The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

Jess-Belle (1963)

James Best: Billy Ben Turner

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• Billy Ben Turner : Jess-Belle.

  Jess-Belle Stone : Don't you come near me.

  Billy Ben Turner : I thought you might want to wish us well, Jess.

  Jess-Belle Stone : You'll have nothing from me.

  Billy Ben Turner : No need for you to take on so.

  Jess-Belle Stone : What'd you want me to do? Run in there, throw my arms around her, tell her how glad I am?

  Billy Ben Turner : Jess, I'm sorry.

  Jess-Belle Stone : Remember the night we clung together in the sweet night grass down by the Eagle Rock Mountain? The moonlight made us see a silver mist on the fog below.

  Billy Ben Turner : I remember.

  Jess-Belle Stone : The day we ran through the scotch broom field, and the sun was blazing hot, and we fell together... and you touched me? The fire in me burned as hot as the white sun.

  Billy Ben Turner : The fire's turned to ashes now, Jess.

  Jess-Belle Stone : It still burns - here.

  [She motions to her heart] 

  Billy Ben Turner : But it's different with Ellwyn and me.

  Jess-Belle Stone : Pretty clothes and her daddy's land? Is that the difference, Billy Ben?

  Billy Ben Turner : No. No, that's not the difference. I - I love her in a quiet way. You know, it...

  Jess-Belle Stone : I don't want to hear.

• Jess-Belle Stone : All kinds of torment in the world, I reckon.

  Billy Ben Turner : What would you know of torment, girl?

  Jess-Belle Stone : There's a torment comes from buying something and finding out the price is dear.

  Billy Ben Turner : What did you buy that cost so dear?

  Jess-Belle Stone : Something I love.

  Billy Ben Turner : Do you still love it, though the price was high?

  Jess-Belle Stone : Better than life.

  Billy Ben Turner : Better than me?

  Jess-Belle Stone : Ain't nothing I love better than you.