
Jesse Hallam, an illiterate coal miner from Kentucky, moves to Cincinnati so that one of his daughters may receive spinal surgery. Determined to support his family in the city, he decides he must learn how to read and write as an adult, and resolves to graduate from high school.
Eli WallachSal Galucci
Ben MarleyTed Hallam
Johnny CashJesse Hallam
Brenda VaccaroMarion Galucci
Ronnie Rondell Jr.Stunt driver (as Ronnie Rondell)[last lines]
Jesse Hallam:
You want to do what I've been doin' all my life - runnin' away from words? Well, that's up to you, but you got to know... it's a poverty trade. And right here and now you could be diggin' youself a hole in the bottom of a mountain that you're never goin' to climb back up out of. Well, not me - and not my boy. We're goin' to high school and we're goin' to graduate and nobody or nothin's goin' to stop us. We're going to learn to read.
Sung by Johnny Cash
Written by Johnny Cash
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