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Sally Field, Yankton Hatten, and Gennie James in Places in the Heart (1984)

Lane Smith: Albert Denby

Places in the Heart

Lane Smith credited as playing...

Albert Denby

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  • Edna Spalding: I was thinking, if I was to plant cotton...
  • Albert Denby: Mrs. Spalding, you don't know a thing about cotton farming.
  • Edna Spalding: Yes, I know, but Moses says...
  • Albert Denby: Moses? Who's Moses?
  • Edna Spalding: He's this Negro man.
  • Albert Denby: I don't know any Negro around here named Moses.
  • Edna Spalding: He was just passing through, and I gave him a job doing some chores.
  • Albert Denby: You mean to tell me you're lettin' some Negro hobo talk you into plantin' cotton? Did you ever hear of anything called The Depression? Now, you see these? These are all foreclosures. And that's just in the last three months. And that's white men who've cotton-farmin' all their lives and can't make a go of it. And you listenin' to some no-account nigger. You'll excuse me, Mrs. Spalding, but that's just about the most ignorant thing I've ever heard.
  • Edna Spalding: Mr. Denby, I'm not ignorant - and I'm not selling my land.
  • Albert Denby: Mrs. Spalding, when tragedies like this happen sometimes we have to face up to things that are real hard.
  • Albert Denby: Now then, Mrs. Spalding... in spite of the fact that I have great doubts about... this misguided attempt of yours to hold on to this place... as a Christian and deacon of the church, it's my beholden duty to... reach out the hand of charity to a human being in need. And I got to thinking, now what better way to help out this poor woman... than if she took in a boarder. Someone who could move in here, and by paying a modest rent, help her out. What if my brother-in-law was to move in here and rent a room from you?
  • Edna Spalding: Move in here?

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