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Marshall

You just travel around the country on this crusade? Putting out fires in Mississippi,...

Sam Friedman: You just travel around the country on this crusade? Putting out fires in Mississippi, Oklahoma, Bridgeport?
Thurgood Marshall: It's not really the fires I'm after, Sam. It's fire itself

Full Transcript

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You just travel around the country on this crusade
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Putting out fires in Mississippi
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Oklahoma Bridgeport
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It's not really fires I'm after Sam
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It's fire itself
Duration
20 seconds
Views
102
Timestamp in Movie
01:39:16
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
biography, crime, drama
Production
Chestnut Ridge,Starlight Culture Entertainment Group,Hudlin Entertainment,Stage 6 Films,Open Road Films

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Movie Summary

The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Here's the closing argument you're gonna give. - Marshall 00:05
Here's the closing argument you're gonna give.
A woman from a fine family with an unblemished background, - Marshall 00:16
A woman from a fine family with an unblemished background,
Did this decent, church-going, intelligent woman, - Marshall 00:14
Did this decent, church-going, intelligent woman,
For pleasure, as the defence would have you believe? - Marshall 00:05
For pleasure, as the defence would have you believe?
Joseph Spell raped Eleanor Strubing. - Marshall 00:06
Joseph Spell raped Eleanor Strubing.
Then he hurled her over the bridge to - Marshall 00:06
Then he hurled her over the bridge to
Acquit him, and you will set a wild panther loose in our midst - Marshall 00:13
Acquit him, and you will set a wild panther loose in our mid...
As a jury, you have been exposed - Marshall 00:09
As a jury, you have been exposed
But you're also in a position of great privilege. - Marshall 00:05
But you're also in a position of great privilege.
You have the power - Marshall 00:08
You have the power
Why would a woman like Eleanor Strubing - Marshall 00:13
Why would a woman like Eleanor Strubing
Eleanor Strubing's story is nothing less than tragic. - Marshall 00:07
Eleanor Strubing's story is nothing less than tragic.
She went to church each and every Sunday. - Marshall 00:06
She went to church each and every Sunday.
As the good book says, she was "spotless as the lamb of God." - Marshall 00:12
As the good book says, she was "spotless as the lamb of...
Oh, he travels frequently, - Marshall 00:12
Oh, he travels frequently,
The pangs of loneliness hit hard. - Marshall 00:05
The pangs of loneliness hit hard.
She was not expecting this. - Marshall 00:05
She was not expecting this.
In a moment of weakness, her judgement impaired - Marshall 00:07
In a moment of weakness, her judgement impaired
Consumed by loneliness, - Marshall 00:08
Consumed by loneliness,
As the evening goes on, she becomes panicked - Marshall 00:07
As the evening goes on, she becomes panicked