He explains his past crime and his early parole from prison after being convicted of self-defense manslaughter in a drunken, bar-room brawl:I've been in the penitentiary for four years.In the tale's grim ending, she begged the town's executioner to chop off her feet to end her incessant dancing, but the shoes continued o dance with her dismembered, amputated feet still inside." The reverse of the word, woodpecker, referred o a literally red-headed and red-necked bird.Its second meaning was sexual - the foreskin of a penis (or prepuce) - literally the 'peckerhead.' Another related, similarly-defined term in the film was "Whicker bill."]In the plot, tenant sharecropping farmer's high-school aged son Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess) was pressured to not forget his place in life and to pick cotton in the fields for rich Southern cotton plantation land-owner Lane Norwood (Berton Churchill).He recognized the voice of his "very old friend" Gandalf.At his Shire's front door, he greeted Gandalf with great joy, who was visiting on the occasion of Bilbo's 111th birthday, 60 years into the future.