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Hap Jackson:
[narrating]
What good is a deed? My grandfathers and great uncles, grandmothers and great aunts, father and mother, broke, tilled, thawed, planted, plucked, raised, burned, broke again. Worked this land all they life, this land that never would be theirs. They worked until They sweated. They sweated until They bled. They bled until they died. Died with the dirt of this same 200 acres under their fingernails. Died clawing at the hard, brown back that would never be theirs. All their deeds undone. Yet this man, this place, this law... say you need a deed. Not deeds
[narrating]
What good is a deed? My grandfathers and great uncles, grandmothers and great aunts, father and mother, broke, tilled, thawed, planted, plucked, raised, burned, broke again. Worked this land all they life, this land that never would be theirs. They worked until They sweated. They sweated until They bled. They bled until they died. Died with the dirt of this same 200 acres under their fingernails. Died clawing at the hard, brown back that would never be theirs. All their deeds undone. Yet this man, this place, this law... say you need a deed. Not deeds
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My grandfathers and great uncles grandmothers and great aunts
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father and mother
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broke tilled thawed planted plucked raised
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burned broke again
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Worked this land all their life
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this land that never would be theirs
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They worked until they sweated They sweated until they bled
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They bled until they died
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Died with the dirt of this same 200 acres under their fingernails
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Movie Summary
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
Actors
Hap Jackson
