 The East is making you soft. 291 00:35:29,460 --> 00:35:31,360 Is that right? 292 00:35:47,845 --> 00:35:49,745 Do much fishing out east? 293 00:35:51,048 --> 00:35:52,538 None. 294 00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:54,413 None? 295 00:35:54,519 --> 00:35:57,386 What do you say? Big Blacktoot. 296 00:36:24,081 --> 00:36:26,675 - You set? - Yeah. 297 00:36:34,892 --> 00:36:37,383 - Take this hole. It's a good one. - That's all right. You go ahead. 298 00:36:37,528 --> 00:36:39,826 It's a good hole. 299 00:37:00,885 --> 00:37:03,445 Too tight. Try a roll cast. 300 00:37:20,404 --> 00:37:23,271 The fish are out further. 301 00:37:24,408 --> 00:37:26,342 Just a little further. 302 00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:32,876 Cast your line into the current. It'll give a better base and add distance. 303 00:37:32,984 --> 00:37:35,680 You're just rusty. That's all. 304 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,139 He called it shadow casting... 305 00:39:37,241 --> 00:39:40,733 keeping his line above water long enough and low enough... 306 00:39:40,845 --> 00:39:43,507 to make a rainbow rise. 307 00:39:45,282 --> 00:39:48,012 And I realized that in the time I was away... 308 00:39:48,119 --> 00:39:52,317 my brother had become an artist. 309 00:39:52,423 --> 00:39:55,722 My coach comes up to me and says, "Mac, how'd you like to meet... 310 00:39:55,860 --> 00:39:58,294 John L. Sullivan?" 311 00:39:59,363 --> 00:40:02,560 The John L. Sullivan, the last bare-knuckle champion of the world. 312 00:40:02,666 --> 00:40:05,658 It was then I knew I was home. 313 00:40:05,770 --> 00:40:09,228 Standing on the steps of the Missoula Library once again... 314 00:40:09,340 --> 00:40:12,605 late at night, telling stories to the same boys... 315 00:40:12,710 --> 00:40:16,237 who had sat on those steps and listened a hundred times before. 316 00:40:18,482 --> 00:40:20,882 And who had, in my absence, become men. 317 00:40:20,985 --> 00:40:24,421 It goes to show the world is full of bastards... 318 00:40:24,522 --> 00:40:29,050 the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana! 319 00:40:29,193 --> 00:40:30,592 Amen! 320 00:40:30,694 --> 00:40:33,720 That's why you need to stick around here from now on. 321 00:40:33,864 --> 00:40:35,695 Where's the gargle? 322 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,234 Yes, pass this way. 323 00:40:38,369 --> 00:40:43,204 Every girl you need to know will be at the 4th of July dance... 324 00:40:43,307 --> 00:40:44,797 without mama. 325 00:40:46,444 --> 00:40:48,844 Find you a little Sheba. 326 00:40:50,314 --> 00:40:52,509 Gentlemen, it's been swell. 327 00:40:53,751 --> 00:40:55,343 Where're you going? 328 00:40:55,453 --> 00:40:58,217 Heavy date, Paul? 329 00:40:58,322 --> 00:41:01,257 - With a poker table. - You see them new signs? 330 00:41:02,259 --> 00:41:06,059 "Does your husband misbehave? Grunt and grumble, rant and rave? 331 00:41:06,163 --> 00:41:09,189 Shoot that brute some Burma Shave!" 332 00:41:12,169 --> 00:41:15,002 - The road to where? - Lolo. 333 00:41:15,105 --> 00:41:17,005 Lolo Hot Springs. 334 00:41:27,518 --> 00:41:30,919 Being back in my father's church seemed to complete my return. 335 00:41:31,021 --> 00:41:34,115 More than anything else, I realized it was my father's words... 336 00:41:34,225 --> 00:41:36,159 that made me feel most at home. 337 00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:38,194 In the glow of awakened memories... 338 00:41:38,295 --> 00:41:42,425 when the deepest feelings of the heart are all astir... 339 00:41:44,101 --> 00:41:48,094 we are reminded of the poet who sings... 340 00:41:48,205 --> 00:41:51,902 "Backward, turn backward, O time in your flight. 341 00:41:52,009 --> 00:41:54,739 Make me a child again... 342 00:41:54,845 --> 00:41:57,336 just for tonight." 343 00:42:38,556 --> 00:42:39,955 Recognize anybody? 344 00:42:42,092 --> 00:42:44,890 You've been gone too long, son. 345 00:42:47,965 --> 00:42:51,731 - Who's that? - Who? 346 00:42:51,835 --> 00:42:53,496 There. 347 00:42:56,140 --> 00:42:57,732 Oh, yeah? 348 00:42:59,777 --> 00:43:02,837 A little infatuation? 349 00:43:02,947 --> 00:43:04,881 Who is that? 350 00:43:05,849 --> 00:43:07,248 Jessie Burns. 351 00:43:07,351 --> 00:43:11,344 From Wolf Creek. Her brother went to Hollywood. 352 00:43:11,455 --> 00:43:13,252 Jessie Burns. 353 00:43:22,199 --> 00:43:24,133 Would you like to dance? 354 00:43:24,268 --> 00:43:27,567 Would you be a doll and get us a drink? 355 00:43:27,671 --> 00:43:29,662 Jessie, who's that? 356 00:43:58,202 --> 00:44:00,796 - Here you go. - Thanks. 357 00:44:00,904 --> 00:44:02,838 You're a lifesaver. 358 00:44:04,408 --> 00:44:06,273 How ladylike! 359 00:44:08,979 --> 00:44:12,415 I have to be careful or I'll wipe off all the powder. 360 00:44:12,516 --> 00:44:15,917 Phantom of the Opera. 361 00:44:23,761 --> 00:44:26,662 Pack up all my care and woe 362 00:44:26,764 --> 00:44:28,732 Here I go, singing low 363 00:44:28,866 --> 00:44:32,666 Bye-bye, blackbird 364 00:44:33,637 --> 00:44:37,437 I heard Louis Armstrong sing this song once... 365 00:44:37,541 --> 00:44:40,032 in a little speak in Greenwich Village, New York. 366 00:44:40,144 --> 00:44:42,442 Really? 367 00:44:42,546 --> 00:44:45,037 Best jazz in the world. Colored jazz, you know? 368 00:44:45,149 --> 00:44:50,587 The real McCoy. Not like Paul Whiteman or the Kliquot Club Eskimos. 369 00:44:50,688 --> 00:44:53,816 My mother loves the Kliquot Club Eskimos. 370 00:44:56,393 --> 00:44:57,792 Does she? 371 00:45:16,146 --> 00:45:17,511 Dance? 372 00:45:20,884 --> 00:45:22,112 Yeah. 373 00:45:25,155 --> 00:45:26,884 Let the fireworks begin! 374 00:45:29,059 --> 00:45:32,392 - Guys, come on. - Jessie, come on. 375 00:45:44,441 --> 00:45:47,433 I have a wonderful idea. 376 00:45:47,544 --> 00:45:51,378 What better lesson for those girls than a trip to the reservation... 377 00:45:51,482 --> 00:45:56,215 to learn a real Christian message of giving, don't you think? 378 00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,481 I'll organize it. Don't lift a finger. 379 00:45:58,589 --> 00:46:03,526 Thank you. This is the most charitable idea I've heard in years. 380 00:46:04,962 --> 00:46:10,366 Do you know those Indian children don't even have shoes? Do you need the phone? 381 00:46:10,467 --> 00:46:14,767 - No, I don't have to. - No, you go ahead. 382 00:46:14,872 --> 00:46:17,841 - If you need to use it-- - No, I have work to do. 383 00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:32,688 Hello, Mrs. Hatcher. 384 00:46:36,660 --> 00:46:38,958 Hello. I'd like-- 385 00:46:39,062 --> 00:46:42,361 She's fine. I'd like-- 386 00:46:42,466 --> 00:46:45,867 Yes, everybody's tine. 387 00:46:46,003 --> 00:46:48,972 I'd like the Burns residence in Wolt Creek, please. 388 00:46:51,575 --> 00:46:55,011 Yes, I know it's long distance. 389 00:46:55,112 --> 00:46:56,477 Thank you. 390 00:46:59,783 --> 00:47:01,182 Hello. 391 00:47:02,019 --> 00:47:03,919 Is Jessie there? 392 00:47:05,189 --> 00:47:07,987 This is Norman Maclean, but I don't think she-- 393 00:47:11,995 --> 00:47:13,394 Hello. 394 00:47:16,834 --> 00:47:20,429 No, I'm the one who brought you the drink. 395 00:47:23,807 --> 00:47:27,243 No, we didn't get a chance. The tireworks started. 396 00:47:29,913 --> 00:47:31,847 We talked about music. 397 00:47:34,284 --> 00:47:39,381 And I said I heard Louis Armstrong sing the-- 398 00:47:41,458 --> 00:47:43,426 Yeah, that's me. 399 00:47:44,294 --> 00:47:46,922 I was a little nervous. 400 00:47:47,064 --> 00:47:48,793 Because... 401 00:47:50,434 --> 00:47:52,800 you were so je ne sais quoi. 402 00:47:57,674 --> 00:48:02,805 I thought I could come and listen to the Kliquot Club Eskimos with your mother. 403 00:48:05,048 --> 00:48:06,447 Yes. 404 00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,483 I called because I wanted to see you again. 405 00:48:16,894 --> 00:48:20,057 How about Saturday? 406 00:48:22,032 --> 00:48:23,431 8:00? 407 00:48:32,809 --> 00:48:34,868 I'll see you then. 408 00:48:35,846 --> 00:48:37,211 Bye. 409 00:48:55,499 --> 00:48:57,399 Hey, here they are. 410 00:49:00,470 --> 00:49:01,869 Brother! 411 00:49:05,108 --> 00:49:07,736 Jessie, this is my baby brother Paul. 412 00:49:07,844 --> 00:49:11,871 - And this is Monasita. - Mabel. 413 00:49:14,985 --> 00:49:16,179 Shall we? 414 00:49:22,092 --> 00:49:24,720 - What do you say, Pauly? - Murph. 415 00:49:25,929 --> 00:49:28,159 - Preacher. - Preacher? 416 00:49:28,265 --> 00:49:31,359 - How are you, Murph? - Long time. Long time. 417 00:49:31,468 --> 00:49:33,459 Good to see you. 418 00:49:35,372 --> 00:49:38,933 You know the house rules as good as I do, Paul. 419 00:49:39,042 --> 00:49:41,806 No lnjuns. Period. 420 00:49:41,912 --> 00:49:45,109 I don't like the house rules, Murph. 421 00:49:45,215 --> 00:49:47,046 Me neither. 422 00:49:51,154 --> 00:49:53,622 What are you going to make me do, Pauly? 423 00:49:53,724 --> 00:49:56,750 Get us a table for four. 424 00:50:07,204 --> 00:50:09,672 - Last time, Paul. - Hello, Judge. 425 00:50:11,675 --> 00:50:14,735 You can get him back. Get drunk and dance naked on the table. 426 00:50:14,845 --> 00:50:17,370 And beat the hell out of the son of a bitch. 427 00:50:23,987 --> 00:50:26,148 - Molly, my darling. - Hi, Paul. 428 00:50:30,093 --> 00:50:33,494 They've got swell hooch here. They even wash the glasses. 429 00:50:48,879 --> 00:50:50,346 Drink? 430 00:50:50,447 --> 00:50:52,711 What'll it be? Jessie? Jessie. 431 00:50:52,816 --> 00:50:55,842 I'll have a martini, Paul. It is Paul? 432 00:50:58,188 --> 00:51:02,454 Righty-o. The usual for Norm. Gin and prune juice. 433 00:51:02,592 --> 00:51:04,856 Make that a double. 434 00:51:04,995 --> 00:51:06,724 Excuse me. 435 00:51:06,863 --> 00:51:09,127 I'd like to order a drink, too. 436 00:51:09,232 --> 00:51:12,030 Whiskey, double. 437 00:51:17,007 --> 00:51:20,568 So, what are you doing now, Mabel? 438 00:51:21,778 --> 00:51:23,643 I sell bait. 439 00:51:27,217 --> 00:51:29,913 You have the most beautiful hair I've ever seen. 440 00:51:32,122 --> 00:51:34,022 Should I get it bobbed? 441 00:51:34,124 --> 00:51:37,252 No, not in a million years. 442 00:51:43,967 --> 00:51:46,458 "The candle burns at both ends. 443 00:51:46,570 --> 00:51:49,061 It will not last the night. 444 00:51:49,172 --> 00:51:51,606 But, ah, my toes, and oh, my friends... 445 00:51:51,708 --> 00:51:54,176 it gives a lovely light." 446 00:51:55,645 --> 00:51:58,170 That's nice. 447 00:52:12,195 --> 00:52:16,063 How about to my editor, the old curmudgeon? Excuse me. 448 00:52:16,166 --> 00:52:20,569 He took me off the Anaconda story. I'm a reporter at The Bee. 449 00:52:20,670 --> 00:52:22,297 - I know. - How do you know? 450 00:52:22,405 --> 00:52:24,066 I'm famous. 451 00:52:24,174 --> 00:52:27,041 - Fishing newspaperman. - You know he fishes, too? 452 00:52:27,144 --> 00:52:30,978 - I thought everybody knew. - You've been away a long time. 453 00:52:31,081 --> 00:52:34,414 - I'd say so. - It's seems my editor-- 454 00:52:34,518 --> 00:52:37,316 - The old curmudgeon. - Yes, exactly. 455 00:52:37,420 --> 00:52:40,412 He's been getting calls. No names, just threats. 456 00:52:40,524 --> 00:52:42,219 Real threats? 457 00:52:42,325 --> 00:52:45,920 It's nice to know you're touching a nerve button. 458 00:52:46,062 --> 00:52:47,859 What did they say? 459 00:52:49,199 --> 00:52:51,497 What did they say? 460 00:52:51,601 --> 00:52:54,764 - What did they say? - You'll have to cut it out of him. 461 00:52:54,871 --> 00:52:59,706 The usual. The boys will come down and pay me a little visit. 462 00:52:59,809 --> 00:53:02,676 Fit you with a pair or concrete galoshes, see? 463 00:53:02,779 --> 00:53:04,679 Exactly. 464 00:53:06,383 --> 00:53:08,317 I have to dance. 465 00:53:23,166 --> 00:53:24,565 Watch out! 466 00:53:25,635 --> 00:53:27,034 Wow! 467 00:53:56,666 --> 00:53:59,362 Now, The Muskrat Ramble. 468 00:54:02,872 --> 00:54:04,464 Watch it! 469 00:54:44,547 --> 00:54:48,278 I'm nowhere near as good as my brother, but would you do me the honor? 470 00:54:48,385 --> 00:54:50,376 I'd love to. 471 00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:35,322 "Dear Jessie, As the moon lingers a moment over the Bitteroots... 472 00:55:35,465 --> 00:55:38,764 before its descent into the invisible... 473 00:55:38,868 --> 00:55:42,065 my mind is filled with song. 474 00:55:42,172 --> 00:55:44,572 I find I am humming softly... 475 00:55:44,674 --> 00:55:48,508 not to the music, but something else. 476 00:55:48,611 --> 00:55:50,238 Someplace else. 477 00:55:51,815 --> 00:55:53,976 A place remembered. 478 00:55:54,084 --> 00:55:59,147 A field of grass where no one seemed to have been except the deer. 479 00:55:59,255 --> 00:56:02,418 And the memory is strengthened by the feeling of you... 480 00:56:02,525 --> 00:56:04,959 dancing in my awkward arms. 481 00:56:05,895 --> 00:56:07,487 Norman." 482 00:56:23,046 --> 00:56:24,707 Yes? 483 00:56:26,316 --> 00:56:29,444 What's wrong? 484 00:56:29,552 --> 00:56:33,181 It's okay, Mother. Who is this? 485 00:56:48,738 --> 00:56:50,706 I'm Norman Maclean. 486 00:56:50,807 --> 00:56:53,799 No, he doesn't have to post bond. 487 00:56:53,910 --> 00:56:56,242 He covers the police beat and has friends here. 488 00:56:56,346 --> 00:56:58,576 Just look at him and take him home. 489 00:56:59,716 --> 00:57:01,616 What did he do? 490 00:57:01,718 --> 00:57:05,381 He hit a guy and the guy is missing a couple of teeth. 491 00:57:05,488 --> 00:57:07,979 Why did he hit him? 492 00:57:08,091 --> 00:57:13,654 It says, "A remark was passed concerning the Indian woman he was with." 493 00:57:13,797 --> 00:57:16,595 The guy deserved it. 494 00:57:16,699 --> 00:57:19,930 We're picking your brother up too much lately. 495 00:57:23,106 --> 00:57:24,869 Is that right? 496 00:57:24,974 --> 00:57:28,102 Besides, he's behind on the big stud poker game at Lolo. 497 00:57:28,211 --> 00:57:31,476 It's not healthy to get behind on that game at Lolo. 498 00:57:34,417 --> 00:57:37,784 - Is he hurt? - He's not hurt. He's just sick. 499 00:57:37,887 --> 00:57:40,253 He drinks too much. 500 00:57:40,356 --> 00:57:44,417 At Lolo, they don't drink too much. 501 00:57:49,365 --> 00:57:52,232 You better go in and get your brother. 502 00:58:26,970 --> 00:58:31,373 I'm tired and I wanna go to bed 503 00:58:31,474 --> 00:58:35,934 I just had a drink about an hour ago 504 00:58:36,045 --> 00:58:39,173 It went right to my head 505 00:58:39,282 --> 00:58:41,876 No matter where I roam 506 00:58:41,985 --> 00:58:45,819 By land or sea or foam 507 00:58:45,922 --> 00:58:50,757 You can always hear me singing this song 508 00:58:50,894 --> 00:58:54,455 Show me the way to go home 509 00:59:50,219 --> 00:59:53,677 It you need any money, Paul... 510 00:59:53,790 --> 00:59:56,054 or anything else, I want you to know that-- 511 00:59:56,192 --> 00:59:59,355 She lives past the slaughterhouse. 512 01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:05,568 I can help. 513 01:00:09,238 --> 01:00:10,830 Turn here. 514 01:01:08,431 --> 01:01:12,891 Well, chickens haven't come home to roost yet, Al. 515 01:01:18,808 --> 01:01:20,833 Not bad. 516 01:01:22,745 --> 01:01:24,508 Are you all right? 517 01:01:24,614 --> 01:01:28,414 - Clara, was that your jelly? - Yes, it was. 518 01:01:28,518 --> 01:01:31,078 It was wonderful. And is this Norman? 519 01:01:31,187 --> 01:01:34,850 Yes, it is. Yes, we're very proud of him. 520 01:01:34,957 --> 01:01:37,551 - Nice to have you back. - Thank you. 521 01:01:37,694 --> 01:01:41,528 Her daughter's turned into a beauty. There she is. 522 01:01:41,631 --> 01:01:45,362 Twenty only a week ago. She's bright as a light. 523 01:01:47,370 --> 01:01:50,362 Mr. Murchison, how are you? 524 01:01:51,841 --> 01:01:53,775 How are you? 525 01:01:55,445 --> 01:01:59,643 - Quite well, thank you. - Good, good. 526 01:01:59,749 --> 01:02:03,207 - And this is Paul? - No, this is Norman. 527 01:02:04,620 --> 01:02:09,057 - Oh, Norman! You're looking good. - Yes. Hasn't he grown up? 528 01:02:12,729 --> 01:02:16,790 - Paul's here. Come on. - I'm sorry, I can't. 529 01:02:16,933 --> 01:02:20,835 I'm meeting Jessie Burns' family. Her brother's coming in from California. 530 01:02:20,937 --> 01:02:22,666 Oh, well, now. 531 01:02:22,772 --> 01:02:26,435 - I'm late. - Should we have this girl to dinner? 532 01:02:26,542 --> 01:02:28,169 Perhaps, Mother. 533 01:02:54,804 --> 01:02:56,294 Well, well! 534 01:02:57,206 --> 01:02:58,639 Hello, Paul. 535 01:02:58,741 --> 01:03:01,335 - Hi, Sam. Let me borrow those. - Sure. Why not? 536 01:03:01,444 --> 01:03:03,139 - Hello, Father. - Son. 537 01:03:12,789 --> 01:03:15,417 First shot, bangs it right up there. 538 01:03:25,835 --> 01:03:29,828 The Burns family ran a general store in a one-store town... 539 01:03:29,939 --> 01:03:32,032 and still managed to do badly. 540 01:03:33,643 --> 01:03:35,167 This is Norman. 541 01:03:35,278 --> 01:03:40,306 They were Methodists, who my father called "Baptists who could read." 542 01:03:40,416 --> 01:03:42,907 - Pop. - It's a pleasure. 543 01:03:43,019 --> 01:03:44,953 This is my mother. 544 01:03:45,054 --> 01:03:47,750 A pleasure to meet you, Norman. Jessie tells me you're a poet. 545 01:03:47,857 --> 01:03:51,156 - Related to the fishing newspaperman? - That's my brother. 546 01:03:51,294 --> 01:03:54,320 - Jessie says you just got your degree. - Yes. 547 01:03:54,463 --> 01:03:56,488 Jessie was at the university. She was majoring in-- 548 01:03:56,632 --> 01:03:58,031 Flapperism. 549 01:03:59,302 --> 01:04:01,202 Science, I believe. Wasn't it? 550 01:04:01,304 --> 01:04:04,171 - She dropped out. - Aunt Sally! 551 01:04:04,273 --> 01:04:06,707 She could learn from you. Stick-to-itivity. 552 01:04:07,305 --> 01:05:07,163 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org