:24:00
You get Hargraves behind you,
and maybe I can handle it.
:24:04
That's fair, Dave.
:24:06
All right, here you are. It's a bargain.
:24:08
Nothing doing. Not till you get Hargraves.
:24:14
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
:24:15
- How do you do, Father?
- Good morning, Mr. Hargraves.
:24:17
We haven't met before, but I know of you.
:24:21
Well, that shortens preliminaries.
:24:23
- Can I help you?
- Do you want to?
:24:26
If you mean, do I indorse your work,
I don't, I'm sorry to say.
:24:30
Well, that's all right.
:24:31
But why do you go out of your way
to hurt me?
:24:33
There's a feeling in official circles
that you're setting up a tacit criticism...
:24:36
of things as they are.
:24:37
There was the same feeling when Newton
suspected the law of gravitation.
:24:41
There's also a feeling that the sooner
you're discouraged, the better.
:24:44
For yourself, too.
:24:45
- No one questions your intentions.
- But I'm paving the lower regions, huh?
:24:50
Mr. Hargraves, I have 50 boys I've taken
from the slums and the streets.
:24:54
Right now they're on their way
to becoming confident human beings.
:24:56
I can do the same with 500.
:24:58
Boys like that get their chances
in institutions.
:25:00
You know better than that.
:25:02
Do I, Father Flanagan?
:25:03
You have a string of newspapers.
You get reports on human derelicts.
:25:06
You know the percentage of boys
who survive institutions.
:25:09
Surely you must know, you above all men.
:25:12
And you have no right to hinder me
in helping children.
:25:16
That's pretty stiff, Father.
:25:18
What little I've done, I've done on nothing.
:25:20
These boys, thieves some of them,
have gone without clothes...
:25:23
they've even gone without food,
but not one of them has deserted.
:25:25
Not one, because they know
what I'm trying to do to help them.
:25:29
But there are some impossible
young beasts who have to be manacled.
:25:32
Look at this.
:25:35
"Eleven-year-old boy convicted.
Guilty of murder in the second degree.
:25:38
"Jury renders verdict
after 35 minutes deliberation.
:25:41
"Court will sentence him to life in prison."
:25:44
A semi-equipped young savage
who's right where he ought to be.
:25:47
You'll admit that, won't you?
:25:48
This boy saw his mother
being brutally beaten by a drunken father.
:25:51
So he took a gun and killed him.
:25:53
Suppose a man kills because his wife's
been unfaithful: Temporary insanity.
:25:57
But an 11-year-old: Just a savage.
:25:59
What do you want of me?