Marcus Carl Franklin credited as playing...
Woody • Chaplin Boy
- Woody Guthrie: [the jump cut into this scene occurs after Hobo Joe or Hobo Moe has, apparently, asked the 11-year-old African American boy who call himself Woody Guthrie where he's from] Well, Missouri, originally. A little town called Riddle.
- Hobo Joe: [the rest of this dialogue is an almost exact paraphrase of dialogue from the 1957 film, A Face in the Crowd] Uh, is there really a town called Riddle?
- Woody Guthrie: Well, tell you the flat truth, it's just a sort of a whatchamacallit, a...
- Hobo Joe: ...A composite.
- Woody Guthrie: Compost heap's more like it.
- Hobo Joe: [Woody shows Hobo Joe and Hobo Moe his guitar case which says 'THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS'] You wouldn't be stashing no weapons in there, son?
- Woody Guthrie: No sir, not in any literalized way.