" The camera tracks behind the beloved Dodsworth as he walks among the workers, assembled to bid him goodbye ("I hate to see you go, Sam").Then, she recites poetic words to him - the derivation of the film""s title:They are not long the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes within a dream.I could be a friend to you.(Andy breaks away without responding) Hey, hard to get.I like hat.Andy""s assigned job is to work in the prison laundry room, where he "kept pretty much to himself at first.In early July, 1932, Z.Smith Reynolds, the youngest 20 year-old son of the cigarette patriarch R.J.Reynolds, was suspiciously murdered with a gunshot wound to the head at the family estate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.The sprawling post-war Technicolored spectacle followed the Lone Star State""s remarkable transition over the years from the hard-work of agrarian cattle-ranching to oil-industry production.